Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 31, 1890, Page 16

— RANSANS O PRORIBITION, Prominent Citlzens of 8% John's State Forcibly Express Their Viewa ‘ invest A HARD BLOW TO TRUE TEMPERANCE, The Legalized Saloon * the L west Dives nation eded by Business Stag Other Dire Ro- ulsive Picture, and sults A It Ow'ne t o the time of the d of tho 1 of very from citizens of Kuns trafic as and the off on the material welfa the essarily to bo omitted. These worthy of perusal Many citizens of Nebraska are doubtless acquainted with tor J. H. Sterlin He reprosented ¥ ¢ and York counties in the scoate in 1857, and was a staunch sup- porter in that legislature of Senator Charles H. Van Wyck. Ho was an uncompromising advocato of g 1voted for statuto. ry prohibition in that slature, and his vote Is also on record in favor of a constit-n tlonal amendment to prohibit the fao- turoand saleof liguor in thostateof Ne- braska. Mr. Sterling moved to Kansas in the fall of 1877, and is still a resident of that state. His ostimony should therefore o weight with the sineere fricnds of true temperance, The other lotters ave all from loading citi- wons of Kunsas and men whoso veracity is un- achable, the Mt h tisd b nd the omi tup- | fon | v, anumber | o lotters | s the liquor ning debate ¢ interesting and i vas rozand n Kan t of the law up- s of stato hud letters are well ex-Son srohibition a man have son ant Violations of the Law, »iAND, Kan,, dune 20, Hon. E. Rose water— Dear Sir have resided in this county sinco November, 1887, and during that time I huve had tho means of obserying, und have curcfully observed tho practical Wwork- fng of the prohibitory liquor law, and as I have always desired {0 see the liquor trafio eliminuted from the land, I may have been somewhat prejudiced in favor of the law, but 1 have cndeavored to know the real operation of tho liquor business o uue situstion under the law hero. While 1 am well aware that many of the eltizons of this stato researd the Law and its effects very differently Ldo, yet T feel warranted In franl that the anle of intoxicants her and is not in uny degree roduced by the | Tho | alleged frionds of the law vo ly nssert that ) e no saloons in our midst to allure the young and invite the old into the paths of iutem) that sobriety and mora W oblains where intemporance and vice formerly existed Such assertions sound well and T wish they wero true, but I know the fucts do not war- raut them. While_you will rarely, if at all, 800 the sign, “Siloon wted wines, liquors,” ctc.,'on the glass front of any busic ness house hore, you will, however, find in its stead *“Lewperance Lall,)! I3l dor,” ete., wherein can readily Lo ha the meaner and villainous varictios of cants. Theso ‘‘temperance halls,” etc., flourish hero, although they ure nothing other, or bet ter, than the lowest and meancst class of sa- loons and gumbling dens, und theie true char- acter is well known. Tio-c places are open to the young and middle aged alike, and are froely “frequented by both. Intemperance, nay, absolute drunkenness, obtaius here to a ater extent than in towns of similar size Nebraska. The ‘“drug store” is an fnstitution here, both multitpdinous and pestiferous, It mfl.\m liko & green bay trco, and under law as well a8 in the eyoshot of many ranting temperauce workers and prohibition- ista the *‘Kansas drug stor” is a reputable, wmau, worthy the endorscment of perance men and women, although 18 patent thatits yery existence offers to perjury and begets contempt The vicans employed to conduct the liquor 418 riethods adopted by the m bowwl, to obtatt it, are more to the indlvidual and community, is the worst feature of intemperance. The liquor business has been and_still s Deing conducted exelnsively and with a most flagrant dis: for the law, and it is usu- ally conducted by partics wholly irresponsi- ble, both morally and fluancially, so that neither the viotim of the trafiic, his family nor the community has any remedy against the dealer for any damiyes resulting from nis llicit and dangerous business, In other words, the community here suffers all the ovils attendant upon tho presence of tho most depraved phase of the liquor trafic, without deriving any benefit from, or any protection against iis presenc ‘Thero are at this time, at_least five differ- ent places in this city, where wmtoxicating Yiquors wre extensively 'dispensed, and of course none of them pay anything into the Jublic treusury for tho priviloge of conduct: ug such business, neither do they give any boud for the protection of the individual or comnunity, for damages resulting from the Mguor business, “The condition of things here 1s a fair index 1o the operations of th zenerally, The sentinient of the public generally i3 not in favor of the enforcement of the lisw, and it is not euforced, neither is there much, if any, honest effort made for its enforcement, The prohibitory law has bred an_indiffercnce for tho solomn sncredness of an oath that is simply appalling, and this deplorable feature Is increasing fn enormity, "Ihe Judiciary of the siate is able, honest, and very numerous, and I might add, expen’ sive. Thirty-five district court judge: sulary of 22500 each and three supr zés and three supreme cou ners, ata salary of & county has & county attoriey, whose special duty it is to seo to iho thorouih enforcemont, of the prolibitory law, yet thelaw is openly and hdlih_\ defied, and daily most flagrantly violates "The county attorney of thi totaler, an ardent temperance advocate, and a ronsistent membe of a Curistian church, Yet, only one party has ever been conyicted in this county of a violation of the probubitory law, although more than o score of persons, du g my n © here, have openly been engaged i the liquor business in this city. Yours, et., J. H. STERLING, A Chapter of H WasiiNGtoy, Kan,, 4.