Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 21, 1890, Page 4

/ - .amendment campaign, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1800—TWENTY THE DAILY _BEE. Epiton, EVERY PUBL l'filll"l) MORNING TERMS OF 8UBSCRTPTION, Daily and Sunday, One \mn Bix months, Threo 1 Bunday Hico eokly Hec, Ono Ye FICE! Omahn, The oo AIlINE, Eouth Omaha, Corr Council Blufrs, 12 F re 317 Oham ber of Commerce, t tand 15 Tribune Buliding Washington, 613 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE All communications relating to news and itorlal matter should bo_addressed to the ftorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. All business lotters and remitiances should be addressod to Tho ieo Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts cliecks und postofice orders to bemade payable w the order of the oom The Bee Publishing Company, Propnelors, The Bee B'1’g, Farnam nhtl buhenuanlh Sta EWORN STATEMENT OF LI!IUULATIUN Btateof Nebraska. }oas County of Dougias. Georgo I Tzschuck. secretary of The Bee Publishing compuny, aoes solemnly swear 20th Etroots. that the actunl of roulation of TiE DALY BE® for the weex ending Dec. 20, 1600, was as fol- 31,015 Friday. Baturday, Dec. Fworn to tefore me nnd subscribed fn my presence this 20th day of Decemver. A, D, 1800 1AL, | N. P, Frit, Notary Publio Btate of Nobraska, [ County of Douglas, George 1. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- osen and says that ne is ecrotary of The Beo Publishing Company, that the setual average @aily circulation of The DALY B for tho month of December. 1880, was 20,048 coples; for January, 1600, 10,565 copies; rnrlchruury 1 Iv.i0l coblea for March, 160, 20,815 G0 Tor April, 1800, 20,664 * vl ny, 1850, coples: for June, 180, ot eoplea:. for ' J Iy, , 20,062 coples for August, 150, 20,750 coples for Eentemter, 1800, coples: for October., 1800, 20762 coples; for Noveruber, 180, 22,130 copies. GEONGE B. TZ8CHUCK. Evorn to before me. and subicrived in my presence, this il aay of December, 1 Tt ry Publlo. No Pro¥, Sucer’s prolonged fast admir- ably fits him to lead a reul live ghost dance. il THE best indications are that Ne- braska will find a sensible legislature in her stocking. | Davre HiLL has not yet said that he would have the senatorship, but history fails to record that he ever declined an office. BEIIND the scenes of the contost farco s being onacted the tragic raid on tho Alliance surplus, with the prohibition lawyers in the leading roles. A BoSTON newspaper published 116 columns of advertising last Sunday and crowed loudly thereat. THE BEE pub- lished 140 columns the same day, and hummed no louder than usual. — UNLESS measures are promptly adopted to restrain the Denver artist’s rage for gore he is liable to masticate the whole hostile band, tepeces and squaws, before the troops can get within range. Tie New York Sun’s tribute to the ability and wisdom of General Brooke is well deserved. Sofar as he has been re- sponsiblo for the recent operations they reflect eredit on the humanity and judg- ment of the government. Tue failure of S. A. Kean, the Chi- cugo banker, 18 o particularly melan- choly event to the prohibitionists, It will be remembered that Mr, Kean was a leading card in the late Nebraska He sent letters broadcast, offering his testimony as that of a conservative banker who know that prohibition had not hurt Towa and would not injure Ne- braska commercially. \And now it trans- pires that among his depositors was the treasurer of the Womans’ Christian Temperance union, Her deposit was 830,000, and the bank is expected to pay only 25 cents on the dollar, The event proves that Mr. Kean was noither a reli- able banker nor an impartial witness. The Womans’ Christian Temperance union will have the sympathy of the public for its serious loss. THE treatment accorded Omaha by the postoffice department is shamefully shabby: From a business point of view it is conspicuously unbusinesslike, Omaha does not ask for more than is ac- corded cities of like population. The revenuo of the postoffice for the last fiscal year shows a greater increase than that of any city in the west. It is equally indisputable that the business of the Omaha postoffice is handled for as small a per cent of cost as uny office in the country. Despite these facts, tho department ignores the demand for an addition to the clerical and carrier de- livery force to which the city is entitled by reason of population and business handled. Other cities of less population are not only allowed a larger number of carriers, but have been given permis- sion to employ an extra holiday force—a privilege denied to Omaha. The Ne- braska delegation should file a vigorons protest against such discrimination and demand from the department the full number of carriers and clerks the city is entitled to. THE bill in congress for the enlarge- ment, protection and maintenance of the Yellowstone National park, ought to be passed ut the present session, but there is danger that it will be defeated by the railroadcamondment, which has proved fatal to other like measures. For years there has been a persistent lobby trying to get o railway through the park for tho accommodation of a few miners, and this proposition has blocked the way to legislation for the protection of this won- derful work of nature from the depreda- tions of forest robbers and hunters. There are the strongest possible objec- tions to running a railway through the reservation, and they have been repeat- edly presented to congress, yet the rail- way lobby has always been able to de- feat any measure that did not provide fora vailway. There is reason