Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 2, 1887, Page 4

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Sunday, July 24 onday, July 2 ‘nesdav, July 26, ednesday, ‘Thursaay, J Friday, July 20. Gro. 8. T7 Sworn to and subscribed in my presence 4his 30th day of July, A. D, 1887, N. P. FEIL, [SEA L. Notary Publie. Btate of Nebraska, *“ Douglas County. Geo. B. '1'|mhnct|l:, belng first duly sworn, leposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that lm actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of Ju& 1886, 12,314 copies; for Ay, 1848, 12, eo))!en- for Septem- ber, 1656, 13,030 coples; for October, 1838, 12,060 coples: for November, 1885, 13,34 coples; for December, 1836, 13,237 coples; for January 1887, 16,266 coples: for February. 1887, 14,108 coples; for March. 1 q goplea: for April, 187 14516 copies: for May, 1 'lfu.z‘:r copies; for June 1887, 14,147 D Gro. B. TzsCHUCK, Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 1st dlr%ot July A, D,, 1887, EAL| N. P. FEIL. Notary Publie. Cm.o; Mc(’}.’«m('n:;,' iat; ;f bhlcuo. l: 8 “bigger” man than old Carter Har- son. PrrsoNs addressing MeGarigle in fu- fure will bear in mind to use the prefix !#Colonel.” 3 CHANCES are that Jake Sharp will not flive to receive his sentence for a four years term at Sing Sing. GovErRNOR MORMADUKE, of Missouri, Bhould have taken with him to Europe hs distinguished fellow citizen, Colonel Wrank James THERE were slight earthquake shocks n Indiana and Tennessee yesterday. The ‘:uuso can be traced to the falling off of he democratic majority in Kentucky. THE, most brainless man that has so far igured in the McGarigle case is the ’hicago chief of police. He will com- pare favorably with Thompson's colt. Tiis wait for the duel between Bou- fanger and kerry is becoming painful. {l'o-morrow may see one or two deaa ¥renchmen--perbaps two scared French- men, A PARTY of English tourists who are *‘doing” this country, complain that they do not find anything fit to eat on their fravels. Perhaps they have been making a fow trips between here and Chicago on some of the alleged *‘dining car routes.” Ir is refreshing to know that Roswell P. Flower still possesses political opin- Nons. It has been three months since Mr. Flower said anything, and had he not pgain bobbed up serenely yesterday in #aris he would in a few days more bhave ‘been forgotten. Ir Postmaster Gallagher wishes to have Xhe good wishes of Mrs. Cleveland and Ampress that lady with the beauty of jOmaha and the efticianey of her husbands mppointees he will begin at carly date to 4umigate the postoftice. With the vast accumulation of dirt it nught be mis- taken for a street car stable. Mg. Brooks the father of the trunk murderer, is now ecarnestly trying to mitigate his son’s sentence in St, Louis, but public opinion is said to be against the exhibition of clemency. Although thore can be no doubt as to Maxwoll's uilt, the manner in which he was con- icted was not creditable to those who prosecuted him. His father thinks im- prisonment for life would be punishment enough. Tur duel between General Boulanger pnd M. Ferry, which was booked to take lace yesterday, seema to have hung fire. his must have been a sad disappoint- ment to the Fronch people who dearly Jove a show. Boulanger telegraphs his peconds that he wants Ferry to goon with the preparations for the farce or ppologize. If this a ffair of honor comes off Mark Twain should be deputed to peport it. His account of Gambotta's duel made the whole world grin some pears ago. THERE are alleged new: ers who will persist in receiving money under false pretenses by claiming to print news, thus deceiving their readers. The con- gratulations to the president, on the ap- intment of Mrs. Hancock as postmis- mss at Washington is so premature that Btis false. The president has not as vet Appointed anyone to the office, though he may 1n a few days. Yet there is no posi- Rive assurance he will appoint the widow of the distinguished general. If he does there is no quostioning, it will meet the approval of every fair-minded citizen. Our financial octopus is gradually en- eircling the globe with his long arms. Jay Gould and an Amecrican ‘silver king'' are said to have established an American-Chinese bank with a capital of $20,000,000. The bank will receive and disburse all the moneys of the imperial mnd provincial governments, have charge of railway and telegraph con- tracts, coinage, 1ssue of bank notes and the aflairs of the war debt. Poor China! At will look like a squeezed orange one of these days if the report is true. When the emperor shall dive vainly in his pock- pts for a nickel it will be useless for him o come to this couatry., The Chinese |pundry want bas long been filled, Exaggerating Its Influence. It cannot be dented that the Ohio re- publican convention was a thoroughly representative body of the party in that state. The position and character of the leatters who directed its deliberations and gave their approval to, if they did not frame, its declaration of principles and policy, unquestionably entitle its utter- ances to more than ordinary attention. Itis doubtless entirely fair to assume that the plaiform represents