Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 1, 1886, Page 4

BEE. ATTA OFPFICENO. 014 AND OTaFARN AM ST W ¥ ONK OFFICE, ROOM 65, TRIBUNE BUILDING WASHINGTON O¥rIcE, No. 513 FOURTEENTH ST, <, unday. The Publiehed evers morning, excen shed in the only Monday morniig paper put tato. GneFenr.... ix Months. Tae WerkLy Dre, Published Every Wednesday. TRIMS, POSTPAID: One Yenr, with promium...... g Xonr, without promiii ix Mont s, without promiuf One Month, on trinl, : CONMESTONDENOE Al communications relating 1 torial matters should be addre FOK OF “HE Hrr. DURINTAR LRTTENS: All bu tinees Iotters and romittances thould be padressed 10 THE DFE PUBLISHING CONPANY, OMaitA. Drafte, chocks and postoffic 10 be made payuble to the order of the con THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOAS. E. ROSEWATER, Ep1ton. TERME BV MAT $10.00Thren Months 5.0 One Month. 2.9 10 d to the Evr- Tre Greek senolar of the e gumes that that paper was never edited before he landed in Omaha, A NEw Yonrk paper says that that eity s crowded with bunko sharps. If they are all as bold a Sharp New York might as well surrend Ir the daily papers of Omaha would agreo to charge councilmanic candic for the announcement of th they would reap a rich harvest between now and the blooming of the flowers in the spring. ‘W confess that a code of journalistic ethies which consists in see forment- ing trouble in a contempo oftice while preaching brotherly lov a little beyond our commonplace com- wrehension UNCLE BiLLy SHERMAN has “‘done up" General Fry about ascompletely as he did up General Hood when the remnant of that command consisting of two mules and a base drum was moving rapidiy to- wards the Rio Grand THE net receipts of the Chicago charity ball, which was held last week, amounted to about $10,000. The nct receipts of the Omaha charity ball were $4,600. This is doing pretty well for a city only one-tenth the size of Cl In more southern latitudes spring will begin on Monday, but Professor Couch hasn't hauled down his cold wave flag yet, and it will not be safe to plant flower seed and spring chickens for some weeks tocomeo. Mg. Boyp claims that the opera house property would bring him a much larger incomo if turned into offices. An opera house built upon less expensive ground, with entrances and exits on the ground floor would be n paying investment. WaiLe theve will bo considerable more building in Omaha this year than last, there is a good deul of card house con- struction going on just at present Every winter we build great blocks on paper, which fail to materialize with “the flowers that bloom in the spring.” . TuE Herald takes delight in quoting from the San Francisco Ala. The Alla is a moribund shcet and is edited by an Jowa wind-bag named John P. Irish, who deals out taffy at long-range to Dr. Miller. In this way Irish and Miller have formed a mutual admiration society. Two Maryland editors, who once chal- lenged each other to fight a duel, have discovered that under the law they are prohibited from holding oflice, and they are now petitioning the legislature to re- move the disability. We hgye notined that since the demecrats have come into Poywer.thers have not been nearly so many ehallenges to duels in Maryland as there were in former years, when the oflices went to the republicans. Tue cast has been wrestling with what at is pleased to call a westorn’ blizzard, just as if a blizzard could not originate anywhero else than in the west. So far as we have been able to observe from the eastern dispatches it was only a high wind storm which did not extend farther west than New York state. To call such a moderate blow a western blizzard is a slander upon one of our most vigorous institutions, Miss FANNIE MiLrs, the Ohio girl, who las for some months been a dime amuseum attraction on account of her big foet, snd whose father has offered $5.000 to any man who would marry her, has finally caught a victim. His name is Griffin, a journeyman painter of New ~ York. He probably wants to start a dime museum of his ow He will have to do something of that kind in order to foot his wifo's shoo bills, as the $5,000 won't Jastlong for that purposo. .~ Tnegeis a strong reaction beginning dn Omaba against the wooden block oraze. Intelligent property owners in . the new paving districts aro beginning to ~ 8ee that thew best interests are opposed to Cheap John paving materials, which in the end sro much more expensive than the best. Citizens who have pro- - wided themselves and the ity with sub- stantial pavemonts are also protesting - against tho laying of the cedar block nuisance, where they, in common with all taxpayers, will bo assessed to pay tor G ctions and continued repairs, An of wooden block paving would be the - worst sot-back to Omaha's prosperity which sho could possibly experience. . The very men who have signed for - wooden blocks on the ground that any " paving will greatly increase the value of ~ their property would be the ones most '~ dnjured. The assessments for the cost of ~ first paving would have hardly more than half expired before a second lien “would be placed on their property for wing. In Washington to-day more ] a million dollars of unpad assess- * ments for wooden blocks are still out- 3 ling on strects which have been re- :* d with a better waterial. Three age the Ber fought the battle for ble pavements on the same ground which it stands to-day. Its position is d by the three years' experience of ry city whick has dabbledin wood and t noe that time. A