Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 30, 1890, Page 2

THE OMAHA; DN ARBR Y STATE ALLIANCES, AMONG Various Indioations Point to a Prosperous Condition of Affairs, A SCATHING LETTER FROM SILVER CREEK. A Conservative Member of the Peoria Alliance Sets Forth His Views in An Able and Clear , Cut Style. Siven Cuee, Neb,, June 28, —To the Edi- e of Tue Bee—In the Lincoln Farmers' of June 24, in his leeding editorial, tho righteous soul of J. Bucrows swells with uncontrollable ndignation, It is Tur Ber and the “State Business Men's and Bankers' nssociation” that have excited his virtuous wrath. He denounces the business men of the state for having the courage of their con victions and signing n declaration against prohibition as being infmical to the best inter- ests of the state, If those men, being afeaid of losing the patronage of their fanatical pro- hibition eustomers, had refused to say what they knew to be true they would have greatly ommended themselves to Mr. Burrows' favor, Such men as he is—men houest by profession - naturally like hypoerites. T hindd all along believed Mr, Byrrows to be | o rabid prohibitionist, This flery ebullition proves him such, save a few guarded spurts, heretof, as o matter of poli he had re. d from committing himself, fearing to divide the allianee vote, for votes and dollars are what he is after. Now that his inde- lent party movement is well under way s he has the faviners well in Tand and can swing them for the amendment, e throws off the mask and virtually declare for probibition, Brother farmers of the now party, bo prepared to walk up and take 'your medicine! You have been complalning, and most justly, of the financial burdens that have been placed upon you. Go now and stultify yoursclyes by vot- ing upon yourselves and ‘your posterity that financial “ineubus of constitutional prohibi- fion. You can see now, that I told you tho truth when I said last ‘week, in substar that whercas the leaders of the alliunce at o former time sought to control your votes in the imerest of the democracy, it was now Tkely the attempt would be'to work you for prohibition 1i the editorial above referred to Mr, Bur. YOWSs enters into a al defense of prohibi- tion. In the use of sulphurous, blood-curdling opithets he rivals W. Jennings Demorest, and for pious, hypocritical cant he can sci v bo surpassed by the most fanatical followers of Ho declares that his paper is not a ays that his “blood aw the vile show -the repr incss men of Nebruskn woere themselves and the state,” and 1o tell the trath and take t consequences.” Well, now, that is very Beautiful! In my deoply fallen estate 1 have atways flattered myseli that I had some re. gard for the truth, at st in others, and 1 almost feel that 1 could full on the neck of Mr. J. Burrows, and embrace him and shed tears of oy ut the thought that there is yet Jiving in theso United States of America in the year of our Lord 1800, one man who is ablé to wicld the metaphorical little hatehet of G, Washington And yet, soniehow, my joy is ch 0 blast of the north wind, wh ever since My, Burrows orial chair, 1 has been i intluence of the absolute incorruptibility. Almost w hus suid: “No money will buy the of this paper? Now, Lalways had a iind of ol fushioned notion that the who was always telling about honesty was the very onc who needed watching. Suppose a year ngo last winter down at Lincoln a member of the legislature hd walked inta the now historical ol room and, with head ereet and thumbs in his vest pockets, had said: “Gentlemen, you aro sot of raseals and 1 want you 'to distine undorstand that Lam not in the market. No woney will buy my vote.” How those keen- eyod lobbyists would have exchanged winks and grins, and then proceeded to write the honorable member down in their memovan- dum books as o purchasable commodity. What would be thought of a woman who should say, “Gentlemen, 1 um strictly virtu- ous. Do not dure to touch me " Speaking of ulliance badges, wo may seo hore another illustration of the arbitrary, and, 1 will say, damnable work of our oficials: The “ofticial organ” recently in- formed us that tho executive committee had adopted an alliance badge, - By what author- ity did they do that thing! How did they bippen 10 know that we wanted a badgo? Why didu’t they wait until next winter and let the state alliance say whether or not they wanted a badge! Are we in sober earnest in his great industrial war! or aro wo moro desirous of parading ourseives bofore tho world as alot of tin soldiers by adopting the fashionablo lummery of thé day( But, in any case, what business s it = of 1o executive committee! Section 77 Ht. John !.,.milm”m organ, but hoiled when b led as with 1 refloct that sat in the edit- d wicldea the editorial pen, he laiming his freedom from'the cporations, his honesty und iy o Art. 1, of our constitution defines tho powers und diities of the executive committee, Read it and then say if thoy are not o usurping, dictatorial body, continually arrogating to themselves powers which bélong alone to the stato allianes itself and not to their servants Most of the present members of theexecutive commitieo are doubtioss well meaning men, but thoey allow themselves to be led by the nose by Dictator Burrows, The scction re- ferred to runs as follows “Ihe exeoutive committoe shall be composed of five moembers. They shall examing the Dbooks of the seeretary and treasur r POLL upon the swme to tho state alliunce. Thoy shultsupervise the exe 1 of suitable bonds Dy the seeretary and treasuror and approve o samo. They shall audit all clabms and, it atlowed, 50 notlfy the secrotary, who shill draw L warrant on the treasire the o allowed wll warrants deawn on urer shall'l ho secretary i approved by tho president But :d” out to tallc about Mr, Bur- rows' prohibition editorial. Pardon’ this long digression. In spoaking_to the business | men of tho state o says: “You © dono what you could to solidify the farmer vote in this state in fayor of prohibition,” tells them that God is using them as an_instrament of good ugainst theiv will and tries to make it appear that the farmers will now be unani mous for prohibition. How does Mr, Bur Tows huppen o know what God is domg ubout this thing! But that is only character. fitic of tho St. Jonnites, There aro doubtless thousands of farmers in favor of prohibition, but thero aro also other thousands of farmers who arcopposed toit. So farns my ob- servation extends, the farmers are about oqually divided on’ the amendment quostion How tho farmors will voto can he told botter next November, ClanLes WoosTe. Views of a Prouny, Neb, June vative, [Special to Tug Bex, | —Tho conservatives or moderates of the | farmers’ allianco have no organ. Kindly per mit me to use your columus. We'haven paper to be suro, but it is radical, and its editor, Mr. J. Burrows, affects yot to know that thero aro any conscrvatives. Ho will not print any conservative utterrance. In his opinion & conservative is u nobody. 