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

HE DAILY BEE. Orrice, NO. 914 AXD 016 FARNAM St ok OFFICE, ROOM 06, TRIBUNE BUILDING saTos OFFick, NO. 513 Fountrmxtn 87, | every morning, except Sunday. The onday WOrNing paper Published i the TERNS MY MAIL: " ‘ ng. Three Months. nths. 00/0ne Mouth. . ‘wekLy Dee, Published Bvery Wednesday. TERMS, POSTPALD. , with premium.. . ear, withon premiuim [onths, without premiu onth, un trial. CORRESPONDENCE: communications relating to_news and edi- natters shiould be addressed to the Evr by rne Bre. BUSINESS LETTERS: [t siness lotters and remittances should b d to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, A, Drafts, checks and postoffice orders ‘made payable to the order of the company. BEE PUDLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIEIORS B. ROSEWATER. Evrron. 2 .nJ‘B THE DAILY BEE. jworn Statement of Circulation. te of Nebraska, nty of Douglas. "& o P. Feil. cashier of the Bee Publishing pany, does solemnly swear that the ac- cireulation of the Daily Bee for the ending April 23d, 1886, was as follows: Morning Evening Date, Edition, Edition. irday, 17th... 6,450 ay, 19th. ay, 20t.... 6, inesday, 21t . 6,300 irsday, 22nd... 6,300 flay, Average........0,450 . P. FEIL. orn to and subseribed before me, this day of April, A. D, 1886. Siox J. FISHER, Notary Public. . P, Feil, being first duly sworn, deposes says that he is hier of the Bee Pub- ing company, that the actual average y cireulation of the Dally Bee for the th of January, 15, was 10,378 copies; February, 10,505 copies; for March, 11,537 coples. worn to and_subseribed before me this day of April, A, D, 18 8oy J. Fisnen, Notary Public. Ay Lstis moving day. ‘This year it Il be an eight-hour movement. E union depotv is to be a stock con- n. Omaha takes stock in such enter- ses. —— T is about time that the Omaha & prthern, whose other name is the Mis- i Pacifie extension, should begin to terialize. ANOTHER shortage in brick is reported. shortage of ‘‘bricks” among the pw-goi.ag manufacturers of this much- eded building material is even more parent, [THE tax shirkers must go. The BEE oposes to take great pleasure in pub- hing later in the season, for the benefit the board of equalization, a few of the eualition of the tax list. ow that the excitement over the puthwestern strike is dying out, the St. ouis papers are endeavoring to keep ublic attention directed to that city by iving the interest in the Preller mur- I trial. THE Asphalt company should either epair Sixteenth street at once, or take pightv good care that visiting delega- ms turn their heads towards some ther point of the compass when inspect- ng Omaha's system of public works. | “PLENTY of work at fair wages,” sums p the demands of Amecrican working- nen. The loud-mouthed foreign blather- kites, who assume tospeak for labor in Hemanding impossibilities, do not voice he sentiments of the Iabor organizations pf this free country. Mg. JEFFERSON DAVIS had the floor at fontgomery, Ala., but he did not have ho ear of the south. The rising genera- tion born after the raven wing of war had disappeared from the southern horizon Il not enthuse greatly over the ‘‘lost cause.”” PRrESIDENT CLEVELAND has adopted a new plan of apveasing the hunger of Nobraska office-seekers. He invites them to dine with him at the white house. [£his is not empty honor, but a commis- on would be more appreciated than a quare meal by such influential politicians a8 Mr, Pritchett. A FIvE hundred thousand dollar union depot is a good starter for Omaha’s com- ing boom. New freight depots adjoining, & new bridge and trains from all points of the railroad compass running into the oity will add to the attractions which Omaha alrendy possesses as a rushing, bustling metropolis on the west bank of the Big Muddy. No time should be lost in the settle- ment of the disputed contracts for public improvements. The question whether bundreds of laboring men are to find employment in Omaha this year depends upon the promptcommencement of grad- Ing, curbing and guttering. Pavements eannot be laid until the streets are pre :red for them, and the entire paving must wait until the matter is ad- justed. Bonds were voted last fall in- Stead of at the spring election for the sole purpose of enabling work to begin early on the projected improvements. Every mnemployed workingman in Omaha ought by this time to have found em- ployment on our streets, Of the million . dollars which the city intend to spend this year a large portion must go for wages to laborers. It cannot be distrib- mted any too soon. S———— 'AREE of the great trunk lines of the west have made their preparations for extending their rails into new territory. The Rock Island has borrowed $10,000,000 | | at5percent, the Northwestern has author- b \Imdnlouu of $20,000,000 to perfect its western connections, and the St. Paul, 3 \'hicll recently borrowed $2,000,000, ex- ' peets soon to call for several millions more, The Rock Island has designs on the South Platte country and a large por- tion of its loan will be expended in extending its system into state. The