Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 4, 1888, Page 4

MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1883 THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. plvah TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Paily Morning Edition) including Sunday, g, One Y ear i It | Orrice, Nos 914AND 018 FARNAM STREET. o'}'{‘:':v"on OFricE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNE BuiLoixa, WAsiuNGroN Orrice, No. 613 FOURTEENTH BTREET. (CORRESPONDENCE. i sommunications relating to news and edi- oML At Bhould be addreused o the BOITOR OF THEBXE. 1N LETTERS, ATl business lotters and remittances should be ddressed to Tie Beg PUBLISHING COMPANY, MAMA. Drafts, checks and postofce orders made payable to the order of the company, The Bet Publishing Company. Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation, ety ot bougias, 8% ouglas, Geo. I, Tasehiick, secretary of The Bes Pub- Nehing company, does solemnly swear that the lflulr(‘ln:\l ation of the Daily for the week ending June 1, 18%, was as follows: Baturday, May 26, Bunday, May 27, Monday, duy 3. neadny, May 20, adnesday, Mhursday, M Frida; une i .. A1 i GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. 2o e T e ™ NI dny of June, A. D, 0.0 10 State of Nebraska, County of Douglns, {s.s. George I, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, fl"?""" and says that he 1s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, fhat the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the mounth of June, 187 14,147 coples; for July, 1867, 14,08 or August, 1897, “ 14,151 coplesi September, 1847, 74,340 coples for October, 1887, 14,383 copies; for November, 1887, 15,228 copies; for December, 1¥87, 16,041 coples; for Janua TRER, 15,200 C ies:' for February, 1888, 16,992 copies: for March, ‘l 19,680 coples; for April, 1888, 18,744 copies, or , 1888, 18,181 coples. b 2 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bworn ‘rubzfiu{‘:i" me, and subscribed in my i of June, A, D. 1888, e u& ', FELL, Notary Public, AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION 18,152 e Tur school election takes place to- day. Every patron of the public schools and every taxpayer should give practi- cal expression of his wishes through the ballot box TaE prohibitionists at their national convention &t Indianapolis nominated Dr. Brooks, of Kansas, for the vice-pres- idency. The choice isa good one. A man with such a cold water name was cut out for a prohibition candidate. A DESPERATE woman who shoots her husband’s lawyer in a court room, and a jealous husband who cuts off his ene- my’s ear with a pen knife, ought to sat- isfy the cravings of Chicago at least one day for something original in the erim- inal line. E—————— SEVEN hundred delegates will attend a convention at Huron, Dak., to protest against the delay of congress in grant- ing the great wheat country its state- hood. By the time congress gets ready to admit Dakota seven hundred conven- tions will be held by the indignant Dakotans. THE non-partisan school board ticket is made up of successful business men who are capable of managing schools from a business standpoint. All of them are men of education, some of them graduates of leading colleges, and there- fore capable of understanding just what our school system should be and where it is weak. THERE were over 5,000 votes cast on the cable franchise. It is infinitely of greater importance that 5,000 electors should voice their sentiments for school management for the next three years. The question is, will they do it, or will theystay at home and let the ward bum- mers and political strikers poison the system of school management? THE incorporation of the Nebraska Southern railway company at Superior, Neb., in Nuckolls county, looks as if steps had been taken by the Santa Fo to push its nose into Nebraska from ‘Warwick, Kansas, just across the line and about ten miles from Superior. 1f the Rock Island builds a road through Fairbury and other southern towns of Nebraska, there will be lively competi- tion between rival lines to dispute the claimsof the Burlington in that section of the stats Tue mining interests of Colorado and Montana have taken quite a boom. Not ®nly are the leading mines yielding sat- Afactory results, but new and abandoned elaims ave being worked with improved machinery with marked success. The @onual report of Director Munson, of $he mint at Denver, puts the gold, sil- wer, copper and lead mined last year at 827,661,182, This is a very encouraging showing. With the reduction of the cost of mining, smelting and transpor- tation, and with the improved methods now in use, the mining industry of the west has assumed mammoth proportions. Tue high protectionists of the east are #rying the fat out of the manufacturers ® furnish “soap” for the spreading of Figh tavif literature and for “other pur- poses.” Iive thousand dollars has been collected from merchants and manufac- turers of New York City alone. At this rate quite a respectable sum will be realized if Boston, Philadelphia and other cities are assessed in proportion. The wonder is that these merchants and manufacturers, who are continually pleading loss and depression of trade, owing to demands of their working people, can serape up enough for this fund without ruining their buniuen.. e———— g THE unjust discrimination of the Union Pacifie against Lancoln was so ob- vious that the verdict just rendered in favor of the merchauts of that city as against the railvoad must receive unan- imous approval. There is no city in Nebraska which desires to live atthe expense of a sister city. The welfare of oue is the welfare of all. The unnatural and artificial booms which the railroads 100 often build up cripple the energics of the state without aiding any particu- lar locelity of it. But the victory of Lincoln is gained at the expense of the Union Pacific, which had alone profited by pocketing the excessive freighy charges against the merchants of that iy, Fretting Under Dictation. There is reported to be a consider- able disposition among the democratic delegates to the St. Louis convention to resent the sweeping dictation of the ad- ministration