Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 5, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TENUR OF RUBICAIPTION Dajfly (Mornae Baition) ineluding Bunday Bup. One Yosr . £10 0 For B/x Manth: LB W For Thean Mon: 250 The Omabh Suniny ks, mel address, One Year. . . 1o an. . T 18 FARNAM STRERY HONE BUILDING RTEENTH STREET MARA OFPICH, No. 814 AND, Ew YORK OV FICE. R ASHINGTON OFFICE, CORMESPONDENCE? All communicat:ons relating to news and ed torial raai juld be addressed 10 the Eoi ToR OF THE 1} NUSINRSS LeTTRRA: AN brieinoes ot tors and remittances should be addressed 10 Tk H&s PUBLISRING COMPANY OMARA. Dra'ts, cho ks and postoMce order to be made payable 10 (he order of the company THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. . ROSEWATER, E—— THE DAILY BEE. RBworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, | o County of Douglas, { % % Geo. 13, Tzechuck, Publishing company, that the actual cireul for the week ending Jan. follows: Saturday. Jan, Bundav. Jan Monday, Tuesday Enrron. recretary of The Bee does solemnly swear fon of the Daily Bee 25th, 1857, was a8 P7Z8cHUeR, Subseribed and sworn to in my_presence this 20th day of January A. I)‘, 18 l’ Frr, 18 Publie. Geo, 1. Trechuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he Is secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of Januar: was 10,978 eoples, for Februar: copies; for Mare 188, 11,657 copie's; for April, 18%, copies: for May, 159, 12,459 copies; for Jine, 08 copies for July, 14 copies; 1856, 12,464 co) sptember, copies: for Oetober, 159, 12,0 ples: for November, 1886, 13,148 covies; for December, 1556, 13,237 conic Gro. B. Tzacnvek, vorn to and subgeribed before me this 1st of January A . D, 188 [SEALLI N. P. Fen, Notary Publie. Ar Miss Van Zundt's marriage no presents were received. Even the pres- ence of her husband was not allowed. ST PAUL may go on and on boasting of herico palace. ft may be a thing of beauty, but it cannot be a joy forever. W could stand a war with Canada, but wait until De. M ller brings m his report on mixed and muddled affairs in Mexico. WoMEN with strong minds and won- derful ideas continue to storm the capi- tol. Long suffering women and neglected households go hand in hand. Tuere is a Mr. Alexander in the logis- laturo of Minnesota. It might be re- marked that he is no relation to Alexan- der the Great nor to Tom Major’s man Friday. TaE small-pox is just now frightening 1he mhabitants of New York. Out here 1n Nebraska the legislature is in - session. *‘You pays your money and takes your choice.” THE New York World persists in pro- claiming that €leveland 18 weak in that state, saying in a recent issue that he could not now poll within fifty thousand votes of the number he received in 1884, AN eastern divine is just now giving a series of lectures on the subject: *‘The Story of Lot at Sodom.” What the peo- ple of the west want to hear about is “the story-of the railroads’ work af Lin- “coln.” A DOZEN or 0 new comets are just now throwing their lights and wagging their tails through space. Other spheres can rustle until the end comes, but under any circumstances they cannot equal Omaha’s town lot boom. SENATE FILE number 147 reads that “‘all owners of stock ordered kil the state veterinarian shall be paid for, ete. Just how many owners will be or- dered killed cannot be estimated. These be tough time: Tue Texas legislature hus passed a lnw prohibiting any ralroad within the confines of the Lone Star state from issuing passes. A law of that nature in Nebraska would leave all our statesmen in Lincoln. ailing. He has been reading some of his own poetry. The man who invented the gatling gun killed himself by oxperimenting. Mr. Tennyson should allow his amanuensis to read his poetic productions, Nexr Wednesday the United States genate will devote its attention to eulogies on Logan. Nearly a score of scnators, among them Mr. Manderson, have an- nounced their intention to pay tributes to the dead soldier and senator, CoroNeL CoLsy, whoenjoys some looal reputation as the husband of Mrs. Colby, is now engaged in the wonderful work of introducing and opposing bills, ‘Ihis is rare sport for the darhng colonel, as he would rather see his namo 1 print than unt a square meal when hungry., — Ir the telephone bill carries, relating to reduction and rental, the companies state that they will be compelled to withdraw all instruments, It will be remembered that the Burlington road was to with- draw all passenger conches when the bill reducing passenger tarlff to 3 centsa mile was introduced. ‘The passenger coaches leave on schedule time. The fare is 8 cents per mile. A BostoNran named Whitmore, no re- lation, lot us hope, to the Nebraska states- man, has introduced & bill in the Bay state logislature which makes going a fishing on Sunday punishable by a fine of ten dollars. 