Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 3, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. iy Morning Edition) including SUSDAY, BEg, One Year ‘or Six Months. ‘ot Thres Months WR OMAHA BUNDAY address, One Y ear. OpAnAGIICE N Brx, mailed (o any W14 ANDIIS FARNAM STREET. WK OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 16 TinUN JUILDING. WASHINGTON OFFice, No. 0l FOURTEENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCTE All communications relating tonews and edi. orlal matter should be addressed to the EpiToi ¥ THE BEE, i RBUSINESS LETTERS, All busine: ittances shoul nddressed to Om, ral be mada payable to the order of the compan; "he Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors 1. RO! @worn Statement of Circulation. Btataof Nebraska, 1, County of Douglas, | 8 (George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- Aishing Company, does solemnly swear that the actnal clrenlation of Tie DAILY BEE for the week ending October 27, 188, was as follows: AVOrage. .......oiiiii 1on GEORS 8worn o before me and sn presence this 7th day of October A. D, 1888, Seal. N. P. FEIL, Notary Fublie. Btate of Nebraska, Conuty of Deuglas, ss. eorge B, Tzschuck, heing duly sworn, de. < and says that he is secretary of The Heo lishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of g DAILY BEk for the montn_of October, 1K87, 14,33 copies; for No- vember, Ix7, 15,226 coples; for December, 1857, 15,041 coples; for January, 185, 15,206 copies: for February, 1888, 15,02 coples; for March, 1583, 10,060 coples; for April, 158, 1574 coples; for May, 1888, 18,181 copies: for Jine, 1534, 19,243 coples; for July, 188, 18,03 coples; ' for Augiist, 1589, 18,1K3 copies: foF Septeiber, 1585, was 18,154 ORGE B, TZSCHUC 1 subscribed in my pres- tober, A, D. 18, P. FEIL, Notary Public. _— GOVERNOR THAYER will fight it out an Omana if it takes until the eve of clection day: GOVERNOR THAYER'S spoeches in Omaha are checking the tide which haa sot in against him by reason of cunning misrepresentation and downright slan- der. coples. [t 8worn to before ai ence, this 9th day of ( MR. SACKVILLE WEST at any rate will have his revenge. He will stay in ‘Washington until after the 6th, and send Mr. Cleveland a letter of con- dolence. AT A meeting in the First ward Has- call 18 quoted as asking whether THE BEE is a republican paper. Most em- phatically no, if the border ruffian and ox-covperhead is a model republican. CHAIRMAN Ricmarps of the repub- lican state contral committee is not likely to be asked again to support John A. McShane. His drastic roply to the democratic candidate hit straight from the shoulder. —— ‘WE must apologize in advance to the readers of THE SUNDAY Bk for the space we shall devote to local politics and politicians, It isa military neces- sity at least every two years which knows no Sunday law. REPUBLICANS can only be true to their party by being true to principle. And they cannot be true to principle if they vote to send to the legislature un- principled men whom no prudent busi- ness man would employ to conduct his own affairs. HASCALL is entitled to the benefit of adoubt as to the shooting of a Kansas unionist, but treason and rebellion, which Hascall was aiding and abetting “and for which he was driven out of Kansas, will not be condoned by loyal republicans, even at this late day. OMAHA is directly concerned in the ,character of the men who will represent and make the laws for Douglas county “an the legislature. For that reason it 4s the imperative duty for every citizen, ,who holds the welfare of his home at henrt, to carefully weigh the qualifica- * tions of each of the candidates for whom he will cast his ballot. It 18 reported that the Grant locomo- tive works of Paterson, N. J., arecon- templating moving westward in the ‘spring. The works at Paterson turn out tive hundred locomotives a year,and an enlargement of the plant is proposed in its new location. A number of west- orn cities huve made a bid for the re- “ocation of the works, but no site has been as yot decided upon. Minneapolis is making the strongest endeavors to secure the works by offering a tract of land and other inducements to the com- pany. Omaha should not miss the op- portunity to enter a proposition for the plant, It could name advantages which would have great weight in inducing the removal of the locomotive manufac- tory here. A locomotive works added to our extensive Union Pacific car and machine shops would make Omaha a great manufacturing center for rolling- stock, and would stimulate industry in many directions. *“The park commission shall have power to provide a park system and boulevards, to designate the lands and grounds necessary to be used, appropriated or purchased for such purposes; and to lay out, improve and beau- tify all grounds now ownod or hereaftor to be noquired for public parks to the extent that funds may be provided for that pur- " This was the section in the original charter for Omaha which Frank R. Morrissey, at the head of a ringof lob- byists saw fit to kill. The omission of this park clause has injured our oity, has retarded our prosperity and has checked the plans for beautifying our city with public parks. In the coming legislature the Omaha city charter will be amended so as to include the park clause. But Frank R. Morrissey is op- posed to the measuve. Can suoh a man hope to receive the votes of our citizens when he has manifested his hostility to parks and boulevards in dirent opposi- tion to the wishes of our people? Can any taxpayer give Frank R. Morrissey his support when it is remembered that every foot of land now. taken for park purposes will cost the city twice and thrice asmuch ag it would i the park . elnuse had become a law two years ago? SCRATCH THE