Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1882, Page 6

4 HE DAILY B{EE---'OMAHA 1UESDAY, AUGUST 22 of an attempt to corruptly influence The omaha‘ Bee' the conduct of the chief executive of Pubtished every morning, exoept Sanday ®he on.y Mon ay worning daily, TRRMS BY MAIL — One Toar.....$10.00 | Thres Months, Months _ 0,00 | One .“ (HE WEEKLY BEE, publisked ev. ry Wediasday. TERMS POST PAID =~ . 100 | One . AwEricaN News Cowpaxy, Sole Agents or Newsdealers in the ""nited States, OOKRESPOUNDENCE—ANl Communi ®ak b BUSINESS LETTERS—AI Business Letters and itemittances should be ad reseed to THE rany, Omana, Drafts, Checks and Post fico Orders to be made payable to the weder of the Company} Fho BEE PUBLISHING (0., Props #: ROSEWATER. Editor. Sears on the New York stock ex- ehange are solling for $33,000. Noth- iz pays so well as logalized robbery. — Tue Cleveland Leader rises to re- mark that there is great comfort in the fact that not half of the congress- men nominated can be elected. — Hupsert belioves that the early \pbird catches the first worm, Succees: ful applicants for pension office clerk- ships are already receiving his 2 per cent circular: 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 cught at once to be adopted to decrease 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. S Cor. Briss’ opening argument in the star route trial discloeed a number of striking examples of the methods by which reckless and unscrupulous contractors swindled the government by iuflating mail carrying contracts beyond their legitimate proportions. For example, one route which pro- duced a revenuo of about §700 a year was “‘expedited” by Brady so that from costing $8,288 a yeay, jt cost $2.00 | ThroeMonths.. 80| Governor Cornell had no motive for ing to News and Editorial mat. e atdrosmed to the piron o¥ | Me* Conkling's capture by Jay Gould Ber Pususuine CoM- [ gonal ends the ablest and most influ- New York, and he must deny the ehargo just as any other man accused of erime before a tribunal would plead not guilty. Mr. Gould being in the wame boat with Conkling as an alleged accessory also promptly comes to the front with his demal. Public opin- fon will incline to the belief that concocting such grave charges, and Mr. Conkling will have to produce better proof than Jay Gould’s denial to discredit Governor Cornell, 18 another instance of the policy of the monopolies to secure for their per- encial men of the country. Five years ago Mr. Conkling pronounced in favor of the principles of anti-monopoly. He declared to the certain knowledge of the editor of this paper that the rights of the peoplo as aginat tho corporations was the rising issue of the day, end declared himself ready to lead in a campaign, in which anti-monopoly would be the battle cry. 8o well defined was his position on the question that the Na- tional anti-monopoly league strenu- ously supported Mr. Coakling's candi- dacy ageinst Chancey M. Depew in of Ogprus. In 1879, after the Is- landlwhana catastrophe, he went out a8 high commissioner of the Transvaal and Natal, and reorganized the affairs of Zaluland. Sir Garnet was made captain in 1856, major in 1858, lieutenant col- onel in 1850, and colonel in 1865, From 1874 to 1876 he 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 Horso Guards, and lately succeeded Sir Charles Ellis as adjutant general of the army. His firat move in successfully throw- ing the dust into Arabis eyes, 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 his carcer in the new field, where he will win either disgrace or & dukedom They Do. David City epubli an. Valontine voted to pass the $19,- 000,000 steal over the prosident’s veto. Let the people remember it, Sweet Southern Revenge. Atlanta Constitution, Shells of dynamite in the shape of Florida watermelons aro sull passing northward, The south is reaping a terrible revenge. the contest for the United States sen- atorship, at Albany. Tue Ber was then opposed to Mr. Conkling because it believed that the issue was simply whother Roscoe Conkling or James 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 peoplo of this country. Since his retirement from political Jife, how- ever, Mr. Conkling's actions have be lied his former words. He was the attorney of the Northern Facific at Washingtow when the land grants of that corporation were in danger of forfeiture by Congress. Ho advocated the interests of tho steamship com- panios when the first Douster steerage bill was killed by the presidential veto and during the past fow months he has boen the retained attornny of several railronds in the recent suits in New York praying for a mandamus to compel them to receive and transport freight 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 $72,620. Another route, over which -nine postal eards and twenty-nine let- tors wete carried in eighteen daye: cannot but injuro Mr, Conkling greatly in the estimation of many of those who were formerly his steadfast ad- ‘Where the Talk Will Ena. Buffalo Truth, Susan B. Anthony will talk wo- men's rights to the Texans until some horned animal steers for her, and then ;'he will shout for a man to protect or. “Bliss and knox | What Nonsensel’ Springfleld Koy ublizan. Wouder if Dorsey wrote that letter to Garfield abont the time he is said to have called