pavement of wood asnwre and & delusion, Itis as poor a R tute for a pavement as corduvoy i i # solid roud-bed. In addition, it ) ly becomes a ncst for filth, a v for disease and a source of un- profanity for &ll whe are unfor- enough (o be compelled to use it. 3 ¥ Dictating to Commorce. The claim of Commissioner Fink in his circular on the dressed beef rates, that it is the duty of the railroads to protect one business from the effects of eompetition of another is at once a dangerous as- sumption of powers and an absurd at tempt to elaim functions which lie entir Iy beyond the province of common c riers. The railroad lines are chartered and operated with one distinet end in view #o far as the public which creates them is concerned. That function is to perform equal and undiseriminating ser- vico for all patrons, to oxchange com- modities between points on and beyond their lines, in short to act as the instru- ment of commerce and the employes of the veople who pay them for their sor- s, Under the common law they are compelled to serve all parties alike for equal serviee and to oharge each 1 pro- portion to the gervice rendered. The arrogant assumption of the right to dictato what goods shall be carried over their lines which is implied in their present attempt to erush out the dressed beef industry cannot be suppressed too quickly, To admit that the common carriors of this country have the right to combine to prevent condensation of food wige it is less profitable to the rail 1 lines would be to place a club in the hands of overy corporation with which it could beatout the brains of local indus- try. The public at large care little whether or not the eastern trunk lines own slanghter houses and stock yards on the banks of the Hudson. But they are vitally interested in protecting themselves against an organized raid on western dressed beef producers, beeause the growth of this industry decreases the profits of hauling live cattle a thousand miles to the se board. The determination of Messrs, Armour & Co. to test in the courts the ¥ight of MMr. nkto place a practically prohibitory tarifl on dressed beef will give general satisfaction. It will be a test of the power of the corporations to repeal the las of trade and to set aside the operation of commercial principlos which lie beyond their provinee to meddle with. If the r ads can suppress indus which cheapen food because such condensation of food products is drawing out of busi- ness clumsier and more expensive meth- ods of supplying the publie, they haye it in their power to raisc a bar between the industries of any scction of the country and the markets of the ecast, and to dic- tate the form and direction of the com- mereial activity of its ¢ Agai such a tyranny the country must at once rise in indignant protest. It eannot be permitted. The inevitable law of legiti- mate trade competition must be permit- ted to hold its sway, even if the present profits of the railroads suffer by the bene- fits which accrue to the public at large. They Can't Be Hooodwinked. The Bre throws out a feeler thu would it be it Marshal Cummings should run for councilman in the Fiftn ward?” 1t would bo the natural thing for a corrupt republican oflicial to do to enlarge his oppor- tunities by golng into the council. However, running is one thing, and electing is another, As a candidate for marshal the Herald would take positive delight in welcoming Mr. Cum- mings with bloody hands to a hospitable grave. The Brr also says that “Marshal Cum- mings as councilman of the Fifth ward would resent the labor elemont,” How does the now he wonld? The writer has itin mind that the Ber is impudent in assuming to represent the “labor element,” with whi ch as an institution it even has uncomposed dif- ferences.—Herald. If the Beg is impudent in ventuving to speak for workingmen, it is a good deal more impudent for a man who is merely hired as a ** writer,” and does not own o penny’s interest in 55 Herald, to assume S speak for the proprietors of that paper as the champions of organized labor. The Knights of Labor, like the Nebraska grange, have left the doors wide open for the cappers of monopolies vy the spy upon them, with a view of ing political ends. Kverybody re- members how the Nebraska grangers were imposed upon by Church Howe, whom they clected as their grand master. The kid-gloved gentleman who has taken the contract to befog and hoodwink the workingmen by masquerading as a Knight of Labor has a very big job on his hands. The laboring men of Omaha e had ample experience in times past with the sympathy and friondship of the Herald. In the language of Artemus Ward: “It is true the leopard cannot change his spots, but you can change them for him with a paint brush as [ once did to a leopard of mine that wasn’t naturally spotted in an attractive manner.” During fifteen years past in every struggle between cap- ital and labor, whether in this eity or the country, the owners of the Herald have always ranged themselves in vio- lent opposition to labor, They have do- nounced the workingmen and working- men's organizations as “red-handed in- cendiari ‘communists and fiends Only five years ago, when a mere labor demonstration was magnified into a riot, the Herald was loudest in calling for troops, and demanding that working- men’s wages should be regulated by tho bayonet, The same men own the Herald to-day, and they have not changed thoi yiews with regard to labor, no matter what the pretense may be. If labor troubles should arise on