fWAlTA HATT.V RTCTT . STTNDAV. 21. 1 ROO ST\T"rTRTOX
Prohibition a Greater Drunkard-Haier
Than the Higl-Lioeased Saloon ,
VOICE FROM PROHIBITION KANSAS ,
Er-Attoniej General Jradford Declares
the Law Is a SacceM ,
HIS APPEAL FOR HOME AND FIRESIDE ,
Ho Bitterlj Denounces tba Horals of the
People of Nebraska ,
JOHN L. WEBSTER'S MASTERLY ANSWER ,
We ClosM tlio first Day of tlio t ro-
lilliltlon Debate at Omnil Iilnntl
tllic Complete Arjjiiinents
Presented.
TUB BEE hai published complete steno
graphic reports of tlo speeches or Mr. A. C.
fllanldn nnd Mr. E. Hosewtor at the opcn-
unRof tbodebato on the prohibition isluo at
[ Grand Islaud on Thursday evening. The
following arc the closing speeches of the .first
evening- the dlscrusilon , being the nrgu-
mcnts ofCK-Attorncy General Bradford of
Ivans is for prohibition nnJ of Hon. John L.
3Vtbitcrof : Omatm for high license. The
Bpcecbesaro produced without abridgement
from the notes of TUB DKE'S stenographers :
CK.V.
! Tlie ICansas Attorney's Dcfcnso of
Ijcgal 1'roli Ibit Ion.
Ccnerat Bradford of ICansas followed Mr.
Roscwatcrln the debate on Thursday even-
in p. lie spoke as follows :
Jlr. Chairman , T-adics and Gentlemen : It
Is perhaps unnecessary that I should say a
word In apology baforo I proceed to make
anything of an argument. Last night at
11 : ; o'clock I was called out of bed to re
ceive some telegrams from hero requesting
my prestnco ticro today. I traveled nil nient
and till dty , arriving hero about 7:1)0 ) , eating
n bite ot supper nnd then coming to this
place. I ramo expecting , ladles and gentle
men , that tuit discussion would bo opened
by tno gentlemen who challenged us here to
discuss this proposition , and that It would
then bo closed by us who are to respond to
their challenge. 1 find on arriving hero
soracthingof a change In the programme , so
tl at the discussion Is opened by our stdo of
the case and purposed to be closed by the
otherslde ,
J will , ay a few words to you , Rcntlcmon
andladic.1 , tonight , hoping thatby tomorrow
tno original understanding that I had wllibe
acceded to and the discussion , go ouso far as
X am concerned ,
-As a matter of fact , believing as I do on
tnlssubject , having had the experience that
I have liad , and opportunities of observing
the workings of prohibition ai I have had , I
fearnotuny man In this country in the dls-
custlon ol prohibition. ( A.pplauso.1Vhen
prohibition wa ? adopted In the state in which
I reside , it was a question in my mind
whether or not It would bo successful.Vhcn
prohibition was first proposed in ICansas , al-
thouch a life-long temperance man , I
studied the situation well. The old
theory of temperance work has always
In mv mind been at fault , and the old crusade
apralnst intemperance or the intemperate use
of Intoxicating liquors has always been an
object of fault-tlndlnj ? , so far as Iain con
cerned. The theory upon which it was en
grafted and the manner in which it was pur
sued , while H did great peed In its way , It
'hnsalwnys been a doubt la my mind as U > its
ultimata success in stopping the in tempo rate
uscof intoxicatingliquors. . There hasalways
been a uery In iny mind llko this : Is there
any practical way to do away with tbo intem
perate use of Intoxicating liquors } It there
nowajto prevent , the mo of intoxicating
liquorn ns a bererapol Now , that was sug-
Bested to my mind liecausoof the study that
* JL had made of the use of liquor , of Its effect
upon the system , aud ray obseivatiou of the
result oflontj-and continued use of it. These
jthlnps presented themselves to mo In that
Sractlciil way , ind Ibelicvo tbat all that the
people of tlie state of Nebraska want is to
Know tlio practical result Of prottlbltlon , and
when they have learned that fact , nnd when
the Ides otKovemberconie , there willpo Into
the ballot boacs of this states the voice of the
peoples which will say. "Away with that
which contaminates , which destroys , which
icorrupts.whichhiisaU of the bad features and
'none of the pood. "
How , then , ladles nnd gentlemen , wo have
\ Iiad this temperance , this moral reform for
) 1OO years In this country ; the peed wo men
J and the good men of this country bavo dis-
cxissbd it in all Its various phases. It Is un
necessary for mo tosay hero tonight what the
-tad' ' Tsflect of the liquor is upon ,
tha system ; It Is unnecessary for
m to describe the woo andvant
ivhlcli is caused by the intemperate use ofla-
toilcating liquors. Vou all know that fact.
These Rcntlejiicn hero to discuss that ques
tion , they know what theeCTeetls totho sys
tem. Hut that matter cuts no fl uro with the
menwlioso eauso they advocate here tonlgt.
2 > fet with them , I will say , but with the men
whoso cause they advocates , the question is
How can they make the greatest profit by the
suleof Intoxicatlnglln.uor. carlo ? not for tbo
tears aiul the woo cunsed by the liquor they
sell , buttho question is ho\v are they to get
the money the most of it. The scicntitlc
world lias advanced the factthatintoxie.it-
Jnc liquors , or in other words , alcohol dis
tilled liquors , have a medicinal quality that
can scarcely be replaced by any other liquid
tliat has been discovered by medical science.
jProvlsIonls made fortbouso of intoxicating
liquors for tlicpunose , which Is given in the
amendment Ixfore you.
] g I ten re , ladles and R-cntlomcn , you wlll'ob-
i Bcn'o that It Isn practical movement ; it Is a
I \ xnovcmont In tha right ditection ; it is a move-
-i incnt in the interest of the he rno nnd fireside.
L _ i'cr.v well , lit us see. If you have lo\v II-
Jrcnso in the conimunltv there Is dangvr to
thoboys , there is but little restriction put
upon thosaleof intezlcating linuoraatid any-
baly and everybody can sell it any place
wherever tbov please. It Is said It tempts
Jjoys. Jfow. then they want to put a restric
tion uixia the , ilo ol intoxicating liquors In
the shape of hiph llcciije. "Why , they say
lilgh llcinso wises the crado ot the dealer In
intoxlcuUnp llfjuors and makes the place rc-
spcctnblo , clears out the low down groKger-
Ics , and reduces the nu inber ol places \vhcro
intflxicatlup liquor U sold , and. therefore , reduces -
duces the amount consumed. The last propo
sition Is not true , It does not reduce the
ntnoutvtof liquors consumed. Simply uques-
tionoC lilch lla'nse , It ixnluces the number
of whcro it Is '
places consumed , but don't re-
dnco the amount. It eLO
simply requires tlio
jrcntlernan who wants it to ea a little farther
for It. It has
perhaps cloancnl out all the a-
loons on this tide of the street , nnd ho has tope :
p-o over to the other , It has porbapi closed
out the saloons in this part of tbo block , and
Tic may have to po over to another block , but
\ he goes over and the silo cf it h not rc-
I strlctedwhenho gets tliero ; ho can buy all
' ho wants nnd pay the pru-o to the dealer tmd
jjo nuvsllouanru uskeu.
