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4 THE PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Morning Edition) including Sunds; BE, One Year . or 8ix Months . ror Three Montha. .. 00000 'he Omaha Runday R, mailed to any ad- Aress, One YOAT.. ... ... . 8 QMATA OFFICR, NOS.SIAND 018 FARNAM EW YORK OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 THIN UTLDING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. FOURTEEN Al communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR OF THE BEE. RUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittances should be nddressed to TiE BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAnA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to be made payable to the order of the company, DAILY BEE,| The Bee Publishing Company. Proprictors . ROSEWATER, THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. B(&L‘ fl{ No'\l'r):l!lll, ugla GooM il Tohack, secrotary of The Ties Pub. Mshing company, does solemily swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending MK;A 11, 1888, was as follows: Baturda; ay b . Tuesday, Wednesday, 5 ay 10. ‘hursday, M Zrm-y. gny 1 AVOTABE. oo i ASGHUOR, Fworn to and subscribed fn my presence this 12t day of Muy, A. D, 1888, N.P. FEIL Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, %fl s, County of Douglas, A George B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, depores and says that lie s secretaty of The Beé Publishing company, that the actnnl average dail; on of the Daily Bee for the month 1R000 18510 circulaf v, 1887, 14,083 copls 1st, 1147, 14,151 coples; for September, 1887, 14,349 coples: for October, 187, 14,533 coples; for November, 1887, 15,22 copies; for December, 1887, 15,041 copiéa; for Junuary, 1688, 10306 cop- jea:' for Februnry, 1888, 15,02 coplesr. for March, 1883, 19,040 coplea;' for ApE, 185, 8,744 coples. EQ. B CHUCK Sworn to before me and subscrived fn my presence this 2d day of .\Infi" A. D, 1888, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. CARL SCHURZ is having such an en- joyable time in the fatherland that he may extend his visit indefinitely. Per- haps Schurz wants a seat in the reichs- tag. This would open up an entirely mew tield in the history of politics. The ex-cabinet officer, schooled in the high- est arts of diplomacy, if elected to office in the German government, would be the first instance of the international statesman. 2 —p—— THE northwest territory across the line known to us as Manitoba will be famous for its boodlers as well as its cold waves in a short time. The in- stances of corruption under it former governor coming to light surpasses be- lief. From the governor down to the public printer almost every official is guilty of malfeasance in office. There was railroad peculation, defalcation of officials, corruption and jobbery that puts the record of New York as a bood- ling state far in the rear. ——— Tur appalling railroad disaster at Tountain, Col., on the line of the Santa Fe, in which a carload of dynamite ex- ploded, destroying many lives, adds an- other chapter to the horrors for which the carelessness or negligence of the company was at fault. It wasthe gross- est kind of foolhardiness for a freight train to be made up of cars containing oil tanks and dynamite. Although an accident is of rare occurrence where runaway cars containing such danger- ous combustibles should dash into a passenger train, the chances for disas- ters are multiplied a hundred fold when dynamite and oil cars are coupled to- gether. WuEN will the people of the state who toil by the sweat of their brow re- sent the insults of railroad hirelings who hissed and tried to stamp down, at the state convention, the delegates rop- resenting the people? When Judge Crounse, of Washington, a man re- spected universally for his sterling qual- ities, denounced from the floor corpora- tion interforence and corporation mo- nopoly and injustice, John M. Thurs ton’s servile followers hissed and inter- rupted the speaker. When ex-Senator Van Wyck arose, and in a ringing voice read resolutions condemning railroad interference in the politics and legisla- tion of the state, the same gang of brass- collared rowdies stamped and howled in derision. — TowaA is somewhat noted for her re- forms and reformatory measures. An- other craze is drifting, emanating from the teachérs’ association of that state, some of the papers inaugurating » spelling reform, recommended by that body, commencing with thirteen words in common use. When the many thous- and words of our vocabulary are remem- bered, the reconstruction of the baker's dozen will be rather considered an ec- centricity than a work of genuine reform. It reminds one quite forcibly of the vaunting claims of third party Jleaders. Or it may be compared to the wonderful civil service reform as illustrated by the administration of Grover Cleveland—a mighty thin gauze of promise in a great hulk of absurdity. —— I7 is not apparent that ®ither party will be the gainer from the controversy as to whether General Garfield was will- dngly & momber of the Cobden club,and @ to what his views were at different times regarding freg trade and protec- tion. Even the truth of history may not be greatly promoted by the discus- sion. General Gurfield was something of a politician, and as such was not in- capable of putting himself in accord with the publicsentiment that promised the best advantage to himself. We had supposed that everybody familiar with his career knew that for many years he was not regarded as a safe friend of the tariff. He repre- sented in congress a district almost wholly agricultural, and he sought 10 ocoupy & middle ground on the tarifl, He certainly drifted, however, toward free trade, and if we remember rightly was for this reason opposed in 1874 by strong faction of the republicans in his distriet. Later he became an advocate of moderate protection, but was never regarded