Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1882, Page 4

= - e T SRR, TR e M T : - smC 4 HE DAILY BI_*}E"--OMAHA TUESDAY, AUGUST 22 The Omaha Bee.l Pabtished every morning, exoept Sanday ®he on.y Monay womning daily, TREMS BY MATL — One Teor.....810.00 @iz Monthe _0.00|One .. L (HE WEEKLY BEE, publisked ev. vy Weduasday. TERMS POST PAID— * Yeat,. ...$200 | Throe Months. . ol“re“r"v"r . 1,00 | One “w 20 Awzrioax News Cowrany, Sole Agents or Newsdealers in the ""nited States. OOKRESPOND, f—All Communi artions relating to News and Editorial mat. ors should be addressed to the KpIToR oF [ L TR BUSINESS LETTERS—AI Business Letters aud Remittances should be ad freseed to Tur DBer Puntiskine CoM. pany, OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post. fiico Orlers to be made payable to the wder of the Company) Fhe BEE PUBLISHING (0., Props #: ROSEWATER. Editor. Sears on the New York stock ex- ehage are selling for §33,000. Noth- ing pays no well as legalized robbery. — Tae Clevoland Leader rises to ro- mark that there is great comfort in the fact that not half of the congress- men nominated can be elected. HupneLt believes that the early \phird catches the first worm. Succees: ful applicants for pension office clerk- ships are already receiving his 2 per cent circulars, AN enormous apple and peach crop of Texas is stimulating the establish- ment of stills for the manufacture of peach and apple brandy. Texan pro- ducers are predicting as a result that brandy will become as cheap and com- mon placo as wine in France. Some measures ¢ught at once to bo adopted to decrcase Texan crops of apples and peaches in the interests of prohibition, as Governor St. John's gospel has not yet become popular among the cow boys. A ie Cor. Buiss' opening argument in the star route trial discloced a number of striking examples of the methods by which reckless and unscrupulous contractors swiudled the government by tuflating mail carrying contracts beyond their legitimato proportions. For example, one route which pro- duced a revenue of ghout $§700 a year was ‘‘expedited” by Brady so that from costing $8,288 a year, jt cost $72,620. Another route, over which nine postal cards and twenty-nino lot- Three Months.$8,00 00 of an attempt to corruptly influence the conduct of the chief executive of New York, and he must deny tne eharge just as any other man acoused of erime before a tribunal would plead not guilty. Mr. Gould being in the same boat with Conkling as an alleged acoessory also promptly comes to the front with his demal. Pablic opin- ion will incline to the belief that Governor Cornell had no motive for concocting such grave charges, and Mr. Conkling wiil have to produce better proof than Jay Gould’s denial Cornell, to discredit Governor M Conkling's capture by Jay Gould 18 another instance of the policy of the monopolies to secure for their per- sonal ends the ablest and most influ- oncial men of the country, Five ycars ago Mr. Conkling pronounced in fayor of the principles of anti-monopoly. He declared to the certain knowledge of the editor of this paper that the rights of the people as againat ths corporations was the rising iesue of the day, end declared himself ready to lead in a campaign, in which anti-monopoly would be the battle cry. 8o woll definod was his position on the question that the Na- tional anti-monopoly league strenu- ously supported Mr. Coakling’s candi- dacy ageinst Chancoy M. Depow in the conteat for the United States scn- atorship, at Albany. Tue Ber was then opposed to Mr. Conkling because it believed that the issne was simply whother ~ Roscoe Conkling or Jamos A, Garfield should be president of the United States, but it gave him credit for sound views upon those questions which are in dispute between the corporations and the people of this country. Since his retiremont from political Jife, how- ever, Mr. Conkling's actions have be lied his former words. He was the attorney of the Northern Facific at Washington when the land grants of that corporation wero in danger of forfeiture by Congress, Ho advocated the interests of tho steamship com- panies whon the fiist Deuster steerago bill was killed by the presidential veto and during the past few months he has been the rctained attornny of several railroads in the recent suits in New York praying for a mandamus te compel them to receive and transport froight blockaded by the late strike. Such a record is corroborative of the charges of Gov. Cornell that he has become a venal tool of Jay Gould and cannot but injuro Mr. Conkling greatly | in the ecstimation of many of those ters were carried in eighteen daye. was ‘‘expedited’, so that the sum of $49,000 was added