The theory of high license Is this : That it
reduces the number ol plaeoi where It Is
sold , buttho restrictive qualities olthe high ;
license la\v \ luother word * , tha prohibitory
qualities of tbo high license law are the ben-
otidal part otlt , and tbat Is all that U beno-
What arc tko prohibitive qualities of the
lilgh license lair that inuko it beuollci.il I Let
/ metcllyou. Look at thohigrhlieenso lawof
- ' the state of 1'cimsylvniihvhnt la UJ It
provides if they sell liquor on the seventh
duveT the week , commonly called Sunday ,
they forfeit their license , nnd It provides ft
they sell to inebriates or minors their license
is forfeited. It is tbo prohibitive qualities of
th hi h lloenso law that prevents the sale of
it to inebriate nnd minor * ; if the prohibitive
qualities oftho high license law prtiveats the
sale to Inebrlites und minors. In the name of
God prohibit the saloon altogether and
prevent -
vent it belnprsold toanvbody atalL , If you
psuroduco the amount cfdruuVonness bjrre-
duclng-tho number of saloons , why not thea
rilucotho amouiitof drunkeunc s bywinlng
out the wbo ! number of saloons ) That is
the true way to Ucat this question ,
Very well , then , let us KO back to Uio state
f I'eunsylvanla , itatistics have Uxa read
hero bythcKntlcraan to show the ntirabe > _ r
ctplate ? in rnlla.ldpb.la an compared with
the number Ixjfort , Hodldn'ttoll jou about
this. His money ho is after , It Is the profit
In the business , not that he cares for the tears
of the mothers and orptana * O , no , U Is the
money he cnn make out of the
limncvi. XhOPonwqucnco islf thcyhnvconly
twelve hundred licensed saloons , aj I understood -
stood from the gentleman , I will guarantee
they have raoro than 5.CX10 "speak-easy"
places , t Rankln-fi.OOO ) . Yes , 0,01) ) , 1 have
been la Philadelphia and investigated that
question nnditnoiv myself. While they only
have a United number of licensed saloons
they liavc flXX , ( ) places where they hnvo no
llccnso at all and whisky Is sold as free m
water. Iwant to ay to you that you can't
rcifulato thcsuloof Intoxicating' Ihuorsas a
beverage. There U noway to deal with ttao
whisky seller except to pet him down nn l
stand on him. I have had them to deal vrith OJ
I ; rhaps no other man inthiscountry hai ; I
presume X have prosecuted moro saloon
keepers than any other man In this whoio
western country , and I know from the ex
perience ! have baathercis no way tn deal with
the intoxicating liquor seller eaccpt to ( jet
him do'.vn and stand on him when ) ho can't
move a peg , bccautc If you fHvo lnm an Inch
he will take a foot every tinic ,
Perhaps you will inquire what U a spool-
easy.ou will go Into a saloon ; you want
beer and you speak easy through that hole
and it comes In. i\o license 1 ? granted by tno
city or state and no revenue Is derived by the
city , state or county , tut It U a fact all the
same , nnd It has its deleteriouseffectupon
the morals and health of the community just
the same us though It was licensed.
But they say : "Hold on ; you arc getting
olt the track. " Nowhorola , the nucstion
of revenue that comes hero into the city
of Omaha , \vhero they have , I be-
Hove , JW3 saloons , (205,000 ( paid
Into the treasury each year for the twrposo
of schoolinfthe boys and girU of the city of
Omaba. 1'hey hold that out as an induce-
"men t to the tax payer. You ounht to vote for
nigh license , high license provides a revenue
from which you can educate your children.
It doesn't cost anything to educate your chil
dren which reduces the taxation just that
much. Supposing ho paid just whatever
school tax would he assessed against that
property ; it makes no particular difference
to the taxpayer whether it is for school pur
poses or what it Is for so that he does not pay
too tnuch. tax.
\VTiat he wants to dots tobringhls percen
tage down on his taxable property , and If the
high llcensosystcmvUcb. . opens the saloon
and other temptations before a man , if that
his a tendency to Increase the taxation for
the purpose of paying for the prosecution of
Individuals who commit crime , for the pur
pose of paying for the care and keeping of
the piuporsln thocoxamunitv , if It ti tbo
tendency I fay to Increase tha expenditures
of thecou-nty by reason of having high li
cense , why then I say what do you say ! Sup
pose If the city of Omaha , -where they have
'JJS saloons and consequently S'M.OOO paid
Into the trcasury.-supposing that in consequence
quence of the saloons they pay out 523,000 ,
how much have they made I want to ask you.
They say to you that because of hlh license
the city or Omaha has saved $ iti , ( XK > , but I
wanttosayto you that It is not correct , as I
will prove n wo proceed with this argument.
Ilecauso of the fact that they have high li
cense la the city of Ornaha today , I want to
say to you that that city shows a greater per
centage of crime committed than any other
city In the union , except three , in proportion
to its population. There Is , 1 repeat , a greater
amount of crime committed in the city of
Omaha than in nay other city in the union
but three , and when -weconwto compare it
with other cities of like population in this
country nnd see tto disparagement , you will
then see theforcoof the argument I am mak
ing. When you have saloons you have in
creased the amount of crime , atd wnere you
have increased theamount of crime , youhavo
Increased the expenditure in prosecuting per
sons charged with the crimes , paying attor
neys lees , fees of Juries and witnesses and
keeping of the prisoners in jail , nnd where
you have increased the number of convicts
you have increased the number of paupers to
keep at thocxpense of yourcounty. Thoiig-
ures will be shown you asvopo alonpr.
The fact of the business is this ; The sale of
intoxicating liquors tends to demoralize tbo
populance and tends to break the moral stam-
inn of the pcoplcnnd to mate them indiffer
ent to the cryjof the weak and the distressed ;
to inako them , cold and Indifferent [ to tlio
wants of the poor ; I say it stultUies the bet
ter qualities of the men nnd women and to
make them , by reason of the association that
they are brought in contact with , raoro
ant to commit crime than as though
the saloon was away and those associations
ilia not exist. And t ant is the reason why sa-
looiisam not preferable la a community.
But. oh , says the gentleman on the part of
the -whisky oligarchy that has talked with
you ton ! jjht , personal liberty and he read a
letter from some learned Bentlenun in the
cost , a professor of some college , uoon per
sonal liberty , and he says ho thinks It Is
dancerous to put this la the constitution and
Deprive the people of their ( personal liberty.
I suppose ho means to sav by that that by
putting that in the constitution of your state
we have thorightto dictate irhat you shall
cat , drink and -weir. Oh , no. The supreme
courtof theLTnSled States has said ills no
dlsturbanccof n man's personal liberty if
prohibition Is adopted by any state. That is
not the exact language used by tbe court , but
tbat li what it means.
In other words , they said la the Massachu
setts beer case : 'It is not only in the scopa
of tbeleijiilativo power to provide , but it is
their duty to provide for the character of the
morals and the tepUigof the health of a
community. "
Then , ladles and } Rentlemcn have from
the bicnestauthority In thcljndthis declara
tion , that the sale of intoxicatiugiiciuors a-s a
beverage Is injurious to the morals and
health of a community aud tends to increase
the pauperism and crime. I know whereof I
speak , and If the saloon tends to increase
pauperism and crime , then who wants It in
the community 1
ButO. this personal liberty ! tt'tien they
pet to talking about th ! personal liberty they
nrc terribly trespassed upon and terribly sub
dued , nnd all of their liberties , for which
their forefathers fought , they say have been
taken from them ; they talk about this being
a free and Independent country and tnenthey
talk about personal liberty.
