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Published every Wednesday at 328—330 Benson Ave WlUmar, Minn by Victor E. Law
son under the hrm name of—
TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY.
LINCOLN ON SALOON QUESTION.
The liquor interests certainly
have not the least decency in the
conduct of their campaigns for li
cense in the various towns where an
effort is being made to keep out
the saloons. A friend of the Trib
une this week sends us a leaflet
signed by the name "Traveling
Men's Liberty League" in which
an attempt is made to show that
Lincoln, the big American libera- use for:
tor, was an advocate of license. In
order to make a pretense of prov
ing this the circular quotes as much
of the introduction to a speech
made by Lincoln at a meeting of
the Sons of Temperance on Feb. 22,
1842, as serves its purpose of gross
misrepresentation. This is the
part quoted:
"When all such of us as have
now reached the years of maturity
first opened our eyes upon the stage
of existence, we found intoxicating
liquor recognized by everybody,
used by everybody, repudiated by
nobody. It commonly entered into
the first draught of the infant and
the last draught of the dying man.
From the sideboard of the paison
down to the ragged pocket of the
houseless loafer, it was constantly
found. Physicians prescribed it in
this, that and the other disease
government provided it for soldiers
and sailors and to have a rolling
or raising, a husking or 'hoedown'
anywhere without it was positively
insufferable. So too, it was every
where a respectable article of man
ufacture and merchandise. The
making of it was considered as an
honorable livelihood, and he who
could make most was the most en
terprising and respectable. Large
and small manufactories of it were
everywhere erected, in which all
the earthly goods of the owner were
invested. Wagons drew it from
town to town boats bore it from
clime to clime, and the winds waft
ed it from nation to nation and
merchants bought and sold it, by
wholesale and retail, with precisely
the same feelings on the part of the
seller, buyer and bystander as are
felt at the selling and buying of
plows, beef, bacon or any other of
the necessaiies of life. Universal
public opinion 'not only tolerated,
but recognized and adopted its
use."
"It is true that even then it
was
CALUMET
Baking Powdei
Address Willmar, Minn
Northwestern Telephone No 51, 2 phones on Une Phone 51-2 Bu» office, 51-4, Pub
lisher's residence
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I Entered December 5,1902, at WUlmar, Minnesota, as second class matter, under act of
March 3.1S79 I
VICTOR E LAWSON, Editor and Manager.
MEYER, Foreman ot Printery LUDVIG S DALE, City Editor
WILLMAR, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1910.
COMING FARMERS9 INSTITUTE AT WILLMAR
The Tribune calls attention to the
list of prizes* freely offered by the
business men of Willmar for exhib
its at the farmers institute to be
held at Willmar Mar. 14 and 15,
and which appear on the first page
of the Tribune. It is hoped that
by this means a creditable showing
of these products will be made and
and a little additional zesi be given
this farmers meeting by the compe
tition for the handsome prizes of
fered. The institute promises to
become one of exceptional interest
and will attract a large attendance
of all farmers who know the value
of these meetings in the valuable
information which is so ably brot
ojt by Forest Henry and his corps
of experts on farm topics. The
Received
Highest Award
World's Pure Food Exposition
Chicago, November, 1907
What does this mean?
Jt means that Calumet has set a new Standard in
Baking Powder—the standard of the World.
Because this award was given to Calumet after
thorough tests and experiments, overall other baking
powders.
$1 SO
.75
40
25
6 25
business men of the city whose
names do not appear in the connec
tion with any prizes will contribute
towards providing a lunch at the
I. O. O. F. building for all out-of
town visitors during the intermis
sion on the first day. The Pennock
Band will be on hand to furnish
music for the occasion, and it is
possible that an evening program
will be arranged that would give
many of the city people a chance to
attend, who are unable to get away
for the day sessions.
So don't forget the institute, but
make your plans to bring the wife,
the boys and the girls, and select
the best products you have in the
line of butter and corn and com
pete for the prizes offered.
known and acknowledged that many
were greatly injured by it but
none seemed to think the injury
arose from the use of a had thing,
but from the abuse of a very good
thing."
Thus far the villainous circular
made use of Lincoln's speech, but
further. Just to show what
no
the
Lincoln's idea was on
question we will give some
quotations from this
same
saloon
of the
speech
he I or a ad no
"Whether or not the world would
be vastly benefitted by a total and
final banishment from it of all in
toxicating arinks seems to me not
an open question. Three-fourths
of mankind confess the affirmative
with their tongues, and I believe,
all the rest acknowledge it in their
hearts.
