Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 3, 1885, Page 4

[ THE DAILY BEE. Omawa Orrien No, 014 axn 016 Farvan 81, New Youk Orrtce, Roost 65 Tripoxk BuiLp- NG, Pulyished every morning, except Sunday. Tae only Monaay morning daily published in the state. AR T A $10.00 5.00 | On Published e 5, TOSTRAID, One Vear Six Months The Weekly De $ 250 1.00 Bix Months, withor One Month, on tria . co! All Communieations relating to Newsand Editorial Imatters should be addressed to the Eviror or ie BUSINRSS LETTERS, All Business Totters and Remittances should be wddressed to Tre Ber PUniisiixe Courany, OMAnA. Jrafts,Checks and Post office orders t be made pay. able 0 the ordcr of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Preps, E. ROSEWATER, Ebrron ol itch, Managor Daily Girculation, #1“R raere!" exclalmed the oyster, 1t oame in with September. —_— “Waar shall be done with our ex- presldents 7" We say lot 'em go fishlng. E—— Tur frequent and fatal exploslons of nafural gas in Pittsburg ovght to make that clty a good fis1d for accldent insar- ance companies. Bex BuriLer, who objsots to moving his cattle out of Indlan Terrltory, thinks he s a bigger man than the president. After vacation is over somabody may sit Tue Omsha exposition opens to.mor- row and continues for one week, It will bo a grent success in every respect, The numerous atiractions are bound to draw a large attendance from all parts of the stato, Tae Cheyenne Sun's laudatory article regarding the Nebraska railway commis- slon, insplred, no doubt by the chalrman of that body, thowas that Charles H. Gero knows how to make hay while the aun shines. SomE !dea of the immigration to Texa from ths older scuthern states sinco the war, ey« the Laredo Times, may be had from th: uotice of reunions of Alsbama brigace , Georgla regtments, Virginla Black licree, ete., in various porticns of Texas. Bcesron s Lterary sot 18 all torn up by Robert Buchanan’s broadeide bl:st. One of his best hits ls at Jones, whom he tells to *—climb a hill, or tske a header, Tato_the briay, billowy se: Or find some strapping musa and wed her, Instead of simpering at teas !” Neuvraska democrats are belng fed with fourth-class p sstoffices at an average rate of less than two offices per diy. This s pretty thin soup, and not very much of it either, but it is the best that csn be had during the absence of the chief cook on a fishlng excurslon, Tae Omaha Zribune, a German dally, has just celebrated its second blrthday, and may now beregarded as a permanent Institutlon. Under the able editorlal mansgement cof Mr, Schnacke the Tribune has mado great s rides, and is recelving tho hearty sapport of the best class of our German population. SArA BARNHARDT has taken 8 tamble at last, It was a real tumble, too. She foll down sialrs, and the harmless aoci- dent was consldered of safficisnt import- ance to be cabled t> the United States with the assurance tiat she was more frizhtened than hurt. Inwsmuch as Sira hassigned & con‘ract to make snother tour of Amerloa, two years hencs, we shall now have a cablegram oconsceraing her every time she enzezer. If advertlsing rates were charged up agalrs: her, she would n)t make enough money to pay the bill, Tue plank {n the Misslsslppi demccratio platform favoring the giving of stale pensions to dissbled confederate soldlers 1s likely to create a great deal of discuzeion, It 1o the opinion of & prominent lawyer that if Missisaippl or any other state ehould attempt to pecsion confederates In this manner, thera would not only be strong objeotlons ralsed, bai numerous suits would result, owing to the Injustice of taxlng poople for any such purpose. The collection of such a tax would very likely b> reststed on the ground of ille- gality, and tha probability s that the tax-payer would be victorlous, Junae Forakew, in hls openlog cam. palgn specch, made cne of the blunders commitied by John Sherman, and that was in defendivg John Roach and charg- Iog his “‘ruln” to the demscratic adminls- trat'on, In the first place Mr, Roach was not very badly ruined, as he Is by no means a bankrupt, sud in the next place the democratic administratlon fs not to blame for his failare to comp'y with his contracts, The less sald in defenss of John Roach by republican campalga ora. tors the better. He i3 very poor ammu- nitlor, and hardly worth belog elevated into a political lsae E———— CoLoApo s to have & new oipltol building in Denver, to co:t §1,000,000, the aco: pted plans for which were drawn by Mr, Myers, who designed the Omsha court house, The new Culorado eapltol will be 205 feet long, 192 feet desp at the center, and 526 fces bigb, surmounted by a statue of Colorsdo, The etractars will rquire 1,000 carloscs f cut stone, 11,000,000 brick, asd 4,000,000 pounds of fron, Mr. Mjers has adopted the Ocr'utlian order of claseic arobitecture, which !s admiited to be the