Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 20, 1888, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE s gttt POLITICAL CHANGES IN THE SOUTH Tt would seom to be inevitable that within the next four years important political changes will take place in the s oo | South. There are significant indica- o | tions of a considerable revolt already 50 BEE. i THE DAILY PUBLISHED EVERY MORNIE TERMS OF S8UBSCRIPTION, Pally Morning Edition) lncluding SUNDAY B¥E, One Year. Yor =ix Months Three Moniha .0 ek ol . " B R AHA BUNDAT Tk, TAlid’ 1o any i forming against the policy which b address, One Year 2 ::“I maintained bourbon rule in tha south- Wewkny IR, One Year . OMAHA OFFICRNOR, U148 ANDOIE FARN AM STREET, HICAGO OF BUILDING, NEW YORKOFFICE, ROOMS 11 AND 15 TRIBUSE orn states and held them solidly demo- cratic. The great business progress in 77 ROOKERY e BUILDING, WASHINGTON OFFIC No. 013 | some of the states of the south has given LA o Ll them a new clement which has become CONRESPONDBENCE dissatisfied with a political system that | communications relating tonews and sdl- | " Wt dvance e A be addrogsed to the iprron | 18 Not favorable to material advan ment, and this element, almost wholly industrial, is showing a purpose to de- OF THE IR BUSINESS LETTERS, AN business letters and revittances should bs nddressed to Tre Ree Pr B “:”n;l“ ( |l"\‘\ . | mand that its interests shall not be 1A checks and postoffice orders to - De e AT v!:':h:”.“" } sacrificed to passion and prejudice. be made paya bt the company A noteworthy circumstance in evi- of this is seen in the visit to General Harrison of a committec of prominent southern men, chiefly from Alabama, and representing the manu- facturing intorests of that state, to lay before the president-clect their views dence The Bee Pablishing Company Proprictors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor THE DAILY BE Sworn Statement ol Circulation. tataof Nebraska, | < " Fl ounty of Dougias, (%9 regarding a political movement de- (eorge 1. T7achuck, secrotary of The e Pab- | gionod to remedy existing ovils and hat the Tishing Company, does sole for the actual cirenlation of T DALy bring about desired political changes kg st 1d roforms. [tis not reported what e es. 1o transpired between General Harrison Tues Wedne Thursda : Friday, Dec. 14 Baturday, De Dec. 11 Ben. s and the committee, but the controlling idea with the committee was explained in the statement of one of them that they regard the old solid south as a thing of the past, that a break f up isat hand, and that they propose to plehenico thiy Ioth day of e o ey buitle. - | muke new alliances and bring about a Btate of Nebraska, Lus, settlement of the perplexing race issue. B Average. HRGE B, T i Sworn 0 betore me and subsceibed in my Gieors i 1 . bémg anly sworn, de. | Mcmbers of this committee have osox and says that e js secretacy of tho Hoe | hitherto actod with thé democratic Pubiishing o impany, that the actual average daily ciroulation of Tk DALY Bee for the have become convinced party, but they ‘month of Deceniber, 501 coples: for Jan- [ 4o R e 3 month of Docephers I8, 15011 Sobletifor a1l [ that the conduet and policy of that H"‘ 7 -’ovluul: for A\lmlu n, l:!“. 1\1;.%» c&mn«‘: fx‘f party in the south are inimical to both pril, 1985, 18,744 coplos: for May, 183, ki e Son!tor iine, ‘T 0S8 coplés: for Julys | the material and political welfare of IR, 1833 coples; for Angust, 1863, I8 183 coples: | that soction, and that the time is at for September, 1844, 18, RS, was IK084 cople 18,99 copies. G Bworn to befors me and Dresence this Sth day of D N. P F W coplos:’ for October, 4 % for Novemher. 14, | hand when it pover there must be ). B, TZSCHUCK., broken. subscribed in my 1838, The course of this movement will be kY watched with great interest. Having its origin with moen largely concerned inindustrial enterprise it cannot fail to exert amost importantinflucnce,and itis THE railroads are disteibuting passes | not unreasonable to expect that in the to and from Lincoln with reckless gen- [ industrial states of Alabama, Georgi erosity nowadays, and are putting the | and Tennessee it may become so polit pasteboards into hands where they will | cal as to effect its object. The next ad- do the most good. ministration should be able to give ———— this movement valuable support and en- courngement, and it will be not the least important part of its duty to do so. 1f wisely managed, the task of breaking olid south may prove to be loss diflicult than is commoniy supposed, or than the democratic leaders of that section would have the country believe. RIDDLEBERGE mens of congress, tis the delerium tre- THERE are a good many conundrums which the people are asking themselves nowadays. Oune of them is how many school furniture firms find it prolitable to distribute presents of WY not re-submit the state election and give Has wotherchance? There is as much logic in this proposition as to re-submit the city hall location de- cided once for all in good faith. IN THEIR TRUE COLORS. There was an opportunity given in the house of representatives Tuesday which enabled the democrats of that body to show how they fool regarding civil service reform. Mr. Henderson of Towa submitted a motion to increase the clerieal foree of the civil sorvice com- mittee, whereupon Mr. Randall vindi- cated his democracy by opposing it. A New York democratic represontative