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Red Cloud Again?
llccatise the oxpcrlmnnt, bo fnr, liut
irovutl satisfactory.
' Hocauso It hits not been fully tiled
cut yet.
There hns been s6mo boot leRlng,
alitl there will be Mime during the
next year.
That Is to be expected.
The saloon broiiKht with them
somabrttl characters and It duvelopod
others,
Many of them have disappeared.
The othoih will nNo disappear If the
lry policy Is made permanent
There has boon little attempt to en
Jorce the law by prosecution of boot
legger. Nor do the inajoilty of those who
favor prohibition insist upon more
prosecutions.
Ve do not believe in the necessity
of a ootintuut or expensive resort to
the crliulual lawi,
We take the chance of a small
amount of illegal sales.
The harm that results from the sales
of the unlicensed vendors Is a negll
ible matter compared with the harm
that results from one licensed saloon.
Indulgence in liquor is not made
popular by the sneaks who sell it in
violation of law. There Is little dan
ger of our boys beln attracted to the
fiairs of the boot lexers.
There is little fear that new drunk
urds will be made to increase the list
of ttie victims of drink by the arts of
the unlicensed seller, who must hide
this tratllc from the eyes of the re--apectable
element of the community.
We have made whiskey selling iu
'Hied Cloud disreputable.
We have discovered that there are
some who are willing to be disreput
able, and have their lank of regard for
ht opinion of good people advertised'
We have discovered that there are
people in this city who regard im
prisounieut in jail without concern or
a sense of humiliation
It is sad that we have such people
in our midst. But there Is very little
'danger that they will make vice
popular.
It is only a matter of time when
they will give up their unlawful oc
cupation. When the better element
of the city show them ho contempt
with which they are regarded, their
numbers will diminish. Two years
wore of dry policy will make the ille
gal sales of Honor of no consequence.
At any rale the eity is doing noth
ing to popularize vice. It Is not mak
ing money from pandering to the
drunkard maker. It Is not giving re
spectability to the wrecker of homes,
tlio destroyer of jnanhooil. .
In 'twin yean,' we belfev that Mi
man has bought liquor from n boot
legger, whom the saloon had not pre
viously debased.
In two years we believe no young
man has learned to drink from the un
licensed sales of liquor.
If there is a homu whose le.iouiees
have been squandered by a drunken
husband during the past two years, we
have not heard of him.
If there is a man of any sigultlciuice
in tho city who now wastes any large
part of his lime or money in drink, or
association With the low and vicious,
ww do not know his name. Gentlemen
for whom the coiiimuiiltjr IV I L con
siderable respect were often s-eeii in
company with the licensed sullen of
liquor, often seen iu their saloon
They gave the saloon and the sale of
liquor something of their respect
ability. These men are never seen In aso.
ciotlun with the boot-legger, are ucvcj
loitering about his place of business
Young men arc never looking wist
fully into the windows of the criminal's
secret places of business
We do not ask a more rigid enforce
ment of tho law We have no com
plaint to make of the laxity of oill
tints in enforcing the law iu the past.
We are satisfied that any otllcials Mill
do their duty when that duty is made
clear aud manifest to them.
We know the lack of funds iu the
city tieaiurer for the discovery, pros
ecution and punishment of crime. We
ask but little help In this direction.
What we do ask is that the city do
nothing to give the saloon business
legal sanction. Let liquor selllug con
tinue to be a degrading, criminal oc
cupation, to be pursued iu secret, by
disreputable men only, aud it will die
out of itself.
We do not expect to prevent the
drinkiug of liquor. There is perhaps
half as much liquor drank iu this city
as when we bad the saloon. Indivi
duals have it shipped In for their owu
consumption.
We do not object to this. Those who
ship in liquor for their own consum
mation are the people we desire to
protect. They are usually people who
are competent to restralu their ap
petite. Lets than half the liquor now drank
or purchased in the city is provided by
the violators of law.
Tholr sales constitute but a small
matter, as compared with thcsales of
an open saloon.
Tho saloon has eultlvated n tasto
for drink in hiiudicds of people In the
vicinity of lied Cloud. ,.
Tho restoration of tho snfoon will
intensify thU appetite for alehol, and
add scores of Ix-ifiii tiers to the list of
topers.
The bool-leggi'f hai not made a
drunkard or started a young man bn
the donnvvard path.
He hits provided tho former victim
with an ouuMsslmi'tl bottle. lie hab
never dated solicit or tempt the stibnr
or the young.
