Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 24, 1890, Page 5

BEE, WEDNESDAY. L BY STUBBORN FACTS. It s Conclusively Proved that Probibition Does Not Prohibit. DES MOINES WHISKY AT GRAND ISLAND. flon, E. Rosewater's Reply to the Olaims of Towa's Ex-Governor, COMPARISONS OF CRIMINAL RECORDS, The Arrests for Drunkenness in the Large Oities of Towa. EX-GOVERNOR LARRABEE'S ARGUMENT, He Shows by Prohibition Testimony that the Law s Well Enforced in the States of lowa and Kansas, The Friday evening sesslon of the debate at Grand Island was opened by ex-Governor Larraboe of Towa for prohibition. He was followed by Hon, E. Rosowater, editor of Tae Osans Bee for high licenso, The argu- ments are presented in full from notes taken by Tur Bee’'s stenographers: THELAW ANIOW. Ex-Governor Larrabee Claims that it is Well Enforced, and gentlemen: Tn my first visit 4 some years ago, | forget how many, it was a long time ago, I crossed the river on theold forry, and the first thing that at- tracted my attention was asign-board with a Dice in cription on it wading *Iirst Clunce," and a hand pointing into_the saloon. Imade my visitand came back, and on the other side of thoboard was thoinscription *Last Chance.’” Now, this afternoon was my first chance to meet, these gentlemen in t dis- cussion, and this evening, I suppose, will be the last chance, sad I want to mike the best of it £ listened to their arguments this afternoon vith very much interest, and I must say [ was very much surprised 'to hear them insist on this one thing, that prohibition was not enforced in Towa, and yetit worked ruin o the state. Ttscems to mo the gentlemen sed themselves alittlein that. Prohibi- tion does not prohibit, but still worked ruin to the state. 1t is ridiculous to attempt to say to you peonls of Nebraska that Towa is ined: you all know there is not a state in he union so thrifty and yrosperous in all ¥espects, materially, intellectually and mor- ally; it is second to none, It is the queen of the west, and is very genora ognizod those familiar with the situation. I mno- ce tie statistics of Nebraska crops which show well, but joucan multiplyit by two and sometimes by three, and then you are underestimating the crop of lowa. We raised last year about 340,000,000 bushels of corn, 0,000,000 bushels more than any state in the 'union, not even oxcepung Illinois, ‘Why is it that we _get such immense crops ? I would infer from Mr, Webster's remarks last night thatwe had almost, better as republicans abolish all protection and determine to go in for the saloon to protect our industries, It is unnecssary forme toexpend any timo fn the praise of Towa, and the condition of our people, butso far' as the condition or as- sumption that Mr. Rosewater referred to is concerned as to the expenses of the courts, I am sorry to say that a few men whose con- sciences were not, very good, men that are not scruvilous in doing what is right, did join in with some men selling liquor there secretly and rob the county treasurer. It was not the faultof the law; it was the fault of the of- ficers, and they runup an unusually large eriminal account in that county. But, you may take the reports of the ninety- nine counties of Towa, and three of them show aboit onefourth of the total expense. Outside of those three counties, I think, there is not a county but whatthe criminal expense has been veduced in the last three years, and I believe Mr. Rosewater is con- vinced that the statenents [ made. which. he eferred to_at Beatrice are correct, stated that I said the criminal ex been reduced, and that I had f records of the counties. I would like to know whettier you still think youare correct, Mr. Rosewater—Tho only mistake I mado was this : that T had taken the report for one ear, and you said it was for ten months. 1t Bochi Besh 3o e thire’ wae & expense of $———— lor carryingon the court, and that ‘was considerable more than it had been for the preceding year, Mr, Larrabee—That is not the only mistake wou made, if mistake you call it. 1 want that corrected before I goany further. I made a statement, i)\lbllrly, it seems, and he referred to it In his Beatrice speech,that a great many of the countios had. dscreased thelr crimin expenses, and he says 1 had falsified the records. 1 will show him that he did not .compare a yearin which we had prohibition sitha yearin which we did not, and I will phow him the expense was greater beforo than it was last year. It was not the only mistake he made in getting ten months for twelve, but it was & mistake he made in com- paring’ one prohibition term with another prohibition tevm. If he will go back to 188 or 1880 or any year prior to thit hie will st that he has made a mistake. I want to know whether you will admit it or not. . Hosewater—If you will quote tho Agures they will speak for themselyes, v, Larrabee-Very woll, T will quote the figures, commencing back with the year 1883, The total convictions for the year 1383 in the Btato of lowa was 1,977, in 1884, 1,602 in 1885, 1,530 in 1886, 1045—that was’ the first ear of my firstadministration ; in 1887, H n ten monthsof 1888, 838, In 188S o nged as to the time of the ofti port; in 18, 1,108, The number sent to the penitentiar these samo years: 1883, 5 1884, 8617 1885, 035 1887, 306; ten months of 1888, 8. sed in 1583, $38,200; 1884, $85,- 3 1885, 875,5815 1880, $186,724] 1887, 8180, %; ten months Of 1558, §05,171; 1880, §130, Fines collected in the same time: 185, m,mm. 1884, & 1550, $40, 2 1887, 855,871; ten months of 1888,§3, 708} ), $37,008, 61,1735 county attor- oxpenses ~of 1884, X expenses, §24, pxpenses of 1585, $413,344; connty attorno pxpenses, 820,233 expenses of 1886, $121, ounty attorney's expenses, £31,040, Now, the legislature during the term of 4886 changed our law so faras the county at- forneys are concerned. We used to have fourtoen district atton s in the state, und he law was chaged t ion and made minety-nine county attorneys, and additional @duties were umposed on the county attorneys, nd the county board of supe ors Axed he compensation which these attor hould receive, not only tor proseouting al business,but all the business of the county, and thoy were allowed a larger com- ensation than they had been allowed foi erly. ‘The county attomeys in 1857 we 1d $41,409 and the criminal expenses w. 177. Wedid not have our full number Wt terms of court held that year, and justead of having tho old system of fourteen district judges and eighteen circuit judges, wo anged the policy and put the judges to- ther and made eightecn districts witn forty-four judges, and we rised the compen- tion of our judges. And then ten months n 1888 the criminal expenses were 00,424, d we pald the county attorneys 853,518, In 889 the expenses wero 310,430, and 'we paid county attorneys $67,S0; The county board of Supervisors fixed the mpensation of the county attorneys, and have been adjusting and raising it from 21 eto time, and that shows the reason fo @ increaso in compensation to county atto eys. fi:w for jall sentences, We sentto the unty jail in 1883, 134; 1884, 152; 18%, 163; 886, 1887 1887, 2013 ten mouths of 1883, 127; 889, 1063 Now, that shows that prohibition had been forced in Towa. The numberdf criminals nt to the penitentiory bad been decreased, roper com parison would be to take thres a;n during the enforcement of prohibition three years prior to that time, or take & number of years together, Mr. Rosewater's comparison T would complain of becanse h simply compared ton months of prohibition in 188, “with ~twelve months of prohibition in 1580, and his showing i not a proper one. 1f 1 didn’t know that Mr. Rosewater is an hon- est man and disposed to tell the truth [ should say it was dishonest, but I know Mr. Rose- witer intends to tell things justas they are. Isuppose the tables were made up for him and I mistrust they wero made in that man- ner intentionally. 