Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 6, 1888, Page 4

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THE T F!nu»n‘v bos. ool B Toschiek, secretary of The Bies Pab- Mehing company, does solemnly swear that the actinf cirenAtion of the Daily Bee for the Week ending June 20, 188, was as follows® Faturday, Jane S, ... Ennday, June 24.. Mond; June 24 Tuesday Wednesda: Nebraska, of Donglns, Average, Eworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 3uth day of June, A, D., 1888, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, ! County of Douglas, | it George B, Tzschuck, being fivst do deposes and says that he issecretary of Tt Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of ' the Daily Bee for the month of July, 187, was 14,03 coples; for August, 15 J0ehi0 eoplest November, 1887, 16,20 copie 1687, 16,041 ' copies; for January fes:' for Febranry, 1888, 15,7 copiie: 1888, 19,080 coples: for April, 1858, 18,744 cop for May, 1858, 18181 coples; for Jine, 188, 1 i St GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Rworn '{! ‘N‘ffll’t!‘ me and l“\‘l.\l, “:‘:g in my resence this 3uth day of June, . 1888, b No B, PEIL Notary Public, AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION 20,057 Total for the Week - - - 140,400 OTur conl barons have put up the prices of conl another notch. There is a sus- picion, however, that “Old Probs.” is not a party to this deal. e tee—— Wit three mammoth hotel projects pulling at each other the prospect that any one of them will materialize this season is not very encouraging. THESE may not be dog days but they ave cortainly hog days. It tickles the Nebraska hog to death to hear the corn fairly snap and shoot up under the July sun. Tue Chinese scare so vigorously worked by the democrats to injure Gen- eral Harrison, reminds one of the bunko shops trying to work their “‘green goods” off on an honest farmer, Mg, C. E. MAYN respeetfully re- minded that his usefulness on the board of public works has been seriously im- paired by some of his unfortunate trans- actions. The sooner he steps down the better it will be for all concerned. i G railroads have pub- lished reports of their earnings for the third week in June and they show a gain of 6 per cent in gross earnings for that week. This does not look as if ‘““‘granger legislation” was ruining the Tue courts of Towa have decided that liquor brought into that state from an- other in original packages is not a vio- lation of the prohibition law, The “orginal packages” in most instances are pitchers of beer carried from Rock Island, Ill., into Davenport, Ta. —_— SENATOR SHERMAN has written a warm letter to General Harrison con- gratulating him upon his nomination. This puts an end to the caviling of democrats that Ohio’s favorite son will not take his coat off and work for the victory of the republican party. Tue old board of education has taken great pains to forestall the new board by not only hiring all the teachers and janitors for the next year, but also fixing their salaries. Jnasmuch as the new board is to assume its functions néxt Monday the action of the old board is, to say the least, decidedly discour- teous, MAYOR Broarci has politely re- quested Mr. Mayne to resign from the board of public works, but Mayne de- flantly declines to step down, and calls upon-the council to decidé who, in its opinion, is better fitted tor their re- gpective positions, himself or the mayor. Such impertinence from a sub- ordinate official to the chief municipal executive not ouly calls for severe rep- rimand, but would justify Mr. Mayne’s summary dismissal, even if his conduct in other respects did not warrant his dismissal from the board, in the inter- est of good government, In the light of the notorious relations that have for months existed between the president of the Mayne bank and councilmen who are stockholders and directors of that famous financial instution, we must con- cede that in calling on his partners to uphold his conduct Mr. Mayne has ex- hibited more adamantine cheek than is possessed by the average government mule, emm—eee—— CnICcAGO is rapidly forging ahead of Pittsburg as a center for the manufs ture of steel rails, The Lake City is superior to Pittsburg in being nearer to the Lake Superior ivon mines, and in that way can offset the advantage pos- gessod by Pittsburg situated in the conl district, While the Pittsburg mills are having trouble in arranging a scale of wages, and have shut down in conse- quence, Chicago is running its steel wills to their full capacity, The re- lation of these citics to each other finds its parallel in the disadvantagesof Chicago in the beef and pork packing industry. Chicago is losing ground in this business. The natural advantages possessed by Omaha and Kansas City by reason of their location in the great corn belt offset the facilities possussed by Chicago as a beef and pork market, As Pittsburg will eveutually yield the stec! working business to Chieago, so that city will in a comparatively short time transferits packing house business to the cities where hogs and cattle can be brought the moest readily and at tho least expense. 2 Cleveland, Hill and Whitney, A strong movement is said” to have developed in New York in favor of ma ing Secretary Whitney the democratic candidate for Governor. It is not un- likely that Mr. Whitney has an ambi- tion in this direction, and for obvious reasons. Four years hence New York is quite as certain to be the pivotal state for the democracy as it is this year, and the man whose fortune it shall be to occupy the gubernat office meantime, if a democrat, will have a commanding advantage in the next national demoeratic convention. From this political pointof view, the governorship of New York is the most important position in the country after the .presidency. Mr. Whit- ney is ambitious of political clevation, and if he could attain the executive office of the Empire state ‘his chance of reaching the highest politi- cal eminence might be greatly in- creased. Asa cabinet officer his op- portunities are no better than those of his associates. He must establish his popularity by reaching an eiective of- fico, and nothing less than the gover- norship would satisfy him, For these reasons it is more than probable that Mr. Whitney would be very willing to accept the demoeratic nomination for governor of New York this year. In this, as in all other matters affect- ing the democratic party at present, the desire and influence of Mr. Cleve- land will dominate, These, it would seem, should be fav: orable to Whitney as agains Hill. The latter is supremely anxious to sceure