Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 30, 1888, Page 4

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FEIL, Notary Publ THROW the tax-eating barnacles and leeches overboard and there will be money enough saved to retain the pres- ent fire department force. — ‘WE are not in favor of reducing the force of the fire department if the pres- ent efficiency can be retained without the violation of charter restrictions. ‘We are not, however, frightened by the threats of the underwriters and insu- rance agents. ¢ bluster too much. T. D. SULLIVAN, M. P., who shared the prison cells of Tullamore jail with Mr. O'Brien, will be released by Salis- bury’s government this weel. Unlike his brother patriot, Mr. Sullivan is said to be in excellent health. During his confinement he has written a book of poems which will be published under ‘the title, “‘Lays of Tullamore.” ———— ‘WE have been talking northern Ne- braska railroad for more than three years. But it has been all talk. Itis high time that something tangible bo presented. A project that comes with the proper backing and presents safeguirds which will guarantee the building of a line through northern Nebraska and into southern Dakota, with Omaha as its terminus, will receive substantial ens couragement from the county. ——e——— THE crown prince of Germany cele- brated the thirtieth anniversary of his marriage last week. The affair would have been celebrated with the usual great eclat but for the simster rumors that increase in medical circles and dampen the odor of the loynl German heart. Prof. Virchow is authority for saying that the disease of the prince’s throat is probably not cancer, but perichondritis, which s justas fatal, only slower. e—— THE farmers of the west, in justifying their demand for rei.ef from the burden fmputed by the war tariff, have a much ‘better showing to make of what they have done for the prosperity of the country than have the protected indus- tries. Since 1873 the western farmers have exported to the markets of the world so much food product that the balance of trade in our favor has ex- ceeded $1,650,000,000. They have thus g M debts, drawn gold to this country from Kurope, kept our own product of precious metals at home, and enriched everybody except themselves. They are clearly entitled to have their condition and wants fairly considered THE democratic breach in Louisiana has induced a hope among republicans “ that the state may be carried against the democracy this year. The reassur- ing fact in the situation is that Gover- nor McEnery, against whom there has been & successful revolt, has declared _ that there shall be a fair election, and as the whole election machinery is ab- aposition to carry out his pledge. The promise implies a confession that hitherto elec- tions have not been fair, and thus adds to the binding force of the pledge. It 18 believed that if the governor adheres to his proclaimed purpose the chances of republican success will be very good, but powerful influences will be brought to bear, pro- _ceeding from sources outside of Louisi- ana, to induce him toallow the old methods to prevail. Republicans will be wise not to waste any confidence on the chance of carrying a southern state this year. THE mayor has orddred Mr. Baker, the superintendent of the city hall building, to quit. This, of course, was not intended as an order that Baker should quit work,as he has had no work to do for more than two months, but that he should quit drawing pay. Baker is both indignant and perplexed. He declares he has been meditating seriously whether he should throw up the job, as there is too much bickering in the council and too much grumbling out of the council. But now he feels like bucking the mayor and insisting on hisrights. Bakor believes he ought to draw 8166 & month anyhow, whether Brennan goes on with the building or - hof. Mr. Bakerhad botter restralu his temper. He has already drawn over #250 out of the city treasury to which he was not entitled, and if he persists in creating & rumpus, he or his bonds- men may be compelled to refund every dollar for the time he was not actually engaged in superintending work on the oity hail building. Mail Sereice in the West. . The unsatisfactory state of the mail service in the west has been brought to the attention of congress by a resolution calling opon the postmaster geuneral for information-as to the cavse of the host of complaints which come from the sec- tion west of the Missouri river. It is high time that congress shouldsbe thor- oughly informed as torthe grossly inad- equate postal faciiities for handling the immense volume of correspondence which is pouring into this section of the country. Several thousamd miles of raiirosd, which have been built during the past year, are yet without railway mail service, and flourishipg towns and villages located along their lines are still served by the old jerkys and broken down stage coaches, which carry the mails from towns often twenty and thirty miles distant. Cities which, within a few years, have grown from straggling Ilages into centers of large population are to-day forced to struggle with tons of mail matter, handled and distributed by the same force of clerks which several years ago, were unable to properly dispose of the busi- ness of the postofiice. Large metropoli like Omaha, Kansas