Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 13, 1890, Page 7

\Y - / o '~ 9 - e e e e e e e e e CLOSE OF THE GREAT DEBATE Dickie Acts Most Unfairly in His Final Talk for Prohibition, INSTEAD OF ABUSE ARGUMENT, Iigh License Advocates Classed With Bummers and the Scum of the arth—Thelr Statistics De- nounced as Lies. Below s given a full stenographic report of the closing argument of Prof. Sumuol Dickio in the great prohibition-high license debate at the Beatrice Chautauqua assembly last Monday afternoon : THE W r. Prof. Dickis Clos:s With a sitter and Unfair Attack. Ladics and Gentlemen: Iam In such bad voice that it will be difficult for me to make myself he These two gentlemen who have discussed this question from the stand point of high 1 are affiicted with the disease of knowing a great many things that are not true [applausel, and I cannot vef although it is my purpose to abstain gether from unpleasant per from cxpressing m priso that 4 gentleman of Professional standing should have stood upon this platform for the last forty-five minutes and consumed nearly his entire time with the intentional effort to deceive this intelligent audience, I want to give you the reason for the opinion that I entertain, Mr. Webster has been with the tabulated state in the New when I called his attention to the fact that it was simply & reprint of the ofiicial document issued by the beer brewers national organiz he” undertook to play the trick of the t lawyer and have i to this co through him that the Voice was publishing it in the interest of the liquor sers. Furthermore that this table before a strong, elaborate and satisfactory monstration of the trivmaph of promibition in both K Towa, iguores the strong points of the table anddrops into a single column for the year 1556 which does ap, abad showing for lowa as comn- pared with Nebraska, Now I want simply 10 give you the truth, Here are the facts in the'case. Comparing 1850 with 1500, that is he fiscal year ending April 80, 1850, with ‘the fiseal year end- ing Aprit 80, 1890, and there has been for the state of [owa, as reported by beer brewers themselves, a decrease of 213, that num- rease of 135,477 barrels in the state \4\¥|»hme Whereas in the state raska for the od of time upon the sawme authority t hus been an in- ense of 8,01 the diife in prohibition Iow: icense Neb i by this beer brewers' or, “lon is a difference in behalf of prohibition of someuking like KK biaer Now, I askin the name of s why didu’t my nd who bas so gracefully retived from the scene give this audience the actual truth in the rase and not undertake to practice a dishon- ption? My good looking, genial m Omaha, who is editor of the so- called newspaper that does not tell very much of tho news after all, undertook to mislead this audience, I trust in all charity uninten- tionally, by telling you that in Nebraska the sessiuent on property valuation is from one- nth to one-tenth of its real value, where- as in Kunsas the assessment was very much higher, and in that way he accounted for the much s ropid mecease of property value in Kansas. I have here the ofticial statistics, obtained like the ment of theold almanne from the financial officers of the two states, and the result is that lowa p per cent of her real valuation, K: per centand Nebraska 3124 per cent [ap plause], so that in the state of Nebraska, ingr assessed at a valuation lower than Kan* sas und lowa, it is ncluull{ assessed at a higher ratio than either of those two prohibi- tion states; but, nevertheless, we find the actual valuation according to'the assessment in Kansas doubling u%mm more than doub- ling upon tho gain in Nebraska, The question was asked why God does not kil the devil. 1 suppose it is so that Tie Oxana Ber won't have to go out of business. [Great applause. Allow mie to call your attention to another thing which [ must denominate, in all charit; and kindness from Mr. Webster as a tri of the jolice court shyster. Standing on this platform, and with his vigorous voice well at command, Mr, Webster undertook to deceive you intelligent people by quoting the number ©of United States revenue stamps sold in these ‘various states, and using inexpress tes language that would conyi Jknew no better, the idea th; stamp sold in & prohibition an open_saloon. better. nse n, 1to- sonalities, unfair in tpubi dealing ed under and de of Tow of N ou s for Now Mr. Webster kuows Mr. Webster either knows nothing at all, which I cannot conceive to be true, or he knows that every drug store s required o take out of these United States licenses as he calls wh s no license at all, but simply a tax receipt for the payment of the drug store procis ordinary saloon f thing that every bootlegger, every man that goes ueross the line from Nebraska into Kan- sas or lowa to sell liquor out of his satchel, and there are a great many of them, is re- d to take out one of these same United tates internal revenue stamps or receipts, ‘while in Nebraska such a receipt stands for a lace of this character open the year round. u the state of Towa and in the state of Kan- sas the bootlegger or the joint dealer, unwill- ing to risk the chances of apprehension by the United States authoritios, pays his § may be that the payment of the 25 r one day, two days, one weele or two weeks fu the busine and scores and hundreds of men take out these internal revenue receipts who do not open saloons and who do not keep even joints, butiwho scll from bootlegs and from satchels, and do o y limited business in a very small and eriminal way. 1 was” rather astonished at the theological lecture that my friend, Mr. Webster, be- stowed upon Brother Small, expliining to Brother Small that the bible nowhere pro- hibits the manufacture and sale of ardent Why, ludies and gentlemen, I defy v, Webster 1o show me a singie place 1 the whero crime or arson is prohibited or where the crime of fol s prohibited. The bible is not specific; the bible is general, and when it thunders ‘its anathema, “Woo unto him that putteth the vottle to his neigh- lips,” L ask Mr. Wobster if that means v or high license, [Applause.) told by the gentlewien that prohi- bition is wrong i principle. What a lament- able fact that the legal talent of Mr. Webster of tho state of Nebraska, has not been substituted for that indifferent and very Tofimon place gentleman of the same namé that Daniel Webste i subject before the tates supremo court sustained by no less @ man than Rufus Choato, and yet that court without o dissent- ng vols husetts case