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

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Fworn to Fefore me nnd subscribed In my presence tnis1th day of Novemver, A, D., 150, 16EA P. FRIL, Notary Publlo Nebraska, County of Douglas, fes George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- otes and snys that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, that the nctual average dnfly circulation of Tue DAILY BEE for the wonth of November, 150, was 10,310 coples; Ler, 1880, 20,048 coples; for January, coples: for Fobruary, 1500, 10, for March, 1800, 20,815 copies; 5 , 1800, 20,138 for' Juiy. for ey 2800, 20,762 ; KONGE rorn {0 hefore me. and subsor! presence, this Ist aay of November. A, D.. 1§ Notary Public. QuiET reigns on the Minnecadusa. Wity will somebody sit on Sitting Bull? IN the golden lexicon of the combine, @ public office is a private snap. CHAFFEES political fences aremaking large draftson neighboring lumber piles. JUDGE CALDWELL inserted an Arkan- gas toothpick in court customs here- abouts and filled the bar with wild dis may. IN about ten days the political tribes of Omaha will indulge in a ghost dance, with the council combine in the leading role. Poriric it is said, makes strange bedfellows. The repudiated colonelsand the independent leaders are now lying together, —_— THERE are strong indications that a disastrous cold wave will rage along the line of the Union Pacific within the next ten days. A DECIDED fall in temperature is need to keep the wires to the seat of war from melting under the heat of reports of prospective slaughter, —_— PRESIDENT DEPEW’S pronounced leaning for Blaine and reciprocity is the latest proof of Chauncey’s agility in keeping abreast of the band wagon, ‘D republican congressmen are conspicuously mentioned for succes- sore to homesick foreign ministers. But why emphasize a statesman’s humilia- tion by sending him into exile? —_— BRITISH humor 18 ever grim. Baifour has had Dillon and O'Brien tried, con- victed and “sent to jail.” Meanwhile those worthies are making stump speeches in the free, pure air of America. —— SIDNEY DILLON says he is not to be president of the Union Pacifie. People acquainted with his general character will therefore be convinced that he will accept that position at next week’s meet- ing. Mzs, POTTER PALMER was made pres- ident of the board of lady managers of the world’s fair after a caucus of the southern members, Even the women of the south imbibe politics from their native air. THE anxiety of Davis for re-election is not inspired by a soul-stirring zeal for the public interests. It is absolutely necessary tomaintain a monopoly of city, waterworks, street railway and gascom- pany jobs for the firm of Davis & Co. — THERE is one corporation bigger than that which has bought up the railroads in Wall street. It is the government of the United States, and if it decides to make a certain gigantic purchase all other customers will have to stand back. e—— For the good of the country and the sufety of the troops, it is hoped the com- manding officers will keep the eastern war correspondents well in the rear of the marching columns. Too much fresh- ness at the front is sufficient provocation for anuprising. The untutored savage draws the line at tenderfeet. Mr. CLEVELAND says he cannot under- stand why, if reciprocity with South America is a good thing, free trade with Great Britain wouldn't also be a good thing. The only answer to be made to this brilliant suggestion is that there are apparently o great many thingsthat Mr. Cloveland can’t understand. It WAS all right for Burrows, Pow- ers & Co. to organize the Alliance, ad- minister oaths, bulldoze the members and suppress independence of action, but 1t wasall wrong for business men and bankers and the advocates of personal liberty to organize in defense of their own interests and those of the state, —— Tuoe published “grounds” upon which the “independent people’s” contest will be conducted indicates that the dis- tinguished forger and thumper, John- son, has been taken to the bosom of tho independent leaders. An alliance man could not have penned such a collection of wild assertions and downright fabrica- tions, WHERE RECIPROCITY WOULD HELP. One of thespeakers at the annual banquet of the New York chamber of commerce a few days ago remaried that recent events had developed a peril suspected but never felt, This exists in the hundreds of millions of ruilrond stocks and bonds which we sall to Europe. While the breadstuffs, pro- visions, live stock, cotton and other com- modities which we sell to Europeans bring a return of money or its equiva~ lent, which pays the expenses of our farming, opens new fields to the plow, gives us capital for business, and in- creases our national wealth, the railroad stocis and bonds that go to Europe bring no such return. The money they repre- sent, remarked the speaker, goes into roadbed and rolling stock, and by no process can be turned again into cash. Suddenly the forcign money murkets are struck finuncial cyclone, as they were a week ago, and under the stress of asevere exigency they pour upon us un avalanche of our stocks and bonds. These are not availuble to meet their obligations and they must realize on