Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 14, 1882, Page 4

4 THE DAILY BEE: TUESDAY NOVEMBER 14 Thé?)mha éfieé. Pablished ever: day. The only morning, except Sun- onday morning daily. TERMS BY MAIL~— One Year....810 07 | Three Months.£3.00 Six Months.. 5.00 | One Month.... 1.00 THE WEEKLY BEE, published every Wednesday. TERMS POST PAID— One Yenr. $2.00 | Three Months. 50 8ix Month 1.00 | One Month.... 20 AxEricAN Nxews CoMpaxy, Sole Agents for Newsdealers in the United States, CORRESPONDENCE —All Communli. oatfons relating to News and Editorial matters shonld be addressed to the Eprron or Tur Bee, BUSINE S LETTIERS—AIl Busines Letters and Remittances should be «d dressed to THe Bre Punris HiNG CoMPANY OmanA, Drafts, Checks and Postoffice Orders to be mado payable to the order of the Company. The BEE PUBLISHING 00., Props. 5. ROSEWATER, Editor Morro for the Third ward judges of election: ‘‘This time don’t count.” Jay HusseLy's district went repub- lican by 11,000 —for another man, E. K. 10 n1s 86 cler! Slap on the whitewash, let it shine, And I will be your Valentine, A DANGEROUS MOVEMENT. The.e are indications that the great railway corporations are preparing for an aggressive movement, and are mar- enalling their forces for the repeal of #ll laws intended to secure free com- petition or to put any bounds to mo- nopoly methods and extortions, The 8t. Louis Post- Dispateh points to the fact that their newspaper organs, both republican and democratic, are teem- ing with articles and speclous arrays of figures pretending to prove that the great railway consolidations have vol- untarily reduced transportation charges below the maximum rates fixed by law, and have thereby increased the price of labor. The Omaha Republi- can is & good instance in point. It asks us to believe that the seifish cunning of unreatricted monopoly, looking only to dividends on period- ically watered stock, will prove a bat. ter safoguard of the public interest than any ‘‘demagogue statute,” and that all legislation wgainst monopoly combinations and consolidations, or for the purpose of restraining ex- tortion and fraudulent and un- just discrimination, is unwise and hurifal to the industries of the country, These arguments, artfully prepared to blind the public, and to convince the wavering, are be- From the accounts in the New York | ing spread broadcast by the monopoly papers it looks as if Mrs, Langtry is | press, Thoy are intended as prelimi- an actress for revenue only. nary to more effective measures in the Sess— various leglslatures throaghout the Noruina sucoeeds like success, and | country, not excepting that of Ne- Ben Butler's admirers are already braska, The success of monopoly talking of the White House 1884, alllancs with corrupt politicians has — - stimulated the hope tha% a general OASTING its eyos towards Massachu- | movement along the line may carry setts, the Loulaville Courier-Journai[the day. In republican Pennsyl- remarks that it never did believe that|vania and in democratic ~Mis- spoon story anyway. sourl the restrictive moasures —— of the constitution have been WiATEVER elso the election in the | trampled under foot through the con- Third district showed, it made it per- | nivance of the dominant party in each footly plain that the majority of voters | of those states. In our own state the didn’t want E. K. Valentine. provisions of the Dcane law and the statute providing for the taxation of Tae bellef that St* John was a tool | corporate property have been defied of the railroads contributed to his de- [ through the liberal purchase or bull- foat in Kansas, The time has come [dozing of officials and by monopoly when no railroad ocandidates need |control of the state board of equaliza- apply. tion, Itis now announced that a - - - powerful effort will be made next WiLLiAM MoADoo, the fearless anti- | Winter to repeal the Illinois railroad monopoly advocate in Jersey City, N, |#0d warehouse law, and that the J., was triumphantly elected to con- | Managers of the movement are Ly gross over the Pennsylvania railroad fident that they will at least sucoeed candidate from his district. It is|in Practically nullifying this law by evident that William did't MoAdoo | having the board of railway commis- about nothing. sioners abolished, It is expected that the democrats and one faction of the # closely skinned eye on the Lincoln and Omaha sharks who had to fly to Oolorado two years ago to escape testi- fying befors the committee appointed to uncover their frauds. —_— PROHIBITION AND THE ELEC- TIONS, We shall hear less of prohibition as a political issue, Tuesday's elections have settled forever the question, and popular opinion has asserted itself so strongly at the polls that the issue of sumptuary legislation is not likely ever again to be dragged into the arena of party politics, Temperance will con- tinue to be agitated, and very properly, The propriety of high license laws for taxing the traffic in liquor will still bo canvassed and their advisability as party measures In legislatares may be discussed, but the tyranny of the prohibition movement has received its death blow in the same election which overthrew the tyranny of politi- cal bosses, A glance over the field is only