went still further by moving to strike out of the logislative appropriation bill the entire clause relating to the civil Tue visit of a number of Alabama democrats to the president-clec one of those incidents which prove that the north and the south are not so far apart in interests and necessities after all. Tue deeision of the millers to limit the output of the tlour mills of the coun- try to one-half their average capacity for the month of January has all the finger marks of a trust to enhance the | sopvice commission, which price of the prime necessary of life, characterized as undomocratic. other New York representa- T1rE railvonds of Nebraska ave not al- lowing the grass to grow under their feet in their efforts to gain control of the legislature. They are playing a quiet but nevertheless a deep game to capture the speakership and important committees of the legisiature, THE proposed establishment of exten- sive stock yards at Fort Worth, Texas, is likely to cut considerably into the cattle business of Kansas City. Fort Worth is destined to become an import- ant cattle center and the leading mar- ket of the southwest for Texas beef. tive, prominent in the councils of Tam- many, supported the motion, declaring that he had never favored the c1vil ser- vice reform policy, and never should unless the political organization he especially ropresentod changed its atti- tude. The motion of the Iowa repre- sentative was rejected, as also was that of the New York ropresentative, the democrats not daring to go so far as to abandon the commission. The discussion, however, sufficiently demonstrated the hostility of a large ma- jority of the democrats in congress to civil service reform, indicating what the fate of the reform would be had the democratic party been success- ful in the national election. The omis- sion of all reference to this reform from the president’s message was simply in deference to the sentiment which he knows to be entertained by the large ority of democrats, and with which it is more than probable Mr. Cleveland himself sympathi He has shown since the eloction a very eager desiro to extend the reform, and it is said to be his purpose to place as many branches of the public service as pos: ble under civil service rules before the expiration of his term. But it is obyi- ous that his object is rather to em- barrass the incoming administration than to advance the cause of reform, The democratic party never has been in favor of thispolicy and never will be. — THEY DO NOT WANT IT. A prominent member of the Canadian parliament, anda liberal in politics, was recently interviewed in Washing- ton on the Butterworth resolution. While entertaining, as all the liberals of Canada do, most neighborly senti- ments toward the United States, this gentleman rogarded the “*unity and as- similation” proposition as injudicious, and not likely to bo of any conscquence oxcept 80 far as it may provoke resent- ment. One thing, he remarked, was not taken into consideration in present- g the resolution, and that is the fact that the present government of Can- ada would be entircly hostile to such a proposition. Since 1867, with the ex- ception of five years, the government has been in the hands of the tories, and it is a foregone conclusion, in the opin- ion of this gentleman, that neither the present government nor Great Britain would entertain the proposition. He thought it would therefore be folly to make the offer. He admitted there are people iu Canada who think the blend- ing of the two countries under one gov- ernment will be accomplished in the future, and a very much larger class who believe in free commercial rela- tions with the United States, but the annexation sentiment is not so wide- spread as has been supposed, The ten- dency of the Butterworth resolution has been to produce irritation, while it has given the tories a powerful argument. Canadiav sentiment as reflected in the press of the dominion, and as obtained by American newspaper correspondents, is certainly far from encouraging to the advocates of ‘“‘unity and assimilation.” The ideas advanced by Senator Sher- man are quite generally ridiculed, so fur as they relate to annexation, and a ONEof the things that the average intellect cannot understand is the seramble for the vacancy 1n the school board, There is no salary or other legal emolument in the office. Can it be owing to an insane desive for office among the faithful, or is it a desive for something else? CHAUNC W cannot very well become mimister to England and accept the place of seeretary of stato in General Harrison's cabinet at the same breath. The ecarnest friends of Mr. Depew had probably better consult Mr. Harrvison before they go farther in pushing his claims. Tuk people of Nebraska do not pro- pose to allow the coming legislature to waste and fritter away 1ts energies in a division of the spoils of office. There are grave und pressing questions in- volving their interests which must be and met Immediately dealt with, satisfactorily DENVER proposes to appropriate for the health department of that city the sum of sixteen thousand dollars for a crematory to be used for burning city garbage, This is comparatively alarge amount of money for the purpose. But the poople of Denver evidently regard the health of their city of more import- ance than the saving of a fow thousands of dollars, GENERAL HARRISON is being urged