Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 24, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1880.-SIXTEEN PAGES. THE _DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. — = PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSSC RIPTION 1y and Sunday, One Yeur., . X ilnn\hn sheee seoew N llr!’!l N{'"lfl!k seees hundny e, ar Nll; Boe, One Year with OFFICES. Omann, Bes Bullding. Chiey Ofcs, 07 Rookery Nullding N otk Hiooma 14 and I Trivine Butld- /ashington. No. 513 Foucteenth Street, Council Blufts, No. 12 Pearl Street. Lancoln, 129 P St cet, Bouth Omaha, Corner N and 2th Stroots, CORRESPON DENOE. All communfeations relating to news and edi- torinl matter should be addressed to the Editor- 1al Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. ATl Lusiness Jetters arid remittances should e addressed to The Bee Pubiishing Company, Omaha, Drafts, checks and postoflice oraers e made payablo to the order of the company, The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors Mex Bullding Farnam and Seventeenth Strer Ihe Kee on the Trains. 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THE Omaha saloonkeepers must feel very joyful over those Sunday closing resolutions passed by the democratic county counvention. DEMOCRATIC blundering insures the success of the republicans, but every mewmber of the party must work to make the victory decisive. Mz. CUSHING is too unwell to be in- terviewed just yet. That Sunday clos- ing platform took him almost off his feet. Mr. Cushing’s condition is veally critical. Tre democratic ticket is a peculiar combination of assorted sizes and weights. The lame and the halt, the stout and slim, unite to form an at- tractive collection for a dime museum. Mz, BROATCH assures us that Lin- fnger was his frst choice. Most people thought that Broatch’s first and last choice was Broatch. But THE BEE is glad to set Mr. Broatch right on that point. A¥rer all, Dom Pedro realized handsomely on his investment. Two million dollars in cash and a guaranty of four hundred thousand & year for life is a consideration which few retired monarchs enjoy. Pedro raked the pot in that game. ANOTHER company has been organ- ized to bridge the Missouri river at this * point. With ample capital on paper and headquarters in Des Moines, the compuny envelopes itself in a mist too dense to penetrate in a moment. We suspect it is a mere corporation flyer. It 18 announced authoriiively that the Union Pacific will build through to Southern Calitornia by way of Salt’ Lake City and the Utah Central rail- road. This route to the coast was de- termined upon years ago, and has been thoroughly surveyed and prospected. It runs through one of the richest mountain-locked valleys in the Sierra Nevadas, and is unsurpassed in scenic granduer and mineral wealth., The decision of the company is the first tangible evidence of its intention to cut + 1cane from the Central Pacific.and fight its own battles with two outlets to the Pacilic coas! Ture Paroell commission dragged its weury length through a period of one hundred and twenty-eight days and closed without creating the slightest ripple in public sentiment. The com- position of the court forbids thoe hope that its"conclusions will be bused on the evidence and justice of the Irish cause. The court was organized to de- termine the truth or falsity of the Zimes’ charges against Parnell, and when they collapsed in an avalanche of forgery and fraud the verdict of the world pro- mounced Parnell not guilty, Pigott's shot soaled the verdict and destroyed the usefulness of the court from that moment. TaE highest court of New York gives new force to the ‘‘unwritten law” that @ criminal canuot profit by the fruits of his own crime. A young rascal, fear- ing that his grandfather would change « awill made in his favor, deliberately poisoned him, and escaped just punish- ent for the crime by going to the re- for three years, Having served out his sentence he attempted to Rain possession of the property and was sustaiued by the lower court. The court of appeals viewed the case from the standpoint of morals and equity, and declined to puts premium on murder, ‘While the point raised and confirmed by the court is uot covered by common law, the justice of the decision is indis- . Putable, and establishes an important “Precedent for contingeucies of the kind., EDUCATION OF THE INDIAN. The subjoct of Indian education has boen one of growing interest for years, and at no time has there been greater reason than exists at present for giving it intelligent and oareful consideration. The poliecy of the government which contemplates the civilization of the In- dian and his instruction in the ways necessary to enable him to become self- supporting, will be greatly aided and promoted if the youth shall be given an opportunity for such educa- tion s will bring them into tratornal and harmonious relationship with their white fellow-citizens. Tho considerations are, both practical and philanthropic. The education of In- dian children—the number mnow of school age to be educated by the gov- ernment 8 estimated at about forty thousand—would supply o force whoso aid in solving the Indiun problem could not fail to be greatly vatuable. Such an army, well imbued with the ideas and tastes of civilized life and having a konowledge of its benefits, would cer- tainly prove o more potent influence than any number of white missionaries for bringing Lhe older [ndians to regard and respect the ways of civilization. Intractable and unyielding as the In- dian nature generally 1s to efforts to di- vert