the present views of the most distinguished leader of Ohio republicans, who by the action of the convention was formally presented to the country as a presidential candi- date. But when all this is fully granted we do not see that it necessarily warrants the conclusion of certain journ- als in the democratic and mugwump interest, that the Ohio platform may be regarded as in all respects defining the principles and policy that will be an- nounced by the republican party in nat- 10nal convention, and that, therefore, the party may as well be put on trial now as to wait a year to do so. We submit that this is giving the Ohio wing of the party credit for a much greater influence thun it possesses or is entitled to, notwith- standing the circumstances that just now gives peculiar significance to its utter- ances. There is unquestionably very little in the Ohio platform that will not be endorsed by republicans everywhere, or which it would not be en- tirely safe and proper for a national ra- publican convention to adopt. Liberal pensions to soldiers and sailors of the union, the reservation of the public lanas for the use and benefit of actual settlers alone, the enforcement of the laws for preventing the ownership of the public domain by corporations and non-resident aliens, adequate appropriations for the improvement of national waterways— these are features of republican policy about which there will be no disagreement in the party, and it 18 perhaps entirely safe to predict that they will have a place in the next national plat- form, not because they are in the Ohio declaration of principles, but for the rea- son that they are in full accord with the uniform policy of the party as a whole. They are principles to which the party is fully committed, and which are no less earnestly held by the republicans of Nebraska than by those of Ohio. Nor will there be any division among repub- licans upon the demand for a free ballot and a fair countin every section of the country. X But the ‘‘Ohio idea” as regarding the tarifiit would be manifestly unfair to put the entire party on trial for upon the bold assumption that the national con- vention will be forced into a similar posi- tion, simply because Ohio hasa distin- gushed citizen who approves of the idea and will seek the presidential nomina- tion. The indications aro strong that the next national republican convention will be dominated less by the few leaders ot the party than has ever been the case, and that with respect to the policy to be declared more attention than ever before will be given to the ascer- tained sentiment of the rank and file of the party. In that event the national convention would find it necessary to modify materially the tariff demands of the Ohio republicans. Were the conyention to be held this year it wonld certainly develope the fact that there has been a very decided change in the tariff opinions of thousands of repub- licans since the last convention was held, and there cannot be a reasonable doubt that the number will be greatly increased by next year. The oppressive character of the excessive tariff taxation is beivg felt more heavily from year to year, aud the demand for relief is becoming stead- ily more general and earnest. Certain leading republicans have the candor to admit the necessity of tarift revision and reduction, but there is still wanting the cour- age to say to the protectionists of Uhio and Pennsylvania that their extreme de- mands can no longer be complied with. It will be the duty of the party, however, when it comes to the declaration of a national policy, to take cognizance of the sentiment and the requirements else- where, and we have not a deubt it will do so. In that event the tariff declara- tions of the Ohio republicans will be found to have lttle influence, and who- ever shall be the presidential candidate will heartily acquiesce in a platform that shall pledge the party to a judicious revision and reduc- tion of the tarilf that will give the people the relief they want and must have. The next national republi- can convention we believe will frame its declaration of principles to accord with the predominant sentiment in the whole party, and not with reference to that of a section or in deference to any leader. Georgla Barbarism. The “banner state of the South” cer- tainly merits the distinction of surpass- ing all other states, north and south, in the vileness of her penitentiary system and the barbarity with which convicts are treated under it. The lease system has always prevailed there, and it has been responsible for such a history of immorality, cruelty and crime as will nd a parallel among any other The restrictions form- erly imposed upon the employment of convicts so that they should not come into competition with free labor, are no longer regarded, and now there is no [J of work that the conviets are not called upon to do. They work on railroads and in coal mines; they cut pine timber for the saw-mills; they are employed about the mills in those places where skilled workmen are generally employed; they make brick; they oper- ate iron furnaces; they constitute the labor in various manufactories; they work upon plantations, and in