The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-05-02
A POWERFUL APPEAL TO THE ClTI-
zEN5 OF NEBRASKA.

No Compromised Look at Kansas-Pro-
tect Whites as Well AS Indians-Liquor
Traffic IA Rebel-vote 1t Out by Twenty
five Thousand Majority.
The saloon makes drunkards, and back
of the saloons stand the voters of Ne
braska, on the issue between the home
and the saloon, and where is the man
who says he will not vote for the Pro-
hibitory amendment?
But, says one, lit won't work. Just
look at Kansas" You hear so much of
that-"look at Kansas" came through
Iowa this morning, and when took my
breakfast on the dining car l saw on the
bill Of fare "No liquors sold in Iowa" Is
that like Nebraska?
While was passing up on the Central
Iowa road l ordered lunch, and on the
bill of fare there were twenty-five or
thirty kinds of liquor, including old bour-
bon and all kinds of liquors. said this
didn't look like enforcing Prohibition in
Iowa, and l thought l would try it. So
l said to the porter, Get me a bottle of
old bourbon" and he said, "No, sab;
couldn't do it, sab; we can't sell it here"
"Well," said, "but you have it on your
bill of fare and he said, "Yes, sab; but
we can't sell it in the Prohibition states"
And at the top of that bill of fare 1 saw,
mo liquors sold within the limits of Pro-
hibition states."
Well, thought maybe he was fooling
me little, but l looked around, and no.
body knew me, and l knew nobody, so I
said to him, Couldn't you get fellow
bottle of beer, anyhow" And he said,
"Oh, Lawd, no, boss; couldn't do it no.
how" And l said no one would know
anything about it, and he said, "Lawd,
sab, dey counted every bottle in the car
before we reached the state, and then
they count 'em after we leave it, and if
bottle is gone has to count fur it,
! AS soon as we left the Iowa line the
waiter came to me with face like full
moon, and he said, "Now, boss, we's in
Minnesota, l let you have what you
want" Not drink in Iowa under Pro-
| hibition-all you want in Minnesota I'M
der high license.
| Under Prohibition in Kansas our rail-
way system has grown from 5000 miles
to nearly 10000 miles, and the state is, at
thirty years of age, the second state in
railways in the United States. We have
increased 600,0 900 in population, and no
man can sell intoxicating liquors as a
beverage unless in violation of the con-
stitution. If a mothers boy is going down
to ruin she has some protection. The
constitution and laws of our common
wealth are behind her to help her save
her son. will say further that in that
state we have, in proportion to the pop
ulation, more Sunday schools and more
churches than any other state in the
Union. Lincoln is bright, beautiful,
prosperous, growing city, but these sa-
looms are like great fostering warts on
its fair face.
Take the railway through to the Indian
territory and there you find a great
stretch of territory under Prohibition.
This great government thinks enough of
an Indian boy to protect him; but if
| poor white mother takes her boy down
there she has no protection. Now, l
think an Indian is no better than white
man if the white man behaves himself.
There are 200 miles through Iowa and
about $50 miles through Dakota, and
next November we are going to have
Nebraska. Let it go forth, let it be pub
lished everywhere, that Nebraska is ours
All the rum power, all its corruption
fund, all the trickery of politicians, can
not defeat the people of Nebraska; and
why? Because we are right, and God is
behind this fight
We are commencing here in Nebraska
exactly the same kind of a campaign we
had in Kansas ten years ago, and let me
tell you right here that we are not only
going to have Nebraska, but we are GO
ing to get it by more than few votes;
we will get it by $4,000. We are going
to canvass every township and every
home in this commonwealth, and they
do not dare to meet us, because they do
not dare to go before the people and de-
fend the dram shops, They not.
say the liquor traffic is rebel against
the voters of Nebraska and civil govern
ment. You go to the constitution of the
United States, and that constitution tells
you that one of the principal purposes of
government is to promote the general
welfare of the people. That is one of
the principal objects; that anything that
interferes with the welfare of the people
is rebel. The supreme court says, in the
famous Kansas decision, that the pro-
hibitory law of Kansas is constitutional
in every particular. They take special
notice of one fact, nor can we ignore it,
established by statistics, that the disor-
der, pauperism and crime of the country
are largely due to the liquor traffic. and if
the crime and pauperism of this country
are contrary to the laws of the country,
and rebels to the country in which we
live, they ought to be taken out.
Oh, men of Nebraska, is God dead?
Has manhood left us forever? Are we a
nation of slaves and moral towards?
Where will you stand when the time
comes to decide this question for your
own fair state? Let us, when next No
vember comes, be true to ourselves, true
to our manhood, true to our country and
true to our God, and wipe from your
state this curse which is filling our homes
with wretchedness and woe.
Father Mahoney, of Minnesota, has an
eye open to contest work. He recently
forwarded theapplications of ten Catholic
teachers for copies of the "Demorest
Sneaker"