1f a man were to cast his line, and wanted to catch a sucker, he could do no better than angle fur the Bos- tonian’s namesake some week day at the Nebrasgka state house, Downin New York *“Iie Sehool for Scandal" holds the bourds at & promi- nent theater. It might be that Sheridan, when be wrote the piay, hud an idea that it would prove a success, strange that a melodruma of its plot and language would attract sudien in the cuitured east, where public libraries in Boston have exeluded the works of Fiuld 0g and Steras (rom their shelyes. BEE. | yet it scems | TBE OMAHA DAILY BEE' SATURDAY. The Bill Signed. President Cleveland. signed the inter- state commerce bill yesterday, it having n in his hands ten days, and it is now alaw. Itis provided in the bill that the sections relating to the appointment and organization of the commission shall take eftect immediately, the terms of the com missioners to date from the first day of January, 1887, and those first appointed to continue in office two, three, four, tive und six years. The remaining pro- visione of the act take effect sixty days after its passage, which will be about the first of April. The commissioners are appointed by the president, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and in order to enable the commission to organize and be fully ready for busi- ness under the act at the time it goes into effect, it 13 probable the president will not postpone appointing the commission longer than is necessary to select what shall be deemed the best from the abund- ant material available. It is said that the applications already exceed one hundred, and there are a great many willing to ac- cept the honorable and luerative trust who are in the hands of The fact that the president signature until the very dence that he gave full consideration to the arguments sgainst the bill, and his aporoval of it will therefore have the ef- fect to strengthen public confidence in the constitationality of the law. The opinion submitted by the attorney gen- eral is not given, but he is believed to lave found that the present legislation avoids the objections which were the ground of his opposition to the legisla tion formerly proposed. The popular tory in this contest is now complete, practical results will be awaited The Charter Fight. There are a few points in the charter contest upon which the citizens and tax- of Omaha have been befogged by Iroad organs. It is charged in 1 terms that the charter bill is a ngerous and bad measure for this v. If this be true who 18 responsible? th the exception of about thirty or forty lines the charter introduced by Senator Lininger is exactly as it left the charter committee of fifteen. Nearly every clause that has been ob- jected to by the lobby, and the rail- road attorney on the floor of the senate, was inserted by the charter committee by and with Mr. Poppleton’s adyice and consent. Many of the provisions are our present charter and have been for years. The provisions about grades, board of public works, surveys, qualifica- tions of councilmen and city officers were fully disenssed in the charter com- mittee and adopted by 1t. The only changes made were on points upon which the charter committee were di- vided almost in the muddle and which are known to be in the interest of the mass of citizens and taxpayers. The true inwardness of all opposition to this charter, barring the small-souled and contemptible personalities of Dr. Miller's man Friday, is summed up in the admis- sion which General Manager Holdrego B, & M. made to the editor of the at Lincoln last Tuesday. When sked what particular clause of the char- ter, added by the delegation, Mr. Hold- redge was opposed to, he said in sub- stance that he cared nothing about the vinduet clause, the $200 exemption clause, or any other change except the proviso by which the real estate of rail- roads is required to pay city taxes. This is the milk in the cocoa nut. If that clanse had been left out the railroad managers and organs would not have r voice against the eharter. ter of record that this city is to-day paying interest on $200,000 of depot ground bonds donated to the Union cific for the purchase of the grounds now occupicd by the great cow- shed. On these bonds the interest at7 per cent is $14,000 a year, but for the first ten y we paid 10 per cent interest or $20,000 a year. More than a million dollars” worth of lots and lands were nated to the same road by our Why shouldn’t the road pay lands which did not cost it a cen B. & M. has taken acres of city property that was formerly 2ssed, but now dumped