Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 2, 1890, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1890,~-SIXTEEN PAGES. THE DAILY REE. B BOSEWATER, Veciv Y - PUBLISHED EVERY MORNI TERMS ( SURSCPIPTION, D! o Yoar 410 00 | 1% 1 500 | i Bunduy Hee, One Y Weekly Bec, € OFFICES Building rner N and Mth Stroets 12 Penrl t f Comnerce. Tribune Bullding Nl Strect CORRESPONDENCE 1tions ting to news and r should be addressed to the purtment USINE: ss lotters he Publishing Comnp d postofiice of order of the oom phny. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, ‘urni a0 Seventeenth Sts The lee B'ld'g, EWORN ETAT NT Ol Btuteof Nebraska. [l anty of Douglas, ( 1T 10k, secret compiny. does CIRCULATION 88 of The Bes solemnly swear | nE DAILY BER 1, 180, was as fol- [& Pubiix 1nat t for the lows Bunday. Oct Mondav. Oct Tuesduy. Oct Wednesday. Thursday. Eriduv. Oct Buturday, Nov. 1 tunl eireulation of Nov weex ending 1000 | Oct, Oct . 20,550 Grof CuicK. £worn to before me wnd sibscribed in mv presence tnisist dav of Noveraver, A, D, 1500, 1EEAL. N. P FEiL, Notary Puablio. it Nebraska Vs s, (5% . being duly sworn, d 1 s y of The Bee | Averago.... George W, oses nnd snys that n iiah Ing Coso pan ily eirculation of the onth of Nove Decenihe DAILY i 18 1048 cop! or | 10 cople: ni February, 1800, 19, 70l cople oh, 1800, 20815 copie for April, 1500, iples: for May, 1800, 20,180 | coples: for June, 18 i1 coples: tor' July, 3840, 20,02 coples: for August, 150, cople Tor Sentember, 1800, 0,570 coples: for October 1860, copi £worn (o Lefore me. Vresence, this 1staay of Novem? onae . Tzsenu \t subscribed fn iy rph ., 1500, ( [N ptary Publ P ——————————————— L tived of hearing about laws for the benefit of men whowork in shops. —W. J. BRYAN. made » FLOURISIING guns is the most flour- §shing business in the Oklahomn legisla- ture, OMAHA proposes to have a free and fair election. Non-resident{ mercenaries st keep their hands off. | DOUGLAS count yers should see gee to it that the democratic incompet- ents ave kept out of the county board. MCKEIGHAN'S campaign shield is an unsatisfied judgement, adorned with a corkserew rampant and a jug couchant, NEBRASKA should send three repub- lican ambassadors to the court of the re- publican administration at Washington. Tir nal pacl quality Kansus, sourts are now dispensing or ages of decisions as varied in as the drug store product in Mr PoweRrs tried preaching, lawing, and farming, and fai in each. His se as an office-seeker is even more pronounced. Ir 11 be true that the tariff question is really too deep for anyhody to favhom, then a great many thousands of Amer- fean patriots ave being drowned in it this fall. HAD Mr. Kem spudiated the support of Mr. Hitchcock earlier in the cam- paign, hischances of eapturing a few thousand votes would have been materi- ully improved, IN T1E light of his confession in Ne- braska City, it is evident Dr. Paine is Yunning in the interest of his favorite drug storeand the fees arising from pre- riptions of spirits frumenti, THE most distressing feature of the eampaign is the persistent opposition of the people of Omaha to oven a shadow of fraud in vegistration, The consequent distr in the free whisky wigmam is almost unbearable, AS yiGnT have been expected the activity displayed by Governor Hill forced Cleveland to offer a few words of encouragement to the leaders of the democratic forlorn hope. Grover is detormined to keep his name before the public, Tt commerelal review for October is the most eloquont argument yot fas jonod for republican success. In business, greater activity, and decre failures emphasize the wisdom of repub- Yican legislation in behalf of American commerce and industry. e Tre democeratic party has never been friendly to the intevests of the union soldiers. Democracy is the same in Ne- braska as it is elsewhore. The security of the veterans is in adhearing to the party that has kept faith with them in the past and ean be depended upon to do 80 in the future, PRESIDENT CLEVELAND vetoed more pension bills than the combined vetoes of all measures by his predecessors, and the democratic party approved his course in this respect. Old soldiers should ser- fously reflect upon this fact before cast- ing a vote that will help the democracy to win in Nebraska. —ee Mg. Jony has taken a contract to roast Mr. Rosewater at amendmoent headquarters. That place holds only mbout seven hundred people. Tet him put in his appearance at the Coliseum this afternoon and meet in open debate the man whom he is advertised to roast. Then it will be left for the audience to decide which of the two shall have re- ceived the finest roasting, —e A MAN's opirion honestly maintained