Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 3, 1889, Page 4

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[INWI‘ (8enl.] P, Notary ull.\‘ulu’i BB, Stat> of Nobraska, | County of Douglas, | Geoxge B, Tzachuck, being duly sworn, de- pones and says that ho'ls secrotery of The oo Publishiig Company, that (he actunl o daily circulay t Datny B moth 9 188, 18,22} copies;’ for J vy, 18 plons foF Fobranry, 1880, 1800 mpm. o, J8K0, 1834 coples: Tor April, 180, 1850, 14609 copiess for for July, 1859, 18,738 14661 coples: for Hop- ., 1! FhiiL. fighting colonels of Kansas City managed to keep the peace during tho visit of the Pan-Americans. S1. PAUL has abandoned her ice pal- ace scheme for the coming winter. No amount of enthusiasm could thaw out a twenty-five thousand dollar boom. HARrD CIDER has been put under bun by the courts of Kansas. The exhilerat- ing apple jack must now take atself to the shelves of the drug * storves to main- tain 1ts place in popular BRASKA products never fail to capture the prize when placed side by side with the products of other states. The exhibit at St. Louis walked away with the bulk of the premiums. seribed twenty-five thousand dollars to establish a lino of steamers on the Mis- souri river. Thissum will decorate a few of the intervening sand bars with wreckage. Tix decision of a New York court will only temporarily delay the burial of the deadly electric light wires. Human life is too precious to be men- aced or sacrified on the altar of corpo- rate greed. Our of the four hundred thousand appropriated to purchase the postoffice there will be twenty-eight hundred left after the payments are made. The ap- praisers displayed great tact and judg- ment in roservlng enough to pay for their labor: I SOME genius will invent a systom of interchangeable signs and titles warranted to work every twenty-four hours, a fortune awaits him in the Union Pacific headquarters. The nickle-in-the-slot machine cannot keep pace with the kaleidoscopic changes in the building. ness called by the prosecu- tion tightens the coils around the Cro- nin suspects. The testimony so far leaves no loopholes for escape, and un- less the defense holds in reserve con- vineing proofs to the contrary, the men on trial will follow in the footsteps of the anarchists. — SoME twenty participants in a recent Iynching affair in North Carolina have been arvested and jailed. It is not the lynching itself that basincensed the authorities, but the anti-mortem cruel- ties perpetrated hy the gang. Tney tortured several hallowed hymns before the victim was elevate Kruree, the great German gunmaker, is favorably impressed with America ns, asite for a factory. A representative of the firm now in this country declares that while the fatherland is a good market for guns, a neutral nation is the safcst point for enlarged industrial op- erations. In other words, Krupp pro- voses to place business before patriot- ism and sell his artillery to all comers. THE movement for resubmission in Kansus is growing apace.. In many legislative districts it is the one ques- tion under digcussion. The truth is that the people are being brought to their senses by the paralysis which per- vaaed many departments of business, the wnereused taxation and the indis- putable fact that prohibition does not pro hibit, —e A 'SYNDICATE has been formed in Kansas to purchase the Cherokee strip of eix million acres of land at the rate of three dollars per acre. These specu- lators claim. that the consent of the government is not pecessary, holding that the Indians’ title is perfect, but the fact that the army is now guarding it against squatters indicates that Uncle Sam will have considerable to say before the land grabbers enrich themselvesat the expense of the Indians. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1889, -~TWENTY PAGES. PRUNE THE DEAD BRANCHE, With the approaching session of congress comes as usual a mass of twad- dle and buncomb about high protection andtariff revision. Dense ignorance and partisan prejudice permeates the press and through it the great massof Amer- ican people have been unable to com- prehend what fs really in the public interest and what would be detrimental. It is deplorable that a purely economic issue, which vitally involves the com- mereial interests of this nation, should have been remanded into the domain of politics, and made the foot-ball of party hacks and blatherskites who seek to gain political advantage for themselves by the division of parties with regard to the tariff. On one hand we havethe demagogues who pretend that the duties on imports invariably increase the cost of each article protected by the nmount of duty levied upon its importati For instance, they assert that if the duty on each yard of calico is five cents a yard, the price of calico to the con- sumer is raised fve conts nbove the cost of production. As'n.amattor of fact calico sells for five cents a yard and the tariff on calico is a dead-letter, The fact that New England manufac- turers have sold six million dollars worth of unbleached cotton sheeting in China in 1888 against the competition of Germany and England and against the competition of the pauper labor