the Union Pacihe to-morrow the man who is now playing knight and capper on the editorial stafl’ of the Herald would be com- pelled to turn the guns of that paper upon labor or lose his job, To whom hus lubor in Omaha vs looked for u fearless advoeuey of its rights during labor troublest Did it ever turn to the Herald ofiice, which generally guarded by policemen and eputy sherifls for foar of a labor mob? To whom would labor look to-morrow if a conflict botween it and capital should arise? Would it not naturally turn to the Bre which has never failod to give it a fair hearing even at the risk of losing the good will of capitalists wiios advortising patronage is its prineipal sour f revenue, in absence of railroad job work? We take the workingmen of Omaha to be iutelligent cnoagh to dis- tinguish botween felends who have stood by thom in need and trouble and pre- tenders who want to make politieal eap- ital out of their friendship. Tt1s a piece of impudonco for the Moy ald to intimate that there are any ‘‘un- composed difforences’’ betwosn the pro- prietors of the BEg and their employes. No complatut has been made by any of them as to their wages and treatme and no grievance can wrise which we a; THE OMAHA DAILY BEE.‘ MONDAY, MARCH 1. I¥s.. true, howover, that an effort is being made through just such cappors as the one that now edits the erald in the absence of Dr. Miller, to ereate a controversy through outsiders who are willing to play cats- paw for political purposes. This is only in keeping with our experience in the past, when our amiable contemporarics have fomented trouble in our oflice for the purpose of breaking down a success ful rival. As to Marshal Cammings, the Herald may proceed at once to fence in its graveyard and employ its sexton. The political funerals which have taken place at the in ce of the bloody lord high executioner who sheds red ink by the quart in the Herald are not vy numerous. Marshal Cammings ean await his doom with composure. The contemptibie fling t Cummings would not be a proper representative of the labor element only shows to what extent stupid malice in charge of a political axe can go. Marshal Cammings has been a mechanic and laborer all his life, andif anybody can be classed as a representa- tive of real labor it is Tom Cummings. Hot Wave Signals. The value of the cold wave signals has been fully and fairly proved to the pub- lic during the past winter. The black blocked flag flying from the various sig- nal stations throughout the country given timely warning of approaching cold waves to many citizens who would otherwise been without such nfor mation. The ce has been satisfac- tory and a great accommodation to the public benefited The question is now being mooted why provisions should not be made by congress for a hot wave signal service during the summer months, Its introduction and operation would be as simple aad satisfactory as the pres- ent system of signalling the approach of cold weather, Hot waves follow the same rule as their opposite Their course and the time of their appearance could be as definitely determined as those bringing with them a fall of the mercury. Tt is a well known fact that people are taught more readily by simple signals than by long bulletins of changes in the nd thermometer. The “hot ng the news of coming heat to thou- sands who would never stop to read “Old Probabilities” in the papers. It would eall ag loudly for dusters and parasols as the cold waye flag has for arctics and over- coats. To shippers of perishable goods such an enlargement of the signal ser- vice system would be invaluable, while to a perspiring public it would be hailed asa great acommodation. While con- Zress is in session is the time to sta ball rolling for the hot wave signal. meteorological committee of the board of trade would meet with general approval if it took the matter in hand for a re- port at the next meeting of that body. THERE is something almost pathetic in General Sherman'’s labored review of the controversy forced upon him by General -y, and in his indignant denials of any intent, in word or deed, to disparage his old friend and commander, Grant. No one can read the correspondence con- tamed in Sherman’s reply without feel- ing a strong touch of sympathy for the grizzled soldier, whose loyalty to a com- rade was brought into gaestion by twist- ing a sentence, taken at random trom a long letter, out of its vroper connection and distorting its sigmficance to the disadvantage of the writer. General Sherman spoke the truth ot history when he wrote that for months before Shiloh Grant was yn- der a heavy cloud, and he draw iy yopa- bly correct infertiice when he stated as iis conviction that the illness of General C. ¥. Smith gave the supreme authority of a lifetime to the discredited officer who was afforded at Pittsburg Landing the chance of adding the victory of Shi- loh to Donelson, and of rising through successive commands to the leadership of the armieg of the union. This is what Sherman meant, and thisis what he said, concluding his letter with the sentence, “Grant was under a cloud, but it tested and strengthened the qualites which were in him and produced such fruits.” Gen- cral Sherman addresses his letter *“To my comrades and friends.” They will not exculpate him on the showing because there has been -no offense requiring ex- culpation, The place of “Uncle Billy” Sherman is too secure in the hearts of his countrymen and in the affections of his old commands to be vacated by any paper controversy