Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 2, 1909, Page 5

i l i D ) 4 ¥ 4 A\ THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY DT A latge can and a small cost does not mal or even less expensive than Calumet—the high- kind. baking powder cheap— uality, moderate-price It certainly cannot maks it as good. Don t judge baking powder in this way—the real test—the procf of raising power, of evenness, nniformity, wholesomeness and deliciousness will bs found only in the baking. fore. proof. Buy a can today. d Send 4c and slip found in pound Calumet Reccived Hi World's Pure Foo: SNAKES OPPOSE STINGERS War Among Switchmen May Prevent General Strike in Omaha. TWO ORGANIZATIONS AT OUTS Fill Places of Strikers—Few Men Quit in Local Rall- road Yards. Switchmen's unfon are known as *'Snakes" members of the Brotherhood of Rallway Trainmen are referred to as “'Stingers" There is a spirit of warfare existing be- tween the Snakes and Stingers that is destined to prevent a general strike Omaha. “If the Omaha &witchmen obey the or- ders from St. Paul to walk out, the rail- way trainmen stand ready to take the places of the striking men,” said ber of the trainmen's order. The have opposed our order and there Is an animosity existing between the two or- ganization that cannot be forgotten. Omaha will not be affected by the strike of the switchmen, for there are plenty of railway trainmen to supply the places of striking switchmen in Omaha.” Official mews of the strike declared. by the Switchmen's Union of North America at St. Paul was received by local mem- bers of the union early in the morning. Omaha switchmen employed by the Chi- cago, Milwaukee, Minneapolls & Omaha railroad are most directly affected by the strike order. This road has a small num- ber of switchmen and it was stated at the Webster street yards that eleven men had left their work. Omaha Service Not Interrupted. Otherwise, service in the city was little interrupted, as most of the switchmen em- ployed locally are members of the Brother- hood of Railway Tralumen and are “at outs” with the so-called “Snakes.” The Chicago & Northwestern line, operating out of Sloux City, is directly affected by the strike. Rallroad officlals there have refused to consign frelght of any ‘kind. In the Unfon Pacific and Burlington yards all is peace and serenity. Lon Ken- dall, general yardmaster for the Harriman lines, states that all the men are work- ing as usual and that there are no signs of an impending walkout. The Unlon Pacific employs about 30 men and all of them, with few exceptions, are members of the trainmen's order, which is opposing the switchmen in their fight. At O'Neill's hall. Sixteenth and Cuming streets, there was a small gathering of firemen and engineers at noon. The Broth- erhood of Locomotive Firemen has a re- quest before the western rallroad managers for an increase In wages and an answer was due from the officials December 1. | The firemen await orders from the Chicago offices and say that the strike of the switchmen will have no effect upon their action. Switchmen employed Coundil Bluffs terminals are paid 3 cents hour; foremen switchmen are paid 32 ts per hour. A sliding scale is used, which provides for excess pay in case of overtime. tingers” Will Oppose “Snakes.” “Qur men are paid all the way from $2.% to $2.25 per day, according to hours,” said & Missourl Pacific fireman, “and we have asked for an increase of 20 per cent. We don't care @ whit how the ‘snakes' como out in their strike; it will make no differ- ence to us. There are only a few of them in Omaha anyway and if they walk out there aré Wi€iiy of our men to take their places without cau ‘ng any difficulty. hatgh the fliike difficulty, it seems, has not reached Omaha there is a feeling of anxlety, however, that there may be serious trouble later on. If the firemen lose out in their demands for increased wages there 1s & posaibllity .of a general strike in the Brotherhood of Railway Train- men. “We have recelved no word from Mr. Mohler,” sald T. M. Orr of the executive in | in the Omaha and | is a better baking powder than you have ever used be- And we will leave it to your good judgment for Try it for any baking pur- r(vu. If the results are not better—if the bakingis not lighter, mor ous, take it back and get your Calumet is medium in price—but great in satisfaction. Free—largs handsome recipe book, illustrated in colors. roney. can, ighest Award— Exposition General Manager Co., will ship by rail to the north by consumers in the north. Finney of Armour | that 1t may be to Chicago and lake steame & that they thence 'Sale to Negroes Basis of Suit Trainmen Say They Stand Ready to| | Prairie Trust Company Alleges Con- | spiracy to Obtain Money | from It. In rallroad circles members of the Prairie Trust to a negro A conspiracy against the company by seling p couple is harged against Richard W | Moore and his wife, Ada L. Moore, in a petition filed in district court. The Prairle Trust company accuses Mr. | ana Mre. Moore of entering into a scheme | Jperty colored people, to transfer property to the latter in Prairle Park, where, says the petition, “other