managers, or to put it more correctly, of Mr.Cleveland, and to assert some independence at least with regard to the selection of a candidate for viee president. The renomination of Cleveland being conceded, there is a general'willingness to allow the man- agers for the president to name the or- ganization of the convention and frame the platform, but when it comes to the question who shall occupy the second place on the ticket these recaleitrant delogates are saild to feel that the administration whip might prop- erly be 1aid awny and the representatives of the party be permitted to exercise their free judgment in choosing a candidate. This sentiment is understood to be especially strong in the Indiana dele- gation, and is shared to some extent by the friends of other aspirants. If there is such a feeling it is creditable to those who entertain it. The autocratic authority which Mr. Cleveland has presumed to exercise over the party is without a parallel in the history of American politics, and it is not surprising that democrats who have some respect for the traditional character of their party, as well as for their own manhood, should be disposed to revolt against such bossism. It places the party in & most humiliating position to have to confess that it is absolutely dominated by one man, that practically it has no will of its own, and that what it shall say and do in its national convention will be simply a formality in ratification of the will of asingle individual. It cannot he otherwise than an irritation to self-respecting men to feel that they are merely puppets, powerless to act ex- cept as the master hand shall pull the string. Such has not been the way in the past, and there is a suggestion of degeneracy and degradation about it which must grate hard upon many old- school democrats. But this feeling will probably not effect anything. There may be a few men in the convention brave enough to declare themselves in favor of a little show of independence, but they will not be numerous enough to change the order already fixed upon. The will of Mr. Cleveland will prevail. It is said that the administration managers, see- ing the possibility of a storm, are pro- ceeding very cautiously. The adroit Mr. Scott, who represents the adminis- tration, is keeping his own counsel and doing nothing to provoke antagonisms. The only matter that remains to be set- tled is the candidate for the vice presi- dency. Itisnolongera question that Mr. Cleveland wants Thurman, and it seems pretly certain that the veteran leader will accept 1f the nomination shall be given him as the unanimous choice of the convention. The work of the administration isto bring thisabout, and while some finesse may be necessary to sccomplish it, there is no doubt they will be successful. There is really but one aspirant who is likely to show any stubbornness in the mat- ter—Gray of Indiana—and it ought not to be very difficult to dispose of him. Others who have been prominently named are so entirely under the influ- ence of Mr. Cleveland’s will that if he does not desire their names to go before the convention they will not be heard of there. We do not, therefore, aftach great importance to the premonitions of dis- cord in the St. Louis convention. The few men who would like to relieve the party from the humiliation of abjectly submitting to the dictation of one man will find themselves 8o small a minority that they will not have the courage to declare themselves. Thus the adminis- tration programme will be carried out to the end, there will be an appearance of harmony and enthusiasm, and for the first time in its history the democratic party will go to the country with a ticket and platform constructed at ‘Washington with the president as the sole architect. The A ppropriations in Danger. The next fiscal year of the govern- ment begins July 1,s0 that there r mains but little more than three w in which to consider and pass the most important of the appropriation bills, making provision for the expenditures of the government during the fiscal year 1888-0. 1In the opinion of Senator Alli- son at least half a dozen of these bills cannot be finished before the expiration o' the current fiscal year, so that it may be necessary, in order that the govern- ment may be enabled to meet its obliga- tions, to adopt the irregular course of continuing present appropriations by joint resolutions. MThis state of affairs is wholly responsible for, and the trouble is that body goes on from year to year repeating the dereliction, and no earnest effort is made to reform its conduct, There was a similar com- plaint last year and the year before, and although the promise was made that there would be a remedy applied, it is seen that it has not been carried out. Every practical man knows very well that there is no satisfactory reason why appropriation bills should ‘require four or five months in their preparation. The estimates of the several depart- ments of the government are submitted to congress at the beginning of the ses- sion, and two months ought to be ample time in which to prepare every bill pro- viding for the mnecessary expend- itures of the government. With this done other appropriation bills could take whetever time was neces- sary, sincc their fate would not be a matter of serious concern, But it hus not suited the present chairman of the house appropriations committee to do this, and hence this annual difficulty. From one motive or another he has found itto the advantage of s persenal aims to hold back the appropriation bills, and, regardless of public eriticism, he has persistently done so. It may rot be practicable to apply a remedy it the present conggess. Efforts to do so in the last congress ! failed, and they are likely to fail so { long as Mr. Randall remuins at the | head of the appropriations commit the house e But it will be possible to effect a reform | in this matter in the next congress, and whichever party is in control of the house of the Fifty-first congress will be expected to institute the veform. This is purely a business matter, with which polivics and political scheming ought to have no connection. The Non-Partisan