which can now arise over the events of the past. The gencral will only awaken sympathy for his worst misfortune, more a misfortune than a fault, that of talking and of writing in so picturesque and interesting a style shat the public at once claims possession through the press of the material which he provides in such abundance when con- fronted by the representatives of the press which he abuses so roundly. TRAFFIC-MANAGER Thoma isnow in Washington. He will prob- ably appear betore the Pacific railrond committee to testify that ten per cent of over the Union Pacific went on When the editor of the Bee made the same statement at Lincoln some two years ago Mr. Kimball contradicted him and swore that only one per cent of the travel was on passes. At that time the Union Pacific was issuing ten passes where they are issuing one now. But since Mr, Adams has reached the conclu- sion thatthe pass system prevents the railvoads from lowering its passenger tariff, Mrv. Kimball will promptly swing into line. Mr, Adams has also convineed Mr. Kimhall that he was very much mistaken when he swore before several legislatures that the branch lines of the Union Pacific were operated at n dead loss merely to accom- modate the grangers. The figures which have been produced by Mr. Adams and the Union Pacitic government directors show that the branch lines are the most productive of all the railroad property are in fact the backbone of the sys- temn. Mr. Kimball will undoubtedly hack Mr. Adaws up in his statement and the next time he appears before u Nebraska Jegislature he will tuke back what he said before the last ove, L. Kimball, Mg. W. A, L. GisBON, in o comiauni- cution published elsewhere, ealls atten tion to the, m‘k‘vnilf of an ordinance in to streets that are to be pa bbon suggests that due not should be given to the gas and water companies to luy their mains, ana ghat each property owner should be compelled to make gas and water sewer connec- not disposed to adjust amicably, Iiis lliuu for each lot -of twenty-two feet, bringing the same to he curb line. If at the end of the time priseribed by the pro- posed ordinance this work is not done, then the city shall do it and assess the cost against the profrrty, These are the essential points suggeited by Mr. Gibbon, council sjould at once take action upon the matt Heretofore the gas and water compayies have been very slow in laying their naing, owingto var ous causes, and haveat times seriously delayed the paving. That property own- ers should make coanéctions with the gas, water and sewer mainson the streets tobe paved is emiiently proper, as it will prevent a groat deal of damage to the pavement after it is laid. After the pavement is onee laic 1t should be di turbed as little as posiible. Tie surgeon-gencil of the United tates Marine hospital expresses the opinion that owing fo the precautions that have been taken the cholera will not make its appearance in America. He urges, however, that cleanliness, both in- dividual and municipal, be maintained, as well asa thorough system of inspee- tion of emigrants at foreign ports. ——— Tue exposition building will accommo: date very large assemplages, but Omaha is sadly in want of two or three public halls that will seat fron one to two thous- and people. BostoN, better known as Beantown, has had a wind storm, sut it was nowhere compared to the big 1lows of Prof. J. L. Sullivan. Tue snow-storm is a bae crop of spring poetry. sot to the KINGS AND QUEE! XKing Oscar, of Sweden,has become a teeto- taler. Queen Margharita of Ttaly—the “Pearl of Savoy”—is said to the best dressed woran in Lurope. King Thebaw's royal ancestry, according tothe Burmese documents, number 557,000 Kings, The czar of Russla isabout to send an ex- ploring expedition through Khorassan,under the direction of Dr. Rudde. The erown prince of Germany has seventy- two decorations, 1t is rumored he will attend the next masquerade as a crazy-quilt. The Prince of Wales, unlike some of his imitatorsin this country, wears a black silk ribbon as a watch-guard, beeause he can af- ford it. An increase in cable tollsis expected in case Prince Alexander Karageorgeviteh be- comes frequently mentioned again in press dispatehes. The Sultan thinks the Shah of Persia’s poetry is poor stuff, ard the shah thinks the sultan’s piano playing will bring cats into fa- vor once more, says thé Courier-Journal. The prince of Wales, never opens a book oranewspaper. Competent secretaries read everything the prince should know, and the result is related to him ' in tondensed shape. When King Ludwig of Bavaria was re- contly serenaded by a band playing Wagner's music he howled like @ dog and smashed all the furniture. So it scems that the poor man had lueid intervals, Queen Victoria's birthday present to the crown princess of Germany “full-dress carrinze,” and it s just been dispatehed to Berlin, Theinterior is lined with blue silk damask, with gold fringe and tassels. The 5 of elaret color, with lines of o son and all the mountings are of brass. Atareception given at St. Petersburg by Prinee Youssoupoff to the emperor and em- press of Russia nearly a thousand guests were present to greet their sovereigns. 