The independent., 1907-04-11

narrow per diem: They wanted to Sc
cure terminal taxation law, and cut
down the appropriation for the state uni
versity to the lowest possible limit short
of absolutely putting it our of business.
Incidentally these members were
handed package which they are iotn
to take home with them. This is a re-
vocation of the commission held by the
brewers and distillers, empowering them
to control the cities and larger villages
of Nebraska. These arrogant moncpo-
retire from the retail booze business in
Nebraska. This will cause much incon-
venience to those who own the buildings
where the trade is carried on, but there
is some satisfaction in knowing that it
will cause no widespread suffering
among the poor and oppressed.
Your delegation is to be commended
for one thing, it has stood like stone
wall for the vested interests of the
brewers and distillers and against any
proposition not endorsed by c. E. Fields
and the personal liberty league Of which
he is the living inspiration. | am told
that you have close to 300 high license
boozeries, some of which will have to
go shut under the provisions OF the. act
which denies to the brewing and distil-
lery interests the privilege of cleaning
two profits from the same stock of goods.
! Will the closing OF a few saloons be
disastrous to the well being of the wage
workers, professional men and trades
men within your borders? / was talking
| yesterday with a gentleman who lives In
| Farnam street out among the hills and
| he said he thought the law would do
more good than harm even in Omaha,
| the wretch
/ About six weeks ago a fool astronomer
over in Pennsylvania said he had sighted
comet that was coming head-first In
/ this direction, and he believed it more
| than likely it would strike the earth on
or about the 18th of March Our own
Professor Swezey after scanning the blue
empyfean with q telescope declared there
/ 1Ct ha afh ir1or with foJ
lows head as there wasn't a comet in
! sight anywhere, nor had there been since
the memorable summer of 1874. This
astronomical nonsense from Pennsylvania
worried few people to some extent,
/ but generally the man was discredited
because of the foolishness of his proph-
| ecy.
But there are things coming to pass on
! this earth, no portentous of calamity
by q long shot. Just the other day a
saloon-keeper at Litchfeld Minnesota.
experienced genuine change of heart
and he didn't do a thing but play Carrie
Nation with every bottle, barrel and cask
in his joint He took the whole works
| out into the middle of the street and did
the smashing himself without the aid
| or consent of anybody. A stock of goods
| that stood him thousand dollars and
for which he expected to receive $40 900
ran into the cutters amid the plaudts
of more than half the people of the town
| That Is an extreme case, but it shows
something of the sentiment of a good
man toward a business that has mighty
little to commend 1t to our favrable CON
sideration Honestly, don't you think Ii
better to destroy liquor in this heroic
| manner than by the usual method OF
fltering it through the systems of peo-
pie who need the money to buy food and
clothing for then families? You dontf
Well. it seems almost paradoxical that
a place where liquor does the most dam
age the sentiment against the traffic is
| least pronounced
/ i- NOR ctT of ttrl1 HI ,,,sa,,
That to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet, seen too oft, familiar with its face,
We nrst endure then pity, then en-
brace
And that is why write these words to
Attention to your weakness Omaha.
In hopes that you win your fearful
| fix
And thank the men who smote the
brewers. Blk
Twenty four years in the penitentiary
at hard labor is the penalty prescribed
in the case of the man Kenison who
! murdered Sam ID. Cox. How the jury
ever reached a verdict of murder In
less than the first degree is unaccount-
able from any stanpoint of logical rea-
soning, Kenison has the face of brute
and all the instincts to match and the
testimony proved beyond the shadow OF
doubt that the crime was premeditated
and deliberate. II he is given time off for
good behavior and is not sooner given
his liberty by board of pardons he
will not be arrested by the police Of Lin
Lincoln as a suspicious character pre-
vious TO the year 1928. IT Is a good long
time for serious reflection. for wearing
the sack cloth and ashes of repentance.
Kenison is now in the prime of life:
when he emerges from the penitentiary
he viii be bent and old. A new genera
tion viii have grown up. and the friends
he knew and loved, II he is capable of
such sentiments, will be wide-scattercd
or dead, or aged and bent like himself
We have no inclination to gloat over the
misery Of fellow-man, but Kenison has
no reason TO complain at the severity OF
his sentence. He killed noble and just
man without provocation
The immoral and disorderly saloon
will have to go--or all saloons will 60
This, In a word, il the conclusion that
is being forced on the wine and liquor
interests OF the country. World Herald
And wouldn't moral and orderly
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