1 hope ho will not succeed in misleading tho alliances There must b wany members who cannot go 10 his extremes. Thoy did not formerly and caunot thus suddenly have changed, They orgunized 10 easo burdens, 1ot to ubandon all former views of stato and national policy 1 trust Mr. B's assumption and dogmatism will deceive no ope. His published views are t0 Lo taken simply for what they may be | worth, No one has to accept a thing from him | becauso he is editor of the Alliance paper. Ho cannot dic aunot read anyone out ot the all what he has i mind to print s * The delogates to the stato alliance make the state platform, and they alone. The last state alliance continued Mr. B.'s paper as the al- liance organ because he is carnost in the cause and his views generally right, but it did not say that ho would nover got “a little oft," and thist all ho might print must be swallowed But not even tho state platform is like the Jaws of the Medes and Persians, which can. not bo changed. 1t does not clalm infallibil Aty. It is the views of delegutes at that tune. 'I‘gr\' did not say that the policy therein set forth must be accepted in toto by every mem- nce. Not platform.” o what must be believed; he | at tho end, That scheme may look pretty to some, but It has sorious dangers. In the first place irredeemablo paper money is subject to fluctuations, is not stable, and therefore is bad money. . Morney should be subject to no fluctuations whatever in value, if possibl The nearce we can keep to this the bette Money must have intrinsic value or be so cured that its redemption in coln miy be i mediate, and that to the whole amonunt. Paper bills are, promises topay money, or rightly should bo, A man's notos may be good, but he cannot go on cndiessly replacing note with notes. People may take the notes for awhile, but by snid by they will get aistrust- ful and wait mon The distrust will quickly spread, and all holders of his note: will démand money. 1f he has the mo i all right, and so ure they; but if b only half e becomes n bankrupt and the holders suffer. A man by paying off or ro- iingz part of the notes, as his business runs on, miy Keep going some’ time issuing no aud redecming them. But let o distrust 70 the people wnd i run on his offico will begin, and ho must pay up or broak. 1t mat- tors not how much real estate ho miy have to back up his notes. He has promised to re- st on demand, and he breaks because he cannot, His roputation and credit are in- Jured. His aotes, what are loft unpaid, dep ate and the holders lose something. His wis an unsafe business policy. Ho should have Pt out no more notes than he could redeem instanter, and should have contracted his business | accordiogly, “Ho expunded too much, overdid the thing Now, what is sound policy for & business man is sound policy for our” nation. Fin is busineas, not rafnbows. Our government st not issue its notes (gold cortificates, sil- e cortificates, groenbacks or fractionol cur- rency) boyond its power 1o instantly convert into col Our national money should be above possible distrust, and_our treasury be- yond “runs.” Thero should never be the shadow of uc nty about our noney., An uncertain moncy is bad moncy. w the Staiiford Tainbow would give us a rain of irredeomable paper moncy. Tho loan to the favmer would be secured by a mort- gage on his farm. The money itself would bo paper and paper it would remain, if 1 un- derstand Mr. Burrows and Presidént Pow- I would pay his mortgage i enbacks in part, or more likely in whole, They would never bo_redeomed nless it was s0 printed on them. They would read: #On dollar, U of congress, U. S, A, Legal tender for cluims, public and private,” and possibly, “on penalty, et Irrodecmable is the abomination of desolation paper monc in business and finauce. Thero is no nee theorize. History affords numerous exam- es, Fredorick tho Great issued paper in Jis wars, To was victorious, but. though Prussia recuporated the monty ~became worthless. Did no harm result! Was no- y cheated! Did_anybody suffert John was allowed to start a bank of France 16, For a while its notes bore a p mium over coin. 'Then it bloomed out into just such a patornal government loan Ccorn as the nationalists want and the Sf form sehiewme offers, In four years the money was. worthless, Was it @ harmless little experiment? Read up yourself During the Freneh rx'\',nlu(iun paper o ta to mon was fssued signats,”’ They were mado tender,” but théy werd too tendes oon foll below par. In six years they od for nothing. Some redeemed in Smandate” at 30 fo 1. It is snid by s0me persons that moro suf: foring a hundred fold was caused by tho as- signats than by prisons and guillotines, Du iny our war for independence our forefathers issued the continental enrrency, based on the good fuith of the united colo They out of circulation in five ye s and although our fathers won and (U streams of revenue and paid off othor debts, the paper was not made good. sdeemablo paper money is a public calam: ity. Itis claimed by some fresh finauciors, in utter defiunce of history, that it was “the excoption clause” which' depreciated the greenbacks in 1562, because tho first s th and notes,” kept at par. The not have timo 1o ' depreciate; they wi circulation but nine months before being called in and supereeded by the others, John Law's money w and 10 per cent above par at first: why did it not remain sof Our con- tinental bills kept up to par for over a year. Why did they not stay up! At the revolu- tion close men thought nothing of giving 00 in biils for a dinner. It took a sulky box full to purchase a cow. Did the continental money do much worset But it may be suid that the government,can loan paper to tho farmers to be redeemed in silver and thus we will get loans and more silver both, It will tako a long time for our government to accumulato eserve large enough for redemption. It will add much to its yearly expenses to buy and coin the silver. The amount of the money would be enormous. The value of our farms