Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 9, 1890, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. B ROSEWATER, Editor. FUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. —— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily and Sunday, One Year Eix months Three Mont & i Weekly Dee, 810 0 | 500 ar, ear with Premium, OFFICES, Omaha, Nee Building. Chicago O1 67 Ho okery Now 14 and 15 Washington, No, 613 Fourte Council Blutts, No. 12 Pearl South Omahn, Corner N and 2th Straets, jullding Tribuna Nuilding CORRESPONDE: Allcommunicatio torial mutter shouid be 1al Departy to news and adl Adressed to the Editor- ETTERS. 4 remittances snould blishing Uompany, orders ompany. The ch an,\shmg quumny. Proprictors The e There is no excase on the trai fled to carry i fi Tik ek Omaha papers o Loty Tite L e particnlar to glve In all enses full tion as to date, raflway and number on the Trains. it on trains whers rried aro request (ive 118 your name, 3 not tor publication or un- neccessary use, but & guaranty of good faith, T™H .Y BEE, Sworn Statement of Circulation Ktate of Nebraskn, us, County of Dougrlns, 5% George B, Tzschuck, secretary of Tublishing Company, (oes solemnly sw thenctual cireulation of DATLY TR F week ending February §, 18%, was as follow; sunday, ¥ Monday, kob. 3 Tuesduy, Feb, 4 Wednesda; Thursan; Fridny Eaturdi; DA 10,19 18310 19,460 Average. ... GEORGE B TZSCHUCK. iworn to before me and subscribed to in my ace this 8th day of February, A, D. 150, P. VELL, Notary Pubiie. | e BN L being du poses and sy that ho 1s s Publishing Compnny, d irculation of Ti 15, Was 18,07 1 May, 1% coplis; fo SREL I § GE B. to’ pefore me and suly January, A. D. Fran, Notary Publl weekly bank statement shows ve has decreased $1,410,000, The banks now hold $0,650,000 in e of legal require Tur young duc d’Orleans must given eredit for a brilliant soupe. be coup de sk RUsH will continue s at the old stand for two years heme is de- veloping at a pace that promises practi- cal results. Let the good work go on. 1r South Omaha declines the invita- tion to come in now, it is probably that the doors will be closed to her for all Zme, NEBRASKA grain shippers are not obliged to patronize Chicago while the northern seaboard routes offer equal facilities and better rates. of this city who pi curage the investment of eastern capital here are reminded that Omaha dollar ¢! is soon to have & ten thousand ematory. RAILROAD connection with Fort Henry T. Clarke is desirable and nec- essary, but the secretary of war should insist that whatever company builds the road other companies shall be allowed T0 use it on reasonable terms. THE proclamation opening the Sioux resorvation to settlement will add two million ucres of government land to Nebraska territory, equal to twelve thousand five hundred farms of one hundred and sixty acres each, DER the benelicent reign of pr hibition Kansas lost fifty thousand in population in 1880, and Topeka, the capital eity, vacant dweilings for {rom twelye to fifteen thousand people and one hundred vacant store rooms. ANOTHER fissure has shown itself in the new county hospital. This time it comes in the shape of a twenty thousand dollar claim by the sub-contractors against Ryan & Walsh, From appear- ances the county hospital muddle has oyly fairly begun, THE tax payers of Omaha do not ex- . pect the council committee to act upon the advice of the city officials when it comes to reducing the number of city employes, Members of the committee should introduce ‘“*business methods™ and exhibit some buckbone in the mat- ter, A POST MORTEM roastery 15 of no great bevefit to the patrons. What this par- ticulur section of the footstool neods is an ante-mortem oven to blister the kickers, obstructionists and mossbacks, who are dead weights in the chariot of progress. There is a largo local supply of raw material for such a plant. —_— THE refusal of the Chicago roads to grantareduction on grain from Missourt viver points brings the Omaha road to the fore front of the fray with a tender of prompt relief on all business destined for the senboard. The reduced rates afford shippers the desired opportunity 10 rebuke Chicago acrogunce by giving the city a voluptuous cold shoulder. Ir is worthy of note that Frye, the enthusiastic Union Pacitic ad- vocate of Missouri river navigation, worked in the third of a mile clavse in the latest bridge charter bill. Such foresight is highly appreciated in this soetion. To impede or menace nuviga- tion of the river by sand and dump boats would be a cr the eyesof the gen- tleman from Mauine, who appeurs to ™ know more avout the wants of Omaha and vicinity than the Nebraska dele- gation, Mr, Frye's disinterested kind- ness is altogethor toolavish, and of such 8 pecuniary quality that the people of Nebraske cen cbeerfully dispense "H.h it | gium and Switzerland. ALl UIMANA UALLY DI Sulasan, WORKINGMEN ABROAD, ft is a mauvter of interest to the work- | ingmen of America that the emperor of Germany has personally interested himself in an effort to ameliorate the position of the toilers not alone of that country, but ol France, England, Bel- The recent re- seript of Emperor William to Bisma in which he desires that the amt dorsof the above mentioned countries be officially asked whether their govern- ments are disposed to come to an inter national agreement with Germany with aviewtomeeting the needs and wishes of workingmen as revealed in the cent strikes and labor disputes, is sig- nificant and reassuring. It will be re- membered that within a short time thore has been a great deal of dissatis- faction and turbulence manifested among some classes of labor in Ger- many, and that it was largely