into their mileage. The entire city tax paid by that road for 1886 on its rnam street headquarter building, ice furniture, and personal property of all kinds, and the lots owned by it out- side of its right of way, amounts to $3,255.60. The Chiecago, St. Paul & Min- neapolis road, with ucres of depot grounds and lots outside of right of way, paid a totul city tax for 1886 of or.ly $359,35. There are hundreds of prop- erty owners in Omaha taxed more than that amount for their residences alone. Is it reasonable and just that the city should tax only ono class of property owners for fire department, water sup- ply, street lighting, police, main sewers, city surveys, paving street intersections, grading, street cleaning, and other im- provements which are paid for out of the general and special funds? — e Faithful to His Constituents, According to the Herald the only dem- ocrat in the senate faithful to his consti- tuents, is Campbell. If by this is meant that Campbell is true to the men who bought him a scat in the legislature and to the men who gave him 400 majority in the Omaha stockyards precinet throngh a ang ot repeaters, the Herald 1s eminently corrcet. It is notorious that a large amount of boodle raised for Campbell by the railroads, and especially by the B. & M. It has been known to us but not to the public at large that Camphell was not elected by the legal voters of this distriet, but got his majority through repeaters and non-residen His opponent was mnot disposed to contest his seat for several reasens, which at present we will not discuss, Suffice itto say, however, that at least two of Campl, tuents who ure down at Lincoln backing him in nis fight against the churter, handled 150 | of the stock yard repeaters. For particu- lars we vefer the Zeraldto Hugh Murphy | | and his pal Fauning. ‘These contractors of grading, street-sweeping and politica! jobbery have ¢ very faithful representa. tive in Camphell, but up to this time Campbell has steadily misreprosented the citizens and tax-payers of Douglus and Sarpy counties. He was invited at the'outset by the Douglas delegation take & part in the work of framing the charter and other loeal bills, but he has never attended one of their meetings. He gave his word of honor to Mr. Lininger that be would support the charter as agreed on by the delegati time was a l»ru:wh of his promise. A man who will violate faith with his colleagues in a legisiature s unworthy of the con- fidence of any decent man 1t Campbell was honest ins a mere dummy and tool he woald have taken pains to learn the wish of the people and studied their interests 1f he had any objections to the charter 1t was his business and duty to present them when it was under discussion in Omaha or by the delegation in Liacoln, He has not said one word in or out of session about the charter, but votes steadily as directed by the shysters and vagabonds who make up the lobby sent there by the railroad bosses. Dr. McGlynn's Reply. Interost 1n the controversy i which Dr. McGlynn is involved is still at full e, not alone in Catholic cireles, though it is perhaps most intenso there, but among all classes who are concerned for those features of the case which lie out- side of the relations of the priest to the chureh, and refer to the rights of the pro- Iate as & man and a on. The reply of Dr. McGlynn to his accusers, which has been delayed by his sickpess since he was suspended from his priestly fune- tions, is now published The abstract given by telegraph nndoubtedly furnishes a very incomplete statement of the grounds of defense, but it is sutficient to show that Dr. McGlynn is firmly rooted i the position he hss taken, that he has the conrage of his convictions, and that he intends to make no surrender of the rights of individual opinion and citzen- ship which he claims. "The doctor makes a question of veracity between himself and the archbishop, involving the late Cardinal McClosky, in declaring fals the statement that he had recognized his errors and vrofessed to be sorry for them, All that he ever did was to promise voluntarily to abstain from mak- g land league speeches, simply in order that his usefulness in the ministry might not be impaired by his ecelesiastical superiors. In justifying his political ac- tion, for which he was smnmoned to Rome and suffered suspension, he he did not regard the volunta promise given four years before as binding. As Rome itself had in the meanwhile been forced to change its attitude on the [rish question, whilo the archbishop had deemed it politic no longer to oppose the movement in behalf of lreland, there certainly no gond reason for holding a priest to an agreement to desist from doing what those superior to him no