s entitled to respect. But when an overzealous champion of any cause maligns an opponent, imputes dishonest motives to an adversary, stoops to false- hood and slander and employs sneaks | and thieves to accomplish his purpose, he becomes a menace to society and | public order. Such men are to be found | right here in Omaha, brazenly parading superior beings. Their disguises are too transparent to deceive the public, LOOK OUT FOR ROURBACKS. At every election the most startling reports are circulated by designing the a miracle if the 1 off usual number of roorbacks, be the and pay no attention to them The who have been so parties with a view to stampeding It aloetion next without the voters, would e Tuesc wha pnss Republicans should on guard cunning prohibition managers industrions d e and in- genious in eire: fal which ters and ating for, s reports ave bomb they ti-prehibition republicans noxt of the preparing by to create a revolt <pect among Tuesduy in the rural districts Tue Bk is veliably informed bogns dispatehes are to be sent that from Omuaha to leading republicans all over the state and to the chairmen of the rious county committees over the si ture of Brad D. Slaughter or Walter Seeley to the effect that Omaha is voting solid for Boyd and asking them to rc fate by voting for prohibition. bogus telegrams are to be sent out on ¥ various cities election du sking republicans in the and towns to hold back their votes until afternoon =0 that they may be able to offset the Omaha vote. On the face of it Lthis scheme bears the ear rks of third party prohibitionists the san party than they are to carry prohibition. who are more anxious to defeat republ Ever ith political tactics knows that it is very isly to hold back votes on election day, and few of this class will bs so idiotic as to pay the slightest attention to such telegrams or letters purporting to be igned by members of the mittee or any leading 1 ropublican who is familiar v suate com- It or heads and ublicans. is casy to procure blank envelopes for the gang of s by oundrels who the prohibi- have been imported tionists, The only safe way for republicans is to vote carly and poll all the votes they can up to sundown, SHALL IT BE PROGRESS OR DECLIN This is the pavamount question in- volved in the prohibition contest. The growth of Nebraska under existiug con- ditions has been almost un Leled. { During the last ten years her population increased nearly one hundred and thiv four per cent, while the increase of property values was much greate In 1880 the number of farms was sixty-three thousand, embracing five and a half million ac and valued af liundred and five million dollars, doubtedly the number of farms has move than doubled in the last ten years one Un- and their aggregate value at least trebled. The growth of cities and towns has been very rapid, and their proge has been sound and substantial. other states have had s great an vane ad- inall the conditions of material prosperity, and but five show u larger percentage of gain in population during the last decade. What is the record of the adjoining and competing states of Town and Kan- sas, The statement of the census office shows that the population of Towa incrensed ih the ten years from 1880 to 1890 seventeen und thirty-s hundredths per cent, and ving the last half of that period only cight and scven-tenths per cent, less than normal, thus showing that more people left the state during the five years than went intoit. As a necessary sequence there has been little, if any ase in the aggregate value of prop- erty, and it is an unquestionable fact that in most of the cities and towns of Towa property is rated af a lower market value than it was five years ago. The insrease of the population of Kansas dur- ing the last ten years is stated by the census office to huve been forty-two and inety-one-hundredths per cent, but the same authority shows that for the last three years tho state has been steadily losing population. The highest point ached, according to the state census, was in 1888, when the population was stated to be one million five hundred and eighteen thousand. The state enurmera- tion of the next year showoed a loss of fifty-four thousand, and according to the federal census the loss of population in two years was ninety-five thousand. "The towns as well as the rural districts suf- fered from this loss, and the effect overy- where was to diminish the value of property. There can be but one logical deduc- tion from these strongly contrasting facts. They ave conclusive evidénce of the blighting effect of prohibition, and must be so regarded byall whose com- mon sense s not blunted by a heedicss fanaticism. What