Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 27, 1887, Page 4

—— THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EV MORNING. IRY TRIME OF SUBSCRIPTION y 00 ontis o Months w The Omahin day BEE, mall dress, One ¥ OMAIHA OF F) W4 AN U EW YOIk OFFICE, —RO0M 05, '] NG, WAKMINGTON OVFICE, TEENTH STIRET. ki CORRESPONDENCE, 11 communications relatin uews and itorful matter should be addres<ed to the ATOR OF THE 11E BUSINESS L ters and remi s <hould e Wk Y PUBLISIING COMPANY, checks and postoflice orders 10 vder of the company. i No. 6l Four All husine Addressed to OMAHA. Draft De mudie pryble to t The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors, CWATER. Iy swear that the )f the Daily Bee for the week was s fOlloW: actual ¢ cnding Saturday, M Bunday, Nov Monday Tuesda; Average...... YT Gro. B, TZscnts, Sworn toand subscribed in my presence thls 26th day of Novem 2 . (RRAL.) Btate of Nebraske, N, P. FEIL, Notury Priblie tss first duly sworn, de- » secretary of The Bee i company, that the actual average circulation ~ of daily the Dafly Bee for the = month of 4, TRHS coples: for Decenl 18,257 copir 18T, for 7, 16, 198 copies | bon - o Tuary, 147, 1 for Murch, 1857, 14,400 copies: for April 14,518 copies: for May, 1687, 14, 14,147 _copie 1ist, 187 61 coples: for October, 1467, 1 Bworn to and sul) 6th lh;’y of October, A (SEAL.) TUCK nee this D, 187, Powpk ening to resign stereotyped. odie letter threat- has evidently been defeated Hanlon. This event is decisive and the Canadian must now take a buck seat, But he has had his day, & good long day too. If he is wise he will step down and out gracefully. —_— THE state of Beatrice is now looking to Washington again where Senator Paddock is expected in afew d to commenee shaking the bushes for sugar plums. A bridge across the Blue river, national, is conflidently expected, if the senator fails to get a quarter of & mil- lion for a custom house. ALK citios of the country now clamor- ing for the republican national conven- tion, %o far s heard from, are Omuha, Bt. Louis, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Chi- cago, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Rochester, ‘Washington, New York, Albany, San Francisco and Denver. Among all these claimants Omaha is most favored as to locution and here the convention should be heid, UP to the present w plied the tl have simply ap- nend of a fifteen-cent raw hide to the back of law-defying mem- bers of the city counci But these desperadoes exhibit such utter lack of gentiveness that we shall be eompelled to strike them in the face with the butt of a black snake whip. Instead of pa ing some respect to public opinion, they are going from bad to wor THe clergymen of Massachusetts un- derstand that atleastin their profession there is no tendency towards centraliz- ation of capital. A late inquiry into the salaries paid this profession in the Bay State developed the fact that the average of income wuas less that one thousand dollars per year. Knowing that the occupants of city pulpits re- ceive large salaries, those in the rural @tstricts will certainly never become monopolists. It is is about time for our citizens to eall for a division. The sheep in the eity council must separate from the goats. The men who respect law and honestly desire to carry out the wish of their constituents must break away from the conspirators who defiantly set themselves above all law, incite dis- order and play into the hands of burg- lars, foot-pads and thugs by refusing to give our city eflicient police protec- tion. SAN FRANCISCO, ns Omaha, is not particularly proud of her street-sweep- ing coutractors. One of the papers of that city says: “The city pays aubout $70- 000 a year to have its streets kept clean, and the tax-payers very justly conceive that they are entitled to get something for the money which they pay for street sweeping.” Omaha pays about $20,000 a year, and her tax-payers are of the same opinion as those of San Fran- cisco. THERE is a chance now tor Council- man Bechel to redeem himself by cut- ting loose from the law-defying bell- wether who proposes to continue the policy of freeze-out on the police com- mission and recklessly disregards the well known overwhelming sentiment of the community, As the representative of the Fourth ward, Mr. Bechel has no wight to continue with the disreputable combine which has its mainstay in the Third ward divesand among the lawless elements of other sections of the city. We shall prosently see whether Mr, Bechel is past redemption. THERE is a universal protest through- out the country against theruling of the postoftico department in regard to trade marks and pictures upon wrappers and envelopes of third class mail matter. A large portion of every community is harrassed by the new order. The fault 48 in the law which congress should fiaflif) as s00n as possible. It may be a mmendable ambition in Postmaster General Vilas to attempt to make the postal department pay its w but it should be borne in mind that this insti- tution exists for the convenience of the ple and not us & source of revenue, ‘e public has become so uccustomed to using trade marks on all sorts of mail matter that the sudden prohijbition of the practice proves o be a great incon- e v Enforce High License. In season and out of season the BEE has upheld