longer objceted to, and in fact were allowing to be done without question by prominent prelates in Ireland, But the most intel hwling and important part of Dr. MeGlynn's reply is his denial of the right of “the bishop, propaganda or bope to punish him for his action as a man and citizen in the late municipal campaign,” or to punish him for his opin- ions on political cconomy, un- less they can show such opinior contrary to the teachings of the christian r on. It is not questionable that Dr. McGlynn will have a sympathisers, among them them many Catholics, m maintaining the first of these positions, while as to the other the chureh will hardly attempt to demon- strate that his views o roni hristian teaching, however hostile the ¢ bo to the church polity and practice. Un- doubtedly the church can spare Dr. Me- Glynn, and it scems probable it will hav to do so. Butit onght to learn from this circamstance that there is danger to its welfare, at least in this country, in rigidly adhering to a pohiey which tempts to control opinions on sub; ng no direet relation to the caus stianity, and which denies orrestricts any right of citizenship. oad of being The Attorney Bill The bill of Mr. Beck, prohibiting mem- bers of either house of congress from serving as attorneys for railroad corpor- ations which have received subsidics from the government, was again before the senate on Thursday and cncountered the opposition of Mr. Evarts. ‘Lhe New York senator can be counted on every time to oppose any measure intended to restrict the power of the railroad corpor- ations, and no man is more fertile in the resources of sophistry. He characterized the proposed legislation as uncalled for and as an attempt to invade the rights of citizens. The popular and just impre sion of it is that it s caleulated to fre congress from the baleful mfluence of th railroads, exertod through well paid at- torneys in both houses who were sent there by the people to legislate for and guard the interests of the people. There are laws prohibiting members of congress from practicing in the court of claims or before any of the departments of the gov- ernment. They were passed to abate flagrant abuses that had been of long to | i diminish the scope of | strong in the standing. But no abuses which these laws were passed to correct were nearly 80 serious to the interests of the govern- ment and people as are those possible while the railroad corporations ean have their well paid attorneys on the floors of congress. Under the law a member of congress eannot support a claim before the patent oflice involying the smaullest fee, but the corporation lawyers in tho senate insist upon holding the liberal re- tainers of Pacific railroads, respecting which most important legislation is now pending, and with big fees in their pock- ets propose to act as impartial legislators. it has been justly said that no ed vailroad attorney in the scnate has ever yet diseriminated between his duty to the corporation and to the government. If there be any instance in which the railroud attorney in congress has voted against the interest of the corporation employing him he has not earncd his fees and has defeated the object for which they were paid him. Nobody be lieves there has been such an instance, likely to be. The Beck bill pro- poses to free congress from a dangerous and demorshzing nfluence, which has aliways been and is still exercised there by the railroad corporations to which the measure refers. Lt is a vroper and nec- assary measure, snd it 1s to be hoped Mr. Beck will not give up the tight for it until suceess is won. The people are with him. The consideration resumed yesterday ceived after the ahov its pussage, after being amended, by a vote of 30 to 14. The amendments which had been proposed were all designed . to the bill and to leave a way for those gentlemen who are confidence of the railroads to still retain that favor. passed does not make the cl of the bill was and advices re was written report 1 but every vote he bas given up to this 1 hibition that wus desired, host of | FFBRUARY 5. can improv The passago of any such | measare by the senate, however, must be regarded as gratifying. —— e WE are sorry to notico that the ey pretentious elaims of “largest '\"tu\lx aid cirenlation'” and “double the circuiation of any paper in Nebraska,” have been abandoned. It has been an open scerot | among Omaha newspaper men for | months that the boom which was at tempted last summer by an inflation sys tem, which flooded newsdealers and sup- plied other people with free papess proved a failure, sinking $10,000 of ||1u proprietors’ money in the foolish experi- ment. The cutting down the size of the paper followed as a matter of