reason can be urged why Nebraska would not suffer from prohibition as Towa and Kansas have suffered? The three states are prac- tically alike in their conditions. They are essentinlly agricultural states, and a policy that would haven disastrous ef- fect upon the interests of one would surely have a like result with others. But the inovitable consequences of in- flicting prohibition on Nebraska are not left to conjecture. They arve clearly foreshadowed. There is not a city in the state that would not lose business and capital within thirty days after the adoption of the prohibitory amendment. Ifundreds of merchants throughout the state are prepared to move out as soon as possiblo if prohibition carries. Millions of capital awaiting in- vestment in the state if the people rej prohibition wilt go where profitable op- portunities invite it in the farther west if that destructive policy is fastened on Nebraska. Contemplated enterprises which would give remunerative employ- ment to labor, increase the demand for the products of our farms, and enlarge the volume of money among all the peo- ple, will be abandoned. Our schools will be deprived of a revenue that must be made up by taxation, or the educ wtion of our children suffer. There being no longer a demand for proporty its value must decline, apd 1n city and country higher taxes and property depreciation Vill go hand-in-hand, Depression and | 1880, disaster are the inevitable concomitants of the prohibition policy The defeat of that |.4.ly v assures the continued progress and pr ity of Ne- 3 pe braska, Her cities and towns will grow more rapidly than ever hefore, With enlarged markets for her products her farms will incrense in value, Capital and enterprise will scek the oppur- tunitios she can offer. New people will come in to increase. her industrial and financial resources, and every department of ae fresh impilse and ivity will receive vige Moving for- wurd on sure and legitimate lines of p chraska in a few yoars will have passed Kansas and overtaken Low. in population, and gone far beyond cither in wealth and the general prosper- ity of hor people. No citizen sincerely concerned for the material welfare of the state, and whose renson is not under the controlof a anatical prejudice, can doubt what his course should be in the presont cri Ho will vote to continue the policy under which Nebraska's remarkable progress hus been achieved and to de- feat the system that has been a ruinous experiment to her neighboring states. AN APPEAL T0 WORKIN An opportunity, such as rarely occurs, will be furnished to the workingmen of this congressional district to show their appreciation of ,a faithful osenta- tive. It will be an instance of lack of appreciation if not ingratitude, should the workingmen of Omaha, Lincoln, Platsmouth and other cities of this dis- triet, fail to stand as one man for the re- election of W, J. Connell, who, more than any other representative in tho present congress, has buttled in their be- half. It is said that a prophet is not without honor save in hisowncountry, This may true of Mr. Connell, but if the working- men of this district fail to vally for him and to support him, it will be proof posi- M tive that they do not appreciate services which have been universally recognized by the labor organizations of other tates. For his efficient .and faithful services, Mr. by nearl east and west, he Journal of the Knights of Labor is outspolen in his behalf, and places his name at the head of the list of the repre- sentatives in congress most entitled to the support of workingmen. e is also endorsed by the legislative committees at Washington of the Knights of Labor and of the American Federation of Labor. In addition, he is recommended to the workingmen of thisdistrict by the nd master workman of the state of sbraska. Workingmen of the [ congr sional distriet, do your duty and show your appreciation of faithful and efficient services by voting and working on elec- tion day for W. J. Counell. Connell has been endorsed ry trades assembly, both ‘THE OUTLOOK IN OTHER STATES. There is scarcely a state in the union where the returns of next Tuesday's election will not be awaited with un- wsual interest for peculiar and loca rensons. It is to be regretted that the presence of absorbing local issues will prevent anything like a fair expression of the country on the national issues which, in the last six weeks, huve been forced into the canvass., Pennsylvania, for instance, has a nom- inal L majority of eighty nd, yet it would not be strange if on were elected governor this year, as he was in 1832, on porsonal and and state issues that have divided the republicans. Such an event