1 want to assure the gen- tiemen that they are in bad company and I want to assure them that they aré on the wrong side of this question, and why I know itis because I have traveled the same road are traveling now. 1 used to use a good y of the same arguments they are using. 1 would not torture statistics and I don’t be- leve they would if they made them them- selves. Now ] am sure that Mr. Rosewater and Mr. ‘Webster know & great_daeal about Nebraska, and I would not_attempt to quote statistics nor tell the condition of your people here 1n opposition to what they state, but when you come to lown I will not yield the palm to them. 1 believe I know Towa better than they do. I have lived: thero thirty-seven years and I have been in public life twenty- two years, and when they attempt to say. that Towa is suffering from ‘the cause of pro- hibition, [ need not deny it; it is unnecessary, but I will deny it. When they falled about the prosperity of Des Moines and Mr. Rosewater quoted the question of ronts this afternoon, 1 want to say thatis too high, that is more than it ought to cost; rents are too high. They got the rents up some time ago wlien a boom was on the property, and they have tried to keep them there, and they are higher than they ought (o be. L can take him to any anti- hibition town in Towa and can furnish him the same sized store-rooms, in just as public a position, and for one-fourth the rent. As to whether or not prohibition prohibits, I wish my_friends would go and ask Stormy Jordan, He had on one side of the sign to his saloon “Road to Hell” and on the other side “Nose Paint.” He spent over £20,000 I think lawing the state of Towa and carried the cases tothe United States supreme cour Inst he came to meand said, **1am whippe: lay down. Igiveup.” He wanted m mit the fines and T toid him I would re penalty if he would pay theexpenses and 0. He finally got his wife's mother to raise the money and he paid the &00and paid the expenses.” I then told him *‘You sign this agreement to keep out of the business and I will suspend the sentence during good behavior,” and Lwrote it out and he signed it ‘After the election of Governor Boies last year you probably heard the cry made that it was ‘the end of prohibition in Towa, that it was a rebuke to the prohibitionists, Jordan had becnspending the summer,after I relcased him from his obligations on 'conditions, in Kansas and he wanted me to release him from his parole. He says, ““I want_to enjoy the rights of a citizn of the United States, T want togo and sell liquor.”’ I told him that was against ‘the law. He says, “That is going to b repealed and you wmight as well let me get ready beéforehand.’” I told him, “Stormy, you can't open your *‘Road to Hell” just as'long as [am goy- ernor of lowa, and you might as well go back and attend fo your business” He says! “There is no place for me in Kansas City.” T told him business was prosperous there, wasn't it; but he said it was tho deadest city on the continent, and there were 7,000 empty store rooms in Kansas C “Why,' T says, “you must be mistaken.” " He says: “I know what 1 am talking about.” Headmitted that prohibition prohitits, and I can cite you hun- dreds of others, and {f you will go with me to the records giving the number of sentences T commuted you will agree with me that prohi- bition prohibits. Ask tho brewers of Des Moines, asls the brewers of Towa. 1know oneman in the business wio was a very respectable man for this business when itwas lawful, and I suppose he could have sold his property at_one time for $100,000. Ho came to me and said: “I have spent more than half my fortune and I want you to suspend sentence or commute my sentence.” Hesays: “Every dollar that you don’t re- quire me to pay to Iowa I shall have to put inimprovements in Towa.”” I gave him the conditions, one-third of the fine and the ex- penses of ' tho county. Ho signed the agree- ment and kept out of the business, and he went into business in Des Moines, and that man within eighteen months made a clean $100,000 1n tho electric railway. Iwant to say to the mer engaged in the brewery business of this state, you are capa- ble of learning any.other business that is re- spectable and reputable, and 1f you will take o advico of that man you will et ont of the saloon business and go into & respectable business, Icancite another man in the same boat with this one. Fe has gone into an oat meal mill in Des Moines and "1 think heis thriv- ing. _Another one turned his browery into a canning establishment and I think heéis doing well. The brewers of Towa City said to me if we hadn’t followed _the advice of our law- yers we would have sayed this, but now our property is sacrificed and we regretit, and they would talk to me about remitting ' their fines and commuting their sentences, There are a few counties in which the law is not enforced yet, but cach year during my administration “wo made some gain _eacl month, As Isaidto the legislature, if you will give me the power to remove the county officers, as you gaveme the authority to re- move the state officers, Iwould give a bond to close every saloon inside of thirty days. So far as the law being enforced, I say it can be enforced. 1 used to think just as you gentle- men think and I voted against the amend- ment when it was first proposed. But after- wards it came to me the power that our sa- loon element was taking in our politics: they were practically dictating to our statc government, and it will be just so with Nebraska4f you continue it. You may suy that high license reduces the number of saloons and that looks like a stop in the right, direction, but one objection have to that today is’ that it legalizes the business, licenses it, makes it respectable. 1 would rather have d groggery in my neigh- borhood today than to have & respectable Ided saloon. T have no fears whatever of my ¥s going into a groggery to learn to drink, but I should have fears if they had a gilded saloon placed before them every day of their lives. ‘And your boys are subject to the same danger my boys are. I know that men who are wealthy and well-off, living in high positions think there is no danger, but you must remember gentlemen that wealth has wings and sometimes fles away and you may be left a poor man, and before you ‘know it the boys are subject to the temptation, and they forget that part of the Lord’s prayer which says: *‘Liead us not into temptation.” Now, gentlemen, o far as that is coucerned, 1 think that is about all I want to say. Mr. Webster and Mr. Rosewater still insist upon it that prohibition don’t probibit and does not decrease drunkenness, and they chal- lenge me for the proof. I t that my statements of the conditions in Towa ought to boas good as theirs of Nebraska. 1 say it has diminished drunkenness and diminished crime. 