Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 31, 1890, Page 13

T HE OMAHA BER has gallons in 1880 Now, [ I have to admit i li- |, that proposition |"little bit. If theso people will look into the ntldmkn of the same name, Diniel Welbster who argied this ver subject bef United States sunmme rined by noless a man than Rufus and yet that court w ut nt- @ in & Massachiusetts declared it It in principlo and ir ¥ with national and state con Ap from to about ! ¢ twelve ence 1o seperate the territories of Dakota From ¢ { Nebraskn, and we find that that the licenses issued to Nebraska for 1559 wore less than eighteen hundred: or, in other was publistied it Trs Ben. | words. s than one-hall of the liquor bty bl B LI B AR {o the probibition state of Towa, . ' Ty 4 records they will find that it is just two gal Dickie here asserts that it wis fshing | lons per capita. We have & irned not it to tnihest Ot Lig b e | to get quite so drunk, and we quit on whisky s it como to this, that the T 1 m s Ahine. Nodente. iy organ you have on G i y ttend 1o | And haye L s sold out to the liquor pr r \\‘ sk “' ‘v :\\ 1 "_ - v Kkie--You don't want W& ¢ :m'v\\u'luvh takon more for tha W bacr onto it, and compn YA L b lintiod. 1t s man_knows that, any temper S BiohIbillo i G T kuows that; and if he did not explal Lus proof that you endorsed SUATS H anel T Sar o B Ry that matter, I have b wich said L had this grecat Unitod St ours goine t t At o gront rate, 8 ¢ | n trafiic, Iwant o tell this u i 1880, 1 t I want to speak for pression very likely rema \ nation of ours WS proba o, [ havo o superior of any other nation on the top of | here. We linve rapid ways of obtainin Gol's foot-stool Applause.] T tell this | formation in these days and do yon know Towa and of Kansasi [ | same people that over in Ttaly they drinkover | yos, you do -t ix “years two plo for the purpose of | two wal head of liguors where in the | new i IS hve been nocessary in Coniso 18 & botter fegs | Unlte they drin Go over to | y 1 Ihave u telogram from M. W it A Eng and whero you twelve gal Stone, from th i at Hastings, saying of drink y Ve got thirty-th | “the total number of pationts in this in there, Go'to France, and when'y stitution 150 r t by the | twelve gallons per head here you ha fusone hos- | ty-thrco galions per head over the Norfolk — “The | Germany, goto Austria, to France, t s s 195: | o anywhicre without the boundavics perintendent of | United States, where men can liv oln_giving the | com y spreads its white wvo in this stato its rotail Wquor dealers in | the world, and you v find atthe present | ur three insane | ¢ 1,614, 1 mustnot forgot | Plo me from twico to threo “times [ hospitals and tal of G4 instead | Muine and Vermont with | the amount of liquor consumed in Americas | of 155, [A » hns been an in= I patinge them awain to-the | 81§l they havo br ins dn theie heads, oy | ervaso i the I 1% per cent 1n yiiiin i R @Ry of Nebraskn we fiud only 1500, 1 | BAVG vast irinies, they have statesinel ung pulation of yc aud an increase ;tn‘\lnnf.vlu_ accol ling to that same tablo, : want 1o tell you good prohibition people that | ”HI\ llu-;.flu Jougonnt > riin & t in the © of your insune 852,000 bartels of beer; that is about a barrel | you have been wisled in this great doctrine of | If my friend went toOmaha to go the opera S e ke you have only alittlo | yours. You have listened tomen talk like | houso o hear a grand oper, he_ would prob over 310,000 people down there, Reducing it [ this little origmal package who talks for | ably hear it rendored by - some company from to zallons, you have 10,310,760 gallons of boer | money. [Lau | Who ubsorbs his ideas | wine drinkmng Ttaly. 1 e co f 0ld i thai little bit of o stat New Hamp- | without knowiog whether they are tru | of fine art or sculpture ho wo apt to find shire. While in the state of Nebraska, with [ not. [Applausc some Frenchman who drank twice us much four thnes the population of the state of New [ Butmy Kansus brother around here wants [ Witie inorder to mike it. - If he wanted toget Humpshire, four times as bz as New Hump- | a little more information, and I want to give | &0 iron ship to suil over the dark scas, shive, we sumed but 070 gallons of | futo him. [ want to tell him about the effect | they have all fled from little Maine, beer. Or. in other words, in prohibi- | on Kunsas of your prohibition, I have told | hibition state, ho would o and buy it from tlon New Humpihir one-fourth —the | you it incredscd the liguor traffie; I have | Eni and, where they drink threo times as size of the state of Nebraska, they drank | proved to you it increased the sales of beer; | much beer and whisky as we History has 7,050,782 mwore gallons of beer than ‘did our | and I want to tell you it retards the prosper- [ recorded the fact and no wan ecan intell- | was secured by corr ! roctly fr high license people out here. [Applause.] 1| ity of th drives out the population, | Bently refute it, that in Austria, in France | New Y " t adividuals "t winit to tell you, fellow citizens of the state In Kar 1 have got the statement taken il in Germany and § there are g i s dn horo of Nebrasku, that you arc livingin a vir- | from the returns of the cleetion of the presi tatesmen cqual to nents of G tuous. well behaved state, if you only knew | dent of the United States of he electoral n is Ciladstont, Ju it Applause.] If they transferred somo | vote cast in 185854 compared to the electoral King Fuglaud: there of you good prohibition propleof the state of | vote cast in 1555, T find that the state of | Bismark, in_beer drinking New Hampshire, or over state of | Kansas increased in those four years bat 24 | Wwas the old histor Maine, where they drink y you | per cent. While th l state of Nebraska, | drinking France, and would lose your identity i ity-four | in which you live, inercasee under high | tor Hugo, When y hour A liceuse more than twlce the number; or in | @rt for poetry, for beautyand fo 1 want to g other words, as ) per cent to [ When you step outside thelines of th P o4 por cont Kansas. “Go to Jowa, | Of the great ropublic of the Unit these s ple that Senator Blair, from | and ~we lLave the electoral vote of [ #0 beyond the shidow of the the st New Hamps! wroto & book | 1854 compared to the electoral vote of *!".