necessity. And now the man who organized that | faded boom has given away the snap by | taking down the sideboard signs at the | top of the first page, and openly maki the ploa at Lincoln that it would damage Ius paper to be compelled to make any statement of circulation in competing for publie printing, and if he did he could not compete on equal terms with the Brg, if circulation was to be the basis of tho | price of advertising Tue poor of New York who are com- pelled to buy coal in small lots are pa ing at the e of from $i0t0 § ton, and there is dangor that the price will go still higher, The searcity huas ised o | good d ing, and the increased price has compolled cconomies in_ other dircetions which amount to privations, Every member of ||w n of represenatives expense, but there were only 105 of them brave enongh to favor the bill, when it came up for considoration, providing for | this luxury. It is estimated that such | provision would cost the people about $30.000 & month, onal house clerk at public Axotuer New Jersey bank cashier has skipped. 1f Canada has any one thing on this earth to be thankful for, it is that New Jersoy is in the United States. Other Lands Than Our: The speech of Lord Randolph Churchill on Tuosday has onee more thrown Eng- lish politics mto confusion. Both liberal and tory parties have been wating in suspense ever since the opening of par- linment to know with what faction Lord Randolph would ally himself. In his dashing address in the commons the ex- chaneellor of the exchequer announced that he would have nothing to do with any of them in their present condition. He declared himsolf opposed to the con- servatives on the ground of extrava- gance upon which he left the cabinet. He called the virtuous umonists, led by the proud Hartigan, arotten cruteh; to the home rulers he declared himself un- alterably opposed, wd then defying them all, he predicted that his old asso- ciates would be obliged to come around to his views or else that the conservative party would go to pieces. Churchill re- minded and conservatives that four years ago he had won their enmity and been cused of disloyalty, but that time ) vindicated him it would surely again; and he fearlessly deelared that he depended upon the people for his power and did not ask it of parlisment. * Lord Randolph’s adiress made things particularly unpleasant for Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the unlucky politician who n on the wrong sideof every ince he left the guidanc nd assumed to be a leader him- Chamberlain, and his followers among the unionists, have been wavering ever since Churchill’s resignation, be- tween the liberal party—of which they are a branch—and a coalition with Churchill’s following in the tory ranks, which would bring the rest of the tory party over to them and give the union- ist faction the balance of power that w held by the Parnellites in the previous parlinment. But Churchill went ont of his way to denounce Chamberlain to the conscrvative party, and to assure them that his Iine of policy would end in Irigh home rule whether he intended it to do or not. Chamberlain now has the choice of allying himself unconditionally with the tories or of going back to Mr, Gladstone. 50 * %3 The German ministr) the ramors of war without their effect upon the elections. Why the sastrous consequences they predict should follow at once upon an appropri tion for thre ars instead of for seven is what none of the ministerial orators make clear in the reichstag, and it is left equally obscure by their organs in the the war party in hin one sense includes all F n-nclnnnn and which in every sense in- cludes all Freachmen who ¢ that France has a chance of sucoess in a war with Germany, is necessarily strength- ened by the predistions from Berlin which thus tend to fulfill them: While it is quite possible that 13 means to cease sounding the alarm after the elections, whether it effects its pur- pose or not, it is plain that he has in- creased the difficulties of preserving the peace, while Germany has nothing to gain from war. wently using ruple for * e "he kinglings of Europe are plainly victims of the war craze like the great emperors. Greece, Denmark, and Bel- giom must make as ‘mheh ado propor- v over the military preparations Germany, Russia, and Australia, and, like them, be badgered into burdensome outlays, King Christian is almost risk- mg his throne in order to coerce the Danish Folkething igto granting a big military and naval budget to an unpopu lar minister. King George, it mast be owned, finds his parliament ready to push snd drag him into war expenses. King Leopold is now calling for compulsory | personal mulitary seryice in a way that | must make some