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THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE Consolidations Kails City Tribune, Uumbnhtt Enterprise. Uulo Record, Crocker's {'Educational Journal and I)a wson Outlook. Hr—--I Entered as second-class matter at IfallsCitv. Nebraska, post office. Janu-‘ ary 12, l‘»04. under the Act of Congress on March 3. 187b. Published every Friday at Falls City, Nebraska, by The Tribune Publishing Company W. H. WYLER, Editor and Manager. One year . - - - fl.aO Six months . Three months .-*0 TELEPHONE 226. CONGRESSIONAL WRANGLE. The situation In our National Capi tal would appeal to one's sense of the ludicrous if it was not so pa thetic. Tin Aldrich Cannon stand patters are putting up a last despei ate fight for the so-called administra tion. The insurgents and democrats are successfully blocking every ef fort to pass any of tlm administration measures intact. Tho reactionaries are appealing to the patriotism and pprty loyalty of the rank and file, tint to little effect. The people have been buncoed so often that they have grown wise. It will Ink*' tnori than promises to as sure the people of the sincerity of Alrdk’h and Ills hard pressed crowd. Tlie Insurgents are not only holding the situation but are rapidly winning the confidence of the pooph Re cent democratic victories indicate that tlm people hold tlie administra tion responsible for present condi tions, and the disaffection. Since its organisation the Republican party probably never was in so precarious a position as it is just now. The party is divided into two irreconcil able factions. The Insurgents, who stand out cleat cut and positive for the people and the people's Interests O.i r against these is lined up flu t’annon- YWrich nun bine,sold body and soul to the moneyed powers of the country, 't is plainly a schism on principle, it. is the people against the interests. Who shall win? The decision Is in the hands of the voters. PERSONAL LIBERTY vs, CIVIL LIBERTY. The personal liberty wall of the, Dahiinanites and other wet goods brethren, is up' to have more or less Influence with people who have not looked Into the matter sufficiently to appreciate the sophistries or that line of argument. Science lias suc cessfully uncovered and refuted the whole line of whiskey arguments.; The personal liberty cry is the last trick of tie “wets" to coerce and frighten the people and prevent them' from bolting e wet issue bodily. Wlmt then Id understood by person al liberty, and why are the wet-goods men so anxious just now lest the peo ples’. liberties should be infringed up on? Personal liberty means (lie liberty of one’s person. Vulgarly speaking, It means the right to do as one pleases. The personal llber tylte, acknowledges no law, tint the law of the fist. With him might! makes right, lie admits no respon-1 sibilIty for tin under-dog. It is a! plain ease of look out for number one. j The personal liberty propaganda is I in the Interests of the few as against the many. Tin saloon crowd want to bo free to do their own swei t w ill They want "personal liberty.’ They desire above all else, an open way untrainnieled l.y adverse legislation. They want to be let alone in their work of snaring our hoys and defiling our Kiris. They want a fret* hand as they loot the pockets of the peo ple. When they have let loose upon society the fiercest passions of Jm huted men to murder and destroy they wish to be free*. Pllate-like to placidly wash their hands of all responsibility. Dahlman and met; of Dahlman s stripe want personal lib erty; it is just what one would ex pect of that crowd. In well ordered society every man's personal liberty eudu where the other fellow's begins. This is civil liberty, or liberty by limitation Civil liberty is the liberty of the other fellow The law of light and justice guarantees him this liberty. IIm Dahlman and the saloon eryers are careful to avoid any reference to civil liberty. He has nothing in his platform for the underdog. His solicitations in the interests- of the people arc- for effect only. He has no use for the people but to use them as Ids tools for furthering his selfish interests, lie is duping the people with hi , bland sophistries and lies, posing as tin* peoples' friend, only to strip them of every vestige of manhood and womanhood, and throw them when broken and undone upon the care of the state and society. Jim Dahlman. himself may not be so bad a man at heart as this would represent him, hut he has deliberate ly chosen to he the representative in Nebraska of the liquor Interests and he must expect to draw' upon himself all the odium that has in these years ittached itself to this despicable business. GOOD ROADS vs. MUD. The streets amt public highways have been in unusually fine condition this slicing on account of the excep tional!