would have no national significance, any move than a landslide in Wiseonsin on the school question, or in South Cavolina or Georgia on the new problems that the alliance move- ment has thrown to the front. There are similar peculiar conditions in Mas- sachusetts, New York and throughout the south and west. [t is an *“off” yen 1 to an unusual degres, and yeb there ave pational questions to be passed upon that would make the contest nearly as interesting as a presidential year if the local questions were out of the way. The outlook in the other states. the outlook in Nebraska. is decidedly mixed. It is altogetherlikely that each party will find ground for encournge- ment in the returns from the various sections, and that neither will be able to say that it has been “‘vindicated™ by the returns as a whole. That satisfac- tion will be deferred to 1802, when the parties will be avrayed against each other on national questions and when de- cisive results may be expected. like HOW IT BLIGHTS THE PARTY. There is one thing which prohibition does prohibit. It prohibits old-time re- publican majorities in every western state where it becomes a law The republicans of Nebraska should gravely consider the perilous position to which their party has been brought today by the fanaticism of prohibition. They should look at Towa, Kansas and the Dakotas, and then prepare to bury in adeep grave the element of discord that has given the democracy chances of suceess in states overwhelmingly repub- lican on legitimate party issues. Horace Boies, a democrat sits in the executive chair of Towa. That state gave President Harrison a plurality of nearly thirty-two thousand in 1888, Exactly ome year later it elected the present democratic governor by only six thousand plurality. Senator Allison, Towa’s favorite son, had a narrow escape from defeat for re-election in a legislatuve that was barely republican on joint ballot. i But that is mot all Towa had formerly a reliable republican majority of from sixty thousand to oighty thousand. It is still tobe de- pended upon to veturn a republican electoral vote in presidential years, but the party supremacy in state affairy has been blighted almost beyond hope by pestilential prohibition. Behold this seale of declining republican pluralities in the state across the river: republican plurality republican plural 1884, vepublican plurality 1883, republican plurality 1887, republican plurality IS0, DEMOCRATIC PLURALITY 1883, Prohibition has not stopped nor even modified nor regulated the sale of liguor The traffic flourishes in defi- in lowa, ance of law anh dkcency. But prohibi- tion, in a few brief years, has torn into shreds the splendid fabrie of republican. | ism that has w “L(n.ul all other storms, On state questions fowa is today demo- cratic, and gettihg more so every year. The same for od the same in Kansds and are tending in the same directign in the Dakotas, Alrendy the fepublican majority of ebraska beging to weaken under the | influenco of the §ame poison. If it dis- appears altogether next Tuesday it will due disaste [ be to the aporation of the causes "h:n have blighted it elsewhere, It {I‘vwh with the thinking members of the party to say how far the disease shall spread and how long it shall en- dure, Prohibition has everywhere and al- ways been the fatal enemy of the repub- lican varty. It owes to the republicans all the progressive temperance legisla- tion ever enacted in any state, but it has invariably turned to smite the hand that had helped it up. It has brought the party in the west to the perilous edge of disnster. It defeated James G. Blaine in 1884, It hasdone its best to deliver the electoral votes of all doubt- ful states to the cnemies of temperance and republicanism in every presidential ye the war, If it succeeds in ska this vear it will 1 a wide ch in the republican ranks and give the democrats the confidence of success hereafter, The republicuns of Nebraska owe it to themselves and the party throughout the union to strike down this nightmare of fanaticism at the polls next Tuesda Let this triple menace to the suprer of the party, the peace of the people and the prosperity of the state go down with the condemnation of the republican masses stamped upon VOTE BARLY. Registration having been completed as far as practicable under the law, all efforts must be divected toward bringing out a full vote. The determination of business men, manufacturers and all em- of labor tosuspend business on leaves no excuse for delay in and voter who can pos- sibly do so should discharge that duty in the forenoon, ptwithstanding the great increase in polling districts, the average number of voters to each far rds