Ticket. The meeting of representative citi- 7ens to nominate non-partisan candi- dates for the school board agreed upon a ticket composed of the following gentlemen: H. H, Bright, C. F. Good- man, John Rosicky, Henry Pundt, Fred Millard, Samuel Reese, Churchill Parker and Augustus Pratt. The first four are republicans and the last four democrats, but none of them is so act- ively identified with politics as to be properly classed as a politician. The ticket should commend itselt to every intelligent voter in the city, The candidates are among the best known and most experienced of our business men, who deservedly enjoy the confidence of the community. They are men largely concerned in the in- terests of Omaha, Their names are a guarantee of integrity. Some of them have served the city in an official ca- pacity, and as public officers have a clean, untarnished record. The ticket commends itself to the vote of every republican and every democrat of Omaha. The four republi- cans and the four democrats named are men who stand high in their respective parties, They are above suspicion of using the board of education as a chess- board to further party politics at the expense of education. They are men who have no side-show attachments of political workers and favorites. They have no alliances with contractors or with city officials, Iqually divided be- tween the two parties, the board of edu- cation, composed of these representa- tive men, will be freed from all partisan preponderance. It will be in fact, as well as in title, a non-partisan school board. The citizens of Omaha can make no mistake in supporting this ticket, and every one who believes that the schools should be kept wholly free from all connection with politics, should give it a hearty support and work zealously for its success. If all such will do their duty we have nota doubt that the ticket can be elected, and such a result would be a memorable triumph of a sound principle which would be of the greatest benefit to our public school system. RuMoRrs are afloat that the railroads for the first time in ten years are com- pelled to cut down wages and to reduce their force. The era of economy has evidently set in with a vengeance. Railroad managers, however, should have learned by this time that cutting down the wages of employes is a very poor way of squaring accounts. Reck- less railway building, cut-throat rate wars, and the maintenance of a horde of political workers 1n every cross-road and county through which the road runs, bring about that state of affairs when a halt must be called in the ex- travagant use of the railroads’earnings. THE northwestern plow trust held a meceting at Chicago, but suspended its prices and terms for the fall trade. The reason was that the eastern manufactu- rers cut such deep furroughs into the trust’s price list that the western deal- ers could not keep pace with them. If the eastern plow will aid in raising a big corn crop the farmers of the west will be doubly thankful to the eastern manufacturers. STATE AND TERITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Pickpockets abound in Covington, The Genoa Leader prints a boom edition. Sherman county has organized a republi- can league. H. B. Millard assumes control of the Cen- tral City Nonpareil. The Loup City creamery pounds milk per day. Whitney is rejoicing over the fact that she will have water works, A large number of Seventh Day Adventists are camped at Grand Island. Tecumseh’s electric light plant will illum- inate that town within sixty days. The electric light company of Nebraska City will purchase another dynamo, The thirteenth annual fair of Jefferson county will occur September 25 to 25, Kearney’s starch factory will in run- ning order soon. The plant cost £50,000, The Southern Nebraska Medical society will have a meeting at Fairbury on the 20th of June. Herman Nelson, a twelve-year-old boy at ‘Wahoo, was kicked by a horse and will prob- ably die. There are not less than 125 men now at work near South Sioux City, on the bridge approach. The Chadron Base Ball association has pur chased a block in the southwest part of the v and intends to enclose it between this and the Fourth, On the theory that a solid growth beatsa boom, Nebraska City will have a squad of the Salvation army to revive any drooping spirit that may need it. The building of the Fairbury soap works begins to loom up. The framework is up and it is e od the manufacture of soap will begin by August 1, The state board of public lands and build- ings has visited the Dlind instltute at Ne- braska City, and members have expressed themselves us well pleased. Nance county receives monthly in pensions $321.50, which is distributed among thirty- four persons—an average of $0.45 per month to each object of Uncle Sam’s benevolence, ‘The heroic efforts of the townsite company to pull McCook up the bill and, carry tho postofice, land ofiice, ete., with them is not not altogether appreciated by the citizens of the plains, There were many heart-sore and weary pil grims returned from the clam bake at Shogo island yesterday, declaring that never again would they visit the place. But a year will dim their memories. James McKinstry, of Fremout, for getting cashed a money order belonging to another man—his chum, and appropriating the money to his own use, will spend sowe time in mediation at the penitentiary. A pair of oxen were stolen from Wencl Kre o furmer residing four ailes frowm Crete, Friday night. A man who would take the risk of stealing and making way with a team of oxen is certainly acsperate. The Bancroft Journal says: “Quite a num- ber of young Indians returned from Humjp ton college yesterday, smong them Miss Susan Lallesche, who has just graduated in, medicine and expeets to practice amoug her people. If the tone of the country press goes for anytnig the Fourth of July will be more generally observed in Nebraska this year thau ever before, The different p: announced will make the proud dow tired. The 6,000 trees recently set out in the city parks of Hastings, under the dircction of Councilman Stock, ure in a fine growing con- dition. Ten years from now Hustings will be known as the “City of Parks,” according 10 the Journal. Mrs. Huldah A. Miller writes from Spring- receives 7,906 ird of free dale, O., to the Tancoln postmaster, wanting. to know the wherabouts of Charles Winfield Miller. She says ho is ‘her dear baby be a strong man now, and “'lier heart is bre; ing to seo him." The village of Pjickrell, in Gage county. has been somewhat agitated about the my terious departure from that place of a pho- tographer by the nario of Latimer. He left last Friday evening and has not been heard from since. He was a young man and well respectod. “Everything is running smoothly on the “Q." says the Cotumbus Democrat. ‘‘The engine which pulled the freight train in here on Saturday lust_was allowed to die by the “scab" engineer, at Emerald, and it took the crew several hours to get the boiler fllled with water, pails béing usea for that pur- pose.” There is considerable talk of forming in Oakland an anti-saloon republican league, a branch of the state league, whose purposo shall be to demand of the republican party a recognition of the right of the people to yote on the prohibition question in Nebraska The result of such a formation would amount o nothing, “Tne Bree has done a od thing for Omaha and Nebraska in ridding them of the resence of the notorious quack dootor, 'owell Reeves, whose practices were such as need exposure and publicity. And still, there are few boings who boast that they never read a vewspaper,” remarks the Col- lumbus Democrat, “Tie OmAna Beg boasts of an increase of its daily circulation of 4,027 copies since ono year ago. Tur Bee is one of the most profit- able newspaper enterprises in the country and owes its success mainly to the fact that it is just what it pretends to bo—a fearloss, outspoken, uncompromising champion of pop- uh&r rights,”” concludes the Wood River Ga- zette. “Some Nebraska editors,” says tho Me- Cook Gazette, “are putting in their time abusing Trr OMAHA BEe. Let a paper refuse to place its neck in the corporation collar it at once becomes a target for a host of small fry in the profession. The Bre is independent in its opinfons, and has a greater hold on the hearts of the people than any other paper in the state. Being condemned by the railroad press is its best recommendation.” Alva Caffee, a farmer living twelve ntiles northwest of Ponca and one mile from the Missouri river, dug a well last November, and upon reaching a depth of twenty-five feet struck a vein of pure sparkling water that filled the well and flowed over the top and has been flowing ever sice. Thomas Ryah, a neighbor of Mr. Caffee’s two miles distant, has an artesian well that throws with consid- erable force an inch and a half streamn of water fit for the gods to sip. This well is half a mile from the Missouri river. Frank Sutherland, five miles farther up the river, struck r good flow of water at 305 feet. M. Sutherland’s well is within forty rods of the river bank. k owa, Cloth peddlers are doing Booue county in good shape, Fish Commissioner Carlton has planted 50,000 lake trout in West Okobiji lake. The reunion of the old soldiers of Wright county will take place at Goldfield June 14 and 15. The Methodist people at Leon are doing all in their power to erect a handsome church odifice. Two brick business blocks and anew Cath- olic church will start the season’s building in Marshalltown. A band of Indians @t Creston are trying to purify the blood of the people by means of a remedy prepared by them. B. W. McKeen, of Cedar Falls, has been employed as assistant principal of the Audu- bon schools for the next year. A band of Gypsies, with four bears and a couple of monkeys, entettained the people of Sac City for a few days last week. Alta wants a larger hotel building and some of the citizens are talkingup the mat- ter of securing the erection of one. Twelve applicants for state certificates to practice medicine were examined by the state board of health last Thursday. Dakota. There is talkk of sinking another artesian well at Yankton. The old settlers of Kingsbury county will have a reunion June 9. The Scotland Methodist church has been scated with opera chairs. Yankton is making great improvements in the sidewalk department. The people of Lennox are wrestling with the question of incorporation. The organization of an ola settler's society is being agitated at Carthage, The alumni of the Yankton high school will hold 1ts annual reunion Friday evening of next week. A gentleman from Minneapolis is looking over Huron with a view of establishing a business college, The first creamery butter made in Bur- leigh county was turned out at the Bismarck creamery Thursday. Although the grass is backward the creamery at Marion Junction shipped 3,600 pounds of butter last week. A great deal of interest is being manifested by the local sports of Springfield as Lo who is the best at pitching quoits. The citizens of Parkston have called a meeting to take steps for furnishing a public drinking place with ice water for the summer, —_—— Austrian High Life Scandal. From a Vienna letter: An immense ation was caused throughout Aus y recent suicide of Count Vic- He married at the age of twenty-five Baroness Irma Orzy, aniece of the Hungarian statesman of that name. About three years after the birth of his third daughter, Prince Vic- tor began to be strangely neglectful of his beautiful wife, who at length dis. covered that he had become completely infatuated by her elder sister, Sarolta, The latter, who was and is still mar- ried to Count Abraham Gyurky, aprivy councilor and chamberlain of "Emperor Francis Joseph, and by whom she has had three children, made no attempt to conceal the fact, either from her hus- band or her sister, that she fully rvecip- rocated her broth -law’s affection. A sirangely captivating woman of the Cleopatra type of beauty was this Countess Sarolta, who, after inducing Ler lover to forsuke his wife and child- ren for her sake and to travel with her ubroad, actually ended by persuading him to openly take up his residence with her at his ancestral castle of Csurgo, where they were hoycotted by all their neighbors and friends. The utmost symputhy was expressed on all sides for