it from its traditional channels, there can be little doubt that it would be more likely tounbend to the example which would be furnished in the im- proved condition of the Indian youth through education than to any other in- fluence. The duty of the govgrnment to provide for the education of the Indian children for whom such provision 18 not already made will undoubtedly be uni- versally conceded. Every consideration of humanit; demands that these chil- dren shal’' be rescued from ignorance and degradation, and tho grave respon- sibility of doing this rests with the na- tion. General Thomas J. Morgan, commis- sioner of Indian afairs, has given a great deal of study to this subject, and in a paper read before the last Mohawk conference he outlines a policy which he will probably bring to the at- tention of congress. The plan he proposes comprehends a thorough edu-~ cational system for the Indian youth similar to the public school systom of the countiy. He would have ample provision made for the accomiodation of the ontire mass of Indian school chil- dren and youth; would provide what~ ever measures should be necessary to place them under educational influ- ences, and would completely systematize the work, having so far as possible a uniform course of study, similar meth~ ods of instruction, the same text books and a carefully organized and well-understood system of industrial training. He would have especial at- tention directed toward giving the children a ready command of the Eng- lish language, for which purpose he thinks only English should be allowed to be spoken, and only English-speak- ing teachers should be employed in schools supported wholly or in part by the government. His plun contem- plates the higher education of the few who are endowed with special capacity orambition. General Morgan regards it as & fundamental principle in any plan of Indian education that the youth should * be instructed in their rights, orivileges and dutiesas American citizens; should be taught to love the American flag; shold be im- bued with a genuine patriotism, and made to feel that the United States, and not some paltry reservation,is their home. The plan of Commissioner Morgan, which is the result of considerable ex- perience and careful observation and study, received the endorsement of the Lake Mohonk Indian con- ference, and has been approved by others whose opinions on this subject are valuable. It would in- volve a large expanditure, but, as the commissioner says, this would be small compared with the present costly sys- tem of Indian reservations and agen- cies. The good results already achieved in educating Indisn children at the government schools amply warrant the demund tfor an extension of the system, and its improvement 1n whatever re- spects experience may have shown to be necessary in order to' render it of greater efficiency and usefulness. IRRESPONSIBLE INSTITUTIONS. Building and loan associations, hon- estly managad, are among the greatest incentives to home building.'A century’s experience in Europe demonstrated their usefulness, and through their in- strumentality Philadelphia has des- orvedly earned the titla of “The City of Homes.” There are at least seventy- five of these associations in Nebraska, and it is safe to say that since their in- ception seven years ago they have en- abled hunareds of wageworkers to secure homes of their own in their re- spective towns. Being purely mutual and beneficial, they are readily organ- ized and easily operated. The underly- ing principle is that every stockholder shares in the profits and participates in the management, Stockholders can at any time personally examine the books, note the progress of the association, and watch the result., Nothing can be covered up, The business is open and above board, and every interested per- son has a direct voice in the manage- ment of affairs, i No such security is afforded by the foreign associations that are now drum- ming the state for business. They are not put under bonds by their respective states to fulfill their obligations, nor does the Nebraska law require sufficient security to protect investors. The mere fact that they incorporate under the state law is not a guaranty of solvency. Itis a mere matter of form, The mana- gers well know that the credulous peo- ple whom they fleece will not go to the aunoyance and cost of litigation, even if they could be reached by ordinary legal process. Minnesota and Ilinols are prolific pareuts of these irresponsible baild- ing and loan associations. They are not organized for home consumption, but to prey upon the poorer class of peovle in distant towns and country. Taeir agents are scattered all over the west, and not & few of them are operat- ing in Nebraska. Unscrpulous drume mers, for A& ocommission of forty fifty per cent, guarantee enor- mous profits to thess sub- scribors, par valus on stock in seven yoars and extraordinary inducements to borrowers. These glittering plodges and promises stamp the associations as frauds of the first water. Iixperience hasshown that the best managed asso- ciationg cannot bring stock to par in less than eight yoars, and ten years is nearer the average life of a sories of stock. But these foreign wildcat concerns, managed by private oliques, can well afford to make promises which they never expect to fulfill. The primary object of every sub- goriber to building and loan stock is to borrow money on reasonable security, to build a house or release a provious mortgage. He pars back principal and interest in monthly installments, both being as a