"The demon of intemperance
ever seems to have delighted in
sucking the blood of genius and
generosity. What one of us but
can call *o mind some relative,
more promising in his youth than
all his fellows, who has fallen a sac
rifice to his rapacity. He ever
seems to have gone forth like the
Egyptian angel of death, commis
sioned to slay, if not the first, the
fairest born of every family. Shall
he now be arrested in his desolating
career? In that moment all can
give aid that will and who shall be
excused that can and will not?
"Turn now to the temperance
revolution. In it we shall find a
stronger bondage broken, a viler
slavery manumitted, a greater
tyrant deposed in it, more of want
supplied, more disease healed, more
sorrow assuaged. By it no orphans
starving, no widows weeping. By
it, none wounded in feeling, none
injured in interest.
"If the relative grandeur of rev
olutions shall be estimated by the
great amount of human misery they
alleviate and the small amount they
inflict, then indeed will this be the
grandest the world shall ever have
seen.
"And when the victory shall be
complete—when there shall be
neither a slave nor a drunkard on
the earth—how rroud the title of
that land which may truly claim to
be the birth-place and the cradle of
both those revolutions that shall
have ended in that victory. How
nobly distinguished that people
who shall have planted and nur
tured to maturity both the moral
Mi
It means that Calumet is the best baking powder
in every particular in the world.
And this means that Calumet produces the
best, most delicious, lightest, and purest
baking of all baking powders.
Doesn't that mean
everything to you?
A^us^^SSS^^ft
campaign
coin said:
"This legalized liquor traffic as
carried on in the grog-shops and sa
loons is the great tragedy of mod
ern civilization. It is not enuf
now-a-days to answer the duties of
American citizenship that a man
means well. Citizenship demands
and requires that what is right
should not only be made known,
but be made prevalent—that what
is evil and wrong in our midst
should not only be detected but de
feated, destroyed, outlawed. When
a citizen omits to put himself in a
position to do his full duty on the
question with the best effect with
his vote, it is a form of moral
treason to his country—an omision
of the duties of citizenship—and
frustrates its purposes as much as
if he had formally betrayed it.
'The saloon has proved itself to
be the greatest foe, the most with
ering, blighting curse that has
found lodgment
civilization, and
now and always
in our modern
that is why I am
a prohibitionist.
Prohibition suppresses the saloon
by law. It makes effective and
legal in these modern times the
truthful denunciations of the
prophet of old who said, 'Woe to
him that giveth his neighbor a
drink, that putteth thy bottle to
him and maketh him drunken also,
that thou mayest look on their
nakedness. Woe to them that
buildeth a ton with iniquity.'
Think of the infamous mendacity
of the brewer's combinethai has the
audacity to publish Lincoln's pic
ture and garbled extracts from his
temperance speeches in an attempt
to deceive the people regarding the
nature of their damnable business!
Don't imagine for a moment that
advertising will not bring you re
sults in your immediate field.
That's an error that many mer
chants make, when they assure
themselves that their store is so
well known that it doesn't require
newspaper advertising—that the
trade will naturally drift his way
anyhow. There isn't a store any
where in the world that has so se
cure a footing as that—not a single
store—and you are not doing busi
ness in a field but that your sales
can be increased by careful news
paper advertising. If this is not
true, why is it that a stream of
mail orders is constantly going out
of your town to catalogue houses?
And are not these sales made by
these catalogue houses the result of
persistent advertising in the very
field you feel that you have culti
vated to the limit? Whenever you
get such an idea fixed in your mind,
and really believe_ that there's
nothing more to conquer, you are
simply turning over ready money to
the man that does possess the broad
er vision—you are ceding territory
and rights to others that careful
newspaper advertising would re
tain in your possession.
NIBBLl
Norway Lake, Feh. 28.—Don't
miss the social at Willie Larson's
next Saturday evening. A good
program is arranged for and supper
will be sold, the proceeds of which
go to the improvements of the
Florida church. Rev. Franklin will
be present and the choir will sing
throughout the evening. Every
body welcome.
Oliver Walhovd of Pekin, N D.,
is visiting with relatives and
friends at Norway Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Oluf Railson enter
tained some of their friends last
Saturday night.
"The peacock is a beautiful bird
but it takes the stork to deliver the
goods regardless of weather," says
Andrew Stene. He says it is a girl
and that those concerned are doing
well.
Amanda Rustad leaves today for
Pennock to attend school.
Rev. Franklin conducted evening
services for a large gathering at
Willie Larson's last Tuesday night.
