Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 10, 1880, Page 2

" Tawml “sws AmmeB O ATCR: EDITOR £ Srroxa is to be followed in from the supreme Swayne, who goes cectucion and balf pay for t cars. Like Norval's father be will bo *“a raral Swaive, to increase nis iho GE¥ERaAL sex, who has been neminsted for chicf signal officer, with the ravk f brigsdicr geveral, is & rative of Vermont and & graduate of West Point of THe clasé of 1852, ved through ghe war of the re- 2 end distinguighed blmeeli by ndnet mt Obattancoga Iant ¢ and pland rongral bybr x ugedto play into the ds of such & sebof poiitical harl, irter dosa’to the “concern ration wes weak, Ooxoress is grosning over the Bick- ral bill, whichgives tothat he most unbounded power ia the final determination of the eiection of president and vice-president, and takes away from t'e seyersl states all % DAILY BEj |THOREEES THONDERBOLT.| e A Their Power to Oppress the . F, Teurber, in Scriimer's Monthly for De- 1 ccmver. Gisss in both political parties, half statesmen, half railrosd men, who | type of » American public scquiesoed with- amugmur. Daring the war, our government, under the then existing tax laws, collected from the New York gemnl railroad sbout a half a mil- o Scathing Review of the Eail- road Monopolies of the n dollars. The railrozd company | e claimed this was unavthorized, raised ountry. certain legal points, brought svit to S15es compel the government to refund the amount, empioyed Senator Conkling as counrel, and was succeseful. The bearing of political inflaence upon the caso Was 80 obvious that it was com- mented apon at the time by several newspapers—among others The Utica Obsorver, ss follows: “Now, when Mr. Oonkling went down to Oinandaigas to try this raile rosd case, he carricd-with him a grester polities] influence than any other man in (he state wields. He sppesred befors s judge whom he hsd elevated to the bench only s few months before, He confrontea a district attorney who eould not hold- his office fora dayif Mr. Conkling shoold demand bis removal. He secured a verdict which the jury was forced to render by the ralings of the juige. Under the verdict the railroad recovers a round half million, come before him | which it might have lost bat for its % | ebrewdness in employing the right men to prosecute its claims.” The New York “Tribune,” inan o | article at the time, entitled *Legicla- tor aud Lawyer,” alludingto this case, s2id: ““The appearance of Senator Conk- ling a5 sitorney in a recent railroad case, in behslf of a railroad corpora- tion'and egaiost the g>vernment of which he 18 sworn official, suggesta question of political expediency, and incidentally of morals, which must sooner or later be very fully and freely discussed befors the paople. * * * Producing Classes Gon- stantly Augmentihg. Conciusion. Mr. Barnum is a type of a roling bowever, from the John Adams tostean, who, when cleoted nmediately sold his ted States bauk, on o represeutative ecuniary interest in o “iretaining the legal profession wk tame to be legislatc usoally obtained. This e is slloded to_in one of the ecches of Senator Beck, of Ken- v, 88 follows: +ie is smpoesible to have an honest legifiatare, state or federal, 80 long 88 representaives ara sent who owe their Ho is certain that any legislation or supervision.in the interest of the pub- Tio would not only be in probably unconstitutional, and cer- tainly mischievous. granget laws which were sfterward re- pea’sd, but he will forget to state that they wera purposely misconstrued by thorailroads, and instead of acquiesc- ing in snd carrying them out in good faith, railroad man: as troubletome as posz ble to the pub- communistio prinoiples, with mueh of theother reasoning of rative, but | tb efforts made in order fo com servation, which is ohiefly responsible for the growth of communistic senti- r3 msde them fmentin & not public highways, upon which all on a parity presidents of the great trunk & They ceem to be entirely ob- He will poiatto | Tivious cf the fact that it is their dis- d of public rights, aud notthe which this chamber tate. If railronds were lic, in order thst they might createa | shippers, ts woll a8 passengers, ate reaction in public opinion, nd with the liberal use of money in both elections and the lobby, cure their sppeal. He will forget to tell you that, wherever this result has been attained, it was ac- compliched only after the railroads had conceded material reforms for which the pe-ple had contended. He will not mention the fact that the de- cision of the supreme court of the United States, in the so-called granger cases. established beyond question the principles for which the grangers con- tended, and swept away the web of sophistries whish learned counsel had been spinning upon the Dartmouth college case. The decision of the supreme court entitled to equal right ery of steam, and its application se- | tha purpuses of traneportation, allits sttendant benefits, could be es- teemed alono the private property of these gentlenfen, then the argument of might be copsidered val b efforts of your committes seditious, sociali tion. f the discov- | o with nd Jewett , and_the Messrs. Vanderbilt tic and worthy of ‘ocudemua- “Is is hardly necessary to ssy.that your commitiee have no sympathy with socialists or communists who want something for nothing; thislass of persons might perhaps find fault with your committes for being capital- ists; but, on tho other hand, wo oan- not uphold a systom of operating pub- e SHEELY BROS. PACKING CO., |1856. 