THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE
Consolidations Kails City Tribune,
Uumbnhtt Enterprise. Uulo Record,
Crocker's {'Educational Journal and
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."