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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1910)
UT Pli i l4 ? ii i !! 1 1 plttjtRALD Published Kvery Thursday by The Herald Publishing Company. V. A. l'lRftnoN. IT s. I.t-ovD (S. Thomas, Sec John W. Tiiomab. Mgr. JOHN V.'. THOMAS Editor J. B, KNIEST Associate Editor Entered at tho postollico at Alliance, Nobraska, (or transmission through the malls, as second-class matter. Subscription, S1.50 per year In advance. Whenever you moot a man who says he never makes a mis take, watch hhn. He is probably scheming to skin you. Lot tho people say in as plain and direct a manner as possible what they "want in national, state and municipal affairs, and wo will gladly submit to their de cision, whether it isforhigh'tar iff or no tariff, whether for "Bill" Bryan or "Bill" Taft or Bill Jacobs, whether for saloon li cense or no license, whether for municipal ownership or private ownership of public utilities. But let the people say. It is our constant aim to im prove Tho Herald. That our efforts aro appreciated by the public is indicated by tho increas ed patronage the paper is re ceiving. These improvements come more slowly sometimes than we wish them to come, but they como just the same. One marked improvement is the re cent increase in tho number of correspondents from the country and neighboring towns. We want still more and shall bo pleased to take up tho matter of furnish ing items with parties who may wish to do so in communities where we have no correspond ents now. We hear much in these days about tho tyranny of Cannoriisra and Aldrlchism ahd the trusts, and much is said .bj; progressive statesmen, democrats and repub licans alike, about ridding the country of these evils. Some time the people will wake up to the fact that direct legislation and the recall will do more to overcome these relics of despot ism than anything else. And a good many of tho people are al ready awake to that fact. The initiative and referendum has al ready been adopted by eight states, and will surely be adopt ed by many more within a few years. We hope, and believe, Nebraska will bo among the first. If in the rush of work that sometimes falls to the lot of a local newspaper editor, he inad vertently does any one an injus tice, even though it may bo more apparent than real, Ave believe tho proper thing to do is to make amends. We have known an editor, however, who after doing an honorable man rank injustice by undermining him, added in sult to injury by calling him a "skunk" through the columns of his paper. It isn't to be won dered at that the "arguments" of such an editor do not have much weight with the public,and that ho lives up in opposition to direct legislation as represented in the initiative and referendum. We believe that cotr;otitors in business ought to pull togeth er in matters relating to the public welfare. For this reason it affords us real pleasure to sav a good word for a competing newspaper when there is an op portunity to do so, and our es teemed contemporary, the Hem ingford Journal, furnishes us such an opportunity. For some weeks past it has attracted our uttentW by its newsy local col umns, and also by the fact that desire for linal proof notices and federal patronage does not cause tho editor to endorse the eastern Aldrich-Cannon machine, which as every intelligent one knows is not run in the interest of this western country. W. C. T. U. Notes At tho regular meeting Tuesday afternoon it was decided by the ladies to hold meetings weekly until the com ing spring elections, and to make a campaign of literature. Tlio White Slave Traffic wns the subject for the afternoon's program. Following we give quotations from an article by Clifford G. Roe, Ass't State's Attorney of Illinois, which it will he well for parents and daughters to read: "In Chicago alono there are' more than 25,000 women leading a life of shame, and statistics show that tho average life of a fallen woman is five years. Five thousand persons must, therefore,, be recruited' every yearfin Chicago alone. How many voluntarily go into this life? It is estimated that about twenty per cent This shows us that eighty per cent, aro led into it by some scheme or entrapped and sold, and at least two-thirds of this number arc from our own country, being in veigled from farms, towns and cities. One may inquire, 'How is it that girls are procured so easily without the pub lie being aware of what is going on?' The answer is that love and ambi tion aro the baits which tho procurers flaunt in the faces of their proposed victims. Often it happens that promi ses of positions on the stage, in stores, and various occupations alluring to