‘I" 3 .\l“” “-‘:" to g0 10 a/cou giving the history of the temperance move- | and the state of lowa in four years g they drink three times as much ment covering over six hundred pages, and | but S per cent in her electoral vote and they donot have any prouib put the same table in the book from which raska gained 50 per cent. How i guther this statement_and from which I can [ Grow six times tas lowas while Min ive precisely the samte computation, and Mr. | nesota, with hig se, grew twice - lair vouches for its correetuess, He tells | idly as the state of Kansas and five times g you inthat book that he hud a statement | rapidly as the state of lowa. prepared for his own use; e tells who pre- | [tell you that whatever you do for the | | pared it, got iLat his solicitation, and of lato | state of Nebraska, if you lei these people years tho Voice publishes the same thing; | hem you in with prohibition all around you, sud when [ use that ngainst them, they come | and you plant prohibition in the state of N back and wiko compliint against hat paper | braska, that the tide of immigration, the tide 6 i€ it was published in the liguor interest | of prosperity, the march of progr In that same book of Senator Blair's there 18 | clear around’ your borders, and you will be another table that is very interesting reading, | driven buck justas the states of Kansas and Mark you, | am taking this from tho prohibi- | Towa, and Minnesota, Wisconsin and Wy- | althouh it i iy pariose. to. abetain it tion side; Lam not taking anvthing out of a | oming and the Coloradds will be looming vp | Toledsant. persoRnlitios; pamphlet; 1w nottaking itout of any cir- | with prosperity, waving the banner of tho | expressing my surprise that 4 gentle oulars 1 am not gathering it from any Kansas | republic in the'air so high that you prohibi- | Brbfessional standing should have stood i prohibition campaign tion people cannot get a ghmpse ‘of the stars | this platform for the last forty-five m My friend did say that in Dakota they had | on it. [Applause.] and consumed nearly his entiro time with the an argument that is pretty near as good Let me tell you what Judge Poster said of | intentional effort to” deccive this intellizont the one I made up here. I want to Kunsus—that” federal judgc to whom I al- | audience. [ want to give you the reason for these people for their intelligence in finding | luded the other da; 1d it was put in print | the opinion that I entertain, out so much truth. [Laughter.] The only | and over his own signature hoauthorized its | My, Webster has peen nnfaie in dealing thing I hud obscrved about it was thut if that | publication, He says that in 1585 the state | with the tabulated statement published under Httle voriginal package” had known about | of Kansas had a population of 1,263,562 and | Qute of July 5 in the v York Voice, and that thing so loug he did ot try to unswer @ | had a prison population. mavk yolr, prodiced, | when T eulied bis attention to the fuet that it thing that was not true. Tsuppose, as you good people say, by the use | ywus simply a reprint of the official docusient Mr. Small—There was nothing init. [Great | of liquor, of 673; or, in other words, one per- | juaed by the bout browers: nati S laughter and applause. | son out of every 1,85 of all the people of the | tion Le undertook to play the trick of Mr. Webster—That's all right; the laugh | stato of Kausas whs in the penitentiary police court lawyer and huve mo say to this Fowturns around, you lknow. So this fun can go [ In Nebruska during the same year w audionco through him that the Volce. was ) 41t end until Small and I leave | only 259 people in tho penitenti publishing it in theinterest of the liquow In other words, ome out of every 2800. | gealors, Furthermore that this table before Or, in other words, in _prohibition Kansas, | him, o strong, elaborate Wwhere they do not drluk “suer, it follow | demonstration ofthe triumph of prohibition the good millenium law which ‘you preach, | fi'lovn A e A you had two men in the peaitentinry to ond | poits of the #ible) and draps inton sinels up here in honest high licenss Nebraska, column for the year(issg which - zupd So it was In 1888, But m#rk you: hereis a | ently give abud showing for Jowa as com- statoment that T want to read 0 this people | parid with Nebraska, Now T want simply of the state of Nebraska, where that sue | to rive you the truth, Here are the facts in judge snid that in Nebraska the estivited | thecase, Comparing 1850 with 1500, that i povulation is 1,200,000, by the ccnsus just | the fiscal year end Aprit 30, completed, und yet 'we have but one person | j850, with the fiscal - year end out of every H100 in the prison, compared | jng April 80, 1800, W there with the state of Kansas where' they have | hus been for the state of Towa, us v “d by oue out of 1,600. The argument that 1 make ¢ brewers themselvos,a docreasoof is that in Nebraska under high license you arrels. [ want to repeat that nuii- have less people in your peniic 1 decrease of 133,477 barrels in the state itentiaries, fewer people in your poor howses, | of Town, [Applause]. Whereas in the stite fewer in your insaue asylums, fewer idiots, | of Nebraska for the same period of time upon fewer saloons, fewer liquor licenses than you | {he same authority there. has been i ine have in any prohibition state anywhere under | opease of 80,013 barrels, so that the rence m\cq. saud steipes of this great republic. | i prohibition Towa and hivh license Nebr Applavse. | s reported by this beer brewers® R s ot ROy S et al of you that high license 1s a regulator, reducing | gometing like 215,000 the number of saloons, awd 1 want 1o take | the name of all fairmess w this likewise from the official report of the | wiio has so gracefully commissioner of internal revenue of the Uni- | g this audience tho ted States; and my friends ean find it on | g and not undertake to practice s dishon page 40, if'they wint to look for it. The | grabie deception! My good looking. genial decrease in liquor saloons and liguor licenses | roehor from Omaha, who is editor of the so- for retul dealers. From the year 1550 to the | called newspaper thitt does not tell very much year 1359, the decrease in Alabama was | of the news after all, undertook to misload Al in: wisas, @ decrease of 8373 in | (his andicnee. 