Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 23, Number 46, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 22 January 1902 — Page 4

NAPPANEE NEWS. Nappanee. Elkhart County, Ind. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. By GORDON N.MURRAY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy one year #1 60 O ecqpyeixmonths ••• 75 One copy three months,.... i ADVERTISING RATES. Columns 20 In. Long—Quarto Form. One column one year SBO 00 One-half column one year 40 00 One-fourth column one year 20 00 One-eighth column one year. 10 00 Shortertime than three months, 10 cents per Inch per week column width. Local reading notices per line weekly 05 Obituary notices, cards of thanks, per line.. 05 Marriage, birth, death,and church notices free. The Republicans in district convention at Sonth Bend last Wednesday selected Walter Brown, of Elkbart, district chairman. The convention also endorsed the candidacy of lion. C. W. Miller, of Goshen, for attorney-general. It looks very much as if between the demands of the county officials Tor telephones to better serve the couuty, and the combine of the two telephone companies an attempt was made to hold up the county at the last meeting of the county council. The scheme to build the high school house at Goshen is to number of citizens to construct the edifice and rent it to the school board for a period of fifteen years—as to have that number of years to pay for the building without having to Increase taxation for that purpose. According to Secretary Gage the increase of money per capita in the past four years has been $5.69, increasing the circulating medium $420,000,000. The great Increase of the gold out-put is responsible for this. The increase of the volume of money is also responsible for the apparent prosperity. At Indianapolis last week the ministerial association of the Methodist church condemned the practice of the lawyer members in defending violaters of the liquor laws. And the question arises, why should a lawyer * be given any greater range of privilege on account of his profession by society and by the church than is accorded the newspaper man? The trend of the great metropolitan political organs to independence in affairs of party has advanced to a point of even touching the Inter Ocean. The Chicago papers have one by one announced their independence until the Inter Ocean remained as the one sole organ in the great city of Chicago. That paper has changed proprietors. With this change comes the announcement in the contemporaneous press that the Inter Ocean will hereafter be Independent Republican. Our esteemed contemporary, the Goshen News-Times, had a regular case of “before and aßer taking.” The Elkhart Mr. Brown got some hard shots as a candidate for district chairman, but as the “real thing,” Mr. Brown got a great puff. It is taken for granted that our Goshen contemporary had for the moment forgotten that it is now the county organ of the Republican party, and for one editorial showed the old-time independence of the dashboard part of its name. It was a funny incident . to everybody, perhaps, but' Walter Brown. Supreme Judge F. E. Baker’ opiuion on which ruling was made that no employer of labor can enter into contract with an employe to set aside state laws for the protection of workingmen is a strong and rational view. The statutes covering these cases are made for the protection of the, employe and should stand as made. It does not affect the quality of the law that a mao under stress of necessity to get a job should agree to waive his rights under the law at the behest of a greedy and unreasonable employer and the supreme court has fixed that fact firmly.— . Fort Wayne Sentinel. 7 Twas a False Alarm. I have used your Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin and can truthfully recommend it. Some four years ago doctors told me that I had Bright’s disease. I was laid up three months and nothing I used helped me and no food would stay on my stomach. I used one bottle of your Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin and food would stay on my stomach and I craved something to eat. I got well. There was no Bright’s disease about me. It was a * “4 a,se rumor.” Ever since I have recommended Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin to friends and strangers. It i* Just splendid. I have full confidence in it.—Geo. F. Benedict, 639 West Xing St., Decatur, 111. Sold by C. W*. Johnson & Cos.