the high license law as the most effective and practical regulator of the liquor traffic. The only tangible argument which prohibitionists ha brought against high license is the fail- | the pittars of the temple and_crushed his Philistipe enemies, under its ruins, these bat-blind patriots would break down the safe-guards of the republie, in their zeal to destroy its enemies. Scveral of the most prominent jour- fnals of America have already sounded ure of the authoritics of Omaha to have | the alarm and entered an earnest pro- the law rigidly enforced, For this fail- | test against autocratic and lawless ine ure the liquor dealers nve not wholly | terference with free speech and free responsible. When Mayor Broatch re- | press unde n xt of repressing cently ordered the chief of police to en= | anarchy. he Philadelphin Record force the provisions of the law, which | whose owner, Mr. Singerly is a five prohibits the sale of liguor on election | millionaire makes the following appeal day, all but out of two hundred and | or free speceh: forty liquor dealers obeyed the order | The right of frecdom of speech is too pre- and kept their places of business closed | cious to be violated even in the contemptible on election day. And this. in spite of | Personof Johann Most. Vastly more harm can the infamous resolution adopted by the | be doue by making such creatures as Most clty council advising the liquor dealars | 5 Mi2rlyrs" tothe cause of freo speoch and Libt g 1 free thought than by giving them unlimited to pay no attention to the law and the | icijege to babble, Whenever a man is muyor's orde denied the right of uttering sentiments that In other words, the liquor dealers | do not meet the approval of the have shown themselves more law-abid- | majority freedom of speech is destroyed. ing than the councilmen who are sworn | One pretext for abridging this in- 1o obey the constitution and laws of Ne- | estimable right of free citizens might be f | lowed by another, until at last a policemen’s license would be required before a man could utter an opinion different from that enter: tained by the public authorities, Strong und self-reliant communities do not hasten to ar- rest people upon a mere report that they have used seditious and dangerous language. This provision wus purposcly miscon- | Such is the policy of jealous despotisms, strued by General Manderson when he [ Whichi have reason to dread critic®n. wiis city attorney. Under his ruling an | Whenopen discission is not tolerated, se- ordinance was drawn in direct violation | ¢t conspiracy, which is influitely moro i dangerous, takes its pla It is to the high- of the statute, and quarterly payments | oo iy, orogt of society that it should know not werd allowed. This, of course, left all op1¢\wiat issaid of it by its worst encmics the dealers in the same boat as outlaws, | but who those cnemies are, who are their he most flagrant violation of the high license law is the disregard of the provision, which requives the pay- ment of $1,000 from each applicant for license before he can legally sell liquor. since no license could be issued | leaders, and where they congregate. Russia until the last quarter. But as | keeps down all discussion on the part of the Genernl Manderson was the legal | enemies of its despotic government with a adviser of the city, his v and, and Russia is honeycombed with conspiracies that threaten to break out atany moment in a irrepressible flame of revolution. The,Pittshurg Leader, by all odds the most influential and conservative dail of that great manufucturing city, tersely expresses itself on this question in the following language: That the American people abhor anarch, sion of the law held good until the courtsdecided otherwise. Indue time the state supreme court rendered a decision which made the payment of #1,000 mandatory. No attention whatever was paid to this decision. The council and license board deliberately ignored and nullified the decision of the 8- | 1y been made very plain within the last preme court and have continued the | v, With the peaceful weapon of the bal- lawless system up to date, lot in their hands to effeet a revolution w A new departure has just heen by the council, which calls for some plain talk on our part-and dec tion on the part of the mayor. The council, by and with the ady of € Attorney Webster, has passed a re vised high license ordinance which is to take effeet in January. This ordinance re-enacts the unlawful proviso that pa, taken | ever the majority feel the ‘hange in the system of g dissutisticd with its pol paticnee or sympathy witha m, advocates, who preach blood and murde dynamite to right their wrongs. The 1 of this country are inthe main intelli- gent enough to know that ana y would be anevil of such infinite magnitude s things are, that they can best afford to bear the ills necessity ments can be made qua 1y | they bave rather than fiy to others they know and leaves the city in the .sume |notof. & * & « & @« & o attitude of reckless defiance of the law [ I tacitly approving of the measures taken to silence the ar ‘lists, they should sce to it that the law of cqual freedom is not trans- gressed. In opposing the advocates of an- avchy, in suppressing their meetings and im- prisoning their writers there is dunger that the line may be crossed. If the mayors