every possible way they compete in every in- dustry with free labor. The cruelties of privation and abuse practiced upon these unfortunates make a sickening story of man's nbumanity to man, and some of the men who are churged with these cruelties are promi- nens in social and political life. The convicts are not only overworked and ill fed, but are subjected to the most brutal usage and punishments, and one of the lesscos, a state senator, is acoused by a penitentiary physician of having shot down a number of convicts from: time to time in cold lood, United States Senator Brown is a lessee ot con victs who has frequently worked his laborers on Sunday, and who appears to entertain the general view of his col- leagues in this business that auy human- ity exteuded to these unfortunates would THE OM'.AHA DAILY BEL: I'UESDAY, AUGUST 2. 1887, be wasted. Brutal whippings of con- victs have been of. common oecurrence, many dying from the effects. Men and women arequartered in the same camps, and the inevitablo consequence is un- bridled immorality. The whole disclosure, which is being brought out by the investigations of a committee of the legislatare, is of the most disgraceful character, and there ought to be no question about the passage of remedial legislation. But it scems there is a doubt as to whether anything can be done, though & measure for this purpose will be presented to the legislature, now in session. The convict lessces control millions of dollars and are men of political influence. They will re- sist all attempts to change the present. order of things, and it is apprehended that they can defeat such efforts. It is humanity againet sordid and heartless selfishness, and the success of the latter would be Georgia's shame and dishouor. ——— Butter and Bu ne. The law in New York prohibiting the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine has banished the business from that state, where it was formerly carried on very extensively, and it is now being done farther east, Boston having become & center of trade in this commodity. The use of the product there has been en- couraged, on the ground that it meets the requirements of a large number of people who cannot afford the higher priced butter. The price of oleomarga- rine is now comparatively low, and in localities where it 15 sold this operates to keep down the price of low grade butter. It is noted that since the tax was puton, the exports of this product have largely increased at reduced prices. Holland 18 the largest buyer, the oil being used there for mak- ing butterine, which has grown into an industry of large dimensions. It is also an interesting fact that England has be- came a most important market for but- terine, the annual consumption being at not far from 90,000,000 pounds. The dairy interest of Great Britain is making war on the competing product, but the pressure on parliament not to enact any legislation that would limit the supply of the cheaper commodity 18 so strong that it is not believed the dairy interest will be regarded. There is a growing popular demand in New York for the restoration of butterine to the list of salable commodities, and the dairy inter- est of that state, which is very strong, may have to make another fight to re- tain the present law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of “any article or product 1n imitation or semblance of or designed to take the place of natural butter.” A Mistaken View. ‘Whenever any one complains of what is deemed an injustice on the part of the railroads, the immediate assumption of the managers is that the complainant is an enemy, and all relations between them are conducted upon this mistaken view. The San Fraucisco Chronicle has the fol- lowing judicious remarks on this errone- ous notion of the railroads: Therailroad companies make a great mis- take in thinking that the people of the United States are hostile to them. There is no such feeling existing on the part of any one of reason or judgment, for every thinking per- son recognizes the necessity ot railroads and the important part they play in the develop- ment of the country. No one s silly enough to want to return to the days of stage-coaches and ox-teams, or to the times of navigation by the raging canal. But there is a cause of complaint which is justly made against rall- road corporations, out of which has grown the inter-state commerce law, and that is the power to discriminate, which these corpora- tions have very generally arrogated to them- selves, and which, by long usage, tuey have grown to consider as a vested right. No legal argument s necessary to show the unjust- ness of such a claim; the very name ‘‘com- mon carriers,” under which they all come, is in itself a refutation of their assumed right of discrimination. This explains with sufticient fullness the real issue between the people and the railroads, n which there enters not the remotest desire to destroy or even crip- ple the railroads, but simply to hold them within the limitations of their rights as common carriers, among which, as our contemporary says, 18 not included the- assumed right of discrimnation. THERE are indications of a returning activity in Omaha real