~M~1el 1.................... - ....................-. ; ;>,,, ••>'" EDIATOR .==:=:==::=;;;;;;;=======::"<f;:'======;;=::;;;:================--====================---==== \ '1S~.(!;" . OMAHA) NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 11) 1923 No. 2& ~V"""O"""L~.!!!!xvm~~"""'~=~,,,,!,!!!!:~~=!!!!!\~\ ~ ~.'\.. .. t, "'" ·\~'<S'eT· . ~7\..'.·.~.·~ '.', ~~'.S2'!11.• ·•...• ·.. \) ! j!~,;5S THAT NEVER HAPPEN MEDIATOR IN REC~IPT r~.7 I ( "~ALL ltl6l-\1 MAIM ROCKEFELLER FEARED 'INTERESTII.LEttERS I. "NE.ED~'\ l<.E.MOVE. YOUI<- 1 t\f\1- 1 SAW:'TH 15 ACT DENATURED PRODUCT I>SfO~, Some Approve While Others Disagree I Helped Put This Country Dry to Save With Policy of Paper His Gasoline from Competition MINISTER WaiTES I_TE~ESTING' NOTE r AMERICAN FARMERS PAY THE PRICE Scoresof Letters to the Paper from People in AlI W~s o~ Ufe­ Many Unav.aiIable for publication Because of Radical VIews While Rest of WorId is Making Rapid Adv.ancement in Perfection -Publish Four This Week to Encourage Others of Industrial AJcf}hol as a Substitute Motive Power, t~ Publicly ExpressTheir Sentiments. America Stands Still-Impossible Regulation of Distilling Product the Cause The Mediator is in receipt of fifty-j time and think it only fair to say that The real cause of prohibition in I turing a,"ld puiting on the market six letters this week, written by sub- in some respects I have changed my the United States is John D. Rocke-: denatured alcohol at a good profit to scrihers and others interested in thefmind. Your reporters I feel have had felelr, This is proved conclusively I themselYes, still at low cost. This paper and-its policy. Many ¥e un", .a).etteropportunity to watch the ef- by Senator Ed"in S. Broussard of would never do fl'Om Rockefeler's signed for obvious reasons, none of fects of prohibition.than have we of L'ouisiana, a square shooter and -a standpoint. Much of the Standard which 'we "Would think of ·puhHsbing the cloth. I h.ave been awakened man that strikes straight from the on profits would be diverted to the with the exception of a single one, J'Tough your editorials and front- shoulder, figuratively speaking. In farmer..But how to stop it. Only which becaues' of its consnUi:.tion, page exposnres and am willing to a remarkable speech in the senate a corporation lawyer -could figure' it stmck our funy elbow. For the most admit that possibly the law has not last winter Senator Broussard laid out. It was figured out to a nicety part these co~:mum.capt:ms·q,r:~\vrit- worked out as I had expected. It O'VER 300'0 MAVERICIS the effort would not be in vain. The bare facts and figures which areIand the farmer was made the goat. ten in good' f·aithizid are properly does seem hard to change human' ''1a\' was not clear at that time, a fact startling in their nature and ring When the time came the agricultur­ signed, though not fqr pupu~a~on. nature through the medium of law. 'BAVE BEEN BRAIDED th~t has always been regretted, He true. He charges that indirectly II ists were the very ones to cut their We are publishing four of these 1 still ,think you are too brutally:. .'>. -, ". ',' at all times w~nted to give a poor boy Rockefeller and the Standard Oil in- o\vn throats, when they thought they shorl letters that the public may frank and. possibly premature in a chance and had that privilege when tere,sts financed the long drawn out were doing the countrry a religious know of the deep interest hundreds your studied diagnosis of the prohi- Mter SamSOn had finished "figur- he took into his office I. J. Dunn and ·prohibition campaign, not from a [and moral good. of' people take in our fight against bition question. 'in'" up Thursday he found that more· others. In the twenty-nine years that moral standpoint, but to further theirI ;!>.t th~s ~ime the Rockef~ll:rs and obnoxious prohibition and the side I· Very Resp't'y Yours, than half of the 6000 mavericks had we have knov.n him, this real master own selfish ends, oL.ler 011 Interests gave tuelr sup- we take on···thingS- political,. locany, B...J M been rounded up and' coralled in the of 'lIdJaws ,vas a ways a ea er lD. his As far back as 1906 the oil inter- IP~~L<....L~ we,, __ADt':-s:.IIDon "e~~~ w'hi , ch state and national. We publish these (The above communication was re- greatest of all his Spring drives. profession im~ressedand a genuine friend. of ests of the world, as well as the re- "\\a"f~ome,enol'ganizatio~tnen 111 line ,.oddn" Older few ,\ithout any~Othingcomment whatsoever !