1880. Wholesale an pel thelr ob”| PRESH MEATS& PROVISIONS, CITY AND COUNTY ORDERS SOLICITED. OFFICE CITY¥ MARKET—1415 Dopglas St. Packing House, Opposiie Omaha Stock Yards, U. P. R. R. d Retail in GAME, POULTRY, FISH, ETC. GLOTHING, TELEEPEEONE oommhlo-rxoxs. ISH & McMAHON Successors to DRUCGISTS AND PERFUMERS. Dealers in. Fine Imported Extracts, Toilet Waters, Colognes, Soaps, Toilet Powders, &o. Drugnasd Chemicals used in Dispensing, Jas. K. Ish. AND CENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS. Jas. K, Ish, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. in the granger cases, rendered March 1, 1877, was-one of the most impor:- ant declarations of public rights since the declaration of indspendence. Re- garding the power to regulate, Chicf Justice Waite eaid: “We find that when private prop- erty is_affected with a public in- terest it c to be juris privati ouly. §This waseaid by Lord Chief Jus- tice Hale more than two hundred years agyin his_treatise ‘De_Portibus Maris,’ and has boen accepted with.ut objection as an essential - element in the law of property ever since. = Prop- ghways which is honey:combed with abusee, and which is controlled absolutely by a few individuals who tax productten gnd commerce at will, and who practically dictate what re- ward the prodacer, manufacturer and merchant shall receive for his labor.” All classes of citizans are intzrested in having remedies promptly applied to these evils, and ‘espocially are those iuterested who have property; for if ever communistic views make neadway in this comntry, it will bei ‘consequence of tl6ToTeration of clas priviloges, and disregard of the spirit A full Tine of Surzical Tnstruments, Pocket Cases, Trusses and Suprorters. Absolutely Pure We carry the Largest and . Prescriptions filled at any hour of the night. 1ssiTaRNEAn sTRane " |BEST SELECTED STOCK OF G00DS IN OMA Which We ars Selling at MORE POPULAR THAN EVER. The Genuine SINGER NEW FAMILY SEWING MACHINE. The popular demand for the GENUINE SINGER in 1879 exceeded that of any previous year during the Quarter of a Century in which this “Old H n Teliable” Machine has been before the public. In 1878 we sold 356,422 Machines. In 1879 we sold 431,167 Machines. Excess over any previous year 74,735 Machines. Our sales last year were at the rate of over 1400 Sewing Machines a Day | GUARANTEED PRIGES I 1 OUR MERCHANT TAILORING 1 DEPARTMENT election to, or are pereonally interest- ed 1n, great moneyed corporations or monopolies. No matter whether they call themselves democrats or republi but the mere apperance cf jurisdic tion. The republicens wlll do well to cet aw obatructioniets mtil such a Somewhere there mut be 8 line which scparates the profession of an advo- cate from the fanctions of the legi tor. Would it not be well to have s messure 8 effectually George C. Gordham of Californis, rmerly secrotary” of the United senate and member of the na- nal republican ‘committes, has taken editoriake oharge of the Wash- National Répwbligan.. Mr. « staudoh republican and n sc-omplished ned versatile writer. Ho is likoly to make tae National spublican what has_so long becn in Washington, an able and tle journal devoted to the inter- ington is osts of party No oxE who has driven through the strects of our ity has failed to note with gratification the substantisl growth of Omshh during the past yeat from u building. point of view. Handsome brick blocke, elogant resi- und hundreds of smallcr cot- ges, each renresenting & new family that line authoritively defined.” It is not strange that the beat legal talent of the country is permanently retained by corporate interests, nor that lawyers should nsturally gravitate election to monopolists, or are them- | toward politics. Railroads can afford interested in class legislation.” | to compensate professional men better hat the greet corporate interests of | than private clients can, for the rea- the country o mot stop at_electing | son that their own revenses under theic own men to shape legislation, is | the presont system are practically un- showu by a recent revelation in Penn- | limi.ed, all production and commerce sylvania. The following associated | in the sections through which they » dispateh tells its own - tory: run being tributary to them, and ex- “PriLapELPHIA, March 28, 1880.