estate. The past week developed more inquiry than had been shown for a month before, with the effect of strengthening confidence both among holders and dealers. The lull in the real estate movement afforded an opportunity to the pessimists to air their fears, but judicious people, with a rational faith in Omaha's future, have not been affected by what they well understood to be a natural calm, which has not been peculiar to this city, but general in its scope. There has been a vast amount of capital invested in real estate through- out the country during the past year,and itisnotatall remarkable that a hali should have been reached in the movement. This would have occurred if there were no finaneigl conditions inducing capital- ists to observe particular caution in investments, such as are now felt to exist. But there is always a large amount of money secking real estate asa preferred form of investmoent, and in perioas that suggest especinl caution it of course finds its way to the most favored and promising local- ities. Omaha would lose nothing from such a situation. She has nothing to fear from an "intelligent examination of her claims 1n comparison with those of any other western city, and property here is still to be bought at figures rel- atively less than i any other city in the country with egual population, business, and prospects, e——— WHEN news is scarce, when politics run to tailings, when the heat takes the starch out of editorial opinion, the St. Paul and Minneapohis papers always have an unfailing resource. They can quarrel over the size, wealth and intlu- ence of their respective cities. Recently the St, Panl puffer came out with figures showing that the saintly city was bigger than its rival. In reply the Minneapolis boomer turned the batteries of R. G. Dun & Uo.'s statistics upon some of the claims made by its St. Paul contemporary. According to these statistics Miuneapolis bas sixty-one houses rated between $125,- 000 and $200,000 in 1887, while St. Paul has thirty-eight. Of houses having credits of $75,000 and upwards, Minne- apolis has 241 and St. Paul 158. One hun- dred and thirty-eight companies doing busiuess in the twa cities report an ag- gregato business 50 per cent greater in the younger city, cte. By and by the Minneapolis papers will be enquiring whether thore really is such a place as St. Paul or not — Tuerk is perhaps no doubt that a pub- lic market house in this city would result in a great benefit to consumers generally, and that they would save at least 25 per cent in the cost of meats, vegetables, pro- visions, ete. The objections to market houses are frivolous and seclfish. They come from parties who are either ignor- ant of the benefits to be de- rived directly by the working classes, and indirectly by the whole city, or else from shop keepers who fear that their business would suffer. As a matter of fact, the retail grocer and provision dealer would continue to flourish, but competition would perhaps be a little sharper, and stale vegotables and eges would not pass muster. It1sa question whether Omaha can ever compete with eastern cities as a manufacturing point until the price of living has been mate- rially reduced. e—— TrE St. Joo papers are congratulating that city over its good fortune in being left out in the cold by Phil Armour. It was a streak of good luck for the St. Joe butchers whom Armour was liable to ruin by cheap meats, and the turnip-nosed Su Josephites haye had a narrow escape from the oppressive odors generated by the packing house. The average St. Joe beet-eater may not agree with this view. He probably would willingly subordinate his fastidious smelling apparatus to his voracious stomach. E—— Crty ATToRNEY WEBSTER has returned safely from Denver, where he was called to defend an important corporation suit. 1t 15 to be hoped that he will now find time enough to carry out the directions of the council requiring him to take the necessary steps to compel the B, & M. road to pay its share of the viaduct assessment. Mr. Webstor has drawn $500 out of the oty treasury within sixty days, and as yet he has not earned $50. THE tax eaters on the city payroll are becoming more numerous every day. It 18 proper and right that the city pay good salaries to its ofticers and fair wages to its employes, but the increase of the sal- ary list is becoming a cause of serious alarm to taxpayers. Every official wants from one to three high-priced deputies to do his work while he is looking on or taking a vacation at some summer re- sort. THE quality of old wheat carried over into the new fiscal year has been found upon careful inquiry to be above the average this summer, The whole supply 18 about 72,000,000 'bushels as against 69,000,000 last year. This, with the new crop, will fully supply the demand and the prospects are not favorable for an increase in price. Tur police and firc commission are fully justified in reorganizing the police, in spite of the obstruction which the council has placed m its way, Law abid- ing citizens of all classes desire that our police be reinforced and made more ef- ficient. The quarrel over Seavey is a secondary matter. Now that City Clerk Southard has re- turned the council ought to dispense with some of his expensiveclerks. Mr. South- ard 18 thoroughly competent, and 1if he will attend strictly to business there will be no need of assistants. vazuuio?l’uddy Ford’s boarders on the police force are out of a job. 