Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 16, 1890, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1890,-~-TWENTY PAGES. THE DAILY BEE.] E. ROSEWATTR Edmrr o PUBLISHED TERMS O} nd Sun EVERY MORNING/ SUBSCRIPTION, afly One Year #1000 500 \ One Year. OFFICE . The Bee Building, ot ; Con th Etreota Commeres. i Building lnllll(vm 514 | nt CORRE Al communieatic editorinl matter sh Editorial De PONDENCE 4 relating to news and be addressed to the ERS. litances should Yo addressed to Th » Publishing Company, Drafts, checks and postoffice orders de puyable o the order of the gom A1 husiness Ie pany The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, The Bee B'1d’g, Farnam and Seventeenth Sts £TA OF CIRCULATION Btateof Nebras L4 County of Doucias | 1 Tasehuek. secretary of The Bee Publishi mpeny. aoes solemnly swear that the actual elroulation of Tk DATLY BEE for tho weex ending Nov. 15, 180, was as fol- lows Eund Mona Tucs Wednesda Thursdi ¥ridav. Noy. 4 Buturday, Nov. 15... Average...... GronGe B Tzscnvek fworn to before me and subseribed in mv presence tnistthday of Novemuer, A, 1).. 1590, 1FEAL N. P, Friu, Notary Public. Btate of Neb County of Do George 1. Tz oRes 1l 5 Cabiishi duly sworn, de- of The I tual av DALY i , 1580, was 10,310 coples; for January. 1800, 19, 3 18 pec Ompany. that t lntion of ot Novembe cmber, 1600, ve results of warming dynamite forcibly suggests the approach of winter, Titi flurey in. Wall street marker tothe flurrye inl quart is not a ated in manager- in this section, TrE legitimate business of the coun- try shows a cheerful indifference to the schenies of Wall street speculators. Tr governors-elect all claim to bo “men of desting.” It is to Ye feared that among so many men the stars of destiny will fall shor COMBINES in any business are odious, but a council combine menaces public welfare. The voters must see to it that the chief manipulators are retired to private lif T the constitutional amendment pro- viding for two more justices of the supreme court of Nebraska has been de- feated, ns scems probablo, it is a notable instance of publie stupidity It is not worth while for the superin- tendents of Nebraska state institutions to sit up nights figuring ou’ how fuge an appropriation they could manage to expend for improvements this year. Tie press of the United States has very generally recognized the fact that there one level-headed state in the agricultural west since Nebraska said what she thought about prohibition. THERE is one planter in Louisiana who has refused twenty-two million dol- ars from an Bnglish syndicate for his plantations. Ho is not asking the gov- ernment to advance him anything on his crops. IN THE absence of disinterested proof, the public can reach but one conclusion, from the evidence at hand, that the roceat progress of European civilization in Africa is not an astonishing improve- ment on the native system nor a credit to Christianity. Tue feminine hulf of Methodism is so confident of success in securing the ad- mission of lady delogates to the next convention that it has already picked upon a female candidate for bishop. And why not? Avenot the la- dies naturally fitted to take charge of a flock? T vival owners of the . ocean grey- hounds havedecided to abandon Atlantic races after the first of the year, This conclusion was reached after a careful comparison of cost and receipts. A slower paco insures greater profits to the companies and a proportionate de- crease of the chances of sending patrons t0 the bottom of the briny. THE numerous republican newspapers that want to proceed at once to a presi- dential election with *“*Blaine and Reci- procity” at the masthead, are to be com- mended for their pluck. The country, however, prefers to enjoy about one year und six months of peaceful com- merce, agriculture and social relaxation before it forces that problom, THE BEE acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to participate in the **deep water jubilee and banquet,” to bo held at Galveston Tuescay and Wednesday next. The decision of the government to construct adeep wal harbor at Galveston has given the city an impetus which, coupled with local enterpriso, promises to make it the chief city on the gull. And the people of the west and southwest felicitate the metropolis of Texas on the good fortune it celebrates, Tne storage battery system of motive power for street cars is steadily approach- ing perfection. Heretofore the weight of the batteries was the main objection to the system. A material reduction in welght with an inerease of power has been effected, and practical tosts domon- strated its superiority over the overhoad wire system, The first cost is decidedly 1ess, while the operating expenses show it to be the most economical method ‘of applying electric power. Tho general adoption of storage batteries on streot cars cunnot long be deferred. Commun- itles and corporations are alike inter- ested in the banishment of the forest of poles and death-dealing wires, WHO 1S RESPONSIBLE? On Monday last the following caustic editorial appeared in the home organ of Mr, L. D, Richards: A NEGLECTED DUTY. There Is u pretty genoral and a vrotty 8 trong feeling throughout the state that THE OMANA Wik e d an opportunity to strengthe a the republican tleket during the campalen. and utaily strengthon [tself, by making more of an offort on belialf of the party. Tur Bk devoted almost i1 entire energy to fighting prohibition. 