Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 19, 1890, Page 4

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E—— Tie weekly bank statement shows the reserve has increased $1,765,000, The bunks now hold $7,781,000 in excess of legal requirements. — Now that F has come out with that circular the breach Letween the Woman’s Christian Temperance union and Ellen J. may be considered irreparabl, THERE is one thing that Paul Van- dervoort is to be thanked for. He has furnished a long-sought opportunity for removing the screens that have hung in front of tho legislative oil rooms. POSTMASTER G AL WaNA- MAKER has lost social caste in the south and 18 now numbered among the **ostra- cised.” He committed the unpacdon- abie crime of delivering an address in a Sunday school for colored children, EVANGELIST JONES declures that this is to be an epochal year and that *'some things have gone just as fur as they can go.” It is to be hoped that this prophecy applies to the language and methods of the Rev. Sam himself. ALTHOUGH we are in the dead of winter a very gratifying activity pre- vails in the real estate marketand all indications point to a brisk demand for Omaha dirt by the time spring has fairly sot in. The fact thatthe real estate dealers have monopolized a full vage of THi SUNDAY BEE is within itself significant. — Tix committee sent from Paris to in- vestigate the Panamacanal asserts that the works and plant are in “‘an ex- tremely satisfactory condition.” This report will be a great consolation tothe French stockholders, who have dropped something like two hundred million dollars in the ditch, without making a serious impression on the soil OMARA stock shippers should prompily invoke the assistunce of the inserstate commerce commission to compel the railrouds to deal justly with this city. If Kansas City has a friendly road to hold down rates, the Omaha roads are not justified in maintaining double rates and injuriously discriminating against the stock interests of this section. — EvERYBODY who desires to get an in- side view of the methods by which leg- islation demanded by the people has been defeated at the hancs of the oil room corporation lobby should by all means read the testimony of James R. Porter and Sumner Johnson which was taken in the Vandervoort libel case and published verbatim in this issue of THE Beg. E———————ee—— Tre Atlanta Journal printsthe names of three hundred and thivteen taxpuy- ers whose returns for 1880 ranged from twenty-tive thousand to four hundred and thirteen thousand dollars. What is more significant is that the returas were volunturily made. Itis doubtful if there is a city of double the popula- tion in the union with an equal number of citizens who would step up to the tax- gatherer’s wicket and confess to the ownership of twenty-four million dol- lars worth of property without a pro- test, —_— UNDER the orders of the district court judges the old system of selecting Jurors will be continued. This imposes on the sheriff and county board the grave respousibility of selecting honest, iutelligeat and disinterested citizens to serfe as jurymen. It is due to the court and litigunts that the best pos- sible material be chosen to expedite business aud vender justice free from the taint of influence or prejudice. The professionals should be rigidly excluded, as well as the man who hus been recommended or who has applied for & place. A great reform in thisdirection is possibie by the exercise of judgmens, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE XHORBITANT EIGHT RATES Governor Thayet's appeal to the man- agers of Nebraska railronds is com- mendable and deserves favorable con- sideration. When it takes the price of three bushels of corn to carry two bush- els to the market it is manifest that on the most prolific soil and with a bounti- ful crop, our furmers are unable to earn alivelihood. Notonly are the farmers of the state suffering by reason of ex- cessive freight rates, but overy business interest dependant upon the producer is depressed. When the farmer cannot pay his merchandise bills, the country merchant cannot meet his obligations to the jobber. When trade is stagnant, inaustry must languish. Before the interstate law went into effect, tho actual rate on corn from competing points in the state to Chi- cago was no greater than it is today, The quoted rate was higher, but the re- bates atlowed brought the rate down as low as fourteen cents where twenty and twenty-two cents is now charged. The population of the state in 1885 was seven hundred thousand. In four years the number has increased to one millio; F'arm products have vastly in- creased, industries have multiplied and business in all departments has grown fifty to one hundred per cent. During these years the Uuion Pacifie, Bur- lington and Northwestern have held undisputed control of the commerce of Nebraska, They have no com- petitor worthy of the name. The increase in population, products and manufactures correspondingly swelled the receipts of the railroads. well managed