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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1909)
Sst 1 3 Shopping Days till Xmas Miller Bros. Miller Bros. 1 t If and we would advise you to buy before the last few days before Xmas. Lines now are not broken and we can give you the very best of service Beginning Dec. 13th and Lasting till Xmas Smyrna Rug, 30x60 inch., reg price $1.25, sale price 88c ' Velvet Rug, 27x54 inch., reg. price, $2.00, sale price, $1.38 Kashmir Rug, 9x12 ft., " $15 00, ".$12.48 Brussels Rug, 9x12 ft., " $16.00 " $12.48 Axminster Rug, 9x12 ft., reg. price, $25.00, sale price, $19.98 Community 25-Year Guarantee Silverware In newest and most exclusive designs. Absolutely the pret tiest line you have ever seen in this city. We have also a fine line of Souvenir Sterling Silverware A New Line of Nippon Hand-Painted China in odd pieces from $1.00 to $10.00. It's worth seeing even if you don't care to buy. We have the only line of Royal Dalton in the city. Our China & Dish line is bigger and better than ever We are Especially Strong on Furniture for Gift Purposes Buffets, China Closets, Ladies' Desks, Library Tables, Parlor Stands, Gunn Sectional Book Cases, Bed Room, Reception and Dressing Table Chairs A Rocking Chair is always acceptable at Xmas Time uaVeoverl2Siromvhichtoci,00s!andpti:esranseSrom $1.90 to $30.00 An Extra Fine Line of Toys and Dolls Our Tqv and Doll section is bigger and better arranged than ever. The line is now complete and the prices absolutely right. Bring the children and let them enjoy themselves MILLER BROTHERS Housefurnishing Store WE- JtWJBffiD Published Kvery Thursday by The Herald Publishing Company. V, A. PiKHPON. Pr i. l.uiYii t Thomas, Sec, John V. Thomas. Mpr JOHN V. THOMAS Hditor J..B. KNIEST Associate Editor Entered at the postothco at Alliance, Nebraska, (or transmission through the mails, as second-class matter. Subscription $1.50 per year in advance. THURSDAY. DEC. 9. 1909. 1 ' ! I' '- ' ' ' - - Lawson Again to the Front Thomas W. Lawson, some years since a trust magnate of more or less prominence but in recent years a would-be trust buster by means that to the most of us appear visionary, has a page ad in the New York World of Nov. 20, headed "Standard Oil Decision -Industrial Hell." Just what the purpose of the ad is we are unable to say, but cer tainly it has some sentences that show him to be conversant with current affairs in the political world. The following sentence has a great deal of truth couched in few words: "Tito possessors of huge capi tal, desiring to obtain unwar ranted returns, knew that they could not succeed except by do vice so intricate and so difficult of understanding, that the peo ple, while being oppressed with its working, could be cajoled into believing it -was being work ed according to law." The following paragraph also indicates a knowledge of existing conditions in present political affairs, although his prophecy, as to what Congress will do, may miss the mark as to what will happen as far as soi)Q other of his recent years' prophecies have- "As to Congress changing the present law the suggestion is a joke. Since the White Housing of good-natured ftlr. Taft, -our excellent president, who, when lecturing before Labor is for Labor, when in the west is 'agin' the east, who assures the women suffragists he is with them with all his heart -when they suc ceed - who when in Mississippi speaks of the late Jefferson Davis as n hero, and who when with capital reverently places thq halo upon the head of Sugar and Steel Trust Aldrich, and who so thoroughly understands J trusts and who is so thoroughly I understood by trusts that ini- ' mediately upon his election all I trusts entered upon the most , brazen of inllations since the days when an ancient heathen ruler decreed that in the future all necessities and luxuries should be raised by the people, sold to the aristocracy and re purchased from them by the people in pound weights and that the aristocratic pound should consist of sixteen drams (one- sixteenth of an ounce) and the people's pound should consist of sixteen ounces, and the penal ty against the people's confusing drams and ounces should be their beheading; and since the passage of good-natured Mr. Taft's tariff; and since the late fall election, the incoming Con gress has seen the handwriting and seen it in letter of lire, and instead of changing the laws in the interest of