THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE
Consolidations Falls City Tribune,
Humboldt Enterprise, Rulo Record,
Crocker's Educational Journal and i
Dawson Outlook.
Entered as second-class matter at
Falls City. Nebraska, jmisi office, Janu
ary 12. l‘*04, under the Act of Congress
on March 3,187'v.
Published every Friday at Falls City.
Nebraska, by
Tht Tribune Publishing Company
W. H. WYLER,
Editor and Manager.
One year .- — -— $1.50
Si* months --
Three months •4(l
TELEPHONE226.
BEHIND THE CURTAINS.
When some weeks ago we had
the temerity to call attention to the
facts, that “wet good ' were being
freely sold to minors over Falls City
burs; that gambling was going on
unchallenged under the very eyes
of the authorities, and that panderer:
to lust unltlushlngly offered their
wares in open market, we were
mildly taken to task by our astute
mnyoi for representing the city un
favorably to outside Interests. Since
then every point protc-ied 1 >n« been
openly and fully verified A weak
woman rounded tip a gang of gamb
lers who were convicted on their
own i otifesslon. Hoys have again and
again bought whiskey and other
drinks in Falls City saloons, on sov
ernl occasions getting beastly drunk.
Men and women have been In mix
ups too ugly and dirty to speak about.
And what has our mayor done? Ab
solutely nothing so far as dealing with
the conditions which are responsible
for these ugly spots upon our city.
The abuses are committed so openly
and brazenly as to compel the con
clusion of collusion between the may
or and the vicious elements of Falls
City. We have tried to be forbearing
We did look for some relief, ’but
only to lie disappointed. Let Mayen
Keeling deals with existing abuses
and deal with them promptly
I*t him enforce the laws impartially
or <|iiii the pretense of trying to gov
orn Falls City. Let him do something
In the Interest of common decency
or show cause why lie should not be
removed,
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THE NEWSPAPER.
Of all men. the local newspaper
man needs to he wise and judicious
It is largely left lo him lo select thoj
community reading matter. To be
fair and Impartial he must lay aside
his dislikes and dear himself of all
malice. If the paper you read is to
decide the quality of your reading
for you. is it not important also that
you lie careful in choosing the paper
which you and your children read?
The mind grows upon what It feeds.
If your paper caters to the mean
and vicious your prejudices will tie
developed along low and course lines 1
It makes a difference in time upon
the character of your household, if
you admit into your home a paper j
that sneers at tilings dean and de
cent.and makes mockery or righteous
ness and truth. To the newspaper!
is largely committed the task of de
veloping the public consciousness. It
is a responsible task, and not all
papers measure up to the vequin
inonts. it is therefore important
that the reader use judgment ami dis
crimination in choosing ids reading
matter by being careful in the choice
of his paper. To subscribe for a
paper is in a measure to support its
policy, and recommend its principles.
Tliis places a serious responsibility
upon the shoulders of every subscrib
er and challenges every man of prin
elple and moral accountability to
select liis papers with n view to what
they stand for and teach.
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JUST ORDINANCE.
The city fathers of Morristown, 11!..
have just passed an ordinance com pell
ing saloon keepers to take care of
their drunks. They are obliged to
put cots in their places and if a
man gets drunk he must be cjuar
tered until sober and capabel of going
about bis business again. Tile jus
tice of this ordinance will appeal
to every fair minded person. Let
the saloon take care of its own wasi
like any other industry. When a
railroad or a manufactory injures an
employee by its own negligence it is
held liable. Applying the same prin
ciple to the saloon, would make the
saloon responsible not only for the
care of drunks while in that condi
tion but also for the support of the
indigent and orphaned and widowed
because of the effects of the traffic.
That the courts are beginning to'
take account, of this fact and are in
sisting that the saloon bear its
share of the evils that grow out of
the business, is seen in the recent1
decisions holding the saloon liable
for rtrmages in suits growing out of
such cases.
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THE BOY IN THE HIGH SCHOOL.
Parents and educators have been
much wrought up over the problem of
the boy and the high school For
years there has been a marked dis
parity between the number of boys
and the number of girls attending
high school. In almost every case
the number of girls attending being
very much greater than the number
of boys. It is therefore refreshing to
note that in the class of 1910 at
Broken Bow, Nob., there were twelve
boys and only seven girls. It Is
argued and with good reason that
the iact of Broken How having been
a temperance city for a long time has
given the boys a better opportunity
and that the result is seen in the
greater number of boys finishing
their high school course. This much
is certain, that saloon prosperity, sa
loon morals, and saloon sentiment do
not savor of etilightment or culture.