The Auditorium was well filled last Wednesday uight with an appreciative audience in a second greeting to Porter J. White’s “Faust.” Mr. White in company with his leading lady, Olga Verne, have pleased as many show going people, perhaps, as any two people starring the American stage with a one night stand traveling company. Mr. White and his lady have become such favorites here, that, when they return next season in anew production, in new roles, they will be greeted with as large patronge as that of last week in theirsplendid rendition of “Faust.” There seems to be that irresistible facination about gambling by which the most successful operator is taken onward and downward until he is finally worse off than when he began. For instance, George 11. Phillips, known the world over as the “corn king,’’.arose from an unknown young man to that of the best known and most successful speculator of any in the whole country. Yet he hung on, when he might have retired in affluence, until he lost, —went down the same road all gamblers go sooner or later, whether dealing in margins on the board or putting money on outlawed games. Notwithstanding the general terms of denial of the third assistant postmaster-general, Edwin C. Madden, that he ever made such a ruling as to deny publishers the privilege of second-class rate of postage on newspapers unless publications were paid for in advance, there is in print Madden’s own letter on his ruling which indicates, if not even substantiates the identical matter charged. It really looks as though the department struck the real thing when Madden went up against the country newspapers doing a credit business with their subscribers, and the only thing to do was to deuy the blunder. The following from the Indianapolis Nexvs may be applied to any town: “When a boy breaks through reserve which nature has given him and begins to befoul his mouth with bad language he enters on a course that leads easily to destruction. Association with other boys at night without supervision, help on his evil way. Let’s all get together in this community and stop the profanity. To do this we need the enforcement of curfew law and the three great p’s—‘pulpit, press and police,’but of that still greater p, parents, and of the teachers as well. There are some hopeless, hardened sinners, addicted to the use of bad language, whom we may not be able to reach, but even they will willingly join the crusade to prevent the youth from falling victims to the unnecessary and bad habit, profanity.” The people of Nappanee, and especially those in Locke township who successfully remonstrated against any individual obtaining a license to retail liquors in Nappanee, should not allow themselves to be hoodwinked by any cunningly conceived idea of the friends of the saloon, that their work is to be overturned—or the moral effect of that work—because forsooth, that the law can be evaded either in letter or in spirit. Neither the one nor the other will be tolerated. The “feeler” put out last week to create the impression that getting rid of the retail saloon would not help matters at all; because the law could be evaded L will not, the News believes, change the opinion of any person who signed the power of attorney remonstrance. Those who wish to try conclusions with the remonstrators by undertaking to evade the law with a “cold storage” scheme will be given the opportunity, no doubt. Nappanee has plenty of citizens who are ready to meet the proposition with their money—and, “money makes the mare go.”, Incidentally, the saloons also. The “wholsalc racket” on the “quartshop” plan will not go down at this stage of the calculations of the re* manstrators, so the News is reliably informed. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except-on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Cos., Toledo U., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces, of the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure to get the genuine. It is taken internally and is made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Cos. Testimonials free. s©*Sold by druggists, price 75c per bottle. Hall’s Family Pills are the best,

The remonstrance against granting a liquor license to W. H. Grass, of Nappanee, , unsupported, might not have been successful; but he could not prove the ownership of the building and fixtures to the satisfaction of the commissioners, and the license was refused. —Bremen Enquwer. You are simply mistaken. The same kind of a remonstrance was filed with the auditor against Grass as was died against McLaughlin. The only reason it was not used against Grass was because the commissioners did - not recogoize him as ao applicant. Has Grass been recognized as a applicant he would have been “out classed” by the power of attorney remonstrance same as was McLaughlin. There you have it. There was no such thlDg entering into the question as the ownership of the building. The question arose that the applicant was not the principal and sole man interested. The News is frequently asked, can the drug stores retail liquors In less quantities than a quart at a time, without the prescription of a physician? This is a pertinent question right now in Nappanee, hence people should be posted as to the law. Here it is: Sec. 91. It shall be unlawful for any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors to be sold or given away in any drug store in any quantity less than a quart at a time, except upon the written prescription of a reputable practicing physician. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined for the first offense the, sum of $25, and for the second offense, in any sum not less than $25 nor more than S2OO, to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months. Those people who are now afraid that the drug stores will sell liquor as a beverage should rest assured under the provisions of the Nicholson law, even though they have no confidence in the druggists. This drug store story has white whiskers. It is being used to frighten the temperance people into the belief that they have really turned down a good thing in doing away with the retail saloon. It is the grandparent of the fool notion that a man can “retail liquor at wholsale” in an evasion of the law. In the first place the News don’t believe -that uny Nappanee druggist would knowingly violate the law. But, supposing that there is a demand for liquor in less quantities than a quart for medicinal purposes. A physician’s perscriptioo is required. Very few physicians are nowadays prescribing Whisky or other intoxicants for their patients. A druggist is not licensed to prescribe for any patient. Even a licensed physician operating a drug sJ;orepn’t write his own prescriptions for the sale of liquors. Nearly every physician in Nappanee is strictly opposed to the whisky business. This is well-known to begin with. There is no danger of anybody drinking themselves drunk on a doctor’s prescription, see? No man or boy can get, without a prescription, any liquors compounded by a druggist with, sugar, glycerine, or candy, unless there is an indirect violation of the law. A druggist who assumes to do as much would assume to sell it without adulteration, and in either case be might be punished. To save himself from punishment he would have to prove that it was an absolute necessity, beyond a doubt, and in that kind of a case anybody could furnish it as medicine. An evasion of law will not stand the test Jit the courts. A druggist, unless on a doctor’s prescription, mustsell nothing less than a quart at a time, and he cannot sell any quantity to a minor. A wholesale liquor dealer can sell nothing short of 5 gallons at a time, Don’t allow anybody to frighten you, Mr. Demonstrator, by the cry of “moonshiner.” The fellows who are made drunken now are put iu that condition pretty cheaply, so far as the consumer is*concerned. There is method in this madness.