monopoly it will proceed to more and deep inves tigation of past crimes and will change the law, it at all in a way that will "make monopoly more dangerous to those who practise it." Personal Liberty Defined V .1 Hr)M luTlie IVwiutouor: The liquor dealers, recognizing that tbtjir yorv obvious pecuniary iuteiest wxnhl lesson ltli u eight of any argu niejit which they might publicly ad vance, ant snaking their fight under coor of organizations purporting to represent those who use liquor. Many well meaning men have been misled into believing that every attempt to lessen the evils of inteiuperanco is a "fanatical attack" on "personal liber ty." It is time the phrase, "personal lib erty" wete defined. What is meant by "personol liber ty?" 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? A drunken man is the menace to the lives and property of those about him; have bis neighbors no right to protect themselves? A drunkard robs his wife and child ren, and he may finally make his fami ly and himself a charge upon society; has society no right to protect itself? The saloon is next-of-kin to the brothel and the gambling ball; it is a rendezvous for the criminal element and the willing tool of the corrupt poli tician; has not the body politic a right toprotcct itself from the demoraliza tion which the saloon works? The right to drink does not necessar. ily include the right to demand the es tablishment of a saloon. The right to drink is sufficiently protected by an arrangement that permits the reason able use of liquor under reasonable conditions; ami it imist be remembered that the right to drink, like any other light, 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 nay as to threaten the life of another. So the man who diinks to excess may forfeit tliu light to diink; oven the moderate drinker may forfeit the right to drink in moder ation if, not content with reasonable regulation, he insists that liquor shall bo sold under conditions that consti tute a mmiuce to the home and the state. Thu man who desires to drink mod el utely ought to join with those who aeek to reduce the evils of drink to the lowest possible point, instead of ally ing himself with those who ignore the evils of intemperance and resist even effort put forth lor the protection of society, Kjnd of funny, isn't it, local how the "lead- r . .. - - erv ol the local democracy unbosom trmrnielves in a leading reactionary editor? keskjg funny, log, that jiey should do sol when wtshfug to grltioJse the ..democratic 1 governor or some oilier demtarat. Neighboring Notes Mis. Frank Beesou went to Alliance Thutsdav. Mr. Dean is still in Alliance working at his carpenter trade, and reports a busy season. Mrs. Dean and her daughter expect to leave s.0011 for their old home in Virginia to spend the winter mouths. Minatare Free Press. Ben Koller went to Alliance on Mou day with engine 2990. going theie for heavy repairs. He returned Tuesday morning. Edgemont Express. Mrs. Heath returned Monday to Al liance. She was called here on account of the serious illness of her father, C. E. Flower. Bayatd Transcript. Miss Lena Riddel, a teacher iu the Alliance city schools, spent Thanks giving vacation with the Misses Diex tra and Fleming of the Sidney schools. These three ladies taught at David City last year, but the higher salaries paid here and at Alliance induced' them to come west. Sidney Telegraph. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Vaughin of Al liance, father and mother of Guy Vaughin of this city, returned to their home Tuesday morning after spending nearly a week here. Chadron Chron icle. If lie laughs heartily he is probably a coal man or a plumber, Sheridan" Enterprise. Rev. Fiedeiick Graves with his wife and child arrived Tuesday evening. They are being entertained by Judge C. Dana Suyrs until they get settled iu the rectory. We trust that they will like Chadtou and that Chadron people will like them. Chadron Journal. Gustav Sandoz drove up from Spade Sunday to do some trading, and re mained over night in town so as to get an eaily start for home Monday morn ing. Gus is a young Kinkaider and practices the habit of making his own bed and frying his own flapjacks which is a foolish habit as there are lots' of sandhill birdies who would only be too well pleased to do that work for him. Rushville Standard. Edward Strasburger aud son, Harri son, wore Alliance visitors last week. J. B. Strasburger went