1t lost sight of republi= can Tn fact, It made such an onslaught nst the amendnient as to ercate a feeling amonzanti-amendment voters that thoy conid not vote with Tie Bee against prohibitlon and for Rtichards for governor. « political orzan, which Toe Bew as- sumed to be fn this campalzn, and as the most_Influential newspaper in Nobraska, 16 should have glven Mr. Rienards a more hearty support. 1t should, above all things, have Justified his position touching the amendment and have dono something to counteract the wide-spread sentiment ereatod by Tne Bee itseif that a vote for Richards was a vote for prolibition, The editor of Tuk Bee was a member of the conmittee on platform of the state conven- tlon and had much to do with formulating document. e didn't insist that any- thing be su ainst prohibition or any de Taration be made n that instrasent In_favor ot high licens It was Rosewator's own motion In the con- vention that caused the reversal of the usunl procedure of nominations. Usually the can- didates have been nominated first and the platform adopted afterwards, but fn the last mvention the platform was reported first and the candidates made to fit the platform. Rosewater's platform was silent. The conve tion was tient on prohibivion. Mr. Ricn- ards, as an honest man, was compelled to be silent. I Tue BE wers an honest newspaper ad had heen interested n good govermaent nd uprizht officials as much a8 1t wasin pleasing Her and Tuener, {6 would have sus- tained Mr. Riehards' position against the re- peated and myriad Utsof the opposition nd would have electod him. \ 1t has played into the hands . rallrond all fts upires” and ation cormorants the 1z Richards end s e . who, us mayor of Omahu, g stof the company's laborers of one of the workmen. of Nebraska and the bone and sinew of tho repull party have no reason tocongratulate the ves over the support given their principles by Omaba's influentinl newspuper. I should have allowed this impulsive outburst of disappointed ambition to pass unnoticed were it not for the fact that other state papers and my old-time per- sonal enemies have taken up the refrain and are ng the changes on my alleged betrayal of Mr. Richards and the part; [ am used @ ander and Tue BEE will’ probably survive all the malicious eriticism that small-bore politicians and small-bore editors may see fit to indulge in. But I feel that a little plain talk about the causes of Mr. Richards’ defeat may be of service to the party even if it does not silence the fool friends of Mr. Richards. A prudent mariner always hauls in his sails and closes the ship's batches when he s the signg of a tempest. And if his ship is anywhere neararocky coast, he throws qut his lead to sound the depths of the sea to keep his vessel from stranding upon the reefs, The signs of a political tempest were in the air early in the spring and the storm center was on the prairie farm. The low prices of last year's corn erop; the refusal of the railroad commission to reduce freight rates and theextortion- ate interest charged by con- scienceless money lenders and chattel mortzage sharks exasperated the farme nd literally drove them into the alliunce for self-protection. 1t did not take a prophet or the son of prophet to foresee disaster to the re pub- lican party unless the movement for a new part s headed off by concessions of all rational demands and by the ear nomination of a ticket that would re- vive confidence among producers in the sincere desive of the republican party to redress the grievances and stop the abuses from which they were suffering, Early in the spring a conference of anti-monopoly republicans was called and held at Lincoln May 20. Among those prominent at this conference were true and loyal republicans like Hon. Dan Nettleton, General Leese, ex-Chief Justice Reese and Hon. N. V. Harlan. This conference adopted resolutions ex- pressing the views of anti-monopoly re- publicans on the issues of the hour and firmly demanding that the state conven- tion be held no later than the 20th-25th of June. The main object in view w: to induce republican farmers to take an active part in the party primaries, so that the convention and its nominees should represent the dominant interest of the state and keep republican farmers out of the independent movement. Instead of complying with this well- timed and urgent admonition, Mr, Richards and his friends who had con- trol of the republicdn state committee, gave us a convention in the latter part of July. And after the ticket was nominated the active campaign was put off to the 20th of Sep- tember at the request of Mr., Richards, who went off to the Boston reunion first, and after his return sought to avoid the irrepressible clash for which he did not scem to be preparved. By frustrating the early convention and frittering away his time Nr. Richards gave the embattled farmers all the advantage of position on the field and allowed themample time to recruitand organize their forces into a compact muss. This alone showed his utter lack of leadership in a great campaign that re- quired prompt and decisive action at every stage, Now let we review the condyuet of the convention and the calibre of the heavy guns that were put in the field to fight great political battle. As chaivman of the republican state