RENEGADE. Eight years ago the monopoly cohorts captured the republican state conven- tion and nominated John M. Thurston and James Laird asprosidential elec- tors. In order to vote for Garfield and Arthur, the republicans of Nebraska were compelled to cast their bal.ots for the notocious attorneys and lobbyists of the Union Pacific and Burlington roads. More than two thousand repub- licans who voted for Thurston and Laird did so in violence to their con- scientious convictions and self-respec Thig year the railrond forces, afte being routed in the state convention in the nomination of General Leese, turned in and foisted upon the party as one of the presidential electors, H. C. Russell, who was a spy during the war and proved himself a traitor to the peo- ple in the last legislature. This was done to insult the anti-monopoly repub- licans and at the same time reward a henchman who had proved himself use- ful to the monopolies in defeating Van Wyck and in helping them in all their schemes and jobs. Tt isan open secret that the renegade was made commander of the Grand Army for one year by the influence of the railroad lobby. One of these base creatures even went so far as to communicate the password to Thureton’s oil-room lobbyists, s0 as to enable them to work of the order while the election of state com- mander was in progress in their hall, Now that Russell has been retired he is expected to wield great influence with the next president as one of the clectors whom the republicans of Ne- braska delight to honor. de- pends, however, whether Russell runs at the head or at the tail of the electoral ticket. The republican voters who detest venality have it in their power to adminis- ter a rebuke to Traitor Russell and the monopoly henchmen who have thrust him upon the party in a position which should only be filled by men who command the respect of every honest and reputable citizen. Scratch the traitor’s name off the ticket and reduco his majority to the lowest level. With fully twenty-five thousand majority for the national ticket in Nebraska the party will run no risk in cutting Russell’s majority down below that of every other candi- date on the ticket. Do thisand you will never be insulted again by having a renegade crammed down your throat because convention packers have the vower to do it. Every scratch that Russell receives from republicans, will bo a protest against the base betrayal of the people. members THE REAL DANGER. ‘The monopoly organs and campaign strikers are making frantic appeals to republican voters to vote for disreptua- ble candidates to the legislature for the sake of Manderson. This is all the merest pretense. The railroad man- agers are willing enough to accept Manderson if they can get thewr own men into the legislature. But the peo- ple of Nebraska cannot afford to send men to the legislature who will play into the hands of the monopolies. There is no danger of electing a demo- cratic senator in place of Manderson, but there is great danger that we shall have a railroad legislature and another costly session, with nothing to benefit the people and an enormous increase of taxes for the benefit of jobbers and plunderers. DEMOCRATIC SURPRISES. It was rumored some days ago that the democratic managers had in store a great surprise for the country, the effect of which when announced would certainly be disastrous to the republican party in New York, and seriously dam- aging to it elsewhere. The report was sent out on the authority of a person said to be close in the confidence of the democratic managers,and it was not re- gardod as at all incredible for the rea- son that democratic tactics in the pust have taught the country to expect a resort wo such expedients, particularly when when all regular and fair means are exhausted and proved to be una- vailing. Having in mind the desper- ate situation of the democracy, especi- ally in New York, thore was every rea- son to believe that the managers would concoct something as a last resort to re- tain and catch votes. But we are within three daysof the eclection and the great surprise has not come. It may make its appearance to- day or to-morrow, but obviously if it is to be of any general service to the party it should appear forthwith. We sup- posed when the report came of & purpose to arrest Senator Quay, tne chairman of the na- tional republican committee, on some trumped up charge of offering money to procure illegal registrations, that that was to be the surprise which was to star- tle the country, but if any such purpose was ever entertained it has doubtlass been abandoned,owing 1o the wide pub- lication given it. Atany rate a moye of this character could mow have no effect favorable to the democracy, but rather the contrary. The arrest of General Ramsay, the chairman of the republican state committee of New Jer- sey, on the charge of endeavoring to bribe a voter to register the name of another person, has been shown to have been brought about by conspiracy, and the resentment of fair-minded demo- crats in New Jersey has been a lesson to the democratic managers that tactics of this sort are not profitable. A num- ber of othor things which the demo- crats might do at the last moment have been suggested, but the party mana- gers will be extremely careful uander the knowledge that the country is ex- pecting some sort of trickery, and any- thing they may now send out must pos- sess extraordinary plausibility to im- pose upon the eredulity of anybody. Mennwhile republicans need have no anxiety regard I.m‘flt surprises. Thoss. which the party has evotved during the campaign have tuined to the discomfiture of the party, and a similar result is reasonably to be ex- pected from dny it say invent during the brief re ning time before etec- tion. The