establishment sales and small profits” is con- d the acme of business foresight. in railroad management an in- ase of business invariably follows a reduction of rates. But no such principle is recognized by Nebraska railroad managers. Whatever favors have been granted the people have been given grudgingiy, and every at- tempt to trim the claws of tho corpora- tions has been followed by combined resistance, delays and litigation. Today the state, notwithstanding the increase of business, stands practically as it did in 1885 in the matter of freight rates. The vate exacted for transportation of grain to market is little less than conliscation. Reports from leadirig shipping paints on main lines in the state show that the rate on corn to Chi- cago ranges from twenty to forty cents per one hundred pounds according to distance. The local market price on the cars ranges from niue to fifteen cents, or an average for the state of twelve cents. In Chicago corn brings thirty cents, so that .the Nebraska farmen must give one bushel and a half of cotn to transport one bushel to ‘market, The producers of the state cannot stand this excessive tariff, and if the railroads do not recognize the principle of “live and let live,” their exactions will recoil with disastrous effect. They should heed the cry for relief voiced by state officers and grant a reduction suf- ficient to revive and vitalize the com- merce of the state. WHERE WILL IT GO? Congress has progressed so far in the matter of preparation for a world’s fair in 1802 as to provide for a select com- mitte to consider all matters relating to the proposed celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. Thisaction shows that the suggestion of a postponement of the celebration has found no favor with members of the house of representa- tives. No one in that body, during the considgration which this subject has received, has intimated a doubt + that the great under- taking can be successfully ac- complished at the time it must be .in order to be a truly commemorative cel- ebration. 1t would seem to be safe to conclude, therefore, that so far as the house is concerned iv is practically unanimous in favor of holding the world’s fair two years heuce, and it is not probable that any serious oppo- sition to this will come from the senate. Assuming, then, that this much is settled, the absorbing question, just now being discussed with the greatest interest and anxisty in four cities, is where will the fair go? Of course one man’s guess at this time is as good as another’s, “but the situ- ation offers an opportunity for some notaltogether uninteresting deductions, It appears that the proposal to refer all matters relating to the celebration to the foreign affairs committee of the house was antagonized by the friends of New York, Washington and St. Louis, on the ground that that committee, whose chairman is from Illinois, was likely to be unduly influenced in favor of Chicago, and the appointment of a special committee is regarded as a “*black eoye” for the latter city. Is this necessarily so? A good deal will undoubtedly depend upon the make up of the special committee, If Speaker Reed has any partiality for either of the contesting cities he might constitute the committee so as to insuve that city being favored, but a proper regard for the fairness of the speaker requires it to be presumed that he will do nothing of the sort. On the con- trary, it is probable that he will give all the cities seeking the fair a repre- sentation on the committee, Hut how- ever coustituted, this special committee cannot finally determine the location. If it is able to reach an agreemeat on this question, the essential one of course, with which it will have to deal, it will simply report the result to the house, If there is any significance in the vote on the resolution creating the special committee it shows that Cnicago has one hundred and forty-one supporters, the majority against that city being only forty-eight on the as- sumption that all the members who did not vote against creating the special committee ave divided in favor of the other three cities. Chicago there- fore has . but twenty-five votes to gaiu, it being presumed that the one hundred aund forty-one will adhere to her, from among the supporters of New. York, Washington and 5t. Louis. It would thus seem that Chicago's chance of securing the fair is still by far the best, and certainly so Ppromising s 1o encoursge her reores SUNDAY, JANUARY 19. 1890.