to be- lieve they will not be so successful with the present congress, and that the re- quired logislation for the protection and maintenanee of the great Yellowstone park, unequaled in respect of many of | its attractions and its wonderful scenic phenomena, will be enacted. THE INDIAN POLIOY. Congress will order an investigation into the canses of the Indian disturb- ance, and it may be found: necessary or expedient to make some changes in the policy of treating the red men. The fact that progress has been made must be admitted, but it is plain that somo- thing must be wrong when after all these years the Indians are still found manifesting a rebellious spirit and breaking out into open revolt. Mr, Her- bert Welsh, secretary of the Indian Rights association, is of the opinion that reform is desirable in the matter of ap- vointing agents. Mr, Welsh and the as- sociation he represents are opposed to the appointment of agents on what is known as the home rule plan, that is, taking an agent from the state or terri- tory in which reservations are situated. This the Indian Rights association hold is an unsound policy, leading to the se- lection of agents for policical rensons rather than because they were fitted by character and experience to deal with Indians; Undoubtedly the home rule system cannot always be wisely applied, and it has not been uniformly adopted. But it is generally preforable to the appoint- ment of men from farther east. Particu- larly is this true of Dakota, where tho ate is severe. Furthermore, the Indian service is for the most parta poorly paid one, and it stands to reason that, other things being equal, the ap- pointment of men who have no long journeys to make involving heavy traveling expenses is more likely to be productive of good results than otherwise, Itis reasonable to suppose that as a rule agents ap- pointed from among the people who are familiar with the character of the Indi- ans will make better officials than men chosen from a remote section of the country who may never have seen an In- dian. Ina recently published letter Mr. ‘Welsh cites one case where an appoint- ment was made for political reasons and where the result was unsatisfactory. He further alleges that he knows of five re- movals for none but political causes. It is a little unfortunate for this statement that its author acknowledges he has not been given access to the private files of the interior department and conse- quently does not know what charges have been preferred. Mr. Welsh con- siders it unsound policy to practice se- crecy in the matter of removals, unless under extraordinary circumstances, and perhaps as a general proposition tnis is right, but certainly there are many cases where thero is no good reason for giving widespread publicity to the causes of an agent’s removal. To do o might be exceedingly unpleasant to him and his family. But this not an affair of very great imdortance. A thorough investigation of the causes of the Sioux uprising is certainly in order, and this would necessarily involve an inquiry into the Indian policy. Noth- ing else has been so persistently tinkered with, but there would seem to be still an opportunity for more mending. ‘The proposition to transfer the control of the Indians to the war department and turn the Indians over to the control of the army, will only meet the approval of those who desire to exierminate the {ndian. army is not a civilizing agency. Its con- tact h the Indian has always been de- moralizing to the soldierand brutalizi for the red race. Themilitary of the Indian would simply emphasize the frontiersman’s motto, A dead [njun is a good Injun.” Of the quartor of a million of American Indians less than two per cent can be graded assomi- savage and hostile. These should be placed under the surveillance of the military until thoroughly subdued. To place the semi-civilized Indians that constitute the great body of all their race under bayonet rule would be utterly indefensible. The RUSSIA'S ANTINEWISH LAW, The announcement that the Russian government will probably promulgate the new anti-Jewish low at the begin- ning of the coming year has aroused a large part of the civilized world in pro- test against the proposed persecutions. One of the most important clauses of the new measure prohibits the selling, loas- ing or mortgaging to Jews of any real estate in any part of the empive, a regu- lation that hitherto has applied only to Poland. Another clause provides that Jews shall be dispossessed of any real estate they may hold. In the past Jew- ish merchants, after paying the commer- cial tax of the first guild for ten years, have been allowed to purchase voal es- tate outside of the limits assigned to the Jewish populace. The new law cancels this privilege, and compels them to sell all real estate that they may have ac- quired. Jewish artisans are also to bo deprived of certain rights, and are to be kept strictly within tho limits assigned tothe Jewish population. Repressive measures will be taken against Jows in- fringing the new law. Public meetings have been held in England to protest against this proposed persecution, At a great meeting held in London a short time ago, at which the lord mayor presided, a resolution moved by the duke of Westminster was adopted which declared that the re- newed sufferings of the Jews in Russia, from the operation of the severe and ex- ceptional edicts against them, and the disabilities placed upon them, are deeply tobe deplored, and that in the last decade of the ninetcenth century relig- ious liberty is a principle which should be recognized by every Christian com- munity as among