is $10,200,000,000. One-fourth that, the amount possible to bo loaned under the Stauford scheme, is $2,550,- 000,000, Our_government_cannot woll coin ovor 4,000,000 per year. It would then be ovor forty-soven yours raising that reserve. IT it redcomed some paper every year, yet it would take forty-seven yewrss for tho achiovement. Such o vast amo of money thrown on the country would Prices would go sky intoxicate business. high. Two biltion, fivo hundred and fifty million dollars 1S about three times the wmount of paper (grocnbacks and bank notes) 1 during the war; and with our presont culation of $1,487,4%1,000 (Windom's fig- ures) or total of +3,857,400,000, we should have five and one-half timos our total circula- tion in 1576, Prices accordingly would go to about five and one-lalf 5 thoso in 1876, Is it said that the amount of lowns would not come anywhere near these figurest Who Kuows! Al would want to borrow, all poor men of all classes who could give security on land. What was done for one man would have to be done for all. There would be the wildest era of speculation ever wituessed, 1t would bo followed by an awful smush and then hard times. Millions would bo almost bogeaved. The volume of money can not bo suddenly expanded or contracted to wereat dégreo without danger, Thoro is da of this in tho free coinage of the silver *dol- lars of our daddies.” We neod more money in our cireulation, but it must bo issued in small quantitios and it must not be issucd be- yond the needs of business. The Stanford Seheme is not a safe one Relief for the favmer can be found in other and quicker ways, Tho law can be changed 50 thit ho ean have more time in which to re- deen a farm, and possibly two or three years before being foraclosed on. Ratlrond Tates can bo lowored. Intorest can bo lossenod. Mortgaged property ca be assessed lower in Proportion to mort Wo consorvatives bolies trol of railroads and telegraphs and in mal ing them come down to tho low profits tt theso hard times require. We believe that tho moderation that soulless corporations will not voluntavily show they should bo com- pelled to oxerciso by law. Weo demand the veduction of freixhts to the Towa figures and tho abolition of the state board of transporta- tion, We do not yet fayor government own- ership of raflroads and tolographs, but we be- lieve that uo corporation has a right to op- ss the public and that if necessary to self. 150 tho public may_lawfully confiscato the carth, N. H. BLACKMER Sacrotary Pooria Alliance. arty Action. 20.—[Special to Tnr Bre. —Polities are very quist, Tho alliance mon in this country are not vory enthusiastic in tho third party cause and il the members soom to have made up theie minds to vote with the parties to which they belong. e in the strict con- k- Against Third SruLING, Neb, June The Alllances Will Celebrate. snaska Ciry, Nob, June 29.—[Speclal to Tue Bee,]—~The alliance farmers in tho western part of the county who are handling and shipping their own produce, now realize ¢ cents por bushel for corn, with an up- ward tendenoy, and with about Balf the corn crop yet to ship. Tho Fourth of July cclebration at Syracuso, under tho auspices of the ulliances in that vicinity, proumises to bo an intoresting afair. Soveral good spewkers will be present to dis- cuss subjeots of interest to the alliance peo I'he farmers in the neighborhood of Pleas- ant Valley school house,southeast of this city, wot sevoral evenings ago aud organized an wlliance with fiftoon members, — A Suspicious Character, Jobn Baltimore, a colored mau, is in fail, charged with the crime of belng a suspicious character, The suspicious circumstances that linger about John are that when arvested he had_upon his person a gold wateh, set with ten diamonds, and a pawnticket showing that be had put up a dismond ring worth 0. Tho oMcors are of the opinion that the property has been stolen. - Ler. One may therefore be an “alliance man and differ somewhat from the alliwnce plat forw. Mr. Burrows is now chasing the Stan ford rainbow for the pot of woney (greeubick) 1002, Sixteenth and Farnam stroots (s | the now IRock Island ticket office, ek | ets to ull polnts enst ut lowest rutes. T0 CUT THE CORDIAN KNOT, Why Bhould There Not be Built a Road From Omaha to 8ioux City? A SUBJECT OF VITAL MOMENT TO OMAHA. . P With Arguments Cogent and Convincing, Insists on the Steel Bands Being Laid - Facts Worthy of Consideration, Srovx Ciry, Ta, June 28.-To the Editor of Tur Ber.—The fullness-of timg has como for hurmoaious action among Missourl river pecially Omahs, Kausus City and Sioux City, to cut the Gordian knob by which the old Chicago railroad companics have tied the hands of the west. All theso Missouri river cities have a common intorest in this matter, Each has a sufticient tributary in the trans-Missourl empire:” For euch tho question of railrond wtes i vital; and for all alike the question of fair rates is inextricably involved in disenthrallment from the oid Chi- cugo line combin The subject is especially vital to Omaha, and the opportunily is now open to Omaha to achieve independence of thio old Chicago lines, Itis tho opportunity to secure the compotition of the new upper lake competi- tion—actual, genuine competition fi rates— ana it is open in no other direction. Aro the business men'of Omiha mware of the fact that they are today indebted for rates via the oid Chicigo lines % pek cont lower than they were two months ago solely to the establisliment at Sioux City of conncetion with the Duluth and upper lake competition in freightsi Are they aware that for three weeks the sole serious obstacle_in the way of o associated Chicago ronds advancing rates 25 per cent and more is the exidtence of this competition at Sioux City! ~ Ave they aware that the biggest share of the cast bound pack- ing house product, of Sioux City is today being shipped over the Sioux City & Northi- ern to the Great Northeen to Duluth, then by the Great Northern lineof stecl steam by lake to Buffalo, and thenco by the road to New York or by New England lines to Boston! Aroe they aware that the lion's share of the freight to and from Sioux City oes over this route, or over the So0” lino Trom St. Paul and via the Canadian Pacific? Ave they aware that the old Chicago lines arc compelled to meet this competition at Sioux City by cutting down rates to the level of the upper lake competi- tion, and that under the rulings of the inter- stutd commerce commission, the rates having been put down at Sioux