through the interposition of the emperor,in a most friendly spirit toward the work- ingmen, that controversics were settled and more formidable outbreaks that were threatened averted. More or less inquictude has also been shown within the past year the ranks of lavor in F Belgium, but none of serious conse- quence in Switzerland and very little in Ingland, the great manufacturing industries of the latter country having been oxceptionally active and prospor- ous. Tho experience of the young ( emperor, and his evident nte and sympathy with the laboring ¢ 1t would appear, have convinced him that not only is it necessary that his own government shail enlarge and add to the means already provided for the amelioration of the position of workingmen, but that it is desir- able that other industrial nations of in erinan in rope shall co-operate with Germany in alike beneficent work. It is therefore proposed, in the event of the other countries addressed being fave hold an international labor conference to consider plans for bettering the con- dition of labor. Meanwhile, and as an earnest of his purpose, the emperor has directed the minister of commoree to extend the application of the system of workingmen's insurance, and to insi tute an inquiry into all trade laws affe ing factory labor. He aflicms it to be the duty of the state to so regulate the duration and the nature of labor as to insure the health, the morality, and the supply of all the economic wants of the workingmen, and to preserve their claims to equality before the law. Asa means of promoting peace between em- pleyers and employes the emperor recommends legal measures empower- ing workingmen to appoint delegates 1o repegsent them in the settlement of affairsy thereby enabling them o express their wishes and grievamces peaceably and freely and giving the authorities an opportunity to inform themselves in a very direct way of the condition of the working people, their activities, senti- ments and impulses. Ixperts, ap- pointed by the emperor, are to be called to give their views hefore the council of state on labor questions, and the emperor himself will preside. Such an example of hearty and mani- festly sincerc interest in the cause of labor on the part of a ruler who has been supposed to feel the least con- cern for the wellare of the toiling masses, is most encouraging evidence of the broadening and liberalizing son— timent of the time in behalf of the bread-winners of the world. It carries the assurance that laboris beginning to be recognized 1n quarters where for centuries its appeal for attention has been little heeded or wholly ignored, as vhe corner stone of government and the support of the social structure, and that sovereigns ave learning that the sufest and most impregnable intrench- ments are the loyal hearts of the justly treated and contented tolevs. The in- fluence of the German empuror toward bringing about the amelioration of the condition of the working classes through- out Europe will be great. The example of Germany will make itself felt in every European country. Emperor William could devote himself to no more praise- worthy and honorable task THE OVERBURDENED COURT. Justice Field, in his address ut the celebration of the supreme conrt cen- tennry, suid that up to the middle of the present contury the ealendar of the court did not average one hundred and forty cases a term, and never amounted at any one term to three hundred cases. The calendar of the present term ex- ceeds fifteen hundred cases. Some- thing must be done, said the veteran and distinguished jurist, to prevent de- lays, and he declared the impressive truth that*“todelay justiceis as perni- cious s to deny it.”” One of the most precious articles of the magna churta, said Justice [ield, “was thut in which the king declared that he would not deny or deiny to any man justice and right,” and he thought that assuredly what the bavons of England wrung from their moanrch the people of the United States will not refuse to any suitor for justice in their tribunals, The attention thus again cal this matter, by one whose testimony will not be questioned, ought to have the effect of arousing congress to a sense of the imperative necessity for logisla- tion that will relieve the supreme [ from a part of the immense bur- den now cast upon it, Nothing is more cortain than that if veliel is not pro- vided that tribunal must decline in use- fulness, if not in character, The delay of justice the pernicious cousequences of which have already been widely felt, bringing more or less reproach upon the court und weakening 1t in public confidence, cannot be indefinitely con- tinued and parmitted to become more serious, without the most unfavorable effect upon the' public judgment garding the value of the tri- bunal, The splendid and deserved trib- utes that have been rendered to the suprome court during the past weelk, and all that has been said of the wisdom of the framers of the constitu- tion in providing this unigue power in our goveramental systew, must not blind us to the fuct that populur faith in the court has rcoeived some severe straius that did ot leave it whoily un- iwpaired, and because of this there is greater danger of the supreme court declining in public respect and con- fidence if the delay of justice shall in the future become more seri- ous, As it inevitably must do under existing conditions. The popular iden that the court has become the refuge of corporate wealth and in- fluence finds encouragement in every delay of justice where such wealth and influence are on one side,and is an idea that can grow easily and rapidly. The difficulty of providing an accep- table and adequate remedy may bo very