his people wish he would fix his attenfion on the Congo | again. Holland, thud far, scems to re- main reasonably phlegmatic, u.» In connection with the conflict that is to take place sooner or later between | France and Germany, 1t is a matter of considerable interest that the latter has no debt. Prussia hus 8 small debt, but owns all the railroads in the state, as well as valuable property in forests and mines. France, on the other hand, to pro- vide 5,000,000 annuslly for interest and sinking fund on its national debt, | and in a pmlouaml struggle this would | prove a serions handicap. The ex d- iture on the German army in a year of peace is$115.000,000, while that of France, although about the same size, costs $170, 000,000. Strauge to 8y, the Italisn army, 1 000,000, A | during 1836 plac | extraordin now willing to content herself with nam- | chosen, and there is no which is much hr;zcr than that of either | EFrance or Germany; only costs $6),000,° 000, while thé Russian army costs §105,« arefully prepared statement spoan military expenditure < the total at the enor- mous sum of £1,000,000,000, exclusive of ontlay and re-equip ments of the E l.n withdrawal of the Princs of Min- grel a candidate for the Bulgarian throne may prove to be Russia’s conces- sion toward the settlement of the long dispute, while Bulgaria’s compromise is expected to be the choice of & new sob- ranja, to whom the nomination of a can- | didate shall be submitted. Possibly she will agree to a new regency; but this should hardly be made an essential con- dition, as the acceptance of a new ruler will dispose of the regents, Russia scems I'he ing some candidate for the throne who shall not bo objectionable. She practic ally soggests Prince Alexander of Battenberg to the sobranje when he was surprise 1 her being encouraged by the other powers to suggest & successor on Alexander's abdication. The Duke of Leuchtenberg would probably be more generally ac ceptable than the Prince of Mingrelia. He lives at St. Petersbur, itis true, and is an oflicesr in the ez army, but so was Prince Alexandc e Canada’s debt has doubled i the years in which MeDonald, the premier, as been in power, while its export trade has increased at aratio only about one- cighth as great. These facts, combined with the hatred for him felt by the Catho- lics and the friends of Riel, furnish a few of the tacles which stand in the way of the success of the premie: rty in the clections which occar on Washington’s birthday. The defeat of Mr. Goschen, the Eng lish chancellorof the exchequer,in the con- test at Laverpool for a seat in parliament, is a severe blow to the Salisbury govern- ment, and virtually leaves the tory rty without o leader in the house of com- mons. Even presuming that a place should be made for him by the resigna- tion of a tory member, nearly two weel must elapse before he could take the av- Lcated seat. T PERSON s P *, % I Arnest W. Longfellow, son of the poet, will ass the remainder of the winter on the editerranean coast. Senator Riddleberger had a floral Iyre laid upon his desk the other day, and the did not intend to perpetrate a practi cither. John Boyd, formerly a doorkeeper for the house of representatives, has become king of the lobby in the place of the late Charles Sherrill, Mayor Hewitt, of New York is regarded asa very sick man by his brother-in-law, ex- Mayor Cooper. 1lis ailment is sciatic rheu- matism. Colonel John S. Mosby is in Boston brir ing out his book of reminiscences, e wears an overcoat lined with searlet and a large sloueh hat, Sir Jobn Macdonald is pleasantly referred to by the Toronto Globe as “the most notori- ous cconomizer of truth our politics has ever produced.” John L. Sullivan he has never read oneof Howell's novels. When he has fully recovered his strenzth he should put himself in traiing and try one. Ella Wheeler Wilcox is about to make a new departure. She has been invited to write the words of a new Awmerican opera which is to be produced in New York. Mr. Sol Palmer, who_strung the first tele- graph line out of New York, is still alive at the comparatively early age of sixty-five, and actively engaged in the business of tele- graphy. Boston Corbett, the man who shot Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Uresident Lincoln, 1s now an assistant doorkeeper in the Kansas degislature. He lives ina dug-out in Cloud county, and is very poor. The father of Vice President Hamlin called his four sons after the great warriors of aneient vietory—Alexander, Julius Cicsar, Cincinnatus and Hanni His four daugnters were named respectively Europe, Asia, Australia and America, Captain William Garaner, whose home was in Toledo, died last week in London. He was the inventer of