residents do not desire negro people as neighbors.” | November 21, 138, the Moores executed | two promissory notes to the Prairie Trust | company for $2,000 and $1. and mort- gages were given as securl on two resi- dences in Prairle Park. vember 23, of | this year, Mr. and Mrs. Moore deeded the | property to the Jewells. The plaintiff continues with the charge of conspiracy and recites that both notes are unpaid. It is asked that the mortgages be held fully to the property and that the court appoint a receiver to take care of the property pending a court settle- ment Damage for the property, which has been untenanted for some days, Is also alleged. cover Treasurer Furay Garnering Coin Keeper of County Coffers Raises His November Record by One Hundred Thousand. Frank Furay, as the grand receiver, of- ticlally and ex-officio, of all the money in Douglas county and Omaha that people pay for the privilige of living, Is being buried in coln and checks; but he is very much alive under the load. During Novem- ber, this year, he took In and salted down almost $100,00 more than in November of 1908. Incidentally his assistants have writ- ten and passed into family archives sev- eral thousand more receipts than during the same month a year ago. In November, 1M9, the recelpts from taxes are 276,130.84, as against §155,32.02 in | 1908, Sales and prior tax collections this year brought in $22,390.13, against $19,204.99 last year. Omaha sales of delinquent taxes realized 0411567, compared to $37,532.39 in 1908, and South Omaha sales totaled §1,016.55, | against $967.32. | Tax sale certificates issued during the | month numbered 2177 and the fees for same totaled $1,088.50. PAY FOR ELECTION OFFICIALS Judges and Clerks Draw Five Dol- lars in Time for That Christ by The eity council Wednesday morning made an allowance of §1 to each judge and clerk of election, who served with the voting machines during the recent defeat of the democrats. As the officlals had already received §2 each from the county and the schooi board, this added amount glves each man § toward his Christmas stocking packing Councll also decided that Health Com- missioner ~Connell's staff of inspectors could not glorify Santa Claus on cold afr, 80 thelr December salaries will be forth- coming from the general fund. The health commissioner’s fund is exhausted, except enough to pay the main squeezes of the department. with James J. Jewell and Cecillle Jewell, | Some Things Yo u Want to Know The American Congress—The ‘‘Force Bill’’ and Cloture. The Fiftv-first congross marks an the history of The adoption of the thelr legislative the Reed rules and Reed in that congr nforcement by Speaker s% Iald the house of repre- ntatives ntly {of the system of | established by Ca | eftective by Reed | ana sohdifiea b | During the session of that same congress en unsuccessful attempt was made to | ohange the rules of the senate to provide [for the limitation of debate. If this etfort | had been successful, the { proceed under rules practically | as th, obtaining In the house | portant + having the support of | the party would be rushed | through both houses of congress with only 1rvrrw~rlm\ debate and " without opportun | 1ty for genuine deliberation The story of how these things came to be, and of why the senate remains as the | enly free tribune in the government, Is the | story of the federal tions bill, which was introduced in the house in 18%, by | Representative Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, a senator, which passed that body, and which was cham- piored in the senate by the late George | Frisble Hoar, also of the Old Bay state, and which met ite death at the hands of |a ecombination of democrats and western republ formed under cover of the most remarkable filibuster in the history of congress permar under the control ecedents conceived and amplified and made and, later, perfected Crisp. senate would now the same and im- me t majority ele now When Andrew Johnson was suc eded in | the White Hou by Geveral Grant the | radical wing of the republican party found :\l~r¥( in complcte eontrol of the situation. | It proceeded with its plans for reconstrue- |tion on the theory that the “‘states lately |In rebellion” were but “dead carcasses within the union,” and that they might be revived only by some taliman which | would Iusure ile return of republican | members of congress and members of the electoral colleges. The unfolding plans of the ‘“radicals” caused great indignation within tha party ana led to the organiza- | tion of the Iberal republican movement ot | 1572, the nomination of Greeley and the second overwhelming vietory for General Grant and the radicale. But the Greeley fiasco did not end the anti-radical move- ment, and in 1574 the republicans lost con- trol of the house of rcpresentatives. Twvo vears later the election of the president hung upon a hair. The ultra-radical lead- €rs of the republican party were deposed, and in the south the states were permitted again to control thelr own affairs under the direction of the white people. When the Fifty-firet congress met for its first session in December, 1889, the repub- lican party found Itself for the first time In fourteen years in complete legislative control of the government. The repub- lican leaders believed, with good reasons, that If the negroes in the south had been permitted to vote without let or hind- rance many of the congressional seats oc- cupled by democrats would be filled by republicans. Belleving that they were cheated out of their fair share in the Eovernment by reason of the disobedience In the south of the mardates of the fif- teenth amendment, the republicans promptly decided to take charge of the election machinery in the southern states. It was the purpose to make the calamity of \a *democtatic victory impossible and Hllegal. 