natural human rights, Moetings have been held in this country of like purport, and by petition and through the press the American people have testified to their abhorrence of the cruel and heartless policy which the Russian government promises soon to in- stitute, It is highly probable, however, that these protests will have no effect. The Russian newspapers, which have doubt- less received the cue from the govern- ment, inform the outside world that pro- tests and resolutions, meetings and petitions, will have no effect in modify- ing the imperial policy toward the Jews of Russin, They insist that the Jew must be suppressed in order that the peasant may be protected, asserting that the latter is so deeply in the toils of the former that nothing less than the power [ .concerns every of the czar will extricate him. More- ovor, these newspapers say, the Jow is himself in danger, for the time has come when the peasant is disposed to turn in self-dofonse, and the governmont steps in botween him and the object of his | vengeanco, Of course all this is simply a pretext by which it is hoped to excuso a despotic system of persecution that will bring immeasurable suffering and cruel injustico to tens of thousands of people whose industry and thrift have made them obnoxious. An attempt has been made to shield tho ezar from responsibility for this policy, the present American ministor to Russia assorting that that the czar has no shave in the poersecutions in- flicted on his Jewish subjects. But he could have arrested this legislation by a stroke of his imperial pen, and the fact that he allowed it to be enacted neces- sarily makes him a participant in the in- famous policy which is condemuned by the enlightened world. S——— A POET'S BIRTHDAY. John G. Whittier passed the ago of 83 on Wednesday last, December 17, The “good, gray poet” is onjoying a serene and beautiful evening of life at 'Oak Knoll,” a charming country seat near Danvers, Mass, His home is the Mecea of many reverent pilgrims and will be a famous literary shrine long aftor ho has passed *‘beyond the sunset,” 1t has been Whittier's singular good for- tune not only to outlive his enemies, but to see their cause abandoned and written down in history asa faillure. He has had, too, the satisfaction—denied to so many men of genius—of fosling thoe warmth of his own effulgent fame. His has been a pure and gentle life, befitting a man of his rave and beautiful typo. It is gratifying to note that Whiutier’s poctry enjoys a growing popularity in the school books, and that children feel an interest in his stirring verse, breath- g the purest patriotism and the most unalloyed Amevicanism, that they feel in no other works of this character. This is bound to be more and more the case as our literature grows older, snd as the grand old Quaker takes his place among the immortals. Above all other names his is entitled to take rank as the first of American poets. His genius was dedicated exclusively to American ideas and scenes. Longlellow, Lowell and Bryant shared with him a distinction which he was glad to make his single claim to fame. It is to bo hoped that he will yet celebrate many a birthday. AWAY WITH THE FEE SYSTEM. The abolition of fee offices is deservedly receiving attention in a number of west- ern states, The system has been so prolific of political scandals in all branches of government that its repeal is one of the crying needs of the time. Like a great many other relics of the early days it has the sanction of law and custom. The older it grows the stronger becomes its grip on the political machin- ery of the state. The feo system is one of the many im- portant questions with which the Ne- braska legisiature will be called upon to grapple. It is a question di- rectly affecting the taxpayers and citizen. There is no lack of precedent to guide the legislature in working out thisessen- tial reform. Illinois and Missouri have deprived state, county and city treasurers of the profit derived from loaning pub- lic funds. The income of the city treas- urer of Chicago formerly ranged all the way from 30,000 to $110,000 a year. Such enormous profits naturally made the treas- urer’s office the great hone of contention in every municipal clection, and lar, contributed to the general demorali tion of local politics. Under the Missouri law, giving cities the right to select a depository for pub- lic funds among the responsible banks, St. Louis realizes four and a half per cent on her city and county deposits. Tho public funds loaned out by treas- urers in this state will, at the very lowest estimate, aggregate $5,000,000 year in and year out. At 4 percent the inter- est on this sum would realize for the tax- payers $200,000 a year. That is cevtainly worth saving. But the letting out of public funds is really not legitimate even under our existing laws, The legislative pruning knifo must also beapplied to the perquisites of other state, county and city officials, who are allowed feos without limitas part of their income. The policy forall officiuls should be fixed salaries and the turning over of all fees from whatever source for the benefit of the taxpayors. A CURRENT SOCIAL MOVEMENT The great forces underlying human society ave never still. They are always moving, pushing, advancing, and work- ing out. iftly or slowly, according to the temper of the times—the problems of the race. The reformatory spirit has existed sinco history began. It has been conspicuous in the life of every generation, hading all the way from pale remonstrance to red revolution, it has constantly operated to bring change and improvement in the conditions of living, to