the Garanmer gun, now know n the world over, which had been adopted by the Enclish government after the United States retused to consider it. Not Characteristic of Nebraska, Chicago Times. A man in Nevraska has committed suicide becanse he judging from the rec sneh moral sensibility is the entire state, it senatorial contest, not characteristic of e Omaha’s Boom, Rapid City Journal. To understand that Omaba Is enjoying a great real estato boom 1t 15 only necessary to look over the Brkof Sunday. The pages are embellished with plats of many add’~ tions, each warranted to be the best. Own- ers_of the real estate are reaping harvest. ——— Brigham Comes Back. Phitadslphia North American, Nebraska sends out the story that Brigham Young has been resurrected. It is not known exactly what brought him back at this time, but it may have been the Tucker bill. That bill is enough to have made the old saint's skeleton turn over in the coftin.:No one need wonder at his ghost having happened back into the dust In Nebraska. He probably almed at Utah and missed the mark. Orit may be his purpose to make a triumphal march into Salt Lake eity. But he is still in hiding. Ah, now we have it. He has those | $5.124,122 TKEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE Extortion: of the Rniln\qdl-vax!v Millions Wrung From Nebraska in Three Years. CHARTERED HIGHWAY ROBBERY. lowa, With Double Mileage and Twice the Population, Has Paid Uess fhan Twenty Millions in the Same Period. The people of Nebraska do not realize to what monstrous extortions and oppres ive tolls they have been subjected by grasping railway corporations. It is only by a careful compilation of the facts and figures furnished by the railroad manuals that wo can form & correct esti- mate of the enormities which the people of this state have patiently borne for years. We doubt if the railroad manag- ers themselves have any iaea to what ex- tent they have willaged the producers and shippers I'he standard work on Ame n railway statistics is Poor's Manual, made up from official returns from the railvond oflicers themselves, and will theretore not be ealled in question by railroad men. I'he following exhibit speaks for itself From Poor® Muanual we compile the following facts concerning railroad re- turns THE YEAR 1883, 2,481; 8 :_!1;(4‘. ron ~Total mileage, L4005 funded debt, investment, 1N zs - F14,414, net earnings, passenger from all Sources, s 10 $10,761,661; interest paid, “aividend oa stock, $1,202 otal mileage, 3,194; r 16,4715 funded debt, $4° investment, :s\ lowi tal, tot passengers, H" from s, §1 R THE YEAR l\\ ‘\vbms —Total mileage, ;8 , $61,735,000; funded debt, § tot mvestment, § passengers, $1,12 \1‘."7!?(”‘* from all soure net e Tow: ago, stock, $63,600,621; funded 20; total investment. $118 -DASSeN $1,16 $3.800,096; from all sources, net earnings, §1,180,35 1E Y Nebras| tal mile stock §65,497.000; funded 194; floating «ebt investment, $35 ) s and equipments, $177, rnings—passengers,$4,421,703; freights, 7,078; earnings from all Roncts) ) roings, $8,82 Towa—Total mileage, 7,503; K 302,074; funded dobt, $4 ating debt, $6, 715 to vestment, $105,635,10: and equipments, 13 rs, $1,5 $6,317 41 mtere l all’ souree 1014,630; cupital a4 AT 1885, 2,087; ¢ debt, 406 cost_of ge, 367,081 earnin freights, $4, RS, NgEr earnings, 3,908,108, $50,1 ht, from all sources, senger earnings, §72,809,0 rnings from 3 net earnings, § ull 173, freight, $12 sources, §17, 407 s A Lost Opportunity. Lincoln Democrat, John M, Thurston is the greatest loser of all men who participated in the late senatorial contest, even more than Van Wyek. The latter lost a senatorship. Thurston an opportunity. Such an op- portunity as Thurston ignorantly ca side never comes twice in one lifetime, The people are in revolt against railroad domination. They hunger for a 1 whom they have contidence. The) not have 1t in the defeated senator. cause of their distrust, so far as it goe in him is very trivial. It nced not be dis: serted upon at length, but it arises from his avarice. He wuas once greedy enough to take double pay from the gov- ernment. He is now sufliciently mindful of the art of saving to ride on railroad es simply and_ solely beeanse few paltry hundreds of doflars a Without these two incidents The ted is irresisti were mvulnerable. weakly and inconsistently ble. It would hav ied this state like whirlwind. On a fair joining of the 1es it would do so to-ds Had John M. Thurston, casting behind him the pitiful railrond attorneyship which now binds him neck and heels, ‘;mminlolhl- late fight carnestly and lonestly in behalf of the peovle, had he wielded his somewhat too glittering powers for Van Wyck—had he done this no power but the sickle 0 *he gr