Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 11, 1889, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1880~SIXTEEN PAGES. OMAHA TO OGDEN AND RETURN $30. THE ATTENTION OF CAPITALISTS AND INVESTORS IS INVITED TO OGDEN, UTAHR, As the most promising city in the Inter-Mountain couantry for investment. Situated midway between the large cities of the plains, in the grandest agricultural and fruit valley of the world, her moun- tains teeming with a wealth of minerals, located on the Great International railway, the point at which seven great railways center. Arrangements are now perfected for grand excursions from eastern points, during the coming fall and winter, that will keep a stream of investors pouring into this favored city at the rate of many thousands per month. The experience of Kansas City, Denver and Omaha, will be duplicated during the next three years. COME. Or J. B. EVANS, R. 308 N. Y. FOR MAPS, ETC., ADDRESS INTER-STATE LAND AND TOWN GOMPANY, PROHIBITION IN KANSAS. Mayor Waggener of Atchison Re- . views the Situation. EX-SALOON MEN AS DRUGGISTS. Fines Take the Place of Licenses and the Business Goes On—No Pub- lic Sentiment Back of the Law. Does Prohibition Prohibit? Amonisox, Kan., August 7.—The prohibi tory amendment to the constitution of Kan- sas was adopted in 1880, It was regarded as & great triumph for the cause of temperance. The advocates of temperance did not forsee the difculties in vhe way of its enforcement. They imagined such an expression of senti- ment would silence opposition. The amendment was not self-enforcing. It required the enactment of laws to carry it into effect. The legislature, at its session of 1881, passod such acts as were supposed to be adequate to secure to the people the fruits of the victory won at the polis, but they were found to be too elastic and more stringent ones were cnacted and enforced, to the extenv of closing the open saloon and depriving the municipal governmeut of the revenuo derived from tho lcense system. ‘With the closing of the saloons, however, the evils from intemperance did vot dis- sppear, The traMio in: liquors was not avolished. It was driven to cellar and attic and w the bootleg and hip pocket. The responsible men who bad been engaged in the pusiness quit and engaged in other business or left the state. In their stead came o great army of disreput- able scoundrels and irresponsible tramps and vagubonds, who became the proprietors of the joints and low dives with which nearly every community in Kansas is now cursed, ‘fhese men were born violators of the law. Their places of business became the rendez- wous of criminals and the police forces of the cities were wholly inadequate to restrain such places of iniquity or prevent the depre- dations of thelr regular patrons. The al- ready overburdened taxpuyers were com- pelled to resort to other sources for revenue with which to defray the increased expense of municipal goveroment. By degrees there ‘was u relaxation of the vigilance on the part of those iuterested in the cause of temperance. They could stand the bur- dens no louger and seemed to be willing to tolerate the places where intox- fcants were sold for other than “medicinal, mechanical and scientific purposes.” The joints increased in number, and more respon- sible men became the propriotors, The rose- wood counter took tho place of the dry zoods box. The incandescent light took the piace of the tallow candle, the cut glass decanter 100k the place of the jug, and the gilded mir- xor took the place of the horse blanket, and to-day ‘‘there is probably no town of 1,000 Inhabitants where a bibulous but discreet in- quirer, if properly vouched for," either by #n {nitiated friend or & member of the met- ropolitan police force, can not tind all he de- sires to drink. The restrictions thrown around the *‘drug store" are ineffectual, and can be and are casily evaded. The most lucrative business in Kausas is the “drug store," where intoxicauts are sold according to law, There are many drugglists who at the time the amepament was adopted did not know she difference between & blue mass pill and ® loaden bullet, who immediately after the Ppassage of the law sold out their lurge stock of liquors ““at cost for the purpose of going futo tho *retail Arug businoss, and Senator Ingalls is correct when ne says that “‘the sale of bitters, elixirs and other concoctions containing _alcohol has undoubtedly in- creased.”” What is meant by ‘bitters, “elixirs” and ‘‘other concoctions?” To the novice, what the terms signify; but to the “discreet inquirer” whisky straighv and An- beuser beer. The social clubs have been or- ganized and incorporated, to whose rooms no vne is admitted unless he holds ‘'a key.” These places are now tolerated throughout the state, because they pay a certain amount toward defraying the expenses of the gov- ernment, It is truo they are Znot licensed, but they are not interfored with, provided at least once each month the ‘‘troubadour, or the mound-builaer,” submits to an arrest, under the name of John Doe or Richard Roe, and “‘puts up” to the chief of the metropoli- tan police force 825, $50 or $100 as security for his appearance at the police court the next morning. Of course he does not appear. He is not expected. 