Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 26, 1890, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Editor, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERME OF 8UBSCRIPTION, Dally and Sunday, One Yoar Bixmonths " ¥ e months Sunday lice, One Year Weckly lee. One Year. OFFIC Omaha, The Bee Building Kouth On y rner N oand Council Bluffs, 12 Pearl Stree Chicago Offic Chira Lor of Commerce New York. Rooms 13,14 and | ribuneBullding Washington, 618 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPOND B All_communieations relating to news and editorial mutter should be addressed to the Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittanees should be addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omiba. Drafs, cliecks und postoftice ordors 10 be made payable to the order of the com pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, The Bee W'z, Furnom and Seventeenth EWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION EBtateof Nebraska, | oo County of Douglas. { Groree . Taehuok. secretary of The feo Pullishing compuny. aoes mnly swear 10t the netual eirculation of THE DAILY BEE for the weex ending Oct. 25, 100, was as fol- ows' Eundav. Oct, 10 Moninv. Oct Tuesday, Oc Wednesday Thursd i Eridav 10 00 0 | Streets Ot G 1 T2sonuek. weribed In my er, A. D,. 1800, presence (nisstn Ay of O B Notary Publie TRVAL NE of Nebrask 'y of Tl the actual o at f kDALY B i October, 1580, 18,00 10,910 coples; i for for cembe Jan 1800, 1 61 coples for A copless 1800, 20, for September, for 20 copl Gronae BT Sworn (0 Lefore me. and subscril presence, thisoth aay of Octoler, A, D.. 180, T ary Public, CrRRENT mavket voports give the lie to the democeratic tales of woe. MRS, STANTON has not pointed to the supre ot been ap- e beneh, Tir men who work in shops have marked one tender ealf for slaughter. Tie effcte east is wrappedin wind and rain and the woolly west in sunshine and politics, Tnere willbe no hope for reform if the legislature is not built of sound and honest timber, Ir Spen Reed was democrats in the chair them on the stump unkind to the he is cruel to Tie double-ender’s political sensa- tions always pass for fakes until they are found true, which is seldom. ONE good term deserves another, and the constituents of Congressman Con- nell will sce that he has what he de- gorves. T prohibition corruptionists of Chi- cagoand New York have been outeag- eously stripped inexchange for aliteral slice of the by OmAHA and Nebraska are one and in- separable. The prosperity of one is the i of the other. Prohibition would give a black eye to both. NEBRASKA'S marvelous growth dur- ing the past decado is the best argument in favor of continuing the policies which contributed to such grand re- sults, Tur South Carolina voter who will not cast a democratic ballot has just eight more duys to live with a whole skin, The shotgunis loaded this y and the country has been given fair no- tice of it. LINCOLN as wellas Omaha has been openly and secretly assiiled, its growth derided and the character of its resi- dents foully slandered. Local pride and self respeet call for a vigorous rebuke of these infamous methods at the ballot box. I1 is reported that the empress of Russia has hecomo very haggard and thin through fear of the ussassination of hor husband. That is unfortunate, but thero are thousands of men and women whoare not only haggurd and thin, but also hungry and miserable. They are in Siberin. Tie builders’ exchange propose to wage an aggressive campaign against the hired assailants of the clty, Eve business, benevolent or social organizi- tion should follow the example of the builders. An injury to the city is the concern of all, WARD MCALLISTER {5 his own Bos- well, Flo has written the story of his #wn greatness and the New York Four Bundred have it inan edition de luxe, limited to exactly four hundred copi There is another edition for common folks, who should be duly grateful. They cannot expect to be invited to his fashionable dinners, but they can read the bill of fare by paying the markot price. And isn’t that botter than being nobody? p— It is to be hoped that Attorney Gen- eral Lecsa will got the boundary be- tween Nebraska and lowa defined soon after election, Otherwise the Towa man who has had the taste for liguor taken out of him by act of the legislature may be tempted to wet his whistle on the ground that ho thoughthe was on the right side of the Nebraska line have the line between fanaticism and reason made straight and plain, —_— UK s in retirement and the so- cialists are getting to the front in Ger- many. It is impossible not to connect one fact with the other, The empera meanwhile, is planning in some mysterl ous way to reduce the prices of food and to build houses for the poor. Bismarck repressed soclalism and William yields it a point. That is why they could not live together, It still remainsto be seen whetherthe ideas of the great chancellor had outlived their useful- noss and whether the young ruler read !he signs of the times aright. 