them. They represent the credit of our great railroad system, with its eapi- talization of eight thousand miliions of dollars, and we must protect them it possible. Such a test we ha had within the past, fow weeks and it was a very severe one, but it has been successfully met, demon- strating the strength of our financial sit- uation and the soundness of our credit. But the experience forcibly suggest what is possible to happen should a s rious and prolonged disturbance in the financial centers of Lurope flood our markets with a mass of securities which we had not the ability to immediately take carcof. Then would ensue asevere contraction of values which might have tho effect to suspend the business of the country and bring about bankruptey and ruin, It is a tremendous power, more formidable for injury thanarmies and navies, which the foreign holders of our railroad stocks and bonds possess, and however small” may be the danger of its exercise we have just had evidence that there is such danger. It will be averted as we become rich enough to absorb our own securities and to rely upon our own resources for our own development, and thids must come from enlarging the area of the markets for our surplus products. The attain- ment of this is what is contemplated by reciprocity among the nations of all America. That policy might never rvesult in making us wholly inde- pendent of Kurope commereially and financially, but it would undoubtedly in time render us compara- tively soand certainly to an extent that would place us beyond the reach of any such danger a8 we have just™ escaped. It is considerations of this nature that are commending the idea of reciprocity to the intelligent judgment of the coun- try. It contains the promise not only of great commercial expansion, from which every interest of our people will derive benefit, but of ultimate compara- tive freedom from conditions which at present are not a.together to our advan- tage. The practicability of the policy is yet to be demonstrated. The fact that there are many and great difficul- ties in the way of its consummation is well understood by its most earnest ad- vocates. But in the promise it holds out of solving some serious problems touching our future prosperity it fully merits all the consideration it is receiv- ing [rom statesmen and the people. THE ACTUAL CIRCULATION. The report of the treasurer of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 80 last gives the actual circulation at that time, being the stock less the amount in the treasury, as in round numbers one billion four hundred and forty-three million dollars. This makes a circulation per capita, calling the pop- ulation sixty-three million, which is slightly more than the. census figures, of about twenty-three dollars at the be- ginmning of last July, Butif there is added the money in the treasury at the close of the last fiscal year, the greater part or all of which might become avail- able at any time for actual eircuiation, the total is in round numbers two bill- ion, one hundred and seventy million dollars, giving a per capita of over thirty-four dollars. According to the report there was an increase in the stock of gold and silver of fifty-eight million dollars and a con- traction of twenty-six million in the vol- ume of national bank notes, the net in- crease in the aggregate supply of money for the year being thirty-two million dollars, The retirement of bank notes continues, The latest monthly state- ment by the comptroller of the currency showed the amount of national cur- vency secured by bonds outstand- ing at the end of last October to be in round numbers one hundred and twenty-four million dollars, the net de- crease in that portion of the circulation which is secured by bonds having been for twelve months five million dollars. But there has been a very much greater reduction in that portion of the circula- tion which has been surrendered and the bonds to secure which have been withdrawn upon desposit with the treas- ury of lawful money for the redemption of the notes, this reduction for the twelve months amounting to over thirty-one million dollars, the decrease during Oc- tober being two million six hundred thousand dollars, It thus appears that until the new silver law went into effect the retirement of national bank notes rather more than offset the additions to the circulation from the issue of silver certificates. Since the new law became operative there has been an increase of the eirculation to the extent of a little over two million dollars a month, and this may*be expected to continue. There is about twenty-five million dollars of bank currency secured by the four and one-half per cent bonds due next Sep- tember, and it is to be exvected that this amount will be surrendered in the meantime, so that in no event is the cir- culating medium of the country likely to increase duving the en- suing twelve months to an amount in excess of thirty million dollars. This of course goes upon the assumption that there will be no new financial legislation by the present congress. If there should bo legislation intended to encourage the national banks to enlarge their nou| THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1890 {ssues, as has been proposed