of Chinn, shows conclu- sively that the tarif on cotton goods has not raised the price to the consumer, nor, on the other hand, in- crensed the wages of American laborers one penny. And so it is with regard to agricul- tural implements, firearms, boots and shoos, watches, cheap jewelry, sewing machines, printing presses, print paper, and hundreds of other articles of American manufacture that aro exported and old abroad in compe- tition with the cheap labor which ob- tains in Turope and Asia. A United ates consul in Germany has recently reported to the state department that nearly all the chairs used in the post- offices of that country are of American manufacture, the German government having bought them of a New York firm at prices less than they could be produced for in Germany. This afford most conclusive proof that skilled nigh-priced labor, in con- junction with ingeniously constructed machinery, turns out cheaper goods than low-priced lavor, It naturally follows that the abolition of duties on all that class ol articles now freely exported would not in the least dnmage American industry. On the contrary, it is demanded in the in- terest of the American consumer, who is ovliged to pay more for articles man- ufactured in his own country than they are sold for abroad. In other words, the repeal of tariff duties on all these articles would prevent combinations and trusts organized to maintain ex- orbitant prices in this country, not for the benefit of their employes but with the sole view of making enormous profits. -~ And this also applies to a class of afticles like plate glass, steel and iron products and other commodi- ties that require some protection in or- der to prevent ruinous competition from Turopean countries. On the other hand come the blather- skites who insist that the wealth of this country and its marvelous development are solely due to the taviff on 1mports. These people entirely overlook the fact that the appliances of steam and elec- tricity have revolutionized the indus- trial world; brought its remotest parts within easy reach, and muitiplied enor- mously the producing power of a coun- try rich in minerals and fertile in its soil. They forget that within twenty- five years fifteen miilions of people have migrated from other countries to the United Statesand have added billions to its wealth. Robert Ingersoll, in his famous speech nomi- nating James G. Blaine, said in sub- stance: **You can not create wealth by law. but by labor. This money has to be dug out of the earth. You can not make it by passing resolutions in a po- litical convention.” The tariff undoubtedly has stimulated the development of American industry and some of our manufactures would lan- guish and suffer should this stimulus be withdrawn. But inost of our industries are now in position to compete with all the world without artificial props. Take, for instance, the manufacture of carpets: The largest rug mills in the world are in Philadelphia, and in one ward of that city more carpets are made than in all Great Britain. Concisely stated, the tariff is like an old tree with a large number of dead branches. The tree will be healthier if the dead branches are removed by skillful pruning, This pruning process does not mean free trade. The danger to the country lics in the fact that con- gross will be made subservient to the monopolists who have grown enorm- ously wealthy by the abuses that have sprung through excessive tariff tolls. If the revision of the tariff is left to cluss of cormorants, to the patriots never tire shouting for flag so long as they can get an_appropriatiou, the pruning process will be a delusion and a snare, Speaking for the greatand growing west THE Bee demands that the revi sion of the tariff shall be conducted on business principles with a view to pre- venting outrageous exactions by manu- facturing syndicates and trusts, and the only way fo strike an effective blow at these trusts is to rvevise the tariff in such a way as will compel these coi federated monopolies to sell their wares in America as cheaply as they do in foreign countries, THE POOR IN WINTER. All the indications are that the win- ter upon which we have already entered will be long and severe. It rarely hap- pens in this climate that snow falls as early as the beginning of November, aod the unusual experience this year may be regarded as assuring a winter of uncommon length and exceptional severity. Atany rate it will be wise to prepare for such a season, and the time seems opportune for suggest- ing that Omaha may have a greater number of poor to be provided for by charity this winter than ever be- fore. While this city is not so badly off as to the indigent class as some other communities, there is yet more destitu- tion here than most of our citizens sup- pose, and in winter the ranksof the poor who need to be assisted are al- ways largely augmented. Many per- sons who can manage during the warm season, whon the necessitics to subsist- etice are fewer, to provide for themselves and those dependent on them, are shut off from all resources in the win- ter, and the number of such in Omaha is greater than those who have taken 1o trouble to inform themselves