500 | TH DING CRISIS. But eight more days temain for the of determine INPEX work preliminary to the cont November 4 which is to whether prohibition is to be planted in | law of Nebraska, or impracticable and blighting policy The ater possibili- the fundamental tha rejected by people. erisls 8o near at hand involves gr ties affecting the interests, the pros perity and the future welfare of this stato and its people than any political ox oth se, that has occurred during the twenty-thres years sinco No- braska became a sovereign common: wealth, Aceording to our determina tion of this supreme issue wo shall en- courage enterprise, prosperity and pro- gress, or invite decadence, disaster and retrogression. If prohibition be de- feated population will again flow into Nebraska, millions of eapital now lying idle awaiting the verdict will become active in numerous forms of investment, enterprises established will expand and will be added, the restoration of confidence at home and abroad this great state will renew the new ones and in mavch of progress so splendidly pursued in tho past, and which has been ehecked only by the apprehension caused by the agitation of The success of prohibition will bring the reverse of all this, Notonly will there be no ad- ditions to our population of new people, prohibition. but tens of thousands of our present citi- zens will depart to other states, in the natural desire to eseapo the dectine of and the destruction of property values business certain to ensue, The experi- ence of Towa in this respect will be re- peated in Nebraska, very likelyon a v ity of the state we should soon see what is now to much larger scale. In ev be seen in the cities of Towa and Kansas, and resi- at dly move than hundreds of store buildin dences unoceupied, though offered rentals that We ov would 1 the cost of the taxes and insurance, should have municipal taxation rywhere increased, until, as in Kan- would become so as to be almost wnbearable. With the decrense of and the decline of property values in the cities the burden op- presive busin there would inevitably come a fall in the value of Our kots themselves drifting lessly toward that condition in e propor farmer, having theiv home ma reduced would find help- which thousands of farmers inthe east have long been, unable to make the soil yield them a livelihood, yot having no altornative but to remain on it or aban- don it. Insucha situation our farmers would not only find it most difficult to obtain money atany price, but would be relentlessly pressed for what they now owe. Thecapital that awaits a favor- able opportunity for investment in Ne- braska inthe enlargement of existing enterprises and the establishment of new ones, in the construction of build- ings and in other will, it prohibition is employment in other states, where there are prosperity and progress, hension of these results does not rest upon theory or conjecture; it is grounded upon conditions and expe- ways, succossful, no prohibitory laws to obstruct The appre- rienco of which there is abundant ev dence at hund and accessible to all who care to seek it. Tue Bee has already referved, in terms of merited desperate and un: denunciation, to the crupulous character of the prohibition campaign. Its whole conduct and inspiration has come from imported mevcenavies who huve not a favthing’s interest in Nebr who could witness the material decli of the state without These a regret or com- sordid advocates of prohibition” for the revenue there is in ithave defamed Nebrasl: punction. , slandered its people,andby every unfaic and unscrupu- lous means have sought to dumage the character and eredit of th e state. istently em- ployed falsehood and misrepresentation, in utter disvegard of facts of official record. They have shamelessiy and pe incontrovertible They have kept us spies and sneaks in the principal cities char ‘terless vagabonds who will do any dishonorable service for hire. They hive flooded the census office at Washington with anonymous communi- tions intended to diseredit the work of in Omaha and They have sent out to the country statements designed to the financ! business the federal enumerators other cities, injure edit of our communities. In no mothods or devices have been too un- principled or s for these their efforts to promote the cause of prohibition. Never in all history were baser expedients re- sorted to in the name of short, wndalous enemies of Nebraska in reform., > - Never was there a more urgent demand moral upon a people to indignantly resent such practices and repudiate the party that gives then countenance. We believe that the