—~The issue of constitutional prohibition in Nebraska is iu this state with much iutorest. Whilo Kuusas has been under such laws since 1851, there have been ouly racti- cal enforcement of the law in any of the towns and cities of the state, and it can safely be said that it bas never been enforced in the lurger cities, During the months and X i | years devoted to the work of closir pen | & 1o feature of prohibition was noticed | beyond the tenacity with which the hquor 7 to his business and the fact that the law agaiust tue sell- be said that in the larger 2oF o e ounty 15 8 tee- rrors. watched X years of p orein v, and it can safely open saloon, exc s thing of the pas n the « was hal o millenium, T bition were as yet unfolded. ezun to develop, the republican s state was ticd bhand and foot to | n machine, and all the evils of : drink hubit were relegated to lawmakers for remcdy, Temperauce organizations no longer met to call inthe young man and point out the evils of “putting that in the mouth which stealeth “away the brains;" the drunkard was no longer urged to reform for his sake aud the sake of his family: but they met to resolve in favor of more stringent log istation elect delegutes to semi-politi conventions, to demand the selection o1 county attorneys and executive and judicialg | omicers of the as the er condi- last on o © dawning of t tions of prok party 1t 1 § n an ulta sty not only true of W v true of all of Kansas of Kansas, untrained in statecraft, unread in history, were given municipal franchise at the demand of the so-called temperance peo- ple that the law might be enforced und sobriety forced by statute. What the result has been is & chapter of BOFTOrs 1o the man or woman possessed of average humay seusibilities, 1 care nothing, / ment, out itis ashington, but The women are seldom ¢ for man, th the aggromita, w he has passe the prin of 1, and w his habits have becom ther they are good or bad the wnwred by moral sausion, ever by human st s, But the hopo of Kansas dof the nation is in the boys and young n. Now, what s the effect of prohit i the boys? No pllded sign attracts th v nickel ot a polishsd bar, Ever: Washington at least, admits it is wr fixed n n to expross s box d i s have liquors al purposes’ and they that the alleged 0 . laborors ending away ifch duly arrive in stable cnlent places boys raise a quarter nd for cases wnd jugs. Tho Mill Creck could tell terrib) stories of dobauchery on the part of boys from fourteen to twenty years old, under cover of night. Kansas is today under an craof freo whisky and it is beginning to be wd b hundreds and thousands of men who voted for the prohibition in good faith. Ther is no way tostop the inflowing rent of intoxicants which is spreading to the homes and firesides, The country is full of misguided women who have taken up the o nd are aided and abetted by white- han 1 men who obtain money from the prejudices of human! rainst the rum trafic The cry is legislation! wislation ! Women attend” meetings in the interest of more legislation wd half tho night cussing ways and means to punish jointists and_ b s, while thoir are as- sembled t & nocturnal co-operative beer keg accumulating o jag of monumental pro- portions, ol them his and they will promptly call you aliar, and point with vide 10 the fact that not asaloon can be Sound in Washinton Whether this sortof thing is common to other prohibition states or not [ do not know, but it scems to me that it must result the SAMme overywhere, It is a natural and logical result of prohibitior Some of our l»r-.\ph- claim th the samo facts would exist under license, They could not. Minors would bs barred froni the saloons, and not a wholesale house brewery in tho country would ship u sin- gle packaze of goods in” competition with a 1 saloon auy more than a wholcsale gro- pt o s o order in competi- tion with a retail grocor Sunday “beer drinks” are another foature of prohibition. Halfa dozen farmers “chip ' andbuy two or three kegs of beer and the whole neighborhood meets atsome one house and have & Sunday social with beer and whisky as t chief fea 1t 4s no v common thing for half a dozen of these meet in sur within ten miles of this tow il in the age the beer and wh thus drank would K two saloons a wi 1l y day, but Saturd the bigday. 1 have scen’ the timo wih freight o v led to the pass from Wymore to Concordia in order the express packinges of liquors, T feature abont the whole matter is that while every town along this branch in K deercasing in- population, this jug bu increasi Prolibition in Kansas has made perjurors by the hundreds, and liars by the thousands Kven in so liw-abiding and mor nty Washington it is almost impo: mviet a whisky seller and that in spita of tho re versal of all rales of eriminal psecution, yet this county hus plenty of men and wonen who freely write outsi® of the state that liquor deinking has lavgely decreased under prohibition and that the law is rigidly en- foreed. Ihe expert cties and the absolute failure to enforee the law is a matter of hi tory so well established that I need not s word about it, but L wish to refer such Ne braska voters us ave not already fixed in their convictions to the things sot forth hovein as trues and for proof [ask them to come to this city of 1,629 people and stay one week and their oyes open, nsking noquestions, taking no second hand opinions. G. B. Haruwar, 1th ping in'? and kogs and W and other that the bums, and others il for cise and are collars, ulle and the re cach and they woods al nsas is ness s Will You Do It? Wicmra, Kan,, June 20,—Prohibition does not mean temperance. If the people of the great stato of Nebraska desire to lose all control over the sale of intoxicants, let them vote for prohibition. If thoy desire free whisky, let them vote for prohibition and thoir desire will be accomplished. If the poople desire to remove the licensed saloon and have two or more dives take the saloon’s place, where boys as well as mon can go and arink the vilo liquor kept in these dives, lot them vote for prohibition, and all this and more will be yours to eujoy. If it isan in- crease of taxatien that the people are longing for, let them vote for prohibition. If the people of Nebraska desire to stop all immi- gration into their state, let them vote for prohibition and you will not be bothered further with looking after immigrauts, If it is the wish of the peoplo to have a host of soft-handed eranks, who were nover known to produce anything) not even a house tolivein, to contvol’ their’ great state, voto for prohiibition. If the people desire to re- move the saloon from where it now is to the cellar of the average prouibitiouist, vote for prohibition. Much more could be sald by any person who has carefully investigated the wor of prohibition Liws in Maine, lowa and sas, but Iexpect I have covered all tho spaco L should in your valuable puper. W. R Pavse, A Terrible Blow to Temperance, Wicnita NarioNaL Baxk, Wiciira, Kan., June 20.