Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 11, 1888, Page 4

| i .ot their road in the future. “ber show: 1. 1888 THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Datly Morning Edition) Inclnding SuxpAY Lir, One Year. #o 00 ¥or Six Months For Three Montha ik OMAIA SUNDAY Bk, Aress, One Y enr 2 M WERKLY [IRE, (e Year . 200 OUAROFYICE NOS. 014 AND 10 FARNAM BTREET, 160 OFFICE JOKERY BUILDING, ] mailed o ay KW YOrK OFFICE, RROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUN® BUILDISG, WASHISGTON OFFIC oLs FOURTEENTH STHEL CONRESPONDENCT Allcommunications relating tc Yorial m or should be addres ©O1 THE BEE, BUSINE AllDisiness Ietters dressed 1o THE BER iAMA. Drafis, checks De wade payable to the« The Bee Puhmniufiinaaw, Proprietors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor, 5 THE DALY BEE. ®worn Statement ot Circufation. 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G T73CH Bworni to bofore me and subscribed in my o this 8th day of December, 1585, 10, Notary Publ BrrauNaia, Ala., has a sherift who evidently believes in doing his sworn duty. He deser Jlection. Trne long-looked-for flying machine has made its appearance, but poor Darius Green was not around to take a sail in it. Tresence REVENUE reform not alone concerns the legislature of Nebras! Ohio has Been stivred up to the necessity of a re- vision of its revenue laws and methods of nssessments, Ti: Washington landlord is no ex- ception to the general rule, He makes hay while the sun shines. In other words, he will treble his prices and cut down his accommodations during the weel of inauguration in March. militia appropriation bill will tehing when it comes before the legislature. The people of Nebraska are opposed to the maintenance of a citizen soldiery on a war footing, and that is what an annual appropriation of thirty-five thousand dollars signifies. ———— e T1 18 said that the small stockholders of the Burlington, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and other roads are going to take o hand in determining the policy Railroad managers may find their berths a hot- box in consequence, Tr certainly seems absurd that twenty- three thousand Sioux Indians in Dakota should hold a reservation larger than the state of Indianaagainst the progress of civilization. The policy of the gov- ernment will probably be framed 1n ac- cordance with the recommendations of the Sioux commission, which suggests that arbitrary but humane measures be taken. ToE clearings record for Omaha and other cities for the first week in Decem- a healthful increasc as com- pared with the corresponding time last ¥ It bears out the statements made in T BEE, that the apparent dec in businoss for the last week in Novem- ber, ns mirrored by the cleavings, was duo to tho fact of the Thanksgiving holiday, and not on account of any real shrinkage in the volume of trado, Tue utter indifference to law, order and the rights of others too often dis- played by corporations in pre-cmpting our public streets on y should re- ceive merited rebuke. The mayor has very properly given notice that he will allow no company to again take advan- wge of that day to evade the law, and he will receive the support of the public in any measure he may take toward the enforcement of his order. Tue adjournment of the federal grand jury at Indianapolis without re- turniog any indictments as to the al- leged republican olection frauds, is sig- nificant. It indicates that the demo- crats have failed to make out their case and score the sensation which the, pected. Evidently their charges of cor ruption against Colonel W. W. Dudley, chairman of the Indiana state republi- can committea, were made out of whole cloth and have fallen flat, It is more than likely, therefove, that the inyesti- gation will be abandoned, and the dem- ocrats will syallow their medicine man- fully. WHATEVER rights the Motor com- pany may claim under the franchise given to it by the vote of the people, the rights of the public to the streets are paramount and superior to those of any corporation, The ecity government is in duty bound therefore the obstruction of the business steeets by the erection of poles and an over- head system of electric wires, The stand taken by the mayor adds no hard- ship to nor interferes with the operation of the motor system, The mayor simply insists at the outset be- fore the company has gone to the ex- pense of erecting a single pole or stretching a single overhead wire that the company must place its wires through our business streets in under- ground conduits. His action is timely and in the interest of the whole city. The motor company will hardly risk an appeal to the courts in order to main- tain thelr claims. The frauchise granted did not contemplate the com- plete surrender of our crowded streets 10 any corporation. to prevent’ AN IMPORTANT SUIT. The suit brought yesterday in the United States court, in this ¢ity, by the Western Union Telegraph company against the Union Pacific railroad com- pany, setting forth that the plaintiff has information that tho defendant con- templates violent and decisive acts in derogation of its telegraph contract with the Western Union,and asking that the defendant bo enjoined from the uso of the plaintiff’s telegraph system, isim= portant and will attract gencral atte tion. By the act of congress