to Al liance on busiueks last Monday. Cor. Rushville Standard. The. personal liberty league continues to-4a&rcut thak literature aneUwe.1ii e. among uie iaored ones. We have only one regret 'to oifer the league in not seeing our way to publish their erratic and misleading ideas, and that is that we have never been able to cramp our idea of personal liberty to the extent that they do, whereby liber ty degenerates into license. We recog nize a higher liberty than that of being allowed to consume unlimited quanti ties of booze to our own detriment and the danger of our fellow beings, who have as much right to he considered as ourselves. -Rushville Recorder. They're having a hot time over iu Dawes county. Sheriff Louis K. Mote has been ousted from office by District ludge Harrington, being found "guilty of misdemeanors in office, and willful neglect of duty, and of official malfea sance and misconduct in office" as charged iu the complaint which was filed by County Attorney Enwin D. Crites. The leaders in the movement for county division down in Custer county are a persistent lot of fellows. No sooner is an election held and the prop osition voted on and defeated than they begin planning for another division election, making some changes in tjieir plans of division. Since the recent general election at which the proposi tion to divide into four counties was defeated by an overwhelming majority, a convention of interested paities has been held, at which a plan to divide Custer into five counties was decided upon. Custer, Rose, Arbor, Alfalfa and Victoria are the names chosen for the proposed counties. Reform in Football A good deal of favorable, and perhaps some unfavorable, news paper comment has been caused by the following letter sent out by Prof. J. W. Crabtreo of the Peru State Normal school : Peru, Nebr.. November .!(). Dear Friend: The ,h i g hi school, normal schools and col- i leges or the state are all anxious for further changes in the game of football. The number of deaths resulting from football injuries during the .season is ap palling ana certainly uist hV M.r.i press in denouncing the game as a college sport unless its dnnger pus features can bo greatly i-q. dueed -The press has done its part in presenting facts to the public and in creating a general sentiment in favor of football reform. If educational institu tutions will do their part it ought to be possible to influence a re vision of the rules for next year's playing. But we must in sbme way roach the committee which has the authority to make changes. Let us do it now. Let us strike while the iron is hot and all strike at the same time. Our state university is in a position to have inlluence with this central committee. So the purpo.se of this letter is to sug gest that every college and nor mal SCllOOl llVPxirlmif. nn,l ,,.,.,. city superintendent write to Chancellor iWryatonce author i.ing the university to represent their institution, so that the uni versity may not only voice her own wishes but also the urgent desire of all the educational in stitutions of the state. The uni versity committee is deserving of much of the credit for changes made m the rules three years ago. ., "Permit the further suggestion that later on your athletic board, coaches and football players make suggestions of changes in detail and send to the university committee, But first of all let us write the chancellor, so' the university can start the ball rol ling at once. The university is not soliciting the authority of the other institutions, so that we V1T1 iimtiA -.1. 1 t p.. .uiu uuuemmy extend the honor to her. "Yours truly, "J. W. CUABTKKE." BOARD OrRERTTOEUY SCHOOL Tries to Secure Wayne Normal Prop erty for Sixty Thousand. Lincoln, Neb., Doc. L The state noimal board has offered the owners or tlio ane normal school SGO.000 for the bulhungs and grounds. The offer was refused and It Is probable the offer w4U bo raliod to $70,000. wiii I,e,g,,8laturo appropriated $90,000 . """ "uwiun uy t ie legislature u wo! tf Md 1th0 proper SSS Placing the value as high as ?150.000. tour ? . ,,0"r(1 wUI start out n Us, tour of inspection or northwest Ne- or 8;l rus J,nn-3' w,tu lh0 " of . lectins a location for the new tat. cr,n, .chool. This WM amfld a the meeting, ftt whJch tuea Won. from Vo towng JJJWJ anj wad. The town, flllnj SjSS wH Ghan, Gordon and Allt- yjp ,i. ..n m0M!:xnmr" -r- r OIMlllrtm " H W 1 - "-igiBffiiMliMniTTil&fiijra--T-