and will very likely be urged, the increase of cir- culation would undoubtedly be much larger. Recent events have shown that the monetary situationof the country was nover safer or stronger than at pres- ent, and every wise and prudent con- sideration demands that nothing shall be done to imperil this security. THE SON OF HIS FATHER. Young Mr. George Gould has many of the family characteristics” He has just been interviowed in New York and fur- nishes this lucid explanationof the cause and object of the recent stupendous rail- road consolidation: T don’t know that we have any other pol- fey than to protect our own property and to endeavor to have the railroad business of the country puton a paying basis. The time has come when railroad management should be held to a stricter accountability, The stock- holders have a right to expect a return on their investment, and not only do they suffer when the railroads do business at less than paying rates, but business generally suffers. The policy of rate cutting and ruinous compe- tition that has prevailed among western rail- roads would not be tolerated in mercantile business. The merchant who follows it would speedily fail and have to stop busi- ness, Young Mr. Gould's literary style dif- fers somewhat from that of his father and that of the late W, H. Vanderbilt, but his story has the same old plot. Yes, George Gould is a chip of the old block. He enters enthusiastically into a scheme which aims to erdsh out all competition and force the public to throw up its hands, HOW THEY ECONOMIZE, The tax payers of Omaha must not forget that the present city council prides itself upon economy and business methods, Just look at the city clerk’s office, for instance. Six years ago Jewett was city clerk at a salary of one hundred dollars a month, with trifling perquisites that mmy have run up his income to fifteen hundred a year. All the assistance Jewett had was one clerk at seventy-five dollars & month during part of the year whenhe was crowded with business. ‘With this force Jewett not only acted as clerk of the council and keptan ac- curate record of its proceedings, but he was also comptroller and auditor of all vouchers and bills, made out all the warrants, signed all bonds and did other work for the mayor. Jewett was also a member of the licensing board and issued all the licenses to liquor dealers, auctioneers, paddlers, hack- men, theatrical companies and circuses. The whole expense to the city for all this work did not exceed twenty-two hundred dollars a year. Since those extravagant days we have relieved the city clerk from all audit- ing, voucher and warrant work, which is done by the comptroller and two dep- utiesat an expense aggregating about forty-eight hundred dollars a year. We have also relioved the city clerk from the work devolving on the licensing board, which body has a clerk of its own at twelve hundred a year,and the may has also been provided with a tweive hundred (dollar secretary, who does some of the work that formerly had to be done by the city clerk. But with all this relief, and with prac- tically not enough for two competont clerks to do, the city clerk’s office re- mains a nest for sinecures and political roustabouts who are drawing over six thousand dollars a year out of the treas- ury. While Deputy Counsman, who is very efficient, is doing most of the work, Clerk Groves and the late car-starter who is on his pay rollat one hundred and ten dollars a month have for weeks and months been devoting the time for which they are paid by the city electioneering for the council combine. On top of this comes another piece of combine economy. The charter makes it the duty of the city clerk to copy the tax lists. With the force at his disposal the clerk ought to do this work without a dollar of addi- tional expense. . But the economic Major Wheeler, who first wanted to plant one of his relatives into a soft job finally changed his mind and trans- planted a man from Plattsmouth into the city clerk’s office, who, with several other sinecuies, are doing the work at fifty cents an hour, with Groves, who is most of the time out as time-keeper. On this little job over eight hundred dollars have already been drawn out of the treasury since July and we are promised that the job will continue until next Muay, If there ave any moro striking exam- ples of the economic and business methods of the combine nobody has yet pointed them out. TWO IMPORTANT DECISIONS. The decisions rendered by Judge Cald- well in the mortgage foreclosure and whisky trust cases show him to be not only a fearless and upright judge, but also a man in full sympathy with the people and an uncompromising opponent of monopoly. This state and every other statein Judge Caldwell’s circuit has been curded with a horde of relentless mort- gago fiends who have stripped the pro- ducers and wageworkers of almost every available thing they possess in the way of chattels or realty. ‘When their foreclosure suits are resisted in the countics where the loan was originally made, they seek to crowd the victims of their greed to the wall by transferying their suits into the federal courts uhder the pretense of *‘local pre- judice,” and piling up the costs moun- tain high. By knocking