This was the last of a series of
services conducted by him in the
Florida charge.
The choir met at Rustad's last
Sunday night foi practice.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Halvorson are
making a visit with Minneapolis
relatives.
Otto Mankel is visiting at his old
home for a while after which he
will return to Argyle.
Ole Stene returned from Pekin,
N. D., last Saturday where he had
been to dispose of his Dakota farm.
Rev. Johanson will preach in the
Hauge church next Sunday fore
noon.
STATE OP OHIO CITY OF TOLEDO, I
LUCAS COUNTY f°*»
Prank Ctaenev makes oath that he Is
junior partner of the firm ot Cheney &
Co., doing business in the City of Toledo.
Countv and State aforesaid and that said
firm will oay the sum of ONE HT7NDRRD
DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the u»e of Hall's
CatarrhCure FRANK CHENEY
Sworn to before me and snb«cribed in my
presence, this 6th day of December. A. D.
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A W
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GLEfVSON,
iST!,ALJ .. Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure's taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonials
free.
fJ CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O
Sold by all Drugtrists 76c
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Pasadena, Calif., Feb. 19th, 1910.
Old Friends and Tribune Readers:
I have long thought of writing a
letter to the Tribune and telling
something of my impressions of
this part of Uncle Sam's domain
and of conditions here, but the
matter has been continually de
ferred. Having lately received
some inquiries from friends back
home as to things out here, I will
now finally sit down and try to
scribble you a letter.
We have now lived in California
over a year and during that time
have lived in Los Angeles one
month and in Pasadena the rest of
the time.
Southern California is, in its cli
matic conditions and in some other
respects, a section radically differ
ent from any other part of the
United States. It is really a coun
try by itself. As you all know,
during the summer months there is
no rainfall, and everything dries up
and the valleys become a desert.
During the winter, an abundance
of ram falls and Mother Earth's
mantle turns gradually from the
yellow-brown to the greens. The
rainy reason here differs from that
of Washington and the rest of the
One of the peculiarities of the
climate here is the cold night air.
Blankets are used quite generally
the year around. Californians who
"go back" east during the sum
mer complain that they cannot sleep
on account of the sultry nights.
There are none such here. Some
seasons of the year when it is too
hot in the sun for comfort it may
at the same time be too cool in the
deep shade for comfort. Get into
the shade of a telephone pole or a
chicken fence and its just about
right. Though the thermometer
during summer often runs up above
a hundred and even up to 110, such
a thing as sunstroke is quite un
known. This is due to the dry
condition of the atmosphere, I am
told. I nave seen bald-headed men
work all day in the hot sun with
out a hat on. Why they don't wear
their hats 1 don't know. I seems
that it is not really needed.
The women of Southern California
live out of doors about as much as
they do in. Nearly every house is
fitted up with a screened back porch
for a kitchen, for use in the warmer
season. Every up-to-date house
now is equipped with an open-air
sleeping apartment. Many people
sleep on their front porches at
night, especially during the drier
part of the year. One young geni
us about a block from where we
live, built a platform in a big tree,
where he placed-a cot and slept all
last summer, lulled by the whisper
ing pine boughs It is very com
mon right now in the winter to see
the women sitting on their front
porches sewing, reading or gossip
ping. In fact it is warmer out on
the porch than it is in the house if
they have no fires going.
Cyclones are unknown here.
There rarely are any thunderstorms.
We have heard the rumble of thun
der only once since we came.
Earthquakes, ynu say? Well yes,
it is said that slight tremors have
been felt on several occasions in the
past, tho none since we came. In
some localities they suffer some
times from the disagreeable sand
storms, but there are none such in
Pasadena, as it is sheltered by the
mountains in the directions from
which those winds generally come.
Fruit of all kinds is the main
crop of southern California, though
vegetables, grain and alfalfa are
very important. There is a good
deal of oil found in this section and
there is some mining and also man
ufacturing.
The water from the rain and snow
fall in the mountains is saved up in
large reservoirs, or are the moun
tain lakes tapped for irrigation and
low and behold how man transforms
the desert into a beautiful garden.
You can stand with one foot on the
The
more you eat
Quaker Oats
the better your health
will be.
Practical experi
ments with athletes
show Quaker Oats
to be the greatest
strength maker.