— | traordinery expenditure for counsel was held here to-night | fees, election expenses, or bribery f leading politicians re- | fonds ere simply re-imposed upon the garding the persons convicted of at- | public. bribery, in order to devise| Theextent to which this power to s for their pardon. The caso is | tax is exercised is indicated by the ¥ nomeaus given up by Kemble and | following straws : It is little more s fellow defendants, The bitterness | than fifteen years since Huntington, issowing seeds of much | Hopkins & Co. were hardware mer- Palmer and Stone, | chants of limited means in San Fran- nbers of the board of par- | cisco. They bailt the Central Pacific ¢ holding out agzainst an | railroad, and deservedly made fort- anmosty, are the subject of severe | unes estimated at from three ond have cut themselves off | to five millions each. They foture political preforment | found the railroad enabled as [er ag itsis controlled by the dom- | them to tax the prodaction and com- oant politicians. Itis generally be- | merca of the entire Pacific cosst. uieved that, if pardons ase not ob- | Twelve years have rolled around, snd bey are not the representatives pecple; they are simply the agents snd _attorneys of those who seck, by taxing the masses, to enrich themerlves, whenever they owe their & add to the trade of our city, greet heeye in every seotion of the city. The newcoreal building, theOmaha foun widitions to the Nail works and sev eral other manufsctaring enter; the growth of industrial int B:fore another year discussion in this oty to- and there is much conjscture neral result. Many pol- d:ts, including Senator Don ises Ltest s 13 our city. - two new enterprises will be in suc- sfal operation—Shot snd Lead ks and a fastory forthe production | . rofassd to indemnify o lucose. The coming year promises { pers, but at the same time had b ter things than the cne now uced . stomclose. A mew and cle- make them. s state ble to They employed bills throagh the legislature, bat their ; us wero cxposed, and Witliam H. Kembie, E. J. Petroff, and seversl others, were arrested, tried, and, not- withstanding extraordinary effurts w1t opera house, & commodious bo- tel nd hund. eds of residences will be d on our vacant lots. Archite Iready raport an unprecedented de- mand for plans for byjldings to be erected in tho spring. Seversl of |-wore mado to sccuro their scquittyl, our manufacturivg industries will | were convicted. They immediatcly Yo applied for pardon, and were pardoned #dd to their present facilitios, and the | 17 ws What politics in the state of ylvania have come to when it is stated that “Palmer snd one, the two members of the board of pardous who are holding out sgaivet an amncs'y, are the subject of severs cowment and havo cuf themselves off from al political preferment,” snd a senator of the United ~tates leaves builders and mer. well look forwar its prosparity w predecessors. of Omaha mny 1o a year which i al any of its A5 4 journal whote saccess is more iutimately convected with the prosperity of Omaha than that of sny other, Tae Bee congratu- lates our citizans upon the goud times coming. —_— THE RIVS& AND THE RAILROADS. The Omaha Herald takes issue with the Sivux City Journalupon the im- portance cf the Miseouri river as e trausportation highway. It denies hat the river route can ever become a formidable competitor to the railronds and therefore fails to second the wild popular demand for great expenditures of the peoples money for the improve- moent of navigation on the Missouri r, which is not likely to be much vavigated however much it msy be ved. & view of the matter as taken by Dr. Miller whose only God i Mammon in ths person of railroad kinge and corporate monopolies, is not et all surprisivg. . No movement wade in the interest of the “peoples money” and against the legalized highway robbery of the railroads ever hasmet with bation nor, do we suppose, it ever will. Against the opinion gf the Herald that the Missouri can_ never become a ussful agent for the relicf of the producing classes of the west, Tme Bee pleces the statements of cminent eugineers who have stadicd the subject with care, and who are n their opinicn that & permanert ana vavigable channel can be main- tsined from Siovx City to St. Louis throughout nearly nine months of the No doubt such improvements us would be necessary to bring sbout thisconsummation would be attended with much expense. But such ex- nse would be trifling when compared with the enormous sums of money which are yearly poured into tho pockets of the railrosd kings by the producers of this country for the transportation of grain sai stcck from the Wes! to the seaboard. A er highwsy navigated by barges ~ould compel the railrosd robbere to 7 wer their rates to a point where the his seat and returos