party is handicapped by a popular distrust which will rénder im- potent any further effort it may make to divert the public mind from the true issues of the eontest. Republicans of Sarpy should resent the nomination thrust upon them of H. I". Clarke, and repudiate him at the polls. Clarke is an unmitigated fraud and monopoly henchman. When he was employed in the revenue service under Judge Crounse years ago, he pro- fessed to e a rampant anti-monopolist. He wrote scathing atta upon rail- roads and railroad extortion, and . had them published in Tire BEE over an- other name. As float senator from Douglas and Sarpy counties Clarke showed himself to be a most willing tool of the monopoli He voted to make Church Howe acting president of the senate, and voted with Howe against railroad regulation. Two years ago he went to Beatvice as a delegate to the congressional convention, and defiantly misrepresented the wishes of reputable republicans in his county by not only casting his own vote for Church Howe, but bulldozing the other dele- gates from Sarpy into line for the Ne- maha boodler. Through his pernicious influence Mr. Snell was counted out and a democrat substituted in the last legislature. It is high time that this corporation tool should be rebuked by all decent re- publicans. Bury him under an ava- lanche of votes and teach men of his stripe that money cannot buy positions of honor and trust. WILL REPUBLICAN HIM Y For the first time since the advent of Isnac S. Hascall in this state, the his- tory of h reer as a helper of slave- drivers and associate of bushwhackers is made public. While republicans who resided in Omaha at the close of the war have a vivid recollection of the treasonable utterances of Hascall when he was one of the democratic wheel- horses in this county, very few, indeed, were aware of the rank disloyalty and depravity of this man at a time when the nation’s life was hanging in the balance. Men of southern birth, who honestly entertained the belief that their alle- giance to the state was above all other considerations, and those who were drawn into the secession vortex by the intense sentiment that prevailed in their southern homes are entitled to some respect. The idea that slavery was a divine institution was preached to them from the pulpit and instilled into their minds from infancy by those most dear to them. But what shall be said of the man, born on the free soil of the great and loyal state of New York, who went into Kansas to join the slave-driv- ing band of Missouri ruffians that in- vaded that territory with the pro- claimed intént to plant slavery there forever. What a state of depravity must the man of northern birth have reached who was willing to aid and abet the rebellion but lacked the manhood to take up arms for it, excepting possi- bly from behind the secure ambush. Will republicans of this’ county en- dorse the villifier of Abraham Lincoln, and the malignant traducer of the sol- diers who were battling gallantly for the preservation of the union and upholding its flag? Does the mere fact that such a man has been nominated on the republican ticket by a gang of ward roustabouts en- title him to the loyal support of men who are republicans from principle? Is republicanism nothing more than a name, or does it stand for loyalty, lib- erty and patriotism? If republicans, with Hascall's career vividly before them, can cast their votes to make him their representative inany legislative body, they will not only disgrace themselves, but destroy all the respect and reverence of which the grand old party of freedom can hoast. THE TWO DEMOCRACIES. Even at this time of an unprece- dentedly heated political contest, ju tice ought to be done to northern demo- crats. The manner in which this cam- paign has been run shows cmphatically that there are two democracies, and that these, though they may agree in canons of political faith, are at issue on matters of publio policy. The Cleve- land campaign has been fought upon & pro-British basis from the first hour, and this is in strict conformity with the traditions and the practices of the southern democracy. It is most odious to northern democrats, who are as patriotic in sentiment and convictions as men can be, but who are perpetually dragged into filth by their southern allies. When the south seceded it was with a firm reliance upon their British friends, and British assistance was given as far as Britons dared to go. They were sneaking allies of the confederacy under pretense of a grieved neutrality, and the Alabama arbitration showed to what pernicious lengths they went in support of the southern states. The Sackville Wests of that time gloried in auticipation of the approaching disrup- tion of our great country. The leading journals, the great caricaturist Punch, the heavy scientific magazines, each in its own way proclaimed that the stars had fallen from our banner,and that the stripes had been rent into strips. ‘They wished it so. But it was not so, At that time, though many an isolated democrat deemed it necessary to show his fealty to his political faith by cop- perhead sympathy with traitors in arms, the heart of the morthern demoe- racy was sound, and its patriotism was undoubted. It shone the brighter from contrast with its copperhead surround- ings. Though the stump speakers of political campaigns chose to identify northern democracy with secession, the charge was fustian—the mere outcome of buncombe oratory. And now again it happens that the southern democracy has been resorting to foreign alliances, and has relied upon foreign assistance. This time it Is for. the purpose of elect- ENDORSE ing a candmnge to the American presidency. ‘The northern democ- racy knew it to be wuntrue as regarded themselves, and therefore