great. The subject has received a groat deal of consideration in congress and from bar associntions, without any satisfactory psult thus fa But the matter is of such grave and urgent im- portance that a solution must be found, and with as little delay as possible. Tho people’s representatives in con- gress should consider deoply the declar- ation of Justice Field: *‘To delay jus- tico is a8 pernicious as to deny it. THE citizens' committee appointed to solicit subscriptions to the fund neces- sary to socure the next session of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in Omaha, will begin the canvass of the city tomdrrow. The amount required to be raised is sixty- five thousand dollars. It is understood that most of the members of the council whose duty it is to select the place for the conference are favorable to Omaha, but this will avail nothing without the guaranty. There will be no lack of competition, as the conference 15 de- sired by at least half a dozen cities. Tt 15 & body of one thousend members, its sessions continue thirty days, and it attracts from seventy-five to one hun- dred thousand visitors, so that it can readily be understood that itis one of the most important gatherings known to this country. Representing an im- mense constituency distributed in every portion of the country, its deliberations attract widespread attention both in the United States and abroad. From eévery point of view it is most desirable that Owmaha shall ure this conference, which will meet in 1892, and there ought to be nodifliculty in obtaining the amount of money necessary w do this, It is hoped the solicitations of the citizens’ committee will meet with a generous response, eply Jeannette M. Thur- ber, president of the National Consery atory of Music, toa request of citizens of Omaha that an examination be held in this city of persons who may desire to enter the conservatory as pupils, will be found elsewhere in our columns. Mrs. Thurber states that herself and members of the faculty will visit Omaha as soon as engagements now pending are filled, of which the citizens who ad- dressed her will be duly notified. We understand the purpose to be to con- duct an examination here not simply for locai or state applicants, but for any who may present themselves from con- tiguous states. Thus young people of Towa, Kansas, Colorado, South Dakota, and even more remote states, will be given an opportunity to be examined, and doubtless the chance will be largely taken advantago of by persous in all those states having musi- cal talent which they desire to cultivate. The purpose of the National Conservatory of Music is.to encourage and stimulate a national interest in musical culture and to de- velop the latent talent of our people for music, and in order to do this it offers the most liberal conditions for obtain- ing a thorough musical education. The conservatory has already accomplished o great deal in this direction, and it is an enterprise which merits the hearty interest and support of the public. EVERY movement tending to ameli- orate the condition of the poor and the homeless appeals to the generous spirit of the people. The relief given by the county and by charitable societies does not reach transient distress nor succor those temporarly out of employment. To reach and relieve this class a cen- tral revreat and refuge from temptation is necessary, and for this end the **House of Hope 1s designed. Tt is proposed to make it an employment agency, a temporary lodging house, a school and church, open. to all creeds and nationalities, and particularly to encourage and strengthen the faltering in the paths of righteousness. These are broad, benevolent aims aod .com- mwend themselves to charitable people of every denomination. THE authorities of Minnesota have wound up the affairs of a wildeat build- ing and loan association which flooded the country with agents and fleeced thousands of people. The concern maintained a number of agenciesin Ne- brasks, and was permitted to do busi- ness owing to the failure of the last legislature to enact a stringent law for the protection of investos. In view of this collapse THE BEE would suggest that the state auditor should take steps to enquire into the solvency of all build- ing and loan associations doing business in the state and require the foreign concerns to file semi-annual statements, certified by the officers of the state in which the home office is located. 1 American Forestry association has prepared a bill for introduction in congress designed to protect the for- ests on the public domain, It proposes to withdraw from entry between fifty and seventy million acres of timber land and reserve it asa public forest area. The bill contains many excel- lent provisions, which, if enacted into law, will prevent the despoiling of the public domain. AND now it1s reported that the Dodge county candidate for governor proposes to calia meeting of the state central committee and make a formal demand for reduced corn rates. Next. TEMPERANCE agitators at one hun- dred dollars an agitate are invited to inspect the suloons in Omaba today, then cross the river into Iowa and learn the true state of prohibition. —e Mgi. KENNAN'S challenge to conviet the Russian government of massacreing politacal exiles 18 uot Likely to be ac- cepted at St. Petersburg. There is no » KBRUARY 9, 1890.