widen the pathways of educa- tion, and to make freer of access to all classes the better opportunities of life. There has been no time in the last half of the present centuvy when the social currents of both Europs and America appeared to be more harmoni- ously blended and tobe moving more steadily or sarely toward a common end. Various as are the movements that swell these currents to their enormous pro- portions, the underlying spirit of the whole may be summed up in asingle phrase—"The fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man,” Germany is today vhe calm sea level from which the social forces of Europe may be measured. There the movement partakes neither of the violent qualities of the reform spirit of Russia, nor of the erratic and incoherent ebulitions of France, The Teutonic mind is slow, philosophic and not excitable. It does not enter rashly into social experiments from which it must retreat. Touched on all sides by the life of Burope, and itself a part of it, the German mind is o safe thermometor from which to read the signs of the times. We risk nothing in assuming that the Germans will never be found in advance of the reform spirit of the contintmit, nor a step behind what- ever is spund and abiding in it. And what of Germany? Judged by the efMs™ 6f the last two years, the day of radical social reforms has dawned upon that country, It jgerot a political movement, oxcept so fadfns it seoks to attain its onds througl legislation. It does not aim to overthffow the empire, or to build up a party wi offices and patronage. And yot it hasent into retirement the Iron Chancellor and made the proudest of the Hohenzollerns an attentive lis- tener, It asks for highor wages, shorter hours of labor, better homes, lower rail- road fares, improved opportunities of living. It asks that children shall have a broader and surer chance to become educated and self-respecting men and women than their fathers and mothers had., It assumes that labor ecroates wealth; that tho wealth of Germany is sufficient to assure every honest, indus- trious man a clean and comfortable home; that these are the inherent rights of German citizens; that it is the business of the government to sce that they enjoy them. And the re- sults? Emperor Willinm summoned an international labor conference and pro- ceeded to introduce reforms among the most degraded class of laborers, the coal miners. He caused plans to be drafted for the extension of rapid transit into suburbs of over-crowded cities, with fares reduced to a minimum. He pre- pared estimates of the cost of erecting thousands of small but cosy houses in healthy and sightly neighborhoods. These and other reforms are in progress, and ‘*‘the workingman’s emperor’ stands with a hopeful following at his back—a following composed of the samo elements that three years ago repre- sented the discontented but smothered opposition to the old emperor and Bis- marck. The social reformers of Ge many believe they are in a way to real- ize their dreams and leave their country better than they found 1t. The movement differs with the vari- ous countries of Europe, according to local conditions, but aims at the results observed in Germany. In Russia alone, where the despotism is intolerable, does the political feature of it rise above the purely social and humanitarian consid- eration. If in the course of events mon- archies are overthrown it. will be only incidental to a development which had for its first object the bettering of the conditions of the lite of the poople. The sume currents exist in England. Gen- eral Booth’s scheme for uplifting the ‘“submerged tenth” is at present its most co nspicuous symptom, It is unnecessary to point out the forces which in this country, in all 1ts sections and among every class of its people, are working silentlytosimilar ends. There is not a large city where various reform organizations do not exist, nor a post- oftice which the literature of the move- ment does not rpach. Nonotable ser- mon or speech is uttered without a reference to the social demands of the times. The vital germ of the Alliance movement is the same teeling that throbs in the masses of Kurope and brings lords and dadies, as well as mer- chants und mechanics, to the support of Booth’s undertaking in England, It is the universal response to the call for a better recoguition of God’s fatherhood and man’s brotherhood. The past sheds a hopeful light on the future. It is luminous evidence to the fact that the world sweeps steadily on- ward to the most radical reforms, and that humanity has always gained by the procoss. THE EVIL OF UNCERTAINTY. Dun’s weekly report states the chief causo of the financial stringency as fol- lows: “The prospectof important finan- cial legislation, the effect of which is not clearly foreseen.” And that hits the nail on the head. No element in the present situation is more largely responsible for the lack of confidence and the consequent tightness in the money market than the failure of congress to prompily grapple with the financial problem aund definitely an- nounce to the country what its policy will be. Perhaps the best thing that congress could do to immeai- ately restore confidence would be to adjourn. But that is out of the question, It has a mountain of work yet to accomplish and wilt be busy up to the last hourof its existence. There is no reason, however, why the republican majority should not get down to business, determine its policy and give the country the benefit of stable conditions. It has a large variety of financial measures pending, Some are reasonable, some impracticable and some positively dangerous, Let it choose the most rational without fur- ther delay and the business pulse will respond quickly to the restoration of permanent conditions, The trouble with the country just now is not so much a want of sufficient cur- rency with which to carry on its legiti- mate commercial exchanges as itis a want of mutual gonfidence, which can only be rostored by a stable fiscal policy on the part of the national government. A SINGULAR career has recently cul- minated in the suicide of ex-State Sen- ator Benedict Arnold of New York. His real name ~was Michael Edwards. Forty years ago while a resiaent of Con- necticut Edwards was seized with an in- sano ndmuntlun.