Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 4, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. FEBRUARY 4. 189 DAILY BEE, JRY MORNING. THE PUBLISHED EV TERMS OF SURSCRIPTTON. Dafly Morning Edition) including SUSDAY Hre, One Yen: Six Months onths . ik OMATIA SUSDAY [IEE, mailed to any madress, One . 2 WEEKLY [IRE, One Year e 44 OFFLCENOS.UTEANT 016 AR AM STREET, b ROOKERY BUILDING, RKOEFICE, ROONS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNE WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 613 #10 0 50 260 CORRES ANl communications relatin Vorin] matter should be address OFTHEBER: 1IN KSS LETTERS, Al business ketters and remiitancos should be nddrossed 10 THE TEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, WAL A, Drafts, checks and yostofice orders o Demade payablé to the order of the company. o newsand edi- 1 10 the EDITOR The Bee PllhliShiflgfimflfliW Proorigtors. 5. ROSEWATER. Editor. THE DAILY B! Sworn Statement ot Circnlation. Ftateof Nebraska, County of Donglns, { George I8, Tzschuck, sec Mshing Company, Aoes solemnnly swear that the actual cirenfation of THe DAiLy Bee for t ending February 2, 186, was o3 follow dan. 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TiE tail end of the Douglas county delegation at Lineoln will please pack its grip and come home “Wi ARE promised parks, houlevards and a union depot, but we have Jeffer- son square---lot us keep it.” MINNESOTA is about to enact an anti- Pinkerton law. Strange that so many states nowadays follow after Nebraska. IT may interest a great many people to learn that just thirty days from date General Harrison will step into the wresidency. THERE are four products to build up a great commercial community. They are corn, cattle, cotton, wheat. Omaha has two of them. NOW that the western railroad presi- dents have decided to agree, how long will it take by the Watterbury watch for them to disagree DAN LAMONT has given Mr. Cleve- land votice that on March 5 he can be found at his business office, New York City, open for further engagement. Ir NEBRASKA is the granary of the country, Omaha is the meat market of Amoerica, "It furnishes fresh beef and pork, not only to Boston and New York on the east, but to Memphis on the south and Denver on the west. “Docror” FRANK BILLINGS, direc- tor of the station for the study of dis- eases of animals, spent four hundred dollars in the purchase of a horse and buggy. That must also have been the horse whose shoeing cost the state four dollurs and seveuty-five cents. It is not to be wondered at that the legisla- tive appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars for the experimental farm has melted like butter in the sun. A pILL is now before the legislature of Kansas to compel the inspection of cattle on the hoof at tne place of slaughter. It is hardly expected that such o foolish measure will be enter- tained by the legislators the moment its fallacies are pointed out. The mem- bers of the Kansas legislature certainly will not be guilty of biting off their nose to spite their face. The passage of such an act would be a direct blow to the cattle-growing interests of the state, and would close every packing establishment in Kansas. BFF s are being made to discover the cause of the low price of cattle to the grower. Indefinite charges are made continually that the dressed boef men are to blame for it, There may be some truth in this, but it cannot wholly account for the apparent cheapness of cattle. The market for hogs has been remarkably stiff for a numberof months. The hog grower cannot complain of low prices. If the pork and beef packing monopolies hold the power to depress the price of live stock at will, why do they notdower the price of hogs as they have of cattle? The truth is, the low price of cattle is due to {he fact that the supply outruns the demand. A glance at the table ot the number of cattle re- turned for taxation would prove this, For the year 1881 the report shows that six millions of cattle wore returned from the nine western statos and territories devoted to cattle raising. In 1887 the number returncd was nearly fourteen millions, If the figures for 1858 were prepared thoy would no doubt run into the twenty millions, Whether these returns bo correct or not is immaterial, They ave undoubtedly underestimated. Never- theless these estimates prove that there has been an enormous increase in the number of cattlo since the palmy days when live stock fetched high prices, For that reason, it is to the interest of the cattle growers of the west to extend their market and encourage the beef- packing industries. They must find avenues to dispose of temporary over- production, But this can never be ac- complished by a short-sighted policy o restrict the free movement of cattle from one state to another by the pas- sage of local inspection laws, nor by un- warranted hostility to the beef-pucking industries, through whose energies the west is able to supply not only America but Europe with cheup boel. THE SUBMISSION BLUNDER. The attitude of THE BEE regarding submission, in whatever form presented, has been fully and clearly defined. We have deprecated all reference o the from a profound conviction effect of prohibition could to be harmful to the material interests and prosperity of the state. Its agitation, and the un- certainty regarding the result, must in- iy retard enterprise, check the inflow of capital and population, and prove in every way an obstacle to our growth. Under the existing high license and local option law Nebraska has moved steadily forward in the path of prosperi While the states that have adopted prohibition have re- mained statio! their falling into decay, their iands de ing 1 vaJue, und their industrie ing them, *hi has had the fortu- nate expericnce of a steady growth in population and a increase in weplth and prosperity almost unpar- alleled. To strike a blow now at these most favorable conditions, holding out the promise of a ate the future than in the past, is ono of those mistakes which are worse than crimes, and in the face of all the evi- dence that proclaims its folly is the very rashness and blind and heedless fanaticism. With regard to the dual propositions of the submission bill. the