necessary to show how complete and circumstantial the verdict was, The prohibition issue entered into the political ~struggle either directly or indirectly in six , states. In Ohio and Indiana the republi- can party was oredited with favoring this invesion of perdonal lib. erty. In nelther was a prohibitory law directly voted upon. In conse- quence the attack of the opponents of prohibition was directed to the repub- lican candidates with the result ot alienating enough republican votes to GENERAL SHERMAN readily falls in republicans will lend themselves to with the suggestion made in General Crook’s last report from the Depart- ment of the Platte, regarding the con- centration of troops at a amall num- ber of posts on or near the railroads, and the building of permanent and substantial barracks of brick or stone for the companies, which may be sta- tioned at these military centres. says: “The timo is now come for a & radical change in the whole system of piecemeal work in qu-rter’ing the|on Which they are treading. troops of the United States. For a hundred years we have been sweeping acroes the continent with a skirmish line, building a post here and another there, to be abandoned next year for another line, and so on. Now we are :’&‘:‘-;‘: h:;;,:‘::;fl::r:w:: is that their attorneys and trained and 1 advise the houorablo secretary | 0horts of retainers are in overy caucus of war to go to congress with a plan -nd'nuld too much influence in di- than will approximate permanency in- recting Athe aciion of every party stead of, as heretofore, meeting convention, 'l‘l.m fact that . fow apecific temporary wants by special ooloflnl aggregation of capital in pos- appropriations, often it the interest |#ession of _‘" the transportation of our of private parties.” vast domain have combined to put He recommends that the following down all competition, to sustain each posta in the department of the Platte other in violating laws, and to exact should be held permanently, and that from overawed or corrupted officials ive. Says the Post-Dispatch: they also could only be induced to ¢n- tortain & suspicion that their power publio, Already the prevailing beliet *‘We have | olected & seen 80 much of this sort of thing that [Py » majority of it has created in the popular mind a [and went headlong into the prohibi- profound distrust of the managers of | tion net which he cast for the party— both parties in connection with ques- Kansas, the state of 8t. John, de- tions of this character, and if theyare | feated the arch apostle of prohibition- tse they will recoil from the brink [ism by a rousing msjority, and to It|show just what that defeat meant, would be well for the great corpora.|elected the remalnder of the republi- tions and. their allied monopolies if |can state ticket. quarters should be erected of brick or stone for the number of companies mentioned: Fort Omaha, ten com- panies; FortD. A, Russell, Cheyenne, six companies; Fort Douglas, Utah, six companies; Fort Laramie, Wycming, sixcompanios, For, the improvement and enlargement of these and a num- ber of other military posts in other departmenis, General Sherman recom- mends that the secretary of war ask of congress annually §1,000,000,for five years, to be expended at his discretion by the offizers of the quartermasters department, and by that process he the privilege of charging ‘‘all the traf- fio will bear,” or of discriminating as they please in the exercise of an auto- cratic power over every interest and every industry of this ocountry, is cause for alarm and for counteracting organization upon the part of the peo- ple. And sooner or later the power of the people to uphold their constiiu- tion, to enforce their iaws and to ex- act a striot loyalty from their public servants, will assert itself, The only danger is that the final provoeation may urge them too far, Already the talk of putting down the overgrown aud arrogaunt power of thioks we will have for the whole army an abundance of good quarters which will endure for 50 years, It will be remembered that early last spring plans and specifications were drawn up under General COrook's direction for the enlargement and improvement of Fort Omaha ou the basis of a ten company post, and an estimated ex penditure of over $162,000. It may not generally be known that the com- bined efforts of the Minnesota and , Kensas delegations have always been directed mgainst suy appropriastions to the department the corporstions is swelling to a na- tional chorus. At present it goes no further than the suggestion of laws limitlng aggregations of corporate oapital, proyidiog for the periodical ocease of corporations and for put- ting them to death aud confiscating their property for cause, that they may be like persons, wore amenable to the police power, and more caretul about the part they take in legislation, The instinet of self-preservation should in- struct them to pay a little less atten- have cost the party the day if no other influence had been at work, In Ne- braska fully 5,000 republican votes changed on the same account, and in Wisconsin the loss of three congress- men was the result of like causes. But Towa and Kansas are the monu- mental examplesof the results of party trifling with the