Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 2, 1882, Page 4

* dressed to TrE BEk PUBLISHING COMPANY 1HE DAILY BEE: SATUDAY DECEMBER 2 THE TAX SHIREKER'S PLEA. | will witness the downfall of the Unlon And now comes the Omaha Repub- | Pacific monopoly. lican, a paper edited by impudent im- p————— porters, wl: claim to have doffed the| OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. brass collar since the pretended trans-| The developments of the past week fer of stock by the Union Pacific, and | in Dublin and in the commons are not attempta to sustain the Iniquitous sys. | cheering for those who have at heart tem of rai'road assessments In this |the best interests of Ireland. The state on the ground that the property [ murder of Dotective Oox shows that of some wealthy tax.shirkers is as- |the weapons of the government are soosed at less than one-third of its|not adequate to suppress the lawless- valne. The exposure made by the[ness of the organized desperadoes of Ber last spring of this flagrant tax shirking of heavy property owners In Omahas, and its demand The Omaha Bee. Pablished morning, ex San- ar. " The enty Monday mecaing daly: TERMS BY MATL— One Year....$10 00 | Three Months. $3,00 Six Months., 5,60 | One Month.... 1.00 “HE WEEKLY BEE, published every Welnesday. TERMS POST PATD— 82,00 | Three Months, 50 ”i 00 | One Month.... 20 AMERIOAN NEws Compaxy, Sole Agents for Newsdealors in the United States, CORRESPONDENCE—AIl Communi. atfons relating to News and Editorial aatters should be addressed to the Enrror that all classes should besr their just or Tux Bre, @ proportion of the burdens of taxation, lfi}fl?“fiaxfiflggfi:;b)whm is now used by these fool friends of the railroads to excuse their own eva- wion of taxes through the state board of equalization, On this question, as upon all other wital issues, Trx Bre has been consis- tent and impartial. We have de- nounced tax shirking by individuals and firms just as vigorouely as if it was done by corporations, We went to great expense last spring, at tho risk of offending many patrons and friends, to get ¢he exact facts and figures to show that she mid. dle class of property owners and the mon who regard the sscredness of their oath, are compelled to bear an undue proportion of the burdens of taxation in Omaha. We heve shown farther that the city by reason of this tax shirking, had to give up many needed publio improvements and fore- go proper police and other protection. Asa result of our exposure the assess- ors lists wore revised, the taxes were made more equitable, and the total was very materially increased. The evii 18 by no means entirely abated. There are still mil- lions of personal and real property that goes virtually untaxed, either be- cause the assessors will not do their duty or because of fraudulent returns, The Republican asks if local assessors do not new do thelr daty in valuing the property of individvals what can be expected if they are to be trusted with the railroad assessmentst We oan answer that now. A few years ago when the state board only assessed the roads and rolling stock, and left to local assessors the valuation of local improvements, furniture, machinery, &o., our income from the railroad tax was very considerable, but since the state board has lumped all classes of property and assessedit by the mile, as & man might sell buttermilk by the house of lorde. there is a noted decrease in the nom- under the land act have proceeded with cheering regularity. averaged 4,600 a month, and the re- Omana, Drafts, Checks and Postoffice Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. The BEE PUBLISHING 00., Props. E- ROSEWATER Editor. 7 1 0;;‘“-—0;“ secure better and cheaper gas by a competing gas com- pany, she should, by all means, avail herself of the chanca. ——— A1y the railroad organs are in favor of a rallroad commission, but the peo- ple who have to pay the piper will re- fuse to dance to the corporation music. bill courts, the Bright clauses of the lund been a failure; and while — Nesrraska la not disposed to send a Sharon to Washington to represent her in tho United States senate at stated periods when his business inter- ests would permit, stand the practical benefits of Mr, Several straight republican mem- bers of the Illinels legislature have de- olared their independente by an- nouneing that they will not obey the dictates of King Osucus, and there in a general smash-up of slates in conse- quence. Tur Repulblican takes a quarter of & column to prove that Dr. Miller and J. Sterling Morton are not anti- monopolists, The organ of the Union Pacific may next be expected to at- tempt the task of proving that the moon is not made of green cheese. L _____ _] Tux patrons of The Roepublican are to bo treated to a grand surprise. In- stead of serving up six courses of re- hash from stereotype plates that have been warmed over In nearly every oountry weekly in Illinois and Iowa, they will be regaled with seven courses of plates each week, gree