home to ‘‘arrange things.” K Kemblo had been state ssursr of Pennsylvania, and Pe- was at tho time a member of the legislature. * lectare by Jemes Parton, esq., ud the following: <ho bribe and are bribed s talk about the matter with- Mg told me how the nd how he did it cad man said to Toom at eight ’ and when the ator got there the rail- road man sud: ‘By the way, yon did not call upon us to su expenses of it must have cost you a good deal, ahd better late than never, here is some- thing toward ', and the railroad man pasees over & pile of money, much more than the farmer's election ex- § “Iknow,’ added the corrupt ionist, by way of casual remark, ‘that you will mot vote forany bill that i not be good and honest, but bill of curs now before your t, you will take my word for it, is for the beat interests of the com- muity; examine it, and if you con- scientiously think so, too, of course you will vote for it.’” Most Americene will admit that such practices are evil and should be aba- ted, but 8o cobservative are Ameri- cavs in their methods, so respectful of property rizhia,e0 self-relnt and conscious of, their own; power o overcome evil when it becomes hile” to put forth the effort, that they are tolerent of abuses to an extent that seeme absurd to other na- tions. Anillustration of this may be had in the different results accompanying similar_action by the governments of the United States and Brazil. The Iutter coontry a few years since, for the purpose of meeting extraordinary expendituree. imposed a tax upon the strect railwaye of Rio de eq lent to about half & cen every pasenger carried. The com- panics undertook to re-impose this upon *he public by adding the exact amount of the tax to the fare; the pecple rebelled. A rtiot ensued, tracke were torn np, cars destroyed, and the companies were compelled to recede from their attept to make the public pry the tax. Dauring our late war, a tax was imposed upon hcree- himselt. him, ‘Coms to riv year. El b o7le would be williog to pey the | oar” companics of balt x oent 2 or each passenger carried ; sligat iuoresss over the charges of [{1% ah | pusenger curied the river route for oxpeditions trans- *t would fo:ce the man addeda whole cent to the fare, and tation. * he twenty-seventh day of sers to gompete for cusiom at| * Oa the twenty-se ay of ¢ January, 1880, Mr. Franklin B. Gow- h of th ¥ Y dd the expeme of _their }’"'1““ en, president of the Philadelphia and erreg it would stimulate | Reding railroad, in an argument be- trade and build up the river towns, making each one a port where *would eonverge the transportation trade of the surrounding country. Finally it would save annually millions of dol- # to western farmers in the increased they would obtain for their pro- ce, and enormous. sums to our mer- chants, who would be enabled to land ir goods on the levee at a saving in ght charges, whicli#wonld accrue o the benefit of both tradesmsn and ‘oonsumer, fore the committee on commerce of the house of representatives of the United States, in Washington, stated: “I have heard the counsel of the Pennsylvania railrosd company, standing in the supreme court of Ponnsylvania, tbreaten that court with the diepleasure of his clients if it decided againet them, snd all the blood in my body tingled with shame ! the humiliating spectacle.” In the associated press reparts this was euppressed; and only when the argoment was published by Mr. Gow- en was this remarksble statement verified to those who heard it. tained, the sentences will be very |recent estimates, based upon legal The cases are the subject of | procesdings necessary in the estte of Mrs. Hopkins, place the partnership wealth of Mr. Leland Stanford at $34,543,308; that of Mr. Charles Crocker st §34.495,458; that of Mrs. wealth than is estimated that of Messrs. y years since the late Mr. Vanderbilt was graduated from the steamship business into railroad mansgement; his possessions at that time were valued at from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000; at his yicts to buy theee { desth, some thres yosrs since, they were estimsted at £80,000,000. Mr. Jay Govld ““obtained his start” io the management of the Erie rail- road, in connection with the late Jas. Fisk; at the {ime he gave his now famous testimeny before quoted (in 1873). he was c zidered worth from §3,000,000 to £5,000,000; to-day no one knows much he is worth, but in Wall stiret estimates are made ranging from 220,000,000 to $60,000,- 000. Railrosd men who have accamulat- ed, within a few years, amounts rang- ing from §1,000,000 to £5,000,000 are to0 numerons to mention, as sre those, lso, in branches of trade de- pending upon and closely identified with railroad transportation—shippers who, through the favor of railroad managers, have been enabled to out- strip or break down all competition. These are tound in every branch of trade, but in none, perhaps, are