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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1910)
W. C. T. U. Notes - THE AMERICAN DOPE HABIT t Jw mm qlm I&3 Jy 0 Aft IS M Mm JSr Inl yjtfopnl m .-. 1 j? a' Pi i oDrS s Si i s-pu 9 i 11 ;1 3) Urjrt Jr o Jfi M JElls ff H &rw "3 Mit i I H!jliilc0 l & Im o l -Mill -oi : tD I 'If Mai T3 Vv ' e j -sIotsh S a m r:y. 5 I U Wf TI H-t- o - -a WB S "T "- If CS R kA '1 -S 3i11 w 1 '!- : f A 1 , yi Had 11 a u!ii . a ni A, i v;l JPP O 1 CJ u u b -c g fe o 2 5 o -s s 5 j 3 lpd A3 3fil II 15 til gP fffO o ( !53z .a Vr g i : mn .a -. i f I v5 S h8 I sal as i i4 II Ik rl -a u 'S l S s 1 1 s .s JL m Cfi aaKdiiBF-. "dill i 2 8-N si s is 1 5 g J w i HubhleFlat (Crowded out last week.) Mrs. L. Beck is on the sick list. Roy Denfon is back again on bis claim. Mr. Coursey has gone to Alliance on business, There was no school Tuesday on account of the storm. A. L. Lore has gone to Alliance on a business trip, Ethel Tallada is visiting in Hashman a couple of days. Geo. Denton and wife visited Sunday at John Chapman's. The Baptist are building a cement church in this vicinity. We had quite a storm Tuesday and a great many cattle drifted away. Mrs. A. Lore and children are visiting with Mrs. John Lore this week. A Sunday School was organized in the Lore district with the following officers; John Chapman, supt. Anna Denton, asst. supt. Mr, Deane, treas. and sec. Myrtle Chapman, librarian. organist not appointed. A, L. Lore and wife visited with A. Koss at Wind Springs Thursday. Bonner Items Frank John Muntz is working for Boon. Lena Sisco went to Scottsbluff last Tuesday. of this vicinity -v mo taking a fust ride through Bonner in a touring car sun day afternoon. It. M. Hampton nd W. C. Fairchild drove to Alliance ii i.ilay. Will Sutton anil 'li mother were passengers to Alliance Monday. Frank Boon and wife drove to Alli ance Wednesday returning Thursday. ' BEREA Mrs. W. C. Tceumseh. Fairchild Is visiting at It. M. Hampton came down from Al liance Friday. Mell DcnnUon has returned from a visit at ScottsbluiY. ' Several Alliance people spent Sunday at Hampton's ranch. Mr. Hull and family visited at Hamp ton's ranch Monday, Four of the proininentyoun people Bessie Weaver spent Sunday with Louise Welse. Mrs. Unit went to Hemingford one day last week. Rev. Nolte spent Sunday evening with J. T. Nabb. A. lluolle purchased a good horse at the Weaver sale. Mr, Richardson aud family went to Alliance last Saturday. Clayton Richardson and wife spent Sunday at the Nabb home. P. J. Knapp and family attended church at Alliance last Sunday. Mrs. Celia Weaver and family will move to Alliance some time this week. A. J. Gaghagen and family and Elsie Nabb made a trip to Alliance Suturdny. A new organ has been shipped by the Prescott Company of Lincoln to the Berea schools. The sale held by Mrs. Weuver was well attended and most of the things brought a reasonable price. The pupils of the Berea school have been making things for the exhibit at Alliance to be held Saturday, A Sunday School bus been organized nt Berea and there will be Sunday School every Sunday and church second and fourth Sunday. BAYARD ITEMS. on Erickson Drug Co's. new brick building is going up very rapidly. Minatare and the High School boys played a game of ball here Saturday, Minatare winning the game. But with more practice the boys will be able to make them play ball if they win. Arthur Davis of Bridgeport was in town last Thursday on business. Tennis is the game that a good many of the boys are enjoying these fine days, E. P. Cromer of Gering spent last Wednesday night in town on business. Miss Anna McConkey from Minatare visited with Mrs. Harry Hall last Wednes day between trains. Mrs. Morrison gave a dancing party last Wednesday night. Every one present reports a good time. Mits Mildred DeVault came up from Bridgeport and visited last Wednesday night with her parents. The High School gave their play, "Mr. Bob," latt Friday night to a large audi ence. The play was well rendered and a success in every way. Miss Edith Walford came up Friday night from Bridgeport to visit her father and also witness the high school play. Score one for the Omaha Bee. That paper has long been noted for Its anti pathy for the modern temperance move ment and everything endorsed by pro hibition advocates; but in a recent issue was an editorial under the caption. "The American Dopo Uablt," that would do credit to a pronounced tem perance journal. Following is an ex tract from the editorial referred to: The use of opium for illegitimate