repelled with honest indignation the charge that fhey campaign fought by Cleveland’s friends was pro-British, and that the golden sincws of war came from Britain, But it was so. Tn the light of the Sackville West letter, who can doubt that England is as anxious for Cleveland’s re-election as she was for the triumph of the confederacy? She will again be disappointed.. The policy of the south then as now isto in- augurate asystem that will be beneficial to herself alone, and ruinous to the rest of the country. And northern demo- crats of this great northwest cannot but feel that this is so, and that they have been betrayed by their southern brothers. The question northern republicans ern democrats is as regards tho length to which state rights and federal centralization powers may r spectively be carried. Itis a question of theory, not a condition. But the question of this campaign does not in- volve that theory for a cent's worth, but is purely one of control of the country. If Clevelund could win, handi- cavped as he is, the south would rule this land under the supervision of their English friends. How such a stato of things would result to the producing interests of the northwest may easily be conceived. The bitterest wish that could be uttered by the most frenzied enemy of democracy would be that they might have their heart’s desire of victory. 1ssue between and north- at Tne - British - American citizens strongly denounce the action of the president in dismissing Minister West before receiving any communication from the Engllsh government, and ac- cording to a prominent member of the association they will very generally vote against him. The number of such citizens is stated to be about one hun- dred thousand, so that their hostility will count for something. Whether or not it will tend to restrain the defection of the Irish vote from the democracy is problematic, but the probability is that the West episode will cut both ways against Mr. Cleveland, losing him the votes of Irishmen and all other former British subjects. The former un- derstand 4 that = the action of the president was taken under great pressure, and only after it was made known to him by the national committee that such a course was im- perative 1n order to retain any of the Irish vote, and they will hardly appr ciate a concession made under such cir- cumstances. “We British-American citizens will resent what they regard as an unwarranted proceeding adopted wholly for political effect and with an utter disregard of international comity. The situation would be different had the president agted at once as he finally did, but it was unquestionably the first intention of themdministration to take no notice of tfimuuur. As it is no- body is satisfiod*and the democracy will lose heavily from two classes of voters upon . whieh the party had counted. A DISPATCH from Fairmont, Neb., in THE BEE of yesterday, noted a visit to hat town of a delegation of the jobbing merchants of St. Joseph, Mo., who were hospitably entertained. There is a suggestion in this which ought to be valuable to the merchants of Omaha. Tt shows that the business men of St.Jo- seph do not propose to surrender the trade of the Nebraska towns which they now possess without an effort to hold it, and their effort appears to have some vigor. They hava already done what Omaha’s jobbers have only thought of doing, that is, making themselves per- sonally acquainted with the merchants of the interior, and cultivating social as well as business relations. The jobbers of St. Joseph appear to appreciate the value of this sort of thing, for the ex- cursion noted is not the first of the kind they have made. The example seems to be worthy of emulation THE people have not forgotten how Frank Morrissey opposed the best in- terests of Omaha and obeyed the base dictation of monopolists. It was he who fought the clause in the charter to tax the real estate belonging to any railroad or telegraph company in the city of Omaha. “With the Union Pa- cific asking relief of congress, shall Omaha belabor and mulct it?” This is the kind of talk Morrissey indulged in when he was writing editorials for the Omaha Herald. Do the working- men believe in sending Frank Morrissey to the legislature, who so brazenly ad- vocated that they should bear the bur- dens and taxation of local government, and that rich corporations which get the benefits of police and fire should go scot free from paying their proportional share? —_— OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The Chinaman of the north is different from the Chinaman of the south, certainly in his little ways, very probably in his othno- logical roots. Wheén the Chinaman of the south suffers an injiiry he hies him to a high- binder who is a braye'ready to commit any crime on receiving adequate pecuniary con- sideration. But whai the Chinaman of the north conceives ' that the conduct to- wards himself of another party has taken a bent that is inimical, and 1njurious, he mounts the housetop and proceeds to free his mind by wlli:; jthe whole community what he thinks e oftender. He com- mences by delivering three pieroing prelim- ary yells, which have: the double effect of turning public attestion to himself and of getting up his own steam. Then he opens the valves of his nature and screams at the ing him. Sometimes e has been and does not know tho offender, in the case of lost_poultry or stoalings from his millot fleld. Then ha reviles the entire stroet and accuses the whole community from Dan hoba. - After he has finished ho descends to his domicile in a calm and ploased state of mind, happy in the convie. ton that he Lias shown @ force of character which will preveat the rocurrence of any more thefts, . A correspondent of & San Fraucisco 2paper gives a sketch of the royal family of Cores, whichi is extremely interesting. The'king is thirty-nine, the queon forty, and thé crewn prince seveateen, and they are in the most perfect harmony with each other, and with Corea. It seems odd that they should be the wmost progressive people in the kingdom, but NOVEMBER 3. 