'Sn’outrage. How many justices of the peace are there in Umaha just at present? PROMINENT PERSONS. Lord Salisbury writes constantly for the London Quarterly Review. George H. Boker, the poet, is at Long Branch, engaged on a new tragedy for Law- rence Barrett. Barnum is spending his vacation at rondacks, Some good fish stories should come from this trip. George Francis Train is said to have re- cently received and declined an offer of $10.000 from a Chicago syndicate fora series of thirty lectures. Ella Wheeler Wileox denies the report that she intends to remove from Meriden, Conn., to Wisconsin. Ella loves the golden sun- light of the cultured east. Lady Burdett Coutts has been received back into Queen Victoria’s favor. Since her mar- riage to her youthful husband the baroness has been persistently snubbed at court. Jay Gould has been asked to build anew church on the spot in the Catskills where stood the yellow church of his boyhood—the church where his father was a deacon and sermons lasted from Sunday sunrise till Sunday sunset. ———— A Stateman’s Knowledge of Finance. Greensborough (N. C.) Workman, Governor Vance said that all he knew about finances was that it took two better names than his to get money out of a bank. A ] A Veteran's Opinion of Politicians, Petersburg Index Appeal, clusion of the 's 2o home and kil all the d——d politiclans " (s e The Burning Question of the Day. Boston Globe, ‘The discussion now going on in the news- papers as to who is the best base ball player in the country is attfacting considerable more attention than that about the popular presidential candidates. ———— Lost Labor. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Carnegle and Blaine have been followed to Great Britain by Simon Cameron, Chaun- cey M. Depew, of the New York Central; Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, and *“Gath,” of she Cincinnati En quirer, and the whole campaign against tariff revision will be arranged in outline be- fore they return. ————— Helping Out Kansas Oity Editors, Chicago Herald, ‘The Kansas City papers are searching for a name for their odious contemporaries whieh shall express all that is contained in the awkward “Kansascityphobla,” and yet avold cacophony. 1f *Kawphoby” meets the views of the Kans' City word builders they are entirely welcome. et 's Prophetic Palm. New York World, Henry Watterson has had his hand read by Ed. Heron Allen, the chirosophist, who . is now making himself agreeable at Lonk Branch. 1n-early days, when Mr. Watterson oecaslonally took a turn at poker, the people who tried to read his haud were compelled Watters: to pay heavily for the amusement. Mr, Allen says that the lines in Mr. Watterson’s palm denote prophetic powers, hence he thinks that his prognostications touching the next presidency are likely to prove correct. ——— The Fitness of Seasons. Enzio, King of Sardinta. There is a time to mount, to humble thee, A time; a time to taik, and hold thy peace: A time to labor and a time to cease, A time to take thy measures patiently: A time to watch what Tlme's next siep may be A time to make light count of menaces, And to think over them a time there is; There’s a time when to seem not to see. ‘Wherefore I hold him well advised and sage ‘Who evermore keeps prudence facing him, And lets his life slide with occasion : And so comports himself through youth to age, That never any man at any timo Can sav, Not thus, but thus thou shouldst have done, P — STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottinge. Valentine turns into the coffers of the railroad company $73,000 a month. Advertising and job lots are promi- nent pillars of Kearney's prosperity. Heavy rains put the finishing touches on the corn crop of Holt county last week. The thermometer in Nebraska got out of reach of the mob last Friday by climbing np to 110°. Madison has oftered to the Nebraska Central road a bonus of twenty acres of land as a site for the machine shops ot the road, The first born in the young town of s the oceasion of a celebration Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Beard are the happy couple George Frahm, a former prominent business man in Hastings, died sudaenly in Ottawa, Kan,, last Saturday. He was twenty-six years of age, and a native of Germany. Three farm houses near Long Pine were burned by hghtning Friday. The families wore at the Chautauqua and therefore saved their hves. about £3,000. The project to connect Dakota City and South Sioux City steel railway has actually commenced. The company has a capital of $40,000. 