Supposin , ; ! wa golncr down nlons Main
street of your city , and I llr.d a beautiful cor
ner lot ; 1 say to myself this is a pretty < * oed
town and this Is a nice lot ; I believa ! will
buy this lot ; I pull out my money and piy for
the lot anil got it free of incatnbrance : th < ; nl
go and pret a carpenter and I suy , 'you make
the plans and specifications for a three-story
house ou thU lot down hero , ' and ho makes
the plans and specifications and I go dowu
and buy the lumber and haul tbo lumber up
to this'lot , deposit it on the pround and ray
mechanics commence to work on the build-
Inc. The lire marshal comes along and says ,
' \Vhat \ doui here ! ' '
are vou ? 'llullding a
house , ' 'JMldinga frame house on tins lot ! '
'Ves.slr. ' ' ' Vou can't do ttat. ' What U the
reason , isn't this mj- lot ! ' 'YoV 'Isn't It
ray lumber ! ' 'Yes. ' 'Didn't ' I pay my money
for ill' ' 'Ye * , but you can 't build a fr.xrno
house here. ' 'Why not ! ' 'Bec.tuso If you
build a frame house hero you in juro the other
Improvements wnd property in the locality
and your 1 neighbor will have to piy a greater
amount of Insurance. '
I go homo and I go down to my bam and I
got my horse ; he is a magnificent horse aud
can trot In 3:1 : 4 or 2M and I am mad aud
going to have some pleasure some way ,
aud I go down the street with a whirl
and a policeman comes up and stops
me. "Hold on. Hold ou. Vou can't drive
that horse through this street at that rate of
speed ; ? . " flue. " I pull out tne money and
pay tbo line und 1 start across the culvert at
a tremendous rate of speed , as I am pretty
mnd ' by thU time. "Hold on , bold on , you
cau'tdriveaoi-oiithia brldje faster than a
walVS3 | fine , " and I pull outthotf nnd pay
him. I ffohoineand put my horse In the
barn and shut myself up In my house and I
bulldasnvat ninn fence around my premises
and shut myscllia , ami In two or three days
from that tune my her o dies , and in a few-
days there U a terrlblQ stench in the neigh
borhood , nnd a. policeman comes along aud
tays : Here , you have pot a dead horse on
yourpremises and you must take him away
or I will line you f UK" "That is my horse , "
"Tnat don't make auy dlikreuce , wo can't
have a nuisance around here , " 1 want to say
to you I would rather have two dead horses
on my premises than to have a saloon the
next door. [ Applause , ]
I'mon at liberty ! It will porrnlt a man to
build a saloon next to your residence. That
Is what personal liberty means. Personal
liberty under tha laws of thU country means
that a man shall hold property in such a way
as not to Injure the property of the com
munity or the health and morals of your
neighbor ; whenever you use that property In
such a way as to create u nuisance or Injure
the health or morals ol your neighbor , then
It is not interfering with your personal lib
erty lo taie your property away If you -will
I not take it away yourself , "When you go
ver to Missouri aud hcsu those red-
.osed fellow talking n > Tx > at personal
Ibertr , If they hod their dues they
ivould perhaps bo In the penitentiary instnid
> f on the street corners talking about per-
onsl liberty. *
The supreme court of the United States , In
Keeping with an opinion rendered some slxtj-
years ago when the conditions of the country
.vero far different from what they are now ,
.n keeping with tbat opinion they held that
any man could transport from one state Into
another Intoxicating liquors in the original
package and could sell them in the original
package , and that there was no law to inter
fere witn them In so dolns. 3fow , who was
"t that took the benefit of the personal liberty
_ n this raattorl The same men that wo had
prosecuted and sent to the county Jail or hail
been forced to lea vo the state of Kansas came
bock Into our borders and contaminated the
morals of the communities with the sellini : of
original package * without hindrance , The
same red-nosed devils that had been prose
cuted from four to six years , the same men
cnmo back there anilwere wins to cnoy ]
their personal llbcrtv by selling tfhlsky to
anybody who would call for the orizinnl
package , Independent of the laws of this
state orany other state. It Is not liberty
that they seek to enjor with other men In
common , butlt is the liberty that they want
to takes upon themselves to poison the boys
and girls of the coming- generation and ren
der them unfit for the position In this coun-
" y that they might occupy , and all for the
iv paltry dollars , and that Is all the per-
jnal liberty there Is In It. Is that all ! O ,
no , that Is not all there Is in It ; there nro a
few other things we can say In rejjard to this
subject A great deal has been said by
the gentleman who preceded me about some
ministers In Boston nnd elsewhere that have
proclaimed against the theory of prohibition ;
they say high license is far preferable. The
professor In the institution where I was once
a student said he once knew a boy that didn't
like pie. And he asked him why he dldn' t
like pie , \Vcll , he didn't like pie and that
vv.is all there was about It. well , can't you
Klve me any reason why you don't llko ple7
Yes , butho wasn'tgoingto dolt. But when
being pressed by the professor for some rea
son why he didn't like pie , ho said he had
never twted any. That h the way with these
ministers down In : Masachusetts. They
don't like it because they never tasted it ;
they don't ' like it because they never stopped
to study the benefits of prohibition ; they
don't ' like it because it interferes with their
personal liberty.
An Irishman was being prosecuted for mur
der and four witnesses siv'oro they saw him
commit the crime ; saw hltn with the knife
striking the fatal blow ; saw hhn plerco the
body of the victim and cause his death ; saw
the blood flow ; saw him pull the dagger from
the heart of the victim , nnd Jt seemed as
thouph everything was against the Irishman
and that no must bang. Thotlmo had been
set for the execution nnd ho says , "May It
please your honermay Isay a few words f
"Very well , sir , vou can say whatever you
desire to say. " Ho says , "Ami to bo lump ,
am I to bo put to death on the evidence of
these four spalpeens , when I can tret twenty-
five men to say they didn'tseeme doit ! " The
fact is that where there h ono minister that
declares agtilnst prohibition there wore toQ !
that declared In favor of It. Tbo men , women
and children and the decent people of Massa
chusetts were all for prohibition , but the
thugs , saloon keepers , tils reputable people ,
brewers ana distillers were all opposed to
probibitlon. I want to know which ono you
will Join. Will 3-011 Join with the brewers
and saloon keepers , or vrlll you Join with the
ministers , deacons , school teachers and the
decent people and be on the sldo of prohibi
tion ! That Is the question before you to
night. That Is the way it Is la our country ;
that is the way it is in every state where
they have prohibition. The decent people of
the states where tony have prohibition , or
prohibitory legislation even , are on the side
of law and order aud propriety. O , but some
one soys , why interfere with the fundamen
tal law of the state ! \Vhy disturb this old
document that has been handed down to us
by our forefathers , as the gentleman on the
other side would have us understand t- Did
the gentleman not stop to think that the con
dltions of the west have changed , that the
younp men of the Jfew England states have
Rene west , have taken Grceley's advice ana
gone west to grow up with the country ; the
consequence Is that wo have in Kansas , Ne
braska , the Dakotas and Colorado a higher
prade of Intelligence and a higher typo of civ
ilization than they have In Massachusetts
today ; the very pick nnd choice of these edu
cational Institutions have come to Kansas and
r ebraski , have coma west to grow up with
the country ; have como west vrhcre
they can say my boy and my girl
shall have a better opportunity than I had ,
I was in danger of those hell-holes , that vestibule -
tibulo of the penitentiary , I vras in danger of
those things , but my boynndmy fjirl shall not
be In danger of them ; andthUisono of the
triumphs that will go down tbo corridor of
time as one of the grandest triumphs of in
tcgrity In this country. [ Applause. ] "When
wo have got through with the discussion of
these problems , when they become as settled
ns the question of slavery is settled today ,
like Sherman on his march to the sea , wo'vil !