declared it both vight in principlo and in harmony with lnl-m ||l.l||un.fl and state constitution.” [Ap- pluuse]. T simply desire to call your attention to one more trick, becauso 1™ cannot go over the entive field, A large amount of statistical statement bas been made that 1 freely confess that 1 have not at my command the statistics to refute, but I wantto go on the very well grounded legal principlo that false in part falso nall. Mr. Wobster this prnoon, standing on this platform with remarkable suavity of wanner, undertook to make you believe that the state of Nebraska had 175 persons in her {usane asylum, [ noticed that he did throw in A saving elause, almost under his breath, say Ing that was in 1880, It was true, but the im- pression very likely remaiuingin’ your minds was probably false. I have some telezrams here. We have rapid ways of obtaining in- formation in_these days und do you know— yes, you do—that in the last six “years two new insane asylums have been uécessary in our state! I huve a telegram from M. W. Stone, from the asylum st Hastings, saying “the total number of patients in this in- Stitution is 159;" another sent by the superintendent 'of the _ insano hos- mlal located at Nortolk — “The tal number of patients is 1 another report from the superintendent of the asylum located in Lincoln giving the wsumber atdl0. And so you huve in this state A lhuu[n\'wul hour, in your three insane lospitals and - asylums, & fotal of 044 lustead M 175 [Applause.] ‘There has been an ine fease in (e last ten years of 163 per cent 1n THE OMAHA DAILY BEF, SUNDAY,uJULY 13, 1800.-SIXTEEN PAGES. lation of your state, and an Increase f dorsement of the criminal and outeast classes y and devoted most of hif time to tnsulting and of 268 per cent in the nwmber of your insune | 1 will call a halt and go into scclusion and | lampooning me and Me Webstor and im- unfortunates. tudy the foundations of faith. | posed upon a credulous vand emotional ay- 1 want to call your attention to some more | [ Applavse. ] dience by libelous inuekas for whion ho had vory pertinent testimony upon this proposic | | Now[ask If this prohibition amendment | no proof and misquotations of what had been tion that high licenso is nota success shall be beaten next November, where will | said by usduring the dabdtie. He had the au- know that Mr. Webster affegts to despise the testimony that comes from these men, but want to inform him that [ was reading from no ICansas panphlet and no political docu. | ment issned here. The iuformation that T | d was from repu ons, givingtheir | names and their addresses, as o as thoir official infl red by nee directly from York with the individuals ~them. | and they come here ke to offsot the statem nor Lareabec, of Janes (. B Danforth, of Judge Marshall of dis el gontle statistics manufactured ve seventh floor of Tk B bu [Applause| Listen to this qu one can deny that the license s) ating 1n our city has been a soure ruption and_irregularity. It has hada de- moralizing effect upon the members of the ity council and upon the city clerk; it has d politieal support from the low dives and bummers; it has compelled the orderly fosupport with money and it very worst element of the city and_has used ‘the liquos do the dir work at pr 5 and OMAMA AMERICA'S GREATEST ROMAN Incidents of John MoCullough's Last Per- formance and Rehearsal, THE CARDINAL'S CURSE. | the rejoicing bet Wil it be in the churches Will the Sunday schools hold a praise service | and tnank Almighty CGiod for the defeat of the | prohibite nendment! No, But down in every low dive where bad men ave clinking midnight glasses with bad women amid the s of the dance houses and the houses of gnation there will be rejoicing. I hope her Webster nor Rosewater will partici- but will conduct their rejoicing in o very much more elegant and eentlemanly | fashion. Iwill tell you there is something wrong when these m s y and having wor selvos come he tirely in ac dacity tocall in questionthe reliability of the statistics which I had quoted by in- | timating they were manufictured for the occasion. As a matterof fact every citation made by me was eitherfrom official records in my possession and within reach or from lettors and telograms §ont to me by state of- ficers, sheriffs, police officers, county and city clerks of the variois counties in this and other states, He putposcly distorted Mr. Webster's statement rezarding the number of insane in this state fu the faceof the fact that the oMcial figures had been quoted both by Mr, Webster and mysclf in previous speeches. Aud he knew that he was imposing upon his audience in accusing Mr. Webster of falsifying the record With i knowledge that ho would be proved a libeler he reserved his attackon tho Bus ness Men's and Bankers' assocla and called them bummers and beats when nobody could contradi him there 3 intelligront zon of Nebraska knows that this association come prises among its members the most reputa- ble and responsible business men in the state, They are not ouly men in good finan- cial standing, but men r high socially and morally in the communities in which they reside. Roggon, tho secretary of this as- was reforred to by this sif he wero a bloated loafer, a8 a matter of fact Mr. yrizen had for twelve years oceuped the position of depu stary of state and had twico been elected b, citizons of Ne- id | braska to the responsible and honorable able woman of sccretary of state, a could t of governor., with ; \ adjutant g vand Webster on th stion a good record 88 a union i And so I appeal to | Somuch on that scove. What I resent ur homes, by your | more than the insult to myself and my asso the financlal prosperity of your | ate in the debateare the outrageous fibels ut- our love for good order and so- | tered by Dickie about the city of Omaha and your love for Almight people. With th " instinets of a box and ister ¥ professional calumniator he went clear out of tions, whothe umph or not, in bis way to charge the press of Omaha with of prohibition. * [Applause.] ng for money the vocation and High license, according to the testimony s of residence of women of ill repute, of its bast, defenders, including my friend, | and made his audience believe that he had facts to substantiato o charge that is as fal as hell. He asserted that prostitution 1s licensed in Omaha, and raised his hands in holy horror over the’ deg- ation of our people, when the infanous scoundrel know that the Social evil is not li- censed i Of but the couteary is treated just