the Countess Victor Karolyi and her daughters, who had becn driven from theirhome to make way for their wicked relative, As years rvolled by, however, not even the birth of sev eral children could suffice to pr: nt Count Victor from brooding over the loes of every one of his former friends and associat Toward the last he sought to brace hi by copious draughts of Rus: and had become many as thirty or forty length the climax came, and on Sunday he was found dead arm chair, with afowling-pic his knees, and the blown completely of: With the most brazen Countess sarolto refused to leave the castle uutil positively ejected from it by the law office She hopes, however, to return thither as its mistress, for Count Kurolyi’s will, which is dated five 120, bequeaths all of his vast pos- neluding his castle,to his mis- tress and to his illegitimat ildr while his deserted wife and daughters are cut off with a paltry al- lowance of $10,000,t0 be d by Countoess arolta to her sister Irma out of the rev- wues of the estates. The Karvolyi fam- have begun a lawsuit 1o set aside this will, on the ground that Count Vietor was unduly influenced whep he signed It should be added that Count Gyurky, who is still alive, has continued all along 10 maintain the most friendly relations with his wife, and, if popular report is to be believed, wus'a frequent visitor at Count Victor's custle, between top of his head Trontery legitimate CAPITAL AND LABOR TALK. Rev. Lamar's Sound Expressions on That Important Matter. REFERENCE TO LATE STRIKES. The First of a Series to Be Preached By the Baptist Divine on Sub- Jects of Timely Impors tance to All. Relation of Oapital and Labor. Rev Dr. Lamar, the talented pastor of the First Baptist church, preached the first of a scries of sermons on popular subjects beforo a large audience last night. Tho reverend gentleman’s subjoet was, “The Relation of Japital and Labor,” and his text was: *‘Cry aloud and spare not; lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their trans gressions, and the house of Jacob their sins, The fact that God putthe religious instinot 80 deep in man’s nature, is the chief reason why it has not been destroyed. If man could have destroyed it, he would have done 80 long since either by the process of neglect- ing it and leaving it to starve, or by thrott- ling it with his own hand, This religious in- stinct has ever been in the way of bis fullest. abandonment in sin, While he has fallen to great deptls, yet this instinct still cleaves to bim and protests against his wrongs, pleads with him against his sins, warns him of s guilt and forcasts a judgment and a doom. ¢ is this fact which makes a soil In man's nature into which the seed of divine truth can fall with some prospect of growth. Hence God still secks to awaken him and to save him, and so it comes to pass that each ~ generation has had witnesses of his love. In some form he has sent messages to every generation. Our generation is not in this an exception to the pvast. Weo sometimes fall into pessimism and conclude that our's 1s the most wicked age of the world, and that our community is the most wicked any where to be found. That is probably not true; yet it is sadly true that we are very fur' from being what we should be and might be. The old sin of human selfishness and rebellion against God is hnkln% Oéx new forms of manifestation and calling fo® new treatment. Some of these modern manifestations of human selfishness threaten to destroy the peace and stability of this fair land of ours. If there come not a change for the better; if there can be no influence to keep in check this selfishness; if tho$@™t the bottom of this mischief will neither listen to God, nor to_those who love their fellowmen—then nothing can save us from anarchy and ruin; then indeed dynamite will have come to stay. As a christian_teacher thercfore we must “cry aloud and spare not,” for it comes within our province to deal with the great move- ments and questions of the time, and to show where they run counter to God's laws, and where they violate the brotherhood of man, and if possible to point out the remedy. Let us therefore consider the relation of capital and labor. By a figure of metonomy, capital and labor are put for those who on the one haud own money in large sums and on the other have labor to sell. The relation of these is called “The Labor Problem. To discuss any question intelligently it is necessary that we get a clear conception of it. It is nocessary, therefore, that we understand what is meant, by the labor problem about which so many people are puzzling their brains. It is this: The conflict of the selfishness of the men who own capital, with the selfishuess of the men who have labor to sell. It is not, therefore, a conflict between capi- tal and labor, but the conflict of the selfish- ness of the capitalist and the luborer. Please understand that what I am about to say does not apply to all capitalists, Some of them are grand_illustrations of the wise use of capital and are in no wise connected with those iniquitous schemes which are working 80 much mischief to the country. Letus look first at the- selfishness of capital. I speak first of him because he was the one who took the initiative and is responsible for precipitating the conflict. There is scarcely an avenue of business he has not laid his hands on and appropriated to his own selfish ends. He first began by forming syndicates on rail- roads. He owned a through line and he wauted to compass certain ends, and having large means at command forced a neighbor- ing road to combine with him or go into bankruptey. Thus he laid his silver grip on hundreds of roads and robbed the original builders. Next he forms a pool on freight and travel aud forced all competitors to his terms. Then he forms a pool on the wages of his employes. Not satisfied with filling his Fapacious maw with things pertaiging to the luxurious indulgence of the wealthy, his greed extends to the life-blood of his em- Ployes, and like the lion man-cater, having once tasted blood must continue in 8o doing. So he indulges in trusts, Land trusts, lum- ber trusts, sugar trusts, oil trusts, coal trusts