Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 22, 1890, Page 4

THE DAILY BE P e E meAm. Editor, TUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. —— TERMS OF SUR: Pally and Bunday, One Y Eix m the E IPTION. ar 2 One Y . OFFIOES. Bee Bullding, srner N and Jith Stroets ouncil Bluffs, 12 Pearl 8treet. Chicago Offfce, amber of Commeroe. ew York, ltoos 13, W and 15 Tribune Buliding Omaha, T K Omaha. CORRESPONDENCE. ATl _communications relal news and editorin matter shonld be addressed to the Editorial Departn BUSI AT husiness lotters and_romittances should be nddressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omuhi. Drafts, checks and postoMee orders 10 he made payable 1o the order of the Com- pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors. The Bee Widing, Farnam and Seventecnth 8t BWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebras [ County of Douglas, %" yrae . Trschuck, secratary of The Bee Pubiishing Company, docs solemnly swear hat the netaal elredlation of Tie DALY Bre for the week ending Junc 21, 1590, was as fol- Tows Eunaday, Tune 15 Mondny. June 16 sdii Wednesday, Jun Thursdiny. Jin Friday. ) Baturday, 20,112 MUCK. Eworn to Yetore me and subscribed in my presence this 21st day of June, A. D., 180, 1£eal.] FIRANK A, SsuTH, Notary Publie. steof Nebraska, ‘lfl. being duly sworn, de- 1l iy is secrotary of Tho Publishing ny. that the actual Aty eireulation ot THE DAILY BRF for month of June, 180, wans 18,858 J INTUS coples; Cfor August, 1 51 for September, 1880, 18710 coples; for ctober, 1540, 18,97 coples; for November, 1589, 10,010 coples, for Decombar, 185, 3,048 coplos; for Janunry 1890, 10,665 copies; for February, 3400, 10,101 conles! for March, 150, 20,815 copies? for April. 1560 0,564 copies;. for May 1800, 20,18 ropies, Tii weekly bank statement shows the reserve has decreased $843,000. The banks now hold $6,145,000 in excessof legal requirements, Average...... iz Union Pacific could hardly have selectad a more voluminous mouthpiece for its debt extension bill than Repre- jentative Dalzell. —— ONE of the Caldwell heiresses man pged to exchange her wealth for a titled husband, and Anglo-maniac circles are filled with sapient joy. iilroad in the holy land is This will deprive pilgrims orful celat inspired by a ride xible humps of patient camels. THE first Being built. of the | ou the fle side visitors are offered extraordinary inducements in monster sea sorpents this soason. It is a decid- edly poor resort that does not boast of one or more marine cuttle fish. Pr WLk Chicago is fairly satisfied with amillion and a quarter, a fow pifhgs of still linger because professional sprinters were not employed to thor- oughly explore her expan: acreage. S1. PAUL’S epistle to the Minneapol- ftans forms the text for many a stirring sermon on neighbor ingratitude. The melancholy faet remains that a mammoth census bubble is writhing in mortal Bgony. T electric machines in use in the census oflice Lo count and register the schedules of population are as effective as the clectric batteries applied to the snume in the various cities of the sountry. ) —_— THe increase of the capital stock of the Omaha stock yards company indi- atesn marked dogree of prosperity and the detevmination of the management to keep pace with the demands of its stead- iy increasing army of patrons. TiErE need be no anxiety regarding the Nebraska exhibit at the world’s fair. In threo years Omaha's postoflice site will make an antique show in itself, fanked with life size specimens of the architectural warts which its enter- prising boomers have recently erected. € Susan B. Anthony’s new society wears the suggestive Indian title, “Winodang- sis.” The public is assured that it does not intend to resurrect the hatehet. Hhe campaign will be fought to a blood- less finish with broomsticks and safety pins. DENYER chuckles over the prospects of the vemoval of one or more Union Pacific ofticials from Omaha. The town fairly gloats over the possibility of grab- bing a crumb from Omaha’s londed table, The residents of the foothills have been engaged so long in the fruitless occupa- tion of removing the shops and head- quarters that the disease has struck in and become chronie. Their joy in this Instance is as unsubstantinl as the phan- tom they uve constantly chasing. Tue financial mains very comfortable. Money is plentiful for ail legitimate geeds, the demand is good, and rates arve firm at 8 per cent, Trade in the jobbing district is steady and col- lections fair. Crop prospects are finer yoeven in braska, celebrated most unfailing regularity in this spoct, City retail trade, though some- what affected by the hot weather, is fair, and there isa brisk demand for Fourth of July goods, The dairy produce mar- ket is dull and transactions light. Veg- etables and fruits from home farms are Ln anmple supply andprices ave low. ENGLAND is moving to impose severe penaltios on directors of joint stock com- panies who are incompetent or neglect Lhoir duties. A measure is pending in parliament providing that no person shall act as director without first filing a cortificate from two competent physi- cians that he is of sound mind and of competont understanding, another from an incorporated law society certifying to his knowledge of the law relating to public companies, and a third from two eh acoountants that he is ac- quainted with the various systems of bookkeeping. A similar law in