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The Commoner.
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NO "WHITE SLAVES" IN NEBRASKA
Tho Nebraska legislature has passed a very
comploto "white slave" law. The bill was in
troduced by Senator Albert, democrat, of;
Platte county. Its most active champion out
side of the legislature was Mr. Chris Gruenther,
vice chairman of the Nebraska democratic state
committee. Mr. Gruenther and Senator Albert
are receiving many compliments for their good
work on this measure. The bill is Senate File
197, and is as follows:
A bill for an act to enjoin and abate houses
of lewdness, assignation and prostitution, to
declaro the same to bo nuisances, to enjoin the
person or persons who conduct or maintain the
same, and the owner or agent of any building
used for such, purpose, and to assess a' tax
against tho person maintaining said nuisance
and againBt the building and owner therof.
Be it enacted by tlie legislature of the state
of Nebraska: Section 1. Whoever shall erect,
establish, continue, maintain, use, own or lease
any building, erection or place for tho purpose
of lewdness, assignation or prostitution is guilty
of a nuisance, and tho building, erection or
place, or tho ground itself, in or upon which
such lewdness, assignation or prostitution is
conducted, permitted or carried on, continued
or exists, and the furniture, fixtures, musical
Instruments, and contents are also declared a
nuisance, and shall be enjoined and abated as
hereinafter provided.
Section 2. Whenever a nuisance is kept,
maintained or exists, as defined in this act, the
county attorney or any citizen of the County
may maintain an action in equity In the name
of the state of Nebraska' upon the relation of
such county attorney or citizen, to perpetually
enjoin said nuisance, the person or persons con
ducting or maintaining the same, and the owner
or agent of the building or ground upon which
said nuisance exists. In such, action the court, or
a judge In vacation, shall, upon the presentation
of a petition therefor alleging that the nuisance
complained of exists, allow a temporary writ of
injunction without bond, If It shall be made to ap
pear to tho satisfaction of tho court or judge by
evidence in tho form of affidavits, depositions, oral
testimony or otherwise, as the complainant may
elect, unless tho court or judge, by previous
order, shall have directed tho form and man
ner in which It shall bo presented. Three days'
notice In writing shall be given the defendant
of the hearing of the application, and if then
continued at his instance, the writ as prayed
shall bo granted as a matter of course.. When
an injunction has been granted, it shall be bind
ing on the defendant throughout the judicial
district in which it was Issued, and any viola
tion of tho provisions of Injunction herein pro-
The Commoner.
vided shall bo a' contempt as hereinafter pro-
V Section 3. Tho action when brought shall
be triable at the first term of court after due
and timely service of the notice has been given,
and In such action evidence of tho general repu
tation of tho place shall be admissible for tho
purpose of proving tho existence of said nui
sance. If the complaint is filed by a citizen,
it shall not bo dismissed except upon a sworn
statement mado by the complainant and his
attorney, setting forth the reasons why the
action should be dismissed, and the dismissal
approved by the county attorney in writing or
in open court. If tho court is of tho opinion
that the action ought not to be dismissed, he
may direct the county attorney to prosecute
said action to judgment, and if the action is
continued more than one term of court, any
citizen of tho county or the county attorney
may be substituted for the complaining party
and prosecute said action to judgment. If the
action is brought by a citizen and the court finds
there was no reasonable ground or cause for
said action, tho costs may be taxed to such
citizen.
Section 4. In case of the violation of any
Injunction granted under the provisions of this
act, tho court, or in vacation, a judge thereof,
may summarily try and punish the offender.
The proceedings shall be commenced by filing
with the clerk of the court an information
under oath, setting out the alleged facts con
stituting such violation, upon which the court
or judge shall cause a warrant to issue, under
which tho defendant shall be arrested. The
trial may be had upon affidavits, or either
party may demand the production and oral
examination of the witnesses. A party found
guilty of contempt under the provisions of this
section, shall bo punished by a fine of not less
than two hundred or more than one thousand
dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail
not less than three or more than six months,
or by both fine and imprisonment.
Section 5. If the existence of the nuisance
be established in an action as provided in this
act, or in a criminal proceeding, an order of
abatement shall be entered as a' part of the
judgment in the case, which order shall direct
tho removal from the building or place of all
fixtures, furniture, musical instruments or
movable property used in conducting the nui
sance, and shall direct the sale thereof in the
manner provided for the sale of chattels under
execution, and effectual closing of the building
or place against its use for the purpose, and so
keeping it closed for a period of one year, unless
sooner released. If any person shall break
and enter or use a building, erection or place
so directed to be closed, he shall be punished
as for contempt as provided in the preceding
Bection. For removing and selling the movable
property, the officer shall be entitled to charge
and receive the same fees as he would for levy
ing upon and selling like property on execution,
and for closing the premise and keeping them
closed, a reasonable sum shall be allowed by
tho court.