out the attor- ney fee clause Judge Caldwell has given the chattel mortgage sharks a stagger- ing blow that will go far toward putting an end to their systematicoextortion, The decision of Judge Caldwell in the Nebraska City distillery case strikes down monopoly in its most dan- gerous and ofensive form. It is the first instance on record in which an in- dividual who had the back bone and was willing to risk hismeans in a square contest with the whisky trust wus sustained by o federal julge and came out victorious insuch an unequal contest, The prece- dent established by Judge Caldwell in the distillery case goes down to the foundation of all trusts and combinations to restrict production and destroy com- petition. Its bearing upon the validity of all such tgr ines and syndicates is far-reaching dn® cannot fail to produce a wholesome_cffec THE organ fend the scan he boodl dare not de- lous diserimination of the combine aginst democrats and re- publicans who fused to join the cabal. As soon 08 Wheelor, Davis and Chaffee, with the active assistance of the corpora- tions, had secured a working majority, they immediafely parcelled out the com- mittees so at the minority should have no pragtieal part in committee work., The coiibine did not stop there. Insult was piled upon injury. The Sat- urday meetings of committees were abandoned and the real business of the council transacted in sccret places and behind closed doors, In anumber of in- stances members who kicked in the traces were.given the cold shoulder, and reports made to the council in open sos- sion, involving grave interests, without any previous consideration and rushed through under the gag. The actions of the combine, from its inception to the present time, is an unbroken record of dictation, gag rule and conspiracies, by which one-third of the representatives of the city wero denied participation in the practical affairs of the people. COMBINATIONS ave not only repugnant 1o liberty, but a menace to the public weal. The peopls are familiar with their operations. Organized to control product and regulate prices, they lovy tribute on all classes and fattenon the toil and thrift of others. TL.Omaha council was organized and uperated on this has 1t transformed public affairs into a private corporation for mutual benefit, filled old and created new offices for the strikers of the gang and success- fully dictated who should be employed in every depurtment of the city. The time has come for the voters to repudi- ate this cabal of political mercenaries and place men in office whose public acts will not be measured by their private in- terests. THE jacka battery explosively asserts that “Mr. Boyd was honestly elected™ and must be seated, but should the Alliance “‘prove the contvary™ the battery will fire a grand salite for Powers. [ts opinion of right and wrong in this matter will not weigh against the necessity of being in cahoots with the majorit, If Dictator Burrows suc- ceeds in orgunizng an overturning board, it is safe to predictthe jackass battery will flop to the victors, regard- less of previous assertions. ThE activity of the franchised cor- porations in behalf of the combine coun- cilmen is sufficien} justification for their rejection by the voters, Mr. Villard's Shell Game. New York World. Mr. Villard's little shell game has made severai people shell out. e Ana It's Shawptned for Cleveland. New York Tritwne, The Hill knife TS a5 quick as quict, and as sureas though it hal seen service with the Matfia. e — A Possible Cluo. Kansas City Times, Ts it possiblo that Schweinfurthof Rock- ford 1s in correspondence wigh the Sioux at Standing Rock agency? kRSG5 Common Sense and the Census. St. Joweph Herald. Commissioner Porter insists that ‘‘u part- isan census is an impossibility.” That would seem to be common se: 96T el Sl Labeled £. M. B, A, St. Lowis Globe-Demncrat. ‘There are several banana-peels on the side- walk that lies between General Palmer and the United States senate, Omaha Wiil Have That, St. Joeph News. With acorn palace at Sioux City and a suger palace at Grand Island, all that the west lacks is a mint palaco. ———— AGood Example. Minnenpolis Tribune. Chicago set a good example in the ease of the anarchists; New York and New Orleans should throttle the Mafia in tho sime man- ner. Chicago Can’t Believa 1t Chicago. News. A widow has secured $,000 damages against a saloonkeeper in a suit at law just ended in Judge Grinnell's court, Is this Chicago! A Ch! . ago Phenom>non, Chicago Herald, This seems to bea popular season for mat- rimony. Themarringes are keeping up with the divorees, and this is saying a great deal for Chicago. p prCi R RS It Will Last All Right, Grand Island Inde pendent. The rebulke of the imported colonels and masculjne feminines received at the hands of the people of Nebraska ought to constitute o lasting lesson, Give Us Grover Again, Detroit. Tribune. Between Hill and his own record Mr. Cleveland is sureto be the one candidate whom the republican party can see nomin- ated with the greatest equanimity. —— ot to be Blamed. NewYp vk World, Now that members' of the Stanley expedi- tion have cone alittle talking about cach other the public begins to understand why Ewmin was not axious to be rescued, Emin s It 1s Diffcrent Now. New Tribune, It is contended ¢ Boston Herald that we Americans are §g¥ really “a Light-hearted people.” Right you ave. But we were that sort of people before the late election. - ‘Wonderful* After-Prophets. St. Lowid’ Globe-Demoerat, The number of piople who have known for three years that thip , financisl trouble was cowing, but who saidsnothing about it until day before yesterdyy,.ds astonishingly large. sl i it A Freak of Politics, Chicago Tribwn, Now that they can elect & woman county lerk in Nissouri by making a song about her andsinging itto thetune of *‘Annic Rooney,’ the time is certain ripe for Johnny to get his gun. IRy )T Socialism and Tyranny, Lenver Republican. 