Spencer into his room to witness a silent transfer of an en- velope of §1,000 bills to Brady! The Same |Man. Denver Tribune, Gen, George . McClellan has writ- ten a paper severely criticising the English methods in Egypt, George 18 the man, you know, who heroically dug celery trenches around Richmond in the very fuce of two dozen wocden canuons. Preparing for the Next Circus, Clncinnuti Enquirer. There wili b thirty-four more rep- resentatives and delegates in the next congress than in the present, Uncle Ham will have to follow the examplo sat by other enterprising managers, and erect a teut with two centexr- poles. Boneath the Rule of Men Entirely small New York Staf, When Mr, Tilden has passed away was ‘‘expedited’, so that the sum of | mirers, while it will certainly preclude | his memory will efill bea fragrantrem- $49,000 was added to its annual cost, Such barefaced robbery of course can- mot be defended and the indioted acamps rely only on a failure of the government to show that the corrupt management of the mails was a part of & conspiracy, to defraud the nation. CONKLING AND CORNELL., his election to any office of representa- tive trust in tho futu THE ENGLISH COMMANDER. Pluck and luck, so say knglish critics, have combined to give Sir Garnet Wolseley his prerent eminence as commander-in-chief of the Hritish army in Egypt. For the firat time in iniscence 1 the hearts of the peopls, | who will worship and love lum as the | author and originator of the famous proverb: ““The bar'l is greator than Would Have Dlsturbea George. hiiadelphi - Times, Washington said in 1779: *‘I l]ament the fatal policy of the etates of ew- ploying thoir ablest men at home.” " The damaging accusations brought | his career +Sir Giarnet is afforded an | A he had lived in the e d ye he wou'd against Roscoe Coukling by the Albany Jownal and the New York Zimee bBEr on their face the evidence of their troth. In effect they charge that the ex senator, acting as the paid 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 opportunity of testing whether his abilities, heretofore exercised in mino: affairs, will be equal to the conduct, of a groat campaign. His f2mo has boen made, up to the pregent time, as a leader of expelitions against untamed forces. Ho is now at the head of an army of 40,000 men, in command of a most important mission against su- porior forces, and on a field where his skill, experience and judgment aro likely to be put to a severe and protracted test. Sir Garnet Wolseley is now at the beginning of his fiftieth year, thirty years cf which have been spent in active service, His first ser- vice was in the Burmese war of 1852, where he received severe wounds as liberal fee which he would earn and the railroad speculations of which he leader of the storming party. In 18564 he landed in the lament the more fatal p licy of send. ing so many hard drivkers, salary. grabbers and harbor billers, mere boors and blusterers, to attend to na- tional affatrs dyl. Dublin Ballad. On Egypt's banks, contagious to the Nile, Great Pharaoh’s duughter 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 In silence gazing at the sacred flud; Then turning to her maids she said in ac- cent: mil “Blood an’ ages, girls, which of yez owns the child?” The Solid South Not Hopelessly Split. Clevel nd Herald (Rop.) There are yot two years in which to putty the cracks and put iron bands around the #old south, and whenever work can be put in to advantage it is certain the bourbons will be busy. would have the benefit, by securing [ Crimea where he served in the trench- [ The shot-gun may have lost its effect, the governor’s signature to the bill, | es before Sebastopol, and while charg- [ but the fraudulent register, the tissue 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, 1t 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 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, of Governor Cornell's charges. from Jay Gould to disprove the char- paring motives. republicans, monopoly people, elevated railroad swindle and his ap- anti-monopolists, ges made by Governor Cornell, Where | various such a flat contradiction is made the|bly been public must reach conclusions by com- | amply supplied, and it is reasonable The only possible | to suppose thav the present English motive Governor Cornell could have |army of invasion in Egypt will suffer | yoads there and elsowhere, in preferring such grave charges |from no such blundering and misman- | road companies have their lands listed, against Mr, Conkling would be|agement as that which so seriously @ bid for the support of anti-monopoly | impaired the success of the operations Mr. Cornell already |in the Orimea. enjoys the confidence of the anti- |employment Sir Garnet has beld im. | until they are about tuad{ to eell the t His vetoes of the | portant civil posts under the colonial | lands, which remain in t 1ng an advanced position was danger- ously wounded about the head, com- pelling his retirement on sick leave He gained distinetion in the Indian mutiuy, served in the Chinese war in 1860 and was present at the taking of the Taku forts, Colonel Wolseley's first independent mcvement was dur- ing the Red river difficulty in Canada, when he conductod & mixed force with considerable 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 