-SIXTEEN PAGES. doubdt, however, that the government is extremely anxious to meet Mr. Kennan ~in some disgaut-and lonely corner of the empire, wharp it could pour out its tearful regard fon.the Siberian explorer without the l:powledge of the prying world, | 1t Mok 'thé Bxperience. Chifcagh Tribuns, The London Times has neither as much money nor prestize s it hud before it vegan to dabble in Parndllism and crime, but it has accumulated” a 'great deal of valuable experience, e orms of Southern Mothod. dt-Broress. There aro two ways to solve the negro problem, One is t take the negro out of politics: the other is to take politics out of the negro. Any one who can discover any other method is at perfect liberty to dis- cover. Two RIS S, Now Ii's “Tho Country." I Vit Free Press. ‘“TLe rest of the country is ready to heln the Grant monument,” says the New Yorx Mail and Eixpress. Wnen New York goes a- begging it is “tho rest of the country." Otherawise it is “the provinces.” - -~ Good Point in the Exteadition Treaty. Roston Advertiser While a democratic administration was very willing to form a treaty which shoula obligo our government to surrender, at the demand of England, an Irish pawriot who should have Hed for refuge to our country, 8 republican administration would not listen to such a proposition for a moment. - Apropos of the New Rules, Harper's Weekly, The plea of filibustering, or what is really revolutionary resistance to the parliamentary majority, is that it is intended to prevent ty rauny and injustice on the part of the major- ity. The answer to this allogation is that the majority 18 not responsible to the minor- ity for 1ts misconduct, but to the country, while the prevention of legislation by the minority under any plea whatover is sub- wversive of popular government. — VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. A Democratic Lavout, Nebraska City News. The Farmers' alliance, it 18 said, will run General Van Wyck for governor. The re- publicans will run T'h or, who is a splendid representative of that party, and_the demo- crats will nominato ana clect a democrat in 1800 for Nebraska. Divided into two di- visions, each fizhting for supremacy, braska republicans can be whipped by Ne brasks democr Let us try it. We are for straight out-and-out democraticnomina- tions, and against all coalitions, A Weeping Water Suggestion. Weeping Water Republican, Insteaa of the Omana papers devoting 8o much space relative to securmg tho state fair, why not entertain a much more dificult but equally remunerative enterprise, for in- stance, locate an industrial exposition 1n the metropolis of the wést. *The Missouri Valley and Wesjern | States Exposition,” would sound well. The exposition at Cin- cinnati two years ago drew crowds from all parts of the United States and was a success as nearas we can learn financially. Cer- tainly such an enterprise would be a great advertisement for the west and benefit every towa, directly or indirectly, in the state. Leese and the Union Pacific, Blair Pilot. Oane can hardly read dispassionately the arraignment of the Union Pacific railicad by Autorney General Loese in his recont lotter o the attorney generil of the United States without being fully couvinced of the justice of the cause he advocates. if the facts he sets out are true—aud giving details and figures as he does is convincing that they are true—then the cluim of the Union Pacific road to an extension of time on the plea of poverty is a fraudulent c¢laim made for no other purpose than to beat the governmeny and the people outof au immense sum of woney, justly owing and past due, which the rond hus wade no effort to pay, but instead has invested its surplus, together with the proceods of numerous series of conds, issued in deflance of law and its obligation to cred- itors, in the building of branch hues. Inthe light of these truths uo greater wrong could be perpetrated on the people of the west than for the government to place the seal of its approval upon this gigantic: fraud by complying with its piteous plea for fifty or eighty years more time in which w0 coms plete the steal, The Farmers Waking Up. Norfoli: Journal. The Farmers' alliances springiog up all over the country are significant of au uwalk- ening of thought. an interchange of view and of discussion which will be promotive of the agricultural interests of the country. Rightly conducted they will be productive of much goog. But they will have o be on the alert for political schemers always watching for o chance to launch out on any tide of sen- timent for their own personal sdvantage, and who care for nothing else. It will do the farmers as a class no particular good to be made tools of such men or, to be led to play into the hands of any one poliical party. Not the Same Howl. Crele Videtle, A fow years ago whon Senator Van Wyck told tho trath about the price of cord wood and coal and the cost of transportation in Ne- brasks, the brass-collared organs yelled themselves hoarse because ho was “damag- ing the state.”” We don’t hear any such Ais- mal howls against Governor Thayer, who bas made the same statoment in an open let~ ter. Time and truth will level all things, A Queer K nd of Cohoots. Norfolk News, General Manager Kimball of the Union Pucific railway asserts that *‘the railroads stand in With the farmer aud tho farmer with tho railroads.” That'strus. When a rail- roud hauls Nebrasks farmer’'s corn to Chi- cago, it stands in with thé farmer end downs the man who buys 1t ‘at/1h cents a bushel for the freight, and the farmer stands in with the railroad aud dowas the same fellow 18 couts & bushel for thie eorn. Qh, yes, every- thing is lovely betweén ttie raflroads and the farmer, They've bgen in coboots just the we way. o, theso many, years. - AS OTHERS SEE US, A Chiocagp-Stab. Chicago Times. In Nebrasks the other night there was #1780 in a jack-pot, but & charity ball only netted $180. In Nebiskas charity begios at homo—where the vokr is. The State Far Vlum, Kansa City Times, When Omaba caa't knock out Lincolu in a contest over the location of a state fair, how absurd It is for her to ask for as big a gov- ernment building as Katusas Cil A Timely Saggestion. Siour City yourn sl John M. Tuurstoa, general solicitor of the Uuniou Pacifie, who tailks sbout the farmers wmakiog the railroud men ‘‘angry," had bet- ter be oarefal that the railroad men do ot wake the furmers wogry. are about The 60,000 farmers in Nebraska. 