Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 21, 1883, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE~OMAHA WE( NESDAY MARCH 21 tratlon to compel residents In treme eastern part of the ward to walk rearly a mile to get thelr names on The Omaha Bee. “The proclamation to increasn as- Ban- | sessments in Omaha to $15,000,000 was recently made, and we opposed 1t for reasons which we meant togive In great earnestness and candor In the Three Months,83,00 | Interest of the common welfare o We have never tricts pext fall and to make the choloe of republioan eloctors in 1884 at least has made bad work, or both the people and the onday morning daily, This winter was the time to mettle the qarstior As it {t was not sufficlent for the TERMS BY MAIL— o Y.""“.w'g One Month.... 1,00 people of the ocity. defended, nor do we propose to de: fend, either uneqaal or Inadequate as- sessments of property. We know the robberies that go on by anequal taxa- tion, and no one has more bitterly 90 | complained of them than we have ts | The remedy, however, is not in rals- DUMESTIC ECONOMY. There is a great deal of complaint about the cost of living in Omahs, and a correspondent writes to assert that owing to exorbitant rents and high prices of provisions it is impossi- ble to malntaln & family ‘‘decently’’ onless than $2,000 a year, while it s true that rents and provi- slons are high In our clty, the state- ment of our correspondent is dis- proved by the fact that there are hun- through the choice of sound and good | dreds of families maintained comfort- | mon, who capnot be used by anybody | ably and “‘decently” on less than half 98- | {16 sum mertioned. There are scores of cities in this country where the that prevall everywhere In rating real | cost of living is just as high as it is property for taxable purposes. This |in Omaha, and in which the propor- tlonof families who have $2,000 or lude | #0ything like that is very small. And periods of depression in values as well | yet, of this number a large majority as seasons ot prosperity ard high | manage to live comfortably, if not lax- Any other rale would work vast injury to the people who own both small and large properties — hauds of the vighteenth legis!atare of ate of Nebraska to put at rest all agitation upon this question, doing it the agitation s not only left open, but it has been increased in bit. terness and rendered only the mor difficalt of solation, republican party through its represen: tatives to defeat the leglslation so 0 long promised, the governor attached another odlous re sponsibility to the organization In this much needed an CHE WEEXLY BEE, published every ate which will cost it at least ten thousand votes at the next eleotion. We refer to his jadlcial appointments made last week. If there can be purity In anything TERMS i‘OST PAID— That the people complaln s no matter of surprise. right to complain; and more than that, they will make their AMERICAN lvlvu (éou‘;::ga Esola N-ndulmie— e enable a certain coterle political, if honest men are to be placed in any public positions, If the 1l or the wishes of the people are to be respected In any lnstance, it should be in the selection of the ju- complaint known two years hence with a vengeance. They will be more par- ticalar then than the; in the selection of thelr law makers, CORRESPONDENCE -All Oommuni. to News snd Editorial addressed to the Epiror straints and plunge this city into an enormous bonded debt, it rather in equalizing the assessments They will not onl; resent them who select men to rep old the right theory on the subject of railroad legislation, bat men who bave ability enough to carry theory Into 1 Thi Nebraska needed an able man; ay soore of them,on the floorof the house. BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Busines Tetters and Remittances should be dressed to THE Bex PUBLISHING COMPANY Drafts, Checks and Postoffice Jrders to be made payable to the order of How 'as this been donme?! Of the pointed by Mr. Dawes, only one has a reputation as & g lawyer or an es; man—and he is Wakeley, of Omahs, owes in the discharge cf duty. charging thelr duty they should be governed by the ocustomrry usages ally high-minded Jud, The BER PUBLISHING (0., Props. E. ROSEWATER Editor SpriNa opens with a blizzardous should; be done upon a principle of averages, covering a long perl which should alm to inc ment to a trade whereby that distriot is to have one democratic and one re- Rejected by the People. publican judge. Tiffany, of Alblon, is known as Loran Olark’s ‘‘right bower,” and the natural supposition Is that the Unlon Pacific rallroad, having lost its state treasurer, was compen his best friend made a j Post, of Columbus, was selected be- cause he was the attorney of the B. & M. railroad and the brother of Judge Post—soon to be Internal revenue col- lector for Nebrasks, and supposed to have Influence among our officials at Gov. Dawes bas appolnted W. H. Morris, of Crete, to the district judge- ship in this district. man 80 deeply snowed under last fall by Sabin for prosecuting attorney, aud we hope that when his term of traight demoorat will 'his forcing on to the people obnoxio and ‘‘decently,”(if not ex- travagantly, by