5 The republican majority in the house was |only elght, & dangerously small number. | Whereupon nine democrats were efected | and the places of eight of them were filled | by republicans. The contestant for the | other seat died and the place was left |vacant. The republican majority being | thus bolstered up, Speaker Reed pro- | ceeded to demolish the minority's plans for | filibustering warfare by the famous code of rules which bears his name. That house at its first session passed the Lodge federal elections bill. It provided that, | upon the application of a small number of voters in any congressional district, the federal judges should appoint the super- visors of elections. A bill passed during the bitterest part of the reconstruction fight with a similar purpose had been called the “force bill" The opponents of the Lodge bill revived the name and ap- plied It to the new measure, The control of negro majorities In the south in the perfod immediately following the reconstruction era had been exercised by the whites without much regard for law. Intimidation and bribery kept the negroes from the polls, or turned their votes to the democratic candidates. The south was unwilling to submit to negro rule, but it was equally unwilling to con. tinue the lawless methods of controlling elections. S0, at the very time the Fifty-first con- gress was sitting, several southern states | were holding constitutional conventions to |form new constitutions which would enable {them to limit negro suffrage by legal | mea. While Mr. Lodge was advocating {his bill in the house, the Mississippi con- stitutional convention was disfranchising the negro by adopting the Massachusetts election law. Since that time the !upr-m'\ court of the United States haw held valid | the various election laws of the southern states, the negro suffrage is now so limited that it does not !mperil white supremaey | n any state, and practically all amita- | tion of the subject has ceased. But In the years 150 and 1591 it was a very live sub- Ject. indecd The “force bill,' s its enemies succeeded | in naming it. was reported in the senate | In August, 180, having already passed the house. It precipitated a bitter fight at once. Senator Pugh of Alabama, for the minority of the committes on elections, of which Senator Hoar was chairman, de. | clared that the pa: ge of the bill would | mean the shedding of blood and the end of | peace, and that it would be resisted by every parllamentary method possible under the constitution. Senator Chandler of New | Hampshire retorted with an attack upon Pugh, In which the words “rebellion” was used liberally, and through which the | “bloody shirt” waved wildly. | The republicans were pledged to revise | the tariff and under pressure from Senator Quay, the ‘“‘force bill" went over the short session to permit the senate to pass the McKinley tariff bill. The con- | gress adjourned and the campalgn of IM\\ was on. The republicans in November | met the most crushing defeat in history of the party, the house of repre- | sentatives having but eighty-eight republi- cans to 23 democrats. It is the only time | since the republican party was organized | that there were fewer than 100 republi- cans in the house When the congress met in December for | the short session the republicans were bitter In defeat, the democrats flushed with victory. The death of the republican | party was freely predicied. The populist | Peffer was chosen to kucceed the irides- | cent Ingalls in the senate. Even New | Hampshire was foreed ““to go behind the| returns’’ to find a narrow majority for| the republican candidate for governor. | With the twelve senators from the six | new states, the Dakotas, Montana, Wash- | ington, Idaho and Wyoming, the republi- cans had a majority of the senate. The democrats determined to filibuster, and notified the opposition that they would debate the election bill until congress ex- pired on March 4. They took courage from the artitude of Senator Quay, whose en- mity to President Harrison went to the extent of glving aid and comfort to the democracy. They also courted most & siduously those western republicans, who stoutly favored the free silver propagande. ‘With the battle lines so drawn the con- flict began. Senator Aldrich, as chairman of the committe on rules, offered the famous cloture rule, or, as the democrats called | it, the “gag rule.” It provided simply that after a reasonable time