City, they had to bo put down at Omahin and other Missouri river points; and that on the other hand they can- 1ot be put up by the Chicago rouds until they are also put up at Stoux City! This is tho il in the coconnut. And how does it come that Sioux City has the low upper lake rates! Simply by the building of the little Sioux City & Northorn road—a little road of ninety-cight miles; a nittle road running due north from Sfoux City 0 a junction with the Great Northern or Manitoba system, with which it is operated under a cast-ivon trafic contract made before hovel full of dirt was thrown on the Sionx ¢ & Northern. A right here a littlo retrospect is profit- able, A fow years ago it was found that the low levels of ‘the line of the great lakes and the St. Lawrence basin afforded opportunity the eheap construction and operation of rail- rouds. ‘I'hus there was developed, partly on Canadian soil, a system of low. having tho advaitage of co-operation with luke lines, the ¢ ation of which is only a portion of that of old trunk_lines between Chicago and New York and of their feeders and tools, the old lines west of Chicago. There grew up a distinet new system of transportation, strotehing from Dulith to the extreme of Lake Superior to the seaboard, paralleling the old system. The low prades, the cheap operating expenses and the smull capitalizution of the new system, combined with the lake and Canadian conncetions, give to it immense advantages over the old system, enabling the former to mako profits on lowdr rates than the latter could coucede and maintuin its enormous burden of fixed charges, watered stocks and fraudulent bonds. e old system was under bid, and a vust volume of traflic began to move over tho upper lake route. Then Duluth bogan to be acity Now remember a familiar fact. St. aud Minneapolis had been under tho ty 3 of tho voads, just a8 Missouri rivor towns have been. The perfod of thoir notable growth as cities dates from v when th ured the low upper the building of the *Soo" line, own, The low by seeured cnabied them to supply an immense territory of the northwest with freights that moved” from the castern se board entively around Chicago on rates whicl the old” Chicago roads could not, or would meet hecause the pooled trunk lines cast of Chicago extorted their ol fixed “pro- portionul” of the through rate. On the other hand the flour of Minneapolis moved s most entively by the new routo around Ch cago, as did also a large and rapidly inereas- ing proportion of tho grain and food products of the northwest in the region of the trade of the Twin cities. In short, the Twin cities are the cities that they ave today largely by virtue of their access to the low upper lako route. Meantime the Great Northern or Manitoba railvond systom was rapidly extending lines through the wheat region of tho north and developing into a great, vailvoad system, an anti-Chicago systom, having its interests contralized at Minneapolis and St. Paul, and making promptly a connection with Duluth wation. Tho great Northern d one wem resching down through Minne- and South Da'tota to within 100 miles of foux City. Now ull western business men know the ovigin of the rate troubles in the west and northwest during the past three years, They know that it lies in the oxtension of the upper lake competition to St. Paul and Minueapolis, The old Chiicago roads refused to moct that compatition, They virtually “went out of business,” in railvoad parlanca - But they were involved by the course of the Chicago, Burlington & Northern, and’ they had to make despecato efforts to pi it the oxten- sion of cut rates to Missouri river points, un- til finally the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney was compellod to absorb the Chigigo, Bur lington & Northern for whose uction in mecting upper lake competition it was held responsible by the old Chicago lines, To illustrate the desperation of the strug glo of the old Chicago roads to pre vent tho reduction of rates to Missouri river points proportionally 1o the upper lake rates, a notablo fact may bo cited. Sioux City, being tho northernmost Missouri viver point, does businessin terri- tory competing with' St. Paul and - Minncapo- lis.” As tho old Chicago roads rofused to r duce the Missouri viver rates Sioux City wus compellod to competo ou & high Missouri viver rate with St. Paul and_Minneapolis on tho low upper luke rate, This, compotition became critical at . times . during the past threo years, In: the' - spring of lust year St Paul - jobbers were able actuatly to lay down goods to the trade in Sioux City as low as Sioux City jobbers could got the same goods here: = The St. aul jobbers actually did tho same i sqores of towns in the territory at the very doors of Sioux City, The Sioux City jobbers for two years appealed in vain o the Chicagp roads 1o remedy the situation. Adumitting the un- just and “fatal discrimination, they persist- ently refused to remedy it on the grounds that to reduco rates to Sloux City would compel them to correspondingly reduco rates to Omaha and all Missouri river cities to the south, The Lllinois Central had no line to St. Paul and Minneapolis, and theroforo the diversion of freight by tho low upper lake competition from Sioux ity was a diversion of froight from the Iilinois: Central; but so powerful was the pressure bought ' to bear by the Chicago roads upon the Tiinots Cen: tral that it refused, against its own interest, 1o reduce the rates to Sioux City, Then it was that Sioux City, hopeless of rewedy otherwise, took its fate” futo its own hands, as Minneapolis and St. Paul had done yeurs before, and secured a connoction with upper lake competition by building tho Sioux City & Northern road “north nluety-eight miles to a connection with the Great Northern or Manitoba system, o close alliance having y previously consummatad. The Sioux y & Northorn was coustructod late in the fall of last year, and it was opened for busi ness ou the drst day of April last From that day Soux City has ceased to hubly petition for fwvors ol the old Chicago a *the strikers left fi AV TN Ll‘;, ds, Fromehat day the jobbers of ux City havo had no trouble with rates, Fro day tho agedts of the old Chicago roads Bave been “hustling for tusiness in Sioufl City. * Upper Iake compoti- tion is o fact RRoux City today ot only so, within ten_days of the ng of the Woux_ City & Northern, the A0, s'fi' 1, Minneapolis & Omaha 1 company ap) to and secured from the traffic assockation permission to