Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 6, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: Stick a Pin Here. A village editor has furnished the news- paper combine at Omaha and Lincoln another mare's nest astounaing discovery that the circulation of the Bik, a8 computed by its published | receipts from subscription, do not tally with the claim of over 14,000 daily and 80,000 weekly circulation. mber of the combine goes so far as to t the BEk only claims to h 0,000 in subscriptions during 08 that it has about 4,200 dmly and 4,000 weekly sub- seribers who pay. sof the village caleulator are If it is really true that hird of our duily and one- seventh of our weekly patrons have paid their subscription for the {in a terrible condition. The figures published by us were copied from the annual balance sheet of the Bee Publishing company, the best of our knowledge and These tigures do not, howev least discredit onr statements of circula- . _THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. He has made the TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dafly (Morniag Eaition) fnel, Bee, Ono Year uding Bunday The Lincoln ATIA OPPICR, No. 014 AND 018 FARNAM STREPT TRIBUNE BULLDING, 513 FOURTEENTH STREET. EW VORK OFPICE, ¥ WABHINGION OFFICE, N CORRESPONDENY All communioutions relating to news andedi- torial matter should be addressed to tho Eoi- TOR OF THE BEr. BUSTNERS LETTENS? jes8 letters and romittances should be o PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA, Drafts, checks und postoffico orde 0 bo made payable Lo the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, EWATER, EptToR. r, which indi less than one THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Btatement of Circulation. Btate of Nobraska, County of Douglas. Gb'i?'n‘l" Tzschuck, shing company, at the ackual circulation of {lie 1 for the week ending April 1st, 1557, was as and are correct to secretary of The Bee does solemnly SWEAT | yor the year ending Fobruary 1, 1887, the total receipts from daily subscribers were $61,208.4 seribers, $55,63 seriptions of #114,030. ).09 more than we al the Lincoln lightning calculator. As a matter of fact the raw print paper consumed by the Be gates over £50,000. P and from w L or a total from sub- which is $61,- credited with by | i last year aggre- These figures quoted actly as they appeared in our issue represent the net receipts from subscription after de- ducting commissions to agents. rculatipns at Omaha, Lincoln Blufts are leased at rates that enable the lessees to pay their own carriers and collectors Subseribed and sworn to dayof April A. D., 1857, ch 14, 1887, L Notary Public. "lzschuck, belng first duly sworn, poses and says that he Th 1blishing company, that the actual av- n°of the Daily Bee for themonth of March, 188, 11,537 copies; for ril, 1856, 12,191 copies: for fo for June, 15%, 12,28 coples: for 12,314 coples: copies; for Sentember, coples; for October, 1856, 12,98 copies; 3,248 covies; for December, for_January, 1587, 16,208 copies; for February, 1887, 14,198 copies. Gro. B. 128CHUCK. nd sworn to before me this 9th D. 1887, P. Feiv. Notarv Publle. erage dally circulati and Council r May, 1686, 12, - 208 cople and stand all November, 158, 1886, 15,237 copi r 5,700 dailies, lates in Omaha by earr There are at least 12 lowa and Nebraska who purchase p pers for local patrons at the dealer's 1 agents in day of March, A RSEAL.I The village donkey has gone to work 14,000 dailies for ke 5,110,000 pape year, which at 2 conts about $102,000. 1IN society as in church, preparations are in progress for the joyous I ‘Wit gambling onl Missouri now, poor old St. Louis may ex- perience a boom. amisdemeanor in Our exhibit of receipts makes the amount only about 1} cents for each pa therefore, our statement of circulation mus The trouble with that they purposely misquote our flgures represent the facts, Tue Salvation army is becoming a Mayor Boyd should order the police to suppress it. In the first commenced TuE season for cyclon tailed peeler variety,” as youthful Bill Nye has said, is upon us. — . SINCE the inter-state commerce law has gone into effect, a Milwaukee milkman has beon fined ten dollars for adulterat- * ing his milk. of the “‘ring- reduces * the publication days for the year ending February 1, 1857, to 339. In the next place, the BEE doos not claim that the circula- ar quoted has aver: 14,000. On the contrary, on the st of 'y, 1836, the total circulation of only quoted at a fraction over 10,000, and the aggregate for the en- tire year was about 12,000. The $61,298.48 year for every tion for the y POSTMASTER GENERAL VILAS denies that he is a candidate tor vice president. 