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The Valentine Democrat
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VALENTINE , NEB.
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' POSTAL BANK : BILL WINS.
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t Vote of 195 to 101 Assures Success
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The postal savings bank bill was
f. passed by the House Thursday night
by a vote of 191 to 101 , practically as-
suring within a few weeks , if not days ,
legislation that will mark the end of
years of agitation. No Republican
voted against its passage and the fol
lowing twenty-two Democrats voted
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, \ Allccn , S. C. Maguire , Neb.
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! ; Ansberry , Ohio. Martin , Colo.
' Ashbrook Ohio. Moss : , Ind.
I I. . Foss , Mass. Nichols , Pa.
J , Foster , 111. Ransdell , La.
Hammond Minn. Rucker , Colo.
I , Havens , N. Y. Sabath , 111.
. Henry Texas. Sharp , Ohio.
Hitchcock. Neb. Sulzer , N. Y.
Hughes , N. J. Taylor N. Y.
KInkead N. J. Tou VelIe , Ohio.
Representative Hobson of Alabama ,
a Democrat , voted for the passage of
the bill and changed his vote because
of a pair he had with a Republican.
The important provisions of the POJ-
tal Savings Bank bill are :
All banks to be controlled by a board
consisting the Postmaster General At-
torney General and Secretary of Treasury.
Board designates officers and makes
rules and regulations.
Any person may make deposits in mul-
tiples of $ 1 , from $1 up to $500. The limit
Is $500. Two percent will be paid.
Depositors may at their opinion , in-
vest in a special issue of government bonds
In denomnations of $20 , $40 $70 and $100.
Any deposit may be withdrawn.
Five per cent of the deposits shall he
retained in the treasury as a reserve ; 30
per cent Invested in government bonds ; 65 i
per cent deposited in local banks. !
The President may in an emergency ,
withdraw all deposits and Invest In gov-
ernment bonds.
" Deposits in banks must be secured by
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jl STORM SWEEPS SOUTHWEST.
:1 : Lightning Fires Buildings : and
R Houses Are Unroofed by Wind.
; A terrific rain and wind storm swept ;
II St. Louis the other night and after-
noon. Many buildings were unroofed
and lightning set fire to many dwell-
ings. : The damage caused by the storm
: was the greatest of the year. Many
citizens were terror-stricken as they
recalled the cyclone of May 27 , 1896 ,
when 400 St. Louisians were killed. i
I I Reports from Arkansas , Mississippi
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: and West Tennessee indicate the worst
II I I rain , wind and hail storms throughout
, this territory in years.
, Rains of a torrential nature fell over
; ' Western Arkansas and a tornado hit
"the towns of Pine Bluff and Hot
Springs. Only one life was lost , that
of David Meadows , a farmer near Fort
Smith , Ark. , who was drowned while
riding on a mule. A Frisco train went
through a bridge near the same town ,
the engine getting across in safety , but
i fourteen cars of merchandise went
down to destruction. A college build-
. I . ing at Nettleton , Ark. , was completely
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kansas was out of commission for sev-
eral hours. Damage to crops will be
enormous. Young corn was beaten to
the ground and cotton washed out of
the soil. This will mean probably a to
tal loss of the early corn crop in mat
section , and many thousand acres of
-cotton will have to be replanted.
WORK OF TAFT APPROVED.
"TWisconsin Republicans Indorse Pres
ident and State Administration.
The administration of President
William H. Taft is strongly indorsed
in the platform unanimously adopted
at the Wisconsin Republican State con-
vention in Milwaukee. The present
tariff law is approved and the provis-
ions for maximum and minimum
schedules and future scientific revis-
ions are commended. Gov. Davidson's
administration also is indorsed ,
. * Every mention of the President's
name was followed by a demonstration.
Tice President Sherman , who came
from Washington for the purpose of
addressing the convention , received a
warm welcome. The matter of naming
xiandidates for a State ticket was de-
ferred and left for the primary elec-
tion in September to decide.
With the selection of a campaign
committee , consisting of two members
from each congressional district , and
the choosing of William D. Connor of
IMarshfield as State chairman , the con-
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vention adjourned sine die. Mr. Con-
nor's election was unanimous. He held
the same office six years ago when La
Follette was Governor.
EXPLORERS IN CLOSE RACE.
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tnriieH Headed for Mount : McKInley $
Reach Chulitna Day Apart.