And on the same basis that we find
a saloon cursed community lacking in
these refinements, we should look to
find “dry" communities advanced in
mat I < rs of education and morality.
The saloon can no more do busi
ness without boys than a saw mill
rati run without logs, The saloon
struck boy does not graduate from
our high, schools. Ills sister does,
however. The money he ‘’blows in"
helps pay I In- expense of the higfi
school from wwlih h she is graduated.
As is the way in life, the saloon
warped young men. with Ills coarse
habits and limited culture, marries
the high school graduate, and then
whal, Is it worth while?
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MOVING PICTURE SHOW MENACE.
The moving picture show ns a form
of popular amusement lias no doubt
■nine to stay. AS a means for sat
isfying the public craving for some
thing new and diverting the moving
picture show lias few competitors.
And if decently conducted is not only
freeer from objectionable features
than most other similar institutions,
but it may also become the means of
ministering to the culture and refine
ment of those who attend. Unfortu
nately however, public caterers are
rarely in the business but from the
most selfish motives and instead of
making their presentations serve to
instruct and edify the public, they
in* constantly tempted to lower the
tone of their pictures. We are heart
ily sorry to learn that our own show
here in Palls Oily is catering more
in more to the depravity of those
who attend rather than to their vir
tues. The show is becoming a pub
lic menace and citizens who have any
concern for the ideals and morals of
their children, will do well to put it
stop to their attending. There is
absolutely no excuse for the manage
ments using any but wholesome views
except It he to deliberately degrade
md debauch our youths. In any
event we protest against permitting
the presentation in public of pic
tures that are coarse, suggestive, un
moral and indecent. It is the busi
ness of the authorities to look into
this matter and see that the show is
so conducted its to be unobjectionable
or i lose the doors.
JOHN ROBINSON’S SHOWS.
They Will Give an Immense Free
Street Parade.
A distinguished feature of the John
Robinson Shows is the monster, free
open den street earavan. Who does
not like to see (the cirrus parade?
An eventful moment in every small
town, and large one. too. for that
matter, is this early one, the arrival
of the eirens train. Long before the
long train pulls in on the sidetrack
near the depot ttie crowd is there.
There is an army of juvenile volun
teers, who are willing to carry water
for the elephant just to get a free
pasteboard entitling them to admis
sion to the show later in the day
Men are there- to see that their
hoys, who have passed a sleepless
night do nott get hurt. Even wom
en find some excuse for going down
to the railroad yeards tire taking a
olng look at the canvas-covered cars.
Hoys, who have gathered and sold
enough old iron, rags and hones to
gel :>n cents, enjoy it memorable day.
and the streets leading from the
farming district to town are covered
with every imaginable kind of ve
hicle.
As soon as the sun is out there is
bustle and activity everyplace. The
circus does a land office business,
and. ns the crowd is pouring into the
circus tent from tthe menagerie sit
the night performance, the army of
employes of tlte show start to take
down the canvas which shelters the
cages and the work of loading the
outfit onto the train begins. Thous
ands of tired boys and girls retire
after having seen the show, peace
ful and contented. Tlte following
morning the antics of the clown cause
merriment at the breakfast table,
and some youths who reside near the
cir.us lot hurry through their morn
i ■abolutiems In order to ge m ar
the ring and see if any change has
he< u dropped by the spectators of
the previous night. The John Robin
son Shows will lie here Thursday
June 9, 11*10.
Marriage Licenses.
Edward Wisdom, Salem.. ■>!
Alice O'Mara, Falls City.->0 1
Jeremiah J. Kean, Dawson.|
Florence Armbuster, Sluibert.. .201
William C. Margrave, Preston . :,2 |
Ida E. Pribbeno, Preston.24
Carl C. Schaer, Superior.2Sl
Anna Elizabeth Sanford, Falls City, 27J
How Equal Suffrage Has Helped
Paper read by Anna Kovanda. of Table Rock. Nebraska.
When iii 1 S9t> the women of Utah
were granted their right of suffrage,
they at once banded together and
secured the following laws:
A curfew bell at 9:00 p. in. 10
keep children under fourteen years
off the streets.
A law that women teachers in the
public schools shall receive equal pay
with men for equal work, when hold
ing certificates of the same grade.
A law raising the age or protec
tion for girls to eighteen years.
A law making it a misdemeanor
for any minor under eighteen years
to buy, accept, or have in las pos
session cigarettes, tobacco, opium
or any oilier narcotics.