renp- er conld have prevented _im being the successor of Manderson and alife senator from Nebraska. But for all of his future he is now but a railroad attorney, n ser- vant in the house of filth and corruption when he might have been . great leader of free men on the mountain side. Ho s a fettered slave in unholy pre when he might have been the frie rotector and guardian of a state whose love and reverence and honor and trust carry more glory than all the baubles ever called crowns. But Mr. Thurston and all bis kind of men look down and notup. Rag pickers they are in the midst of a people who worship the stars. They creep and grovel in arace where they should fly. ‘There is a call for leaders, a cry for liberators. They neither hear nor would heed it if they did. Having once heard that pearls were east before swine, they pass their days with their noses in the niive and filth le perchance a fabled jewel escape them, The man and the men will come, The situation will evol hem, They may be yet unborn, but they are in the fruitful womb of time. When they come their sixty-four wives to dodge. No wonder he is Iying low in Nebraska. — Midwinter, Winds that sweep the powdery snow, And whitl it, sounding shrilly, Ieicies that snap below ‘I'he branches, crisp and chilly ! Forest tops that elash and toss: Jageed cloud-rifts darkling; Steady moonshine strugeling through, And o'er the white waste sparkling. Oh, the drear midwinter weather, Heart aud 1 50 sad together! Ol 10 see the pale, old sun'! Lisping rills that waken Dead leaves showing dank and dun, From last year's branches shaken’; Emerald fields where childhood soon Will greet the early daisies; The smiles and tears of April :me Among the woodland maz Wayside springs fresh bubbling o'er, That lately yielded no drop; Birds that thrill the azure air, Aud one wee lonely snowdrop! Sweet the dream of springtime weather, Heart and 1 now dreaio togother! - . To er.mgvll/s 1,086,000 heathen and Mohammedans, who are increasing by nature! birth at 1,000,000 a ye there are only about six thousand mission- aries. - Cincionati will be 100 years old nezt year, and she wants both nation: .1 con veutions to eelebrate her centeunial. | paths will be thorny and their dutics will be hard, ill-requited and thankless. And 1t may not be till they are dead, as is sadly too often the ease, that they will be truly recogmized. But no matter, The man for this hour cannot be & self-secker, He must be an apostle of the poor and to the poor. It were good for all of us if he come quickly Thank (i etoran -, Oxatia, Feb 810 the Lditor of the Brk—The thanks of the old soldiers of the Mexican war are politely extended to your paper, and in the future thut watch- tul jonrnal will reap the bencfit from thotsands of people all over the conti- nent. Unlike the modern Atlas who car- ries the world ou his shoulders, who wanted “all Mexican war claims 1gnored as an unjustitiable raid on the public treasury, beeanse thut war at best was an inglorious one; love of adventure and conquest should have no reward from the American people,” congress thought different and Mr. Cleveland, president of the United States, incided with con- cross us well as the Bee “‘Sabe t urro signior™ MEexicA Recipes for “Kyphi” perfumes used by the and women of pleasure have been printed in Fr - h., hi . a doctor also an undertaker. | who le dol LI1dNCe 10 securea lot in that beawtiju! ad- LIPTOR PLAGE. All lots left on Feb, 1, will be advano od 25 per oent 1n prico. Nowis the time to buy and goet the benefit of the raise Several lots were sold in Lip on Plac Before it conld be staked out. Do not be deluded by additions advertised to be nearer than Lipton Place, but come and take a ride out and sce for yourself that what we tell you is true. 0 CARRIAGES Going out at all Times Alumber yard will be in operation s soon as a switch ean be laid. We are also negotiating with Kunsns City parties to locate a patent Roofing Mamfactory Here which will employ from 40 to ot men. Thisis a sure thing, as they are waiting to decide which of two pioces land they want, both on To you who want HOMES IN S, OMAHA be sure to sce Lipton Pluace before buy: ing clsewhero. Not more than 15 Jots left in Cotner & Archer’s ADDITION. which has ouly been on the market 3¢ days. Improved and unimproved property iu all parts of the city. Lipton Place The most of lots we have sold bere ure to be built onn the spring on aceount of their wearness tothe packing houses and stoek yards, as people living in Lip ton Pl and working inthe stock yards and packing houscs have plenty of time to go home to und get back to work again in less thun ao hour, D. R. ARCHER AND C.H.SOBOTKER Room ) Redick's Block, 1509 Farnam St, dinner