of 1862, the bond-aided railroads were re- quired to keep a telegraph line in ropair and use, and to give the govern- orence in the use of the and reasonable rates of compensation, not to exceed the amounts paid by privato parties for the s kind of servi All the roads t ferred the ht to construct and main- tain a telograph line to the Western Union e aph company, which was clearly in disregard of the obligation imposed on them by the act of 1862, But in 1564 congress passed an act authori ing the railroad companies to enter into an afrangement with the United States Telograph company “so that the line ogr of telegraph between the Mis- souri river and San Francisco made upon and along the line of said road and branches as far as said road and branches are built,” and such an ar- rangement entered into in the way pre- seribed was to be “*held and consid- ered a fulfillment on the part of said railrond compunies of the provision in the act in regard to the construction of telegraph lines.” Tho Western Union claims to have succeeded to the rights of the United States Telegraph com- pany, and the roads have held that the contr cts made by them, transforving telegraph privileges to the tern Union,” are, under the of 1864, a fulfillment of requirements of the act of The question was passed upon in asuit brought by the Western Union against the Union Pacific and others in the United States circuit court for the district of Kans; the decision of Judge Miller being in effect that the act of 1864 was manifestly ingended to enable the bond-aided railvoads to re- lieve themselves from the obligation to build and operate telegraph lines by entering into arrangements with tele- graph companies to perform their tele- graph service. This matter has recently received some attention in congress, where the right of the railroads to contract with private corporations for tele- graph serviee has been questioned, but not until this suit was brought had there been any intimation of a purpose on the part of the Union Pacific to abandon the contract with the Western Union. The answer of the road to the bill of the telegraph company will be awaited with a great deal of interest. Meanwhile it is not unreasonably in- ferred that the real motive of the ‘Western Union’s action is not a fear of hostile proceedings on the partof the Union Pacific, but o desire to silence the questionings in congress regarding the validity of its contract with the railroad. A CHANC. There are several republ cians of Nebraska who are called upon to explain what thoy did with certain sums of money during the last cam- paign, and the cail is one they will have to respond to. The statements of Tur BEE regarding the reckless use of money by the republican state central committee have forced from the treas- urerof the committee some highly in- teresting disclosures, which will be found elsewhere. They can hardly fail to produce something of a sensation in political cireles, and to the polit who are involved they will car thing but pleasurable sensations. There is not a great deal to bo said respecting these disclosures, andin any event comment must prop- erly wait until all sides are heard. As they now stand they certainly present two or three politicians in a most un- enviable light, and unless they can give an entirely satisfactory explanation, which apparently will be no easy thing to do, they may as well put away politi- mbition. As to Mr. Bechel, who, pears, made these faets public in self-defense, justice requires it to be said that the reflections which have been cast upon him seem to have heen wholly undeserved. He appears to have acted always by authority, and it is not shown that he in any case excecded the rightful power of his position. Chairman Richards was evidently far less vigilant and careful in guarding the disposal of the funds than he should have been, but the man on whom nearly the full force of the disclosures falls is Mr, Webster Laton. What he did with the seven- teen hundred dollars which the vouchers show him to have received will doubtless make a highly intercst- ing story, if he shall conclude to tell it. Of course Mr. Secely will also be ex- pected to explain, and in view of his reported present ambition, he cannot o 50 too quickly. THE UNION PACIFIC FUNDING BILL The friznds of the Union Pacific fund- ing bill who have been anticipating a prompt passage of that measure as soon as it could be brought before the atten- tion of the two houses of congress, arc likely to be disappointed. Dispatches from Washington indicate that there will be a more vigorous fight made against its consideration at the present session than at the last. Scnator Plumb has already virtually announced him- self. as preparing to lead the attack in the senate, and the anti-monopoly rep- -resentatives in the house have spent the session in gathering ammunition with ‘which to riddle the measure should it come up on special order be- fore the recoss. The opponents of the bill are calling attention in the public press to the fact that since the adjournment of congress the Union Pacific road has issucd #4,400,- 000 worth of flrst mortgage bonds on the Union Pacific, Lincoln & Colorado railroad in Kansas in direct violation of the law of 1873, and that they were prominent parties in the combination to form a raiiroad trust to violate the