arenomination. With this end in view he has played the part of a demagogue in relation to several most important matters of legislation with which a large, and perhaps a controli- ing, element of the 'New York democ- racy is not in sympathy. He has also within the past two months lost no op- portunity to put himself in favor with Mr. Cleveland by studied laudation. But it can hardly be doubted that the president has no confidence in the pro- fessed friendliness of Hill. He knows that the governor was insiduously and persistently intriguing against him until he discovered the hopeless- ness of hi efforts, and he must understand the utter selfish- ness that prompts his present pro- fessions of unqualified regard and loy- alty. Furthermove, Mr, Cleveland cannot afford to be magnanimous in the present contest. In order to be suc- cessful he must not lose a single trick. The mugwump allies of the democracy in New York will in no event support 1 Hill. The orgaus of that clement have given timely warning that if he is re- nominated they will oppose him. They would, however, welcome Whitney, as his nomination would relieve them of the embarrassing necessity of slapping the democracy with *one hand while patting it with the other. Mr. Cleve- land undoubtedly hasa high estimate of the voting value of this element, and it is to be supposed that he will desire to have it entirely sati fied. There would, perhaps, be less danger in sacrificing Hill than inallow- ing the independents to become disaf- fected. The democratic friends of the governor could doubtless all be relied on to fall in line the day of election, however vigorously they might kick before that time, but the mugwumps need most careful and disereet groom- ing to keep them in the traces. It would p lace them in an exceedingly awkward position if they were com- pelled to make a fight on the head of the state democratic tieket while en- dorsing the national ticket, and the ef- fect could hardly fail to be a detrimént to the democratic cause. The situation is an interesting one to republicans, and it presents a dilemma which may give Mr. Cleveland some annoyance and embarrassment. It would seem evident, however, that Secretary Whitney is a more available candidate, under existing reum- stances, than Hill, and if he desires the nomination he can probably secure it. — A Trust to be Sued. Some two months ago the Attorney General of New York heard arguments on petitions urging him to bring suit against the sugar trust, and after cave- ful deliberation.he has decided that a prima facie case against the combin tion has been established, and that an action may be begun to restrain it from acting as a corporation and performing corporate ucts without authority of law. It is therefore probable that at an early day an investigation of the sugar monopoly will be commenced in the courts of New Yorlk, and the state laws relating to corporations be tested. It is believed that the statutes are ample, if faithfully enforced, to protect the peo- ple against these combinations, They arevery plain and explicitin defining the rights and obligations of corporations, all of which are violated when they practically surrender theiv franchises by becoming absorbed in atrust, The New York Zines thus describes the sit- uation: The corporatiens which have been merged into and absorbed by the sugar trusts have, like otherccorporations, boen doing business upon franchises granted by the people. They asked for certain privileges and powers, and the people granted their appli- cations under the restrictions which have been mentioned, They have grossly abused those privileges and powers to the injury of the people who granted them, and now the charters should be recalled or aunulled, Docs anyone believe that these asso- clations of sugar refiners could have obtained franchises if they had said: “We intend to unite these corporations in a wonopoly organization in order that the peo- ple shall be deprived of the benefits of com- petition and shall be compelled to pay the prices we may choose to exact?’ Ungues- tionably the franchises would have been withheld. Now that the corporations have united to oppress the people, those who granted the franchises should take them away. They have been robbed by a ring of corporations which they themselves created, and these corporations have clearly broken the agreement under which they obtuined their privileges. The people reserved the right to punish them for a violation of that agreement, and the penalty should now be exacted. As we have heretofore said, the sugar trust is ome of the most arro- gant and insolent of the numer- ous combinations against the in- terests and wellave of the people, and it isof the highest importance to ascer- tain through the courts whether exist- ing inw furnishes the people any pro- tection against its rapacity and exac- tions. If this eombination ghall be shown to be an unlawful conspiracy, injurious to trade or commerce, the re- sult will bo a death blow to all similar combinations. For this reason the pro- posed suit pos es an interest for the whole country. "Apvicks from New York report a very confident feeling among the re- publicans of that state. The organiza- tion of the party is said never to have been better, there is entire harmony in support of the national ticket, and the determination is to make the campaign one of the most vigorous in the histor of the state. On the other hand there is reported to be a good deal of demo- cratic disaffection. There is an ele- ment in the party which has not thus far been brought to feel kindly toward Mr. Cleveland, and the implacability of which is quite as likely to increase as diminish. These are the strong ad- herents of Hill. Greatly disappointed at their inability to make him the presidential candidate, and fearing influence of the ad- ministration may be thrown against his renomination for governor, for which they have some reason, Yhey have anything but a friendly fecling for the man in the white house. It is said, also, that there is not complete unanimity among the mugwumps in support of Cleveland. Apparently all features of the political situation in the pivotal state are of a nature to encour- age the republica now that the ATTORNEY G IRAL LEESE wants to know where the farmers are and why they don’t put in an appearance at the meetings of the state board of transpor- tation. The farmers of Nebraska are tending to their crops and trying to raise enough corn to help the railroads in keeping up their oil-room lobby at Lincoln. The Nebraska farmer is a farmer, not a lobbyist. The Knights of Labor and the trades unionsare to be congratulated uvon the success of their Fourth of July celebr tion. Every feature of their extensive programme was carried out to the let. ter, and was equal to the high standard of excellence which has heretofore chavacterized similar celebrations by those orders. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska, Norfolk citizens have organized a building and loan association. The prohibitionists of Otoe county will hold a convention at Unadi! uly 19. A wolf was shot on the streetsof Nebraska City last Tuesd. It was an escaped pet, Nuckolls county farmers are reported to be obliged to climb telegraph poles to see if their corn is still growing. The Norfolk National bank has declared an annual dividend of 214 per cent and added $1,000 to its surplus fund. John Limpkey, afarmer living near Mt. Clarr, was droavned while bathing in a pond. He leaves a family of ten children. The Holdrege creamery and cold storage company has been organized, and the plany will be in running order within sixty days. The mayor of Nebraska City broke up a proposed slugging match advertised for the Fourth by refusing to grant a license for the show. A horse thief stole a bay gelding from S, G. Wilcox, living mear Gothenburg, last week, but left an old gray mare as part com- pensation for the owner. Palmer Blake, a Johnson county farmer, had his arm caught in a corn sheller aud the flesh ground to a jelly between the cogs. The shock prostrated him, but he will re- cover. iperior Journal has changed hands, N. C. Pickard, who has conducted the paper for three years, retiving, and J. D. Stine, a ‘gentleman from Ohio, stepping into the edi- torial harness. A little child of Frank McCormick of Nor- folic drank some concentrated lye about ten days ago, and after terrible suffering died on Saturday. Tho lye was in a can on the floor near where the mother was scrubbing. A farmer at Vesta has discovered a remedy for apple trees afilicted with blight. As soon as tho top of a tree shows that blight has struck 1t ho bores a small hole in the body of the tree and fills it with sulpher, after which the hole is securcly sealed or plugged up. A Scotiayoung man who drives a milk cart. bought his wedding clothes the other day, and to keep them from the dust placed them in an empty milk can. When he started on his rounds the next morning he forgot all about the wed- ding garments and filled the can with milk, When the lacteal fluid was dumped at the creamery and was found to contain consider- able solids in the way of broadcloth the rage of the young man knew no bounds. He sold the milk for cheese, however, and has m- vested the returns in another suit of clothe: which he will wear on the auspicious o sion if he don’t forget the date. lowa, “No politics to be talked here,” is_the motto over the county auditor’s office at Mus- catine, All the “blind pigs” at Gilman were raided just beforc the Fourth and the liquors con- fiscated. The town had a very dry celebra- tion. A fakir has faked all the spare cash of Towa City suckers with a salve made of soup and warranted to curc all the ills to which human flesh is heir. A musical association has been formed at Cedar Falls by some of the best business men of the city. Tho managemest has plannca a summer school of music to commence July 16 and continue one month, A gas pipe bomb, with the fuse burned to the plug, was found Sunday at the house of Captain Powers, a_prohibition lawyer in New Hampton, Ho has frequently received anonymous and threatening letters, A man's lower lip is valued at £2,000 in Towa. A man named Carney has just been awarded that amount of damages at Allison against William Harper, who chewed off the covering of the former’s jaw in u light. Dakota. Arlington's creamery sends 1,500 pounds of butter every week to New York, Bums and loafers have almost captured the streets of Sioux Falls, and the police are kept busy locking up those who have as- saulted ladies, Prof. I. C. Eastman retires from the chair of ancient lauguages at the Mitchell univer. sity to accept u similar position in Upper lowa university at Fayette. A number of German families from Russia have this spring joined their friends in Fos- ter and Eddy counties. Almost every acre of broken land in the two counties is in crop, and a large amount of new breaking is now under way. Custer county is having a little county- seat excitewent, which, with political mat- tors, will tend to wmake things Lively in that part of the Black Hills. The puupfn in the eastern part of the couuty want to move the county seat from Custer, and bave peti- tioned for an election. But here the trouble commences. The agricultural part of the county has three aspirants—Buffalo Gap, Hermosa and Fairbura, Lou Bowman and Ma¥or Pratt, of Aber- dcen, staunch represcatatives of the two greal political parties, drew up and sub- scribed to a unique election het recently, In case of the re-election of the present incum- bent of the presidential chair the aforesaid party of the first part will polish the amply proportioned boots of the mayor in the posi- ofice lobby the day after the election at a stated hour. In case of republican success she bet will be carried out vice versa. The public will see that the bet is not forgotten, GEN. VAN WYCK'S- SPEECH. raws and Brain Talks s Admirers. Champion of to THE SENATOR AT HIS BEST. A Masterly Oration Listened to By a Patient and Perspiring Throng at Jefferson Square on the Morn- ing of the Fourth, In deference to the wish of many of those Wwho listened to the oration of General Van ‘Wyck on the morning of the Fourth, and for the benefit of those who were unable to hear it, Tur Ber prints it in full. Upon being in- troduced, the general spoke ds follows: My Fellow Citizens: More than a century ago, amid the pains or na tional chilabirth, a republic was born with scarce 8,000,000 population and thirteen feeble colonies stretching along the wild and rocky Atlantic. The inland seas only echoed the seream of the wild fowl and their bosom was ruffled by but the frail bark of the red man, or vexed by the tempest in its wrath, The father of waters and the turbulent Mis- souri rolled their tribute to the sea, watering 10 white man’s cabin in their thousands of miles’ meandering, The mighty prairies had never been touchied by the hand of intelli- went industry, their "grasses came and withered, their flowers bloomed and decayed, as when the great Creator unrolled them from his omnipotent hand. None but the savage had contemplated the grandeur of the mountains beyond, while summer had festooned their sides with all the beauty which foliage and flowors can bestow, and winter cpvered their summits