meot the Sioux City &Nogthern rates on grain in com- petitive territopy.. That is wh d grain rato camp tom. More than tHi" horetn is the essence of the won why the rites today at Omaha are 95 per cent below tho limit three months ago, and it is solely tho effect of upper lake com- petition at Siopx1vity, which has provented Hz«u:lfi riverirages being advanced to that extent, Do the citizons of Omaha know why the Pacific Short line has been bulit 125 miles due west from Sioux City to O'Neili, Neb,, and is today under contract for construction the en- the reduc tire " distance thence to Ogden, Utah, to “ connection thero with the Central Pacific! It is largely becauso by building that oennection upon i lower capitalization than the Union Pacific orany old Chicago road, and by the advant- tage of the low upper lake competition at Sioux City, the position of this new trans- continental line " is Amprognable. ~ Why the Union Pacific-Northwestern-Vanderbilt. alli- ance! Why the tremendous efforts of that combine to fight back the new construction westward | "he reason is the sam The history of this conflict which has been going on has not yet boen given to the public, but when it is fully mafle known the wost will hetter understand why the old Chicago roads have striven 8o desperately to choke off the new upper lake compotition from extonding down the Missouri river and into the trans- Missouri empire. Here is a fact worth the consideration of Omahu Within thirty days the old Chicago roads have repeatedly offered to turn over to the Great Northern or Manitoba systom all business at St. Paul und Minne- apolis, provided it would break its contrict with the Sioux City & Northern and abandon Missouri river business at Sioux City! But the game didn’t suceeed. Now to the point. 1f the upper lalke compe- tition excites the old Chicago roads to such desperate efforts to drive it away from the Missouri is it not worth the while of MissourP river cities to establish for them- selyes forever that competition, to strengthen and extend itd That competition is now fixed at Sioux City, and why should it not be ex- tended to Omaha, thus enfilading the old Chi- cago combine and bring in a competitive force which cannot be overcomet All on earth that is nec the building of 100 mile: grade between Sioux City and Omaha, a line in harmony with the Sioux City & Northern. ‘That line will not have the iron laid before the Missouri Pacifio will be glad to make arrangements. But it will forever fix at Omaha the compatition of the low lake rates which built Minneapolis and St. Paul, and the effect of whieh has 8o revolutionized the transportation situation at Sioux City. ‘When Omaha has this genuine competition, this unfailing check upon the old Chicago roads, then will be time enough to build dis- tinctively Omaha ronds in other directions, north, cast, west or south, as Sioux City is arranging to do in ‘its territory; for then Omaha can have an assnred use to which to put such veads. Then Omaha can bring in supplies from the seaboard and send grain and other western . food products thither ub- olutely in ndent and in despite of Chi- cago and the witole_array of the old Chicazo roads—and this is something which Omaha cunnot do today. Why not extend the upper lake competition directly to Omaki, and why not do it now ¢ The new independent bridge across the Missouri river stands ready today to guaran- tee in advance’ to o railroad between Sioux City and Omaha facilities on identically the same torms as to.the Pacific Short line. This is oMcial. Oy Why not have th’ connection? SARMISS Rival Ore Hois:ers. Dranwoon, 8. D.; June 28.—[Special Tele- gram to Tir Bre.]—A rivalry exists be- tween the night and day shifts hoisting ore at the O1d Abey shuft, to sce which can hoist the most ore, ~Oue shaft hoisted 777 cars, and then theother gydsheat them by hoisting 811 cars, “They att b h‘\:;w et the ore bins filled so that a- lay-off can Do taken on tho Fourth, The twe homestake mills use a lit. tloover & thousand tons por day uud the Highland mill about five hundred tons. it ISt More Graders Needed. Despwoon, S. D., June 20.—[Spceial Telo- gram to T Bee.]—Nearly double the men at work on the B. & M. and Elkhorn grades could be utilized. The men get §2 a day and are boarded for .50 u weel, The greater portion of the best workmen on the Elkhorn have thrown up and gone to the B. & M., claiming that the grub was not good cnongh at the Tunnel camy empiigs s Will Trust in the Emperor. Beruiy, June 20.—[Special Cablegram to Tk Bee.|—Herr Miguel, the now minister of finance, in a farewell spoech at Frankfort iid: “I am about to usswme a position where conflicting interests clash and whero perhaps a conflict will rage. Yet I am re- solved to essay the task manfully, fully trusting in tho emperor, who has raised the banner of social reconciliation. The financial burden must be moro equally distributed.” In concluding, he expressed his belief that tho conter of gravity of German trade is be- ing more and moro transforved to Berlin, but Irankfort, he added, ought to develop new industries aad to promote technical educa- tion, ary to this end 1s road along a low B. P, H. . o Y Active Mining Stoc Deanwoon, S: D, June 20.—[Spacial Tele- gram to Trr Bek,]-Mining stock has been active for a week. Quotations closed lust night as follows: Homestake, 113 Caledonia, 2155 Calumet, 155 Cora, 83 Deadwood Ter L Desmet, 403 Tronhill, 435 Seabury, Double Standard, 813 Reward, 25; Harmo; 83 Tsadora, 6173 Migicie, 7:4: Monitor, 23 Hetrlever, 12; Ross Annibal, 15; Ruby Bell, iu) 23 Steward, 8; Tornado, 163 Uneld Sam 15, — A Paiuful Accident. Master Arthur Woodman, while attending a picnic at Hanscom park last Saturday, met with a serious accident, An iron bolt pro- Jecting from the side of one of the swings caught his leg, teaving n deep and ugly wash, The boy was conveyed to his home at Twenty fourth ‘street and Capitol avenue, Medi aid was eallod in and the wound sewed up. Ho will likely bo confined to the house for sowa time. Fell Boys on a Strike, The Murray hotel bill boys, twelye of them, aro outona welldovelopod st They quitat 6 o'clock, fgqt night, claiming that thoy were compollbito work eighteen hours a diy and ent the leavings of the hotel tables M. Siloway, the_proprictor, states that the boys have been ;ifiml as'well s those of other hotel HTYA® city. In an hour afte places were filled b uess of the hotel went other boys and thbu merrily on. ) ) - The new offi of the great