[nr the most detested character in American history. De- termined to vlndlpm.n the traitor of the revolution, he assummed the name of Benedict Arnold,, moved to New York, rose to eminencg in the legal profession, was repeatedlyi-honored with publie offico, and was witlely respected. So far as rescuing the name of Arnold from the execration of the world, Edwards’ career was a failure. His life had no more effect on the judgment of history than a pebble cast into the ocean. He demon- strated, howevor, that the world at- taches little significance to a name. It does not measure men by false stand- ards. It moasures them by their own acts, and renders judgment accordingly. — THE country will never know how much of a grudge it owes the silver pool for the recent financial disturbance, Silver has bobbed up and down, presum- ably to the profit of those who huve manipulated the situation. The fact PAGES. that the pool may still have designs to carry out through tho medium of legis- | lation continues to be a disturbing e —_— ON THE SIDE, Sieum Parnell; gethere Davitt. The banks are no longer playinga loan hand, The bad lands are far more dangerous to the hostiles than they aro to the troops, The value of the spirit lovels of Dakota can only be measurod by their consuming effect. For wila and weird imaginativencss, the entire corps of war correspondents doff their beavers to the grapevine genius of Denver, sojourning at Daily's ranch, Tibbles has not been heard from lately, Ts it possible the distinguished itinerant grass. hopper imbibed an overdose of Mrs. Caudle's nighteaps? Perishthe thought. Perhaps the establishment of fast mails to South Omaha is original with the postoffico department, The fact is fast males have been running to the eity since its birth, The negroes of Kansas City aro affected by the Messiah craze, but as they have unlim- ited space in the vast array of vacant build- ings to indulgo 1n the ghost danco there is no immediate danger of physical damage. ot Ay THIS AND THAT, The Indian scare has proven a bonanza for the booksellers of Omata. They have man- aged to dispose of all the books which they have on the Indians of the northwest to peo- ple who are anxious to send their friends in the east some little memento for Christmas, The book on which the greatest run has been made is a little illustrated work showing the Indians of Nebraska and Dakota in all the grandeur of war paint and feathers. Omaha people, who were formerly from tho east, ‘want their friends to see some of the beauties. of life in the west, and this Indiun book gives them a chance to spread the improssion that they are living on the frontier. Travelers through Iowa and Kansas can now wet their whistles on the Pullman car, For many years it has been impossible to buy liquor while passing through these states on tho train, but at last the original package hus come to the relief of the thirsty traveler, The package is an oddity in its way. It con- s15ts of a little pasteboard box and looks like an old-fashioned prize package, carefully scaled at both ends, and manufactured by a well known whisky firm at Louisville, Ky. Allyouhave to do is to break the seal and out pops a little bottle of sour mash, contain- ing about three good-sized drinks. For the privilego of sccuring this smile the tax is 50 cents. A business man who has just returned from a little inlaud town, where he was called to prosecute a suit against a country merchaut who had failed while owing him a bill, is in the best of spirits, although he failed to win his case, “P've had my name mentioned in the samo sentence with Jay Gould,” said he. “You wouldn't hardly believe it, but out there they think I stand in with the wizard of Wall streel. When my case came up for trial tho lawyer for the defenso made a plea to the Jury for his client in the following language: “‘Gentlemen of the jury, this here client of mine is an honest man. These Jay Goulds of Omaha, of which plaintiff is chief, are the ones to whom all our troublos can be laid. Gentlomen, I appeal to you for a verdiot in behalf of my client. Will you give it? “Phe jury was out but five minntes when it brought in a verdict in favor of the coun- try merchant.” A marriageof deaf-mutes by a minister unfamiliar with the mysteries of the sign language forms a rare and interesting cere- mony. Rev. C. W. Savidge, pastor of the Newman M. E. church porformed such a coremony the other evening, assisted by Prof. . W. Reed, a teacher in the deaf and Aumb institute. The experience was & now one to Mr. Savidge, although he has united more than three hundred couples in marriage, and he was at a loss for a few moments as to how he should proceed. He finally arranged to read a paragraph or two and then havo Mr. Reed deliver it in the sign language. At 1 of the first pavagraph of the service savidge was treated to o wonderful ex- on of the quickened senses of people who have been deprived of the powers of speech and hearing. After the couple