-SIXTEEN PAGES. sentatives to maintain the contest with unabated vigor, The impression appears to be that St. Louis is practically out of the race, and the chances of Washington are thought not to have fimproved siuce the assembling of congress. Indeed, the most careful observers re- gard the real contest as being between New York aund Chicago, If such is the case the supporters of either Washington or St. Louis could set- tle the - matter in favor of the west- orn city, and it is quite possible that when the time of final decision comes there will be enough of them to do this, if Chicago isable to hold the number of supporters she now appears to have. In any event, it is to be hoped that there will be as little delay as possible in formulating plans for the great cele- bration. THE TIMBER CULTURE LAW, The State Horticultural society of Nebraska, at its recent session, adonted a resolution urging that the timber culture law bo allowed to remain in force. This action was taken in view of the repqrted facy that cortain west- ern congressmen are disposed to favor the ropeal of the law, on the ground that ina very large area east of the Rocky mountains it 1s practically im- possible to raise trees, and that those who had entered timber claims are trying to perform the impossible. A communication was read to the so- ciety in which it was stated that while it is true that many people have filed on timber lands and expended con- siderable money without meeting with encouraging success, what had been ac- complished under the operation of the law had justified the wisdom of its en- actment. It was suggested that the difficulties complained of are almost wholly due to ignorance of the proper methods of tree planting and to bad selections of varieties, experience hav- ing demonstrated that there is very little area cast of the Rocky moun- tains in which. forest trees can not be raised with less moisture than is re- quired for raising corn. On the high and dry table lands of western Ne- braska and eastern Colorado, where moisture had not penetrated more than eighteen inches and the annual rainiall did not exceed eight inches, there has been excellent success, it was claimed, in growing trees. All the testimony presented was in favor of allowing the law to remain, and the socioty recorded itsopinion that the difficulties of raising timber in any portion of the public do- main east of the Rocky mountainsare not insuperable when met by painstaking and thoroughwork and judicious selec- tion of varieties. So far as Nebraska is8 concerned, it was said that the timber culture law has been highly beneficial, the state- ment being made that there has annu- ally been planted on timber claims in this state fifty million trees. What proportion of this planting has amounted to anything, however, was not shown, though this is obviously a matterof prime importance in consid- ering the merits of the law. It was conceded that the law needs amendment, so that its require- ments and conditions shall be more in accord with the orviginal intent of the act. The truth is that the timber cul- ture iaw was conceived in the interest of jobbers to opeu the way to a long list of false timber claims, and it has very largely resulted in doing this. But if this were not so there is no necessity for the timber culture law any longer, for the reason thut the majority of those who really want land to till have secured ir, and those who now seek to procure land under this law, instead of acquiring it under the legiti- mate way of homesteading it are doing 80 under false pretensss. The only way for the government to promote timber culture is to give a bonus for the pro- duction of timber under the homestead act. The present timber culture law is not what the people want, the horticul- tural society to the conirary notwith- standings ‘We do uot [question the sincerity of the members of the society in this matter, but most of them live in the eastern section of the state, where there has been no homesteading for many years, and while they know a great deal about flowers and posey gardeus they have too little knowledge of the privations and abuses under the timber cuiture law to give their opinion on this subject any authority or value. THE RACE PROBLEM. The race problem promises to oceupy the attention of congress to an unusual degree this winter, The dsbate has already been begun in the senate by Senators Morgan and Butler. It can not be long delaved in the house of representatives where the introduction of a federal eloction law will draw out democratic opposition and a full disons- sion of the suppression of the negro vote, The speeches from the democratic side thus far are more interesting for what they conceal than what they dis- euss, The platitudes of Senator Butler regarding the kindly feelings enter- tained in the south towards the negroes had less sincerity in them than the vigorous tirade of Senator Morgan against the negro as u disturbing ele- ment in society and a factor impossible for southern political reformers to assimilate in the the conduct of govern- ment. ¢ Neither of the senators, however, ventured to assert in public what no southern democrat refuses to deny in private, that the negro is robbed of all political rights in every ome of the late slave states, and the franchise so far as the blacks are concerned is a farce which noone pretends to ignore. The arguments so often repeated to justify the suppression of the black vote, while appeuling strongly to tocal prejudice, do not touch the main ques- tion, The wrong done reaches cutside of state lines. It needs only to be