a loyal country, Business In the commons question alone disturbing the moni. tory. The ministry profess them- seolves satisfied with the outlook and by distress on the west const. In re- sponse to inquiries the cost of the Ezyptian war was officially announced a8 something over $5,000,000, and the ade that Egypt would e yard we have been robbed |Statement was m gypt wo . e of ’om- proper share, and no- bear the cost of her pacification. opanses will pisia Haibioge body except the railroad com- Nothing definite has yet been learned ton for a short session on Monday. The first week will be spent by members in comparing notes as to the causes and results of the late political cyolone, It is safe to say that the eause of the recent popular uprising will not be located at the oapitol, where it belongs, — Moz than one-half of the ordinary expenses of the government are pen- sions. The sum estimated for pen- sions during the next fiscal year is $101,675,000, while at the close of the war $16,000,000 met all demands, No wonder that last year over 100,000 old soldiers and tax-payers protested againat this profuse evidence of the national gratitade which the impor- tunity of claim agents and the dema- gogism of members of congress has of the [permanent programme which the government proposes to adopt in Egypt. Fraoce is reatless over the abolitlon of the joint ocontrol, and jealous of Englands increase in mili- tary and diplomatic prestige. There are hintathrown out thata final settle- ment satistactory to both countries may be made if England will consent to the occupation of Madagascar, A orlsis seems to be approaching in panies have reaped the benefit. Now can any honest journal that has the public good at heart, instead of being the hired tool or catspaw of chartered highwaymen, defend the wholesale robbery of the tax-payers of Nebraska to fill the pockets of Wall street sharks and speculators? “‘How dare you,” say the rallroad organs at Omaha and Lincoln, *“‘eall in question the honeaty of the state board, ocomposed of the governor, suditor and tressurer?” The records in the state house at Lincoln are standing witnesses to the justice of our impeachment. Ten years ago thelnion Pacific was assessed 30 per cent, higher than it is to-day. In 1870 the market value was loss than one-sixth of what itis to.day. The stub lines in Nebraskaaud some main deputies is badly antagonistic to the oabinet, which it denounces as weak and unworthy of popular confidence, This opinion has been strengthened by disclosures of loose financiering on the part.of the government, which is forced to admit a deficit of 59,000,000 francs in the revenues, while other ex- made a charge treasury. nses oarry the total deficit to G -&L“q lines which are mortgaged at from ";;,000,000 ’lrn:n-. A;yu n:rion Ir 18 rumored at the state capltal $10,000 to 820,000 per milo, are as- | that borrows money to pay its sossed at from $3600 to #4600 per mile, There are fully five hundred miles of switches and side tracks in Nebraska, and not s dollar of taxes has been collected for' them, Does this show that the State board can be trusted 1 The scoundrels who justify these bold evasions of taxes ask us why we do not attack Van Wyck, who made the law! Our answer is : In the first place Van Wyck did not make the law. He voted for the revised stat- utes gotten up by a board of revisors appointed by the governor, He had to vote for the statute as a whole or againat it as » whole. But we do not attack the men who made the law, We attack the system that has made it possible for three men to take hun. hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the pockets of our farmers. mer- chants and mechanios and put in the pockets of a few greedy millionaires in New York and Boston. Wa sim- ply demand now, after years of costly experieuce, that the people through their legialature, shall devise a reme- dy that will make all classes of prop- £rty bear its jusc proportion of tax- ation, and that will place all classes of Property on the same plane in regard 0 assessments, —— The Denver & Rio Grande railroad is now within 167 miles of Salt Lake Oity. This means competition with the Union Pacific to all points west of Denver, for these roads are naturally antegonistio. The periodical wars be- running expenses is going to the dogs financlally, and this is precisely what Franoe {s doing. The budget submit- mitted by M. Tirard, the minister of finance, at the opening of the session of the chamber of deputies on Nov, 9 which showed this deficit, developed a scheme to fill it by the issue of ex- chequer bills, to be redeemed from the funds to be paid the state here- after by railroad companies, as they fall due. This is practically a pledg- ing of the revenues of the future to meet the expenditures of the past, M. Leon Say thought a new issue of treas- ury notes would injure the govern. ment credit, and in the broad view he was undoubtedly quite right, but M, Tirard takes the narrower view and goes ahead. By