the United States would disband nine-tenths of the directoriesin the country, where they have become high salaried orna- ments 10 corporations, riered CLOSE OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. The school year of the Ommha publie schools will close this week, and the thousands of children and the scores of teachers who for the past ten months have diligently and faithfully pursued their studies and performed their duties are anticipating o well-earned vacation with a lively sense of the relief und the pleasure it will bring, This ending of the school year has a meaning and im- portance to the children and to the pa- tient workers in the educational field which may not be fully appreciated by most of those whose attention is absorbed by the hard practical duties of life, We are apt to regard this annually recurring event as one of those matter-of-course affairs which do not require of us anything moro than the merest passing attontion, making no particular demand upon either our sentiment or our interest. But surely this is to think too meanly of an incident of the passing year that has 80 large a significance for the boys and girls who in a few bri the places now occupied by their seniors in the fleld of practical endeavor. A little reflection will suggest that this ending of the school year is something of an epoch in the lives of many of the publie school pupils and every parent knows that it brings its anxioty as well as its promise of pleas- ure. There are records to be made in these closing days of the school year which may have an important influence upon the future of many young lives, and to thousands of Omaha school children the question of successfully passing the examination and advancing to a higher grade is a far more serious one than to most of their seniors in the ques- tion of what congress will do withd the tariff or with silver. And the teachers, also, are not without con- cern for the result, since their merit must be determined by the record made by the young minds under their charge. It should be understood, therefore, that the closing of the school year is an event which has its serious as well asits agree- able aspect, though doubtless for those whom it immediately interests the lat- ter largely predominates, The public school is the peoples’ col- lege, justly characterized as ‘“alike the glory dnd power, the crown and foundation, of freo in- stitutions.” Its advantages are open equally to the rich and the poor, and within its portals all stand upon a level. It is the glory, asitis also the safeguard, of the nation, and American publie sentiment. will never consent to any limitation or impairment of its in- fluence. The people of Omaha have a just right to feel proud of its public school system, which is not excelled by that of any city in the country, and the record of tho closing rowill un- doubtedly show that it has in nowise fallen behind in the march of progress and of judicious reform. The assurance for the future is to be found in what has been accomplished, and there is.cer- tainly in this enough to justify the most hopeful and confident anticipations. RAILROADS AND Ml AL LANDS. The question of the right of the land grant railroads to claim the mincral lands within their grants is command- ing great interest in Montana and other states in which these railroads ar titled to lands under grants of congress. In his last annual report the secretary of the interior re- forred to this question as of very great importance, affecting the welfave and independence of many of our citizens. He urged that tho mineral land should be reserved for the people and that there is mo claim on the part of the railroads to obtain these sources of vast wealth not intended for them that should be hu- mored to the least degree beyond the law. He suggested that a law should be passed by congress enabling the land department to thoroughly investigate the character of lands supposed to be min- eral and within the reservation of the law before the railroad is entitled to any cession whatever. Nothing has yet been done by congress toward carrying out this recommendation. Although the act of congress abso- lutely and unqualifiedly reservesall min- eral lands from the railroad grants, the Northern Pacific and other companies claim mineral lands discovered since their grants were made on the ground that the reservationapplied only to lands known to be mineral at the time the act of congress was passed, and this con- struction of the act has been sustained by the United States circuit court for California. It is said that high legal opinion regards this as the propor con- struction, and there is not much doubt that it will be sustained by the supremé court of the United States. In that event the effect would be in the state of Montana alone to take valuable mines from perhaps three-fourths of the private owners who have been in posses- sion for from ten to twenty years, One- half of the eight hundred miles in Mon- tana traversed by the Northern Pacific is through a region abounding in the richest deposits of gold, silver and copper, and that company under its grant has laid claim to two million eight hundred thousand acves of land covering four thousand discovered mining properties yet unpatented and nearl, one thousand patented mines which have long been in undisputed possession of private owners. The act making the grant was passed in 1864, and most of