'I'ney bave the power to seize the next legislature. Ry the 1 it might not be & bad plan for them to do that very thing. A Privjlege They Have. Chicagn News, Nebraska farmers cannot get their corn to market because of the ruinous froight rates chargod by the railroads. But they are at liberty to go down to the tracks and see the mombors of their legisiature and the judges of their courts ride by on free | Nave it at Home, Laramie Roomerang, A Nobraska paper vouchsafes the highly vatuable information that “it is not neces. sary to go to Wyoming and Arizona to hunt for_specimens of wild and woolly parsonal journalism.” We should say not. What's the matter with going to Omahat The Seal Monopoly. Chicano Tnter-Ocean, Itisnot constitutional to levy an oxport duty, but since the government is tho orig- inal owner of tne seals is it not practicable for it to establisn at San Franciso or eise whero works for tanning snd. dyeing the skin? We do not say that it is bocauso the matter has never beeu properly tested, but wo do say that the matter shouid be thor ougiily inquired into and put to adequate practical tost. Senator Plumb ought in bis bill to make proyision for such experiment- ation. The seal monopoly enjoyed by this government is a much more important mat- ter than is_generally supposed, and ought to bo worked for all there is in it, instead of as now, allowing London to skim'off tho cream of the p rofits. Subsidies to Ship Owners. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, The aspiration for the extension of Amer- ican trade with the countries o the south of us in ships built, owned and manncd by Americans, has become a leading tenet in the national creed, We may, and probably will, have to extend some government aid to this enterprise in the beginning, but after a time sufficient trade will be built up to make this branch of our shipping interests stand alone. Every nation in the world which has figured prominently in the ocean carrying trade bas given government help to its ship pers in the beginning, and some of them have continued it to the present. The United States will not be called on to keep up the bolstering process so loug, but such aid as is essential will be cheerfully furnishod. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. North Dakota's Dangor. 8t, Loufs Po: The success of the v transfor the Louisiana State Lottery at the close of its existence 1 Louisana to North Dakota would be onc of the-greatest misfor tunes that could befall that stato and the other states of the Union. The people of this new state had better toil in rags and hunger with cmpty treasury, slowly and painfully, if need be, develoving their resourcos than' permit the iniquity of the Louisanna lottery to be foisted upon them by venal legislators. A Good Exampioe to Follow. Kansas City Journal, The democratic congressmen declare that when the democrats once more securo a ma- jority they will follow the precedent estab- lished by Speaker Reed. They intend this as u threat, but that 1s because they have griev- ously wmisunderstood Mr. Reed's motives. He and all the republicans will be glad to have that precedent followed hereafter, uo matter which party is in control. It expe- dites public business, and is, moreover, eminently just. Liaho and the Mol St Louis Globe-Drn 3 Idaho, 1n disfranchising the Mormons, has set a precedent which will probably be fob- lowed by the other territories in waich that people form un importaat elewnent of the pop- lation. As linno's act has been sustained by the federal supreme court, this mothod of dealing with the polygamists is as safe as it is effectiv Bishop Whittai Minncapolis Jowrnal, The wild and woolly west is supposed by eastern people to be a region franght with danger to peaceable citizens, yet Bishop Whittaker, who spent twelve years m Ne- vada without seeiag a pistol drawn, ws re- cently fired at in & Poiladelphia church. Experience. The Railroad Devr. San Francisco Chronicle, 1f the republican purty in congress agrees to either of these propositions it will expnse itsolf to o very strong suspicion of having been unduly if not corruptly influenced, When it is remembered that C. P. Hunting- ton has boen as busy around Washington as the devil in o gale of wind, and that there is no detail or refinement of seduction or bribery which he does not understand and when it i8 further brougit to mind that lis business partaer and associate, Leland Stan- fori, sits in the senate #s a senator from Calitornia, and that be stands high in the councils of the republican party, iY is easy to sce that the party will have hard work not to make shipwreck of its reputation between the Scylia of Huntington and the Char) bdis of Stanford. At the same tume, if it ‘shail grant the extension of time asked for by theso railroads, upon auy such showing as has been made, it cannot fail 1o be classed as the friend of the corporations und the foe of the people, and when that time comes its mission is ended. - : How Huntington aud his associates must chuckle at the simplicity of the senate com- mittee assuming thut Lhese Krayo and rever- end seigniors are nciing in good faith, How they must laugh in their sleeves when they think of the Southern Pacitic built out of the earnings or exactions of