1t appears rather early to commence de- dential campaign jokes. — Tue town-lot boom has made star-gaz- ing an unprotitable businessin St Joseph, Accordingly Prof. Proctor will go to Florida and divide his time between astronomy and alligators. i’ e — Mgs. GENERAL LoGaA will soon publish a nevel on Washington society. If atrue picture 13 presented, several ‘‘great conspiracies” will doubt- loss be portrayed within its pages.” E——— P, T. Bary show’over $5 a turned off’ the pre: change list and exclusive of all expenses of handling, delivery and commissions Now let some member of the combine compare its subscription receipts from its own balance sheet and verify it with sworn statements of circulation for the 1t is reported, Present Status of Civil Service Re- The subject of civil service reform csses an interest for two reasons. One is, that both of the politi parties have made it one of the chief is- sues in national politics, where it scems likely to remain if organized effort to keep it there can accomplish that object. ‘The other reason is, that the administra- ing made this reform a curdinal part of its policy, will be tried before the people largely with reference to its re- form record. A special committee ot the national cvil service reform league has just com- pleted one elaborate report. a8 the reformed state and municipal sys- tem has been states, New York and Massachusetts, the report deais almost entirely with the national aspect of the subject. formers composing the committee were careful to suy the great showman, ‘who for years has been an earnest prohi- bitionist, comes out for high license against prohibition. Barnum’s hobbys that is not a humbug. —eee ‘Tais scems to have been a good year for appropriation fiends. legislature was asked to appropriate a half mwillion dollars more than ever known before in the history of the state. This is one of Mr. ! | { The 1llinois THE anthracite coal pool came to an end April 1, and hereafter, until winter, it will be every coul corporation for itself. The next thing we hear of Oma- ha's street cars will adopt stoves for the summer months. E—————— AFTER all, Mr. Cleveland has done very Of the great army of presidential postmasters in this country, all but b per centof the whole have been changed. And yet the democrats are wondering *‘what are we here for?” SEEEEp——— ANOTHER terrible death from rabies is recorded—this time at Chicago. There are several mad-stones in that city, and they always receive longer write-ups in the press than the bitten men whom the mad-stones do not sav AN illegal voter at Sacramento, Cali- fornia, has been sent to prison for one safe to venture the prediction that a fow such examples will make the “purity of the ballot” an existing fact, in- stead of a boasted sham ing that it was mo part duty “‘to extol the administration nor to accuse it nor to apologize for it, but to Interest 1n the result lies wholly in the character of the reck- This is not altogether favorable There are indica- take a reckoning.” to the administration. tions, despite the professed complete im- partiality of the committee, that it was disposed to find excuses for the pi dent, and 1t seems that 1t has done in this respect rather more than the facts just- ify. The effect, howevor, instead of ex- tenuating the shortcomings of the admin- istration, is rather to increase the damag- ing torce of the facts which the commit- tee was compelled to see und acknowl- Tue publisher who paid the late Henry Ward Beecher in advance for*the lite of Christ that was never written will lose No preparation was The moral te this transaction teaches a good business principle. ‘what you pay for. ‘The report credits the president with having done well as to the department at Washington, notwithstanding his mistake in appointing, as the heads of those de- partments, men who were not in full sympathy with the reform policy. ing the first tifteen months of the admin- istration the removals in the depart- mental service were only 6} per ¢ But when the committee extends its in- quiry to the country outside of the na- pital it does not find the results It discovers that, very ally, the president has not shown adequate care to appoint only such men as were known to be friendly to the re- form policy,-and what i avowed hostility or indifference of of- ticials to the catse of reform has not been made a reason for their removal. 1f it be granted that a fair excuse might be found for appointing a man not favor- able to reform, there can certainly be none for retaining him in office after his hostility to the policy had been unmis- The president has done this, after conclusive evidence was pre- sented to him, and has justly smabjected picion of insincerity. The committee concluded, from the facts, that ‘‘the course of the administra. tion in regard to appointwents, removals and suspensions has been irregular, ii consistent, and sometimes inexplicable. The justice of this judgment cannot be successfully questioned. The report wvery plainly implies, also, that the re- formers who prepared it are not sanguine that the reform they champion is likely " o receive any further advaucement from 31k ROGER TICHBORNE," now in New York, expects to have his case re-opened in the English courts. sibly hopes to have a chance to get back an Pentonville prison. freak in the dime museums, though by no means so good a freak as the walking maun of Hartford, Md. — We are not alarmed over the report that the gas company is 1 eapture the next council with a view to raising the price of gas. predict that the gas company will be content to let well enough alone, _ present rate is profitable enough. That is, he pos- He makes a far 80 satisfactory. g pipes to We can safely Tur late Charlotte Woit was, after the marriage of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, I perhaps the richest spinster in the world, She leaves $600,000, it is said, to be ex- nded, under the direction of Bishop 5 tter, in