Word has been received at Seward ,
. Alaska , from the Parker Brown Mount
McKinley expedition , saying that the
party reached Chulitna River , a tribu
tary ' of the Susitna , on May 30. The
"New York Herald-Portland Oregonian
expedition reached Chulitna on May
29. Both parties are following the
, route Dr. Cooke claims to have taken.
"The snow in the hills is deep and the c
expeditions are being retarded by the i
lateness of the season.
Family of Three Ulnrilered. : .
James Harding , his wife and son ,
who lived sixteen miles southwest of -
Marshalltown , Iowa , were found mur-
dered in their home. Their heads r.
were beaten to a pulp.
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Iloosevelts GiieMlN of the KlngT. :
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Former President Theodore Roosea
velt and Mrs. Roosevelt were enter1
tained at luncheon the .other day by 1\
King George and Queen Mary at Marl-
. borough house , Lorfdon , England. . p '
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Peace at White House Conference
Arranged - Government's' Suit
to Be Dropped.
PENDING BILL IS TO GOVER17
Lines Must Be : Governed "by Its Pro
visions in Seeking More Rev-
enue from Freight.
The fight against the commodity
rate increases made by the Western
trunk line railroads is at an end. The
railroads will withdraw the tariffs al-
ready enjoined and other tariffs effec
tive after June 1 , and no further in-
creases will be filed until the pending
railroad bill becomes a law. With this
understanding the government will
withdraw the suit begun before the
federal Circuit Court in l\Iissouri-not ,
however , until after the new rail bill
is signed.
These were the results of a more
than three hours' conference at the
White House the other afternoon , par-
ticipated in by President Taft . , Attor-
ney General Wickersham , three rail-
road presidents and another executive
official constituting a committee that
represented the twenty-four companies
defendant in the Missouri injunction '
suit , and by two members of the in-
terstate commerce committee .
With the President's announcement
of .withdrawal of the government's
suit , per agreement that the railroads
withdraw their increased tariffs , At-
torney General Wickersham's plan of
pushing prosecution of the Western
trunk line committee under the Sher
man act , with a view to dissolving it
as a combination in restraint of trade ,
goes glimmering. But , it is stated , the
pending suit will not be withdrawn
until the prospective new railroad bill
becomes an accomplished fact , nor un-
less it be made certain that the pro
I visions giving the interstate commerce
commission powers to suspend rates
and investigate as to their reasonable-
ness on its own initiative , remain in
the measure.
On leaving the White House after 6
o'clock in the evening the railroad of-
ficials directed questioners to the Pres- .
ident ) for information as to what had ]
taken place. The statement given out :
at the White House follows :
E. P. Ripley , president of the Atchi-
son , Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Company ; Walker D. Hines , acting < <
chairman of the executive committee j
of the Atchison , Topeka and Santa Fe ,
Railroad Company ; Frederic A. Delano ,
president of the Wabash Railroad Com- 1 .
pany , and S. M. Felton , president of 1
the ChicagoGreat Western Railroad 1
Company , a committee representing i
the twenty-four railroad companies de- t
fendant in a suit brought by the gov-
ernment in Missouri in which Judge
Dyer granted an injunction restraining
increases is ! rates , met the President
and the Attorney General to-day , pur- t
suant to a request sent to the Presi- a :
dent a few days since. i
The President stated to these gentIet
men at the outset that the purpose of t
the suit was to prevent the proposed 1
rate increases ( which , under the ex-
isting law , could not be Investigated at t
all until after they had become effec- t
tive ) , so as to
preserve the status un-
til the new statute could be passed and
the commission should have the power
to investigate rate advances as soon as r
announced and before becoming effec- f
tive. He stated further that he
thought the railroad companies must a
withdraw the tariffs enjoined and all 1
other tariffs filed by them effective on ) '
or after June 1 , 1910 , and that none of } :
them ought to file any new tariffs in- a
volving rate advances until the new ti '
law should be passed , assuming that 1
it would be passed at tne present ses-
sion of Congress.
After conference the railroad com-
panies announced that they would
adopt the view expressed by the Presi n
dent and thereupon the President
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stated that if they did so his purpose
in bringing the suit would be accom- Siy
plished , and , such result being accomy
plished , he saw no occasion for press- a
ing the suit and the same would ba b
withdrawn. b
"AFFINITY" NOT LIBELOUS.F :
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Judgment for $15OOO : ; : Against a
XewNiiaper Reversed.