1 will not ask them to take my word, but I will do what I never did before toda; read a line from the public documents. We haye forty-four dustrict judges, four superior Judges ana five judges of the snpreme court and every one of those supremo judges are ardent supporters of prohibition.” Without excoption, every state "oficer that we bave with the éxception of Governor Boies—and I expect he will be if he remains in ofice—are in favor of prohibition. Some time since I wrote to all our district judees asking them to make suggestions as 1o legislation, and among other things I asked thom to apprise we of tho effect of the pro- hibitory law in thewr district, particularly upon crime and criminal exponses. What they had seen and observed of the operation of the criminal law and whether they would advise its repeal and what they would advise toplace in its stead. 1 received in response to those letters forty-one answers; thirty fa- vored the law direcily, six were non-commit- tal, and five were opposed to it. In the first district, Judge Charles H. Phelps—he is of Burlington aud is ‘& demoerat und believes just as my friend Rosewater believes, and it ook himabout six pages to express himself upon it. The next lotter was from Judge H., C. Traverse of Bloomfleld. 1 will read a few Lines just to show you his experience, *My experience is thai wherever saloons are closed crime 15 diminished. “The temperance sentiment in this part of the state is growing, and I thing that the recent decision of the supreaws court of the United States in the Kansas case, upholdidg the law, will result in growth of temperance sentiment all over the union. It is the most civiliziog and Christianizing event that has happened withis theage. In my judgment, our pronivitory Law should be left just as it is.” 1want to know if my friend Webster will accopt the testimony of the district judges of Towi. The next was from Hon. Dell Stewartof Chariton: *Iwould notadvise the repeal of he probibitory law. | T an satisfled that this district would Lave been eatirely rid of sa- loons and breweries for the past year or two, if the federal courts had not faterfered with the state conrts. trust that sinco the prompt and clear decision of the supreme court of the United States we may have no more of this singular interference, and if we have none, I have no doubt of the abulity of irts of Town to enforce this law as and completely as any other law upon our statute books," The next is from Hon. J. W. Harvey of Leon, and in it hesays: *You ask measto the effect of the prohibitory liquor law in this district, and particulatly upon crime and eriminal expen The law is well en- forced in this district. Tam not awure that there is a saloon in this district. It has re- duced crime at least one-half and the criminal expense in a like ratio. I would not, and do not favor the repeal of the law.” The next is Judge Henry of the Third dis- trict, and he says: “The liquor law has done me good and has become pretty well settled v our supreme court. 1 doubt~ the expedi- ency of changing it,”” The next is from Judge C. H, Lewis, one of the district judges in Sioux City: “I think the prohibitory law is all right and should not be repealed. Some additional legislation is needed to meet the cases of some druggists, but I am not certain as to what should be done. Thelaw 15as well enforced as any other and_has decreased criminal expenses at least two-thirds.” Thatis Judge Lewis’ opin- ion, Mr. Rosewater,and should be pretty good testimony. When I have read enough to con- vince you T want you to let mo know or else 1 am likely torun over time. [Laughter. | Judge S. M. Ladd of the same district says: “My own notion is that not any radical chanige should be made at the present time. There is always too much talk in every im- portant case of different parties packing juries, and some method ought to be devised to avoid suspicion.” The next is Judge Wakefleld of the same Hosays: “Iam satistied th ng during tho last yearenjc ison of great prosperity and growth has aided materially in the change of affairs here. As tho saloons were driven out other business came in to oceupy the vacant places and prevented the depreciation of real estate and rent that would otherwise have followed and created material dissatisfaction.” Now, Mr. Rosewater and Mr. Webster, T believe you would find the same results in Omaha, that after driving out the saloons you would have dry goods stores, merchants and groceries occupying their places, The next case is Judgo J. H. Henderson of the Fifth district: *“T'he prohibitory law is now good enough and should be given full time and experience to test its efficacy. [am well satisfied that the law as it now s, if en- forced will remedy the evil. 1f courts, judges, sherifs and other peace officers, as well as citizens do their duty, we will en- tirely suppress the evil under” the present law.? Judge Ayres of the Fifth district: *‘T have 1o doubt but that the prohibitory law has re- duced criminal offenses and the~ expense of the courts in this district very largely, and T ertainly should not advise a repeal of it; but I would advise a_modification or change in the pharmacy law.” The next is Judge Wilkinson of the Fifth istrict, at Winterset. He says: “The pro- ibitory law in this district is well enforced. While there are clandestine sale of liquor, I know of no saloons in_the district, I have 10 doubt but that crime and criminal ex- penses have been lessened by the observance and enforcement of this law, and in my opin- ion the effect of it has been 'to lessen general litigation, and I am not ready to advise its re- peal.”! P Judge W, R. Lewls, of Montezuma fn the Sixth district, says: ' “I would not recom- mend the srcpeal of wthe prohibi- tory liquor law as I believe that if it has the same attention that the other criminal laws of the state and the others receive the same attention that it does, which should be the case, it willend the saloon and promote w temperance sentiment and sobriety and in every way & better state of things in so- ciety.” Judge J. K. Johnson of the Sixth district at Oskaloosa, was in the senate at the time they passed the amendment and he was the leading champion in the senate, He answers in three lines: *“There can be no doubt that the effect of the prohibitory law has been to reduce very materially, crime and criminal expenses in'this distriet, I would not advise its repeal.”” The next is Judge D. Ryan, of the Sixth district. He sa, T am £ree to say that in my limited experiecnce on the bench and twenty years at the bar that I would not ad- vise its repeal. The use of intoxlcating liquor is certainly a very fruitful source of crime, This law is now generally enforced in Washington county, Louisa county, Powe- sheik county and Jasper county, In Ma- haska county and Keokuk county the law is not so well enforced or observed. The erim- inal docket in Mahaska county alone con- sumes more time and makes more expense than in all of the first four counties named.’” The next is Judge W.F. Brannan of the Seventh district. This is another democratic judge, and he is one of the old-fashioned judges who believes that prohibition don't rohibit, but he has done his duty in uphold- i tholaw In later years much bettor than he formerly did. Judge S. H. Fairall of the Eighth district. He is o whisky man himsel and he advises its repeal. Judge W. F. Conrad of Des Moines. That is the city where there has been so much depreciation of property. You would