stated to carry 1ts own argument with it, What right has any southern state, suppressing thousands of black votes, to have its cougressional repre- sentation on a vote which it refuses to count? What canons will jus- tfy a section of country in filling con- gress with white demoorats on an ap- portionment largely . based on u black vote which is juggled and changed and cheated of its efficiency? Why should ALM(\S‘“{D Nebraska, where the franchise is free and untrammeled be forced to content themselves with the results of howedt'dlections while statos like South Cardliga and Alabama reap the benefits of admitted frauds at the polld in a numgrical supremacy of con- gressmen and éléttoral votes. The suppression of the black votes wherever it affgets the olection of acon- gressman or the choice of a fed- eral elector ,~ becomes something more than a Jocal misdemennor, It is a national orime. It is robbery of Nebraska and Kansas and Towa and every other state whose in- fiuence in congtess is numerically de- preciated by the fraudulent representa- tion which the south receives by its rape of the ballot box. Admitting for the sake of argument that white local government is necessary in sections of the south and the frauds practiced. are dictated by self-preservation, the areu- ment has no application to the election of a president or the defeat of a law- fully chosen congressman. Congress owes it to itsell to e t o law which will carry out the intent of the constitution and guarantee a repub- lican form of government in the south. THE YELLOWS PARK. The importance of preserving this great national park from spoliation has Dbeen pressed upon tho attention of congress at every session for several yeurs, but in one way or another the efforts made for this purpose have heen thwarted. Three timesa bill has passed the senate providing suitable jurisdic- tion for the park, with penalties for brenking the regulations and accurately defining its boundaries, but owing to the action of the house in sad- dling it with a provision for: run- ning a railroad through the pavk it was twice defeated. Last year, however, the measure, without the rail- road provision, passed both houses, but so near the close of the session that it failed, after all, to become a law, It is understood that an effort will be made in the present congress to secure earlier attentiou to this matter so that another year will not pass without ade- quate provision being made for the reg- ulation and protection of this wonder- ful pleasure ground, in most re- spects the grandest natural park in the world. Under existing law the secretary of the interior has exclusive control of the park, with authority to make regulations for its care and man- agement, and particularly for preserv- ing all timber, mineral deposits and natural curiosities in their original condition. The: law also directs him to remove trespassors and to protect the fish and game from destruction. But the money necessgry to carry out this authority has not been provided by con- gress, nor has there been any legisla- tion prescribing jurisdiction and penai- ties, aithough five suyccessive annual re- ports of the interlor department have called attention to these lacks. Since 1886 the reservation has been policed by cavalry, and the ' substitution of mili- tary for civil protection is said to have been a great improvement, yet this has not been so comiplete ds is desirable, owing to the want of legislation defin- ing jurisdiction, establishing penalties, and accurately marking the boundaries of the park. It is estimated that not less than ten thousand people now visit the Yeliow- stone park each season, and the number steadily increases. If its nat- ural beauties, curiosities and won- ders are properly preserved it will cer- tainly become in time one of our greatest national attractions, not only for our own people but for foreign visitors. It is quite within bounds to expect that within the next ten years this great pleasure ground will be visited each season by a hundred thousand people, and it is verv Likely to.pecome in time one of the foremost of popular resorts. The wisdom of setting apart this reserva- tion as a national park has never been questioned, and the government can afford to properly maintain and protect it. LEASING THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. The public is beginning to be imper- ative in its demand that the wrongful leasing of the public domain shall cease. No one will contend for a mo- ment that the principle is right, or that the public interest is subserved by the method adopted of leasing. to vp- erators the public lands of the * country. Those who are familiar with the efforts ' made by the interior department to drive the cattle barons from the government lands will readily nnderstand how diffi- oult it is to resist the advances of that class of men who, for more than a quar- ter of a gentury have appropriated by contract and by stealth the nation’s pub- lic domain, The interior depurtment made a mistake when, years ago, it