INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS tion and cold. He stumbled out to REMARKABLE RESULTS OF THE this country has had. drink again. They were buried in Murphy did not know that he DON'T GET STUNG! potter's field. had any power of oratory he HUNDRED-YEAR FIGHT AGAINST WHISKY was simply and vividly in earnest Trembling on the verge of collapse in his opposition to the saloon, from delirium tremens, this and he hired old Liberty hall in man, with a ragged coat buttoned Pittsburgh for a series of meetings. Do you imagine that Poor Carbon Paper can. around his shirtless body, passed formed, and six years later a similar Splendid Work has been Done in Within nine weeks he had the open door of a hall where society was organized in Connecticut. possibly give Permanently Clear Copies? induced 60,000 persons to sign the the Past 100 Years in the Campaign Hawkins was speaking. A man pledge and put on a blue ribbon for Cause of Temperance pulled him in and led him up to a The first great temperance EVERY POSSIBLE ARGUMENT DIRECTS YOU TO USE in token of it. It is estimated that front seat. When Hawkins finished orator in this country was, Dr. he influenced 12,000,000 persons CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS speaking this drunkard MULTI-KOPY Lyman Beecher, a preacher of to abstain from drink. He died in JOIN HANDS arose and told some of his experiences East Hampton, L. I., and one of Los Angeles in 1907. how he had leaned over the most powerful pulpit orators the pallet of rags in the dark of The latest and greatest of all One hundred and six years ago in America. In 1826 he amazed A O N A E the temperance movements is the the first temperance society was his tenement room and passed his the whole country by a startling Anti-saloon league. It was organized organized in this country. Since shaking hand over the cold, dead Each sheet is Guaranteed to give series of sermons against drinking faces of his wife and child, and in 1895 as the result of a then the struggle between "wets" and drunkenness. Out of this casual conversation between ONE HUNDRED GOOD COPIES "drys" has gone on without men and women wept as they and agitation came the American heard him. Archbishop Ireland of the Catholic ceasing, the temperance army Temperance union, which swept Price:—Dozen Sheets, 50 cents church and the Rev. Ilpha J. steadily gaining over the liquor Thus was born to a new life over the country. This was the interests, until now the prohibition Keynett, then chairman of the John B. Gough, the greatest temperance first temperance crusade. Box of 100 Sheets, $3.0Q crusade has swept forward permanent committee on temperance orator that ever lived. It By 1828 this society had 225 and prohibition of the Methodist to such an extent that in more STAR BRAND RIBBONS was in 1842 he signed the piedge, branch organizations. A year later church. It differs from all than two-thirds of the territory and thereafter, until 1886, when there were 1,000 with 100,000 of the United States the saloon other temperance societies in that he was stricken with paralysis members. Fifty' distilleries had Excel all other brands of typewriter ribbon it is an organization not alone of has been abolished, while in most while lecturing, he traveled and closed. A host of temperance individuals, but of organizations, of the rest of the country it seems lectured everywhere, the greatest Price:—75 cents each. $$.00 a Dozen. workers had sprung up. Many too, including in its membership to be threatened with approaching individual force the cause of temperance public men signed the pledge. H. E. KIMPTON churches of all denominations, extinction. ever had. He had intense Up to that time the liquor men Catholic and Protestant, and such The United States has an area dramatic power and "talent as a were everywhere in control! They societies as the Christian Endeavor of 2,873,890 square miles. The area mimic, and millions wept and Local agent for F. S. Webster's typewriter supplies dominated the legislature. They and the Epworth League. Its under no-license is 2,132,746 laughed with him. dictated to congress. They exacted local work is to endeavor to obtain square miles, and only 841,144 is ILTIS BLOCK INTERNATIONAL FALLS In 1849 Father Mathew, the obedience of the church. the nomination and election wet. Catholic apostle of temperance, Church deacons owned distilleries, of men for municipal office who The population of the United came from Ireland and stayed for combining the whisky trade and are against the saloon. In the States is 91,972,226. The population two years lecturing and organizing religion. Preachers were in the state it works to obtain the nomination living in dry territory is 46,029,750, habit of stopping in the middle of everywhere the temperance and election of men opposed or 1,087,274 more than society that bears his name. sermons to take a drink. to the saloon. Its ultimate one-half. At this time the first books The following year, 1850, Neal aim is to obtain an amendment to The greater part of. this no-license witty the evils of drunkenness as PREPARE FOR Dow, mayor of Portland, Me., had the United States constitution area has b^en captured by their themes began to appear. L. a neighbor with a large family, a prohibiting the manufacture and the dry army within the last ten M. Sargent's stories did much to good man and in the main a good sale of beverage alcoholic liquors. and fifteen years, under the banner THE FUTURE arouse sentiment. "My Mother's