1 trust in wll charity unint Florita, a ease of gl 0453 | tionally, by telling you that in - Nebraska the . in Mis- | gqgessinent on property vaiuation is from one 4, in Ohio, | seventh to ouc-tenth of its real value, whe vIvinia, | asin Kausas the assessment was very much of 1d in that way he accounted for th ore rapid mcercase of property value isas. 1 have here the official statistics, obtuined like the statement of the old almanac the gov- | from the financial ofticers of the two states, dow’t care |y the result is that lowa is assossod 95,17 is where | por cont of her real valuation, Kunsas per ceutand Nebraska 3124 per cent plausc > that in the state of Ne being assessed ata valuation lower than Kan- sas und lowa, it is_actually ussessed liquor amount of iquors and beer con four states of tho unfon, except that who got it up forgot to put in t they got lowa in there mmon place g that mowing umed the m Maine Mre | W alyze it & hoat N but to " tution, boer, und bo adds t hins boen taud temperance | to refute, but 1 wand to" g0 I g ted Tegal principle thal 1 inal Mre. Webstor this rmowith wn \ 8] rs s in t 88 in th it he state of Alabama; twico as many f Michigan: moro than in the stato of Colorado; nine times s many as in the state of Floridas twi ny a% in the state of Georgia; i flan_ Montana: f Carolina; tw than the groat stat about it and | ginia: five times as What did you publish it | and one and a haif ti t forl Does not it appear ft We did ¢ the government er- Lot | that =~ in your That paper says that in 1550 there | thore ore of malt liquors in the state of lowa | the oficial barrels. Andin thestate of Nebraska probibition states of for the same year there wera sold but $5,338 | put that before barrels of beer. Put it down in ga telling you that high Thirty-one gallons 1o the barrel. aud here 18 | ulator than probiibiton: and the table: There was sold in the of | temperance mun, as 1 believe Towa in 188, under constitutional prohibition, | fuge to Rev. Sma cote out 6,115,000 gallons of beer, In the high license ome out and we state of Nobraska and you littlo “original | perance where it will do some goodyand don® puckage’ man listen to this—only 2,6 preach prohibition shich ruius some men, gullons; o, in_otherwordls, in that litte pack- | but— (Loud applause compelled the speaker age state of Towa, prohibition, you | to stop. Arank 3,485,000 mor 15 of beer than the 1 must people of oilr stato wso). down here with Letus t ame little bit 188 numl and got an ut of it. 1 wantto | New Hamg seo what they were doing in Now Hampshire And_ co wistics very woll fulso ron ty of that s in hor throw in is breath, say 0, but tho im- your minds rams in- sl Any the of Texns 18 West Virginiag 1 nany as Oregon il records of United States li states to Mr. D) Mr Welb try to et ont tn the liguor Mr Dick Mr Welb wults are wis 107 Kle - Yes, it 1s T'hen don't kick of it o s, i o did the oft th g ell you what the re. se stands today th according rt, than in your poct if not the ot this po e asy 1 States one, t you vo (speak { that camp will preach tem us A u | over have but ve twen to 1taly, of the pital located total number | another report nunber at 10, 0,000 of from th ated in 1 Aud e Ap) and where | the ! ; | not forget. the little state of Kansas suils, all over that overy peo of a table b stato e mto some more cts to despise the hese men, but £ vas ren fi no political doen wed here, The information that I 1w from veputably s, giving their und theie postoni - add as well as their offieial positi That information very pertinent tion that hieh lic Kuow that r, W testimony th ! willt 1o inf no Kansas the pro- | ment 1 na 114 b is ite and 1w and i ny we hiye | whisky and the fron'man, [ Da rmany ; ther { in the w list, V orth of a Jui sl of Jud e M listinguished wof Tie I3 1o lilkely on tho ¢ i Omalin systeim as ) asouree of It hias b membors of city clevic; it bin the low dives seventh fic Applaise borders | existing i city b States and nd drregul; and cffeet city council and up exacted political s f and bummers; it pelled the orderly liguor dealer to support with money and it fluence the very wors! cment of the city, and has used “thie ligeor men to do the dirty work atprimarics eleetion. - ONAIA B Groat Satan rebuking sin planse. I and thi quent in this city toc high license as they liceuse what it a revenue i of ende or the Listen to an i | from'a printed docungat 1 » Jan friend over here the able. I want to say to in { | iou there. THE WINO-UP, Prof. Dicki-'s Closinz Attack on High 1 License. itlemen: 1 am in sueh bad voice that it will be difticult for me to mysclf heard. two gentlemen who | have discussed this question from the stand- point of high license ave afiicted with the disease of knowing a great many things that are not true [applausel, and 1 cannot refrain, dies and G o cns, the brawl houses as bad A asf after years of *were with our high Lister. This is “I'he dives and make These Philadelphia, P m r them they have no si 16, Webster, hi 1 statist 1 for his fucts thun duri of drink and draw on bt to tare them fr murderers in pust four mo recly th evident that high iied se will have very much hizher befre varderers’ row foel the effeet of it Philndel pi venin Telegraph, o prowizel represeatative news pajer. Ihave them from . T and o number of souvees which Ieannot take toread, I will read one sovaval in its acter, I must be pardonad for momént to spy. Do uy of vou 23, 0. Kretzfger, and would yoy 0 e Wit T ——— m"w the Lovd aw I think von Would, Hear him atist whero ! mayor of Beatrice b m.