-ceived from a prominent local divine Business men are taking an unusual tboys that hi:n as bemg sponsible heads of the val'ious gov- an standpoint., Un- in fact koo".' .. personal:.Y ofI'sho ha.s :.:t been airaid to in.vesti- method of inducing then.· employeesImade of the rIght roatenal. eruments, came to the conclusion tIl .the Standard 011, backers tmew the conditions the letters deSCl"lbe.gate conditions as they are and not to join this year. Scores of them are that sooner 01" later there would have then support to Wayne B. Vilheeler ~ nnen~ We .. p.rm.t.the,s..e p..TIn••..c.iPall.. y.•......• to .. -,:5 he W.. Ould_ pe.'..•.Edrsonally like to h.ave paying one-hali their initi- D.FNKISON DOES NOT to be developed a 'iubstitnte for gas- and his league, all financial support courage oj;h(;ml j;o,~te their Views cheI).l appea;r.-c .) ation fees and· advancing the other! . -- ~. ~ • -'ine fol' mot>ve pov;er Experiments thad come from the churches, whose '~~ . M: ~:l=:=:~~¥ bo. ~E§,f:[~;~~;;;I;~!':~~~~~E;:i1~:ig~I:1~;:~~t~~:;f~~;§]~1::£~:~~f~~~Ei~~~~~~~ The Mediator, 1 How does it come that you never the entire six thousand into camp. I o~ hIs men become contammated. anI oil standpoint was that it could the Standard sprInkled barrels of oil h b tl Omaha, Nebraska, jUJ:1P onto t e many eer Jom·- ts on Mr. DaVidson,..'head of the member- IThose• are. not, the exact v;ords, hbut.be oroduced at less expense than gas- on lem In·.<.hL e way•0 f ca".-II Gentlemen: Eighteenth, Ninet.eeuth andT.wenti.- ship committee, says it will take' the mea~ng is all there. Dan .,as ol!;'e. Ave there was the rub. The country was flooded with Au- I ~ Some one called my attention toI ·th streets, b.ath IS, those run III pr1- some tall hustlmg. for a few days but b""one• so far . as to sav. • he would not• _ Farmers- ,.rmse the stuff out of t··j-"a1oOn pI'opaganda ,hundrerd _ S of yeur publication about two years ago. I '~ate houses along these streets? that it is a cinch the deed will be done, ~~dertake ~o stop anybo.dy from YI,,- ,,-hich comes alcohol. Com, rye, po- silver tongued orators were engaged. I bought a COP~T at that time and was I ~{ear1y every one of them ~as at v.-e11 done, when the roundup is Ihng -" Den~Ison. That 15 ve:"Y ~at- tatoes, wheat, beets. in fact most any Lies and exagerations by. the mil­ thoroughly disgusted \Vith it. You least one lewd woman working the completed. Of the more than 3,000 iural "or hill1. The .fact remams Lhat ,egetable, The g~eater the demand lions were broadcasted, until they had bee~ ~ s~e~ liber~l .g~i~g, were roasting prohibition and even game and some of them have wee mavericks now branded fully forty Mr. Butler has hm-:self for alcohol for industrial purposes, e::en ,the element many , then advocating a return to the old or four. You surely know about per cent of them have ·felt the siz- very often recently In ,that VICilljt~, the "'reater the effort On the pal1; of or wnom voten for prohlbitIon. The . f th d if d 't ." f' whinlJ ha"- aroused conSIderable spec- b •• saloon, if I interpreted your mean- some 0 em, an you on. you zlmg branding Iron for the irst·," c ~ t .h . T. fanners not onlY to raIse bIgger I b t + YOU • t ill on ing aright, ha'.'e been uymg· tl·'1e oug11· cO geta h.. ep t·0 Yourself'.If tilUe. !. ulation.'. It is apparen'h hatomI thi IS CI'OpS '"out 'to co-operate. III. man ac- (Continued Page 8) paper on the newstan.ds since that (Continued on Page Three) less mterested m t e woe ng _....:.... .:- ~__ VllIE~ JOHN J. O'CONNOR DIE~ 11;~a~~:~~~d~o;lS:·m~net~~~~~:~(}~~~\ "MAHA THIRD UNITED STAT YOUTH LOST A REAL FRIEND . h h h ca1"p' for the-e· V IIIn SUMMER TO fO'M~~~ y ~:;:t" ~:~~hin~ el~~" SEA"" norThecamerecentas deatha distinctof JohnshockJ. O'Con-to the ~ tl: 0::._ • d that 11;1'. IN PER CAPITA· PARK AREA , '. opn Al~ kRIIC PARlr SIlURDAY commumty,. even t hough h'IS fal'1'mg .J" eI savs. Dr oes. health during ilie past few weeks in- I (Heated that the end v.as not far dis .. 'N . N Pal'k and Bouleyard S','stem Under Commissioner Hummel hIIs. One Manv New and Novel Attractions Offered .tfl Amusement Loving I B(.~Il\-:E::;S Public-Amateur Base1Jall Gaining Strong Foothold-.­ tanto The acting editor of tbe paper \ {'iTVE O}fAH..4. FlmfS of Best Maintained in the Country-Twenty.three Pu Ie ':~- ~ ~ .A Buffaloes Are Making Good on Early Season was especially grie"l"ed to learn of his.