have an idea of. In view of the great probability that the demands of the poor will ho larger this year than usual, and will ¢ extend over a longer period, those who are in a position to be charitable must make up their minds to enlarge their genorosity, ana they should also give it prompt exercise. It s not necessary 1w wait to be asked to give, but find the channel through which chavity will be pronerly and judiciously dispensed and place your contribution there. Ttis desirable that when the wants of the poor are made known there shall be something at hand to relieve them, for in a grent many instances delay in giving relief is dangerous. Some of the poor who seek the aid of charity do not do so until the last extremity has been reached, and with such immediate assistance means life. There ought to be some organized effort to supplement the pub- lic distribution of charity, and it should be instit@ed at once. The demand is here already, and it is certain to grow in volume as the winter advances. Let there be prompt and generous preparas- tions to meet it. OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN POLITICS, The bane of the public schools of Omabha is the demoralizing interference in politics by members of the school board, and the improper influence which members of the board exert upon Iteachers, janitors and other employes who are subject to their caprice or favor, The most pernicious partisan that has nipulated our schools for selfish po- litical ends is Sheriff Coburn. He has been the prime mover in all political intrigue inside of the school board, and he exerts more influence upon our school teachers politically than any other member of the board. Ithasbeen Mr. Coburn’s boast that he never fails to supportan increase of salary,whether the applicant is entitled to it or not. No wouder Mr. Coburn is the most popular man in Omaha with the school ma’ams. It is true, Mr. Coburn has offered to re- sign his place in the school board in case he is re-elected sheriff for a third term. Why didn’t Mr. Coburn step out of the board years ago? Why does he want to hoid the two offices? TIs it not manifest that he proposes this time as he has heretofore to eulist everybody con- nected with the schools in his political canvass. It 1 open secret that a very active canvas is being made for Coburn by employes of tho school board, and we ume the teachers will again try to make their tnfluence felt for Coburn next Tuesday. All thisis simply scandalous. How can we hope to have efficient school gov- ernment so long as the patronago of the hoard of education is hawked about in political campnigns and téachers of our public schools are made appendages to the shoriff’s office? No teacher can be blamed for trying to recibrocate favors, but we appeal to the teachers of Omaha in all candor— how can they ask any reputable man to cast his vote for Mr. Coburn ia view of hisrecord. Can they unblushingly ask any man to support for sheriff a man who gave tho freedom of the jail and placed 1n charge of other prisoners a man who on a Thanksgiving day struck his wife with a turkey, amused himself by firing pistol shots over her head and finally mistook her for a burg Do they want any decent-man to sup- port for sheriff an officer who showed such great tenderness to the Beechler- King woman while she was in his cus- tody on the charge of deliberate mur- der? If they do our teachers will ma- terially lessen the respect in which they are individually held by the best people of Omaha, and reflect no little discredit on the eutire public school system. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. An important mass meeting was held in Philadelphia last week, under the auspices of the National Reform asso- ciation to give expression to public sentiment in favor of a radical change in the divorce luws. The importance of the movement- brought together & number of leading clergymen and judges—the two professions airectly as- sociated with marriage and divorce. Thgiropinions as to the best means to stem the tide ot scandal and immorality which threawens to engulf the courts of the land ave of great'value, asthey show the drift of public feeling on a question affecting the purity of our homes and the perpetuity of the state. The divorce evil is appalling in its magnitude. It spreads over the entive country, and is fostered by tax laws, mercenary lawyers, and indifferent judges. The statistics collected by the federal commissioner of labor show that during the last twenty years four hundred thousand divorces were granted in this country. Illinois is the capstone of this monument of infamy, having granted no less than thirty-six thousand divorces in that time, and the evil is increasing by from two to threo thousand a vear, Pennsyl- vania reports sixteen thousand divorces in twenty years, and at present the rate is between oue and two thousand a year, Colorado is now the mecca of divorce hunters'in the west, and the press of the state admit the disgraceful fact that the laws place a premium on scandal and make marriage a mockery, The laws of Nebraska are also of the free and easy style, but fortunately the judges have been partioularly strict in their enforcement and the state has not acquired prominence as a divorce market. How leng can a nation endure if this ratio of divorce is waintained ¥ The purity M:S togrity of home life is the foundati t‘fl\o state. Whon, there- fore, lawsewe made to undermine tho marriagegalation and permit people to marry nnr‘npnrnlo on the slightest protexts,thp lawgivers make virtue a foot-ball pnd legalize vice. In the height of-dts power and glory the Roman re lic did not sanction a di- vorce. 