every city of Towa and just as it is in ev: o city of the east and west. And it is in accord with tho cternal fitness of thi that this Pharisce who delights in howling about the blood money of the saloonist turned the & check which the Chautauqua peovle at Beatrico paid him forhis great effort at black- uardism over to the barkeeper of the Pad- dock hotel and carried the *‘blood money’! with him back to Michigan, FELL ON ph Haworth's Description of a &ad Scene in MeVicker's The ter—The Audience Thought MceCullough Was Drunk. s by kely on in Om d a line of polic; with the sentiments of But suppose the pro- nt shall prevall, where will ent In g light © of man, the MoCullouzh, When Joseph Haworth, the brilliant young actor plaging * Paul Kauvar,” was in Omaha recently e told quite an interesting stor about the last performance and last rehearsal of John McCullough. Both took place at MeVicker's theater, Chicago, in September, 1834, Next to John Lane, who always assumed the principal op- posite parts to thoso played by McCullough, Haworth was the leading man, For several weeks prior to the opening of their Chicago engagement the members of the company had noticed signs of weakening intelleet in Mr. McCullough, but none of them were courageous enough to say any- thing about it cither in his prosence or whero their suspicions might reach his ears Nothing aroused Mr. McCullough 80 quickly as to have peo) inggly about his heaith. lust moment, when his voice failed him coni pletely, could he be induced to heed the ap. peal of friends or be convinced that his Menory was 1ot 1t wiis on_Mon he was playing worth relaies below what oc depicted the facial exprossior collapse of the great actor as he the end of the last rehearsal next flod. Rejoicing ack again fnto the home of man Irunkard who has been pe less in the p ence of temptation to break uds that bound him, The church bells the state will ng out and carr of praise, ministers and Sunday superintendents and_ the peo- will go down upon essions of thank for his wonderful ursed traftic in the I\ o paons b hool ks frc -morrow morning, it iness Letter Writing, \ s, 35,00, Short-hand, yoarstakon, kv ourstudios, We'will RUHRBOU IS, 1 Monday, hossibie, Tuly 11, This is from Chi ¢ the brawl ho and thicves' resorts ave s’ bad and quent in this city today after tive yoars of ever were with our high It is an casy way to raise m vice, but sing the high lic o mensure,—C t daily newspaper Applause. | her from P Iphia, Pa be 15¢ 1 am reading them yeument they have nos ) nguage of r. Webster, would rather manufacture his own statisties and draw on his im; tion for his facts than to taxe them from reputable sources. mur in _Philadelphia dur past four months and all of vectly the result of drink ident that high license will havet highor before murderers’ row w the effect of it,"—Philadelphin Eyvening raph, & pr t representative news- Tve be on the side that causes s happy children to e side that receives the garh, stuck her ton stitute, and can fin, red after the cat, A S ory of Joseph Jefforson, Joseph Torson relates in the July Cen tury the following concorning a London perience of hi 1y approaching appear- ance was the important o Life, Lhad beon five years and was on my way home id complete | that if this néw version o ared at | suc eded in London my v . Alook | when I returned to the U: of pitiful anguish came into his face; he burst “On evening, out erying like a child in terrible az m‘.»hxw lodgings, I goi out for m; head fell overon his breast and ho sank limp | new wigand beard, the inton chal and which Lwas to' use r. McCullough arrived at the theater | could not quite Late,"said Haworth, **looking str twentioth He was dressed at a quarter p front of the and entered upon his final pablic them to my s in her costumo angor lo talk disparag. jtuntil the v 0 Daily in that »of Nebras ould go to the ballot bo: 3 to an from'a printed mber 20, and cance, in tk .. " Mr. Ha- Ho also iatic ovent or my from America, and felt satistied ‘Rip Van Winkle' Ay was quite clear ed States, beiag own adini wride of my heart, in the last act, 1 them on T the think; so I got in s and adjustel sutisfaction, I 000 bocame ently 1 beggan acting and posing in_front of STREGEY Ti AMORE tventy minutes thero camea kiock at the door, “Who's thero? “It's me, if y agltat ng them It di- ; tion ny Mr. Rosewater aud a make-shift. 1 challenge, b 1 did, hizh I point of its constitutionality o, utterly un-American, und; spublican—what is hich’ license at the license is practical prohibition for nine men out of every fifty, and so far 1do not object. What clse is it? It isthat all things in the nostrils of an public, a_purchased monopoly making business of the fiftloth i *onse ays to cannot_sell groge.” Why! claim is’ made, Ho is poor and it is poverty. Ho canniot lay $1,000 in the palm of the public tax gatherer, but high licenso says to this man, I iy debauch your neighbors, you may reak the hearts of the women, blight and damn the lives of the children,” Because he s u better man than Al 7 of the sort. High license bars out A ount of his poverty and permits B on it of his wealth, [Applay I have another objection to high license, It pariakes of the nature of a cow ardly compromise, 1 want to repeat it—it is a cowardly compromise, The flic cither or wrong, water and Mr. y that. The _liquor tr cither good or bad, Tt requires no philosopher to down that proposition. 1f the liqu traftic is a good trafie, if it croates wealth and contributes to the health and happir of our people, then it is a piece of outrugeous as @ from High mocratic, Tele time f © them from St. Louis and a large number of sources which I cannot tako time to read. I will read one so rural in its char- I must be pardoned r pausing a moment to s 1y of know Hon. . 