1t appears that the abolition of the policy of repression against the socialists in Ger- many has weakened the soctalist party. This is 1o more thin might have been looked for. Socialism is a political growth which comes from oppression in & government. It is a struggle agalnst real or supposed Wrongs, Where there is no pressure upon the indi- dividual by the governument, thereis litte of the socualist spirit, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The Parnell episode bas subordinated every other consideration in connection with the political situation in England, and there is fvido divergence of opinion as to what the effect will be. The present indications are that it whl not bo so serious to the Irish cnusons was at first feared, That question, it is felt, is too old and well established to be dependent either forits continunnce or seri- ousness on any politician's life or character. It has survived a great many leaders, and will doubtless survive Parnell. The Lrish as a people _have earned the appellation which a distinguisled historian has bestowed on them of boing “‘the most persistent of races.”” But the retirement of Mr. Parnell from the lead- ership will be a grave misfortune, though not a fatal blow to the home rule cause. It will be a misfortune because his authority over the Irish party was firmly established, and his power of maintaining discipline in the ranks generally acknowledged. It will be imprac- ticable foreither Mr. Dillon or Mr. Healy, or Mr. Sexton, or Mr. O'Brien, to tako his ‘placo without exciting rivalry and jealousy and impairing the unity of action which has been characteristic of recent Irish policy. Mr. Parnell has notonly had a genius for organization, but he has also possessed English traits which were essential to the progress and success of the Trish cause. He has shown inflexible resolution, a kind of bulldog pertinacity and an invincible de- termination to win. He has been more of an Englishmau than an Irishman in his success- ful fight against British prejudice, and the distinctive qualities of his leadership will be lacking in any successor who may be ap- pointed. His retivement will be a great loss to the cause of home rule, but it is not irre- trievable. Mr. Gladstone is now the real leader of the combined home rule party, It seems to he reserved for him to reconcile in his own age the England and Ireland which have been estranged for centuries. He is the stronghold and defence of the Irish cause, » ¥ While every one is watehing the Danubian states it may be that Greece will start the war long threatened in southeastern Europe. If the recent elections and the resultant change of ministry do not mean war they are meaningless. Only a few days before the appeal to the constituencies Mr. Tricoupis doclared that ho had been prepaving for a conflict with Turkey and was simply waiting for the Greek fieet to become strong enough to drive the Osmali from the Archipelago. The voters evidently thought that further delay was needless, for they gave the oppon- ents of Mr, Tricoupis two-thirds of all the seats in the legeslature, which, in Greece, it will be remembered, consists of but one chamber. Mr, Delyannis, consequently, re- turnsto power under the distinet understand- ing that he will act more aggressively than his predecessor. What is likely to be the outcome of an’ attempt upon the part of Grecce to assert a naval superiotity over Torkey and to sieze' all the islands of tho Avchipelago and ultimately Crete? It is not, we believe, disputed that in a purely muritime war the small Hel- lenic kingdom would be more than a match for its Ottoman™ neighbor. The Turflish fleet, upon which such huge sums had been lavished, proved disgracefully inef- ficient in the last war with Russia, and its condition is known to be far worse now than it was then. On the other hand, the govern- ment of George I, during the last twelve years, has strained its resources to the ut- most for the purpose of increasing its naval armament. Wo must also bearin mind that, whils Enghsh public opinion encouraged English naval oficery to enter the sultan's service against Russia, it would forhid them to serve Turkey against Greece. Nothing, Indeed, would be more certainto revive the Philhellenic enthusiusm of sixty years ago thana single-handed contest between the Greeks and the Osmanli who opposed them so many ceuturics. Western Europe would undoubtedly applaud the conquest by the Athens government of thoso historic isles of the Algean that gave strength and lustre to the Athenian