KO down with Kansas in the lead and Ne
braska close behind , and toward the grea
Atlantic we will go until we have placed a1
the very top of the capitol \Vashingtpn
the white Hag of prohibition. * -
And then , when we have finished at "Wash
ington , wo will s\ving around the great gul _
coast and como around to the Pacific , und
with Oregon and California and all the west
und we will see tha constitution of prohibi
tion In the constitution of the United States.
There Is more to do. There are other prob
lems we can consider in connection with thl :
matter. There are one reason after anothe
we can pile up , line after line , column aftc
column and volume after volume until then
arountold pages giving the results , giving th' '
experience and observation of men , and giv
ing valid reasons why Intoxicating- liquors
should bo forever prohibited as a beverage in
this country.
Now , then , It is for the people of Nebraskr
to say which line you will fall upon ; whethei
you will fall upon the side of prohibition ,
or whether for the paltry sum realized fron.
high license In your community you co on
down the corridors of time singing that dole
ful song that you shall sinfr whoa you havi
placed your boy In the last resting placi
where he has meta premature death bccaus' '
of the negligence of you and your ueijrhbori
in discussing and voting upon thU proposi
tion.
tion.jut.
jut.
The Prohibition Speaker' * Allegations
refuted hyOiHulal ritatNtlcs" .
lion. J. L. Webster of Omaha followed
General Bradford nnd closed the Thursday
evening debate. Ho spoke as follows :
My VellowCItizens : This U the second
time during this campaign that I have been
called upon to defend the state In which. I
live nnd which. 1 love against the charges of
people who come from other state * and tell
us how we should attend to our affairs. [ Ap-
plause.l
\Vo \ have been told tonight that prohibition
is a cure for all the evils that seem to Inflict
humanity , and that down in the neighboring
state soutn of us where our friend who has
Just spoken seems to have labored so long
for the prohibition cause , tells us that pro
hibition has dona more to suppress the evils
of the world than any other thing , and tbat
there was moro crime in tbo city of Omaha
than any other city In the union except three.
I want now at the outstart to say to my
friend from the state of Kansas that thecity
of Omaha today has less of crime In proportion
tion to Its population than the town in which
he lives In , nls own state. [ ApQlauso.J I
want to suy to you furthermore that the
&tato of Nebraska has less of crirao in it and
less of drunkenness In It than any prohibition
atato under the American ling ,
It shall bo my purpose during the line of
this discussion to establish the fact , by the
eathcring of evidence , which I deem un
answerable that In the prohibition states of
this union there is moro of drunkenness and
drunknrd-mnkln than there is in our state ,
and when my friend who sits down hero be
neath me , told this uudienco that wo were
here speaking for those who dealt In liquor ,
nnd that the saloons were the drunkard-
makers , that I am hero as a citizen of t no
state of Nebraska , prepared to prove by un
answerable facts that the prohibition party
of the United States is malting more drunk
ards by Its nefarious doctrines than
\ve xvho bellovo In tbo license regulating
system. ( Applause. ] Why my friend who
last spokfi from this platform to this audi
ence made a reference to tbo state of Penn
sylvania to tbo effect that under Its license
system there existed In the city of Philadel
phia , in addition to its licensed saloons , thou
sands of places which ho culled 'speak easys,1
[ laughter ) nnd ray friend right down hero
enlarged the number not content with
llrothcr Bradford's statement that ho had
been in Philadelphia. iHnntan , 'Ves , there
* nro G.OOO , and I know it ] My friend below
says * Yes , there are 0,000 , and I know It. ' I
vrould llko tousle you how Ionic it took you to
get arouud. [ LaugUtcrj. Well , Bradford
ad to go down to Plttstonrg nnd experiment
nd find nfow thousanrtininre.
i-'urthermorw , my frtoid llankln assumes
ere to tell this audienct * that down In that
rent state of .Massachusetts , whore the pco-
ilo hod a fair elevUon.-rrhere the Intelligence
.nd Intellect of thnt itMU tame forth to cast
.heir ballots that VrhOn that vote was
counted , prohibition ? 4 n doctrine was
mowed under. And do-you pretend to tell a
S'ebroska audience tha * all th.o pcoDlehi
Massachusetts who volud.ngalnst prohibition
, vcre snloon keepess , thuf s and drunkards I
' iVpplnusc ) . > % ) .
My friend wuo first atWroscd you took oc
casion to read from a slte&'h whlcn 1 made at
Beatrice which , ns hoindmltted , contained
in argument upon the industrial question
ivhlchwould strike with great force the
mind of the ordinary obagrver. Hut ho told
he audiencenfter he had read a lengthy ex-
fact from that speech , that he could draw
'rora It facts \vhlch ho thought 1 had
imllted an unanswerable arifument tore-
'utc. The conclusion to bo drawn from what
: then stateil.
My assertion there , In brief , was that pro-
hlnltlon In the states of this union , wnero It
it had been sought to bo enforced
either as a constitutional amend
ment or by statutory law-had done
more to break down the commercial Indus
tries In those states than any other cause ;
that the other states in the union surround
ing them and elsewhere , when ) prohibition
did not prevail durluc the ten years from
1STO to ISS ) , were marching on in progress ,
Increasing in population , Increasing lu
wealth , and Increasing in manufacturing In
dustries. And I then publicly If not lu
terms invited criticism , mid dcilcd any mun
to disprove the truth of what I asserted. To
night , for the first time , have I found any
man , that dared to stand upon a public plat
form , nnd undertake to refute what 1 then
said , And now what is the manner of the ro-
fu tation I Why , my friend undertakes to tell
you that in tho'stnto of Pennsylvania that
her manufacturing Industrie1 ? , from 1S70 to
1SSO , were diminished something like 5,000,1
bchevo. Well , my friend further said that
before ho came hero ho took the pains , in the
city of Lincoln , to undertake to examine the
records for the purpose of gathering proof to
show that my statement was incorrect nnd
deceptive. Let mo see- bow far my friend
undertook to Investigate that question. He
simply read far enough to liiul out that the
number of manufacturing institutions In
Pennsylvania , during the years 1S70 to 1SSO ,
Imd diminished In number and there his
curiosity seems to have como to a slop , and
the search suddenly ended.
Let me tell you-my friend vhat he would
have learned regarding his own state of
Pennsylvania , had bo read farther. "Why ,
right over in the next column bo would have
found that from 1870 to 1S 0 the manufactur
ing industries of Pennsylvania had in
creased its capital to the amountof 03,000,000.
f Applause. ] Had he rellcrU.il but a minute
moro he would have found out that in the
prohibition state of Maine that the entire
amount of capital invested In her manu
facturing Industries was but f 19,000,030. , In
other words , in that grand old state of Penn
sylvania , which repudiated your prohibition
speeches and doctrines by voting down the
amendment , increased her manufacturing in
dustries in ten years to S.'O.CKW.OOO more tban
the entire amount of capital invested in rnan-
ufacturing industries in your prohibition
state of Maine. [ Applause. ]
Go n little farther with it that same rec
ord had my friend read a little further
would liavo told him that the product of the
manufacturing industries of the stnto of
Pennsylvania , In that' same ten years , In
creased i'U.000,000 , whvcli was moro than the
agricultural product of , your prohibition state
of Jlaine. [ Applause. 1
Furthermore , my friend would have found
by reading farther that In the state of Penn
sylvania , during the same ten years , those
same manufacturing industries employed
S7.SOO moro people thau hi 1STO. If he had
taken the trouble to make a little computa
tion allowing five persons to a family he
would have found that the additional number
of persons employed bythe manufacturing
institutions alone added to the state of Penn
sylvania during those ten years was equal to
moro than one-half the entire population of
the prohibition state of Maine. [ Applause. ]
Co a little farther.By reading a little
farther you would have found in another
column that the stnto of Pennsylvania ,
during the same ten years , had increased
the amount of moliiy which it paid
for wasres In manufacturing institutions
$ (5,079,000. ( Why , my dear sir , the growth of
manufacturing institutions in the state of
Pennsylvania during tbe sumo ten years that
you tulk about as a refutation to my docu
ments would have supported all the people ,
men , women and. children , in your prohibi
tion state of Elaine , or all that you have got
in Xew Hampshire aud Vermont combined.