City and Denver are hampered in their business commu- nicutions and seriously embarrassed and inconvenienced by the grossly inade- quate force of clerks which the depart- ment allows in their postoffices. Tous and tons of mail matter, carried in small cars, are hurried past the places of their destination ‘and carried back again after great delay because the ap- propriations for the railway mail serv- ice are not sufficient to supply the requi- site number of postal clerks. Cities which do. millions of dollars of whole- sale and retail trade cvery year, and the gross receipts of whose offices are from five to six times the amount of their expenses, are compelled to remain satisfied with quarters searcely laige enough for towns of ten thousand inhab- itants, or with rookeries which would ce a first-cluss New England vil- Inspite of all these facts we hear continually statcments from the demo- cratic officials of the strong efforts which will be made to make the postoftice de- partment sclf-sustaining, and to bring the various branches to a paying busis. Such an attempt is absurd on its face. It will not and should not receive the sup- port of any western semator or repre- sontative, While the east, which has been Javishly provided with baildings and postal facilities, finds little ground for complaint with the condition of the postal service, so far #®it affects their localities, the west, with its growing population, its rapidly extended lines of rail communication and its phe- nomenal increase in the number of ts towns and villages every year, is in no position to swing into line and to call for retrenchment. The first business of the department should be to offer ample facilities for the tramsaction of the correspondence of the people of the TUnited States. Promptuess, accuracy and dispatch in the handling of the mails are the first re- quisites. Proper facilities for the trans- action of business is the first considera- tion. When this has been given to the people of the west in as full adegree as it is now to the east, there will be time cnough to discuss the placing of the postoffice department upon u self- sustaining basis. Until that time comes every western representative should see to it that the appropriations asked for the maintenance and extension of the postal service throughout the country should be broad-gauged and liberal. The wisest economy is the one which Tlooks to the future as well as to the present, and which, while some- times, perhaps, allowing the barrel to leak at the spigot, prevents it from emptying itself at the bunghole. A Duty That Gives No Protection. Does the duty on wheat and corn, im- ported into the United States, benefit or in other words protect the American farmer, as c¢laimed by certain high tariff advocates? No, and for the following reasons: The value, or selling price here, of all our great agricultural productions, wheat and corn included, is fixed by the sell- ing price in Europe, where the excess produced beyond our home consump- tion finds a market in competition with the excess productions of the same com- modity from all nations, the value here being the selling price in such foreign market less the freight, commissions, insurance, and with some incide profit to the middle men. The e s productions from Canada, for illustra- tion, must seek the samo market, and be subjected to like charges, in reach- ing such market. At this season of the year, when ship- ments to the seaboard must be wholly by rail, the Manitoba wheat growers may find it cheaper to ship through the United States, pay- ing the duty as a part of the cost of shipment, than to pay the exorbitant charges of the Cunadian Pacific railroad; the value of the grain on reaching our side of the boundary line still depending on its value in the English market, and this regardless of whether it is shipped on directly to_England or consumed in the United Statos. If, however, we did not raise the amount of grain we con- sumed in this country, and were com- pelled to import the deficit from Canada and India, then, to the extent that our farmers could supply a part of the home demand, such part would be enhanced in value to the extent of the duty and the cost of obtaining the deficit from foreign countries. If Canada could supply but a partof this deficit, the Canadian farmer being near the market would get better prices for his surplus than the producer in India, who sup- plies the balance. This was clearly shown years ago when England imposed a duty on imported grain--the corn laws, The English farmer did not raise all the grain required for home consumption, As the deficit had to be bought and shipped in, a& now, from foreign producers, All that the English farmer did produce was enhanced in value to equal the cost of the imported deficiency plus the duty imposed by the corn laws. corn laws, to favor home producers, rents and values of Euglish farm lands went up enormously, and ultimately the land owner, rather than the English farmer, secured all the advantages. Since the repeal of the English corn laws, and the great improvement in the facilitics for transporting grain from the United States, India and other sur- plus producing countries, the value, in- trinsic and rental, of English and Irish farm lands has steadily depreciated. In view of the production of grain in the United