} dry weather. As a couhc quence we have been In danger of forgetting that the roads ever get bad In Kails City and Richardson conn-j ty. However, the million dollar rain that fell last week lias so effectually soaked up all the soft places in the earth's ( rust as to once again strand us in the midst of the land of mud. After painfully picking our way about in ooze and mire, out is in a better mood to give an apprecia tive ear to what the good roads cranks are still preaching. Falls City is getting to be too big it city to be constantly exposed to nil tin' disadvantages of muddy streets. The town cannot afford to be indifferent to her genera! appear ance Mud streets are an eyesore throughout the rainy season. There is absolutely no relief except by pav ing. In (lie country the situation is Somewhat different. The right meth ods of road cultivating will go a long way towards making dirt roads toler able. But in tin' narrower and more congested streets of cities the con ditions forbid the doing of anything short of actual paving In th ■ hope of getting relief. However, the matter of paving af fects a wider circle of interests than mere comfort, convenience, etc. The muddy streets | lace an effectual bar rier ia the way of trade. Mud streets are an Immediate source of loss to merchants by hindering and prevent ing trade. People in trading follow largely the lines of least resistance. In determining these lines good and bud roads figure prominently This trade principle is so highly appreciat ed by wide-awake dealers in many cities today that they not only see to it that the business streets of the towns are paved, but they radiate lines of good roads many miles out into the most populous part.® of the surrounding country. The best trade .solicitor a merchant A Beautiful Custom! It is a beauiful custom at the performing of this cere mony, to j^ive presents— littl e j^itts of remembrance. An Article of Jewelry is always in good taste and is very much appreciated by the deserving ones. It it comes from Jaquet’s you can feel sure that it is a memento which will last, and assures a lasting pleasure to the recipient. A. E. Jaquet THE OLD RELIABLE JEWELER AND OPI 1CIAN l can have is a good road leading from ills door to the door of his customer. Thi merchant who does not rea'ize tliis lias not yet awakened to his larger opportunity. Kver» dealer should ho an enthusiastic advocate of better streets and public roids. The cost of good roads bear no comparison to actual losses sustained because of bad roads. If the loss throrgh loss of time, loss if effectiveness, loss of trade, and wear and tear on machin ery and damage to goods were all carefully computed the significance of amount would drive mud >oads out of business. It is not the cost, but what we lose that we want to, con sider. SLAVE DRIVING IN NEW YORK. Young Girls Kept in Stockades Wait ing For Buyers—Sold Like Cattle. A shocking condition of 'hings has been unearthed in New Yor'" by the efforts of those interested in cheeking! the train* in girls. A number of stockades, or more Utterly, girl-pens have been located where girls have been trapped and are held prisoners until a buyer appears who buys them like so many cattle. The extreme hor ror of the whole gruesome business is too awful to detail. Well dressed women, some of whon are college bred, hang around cheap theaters, dance halls and other places of amusement for the poorer classes. They single out giddy girls, who are dissatisfied at home and who tire fretting for more freedom rnd aban donment. They win their attention, cultivate* their confidence and by de grees, in one way or another lure them into tin* stocadcs, veritable girl traps. When safely caught they are under tin* care and management of the proprietor, whose business it is to sell them to keepers of houses of prostitution at as good a figure as possible. Hurry Levinson, who was,arrested last week and <s under indictment as a “white slaver” told the police that there were at. least three stockades in New York and that there were kept at all limes at least ten girls in each one ready for tic market nighi or day. Levinson said he was a spec ialist in finding buyers for the girls in the stockades. The house paid the stockade keeper it sum for each girl and allowed Levison ten per cent of the girls' earnings. He said that he found the business paid much better than the work lie haii been at before. But this is only one pints* • of the "white slave traffic" in Net York alone, not mentioning such other cities as Chicago, St. Louis and Snn Francisco. Wlmt is still worse is the assurance that these heinous crimes against humanity are abetted and protected by the police It is past believing, and yet none tin* less true, that offices and political prestige are bought and sold with the price of young girls' shame. And all this and a thousand limes more in free Amer ica. The time is coming, if not here now. when we Americans may well hang our heads with shame and real alarm over the results of our boast ed and superior civilization. Pulling For The Home Merchant. Let tis imagine for a brief moment at least that our fondest anticipations for the growth of Tecutnseh for this year liiin are realized that we have secured a sewerage plant, an extend ed water service, an alfalfa mill and other enterprise s and improvements which will he of great benefit to us. Let every man woman and child in the city join hi.mis in a movement for a bigger, a better Tocumseh. Let ns all lie “boosters” every minute of our lives, and let