0. Krot d Wwoul think nguage more vouched —for statistics bro ord knows wheret I think arhim, the mayor of Beatric Tam certainly not mistaken when I t for the $i0,000 ve licenses the ¢ ur years of the ~ subject first, that than’ they hing ran smoothly until the second act, where the brothers, Spartacus and Phasasius, meet, recognize each other and embrace, 'The governor—wo always called him that—gave me the cue. ‘I rushed to hiw and threw my arms about hisneck. Hedid not respe I rased iy head to see what was up. The te: in his dear old eyes he was trembling a from head to foot. In deep cmotion he g d me by the arms and cried: ‘For God's sake, Jos, give me the line,’ uan at the' door, and ho s “ow ther “1 did so and we finished the scene. Where 2y old man in your room, u-flingin’ of his we were aceustomed to e tive and six | a-goin’ on hawful, and callsthere were but two. The governor turned crowd of people ucross the street a- to me as we walked off the stage and said: | blockin’ up the way.” “They are treating us gloriously tonight.” “1 tumed towards the window, and to my “Hut how different was his closing speech | borror I fornd that 1had forgotten to put to that same audience. down the curtain, and, as it seemed to me, tho Wi tuct came. T was working entive population of London was taking in’my the scene preparatory 0 the crucitixion first night. I had been unconsciously aeting the gladiators, The'success of this part ith the lights full up, to an astonished audi- lar situation as you kuow depends larg ence who had not paid for their admission, upon Spartacus. ~ MeCullough could not re- I tore oft my wigr and beard a shout weni member a word of his part and to help mat- Quickly pulling down the curtain, ters along I not only spok own lines but sw myscll in a chair, overcome with mor- his too. Ho looked at me in 4 helpless sort of tion at the occurrence, In a fow minutes way for several seconds, then exclaimed comical sideof the picture presented it- enough to be ieard all over the house: self, and T must have laughed foran hour. I boy you peaking my lines.” liad been suffering from an attack of nervous “The audicnce laughed and hissed. dysvepsia, consequent upon the excitement of on with my speech, grew hyste the past weeks, and 1 firmly believe that thi sank upon tho floor at his foct continuous fit of laughter cured me.” ‘ iing headlong at air he shouted: I s r for this to make Rome howl.! A Pantomin lience. “The tears were rolling down his sunken | If there is one thing more amusing than an S e English pantomime, it is the English audi- eril. Jon wors bast #0 10 your vont Yo ure | ence that goes tosecoit. Men, women and unfit” for battle,” The audience applauded | chilaren who are intelligent enough on ordi- and laughed and hissed aguin, thinking it was | nary oc ns seem, under the inflience of treat to see Ameriea’s greatest Roman, | this potent spell, to lose control of them- supposed, intoxicated. s, writes Joseph son in the Cen- “Then the end Was near. Where Cassius Before the curtain roso the faces in stabs Spartacus, MeCullough did not make | front were expressive and even thoughtful. any pretentions of fulling until prompted by | But when the entertainment was in full Lane, who was playing Cassius. ngall sense of propriety was thrown off. VAU the closing speech, ‘Set forth your ience was carried away and do- sails, we shall bein Thrace anon,’ the tears | lighted beyond measure, and swallowed the were falling like rain_drops, and the curtain | most idiotic nonsense with one broad grin went down never to rise again on John M- | that seemed to mantle the face of the whole house. Shout after shout went up when the Cullough. “Mr, Lane assisted him to his feat, The | clown sat on the buby; and as the cockney applause and laughter in front were boister- | swell appeared, extravagantly couscious of ous. He went before the curtain and said, | his own dignivy and charmed by the effect of “Ladies and gentlemen, you are the best-man- ance, the heartless public nored audience I eversaw. 1f you had suf- er expectancy, well knowing - that, fered tonight as Ihave you would not haye stor was about to befall him; and when a half-barrel of flour was poured upon done this. Good night.’ v 0 “Theso were his last words in public. nis dovoted head they would burst forth in “At the end of this porformance Mr. the most boisterous manuner. Any catastro- Broolss, our acting managor, informed the | phe that occurred to the police was alway company that the season was elosed, It was | bailed with delight. Whyis it that_thes a tearful crowd of professionals that left the | suardians of our “safety are held in such con- theater that night. Groups of peoplo were | tempt theatrically ! Whon a: double-dved villam gots his quictus, and the innocent whispering in the wings and on the now ¢ darkened stage, never again to be lighted by | heroine is restored to the arms of the first walking applaud with de the presence of our governor, W 3 “He instructed Mr. Vance, the stage man- | light. Surely u mstances on ager, to putup a cali for the following morn- | would suppose it to be our duty to resent any ing at 11 o'clock, ront offered to the *force:” but no, the “Phe moring arvived at last for all of us— shtest indignity bestowed upon a virtious the day that ushered in more misery than we | policeman, such as the emptying of a bucket had over known. Mr. McCullotgh came | of water over his helmet, scems to give us late to rehearsal, called mo to him and said: | joy. “Joseph, the papers did not treat u v kindly this morning. 1'm afraid we did not cover ourselyes with much glory last night. But we'll do better tonight.! +“The Gladiator’ was rehearsed and strange as it may appear, he knew his lines almost perfectly. But whata sorrowful scene was enacted where Spartacus gives his wife child to the care of Phasasius with this quest: ‘T entrust to yon what is dearer tome than_life—my wife_and child. Guard them well.? And Mrs. Foster as Senonas replied : ‘0, husband, do not send me away, 1f L leave you I know "twill be forev “We could not keep tho tears back, The governor, Mr. Vance, and in fact all the com- pany, were deeply affected. I don't think this Scene was ever so beautifully enicted be- fore the public as at that rehearsal, ““Richielien’ was then called, All went smoothly, until the curse scone, McCullough. ave flashes of the dramatic fire ) im, and in_ this particular pas- suge he really excelled all former efforts. ~ At the close of his speech we all_applauded v He seemed pleased, but shor an Barados speaks to Do Berenghen *his mind and life are breaking fast,” ‘ullough turned to administer the rebuke, Lis eyes filled, his form shook, and he could utter a word, “The compan; T id L. u ples 'd voice of the chambermaid, % * said the gentle but man. [App May 1 this man, g not,' T replied; for I had no de- s n in my prosent make-up, 4T there anything wrong in the room, sit’ ly loses $75,000. investigation of me to conclude the people lose moro malke out of the saloon licenses; second, that high liceuso does not decrease the amount of liguor third, that any drunkard, minor ¢ sson who wants liguor can get it un > high liconse system; - fourt) that three-fourths of the arr de are for drankenness; fifth, that high license is practical failure as a temyx and sixth, that high license considered a_complete farco honestly admit its true workin, 1 will not take time to read numerous other statistical points which I have. T simply ire to call your attention to the fact that the t competent persons, such as the editorof Oavia Bk and the mayor of Beatrice, agreed that high license hus been dismaland a miscrable fallure in the state of Nebraska. [Applause.] But I object to high 1 reason. 