States being in excess of the home consumption, and that the value of all produced is necessarily fixed by the price at which the excess can be sold, Manitoba shipments of wheat to this country cannot raise or lower the price, and consequently the duty paid on such imported grain must be paid by the Manitoba producer, who has been denied the right to ship in *‘bond," and this. duty, like his wagon and rail- road freights, is part of the cost of get- ting his grain to market. ——— Nebraska's Frontier Posts. Bills have been introduced by Senator Manderson and Representative Dorsey for additional appropriations for the completion of Nebraska's two frontier posts. The sums asked for arve in re- sponse to urgent requests of the war de- partment, through General Sheridan, that enough money be granted to com- plete the work on Forts Robinson and Niobrara. Ench of these posts are important sentinels on the line of the Sioux reservation, and their presence during the past ten years has added as - much as anything else in stimulating, emigration to that rapidly growing sec- tion of our state. Through the efforts of our senators and representatives each of these garrisous is now in o fair way to hecome in the near future among the most important posts upon the frontier. Strong and durable buildings have been erected and the present appropriation asked for is to complete and enlarge these, The BEE two y '8 820, in response to petitions from the settlers on the White. river and Niobrava region, urged” ve strongly the necessity of the mainte nance and upbuilding of our frontier garrisons. The result has proved the wisdom of the policy recommended. Each of the posts is now in the center of a rapidly growing country, which is peopling with thrifty farmers, and cach of the posts in its turn through the large sums of money expended in main- taining officers, men and animals has done much toward upbuilding the country which it has protected. With 28,000 hostile Sioux bordering on our northern frontier, the constant dread of Indian incursious without these would have most certainly prevented the desired settlement. The money ex- pended in building and improving Forts Niobrara and Robinson has been returned to the government and to the state a hundredfold 1n the amount of land purchased und occupied and in the prosperous upbuilding and settlement of the country over which they stand seunt- inel. There is no reason to doubt that with the strong assistance and influence of the war department, Senators Mund- erson and Paddock, and Mr. Dorsey and our congressional delegation, will be able to secure the sums called for. . —_—— THE republicans of the country will fiot regret to see a disposition on the part of the republicans of New York to declare their independence of the domination of Tom Platt. Whatever credit should be given this adroit poli- tician for a certain sort of useful ability in the work of party organization, it is certain that the republicans of New As a result | of this discrimination by“the English York will pay too much for this talent by permitting Platt to occupy the posi tion of a party leader in that state. Be- sides the generally recognized fact that his efforts are always dirccted to the primary object of furthering his own ambition, Mr. Platt does not represent the better element and the improv- ing sentiment of the republican par He is of that class of politicians of whom the party has had far too much for its goodin the past, and whom from now on it cannot afford to tolerate. It is especially necessary that the party in New York, even at the risk of some disaffection in the ranks, should declare its independence of Platt and y itself under a leader who can have some thought for the party unmixed with purely selfish considerations, and if having less of the peculiar ability that distinguishes Tom Platt possesses more of the character that inspires respect and confidence. —— THERE scems to be a concerted movement among the representatives of the tobacco-growing states to drive out Mr. Dodge, statistician of the agri- cultural bureau. A caucus of these representatives was held a few days ago, at which it was determined that Dodge must go, and Commissioner Colman was appealed to without suc- cess. It was then proposed to withhold the appropriation for paying a statis- tician, and finally it was decided to carry the matter to the president and ask him to appoint a man to succeed Dodge. The opposition of these repre- sentatives of the tobacco interest is due to the report of Mr. Dodge, which mag- nified the yield of tobacco and thereby caused a decline in the price. The matter caused a good deal of contro- versy at the time the report was made, and if we rgmember rightly the statement of the statistician was shown to be as nearly correct as it 1s practi- cable to get facts relating to the tobacco crop, a task always attended with great difficulties and more or less uncertainty. Mr. Dodge is strong in the fact that he occupies the very highest rank in his branch of work, which calls for peculiar qualifications and long exper ce, —— ‘WHILE Germany is busy voting huge war loans and Bismarck is hurrying to Berlin to push military measures through the reichstag, the news comes | from Paris that the head of the govern- ment is inaugurating a brilliant social season, Truly these Frenchmen have