committee Mr. Richards was in position to understand the temper of the party and the intense anti-monopoly feeling that pervaded the rank and file. In the face of this fecling hesurrounded himself with a gung of notorious railroad oil- room lobbyists as bis trusted lieutenants and forced Church Howe upon the con- vention as its chairman. That alone cost the party from two to five thousand votes and handicapped him and it from the outs With Church Howe as its chairman the convention’s anti-monop- oly platform was stigmatized as a delu- sion and a snare, The choice of Mr, Richards this critical juncture as the ing standavd-bearer Wwas also vory unfortunate and ill-advised. Ho was not capable of stumping the state and fighting his own battle, let alone that of his colleagues ou the ticket. He “The produce at lead- had never held any legislative or execu- tive office and could not be commended for any act in publie life that would be a | his te telling card, The only thing in favor was that ho had been a union v eran and a successful business man, the business in which he had been suc- But | | cessful was railroading and money lend- | ing, the verylines of business that acted like a red shivt before the alliance bull. I do not want todisparage the balance of the ticket, but as a matter of factonly | two able and none from the of to candidates were on the stump, of them were taken ranks of anti-monopoly republicans, On the contrary, a major- ity of the men who were to act on the state bour ransportation were known to viendly to the railroads, \\Im h m.-mmllm.llw\ were not expec to reduce rates or to redeem any o that the platform made for us. How could [ or Tire BEE have made an enthusiastic and yigorous campaign under such circumstances? And what ight had the repubiican party to expect victory when they invited defeat by giv- ing anti-monopoly republicans a stone when they clumored for bread? It is true that Idevoted most of my energy to encompass the defeat of prohibition, which in my honest ment would have beena blight upon ato by crippling its educational in- stitutions, depressing prope values, checking immigration and discouraging the investment of foreign capital. T be- lieve also that the adoption of the amendment would have decimated the ranks of the republican party and thrown it into the minority for years to come. But nobody can truthfully charge me with a betrayal of Mr. Richards or a deliberate lack of support. It1s true that I framed the greater partof the platform and did not urge the insertion of an anti-prohibition or high license plank. To have done so would in my judgment have split the convention and stultif the pavty, which in a previous conver tion had pledged itself to submit prohi- bition and had submitted it by a legisla- n which it had the controlling ma- It is historic, however, that at ages 1 had entered vigorous protest against londing the party down with a side-issue for which another party had been specially organized and through which James Blaine had been de- feated in 1884 The fact that the convention did not commit itself on either side of prohibi- tion did not put a padlock on the mouth of any candidate. Every man was left free to his own opinion and the timid friends of My, Richards who advised him to saw wood on prohibition on the plea that he had no right to express an opin- ion not avowed in the platform, were, to say the least, very stupid. But when Mr. Richavds declined to place himself squarely on this issuo I did not insist that he mus tdo so. T simply urged him to offset Boya’s pledges, Boyd had publicly pledged that if prohibition car- ried he would sign any bill for its en- forcement that the legislature might pass and would enforce the law to the best of his ability, A conference of re- publicans from all parts of the state was held in this city early in October. M, Richards was prosent and I urged him then and there to state in the specch which he was to make the next evening at the Grand opera house that if prohibition was defeated he would not give his sanction to any bill enacting prohibition by statutory 1 I stated that this was imperative to r assure republicans of this city who were in the dark as to Mr. Richards’ inten- tions. Had Mr. Richards made such a declaration ho would have been elected. But he saw fit not to take my advice and took his chances on losing the support of republicans who insisted upon a posi- tive assurance on this point, In the same way he ignored my advice to spend at loast ten days or two weeks 1 Omaha in a personal canvass among business men. If Mre. Richards has been knifed by the Burlington road he cannot lay the blame on me, or charge that T had con- spired with that road ov any cther. Tt was an open secret that Mr. Richards had the very warm support of the Elk- horn Valley and the Northwestern rail- way managers, This fact very naturally set its rival, the Burlington road, against him. I have nothing in common with any of the railroads and especially with their political schemes or feuds, I re- member very distinetly that I several times warned Mr. Richards against the B. & M. railroad backfire and also warned his man Friday at Fremont while stopping there on my way north ten days before election. It Is decidedly mean and measley to charge me with being in collusion with the Burlington road to knife him, when I had cautioned