* staff, and the results have been of the
* best”
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Hearst For Prohibition.
When the owner of the Hearst news
papers, which circulated widely among
the classes most seriously affected by
the drink evil, takes a stand in favor
of prohibition it must be looked upon
as an incident of deep significence.
His views recently displayed on the
first page of the Chicago Examiner
follows:
I note in a recent issue of The
American an advertisement of a whis
key masquerading as a medicine.
I wish all of our papers to reject all
whiskey advertising of whatever kind
and all advertising of any ardent
iquors and all advertising of any
medicinal preparations containing
alcohol or opiates in habit-forming
quantities.
Furthermore, I do not think that
passive opposition to such great evils
as the drink habit and the drug habit
is sufficient for forces as powerful and
as vital in the community as our news
papers.
I think our papers have more active
duties and more positive responsi
bilities. I think they should cam
paign for a system of sumptuary laws.
First—To prohibit the sale of in
jurious and habit-forming drugs ex
cept by the state and upon the pre
scription of regular physicians.
Second—To prevent the sale of
alcoholic beverages except where the
proportion of alcohol is fixed at some
definite and acknowledged innocuous
proportion.
Third—To make the taking or ad
ministering or prescribing of alcohol
or opiates in habit-forming quantities
a criminal offense, from the penalties
of which regular physicians shall in no
way be exempt.
The campaign against the drink evil
and the drug evil is a matter of public
health, of public morals and of public
righteousness which it is the duty of
our papers actively and aggressively
to promote.
Flower Mission.
Mrs. Lydia J. Bradbury.
May we not plan for flower mission
offerings when we make our gardens
this year? The beautiful, fragrant
blossoms carry so much cheer to those
who are excluded from the activities
of life, and are such wonderful ex
pressions of,love, Divine and human,
they appeal to most people, and we
should be ready to promote this work
at all times. Give abundently of your
flowers, fruit or any offering love sug
gests to you, to all who for any reason
are in sorrow or affliction, using our
text cards and the white ribbon.
I ask you to make a special effort to
interest the boys and girls in growing
flowers for their own use in minister
:ng to others. The preparation of soil,
proper planting seeds, protection from
blight and pests, protection from nox
:ous weeds, etc., are all so interesting
hey will feel repaid.
Will you not remember the unfortu
ate children who have no refining in
luence around them by giving of your
abundance seeds, plants and shrubs
structing them in the proper care cf
’’em and by personal supervision e
urage them to be perseveri
ough to grow flowers for thor
lives? An occasional visit with
| 3w suggestive talks with these litt
nes may be of untold benefit to them
Alcohol Not A Medicine.
One of the officials of the rrrc
anitarium at Battle Creek, Mich..
| lares that while they treat 80<
I patients a day they have never use
n ounce of alcohol during the 4,
ears of the history of the institutin
rTe says:
“Forty per cent of our arterio sc’'
-"-is is produced by alcohol ar 1
't curable. Sixty-two per cert
right’s disease is produced by ale
ol and incurable. Ninety-two per
ent of cancer of the stomach is due
o alcohol.
“You think a man pays for his glass
if beer when he passes his nickle over
he bar. He does not. His baby pays
’he law of inheritance is inexorable
’he baby is what his father was. If
man destroys his brain by alcohol,
f his body wastes and degenerates
hrough drink, his children and his
hildren’s children will have dwarfed
ninds and degenerate bodies. Kill
he saloon and save the babies.”
Missionary Rally.
A special service will be held in the
Episcopal Church on Sunday next,
March 27, at 7:30 p. m. The sermon
will be preached by The Rev. Dr. C.
j C. Rollitt representing the “Board of '
Missions” in New York. j <
Special music will be furnished by f
the Choir of the Presbyterian Church.
A very cordial invitation is extended *
to all to attend this service, the pastor (
of the Presbyterian Church has an
nounced that there will be no services 1
in their church and has invited his •
congregation to attend this Missionary
Rally.