they 80 prominent as in the petroleum bus- iness. If & true history of the Stand- ard il Company could be written, it would read more like a romance of the middle ages than a statement of commercial facts possible in the nine- teenth esntury. This is the organi- zation to which the Hepburn commit- tee allades as *"this mysterious organ- ization, whose business and tray tions are of such a character that its moaibers decline giving a history or destription of it, lest their tesmony be used to convict them of a crime,” The testimony in the Pennsylvania investigation showed that the trunk lines of railroads paid in rebates to the Standerd oil company, within the period of eighteen months, $10,151,-, 218 (ten million, one hundred and fif- ty-one thousand, two hundred and eighteen dcllare), which was contribu- ted by the roads in_ the following pro- portion: 18,556,277 Total rebates during that time at 55 cents (average) per barrel. ... 810,151,218.00 Of which the e was paid to Standard by Ealtimore +nd Ohio railrosd, 11 per oent, ns 17, 18, Paid by ral and “Hudson River rail- r0ad, 21 per cent, as pey contract. October 17, 1877 Paid by Erierailway, 21 per cent, ax per contract, Uo- tober 17, 18717, . 3 2,181,755.78 2,181,755,78 47 per cent, as_per contract October 17, 1877 —174 montts. . 4.771,072.46 Total_rebates, October 17, 187, to March 81, 1879.." $10,151,218.00 Tn a report to the New York Cham- ber of Commerce, the committee on railroad transportation of that body allodes to this subject as follows: “How obvious of their obligations as common carriers, and how regard- Tess of public rigatsare the great trunk lines, 15 illustrated by their makin, an agreement with the Standard Ofi Company (Article 4) to protect them “against loss arsnjury from compelition.’ What has happened in the case of the Standard Oil company may happen in other lines of busivess. With the tavor of the managers of the trunk lines, what is to prevent commerce in the rest of the great stples from besng monopo- lazed in a simiar manner? ~ Already, indeed, it is taking this course. One or two_firms in Baltimore, Philadel- phia, New York, and Boston, with their bravch houses in tne west, are, monopolizing the export trade in wheat, corn, cattle, and provisions, driving their competitors to the wall with absolute certainty, breaking down and crushing out the energy and en- terprise of the many for the bene- fit of thefavored fow.” Railroad manegers admit that such things are wrong, :hat they are op- posed to public policy and private morality. ~ Ask a railroad mansager the remedy, and he will tell you *a Pool,” with legislation to ensble one railroad company to enforce agree- ments made with another company. erty does become clothed with a_pub- lic interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequenco and affect the community atlsrge. When, therefore, une devotes his property to a use in which the public hag an in- tereat, he in effect grants to the pub- lic an interest in thatuse, and must submit to be controllea by the public for the common good to the exteat ot the interest he has thus created. Ho may withdraw his geant by discon- tinving the use, buteo long as he maintains the use he must submit to the control.” A prominent railroad manager, while recentlyarguing against govern- ment supervision and control of rates, and in favor of the pooling system now so much in vogue, stated, ia al- most the same breath that “the pooling system would remove the di crimination and other evils of which the public complained,” and that “‘competition would insure reasonable rates”—seemingly forgetting that pooling is expreesly designed to pre- vent competition, Undoubtedly, the pooling eystem does protect the pub- lic interest against much of the per- sorial discrimination which has existed in railrosd management, but es re- gards the more important part of the question, What is a reasonable rate 7 it leaves the productior and commerce of the country—to use the words of the United States senate committee— “wholly at the mercy of a few men who recoguize no responsibilty but to their stockholders, and no princi- ple of action but personaland corpor- ate aggrandizament,” A recent report ot the New York Board of Trade and Transportation = s “Honestly and equitably managed railroads are the most beneficent dis- covery of the century,but perverted by irresponsible and uncontrolled corpo- rate mansgement, in which stock- watering and kindred swindles are tolerated, and favoritism in charges is permitted, they become simply great engine to sccomplish unequal taxation, and to arbitrarily redie- tribute the weslth ot the country. Wken this state of things is sought to be perpetuated by avyuiriuw politi- cal power ond shaping legislation through corrupt use of money, the situation grows more serious.” The railroad is the invention of thelast half century; the