and the police force are to have the power to judge of how far men may go in the way agitation by speakers and press, we may soc sec introduced the czar's method of suppress- ing socialism aud nihilism. The sucred treasures of free specch and a free pr should be most jealously and carefully guarded, and only be restricted by the law of equal rights. The law properly takes hold of those who wickedly slander to their injury, or who incite others to cvime, but it is not a statutory offense for men to hire a hall and talk balderdash if they desive to, or to adv wideas, however ridieulous they 1 «dom of speech is one of the sucred tsof afree people and should not be encroached upon, even to punish or suppress anarchists. and the supreme court as it has been in the past five years, Why should men who are sworn to obey the law violate their oaths and record themselves as outlaws? And why should the ity attorne © counte- nance to such conduct? It seems to us the mayor has a plain duty to | form, and that is to veto the ordinance. ‘We believe in high license, but we do not desire the law to remain a sham and a delusion. If the payment of $1.000 is oppressive, let the law be modified. But while it remains in force, the author- ities have no right to ignore it or set it aside. Compliauce with the law is the only safeguard against prohibition. The Safeguards of the Republic, The Rev. Dr. man, who obtained great prominence as the court chaplain of the Grant dynasty and staunch sup- porter of the the third term Ciesarism has a happy faculty of opening his mouth and putting his foot in it. Dr. Newman delivered a Thanksgiving ser- mon at the national eapital, in which he slopped over completely and exhibited his natural tendency toward imperial- ism and despotic methods Dr. Newman's text w The Safe- guards of the Republic,” and this text afforded him not only ammunition to bombard the Roman Cutholie¢ church, which he regards as the naturs of the republic, but he del whole broadside at anavchists in gen- eral, and Herr Johan Most and Captain Black in particular. Dr. Newman is reported as laying down the following cardinal principl ““He who by language incites to treason is atraitor: he who incites to anarchy is an an- archist. We must hold men responsible for their utterances.” The doctrine which Dr. Newman lays down sounds very patriotic, but it never was and never can be carvied into prac- tical effect in a republic without seriously shaking its very foundation, Wendel Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison, who rank among the most loyal of Americans, publicly denounced the constitution of the United States as aleague with hell, cely advocated peaceable secession and urged congress to let the ing sisters go. Charles Sumner, The Co-Operative Principle. When the last national convention of the Knights of Labor failed to make pro- vision for extending the principle of co- operation, and the general feeling man- ifested regarding it scemed lacking in vest, the friends of co-operation be- lieved that an important duty had been neglected and ious mistake made by the organization. Assuming, how- ver, that the convention was in posses- on of all the facts regarding co-opera- tive enterprises in this country, it is easy to sce why the majority may have concluded that as yet the financial re- sources of the organization could be em- ployed to better advantage in other di- rections, Co-operative enterprises have been undertaken in the United States on a much more extensive scale, and during @ muech longer period than is gen- erally supposed. There are industri now being earried on upon the co-ope ative principle wh were established more than twenty years ago, and there were experiments under this plan at a remoter date which long ago failed. The principle has alsohad a wide appli- cation, having been tried in most of the manufacturing cities of the country. The history of these co-operative enter- prises is not all of a discournging na- ture. On the contrar there are stances of highly gratifying successes. Henry Wilson, Salmon P. Chase, | But the results of the experiment in the William H. Seward, and some of the | United States have, as a whole, not been most prominent public men openly de- nounced the hanging of John Brown, who convicted of murder and high treason. But nobody, not even the most rabid slave-driver even demanded that Phillips, Garrison, Greely, Sum- ner, Seward, Chase or Wilson should be hanged of punished for treasonable ut- nces. And how was it during the 1t is a matter of history that free specch was tolerated all through the north during the most trying time in the history of the nation, and that the great “‘safeguurds of the republic” were never allowed to be repressed by any fear of treasonable speech. Copperheads were allowed to hiss their sympathies with treason into the cars of loyal men everywhere, and the only interference with free speech was by ‘mobs, aud not by the poli Who does not remember Brick Pomeroy’s in- famous and t onable sheet—the La- Crosse Democral? That paper was more dangevous to publie safety thun anarchist harrangues, yet mor one hundred thousand copi it were cireulated through the mails cach week without interference, at a time when the laws of v would have just 1 its suppression, Clement S. Vallandigham was about the only man