presentation of the question to the people in that form is perhaps preferable to the sub- mission of o gingle prohibitory amend- ment. Tt isa reasonable view that had the prohibition advocates cacried sub- mission th desired, and their proposition should be defeated Ly the people, the agitation would be renewed at once. The submission of the two propositions together will give the people an oppor tunity to determine which principle— prohibition or high license—they will permanently embody in the funda- mental law, and there ought o be some itage to the cause of high license Tho two policies must be dis- by and in such a controversy the sup- porters of high license should have little to fear if they ave nctiveand carnest. The weight of argument, and of experience in Nebraska and else- where, is largely on their side. They can demonstrate that while high license has everywhere served the causo of temporance, prohibition has nowhere beon successful in stopping the traffic in liquor. . THE WEST IN THE TREASURY. It 15 not from a sectional spirit, as that is ordinarily understood, that the west desires to be represented in the head of the national treasury undor the next administration. The people of the wost have no veactionary financial theories or policy which they wish to promote through a representative of this section in control of the fiscal al- fairs of the nation. They do not con- tomplate retalintion upon the ‘“‘gold bugs” of the east, as some of these have professed to fear. There is no conspiracy of western financial interests against similar eastern interests,which the next administration is expected to subserve, as has been charged by Now York poli- ticians with accompanying threats of disaster to the republican party. The west has no idea of disturbing or de- parting from the sound republican policy under which the national treas- ury was administered until the p esent’ administration came into power, cover- ing an era which, with the exception of ashort period, was the most prosperous in the country’s history. The west desiros representation in the head of the national treasury because it believes this section to be fairly entitled to that consideravion. It is the chief wealth-producing section of the country. Its farms and its mines have con- tributed most largely to the payment of the fonal debt, and will continue to d0s0. 1ts productions give more to the commerce of the nation than those of any other section, and they are steadily and rapidly increasing. Its people pay a larger proportion of the national revenue than those of any other section and will always do so. These are suflicient reasons why the great west should be represented in the na- tional treasury by a man who comprehends the vast magnitude of its nterests and is 1n sympathy with its aspirations. It is unquestionably true that there is a pretty general fecling of distrust in the west of eastern financiers whose views have been formed under the narrow influence of Wall street. 'he people of thissection do not bolieve it to be to the advantage of the general welfare that that influence should dominate in the administration of the finaneial affairs of the nation. But the groater reason they have for desiring a westorn man at the head of the treasury. is in the position of the west as the largest contri- butor to the wealth, the commercial progress and the general prosperity of the nation, which in the fulfill ment of its inevitable destiny it must always co ntinue to be, subject that the not fail almost towns in- loav- stato steady progress in rocklessness of a as ad in this, cussed side side, HARRISON ON CIVIL SERVICE. The reported talk of General Harri- son with a friend, on the subject of civil service reform, is suggestive, and should receive the attention both of those who ure 1 the oflices and those who hope to get in, General farvison indicates with sufficient pluinness that he is not in sympathy with the enthusinsts specting civil service reform, who would make a sweeping ¢xtension of it at once, but rather is one of the counservative class who believe that it must be a work of time and populareducation. *‘I have studied the matter,” the president elect is reported to have said, *for several years, and belie ve reforms ave possible, but they caunot be made 50 sweoping at once. Tho people must be educated 1o the requirements of tho service in this particular, and the more imporative the demand for perfect ser- vice becomes the better peepared thoy will be (o make some sacri- fices in order to obtain il.” This is a view which men who look at this mat- ter in a practical way can heartily com- mend. Granting all that the most ar- dent advocate of reform in the civil ser- vice can say a8 lo its mecessity, it is obvious that under A polit- ical system like ours so extreme f change as the radical reformers would effect nt once is out of the question. Civil service reform has been on trial for more than twolve years, and yot it is undoubtedly true that not more than half the people of the country are anso- lutely in favor it. It is well known that the masses of the democratic party are unqualifiedly opposed to it, and there are many republicans who are mot heartily devoted to it—perhapsa larger number since the last national election than before. Tt may be that another twelve years of honest trial may bring the whole people to support the re- form, but this popular education will hardly be accomplished in less time under the most favorable conditions. But General Harrison indicated by his remarks that th to be any backward step during his administra- tiop. Men who experienced and icient in the public service will find in what he said nothing to give them concern by reason of the fact that they are not in political sympathy with the administration. General Har recognizes the fact that “no party in this nge can hope to retain power when the efficiency of any part of the service is made sccondary to party needs.” Nothing more explicit could be re- quired by way of assurance that it will not be the policy of the next administration to make a clean sw \p in the public offices. An- other significant part of this talk of General Harrison, which ought to be renssuring to the reformers, is vhis: “The time is not