there lie no knock ers. Kneourage evorj honn enter prise. Take an interest in every in dustry. invest liberally In the stock of faith and good will, and distribute it all over the city, in every place of business, in every shop and on tlte j street. It will pay us large dividends and will cost very little. It can never depreciate in value. It will always be above par. Huy home-made goods. Ask your merchants for them. Wear home made garments, eat home made articles of food, sleep on homo I made beds and insist upon every ar ticle we daily use as being home made, if possible. In this way the money we sp ntd is only loaned. It will come bae« to us again with in terest. t’rais ■ up our city—don't run it down. Stan I by our merchants and any and every industry we have. They are the tone and sinew of our municipal structure. Stand by our churches and our schools—they are the hopes of our future. With a strong determination to protect the home town firs t, last and all the time and with a concerted action in the interests of its upbuilding in Tecum sch, wo should have one of the best little cities in the state and a very do sirable place in which to live.— Tecutnseh Chieftain. * - Lost. At the city park or between there and the central part of town, April 28, a ladies’ gold watch. The finder please leave at this office. DAWSON. Judge Kelley was in Verdon Tues day. Paul lleiiu was a Humboldt visitor Wednesday Rev. Bennett Maze arrived in Haw son Tuesday. Mrs. Mn.ton is reported to be im proving slowly Mrs. C P. Gates was in Humboldt Monday between trains Miss Nina Snow visited her parents! in Humboldt over Sunday. Mrs. McCoy spent Sunday with; friends ami relatives in Table Rot k. j Miss Lively spent Saturday and Sunday at her home near Falls City. Frank Draper visited a couple of days last week with relatives in Falls City. Mrs. Pet* r Smith lias undergone a successful operation and is improv ing rapidly. Mr. O'Brien was taken sick Sat urday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. M. Byrne. Messrs Powers, Sethen and others were in town Tuesday looking after tin' drainage ditch. Mrs. Mary Finland left Tuesday for Omaha, where her husband. John Fin land, is being treated. Dr. Kd Hays returned Monday from Chicago, where he has been taking a post graduate course. Mr. S. H Lies, who was badly in jured about two weeks ago in a run away is recovering. Kev. .1 iloldeman has been attend ing the revival meetings at the Evangelical church in Verdon this Week. Mrs. Kate O'Connell and daughter. Josephine, left Tuesday for Omaha, where the latter will lie treated for throat trouble. Francis, the second oldest son af Mr. and Mrs. Elcx Tichen, Jr., is threatened with paralysis. 11 is father accompanied him to Omaha Tuesday where lie will be treated. Mis Orra narnell of San Jose. Cal., formerly. Miss Florence llarlow, ar rived in Dawson Monday night. She will make an < xtended visit with her parents, Mr. arid Mrs. S. f. Barlow. Mrs. A L. Iloldeman. Mrs. John Eckerd. Miss Mary Wuster, Mrs, llit'f of Dawson and Mrs. Essely and a delesate from Maple Drove left Mon day to ath'inl the W. II. and I'. M. S convention til Kearney, Xeb., this week. Tb.i \ land d has been ttuoladed at Dawson. This last one is intended to work north and west towards Humboldt and meet the one that begun beyond Humboldt some week ago, The dredge that began digging east front Dawson several weeks ago is now almost out of sight down the bottom. It has been making good progress and will cut out Us portion of the channel on schedul ■ time. This week we have made up the Outlook mailing list and placed the list on the same file with the reg ular Tribune subscribers. We want to he fair in this matter All names that have already expired on the Out look list will in' discontinued. To all persons, whose subscriptions to the Outlook have not expired. The Tribune will he sent for the unex pired time, unless otherwise ordered. To those who were getting both pa pers, the time of The Tribune will be extended to the extent of the val ue of their unexpired Outlook sub scription. County Option News. Mr. .lames Leyda of Omaha ad dressed an enthusiastic crowd at Shubert Tuesday night and organized East Muddy precinct. A committee from eaeli of the three churches was | named to co-operate as a joint and central committee. Three live temperance rallies were 1 held in Shubert and Barada and at Silver Creek respectively nn Sunday night. At each point, all the churches united in a joint meeting. Next Tuesday night. May IT. there well be a general rally of the "drys" in Ohio precinct, at the Silver Creek church for the purpose of perfecting a working organization in Ohio Pre i einct.. Everybody is cordially invited to turn out and help the good work along. Speakers will be furnished for ad dresses on the subject of "County Option," in any part of the county. The Tribune is prepared to furnish in formation or help on call. Let us know your needs. it is the purpose to effect the organization of a strong committee in each precinct to have charge of the work in the locality. For Sale. 80 acres five miles northeast of Falls City, Nebraska. All in culti vation. Good location. Also 80 