and by the floating and funded debt will get so large that there will be great risk of its being wiped out tn some new revolation, German papers supplement the meager telegraphio reports of the re- sult of the late election: Not more than one-half of the vo- ters went to the polls, and the govern. ment used every possible means of in- fluencing the votes. The returns show that the parties stand about the same as before. No seotion will have » majority in the Landtag, and legis- lation can only be secured by that kind of political intrigue and trading which have been the bave of German politics for the past few years. In the new chamber of deputies the liberals will have about 140 votes, the conserva- tives 128, the liberal conservatives, or that the governor proposes to exact a bond for more than $3,000,000 from Btate Treasurer-slect Sturdevant. We do not belieae that Governor Nance or Oovernor-elect Dawes would resort to such & bold attempt to keep Mr. Sturdevant outot office, or to drive him into the hunds of the bauk ring that was beaten in their desperate of- fort to continge in the control of the stato funds for - the next two years, We are told that a political bank at Lincoln which has been doing & very extensive business by speculat- ing with the peoples’ money may be driven te the wall if compelled to turn over its funds when the new treasurer takes oharge of the office. But the people are not going to allow oug gov- ernors to bolster up political bankers ander any pretense, The bond of the atate treasurer should be ample to protect the Btate egalnst embes- xlemeat or malfessance. It was never intended that the bond should be s0 high that only a rogue or a mill- tonaire should be able to hol2 the office. If the state of Nebrasks is well protected by the bond of the pres- eut treasurer, it oan afford to trust Mr. Stardevant under & bond n an equal amount, with as good security, And talking about sureties reminds us that political bankers are the poor- est securities that anybody oould have. They are generally veckless speculstors who ran great visks in making losus to political ad- venturers and jobbers at high rates and whose names are on scores of bonds at the same time, o their | tween the western railroads alwaysre- [as they are called there, the ‘‘free principals efault, or lot #h® peoplo | sult in some good to the farmer and conservatives,” 066, and the va- call in ©wn and half the political | the traveling public. The three lines rious seotions of the clericale something over 100, As there are 432 membere, 217 are necossary for a majority, and no party will, therefore, be able to ootrol the chamber, Prince Bismarck will probably have the support of the conservatives, and occasionally that of the free conservatives; but this com- bination will not be strong enough to secure the passage of his measures. bankers would be paupers. Should this political bank ring that boasts of con- trolling ¢ present and our next gov- ernor su . sed in delsying Mr, SBturde- vaot frow jualifylng by imposing & $2,000,000 pond there will be an over- hauling of some concerns by the legis- lature that will send them reeling into «~bankruptoy, between Ohieago and Omsha keep rate down to a respectable level, and the same may be said of the rivalry betwoen roads farther east, But when one gets west of the Missouri, compe- tition practically ceases and the reign of monopoly is ushered in. It will bo big thing for Balt Lake when this gap iu the Denver road is bridged, as it TN T ey s . Dablin, which is denounced as strongly by the Irish party in parliament as it is by the enemies of Ireland in the Outside of Dablin ber of agrarian crimes and settlements These have ductions of rent have been 15, 26, 30 and even 40 per cent, with an average of 20.5 per cent for the sub-commis- sloners, and 22 per cent for the aivil Even if purchase clauses have been as inoperative as were act of 1870, the act itself has not the advantages of the arrears bill have been neglected for a season, it is prob- able that the refusal of the govern- ment to extend the time within which the act may be used will multiply the applications during the oclosing month, In this way the main body of the tenantry have come to under- Gladstona's remedial legislation, and the effect has been most beneficial in promoting a pacific disposition. Still 1t cannot be denied that the wesi of Ireland is threatened with severe fam- ine and that the conditlon of the ocountry Is far from satisfactory. Al- though Mr, Trevelyan wisely draws a distinction between a large ocity like Dublin and the rural districts, there is atill ample field for the exercise of the pacificatory powers of the government before Ireland can be called in any de- has dragged along quietly daring the past week; a desultory debate on the Irish capable of meeting any demand made the French ministry- The chamber of The clericals can only be won by con- oessions to the demands of the ohurch, and the church grows more and more arbitrary each year in its torms, Bis- marok will be compelled to go out of the clerical ranks for at least 46 votes, and this means a renewal of the acrid debates and fruitle.s discassions which have made up most of the recent ses- sions of the landtag. All Earope Is suffering severely from the floods, which, beginning with a serious overflow of the Rhine, have extended to the Garonne and Seine in France, and to the Thiess in Hungary. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property have already been deatroyed. Oologne and Coblen!z suf- fored most reverely in Germany, and great damage was done to public stores and railroad embankments, The scene of last month's floods in Italy have been repeated, but on a larger ecale. Much distress among the peasantry who were driven from their homes i certain to result, and government aid is likely to be invoked to alleviate the misfortunes of the suffsrers. Earope is still stirred up by the machinations of the socialists of the continent, pdrtioularly those of Franco, Switzerland, however, is the harbor of refuge for theso agitators, Some two months ago old Castle Wyden, in Switzerland, was sold to five foreign. ers, three of whom are well known. One of them is a prominent SBwiss so- cialistioc agitator and two of the five are Russians. It is understood that a large printing office has been set up in the castle; that numerous strangers have already arrived there to make it their abode, and, at any rate, the cas- tle yard has been surrounded by an impenetrable and an insurmountable wall, The castle is off from the regu- lar paths of travel, and the fact that it is only two hours from the German frontier, is regarded as significant. The German merchant marine pre- sents a satlsfactory increase in the German trans-oceanic trade for 1882. The number of steamships alone ia the German merchant mar- ine shows an increase of ninety-one during the past year, with an addition ot 90,000 register tons to their carry- ing capacity, The steam marine of Hamburg has risen from 126 vessels to 143, The tetal number of steamers of more than 2000 register tons, which in 1879 did not exceed twenty in all the German | ports, has augmented to forty-eight up to December, 1881, some of them reaching 3000 to 3600 tons, As odhpared with the number ot steamers of the 11erchant mariue of Encland and the United States, the number vt German vessels is 35648 and 519, respectively, behind that of the two nations mentioned. The city authorities of Panama have been so impressed by the recent earthquake shooks that they have re- pealed the ordinance establishing fire limits and prohibiting the erection of frame buildings in the central part of town. No stronger proof could have been given of the terror inspired by | pe: these terrible visitations. Panama has been so often visited by destruc- tive conflagrations in the past that nothing was more firmly impressed upon her - business community than the necessity for building in a style best sulted to prevent the spread of fires, In fact, it is stated that fire has caused greater damage in Pana- | L; ma in the last dozen years than earth. quakes have caused on the whole coast in a century. Sfill, the liability of masonry to go to pleces under the vi- brations of the selsmic force has been lately shown, and the maunicipal leg- inlators are inclined to let the risk to life outweigh their anxiety for the safety of property. One can run run away from a fire, but dudging an earthquake is not so easy. Bonnet Daverdier, whose d:ath will cause a sensation in Frence, was such a figure in the republio as Garrl- son or Wendell Philllps. He was a republican when it cost fortune, friends and liberty to profess the oreed of hu- man equality, An exile during the usurpation and fraudulent term of the empire, he returned to France In 1871, bot was too earnest in the as- sertion of the rights of men to meet a favorable reception, Elected later to the municipal coun- olls of Paris he attracted the generous school of political visionaries who streve for a millennial condition of things, and was singled out by the MaoMahon resctionaries for prison and political martyrdom. He occu- pled a prison four years, but was res. oued by an election to the assembly, where his career was checked by tramped up charges of venality. Re- futing these, he took his seat, but too radical for the soft-sosp democrats of the ocoalltion, his party .was coa- fined exolusively to the irreconcilia- bles —as Gerritt Smith in this country. His death will impede no cause, but it will be lamented by all French demo- crats who seek the enlargement of the rights of men rather than the perma- nenoy of officialism, He was a sup- porter of and sympathizer in Gambet- ta's scheme of a reapportionist repub- lie, but never faltered in his fidelity to the rights of the millions as sgainst the special schemes of the few. —— s Iris & question with the democrats whether they will allow the republi- cans to steal their thunder during the present congress, or whether it would be better to obstruct legislation, They are most likely to blunder into the polioy that is most objectionable. Trr pap organs are calling on the president to strengthen himself by punishing ‘‘the traitors.” The ‘‘traitora” are the people who voted as they pleased in the late election,— Oincinnati Commercial Morat Halstead nearly always hits the nail squarely on the head. He evidently had in his mind's aye the righteous patriots who are clamoring for the official heads of ‘‘traitors” in order that the president might strengthen himself by appointing them to coveted places. [} THE !