It was decided by the Appellate Di-
vision of the Supreme Court of New ,
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fork that the term "affinity" is a good
old English word and is not in itself Sl
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libelous. The decision was rendered
in the case of Peter Geddes Grant a 1s °
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broker , who obtained a verdict for
$15,000 > against a newspaper that de- h
scribed him- riding in a touring car he
with ; an "affinity. " The judgment was b
reversed and a new trial ordered The I
lower court erred , said the Justice of
the : Appellate Division , in permitting
the : plaintiff to offer in evidence arti-
cles : published } relative to the troubles N
of ) Ferdinand Pinney Earlthe eccentric
artist , and his wife and affinity. These , tl
which intended to ' al
w were show that the
word "affinity" had an improper mean- CI
ng , were "erroneously received" by aiV :
the , lower court. V
BIG OKLAHOMA OIL DEAL.
IIerer of Tvrenty Companies Pro-
du'jll 2OOO IJztrrels a Day. tlH
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Details have been perfected for the
merger . . of twenty of the large oil-pro- w
duciug companies in the Oklahoma Siw
field into one company with its owii w
refineries and pipe lines according to
an announcement in Kansas City by
Thomas Priestley , of Bartlpsville , Okla. bl ]
Mr. Priestley sakl the new company . w
will have control of wells which are. olK
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producing ' ; ' ' ' , Gnn lr.rrcb of oil a day.
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FIVE FISH NETS BURNED.
Game Warden After Violators of Law
at Crystal Lake. :
Five fishermen who have been get-
ting fish out of Crystal lake with a
seine were called upon unexpectedly
Friday by J. B. Donovan , deputy
game warden of Nebraska , acting un-
der orders of Dan Geilus , chief dpeuty
game warden , and had their nets con-
fiscated. Arrests may follow.
Mr. Donovan spent the day at Crys-
tal lake and says he spotted several
violators of the law.
J. M. Kruger was one of those who
had his net confiscated. Calling on
E. E. Finnerty , Mr. Donovan found
the man's net hidden in the bottom of
his trunk. All of the nets were turned
over to W. F. Duncan , of Sioux City ,
la. , the Nebraska agent , and the nets
were burned.
BETTER SERVICE IS DESIRED.
Dakota City Business Men : : Boost for
Electric Line.
A movement is on foot at Dakota
City to raise $1,000 in that town and
an additional $1,000 iun the surround-
ing territory to insure an electric car
service between there and Sioux' City.
O. M. Ayers , of Dakota , City , is doing
the ] hustling and expects in a short
time to have the money. The business
men of Dakota City are boosting the
idea.
idea.Those
Those interested financially in the
Foye line are said to be interested in
a reorganization of the company. By
taking in new interests and raising
about $2,000 it is thought a better
connection with Sioux City could be
secured.
Struck by Lightning. ,
Lightning Wednesday morning
struck the Swedish Lutheran church
recently built in Axtell and it , togeth-
er with Walter Matson's house on the
lots adjacent , were burned to the
ground. It is now believed by many
that the church three imles out from
town will be moved to Axtell. The
insurance on the church was $5,000
and on the dwelling about $2,500.
Under $5,000 to District Court.
Frank Erdman , the man arrested
on suspicion of having placed a bomb
for : the destruction of Tom Dennison ,
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was . bound over to the district court
under $5,000 bonds Wednesday morn-
ing by Judge Crawford. It was a dra-
maitc hearing that ended in the pass-
ing of Erdman on a step towards his
trial. :
West Lincoln Grants License.
West Lincoln Is to have a saloon ,
that : Lincoln people may still live in
L prohibition city and do their drInk-
ng outside the city limits. That is ,
the : village has passed an ordinance
to : issue a saloon license , and it will
become effective unless the commit-
tee : of fifty does not get it tied up in
the courts and knocked out.
Prepare for Reunion.
Those having in charge the prepa-
rations for holding the annual reunion
for the Platte Valley District Reunion
association of the Grand Army of the
Republic , are commencing early this
year , and have already almost com-
pleted the program for the thirteenth
annual encampment , the date of
which has been fixed at August 8 to
12 , 1910 , at Central Cit ' .
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Inmate Stabs HimSelf. .
Cecil Leddy , son of a prominent
north Phelps county family , who com-
mitted suicide early this week at In-
gleside , was buried Tuesday. The
young man , who was an inmate of the
asylum ' at Hastings , killed himself
by , : means of a piece of glass which he
broke , ] from the window of his room.