tremendous development of corporate life, attend- ed by the abuses of which the public complsin, has occurred within this period, and largely within the last twenty-five Continue for anotber twenty-five years the present power of corporations to tax the pub- lic, and wemilhave a moneyed aris. tocracy in this c uairy such as the world hss never seen, and with it all the attendant phenomena of veral legislators and corruption in hich places, which caused the downfall of all the great republics of history. These are some of the questions which are forcing themselves upon theattention of thoughtful American citizens; ndividualized, thay may be stated : Can Americans, whose forefathers abolished the law of primogeniture and entail to avoid the evils of vast accumulations of wealth in the hands of individuals, afford to leave unregu- lated new agencies far more potent to that end than any which were at that time dreamed of When corporate life or " trade com- binations develop into_organizations Like that of the Standard oil company, coutrolling a staple fourth in magni- tude among our nation’s exports, and hundreds of legitimate driven out of existence, i it not time to inquire what steps should be taken to protect the interest of the produc- ing, commercial, and consuming classes 7 of our free institutions. These are the breakers ahead which every true patriot will pray that our ship of state may avoid. The immediate remedy I The creation of an intelligent pub- lic opinion, through which reasonable limits may be placed upon the growth and power of corporate life. It is time enough to take further ateps whon this s been accomplished. At present, the corporations are mas- ters of the situation, but with an in- teiligent public opinion §thoroughly aroused, it is only a question of time when it will compel a fair adjusiment of the relations between the people and the creatures the people have created. BLACK HILLS NUGGETS. Deadwood is anxious to b lighted with gus. Lawrence county needs a new court house and jail. There is »xcellent sleighing between Deadwood and Rochford. Many new buildings are goiog up in all directions in Terraville. The Queen Bee mill of Tigerville is not ruaring because of the severity of the weather. A miner last week at the Do Smet mine was instautly killed by falling down an ore schute. Private houses are in demand in Repid continually, and more 80 now than here fore. : The Wyoming and Pierro stage com- pany has put on a duily line from Rapld to Pierre this week. cisposed to seil their grain. worth threo cents per pound. Thousends of buflelo, deer and an- telope are running over the plains be- tween Bismarck and Deadwood. The conference of the Method- ist church has appropriated $1,280 for the church extension fund in the Hills. old Gate is to bave a mammoth Christmas tree, and $300 have boen already subscribed towards making it & success. A resident of Deadwood has con- tracted with Fort Meade to deliver 200,000 pounds of oats for the use of tho post. There is some talk of asking the Dakota lezislature for charters incor- porating the cities of Deadwood, Oen- tral and Lead. A movement by the varicus secret socictics of Central City, looking to theerection of a large aociety hall is now ou foot. The commissioners of Lawrence county have presented the Deadwood Hemestake Hose company with two n cash, Five large bricks belonging to the Homestuke company and_amounting §150,000, were shipped east from the Hulls about the 20th ult. Most of the oyerland freighters are taking off their lines for the winter on account of the excessive cold weather and the discontinuanze of river navi- geticn. A company has been recently or- ganizoa at Rockerville for the purpose of constracting & bed-rock flume through the Rockerville gulch three miles 1n length. The Spearfich miils have distributed since starting vp over §20,000, of this has been throwa into tion, and it has consequently made times good in that town, Lomber is bsing received at Lead at the rate of from five to six thou- sand feet per day, to be used for the purpose of boxing up the extension of the Montana ditch from Bobtail When, to perpstuste pow acquired by these organizatio ruption is openly practiced in our elections, and the bribery of legisla- tors goes unpunished, is it not time that American citizens should con- der where such practices lead, aud ist that the state should resume the sovereignty and control over its crea- tures which it has inadvertently and temporarily relinquished? The only answer thus far made by the apologists for thess practices has been to denounce those who - cpposed them as “communits” or “‘socialists.” So bare of facts and so hard pushed for arguments favorable to their case are they, that Messrs. Vanberbilt aod Jewett must fain adopt this policy, and conjure up the phantom of social- ism 1o shield their practices! In their joint