young girls cause many to fall cap lives in the great net set for them. During tho past two years there have been moro than 250 white slave cases tried in Chicago under the Illi nois law, resulting in scores of con fessions made by tho procurers, and statements by hundreds of the girls who were procured as to the methods employed by the traders. To show you how easily it is doue, let me tell you a story of a girl from Elgin, 111., who was caught by the love scheme. One day this pretty little German lass was in a Chicngo store buying alieet music when a well dressed, handsome young man, ap parently looking at music, too, asked her the names of somo of the latest popular songs, as he wanted to buy them. At first she turned away and did not heed him, but he waB not to he repulsed, and pressing his attentions further upon her, be finally engaged her iu conversation A luncheon, nt a oearGy restaurant, jrj,wb1cb, jbe ofned him, was the result, arid there- he told her how at first sight he had fallen in love with her beauty. After lunch he suggested a visit to his bachelor apart ments, but this she refused. Seeing that this plan was a failure, he asked her to marry him then and there. The silly girl, believing he loved her, and enchanted by the picture be had paint ed of his father's wealth and fine home in New York City, consented and they . were married. After tho ceremony lie I told her that he was about "broke," and said that he would take her to a place where she could make" enough money in a few days to pay their way to New York, where everything would be lovely, and as they were married it would he no one's business how she got the money, Immediately accounts of white slave procurers which she had read came to her mind, and (she then realized what she had fallen into. Lest she might arouse n him suspicion, she consented to do as' he asked, but told him that before going out to the resort she wanted to buy some clothing, and arranged to meet him at a certain downtown corner toward eveuing. She hurried to the County Court, where an escort was giveu her, and she was brought to the court where I was prosecuting. I armed an officer with a warrant and he followed the girl to the appointed place of meeting. The young man was there waiting for Ihh victim. The officer stepped up and1 put him under arrest, and the next day he was tried and convicted. It was then learned that he was a well known procurer of uirls. Thus saved from a lite of ruin, the Elgin girl went home heart-broken, but wiser for her exper ience. Recenttyj she fiecuredtin the County Court an annulment of the marriage. Ipquiiy proved that the girl was from a very respectable home, and that she had always been a good, honest, industrious girl. Many simi lar cases have come out in the courts; however, the girls iu most instances were not favored by the same good fortune which blessed the little girl from Elgin, and the outcome was much moro disastrous. The other method used by the trad ers is the one which appeals to the girl's ambition. Sometimes the pro curers have gained the parents' con sent and a!lpw their daughters toac company the supposed theatrical or emplovmeut agent, as the case may be, to some city, thinking that through the daughter's success their station iu life would be raised. A girl iu a country Phelan Opera House SSI! March 14 day, OFFERS MORGANS Best Show Ever in Alliance Prices 50-75c, Children 25c community, or say factory town, is working for four or five dollars each week, when one of these procurers, traveling under the guise of an agent, mer'tK her ntid promises ten to tivrntv dollars a week for work in the city. She may he perfectly sincere and lion est in her intention to better her condi tion. She may wmit finer clothes, a wider knowledge of the world, or an education, and so she consents to go wjth him, uud finally, against her will, ends up us an inmate i:i some immoral place. The methods employed to entice young women are quite similar, nui us to thu particulars each case varies to some extent. After the girls are once within the resn' the stories are about the same. 1 .; i street clothes are seized and p.i '-" diesses varying in length are put . them. '1 hev are threatened, uevr ..lluued to wiite letters, never pen."tiil the use of the telephone, never trusted outside the house without the escort of a procurei, until two or three months have elapsed, when they are considered hardened to the life and too ashamed to face par ents and friends agaiu. If they should ask some visitor to the house to help therii, would he care to expose his name to the police, as he would have to, by reporting the mattei? Would he want his friends, or the folks at home to know that he had visited such a place? No; he would let the girl get out the best way she could; even though be might promise to help her. Girls are told of or perhaps have witnessed MBfc. i Y r .kH r Q- BH BBlBv. Jt r BBS Y BBV i mm u r h LJr LbVI court enay I I BH Y I JFUNNYC OMEDY l .BBK Y , 1 ' c ' "1 AN INNOC E NT WIDOW , N . 