and iron trusts. We often let terms mislead us. Nine-tenths of you in thinking of the socialists find your mind dwelling on a class of people who are blatant in infidelity, desperate in hate, and who are plotting the destruction of property and of law-abiding citizens. Your definition is too narrow, for the cabitalist is a socialist. He is to a large extent responsible for the birth and growth of socialism. Let us sce. What is a socialist! He is onewho forms a trust with other men to compass certain ends or to acquire certain profits. To be concerned in a trust and to be a socialist 15 one and the same thing. Observe. The socialist says to all other people of the world “You shall do as we tell you if we get our way. Your prop- erty shall be occupied and used according to our notions, You shall conduct by our rules. You shall do a c of work and receive so much pa this is what the majority of every trust says to the minority. They dictate to the minor- ity the price at which they sball sell their productions and the amount they shall re- ceive for their labor. Suppose, for instance, that 100 canning establishments in Nebraska are all dping well, They are living and lett- ing live. But sixty of them determine that they are not making money fast enough; so they form a trust. They say to the other forty who are satisfied, **You join us, we will then limit production and we'll run up the price of our goods 50 per cent, 1If, however, you will not join us we'll put the price down 50 per cent and we'll bankrupt the last one of you.” The other forty yield and the public are robbed, We must all understand that if are not till- t {(t‘nm'ul introduction of ma- chinery, that syndicates, pools and trusts be- came possible. Before the days of ma- chinery there wasno labor problem, although there was both capital and labor. Thus it comes topass thatallthis conflict is produced by the men who own machinery, and those who work it forpay. The owners wish to get as large profits at as _little outlay as pos. sible, and the men who do the work wish to et as much pay for as little work as possi ble. hus the selfishness of the machine owner comes in conflict with that of the ma chin Remember capital without labor to develop it is useless, and labor with- out capital to sustain it must perish. Let us, therefore, quit all this foolishness and wickedness of cultivating a conflict between capital and Jabor. It is only when the selfishness of the employer or ployed al ters the normai relation that a conflict en- sucs, The laborer is guiity of the same thiug for which he condems the capitalist He forms trusts to accomplish certain cuds for him- self against the capitalist. He wants to force his cmployer 10 come to bis terms and to do as he says. Often violence, outrage wnd to his fellow laborer who refuses to do as the Trust says. Indeed all trusts, whether of employer or employed means 4 surreuder of personal liberty and is iniquitous in its con- ception and disastrous usually. Hegp are 1,000 men employed at fair wagos, 600 of them form a trust and put the wages up and jand that the employer shall do as they say aud that the other 400 shall t the sime wages as they have demanded or they shail not work at all. So by violeuce, or in timidation, the contented laborer is placed into enforced idleness and his fawily made 1o suffer more or less. Thus the laborer re peats the iniguity ina ated by the capl talist. The loss in“money in the late strikes is & very inconsiderable part of the whole loss, tho’ that itself is amazing—the loss o the Brotherhood, the loss to bu. the disturbance of comwmerce, the bre howes, the hostility wnd ' strife all these things entails tearful responsibility and guilt fou those -who caused this evil there sbould be abundant light shed upor 2t Many remedics have boen suggested, but T shall noto only thase. 1t is proposed : 1. Lot congross and the several states en- actan arbitration law which shall require the submission of grievances to a board of arbitration. Let it be 8o that the employer cannot cut down wages without the sanction of this board that it is necessary; and let it bo 5o that the employed cannot put up wages nor inaugurate a strike without the approval of this voard. 2. Co-operation is proposed as a panacesa. The laborer is to share the profits of the fac- tories (or railroads) on certain conditions, Yet the employer is still to dotermine how far and how long the workman is to share i the profits, Tt s still the interestof the owner, and not of the workman, which is to determine the profits the workman shall share, This vory co-operation may bo turned by the owner into the means of oppressing the workman. We can soe that while this plan might for a time allay the symptoms (of strikes), it will not reach the disease itself. Is there, therefore, no remedy of universal application! 1 answer yos; it is “Love worketh no ill to his neighbor. The law ot love is the only one which can touch the disease.” Let love take the {:luce of selfishncss, and let the golden rule e the basis of every contract between the workmen and owner. Instead of having empioyes sign a_contract not to_quit work except upon ten days notice, nor for the em- loyer to discharge without such mnotice, let both sign the *‘golden rule.” ‘It containg the sum of all wisdom and the solution of all social evils and the ills of every individual soul.” There has never fallen from lip or pen of any statesman of any age such political lom as that which Paul gave to the Golations when he said, “Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill tho law of Christ.” I call on workmen, statesmen and capitalists to ponder these words. When this law becomes incorporated mmto human business, when employer and employed, capitalist and laborer do indeed bear one another's burden, then shall strikes coaso from off the earth, dynamite bo forgotten and the rich and poor will meet together in one common brotherhood before the Lord, the maker of them all. I know one factory where this principle has been applied for forty years, and such a thin, as a ‘strike” has mnever occurred because the owners, moved by this principle, have always provided good