patriotic senti- ment, not less than the practical com- mon sense of the people of Nebraska, will lead them to reject a policy whose defense is an assault upon the character and eredit of the state, and wlhiose con- summation would be fruitful in producing the conditions which its ml\'(\cute. falsely assert now exist. We believe that the large majority ofthe intelligent farmers of Nebraska will not vote to in- corporate in the constitution a policy the inevitable effect of which must be to largely depreciate all property values, exclude and drive out capital and indus- trial enterprises, and check the growth of population. During the last decade Nebraska's increase ln population was event, | | nearly one hundred and thirty | cont; Towa's incrense was only about | at. If prohibition is de- | foated thero is no y-four por twenty per won why Nebraska | shall not pass Kan<as in population and 1000, inthe meantime o much larger ratio of Ith. What madness it ce such a possibility fora policy that has everywhere failed overtake Towa before roalizing in | would be to sacr increase we of its purpose and been productive of evils far fous to socloty than it intended to The verdict of the people of Nebraska on this question will determine whethor the state is to go forward in material It will aggregate more those was remove. prosperity or to retrograde, mean an immense gain in wealth during the future years, bring- ing with it incrcased comfort piness to the whole people, or a vast and hap- loss in which every citizen who is com- pelled to remain here must sharve, and which will greatly reduce the advant- ages and benefits now enjoyed by the rotro- gression, the other to progress, There ought to be no doubt as to which onethe intelligent and patriotic people of Ne- people. The one road leads to braska will take, A GREAT SOLDIER'S BIRTHDAY, Today is the ninetieth birthday of Count von Moltke, and it will be cele- brated all over Germany with estraordi- nary enthusiasm, and by Germans inthis and other countr Forsome time past Emperor William has been giving a @reat deal of personal attention tothe preparations for this celebration at Ber- lin, thereby manifesting his strong af- fection for the great soldier who has had no superior among his contem pora- ries, and whose fame will live as long as the history of the German ISmpire en- dures, in the making of which few men played so conspicuous and valuable a part. The world is wont to think only of Bismarck in conncction with the achievement of Gorman unity, but the work of that great statesman could not have succeeded without the aid of the wonderful st st who plamned the battles t d the policy of Aus- tria at Sudowa and vanquished the ar- mies of France on several mem- orable fields. Even the military renown of the grandfather and father of Emperor William was due largely to the genius of the veteran in whose honor all CGiermany will be ablaze today with en- thusiasm, Von Moltke received a thorough mil tary education and entered the Prussian army as a cornet, Headvanced steadily | stock growe Eagomes forward,broke taining the position of licutenant gen- eral of the Prussian avmy more than thir ars ago. His first great se vice was in the war with Denmurk over the Schleswig-Holstein difficulty, and a fow years | his genius found broader field in the war between Prussia and Austria, Von Moltke was seventy years old when he commanded the Prus- Sian army and itsauxiliaries in the war with France in 187071, but that su- preme test of his ability gave him a just cluim to be considered the greatest strategist of theage. Von Moltke was a most carveful student of the military operations in this country during the L war and a great adwiver of Grant and Sherman, showing the former great consideration when he called on the count during his visitto Europe. The German people are justly proud of their most distinguished soldier, and he me itsull the honovs that will be showered upon him today by all classes of people from emperor to peasant. GENERAL BOOTH'S SCHEME. The Salvation Army has never had much standing in America, but General Booth, the father and leader of it, has caught the ear of England with ascheme for the relief of London’s poor, proposed in his book, *In Darkest England.” If itisa good thing in England it may be in America. He prope that the very poorof TLondon shall be gathered into two city colonies and muaintained in part on broken vietuals systematically colleeted, and in part by the wages accruing from very common trades, He would clothe them largely with the cast-off garments of the well-to-do. He would have them live in tude but comfortable houses built by themsely As th become self- sustaining ho would have them graduate toa colony in South Af where thel opportunities for prosperity would be better. It isthe old scheme of community life, to be undertaken with the aid of a generous public. A London paper says of i “It sounds like the dream of a philanthtopist revised by a pract man,”’ The world is full of miserable poverty in the midst of plenty. If this plan ean help to mitigate it, it is worthy to be tried. General Booth has furnished the poor of London with a religion. 