the four hun- dred sinco voting, v basis, The average is over six hundred. In many instances the regis tration lists show over nine hundred votes to a poll, [Inevery instance where the number of voters exceed six hundred an average of one ballot a minute must be cast. Under opdinary circumstances this number could easily be exceeded, but the cumbrous dystem of registration, the delay in findisg names and the ob- structions which may be legally at- tempted makes it fmperative that every voter who can ‘obsibly do so should go to the polls in the forenoon. The experience of past elections isa warning to be on the ground ear A how dili- gent the judges and clerks may be, they cannot materially expedite the wor during the rush which invaviably hap- pens during the'closing hours. Toavoid the grave danger of disfranchising hun- dreds, if not thousands, of voters, a s tematic effort should be made to poll the largest possible number of votes during the forenoon. The vital issues at stake are suffi to spur every voter to action. The horde of prohibition workers velies on obstruction and challenges to pav- defeat the will of the people. y vote lost is half a vote for the enemies of liberty and progress. The line of voters should be formed at the opening of the polls and maintained until the last blow is struck for the growth and prosperity of Omaha and Nebraska, GOING HOME TO Vil A democratic contemporary makes much of the fact that the trains out of Washington are loaded with republican office-holders going homo to vote, and that President Harrvison is about to leave for Indianu, bent on the' samns nefarious errand. What of it? There is nothing in the constitution of the United States that forbids an officeholder from voting on election day. On the con s 0 Dbe expected that he at least will have patriotism enough to exercise the right and duty of citizenship. As to M, | ent vison, he sets an oxcellent example for the rest of his countrymen, especially for that large class of business men which complains that it has not time to vote. Furthermore, it is an inspiring sight to see the president of the United States g0 to the polls and cast his ballot like any other American sovereign. By all means let the officeholde home and vote and let them be panied by ever the priviloge. little ballot ne s go aceom- other man who enjoys Let everybody get in his t Tuesday, A SUGGESTION FOR BARTHOLDI. . Bartholdi, to whose generosity and genius the Ameri¢an people already o many obligations, has written to the world’s fair directors to say that he 1s willing to compose for that event *“'a grand piece which would be a glory to the United States,” and ‘“join his name with the memorahle anmiversary.,” Bartholdi says in his letter t his iden would be to represent the triumph of Illinois in its pgricultural and indus- trial productions, The people of this country will evdyywhere hail with de- lighvthe news of Bartholdi’s intention to add a new and distinctively Amevican product of his g(-nhm 1o the attraction of the coming uxpmwmn, Already held in admiration and ' giteem for his grand gift of “‘Liberty Enlightening the World,” this new evidence of his devo- tion will raise him still higher as the successor of Lafayetto in the affections of the American people. But would not his theme and his worlk gain in dignity and interest if the sub- ject were broadened? Instead of “*The Triumph of Illinois,” let it be **The Tri- umph of the West.” Chicago could ap- propriately be represented as the me- tropolis of the section and Illinois would be celebrated with its sister states. By making this change the scope of the culptor would bo enlarged and at least half the continent would feel that the work of art was directly associated with its own history and achievements, Viewed from any standpoint, the sculptor, the piece and the country would gain by making the subject of commemoration the triumph of the west inall the arts of civilization. That would be a subject {1 fail to inspire the great b produce a work that will 1i the millions who will look world's faiv have passed away, TiE arrest of an imported licutenant in Omaha for a crime committed in Can- ada is one of the most important events of the prohibition campaign. It adds to the mountain of proof that the sole ob- ject of the gang of hirelings turned loose on the state to tell the people how to govern themselves is to divide the boodle gathered by confidence men from the eredulous of the country. They have nothing in common with our people, and while preaching about morals their char- t could not nchman to o long after upon the acter and carcers make them unfit to associate with reputable people. The revelations of