the ercction of an Episcopal eathedral, thus following the example of the late A. L. Stewart, takably shown, She is therefore oven with Stewart on cathedrals, and far shead of him in the general run of good ‘deeds, for which she was noted. It can - Do aaid by the fair sox: that their wealthy Fopresontatives make » better use of their ~ Mquey thau do the rick wen, all things this administration. They do not say what they evidently believe, that Mr. Cleveland has determined to hedge, They admit that ‘“the administra- tion stands at the parting of the ways," and clearly defray an apprehension that the path he 1 choose is the one leading to a com- plete partisan change in the publie se! The drift in this direction has been platnly seen for some time by peo- red ple whose perceptions are not im by that, in this country at least, is an ily false thing. Tne sunple fact is that Mr. Cleveland has been learning practical politics. Our Water Supply. fn 1881 a franchise was granted to the city waterworks company to establish and operatea system of waterworks in Omaha. Under this franchise a contract vas made with the city to supply Omaha with clear and pure water for domestic use and fire protection, The Missouri river was designated as the source of the water supply, which was to be clarified in settling basins and distributed through water mains by gravitation from an eight- million gallon reservoir. Direct vressure was only to be used in emergencies—for putting out fires. That the company has not strictly ful- filled its obligation is notorious. The Bee has time and again pointed out the dan- gerous defects of the system and urged the waterworks company to conncet its works with the reservoir by a donble main, so as to be in condition to keep up a continuous clear water supply from the reservoir, and avoid the danger of cutting off the reseryoir supply in case of abreak in its single line of pipe But the clamor raised by loeal papers for action by the council looking to a forfeiture of the charter, 18 senseless and ill -advised. It is proper encugh to stir up the water- works company by expressing the pre- vailing disgust with 1ts service, but it i utterly impractical to talk about repeal- ing its franchise or cancelling its con- tract. Comparison of the Omaha water sup- ply with that of Council Blufts is simply out of question. The Council Biufls waterworks were planned for a city of $0,000 to 10,000 people. They are more than ample for all present demands. The water supply of Couacil Blufty has plenty of time to clarify the set- tling basins and the reservoir exceeds in capucity the most extensive demand for both domestic use and fire protection. Hence the water supply =for Council Blufls can be kept perfectly clear, The Omaha water workswere planned and constiucted for a city of 40,000 to 50,000 population but the demand by this time, is equal to that of any other ci of 100,000 population, T the city called for twenty miles of water mains, but within less than fiy pars from the completion of the works, we have forty-six miles of water mans. It 1s utterly impossible with the present settling basin and reseryoir facilities to supply Cmaha year in and year out with ciear water. Water pumped directly from the river is of course hardly fit for use. When the Bee referred to the di nee last fall the managers of the waterworks called atteation to the fact that the rapid growth of the city would compel a re- WEDNESDAY. APRIL 6, 1887, M vent a repetition of this mocking of human rights in Nebraska, notwithstand- ing the virtue the late legislators as- sumed, though they had it not? It is safe to say that the misrepresenta. tives of the people, who were, soul and body, controlled by railway monopoly, would never have passed an alien land* owner bill if such a statute would by any means have traversed the interests of any corporation with a lobby at the capital. Woatever may be the consequences to the projected national drill in Wash- ington next month, by reason of the re- fusal of white military companies in the south to participate if organizations of colored men shall be allowed to take part, the managers should adhere to their original purpose of admttting the colored militiamen. It may be that the compan- ies from other southern states will show the good sense not to dishonor their man- hood and their military character by quiescing in the objection made by the Albama companies, in which case the abscene of the distempered sons of the “restful commonywealth’ will not in the least degree interfere with the success of the event. But should every southern company make the alternative of its par- ticipation in the drill contingent upon re- fusing entrance to colored companies, it were better that the enterpise be aban- doned than to make such a concession. If the managers of the driil yield to the least extent to this southern demand, it will be the duty of every northern com- pany entered to withdraw. Such in- stances as this of race narrowness and hostility serve to show that there is still agreat deal to be done in the ‘‘new south before it shall have advanced to & position abreast with the age. SoMe mugwump admiration has been spent on the present national ad- ministration because a few republicans were allowed to hold their offices under the government. But, for the republican