He used the sharp splinter as a dag-
ger. <
Teamster Found Dead.
Ole Olson , a teamster , was found
dead in the road near Valentine by
some other teamsters. He had left
Wednesday morning with a large
load of lumber for Rowley ranch ,
outh of town , for which ranch he was
working. It is thought probable that
e ' got sleepy and fell off the wagon ,
eing killed by the fall , or else hav-
ng . the wagon run over him.
State Bankers : Meet.
The next annual convention of the
Nebraska State Bankers' association
will be held in Omaha , as the execu-
tive committee , which met Wednesday
fternoon at the Omaha club , has aC-
epted the invitation of the Omaha
and South Omaha bankers. The con-
ention ( will be held in the fall.
Jury Clears Heddcndorf.
After being out less than ten hours
the jury in the Heddendorf case at ,
Holdrege , returned with a verdict in
which they found the defendant not
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guilty of the charge of murder on
which he was held.
The first monument erected in Ne ;
braska to mark the old Oregon trail.
was unveiled before a large crowd
: spectators Thursday afternoon at r
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MONEY SXATCIIER JUMPS. :
Excitement Caused on a Burling Train
Near Scwartl.
When the Burlington train from the
west was approaching Seward between
12 and 1 Sunday , two men snatched
$135 from a passenger with whom
they : had. been playing cards. The
man who was robbed notified the con-
ductor , and one of the money snatch-
ers was caught. The other jumped
from the train at a point where the
track runs on a high embankment.
The train was backed up and the
man who had jumped off was found
unconscious at the bottom of the em-
bankment. One of his legs was brok-
en in two places , and he is so badly
injured internally that he cannot
live , it is said. The money was re
covered in' his possession. The two
prisoners , who refused to give their
names , are now in jail , and the man
from whom the money was taken is
held as a witness.
PHOTOGRAPHER GETS A SCARE.
Does Not Want the - Experience Re-
peated Very Soon.
Charles W. Gates , of Tekamah , and
three young men had an experience
which they do not care to have re-
peated. Mr. Gates is properietor of
the art studio , and three young men
called there in the evening to have
their pictures taken by flashlight. Mr.
Gates prepared to do the work and
was in the act of filling the electric
flash lamp with powder from a can
when the lamp short circuited , blow-
Ing up the whole can , knocking them
all down. Aside from having his
hands burned Mr. Gates escaped un
harmed , the other three who were get-
ting "shot" were stunned , but not in
jured.
Almost Buried Alive.
While working in a ditch ten feet
deep Tuesday afternoon , Ralph Dean
and John Vanmeter , of Cambridge , I
were caught by the bank caving off.
Mr. Dean was buried a depth of three
feet , but quick work on the part of
those who were present saved his life.
Vanmeter was buried , but his head re
mained above the ground so that he
did not suffer from suffocation.
State Lecturer Dead.
B. F. Kingsley , well known through-
out the state as a lecturer on horses
before farmers' institutes and agri-
cultural societies , died at his home
at Hastings early "Thursday morning
of pneumonia and heart complica-
tions. Funeral services were held
Friday.
Suicide at Nebraska City.
Tuesday evening Cuntis Thompson ,
a well known character about Nebras-
ka City , went to his room , which was
in j the basement of a house in the
eastern ( part of the city and cut his
throat. i He bled to death before any-
one ( could reach him.
Kearney Votes to Buy Waterworks. :
At a special election held Tuesday °
the , citizens of Kearney voted , by a
good majority to buy the city water t
plant at the figures offered by the
American Water company , which Is
$125,000.
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Insurance Company Barred. I
The State Farmers' Mutual Hail Ins
surance company , of Waseca , Minn. , 1 ,
has been denied permission to do i
business in Nebraska by State Auditor i
Barton , consequently it has no author-
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ity to do business in this state.
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Crazy Man Taken.
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A crazy man by the name of Smith , ( ]
was taken into Valentine Monday by
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Sheriff Rossetter. The man has been
having spells in which he says that he :
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must kill somebody and he is afraid
that he will kill some of his family. : \ '
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Gets an Orphanage.
The Swedish Lutheran orphanage is
to be established in Stromsburg. Of-
ficers of the association have been
elected and are now arranging for the
erection of a building.
Chinese Baby Arrives.