an odd way of preparing for war, Mrs. Lydia Watson, of Leicester, Mass., whose one hundred and first birthdaa has just been celebraied, is in excellent health, Her form is erect and she has a fine appetite and diges- tion., FHEI0 NS RRl CILB b A (SIS BB low, nai ' STATE JOTTINGS. The B. & M. in $159,827 in Yotk last year. t 10 Beemer people Mave substituted cobs for coal. Syt Fall City is negohuling foran electric light plant. s, This hooks of €oMax shows #51,679 un- collected back thxes, Wolves a factening on colts and calves in Furnas caunty. Rev. Goher, & prominent Methodist, died suddenly ip Ayr last week. Several spring bpoms have been par- tially thawed oyt by the chinook. Partial deafness is an infallible sign of success in the heigh business. Beatrice has already raised o purse of 22,000 to secure the fivemen’s tourna- ment. Sleighgrides and sociables divide the time and pleasures of the fashionable at Arlington. . The majority of a gang of thieves which afllicted Dakota county have beed safely jailed. Arlin‘flnu‘u greatest needs are a grist mill and a first-class hotel. Puying pa- tronage awaits both. ‘The board of trade of Columbus has been enlivened by the election of Lean- der Gerrard as president. John 1. Lyle, of Waco, dropped an arm in a corn sheller last week. The mangled remains were amputated atthe elbow. The Grand Island papers assert that the bargaiu for the establishment of a beet sugar factory there has becn rliuchett The Missouri Pacific and Hastings have embraced. The railroad hus been given one-half of a street for right of way through town. The B, & M. passenger train met with a broken switch at Red Cloud, Thurs- day. ditching two cavs. The pussengers were more scared than hurt. Grand Island has taken the beet sugar line to prosperity and greatness, and in o few years wiil be able to dis- pense molasses taffy in large doses. "he cligible girls of Hastings are pressing the leap year boom with con- sidovable vigor. “Six of them retired with mates last week—maid won in each instance. Mail service will be inaugurated Wed- nesday on the Omaha and Hastings line of the Elknorn Valley road. It will prove a great convenience to residents on the line. The Ainsworth News, one of the best papers in northwest Nebraska, hus changed hands, Messrs, Ripley & Austin having sold out to H. R. Bisbee, for- werly of the Valentine Blade. Luke Tully, an old trackman, was run down by a train at McCook last week. His right foot was crushed. It is feared he will not recover, us he wou.d not per- mit the amputation of tho injured limb. Broken Bow's retail trade last year amounted to $1, 25, banking busi- $5,075,427; " railroad veceipts § 485. These arc the figurcs which «'x\mvlod to induce the Missouri Pa to build to town. . The Union Pacifiec agent at North Bend has been notitied that no more coal will be delivered there until spring. The Fjail jntimates that the people will not freeze while a pound of coal moves over that,part of the road. Nebraska City people are devising and discussing plans'for a big celebra- tion and fruit palace next Augus 1| show the wm*l(Y wha} Otoe coun do in the fruit ine..,The scheme is an excellent one and.should be kepy warm until porfected. . R. L. Livingston'of Fort Calhoun was abroad in the blizzard on the Towa bot- toms, and while groping avound in the blinding blasts came upon a young child which had wandered from home, He restored it to its parents and enjoyed their hospitality for the night. 2 The Hasting’s Independent appeared last week, after a tremendous struggle, The incident is innocently explained in a note stating that**the editor and busi ness manager got o square meal at th Fillup house iust week, and the hotel is still ablg to feed its many guests. Land- lord Ulmer keeps a first-class house.” The Omaha Herald marvels that a citizen of state should demand a gold watch or 875 in cash ascompensation for reading the weekly for six months. The citizen has o great head. But the premium asked is next tostarvation pay er the ordeal. Six months in a solitary on bread and water is a luxury com- pared to it. The Nebraska City News follows the evil example of printing pictures of prominent citiz The first present- ment of the editor-in-chief in repose was a delightful sketeh, and will be lowed, as soon as the artist recovers from a broken shoulder, with a repre- sentation of the original in action. OMr, and Mrs. J. M. Dicus, of Pierce county, sheltored the teacher and sev- enteen children of the Stark valley school the night of the blizzard, Last week the children showed their appre- ciation by sending. them a load of pro- ions and an album with their auto- graphs attached to an account of the storm and their experience. The Nebraska City council have de- cided to refuse a gilt of a public park from the Hon. J. Sterling Morton. Mr, Morton proposed to purchase the Fulton tract of state land, tobe sold next month, at its appraised viuation and present it to the city for a public park. The wise men of the council, however, believe they can raise all the money needed to buy land for parks by simply passing the hat. They don’t want conditional dona- tions. Their hindsight is marvelous, and throws a blaze of light on the wis- dom of the legislature in establishing an asylum for incurables. Hastings is rolling in the top wave of a bridal boom, und there is