Mr. Richards and his intimate friends to keep their weather eye on the business end of the Burling- ton road, If Mr. Richards had employed adoctor to treat him for a dangerous malady and had thrown his medicine out of the window and recklessly disre- garded his advice about his diet, Mr, Richards’ friends would hardly be justi- fled in charging the doctor with neglect and malpractice if the disease had proved fatal, The most stupid thing of all, and what cost Mr. Richards hundreds of votes in his city, were the threats telegraphed by his jackastical friends that unle Omaha voted for Richards prohibition would be voted as a matter of retaliation all along the line. In spite of all this blundering and these threats the average of the republican vote in Douglas county was very nearly up to the vote of two years ago. Meikle: john, for lieutenant governor, received nine thousand nine hundred and forty seven votes; Majogs, nine thousand one hundred and forty-two, Leese for ut- tornev general only received seven thousand eight hundred and eighty votes (wo years ago, while H: ceived pine thousand three hmu]lnd and thirty-eight votes this year. of Douglas county for Harrison was ten thousand two hundred and thirty- seven, butif prohibition had been sub- mitted two years ago Cleveland would have carried the county by five thous- and. Asbetween Mr. Richards and the rest of the ticket, the différence is from two thousand five hundred to three thousand two hundred, which shows that the eight appear be The vote | about one 4honsind six hundred repub- licans that ed the rest of the ticket scratehied Ihipfras for Boyd. In conclusidhllet me ask a few per nent questiohs: Why does Mr. Rich- ards attribute Lis defeat to my speeches | against prohihition, and why is THE BEE | singled qut as fin alleged traitor to the | party? Why does \rr Richards hold me re- sponsible for Ljs losses in Douglas county, while he exoncrates his Fremont home organ in the fabe of the fact that he failed to get the republican vote of his own county in which he was behind Boyd 504 votes? Why don't Mr. Richards’ friends de- nounee the republican papers that cham- pioned prohibition, which was no part of the party c¢reed, and waged incessant, vindictive warfare upon Omaha? | and in every way While his mouthpiece and his friends are making all this racket about the Burlington road knifing him, why have they never saida word about all the roads knifing Leese two years ago when he was a straight vepubtican candidate? Mr. Richards was ehaivman of the state committee at that time, and yet in his own county of Dodge Gereral Leese was knifed to the tune of three hundred votes by the good and extra-loyal repub- licans that are now barking so furiously at my heels. It does seem to me that these fellows botter pull the beam out of their own eyves before they mote in AND BOULE n months experience clearly demonstrates that the law creating the park commission is utterly insufficient for the purpose for which it was inten- ded. The powers of the commission are practically limited to the care of parks alrendy acquired, and such as may be donated, and what little authority is given to purchuse or condemn land for park purposes is veally vested in the city council, The purpose of tho parl commission was primarily to devise and secure a sys tem of parks and boulevards that would be a permanent benefit to the people. The defeat of that purpose by narrow winded legislators should stimulate the Douglas county delegation to remedy the defects and procure such o radical revision of the 1 will confer on the commission executive and conclusive s to carry out the work for which designed. The experience of every progressive city is a warning to Omaha to begin in time and lay broad and deep the foundation of a park system which will be the joy and pride of the city fore Albert Shaw, writing on the municipal affaivs of Londgn in the Century, says: “London is now creating a park system aud acquiring land that has quadrupled in value in thirty years, The people of London have been compelled to pay hundreds of millions as a penalty for neglect.” William M. Tweed and his followers plunged New York into debt to the tune of millons in en- larging and impreving Central park and in widening streets, They were exe- crated by the taypayer and in disgrace driven to exile and death, yet those who were foremost in dviving them from power acknowledge that the money they spent has returned an hundred fold in the increased attractions of the city asa place of residence, the enhanced value of property and in the comfort and en- joyment afforded the people. Like re- sults were achieved at tremendous cost shington within the last twenty yet the taxpayers rebelled against -obbery” and drove the founder of its magnificent thoroughfares into ob- y. Chicago has acquired a system of parks that has few equals 1n the coun- try. The original cost, burdensome as it appeared at the outset, has proven not only a public blessing but made fortunes for the owners of contiguous property. The future welfare of Omaha demarrds a comprehensive system of parks and boulevards. It is folly to depend on the generosity of land owners, for where one is liberal dozens will be found penurious. The park commission must be clothed with power to purchase and condemn property, to create park districts and a reasonable share of the cost