letter to the Hepburncom- mittes they suggest that the staid and conservative merchants of the New York chamber of commerce are fast tending in that direction—their words being: “The growth of a disregard of Pproperty in this country is very mark- ed, and railroad corporations offer fa- vorable forms of attack. The en- couragement, by such a body as the chamber of commerce, to such ideas will not stop at railroad corporations, but will reach all kinds of associated capital, and will not stop befors it reaches a#l property. This growing tendency to socialistic principles is one of the dangerous sigus of the times, aud, if not checked, will pro- duce scenes of disaster that wonld now appall the country.” Some months after this, when the legislative committee had pronounced the principal charges made by the chamber of commerce “‘fally proven,” the committee of that body having the matter in charge alluded to this subject, in their report to the chamber, as follows: “Your committee beg that the members of tha chamber of com- ‘merce will carefully compare these utterances of Messrs. Vanderbilt and Jewett with the findings of the legis- lative committee. The assertion that the action of this chamber tends to the encouragement of socialistic -or CERUl to Deadwood. - It is thought there is ore enough in the Fiirview snd Great Eastern mines, only twanty feet apart, to war- rant tho erection of two 120-stam) mills, and they will doubtless be built next sprin 111 REEUMATISM, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell- ings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. 1. Jaoons Ort. ternal ing with pain ts claims. irezions o Feven Tanguage. S0LD BY ALL DRUGGISTS ANDDEALERS IN MEDIOINE. Farmers in Spearfish valley are zot Oats are p(Nebraska Land Agency. For REMEMEBER, That Every REAL Singer Sewing Ma- chine has this Trade Mark cast into the Iron Stend and em- bedded in the Arm of the Machine, - x* Principal Office: ‘World and Sor BARKIKG HOUS! every business day in the year, THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. Union Square, New York. 1,500 Subordinate Offices, in the U nited States and Canada, and 3,000 Offices inthe 0! a. The “0ld Reliable” Singer is the Strongest, the Simplest, the Most Durable Sewing Ma- chine- ever yet Con- HATS, GAPS, TRUNKS AND VALISES: stracted. Ys in charge of Mr. THOMAS TALLON, whose well-egtablishs reputation has been fairly earned. ‘We also Keep an Immense Stock of REMEMBER WE ARE THE ONE PRICE STORE M. HELLMAN & CO, uth Ame: sepl6-d&owti i £ HOTELS — — THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED. BANKING HOUSE IN NEBRASKA. CALDWELL, HAMILTON2CO BANKHEHRS. Businezs transacted same ag that 0 an Incor. porated Baak. Accounta kept 1n Carrency or gold subjoct to sight check without notice. Certificates of deposit tasued payable In three, | six and twelve months, bearing Intercst, or o3 demand without intorcst. Advances made to customers on apyroved ge- curities at market rates of Intereat Buy and sell zold, bills of exchange Gesorn- ment, State, County and City Bonds. Draw Sight Drafts on Eneland, Ireland, Soot- Iand, and all parts of Earope. Sell Earopean Passage Tickets. GOLLEGTIONS PROMPTLY M, avgldt U. 8. DEPOSITORY, First Naionar Bang OF OMAHA. Cor. 13th and Farnham Streote, OLDEST BANKING ESTABLISHMENT IN OMAHA. (BUCCESSORS TO KOUNTZE BROS.,) BSTABLISHED I 1856. Organized as & Natioual Bank, August 20, 1863, Capitaland Profits Over$300,000 Specially authorized by the Secretary or Troasury 10 receive Subscription to the U.S.4 PER CENT. FUNDED LOAN. OFFICERS AND DIKECTORS ‘Hamuax Koustz, President, ‘Aveustus Kouxrzn, Vies President. H. W. Yarzs, Casbior. A, J. Porruetow, Attorney. Jomx A. CR-fautoy. F.H. Davis, Ass't Cashlor, This bank rocetvesdeposit without regard to amounta. Issuos time certificatos bearing interest, Draws dratta on San Franeisoo and prinoipal citles of the Unitod States, als, London, Dublin, Edinburgh and the principal cities of the contl: nent of Europe, Bolls passge ticketa for Emigvanta in_the Tn. man_ne. maylatt REAL ESTATE Geo. P. Bemis’ Rear EsTATE Acency. 16th & Douglas Sts., Omaha, Neb, This agency does STRIOTLY & brokerage busl- ness. Does notapeculate, and therofors any bar. galns on lta books s Instred to its patrons, in stead of belng gobbled up by the agent BOGGS & HILL. REAL ESTATE BROKERS o 1408 Farnham Strect OMAHA NEBRASKA. Office —North ide opp. Grand Oentral Hotel. DAVIS & SNYDER, 1605 Farnham St. Omaha, Nebr. 400,000 ACRES carefully selected 1and {n Eastern Nebraska for sle, Great BargainsIn {mproved farms, and Omaha. iy EXAER WEBSTER SNYDER, 0.F. DAVI Late Land Com'rU. P. . B dp-teb7ts "Byron Reed & Co, REAT, ESTATE AGENCY IN NEBRASKA. Keop 3 complete abstract of fitle to all Real Estate fn Omaha and Douclas Coun 1 J. C. VAPOR, MERCHANT TAILOR Gapltol Ave,, Opp. Masonic Hall, OMAHA. - - - NEB. DENTESTRY. T. 8. HITCHCOCK, M. D. S,, From New York has located in Omaha, and cusrantees o do first-class work. Dental Booms, over A_ Cruickshank & Co.'s, Cor. 15th and Douglas. sepo-2u BUSINESS COLLEGE, THE CREAT WESTERN ‘Geo.R. Rathbun, Principal. Creighton Block, - OMAHAZ| k% Send for Circular. nov20d&w it JNO. G. JACOBS, (Formerly ot Gish & Jacobs) UNDERTAKER A.VOGELER & CO., . Baltimore, 2d., U, §. 