Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 31, 1884, Page 8

8 OMAHA DALY REN«YCERNDATCN A v OMAHA DAILY BEE- e A AT Bn SATURDAY., MAY.31, 1884, [ ———e THE DAILY BEE. Saturday Morning, May 31. THE FALLEN BRAVES. Doing Honor to the Last Memory of the TERS WANCED. A numbor of good printers csn find steady employment at this office, i.OOAL BREVITIES. _Yesterday morn. Anna Meyer filod a com- plaint against Gust. Benoks, charging him with disposing of proparty on which there was & morteage. —Hon, I, tonth judicial district, came up yesterday from Lincoln, Mr Hamer says his trip here thas nothing to do with politics, but partakes of a business nature, —Mr. William Umpherson celobrated his fifty-sighth birthday Thuraday eve. at his resi- donce, in South Omaha, A large number of his neighbors and friends were present, and passed a very ploacant evening. Music was furnished by Gus Doyle's string band, assia- ted by Miss Crigloy on the piano. Dancing was kopt up until a late hour, and an elegant supper was served, —The old man, Lecd, of Masonville, Towa wh was found in a coal shed on Capital avenue two days since, died yosterday, It was decided to move him to the hospital but while the wagon was waiting to convey him there he died. A number of physicians are holding an autopsy to ascortain the native of his injusies. —Sherfff Pierce, of Saunders county, re- turned from a mysterious trip to Towa Thurs- day, leaving on tho B. & M. train last night Mr. Piorce has & for his home st Ashland, warrant for thoarrest of Fell, the missing pu- gilist; and while he is not saying much about the nature of his visit there are certain indica- tions which tend to show that the time for Jailer Pioket, who accompanied the sheriff, remains behind him in Towa, with instructions to keep worving the paper is not far distant. his oars and eyes open. —Mr. James Stockdale, of tho U. P. shop officos, and ex-prosident of the St. Georgo's club, will leave with his family ina day or two for Australia, whero they intend to make thelr home. They go first to their old home in England for a brief visit. Mr. Stockdale hasboen in Omaha for rixteon years and all of that time in Superintendent Congdon’s offioe, and with his family, has earned tho es- toom of a larze circle of friends. The removal is mado in the hope of benefitting Mrs, Stockdalo's health. —About thirty memboers of the Omaha Glee club acospted an invitation extended by Mr. and Mrs Loavitt Burnham Thursday ove. and passed a fow hours pleasantly at their new homo on Cass and Twonty-first streot, Mr. and Mrs, Burnham were assisted by their niecs, Mias Mollie Abbott, of Boston, who is spending the summer with thom, and also by Mcs. Judge Savage, Mrs. M. M. Putnam, Dr. Brydges, Mr. Tillson and John H. McCall. Singing, Instrumental music and refreshments wore tho order of the ovening, and the time flod 5o speodily that there were many regrets when the hour for dispersing arrived. e e— Lost—On cemetery grounds, a gold locket and chain. Finder will please re- turn to Bek office and be rewarded. ———— PERSONAL, C. H. Eyermann, St. Louls, is at the Mot ropolitan, Hamer, district judge of the Dead Herocs. The City of the Dead Profusely Decorated With Flowers. A Long and Tmposing Procession—A Briliant Oration by Hon. A, J, Poppleton at the Ceme- tery, Memorial day is observed all over this country, and wherever lies the remains of one of the herooes of the late war there may bs found hundreds of loving hearts and willing hands, all anxious to do honor to him whose life was laid down in such a glorious cause, In this city it has always been the cus- tom to observe Dacoratien Day in an ap- propriate and becoming manner. Since this custom was begun it was never more fully observed in this city than it was yeosterday. The excercises ‘of the day were under the auspices of the Geo. A. Custer Post, No. 7, department of Nebraska, Grand Army of the Republic. The executive committee have beon busy for sometime in completing the necessary arrangements and how well they succeeded was seen by <he lengthy and imposing_procession and the smoothness with which the entire programme was carried out. About 10 o'clock the Gi. A. R. assem- bled, and headed by a drum corps, macched down and took their stand on Fifteonth stroet, the right resting on Douglas. Before 11 o'clock the streets were thronged with citizens, on foot and in carriages, and the city had put on a holi- day appearance. Many of the stores Ty flags and bands of music were playing. At 11:30 battery B. bth artillery, headed by the 4th In- fantry band, and under command of Major DeRusey, marched into the city and took their position on Fiftoenth street, the right resting on Douglas. A fow minutes after 12 o'clock the order was given to march, The prosess- ion was formed in the following order. First division was composed of the marshal of the day, Mr. H. E. Largeand aids; Fourth infantry band; troops from Fort Omaha, under command of Major DeRusey. including battery B, Fifth ar- day, the fierce political agitation of 185 when for the first time, the country waa brought face to face with the possibility of a civil war the deeper and profounder agit: t 1860, when the intensity of conflicting o fons and the dark foreboding couflict gave twall debate and discussion an undercirrent of solemnity and dread —how the election and inauguration of President Lincoln was fol lowa 1 by a painful period of anxiety and alarm, unt’l the spell of uncertainty and ap. prohension was broken by oannon stot crash- fng into the wallsof