party, it would haye been better af the pretense of a non-partisan civil service had not been kept up by Mr. Cleveland. Now we have some figures that show the real condition of things. Tne democ have been 1 office a year, and the first assistaut postmaster. gene Adlai L. Stevenson, of I1lino ready ap- pointed 10,000 democrats to the places made ant in the 50,000 of such oflices under his control. Out of 2 ters who draw over a thou year, and receiye their commissi the president, only 200 republicans re- main. Now with such a wee little share of the spoils, the revublicans eannot af- ford to be thankful. ‘I'wo more years of democratic pressure await the heroic band of oid-time tax-caters who have hung on. cannot stand that pres- sure. ‘Lurn thera out, Mr, Cleveland, and quit the hypocritical pretense of pleasing foolish soreh ead republi lers. I lawyer in Chi- cago, Detroit and Toledo had hopes of becoming recciver of the Wabash after Judge Thomas E. Cooley resigned to go onthe inter-state commission. The re- fusal of Mr. Callpway to serve has brought about the appointment by Judge Gresham, of the Sdvesth United States judicial eircuit, -of General John Me- Multa, a well known politician and law- moval of the works several miles up the river. This change of base could not be made until the city chartor was amended to authorize the condemning of land, at® the new location for and reser- voir. Machinery with capacity to operate works for supplying a city of 150,000 yer of lllinois, who has already managed a narrow gauge railroad. The great things expected from Judge Gresham's overthrow of the purchasing committee have not come to pass. The haughty Wager Swayne has at last won the day. ‘T'he railroud lawyer and recciver, as he has been developed by the wreck of rail- population is to bo substituted for the pumps and engines now in use and the entire system will have to be reconstructed on an extensive plan. In view of these costly proposed 1m- provements we regard it as unreasonable for the council to require the company to make any further putlay at its works. All the courcil ought to do in the prem- ises is to insist that the company shall take prompt steps for the reloeation of its works and their comvletion at the carliest possible time. Alien Land Owners. The Nebra legislature, which ad- journed last week, first of all offered its attention to the needs and behests of cor- porations. As u mere blind, it gave its odd hours to a little work for the people. Of course, there were laws to be passed whicti the people demanded, and which the corporations already on the ground did not oppose. Tosuch light tasks the corruptionists applied themselves ocen- sionally, rather for the of debeiving than of helping the masses. For the public interes hey cared nothing. Thus they passed a law forbidding to aliens the ownership of land in Nebraska, So far, good. Such a law would be a de- parture of advantage 1f it should compel land ownership by actual settlers, or at least by American ¢ But does the law effect any such thing? While a foreigner not own land, what is to prevent him from buying stock in any American corporation, and whai is to prevent that corvoration from own- ing all the land it can grab or buy? Aland-owner, when he is a man, dies in Ameriea, his sections are divided into quarter-sections, and his quarter-sections into forties, that his four sons may start alike. By that means the torefathers ex- pected to prevent entail. But a corpora- tion lives forever, and has no son s corporate powers are immortal, In its eternity of youth all other things, includ- ing the rights of the people, pass away. The railroads of Nebraska are corpora- tions. They may own all the land they can acquire, And the lords of England may own the stock of these corporations, What use is therein passing a law against individuals that does not reach corpora- tions ? How will the law, for which the Nebraska boodle legislature takes so much eredit, prevent the formation of syndicates of aliens, who, organized as American corporations, may own a piece of land as wide as the state and as long as the Platte river. Of what virtue is a law that prevents Sir Morton Frewen from buying land in Nebraska, when this same Sir Morton Frewen may, if he choose, organize the Bay State Cattle company, and the Bay State Cattle com- pany may buy any amount of land begin- ning with 10,000 acres ¢ We all know the wickedness of the foreign ownership, The county of Liv- ingston, in Illinois, on a line half way be- tweeu Chicago and Springfield, is already under the sway of an Irish landlord, Scully, who, without let or hindrance, evicts farmers, controls local elections, and imposes cut-throat leases on' his thousands of tonants, What is (0 pre- roads and the contlict of courts, is a very patient, resolute and persistent man. Mr. Crawford and the alleged reform in- terests that he presented have not shown any such staying pow Two 3 legislature passed & law which made gambling and the keeping of public gambling houses a When the luw went into effect theve was an exodus of the sporting men t. Louis and Kansas City, where ad been flourishing for years. The Kansus City gamblers found a harbor of refuge across the Missouri line 1n Kansas City, Kansas. But East St. Louis was too unhealthy and too remote for the St, Louis