[ Great applause. ]
With limited time for making addresses
and for answering the argument which it
may be necessary to answer in order to make
this discussion a fair aud reasonable one , I.
cannot undertake at this time to go over and
detail the history of the manufacturing In
dustries of other states of this union ; but
whereas Pennsylvania was put forth to me
as an examplewherein my previous argument
was unfair and unjust , I think that I have
sufficiently answered that and drawn from
the history of tbe state of Pennsylvania , to
which my friend adverts , such answer to
suggestions that he made that it stands ad
mitted that the detailed statement of facts
that I made were true , and I have reproved
them to ba true , nnd I can make the asser
tion that in prohibition states of tne union
the time of progress was stayed , und in the
states where prohibition did not prevail there
was mi Increased prosperity to which your
prohibition states bear no comparison. I
want to add righ tnow , In that same line of
discussion , but a brief statement -with refer
ence to the state of Nebraska in which wo
live , nnd upon whose soil this discussion is
going on , during the ten years from IbSO to
13ft ) there has been sucb an increase incur
population , incur commerce , in our products ,
in our Industries mercantile nnd manufac
turing which stands without a rival ana
without a peer lu any other state within the
entire republic. AVith such a record as that
these people como to us and say to us people
of tbo state of Nebraska : Yououghtto adopt
a new policy , youxiught to amend your con
stitution , you ought to change your
habits. But when these people como
to mo and appeal to mo to take up
a course like that , I ask you first to show me
WUITC x > eorasKa anu its pcopio nro IODO wno-
fitted by this change bolero in my hesitating
manner I am prepared to accept it.
Before I started from the city of Omaha to
enter into this discussion I took the pains to
gather a little hit of information which to mo
is very Interesting and tells a wonderful
story. I visited the offices of the architects
of the city of Omuha nnd requested of them
to have prepared and delivered to me a state
ment of such plans and specifications of build
ings which had been prepared by them anil
which were shelved aud the erection of the
buildings postponed on account of the im
pending danger that prohibition might carry
in this state. 1 knew that there were a largo
number of people living in the city of Omaha
ready to Invest their money If they under
stood that prohibition wwild bo defeated , but
were unwilling to invoiftheir money in such
enterprises if they believed that prohibition
was going to carry. I-lmew also that there
wore institutions in the 'eastern states whoso
business it was to loamlnoney who refused to
loan money on buildings to bo constructed la
the state of Nebraska Jit prohibition was
going tocarryjand Ia3kc4thoreasonwhyand
the uniform answer wai that If prohibition
curried in the state of Nebraska ft would re
duce the value of proiwny and would reduce
their revenue and 1 can-not tell what security
wo have for tbo monoy.wo loan. This table
of plans and specifications of buildings was
prepared for me , and La-n prepared to state
from my data that suuhnlausund specifica
tions of buildings , the creation of vnich was
delayed over the limson in Omaha
nlouo on account i of the danger
of these people dv forcing prohi
bition upon us amounteillo thosumof &Jft' > 0-
000. I ask you for a mJmeut to think what
that mean * ) ,950,000 invested In buildings in
that city In one year would have furnished
employment to a vast number of people , and
would have furnished money which would
have enabled a vast number of laborers to
pay grocery bills and to have clothed the
widows and orphans you talk about. Tbat
$3lV,000 ! would have erected moro buildings
tban you have fet in one-half tbo towns they
have gotdown in your state of Kansas. ( Ap
plause. J But in a state \vhero you voted down
prohibition and have a llccnso system you
have got some kind of prosperity. [ Lauijhter
and applause ]
Mow , my good people , I want to undertake
for a little while , consuming a portion of the
time remaining to me , however , feeling de
termined tbat I shall not detain this audience
any longer thai I feel that your physical en
durance will iwrult you to remain under uiv
tiresome talk aa 1 tbo coldness of the evening.
to undertake to answer in general terms and
detailed arrangement tbe arguments-usually
made and reasserted tonight that tbo license
system , as wo have it in thU country , is con
ducive to the making of drunkard * , paupers ,
Insane peoplo. Idiots and destruction of the
school Interests. I do not know any bettor
place to begin tbat subject for the purpose of
proving to the people that to veto for the pro
hibition amendment Is a sin nnd to adopt It Is
a stale crime. ( I co my friend wants to tnko
note of that. ) I am plnd ho does , [ Applause-
and Laughter ] because I atu hero believing
that when a man sets foot on the soil of Xe-
braskn nnd pretends to tell mo that my Inter
ests and welfare and the Interests of my
state and the peonlo Is to bo advanced by
voting for prohibition , I want to toll him
'hat to advocate such a doctrine is n
iln nnd to adopt It would be u crime against
ho state. [ Applause. ] I am with these
.icoplo n little llko tco boy was In the Sunday
school when the teacher asked the row of
boys sitting along on the boneh who could
tell who was the strongest mau. Ono of the
box's answered up right quick , "John 1j. Sul
livan. " ( Laughter. ) "No , no , " said the
teacher. ' 'Sampion was the strongest man. "
"O , welU" replied the boy , "I didn't know
vou were talking about foreigners. " [ Great
laughter. ]
The state of Maine was the first stnto to
adopt prohibition , nnd Is said lo bo the
father of prohibition. General > eal Dow
lives down in that state nnd Is the general
father of prohibition doctrine ; n little \vhllo
ago ho tried to run for mayor In his owil
town and was beaten. After the election
was over he made a speech to the public and
charged the whole cause of his defeat to the
fact that the rum-sellers were In the majority
In tbo town and prohibition could not carry.
[ Applnuso.1
well , I took occasion the other day to pick
up another prohibition document entitled ,
"Mistakes of Prohibition. " 1 bought It vrtlio
1 was attending a prohibition convention at
Lincoln , I rend it with a great deal of care
because I had to pay for it , because I did
not belong to that tribe. One of the first
thlnes 1 read In It was that down in the state
of Maine ou April 30 , 1SSO , there were It-
censes issued by the government to r tall
dealers In liquors 1,047 , and for deal" ? " In
malt liquors Sr-i , and a total of 1,135. That Is
pretty good when wo happen to have only
s iO saloons in the state ot Nebraska. I read
along a little further In that same pamphlet
nnd found that it stated that on April HO ,
1SST , it had increased considerable In
prohibition times and only in the
l > oriod of ono year until It reached
the number of 100. Well , when I come
to read over the population down in the state
of .Maine I find thin for ten years her popula
tion has only increased 10,000 , but in one year
she Increased her retail dealers in liquor i'JTi.
I figured it a little further and I found that
the population of Maine according to the
census was ISS.OOO people. I comoutcd that
and I found that that represented ono dealci
in liquor to every 5.73 people In the state of
Maine. Not bad for a prohibition state , that
is , no. [ Laughter. 1 I came out hero to Ne
braska and I rind that there nro revenue li
censes In our state to the number of 1,500 ,
but little more thnn In the state of Maine , or
but one to every (500 ( of our population. In
other words , iny dear friends , tbat in the state
of Maine with j 'cal Dow at home and prohi
bition for thirty years , you nave moro dealers
in liquor thnn wo have In tlio state of Ne
braska by a difference of SS per capita. [ Ap
plause. ] In that connection my argument is
not fair to my own state unless'I muko a little
explanation , and that Is this : There nre Is
sued in our state 1SO federal licenses for the
liquor business , but of that number S. > 0 are
for saloons , and the remainder are for other
institutions that handle liquor , principally
drug stores. N'ow , I know that my friend
from Kansas over hero will undertake to say
to mo that down in Kansas and in the state
of Maine these licenses only represent drug
stores and they don't represent saloons.