On Monday morning, March 27,there
will be a Choral Eucharist and another '
sermon by Dr. Rollitt. 1
Claude R. Parkersoh, Pastor.
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Inman Items.
Mr. and Mrs. Boniface and children
Ihigh license
VERSUS
NO-LICENSE
Nebraska a “High license” State for 25 Years
Kansas a “No-license” State for 35 Years
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■ Up the enactment of a drastic laic and the failure to enforce it. there is injected into the public
mind the idea that laics are to he observed or violated according to the will of those affected. I need
not sap how altogether pernicious such a loose theory is. * • * The constant violation or neglect of
any law leads to a demoralized view of all laws.” (Excerpt from ex-President Taft’s work on "Four
Aspects of Civic Duty.”)
Before deciding to embark on a policy of “No-license,” which in Nebraska >
means doing away with the High License Law, the citizens of Nebraska are
asking whether it is possible to enforce a “No-license” statewide policy.
Information on this point is contained in the following dispatch from Topeka,
Kansas, which appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of January 30, 1916:
CAN’T GET TRUTH FROM
CUSTOMERS OK ItOOTLEGGKRS
Kansas Governor Says Otherwise Good Cit
izens Will Protect Tramp Liquor Sellers
They Lie About Acts
Deny Purchase, With Bottle in Pocket—Plan
to Remedy Condition is Wanted
(Special to the Post-Dispatch.)
TOPEKA, KAN., Jan. 29.—Gov. Arthur
Capper of Kansas is looking for a man who
can develop some method, psychological,
mechanical or otherwise, to extract the truth
from ordinarily good citizens who are cus
tomers of bootleggers.
Gov. Capper recently sent, a letter to all
Kansas county attorneys, asking them for
suggestions on methods of enforcing the pro
hibitory law. Tlie governor wanted to know
what legislation was needed or in what way
the state could help the local officials in law
enforcement. * * *
Seeking Truth Extractor
"But what Kansas needs most Is someone
who wiB evolve some method of extracting
the truth from the patron of a bootlegger,"
said tile governor. “The man who buys
booze in Kansas is given to an exaggerated
sense of honor. He becomes an entirely
different individual. The patron of the boot
legger is a Jekyll and Hyde sort of a prop
osition. The county attorneys tell me of
dozens of men, honest, Industrious citizens,
regarded as men of the highest type in their
communities, who will do almost anything
rather than tell the truth about where they
purchased a bottle of beer.
“It isn’t a club or lodge proposition, either.
There are ties of fraternity that would cause
a man to refuse to divulge the sale or dis
pensation of liquor in a clubhouse. But there
is nothing of tills when the liquor is pur
chased from a bootlegger. In this case a
man goes out hunting for liquor and finds
It in some drug store, or livery stable, or I
down on an island, or some other out-of
the-way place where a man lias set up a
temporary Joint.”
I Prosperous Business Conditions in Nebraska
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BUSINESS FAILURES IN
A PROHIBITION STATE
The claim is often made by advocates of "No
license” that the retail merchant stands a better
chance of getting his money from his customers
where “No license” prevails than he does in cities
or states where the "License” policy prevails. Uncle
Sam has been collecting some figures which have a
direct bearing on this question. Here they are:
Commercial Failures, Calendar Years 1912, 1913, 1914
(See page COG of Statistical Abstract of the
U. S., 37th Number.)
1912
Number Per Cent
of Failures of Failures
Kansas. 22N 0.75 Per Cent
Nebraska. 153 0.60 Per Cent
1913
Kansas. 214 0.71 Per Cent
Nebraska. 122 0.47 Per Cent
1914
Kansas. 203 0.67 Per Cent
Nebraska. 109 0.49 Per Cent
Rumors have been in circulation for some time
that the owners of big eastern mail order houses
are favoring the prohibition and “No license”
cause, because “No license” helps to kill off the
retail merchant in all lines of business. Apparently
they are on the right track, for the official U. S.
census figures indicate beyond the shadow of a doubt
that a much larger percentage of merchants fail in
Kansas than in Nebraska.