with mantels of purity. Yet from the boginning, the ages had paesed thom by in solitude, Then in ail the world steam was a hidden power, 'The lightning was only a flash of the Almighty coming in mystory and vengeance, To-day thirty-eight linked empires streteh our domain from ocean to ocean, steam pel forming the labor and lightning whispor the thoughts of men; while within our bor- ders are exhibited all that brain and hand have achieved for the world. Ttwas comparatively easy for the wmen of this generation to hazard their property to save such a country, for we knew 0St, its excellence and beauty; to put in peril fo to preserve the union of states, securing free govornment, We fought for blessings in possession, for prineiples that were bearing clusters of frait and sheaves of vipened grain, The wilder- ness of our struggle was in the heart of the promised land whose benefits we had enjoyed 80 many years. But the fathers fled from Beyptian crueltics—over the Red sea—str gled in the wilderness with only soul glimpses of the Canaan beyond. Their con- test was for enjoyments in expectancy. They were not surrounded by the well-tilled fields and flowering meadows of the promised land. They fought for principles, with results an experiment. We fought for principles and an inheritance grander than ever enjoyed by any people. Columbus on the deck of the Pinta, as tho faint outlines of the new world rallied the sinking hopes of the sailors, vresents a pi ture the world will ever admire, but near two centuries later Robinson and the Pil avim band on the deck of the Mayflower, in the rigors of winter and a_northern climate, make another scenc awakenmng the same feeling of of admiration but a deeper thanksgiving and gratitude. in a spirit of adventure and to r sion revealed to him, in secking o new passige to the Indies discovored a new world. But the pilgrims would brave the dangers of the deep, and inhospitable win- tor, the merciless savage. 8o enjoy freedom of conscicuce, and here establish “a_church without a bishop; a state without a king.” Nearly two centuries later the same spiri was manifest among the men gathered at Philadelph July 4, 1876, when they pro- claimed the same doctrine and pledged to each other life, fortune and sacred houor in defense of the declaration that the colonies should be free and- independent, and that all men were born equal, thhs declaring the free- dom of the nation -und the equality of the citizen, They fel, “Whether in the prison drear, or fu the battle's van, The fAittest place for man to die, is where he des for man.” That generation has long since “gone down to the grave, but they will never bo forgot- ten. Time will give lustre to their names and deeds. Thus has it ever been, The flery courpge of Greoce, the stubborn brav- cryof Rome, has been’ sung in every lan- guage. The pass of Thermopylac will out- last the literature of ages. Italy, from the shores of the Adrintic; Switzerland, from the peaks of the Alps: the land of Bruce, from her moors and highlands, will be venerated where liberty bas soldicrs and. patriotisia a shrine, The prominent character of the pilgrims has manifested itself at _cvery crisis in our history. After the battle of Lexington un English officer passing among the slain, dis- covered calmly sleeping in death, a_musiot by his side, a voluntoer, whose head, white with the frosts of age, was yet crimsoned with his own life'sblood, ' Gazing and doubt- ing the justice of his country's olaim, “Heavens,” he exclaimed. “when and wherc will a contest oud _that brings such cham- pions to the field” Nearly a century later a_ representative of the samo principle and courage was_scen in_the hospital after the battle of Lookout mountain. A mere boy a stripling in size and years, was fatally wounded and his life blood slowly ebbing away. A friend asked him where he was wounded. “Almost up,” moun tain side. But where were you hit1" Just at_the top, sir,” ho roplied, and his spirit passcd in roviéw bofora the graat cap. tain, aud in the spiritland ho jotned the ranks with the gray-haired volunter of Lexing- ton. As we look back into the past we can cely realize consequences so important from causes so insignificant. It is said that the ccho of a pistol shot in the Alps will sometimes start from its place the slumbering svalanche which for years has been hanging poised upon some rugged cliff and it goes thundering down_ the mountain side, crushing in its path and tear- ing madly in the plains below. 8o the echo of the first gun fired on Sumpter dislo dged from its position fthe avalanche of slayery where forages it had rested. Through wars' carnage it goes crushing everything before it. In deep furrows its course is murked in the plain below until melted and wasted its debris only is left to show of its horror and murk the desolation 1t has produced. Liberty on this continent will be preserved while this great nation bows 1n humble ad- oration and uncovers at the sun rising of he said, pointing to the this glorious anniversary day, venerating the spirit as well as the symbol, which typifies all that makes life a joy and benediction. citizens of the republic we have a right boast. As to The great privileges we enjoy will be maintained the more we esteem and o them. When we cease to bo proud of the brilliancy of the gem of universa! liberty it will bo ouly tinsel and a trinket in ov possession, and be wrested from our nerveless ‘hands. It is moot that the old should come and renew strength and hope by recalling all that liberty bas doue for them, and youth should come seeking iuspiration to cherish and defend this boon which cost so much, yet is so frail as to be easily lost. To know its value we must uot forget its cost Po know its permanency we must not forget how easily it may be wrenched from our grasp. The history of all republics attest “both, and shows that this pearl of great price never was taken frow a people until they had ceased to appreciate its value; until they had suffered the concentration of great wealth in the hands of the fow, withdrawing from the wmany the fruits of houest labor, and with the wealth thus acquired to profane the temple of justice, to purchase the halls of legisla- tion, and’ corrupt even themselves in the source and fountain of power, A free people have never been manacled until they themselves have placed in the hands of an oligarchy the material to forge the chains and then cravenly extended their arms to receive the fetters. Taking the ages past, Listory generally presents but one page that of wrong, oppression and suffering. We gaze upon the carth, sea and sky, beautiful 10 the eye