Rock [s- land route, 1602, Sixteenth and Farnam street, Omaha, are the finest in the city. Call and see “Irl. Pickets to ull points rdLos east ut lowest r - PARAGRAPHS' TVdas. - Robert J. Stimsgn of Fremont is a guest at the Millard, WA George H. Spepp of Columbus is at the Merchants. Frauk 1. Lawrenc at the Murray . M. Pe at the Murray Miss Nottio Mitchell of Blair Is among the guests at the Millard. Gieorge 2. McDonald of Fro ping at the Millard, N. S. Haroling of Nebraska City is stopping at the Paxton, W. . Clemmons and wifo of Fremont are guests at tho Paxton J. J. Bartlett of Kearnoy is registered at the Paxton Miss Carrie McFayland of Nebraska City is at the Morchants. Alex Altschule PERSONAL, of Lincoln is reglst of Central City is stoppin nt is stop- and wifo and Miss Grace Bane of Alnsworth are stopping at the Casey Hon. James Whitehead, recoiver of the land oftice at ken Bow, and Mr. J. Horn, edit of the Custer Loader, of the samo place, aie in the city S0 MONDAY, LESS SCRAMBLING FOR SPOILS A Result Partly Brought About by the Civil THE Capital Flowing In tude of the States’ Rights Repres WastixaToy, June 21 Bak]—Unmistakably the a docadenco fn polit salil a senator from the west, this morning. He continued: I rocolve a groat many surprising lot from my constituents, going to the point of what I say, and my experience is that of ! many otber public men. are mostly i the fleld now to punish enemics or look to the public good. working for m Measures live prejudice.$ “How do you account for this?" I asked. 1t s the of the cf tion of the peoplo. come the anmbit victims to the political ma future. I mean that you will not hc men stuffing ballot boxes and bulldozing vot- ers for the advancoment of men; they may do it for princ is aprinciplo that moves manipulators to « of violen ving teriis ju tho penitenciary to mako political points. " But even thero you will find less in the future than we havi the past “These things I learn from my own and other men in publ tinued the senator. do hard and h will be so ship that will move them afirmatively. 1t of s doesn’t pay, and the workers know it as well M as we do. Friendships are shifting | evil-doers and gratitude i3 unsta These | ** ‘Look conditions, this clection law less nece thful condition of atfairs. o he futu men wi to_hesitate and ask themselves, ‘W this benefit me will they do it. countr 1 méthods employed has furnished a can- didate for the penitentiar b campa s done w nounce the accused. and scap Sueh tallcas_this is heard in dire tion now, and its cffect is as notic in or party It means less determin, tion"in_personal politics in the future, that principles aud not men are going to'win. A fow da; able lawyer who emigrated from Lt Ve ana'to Tex; litieal meth comment upon the busin section of country, espec development of vities, Tl impression is very | 2 general now that the attention of the cour "’1”“- _'"‘:_ north and east will be largely divected | frequently o, toward the south for business speculation, and Bnglish capital is going into the south- ern states in greator quantities than elss where just at pr tleman whose obser worth reader, say make ories on one side and their intense desire for governm ental aid on the ruggle for political power would be amusing TLOA_MIXXT AT ¥ren v o svwmie JUNE 1890, i Service Rules, s the state S — was fair) and eve SITUATION IN THE Paradoxioal Atti- SOUTH. sentatives —An Odd Fo- male School. [Special to Tir s are ovidences of work for the spoils,”” a little Political workers They are not Men aro ungrateful. id operate for ull without The atuval sequence of the working | Jim & sorvice law and o woaried condi- Men in all partics have to the conclusion that it doesn't pay give 80 much time and trouble to the 08 of men. You will not find willing hinations in the rof rator, ples. In soctions of the south it 'ts that leads them to run the risk shoriff degd, had in W “When we ask men to rdous work in the future it mal friend- thing more than pe ange, muke a federal ssary, I think. 1t shows When in the A picee of corruption is sugg o are usked to do the work o and in very few instunces Almost_every county in the where there have been corrupt polit- at tho close of ign. Th whom the work > the first to fleo from and d The wor kuow this Oats are going to be s ago T réctived a lotter from a in which he speaks of the p ds of the south, aftera valuuble S outlook of thi atly in the v carrin palice. ssent. OF politics, this g ations and judgment ave ation of any the consids hése southern people tickle me, and | Onar me mad by their tes’ vights the- | the first he re other. Thei Wer I did not kuow that su on their lines, witl their political idc uld be such a [ misfortune. While Texas' is demanding P 000,000 to make a deep harbor at Galveston, | Princess. overyone of her representatives is Lowlin ory other p of foderal aid to advance corpor interests in the stutes teh the northern people with th 1o New South,” with its double m To the southern politician it is a cateh-word to beguile, To him it means the the south to power, and_ o wants_ the north to boli sults of the war by the south, on this subjoct. that I burn to fover heat at the stute v of southern politic 5o people is opposed to e in hor hiome improvem pitriotism of theso peonle especially when foreign foc shows himself.” of 'th Now that the soason has lic and private schools are. closing rangemeuts ave being made for the te ginning next September or October, it will be of interest to the women of the country espo- cially, to know that Washmgton hus probably the ' oddest fomale school in the puntry. It is essentially a fin- | nand, when hing School—an establishment ™ which gives | \toors in young ladies finishing touches for entering [ 000 1 life. The girls are schoolod in tho arts of etiquette, housekeeping and soc of the most aristoeratic schools in tho one country, too, was confined to a sco tes' rights, and jumping hard onto ev- sposition 1ooking toward the use to and othor How do they hope to fair words ling. Get aw The ui to the e ptance of the re. 1 fecl decpl Tlove the union so intenscly uprom- and the political ideas A states’ ri ts southerner rything that is foderal with- horders till he wants foderal aid to its. 1 do not question th © it means the acc The m coming munner. arrived when pub- and ar- lepe Lundved graph, oty, It is Moors A fow years ago its patronage | century, > of pupils, but now it has nearly two hundred, aud they represent | this ter the tirst families