Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 1, 1891, Page 4

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P, K, Notary Puablic (I8 T copies Gronay it worn (0 hofore me. and & Dprosence, this st diy of Ja THE breath of that B felt on the a strong bre wropean winter is ir cheel of tho west, and it's or legislatures of the west incholy interest for the speculators in Wall street T Trovan small in numbers the Doug- Tas county commissioners are the equal of the legislature in childish pranks and petty foolishne: JUDGED by the promiscuous fashing of rolls in western legislatures, sona- torial votes lost none of their value as avenues of wealth, nsition of Sullivan and Fitz- simmons from tho prize ring tothe stage plainly points to the future training school of America’s stars, Boss Burrows wants “a thousand men who know how to die.” It is safe to predict that the boss would remain at a safo distance during the carnage. THE s another panic in cedulas in the Argentine Republic. Nations desir- ous of avoiding panics should avoid ced- ulas, and all other delusive financial ideas. THE decisive defeat of the foolish proposition to recount the votes cast at the last election is additional proof of the ascendancy of common sense ia the legislature, WHiLE Kansas City and St. Paul are wrostling with the problems of oxcessive tasation and municipal debts Omaha finds her receipts beyond the needs of government, and reduces taxation ac- cordingly. PupLic market houses are the trade centorsof labor, oy dispense with middle men and divide their commis- sions botweon the producer and con- sumer. Omaha cannot afford to long defer the establishment of market houses. Wi the Milwaukee and Rock Ist- and companies declined the overtures of the Nebraska Central bridge com- pany and uccepted the terms of the Union Pacific Tine Bee reminded them that thoy were placing their necks in a dangerous halter. Recent events verify tho prediction. — YOUNG MR BRYAN has assumed the cures of hisoffice & month before Mr. Connell’s term expires and -nearly ten montbs before his own begins. He re- mains in Washington to obtain $8,000 for paving the street in front of the Lincoln postoflice. Considering the sizo of Wash- ington hotel bills his action amounts to self-sacrifice, He deserves well of that wortion of his constituoncy who are suf- foring for that job of paving. — EXPERIMENTS are being made in England with what is termed the most remarkable railroad in the world. The rail is groved and filled with a thin film of water, on which the cars skim along like a boat, without the jolting and bumping of the present system. As usual the foreigners are behind the times. Water forms a component, part of American railroad systoms. A ma- jority of thom carry more or that fluid than is consistent with safoty, speed or profits, and not a few have boen hope- lessly wrecked in oceans of their own creation. The damage inflicted by water in the railroads of this country should serve as a warning to foreigners to make their doses small and far between. T irrigation movement is a thrifty aflair. Tho convention of the past week at McCook was & revelation of the ex- tent and earnestness of the demand for this reform in agricultural methods in the westorn part of the state. The com- ing conyention at Sidnoy ‘will still further omphasize the demand, and when the grand culmination 15 reachod, in the shape of a mass con- vention at Lincoln, the legislature will bo foreibly reminded that the people menn business, Tho first requirement is the enactment of beneficient laws. ‘When theso are secured thore is more reason 10 hope that private capital will come forward to seek investment in the entorprice. That has been its history in gther statos ~ OMAHA DAILY BEE: FEBRUARY 1 , 1891--SIXTEEN PAGES. DISTRIBUTING THE RELIEF FUND. During the past week THE BEE has made n somewhat extonded inquiry in regard to the destitution in the drouth distri 1t finds that there is a growing demand for relief, much of which is based on genuine want, If it could be said that none of the calls for help come from people not actually in need of it, the present cnse would differ from the history of all sim- ilar attempts to relieve the tims of disaster, There are, there must always be, some ofimposture. But the broad fact re- maing that in a large section of the state last year's crops were nearly a total loss, and that the calamity fell upon a class of settlers not able to sustain themsolves without assistance until another ost timo. The state must calmly face this fact and do its utmost to ieve every worthy case. But for the very reason that the real distress is large, and that the relief fund must therefore bo placed where it will do the most good, it isim- peratively ry that o belter sys- tem of distribution should be devised. Elsewhere in this issue of Tie we publish an intorview with a very telligent farmer of Rod Willow county, who points out the evil in the present m and sug remedy. Sup- arenow consigned to the county and issued by them atthe