most geaci- fol preduction whick the genius of Greek architecture snd ballders ever evolved, MENDELSSOHN AND MYERS, Until yesterdsy we had ground for susplolon, if not absolate bellef, that neatly all the racket made by home talent about the city hall plans emanated from Mr. Mendelesohn, Now we have no longer any doabt. We know that Mr, Mendelssohn and no other person conld have Inaplired the uncalled for assault as sn architect, which has appeared in one of our papsrs. Mr. Mendelssohn came to Omaha from Datrolt and he has taken 1t upon himself to show up Mr. Myers' standing as an archltect in that eity. His vaulting ambltion to be regarded as the peer of any archltest in Amerlea leads him Into an attempt to bellttle Mr. Myers, by reciting what he has snd what he has not dome in De- troit. Mr, Myers has only lived In Detrolt twelve years, and he has deslgned only half a dozsn bulldings in that city. One of his designs, that of a church,did not glve satisfactlon. This was a chepel of Westminster Methodlst charch, It is trae, says Mr. Mendelssohn, that Mr. Myers designed the Michigan state capl- tol at Lavalng, bat t hat was the first and almost the last that he was permilted to do for the of Mlchigan. He way glven the plans fcr the constructlon of the capitol, but was not permitted to have the sapsrintendence of the asylam, This, Indeed, Is a terrible arralgnment! But Mr. Myers will probably survive. The state of Michigan has had no occa- alon to build more than one capitol, and it is barely pcestble that just such spiteful home talent as Mendelssohn may have brought pressure to bear upon the board which had charge of the eroc- tion of the Pon'isc asylum, There is nothing dlscreditable In the fact that Mr. Myors has built only & dozen buildings in Datrolt in twelve years. Myers is a specialist on public bulldings, and does not pretend to compete with {ke tecond- rate architects, who are slmply engsged in erecting and des!gning private resi- dencis and ordinary buslness houses, 1t would not pey him to compele with that clas when he has a broader field in public buildinge. His standing in Michigan s & great deal better than that of Mendelssohn will be in Nebratka if he keeps up thls controversy. Mr. Myers {s now bullding the city hall of Grand Raplds, which is the second olty of Michigan. Heis bulldiog the Texas capltol, which ls to coat $3,000,000, and has jast been awarded the con'ract for planning the capitol of Colorado tobeerect- edIn Denver. We imsagine that there is just as competent architects in Den- ver as there is In Omahs. The Dep- ver bulldlngs are superior to any In Omahs, but the state board of public buildings in Colorado gave Mr. Myers the preferenca over home talent, because they have confidence in his abillty, which has been proven in the erection of the Donver court house. If Mr. Mendels- sohn had lived in Danver he would prob- ably have s>uzht to preveat the selectiun of Meyera. Now it is extremely unkind and un- professional in Mr. Mendelssohn to assail Mcr. Myers in such a back-handed way. Mr. Myers did not force himself upon Omaha. His plans for the court house wera glven proferancs over the gisger- bread picture drawn by Mr. Mendelssohn and the declsion of the commlssioners has the approval of all dislatercated tax- payers, His admirable work on the court house justified Councllman Good- rlch, chairman of the committee required to select the plans, In inviting Mr. Myers to submlit outline plans for the city hall providing he took the rlsk of thelr adoption, Mr, Myeis has ample patronage outside of Omsha, but this olty will be fortuaate In secariag'the ser- vicas of a man of his abllity. Of all the architects in Omaha Men- dels:ohn should have been the last to at- tempt to bellttle Mr. Myers, Mr. Men- delesobn came here from a Detroit archi- tect's offize, and if Mr. Myers was spite- ful he might ask of what great and costly bolldings in Detrolt was Mondelessohn the architect, Oertainly no archltect In Omaha has recelved more generons treat- ment than Mr. Mendelssohn. While he was only reputed to baa skilled draughte- man before he ca:e here, he has almost at one bound forced himself to the front a8 a first-class architoct. He has fared very fortunately in his rivaley [with other Omaba architects, Through his associa- tlon with Mr. Dafrene he csme Into prominence, and was glven prefer- ence over compoiitors. He has now more business than he can properly at- tend to, snd should have been content to let well enough slone. He was only re- oently awarded the contract for the beard of trade bullding over others who claim to have presinted batter plans, snd to- day the board 1s hempered In lts ¢ fforis to raise the money for the chamber cf com. merce on ascount of the alleged favorite- {sm showa to him, With all this Mr, Mendelssohn does not seem to kaow when he Is well off, He may learn