es- tablished the principle of leasing by wract the feeding lands of the west, and congress also laid itsell open to criticism and to endless annoy- ance when it granted the privalege to & corporation to appropriate the seal islands of Alaska, {'As well might con- gress lease Yellpwstoue park or the Mississipoi river to' private parties to operate for persnrm‘ nefit as to grant permission to pudiyiduals to take pos- session of the seal .islands of Alaska for the purpose of: despoiling it of its population of sseal. Reports from federal officersgo £ show that from one hundred to two hatidred thousand baby seuls are slaughtéddd every season by the seal hunters id that thisenor- mous waste is resylting in a marked de- crease to seal lifg,, A stop should be put to this proceeding at once. The seal islands of Alaska should be pro- tected. The breeding grounds of the seal should be protocted also, and per- mission given only at a stated pariod of the year, not to exceed two months, to hunt and destroy this valuable inhabi- tant of the islands. The lower Yukon valley . possusses paturally far greater resources than the valley of the Columbia. Why are not some steps taken to open this coun- try to settlement: instead of closing it for the beaefit of a few individuals who have already acquired too much? As ut present carried out the govera- meat's plun amounts simply 0 leasing a part of the public domain in which all citizens have an equal right for a nominal sum to a corporation, to the exclusion of all other citizens. From this lease the corporation annually nets from two to three million dollars, with the effect of wholly suppressing competition in the territory and by systematic misrepresentalion pro- venting the development of one of the most valuable acquisitions the United Statps ever attained. It would seem Senator Plumb has investigated the matter sufficiently to lead him to the conclusion that the time has come when the interests of the country and of Alaska demand that there shoutd be no more leases granted to the seal islands. BUSINESS FAILURES The sunmary of the failures in the United States during the past year shows a steady iucrease in the number of these business casualties, The total for 1889 was 11,719, an increase of 108 percent over 1888, while the total of 10,587 for that year was 91 per cent incrense of the total for 1t e in the labilities was less marked, being about 74 per cent more than in 1887, but as compared with 1883, which was excep- tionally a year of small failures the in- crease in Jiabilities is about 16 per cont. These figures are not reassuring. They indicate that something is wrong in the conditions attending the commercin 1 world. The steady incrense of failures may be alegitimate result of the close margins upon which business has been done during the past few ycars, and very likely it 1s, but unless the ten- dency is altered duving the greater ac tivity now in force we may expect to witness a still greater increase in busi ness failures. The inchination to de- stroy legitimuto profits in trade by too close competition is one of the growing evils of the times. It creates an un- sound condition of business und awak- ens a feeiing of suspicion aguinst all classes of trade. We may look for a change for the better in this direction the present year. S, GoverNor W message to the legisiature of Wyoming is a strong and sensible document. The condition of the territory is decidedly prosperous. The bonded debt is three hundred and twenty thousand dollars and there is a cash balance of one hundred and sev- ght thousand dollars in the treasury. The assessed valuation of alf’ property is thirty-one and a half mill- ions, or one-third the actual value. The stock, mineral and agriculturai inter- ests are in a prosperous condition. Among the many important recommen- dations of the governor, that of low taxation deserves the earncst considera- tion of vhe legislature. In all new and rapidly growing communities the pas- sion to run headlong into aebt results sooaer or later in a serious paralysis of business. The tax-gatherer is not a good immigration agent, and while he is a necessary evil, his exactions should be kept at the lowest possible point, consistent with a proper admiuistration of public affairs. With resourcesrapidly developing, and enterprising capital pouring in, Wyoming should stimulate the tide of prosperity by discouraging extravagance and high taxes. As an offset to Mr. Connell’s official certificate concerning Vandervoort’s activity in inciting the Curry assault, Vandervoort now prints a private lotter from Connell in which he promises to join the Nebraska delegation in getting him, reinstated on the postoflice pay roll. Thisletter is paraded as conclu- s1ve proof that Congressman Connell has been convinced that District Attorney Conneli had misvepresented Vander- voort in 1876. Here is logic for you. No new evidence to upset the testi- mony Connell heard before the grand jury, and no witness who testified there has recanted. The only rational infer- ence is that