think to hear them talk that Des Moines and the whole state of Iowa was going back to the Indians: . “As to the operation of the law, my ob- servation is that it has largely diminished crime in this district and very much lessened the cost of maintaining the courts.” Hon, Marcus Kavanaugh of the Ninth dis- trict uses this language: ‘It has decreased crime over 30 per cent, and added largely to individual happiness.” Judge Josiah Given of the Ninth district at Des Moines, says: “As to the effect of the prohibitory law in this county I state what I think is a” matter of common observation, that drunkenness has been very materially decreased and that aside from prosecutions for the unfortunate of that law, criminal charges are considerably less, Prosecutions under that law have been very numerous in- deed and have constituted the larger part of the criminal calendar of our court during the last year. 1would certainly not advise its repeal and T do not know of any law that T would be willing to see placed in its stead.” He is on our supreme bench at ®he preseat, day; he was elected a year ago last fall. The next case is Judge J. J. Ney of Inde- pendence. We have six or seven out of forty- four of these judges who are democrats and he is one of them. He Is ready w enforce this law but he is opposed to it, 1 could go on all through and give you a re- port of these men. Just before tnelast ses- sion of the general assembly, I wrofe to the jndgesagain, but I dia not write so early as I did before and did not got S0 many ansivers. Tonly got about twenty, but, therewas not a changein ono of those answers. I believe the judges are today stronger in favor of prohibition than they were then, Now then, I have in addition a little Ne- braska item. This is not official,and the other was written to me officially, HereI found ina paper handed to me a statement from twenty-one judges of Nebraska and it is ex- cellent reading, but as the committee has seen fit to shorten up the discussion this evening T will nave to defer the reading of it. Brown, Peterson, Gibson, Jones, Witzer, Berlin, h, Richards, Tucker, Letton, Ep- person, T'runkie, Fritz, Hulbert—twent; judges' and cleven county attorney: those are some of the names I have given you. Another little statement. is to get at the facts. 1 know that M. water and General Webster desire to pro- mote the welfare of Nebraska, They arejust as much in carnest as you and I and they ‘are ust. as honest in their opinion as we are. I elieve they are mistaken and I ask you gen- tlemen to consider the case, and if you take my advice you will not hesitate one minute to vote for prohibition. 1f I had a thousand more votes in the future [ should vote for prohibition in Iowa, Kansas aud Nebraska. "The saloon influence is a bad influence; it is like other great money influences, although it is more unserupulous, and aay of them are bad enough. Weall feel that, and while I am speaking on that subject, in relation tothe election in lowa last year, my republican friends here today sald it was a rebuke to rolubition that Governor Boies was elected. want to say that it was no such thing, [ presume Boles got about 2,500 more votes on account of being an anti-pronibitionist, The liquor organizations of the natiou made @ desperate effort 40 defeat prohibition, but I will venture to say that they did not have 300 votes, and what defeated the proki- bition nominee was th's fact_that he did not got the confidence of the farmers' alllance upon the trausportation question, and that was the fault, and that wone, ‘That is one of the great questions we have to degl with and one of the questions you have to deal with here in Nebrasks and 1 de- sire to commend my friend for the strong What you want Rose- | politi work he has done in BI/powerful paper in that direction. The saloon mon control probably nine hun: dred million dollars in the United States, and therois no limit hardly t6the money at their command, Strong men axe employed to work for them, and sometimes they know it and sometimes they don't. Right here isa little article that I want to read you : *No one can deny that the license system, as now existing in our city has been a source of corruption and irregularity, [t has had o demoralizing effect uponmembers of the city council and the city clerk, 1t bas exacted 1 support from low dives and bum- mers; it has compelied the orderly liquor dealers to support with money and influence the very worst element of the city and has used the liquor men toda. the dirty work at rimaries and elections. The reason for his 1s easy to ' find, ‘The I cen board 48 made up of the mayor, president-of the city council and city clerk, each holding an elective office, The temptation to abuse the position as a_member of the license board are manitold, There are opportunities to make corrupt bargains. In return for pecuniary or political support a member of the board can grant. license to dis- reputable individuals or wink at violations of the license law, The average member of tie license board plays for political power for re- election and he keeps his oye to the main chance to gain the solid support of the liquor men." That is the opinion of & gentleman that I respect. That s taken from theOsana Bee, a republican organ in'the state of Nebraska [Applan Twant to say to you, Mr. Rose- water, I agree with you in that, The influ ence is demoralizing wherever it reaches, You claim that you can_correct this i the future. Tsay to you there is 1o liquor law in the land but what is violated every day. [ believe it is violated in Omaha and I know it is violated in Lincoln, I have witnessed it myself, Is not the law against keeping the saloons open ou Sunday? Do you claim they are closed in Grand Island at night at the time the law requives them to bt Iknow that in Jowa for thirty-five years while we had license--wine and beer-the, violated the license every day by sell drinks that were prohibited. T know that is the case in Pennsylvania. The Rev, E. K. Young says there areat least 4,00 holes-in- the wall, and the report of the chief of police says there are 8,000 _holesan thewall m the city of Pittsburg. ~ You say because the pro- hibitory law is not enforced fully in Towa, we should “repeal the law, but go back to high license, ana why won't it apply there! And the law against polygamy in Utah; why mot say that because that law is not enforced it should be repealed! Why not agatnst gambling donst and1 ven ture to say there is not acity of 2,500 in the state of Nebraska without gambling houses. And the same 1 would say in regard to ho of prostitution, You don't enforce that law. Why don't you repeal it? You say there is a difference. © I say there is no difference in principle. The same argument that applies to_one will apply to the other. Ladies and geatlemen, I thank you very kindly for your attention, and I wisi I hail half an hoir more to give you a good many facts. Iam sureit would De juteresting to you, gentlemen and ladies, and assist you in deciding when the day comes. 