ere long that 1t ls & very poor policy fora man to try to bulld himselt up by trylog to pull another man down, especially when that man is head and shcu'ders above him, —— ELEOIRICITY AS AN ILLUMINANT The streets of Portland, Mains, aro soon to bs entirely lllamlnated with elec- telolty, which, It Is expected will aboilsh ges lam;s from the clty, Portland for- merly used 468 gas lights and 125 naph- tha lanterns, and even then conslderable distriots wera left fn ths darknsss. For some tlne past, however, the cltiz:ny have haia tasts of good sarvice In the operation of 100 ar> lamps, and now 25 more are to be placed, aad the spases on the outskirts, ay well as some lonl'- ti-s densely shaded by trees, supplied by Elison “munisipsl” lncandescent lamps from the same statlon. By this wosns the former weetched lighting will be replaced by a system which will make Portland tha best illuminated olty in New- FEngland, aid one of the best ia the country, ss every gas and naptha lamp will be removed. Lamps of from 10 to 50 oandle power are to be us:d as needed, and operateld as ars lights are io seriss, thelr cirenits being extended if necessary over long distances and supplled by a spocial Edison dynamo. The olty may thus be lizated at the same moment and the lamps extingalshed In the morning as quickly, thus dlspentiog with attendance for these purposes. That thls change has been made after the most carefal consideration is ovident when {t ls re- membered that two-fifths of the stook ef the gas company s owned by the city, and that n) effort has bsen spared by the gas Intercsts cutalde the olty ownership to show the electric system too expensive for permanent adoption. Should the experiment prove successfal, asit will In all probability, at Portland, the systera will soon find its way into every olty of this country. Hitherto the principal objectlons to electrlolty for streot illuminating purposes have been the uncertalnty of the light and the ex- pense, The electriclans, however, claim that they have overcome all defeots, and that the atreet light to be Introducad in Portland Is slmply perfect, and can be depended upon for continuous illumina- tlon with cs much certainty as gas, while the expente will not bo any more. It is safe to say, therefore, that gas will soon ba euperscded for all {lluminating pur- poses by cleotriclty, and the change will be hailed with delight by the vlctims of noxlous smells acd exorbitant bills, which the wily gasometer has been tavght 80 well to bulld up esch month, OUR “RAILWAY REGULATORS.” The three $2,000 secretarles, Mezsras. Gere, Cowdry and Baschow, together with State Treasurer Willard and Aud. itor Babcock, recently completed a jank- eting tour cver tko Union Paclfic. The party, which would havo been complete had Governor Dawes baen Included, ex— tended its ‘‘rallway investigationa” to Cheyenne, in Wyoming. The emlnent “‘rallway regulators,” as they are called by the Cheyenne Sun, rolled iato Ckey- enne in regal style In thelr “‘very hand- some coach,”—the private car of Charles Francls Adame—on laet Sundsy evening, and were glven a drlve about the city. The Sun Informs us that *‘all expressed the greatest admiration for the cliy, and sald, In responze to a remark, that the one thing most needed was a depot, that 1f Cheyenne were in Nebraska the depot would come in a hurry.” This kind of talk from the Nebraska rallway commissionera may do in Wyoming, but it won’t do in Nobraska, How about the Unlon Paclfic cowahed in Omaha? Is that much-needed new depot coming in a kurry? We should say not. It Is not coming In any more of & hurry than the depot in Cheyenne. It would seem that the Nebraska rallway comm'ssloners are sbout as powerful in ‘Wyomlng as they are in thelr own state. The Sun was also equally mislnformed by tho veracious commissloners on other pointe, It wae told thatthe duties of the commiesforers ‘‘are to stand between the railrcads and the people, and tee that jus- tlce is done to both.” IE that Is the cate, then why don’s they do thelr daty? The Sun wss als) led to ssy that “‘they both prevent dlscriminatlons agalost particalar localities by the rail- roads, snd ale> stand In the way of hasty or uncalled-for leglslation detrimen- tal to the road:?” So far as unjost discrimlnations are concerned, they prevent nothing of the kind., The people have no confidence whatever in them, well knowlng that their complaints will ba pigeon-holed, and that they will ba told that they must seek the courts for rellef, They know that some excuse will be framed to delsy aoctlon. As to how the commission will act regirding rallroad legislatlon, thatcan only be de- termined In the fature, but we ventare to say that when the mattor comes to a test they will bs found workling in the interest of the rallroads, for whoee bensfit the cowmlssion was ‘notorlously created, The Cheyenne paper