to seloct his secretary of the interior from the east on the ground that a western man has his judgment warped by land, railroad and Indian complica~ tions. A competent westorn man, thor- oughly tamiliar with the needs of the people and the abuses under which they suffer, would nevertheless be the proper person for secretary of the interior. E——— Tne board of education on May 19, 1885, entered into a contract with the city togay twenty-five thousand dollars toward the erection of the city hall on Farnam streot, subject to ratification. The voters of this city unanmimous)y approved the contract, and the money was paid over and expended in the basement of the city hall.” Now Rotwen Pavement Jim and kindred spirits, who in common are lving off the public erib, are howling for the abrogation of that contract and have pooled issues in furtherance of a confidence game to defraud the board of education out of twenty-five thousand dollars. Fortu- nately for the city, they will not suc- ceed, host of dificulties in ths way of such a consummation are suggested. There is plainly # very large sentiment favor- able to a policy of commercial reciproes ity, but it is intimated that this may decline if a plan of absorhing any por tion of the dominion is associated with it. In short, it is apparent that tho zeal of the advocates of unitf and as- similation is premature, and as usual in such cases is likely to do harm to the policy of effecting a mutually advan? tageous commercial arrangement be- tween the two countries, which is prob- ably practicable. With that accom- plished, a generation hénce the situa- tion may be more favorable to annexa- tion, if such a pol shall then be deemed wise and desivable. There is no great probability, however, that the somewhat sensational proposition of the will receive the ap- Ohio congressman proval of congress. TIASCALL'S city hall ordinance passed the council last night. Upon resubmis- sion and adoption of the propusitions set forth in it, the obstructionists in the council will stand precisely in the same relation to the city hall question s they do to-day. There can be no doubt that the voting upon a perma- nent loeation will result in a stunning rebuke of the ringsters who have blocked the city hall enterpris through personal pique. Mr. Hascall's Waterloo is good enough indication of the temper of the people on that point. When the people shall have the second time voted the location upon Farnam street, with the two hundred thousand dollar bond amendment, ote., what change will be wrought in the present situation? The bonds alveady voted are available to the amount of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dol- lars, and the location of the city hall at Farnam and Kighteonth strects v specifically made, as has been fully pointed out by Thr Bep. After these propositions shall have been agnin dis- posed of, what' assurance will the tax- payers have that the obstructionists will not resume their present tacties and block the building of the city hall for another The action of the eity couneil last night was worse than ridiculous. ard MAYOR BroArcirsays h e is opposed 10 the city hall resubmission ordinance. e sees no earthly reason why the city hall should not be built on tho site and under the conditions alveady decided upon by the citizens. Yot he states that he will not veto the Hascall ordi- nance, for the reason that he thinks the peopie will reaflirm their past action by a large majority. Wo venture to suggest that it is one of the highest and most important duties of an execu- tive officer to interposo his authority for preventing the consummation of unnecessary or improper legislation, as the mayor confessedly believes this or- dinance to be, regardiess of his opin- ion as to what its fate might be with the people. Mayor Broatch may be able to satisfy his own mind that his peculiar atiitade in this mattor is proper, but a great many people will fail to sce that it is either cousistent or in line with the plain requirements of his exceutive obligations. T BEE has stated its reasons forbe- lieving that it would be unwise to estab- lish a medical school in connection with the state university. The regents are reported to be now considering the question of creating a law school as part of that institution. The same objection that applies to establishing a school of medicine is applicable to a law school. Bither is outside of the purpose for which the university was founded. ‘What that institution needs is not an addition to its branches of instraction, but a judicious lopping off of some of the features of its curriculum thaf are usecless and extravagant. That done, it will be tims to consider the expediency of introducing new departmonts of study within the proper and intended functions of the state university. At present that institution is costing the people a pretty liberal sum for the benefits it confer: A RAILROAD to Pike’s Peal, in Colo- rado, is one of the possibilities of the future. The preliminary survey has just been completed and the report of the engincers is favoruble to the pro- ject. A grade which at its maximum will be but thirteen hundred feet to the mile, has been obtained. Considering the fact that the maximum g; famous Mount Washington the White mountains is more than nineteen hundred feet to the mile, the Pike's Peak project appears feasible, and likely to become the railroad