the Central Pacific, aud an extension of u ceutury for the latter in which to become honest. If congress gaants the extension contemplatod it will commit & very silly action as well as a very wrongful one, for thore 18 mo proof of the pankruptey of the Central Pacific, unless it be found in the bare assertions of men who have wade colossal private fortunes oat of the road, besides building another transpcon- tinental road out of its profits. Congress might as well take the word of Jimmy Hope about the Munhattan bank robbery as base au_extension of the Central Paci time upon the naked assertions of Huwu! ton, Stanford & Co. ; Rates of Corn, Kanaas City Times, Nebraska and Kansas are asking emer- gency rates on corn. Farmers have aa abuudance of the articie, but the freigbt charges aro so heavy that almost notning 1s loft to pay the cost of raising. Some railrond managers in Chicago,during the consultation with the Nebraska state officials, said that a reduction of rates would throw such a quanfity of vorn on the market that the prices wouid be demoralized, That is & foolish answer if it is made in the iuterest of farmers. Admitting that ao increused movement of grain would lower rices, the farmer would lose no more from fow bFicos in’ Chicazo than from low pricos 1w Kausas and Nebraska. If there 18 more corn i the Lwo stutes than the market can absorb, the farmer will get low prices 1n any case, The market can absorb most of the Kansas and Nebraska corn at prices nearly or quito equal to the present prices. Tho freight ohargos are exorbijant wheu compared with the selliug price at the principal markets, The raiiroad takes wore for hauling the corn a few hundred miles than the farmer of western Kunsas or Nebraska gets for rais ing it. Sastera orators are eloguent about the bursting granaries of tho great American republic. Increased ruilrosd earnings are quoted as evidences of uavional prosparity. Bursting grauarios and booming railway ournitgs are euriching some people, but nov the farmer. In the east the farmer's prop- erty is deprociuting in value. Iu the west 0 granarics are bursting because the farmor caunot sell for -mufl: 10 pay the cost f raising snd shipping. all loyalty and national pride it must be ackuowledged that this couutry cennot call iteelf truly pros- porous when th mers aro strioken with pnvorlr Under h conditions] it is inso- lence for raiiroad manmgors and iron mill owners to voast of incroased profits and call them ovidences of national wealth, Railroad managors can well leave the fanction of regulating prices to other forces, whother the price of corn_be high or low or high after reduction of freignt charges, let the Iaws of supply and demand determine, The condition of agricuiture in Kansas and Nebraska calls for relief and tho best custom- ers the railways crossing the Missouri or uniting there have area unit in begging that the citizous of two commonwealths should have to bog—for an adjustment of froieht rates to fit the low level of prices. Under what raiiroad men put forward as noo of rate making, the charge for porting corn should be reducod without request. Kansas ana Nobraskn have twice as much corn to send east as thoy had whon the present rate was mado, Railroads can haul it cheaper. Prices are not much more than half what they were. A reduction of five cents a bushol is railway science, if there is such a thing. e ik COUNTRY BREEZES. Gave Him n Ohaw, retna Democrat. A Dam Site Lister was in to sco us yo he came all the way from South Grotua, ho smd not to say anything about it, 80 won't. wo gave him a chaw of storo to- bacco, somathing he had not had oh, for so long. Do not let him see this or we may not be able to got out a paper next week, see. A Mighty Mean Trick. O'Neill Item, We wish it understood thac The Item is not on speaking terms with one Chas. E. Hall. A man that will come into a printing offica with a sack of buckwheat and after askng 1f auy of tho editorial corps ever were known to accept @ present, and being cagerly assured in the aflirmative then walks ouc with a grin on his face and the buck- t on his shoulder, need not come around to spit on our floor. We don't bel buckwheat was good anyhow. Seotia Herald The editor of the Spaulding Tndex is also a barber, and when ho has moldod cnough public opinion for a weok, lathers aud shaves customers with ease -and’ rapidity, while he pumps 'em for the nows. No one finds fault with his paper, for ho has a happy way of wiving ‘em shaves that roach to the roots if he discovars oven a semblunce of a kick in tho doportmont of his customers. Anud, when he gets hold of o delinquent, ab, then does ho smilo a smilo that is fiendish as ho proceeds to put saw tecth in hus razor and dissect the unfortunate's cheek. O what fun it must b3 to be a barber-editor. inally, Wo are Aronsed. Red Cloud Repuiican. The experience of eight years has taught us how to deal with a Nebraska skunk. Walk around him if possible, but if he still insists on fouling the road where your busi ness friends in your own city must waik, then fill him up with cold lead, and keep fill ing him up until his perfamed tail ceases to wabble. Quly on account of the disgrace and bad odor which the poor hLttle Chief has brought on our city have we finally consented to wasto a little ammunition on him. We Are a Papa. Craig News, Will our patrons please bear with us this week—wo—well—it'sa girl! you kuow how 1t 18 yourself. We hope to be ourselves again soou. Bight and a half pounds of gl Wednesday, and all doing nicaly, especially the eight and a half pounds. Next weel wo will buy about tive sections of the upperside of Craig. establish a beet sugar factory, put in asystem of waterworks, electric