Congressman Connell has the wealness of other politiciaus who want to placate ward strikers and heel- ers regardless of their record. Now Mvr. Connell has probably discovered that he has been put in a false light, and would have stood better with his constituents if he had turned the cold shoulder to the railroad lobbyist. ——— THE scrimmage in the wigwam of the Samoset warriors over Mayor Cushing’s personal clerkship should be cut short, for scveral good and suf- ficient reasdns. Why should Mayor Cushing have a twelve-hundred- dollar clerk, at the expense of the taxpayers? Neither Boyd nor Broutch had clerks on the city pay roll. ‘Whatever clerical work they haa to perform was done at their own expense. If Muyor Cushing needs a shorthand writer, Jev him hire one, the same as other mayors huve done. The council should tuke a back track at once on this particular sinecure. They had no business to create such an office, and the mayor should have had public spirit enough to veto the proposition. We have too many tax eaters on the city pay roll alveady. —_— THE only tangible proposition so far as we are able to ascertain in connec- tion with the proposition to sccure suitable state fair grounds points t the ‘West Omaha site. It is accessible, ro- quires no grading and within twenty minutes’ drive from the court house. 1t s safe to predict that the land offered now at five hundred doilars per ncre will more than double within five years, ——— SENATOR BLAIR asserts that “all work which should be done in this world can easily be done in eight hours aday.” The great difficulty is that work, like wealth, isnot evenly dis- tributed. The men who toil the havd- est generally get the lowest wages, — A Double Aftiction St Louis Glube-L rat. The people of Ohio have had to undergo two gubernatorial messages already this year—one from @ reliring and the other from an incoming executive. A The Demon that Lurks in Gum, New York Sun. The horrible results of the chewing gum habit are freshly illustrated by the case of the Missouri girl, who, remonstrated with by her father as to her exertions of jaw, rushed from the supper table and hanged berself. ¥hus is an oxwreme instance, of course, but who that manches in public that everlasting oud can be suro that the wildness of the nerves and remorse of conscienco may not some time come upon him? Gum looks inno- cent, but it seems that there is in it a promise and potency of sin, . —_— Bounced by Ben, Chicago Tvibune, A wook or two ago a rash peddler called on Ben Butler aud tried to sell am & bottle of hair restorative, Heo is now wandering in o dazed condition thsough New Hampshire and claiming to be a viotim of tho late cy clone. i Tho 1deal Journalist. New York Sun, As % the preparation for journalism, 1t consists of the whole range of acquirement. The wisor, the better iaformed a man is, and the highor his moral and intellectual elevation, the more he is fitted for jour. nalism, - - An Enemy Within Her Borders, be-Demvcra The Portugess government is uow con fronted by a scarcely less formidable enomy than England, This is the rising and grow ing republican party. The republicans, 00, Will be a menace to the stability of the gov- ernment until kings are abolished. i A City of Sisterly Love, Kansas City Times., 5 Charitable ladies of Philadelphia have started a new fad—a “white i of shop- keepers who treat their women employes with consideration and kindness, Now is in order a black list of shoppers who fail to treat women employas with some fair de- gree of consideration and courtes il The Happy Oal of Today. New York World, There used to be a negro minstrel travel- ing about the country under the gay appolla- tion of “Happy Cal Wagne Now that the Wall street speculator has secured a seat in the Umited States senate by purchase, and has thoreby reached the goal.of his ambi tion, he should bill himself as “‘Happy Cal Brice.” s The Cosmopolitan Cyclone. St. Paul Pionesr Press. The torm *‘western” applied as a designa- tion to cyclones is purely a misnomer. In reality the cyclone knows no north, no south, no east, no west, and the eastern caitor is fast learning by unhappy experionce that tho wind, as of old, bloweth where it listeth, and it 80 happens that i “listeth’’ quite us often in the vicinity of Plymouth Rocic as on the prairies west of Ohio, - VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. It Should be Scattered. Holdrege Citizen, The annual illustrated Bee, gotten out by Tue Omaua Bee, is certainly the finest illus- trated aunual we ever saw. We wisha mil- lion copies could be scattered broadcast over the east, to shovr what a *wild desert’’ we nve in, A Grand Advertisem MeCool Record. Tho anuual review and: holiday illustrulea edition of Tur Oxama Bek is o daisy and does credit to 1ts publ #13rs and honor to the city. It is a grand advertisement ana shows tho marvelous growth and development of that city during 1889 Always to the Fronr. Western Wave. Tue Ovana Bre issued a remarkably tine annual on New Years, It contsined a re- view of that remarkable