request of justices of the peace. Fre- quently the justices fall back on the business men to recommend doubt- ful applicants. Very naturally it often happens that a man who has stock and feed nd fire wood sufficient for his needs applies to a justice for relief. The justice, being a creature of the clections, does not care to offend a man who has influenc it he bri a recol ion from a morchant it is generally the one with whom ho trades, and to whom he may possibly be indebt. Under such a sy; tem as this it is impossiblo to prevent the wanton waste of a precious fund which, with the most careful adminis- tration, will at best dono more than to relicve the actual sufferers, The to available fund emergency, including what he been spent, is was obtained Ther propriation from the national govern- ment. The problem therefore, to make the wisest possible disposition of the amount in hand. The Red Willow farmer, to whom allusion has been made, offers a sugges- tion, after a careful study of the ques- tion on the grounds. He suggosts that four intelligent and trustworthy men in each county be designated to make a careful personal investigation of the distriets assigned them. They should be strangers to the people whom they meot n their rounds, and therefors under no personal, political or business obliga- tions to them, now or hereafter. Abso- lute power should be vested in these men, and their decision would be final. It is believed that the best men in the western counties could ho pressed into this service and that all would work for a very mode pr and many for nothing. They could immediately distribute food and fuel, and their reports would furnish a trustworthy basis for an estimate of the amount of seed for crops and feed for teams that will bo required in thospring. Why is not this a practicable gestion, worthy of the immediato sideration of the relief committec There can bo no doubt that some plan must be devised to secure the reliel of needy and prevent the wasto nd supplies. vies and cases nec josts o g8 for the s alrondy 5000, of which $35,000 from private o 0 sug- - TAXING MORTG 5 The proposition to tax mortgages in Nebraska is ono that domands very careful and intolligent consideration. There are cogentreasons forand against, and the question to be determined is on which side are the weightiest, having ref- erence primarily to the interests of the mortgagors. The experience of other states with mortgage tax laws is worthy of attention. Oregon, in the carly years of state- hood, passeda law taxing mortgages, but it was not long retained, for the rea- son that it was found that the lenders made tho borrowers carry the burden. California now has such a law and tho legislature is being strongly urged fo repeal it. The newspapers of the stato aro very genorally united in this demand, arguing that it increases the rato’ of interest above the proper rate, because tho tax is added to the in- terost; that the state gains no benefit, for the money value taxed is always the same, the mortgage being deducted from the assossed value of the land and im- provements, or else tho mortgage pays too high a tax if it should be greater in amount than the assessed value of the property; and that it causes annoyance and comptications which drive lenders out of the state to seek investments where such disadvantages do not exist. An embargo is laid at the state line on all capital foreign to the state, and the consequence is that all the people are not privileged to borrow money in the cheapest markets,. But the fact of greatest force is that the burden of such a tax falls on the borrowor, this result being attained either through u riso in the rato of interest or through direct contract, the mortgagor binding himself to the mortgagee to pay the tax levied on the mortgage, and there does not ap- pear to have been any practicable way found 1o remedy th The fact that a mortgage, represent- ing property and providing income, soems a legitimate object of taxation, must bo granted. It may be assumed, also, that the taxing of these instru- ments would result in a considerable vevenue. But unless a way can be found to prevent the tax becoming an addi- tional burden upon the borrowers the benefits would be small compared with the hardship that would result. A part of the people who are not borrowers on mortgage would bs benefited at the expense of tho more numerous body of mortgagors, who would pay the tax in the form of increased interest or by direct contract, and the aaded burden would fall upon those least able to bear it. Nebraska needs cheaper money, and manifestly the way 1o socure it is not by | pincing any charge ou capital that may have the effect to send it into states where it is unhampered. The develop- | ment of the state requires that we shall offer every reasonablo thore should be no obstacle in the way | of our people obtaining money in the choupest market, The competition in the west for eapital is steadily broaden- inducement to | capital 1o seek investment here, while | of ing and