concledes its laudatory artlcle with the statement that ‘“‘the gentlemen compoe- lng the Nebraska commlssion are all promioent in thele state, and of such rep- utation for falraces that thelr s:lection is most heartily appraved by tho people and prees,” Mr. Gore probably put that in, There is no paper in Nebraska that would glve him such & strong endorsement ex- cept the Lincoln Journal, in which the Sun’s article will probably be reprodaced, ———— FOOD ADULTERAIIONS, People generally have no idea of the extent to which the trade in adulterated batter is belng carrled on. Oleomargar- Ine sni butterlne are now mide so perfectly In Imitatlon of creamery butter that it iy difficult for the consumer to tell the differenze between the bogus and genuine articles, Some months ago a‘ an exposition {n India & symple of Amer. losn bogus butter took the first premium for creamery, and the fraud was not dle- co ercd uotll some {ime afterwards, A recint invest'gation In Oblosgo showed that out of thirty eamples purchased at vaticus pleces In that city —end labled snd ®old as pure creamery batter “‘recelved fresh every day from the country’—only three proved to be genoine bu'ter, People do not care how much of this stuff ls manafaciored If It 1s only properly labeled and sold for just what it le, Lu: the practlce of palming off these compounde for pure bu't:r s slm- ply obtainlng monsy under false pre- tenscs. It is a crlme, and can no d;ubt be punished. While the macufac- tare of oleomargarioe and but!erine can- nt be stopped, the manufscturers can very earily bs prevented frcm eelling thelr products undor false names, There isa’aw in Ilinols which compels the manufacturers to brand (helr products with their right names, bat the Inw in that state Is evidently a dead letter. It is about time that It should be enforced, and it would be if the producers of pure butter In that state woald ocombine and take the matter In hend, If they do not do it the adultera- tlons will contlnue to flood the markets as woll as the country groceries, through- out the west and northwest. Bat butter s not the only article of food that Is bolng extenalvely adulteratod and sold for ‘“‘pure goods.” There Is hardly any artioie of general use that is not in somo way imitated or adulterated with deleterlonsingredients, This business, whioh s certainly damag- ing to honest Indusiry and harmful to the consumer, should be checked in some way, but s> long = 15 yields enormous profits and makes Immense fortunes for those en- gaged in it, 1t will be a difficult matter to put a stop to {t. Me. Colman, the com- mlssioner of agrloulture, in his address before the annual convention of the asso- clation of offislal sgricultural chemists, discussed this subject in a very practical manner, and his suggestions will be heart- ily endors=d by the honest producers and the consumers. Mr. Colman urges co- operatlon on the part of the general gov- ernment with the state governments In pamling etringent laws sgalnst adalters- tiona of food, and he thought that there should be a fixed standard of purity and established methods for the detection of adulterations. TaE clty counell is ¢lightly muddled about the clty hall maiter. Tho ordi- nance passed nesrly two months sgo, which looated the olty hall on the corner of Eighteenth and Faroam etroets, maken it the duty of the commiites on public property and Improvements, in conjane- tlon with the clty englneer, to procare euitable plans for the bullilng, and alter these plans have been approved by the board of edacatlon to submlt them for final adoptlon to the couvcil. The ordi- nance leaves the cholco of mesns for pro- curing plans entirely with the committee. It doesnotrequire the ccmmittee to adver tise for ccmpetitive plans. The employ- ment of the architectis left entlrely to its judgment. The ordinance isstillin forca and cannot be repesled or changed by resolulion, If It can be repealed at all. Moyor Boyd and the bosrd of education havo signed a contract under ita provis- ions and we doubt whether power exlsts in the councll to amend or abrogate it. All it can do is to reject the plany if they don't suit. Now that the $2,000 sacratarles of the rallwsy commission have completed their tour over the Unlon Pasclfic and its branches in Nebracka we shall soon look for as big a puft for the manegars of that road as was resently glven to the B. & M. management. . The Sioux City & Pa- olfic will of course be treated in the same manner when its tarn comes. Tao secre- tarles of the Nebratka rallway commis- sion sey that they have not met with as many complalats as they expested. This statement does not ia the least sur- prise us. The people know the timber of which the commiazion {3 composed, snd they know that 1t {s only a waste of tlme to make any complainte. It has come to & very pretty pass, indeed, when It iy necessary for