1f he suceceds in also furnishing them with a living he will deserve to be remembered among human benefactors. A SMOOTH GAME. The ern of Munchausen schemes and visionary projects 1s not by any means on the wane. As long as acryof pr ductive distress is heard in any section of the lund, some inventive genius wilt spring to the front with a specific. Among the latter must be classed Will- iam T. Hunter of Chicago, a philan- thropist of national proportions. Mr. Hunter has a scheme—a mighty one, Like Colonel Sellers he gives his personal guarantee that there are mill- fonsin it. The declinu in the value of western stock during the past five years appears to have harassed the soul of the Chicago benefactor, He wept in silence for the tribulations of the westorn stoc! grower, condoled with him in secret, and “burned the midnight il devising plans to ameliovate his condition. At last he struck it, and all that is nec sary to halke it a go and put millions in the pockets of all interested is for the stockgrowers to commission Mr. Hunter and support his schome, Mr. Hunter claims in a confidential circular sent to thepress that eighty por cent of the stock growers arve with him, but he wants the remaining twenty per ~SIXTEEN PAGE benevolenco_sf brond that he wants all | to shure in t)d benefits of an immediata aise of thifth' per cent in prices, 1f this backwayd ‘twenty per cent of the il commission men will bedisponsed with, | the time ahd quantity offshipments | electric buttons in ’ . stockyards planted at convenient phiiits and six million dollars in vrofits pocketed annually, in addition to the advance in price: Production, shipment, killing and possibly consump- tion will be reduced to a system, the palmy days ofTiuge profits and no work will come ngain tothe cattle raisers, and W. T. Hunter will be hailed as the bene- factor of the cow men. As to money, the Chicago philan- thropist has cnough and to spare, and unlimited outside resources to draw on, consequently lie silences sordid sugges- tions. Incidentally, however, Mr, Hun- terlets the cat outof the bag. Accom- panying his charitable scheme isan in- timation that “I can secure any amount of land s near cities in Kansas and Iowa as the Union stockyards are to ago, by ngreeing to build on it.” People in thi tion are well aware of the depreciation of property in the states named, but few realized that it bad fallen so low as to require being, plastered with imaginary millions to work it off, by way of Chicago, on the cattlemen of the west. A GE AL HOLIDAY, The great interests involvedin the coming election justify the action of the city authorities in urging a general suspension of business and employment on November 4. Under ovdinar cumstances, the-duty of an eloctor is the most sacred obligation imposed by the state, and for that renson it is mmde alegal holid rave as is the duty of honestly participating in the selection of public officiuls, tho issues to be de- termined at the-ballot box next month appeals with greater force toevery citi- zon. The question whether the state shall uproot the policy that has demon- strated its effectivencss in ten years trial and reccived the endovsement of the most enlightoned states 1nthe union, and adopt a system fraught not only withdanger tothe peaceand prosperity of the state, but a system which the great state of Town has practically repudiated aftera thorough trial. It question vitally affecting every property own: merchant, manufacturer, and working- man, for, on the endorsement at the polls of the existing laws depends the bunish- ment of the dark clouds now overhang- ing tho materidl prosperity of the jfeo- ple. i Itis not necessavy to improsson the people of this ety the importance of de- voting their whole energieson election day to the work of wvebuking the de- nha and Nebraska, All s of business men as well as work- ingmen feel the depression produced by the agitation of the prohibitory amend- ment, It has forestalled investment of capital, checked enterprise, made job- bers and retallors unusually cautio as, and filled the banks with millions of idle money awaiting tho result of the 1ssue. And this uncertainty intensities as election day approache The suggestion of the council should therefore recoive the cordial approval of all persons and corporations employ- ing labor. The 4th of November should de o general as well as a legal holiday as far as practicable. Concerted action should be had and an understand- ing reached tosuspend