THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE
Consolidations—Kails City Tribune,
Humboldt Enterprise, ltulo Record,
Crocker's Educational Journal and
Dawson Outlook.
Entered as second-class matter at
Fall* City, Nebraska, post office, Janu
ary 12. l^H, under the Act of Congress
on March 3,1879.
Published every Friday at Falls City,
Nebraska, by
Tha Tribuna Publishing Company
W. H. WYLER,
Editor and Manager,
One year ..
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TELEPHONE 226.
Announcement.
1 hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the republican nomination
for congress in the First District of
Nebraska. WILLIAM HAYWARD.
Announcement.
1 wish *o announce my candidacy
for the legislature subject to the n
pubi'.ian primary. DON (DUDLEY.
The result of the primary cleclon in
khe state of Kansas, Tuesday was
overwhelmingly in favor of the insui
gents. (Jovernor Stubbs was renomi
nated by 20,000 majority. It was a
veritable landslide for the progressive
element of tlx* stall1
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Old Missouri, true to her traditions
has remained “stand-pat". Iowa at
her state republican convention had
a big fight. The insurgents were In
the majority, but in spite of this the
reactionaries were determined to
force the convcntio i to pass the most
sweeping endorsements of the admin
istration and the last tariff.
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In another column may lie found
some very concise and pointed decla
rations by Mr. Whedon. That he is1
cordially disliked by the followers of
Burkett, is rather to his credit. Mr.
Whoedon Is not ufrnitl to declare him
self on the great Issues of the hour,
which Is more than his hedging oppo
nent Is willing to do. The people of
Nebraska, like the people of Kansas
will nominate men who are frank1
enough to declare where they stand.
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The article begun In the last issi*
and continued through this one by
Prof. McKelver of Manhattan Kansas
and entitled. “A better crop of boys
and girls”, has received some strong
comments from those who read last
week's issue. Any one may get
the entire article in pamphlet form by
addressing a letter to Prof. Me.Koiver
at Manhattan,Kails, and inclosing one
cent for each copy desired. These
bulletins deserve to be widely dis
tributed
The farmers hold the keys to the
political situation. When they turn
out and vote big majorities are sure
to be rolled up In the interests of the
people and popular issues. The peo
ple still rule whenever they take the
pains to go to the polls and declare
themselves, intelligently, as they did
in Kansas on Tuesday. It rained ov
er a considerable portion of the
state of Kansas Monday night making
work in the fields on Tuesday largely
impracticable^ as a consequence many
farmers took a day off and went to
town, and of course voted. That they
were posted on the issues and knew
how to cast their ballots for the good
of popular government is clear from
the returns. The country people are
sufficiently posted on the vital issues
of the hour to decide intelligently on
most of them if they will only take
the time and pains to vote.
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The primary plan has ushered in
the day of intelligent voting. Under
the old convention system a few dele
gates from each county would have
met in state convention. A commit
tee consisting of a still smaller num
ber of the few composing the whole
convention would have drafted a set
of resolutions. The resolutions would
have indorsed all that had been done
in state affairs or in Congress by the
party, or condemned all that had
been done by the opposition party.
That would have ended the free, un
biased discussion of the measures so
vitally affecting the people. After
that the voter would either approve
all, or oppose all, that had been done
by “the party” in power and not one
voter in ten would know the effect of
the measures he had indorsed or of
those he had denounced. His indi
vidual opinions, interests and convic
tions would all be swallowed up and
lost completely in a partisan resolu
tion that “pointed with pride" or a
partisan condemnation that “viewed
with alarm.” Now every voter knows
what he is doing when he votes. He
knows not only the candidates he is
voting for, but he knows what princi
ples of government he is voting for.
The direct primary has not only
ushered In the day of intelligent vot
day of individual voting,
it niayT as the machine politicians con
tend, prove disastrous to party organ
ization, but it promises much for
good government. — Kx
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WHAT COUNTY OPTION MEANS.
Ill answer to many Inquiries, it is
well to observe agaip that the prin
ciple of county option, as tried out
in many states, is that when a
county votea dry, it is ail dry.
When a county votes against the
“dry” proposition it remains just as
it was before, leaving the municipal
ities to have saloons or not have
them, as they jnay decide in their
local elections.
In Nebraska, to fail to dry up a
county would mean to leave the Slo
cum law In effect Just as it Is now.
County option is not a proposition
to vote saloons Into a county. It is
to vote them out. of a county. Saloons
are already outlaws under the law.
permitted only under certain condi
tions, and restrained by bonds and
local police regulations.