the exercise of a care. ful domestic economy. Style, and The only rule in assessing property | luxury, and comfort and respectability for taxatlon {s one which will ascertain | are four different things. We know of its present value. The principle of | industrious mechanios In our city averages has nothing whatever to do|whose little homes contain more real with the question. Property ought|comfortthan the pretentious houses to bo assessed, not on what it was | of some others who are living fally up worth last year or the year before or | to thelr incomes and standing off the ten years ago, but at what it wouid | grocer and butcher In order to keep sell for in open market at the time of thelr carrtages. The real difference between the incomes of a man earning Our law provides that the assessor |$1,000 a year and one living on $2,000 ago when | shall rate all real estate at its full val- | is less a difference of comfort than of — Wicorxs' storm did not pan but a milk war is sweeping the Atlantic coast like a hurricane. Wirn the opening of spring there is a timely tumble in the price of meals at the eating houses on the U. P, road. pcitnar—— the republican party some of its bes! positions, and we hope it will continue until a few politicians find out they cannot ride over the people at will Morris is an ordinary, second-rate at- RuMOR has it that Jay Gould’s trip to Florlda is made with the object of buying up the railroad system of that That is the alligator Gould is Savidge, of Kearney, has done the dirty work for the U. P. railroad at that place for the past ten years, and in last summer's convention seconded torney, who will probably do the best he can to fill the place and we sup- pose he won't do any harm, but the people do not want him, any worse than they did Joa Garber, and the governor had better look a little far- ther before filling the pl the nomination of Loran Olatk for party effales in that county secured the nomination of Jay Gould’s cousin The party formerly had eight hundred majority in the Mr. Savidge and his candl- dates were repudiated by more than a thousand voters, and Gen. Conner was elected by an overwhelming msjority. For being of these thousand men, 0. Oalkins and F. G. Hamer, acknowl- edged to be the two leading lawyers of the westera part of the state, and be- The Prodigal’s Return. Elkhora Pen and Plow. Gen. Joe Hollman, d¢gmocratic rep- resenta’ive from Dakota county con- trary to the melancholy forebodings K. | of the Omaha Herald, caught onto the nd acted like a man of dls- the Sixth ward with Redman? 8ee|ierpreted this to mean one third of its | of the family with the smaller income. Cushing's letter to Holly, April 4'h, | highest market price. Bat the fact is that in Omaha the only property ss-|the virtues of economy and prudence Ouk three congressmen are now at sessed at this reasonable rating 1 the [ but they are true if trite. The abllity small property | to make ourself comfortable ona small while our large and wealthy |income is almost as valuable as the roal estate owners escape, threugh fair | ability to secure alarge fncome. *‘Be- uting a | means or foul, with a valuation of |ware of little expenses,” sald poor from one-seventh to one-thirtleth of | Richard, ‘‘a small leak will sink a e ] what they would charge to tranafer it | great ship.” Sprague’s nomination for governor |, ,.tual purchasers, There are a host of proverbs sbout home wrestling with the pregnant real estate of our political fature, thelr shadows betore, as the young Coming events cast | holders, killed a great big tatted n honor of this returned prodigal, and is having lots of fun eating all the veal himself. common report it ssems that there will not be a big demand for fat calves for the purpose above men. tioned, and probably it is quite proper enough to calf and wine the faw who were really deserving of the honor, tween either of whom and Sam Sav- idge there is no more comparlson than there is between Senator Ed- man sald who was just spro munds and Representative Franse, were entirely ignored and Savidge was n this district, W. H. Morris was the candidate for prosecuting attorney We knew little about him beyond what he had himself told us, and on account of his professions of devotlon to temperance principles we favored his election until our attention was called to the fact that he had re- fused or neglected to lation of law by a whi county even when his attention was called to it by an action In his own Bat {t seems that the people A more thorough study of domestie of Rhode Inland is sald to necessitate | gt bearing has the past value of | economy, In the majority of cases, the expendituce of $200.000 by the | ea) gstate In Omaha durlng ‘‘long|would more than counterbalance the repablican party. As there are only | oriods of years” upon this year's|effect of high prices in a limited in- 20,000 democratlo votes in Rhode Isl- and, it will readily bo seen that votes .4 trebled and quintupled since the|gance In dress often necessitate a de- state of the|Nehragka Ferry company first sold |crease in the meat and grocery bills. lots on this side of the Missouri, Real | The trouble with people of small New York lscomplaining