business and do- vote the day to the mpatriotic duty of protecting the commercial and indus- trial prosperity of Omaha and the state from the blight of prohibition, Loyalty to the city and state, the progress of the past no less than the splendid prospects of the carly future do- mand that this day of d be observed in sustaining a policy of restriction and regulation conceded by all reasoning men to bo the best yet devised. RECENT NEW YORK STATUES. Now York City is just now doing more to perpetuate the memory of the great men of our times by works of art than all other cities of the United S Her peovle are keeping the gifted Amer- ican sculptor, J. Q. A. Ward, busy with subjeets that must appeal to his genius with the double claim of patriotism and art, His statue of Horace Greeley has just been unveiled, Tt stands notonly as a monument to the founder of the W York Tribune, but also to the m cont development of journalism which took its earliest inspiration from him, Mr. Ward has alsoa statueof Henvy Ward Beechercast in bronze, another of Roscoe Conkling in the clay, and still another of Phil Shevidan under w. He has also been commissioned 1o pre face the bronzo presentiment of Chester A. Arthur. This popular sculptor will, therefore, do more than almostany other man to draw the picture for future gen- crations of the men who have very largely moulded the thought and madoe the history of the country in the import- ant period between 1860 and 1885, The people of New York show a commenda- Dle public spivivin giving him the op- portunity. The bronze statue {s perhaps the high- est form of memorial tribute which the people can to pay to grentness. Itisa tribute not to e conferred until the last o of aman’glifeis written and the world agrees. that his character and carveer ave of transcendant importance to the pust and the future. But when this is determined the statue can notcome too soon. Its value,so far as the present day is concernéd; loses force with dolay. To unveil a monument to a pilgrim father is worth little compared with the unveiling of one toa great editor or preacher, aa incorruptible statesman or w margelous soldior, the impvess of whose greatness we see in the story of our own times. The world acknowledges rrance of the rose fresh plucked, quivering from the stem, ratherthan that of the flower, however stately, that has been dried and pressed between the leaves of history for two hundred years, | The west, which has somany triumphs to celebrate, is deficlent in its statuar Its people should take a hint from N BW | York. | | ago indicate that | cent, The profits are so vastand his l‘h" long promised boycott of the l'lllull‘ ADVICES from Chis Pacifle by Ilines has been officially declared. From the moment the alli ance was consummated with the Northe western a year ago, rival lines threat cned vengence, but their threats weve met with cool indiffereuce by the al- lied lines, The managers doubtless woighed all contingencios bofore sealing the compact, and are thoroughly equipped for the contest. The territory controlled by the Northwestern and Union Pacific from Chicago to the Pa- cific coasy, their unsurpassed system of feedors, coupled with a direet interest in the Vanderbilt lines eastward, forms a closely-allied un- broken line from ocean to ocen pable of mecting any emorgoncy. The decla- ration of the boycott will provoke active, aggressive competition, and result in a readjustment of the iron-clad rates maintained since the inception of the pool and nsso- clation systems, Whatevor may be the final outcome to the corporations, tho rupture can hardly fail to rvesult in o permanent reduction of the exorbitant tariffs levied upon the productive indus- try of the west. THE BEE acknowledges the receipt of an invitation toattend the banquet to bo given at Columbus, O,, Novembor 13, in honor of the seventy-soventh anni- versary of the birth of Hon. Allen G. Thurman. Notwithstanding the fact that the celebration is in the nature of a democratic fostival, all citizons, regard- less of politics, will share with the participants the spivit of the occa- sion. Thelife and publicscrvices of My Thurman are common proj. A man of broad intellectual grasp, a. statesman in the true senso of the term, a foo of monopolies in every guise and a tireless advocate of tho inter of the masses, the **noblest Roman of them all” ranls high among the greeat men of thecen- tury, and his character and caveer rep- resont the best type of American man- hood. s of the Chi- cago. St. Paul & Kansus City rond have decided to extend the line to Omaha to morve effeetively handlo its business in this cf Although the road is not a direct factor in Omaha’s railroad sys- tem, it plays no inconsiderable part in the regulation of freight rates and handles a large amountof the city’s trade, By building a