Northwestern is ady laying rails within thirty of the western border of north- ern Nebraska and grading far into ning, while its surveys in this state o invasion of the South Platte Lincoln branch on will pow territory, and financial matters e ridiroy *THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1886. Tiot Him Come West. President Cleveland has vetoed the bill making Omaha a port of immediate transportation for dutiable goods. This will be unpleasant news to democratic importers who haye been most active in their endeavors to place this eity on a par with other cities of its commercial rank and importance. The bourbon attention of Messrs. Max Meyer and Sam Burns, who have cheered and hurrahed so vo- ciferously for the administration, is re- spectfully invited to the fate of the bill on which they pinned their political faith, Mr. Cleveland suffers from chronic incapacity to understand that the boundaries ot New York state are not the limits of the union. His personal acquaintance with the west has been con- fined to the region east of Buffalo. Of its boundless resources, of its increasing population, of its mighty cities and en- terprising citizenship he is profoundly ig norant. Omaha, Kansas City, St. Paul, and Minneapolis are nothing more than names to the chief executive, carrying with them no ideas of the wealth and the commercial importance of the communi- tios for which they stand. This is unfor- tunate for Mr. Cleveland for it leads him into blunders which are making him thoroughly unpopular throughout a large scction of the country over whose federal interests heis the chief executive. Itis equally unfortun- ate for the west, which suffers for the president’s ignorance. We would suggest that Mr. Cleveland postpone trips to all other sections and muke his wedding journey in this direc- tion. He could combine business with pleasure, and acquire much needed infor- mation with matrimonial experience. He would be surprised to find that, while New York is a large state, the west con- tains several more acres and a few more people, and that there are interests west of the lakes as weighty and as important as any bordering on Lake Erie. Just at present Mr. Cleveland’s political as well his mental vision is exceedingly limited. He should enlarge 1ts scope. A Merited Rebuke, ‘The attack on Gould made by Senator Van Wyck a few days agoin the national senate has attracted wide attention and called out varied comments. The gang of editorial numbsculls and political renegades who have never vet found any good 1n Van Wyck very naturally de- nounce his speech as ‘‘communistic. Leading journals throughout the coun- try, however, pronounce it timely and cutting. Gould represents ull that is vicious in railroad management. He has been the inventor of the most effec- tive schemes for railway wrecking, through stock watering and a score of other ingenious means for destroying the value of properties and saddling the expense of reconstruction upon the public. His immense wealth has been acquired by methods which have robbed alike investors in and patrons of his roads. Every remedial clause in the inter-state commerce bills reported is di- rected against some wrong which Jay Gould has bulwarked in railroad misman- agement. In assailing Gould’s methods Senator Van Wyck made a vigorous as- sault upon the methods of his followers and on railroad discrimination, extortion and corrupt management in general. Tae years ago it was demagogy to ven- ture to criticise a railroad manager. But we apprehend that this is a very late day to raise the old howl which once ran through Nebraska and the west when courageous men dared to brave political and social ostracism m exposing the iyrannical abuses and barefaced robberies perpetrated by corporate monopolies. At the time of Van Wyck's speech, Gould was shedding crocodile tears in Washington over his failure to adjust the strike on his system and in- dignantly refusing to accept the faithful picture of his character which the Knights of Labor had spread broadeast through the country. It was fitting that a friend of the producers should endeavor to show up the true estimation in which this prince of swindlers is held through- out the west, whose people h¢ has op- pressed and whose advancement he has hampered by his dishonest custody of their interests. Senator Van Wyck's caustic and cutting picture of the great jobber was a merited rebuke to Gould’s hypocritical cant about the “‘intercsts of labor’’ and his strong love of arbitration. THE Herald, which has been one of the loudest howlers for the removal of Com- missioner Sparks, calls for an explana- tion of how tho BEE can assert in one paragraph that there have been exten- sive frauds in land entries in the west, and deny in another that the republican land offices have not been found dis- honest by democratic inspectors. Frauds in land entries and frauds in land offices are two distinet and different matters. Under the present loosely drawn pre- emption and timber culture laws, frand is as possible under an honest as under a dishonest administration