1f he should appear, the chief has no evidence against him. If he does not appear his security is forfeited, and he same proceedings had each successive nonth, and 80 the farce goes on, Such pro- ceedings are not only justifiable, but abso- lutely necessary. It has become perfectly apparent to any close observer that intoxi- cants will be sold to the “‘discreet inquirer,’ law or no law. This much is admittcd, even by Senator Ingalls. Nearly every city in Kansas is groaning under the burdens of taxation, and relief must come from- some source. The people revolt at an occupation or license tax for the purpose of raising revenue. Such a tax is obnoxious, burdensome and neccssarily dis- criminating, but must be rcsorted to ns a means to secure ihe ordinary expenses of city government and the increased expense made necessary to keep in check and re- strain those Who datly violate the law, There is another serious objection, which has developed since the adoption of the amendment and the passage of the law in furtherance thereof. In every political con- test, municipal and state, since 1880, the “‘drink question” has been an important and in mauy instances the controlling factor. The communities are in a constant turmoil and agitation over the subject. If an elec- t10n is not pending to stir up the people, *the attorney general is expected next week to begin prosecutions against tiose who are vio- lating the prohbitory law.” The citizons become excited. They do but little busi- ness. Joint keepers, *‘troubadours and mound builders” close up their daily hauuts, tem- porarily, and ‘flee from the wrath to come." ' After a short vacation from their arduous and nover ceasing labors they return refreshed and reinvigorated and the work gocs bravely on. It 1s unfortunate for the aw that any question coucerning it was ever permitted to gev into politics. The demo- cratic party au first in effeot advocated nulli- fication, “This was undemocratic and it receded from this position and has since de- clared for the “enforcement of the law and rosubmission of the question.” As soon as the ropublican party took up the question and indorsed it as a party measure, the pio- neers in the cause of probibition in that party were relegated o the rear and a great host of political demugogues camo forward to ad- vocate that which was an accomplished fact. ‘The republican party became committed to !n'nhlhlllou through the efforts of Governor 3t. Johin, and those who to-day are the most carnest advocates of the principle were then loudest and most bitter in their denunciation of this upostlo of temperance. In 1883 St. Johu was nominated for a third terw over the protest of John A. Martin and others because he was and had been “the special champion of temperance,” but ostensibly because he was a third-term can- didute, and immediately there was an or- ganized revolt 1 the republican party which resulted in his defeat and the election of Governor Glick. This election demon- strated that & reagtion had set in agaiust the prohibitory amendment, and that the small majority in its favor wheu adopted had been overcome. The campaign of 1852 was not o gnruun cnu(}wiu. Tho issue upon which t. Johu made the race was prohibition—cs apgonar.l to him it was nullification and re- submission—St. John was defeated. ‘The result of the campaign in 1584 does not afford any criterion from which can be formed auy correct idea of the sentiment then exist- ing ou the subject of prohibition. It 1s true that the “republicans again indorsed prohi- bition, while the democrats denounced it and declared for high license.” The demo- cratic mx was not united in that con. | test, y republicaus voted for Goveruor Glick in 1882 upon the erroneous idea that his election meant submission, and in 1884 they saw that he had utterly failed to impress the legislature with his convictions upon the subject of resubmission and generally voted their party ticket. Governor Martin was not then regarded as a very strong prohibitionist. ‘While he opposed St. John in the convention in 1882, at the time he was nominated in 1884 ho had become a convert to the teachings of St. John on the subject of prohibition, but was a0t 