Fort Sumpter—how there was huerying to and fro of citizan soldiers un- til two hostile armies were set in hostile array ngainst each other in the hitherto peaceful woods of Manassas—how the issue of that blosdy fieldwas followed first by consternation and, dismay ~then by renawed and solomn ap soals to the God of battles —the long period of hope deferred, which maketh the heart sick, between Manassas and Fort Donelson the measured teamp of hopeful legions in every quarter of this vast country, until the valor of tho armios of the east and west, disciplined and hardened and bronzed into veteraus sn¢ guided by generals tasted in the crucible of wiccossful hattles and campaigns, load a peo- ple, four years before addicted to the bland- dishmenta and refinements of poace, to victory unsurpassed in the annals of righteous w The sun of the_anniversary of the na independence in 1526 illuminated the closing eyes of two of the fathers of the republic John Adams and Thomas Jefferson—types of the north and south —sons of Massachussetts and Virginia—in life wedded to a noble cause, in death enshrined in the hearts of a grateful people. The fourth of July 1863 gave to the war its most decisive victories, Gettysburg and Vicksburg, while the March to the Sea, the Wilderness, Petersburg and Appotomatox, closed the throes of agony through which the nation was born_ into & more perfect union. For a moment the sky was darkenod with the most causeless, cruel, wicked and ungrateful assassination the world has wicnessed since the crucitixion of Christ —~but with a compassion- ate forbearance and self-control, little short of divine, the poople addressed themselves mouenfully to the work so filty outlined by tha martyre 1 presidsnt on the eve of his tragic death, “‘With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmuess in the right as God gives us to see the right, lat us strive to finish the tillory, commanded by Capt. J. B. Rawles; officers of the department of the Platte. Second division, under command of first assistant marshal, Mr. A, M. Clark; drum corps,Custer Post No. 7, G. A. R.; wagon with thirty-eight young misses, dressed in white—and representing the thirty-eight states of the Union; wagon with flowers and committee on flowers; civil societies. Third_division, under command of Adolph Burmaster; speakers of the day in carriages, escorted by Hibernian Ri- fles; Glee Club and citizens in carriages. The procession moved west on Doug- las to Sixteenth, north on Sixteenth to Saunders, west on Saunders to Charles, north on Charles to King, west on King to Frauklin and thence to the cemetery. Along the line of march tlags were fly- ing and many residences were beautiful- ‘W. W. Warner, Osceols, Nob., is registered | ly decorated with flowers. atthe Motropolitan. When the cemetery was reached a Thos. J. Forshee, of Indianapolis, Ind., is |dirge was played by the Fourth Infantry at tho Motropolitan. William H, Carey, of 8t. {Paul, Nebraska is at tho Metropolitan, * A. C. Joslyn and wife, of Kenosha, Wis., aro at the Motropolitan. band, after which Hon. A. J. Poppleton delivered the oration of the day, which " |is published in full below. The Omaha Glee club then sang asong, Richard Burke and Edmund Bartlett each made addresses, after Miss Ella Fluieng, of New Brunswick, is a | Which the Grand Army of the Republic guest of the Motropolitan. proceded to strew with flowers the of their fallen comrades. raves The flowers O. . Gles. of Kansm City, s In the ety | ware very fine, many beautiful designs stopping at the Metropolitan. Thos, E. Memminger, Burnett, Fobraska, is rogisterod at the Motropolitan. were noticeable. While the G. A. R was decorating the graves of the dead soldiers a delegation from the fire department ted the graves of the Dr. 0, O, Roynolds and wife and Miss Luo | firemen who died in the service and Burkley, of Seward, are stopping at the Met- placed beautiful floral tributes upon the ropolitan, grave of each, The ceremony was a very e . impressive one and many an eye was Nepraska State Gazerteer & Bus- | moist with toars as the little handful of vess Dineorory to be issued in July, | flowers was thrown upon the graves of 1854, price $4.60. ~ J. M. Wowrk, pub |comrades. The Glee club than sang, her 120 8. 14th St.. Omaha, “My Country 'Tis of Thee,” after which SOCIAL METHODISTS. A Delightful Eyening Spent by the Congregation, Thursday evening the First Methodist church, southwesth corner Seventeenth and Davenport, was thronged with a joy- " ous crowd, the occasion being the annual social and song service. One of the most pleasing features of the Qnuminment was the recitation and readings of Miss Genevera Ingersoll of this city, Miss Ingersoll shows dramatioc forco and elocutionary powers of the hichest ordes. Her rendition of ‘“How we Hunted a Mouse” was the finest ever heard in Omoha. Tuk Bek prediots for m talented young lady a brillant fu- An Inquest will be Held,' 0. H. Leed, the unfortunate old man who has been lying unconscious for soveral daysat the city jail, died yester- day afternoon. His case will be investi- gated by Coroner Maul. It is not known what the cause of his death was, buc for the good of the public the matter will be investigated. Seme strange and mysteri- ous circumstances surround the affair, which certain county officials think at least ought to be looked into. Mr. 1. N. Pierce, superintendent of the poor farm, says that Leed lived with him all last winter, and on account of s:yliul disabilittes was wholly unable to manual labor. The deceased, it is in- ferred from papers now in the hands of !lar...l’icm. has & brother at Greeley, Wi The coroner has been busy looking up testimony but has found no one who saw him after about nine o'clock in evening of Tuesday, at which time he was in front of the Paxton hotel very drunk and was to bide from the officers who con- tin, trail that beat. An inquest will wohodyhnhdd to-day after which his remains will be buried at the expense of the county. —— ARE YOU GuING TU EUROPE? 