frightful commotion in bachelors’ hall in conse- quence, Wednesday evening four couples pledged and promised in the following order: E. C. Allen, of Tlli- nois, and Miss Mary Cox, of Hastings; C. H. Crandall, of 'Adams county, and Miss Amanda Hay, Hastings; Chas. D. Taylor and Miss Sarah A. Saunders, hoth of the city: ' F.'S. Meclntyre, of Hastings, and Miés Hannah B. McIn- tyre, of Denver. © John Bruch, a Platts county bacheler, has a superb breach of promise case. on his hands, if he can be induced to work it. He got ‘‘the mitten” from Amelia Eckers, a fickle maiden of seventeen, after he had invested in a license. John’s honesty and loneliness shone on a magnificent bald head, but the nude display at the trying" moment shocked Amelia’s throbbing heart, and disrupted the alliance. There is no greater gan- ger to domestic peace and liberty than thrusting a bald head into embarrassing prominenca. C. E. Burke, director of a school dis- trict near Ravenna, is resting in jail in Kearney, awaiting trial in the district court for deadly assault. While re- pairing a lock on the school two weeks A0, Burke became angered at the mel- low tones of a mouth-organ, and lwi?ed the litte musician with a hammer fol- lowing it with several insertions of a pookeg knife, cutting Off an ear and severing an artery in the wrist. The sight of the bl cooled the maniac and his arrest followed. The wicked seom to flourish and fat- ten amazingly in Ord. A superfine fel- Atwell, saturated with ia- ific tense. horror of immorality, caused a raid on a seminary of wicked women on the subarbs of the town, and brought three depraved inmates into court. The law being as loose as the prisoners, the law ordered their discharge, but Atwell secured a list of their patrons— flifty-one “leading’ citizens. The ex- posure started a blizzard of wrath, and ‘s life was made as warm and di agreeable as the weather would permit. In fact, he was hunted out of town, and brutally beaten by a gang of leading as he was boarding the train. e brothers named Bradin bached med together until last Novem- ber in the Skeedee valley, Nu county. At that time death took Patrick from tke circle, leaving Peter and James to pull on together. A devision of the dead brother's property shattered the harmony of the family. The es- trangement deepened with time and led to frequent blows. Ten days ago James grabbed a gun and smote Peter, and continued to lam “him until, to all appearances, he wus dead. But Pete, though terribly bruised, was better than several dend men, and as soon as James left the house to notify the neighbors, Peto erawled to the house of a friend where he is being cared for. James is now chewing u large wad of remorse in the Columbus juh. awaiting the asgl sembling of the district court. frbdcnt ¥R Revolutionary War Widows. Chicago Tribune. There were printed in the Tribune a few days since since biographical sketches of four revolutionary war widows—good old ladies now in the eighties and nineties—who have spent very useful though humble lives, reared large families of children, and managed to live comfortably with little more than the pension earned by their dead and gone fighting husbunds. It is pos- sible that our readers perused these skotehes and admived the sturdy char- acter of these survivors, though they may bave overlooked one very impor- tant fact which goos to explain the par- adox why there are so many revolution- ary widows on the pension rolls, though nearly a century has elapsed since the close of that war. The marriage date of these venerable women, however, gives a clew to the mystery It is noticeable that there isastriking similarity in all four cases. Their first love for the revolutionary soldiers hap- pened very v Mrs. Betsy Wallingford, living in Blue Earth counfy, Minn., now ninety-two wrs of age,at the tenderage of sixteen married Jonathan Wallingford, a revo- lutionary soldier of fifty, who of course passed away long ago. IFannie Jones Chance murried isaae Fisher, then seventy-five years of age. Fanny was twice a widow, having married Mr. Chance several years ago. e Charlotte Morton at eighteen od Peter Turman, then sixty-seven years of age. The last of the quartet, Dabney, at eighteen, married J Dabney, a revolutionar, seven years. The question at once suggests itself: Were these marriages contracted to get the benefit of pensions and to secure these child-brides the certainty of a guaranty from the government which would at least piace them above absolute want through their live There are now, eve, but about a dozen of the revolutionary widows left, but time is inexorable, and in the natural order of things the vast major- ity have passed the allotted span and gone where thare are neither wars nor rumors of war. But when it comes to the survivors of the war of 1812, though there may be a little handful of the soldiers themselves, there are widows enough to last for a long time to come and enjoy the liberality of the gov ment. It be ungracious to cr cise their conduct. In these hard day for women no one can blame them for taking any advantage at an early period of their lives which will secure them against any possibility of having to de- pend upon charity., The scheme is per- }eclly legitimate, and probably if the soldiers themselves were alive to tell their experiences they would be the last to complain, As a rule, old men cannot get young wives unless they have an ample competence and a condition of health which does not indicate they will live very long to enjoy it. Under such circumstances the older the man the more favorable his opportunities, He can go-in and win where young and lusty suitors have not achance. The old soldiers, as arule, did not have much to bestow upon their young brides,but such as it was it was permanent, with every prospect that congressional patriotism would largely increase it. 