1 object to hi eminently satisfactor: themselves, annu ul ROSEWATER. B iy MR. REYNARD. othing at all. - Go away,’ I replied Well, sir,’ she continued, ‘there's n Two or Three Good Storics About the Cunning Fellow . Foxes are known all the world over for their cunning, says tho Philadelphia Times. Many stories are told of their tricks to escape the hounds when hunted, and some of them aro &0 successful that they appear rather to enjoy the fun than otherwise, Old foxes often have regular hiding places, which they make for by a circuitous reute when chased. Oc nuy to lovy this tax of $1,00 on | sionally they take to the water to brealk these ~men. 1f this business bve a | the scent, and then the hounds are good ~ business then I take my | usually beaten. An old Reynardrepeat- stand by the side of these liquor men,and T | edly escaped in this way, uniil at last he s6 to lift up my voice in earnest protest | was seen, by a man :set to_watch his s yrannons coutso of complling | movements, to swim to a hollow tree 1 {rcastirioar BUSIE Mtk Misinees iy stum)i, into which he sprung. a bad business, if it do no good, if it creato | , A fox that was kept chained upat a 10 wealth, if it sow the sead of discord every. | farm was observed to adopt an ingenious where, if it breaks the hearts of our wom plan for catching the fowls that fed not and leaves the milldew of its accursed | far from his kennel, But outof his reach. wherever itgoes, and then Iwant to | Carryingin his mouth a piece of the e OF modern civilizution bow | broad ho had for food, as far from tho 18 50 bad @ :buisincss good kennel as his chain: would allow, he Trhan, L. nawe, snothes opfection, . High broke it in pieces wnd scattered the cense is made possible only ‘Ly the cowardiy | crumbs along the ground, so that some confession of guilt on the part of the liquor | of them were well within his range. men themselves. You undertake to levy a This done he retired and laid himself LI LR LR TR L flr!}\ - | down with his head on his paws, as aska and you would have a prett uzz a pe oepi about your ears. You try o make tho gro. | HOUER going to sleep, but kecping his cers puy o 81,000 tax for the purpose of run- | *¥OS DROU S HCIARLY 1078 140 508 WA ning their business and discriminate againsy | Was going on. Adfter a while some hens the traffic and you could not collect it from ame near and began to peck the more distant crumbs. Gradually they ap- proached nearer to the kennel as they ed, and when they were fairly within one grocer in the whole state. The would coutest itin_the courts, and the liquor men his' range the fox gave a spring and quickly seized one of them, darenot ao it. Why dothe liquor men pay A conntryman while at work at a the Every time they walk up to the captain’s oftice and lay down 1,000 in the state of Nebrasks, ihey write u cer- tificate of their 'own = criminality and ' their own cowardly lack of manhood. Against | hedge fence saw at the farsideof thead- what other business do you find such laws of | joining field an old fox carrying a hure, discrimination! None, 1o watched its movements and observed I have one more objec it hide the hare in a thicket, and then, {,"{‘“l{:‘,"lf"‘r';“"_““lumll::::f‘,“'“)“"L loration consery | Ater looking round to muke sure that it e d o of a bad business. A | had not been seen, gallop across the field and make off in another direction. As soon as the fox was out of sight the man went to the spot and managed to securo the prize. He had hardly again reached his hid- mistaken! No, vight in the city of Omaha, ing place behind the fence when he saw from which Mr. Rosewater and Mr. Webster come, so debauching has been the effect of Reynard returning with his wife and a cub. When the me to the thicket the high license of the liquor trafic that that city, be it spoken everywhere to its shame, has consented to the liconse system practio- ally as applied to prostitution, so that tae landladies and the inmates of these houses fox went in to fetch the hare, but after while returned looking much puzzled. He began to sniff the air, but as soon as the vixen and her cub saw that he had not brought out the food lhcea expected 1; of iufamy go on the first or ‘second dayof eich month to the oftice of the city they flew at him and actually worried him to death, clérkand pay a prescribed sum, which as o watter of récord I presume appears as fino and cost, but which to all intents and pur poses is ' license system. So far has high e L The Wage Earners’ Wrongs. Here, then, is the wage-earns’ indic ment of the wages system, writes Re use debauchied public sentiment in the of Omaha. Now hear me—for many of Dr. Lyman Abbott in the July Forum. Every man has a vight, because he has you will doubt the soundness of my state- a duty, to earn his daily bread by the ment, but T know whereof I speak—so far has sweat of his brow, The wage system de- high license debauched public sentiment in the city of Omaha that prostitutes advertise nies this right to 1 ads of willing workers, In America, the workin their ~ steeet . and numbers in tho columns of the daily newspapers. ve that Information frorm a ble gren- tleman here who gives me all that is neaded man’s Eldorado, nearly one million w ing wor were thrown out of emplo, ment in 18 inforced idlenes: Carlyle, “is the Englishman to substantiate it if it is called in question. 1 211 youyou cannot go into this business of li- That s ystem cannot be right which tu 1,000,000 of willing workers in rich one iniquity,but the devil will spread » idea over another, ou then to think about these things, them calinly, intellizently, and then in the v Almighty God,and e fore the s mber of your own consciences settle this question, and I know you will set- tle it right, and go'to the ballot box o No- vember 4, and de. that the liquor traf of Nebruska mustdie the death. [Applause.] | Ameriea into this hell andloeks the door Sy against them. Every man has a r AM to the product of his own industry; der the wage system the greater pi the products of industry go into the | Tejand hotel, and informed by Mr, Brooks, hands of the few tool-owners. The | that MeVicker refused to lot him play that wealth of this country hasincreased dur- | night. He became furious, and went up ing the past quarter century frowa four- | Michigan aveuue in search of McVicker, but teen billion to forty-four billion, A cave- | was brought buck, confined in a room’ and ful statistician estimafes that the wages ¢t there until removed to his home in Phil- of 5,200,000 unskilled laborers were in | ddetphia. 