lights, street cars, elevated railroads, and such other conveniences as would accord, buy outthe English syndicate, and locata the 1892 world's fair in our city by gving £25,000,000. If anybody is in nesd, come around. ‘Thunks to our neighbor ludies. —-— BEESWAX. Lam the city ele cian to be. I shali draw $2,500 u, r. I shall have five assist- ants, two private secrotaries, and my daugh- ter will do the typewriting, 1 will sit in my office in the N York Life and will test telephone wires by ringine up the telephone girl at my leisure, I will talk of nothing vut ohms, nna shuli dip ampores and volts every morning with my toast and coffee, I will 100k out of my wiadow and watch linemen string electric light cables right tnrough a spider-web of telephono wires That will give my friend Doc Harrington an extra job now and then and will domoustrate the ne cessity of a city electrician. Tho shabby individual twirled his sosdy haut and made a low bow to Henry Estabrook in the office of the appraisers of the postoftice sita. “Well, what do you want?'' asked Henry in his serio-comic voice a3 ne fumbled iu his pocicet for a half-dime, I am oue of the Folsom heirs, and——" “What, anotier of ’em—ha2re, office boy, run and telegraph to Washington that the will be delayed another six mouths this claimant."’ The swarthy Itolitn who sweeps the rub- bish and cleans the spittoous of the *‘solid twenty-eight” (secret) club stoppsd before the picture of Omaha's ex-mayor and shook his head reproachfully as ho thrust tho dirty end of the broom in the picture's face. “Wat for maks yourselt 8o bix man; you uo Garibaldi, ou geta black eye in last election. You maka promisa to poor Ital- sacra, we vota for you treo tuna alla ona day, but you no pay over de mon'. Ha! You maxa do monk’ sick, Caramba! Now you puil de string and do Mista Chaffa ana de John Clarka dey jump up and dowa lika de monk’. You feed dem with the banau’ and you tink you maka de sun stand still. You say nobod” shall get office if ho not kiss your biga toe. You want Mayor Cush’ to pay with interest. Diavolo! you maka de Ttaliano sicka!" s “Iam a patient beast of burden,"” said the ass Lumbly whose name rhymes witn Owmahs, “and my back is already gziled from tho heavy load of taxes 1 carrind last year. S0 1 give you #air waraing, Master Counail, that 1 will not be blindfolded while you smugglo additional dead weight uader my saddle.” ) “My name is Black Mail. stein's attorney —" And the next day the jury acquitted the Home Defender on the ground of justifiable homicide. I aw Helfen- SWill the council see to it and dismues superfiuous ewployes?’ asked one cicizen of another, *What! and break the combine! Not much; the ‘reform and economy' crowd is ot doing busiucss ut the old stand for its heaith,” E— MUSICAL ART IN AMERICA. e for Aspiring Musicians to Secure a Free Educatio The efforts of Mrs. Thurver in the east to awaken an interest in tne national consery- atory of music, und her knowa iutention to 0 10 the Pacific coast at an early day with the view of holding an examination of tal- ented youag people who desire Lo acquire a higher musical education, induced & number of our leading musical sud art mwateurs to transmit the following eddress to Mrs. Thuroer: Mrs. Jeanuette M. Thurber, President Na- ] tional Conservatory of Music, Now York We have watched with interest your offoris to eatablish in this country a conservatory of music where art neod not be orippled by. financinl considerations and high-clnss instruction may be obtumed by Amoricans in their own country at a moder ato cost, or frae. if meed be, when excep. tional talent coupled with limited means is found Those wbo have studied the subjoct know that Americans aro second tonone in natural musical gifts, but this 18 not gen apury ciated, and it scoms npecessary the gems of talent we possess in order that thoy may be polished and sot and placed in ovidence before the American peop) We therefore ask if it is not possivle for the national conservatory to hold an exami- nation in Omaha, which {s “central for the population of four states, aud whore a trial of the bost voices among our young people of the west may bo had, with tho viow of se. locting and establishing scholarships for such ns may be found most worthy of culti- vation, The coived : New Yonux, Fob. 6, 1800.—To M. Mrs. J. M. Wooiworth, Mr. McWhorter, Mr. ana Mrs. G Mrs. C. B. Rustin, Mr. and Mrs, Clomonk Chinse, Mrs. Edward P. Peck, Mrs.J. M, Thurston, K. Rosowater, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Miliard, Mrs. Mary J, Wallaco, Mrs. C. Will Hamudion, Mrs. H. Kountze, Mrs. k. W. Nush, Mra, Clark Woodman, Mrs. T'. . Rog- ors, Mra. C. S, Montgomery, Mi uy C. Barton, N Thomas Kilpatrick, Mea. Lowis 8, Rood, Mrs. C. W. Hamilton, Mrs Cuming, Mra. J.W. Cotton, Mrs. K. C. Hrown, The Hon. and Mrs, Charles I'. Manderson, A, P, Hoplans: As aproof of the interest which tho people of tho great valley of the Missouri are taking in musical cullure, and as a Renuine manifestation of the apprecia- tion of the eaucational work in which 1 am engaged, gives me great pleasuro to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of Janunry 24, asking me 1o bold ‘an oxamina- ton in Omata for the National Conscr vatory of Music. Some of our best pupils are from the west, and 1 have scon and heard enough to feol nssured that there are many more whose naturat gifts, if ated, woRlld be a fortune to themselves and an honor to their country, The trustees approveof hold- ing such an examination, and it will give me much pleasuroe to visit_your energetic ey, with some mombers of the faculty, as soon as I can fill certain engagements 10w pend- mg. 1 will communicate with you shortly following reply has just been res and and Mra 8, A M. Hitchoock, more detinitely, and in the meantime kindly believe me, 17aith fully yours, . e M. Tucnnes, President OUR USUKY LAWS, A Man Who Thinks They are Detri- mental to the State, Davip Crry, Neb., Feb. 7.