far distant when the politics of a government employe will cease to be considered in his retention in the service, and when efficiency and faithfulness will be the only requisites.” It is suflicient to sny that all this is en- tirely consistent with what General Harrison said in his letter of accept- ance and also with the attitude of the republican party, which instituted civil service reform and has strenuously fought to maintain it. There is every reason to believe that it will not retro- grade under the next administration. ore is not ison The City Hall, The Omaha Herald, June 7, 1885, “Work should begin on the city hall at once. If not, why not? The season is advancing. Magnificent buildings, the result of private enterprise, are rising beside the mouldering founda- tion of the city hall. The inaction is a waste of time and money. The old wrangle is dead. The attempt to author- ize the sccuring of a new site perished of its own wealkness. There is no further reason for delay. “The foundation has been examined by competent and disinterested archi- tects and pronounced in every way suffi- cient to stand such a superstructure as has been designed for it. Mr. Men- delssobn of this city has taken the Myers plans and so modified them as to conform in the matter of cost with legal requirements, without necessitating any change in the structure to impair its usefuln or materially lessen its ca- pacity. Therefore work should be re- sumed despite any individual opposition. Not only is the building needed, put the money to be set afloat by a resump- tion of operations would be noticed. “Several score of men would be given steady employment. To allow the foundation to stand unused another year would bo the height of folly. A man’s private affairs, conducted on a similar plan, would speedily bring him to pov- erty. “There is a disposition in the council to take un the matter again, and the sooner it shall be taken up the better. Let it be taken up purely with a view to starting operations, and not to plac- ing new obstructions in the way.” Mareh 6, 1855, “Jefferson square is not the place for the city hall,or for s government build- ing. As to the first point, the people have decided. As to the second, the proper authorities will decide in due time. As to the merits of the square as a building site from an architectural point, there is no reason for discussing, save as opinions reflect upon surround- ing property. If the place were not needed for a park, and anyone chose to se it for building purposes, he could doubtless do so with perfect safety. No one expects ever to hear that the ma- terial bottom has dropped out of Jeffer- son square,” —— Practical John Sherma Chicago Times, Senator Sherman has no more romance in him than a rail fence. Just as wo are get- ting ready to turn loose on Germany the Ohio senator arises with an Evarts frigidity and informs the country that there will be no fight and that Jake Klein cuts no figure in the row. Has Senator Sherman any uu- tipathy toward Mr. Klein because he hails from Chicago? el Men Consult Their Wives. New York Sun. An observer of the parallels in life finds that Chauncey M. Depew, Alonzo B, Cornell, Erastus Wiman, Warner Milier, Dan La- mont and Ella Wheeler Wilcox's husband all make close confidantes of their wives and beliave toward them as if they were still courters, uncertain what the answer of the ladics would be if marriage was proposed. - Criminal Apathy. St. Louis #ost-Dispatoh, The authorities of Plummerviile, Ark., do not seem to have discovered thata brutal murder, weich has excited the horror and indignation of the entire country, hus been committed in their town. Some means shoula be discovered to prod them into a lively sense of their duty. B A Trifie Too Broad, Minncapolis Tribune, A Plumber announced in the Omaha police court the other day thut all reporters are liars. This plumber was undoubtedly sulky and mad at 0ld Boress, or he would never have made such an unqualified statement as *‘all reporters are liars.” S Wil Make It Interesting. New York Herald ‘When Blaine 1s secretary of state here, Herbert Bismarck chancellor in Germany, Crispi controlling Italy, and Boulanger minister of war in France, there should be pleaty of news for overybody who likes news A The Cares of Office. Chicago Tribune, Dan Lamont remarks that he has had enough of politics, and is goiug iuto business in New York after March 4. Curious how tired they ali grow wward the close of the administration. STATE AND TERRITORY Nébraska Jottings The Congrogationalists of Hay Springs are to build a parsonage. High fine partjes are the correct thing now in Tilden social circles. The new Catholie church at Belwood lLas been christened St. Peter's. McCook s to have an electric light in operation ih ninety days. Red Cloud is to have a telephone exchange, starting in with ten subscribers. A company itk been organized at Neligh for the manufaciure of pressed brick. The city marshal of Wayn accordance with a new ordinance, raided the varb wire fences in town and confiscated them, An averaze of twenty cars of ice per day is being shipped from Creighton to points along the main line of the Etkhorn road The furniture dealers of Norfolk 1 stocked up heavily with baby carriage and it is said that they knew what they were doing, The body of a newly born babe was found in an outhouse at Deflance Thursday, and in- fanticide is suspected. The coroner 1s inve tivating, The White Caps of Wayne warned a worth- less fellow namod Sid Clark to leave town within twenty-four hours or take the conse quence. Sid skipped. The young ladies of Bertrand have adopted an infioxible rule that their gentleman callers shall not be allowed tostay later that 10 o'clock i the eveni A tree belonging to a rich man at South Sioux City fell the other day on a poor man’s property, and in order to get it out of the way the poor man cut it up, When the rich man heard of it he swooped down on his un- fortunate noighbor and demanded pay for the wood. It is generally believed that the stingy mortal will suffer the fate of Dives Danicl O'Hanlon, of Dakota City, was fa- tally injured by a boar Friday night. He was trying to separate the animal from a number of other hogs when it seized his ankle in