won- der of America. THE corporations are beginning early to lay their wires at the state capital, and get veady the preliminariesof their campaign tor obtaining control of the legislature. This is conclusive evi- dence of their purpose to wage a des- perate fight, and is notice to the friends of thé people to prepare for the attack. The railronds plainly intend to spare no effort or means to attain their object. They can be defeated if the honest rep- resentatives of the people ave vigilant, firm and fearless HARRISON has -BLECT given it out that ‘‘the firsu shall be PRESIDEN last” in their greed for place. In other words, the man who pushes himself for shall be ignored. Let the school board act upon the same plan, and ignore all candidates who are working day and night for the coveted vacancy. A good man can be easily found who has not applied for the place. For once in the history of Nebraska, let the oflice seek the man NEw York Crry has appropriated seventy-five thousand dollars for the ex- penses necessary to celebrate the cen- tennial of the inauguration of George Washington as the first president of the AJnited States. The commemoration of this great historical event is to take place in April, and the occasion will undoubtedly be one of impressive grandeur, that will fitly do honor to the memory of Washington. Sem——————— Tre Burlington is early on the fleld at Lincoln with its oil-rooms especially fitted up to dispénse favors to the mem- bers-elect of the incoming legislature. Here the dealsmnd dickers are to bo made where| to a well known plinnt tool of tho rail- roads. And heve unscrupulous legis- lators are to-bo fed on promises without stint provided they will stick fast to monopoly interests. —_— THERE is a schemo on foot by certain parties to mutilate the Omaha charter by taking awfy the appointive powers of the govern®dr which now insure good government. Lot the citizens of Omaha | be made see to it that'no'such attempt with their yproval Merely a Question of Time. Kansas City Journal, Canada must sooner or later sce the trend of events and take her proper place in the American union. . War Forces at Hayti, Boston Herald, ne Haytian army is made up chiofly of fleld marshals, major generals, brass bands and several mokes armed with razors, — The New Explosive. Chicago Tribune. UncleBam (threatoningly) —Mr. Bull, keep on your own side of the water or I'll blow you sky high! |Fortifies his scacoast with oatmeal mills.) They Can Go o Bed Early, Chicago News. Society at Washington is staying up very late these nights, The democratic part of it can go to hed at 8§ o'clock every night next winter without anybody finding it out. - A Low Grade of' Partisan Politics. Washington Press. Fighting against the admission of terri- tories that are fully prepared for statehood on no other grounds than that, if admitted, they will be republican states, is the garb of statesmanship that has made the democratio party anational disgraco. s 1t 1s a Republican Land, San Franciseo Chronicls. It is safe to say that the United States is rapidly becomipg republican, and this fuct emphasizes the folly of the solid south, The democracy there is contending against fate itself and secking to stand against the cur- rent of popular opinion, and the result can be only confusion and disaster. Wide Awake Texas. Globe-Democrat. It is quite true, as assorte man Lanham, that the people of Texas ar notably broad-geuged and progressive. That is what distinguishes them from the people of other southern statc and the effect is scen in the fact that Texas prospers at an unexampled rate, while the rest.of the south, with the exception of a few patches here and there, gropes along in a limping and uncer- tain fashion, by Congre: e Avoiding Publicity. Claeago Tribune. Eminent statesman (walking up to ro- porter)—-My face is familizr to you, L pre- sume! Reporter—I have certainiy scen you some- where, and yet I cannot exactly— Eminent statesman—There is no use in trying to keep anything from the watchful eyeof a reporter. You recogniz: me, of course, as Congressman Blank? Reporter—Why, so it is! May T Inquire, he objeet of your visit to our locality 1 Eminent statesman (with dignity)—You may ir, that I am traveling through here in a quiet way, and as far as possible avoiding publicif 1 ————— Down on the White Caps. PhiladsIphiaRecord. The immunity which the White Caps have enjoyed has so emboldened them that, in- stead of confining themselves in their deeds of lawlessness and violence to sparsely set- tled tracts of country, they are invading the neighborhoods of large towns and operating with great audacity. The self-constituted cenorship which so many people assume over the acts of their neighbors shows itself in mauy obnoxious ways, but 1t has seldom assumed a more aggravated form thau this, and its further toleration is opposed to all ideas either of individual liberty or of dele- gated enforcement of law and order. e deeont Why They Don't Want Him. Pioncer Press. Colorado is to elect a United States sen- ator at an ecarly day, and accordingly the irrepressible ex-Senator Tabor bobs to the surface with an anxious why-not-me look on his saturnine features, But the people of Colorado, as well as those of other states, have long memories—memories whichk run back to the robe de nuit episode, and also to the ex-scuator's proposition to the late Sea- ator David Davis, ‘the