Defaulter Yurdly are ustounding, and show clearly that the supporters of the so-called *moral issuc” had conspired not only to violate law, but to perpetrate the greatest outrage on an - citizens —to steul the lists and pre- vent an election. The fact that Yardly was a non-resident and a | drinking muan made his services all the more desirable. “*You are just the man we want. You must get the names of v in the different wards and steal the lists if possible.” These wero the infamous instructions given the Cana- dian defaulter. “‘Steal the lists if pos- ““We must win by fair means or The confession of Yuardly con- firmas what THe Bre has _repes atedly shown, that the mercer turned loose in this city and state will stop at 10 means to prevent a faiv and free elec- tion and an honest count, It behooves every loyal citizen to be on his guard and use every means to circumvent the conspiracies hatched in the prohibition cump. THE attempt of noisy leaders to deliver the vote of workingmen to the indepen- dent ticket finds littlo encouragement. Workingmen do not propose to support for office men whose principles are din- metrically opposed to the interests of organized labor. In state and local politics they have nothing in common. This fact ‘was foreibly illustrated by Powers in his opening speech in this eity. When asked to state his position on th it-nour question, he declared in favor of eight hours—eight in the forenoon and eight in the afternoon. On all other questions that divectly concern the welfare of the working classes, Pow- ers and his followers uare non-committal or avowed enemies. No amount of sophistry or assertion can convince an intelligent workingman that a vote for Powers is a vote for the fundamental prineiples of organized labor. If the in- dependent managers were sincere, they would have given workingmen repre sentation on the ticket. The whole movement to inveigle workingmen into the Burrows net was engincerced by self- seekers and ambitions nobodies eraving for political notoriet IN many towns of the state the prohi bitionists insist on closing the schools on election day so that they can join the women that propose to electioneer for prohibition, This is a most remarkable proceeding. The people of the state and in each county are paying tax to educate their children und they cpeet the children to profit by every day’s schooling that can possibly e given for this money. To keepa child out of school for a singlo day is not only an imposition upon the taxpayer, butit robs the children of that which no one can restore to them— their time, when every hour is precious instoring up knowledge. This is not al). The attempt to make use of chil- dren as ticket peddlers is demoralizing and liable to result injuriously to the children in ecase of any trouble in the hhorhood of the polls, TuE present delegation in congress from Nebraska is united and harmoni- ous, Mr. Connell is one of its most effe tive and hard working member: 1Le is now 1n a position to do better work in the future than in the past. It would bea great mistake and a positive injury to this congressional district to now mako a change. Mr. Bryan is a young mun, He can afford to wait. ) iy many democrats as well as vepublic ans, Still Bxplaining. Us City Jowrnal, Several democrats went up to see Bryan chew Connell up and they have been busy ever siuce explaining Low it iappened. - 1t Takes Work. Fulls City Jowrnal Bryan can paint pretty pictures with his mouth, but as Mr. Connell says, it requires something besides pretty talk for one to be successful in congress. - He is the Rairoad’s Man, Nebrastia City Press Will the far s Who have hope secur- ing anything from congress in the way of cheaper railroad rates vote for W, J. Bryan? The demoeratic candidate isof the Missouri Pacific fiem of attorneys in Lincoln of Talbot & Bryan, and he has worked and is working and will work for the railr. — - A Very Timely Warning. Daity Nehwraskm, The democrats will havo accomplishe of their and vote their ends when men in the alliance own political faith go to the polls the democratic ticket, and the republican members come out and vote for Powers and McKeighan, Thatis the gume and we warn every honest vepublican furmer to watch out for it and uot be deceived, A Political Tara Coat. Neliraska City Press, Mu, Bryau eau easily change his political spots. In Lincoln he has delivered several temperauce talks to the conviets in the state penitentiary and at various places, In the First, Second and Third wards of Omaha and in other plices be says he is an anti-pro nibitionist. Me. Bryan can easily change from side to side to suit the people to whom e s talking. —~— An Ovation to