80 pronounced in his views as to antagonize or alienate either wing of his party, His election was in no sense & triumph for prohibition or any indication that public sentiment was n~ favor of the law. In each state campaign since 1834 each of the two greal political parties has, i effect, declared for the enforcement of the law. The government machinery, state, county and municipal, has been under the control of the dominant party, thoroughly committed to prohibition and the enforce- ment of the law, aud yet, nearly ten . years having passed, we find ourselves face to face with the fact that the law is unblushingly violated and wholly ineffectual to suppress the liquor trafic. Why is this? It is not because the principle of prohibition is in- hdrently wrong, for every law of a penal nature is more or less & prohibitory law. It is not because there are no evils resulting from intemwperance, for we meet with them daily, It1s not because mankind would not be benefited by confining the trafic in in- tox! ts to the excepted purposes, for it certainly would, It is because there is not a public sentiment back of the law strong enough to demand and secure its enforccment. A law to be ef- fective must be the reflection of a public opinion which sustains and supportsit. The fugitive slave law of 1850 was a failure be- cause the morthein people revolted atthe brutality of its provisions, and the courts were powerless to inforce it. So with the present prohibitory law. The courts were powerless to suppress the trafic because there are 80 many opposed to the principle of liquor prohibition, and who believe that it is a subversion of the power of a republican form of government, and who will aid and abet its violation, and the most ardent prohi- bitionist frankly admits that the law, ‘‘unless sustained by an intelligent and enlightened public opinion, hinders rather that promotes the cause of human progress.” The railroads and express companies are doing a large business in the transportation of beer und whisky from other states into Kansas. An examination of the records will show that thousands of barrels of whisky and cases of beer are daily shipped lnto Kan- sas, consigned to cities and towns through- out the eutire state. The state law, Lowaver restrictive in its provisions, can not reach this character of trafic. It is inter-state commerce and can only be controlled or pre vented by an act of congress. It Is safe to say that a large per cent of the business of the wholesale liquor dealers of St. Joseph and Kansas City is done with the cities and towns of Kansas, station large piles of trafiic, however, is not confined to inter-state shipments. From one city in Kans there was shipped to various 1nterior towns during the first six months of 1550 over three thousaud cases of boer, ale and whisky. ‘What became of this great quantity of intox- fcants! It can not be that it is all for *‘med- icinal, mechanical und scientific purposes.” The fact is, and can not be successfully con- troverted, that it 1s resold in violation of the law. Senator Ingalls never uttered a greater truth than when he said that ‘‘malaria, indi- gestion and other disorders bave developed in localities previously considered solubri- ous,” etc,, and notwithstanding a law has been passed, ‘'tho penalties for the violation of which are ingeniously rigid and have not been exceeded for severity since the code of " it is easily evaded, and gre: tities of whisky and beer are daily consuwed and municipalities get uo revenue whatever from its sale, Is not such & law most pernicious 1n ite affects! s it not detrimental to the cause of temperance! Does it not retard the growth and expansion 0f that moral sentiment so necessary to attain i@ object sought to be accomplished? Cannot any advocate of pro- hibition see at a glance that thosé Who en- gage in the trafiic are reaping a rich harvest at the expense of good governwent aud so- mal reformi The following statement, taken from the books of the United States internal revenue collector for this state, shows the number of relail liquor dealers’ licenses taken outin & DENVER, BUY IF YOU WILL, BUT COME. THE INTER-STATE LAND AND TOWN COMPANY OFFER LARGE OR SMALL PROPERTIES FOR TRADE OR SALE. COLORADO, Life Building, Omaha. few of the priucipakcities auring the of prohibition: > E B 80 0 not possible that this large number of licenses were takeu out by those engaged in the legitimate drug business. Neither one of the cities mentioned sustains any such number of drug stores. From these facts the conclusion 18 irresistible that prohibition does not prohibit, and the daily violation of one law, without punishment following sure and quick, educates the criminal and encour- ages and emboldens him to commit other and graver crimes. 