1 will say to the women that in the state of Towa there is not one woman out of a hundred that is op- posed to prohibition, and when you find a woman that is opposed to prohibition there is something wrong somewhere, pplause and hisses] And I say 1o you, look after your husbands, STUBBORN FAC S CITED. Hon. E. Rosewater Shows the Failure of Towa Prohibition, Argument of the Hon. E. Rosewater at Grand Island, Neb., on tho evening of Sep- tember 19, 1800; i Mr. Chairman, ELadies and Gentlemen: Governor Larrabee has dclivered another very gentlemanly and couirtcous address, and I again thank him for themanner in which he fias treated his subject. We differ,and wo differ honestly. He has cited to you the opin- 10ns of quite anumber of the judges of the state of Towa in support 6f maintaining stat- utory prohibition in his ewn state, and I can see 110 reason why that should influence any- body thatis called onto vete for constitutional prohibition in Nebraska. This is not a ques- tion whether we ave to repeal a law and it is ot a question whether we are toenact a law, but whether weare to insert in the funda’ mental law of the state a provision that does not belong in it. . Now, thejudges of Nebras- ka, the judges of Kansas,and the judges of Towa are all politicians. They all depend upon popular subport for their places, and they gauge their opinions very largely in accordance with public senti- sentiment. You will notice by theletters of those judges the replies ave very much as they think public sentiment in their local- ity preponderates. Tho judges of Iowa are mostly m{:uhlh-nna and the republican party of Towa like the republican party of Kansas has made prohibition one of its cardinal doc- trines, and no judge or politician dares to op- pose it unless hie wants to step down and got imself shelved. Governor Larravee also tells you that twenty-one judges of Nebraska have wwritten letters in favor of tho prohibitory amendment; but T find that those twenty- one judges represent simply twenty-one ot of eighty-cight of the county judges of this state and only one of the district cDundudgl‘s of Nebraska. Among thesetwenty judges, I know one or two at. least that are merely like some of the hired colonels that are tramping through this state preaching prohil 3 Men who have been raised out of “the gutter, 50 to speak, and have been sober long enough to get. a little county office. |Great applau: Oversixty of the county judges of Nebraska have refused to give any such endorsement. Nowlet me call your attentionto the exag- gerations and misstatements made in _the afternoon and last night in this house by Gen- eral Bradford of Kunsas. When Iwas in Topeka Iwas warned in advance that that gentleman was given to reckless exagge tion and would make statements here that were baseless and he has fully sustained his Kansas reputation. For instance, he has de- clared to you that 250 ministers of the gospel in Massichusetts voted for prohibition to every one that voted agaiust it. We had in the Boston papers the names of cighty-eight ministers who, publicly announced themselves in opposition to the prohibitory amendment in that state and if it werv true that, for each one of these, two hundred and fifty voted the other way, they would have 22,00 preachers in the ciiy of Boston. [Laughter and ap- plause. | The gentleman from Kansas has declared on this rostrum that the incorrigible boys and girls of Nebraska are runmng about at large unable to get into the reform schools of the state because they are overcrowded, and ho has charged here that thereform schools of Nebraska contain more boys and girls than those of Kansas, when the reverse 1s true. Only a week ago, on September 0, the follow- ing notice appeared in all the Kansas papers, which could not havée escaped his attention “Sheriffs and others wishing to have bo; admitted to the reform school will please cor- respond with the superintendent of schools, as it is now full,and boys can only be admitt as a vacancy may oceur.” . Signed by L. K. Kirk, president of the board of state chari- ties. [Applause.| As a matter of fact I cor- responded with the superintendents of the re- form schools of Nebraska and Kunsas a month agoand I found that in thé'state of Kansus their reform schools ave so crowded that they were unable to admit any more, and the only place where they ave. adimitted now is in in the jails, The report of the state board of charities for 1539 so states, and General Brad- ford could not be ignorant'of that fact. He has paraded to you today the fact that the district court docket of his, own county of Shawnee, §in which is logated the city of saints, as they call Topekp, has been entirely free from all criminal cases, What is the fact! The criminal docked of ShaWnee county for tho term tat ‘has Just opeaed in the month of Sepfember contains 107 eriminal cases set for iak They include trials for murder, pcrfury, grand larceny, burglary, bigamy, assaults on women, selling whisky, ete.; for Tuesday, September 2, they hadone grand larceny case, one perjury ani one murder, and I have the names of every criminal right heve, and they are all in detail justas they wero copied from the doc the court for me by the sherifft. Ty dred and five persous have been in jail in Shawnee county, Kansas, since Janua 1800, Outof this number fifty were States prisoners and thirty persons are at the present time in that jail, besides twelve now in the city jail of Topeka; five insane per- sonsare also confined tliere, as there is no room in the Kunsas asylums. [Applause,] Two boys are there who were sentenced 1o there i3 no room fu the reform school; two girls under sixteen years of ago are lodged in there who should bé confined in the school for girls at Beloit, but there is no room! [Applause.| This in' the great re- form state of Kansas, But now we pass 1o another phase of it, The honorable ex-attorney general has cited 0 you the testimouy of judges of the su- t of reme court of he opinion of one ¥ prominent apostie ot rohibition—-although he docs not believe in tany more than | do—Senator Ingalls. 1 vill eite what Senntor [ngalls thought of the very foremost of those judges about six yoars 0go, when he was elec yr the second time to the United States senate. Senator Tngalls sald regarding this eminent prohibition Jadgre A man who gained his politicul ser by writing editorials in favor of se cossion and _ drinking __ toasts to the health of Jefferson Davis; becomin a republican by the promises o preferment, he has been continuously in ofice with the accidental hiatus of one yoar. During that long period he bhas continually trafficked in justice, defrauded his clionts, basely plundered his partner and insulted so- ciety by his degeading and flagrant immoral ity. He has never mad nrr\mn\'vlhu( he did not break, nor had a friend whom hie was not willing to betray.” T do not think cortificates from that sort of peoplein favor of prohibi tion ought to go very far with the people of Nebraska. [(Applause. | Now, I will devote myself for alittle while tothe question of whether or not prohibition does probibit,. My friend, Governor Larra bee, and the gentlemen who preceded me' have asserted that prohibition is as well en- forced in every prohibition state as all their other laws against crime. Governor Larrabee—L only refer to my own state. B Mr. Rosewater—Well, T will speak of Towa for the present. I would be very sorry for the state of Towa if all hex other lws were as poorly enforcod as the prohibition law. [Ap- plause.] I should say that it would be the worst governed state in this union. — There are 4,000 liquor dealers fn the state of lowa Can anyone conceive of a crime that would be violated 4,000 times a day under the nose of tho poliee, under the eyes