'The entertainment itself was the chuax of a 05 1ot unlike ekl &S to Queen Eliza- 1at Kenilworth and rivaling even that extravagant display. Both the royal gucsts danced until 3 in the morning. Reducing Transportatior Peoria Transcript, ven thousand cans of milk are shipped fo Chicago daily. In order to reduce the cost of transportation the water is not put in until ater the lacteal fluid reaches the city. by iy Hoe Wants the Earth, Teeumseh Chieftain. Tt is intimated by some of our oxchanges that J. . Zediker wants to be the next secro- tary of state. We rise to inquire what elso after that Mr, Zediker wants. This gentle- man’s wants have become chronic, dosrideainls Just What the Peoplo Want. Papillion Times, Van Wyek's bill providing that all branch lines of the Unlon Pacific railroad built in future shiall belong absolutely to the United States until all that company’s indebtedness to the government fs paid, 15 tho kind of legislation the people of Nebraska want. PRI S S No Anti-Van Wyck Men Wanted. Ulysses Dispate The paralytic howls of the newspapers agunst Van W with exultation. It is the spur that makes the broncho kick. In the coming eampaign no anti-Van Wyck man need apply for a seat In our legislative halls. R A Good Many Years Ago. Chicago Mail. A story is to appear in the Chieago Ledger founded upon & great mystery which the Chi- cago detectives once cleared up, It must bave been a good many years ago. A story founded upon the mysteries the Chicago de- tectives haven’t worked up would be equally us interesting, we should think, subsidized ck are hailed Wants the Governorship. Grand Island Tudependent, Hall county oug'it to go ¢ the resublican conventicn this fall with a candidato for governor who ean ¢ et there and a delegation that knows how to put h'm there, and if the proper canlidate is seleeted; and a suitable delezation sent, w - He Was a St, Louis Plumber, St. Louls Repdlisan, i 1y of St. Louis dosta wager of $500 toa nickel on Tuesday last at Dallas, Tex., during a cocking main, and paid the largor sum without w murmur, ' The whole city was lost in admiration of him as & phenomenally good loser until the reason of his saug troid transpired. He isa St. Louls plumber, Y ~l— Will Invest in Another Lung. Yurk Times, Wuon Lung, a Chinese Tmulr\'muu of Owmaha, has sued the Bee for$1,000, The Bex sald it was rumored that there was a leper at Lung's laundry. The celestial will probably invest the money in another lung. Wun Lung sounds so wueh like a hopeless case of consumption. A Rhyme All the Way Through, Norvistown Herald. Cast aside on a lone, barren isle, In the sea 1nto which flows the Nisle, With no elothes but a battered old tisle— Fron a tull suit a rather scaut pisle Lot course could not dress with While I dwelt ju that residen Liur s there was no oue to s 1 managed the years to begis “Tliat had else been a long weary whi With many a stroll in my tisle, And many an innocent Wwis “Fhat kept in good order my bisle: Till ship that sailed many » wisle, Brought e home from my dreary exisle, nd 1 this way thetale place on lisle, ith the trust that it o eue Will risle, PRIVILEGED ~ PLUNDERERS. The Public and Private Fanotions of Rail* roads Reach a Common End, The Utter Failure of Political Bodies to Cope With the Question—A New Remedy For the Evil Prop d. Don Piatt in the Chicago Current. In & number of the Current before me I find an editorial suggestion to the ef- fect that the better way to relieve our- selves of the evils accumulated in our present system of railroads is to have the government own and control these high- ways of trade. A highway is the proper- 1y of the public and of right should be un der the control of the government. That a railroad is such a highway our courts have already decided. Common sense teaches us that mechanical scionce has given us in the shape of a vond-hed and its iron rails precisely what nature gave us in a river, a lake or a sea. Had the public in the first instance scized on this nd constructed the road through its gov- nment, there would have been no ques- tion as to proprictorship. But this was not done, Instead of that, private cap. ital was called in, and permitted to not only entrench its priviloge of eorporation, but the rights of the |u|hliu(“su]l[»v:\\'utl from the organi- zation. In this complicated condition the com- mon 1mind is sorely perplexed, I have o m of 500 acres.” Isce, one day, anum ber of men with instruments on” my best meadow, I ask them their purposcs, and they inform me that they ave prospecting for the Patent Screw, Pod Augur, Bee Line from Columbus (o Tolodo. 1 tell them 1 want nosuth invasion of my farm, that it will destroy its value, and they nust cease, or I shill drive them off as trespassers. They inform me that itis a public improvement, and if I refuse the right of way they will appeal to a court, and have my property condemned. 1 hersist and they do so. The P. 3. L. is constructed, My fences ken down, my meadows ruined, my cattle killed or frightened out of all growth by this public improyement, A year after Ldrive a lot of fat cattle, fattened under great difliculties, to the station, intending to freight them to To- ledo. 1 find mysclf diseriminated in the way of freight charges, in fo a huge caitle monopoly of which the rail- road oflicials make an important part. I find myself charged enough in the way of freight to take all the profit out of my beef, and 1 remonstrate. I am laughed at. 1 threaten an appeal to the same court which condemned my land and learn that the railroad is private proper- ty, over which the court has no more con- trol than it has over the house or ficld L rent of another. Now, where the publie interest ends and the private right begins confounds the common understanding. I state this actual occurrence on the proposition, gencrally accepted, that the