had tuken a position Mr. Savidge read the first paragraph of the service, expecting to turn the book over to Mr. Reed, who would repeat the paragraph in the sign language. But no sooner had the minister began rcadiug than Prof. Reed, who stood at his side, began in- terpreting, and through the entire servico the words spoken by the minister as rapidly as usual were with the greatest ease and accuracy delivered by signs. The perform- ance appears the moe remarkable when it is remembered that Prof. Reed is himself a deaf mute. The parties to the union wero Mr. John Clark and Miss Jennie Chizum, and the ceremony was performed at the home of the bride, 1706 Corby street. OMAHA'S ART CRITIC. The moral prude who destroyed the $18,000 painting in the Omana art exbibit because he thought it unfit to be exposed in a public vlace, neglected a great duty. He didn’t commit his act of vandalism until the exhibition was about to close, thus vermitting the “bad” influence of the picture todo its immoral work. If there is any moral taint discovered hereafter in Omaha 'we shall know where it came from, Lincoln Journal: The defenders of Mr. Warbington, who demolished Bougeureau's idea of spring at Omaha, because she hadn't dressed before she avose in the morning, are few, but they are determined. One Journal correspondent writes to express his regret that Mr. W. hadn’t been born sooner. *If he had been Adam and smashed the liver and lights out of Eve when she stood before him in her shameless garb, we would have been suved a world of trouble.”” Beatrice Democrat: The Kansas City Star s getting decidedly sensitive, and demands that the nude pictures of female women that appear in high colors on the bill boards of that city be abolished. That's what the nice young man in Omaha thought when he threw a chawr through an $15,000 painting. It is generally understood that Kansas City run wide open, and that not only were the counterfeit presentiment of the nude in urt permitted, but that the solid goods were seattered avound promis cuously. Grana Island Independent: To the vulgar there is vulgarity in everything in nature, To the pure in thought, nature is nearest. ap- proach to pertection. The clothing of impure thought is worse than no wrappings what- ever. Impure thought can clotho even a veiled marble statue with carnal raunent, while the simplicity of innocence can unblush- ingly tolerate, yea pleasantly contemplate the unveiled monument. People with vulgar minds and carnal thoughts should not seek to study art, and should be excluded from art galleries, Beatrice Democrat; The young man who ruthlessly destroyed an $18,000 picture in the art gallery at Omaha because it happened to be the counterfeit presentiment of a volup- tuous young woman in absolute nudity, dis- played a painful lack of taste. There is noth- ing more beantiful in nature than woman, and the artist who can ppesent her in all her loveliness, unencumbured by the fuss and foathers that go to muke up the alleged wom- an of today, has & right to present his picture Fremont Tribune: to the world, and the picture is entitled to protection. There is nothing vulgar in ua- ture. STATE PRESS TOPICS. Grand Tsland Independent: Trme OMAnA Bik of Sunday was a thirty-two page paper and in all respects a daisy. Superior Journal: Last Sunday’s Oaima Bre was o marvel of westorn journalism. Thirty-two pages, and that in o towa of only 135,000! Norfolk Nows: If the next legislature will submit an amendment permitting tho people 10 eloct tho state board of transportation, it will take a big stop toward a needed reform. Nebraska City Press: The Press is the only paper in the state, outside of Tue OMAuA Bek, that can keop tho prohibition and demo- crat animals in constant commotion. Nebraska City News: Tho Sunday OSAtA Bre was a dandy. It contained thitty-two pages of good reading matter and home ad- vertisements. Tux Ber 1s the leading paper of the westand always gots to the front inall matters, Norfolk Nows: The greatest lobby in the history of Nebraska will assemble at Lincoln this winter, and there will bo a railroad striker on every street corner, an_ oil room in overy hotel. The approaching session is liable to produce an extra large harvest of po- litical dead ducks. Elm Creek Sun: Last Sunday’s OmAna Bee isan example of the success of inde- fatigable energy in the field of journalism. This issue contains thirty-two pages, and illustrates the fact that Barnum's motto, “For every dollar you invest in business in- vest one dollar in advertisements,” s fully appreciated by the progressive business men of Omaha, Kearney Hub: The World-Herald has a right to talk plain to the alliance, having nearly split itself in the endeavor to ride the alliance and democratic horses at the same time. Still, as a matter of fact, the double act was only in the appearance and not in the fact—it was veally riding the democratic borse all the time, is riding it yot, and pro- poses to ride it to a finish, Friend Telegraph: The World-Herald is making more preparations to swallow the Ne- braska alliance than the whale did Jonah. The main difference between thetwo extremes. is that in the one case the Lord prepared the swallowing gear, while the other is being prepared from a far different source. The old question of ‘‘you take the buzzard and T'll take the turkey,” or “I'll take the turkey and you take the buzzard" is being hela out as an extra inducement, Schuyler Quill: One of the first things the coming legislature wants to wrestle with and down is the school book fraud. School books cost about three or four times what they ought, and if any book should bo sold