-en when 1 sw that for the £10,000 yearly obtained from the saloon licenses the city ann loses %5,000. Four years of reful s investigatin of the * subjeet lead me to qonelud fir the peo lose/ more han out of the silod licenses; s i license does not feercase the liquor consumed; thiad, that any drunkard, minor or other o getit u that ti for dru vy Pl ' sult| of had large tine char- pausing a knoy . There fs 0 thut same -book, r Blalr, whick i3 tablo giving the um- oo1i @ vAarious states of ‘the union in proportion to tne number of inhabi- fanta in these states, Now, look at good, old rohibition Maine a minute: According to his table by Blair, for the purpose of show- ing the creat evil of the saloon business, and Tadmit the evil, I admit 1t is a horrible thing in Maine, if this table is true. Senator Blair in that vable which is put in that ook figures itout that in the state of Iowa there 1s one saloon for every 377 persons. Pretty good prohibition isn'tit? Yes, that is getting it around pretty near every man's door isu't it? Down in New Hampshire there is one saloon for overy 3 people. Over in Kansas they bave done a littie better. They have only one saloon down thero under prohibition to 837 They have not had prohibition quite o0 long as théy have had in- Maine, I think when they have had it as long as they tad in Maine they will have more saloons, In Maine they have one suloon to for every 731 people; in Towa they Lave oncsaloon to every 37 New Hampshire, they have oue saloon to every 876 people, Now, good people, let me talk to you a minute about Nebraska. 1 have tried to hold up the banner of the state from this time I began this discussion, and I am ready to hold ftup now; [ am ready to prove from prohil tion arguments that, notwithstandiug all this howl about the benefl ibition there are a less number of drinking places in tho state of Nebraska under high licenso propor- tionate to the population thun you bave got in our old prohibition states, and I read it from hat same record which shows that in N braska there is only one saloon to every 487 cople. [Applause.] How do you like that tell you with that number of saloons, one to only 4\ people, we are not hunting_for littie I : origrinal packages like they arve in Kansas and Mr. Small -1t is local option, Towa. [Applause.] Mr. Webster—It is where they defeated Another thing; the government of hibition, and suowed you under, and you United States keeps a record of all the lic w it q s higher ratio than either of thoso two prc ecs which are issued by the government for | Mr. Small—Tt is prohivition by local option, | tiii'statos: but. neveriheloss we retail s They qualify them [ #nd you know it. It is local option prohibi- | yoral valuation according to the assessment under the hiead of retail liquor dealers, and | tion i every state you have mentioned but | {1 Kansas donbling tp aned moro. thi. dous, that is the character of the stamp. Any man l""'!f‘\h uila (A Voice—Shut up.] I | lingupon the sain in Nebraska, who sells liquor without that stamp is liable | won't ie % . Tho question was asked why God does not 10 bo arrested, 1f he hos that stampho is | Mr: Wobster—0, Lot him talks he ean't | il td devil, 1 suppose 1t b so it T protected from arvest. Well, I have that ro- | help it; dowt find fault with him. - [Langh- | G yyrs Bk won't huve to go out of busi | | rosts made ure , that hivh license is a nee measure, is known and by those who kingss.? cousidered @ con, . f honestly adumit its trut we 1 will not, take time 1) re istical s which I} sive to call your attention 10t most compitent per. Trr OMuina B vorof Beatrice, ave entively agreed that hiveh license hus been a dismal and a miscrable failure in the state Nebra But I ob, reason. 1object ntly St themscelves T askin ¥ didu’t my friend red from the scene wtual truth in the L uu erons other I simply de- e fact ihat the 1 as theeditorof st nse for another mse because it is the liquor men Twant 10 biek up some of their at- 3453 in your hich defeated prohibition, o dec 010. Tu the state of Tennessee, they defeated prohibition, under high 1i ado of 1,310, 1 could go on, but my time is short 'he license auty of ernment of the United States, [ what it is, it is not_prohibition. prohibition is defeated whe ation by readin The Hotel Keepors' 1 v dealers do notoppose i e Nebraska distilling comp. has not hurt our bus e tho ap beer.” Bessc upiny of Ct b license lessos tion of liquor.” Mets By “Hish license has been of busine Woat first arainst i nforcement, b enforced we would not do Houry I Sehufeldt divillery “We think the trade in the state hizgh license, a just restriction, is” the only solvent Hf the question Hon, Peter ller —+In al my twenty your attention to another | experience previods to high license w ays i “High licen docs not dec liquor or brewing co It th © cannot consump- rs of Omabi 0 injury to o do v bitter fight is well ut it should favor and it port issued by the commissioner of internal | ter.) Twant to remind my friend when he | Gt applause. revenue, and I want to say to you | made that statementthut in the pry A TIOW G bo Rl that it is the only authentic reportaccessible | of Nebraska where we have worked thing which [ must denominate, in all charity | I beliove hizh 1se is 01e of (ho t0 any man, determining the number of | Well, we have got local option, to. I und kinduess from Mr. Webster as a trick | Taws for the liguor te 1 for men inter licensts which are sold by the government to od in all these states as to accomplish | o¢ )0y rtshyster. Standing on this [ ested, as well as the large, that retail liquor dealers thioughout the United vod vesults, it §s wood enough for us heve. | prutgorm, and with his vigorous voice wel at | there'is, v, what siits 1 States, Well, what docs it stow? It shows At 1s why we reduced the numbe 1 | command, Mr. Webstor undertook to deceive | Motz Brothers and the Clicago On page 8 of that record—and T want | 1oons up here. Wo are getting to be & mod- | vy jnteilizent people by quoting the number | God's name don’t suit Appla tell these people whero to find it, if t erately virtuous people heve, and if the peo- | §e{7yitod States revenue stamps sold in these y 1 obje igeh lice hink | am not telling the truth_about it—on | P o would let us alone we would various states, and using inexpress tevi:,s the roca:s used by its pages 3 to 87 of that record will be found a | #long pretty w language that would convey to you, if you [ cat ¢ of arvying the d table which shows that in the year 150, I will wive knew no better, the idea that evéry rev Why, you have in this stato i organizati which is th completed yoar, mark y Bluir's book to sce a stamp sold o