Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-06-26
'" UNITED WE STAND;
DIVIDED We FALL"
Maxim Of Minnesota Dry Fedora
ton in Campaign for Con-
stitutionaI Amendment.

peace ana war.
The Minnesota Dry Federation Is
born of the get-together spirit.
A Herculean task confronts tho
friends of home and flag in their fight
to destroy the liquor traffic in Mime
sofa. The adoption of the proposed
Dry amendment to the state consti-
tuition is beset by many difficulties.
1t is first necessary to secure for the
amendment a majority of oil votes
cast at the election.
II citizen votes at the election but
falls to vote on the amen tent he Is
counted as having voted mo-" Then
there is the campaign for the election
OF members of both houses of the leg
islature who will ratify the National
amendment.
To win this dual contest it will re-
quire the best united effort of all or.
CARNATIONS and individuals.
When Organized.
A number of strong men and wo.
men who have been engaged in the
fight against the saloon recognized
the necessity of uniting into one or
ganization for the purpose of success
fully conducting the campaign of
1918, every element DESTROYS and will
ing to abolish the liquor traffic. A
mass meeting was held in Minneapo-
lis on December 5, 1917, and the Min
nesota Dry Federation was effected
| which for it's cosmopolitan and rep
resentative character commends it.
self to every interest in the state, cap
1tal and labor, city and country, or
ganized and unorganized interests,
Christian and non-C Christian elements.
Former Governor Van SAINT is the
chairman Of the Federation and all
parts of the state and all interests
and classes are represented on the ex-
ecutive committee.
Organizations Affiliated.
Twelve statewide organizations,
united under the name of the Allied
Temperance Committee, and many To-
cal organizations, fraternal lodges,
clubs and other organizations which
are not primarily interested in the
question and heartily cooperating
with the Minnesota Dry Federation.
These statewide organizations are:
Women's Christian Temperance I'm.
ion.
Minnesota Total Abstinence Asso.
citation.
Prohibition State Committee.
Trade Union Dry League of Mime
sofa.
Scandinavian Grand Lodge, 1. O.
G. T.
Catholic Total Abstinence Society.
Minnesota Grand Lodge I. o. G. T.
| Young Peoples Citizenship Com.
mittee.
Employees Anti-Liquor Alliance.
Finnish Total Abstinence Society.
Women's State Medical Association.
intercollegiate Prohibition Asso.
citation.
If You Don't Vote, You Do, and You
Vote mo-"
Few people comprehend that all
voters who vote at the election, but
! who fail to vote on an amendment
are counted as having voted against
1t. Thus If there are 100000 votes
cast at the election and 150, 900 should
vote for the amendment and none
vote against it, the amendment is lost
for lack of majority of all votes
cast. In 1916 the initiative and re.
ferendum amendment received 49,, I'll
affirmative votes with 51,544 votes
against It In other words it received
q majority Of 136,167 votes or more
than three-to-one vote and yet it was
defeated by 20,397, because there
were 416,215 votes cast at the election
and, therefore, there must be at least
208,108 affirmative votes to ADOPT an
amendment
Under the present method nc
amendment has ever been adopted
the first time submitted, and none
with less than three-to-one, while
many have failed with four-to-one
vote.
A Big Job.
While the task of putting the dry
amendment lover the top is very diff.
ficult, the forces of Righteousness, eff.
f1ciency and conservation who seek
its adoption have but one fear-the
carelessness, apathy and indifference
of the dry forces born of a false feel.
ing of over-confidence The respon.
sibility confronts YOU.
The Minnesota Dry Federation will
do its utmost to achieve a glorious
victory, and depends upon every In.
dividual and organization to do nc
less.
a Patriotic Duty.
In these war-torn days, our nation
realizes the danger which threatens
our cherished ideals of liberty and
democracy, and has a clear vision OF
our responsibility to mankind; there
fore we are fighting to retain those
ideals and to extend them to othe,
lands and peoples. Prussian militar
ism must be overthrow. Our first
duty Is to win the war.
"Our boys" abroad and ut home
properly supported, united with men
of other freedom-loving nations, will
save our nation and the world.
In Minnesota autocracy has been
represented in constantly attempted