rale less than the rent which his home would bring. In borrowing of a home association he knows how much he must pay monthly, the terms of the contract, and the character andsolvency of the organization, The foreign con- cern is worked on a different plan. The borrower is beguiled with assurances that the interest rate is only five per cent por annum, in addition to the promium. At the end of the year he will find that this premium adds seven to nine per cent to the annual intercst rate, which practically confiscates the property of the borrower. He is bound by an ironclad bond and mortgage to pay the rate charged until the stock reaches par value. and his only escape is to bor- row elsewhoro aud oancel the debt. THe BEE is not opposed to leg itimate corporations or associations doing busi- ness in the state, but it feels in duty bound to warn the people against irre- spounsible outside concorns which far- nish no assurance of solvency or hon- esty. They are of decidedly doubtful charactar and are managed by men of questionable repute, a fact which was proven by the investigations of the Min- neapolis T'ribune into the management of associations in that civy. Moreover, home associations, like home 1udustry, deserve the patronage of Home builders. They are in the hands of responsible men whose names are a guaranty ol integrity, and apove all they afford the subsoribers an opportunity of partici- pating directly in the management and interesting themselves in the welfare of a home institution with home capital. or A STATESMAN'S FORECAST. Castelar, the great Spanish states- man and orator, is a republican whose faith in the ultimate triumph of repub- lican principles throughout the world is serene and unfaltering. Perhaps no living man in Europe has done greater service than hein advaucing the cause of republicanism; certainly none has more earnestly and powerfully pre- sented its principles to the popular at- tention. With a gift of eloquence sur- passing any man of his time, and the courage of his convic- tions in every circumstance, this distinguished orator has advocated popular liberty under the very shadow of thrones with a power and zeal which have placed him in the first rank of its greatest champions, and impressed the great truths of the nataral equality of man and of his right to self- government upon millions of minds. The faith of such a man as Castelar is an inspiration, and his forecasts may well command the profoundest attention alike of princes and people. The peaceful revolution which with- out friction, or jar,or disturbance, of any of the social or material interests of ‘the nation changed the government of Brazil in a single day from the mon- archial to the republican form fur- nished a theme upon which Castelar could discourse with enthusiasm. As the astronomer may in the discovery of a single siar find the reward of years spent in patiently searching the firma- ment, so this faithful sentinel on the outposts of European republicanism found gratification and fresh ground of hope in the birth of another republic in the western hemisphere. It was a sign of progress, a distinct gain for the people in the great cont- tost being waged through - out christendom for the supremacy of the people, and it was all the greater and. more valuable as an example be- cause achieved without striking a blow. The last. throne in the new world has been overthrown. What of the old ? Hear Castelar: *'The sway of the auto- crat on the old continent is nearly over. If there is any one thing I believe with all my heart, it is thay before fifty years Europe will be republican from end to end, and I believe the change will be brought about without the horrors of war as easily as it has just been brought about in Brazil, as naturally as a man lays uside one -coat and puts on ‘another because he likes the other better. The people. of Europe are growing wiser every year and see- ing better what are their real interests. They will one day say to their kings, queens, emperors and princes: ‘We are musters here, and this country is ours, not yours. There is the door; go,) And then the kings, queens, em- porors and princes will go, and it will be a beautiful sight.” A somewhat utopian forecast, per- haps, yet hardly to be thought impossi~ ble of realization in view of what has been accomplished in little more than acentury, Inall the new world there was not an independent civi- lized government one hundred and twenty years ago, less than four gener- ations. Regal authority asserted itself over all the hemisphere, Spain baving her grasp uvon nearly all of South and Central America, and Ecgland and France sharing the northern continent. Canada and Cuba remain as important parts of this division of the globe own- ing allegiance to European powers, but the last throne, hedged though it was by a record of exceptionally liberal and progressive impérial governmeut, has disappeared, This advance of re- publicanism in the- new world has not beea made without severe and costly struggles, but every conflict waged in the cause of popular goverument has resulted in. making stronger the foundations of such gov- erament and increasing the capacity of the people for governing thomselves, ‘Poday one huadred and tweoty millions of people in {RiS hemisphere, ocoupy- ing a vast empire compared with which Europe shrivels into insignificance, are free from all fogeign domination, and living under c@nstitutional forms and equal laws Of their own framing, are marchingforward on all tho lines of human progress with a rapidity un- paralleled in any previous