who was tuken to task for stirring up rebellion at home, and he was not hung ated but simply transfe border into the confede: satisfactory, and it is interesting and instructive to note the causes cited in explanation of this. The New York Sun recently investi- gated the history of co-ope ive en- terprises in sixteen representat cities east of the Mississippi, with the result of finding that the failures largely outnumbered the suecesses, and that of the latter only a very few were worthy of compavison with similar in- dustries carried on by individual capital and energy. The failure of most of these undertakings is ascribed to lack of business skill and judgment, conten- tions among managers and inability to compete with the regular trad The general history is that solong asa co- operative enterprise, for which there was a fair field, was conducted on strict business principles it prospered, but when these ceased to be observed in its management it failed or went into pr vate hands, Many now large and pros- perous enterprises had their beginuing as u co-operative experiment, having been rescued from disaster by being changed into private or joint-stock concerns doing business after the or- dinary methods, There have been, how= ever, some notable successes which are convincing examples of what can be accomplished when co-operation is sturted on correct business principles and these arve adhered to. There are several very successful enterprises in New York; the co-operative shopsof the plumbers and coopers at Milwaukee have been in operation for nearly two gears with entirely satisfactory results; the co-operative furniture manufactory Dr. Newman and other extremists not seem to realize that f press and froe specch are the safeguards of our re- public. Like Samson who pulled away at Tudianapolis, star! ago, has been a marked s operative broom factody at New Orleans has o suceessful that it is now doing mo business thun any of its been competitors; there are several successful - cosoparntjve shoe fac- tories in Masshehusetts, and o few other examfples exist clse- where. In all cased where co-operation has been suceessful its effect upon the labor market in e locality had been benelicial. In the system of co-opera- tive stores, also, the failures outnumber the successes, but te history of sever associations demondtrates that the sys- tem can be made successful and highly beneficial when conducted Dbusiness principles. Those interested in the cause of co- operation must learn from the ascer- tained cavses of failure what is neces- sary to be done to achieve success. There does not appear to be any sound reason why the intelligent working clusses of America should be le hle than those of England and Germany to conform to business principles and re- quirements, and in both thesc coun- tries co-operation has been greatly successful, In England almost every town has its co-operati ation, and in some of the larger cities these associations have umulated great wealth and have proved to be a great power for ameliorating the condition of the working classes. Gern ofticial statistics show that at the close of 1886 there were in e co-opera- tive societies against 4,170 in 1885 growth that indieates the success of these associntions. Co-operation, both in the production and iu the distribu- tion of commodities, contains the prom- ise of greater advantages and benefits to the worl of the United States the other principle or sy tem with which they can concern them- ss. It is advoeated by the most in- nt and carnest friends of labor as the most certain and effective means of securing to the wage earners on correct ive associ ng classes greate dependence and a better re- turn for thei That co-operation Lias not been more successful in the d States is due tono fault in the principle, and the causes of failuve are remediable. The subjeet is one which v intelligent workingman should make himself familiar with, and which every association of workingmen should frequently discus: evi A Big Thing on Ice. When Mre. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska and authorized Rus- sin to draw on the, United States for 7,200,000, it was thought by many of the statesmen who opposed the purchase, that we had Iaid in too much stationary iceberg and totem poles. - But, in these stirving times when desivable corner lots. within two blocks of a cabl searched for and purch placer mine prices, we ap onee appre- cinte the magnitude of the Al n quisition. And now comes Herbert C. Jones, who cluims 1o +beja lawyer and genius, and submits @/ proposition to the Pacific const Steamship company where- in he offers for the mere “nominal sum of $50,000,000 to buildia railroad from Portland, Oregon, to Junecau, Alaska. His plan is to popularize the project hy selling five million shares at ten dol- lars each. In faet, the projector is not are a particular man, and would mnot object to ice-watering the stock to double that amount. 