of the cou: lad and other public ¢ portunit given Shop caught like a prai scems to spread ever, vy littlo of the usu ools. The main idea of the school has The young are taken t the whité house, cabiuet sptions, and given an op- ticipate in_them, They are 10l and ta wriculu thorough cou o pi roceptions at ud converse. o fir where, and its novelty hoards. An architeet from ot tho flourishing far western states this week was surprised to see the great var ure shown in private and public buildings here. He de- clared that there was the greatest vage of | tionts, styles of architecture prosented in Washing- | (j,i, ton_of any city in tho world. In asinglo | L' block he pointed” out as ¥ a dozen | St Vine styles of the bighest architects One of tho secrots of the great variety of architecture he sigus lies in the fact that thes cluss auy other city in the world. turo in the offfco of the supervising architect There are probably seventy-fivh draughtsmen ewployed in the supervising architect's oftice, | Yor! and tlhiey design the f are constructed th way that Theso men are gynerally young and fresh ' from wodern schools of drchiteeture, They | P b come hore to get thiy finishing touches and to | leust number of be afforded au oppirtunity to study the high- st branches of their arct.” The work they ave aployed upon is of the highest churacter, one of th in any the of the government wud opén offices of their own, bright, young, ambi five years, and which have made Washington M the handsomest city in the world, soverer test” can be made'of a maw's o 8 Ingi higher aud finer the schools ¥ ancient capable Scoator W the withatood the test much botter than it is | ugainst Christophl usu cam beir 1t is ve than the delive the'seuate, T orators i th of the older men are ol , he evinced minutes- Mr. Wo to Washingt g one of the firs He cortainly has the finest vol full and strong, which always Learer { With 8 woudertul fund of good Luumor wud cand the beauty of the de o e more first- al capital than The treuasury de ing school for architec hids or playe: rehitects in the natiol ont has @ tra Bank Al buildings which ighout the country. playe to vernment's buildings are cheap respect. As soon s theso men *get ang of the barn™ they quit the serviee games, was M ol | the gam archi The services of this great ¢ shown in the buildings which h structed hero during the past four or Evory n y of his first oration vo ‘ure a preat many fine ipper branch of coagress and t uncharita their critlvisms of new colleagues of “the middloaged es—like My ) Kansas—have mado o study of t arts of oratory from all of uted in mode probably cott of Colorado passed the ay, and although he | sov ch nervousness for some Lt is 4 youug man and A with the reputation of tors of the countr: in con, ud has that lucid tono sic and uever tires the LSO gifted pives L Ho is a pationco, face of the Many now senators have given ex- rassing new hibitions of their powars under embi circumstances, but it has not been within tho that u more trying test lus boon When orido took his seat ho smothered with congratulations, body was glad that he had mado a past docac than that of Senator great hit, Popular Ghastly “You have often heard the expression, ‘gone up the flume that phrase was started hore in Colum- bin, " says an old fort Wash., paper. man ‘who went up the flume.’ been o good man_ until ho married and started o gin mill. tough charactor. vs | delphian and popular fellow fellow, got full, and - saunte Woll, haven't you? attle, was tho first He had became o Smith, a Phila- e into Bark- accldentally broke Ho offered to pay for it, but the woman of the place quarrel, and Barkley, in t two men, shot Smith down.” lelphin bo gother, formed a vigil: and arrested Barkley quickly in those days and before night rt, the sheriff, had heard of committee and he and two othor brave men eame galloping down to Columbia, “[ happened to be the second man in the house after the murder pened also to find out that Jim Stew and his men we ley’s place a pitcher. precipitatod a ho presence of to- wce committeo News was spr the vigilanes L short cut down to the nging and warned the boys. over a thousand of these ¢ just formed a solid wall prisoner and place of hi There were men, o the around their the execution Columbia and i the gallows v over tho road at a Barkley wus the “The place chosen for s on the road betw Gold Sprin flume that sht of twenty feot, , but subsequently lynche rning not 1 on the flume. of the vigilantes to the low, you go slow, or you'll go up the flum “And frequently questions of “Where's would be answered “Ihem, why they're gone up the flume,’ The exproess Mike, or Bill, Jim?’ its wholesome u: was spread from camp to camp, and now it is world-wide. ———— conches—Pullman e reclining chy intervening | Through spers, dining c: Sixteenth and Farnam. MAKING IN MUFTIL A Royal tweethe Runs Against a rim Guard. oung prince voyal of gagod to the princess im- perial of Germany, and immedis out on his sparking ecpedition. young lady lived in the polae used to go there was taken in a e from the railway station to the made stated visits, But one day he took it into his head to pay an informal visit. civilian elothes, he bos iving at the railvond st he could hire. sentinel was, of Dressed in plain od u train, and ched the course, at the owled the big Prussian, id the princo, uce of Greeco and the fiance of the Lot me pass.” *You are a nice lookir And a princ ‘the crown you are! prince The soldier thought he Noticing a Inckey, the prince b to him, and after seribbling a S »f | on the back of & card told him to take it and got angr) The luc ntinel it fool a lackey wasn’t to b astonishment whe coming to meet the poor ¢ but an old soldicr affectionate e An Old 1 Recent discussions on the subject of s hospitals ha attention to the hospital of San Lazar which has existed in Saville for over six poars, suys was founded Dy Saint Fordi- and lej [1L, commonly known 248, on the le, about a mile out of the town. which had the fifteenth ng be removed noble | ible disense this institution, late us the custom for four its it to | lnst contury ains | patie tsto rse of | on hovsebne lowed to spe attracted attention b k to the inhabitants, th vainted | Lazaro has undergone in its day many vicissitudes; but, thanks to the henevo- lence of individuals, it ted 1o bo | ition, its pu- | to | now in_a flourishing coy who ix, being tended by the sistors of nt de Paunl, A Long Checker Match. Timothy M. White of Little