the mineral producing lands have since been discov- ered, These facts give some idea of the importance of this question so far as Montana is concerned, and interest in it isby no means confined to that state, though the mining proporties at stake there are doubtless more extensive and valuable than any elsewhere which may be claimed by the land grant railroads. The secretary of the interior recom- mended that authority should be given that "department to refuse to cortify lands to the railroads until there was clear proof that the same were not mineral, and sug- gested that it would not be unreasonable ss to direct that the patents issued should themselves contain a reser- vation of any land therein described if it proved upon further development to be actually mineral land. He that the vast mineral wealth within the for congry urged | to the corporations was not in- 1 to be given to them and that they should not be allowed to obtain it by default. Of course the railroads are bringing all their influence to bear to preventcongressional action, and if there should be a decision of the supreme court favorable to their claim before congross nets they would be masters of the situation. Thers can bo no question that the best interests of the country require that the mineral lands shall be reserved for the people, nor is it doubt- ful that this was the intention of con- gress, but in view of the judicial de- cision in California it is manifestly im- portant that there should be further legislation of the character recom- mended by the secretary of the interior. THE CENSUS COMPLAINTS. The nearly universal complaint that the census enumeration has not been ac- curate and thorough cannot be dismissed as wholly without justitication, but it is altogether probable that some of the cities which have assumed that their population has not been properly enum- erated have complained without suffi- clent reason. Nothing is more common than overestimates of population, and in cases where the early returns of enumerators did not promise to verify the estimates it was natural to conclude that the work was being carelessly and inefiiciently per- formed. Unquestionably this was very largely the case, but the fact is that a number of cities that were most vocifer- ous in their complaints on the strength of the early returns are now satisfied since later returns have shown that their largest estimates would be verified or exceeded. This is the case with Chi- cago and St. Louis, for example, and although Kansas City and Denyer will not realize the exaggeratod estimates of population they had made for advertising _purposes,it is by no means to be concluded that the census enumerators in those towns were utterly inefficient. Very likely in nearly every eity of the country some people will be missed. Under our system this is probably unavoidable. But undoubtedly there will be very few cities whose returns of population will fall below the most judicious and con- ive estimates. Complaints are not confined to those places that have made extreavagant eclaims of population, but they have been tho loudest from such places. The experience with this census suggests whether our method should not be reformed, as unquestionably it could be. It is contended with reason that it is impossible to get good work done under a plan which practically compels the employment of inexperienced agents, and fhat the class of persons willing to accept appointments for a temporary purpose and at small pay can not bo looked to for efficient service. It is by no means true of all or of a ma- jority of the present census enu- merators that they are incom- petent and ineflicient, but enough of them ave 50 to have seviously interfored with obtaining an accurate enumeration, and one effeet of this will be to prolong the work, while another may be to im- pair confidence in the general result. The experience may have its value in leading to a change of method hereafter, and it has already started the suggestion of a permanent census bureau, charged with gathering statistics in a continuous way and publishing them while they ave fresh and valuable. A NOTABLE EXHIBIT. The exhibit of drawing, designing and handiwork by the pupils at the public schools of Omaha, which ciosed last night, was a notable event in the history of the schools of this city. Tt was an evi- denco of the existence among the chil- dren of the city of an extent and versa- tility of art talent, and of the progress making in the development of that tal- ent in the highest degree gratifying. There is, of course, no reason why the children of Omaha should not be as gifted in this direction as those of any other city, and yet we are quite sure that many of the large number of people who visited this ex- hibit were surprised to find so great a display of talent of so high an order of merit. We venture to think that no other city in the country having no larger school population than Omaha can make a more creditable exhibit, both as to extent and general excellence The highly gratifying results thus far achieved in these branches of instrue- tion urge the duty not only of continuing them, but as far as practic- able giving them increased attention. Their divection is mainly practical, and it hus come to be almost universally ad mitted that the education is most useful which embraces a liberal share of prac- tical instruction. Of the hundreds of parents who saw the exhibit