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 & partments. His troops in their campaigns have invaria- perfectly equipped &nd Besides his wilitary office. In 1874 he was sent on a of the colony. In 1876 he was On the other hand, Mr, Conkling’s |appointed a member of the Council of motives for denying the charges are |India, and in 1878 high commissioner | by to hold the lauds indefinitely, patent to everybody. He is acoused | ard commander-in-chief of the Ialand | while they yearly appreciate in value ballot and the false count can still be depended on as valuable instrument- alitios, and legislative enactments have been found to work admirably in disfranchising republican or indo- pendent vote A Word in the Telephone's Ea:. Chicago Herald, Tho telephone is one of the won- dors, a8 it s also one of the nuisances of the age. Up to a hundred miles or s0 it annihilates space, and in the short period of a twelvemonth it is warranted to reduce the best Chris tisn in the land to the wmost abject profanity. A man swoaring at a yoke of oxen can exercise his lungs and also his boots upon the obstinate cat- tle. Ho can make the woods ring and the landsoape shudder with im- precations, But the outraged man at u telephone has to swear internally, that | houses of parlisment, a grant of $120,- | which is as dangerous as an internal He often forgets him- self, and appeals in besecching tones to the central cffice 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 He| has been his great knowledge of the |order or somebody's line is soross hi. fortifies himself with a statement | quartermaster and ocommissary de- (A8 if he did not know that before. Tax Sharpers. b The 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- by which they are withdrawn from settlement and secured to the roade, but the latter refrain from taking out patents and perfecting their fitles o meantime exempt from taxation, In this way millions of acres or railroad land in proval of the railroad commissioner [ special mission to Natal, and for eev-| Kansas and in other western states bill have assured him the support of | eral months was ad interim governor un{uy an immunity from all taxation, although owned not by the govern- meut but by these private wrfim tions, The latter are enabled there- without costing their owners a cent in w.y of axsto.. The late republican state convention in Kansas asks con- gress to correct this by compeliing the railroads to take the patents to their land at once, and the legal title thus passing from the government, they thereby become taxable. Tt is a marvel that euch a palpable evasion on the part of the railroads of their liability as land owners has been suf- fered 8o 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. E. C. Caikine. Mr. Calkins served cne 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 future, viz: that of transportation, the tariff and taxation of corporate property, he 18 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 againat the strong. He is ono among the ablest lawyers in the State, a ready and forcible de- bater, and a gentleman of as sound 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 first and last, and who will have no second choice, 1t is only by sondiug such men to nominating conventions that success is cver achieved. Now that Mr. Calkins is fairly in the field, let it be the business of every friend who believes that we should send 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, ‘Whether are we Drifting. Laramis Blome: ang People who wera at the train on Tueaday 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 with a piece of pale blue ribbon. At first the sity marshal was going to arrest hiw for wearing men’s clother, but pretty scon he discovered that it wore a slight moustache that looked like the fluft on a Z C. M. I peach. This young man was bound for Idaho, where he is a mining expert and ter- ritorial masher, When a mining expert gets to do- ing his hair up with a blue ribbou, the wild romance of our mighty wes is played out. If the time hasarrived when Tndian fizhters, trappers guides avd miners wear corsets and drink chocolate, the joy of the free and fenrless frontier is a thing of the pact | 8 meliow we hiops thal this man was a fraud, and that the characteristic rustler of the Rocky mountsins is not going to travel uver the p'ains with an embroidered night shirt and a fresh lawn tie for every day i the week. Once the plainemen rodo ell day on the lowkout for Indiaue aud at uight picketed his broncho and ate a chuuck of salt pork or nothing at all and slept if the Indiana would let ham, Now tines heve changed it seoms, The noft-eyed seraph, fresh from the New Eunglaud store, packs up his tooth brash and camiph = ice and goes where ylory waits him, It i1 death to the dime novel trade and annihila- tion to the funny business of the blood-curdling west. All a man needs in theso days in order to become a guide and win glory is a wealth of hair and a gold mounted revolver. If this thing continues the old ‘“‘squaw man” will eventually enter the camp of the hostile in a plug hat and o cadet blue coat cut 80 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 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- leumn, Good bye, brave men of the gladsome