period of the wogld’s history. - 4 he influence of the new world upon the old is steadily increasing. The leader of republicanism, which is here proving itself equal to every require- ment of sound_and just government, and of social, moral, and rmaterial progress, is working with peroeptible’ and tremendous force upon wmonarchial institutions overywhere. Within a century it has almost banished kingly arrogance and usurpa- tion, has brought about a great en- largement of the privilegos aud powers of the masses, and has utterly dispelled the old delusion of the divine right of kings. When we reflect what republi- canism has accomplished in little more than a hundred years, starting with the world of despotism massed against iv, what hope of future achievement shall be regarded as extravagant or un- reasonable now that it has the vantage ground of almost half the world and the active championship of more than a hundred millions of enlightened self- governed people? Ivents move rapldly in this age, and the popular mind was never before so readily impressod by appeals to progress. Those mighty estates, the school and the press, are united in spreading broadeast republi- can principles and pointing the way to universal popular enfranchisement. The glitter of crowns, the pomp of roy- alty, and the presumption of sceptered rulers, no longer possess the power to command the awe and homage of the masses. They are objects of quite as much ocontempt as respect. The prophecy of Castelar may not be fully realized, but fifty years will witness's mighty change in the political condi- tion of Europe in the direction of re- publicanism. STRIKE FOR INDEPENDENCE. Mr. John D. Howe has forsaken his ambush and comes to the front over his own name in a frantic and ferocious ap- peal to the citizens of Omaha to strike for independence on Thanksgiving day and strike hard against the depot and viaduct bond provnosition. Mr. Howe rants wildly against such conservative bankers snd capitalists as Herman Kountze and Ben Smith, and enters a vigorous protest against what he conceives to be a scheme to revive a wildcat boom 1n the interest of real estate agents. The mossbagk argument that Omaha will go on andprosper without railrond depots or viadhcts is sadly out of joint with Mr. Howe’s assertion that Omaha would today have a population of three hundred thousand if the Union Pacific company had lived up toits pledges to give us proper transfer and depot facilities. But Mr. Howe seems to have com- pletely lost his jhental balance and re- calls forcibly the figure of Don Quixote in his onset against the windmills, He fairly froths at the mouth, works him- seif into frightful contortions over the Credit Mobilier phantom, pours hot-shot and shell into the Union Pa- cific giant and winds up with a clarion blast 10 all who would be free to pass their Thanksgiving dinners and rally round him to strike one great blow for independence. Passing from the sublime down to the commonplace itz would have been much more creditable to Mr. Howe to strictly confine himself the facts instead of soaring among the clouds and indulging in misleading assertions. Nobody contends that the Union Pacific hus lived up to its obliga~ tions to Omaha and nobody pretends to uphold the impositions and abuses from which we have suffered 1u past years. But why did not the valiant knight who now wants us to fight for inde- pendence enter the lists while the tight was raging? How is Omaha to gain independence oranything else by defeating the viaduct proposition? Isit uot almost absolutely certain that the defeat of that proposition would be fol- lowed by the defeat of the proposition for anew bridge which Mr. Howe looks upon as the only way by which Omaha can become independent of the Union Pacific? What is the use of fuming and frothing and raving when youare caged and cannot gain your freedom without paying a ransom? The only way to strike for independ- ence is to. carry both propositions and compel fair treatment and the raising of the embargo by competition, which would forever make Omaha the terminus of all roads that converge at this point, As to the enormity of the tax which Mr. Howe dwelils on, we will simply point out that on the present valuation of twenty millions the increase of taxes by reason of the depot and viaduct bonds would be less than five cents a year for each .one hundred dollars’ worth of property, including in- terest and ‘sinking fund to pay the principdl} 'Tn other words, tha man who owna property assessed at one thousand dollers, which would have a market value bf at loast five thousand dollars, would pay a fraction over forty cents a year in' addition to his present taxes. Comppralively few people pay taxeson one thousand doliars of assessed valuation, undithose who do could well afford to pay sdellar a year for the new viuduct and tho 'North Omaha bridge. This tax will @edrease as the general valuation of "¢ity property is raisad by improvements and general growth. Manifestly the way to strike for in- depondence is to disregard Mr, Howe's nightmare and give the city the stim- ulus which it needs to insure a rapid and yet healthy growth, —————— Tuosk Sunday ‘closing resolutions adopted by the democratio county convention were worked on the sume typewritor thut was used for Vander- voort's pious and prayerful memorial to the ministerial association. — Republicanism Is Cant: St. Louks Globe-Demoorat. Spain should 0ok closely after Cuba just now, and England would do well to keep an oye on Canada. The social atmosphere of this continont ia unfavorable to