1t simply dazes the incellect to dwell upon the possible results of this great enterprise. At five per cent the inte est on the investment would be only two million live hundred thousand dollars per The fact that it would be necessary to run a freight train: once or twice a month to supply the citizens of Juneau and surrounding country with their wet groceries and bring back ic bergs, chunks of gold and Alaska d monds, at once justifies the investment. Then for th months in the year there would be excursions, carrying perhaps from cight to ten tourists per d ninety per cent of which num- ber would probably be heads. This assures handsome dends to the five million stockholder Within a few years a Siberian branch could connect Juneau with Turope. Bridge Behring straits, or, for that mat- ter, Mr. Jones could dig a tunnel while he is capitalizing his company. Thence on 1o Asia, India,and intospace! George Francis in could give one psycho twist and build the road within twelve months, providing Jones would join and organize an Alaska Credit-Mobiler. In that event congress will hherally endow the road with an aurora-borealis subsidy. Among the incidental advantages it might be suggested that the ruddy Esquamaux maiden could leave her far north-land home Saturday morning, do her shopping in Portland, O Satur- day night. and be back in time to ac- company her beau, who grows fat on tal- low candles and walrus oil, to church Sunday evening. This new communication with the suburbs of the north pole would also give the ticket sealper o chance to adv his Alaska iceberg compound cupon tickets for Fourth of July excursions at reauced rates. But over and above all these petty considerations and inci- dental advantages to be derived from the outlay of the few willion dollars in executing the brilliant but by no means aboriginal scheme conceived by Mr. Jones whose salary should be iscrcased to nine dollars a is the assurance that the price of ice in San Francisco would go down twenty dégrees below Cicero. As to Jones, hie will not only be im- mortalized in America, but the ezar of all the Russias will confer upon him a patent of nobility and change his name from plain Herbert Jones to Ivan Jonesokobilowitch rtise : result of the the inter-state commerce mission, which relates to the arvange- ment existing between the Standard oil company and the leading southe railroads, will be rded with g and general interest. The ingui made on the complaint of a refiner petroleum at Marietta, Ohio, who is one of the fow whom the Standard has not been able to drive out of the business, Hijs trade over an extensive portion of the southwest hus, bowever, beeu al- hearing in progress com- pe——— ‘Mr. Bic TRERET Py most destroyed by the competition of the great corporation, which by reason of its contracts with the railroads is enabled to greatly undersell the Mari- 1 refiner. He therefore appeals to the commission for relief, stating that unless he ean have equivalent rates he must, like others before him, give up the struggle, The investigation has now bheen in progress a week, and some of the developments have been of a very interesting nature, all fully justifying the complaint. On the evidence pr sented it is not easy to see how the com- mission can fail to decide that a most unjust discrimination in favor of the Standard has been practiced, and that the roads guilty of thiscourse are amen- able under the law. It is intended to bring the officers of the Standard bhefore the commission if these gentlemen can be found, in which case the country may et a great deal of interesting mforma- tion regarding the methods of the great monopoly of which it now has no ac rate knowlec It is the most case the commission has had, outeome will be a matter of ve importance. —_— Presin MAKING in France is a very different matter from what it is in the United States. Therethe president is not eleeted by the people, but by the senators and deputies constituting the chambers, and the whole business may be consummated in a few hours, as was the case when Grevy succceded MeMahon. There is no campaigning, and the opportunities for wire-pulling are very limited, Thus when MeMahon had determined to vesign, his purpose was announced to the chambers at one o'clock in the afternoon of Januavy 50th, 1870, At once, upon completing the reading of the letter, the president of the chamber. then M. Grevy, pro- ceeded to read th rticlesof the consti- tution which required in cnse of vacancy in the presidential office, senate and deput m - notable nd the that the v s shall immediate in convention and clect a sucee sor. That wa of the same after- noon, and the convening of the assem- bly was announced for 4:80, At that hour the senators and deputies met, and M. Grevy was by a very large majority clected the new president, The entre time from the aunouncement of the res- ignation of one president to the election of another was not more than five hours, The letter of President Grevy, announe- ing his resignation. was sent to the unber last night, and the same ourse that was gone through when he wis clected will ued, though very likely 1o will be oceupied in choos CSS0L THE most earnest spublicans in Cuming county take agreat deal of comfort in the retirement of Judge Crawford from the beneh. This non- partisan juggler heaten by over 500 majority in spite of the despe y efforts made by “steaight republ of the Valentine stripe. They t the entive county republican ticket off for Crawford, and the stalwart ex-congressmen himself displayed two roosters in his window jubilating over the democratic victory. The doleful news of Crawford’s defeat has, however, cast a deep gloom in the camp of the self-styled pights,” while