and thought, abundant o provide for the wants and admimster to the happi- ness of each, even the humblest, of the hun- dreds of millions living to-day and of the hundreds of thousands of millions eutombed You need not read the record of all th years; only coutemplate one day, this ver; day, among the nations of the earth and realize bow little six thousand yoars have ac complished ‘for the world. F noL yet been found 10 combule the years Lhat | | would be required at this rote of evolution to give all men who are made only a little lower than the angels a full fruition of what they should possess. Again gazo upon tho earth and sea and sky. Tmagine all nations, speak- ing langaages innumerablo,. with divine theories of government and religion. Sepor- ata from them the handfull of rulers and the oligarchigs who rule the rulers, and that vast multitude, without a dissenting voice, would raise one piteous cry that all mei 4 joy what the God of creation intended . dom of thought, of worship, and of govern- ment; freedom from extortion, from rob- bery; the right of every man to the fruits of his labor. Yot the cry of this vast multitude goes unheeded: wrongs and injustice continue. Accumulation of power and wealth tyran- nize to-day as in the early dawn of history, and the masses are still laboring for the fowu The mystery of the problem increases with passing years—how the masses ever consent to bo enslaved—no matter the particular character of the despot or the form of the despotism, The subjection by a foreign conqueror was 1o more galling than that in- flicted by the voice of the people of Israel when they demanded a king to rule over them. You remembor, before the whistle of the locomotive was heard on these trecless plamns, when, breasting the strong current of the Missouri, you would watch some land- mark on the shore to observe the progress of the sturdy steamer, So let us, while breast- ing the waves impeding our national pro- gress, sight landmarks in the world's history 1o note our advance. Strong men jostle each other in tho ranks of toil, boggring the privilege to work for wages barely sufficiont -to sostain wife and children: miners dragging out existence by delving under the earth’s surfacs ucated women in free, christian America wearing their liv away, stitching heart throbs into shirts, receiving for the making, pittance of two or three cents each, How much improved in condition over those who raised corn in Egypt, or tended flocks for the patriarchs 4,000 yoars ago;over the plebeians on the bauks of ths Tibar or tho fisherm an whotm Christ found on theshores of Gallilea? “The world ovolutes slowly. Take an early landmark, the Jewish commonwealth, Note the 4,000 years between, and we wonder that they enjoyed so much, or we so little, ‘and when Abraham left his homo in Babylonia and journeyed to the west to the wilds of Palestine, where ho could enjoy political and roligious freadom; when, s afterwards did the pilgrims on the Mayiflower, in “the con- gregation of Tsracl, sclect rulers by su frage of the people, with schools like our common or parochial schools, with laws to prevent oppression or usnry, and to protect the poor and weak, with a' homestead law giving to each family twenty and ono-half acres of land, which could not be alicnated, and if sold by ereditors would at the fifticth rear, the jubilee year b ored to the or- iginal owner or'his he Apparently, an carly exhibition of commuuism. olu- tion from the time of the Israe- lite has been slow, indeed. Cen- turies later Greece deposed her kings, as- sumed an oligarchy, afterwards a republic. Five hundred years before Christ she was reat in refinement, in literature, in art—the ounder of Buropean el ation, Greece, with a territory no larger than rbraska, with brilliancy and grandenr never excelled, ovoluted back into anarchy. So Carthage, whose founders, driven frobi Tyre, were the puritans, the pilerims of the cast, who: names still adorn the world, from her di height evoluted into decay and death Rome, so long the mistress of the world, d¢ throned her kings, destroyed oligarc bocame a collossal republic, illustrious in arms, arts and eivilization, Following othors she suffered the few to obtain the wealth and the poor to be dependent. The inevitable re- sult followed, and she perished in the moe gulf where other republies were buried, and ag in evolution went bs sy that nations, like individuals, must ‘de- cay and perish? Certainly. But' the world has evoluted only a short distance beyond the Isvuelitish commonwealth, Carthage, Greece and Roin This day manifests wards. Do you thankfulness for all we enjoy, but standing now near the mountain-top of her greatness, shall we not learn from the lesson of the ages? Rome had no homestead law like the Jews, but in her y days a decree was _rende: that no man should 1 to exceed 500 acres, though never repealed, this became a_ dead because the olig: despised and ignored it, and bought up the estates of small landed proprictors, placing them under cul- tivation by slaves or using them for parks and ornamental grounds. In old Rom patriots warned the masses, but the had few influential sympathizer: people had become pow citizens were cultured in Greels philosophy, in history, poetry and the arts, but the spark of independence had perished in the hearts of her people, and the spirit of freedom had been exorcised before Ceasar crossed the Rubicon. We are now face to face with grave prob- lems. Shall we learn the lesson of four thousand years to our benefit or bandage our s and rush madly into the ab; where republics are entombed., True, the teach- mgs of Christ have come between the past and now, but the encroachments of power and the agressions of wealth are the same as then, We must contend with the element of corporate, exacting, law defying power which nover vexed the soul of the Israclites, or the ancient republics, This octopus must be grappled by our time, To secure and con- tinue illimitable wealth, corporations must oxercise absolute power, which they do by dirceting state legislatures and congr ess, the exceutive departments, and too frequently the courts. They are already entrenched, and unless driven out by the intelligence and firmuess of the people, the property of the na- tion,and in time its liberties, will be assail Monopoly sympathizers will affect much he ror at these plain truths. You rememdb when Samuel remonstrated with the Jews: for demanding a king. They heeded not, but reviled nim. When Demosthenes in his phil- lipics attempted to « arouse the Ather iaps to thew danger, some law, employed by the robbers denouiced him as a disturber of the peace of Atheus, For thousands of years. in all forms of gov- ernment, under all skies, with all theories of religion, the contest has been waged be- tween despotism and freedom, between cap ital and lubor. Money has been atthe com- mand of the tyrant. Even in republics wealth has created an aristocracy, and aris- tocracy in the end destroyed liverty. The struggle ever has with the millions gone be- fore, and to-day, been, to secure fair com- pensation for honest toil always a struggle for bread. The spirit of evil was ever fruit- ful in resources, in inventions. When the Good One planted a rose, a blade of grass, a stalk of grain, near by was planted a thorn, a noxious weed and a poisoned flower. 