Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1922-06-28
Eighteenth Amendment was presented.
Buyer - a Party to Crime IS s

ts Buy0r - a Party to Crime
&. The man who q eals with or purchases
from an Illicit dealer in such stuff, is
Just as muchSa laWx.Violator as the boot
legger himself. The man who, buy S such
s5nhkinE snSang PifSs
chances he is taking. When a man is
! handling "a rattlesnake4 he is likely VI to
:hes bitten. The bootlegger is beyond
| the pale of responsibility and an enemy
to society and a cowardly, foe to all that
is good and noble. ..s.ss 49,
He does not care what Kind Of liquor
sells, under the name of Whiskey, vile
poisonous stuff. White corn liquor COM
.tains fusel=oil. one sof the-most deadly
poisons known. sFirst-run 1noonshine is
rank. poison, yet the moonshiner who
! makes the stuff-::frst Shots it is
called by the legitimate distiller---does
not trouble himself to distM 1T again,
It is not prohibi tion\which makes law
breakers. lf is the sympathizers OF the
liquor Violators who do that.
tence"-is a place where the yegg
and the thief goes to dispose of .his loot,
and il you go to that place to make
you are buying from man. in league
with the thief and by so doing you your
self become an accessory and "a party
TO- lawlsss transaet 9, Some ofthe
anyone would do that, and syet5la the
same time. these same fellows believe
it to be perfectly honorable and right
to go to a bOOtlegger and buy a pint of
t:moonshine, knowing full we'll that. they
are buying something from an individ-
ual who is in Illegal possession of such
We have all heard and read a great
deal about the City Of Washington OF
by-gone days, OF the booze, the wine
caroqsing, the ,reeling congressman and
the bleafy-eyed senator, the dives and
the hell holes and the street walkers:
Recently I spent four days in the City
OF Washington. On the morning I ar
rived there, was not met by self-ap-
pointed committee Of a few designing
individuals as certain Englishman was
met in New York City not so long ago.
was not rushed thru the streets in an
automobile to any appointed place.:I did
not lock myself up in a\hotel, pull the
curtains and peep thru the Hkeyhole, and
then pass Judgment on the Eighteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States A fair and unbiased in
dividual cannot draw true and cor
law by mingling few hours only with
certain selected crowd
Conditions in Washington Improved
While in Washington, passed up the
street cars and the automobiles. I did
not wish to be rushed by any place in
too much of "a hurry for fear that I
might miss something that I was look
ing for. I got UP at six o'clock every
morning, took couple of hours walk
before breakfast and took a two hours
walk right after breakfast again, and
from about half past ten or eleven
o'clock to four o'clock in the afternoon,
! 1 attended to business matters After
that I took another six or seven hours
walk. l walked up and down the main
alleys and by-Ways, thru the different
residential portions of the city; Il Wis
| tied different hotels, the many parks and
resting places; I went into soft drink
! bars in great many sections OF the
city. was hunting for some of the
| old-time Washington. could not find
! it. During all that time and all that
! hunt, saw only one man who appeared
to be under the influence Of liquor and
ne was darkey. What a wonderful
CITY Washington is; what clean CITY!
doubt very much whether there is an
| other capitol in the world as clean as
washington, and prohibition has helped
| to make it so. -... 49,.
aversion to Honest Labor a Cause of
! ldlenesS and desire to get away
! from actual manual labor to a great ex-
te nt is the cause Of the crime wave of
To-Day; better example than mere play
ana ldleness must be set for the Ameri-
can youth by the better classes. Every
man, woman, boy and girl, irrespective
employed at some useful task. If a large
! number Of that class who are today Civ
ing advice as to the extravaganza OF
the American people, would in a reason
/ able measure practice what they them
selves preach, others would follow suit
and we would have less dissension and
law violation in the country. Idleness
| display, disregard for law and order
among the so-called better class nave
nred the younger set among the poorer
4 classes With>a desire to shine along the
same line, and in order to keep up with
| the%pace the latter is forced to resort
to crime. The idle rich of today are
Just as much to blame for the existing
crime wave which is sweeping the coun-
try as the idle poor. It is up to the
better Glasses to set an example in
thrift and decency and respect for law
| Condemns EXCESS in Golf
-, Playing golf every day when the wea-
ther permits will hardly till the bread