of local land offices. If the Herald under- stands the method of making entries 1t knows that the bulk of aflidavits of se tlement are sworn before local notaries and elerks of courts, and that the great majority of final proofs on pre-emptions are made miles away from the land offices. The duty of the land oflice is to pass upon the papers thus presented. In the majority of instances a& judge in court might as well be held for fraud in passing on fraudulent afidavits, sent him from the limits of his district, asa register of a land office, who passes on for patent final proofs, which on their face are in all respects what the law demands. Herein has lain the defects of the administration of our land laws, that the area to bein- speeted was so large and the opportuni- ties for fraud on the part of pretended settlers so numerous that the machinery provided was entirely inadequate to pro- tect the interests of the government, Mr. Sparks has gone ahead and furnished methods of his own which in several in- stances, being unauthorized by the law, have been overruled by his superiors. But the commissioner himself has not claimed that the administration of local land oflices has been fraudulent. His as- saults have been on a system for whose creation demoerats and republicans were equally responsible and whose defects congress is called upen to remedy. — My, Privcuery nas dined with Presi- dent Cleveland. A square wmeal is all that Mr. Pritchett has yet received out of spoils. Itis not square s hanaeringfor. but thpt long-expected commission which will en- able him to step into United States Dis- trict Attorney Lambertson’s brogans. Secession and Treason. It was not all at surprising that the epeech of Jeff Davis at Montgomery, Ala., has aronsed a storm of _honest indigna- tion throughout the north. It was a ran- corons, cooly conceived and skilfully ex- ecuted attempt to glorify treason and to keep alive the smouldermg embers of disloyalty. Its every sentence breathed revenge and its whole intent was to widen the swiftly closing chasm left by a civil war, whose final shots were fired almost a quarter of a contury ago. Mr. Davis and the south stand to-day as monuments of a clemency so astounding as to be unpar- alleled in the history of nations. How- ever honest the southern people may have been in their views of the right of the states to secede from the union, the fact remains that secession was rebellion, and rebellion was treason. It was so decided by the stern arbitrament of war, through the expenditure of hundreds of thous- ands of priceloss lives and costly treas- ure. The decision once made, the con- querors extended the olive branch of peace, threw open wide the doors of the national capitol and restored to all the rights of citizenship, the men who had sought to destroy the government. Mr. Davis is a living testimonial to the dusire of a loyal north to heal the wounds of a disloyal south. In anyother government on the faco of the globe he would long ago have decorated a gallows as high as that erected tor Haman. Of all the leaders of the rebellion he is the last one who should have the indecency to parade himself before the public defend- ing treason,and complaining of the treat. ment which the south has received since its failure to erect a go the corner stone of human ch The war is over, long ago, and south alike rejoice in the fact that the wounds are rapidly healing. But the people of the north will not permit the distinction between treason and loyalty to be oblhiterated. It cost too much to assert that distinction so vital to the per- petuation of a free government The war, forced upon the north was carried on to make treason odious. It must be re- garded as settling the question. EpwiN Boorn makes a great mistake in getting drunk when he plays along side of Salvini. Itisall Mr. Booth can do when sober to hold his own with the eminent Ital actor. Other Lands Than Ours. England has been swept during the past weck by a storm of oratory. All factions have taken eager advantage of the recess to discuss with their constitu- ents the all absorbing questionsiof home rule and land purchase and their cffects upon the integrity of the empire. Viewed in the light of the latest dispatches, the outlook for the passage of both Mr. Gladstone’s great bills is decidedly brighter. The meeting of the radieal as- sociations at London has had its effect, showing that by no means all the members of the extreme left are pre- pared to follow Mr. Chamberlain into open rebellion against their chief. In- deed, Mr. Chamberlain’s own position is likely to become one rather of neutrality than of opposition. The candid declara- tion of Lord Spencer in support of the pre- mier, 100, has had its effect, particularly in consideration of his former position as anadvocate of coercion. Even ths pessimistic conservative, the corre- spondent of the New York Tribune, ad- mits that Lord Spencer's speech has been ‘“‘helpful” to the government, and that “no small portion of the liberal party is still on the fence.” In view of the re- peated declaration that the liberals would never support Mr. Gladstone’s present proposals, this admi:flion is insignificant. The situation in Greeco is still unsottled. The powers have given the kingdom un- til next Thursday to reply to their ulti- matum, and the resignation of the ministry of war, which took place on Thursday is generally considered as fore- shadowing a favorable answer. 