dealers and bankers, A few days ago a repeal of the Missouri gambling law was smug- gled through the legislature in a bill amending the criminal code. And now the sporting population will flock back to its old haunts. Tae deeision of the supreme court against the national banks of New York and New Jersey n important victory for the people. The banks believed they could evade a levy of §2,000,000 ot taxes in two years, and did evade the payment of the tax for that s of time. That the highest tribu has taken the side of the people when there was a good plea for both complainant and defendant should be rememberedto the credit of the supreme b h has of late been the object of wuch popular criti- cism. A St. Pavl per cries aloud for a famuly hotel. It says upon the subject, “The family hotel is a thing which we do not have, and for which scores of fam- ilie over-burdened’ with houschold cares, have sighed in vain, The present hotetuccommodautions are taxed to their uttermost to provide for the traveling public.” Omaha also has room tor a family hotel and patronage enough to give it a healthy support. It 1s said that the wifo of one of the members of the last legislature threatens to sue her husband for ‘divorce, unless he mends his way Every night be has a terrible night-mave. The husband claims in justitication of his actions t! he imagines in his sleep he hears the n dodo, Mr. Agee, making a We had hoped the legislature ges were ended. king of the inter-state commerce bill, said: ‘I have perusc that bill about a dozen times, and have not yet been able to grasp its me: And thereupon the corporation- the Chicago Z%mes got off a rash picce of wit. He said that was bad for the bill, for Jay Gould was the most grasping man in the country. CE—— Now the cruel jokers are saying that the venerable Adam Forepaugh has of- fered Mrs, James Brown Potter an ex- cellent salary to travel with his toree- ring show, It isto be regretted that a weep and do high tragedy should be asked to entertatn an audience from the saw- dust ring. CNEpe——— Tne Hou. Ignatius Donelly says that in July his new book will go to the prin- ter. In this wonderful book of which so much has been said, Mr. Donnelly claims to prove that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's works. As a member of the Minnesota legislature this winter, Ignatiusattempted to prove that the railroads should be re stricted, but his chiper failed to work. — Tie eastern trunk linesobeyed the law with reference to posting rates. Itissaid tue Erie paid the printers $20,000 for cards enough to serve 430 stations. 1f so, P must have printed them. Doubtless the sonp men will eventually secure the priv- ilege of supplying the rate-cards free to the poor railroads, PiitAveLrima has for years wanted the elevated roads to reduce fares to 6 cents, The companies elaimed that bank- ruptey and ruin would foliow 1f the re- duction was made. For over a month the 5-cent fares have prevailed and the cars make their trips on schedule time. Queen Victoria paid £500 for the privilege of witnessing the exclusive performance which she attended at the Olympic Hippo- drome, Queen Kaplolane, of the Sandwich Islands, is contemplating a tour of the United States this year, She will be accompanied by a large retinue. The czar of Russia will soon visit the scene of the famine in the Don Cossack country, provided his courage does not fail him before the hour of starting arrives, Queen Victoria has signified her intention to be present at the grand review to be held at Aldershot to celebrate her jubilee July 5. More than 70,000 troops of all branches of the service will be reviewed on that occasi The prince imperial of Germany I ing from bionchitis, which has assumed such a chronie form as to cause uneasiness. The ince will shortly leave Berlin r the rol, where he will spend the spring and early summer. ‘The king and queen of Italy will open the national exhibition of fine arts in Venice April 25 pat preparations are being made to prepare the royal palace for the probable visit of the empress of Austria. The nume- ber of artists exhibiting exceeds 1,700, among them being many English painters residing in Italy The Emperor Willlam's physicians are anxious to get him away from Berlin as soon as possible, and itis expected thathe will remove to Weisbaden for three jweeks abour April ‘The empress is then going to Ba- den-Baden for a month, and she wlll not re- turn to Berlin bef pvember. Prince Leopold of Prussia, who is making atour of the world, designs visiting this country after leaving China and Japan. He will be landed at:San Francisco and a special car or the Pennsylvania railroad will await him there and transport him from the Pacitic coust. He is nccompanied by Count Kamtz and Baron von Nickisch, e 0 oral Verses—For Children. Somerville Journal. ‘The ostrich is a foolish bird ‘Chat lives on sandy plains, He's noted for his feathers, but He's not renowned for brains, For when the wily hunters come "F'o make of him their prey, 1e spreads his wings and swiftly runs nilo or S0 away, A Till finding that he's close pursued By all the cruel band. Hestops and hides his foolish head Among the brush and sand. ‘The rest of him, of course, meanwhile, 1 exposed to view; ets caught. 