A. J. Hanscom to make an affidavit to bolster up his soa-In-law a3 a candidate for a fedoral office, and advertise J. Ster- ling Morton as a bold, byd man, Mean- time, Mr. Lambertson, an offensive par- tlsan, who goes gunning for enlpe and brings down bourbons ln every campalgn, continues to draw hls salary with his usual regularity. Wit does Coancilman Fursy mean when he ssys ‘‘thereis a hen on ” in the effort to have Mr. Myers employed as architect of the clty hall? Ts there apy- thing crooked init? O egainet pablic nterest? Is there anything in it any- where near os selfish as the scheme of certain partles who want to sell to the olty a lot of ravines and gulleys In the tuburbs for parks and boulevards? Mavor Bovp's veto of the ordlnarce creating the office of sldewalk Inspector was suitalned by the council. The mayor held that it is the duty of the street commizsloner to attend to the sidewalks, Now then, lot the street commissloner do his duty, acd report all sldewalks that are out cf repair as wall as the places that need new sldewalke, CousciLvaN Darvy hea en cap- tivated by some very pretty plans drawn by home talent, Why oan’s they point to the bu'ldings they have planned ¢ It is easy enough to draw pretty pictures, baf it s another thing to plan $200,000 bulldings that will siand the test of time and fire, " TaE fact thut the policomen’s ball Is near st hand is a pretty sure {ndicalion that the overcoat season s not far off, ‘Waterways D elegates, A comber of the Nebraska d sppolnted by the govermor to attend the Norlhwestern Waterways oon- vention, which occn Paul, Mion., to through the ity y thelr way thither. John P. Hsrimsn, delegste from Kewrney, stopped durlog the day in this city, Hon. John M. Thurston will represent Omaba, Mr, Ben Gallegher, the other delegate, not belng able to attend s — O unty medics, The Doug'as County Medlcal Soclety, sfter twomontbs sdjournment, held an Interesting s« sslon Tu wisy night, Dr.Lee read an able paper on *‘Aiwitheties’” which wus followed by a general dlecus- slon of the sabjeok s [duration longer t THE DAILY BEE~-THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1885, THE PROBLEM OF THE AGE. The Great Question of the Working- man’s Cocdition. The Meeting at the Oarpenters’ Union Hall Tuesday Night—Mr, Rosewater's Aadress— Touching Up ‘‘Home Talent" The public sesslon of the Carpenters’ Unlon Taetday evening, aspraviouslyjar« nounced, filled the hall of the organiza- tlon to *he doors. Beveral promlnent speakers had been Invited and the groater number responded In person, The president, Willlam E. Metager, made a neat welcomlng address and in- troduced the first speaker of the evening. Mr. Edward Rorewater answered the e Il to speak with an Impromptu effort which was greeted with manifest pleasure by his auditors. He ex- plalned that when some days sgo he had been Invited by the labor commiitee to address this meeting, he could not prom- {se #o to do as it sppeared then that he would be away from the oity at this time. But as he was this night la town, he had gladly responded to thelr rcquest. He was a worklngman himself. For many he had been the member of & Iaborions craft, that of telegraphy. He was one of the organizsrs and cflicers of tho Telagrapher’s Protectlve Leagae, wh'ch was establlshed in 1870. He had hed experlences with labor troubles; had baen on both eldes of strikes, so that he had amplo chavco for practical study of the labor question. The greatest problems fn labor Is to meet the depression which overproduction pro- duces, With that problem the statesmen of Earope snd America have grappled, and bave still left unsolved. 1% would thus be arrogance on my part to pretend that I could aclve ft. The revolution wrought by machinery, and the marvel ous mechenical inventions cf the past fifty years have dirplaced millions of ekilled workmen the world over from their regulsr vocations, and compelled them to seek new fieids of employment, The new iuventions continue to crowd workmen oat of employment almost as fast a8 they become ekilled in some craft. It s conceded thst machinery has taken the place of five-aixths of all the labor of the werld, Where six men were formerly employed twelve to fourteen hcurs per day, one man_ with the sid of machinery con supply the demand. How s this great army of eurplus workers to find employ- ment enovga to sapply thelr wants and thoee cf their famliiee? This is the problem which is wracking the brains of suocestful In elevating tho standard of mechanter. Now the gosts snd the sheep are not separated; the most skilled carpenter Is classed with men who oan hardly bolld e fence. Eamployers frequently ssk why should the unlons Ineist vpo>n equal wages to all classes of workmen, whether skllled or unskilled and they point to the fact that the unions Include not only honest and good workmen but poor and disreputable