1 served republican virtue inviolate, Wt after the civil wars the morals of the people were corrupted, vice ran (riot and the social structure - was wrecked before the northern “Birbarians swept through the country. Shall we permit the na- tion to sink into an ocean of immor- ality Hke its Roman prototype, or shall we rescue home life and manhood from disintegration and decay? Two remedies for this. frightful evil are proposed by the reform association. One is by an amendment to the national constitution, giving congress power to enact a uniform system of marrage and divorce laws, with courts of rocord, ro- marringe to be prohibited for a year after divorce and not then without a certificate from the court of issue. This is certainly the surest plan, but the law should go further and limit divorce to one cause, as in New York state. Any attempt to secure a uniform system of state laws is a hopeless undertaking. Much immediate good could be ac- complished by clergymen if they would sot thomselves against indiscriminate marriage. Hasty and sentimental unions are the chief source of divorce. Possession of a license should not be ac- cepted as evidence of honesty where the parties ave unknown to the clergymen. He should compel applicants to identify themselves or show documentary proof that they are free from impediments. The clergy should begin reform at the root. CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH, Elsewhere in our colums will be found an article written for the November Forwm by Mr. Thomas G. Shearman, the well-known statistician, which isone of aserics in answer to the question, “*Who Owns the United States?” This article, of which advance sheets were furnished the press, has attracted a great deal of attention and comment, and while the ecriticisms upon it have tended to somewhat diminish its value as an authoritative and trustworthy presen- tation of the subject, its general me and its worth especially in calling a tention to a matter which ought to be of absorbing interest to every Ameri- can citizen—that of the concentration of wealth—have been fully recognized and fommenqed. Muking 'y allowance for and” it ¢ not questionable the artiefe; contains some, is still a most interesting and sug- gestive exhibit, worthy of the at- tentive consideration of all citizens. Mr. Shearman gives a list of seventy names, representing an aggregate wealth of ‘twenty-sevea hundred mil- lious of dollars, an average of thirty- seven and a half millions of dollars each. He' hhmes ten persons whose wealth is estimated to average one hun- dred millions of dollars each. and one hundred persons whose wealth averages o million dollars each, and this, he says, can not be done of any other country. From an array of such facts Mr. Shearman concludes that half the wealth of the entire country is owned by twenty-five thousand persons, and he expresses the opinion that in thirty years fifty thousand persons will practically own all the wealth of the country. It is not necessary to accept unques- tioningly this view in order to nppre ciate the startling significance of what it suggests. Let it be assunied that the number of persons who now own half the wealth of the country is double that stated by Mr. Shearman, and then the matter will be sufficiently serious in all its aspects. It is true that this vast wealth in the con- trol of a comparatively few persons is not hoarded, and that while it is neces- sary to express it in dotlars, it is really to a very great extent a wealth of in- vestment, employed in enter- prises, nearly always profitable, which contribute to the general welfare. But even with this in mind it 18 a some- what alarming fact that twenty-five, or even fifty thousand persons are in a position to compel nearly sixty-five million people to pay tribute to t! and that under prevailing condi these persons must continue to increase their wealth until in time they or their descendants will own the entire wealth of the country. Nor is it material that in some instances Mr. Shearman has exaggerated the wealth of individuals. With a genefal reduction of twenty- five per cent from his figures the ag- grogate will still be appallingly large. The character of the persons who control this vast wealth, and the meth- ods employed in acquiring it, are matters worthy of consideration in con- nection with the subject. How many of the multi-millionaires named by Mr. Shearman have acquired their great fortunes by processes which can be approved as fair and just? How many of thém do not owe their wealth to methods by which the public has been despoiled and plundered, and the na- tional government itself victimized? A thoughtful perusal of the fucts pro- sented by Mr. Shearman, making