in- ter-state commerce act. Theyare m ing a rigid analysis of the Outhwaite bill and ave clearly showing that in the lien which it gives the government upon the roads it is more open to eriti- 1 than the bill introduced by Sena- o tor Hoar in the last congress and which was ridiculed ount of existence on acconnt of the weaknoss of its seourity. Tho Lincoln & Colorado railrond bonds, which were issued during the last summer, pledged the property of a road which was built from the net earn- ings of the subsidized Union Pa- cific railrond and was there- foro the property of the latter and wloso issue was conscquently atonce a violation of the law of 1873 and of the Thurman act which prohib- ited a diversion of assets. Tt is also noted that while the Union Pacific is working to induce congress to accopt the proposed fifty year three per cent. oxtonsion bonds at par, they ave offe ing at nincty-six the bonds of their branch lines, which pay five per cent, or a two per cent greater annual inter- ost. Under the new arguments which will bo advanced against the passage of th measure theve is no fear that it will ob= tain favorable consideration. The peo- ple of the west will not bo heard in congress alone through the petitions of inconsequental boards of trade meet- ings. Tne question isone of national as well as of local importance, and it is likely to be so treated at the national canit A PROJECT THAT SHOULD FAIL. We are informed that a bili will be introduced 1n the next legislature to establish a medical school in connec- tion with the state universit We have not learned who is responsible for this project, nor does it particularly matter. Whoever its advocates may be, it is a projoct that should not succeed. There is no conceivable reason that would justify attaching a medical annex to the state university, There is no present necessity, nor is theve likely to be in the future, for such an addition to the university, and we have very little doubt that to ao so would violate the wtent and purpose in establishing that institution. Tt was designed to give the youth of the state, eligible to its privileges, a comprehensive lum versity cducation, but not to supply schools for special instruction, such asa medical school would be. It isa wrong theory which assumes that it 15 any part of the duty of the state to provide men with a special education which is to be their source of livelihiood. Itisno move reasonable to ask the state to do this than it would be to demand that it should furnish the capi- tal to set men up in business, for practically this is what is doue in providing for a special education. The truth is, Nebraska’s state univer- sity needs pruning rather than the ad- dition of a medical or any other branch. There is much useless teaching there which might be dispensed with greatiy to the advantage of the institution. It will be the duty of the legislature, bo- fore listening to any proposition for en- larging the scope of the university, to ascortain what is being done there that is needless and measuro its appropria- tion accordingly. We have no doubt the expenses of the university can be very materially reduced without in the least impairing its usefulness. As to astate medical school, if such an institution be necessary or desirable, the medical practitioners of the state are the proper persons to move for its establishment, not as a branch of the state university, but as an entively in- dependent institution, It ought not to be difficult to secure an ample endow- ment for such a school, and if properly organized and conducted on a hi stamdard it would soon become self- supporting. There are many such schools throughout othe country, and the worthiest of them are highly successful financially, against attaching a med- ical school to the state university, to bo another source of drain upon our al- ready overtaxed people, are conclusive, and the legislature will fail in duty to the people if it entertain such o propo- sition. The roasons THE testimony that is coming to the people of this country of the deplora- ble condition of the natives of Alaska is too divect to be sedover in silence, It is a blot on our civilization that the Aleuts are morally worse off under our government than they were under the rule of Russi; The appeal that has vecently been addressed by the natives to the people and press of America for help, since the *truth never reaches Washington,” will awaken a responsive chord. Fub- lic sentiment, if no other influence, may stir congress to action. Ina fow months the lease of tho Alaska Com- mercial company expires and congress will be asked to extend its valuable franchise, The whole Alaska question will be brought to discussion, and the barbarities and iniquities practiced by the company and its employes will bo fully ventilated, It is safe to predict that congress will not presume to re- new the contract with the Alaska Com- mereial company, no mattes what pres- sure is brought to bear, and a happier Ao in consequence, will drawn for Alaska. CANDIDATES for the secretaryship of the Omaha board of trade are incu ing. Some of them have already peeped, Omaha has reached a degree of importance in the commercial world that calls fora wide-awalke, broad man in the vacant sccretaryship. Ho must be a man who knows, Omaha by heart and can form a fair estimate of her