What I want to say to my friend down there
is upon this subject , that the law -with refer
ence to the issuing of these revenue licenses
Is that you are required to have a llccnso if
you sell liquor , but you are not required to
have a federal license if , as a druggist , you
are simply compounding it with other
articles. Now , my dear sir , if you want
to say it Is drug stores only in Kansas , or
drug stores only In Maine , I want to say to
you. there are drug stores there sell
ing liquor for drink. I do not care whether
you call them saloons or drug stores , they
are places where you sell liquor for drink.
Let us go a little further , to show down In
Maine how this thing has been increasing ,
and I get it. from this same prohibition pam
phlet. Back in l&H they had 1040 such
licenses ; In 155.1 they had 101M , an increase of
4S in ono year ; in 1 0,1145 , an Increase of 41 ;
in 1837 there were 1200 , or an increase of 125 ;
so as time rolls on and the people get a little
older down there in Maine , and as my friend
Bradford says the virtue of that people has
come out to oursiate , tne old remnants tnoy
leave seem to sink down to old ago by in
creasing the number of drinking saloons.
( Applause. ) General Neal Dow took occa
sion at another time in a letter written to the
Lewiston Journal , under date of February
22 , 1S90 , Just a few montlis ago to refer to the
fact that he had in his possession the district
court docket for Waldo county In the state of
Maine , nnd that in that docket there were 40
rum cases , and that 41 of that number hud
been continued. Well , it occurred to me that
if in Waldo county , at ono terra of court 40
people were indicted for selling liquor , how
many people must have been cngaced in that
business during the entireyear. Further , ho
said if it were their ( the legislatures ) purpose
to provide a way to protect , the grog suopj
which were now in full swing in all our cities
except Belfast , it would bo u very simple
thing to do it. When General Neal Dow ,
the father of prohibition , in a letter written
but last February tells the public and the
world that the grog shops are in full
blast in all tbo cities of the state of
Maine , except Belfast alone , why purity
seems to have been ripening dowa in the
state of Maine , about ready to blossom as a
summer rose ; but when I read its history it
seems suddenly to have become a faded
Jlowcr. [ Applause and laughter. ] But when
I went to look at the map of tbostnto'of
Maine to find where that same Waldo county
was located that had 40 people indicted ut
one term of court ns rumsellers , t found that
same city of Belfast that General Ncal Dow
had referred to in his letter aa being the only
city In the state where grog shops were not
in full blast wo. ? the same Belfast In Waldo
county and 49 of Its number were indicted nt
ono term of court. [ Great applause , ] Then
I turned over as my friend did at Lincoln did
the other day to look at the census reports of
tbe United Stater , and found that same town
of Belfast had but 5,30S population , or the 49
neople indicted at one term of court repre
sented one outof every 112 of the population
of the city , f Laughter. ] Well , it is about
time to go down there and establish a peni
tentiary right In that neighborhood. Well
thinking that that might bo a llttlu unfair to
it to take the town alone , T found the popula
tion of Waldo county to batt-U5t ! , : , and your
49 indicted grog sellers represented one out
of every tilX ) of the people in the entire
county , fanners nnd all , men , women and
children. Well , out hero in Xebraskawhero
iny friend from Kansas suld there was moro
of crime than In any other city In the union ,
save two or three , I made another little com
putation. With S.V ) saloons to our state I
found that as but ono to 1,8.71 of our people ,
and In that city of Omaha with U-b licenses ,
( but my friend said 205) thnt'JIS represent
ing brewers and distillers , as well , de
ducting them , leaving 240.or SJ5 saloons and
I counted it iMO , was to the popula
tion of the city of Omaha , one to
MO of our population : or , in other words , my
fellow citizens of the state of Nebraska ,
there Is less of groggery in the city of Omahu
than there is in any town in the state of
Maine : cvon Belfast included. [ Applause , j
Dlo Lewis , who has been rather one of the
earlier fitthors of good persuasive tenipur-
anco doctines In the United States , whom I
bcllcvn to bo recognized by all good people as
ono worthy of respect , had heard tbo general
assertion made niiinv times that prohloition
in the state of Maine was a success , so ho
said that on ono occasion ho went clown there
to make a visit , but was unable to find the
saloons running open , but stopping in the
town of Augusta , permit tne to use his lan
guage ; "I obtained a recent report of the
state prison inspector of Maine from
which I learned that during the
year 17,50 $ persons had been arrested In
the state for drunkenness. ThU was an
official report by prohibition officers , "When
I recollect that Maine contained a population
of less tli.m 700.000 a small foreign element
In the Inrgo dtle dovototl to agriculture
and lumber. 1"SOS , arrests in ono year for
street drunkenness wiis simply appalling. " I
ngrco with Dlo Lewis , my friends cannot
point to a record In any state of tbo union
where prohibition docs not prevail with a
similar population , or I give you the liberty
by a comparative population to produce such
a horrible spectacle of drunkenness , as ho
describes , existing In vour prohibition state
of .Maine , [ Applause , ] Why , that 17SOi
when compared to a population of 05S,000 ,
counting men , women and children , wai us
ono to 37 of the whole number. Drop out the
women and the children , which would take
otn moro than one-haU of your population
and it wai more than one to lM of the peopl
living in the state of Maine arrested for sUx-el
drunkenness. Now I wr nt to tell you nnd
nslt you to answer mo the question whether
prohibition is not the drunkard-maker , in-
stoadof wo people who advocate good govern
ment nnd decent , orderly society. [ Applause. ]
Let mo nmko n little further comparison.
Over in Massachusetts , which Is u neighbor
ing stnto and wio.-e people ought to hnvo a
similar Instinct , 1 find that the number of ar
rests In 1STO were Co,7HJ. I nm speaking of
arrests for drunkenness only ; that to the pop-
ulatlonjof ' 1.7S'3,000 , which was then the popu-
'ation of the state of Massachusetts , was ono
wrson arrested for drunken.icss compared
with the population , as ouo Is to Ct > . Dear
me ! I'ronlblUotj says that , I proved to you
that In the state of Maluc , from documents
ust read , upon the authority ot that great
temperance reformer , Dlo Lewis , tlint in the
state of Maine It was ono to 07 , or In other
.vords . , there were nearly twice as many people
plo arrested In Maine lor drunkenness accord
ing to the population iw were nrrostert for
drunkenness in the llccnso state of Massa
chusetts , upon Its southern border. Down In
the city of Omaha , which my prohibition
friends always describe as the meanest and
most infernal city on God's footstool , except
ing ono or two or three , just last vcar had r-
rested for drunkenness and I will Do fair to
add to It , for being drunk and disorderly on
the street , 1 will add that for all causes at
tributable to drunkenness was 2,010 , or com
pared to our population us but 1 to (50. In
other words , I want to tell ray people hero
who slander the city ot Omaha , the pride of
the people of this state , that In that wicked
city of Omaha there were a less number of
people arrested for drunkenness than were
arrested In your prohibition state of
Maine. We have down hero another
city in this state our capital and
named for the martyred president of the
United States , which keeps an official record
of all persons arrested for drunkenness , ntnl
I find that in that city during the last year
the number of arrests were 701 , which com
pared to Its population of 25,000 , was but 1 to
73 , or In other words , in tbe town of Lincoln
there was but half the drunkenness you have
included In the state of Maine , Includingyour
agricultural and lumber districts in addition
to your cities. In other the people living on
farms in prohibition Maine , ns well as the
peonlo living in the cities which you have got
in the hobtt of Including , that the number of
drunkards arc twice \vhat they are in the
well governed city according to population.