Section 6. The proceeds of the sale of the
personal property, as provided in the preceding
section, shall be applied in payment of the costs
of the action and abatement, and the balance,
if any, shall be paid to the defendant.
Section 7. If the owner appears and pays all
costs of the proceeding, and files a bond with
sureties to be approved by the clerk in the
full value of the property, to be ascertained by
tho court, or, in vacation, by the clerk, auditor,
and treasurer of the county, conditioned that
he will immediately abate said nuisance and
prevent the same from being established or
kept therein within a period of one year there
after, the court, or, in vacation, the judge, may
if satisfied of his good faith, order the premises
closed under the order of abatement to bo de
livered to said owner, and said order of abate
ment cancelled so far as tho same may relate
to said property and if the proceeding bo an
action in equity and said bond be given and
costs therein paid before judgment and order of
abatement, the action shall be thereby abated
as to said building only. The release of the
property under the provisions of this section
shall not release it from any Judgment lien
penalty or liability to which it may be subject
by law.
Section 8. Whenever a permanent injunction
issues against any person for maintaining a
nuisance as herein defined, or against any owner
or agent of the building kept or used for tho
purpose prohibited by this act, there shall be
assessed against said building and the ground
upon which tho same is located and against
the person or persons maintaining said nui
sance, and the owner or agent of said premise,
a tax of three hundred dollars. The assess
ment of said tax shall be made by "the assessor
of the city, village or township in which the
nuisance exists and shall be made within three
months from the date of the granting of the
permanent Injunction. In case the assessor fails
or neglects to make said assessment the same
shall bo made by the sheriff of-the county, and
a return of said assessment shall be made to the
county treasurer. Said tax may be enforced and
collected in the manner prescribed for tho col
lection of taxes under the general revenue laws
and shall be a perpetual lien upon all property,
both personal and real, used for the purpose of
maintaining said nuisance, and the payment of
said tax shall not relieve the person or build
ing from any other penalties- provided by law
and when collected shall be applied and dis
tributed in the manner prescribed by law for
the application and distribution of, moneys aris
ing from the collection of fines and penalties
in criminal cases, excepting that 20 -per cent
of the amount so collected shall- be paid by the
treasurer to the attorney representing the state
in the injunction action at the time of final
judgment.
Section 9. Whereas, there being an -emergency
this act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage. "
THE BRYAN DOCTRINE
To the Editor of the Houston Chronicle.
In his address, delivered in Dallas, November
20, Mr. W. J. Bryan said: "The saving of one
boy may be the means of accomplishing for the
world greater things than that money in any
other way could have brought. Much as I m
interested in government, I am more interested
in religion. (Applause.) Anxious as I am that
men shall vote right, I am more anxious that
men shall live right. The doctrine of election
is the only doctrine of the church to which I
belong that has bothered me. As some one has
explained, that election is simply this: "God
is voting for you and the devil is voting against
you and wnich ever way you vote -that carries
the election. There is much more in a man's
being in harmony with his Creator -than in har
mony with his party." (Applause.) '
The reader will agree that this is a famous
paragraph. It contains a number of vital truths
that ought to have great weight with thinking
men. Two or three things are pointed out for
the purpose of emphasis.
First. A boy is worth more than any amount
of money. Theoretically all agree to that state
ment, but practically many deny it Go where
one will, on railroads, in hotels, business and
money-making freight the very air. Govern
mental policies that are wrecking and damning
the boys by the multiplied thousands, are con
doned and even approved because they result
in making money for certain people. Mr. Bryan
said when one's own boy is involved he under
stands that boy is worth more than any amount
of money, -but when his neighbor's boy is im
periled it is another proposition. This is another
way of saying that unless it hurts them in their
own family circles, many men will agree to the
destruction of boys, if only the process fattens
their bank account. The whole thing is utterly
discreditable to those who are guilty.
Second. Note again: "Much as I am In
terested in government, I am more interested
in religion." Mr. Bryan stoutly affirms that no
one is really prepared to live until he Is in right
relation with God. This is a great truth that
needs to be pressed down on the consciences
of the masses. There are many people who
believe that it is Impossible for any one to bo
active in politics and a great Christian char
acter at the same time. Mr. Bryan is the best
Borf. of refutation of this devilish Idea. There
Is no incompatibility between Christianity and
the science of government.
It is no idle statement to say that Mr. Bryan
is doing more than any other single layman to
enthrone in the affairs of this country the
practical doctrine announced by Christ, "Render
unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and
unto God the things that are God's." The fact
that he through his whole life has preserved
this proper co-ordination, incumbent on every
Christian citizen, is perhaps the thing that give3
mm the wealth of confidence he enjoys not only
frIva but throughout the world. It is
earn of Mm that no American ever traveled
Ji Si. more Profoundly impressed the prac
ticability of Christianity on the minds of heathen
countries. If Christian men in America would
live up to the mandates of Christianity in citizen
ship matters, it would prove the solution of
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