needs and the possibilities of her future, The position is one which affords an energetic man an oppor- tunity to be of some benefit to the commercial interests of the city, and the board should not make the mistake of appointing a man who would simply keap the records of the oflice and collect rentals from the to ants of the chamber of commerce, man {s needed who will be willing to serve the board, and not attempt to control it in the interest of the rail- roads, as one of the candidates, in the light ot past events will undoubtedly at- tempt to do, WOMEN AND THE FRANCHISE. The Addross of Mrs. Stanton Last Monday Night. FIGHT BOODLERS WITH BALLOTS. How the Ignorance and Indifference of the Citizen Aro Responsible for Political Corruption—The Gospel of Equality, t Soctety Owes the Sex. abeth Cady Stanton delivered tho fol 1z address in the convention of the ka Woman's Suffrage association in this 1 propose to talk this evening to women on their duty to vote; to take an active part in goverument; to cultivate the virtuo of patr! otism, and thus stimulate their fathers, husbands, brothers and sons to a conscien tious discharge of their public duties The majority of men are 8o absorbed in the daily struggle for wealth that the most important inte ts of the mnsses are left to the management of a small minority of politicians, We need every intfluence we can summon to-day to rouse men to their duty, If women would vse as much persuasion to get men to the polls and priv meetings as they do to get them to the church, the opera, orevening parties, we should have botter government. But women use no influence in this direction becanse thoy have no appre tion of the importance of suffrage for them- selves, Many men never go to the polls, many more never attend a primary meeting, and many, right or wrong, siruply vote with their parties, quite regardless of platforms or candidates. ‘The consequence is corruption and imbecility in every department of gov- ernment. Our journals, like faithful watchmen on the towors,are continually warning the people of the danger of this apathy and indifference of good men to their public duties, but fow heed the warning. An editorial in Tie I (the be: this side of Chicago) of November 27, urging ooa men to attend the primary meetings and reconstruct your city council, shows the pressing need of rousing men to their public duties. “Itis the duty of every citizen, whether he be republican or democrat, to attend his respective primary. He should see to it llnL only veputable and trustworthy men rec the nomination of b ward. 'This ought ln be no idle appeal. The weifare, the pros- perity, the future greatness of Omaha hang in the balance. Nino honest councilmen can infuse vigor and honesty in the ¢ ity govern- ment. But nine boodlers can sink the city into corruption and hurry it into bankruptey, It remauins in the taxpayers’ hands which of the two he will take. The exertions of a v hours at the primaries and the polls on the part of our citizens for the selection of men of character to the councfl will be worth more to the city of Omaha than all the endeavors made by our business men to act capital and immigration.’ appeal from one who understands tho ion isan admission of the fact that those who coustitute the governing power of this city are not faithful to their trusts, Now one reason of this is the ignorance of women in regard to questions of government and their indifference to all interests out- side the home. To my mind the sphere of man and woman is the same,only with differ- ent, duties in that sphere. Their life work is side by side. Men should take more inter- est in their homes ‘and women more in the state. If woman’s desires and ambitions are limited to personal adornment and family aggrandizement, we need not look for much public spirit or lofty patriotism in the men of their famili If we would cultivate a higher political virtue in the men of this ria- tion; women must - be made to feel their ro- sponsibility in the success of the grand ex- periment of republican government. What should we think of a woman, who, having inherited a splendid_estate, should, through the ineficiency of a husband, allow everything to run to waste and ruin, houso dilapidated, leaks in the roof, water in the cellar, lawn and garden overgrown with weeds, grapery and conservatory dismantled, fences down, orchards and woodland plun. dered, (‘Illlll pla in the streets and highw ignorance and vice? Sensible people would consid a failure as the man by her side, and far more guilty, if possessed of ordinary common sense and executiveability. It would clearly duty to suppiement if possible her husband’s incapacity with her superior ability and to take the helm of domestic gov- ernment. he religion of women is too often a sickly sentimentality, born of appathy and supor- stition, leading them to accept with paticnce their present condition, rather than meet the necessary friction in getting out of the old grooves of thought and action to consci tiously assume the new dutics, that in this transition period, woman is called on to dis- charge, The famil and the duty the supposed c women of th There isa large department of legislation that belongs specifically to women. Ques- tions of education and religion, the sanitary conditions of our homes, school house: and prisons, temper