of ite[bigh | estate In portlons of the city has|means who cannot make ends meet on bulldings, Omaha is complaining that | been steadily advanoing for the paat [less than $2,000 a yoar s that they On the principle of av-|never gauge their style of living by The thousand collar Property has doubled |come, Wastefulness and extrava- They Are Not Deceived. Never before in the history of Cen- tral Nebraska have the masses exhi- bited so much indignatio tion of their legislature, as now. Never before were they so earnestly enlistad in the cause of reform and justice. They are determined never agaln to trust the party which has betrayed them, and violated. every pledge made previous to election last fall. are poated as to where the responsi- bllity rests, for the fallure of railroad legislation and the efforts of purchased hirelings, like the ear to fasten that ti-monopoly mem- ture will prove fu- her business men do not see the econ- | five years, omy in lining our streets with fourand | eragos it would be safe to assess it thelr income. five story brioks instead of buildings |even higher than its present market | clerk often trics to ape the style of which ten years from now will elther [ value in anticipation of a still far-|the banker whose income s $20,000 & have to be torn down or enlarged at|ther advance before the final levy of | year. taxes is made in June. S— The trouble has been that the prin- Marat Halstoad telegraphs from|gjplg of the very lowest possible aver- | pense with noediess luxuries and reg- ge has been applied rgiht along for ulate their domestic wants according years to real estate valuation In this | thelr olrcumatances. of the distriot knew him better than we did, and he was badly beaten, run- ning thousands of votes behind his In the face of this declded Lot men and women who depend on | repudiation by the people of the dis- considerable expense. abor learn to live trict, who thus declared him unfitted for an Inferior position, he is now placed over our heads as judge—sim- within thelr means. Let them dis fallure upon the New York that the drift of publio bers of the legl: opinion points to Judge Edmunds as the next republican candidate for the oty snd county. With a mistaken presidency. BSenator Edmunds in one | {3es of escaping an increase of state of the few strong and honest publio|iyy which would not have been in-|A Oandid View of the rolitical Bitua- men In congress, but it ls a little early [ sronged a penny and of decreasing to hatoh any presidential boom for & |15eal taxation by diminishing the | Nebraske 8 sssessment, the valuation of Omaha l.m and Douglas county has been made a ¥y pay » political debt and to pun- he men who have dared to rebel against the dictation of a republican It Mr. Diwes has an Idea of RuPUBLICANISM IN NEBRABKA, A Good Appointment. 1f Senator Manderson’s federal ap- pointments will all compare with his appointment of Hon, Glibert L. Laws, of Harlan county to United States land office at McOook, he will have no fault found by the class of politicians and the people who i terests of the Laws is one of the men of the Republi- can valley that it will do to tie to, and Senator Manderson or anyone else will never regret that they picked him up for their frlend. We speak fi acquaintance of twenty years stand with both his personal and pul career where he was fully tested and proved to be worthy. The appolnt- ment suits us to a dot. serlous mistake. For we do not speak at random when we say that no single county In this judicial district will glve » republican majority next fall, and Mr. Dawes will not need to run much further behind his ticket than he did last yeair to secure his own re- turn to private life when he asks for an endorsement of his administration, Should he calculate that the presiden- tial election will carry him through, it might be well for him to remember convention which will not be held for more than a year to come, th the Herald r those republicans who have had pliclt faith in that party for twenty ears, who have learned to ocnsider flaunting ie for the past twelve years. | the name as synonymous with justice, It is to.day recorded In Linooln as|honesty, progress and good govern- ment, who have stoutly ocontended that the republican party was ‘“‘able and willing to accomplish all needed reforms,’’ the present cundition of af- In 1867 the assessed valuation of |fairs in Nebraska furnishes nothing Douglas county was returned at $5,- I sHALL soon be wi no more—G, L. Miller. How Inexpressibly sad. Before|$6,000,000 less than in 1870, when taking the fatal leap Into eternity the | €very one knows that It has more than demented parent of the Herald should | trebled sinoe that time. arrange with Coroner Jacobs for the post mortem, and by way of fatherly precaution leave a full supply of U, |911,269; in 1867, $8,077,779; In 18 P. soothing syrup to restore the im- valred olrculation of his consumptive but discourageme! # The Sigoal as a representative of 69, | this olass has exerted its powers to in 1870, $13,641,907. |the utmost to keep that party allve to From that time It decreased steadlly | the Interests and rights of the people, until In 1878 when a total valuation of | 