Silver ir to become the champion check- of the United States. xty players took part s ugo, weites a Red | of the New nament in whick wiis about mes. Tho pl by pairs, and it was areanged in such a :h pair should p simultaneously, the player who won the smes to drop out of the If the contest betweon tho vs resulted in o tie both men wero | nain in Each man h; tournament, as played up to date thirty te's lust opponent, s vosulted indraws and one was During the tournu- won by Mr. White, vo | ment Mr. n has been vetived by him ex- ¥, president I of the New York checker ¢ ween these m « When the pairs next series move than four | ery one was d up for the probably be not rules adopted” ot the tournament, menceent of m as well as [ ncier Sound, PARIS, June 20 minister of l of exhiviting bis oratorical powers in | of Credit sonate on Tue inance, to Chiistophle, governor iness of The Kansas Origi Torexa, K ss, | phrey has dirceted a letter to erai Kellogg i the cirouit court resent the state 1o anpear bef When he arose every senator with- in the building settied down into his scat and Iooked intontly | of loaven Be Sure Tt you have mado up your mind to buy Tlood's Sarsaparilla do not bo Induced to take any other A Boston lady, whose example is werthy imitation, tells her experience below: “In ono storo whero I went to buy Hood's Sarsaparilia the elerk tried to induco me buy theirown instead of Hood's; he told me thelr's would last longer; that X might take it on ten /' To Cet days’ trial; that If Tdid not like it T need not pay anything. ete. But ho could not prevail on'me to chango. I told him I had taken Hood's Sarsaparilla, knew what It was, was satisfied with it, and did not want any other. \ When I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla T was feoling real miscrable with dyspepsia, and so weak that at times I could hardly Hood’s ’ stand. T looked 1iko a person in consumpe tion. Hood's Sarsapurilla did mo so much good that I wonder at mysclf sometimes, ) and my friends frequently speak of it.” Mg, 4 ELLA A. Gorr, 61 Terraco Street, Boston, Sarsaparilla | Sold by all druggists, 81 six for 2. Propared onty ! by C. 1. HOOD & CO., Apothocaries, Lowell, Muss, 100 Doses One Dollar 7 COTTRELLS IN FLORIDA, | | | A Judge Who Had the Interests of th e 1t newspapers,” a man who has | rocently returned from Florida said to a ) New York Tribune writer, “that this fellow Cottrell, the fighting mayor of Cedar Keys, should find it possible to | terrorize and subjugate an entire town s ho s said to have done. To one who has lived in the small towns in the south- orn part of Florida the situation is easily understood. There are few exceptiond el to the rule that the government of any people is just about what a large class of the community is contented to have it. This holds good, in my opinion,from the vast empire of Russin” down to the little ! town of Cedar Keys. And I judge from ‘ the tyrannical policy pursued by the czar | ‘ and the outrageous boldness of the tive Cottrell that each man anequal- ¢ large influentinl and admiring back. in proportion to the extent of his do- “I have just heen spending a winter in a growing town near the gulf const of southern Plorida county, where thet just such a clique in - control of muni al affairs as there must bo in Cedar < "Phis eligue is led by the count judge, however, and he maintains his authority, not by means of the shotgun, but by processes of the court. The ras- cally docisions he gives in trumped-up suits agninst the enemies of his gang would make dull reading, as a ruld, to any those immediately interested in them, but one case which [ had him de- cide myself had a grotesque touch of humor in it. “One of the supporters of the ‘court house gang,’ as the clique is called, had BT e PO INT Ve (LU R B ot e with one of the opponents of the clique, and had drawn a wicked looking knife of great length and keen edge, from his bootleg, with which he attempted to stub his opponent. The latter, secing the nife, drewa revolver, levelied it at the ruflian’s head, and commanded him to put away his knife, The man did so and sneakdd out of the store, where the scene ocenr without another word In he course of ten minutes he cam back with the sheriff and the town mar- shal. They arrested the man who had wn_the revolver.lodged him in o hor- vibly hot, stifling juil, where clouds of mosquitoes and a wretched negro or two were his only companions, and there left him for the night. “The next day about noon he was brought before the judge and charged with enrrying concedled and murderous weapons “about his person within the limits of the town. This is a convenient law for the court house gung, who are all armed and neyer enforce the law except in vegard to their enc . _The pris- oner was fined $10. He paid it without a word, knowing how uscless nn anpeal would ‘be, and then made a similar charge against his opponent for carry- ing the knife in his bootleg. The Inife was exhibited in court; and w most murderous looking tool it was, fit to carve a man’s heart out, in fact; but the ju who scemed also to uct as counsel for the accused member of his gang, appealed to ”‘Y crowd in the room, ns a sort of jury, ar said: *Do_you eall this a murderous weapon? No, gentlemen, this is a sim- ple pruning-knife, a peaceful tool of hus- bandry, a mere agricultral instrument, Fine a man for carrying the implements of his avocation about him? = Never, gentlemen. To punish a gentleman for carrying @ praning- in Flovida ., nife would b a blow at_ the bt orange- vowing industry of this state, which it shall never bo said Tiwas the first man to strike, #5 costs Lo be po The chargoe is dismissed with d by the com plainant.” - Tickéts at lowest rates and superior ccommodations via the great Roek s 1 land rout Ticket ofnce, 1602—Six- Il teenth and Farnam streets, Omaha el 1 An Old Lawsuit, Pour hundred and soventy yoars ago two men in Hungary went to law about a piece of land valued at $2,000, But no- body ws in any particular hurry, and so the matter dragged along until the oth- or day, when the court decided it. The decision, howe isof little practical interest to anybody, as the land in ques- tion has been'covered by a lake for the last 200 year: POWDER Absolutely Pure. A oraum of tartar baking powdor, Uighe U. 8. Governwent ! 14090 | DOUGLAS-~-STREET. On account of our | and increasing 1I'r we have REMOVED o more spacious ol venient offices. Drs. Betts & Betts, 1409 Douglas ¢, Quaka, Heb 15 strength DOrL Aug. 17, 1550,