in Ohio as a high tariff wan, though he was trusted not to do any- thing inimical to the protected interests of that state. The record of General Garfield would very likely be different had he represented the district adjoin- ang bis own, which is an extensive man- wlacturing center, Juggling Fiends. There is nothing more despicable than the duplicity, hypocrisy and insin- cerity displayed by the late corporation | convention which ealled 1tself roepub- lican. Tt reminds us forcibly of that passage from Macheth, in which he ex- olaims: “And be these juggling fiends No more believed, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our hear- ing, And bfionk it to our hope." It is an insult to the great body of republicans of Nebraska, who know that every word in that plat- form relating to.the cheapening of transportation, to oppressive tolls, and 10 sympathy with labor, is uttered by a convention which has chosen as repre- sentatives of the party at its national council men who have for years earned their livelihood as corporate lobbyists, debauchers of legislatures, and obstruct- ors of every effort that has been made by the honest representatives of the people for the relief of patrons of the railways by restrictive legislation. It is worse ribaldry than the mocking chant of hymns by the inmates of dis- orderly houses, or the singing of patri- otic songs by roadagents aad highway- men on their way to plundering and cut- ting the throats of wayfarers. ‘What a commentary upon the utter recklessness of corporate leaders for whom the republican party is simply a hewer of wood and a carrier of water, while holding aloft the banner of the party and shouting themselves hoarse over its glorious work in the past, they stand arrayed hand in hand to forge ring after ring in the great chain that binds the commonwealth of Nebrs hand and foot to the behests of the rail- way magnates. Nothing so brazen and andacious has ever been attempted in this state, in all its remarkable political history. In full keeping with the entire pro- ceedings was the contemptuous snub given ex-Senator Van Wyck and the resolutions he had introduced. Drunk with their temporary success, these fools actually imagined that the fifty- five thousand republican voters who ex- pressed their preference for Van Wyck for senator two years ago; that the vast constituency which elected forty-four out of ninety-two straight republican members of the legislature pledged to Van Wyck and the principles he repre- sented, have all recanted and gone over to the monopoly camp. Are they utterly oblivious of the fact that the cause which made Van Wyck strong is much stronger to-day than Van Wyck himself, because the people of Nebraska never have been so in- tensely in earnest to wrench this state out of the control of corporate monop- oly and make its state government—its officials and legislators—representatives of the people, guardians of their rights and interests, instead of being mere puppets of the Boston and New York syndicates, to whom this state has been paying tribute more oppressive than that exacted by any Roman ruler when he swayed the known world? The Railroads at Chicago. It is already apparent that the great railroad corporations of the country will exert a very strong,if not a potential,in- fluence in the national republican con- vention. They have been actively at work for months in several of the states shaping affairs so that they should be well represented at Chicago, both nu- merically and by men capable of guaid- ing and conserving their interests. The great Vanderbilt system will be repre- sented by Chauncey M. Depew, an orator of national fame and a man of great personal popularity, He will dominate the New York delegation, with its seventy- two votes and its prestige of representing the republicans of the pivotal state. The powerful Pennsyl- vania railroads, if not so directly rep- resented in the delegation of that state, will have influence enough with it to direct its action so that nothing un- favorable to the railway corporations shall receive its approval. The Central and Southern Pac influence will be strong with Pacific coast and Colorado delegations, while Nebraska sends a delegation every man of which wears the railroad collar. This does not em- brace all the representatives of the corporations who will sit in the na- tional republican convention, but were there no others than these states will furnish they would exerta tremendous intluence in determining the candidates of the convention and the character of its enunciations re- garding the relations of the corpora- tions to the government and the people, The political activity of the railroads clearly denotes a purpose. Those cor- porations never do anything aimles Having labored all along the line to se- cure a strong and able representation at Chicago, they will unquestionably be found in close union and co-operation when there. What is their purpose? Obviously to check or turn back the tide that is moving o strongly against their long unve- strained power and privileges. They combined to render odious and to thwart the operation of the national law curtailing the unrestricted rights they had always enjoyed, and placing them under governmental regulation and control. They were unsuccessful in this, and they now propose to fight the battle against the people in the political arena. They will bring to bear all their immense power to defeat any man whom they believe could not be controlled, if elected, in their interests, and may even venture so far as to virtually dic- tute who shall be the candidates of the party. The hope party rest on it will have a sufficient tion of free men 1 tional convention—men who fear nor favor corporate power—to de- feaf this influence. It were manifestly better for the party to go before the country with the chance of losing the help of the railroads and their allies than to bargain for such help