of the sheriffs,with the consent of all their constabu and all their officers with only forty or fifty arrests of the law-breakers each month, Let me citea few stubborn facts to prove that prohibition does not prohibit in the state of Towa. Ihave the internil revenue state- ments up to date—up to within two days— and I find that siuce May 1, 1500, theve wero 8,077 persons or firms licensed to sell liquor, or rather having paid a tax or stamp duty to the United States government to sell liquor in the state of Towa. " Of those 20 are wholesale dealers, 134 are retail dealers in malt liquors, 88 are wholesale dealers in malt liquors and 1,91 aro promiscuous liguor sellers, [Laugh- ter]. Twould like to kuow how the governor, or any other prohibition speaker, can ex this. " I would liketo hear them explain how it comes there arecighty-eight wholesale dealers in malt liquors and_twenty wholesale dealers in spirituous liquors in the state of Jowa if the laws against liquorselling are enforced in that state. I would like to know why it is that the constabulary and stategov- ernment have been unable o decrease the number of those place 4 of allowing them to increase from year toyvear, 1 madea mistake. Ju 1859 they had 3,037, and in 1890, since the first day of Moy, they had licensed 4,501 [Laughter and applause). Now then, in the state of Kansasthey have licensed something like 1,837 for the present year, and I will presently’ vead you the num- ber of stamps that have been issued for the different towns in Kan for the benefit of the gentleman from Kansas, who can explain 10 you why the large townsof Kansas have alarger number of stamps_for selling liqu than the large towns of Nebraska, aud w every little village and every little hamlet in the state of Kausas has permits to sell liquo The records of the collector of the inter: revenue show that Atchison has taken out 65 permits or stamps. The Atchison club has one and five of the stamps were issued to women, You can draw your own inference what kind of a resort these women keep, Argentine has 25 stamps, Arkansas City 25, Abilene 20, Burlingame 8, Beloit 11, Coffe; ville 14, Clay Center 9, Dodge City 11, Em- poria 16, Eldorado 10, Ellsworth 11, Fort Scott 52, Galena ' 20, Horton ves City 16, Hutchison 24, Independ’ 11, Junction City 2, Kansas City, Kan. eaven worth 114, Lawrence 23, and Law- is supposed to have not a drop of liquor, Newton 22, Osage City 10, tsburg 35, Salena 20, Topeka 21, Parsons 20, [ o, In Topolka stamps have also been issued to several women and three of the licenses have been taken out since the repeal of the original Jickago business. Wichitahs 127 ligtused iquor dealers and a population of only 24,000, But before I go any farther I 'will give you a little of my experience in prohibition Town and prohibition Kansas, A week ngzo last Thursday I started_out for Des Moines and arrived thero at midnight. Tlanded at the S house and met a friend from Owiaha, & prominent real cstato dealer, who asked whether ornot I wanted to go out'and sce the sights, Certainly, I said, we will go. And sowe started out. The very first thing we did was to goto a hotel that passes for the second best hotel in the city. . We steoped into the drug store on the nerand passing behind the prescription counter_found _ourselves in a barroom. In front of the bar stood three or four rough looking fellows, all drinking, and my friend asked for a drink of whisky for each of us and it was pourced out. 1t was given us on tho counter, no questions asked, andthe money received. Well, when I got through, wo walked into the hotel and my friend says, ‘An uncle of mine is living in this hotel and hé is up stairs, let us goandcalton him’ I says, ‘Do you folks make calls at midnight ; isn't'he in bed atthis time?” 'No,’ he says,'we will_find him all right” We went 'up, knocked at the door and walked in. There were two gentlemen present and just as soon as I had been introduced,our friend pro- duced a big bottle of whisky, and says, ‘Now won't you take a drink with me? “There is no doibt m my mind butwhat you have whisky there, said I, but T do not wish any just_now.’ me preliminaries, this gentleman to accompany us on our tour. ‘Now,' said ho, if you go over theriveron the east side of town 1 would not advise you to go without a revolver: I do not think it is safe for as 10 o in that part of town after dark alone.’ This man is & manufacturer. I donot know a place in the business portion of Lincoln or Omaha where 1 would be afraid to go, at at any time of the night or day, without a ve- volver, Butwe went out. We gota caband we found the identical cabman that had loted my sporting editor through Des Moinc when e was there last winter, and that identical cabman took us around and we found several places wheve liguor was sold, and at one of them we lad a bottle of beer all around. In due courseof time we returned. It was 1:30. Now what would be the condi- tion of things at half past onein the morning in the city of Omalia orany other city in Ne- braska! Every drug store would bé closed, and it you wanted to get into a - drug store you would have to rng the night bell consid- blygr kick the door In before the night i ®ould open it; but Inthe city of Des Moines the drug shops and _grog shops rua wide open after miduight and run open all night, and that is the time when thoy run the most. (Applause.] Sowe passed back to the Kirkwood house and walked into a drug store. The clerks were marching up and down just the same as if it were midday, and we asked fora drink of whisky: the clerk suid I cannot sell you a drink but I can sell you & _quart. [Laughter and applause.| 1 Said 1 do mot want a quart of whisky, what could I do with a quart of whisky. He says the smallest quantity I can sell i5 half apint; I said all right, give me half a pint, and so the half pint' was given me and I have brought it down here for you, |producing a pottle of liquor.| |Laughterand applause. | Now 1 have not. pulled the cork of that bottie sinco I bought it [great applause] and 1 ask the governor now whether that isnot pretty good testimony that prohibition does not pro- hibit in fowa, at least after miduight? Laughter|., That was the first night'sper- ormance, wid I went to bed that night with a bottlo safely lodged inmy valise. The next day I spent n great deal of my time in tho different offices, with the sherift and the city marshal and governor and_other oficers, in- vestigating matters and in conversation it was admitted that whisky and beer could be gotten in any quantity ii the drug shops, joints or so-called tea houses ind when I re! lated my experience to 4 prominent official of the city, whose business ft was to arrest peo- ple—I won’t name him - he asked me whether the druggist haa asked me 1 anything. said no. **Well," he says,**when [ buy liquor at the drug store T don’t sign cither because it would make to much of & record, and the druggists don't like to make too much of a showing, They have to file that statement with the auditor, so they do not have people sign for it, and that makes & smaller show- ing." 1looked in the city directory, and in looking over the business of the of Des Moines, I found a recital of the jobbing trade, and I noticed conspicuously in the year of 1589 the jobbers sold §200,000 worth of whiskies and alcohol at wholesale. | was rather thunderstruck about it. I did not suppose a wholesale