No man invites it ft lend to go to his
den to pal take of n social glass. One
saloon takes from the people for tuc
consumption of liquor eight or ten
thousand dollars a year, it must do
that iu older to pay the license, bu
the liquor and piy the big profits to
the saloon keeper. We do not bells vo
that amount of money, or anything
like It has been spent for liquor In
Heil Cloud In the past year
It is iibsuul to suppone thnt a city
or school district leiili.M.s any gain out
of the license money.
Kxtoring It fiotn the people tudltect
ly by a license to tho saloon, Is the
most expensive mode in which to col
lect a tax.
Fur every dollar that gets into the
school fund or city treasury in this
manner the real taxpayer has to pay
one to live dollars iu addition. The
merchant loses a per cent of his trade,
a per cent of his collections. A man
can't buy whiskey and calico with the
same dollar.
lie can't buy beer and sugar with
the same chnuge.
He can't maintain his credit with
the merchant aud pay cash at the bar
of the saloon.
The saloon was never conducted in
accordance with the law,
The best saloou keeper was a con
stant violator of the law. The worst
a greater offense, and a far greater
menace to the peace and morals of the
city than all the illegal vendors com
bined. Let us not go backward. The
city is becoming temperate. The
young meu are growing up clean and
strong and free from the habits en
gendered by the saloon.
Let us not prepare pitfalls for them.
The Great Destroyer
Cari ! Tanks.
Mrs. Eulalie Drain and children de
sire to express their thanks to all the
many friends for their many kindness
es shown during the long illness and
the death of tholr beloved husband
and father.
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Invitation To
Spring Shoppers
To Visit Our Store &
This season we are showing
splendid styles in
Ladies' Cloaks
Ladies' Dresses, Etc.
These Lines Are Selected With Cmre
And consideration as regards the demands of our .patrons,
who demand the best to be had.
Everything we show is good. If there are better gar
ments on the market at the price, our years of experience fail
to find it.
We feel confident we are showing the very best when we
offer our lines for your inspection.
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Till1 article Is a very brief digest of
a speech made by Hhi. Itlchiiiotid P.
Hoh,uin of Alabama iu the Utdted
BttUcs ilousu of Ilcprceutatlte on
Feb 'J, lllll. The. speech at the time
made a profound impression on the
tiu-mbei'.s of the House and is consider
ed one of the best brief statements
ever made on the whole Liquor quest
ion. It. was during the Boer war that
the lltitlsh government found that the
average Riigllahmnu did not measure
up to the standard of iccrul'lug and
the nveinge soldier in the Held mani
fested a low plane of vitality aud eu
durance. Parliament was alarmed
and instituted an invest luatloii It
was found that the cause of this na
tional degeneracy was alcoholic pjls-
oiilng As a result the lltitlsh Govern
ment pincardutl the streets of one
bundled cities warning the people aud
appealiug to them iu the name of the
nation to desist from driukilig al
coholic beverage The French nud
(icrtuHii Governments nopu followed.
In the summer of JO, I) an interna
tional conference on alcoholism was
hold In Loudon to which most of the
great nations sent delegates. After a
most thorough Investigation the re
presentative medical leaders of tho
continence diew up a report iu the
(01 in of a statement deliuiug the na
ture of alcohol as follows: "Exact
laboratory, clinical and pathological
research has demonstrated that alcohol
is a protoplasmic poison, and Its use
as a beverage is destructive and degen
erating to the humau organism.
Therefore Its me should be te tiicted
and limited in the same way as any
other poisonous drug". It is a well
known fact that the white corpuscles
iu the blood under ordinary conditions
attack ami destroy the disease germs
that seek lodgment In the body.. Al
cohol, even1 when used iusmallqunnll
tics paralyses these corpuscles utul
renders them ineffective. It is no
wonder the mortality statistics show,
as they do, that a total abstainer has
nearly twice the hold on life that the
average drinker has and about thiee
times the hold of heavy drinkers and
those engaged in the liquor tratllo.
Ttje comparative figures show the ap
palling fact that alcohol is killing off
as'ma'ny Americans every year ns all
the wars of the world have klllod iu
battles in 2,300 years. Iu the United
States are about one million confirmed
druukards of whom three bundled
thousand die every year. Alcohol is
the curse of the red man aud the black
man. it has conquered some of the
noblest white men. it is the evershad
owing cause of crime, pauperism and
Insanity. It blights the progeny of
mail, lly scleutlllc tests it is estimated
that tho wide use of alcoholic bever
age' iu this country causes a loss of
fully .M percent in the elliceney of the
Nation's producers. Tho m-udncMon
of wealth is at the rate of l.'JJ.OOO.OOO,
000 yearly; the loss due to lowered
etllcleuoy is therefore fully 88,500,000,
Ot'0", The economic loss of t hose cut off
untimely is estimated at sri,t)00,0U0,030.