provider, but he w^as addicted to The full results of the agitation of the Anti-saloon league, Gold Ring" was one of his books going off on long drunken sprees, that has been going on for upwards which is the most efficient fighting that had a large circulation. Pierpont's and then he neglected his family. tempeance organizations ever of a century against the poems aided the cause, as Finally this neighbor lost his job. saloon in this country is now formed. The time will come when your earning did the writings of Woodward, His wife appealed to the saloonkeepers reaching fruition in the united effort Began in a Drinking Club Warren, Baird, Beman, Channing not to sell him any more power will be wanting. of the Anti-saloon league The first American temperance and others. liquor. They laughed at her. She One of the earliest and most effective society was organized by Dr. Wm. A Pledge in a Saloon appealed to Neal Dow, the mayor, weapons was in having J. Clarke in 1808, in Saratoga Through old age will you be able fin­ and he went to see several saloonkeepers But it was in 1840 that the laws passed twenty-five years ago county, New York, but it bore little and they laughed at him, ancially to enjoy the fruits of your many movement reached the stage that compelling the introduction into resemblance to the temperance too. Right there and then Neal it became known as the "temperance schools of textbooks from which societies of to-day, and any member vear's work? Dow consecrated his life to fighting reformation." The Washington boys and girls were taught that of our W. C. T. U. of to-day the liquor traffic. He began Temperance society at Baltimore, alcoholic liquors were medicinally would pronounce this society of Open an account with us today and making temperance speeches all one of the greatest instruments worthless and physically and Dr. Clark's nothing more nor less over the state, and in 1851, for reform thj$ ever existed, morally destructive. In plain, simple keep adding to it every pay day and than a drinking club. Its fortythree through his work, the legislature was organized that year, and language, sue has would impress members pledged themselves of Maine enacted the first state vou will be rewarded for your frugality. never did an agent for good have youthful minds, these textbooks to cut out everything intoxicating a stranger birth. It began with a law prohibiting the liquor traffic. described the baleful results except beer from their In 1884 Maine adopted a prohibition group of working men who met of alcoholic in dulgence. We will pay you 4 per cent interest on list of drinkables. This was not nightly around a table in Baltimore amendment to its constitution. The boys and girls of twenty-five only the first temperance society, your sayings account. It is yet a dry state. to drink and play cards. One and fifteen years ago, who studied but its members took the first night the group of tmen went to Before the war there was no from those text-books and temperance pledge ever signed in FIRST NATIONAL BANK hear a temperance lecture, out of tax on whisky, and no license was who were taught at the knees of this country. The society exists curiosity to see what the orator imposed for selling it. Nearly their mothers, the women of the to this day, and in 1908 its members would say. He converted them. every grocery store in the country "crusade" and the W. C. T. U„ are International Falls, Minnesota celebrated the centennial of They returned to the saloon, signed sold it openly, and it was now men and women and they its founding, which was attended' a pledge to drink no more and form a mighty army of antagonism drunk just as openly. Whisky was by temperance workers from all organized the society, William K. cheap. Its cost by the barrel was to the saloon that is being expressed over the country. Mitchell, a tailor, drawing up the about 15 cents a gallon. The retail at the polls. Previous.to the forming of this pledge. Before the year was ended, price of the pure article of threeyear-old The present temperance upheaval first temperance society there had the "Washingtonians" as they is a revolt of the American bourbon or rye was been little agitation against drinking, .conscience against what it believes called themselves, had hundreds about 40 cents a gallon, 15 cents although Dr. Rush of Philadelphia, to be wrong. Another thing of thousands of members, and it a quart, 10 cents a pint, 5 cents one of the signers of the that has stirred the public against spread throughout the country. a drink. The government put a Declaration of Independence, the liquor traffic has been the relationship tax on whisky and other liquors wrote a pamphlet against drunkenness Among those who heard J. H. between the politicians to raise money to help pay the which had a large circulation. W. Hawkins speak in New York and the saloon, it is an astounding, cost of the civil war. This increased city was a ragged, besotted bookbinder. INTERNATIONAL FALLS fact, as Ferdinand C. Inglehart the price. And then the states, The early American was a hard This man had sunk said, that most of the great cities counties and cities began to impose drinker. The rich man had his through the different degrees of Wednesday Evening, April 8th of this country were "ruled by a license tax on saloon-keepers, sideboard, the poor man his jug. drunkenness until he spent all his rum." providing severe penalties for The rich man waved his guests time in saloons, singing, mimicking, A few statistics now, showing