store could ex1st there but they told me that one wholesale drug store did the largest kind of a business in whisky and the proprictors made a small fortune in it v ndependent ©f that they | d Id there was another jobbing house (hat also did a very hoavy whisky business. The next ovoning | mado anothor tour, | did not walt until midolght. About § o clock evening | went over ton place next door to tho Rogister ofee, 1t was o rostaurant oy rently, and | was told that | could find the nking place below wid gambling ahove |t I wantedto, | stepped in thoro with my friend who accompaniod me all the time and found & man behind the bar. We have given up gambling this week, because last wook was the falr, and wo are now r, sald he, but if you come back at can get anything you want to drink not want to wait “so long, and _we passel to another street within a block of the Register and walked into a so-called toashop-cold te and woasked tho proprietor wwhether h had any whisky, and” he safl cortainly, and without any further parleying hogavo us two drinks of whisky, [ drank more whisky in Dos Moines than T have drunk all my 116, {Laughter]. 1 saiddon'tyou huye beer: said yes. Then I sald_give me a bottle sal 1right; and so 1 have brought the bot tle along with me (producing a bottle), [Great applause and laughter.| [will say that if Sam Small was here 1would not risk leaving it onthe tablo—-yon see it is An houser-Busch beor -1t {s good imported beer, Wedid and the seal is unbroken, and anybody who wants tofind out whethor this is real beer is atliberty to come upand taste it. Sothen,that wasty experience in the eityof Des Moines, and what did T find! Ono siigle d had sold a whole carload of beer tlas—within the month of August. 00 bot marshal s they call him thore, hini to show me the books and recor found (this is signed by him, so the and 1 signature to road that kind) this state of facts Moines for intoxication ; of the public quiet; 9 for tery; four for disturbi and thero were haulod the number of 5,634 persons. In J this year they had hauled in the 330 persous, they Ouly oneof their pat asoult and bat ¢ religious meetings, hauled 138, as out of order, fellows. [Li 0 they aghter,) In March the in April 341, in MayO4, in June i August 808; & total in seven months of 4,302 persons hauled {u the 1,021, in Ju g patrol wagon. And now I want to know whether people in lowa aro raised on un- steady legs (laughter] or whether people in thestate of lowa are so stingy that th inghc vatrol wagon in preference to hivi cab, it in any other wa; In the city of Li same population or twoor three thou more than Des Moines, and in this g whisky state of Nebraska, the police wagon did not carry as many first seven months of this 3 wagon in the city of Des Moine the one monthof August. (G I cannot tell whether prohibition prohibits, but that is the testimony so far as I can get it from the police recor Now let us go down to Kansas. Kansas persc carried in 1y tosee how it worked there, 1 got into Leavenworth on Monday morning and called upon Mayor Hacker. ~He was gentleman elected on the prohibition issue, and he told me thatthey had, made the best ef- forls to enforce the law that could possibly bemade, and yet it appears that there are about one hundred and’ fourteen places that have procured permits tosell liquor from Un- cleSam. They have a metropolitan police in Leavenworth,” The police commission is ap- voiuted by the governor, and our friend Col- onel Anthony, whois sure that prohibition prohibits, is on the police commission. Now what is the fact? The mayorsaid that the city marshal was an_extremely earnest pro- hibitionist and that he has done everything hecoulddo toenforce prohibition, After”I ot through talking with the mayor I walked acmwss the street with a_gentloman that for- merly lived in Omal sitothe city hull facing the mayor's office. It wasjust five munutes of twelve—nearly noon. Over thedoorwas asign: “Star of the West.™> Now my friend had n of the Wes it in at g gla that this wasa pl whe: tuey keptsomething to drink. We walked in | and there was a counter with a fow empty decanters, and as we got to the rear of the store there was a door. We walked through the door into & barroom. men in front of the bar drinking beer. we called for two glasses of beer. tender said: *“We cannot beer, but we can sell you a bottle of beer,” and'a bottie was opened for us by himself and we drank two gla: and left one for him, and walked off after ng ‘What other proof do you want that prohibi- tion does not prohibit in the city of Leaven- worth? If you can buy liquor at high noon in daylight right across the street from the city hall and the city marshal's office, in an open saloon, I do not think it necessary to hunt for “speak easys™ and bootleggers, The next evening I was in the city of To- peka, and I called upon a gentleman who is connected with the resubmission movement —mot the Mr. Tomlinson that General Brad- ford referred to, but another gentleman that, is not connected with the press, and he told me that about the same state of affairs ex- isted in Topeka. The drug stores aro selling whisky to everybody that is able to subscribe on a piece of paper that he has the stomac ache or some other disease, We went together intoa club house. That was about 10 o'clock in the evening. The club house is located on Kansas avenue, the main street of To- Imka, in the very neighborhood of the argest hotel of the city. There ‘were three club rooms upthere, as I was told, three very large rooms, and the three clubs have about three hundred members. My friend gave apeculiar rap on the door and Little whistle, the door opened and we were ushered into & largeroom, Six or seven gen- tlemen werd sitting around the tablo playing cards, and after I uad been intoduced and as- surances had been given that everything was safe, overy man pulled out @ glass of beer from theshelf under the tableand put it on| thetable, Then a glass of beor was handed to me and my friend. Before parting 1 took a look around the room, and in one corner I counted twenty-nine cmpty beer kegs that were standing there, and 1 was told those twenty-nine kogs vepresented the beer that had been drank by the club during the weel. S0 you can seo that prohibition is not so rig- idlyenforced in Topeka as General Bradford gto make you believe. I did not pur- sue my investigation further, except thut I talked with the porter at my' hotel, and he said he could get me a bottle of whisky if wanted it, but I had some whisky from lowa, and digd not want toload up with Kansas rot- gut. Among the results of prohibition has been thedegradation of the druggist. The drug store has been converted into the saloon . At the hotel were Istopped I met a promi- nent physician and he told me that the most ignorant class of people have taken up the drug business. Nearly all of them sell’ whisky and bottled beer. He . WATCHES_ Cor. DOUGLAS “ AND.- “157H §Ts.! in the | 11 0'clock you | He | Ho | % house well, | then I went over to the chief of police, or | and asked is no question about it, although 1t is a pretty hard Stratman, or something of That in 1880 there were 500 arrests made in the city of Des ) for disturbanee in_the patrol wigons wuary of patrol wigon | Reputablo ons of tho two which they have was in use, and the other had to walk, ido g8 [Great laughter. | I cannot comprehend In with just, about the patrol people in the | as the )I!