a probibition state stands for | known as the B fation. I supy theve ¥ 1to the state of Towa uider | gerated state an open saloon. Now Mr, W ¢ lknows | that means the Brewe™ ad Bummer's us the prokibition constitution, the same | to prove that better. Mr. Webster either knows uothing | ciation. [Langhtei fricnd Mr, doctrine that you wdvocate, which you say | thiug: and Y want at all, which I cuunot « Rogzen with b d here, bt otail li pro always be trie, or knows 8 ¢ ation, wid Jhibi | r h, as if g stor required you all know, have fividua tion. M outof these United S iconses as he calls an” orgranization 400 or 54 | his book a rew it, which is no license at all, but simply purpose @' perpetuating the It proves what | insurance b I nd on veceipt for the payment of &2 exacted liguor traftic stato of Nebrasica and do- | wants to ratio of dc the drug store precisely the as from feating prohibition, and yetit does not dare of 18 got the pe ordinary saloon. Mr. Webs! another | use the trae name of the business it comes | Jxho the prohibition thing that every bootlegeer, eve 1 that fond or even state proni he gocs across the line from Nebra > Kan- | of its leading membeos, tak as or Towa o sell liquor out of bis satchel, | tering throughout th a and thero are a great many of them, is re- | pader called the Rur It guired to take outone of thise same United | and any maw who is & party to the Stutes, rual revenue stampsor receipts, | tion of the Rural Age dare not look u fc while in Nebraska such a reccipt stands for a | citizen in the cye and olaini to be an hon t place of this character open the uud, | man, T s Farm Horall, In the state of Towa aud in tl of Kun- forald_ hail fromi s the bootlegger or the joint dealer, unwill- © editorship 0. 0 risk the chances of apprehiension by the "N 50+ ited States authoritics, pays his § but it *aunot en may be that the payms the &5 represents oné day, two days, one week or two s in the business, aud scores and hundr men tuke out these internal revenue recoipts who do not open saloons and who do not keep even joiuts, but: who sell from hootlegs and from satchels, and do a very limited business in a Il and criminal way. Iwas'r astonished at the theologl lecture that my friend, Mr. Webster, stowed upon Brother S explaining to Brother Small that the bible' nowhere pro- Libits the manufacture and salo of ardent spivits, Why, ladies and gentlemen, I dofy Mr. Webster (o show me a siugte place n_the bible where crime or arson is prohibited or where the crime of forgery is prohibited. T'he bible is not specific; the bibl eral and when it thunders its anathema, **Woa unto him that putteth the Lottle to his neigh- bor's lips, Tusk Mr. Webster if that means freo whisky or high licenso. {Applause.) Wo are told by the gentlemen that probi- bition is wrong in principle. What a lament- nt state pretty If it is another illustrati bout sor s ents w \ > people make prohibition an to 1ence to 1 wvere a v Blair puts tten i acalers down there people, acce Senator Blair said to be t Mr. Small - You fellows run away with them Mr. Webster—Mr. Small_must away with them o foughit for fun, I recke south Mr. Small - Yes, ves. [Applause.] Mr. Webster—That rewinds me of the ¢ I mark that Mr. Small made about Maine, e | mark. W said if it was not because you had scoundrels | have —when | vead this table in oftice, and they didn't énforce the probibi- | toyou: This table says that tion_luw, there” would not be any ug | beiween sixty and ninety years old i down in Maine at all. Subst 3 | of intemperance and by hard drinki U those ure not the wonds, but that wore 56,175, That is over Lalf of the 100,60 The ofvers were scoundrels The m ite £ 60, wh enforce thelaw. When you have had pr W 11,000 ¢ bition in Maine for thirty-four y proves any have controlled every elect ven who drin 1t in your platform at ove A A e bave clected all your governois, all yc I A N cers, from the prohibition party—has it come A iR AL EU A NE to this, that prohib e cted by pro- v i ¥ tion orators hibition peaple, have all turt tto b the. great scoundrels as that! [Ap Do New Ho 1 licen cutic, and r down there, TRaShR A Towa licenses a little bit people were the and t rritory el you that is the re Dakota b 0 1 in on ,s0 that tuere @ whole num- . issued to s und iued, amounted LG, or, in other words, less' than one that tten up f wssociation i ding that able table g ave got them and of lon say we rnn the ethi at. Wo , and took them down S0 L g if wo ever zet to the first I bave a botter ek lund nee than you of th unde iquo suisviile, Ky Tarner of the [ ciation, No smon, 1 weasure for the perpetug which must doits work i sue the methods of the saul foot-pad and dare not comne § and present its ease bofora the peoplo, Then I hayo another obection to license. 1 believe my friend Mr, Rosew is doing very well in‘refrainiu z from smoking. famglad to have him parade what fow virtucs he possesses to this audicnce, [Ap- plause,] I'heard a gentioman fricnd of his say that was his best arguvent, O, no, he ssented S0we SLONE 4rzunents along | the ine of having dono soin to Increase the population of Nebra wse], and just swept the field by the declarition that be had drunk beer With Abrabum Lincoln. It he prints that, I wanthimto put an interroga. tion point after the statemeut, I would mot if L could sny anythiugugalist the personal charucter of thése geilemcn, They have | done exceedingly well ¥ hava dono | vastly better than either = Rev. Smull or I possibly oould have done with thelr eide 0f the case They coms | down to make you think back (s white | aadup la dows, Wie misfortuse of the | orse the nse pur- ) only Ia dark and 1k 1th al not | senator from a p shin d yet huess he for temperat we are not in pow I want to c with Neb of the Dakota & state, were | am rep thie not e my time is it wd figures beca 1o keeps rup y and i the look of admanition I got from the president I do not think 1 have more than five minutes, I want that five minutes {red more than fu the stateof Towa alone. | to make some general statements in answer | took the paius, Kuowing Mr. Peters, the | to somo of the great hobbies that these people | ble fact that the legal talent of Mr. Webster lector of {uternal