had been allowed for debae, the previous guestion might be ordered and’a vote forced upon | any measure, despite the pleas of senators to be heard further in debate. Many senators who heartily favored the election bill were in doubt about this rule. Even Senator Hoar wanted cloture to apply only 1o the one measure. There was much speaking and many parllamentary tricks. Phe- democrats for two days debated the. question of the aproval of the journal. But as the crisis approached in Januafy the. democrats | realized that they couid not hold out until the end of the sessiom. Therefore they wrought mightlly with) the westéen' sena- tors. One by one the westerners were won over, still the democrats talked on, speak- ing all night, reading whole books into | the record, but always guarding the preclous privilege of the floor. Senator Danlel of Virginia was charged with the task of winning over Senator Le- land Stanford of California. At last he accomplished his task, and the word went around on the democratic side that the day was saved, and that there was no lorger fear of negro domination. Senator E. 0. Wolcott of Colorado dealt the death blow to the cloture rule by moving to sus- pend its consideration for the purpose of taking up the apportionment bill. His mo- tion prevafled by & vote of % to 3. Six republicans—Wolcott and Teller of Colo- rado, Stewart and Jones of Nevada, Wasn- burn of Minnesota and Camercn of Pen sylvania voted with the demoertes. In- galls of Kansas was paired against the republicans and Stanford was absent. It the inner history of that struggle Is ever written it will be ‘“mighty Interesting reading.” Thus ended In fallure the attempt to change the rules of the senate, the rules which maintain it now as the only free forum in the national legislature. Thus ended, also, the era of reconstruction, for since that time no considerable effort has been made to Interfere with the southern states. In fact there has been small need of such endeavor, for the democratic vic- tories of 15% and 1892 came to a party which was even then temporizing with the silver question, upon which it was to split. | Since then there has been no need of force bills" to insure republican majori- ties. to | By FREDERIC J. MASXIN, Tomorrow—THE AMERICAN CON. GRESS—Cleveland Versus Congress. staff of the Unlon Pacific rallroad, “and as we understand i the switchmen em- OMAHA INTERESTS IN NORTH| Dad \Vcaver on Barbers May ployed In Omaha are not uffected by the strike declared in St. Paul” SHIPPING HERE IS AFFECTED Roads Refusing to Take Out Perish- mble Shipments Northbound. The switchmen's strike has resulted in the temporary delay of all northbound shipments from the South Omaha packers. The -Minneapolls & Omaha started the move Tuesday by refusing to accept goods billed north. The roads have as yet made Do efforts to get out the goods held in the yards and probably will not before Friday The packers are contemplating other routes for getting their products out to the People Here Own Large Up In the Nechaco Valley of Columb J. C. Huteson has returned from British Columbla, where he says he found a sur prising state of affairs. | “What was my surprise,” sald Mr. Hute. |son when he returned Tuesday, |that Omaha people owned $6.000 acres of land in the Nechaco valley Those residin in Omahba who own a section or more are Herman B. Peters, J. C. Huteson, who ha: 12800 acres; E. G. McGilton, C. A. Goss, Frank Furay, Lysle 1. Abbott, P. A. Wells Dr. Ewing Brown, Dr. Hugh A. Hipple, T 8. Kelley and T. J. O'Brien. S.S, y 3 THE ONLY REMEDY FOR BLOOD POISON The first symptom of Oontagious Blood Poison is usually a little sore or ulcer, so blood becomes more fully infected with sore, glands in the neck and groin swell, at the very root of the trouble and remove e the circulation; at the same time S, 8. 8. . effect on influence of ant that often no attention is given it. But when the virus the mouth and throat get and sometimes ulcerate, forming the e only remedy that is able to get icle of the virus from acts with upbuilding and tonic jystem gets under the to disap; and soon a perfect @ privacy of one's own home and a wuch val 8.8, ead Wis book, and also any & cure can be effected in e medical advice M‘dt::r'z . THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. Acreages | “to find | The Bee Again |Returns from Kansas City and Takes Up His Duties in Most Natural Way. “Dad” Weaver has used the return por- tion of the ticket Vietor White gave him { ast summer, when he left Omaha for | Kansas City. He is again connected with | the advertising forces of The Bee, and is |calling on his old friends, with the old | |time smile and the business alr, | Mr. Weaver left Omaha carly in the |summer to take up the duties of general |manager of the Post at Kansas City, This | position he was fillink at the time of the sale of that paper by its Kansas City own- lers to Messrs. Bonfils & Tammen, owners {of the Denver Post. Mr. Weaver resigned | his position last week and returned to | Omaha at once. The friends who gathered around the table the day the Ad club gave | 'him a testimonial dinner and other things |are mow giving him the glad hana ana | congratulating him on having at last dis- cerned the difference between the two citles and casting his lot definitely with Omaha. PERSONAL_PARAGRAPHS H. V. Riesen. secretary of the Southern Nebraska Driving assoclation, from | Beatrice, is in the city looking over the field preparatory to reviving an Interest In lght harness work among the horse- men of this section for the spring season of 1910 Work on Sunday is a Profession, So Not Amen- able to Closing Law, Rules Crawford. Their The barber business is not common labor and may be carried on on Sunday undar the provisions of the law that forbids “common labor,” dealdes Police Judge Crawford He therefore dismissed the cases brought by D. M. Copas, barber, and chairman of the barbers' Sunday closing committee, against fifteen other members of the same calling. Johnny Reagan, attorney for the accused barbers, set up the defense that barbers could not be amenable under this law, as their's was a profession. While Crawford 4id not use the word “‘profession,” he took this general view of the case, maintaining that the supreme court had never ruled that barbering common labor Good Time? Last night—eating big dinner is often the maker of « BAD TODAY. Why not? Over-esting means extra work for the stomach and bowels. You've got to suffer if you don’t help nature unload with CASCARETS. “‘They work while you sleep'’—youw're O. K. im the A. M. Dr. F. H. Millener has been elected as a member of the American Electrochemical lety, a select body of men whose prinei- pal research is along electrochemical lines, s the name indicates. This is a new sy which the experts have besn at ut & few 3 eee “onight's the night to take care of to- » Personal Liberty As Attacked by Wm. J. Bryan 1 The liquor dealers, recognizing that their very obvious pecuniary interest would les- sen the weight of any argument which they might publicly advance, are making their fight under cover of organizations purport |Ing to represent those who use liquor. 2 Many well meaning men have been misled Into belleving that every attempt to lessen the ovils of intemperance is a “fanatical attack” on “personal liberty." 3 It is time the phrase “personal liberty" were defined. What is meant by. “personal liberty?" Does it mean that a person has a right to drink in any quantity, at any time, and in any place, no matter what Injury he may inflict upon others? If not, with whom rests the right to fix limitations. 4 A drunken man is a menace to the lives and property of those about him; have his nelghbors no right to protect themselves? 5 A drunkard robs his wife and children, and he may finally make his family and himself & charge upon moclety; has soclety no right to protect itselt? . Thé saloon is next-to-kin to the brothel and the gambling hall; it is the rendez- vous for the criminal element and the will- ing tool of the corrupt politician; has not the body politie. a right to protect itself from the demoralization which the saloon works? 7 The right to drink does not necessarily include the right to demand the establish- ment of a saloon. The right to drink Is sufficlently protected by an arrangement that permits the reasonable use of liquor under reasonable conditions. 8 And it must be remembered that the right to drink, like any other right, can be forfeited. ® . Nothing is more sacred than the right to life, and yet one may forfeit his right to life if he uses it in such a way as to threaten the life of another. 10 $0 the man Who rinks to excess may for- feit the right to drink. 1 Even the moderate drinker may forfelt the right to dnink in moderation if, not content with reasonable legislation, he in- sists that liquor shall be sold under con- ditions that constitute & menace to the home and the state. 13 The,man who desires to drink moderately ought to join with those who seek to re- duce the evils of drink to the lowest pos- sible point, instead of allying himself with those who ignore the evils of intemperance and resist every effort put forth for the protection of soclety. His Attack Answered by One of Its Advocates 1 There are numerous organizations whose members are in no way connected with the liquor traffie, but who are opposing prohibition, and the measures calculated to lead to prohibition, from personal conviction and entirely disinterested motives, Some consist largely of business men, whose experfence has taught them that prohi. bition wherever tried has not only failed of fts purpose, but has Invariably increased the evils of Intemperance, and who recognize the disastrous effect ft is bound to have upon the industrial as well as the moral conditions of our people. Other organ. f2ations again are actuated solely by resentment of the attempted Interference with the personal and temperate habits 8f their members, who object to the insinuation that they cannot control their appetites, and who denounce the efforts of the few to impose upon the many their own narrow views on the solution of the lquor problem. That the liquor interests are not putting obstacles in the way of such organizations is obvious. The implied charge that they are using them as a cloak, is an insult to the forty or fifty thousand members of such organizations. The llquor interests of the state do not control one-tenth that many votes. s None of these organizations, not even the liquer Interests themselves, that the mere effort to lessen Intemperance attacks personal liberty. The liguor men fully realize that the drunkard is the greatest enemy of their business, and are themselves, from entirely selfish motives, spending much thought, effort and money in eliminating as much as possible the evil results of intemperance. 