its jaws, crushing the bones to splinters. Mr. O'Hanlon fell to the ground whereupon the beast lascerated his legs and hips terri- bly. One gash on the fleshy part of the thigh is five inches long and very deop. Says the Harrison Herald: Matthew Roilly, of Omaha, was n town early this week, and sought to regain possession of his child. The mother successfully protested with a six-shooter in her hand, and Mr. Reilly resolved to no more seck her or Tominy, and returned east, where he lives with three other children. In 1852 he was buried by the caving in of a bank of carth where he was working, and was seriously in- jured. Crippled and almost helpless, a sepa- ration took place between the man and wife, the wife leaving with the children. Since then they have lived together and again sep- arated. Mr. Reilly, always a sober, indus- trious man, is now working in tho St. Paul yards at Omaha, and desired to take Tommy and educate him, plant vo Exira is soon to have a new bank. The city marshal of Lenuox is six feet and six inches tall More than 200 people have been_convertod or reclaimed by the revival now in progress at Tama Cit, It is estimated that at least 500,000 bushels of gram are purchased aunually by the merchants of Muscatine. The Gazette says that Creston is _probably the only city of nearly 10,000 inhabitants in the world that,supports but one undertaker. A parrot just added to the furniture of the Lorimier house in Dibuque saves the clerks the trouble of bidding departing guests good- George Loyton, a prominent Lee county farmer, died at Vincinnes from the effects of an_injury to the spine received by being thrown from a hotse, An eccentric colored character in Daven- port, known as‘Prince Alvert.” died last Thursday, aged 'seventy-four years. For twenty-five year's he was the city bill poster. The Farmers' Shipping association doing business at Aurelia voted last week to admit persans not engaged in farming to member- ship. It is said that the merchants of Aurelia will take stock in the association and work for its success. A tramp who once before worked out his sentence on the atone pile at Marshalitown returned to the city- and_asked to be run in again. He said he wanted to work but could find nothing 1o do. After debating the mat- ter the authorities bought him a ticket to fresher ficlds. Polkk Wells, the desperado who is serving a life sentence at Fort Madison for the mur- der of his guard, has sent to Governor Lar- rabee the third and last installment of the manuscript of his_autobiography, pages 747 to 540, nclusive. Ho desires that the gov- ernor publish the story to serve as a warn- ing to others, and that the proceeds be used in educating his childre Dakota. The Baptists of Deadwood propose to erect a church building. A move is on foot at Vermillion to lay out @ purk on the island, Iroquois is expectantly looking for a big boom in the spring. The Deadwood city council has purchased a site for the city hall. There are sixty-three members of the Mitchell board of trade. Over three hundred scholars are enrolled in the Lead City schools. A stock company has been formed to pros- pect for coal near Montrose, The Gary gas well is going down rapidly and a striko is expected some time this week. The Union Banking company has been organized at Aberacen with a capital stock of §200,000. Onida claims o have more literary and so- cial socicties than any other town of its size in Dukota. There are thirty-five common schools now session in Jerauld county, with an average attendance of saventeen pupils to each. Yankton college has nearly completed ar- rangements to build_an observatory summer, and mount therein the big telescope recently purchased. ‘The Aberdeen Electric Light combany has recently purchased a new 125-horse power Russell engine, which will arrive in the course of a week. The present building willat once be enlurged with a view of doubling the capacity of the company’s busi- ness. Carpenters are making rapid progress on the bridges of the Deadwood Central. Sur- fucing is also nearly completed, and if the weather continues favorable the road will be ready for the rolling stock in less than two weeks. . The Press alleges that the young ladies of Sioux Falls have caught thé boxmg fever. They have a set of old cight-ounce gloves that are as hard as a piece of jasper, and with they maul each other around at their regular afternoon gatherings. s LI HE MAN 'WITH A OLUB. Excel ent Address to the Mem- bers of the Journalistic Profession. The followinggpddress was read yester- day afternoon, before the Omaha Press club and many friendsn the Continental block : In searching tBéyearliest records of our profession I tind §hg institution of the offic of censor among the' Romans about 443 13, The pair who attained to this dignity were eligible only by having passed through all the various ofices of the stale, and even em- perors ussumed the title ex officio. These censors had the power of punishing moral and political tRiseressions, and they de d the ill-treating of families, extrava- gance, and the pyrsuit of mean professions as sufficient causé” for condemnation, They were the first genuine and original reporters, and they must -have enjoyed thewsely wade their own ussignments aud had no city editor over thew. 13ut they were responsi- bl one mighty tribunal for the conduct of their office, just us you are to-day—and that was the great voice of the peopls, who alone could pronounce upon them. I have undertaken to say a few words to you on some phuses of the use and abuse of power in journalism, ‘We all wield clubs of various kinds, more or less weighty, the journalist u peculiarly poteutinl one, Now the text of this short sermou is that “‘the man who uses his elub like a bully is Worse than a coward.” Rightly, wisely used the press 1s a friend to all sorts aud conditions of honest men and women, and & terror to evil-doers and all the following of the baser sort. Aund in the just employment of this foremost weapon of civ. ilization rests a vital responsibility, ‘There has of late heen a stream of drivel poured upon the profession on the A meui- ties of Journalisim,” wnd the ““Toue of the Press,” und “‘Personalities,” and a variely An of filtered drawing room_dillettante