revenus, who keeps the | put forth. Theso people tell us that in these | of the state of Nebrasks has not Been waoords Lo omnuhmmmmvw.pm Unites Blales the ccnsumplion of |substituted for (has oreal aad vy was kept b n | Ly readinig | | hibition amendme | the rc | Why Who wants liquor ca | fourth, | | & cowvard! | luy | tyranny SUPPLIEK whole case {a that my very cstimable Mr. Rosewater and is companion, Mr. Web. stor, are surrounded by o very ‘bad gan Applanse. ] 1 know it is hardly fair for m to appeal to anything like public prejud becauso it i evident that the majorit audienco is on the side of prohibition pray, after all, why, Mr. Rosewater! wo have people gathered without veforonce te political party, without refere creed, hese ave the people finement it of ta 8 iro, that 18 08 rul of the state of Nebraska, and hore wo fir Now, [ want to su Aif this d had been held in any 10-cent varioty t in Omaha, of conaeind from tho plit any danco nall in the state of Nebraska, Mr Rosewator and Mr tho applause. [Appl Tam ot here to tain high that from my utterance o purv and trae, bub in my judg mistaken men, who love’ puvity and righteoisness who will the ballot box and = vote nest Novemn But 1 that every thug and ‘1 log and outeast and__bunii and horse-thicf in all the stato will go a the same thing, [Applause] [ am to say that no decent men will onpos bition, but I am here {0 say that the bar tonders, the salooa-keepers and the prosti tutes will oppose prohibition to the st man. and womin, oo, | Applause |1 wint o re marl tomy good looking friends nd Rosewator thit when [ find myself pur- ncing A course duct and advoeating ineof y policy that has the hearty en dorsement of the criminal and outes 1 will call a hult and privately study tho f Ap to you i the men whe n. I 1 1 be weut badly you for ) licensc will say th 1y and and - sea pl 1 de Wt liere prohi t el seelusion. ane mdations of my faith, w Lask If this provibit shall be beaten next Novem b ther i t Willit be in e church Will t lay schools hold a praise servi and thank Almighty God for the defeat of the prohibitory amendimentt No. But down it every low dive where bad men are ¢ 1 nidni with bad women maid the e houses and the houses o will be rejoicing, T hone neither Webster nor Rosowater will partici pate, but will Wi rejoici uch more and eent!l I will tell you theve is sa . these men roputable in wou honorable places for thein to defond aline of policy covdance with the senti il cla But suppose the pro Al prevail, where wil i all the hon his great state tho Light of love will com back into the eye of many a womin frc whose eyes it has long sin, Rejoi will coio back aeain to the home of many o miserable drunkard who has been power less in the prescnce of temptation to by the bonds that bourd him, all over the state will ring out pwons of praise, ministers school superintendents and - the peo ple everywh will ) down up. their kiees in devout expressions of than giving o Almighty God for lis wonderfu verance from this accursed traflic in the [Gireat Applan ow 1 had rather beon the se that o ool women ana ¥he happy childr » God than on the oi hat eives the ing s of the painted prostitute, ane | you these isnot - disrepulable woman tate of S ki ut if nd Webster on this question ] And so [ appeal es, by y ty of Almishty God, te your con ty iu behalf \ whore wil fashion wrong wl and havin selves come hero rely in vimi the oicing bo and_ Sunday to the ball of prohibition High licen of its best defendoy: My, Rosewater, ha and o makeshift. 1 challenge, as brother Sanll did, hizh license from the standpoint of its constitutionality, High license, uiterly un-American, undemocratio, unrepublican—what is bich’ 1 at the besti High lice forty-nige men out of overy fift I donot object. What clse is most offensive of all thinzs in t the American public. rehased mon of 4 money-making busiucss of the fif man. [Applanse.] High liconse this man, *No, "you camnot sell Bad men? "No such clain is mada, ie poor and it povert annot lay $1,000 i the palmof the public tax zatherer, but high liccnse says to this m “You muy debauch your neiglivors, you o break the hearts of the women, biight blas the lives of the ehild Why! ke is a botter man than A7 Not sort. High license bars out A on uccotnt of his poverty and permits B on account of his wealth. [Applause. ] 1 hav v objecti It parta the nature promise. 1 want compromise, 1 tizht or wronz that, The trafic good or bal. Tt raquires . down that proposition. 1f the liguor trafic isa good traltic, if it wealth and ¢ ibutes to the iealth and happiness of our people, then it is a piece of outruzeons to levy this tax S1000 on these me if this business oo a good business thc I take my stand by the side of these liquor men, and propose 1o 1ift up my voice i carnc tost azainst this tyr: warso of compelling then just because ), o pay $1,000 i ourlocal tr 1 t if this business bo a bad busine ) good, if it creatd 1o wealth, if i sed of discoed every- where, if it br of our w; its aecur en Twant to zation bow weasury cun tos wding m veda miserable my anoth to hich f a cow o vepcatit—it is ¢ liquor trafic is en Mr Kose- will say is eitucr wlosopher to ifit do i hes dls the | milldew roitg mel of modern eivi v paid into the locul » ba'l 4 business good! b another objoc is male possible only by ion of wuilt cn the part themselves, it A tax on the dry braska and you about y s cers pliy 1 their the trafil one gro, o High i~ coward of the liqy yods dealers of would have a pr Youtey to make 1,00) tax for the pury pusiness and dis you could 1 in the w the courts, and it. Why dothe liquor tax. Iyery tiey walk up to in's ¢ ) in of of ©OWn cow Lt ¢ diserimination? ma 1. Aua 1o b you find such law I have one It debiuch t « o S the in from which My high liee the city, bo it ally as applicd landladies and of infumy g0 on the 1 day of esch wmonth to the ¢ clévkand pay a preseribed watter of record I presume and_ cost, but which to all poses is a license system. license debauched publi city of Omaha, you will doubt ment, but I know whereof I hieh license debavcued pub! the city of Omaha that prosti their ~ street and numbers columns — of tho dui I have that information fr tleman hore who gives me to