Mr. Rosawater. Knox County Demacrat. The auti-prohibition rally at Creighton last evening was the most successful mecting ever held in IKnox county during the year. Thelit tle giant of Puk Ovaus Ber, Hon, Edward Rosewater, received au ovation from the peo ple of Knox county that must ever remain green spot in the memory of the reciplent. Captain Logan prosided. The opera houso was crowded with the best peoplo from every neighborhood in Knox county, reprosenting ovory shade of political opinfon to hear the distinguished champion of personal liverty, - A Problem for taxpayers, Cedar Rapids (lo.) Republican. The Towa Capital says there are 200 open saloons running in Cedar Rapids. Well, what of it 1-Ottumwa Demoerat. We refer conundrum of the Ottumwa Democrat to the longe suffering citizens and taxpayers of Cedar Rapids. Blair ! 3 A fearful state of things exists K at the present time, Ministors of the gos pol have very gencrally quit their ministry for common gossip and polities, the ehurches have done likewise, and prohibition is tho genoral theme. 1t Gubriel's trampet should sound it would find them generally talking nonsense instead of preaching the gospel of Christ, Gentlemen, go by to your calling, let polities and political questions alone, and have larger congregations. If you don't mean to follow your calling strictly, you had better quit it entirely, — iN THE POLITICAL sWIMN. in Nebras- When Allen Root “withdraws" the “race’ the vacum will nov be large, m The friends of young Mr. Bryan place too much reliance on his gift of gab. He 1s as offervescent as a bottle of soda pop, but is ut- terly lacking in other esssential qualifica- tions. Mr. Bryan is a*young man of varied ac- complishments. Ha rans a Sunday school at Lincoln, preaches at Weeping Water and de nounces proliibition ut Omaha, As a mem ber of the Young Men's Christian association he lectures on morality, but s & candidato for oftice favors unything that will bring him votes. LR Mr. Bryan only adds insult to injury by his attempted explanation of his Weeping Water speech aguinst workingmen. He does not pretend toden; was “tired of hearing avout laws in favor of men who work inshops,” but bases his oppo- sition to such laws on constitutional grounds. He regards laws t of capital as proper but thinks that laws for the benefit of workingmen should be opposed as being class legislation. Great efforts re being made by Van Camp to get Irish-Amc wnd by him, but Mr. Van Camp's former record would hardly justify them in leaving their own party for a man who has notorionsly served inthe Cana dian militia against the Irish Fenian move ment. Several citizens of Omaha have assured e Bee that he was a licatenant in the Domibion militia at tho time of the Ienian outbreak, and that ho marched to Ridgeway to resist General O'Neill's inva- sion, Of course Mr. Van Camp will elaim that as hie had enlisted prior to the invasion he had to serve, but as he was well aware of the im pending struggle and the efforts of the Irish- Americans to redeem Ireland and regain her independence it does look like he has no claim for the support of Irish ropublica HIGH LICENSEVS FREE WHISKY. Was John W. Yardloy the advance agent of the army of tramps, spies and thugs that are looking toward Nsbraska with longing eyes and empty poekoets Des Moines' searching constables, —the Pierces, the Pottses, the Hamiltons and tho Mercers are v imilar in character and daring to the scoundrel Yardley. Kausas may have prospered toan extent under prohibition, but not to the extent it would under license laws, That fact is ad- mitted by all classes of business men. The Yurdley's of the world ave hoping for pastures green in prohibition states, and the fanaties of ka are looking for the Yardleys. Will Nebraska offer them a field of foos to hurvest! Any Towa justice of the peace may appoint whomever hie pleases to search the premises of whomever the justice or appointee may the people of Nebraska in favorof such laws? There are counties In Peunsylvania that wish and do have prohibition, but the people of the counties are obliged to vote an increase civ taxes of 30 or 40 per cont to enforee t they have of it. Fools will learn by experience, but a prohi- bition fanatic will not have the peoplo of N brasla profit by the cxperience of the peoplo of Kansas and lowa with prohibition laws. They are worse than imbeciles, uk Picree, Des Moines' pioneer pro- hibition searcher and spy, has twi been convieted of perjury. Prohibition’s pioneer spy in Omaha, John W. Yardley, is already in the toils of the law for its violation. Ninety per cent of the voters in Towa who supported and worked for the prohibitory udment in 1552 would this fall