1o another column 'I’IJ‘IIH“ found the wn A'ouhtlo-:n". . HK‘L\?M: K lew Yorl xelative to the very complete arrangements they have made !:Au in Bwops the ‘Cook’s Excur- the benediction was pronounced and the crowd dispersed . Below is appended a verbatim report of the oration delivered by Hon, A. J. Pop&lemn. on, A.J, Poppleton's Address, ‘Wo have met to-day to commemorate the valor and sacrifice of the heroes of the eroatest civil conflict of any age or country— martyrs to national uaity. Only two decades ago, the graves wo this day crown with flowers strawn with loving and {mt«ful hands, were nk with odor of fresh laid earth and mois- ned by bitter tears, Upon them to-day the overgrowth of oblivion has spread its tokens of decay, and time, the consolor, has soothed tho sorrows of the widowed and the fatherloss. But In tha hearts of the peoplo of the great North American republic whom their blood ransomed from national dissolution, the mem- ory of their herolo deeds, their patient forti- tude, their suffering and agony —that supreme self-sacrifice which voluntarily eniiches a land of liberty with its own life-blood —their desds of valor and devetion are sweet and fresh and n as when their bodies were committed to the ‘‘ashes to ashes dust to dust” of honored ’:&vu. And so they will remain forever, or all time to come age will venerate their wemory, youth will aspire to attain their sum- mit of moral grandeur—their plane of patriot- ism. From ageto age matrons and maids will rehearse the story of their lives and pray thit husband, son and lover may catch the spirlt of the patiiotism and sacrifice thom- sclves, if neod be, upon the altars of their country. Paintiog and sculpture and litsra ture will commemo ato their virtues and achievements in marble and canvas, while some American Thucydides or Gibbon or M. caulay will make the historic page luminous with the glory of their lives, 'All, of every degren, who have borne even the lightest part inthe great couflict —whother ylelding the sword, tho musket, the soalpel, the spade, whether spanning the bridgolass stream, movs ing the succoring train, or standing with prac- taced fiogers upon the keys of the lightuing which breathed fnto a million of men & siugle soul —shall bo sharers of this immortality of fame, this apotueosis of valor, this triumphal march down th cycleof the uges —*“The blood of the martyr is the seed of tne church ¥ The mewmory of the noble dead, -slain in defeuse ivery pressuce as it were of of national life will bethe germ of that per- petua) national union and power which alone can insure the lplrmlu-ul welfare and huppl- ness of the people and parpetuate the procious horitage of civil liberty bequoathed by the uvglrdunuflullx‘n of the republic, ut no words t we here can utter will reach the ““dull cold ear of death” or wake the silent tenants of thnul)uluhnc from theie dreamless sloop. They laid dowa thelr lives not for thewselves but for the living -that the teemizg willivns, who from generation to gen- oration shall dwell in this land of freedow may enjoy the blessivgs of civil liberty and rder- that posos, progross and blessings of good government may mver be deuied to cread, color, race or nationality. Btavding before this city of tne dead, toww dy which the feet of all are swiftly tending, in the #piries of our benefuctors, lot us ask what, th fr, haa boan the fruit of heir saoriice and snd Bwomer. e e AT SRk T K B i Maay of us remember, a8 if it were but yester- the translated | work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to cara for_him who shall have borne the hattlo and for his widow and his orphan, todo all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” Twonty years have elapsed since the curtain foll upon this world-watched drama,_of civil strife, and what, thus far, have been its fruits. By repeated amendments of the constitution and successive adjudications of the supremes courts the paramount authority of the na- tional sovereignity within its sphero has boen confirmed and the civil rights of the humblest person under the allegisnco of the Unitad States, irrespoctive of race, has been vindi- cated and assurod. Local prejudice and pro- vincial hatreds, tho growth of a contury of ruo civilization, intensified by animosities ongendored by tha crueltios of war, are gradually yiolding to a better acquaintance aud friendly lntercourso, induced and sustained by nolf-intorost —the brokon links of friendship, forged by common dangers and trials and achievements, i tho revolution, in the war of 1812, in the swift descent upon the halls of the Montezumas in 1846, and gradually reuniting, and the enfranchised blacks have not as yet overthrown the hopes and vrophecles of those who believed them, possibly over many obsta- clea and through many failures, despite much ignorance and prejudice and race hatred, capa- ble of finally attaining a lovel of intelligance, education and morality, fitting them for self governmont. An invasion of northern capital and enterprise (more potent than panoplied logions) has pourod down