city. Four of its pages were devoted to illustrations of the public buildings and business blocks cf Omahz. Tne Bee always comes to the front when it comes to eaterprise. What Ho Knows About Banking. Fremont Tribune, Congressman Dorsey as chairman of tho committee on banking und currency, has dis- tinguished Eamself by introducing a bill which is the most voluminous of uny save appropriation bilis, which as been presented to that body in many years. As president of fivo bauks it would naturally be inforred that it would require a very large bill toset forth all Mr. Dorsey knows about bauking. Let Them Take Heed. Fremont Flail, Governor Thayer has issued an address to the managers of all railronds doing business in the state, asking them, in view of the low price of corn, to make a reduction of their rates on that commodity of 5 cents per 100 pounds. The roads will probably not heed the gentlo admonition, but if they do not the peoplo will talk through the next logisiaturo they elect in tones that the companies will heed. That's right. Just the Medic Holdredge Progress. ‘I'ne monopoly press of this state are thrown into spasms by the mere mention that Van Wyck is a possible candidate for governor. We are no special admirer of Van Wyck, but seeing how intensely he is hated by every railroad organ aud monopoly apol- ogist, we bezin to think it might be just the medicine the people ought to give them. They need both a heroic physic and emetic 1 order to compel them to let go their grasp upon this state. If.Van Wyck is taken up by the farmers and laborers he will get there, and don't you forget it. The voters of this state will no longer allow the railroads and mononolies to name the candidates for office the people are t vota for, Stick another pin there every party bugler. Made 4 Deep Impression, Capital City Courier, ‘The annual review of Tug Oxama Big is, like its predecessors, a notable issue, Years before coming to Nebraska the writer's im- vression was formed from perusing the illus- trated anouals of T Bre, and this fact is true of thous: n the east. It is hardly necessary to add that the unpres- sion was decp and lasting., Figures may be juggled, facta oxageeratod, but the pictures of massive buildings anl great industries published in Tue 1368 convey incontrovert- ible evidenos of the lusty vigor of the young glunt of the pluins, The west looks to the oast for immigration and capital. Hundreds of thousands of people on the Atlantic sea- bourd are you unuble to sse beyond the Alle- ghanies, cven by faith, lnto that ripe field ‘I'nk Bee goes with its gospel of western vim aud prosperity. Its missionary work has undoubtedly brought back to Omuha all it has cost, ten times ove: Norval's First Official Acr. York Times, 1t is a disappointment Lo a large number of people threughout the state that Judge Roese did not receive thg appointment of clerk of tho supreme court sud state librarian, The three supreme judges appoint the clerk, of these Judge Maxwell voted for Reese, Cobb for Wheeler und Norval for Carns, The ‘Times sincerely hopes tha public will not Lase its opinion of Judge Norval on this, his fiest ofticial act. We hope that now he will consider his obligations to the powers that forced his nomination fully repaid, or that he will at least confiae his favors o thew, to extra-judicial acts, We are credibly in- formed, and were told some time ago that Judge Norval's intention was to vote for Judge Reese, and that be had repeatediy ox- pressed himself in that way, It would be interesting Lo koow, though not difiicult to guess, wl influences changed his wind, or directed his attention without changing bis have, and whatever entangloments he may Norval as a jarist, and bolieves that on the ‘bench he will rise above them all. —— AS OTHERS SEE US, From a St. Paul Standpoint, St, Paul Pione* Tre OMAnA Bee say terday must have suggested ‘to many the memorable blizzard of two years ago.” Yos or one or threo or ton yoars ago: it makes little difference which. The true home of Dlizzard 1s just abafe Council Bluffs trending ing to the westward about four hundred miles, Press, The Oxtord Taster. Chicago Tribune, A Citizen of Oxford, Neb., is trying to live on adiet of two bites of beefstoak and half a soda cracker twice a day, Unless he is doing this to spite the grocers and butchers the reason of living at all is hard to fathom. It would be so much easier for him to let go than to hold on to hife Has the Liver Loft Chicago Tribune. Misfortunes can never overwhelm a truly indomitable soul. The editor of the Edgar, Neb., Times isone of the: He rewrets that butchors who buy fat cows at 2 cents a pound Rro! nd sell steak at 15 conts a pound can not afford to adveruss, bat “thanks God that liver is still on the free list.” Omaha Has Tumbled, Yankton Telogram, Tk OMAmA Bek says that Mr. Harbacn offers to take $100,000 worth of stock in the railroad line to Yankton. It may be possible that light is breaking on the heretofore be. nighted minds eof Owaha's capitalists and business men, and that on the theory that self preservation is the first law of natare, they have finally taken a tumble to thems selves and will do something. How He fat His Foot In 1t, Washington Post, A young man from Omaha who made his debut in Washington society one evoning last week was chatting with a charming lady, when the theater became tho topic of con- versation. He did not know much about the theater, so cautiously maintainod as much brilliant silence as the circumstances tted. 