to its annual cost, Such barefaced robbery of course can- mot be dofended and the indioted scamps rely only on a failure of the governmont to show that the corrupt management of the mails was a part of a conspiracy, to defraud the nation. CONKLING AND CORNELL, Who were formerly his steadfast ad- mirers, while it will certainly preclude hin election to any office of representa- of Oyprus. In 1879, after the Is- landlwhana catastrophe, he went out a8 high ¢ ymmissioner of the Transvaal and Natal, and reorganized the affairs of %aluland. Sir Garnet was made captain in major in 1858, lieutenant col- onel in 18 and colonel in 1865 From 1874 to 1876 ho was commander of the auxiliary forces, with the rank of inspector general. On his return from Zaluland, in 1880, he was ap pointed quartermascer general at the Horse Guards, and lately succeeded Sir Charies Ellis as adjutant general of the army. His first move in successfully throw- ing the dust into Arabis egyes, while he took possession of the entire course of the Sucx canal, on behalf of the British government, is an exploit which argues well for hia career in the new ficld, where he will win either diegraco or a dukedom They Do. David City Republi an. Valentine voted to pass the $19,- 000,000 steal over the prosident’s veto. Let the people remember it, Sweet Southern Revenge. Atlanta Ccnstitution, Shells of dynamite in the shape of Florida watermelons aro sull passing northward. The south is reaping a tertible revenge. Where the Talk Will End. Buffalo Truch, Susmn B. Anthony will talk wo- men’s righta to the Texans until some horned animal steers for her, and then she will shout for a man to protect her, “Bliss and knox | What Nonsensel Springfleld Koy ublizan. Wonder if Dorsoy wrote that letter to Garfield about the time he is said ve called Spencer into his room to witnoss silent transfer of an en- velope of $1,000 bills to Brady! The Sume |Man. Denver Tribune, Gen, George . McClollan has writ- ten @ paper severely criticising the English methods in Egypt. George is the man, you know, who heroically dug colery trenches around Richmond in the very fuce of two duzen wooden canuons. Preparing for the Next Circus, Clncinnati Enquirer. There wili bo thirty-four more rep- resentatives and delegntes in the next songrees than in the present, Uncle “am will have to follow the example set by other enterprising managers, and erect a teut with two center- poles. Benoath the Rule of Men Entirely small, New York Biaf, When My, Tilden has passed away his memory will efill bea frograntrem- iniacence 1n the hearts of the peopls, ! tive trust in tho future. THE ENGLISH COMMANDER. Pluck and luck, so ssy MKnglish critics, have combined to give Sir Garnet Wolseley his prerent eminence as commander-in-chief of the British army in Egypt. For the first time in who will worship and love him as the | without eosting their owners a cent in w.y of axstoi Tre late republican state couvention in Kansas asks con- gress to correct this by compeliing the railroads to take the patents to their land at once, and the legal titla thus passing from the government, they thereby becomo taxable, It is a marvel that such a palpable evasion on the part of the railroads of their liability as land owners has been suf- fered 80 long The Third District. Kearnoy Pross, 1u the Third congressional district the Press presentsa gentleman well known in Buffalo county, aud Nebras- ks, Inno duing, we desire to state at the outset that our candidate has entered the race to stay, and win the nomination, and his name is Hon, C. Calkina. Mr. Calkins served term in the legislature as senator, and made an excellent record, He is wor over, anold scldier, having served with honor and credit during the war of the rebellion, Upon the great questions which must becomo the prominent and pre-eminent questions of political economy 1n the near tuture, viz: that of transportation, the taritf and taxation of corporate property, he is with and for the people, and should the rcpublicans of this district nominate and elect him to congress, he will be found in the front rank of those who will be ever vigilant to defend the weak against the strong He is one among the ablest lawyers in the State, a ready and forcibie de- bater, and a gentleman of as scuod Judgment as our State can boast, and we bolieve that every citizen of Buf- falo county should take an honest prido in giving him a unanimous en- dorsement, and in sending a delega- tion to Fremont who will vote for him tirst and last, and who will have no second choice. 