any gov- ernments except republics. - Ware Feoundity. Philadelphia Press, New York's celobrated 400" has increacsd Coffea S Chioago Tritune. The Brazilian emperor has boen un- crowned, but tho coffee kings in the United States are more firmly on their thrones than over. — Not Dry in Stooks, Minncapolis Journal, The Chicago, Kansas & Nobraska railroad costs $10,000,000, and $45,000,000 of watered stock has been added to 1ts capitalization. And yot it1s claimed that it has been a dry season in the West! it i Republican and Demoesatic Methods, Cleveland Leader. The republican states of Ohio and Iowa elected democratic governors this yoar, and n0 offer has been or will be made to prevent these officials from taking their seats. The democratic state of West Vireinia elected a ropublican governor a year ago and he has not yot been permitted to tako his seat. This shows the differenco botween republican nand democratio methods. Canada Will Come. New York World, The overthrow of the empire in Brizil leaves nothing but republican governmeont on this hemisphere, with the excention of the nondescript concern known as the Dominion, & sort of half-breed or mock monarch which 18 of very little importance and only needs time to bring it voluntarily or otherwise into the family of freedom. A Lesson to the Mormons. Salt Lake Tribune. The revelations now being daily given in the Third district court room will lose half their effect if the mormons who want to be good citizens of the Umited States do not heed their real sicnificance, and at tho same time take into consideration the fact that a government like ours, which rests entirely upon tho loyalty of its citizens, must take the neoessary steps to see that its sovereign- ty is absolute here, ot gl B A Cheerful Alternative, New York Commercial Advertise . Portiaps the most interesing statement which has been made in the Mormon inves- tigation, that is going on at Salt Lake City, 18 that of Anostle Smith, thata Mormon could not tako a second wife without the consent of his first. This at first seemed to indicato that the first wife was a “victim" only in the imagination of non-Mormons. The oross-examination, however, brought out that the alternative presented to the first. wifa was consent or eternal damnation, and in case she chose the lattor her consent was no longer necessary. eaS U e How s This Major Grady. Chicago Tribune. The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution 18 in a dreadful state of mind over reports that the negroes may refuse to give information to the census-takers and thus resultin an ap- parent falling off of population, which may cause a reduction of congressional represen- tation in the south. It warns the negroes that they must not **monkey with the laws.” But how about whites monkeying with the laws! How about whites monkoying with the laws to the extenc of depriving blacks of their political rights under the constitution and then counting them all 1n just the samo as if thoy wero voters and claiming fuil con- gressional representation? If it is wrong for ablack man to monkey with the law is it not equally wrong fora white man to idulge in the sume simian operationt e T VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. A Natural Result. Sutton Advertiser. If democracy keeps on drinking as it has for tho last ton days, over the election in Towa, it will haye the jim jams before 1892. Look and.Keep ~shivering. £ Fremont Tribune, The price of coal this winter depends upon what the railroads are compelled to go in the matter of rates by the state board of trans- portation. Keep your eyeson the board of transportation, shivering patriots. Jack M all for Governor. Haatings Nebraskan. The friends of Jack McCall who enthusi- astically supported him for governor in the republican convention a year ago, are impa tient to make a fight again. Their numbers bave increased considerably since that time and if he wants to muke the race he can start in witb flattering prospects of success. Wants 1o Buck Dorsey. Kearney Enterprise, The recent railroad agitation for Kearney has developed a new feature within the past. two or three days. It consists of the some- what startling fact that the friends of the Hon, A. G. Scott of this city will boom him for a congressional nomination another year in the Thirddistrict. As one old campaigner said yesterday: ‘“We are a litle tired of Congressman Dorsey’s indisposition to help us out down this way, and we are not over pleased with his course in the matter of ap- pointments.” However that may be, it is a fuct that Mr, Scow would be able to muke a hard fight in the'congressional convention, How Do Omahogs Liks This ? Norfolke News, Tue OMAEA BEk, in a burst of candor that is refreshing, says that ‘‘Omaha has always been heid back by her two-legged hogs, They want iv all themselves or nothing, and they generally get aothing.” That's about the sizo of 1t. Omaha bas talked for years of a railroad to the northwest, and is now talking of & le to Pierre, That city’s rail- chemes have never panned out simply because the two-legged hogs referred to would never put up a dotlar for fear their wmoney would benefit the people of some other community as well us themselves, Omaha will'have a road to Pierro it the en- terprising people of South Dakota will put up the stuff, Omaha would take a warranty deed to the earth if somebody else would pay for it. A Short Retraspeot, The Alllance, The election is over. Its excitement and its partisan feoling may now be laid by for nearly'a year, and we may take 8 caln view of the situation. Did