on the property . directly Dbenefitted. With Omaha's gilt edge credit at its back the commission could readily float half a million or more of long time four per cent bonds and devote the proceeds to sceuring the necessary land. It is vitally important therefore that steps be taken to secure through the leg- islature authority to provide such apark system for Omaha as will provg a per- manent source of health and recreation and enhance the attractions of the city. — INTERNATIONAL COURTESIES. There will shortly arrive in American waters a Brazilian squadron under com- mand of a rear admiral, It comes to this country for the special purpose of delivering to the president a medal and a letter of thanks from the government of Brazil fov the prompt recognition by this government of the new republic. Brazil has a navy larger than that of the United States, and some of the bes vessels will bo in the squadron coming to visit us, ‘When Admiral Walker and his “‘white squadron” visited Brazil some months ago he was given a most cordial recep- tion, and it is the intention of our naval authorities to return the courtesy. Ves- sels will be sent-out to meet the visiting war ships and e<dort them to New Yorlk, where appropriate honors will be shown them. The Brazilian officers will of course be sumptigusly entertained in New York, and, when they go on to Washington they will be treated with equally cordial cousideration. An ex- tended tour of observation for the visitors has been arranged, and undoubtedly when thay get ready to return they will have no reason to complain that their comfort and enjoyment have been ne lected. Such an sies between assess exchange of courte- the | and Brazil is not only highly proper, but may result in profit to both, since the Brazilian republic was pro- claimed that government has shown the most friendly sentiments toward the United States, and there has been given abundant evidence that the people of no other country of South America are so desirous as the Brazilians of cultivating with us closer commercial relations, That country was the first to indicate a favorablo view of the reciprocity idea, it has manifested an carnest disposition to promote a spirit of international fellowship. V an well afford to reciprocate this feeling, and it is obviously our interest todoso, Bra- zil is a great and rich country, with a future that promises remarkable progress and prosper Sho structing railronds and veaching out in tho development of her resources, and not many y henee may become a most valuable market for both our man- ufacturing and agricultural products, The United States can have no better commereial ally in this hemisphere than Brazil, and international courte- sios that may contribute to that end will not be wasted. is con- WOOLWORTH'S BULOGY ON MILLER. The eulogy delivered by Judge Wool- worth on the late Justice Samuel E. Mil- ler at the memorial services held in the United States district court for the ju- dicial district of Nebraska, was an effort of unusual merit in all respects. In its high appreciation of the lofty chavacter of the eminent jurist whose death was sincerely mourned by the whole people; in its affectionate reference to the per- sonal traits which made the late Justico Miller so widely beloved; in its eloquent recital of the growth, through indefatig- able industry andepatient application, of the great lawyer to the attainment of the foremost place at the bar of fowa; in its elevated estimate of the wisdom and value of the work of the distinguished jurist, and in the pathetic description of the closing scenes in the life of the illus- trious man, the memorial address of Judge Woolworth is worthy of the warmest praise, No one could have heen selected for this service to the memory of Justice Miller betterqualified than Judge Wool- worth for its wise, just, eloquent and affectionate performance, Himself a lawyer of distinguished ability, holding his profession in the highest honor, he is most fully capable of and appreciating the eminent ties and the invaluable tors of the dead jurist, he also brought to the found personal exteem developed through along and intimate friendship. ilis eu- logy, therefore, in presenting both the judicial and personal sides of Justice Miller’s character, commands confidence as the judgment of one altogether com- petent to speak of both. The great service which Justice Miller rendered his country may be best appre- clated by the members of his profession, but it is well that the whole people shall learn as much as possible of his elevated character, his unswerving devotion to duty, and his sturdy patriotism. He was one of many splendid _examples of the highest type of American chavacter, and the people can not learn too much of such men. The wd of th lives is an ingpiration valuable beyond estimate. Judge Woolworth has contributed most, ably and eloquently to the history of one whose intellectual endowments and la- bors are sure to grow in the admiration and respect of his countrymen as time quali- la- while e STANLEY. Stanley has come back to America again in the full tide of a great carveer. He is more than ever the center of the eyes of the world, being at this time on the witness stand to answer to the eriti- cisms of some of his follower: What- ever the merits of that affair, which looks ugly enough for all concerned, he is a man well worth