1Itis only by sonding such men to nominating ~conventions that success is ¢ver acnieved. Now that Mr. Calkina is fairly in the field, let it be the business of every friend who believes that we should nend a delegation in his interest, to work with that end in view, and not be deceived by parties who are laboring to give the delegation to an outsider, Whet! Laramis Biome ang People who were at the train on Tuesday evening noticed a young man who wore a look of chastened joy and his hair long. His hair was his chief uttraction, hanging down his back in wavy ringlots and tied wich a piece of pale blue nbbon. At first tho city warshal was going to arrest hiw for wearing men’s clothes, but pretty scon he discovered that it wore a slight moustache that looked like the fluft ou & Z C. M. I poach. This young man was bound for Idaho, where he is 8 mining expert and ter- ritorial masher. When a mining expert gets to do- ing his haic up with a blue ribbou, the wild romance of onr mighty wes is played out. 1f the time has arrived when Tudiax fizhters, trappers guides ard moners wear corsets and drink colate, the joy of the free and fenrlesp {rontier is a thing ot the past | 8 omehow we hops that nan was ‘are we Drifting. author and originator of the famous proverb: “‘The har'l is greator than the ballot. Would Have Disturbea George. Ehiladelphi - 7 imes, Washington said in 1779: *I lament the fatal policy of the etates of em- ploying their ablest men at home.” The damaging accusations brought [his career +Sir (iarnet is afforded an | A€ he had lived in the e d ye ho wou'd against Roscoe Conkling by the Albany | opportunity of testing whether his Jowrnal and the Neéw York Zimes|abilities, heretofore exercised in mino: boa? on their face the evidence of | affairs, will be equal to the conduct of their truth. In effect they charge |a great campaign, that the ex senator, acting as the paid [ made, up to the present time, as a attorney for Jay Gould, tried to bribe Governor Cornell to sign a bill reliev- ing the Pacific Mail company of $900,- 000 in taxation and to give his assent 10 a bill of the same character on be- half of Jay Gould's elevated railroads. The Times says that in representing the elevated roads Mr. Conkling was in his suavest mood, ready to let by- gones, political or otherwise, be by- gones, but most persistently pleading that here, in sooth, was the turning point of his life, and that between the liberal fee which he would earn and the railroad speculations of which he would have the benefit, by securing the governor's signature to the bill, he might in a very brief time gain a rospectable competency. The ex- senator cajoled, and the ox-senator threatened, but the governor was firm, and Roscoe Conkling left the executive chamber no lenger the concealed, but the avowed and open foe, politically and personally, of Alonzo B. Cornell.” The charge is of the gravest nature, It appears to come directly from Gov, Cornell himself. It is libelous if untrue, and for social, political and legal reasons it must have been well weighed before being made public. Gov. Cornell's political future would His fr.me has been leader of expelitions against untamed forces. Ho is now at the head of an army of 40,000 men, in command of & moet important mission against su- perior forcos, and on a field where his akill, experience and judgment aro likely to bo put to a severe and protracted teat. Sir Garnet Wolseley is now at the beginning of his fiftieth year, thirty years cf which have been spent in activeservice. His first ser- vice was in the Burmese war of 1852, where he received sovere wounds as leader of the storming party. In 1854 he landed in the Crimea where he served in the trench- es bofore Sebastopol, and while charg- 1ng an advanced position was danger- ously wounded about the head, com- pelling his retirement on sick leave He gained distinetion in the Indian mautiny, served in the Chinese war in 1860 and was present at the taking of the Taku forts. Colonel Wolseley's first independent mcyement was dur- ing the Red river difficulty in Canada, when he conductod & mixed fores lament the more fatal policy of send- ing so many hard drivkere, salary- grabbers and harbor billers, mere boors and blueterers, to attend to na- tional affatrs, An E,yptian ldyl Dublin Ballad. On Egypt's banks, contagious to the Nile, Great Pharaoh’s daughter went to bathe in style; And as she ran about to dry her royal skin She kicted the bulrush that had little Moses in. At that event surprised, awhile she stud 1n sileuce gazing at the sacred flud; Then turning to her maids sho said in ac- cont: mild irls, which of yez owns a fraud, and that the characteristic rustler of the Rocky mountains is not going to travel over the p'ains with an embroidered night ehirt and a fresh lawn tie for every day i the