empire. On vhe other hand, the military power of Turkey is immensely greater, and not only would every one of the provinces, to redeem which the war is to be waged, bo overrun with Turkish troops, but Greek territory also, so that any naval advantage gained bythe king- domwould be more than overbalanced by losses on land. ‘This must be perfectly obvious to the war party in Greece, and their reliance maust be upon expected aia from one or more of the great powers. There is a friendly feeling through Europe toward Greecs, no doubt, as there was sixty years ago, and there would be no regret among the powers should she re- gain Macedonia. And under no circumstan- ces would Turkey be allowed to egeroach on any portion of Grecian territory. The prob- able result of a singlehanded attempt to break Turkish hold of Greek territory would be some hard fighting, both on seaand land, witliout any material change from the pres- ent condition of things. B China s o peeuliar county In many ways— and in none move so than in her intense and unparalldled conservatism. From this has resulted, for centuries, aquiescence that sug- gested stagnation and decay, but which was far from being either the one or the other. To draw an allustration from botauy, China is ripe but notrotten. And just as ripened acoms, falling t& the ground in autumn, are | ready tospring up into a renewed forest after the long sleep of winter, so it sometimes happens with nations. Italy, for example, has again and again renewed her youth after shesecmed to have sunken into o hopeless torpor. Nor must it be forgotten in weigh- ing the Chinese that their most marked char- acteristic, conservatism, has been shared by tho two most aggressive nations of history— the English aud the Romans, And in the case of the latter, the parallelism is accentu- ated by the fact that as well in ancient Rome as in the Pekin of our day, this conservatism was indicated as well as fortified by the national religion—in eitney, case the so- calied worship of apcesters. Certainly no two people could differ more in many ways than the Romans and the Chinese, But 1t would be a mistake to reckon among the weak points of the latter the amazing fixity of theirideas and customs. It would be an error to draw the inference from their ven- eration of things timt are old that they were incapable of learning things thatare new. Wo ourselves know how marvelously apt they are at learning thearts of peace. There is reason to belleve that theyarenot likely to prove slow in mastering tho arts of war. Already their ironclads, mamed and com- manded by natives, plow the Yellow Sea. English and German officers are busy teach- ing their battalions thie use of western arms and the maueuvers of western tactics. That they are not dull scholars was shown in their struggle with France in Tonquin. Their millions are countless, And all these mil- Lions are animated with an lntensity of race fecling fully equal to that of the Slavs, Prince Mestchersky is right. When the fatod grapple comes between Russia and Eugland, it will bea matter of supreme 1m- portance on which side shall stand the disci- plined leglons of the coming China, " To gag Bismarck is impossible. His work speaks for him with an eloquence that no in- gratitude can muffie and no prejudice can re- sist, ‘The crowning achievement of his state- craft, the creation of German uity, Is one of the pyramidal and epoch-making facts of bytory. All that Napoleon accomplished o fugitive and spectral by comparison. dition from attalnable, one maan's short life. bears his name. aggrandizer of the state. They ingratitude, they may give Bismarck in his lifetime a foretaste of the passionate devo- tion with which his memory Is certain to be cherished. man, He is the officer who has super| tended the removal of the countless martyrs to Sibcria, where his death will doubtless be celebrated if it is ever kuown. The per- would alone win them admiration if there were no other good The Paris assas- sistence of the mihilists reasons for their existenco. sination, however, accomplishes nothing. The murdered officer is himself a victim at last of the crime which he had helped to exe- cuteat the will of atyrant. POLITICS D THE ALLIANCE, Now York Commercial Advertiser: if it wero a single organization. of fact itis a‘half dozen orgauizations. Ttis again and again spoken of as if it had but a single great object—the passage of a sub- As amatter of fact it has half a dozen great objects, of which this is always sometimes not treasury bill. tho least important, and thought of at all. Springfleld Republican: prosperity. In sa, drawn out of Jerry Rus Jeremiah Rusk is “off his base.”” New York Star: These tions of agriculturalists vary in their princi- ples as declared in their platforms. and consumers. Naturally, they afliatowith democracy, the party of low taxation and open markets, as against republicanism and its tenets of extremely high taxes for mon- opoly advantage and the narrowmg of pro- ducers’ markets tothe demands of our own "The case of South Carolina shows how naturally the farmers alliance amalga country. mates with democracy. Springfield Republican: The farmers have been crowded and crowded until at last they have been fairly pushed over the