A girl baby has been born to Mi
and Mrs. Louis Anko , of Omaha. So
far as Major Barker , of the health de-
partment can recall , this is the second
child of Chinese parents to be born in t
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Red Willow county has just buried r
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her oldest citizen , T. D. McCarthy , s
aged 92 years. . y
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A meeting of the property owners
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along : - the Nemaha river bottoms In
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in the proposed drainage - proposition i
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waQ held at the court house in Te-
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Ernest Rottrnan of Murdock entered ij
a plea of sniilty to an indictment for b
sending non-mnliable : matter through II i
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he : Unlt ° d Sltt ? mails : : before Judge h
T. ' C. iluntrer at.Lincoln , Wednesday , ' as
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NEBRASKA'S
UijUOA LAW
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Madison , Neb. , March > 5 , 1910-To
the Editor of the World-Herald : Hav-
ing bee'n asked to express my : opin-
ion respecting the future of democ-
racy in the state as it appears at the
I present time in the light of existing
. conditions , and from the standpoint
of one in the ranks , I know of no bet-
ter way than through the columns of
your paper. : :
The agitation that seems to be ab-
sorbing the best thought of some of
the most honorable and respected cit-
izens of our state , for more stringent
laws respecting the liquor traffic , is
not a little surprising in view of our
present law. It reminds me of a story
which you may : have heard :
"The king had two children of
whom he was very fond. They were
brought up in the lap of luxury and
every childish want was satisfied un-
til the children heard of some of .
their ! neighbors having trouble , and
the : children inquired whether they
could not have trouble also , but were
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told ( that they could not have it ; that
they : were the king's children and that
was something they were not to have ;
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that it was better for them not to
have it as there was no pleasure in it
for them. The children cried and
were greatly disappointed , and when
a stranger happened along the king's
highway , noticing the children were
very much dejected , inquired of them
what was the matter , and they told
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him that they. had asked for 'trouble' i
and it had been denied them. He told
them that they had the very thing
they were asking for , which was
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true. "
And so it is with the liquor law to-
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day. It is sufficiently restrictive now
that it is prohibition , unless you , by
your own acts , permit or allow a new
license 10 be granted , and a license
is never granted for longer than one
year. Like the king's children , you
have just what you are asking for ,
whether you know it or not. The
granting of a license suspends the
prohibitive force of the statute over
the right to sell liquor until the end
of the municipal year. This applies
to the villages , cities and counties ,
the aggregate of which comprise the
state : of Nebraska.
This law has been a part of our
statute for many years , and is known
as the Slocum law. Under it , as it
has stood upon our statutes for about
a quarter of a century , the licensing
board of the respective villages , cit
ies and counties are empowered by
the ; plain provisions of the statute to
license , regulate or prohibit the sell-
ing or giving away of any liquors. A
rigid enforcement of which , if the pub-
lic is in sympathy : with prohibition ,
would eradicate every saloon from
the : state of Nebraska , and this with-
out further legislation.
Restrictive legislation can be up-
held only by the moral support of the
people , because it is the people who
constitute : our social fabric as a state
of law-givers , and , if the law as ex-
pressed by our legislature is not given
he moral support of the people , its
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attempted enforcement brings about '
evasions followed by disrespect and
general disregard for the same ; and
hat is because from the time of prim-
tive civilization , mankind has under-
stood ; that certain rights and privi-
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eges were inherent by nature in each
individual. That , as society advanced
in refinement and education , it be-
came : necessary to consider , what
hese rights and privileges were , not
by enumerating them , but by specify-
ng those which were denied the in-
dividual , and which he was required
to surrender to society for the general
advancement of the rights of human-
ity in consideration of the protection
which society extends to the individ-
ual as a citizen of the community , un-
til : : now ,
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Moral liberty or natural lib-
erity , is the right which nature
gives. to all mankind of disposing
of their persons and property
after the manner they judge most
consistent to their happiness , on
condition of their acting within
the limits of the law of nature ,
and .that they do not abuse it in
any way to the prejudice of any
other person.
In other words , you are permitted
to ' do just as you please so long as
you , in extending your rights , do not
invade upon the rights of any other ,
because , as you encroach upon the
ights of . another , you have over-
tepped the privilege of extending I l
your own right , and you must recede. 1
There is the dividing line. That is ]
the real tet. That is the true dem- ]
ocratic spirit that has been inculcated < <
n mankind from time immemorial , (
and can not be eradicated by a few
trokes of the pen , and no popular
orm of government can long maintain
its popularity whenever it crosses the
border line. It matters not whether [
t be individual or corporation ; each
has respective rights , and society
,5 such has pledged itself to main-
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Uln and protect the rights of eacff ,
and no one should expect or ask $ v
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more.