‘Gl} Leavitt'a Oslifornia People in Thelr Bpecialties at Boyd’s Last Night, ‘‘Variety is the spice of life,” and an abundance of first olass specimen specialties were given at the opera house last night by Leavitt's All Star company to a delighted house. The Four Diamonds and Miss Flora Moore aro the only people remaining with the company that were here during their last engagement— & time that will always re- main a green oasis in the desert of Manager MoAdam’s passive memory, from the tact of the city’s being full of soldiers and under mar- tial law at that time. Edith Sinclair and Ed Barnes were new to Omaha, and made a decided hit in their must- cal comedy and refined sketches. Fields and Hansen proved themselves clever musical comedians, and Harry Morris an A No. 1 Datch portrayer of eccantric characters and musical num-. bers. The three St. Felix sisters ap- pear In pleasing songs and an amusing act, as well as Kelly and Ryan in their own local take.offs and Irish wit. Miss Annie Boyd received a pleasant welcome, but not so en- thusiastic as the one meted out to Miss®Flora Moore, her songs and Boston speech of last season being re- membered by the avdience. The or- chestra assisted her but very little in her new songs, but this will bs reme- died to-night. Chalet, the ventrilo- quist, is amusing, and the closing comedy a screamer. Lester and Allen and Md’lle Alphonsine, of New York, joined the company this morning, and will appear with them for the first time in this afternoon’s matinee, Mr, M. B. Leavitt was noticed in the par- quette circle, and seemed highly amused at his own show. The same to night. MUSICAL AND DRAMA 'IC, Mary Anderson will begin a four weeks’ engagement in New Yori on the 10th of January. ‘Verdi has almost completed bis revision of his opera, “‘Don Carlos,” which is to be produced at Vienna at the beginning of next season. Salvini’s four opening performances in oston are said to have netted close upon 0,000, and all lovers of high azt will trust the amount is not exaggerated. Mme. Mcdjeska makes her reappearance in New York at Booth's theater, Dec, 11, playing for the first time in that eity as Rosalind in “As You Like It.” The last report about Richard Wagner is that he will write no more music dramas, but deyote his time to the preparation of a great socieological and etymological work on Tadian literature, Strausy’s new operetts, ‘‘A Night in Venice,” will be first &m‘nmd at Berlin, and not at Vienna, under “tbe composer’s rsonal direction. It will be broughc out at our Thalia Theatre as soon as finished, The Urion Sg\un Theatre Company is at the Grand Opera House, Chicago, this week, but will return to New York in time to appear in *‘Les Rantzean” in the Union Square Theatre next Tuesday evening, Miss Helen Vincent, recently returned from Europe, where she was studying drama and acting, is playing at the Acad. emy of Music, Jersey Oity, ber_list of Pll'l including ‘‘Romeo ~ and Julist,” ‘The Hunchback,” and *‘The Lady of yons,” Kate Claxton is to revive ‘“The Two Orphans” on & somewhat ambitious sosle in the Academy of Musio, Philadelphiz, next week. She will be supported by Marie Wilkins, Henriotta Vaders, Chas, A, Stevenson, Edward Arnott and Donald Robertson, Miss Clara Fisher, of Boston, (now Mrs, Maueder) nas been ou the stage almost con- tinuously for nearly sixty-five years. She is & native of Eogland, born July 14, 1811, and made her first appearance in London when less than seven years of age. Her Boston debut took place in 1827, Her husband was an Irish composer of some note, who died several years ago, Fred. erick G, Maeder, actor and author, and Gaspar Maeder,’ scenic artist, and her sons, Mme, Pauline Lucca having heard some one remsark that Wagner was ruining the best voioes with his compositions, replied: “This is mere empty babble, Neither ‘Wagner nor any other composer spoils the voice of any one who really knows how to siog, Our vocalists of the present day lmnglne that, after studying a year, they are finished -rfl-ul and able to sing before a hn‘o public, Six years, at lesst, of faithful study are necessary to develop the voloe in accordance with artistic methods. If our artists will only stndy their six years, and then diligently ))cactise N as I still do, to the admiratiu of my high- & g:ow{ conductor, 11 s Richter, we ve singe:rs who arc .. 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