wages, good homes, good schools, d churches, preach- ors and librariaus, and surrounded their peo- ple with influences both healthful and hap- piness producing. And when times wero hard, they remembered the days when profits were good, and so run the factory at a daily loss for months rather than discharge the men, who bad nothing but their wages be- tween their families and want. If theso princivles of love cannot remedy these evils and solve the labor problem, then God does not know the human race which he created. To say that the gospel is visionary and impracticable is to say that God does not understand the world and has given it laws which will not work among men. Love to God and love to men—that will solve the con- flict between capital and labor, Let us re- turn to the old plane of the brotherhood of men and believe that God knows best what is wisest and what will work best in the world he has made. —_———— Education and the Employment of Children. Eliza F. Andrews. For years the world has been on a moral crusade against the employment of children in mines and factories, while the far greater evils that result from the mothers going out as wage- earners have attracted comparatively little attention. Labor, within certain limits, is good for the child, giving it a wholesome moral discipline, and train- ing it for the business by which it is to earn its livelihood; but, when a married woman has toneglect her natural duties for the responsibilities that properly be- long to the other sex, it is time for hu- manity to protest in the name of her offspring. No one individual can fnlfill tisfactorily the double or, I should , the triple function of bearing and rearing children, and providing for their maintenance. T am a laboring woman myself, and have met with somo success as a breadwinner; and I know that the conditions of performing this function satisfactorily are quite incom- atable with those arduous and import _ nt duties which make such heavy de- mands upon every conscientious mother, especially among the poor. In the homes of the very poor there are no hired servants to keep the housechold running smoothly while the mistress is away. The wife of the laboring man is frequently cook, nurse, house-inaid, laundress, all in one; and if she must go out as a breadwinner besides, what is to prevent the domestic engine frem running off the track and getting itself hopelessly ditched? Of the two evils, if both are evils, I am persuaded that it is better that the child should 2o out to labor than the mother. Liberty, uncurbed by the check-rein _of parental restraint, 1sa more than doubtful blessing, for the loss of which the child that takes its moth- er’s place in the shop or the millis more than compensated by the advan- tage of having her care at home. It is of far greater importance to the physi- cal and moral well-being of the child that it should have aclean, well-ordered bome to receive it outof working hours, than that its working hours should be abolished. The real hardship to the children of the poor lies not in setting them ecarly to learn the wholesome lesson ~ of labor, but in leaving them to grow up amid the discomforts and dangers of a neglected home, while the mother is bestowing upon loom and spindle the cure that is the natural birthright of her httle ones, But here we are confronted with the question of education, and it will be asked, How is the child ever to learn anything if put to wo R considerations, however, need prc no veal difficulty, if we could once rid oursclves of those narrow views of education which bound it by the walls of the schoolroom, and can sce no of learnnig anything except by getting it out of a book. Education, in the proper sensc of the word, is that course Qf training which will best fit an individual for the busi- ness of life, or, to speak more aceu ately, will best enable him to adjust himself in harmony with his environ- ment, The kind of education that is best for any person will depend, the fore, very much upon what his onment is to bei and as it cer cannot be maintained the envir of the majority of mankind is such as to require a very grent amount of book- learning, it may reasonably be asked whether some of our populgs theories of education do not need remodeling, By this I do not mean that our facilities for higher education should be in any way diminished, but only that v hould use a little more diserimination in applying them, and bestow the highest advan- tages where they ave likely to do most good, Many well meaning teachers labor under the idea thut they must spend their best energies upon dull pupils and g0 on for years throwing away their time in trying to accomplish what the home- ly wisdom of our fathers has pronounced the impossible task of making ilk purse oat of & sow's ear.” ‘I your sow’s ear, clean it and comb it and make i as decent and reputable a sow’s ear out of it as you can, by all means, but don’t put your gold and pearls into it under the belief that it is gille purse. As our Georgia farmers say, put your guano on your best land and you will get a paving cron. Lach department of the world’s work can be best curried on by those who are fitted for it, The intellectual ‘work, like o other, can be ied on with success only by those who h some capacity for it, and, by bestowing | an olaborate intellectual training upon all alike, without regard to natural qualifieations, we damage both the stata and the individual—the state, by wast- ing its resources in unremunere ative intellectual products; the ine dividual, by leading him into ficlds where he is forced into competition with those better equipped for the struggle for existence, and against whom, by the inexorable law of the “survival of the fittest,” he has no chance to contend with success. Where ronhlo have money to pay for the education of their children, there i¢, of course, no remedy; and in our private schools and colleges we may ox- pect always to see rich blockheads grinding through the processof what they call getting an education; but where the staie pays the cost it has a right to soe that its monoy is spent so as to sccure the greatest benefit to all con- corned. This