opinion It is_worso than drivel—it is consummate rot. Very noarly the first province of the | amatour seems to be a fulmination on the Sright w to run & newspaper. And | sometimes even veterans indulge | lotus droams of a porfect sheet, printed on calla lily r in black diamond tpye, having the largest circulation, spend ent poticy, loaded down with advertisements, and never offending a single subscriber. In this active, hurrying, breathless age thoro is precious little rose color connected with the geim actualities of journulism. A reportor Rets the news or—he gets left; & journal hits hard or—it gathers no moss, and live nows paper talks plain or—the people the other paper. Romance , want and luxury, the vilest passions of the human heart and the purest virtue which redecins the race, pass in_daily review before the man who gathers the news, and they are to him, facts to bo classified and printed There is small noed for wonder at the good natured cynicism which types the average reporter, for he moves every moment of his life in Vanity Pair, and in the very midst of the noise and shouting, and the lies and schemes of this unrest we call living, And to such among the ranks as have clean hands and a clear manly lifo there is the double | mead of praise which belongs (o them that have fought tn the thickest of the fight, For indced 1 do not know of any class of men who stand closely face to face with so many varied types of uman worth and worthiess ness, 1 call our friend the “man tith the club,” because a stout weapon is needed in this warfare; the world is not idealized yot; when it is, the iaeal paper will be published, and it may bo there will be ideal reporters— with real wings, But not yet—not yet Now then, “the man who uses his club like a bully is worse than a coward.” His adver- sary cannot hit back. If he does, it is too late, A lie will travel a thousand miles while trath is getting her boots on. I do not kuow a_meaner exprossion than one very commonly used: “Better be eivil to him or he will publish you in the paper.” 1t implics the use of a clib by a bully. And on the other hand, any member of the profession who announces, **I have got it in for him,” from some personal cause, demeans lis estate and lowers his oftice, It is not the ovinee o his paper to be- come o private club, I would rather sce any man beforc me pounding stone for the county, than to know that this use of his weapon were true of him. 1t is well to remember, also, that sometimes the othier fellow may have just cause to use areal club. Porhaps there is no one department in the profession to-day which has opened up so much debate, or is o susceptible of abusc as the “interview.” There arc many phases of this industry to which [ am strongly op- posed, because I believe there arecertain strongliolds of private life which should be held inviolate even from the newspaper in terviewer. But it is desired to emphasiz one point, and that is a sterncondemnation of the “assumed interview,” and there is a tendency in this dircction ' which should be checked for two reasons: First, it 1s damn- ably dishonest, and sccond, 1t assails the i dividual honor of every journalist, both as a man, and a citizen, be more explicit: Your readers demand the news, and your chiefs expect you to furnish_it. According to unwricten American law every man this side of Canada, and north of Mexico, is a | | | proper object for an_interview on any pos: ble and impossivle subject. This is, rightly or wrongly, from your point of view. Well now, lask you fairly, would tie ufortunate man recognize in many cases the few com- monplace p'atitudes with which he answered your questions in_the expansive column of crimson hued rhetoric which appears in the paper! You may answer, there are a major- ity of the intérviewed ' who are doubly pleased to_have their talk ‘“dressed up.” “That may be true of a class who take kindly to free advertising, but not of the man who knows his limitations, and does not pose as a master of eloquence. ' You formulate a fal hood for him which might lead to no end of iniquity—he might take to lecturing, Now it is tnis “dressing up” that is the demon of mischief. 1f the interviewed has nothing to say, and says that, it 1s nothing more nor less than rank dishonesty to make hif utter words in the public print which had no foun- dation in fuct. 1am speaking now of what 1jconceive the highest relative law of are- porter’s life, and that is the law of fact, and not romance, when he interviews a man, He has no business to *‘surmise’” or ““conjecture’’ or predicate an opinion. That belonis to the inside, to the argument man—the theorizer and the prophet. A reporter reports facts, with theories he has nothiug whatever to do. And to my mind that man who approaches the nighest to the frozen truth in a clear, dis- passionate, truthful report of an incident, a conversation or the like, uses the powerful weapon at his command honestly and like a gentleman, thus fulfilling_the highest and first duty of his calling. You will bear with when Isay there isa tendency toward flippant, dashy sort of reporting which very often pronounces upon topics on which older and more thoughtful men deliberate dubiously. And the mostabominable feature is the substitution of words and opinions which have no foundation in fact in the mind of the interviewed. This—thoughtlessness, shall one say—whenever it is practiced by any member of the profession is of vast harm to every journalist. For the person inter- viewed will ever after dread the sight of a reporter; a distrust of the entire fraternity is bred, which assails the best interests of ewspaper man, He did not say much, 50 ho is made to say more; that “more” was the reporter’s, who *did not know,” so the citizen stands pilloried as ridiculous, and in Vanity Fair to bo made ridiculous is to be damned. You have used your club dis- honestly and bunglingly, and wounded some oue. Now if _there seems to be a growing dispo- sition on the part of the average business man to aypid anything like a freo and fricndly talk with the reporter, it may be tracod unerringly” to the causes set forth Ivis within the record of the fact he cffect of these ‘assumed inter- in several instances has been pro- ¢ of most embarrassing