selling liquors without license, to the decanter the poor man doing sleight-of-hand tricks THE BIG DRAMA WITH A BIG THEME the results of the century long and this was the greatest blow pulled the corncob cork of his jug. for drinks, sleeping on the floor. war against the liquor traffic. The Nearly everyone drank. the liquor interests ever received. One night he had shambled up the THE PLAY THAT TELLS THE NAKED TRUTH states that are under absolute It contracted the sale and per But there came a change in stairway of the Bowery rickety prohibition are Georgia, Kansas, capita consumption everywhere public sentiment, very gradually tenement to the bare room where Everywhere Packed Audiences Applaud and Hundreds turned Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina, but on the other hand, it formed at first, but which kept on growing his wife and baby were, to see if North Dakota, Oklahoma, a means of uniting and strengthening and expanding. In 1813 the away at each Performance in Duluth, St. Paul and Minneapolis there was something left that he Tennessee and West Virginia. Arkansas the fighting force of the Massachusetts Society for the could pawn for whisky. He found is practically prohibition. E O I I N A O A N wet army, and everywhere they Suppression of Intemperance was his wife and baby dead of starva- In the following states 50 per cent THE drew together in association of of the population is under no-license wholesale and retail liquor dealers, Alabama, Colorado, Florida, brewers and distillers, with Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky. campaign funds of millions of dollars, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, and paid vigilance committees New Hampshire, South Carolina, INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINNESOTA to watch for and try and South Dakota, Texas, Vermont head off legislation antagonistic and Virginia. ]/i the following to the liquor interests. THE ASTOUNDING WHITE SLAVE PLAY TRAFFIC states between 25 and 50 per cent In f873 there was a remarkable HAS of the population is under no uprising of women in Ohio against LOCATION, POWER AND RAW MATERIAL license: California, Delaware, Illinois, the saloon, which became known Maryland, Massachusetts, as the "temperance crusade." These combined guarantee a populous center of activity Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon, Women invaded saloons in Fostoria, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin Findlay, Sandusky, Cleveland and Wyoming. and other towns, kneeling PRESENT OUTPUT OF MILLS: It is a favorite argument of the in the sawdust of the barroom enemies of the temperance movement RACHAEL MARSHALL'S Gripping Story of the floors, praying and singing. They Print Paper 220 tons per day News that, notwithstanding the were tremendously in earnest in Startling Commerce in Girlt That is Now Under agitation against the liquor traffic Ground Wood Pulp__ .200 tons per day this "sacred war," and thousands the consumption of alcoholic liquors Investigation All Over America Don't Miss It.! signed the pledge, and 250 saloons Sulphite Pulp 110 tons per day is increasing. The falsity of in northern Ohio. were closed This Exposition of White Slavery* such an argument is easily shown writ* Saw Mill 100,000,000 ft. annually Out of this movement sprang by the statistical reports of the the W. C. T. U. in 1874, with Miss ten by a Woman (or Women and for Every* A permanent pay roll of over $75,000 per month internal revenue department of Francis E. Willard as secretary one Who Respects or Loves Womanhood. the government. In the twenty Consider these facts, and we feel sure you and afterward president. The influence years between 1870 and 1890 the of Miss Willard in the war will agree with us that International Falls Is the strongest, cleanest and mostdaring disclosure of increase in per capita consumption against the saloon cannot be estimated of alcoholic liquors was 100 mighty truth ever projected on any stage. it has been going on for is destined to become one of the most importent per cent. In the twenty years between years, and is yet a mighty force. manufacturing oenlers of the North 1890 and 1910 the iiicrease Miss Willard originated the phrase, "The right of a child to be was not quite 41 per cent. In 1890 Wert. SPECIAL NOTICE—"The Traffic" is not a play for the young yvrell born," which became a slogan# about 20 per cent of the population in the temperance crusade. and immature. Girls unde rthe age of 16 years will not be was living in no-license territory. Rislduci Lits trim $200 Hp Ousifliss Lits frui $1200 ip In 1876, following hard upon admitted unless with parent or guardian. industrial Lits fraa $000 up the heels of the women's "cms Tims to Suit all The greatest prohibition victories ade," came Frances Murphy and ORIGINAL COMPANY OF TWENTY-FIVE B. KINNEY have taken place sinqe 1907 G. his blue ribbon movement. Murphy had) been a boot-legging and at no time since 1907 has the A O A O S E I A S E N E whisky seller in prohibition Maine I per capita consumption of intoxicating 8ALE8 MANAGER and afterward a saloonkeeper in PRICES: First 6 rows $1.50. Balance $1.00. Gallery, 50c liquors been larger than it IatarnatiQaal Falls, Minnesota Pittsburgh, Pa. He was a drunlc- reformed year ard ,too, but he and be- j-was ^at *n spite of the large S E E O S E A S E A SS3& came a great temperance lectur- increase in population.—Kansas er, the fourth of-the great ones'City Star. *&•> i- 1-54 ?!»8pS ti'sr, 1