KANSAS ASYLUMS FOR
INSANE OVERFLOWING
That thirty-two years of "No license” in Kansas
have not brought about conditions for the better as '
far as INSANITY in that state is concerned, is evi
denced by the following statement which was made J
in an official report by the superintendent of the I
Osawatomie State Hospital for the Insane. The quo
tations are taken from the Biennial Report of the >
Kansas State Board of Control, issued from the State
Printing Office at Topeka in the year 1912, page 65: 5
“Defective dependents are Increasing out of pro
portion to the increase in the general population.
Tills fact claims the careful attention of all good
citizens. Not much progress will be made in les- j
sening this threatening calamity until the people [
awoke to t he fact that marriage of the unfit should 1
be carcfuly restricted.”
In a preceding paragraph on the same page, we j
find this:
“The indications are that before the new hospital
at Lamed can accommodate patients our hospitals
ut Topeka and Osawatomie will be compelled to j
refuse patients for want of room.”
THE CRIME PROBLEM in KANSAS
Costs the State Nearly $500,000 a Year to Keep Offenders in Houses of Correction
An amazing confession respecting the CRIME problem in Kansas is fur
nished in an article written by Mr. Charles M. Harger, Chairman State Board
of Corrections of Kansas, and which appeared in a publication entitled “The
Monthly Magazine Section” for November, 1915. Lack of space forbids the
printing of the entire article. Here is a quotation from it:
KANSAS’ PROBLEM OF DELINQUENCY
By
Charles M. Harger, Chairman State Board of Corrections
“Three times every day nearly sixteen hundred inmates of the Kansas correctional institutions
sit at table at state expense. Every night they are under guard in cells or dormitories. Sixteen
hundred persons are to be clothed and over two hundred employees are paid salaries to see that they
obey regulations restraining them from liberty. These girls, boys, young men and mature men and
women cost the state $450,000 every year, not to mention the loss through their removal from produc
tive occupations nor the expense incurred in legal proceedings. « • * The boys and girls sent to
our institutions rarely are there for first offenses. Mostly they have been bad boys and girls; the
town marshall has reprimanded them; the probate judge has struggled with them; finally running
with the ‘gang,’ they do something so inexcusable that they are sentenced.’’
NOTE—The reader’s attention is respectfully called to the fact that this official article was published in
the year 1915, exactly thirty-five years after prohibition went into effect in Kansas.
(Published and Paid for by the Nebraska Prosperity League) ,
aft Tuesday morning for Philips, Wis
onsin, where they will make their
uture home.
Miss Dorothy Wilcox was home
rom Pilger visiting home folks Satur.
lay and Sunday.
Misses Hazel and Myrtle Edwards
vent to Oakdale last Saturday to visit
lome folks, returning Sunday.
Gene Smith and daughter of Page
vere in Inman Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Davis and
hildren of Stanton are here visiting
elatives and friends.
A surprise party was given at the
3. D. Keyes home last Thursday in
lonor of Misses Mildred Keyes and
L,ouis Coventry, that being their l(!th
birthdays. A large crowd was pres
ent and all reported a fine time.
A general supper was given at the
C. J. Malone home last Friday even
ing by the Epworth League of the M.
E. church for the purpose of raising
money to purchase a street light to be
put in front of the church.
Rev. Bothwell, District Superin
tendent of the M. E. Church, was in In
man Saturday holding quarterly con
ference, He also preached in the M.
E. church Sunday morning.
Mrs. Gene Sanford and son, Melvin,
of O’Neill, visited at the home of her
sister, Mrs. C. J. Enders and family,
from Saturday until Tuesday.
Ezra Broombaugh is working in
Stuart this week.