party ropes, and we may well believo that very powerful forces operated to bring about this result. Nothing short of threatened poverty and ruin could have done it. And once out, will they ever be likely to go back! Probably not. But that is of small consequence to the tremendously disturbing results which must now come of this two decades of vlaying upon the partisan prejudices of the people of the granger sections to promote the legisla- tion which has very largoly been instvu- mental in bringiug upon them the present desperate conditions of labor, Philadelphia American: The so-called armers’ alliance is 0 new-laid egg. Were its incubation to proceed according to the laws of the genesis of things in their nature destined to achieve independence and permanent being it mighthavea being. But up to this timeit has been the instrument of demagogism, not because its rank and Ale adinire demagogues, but because in its desire to make itself felt in politics it_has not been particular about the means. The head farmer of the alliance has announced that the long expected third party has come and come to stay, and some of tho ovgans announce that the alliance will have its full ticket in 1802, That is reasonable to suppose. But there are some facts not taken into account apparently by the prophets of theallisuce. The single fact that may give the thinking adherents of the alliance pause isthis: That noparty devotedto avowed class interests has ever “‘come to stay” in this country. pat bl Sy ATCHISON GLOBULES. How easily a man whips an enemy ina play! Every time the Lord makes a woman he changes the pattern. Although the people are all after money how they hate another man who has it! Wero two people ever in love with each other after they were thoroughly acquainted! A man ean lift & heavier burden than a woman, but a woman can carry a heavy bur- aen longer. Put one bad man among seven good men and at the end of a month you have one good man among seven bad ones. A man with his pleasures is very much like asmall boy with his jam; he sprads it so thick on the first slice that the last siice is left without any. ‘There is no dependence to be placed on the promise made in necessity. Helpa man out of a ditch and if he does not pay you while themud is still weton his clothes he will never do it. Let half a dozen gossips get to talking and when they sepavate they imagine that the nolse they made about their own ears was mads by the worid, and gave it a3 the opinion of the world, Give the average man three days' work to be done in three days, and he will boast the first day, loaf the secoud, and show the amount of work ha has to do to prove that ho 18 worked to death on the third. Win a man’s friendship by telling him today that hois the smartest one in his fame ily, and you will haveto tell him tomorrow that he is the smartest man in town, and the next day that he is the smartest man in the state. e 0il Cures’ FFNESS: eck SOrenesy A thousand years hence the first French em- piro is likely to be romembored only as A dazzling eplsode, like the short-lived realms constructed by Zenghis and Tamberlane. It is scarcely conceivable, however, that consol« idated Germany will ever revert to the con- which Bismarck rescued her, Tho fabric which his hands have fashioned seems destined to stand unshaken long after the house of Hohenzollern, the monarchial re- gimoand the Prussian military system have been remitted to the limbo of outworn and discarded toys, ‘There is but one gift more precious to @ nation than unity, and. without an antecedent unity, liberty itself were un- The duy may come when the most ardent champions of German freedom will applaud Bismarck's wisdom in discern- ing that to lay deep and immovable the foun- dations of unity demanded all the euergies of Let others rear the superstricture on the rock-like base that In no other way could William II. so infallibly provoke a reaction in Bismarck's favor as by attempting to humili- atethe beneractor of his family and the who lately have descanted on Bismarck's faults and shortcomings witl presently think only of his virtues, and, shocked by thelr sovereign's - " Tue nihilists have brought down another The farmers' alliance is continually spoken of as As a matter There seems to be a difference of opinion between Secretary Jeremiah Rusk of tho agricultural depart ment and the western farmers us to their his recent annual report “Uncle Jorry? expresses satisfaction with things as they are. Yet, as Tie Osans Brx 470,000 farmers in Nebraska, 106,000 in Kansas and 55,000 in Minnesota have just ’s party and have voted that thoy are not prosperous.” Accord- ing to these figures, it's 231,000 to one that different associa- But ithout exception they are all formed and managed in the popular interest, with a view to the protection and benefit of the producers FROM THE STATE CAPITAL The Formal Contest for the Various Excon- tive State Officos, COURIERS DISPATCHED TO EVERY OFFICER. \‘I iy No State Troops Needed for the lu-/ dian Outbreak—The Final Foot- inge—Obstracting a Cross- ing -Lincoln News. Laxcoux, Neb,, Nov. 21.