ritics, th ment of ¢ e, divoree, prosti- tution, the rights of 3, and the pro tion of our domestic animals that cannot pr teet themselves. Our daily papers are filled with crimes of cyery variety and de that thousands of women weep and. pray over in their homes, without a thought that they are in 4 measure responsible for their existence, The question is often asked why is it that the moral and s ual progress of the race does not keep pace with its intellectual and material achievements. I would answer, th moral and spiritual world belongs spici cally to women, and she is not yet awako to her duty in this realm of thought and action, The world of trade and commerce, of material wealth, dise ', explovation, invention, belongs specifically to man, and we can look with pride and thank- fulness on the wonders he has achieved in the last half centur, In fact man has ac- complished all he ever proposcd, with two exceptions, He bas tailed to find out the nature of women, and the latitude of the fournal is but the nation in minature, f the wise wife and mother in e, is the duty of the wiso public north pole. Now I do not thinkI could throw any new hght as to the voyage to the north pole, but I could help him in his I to the idiosyncracics of Eve's daughters. The key to the whole situation s found in the golden rule. If man will simply accord women precisely what he wouid desire for himself under’ similar cir cumstances, he will undorstand her nature as well as iis own.” Had woman fulfilled her duties in the world of morals as well as man has in the material realm, we should now welcome as marvellous changes in social ethics, in the prozress of the race toward 2 true manhood and womanhood, in that inner life ¥ the eye of Omuipotence alone, 18 of this great republic we have an inhertance, unsurpassed in the history of nations, boundless acres, majestic forests, lakes and rivers, mexhaustible mines of wealth and the institutions of a continent, to muke and mold to our will. In our fe constitution, Declaration of Independenc republican theary of government, w A magna charta 6f rights, such as the daughters of kings and emperors w pledged, Andrew jCarnegie, in his umphant Democracy, has painted in glow- mg colors the grandeur of our preseut out- look as a nation, and the infinite possfhilit of our future. Russia and America are th only nations still in the act of growth. Th rest have resched the zenith of their powe and are looking toward the setting sun. ‘We are the only nation that has proclaimed the true idea of governinent, In the old world they have governments and people; here we have in theory at least a government of the people, by the people for the people, to bo fully realized us s0on #8 women, onc-half tho people, are enfranchised, and the laboring masses know how to nse the power they pos- sess, In the old world, the pala on the hill is the home of nohility, it is the pub- lie school or university where the children of rich and poor, side contest for prizes for Thus the value of cha lal distinctions, the g democracy is early learned by our children. Liere is no use for ignorance bere; the Lok of our jouruals and mugazines is favulous und 50 chicap 4s Lo be available Lo The czar of Russia atd the torics of Engiand might learn from our experionce that self-government and ‘“homo rule” arg d possible, proved 8o by a nation of 00,000 of peopie, Lord Salisbury says: Tne Americans have a senate, 1 wish we could institute it here, marvelous in fts strength aud efMe- jency. * * % Their suprems court gives a stability to their institutions, which, under the vague and mysterious prowises here, wo look for in vain, Such writers and historians as Sir Henry “roude and Matthew Arnold, have smmented on our democratic institutions in most complimentary terms, Indeed tho whole tone of English writers and travelors lias entiroly changed siuce they amused the world with the ridiculo of out” people fift years ago. It is the duty of the republic m this standpoint, that I urge the wornen of this nation to defond and maintain You have an oqual sharo to this rich in heritance and it is your duty to vindicato your rights. Would that T could awake in the minds of my countrywomen the dignity of this domand for the right of at it is to bo 4 intrusted with . posscssod of all the privileges and immunities of Ameri- can citizens, he ballot is the crown of honor and the seepter of power in_ a repub lics by it our social, religious and political relations are ail rog Are not the edu cated women of America as capable of wield- ing this power as Victoria of K and, and is not individual sovereignity in uiblic as exaltod as in a monarchy! What American woman would scorn tho position of Britain's queen? And yet the position of an Ameri- can citizen is prouderfar, it the duties of vernment are fully discharged. Who- over heard of an heir apparent to a_ throne in the old world abdicating his rights be cause some conservative volitician or aus- t tere bishop doubted women's capacity to govern? When I hear American wom de- scendents of Jefferson, Hancock and Adams, say they do not want to vote, I fecl that the blood of the revolutionary heroes must havo long since coased to flow in their veins, When L heard that a body of Massachusetts wo- men had actually been before their legisla- ture to bex that the women of the state