Harry Harte and J. S. Jackson were
O’Neill visitors Saturday, returning
Sunday.
Miss Marie Keifer accompanied by
her grandfather, A. Tompkins, went
to Norfolk Sunday.
Messrs Coney and Mick Colman and
Hardin Auspach were O’Neill visitors
Sunday.
Aid to Villa Treason to U. S.
A resolution denouncing as treason
the furnishing of supplies or other aid
to Villa was introduced in the Senate
Friday by Senator Lewis of Illinois.
He would have all guilty persons
prosecuted as traitors.
ILa/wreiHLce Cj^a,p2nn.a,z2L
I Attorney-At-Law, O’Neill, Nebraska
I Republican Candidate for County Attorney of Holt County.
Primaries April 18, 1916.
^ MEYER BRANDVIG
1 Spencer, Neb.
I Candidate by Petition for Representative 54 District.
PLATFORM
Agriculture is the primary and basic industry of
Nebraska. Therefor, I am For the farmer—For the
wage-earner—For closer co-operation—For equitable
taxation—For BETTER RURAL SCHOOLS—For
progress, justice and equality to all.
Primary April 18. Your vote will be appreciated.
f\---.
W. C. T. U. COLUMN.
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Edited by the Ladies of the Local
W. C. T. U.
Why a Lord Mayor of London is a
Total Abstainer.
Sir Vezey Strong, recently Lord
Mayor of London, in an article in
Pearson’s Weekly, an English period
ical, tells why he became a total ab
stainer: “I became officially connecetd
with the temperance movement at the
age of fourteen.
“I have been asked why I became a
total abstainer ? Well, a boy’s reason
ing faculties are not very well de
veloped at the age of fourteen, so it
would be better to ask why I have re
4 mained an abstainer during the
years since that time.
“The reason is simply that I have
become convinced that wine or beer or
spirits, or any other form of alcohol in
common use is unnecessary, useless,
and in many cases actually harmful.
“I do not think I need emphasize its
harmfullness; that is only too pitiably
known in every corner of the earth.
“One has often heard it said that
alcohol is of great benefit as a stimu
lation, but its lack of benefit is now, I
think, beyond doubt. For many
years this was the last stronghold of
the defenders of alcoholic treatment;
that stimulants were necessary to
those in ill-health, and that alcohol
was, therefore, of great medical value.
“This view was so widely accepted
that I can remember the time when,
in the old hospitals, a patient was
asked whether he took stout or ale.
Alcoholic liquor was, in fact, regarded
as part of the patient’s diet.
“Now it seemed to one or two au
dacious laymen, myself included, that
this theory of the curative value of
alcohol was open to grave doubt, and
it was decided to institute a careful
and strictly scientiffic test as to the
possibilities of a general hospital,
where all sorts of diseases might be
treated, being run on Temperance
lines.
“With this object in view, a hospital
was started in quite a small way.
That was nearly forty years ago, and
to-day the London Temperance Hospi
tal is a well-known and recognized
institution.
“In all those years, so far as my
knowledge goes, not one ounce of
brandy or beer or wine of any descrip
tion has entered the hospital, either
for the use of the patients or of the
HOW MUCH OIL
DO YOU USE?
Don’t buy barrels and half barrels of oil when
| you only need Five and Ten gallons.
Compare these prices—bring in your cans—get
just what yen want, when you want it and at the
right prices.
Eldorado Castor Machine Oil, 5 gallon lots.19c
Standard Red Engine Oil, 5 gallon lots.25c
Heavy Graphite Harvester Oil, 5 gallon lots.27c
Genuine Polarine Automobile Oil, 5 gallon lots . 45c
Hard Oil in Bulk, any quantity you want, per lb. . 8c
Standard Hand Separator Oil, one gallon.50c
When you buy your oil here you are taking no
I chances as to Quality for my personal guarantee
covers every sale.
NEIL P. BRENNAN.