actual investors, stockholders so- are controlling their instruments. situation is further muddled by the that the men who put their money in the improvement as much out as I, a pro- ducer, am. Of this, however, further along. I wish to treat of your proposed reme- dy, and & will not delay by using Ham- 1ét’s warning, that say “Better bear the ills we have ‘Than fly to others that we know not of,” for we are well acquainted with the ills of gov tusage. The so-called go ernment taints all it touches. Our civil sel s so ineflicient and corrupt that it shames us before the world. This gov- ernment held our lands in trust for the actual settler. them? The so-called governm undertaken to earry our jettéiE The cariyiog cots Sore than the Porlation of oysters. [ could fill your Journal with instances of incfliciency, ex- travagance and corruption in all that vernment undertakes to accomplish. ere this immense outlay of railroads transferved to that source of power, we should find it controlled by a party for partisan purposes, the republicun to-day, and the democratic to-morrow. This party government that makes a mockery of the suflrage would give us evils piled on the ills we already sufter from. Did it, however, Mr. Editor,ever strike you that this system of railroads is in Tact nnd eflect our government, and while we talk about transfer it to the political structure, the political struc- ture some tine sinee, passed to the ecntrol of the body you propose seizingand pur- loining. Thisis rather a_ startling proposition and yet it ean be demonstrated, Tlie framers of our constitution tried the experiment of constructing a gov- ernment on paper, All the other govern- ments of the world have grown to what they ave throngh usage. It is of only late y that the practice has obtained of putting the results of long experience into writing and calling it a constitu- tion. The fathers of our form varied the process and put their theory in the con- stitution, and called on the people to put their practice in accordance with {hu framers' political structure. We have complied to the extent of giving the constitution our unqualified admira- tion and support as a political affair, and all the time we have gone on like the rest of the human family, the world r, aud built to ourselves a government of usage with its unwritten constitution and common law. In this way we bave what we may eall two governments, one purely political, and the other of a prac. tical “sort, pertaining to the community in its everyduy life, and business afiairs, It is hard o belie rthe fact, that the entire political structure could be removed without affecting our welfare. We wounld miss the excitements of electing a president, and feel at a loss for awhile for congressional talk. But in a short time we would find ourselves her better or worse than we were be- fore we lost our beautifui theory of gov- ernment. If anyone doubt this letsuch look about 1. ik community of fifty millions is not agitated over gra affecting our existence, let osperity as a people. Thel ques- tions of capital and labor, the tyranny of corporations, and the monopoly of weilth Aré any of these vital questions re cognized and acted on by the govern- ment? Read the messages and ¢ why, the member who wounll ri place, either on the foor of the honse or senato, and dwell on the woes of 1 people would be lisiened to with astonishment, and treated with contompt as a Ve L and such treatment would be proper, for he would be a erank to intro: duce to those chambers entirely foreign to their The business there is for to charge the ¢ half with ineajias and dishonest dealing, and thon appe: to & people divided In the same w with no difference botween the h eamps but that of numes, and the p sion of oflice. For twenty years we had no ques- tion agitating the people in clections that had in 1t any reference whatever to the well-being of the people. ‘The very sys- tem in vogue of eol 1Z YeVenue wus never submitted for the consideration of the masses, -und to-day, My comion congressman e dider tween & tariff for protection and o revenue, he will an a8 did Sc Sherman on one occasion, that he.does not know. Our elections Luve been on 1 issuts, or worse, as last fall.on per- sonal matters. ‘Ihe fathers, in their constrnction of our ve guestions alone our 1f behind the exclusive® politioal fabric, soemiod haunted by one groeat fear, and that was tho people, in whose behalf they erccted A government., This resnlted in a cast-iron affair that has no elasticity, no adaptability whatever to the changing wants and necessities of th e govorned. No government is farther re moved from the control of the people, than this so-called popular government of onr The presidentis |vu("|\ oftice for four years, He cannot even be influ- enced, let alone controlled during his term, senate, an aristoeratic body made in imitation of the Enlish house of lords, represents states, and cach mem ber i in for six years, The house, under this, has becomy & mere appendage of the oxecutive and senate, for it lives on the patronage dispensed by the exeeutive and senate “The result of all this is the utter clim- ination_of all questions of principle or volicy from the canvass that endsin an election, All the while, 1aw of usage f ment, and unde and living are nsed and_abused, The fathers thought, for example, that in destroying the lu entanl, they elim- inated all avistoer: They certainly destroyed the aristocracy cth. in leaving us the corpo; they left us a worse abuse, that