1t is expected to have the line in operation from the river bank in Covington to the south line of South Sioux City within sixty ys. The material has been ordered by aph. ‘The intention is to build the line to Dakota City and possibly to Homer. fowa ltems, Dubuque claims that the railroads do not run that town, They run through it. The county seat wrangle in Harrison county is as hot as the weather, Mag- noha is after 1t again, Nine hundred and fifty women in Iowa own and manage farms. Six more have stock farms, and twenty dairy farms. Miss Agnes Ramsdale, a young and handsome girl at Keokuk, left home Sun- day during her mother's absence and has not been heard of since. A boy by the name of cable was killed by lightning near Oskaloosa Thursday. His mother was stunned and another stroke Killed a horse near by. Rev. Dr. Newman, of Washington, D. C., who will be recalled as a close friend of General Grant, has accepted the invi- tation to deliver the sermon of the State Agricultural society on the fair grounds the Sunday before the fair. (=) The state pharmacy board has been ro- quested to send two delegates to the con- ention of the American Pharmaceutical ion at Cincinnati, September 5-9. ars ago there were but four state pharmicy boards i the United States— owa, Muine, New York and New Hamp- shire, and now there are thirty-four, so that the convention promises to be a great success and of considerable inter- est to pharmacists, A Mr. ("Neill,of Chinton, ten years ago while in the employ of 'the Chicago & Northwestern, was injured in the yards of that company. He sued for damages. He and his wife have since died, but the case was prosecuted by Father McLaugh- lin and now the United States supreme court has just awarded $15,000 damages and $3,009 interest money, which has been divided among his three daughters and aged father. It is said the railroad company has spent as much more in fighting the suit. Daxota. The hail storm in the hilla was a bo- nanza for glaziers. It put $10,000 in their pockets. Aberdeen 18 moving to secure the cathedral and headquarters of the new Catholic diocese of Dukota. The route of the Elkhorn Valley road has been surveyed and staked into Dead- wood. Real estate has been boosted con- siderably, New ofticers of the Dakota Editorial assoeiation: President, Augustine Davis; tirst vice president, J. C. Adams, Web- ster; second viee president,C. 3. Burrett, Aberdeen; sceretary, George Shlosser, Blunt. It is announced that two new brass field picces are to be sent to the capital of south Dakota to be used by the Dakota militia; with ‘any hostile intentions against the state government at Huron,but simply for the boys at their annnal encampment there w practice with. A quarry of valuab discovered within five miles of Rawhide. “The Rowdy West” has been routed out of Douglas and is now a memory. The Kimballs have moved to Glenrock inmi will issue the Graphican the 13th nst. Tne appraisers are at work settling the damages to the Hereford ranch for right of way of the Cheyenne & Burling- ton road. The estimates of witnesses vary from #25,000 to $50,000, Rock Springs has been gi Potter economy. T which the Union Pacific company was building at that point have been otagd, and the hopes of the town b Two parties of Cheyenne & Northern engineers are actively engaged in run- ning lines along Laramie river, One started from Rock ery and the other from the present cre wmie. This is, to an extent, the route - templated by the B, & M, extension from Broken Bow, Neb. No less than six wells wili be drilled in the oil country west of us this scason. The machinoery for boring two of them— owned by the Oil Mountain Mining com- ing company—passed through Dougls last week: the tools for two more— owned by n Omaha company, the old Grafl combination—are alres on the ground, aud a Fremont company will put down two more, The new railroads in the territory plead poverty and beg for relief from tax The Wyoming Central (North- western) has a mil of 78.76. Its total depot and other prope except rolling stock is valued at §11, No valuation is placed upon the road bed and the tax commissioner writes that the value of that property as a railroad is purely pros- pective because up to June 1, 1537, the road had earned only §38,583.08 while the cost of operation had been $41, The returned valuation of telegraph property in_the territory is $02,783.50. The Union Pacific railroad return shows a milenge of 48854 and a valuation of $1.253,701.20 while the Oregon Short Line, with ¥2.34 miles, is valued at $520,319. - The Main Issue. Falls City Jowrnal. General Van Wyek is reported ns say ing, 1n s speceh at the Springdicld bar becue, that the people must arise next | year and elect a legislature that will re: duce maximum freight rates in Nebraska to the average rate botween here and the Atlantic seaboard, that will reduce max- imum passenier rates to two cents per mile, and that will provide adequate pen- alties for the enforcement of the usury laws. Healso declared in favor of the overnment taking possession of the Inion Pacitio railway, and operating the line for the benetit of the people, saying that the government can run railroads as well as postal service, and that if Gould and Vanderbilt carried the mails there would be no cheap postage, Van Wyck has at last struck the key note. What the massof the people hs long waited for is leadership for the sen- timent in favor of government ownership of railways. This is the only way cheap freight and passenger rates will ever be attained in the United States, and all other modes of dealing with the great