mechanics. This can not be avolded: whenever there Ia a strike every man is ploked up who can compete and thus the unlons are compelled often to take In men who are not a oredit to thelr oraft. Incldentally,Mr. Rosewater called attentlon to the ridloulous attitude which workingmen occupy in the rqusb. ble over the city hall plans, Omal workingmeh had been quoted as backers | be with of home falent architec's when in fact homoe labor has never besn cncouraged by Omaha architects who always ioelst that contractors and buoild- ers should import bullding materlels from abrcad. When men will sm up four story bulldings to tumble own at the first gust of wind, they are bardly fit to be trusted with the plans of pabllo balldings and towera 192 feet high. In cloaing, the speaker reminded them that there is no relief for !abor to be had from the promises of politlolans whether they be in congress, tha leglelature or the olty councll. Workingmen have thelr own destinfes o thelr hinds and must help themselves, The ringing applause with which the audlence endorssd Mr, Rosewater’ posl- tlon on the c!ty hall matter, indicates that ‘‘home talent,” as now popularly app'ied, has not the support of the mass of the citizene, W. J. RReeves, financial secrotary of the unlon, supported Mr. Rosewater’s ut- Lerancos relative to the clty hall and en- tered fnto a most Intelligent and clear presentation of the labor problem, which was apprec'atively recolved. Mr. Reoves was followed by J. H. Thomeon and C. Gladdke, after which the meeting adjonrned. LABOR AND LABOKERS, Ky arn in the United States forty coflin factoriee, the lergest beivg in Ciucinnati, A Bridgeton firm has recei argo order feom Ausiralia for its new power panching press, The Hayticn government has contractod for light-house material with a New York manufacturer, So far miles of natural gas-pipe have been laid to furnish Pittsburg manufacturers with gas from eeven companioca. A Pittsburg manufacturer has boen re- quested to eend in bids for the erection of hoisting machinery for an elovator in southern Ruseia, . Exports of American products aro increas- ing. A St. Lou's pipo manufacture j shipped six carloads of pipe to Japan Francieco, The wages of colored miners in Virginia are 90 cents to S1 pec day of ten or t In Tennessee, Georgia snd Alabama wages are 8010 90 conts a day of eleven or twelve the ableat thinkers of the world. One practical r.medy is a reduction in the hours of labor, which will necessitate the employment of a grester number of men. There sra nosirum doctors who pretend that some particalar policy or act of coogress would make wages high and stlmulate Indusiry —this is especlally trus of politicians who want the workingmen’s votes. Dar- ing the last campalgn Mr. Blalre sa'd to the workingmen of Ohio snd Peunsylva. nls, ‘the wonderful prosperity which you enjoy is entlroly due to the American p:licy of home protectlon, 1f you deslre this pclisy to continue, you will continue in power tho party which has created it.’ And yet half tao workmen were out_of work end nearly starving and the other balf were working at from 70 to 90 cents a day. On ths cther hard the free trade rauters are always howling about the taxes and robberies Imposed by the protective tariff, Last winter, the speakor sald, he had hesrd J. Sterling Mor- ton tell a crowd of grangeis thet ev ory yard of calico on the backs of thei- wives was texed slx cents by the protect- ive tariff, As a matter of fact the callco was bought by the farmers for four conts a yard, and that s cheaper than it can be bought In free trade England, With o'hers Morton had deluded himeelf for yoars with the idea that labor had to be fostered and manufactures stimula- hours, Such great manufscturers as Krupp, Whit- worth, Armstroog and Hotchl have to send to America for all their screw-bar wrenches About 81,000 dozan are exported to Europe annually, A young_ Springfield, Mass., mechanic has taken ous thirty-five valuable patents, cover- ing methods of propellicg cars by compressed air and by electricity, and fur the storage of electricity, Jarrett and Ronkin, two ex-labor cfficials of weetern Ponneylvania, are renderivg ex collent services to workmen by preaching the gospel of tomperance. Fellow-wokmen tem- perance unions are being formed, The fifteen rubber.boot concerns in the United States turn cut 40,000,000 pairs an- nually, and foreign markets are now being in- dustriouly sampled to extend tho sale abroad, but a clumsy tyle is wanted sbroad. { {Eoelish trades-unionism is thoroughly equipped for the forthcoming parliamentary etruggle. The speakers have besn drilled and instiusted, The programme has been agroed upon, and even the conservative party is more than half friendly to 1ts propesed measures, It is a mistako to imagine that wa ha everything to learn from foreign ekillod lab A Mr. Mayer, of