cheap it is the school text book. Educational matters. must not be run under “trust” methods and should be within reach of the poorest, Many times an education is all parents can possibly give their children, and they should not be hindered in that. Itis the besta parent can give a child, BRSO DEDICATED TO THE DICTATOR. Fremont Tribune: Jay Burrows continues his old job of dictator, with an eye singlo to the glory of becoming United States senator two years hence, Columbus Telegram: VanWyck, like Banquo's ghost, will not down, Powors and Burrows, with the assistance of the sergeant- at-arms, could not make him do it. He suc- ceeded, however, in ‘'sitting down” on the wily would-be dictator. Nebraska City Press: Jay Burrows has been taught one lesson which he will ever remember, and that is that -Mr. Van Wyck has countless frienas in the farmers' alliance who will stand by him. Burrows has had a snap the past few months and itis well that he has been sat upon in a heavy way. York Times: There is every probability that Mr. Short Bull Burrows will lose his job as prophet of thealliance before the ghost dance begins at Lincoln this winter, Nobody can get along with Burrows. He is small, narrow, grasping, arbivrary and very jealous. 1t makes him crazy to seeanyone have power, iufluence or profit except himself. Hastings Nebraskan: The £,000 appropri- ation proposed by Van Wyck tobe given for the relief of western sufferers out of the §7,000 accumulated in the treasury of the state allianee, was cut down one-half. The politicians of the iew party can’t run the machine without money, and the distressed peoplein the west ought to be willing to suf- fer awhile on that account. Grand Island Independent: Dictator Bur- rows attempted to sit down upon General Charles Van Wyck, and got sat down upon with a dull and sickening thud, which will be apt to interfere with his digestive organs and mental faculties all through the ages to come. Dictator Burrows has learned that the alliance has grown to 100 great propor- tions to be ruled by a man of his calibre, and, that henceforth it is not to be aone man party. Lincoin Journal: General Van Wyck has braved the bull of excommunication issued by Pope Burrows and maintains his place in the state alliance to which he belongs as the only constitutional method of getting rid of the founder of the third party. It is the be- ginning of the end of the Nebraska papacy. Burrows’ plan of striking down every mem- ber of the organization who 1s likely tobe prominent, has been worked for all itis worth, 25K BRAVE LOVE, Anonymous.> He'd nothing but bis violin; ' nothing but my song, But we were wed when skies were blue, And Summer days were long; And when we rested by the hedge The robins came and told How they had dared to woo and win When early Spring was cold. We sometimes supped on_dewberries, Or slept among the hay— But oft the farmers’ wives at ove Came out to hear us play The rare old tunes—the dear old tunesl— We could not starve for long While my man had his violin, And I my sweet love song. The world has aye gone well with us, 01d Man, since we were one'!— Our homeless wandering down the lanes— 1t long ago was done, But those who wait for gold or gear— For houses and for kine, Till Youth's sweet Spring grows brown sere And love and beauty tine, Will never know the joy of hearts That met without a fear When you had but your violin Ard1 a song, my dear. [*F Yirst published in un Indiana country newsvaper, but rewritten from memory by James Whitcomb _Riley, t for the Urbana (0.) Dafly Citizon, December 12. Author unknown.| c— WHEN X-NAS COMUES, Smich, Gray & Co.'s Monthly, When X-mas comos the poets sing Of how the welkins gayly riog, “They work **tho bells" for all they're worth, And quote about “good will on earth,’" Tho *holly garlands,” 100, you know, And “stockings hauging in a row," Forgetting not the mateh irl small, Who froozes 'gainst the mansion wail, "Mid drifting flakes of pearly white, She glace's through the livelong night, “Phe merriest chestuut of them all, When X-mas comes, ECHOES FROM THE CONTEST, York Times: The contost {s dwindling down to a very fine point indeed. The only evidence to tmpoach the olection in Omata is that of two or three officious and obtrusive prohibitionists who were guyed and hustied @ little on election day, Nebraska City News: The gubernatoria contest is being urged on by the probibitions ists in hopes of sccuring a governor that would favor statutory prohibition laws, hoping thereby to sceure someth from t legislature that was denied thom by the peoe ple. Butthe prohibs have reckoned without their host. Hastings Nebraskan: Mr. Rosewater hins told a long and interesting story in the cone test case at Omaha, The antipathy of Omaha republicans against Richards seems to have generated in the state convention whon Church Howe was made chairman by the Richards forces, They looked upon it as o prohibition move and refused to bo reconcilod to any other bolief after the campaign was inaugurated. Beatrico Democrat: The judges and busi- ness men of Omaha have been putupon tho stand and testify that tho election was un- usunlly quict, and that no person was pre vented from voting as ho wishod. Mr. Boyd may bo counted out by & partisan legislature, or deprived of his ofice upon some techinical ground, but no fraud in the election hus been connected with him in the remotest degree. —_——— QUESTIOAS AND ANSWERS, OveLL, Nob., Dee 16.—To the Editor of Tin BER: Tosettien dispute and for the lufor- mation to be ined, please tell why Christe was is colobratod by a Christmas tr O. L. Reen Ttisa pretty coremony adopted by the Christians _soveral centuries ago to lend dramatic inte to the celepration of the day and rescue it from heathenist descera- tion, It has nomore direct significance so . 