we aoubt if there is one who would havée the teaching of drawing, design- ing and manual work dropped from the system of instruction. Further- more, it is desivable that the plan or system under which such good re- sults have been attained shall be ad- hered to, and that those who have estab- lished it and brought it to a high state of efficacy, and whose interest and zeal are fully enlisted in the work shall be retained to further advance it. In what- ever other departments changes or in- novations may safely be permitted, ex- perience urges that it would be unwise to allow them in the branches which the hibit attested are so competently »d for. Nothing must be done that will retard progress in a direction that promises {0 sceure to the children of the eity such important and valuable benefits, AIDING INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION: Among the many educational meas- ures pending before congress, Senator Morrill’s may be commended as the most practical and beneficial. The purpose of the bill is to create an endowment fund *for the support of colleges for the advancement of scientific and industrial education.” It proposes to set apart as a permanent fund the proceeds of public land sales and the receipts from govern- ment aided railroads, the interest thereon to be divided annual- ly among the colloges established, or which may be established under the act of congress approved July 2, 1862, for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, The meusure is fros from the objec- tions raised against Senator Blair's bill, which appropriated a fixed sum to be distributed pe# capita among the public schools of ‘the states. It simply sets apart fragicutary sources of revenue for higher education and establishes a permanent income for educational institutions” /established by- congress twenty-eight 'years ago. Senator Mor- vill declares” that his project does not interforg with free homesteads nor with the rights of pre-emption, nor does it foredtall any logislation congross may enact in regard to public lands or railroads, The act of 1862 has well been termed *“T'he most important educational enact- ment in America,” Under its beneficent influence forty-eight prosperous colleges are now sending forth annually hun- dreds of sturdy young men thoroughly equipped for the battle of life. Federal aid supplemented by state gifts has borne rich fruit, but as Senator Morrill points out, they re- quire liberal assistance to successfully compete with colleges munificently en- dowed by individuals. They require com- plete modern equipment, which in many instances cannot be provided by the states. A national fund is necessary to place them on an advanced plane and en- able them to furnish educational ad- vantages in the higher branches for those who lack the means to enter pri- vate colleges. National aid to education, particularly in the west, laid the foundation of our magnificent public school system. It created an educational fund that is today a source of permanent rev- enue. That the benefits thus conferred on the pioncers of the west have been fully appreciated is strikingly shown in the fact that the percentage of illiteracy is by far the lowest in the new states. Such grand results proclaim the wisdom of government aid to education when hedged in by restrictions against extrav- agance. The Morrill endowment bill provides all necessary safeguardsagainst waste and is free from the objections against direct raids on the national treasur CENSUS REVELATIONS. There are few men in the country bet- ter qualified to speak intelligently and accurately on the indebtedness of the country than Robert . Porter, superin- tendent of the census. In a recent let- ter in reply to the reckless assertion of Ben Butler, Mr, Porter shows the ab- surdity of the claim that the mortgage debt on agricultural lands exceeded their assessed valuation. Even if the claim was true, it would simply mean that the indobtedness was less than one- fifth of the actual selling value of the land. Paking Michigan for example, tho tables compiled by the stato commissioner of ‘wbor place the total assessed value of farms in the state at three hundred and thiyty-five million dollars, while the mortgaged debt, amounts to only sixty- four millions without taking into account the payments made on the principal of the debt. The total indebtedness of Iili- noi; wbout four hundred millions, of which fifty-five per cent is credited to Chieago and Cook county. Only thirty- three per cent of the entire acreage of that state is under mortgage—a ratio which proves the general prosperity of the agricultural classes of the state. Another striking evidence of the prosperous condition of the public in general is furnished by reports of county indebtedness received at the census office. Returns from twen- ty-cight hundred and nine counties in the country show the bonded debt to be one hundred and thirty millions, an in- crease of twenty-five per cent in ten years. The increase is largely in the western states, where the growth in pop- ulation and wealth has far exceeded the debts incurred for necessary public im- provements. That the security is con- sidered gilt edged by financiers is shown in the fact that state; county and mu- nicipal bonds, drawing four to six per cent interest, readily command a pre- mium. Mr. Porter declares that should municipal and individual indebtedn be increased twenty-five to