80 in government and society the rulers have been careful that liberty and labor should be re- stricted in its benefits to the strugglors. We boast of free government, o generous civilization, & beneficent religion, yet it is the same old story—evil absorbing and coun- terbalancing the good, by shapimg and con- trolling 1 i \g in that, to openly defy or raint, Corporate power, organized wealth, specially protected interests, when laws cannot satisfy thewr greed, assume the dic- hip, organize pretended trusts and arbi- y coutrol the avenues of commerce, the arteries of travel; and of the necessaries of life dictate the price to be paid the pro- ducer and_the cost to the consumer, so that the extremes are in a measure pauperized, while thetrusts, by a power greater and above law, from the labor of others absorb millions for themselves, Among the an- cionts a similar offense was punished with death, In a republic, where the citizen is amused by bemg told on the Fourtn of July that he is a soverign, a prominent senator on the floor of the United States sena claimed that any power or wneans de: check such villaius would be entitled to a crumb of elory. There is u remedy, if labor in all the hives of industry, in shops, in m on the farm on all the lines of commerce by water and rail, would do as the oppressed do—organize, pue'in actuality that soverignty which 1s too oiten only theory; make their power felt, uot in violence, but at the ballot box and in the creation aud afterwards the enforce- ment of just laws. Be assured there ping giant, but the giant is as the pigy if he never arises from his slumbers, See to it that when aroused he is not guided and controlled by the injustice which he seeks to suppress. Many begin to realize that partisauship is not always patriotism. Sometimes party organi- zation may exist when the spirit which ted coases to animate it. The world learns this lesson now aud then with great intervals between What a mocke only instance where fiery of opinion, sometimes ¢ times politics, was munif when L 58 was appealed 1o and millions of wen, with millions of treasure, carried on the crusades to ‘vescue the holy city and the birthplace and death secae of the Ssviour as powerle Yet it has not been the zeal or from the touch of the Saracen, not realizing that it mattered not if the infidel had posses. sion of the empty tomb where the Saviour had lain and from which He had ended, or even of the wooden cross on which He had #uffered crucifixion and whence was costly transfiguration, Mankind had not learned that it was the risen, living Christ they were to follow, and emulate each other in the good deeds He practiced and in obey ing the new commindment He gave, to love ond another, rather than murdoer women and chiidren at the uth of an empty sepulchre or at the foot of Calvary when no brightness shone from its summit. Men often exhibit a flery, moaningloss de- votion to an organization which once typificd a living principle, after the principle had boen victorious and broken the bands which held it, and ascended in the full fruition of realization. Our fathers know that tho mother country, with all tho prentenses of love and care to the colonies, had grown oppressive, and to save themselves from un just taxation hurled the tea in Boston h bor and defied a power they had herctofore cheerfully obeyed. Their descendants to- day know that injustice is laying its heavy haud upon them, demanding something of the same detormination, not in sacrifice and blood, but in honest offort in the exercies of thoso rights accorded to the citizen, some- times called sovereign. This generation must show manly, intelligont courago, or the next may be compeiled to a sterner struggle. The world changes by slow stages, tyranny ana greed do not willingly recognize the rights of the massses, Now, as in the ages past, tho wenik—the toilers—the hum- ble, secure their rights from tho fears of those who would play despot Nations recognize principles of justico only bocause compelled to, and not, as in the case of England with India and Egypt, because of the brotherhood of man or the fatherhood of God. Hence war ships, forts, enlargod cannon, improved projectiles and increased power of destructives, The poet wrote stern facts, and he was neithor demagogue nor erank when he wrote: Truth forever on the seaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Buv tiat scaffold 8w the future, And, behind the A unknown, Standeth God within the shadows, Keeping watch above His own, To show the steady growth and grasping reach of the influences threatenjug the pros: perity of the individual, you will cortainly pardon a moment, as 1 am satisfiod the dis tinguished author, whose writings nonrly twenty years ago stated stern facts and made prophocics which history has realized, will doubtless feel a natural pride that his writ- ings are so abundantly justified that they can beread m the héari of the continent with the approbation of all citizens of the re- public. He detailed in his chapter on_ Erie what he called tho finan- cial_and ‘political robbery of the people by the purchase of courts and corruption of logislatures, and detailed how Vanderbilt introduced “Civsarism into corporate life,” and “when the judges had degraded them- selves in degrading their order, and mado the ermiue of the supreme justice scarcely more imposing than the motley of the clown, and hud reduced America of the nineteenth century to the level of France of the six- teenth century.” That modern society has ated a class of artificial beings who bid ir soon to be masters of their creators;" + ® uPhese bodics are the creatures of single states, but in New Yorlk, in Pennsyl- vania, in Maryland, in New Jorsey, and not 1 these states alone, they are nlready cstab- lishing despoticisms Which no spasmodic pop- ar cffort will be able to shake off.” * * * system of corporate life and corporate pplied to industrial development 3 nfancy. It tends always to de- velopment, always toconsolidation. 