pur- , poses in this country has increased to such an extent that medical authorities report over a million victims of the dope at the beginning of the year. It Is charged that over a million dollars' worth of opium is smuggled in from abroad annually In addition to the amount which comes in regular com merce. The first record of opium being smoked In this country was in San Francisco in the year 1868. Since then the habit has spread to such an extent that every great city has its open or hidden "opium dens," and it is taking root In the smaller towns and country districts as well. Men, and especially the women of the wealthy classes are among its victims in almost as large numbers as are those from the scum of the street. Two-thirds of the convicts in state prisons are victims of the habit, many having become so since incarcer ation. Yet the largest percentage of the victims come from the ranks of medical men, if tho reports of the "dopo cure" sanitariums are to be believed. Laws arc now in force In the majori ty of the states against the sale of dope, but its use has not been stopped from spreading. While state laws are thus evaded, yet the federal government has been reasonably successful in prohibit ing the sale and use of opium in the Philippine Islands. Japan is fighting it with success and so are New Zealand and Australia. President Roosevelt appointed a commission to investigate the habit here, to see what there is to it and to suggest plans for its remedy. It is only a matter of time when a war upon dope must be waged with deter mination and persistence. ANOTHER VOICE AGAINST THE SALOON The following is a confession in part, as it appeared in the Chicago Tribune of March 21, of a woman convicted of the crime of pandering. She served the sentence imposed on her by the court, and having satisfied the law, addresses borne pertinent questions to voters as touching the saloon and its relation to vice. As you read, Mr, Voter, remem ber that the recruits of these dives come largely from the country city and village. It concerns you, whether a .resident of Chicago or not. If she were your daughter, how would you vote? The Tribune says: The confession of Dora Douglas is here presented. It Is the life story of a pandercr. It sounds her emotions, her struggles, her disappointments and the creed of morals which she would set up for others out of the experience through which she has passed. The document is peculiar in that it is a dispassionate review of a terrible life written by a woman of good education. The confession was written in the bridewell where she served a sentence for trafficking in girls. She says: "I am in prison convicted of being what is commonly known as a 'white slave' trader and I was justly convict ed and wus guilty of the Joffense. And having mnde this confession let me in troduce myself. "Behold me, a com mon sort of woman. 2!) years old, tin ex-school teacher, born and piously brought up in Arkansas, fairly well educated, and until the last few months almcbt wholly Inexperienced in tho ways of the wicked world. Six years ago In my Arkansas home I married a man whom I believed In every way Worthy of the respect and love that I guve him, and, bidding good by to my mother and childhood friends in tho home, went with him to St. Louis." "I found that my husband was a drunkurd, A railroad man with n good job, able to earn a comfortable living for himself and me, ho never for a day could be depended upon. Many a morii ind did lie kiss mo good-bye leaving me with the impression that he had gone to his work, when it would be three days, a week, u month, sometimes three months, before I saw or heard of lilm again, though I might be iu the sorest straits for the necessities of life For ced to work for a living I came to Chi cago." "I was convicted under what is known as the pandering net, which makes it an offense to secure an inmate for a resort in the state of Illinois. I was guilty, and the protest I make is the protest of a convict, but I cry out to the good people to know why, if I must be behind prison walls for pro curing an inmate for such a place, they walk free and hold offices who allow these places to be? I "ucn uroKen, uibgruceu, wiiuuui. u cent, without a friend, they turn me out in Chicago's cold storms, will jus tice have been vindicated? Will some great and good ends have beeu attained by the punishment of me, a tool, a cat'a paw, while 7,ooo saloons and square miles of resorts have gone on In their work under the sanction of the govern meut of you pious men?' -? V 1