1t is be- coming more and more evident that Greece has been depending upon prom- ised Russian support in case of an out- break of hostilities. The entire Greek army consists of only 70,600 men all told. To oppose with this force 120,000 Turks with assistance from outside would be suicide. lhe czar has probably discovered that the fayorable opportunity for attacking Turkey has not yet arrived, and Greece, too, has found out that Muscovite promises do not always tally with Muscovite performance. » " The most important feature of the so- called Polish bill, that one which appro- priates $24,000,000 for the colonization of the Polish parts of West Prussia and Posen by German farmers, has now been adopted by both houses of the Prussian landtag, and of course has received the royal approval, as it was a govern- ment measure. It passed both houses with scarcely any debate, the conseryative majority making light of all legal ana economical objections raised by the minority. Their leaders pronounced it a measure of foremost national import- ance, and their cry was followed, nobody evidently remembering that under the same cry the Falk laws were adopted, for which now the grave-digger is sought. Even Windthorst's threat to make the government suffer for this when the in- ternal revenue law comes up for debate was not heeded. "% Russia is still secretly bent on war, whatever her open professions may be. The motive which actuates the czar is apparenily the same which moved Fred- erick the Great in beginning the contest with Austria which led to the Seven Years war—a large army on hand, more dangerous to the state in time of peace than during & war. All talk of restrain- ing Russis is worse than vain, sim- ply because while the outside pressure may be brought to bear upon the Russian government, no such pressure can be made effective upon the people and army, and the people and army in Russia con- stitute a power which cannot be in- fluenced from the outside. The visitof the ezar and his ministers to the south of Russia is evidently for the purpose of determining the question before the spring is too far advanced for military operations, and if anything is to be done, the fact will doubtless be known in a very short time. i e It does not require niuch of a gift of ey will inevitably ovettake the German om- pire under the administrative notions promulgated by Prince Bismarck. Mon- day’s angry debate in the reichstag can have but one eflact—to strengthen the hands of all of the, démocratic leaders. The government had asked for a grant of money in order to éstablish in Berlin_an inspection oftice of the landwehr. The reichstag refused the money, and the minister of war at one ordered the office to be opened, taking the money for the expenses from funds; at his disposal; hence the excitement in the German par- liament. "« The presidential elections in Peru have resulted in the elevation of General Ca- ceres to the presidency. While there were outbreaks reported in several places during the polling, 1t must be said that upon the whole the election passed off creditably to the people of that unhappy republic. The rise of Caceres reads more like romance than history. Itis but a fow months since he was simply the leader of an outcast band with a price sot upon his head. He passed from tory to victory, commanding the moral support of the people, seized Lima, and vrepared the way for an election of the exceutive. Thero appears to bea feeling in Peru that the right man is now at the head ot affairs, and that a strong hand will bring peace to a war-weary land. * *n The rumored appearance of cholera in the south of Germany so earlyin the son has created considerable alarm in erman oflicial eircles, and a strict quar- antine is at once to be established. There is virtue in a quarantine, and no doubt can exist to the German determina- tion to ma ive, but when no natural barriers exist against intercourse between people speaking the s guage and having the same cu: difficult i the extreme to erect an L ficial impediment to tho advance of the disease. The Germans will do their best, but whether their best will be enough is yet to be determined. *"x ntry of Europe are not, as a nough to make their in- fluence on public affairs felt, and from this distance we catch glimpses of them only as they come to the front in such as those now presented in Gallicia. The depths of degradation and super- stition in which these miserable people are plunged render extremely shaky the foundations of any government in which they form a considerable portion of the population, and the stern, repressive means proposed by tlu;l Austrian council for their suppressian are probably, under the circumstances, both necessary and Jjustifiable. 