1884 less than $200 a yehr, while the av- eraue wages of workmen el a4 in manufactures, including skilled labor- ers, was about $348 a year., That system cannot be right whicly gives the profits of industry to the few, and compels the many to live alw praying, “Give us this day our daily bread,” ol |- I Dr. Birney cures hay fover, Bee bldg. e T Th» Russians Aré Moving. The migration of sattTers and labor from the interior of Russia to the Cau- casiun and Siberian districts is still in- ereasing, The citied on the various roads are literally overflowing with emi- grants, among whom great distress pr vails, ~ In Tumen alonethere are over 20,000 emigrants, Most of them have to sleop in the open a Great mortality from contagious and malarial diseases prevails among them. The means of the imperial emigration committee are hausted, and from private sources ) comes in very slowly. Mr, Jacob Poliskoff, the great Jewish railroad bullder, has sent large sums to help the emigrants, but this help was a **drop in the bucket.” e Russian press begins to be anxious about this migration of large masses of people. [f sny epidemic should break out there is no telling what mischief this fluctuating mass, which is in want and distress, may croate, The Cossacks on the lines of emigiation are kept on the alert, up is known and of by those who I kept ense for another e sh license because it is to the liquor men Apslause.] I want to back up that information by reading some of thy ances. The Hotel Keepers’ Journal s this: he liquor dealers do not oppose h license.” The Nebraska distilling comp: “High license has not hurt our busine: does not decrease the consumption of cither liquor or beer.” The Besser-VWaukegan brewing company of Chicago: “We cannot say that high liconse lessens the consup- tion of liquor.” Mets Brothers of Omaha: ‘“‘High license has been of no injury to our busin Weat first made a bittor fight against its enforcement, but since itis w enforced we would not do without Henry H. Schufeldt distillery, Chicago ““We think the trade in the state should favor high license, @& just restriction, and that is the only ent of the question.” Hon, Peter 1l In all my twenty years' exporience previous to high license and since, I believe high license is one of the grandest laws for the liquor trafiic and for men inter- ested, as well as the people at large, that there is,” Now, what suits Peter ller and Metz Brothers and t Chics distillers in God's name don't suit me. [Applause, | Now I have an objection to high license be- cause of the corrupt process used by its advo- cates for the purpose of carrying the day. WHhy, you have in this state an organization known as the B, & B. association. I supposo that means the Brewers' and Bummer's asso- ciation, [Laughter.] 1 donotsee my friend M Roggen with his portly form around here,but he represents the B. & B. M ciation, and I need not tell at you all know, that that as is an’ organization gotten up for the purpose of perpetuating the liquor traftic in the state of Nebraska and de- feating prohibition, and yet it does not dare use the true name of the business it comes to defend or even state prominently the names of its leading memb Then they are t- tering throughout this ean alleged farm pader called the Rural Age. It is a fraud, and any mau who is a party to the dissemina- ion of the Rural Age darve not look a fellow citizen in the eye and claim to be an honest g They are publishing th And where does the Farm Herald hail fro Loui le. Ky,, under the editorship of C. Turner of the Liquor Dealers’ National asso- ciation. No, gentlemen, I cannot endorse the measure for the perpetuation of high license which must do its work in the dark and pur- sue the methods of the sand-bagger and the foot-pad and dare not come in the open day and present its case before the people. Then I have another objection to high license, I believe my friend Mr. Rosewator is doing very well in refraining m smokin, famglad to have him what few cirtues he possesses to this audience. [Ap- I'heard a gentleman friend of his was his best argument. O, no, he prosented some strong arguments along the line of having done something to increase the population of Nebraska [applause], and just swept the field by the decliration that he had drunk beer with Abraham Lincoln, It he prints that, I want him to put_an interroga- tion pomnt after the statement. I would not if I could say anything against the personal character of these gentlemen, They have done exceedingly well. They have done vastly better than either Rev, Small or I possibly could have done with their side of the case. They come down to make you think black is white and upis down, but the misfortuns of the whole case is that my very estimable friend Mr, Rosewater aud his companion, Mr. Web- ster, are surrounded by s very bad gang. [Applause.] I know it is hardly fair for me toappeal to anything like public projudice, because it is evident that the majority of this audience is on the side of prohibition. But pray, after all, why, Mr. Rosewater? Here we have people gathered without reference to political party, without reference to churen or creed. These are the people of taste, of v finement, of culture, that is as a rule are what you would call the best type of the citizenship of the state of Nebraska, and here we find the ohibition sentiment vastly in the majority. w, [ want to say to you that if this debate had been held in any 10-cent variety theatre in Omaha, or conducted from the platform of any dance nall in the state of Nebraska, Mr. Rosewater and Mr. Webster would have all the applause, [Applause]. T am not here to say that all the men who sustain high license are bad men, Far be that from my utterance. There are good and pure and true, but in my judgement badly mistaken men, who love purity and peace and righteousness who will yet go to the ballot box and vote for license next November. But. I will say this that every thug and plug ugly and’ black- leg and outeast and bumnier and scalawag and horse-thief in all the e will go and do the same thing. [Applause.] I am not here to say that no decent men will oppose prohi- bition, but I am here to say that the bar tenders, the salooa-keepers and the prosti- tutes will oppose prohibition to the last man, and woman, too. [(Applause.] 