week. Once the plainemen rodo all day on the lopkout for Indiae aud at uight picketed his broncho and ate a chuuck of salt pork or nothing at all and slept if the Indians would let ham. Now tlues heve changed it seoms, Tae soft-eyed sersph, fresh from the New Ruglaud store, picks sup his tooth brush and campl e ice and goes where vlory waite him, It ia death to the dime novel trade and annihila- tion to the funny businees of the blood-curdling west. All a man needs in theso days in order to become a guido aud win glory is a woalth of hair and a gold mounted revotver. I this thing continues tho old “squaw man' will eventually enter the camp of the hostile in a plugz hat and s cadet blue coat cut 8o high in the tail that it won't be safe for him to wear an open back shirt. Buckskin with bacon rind placques on it, has gone The Solid South Not Hopelesily Split. Clevel nd Heral (Rop.) There are yet two years in which to putty the cracks and put iron bands around the rold south, and whenever work can be put in to advantage it is certain the bourbons will be busy. The shot-gun may have lost its effect, but the fraudulent register, the tissue ballot and the false count can still be depended on as valvable instrument- alities, and legislative enactments have been found to work admirably in disfranchising rcpublican or inde- pendent voters. A Word in the Telephone's Ea:. The telephone is one of the won- dors, 88 it 18 also one of the nuisances of the age. Up to a hundred miles or with cousiderable skill through an unknown country., In 1872 he commanded the expedition against the Ashantees with remark- able vigor of decision and an excel- lency of generalship which won him a valuable sword, the freedom of the undoubtedly be forever ruined by making a false charge and the presumption i3 he must have had of justifying him before he spoke out, As might have been expected Mr, city of London, the thanks of both the means|000 and the offer of a barcuetoy, [ hemorrhage. which he declined. One of Sir Gar net's most prominent excellencies as a so it anuihilates space, and in the short period of a twelvemonth it is warranted to reduce the best Chris tisn in the land to the most abject profanity. A man swoaring at a yoke of oxen can exercise his lungs and also his boots upon the obstinate cat- tle. Ho osn make the woods ring and the landscape shudder with im- precations, But the outraged man at a telophone has to swear internally, that | housos of parliament, a grant of §120,- | which is as dangerous a8 an internal He often forgets him- self, and appeals in besecching tones to tho central office for help, but is only rewarded by a callous reply from Uonkling makes an emphatic denial [ military man up to the present time | a thin voice that the wires are out of of Governor Cornell's charges. He | has been his great knowledge of the|order or somebody’s line is across his. fortifies himself with & statement | quartermaster and commissary de- |A® if he did not know that before, from Jay Gould to dieprove the char- ges made by Governor Cornell, Where such a flat contradiction is made the public must reach conclusions by com- paring motives. The only possible motive Governor Cornell could have [army of invasion in Egypt will euffor | roads there and elsewhere, partments, His troops in their various campaigns have invaria- bly been perfectly equipped &nd awply supplied, and it is reasonable to suppose thav the present English Rallroad Tax shurpers. Phlladelplis Press, Tho republicans of Kansas call upon the National government to relieve their state from an outrageous imposi- tion practiced by the land grant rail- The rail- in preforring such grave charges | from no such blundering and wisman- | road companies have their lands listed, against Mr. Conkling would be & bid for the support of anti-monopoly republicans, Mr. Cornell already agement as that which so seriously impaired the succees of tho operations in the Crimea. Besides his military by which they are withdrawn from settlement and seoured to the roade, but the latter refrain from taking out patents and perfecting their fitles enjoys the confidence of the anti-[employment Sir Garnet has beld im-|until they are about ready to sell the monopoly people. . elevated railroad swindle and his ap- proval of the railroad commissioner bill have assured him the support of [ eral months was ad interim governor uh{uy an immunity from all taxation, auti-monopolists, On the other hand, Mx. Conkling's office. In 1874 he was sent on a special mission to Natal, and for se of the colony. 