might not be enfranchised, I blushed for my sex. In the year 1736, when forth their declaration of right the mouth of the cannon, it w the world, olectrifying tho lovers of liberty everywhere and making every crowned head tremble on his throne, And when later they ssucd our national constitution roasserting the broad_principles of justice, liberty and cquality, it the coronation day of our virgin republie. Then government and re- ligion clasped hands, Luther's insy motto in the reformation, individual right: individual conscience and’ judgment, was asserted, and has been echoed and ro-echoed through the last two centurie "Thus was humanity dignitied, all caste and s, all bills of attainder, all royal preroga- tives abolished, and the oath administered in old Independence hall pledged the right of self-government to every man and woman under our flag. The time has fully come when the principles of our government must be vindicated. ‘The moral necessities of the hour demand the direct influence of the edu- cated women of this nation in government, The recent presidential canvass shows that men are quite ready to avail themselves of ur fathers serit booming at heard round T3 womun's help i emergenc and she is equally ready to give it There were women = speaking on different platforms for different partics throughout the campaign. Women march- ing in the processions, too, carrying flags and banners, some adding enthusiasm to public meetings by playing on musical instruments and singing quartettes. Their pens have Deen busy, too, discussing the merits of differ- ent parties and questions under considera- tion. There has never been a time in the history of our nation when women mani- fested so much interest in an election. If all this interest could have been represented i votes ti republicans and prohibitionis would have had largor majorities, and a far greater number of women would have been aroused to their duties as citizens. 1 do not say that the possession of the ballot will revolutionize the nation and trans- figure womanhood instanter, but it is the first step in that direction; it is the outpost to thoe temple of learning and power. To abolish all invidtous distinctions of sex will inspire woman with wreater self-respect, and give her opinions new weight in public aif: o dignify woman is to ive our sons new. lessons of reverence for the mothers of the race, for those who have gone to the very gates of death, to give them life and imwor- tality. Thus far we have had a_distinctively mas- culine civilization based on the idea that so- ciety is constructed for the best interests of man alone, As he has been the domi power thus far during the reign of physical force he has naturally in all lus wnge- ments consulted his own tastes and inclina- tions. Our best legal authorities from Blackstone down to Kent and Story X the ground that man and women a be judged by the same moral code, idea runs through all our laws decisions in all cases in which man and woman as plaintiff and defendant appear in our courts, and the popular sentiment in- so- cial life reflect these decisions. Such are the sentiments (referring to those of Kent and others) and opinions of men who are quoted as authority on this subject, and yet these *high priestesses of humanity,” while their professicn is consid- ered a necessity, have no protection in church or state, ‘under the canon or civil law. Though the victims of men, they are hounded like wild beasts by men from one shelter to another, drageed into the courts, xed by the state, robbed of their property, shunned by society at iarge and left to perish on the highw: This and judicial While the women of wealth and position who shed tears over George Iliot's por- trayal of such wrongs in \m Bede,” and shun_ the em, they domestic 10’5 HSear victims of o welcome the destroyer to altars, Alas! the cheapest article of commerco to- day is womanhood. A vast organized com- pany circumnavigating the globe has a profit- ablé business buying and sclling young girls in every market of the world, and hke cattle the pric and fall according to the de- mand, no st, nOW west, now north, now south ording as the tide of emigration tends, or as new sources of wealth e (i covered rin a recognized fraction of the army alike in peace and war, When the terrible revelations were made in London three years ago, the world was startled with the iniquities in high places, That was but a rift i the dark clouds that surround all wormanhood, giving casual ob- servers but a hasty glance into the world of misery and crime, Speaking of woman’s standpomt of this darke problem, one remedy their I see is thorough education of our daughtors for self support.and finar Open to them all the higher advantages of life: fr access to the uing, the trades and pro- and opportunitic universities of 1 fessions, the positions of profit, honor and distinction, Let us ‘e the woman who honestly carns her own bread, rather than h who li in luxurious ease on tho . Virtue and independenco o hand in hand. Alexander Hamilton said @ man a right over my sub long ago, "G has aright over my whole sistonce and | woral boing,” And while planting woman's feet on divine heights of purity and peace, we sedulously educate our sons into higher timents of chivalry and revercace for whole sex. 1t is the duty of treat all women as