sub. fateiv il it is called in qu tell youyou eanuot go into this s of li censing one iniquity,but the devil will spread that license idea over anotler, 1 want you then to think about these things, Consider them calmly, intelligently, aud then in the very sunlight of Almighty God,und bo- fore the star chamber of yo \ces settlo this question, and 1 o tlo it right, and go'to the ballot box on N yember 4, and declure that the liquor trafiic of Nebraska must die the death. [Applause.] A MERITED I} Mr. Dickle Scored For His Ungentle- manly Conduct. I regret exccedingly to bo compelled to take exception in @ posteript letter to Prof Dickio's course &s & spokesman of the supporters of the prohibition ndment. He was representod 1o e & & high-minded, 10 tho liconsc to prostit the inmate w you will friend of {his But | v Hore | nor are what form of Webster would bave all good and | i) Webster n amendment manly ents of | The church bells wnd cariry uses n to he could > with Your farce se is practicai prohibition for ud so far ntleman, o ha conrteous and honorable g | plod and stown himeseolf to bo an unpring cowar rd. It was my endeavor | thro the discussion to avold dlities and to accord to my tho prosumption of sority, and honesty o purpose ALl who wera thowe wha have read 1 find | no provocation 108 und | vituperati I his col ly black, ghout person acity of | | vory ar . at Fran ] luy | happened t o dur- Dickic's opy rived boforo the debato had bogin hibition side was to nd four debat Ty utes each until This arran e nt we M il Mr. W th to be made on e o |last " dy Me Dickio deliberately Lied into my teeth 1 sorted | that T had agresd to let them both the openir After s tho a nutes het coded lon which gave Having this seeured last - word, Mr advantage of his ¢ nents, and deve 1 most of his t o toin s and Tampooning me and Mr, Webstor posed upon a credulous and enoti dicnco by libelous inuendos for which he had 0o proof and m tions of what had buen sadd by us dur bate. He had the au- ducity tocall in question the relinbility of the statistics which I bad quoted by in “H‘ ing they wero fuctured for the » | oceasion. A matt ery citation 2 | made by me was cither from offlcial records ¢ | in my possession and within reach or from ors and telegrams sent to e by state of leriffs, police oftivers, county and city elerks of the various countics in this and otlier stutes, Mo purposely distorted Mr Webster's statement regavding the number sane in this tein o faceof the fact that theoicial figares had been quoted both | by Mr. Webster and myself in - previous speeches, And be knew that he was imposing [ upon bisaudionce in uccusing Mr. Webster of ful. ¥ the record. 11 ™ With o knowledge that he would be proved libeler he reserved is attack on the 13usi Men's and B i association called them b and L nobody could contradict him| very iutellizont citizen of that this_association com- s the most reputa- busit u_in the men in good finan- stunding nigh socially the communitics in which audic | inge M, ke the 4 wern to 8] tho kio about \fternoon of and closinge, 4 +Tor thirty o [ him the T spcd leavo to have tho | D took 1| 1 a ness 2 1 5| when thore | by Sponsible They are ot on 1 standing, but me; { and morally’ in they And ) \ n, the secretay of this ns- sociation, reforred w0 by this wereenary agitator s if e were a bloate loufer, when as a matzer of fact Mr Rogren bad for twelve years occupied th > | position of deputy secretary of state und had 1| twice been elected by the citizens of Ne- | brasika to the responsible and honors of secretary of state, o uiking nestto thit of governor. Mr. Rog wen b also been adjutunt general and union veteran n e B to g law is not enforced in but he takes eare not to quote the dateof the cditorial, which appeared year b, when our city council controlled the po liccand issued the licenses. Everybody in wska knows that we have now a boare slice commissioners appointed by which has no conncetion with local politi freo from all saloon influence, aud s vigidly enforced the law by tho metro- politan police, What I resent more selfandmy associate in outrageous livels the city of With the ba sional ealu 3 kic quote: h license FOVPrLO) than theinsultto my- the debate are the by Dickie about and her people ncts of a profes Lo went clear out of s way to charge the press of Omaha with advertising for money the vocation and places of residence of women o ill repute, and madohis audioice believe that ho had fucts sabstantints o charge that is false as hell. Ho asserted that prostitution 18 licensed in Omaha, and raised his bands in holy horror over the' deg- radation of our people, when the infamous scoundrel lknew that the social evil is not li- censed in Omaha, but on the treated just us ivis'in_nearly every Towa aud just as itis in every large ci the cast ‘and wost. And it is in aec with the eternal fitness of things that this Pharisce who delights in howling about the blood money of tho saloonist turned the £0 check which the Chautauqua o at atrice puid him for Lis great effort ut black- eusrdisimover to the barkeeper of the P dok hotl and camied the “blood money { with him back to Michigan a 3. ROSEWATER, - “die's Piction Kan., July 7, 1 Refuted. . Rosewater The vatuation for 15530, last in, 149, and is probably 83 per cent ie. ' Yours truly, T. McCanrny, Auditor of State. =< S (2) Statis 9—To the Beatei Dic Toreks, Dear Siy is R0, 515, of real val Ielial Extver, Neb., July Pk Ber~In roading 1the following in 1 nted in i ¥ next is J sounty nud_is enfor \ite. have Ver s, Editor of e debates | S urguince: asurer of Os 15 1 us any o or joints. s and W o purposes i3 tas rate has drinkin, Wmost totally abol Hound 1 L v of 1l theirmoney for liguor nd industrions,” n Beeiman has | ged with el Protin, - © Statistios 18 NEBIASK A A i3, at the ¢ 40 per cont iefore. Out staining 100 Dkota and ent book, just Dukota and ty Jaiis, the DBeatr present, i that we ary state. i the pro. 10w that tian it has P than Kansas or | ment has done ser hibit 13, Itis inter Nebrasla is a great deal better 1 been pictured, Prefir Ficaon to § Houlls Journal, On Saturday and Monday beated discussions on the prohibition ques tion held at the Beatrice Chautauqua grounds, Although