[ Applause. ]
The timekeeper tells mo there is but flvo
minutes loft for discussion , and in order that
I may give iny friends something to sleep
over , I want to call their attention to the city
of Portland , that grout capital in the state
of Maine where I find that , according to their
official reports In Is a , that 1,42S persons
were arrested for drunkenness out of n popu
lation of IW.OOO , or ono to every 2it , [ Laughter
tor and nnplnnse.J Worse than Dlo Lewis
put it. [ Laughter. ] I have got that from of
ficial records. From the reiwrt of the Inspector
specter of prhons of the stnto of Maine ;
ready to read It to this audience if tltno
offers and the occasion requires It , lo ! a little
tlo farther. Look at the wicked city on the
lake , Chicago , which in lssluul ; ) the same
year , with u population ofGOO.OtK ) , IS,000 ar
rests for drunkenness , or ono to every Ki.
Why , Chicago , which is supposed to bo the
hull-hole of the great -west , has a great deal
of virtue compared with the town of Port
land in prohibition Maine , f Applnuso. J
William H. Green , who wan tbo city mar-dial
of Portland , in a report bearing date March 1 ,
1S90 , down to the present year , mark you ,
makes the following statement : "Arrested
for drunkenness In 1SS2 , 1IIJT ! > ; In 1SS5 ,
In Wl , 1,142 ; In 1SS7 , 1.W1 ; In 1SS3 , , ,
and in 1SS9 urresU for drukenness nnd com
mon drunks aud for drunkenness and dis
turbance , 1,230. I flud by comparing
the number of arrests for drunk
enness in the city of Portland com
pared to its population according to
that table made 1 to Ifl , while In Omaha
itwas 1 to tilt , in Lincoln , I to 78 , and in Chicago
cage , 1 to Si. Why , my dear prohibition
friends , the town of Portland , in the state of
Maine , according totho report of Green , city
marshal , nnd of tno state prison inspector , is
the worst drunken hole that I have over read
of in the United States. It was not moro than
two weeks ago , while traveling down towards
New England , I thought I would make it my
business to inquire about the habits of people
ple down there. 1 did not go to seo-in how
many places they sold grog or how many
"speak-easy" holes they had. but I had gath
ered together at tfaratosra ' spring ! ) , in the
state of New York , 'representative men
from Maine , New Hampshire and Vermont ,
and whi > n I had these men together I put
to them this question : as representative men
of tbo state of Maine , speaking to me as a
Xohraslcji man who bus an
this question , tell mo has drunkenness in
creased under prohibition or has prohibition
tended to decrease druukenness and grog
shops in your stutel Those three representa
tive men were from each state agreed with
me in ono common statement that drunken
ess bad Increased and that prohibition was
the cause of it. I said , how can that bo )
Their answer was that under the prohibition
doctrine wo tried to restrain the public sa
loon , but as we have undertaken to rostr.iin
the public business , the people who want to
carry on that busl.iess carry it on in secret
places , the liquor which they sell Is bad , and
men get drunk on half the quantity thev
would of good liquor nnd it Is inhabited anil
infested by boys , it has become disreputable
and the worst characters control the busiuess
and drag do vn people to lives of drunkoness
and destruction audit is beyond our control )
and by the prohibition laws wo have
got , cannot stop it. I found in that state 0I
ment the reason for the proof of that
o-ssertion. 1 then traveled up into the state
of Vermont and stopped at tlio city of Bur
lington , a town nearly a century old , and a
state for which the star has br-en ui > on the
ling for nearly 100 years , and yet the town of
Burlington , the oldest and ono of the largest
cities in Vermont , has but 11,500 imputation
today. When I came to Grand Island last
night I naked you , what is the population 'fI 'f
Grand Island ; they told mo 1U.OOJ. I said I ,
bus it come to this , that under our good eov-
ernment they can build a Grand Island of
10,000 people in about ten years equal in popu ifl
lation and business enterprise to the old city
in a state a century old tcwu in prohi-
hibitlon Vermont. ( Applause : ] I want to
stiow to the people of Nebraska when you
think over these figures by these comparisons
you can draw but one inference , und that is
in the st.ito of Nebraska underour system wo
are happy and prosperous aud wo are grow
ing ; wo are developing ; our state is pr.ind
und they have not shown us nuy prohibition
state in which things nro better than wo
have them litre. On another occasion when
I can bo permitted to talk further , I will
pursue this line of discussion and then illof I
want to show iny friend from the state of
Kansas that In his state , notwithstanding
the fact that as attorney general of that state
ho devoted his time and nis energira to toO
hibiting the sale of liquor , tbat he has ot
more grog shops today and moro Is
and moro nifcn In the penitentiary two to ino
than wo have got in the grand now state 1Cof
Nebraska. In other words there sits on this
platform the governor of the state of Iowa
who will IHJ hero tomorrow to advocate the
same prohibition doctrine and I am prepared
to show him that in cities of his stute there
nro more grog shops , moro drunkenness
under prohibition and raoro men in his pcnl
tcntinries than there are in our grand state
of Nebraska. [ Applause ] .
Dr. Birnoy cures catarrh , Bee
31 u t KcglstciAxaln ,
Mayor Gushing makes an urgent request
that every voter bear In mind the vital fact .
that all past registrations are null ana void
so far as the coming election is concerned.
Vou must register again if you want
to vote nt the next election.
Dr. Eirney , nose and throat , Bco bldg ,
Omaha Spttirnn the Con ftjriMi ee.
The North Nebraska Methodist conference ,
in session * at- Wayne , has dorldcd to meet !
next year at Omaha. The people ot that de
nomination and of all other orthodox churches
in Omaha will bo dcliL'htoa to know of this
fact ,
Clark University of "Worcester , Mass. , ha1
just received an intcrustlui ; addition to its
corps of Instructors. Dr. C'harius A. Strong
ha % been appointed decent In physiology. Dr.
Strong graduated from Rochester In lnnd \
from Harvard in lb 5. After that ha studied
for two years at the Rochester Theological
Seminary , and another year ut the Berlin
University. Ho has also been Instructor In
Philosophy at Cornell , About u your ago ho
married a daughter of John D. Hockfeller ,
Pat Entec I think you can rnako money
outof this invention. Manufacturer Don'
want it , sir , at any price. Put Kntco-M iy
dear sir , nearly all your competitors are In- ;
fringingon it already. Manufacturer Eh
aivoyoufJ.OOOforlt.
Dr. Birnoy cures catarrh , Boa bldg
TIIPT1Mf r 4 OTJ ! ? VPPtlTlf\VfP
THE NEAL CASfc LXCLPTIOXS ,
The Judge Holds the Accused Waived Ills
Eight to Visit the Pinnoy Form ,
THE COURT DOCKET LOADED DOWN.
It Will Ho Impossible fbr the Tour
Judges on the llcitch to Clear
It During the Conilnu
Term.
In the Xeal case , the counsel for defendant
served their bill of exceptions ou the county
attorney lost Saturday , and on Monday tno
same was returned by the latter with fou
objections to the bill ns proposed.
The first three of these objections were
upon unimportant mutters and the correct-
lions asked were readily inndo by consent of
the attorneys for tno defendant , but the
fourth objection had to bo settled by Judge
Clarkson.