vote and ist it if iv were before the people for adoption, and Nebraska prohibitiomsts know it In the of unimpeachable evidence as to the utter failuve of the prohibition laws of Towa aud the harmful results amising from them, the fanatics of Nebraska are laboring hard to load the ineubus upon the people of this state, ko by In case the prohibitory ried next Tuesday the overrun by such vagaboud eriminals something to do for the * ment of the age.” From 1570 to 1830 Maine, New Hampshive and Vermont increased tieir population burely four per cent square mile. During the smme period the werease in Massa- chusetts, Rhode wd aud - Councticut was nine times as g The Town signed by fe of the peac of premise time or § vent a spite. face mendment is car- state will soon be spies and tramp in search of ghiest moral senti- i 1 at fe a-cating, ¢ blank \ting constables of out with them ating and foc ing justices with which to make scarch for liquors, to be used at any when the spirit moves them to I 1888, after thirty-two years of the hene- ficial results of prohibition” t) Maine, thero were arrested in the city of Portland 1,428 people for drunkenness —one for every twen ¢ of her population. The law had existed long cnough for a new generatiou to grow up, Do luws save the bo; Capital is afraid of sumptuary laws; it is afraid of a people that will enact thew, Statutary prohibition has kept millions of eastern money out of Town. Capitalists are afraiu of the predilections of the people of that state and afraid of increased taxation, which goes higher and higher eachyear Probibitionists nssert that prohibition is the highest moval seutiment of the uge, and yet the vilest characters in Iowa citie towns find service and employment in s ing houses of vespectable people--not with the expectation of finding liquors that aro for sale, but for the purpose of earnin Prohibition is mare respect at least. The 2851 provided that thy community must join out a search warrant hing onward —in one Maine law passed in s voters of a town or testimony to swear A stride of thirty-five years aud the prohibitionists have a law in Towa which requires ouly the oath of the constuble who expects the fee! And he may not he a voter, the | the statement that he | ¥ | LITERARY TOPICS, ‘The dovelopment of the paper-covered novel | 1s one of the intoresting literary studies of | the day No longer ago than when men now | thirty were boys in their toens the papee cover was the badge of blood and thunder | literature. No author of any note would | send out a story in that form, No person of respectability would read it, excepton the sly. Thodime novel and its offspring, the nickel novel, still flourish in that for but paper-covered literature has in the 1o | years changed its character complotely Now we have first editions of novels by noted authors appearing simultancously in pancr and cloth. Wo have reprints of all tho famous books of fiction, history and biography | in this form. And we have great publisning houses devoting all their time and capital to the production of books in paper covers that will challenge the eye in the trains and on the book stalls, Some of the products of these houses more than rival in elogance, | illustrations and literary quality tho ave cloth-covered book of & few years ago. Un fortunately the inside of the modern paper covered novel is not always to bo judged by its outside, The cheapest literary material is frequently enclosed in the brighitest and most alluring of covers. Inspite of this, however and of the further fact that tho weekly out put of papor-covered _ books amounts to & tlood, the presen’, quality of this class of lit- erature represents an enormous advance over the books of our youth. The change lins come about through the more general de. mand for good books in_cheap form nud b the aid of invention and competition. 1t is hopeful sign of tho times. e Teolandic Discoverers of Amoric Mrs, Jonn B, Shipl comes in time to throw a chill over the Columbian_exposition, but it will hardly be able to accomplish that unde sirable end. The book presents a conciso tion of the claims of Lief Erikson and Norse followors to the discovery the western world. It s written with an enthusiasm that does not not hesitate to severely criticise Co. lumbus. Suppose the claim of Norse priority to bo established, it would not_greatiy d act from the fame of the Spanish explo s to his cournge and sacrifice that world owes the development of the we hemisphere. Stanley would be 1o less explorer of darkest Africa if it should shown that somebody clse was there 3 beforo hii, bul gave the world bonetit, therefrom. 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