1 BBBBSB T'i 'HHHI w - Jk 1 kk 4vH others who tried to escape, have seen their failure and punishment, and are thereby cowed Into submission. They aro always held upon the pretense of being indebted to the house, and this indebtedness Iirb long been tho back bone of tho white slave system. From the time the girl is first sold into (ho house she is constantly in debt. First, for tho money the owner gave to tho procurer for her, next, for her parlor clothes, then for the money her pro curer borrows from the owner on her as his property, goods and chattel. The bonds of slavery are thus fastened upon these poor mortals by a system of debt and vice that the people of this great country little realized existed until lately. The next question which confronts us is what shall we do with the girls after they are liberated from the hous es? Somo have parents, some are ashamed to go back home, while others arc diseased. Certainly it seems a pity to turn them out and let them battle against the prejudice of a 'past life.' Homes and institutions for girls are often filled or the doors arc barred against fallen women. The solution of the problem is a home for white slaves in every large city in the country. Letters are sent me from all parts of the continent asking what can be done to help the white slaves. My answer is, form organizations every where to fight this traffic. Through these organizations educate the girls in the rural communities to be careful how they are enticed or persuaded to go to the cities. Demand proper legis lation, write the senators and represen tatives about it, in all places see that the laws in regard to disorderly resorts are enforced, that the foregoing pro posed commission is established uud help build homes for training the girls for better lives. Social and Oyster Supper A social and oyster supper for, the benefit of the Fairview church will be given at the home of W. I. Lorance on March 17. Card of Thanks We wish to thank the Alliance friends, especially the railroad boys, the Masons and the Eastern Stars for their sympathy and kindness when our hearts were bowed in grief oyer the loss of our husband and kinsman, Robert Devoc. May God comfort them iu their hours of trouble is our wish. Mrs. Romert DeVob, Mr. and Mrs. A. Wiker, and relatives. Assessors' Meeting Notice Is hereby given that the Pre cinct Assessors of llox lluttc county are called to meet at the court house In Al liance on the 15th duy of March, 1010. All nssessors are requested to be pres ent and get their books. IS 2 i. V. Sweknky, Cp. Assessor. Notice for County Commissioners' Meeting The County Commissioners are call ed to meet March 15, 1010, for the purpose of meeting with the county and precinct assessors, and to transact any other business that may come be fore them. Wm. C Mounts, 12-2 loiiuly Uerk. Notice Notice is hereby given that I will not be responsible for any debts con tracted bv inv wife, Mrs. Rillie Lem ons. Albert Lemons. ' it DAILY And rt 3 LOCAL PARAGRAPHS Spring is trying to stick. Dr. Slagle went to Bridgeport Wed nesday noon on business. Mrs. J.C McCorkleis visiting friends iu Hemingford this week. A. S. Enyeart of Hemingford spent a day this week in our city. Mrs. Chas. Tubbs entertained at "500" last Friday afternoon. Those who were present report a very pleas ant time. Mrs. C E. Wagger leaves Saturday for her home in St. Louis for a few weeks visit. F. E. Nichols of Sioux county was a caller at the office of The Herald last Saturday. W. Bame and Alois Cermak came over trom Dunlap last Friday. Mr. Bame startB this week, for a visit in South Dakota. A. H. Ross is removing from the Hashman neighborhood to Sioux county and orders his address for The Herald changed from Hashman to Kelly. Mrs. Roy Beckwith entertained at "500" Thursday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Bell Brennan and Mrs. Van Vor heeB of Crawford. Needless to say tho afternoon was enjoyed by all. P. J. Knapp returned last Friday from his visit to Madison. He reports plenty of mud in that part of the state and although he enjoyed his visit, was glad to get back to Box Butte. Tom Freer, the champion catcher who played with the Alliance ball bovs last season, was in tho city last Satur day. He has a farm in the eastern part of the state and makes his home there when not playing ball. MissAttie Snow returned Wednes day