railroad monopoly evil are uscless surface applications for diseases of the bone. That a majority believe this, the Journal has no doubt, and if Van Wyck makes his campaign next year on the is- sues set forth it will not be a surprise if he succeeds Manderson in the United States sonate. The demands of the hour are urgent. The high rates charged by the railronds are filling the country with superfluous roads, many sec- tions having already three times the number of railronds necessary to do the business, These extra roads keep rates up, because it makes so many more companies to support with the same busi- ness. The government should condemn the railroads and buy them now, before more superfluous lines are built, and a good beginping would be to foreclose on the Union Pacitic, which the government has already paid for many tmes over, General Van Wyck made a mistake that contributed lurgely to his defeat wheu he failed to advocate this policy in the sen- nd introduced, instead, a nll to make easier the requireme of the govern- ment on the Union Ps . Now that Van Wyck reached the nub of the railroad question his previous vopularity will greatly increase, if he sticks to1t. — A Royal Road w Learning. San Francisco Chronfele. The three sons of Robert Garrett, president of the Baltimore & Ohio, who are now in the city, are enjoying life in a manner in which few American boys are accustomed. They came here in a private car last week, after a leisurely trip through Utah and Nevada. H. Penn, an Englishman of learning, has charge of the trio, and is the tutor who bas been instructing them in American and Mexican geography from the windows of their special coach. The names of the boys are Johm W., Harn- son, W., and Robert Garrett jr. They are much pleased with San Fraacisco and are studying 1t like an open book under the tutelage of Mr. Penn, who is said to have well coached himself on the subject before his arrival here. The young Garretts will make a complete tour of the state before returning east, aund it is said that a trip to Oregon is among their plans. They have not yet been interviewed on the subject of the Baltimore & Ohio deal, but could prob- ably give as straight a story concerning 1tas some of the Wall-street men who have been filling the eastern reporters th their conflicting accounts of the do- ings of the great syndicate. e The Modern Robber, New York Commereial Advertiser. There is no department of industry in which more remarkable advance has been made during the last half-century or during the last century, than in roguery. The process of evolution has nowhere given more remarkable results than are seen in the improvements made in the methods of rascality. In earlier days when one man desired to get pos- session of another man’s money he Fnew no less clumsy method than that of knock- ing Lkis vietim down and taking the money away; or presenting a pistol to his head and ordering ver; or sneaking quictly by night into the premises of the victim and sccretly pur- loining the desired wealth. Even in this year of grace, these clumsy, antiquated, vulgar and incidentslly dangerous methods of roguery are practiced in half- ilized communities, such ag those of Arkansas and Texas, and by the imper- fectly educated rascals even in the me- nong civilized men generally, roguery b become a much finer art than it was the hands of J 01 or later in the hands of Monroe F and the scoundrel who now des) to rob his fellow-men shrinks in disgust from the rude vulgarity of force, muhlr stead of buying & pistol or cutting u bludgeon from the thicket, he retains a firm of learned and reputablo I With their aid lie not only incurs no risk, but is under no nocessity of con- cealing s gai He robs in large sums and so dignifiedly that when all is known he can still retain_his influence as super- intendent of the Sunday school and pa- tron of all good work. He pays his law- yers well, and_they in return so arrange i pluns of robhery that they produce the largest possible returns at the small- est possible risk. —~—— CLEVELAND'S THRIFT. He Will Leave the White House With $200,000, Baltimore American: Tt has been stated that Mr. Cleveland docs not ex- pend more than half his salary, if. in- deed his expenses exceed forty per cent of Lis income, and he will doubtless have at least $100,000 ot his compensation as president remaining when he leaves the white house, if he doesleave it, on March 4, 1880, A friend of his, who isin a po- sition to spe: vi B subject, suys that when he was inangurated president had 65,000 in hard cash. This money was principally out of his fees while sherift of Krie county. His four pohtical campaigns, in which ke was elected to the shrevalty of Ene county, 1o the position of mayor of Builalo, gov- ernor of New York, and president of the United States, cost him in_all in round figures, $20,000. With the $65,000, fore, which be had when he enter the white house, the $100,000 which he will gave and the fortune of s wife, Presi- dent Cieveland willthave in the neighbor- hood of $200,000 as a fortune upon which to begin life anew when he leaves the white house. Carefully invested, this would yield him an income suflicient to take care