he would wish his mother, wife, sister or daughter Surely if honor is demanded anywhore 1t is in the rolations of en and women. Ifa gentleman in o game of billiirds finds b friend cheatinig, he lays down his and hm no mor If in business he finds him guilty of questionable honesty, ho avoids all relations thercafter; but if a’man enters home after home and degspoils tho daughters of the people, it does not close tho doors of good gocioty o bim, nor lossen is o of holding the highest position und the ry man to own treated, plays wita governmen! Ah!wmy friends, so long as this is our moral code, we shiall have the social chuos we now suffer, yoa, worso still, for in woin- an's transition from slavery 1 freedou she will more surel yoar avenge her own wrong: > s 1o protoct fon elsewh > antugonisim Lotwoon the sexes is daily incre ng, sad will, untit justice, liberality and Vouch- safed to women, Aud yet in natural co bound fo each other by tion. It is this fine alm of faith that m other that binds sc togethe 4 though often disappointed and belray hat makes for Lhe fow a love and frieudship thut may endure through tine and ctorn Whether for weal or for woe, on st e an equal sactor in civilization, Lence, e equality are ment they are v law of G st invisible women hay has a right toa voice in the laws that affect her wolfare. one code of morals for nature, by tha terriblo m-nn.lm sho has in fl given amid the thunders of Sinai, * of the fathers shall be visited npon dren to the third the past two weels several questionable transactions have occured at the Casino, and on Sunday night, As stated in Tue Brk, an officer was denicd admission there when in of this | the oxecution of specific instructions from the chiof of police. From our standpoint we in and woman; say, and icted on'the rac has set the s ont systom, for the violation 1 of condemnation on tho and verified the warning the sins tho chil erntions.’” BROATCH I8 FIRM, tor Can Brect No More Poles= MAYOR The N and fourth This whole social problem is too vast for man Sun lay Strect Sei to adjust alone; the intercst of both parties Mayvor 13 teh was seen Sunday night, must be o v regarded in any valid con o1aLive to Lo order lashed b .. tract, and surely in the one on which rests 'I “" b 1ies S l ; ’}“‘ ik Rag L OUT Wirole socinl TAbe tho polica to proveat the setrio Motor railway company from ercoting poles along Galton says, the brain of is already man x\\“«'l\\'mulnml with the requivements of this | the stroot. Inanswer to an inquiry as to the intense civilization, and to meet the still | naturo of the ordiaanco under which per more com i probleis awaiting his so- | s lution, the up a fow d Ytod | Mission was first granted to the compuny, his honor said cc must,by some means, be i Where can we look for this now force but | “H the telophone or telograph com in the educution, elovation and enfranchisce- | panios are allowed to erect poles in the ment of woman, i ots they have to apply to Chief Galligan oo r permission, in order that the wires to bo STATE JOTTINGS, ) TAT TTINGS, ay ot in any way interfore with MR, ros used by the police and fire depart. K PATKE ke oF ot Somis g postomce wae | I 1f o is satistied that the proposed wires will not so inte \ permit is granted is heard at Norden, maste for them to be strung, and the noces: erocted. T understood at the t that tho motor lino wires came nnder tho simo hoad, and 8o grantod permission for thoir erection, y polos Holdrege hias a wholosale cig There arc only fifteen candidates for it Plum Creek post A rosident of Union attended chureli for | At that time there was no objection raised the first time in eighteen years last week agaiust them to me, but since then such ob- Pinkeyo provails among the horses of | jection has “been mado a number of Ducl county and many deaths have resulted. | s 1t is claimed that they will oross the & SR SR St ¢ Sts orace reots at n hoight of abou “_&T“h\: odist Sunday, schiool £ Shelton | twenty foet, which would interfere with el bR L 0 | trafic, and it 18 said the horse railway will AN ve. claim the same privilege along Farnam strost, The people of Cherry connty will vots on a | 1t would bo as fair 1o erantivto them as to proposition to issue bonds for funding the | the motor compa and yet our bhusiness floating indebtedness December 22, it was in motion, chase a forger who had_ escapod ofticer, the other day, and finally succceded in rounding up their man. a large sized managed to secure his_rel ing a writ of habeas corpus, M. line between Crawford and Alhance, one strects must bo protected. Other objections were that the wires would bo in the way in case of fire, and besides that the city attorney questions their right to evoct thom, It was aftor counsulting with him that [issucd the order against them. It is only a question of time, however, until all the wires will have 1o go underground. “The — company the right, under the fr. by the vote of the peoj thinks other Dut it they havo the right, a court will have 10 so decide before I grant thom permission to proceed.” “Then you don't mean to rescind the order tothe policer’ word man named Murpliy has sucd worn Valley road and had a conductor sted for throwing him from a train while The whole town of Harrison turned out to from an claim A Hay Springs judge landed on his head in cuspidore the other