\Ll‘lvl % at applause. | | 1 went to Mind, we were oppo- r visited the “Star 2 any more than Ihad, but 1took There wers two So The bar- ol You i rlass of polAMO related & litte expariones whie ho had with o Kanine droggist, 1o called AL dene store and wiobe out K pry scep. Hon and handed 1t 10 the deageist e had proseribod two or th Known drigs | and addod that to T'ho deaggist got his diff drengs and wolghed thom walting o whilo cnmo over sl o Fonifide wista have kopt and flnw v to the doetor and 1 Kanas Clty dreuge ok my ondors, the goods Bave not come on tine, and smong them s an rdor foraqua. T donot seo how | oan 1l this prosceiption withent this squa,” and the sald to him, “Wall, my feiond, if you haven't got the aqin, water will answer the oamo purposs’’ (Laughter.| This s an I8 om0 of one roporters won'tsay which one, went fow months g0 to Foport a caso down thers, and ha wantod to get some boer and was (o formed that in ¢ to ot it hie would have to siyen on i pieco of papoer that ho wis ot well hadsomothing the matter with b made out & paper and wrote on it beer —consumption.” (Laughtor | Thit 1 an actoal fact that papor was handod {0 the drug clerk, and he sold him & bottlo OF he and then they got four or five bottios of boe overy ono of proseriptic for ‘consumpt And th 15 the way that prohibition prohibits in the groat stite of Kansas, It Is tho most dis- gracelul furce that his hoon porpot rted, and every espoctable man that Teame in con tact with in Kansas, prominont peoplo of all kinds, admitted it, Thoy said, of conrs tho republican parly has committed itself ta this thing Theso oMcors are plodged to hold it up be cause it is a party doctrine and Juently it I8 roprosented s a suceess when they all Jenow it is a sham and a fraud. Ttis tho pro moter of the most areant hy pocrisy and rank My friend, General Bradford, as E you here that ho was a temperanco man il through life, and that ho has done more than any other man for the enfo ment of prohibition in Kunsas, My informa. tion down there was to the contrary citizons of topoka and Leavenworth told me that he was an anti-prohibitionist before ho b ttor. ney general, and never did boliove in prohi- bition excepting ina public way A plumber who was employed 1 Bradford's house some years ago, and who is now located on Kansas avenuo fn Topeka, told me personally that he found a bavrel full of beer bottles in Bradiord's house, and his helper mafe the following afiday it State of Kuansas, Shawneo County, ss William Morrison, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is thivly-ono years of age, resides at Topeka, Kau,, ‘and is a plumber by coupation s that during the time Hon. 8. 1 adford was attorney goner { Kansas 1 was in the employ of Christinn States, and under the dircetion of Mr, States went to the residence of Mr Bralford to do_plumbing work and in t ar of his residence I found a barrel of bot tled beer, about one-third of which had bee used. 1 lielped myself to one bottle o in the presence of Mr, States, the atior general beigalso in the house, and on my return the next morning to resumo work found the barrel thoroughly nailed so that I could get no more. This was about the time the said attoruey general was prosecuting whisky sellers for violating the prohibitory law and confiscating liquors wherever found, W. W. Moknison worn to before me and_subscribed in my presence this 16th day of Sep r, 1800, S, B. IstNmawr, No ‘This afidavit was duly seq fled to Now then, [ respect temperance men who are honest, but in the state of Kansas nine- tenths of the temperance men are hypocrits, oharisees and frauds. (Great applause. ) While Mr. Bradford was prosecuting _attor- ney in Kansas, St. Johu, governor, who wis an'earnest and honest. prohibitionist, repri- manded him for his indifference in prosecut- ing whisky scllers, and Mr. Bradford wrote such an fusulting response to Governor St. John that the Topeka Capital, the leading pro- hibitionist organ of Kansas. snuffed out Mr. Bradford's candidacy £or gOVOrnor two years agoin the following article which iy be found in the files of that paper of Tuesday, February 21, 1888 R BIADFORD'S CANDIDACY POR GOV ERNOR, We grow very tired over this sensoless sortof rot. The Capital has not gone into ecstacies over Mr. Bradford’s ability. “When Mr. Bradford was county attorney of Osage county and very lukewarm in try- ing to close the saloons of that county, Gov- ernor St. John wrote him an official” lotter calling his attention to the fact. o this Mr, Brudford made a veply informing the gov- ernor that saloons had rightsand that he was fully informed upon his duties ns county at- toruer, cte. We say Mr. Bradford Mr, Bradford’s name was attiched to the impudent leiter, but it was written by the attorney of the whisky ring of the state, Captain Joo Waters of Topeka. It was upon the reputa- tion of this letter among auti-prohibitionists that Mr. Bradford secived his nomination, He was not a prohibitionist when nominated for attorney general. “When the real contest for prohibition was taking place five and six years ago, Mr. Brad- ford, in sympathy and in"his offiial conduet as attorney for Osage county, was with the sajoons. “Of the recent decision of the supreme court, wo have only to saythat theargu- ment presented by the attornioy general to the supreme court at” Washington waswritten by the assistant attorney gencral. Mr. E. A. Austin, who has realy boen the briins of that ofico ~ during the past three years. The Capital has no wish to detract from the more recont good work of Mr. Bradford in_proceeding as the law directs him to do aguinst such towns as rofuse to close the saloons, but such fool fricnds as the Osage City Press and the To- peka Commonwealth make it necessary to puncture the pretense of running Mr. Brad- ford as a prohibitionist. Captain Joe Waters writes a good letter, and Ed Austin a good brief, but it is more thau probable that the republicans of Kunsas will nominate @ man who can write his own letters as well as his own briefs, " Tsay, fellow citizens, statements from men like General Bradford must be taken with a in of allowance, and while I respect the earmest, honest men who are prohibition- ts, 1 detest the sham and tho fraud and the hypocrisy which it breeds, and [ hope, fellow citizens, you will give that matter the attention that when you vote on thedth of November you will not inaugurate m this state a so-called reform that puts a premiumon perjury and fraud. Those peo- plein Towa who have certified that they do not want to repeal the law there, never hid the local option and high license system, aud for that reason they do kuow the differ- ence. We who do know the difference ought to be able toknow to let weil enough alone, and not to undertake that which has proven itself to be a declusion and a suare, {Applause.] NDs S Kansas that was General THE CHEAPEST AND BEST MEDICINE FOR FAMILY USE IN THE WORLD Tustantly stops the most excraciatiy applications act 1ike magle, causing tl A CURE FOR ALL Internally taken in do 10 a fow minutes Cram os, Sy ing Spells, CHOLERA MORBU: ting, Norvousness, § or witer or other ¢ puins; never fuils to glve ease paln toinstuntly stop. BOWEL COMPLAINTS. s 0f from thirty o sixt vo the suffercr; o few dArops In half a turabler of water will cure I co. Hoartburn, Langour, Falnt- ¥, Blok Headiehe, Nawsoaw g frowm change of