8nd to keep the people within that |y, $7,342,382.22 only, was reported to pllt'hu pointed to the promises made the state auditor, which two years|in the platforms of the party comven- In 1870 tions during the past three ye: ce that there was no need to go de the party to secure any reform that was needed, and especially that inhabitants, in 1880, with 30,618 in- | regulation of monopolies which the habitants, her valuation was returned | constitution provides, equity allows, at something - over $7,000,000. Dur- that part of a tiocket may be elected and others defeated, as was evidenced by the 7,000 votes that defeated Loran Clark, and the 2,000 that made him- self the first plurality governor of Ne- Homi ton Couuty News. About every republican newspaper in Nebraska is trylog just now to convince the people that the anti- monopoly campaign cry the verlest fraud. According to plat- forms and campsign speeches every man in Nebraska was after antl. monopoly; and not a man for any office could have been elected on any but anti-monopoly declarations—not Republicans in the legislatare, It is plain that these appointments, ke the action ot the republican leg tore, were brought sonal oonsiderations, by ioflict summary punishment upon the AND now the vulture that edits the Herald threatens to invade the sepul- chres of ‘‘lamented friends” because this paper has’ seen fit to expose his : 4 base venality i cancelling & debt of Omaha had a trifle more than 16,000 . $1,800 with editorial soft soap. Such threats afford striking proof of the utter heartlessness of a wretch that has for years prostituted his position :;‘:.:h;‘l:“ o "oy Holly aa journalist to the basest ends. Bince he has seen fit to assall the relatives of his “lamented friends” just and proper for the Bx to state that he has as usual shot wide of the mark, Nobody, elther friend or foe, has inspired our allusion, spontaneous. It has been wecret for nearly two years from court It anything we have under- stated the amount of the cancelled later rose to $8,4567,141. with over $13,000,000 valuation, | eviden party whip, and by the dictation of the rallroad managers, In view of these facts, we say that the future of the republican Nebraska is discouraging. cause its members have departed from | 70, their principles; not because they do not value their republican record, and glory in its remembrance; but because the men who hold the offices and man- the machinery have lost sight of honor, of justice, and the urgent de-. r::::l of t'ho ime, hlve:l::lrifiuod tnh.el nf ty of the party to r perso ends, and are making its name odious to the people of the state. VOICE OF STATE PRHSS. and the people demand. It urged all republicans to ntfnd & conventions last been added In brick and | summer, and to secure the nomination mortar, not counting the inorease of |and electlon of men who would re- personal propertyin factories,storesand | deem the promiscs made in the con- It pointed out the fact that as the publican party wi elected on that issue, 26 When we take into consideration the fact that every bill looking to rellef from rallroad stealing that passed the senate was killed in the house where the republicans had a majority, we are foroed to the belief that thelr ory of antl- monopoly was for votes only. ‘What principle of averages have our property valuations for the | pe past sixteen yoars been based upon, | another term at lea unless it be the principle of tax shirk- | party, rellef could only come through It was ing by therich and taxpaying by the and maust be for , the dominant that source, and & withdrawal of men of anti-monopoly principles from its only leave the Tt is high time that this game of | nominations, and non’ hide and seek should stop. Publio|officers elected, under absolute control und private interests alike demand a thorough overhauling of our tax llsts |y, THE new registration law requires | s fale and impartial Uisting by the as- | ci every cltizen to appear In person this [ sessors and & judiclous and unflinch- spring before the ward registrar and |ing exerclse of thelr powers by the register his name and place of resl-|board of equalization. There Is no| g, Under its provisions a com- A Pertinent Question, Hamilton County News. The Lincoln Journal says Rose- water falled to run the last Nebraska In the name of God who did run it? The people want to fi:gi the man—and send him Wiggins- wi of rallroad politicians, On the other hand, this paper has upon the leaders and the offi- of the party the importance, not only as an act of justice but asa party measure, of & falthfal compliance with promises and an earnest and de- od effort to acoomplis! earthly reason why our state, clty and | in the way of needed rallway legisla- plete rovislon of the lists must be|county tax levy should be more than | tion. made. Such a revision cannot be made | 2§ per cent. on an equalized assess- in any other way. On this account s | ment of real estate in this olty. There of the highest importance that our|ls every reason why the men who have | from the caucuses to leave the conven. voters of every party should at once|succeeded for yoars tn throwing the |tlon in the hands of the machine; aad that they