upon tho aouth in railways, tolegraphs, miues, wanufactures and inventive, executive and administrative skill, until its stroams and mountains are alive with industries and its fields heavy with staples out of which the fabrics of the world are wrought. And above all, and better than all thero is slowly stealing over the entiro south, the land of Sumpter_and Marion and Jackson and Bonton and Clay and Boone and Kenton—of Camden and Cowpons and Eutaw Springs and Yorktown—tho conviction that the new is better than the old, thas fresdom is better than slavery; that union is botter than disunion; that the blow which struck the shackles from the bondmen, liberated master and slave alike, No lover of his country and race can fail to see that the ship, so fraught with promiso for the race, the world over, has passed the shoals and rapids and emorged lnto thesafe doop anchorage of the sea, Whatever perils may bosotts voyago, hovor in th ro. mote horlzon and are not yot cloarly defined to the vision of the most skillful, vigilant and far-sighted pilot. Yot the stormy Petrel whoels athwart the tossod and troubled waves portentous augury that the voyage cannot be without the porils always incident to the vasty deep. The decline of this republic will come, if at all, from national decay the deterioriation of national character, the fnsidious sapping of the vitality, tho purity, the courage, the pat- riotim, the viFtnb of tho poopio, o tho adop: tion of unwise domestic or forelgn policies of government, Is it possible now to discover and designate any of the agencies at work in that direction —tendencies which unchecked will ultimately lead to national dissolution. Boar with me a moment while I briefly indi- cate somo of the gathering clouds, which soom to be Iumu(ng upon the verge of the horizon, Thero an bo little doubt that throughout tho whole country there is n perceptible drift in the direction of general social demoraliza- tlon Tho provalonce of erime, tho uachoc roign of violenco and lawlossnoss in the den- soat and sparest populations the almost uni- versal enthronsment and defense of Judgo Lynoh, who, whatever may bo said in pallia. tion of his offenses, is immeasurably the great- est eriminul yot known to the history of Amer- ica, tho docline of the sacredness of the mar- riage bond and the universality and ~facilitios of causeloss divorce, the carnival of specula- tion, poculazion, defulcation and_theft which roars in the money marts of our financial - cen- tors, touching and contaminating every olass and condition of life, are witnesses, trumpot tongued, that the leprosy of idieness, lust aud grood 1 sproading its infoction broadcast through tho land, Side by side with this dark procession of evil, comes the manifold agen- cios of tho highest civilization yet attwined by man -achools, churches, the countloss indus- trios and ocoupations which absorb the ener- gios and activitios of mon and are the safe out- lots of that wasculine vitality, which devoted to love and war, creatod an age of ohivalry, upheld alike feudal servitude and splendor, mado ninety-nine per cont of mankind vassals and heuchmen, and of woman mistress or alave and sometimes both, asylums, hospitals, homes, and the ton thousand {nstruments whereby love and mercy ameliorate the lot of modern life. Yot it sooms an unequal raco. Vico and iniquity are vigilaot, wakeful and Adustinet with superhuman energy because their nadinte and Taeds sh Inps: lo appetite, Virtue stands aghast at its conquests. It s the old conflict, wagod from goneration to genoration, from century to century, from age to age, but ever, thank God, with increasing hope on thoe ong sido aud despaie on tha other The serried f virtue can nover be pierced or broken in the center or faceto face. Unless flanked, , wisled or otherwise betrayed, thoir onward march will forever continue unchecked, until their banners are planted in triumph on tho millenial hoights. The commen sentinont of all nationalities has taboood polson s # weapon of civilized warfare. Yot much prosent day dients, the so-called literature of the atur sed with poisonous ingr The vast improvement in printing ey wud conwonuont chaapania of pub lication, hus eiven to the public » .uppl{ of ronding’ hithorto ontirely unkuown. The universal diffusion of elomentary education has stimulated amongst the mass of the people an appotite for general reading formerly abun- dantly satisfied w literary masterpiocos, which had becomo the classice of the people. The process of cheapening price has ch quality, while the infusion of sin to whet and piquo the public appotite, has brought the current reading and tasie ef the mass of the population to_the lowest level of daconcy ever reached ouf decadence of Rome, when tho battle-axe and imperial triumph had given way to the sybarite baths and the enervated and plastio Cwsars were kneeling at the foet of captive queens, un- windful of the honor aud glory of the empire. This_postilent literature stares at us from the | sh op-windows, obstructs us in our streets,rides L s s allware. Erests e L0 O hos tals, pollutes our wmails and steals into our homes. 