5$L#I*3S
grassy sward or verdant orchard
and With the other one on the burn
ing sand of the desert. Vacant
lots, dry and brown, alongside of
the sprinkled lawns, green and
fresh, makes the city look like a
checkerboard to the man in a bal
loon. Sheltered by the mountains
the valley does not suffer much
from frost and in some favored pla
ces frost is quite unknown. Some
times they raise three or four crops
of tomatoes on the same stock from
year to year. Strawberries can be
made to yield fruit the year around,
though the real season of course is
in the summer. I have seen gera
nium vines 20 feet high and climb
ing roses, for instance, growing up
a cypress tree to a height of 30 to
35 feet. I had occasion not long
ago to clear out some morning
glory vines along a fence and found
vines as big around as a man's
wrist. We chopped them up for
wood. Houses and old barns cov
ered with rose vines are, during
blooming time, transformed into
things of matchless beauty. Of
course we have roses here the year
around, but April, May and June
is the time when roses are at their
best. At that time I doubt that
Pasadena has its equal in the world
for beauty. The calla lily, that
our women folks used to be so elat-
Pacific coast in that there is not so!e? ™*en succeeded to get
them to bloom in the homes back
much continual fog or sizzling rain.
When it rains here it generally
rains quite hard. The rain will
last a day, two days, or three days
or probably a week, and then the
sun will come out warm and we
will have the blue sky for a couple
of weeks or so. At this writing
we have not Had any rain since the
first part of January. The weather
bureau I understand gives Los An
geles an average of 42 cloudy dajs
in the year. I think that there
were more than that last year. I
have experienced nothing quite as
beautiful and lovely as are these
balmy winter days in Southern
California.
east, here bloom in nearly every
yard at this time of the year.
What would you think of a crysan
themum as big as a candy pail I
have seen—hold on, here! Don't
thumbs up! Minnesota has Cali
fornia beat on lilacs The lilacs
here are small and puny. And I
guess Minnesota has Southern Cali
fornia beat on a lot of things beau
tiful with her "Limpid lakes and
rivers flowing to the sea."
No, No! I am not belittling Min
nesota. She beats them all in
many ways and needs no apologies.
But I am talking about southern
California now, or as much of it as
I havp seen, and I must tell the
tr jth. I am not provoked that you
interupted me, but I must get back
to my subject.
I was speaking of the crops of
Southern California, but I forgot
to mention the most important one
of all—the tourist crop. Yes, the
biggest asset of Southern California
is its climate. The climate brings
the tourist, and the tourists bring
the money—eastern money. South
ern California has been called the
playground of the United States.
People from all parts of the coun
try come here by the thousands
every year to escape the cold win
ters of the east. A large part of
the residents in tourist towns like
Pasadena make their living, or at
least part of it, by renting rooms
to tourists. In Pasadena alone
there are several immense hotels,
where the silkstocking gentry from
the east spend the winters. The
lovely climate has of course at
tracted the wealthy from the east
and many millionaires have their
palatial residences here. Then
there are any amount of retired
farmers, merchants, soldiers,
preachers, etc., from the east and
middle west. It seems to me that
it is mostly eastern money that is
developing the country. Hundreds
of people come here every year, get
infatuated with the climate and in
vest in a home or for speculation.
This makes the real estate agent
the big thing in this country, and
there are more of them than you
can shake a stick at. Some of
them need watching too. Many an
unsuspecting tenderfoot has had it
"rubbed" into him by the heart
less sharks. Some land here is
worth as much as a thousand dol
lars an acre. Much of it is not
worth $5 an acre, so you see YOU
muit know what you are doing in
buying a "ranch" here.
Cost of living out here is some
higher than back east, I think.
Dairy and poultry products are
higher, flour is higher, vegetables
about the same, while fruit is much
cheaper. Fuel is very high, but
you don't need so much of it as vou
do back east. Just a little blaze in
the fireplace or stove will drive the
chill out of a room. Some people
live without heating stoves the year
around, but there certainly is no
comfort in that. Other people say
they freeze as much here as they
did back east, but that seems hard
to believe. It is different, how
ever with people, depending large
ly on the condition of their blood,
perhaps.
The financial panic of two years
ago knocked things pretty badly
out here, but business soon recuper
ated and now the building boom is
on in as full vigor as ever. The
amount of building that is going
on now is surprising. It is mostly
homes for Eastern people who have
come out here to live. Ten years
ago Los Angeles was a city of 60 to
70 thousand. Now it has a popula
tion of over 300,000. Of course all
this home building gives employ
ment to a lot of people—carpenters,
painters, masons, plumbers, etc.