prohibition mania, If any gwo states could have been considered safely republican, they were the ones, But, unfortunately for republicanism, the party openly identified itself with the prohibition- ists,. In both states a prohibitory amondment was secured by republi- oan assistance, and voters on Novem- ber 7th expressed at the polls their opinion ot the measure and its opera- tion, In Iowa a republican majority of 80,000 was cut down to 15,000, and three members of congress were lost, in a state where the average republi- can majority in each district had been 8,000. The reaction was 80 universal, 80 marked and so emphatic that there can be no mistaking its meaning. is movement on the ground that the And Kansas, bleeding Kansas, whose board has become a mere political | republicanism was deemed as solid and machine in the hands of, the exeou- |unflinching as the Rock of Ages— Kansas, which two years ago republican governor 60,000 votes, The people have pronounced their verdict, and party managers will not over politicians may be once too often | mistake its significance. The order flaunted in the face of an indignant |of the universe cannot be overturned by statutory enactment. Imprac- ticable legislation in the end defeats itself, and the tyr- anny of undue and un- necessary restraint is seoner or'la- ter repudiated by the people. Ne- braska has dealt with the temperance question in a sensible and straightfor- ward manner. It has im posed a high license upon liquorselling, and thrown the business into responaible hands, It has provided for its schools and compelled the liquor dealors directly and the liquor drinkers Indirectly, to ocontribute towards the maintenance of her system of education. By so much it has lightened the burden of taxation, While prohibition means free whisky, as has been proved in every instance whera the law has Rone in effoct, & well enforced license law meane the repression of the worst evils connected with the traffic, And it is the appreciation of this fact which made itself apparent in the late elections, and which will prevent in our own state any further dalliance on the part of republicanism with the prohibition bait, Avraouen the new congress will not meet untila year from the coming December, the scramble among demo- oratic politicians for the speakership has already begun. Among the can- didates already mentioned are Randall of Pennsylvania, Morrison of Illinois, Blackburn and Carlisle of Kentucky, Tucker of Virginia, and Hurd and Converse of Ohio, The objection bolng urged ageinst Sam Randall is that he is not in favor of revenue of the Platte which would seem to|'on to conventions and legislatures, | reform while the people of the United assare its permanency, s Fort Omaba and s little wore respeot to laws ap- | States plainly are. This will be the was considased as detesoting from the proved by the people at the ballot |chief ground of opposition to him on importauce of Forts Baelling and 0x. Churches have been disestab- the part of the southern wembers. A . |Yished and venerable religious commu- | On the other hand complaints are e tacatins shonts eecenitios brokes up aud. dispossessed of | wade of M, Hurd's oo bold advo- g TR s ek ‘ald faom thulr.pmperty on less provocation | cacy of ‘P‘“fl““’ free trade. A demo- g1y to both head.|than is implied i & polioy which-can | crat holding middle ground between q”""" o u;win, Omaha and its | P© expressed in the words of Vander- | the two, in other words s good strad- vicinity 1he needed accommodations and quuriers, whose substantial con- struction vl be an earnest of their permanency, dud the definite location for fifty yoars to come of the depart- wment of the Platte and & large garri- son n our city and its ontekirts, bilt, *“The public be d--d.” —— Tue State Jowrnal, which has fat- tened off the Nebraska publio treasury by its successive printing steals, is again out with the advertisement of proposals for public printing. The coming legislature will do well to keep dler on & question which is attracting more and more attention will probably be selected. Em———— Tur legulature of Illinois is cer- tainly republican. There will be & vacancy in David Davis iron braced chair THE PAVING QUESTION. Now that election is over, the ques- tion of paving Tenth street will again come to the front. It cannot be set- tled any too soon, 1f the contracts are lot within ten days no work can be done untll spring. The quarries will be kept busy all winter getting out the stone and the grading and preparation ot the bed for the blocks cannot be begun until the frost is out of the ground, But for all this the Board of Pubiic Works ought to let the contracts in accordance with the petitions of the property owners on Tenth atreet, the expressed wishes of our citizens ani the mandate of the Oity Council. There has already been too much de- Iay. Thers has also been some un- derhand work which has aroused sus- picions that members of the board have private interests to forwarded by postponing the letting of the contracts with Bioux Falls granite. Trips to U, P, headquarters have been too num- erous on behalf of certain par- ties to escape attention and the hard fight which is being made for an inferior paving material gives good