west. There are 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 valiaut cusses enough left to protect our wo- men and children from the hostile col- lege student. Ratlroads and the State. San Francisco Chrovicle. It 18 the fashion in railroad circles to appeal to the cupidity of mankind by the plausible argument that rail- ways enrich 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 Iy an ex- Goveroor of 8 western State, to the effect that the 8 600 miles of railway in the State of Tllinois, being estimated at about 40,000 per wile, have added over §320,000,000 to the property of that State; that they earn §50,000,- 0008 year; employ 60,000 men, to whom they pay yearly wages amount- ing to $26,000,000, and that their en- tire operating expenses are $30,000,- 000. Tt is further assumed that these 8,000 miles of road have increased the value of land to the extent of $10 an acre, and this makes an aggregate in- crease of the wealth of the State in landed property, due to railroads, of 0,000,000. ~ *‘This,” says the ex- Governor, with much ostentation, ‘‘is more added to the wealth of the State by the railroads than the railroads all oost,” There is some truth but more delu- ion in all this, 1t ia 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 oue 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 miles from market. And railway, however, that would deal fairly with the producer might make it worth within a small per cent as much, But if the railway service were conducted on the average principal ruling these corporations, namely, to tax the pro- ducer the full difference between the value of his produce as his own door and its value at the market, it isas clear as demonstration that the value of his land would not be greatly, if at all, enhanced by reason of the railway. T'he other sophistry in the argument worthy of exposure is that railways do not, as is assumed, increase the taxa- bles of a state to anything like their estimated valas 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. Ralways are tazed as personal property. 1f they were taxed at full value their aggre- @ate assessment would be $320 000,- 000. Tt is in 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 c¢nt on a capital of §320,000,000. Privato property does not yield more than this in any state; yet 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 cent of ita cash value, The same rule obtains in nearly every state that is ridden down by these corporations; but most of all in the Pacific states, where four men own and control all the railroads south of Oregon. No man ever yet objected to rail- roads because they agaist development. Noman is 8o big a fool as that. 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 too large number of railway corporations, which, like locusts, lice, and other parasites, demand and eat up all that accrues from them; and at the same time, by corrupiing or intimidating the body politic, evade their just share of the taxes and their other duties in the state. Every sensible 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 derivable from them. 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 to the taxables of the state. They have not, directly or indirectly, added $10,000,000. on $70,000 000 They do not, 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 n the Union. They are in all” respects un- gratefu), insolent, arrogant, corrupt- g and eloeive of their duties to the siate and the people. Mr. Poor’s Rallway Report. Bradstre t'e. They should pay taxes | garded in law. F. Goolman 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 searcely have grown unless there was somothing (0 be carried, While the railroad man- agers have been laboring to build uj the vast prosperity of the country, nature and huma 1 labor, co operating, have been also duing something throughout the country, and especial ly along the western line of the “march of empire.” Tndeed, 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 taat the sole condition of increase of tonnage was reduction of rates, and, by acknowledging that the railroads have always oharged the freight traflic over them all it would bear, virtually admits that the internal commerce of the country has grown, from other and previous influencea, in spite of, quite as much as by, the favor of the rail- poople. What other conclusion could he himself have drawn from his statement that “‘it is a law in businees that rates or profits depend upon ac- tivity of, or extent of, demand,” and from his other statement concerning one of the great railroads, that *‘it has always charged all its business would bear, and in obedience to this rule it 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 its rates.” Mr. Poor contends that “‘there can be no monopoly in law the construction of railroads is open to all.” That may be true; but the community has of late been somewhat more concerned about the existence of monopolies in fact, A new railroad cannot bo built every day and by anybody who chooses. The expense is too vast, and the probability of obtaining the necessary concessions from logisla- tures, too often interested in main- taining the status quo, is generally 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 to themsvives, with the hard hand of | erected by