—Prohibition is not true tempor- ance, There hias been no Good Templar or blue ribbon society, no true temperance loo turer in the sinco the law was cuact IPanatics, relying entirely on the strong of the law to reform people, have been her and the resultis there are fower teetotal than before the law was cnacted, Th more drunkenness in the howme, as can be uoustrated by the trail of beer and ex- press wagons all over the towns of tho stute, and the and the shop, and the hotel, It has become far more respectable to drink in Kansas than before tho law. & of tho oficeholders a on had pronibition in the platfor event of their lives by a mor ) ticket that n, celebrate inking bout ever, There hias been more cant more sneak perjury, more lym more » u than from any” luw that ar ver cursed with, aud lias cost the as it will cost any stato t s of mil lions of dol besides, Probibit woyed element is with them, agit tion of the pr Kuansus is concerned t has 1 hypocrisy, state of K s, and cur sts el tho 1 as the in re tawe \ hibition que S 1ot truo tions, in favorof p K v 15 not made by a preacher, who ready at any morme W the' pulpit somo 0 or office that paid a l o leader of prohibition in Ku acher now holding a federal 1 $4,000. For years he tho for sh political striker, truthful man in the state never opens his mouth on p does not v y and ki ¥ utteras man, sas he thinks Li3 listencrs will swallow. Rey. B. Kelly is his name. No practical, fa & town of ove can trathfully ¢ or prohibition 1 do not think that a dozen opan saloons are capable of the serious injury of one secret joint. Minors, lewd women, thieves and thugs alike can visit the with impunit The proprictor, even if disposed, dare not open his mouth' 8s he is afraid that if ho offends any of his visitors they will enter a plaint against him. But be has little if Ny cotp on of conscience in the mutter asheis an irresponsinle person at all times and prefers to do business upon the prohibi- tion plan and votes that ticket becauso it allows him to do business on litde or uo capi- tal and no license, A. W, Ouy was most He ion that he en, vice president, Ruined Business in Kansas. Wicmira, Kan, Juns 14.—You ask my opinion of prohibition. It is beyond question the greatest delusion of the nineteenth cen- tury. The idea of putting an end to liquor drinking and all its attendant evils meets the approval of all right thinking people and so takcs possession of the intellects and judg- menta of many good Christians that they have come to regard itas & partof their reli- glonand would be greatly shocked 1f told that prohibition was not a bible doctrine. Whilo thoy adore it as though it was ons of the ten commandinonts, they are totally blind t the fact that there are two places now where liquor is sold to one bafore prohibition came to curse our state, Irus, the word saloon has been changed to “lunch « er," sl rderrestanrant,” “meals at all hours,” and 8 multiplicity of names, the meaning of which is well wn o the in. tiat but the advantago of the change has nov en o me, as the business cover of these various same a8 before the name was od, 1 think_the of n the secrot dive. In thoone | the business and in tho ier you cannot, Boys and habitual drunke ot obtafn liquor over an open bar, | an obtain it in the “joint" or secre n tl revenue devived from the ated or licensed saloons helps to by | burden of municipal taxation and to pay | os Tncurved in prosecuting violators of the law, There is another phuse, or rather result of prohibition you would hardly have suspected. 1t is the number of privaty wrs this law converts into veritablo wine « ars. It is safo to say that four-tifths of all the men in the United States ocensionally drink u ylass of wine, beer, ala or possibly whisky, Tt may not be once in a year, or it may beonce in five years, but my experienco is that most peopls somctimes take a glass of some kind of liquor. This class, whilo respectablo and temperate, will have what they want, and in order that no embar meit may arise they constantly keop in stock inthe Llars a va v of such liquors as @ st palatable to them. Being constantly | in the Louse with it the tendency and te mpla- | tion is to drink more than former when they slipped into u saloon only when a strong ng drew them there Jut it is when you consider its effect upon the business interests of the state that the average man becomes deeply interosted in tho matter. A large class of industrious, thrifty and altogether desirable people can nevor bo induced to voluntarily scttle in a prohibition state. I'rom my own experience of 1ts work- ings T woull never settlo in & state wh prohibition laws prevail, unless T was uss of their speedy repeal. You can have no g and wflucntial state withont ouo or more large cities or business centers, To buil and sustain o large city in a state where y hibition provails is an impossibility, Libe customs und laws attract population to ¢ while prohibition drives population uway. Massachusetts caunot keep prohibition and Boston too, and so prohibition had to o Providence is of more value to Rhode Isiand than prohibition and prohibition had o o Philadelphia i3 worth more to the stato Pennsylvania than prohibition prohibition was voted down there by 150,000 majority. In Maine, \ mont, New Hunpshire, 1 A, Kansas and the of which contains a ¢ v thousund, the incubus is « and the energies iv impoverish hie yon in Nobr know all the beauties of prohabition, en's name coine and ¢ four or five apparent n undoer the In to wriad ¢ changed preferable sl ios till e it the ir peo want to in heay- 1 some city fu Kan d you will huve sapping tually But {n Kansas the republican mitted itself to prohibition ing what did the same, and it has b mueh, that, as [ saia bofore, many ood peo ple consider it of divine origin, 1 they wer told that Neal Dow of Maine and John | n of Kansas had each made comforta unes out of this hobby they would not party com ore * kuow humb it I of them, 0 preached so ~SUPPLEMENT 'FREE WHISKEY IN DAKOTA. The Effeot of "Prohibitlon” tn the Black Hills District Desaribed SALOONS RUN WITHOUT REGULATION. Origlnal Packagos Flouses Rampans— An Omatia Man Tells His Exper fencoon & Visit to Hob Springs. HorBraivas 8. D, July 18.