Again it is estimated that the coit of
providing for the added crime, pauper
ism, Id'jcy and iusauity produced by
alcohol in the United States and paid
fotf'by direct taxation exceeds 82,000,
000,000. Adding to this our annual
liquor bill of 82,000,000,000, we 11 nd the
the total economic harden laid upon
the Nation by King Alcohol is between
sixteen and seventeen billions of doll
ars, more than half of all the wealth
produced by the nation. But alcohol
is not only destroying the wealth of
the nation but the nation's life is at
stake. If the nation degenerates
another will rise to take her place.
This has been the history of the world
tiuce national history began. America
is the .hope of the world. The star of
Empire hitherto has made its way
westward. But there is no longer any
westward. In America the star of
Empire finishes the circle of the world.
Here if anywhere we must develop a
thoroughbred race of men. But how
can this be done when the great de
stroyer sin aes me famines down as
fast as they rise.
Last year on an average every saloon
in the United States was the cause of
the death of three men. This year
aiso eacn saioon will kill three men.
Each saloon in the United States has
on an 'average 20 men made heavy
drunkards who are mortally wounded.
Eaob saloon, on an average has 100
men made regular drinkers who are
seriously wounded. In the full light
of the facta I can not look upon any
saloon otherwise than as an assasslu,
the most barbarous, atrocious pf
assassins. The first duty assumed by
any Government is the protection of
its citizens. It Is incredible that the
governments of the world should long
continue In league with assassins.
When the uature of alcohol Is better
understood, uo community will longer
tolerate these conditions.
From the standpoint of the state
there is but one decision: This great
destroyer must himself be destroyed.
The first means toward this end la to
bring the facts about alcohol before
the people. The average man is a
rational being. If undegenerated, he
shares with other creatures three ele
mental attributes the Instinct of self
preservation, the impulse to rise and
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Four Models:
$165.0 $200.oo $2l5.oo $250.
AH fully equipped, nothing lacking, luggage
carrier. Magneto and free engine
Liberal Tmrma To Agmntm
Jessup (Si Sanderson,
Postponed!
PLOWING!
DEMONSTRATION
On the C. J. Piatt Farm
One Mile West of Town.
UNTIL.
Wed. and Thus., M 26 and 27
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An International Kerosene Tractor
and Plowing Outfit will be used
An Auto wilTlrowO"URS3"H O P for the
demonstration every 20 minuets
Whitaker & Buckles
Red Cloud, : : : Nebraska.
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Horses & Mules
At 1 o'clock pm., at the Starr Bros..
Sale Bsrn, Ued Cloud, Neb.,
Sat., Mar. 22, 1913
12 Farm Mares
ages from 4 to 9 years, weight from 1000 to 1600 pounds. Moat of these mares
are with foal and in good working condition
10 Geldings 4 to 9 years old
10 Mules 3 to 10 yrs. All broke
Also, a few cheap horses
Terms 10 months on bankable note.
Col. Jake Ellinger, Auctioneer.
Capt. Sid Floranoe, Clerk.
STARR BROS.
better himself, the instinct to protect
his progeny. Therefore the average
man can be cured by taking to him
the truth that alcohol strikes at his
life, stops, then reverses his evolution
and blasts his progehy. The problem,
therefore is to take the great vital
truths to the vast multitudes of the
people. Iu the broadest saose it is a
problem of universal education. This
work must be done in the home, in the
school, in the church in fact, wherever
the opportunity offers. Abraham
Lilncolu, once remarked that the next
great war would be a war against tho
liquor power. That war Is now on,
Organisation in this war as lu every
othsr Isneoebsary in order to win. No
nation hat yet kept this great destroy
rinitrnldst and survived. Amer
ica is not different from the nations or
history. One or the othsr must per
ish, It is war to the death and we line
up on on or the other side.
It is often said by the enemy that,
"Prohibition does not prohibit". Let
it be shown that it does prohibit to a
marked degree, but let us realize that
getting prohibition is but part of our
war. The second part is its enforce
ment. Prohibition can prohibit. To
ssy that It cannot is nothing less than
a boast that Democracy is a failure
and that the Government is lost. We
can all go forth to this battle with a
a song on our hearts, each to do his
full doty, knowing that whatever be
tide, whether the heavens fall or the
earth melt away, whether our, eyes see
the final viotory or whether we die In
the conflict, that, "The Lord of Hosts
is with us", that, "The God of Jacob
Is our refuge".
f OR SAIE.
I will sell at Auction on the streets
of Red Oioud Saturday, March 12, a
wagon load of Seed Potatoes.
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