every allowance farerrors and exaggeration, canvot fail to.impress the intelligent ader with'o the conviction that theve is drfent need of change from a systew that permits such a con- centration of wealth and enables a few persons to pit the masses of the people under contribution to further swell their store. Mr. Shearman does pot suggest a remedy, but he indicates with sufficient clearness one means of relief, which is to radically change the national policy under which this enor- mous individual wealth has grown and is securely protected. —_— THE RAGE FOR TITLES. The past week furnished two striking instances of the rage among the shoddy anstocracy of this country for European titles. The marriage of the adopted daughter of C. P. Huntington to Prince Hatzfeldt was a8 much a bargain and sale gs if the parties to 1t were ordinary chattels of trade. Priace Hatafeldt's errors, that it characteristics are a long pedigreo, notoriety as a sport and gambler, and a profligate of continental reputation. With an empty purse and creditors pressing ham for payment of debts, his only avonue of escape was to capture one of the many American titlohunters, running wild in Europe. Miss Hunt- ington possessed the necessary finan- cial qualifications, Her refusal to recog- nize or speak to her own mother, showed her to be as mercenary and heartless as Hatzfeldt. But she wanted a title and had the means to pay for it. The impocunious prince had a titlo to exchange for American mil lions, and set his price. The Hunting- tons nccepted the bauble with the prince thrown in, and paid over the money, estimated at ten millions. It was a regular trafic alliance, in which the prince got the large oud of the bar- gain. It is not yet certain that Miss Gwen- dotine Caldwell will escape the clutches of Prince Murat. There is little in his title or character to attract an honora-~ ble woman, and it is surprising that one of Miss Caldwell's intelligance and re- finement should risk her future happi- ness on v mercenary Fronchadventurer, as Murat “as proved himself to be. The lady will be remembered as one of the originators of the Catholic university at Georgetown, having started the endowment fund with a sub- scription of throe hundred thou dollars, Sho possosses considel means in her own right, and inho the faculty of keeping the purse strings tight. When the prince found that he would not be allowed to manage her fortune he promptly gave her the mit- ten. Miss Caldwell was ready to give him ton thousand dollars a year for pin money for the privilege of wearing his title, but Murat was not for sale at that price. In both instances the mercenary spirit predominated. here wus no manly principle or honor in the transactions. The title peddlers are not blamable for trying to recoup their shattered for- tunes at the expense of foolish women with more money than brains. For every one of these marringes that has proven happy, scores could be named that brought misery and dis- grace, if not a suicide’s grave. Charactor is the first essential to permanent happiness 1n married life. Where. that essential is lacking and marriage is made a matter of dollars and cents in exchange for a title, the seller gets the money and the purchaser a crop of sad experiences. Fortunately, utle hunting is limited toa class of Anglo-ma s who are a disgrace to the country, and their bar- gains and sales to the disreputables of the continert does not in the slightest degree reflect on the steriing woman- hood of America. THE Cleveland, Ohio, Plain Dealer has just issued, as a souvenir, an 1llus- trated work giving the history of Cleve- tand, views of prominent features of the city, and portraits of many of its leading business and professional men. The purpose of the work is to demonstrate the possibilities of the city from what has been accomplished. and the facts are certoinly of a character to warrant the conclusion that Cleveland, now a city of a quarter of a million population and having extensive industries and great wealth, is in to attain metro- politan proportions, The work is me- chanically excellent, the letterpress being clear and clean and the illustra- tions generally good. Its issue was a commendable piece of enterprise that ought to result in benefit both to the Plain Dealer and to Cleveland. THE endorsers of a non-partisan ju- diciavy include the representative men inall lines of business, trades and pro- fessions in Omaha. While incidentally commending the nominee of the bar, Joseph R. Clarkson, these citizens de- clare as emphatically as they did at the polls two years ago, that the bench should be kept aloof from partisan pri- maries and ward politics. A fearless, independent judiciary is the corner stone of the state. IN response to an inquiry the war de- partment declares that the only United ates emblem which has an eagle upon it is that used by the revenue marine. The revenue ensign and pennant, con- sisting of ‘‘sixteen perpendicular stripes, alternating red and white, the union of the ensign bearing the arms of the United States in dark blue on a white field,” was created by act of con- gress ninety years ago. The eagle therefore is an emblem for revenue only.” THE