by a sur- render to their demands. The proba- bility of viotory will be much greater if the purty shall go to the peoplé an- nouncing a policy that recognizes as and security of the possibility the that represeuntas the na- neither parawmount their iutercsts aud welfare, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1888 with candidates whom they can feel would carry out such a policy, than if it shall yield to rail- road dictation and thereby receive all the aid the corporations might give. There has never been a period in the history of the republican party when it could less afford than at this time to be regarded as the friend, apologist or ally of the corporations. There is grave danger, however, that it may be drawn into this position. Another Wanton Outrage. Another outrage by a Pinkerton mer- cenary in the service of the Burlington road has been committed on Nebraska soil. At Plattsmouth Wednesday night two members of the Bretherhood of Lo- comotive Engineers were shot and seriously wounded by an imported hire- ling of the railroad, so far as appears without the slightest justifieation. Ac- cepting as correct the account of the affair from our correspondent, it ap- pears that the two men shot had simply made an inquiry regarding an arrest which any citizen might have made, and such as is made daily of policemen in every city of the country. Receiving an im- pudent reply, one of them retorted in similar strain, whereupon the Pinker- ton special drow his revolver and fired, inflicting severe wounds on both eciti- zons. It is not surprising that this occurrence aroused the indignation of the people of Plattsmouth, and especially of the members of the brotherhood, whose comrades provi- dentinlly escaped instant death at the hands of a cowardly thug brought into Nebraska by the Burlington managers to overawe our citizens This is one of numerous outrag committed in Nebraska by these Pink- erton mercenaries since the Burlington strike wasinaugurated, all of which have shown the reckless and irres ponsibl character of the creatures clothed with police powers, They are for the most part men who would not be appointed on any well regulated police force; fel- lows generally whose character and qualifications would not enable them to pass an examination for police service where personal merit and fair intelli- gence are reguisites. Many of them are wholly without ties or interests, domestic or otherwise, to create, in them a sense of responsi- bility or any concern for the conserva- tion of public order. They are simply hirelings, ready toserve any master who will pay them, and in the perform- ance of such service placing not the least value on the life of the citizen who may by any chance fall in their way. The toleration of these armed mercen- aries on Nebraska soil, exercising police authority, we still insist is a wrong and an outrage upon our citizens, putting their lives in jeopardy wherever these minions are stationed. If it be not pos- sible for the authorities to do anything now for ridding the state of these cor- poration hirelings; if our power of self- protection is so restricted that we must submit tohave armed mercenaries quar- tered among us, ready at all times, with or without provocation, to shoot us down; if it be a fact that Nebraska is helpless against this sort of invasion, then the people of the state will see to it that the next legislature does not fail to supply laws that will be fully adequate for our fu- ture protection. But we believe there is ample law under which the local and state authorities can expel these men from Nebraska as so-called de- tectives. Meanwhile if the assassin who shot down .the inoffensive cit- izens at Plattsmouth is amenable to any law he should receive summarily the full measure of its penalties. THE governor of braska has pub- licly said that on complaint of local au- thorities against the presence of Pink- erton men he will take the necessary action to exclude them from the state. We understand it to be the claim of the corporation employing these merce- naries that it has the right to use them anywhere for the protection of its prop- erty. The Plattsmouth authorities have now an opportunity, and most urgent reason, for bringing this matter to a test. They should appeal at once to the governor for the removal of the Pinker- ton men from Plattsmouth, and we have no doubt such an appeal would be promptly regarded by Governor Thayer. We should then ascertain whether Nebraska has the power to free itself of these armed invaders, We believe the possesison of such power to be unquestionable, but it may become necessary to enact a law having direct reference to the employment within the state for police service of men trom other states, and undoubtedly the next legislature will be asked to pass such a law. It has been done in some other states that hs been overrun by the Pinkerton hivelings, When the Leaves Bogin to Fall, Burlington Free Press. It is said that the United States senato is the mostaugust body in the world. Things look now as though 1t would be a September body this year, too. - A Man Who Does Not Know It All. Detroit Free Press, Allof us are ready to laugh at the old far- mer who blows out the gas in Lis room at the hotel, but what sort of work would we make putting new bows into the ox yoke or Langing ascythet D Whe « Minneapolis Tritnme. ruclius Vanderbilt has twenty- ges for her own use, and yet 1t is dollurs to doughnuts that she doesn't have half as much fun in all or any of them as the small boy has iu *hangiug on.” . gk Western Stuaies in Philosopsy. Cinetunabi Toues-Star, This is the season when that most capti- vating of all excrescences is liable to appear somewhere on the human form divine, and which by common consent is] called among the choice English speaking people boil. e M Quite So. Chiclgo Inter Ocean. Democrats are very much afraid that “In. galls made a mess of it.” When a