becoming more eagor, and we | | eannot be too careful regarding legisia~ tion that provides for placing any re- straint or embargo upon it. The ex- pediency of a law taxing mortgages is | very questionable, | M KEIGHAN'S BRILLIANT 1DEA Congressman-elect MeKeighan unbosomed himseif to Tits BE: correspondent at Chicago, and thus un- folded to the world the measure with which he proposes to signalize his en- trance into the halls of legislation, Strange to sny, Mr. Me hns s special producing musses ot the west, excopt in a very indiroct way. Ho witl first turn his attention to the vexed southern question, which he hopes to settle o single master stroke of states- anship. His bill will provide that the represontation of states in congress shall hereafter be based on the popular vote rather than on the returns, This, he will do away with violence at ole by removing the motive for driving men away from the polls, and, on the other hand, will make it the interest of south- orn democrats to have the negroes vote, To put it in Mr. McKeighan's own pi turesque language, *‘Instead of keeping the negroes from the polls with shot- guns, the democrat will maveh up to the ballot box with a negro on each arm. This will settle the southorn question and give us peace on that subject.” The idea 18 plausible, but it is ex— tremely unlikely to becarried out. The fourteenth amendment fixes the basis of representation. It could only be changed by another amendment to the constitu- tion, which would require the consent of threo-fourths of the states. As 14 of the 44 stutes are in the south, and as several novthern states ave full of democrats, it is very unlikely to be ratifled, even if Theso are the sical diflicultios in the way of the consummation of Mr. McKeighan’s bril- liant idea. Neither is the project anew one. It has often been sugzested by republicans in congress and as often opposed by dem- ocrats. There is no new evidence to show that the solid south wants the negroes to vote, or that it would favor a scheme which would largely reduce its power in the house by making it pay the penaity of its sins, For these reasons the Webster county statesman would do well to turn his mind to other and more pract.cable fields of reform. | census says, tions BRAZEN FALSEHO0DS, Omaha is the typical high license city of America. Theliceeuse fee is §1,000. Oficial statistics show that in uo other city is there a greater per cent of drunkenness, prostitu- tion, gambling and crime than in_rum-ridden Omaha. The arrests in that city average one to 12 of tho actual population, which is a larger average thau is wo be found in any other large city of the United States. Tn New York where the saloon license is about one-fifth of that in Omaha the ratio is about oneto 19 and in Chicago with one-half as large license foo as Omaha the ratio is a little smaller than in New York. This dom- onstrates the ineficacy of high license as a temperance measure,—Chicago Lever. The above is asample of the brazen falsehoods prohibition organs persis- tently utter aga Omahu. The ove whelming rebuke administered to the defamers of the city last November in- tensified their malice, which they vent in foul assaults on the good name and orderly character of our people. There is not ashadow of foundation for the assertion that there is a greater per cent of erime in Omaha than in any other city, nor are there “official statis- ties” which could be tortured 1n any way to support it. On the cont official statistics refute the assertion and exposes the falschood in all its naked- ness, In response to requests for the total number of arrests during 1890, and the number chargeable to intoxication, re- plies have been received from the chiefs of police'of New York, Buffalo, Cleve- land, Chicago, Minneapolis and Denver. A comparison of these returns with those of the chief of police of Omaha, show No. Popu- Now York Chicagzo Ruftalo Cleveland .\ Minneapolis . Denver...,.... Omaha i . Ratioof arrests to population: New York, one in , Chicago, one in. Buffalo, one in., Cleveland, one in* Miuneapolis, one in Denver, one in, Omaba, oue in . ‘While this showing foreibly disproves the assertion thatone out of every twelve of the population is arrested for some offense, it does not do justico to the city. Vag ancy cannot be properly classed as a crime, nor should persons arrested on suspicion and subsequently discharged be rated as criminals. Of these classas 2,205 were run in by the police last year. Deducting the number from the total ar- rests, Omaha rates would be one in 23 44, The number of arrests in the respoct- ive cities, due directly or indirectly to intemperance, was as follows: New York Buffalo. .. Cleveland Miuneapolis Denver... Oniaha : SRR It will be seen that while Minneapolis ranks first in the ratio of total arrests to population the number of arrests for intoxication is nearly ono-third greater than in Omaha. In fact, Omaha ranks first in tho per centof arrests charge- able to intoxication, as the following will show: - 1. Omaha, one