2 ! * 0% A furtherstep to Russianize the Baltic provinces of Russta is' spoken of. The government intends to’close the German university at Dorpat, founded by Gustav Adolphe, of Sweden, ; in 1632, and to transfer it to some, Russian city. That, of course, would be a fatal blow to the German nationality in’ the Baltic prov- and thereforo it is, certain to be KINGS AND QUEENS. The prince of Wales, among other official positions, holds that of president of the Awateur Photographie association. A Parls poper reports that the prince of Wales’ late visit to that- city was for the pur- pose of borrowing the sum of $250,000. ‘The empress of Russia likes Bret Harto's books as an occasional rib-tickler, but fora steady chuckle give her dear old Josh Bil- lings Victoria’s birthday will be saluted this year on May 22 The good old lady deserves to havea halt holiday at least, and a pudding dinner. The prince of Wales has now reached that period of life when he expects to be accompa- nied to entertalnments by his daughter-in- law-elect. Ex-Queen Isabella still cherishes hopes that she will sit upon the throne of Spain, but a good deal will happen before that event takes place. The Princess Metternich is devoted to pri- vate theatricals, Shels indefatigable in her efforts to make actors and actresses out of the Austrian nobility. ‘The European oyalties are more interested in Miss Folsom’s trousseau than they are willing to admit, but the presidentis a bizger man than any emperor. ‘This time it is the crown prince of Prussia who has published a book. Iie is more fortu- nately situated than most literary fellows, inasmueh as whether the work sells or not he will get his royalty just the same, Princess Dolgorouky, widow of the late Czar Alexander IL, gives grand weekly re- cl‘]’iflnnk at her splendid mansion in the Rue delas Cases. Her twochildren are deseribed as living images of their father. ‘The boy is now 14 years of ageand converses fluently in seven or eignt languages. ueen Victoria has placed in John Brown’s bedroom at Windsor castle a large brass tab- let inseribed with the lezend of his death in that raom, his many virtues and the queen’s grief athis loss But Wales is 8o oblivious of that good man’s memory that he is said to have dropped his old formula of praying for the queen, John Brown “ana the rest of the royal family, A Great Country, Chicago Herald, Jeff Davis and his friends are havinga high old time in Montgomery, with the stars and stripes waving over them. This isa great country, takoe it altogether. pnmdlid i L Death of Géneral Butler, Oshkokh Times. General Batler, the, trgtting horse, is dead. A dozen years ago he was one of the most famous flyers in the eountry, and he leaves a better record as a trotter than his Massachu- setts namesake will gver leave as a statesman, ch St Mlustrated Journalism, Chicabo Tmes, The demand for, illystrated journalism must be very great;(the old cuts of Lydia Pinkhawm are now being worked off a Gladstone, the wife ‘of the home-rule stafes- man.” RS Two Kindd of Farmers, Johnson Cgunty Journal. ‘The farmers who *‘earn, their bread by the sweat of their brow,” are all for Van Wyck, Those who farm with their mouths only, are opposed to the re-election of the laborer's fnend. One to fully appeciate the rapid growth of Omaha, should visit that city after an ab- sence of seven or elght months. What, with the extention of fine pavements, and the erec tion of handsome residences and business houses, Omaha looks like a new city. It is OIIIi‘ a matter of a few years before she will attaln to the growth of Chicago, and @ city that the whole state may w proud of. give us A1 ol Another Boycott Failure. Wall Street ) Another example of the failure of the boy- oott comes frow the west. The.editor of a weekly Wisconsin paper pitehed into a local the trouble Which | uuion, aud was uxgmud.fi:lvun to the wall ‘l_\n“e«; n- HIIM'M alxhw:rk;“:enmmlm ] i him to see y 'tstarved, and he ':: lained : T S “L hadn't but ninety-elght subscribers the first rlnne and g{ {nme’ l||m‘:‘l‘;svv|"= were dead-heads. The onl. was paid for in stomach bitters, and I had a six months’ supply ahead. My railroad pass is good for eleven months to come and wmy wife isn’t used to but two meals a week. Gentlemen, let your old boycott Fowl!” APy Why Is This? Chicago Tribuna, Jefft Davis is received in Montgomery, Ala., with even greater demonstrations of rapture than on a past occasion when he was inaugurated president of the confederacy. His path is strewn with roses and flags wave from every window. The telegraph says, though, that the flags shown were those of the United States. Why Is this? Such ex- hibition of the stars and stripes must be ob- Jectionable to Jeft Davis, Our recollection is that Mr. Davis preferred another flag, and that his fame rosts chiefly on his efforts to make the stars and stripes no_longer the banner of his race, Why is “the glaring rag” flaunted everywhere in the face of the ex-chief of tho confederacy? Why do the oplc of Montzomery seek to. hurt the feel- ngs of their idol? y live advartising el Elegy on an Editor's Waste-Basket. Boston Record. Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some thoughts that proudly did to fame aspire, Views that the code of morals might have swayed, Or waked soclety to evils dive. But knowledge to all eyes is not displaved With all the circumstances of time and place; Necessity repressed the noble cffort made, And froze them out for simple want of space. Full many an ode to “Gentle Spring” aa- dressed In the waste-basket's chaos finds its goal. Full many & sketeh here goes to its long res Or finds its coffin in a pigeon-hole. Ai-Rradiers Jay Gould as a Law and Order Man Chicago Tribune. In his testimony before the house com- mittee, Mr. McDowell of the Knights of Labor Executive Board smd that one cause of the southwestern strike was “the universal system of watering rail- road stocks, which made it necessary tor railroad managers to screw down the wages of labor as much as possible Of course Mr. MeDowell did not intend to say that the southwestern revolt arose out of any particular act of stock-water- ing, or that 1t was designed to undo uny wrongful act of that character, In fact, the strikers made no demand for a gen- eral incre: n wages, and so far be learned their ufi wed grievan not concern the question of wag Mr. McDowell obyviously intende understood as saying that stock-watering is the occasion of general discontent among workman rather than that it was the immediate on for the southwest- ern outbreak, and this view is confirmed by his subse(}uuut declaration that the ef- fort to pay dividends on fictitious stock had prodiuced “great irritation all over the country.’ Mr. McDowell’s state- ment is unquestionably correct, and it puts the responsibility for much of the prevalent discontent just where it be- ongs. In the early period of railroad building in this country the stocks and bonds issued represented fairly the cost of con- struction, and it was believed that when the business became settled the charges levied on the public would cover only a fair return on the ital invested. All such expoctations p ed away with the rise of the Jay Gould school of railroad wreckers and stock gamblers. i law required railroad stocks to repre the cost dollar for dollar, it was evaded by the creation of construction compa- nies and Credit Mobilier organizations as wheels within wheels, and in this man- ner the statutes were nullified and the roads bonded and stocked for two, three, or four times their value. As a conse- quence the pcu?lu are now being assessed in the form of freights and transporta- tion rates to pay dividends on uncounted millions of bogus capital. 1t would be hard to find any parallel to thisstupendous outrage, prepetrated by cunning manipu- lators” who studicd the letter of the law_to evade its spirit and who suc- ceeded in fixing an enormous amount of watered stocks as a permanent tax on the industries of the country. It is draw- ing it very mild indeed to say that this raseaiity has caused ‘‘great irritation” among all classes of the people and pro- duced an ill-feeling toward all who were engaged in it. ay Gould, after an unprecedented career as a railroud wrecker and stock gambler, now poses before the country as the embodiment of law and order. His vast fortune has been accumulated by the systematic and industrious prac- tice of ev ri' wile known to a man_who studied the law that he might avoid its requirements and evade its penaltics. Ho has employed the finest legal talent in the Unite eck for loopholes in the law and advise him how far it nught g0 without becoming liable to_imprison- ment in the penitentiary. Acting in this manner, he has watered both bonds and stocks and shifted 1llegitimate burdens on the Yw)plc; he has wrecked roads and compelled honest stockholders to sell out on terms little better than robbery; and by false representations and tricky management has induced investors ~ to uy his diluted stocks at vastly more than their value. But all the wrong he has done indivilllmlllv‘ is insignificant compared with his stoc waterings jobs, which have lud lastin, illegitimate burdens on the business of the countr{. It is an astounding para- dox that after such a carcer Jay Gould, who cunningly kept within_ the letter of the law, while violating all its equity and spirit, should be able to appeur as the representative of legal right and call upon all men opposed to lawlessucss and disorder to rally about him. He has done more than any man in America to stimulate sharp practices and foster a contemp: for the law to the protection of which he now appeals. His name is odious, not only among his employes, but among merchants, farmers, manu- facturors, shippers, and in fact all classes. The mere fact that he represents one side in a greatlabor dispute, and presents himself us a man with the law all on his side e contempt for legal auth- ority and mukes it more difliculty to set- tle strikes in any quarter. It Jay Gonld would gather up his stocks and honds, joice. Going 100 Far. Chicago Herald. ion of Judge Pardee, of the United States court in Texas, in the cases of various s rs who were ar- raigned