the study and ad- miration of mankind for what he has ac- complished since he laft Omaha a young and unknown adventurer, twenty odd years ago. The fame of Henvy M. Stanley has now passed beyond that of all other ex- plorers of Africa. He possesses in char acter and achievements all the heroic attributes of Mungo Pavk, ingstone and his colleagues. He revives in his admirers all the old spirit of hero wor- ship which we often declare to have passed away—save when a hero is with us. His triumphs havo been won from hardship and sacrifice, by patience, courage and indomitable perseverance. There has been nothing of the me Dbravado of adventure in any of the ox- peditions which have taken him five times into the heart of Af Each time he has gone for a definite and well defined purpose and each time been suc- cessful. Stanley’s explorations highest value to the science of geogra- phy and civilization. Tt has been justly snid that “his work has stimulated na- tional enterprise and enlarged the hor- izon of Europe. Ho has practically an- xed the continent to modern civiliza- tion. No man of his age has' embodied greater qualities of leadership or greater loyalty to duty.” He looks forward to a worls of great usefulness as the head of the administrationin the Congo Free state, of which he was the founde This is the man who is now appearing before the American people. He is a man whose name is known in the utter- most parts of the earth and who has purchased this royal measure of fame with the gold coin of hard work. THE PREACHER IN POLITICS, A great many things were settled by the recent poli mpaigns, Among them was the that American eiti- cens do not approve of pulpit politics. It would be a mistake to allow the casion to pass without attending to the moral of an episode that is of so much real importance to our fstitutions, No local contest has attracted such general attention for years as the elec tion for the offlc of New York cit The unusual element of interest in it was the fact that the lines were closely drawn between Tammany hall and the officeholders, ononeside, and all of Tan- many’s enemies—democrats, republicans and mugwumps, on the other. The po- litical contests in the metropolis are usually between factions of the democ- racy, with the vepublicans as a side show. This year it was anything o beat Tammany, and the first declaration of war was made feom the pulpit of a Protestant church on the holy It was made a part of the services of the day, between the open- ing prayer and the benediction. are of the oc- understanding | of the deputy was ice the pro- | | out of ten 1t proves to be a che | and Powers became appurent, | thought It echoed from pulpit to pulpit and was ac cepted by the poople as the signal of a movement that would attempt to estab- lish the power of the church in the poli- tics of the state, Sunday atter Sunday the pulpit thundered its denunciation ot Tamma The issue was accepted and the old democratic society went into bat- tlowith the power of the Protestant pulpit largely arrayed againt it. If there is any organized band of pro- fessional politicians that the people can afford to defeat on general prineiples it is Tammany hall. If ever a campaign was urged against them with enthusinsm it was that which ended with the 4th of November. If ever the people set the of profound condemnation upon a political movement it was when they elected the Tammany ticket by a large majority against the combined opposition of all its enemies and inthe faceof the prayers and exhortations of the pulpits of New Yor Another instance of tho same kind, occurring on the same day, was the defeat of prohibition in Nebr: Not overy preacher in the state undertook to uso the influence of his pulvit to further his political views, but hundreds of them did. The lesson of these results is that the Ameriean people do not want and will not permit any interforence with their political il gy of any de- nomination. The pulpit is a \doffice, It possesses a power and influence that cannot ¢ nor honorably be employed Clergymen have but they have not the right to drag their churches into the mive of politics, oven where a great re- form is the issue. senl Tie United States gr diana has institute an investigation of the rights of paupers as voters, At the recent election a poorhouse superintend- ent attempted to vote a block of sixty- three county dependents for the democ- racy. A deputy United States marshal arrested the superintendent and pre- vented the men from voting. The action orously denounced by the democrats, who claimed that the being of sound mind, had a vote. The republicans contended that a pauper cannot claim the poor house s a legal residence and no more entitled to vote than a fsoner in jail. The point raised is an esting one to the country at large. Similar outrag are perpetr every clection. 