Crawford, like Jeremiah of old, goes wbout mournfully in sack cloth and ashes, IT took several years of hard fighting to rid 1 ity of shystering and thiev- ing justices of the peace, Butthe roust- abouts that had the new charter mutilated last winter revived the old nuisunce and Omaha is to-day again cursed with a brood of justices who will prey upon the community like grass- hoppers on a green corn patch. One of these mock turtle law expounders has just been caught in an unmitigated piece of raseality in collusion with the notor- ious Van Ette It behooves the county commissioners to demand his resigna- tion or have him removed to Lincolu. POLITICS AND POLITICIANS, The Falls City Journal quotes Tom Majors to prove a political point. The evidence is us far-fetched as Donnelly's ciphe It is understood that Colonel Colby is now managing a hfe insurance cempany, Having adjusted the loss on his political death, the colonel feels much at home in his new po- sition. Appleget's majority over Thomas in the First district was 2,0%, while Broady's ma- jority over Stull was The First is a dist, And it might be said that hird and Seventh are not slow, ve fined for contempt of court express intention of going to jail. We are pained to state that noue of the members of Omaha's city council have any such inten- tious, The Plattsmouth Journal wants Mr. Boyd 1 as 4 member of the democratic na- nittee, Ise have his son-in-law, let go his United States mar- shalship. Mr. Boyd will not follow that ad- vice. Neither will Mr. Bierbower. They both know and appreciate a good thing when they see it. to tional con bo! paper says Watson Picl hin, t door-keeper of the United he fair Watson is a graduate of the Lincoln oil rooms, and undoubtedly understands his business, When Paddock became senator thirteen years ago Le recom mended Captain Ashiby for scrgeant-at-arms of the senate. He did not make the rifile, luckily. We have not heard whether Mr. Paddock will recommend the captain for sce- y of the senate this time, or only have Lim appointed minister to the Isle of Man, POLITICAL POINTS. States In Cincinnati the prohibition vote was only about one-third as great as in 1555, The Philadelphia Inquirer (rep.) thinks the republican defeat in Virginia is a victory in disguise. 1t would seem that the result of the Mary- land el ion has saved Higgins, if he was ever in danger, General Bragg, of Wisconsin, has forgotten all his grievances and publicly indorses Cleve- land for a second term. “Why wouldn't Gresham make a good republican t St. Louis Globe-Democrat. When the will of the people controls the muscles of the people, the will cannot be sup- pressed at the polls nor counted out by the trickster. The Cieveland Plaindealer (dem.) thinks there will be no dificulty in re cting Mr, Clevelapd “if the democrats in congress will do what they should do.” A large number of stateswen who have vo and Hawley ' inquires the 1887—-SIXTEEN PAGES, : N e s - eat for the plaints af their indignant neigh- bors, are vastly exercised over the political situation in France. Itisthe true policy all round to have an open fight on the principle of protection, and let the best side win Should the next can vass be confined mainly to the civilseryice issue and the tariff, without rescrvation or dodging on either Y it would do much to lift the controversy of away from see tional lines and make it more national than it has been for fifty years, National conventions have outgrown the habit of looking to members of congress for presidential “tips. But the public will watch with no little interest the indications as to the probable disposition of the treasury surplus. That huge pile of idle money in the treasury of the United & s, wrung from the people by unnecessary and indefensible taxation, is the central fact confronting the statesmanship of the period. Several half breed sheets, including the Chicago mugwump organ, says the Chicago Tribune, are much concer over an alleged anti-Blaine scheme to hold the republican na- tional convention in New York where *local influence™ is expeeted to tell heavily against the man from Maine. The mugwumps and independents should not permit - themselves to become unduly excited or anxious o this or any other alleged plot agaiust Blaine. -~ 1888 Omaha Coming to the Front. Springfield Monitor, Omaha ing to the front as one of the leading stock markets of the country., R i Must Make Other Arrangements. Chicago Tribune, The time is coming when the United States must enlarge its navy or pare down its Mon- roe doctrine. ey . Off 1ts Balance, Phitadelphia Call. Who is that man? That is ¢ orge Francis Train. He's all right The rest of the world is a little off, ver, pus Thing to Do. cago Tribune, Tt is a dangerous thing to step on take chil Blain of a red-headed mun in w erowded street car just previous to a change in the weuther, e 5 Just the Thing. Pittshurg Dispoteh. How would this suit the abbreviators? “Senators and gentlemen. Having read the newspapers, you know what the country needs. Go to work.