in 2. Minneapolis, one in 3. New York, one in. 4. Buffalo, one in 5. Cleveland, one in 6. Deuver, ouo 1n 1f anything more is needed to the eflicacyof high license and regula- tion, it isto be had by comparison with the criminal statistics of a prohibition city, Portland, Me., is classed as a model **dry” and orderly city. In 1889 the to- tal number of arrests was 1,937, or un ay 31,484 L 0,507 S jghan’s fivst | measure will have no reference to the | |ively | 000, | statistics d southern | 1 | the world incrensed 22. prove | | years each. orage 1 while in Omaha last Fodr the avorage actual ar- rests for crianawas one in every 23,44, These offitfl statistios demonstrate the superiofiy, of high license as o me temperanco and law and order over low license, nolicense or prohibition and refutes the bakeless fabrications of fanat- ics —_— THE FUTURE FOOD SUPPLY. A curious and interesting compilation of statistics and estimates has been made by Mr. C.. Wood Davis, a Kansas farmer, showing the agricultural sit ation at present and tho probable Ame ican production and requiremonts of food products for four periods of five We shall refer only to the figures of Mr. Davis relating to wheat, cornand rye. Assuming that the popu- lation of the United States in 1805 will be 70,000,000, the estimates of cultivated aren in wheat, corn and rye requirad to meet domestic consumption are respect- 83,600,000, 83,300,000, and 10,500,- Aftor this date the author of these selures that vo must ocither import breadstuffs, coase to export cot- ton, or lower the standard of living. It is found that during the decade from 1870 to 18530 the wheat acreage of 00,000 acres, of United States econtributed 19,000,000 acres, or 83.3 per cent, while the next decade the increase was but 5,500,000 acres, the wheat arcaof tl United States remaining stationa at 88,000,000 ncre Meontime the wd-oating populations increased at dy ratio of 10 percent. Tho wheat productioz of tho world for 1800-01is given at 2,142,000,000, and the consump- tionat 2,225.000,000, and it is held that the productive power of the wheat ficlds of the world hfilt']l as toelearly indica a present yearly deficit of 75,000,000 by els, and that with no greater increaso in acreage than has obtained during the past ten years such defieit will annually incr more than 25,000,000 bushels, Mr. Davistakes noaccount of the increase in thecorn-producing area within the past ten years, which may be due to the fact that this product still occupies o small place in the world’s food supply. but he ards a8 o matter important to sidered the relatively diminishing pro- duction of r Mr. Davis estimates that the bread- eating populations of European blood will inerease 90,000,000 in the next 20 rs. This will necessitate the use of ,000,000 acres in addition to the area now employed in growing wheat and rye. The lands of Kurope being fully oceupied, and the cultivated lands of the United States be- ing susceptible of an increase of but 84,- 000,000 acres, of which not more than 5,000,000 can be devoted to rye and wheat and permit the production of the required proportion of the other staples. Mr. Davis says: “The question avises, ‘Where can be found the 49,000,000 acres, and if found how long will it take to de- velop them, and what, in the meantime, will be the price’ of wheat?” e holds that five conditions must concurrently obtain to insure an - ine e of wheat production on a large scale; that is, favorable” climute, fertile soil, an unemployed arvea, suf- ficient population and ~ ample means of transportation, In all the world, he says, but three regions—Australasia, Siberia and the La Plata country—can meet the first three cequirements, and in all the unoccupied available area i not more than two-thirds that existing in the United States 's sinee, and each lacks the needed population and means of internal transport. The con- clusion of Mr, Davis is, granting the sub- stantial correctness of hisdata, that **the avmer will very soon be by far the most prosperous member of the community wherever in the world he owns and cul- tivates lands of average fertility, pro- ducing the staple food, forage and fibre crops of the temperate zone.” The data presented by Mr. Davis are interesting and instructive, but they cannot bo accepted as conclusive of a stedily incrensing yearly deficit in the principal breaa products of the world, nor of the probability that after 1895 tho United States must import breadstuffs, censo to export cotton or lower tho standard of living. It is more than probable that before that time shall have reclaimed by irrigation a considerable part of the great arld region that will be as produc- tiveas any land we now have, and even if this should not be done, it is evidently erroneous to assume that the cultivated lands of the United States are suscepti- ble to anincrease of but 34,000,000 acres. Meantime tho encouraging conclusion of Mr. Davis regarding the future of the farmer the world over is not to be dis- carded as having no substantial