—To the Editor of Tnr Bee: Amidst the general wail and complaint of theso times of commercial de- vresson and low prices for farm products in the wost is also heard the bitter berating of the usurers and bankers, which is quite nat- urat and not unexpected. That there aro £ood reasons for this state ot affairs no ono will deny, but tho real sufferers entitled to sympathy are the very onos to blame and uo doubt the most incorrigible to advocats the brst remedy to care their financial ilis Such borrowers geuerally exhaust their own resources by unfortunute business ven- tures, wild speculatious, living beyond their mcome, bad man: ent and many other impracticable ways, and then seek to borrow from their nerznbors, the usurers. The more desperate thoir desires and the less they can offer for security to redesm their pledges for repayment, the greater will bo the rute of usury exacted from them. Hence the bor- rowers suffer more from the penalties of tho desperate chances taken by their neichbors than for the real use of thé money. This is well illustrated in your issuegof the 2ud iu- stant, where you quoto money ot the Omaha banks from §to 10 per cent, interest, and 100 per cent among the ‘chautel mortgage sharks.” If these usury cursed unfortunates have the ‘‘good security,” you stute, who compels thewm to pay §7 for the use of $75 for thirty days? Why can they not avail them- selves of the very fair ratc of from 5 to 10 per ceut? Would it not be more sensible to point out the causes for this stute of affairs| Our stringont usury law does not furuish any relief and a moré scvere law will only place a heavier embargo o theso borrowers. Tv is not nceessary to look for or critically to diagnoso the case. During our iufancy us u state, when we were emerging from the “wild west” condi- tion into the comfort of civilization, with parental care for the homest, commonwealth raised its stronga snid each citizen as the head of o should have a farm of 16 acres worth £2,000 exempt from exccution, the sum of personul property, the long List of articl section 530 of the revised statutes,and nection with this the provisions of the usury law are so onc-sided that it punishes only whe lender for violating the same and olfers a premium to the wrotch who has perhaps foolishly squandered the mouey so nbtained to be dishonest. In an exverience of a dozen years the writer hos never known or heard of a strictly Yonorable, worthy man “‘plead- ing the baby act” and suying he was incoms petent to wake a contract when he borrowed money, and taken refugs behiud thess laws to beat his creditors. But every slippery genius planuing to cheav his benefactors has taken even fraudulent advantages of every crook and kiok in theso laws. As long as these laws oxist our statute books, that long will the honest man pay Ligher rates of interest to pet the man competent 1o mak : a con- oL: that long will you have “chattel mort- gawe sharks™ in your midst preying upon the innocent of your community. Baoks canuot afford 10 take desparato cnances in loaning their monoy und th entrusted 1o them by confiding depos- When a loan 15 made by them they must necessarily be reasonably sure that the money will be promptly repaid when the loan is due, without. troublé or logal compulsion, Promptuess in meeting obligations at the bauk makes @ good creditor, and ot wany really worthy applicants are’ rofused credit the With better collection laws, so that a cred- itor can secure what 18 due without squan- dering it all in costs aud amoni lawyers, and the wodification or entirg repeal of the usury 1asvs, will be the only moans 0 force down the rates of interest in this state. The hise tory of other states proves this to b so. There is scarcely a town of uny co. quence in the state now where the banks do not make the 10 to 12 por cent rates to their customers on all mouey loaned. And yet in all these places, the same as in Omaha, you will fiud the “‘chattel morigage sharks" and the street scalpers getting from 3 o 25 per cent per month frou the moat unforiunste cluss in their vicinity. Reform is necessary, no doubt, but the way Lo bring it about 13 ot by driving the suffercrs decper into tho financial swamp, More capital will flow into this state from tho east whenever we fur- nish better security for its nafet, Havseen 1) Unappreciated G Seotia Herald. The editor of the St. Paul Press says he is wiling te furnish the Scotia papers with some brains, 1f the microoeph- alous nincompoop of the Press were to sead up all he has it would not last even the Republican through a week. OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Subrcribed & guarautesd Capital, 0 Pl n Capita vil $399:980 Buys and sells stocks ard bonds; negotiates commercial papor; receives and executes (rusts: acts an transfer agent and trustoe of corpora tions; takes charge of properiy; collocts rents OmahalLoan&Trust Co SAVINGS BANK 8. E, Cor. 16th and Douglas £ treets. ald fu Capital .. $60,000 Bubscribed & guarautesd capital, 100,000 Liability of stockholders, 200,000 6 Per Cent Interest Paid on Deposits FRANK J. LANGE, Cashior. Orrioens: A, U, W ident; J.J. Brows, vico president; W.T. Wyman, troasuror. DiRkOTons; A, U. Wyman, J. H. Millard, J. J. Hrown, Guy C. Barton, K. W, Nash, 1 hos. Ju Kimball, Geo. i Luke. Loans In any amount made on City & Farm Property, and on Collateral Security, at Lowest Current Rates NCIER. osity. mau, pr where roally W