fifty million: we shall still have a decrease of one bil- lion in the public indebtedness of the country, regardless of the marvelous de- velopment of various sections of the west, which have grown from infancy to strong and healthful manhood in the last decade, WILL PROVE A BOOMERANG. . He made a pit and digzed it, and is fallen into the ditch which he wade. His mischief shall return upon his own head and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. This inspived declaration of the psalmist is strikingly applicable to the latter day phavisees who have been dig- ging pitfalls for Nebraska editors, Their great hue and cry about the papers that have offered to sell adver- tising space to the bogus “Turner” of Louisyille is an exhibition of rank hypocrisy and villainous calumny. It was scandalous for the prohibitionists to vesort to forgery and imposture to play decoy upon , publishers of Nebrask papers, and it is infamous for them now to turn upon veputable editors and brand them ''as venal and mer- cenary ures because they quoted their rates to the imposte who in reality was the venal ant that expected to pocket twenty-five thousand dollars for “pulverizing " the rum power” in Ne- braska through the Voice. No rational pagson will contend that it wus disreputablelor even improper for | publishers to quote their rates toa pari cluiming to by a foreign advertising agent. That j done day in and day out by all legitimute newspapers in the coun- try, and itomade no difference whether the publisher who quoted his rates was a licénse man or a prohibitionist. It is not uncommon for political manag o advertise their speakers and their doc- trines in papers of opposite political faith, In a political campaign in Baltimore not long ago contending parties pur- chased space in a leading political organ and used its columns for weelks inspread- conflicting arguments, Mear the editor of the paper kept on hammering away according to his old- time convictions. This was perfectly legitimate Nebraska the hived stumpers and me while conary agitators continue to brand a venal, corrupt and conscienceless the papers that have been blacklisted by the twenty-five thousand dollar Voice tor quoting rates on matter adverse to pro- hibition, This course has already proved a hoomeramg to the intemperate reformers, Jditors who might have been won over by the prohibitionists are now outspoken against the orusade. TLAST Monday the San Francisco Chronicle celebrated a quarter of a cen- tury of prosperous existence by opening to public inspection the fine new build- ing which is soon to be its home. The erection of splendid structures for their oceupancy by the successful newspapers of the country is becoming so common as to command little attention outside the communities in which such newspapers have attained their success, and yct ovory such event is noteworthy s illustrating the material progress of the press. A dozen years ago only afow of the prominent newspapers of the country had buildings of their own equipped with all the facilities for prop- erly carrying on their business, while now theve are fow greatly successful dailies not thus provided for, or preparing tobe. It is becoming necossary as an evi- dence of the substantial prosperity of a newspaper. The San Francisco Chron- icle's new building is by far the finest newspaper home on the P cific coast, and is provided with every appliance and facility neces- sary in the publication of a modern daily journal. It most substan- tially attests the prosperity of the Chronicle, whose quarter of a century of history is among the most interesting in the annals of journalism, and its propri- etor, Mr. De Young, is to be heartily congratulated upon this convincing evi- idence of his energy and enterprise. THE crop prospects ave constantly im- proving, but the largest crop Nebraska will raise this year will bo harvested in the political field. Tae Union Pacific is suffering the usual attack of summer complaint and an annual economical purgative must be administered. THERE is a lull in the political atmos- phere just now that portends a very heavy storm in the near future, Kemmler's Frightful Example. Chicago Tribun The way of the transgressor is havd. How the prospect of dying in jail of old age must appall the heart of the murderer Kemmler! e e iony A Trifle Too Sweeping. Boston Herald. The preacher of the baccalaureate sermon at Vassar advised the young ladies to go forth with the firm resolve not to lean on any- Dbody else. Wasn't this a littie too sweeping? et St i An Unauthorized Comlpaint. Washington Post. An exchange complains that too many doc- tors of divinity are being turned out in this covntry. When we consider how badly the latter day divinity needs doctoring the com- plaint seems much out of place, —————— Mayor Peck's Little Joke. Chicago Times. r Peck, the humorous exccutive of aukee, played a practical joke upon the the bridge tenders of the city by making a tour of inspection of the bridge 3 o'clock in the morning. The joke has had a bracing effect upon them and they no longer sleep at their posts. M Mil e Journalistic Amenities in Gotham. New York Sun. Wehave no reason to believe that Mr. Car- roll E. Smith of Syracuse is a liar and a scoundrel, but he distinetly identified as such by the New York Times. However, should be borne in mind that the incurably dishonest-minded person who runs the Times, always needs corroboration of the