—To the tor of Tus Bass Dakotans have watched with interost the great dobate at Deatr on the question of prohibition or high licenae, A visit to the Biack Hills at the present time would con inec Judiced porson that prohibitio: is a dismal failure in that part of | South Dakota, Original package louses are i full blast all (ver the country and whisky of the poorist quality s more plentiful than ever know in t history of the Black Hills, Ving out the matter of enue, tho coun- try is 0 great loser because of the entiro ina. bility to resuiate the and enforee polico regulation ther der our former sys- tem of high lic suloon keepors Were pro- hibited from selling to minors, drunkards, ete., under sov peualties, They wers under Londs keep - anorderly house an orally prosecuted it the not complied with, Now 1t ¥ law the prohibition oftlcers to 18 that in the city of v a8 much liquor bition, and this Linunities in- South of colleges and sold as the 100, in one Dakota, churches It Nebr high license control the evi police regzulition evils of fron lows he w man will dc do not enac tion z for fr Ky, contr i 1 devastating influ I speak wiioroof [ the state scuate of South se8s10n that Husse: 1@ pr law of thestite, I am in that the auticipati bition have ot 1 honest by om out that no L, b the appetite Only the po ned w r pu avail, Edu inculeate p the effort mistake that ika < wise sho will hold to her under which you can aud bring it under strict Save your state from tue «y which invariably fol- »f probivition. No honest vils of intemperance, bt or aniend your constitu you will open the flood-gates which you will have no powerless to - stay its y th 10w, As & momber of Dakota of tha sent prohibitory o 10 kno s of prolii They wero s v found er, can chango 1a drunkard v God and the de- va 14 not - ORIGENGI KAGES RZAMPANT. Scenes in Prohibition South Dakota as Seen Omahan Hor Spiuis gy of Tus Bry spent the Fourth heve n this glovions prohibi suth Dakota, and in comy Omaha men we follow d the fore the day was over saw more men bea drunis thai | eversaw in any one w raAc on h rowd, it, but brand it as an'invention of the liquor interests to iujure probibition AT, Canresten, - PROGIBITION SHAM. r Robiason of Kansas Makes a Strong Arraignment. A short time ago ex-Giovernor Robinson of Kansas published a letter in the Kansas City Times criticising the prohibitionists and say ing that liquor could be openly purchused In Lawrence, Kan, A number of prohibition- Ists replied to the aiticle attacking Governor Robinson because he had the manhood to speak the truth. To these attacks Governor Robinson replied as follows: *“T'he law so far concedes that every citizen of sound mind aud mature age hasa right to buy what hie pleases and all he pleases.” Does the law make pro- vision for educating these old and young men a8 to tho right and wrong, proper aud im- proper use of liquor? Does it provide for temperance orvganizations and temperance in- struction, such as existed under local option f No, none of these things are provided or con- templated. How, then, does this law propose to make temperaice meni There is hut ono way and that is to make it impossible for juor to be bought by punishing its sale, In other words, so far as the law is con- corned aud so ‘far as prohibition preac ing and talking is to have any eflect, it deprive the people of the pos cants, or dog purely personal matter of liberty and the pu suit of happiness, ““The Law of the universe has made tho de- nt of character in any direction with- 1cy an imposibility, asall thought- 11 know. If so, thien this law must be nullified or failure will result, *“Lo test my sincerity L will agree to give to any citizen in Douglis county 3100 who will bring proof that there is any man of sound miad in the county who can not get all the liquor he can pay for, from a bottle of beer to a bottle of whisky, and he need not apply to a_‘supreme court saloon, cither, on where is your prohibition, if I am right? **D. White says he has resided inLawrcnce for ten years and knows of no drinking sa- loons. Trecently made the statement to Mrs. A. Diggsthut liquor was openly sold here, She concluded to nvestigate the matter and some dozen jointists wero found without, difi- culty und convicted. I don’tlike saloons uny bettor than you do, especialiy T dislik unregt saloons that know no Law; but really what can w You say there a none, as Mrs, Di said. Well, whore ig- norance is bliss it is folly to b wish I could believe as yon pre I experience which 1 cun't o wetover. A friend of mine lost his balauce and fell overboard in these saloons and was there forsome two or three weeks before T found him. 1 took him home and after about ten duys e recovered 50 as 1o wive a roport of bimself. Ho bad personal kuow! of seventcen salons and iaform- of some eight others. His state ment is corvoborated by un oficfal, a drinking man, besides abundant indication’ from g eral appearances. 1t 15 true some have been prosec and convieted, but for what good ? here ar of there being saloons cnoigh to supply every citizen of Lawrence that will pationize them., To prosecute ouly s up costs for the taxpayers Lo meet and “I have secn that a committee of fifty has beon inted to fight the decision of the United States suy und they bave commenced several cases which lawyers say W st the county 000 to prosecite. of this committee don't want their drog ness interfored with, aud some want to ako political capital 'for the republican party and have old Douglas county foot the bills, Yes, the people bLuve scen what has been done’ at these so-called tewperance meetings, but they have not learued of a | single man or boy wha could not get all the intoxicating liquor he can pay for in Douglas county without going to the original pac saloon 1 have heard of the wry facesand terrible straining at these meetings at the little orig- inal package, while wholc wagon if not ¢ loads of liquors are unlouded at the depots and delivered at the saloons, men and boys club rooms aud privato residences all about town. The littleoriginal package gnat causes many contortions, while carloads aro swal lowed atsgulpand lps are swacked for moro. “Yes, I hear of frequent meetings in parks and churches and Women's Christian Tem- perance union patlors and of much probibi- ion, not