direct line it will become an active force inthe commerce of the city and may possibly solve the bridge problem, Tue official aunouncement of the consus places Omaha twenty-fivst in the list of leading citiesin the union, Of the thirty snow having a popu- lation of seventy-five thousand or more, Omaha stood at the foot of the list in 1880. In ten years it hus met and passed fourteen cities in thelist and advanced from the sixtieth to the twenty-first in rank. The record isa proud one. THE brecze stirredup by the prohi- bition bribers and burglavs will swell to acyelone of honest indignation on No- vember 4, and sweep the disteputable hirelings off the face of the state. AN THE POLITICAL ST There is one feature in the careerof young Mr. Bryan that has not received sufiicient at- tention, This is his appearance in the cele- brated character of “Dr. Jekyll an Mr Hyde.” His conception of the part is differ- ont from that of both Richard Mansfield and Daniel Bandumanu, but 1 is more intoresting because theirs is ouly an affalr of the stage, while his is adapted to practical life, Mr. Bryan's first ance in the char- acter of “Dr, Jekyll” wasatthe Congrega- tional churchin Weeping Water some months since, On that oc suid to have filled the pulpit quite acceptadly, offering the prayer, reading the hymn, preaching the ser won and pronouncing the benediction, He gave auother renderingof the same devout coaracter at Lincoln, when he iutro- duced a resolution ot the bar meeting forbidding the use of wine at a coming banquet. Incidentally it be remarked that the banquet never came, “Dr. Jekyll's” resolution killed it But the finest bitof acting whwh he has done inthis part of the character was seen when he deliverod a red-ot prohibition speech in the chapel of the state penitentiary Tn that scene he is said to have fairly out- done anytinng recorded of Stevenson's lero. But t mentsof the versatile actc in the pact of “Dr. Jeleyll” fade into nothing: ness compared with his present success in the other half of the dual role. As “M Hyde' he fairly outdoes himself. Ha is now cngagged in this part of the performance, His assumption of the chazacter of a red-hot, high prohiibitionist is so lifelike as to In this character he Is now ap- us points in the First district In bis speech at Omaha and elsewhere he came out flat-footed against prohibition. He frequents the saloons with “the boys' and is “hail fellow well met” with the heelers in the Bloody Third ward of Omaha, at which the rural prohibitionists stand aghast. In this the transformation is complete. “There is absolutely nothing in the hearing of the October candidate for ofiice to su the saintly young man who filled the Weep ing Water pulpit in the joyous springtime. It is said that whon Mr. Bryan recovers from “that tired feclng,” as he will a few mouths after “the men who work in shops” are through with him, be will take the stage and challenge both Manstield and Bandmann to a joint production of “Dr. Jokyll and Mr. Hyda." And in that contest it is safe to su that he will win. But does not this two-faced politician senta spectacle to disgust honest Would not the average democrat pre ¢ a man iucougress who has opinions and sticks to them and does not try to win port. by shufling on boch sides of a great pub- ic question ¢ Mr. Bryan's perfos its funny side, but it ought to be p biw in its sevious light on November 4. gost pre- voter sup wmce has sentod Lo Warren Switzlor {5 atother democra didate who is trying the same dodge to get votes, He is superintendent of the Presby- terian Sabbath school, but 15 runniug on the democratic ticket forstate senator and doesn’t intend 1o get left on the ground that hie is not one of “the boys. He is cultivating the powers that be and trying to the Komans while he s in Rome until after the election. There democrats who like Sunday superintendents. These will find Cundidate Jekyll o his place on the Sabbath. Then there are ¢ ats—and thoy are much the more numerous—who ke Mr. better inthe role of Hya part he is equally indefatigable and to ple Ttis seldom that the voter is of: fered s0widoa range of choles in the person of one man, and yetthere is some prospect that My, Switzder will be defeated ou the ground that he is altogether too many kinds of a candidate school In this 50, Hon. Willinm J. Conucll is receiviug very | to | be like ave | witzler far | anxious | hearty support in his canvass for re-election to congress from the labor eloments of the Flirst district, Ho has carned it by the work | hehas done for them. The Pressmen’s union No. 1 of Washington, 1>.C., hasadopted a ring: ing resolution indorsing him for “honest and consistent efforts which have fully established his claim as the workingman's friend.” The congressman was made happy by recciving the fulltext of the resolution, signed by