strongest kind, ki e Guying Grover. Kansas City Journal, The students of another western college have held a mock democratic convention and nominated Grover Cleveland for the presi- dency. Their mock notification has called forth onc of those beautiful letters from the ex-president and the students thoroughly cnjoy the joke. This little amusement is kuown as “playing horse with Grover.” Broad Hint to David B. Hill. New York Times. It has become almost proverbial that the man who sets deliberately at work to secure the oftice of president for himself fails, even if through the active politicians he compasses the nomination. Some pretty small men become presidents, but not through working direetly for the oftice before the public. st L, Too Much Verbiage in Law Papers. St. Louis Globe-Demoerat. Now York has just set an example in legis lation that ought to be imitated by other state in the umion. It relates to th simplication of transfers of real cstate aud the shortening of the forms which now oc- cupy so much space and breed so much litiga- tion, . 1t is a great pity that legal doe uments of all kinds canuot beabbreviated and simplified in like manner, i Democracy is Expensive. Indianagolis Journal reason of gerrymanders, has had democratic legislatures the greater part of the time for twenty years. Those legisla- tures have fixed the financial policy of the state, if it can be said to have had one, and what is the result! November 1, 1881, the ll)umh'll debt of tho state was &4, 008 ¢ seven years later it was §6,474,608 crease of §1,09%,000. S - John Bull Amuses Us, New York Tribune Americans may be pardoned if they d with cynical amusement the | of the British gov ent fu settling the Newfoundland fisheries dispute. They have | had an experience of their own in having an tiguated treaties rigidly consteued by that government o as to deprive them of their historic vights to tho fisheries conquered by | their New England ancestors, and so to nul lify those principles of commercial recipr | ity which have the force of common law in both countries. They can atford to eujoy the spectacle of witnessing England’s pevplexity when other antiquated treaties are interpreted | against it in the same spirit by France. - - iportant Correction, June 21.—To the Editor of 'me Brm: Permit me to call your atten tion to & mistake in Tie Br of this date. In your list of members of the State Business Mew's and Bankers fation you have twenty-five firms of Fre left out on our reditel u viz with ( chant tailor, down to and including bit & Rogers, hardwa Please co t and oblige. Yours t SUHURMAN The above crror occurred possibly in the frequent shifting of the types. We shall re. publish the list with additional names shortly when the twenty-five Fremout uames “mi Indiana, b an in AsSIent An 1 Fremont, Neb., ass ont ! find a proper place.—Ev. Bek.] , halc THE FREE ~COINAGE BILL. How the Senate's Action is Viewed by Rep- resentative Newspapers, A BIG BENEFIT TO MINE OWNERS. There 15 No Question About This, But Some Difference of Opinlon Exists as to Its Kffect Upon the Country. Chicago Tribuno (Rop.): That tho sena- tors from the silver mining states should be for free coinage is natural enough. They re- fleet the wishes of most of their constituents. | They think the throwing open of the mints to silver will stimulate greatly the miniug in- dustry and increase the output of silver, and that it will make profitable mines now u: profitable. New ones will be opened. The ron days of the speculator will come again. Probably such consequences would follow foratime at least. But the tem- porary gain of Colorado might be the perma- nent injury of the country at large. Chicago Horald (Dem.): Quito in keeping with its change chavacter and low cstate, the United States senate, in dealing with the silver question, out-Heroded the Herods of the house of representatives and declared most sweeping in favor of the depreciated silver dollar as a ndard of value, It re- mained for the senate, supposedly the most august and the most conservative legislative body in the world, to adopt at one stroke the sutm of all the cheap money idiocies that have been advocated by visionavies and knaves for the last twenty-five yoars, Chicago Inter-Ocean (vep.): This silver question is too vital to the interests of the country to be trifled with or used to promote a passing political purpose. To drive out gold on the one hand or to discredit silver on the other would be a criminal blunder on a gigantic scale, one the entire American people, west and cast, would not only deprecate but punish. New York Times (Ind.): What the house will do with it no one can say, but. whatever the outcome may be it will be bad. Boston Herald (fnd.): No one wants the silver dollar, "Ehat the silver men themselves admit. What the people want according to them ave paper dollars based upon silver, Is it not more reasonable to base these dol upon silver bullion than upon a coinage which is expensive, and, after it is made, for the purpose of circulation useless. Cincinnati Commercial - Gazette (Rep.) : The silver barons of the Uunited States sen- ate have won the n passing the free and unlimited coinago bill The measure was opposed "by the ablest, safest, best, most patriotic men in the senate. Jt was carried in the face of a declaration by a senator that any administration which would set itself up against unlimited silver coinage, ‘*‘would be, as it