— G, €. Might Have Included Omaha, San Francisco Avgonaut, It requires more real talent to prevent one's e f from being run over and run down in New York or Chicago than it does to edit a weckly paper in California or serve in the state | ture. R Sparks' Mistake, Kansas City Journal, The resignation of A Offee Commis- sioner Sparks is an event that we have not uthe end of yet. The trouble with Sparks was simply that he took democratic prof sions of reform to mean something. Mosen (L. 7 Judge Buck at Murray, the other day, or- dered u jury to be fed on bread, meat and water until they could decide on their ver diet. The foreman sent in word that the bread and meat were correct, but the water, the jury thought, was an unwarranted pun- ishment. Mi Would They Not Destroy the Bombs? just been taken up in the Standard oftice for the purpose of buying some bombs to throw at the eolored school girls who play baseball opposite the main entrance of our studio. Some of their sercams would go through a four-ineh plank and then tear a fellow’s ear-drum, - & Life Leaves. The day, with its sandals dipped in dew, ssed through the evenmg's golden to And :\angll star in the cloud biue For the rising moon in silence waits, ‘While the wind that sigh to th nguid hours A lullaby breathe o'er the faded flowers, “The lilies nod to the sound of the stream That winds along with u sullen flow, And, either awake or half in a dream, s of long ago, s peer with many a smile From the bowers of Memory's magical isle, There are joys und sunshine, sorrows and [t i 'k the path of life’s April h And a longing wish the coming y That hope ever athes with its flowers, There are friendships guileless, love as bright And pure as the stars in the halls of night. Taire Thereare other memories—bitter | And buried hopes and a broken vow, And an aching heart by the restiess main, And the sea brecze fanning a pallid brow, And a wanderer ou the shell-lined sho Listening for voices that speals no more. There are passions strong and ambitions 1. w And a fierce » to stand in the van Of the battle and the heartof the child Is crushed in the breast of the struggling . But short the regrets and few the tears That fallon the tomb of the vanquished yeurs. There's a quict and peace and domestic love, And joys arising from faith and truth, And a love unquestioning —far above onate dreamings of ardent youth. of ehildren on lip and cheelt, parcnt’s bliss which no tongue can There are loved ones lost! There are little Tn the distant dell, ‘neath_protecting trees, Where the streamlet winds and the violet waves, And the grasses sway o thesighing breeze, And we mourn for th swure of tender lips And the light of eyes darkened in Deatl's eclipse. And thus as the glow of the daylizht dies, And the night's first look to the day is cast, I gaze ‘neath those heauti'ul summer skics At the pictures that hang on the wall of the away. At a recent public school entertainment in Omaha, a question of considerable import icuns. “Resolved, that Thanksgiving is a better day for a boy than the Fourth of July,” was the vexed question deftly handled by those who may be regarded as experts in determining tis the best thing for the averag e ure several standpoints from which ally material question may be viewed, one of which itassumncs a8 perplexcd ing it with parental cye the topic is eved of any of its perplexitics, s zood old days when a *chip of the was subservient to the parent tree, and cigaretto smoking @ velic of the dark ages, paterfamilias was conceded to be the bost judge of what was good and what inju- rious to the young hopeful. Admitting, for the sake of arguiicnt, that the sume autho ity vests in the pucent of to-day, it will tainty m 1o determine be- tween a ) by @ physician and one remedicd by a surgeon. It is perhaps the expericnce of ev mother that the one educes the same loving sympathy as the other. The mangled fluger requives the swine watchiul care ud atlen- tion overloaded stomach, QOWhen the mat of coat s not matefiat, Interested parties would perhaps ask. for ¢ ecasier probl but in view of the ony with which a Thanksgiving ailment can be treated in every well regulated house- | Bold the latter would pechaps win the day. From & boy's standpoint, the question is open to discusston, Tt cannot bo dismissed with the indifforent remark Ty one to his own taste.” On the authority of one who was i boy himself, for as many years ns was consistent, the assertion is made that all boys glory in the same taste. An unwritten law in the code of boydom, one old as that of the Medes, requires the “cutting” of any boy who attempts to vary in the taste from the orthodox prefer- ence. All boys sec alike. When one varies from this rule be coases to be a boy and the Listorian can wash his hands of the respousi- bility of his entire future, George Wash- ington alone hus been accorded the distin- guished honor of retaining for his boyhood the respect of boys, after having committed an unboyish act. Individually regarding all questions alike which affect their interest there is little doubt that the boy himself is seriously put out in solving this question. The Fourth of July offers many opportuni- ties for display, a pasttime fully appre- ciated by the average boy. Excellent chances for noisy demonstra-tions are not few, and in accordance with a time-honored custom the day is celebrated in v pleasing o the juvenile, hand rnor's Sunday? STkes & long and “oft felt want with the young man. The only inducement ever sue cessful in drawing him away from a nois, demonstration hins been the prospect of o good dinner, yet just as often has he left o partially