the officersof the union and bearing its oficial seal. He also has the support of the Lincoln labor organ, the Nebraska Laborer. . And here fsa sampleof what the press of the disteiet is saying of him: If evora man in this or any other stato fairly, honestly or honorably earned a second term fn oftice Congressman Connell s that man, says the Sy racuse Journal. He has not only worked hard in the interests of the peo- pleof the state, but hie has stack to his post and to his text until hohas won the vespect and admiration of his associates from all sections andl all parts of the countr, hoshould and will be trinmphantly re-elected we fully believe, and while we have nothing whatever to say against his competitors wo most earnestly urge our readers tostand by Mr. Connell who is in all respects justly en- titled to this recognition both of his s and his abili il i THE HMEAD OF THE TICKET. Long PineJournil: He stands today o man above veproach, His Life has been one oftonor and integrity, Thero isnot a man inthe stato that commands more general re- spect of all parties than L. D, Richards, Knox County Recorder: L. D. Richards is leading the van in the guberuational race, while his competitors manageto keep afloat, Boyd up by the feoble Powersof alost cause. Schuyler Sun: He hus mado @ success of lifo and the Sun avgues that this is one of the best and grandest reasons that he should besupported and why ho will make us agood governor, Vote for Richards and you will assist in seating in Nebraska's gubernational hair one of the best and noblest men that oever oceupioed it. David City Tribune: One of the com- mendablo featy of the character of Mr. Richards is the fuct that those who Kknow weekly highly. b He will be elected governor of Ne by the usual republican majority, Wisnott Chronic The more one reads of the past record and business methods of L. D. Richards the moreoneis compelled to reposo confidence in him as a man who will aeal justly by all classes of the people of the stute. His early struggles as a farm boy on thestouy slopes of Vermont, his record as a soldior at fourteen, his subsequent rustle for a start in this stateand his success as a busi- ness man of the first order prove a possession of true manhood and business tact, Hoe can surely bo tr evary voter in the state. Tecumseh Chie The nominee for governoron the repu ticket is & tower of stremgth, M hards has o record that will bring him ail the strength of the » When the railroads endeavored to de feat the re-nomination of Maxwell he was among the ltter's stronge ends. He fought for Tecse for a third term and en- deavored to securethe nomination of Judg Reese, ayear ago, against the influence of the r g The jobbers of Dos Moines, Ta., in the year 1589, s0ld $200,000 worth of whiskies and alco- hol at wholesale. Asingle drug storo in Des Moines, a whole carload of beer—7,200 bottl month of August, 100, a., sold —iu the The reform schools of the state of Kansas are so overcrowded with incorrigible b and giris that they are admitted 10w to the Jails, There aro fower groggerios in the eity of Omaha, under high license, than inany town in the state of Maine under pronibition, proven by carcfully compiled statistics. There is an open saloon 1n Leavenworth, Kue, right across the road and facing the 's and city marshal's offiees, where v sell beer fn broad daylight. Does pro- hibition prohibit 4 Tn Towa, in May, 1800, thero were por- sons o firms leensed to sell liquor, OF those 20 aro wholesale dealers, 184 retail doalers in malt liquors, 88 are wholesalo dealers liquors and 1,661 promiscuous liquor selle The criminal docket of Shawneo county Kansas, for the fall term of court this year coutained 107 eriminal cases Includin der, perjury, grand lareny, burglar, amy, assaults on wom big- , selling whisky, ete. The city of Omala has today less of erime in proportion to its population thun Topeks ‘Phe state of Nebraska, also, has less erime within its borders, and less drunksenness than any probibition state uuder the American ilag. i What isa spealcmsy ! You go into a sa- loon; ryou want beer. Yon speak casy through ahole andit cones o you No li- ranted by the city and state and no el by the dty, state or Inthe city of T.incoln, Neb., with about the same population ns Des Moines police patrol people in th as the patrol wagon in wmonth of Augist. T Maine, with home and pro- hibition in force for years there ar more liquor dealers than in the state of braska by a difference of 88 per cent por cap- ita. The liquor dealors in Maine, howeyer, are drugs stores, and ot saloons under proper control. Des Moiues did inthe According 10 the oficial report of the com- mittee o Mussachusetts Legislature, s of the license sy that state there were 1 loss an drunkenness than there were during an equal period of time under probibition in