pre more evil than the one destroyed it is soul Tess,organized greed, rapacions and cruel, that lives forever These corporations make our ment. They hold in their Keeping a vight to “dife, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” to seeure which out politieal structure was ereated. Hence what you propose to remedy by purchase or seiz- ure by the governinent is the government it howeyer, the unwritten mes itsdlf into govern- tions o govern- “T'he world is, at last, awakening to the act that all the evils that afllict hum : not from unequal — pol privileges, but from an unequal distribu- tion of property. We have a large class that produces” overything and enjoys nothing, and a limited class that pro- duces nothing and enjoys all. This is as possible under a republic as under a despotism. To-day the masses go from the lmm where they have enjoyed the noble privilege of voting, to Novels of starvation, and yesterday a citizen died of whom we boast that ho was the richest man in the world. Every day the gulf widens between the 'y rich and the vy poor. What is it to me that I pos- sess the noble privilege of voting the Hon. Lyeurgus Leatherlungs into an oflice. while my children cry for bread, and the roof above my family is not my own. I treating of this, T 1 the subject as if the politic our fathers had been left to us, pure and intact, as it came from their hands. Such is not 'the fact. The ovils of a corpora- tion government have tainted and well nigh destroyed that of the fathers. These combined _corporations — those hidcous things built up among us, such as the Standard oil monopoly, nominate the candidates of both parties for the presi doney, seleet our ators, purchase members of the house, own the legisla- tures of states, and overawe our smaller courts. All our clections haye come to be mere questions of money. A pur- chase of a chair in the senate is common and when it is necessary to sceure politi: cal enthusiasm, is bought with money. Sitting in the gallery of the senate the other day, I counted a major- ity of the membe presentatives or ereatures of corporations ‘This structure of a government that was meant to he a political process through which to secure certu ights, and act only as a conservator o f the peace, has been moved from its b [ thatof all old governments which ar meant to be patornal afiairs, that unde tuke to do something for everybody and end in favoring a few at the ¢ the many. ‘The form remajfis, all the ts wado, but with us t ternal thecyy 1§ Theor, lone, "‘5“ o of is only to muke the huad shell \\,.I,,_ F'hosd facts are necessary to enable us to comprehend the report, made years since by Senators Sherman, Conkling and Windom on railroads, that told us that the railroads could tax the entire products of the country to an extent that congress dare not atiempt. *“They rise above all law,"" said President Guarlield, when a member of the house,§ “‘and defy all control.” “They do notjthreaten ou " eried the late ‘Jeremiah S, . “for, with their hands upon our tnroats, our liberties are of the past.’ ‘These eminent men are not commun- ists, and their warnings were not the wild cries of eranks bent on disturbing ve: vights, for the sake of destroying only. Thie hand that holds in its grasp the prop- ty of a land, has all which governments instituted to protect. Poor Shylock summed itup inafew words, for when the noble quibblers, after holding hin to the letter of his bond, overrode all jus- tice and scized his possessions, he eried: ay, take my life and all; pardon not that, out' fake niy house when you do take the prop & Thal doth sustain my house; you take my fe When you do take the means whereby I live, These means belong to the corporations and not to the people. ~ We have to re- member that the ills we suffer from are notin the abuse of power, but in the power to abuse. We may always safely rely on the power beng'used, not only to serve the greed of those in possession, but to gratify the animal propensity to s well. The adyocates of” the stem point to the immense ns‘mx'(:l!ion done by its man- wrors, and tell us we may rest s i the selfish interest of the owne sure their own profit in n reas charge for general distribution. the ~ same way the late gifted Wendell Phillips was told that his master could be relied on not to abuse his slave, for on his slave's health depended master’s well-being. The great phi- thropist, Be i ved that ~the arter will not injure the horse that makes bread for his” fumily. The friend of animals will prove to yon on a bit of paper that freight is dear and horsetlesh s the cloquent adyoeate of hu- manity eallod attention to the fact that cotton wias more precious than a slave's life, and there was and is wargin cnough to gratify the brutal abuse of unr ed ownership. There might be something in the ment were investors in these railroy masters of their instrmnents, Bug these ave pussed from their control, and the rtual ownership to men who, ' without vesting . cent, realize vast fortunes from an nbuse of the property. Robbing the stockholders on one side, they plunder the producers on the other, and any president can 1 more on Wall strect in one mouth and bearing his own stock, wtive line will realize through legitimate business in a “rom this sou ne the wealth hest man in the world, lately ven competition, the health of trade, is closed aguinst us throu combina- tions, and to day we are treated to the acle of & great highway headless at seaboard, being fought to the bitter i in its attempt