founda- tion, which the 2 con- we THE ALLIANCE MISREPRESENTED, The report has gone out to the country that the convention of the National Farmers' Alliance, recently held in this city, voted intavorof the erazy schemo to loan the money of tho national goy- ernment to farmiers on real estato secur- ity. Therenort1d a misrepresentation of the real action of the convention, and was secured by trick unworthy of tho alliance, and dowbtless repugmant to the rank and file of 1t5 membership. When the platform was rveported Wednesday the ‘wesolution referred to called out an animated debute and was finally rejectedi ' The convention com- pleted its pringipal business Thursday noon, and nearhybne-half of tho dele- gates went homa. . Contrary to expecta- tion, and in defiafice of all rules of fair- ness or courtesy, at the afternoon session President Powbfimoved a reconsidera- tionof the motiewhereby the resolution had been rejected and insisted on erowd- ing it through the depleted convention, This he succoedad in doing by the votes of his personal following and against the angry protests of the few remaining members of the former conservative ma- jority. By this unworthy trick the Na- tional Farmers’ Allianco is made to ap- ¥ in the press reports as voting in favor of a measure which the sound sense of its mombers had really rojected by ar emphatic mejority. It happens that this unfortunateaction was takon with regard to a measure which isthe gravest danger tothe fu- ture of the alliance, and on which its members ave by nomeans agreed. The resolution pledges the support of the order to abill which proposestoincrease the circulation to #50 per capita, and to have the government loan the new wealth thus ereated to the farmers. The plan is to have the state borrow of the nation at 8 per cent, the county of the stato at 2 por cent, and the individual of the county at 1 per cont. What benefit do the people who are not farmers yeceive from this arrange- ment? None, except to pay the taxes which must bo levied to pay to the na- tional government the difforence between the 8 per thut the government charges and the 1 per cont which the in- dividual is charged. The inquiry naturally arises why, if we are to have socialism, its benefits should not bo equally disteibuted among all the people, rather than confined to a single s, It s dificult to think that any ne man could believe that such & measure can evor have the endorsement of the American people. IFor these reasons the true friends of llinnce will sincerely regrot that it been placed in a false light before © countr cont PROPERTY RIGHTS OF WOMEN, Among the large number of doctrines enunciated by the recent alliance con- vention was the following: Resolved, That we believe women should have the same inherent rights to own prop orty as men, and that we are in sympathy with any movement that will give our wives and duaghters full representation at the polls: that when the time comes we will co operate and demand that they receive such recognition. This resolution must have feen framed in ignoranco of the laws of Nebraska and many other states. Hero the ls discrimin vor of w matter of property rights. corded privileges denied to men. When a man of property ma wife acquires a half interestin all his possessions, o cannot sell a foot of 1 estate unless his wife signs the deed. When he dies his wife cannot be deprived of her sk » of the estate, On the ethe id, when a wom prope hor husband no intercst in her wealth. She free to dispose of it without consulting him as she was beforo marriage, There is therefore no point to tho res- olution, at least as far as Nebr: concerned. If it had demanded that men be granted property rights equal to those of women it would have meant something. Inits present shape it is an anomaly The second part of the resolution in- volves the old dre subject of woman suffrage. 1t has been an issue for gen- tions, but a very live one. When women are physically fitted to bear all the burdens of government im- posed upon men, and when any consid- erable proportion of them for tho ballot, they are likely to getit. Until then it is an idle dream, Nothing could be further from the facts than than the claim, put forward by some the advocates of woman suffrage, that this refbrm would offset the influence’ of the ignorant foreign voter. On the contrary, it would multiply that influ- ence by extending the suffrage to the ignorart wife and the half dozen ignor- ant daughters of the foreign voter. “The ignorant foreign voter” isagood deal of a bugbear, but even it he were as black as painted, woman suffrage offers 1o panacea for him. PORTUGAL, which has been on the verge of revolution for more than a year t, or since a short time after the em- pire in Brazil was overturned, is at last in the throes of rebellion. A dispatch reports the revolt of aportion of the garrison at Oporto, followed by fighting in the streets between the rebels and loyalists. There had been no recent in- timation that the revolutionary move- ment was making progress, but