temperance, tall, yet the first year of 50 called prohibition seventy Good Tem- plar's lodges expired and 3,000 members loft the order, while soon after not a lodge could be found in the state. In 1851 nearly all the young, aud many of the old, bad their names on the total abstinence pledge, whils for years the pledge has been unkuown, and it is Tashionable for youngmen of means o tipple. A young business man of Topeka, graduate ofan eastern college and universally popular and a favorite, declares b kuows not of a sin- 1o total abstainer among all the young men of his scquaintance. An old resident and Lighly esteemed railroad employe says that the parents and community would® be as. tounded if they kuew how miuch liquor was -Gover e uge the streets of Omala. Men were walking on the streets ¢ rving a hottle i each huod and shouting and yelling as only drunken men can do. Beer in original packages is kept on ice, and the dealer 80 kind as to puil the cork and furnish glas<s just as an aceommo dation for the jcustouors, and rot ut, which they call wh is putup iu bottles holding tn belng almost a fallure, white tha cora A8 suffored wruatly from the hot winds thay during five days last week. An Original Package Victory. Toreka, Kun, July 17, Judge Phillips has handed down an eluborate docision i the orfginal packago cass argued befors him re- coutly. Ho granted an finjunction to the agenta of the browing firms {n St. Louls and Milwaukee who had engaged {n business this puace acainst County Attornoy Welsh d Sherift Wilkerson restraining thers from urthor (uterforonce with the plaintifes bush noss. - Beer, Moro Whisky. Washington Post Lfke most fmpractical roformers, who are | evor prona to bolster up their unrulfable the- orles with untrustworthy flgures, the prohl. | bitionists show a disposition to placean undue reliancoe on one-sided atistios, I'hus the “ New York Voice, the organ of the prohibition v.in issue publishes & great ray of figures to show that in Towas and Knusas tho prosont. consumption of boor has | greatly decreasod from what it was in those states ten yoars ago, This de 1o dount with porfect aceurac due to proliibition. But this claim, woll establi hed though it may be, fails 5o furnish a s story answor to thoq Doos prohibition prohibit 1t fails to show thatthore is less drinking and drunkenness in the prohibition states than thore were at the beginning of the docads. It is not dinieult to soo that a prohibition law, which would chang liconsed saloons into sa and spoak d turn drug stoves practically tnto liquor shops, would, in the very naturo of things, diminish or, indeed, entirely do away with the mor bulky pota iilait might drive beor-drinkers into the more easily concealed nd far more pernicious habit of whisky king. That, in the several prohibition states, this has been the procise result seems established by abundant testimony. A fow months ago a leading clergyman at Portland, Me., stuted publicly that ho had seon far move deplorable cases of utter inebriation and a greater num- ber of thomof them in Portland in one day— the previous Kourth of July -thua he had in Milwaukee during the whole of week his attentauce at the national uncamprient of tho Grand Army of the Republie, although beer was abundant on every sido and all sorts The evidence and lowa is to ¥, town and village o states whisky may be had, t rior and dan: sois claimed , to bo dired frresponsible easios ms of beo taken 1ey is to ox sof & particu- | Do, and the dr N larly violent and malignant t itter in some 3 the truth, how can bo successful? What nking has boen dimin it has been ro- under secret, il- malizing e approxin ition bo held to 165 it that heor d n out if pla od by whisk rdly and utte ! " Whisky contui beer Phere is more pe us 50 per cent of 4 per ut, mischief-produc- iz drankenness in one gallon of whisky than ina wholo kegof beer. Where, then, is the advantage of driving out the more hurmless in vogard to which the Voiceboasts 1t prohibition bas largely diminished its alcohnl as only 3 or and ous it istrue that tn prolibition upward, . In the part of ota that L b.ve been over theve is ot a village lurge enegh to have n postoftic where liquor and beet wre not kept. for sate. I wish the constitutimal prohibition advo- cates of Nebraska would take a trip through the Black Hills, and if sceing s believing surely they would not want this kind of pro- hibition. Hot Springs i at present filled with vist- tors to its full hotel capocity, and the town is gr?wlngnp:lllfi 5".4_"-9 :mxd dwellings :Ar; going irechious, Hore are alre e R ey d tional bani has just-bon organized by F. T. Evans, A. 8. Stewart, C. a Iargo, V. T. Preaticeand ’ctty Brithers, The$50,000 cap- italis all subscribed andthey will be ready to start pusiness ‘n a fow luvs The Fourth of July was c lar spread eagle st¥1o on grounds just outside of town, wh beautiful and aesthetic a piece of ground as the most romantic would wish to see, Tho mountain side, with 1 p projec out some twenty feet overianging the green va and rannine vater below, makes a picty thatis very | leasing majestio arandeur Fall river,” nad almost exclusively of these hot springs, fows through the town and four wile w forms a fall of seveuty- two feet, whoro t goes over the rock with & deafeing roar. A good road along tho river baugs forms a pleasant drive which the tourists scem to enjoy very much, and [{ busivess for three livery a stables. ‘The entire ountry is tributary to Or ha, and traveling men from the different wholos Louses un be scen hera overy s, Omalia seews to bo to this country whiat Chii- cago is to eas o lowa, i pliandt Lo B n and Gospel Unity. b., July 10.——[Special Tels- Bes.]