will{ burden of maintaining the olty upon those who have all along pald more The Lesson of the Hour, Polk County Farmer Advocate. The great lesson the people of the os are hoj oonf e ration nulut-.'lnd this, the last asked for has been granted, our trusts betrayed on every side. declsions of the supreme court are to be ignored, the censtitution of the state openly and willfully violated, the volces of an outraged publio drowned by a drunken mob of law makers, the state capitol turned Into a saloon, maintained by the thieves and with the money stolen from the tax payers, aud common decenoy and honest falth. ful representatives insulted and brow- beaten because they do not join in the general stampede, then it is high time the people deserted the party of sham pressions, and clean out the whole It is because of the intelligence of the people, who can and will rise aboye the clap trap of party, y, the history of the repub- lican party is finished, and it goes out loaded with bribes and corruption, The results of the convention and election demonstrated thesetwo things: Enough anti-monoj lists abstained assure themselves be entitled to vote at the coming elec- A neglect to take this precau- tlon will either lose them thelr votes [ be forced to come to time, or compel every unreglstered voter to|is a jewel which has found no pla awear in his ballot on April 3d. This | the casket of Omaha asseseors, is always a tedious and harrassing pro- cews, The only eafety is in reglstra- tlon., The coming election s to be one of the most important held in Omaha for years. Aside from s tull | My, Donnelly, ls advertised to list of elty officers slx eouncilmen and | purposes of rogistration st Ninetoenth six members of the boardof education, | and Willlam streets. This may be the question of the econtinuance of very well for a fow days to accommo- public improvements is to be submitt- enough republicans were driven from the party, which had previously num- bered two-thirds of the voters of the than thefr fall share of taxes should | State, to leave it in the pitiable posi- y | tlon of having its governor elected by n | ® plurality vote only, and its candidate for treasurer defeated by a majority of over four thousand. This was the positior wheu the leg- lslature met, and it was this position which forced the guvernor who was nominated and e’ected by rallrcad ) | votes to plead in Lis iuangural address sit for | for rallroad leghlation, We belleve “hat when that legiala- ture met, a .najority of its members Intended tg work for a measure of this kind, Br. we further belleve that date cltizens In the ward who live In|various ‘.fluences, such as flattery, ed to our voters, The submission of | the nelghborhood of the white lead |P8ases, yromises of publio positions, the sewer bond proposition makes 1t | works and shot tower, but the regis- Decossary that a full vote shall be|trar ought ocertalnly polled. Let every voter reglater, time has come when the demand that it shall, TuE registrar of the Second ward, gohers. Fify Ceats s HE CHARLES A. V A VOURLER 800 “McOARTHY & BURKE, »Undertakers, 218 14TH BT, BET, FARNAM AND DOUGLAS A Costly Lesson. Grand Island Times. The republicans of the senate made on and ths awakening of allens od these men, from ‘o remove very |dowr to the least member of shortly to s more central location, It !isls' are, and led them to commit DOU MM A;D WX OHLE ACOTING POWHR AND HAND PUOUOMES! 8team Pumps, Engine Trimmings, C(ININ® MAONINERY, BELTING, IM‘ BRASS AND IRON FITTINGS PIF STYRAN PAOKING, AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. HALLADAY WIND-MILLS CHURCH AND SCHOOL BELLS Oor. Farnam and 10th Streets Omaha, Neb. SPECIAL NOTICE TO Growers of Live Stock and Others. WE OALL YOUR ATTENTION TO OUR Ground Oil Cake. It 1s the best and cheapent food for stook of any kind. One pound is equal to threo pounds of corn, Stock fod with Ground Uil Cake in the fall and win- ter, Instead of running down, will {noreato in welght and be in good market- able condition in the spring. Dairymen as well as others who use it can tes- tify to its merits. Try it and judge for yourselves. Price $26.00 per ton; no charge for sacks, Address 04-eod-me WOOODMAN LINSEED OIL CO., Omaha, Neb, M. Hellman & Co. WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS, 130l and 1308 Farnam St. Cor. I18th _ OMAHA, NEB. : McMAHON, ABERT & CO,, Wholesale Druggists, 815 DOUCLAS STREET _ - - OMAHA NEB, McNAMARA & DUNCAN. WHOLES ' LE DEALERS IN KENTUCKY AND PENNSYLVANIA W hiskieS! in Bond or Free. Also direct Importers of WINES, BRANDIES AND ALES, Jobbers and Manufacturers of Fine CIG-ARS. Agents for Jos. Schlitz’ Milwaukee Beer, Bottled and in Kegs. 214% 916 8, 14TH SYREE®, - - - OMAHA NEB, C. F. GOODMAN, DRUGGIST AND DEALER IN PAINTS,OILSVARNISHES And Window Glass. CGATH OITTY PLANING MILLS. MANUFACTURXRS OF Carpenter’s Materials SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, STAIRS, Stair Railings, Balusters, Window and Door Frames, Etc. First-olass facilitiee for the Manufacture of all kindes of Mouldings, Painting and ma Bpecialty, Orders from the country will b executed, ] Py PP SRR Broorts A. M. 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