County Option would mean a
chance of the people of the whole
county to absolutely prohibit the lic
ensing of outlawry within the county.
Brewery papers call this a jug-hand
led arrangement. So is the licen
sing of outlaw institutions jug-hund
led So is the ruining of (lie lives
of men and boys jug handled.
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THE WORTH WHILE PLANKS.
“For the further regulation of the
liquor traffic in Nebraska, wo are
in fauVor of the passage o fa county
on that subject as the legislature may
and pledge our candidates for gover
nor. If elected, to approve such a law
on that subject as theleglslature may
enact.”
"We recognnlze the existence of
a sufficient demand for direct legis
lation in this state to warrant sub
mitting the question to the vote of
the people. We therefore favor the
submission of a direct legislation
amendment to our constitution by the
next legislature."
"We favor the creation of a non
partisan board of control for the
penal, reformatory aand charitable in
stitutions of the state.”
“We favor the passage of n new
apportionment law, at the next ses
sion of the legislature, redlstrioting
the state into senatorial and repre
sentatives districts, giving to each
fair and equal representation, based
on the population as shown by the
census of 1910 .and if the legisla
ture, which is elected tills fall, fails
to preform this constitutional duty,
while in regular session, we pledge
tile people of this state that the re
publican candidate for governor, if
elected, will convene the legislature
in special session until tills con
stitutional duty lias been performed.”
“Every protest against the wrong is
insurging for the right. We are un
alterably opposed to tin* system
known as ‘Oannonism’ and are in
hearty sympathy witli the insurgent
movement in and out of congress.
We herewith urge our senators and
representatives to continue to use
their votes and influence along pro
gressive lines in tile future.”
WHEDON'S PLATFORM.
Lincoln, Nob., August 1, 1910. To
the People of Nebraska The primary
election for the nomination of candi
dates for office by the several parties
will be held Tuesday, August Iti, 1910.
I am a candidate for tin1 office of
Puited States senator on the repub
lican ticket.
1 am in favor of all the legislation
declared for by the republican party
In its platform this year.
I am in favor of the performance
of every promise made by the re
publican party in its national plat
form of 1908, and for such it revision
of the tariff downwards as can be
discovered without the aid of a
search warrant.
1 am in favor of placing lumber and
other material used in the construct
ion of dwellings on the free list, and
of doing it at the next session of
congress.
1 am in favor of placing on the
free list at the next session of con
gress. agricultural implements, me
chanic's tools of all kinds, sewing
machines, and everything which can
he produced here, the importation of
which yields the government praeti
! rally no revenue, and which t an he
manufactured here and sold for ex
port at a less price than for home
use.
1 am for placing sugar on the free
list at the earliest day possible.
If the laws now in force are not
sufficient for the effective prosecu
tion of forbidden trusts and combina
, lions, I am in favor of the enactment
of such further laws as will drive that
class of combinations out of exist
ence.
I mu in favor of such government
al control of transportation com
panies as will prevent unjust discrim
ination of rates for service intend
ed to yield an income on nothing
invested.
In so far as that object may be ac
complished by legislation. 1 am in
favor of the enactment of laws which
I will tend to decrease the cost of
living.
I am opposed to ship subsidies.
I am in favor of such legislation,
state and national, as will afford to
every depositor In a bank the great
est possible security for his money.
1 am in favor of restricting the
franking privilege to the free trans
portation of the Congressional Record
and parts thereof; the reports and
public documents of the government
or any department thereof, and of
making the free transportation of any
thing else through the mails a crim
nal offense.
I am in favor of reducing the post
age on the first-class matter, fifty
per cent, and that at the next session
of congtess.
I am opposed to all legislation
which tends to the creation of great
Interest* and combinations by the
few to the ruin of individual efforts
and the destruction of industrious, in
dependent action of the many and
the deprivation of labor of its just
compensation.
I am In favor of liberal appropria
tions to ail ex-soldiers wdio have ren
dered faithful service to the govern
ment in time of war.
I atn in favor of such federal leg
islation as will tend to prevent "boot
legging.” To that end I am in
favor of tl»e enactment of Congress
at Hie earliest possible day of a law
whic h shall prohibit tile government
from selling stamps or issuing per
mits for ttie sale of intoxicating liq
uors in territory where such sales are
prohibited by local law, and making
such sales in such territory crimes
against the federal government.
('HAS. O. WHEDON.
THE NEXT NEBRASKA SENATOR.
There are t.wo candidates for United
States Senator before the republican
voters of Nebraska at the direct
primaries on August lti. One of them
is the present senator, Elmer J.