man, either in congress or not, undertakes to stir up democratic history from 1860 to 65 he needs a long stick. It is not & pleasaut job cither for speaker or audience. — Four Years Ago and To-Day, Globe-Democrat. Four years. ago, Mr. Cloveland pointed Qul the scrious danger i the cligivility of with all his migl prevent the country from taking him of #is word. This s not the only aparticufr, however, m which he has thus inviteddpppular distrust and re- vresidents to rn-olmIonn; now he is strivine N ‘The princess fl’hlm says her favorite artist is Rubens, -hor favorite author is Dickens and her, favorite dish Yorkshire pudding. The prinée of Wales has not ex pressed his preferénges, but an impression prevails among iy mother's subjects that they are American;“professional beauties' and prize-fighters ey S, Lowell and De Quincey. St. Louts Globe-Democrat, Mr. James Russell Lowell, at a freo trade club meeting n New York on Thursday night thanked God that he was allowed to help the cause of tariff reform. This calls to mind a romark which, according to De Quin- cey was frequently made by the duke of Nor- folk of his day, “Next Friday, by tho bless- ing of heaven, T propose to get drunk.' ———— “The Bee" Songht For Kverywnero. Chicago Herald. Wheon an exchange editor reaches the limit of his forbearance and long suffering and rises in his wrath to say something it is us- ually severo. Witness the following from the Minneapolis Tribune: The chronic exchange-eater who calls reg- ularly for the Omaha Bee will please sub- soribe for that sheet and give this ofice a rest. He has become a four-ply nuisance, The Curse of a City. Chicago Herald, * It is the curse of a great city that the just administration of the law is hindered and often defeated by the nefarious practices of asetof men 'who are nothing less than hu- man vultures. They are for the most part rascally attorneys without standing in court, apt in the ways of low chicanery, reinforced with a sprinkling of ex-baliffs and ex-consta- bles, They are suborners of witnesses, jury fixers and bribers, who offer their iniquitous services to equally unscrupulous lawyers and parties to suits. They tempt also the weak and foolish, wiliing enough to play with loaded dice, but lacking the skill to use them. premes -ty STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Lincoln’s base gall club has won a game. Strawberry festivals are the order of the Salt water was struck at Nebraska City at adepth of 375 feet. J.H. Cowcnne, a Hastings switchman, lost a hand coupling cars. The Tecumseh Republican is cight years old—and promises to live many years. Mayor North, of Columbus, has so far succeeded in suppressing the houses of in- famy. Bids are bein, house at South to cost $18,000. The State Dentdl ssociation met at Grand Island and extracted tecth and swapped stories without path! Two hilarious individuals, pulled down an electric wire in a moment of confusion, and were fined $10 eack. With Dodge county linked with Washing- ton, it is predicted that there will be more of a senatorial strugglé'than ever before. The Verdigree Hornet offers a 5 gold picce to the best dcorrespondent in Knox county, It wants néws—and no slush. The question of the hour is, says the Hast- ings Gazette-Journal, who will bo the dem- ocratic nominee for congress in this dis- trict? The Fremont Tribune's inquiry among many farmers in its section reveals the fact that crop proapecu}a:o never more favor- od r received for a new school ioux City. The building is able. The next legislat: will be called upon, according to a valded cXchange, to prohibit ‘Uncle Tom Cubin companies from operating in Nebraska. The little daughter of Colonel T. P. Ire- land, of Nebraska City, foll from a bridge a distance of thirty feet, but fortunately and strangely sustained no injurics. A young man named Theodore Cotchem, whois in the embloy of the B. & M. at Pa' ciflc Junction, receivéd severe injuries Mon- day night which may prove fatal, His body was burned badly. The Plattsmouth canning company has re- ceived from Chicago during the pust fow days 185,000 cans. They also have four men con- stantly at work in this city making cans. ‘This would indicate a vast increase in their output for this season. In voting bonds for the Johnson county court house therc was bad feeling engen- derod between the north and east ends of the county. Now it is arranged that the corner stono of the new building be laid on the Fourth of July, and the lamb and the lion lie down with the American eagle. The Johnson County Journal reports a case where the zest and zeal of patriots was put to the sticking point. John J. Wilson, a democrat, wagered with Mose Roberts, a republican, a short horn bull, or the price thereof, that Cleveland would be elected. The bull in politics is a new and interesting phase. lowa. 2 1;nc Marshalltown gas well is down 550 oe Des Moines has a new electric pan, Sioux City claims the greatest building boom of any Towa town. Sixty-i pils in one school room at Le Mars have been attacked with measles. Small fruit throughout the state is thought to have been seriously injured by the recent frosts. The lowa Medical society 1s holding its thirty-sixth aunual convention at Des Moines. Many complaints are made of tramp beg- s annoying residents of the outside streets Moiues. The division headquarters of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul have been removed baclk to Dubnque from La Crosse. About three weeks ago Mary Spann, eight years old, living near Melrose, was bitten by a mud dog and is now suffering from hydro- phobia, Iler physician says there is no hope of saving her lif The Seventh Duy Adventists of Iowa will hold their annual camp meeting in Des Moines May 29 to June 5. Reduced fare is promised on the railvoads, and it is _expectod the meeting will be & large and important one for the denomiuation. A cordial invita- tion is extended to all to attend. Colonel Al Swalfid, %the chairman of the ex- ecutive committee of the Iowa Press associa- tiou, to whom was referred the matter ef an excursion this year, desires to say that u gotiations are now bging made for an excu: sion that will include Council Bluffs, Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake, Helena and a portion of Yellowstone park, with a number of Dakota towns taken in on the return. As soon as matters shall have been developed sufii- cieutly a circular wilt be issued. About July 10 is the date fixed—after the national con- ventions, :n ota. Building in Cen! iClly is going on rap- idly. | id § light com i Spearfish and Sturgis bave base ball teams. 