the voice of the neople find expression in the election of a judge of the supreme court,and a member of congress for the Second district? It certainly did not. It is as certain as anything can be this world that @ majority of the people of this state desired M. B, Reese's ro-election @8 judgo, and that a majority of the people of theSecond district did not desire the election of Mr. Laws as their member of congress. How were these results, directly in opposition to the voice of the people, broughs about! All men know. In the case of the judgethe stale convention of the party of moral ideas, the party of progress, the party which periodically screeches for civil service reform and does not enforce it, and a free ballot and fair count and does not give I, was delivecately debsuched by bribes given by the hurelings of @ railroad corporation; and 8 man who was lately a B. & M. attorney was placed upon the supreme bench ot the state by B. & M. influence. A crime aganst prop- erty of one-hundredth pars of the magnitude of this would be expiated i the pen. A crime against virtue not at all approaching it would be met with & halter at the hands of Judee Lynoh. Hero is the vory safoguard ot the state, the animating spiriv of the ballot, the delegate’s vote, assailed, corrupted, and bought by wholesalo--here is the very foun- tn-head of justioo malformed in it bugh, astream corrupted at its source; a juage , another man’s seat taking his seat—not h —on the bench hefore & people who know it was obtaiced by shameless corruption. Under such a Upas shadow what wall flour- ish except poison plants? Does the cashier rob the till?—he looks up and soes he 18 inno- cent as the now born babe compared with the perpetrators of this crimo. Does the young man rob his father or his employer, and betray his trusting friond?—he looks up und seos crimo 5o much darker ihat an au- reole of glory shinea on his brow in compari- son; and venomous plants shoot under this blight, men's souls are powoned, and society fots and hell thrives, ———— COUNTRY BREEZES, 1s This Editora Papa? Oakdale Pen and Plow, No doubt, for all it .is worth or amounts to, this world would nave long, long ago come to an ond, if it wasn't for babies com- ing all the time 80 thick and fast, and 80 en- gaging the sttention of tho Almighty that He never can see an opportunity to shut up shop and hang the placard “To Rent” or ‘“For Sale” on tho oatside of this weather- beaten old earth. We can't conceive of any issue more momentous, or concsrn 80 engrossing, as that which a bran new vaby, Wwith pink toes, bright eyes and noisy holler, produces. A Literary Diversion. Parton Pilot. Last Thursday at the Literary Wm Granger and Albert Wilson got {nto a scrap at recess, Grange~ was making fun of some of the singers and Albert called him for an explanation words und blows followeil, the boys were seperated by friends, complawnt was filed against Albert by John Lucas in Justice Huttou's court and Albert was re- quired to deposit a fow sheckles for the beno- it of the school fund. Only Mortal Afrer All Culbertson Sun. Tt may be a little strange, but the fact is we have 10 eat to live, just the same as other Poor mortals. Now, If you owe us on sub- scription and have pienty of potatoes, flour, meal, butter, eggs or chickens, just bring ‘em along and we will by powerful glad to give you credit at the top of tho market. Why We Were Absent, Gosper County Oitizen. The editor of this great family weekly, together with his wife and little onos, taxcd the hospitality of relatives in Highland pre- cinct several days this weok. We trust our temporary absence has not seriously re- tarded the growth of the town nor proven a disappointment to porsons contemplating the Qelivery of pumpkins and winter squashes on subscription. By the Grip of Oar Teeth. Elwood Record. We accidentally “pied” a couple of lines of “'solid” this woek, but as wa had both a “make-up” and *‘composiug’* rute, four leads and a cap H betwaen our tecth no harm was done. Not in Our Line. Allston Témes, When it comes to obscenity and Indecent vulgarity we do not pretend t cope with the proprietor of the smut mill known as the J. O. Parkyn advocate. Wa readily consent to see him carry off all the honors that may be connected with a display of this par- ticular kind of tulent. ges it Sl OUR CONTEMPORARIES. * Legalized Tyranny. New York Timis. The stories that are told about the inva- sion of private premises and the violation of personal rights in the enforcement of the prohibitory law in Towa ure calculated to re- mind people that there are constitutional guarantees ngainst outrages of the kind that huve been described. The fourth article of the original amendments to the foderal con- stitution declares that *“‘the righv of the peo- ple to be secure jn their persons, houses, and paper and effects, agawnst unreasonablo searches and seizures, shall not be violated,” and that ‘‘no warrants shall issue except upon probable cause, supported by oath or afirmation, und varticularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to boseized.” If tho stories that have been tola of constables invading private houses in search of liquora in Iowa are true, this most carefully framed guarantee of one of the most sacred rights of citizenship has been outrageously violated. A law that per- mits anything of this kind is worthy only of @ despotism. Moderation of the Jud:ciary. Chicao Times, Justice Miller in speaking to *“The Judici- ary" at the New York chamter of commerce dynuer remarked that the separation of goy- ernment fuactions under