1 want to re. mark to my good looking friends Webster and Rosewater that when I find myself pur- sueing a course of conduct and advocating a ine of public policy that has the bLearty ou- Actress and Prince. Frauloin Ilka Palmay, the soubretto of the “An der Wien” theater, o handsome blonde woman, whose features are familizr to trader and noble alike in the Austrian capital, has won a large sum of monoy and a breaklast from Prince Franz von Lichtenstein in a most amusing manuer, says the Pall Mall Gazette. The prince was chafting her the r night and told her that she could never iise her identity from the Vienne She at once oxelaimed that she was willing to muke a wager that she would sell vogeta- bles for a whole moruing fn one of the public mavkets without being recognized, although 10 not put on any dis ttire of a small farmer's wife. ted the bot, but was so ¢ uctress would loso that hie in- her athousand fio The bt © prince ac tain that the 18 duly de- ter 2 4, m red belind a stall in louded with all sorts ilein Paly m Hol " mar ) stuff and spring vegetables. was attired ina calico skirt, woolen shawl, and wore wooden shoes, Until the sun was higzh in the heavens she did a roaring trad making the best of bargains and returning chaff of the market men’ without any- suspecting that she was other than whit ste pretended to be. Finally the prince, who was lounging around disguised as a peasant, declared himself satisfied, and stonishy tof the rest of the mar- ket, the stranger swoman and the pe ant'jumped into a carriage and drove awa, RITED REBUKE, tired aftor sceing the gov- r. Dickie Scored For His Ungentle- ernor to his carl He was drivea tothe manly Conduct, Iregret exceedingly to be compelled to take exception in a posteript letter to Prof, Dickie's course as a spokesman of the supporters of the prohibition amendment. He was represented tome as a high-minded, courteous and houorable gentleman. He Las sthown himself to be an unprincipled and cowardly blackguard. It was my ende throughout the discussion "to avoid all personalities and to accord to m; nts the presumption of sinceri n{ and ~ honesty of purpose. who were present and those who have read what I said will find no provocation for the insulting inuendos and vituperation in which Mr. Dickie and his col- league indulged from first to last. Andthe fact that not one syllable of their uncalled for abuse, and villification has been omitted from the report made by Tie Ber affords striking proof that the prohibition side has been treated as fairly as any political combatant expects to be treated by opponents, Almost at the very outset Mr. Dickie in- dulged in & most cruel, unprovoked and cow- avdly attack upon Francis Murphy, whose only offense was that ho wus billed to'deliyer a temperance lecture in Beatrice lust Sunday night and happened to be in the audicuce dur- ing Mr, Dickie's opening address It was agreed before the debate had begun that the prohibition side was to afirmative, and the four debaters were to rotate for thirty minutes each uutil the debate closed. This arrangement gave Mr., Dickio the opening and Mr, Webster the closing. But when the closing speeches were about to be made on tae aftevnoon of the jast dey Mr Dickio deliberately tied into m teeth and asserted that I had agr --{tu let them have both the opening and closing. After delaying the au- dience for thirty minutes he finally succeeded in bulldozing us into a concession which gave him the closing speech, Having thus secured leave to have the last word, Mr. Dickie took advantage of his opponents, America’s Richest Actor. The richiest actor in this country today Joseph Jefferson, says a writer in the Edwin Booth is supposed to have moro money, but thisis an error. Mr. Booth has arge sums, but, while modest enough in his own life, he has ‘expended them gener- ously, and besides ho has disbu a fortunc to liguidate the i pss incurred during his disast Mr. Jeff: other hand has hoer steady accumulator, ¥rom the time he began to malke more than o living as an actor he has suved somo of tho surplus. He haslived well, but not extr Ho has pro is attained, when on beholding | vided genevously fo but not ushing horror at the pieturehas | wastefully. Such i he has 1o in waillng shriek, so filled with | made have been wise ones, and whatever ror that many hearingit wish them- | speculating he may indulged in has whe averaged a profit. Nobody but himself s ng, preceding this crowning yell | knows how much he is worth, e probably perhaps o minute, there strolled upon the [ kuows it to a cent, for, while not penurous, stageat the first entrance @most leisurely | he is exact and business-live. One of the cat—one of the sex which votes, He proceed- | men closest to him and certaiuly most con- od along the footlizhts some ten feetand then | versant with his business, remarked the bending his yellow gaze on the alicn with the | other day thatJefferson must be a milliona big fiddle, stood in feline admiration of the | if notdoubly so. Probubly the single million virtuoso. is nearest o it Modjeska, busy with her work, with her — back to the front, saw nothing, and, at the proper place, floated forth a shrick the like of which had not been voiced by Polish throat since Kosciusko foll. The efféct on the cat was magie itself, Never in the sombre alley or the high ccstasy ot o moonlighted roof, neither in lov- ing, spooning or mortal ver roduced or heard a nolse its equal, Turn- ng wildly, his reason overthrown, his kor- ror-stricken tail as large as a baby® leg, ho fled, while the people roared and yelled. Poor Modjeska almost fainted, and, sus- pecting the cause to be some deficiency in is Modjeska Scared the Cat. 3poch. One of those incidents ot on the bills' oc- curred when Modjeska was plaving an en- gagement in Cleveland, O, The programme was “Camille.”” After her sickness, wasted aud worn and ravished of her beauty, poor Camille determines to seek a mirror and dis- cer for horself how awful is the change in ¢ Seizing the first lonely mo- , weak and tromulous, from hev couch, and, claiming assistance from table, ved and chair, totters to the gliss, which i well back in_the center of the stae Lor apy ment sho ris is VD DRAMATLC, Minnie Palmer is home agaln. 