1In 1876 appointed & member of the Cour he was il of His vetoes of the | portant civil posts under the colonial | lands, which remain in the meantime exempt from taxation. In this way millions of acres or railroad land in Kansas and in other western states alhough owned not by the goven out of date, ard the man whose regu- lar beverage was strychnine and alkali water, has disappeared almost from the green plains of this lofty altilood- leuw, Good bye, brave men of the gladsome west, ‘There aro only two or three of us left, and we have to wear glasses and dress in the modern garb of this artificial generation. One of these days there wou't be valiant cusses enough left to protect our wo- men and children from the hostile col- lege student. Ratlroads and the State. 8an Francisco Chronic It 18 tho fashion in_ railroad circlos to appeal to the cupidity of mankind by the plausible argument that rail- ways ourich the State in the enhance- ment of the value of land and the ad- ditions made by the roads themselves to the taxable find productive proper- ty of the country. Thus a railroad journal treats i.s readers to some ex- tracts from a speech made 'y an ex- Governor of 8 western State, to the effect that the 8 500 miles of railway in the State of Illinois, being estimated at about $40,0C0 per wile, have added over $320,000,000 to the property of that State; that they earn $60,000,- 000 a year; employ 00,000 men, to whom they pay yearly wages amount- ing to $26,000,000, and that their en- tire operating oxpenses are 830,000, 000. Tt is further assumed that these 8,600 miles of road have increased the value of land to the extent of $10 an acre, and this makes an aggregate in- creaso of the wealth of the State in landed property, due to railroads, of §350,000,000. “‘Thi says the ex- Governor, with much ostentation, “‘is more added to the wealth of the State by the railroads than the railroads all oont.” There is some truth but more delu- fon in all this, 1t is true, for instance that railways honestly managed, and with due regard to the rights of those who use *hem, do add very much to the valus of the property of the peo- ple. Land situated one hundred miles from market, if its produce had to be hauled with mules, horses, or oxen that distance, would not be worth nearly as much as land but five or ten ducer the full difference between the value of his produce as his own door and its value at the market, itisas clear as demonstration that the value of his land would not be greatly, if at all, enhanced by reasonof the railway. i'he other sophistry in the argument worthy of exposure is that railways do not, asis assumed, increase the taxa- bles of a state to anything like their | estimated value Take Illinois as an illustration. Her whole taxable val- uesin 1880 were but £830,000 000. Of this amount but §166,000,000 was personal property. Rulways are taxed as personal property. If they were taxed at full value their aggre- @ate assessment would be 8320 000,- 000. Ttisin fact less than §50,000,- 000; less then one-sixth the assumed yalue of a property that yields a net income of more than §20,000,000 a year, after paying all expenses of overy kind. This is more than 6 per cnt on a capital of £320,000,000. Private property does not yield more than this in any state; yot it is the rule in Illinois to assess ordinary pri vate property at from 50 to 70 per cent of its full cash value, while it is the rule of the railroads to have their property asseesed at but 16 to 18 per cont of its cash value. The same rule obtains in nearly every stato that is ridden down by these corporations; but most of all in the Pacific states, mous wealth of our people.” Perhaps if Mr, Poor's zsal were somewhat wider and more many-sided it migit be equally apparent to him that the carrying interest could scarcely have grown unless there was something (0 be carried. While the railroad man- agera have been laboring to build uj the vast prosperity of the country, nature and huma 1 labor, co operating, have been also dcing something throughout the country, and especial ly along the western lina of the “march of empire.” Indeed, from some incautious remarks of Mr, Poor, it is plain that some notion of this had at times been prosent to his own mind. He says that the sole condition of increase of tonnage was reduction of rates, and, by acknowledging that the railroads have always charged the freight traflic over them all it would bear, virtually admits that the internal commerce of the country has growu, from other and previous influences, in spito of, quite as much as by, the favor of the rail- road people. What other conclusion could ho himself have drawn from his statement that “‘it is a law in businces that rates or profits depend upon ac- tivity of, ot extent of, demand,” and from his other statement