our constitution was not so perfect s it wmight bs, He in- stauced the participation of tho senate iu both executive and Judicial functions, and remarked that the judiciary had asserted and maintained its power with a moderation and discrevion which had socured for 1t the confidence and respect of the American peo- ple. This is quite true, and Justice Miller af- forded an illustration of its truth by refrain- ing even on an after-dinner occasion from any allusion to the aisposition which the sen- ate has frequently munifested to encroach upon the functions of other constitutional di- visions. ¥ ‘The supreme court has been especially careful to respect the jndgment of the na- tional logislature on coastitutional questions and has repeatedly rendered decisions, as 1n the legal-tender cuses, tending aecidedly to- ward the enlargsment of the constitutional powers of congress, wiiilo in no instance has the court sought to abridge those powers, or 10 exeruvise censorship, or set up its own opinions as superior to those of congress upon legislative questions, An Appeal tor Justice, S8t. Louls Globs-Dsmacrat, ‘The appeal of the colored people, through their central bureau of reliof, for protection in the exercis of their legal rights as citizens and voters, 1s not one to he carelessly read und lightly dismissed. It presents facts which are of the first importance. The con- dition of the colored race in the such is no- toriously offensivo to all ideas of justice and fairness. Fraud and violonce have practi- cally deprived it of everything that is guar- anteed to it by the constitutton, There 1s DOt even a pretense oI respect on the part of the whites for the laws and obligations upon which the blacks are supposed to rely for all that makes citzenship precious and profic- able. ‘There can be no question about the duty of the republican party to the paople. They have its repoated pledeoes of sympathy with tuoir cause and of its intention 10 give thew relief, It now has the power to fullll such promises, and it cancot afford to neglect its opporwunity, fHigh License and Sound Beuse, New York World, A mass meeting of Catholics 1 Baltimore, over which Carginal Gibbous presided, has declared in favor of bigh license as the only just, rationsl and effective method of regu- lating the tiquor trafiio and reducing its evils t0 & mnimum, . This sewi-ofcial utterance on the L of a great aud influcntial body of Christiaus is very signiticant. It is in line with the preva- lent aud growing conviction of seasible peo- ple everywhere on this subject. Probibition is OIW"“" l‘»vll ‘:luy “a n:ln“nnw-rundn::;hl m; terference personal liberty, wore oa the ground that it has been tried under the most favorable conditions and has eonspicuously failed to oure or evento pal« liate the avils of intomporance. High liconse, on the othor hand, 1s open to neither of these ovjections. Nobody doubts the state’s right of polics regulation in this matter, and abundant experiment has shown | that it is offectual in reducing the number of saloons by the olimination of thoso of worst character and in securing the enforcoment o f Ballot Retorm. Baltemors Herald, Itis admittod on all sidos that the great issuo in Maryland is that of a free, fair and untrammoled ballot. That the right of suffrage has boon more or less of & mookery in this state for many years past is not dis- puted by any porson who has mado himsolf familiar with the methods in voguo at the various polling places in the city of Balti- more. So flagrant has the abuso of the eleo- tion franchiss bocomo that jntelligent and honest men of all parties have joinod hanas m the common domand for roform, That this reform cannot bo wocomplished exoop through the enactment of more stringent registration and election laws than we now onjoy hns boon formally recogaizod iu tho platforms of both the democratic aud ropub= lican parties. It is quite natural, therefore, that the loaders in Maryland who are devoting thom - selves to the cause of ballot-box reform should turn to tho Australiun law for retief. 1t is not to be doubted that this law, or ono similarly framed, will come beforo the legis- lature in the early part of the 0, and that iv will roceive eurneat and serious con- sidoration. What the final action of the legisluture muy bo cannot, of course, bo re- libly foreshudowed. It may be said with definitoness, however, that the legislature ©Annot hope to retain the confldence of the people should it fail to pass a law identical in all viwul particulars with thatof Australia, - Strike for Indepsndenc st OMATA, Nov, 23.--To tho Editor of Tnm Bee: Ircad with humiliation the speeches of certain interestwd baukers beforo the roal estato exchango somo days ago, To appeal to the wild cat class of real estato agents to get up a thirty days' boom to “let them out of their embarrassmonts may roach a few, but the legitimate dealer is as good a citizen as wo can have, and the proposition to tax us o benefit his business will appear specious wnd hurtful to him, if not actuaily insulting, The voice of interestod proverty owners of large estates asking us to add to thewr wiroady great possession by taking the cost of the viaduct improvement off of the rail- roads ana throwing it on the city on the principle, “any sacrifice to get it quick,” the good citizen will bo deaf to. The law says the railrouds that have destroyed the strect must pay for the viaduot. The question is not one of locality, nor of personal interost. It is oae of the genoral weal of O maba for ull time to come. Now is tue time to strike for