Tiiehe is do disputing the fact, that the friends of saloons are making every effort at their command to nulify public sentiment, so that, at some future time, some individual may again obtain a license to open a grog shop in Nappanee. Their first effort is to work through the medium of some individuals who are mainly disinterested in the receipts for the sale of liquors. But how such people can have tb? temerity to openly say they are opposed to the liquor traffic, and especially opposed to the retail saloon in Nappanee, and then in the next breath say that the community is worse oft without the saloons than it was with the saloons, is past the comprehension of those who can only be found on one side of a question at one and the same time. Here we have the triangle representing the saloons, the neutrality fellows, and

the body of people who are opposed to the retail saloon in Nappanee. It reminds the writer of the game of “fox and geese” played by the school boys of long ago. Notwithstanding, It was against the rules of the game to run across the ring, when some boys got hard pressed away they would go across the paths rather than be caught. Here we have numerous people telling how easily the liquor laws can be evaded by those who insist on selliog whisky in this community whether the people want them to or not, aod because they are willing to accept of a theory of evasion advanced, they are willing to repeat the bewhiskered statement that the morals of the town and the appetites of the rising generation arqin as much danger now as ever under the influence of the saloon. No one ever told the story thinking it to be the truth. But, there is a danger line even with the liar, because such an individual can make himself believe, finally, that the truth is his, and his only. Men should stop to weigh these matters. Let every man ask himself these questions: ' Is a licensed saloon better than an unlawful sealing of liquor? Is a licensed gambling house better than one operated against law? Is a licensed house of prostitution better than one unlawful? Any man of intelligence, if he will answer himself, unbiased, will say, unhesitatingly, that licensed evils are more dangerous than ones unlawful. This community has found it a very difficult matter to suppress a licensed evil. They will now find it an easy finish to suppress an unlawful one. Why? Simply because it is a difficult matter for the public, and for teachers in church and state, to lead men and women following the conditions into which they are born, so to speak. In this community citizens are lawabiding, on the whole. They will not tolerate i he unlawful sale of liquors no sooner than they would tolerate gambling and prostitution. A good citizen may, though opposed to the traffic, uphold the legal sale of liquors. No good citizen will for a single moment, by word or deed, uphold the illegal sale of liquors. Don’t allow an unlawful act drive you into the belief that the act ought to be legalized In order to prevent the individual becoming a lawbreaker. This fallacy destroys manhood, and it would as quickly dispose of the best government the sun ever shone upon. BUSINESS MEN IN POLITICS. Elkhart Review. The present Is particularly the time when business men should take interest in affairs political affecting the natiou, the state, the county, and even in the city. Moral issues are not especially at the front, but questions of husiness and business management iD local and state affairs, and questions affecting the nation’s welfare, will be prominent in all discussions and in all adopted policies. For this reason business men should enter politices for the good of politics. Hard-headed, substantial men of affairs should be ready to lend their services to the public when they are demanded. The new members of congress should be men of practical business sense, and so far as possible they should be men who have had a hand in large affairs. The call for men to take part in the discussion of affairs both in national and state legislaturesis for those men whose judgment has beeu ripened by experience, whose knowledge of affairs of the world has been enlarged by contact with the world in its business affairs, whose sagacity is born of practice, and whose judgment is based upon knowledge of the laws of trade and the tendencies of finance.

The discussion in congress during this session will involve some of the most important issues which have to do with business prosperity and enlargement. The banking question is one of the live issues upon which the concentrated wisdom of congress and the concentrated wisdom of public opinion outside of congress should unite, and the results of which would he the elaboration of a financial scheme which would protect the public from the dangers lurking from individual selfishness, in laxity of government control and in the rapacity of those who would wreck finance for personal profit. , In our state affairs the history of the past four years should be an earnest of the policies which should be pursued in the future. That wise economy which creates debt only in the development of larger resources, and which pays those debts as rapidlyas reasonable conditions and judicious management will permit, should be followed in its full until the state debt of Indiana has been so reduced

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that it is not a burden upon the present and will not be a burden upon the future. * In local affairs, both city and county, there is equal need of business sagacity, and the advice of capable business men in positions of influence and affectiveness. While it may cost something to serve the public in an efficient capacity, those men who by success in life have enabled themselves to live somewhat independent of their daily toil should'be willing to lend their time and judgment in behalf of better government and more economic administration of local affairs. The old appeal for the educated man in politics is much less forceful today than the appeal for sound, practical, hard-headed business sense. The Nappanee News started a war against gambling machines which were being run in Nappanee, The result is that the town board at their last session passed an ordinance giving the marshal fnil power to seize and destroy any gambling device or machine found in the town.— Leesbury Standard. According to the marshal’s statement there is not a single gambling machine doing business in Nappanee. A low estim.ate of the amount of monev these machines won every month is placed at S2OO. The sum of $2,400 a year directed to no better purpose is very bad, and a demoralizing' thing for a town of this size. However, the estimated winnings of these “robbing” machines has been placed as as $4,000 anually. This came from the vast army of working men—men who are paid by the hour for their services. Diverted into the channels of such business is enough to cripple the business of a small Addjio this the money spent for liquors, and it assumes astonishing proportions. If our citizens will now see to it that the laws are strictly enforced—insisting upon enforcement of the law, this vast sum 6f money will be directed into the legitimate channels of trade. ' For Pneumonia. > Dr. C J. Bishop, Agnew, Mich., and Tar in three very severe cases of pneumonia with good results in every case.” For sale by J. S. Walters. —Nqw books; Murray’s Bookstore

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