Burkett, the other is Charles O.
Whedon. Mr. Whedon is very much
the better man. Mr. Burkett’s abil
ities are of the order which enable
some of his friends to describe him
admiringly as “smooth” and as a
“slick politician.” Mr. Whedon is
such a man that one of his most ar
dent political enemies generously
speaks of him as “honest and able,
superior in brains and ability.” Mr.
Whedon in the senate chamber would
give dignity and high ability to Ne
braska’s representation at. Washlng
tonn. Mr. Burkett contributes neith
er.—Collier's. July BO. 1910.
■ aga .1 ---mm——.
Notice of Referee’s Sale.
Notice is hereby given, that by
virtue of an order of sale, issued out
of the district court, in and for Rich
ardson County, Nebraska, on the
ltd day of August, 1910, in a suit
for partition wherein William Fischer
is plaintiff, and Charles Fischer. Geo.
Fischer, Emily llerschberger, Louis
Fischer, Annie Smith, Limits IVabody,
Fred Fischer, Roslna Walruff, Myrtle
Fischer, Alice Fischer, Fredricke C.
Fischer, Mary Fischer, John Hersch
bergcr.George Smith, George Peabody,
Julius'Walruff, Annie Fischer, Wm.
Fischer, Lydia Fischer, Albert Fisch
er, Louisa Fischer, Fgeda Fischer,
and Walter Fischer, are defendants,
directed to me as referee, in said
suit for partition, I will as such
referee, on the 5th day of September,
1910, at one o’clock p, m., at ftle
West front door of the courthouse in
Falls City, Richardson County, Ne
braska, sell for cash the following
described premises towit: Lots Nos.
nineteeen (19), twenty (20), twenty
one (21), twenty-two (22), twenty
three (23), and twenty four (24) in
Block No. (93) ninety-three, all of
said lots situated in the city of
Falls City, in said county and state,
according to the official plat and sur
vey of said city.
Terms of sale ( ash.
Dated at Falls City, Nebraska, this
3d day of August, 1910.
J. R. WILHITE, Referee.
First publication, Aug. 5, 5 times.
LEGAL NOTICE.
Notice of Settlement and For an Or
der of Distribution .
In the County Court of Richardson
County, Nebraska, in the matter of
the estate of William H. Sailors, de
ceased. To the creditors, heirs, leg
atees and all others interested in
said estate. Take notice that Mary
K. Sailors lias filed in said court a
report of her doings as administratrix
of said estate lor her final settlement
then of, nlso tiled a petition for an
order of distribution of the residue of
said ('state in her hands.
It is ordered by the court that the
same be heard In the County Court
room m said county on the 22d day
of August, 1910, at nine o'clock a. m.,
when end where all parties may ap
pear and oppose the same. Ordered
further, lhat upon the approval of
said runort a decree of distribution
of said residue will be made to the
parties entitled thereto.
By order of the court dated August
1st, 1910.
JOHN GAGNON, Judge.
First publication Aug. 5, 3 times.
W. C. T. U. Notes.
Drunkenness is not only the cause
of crime, but. it is crime, and if any
encourage drunkenness for the sake
of the profit derived from the sale
of drink, they are guilty of a form
of moral assassination as criminal as
any that lias been practiced by the
bravos of any country of any age.—
John Ruskin.
* Piano Bargain.
W. have a blightly used piano in
Die vicinity of Falls City, Nebraska,
and to save expense of boxing and
shipping, will sell very cheap for
cash or payments as low as $5.00 per
month. Write Olney Music Co., St.
Joseph, Mo.
TOBEY FOR CONGRESS
I stand for the declaration of the last na
tional republican platform and the pledge of
President Taft, that the tariff should be re
vised downward
1 believe that pledge should be kept and
that there should especially be a revision
downward on trust-controlled articles and on
those things which are so rapidly increasing
the cost of living.
I am for a permanent Tariff Commission
with real powers to investigate schedules and
abate abuses pending congressional action.
I am for giving the interstate commerce
commission adequate powers to regulate and
control all common carriers.
1 am against Cannon and Cannonism.
I am for county option in Nebraska and
for some measure in Congress that will pre
vent the issuance of federal licenses or tax
stamps in dry territory.
I have had eight years’ experience in
Washington, am familiar with the work of all
the departments, a.nd will be able from the nrst to iook atiei ine neeuB oi
my district, whether it be for the farmers, the town men. or the old soldiers.
I am a candidate for the republican nomination for congress in the
First District. If you approve of the above declarations I would like to
have i our support, and 1 would Ilk* to hear from you.