grounds for the belief that a nigger is oconcealed somewhere in the wood pile, When the idea of creating a board of public works was first broached this peper advanced as an objection the possibility offjust sach] a deadlock as has since taken place. It suggeated that antagonism between the council and the members of the board, cpnsti- tuted aa it is, was certain to result, and that any two members could combine to set at defiance the wishes of the property owners whom it was their duty to serve. It remaina to be seen whether the persistence of Messrs, Barker and Wilson in their opposition to granite pavements will require legal action to compel them to perform their duties according to law. Of one thing they may be certain. Omaha is determined to haye durable and substantial pave- ments. She will not te satisfied with anything else. Her people are in no mood fgr experimenting with materi- als which have proved to be a failure elsewhere. The cost of paving our streets will be loo heavy to permitany such waste of money. Granite is the only approved pavement for heavy traffic. It has been tried in our larg- est cities and not found wanting. And we very much mistake the temper night of the prophet, but now &> much influence, both political and financial, 18 brought to bear on the officials selecting the maidens that few, if any, of tho poorer classes are ever permitted to enter the lists. These officials accept bribes and presents from peasants and guardians, and make decent fortunes every year at the time of selection. Towards the close of the reign of Saltan Abdul Medgid, that monarch one night refused to select a wife from amongst those who were presented to him, and breaking through the ring, selected a poor girl who was standing in the crowd selling flowers, to the astonishment of all the Pashas and Beys pres- ent. , For several years aftor this the officials conscientiously did their duty, of our people if they do not succeed in securing the kind of pavement that they want. SE— THE SULTAN'S WIVES. A Country Where the Monarch is Compellea tp Marry Once 8 Year, Constantinople Correspondence Philadel- phia Press, It does not appear to be generally known that the sultan is obliged to mi many women against his wiil; yet such is the case, and at least oncs in each year, whether his majesty be young or old, sick or well, does the law of the country oblige him to marry. Thislaw has not always been in force, but was Introduced by the Shelch-ul-Islam, or head of the church, about 169 years ago, to force Sultan Selim—who, wishing to abolish mgnmy. kept one wife only, to ntain and uphold the ancient and authorized custom., The ceremony of the Caliyh's marriage is so important an event that a description of it will interesting. The prophet’s birthday, or rather birthnight, as the Moslem’s call it, is a festival com- mencing at sunset of the 18th day of Ramazan, and ending at sunrise of the following morning, thus making a purely night holiday. It is —after the holiday of the Courtian Bairam, which took place only a few days ago, and at which General Wal- lace, United States minister to Tur- key, assisted—the greatest of Moham- medan festivities, Bestdes being a religious holiday, it is a national one also, as on this very night Constantl- nople was taken by the Turks after a siege which las mauy years, dur- ing which not a few thousand of the faithful were sentto El Wady, or Paradise. Constantinople during this night, which the Turks have named Kadir Gegessl, presents an appear- ance which can nowhere else be equal- ed, as, although KEuropeans may in~ vent all sorts of artificial means of illuminatiun, there is no spot on the face of the earth which presents such natural beauty, and the inuste taste of the splendid and magnificent for which Orientals are famed, is fully apprecisted on the birthnight of th prophets Y NOVEL WAY OF ILLUMINATING, :l%a mode of illuminating is initself exceedingly simple, consisting of #mall lamps filled with water of man, colors, at the top of which ofl s burned. Millions of them are used on all the public buildiogs, and, indeed, on every building, rich or poor, iu the town, The bridges over the Golden Horn are studded with light, and so are all the ships and the mea-of-war; both in the ioner and outer harbor. The most beautiful, however, of all are the thousands of mosques, whose minarets have the ap- pearance of enormous flaming spears, and as the city is built on seven hills the whole presents an sp- earance not easy to be forgotten, for many days previous to the cere- mony the palace officials are busily engaged in selecting the girls who will be allowed to be present on the even- ing of the Kadir Gegessi, and from whom his majesty will select one as wife, Singular as it may ar to Americans, there is hardly a Moham- medan family which does not do its best to get its daughters into the harem, although they know full well that it is plrus adorned with some hundreds of wives or slaves of great beauty, and from all countries. POLITICAL INFLUKNCE IN THE HAREM, The original custom was that girls of all ranks and conditions of society should take their chances on the birth- selecting the prottiest girls, irrespect- ive of the positions or influence of their