1f one law can be violated with impuaity, why not anothert But it 1s said that the growth and pros- perity of the state has not been affected by the law. In one point of view this s correct. An another it is not. We do not know whether it has retarded immigration or not. The pulation of the state has increased, but the urdens of taxation have not decreased. The principul cities in the state bave increased in population and in wealth, but the per cent of taxation has not been reduced. If this be true there must be some logical reason for it. Com- pare the expenses of the police department of any city of the first class at this time with the expenses prior to 1880 and you have your answer. It 18 claimed vhat the metropolitan police of Atchison, Leavenworth and other cities 18 self-sustaining, The claim may be true, but what does it prove! It proves be- yond a question that a very large revenue is derived from fines and forfeitures exacted from those who violate the law, and that it is all required to pay those who collect fit. In other words, instead of collecting the rev- enue as a license, it is collected as a fine or forfeiture. Instead of being able to use it for gas, water and improvement of streets, 88 it was under the license system, it 18 now used to pay the salaries of the brass button gentlemen who collect it. The more fines and forfeitures collected the more conclusive the evidence that the law is a failure. The expense of the metropolitan polico force of the city of Atchison is nearly $3,000 per month, not including the salaries of the commussioners. Since April 1, 1899, it has been self-sustaining. But from what source comes the revenue! It is paid by those who violate the law. The gas, water bills and etreet improvements are paid from other sources, The polide force 1n each city under- stands that unless the salary of each mem- ber is provided for by the collection of sufi- cient fines and forfeitures, it will probably not be paid at all, thus causing a standing temptation to permit or “wink at” a violation of the law, if theviolator, from month to month will pay & fine or “‘put up' a for- feiture in cash. There exists a kind of part- nership between she police force and the criminal. Will .any reputable citizen of Leaven vorth contend that the iarge p: of the very large amount collected each month by its police department does not come from those arrested forviolation of the prohibitory law! 1f this 1s correct, does prohibition pro- bibit! Hua not ‘this character of revenue been collected duzing the past ten years! Senator Ingalls says izt “license or prohi- bition are the alternatives; uotween them 1s no middle ground.” To this every one must give assent. In Kansas, strictly speaking, there is neither liceuse nor prohibition, unless unlawful license in practice and lawful pro- hibition in theory answer the alternative. The experience of ten years demonstrates that until we can have national pronibition, until the federal governmient takes hold of uestion and suys that trafiic in liquor tate prohibition will be a failure gouse of temperance and sobriety, instead Ot being promoted, will retrogade that plane from which it has been taken by tie earnest efforts of those who have labored 80 long and earaestly for its advancement. B. P, WAGGENER, ——— All the Bame. Kearney Enterprise; Frnnk-—-WoH! Jim has gone to his death, Poor boy!” Charlie~‘"No he hasn’t. He left for Chicago, vesterday.” Frank--="Yes, that's whut I said,” ALL SUBDUED BY SWEETNESS A Remarkable Species of Clover Locating in Council Bluffs. SMOTHERS OUT THE SUNFLOWER The Aesthistic Weed is No Match Kor Its Dainty But Vigorous Rival— Claiming the Bottoms Kor Its Own. The Bluffs in Clover, “And William gave to Mary dear A clover blossom sweet,’ Jingies an old Scotch ditty, which goes on with rhythmic sweetness to tell how long the love-struck William sought before he found the aforesaid clover to give his Mary in return for the sweet-william blossoms she had given him as a token of the sweet maiden love his rugged manhood has awakened in her girlish heart. If Willinmand Mary had been residents of the hills of Council Bluffs instead of the crags of Scotland the sturdy William would not have been compelled to waste his time and delay his rapture by a long and weary search over the barren heather for the swoet clover blossom. He could have gone forth any morning with & modern mow- ing machine and safely contracted to deliver before nightfall to the enamored Mary as many tons of sweet-clover as she could stow away in her father’s barn in a weok. Instead of of a single blossom as a measure of his love he could have given her a hundred tons and still have