this out- break evidences that the leaders have been actively, though guietly, at work. How serious tho revolution y become canrot be in- red from the advices at hand, but it is well known that the party in favor of establishing a republic in Portugal is strong and that tho republican senti- ment largely porvades the army. The royal family of Porwugal is allied by family relations to the imperial family of Brazil, and when the latter took ref- uge in Portugal there was much dissat- isfaction caused among the republican clement. A revolt was then threatened, but aid not materialize into anything more serious than bluster. Doubt- less the government was not unprepared for a revolution, and the immediate and sof the republican movement /il may not bo repeated in Portu- 1f it is an equally sincere offort w0 t a republic on the ruins of a mon. it will have the hearty sympathy of the people of the United States. es in st ska is never GREAT opportunitics dovelop great men. Thus Lawyer Strickler found his opportunity in Lincoln and immediately assumed greatness, On him devolves the grave duty of solving the transporta- tion problem. Mr. Strickler approaches the mark with the nerve and zeal of a veteran. His enthusiasm is not chilled by the fact that mighty minds have grappled with the question und retired in confusion. The light which he hid under a bushel in Omaha now blossoms forth like a tallow dip at the capitol and illumines the path of the oppressed, “Do THE vile villains,” shouts the de- mented dictator of the independents twho by fraud, conspiracy and treache are striving to thwart the will of the people—who are using senators as their tools and courts and laws and constitu- tions as their facile instruments—want to drive a patient but outraged peoplo to a desporate extremity? We warn themr now to beware.” This equals, if it does not surpass, the wildest fuming of the Haymarket bomb throwers, and renders the sitting of a lunacy commis- sion & useless procecding. Maxy ordinary optimists entertain gloomy views about Union Pacific. They think that business 15 golng o bo good on the Pacific coast this su but that the watered i roads will have @ hard time of it with little freight and ugly legislatures.—Wall Street Daily News. Woll, water is a rather thin substance on which to levy profits, and the have a right to get ugly when they squeczed boyond reason ople are LvEN John M, Palmer finds it difficult to sustain his intorest in the mechanical balloting atSpringfield Onty Good Men on (€ La« Vegas (N, M.) Optic. Let the logisiatures of all the western states and territories pass lnws making ineli gible to places on polico force or sheriff's stafl any ex-convict or person of dissolute habits and known bad character, The evi must bo stopped. On the Mortgage Make Utiea Herald. It is said that fully 75 per cent of all mort gagesnogotiated on wostern farms are made payable, principal and interest, iu gold. The courts have decided at various times that such contracts aro valid, and must b en forced. In case the makers of these mor s could get what they aro clamoring for, the free coinage of silver, they might find ®old at a premium when they camo to settle, ol Bad California Legislators. San Franciseo Eraminer Parties change, but logislatury the The late logislature was democratic and disreputable. The present one is republican, and from all accounts it is likely to be more disreputable than its prede. cessor. The number of cinch bills introduced is said to bo greator than ey re since tho days of tho old constitution, The Glenn county people are on hand with anothor sack, and throe more division nes have loomed up in the south, ecach with ample financial backing - remain.al- w sam - Must Have Schoots, Denver News. ‘e pross of New Meoxico 15 of the enactment of a thoroughly comprehen ive and progressive school law. Tho Las Vegas Optic thoughtfully remarks: “The sooner the territorial legislature proves to the people of New Mexico that a good school law is to be pas; the sooner that body will prove it is worthy of the trust reposed in it The Albuguerquo Citizen, ing what the Optic say theso words: “There are a wreat things that we need in New Mexico, but first and most important of all these is an act of the territorial legislatuve enabling usto establish and maintain good public schools, Given this, we can cuss other matters at our leisure, but until ave this nothing else will be in_ orde That's the truth. Above all things New Mexico needs is the American public school. It is the all important step in the divection of statehood 1f the legislature should adjourn without en cting such alaw the sentiment of the coun tey at large will bo that New Mexico is not worthy of admission to the union as oue of the states. unit in favor endors- adds many - - A BLOW AT COUN 'RY PAPERS A thin-pated independent, who wants to distinguish himself in some way, but has not sense encugh to distinguish between folly and statesmanship, has introduced a bill to cut down the legal rate one-half for publica