4 No. 1417 Parnham 8., Old Stzad of Jacod Gls RDHRS BF TELEGRAPH SOLICITE m8teodaw THE ORIGINAL, BRIGGS HOUSE ! Cor, Randolph St. & bth Ave., CHICAGO ILL, 1301 & 1303 Farnham Street, PIANOS 2 ORGANS. wt ¥ CHICKERING PIAND, FOR And Sole Agent for Hallet Davis & Co., James & Holmstrom, and J. & Ce Fischer's Pianos, also Sole Agent for the Estey, e ananici, Burdett, and t'he Fort Wayne Organ $2.00 AND $2.50 PER DAY Co’s. Organs. Located in the business centre, conventens | I deal in Pianos and Organs exclusively. Have had years to places of amusement. Elegan‘ly furnished, experience in the Business, and handle only the Best. Slovator, &e. 3. H. CUMMINGS, pth 16th Street, City Hall Building, Omaha, Neb. HALSEY V. FITOH. Tuner. s, passenger Froprietor, OCDEN HOUSE, Cor. MARKET ST. & BROADWAY Council Bluffs, Iowa: Onlineo Strest Railway, Omnibus ‘o and from all trains. - RATES—Parior fioor, $3.00 per day: second floor, 3250 per day ; thifd firor, §2. Thio beat furnished and most com wodlous honse 1n the city. GEO. T. PHELPS Prop FRONTIER HOTEL, Laramie, Wyoming, The miner's resort, good accommodations, arge sam ple room, charges reasonable. Bpecial tion given %o travoling men. H LLIARD Proprietor. INTER - OCEAN HOTEL, Cheyenne, Wyoming. First-clags, Fine arge Sample Rooms, one block from depot. Trains stop from 20 minutes 18 for dinner. Free Bus toand from tes 2200, 3260 and $3.00, according gle meal 75 cents. A. . BALCOM, Proprietor. wiet Clerk. —_ mlo-t "UPTON HOUSE, Schuyler, -Neb. Flist-class House, Good eals, Good Beds Alry Rooms, and kind and accommodating troatment, Tw)good sample rooms. Specta. attention paid to commercial travelers. 8. MILLER, Prop. Schuyler, Neb. CEHLSIOR Machine Works, OMAEIA, NEE. J. Hammond, Prop. & Manager. The most thorough appolate! and_complete Machine $hops and Foundry in the state. Castings of evory deacriptioh manafacted. Pumps aud every class of machinery DOUBLE AND SINGLE AOTING POWER AND HAND PUMPS Steam Pumps, Engine Trimmings, Mining Machinery, BELTING HOSE, BRASS AND IRON FITTINCS, PIPE, STEAM PACKING AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. HALLADAY WIND-MILLS, CHURCH AND SCHOOL BELLS A. L. STRANG, 205 Farnham Straet Omaha. Neb HENRY HORNBERGER, STATEH AGENT FOR V. BLATZ'S MILWAUKEE BEER I In Kegs and Bottles. Bpecial Figures to the Trade. Families Supplied at Reasonable Prices. Office. 239 Donglas Straat. Omaha MAX MEYER & CO, WHOLESALE TOBBAGGONISTS | Cigars from $15.00 per 1000 upwards. Tobacco, 25 cents per pound upwards. Pipes from 25 cents per dozen upwards. Send for Price List. i alst Well Augurs, Pulleys, Hangers, Shafting,Bridge Irons,Geer Tatting, ete o Fipatornew Uachinery, Meachunioal Drscght. | =™ MAX MEYER & CO., Omaha, Neb. 56 Harnev St., Bet. 14th end 16th. KENNEDY'S EAST INDIA £l HORSE SHOES AND NAILS, Iron and Wagon Stock, At Chicago Prices. W. J. BROATCE, 1209 and 1211 Harney Street, Omaha, oot11.9mm TO THE LADIES AND CGENTLEMEN : PROF. GUILMETTE'S FRENCH KIDNEY PAD I A Positive and Permanent Cure Guaranteed, cxses of Grave, Disbetes, Dropey Bright's Disoass . Tngontinence and Kevention of Urive, T . Casarrh of the Fladdor, Hish Colsrodbr ¥do o Tiona, Nervois Weaicaess, and In faot ot and Urivary Orgae, whather conirack® 1y private seases o otbeaiss. Tois Gt remedy has beuk Gt with saccesm for nearly tem years in France, w1 Lo mosh ocia 12 cires by abarryion: 1 mussens Saing required. W bave handrods of esie oniala of cares by hia Pad whers al io6 had o e EADIES, if you are sufarine from Femials W¢aknass, Laiooes 120, o diseches poculir o femaies, or i fact any disesse, ek Jour dra-giat for Prof. Guilmeties Freach Kiduey Pad ands take no other. 18 ho has not 20t ft, send $2.00 sad you Wl Fecaive the Fad by roturn mail. Address U 5. Biasch, FRENCH PAD C0,, Toledo, Ohio. PROF GUILMETTE'S FRENCH LIVER PAD Wil positively. s o discaso of the Live: Seoach oo " "Tho pad cares by sbaorpiion, and an Askyour {or this pad sud take 5o other 1f he dcesnot keep it,soad §1.50 mall - ‘NOTLIWASNOD ‘HjuemeSusie( snoyNIg WINUWMeny 'SIsCedssq 0, A FAMILY TONIC ‘N BITTERS! ILER & 00, SOLE MANUFAOTURERS, 2 OMAHA, Neb. PASSENCER ACCO ODATION LINE OMAHA AND FORT OMAHA % Conlt‘ecstfcmgls s!rfet Cars orner N and HAMILTON STREETS. (End of Red Line as follows; LEAVE OMAHA: 620, 817 a0d 11:10 2. m , 3:08, 5: LEAVE FORT OMAH. 7158 m. 1o all Kidn, Paia S B. F. COOK, UNDERTAKER, 024 Fellows’ Block. w1y i i Prompt atteation given t; orers by teiegraph "”“""W‘ ‘Branh), Toledo, Obio. 8ad recetvs it oy retarn