1888 the fact 1ssolemnly stated, and when it is con- sidered that the dynasty of Ye, the present ono, has been in power for 403 yoars, the thing seems still more incredible. No coun- try'can be happier than oue where the ruler is abreast of the times and ahead of his peo- ple, and, consequently, Corea is happy. she nobles regard their monarch with venera- tion, but the commion people almest worship him. This is becauss thoy see him so. sel- dom. When heis about to appear in the streets of the capital, the city 18 swept clean, and fresh yellow sand spread over the chief thoroughfares. - All business is suspended, and the entire population turns out. The men iine the streets and the women the flat house-tops. When the pro on arrives, all the previous chattering an mation sub- sides, and a complete silence reigns until th great litter bearing the king and his son h passed out of sight, On these rare o casions foreiguers see something which be- longs to Japan, but has completely passed away: that is, samurai in the ancient armor composed partly of metal plates, partly of lacquered paper, Their weapons, also, are the same, the katana or long sword meant to be wiclded with both hands, and the short sword, which is about as long as & bowie kuife. Besides these swords many have spears which, in reality, are not spears, but partizans like the old English bill, Besides the samurai there are modern equipped sol- diers snd armies of bauners, No one who feels diviie compassion in his soul for suffering can think of unhappy Frauce without a thrill of sympathy. The country is so horribly burdened with debts and taxes that 1t has become nece ry to tax all foreigners living in the country. The wheat harvest has failed, and the people are clamoring for bread; the wine harvest has failed, and_the exporting merchants of Bor- deaux, Cette and Marseilles have been obliged to umport wine from California_for home consumption. Owing to the hard times thore are absolute armies of men without employment. And in the face of all these things the war minister demanded $183,600,- 000. Tt is like drawing the last drop of blood from the veins of a dying man. But the na- tion insists upon the army being maintained on a war footing, and revenge for Sedan is the cry from one end of the country to the other, French Chauvinists are insulting Ttaly at every opportunity, and Germany whenever it scems safe to do so. Recently the escutcheon_on the wall of the German consulate at Havre was torn down seccretly and thrown into the gutter. The German government nobly refused to take any notice of the incident. The world owes so much to France in all the arts and sciences, in litera- turo, and in the knowledge of the details that make daily life pleasant, that its de. ence must be viewed with extreme sorrow. Would that the nation could be peraunded to sheathe the sword, and to inaugurate an era of re- trenchment in every branch! But if it had bean possible it would haye beon done. It cannot be apparently, and we must regard Franco us dragged = broathless, bleeding, wild-oyed by its inexorable destinies like ancient Rome. Hayti and San Domingo d@re two names for the same island. but are used colloquially to designate the Haytien republic of French negroes on the west and the Dominican re- public of Spanish negroes on the east. Men regard these two places through a halo of romance, but those who have visited them are not so enthusiastic, Each republic re- minds one irresistibly of @ hermit crab that has taken up its quarters in the cmpty sholl of some gigantic ammonite. The colored men are simply squatting in the palaces reared by the millionaire planters of sugar cauc and coffec trees a hundred years ago. Thoy still make some sugar, but almost all the syrup is converted iuto rum. They still export some coffee, but they have planted no new trees, and their harvest is gained by gathering 'the drupes from the wild self- glu'l(cd trees. If they have sugar also, it is ecause the canes go on reproducing them- sclves year after year. Hayti, however, might have redeeniod 1tself if the recently deposed president, Louis Etienne Fellcite Salomon, hiad lived. He was an iron discipli- narian. He threw some of his opponents into dungeons and_he marched others into public squares and_shot them. The oue thought that possessed his whole soul was to lift up his country and make Huyti prosperous and peaceful. “He knew that outside of 8 re- stricted circle near Portau Prince Hayti was slipping back into African savagery. Ho knew that cannibalism and the fearful rites of Kubirio worship were being practised in the secluded haunts of the interior, and_ho felt that 1n dealing with such_circumstances and such a people the only methiods available were those of a savage. Yet he was person- ally of a gentle disposition, loving refinement and culture for their own sake. Hud he suc- coaded in arresting the constant whirling of factions at the capital he perhaps would havo succeeded in the dreams he nourishod. But it was his fate to bo an Augustus Cwsar in soul under circumstances that made neces- sary a man like Toussaint I'Ouverture. Could he huve found a lieutenant of such a stamp, success would have been certain. He failed because he was one man—not two. Slavery has been abolished everywhere in Europe and America, save in the Spanish islands of the gulf, and as the importation of fresh slaves into Cuba and Porto Rico is now athing of the past, its total extinction is only a matter of ten years. The problem that now confronts humanity is the slave trade in central Africa, and it is conceded that ghe efforts made to stop it have not only been unsuccessful, but have resulted disas- trously for civilization. 