from a days' visit at Marsland. We understand while thete she did some work to advance her candidacy for the Herald's magnificent Bennett piano. One of the pleasant events of the week was the Lenton tea served at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Barnes, over eighty guests being served by the hostess and her helpers. The two course lunch was very dainty and well served. I. B. Kniest, associate editor and foreman of The Herald, walked down town from his home last Saturday for the first time in nearly two weeks. He has been having quite a siege. Several weeks ago he was taken sick with ton silitis but had commenced work agaiu when he was taken with erysipelas in his face. Joe McNamara and Dr. Copsey left Monday for a duck hunt in the sand hills, going to Avery's ranch about 35 miles southeast. Joe telephoned in this morning that Dr. Cc )sey would return today with a buggy load of ducks and he will be in town tomorrow. They have been having some successful shooting, without doubt. As will be seen by his advertisement in the Herald, John Von Bargen will have a public sale at his place one mile west of town next Monday. As there are some things included in the sale that people in town might wish to buy, there will probably be a good attend ance at the sale from Alliance, as well as from the surrounding country. H. Shultalber, having sold a section of his land seven miles east and two miles north of Hemingford to Ex- j County Supt. Phillips, will leave iu a I !cv utB IOi jregon. lie is attected with rheumatism and thinks the change may do him good. He still owns a quarter section in this county and we shall not be surprised if he returns be fore long. LINCOLN NEWS This is Just a BARGAIN RATE and is not good after March 28 The LINCOLN DAILY NEWS Is one of the Lareeat m . News and Market Papers in the State. Frless 1nd?Snn JiJ and Accurate. Present h .Y" er?58L l"?0Pqndcnt Without Fear or Favor. RemembTr THE REGULAR PRICE OF THE NEWS ALONE IS $3.00, SO ' YOU ARE QETTING THIS PAPER FREE A WHOLE YEAR king your money in early so you AWWAAANWWSAAAAAAAA i BUSINESS LOCALS. C UWWW' I have 300 tons of good hay for sale. J. D. Hagerty, Bridgeport, NeU 8-tf' Money to loan on real estate. F. E. Reddish. 3'tf. Wanted Sewing by day or piece. 117 Sweetwater avenue. 8-tf Dressmaking Satisfaction guaran teed. Mrs. Hcisenbuttel, 127 Yellow stone. Phone 354. 12-41 Home raised Short Horn bulls for sale. James B. Leith, Box 1066, Alli ance, Nebr. i2-tf Two houses for sale. Enquire of Mrs. S. J. Holdridge. 8-tf For Sale Lot 3, block 8, 612 Toluca Ave. East front. All fenced. Cement sidewalk and curbing. Inquire at Herald office or phone 556. 4-tf Relinquishment for Sale 640 acres unusually good land, plenty hay land; 12 miles from railroad station; mail route by place; cheap if taken soon. Call on James Potmesil, Long Lake, Neb. io-tf For Rent or Sale I will rent or sell the building at 219 Box Bufte avenue which has been used as a meat market. Will also sell or rent the butcher tools, etc., if desir ed. C. F. Kroll. n-3t For Sale 320 or 160 acres good bottom land, seven miles in a westerly direction from Alliance, Nebr. For further in- , formation address H. J. Gresser, ii-i4t' Thermopolis, Wyo. Eggs to Hatch From Ohio White Leghorns with a record of being the greatest egg pro ducers of all chickens. Si. 00 a setting of 15. Fred Mollring. 13-41 Legal Blanks. The following blanks are for sale at The Herald office: Farm Lease, Real Estate Mortgage, Chattel Mortgage, City Lease, Warranty Deed, Agreementfor Warranty Deed, Warranty Deed Corporation, Bond for Deed, General Bond, Quit Claim Deed, Agreement Sale of Real Estate, Contract' for Real Estate, Exchange Contract, Articles of Agreement, Release of Real Estate Mortgage, Assignment of Mortgage, Affidavit of Identification,. Coupon Note, Mechanic's Lien, Power of Atcoroey, Bill of Sale, Option. Short Will, Inventory and Appraisement of Property Attached, Appraisal. Dipping Certificate. Contest Notice. Affidavit and Order of Publication of Con test Notice Meat Shipper's Certificate, .Notice to Owners before Delivery of Tax Deed, Promissory Nolo, Receipts, Township Plats. Road Overseer of Highways Annual Settle ment, Letters of Administration with Will An nexed, Notice to Appraiser, Letters of Guardianship, Affidavit and Undertaking for Order of Attachment, Venire Facias, Affidavit against Garnishee, Summons, Ordrr of Attachmen' Steam Outfit far Sale. For sale The best steam outfit in Chey enne county, consisting of one new Case separator, one steam (32 h p.) engine and eleven fourtien-inch plows. Address OREN GRISWOLD. D7-t A7-10 Dalton. Neb. L?no' ,J V.D" Affa,! get this BARGAIN RATE KATE 1 rl I