finished feast to join the din and fray of noisy companions. Taking it all in all the question is a hard nut for the boys to crack. Whatever preference the parent may have and whatever doubts the literati may enter- toin upon this subject, the world is in debt to the young gentleman who negatived the ques tion for u thought which undoubtedly setties the discussion us farasthe boy is concerned. According to this young man who is destined to muke his mark in the world, the Thanks giving boy revels in his unholy appetite, and leaves the fray with the ailment of a4 home guard. “What could be more undiguificd,” asks ke, “than the ap pearance of w boy among his fellows doubled up with uches and pains in the region of his suspender buttons ! How different from him isthe Fourth of July kid, who meets Lis trials as a soldier, and is horne to his home to receive the sympathy of his parents and the envy of his companions.” This is a stunner. The argument clusive, —~ - THE OMAHA FOOTPAD, he conclusive proof of Oma is the presence of fne footpad of nocturnal habits und free lunch is never there s tosteal. He is tho reaking out’ v politic that shows afffuence and high living, Assoon us respect able people in Chicago and New York to disguise as boodlers and do whol thievery, the footpad saw the cnormity of villainy would befoul all kinds of robbing, and he came west. As long as those cities played the legitimate, they were the puradiso of sandbagger From the shudows of is con- slumbering policemen they leaped upon the and Stipped” wait and tipsy aldermen gobbled fortunes ina night, There 1of a bock beer bravery in leaping upon corsetted dude from the cavernous dark- 1t took sand, a bag of it, to tackle the yed night editor and the belat -ause of dangerous resist: risk th ness, ministor, ce, but the anything. Compare ion with 1 f the sdler leaping into the overflow of city treasury in browd duylight and olindfolding the guardi public trust with greenbacks, The footpad came to Omaha becanse here the policemen are not paid to do their duty. Kuowing the loose way ceven paid police duty was doue, he felt safe in the Omaba plan. There may be glory enough in the glitter of brass buttons and the underside of racket to keep a policeman constantly on top; might possibly lure him to stand the j kick of the north wind the peril- ous sidewalks of the city without pay. But the undersig s not hetting that w: The footpud is not putting up-—hands on that the- ory. After night, people on the street are not as courteous as of old. When two men meet in the shadow of a building, they glare at each other, their canes rise like the belligerent tails of two canines, and they pass with a suspicious silence that is wore ominous than a growl, g The other night Smith and Jones met in one of tho t pgaps of gloom. Smith nervously « his cune a little. Jones saw the rising glimmer of the paste diamond ring and lifted his cane in readiness, Smith saw him oue better. Jones dittoed, their eyos glared, cont-tails swelled, their scended simultancously and they lother like u beating be- fore they discoy members of the same chureh Aside from the sidewalks ther of the footpad ot b awful such us of suloon 185 1 th wgerous character of the is nothing to mar the fel © the impecunious charac- pad goes through ter of the vietims, Th anight's “holdups™ and gets less (i possi- ble) than the steward at the church ecollee- Indeed, a pad, wiser or lazier than his pals, let one of the city churches collect it by day aud he stole the contribution box at night. Onee in a gr up that he wil of our st while n pad will get so hard dure the discomforts for the sake of rob- en ¢ Ding the cash box at the end of the ride, But the other night a pad took the Cuming street car and was o worn out standing up, and erippled by being stepped on, when he went for the cash box the driver knocked him over with @ cud of tobaceo found on the floor of the car, and delivered him to the police, 1t is nay true that the strect car compal docked the driver's wages for fooling aw; on th he footpad i of the reported robberics are not chargeable to the footpad. ‘The vietims have held up their “hands” before starting howme and staked too much a bob-tail flush. The husband leaves his wife to corrval the children and put a new plank in the platform of his pantaloons. He has important diplo- matic bu ss down town. He digresses into painting the town an anarchistic red. Havounds upunder the nom de plume of the 1 seat Wild Color Mixer from Kalamazoo, At? a. m. the policeman fishes him out of the gut ter. He has been sandby and left un- conscious—in the papers, Frequently he has only heen slugged in the neck with § heer bottle held with malice aforcthougit in his own hand. Many persons with catarrhal breath have whisperingly udked me what to do when dered up by a footpad. [ do not claim great familiavity with the busing advice is: If you are an average Omalia citizen with every cent safely locked up in real cstate, throw up your ds, Dow't worry about the ° etiquette - of th sion. The footpad will show how to hold your hands up. The only troubla will be holdiug yourself up; but the footpad Kindly helps the bmgging at the knees and collapse of the vertebra and relieves you of all embarrassment and your valuables. Lu B. Cakss 100 but my you the stubborn manifestations of aa* R