1 think that he Is very dull—don’t you? MORAL. Now children, dear, this lesson learn, You'll find it worth your pains: Fine teathiers always muke tine birds, But they can’t compare with brains. R el The Music of **Home, Sweet Home." London Telegraph: The doubt as to the authorship and nationality of the beautiful and popular melody of “Home, Sweet Home,"" still appears to be un- settled. Controversies are every now and then started in the newspapers on the subject. With the view of putting an end to them once for all. I write this er--s0 that the publicity it will obtain ) the widely read fges of the Dail Telegraph—if you will be kind enougl to give it a place—will be suflicient to prove to the most incredulous that the air 1s English, and was the composition of the very eminent and'gifted musician, the late Sir Henry R, Bishop. Durin, the progress of our work on the*National Melodies of England,” published in the Ilustrated London News, 1n a s s of musical supplements to that journal, commenced in 1851 and continued af intervals until 1854, I was thrown into friendly and constant intercouse gentleman, Inone of our very many con- versations on well-known English melo- dies I took occasion to ask him for information on the subject of **Home, Sweet Home,” the authorship of which was often attributed 1o him, and as often denied b iny who claimed it as a na- tional n all which Siz Henry had discovered and rearranged. He there- upon favored me with the whole history. Heo had been engaged, in_his early man- hood, by the once eminent firm of Goulding, D' Almaine & Co., musical pub- lishers, of Soho square, to edit a AShIA S tion of the national melodies of all countries. In the course of his labors he discovered that he had no Sici- lian melody that he thought worthy ot reproduction, and, as a -Sicilian mel- ody’ had been announced in the pros- ectus which Messrs. Goulding and )" Almaine had issued to the trade, Sir B! it he would invent one, s the now well-known air {ome Sweet Home,” which he com- :d to the words of the Amer- with that ican author, Mr. Howard P K then resident n England When the collection wis published the melody became so popular tha use & common phrase, “it took the to by storm,” and se believing 1t to be Si right, reissned itatn che s that at which it could be procured from Messrs. Goulding and D'Almaine. The rosult was a sc of actions for piracy and breach of copyright agminst the pub- lishers who were implicated. When the cases eame on for trial Sir Henry Bishop ) to o was called as a witness, anddeposed on oath to the factas above set forth, he stated them to me many years wards. Messrs. Gonlding and D' Almaine obtained a verdiet on this evidence against the pirates, with purely nominal damuges, ‘[his statement onght, 1 think, to end all doubt and controversy on the sub- ject, and divide the honor of the author- ship of the touching song and the beanti- ful melody :n the United States and England, in both of which nations it has become national in the most af tionate sense of the word. Yours truly, CHARLES MACKAY, el L Michael McCullough, whodied n Pitts- burg recently, aged 81, was senior mem- ber of the firm ot McCullougn, Dalzell & Company, manufacturers of ltuel~nwltlnfi crucibles. He was noted for decide aversion to al! forms of speculating, and invested hus profits in real estate. accumulated §3.000,000, LEGISLATING ~ FOR LABOR. What a Fronohman is Doing for Worthy Wago Workers. CAPITALISTS AND CONSUMERS. Unions to be Made Obligatory fits Therefrom—*'Syndical Cham- bers''—Cholce of Plece and Day Work, respondence of the B tives of the foundries of the Familistere, in this eity, whieh 1 founded, and of which [ am the mana- gor, are soon to send a petition to our legislative body, the purport of which may prove interesting to both working men and employers in the United States, where I understand similar evils obtain to those under which we are at present suflering in I'rance. Our employers menced a most disastrons competition among themselves, by means of cutting Some among them began by reasoning to themselves in this way: ay, 500 men. the daily wages by one franc, that me daily 500 franes. 1 could easily compete with the other establishments or “Social Palace, down wages. It I reduce With these s themselyes, to cut wages down lower still, and the consequence is that in many factorics wages have been reduced by as much as two or three francs a day. and our workmen with me, that since the law proteets the resources and property 1t should equally pro- Now, 1 say, of the employer tect the resources of the operati is to suy—his For that purpose it would be required to give the workers a right over the rate of wages, analagous to that which the employer h manufactured requisite that the employer should no longer be able to speculate on a redue- tion of wages. We insist that EDUCTION OF WAG the arbitrary will of the employers, and that the latter are never justitied in ing lower wages than théir competitor: t that a lowe e place, except after a serious economic fie to say, that it should never be resolved consent of the op- e are the reasons that lead s to demand that trades unions ve the right to decide, in the lastm- stance, how many hours shounld consti- tute a working d: be average wages. pt with the and what should is an economic y that cheapness is the summum 1t 18 precisely cheapne: the misery of the working