ulterior object of which was the double marriage of the two senators and a double honeymoon trip, something in the nature of a double Uncle Tom's Cabin troupe, with two Topsies, two Markses and a brace of donkeys. Ob, no; the legislature of Colorado will hardly elect ex-Senator Tabor to the United States sen- ate. What they would sell him a seat for is another question. s STATE ;il) TERKRITORY, 5 praska Jottings. Initial steps have been taken at Columbus to form a Knights Tomplar commandery. Malarial fever is making the weather hot and cold for many residents of Wymore, ‘The copy for the new city dircctory of IKcarney is now in the hands of the printi Hastings will have eightecn miles of water mams when the latest waterworks contract is cowpleted. Tho Plattsmouth schools will remain closed until after the holidays, although diphtheria is rapidly on the decrease, The trustees of tho Swedish Baptist somi- nary at Stromsburg have quit claimed the property to the city, and the building will in future be used as 4 public school. Saunders county has lost one of its pioncers by the dedth of Mr. Throckmorton at his home in Ashland. fe voted for old Tippecanoe in 1840 and for General Harrison in 1358, ‘Pho recent failure at Beatrico is accounted for by the local press by the fact that the proprietor did not have sutficient capital to carry out his plan of selling goods at less than cost. The Fremont Herald suggests that th $10,000 which belongs to Nebraska us he share of the direct tax be immediately given to Pat O. Hawes before some other” boodle burglar gets it. A fit seized Harry Baker, an inmato of the Gage county poor house, while he was stand- ing at the head of the stairs in the sccond story, and he fell to the floor below, receiv- ing tatal injuries, The six-year-old son of a farmer named Miller, living near Auselmo, has lost one sido of his face, amputated by the sharp teeth of a vicious dog. The boy will recover, but the dog 18 dead. A frisky mule in a grading camp near Crawford, caused its own death, together with the incineration of its mate, ‘two horses and a stable, by kicking over a lighted lantern the other morning, ‘The boss was badly burned in trying to save his property. A Greeloy county farmer named Grasso was convicted at Scotia last woek of tying his wife with a rope and beating her shawe- fully, for which he was fined $50 and costs, and will board it out in jail. Grasse secured his wifo by advertising and olaims that sho is a holy terror. The general manager and the general pas- senger agentof the Elkhorn Valley road spent the night recently at Geneva, and had a serenade intlicted on them by the local brass band. It is now questiouable whether the ¢ the epeakership shall go | the railroad e, Two n ments at Madison this year. Intoxicants can only be obtained in or packages at Keokuk these days Two women attempted to burn Dr. Craig's drug store at Lohrville, but were discovered beforo they could accomplish their purposes. One hundred and twenty-four cases, two barrels and ton kegs of beor were seized from the custody of the Rock island road at Ot- tumwa Mr. F. Schultz, & miller of Rock Rapids, died of lockjaw u8 the result of having his fingors badly crushed in the machinery about the mill. A gang of eight tramps confined in the city jail at Creston pounded a hole througin tho walls of the cell into an adjoining cell and drank nearly ail of a case ana a half of con- demned beer which had been places there for safe keepine. * The little thre year-old son of William I Fagel, a Scott county farmer, was instantly killed by the falling of a heavy wate upon him, He had climbed to the top of the gate in order to wave his hand at his father, who was returaing from the city, and by the time the latter lad veached the gate tho littie fel low was dead. A peddler who put up for the night near Maquoketa was so frightencd at the threats and boisterous talk of some men who v ) stopping at the same house that he fied from the house in his stocking feet, hutless, coat- less and ¢ *d only 1n shirt and pants. For two nights and two days he remamed in the woods, When he ventured to return, his fect were frozen and he was almost dead with cold und exhaustion Dakot Sturgis will indulige in The Catholic faiv at $700. An attempt is being made to reorganize the board of trade at Picrre. A weekly newspaper is to bo started at Speartish in the near future. n artesian well. Aberdeen realized A score of German vocalists at_Deadwood lave organized a Licderkranz club, Captain_ Thomas Russcll, one of the pioncers of the Hills, is to start a daily paper at Stury A new brewery is one of the anticipated gooil thines which will bloom in the spring at Rapid City. Re. 1. W, Norton, of Ab cepted a call from the C chureh at Faulkton Valley Springs wants a few men with capital and nerve to develope the natural re- sources of the town. There are about two hundred and fifty ap- plications for seats in the first streei car tat goes over the newly built track fn Doud- wood, Dean Carpenter, of the Rapid City School s, has been elected a member of the rado Scientific society, and proposed for fellowship in the Geological socicty of the same sta The farmers of Brooklyn cicty which they have nan aders,” The members mee! nowic questions. At their last meeting the exemption lawg wore considered, and the conclusion reached that the present’ exemp- tions from excentions should be