complications and most awlward situations. It is the “little rift within the lute” which has done the harm; and the chance word, the casual suggestion, the apparently harmiess surmise, hus given a pointed emphasis to an interview which in tho process of digestion by the pub- lic finally brands the burned-out merchant with setting fire to his own store. How can heassure his friends he did not say so, when they have read his deliberate uttérances in cold print! The injured citizen gains the added shame of Lypocrite if he denics it; to rush into print-s suicide, for his wry friend owns the club. 1 urge this matter of per- sonul honor, bocause 1 conceive it 15 the best stock in trade ysu can carry; its conserva- the interest of the public in noted persons. And it is only the views of important men on important subjects which are worth report- ing.” When an important man is in viewed, it many times happens that very much of his characteristic originality of ex prossion is lost, because the larger number of interviowers are not phonographors, and write the report from momory. Tho mis- chief of interviewing will corroct itself; but thero will be many victims during the pro- cess of corraotion. We will agreo, then, if you ploase, that the newspaper, p and simple, should be o paper of nows, a record of cvents; that its aim should be to state fairly what has oc ou nd to refleet events without distor tion. ‘This was understood to be the primal function of the earliost nowspaper. Whatovor the party or the sympathy of the newspaper, and with whatover force it may edi torially advocate or opposc views and mon, its readers are entitled to krnow the nows that is, to have a truthful roport of the facts. The paper may make what uso of the facts it can, but uniess it deals with facts it merely confuses the public mind. Now, you wnd 1 Know tnat the exact truth concorning the democratic rally last night cannot bo ob tained from cither of the opposing shects this morning. It is reported on the one side s a grand outburst of popular enthusiusm, and on the other as a dark and dismal failur 13ut the public do not gt the truth, or what they pay for, which is fact. “The protectic meeti last night,” says the Daily Horn blower, “was & muguificont expression of the popular voice on w question sacred to every true American heart.” And the Morn ing Concertina remarks, *‘There was the usual gang of moss-backs at the protection meeting last nighty twenty-seven men, Lwo boys and an umbrelln.” > the bowildered citizon is aware there was u moeting, but be yond this he knows nothing. You may gathor from these remarks that a stricter honesty and accuracy is urgod us botween the reporter aud his client, the pub- lic. As among men, we do not deem it wise or judicious or safe to tell all we know of one another. The moral shingling is rathor loaky and shaky in 4 great many instances, Soeicty and the welfare of the public arc not benefitted by proclaiming from the housetop the weakness and tho frailty of our follows. “There are one or two an i thousand who could stand it to have the cover taken off and face the world on their record. U your club with a due remembrance of this fact And finally, you have a discrotiv vested in you which i wide and ing. Yours is a composito office, wherein is revealed to you someihing of those hidden tideways of the human heart which used only to be viewed by the lawyer, the doctor or “the minister. Your oar is ver close to the respiration of hun the fears, the secrets, the crimes, the the passions and the pomps, the vices the vanitics of the race. Abuse it not. Be vigilant, but be just. It is your high privi- 10 flghit against wrong and error, and it 18 your province to be strong helpers for the right in the manifold questions which affect the public good, the public worality and the prosperity of the peopie. - - A Defense of Gov Owana, Neb., Feb. Tne Bee: After cxamining the bill now pending before the committee on claims of the house, for the relief of ex-Governor David Butler, 1 have conciuded that it should obtain. I was m Lincoln at the time the alleged high crimes and misdemeanors with which the governor was charged occurred, and am somewhat familiar with the facts, all the details of which, after so long a time, 1 can- not now recall. 1 wrote a letter to the State Journal at the time, which has all the facts in the whole affair, and the communication I made them was said to be_the only just and equitable view to take of the case, The conduct of the povernor after the im- peachment should be sufticient to convince any skeptic that there was no wrong or violation of law intended. After the senate, sitting 0s a high court of impeachment, had found the governor guilty, and he had'been deprived of his ofiice, without any suit or force he paid_every cent to the state that was due, and holds a quietus for the same. The senate some four years afterwards, fully investigated the court of im: chment and its finding, in its wisdom and e expunged the record of the whole proceeding. When the record was purged, it was proof that there was no cause for im peachment and that no crime was commt- ted. Then if there was no cause and no crime the governor should have been, as he was, completely exonerated. I he has been wrongfully prosecuted and compelled to e vend large sums of money, the state cun be just only by reimbursing him for his expen- ditures, made necessary by the trial. 