2. Miron s to join Emma Juch's forces glan's Way" is to be rewritten for \ Arden, “Kate" is the title of Anule Pixley’s new military drawna. Pauline Hall presents “Amorita” and “Er- minle’” during her starring tour. Roland Reed will have the support of Miss Isadore Rush again next season L:'en Dauvray Is to return o the stage in THESUMM Atthe OMAHA COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, Corncr ROHRBOUGH ¥ ihing possib! She | ER SCHOOL 15t and Dody BIROS nts will ba recetvod all an Work with us lust vighmotle, Reading, Spolling £, Moslor, siv wooks will b dony you what you want Stud nest woek. o= Arithmotle, Penmansip ind 'y pewrit $1.00 10 1015 Yo alon g ¥ 8 Call and seous oraddreess “A - Whirly withor, Louls McGowan 1s to bo stag or ot Manager Rice's ¢ Evangeline’ production. (3 Jennie Winston has b e N paret Mather to pl s men nd enfold s its n Iy given to ' still iy “rank Tanue i g opportuniti Upon the anniversay of I a plaque was placed upon the see he vesicted for a long timo, egrand now theater has been built at anin, the birthplace of Bollini, 1t was in- ed vith o production of the mast Miss Edith Kenward, a young soubn ndon fane, has been imported by Mang Heury Freneh to play her original rolo in the New York production of *Dr. Bill It is nunounced that Dr. A. ¢, Mackenzio, the Scottish composer, will writo tho musio for the Lycenm prouction of Mr. Merivale's version of “I'ne Brido of Lumniermoor.” An Englishwoman of moans recontly be- thed a logracy of $15,000 to tho association neh drantio artists, the yoarly income of which is to be spent in teal chutnpagne for hanquets, M, Kendal open their second at the Fifth Avenue theato ber 16, They will have two prodictions next season, and they will he Squire,” Among the operas announced for represen- ation ut. La Scala noxt season are the follow- Massene imurd, " Bize 'homas’ “Amleto., is Wilson i ferry Monarch” a role which fits him to wnicety, Marle Jansen: Nettie Ly fordand Luura Moore are also assured of congonial parts, T'he brothers Do for the Royal Ttalian op 1501 in London, ~ The remuncration which Jean de Reszki will will be twice E vas paid him under his last awnini's death ouse i Parma New York, new > found in Reszke have signed con- season of Barrett, still in the United turns to London at the end of Au- gust, His now th once known as the Olympice, is fast approaching completion and opens in September next. Juphemia, or a Tale of Puc and “Count Odelsky or Isriel Che are two new comnic operet byd. W. D, Leavott, composer, and Miss Lilllan Cook, librettist. They may be produocd the com* ing season, Plauquette’s “Le Capitaine Erse” will ba produced at the New York Casino in Octo- ber. The textis by Alexander isson, and it has been trauslated by F. C. Burnand of crshive,” lermeyer,™ “The Merry Monarchs,” which will be pro- duced in the autumu by 'Francis Wilson, is said to be a revision of Emmanual Chabrier " pliyedat the Bouffes P isiens in Chieever Goodwin has dono the adaptation, A German paper says that a certain yor of Cincinnati intends to undertake a European tour with a bass fiddle of his own invention which is describea us being four- teenand one-half feet high and eight and one- half feet broad, Mr. E. H. Sothern will begin a the Lyceum theater, New York, duri absence of Mr. Froliman’s - company cago. ‘The new play which Mr. Daiicl Froh- man has secured for Sothern by Jeromo K. Jerome, entitled **Woodberry Farm,” will b presented. Emperor Willinm IT. has sent a copy of the compositions of Frederick the Great to the Lie brary of the Dresden conservatory of music, Only 100 copies of this edition delu of the emperor’s renowned ancestor were printed and then the plates were destroyed, Anew work by Fredorie Clifford, which theauthor designates “An Orchestral Pic- ture,” and entitled “Clouds and Sunshine," was recently performed for the first timo_at a concert of the London Philbarmonie. Tho composition, which is belicved to bo tho author’s first effort, was warmly recoived, und the composer was twice called for after the closeof his work, “The Beethoven exhibition at Born hasbeen formally opened with a s 0f chumber concerts chimand Hollander string The master’s works epresente Tho emperor of ( sented to tho museum the manuseripts and other relics of Beothoven — preseived heretofore iu the Berlin voyal library, ‘The monument. over the grave of Georgo lerick Cook in St. Paul’s chu i t condition, having 1 in Booth. The ¢ The monument was Fdmund Kes Prof., son at g the in Chi: L restored atlc Cook g erected in 1 s Kean had it ropairved in 1845, In Sothern had it put i order again, Inseriptions on the stone give the dates of the various restorations. According to information just r ved from Munichannual festival ‘performances are planued for the city of Nurnberg similar to those at Oberammergan, Brixlegg, Rothens burg, Bayreuth and Salzburg. The fitst ox- periment will most appropriately be made with a festival performance of Wagner's “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg,” e A WONDERFUL POOL 8HOT. 1t Was Made by a ¥at Gentle it Broke Him All Up, A romarkable shot was made ina me of pool in the Astor house billiard room the other evening,says the Neow York Sun. A light red ball was resting infrontof one of the corner pockets, It was close to the pocket and looked tempting. A large fat man _ with a shining bald head was playing in the game. When his turn ne he took careful aim at the light ball, slid his cue back and forth two orthree times, and then t the cuo ball hard at the red. To his intense amazement the red hall flew ten feet into the air, eame down on the head of a mild-looking old gent, who was watch- ing the game, bounced from his head to the floor, and went hopping across the room as if it wi bewitched, The cue ball passed on into the poce The fat player was so astonished that he dropped his'cue on the fioor, opened his mouth and eyes to their widest extent, and Jeaned aguinst the tabie for support, Then he gasped: **Well I'll beswizzled!” and went and sat down heavily ina chair, The other players and lookers-on were greatly astonished, too, and when the matter wus explained they were vastly amused. The ball was of some ubbér composition, and looked exactly like aregular pool ball. It had been slyly put in front of the pocket by a practieal joker, He said that the docep tive ballscould be bought in nearly any sporting goods store. and thal vhoy were selling like hot cakes. nan, and