But if all this building should cease
or abate considerably, it would
seem that many working people
would have a hard time to get
along, as there is not much other
woik to be done. Manufacturing
does not amount to much here, ow
in£ to the long distance coal must
be brought. The mechanics who
have been here for some time and
are on the inside track are doing
well as they can work the year
around, but a new
comeir
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IT
has often
Strong Silk Values
Richardson's Black
Taffeta Silk, one yd.
wide guaranteed for
one year's wear
PRICE
$1,25 and$1.50 yd,
Advance Showing of 1910
Coats, Suits and Skirts.
a hard time to get a job. Hun
dreds of young men come out here
to escape the cold winters back east
and are willing to work for little
or nothing just to get a job. When
you stop to think about it, it is
queer that there is as much as there
is for everybody to do.
I see the public spirited men back
in Minnesota are awakening to the
need of doing some advertising to
attract people to the state. When
it comes to the science of advertis
ing, Southern California has the
rest of the nation "skinned a
mile to the teeth." That seems to
be the one big object of the Board
of Trade, chamber of commerce,
and the whole push—to attract peo
ple with money to come here and
buy homes or invest in some other
way. It is like an assessment life
insurance company, the more new
members they can get into the order
the lower they can keep down the
assessments and the longer they can
stave off the day of final reckoning.
And so the more people who come
from the east and buy homes the
more money it means to real estate
agents and the builders. But if
there should come a time when
these people have spent their
"wad" that they had with them
and would have to rely solely on
the resources of the country, I
doubt that the oranges and lemons
would support the half of them.
SPRING GOODS
ARRIVING DAILY AT THE NEW STORE.
Presenting attractions seldom equaled and never
excelled—the kind that will make powerful ap
peals to the purse. A visit will be appreci
ated. We will do our part to make it
pleasant and profitable for you.
A TIMELY REVIEW OF CHOICE EASTER DRESS 600DS
Just received-40 pieces of new Spring dress goods
from the celebrated Jamestown Dress Goods
Mills, and some very choice patterns from one
of the big New York Importers of dress goods.
IS high time that you ordered that new dress of yours if you expect to
wear it on Easter Sunday. Dressmakers all over town are getting more
and more busy every day and unless you make arrangements soon for the
gown you expect to wear on that great day of dress and fashion, you are
liable to meet with disappointment. We are this season prepared to
furnish the newest and choicest dress materials in assortments not only
equalling but positively surpassing any similar showing in town and at
prices that are meeting with the approval of a discriminating public.
BENSON BROS. & J0RRIS,Phone
&%rv-
THE NEW WASH FADRICS
are deserving of your early inspection. Neat
patterns, bright colors, excellent fabrics, and
such prices as you find here and only here.
Ask for samples of the following:
Imported and Domestic Zephyr Ginghams
Glasgow Zephyrs Mercerized Radjas
Linen Suitings, Striped and Plain
Mercerized Poplins and Taffetas
Mercerized Pongees
Light and Dark Percales
You must see these goods in order to get any
conception of their artistic get up.
WE SELL THE
BUTTERICK
PATTERNS
Price IQc and 15c
Beautiful effects have been achieved for
spring in the new full-plaited, cluster-plaited
and tunic models. Our showing includes the
most dashing and stylish creations produced by the Workshop of Worth
to meet the requirements of practical women.
No doubt the output of fruit
could be increased a hundred fold
or more, but to get it marketed at
a half-paying price, there would be
the "rub." I have seen tons and
tons of peaches and grapes go to
waste in orchards and vineyards be
cause it would not pay to pick
them. But, they will tell yoa, we
have the climate and the sunshine
and the rich will always come into
our yards to play.
It is hard for a person born and
bred in the colder climes to realize
that this is the month of February,
with the flowers blooming, the
birds singing and the bees buzzing
around. Yes, the bees are working.
A bee man gave us a piece of honey
the other day that had been gath
ered by the bees this month.
We planted a little garden in Jan
uary. The lettuce and beets are
up. The onioils are doing fine and
the peas are six inches high.
And now I guess I have taxed the
readers' patience enough for this
time. But I will soon write you a
letter about Pasadena. There are
some interesting things in this city.
Assuring you that altho I appre
ciate all what California has to
offer, I still have my heart in good
old honest, hale and hearty, rough
and ready, rip-snorting blizzard
swept Minnesota. That's where
my old friends are, that is 'where
the old folks stay,' and they all are
1.
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WILLMAR
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320
and
worth more to me than flowers
sunshine. Your old friend,
EBEN E. LAWSON.
842 N. Fair Oaks Ave.,
Pasadena, Calif.
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