s, as well as the ruin jof the manu- and the stoppage of our indus- g i is a result of want of equilibrium between production and this want of equi- g the fact that the mass of the workers are unable to buy what they want. We have here in France a_law, passed les unions; but it is . because it depends on s whether the Il not organ Indeed in most employers discharge those who t 80, and such discharged workm impossible to get work elsewhe objection often made that COMPETITION does not apply ‘The present cri in 1881, legali worse than u. the employ shall or shal es low wage our industry ! have no foreign competition to fear; if our wages were higher there would not be one single stove less sold And as to othe ssured that if once wages were reg- within our country, a great step would be taken towards settling the wage question internationally, as now ques- customs duties are Therefore we ask amend the law of 1884 as follows: 1. To make unions of operatives obligatory in all industries, y form a union. union appoint a con ther more of ndustries, we legislature to the workers of To have each nittee with its president and secretary, which committee is to be the representative of the workers of each fac- tory or establishment. 4. That each union appoint delegates that are to be members of a chamber”—a trades which is to be constituted, one for every in- ‘That the employers likewise con: stitute themselves into “syndical chamber: to decide All questions relating to laboi conjunction with the operatives. the place of meeting of the two chambers be, possible, the same. chambers” of employers and em- ployes may meet together as one body, or separately, as they choose; former, employers and employes shall havean equal number of representatives, and every representative one vote, a majority to decide 8, That, in case the two cham- and disagreement arises, each chamber shall elect two delegates f these four persons o choose an umpire, sueh umpire, the local council a legally constituted body of master tradesmen and workmen—is 9, ‘T'hat the “'syndieal cham ber” of the oporatives, as guarantees to be given to the working class, shall have sole power, in the absence of a suflicient number of employers for deliberation, to fix the num- ber of working hours, and the averaze wages to be paid in all establishments of the indus- try which 15 represented by considerinz the similarity of their produets, and the competition between them; ana that no establishment shall be able to disregard ecisions thus made, I “syndical chamber” dustry that competes with those it repres to send representatives to it THE LAW'S EFFECT, When thus the i 7. That the two all questions, 10 settle the questio) annot agree, they if they cannot agree_on “Prad’homme: to act as such. tho chamber, itution of Unions mployers, as well as yndical Chambers,” to sbttle all questions of labor enumerated in the \d of the unions, has b obligatory, employ Let us now see what would be the prac: tical working of such a law. wage, establishod by the | Chamber,” be §1 a day, then which emplo; s of all kinds would its stafl of workers $100 dai that occupied, 1,000 persons would pay Tho president and secrotary of establishment the union in_each exercise control, and \ wages muliplied by the employ, he would” be compelled to pay » to those entitled to it, of the same establishments would thus be placed on the same foot- In this way would be abol hed the coms petition now w v ON WOULD RISE and production be regulated; ail causes for strikes abolished. Competition would changed into emulation as to who could maye the best products and wares. But in order to do away with the antag- onism of interests between em) employes, as well in the deli the ** . ynaical Chamber,” as 10 the fac- tory, 't should be well understood: That the rules s to the average wage and nor- day be strictly followed ers and employes; that, mal workin; nevertheless, freedom to choose viece-work or 1 bo done, and d wages as they think fit and proper; that all that is required of them is to pay an amount in wages fvroponl ned to the number they nmr oy, and bo satisfied with the numbef of working hours determined upon, while otherwiso they have perfeot freedom of action; that the “‘Syndical chambers' must have power to punish employers for violation of the rale compel them to pay the amounts they respectively owe, and ap- point committees from among then selves for that purpose: that the cham- i interfere only insuch questions, and that all establishments be treated e, Snch o law, we are assured, would have other most happy results besides the direct ones I have enumerated, Among other things it would raise the condition of the whole working class and it would enable us tomake statistics of all produe tion and consumption which would be of incaleulable value to our chiefs of in- dustry and commerce, and tinally it would put an end to our periodieal crises. Our proposition, in fact, would be the beginning of the solution of the social problem, GobIN, e SEWARD STKEET CHURCH. Important Easter Services—A New Building Promised. There will be special services at tho Seward Street M. E. church on Easter. The church will be appropriately decor- ated. The pastor, Rev. C. W. Savidge, has prepared a special sermon, and some fine music may be expected from the choir under the