1 was asked by a member’ if there was any pre cedent in the United States for any such reimbursement. I informed him what I here relate in the case of Andrew Jackson, who in 1815, just before the battle of New Orleans, suspended the writ of habeas cor- pus, and imprisoned a man whom Judge Hall had released. The judge fined General Jackson 31,000, That was m 1815 On the 16th day of February, 1544 congress passed a law refunding the general his 81,000 with 6 per cent mterest from the time ‘the fine was paid, amounting to nearly 3,000. This law cin be found in volume 5, prge 651 i tates statutes-at-large. In Febru 534, General Jackson caused the gov ernment doposits in the United States banks in Philadelphia to be withdrawn, and as a result the bank failed. On thé 25th of March, 1834, the seuate passed a resolution of consure, to whicl the general sent a vig- erous protest to the scnate, and the senute voted the protest a breach of privilege. The vote of censure and the protest remained of record until the 12th day of December, 1842, during the callea session of the Twenty-sev enth congress, when old Tom Bentou chum- pioned the general's cause, and the record was expunged. By reference to volume 12 of the Congressional Globe, page 41, the ex- punging resolutions can be found, and further on in the same volume can be found the debate on the passage of the expunging resolutions, The original vote of censurc can be found in the procecdings of the Thirty-third congress, on page 71 of the volume labelled from 1833 to 1535, The num- ber of the volume I cannot_recall, but these books are all in the state lib A wore detailed and complete_ history of refunding, and expunzing can bo found in Barton's Lifo and History of Andrew Jackson, The record having becn 6xpunge ernor Butler's case he should be reimburs PAr O, Hawes. power v reach or Butler. To the Editor of in Gov- nd. — An Obituary Item, tion strengthens you with your clients as men 10 be trusted, and without this con: dence your usefulness to your paper 18 im- paired to a degree which renders your service well-nigh void. 1 veniure to say to you that the reluctance to be interviewed by that class of men who arc woulders of opiuion or leadors m_comm urises frox this fearof bemng misquoted. When a man has said his say, bo il ten lines or a column, that is his expressed thought which he is willing to make public. To go boyond this is to wander into a_country of vague and dim coujeeture, wherein ten to one you go astray; and to go ustray, Knowing your limitation, is diskonest. ~'To speak mor plainly, und 10 emphasize o poiny which 1 ain aware is as clear us sunlight to you, your commercial value, as it were, i3 i cxact proportion to your record for reliabiiity with the public. It is the plaincst of business propositions, And aside from its dollar valw there is also the added oblization you ow your profession in _your position of public censor, So then to be painstakingly accurate 1s good sense, good busmess sugacity, good morals and good faith with hosen duty in life. “Speak of me as [wn; nothing ex tenuate, nor set down aught in'malice,” But this is only one side of the question, ouly tne lesser half of the evil to be rewo- died. 1f it is not fair to quote a citizen for more or less than he has said, whal shall we say_of those roports which are printed | wiiGrein the citizen had no intention what. soever of being reported! Thoere is nothing connected with the modern newspaper which needs reforiing more than the unwarranti ble liberty taken by the press with the pri vite or unoficial conversation of the citizen, 1 protest against the monstrous doctring that the press has a right, to give u wan's private opinion or quote his inadvertent remurks without his knowledge or conseut. I not the “freedom of the press,” but the very lonsest sort of It is an espionage and o deteotive system which attacks the so curity and the privacy of the individual. 1t is subversive of personal freedom in the strictest sense. It is thoroughly dishoncst Says a distinguished journalist ory dasy in the intimacy of home or the i d pri- vucy of friends a man says o hundred things of porsous and affairs with a frecdom which would be inconceivable if he were speaking | to te | or late. | relieves Although this was the 197th funeral we have officiated at alone. ys the Nevada Enterprise, besides more than y in company with others, we think it was decidedly the neatest corpse wo have ever scen. It showed that those who had the care of the body in cha understood what was requived of them thoroughly. The coflin and robe wor as neat and tasty as our worthy friend and gentlemanly undert: up. The sseet littlo one wis made to look as though it was draped ve the company of the pure and white who compose the family above. For all it was made to look as nice as human hands could make it, yet it was sad in- deed to see that little innocent one low- ered into the cold and lonely, silent dark and cheerless bed, whore the mother’s loving hand cannot reach to press the child to her hosom and quict its troubled heart, And to see the fond parents press the st lingering kiss on the innocent, snow-white check was a seene intended by Him on high to melt ars the hardest heart, Yot this of life, and wo must all sooner go the same road, Letus, then, one and all, be us well prepared us that little innocent and blameless child, - uz Ladics Sette an Blection et presidential olection w Lns just been settled by three protty and plucky young ladies of Novth Billerica, Mass., ny walking to Boston and g a dinner and a matinee part young ladics are Miss Fannie Crokore, Miss Lizzie Copeland and Miss Fannie Copeland, the end Yo - The most severe cold will soon yield to_Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It does noL suppress & eald but looseus and it. No onc aMictod with a throut or lung trouble can use it with- out henefit. 1rice 50 cents per bottle. for the public Interviewing springs from Sold by all druggists. TO-MORROW'S ELECTION, What 18 to 136 Voted Upon and Whare 1t Ts to Bo Done, To-morrow has been sot aside for the hold. ing of & spocial olection, at which tho peoplo will be called upon to vote upon the follow ing propositions Shall a city hail for this city be erected a8t not to exceed 500,000, Shall the proposed hail be located on site known as Jefferson square or on lots 5 and 6 in block 116, the site at the corner of Eighteenth and Farnam strects originally solocted, and ou which the foundation of tho proposod hall now stands Shall bonds of this city in the £300),000, to becomb due in twenty years, and boar interest not to_exccod 6 per ceat por annum, to be used for no other purpose than for defraying the cost of construction of tho provosed hall, be issue Shall 5,000 in bonds bo 1ssued to pay for paving, repaving and macadamizing the in tersections of streets and alloys, to run not more than twenty years Shall $100,000 in bonda bo issued for tho struction and maintenance of sewers, ), 000 of w is to be used on sowers in North ana 0,00 ¢ sewors in South Omaha, Shall £100,000 in bhonds