1t is impossiblo not to regard the appearauce of an Arab re- ligious enthusiast in the Soudan as a contri- vance of the Arab slave traders for combat- ting the obvious designs of Europeaus in central Africa by arousing the fanaticism of the Islamite. The fact that complete suc- cess attended tho apparition of the mahdi settles all attempts to abolish the slave trade through commercial_settlement or mission- ary effort. Cardinal Lavigerio proposes the arbitrament of the sword. ‘Begin,” he cries, “a new crusade and roll back the tide of Arab raiding and wrong-doing by force and clash of arms.” Hum! What were the prociso results of the old crusade! Wells christianity achieved nothing, by force of arms, but the christian nations of the west became civilized by contact with the Saracen, and Tartars of the east. If there should be @ new crusade it would ‘end in the Arabs and Soudanese acquiring the arts and civilization of European nations, and that would be all. 1t must not be forgotten that the Arab has bohind him in Africa the fightiug negro, who is certainly not of the same race as the pa- cific nogro. The slaves come entirely from the latter,and are captured by the former, who sell thom 'to the Arab merchants. Bevween these warlile negroes and the Arabs there is much sympathy, and as Islamism is very attractive to the 5ons of the great superb, as they designato themselves, unless something unforseen happens, all the fighting blacks will 1n @ short time become Islamites. It is upon the cards that the king of Abyssinia or Negus will_either return to negro Kabirism or will embrace Islamism. The revival of tho title Negus, which means the superb, and is evaivalent to the Tartar word Khan, shows that at present Abyssinia is driftiog into Kabirism. . o' The dying old kifig of Holland who {sslowly passing into eternity from the tranquil pal- ace of Loo is Duke of Luxembourg, as well as King of Holland. As his kingdom is not under the Sahi law the sucoession is secured to his daughter, but the case is differeut with the duchy of Luxembourg, which fs still loyally a flef of the Germany empire like Holstein. And as the wily chancellor found in the union of Schleswig-Holstein an excel- lent excuse for attacking the brave but numerically weak Danes, and robblag Den- mark of Holstein and the harbor of Kiel, so it is 110t to be doubted that the duchy of Lux embourg will be utilized for a similar pur- :ou when the aged king dies. A'.l.amg| ve been made to stave off any such trouble by arranging that Duke Adolf, of Nassau, shall be the successor, but Bismarck and the outhful emperor of Germany want a pretext or aunexation, dnd will not allow themseives to be bafied. There is in the air & menace of ‘a contest that will flually settle the map of Europe on definite and lasting lines. lu that new deal it is doubtful if the German appe- tite for will be satistied with less Lhan Holland, Belgium and Freach Flasders, Franoe that has regarded herself as the her- editary foe of the German is already morl- bund in German eyes, and t! wor really menanced by the contemplal innexation is England. Germany has determined In hor own mind to supplant England, in colonies and commerce, and ureuinu as uear to her a8 possiblo to make a deadly and fatal spring, ngland can never resist, bocause the clements have been so shamelessly to the monoy power. The Battle of Dorking is at hand. . What ‘a wonderfal “country Chili 18, and what a people are the Chilians! It is impos- sible for an American citizen to read tho last fessage sent by tho bresident to the Chilian congress without some sighs of sorrow, some heart burnings of cnvy. We know what ought to bo done, but the Chilians do it. The Chilians have this year a surplus of nine millions of dollars, -and this sum, or at least seven millions, is - to be spent in exten- sions of tho state railroads. They have solvod the problem. The rairoads are owned by the state. They have a surplus and they spend it in increasing their railroad system, Consequently thero is no eternal tax upon the producer and consumer to pay intercst upon watered - stock and fraud- ulent bonds, and the only cost of the railroads is for maintenance and wear and tear. As there is a certain prospect that the revenues will be, next year, at least seven millions more than this year, the presi- dent and his cabinet have mapped’ out in ad- vance cortain expenditures in which the building of school houses and the improve- ment of national harbors figure largely. The necossity of these outlays were 0 obvious that the president had been authorized to negotiate a loan of $15,000,000, but as the revenues have increased all of a sudden materially, no loan will be effected. Tho foreign commerce of Chili amounts to lit more than one hundred millions but the offorts of the administratios not bent much in that and the chiof ain of the movement elop the internal trade and foster home manufuctures and home markets. Hurrah for Chili! the Yankecland of South America, 1t is said that in all probability there will be some joint action between the German d British governments for the restoration of order in East Africa. The phrase isa &00d one, but it reminds one irresistibly of a Russian sentence about order reigning in Warsaw. The two powers will broceed to land a powerful force of marines and sailors n Zanzibar, and will reduce the sultan to an automaton oveying such orders as thy macy give him. The natives will be massacred wherever met unless they hasten to place themsclves under the protection of white