ean bo done by a rigid system of grading, each school being a stepping stono to the next highor. Leta cortain standard of scholarship bo re- quired in each grade as a condition of entering the next higher, and let all who do not come up to this standard pass out to the factory, the workshop, the plow the wheel, the lathe—to what- ever, in fact, is to be their life’s work. The requirements in the lower grades should not be too high, and every one should have an opportunity of learning to spell, read, and write, with some- thing of the four cardinal rules of arith- matic; but after that the standard should be rapidly raised, so as to weed out all but the best material before reaching the high school, and thus avoid the great economic mistake of turning into poor scholars material that might have made good artisans and mechanies. Under such a system, the weary mass of juvenile mediocrity that cumbers our high schools and Keeps down their standard of scholarship would be switched off early on the right track; for, since the vast majority of the hu- man race must live by the work of their hands, it is quite ns important that the hands should be educated as the head. Schools of technology are necded for h of this class as may be destined to callings requiring special skill, such as architecture, joinery, engraving, and the like; but, for the rank and file of hand-workers, I question whether the mill _and the workshop are not the best schools, To many they are the only available ones, ¥ur tho families of the vel:i’ poor can ill afford to sustain non-producers, and to them it is essential that the labor of every member should be directly remunera- tive, _If we take this broader view of educa- tion, there is no reason why its claims should canflict with the humane em- ployment of children in work suited to their strength, at a comparatively early age, and there are cases where the en- actment of laws against it would be a positive cruelty to the children them- selves. Especially is this true where keeping them at home would neces- sitate the mother’s going out to labor. Unmarried foemales can work as bread- winners without detriment to them- selves or to society; and the ever-in- creasing band of “superfluous” women, which is so significant a feature of our advancing civilization, 18 quite suffici- ent to supply all demands for female labor without calling mothers away from their natural post of duty. 1t is not a matter of mere sentiment to reserve the mother’s time and labor for her children, but of sound political economy. There is no question of greater importance to the state than the training of its future citizens; and a home where thrift, clean- liness, and good government prevail, with that moderate amount of domestic comfort which the hand of a tidy woman can impart to even the most meagre surroundings, is a more powerful factor in the production of a good education than all the schools in Christendom. I have often been struck, in the schoof room, with the vast difference that ex- ists bbtween well-mothered children and those poor little Ishmaelites who, through want of either time or capacity on the part of the mothér are left to scramble along the path of life as best they may. The teachers, with all our books and methods, cannot lead a child even to speak corrcetly, when it hears nothing but bad Hngllsfx at home: how. then, can our endeavors, temporary uud intermittent as they must be, counter- act the demoralizing influence of the shiftlessness and disorder that prevail in a home from which the mother is al- bsent? It is beside the mark to t that the mothers themselves often s0 ignorant and thriftless to make their presence littlo 1o be desir in any home; can we expect to find models of the domestic virtues among those who have never had the opportunity to prac- tico them? Waeall know that there are foolish and incompetent mothers in every walk of life; but would anyone, therefore, argue that it is good for chil- dven in general to be deprived of the care of their mothers? Such faults of the poor as arise from lack of oppor- tunity we may hope to correct; those that are inherent in human nature I leave to the moralist, as beyond the scopo of this paper, A Strange Romanc Maud St. Pierre is in the backwoods of Conreuho county, Alubama, says a special dispateh to the St. Louis Globe. Her history has been going the rounds of the press, but her whercabouts were unknown until to-d: Four years 0go there was quite a sensation because of the di e of John W. Neul, of Huntsville, Ala., private sceretary to Miss 8t. Pierre, said 1 be a lady of wealth, ut occurred at Ander- Station, Tenn., whore Miss St. Pierre was startling the people by nsactions in mineral lands, Miss St. Picrre deeply grieved over the loss of Neal, and presently she, too. dis- appeaved. /There were ramors that the woman had murdered the man she loved. The middle of April last the skeleton remains of Neal were found at the base of a cliff near Anderson sta- tion, and it was presumed that he met death Dby falling over the precipice while intoxicated. Information obts that Miss St. P Tennessee w m, Fla., where she remuined until her funds gave out. She left several large trunks as security for board, but when these were opened they were found to contain nothing but wood. In January, last year, she ar- rived in Conreuho county to take charge of a school, but did not receive the posi- ok lodging with an old remained until last month, they receiving nothing in the way of pay but a draft on Colonel Cranton, of Washington, said draft not to be pre- sented until June. During her stay she went extensively into the purchase of timber. She made large contracts, embracing thousands of acres, which went by default lately. She he moved fifteen miles back of Brewton, where she secks the greatest seclusion, Although handsome, finely educated, gifted us a musician and always fash- lonably dressed, she associates exclu- ¢ ‘with the illiterate. The people is now with are trying to get rid of ned recently shows after leaving o ‘Phe city council of Leon is stil! at work ou ie light question. I'he localion hos not yet been decided, but severy s ure in view.