Getmany, has bon a y or more in our American tanneries working as & common workman to find out how Ameri- cans make such superior material, He is not the only one. A new iron mill is to ba erected at Stetson, Pa, A new one at Columbia is just complet- ed. Oae is to be erected as Lebanon. Axle works are to bs erected nt Wilkeebsrre, A new pipe foundry is going up at Reading, Allkt is in addition to a balf-dozen steel works, ted by high tariff protection. There is no doubt toat American industry has re- celved great bentfits from protection fn the pas*, bat today protection {s as d as a mackerel for all praotical purp Amerlean machinery and American iaventlons with low pticad skilled labor, aro now sble to compete with all the world in open market. When the Unlon Paclfic was built common iron rat's cost $80.00 per ton, To-day Ameri- o steel rails csn be lald down for $24 a ton, A few months ago the Cinadian Paclfic bought 10,000 tons of rall tn Pearsylvanla which shows that ralls are chesper in this country than they are in Eogland, It 1s o with almcat all classes of wanufactures, Amerfean watobes made by machizery bhave taken the place of the imported. American sewiog ma- chines, ageloultural implements, guas, bocts and shoes, cutlery and even jewelry are made cheaper and batter here than in Eurcpe, The protectlcn nostram is 8 doud lotter, A more «ffsctive stimu- lant, In his op!nion, woold be co-oper tloi In England snd France the worl icgmen have achieved great results by oc- operative Industry, The first cssontial is union and harmony smong workingmen. Jasy Gould, Vanderbllt, snd othercapital- Iats can meet at the Windsor hotel and sgree upon any policy relative to labor, while drinklog thelr champagne, but it is a very different and diffiouls matter for soveral hundred thousand workingmen to agree among themselves on any couree, The struggle with the problem of over prodretion and over population muet con- tinue for mapy yecers. however, that there lmit to discov- ery and invention which will eventually glve greater stabillty in prosessional and illed mechanical labor, The telegraph is the greatest Invention of this century. Fifty years ago the most rapld commu- nication by carrier plgeons snd reflecting signals, To.day the con- tinents are covered with a network of wires, and dozens of ocesn cables glrdle . Communlestion with the most distant parts of the earth are lu- stantaneons. Can eny one coacelve of & tolegraph that will bs more rapid than instantaceous ¥ Qan any oce concelve of nity? Tele- graph methods and systems msy be im- praved, but the electric tolegraph is the limit of buman icgepulty, It s so with 1 lumlnatios; the tillow dip aud the wax candle wirs sucoseded by bueotog fluld, petroleum, gas and calolum lights. Can sny one concelve of sny llaminator brghter then the elcciio light. We wmsy moltiply and chespen the dev.cas for elcctrlo lightivg, but the cleoric will for certarices, if vot forever, remain the illamiastor fn its bighes: per- fee lon These cltations were made by the spraker to illustrate his idea of the limit of fovention. Bafore the era waohin ry trades unlonywers much more | d | dsy mornlng. ———— Mr., Goodrich and the Oity Hall, Aldermsn Goodrlch was apgry yesie He stood 1a frout of his Farnam street store, bathed fn the chill alr of the dawn, and was reading the moraleg orgen of his party. His ueual good {emper was a total wreck and as a reporter for the Bre approached, he tore the psper in two and pitcked the frag- mentis into the 1ubblsh ewept out by the chore boy, “Ivs a pit7 that some newspaper hired men never czn get anything right. Lee- der did not esy laet night what he ia ze- ported to have sald in that pspsr [point- ing 10 the fregmenta.] Mr. L:eder could noc have rasde such remarke, he wes a8 well aware of what I wrote to Mr, Myers ns I myself. 1did write to the Dotrolt architect some few weeks sgo,but, merely informed him of theintended erec: tion of a city hell Luilding here ard atked him if he would furnith a gulde skefch of such a stusture. He replied that he was then busy at Grand Raplds, but weuld shortly pass Omaha on his way to Denver, and he would stop here then long enough to accommodate we. When he came the other day he brought the paper with him, which 1s sn ontline plan intended meraly to afford th idea of a desirabls batldleg, He nothlng for it and, in fa city & polat of economy, saving the ex- pense of & committee trlp over the county, s1ch as the county commissioners were ccmpellsd to make to catch a con- ception for & court hcuse, No, sir, Mr, Leeder never sald 1n reference to me what thit newspaper pu‘s in his moath,” A gentleman who had scoostucd Mr. Goodrich and heard the last remarks, in- terfered he “I don't believe,” eaid he, *‘that Leeder s so anxi r aud asatet home talent as he de self. He eeeks more to be put on record becsuse he imagines that