men, and when a sufficient number of the corpses are putrifying in the sun, when the patriots have boen driven back into the in- terior, when the white colonists have ro turned to the lands ceded to them by the sul- *an, then order will reign in Zanzibar. But when such of the marines and sailors as bave escaped Arab spears, and bulicts from Arab match-locks, and the coast fover, shall have re-cmbarked upon their’ vessels and have sailed for the Mediterrancan—what then! Simply the Zanzibarians will return in droves to the coast like famished wolves,wiil destroy prop- erty and life as beforo and may dethrone their sultan and imaum., The problem can- not be solved from the east, because white men cannot remain there for any length of time without falling victims of the fever. The ceded lands aro on & plateau in the intorior which is much more salubrious, and these will always be in danger unless protected by a strong force on the coast. Butno European power would think of permanently locating any force in such a fover-swept locality after the experience of the Portugese for the last four hundrod years. White men die like rotting sheep, and those that become accli- matod are enervated, and addicted to palm wine, and in 1o sense amatch for the furious fanatics of the Soudan. The problem can only be solved in the way that (smail Khe- dive was doing it, but the English bond- holders settled his business, and at the same time destroyed all_hopes of peaceful profit- able sottloment by Europeans in central Africa. . To imagine that the demand for autonomy by the Czechs of Bohemia and Moravia, and the Slovencs and Slovacks and Ruthenians of Galicia is a movement inimical to Austria is absolutely erroneous. The Initiative comes from the German element, which scos in such a policy the best way of combatting the anti-Austrian feeling in Hungary. No American can quite gomprehend the peculiar idoas of tho Slavonic race, and therefore it will surpriso the readers of Tue B to learn that both Poles and Bohemians are more than satisfied with Austrian suprem- acy. Neithor of theso nations would be pleased with & republic, neither of thom would permit the rule of one of their own race. The tremendous struggles of Moravia and Bohemia against the Hapsburg in the middle ages was not caused by dissatisfaction with the imperial house, but by the absurd attempt of the Austrian chancellors to denationalize them. Sinco the defeat of Sadow has studied with great idiosynorasies of her Slavonic citizens, and bas = recognized at last the leading facts. The Hapburgs have theroforo care- fully elaborated a system of government which conforms itself with perfect sympathy to the peculiarities of theSlavons, This pol- icy has for its fundamental 1dea the creation of & Pulono Bohemian and Moravian kingdom of which tho kaisar_will be king, as he is king of Hungary. This will act asa counter- poise to the the over-weening Magyar major- ity in national diot. Besides these two autonomies, Hungary, and the Slavonic ono now coutcmplated, there will be others formed by tho southern Slovacks in the Hor- z0govina, Dalmatia and Croaua, all_ruled b Austria. And in federation with them will be Servia, and it is hopea Montencgro, though the principality is at present pro- foundly pro-Iussian. Such & union will place the kaisar and the German cle- ment of Austria in 8o strong a position that the Magyars will be impotent to paralyze the action of tho empire either by silent sulking or open violence. It is notor- jous that Bismarck approves this system thoroughly, aud is aiding it by denationaliz- ing the Polish province in the northern em- pire. Thousands of Poles fieoing from Posén have found peace and happiness in “Galicia, and Austria is recognized as the friend of all oppressed Slavonic peoples 1n a higher degree, and with a nobler purpose than Russia, the oficial Slavonic champion. it sl Touching The To tell a democrat to-day to go West, is 1o outrage every tender feeling in his system. i B Democratic Losses. Transeript. lemocrats are coming out for Harrison and Morton. Others are skipping for Canada. Between the two the democratic loss must be considerable. Indi . Indianapolis Journal, At this time we do not see how the repub- licans cau fail to carry the state if they per- form the remaining work of the campaign as well as they have that siready done. e R e & Speed the Time. Boston Herald, “After clection, what?" is an interesting conundrum propounded by the Now York World, *“Well, amiong other things, less Iying, less demagogy and less flapdoodie, to- gether with more candor, more seriousness and more horse sense. Spoed the blessed time!” He is Pe: Ploneer Press. Other ‘wealthy men may be tho peers of any railroad corporation in the United States, But Mr. Axworthy, the late troasurer of tho city of Cleveland, is poerless. He is not at all dependent on the favor of @ railway pass. The whole ity of Cleveland is backing him in his tour across the contineat. ——p Bad for the A Philadelphia, Ledger. As to any importance to be attached to the letter, it don't seem to be entitled to half the tuss that is made about it. 1t can Lave but little effect in the way of helping or hurting anybody, execpting 1o the way of damage to the minister himsel{. Of course his tarm of usefulness in this ecuntry is probably closea out. ~ ————— STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jotting Two brass bands, fully umformed, are supportad by the people of Utic The York county court house is to ba lighted throughout by electricity. Wild geeso havo made themsclves scarco in the neighborhood of Kearnoy this fall The Catholics of Schuyler -are raising funds to build a residence for their pricst. The till of tho depot at Dakota City was tapped by an unknown thief the other