1t snares the feet of childhood and lo4ds our ons and daughters Srom the simple delights of the fireside to the noisv gilded d | can never be attended with danger. apeech and discussion, but it is a shame and roproach to journalism that it cannot visit the homes of the peopls, without carrying into thern the infection of sensational scandal and ime and ministering to the perversion and ptious of the mindstand hearts of youth Pt notwithstanding the enormity of the evil, it must bo mainly self corrective, lestin at tempting to erect a censorship over the press liberty of spesch and discussion may not be insiduously overthrown. The hurtful influ once of debasing printed matter d read without res! it is 1 possible t wad it is one of the agencies and influen fraught with the greatest peril to the ma and intellectual character of people. Doterio- ation of the fibre of character is to the spirit- ual man what the degradation of tissue is to the physical body, the certain procura dnath, Closely akin to this and perhaps leratod ,'is the dectin of al formy rospact, the secalarization of lifo, the frantic pursuit of gain, tho rockless chasing of the elusive phantoms of human pride and ambition. No one can look npon the panorama of tho last thirty days of Wall streot without a faeling of sorrow and humilia: tion, diffisult to repress from «pen utterance, and 'the fixed conviction that wealth not won by legitimate industry, enterprise and iuvest- ment is & withering curse, fatal to every noble aspiration of the soul, destructive to the boest traits of character an individual disaster and a national peril. The Puritan is not al- ways o favored figure in history, but in these days of law principles and laxer vractices, the iron rigidity of tha character of the man of the Mayflower looms in solitary grandeur before our vision and beacons us to the lofty sumrmits of honor and virtue attained undor his Spar- tan code of ethica, The profoundest thinkers and most sagacions men are deeply concerned as to the final out- come of the suppred conflict between labor and capital, It is to be noted that this ques. tion, as presented, is of comparatively recent origin, It has come npon us with the growth of cur&mmhn power and the provalenca of spocial and class legislation. In the provious history of the world the tiling multitudes — outside of involuntary slavery, have suffared from the pressure of bad government and _the exnotions of rulers upheld by the sword, Bat here in & country of constitutional liberty, whose founders studiously and labori usly sought to set bounds to the accumulation of capital in single hands, the problem has ro- opened under new conditions, clamorous for solution. [n my judgment until some means are found to chock the immoderate accumula- tion of wealth insingle hands and produce a more equtable distribution of the fruits of labor and skill, no satisfactory solution will be roachod. The tendency to concentration 18 & natural law, counterbalanced and reme lied to some extent by the duration ot human life and the redistribution incident thereto. Prolong a human life, make it perpotual, with its ac- tivities unimpaired, and no reason can be as signed why it will not ultimately absorb the entire wealth and power of the state. In the Drossing need of some single, central power which should not be subjot to personal change or the limitations of natnre, while af- fording that immunity from individual loss, essential to the prosecution ot great works. the modern pecuniary corporation was created. 1t would be difficult to estimate the good it has wrought in the world, but like all other agencies it is subjectto abuse, It seems to be a natural law that risk and danger are in direct ratio to utility and power. Steam has revolutionized the industry and commerce of { the world, but its pathway is strewn with hec: tatombs and victims, Electricity haa girdled tho earth and hrought diverse nations and poople into relations of confidenco and _amity, Jetita ungoverned potoncy s the- deadliest weapon_of nature—Dynamite has leveled mountains, excavated ~tunnels and opened channels to the world's commerce, yet Lings tremble and thrones totter at the word, So corporate powaers, legitimately exercised and adequately curbed and_contrilled are indis- ponsablo _instrumentalitios of modern life, hs doctrine ot inviolability of ~corporate charters and that the executed dealings of corporations must be npheld without regard to original authority to enter upon them, has clothed these artificial persons with _tremen- duous powers, No foresight can with abeo- lute certainty indicate what adequate barriers may be interposed against their exercise in the achievement of that supremacy to_ which it ia natural to aspire, This only can bo said with absolute certainty—that all forms of special and class legislation; subsidies, grants aud puaranties of every name and nature, all manner of taxation levied upon one man’ for the benefit of another, tend directly to the unequal distribution of the fruits of labor and ukill, and the accumulation and concentra- tion of capital in single hands, If the wealth of & country and the power it confers is to be concentrated inone person, I see no reason why it may not ba lodged in a throne, hollilns some allegiance to public opinion and chargo with the obligations of & pternal ruler, as in an artificlal entity from which history and cus- tom and tradition has required no duties, ex- acted no bonds, taken no hostages. The wupreme court of the United States has re- peatedly asserted the broadest powers of con- trol, regulation and repesl and so long as that augast tribunal shall remain worthy to wear the robes of John Marshall, the toiling millions of this republic, in the whole history of the world unparalleled aud unapproached in sobriety, industry, intelligence and patrivt- m, may safely rest beneath its sheltor. Beyond the labor question and infinitely moro critical and