concerning one of the great railroads, that *‘it has always charged all it business would bear, and in obedience to this rule it where four men own and control all the railroads south of Oregon. No man ever yet objected to rail- roads because they assist development. Noman is so big a fool as th Everyone admits that they do assist development and do contribute largely to the general wealth of a state where they are managed with dae regard to the general welfare. The objections are only urged against that by far eat up all that accrues from them; and at the same time, by corrupling or intimidating the body politic, evade their just share of the taxes and their other duties in the state. Every eensible man who has lived in this state for twenty years knows that the railway have not” added substantially to the value of property They have not, simply because they have taken to themseives, with the hard hand of a Pharaoh or a Caesar, all the benefits derivable from them. The valuo of real estate has not increased at all in proportion with their extenston. Wherever it has increased, it has done 80 in spite of their oppressions. They should have added over $100,000,009 to the taxables of the state. They have not, directly or indirectly, added $10,000,000. They should pay taxcs on $70,000 000 They do mot, in fact, pay on $7,000,000. As all they have was given to them by the public, they should be grateful and afford us the cheapest rates of any road i the Union. They aro in all respects un- grateful, ineolont, arrogant, corvupt- g and elueive of their duties to the siate and the people. Mr. Poor’s Rallway Report. Bradstro v In cur issug of July 22 some com. parisons were given from Mr, Henry V. Poor’s Manual of tho railroads of the United States for 1882, showing the docrease in railway freight rates from year to year, Conceraing this decrease and Mr. Poor's couclusions theretrom, reference is made further on. The Rulway Manuel muy be satd to stand alone as a compend of information upon railway matters, and we avail ourselves of the staiistics golleciud therein to present some ad- diticnal facts of interest bearing upon the developments of the pass year The actwvity in‘railcoad affurs dur- ing the year 1881 was extraorainary. ine thousand three hundred and fifty: cight miles of railroad were buils —the greatest number for any one year. The cost of the lines construct ed during the year was §233 750 000, About $75,000,000 were expended on lines in progress, and $100,000,000 on old roads, improving their tracks, building new stations, ete. The total amonnt expended in construction dur- ing the year would approximato in round numbers $400,000,000. It is expected that the mileage to be opened in 1882 will equal that for 1881, Up to the 1st of June, 1882, 3 677 miles were opened, as agains. 1,734 miles for the same period in 1881, The railroad mileage nearly doubled in the years from 1870 to 1881, The gross earnings of all the roads in operation in the United States in 1881 amounted to §725,325,119, an increase over the previous year of $109,923,188. Their net earnings were §276,- 654,119, as agsinst §255,193,- 439 in 1880, an increase of over 21,000,000, The age current expenses were $449,565,071. The amount of interest paid on funded debts during the year was $128,887,002. Ninety-three millions, three hundred and forty-four thou- sand two hundred dollars were paid in dividends in 1881, as compared with Prohibitory Coastitniional Amend- must, in the face of constantly in- creasing competition and to meet the wants of its settlers 2,000 miles in. land, continue indefinitely the reduc- tion of ite rates.” Mr. Poor contends that ‘‘there can be no monopoly in law the construction of railroads is open to all.” That may be true; the community has of late n somewhat more concerned about Are acknowledged to ba the best by all who have put them to & prastical test, ADAPTED TO HAFD & SUFT GOAL, COKE OR WOOD. MANUFACTURED BY BUCK'S STOVE GO., SAINT LOUIS. Piercy & Bradford, SOLE AGENTS FOR OMAHA. the existence of monopolies in too I:‘r;ge number of railway | fact. A new railroad cannot bo built corporations, which, like locusts, [every day and by anybody who lice, and other parasites, demand and | chooses. The expense is too vast, and the probability of obtaining the necessary concessions from legisla. tures, too often interested in main- taining the status quo, is gonerally rather remoto. The existing roads would scarcely have been granted them by the people. Competition as an active practical force is seen to be limited by such considerations as these. Now a monopoly may be erected by the concurring eff rts of many persons, as well as by the act of an_individual, The railways practi cally own the roads on which they travel, and control the traftio on those roads. A pooling combination rest- ing on an agreement of these carries to maintain certain rates on the roads they control effocts 2 monopoly in fact, however the same may be re- arded in law. Buckbn's Arnica Salve, The Best SALvE in the world for Cute Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rhoum, Fe res, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chii blains, Corng, and all skin ernptions, an¢ itively cures siles. 