—[Special to Tur Bee, |—~The proposed contest by the allia of the eiection of Governor-elect Boyd, L. tenant Governor-clect Majors, Secretar) State-clect Allen, Auditor-elect Bento Treasurer-elect Hill, Attorney Genoral-ele Hastings and Land Comumissioner-elect Humphrey, has beon finally openly announc and the veil of secrecy that has herctofore marked the preparations has been torn off Today the attorneys for the alliance dis patched special couriers to the gentlemen elected to the various state executive offices notifying' thoso gentlemen of the proposed contest. The notices are very lengthy aud cover a vast deal of ground. ‘The time aud places chosen for the taking of depositions relative to the contest ave us follows: Lincoln, Decomber 4; Omaha, Do cember 157 Norfolk, December 23; Indiauola, December 20, Jay Burrows declaves that it has been the intention of the alliance all along to make « contest and the reports of a difference of opinfon existing among the alliance leaders 15 ot true as far as he knows. Thero has been all along he ciims & unanimity of opinioa among the leaders in regard to tho contest and Powers has not opposed such movement at all Wi Governor Thayer says that he has received both by letter and wire several offers of troops to fight the Indians in the present ghost dance scare at the Pine Ridge agency. The governor says that there is no occasi for calling on such persons for their servicos as hie has no expectations that thero will be any need for furthor military help in the sup- posed Indian swar, WILL HAVE FOUR BANK EXAMINERS, The state banking board is considering the advisability of appointing another bank ex cr, us the work of the present three is idered too arduous for them. In addi tion to this it is allezed that the appointment of Mr, Thorpe as successor to Mr. Sanders was so long deferred that the work 15 about six months behind and it will be impossible for him to catch up in the work and do it well. The appointment of another bank ex- aminer will necessitate the division of the state into four districts, and us the board bo- lieves that it is necessary to have another ex- aminer, the state has been divided into four proposed districts as follows ‘'he First district will comprise the terri tory bounded on the east by the Missouri river, on_the south by thé Platte, on tho north by South Dakota and on the west by the second principal meridian, The Second district is to be_ that territory bounded on the north by the Platte nver, on the east by the Missouri, on the south by Kansas and on_the west by the westcrn county lines of Polk, York, Saline and Gazo conntles. . The aistriet will also inctude Cus- ter county. i The Third district will be just west of the Second and will be bounded on the north by the Platte river, on the south by Kansas and on the west by Colorado. The Fourth district will he north of the Platte river and 1ncludes all the territory above that stream and west of the second principal meridan, excepting Custer county. OPPOSES A CROSSING. Mr. Bush, president of the Lincoln ci clectrio railway company, promised a few months ago to get even with the railroad companies for their obstruction tactics when the electric railway company wished to cross the B, & M. and other tracks on ‘Twelfth, near W street. The opportunity has now come, Mr. Bush believes, and today ho caused the Lincoln city electric railway com- pany to filea petition in the district court asking that the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa- cific railroad company be enjoined from en- tering upon the right-of-wuy and tracks of ilway company at or near Twelfth and Emorson strects or any point along its line, and that a temporary njunc- tion be issued for an early hearing of tho case. Bush in his petition de- clares that the new railroad company 7 has a gang of men ready to cut the tracks of the electric railway company and construct crossings over the same by force and without the consent or any agreement with the elec- tric railway company. Mr. Rush declares that such crossings will greatly interfero with the traffic and travel on the streot rail- way line, pon reading the petition, Judge Field granted a temporary injunction and set the hearing of the case for November 2, at! 8. m, THE FINAL FOOTINGS, Through the efforts of Nels McDowell, the clerk in the secretary of state's office, the final footings of the voto cast for the various state officors and the amendments have been completed. Had it not been for his individual efforts the public would probably be wondering for the next two months as to who was elected and who was not. Tn addition to the final footings already published in Tie Bek the following were an- nounced today : CONGRESSMAN—SECOND DISTRICT, Harlan, rep. McKel, ghan, Palmer, prohib. CONGUES: Dorsey, rep. Thompson, Kem, alll, Plerce, prol For prohibition Agalnst prohibition For high liconse Aguinst high 1§ Ior increase number galnst increase numbe Judges.... For increase 91081 5 Kol of supreme iary of suprome judgcs.. o1 Again enso salary of supreme Judges . AN .. 61510 The total number of votes cast in the stato were 214,561, This shows that there were 25, — 831 persons in thestate who did not vote either way on the subject of prohibition. finely Made: fully Warranted Marvellous ‘in Tone (OATALOGUE FROM BOSTON OFFICE £ LETON ST i C. L. 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