As a citizen of the great common-
wealth of Nebraska , with all its nat
ural resources and opportunities , its
many and bright intellectual men and
women , of whom all feel Justly proud ,
whose natural interests for the up
building of the state ought to be the l
same , and , as a democrat favoring the ,
cardinal principles of democrac , - I
regret to see the diversity of opin-
ion on a local issue , which the law
as it now stands upon our statute '
fully covers , without cavil or question ,
while the more vital issues of a na-
tional character confronting us in this-
campaign are being obscured , and ia
which six congressmen and a United
States senator are to be elected at
the coming election.
If the democratic party would suc-
ceed , it must not waste its strength
and vitality now in rehashing and go-
ing over what has been already : pro-
vided for by existing laws , but en-
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force ' our law as it now stands , and '
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if public sentiment is in favor of de-
priving the individual of the natural
right of taking a drink of intoxicat-
ing j liquors , whether in a village city
or county , it will have clearly mani l
fested itself in due season when li-
censes are to be granted or refused
for the ensuing year , as liquor can
not be sold without a license , and the t
question will doubtless be determined
in the most satisfactory manner by .
each village , city and county wherein
the j liquor is to be sold. We will then
have 1 no occasion for internal strife
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or dissension over that matter , and
we will be the better enabled to meet
the real and more important matters. l
We should then wage our fight for
the election of every congressman in
the respective districts of the state
and secure the legislature that we
may make certain of the election of a
United States senator and continue
to elect democrats until our sister
states , with our assistance , will have
a sufficient force at Washington to-
reform the tariff that it may : exist
for revenue only and prevent the
passage of any national law inconsis-
tent with the best interests of the
citizens of our state.
Less legislation , better enforcement
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of existing laws , more rigid
economy , applying business principles- 'k. " . . . .
in business transactions with' and for
the government , recognizing that the
United States is , in itself , a gigan-
tic corporation , in which each indi-
vidual and corporation has an inter-
est and must be considered , are essen-
tials for democracy to consider and
concerning which a united action can
and ought to be expected. Upon this ,
common ground we can all stand , ,
work and act together. With the
great opportunity available to our
party at present , now is the time to-
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act in unison and in a business-like
manner , because we exist and live in / " "
a business and commercial age and . . .
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atmosphere , and the party will be '
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measured by a business standard
whether it so desires or not. Nothing- '
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short of this will satisfy the general
public and moreover , it is right , and
the sooner our party recognizes that I' '
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feet , the sooner democracy will suc l
ceed , and by keeping faith with the
people may expect to be retained in
power. Any other course means de
feat.
There is no middle ground and there
ought to be no difference of opinion.
Willis E. Reed.
Addendum.
Since the foregoing was published ,
have received many requests for a
copy thereof , and being unable to sup-
ply the same ; I have had it reproduced
in pamplet form.
As to whether it is unfair to the tax
payers of the county that they should .
be required to pay the costs and ex-
penses of criminal prosecutions di
rectly attributed to the liquor traf-
fic , without the voters in the county ,
voting as a unit upon the question or '
allowing a license or not , I call your
attention to section 15 of chapter 50 (
of the Compiled Statutes , being sec
tion 7165 of Cobby's Annotated Stat
utes of Nebraska , 1909 , which pro 1
vides that :
The person so licensed shall i
pay all damages that the com r
munity or individuals may sustain
in consequence of such traffic , he ' !
shall support all paupers , widows
and orphans , and the expense of , + l ,
all civil and criminal prosecutions
growing out of or justly attributed k {
to his traffic in intoxicating
drinks ; said damages and ex- ' ,
penses to be recovered in any 1 !
court of competent jurisdiction Il
by any CiVIl action on the bond * +
named and required in Section 6
of this act. * * * " * * * * * "
In view of that section and -the i.l
law as it now stands , in a proper ac-
tion brought by the county against the t i t
liquor dealer upon his bond , it must 1 ,
necessarily follow that the tax payers
of the county would not be injured 1
one cent if our present law was ap
plied and enforced ; it is constitu- ,
tional beyond any question , and in my 1:7 :
twenty-two years : of experience in the +
practice of law in this state have , * . .
never heard it questioned , nor could 'tl
it be successfully resisted if - ' ,
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any one
so desired. WILLIS E. REED , + I
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