the concurring eff irts of a Pharaoh or a Caesar, all the benefits | many persons, as well as by the act of The value of |an individual. The railways practi cally own the roads on which they travel, and control the traffic on thoss roads. A pooling combination rest- ing on an agreement of theso carries should have added over $100,000,009 | to maintain certain rates on the roads they control effscts a monopoly in fact, however the same may be re- Buckhn's Arnics Salve, The Brst SALVE in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Lalt Rheum, Fe ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chii blains, Corns, and all skin ernptions, an positively curee Hiles, Tt is guaranteod tc money rofunded For ealo,by C. factfon or rice, 25 conta per box. Prohibitory Ooasttnsional Amend- ment Convention. l'n our issug )f July 22 gome gom- parisons were given from Mr, Henry from year to year, Concerning this decresse and Mr. Poor's couc!usions theretrom, reference is made farther on. The Rulway Manuel mey be suid to stand slone as a compend of we avail ourselves of the staiistics collected therein to present some ad- the developments of the past year The activity in-railcoad affurs dur- ing the year 1881 was extraordinary. Nine thousand three hundred and fifty-cight miles of railroad were builr —the greatest number for any one year, Tho cost of the lines construct ed during tho 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, otc. The total x round numbers $400,000,000. It is 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 previous year of $109,023,188. Their net earnings were §276,- 654,119, as against §255,193,- 439 in 1880, an increase of over $21,000,000. The ageregate current expeuses 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 $77,115 411 in 1880. The cost of operating the railroads for the year was §440 505,071, 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 miles, 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 that made by railrcads, and that to 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 forced upon Mr. Pour by any circum- stances of the work in which he was engaged. But perhaps he himself felt that sowethng in the way of apology was needed, Let us examine the grounds of the defense. The evi- dence presented is that from year to ear the rates of travsportation have {mnn reduced. When one con- siders the number, complexity and interdependence of forces and ~inter- ests in the modern community, that must be regarded as a somewhat strange statement which attributes most wholly” to the action in one irection of a single, though powerful. interest ‘‘the vast prosperity and enor- In pursurance of the structions given by the conference workers, held V. Poor's Manual of the railtoads of | in the city of Lincoln on July 27th, a the United States for 1882, showing |state convention of all who favor sub- the decrease in railway freight rates mitting to the voters of Nebraska an amendment to the state constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcholic liquors as a beverage with- in the state, will be held in the city of BALLOIN L ; Lincoln on Wednesday, information upon railway matters, and 13:h, at 4 o'clock p. m. September The object of the convention will be to, First. Perfoot the orgamzation of diticnal facts of intercst bearing upon the Ncbraska Prohibitory Amend- ment association and elect the officers of t' e same. Second. To arrange for a thorough systematic canvass of every procinct u the state, Third. To make arrangements for such political work as the delegates present may deem necessary to secure the submission to the voters ofy the state of a prohibitory constitutional aweudment, The peoplo of each county who be- ‘.“““:‘}:“ Bxpeuifid i:i c“':“i';ci‘x:;":uduir:; lieve that all government rests upon AN E SN0 LTOM, HOLE | APDEOXTIA tho consent of the governed, and that o in obedience to this principle of gov- ¢xpeoted that tho mileago to be opened | erament the question of the exiatonco e, 1885, 3 077 miley | Of the alcoholic liquor trade should be to the st of June, 1882, 3 G77 miles | 3 5i¢t0d 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 county will be entitled to one in tho Unitod States in 1881 amounted | 4 o s X olegate at-large and one delegate for to §725,325,119, an increase over the | o o500 yotes cast in the county at the fall ele:tion 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 themselves?” The people ask the gubmission to them of an amendment, and to em phasiza this report it is hoped that the triends of a government of the people, by the people and for the penple, will take steps at once to organize the state, Tue COMMITTEE. True to her Lrust Too much cannot be eaid of the ever faithfal wife and mother, constantly watching and caring for her denr cnes, never neglecting a single duty in their bo- half, When they are assailed by disease, and the system shoud have a thorough cleansing, the stomach and bowels regu- T e s and alarial bolson txterluiunhfl‘, she must know the that Electric Bitters are the only sure remedy, They arethe best and purest me icive in the world and only cost fifty cents, Sold by C. F, Goodman. IVIL, MECH 'NICAL AND NING EN- r Polytech- st enginver- nlc Institute, Troy, N. 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