the working- men will applaud him.” The County titate, Qounty Superlntendent Brooner for- warded yesterdey to State Superintendent Jones his report of ihe county lnstitute held herein Augast, From thls it would appear the totel enrollmin’ was 84 and the aversgo daily attendance b63. Fifiy- elght certificates were [ssued. The tutal oozt of the institute was 8113,72, of which awmount the connty contrlbuted $25. Mr, Braner 1a concleding his report seid that the joutitute of 1885 was the most saccets- fal ever held in Douglas county, — ~The Union i tr.ia coma in from Denver yesterdsy worniog 0as hour late, THE BEST THING OUT FOR Washing & Bleaching In Hard or Soft, Hot or Oold Water, BAvES Laror, Tiwn and SoAr Awasixory, and gives Gniversaisatistaction. No family rich of poot shoald Bold by all grocers, BrwArs of imitations well de- slgned t0 mislead. PRARLINK is the ONLY BAPR Iabe saving compound and always boars she above sym: bol snd name of JAMES PYLE WEW YORK. BUSTLING BLAIR. Public and Privae Enterprise in Washington's Metropolis. —— A [female Orank Attempts Bu'cide but Fails -A Night School for Fostoftlice Oandidates— Political and Otherwise, Correspondenco of The Bix. Brair, Neb., Sept 1 —Bliie has not gone out of existence, nor hes it ccased to be a city of life and activity. On the conirary, cur busineas men aro jist be- gloning t> reallzs that to continue to grow snd {htiva they must besils them-~ selves and show eome enterpriso, as Is cvldenced by the lively iuterest man- {fested In endeavorlng to get a pork packiog establishwont acd a stove man. ufactory located here. The liberality of some of our burzess men in this {s hlghly commendable. The contract for a esa‘em cf wator- works has been let to tho Fairbanks, of St. Louls, thefr bld belog the lowest— $16,618. Work will ¢ mmencs at once. The schonls commenced yesterday with Prof. Bond a3 privelpal, although Prof. Miller was he:e ready to act as princlpal, he clalmlog to be the regu- larly appolated prinoipsl. As to that the curcas will probably declde, The farmers of this looality aro mak- ing extensive preparatlons for stock- feeding this fall, as thefr imwenss corn crops w'1{ enable them to do so. Politiea s awakenlng the interest of the many ocandidates for tho varlous offices, The principal *‘bone of conten- tion” will be the treasurer's office, which at prerent is beiog bid for by E. C Jack- son, W. O. Hatoh, Joa S Oook and H. Chapman, and yoar eorrespondent thinks that when tho roll ia called, “‘slick and ely Johnoe” B-ggs will be there. Blll Grese, the l.ziest man In the county wants to eu:ceed himself as sher- iff for & third term. Lou Perkins will euccaed himself as county juige, and be ready for all saca “‘ana, s the Li2onard Smlth uvatate, W. V. Millez, the weny time elected superintendent, wauts to succaed him- se.f, but Prof. Cathezwood is strenuously cppored to it. If the ‘lengert pole knocks the parsimumone” the Pcof, cught to be euccessful Ths tempernce peoplo hwve a tisket made up which thay exp:ci to elect with the aid of Bavker Hul's money and in- fluenca, Mr. Hill came from Kausay whers ho did mach in aid of prohibitlon and his efforts here are unceasiag in that direction. The democratic party will davote their . | unlted and entirs ¢ff>ris ln an attempt to secare the Blalr postcflice. A night school has been stsrced for the benefit of Harriman and Arnold a3 thelr pinman- Ip and orthography {s ra her below the aoderd of Olavelaad’s r quirements In fact Harzlman retained Glover before the resalt of the elecion was knuwn. Glover is rald to be an excllent teacher in both of the ebove branch¢s Dr Miller's man Fridsy (8. G. Strlpe), wes here a short tlme 8go *‘to write up the town and select & pos master,” but there wers no Glovera here, the town was not written up and 1y was concluded to retain Hilton as postmacter. Saturdsy night a fine looking young ledy, haviog tho appearance eomsw bat of the demimoande class, got cff the traln here ond steyed over nigh’, The next afternoon Jate she was scen going towards the river along tha railroad track, and was obsarved by somo men to throw her- eclf ip front of a faet approaching train, Oao of the genilamen, st the rlek of his own life, refcaed her with d.fliculty, she boing determined to remain on the k. She etill pareisted 1n going to the river to drown herself, but weas taken to the jall by the marshal and the nex’ day was drlven to Calaoun by W. A, Bradley. Ii was learned tha she was the young lady who attempted euiclde at Lincoln a short time ago. B, e — Angostura Bitters is known as the grea regu lator of the digestive organs all over the world, Have it in your houss, Ask your gro cer or drugglet for the genuive article, man- ufa ctured by Dr. J. G. B, Siegert & Sons. EXPURT, i ) Loy A R.R GROTTE General Westem Agent 719 Ecuth 9th Bt., Cmiba, Telephons 602 Correspondence golizitad,