1t is ever grasping new powers or industriously exercising e rt influences,” * * * vory few years more and we shall see cor- as much exceeding tho Erie and the New York Central in both ability and will for corruption, as they will excced their Is in wealth and in lenzth of iron track. poratiol Wo shull scc those great corporations spanning the continent from ocean to ocean. the disconnceted members of future loviathans have built up states in the wilderness and chosen their attorneys, und senators of the United States.” ¥ * # "% &Tho public cor- ruption is the foundation on which corpora- tions always depend for their politic There is 4 natural tendency to coalition bo- tween them and the lowest strata of political intellizence and morality; for their agents must obey, not question. ' They exactsuccess and do not’enltivate political morality. The lobby thrives as political virtue decays. The ring is their symbol of power and the ring is tho natural enemy of political purity and in- dependence.” In his chapter on ‘‘Stock Watering” he says: ‘‘Every experiment which the mind of man can devise has been brought into play to secure to the capitalist the larwest possible profit with the least possible k. The Pacific railroad furnishes a fine example of all these ingenious device: * *% Atthe same time the jeocess of construction afforded a curious example of the methods through which fictitious evidences of value can be piled upon each other.” “The length of the road was 1,919 miles; cost, estimated, was $10,000,000. Yet a stock capital alone was authorized of $100,000,000. No dependence was placed upon this as a means of raising money. It was only a debt to be imposed, if possible, on the future business of &theg country. Ay the close of 1870 the stock and dent amount- ed to 240,000,000, Thus the last results of Van derbilt’s genius have been surpassed at the very outsct of this enterprise, The line from Chicago to New York represents now but £60,000 to the mile as the resultof many years of inflation, while the line between Omaha and Sacramento begins life with the cost of #115,000 per mile. 1t would be uscless to at- tempt to estimate the weight of the burden imposed through these means upon material development.’” 1 would not presume to intrude my own sentiments on this occasion, but I trust it will beconsidered due to patriotism to the sentiments from a conservative and dis- tinguished descendant of revolutionary an- cestors, themselyes distinguished, and at this time president of the Union Pa- cific railroad, Charles Francis Adawms, These earnest and eloquent words of Adums were startlingly true when written, but past events have pointed and emphasized the wonderful revelations he then made. We are again in view of the danger upon us, the more dangerous because there scems uo’ well credited effort to overcome it; but the ma- chinery of party and government is to-day, as twe years ago, too often heid in the grasp of the very influcnces he 60 unspar- y condemned. It'is another admonition that eternal vigi- lance is not only the price of liberty, but honest government. That we are a republic will not of itself exempt us from the injus- tice of power or the avarice andexaction of wealth, Continuous and life struggles can alone preserve from the miserios attending the laws, when is heard the same sad story of life, the toiling, down-trodden miltions, the proud, haughty, despotic few. Rapid as has been the advance of the last century, yet in most nations how pitable is the cry of *the masses struggling for bread. “For men must work and women must weep, There is little 1o earn and many to keep,' The sons of toil from other lands seek ref- uge in our own because here they can pro- cure meat as well as bread. This was our boast, our pride, yet what u sad commentary of the world's history that one of the proud- est boasts of America is that by daily effort meat as well as b 1 would be the reward, This makes the difference between ours and the workingmen of the old world. Ina lund of abundance, where it should be a crime to allow even one to suffer, to sco strong men with iron muscles and sinews of steel toiling through the long, weary day, yet barely se- curing enough to sustain wife and children whom he cherishes and loves with the same fond devotion as the prince in his palace, is as much of a burden as should be imposed. But how fearful when strong men cannot find remunerative employment, to give even crumbs to their children and ' they become beggars on the street or paupers iu the alms- houseand they are feeling “That men must work and women must weep, The sooner 'ti8 over the sooner Lo sleep.” What crimes have society and government committed against man! Yet we are now he- ginning to meet some of the distressing co ditions of the old world,with labor depressed and strong meun seeking for bread Our existence has been a warning to all the despotisins of the earth, that not too rudely must the rights of upon. Hadthe rebellion torn the union in twain and rent tue starry bauner so that this day @s @& union the ublic had ceased, where had been the hopes for the pilgrims of liberty throughout the civilized world! y year the line of veterans of the army, who saved the nation's life, and trust made the union perpetual, becomes aller. The bowed form, the falter siep, the wi d locks and dinmed eyes too plaiuly admonish that the goal of life's journey is ot far away, aud Lavingdis man be trampled | charged life's duties grandly bocome heroos whom the nation delights to honor and are enshrined in the affections and memory of a reatful peoplo. May their last days be of ‘o, but, what is ot greater benefit fo them, may their last days through, not the generosity, but the justice, simple jus- tice of an ho government, bo of plenty Only then will the promises made at the sot of the war bo redeemed. Congress pledged the st man and the last doliar to subduo the revellion. Tho last man will soon be reached,, bt millions before the last dollar 18 firmly held in the treasury from the reach of the soldier, although the dan- gor 6f a surplus disturbs tho dream of states. mon, Thomas, Mead, Hancock, Hooket, Loean, Grant, and nearly all tho great gonerals, have crossed to the other side, where a ma jority of that grand army, with Lincolu at the " head, have answered the roll call, Even now, ono of the noblest of earth’s 'chieftinns—Sheridan, is on the border land of the prosent and fu turo. On the black horse at Winchestor he plucked victory from the jaws of defeat Now the unconquerable rider on the pale horse is demanding the