of him very comfortably for the rest of his duys. i 1 what is this money invested?” in- « your correspondent, “I don't think the president has any investments other than bank deposits, He was never of a speculative turn of mind, and never engaged in 1 speculative enter* I think the greater portion of his osited in banks in here- W iand is likely to invest anywhere in the hope of securing big dividends, unless he is absolutely satisfied that the invest- ment will be safe. When he dies Ins wife will have perhaps 20,000 from life in surance policies to add to his savings. Ho has no vel insurance on his life, for the re the past two or three years the principal compan- ies have s thewr agents that they risks on thelife of the Homepaltc f his mode of living Me will easc and 1, heeause and his diposition to apoploxy. probably devote bis time to comfort. It 18 likely that his name will be in demand for the presidency of one or more corporations, and from this sonree he will be able to derive a very respeetable income, et . White Beaver.” Chicago bune “White Beaver" passed through Chic the other day on \is way to his home in LaCrosse, *\'1.! from Europe, where he wedt to pay a visit to bis old pal, Bultalo Bil. Years ago Frank Powell was a post surgeon in the west. When Butfalo Dill was in the service of the government he mado Pow- ell's acquaintance and they beeamo fast fricnds. Powell admired the great scout and loved the wild life he led. The up- shot of it was Powell cast his lot with RufTalo Bill, whom he very much resem- bles inappearance and physique. Pow ell was a great favorite with the Indians on account of s ability to aid them 1n the capacity of medi- cine man, and they gave him the name White Heaver." Before the days of the Pacific railroads White Beaver was quite as well known as Buitalo Bill, but when the two re-entered civilization Buflalo Bill increased his fame by plunging into the show business, while White Beaver settled down to practice his profession. That is why the latter is not so well known as his old comrade. Dr. Powell enjoys great 11umulurily in La Crosse, where he is a leading citizen, and has been elected mayor two or three times. He has a large practice and has a big hospital for his patients, That the In- dhans have not forgotten their old friend is shown by the fact that hundreds of them tramp to La Crosse every year for medical and surgical attendance. Every summer Buffalo Bill spends part of his vacation with Dr. Powell in La Crosse. [Nore—=Dr. Powell d in Omaha a number of years and be remembered by many of our citizen - FRANK JAMES, How the Wome Buy Goods of San Francisco formed bandit, Missouri, 1s the latest and bigge: tion in Dallas.” This was remarked to an Examiner reporter yesterday Thomas Witherspoon, a broad-shouldered Texan, at the Russ, ank is the mild- est-mannered man you ever saw, You would think he was a preacher to look at him and listen to the soft cadences of his voice. But you just ought to see how the women flock about him to buy dry goods. It beats the world. It's Mr. James this and Mr. James that—a perfect love of a man some of them cail him. 1 don't mean that all the women visit him at the etore and dote upon him, but a big per cent of them do—the morbidly curious and men- tally off. Frank James does not look like a shooter, nor & bad man. He is of medium size only, very quiet, and his black hair is lately Imiinninz to bo well tinged with gray, as is his mustache. He lives in au unassuming way in Dallas, with his wife and two small boys. The boys are not over twelve or fourteen years old. The family seems a very appy one. The store he works in is owned by Worthington, Jones & Co. These people got him away from the St. Louis shoe store by offering a higger stipenh. It is understood in hullwu that he gets $300 a month. He ought to have more, for in the past four months he hns just about doubled the tirm's business. It was a lucky stroke, their getting him. Frank James is reported to be poor. People thought for a long time be had @ big lot of wealth that he had made in train and bank robberies and hold-ups of one sort and another, that was buried, or at least stored away some- where, but if so it has be pt a seered. Nobody knows where it is. Sometimes they have thounght may! rank James has glided incog. to v towns like St. Paul, Omaha, San Francisco, or other towns west and south, and bought prop- erty in the names of his wife or sons. Dallas people keep wonderiz all the time what has become of the swag. Of course, there is a porcentage of them though who say they don’t believe he has any money—that he was more sinned against than sinning." jock Around to m in Dallas. “The re- late of st atirae- .‘3:52‘ \ “ Oh, HA| MAGNOLIA BALM 18 exquisitely lovely,” satd Migs Brown to her fricnds, as she enterod tho drawing room, after taking o long, hot, fatlguing drivo over a t L w0 Pure, Cleanly 1t 1n & momont and jot Roughuess, Sullowness, and Horrid Old Rkin usod by & ot Suu and Dry, Harsh Winds,” Luodics, MAGCNOLIA BALM 18 for Face, Neck, Arma and Hands, 1 can'tbe Detectod TRY 1T 1 HOTEL® ANERICA AT $ozen — & T PILES,’ and all skin disonses. 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