3 The question as to a definition of personal liberty is not fairly put, and purposely worded 80 as to prejudice the answer. There is not an advocate of personal liberty anywhere who clalms the right to excesses of any kind. The law properly enjoins the excessive use of liquor the same as it does the abuse of fire, of gunpowder and many other things, even of the rampant automobile, by wisely regulating their use, which, however, it cannot prohibit without violating the personal rights guaranteed to the people, the same as free speech or a free press. All attempts to interfere with this fundamental principle must be denounced as leading to further unreasonable restrictions, leading to no one knows where. The use of tobaceo has already been attacked, and after tobacco what? belteve ) And a worse menace to the liquor Interests: Unfortunately prohibition has never yet succeeded in keeping Intoxicants away from the drunkard. The reguiated sale is more successful in that direction, because licensed liquor demlers know thelr responsibility under the law and do what they can to prevent sales to the drunkard. s The regulated sale under the Nebraska law provides for & five ihousand dollar giit edged bond, which must be given by each licensee, and wWhich protects the dependants of the drunkard. The bondsman can be sued by wife, widow, children, or other dependants, even by the community .where the drunkard becomes a private or public charge. Prohibition statutes destroy such protection by making impossible the legal sale, substituting therefor the surreptitious traffie, . A charge too extravagant to require an answer, and as fasfetohed as the com- parison between liquor and cocaine or morphine, as made by certain extremists Wine, beer and whiskey are Intoxicating only when. used. to exces: It is unfortunately true that there are some bad saloons, but they are few and generally known to the authorities charged with their suppression and would not exist were it not for the alliance with corrupt politiclans; hende the - body politic (and the many respectable saloon men would gladly assisty, should protect itself by eliminating the corrupt politician. There are bad lawyers, bad. doetors, and editors and even bad preachers who are just as much a menace to soclety as the bad saloon men. On the other hand there are a great many perfectly honorable and moral men conducting a saloon business lawfully and decently, supplying and not creating, an existing reasonable demand, and who would find in this paragraph a g0ood and sufficient cause for a libel sult. y The right to drink necessarily involves the right to purchase, such purchase being possible only through a legal place of sale. The right to drink is not fully protected by the mere permission of the reasonable use of liquor unless provision s made for a place of sale and purchase, whatever such place may be called. c The right to drink temperately is unassailable and cannot be forfeited. » The right to life iIs no more sacred than the right to sustain life by eating and drinking according to one's taste, so long as that be temperate. Without such right there could be no pursuit of happiness. To threaten the life of another is punished by imprisonment, whether caused through, drunkenness or otherwise. Drunkenness is the cause of an exceedingly small per cent of such crime. 10 The men who drink to excess should not only forfeit their right to drink, but should be kept in an inebriate asylum. Prohibition will increase their number. 1n Moderate drinkers and personal rights advocates find no fault with reasonable regulations; they favor and demand them; they insist that liquor shall be sold under conditions that protect the home and the public, exactly what prohibition does not do. They advocate a place of sale open to public surveillance regulated by a wise law honestly enforced. Moderate drinkers, as well as all assoclations organized to oppose prohibition, and even the liquor interests themselves are unanimous in endorsing every (ffort to re- duce intemperance to a minimum, and do not join those who ignore its evils, if there be any such, but they refuse to join with those, who under the gulse of anti-saloon leagues and county optionists are using every effort to force upon our state a prohibi- tion law, which, if enacted, would destroy the protection which society now enjoys under our present laws. CONCLUSION Prohibition doctrines invariably stand on the unsound foundation, that the seller must take all the blame because some few intemperate buyers, probably not to four hundred and