surrender of the great soldier, He 18 disputing the ground With one who claims all as his own, and ral lying his shattered forcos he boldly goes forth and asks the sea for breath, from the north wind and the sonth wind encrgy to his hopo and strongth to his wasting body. As nation we have nover been conquered on the field, Over foreign enomics and do- mestic foes we have always triumphed. Now our prowess speaks in quiet tones to the op pressor, that he must respoct to some extent the rights of men . The moral power of this republic has weakened the exactions of tyranny and light endd the burdens of the masses, even in despotic countries. From our high vantage ground we have stretched forth our mighty arm and beckoned tho nations of the old world to como up higher, and_ irresistably they moved upon a higher planc. Witness the'liberal ideas prevailing in France, Aus- tria and Germany. The mother country, yiolding to the teach- ings of her once rebellious offspring, havo extonded from time to time the right of suf frage, until men on Bnglish soil are more than mere hewoers *of wood and drawers of water, Tt is auspicious of the time when home rule should be established in lreland, and the dying prayer of Emmet be realized “When iny coutry shall take her stand among the' nations” of the carth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written. Even now the Russian soldier as he dreams of home, and the Turk as he bends in wor- ship towards the rising sun and hears tho tiniling of the minaret bells, has vision of the far away land in the wostern world where liberty'is more than aname and where the individuality of man is not lost in the throne. So we have not lived and struggled in vain. Letus be true to the faith within us,which teaches that universal liberty must in'the end bo the bivthright of all peop! The star which guides and is visible to us, may not be secn by other nations. We sec it as did Napoleon when ho unrolled the map of his Italian campaign and showed to his un who doubted the scheme, and said, cams,” Rushing to the window, looking into the sky, and pointing upward, he snid Do you séo that star No," was_the re- sponse. I do,” said Napoleon, ~Faith in his v lod him to'the height of human amb'e m.So faith in the star of our destiny has placed us in the forefront of the nations, aud our mission will not be completed until man shall everywhere be disenthralled: when thrones and crowns shall eramble in the dust, and when governments shall exist only by consent of the governed. May the long line of coming generations al- ceep sacred the flowery banner and allow no hand to touchit in - scorn, or rudely tear apart its folds May they always feel as we do this day: “Tis the flag of America, it floats o'er tho rav "Mis the fajrest unfurled on the land or the waves But (rl|\ulugn Dbrightest in story and watehless in izht, - 'Tis the herald ot merey as well as of might, Inthe cause of the Wronged may it ever be i Where ty buist, RBe justice the war-shout, and dastard is he, Whio would seruble to dio ‘neath the flag of the ree.” ats are humbled and fetters are At the High School. There were 5,000 people in the High School grounds Wadnesday night to witness the dis play of fire works,with which it was intended to close the day. A temporary stand had been erected, and from these the worl exploded. One of the explosions was acei- dental, and a hundred dollars worth of fireworks went off witRout much regularity, but with a ¢ deal of mtensity, causing' d hasty scattering of people. Aside from this, there was nothing to interfere with tho pleasure of the occasion, which retained the peopic on the ground Gl about 10 0'clock at night. s were —— ANTI-FAT. The Schweninger Treatment for Obe- sity in This Country. The system of Professor Ernst Schwen- inger for the treatment of obesity, which was introduced here zbout two years ago, says the New York Sun, has by this time been sufliciently tested to demonstrate that anybody who will de- terminedly follow the regimen pre- it can reduce his flesh toany resonable degree desired, it being un- derstood of course that his physical condition is not suc y red able heart or kidne, sease as Lo make reduction peri Anrd there is ono thing about it that is hard to get used to. Thatis the absolute prohibition of all liquids during meals and for an hour before and an hour after cach meal, It does not m so diftficult to do without fluids to wash down one’s food until it is tried, and the iron pressure of habit in sipping and even gulping water, wine, milk, tea or coffee while eating is real- The very fact of prohibition to make one more intensely and the juiciest food takes on the astringent dryness of chewed pome- granate rind. Of course, one hecomes accustomed to it after awhile, eventu- ally does not feel any desire for Liquids at the prohibited times, and even finds less disposition to drink at any time than he ever had before. Then his re- ward comes, not only in the reduction of flesh, but in a suiprising diminution of the nuisance of perspiration, whieh is the misery of all fat men. It must not be supposed that this shutting off of liquids is the whole of the trentment, though it appears to be the most important requirement. Thut ranking next to it is that one must not gorge with food, especially food in which sugar and starch ure largely component parts The Iron Chancellor still lives by Schweninger rules, and in so doing keeps down his tendeney Lo growing fat, and remains o wonder of vitality and vigor at his advanced age. No longer ago than last April ono of the Sun’s special dispatches told how he re- stricted himself in eating to a light substantial dinner, with s, and only o single glass of wine daily, taken just belore retiving, One experiment” with the bogus system of three pints of water be- fore breakfast by Bismarck would doubtless afford Germany unother first- class funeral, There is no royal road to relief from corpulence that may be travelled with ase and safety, and without sclf-saci Nostrums are from time to time certisod as affording it—such as on now boomed in England, and finding not a few dupes here—but they do not. breakfast and no liguids at m Starvation a la Banting, and the nos- trumn cures that profess wo reduce gluv tons while practicing their gluttouy, if they will only “take a wineglassful at cath meal,” are alike dangerous hum- bug Renouneing liquids scems to be demonstr: the safest and best thing whe anied by due mode ation in eating. Bulin no casc isit ab- solutely safe for a fat person to adopt any really effective measures for reduc- ing weight withoul thorough prelimia- wledge of the actusi seudition