A law providing for the protection
Of dependent, neglected or ill-treated
boys under fourteen and girls under
sltrteen and for the punishent of
persons responsible for their care,
who neglect or ill-treat them.
The women of Utah have been
active in securing laws relating lo
municipal house cleaning and* free
public libraries in cities and towns.
In the places of trust they are punc
tual and faithful. The caucuses and
primary meetings are conducted with
due regard to decorum, the conven
tions are more deliberative, and the
kindly consideration which the
American man lias always shown to
woman lias induced even the rougher
type to consider that political gather
ings in which women take part must
he conducted in a decent and orderly
manner. Here women have proved
themselves a reserve moral power.
The women of Idaho being en
franchised the same year as the
women of Utah began to he active
in laying restrictions on all the pre-.
dominating vices.
(>iu> particular feature of their
early activity is worthy of mention,
that occurred in the city of Caldwell.
Immediately after tin* possession of
their rights tin* women of Idaho se
cured of their legislature a stringent
law against gambling. It was one
thing to get a law passed, and quite
another thing to enforce it. Tin*
men who prospered through the vic
tims in their gambling hells sent
up a mighty wail “that their bread
was being taken out of their mouth"
by the unprincipled and shortsighted
band (d women. Tin* women in tin*
city of Caldwell, foreseeing such a
situation, had secured the election
of a mayor sound on moral questions,
and one woman as a member of the
council.
An ordinance prohibiting gambling
within the city limits was duly passed
and published and through the vigi
lance of the good marshal the pro
fessional gamblers were reduced to
sore straits, and up went their cry,
“Our living is gone." The women
and especially the mothers were an
xious to have tin* ordinance retained
and enforced.
A secret meeting was held by the
women making arrangements to
have representatives from each ward
in the city and interview the council
men in regard to their wishes. But
the saloon men had by no means
fallen asleep, they prepared a mon
strous petition, signed by promi
nent professional and btiisness men
and were ready to present il at the
next meeting of the city hoard.
The women caught wind of this and
hurridly held another meeting and
prepared a remonstrance. Arrange
ments were made to secure the
signature of every woman voter in
the city. Alsa having been informed
that the saloon men had planned to
fill, with their friends, every avail
able seat in the council room, the
women were on hand in great num
bers long before the appointed time
for the meeting and as the doors
were opened they filed in and occu
pied all tht> spectators’ chairs before
their opponents arrived. The gamb
ling men and their friends upon ar
rival finding themselves outwitted
by the women were forced to crowd
about the entrance. .lust before the
meeting opened, the proprietor of the
largest saloon in the city entered and
handed the petition to the city clerk,
it was worded in due legal form,
ending with the clause ‘and we will
ever pray." At the close of its
reading ihe eouncilwomau handed to
the clerk the remonstrance. In clear
exeisive terms it "demanded” that
the ordinance be kept upon the statue
books of the city and enforced. Then
followed the names of a few good
men. Often a husband's name ap
peared on the petition and his wife's
name was found upon the remon
strance. As the names jof quiet,
wo men seldom seen beyond their
own door yards were read out in
that assembly, the faces of men
grew grave, and it seemed as if
they realized for the first, time the
effect of a wornari’s voice on a mor
al issue.
One of the council men,' an old
gentleman who had been of the
opinion that a woman would vote
as her lord dictated, arose and in
clear tones repeated the last clause
of the petition, "and we will ever
pray." and the first clause of the
remonstrance we demand,” at'd he
exclaimed—when before _ did ever
gamblers ‘pray," and mothers "de
mand."
On motion of tl.is gentleman, and
without a dessenting voice, the vote
was indefinitely postponed. A
cheer went up from the women, and
the saloon m ‘ii and their friends
passed silently from the door. The
law. making gambling illegal was
established and placed upon the stat
ute books of the state three years
later
The women of Wyoming have al
ways voted since territorial days,and
we find that all the laws established
for tlie betterment of mankind ami
esp (ially those concerning the child
ren and women. Are largely due to
their efforts, that the members of
the legislature were brought to realize
that a condition exists that made
the passage of certain laws necessary
The vote of the women in this state
is usually cast against a candidate
for office vho is known to be either
Incoinpetent.lminoral or otherwise un
fit fot the place, and as a result the
tendency Is to nominate bettei men
for office,
Political r<*forms are nearly always
brought about by individuals am', sel
dom by party organizations. The
women usually vote for progressive
candidates and for the correction of
abu-ies in politics, irrespective of
party affiliations. After two years
experience of woman suffrage there
was a strong movement among some
of the prominent men of the legisla
ture to repeal the act of granting suf
frage to women. They claimed that
it was evident that women were too
meddlesome and it must be stopped.