deserved to be, hurled from power.” It is evident that the silver barons are disposed to run the government. Cincinnati Times-Star: The bill picce with the mouetar adherents of the gre $0 near the flat mou tiyp business men ar action. Pittsburg Dispatch: The Dispatch does not approve of such an extreme measure as the senute product for reasons frequently set forth in these columns. But the law, if any should be pussed this session, probably will be far less objectionable than the senate would make it. The predominance of the sil- ntiment in the senate only shows the ssibility of free coinage and a premium on gold in the future, St. Paul Pionerr s8, (rep.): The free coina which these insolent des- pots of the mines would inftict upon the coun- try in order to swell their gains beyond the revenues of royalty, means such a degrada- tion of the currency of the people us has never been attempted in this country, and has never been attempted in y other with- out involving every industvial and com- mercial interest in utter ruin, except those controlled by wealthy and powerful corpora- tions. It means the utter demoralization of the finances of the count the inaugurati of un era of wild speculation on fictitious val- ues, followed by a general collapse and ruin, in which the poor men and men of moderate means will be the chief sufferers, and whose only beneficiaries will be the sharpers and the capitalist. Minneapolis Tri is of a plans of the wildest nback hevesy, It comes Taze that consorvi- a unit agaiost the ne, (Rep.): The sen- ate’s action must deeply shake the confidence of the country in that body. It contains too many men who are not there as stat but as servants of private intorests, large majority of those who voted for fr coiuage are said to be either silver mine own- ors or otherwise interested in the schemes of the so-called “silver gang.” The bill cannot, of course, pass the house, and in any case it would be vetoed by the president; so that we re not, practically, in any danger of such legislation. But it does not conduce toa sense of public security to realize the na- tional senate is capable of such monumental folly and recklessness. Minncapolis Journal (Rep.): It. would seom absolutely certain that this bill will Le vetoed promptly by the president. 1f he signs it he futhers a damnable blot upon the fair name of bis great party. But such an idea is really untbiukable. The president will do his duty to the best interests of the country. He will veto the bill. Cleveland Leader (Rep.): We thiuk that the senate has made & great mistake from whatever standpoint its action is considered. It yields at once to all the demands of the silver producers and goes to the full limit of metallic inflation. Nothing is left for experi ment or preparation. The action taken should be reversed for the sake of financial seeurity and in accordunco with the views of | a majority of the ablest and most tive statesmen in the republican po s Press (Dem.): The utmost | ly B said Is that the possibi at that the risk ought | for the attainment somo very desirable result; and if there is any such result —beyond the aggrandizen of the silver mine owners at the expensd of | the rest of the community—it has not thus far been made clear. There is enthusiast ssertion that the great g al public is oing to reap a benefit by reason of the in ating medium; but how or is o accrue no oue of the | conserva Detroit ¥ that 1 SA ties of danger a not to be run except I 1 the ci why the benefit | ple, and manhood enough wild fluctuntions fn prices and the deéworall. zation of trade. Milwaukoee Sontinel: The dangers of tis house measures have boon pointed ont alroady; theso dangers are Incroased by the senate amendments, and probably there are few, if any, sober and experienced fina not interested In silver mines who do 1ot gard the matter with dismay Utiea Herald: The Plumb amendment iy silver craziness of the craziest varioty Wisconsin State Journal: The silver bill as it passed the senato s a wide-open an reckluss measure with scarcely a safeguard around it. Salt Lake Tribune (Rep.): Wo had hoped the compromise agreed upon would bo adhored to; that both houses would agreo to fncreaso the absorption of silver to 4,500,000 ounces per month. The president would | have signed a bill like that. It would have | answered every purpose. It would have been Just as good to the country as free coinago, better in ono or two respects than froo coinage, and would have led directly to an equality between the metals. fors voic PRIZSS, Kearney Hubd, This is not going to bo a very happy yeat for tho professional politician. Heo already begins to feel lonesome, A Clean, Able Racer. Fremont Tribume, Dr. Mercer of Omaha has been brought ont by his friends as a candidate for govern and indications now are, it must b confessed, that he will be a racer in the field. Mercer has been for a gr years promiuently identified with Omaha’s ‘material progress, Ho s a clean, able man and has a powertul upport behing him at the metropolis, Radical Changes Needed. York Times. There is a strong feeling in the state that to insure success to the republican ticket this fall, some of the present incumbents be let off. The people have just reason to complain of inactivity and seeming servility of the members of the board of transporta. tion, and they demand now men. If som radical changes are not made the ticket this fall will be hard to elect. o~y