State Board of Agriculture will supplement its annual meeting in Lin- coln, January 21, with a winter corn ex- hibit. The display will be held in the Armory hall of the Grant Memorial building. The main object of the ex- hibit is to secure a large variety of spocimens of Nebraska corn and later on to advertise our wonderful resou abroad. As an inducement to exhibi- tors, premiums aggregating four hun- dred dollars are offered by the board. Tue proposition of the Nebraska Central Railroad compauy does not con- flict or interfere with the Tenth street viaduct and union depot. Another rail- road bridge is the best bond the ¢! get to compel the Union Pac! maintain reasonable rates on its bridge, The bonus asked from the county is a trifle compared to the lasting benefits which will accrue, in addition to the ex- penditure of five million to carry the project into effect, As A result of St. Joe's attempt to vival Denver in pupulation and general cussedness, the sleepy old town is en- joying & boom in robberies and burg- laries. It only lacks a complete set of jury fixers and a hollow consumptive cough to equal the Colorado capital, — Charity Among the Hebrews. Philadelphia Record, Tho report of the New York Soclety of United Hebrew Charities shows that the He- brews not ouly take commendable care of their worthy poor from the cradle to the grave, but that the relief is administered at very suall cost. One of the tendencies of mavy of the poor people who come to thess shores is to gravitate toward cities, and the sociely attempts to check this by induciog ! applicants for employmont to go to manufac- turing establishments in the conntry and help to develop the local industries, Prootts oal oharity such as this is holpful both to Lo rocipient and to tho community, i gt The Politipal Prospect fn New York. Albany Jonrnal, A fuli vote in the rural districts will give thostate to tho ropublicans. Respectable democrats in all the large cities cannot sup- nort the state ticket nominated at Syracuse. A two-thirds republican majority in tho senate seems probablo, Sharp and declsivo work from now until mext Tuosday will in- sure sweeping republisan success. The New Stvie American Exchange. Pittstmrg Dispateh, For the convenienco of American parents and heiresses who desire to procure royal connoctions it is desirable that some expert on the subject should compile and publish aprico list of eligible European princes at once. Little space need be given to such matters as tho character or financial stand- ingof the royaities, but plenty of room necessarily must be set aside for the solling figures, The Electric Light Autocrats. Philad:lphia Record. What are claimod as the vested rights of high-tension electric lighting companies in New York city appoar to be held in greater esteem by the supremo court of that state than tho safety of the citizon. The care with Wwhich the interests of these corporations are guarded by courts is ono of the singular de- velopments of modern jurisprudence. Exer clsing a quasi-bublio function, they are nev- ertheless superior to all publio authority or regulation. The Plaint of Murat. Chicano Tribune. T can’t live on tea thousand a year, Gwendo- line, I can't do with ten thousand a year! What a Prince would I be, and what ®un could I see. Onapaltry ten thousand a year, Gwendo- line, On a stingy ten thousand a year! —Murat. o VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS, The Size Of It. Haxtings Nebwaskan, The W. H.’s estimate of the amendment vote is regarded all around as a very wild guess indeed. Grand Istand Independent, Tue OMaua Bee has talked a good deal against subsidies for steam boat lines, But it begins toqualify. It admits, that payment 10 steamboat lmes for carrying the mails, and aia for the construction of steamboats, 0 that they can be used by the government as war ships and transports, is not so bad after all. We don't care for the name, 1f only new American steamboat lines are es- lished. # The World-. Ih_r.lhl has an array of fizures by which it pretends to prove how easily prohibition will be defeated in this stale next year. If the statement in the remainder of the state is as reckless as that on which Saunders county is based, we would not give much for the figures, The compiler placos 800 votes for prohibition in this county. Now, while we think Saucders county wili give a majority against the amendment, believe the figures for the amendment could safely be put at 1,200 votes. A Warning to Thayer, Fairmont Signal. 