parents; now, however, bribery and sorruption will open the door to a rich girl, to the detriment of a poor one, who may be ever so much more beautifal than the favored one. The number of maidens allowed to compete is 101, and when the election is com- plete, invitations, or rather imperial commands, are issued for them to attend, with instructions as to dress. The dress consists of a large white linen sheet thrown over the shoulders in Roman fashion, and sandals to the feot. All the maidens have to drees alike, leaving their hair hanging, and no gems or ornaments of any descrip- tion are permitted. HOW PHE BELECTION IS MADE. On the night of the ceremony the sultan proceeds to the suliemanich moeque on the Stamboul side of the Golden Horn, accompanied by all the palace officials, ministers of state and pashas, all in gala uniform, and sur- ronnded by his aids-de-camp in their picturesque costumes, representing the various nationalities over which his majesty reigns supreme. lined with soldiers, who, to make the acene more effoctive and to illuminate | tify to its merits. their master's passage, have Chinese | charge for sacks. lanterns stuck on their bayonets, and COFFEE AND SPIGE MILLS. 4 Roasters and Grinders of Coffees and Spices. Manufacturers of IMPERIAL BAKING POWDERI Clark’'s Double Extracts of BLUEING, INKS, ETC. OM.A ELA A H. G. CLARK & CO., Proprietors, 1403 Douglas Street, Omaha, Neb, LEER FRIBED & CO. HARDWARE, 1108 and 1110 Harney ¢ t., - WELO LES.ALE OMAHA, NEB. Growers of Live Stock and Qthers. Ground Oil Cake. 1t is the best and cheapest food for stock of any kind. 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His majesty stays in the building for about halt an hour, after which he proceeds to the square facing the niosque, where great preparations are made for his reception. On a large tem- porary elevation are all the digni- taries of the state, the clergy of the Imams, Mollahs, and Hawagas occupying the places of honor. In the centre 18 a pavillion of scarlet velvet, embroidered in gold, with the *‘Tou- rah” or sultan’s monogram, which is always the official emblem of Tarkey, hanging in each corner. It is covered at the top, and supported By four sil- ver columns, thus leaving the s open. In the pavilion are the Sheic! ul-Tslam and the heir to the throne, while around it stand the 101 maidens drawn in the form of a complete cir- cle, each maiden being attired in the regulation white sheet and holding a towel in her hand, which, being sub- L. C. HUNTINGTON & SON, ™ HIDES, FURS, WOOL. PELTS & TALLOW 204 North Sixteenth 8t., - - DEALERS IN | OMAHA, NEB. METCALF&BRO. 1006 Farnam St., Omaha. el ject to no restrictions, vary in color, design and quality. After a short prayer, the heir to the throne approaches the sovereign and fhrons sporessie the”soversgn wd,| JYY o HACLITNAATL 0. which he begs of him to sacrifice to the Almighty and invoke his assis- tance in selecting from amongst the bystanding maldens one who will be- come a faithful wife, a loving mother, an ornament to the crown and an ex- ample to other women. The sultan then takes a knife from his belt, #nd, kneeling himself, sacrificos the pig- eons, invoking the help of the prophet in the selection which he is about to make, after which he rises and pro- coeds to wash his hands in a golden basin held by the Shiek-ul-Islam, His majesty is in no hurry to finish his ablutions, however. On the con- trary he proceeds exceedingly slow, carefully scanning the pretty girls surronnding the pavilion meanwhile, It must be no easy matter to deter- mine, seeing that all the competing damsels are very graceful and beauti- ful, and many a little heart must be throbbing terribly while this examina- tion goes on. Some of the Caliphs have been known to continue washing their hands for an hour, while others remarked that the younger the Sultan is the sooner he washes his hands. As he advances in years, however, he becomes more diffi- cult te please, and being experienced, takes his time, proceeding with great deliberation. Having made up his mind he leaves the pavilion and goes siraight up to the maiden he has se- lected, and takes from her hands the towel she is holding, upon which he wipes his wet hands. No sooner has he made the selection than the poor, flurried creature, who by this act has become the wife of the highest in the land, is immediately seized by half a dozen attending eunuchs, who throw a thick veil over her aud rush her off to a errriage, which is made for the pur- pose, the windows of whch are of dark glaes, s0 that nobody can see through them, and the is galloped off to the palace, The bands sirike up, the artillery 8, the peoplo shout, the officials tulate his msjesty on his wise se , and the sultan him. self looks hizhly pleased. The palace treasurer then throws bags of small coins to the crowd, and while they are scrambling for their possession the caliph leaves the pavilion, and mount- ing his horse, returns to the seraglio, the chances being that months will elapse before he agsin thinks of his new wife, whoisleadinga lifeofidlencss and luxury in the harem, never seeing anybody but her ‘‘consoeurs” and the atfending eunuchs. 4 Nowspaper Editor. 0. 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