acres! seven miles northeast of Falls City, Nebraska. All fenced and in culti vation. Want tp sell to settle an es tate. Money to loan. HENRY C. SMITH. Card of Thanks. Ms.G.Dandliker and family wish to. extend ttieir thanks to the friends and neighbors who assisted in the late bereavement of their beloved hu: band and father, also for the beauti ful floral offerings. Mrs. G. Dandliker and Family. I■ I ■ ■I■ i BAR DRUNKARDS AS PARENTS Noted Authority Declares Paternal Al coholism Quite Sufficient to Produce Degeneracy. Or. C. \V. Salesby, F R. S.. of Edln burg, in a recent article on "Drink and Heredity," said among other things: One student of the alcohol question Dr. Archdall Reid, in his hook "Alco holisms," goes so far as lo declare that only one really effective temper ance measure is conceivable—that which forbids parentage to the drunk aid. Though it is impossible, I be lieve, to accept Dr. Reid's argument , as the whole truth,1 undoubtedly it con tains a great measure of the most i imporant truth. In the first place we must recognize—and the conclusion is at once scientific and charitable—that in a large proportion of cases the drunkard was predestined to his fate. In other words, he has an innate de fect of brain upon which his predis-’ position and fall depend. Tills defect of brain being innate, is transmissible, and is frequently, if not always, trans mitted, according to the well-known laws of inheritance. Just, then, as in sanity of congenital origin should dis qualify for the parentage of the race that is to inhabit the promised land, so the defect of the brain, which un derlies much alcoholism, should dis qualify its possessor from the supreme privilege. Its relations to obvious in sanity are too intimate to be denied. In the second place, we may be as sured that chronic alcoholism should disqualify for parentage even in cases where we cannot convince ourselves that it depends upon an inherent and original defect of brain. For even though there has boon no such de fect. and even though the modern teaching of heredity denies that an ac quired defect of the brain, due to al coholic poisoning, can lie transmitted, yet we are also empowered to believe that the constant circulation of alco hol in the blood of the individual is prejudicial to the germ-plasm, poisons those racial elements of which he or she is the ephemeral host, and so makes for future disaster. If we had to choose between pro hibiting the parentage for the alco holic woman, on the one hand, and the alcoholic man on the other, it is of course the woman whom we should disbar, knowing the intimacy of the relations that subsist between her and iter child. It has been lately shown however, that even paternal alcohol ism is quite sufficient to produce in disputable degeneracy in the offspring. Lastly, it may be noted that, even apart from any questions of heredity, the environment of the alcoholic home is not such as we can desire for the coming race, even though the children were only adopted into It and were born of unpoisoned parents. From this point of view, it will tie seen that a new significance attaches to modern methods of dealing with the chronic drunkard. It is to be hoped that we have done for ever with the criminal and outrageous folly of sen tencing a Jane Cakebread to short terms of imprisonment for drunken ness on hundreds of occasions. The principle ol the inebriate home must he made universal. It will be policed out, and truly, alas, that the “home" and the “reformatory” almost con stantly fail in effecting reformation. This we can the more readily under stand if we remember that the drunk ard s vice so often depends upon an innate and necessarily incurable state of the brain. Vet whilst this fact will gravely qualify our expectations for the individual, it incalculably en hances tlie value of those modern meahods from the point of view of the race. I do not think that in common ar guments on the subject this point is at all adequately realized. People say that reformation is not effected; they point out especially (with what truth 1 know not), that reformation of the female drunkard in particular is not effected, and they conclude that the method is futile and to be condemned. They do not realize that the method would be beneiicent, and indeed abso lutely essential, even if no measure I of reform had ever been attained or ever were to be attained. We are sa ving the future all the time. In some remote analogy to this case, we may , remark in passing, the condemnation often passed upon sanatoria for con sumptives—that they fail to cure so many cases. Yes. but they preserve ! the healthy from the risk of infection, and this alone would be sufficient to i justify them. Only indeed by the seg regation of the consumptive will con sumption be stamped out; only by the segregation of the drunkard can we radically Interfere with the production of those predestined to drunkenness. Drunkards Declared Insane. Representative William E. Reuse of Ottawa county, Ohio, has a bill de fining habitual drunkenness as in cipient insanity, which he will soon introduce. Those adjudged as “near" lunatics are to be committed to the nearest j state hospital for the insane, to be held until discharged as cured. 