left plenty for all the love-sick swains in the country. It is only, however, in this present year of prosperity and development in Council uffs that he could have been able to thus overwhelm his love with the sweetest of sweet clover, for even a year ago he would have been compelied to search long and then negotiate with the owner of some scanty posey bed for a few sprays of the fragrant blossoms. No one knowns just how or where it came from, or why it came, buta snowy and sweet-breathed intruder has come into the city to dispute with the lordly sunflower his long and undisputed title or squatter sovereiguty to all the va- cant lots and blocks in Council Bluffs, And the meek little blossoms on the summits of the sweet-clover plants are looking upon the swift and certain destruction of the pioneer sun-flower. Over one-third of the bottoms, where year ago nothing but the gigantic resin- ous weed turned its black and yellow face to the sun, and where it grew in such luxury that even the noxious cockle-burr was chocked out of exist- ence, tho fragrant sweet clover has ap- peared and holds undisputed dominion aver every other green thing. Over hundreds of vacant lots 1n the new ad- ditions the iiresome yellow has given place to the dark rich foliage and fra- rant perpetual blooming sweet clover. al botanists who have examined the new plant with a good dea) of interest and care, say that it is positively a new species, produced by some unknown and accidental cross, and that its vigor and lprendini proclivities are the most wonderful features of its nature, The old fashioned sweet clover was & frail and ghostly plant, that loved the friendly shade of the groves and the longest moonlight sumwmer nights. a characteristic which made it a l)r(?mr love emblem, but this new and thrifty product of Council Bluffs spurns the protection of she trees and goes out boldly in the fields and meets and con- quers the sun-loving sunflower in his chosen grounds. As a foliage plant 1t is porhaps one of the most remarkable in existonce for its luxuriance. In many respects it resembles the afalfa clover, but it is stronger, thriftier, and of much more rapid growth than that remarka- ble plant, that furnishes three crops of hay a year in the western territories. Iv grows to the height of four or five feet, with a dense leafy foliage and a perfect brush of sweet-scented blossoms. "he leaf is small and juicy; of & rich dark green, very much resembling the red clover. It is so new and its habits so little understood that it is not known what its value may be as a for- age plant for stock. In its present rank character stock will not eat it, but tamed by repeated clipping and culti- vation it may become one of the most valuable plants to the stockmen and farmers. But whether it has any value or not in the development of beef and horse flesh it is of inestimable worth to the people of Council Bluffs as a swift de- stroyer and fragrant substitute for the ubiquitous sunflower that has furnished provocation for so many sad reflections upon the city, notwithstanding en- thusiastic aesthetes have sought to popularize the meek yellow crowned weed by puinting it 'on panels and wearing it on _ their bosoms. 1t is & lovely and lovable plant, g0 sociable that it will come right up to your doors und crowd its white head into your windows, und so determined upon having the company of its fellows that it makes a covenant with the soil that where one plant grows this year thousands must grow next. A year ago there was perhaps not enough of the plant in the entire city to cover haif an acre, now there hundreds of acres densely covered with 1t. The odor from the acres of white flowers fills the air, and after o midsummer shower the peculiar and delicate fragrance is inde- cribable, and as sweet as the breath of i MUSIOAT, AND DRAMATIO, Rosina Vokes has gone to England for holiday A couservatoire of music is about to be es- tablished at l3ucnos Ayres. Madame ‘Theo will bo the Bettina of the “Mascotte’ revival at the Puris Bouffes Pa- risicns, “Gurate and Piead” is the curious title of a play to be produced soon at Leicester, Eng- land. The great American drama, “The Still Alurm,” is to be revived at the London Prin- cess's theater. ora on tho subject of “King Lear,” sed by Antonio Caguoni, will be pro duced at Geénoa next spring. Edwurd Strauss, the Vionnese composer and conductor, is Lo appear st the Manhat- tan beach next summer, It is said that Genevieve Ward and Mr. Abbey are talking about s revival of “King John," to be played first in London and thexn in the United States. Mrs. Bouclcault recently appeared in Lon. don at @ special performance of *‘The Shaughraun,” after ap absence from the stago of muny years, The