before him for contempt and lawlessness, their ofienscs being against the Texas & Pacific road, which isin possession of Judge Pardee’s court, is attracting much attention In some respects the remarks of the magis will not be disputed, but in others they will be. He holds, in with well-established usage, ce with property that is in the bands of a court is contempt and be punished as such, but he goes beyond this point 5 that whore. the employes of a t is in the hands of a receiver combine together to leave its employ, even without violence or threats, but “with the inteution of embarrassing the officers of the eourt .in operating it,” they also guilty of contempt. timent as this, which prac- tically denics to American citiaens the liberty of lawfu! concerted action, is we reordance ere tolerable. Tt is an idea of constructed contempt which no jmfn. will evor seek to enforee and_which, if one did attempt to put in practice, would justify almost any moeasures necessary to set him and his court at defiance. Judge Pardee de- gerves praise for his resolutencss in en- forcing the law, but he should have noth- ing but condemnation for his atrocious declaration that men who chance to work for bankrupt corporations are not their own masters ander the law in whatever nol|inu they may take, singly or in multi- tudes. DU — Useful and Ornamental Wiyes. New York Mereury. A Washington Jenkins, speaking of the reported intention of President Cleveland to marry Miss Folsom, of Buf- falo, in June, thinks it quite ‘‘an honor for the fair New Yorker to be advanced to the post of first lady of the land.” That the ‘“first lady" nonsense has grown to be nasucating to Americans does not deter lackeys from insulting the millions of educated, refined and beautiful women who never reach Washington or the capi- tals of the foreign countries. The most stylish, dashing and elegant woman who ever lived in the White house was the wife of President James Madison. She was a great help to her modest, retiring and peculiarly gentle husband. There is no doubt that her fine person, striking face and charm of manners and powers of conversation exercised great influence on the members of the cabinet and of the senate and house of representatives. But “Queen Dolly"” of the floating white plume never arrogated to herself the title or post of “first lady of the land.” She went back to Montpelier proud only of i 1% the wife of a man who was a principal power of the orgunic law of the United States. The wife of President Polk was next to Mrs. Madi- son, a useful as well as a handsome wo- man. Her influence over the president was very great, and that influence ex- tended to members of the departments und of congress. But she claimed no lenco as the wife of a president, life at the Polk mansion, near Tenn., was always mod- est and most unassuming, just as it as in the white house. The “first lady” ness would have been offensive to so sensible I Mrs. Polk. The wife ry of state admin indsome, conciliatory wo- during u part of tion, was a_charmingly ented, fascinating and man. as of immense assistance to the secr . Sne made his house a focus of hospitality_where foreign minis- ters loved to go. When the mission to krance was offered to Mr. Livingston, John Randolph, of Roanoke, strongly urged him to accept. His letter appeared in a recently published memoir of Mrs. Lavingston. : “Mrs. Livingston i . In his pecu- *‘Dowdies, dowdies ropean courts, Paris es- nd at London the char- important as his own. It is the very place for her. There she would daz: d charm, and surely the salons of Paris must have greater attractions for her than the Yahoos of Washington!” For a public man a useful and ornamental wife 1s an essential counterpart. Had John Churchill not married Sarah Jennings Queen Anne had not so favored the Marl- boroughs. That self-willed yet diplo- maticlady ruled the Stuart court. —————— EDUCATIONAL. _Yale is to have a new and elegant gymna- sium. 0 university is to be reopened under auspices. Texas has the richest endotwwment of school lands of any state in the union. . Williston seminary at Easthampton, which issoon to have an endowment of abouta nullion dollars, has secured a new principal. New York has 200 public schools. During 1835 the averaze attendance was 151,02 1610, greater than the average for 1884, number of teachers employed, besides 77 instructors in drawing, music, French, 3,821, or 73 more than in 1884, Excluding those ‘engaged in the Nor- mal college, the evening schools, and the corporate schools, there were 3,250 teachers, of whom 222 were males and 3,005 females. 1n Cleveland during the p year there were 23,308 children in the primary grades in the sehools, 7,086 in grammar grades, 1,240 in high schools and 72 in the training school. ‘The high schools have made great progress i orty-eizht was & high school pupil, now one in twenty-six. The 580 teachers are thus_distributed: pri- mary and @ mmar grades, 537; high schools, 24 training school, 8; speclal teachers, 3; supervisors, 4, ————— Wot feet bring colds. 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