1t is understood that the appointee to fll Laws’ place as sccretary of state will be either Oil Inspector Caldwell or Ben Cow- dery. Governor Thayer had best consider well his decision. The people ave entitled to at least one man on the board of transporta- tion, and if Laws’ place there is filled by some cther than a man 1o the employ of the corporanons, it will serve in a measare to make amends for the errors of recent date, An opportunity is now before the governor which he muy, if he choose, use to win the approval of the peovle atlarge. If, how- ever, he supplies the place with a railroad tool ie may as well emigrate. The people are burdened with a load already creat enough at this time, and in no humor to submit to further oppression. Msake a United Resistance. Grand Island Independent, The prohivitionists have formed a plan for uniting all the probibition forces of Kansas, Iowa and South Dakota, the neighbors of Nebraska, in order to reinforce the Nebraska prohibition army, and make a hively fight in Nebraska, for the purpose of subauing our liberty and destroying our peace, by fasten- ing oa us the prohibition curse, and giving free whisky, instead of keeping the trade under control as we at present do, It is time for the friends of high license to form a union, and resist the attack of the prohibi tionists. THE TEKAMAH INCIDENT, The Beatrice Democrat simply notes that “Mr, Rosewater has been arrested for at- tending & prohibition meeting, This should b a warning to others,” The Burtouian, published at Tekamah, vouchsafes no editorial opinion upon toe wcident, but prints anews account of the meeting, giving substantially the same facts as appeared in Tue BEE, The Sioux City Journal observes that Mrs, Gougar *'doesn’t believe in Rosewater treat- ment.” It declares that “Helen is a great fighter, but 8018 Edwara, and the further proceedings will be watched with curious interest.” The Beatrice Express exprosses the ovin- ion ¢hat the meeting with Mrs. Gougar was “rough on Rosey,” and predicts that “the litle affair between the parrot and the monkey isn't @ circumstance to what will now be witnessed.” The Lincoln Call quotes poetry to prove that Mr, Rosewater was worsted in the con flict and relieves itself of some alleged Lumor in the same connection, According to Je Call: “General Graot's first victory was a dofeat. Mr. Rosewater may yev becowme a winner.” “¥or once,” says the Kearney Hub, “'and the only time the Hub has any knowledge of Rosowater was whipped clear out of his boots in & public meetiug, and the reflection that it was done by & woman, and a prohi- bitionist at that, will drive the iron deep into his soul. Sic transit gloria Gougar!" According to the Hastings Nobraskan, Mr. Rosewater “seemed to bave allowed his belligerency to become chronic.” “He bearded the lioness in her den, it says, “and got the worst of it, as might have been expected. Mr. Rosewater's temerity in fighting & deflant woman in public on the stage is worse than his discretion, which is the better part of valor in such an instance.” Under the heading, “She Should be Probe cuted,” the Couucil Bluffs Nonpareil, not knowing there is no law against slander in this state, says “‘the woman ought to be arrested aud imprisoned.” It seoms to us, says the Nonparail, “that Mrs. Gougar not but respect for the manner in which he« sought W0 answer Mrs., Gougar's charges. “Wo do not seo, says the Knterprise, “what Helen M. Gougar has proved by this unless it be that she is afraid to meet openly and fairly n man whom she charges with the grave offense of selling his influ- ence to the liquor dealers,” The Fremont Tribune belioves that “Rose- water would have shown better discretion in staying at homo and denying the charges of bribery and subsily made against by Mrs. Gougar through the columns of his paper. But after he went to Tekamah and had waited until the charges wore reitorated against him and he asked for a hearing to sot bimself aright before that audience, common courtesy and decency would have suggested the propriety of giving him a hearing, His subsequont arrost proves the malice behind it all.” ‘The Lincoln Journal devotes a large part of its valuablo space to the Tekamah inci- dont, two editorial leaders dealing with tho subject under tho captions of *‘Mr. Rose- water in Peril,” and “In the Soup.” Those contained nothing vory profound or witty, butina lttlo side squib the paper says ‘*“The lady or the Tiger' conundrum has had its day, but the question, ‘What was Mn Rosowater gowng to ask Mrs, Gougart' will Ro rattling down the corridors of the cen- turics long after the present generation s gathered to its fatliers,” The Graud Island Independent remarks that Mrs. Gougar is “developing into slanderer instead of reformer. She is full of the spirt of mtolerance and bigotry that founded tho hellish inquisition, which such as sho would re-cstablish to-day if they had the power to torture, torment and put to death all who might happen to differ with themin opinfon, * * * Right of consci- ence should not be confined to cluss or cread, yet such ns she would create croed and con- science for us all. * * * If prohipition must be bolsterod by slanders, lies, vilifica- tion, personal abuse, then it doserves not to stand, If it is afraid of open argument in & fawr field then it ought to fall, and all at- tompts to club it throngh must fail." gl o OUR CONTI;MPORARIES. The Union Pacific Combine. New York Tho contract would have lm meaning if it did not provide, either expressly or impliedly, that the Northwestern would not within the ten years extend its Wyoming hine to some Pacific coast connection, and thus form an- other through line. This point must have been very carcfully thought out by Northwestern directors, for it has ovinion of western railroad men that the Northwestern would bu compelled to extend its Wyoming und Idaho line westward