—Thers has boen con- nent 1sed hers over an iich has been laid before the Charles Depew askiug for v saloon eady one saloon In town, the which immediately camo to the 1 as tho prohibi aty, or " viz, that moin a € was quite sufficient; so both tho saloonkecper, appureutly sivded on their arnor and en- reuonsttanco sicned by was hianded in, and - con i meot as held in order at the argued by the at- oth” sides. Judge Connc resgnted Depew, and Siiit Unit gram to T siderable ex application town board license to run There is proprietor of samie conetus “Church 1 town of this the league an hand in tered the quite & nu a A house might be torney’s on of Kcarney 1 Lexington meeting was atter a arguments aid s ged in by both attorneys, shalf of ‘the combination rove that Depow had not acted aceording to ments of the law, by not having Lisapplication placed on record in the county oftics before the notice appeared in the | newspaper, und also pointed signers on tho applicar boua fide real cstate o cided not to grant the lice to consider ano her applicati them ina clearly logal mar agai ork aud without difteulty se: than the required number of has in every way acted in accor with the wiyice of his attor- S0 ihe hoard will con- the secoud Heense on the 16th, It is erally supp sed thay they will grant the ense, althou h Mr. Smith said in public t his clients intended to make it as warm as they could, wnd if they did not gain their polut they wo d delay it as long as possible by taking th to @ higher court. The whole co ty is groatly aroused the i hopdwitked by the leg r 310 prevent tho opening the second saloon and yhen turn their o tion to getting rid of yhe present one. That fact has been stated fivam the pulpit of one of thochurches, butas e saloonkesper dors not attond tiat church he isnot yvet ao- quainted witl this fact. The general opin- ion is that the saloonkeeper supplies the funds and the league does the shouting. - KANSAS wAY, n it Jaid be Mr. Dep ) ne; sider 1 at as their object THIZ Orizinal Package Joints Flourishing on All Sides, Jatler Toe Miller returned Thursday from a trip to Ottego, Kan., and o wild tale ho tells of affairs inthat state, Whilo there Mr. Mil- ler visited several towns and in each one he | found the saloon bar closed, but the original Ppackage flourished in all of 1ts original glory. Hotels, drug stores, groceries, hardware stores, and in many fustances dry goods stores had their little rooms purtitioued off where the packages were sold. = The streets of most ofthe towns were full of drunken men and every othier man had an original package in shipped by express toyoung men &ud boys for their clubs aud personal use, his pocket. rogard to crops, they are poor, small ) states lifticulty of obtaining beer leads to an increase of secret whisky drinking, at the 1la Airech e he pald prohibition pipers and platform ranters who have bean talkin about prosperity followlug the postilon tia path of prohibitlon. It {s bad for the figures thnt they dispute the dircct testimony of these groat reform rantors. Facts are stube born things aud no amount of mntiug o controvert fuots whon once woll astablished, and this {5 whore the ruulcis bave the worsl ol 1he Facts and 1ig Superior Times, The great dobate on high liconss va pronl bitton at the Beatrice ¢ ‘hautanquanon last Sat urday and Monday exceeded the expocta of the most thusisstio and sanguine, 150f people went to hear I men dis, con. on I'hou gifted and tal- 198 the pro and con of this im portant question and wera not disappointed in thorosult. Somoof the ablost spo made in our state f. thore. T'ho most notablo foature the was the u v of facts backed up by statis. thes taken from ofieinl vocords that could not b disproved that wore presentad by waterand Waebstor, Tho probibition advo- catas took the only courso loft them, that of heaping anathemas and abuso upon tho sup- porters of high license, T 5 m o that o fow f from roliable 1 more in & dobate of all the abuse and vituporation at command of oven a Sumall. an argument as the prohibitionists eudoay- ored 0 advance, may gain applwisoe from thoso whom logio and reason will not reach, but any unprejudicsd man or woman who listened to that debate or will cavefully read it can draw but one conclusion, and thut s that the prohibs were badly worsted on th ground and they did not, with tant speakes, bring forth one prove that their position was ten When the growth and prospe san ente hoa vears wora delivered o 90- gentlemen ts and s are this kind il dou takon oy worth than the Sam Such own their impor argunent o ablo. vity of high liconse Nebraska was compared with the ad- vancement of. prohibition Kansas, Iowa, Maing, Vermont and New Hampshite by oflicial records and indisputable fucts, No- braska was found to be far in tholead, But the worst black oyogiven the prohibs was when it was proven without doubt that cording totha population we had in this state aless numbor of cony uitentiary and lunaties in the asylum than those states w hers prohibition has been tried. - Keop 1t Before the Grand Isiand Independent, Kesp it before the people that thers {8 not astats in the union with so few convicts in s wo have in thoe liceuso state of No- braska. Keep it bofors the peaple that thera | a prohit o ‘ts in the Feople. not in which the 50 low as in the . state in the of illitora conso braska, Koep it before the pe prok that. there Is nota n state in the union with fow liguor dealers in proportion to the popilation a3 we have in Nebraska IKeop it befe nota prohibition stato in the union that has so fow people in juil fn proportion o population, as we have here fn Nebrasia, Keop it hefore the a prohibition in the public school facilities are tion to tho population, as state of Nebraska, 50 n opi it there | wople: that therols not union where the s good, in propor- re in the liceuso Keep it before the people that there is nota prohibition state in the union with 50 fow in- mates in its insane asylums s weo license state of raski. Keep it before the people that there Is nota ibition state in the union where the ve i tho once nesrading to the man und - demoralizing to the citizen, may it not be justly claimed that prohibition is in a great measure charge- able with so dsplorable and dangerous & re- suit). — The Only Legitimate Con olusion, Fred Benzinger én Lincoln Courder, Sitting in front of the Capiiui '+ other evening A.