wdependence, which mouns for Omaha o larger city than Kansas City, or St. Paul, or Minneapoiis. Weare in the corn and cattle belt, with botter natural advantages than any of these citics, and would today be larger than avy of those cities if 1t wors not for ono hich no man can wipe oui or conceal, Omana is the victim of the wost monstrous monoply in the United States! It has nad its “hangman flugers” on our throat for twenty years. Wo have grown in spite of it. Shall we now make tnis monopoly permanent, or shall we break its snackles snd cnter upon our birthright! Give us freedom and we will be great; per petuate this wmonopoly and we will never be the great city which naturally should grow here. Wby sell our birthright for a mess of pottage? Why forge the chains on our own neck! Shall we do it for a wildcat real estate agent’s profit! What is this monopolyf I = was umazed to hear a day or two ago, from @ merchant who has been crippled in his business by 1t, thut the bridge monopoly charges 5 cents per 100 pounds, or about Ten dollars por car for freight, for crossing this bridge only. All passengers (except fn- significant local trafic) pay 50 cents euon. $10 per car and 50 cents per passanger, for a one mile haul! No city can prosper with such an embargo upon its commerce, It is destruction to our commerce. It is ruin to our city. And for this mouopoly we have paid $i50,000, and given §,000,000 in real estate. It would have been fur better to have subk 1t in the Missovri. And now what are we asked to do? I will teil you. ‘They asked us 0 vote $150.000 vrincipal, $150,000 interest pay $100,000 damages to make permanent and for overiasting this infamous mouopoly, whose earnings g0 to enrich men of princely fortunes, who have heretofore done all that they could to knife the town. By kesping us down they make profits. How is it o ve dounet Thus: We arc ask to deed to a chique of rich men who bave organized as a union depot, company $1,000,000 worth?of real estato to enable them to capitalize their company at $1,500,000 (see county records), without puy3 g i cent for the real estate, they to borrow on amortgage upon it, at b per cent, $200 000 or $300,000, to the end that they may extort from Jowa rouds (for whoso free use we gave the real estato), @ large rental, to the ead that on actual capital invested they may make 100 per cent per aunuw. The union depot is to be an- other bridge monopoly, 1t is to bs for passongers only—not for froight—which is ten times more important to this town. We are too big already to care for a protty bailding with a clock tower over near the old cowshed. Let children play wi h build- ings. What we want is business— oo mercial supromacy—something that witl en- able us to lead Kansas City and St. Paul, Wo want freedom from a $10 bridge toll for one mile of haul, ‘The union depot is to be not only a mo- nopoly to enrich Boston capitalists, like the bridge monopoly, but it is to be an adjunct and accessory of the bridge monopoly. Tho o00ject is to fortity and make permanont the bridge monopoly. Its object is to intrench it 80 it can never be dislodged, and we are to pay for our own undoing. % Fellow citizens, is it not. as plain as A, 8, C that we want no more of that bridge mo- nopoly? That the commercial importance of the town demands 1ts overturow{ - That 1o expend more money in building up that monopoly by adding another to 1t is ruinous to us and ruinous to our citvi Come to the front and breaik it down. Break the chains upon the neck of Omaha, which have ree tarded its growtn for twenly years. Lot us build up the town and nov break it dowa. Let us throw $450,000 iuto tho fire rathor than baild up the monopoly that has kept our city in a vills state, when today, if we had been given what the Union Pacific railway promised to give us for our bonds and lands twenty years ago we would have a popula- tion of 300,000 peopls and & comimercial power that would have made all the rail- roads of the west bow tue knee to us. It were belter today to give the new bridge sctieme $1,000,000 dollars to procure freedom from the otd bridge monopoly than to give one cent to the Uniwon Pucific rail- way, which for twenty yeurs bas treated us like slaves; which has packed our publio ofices with their tools and minions; which has used the money extorted from us by the $10 bridge toll levied upon our commerce and trade to corrupt our public servants; o bo- tray our city | Let us work for indepeadence and commercial supremacy ! Remember oksgiving day! On that day is the bond cloction. Dan’t decoive yourselves by thinking the Union Pacific will not, after it has got its bonds iu out of the wet, knife the new bridge scheme. ‘I'hoir past record canuot be overcome. A million dollars would not compensate them for the dumage to their cursed munogoly which & free bridge would inflict. On Thavkegivin day make Jour prayers ‘short, eat codiish necessary, but bare your own right arm and strike as you never siruck before for Omaha and independence! Let victuals go! Hit hard for Omaha's permanent welfaral We will give the new company Jefferson Square if need be, only to get rid of the highway= man's toligate and 1 be freo and great! Hiy bard, Teay! Joux D, Hows. November Days, C. J. Bartlelt in Unity. As those we love give us s swift good-by, With thought that swift blows bear the least of paln, Then tura, remorseful to our sudden cry, And hold us close, aud kiss us o'er again— So blessed summer yields uuto us now With pitying haste in which her mantla fell; [+ -om'o tender! yet upon her brow Sad premonition of a long farewell! |