in order to proteot the transcontinental trafic of its main lines in Towa and Illwois. This is now scoured by the contract, without the extension, A branch to Choyenne would enable 1t to exchange traffic with the Union Pacific there, the same as the Burlington, Making Pets of Prisoners, San Francisco Examiner, It is to be presumed that there is some ob= ject in shutting people up in jails, prisons, houses of correction, industrial schools, Magdalen asylums and the like, or we should not go to the expense of running those institutions. Apparently, however, the object is one that requires the co-opera- tion of the prisoners themselves, for such persons as dislike being shut up seem to have no particular trouble in taking their de- parture. ‘The greater part of the blame for the fre- quency of escapes i3 laid upon the trusty systom—a svstem that is bad in itself, and that has shown its disadvantages in other wmatters than the facilities it affords for the emigration of its beneficiaries. It secms continually necessary to remind prison of- ficials that trusty and trustworthy are two entirely aifferent words. The trusty is still a criminal, stilla man who got into prison by one offense and who might reasonably be supposed o be none too good to get out by another. Fromthe way he 1s often treated only made a fool of herself, but di tho cause she is represeuting immeasurable barm.” Contrary to what might kave been ex- pected, the Kearney KEnterprise, ofcial organ of the Probibition Amendment loague, soys that Mr, Rosewater deserves nothing one might suppose him to be a confidential clerk, in prison for his health, Classic Memories Revived, Boston Advertiser., Unintelligent or unjmpressible indecd must be that reader who does mot foel emotion on reading a cable dispatch dated ““Athens,” and describing the pageantry of & royal marriage. The place and the themo combine o work over man's imagination & magic spell. It 18 true, then, that the ancient capital of the mental world is to-day the capital of a modern nation. There sits av this bour a monarch on the throne of Theseus. Several services in chapel and cathearal have just been performed not far from where once stood the Purthenon and the temple of Jupiier Olympus. And millions of peoplo whose pontry, whose philosophy, whose art, whose intellectual inspiration have come in great degree from the Greeks that were in Athens 80 muny centuries ago, Now turn their eyes toward a beautiful domestic sceno among the Greeks that are in Athens this morning. To many minds will occur those boautifull lines of & poet who laid down his life in be- half of that Grecian liberty, as truly as Leonidas did at Thermopyvli; poet whose na- tivo land was that of the royal bride's mother: The isles of Greece! ‘Where burning Sappho loved and sang, Bon Voyag Brooklyn Times. For a lberal slice of her uncle's millions Miss Clara Huntiogton has purchased the title but neither the affection or respect—it is true either would bo worthless—of one of the first noble rascals of Europe, a man who has broken a good mother's hoart, wasted ten fortunes on lewd women and won his expulsion fromu club of gentlemen for dis- honesty. It was a mighty poor bargain; about as ra barguin as her uncle by marria, funtiogton, made when ho bought con- gressmen by the assorted gross to further his raitroad schemes. 1t 18 trae that Miss Clara, like Mr. Collis, got what slio was bargaining for, but success in such bargaining neither in; the hap- piness of the individual nor promotes the welfare of humanity. Such silly und unscrupulous peopl the Huntingtons do more to give America aad Americans o bad name in Europe than ten thousand honest souls who eat with their Knives. We wish the Prince and Princess Hatzfoldt joy of their castle on the Rhino and their store of bitter and shumeful meumories. Disparaging Columbus. Chicago Times, General Butterfield hus been wvestigating some ancient Latin manuscripts found at Paris, indicatiog, it is thought, that attempts at discovering America were made in the sixth century by an Irish abbot canonized as St. Brendin. This showing may be curious and interesting, but, uo more than the better proven discovery aud temporary use continent by Norsemen, who from land ventured as far south as Khode Island, 1t does not robof his honor the great Genoan. His discovery was of service to the world. It was followed Ly colonization, and is so llunamth' cstavlished &8 a historical fact myths, however plausible, are of httle u unt agawst the momentous work of Chiristopher Columbus, Mr. Edison and the Subway+. New York World. Mr, Edison insists that danger lurks io the clectrical subway He says that hydrogen gas will be general in the manholes which a spark may lgnite in an instaut, Terriblo explosions will follow. This is awful. Our subways are modelled after those used 1w Chicago. They have proved successful in Chicago, Why may we not hope for success heret As u matter of fact, the electric light compauies do not waut o put their wircs under gronnd. They do not mean to go under ground 1f they can help it. This is the plain truth, nd all the scientific fol-derol means s and nothing more. Bury the wires, The isles of Greecel »