cut down at least 50 per cos has ac- Baptist ave organized a ed the armer to discuss CURREN edited by the of Columbia yearly suin POLITICAL Scit N Faculty of P« Coilege, Single numbers o scription published b 743 Broadwa v York. It is certain that Columbia college had a happy inspiration when it took upon itseif the creation of a quarterly for that is the magazine, preciscly thing in which current literature has been deficient. But we cannot help thinking that political science is not exactly the field in which the encrgy and the knowledge of a great university can be most profitably exertod. No doubt the faculty of pol 1 science of Columbia college imagined that by treating all the subjects upon which so- much heat is displayed with calm judi- cial superiority the review would be able to exert a most beneficial influence upon times that are decidedly out of joint. It is incontestable that marriage ties are a mockery; that labor is dis- contented: that artisans do not lknow their trades, and make a botch out of every private job con- fided to them; that financ probity is a thing unknown; that th rich are becoming richer, and the poor poorer day by day; that there is a dread- ful crowding into great centevs of pop ulation that has developed corruption and depravity beyond belief; that in spite of the high estimation in which women are held in this country they are forced to dothe hardest manual labor, and work stripped to the waist in iron foundries; that religion has totally lost its influence, and men openly de- ride the high hopes on which their fathers leaned, and that government by the people become a struggle bet n rich bribers and consciencel demngogues for offices where pecula- tion will yield a vich harves Under Cumstances the publication of Jarterly Review by Columbia college from the plane of rigid impartinlity would be a step in advance, if the facul- ty that does the editing knew anything about the subject. The very phrase “political soience” is misleading, for there is no such seience, and the fact thata de- ated for that st, does not prepare the reader to expect much of a maga- zine that owes its existence to such a source. A perusul of the articles for the guarter ending December, 1888, will strengthen the conviction thav the faculty knows nothing of politics, and has not succeeded in creating a s ce out of the heterogeneous mass of shift- ing facts. But there isa much wors indictment to be brought against them than simple ignorance; instead of boing impartial and judicial the articles are more than biased, They are actually partisan---and as might have been un- ticipated, take the side of the clusses against the masses, An excellent ex- ample of this is atforded by the article on the “Legality of Trusts,” by no less a person than Prof. Theodore W. Dwight, who is president of the Cotum- bin college law school. This actually is 80 wrong in its bearings that it might have been written as a legal opinion in favor of trusts, bought in the usual manner. We most earnestly protest agmnst the custom which s oming prevalent of lawyers writing = what are apparently spontaneous artiwies, purporting to give the real individual view of the author, but which are ordered and paid for hy clients, who wish to form or to fight public opinion. And it is patent th: >rofessor Dwight's article may justly lic under suspicion of belonging to this in- famous category, The gist of the professor’s long and labored article is that a trust is in it- self a colorless thing, a legal contriv- ance containing no element of good or bad, and that it must be judged by its purpose. He then takes the Brooklyn sugar trust, and argues thau its pur- poses were not illega!, and were not against the interest of the public. With regard to the firsy statement, no doubt, the professor is correct, because it is purely a question of law, aud no one nows the law better than he does. But with regard to the purpose he either is, or affects to be, profoundly ignorant, and his innocent conviection that the trusts only aim at most praiseworthy objects reminds one irresistibly of Law- ver Howe defending a murderer, and asing all his arguments upon the sup- osition that his client is white as snow vom all blood stains of killing. It is unricoessary to follow the profsossor in his showing that the avowed objocts of the sugar trust are not illegal, beeause no one cares a rap whother thoy are or not. The question that concerns the public is as to the nature of the real ob- jects. The first one, of which indeed the truat deed says nothing, but which me out incidentally in the state inves- ation 1s that it isacontrivance which } mits illimitable watering of stock. Jach sugar refinery surronders its stock to tho trust and roceives in exchango trust stock cortificatos, It was proved that the general average of tho trust stock given in exchange was double the value of the property or stock surren- dered. A man whose refinery w worth $1,000,000 received trust cortif tes to the amount of 00,000, This was precisely the way Cornclius Vi derbilt the [irst, manipul ent railvonds which consolidated fors the New York Central. There were five or six of thom, and they surrcn- nd [ranchises to the amount of $27,000,000, and he (the trust) proceeded to issue New York Cont stock certificates to the amount ol $85,- 000,000, But there is a W dered their stock ido divergenco bo- tween the viewsof Vanderbiltthe