1If paupers we trammeled in casting their ballots would be no serious objection, but the fact is they are practically campelled to vote as the superintendent dictates, of In- is soy Tucked away somewhere in a dusty nook of the city vaults is the record of a resolution directing the B. & M. railroad to build a via- duct over its tracks at the foot of Farnam street. It has been sleeping peacefully for many moons, and, strange as it may seem, the railroads havo said nothing about it. Even when the Union Pacific cajoled the y into voting bonds for tho Tenth street duct, the B. & M. didn’t say & word about the Parnam street viaduct, and out of kind- ness of heart has not asked the city to vove Dbonds in aid of the much-needed improve- ment. Maybe it is because the city charter provides that rail must build viaducts ovdergd by the city council and pay most of the cost thereof. And maybe it is because the suecessive city councils have been so hand- somely treated by the railroads. Ask some of the members who been enjoying junkets all over the wild, wooly west at the expense of the roads who will eventually have to pay for these viaducts. e At the foot of Davenport street, where the roadway descends to the Union Pacific tracks at the sonth end of the shops yard is a crossing that is a disgrace to the road and to the city. Yesterday when the unpaved upland roads weve dry and smooth, wagons wero deep in ¢ho mire at this crossing, A wagon laden with coal had sunik in the mud almost up to the hubs, and four horses were struggling to extricate it. But this isnot all. ) engines are hauling and flying cars incessantly over this crossing and the train- nlen utterly ignore the rights of teams and hapless pedestrians who congregate on either side of the trains often for fifteen minutes at a time before the crossing is cleared. It is a place to shun, and no one goes there except of ne- cessity. The railroad should be required to pave the roadway across the many tracks at this point and just before the council takes another junket it should order a viaduct built there, n A campaign develous many strange and funny things. 1t makes children of some men and cranks of others. Scores of the lat- ter find their way into tie newspaper oflices. Every one has an idea burning within him and he must bring it to the newspaper mar- ket in order to learn its valuo. Nine times nut and has long been discarded, but the editor must i ten to 1ts clucidation and look pleasant. For it perchance comes from a man of influence, whose opinions are at par, and he cannot be snubbed. Possibly he may be a can- didate whose claims to pablic favor may not have been set forth in the paper to suit his particular fancy, Maybe it is the man who never reaas himself but insists that he has discovered a point which the public must be made to thoroughly understand or the party will b lost. As a rule, the point he makes has been worn thread- bave by the editor, and the man with the idea borrowed it from his neigitbor whose wife vead it in the paper and raised the question as shoe poured the coffee. Then there is the man who subscribes for the paper and rushes up to tell the editor he did so, thinking thus to brine him for a column puff. Another has sent a friend before election to vent rooms in the newspaper building, but tho lease cannot, of | countuie carnest | LITER. Ill Tl)l'l( It is n imoressive fact, which foreibly occurs to one on examining the current literary reviews, that thero are men in all Ny who find time to think and write on Al topics in the midst of the busy activ- ities of the world, The vast majority of mankind are busy with the duties and pleas ures of everyday life, 1t is tho small, the almost infinitesimal minority, who do ths world's thinking. While the great currents of ociety flow on hoedless alike of the past and the future, the v_thoughtful souls ar working §'s probloms under the midnght The great reviews havo be come the cle by which the results are carr each month o “w cirele that is wider, and is vet after alla small seetion of the'world. The reviews fill a very large place in modern thought, how over.” They furnish the canvas on which tho shadows of coming nents are forec They are the forum in which advanced ideas are discussed, They largely color the expres- sions of the plutform, the puipit and tho newspaper columns, the means by which tho public is directly reiched, This {8 theoffico of the modera review —to connect the seholar and philosopher with the brain and heart of the world. It is in this manner that they have come to fill a large and growing place in our modern life, Gla A moment at the pages of two' prominent Awmerican re- views, The pertinence to the present politic: situation of Dr, Washington Gladden's ar on the eS| entitled “Th battled Farmers, as attracted wide atte on to that feature of the November ‘orum.” Dr. Gladden interprets the move ment to be n serious protest against cond tions that have made the Amevican farmer poorer s the nation has grown in wealth, Ho demonstrates by several striking illustrations that the complaint is common to all sect to the west and the south, to New York and New England, When he comes to take up the planks of the Alliance platform he docs not agree so fully withthe movement does in the setting forth of its griev Hio s peaks approvingly of the propositions to stop gambling in cereals, to have the govern ment owh ds and telegraphs “and to 't United States senators by popular vote Hedoes not fayor the warehouse scheme, nor the abolition of national bauks and their'cur rveney. Dr. Glac and his conclusion in re movement ~his ed to ent 0 was writte before election—is that it will do good in stivring up discussion, in bringing farmers together and in smashing old party ties. He doos not believe that any movenient limited to one class can live lon but he does believe the alliance w i good by bringingthe old pi vital