'We only submit the facts as explanatory of the large number of 1812 wide - There is a side to the question, how- ever, which is somewhat appalling. There are now living more than a mil- lion of survivorsof the war of the rebel- lion. ‘Some of them are getting gray- headed. All of them will be soina very few years, and in case they happen to be unmarried in the eighties and nineties will have reached the mar- rigable age once more. If congress goes on as it is doing now, increasing existing pensions and devising new causes for pensions, by the time the survivors reach the marriageable age their government subsidy will be something very handsome—a dot worth striving after by the young girls. Twenty years from now, perhaps ear- lier, we may look for a boom in war of the rebellion marriages. That it will be nice for the old fellows themselves goes without saying. As we round over into the next centvry. however, most of them will have gone beyond the neces- sity of pensions. The widows will re- main, chipper, buxom and hopeful, look- ing out for new conquests or enjoying their monthly stipend. Posterity will wonder at the multitude of these sur- vivors of a war which took place before they were born, and who have no re- membrance of anything about it except the stories told them by their octogen- arian spouses, As we have said before, the Tribune hasno ungracious com- ments to make. It only calls the atten- tion of the veterans of Gettysburg and Vicksburg to the fate that is in store for them—a destiny which the majority of them will probably look forward to with cheerful resignatios e at seventeen mary ohn Q. soldier of fifty- Suppose Farmers Form a Trust. Chicago Trihune. ‘What 1f the farmers of the northwest should form a trust and appoint a beard of trustees to limit production, fix prices, and regulate the sale of all food products? Suppose the farmers should fall in with the prevailing rage and or- ganize a *“‘trust,” or, rather, as it would be in their case, a defensive alliance? Such action on their part would not amount to a couspiracy or savor of illegality. They have no charters, no special privileges, and if they should agree Among themselves as to how much they would produce and what they would sell it for, what law would be vio- lated. Perhaps it may be thought that, owing to their number and lack of or- ganization, the farmers could not com- bine, but the granger movement of 1872-'74 showed a remarkable capacity for concerted action by the agricultural class on short notice and with hagtily devised machinery. [If the farmers should get together in the sime spirit again and organize a food trust they would soon bring the wav-tariff pro- tected classes to their knees and make pany mouths water and stomachs nnger, Proceeding according to the ust' plans the farmers would select trustees 10 take charge of all produce and put it in the market. The trustees would then warehouse the produce, double the prices, and dole out breadstuffs, meat, and grain so as to hold up the market. Territory would then be parceled out, and the farmers ordered to lessen their product one-half next year, Then pric could be shoved up again, and, doing half their present amount of work, the farmers could get double the pay they now receive. Suppose also they should adopt u retaliatory policy and sq the manufacturing trusts harder when- ever they attempted a new levy on agriculture. Food could be’ put up to famine prices and_the urbane population atarved out, while the farmers took things easy. 1t would be necessary, however, to make one change in_ the tarift in order to carry out this scheme with success. At present there is & nominal duty on agri- cultural produce, and if the farmers should make a ‘‘combine” meats and breadstuff would flow from abroad to res lieve the artificial scarcity created by the agricultural trust. if the duties on farm produce was pushed up and equalized with the rates on manufac- tnred_articles—made to average, say, from 50 to 120 per cent—there would be no such danger. The farmers could then charge up to the level of the tariff, the same as the manufactusing trust monopolies do, without fear of outside competition. Why shouldn’t the far- mers demand such a tariff as a matter ht? Such duties have been main- d for nearly thirty years for the benefit of manufactdrers, and why should they not miow be provided for dhe furmers if they intend to piay at the trust game? Why should a farmers' trust be the only one tnprotected by law? Of course, while the farmers might gain something for themselves from a tariff-protected trust, the vest of the country would be sorely distressed. At once the balance of trade which is now made by the farmers of the northwest would turn against the United Stat gold and sil would be drained away; eredit imy , interest rates advance, banks embarrassed, and