First and the Brooklyn Sugar Trust company, for the former intended to obtain 8 per cont interest on the watored stock by raising rates, and ho carried out his in- tentions to the letter. The profits of thé sugar trust are derived in the samo manner as the protits of the Chicago dressed meat combination, not from consumers, but from the producer. Both aim to destroy competition in buying becawse it is manifest that when instead of a number of buyers in eager vivalry against each other, thero is only on strong impersonal bidder, tho price which the seller will get will be just what the purchasoer will clioose to give. He will, in fact, be the market, just as Louis Quatorze declared himsclf to be the state. S0 long as the raw material of which sugar is made is practically derived from foreign countries (for the sugar raising parishes of Louisiana must bo dismissed as unworthy of com- sideration), no pinch will be felt in this our own land, and no class is likely to howl about its wrong The faet is that the Brooklyn sugar trust really proposes 10 do evil that good may como to u see- tion of the community—the consumers. But should sugar ever be made from sorghum or from _beet root either in large quantitios, orabsolutely, then there would be considerable yell- ing from the farming element. beeauso the farmers would be compelled to take what the sugar trust would allow them. And as the trust rehies for its profits chielly upon its pow 10 squeeze the producer, we may rest assured that it would not be particularly generous to the raisers of beets and sorghum, This is precisely the way things have worked in the dressed meat business. It is cer- tain that meat is in vetter condition aud of higher gaality, and upon the whole cheaper than befove the advent of the Armour-Cudahy-Swift - Ham- mond & Co. combination. There has been a slight incresse in the rates for prime cuts, but all the cemainder of the ear is sold much choeaper, so that the an be no doubt that the con- sumer is benefitted. But the cattle men upon the ranges have a very different story to tell. They get about one-third of what they used to receive, and they are as much the creatures of the com- bine as if they were their chattel slaves and herded their cattle for them. “rhus, O ye Cecropian bees, do ye make honey, but not for yoursclvos!™ There is no an possible between the ends of many trusts, and the devices ch were forbidden in the reign of V1. and the professor’s learned ion is a p waste of energy. men schemed to en- vious ways. But cap- talists now understand that the more it costs to live, the higher the wages will necessarily be, and their aim is to reduce to absolute slavery theproducer, so that prices may drop slowly and con* tinuously and wages will go with them. Lasulle partly poimted this out long ago. Hitherto America has had a rem- v for the ills of labor in the vower to vesort to agricultural pursuit, but for some years past the tac of the capi- talists have made farming a ruinous pursuit. Circumstances over which oven capitalists had no control, have raised to a great height the price of wheat, and promise to raise it still higher especially in the event of a European war, and this, for the time be- ing, has given the farmor a breathing spell and a gleam of prosperity. But in the terrible silent war which capital is making against produce and labor, such bits of good fortune are but temporary, and suspend without altering the operations in force against them. The beleaguered ci mpo- T ly relieved, but the blockading armios still maintain their ground, and capture seems only a question of time. Worst of all is the fact that the ill- judging unthinking workingmen r wavrd every rise in the price of a com- modity as a wrong done to themselves. They will not see, and they cannot be taught to see that high prices for food and elothing necessitate high wage: It may be argued that this equalizes things, and tnat it makes no difference whataman’s earnings are if he getsa comfortable decent livelihood out of them. But this is not true. So long as it paysa man to be a producer, there will be a relief to the crowded labor market, When it doesn’t pay a man to raise produce there will be a flow from the farm to_the city, and the labor mavket will be still more crowded. The pricesof produce ought to be the workingman’s steam gauge. When they sink below a certain point, there must be an explosion. Now as the aim of man sts is to force them helow this poin s not diffleult to see that the community is dangerously menaced by them. Tue Diany AND LeT1ers oF GouvERNEUR Monnis, In two octavo volumes, Edited Ann - Cary Morris, Published by ries Scribnér's Sons, New York. ince Peter Cunningham edited the letters of the earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, nothing has ever appoured that rivaled that collec- tion of witty mischief so closcly as thoe work under consideration. The task of se on and of editing the diary and letters of Gouverncur Morris has been most admirably performed by a granddaughter, and it is fortunate that the young lady had more sympathy for literature and for history than prudish - ness, or the world would have lost a book that is destined to immortality, It will be a standard work, and no lib- rary in America worthy of the nume can afford to be without it. Let no man stands the I'rench think he unc revolution bocauss he hes rend Carlyle, and