public questions in the Another contribution to the Forum which has an especial inte western people is “The Probabilitics of Agri ulture,” by C. Wood Davis, This is u reply to an article by Prince Kropotkin, in which the possibilities of agriculture’ were dis- cussed for the purpose of showing that tho way to prosperity for the farmer is in the direetion of cultivating a variety of crops cctally in the line of marl vl M, Davis shows, by an impressive array tables aud figures, that the food supply of world is by 1o means _increasing in_propor- tion to the population, und that by the American farmer will have nothin xport except cotton, His theory is, t the p omber to the is of [ of course, be signed in the hot of the fight. Then | after the election the friend thinks the price too steep. and ho don't hesitate to say so. goes his way happy fn the consciousness of his good intentions, but kicking himself be- cause fate had caught him up by the scat of the pauts. He . Pat Ford Is one of the noblest productions of the Third ward, an aristocratic precinct of Omaha, Time and agaii have his en- lightened people thrust public trusts upon him. On November 4 they said to him, “Go up bigher,” and elected him to the house. No sooner was this done than his name was mentioned down on Ninth street once or twice in conuection with the speakership, and when & contest between his patvon, Boyd, ord rose o the geavity of the oceasion. He promised to prepare an appeal to Casar fnto which it is ho will throw the comcentrated power of his wonderful eloguence and the weight of his unauswerable logie. 1f Boyd survives @ colloction will be taken up for Irelands fore, that as the demand graduilly the gains farmers will “becomn concern should better crops from his " article is full of hope for prosperous be to got acres. M thoughtful men. Iu the same magazine Danicl Reaves Good- loe writes of westorn favm mortgages. His view of the subject is very depressing, as it could not fail to be when based on reports de rived from the alliance leaders of Kansas His conclusion is that the western farmer is about s badly off as the tenant favmer of Ireland. It isa pleasure to know that this is uot 80, and_that the people of the States are likely tosee that it never becomes so. Francis A. Walker contei butes an able arti- 1o on “Democracy and Wealth,” and Re A. I Mayo on “The Progress of the The November “Aveny” has a_symposinimn on “Destitution in Boston,” which Is runnin over with facts othe Edward llmml!ml, Fdw Rabbi Solomon Schindle 3. Swaffield and W, D. P Biiss—all but’ ono clergymen of Boston. Al the articles beav amplo evidence to the fact that destitutic: exists in a degree are broi theories advanced fo the exception of D the writers some e stence. Wik le, however, none o. suggest any prac ble measures for the relicf the destitution. H sugg n ‘s that the 70,000 families of Beston ke divided among the 500 ministers of the gospel and that each be held respousible for the destitu tion and i that exists in his quotii d to make the most of ns of relief that exist in the city, brings out two gcod iding “In the orient,” he says, ‘“men conc wealth and displiy poverty; in the ocoid men conceal poverty aud displuy wealth.” There is something in that sugge: tion. He ays that lack of employment for men is the cause of the destitution and that this arises from the fact that men aod girls are preferred because they work cheaper. This symposium is worthy the study of be nevolent men in all large cities Perhaps the author of velyn Gray the Vietim of Our Western Turks,” calculated that his book would mike 8 sort of “‘Kreutzer Son- ata” sensatio It is written in the form of a five-nct tragedy and undertakes to ox- posa the most unsavory sides of Mormonisy There is enough tional matter in it to sot the lovers of doubttul literature tumbling over each other ia a r: to obtain it, but it is s0 wholly deficient in art that it will not probably command many If it had een worked into the form of a dime novel it would have struck it but the class of readers for whose appetit i o standards it 1s fitted will hardly find it in its present form [John B, Alden, New York. | “The Old Meeting House and Vacation l‘uyfim” is & collection of pleasant essuys of i vather garrolous strain, written for a variety of newspapers and maga- zines by Rey. A M. Colton and lovingly gathered upinto book form by his brother. The papers treat mostly of New Eugland life and are light and serious by turns. The book has an old-time flavor that mm pleasantly upon the reader’s senses. {Worthington & Co., New York.| An hibald Clavering Gunther still sticks to 2 of title that has been identi omenal luck. The latest Barnes of New York" and Potter of Texas” is *‘Miss Noli where.” [Home Publ sw York, | “Destiny, o a Commony is an old-fashion. 1, full of comfortable phi- losophy, i psorbing and with good principles undér it and a good moral at tho end of it. It is by Mrs. R. Nelson, tho author of *Dorance.” (John B. Alden, New York.] ‘Tho latest output under the name of Count Tolstol, who ha ispiciously voluminous since h ashion, is ‘“T'he Romance of Marriage,” a novel thatis full of Russianisms. (Laird & Lee, Chic ‘Thomas H. Musick adds a thoughtful word to the |\lA'I‘4I1\I tion in his ‘“Genesis of Nature, Considered in the Light of Mr. Spenc Philosonhy." 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