all the condi- tions of hard times supplied. By export- ing food products the farmers of the northwest have turned the bhalance of trade in our favor, brought back 1,000 millions of American securities and bonds. and caused Europe to ship here several hundred millions of gold still retained. Sending out eheap food stuffs and bringing back bonds and gold, the nortyestern farmers made specie vesumption possible in 1879, They are the bulwarks preventing the country from commereial distress. Of course an cultural trust would change all th sverse the balance of trade, and para- lyze the finances of the country, while pushing food up to starvation rates. For hese reasons it is plain thata farmers’ trust would shift the present burden of mortgages und debts and make the farm- evs lien holders on city buildings, fac- tories, workshops, ete. Plainly, if the farmers should forin a trust they could wreak a frightful revenge and compen- sate themselves for extortions suffered heretofore. Would not war-taniff trust advoeates in congress and out of it do well to think of these things? - The Salvation Army. Chicago Times. General Booth has sent out from the headquarters at London what he is pleased to called “The Advance of the Salvation Army,” but whichis in reality an appeal to the christian world for funds. It embraces an account of the dotugs of the great organization during the year 1887, It shows that different detachments of the grand army have penetrated into portions of North Amer- ica, southern Europe, and Africa, never invaded before, have. established sta- tions, and are now ready to engage in making conquests. One grand division of the army has intrenched itself at Rome, under the very shadow of the vatican. Another is in Ceylon, and a third in southern India. It does mot appear, either of these armies is quering and to conquer.” They appear to be armies of occupation. They make no vigorous attacks and no forces ap- pear to be desirous of attacking them or in any way opposing them. The soldier of the Salvation army, wherever stationed. seem to be engaged in mak- ing dress parades, carrying cheap ban- ners, and marching to the strains of the very poor music, A display of the Sal- vation army attracts about the same kind of atfention thatthe street pro- cession of a small circus does. People are drawn together by noise and ban- ners, and remain staring at the novel show till it passes by. The children think the whole thing is designed for their amusement, and the adults regard the matter as childish and unworthy of their attertion. The great commander represents the army as large and on an excellent war footing. 1t certainly resembles that of the United States in having a super- abundance of officers, Most of the vol- toers appear to be desirous of having commissions and supporting titles. We learn from the report that no less than 476 new army corps were organized and put in the field last year, and that com- missions w granted 1,492 new officer Apparently there are as many lieuten- ants in a company of the Salvation army as there ave vice presidents of a meet- ing to raise funds to free old Ireland, The army has a full supply of officers of every rank, of banners and musicians, but this is a little short of private sol- diers and very short of money. A strong appeal is made for means to_sup- port many armies that are now ready to conquer the world. There seems to be good reasons for believing that the army seen its most prosperous days. It attracts little attention in Great Britain now, and in France it is vidiculed by the press. Its music is not appreciated in Germgany and Italy, The barracks erected at considerable expense on Chicago ave- nue, in this city, are deserted and ad- vertised for sale. Papers in no part of the country have much tosay of the progress of the arn however, that going on ‘*‘con- ———— Wise Men Change, Siowr City Journal. That Governor Larrabee fourteen years ago was opposed to the Granger law for the regulation of the tariff rates of the railroads of the state, or that ten years ago he was still oppos to that legislation and in favor of its repeal, does not eonstitute an answer to the governor's argument, iy behalf of more legal authority over the business of the corporations now. The governor as a member of the state senate did what he thought right at the time, and there ‘was no more reason then to say the self- ish interests of the. corporations con- trolled hisaction than’ there is to say that other selfish interests control his action now. Men of either party who associated with governor Larral in the state senate uniformly conceded his honesty of purpose, his independence and his courage. his action then, and 10 connection with that Granger islation was ‘more agreeable to the corporations of the state than is his ac- tion now, it does not follow that he was otherwise actuated then than now. He wanted to do then what was for the best. interests of the people of the state and he wants to do now what is for the best interests of the people of the state, and what at the same time and necessavily, will alsobe just to the corporations. The Journal does not see that any inconsis- tency is involved. But this question of consistonoy is purely perional. Out of it cannot bo woven an answer to the governor's ar- gument in behalf of the people. What- ever talk is