tions, says the York Times. Probably the rich and rapacious in his Most likely the editors whom he has scen ride in tine carringes, live in ele. gant mansions and wear diamonas as large as vralnuts. Unaoubtedly they have their hands on the throat of the community and are cx- torting monoy in great gobs, The member who introduced thav bill is a fine specimen of intelligence and financiering. A few fools, says the Kearnoy Hub, are elected to every legislatura who have some particulac grudge against the newspaper fraternity, and bob up at_every opportunity with a proposition to reduce fees for legal advertising and county printing, Ropre- sentative Kruse is the latest addition to the ative economizers, and he is right on hand with a proposition to cut the rates of legal printing squarely in two. This distinguished gentleman draws a salary of aday from the state. He would bo overpaid at#l aday. Hasanyone heard him suggest a reductiof® of legislative salari The Niobrara Pioneer announces that it joins with Representative Krusein his bill Teducing the rates of legal advertising to one- half of the present rato. Most of the little papers that have started in sparscly settled localities have lived by no oth landoffice notices have bec the little papers published at some cross roads; and the legal notices that are now be- ing published on foreclosures by tho big money loaners in the east are expensive and unjust burdens to them. It costs not less than +£20 in each foreclosure for the printer’s feo alone. This money is squandered in the country for printing presses, help, corn bread and corn juice. It puts too much luxry and unnecessary aid into the hands of unskilled tics of public men; and the only way out is to have fewer papers in our communities, Rl > NEBRASKA N KR NEWS. The Wilber Republican has begun 1ts fifth volume, The Crawford Clipper has started ou the fourth year of its existonc The Gandy Star has reduced 1ts subsc tion price to 25 cents per year, The Penaer Republican haslost its “patent msides” and is now all home prixt p- Millard, Douglas county, now hasa pape The Friday Morning Post has been started there by John Bradford. The Brownville Alliance takos the place of the reeently defunct News. ey K. Rock- wood is editor and proprietor. J. A. Faith has discontinued the publica- tion of the Orleans Press and is now em- ployed on the Republican City Independent. The Cass county Independent has ceased to exist. Editor Thomas announces that ho has sold the oftice because of insuflicient patron- age. The Ulysses Argus, whien suspended pub- lication recently pending negotiations for the salo of the outfit, has been revived, the sale having fallen through. Mixed Pickles, published simultaneously every month at David City, Neb., and Elgin, 111, has made its initial appearance with W, H. Price as editor and E. D. Streeter as busi- ness manager, The paper, like the substance fron which it is named, is supposed to be sharp. —— THE ALLIANCE, Abilene (Kan.) Refloctor ture does not adjourn and go to dinner. The legiala The members unhitel Sioux City Journal: and the fary Perhaps Wall stroet will end the contest in an hon- orab and thereaftor be wary of each other and more gracious and respectful. Pending further nogotiations, howev the grangers in the majority may not be expe can make it many sala them to d Des Moines useful organization and sl rood 1 membersh and the nat i can be kept out of the hands of dema, who are determined to rulo it if they oan wain loadership, but will spoedily ruin it 7P~ they controlits principles aud votes. The farmers of the nation ean make tue ropubl can party as they want it if they will attend the primaries and conventi Denver News: The meet in the farmers’ allianco and lahor at Washington has demonstrated t the third iden is not likely to ize. The conzlusion was very wisc that as an independent political i alliance would have but little power, and was only by holding tho & tween parties that plished and the alliance made The idea of @ presidential can choson by allied labor and ‘was abandon, This is w dependaut purty it would be allying itself with that party which pr the most speedy reforms on the down by these results their object i likely to be attained. compromise, more nvenient to fiil, or to 1 08 that it does not aw discom I'he 1 e Register allian e of power b good could bo accon fluential to bod an inde. As Star: The leaders of t will do their people a s discouraging any movement for th formation of a distinet political party at tl time. If they fail to do so the mass of farn s who have contributed the votes in states und districts where the allianco has achicved success canuot start out better than showing that the people arve superior to leaders who look forward to mero personal aggrandizement. A separato political party the national struggglo of 1802 is bound to be ineffective ex bt in the way of affording opportumities for farmer vice b; THREE LEGISLATIVE HINTS, The onl7 hope the railroads h ing hostile legislation is in the delays which