day, but e without issu- There will be two big tunnels on the B. & 1,300 feet long and the other 500 feet. Twelve NO, it will remain in force until the hundred men are now at work on them. courts decide othe Tn order to encourage the population of 3y the way, th is something 1 Sioux county the prizes for the in the Janu county and_the building in whic cated Lave been The courts will probably be called upon to settlo the matte former! ber of money over to the city. Hi be asked to make good the foss. project. Jail for thirty duys for the atf board bill. Harrison Ierald offers | want” you to ' say. am - gomg o put a stop to this smpting of the public streets by corporations of any kind on Sunday, I amnot going to allow any compapy to take advant * of a day on which 1o restraining order or injunction can be issued by the courts or served upon them, for the purpose of tearmg up our thorough fares and so cvading the law. You ay it will be stopped at once, and will - again while I am in oflice.” TENTS, “From Sire to Son," presented at Boyd's overa houso last night, is a work of uncom- mon merit in the line of melodrama, consid- sidered with reference bothi to its dramatio construction and its literary qualities. The story is strong in human wterest, and is developed with admirable art to hold the at- tention of the audicnce. All of the charac- ters aro strongly drawn, there are fine irst throe pairs of twins born will The close ounty. 1, 1800, The postof competition Harrisburg, Sc it was lo- arted away to Centropolis. D. Webster, rd, sold a num- iled to turn the bondsmen will It Las been discovered that v city elerk of Ha cometory lots and Towa. Marshalltown is after a cheese factory. Charles City is booming the plow factor; A travelineg man in Dubuque was sent to empt 1o jump a The board of education at Fort Dodge has adopted the new synthetic system of \ B rending for the primary grades of the public | touches of pathos, the humiorous element is schools. pleasing, the climaxes are wrought out Dubuque had a personage, ex-Alderman | With —great fo and tho literary Docrtier, who claims to have' kuown “Bar- [ excellences are m Altogethor 1t isin bava Fritehio tho heroie of \Whittiors | Production wiich its ‘author, Mr. Milton immortal poem, having been raised to man- | Nobles, may well rogard with groat satis- faction. Its presentation offered nothing hood in the city where she hived, Fredericks- town, Md. county builds his corn cribs so that the sid and ends are tight against the weather, for unfaverable comment. The Alfred Ar- mitage of Mr. Nobles is a_strong, well-sus- tained impersonation, giving of course tho author's idea of his own creation, and noth- ing could be finer in its delicacy, refinement A particularly successful farmer in Mills but the bottom of the erib is of slats and ‘there 5 o oristio o is an air chimney or two In the roof, 5o that | s womank m“,‘" e a current of air passing through the corn ail | Patar (iriwes was quite porfact in 1ta. w the time prevents it from becoming moldy. s also was the Dr. Mandrake of Mr, Mo Charles Aldrich, of Webster City, 80 i oyer, and Mr. Alfred Hustings met every widely known for his great work of making | demand character of Jonas Hardy: autograph collections, doing some studying in new c the library and will be put up some time next January. to this state department, as the great s in Dos Moines and he state library, Mr, Alori ‘T'he audience was not I A | ceptionally cordial, M h in | called before the curtain, Held Up in Broad Day Light. T. A, Schraneck, driver of Robert Prin- ©, but it was ex- Nobles being twice se has been granted 1t will be a valuable addition col- lector has but recently returncd from lalobainealsomo) anale gle’s bakery delivery wagon, about 9 o'clook nens. He I sived as- | yosterday forenoon started for the Fourth i L .' \"!)“”'l'b\"“'“" persons i | ward to deliver bread, and when dri USPICORR br Rt BTGl under the B. & M. track, on the RELILVED OF HIS WEALTH. cast of J street, was pounced uy niexn med with iron bars and orde Charles Finley is Robbed of liver up his money. He told them that he hG NeTIORgIa5 had not a cent. That he just deposited all robbed last night of $150. Just the pits fled. at the nd the Lis money caue by two wen Charies Finley, a Jefferson, Ta., farmer, was The perpetrator of the job was a prostitute, and the place, one » Phosphate of the wine rooms in Lew Hibben's Now | . Amparts encwoed Stronuth Casino on' Douglas stroct, Finloy met tho |/ fe WIROr whoro thore has: boon ox: woman ea dri visited, where in the inking in several pls more drink afternoon, and afte ces Hibben's dive was was o d A Juve The pupils of Mr. Cl cons held a He fell asleep and upon being a rehicarsal at the sto Meyor last about § o'clock lie discovered that night. Mr. Bactens has formed out of his money was missing. S The police authoritics complain that the | PUPilsan orchestra of about fifteen, consist- New Casino is becoming -the resort of tho | ing of violing cornets, clarioncttes, flutes toughest charact in the city, and t they d one violincello. The young pupils experience much difficulty i carrying out owed great promise and My, Baetens h their instructions when trying to locate | the nucleus of o first-class orchestra. Ne: crooks in this particular place. 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