to reach tide water at New York, and our congr rupted stale legislature ur aid the combination, 1 have not the space to show s thraugh which monoyless adventur ers have possessed theinsclves of theso | vast and vital enterpriscs, nor yot on to the pro it our rights, privileges | But | {han its oreator. With the corporations owning congress, how long will it be_be- fore they possess the little comnussion? Senator Cullom hints, in a feeble way, at the real remedy, and this fetcheg mo to the object of m[v article, and that {s to call attention to the only ablo suggestion which this agitation has brought to the front. I refer to the bill offered to the Reagan committee, by Major Frank 8, Bond, Vr«sinlvnt of the Erlanger system of southern railroads President Frank S able man, A Bondis a remark. ilrond magnate, with all lie has invested in this sort of property, he has br smough to see that unless some romedy is found to restrain wron, i bring this vast power under h-n.fi ntrol, the people will rise in their ath and destroy this immense and necessary property. He proposes that a tribunal shall be open, free of cost, to all suflel a tribunal the railroads will respect, and in- which the people shall lave confidence. Ho opons the way to the courts of the United States now closed against us, by making it the duty | of the government to prosecute when- ever complaint is made, free of cost to the complainant. In other words, the government becomes the prosecutor and the sufforer only a witnoss. 'This I8, i substance, the bill he proposes to make law. 1 have not the limit in this pape to give the details. These are simple, and for the end sought, scem to be per- foct, Of all the fathors, the o Statesmen great structures lof( by the s alone remain efMclent. ¢, but a Bax er is yos- stble, These courts, as I have said; are closed to us, The victim of oppre:sion las to enter the arena single handed, and fight all the combined wealth of the land, " The law's delny will destroy him if he escapes the depression | that “comes of the insolence of ollice. We have law if wo canonly feteh it to bear, The error of Mr. Rengan, that earncst honest-hearted reformer, is in the re enactment of laws alveady in existonce, without giving us the teibunal to en' force them. If we can get our members of congress to consider this growing ovil, which is doubtful, let them study the remedy pro- posed in the Bond bill,and at "least give ita trial - A Bold Buccaneer. St Louis Globe-Democrat. Tev. Heber Newton, in his sermon last Sunday, spoke of the Iate Jesse James s “a bold biceancer, not of the seas, but of the railtoads.” We would not advise Mr. New- ton to move to Missourl and run for an oftice on the democratic ticket. Thomas T\ Crit- tenden treated Mr. James as “a bold buc- cancer,” and now look at him—practicing law in Kansas City, instead of ropresen ting the government ata forei gn coutt, Bad Johnnie. New ¥ork Graphio. 1t is alleged that John R. MelLean is about to retire, tora time at least, from Ohio poli- ties. Wedoubt it. If John were wrecked like Robinson Crusoe on o desert island he could not be happy until he picked a quarrel with his own shadow. —— sx..-rm'Murph_T, ot Brown county, loft the city Saturday in company ~ ‘with i mer, the young horse thief, Ed ably guardod ) nfialy Houso by n porter, Geo. White, as- hree navy revolve CATARRH Vlwm: Grent Dalsamig Dis- tillation of Witch- zel, American Pine, Can- , Murigold, Clovor Ilossoms, ete., callod SAN- ronn's 1dpicir, Cong, foy tho immedinto ' rgljof PLIIIGNE OUNY O gy fofin O Catar f|, hnm n Elinplo Cold in thé Hoad to Loss of Smell, Tasto and Heuring, Cough and Ca- Consumption. Complote treatment, ottie Radical Cure, one box 1 one Improved Inbaler, in ono now be hud of all druggists for 310, Ask for SANFORD'S RADICAL CURE, Complote Inkialer with Treatment, $1. “The only absolute specifio wo know of."— [Mod. Tine: lie best wo hive found i a life- timne of sulioring.”—[Rov. Dr. Wiggins, Boston. SATter tlong strizgle with catarrh the Radieal Cure hus conquercd.”—[Rov. S, W. Monroo, Lewisburgh, Pa. “1 huve not found a_caso that it did not reliovo at once."—[Andrew Lee, Man chester, Mass. Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston. “| MYSELF MUST GIVESUP, I can- not bear tiis pain,l achie all over, av nothing 1 any good.’ Backacho wei Uterive paing, Sorcnoss, Lumc Hucking _cough, ) Plourisy 'and t' puins cured by t how, orjginul und elozunt an tidote to_pain ATICURA ANTI-PAIN PLAS adaptod to ladies by reforing und gentlo medicinal _qualitio or §l. Mailed froe. Potter Al Co. Toston Mass, 57 Drug and C ainia o, ditat lin Route onal seen: STl Foud: baten. Tolifig stock an b annaciing poiuts b irpvesed comiorts e pitties ren Chica Magnincon [t el and's sari, pickarmsaue 10catl frof oty Miieatia il e med Tl Folita Lo Sl vick whcat Helds wad Pasir laids of nterior D, 3 § 5 5 ¥ DIECE Law 2ca and Kane it eIt Tdia: illits, Kanras Clty, cdids pointn R. R. CABLE, E. ST, JOHN, Prodt & ool ag'r, Gon'h 'Kt & Pass. Ag'ty NPORT Furniture Co, Munufucturcrs of glve detuils of our wrongs. We | cnn rest on the fact above staty t wrongs come not so much from an abuse of power as from the power to abi i Senator Cullom's propsed vemedy is a | delusion and a snay 1t is tissu in’ the path. of a prairio commission at Washington.is 10 do, what government isclf fails to | comi lish.. The creature iato be gank, Office and Saloon Firtures Mirrors, Bar Sereens and Hotel Furni- ture. t, Omaha, Nebraska Wrile for des gos wud Particulurs,