skimmed the pag of ° Dickens' ‘Tale of _ Two Cities.” Let him read this diavy, and he will have the subject in full and as it really was. No one who does not beloug to the oraft of lettors can realized how much is sacrificed by an author that he may bring out what he considers his own fine points. neur Morris was in the French r tion, and no small part of it, His talents as a financier were kuown, and whenjbe arrived in Paris for commercial pur- hosos, and also charged by President ashington with a misgsion Lo arravge for the payment of the Krench loan to the federal congross, ho was asked to givo his aid towards tho rostoration of order in the French finances, His most intimato friend was Tallayrand, thon a pricst and a bishop, but as disso- lute and abandoned as the wildest rake in Paris. The diary contains the most extraordinary picture over penned of & nation gone wild, incapable of industry, or of concentrated action, or of intelli~ gent thought, because through malad- ministration the machinery of finance was clogged, The women woro as wildly reckless and as dissolute as the men, but actually showed more capacity for public affaivs and more comprehension of the drift of things. Into this state of vicious anarchy Gouverncur Morris plunged. Ho was still young, in clined to voluptuousness, and possessod of fow scruples. He oujoyod himself thoroughly, and s confided to his dinry overything that passed, all the women to whom he laid siege, and_all _those 1l a twirl of the fan Wwho with a smir proclaimed their willingness to be be- siezed. Yetover and anon the oynio- ty shocked him, and ho made protests in his dinry against the reckloss wickedness avound him, His famous diary is broken in two parts because during the Robospierre poriod ho did not dave 1o keep it. He resumed it when ho left Parvis, but shere is a m d change, and there ave cortain internal evidences that he wrote or re- wrote this scetion in his old age, passod in Morvisania. The letters are for the most part formal ones, with the except- ion of thoso he wrote to the Enghsh ambassadress at Paris. As he made copies of them all, even the tendorest, it can easily be understood that they are vastly interior to the diary, and arn in fact stiff and pedantie, written with an eye to posterity. DBut the dinry will secure for him immortality, for it is not only most racy reading, but it is the best history of the revolution, take g into account its fragmentary char- acter, that was ever penned, perabad a Stories Abont Lincoln Baptist pastors, says the New York Times, listened to some interesting re- ism of their deprs marks by A. J. Conant, the artist, on “Personal Reminiscences of Abraham Lancoln.” Mr. nant suid his f acquaintance with Mr. Lincoln about through his being requested to paint Mr. Lincoln™ portr it for the first exhibition of the Western Academy of Art at St. Louis. It was his custom, ho said, in painting this to go to Mr. Lincoln’s office in the old state building, as Mr. Lincoln was at that time (1860 busicd with political affai and coul not find time for formal sittings, The first time Mr. Conant visited Mr. Lincoln for this purpose he found the expression upon his face quite the re- verse of the melancholy and serious one he nad supposed he wore. It was so bright, animated and genial that Mr. Conant at once made up his mind w0 depiet it if he could. With this in view it his custom to tell humorous s which, when they touched Mr. Lincoln’s faney, made him forget for the time his absorbing affairs. One day Mr. Lincoln told how, when “running.” as he termed it, his gro- cery store Salem, near Springfield, he got his fivst taste for law. A farmer drove up with a broken down horse and a wagon filled with household **plun- der,” and asked him what he would give “fur the hull load.” Lincoln looked over the lot of old pots, pans, kettles and stuff, and gave him halfl a dollar. The man went off and Lincoln stored the stuff. Somo weeks aftor the purchase Lincoln had occasion to use some of the barrels, which were filled th some of the old “truck’ bought in the 50-cent purchase, and as he turned out the contonts of one of them, under ¢ pans a dilapidated copy of Commentar'ss” came ta Lincoln eyed it suriously and de. Later in the afternoon picked the book up and began to read. He soon beeame absorbed in it aud from that day on he read all the long leisure hours which fall to the lot of the country grocer. This was the first inkling ho had of any taste in the direction in which he afterward at- tained such success. D Another story the artist told was ona which he said he had himself told Lin- coln and which he had wsed on several occasions, on two of which he had been interrupted before he got to the point *tand,” said the artist, “if there was anything which annoyed Mr. Lincoln 1t was this, It caused him to always he remember the man from whom he got the story. The story was of a Missouri man who went to a stable to geta horse to take him to a convention to which he was going as o delegate with a hopo of nomination. The stable keeper was of adifferent political persuasion and rave him a horse which he calculated would break down before he got there. His calculations proved true and the mun lost the nomination. On his v turn to the stable the disappointed Mis- souran asked the stable man if he was training that horse for a hearse. 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