'Did you know that I once appeared upon the stage in opera?'’ the lady asked. “No-n-no.” He was not quite sure but it wis uncomohmentary to the lady to say he had never heard of it, but truth was mighty and did prevail. ““Yes," said she, cheerily, “I once played Katisha—in an amateur company, of course.' The young man felt relieved. It could not be expected that he had heard of thav half- WAy across a contient. T should think you would play Katisha capitally,” said he. There was silence for a spell. “Of course,” said she, did not make up for 1t as they usually do; I wouldn't——'" “‘Of course not,” he interrupted, confiden- tially and gallantly, “you didn’t have to."" After he had ieft the houso he asked a friend what sort of & part Katisha is, and what he learncd explained lots of strango* things to him. e COUNTRY BREEZES., Hard Times Off -r to Delinquents. Arapahos Mirror, Will take stove wood, hay, corn, wheat, potatoes or poultry on back subscription to the Mirror, and allow the highest market price. S0 if you aro short on cash anyof the above will be uccepted. Observe the Amenites. Chambers Eagle, The next time you come to this office please do not spit on the floor, as we do not use to- bacco ourselves, consequently it is not very agreeable to have to go to work aud clean up o lot of tobacco spit from the tloor, or stove. or cual barrel. Remember that we do our cooking in here and try to keep things look- ing half way decent, to say the least. We Ho:d the $am> Opinion Still, Wayne Gazette, Kottler stock is gaing up. It is now higher than it was bofore ho tried to rob our mer- chants of what was justly thoirs. Ho has sued for and obtained judgmenta for dsmages to a character which he never possessed, and 18 now rejoicing in wealth awarded him by a jury and judge Who are not fit to sit. on_the bonch of justico. But for all that Kettler is u dead beat of the worst type and does not deserve even the associution of those who call themselves men, Compliments-to a Rival, Crawford Clipper, The monkey and the craue have been for some time past endeavoring to gain the con- fidence of our business men by obtaining of- cufl recognition by the village council; but 80 far their efforts in that direction have been futile, and from present appoarancos it would seem that the outflt must rely upon its own limited interent resources to establish further credit, and in view of the recont Herrick escapade our people are becoming wory and distrustful of vretonsions of itiner- ant irresponsibles. It is tough on tho scabs that it is so, but our businoss men will b the winners. Sonds Hix Regrats, West Union Gazotte, Open letter from the editor of the Wost Union Gazette to tho president, socrotary and members of the Association of Custor County Editors, assembling January 12, 1800, n Broken Bow, Neb. : Dear Brothers—It makes our mouth water when we tiink how much veer will spoil in Broken Bow tomorrow in conaequenca of our not being able to attend the editorial convention. We nad made every calcula- tion to be with you moulders and wielders of public opinion, and vibrators about free lunch counters, but tha condition of that portion of our breeches coming in contact with the editorial chair for a year while we have swept cobwebs from the coilings of a dilapidated sanctum with our ears and writ- ten eaitorials ou the inter-national monetary system and dog fights, renders 1t utterly im- pos le for us to be prasent and have our haudsome Sitting Bull countenance along to impart that dignity ‘whose influsnce is so necessary to the success of all great moral conclaves assembled, R “He Giveth Us fichly ANl Things.', Charles ¥, Decms, D.Dv. dn New York Dndeven: ‘Whence comes the soft and milky corn Euriching lowly valleys ! Whence hawthorn blossoms Lhat adorn Our lonely country ailoys! Whence came the clouds that hung aloft O'er earth their grand pavilions The herds on meadows and in croft, ‘I'hat feed earth's hungry millionst Whence came the flowers that fiil the air With perfume and with beauty | Aud whence came all things pure and fair Which win men uuto Dutyy Wheace came the rays 80 swift and brighty Ou soa and land so glorious | And that unseen 1mperial might Waich makes man's will victorious? Whence came the father-heart in man, The mother-heart in woman | ‘e love throughout the cosmic plan Which makes God's children buman) These never came: what we control 18 good because 'tis given, Aud all made better o muu's soul By the sweet touch of Heaven. mind. Whatever political associates he may bo in, the Times still has confidence in Judge The storm of _m/ o