@. Wolfenbarger, the pro hibition advocate, conversed on the all pro- vailing topic in a temperate, sensible way. He spoke in complimientary terims ot the abil- ity and enersy of Editor Rosewater of Tmm Omana Bee and exprossed the opinion that that paper was being paid by the liquor in- terest for its fight' against probibition. Ho added with unmistakable s rity that Tum vas earning every dollar the liguor men cly to pay, that Mn Roscwater is ugan influence and a power into the nwith results that the anti-prohi- uld not secure fn any other way ith an cxpenditure of o like sum of m i3 nothing statling in these stato- 8. but it Is & bit noticeable that such should have come from sucha The truth of the matter is that Mr. Rose- water isa much misundcrstood man, By thousands of people every utterance of Tue Bk on state afTairs s supposed to be loaded with mysti ng. If a quarter of the surmiscs were true they would keep Mr. ake nights laying pians to boost this or that politician intooftice, 1f & haif of these guesses were facts Mr. Roso- st would be engrossed with a usand schomes of assorted sizes and nall fry politicians con- 1t never had an ub- s plans, The pre- of 1 ow-minded mean actions and qualities become the: but are 1do not mean to Liold up the as o paragon, butI do believe wrter as bad as he is painted. and ambiti ¥ have turned c Hence the proy mea Rosewater e uld 110 him, him with bitter revi a nd ing, il- the recent debate at jua a and Prof. Dic Rosewater and Jobn Tz Bee d turee stenographers to make verbatim' reports, and it published both sides without abridgement and without any art to the affuir. 1t is not Luor st would pay to the Beatrice i er against it npt color prohibition and ting up to Tue Bre the, have givi would undout good round sum to pr ou speeches having the ben great circulation, The slusion 13 that Mr. Rosew ate on his own motion and And if you will look you will find that that 8 not been uncommon with Such cases make me el prouder lism and of the men init. The sted by Tie Bez is a ue beyond the ¢ ion of the average man,and Mr. Rosowater is even more of an enigma to the b stupidity of the common herd. lic i ——— Badly Worsted, Wisner Chronicle 1t has been soue time sivce a pub cussion has attracted so much attention as has the debate between Prof. Dickie and Rev. mallon the side of prohibition, and v Rosewater and Attorney Webster on tho negative. It ls the geueral opinion that the advocates of prohibition were badly worsted in the battle, their sentimental ex- hortations being completely wiped away by the sledge-hammer logic and unauswerable statistics of their opponents. It was notice- able that the probibition organs had nouse for reports of the speeches of Rosewater and Webster. ———— The Ranters Worsted, Cirand Island Independent, The free whisky probibitionists should have stood off the taking of the census until after tho election this fall, ws the figures give o dis- al standard of the peoplo is 8o high as vight here in the Lic te of Nebraska. Ieop it beforo the peoplo that thore is not a prohibition state ‘» (he union where the oo iercial prosperi s .as boen so great for the pase wn years a5 <ht Jiere in Nebraska, Keep it vefor s.0ple that there is not & pronibition s orease Lu ponnit. as he unicn wherothe in the pasf 3 been anything y'ke as great as here in the license regulat’ «{ate of Nebraska. ‘These ara ©.cts worthy of consideration fn the promiition controversy and should be carefully pondered over by every citizon who is anxious to do the right thing, according to Lis best judguient. S The Great Debate. hrara Pioneer, Thne debate on prohibition vs high license at the Beatrice Chuutauqua, in which Prof. Dickie of Michigan and Rov. Sam Small of Georgia espoused the prohibition cause, and ton, Edward Rosewater, editor of Tnm Owma Bee, and Hon. John T, Webstor, one of Nebraska’s ablest lnwyers, espoused Ne- braska’s state policy of high license, closed The arguments on both sides ally good, though the prohibition < in its lerto principle without polioy. There is no question in tl mind ofany respectablo man but that the various unimal passions of men should be regulated by educated custom and decent re- gard for one's el Tho state nkes proper provi for the brutes of humamty. It is not that any of the intelligent citizens in this state op- posed to prohibition are so wedded to the saloon that they can see no danger in its freedom, but rather that the policy of high ith a proper rezulation, has proved m factory than the free saloon or the pr bottle. Moral seutiment positiv onforced would soon regulato tho worst fea- tures of the dange el The Pionceris by no means upholding the saloon business as an elevating one, but there is a demand for such p tere would bono room for them. Put them out of the way and the private bouse will have its private bottle where it was never known before, and the towns and cities not morally strong will have holes-iuthe-wall, Messrs, Rosewater and Webster had the practical points on theirside and handled the subject with re blo ability. It is a ren able fact no prominent prohibition orator in Nebraska, butall have beenimported from of to insult its citizens, to cry down Nebraska's I Al prosperity, and to paint pictures of hell, damuation and discontent, none of which xlst. respoct n liccuse, re sat te 15 saloon — - The Fourth In Portls Cor, New York I The Portlund |y the exception of th with the Army of the 1ot Fourth was celebrated as u the case, the sooncr the state of Muine does away with retense of a prohibi tory | for the number of intox tabont the streetsdur- ing tk d ovening, in a city whoro tho salo of liquor Is illewal, was to a asto Many of the people from the urrounding country, prohibited possibly from obtaining lquor whilo at home, scemed to make the celebration of the day the ex for a drunken debauch, attesting by the act their defiance of the law and their coutompt for the law-enforcers. o $50 a Night. Stoue City Journal Ex-Covernor St. John is stumping Ne- bruska for God and home and native land His terms, unless he has changod them, 30 o night and expenses,” I leaders ave cranks indeed or they w John P, St.John to stay out of th after the amendment election, ev had to Muaine, ening Post, jounce that ies in con e reunion, Al If si ts fa quor law icated pers: i the bott > dy hing \ing \ro prohibit 1ld biiro state till ) if they biwm ‘450 a night and expenses,” - Sentiment va Figures, Davenport. Triune, Sam Small is in Nebraska talking on the Hquor question instead of religion. He says in probibition lowa property s only taxed 2 cents on the $100 valuation of assessod p erty. Come over, Sam, and got sowo *'fig gers’ before you say auy wove, PROMIBITION FOR PLUND famma Vory Startling Figures Pristed by the Towa Btate Reglster, TREASURY THE PUBLIC ROBBED, mons xpenditures (n s Froltiess Effortto Enforce the Lnw-—Mer ry Oficials Feather Their Own Nosts. The lowa ated plun Sfate