4 Hay Is beginning th roll into the Sioux Falls market ugain. %# Deadwood is the headquarters for over 200 mining companies. The St. Lawrence brick yard is manufact- uring 6,000 brick per day. 1t 18 estimated that the assessment rolls of Deadwood when completed will show at least $100,000 increased valuation over last The sewi-aunual teachers' iustiwute of Campbell county will convene at La Grace, May 28 Prof.J. W. Harden, of Starke, will conduet the institute. ngregationdl society at Watertown ded not to build their new church this ¥ but will continue to accumulate funds for that purpose, and will probably build next year. The Mandan & Black Hills Railroad Con- struction compaay has been formed at Man- dan for the ostensible Purpose of surveying and determining on & route for a railroad to the Black Hills. Deadwood is improving from a religious standpoint, The attendance at varioug churches Sunday was better than for many &ut months, and included one or two hers- fore written incorrigible, says the Pioneer. At a sossion of the Prerre counoil Monlll,‘ night, W. D. R. Miller, of Chicago, appeared before the body, asking for the franchise to ut in and malntein a aystem of electrio ights, the same to be in operation befors January 1, 1850, The matter was roferred o a special committee, with instructions to report at the next session. It is reported thgt some parti City are doveloping & coal pros two miles west o? mf eity and have struck a good flow of lubrioating oil. They have had some tosts made and the quality of the oil is pronounced to be oxcellent, It is understood that further developments will be made at once and the prospects are said to be fine for finding a flowing well. ——-— THE ARBOR K 3 J. Sterlinig Morton On Politics and The U. P. Extension Bill A B reporter met J. Sterling Morton yes- terday morning in the rotunda of the Paxton, The latter had come in in the morningona short visit and expected to rcturn home last night. With regard to the vote that had been given him by the Douglas delegation in the late con- vention, Mr. Morton said that he was thank- ful for small favors, and there was a twinklo in his eye which showed that he was able to appreciate the funny side of the compliment and_the world of meaning which was contained in the late but spon- tancous war cry, ‘‘Boyd, Morton ana Har- mony." Speaking upon the subject of his bemng an administration man, he saia that the nom- ination which he had received had been oc- casioned by the votes of people who, he thought, feit as he did on the question of tho tariff. Hewas a friend of Cleveland's—a Cleveland man. Mr. Cleveland had spoken in favor of tariff reform, and a man who was a tariff reformer was good enough for him. Mr. Morton said he had not come here to confer with any of his fellow members on the delegation to St. Louis. He did not do so be- fore and he would not do 8o now., Reverting to the action of the Douglas del- egation in the state convention, Mr. Morton said that b knew just how the members of that body feit toward him. He know of the caucuses in room 48 of the Paxton hotel, of the cuss words and tricks that were used oand suggested toward himself. He also knew of the plan to have him nowminated in the _convention and them sat down upon effectually. But, for some reason, the proposed nomination was abandoned and the sitting-down busines did not result as had been intended. Mr. Mor- ton was asked how he learned of the schemes and replied that there was a man in the cau- cus place who told about everything that had happened there. Referring 1o the republican cor among other things Mr. Morton sai you hear Lambertson’s speech nomi- nating Egan? Why you remember the greater part of it wus devoted to the statement that the republicans should elect Egan because his election would bring to the republican party the vote of every Irishman in the country. 1 wouid like to off- set that by placing John Fitzgerald of Lin- ©oln, on the national democratic committee and then see how many Irish democratic votes Egan would draw away from their party.” Mr. Morton then drew a comparison between Egan and Fitzgerald both as regards disosition, character and length of residence, and the comparison was in favor of Mr. Fitzgerald. TIE OPPOSES EXTENSION. Mr. Morton was asked as to what the thoughtof extending the time of payment of the Union Pacitic bonds: ““The Union Pacific railroad company,” he aid, *'is a defaulter to the government of the United States for about one hundred millions of dollars which came out of the pockets of the American people. But that company has a property which is stocked at sixty millions of dollars, The stock of course is only rep- resentative of the value of the property after the first and second mortgages have been paid. This morning Union Pacific stock is quoted and selling at 53¢ on the dollar. That ib the Union Pactic railrond. is selling for more than thirty millions of dollars over and above all its iiabilities. When a person shows assets of $30,000,000 more than his dcbts—those whom he owes need not make him adonation, ‘‘The Union Pacific company was entrusted with public funds. It is now a defaulter—a corporate defaulter as to about $100,000 and asks for seventy years' time on the whole sum, with