are the outgrowth of the contest cases, says tho Norfolls News, A long and bitter fight over them may result in dofeating many £ood and wholesomo laws that are demanded by the people. The lexslature doesn't scem to be “reform- ing expenditures 50 much s it was before election, remarks the ['remont Herald, Under a resolution the house has just mado up a list of its employes now on the roll, The entire list includes seventy-nine persons, which is four moro than the legal limit as fixed by statute two years ago. The people will soon bo wanting to know where these reforms como in, 1f the present logislature should be more liboral than the last one in the matter of ap- propriations for our state university, iv is likely that next June the regents will elect & new chancellor in place of ex-Chancellor Ma. natt, says the Orleans Courier. For the chan- cellorship the well known historian, Prof. Jobn Clark Ridpath, LL.D., is favorably mentioned, though it is not known whether he would accept the position. As a historiun, educator, orator and lecturer he is one of the ablest men in the country, and he would give the university a uational reputation should it be 50 fortunate as to secure his sorvices, defeat- aing and for corrupt individual deals, ‘This is the attitude which the prohibitic party hus occupied as a separate political or- @unization: the earnest men who have mado the f alliance a forco in politics aim at something higher and more durablo. R, POLITICAL POINTS, ors' Buffalo Evening News: When David B Hill nominates Grover Cleveland for prosi- aent, cellars and Mansara roofs will exchango vlaces, New York World: The senate cided to remain a deliberative body. As for tho hiouse, the people attended to its caso at the last election. Washington Post: The Gorman presiden- tial boom is not a newspaper product. It is the work of the practical and shrewd demo- crats of the countr Louisville Courier-Journal: Do General Raum’s son’s horses wear bob tails? If so, were those tails bobbed by a bobber in tho employ of the government ! St. Paul Ploncer-Press: It ought not to be necessary to elect a majority of the farm- ors' alliance congressmen to secure an in- vestigation without whitewash of that silver pool. The people want to know who was in it, regardless of party afilliations. And if no pool existed they want to know that. AR PASSING JESTS. has de- Atehison Globo: Tf you want to keep your friend do not tell him disagreeablo trutbs about himself or flattering ones apout your- self, “What is the canse of the sudden Epoch between Tom Jones and Susio coolness Brown " “Tom sold her father a horse.” Norristown Herald: This democratic talk about the McKinley bill raising the price of aries of life 15 all nonsense. Christ- s are 00 per cent eheaper today than ¢ were a month age Lattle Boy—Do hotel ¢ salary! Kentucky Uncle how can they afford such big they don’t have Good News often. “The diamonds?? T used to know a little waid, A blossom fair, With eyes a laughing, browaish shade, With lips that seemed for kisses made, And finer than an old brocade Her silken hair, Her frowns and smiles she threw on all Like an expert; And though but ten years old, and small, A nost of courtiers she could call, “To hold hier fan, her glove, or shawl, The litule fliry! I usod to be her willing slave, Ah, happy lot! She seolded, did 1 misbehave; Then tumed at onco and quito forgave, Becanse she had some boon to crave, The cunning tot! And we were just as chummy then As chums could be. Often do 1 remember when She wished that I were only ten, Because, she said, she hated men— All men but me! But time passed by, and year by year We both have uge Sho's now eighteen, or A roigniug belle, calm and "Then, too, what makes it seom more queat, She is engaged Sometimes I wonder if she thinks Of days when sho Would sit in church aiid tip me winks. A, 10! she’s now a frozo And she's engaged, the li Engage T0 TH The following poem, cntitled ar,” appears in the January num Menorah magazine. The unjust and tyran nical way in which the Jows have been treated in Russia prompted the poem, which is written by Dr. K. Bierhoff, whose works have formerly appearcd over the nom do plume of Frederic Corbicre : 4 “Tears gleam in the oyes of the daughters of Judah, Their garments are rent in deep anguish and woo; “Their hushed 50bs of sorrow resound through her temples, “The lights o'er low. of the her altars burn dimly and Tha children that cling to the skirts of their mothers Are weeping in foar, kuowing naught of the cause; The gray bearded elders, in councll assem- bled, With voices a-tremblo debate thy laws. diead Her sons all dospairing, her daughters dis- honored By bestial tyrants who boast_thy appriof: Al better, by far, the white fangs of the wolves than The smiles of tho villauous hordes *ieath thy roof Thoey dare not remonstrat o ask mercy They know worse than failuro will me»t thelr appeal The Jow iu thy land musten dure anl be silent; His {s but meaut for the print of way heel. They da-e not 1 to abolish many ofices thoy &