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D.oM.. “WELTY, In pursurance of the wnstructions given by the conference workers, held in the city of Lincoln on July 27th, a state convention of all who favor sub- mitting to the voters of Nebraska an amendment to the state conatitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcholic liquors as a beverage with- in the state, will be held in the city of Lincoln on Wednesday, September (Sucoerzor to N. T. Mount.) Manufecturer and Dealer in Saddles, Harness, Whips, FANCY HORSE CLOTHING Robes, Dusters and Turf Goods 13.h, at 4 o'clock p. m. The object of the convention will be to, First, Perfect the organization of the Nebraska Prohibitory Amend- ment assoctation and elect the officers of t} e same, ¢ Second. To arrange for a thorough systematic canvass of every precinct iu the state. Third. To make arrangements for such political work as the delogates present may deem necessary to secure the submission to the voters ofu.the state of a prohibitory constitutional amendment. The people of each county who be- lieve that all government rests upon the consent of the governed, and that in obedience to this principle of gov- ernment the question of the existence of the alcoholic liquor trade should be submitted to the people, are requested irrespective of the personal habits, so far as the use of hquor is concerned, to call a convention and elect dele- gates to the state convention, Each couuty will be entitled to one delegate at-large and ono delegate for each 500 vofes cast in the county at the fall election in 1881. The question involved in this cam- paign is not the question of prohibi- tion or license or total abstinence, but simply, ‘‘Have the people a right to govern thomselves?” The people ask the gubmission to them of an amendment, and to em phasiza this report it is hoped that the friends of a government of the people, by the people and for the people, will take steps at once to organize the $77,110 411 in 1880, The cost of operating the railroads for the year was §449 565,071, or 62 per cent of their gross earnings. The number of persons employed in operating them the past year averaged about twelve to the mile of operated line, or 1,200,- 000 in all. The number employed in construction was about 400,000, mak- ing the total number of employes about 1,600,000, The number of miles in operation in 1881 was 104 813, as against 93,671 in 1880, an increase of 11,142 mules. In the introduction to his manual, Poor endeavors to prove that on the part of the railroads no monopoly has existed in fact, and that *‘in no kinds of business has reduction of charges for service performed been so great as such reduction is the vast prosperity and enormous wealth of our country almost wholly due.” The tone of this is that of the advocate. The necessity of a defense of the existing railroad system does not seem to have been frced upon Mr. Poor by any ciroum- stances of the work in which he was engaged. But perhaps he himself folv that eowething in the way of apology was needed, Lot us examine the grounds of the defense. The evi- dence presented is that from year to ear the rates of traneportation have cen reduced. When one con- sidors the number, complexity and miles from market. And railway, however, that would deal fairly with the producer might make it worth meut but by these private corpor tions, The latter are enabled there- motives for denying the charges are [India, and in 1878 high commissioner | by to hold the lands indefinitely, patent to everybody. He is acoused |ard commander-in-chief of the Island | while they yearly appreciate in value within a swall per cont as much, But if the railway service were conducted on the average principal ruling these corporations, namely, to tax the pro- interdependence of forces and inter- ests in the modern community, that must be regarded as a somewhat strange statement which attributes “‘amost wholly” to the action in one direction of a single, though powerful. interest ‘‘the vast prosperity and enor- that made by ratlroads, and that to | th state. 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