1 he state will provide the medical attendance, and the county from which the alcoholic lunatic is sent $J0 a month. Representative lienae, who is a lib eral, defines his bill as a temperance measure. . I INTEMPERANCE IS GREAT EVIL Unity of Purpose and Co-operation Necessary to Overcome and De stroy Prevailing Habit. The present time demands unity of purpose and co-operation on the part of all who seek to overcome the fear ful prevailing intemperance and to de stroy the causes and forces that lead to it and foster it. It is agreed that intemperance is a great evil, that it is a sin in itself, and is destructive to every one who comes under its power, says United Presbyterian. There, is (he law of temperance, or sobriety, of abstinence from all lhat works evil. The place of intemperance is tn the moral world. We must meet it in this sphere. It does not meet thp case to cry out against the laws that exist in relation to the sale of intoxicants. That is a different sphere of duty. Hi the first place, we must address the in dividual; we must show him the sin. and teach him the judgment that will surely follow, that even now is resting on the intemperate man. We think wa are not mistaken when we say that in this there has been less preaching and teaching than is our duty. We begin our attack at a more advanced point; we give a different direction to our effort. Hut. first of all, we must ad dress the intemperate, or those who are in danger of tailing into the sin We say much of the ruin wrought by intemperance, but the first point is the sin. ihe sin against God as well n against ourselves, and that he is pre paring his judgment against ihe day of wrath. The drunkard shall not eti ,ter into the presence of the holy God in this we can all unite; in this wo should all unite with intense earnest ness. Hut intemperance has its relation to the social life and to the civil law. Along with drunkenness there are the agencies that foster and strengthen the habit. Along with the personal In temperance there is the liquor busi ness, beside ihe home there is the saloon. The saloon exists •inder Un law; it has a defined relation to so cial order. It must be met on its own field. In this the object is to close the saloon and abolish tlie trad 1 in intoxicants. Every saloon is an agency that increases intemperance it is a school of intemperance and drunkenness. So we must meet *i' Here again all should he united, but in fact there is division. Of necessity we enter the field of politics, lor Ihe object is to take th » saloon from under the protection of the latv by the license it receives from the state. In this there must be great wisdom and prudence—prudence that no wrong method lie adopted, or any right method u»ed in a wrong way, and wisdom that we may unite alt and combine every possible politic il and social influence against the com mon sale of liquor. DRINKING IN LOW COUNTRIES In Both Holland and Denmark Rav ages of Habit in Late Years Painfully Apparent. In both Moll ml and Denmark, the latter especially, the ravages of th ■ drink habit have in late years been painfully apparent, hut in both coun tries the work of reform is now being undertaken in earnest and great prog ress has already been made. In Den mark over half the adult population have lately signed a petition to the Danish parliament in favor of the en acting of a law giving the privilege of local veto to every section of the coun try. This movement is conducted tin der the auspices of the Danish Good Templars, and the petition signatures up to a recent date numbered about one-half million. In Holland the scientific side of the alcohol question is being taken tip actively '>y professional men and educators and the findings of the a! cohol experts from Amsterdam and other Dutch cities as shown before the anti-alcohol congresses are bound to produce marked results in favor of temperance in the lowland provinces Whether or not the astute deduction of Goldsmith with regard to the re lation between the condition of certain Dutch cities and the number of ale houses located in them will hold good at the present time It is certain that Immediately coming years will show a marked improvement in Holland. "In the towns and countries I have seen," said a traveler and observant author, "1 never saw a city or village yet, where miseries were not in pro portion to the number of its public houses. In Rotterdam, you may g,> through eight or ten streets without, finding a public house, in Antwerp almost every second house seems an ale house. In the one city, all wear the appearance of happiness and warm affluence; in the other, the young fel lows walk about the streets in shabby finery, their fathers sit at the door darning or knitting stockings, whilu their ports are filled with refuse.” What Drinking Does. , In a recent issue the London Times had this remarkable passage; "Drink ing baffles us, confounds us, shames us, and mocks us at every point. It outwits the teacher, the man of busl ness, the patriot, and the legislator Every other institution flounders In hopeless difficulties; the public-house ho’ds its triumphant course."