direction of Mr. Meyers, late of K City, but now with the choir of this church. The Seward Street church choir now consists of the follow- ing well-known singers: Mr. Meyers, basso; Mr. F. A, Coleman, basso; Mrs. J. 3. Newmun, soprano; Mrs. C, R. Basaur- . Miss Jewel MeCune agd Miss Katio Shields, altos; Me 3 und William McCurne, tenors, and Miss Bell, soprano. A cordial invitation is ex tended to all who can come and enjoy the services on next Sunday, Seats free and all are welcome. At a meeting of the trustees of Seward street M. K. church last evening a com mittee of four was appointed by the rd to consult as to the feasibility of tearing down the present building and erecting a large and fine one in its place If this is done North Omaha will have a Methodist church second to none in the city, as the people mean business. Tho church is crowded to overflowing each Sunday and the trustees see the necessity of providing more room for the people. WILL BE REBUILT. The Barker Brothers Let Contracts on Their Building. The Barker Brothers have made prep- arations to haye their burned block on the southwest corner of Fifteenth and Farnam rebuilt and that withont delay The contract for tearing down the granite walls which have been allowed to stand since the disastrous fire, has been lot to the contractor who is now working on the Paxton block granite work. He has been delayed in getting steam power for his new derrick, but will commence work in a very few days, The contracts for the brick, iron, wood and cornice work, have also been let. The eclement of wood will enter yery sparsely into the construction of the building. The girds will be for the most iron, while the framework of the windows will be "of the same mas terial, instead of wood, as before. (iuorpfi Barker says that the iron contract wi be, in fact,” three or four times what it was before, 5o that the structure which to be one of six stor wlil be nearly ire proof. The architects, Mendelssohn & Lowrie, huve the plans all prepared, Itis hopea to have it completed by fall or winter. TRAMWAY NEWS. The Council Bluffs and Om. Company—Noten. A meeting of the stockholders of the Omaha and Council Blufts Bridge com- pany, which was to have been held Mon- day afternoon, was postponed to next Saturday, on account of the absence of Mr. J. T. Stewart who ig in Chicago. Mr. Frank Murphy, one of the directors, said the bids on the structure will be called for within the next ten days, and work will be commenced a8 soon as possible this sprinu{’ ‘The structure will cost in the neighborhood of #600,000 and the chances are that it will start from the foot of Farnam. Dr. Mercer stated yesterday that his company will lay twenty miles of track under the right of way franchise granted them by the county commissioners, in two years. TAYLOR ;h ADS GUILTY. He is Sentenced to Only One Ycar's Imprisonmen Charles K. Tavlor, formerly clerk of the board of county commissioners, was arraigned before Judge Neville yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock and pleaded guilty of forgery and he was scntenced to one year's imprisonment in the peni- tentiary. In rendering the sentence Judge "Neville said that he gave the prisoner the lightest sentence provided by the law. ‘This was done because of a resolution by the county commissioners and a petition from a feading minister and others uskmng leniency for Taylor, and affirming that his moral character had heen excellent. e Round House Destroyed. The Missour: Pacific company’s round house at the end of North Fourteenth street, east of the Saratoga house, burned yesterday morning at 3 o'clock. The rm was sounded at_the engine houses, but the companies did not respond as it was not possible to obtain water at that point, The fire started m the oil room of the house, and three tenders who were ongaged in - washing engines were driven out before the searcely were awaro the fire had started. ‘our locomotives were in the building, three of which were fre gines and one a passenger. All were damaged be- yond repair, e it by enti rebuild- ing. The engincer of one of the loco- motives was near the house when the fire broke out and made desperate efforts to get his machine out, having twenty- five pounds of steam up. ' As he mounted the caba portion of the roof of the round- hounse fell in dircetly above him and he was frightened out. The loss was about $35,000, with $20,000 ouse will be at Bridge insuran The round once rebuilt, School District No, 53, The unnual meeting of this district was held at the school house on Lowe avenue last evening. Notwithstanding the fact that this suburban locality will be taken nto the city under the new eharter it was deemed proper to proceed according to law with the annual business just as if no future municipal existence was contem- rlulmL Strange to say but two of the six rustees were present, which does not show that they tuke very much interest in their positions. Messrs Taggart and Higby were the only oflicers present. ‘'he formar was called to the chair and H, L. Beward selected as secretary. The elec- tion of trustees resulted in the choice of H. L. Seward and B. P. Knight. W.H. Gibbs was chosen to fill a vacancy. A tax wasg voted tor teachers' and genera! tund. e *Can’t eat & thing." Hood's Sars rilla is a wonderful medicine for creatin, 4 | RIS e S