the obligation of paying only 8 per cent interest. *If the government may deal thus gently with a corporate defaulter, why not with an individual defaulter! “Why not pass an act giving all the de- faultng land officers, internal revenue col- lectors, paymasters, United States marshals and all other United States officials who have defaulted seventy years time in which to make good their deficits at 3 per cent in- terest. Why should a defaulting railway be better treated than a defunlting postmaster? Justice for the railrond 1s justice for the citi- zen, “‘But the competition for through business on all transcontinental lines is so great that it will pay none of them a profit. Each line, Union Pacific as well as others, must, at last, muke its living off locals traffic. o Tho Union Pacific then must live Nebraska transportation. Nearly ali its local rates are raska rates—500 miles of its lines are in this state. Local rates will be governed by the fixed charges which the road must pay as interest, ete,, each year. The more a roud is capitalized for the more interest is paid. The extension of seventy years extends high local rates seventy years to Nebraska shippers, because all “that time the interest upon $100,000,000 must be paid by her products and people. What Nebraska needs is the forcing to a sale by government or the first mortga Then it will be bought at and capitalized at a less sum of money, und & less interest to be paid yearly will give the people lower rates of carriage. ““An extension of high rates will be the passage of the Outhwaite bill. All its pro- visions perpetuate Union Pacific extortions upon Nebraska people and products. “All the stuff about the branch lines is buncombe. Branch lines be built_by Union Pacific earnings, but those branches will be owned in the future as in the past and present by other companies other than the Uniou Pacific. wven if they should not to the Northwestern, k and Chicago, Burlington & Quiney to supply their rival—the Union Pacific—with building funds for branches from the public purse! Ts this anything else than class legislation of the wmost vicious and dangerous character?” ‘Who is Lars Larsen? Osana, May 17.—To the Eaitor of the Bre: The Herald of last Monday contaius anarticle signed by & man calling himself “Lars Larsen,” who takes the liberty to speak in the name of the Scandinavians of Douglas county, Who gave the unknown man that right? Who told bim that the Scandi- navians of Douglas county “‘wanted Grover Cleveland to finish the work he had so well begun?” Judging from the name, this Lars Larson must be a Danc or a Norwegian. How can he put himself to the frout and say, “I am a represeutative of the Scandina- vians,” when the 10,000 Swedes in Douglas county never neard of him before” Has the coming political campaign any- thing to do with what our countrymen like Dahlgren and Erickson havedonet Has this campaign anything to do with the civil wart If the people of Kansas voted for prohibition, can that fact change the minds of the Scandi navians in Nebraska and Douglas so that they turn over and at next election vote for wen that promised everything and yet have done nothiug for the workingmen ¢ Mr, Larsen gocs down on his knees, beg- ging the democratic party to give the Scandinavians a chauce to give a man born in Sweden, Norway or Denmark a place in the council. *The Murphys and the Schwidts have tueir representativs, le now have the Swausons, Ol and Larsens,” Mr. Larsen says our Kozokopskys our Pincatellis and our Ling Longs{ If there is a man an the Scandinavians who has ability and can carry a majority, why does he uot stand up and show himself¢ He will get both the Ameri can born and the foreign born man's vote if he deserves it. We are men earning our money with hard work like others and have notto ask any party for a chance. Let us put up & wan sud not, like Lars Larsen, write false statc ments iu favor of Jobn A. MeShane, oven if he buys the whole Swedish press in Ne braskis 5. Wabk INDIFFERENT BUSINESS MEN How They Negloot Opportunities For Posting Themselves. THE KANSAS CYCLONE'S CAREER. A Gentleman From the Argentine Re-« public Compares Our Red Tape Lana Policy With Thatof His Own Country. Information Thrown Away. Wasnixerox, May 17.—[Special to Tnr Bre | —Thoslack way in which busincss men of the United States watch their intorests 1s domonstrated by tho manner in which they negleoct opportunities for posting themselves upon the situation affenting thoir interosts in foreign countries. For nearly ton yoars now tho state department has published each month in pamphlet form a volume averaging about two hundred pages, containing the re- sults of inquiry by United States consuls into the commorcial affairs of foreign nations. These reports are filled with valuable facts and statistics which, properly used, would be of incstimable value to manufacturing and other concerns in the United States, By an act of congress there are published 10,000 copies of these pamphlets each month, Six thousand are distributed by congress, 2,000 supply the pressof the country, and the other 2,000 are sent out by the state department upon the request of individuals, Although this work is, perhaps, the most valuable of any regular publication of the government, there have never been any determined at- tempts to incroase the sapply for the purpose of posting American business men as to their opportunities abroad. Foreign tariff changes are noted in those publications as often as they occur, and every detaii of legislation which could in any way affect the market for American commoditics is faithfully chromcled. They are certainly of as much value to the business men as the agricultural department reports are to the farmers; yet while three-quarters of & million copies of the agricultural reports are annu- ally distributed, the men for whose benefit the consular reports are published seem to have 1o desire to be better