Roclstor has had tabw lowing what & aystem of g on thore under the gulse of ProBibition wad with thoaid of the prohd®e itory luw. Mofuns is helng What is being dono at e donein wless degreo in other Towa looald tios The Reglster makes this facts it hias collected : We print in anothor column this torning some figures that will startle the pople of this city and the wholo state. They show how the prohibition law Is bolng used by « gang of merconary ofilcials to plundor the publio t A Rogistor moporter b very carefully examined the official record and he finds that during the six me 1800 there has beon taicon from tho teenstier for the criminal costs of tho Justices' courts In this city alono the sum of over §30,000, Of this amount over $11,000 was paid to tive Justices, the romainder went to their con- stables, witnesses, jurors, ete, This onormous expenditure was nearly all for the scarching business, or such criminal business as inei- dentally grew out of it. The city has & police court where ordinary criminal cases are disposed of that do not come bofore the district court, 50 that the most of the costa of these justices’ courts was for allegod enfores wont of the prohibitory law SBut i this great exponse had rosnited fa closing the places whero liguor is sold and suppressing the illegal in this city, thero ure many people who would nos feel that the cost was too gzreat. Unfortuns ately that result has not hap d. The 830,000 dollars o the justices’ has gone s of the les and their fuvored gang of ants, without any lonest atiom pt baing mado to stop peemanently tho sale of liquor The archos dou't supp for thay are The justices who lirge fees dom'y they are making outof itevery year. And 80 the whole machinery of these petty courts is worked to perpetuate the business and yed punctuate it with lucrative iuterruptions nearly every day, and somotitnes several times a day.” of the summary ale of liquor into on urts the pockot constables > traftic nike theso want the rich it 10 the warmnts and got nt it suppre f retting He Could Rako in $400 a W eok. Cedar Leapy L., tinzette, Deputy Sherift Polling attention w toan article from a Des Mofnes paper, ox pos ing the work of Picree and Potts und othor constables in that city, respecting their rafds ior dealers and original packaze jolnte cirutilizng the machivery of tho jus ! courts and prohibitory law for the rich yield of foes that itafforded. It is understood by the public that they were making no hon- est effort to cither permanently or tempotie rily close any of those pldees whore liquor is soldin violatwn of the statutes, “Well, & man can grow rich out of it said Mr. Pols lins, “IfI wanted to do it I could lift the mortgage off my house in & very short ti Guess T will doit. No T wop'tsither. ¢4l it could be done e o« o » . od overy day. the wenk und served where liquor is sold. In this proceeding it is unn; to do any- thing further. The mm recelve {S for the writs, $1 forserving notice to theowner of theliquor toappear within forty-cight hours and show why the liquor should not be de- stroyed, and §1 for destroving the liquor, making atotalof $ in fees for each and every seizire. The law requives the officer to do this and county hoards of suporvisors are required o pay the bil y there ave one hundred places in Codar Rapids where liquors arc sold. If writs of seizuroshould bo issued aguinst them'lonce u week the officer would make §0der week, quite a comfortable living, a veritatle pienio, e it is possible for the oficer to bo in league with theliquor scllers themselves. He could post them when he would call, and when he did serve the writ it would not cossary for liim to seize all theliquor in the estab- lishment. Hecould take ono bottle of beew or whisky, procced with the confiscation pro- 1d become under the law entitied to bis von if he destroyed a thimbleful of he would be entitled toa fes of 1 for destroying it. So you sce how easy it would be for a dishonest constable or officer fees without accomplishing any s, with 1o purposeof omestly enforcing prohibitory law and without scrious! noding the liquor dealers, or destroy- ing much of their stock in trade, The Maine Prohibs Acknowledge It The Nation Tho prohibitionists of Maine have just held a state convention which i noteworthy for its frank confession of the fact that prohibi- tion does not prohibit in Maine, Tho plat- form contaius the following s ment “That the republican and democratic partios ach contain o liquor iently to prevent any thorough or determined ment of the prohibitory law; thoir y meaningless ad adoptions well understond by the liquor ine terests and by the officials upon whoa on- t Lands the the citics and This is precisely live al- aid, now fuct, thero ie the ques= scalled seon element suf forcement depends and a law is practically null large towns M wlhiat the opponents of prolibition ways d to be the tr that its advocates tho 10 room for furth tion whose d in in ine. conten arguient on They Watched Him. Des Motwes Leader, Oneof our constables was In Chicizo res cently and r the Palmer houses 1 Lo 4 room on the sixth A whispered to the house detect ive te keop aneye on that follow or else he would jump b “On what floor are you put ting mot” asked our coustable. “Ou the top floor,” was th wor, © “T guess you don? know me; lama Des Moines constable,” “Show the gentloman to parlor A," said the in Lis most affable tones t the bell boy, and then turing to the detective ho whise pered, “ie can pay his biil all right enough, but he'll 1 thing that has two loose ends if you're not careful.” - Badly Worsteq, Fremont. F The prohibitionists were fairly worsted a8 Beatrico on Suturday, Mr. Rosowater's stule born facts sweptaway the web of sentiment that had been woven by the opposition and Mr. Webster faiely clinched the argu- ments advanced by his colleague, Th ALt has been one of the most slandered of clties is very plain, and it is well for th metropolis that it has & champlon that cam coufound its enewics and put its revilers to open shame. Every one should read the argus monts in full, as they will doubtless be pube lishod in pamphilet form. 1t may be well to sugirost thist tho probibitionista will novew spend the money sent them from the easy te publish any part of them, but what s to thele nterests, ristered at The clerk assigned hi l¢ ey