simpliticd Shekespo: coatly attompted at Mur furthior this wintor for the pry of hiz historical plays. Willard Johnsos will uot s Tycoon’ on the road again. on & new opera, the story of w! to do with life o Mexico, M. B. Curtis will return to the stago soon wa new American Hebrew play. *Tho Schatehen,” which he and Lewis Morrison purchased a few weeks ago. W. T Carleton will haye “The Brigands," “La Belle Helene" and “Nanon” in his re pertoire. Edgar Strakosch is his most re cently appointed manager. "he subject of the autumu burlesque at the rian stage re is to be used iugtion of some \d “The Lattlo 0 is 6t _work b will have London Gaity theater will be “Ruy Blas while “Carmen” will, in all probability, be drawn upon at Christmas. The glandular swelling upon the neck, which has caused Mr. Lawrence Barret much_annoyance, is said to have lessened considerably by treatment in Germany. N. C. Goodwin has finally secured J. W, Piggott's comedy *‘The Bookmaker,” which was received with much favor in London, and proposes to produce it in Chicago in Octover. “Zaire,”” an opera by M. Paul Verouge de Ia Nux, the libretto of which is founded on Voltaire's tragedy, which in turn is founded on *‘Othello,” 18 to be the forthcoming nov- elty at the Paris opera. ‘The performance to be given in Paris for the benefit of Madame Agar, ex-pensionaire of the theater Francais, at which Sarah Bernhardt, Coquelin and other famous ar- tists will appear, is announced for the end of Qctober. From Germany comes the news that Emi} Gotze, with the phenomenal tenor voil going up to C and even D, has been cured o his very serious throat disease, and so far restored that he hopes to be able to sing again next winter, Erunesto Rossi, according to a letter from Rome, has been invited to Athens by the Kking of Greece, to arrange fora. of the “(Edipus,” “Antigone,” or tragedy of Sophocles, on the occasion of the marriage of the king's son with a Prussian princess. In the new theater for the peformance of the Passion plays at Oberammerguu, the stago represents a simple Greek tomple; at either side rise two town gates, through ‘the arches of which are scen the streets of Je- rusalem, with the palaces of Pilate and the high priest, and the colonnades for tl choirs and musicians, “There ure only one or two instances,’ says the London Graphic, “of plays written in French by English playwrights being suce cessfully produced on the Parisian stage, A recent case is that of ‘L'Heritage d’Helene,? written in French by Mr. Richurd Davoy and Mrs. Lucy Hooper, and produced last week at the Theatre de I’Application. M. Sarcey spoke highly of tne pluy, ana it is possible that an English version “of it will be seen in London next season,” Frank Daniels will have his “Little Puck” company, which starts on its fourth annual tour at the Bijou theater, in Pittsburg, oo the 24th inst. Bessie Sunsom, Louise Eis- sing, Maric Hilton, Aunctta Zellner, 1ose Chesman, Harry Courtuine, John E, Drew, Robert Kvans,"Harvy Connor, Arthur I, Moulton, Willlam White, James Carroll, Thomas ' and James Kieroan and Gilber Gregory, Of course affuble Samuel P, Cox will manage the company, for he and Dans iels are partners. “Pho critio of the London Times, doscribing Bernhardt's death scene in “Lena,’ says s “Notv & word 18 spoken; the scene from first to lust 18 truly pantomimic, Her oye lights upon & dagger; she tukes it up, axamines it, und throws it down with a shudder, From @ cupboard she next obtawins a botile of chloral, pours a fatal draught into u glass, und bastily swallows it, with slight gesture of disgust. Then she walks about the room, and, discovering her husband’s portrait on the mantlepiece, takes it down while the drug is visibly &rrm]nuum its effect upon her system, In a dazed condition she stumbles rathor than falls upona couch. Her husband 15 teard imploring admission to the locked apartment; she can hear his voice, but now she is powerless to rospond. She can but cluteh with her hands, so to speak, at the forgiveness he offers her, and when, having forced his way in, 06 rushes forward 1o clasp in his arms her inert form, she fulls upon the floor dead. None of Mme. Bernhard! mous death scenes equals this n intensity or thrilling effect; it is a marvellous tour de force.” Do you ever long#o xunln'oiour room For the shade of a tree in a fleld of clover) Do you ever dream of an orchard in bloom And the music of bees that ramble over it Would you like to scent the breath of the mérning In the green woods of & mountain pass, And watder gt will where you'd see no warn ing Of trespass, or sign regding, “Keep off the grass 1" The Jersey mosquilo has not appesred in | uis uccustomed haunts tiis year aud peopla | ire woudering why.