Messys. Rosewater aud Webster gave abuudant ressons and fgures to sup port their position, those attending the dis- cussion decided in favor of th hibition side of ghe question,. Lhey seewed o prefer fiction to facts, a0 last there were - ished Hope Roscwater and Th Chey The arguments of Messrs Webster ut Beatrice this week against prohi. bition were of the most satisfylng kind. Eventhe rankest amendment peoplo must admit that the editor of Tus Bee is 8 most formidable opponent to helx chorished hopes. ir Che Probibition a Distinot Failure iu Every City VERY STRONG Crime the Jail, Porrrasn, Br | ~Those are soeking t stitutional aud who onf for it ta know nothin no such clatr fanatical prol clal observation by any U fail to discl vast amount ssonti and of the fu s distinetly o crable 50 much upor tho b those who who ventur century pana wood deal of regzand the ey gurding a ma to be n failiby There is pu ble shect call the orgran of Lookin with stateme state laws fo trafie, I find the ruidance who w d stance, is a si 8 e flgures United State ing that the Maine where government for the sule of liquors d says : lund He “Crime 18 have continu s and pris s and by fons, Cr 8 Al prol uibitionists favor of all 7 over try in the Stato, PROHIBITION TESTIMONYs Prevalent and antly Fall on- ngly Unplea m e R acts clal Records. Mo Special to Tim o ool peoplo of Nebraska whe 0 impose upon tho state o cons fon of tho lquor tra nonts with elos o8 to the wondorfui suceess of + Maine can only bo exeused fop ments on the ground that thoy the mattor, Cortainly 1is mado hore, oven by the mosh g about and the most superle e who uses Lis cyos Fact that thero is e of drinking in Maino, ng the proof of this rher u ) A fuil tato m that pr ro fn ey {20 in this s 1 the ovide Himpeachablo of Mait testin Itis tho fasl prohibition to deer ulents and others fon that this nincteenth all social troub) ise adelusion Loy cannot s ience of theirown fr e ter upon which they ull claim the op ¢ cen of Wlished i this city a rathor d the Portland Herald, whic the prohibitionists of Maine, its prges, which fairly teom uts vogarding the violation of th rthe supprossion of the lig many brigh s of truth of the peopl other probiibition. Here, f iiticant co ing altor taken from tha records of the iuternal roy oflice, shiows e were 160 cities and towns in license money was paid to the Phie Porte for tatos ine alurminely prevalent. Murders ally increised yoar by yvear, Our ns are unpleasantly full, Robe irglaries are ocoureing in wll dls 1 of all Kinds I8 increasing. One 1 thirty-fourliguor-sellers in Porte Tang ton!!! “Are o Western peoy ebb in the goc W wester es have co lie Maine wating eom Tat prohibit L a wan of rare ter, says of t hibitic tha and fi “The resul much eormpt its wealth un ton of the iy Yorkeity, [ show that, | though that lirgdst rum s Ne contribute camapain fut He had in v went, but 1 dicted, The y but the pr ion inve In which our oflicials deal most striking proof of the utter ineMilansss in Bangor!! tato where poplo from as well us in Kan The good Neal wnd HHY-(ve in Lowlise ureitizons less liw-abiding tham Sle? Ts publie sentiment at i lowop Muine than it 1sla Al coing ngregateds Wouldn't it be well o XTatuTe o appoint an invese witteo to asecrtiin why it 1§ ory Laws cannot be enforoed 1n who has always 1od 1 Maine, and who is 3 1 beauty of charaos influen upon the courts of hich contains provise 1ho judizes and prosecutiig ofs rtain discretion in sentenciog uding liquor dealers: tis, itls sald, that there Is ag 1 in Mainé, i proportion 4 i population, in the administras Wy s th Isor ever was in New { e give younn camplo. te fere Isthe case of Puatrlek Ega s nothis real namo, He s u'.i cller in the state of Maine, an S wore money to tharepublicag ) ranany other man In Mulngy iious waysevaded an Indiet < thuna year ago he was Ine Jroof ugainst hin was abuniant ating ofticer nolle prossed thd ¥, court In_spite of tho protest o old state of Dow prohibition sining no reason huuvvl‘r‘_' ses. Jand old Lt is'a falrsamploof t 11 g uor ¢ of prohibition fn this sthtcis afforded by the anuual report of marshal ch 1, 1890, ug staten sts during the year 1889, sts made. of Portland. , Marshal Green makes tho fol lont as regards the number The number by tho officersof tho departs William H. G Under d: m tfor the year hus been 1,07, The offenses charged agai ust them and how they were disposed of will be shown by the following tablo: Assault and Ass it with Assault with Assiult on e Assault, nded Assanlt susp Abandoning ¢ ANEAY. .00 Arrested on Broaking and Breakin Breaking and Bastardy Cruelty 1oant and o1 terysiiin intenith rape deadly weapon, slice officer cion of nild eaptus ent erin enterin e mils Conmon nuisanee Common brawler .. Coremon drun of fal WIORY e snenting € ng udis Larceny..... reony from recny, susp i aro dand lasc i rthreal clons m ntalning a Mutiny Nightwai Oltainin Podilin Reinnin i Receivir with hwnd se s per Swindiiy n In eit Un hoy Jarsing (i Driving wn Driving a carr st driving Loud 1 in Not wearing ¢ hackney ear ested to this should assault and b; pa is any city in that has a lar cuness I have The oficial wit tat arvests for d during the pa: P There aro Atlanue, la an alortfon wway from homoe ninc away from hond tolen goods attributabls to' inte Akare and dist ling irlance, into vie .52 Som elmasmsesaneo: Hus meetings. 1ppling shiops. wiotion. .. fon of Tiguors. ¢ dning a gambling uuls: orderly house i o okt ind railroad st Nios b 1z o, et liguor nulsance ds Dy Tilse protense Eeoe oo out i license. izure sons iz Withoui 1. 8 T 3 WIthout Consent of 0Wner.. v limits 5 ise ol Without a Tieense ro nrm n clty Hnits numbered cirt fuge without o liconse siroct padzo on s hat Wwhile drive riuze Low sommeses Craex~asSele 141 i persons drunkards; 4 foy and 641 for drunkenness and In other words, out of 1,47 an 153 in the probibitiou cit, 20 were for ang be adide ts for attery, which weie for the mosy iperance, 1f therg any licensed state in Americs £ record of arrests for drunky uot heard of it., W. H. RusseLta repoit of Marshal Green alsy ulated exhibit of the nuwiber of drunicenness made in Portland st ten years, WS ¢ us e 511861 1142 10 tan urm;n packingo bouses &)