MacColl's Friends Talk, othenburg News. Jack MacColl has never yet said that ho would ot be a candidate for the nomination of governor of Nebraska. Ho has left this matter with his friends, preforring to wait until the time comes for action. As oneof his friends, we think the time has arrived, and we say to the republican electors of the state of Nebraska that in case the republican par s the services of an able, h and true man as their candidate for gove that Mr, MacCotl will accept. should Democratic Congressional Talk. Beatrice Demoerat. There is a fecling favorablo to W. J. Bryan of Lincoln as the democratic candidate for congress in the First district. While tho Democrat regards Mr. Bryan as a brilliant young man and one who s able and cnergotic, and if nominated would muke an excollent canvass, it rogards Charles H. Brown of Omaha as the most, available man in tho dis- trict. What the democratic party of this dis- trict neods is a man who has & record as with the people. Mr. Brown has that record, while nothing can be said against Mr. Br he is a new man and has his record to make. Fanatical Intolerance. Hastings The over-zealous prohibitionist should re strain himself from becoming fanat difficult for him to understand how any can oppose his ideas without being in the puy of the liquor dealers. He does not seem wi ing tp concede that the strongest element among the antis are those who believe it 15y better on moral grounds to have the liguor business under subjection to the law than to be run clandestinely in ¢ o v. It is this very spirit of mtolerance now 1 manifested that makes many opposed to tho rule that would follow the adoption of pro- hibition. ving The Wrong Channel. Fromont. Flail, The Flail has no quarrel with the temper- ance people of the city or state. It admi any pure and unsclfish effort to make m better, and will ever chawpion any m ment for a genuine reform, But it despis the mercenary demagogue who prates for reform at $100 per night, and who would roh the widow and the orphan of their mites to put fat upon his beastly carcass. To raiso the $100 for St. John on Thursday night, tho till of the man was tapped who finds it im- possible to give his family a decent living and pay his honest debts. It is at the ex, pense of the poor people of Nebraska t¥7t such blatant demagogues as St. John aro kept upon the road, and that such venal and slushy publications us the New York Voico ave subsidized to flood the state, If the money spent for such purposes could begiven as holy writ preseribes, to the poor that we have with us, untold good could bo accomplished. A Word About Agitators, Sutton Advertiser, The Advertiser thinks that these farmer friend agitators are doing the state moro harm than good. The agitation in the b ning was a good thing. It aroused the peo- ple to resist exhorbitant railvoad tariffs a 1o resist railroad manipulation in politi But this purpose is now accomplished effectual has been this agitation in arousing the people that today no man dare ask for rocoguition in the republican party without first pledging himself to these reforms, Hud the spocial session conveued it would not have dared refuse to pass the measurcs named in the call. The nexto legislature wil not dare to pause or hesitate, It must movo straight forward in tbe line of these just d¢ mands, and the man who hesitates is lost. 1t is now only a question of time when the: things will come, s sure as the next winter snow, and the Advertiser, believing there | force enough in the aroused will of the pec in the persona make up of the next law-making body, to o complish surcly forms, thinks it is better for the state this infernal howl about a farmer pove that does not exist should stop, and stop The press of the state, while holding fu all th advantages that we hav should turn its attention now to the ing of the broken and battered rep OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST sil ien has undertaken to show, Ind.) once Springfleld Republican nature of the bill will at ecnacted into law it wi standand and contract the circulating i The 412} grains of standard silver ure worth about 50 ¢ No having a debt to pay will take 100 cents worth of gold to the minut to be coined when 50 cents worth of sil- | ver will answor his purpose as well. ( quently the moment this act takes cffect gold will £o to a premium aud disappear n eir cul People Loldi 14 or gold certif ffer them in g ral exchange, with 81 silver bullion enough at ake $1.20 for payment of al pu About d coln and certificates circulation. To drive all this into » bill would, will result in of the ‘The radical bo seen, If the lium, now 1t one mso- ion cates will not but will buy pre dobts ¢ 500,000, now in hiding, as the » tiemendous contraction ut prices for X in use in gene chases, sena currency, | COMPANY. Subscribed and Loy aranteed Capital | Pald in Capital Buys and sells stock commiercial paper; recelves Lrusta; Aots ws Crans for agont corporations, takes charge of property lects taxes. Omahal.oan & TrustCo SAVINGS BANK S.E. Corner 16th and Dougla Pald fn Capital ' Submeribed and Guaranteed Capltal Liability of stockholders 5 Per Cout Intorest Pald on Deposits FRANK J. LANGE, Cashler Wyman, president, J. J. Brown, L W.T. Wymau, treasurer Wyman, J. H. Millard, J. J ton, B W, Nash, Tuowse B. Luke OfMcers:A. U viow-proside Directors—A. | HBrown, Gny C. B 3. Klwba'i; Georg 1 certainly these desin kg /] B R -