dangerous, lies the race question, 1t will not become a burning prov- lom in this generation, but in my judgment the seeds of its solution cannot be too quick- ly sown. The tmmigration of kiudred races A nation of fifty millions of people will assimilate and absorh ,vast accessions of population of cog- nate blood. As the Mississippi in its course to the gulf receives the contributions of tribu- tary regions which lose their distinctive char- acter in the swelling flood of the Father of Wators, s the varied lines of immigration crowing the sea are speedily merged into a homogenious siciety, But to the question whethior tho Ethiopian and the Anglo saxon canever bo fused by any process or by any length of time into complete homogeniety, as yothistory Interpose a nogabive answor.. . In 1860 the colored population of the United States was 4,441,830, In 1870, notwithstand. ing the dismay and confusion and disturbance of tho war it had incrawsed to 4,880,000 while in 1880, in ten yoars of peace and tranquility, it had rison £0 6,080,798 - an Increaso In that timo of mearly 2 ,000000. The ratio of " incrowo Clargaly " exceods - that of any other class of population. When it is remembered that nine-tenths of this population and increase is in the southern states that the white population of these suatos is,compared with corresponding northern states, small and so circumstanced s not to increase its relative virility and fecundity, the Mgnllicunca of these facts becomes obvious, When such states as Virginia, Georgis, Louis- iana and Mississippi, North and South Caro- lina, present the following figures and it is re- membered that the ratio of increase is heavily in favor of the blacks, we may well pause in breathloss suspense: wipp Louisian. ... North Carolina South Carolina. . 891,106 8,800,403 3,646,304 Thus it will be seen that in three leading Southern States the blacks largely exceed the whites and in six states contaluing an aggre- gate population of 7,630,767, the excess of whites is only 244,150, All ‘history teaches and it may be assuined, there can be no real fusion of the two races. The problem for statesmanship {s not how they may be made to coalesce, but how they may, as distinct and soparate races, dwell togather in harmony and feach in thelr own way and according to their light and strength become and re. main pillars and supports of the Barbaric of government and joint conservators of civiliza- on., 1 have no confidence in the efficacy of direct repressive or }nlhx legislation to_avert the calamity these facts foreshadow. No people on the globe have so much confidence in an act of Congress or state legislation or mun- icipal laws to right every wroug_and suppress overy abuse, as Americans, 'The result is that the statute books are loaded with ediots, which the moment they are promulgated be- come dead —past resurection. Whether we like it or not public opiuion as evolved through the press, tho pulpit, the plstform aud overy form of free discussion, is the supreme law of the land, The antidote to this threatewed national calamity therefors lies in religion and education, and not in direcs governmental in- terferencs beyond the preservation of private plosbures of gas-light and the discord and jar- § rights and the enforc.ment of public order. u of publio carnivais, The public press is absolutely essential to the existence of civil liberty. "No constitutional government can lomg exist without the utmost freedom of 1f theso agencies prove impotent ere mauy generations have passed the face of the South will be covered with clouds aud darknoss. its fiolds drenched with the blood of contending races and the pillars of the temple of Liberty erected by our fathars, upon this virgin conti- nent shaken to their foundations. et us de Coneord and Lexington to inclined the ear of Yorktown, “rance to the appeals of Franklin, who gave us Washington and Mar- shall, and Hamilwon and Jefferson, to launch the new government upon its career of useful- ness and glory sincerely beliove has Ieliiled upon the firat century of the Republic, may avert this threatened woe and preserve and perpetuate to remotest ages in poace, prosperity and unity, all the dwellers in this d, irrospoctivo ol nativity, creed or com- plexion, 1f I have seomed to you to draw & sombre victure, let me now before T close lift it to the light and show how_littl after all its expanse is obscured and darkened. There is no abso ute safety for any people excopt in national power aud prostigo. Tae dream of Utopian s and innoconce has charme | the imagination of poets and be: guiled statesman in e age, but commer- cinl, fin netal and military supremacy alone has Tifted nations an i their citizens beyond the reach of conquest or subjsction. The magnitude of power ssems to baget moderation 1n its axorcise, Held ) the rigid responsibili- ty which enlightoned product of advansed intelligence in all modern discusssion, exacts evan autocratic and mon- archial forms have been driven slowly, nevertheless surely to wise and liberal internal administration and the recognition and pres. orvation of individual rigats. The reed equal personal right and the essential equali ot all men before the law, sown by Franklin riponed into a harvest of republican_senti- governments into actual democracics, I"rance after many trials,much bleodshed, be- trayed by friends and overpowered by foos, finally clothes itself in the full robes of repub. lican government. Kogland ylelds to an ex- tension of the franchise, the power and pres- tige of toryism is