supplied. It fre- quently happens, too, that members nf con- gress, who have these valuable pamphlets for distribution neglect them entirely, and if they send them out at all it is frequently to men who have no interest whatever in the subject matter. Congressman Ben Lefevre, when he occupied a seat in the house was an exception to this rule. Ho was one of the very few who fully realized the importance of this work, and it is to him that is due the fact that upward of five hundred business houses m different parts of the country are now receiving the regular consular publica- tions from month to month. Within the last month these pamphlets have contained valuable data concerning the formation of the customs union in South Africa, which will naterially affect the mar- ket for American products sent to the South African colonies. A great deal of valuable space has been devoted to the legislation of every European government upon the subject of thie importation of petroleum and mineral oils, and the debate in the Swedish parlia- ment upon the subject of additional taxes upon pork products was also chronicled. This latter places a duty of about 2 cents a pound upon all American pork and bacon im- ported into Sweden, and as that country con- sumos a large quantity of American ho products, the increase in the tariff will be o great importance to thousands of farmers and pork packers in the United States. Yet very lictle attontion has been paid to the sub- ject thus far. It would seem as if the time has come when more attention should be paid to this imgonntm subject, and influences should be brought to bear upon congress, while expending so much money each year in printing useless documents to incroase the supply of the reports which, properly dis- tributed, would be of great value to all sec- tions of the country. THE WHOLE TIING A TUMDUG, The reports from Kansas City to the effect that some enterprising individual has been hard at work collecting data mlncln{ to the military record of Senator Ingalls has cre- ated a great deal of amusement in Washing- ton. The report, which was telegraphed out last week, stated that the information was being gathered for Senator Voorhees, who would incorporate it in his speech. In speak- ing on this subject vesterday Senator Voor- hoes said that the whole thing was a humbug; that tnere was nothing in it; that he him- solf had investigated the alleged dark pages in Senator Ingalls’ history, and that he had become satisfled that there was no pohitical capital in the matter. Seuator Ingalls laughed characteristically when his attention was called to the subject and s “In the early days of Kansas politics things were very hot, and I should not be surprised if the careful searcher would find that I was called all sorts of names in those days. Nor would it surpriso me if some of the epithets which were printed at that time were considered unfit for publication in tho present day.’ That Senator Ingall's remarks have struck home is demonstrated by the fact that every demo- crat in Washington seems to be trying his utmost to gather together some data ‘deroga- tory to the Kausas senator. OUR LAND POLICY COMPARED. ““While the policy of the United States land office seems to bear out the remarks of ox- Commissioner Sparks to the effect that 90 per cent of the homestead entries are fraud- lent,” said a gentleman who has spent muny years in the Argentine republic, *“the policy of the other great Ame publics in the southern h just the reve this country the settler upon gove lands has all sorts of obstacles thrown in his way when he comes to make his final proof to secure an absolute title to the lands which med. In the Argentine republic, on the other hand, settlers are welcomed, and are mnot only given an absolute title 1o their land us s00n as they have shown any disposition to settle upon it, but they are aided in settlement by advances from the gencral government, They are allowed a certain. number of domestic farm animals with which to begin life, aud arc only asked 1o pay for them when they shall have been enabled to earn enough money from the soil to make the payment. In the United States there is, it soems to me, too much fear of personal government, and while a republic is generally supposed to be a government by the people and for the people, there sec be a decided disposition to p lation for the people which might | oficial to them as individuals, United States there is & talk fat present of restricting immi- gration; in the Argentine republic everything Is being doue to induce immi- grants to locate there, and the efforts are meeting with gratifying success. Each year the European population increases largely, and the number of new inhabitants from the old world this year will probably reach nearly a quarter of a million, The great dis- tance between European ports and Buen Ayres hus, of course, acted as a bar to greater immigration, but the country is grow- ing rapidly and even threatens to rival the United States.” “Would you advise immigration from this country o the southern republic! was should be reluctant to give any such advice. The new comer would find tiie language and all the surroundings 8o differ- ent from what he has been accustomed to that it might prove a disappointment to him, but it will continue to be the Mecea to whi thousands of Kuropeans who desire to better their condition will drift.” — - THE PARTI-COLORED PLATFORM. Examination as to How the Mixing Was Oceasioned. A formal jovestigation was wmade yeste day afternoon by H. C. Russc of Schuyler, and Charles Potter of this city, as to the con nection the messenger boy employed by the Republican had with the mixing upof the democratic and republican platforms in the republican convention of last Tuesday evon- ing. The name of the lad is Willie Adams. He was put under oath at the request of Manager Rbeewof the A D, T, and witls i stood quite a number of quostions