ninety-nine moderate users iaust be deprived of the opportunity to buy. free people the responsibility rests with uncontrollable in the same ratio as the difficulty of gratifying it increases. There is on an average less excessive drinking among the employes of It is foolish and cowardly to deny that the temptation is within us, or to shift it onto the place of sale. other occupations. oxceed one in five hundred, abuse their purchases, and that for the ame reason the Among a civilized, intelligent and As with all forbidden frult, the appetite becomes more On the other hand “familiarity breeds contempi.” liquor dealers, brewers and distillers, than in many the individual Who buys. A L MEYER. e — AGED MAN HAPPY GROOM AFTER WAITING TWO DAYS Joshua Murray of Pender, 76, Marries Miss Elizabeth Schwarts of Allegheny, 36, Joshua Murray of Pender is the happlest man in Omaha today. For after two long days of waiting, Miss Elizabeth Schwarts of Allegheny, Pa.. arrived here Tuesday night and Wednesday they were married by Rev. C. W. Savidge. Mr. Murray appeared to get his license before the court house had really opened for business, but he was not kept waliting long. The document, which was nearly completed Monday, was filled out with the information about Miss Schwartz' mother, which Murray did not have Monday, and |the permit was given him. Accompanied by Miss Schwartz. the elderly bridegroom and his young bride-to-be sallled forth to find the parson of the People's church. They lost no time, but were married by Mr. Savidge at 9 a. m. Mrs. Murray Is the daughter of Josiah Schwartz of Allegheny and is 35 years of age. She brought wilh her an adopted son. Mr. Murray has sev- eral grown children and to each of these he gave on the eve of this marriage elghty acres of good Nebraska land Mr. Murray has the distinction of having arena is fast assuming its gala day attire in readiness for the opening of the doors. The states have a most uniform appearance from the outside because of the uniform fronts bearing the state name, which fs over each booth. These were made by the corn show mamagement in order that there might be more uniformity. founded the first Methodist church in Ne- braska in the year 1254 It was located in Cass county. Diamonds—FRENZER—~15th and Dodge. STATE COMPETITIONS SETTLED Judging of Entries at Cos Jewelry—FRENZER~15th and Dodge. BEN COMMONS STARTS HOME Organiser of Carmen’s Un Leaves East on Way to New Orleans. Ben Commons, who has been In Omaha for two months in connection with the af- fairs of the street car men's union, left Wednesday morning for Detroft, Mich., concluding his sojourn hes Mr. Commons has left the business of the car men's union here in the hands of a committee of the local members. He will g0 to Pontlac, Ill, on union business and thence to his home in New Orleans. With the completion of this errand, Mr. Com- mons' official connection with the Inter- national car men’s union will clo He “The agricultural end of the big expo- sition will be ready by Saturday morning, sald E. D. Funk, president of the Na- tional Corn associaifon.” The state judging on corn is nearly completed and the zone Judging will be taken up at once. “The exposition is sure to be ready on time with no delays and a splendid fea- ture will be that the show will be just as complete on the first day as It will on the last, since all the judging will be done ahead and the winning grains all marked. “You will readlly notice that a great improvement this year in showing the corn is that the stands are placed In front of each state booth Instead of being lost in long rows in the big gallery. People will slways have corn before them and they will see fine ears and will learn to tell the good from the not 50 good.” Most of the state exhibits and exhibits from the state universities and agricul- declined to stand for re-election as a mem- ber of the executive board of the national body and has been succeeded by Patrick tural colleges are in place and the big Shay of Chester, Pa. Our Holiday Showing is now complete and we advise an early inspection before the assortments are picked over, and while our salesmen can give you the best of attention. Our line of Smoking Jackets, House Coats, Lounging and Bath Robes, while always the most complete line shown in the city, this season far exceeds anything we have ever shown in past seasons, both in assortment and quality. Our Holiday Neckwear is by far the most exclusive and handsome line we we have ever shown. In our better neckwear from $1.00 to $3.50 we show the celebrated ‘‘De Luxe’’ brand which we control exclusively in Omaha. That is why we sell so mueh high grade neckwear. A Few Other Silggestions Toilet Sets, Suit Cases, Traveling Bags, Umbrellas, Gloves, Pyjamas, Shirts, Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, Scarf Pin and Link Sets; Mufflers, Handkerchief, Hose and Tie Sets. Fine line of Overcoats, Opera and Silk Hats, Full Dress and Tuxedo Suits. Be sure and do your shopping early. Browning, King & Co CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS AND HATS, FIFTEENTH ano DOUGLAS STREETS, " OMAHA, B 8 WILOOX, Manager,