for the rver outatauding' bons sued for the purpos nssary vt of way the Union Pacifio by The polis will bo opon on Tucsday at § o'clock in the morning, wud continue open until 6 o'clock in the evening at the follow ing places the sam ot wal of of tho city heretofore is. of puying for the nc and depot grounds of issued FIRST WAID. First District—Cornor of Jones and Tonth streets, barbor shop Second District—Sixth Pacific und Pierce stroets, shop, Tnird Distriot—Corner Eleventh and cas strects, engine house No. 4 SECOND WARD. Iirst District-—-South end Sixteonth streot, viaduet, Gibson & Hartman's building. Second District—Corner of Seventeenth and Vinton streets, Arnot & Co's. store. THIRD WAKD, No. 1006 Davenport streot Corner Tonth and How- sidentul hotel, FOURTIL WARD Planters’ hotel No. 1805 St stroot, Alvin's botw [ n Dor- Iirst Dis Second D ard strects, O Tirst District Second District enue. Mary's ave FIFTIT WARD, First District—No, 0% North Secand Distriot—Cornor Lzard streets, engine houso. SINTI WARD. First District—Twoenty-fourth street, Sixth ward republican club rooms. ' Second District y-fourth stroct and Belt railway line crossing.: SEVENTIL WARD, st Districy rner of Woolworth Park avenues, Thompson's building. Second District—I'wenty-nnth and St streats, near Qualoy's schoolhouse, EIGITIL WARD, First District—~No. 2108 Cuming Burdick’s harness shop. Socond District—No. 2403 Cuming strect, barber shop. Sixtoonth st Sixteenth and and street, NINTH WARD. First District—Twenty-ninth and Farnam voets, C. J. Jolnson’s store. Second District—Corner of Lowe avenus and Morcer strect, Ryun's oftice. Favors the Farnam Site. Owama, Neb., Feb. 8.—To the Editor of Tuz By Chere is u timo in the affairs of men when the minds of men are concen- trated to some important issue. That issuo isathand. That issue comes beforo us t .y and demands our honest, impartial dec sion. The issne is, Where shall the city hall be located! The only objection to the Far- nam street location, as offered by some of our prominent bankers and North Omaha capi- talists, is that of a school boy,with no iusight, no sense of future convenience uor central location, but simply that it is hid from view by Tuz Bee building. Does our worily friend 1. S. and otc., propose to build a public building that he 1s ashamed to have staud by Tug Bee building that at this day is casting its shadows from polished walls and massive structure on the so-called ‘“hole in tho ground?” Have not the taxnayers of Omaha been assured thut a monumental building can and shall be erected on the present sito! Have not our honorable school board, in good faith, pledged £25,000 toward this end ¢ Will the New York Life building, the new Paxton blook, the new Commercial’ National bank, the board of trade, Tue Brr building and the county court house dotruct aud mar tho beauty of the proposed city hallt If so, why not o a little northeast of Jefferson square and crect the city tll on some spot thut the Union Pacific railroad'now uses for repuir works or car shops? 1t is not the matter of o site that has caused this trouble, and { assure the citizons of Omaha that they will see and feel with some regrets within ten vears the folly of locating the city hall on Jefferson squarc. At the present rate of ncrease South Omaha and Omaha_proper will be occupying the same conncil chambors within ton years. Then where should the city hall be located! What is the demand of the citizens of Omaha to-day for a new post- office? What will be the” demand of the citizens fora central city hall? It opinion‘that should Jefferson square lected as a site for the city hall it wou never be ercoted. Suit after suit will be brought against the city for damages. and injunction after injunction will be instituicd restraining the erceting of a public building on tie only park or square in Omaha, Oue of the most imperative demands of Omaha to-day is a city hall. Phen, let all good citi- zens lay aside peraonal intorest and dice, and on ‘Tucsday, February 5, e votes to mantain the faith aud e foreign and loc al intercsts by deciding to build the city hall on the present site on Parnaw street, and domand that work bo oommenced and be continued il Omaba boasts of the finest municipal building in the United States. Why not? Yours truly, I Texas Heiress s to a Sillion. At Era, near Gainsville, Tex., Mrs, Winfield and Mrs. Lattinoss, daughters of a prominent stockman living near Lra, have been found to bo heirs to nn estate in England worth avleast £1,000,- 000. The estate been in the Bug lish courts for some time, awaiting the discovery of he Mrs, Lattiness and Mes. Winfield inhert through their mother, now deee M. RrsseLn. Wild Dogs in Ohio. 1 of twenty-one vicions wild dogs n d ot Fayette Junce tion. They have committed many dep- vedations, and attacked several persous. - e Choking Catarrh. Have yon awakennd from a disturbed sleep with all the horvible sensations of an a clutching y throat and pressing the breath from your tight ened chestz Have you teed the lnpcuor and dobility that succeed th flort 1o r your throut and head of thid catarchal matior? What s depressing infiuen e it exerts upon the mind, clouding tho menory and il th palng and strano nolses! How difficult 1t Iy to rid the nasal pu sages, throat and lungs of this polsonous il can tostity who are ufllicte catarch. How diflicult to prot At 1ts Tiviher progress towards e Hiver and kidueys, wll physicians will admit. 1 15 # terrible disento and cries ont for reliet wid curo, Lo curative powers, when nll other romedies utterly fall, of BAxvOun's Rani (UK, ke attestod by thousands who grate. vecommend it 1o fellow sniie A st 1y mardo regarding it that Lated by the tiost respectable snd reli rences ontains one bottle of the RAnG X of CATAURHAL BOLYENT and an Ieroven INnALER, with treatise and direce tions, and 15 old by all drugglsts for $1.0° POTTER DRUG & CHEMICAL (0. BosToN KIDNEY PAIN With their weary, dul Lok, Allgono Sonsatio winute by the CUTICUKA ANTI-PAIN Praseric The fivst uud only pali sub. duing Plaster. Abrolutely anrivalled us wn i stautuneous and infallivle antidote to pidn. i flammation and weak At all drugists, cents; five for $h.0); oF, poxtige free, of FOIvEE § AND CHENMICALC Lt Ad has e cud W