from the oxaminers. But he could not be ohanged from his original story that he had received a package on the Grand opera house stage from Mr. Potter, who was engaged by the Republican, and that ho carried the same immediately to the offioe of the Republican where it was receipted for by the managin; editor of that paper. He had boen accosted, he said, by nobody, nor had he allowed the package to leave his hands from tha time he left Mr. Potter until he delivered the package as above mentioned. This statement rather satisfiod the exam. iners that the muddle in the platform mush have been made in the committee room, THE ROOK ISLAND VESTIBULE, The First of Tts Kind Between Ohis oago and the Missouri. Pursuant to an_invitation by the resident officials of the “‘Rook Island Route,” a party of representatives of tho pross of Omaha and Council Bluffs, oficials of other roads and leading citizens of Omaha and its trans-river suburb, took a short excursion from the transfer depot across the river to Shelby, In., in the first regular vestibule train ever run botween Chicago and the Missouri river. The train consisted of two coaches and bag- gage car, the elegant hotel car “Vendora™ and the three new superb Pullman palace cars “Sabetha,"” *‘Chicago” and ‘‘Tapsico," and was in charge of the woll known and ever popular Mapes, conductor. The conches are somewhat superior to the ordinary onecs, while the dining car and sleepers are marvels of beauty, elegance and comfort. The latter are finished through- out with highly polished mahogany burl, tho like of which will never again be duplicated on any car, The log from which the vencers were obtained 18 from Central America, and was imported by the Pullman company at a cost of $,000. As these trecs are very rare, it is uot probablo that anything of the kind will ever be seon in this country again. The smoking rooms are finished in Knglish oak and are very handsome. 'The lamps which are used at presentare of the Hicks-Smith model with electric applinnces although provisions are made for lighting tho entire train with electricity. The cest of each sleeper is $15,000. The cars are pro- vided with a spring which prevents osoillat- ing, and the motion, even at the rate of fHfty miles per hour, is hardly perceptible, Mr. R. N. Skinner, superintendent of the Pull. man company, accompanied the party, and is very enthusiastic over the merits of vestibule trains, addition In t the Omahans and Bluffs Council people, & number of newspaper men | from cities in Towa wero with the train, having come in yesterday morning from the east. Tho at- tention shown the party by the officials in charge was marked and nothing was Loft un- done to make the trip a pleasant one. Mr. Frank Steward, superintendent of the din- ing car service, was in charge of the hotel car, and aided by Mr. C. E. Taylor, the ofil- cient steward, sct up a feast fit for the gods to enjoy. Mr. Stevens, the general agent, and Mr. Farmer were each lavish in their attentions, and the first vestibule train ex- cursion will be an event long rememberod by all present. Like Mr. Farmer and Stovens, the attentions of Mr. Matt Clair, the traveling passenger agent of the Rock Island, were most cheerfully bestowed, tho veteran railroader taking ns usual' the reatest pride over the new departure of his avorite road. The party consisted of the following gen- tlomen from Omaha: G. F. McDonald, Millard hotel; I°. A. Balch, Hotel Barker) M. E. Smith; J. McClintoclk, local agent of the Union Pacific; Davenport, tho forthcoming_manager of the Ogden hiouse, Council Bluffs; E. C. Snyder and Georgo B. Eddy, Excelsior; Geno Decker, Herald; S. F'. 'Woodbridge, World; Matt Clair, trav. gliing passenger gent Chicago, Rook 'Tslaad & Pacific road ; Mr. Farmer, clty passenger agent Chicago, Rock Island & Paciffc rond; C. M. Jackson'and E. A. O'Brien, Bre, and S. S, 'Stevens, general agent Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. The Council Bluffs delogation was com- posed of Thomas Bowman, postmaster; J. M. Mathews, Globe; W. H. Copson, Noogareil: S. P. McConnell, prosident of the Council Biuffs club; B. Zovely, secretary of the board of trade; John N. Baldwin, R. B, Westcott, representative of the Omaha Horald; E. O, Hunt, Omata Brs: H. B Grimm, dmaha World; C. A. Star, W. H. Lynchard, R. E. Ingram, Omaha Ropublican. Tho lowa party consisted of A, B, Brady, of Davenport Times; from Dos Mofnes: H. R, Porsingor, Mail and Times; Miss M. Givin, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Windsor, Super- intendent Gilmore, of the Keokuk and Kort Dodge division Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Dr. Hannawault and_wife, I. J. Hamilton, News; H. C. Schaoffer, Leadel C. D. Bogue, Kirkwood house; C. H, Will: iams, train dispatcher; E. A. Saiple, Regis- ter; John Givin, superintendent, Towa divi- sion Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; E. A. Holbrook, general passenger and ticket agent of the same roa The party returncd at 7p. m. thoroughly convinced that vestibule trains are the proper thing on railroads S The first labor strike ever reported in Deadwood occurred Saturday morning, but was arbitrated beforo the men quit wWork, Tho carpenters engaged in planking Loo street struck for an additional 5 cents per foot, aud the mayor, recognizing the justice of thair demands, readily accodod. ASHEZ— #KE-III HU! ‘has stood the ‘l:;:.;! !l: Curing ell Diseasos of the BL&ID LIVER, BTOM- ACH, KIDNEYS,BOW- ELS, &o. It Purifies the Blood, In tes and disa) Il its bzg'-flunl influenco. Itispurely NERYVES! NERVES!! What terrible visions this little word by erridle visions thls w rings the eyes of the nervous. Headache, afigla, Indigestion, Sleeplessnesy, Nervous Prostration, Al stare them in the face. Yet all these nervous troubles can be cured by using paine’s ery ompound For The Nervous The Debilitated ‘The Aged. 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