Yesterday morning Mr. Mahoney nnd Mr.
Estello appeared , before JudgeClarkson with
the bill of e.xccptlons und presented the point
raised by the fourth objection of Mr. Mahoney -
honey , which was this :
The pencr.il entry of the proceedings of
the court for May 1 , * ) shows that at the tlmo
the Jury was directed to view the I'lnney
farm , counsel for the defendant , In
open court and In tbo presence of
the prisoner , stated to the court
that they waived the right of the prisoner to
bo present nt the scene of the homicide , but ,
In the proposed bill of exceptions , tbcro was
set out what purported to be a stcnoftrnplito
reporter's transcript of the motion of the
county attorney and tbo remark thereon by
the counsel for the defendant before the jury
was sent out , but without snowing any
waiver on the part of the prisoner. This
same transcript was also attached to an mil-
davit lllod by the attorneys for defendant on
their motion to modify the Journal entry of
May ir , and tne county attorney objected to
the transcript going in ns a part of the bill of
exceptions to bo ccrtliied by the court as true
and also going in as one of the atlldavlts tiled
in the case.
Upon hearing nil the objections yesterday
inorninR Judge Clnrkson decided that ho
would not certify to the bill of exception In
the manner prepared by the nltorncys for
Xeal , but that if they doslred to retain tbo
reporter's tr.mscript ns a part of the bill of
exceptions the transcript should show that
the counsel for defendant waived the right of
thD prisoner to uccompntiy the Jury to thu
Plnncy farm.
This correction was then made nnd lht > bill
of exceptions wiu duly certilied by the Jud o ,
nnd as it now stands \vlll go to the supreme
court.
It recites not only the Journal entry , but
also In the extended statement ot what
transpired nt the tlmo the Jury was ordered
taken to the premises : that the counsel for
defendant when asked by the court If there
was any objection to sending the Jury out to
view the pnmiises.nnswcrcd : "No objection ,
and wo wavethu right of the prisoner to bo
present nt the premises. "
It Is expected that tbo petition In error niul
bill of exceptions will bo tiled within n short
time and when so tiled will operate to sus
pend tbo execution of the death sentouco
until the further order of the court.
A COUIIT DOUKKT.
Four Judges AVII1 Not be Able to Clear
it Next Term.
The September term of the district court
opens londay morning.
There are 2Wi : cases on the docket. Of
this number 'Ja } are civil and 130 are crimi
nal cases.
Out of the 2,021 cases which were on last
term's docket , but-UXi wore disposed of , leav
ing a total of 1,5M broutjh t over to this term.
Many of these cases nre. now eight or ten
years old , a continuance of them having been
obtained for ouo cause or another , year after
year.
In view ot thcso facts , the four occupants
of the district bench start upon an utterly
hopeless task in the matter of clearing thu
docket by the end of the present term.Vcll
informed members of the bar assert that double -
ble the number of Indies coult ) not do such u
thing. And It is this fact that nerves as an
other and unanswerable argument wh3- the
legislature should certainly trivo this district
new Judges this coming winter.
In so very great a number of cases ns that
shown hy the docket for this coming tcnn , It
is next to impossible to give in thQ.spacont
hand anything like a relume of even the most
important. From time to time us these cases
nave been filed Tin : lir.r. has given whatever
story they have contained and always thu
main facts. In a fovv week.as ) tbo cases
como up for trial , they will , as usual , bo afjaiu
referred to nt length.
It is learned that there is little or no doubt
whatever but that all the four Judges will bu
in their place at the opening of court. Mon
day.Jeremiah
Jeremiah Denslom has sued Reynold ,
Crill & company for { > , ( ) ! lft , i on a contract
tor the buying , feeding and sale of cattle.
>
Dr. Birney cures catarrh , Boo I Idj * .
OF1-1 .TO l r.iATTSMOUTll.
ThcCoiiKrcssioiuil CoimMitloii lo Meet
There Xost Tuesday Night.
The congressional convention of tbo First
district will bo held In I'lnttsmouth next
Tuesday evening.
The train will leave South Omiihn nt 0:15 :
t ) . in. und tnls city at 0:15 : p. m. , arriving in
Plattsmouth nt7:2T : > o'clock. It will return
to this cityat or about midnight. It will bo
a free train and republican representatives
of nil the wards and county jiret-ijicts , nro
cordially invited to avail themselves ot the
opportunity and bo in attendance.
Several ward clubs hnvo nlniidy forninllv
accepted the invitation to he present and will
send large delegations accompanied by bands.
In wards In whluh no organization ex
ists , republicans arc invited to form clubs
nnd Join in thu grand gathering.
Those desiring to go may bo accoinmo-
dated , they are requested to notify Mujor.f.
U. Furuy , chairman of the ronKresi * > ioiiat
central committee , by 10 o'clock Monday
morning.
The delegates to the convention nro as fol
lows :
U. A. Baldwin , Major J. B. r'urayV S.
Cook , K. Koso water , J. W. Uounsinun , John
Jenkins , W. P. liccholV. \ . II. Alcxandi r ,
\V. K Gurley , D. U. Wheeler. CJ.V. .
LlnhiKor , I'auf Vandcrvoort , I ) . H. Meiwr ,
.1. L. Webster , Frunx Hansom , J.V. . Lytle ,
.1. B. Krion , Paul Hersh , William Cobuni ,
F. M. Woolloy. Henry llolhi , Daniel Me-
( Juckln , Joseph Kuvun , John Uusn , I. S.
Uascall , Fred \V. \ Gray , Morris Morrison ,
M. t1. Sean , A. L. .Wiggins , Charl'i '
Wehrer , John U. "U'harton , Henry Ki'lsci ,
John Mutthiusou , Leo ICatello , John Uoslcky ,
Daniel O'Kueflv , T. L. Van Dom , M O.
Maul. Ed. U'c-der , William It. Turner. M. O.
Kickets , Omar Whitney , Albyn Frank , Vf J.
fririmcrYllliam 1' . Marrow , tius I < orhner ,
William Osborru1 , J. M. Glasgow , Lee Hart-
Icy , Isaai ) Wilt , John A. MacMurpliy , M I .
Uooder , John Jtolfs , It. S. Herlin , Elijah
Putin , ( ! . \ \ ' . Ambrose , It. U. D.mcati , Chris
Hpceht , . ! . W. Kller. C. L. Chaffi-u , J. L.
Black , J. T. Clark , B. W. bimeral , Jnin s
Walsh , II. C. Tiimuo , William I'ovton , J. F.
Benin , Michael Lee , M. S. Lindsay , It , S.
Krvin.J. 13 Piper.
There is little doubt that Connell will se
cured the nomination , having already pledged
isiioutof .M2 votes.
At the meeting of Klghth ward republicans ,
last night , the invitation to attend thu con
gressional convention at I'lutuiuouth
dav next was accepted.
The Sixth ward republican club will attend
in a body the congremlonal coiivwiiiou.
Kepubllcans of thu ward desiring to par
ticipate will leave their immcH with L ,
I' . Hanson , Twenty-fourth and Lukostivct- . ,
or E. U. Cooper , Ml Puxton block ; tvloiihanu
t'jOH. The club will rai-et Tuesday evening ut
Twenty-fourth and Laku streets , at 5 : SO p.
m , , uud , hcadod by the Sixth ward bund , will
proceed to the dejiot.
I'crBnnal High ! *
Owing to the rebuilding of Uonnanla hall ,
tbo iim.s mooting ot the league , Monday
eveninh' next , will bo held at Gtirtleld hull ,
Howard street , between Fifteenth and Six
teenth streets.
Dr. Birnoy , nooo and throat , Quo bldg.