steadily waning—the re- morseless grip maintained for centuries upon Treland, visibly relaxes, and every first-class power of Furope swolls and seethes and cracks with thecreative power of the leaven of democracy. “*Roturning justice lifts aloft her scale and living eyes may yet soe the ra- diant face of Ireland, in the language of one of her most gifted sons, *“Redeemed, regener- ated, disenthralled, "ransomed from her long captivity, restored to integrity and indepen- dence. Looking forward then to the future of the republic, I can sea a land teeming with plen- tyan i radiant with the joys and occupations of unbrokon peace, I &eo wise counsels and just administration welding the hearts of the people into indissoluble unity and affection, linking them in unfailing loyalty to the cen- tral power. I see the citizen absorbed in the pursuits und duties and sacraments of life un- conscious of the presence of law; I aeo our railronds hot with intercourse and traffic, our telegrams charged with obedient lightning, bringing all men and virtues face to face, ear to oar and heart to heart. I see our inland seas white with the rounded sails of internal commerce and our rivers vexed by the prows of laden steamers. I seo the poaceful and be- neficont invasion of neighboring states by American capi al, enterprise and skill until they shall bo won from their allegiance and wodded to the stars and stripes—Not by war, not by force, not by guile or dissimulation, but by the overmastering power of better in- stitutions, higher olvilizacion and noblor lifs; T se0 the nations of the earth at poace and chiof among them the great North American Republic, the arbitrator of differaace, the um- pire of dixpute. I see the whole world and 163 inhabitants, in the lapse of centuries won from barbarism and savagery and delivered in- to the p wer of the priuce of peace, Seeing all the«o things and believing the germ of this mighty regenoration first struck living root in the United States of America, I thank God that ““Government of the people; by the poople, for the people,” has not and can not perish ‘from earth e ——— Want ot Faith. Tf Schroder & Becht, tho druggists,donot suc cood it is not for the want of faith, They have such faith in Dr. Bosanko's Cough and Lung syrup as a remedy for Colds, Consumption, and Lung affectons,that they will give a bottle free to each and every one who is in need of & ‘medicine of this kinc — The Boss Cow* Thursday afternoon a cow belonging to Mr. R. P. Johnson, who resides at 1110 N. Twentieth street, gave birth to three calves. The calves are all large, perfectly formed and are all doing nicely. Last year the same cow gave birth toa calf weighing one hundred and twenty- five pounds, while the year preceding are the result of over forty years' experience in compounding cough medicines,—me-16-3t, | —— Real Estate Transfers, The following transfers were filed for record in the county clerks office May 29, and reported for the BEe by Ames’ real estate agency. Chas. H. Isaacs el al. to John L. Mec- Cague, qed, lots 1,2, 3 and 4, block 27, Wost Omaha and e} ne } in sec. 4, town 13, range 10. City of Omaha to August Randow, qed, ehof 8 4 lot 14, block 6, Kountze & Ruth’s add., $26. August Randow to Frank Wasserman, qod, ¢ 4 81 of lot 14, block 6, Kountze & Ruth's add. Aug Rndow to F Wasserman, wd, s} of e 4 lot 14, block 6, Kountze & Ruth’s add,, 81500, Jacob 8. Miller and wife to Albert Horris, 8 4 nw } 30 16 10, wd., 8800, Mads Tofc and wife to Carl mid, w d, part ne sw 82, 15, 13—87500. Aug. Kountze and wife to Geo. E. Bar- kor and Frank Murphy, w d, lot 2, block 12, Kountze's 3d add—$1500. Philip Cassady and wife to Ed. Cassa- dy, qod, e} se}b, 14, 13 -§2. Olver O. Campbell and wife to C. F McLain, w d, lot L, block P, Shinn's 2d add—8§500. e— NoExperiment, With a majority of people it is no experi- mont that. Dr. Rosstkols Cough and Liung Syrup iv a cure for Coughs, Colds, Paius in the Lungs, Soreness in the Chest, etc., but for those who doubt, ask your neighbors who = 7| have used it or get a free sample bottle of Schroter & Becht, the druggists. Regular size 50 conts and $1.00, Sold to the trade by O, F. Goodman. e THE HEARING DENIED, Capt. Smith Files an Application for a Habeas Corpus which is RKetused. Thursday eve., between b and 6 o'clock an application by Charles Green as attor- ney for Capt. Suuth, was filed in the county court for a writ of habeas cor- pus. The writ was granted and placed in the hands of Deputy Sheriff Pieronet to be served, and was made returnable at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. Contrary to expectations unly a few had assembled in the court room yes tesday morn, to be present at the hearing, Bosides several members of the eporting fraternity, and the attorneys in the cass, not more than a dosen were in attend ance. When the case was called District At- torney Godwin arose for the state and objected to any hearing of tha applica- tion on the ground that it was insufficient | state that would roll up 80,000 mgubliv |because it had mot been sworn to, -ndl voutly pray that the God who led our revolu- tionary armiss, footsore and starving from who public opiuion—the states, tolorating even o limited freedom of but Jefferson and Paine upon European soil has ment, which is fast transmuting absoluto AT STORE SHADES SCA WESTERN AGENTS, R. R. TRA DORMA HOPPER, ALWAYS MERGELL & RUSENWEIG, Practical Painters & Decorators, |, CARRY THE LARGEST AND FINEST RETAIL STOCK OF WALL PAPERS AND DECORATIONS: 1515 Eonglas Street, Omaha, coreepscienc Buffalo If S.isit;andard Are prepared to do worT OUTSIDE THE Short Notice ! HOUSE, A SIGN, AND FRESCO PAINTING, DECORATIN LES. Himebaugh & Taylo, OMAHA, NEB HAY, STOCK, WARVHOUSE & COUNTER IN STORE. LARGEST STOCK IN THE WEST. Adopted and in Use by the United States Government. REPAIR SHOPS—Scales of all standard weights. 