QEO. E. TOBEY, Lincoln. Nebr„
140 No. 12th Street.
A New Store!
f I wish to announce to the general
public that I have opened a
Grocery, Flour
and Feed
Store—two blocks east of Samuel
Wahl’s — (northeast corner of the
Central School block).
My stock is new throughout and
the best that money can buy. My
expenses are reduced to the small
est possible point, and customers
will receive the benefit of our low
expense.
Goods delivered promptly to any
part of town and courteous treat
ment assured. Use the telephone— ,
NO. 509
THOS. J. WHITAKER
Market Price Paid for Produce Cash or Trade
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BOOST HIM FOR CONGRESS
Many Editor* Speak Approvingly of
Hayward’* Qualification*.
William Hayward, who la a candi
date for the republican nomination for
congress in this district at the pri
mary election to be held Tuesday,
Aug. 16th, has been calling on the peo
ple in various sectlbns of the district,
and from every point comes the warm
est approval of Mr, Hayward’s candi
dacy.
From many items of a.pproval ap
pearing in the leading party newspa
pers throughout the district, the fol
lowing are taken at random from a
large number:
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For Hayward all the Time.
William H. Hayward of Nebraska
through the request of many friends
has announced himself as a candidate
for congress in this district. He is a
young progressive republican right
up to date, is a statesman instead
of a politician, honest in principle,
patriotic in action and if nominated
would make a campaign in accord
ance with the wishes and wants ol
the district. His ability lias already
proven his worth. There are other
good ones in the field but we are for
Hayward first, last and al! the time.
•—Burchard Times.
From Home.
Wm. Hayward is a young man who
has come to the front in republican
politics rapidly, and one who every
republican voter should see elected
for representative from the First Dis
trict.
Mr. Hayward is an Otoe county
product and a young man of rare
ability. We have previously ex
pressed our opinion in regard to Hay
ward trying for congress and will
stay by him to the end.—Paimyra
Items.
Neighbors of Sheldon and Pollard for
Hayward.
William Hayward has announced
himself aa a candidate for congress
from the first congressional district.
We have acquaintance with Mr. Hay
ward that dates back to 98 when we
were both members of the Chlcka
magua Improvement Association.
However It is useless for the writer
to enlarge any on the personal worth
and ability of "Billy” Hayward, the
people around here know him and
we are sure his support In this part
of the district will bo unanimous.—
Nehawka News.
Able and Progressive.
In commenting on William Hay
ward's prospects for congress from
this district one exchange said that if
he was as popular in his home dis
trict as he was over the state that he
is sure of election. We can say that
every republican in his district
knows "Billy Hayward" and it will
rustle any democrat to get all the
democratic votes. Nebraska is a pro
gressive state and we want progres
sive men in congress. "Billy Hay
ward" is able and progressive and not
a political upstart. Nebraska will be
proud to hear him, when his voice Is
heard.—Dunbar Review.
A Coming Man.
Mr. Hayward is one or the coming
men of Nebraska. He is possessed of
Bplendid ability as an attorney and
as an organizer. His work gave add
ed strengtli and system to the na
tional committee. Mark the predic
tion: Hayward will be heard from
in an even more Important manner
than at present.—Teeumseh Chieftain.
Mr. Hayward is an interesting
speaker with correct ideas, great
power of reasoning and smoothness
of expression. He speaks with a
warmth and earnestness of feeling
that are persuasive because they are
at once intelligent and sincere.—
Weeping Water Republican.
It is our opinion that there will be
no one in the state who can beat him
at the primaries. His record In poli
tics has been straightforward and the
people of Otoe county, of Dunbar and
all the state are going to be with him
on election day.—Dunbar Review.
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Know* Nebraska’s Needs.
Mr. Hayward ia well acquainted
with the needs of Nebraska and
would make a splendid oongressman.
He Is a young man of splendid abil
ity and well qualified to represent
this district in congress,—Steinauer
Sun.
Leader at the Bar of the State.
The announcement by William Hay
ward of his candidacy for the repub
lican nomination for congress appears
elsewhere in this paper. Mr. Hay
ward’s leading position at the bar of
the state Is well known, and bis
prominence as an active working re
publican, standing for the best prin
ciples of hla party and for clean and
progressive methods in their advo
cacy, are beyond dispute. Of his per
sonal equipment for the position it is
unnecessary to multiply words, since
it is already established. His ad
dress and eloquence on the rostrum
have long been known to the public,
and in all the qualifications for the
duty of a congressman he is a candi
date of exceptional merit and high
promise—Pawnee City Republican.