Several caucuses were held to de
termine the course of action and
overt nine (he opposition. These cau
cuses were held in one of the largest,
saloons in Cheyenne and all the
pow* r of whiskey was brought to
bear on the members to secure a
repeal of the woman's suffrage r.ct.
It. required considerable time and
a large amount of whiskey, and at
leas' tile opposition was stifled, the
bill was introduced and carried by a
strict party vote, and sent to the
council where it met with the same
result. It then went to the governor
for approval.
He promptly returned the bill with
bis veto, with the following message:
"In Ibis territory women have mani
fested for its higher interests a de
votion strong, ardent, and intelligent.
They have brought to public affairs a
clearness of understanding ami a
soundness of judgment, which are
worthy of the greatest admiration and
above all, praise. The .conscience of
women is in all tilings more discrim
inating and sensative than that of
men; their sense of justice, not com
promising or time-serving, but pure
and exacting; their love of order not
spasmodic or sensational merely, but
springing from the heart; all these
—the better conscience, the exalted
sens" of justice, and the abiding love
of order, have been made by the
efranchisement and well being of our
territory. To the plain teachings of
these two years’ experience I can
not close my eyes. I cannot forget
ilu> benefits that have already result
ed to our territory from woman sttf
largo nor can i permit myself even
to seem to do so by approving this
bill.
Judge Lindesy lias antagonized the
telegraph and telephone companies by
refusing to lot little messenger hoys
be sent with telegrams to houses of
ill fame; he had antagonized the liq
uor interests by punishing saloon
keepers who allowed children to en
ter their premises: by so doing he
had incurred enmity of the great
corporations by his fearless exposure
of political corruption for which they
were responsible and as a result
neither one of the political parties
re-nominated him, and Judge Lindsey
was left without a “party, without a
“ring" with all* "interests" against
him- a man who had been forgot
ten and forsaken. The woman see
ing the stand both parties had taken
launched an independent ticket of
their own and began to canvas for
votes for the judge.
Tlie result of the election rolled
up a majority for Judge Lindsey al
most equal to the democratic and
republican candidates combined. Was
not this a splendid *demonstration of
the power of the woman’s ballot on
on a moral issue? Will any one still
doubt that a woman's vote will help
to build moral character? Tie most
we assert is that if we pour a dear
stream into a muddy one, wo shall
have a “moving of waters" for the
betterment of all mankind.
ANNA KOVANDA.
Table Rock, Neb.
FALLS CITY
THURSDAY
NOT IN THE CIRCUS TRUST!
America’s Oldest Circus. A Modernized, Stupendous Realization of atl
That is great in The Circus World! Four Rings, Three Combined Menag
eris, Hippodrome And Great Wild West, all United in One Greatest Show
On Earth!
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1,000 Men and Women! 400 Horses, 555 Rare Animal Exhibits, 15 Male
Riders, 15 Female Riders, 10 Menage Acts, 50 Aerial Artists, 50 Gym
nasts. 20 Great Ground Acts, 50 Clowns, 6 Big Aerial Thrillers, and 15
Feature Acts!
Three Famous Herds of Performing Elephants—Glascock's —McCammon's
and Sidney Rink's Hippotamus, Rhinoseros, Enormous Zoological Exhibit
larasimBasnBsgsnPMi
Copyrighted. W't. fc Tl.c Li. S. I.itl.osrap!.
COMPLETE WILD WEST—50 Cowboys, 30 Cowgirls, 50 Real Blanket In
dians, Mexican Horsemen, Vaqueros, Russian Cossacks and Japanese
Scouts. Singalese Dancers And Magicians. Company of U. S. Cavalry
in All Kinds of Fancy Drills.
Lowanda’s 8 Brazilian [Riders
The World’s Greatest Horsemen
Warren Travis, Strongest Man Living! Dare Devil Dart! Grand Camp
of The Nations, Comprising Hundreds of Strange People From the
Dark Corners of The Earth.
$500,000 Free
Street Parade
Two Performaces Daily. Doors Open at 1:00 and 7:00 p. m., The
Only Big Show Not in The Circus Trust, Consequently There Will be
No Advance In Prices For Seats or Otherwise.
Falls City, Thursday, June 9th