night, but only §20 was obtained. Since the rise in the prioa of flour the Bap- tists of Weeping Water are raising funds by giving mush and milk sociables. Asa Berry, of Seward, was given a ver- dict of $1.200 against the Burlington road for imjuries sustained by him last wintor by being struck by an engine. Another Nebraska editor has committed matvimony. A, B. Knotts, of tho Platts- mouth Herald, was married at high noon Thursday to Miss May Russell, dauguter of Judgo Russell. During a Hallow'cen celebration at Fair- mont & young lad named Lisle Willinms foll under the wheels of aroad scraper which was being dragged around, and had one of his legs badly fractured above the knee. The Fremont Tribune antiounces that *if the parties who tore down the Tribune's transparencics with supporting posts and carried off the banuers will roport to this offico they will find the fighting editor in, with his sleeves rolled up and clenched teoth.” There was a close call for a terriblo acci- dent at Fairmont last week. The B. & M flyer was standing on a side-track awaitin the passage of o fast freight. Just as tho latter train was approaching the switchman discovered that the switch was set wrong, but by a quick movement he managed to change it. Had he been thirty seconds later the two trains would have como together with a terrific_crash and many lives would probably have been lost w Keokuk registered 544 more votes this year than last. S. Pillsbury, a pioneer of Dickinson , is dead. The harvest home celebration in Atlantic cclipsed anything of the kind of former years, Dubuque has 17, sges of 5 and 21, ac pleted school census. The proprietors of the oatmeal mill at Muscatine contemplate manufacturing buck- wheat flour at an carly date. A Des Moines traveling man was among the robbed by highwaymen in the Arkansas train a fow days since, He lost §2.34, which he had stuffed into his shoe. The return of J. T.Perdue, clork of the courts, to the state board of health, for tho year ending October 1, shows that in Wapollo county there were 800 marriages, 360 births, and 220 deaths, Just as the minister closed his remarks at the funcral of the late Mrs. Bulger, at tho home of Thomas Adams in Clinton, Wednes- day afternoon, Mr. Adams, who had been quite ill, expired in an adjoining room. Mr. John Vannesse, a farmer, who lives two miles northeast of Spirit Lake, was fatally injured by his horses while plowing with two young colts. The team becamo tangled in the lines, whirling the man around, stamping on him and fracturing his skull in two places, 5 people between tho ording o its just com: Dakota. Sioux Falls has secured @ woolen mill, ‘which is to move in from Wisconsin. A large force of men have commonced work on the Deadwood Central railroad grade, and more are wanted. It is stated the company will complete the road to Lead City this_winter if possible. Groen Todd, from the Bear Lodge country, reports great devastation among colts by wolves, Out of a crop of one hundred he has only forty left. He killed three wolves, including the most ferocious one that had done the most damage. Last year Fred Burger, of Yankton, Dak., captured aswarm of wild bees and endeav- ored to domesticate them. He went to bank up their hive the other day, and bow tame they were can be judged by his countenance. 1t is *‘speckled all over mit schpots.” Jorry Krohrhtur, a threshing hand who robbed the houses of several farmers in Brainard township, Brown county, wus ar- rested at Aberdeen as he was about to tako the train. He had shaved clean and changed his clothes, but his nervousness betrayed him to the officer who followed him to the city. A sensation was caused at Plankinton last week by the report that Frank Andrews, a well-to-do young farmer living two miles east of town, had attempted to suicido by shooting himself. A doctor was called, and after making an examination found that the ball had struck a rib and glanced backward, thus saving the young man's life. William Saultry had a_sultry time getting married in Rapid City the other duy. Ho had the consont of the bride's parents, but a big brother interfored and a fist fight oc- curred. The big brother was whipped and marriage was consummated, but the bride groom broke his hand in the fight, About 10 o'clock the party started home, but in tho darkness the wagon was overturned and tho right arm of the young bride was broken near the shoulder, S TERT The Electoral Vote. In order to place before its readers a bric| and comprohensive statement of the staud ing of the various states on the presidenti election Tre BEE prints the following tablo, showing the electoral vote of each und divid- Ing them into republican, democratic and doubtful groups: $Colorado! #llinoiss lowas $Kansass ! 3Maines ... Jout | IMassachusettsi. . 14, #Minnesotas. v 3Nebraskai. 2230h 10§ 3 20regond ... TPennsylvania g 2Rhode Islands. FVermonts . :Wisconsing Total.. DEMOCRATIC STATE weeieess 100MinsOUEEY. 7 *North Carolinat, i #Bouth Carolinat 4*Tenncaseer. ... 12 +Texast ki 5| int *Kentuckyt.... 13+ Virgtniat *Lousianat... ianat, 8*West Virginiat aryland Misstssippit. . ... 9| Total DOUBTFUL STATES. 8 3New Jorseyt.. 6/sNew Yorkr, . 15*Nevadai. 13 | Tota RECAPITULATIO! Republican electoral votes Democratic electoral votes Doubtful electoral votes Total. .. it . 1 Necessary to hotce L Connecticut gave Cleveland % pei cont major- I" over Blaine, ndiana gave Cloveland 3 por cent majority over Rlaine, New Jersey gave Clovelaud 4 Per cent major- ity over Bia iCalitornias 3Connecticut? sindianas, 3Michigant o Cleveland 14 of 1 por cent ma- ver Hlaine. igws gave iaine 1 por cent majority ovor icket. Ilaine 3 per cont majority over by Hancock, 1890, Carried by Cleveland, 1484, $Carriod by Garflold, T8, §Carried by Blai i1 for Garfleld