the stite | of wronibition During th to the stal year 1830 theve we cording prison wuspection of Maine, 16,508 persons mrested for draukenness, Maln containeda population of less than seven hundrea thousand people, with a small for- eigen element in lavge cities, This is an apal- ling number of arvests for one yearin a pro- hibition state for street drunkenness In Massachusetts, whero the peopie had a fair election, and where the intelligence and inteliect of that state came forth to cast their ballots, vrohibition as a doctrine was snowed undor. Is it vlausible to toll th people of Nebraska that all the peoplein | Massachusetss who votod against probibitio were saloonkeepers, thugs and drunkards! of this union, Prohibition in the stal where it has been sought to be enforced cither as a constitutional amendment ora statutory law -has done move to oreak down the comme) al industry of those sta tha any other cause, The ounaing states where probibition did not prevail during the ten s (rom 1570 1o 1830 were increasing in population, prosperity and manifacturing u dustries. Flore is the number of delphia under high leense n I88%, 1 I » 1,106, s0 they ha grad 2 down & wsing the num- ber of saloons in Philadelphia under high li- cense and it is not venturesome to say that if proibition Philadelphia there would | be 10,000 places where drink could be had But the 1,100 we + an interest to see that saloons in Phila- 1,204; in wiss him bestare those who commend him most | | Direolorsi~A LITERARY _TOPICS, Threo English story writers 1 not much more thin throe yoars have burt sudden into fame. They bave bocome tho talk of the whole wide world at once, and have quickly run throngh the various stages proseribed for notoriety in theso days, Eachihas jumped into notico with asinglebrilliant story. Fach Tas soon his portrait and biography prinaied inthe pross of all countries, Each has o Joyed anhouras the lion of socity and the subjectof the interviewer. Each has fou the world climoring at his door for mely books, and each has respondod with defuge. A hall contury ago ¢ were 1o such liteary sensations g those furnishod by the meteoric carers of Robert Louis Stovenson, Rider Hageard and Rudyard Kipling, Such a thing was not -y« sible until the eable and the telegraph the universal newspaper came upon the in their present state of development., £ inthe old days grow like a tree and endurd likoone, Now it comes with the fore and suddenness of @ cyelone and frequontly it passo s as quickly and leavesless to marlk its course, Of the threo English writers who have en- iu_vml ihis phenomenal popularity Robert Louis Stevenson came first, He startied (o world with “De, Jokyll and Mr, Hydo! What & genudio _sensation it - wast Clean-out, original, profoundly sotbing and appeallng ot iy to tho appetitoof the story reader, but to the mind of the philosopher and the motaphysician. It was a fearfully vivid dream, run down, cap tured and transfixed at midnight and exhibi under s for the worll's "ame was worthily bestowed upon itsauthor, and worthily e his worn it. Hissubsequent Dooks have him credit and ho appea bea fixed starin the sky. A current n paper par: oh says hie £s pornanently ed at Samoa, where he has found health, Haggard more than rivaled Stevenson while helasted. “She’ was only one samplo out of abox crowded to the vers will stories of wild adventuro by strango people in unheard-of lands. But e cloyea the public's appetito with & accession of the same dinners. o st writes stories and still has readors, but o nolonger fills the place ho occupied fora time, und 1t scoms unlikely that ho will havo iterature except 08 Boulanger b of wellad vertised with breathless inter dto come of, lave something botter, eis still in the firststage of sudden literary fawe, He hus openedup anew mineand it pans out wellso far. Thereis theundeniabla touch of genius in his work. He has in | field and cho ot say low much | them. He is but twenty genius arelong y him. “Wobster's Interational Dictio new name of the old standard *Unabr which now comes out revised, enlarged, a wealth of new illustrat and coloral tes and in a binding b and elogant as uld eomport with the dinity of the great rk. The present revision las been i pro- gress forten yearsand bearsall overit t evidences of the vipe sclholarship of Dr, Porter of Yule and his associat this edition not int with a few lato ted by the fact that mu »xpended upon i It comi with the fame and merits of thn old. e present ma edition ot | Websterwill remind of howlittly the recent fload of che old edition hud powe valie orits selling qu h cently heen sorne tions to the” dictionari I guige, the new Webster's Intemational is ure to hold its own. The Messes, Merriam voto becongratulated on the results of their nterprise. 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