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ECONOMIC LOSS FROM DRINK
United States Has Passed Million Dol
lar Mark In Describing Damage,
Now Billionaire.
Of our more than eighty-three mil
lions of people about twenty-five mil
lions are wage-earners, and ont less
than two millions are “captains of in
dustry" and their salaried lieutenants.
The average wage is about $1.56 (6s.)
per day, but the product is worth at
least $2 to the employer, who must
have a profit, and at least as much to
the nation, said Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts,
Ph. D., in a speech to the Twelfth In
ternational Congress on Alcoholism,
held in London. One-tenth of that for
300 days means $60 per year for each
workman, and a total for all wage
earners of $1,150,000,000 (£230,000,
000). In the United States, we have
passed the period of millions in des
cribing the damage from drink, for
alcohol has become a "billionaire."
We are not dependent on laboratory
experiments for proof that even a mod
erate use of alcohol impairs efficiency.
Benjamin Franklin, in the eighteenth
century, observed as a printer, what
Dr. Aseliaffenburg has just proved by
tests, that sober printers do more and
better work than drinkers. That is
why 51 per cent, of a representative
list of American employers, questioned
by the United States Bureau of Labor
some years since, reported that they
discriminated in all or a part c' their
work in favor of abstainers as em
ployees. The athletic recordaand the
tests of soldiers in marksmanship and
marching all tell the same story, that
even moderate use of intoxicants de-'
creases efficiency. When we turn to
the “captains of industry" and their
lieutenants, from whose ranks life in
surance has obtained most of the test
cases that have shown that total ab
stainers, other conditions being equal, /
live fully 15 per cent, longer than even -
those very moderate drinkers who are
allowed to insure, we see that the
losses in valuable lives must rise to
millions more. The loosening of the
tongue and drugging of judgment and
conscience, and the shortening of a
life worth $10,600 a year becomes a
very costly matter when the man Is
the manager of a great business or
the leader of an army, or the arbiter
of a nation’s politics. In this age of
keen competition, national as well as
individual, it is the "fit" that "survive”
and succeed. Many Japanese gave up
sake during the war with Russia that
they might contribute the money thus
saved as a patriotic offering to the
nation's war fund. In Britain, Ger
many, and other lands, patriots might
well abstain for a patriotic re-enforce
ment to the nation’s efficiency, by
which the supreme industrial “battle
of the nations" shall be ultimately de
cided.
DRINK OUTLAY IS LESSENED
Liquor Provisions of British Budget
Bring in Less Revenue, but
More Sobriety.
George B. Wilson, secretary of the
United Kingdom alliance, states that
the drink uill of England for 1909
shows a decrease over 1908 of £5,
897,997 ($29,475,000). On spirits the
decrease was £4,800,000 ($24,000,000),
with a decrease in consumption of
7,022,775 gallons. On beer the de
crease was £1,180,000 ($5,940,000),
with a decrease in consumption of
045,390 barrels. On wine there was
an increase of £93,000 ($405,000),
with an increase in consumption of
103,744 gallons. Mr. Wilson believes
that the increase in the price of spir
its and beer due to the budget was
largely responsible for the decreased
consumption. He declares that if
there had been no increase in prices
the reduction of the total expenditure
for 1909 would have been £11,147.997
($56,739,900).
Mr. Wilson estimates that the
liquor drinking class is about 55 per
cent, of the total population. Accord
ing to these figures the per capita
expenditure is approximately $30.50
per year. Two-thirds of the total
drink bill, or nearly £2,000,000
($10,000,000) a week, Is said to be
spent by the working classes. ‘‘If they
are above the poverty line,” says Mr.
Wilson, “this wasted expenditure
tends to bring them under it; if they
are under it, the waste aggravates
their difficulties. Drink-caused pov
erty is the-worst kind of poverty, be
cause it does not make the best of
the available resources and is Inva
riably associated with moral and phys
ical degradation. The burden of the
drink evil falls heavily on the wom
an; it crushes the child.'
Mr. Wilson believes in the efficacy
of repressive legislation to diminish
the drink evil. However, be admits
that the diminished consumption of
acoholic liquors is to some extent the
result of a continuous change in the
habits of the people—"a change,” he
remarks, “that seems likely to be
permanent.”
“Poor Man’s Club.”
The saloon is the “poor man’s
club,” but the saloon keeper fs the
one who wields it.
Two-Kinds of Whisky.
There are just two kinds of whisky:
the one is V<ad: the other is worse.