13.—To the Edit B hat I8 the premium on discove conl: what procoss shall Wo pUrsie to sut. ate that we have discovered coal? Plenso state what depth we are allowed to o and what kind of coul and how thick a veloe Pleaso give all the particulurs. COTES & MACK. Promium, $4000, Mako afidavit to tha governor, setting forth your discov will then send an_expert to eximine the .-.,. perty and will order the pavment of the pro- mium of the report 18 satisfactory to him. Tho law states that the vein musi be “not less than 26 inches in depth, of sufticient cas pacity to mine, and within ' paying distauce of the surface The oxpert examination will be at your exponso, HuNBOLT, Nob., i To the Editor of TaE Bl Ploase name some of the ||r||n'l 1 English sy ndicates of the United Sta location, and, if possible, the value nf i property. How they i per cent they have “incre: t s your n||lul4mnf (hl 80 a Ivmwl(l or a det It would v lmposs[hle to answer your questions in definite terms from such ine formation as we have at hand. During the past three ycars English syndicates have enormously increased in the United States, They are interested in - railroads, mines, ¢ tle companies, breweries, tlouring mills and. many other enterprises, They select gene erally well established enterprises, paying good dividends, but requiring very large ¢ ital, The argument in favor of these syndis catesis that thoy give one countrythe benee fits of great capi! that extent, free to cultivato other lines, The argument against them is that they cons solidate immense interests, often touching the necessities of life, in the handsof a few andin alien hands at that, T Bee_is ops posed to monopolies of all sorts. In tho mere investment of foreign capital in legitie mate Amerizan industries, conducted with a proper regard to the rights of others, there ig nothing reprehensible, CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—To the Editor of T Brm: Will you kindly inform mo, throuyh the co umns of Tk Bee if Honry M. Sty the ro= nowned African explorer, wus ovor on th reportorial staff of The BEE? If s0 at whu timo? Also please state it ho wus over alized as an American citize: THOMAS SWINWOOD. Ho was never with Tue B He was in Omaha as_correspondent of the New Yorlg Herald in 1867, and made his headquarters in the old Republican oMce, We think he has been naturalized. ‘(hn A, Neb, Dec. 18, r- 0 the Editor of Love Ciry, Neb., Do Will you pl m' the majority a; o o notyet scen the exact majority. Tiko. L Prigrr l-Al.t'l Utah, Dec. 14.—To the Editor of Tnn Beg: There secems to be a great misunde standing nmongst western people relative the World’s Columblan exposition think that momentous event {s tc next year (1891) and my opmnion is tha halfof the people think 1t will take y 1802, while a few elaim that it will (uh n in 1801 and closein 1103, Tbeliove the majorit of your readers would consider it a favor { youwould publil sh the time set for the exposie tion,a 1so Its origin and objeet. C. Hurr, The World’s Columbian _exposition will open at Chieago A pril 1, 1593, and closo Oce tober 1, 1803, It is ulkudul tobe the grandesy exhibit to which the people of the whola earth were ever invited. Its object is ta commemorate the 400th anniversary of tha discovery of America by Columbus, but it was postponed a year to keep it out of presu dential politics, Neb. Nov, 14.—To the Editor of ) "Wl you kindly Dublish in next fune wy's daily edition of THE BEE the relitive population of Beatrice and Ha wt enumerated by census of 180)7 DALY READER. Beatr! 1; Hastings, 14,703, TuorxaURG, Neb,, Dec, 18.—To the Editot of M Bee! 1 sell windmlls and theiy in_payment promise g the following stivulw equipments and accept sory notes contain tion: hat said -——— has full power to declarg this note duo_and take possession of said mill, tower and pump at any time that they deem themselves insecure, even beforo Uid urity of the note, and to sell the same’t ete. Now, if foreclosed could I take thq mill, o would it be considered real estater It fs in offect & chattel mortaage, and undor our laws the holder can foreclose 'if he lag reasnable grounds for feeling insceire, gt Neb, Doe, 1510 thy Editgr of Tie B '1\4! in '|'DI UNDAY Bee arithmeticul solitionof the followng. probes lem: Ifsix hoxes of starch and seven bhoses of soup cost %, and twelve boxes of starch and ten boxes of soap cost #51, what 1s the price of o ? 1A Cuarverin The answer Is: Starch, §2: soap, §1. 1he arithmeti lish here. eu1an, Neb, Dee, 18.-To tho Editor of T youkiveme the presont ris vietl 1 demonstration is 100 long to pubx “Tho Law is designed to keep out ] the insaue persons liable to becomo char, on the public and all who are under contrace to labor. OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Bubsortbed and Guaranteed Cupltal. Paid in Caplital.. Buys and sells atooks aud bond commereial puper; rocelves and execulos trusts; acts as transfer agent and $rustoo of corporations, takes cLarge of property, oul« lects taxos, Omaha Loan&Trust Co SAVINGS BANK. S. E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. yald In Capital.. 6,000 Bubseribed and Gunranteed Capléal.... 100,000 Liability of Stockbolders. : 200,000 6 PerCeut Intoreat Paid on Doposits. < J. LANGE, Cushler. Offoers: A. U, w,...un Drseident, 3. 4, Browns® vico-president, W.T. Wyman, tressur Direotorsi—A. U, Wyman, ). H. Millard, J. Jo Brows, Guy 0. Burion, E. W. Nash, Thone L. Kizaall, George B. Luke. [N - and leave our own, tO e S