indulged upon that point is a diversion, and that there should be so much of itindicates more of a disposition 19 cloud the issue and thus coverupa poverty of argument in theserious work of staying an execution of the popular demand for the amenability of railway management to just and operative law. This is the material point upon which popular interest centers, and whatever effective answer is made to it the gover- normust deal with this point. Governor Larrabee is not the issue. He has been its voice. While it isnot difficult to criticise some of the governor’s sugga2s- , tions, and therefore not hard to opposo him by indirection, every candid man is aware of the fact that only two gen- eral tendencies exist: the one in behalf f the rights of the pooplo, anti-monop- and the other in behalf of the combination oppressions of the corpora- tions, monopoly. It is too late to con- fuse the public thought or to divert the public purpose. The lines are too dis- tinctly drawn. PR — The Modern Russian Army. Fortnightly Review: There are, ine deed, points in which Russin must bo imitated by all who move, for the Rus- sian is now the most modern of all mod- ern armies. We may regret as much as we please the loss of brilliancy, and even the loss of smartness, but the absence of buttons from the new Russian uni- form means that due attention has been given to the relieving of the men from the necessity of wasting their timoe upon cleaning uniforms to the easy tailoring of their uniforms by the men in time of war, and to the exclusion from soldiers’ dress, and especially from the dress of cavalry, of everything which will cateh the light and attract attention at a distance. This latter son, with the similar necessity for, preventing noise, is also the on for the Russian substitution of leather for metal scabbards. Whetner I am right or wrong in thinking that a cavalry of the Russian type is preferable to a cav- alry of the Ameaican type for general warfare, there can, I think, be no doubt that for the defense of TLondon a very sim- ple cavalry force, intended to act other- wise than by churges in the field, would be most useful. To all who admire local forces there must be much attraction in our ycomanry, for it is almost the ideal of a local fo) It is unfortunate that fashion has had so much to do, in our army as in all armies, with the drill and turn-out of cavalry. Sir Frederick Roberts, who is not a man to neglect the graces of brilliant horsomanship and all that mak valry magnificent as a show, has, nevertheless, expressed the decided opinion that we want a great re- form in our.cavalry system; that tho obstacle to that reform is the present cost of cavalry, and that there is noth- ing more important to our military future than that we should set ourselves to devise ‘“‘a cheaper article” of this kind, in order that the numbers of our cavalry may be increased without a corresponding increase in expense. The Russians have devised n cheaper ay- ticle, and the result is that La Revue Militaire de I’ Etranger of October 30 is able to say: “On peut donc dire, sans exageration, vue la ¢avalerie russe est tenne constamment sur le pied do guerre,” and to estimate its numbers on mobilization at 286,000 men, with 235,000 horges. ———— Brain vs Muscle, Chicago Tribune: ‘‘Papa,”asked tho little boy, ‘‘how long did it take you to write this book?” “Nearly a year, my boy.” “Did you work very hard at it?” “Lvery page has my heart’s blood in in't that queer. T don’t seeany.” No, youdon't see 1t. Nobody else seemed w, either.” *Did you make any money out of it, papa?” “Oh, yes! drearily.) T made #250, “Is that all? Why, the paper says John L. Sullivan made ten times that much in one night by knocking a man a few times, Why didn’t you learn to be fighter, Or why dont you keep asn- loon. The saloon keeper's boy dresses better'n I do.” The learned author of the work, “The World’s On h, as Proved by Retrospective Glances and Assured by Infallible Signs,” made no reply. Ho merely emptied another coal scuttle full of the precious volumes into tho stove for fuel, went out into the raging storm and walked up and down the lonely strects for an hour, talking earnestly and volubly to himself in Sunscrit, Fesalal Dl William Clark, a veteran of the Mex« fean war, who is living at Shavon, Pa., at the age of ninety-four y knew Daniel Boon and General Farrison well in his youth, and on intimate terms of friendship with Heary Clay and Gens eral Scott. - L There will be an exhibition in Parig next year intended to illustrate all the religions of the earth, past and present. Tdols, manuscripts and all tangible syme bols of re ns will be-shown in a mu« geum building which, it is expected, will cost $200,000. A Word About Catarrh, “It s the mucous membrane, that wonderful semi-fluld envelope surronnding the delicate tise sues of the air und food passages, that Catarrh makes it stronghold. Once establizhed, it eats inta the very vityls, aud renders lifs Lut & long. drawn_ beeath of Tulsery and disease, dullin the sense of hearing, trammeling the power o , destroy “If the faculty of smell, tainting dath, and killing the refined plewu Tusidiously, ol in the head, s lining and envelo) throngh the delicate co mation, sloughing und total e adication will IR' creepi 5 and_cau 1 ath. 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