157 Write for Estimates. kinds repaired and sealed by U. S HIMEBAUGH & TAYLOR, 14056 Donglas Street, Omaha, did not state the evidential facts. A fur- ther objection was interposed for the reason that the prisoner had waived an examination and thus had forfeited all right which he might have in the premi- ses, Long arguments to the court en- sued in one of which Mr. Green, attor” ney for Smith, referred to the prisoner as a man who had been an agent for'some “‘high contracting parties,” and in whom certain officials found a man who would act a8 a go-between for them to obtain money for allowing di reputable houses to be open day and night. Judge McCullogh sllowed Smith’s council to amend the application which was done, The count finally held that Smith would not be allowad a hearing for the reason that he had lost all nght which he might have had to a habeas corpus by waiving an examination before the magistrate. 1f he should hear this case men charged with crime hereafter could waive an examina- tion, and come immediately to him for a remedy. He thought this principal of law not a good one. The hearing being denied Smith was remanded to the custody of the officer. Green further asked the court to reduce the bond to $500, which the court re- fused to du. Smith was then again taken to jail by Deputy Sheriff Tom Pieronet. —— Horsford's Acid Phosphate, Invaluable as a Tonic Dr. J. L. Pratt, Greenfield, Ill., says: *“It is all that it claims to be—invaluable that she gave birth to twins. Mr. John- | as a tonic in any case where an acid tonic son will keep her aund guard her closely, | is indicated.” anticipating a whole herd of calves o — another year. e — 5. 11, Dosge & S Gaeeon coun| DLAINE AND VICTORY. Drops are manufac:ured by themselves, and — The Motto of the California Delegation to the National Convention. The SpecialjTrain with Delegates and Visitors Passed Through this City Yesterday Morning, At 5:4b yesterday morn , a spacial train having on board the delegates to the Na- tional Republican Convention, at Chica- go, from California and Nevada, arrived in this city, The train was composed of eight Pullman sleeping cars and one bag- gage car. The first two slespers were oc- cupied by the delegates and their friends. Upon the sides of both cars were large streamers on which were painted, *‘Cali- fornia Delegation, 1876, 1880, 1884.” Following this was a portrait of James G. Blaine, after which, in large letters was “Blaine and Victory.” The train remamed in Omaha only a fow moments, after which it crossed the river, where the party took breakfast. Whilo crossing the bridge a BEE reporter occupied a seat with Mr, Geo, W. Schell, district delegate from the second discrict, Mr. Schell said that the coast was solid for Blaine, as the streamers on the side of the car would indicate, and that he ccnsidered him the only man who could carry that section of the country. A second choice had not been thought of, as they were for Blaine first, last and all the time, The delegates upon the train were as follows : FROM CALIFORNIA, Delegates at large—Wm. H. Morrow, George A, Knight, T. R. Bard, and Horace Davis. From the congressional districts the delegates are as follows: First congressional aistrict, C. C. Bush and Byron O, Carr. 2 Second congressional district, William H. Parks and George W. Schell. Third congressional district, William Johuston and E. S, Dennison Fourth congressioual district, David McClure and Charles F. Crocker, Fifth congressional district, Adolph Speckles ana M. A. Blake. NEVADA DELEG ATION, The Nevada delegation was comprised of the following gentleman: M. D. Foley, J. A. Palmer, J, H. Rand, C. C. Stevenson, Dr. 8. L. Lee and A, J, Blair, All the members of both the delega- tions and nearly all the alternates were upon the train. As the train passed off the east side of the bridge and entered Iowa one gen- tloman remarked that they were now na can majority. ““Oh,” said Mr, Schell It will do better than that; this state 1s unanimously republican.” Judge M. G. Blake was seon and in a short conversation he stated that he had been upon the bench for fifteen years and during that time hehad sentenced over one thousand criminals, Mr. Blake said that he regards Blaine as the only man who can carry the Pacific coast. Asecond choice, had not been thought of, but in case he was to name a second choice, he considered Robert Lincoln as the next best. ‘After a stay at the transfer of an hour and a half, the party boarded a special train on the Chicago & Northwestern road for Chicago. The Northwestern train was composed of seven Wagner sleeping cars, two day coaches and a baggage car. The cars were all decorated with flags and was, without doubt, the handsomest train which aver crossed Iowa and Illinois and entered Chicago from tte west. The streamers of ‘‘Blaine and Victory” were transferred to the Northwestern cars and will be taken into Chicago. POWDER Absolutely Pure. Th @ powder never var oy, Amarvel of pure steengh nod wholesomenesa, Moro conomical t tn o dinary kinds, and cwesoy be sold in competition with the multitude of low west. short weigt t aium r pho phato powdors. Sold ooty in cans. 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