Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 6, 1892, Page 4

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B Toachuck, ‘sooretary, of The BEr ublishing compnny, does solemn THAt e Actaal oFouiation of THE DALY BEE for tho week ending Maroh 6, 1602, was as follows: Eunday. Mondny. Tucsday, March 1., Wednesday. March Thursdny. Mar Fridny. March aturday. Marc to nows and ressod tc the Average . 1. 7801 Sworn to before me and subscr presence this 5th day of March, A, T Al . P. FEIL, Notary Pablie. aw material and plenty of it is the chief difficulty with the democratic presidential market. OMAHIA clearings continue to climb upward, The increase for 1ast weels was 82.2 per cont over the corresponding week in 1891 THE German count recently released from the Nebraska penitentiary has not thus far captured an American heiress. He has not had time. THe right of eminent domain would ‘be worth a good deal to Omaha just now when she has money to expend upon parks and park improvements. “DoING nothing as hard as we can,” 1s the sententious but truthful answer of Congressman Burrows of Michigan to an inquiry as to what this congress is accomplishing. Tii Gateh bill ought to pass the Towa legislature. This conviction is fixed by the fact that the extreme prohibition- ists und the extreme low license men are both opposing it. OFFICIAL statistics are responsible for the statement that more than $100,000,- 000 of untaxed money lies compara- tively idle in the treasuries of the relig- ious societies of the United States. IF THE price of wool abroad had not fallen as much as that of the American product, there would be more sense in the effort of free traders to convince in- telligent wool growers that the tariff for their protection is responsible for the low prices. THE fact that a Denver jury has brought ina verdict of guilty against the Denver official boodlers is not reas- suring to the individuals in this city to whom the grand jury has already given attention, or to those yet to run the gauntlet of investigation. MINNESOTA has done herselt the eredit of cortributing over 1,500,000 pounds of flour to the Russiun fa mine gufferers. She has also raised $6,000 in cash to help transport the food to ius destination. Minnesota’s generosity entities her to the admiration of the world. Dn. Vsrpi, the Italian physician who made himself notorious in connec- tion with the Rudini New Orleans episode, is Congressman Springer’s at- tending physician, Nevertheless his friends are encouraged to believe the chairman of the committee on ways and means will vecover, SEE——— ANOTHER movement to disfigure Far- nam or any other business street by a promisouous planting of telegraph poles will resulu disastrously to telegraph and motor poles. The people will voice their indignation by & demand that they shall all go under ground, and the city gov- ternment under authority granted in the city oharter will enforce the demand. E—E—— . THE Chronicle closes a review of ‘Bir Kdwin Arnold’s talk in San Fran- ‘cisco with the significant remark: ‘It was a magnificent audience but scarcely an enthusiastic one; it hadl come out to hear a lecture, to enjoy a 1gerary effort and nota mere veading.” This may console some of the Omaha ticket-buyers who did not hear ‘“I'he Light of Asia.” e WuEN the National Cordage company has gobbled up the alliance stores by moauws of the National Union company, and has destroyed the tow mills and twine factories of the west by the re- moval of the iow tariff on binder twine, its Canadian plants will be in position to cinch the farmers at pleasure, A little common sense investigation on the part of Nebraska farmers will show them that the National Cordage trust is behind the proposition to take off the tariff of seven-tenths of a cent per pound upon binder twine and nobody will ac- cuse this gigantic combine of philan- thropical motives in the effort. e——— ARCHBISHOP IRELAND'S clerical and lay enemies mado a mistake in following him to Rome with their personal at. tacks, The progressive American prel- #te is quite likely to bring back the red hat of a cardinal when he returns as a consequence of the false and malignant maspersions by which it was sought to prejudice Pope Leo ageinst him. The archbishop is certain to win his way ina personal interview, for he is frank, earnest and magnetic. Not only 80, but he has the respect of the best ale- ments of America of all faiths and is, mnext to Cardinal Gibbons, the most in- fluential Roman Catholic in the union. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THE DAILY BEE. ‘ RAILROAD na'r"r,’:‘;r‘v“.mw‘ AND NE- — — The annual report of the Towa Board of Railway Commissioners for the year 1891 has just been made public. The report is exkaustive in every detail and commehds iteolf to our State Board of Transportation as a basis for meeting the demands of the people of this state. According to the exhibit made by the | Towa commissioners the rates which were put into effect February 8, 1889, and by which the tariff rates were very materially reduced, have not bankrupted the railways. On the contrary, asteady increase in the tonnage and revenues has ensued. The tonnage for the fiscal year 1801 was increased by 1,369,882 tons over the corresponding period in 1890, Although there was a steady decreaso in the revenues from Towa business under the high rates fixed by the railways themselves in 1887, 1888 and 1889, yet since the rates fixed by the commission have been in force nearly all the roads show a marked improvement in busi- ness, the aggregate climbing from $37,- 148,309 in 1880 to $43,102,309 in 1891, The commissioners affirm also that the rates they established were a reduction of about 26 per cont on local rates pre- vuiling in 1888, As a result of this re- duction the industries of Iowa have been stimulated, the cost of fuel has been ma- terially reduced and farmers have been able to market their products at better prices. The new rates have greatly benefited the whole state, and the earn- ings of the railroads have increased thereunder. For three years past disastrous rate wars have been for the most part un- known. The railway policy of the ‘‘long- haul”’ has under the new system been supplanted and an exchange of products between different parts of tho state is oné of the commendable results. The commissioners sum up their views in the following language: *That statutory control and the commissioners’ rates are not ‘depriving the roads of revenues or confiscating railway property,’ isshown in o comparative table of earnings of the Iowa roads whose mileage is totally or almost wholly within the state for the year 1888, under the rates made by the roads, and 1891 under the commissioners’ rates. Comparison is made with 1888 because it is the last year prior to the adoption of the latter rates. The per- centage of increase in earnings is re- markable, ranging from 15 to 237 per cent; thirteen out of fifteen roads par- ticipating in thisprosperity. Two ronds only (both exclusively coal roads)show a decrease on account of exceptionally mild winters and strikes in the coal mines of the state.” The conditions in Iowa and Nebraska are not dissimilar. Towa is chiefly an agricultural state. The great bulk of the local traffic is identical with that in Nebraska. Saving the coal mines, the industries other than agricultural are very nearly the same. Iowa is older, has more people, more railways and more local trade centers. It also has more strictly local lines of railway. By allowing for the differences of conditions it is by no means difficult to make an analysis of the experience in Iowa upon which'to base action in this state. In Iowa as in Nebraska the state board ot commissioners are authorized to fix the rates. The Iowa commissioners have fear- lessly discharged their duty regardless of the remonstrance of railroad man- agors against the reduction of rates. Will the Nebraska state board ever heed the demands of the people for a reasonuble reductivn of freight rates, which are outrageously exorbitant as compared with the rates charged in Iowa and other western states? A few months ago the Nebraska state board issued a circular irspired if not dic- tated by the vrailroad managers in which they asserted that the rates now prevailing in Nebraska could not be re- ducad without ruining the railroads. The plea made in this circular is that the year preceding had been very un- profitable to the railroads, and a mater- ial reduction of freight rates could not be made without erippling or ruining them. The fact is that the Nebraska Board of Transportation is far more so- licitous to serve the railroads than it is to serve the people who are taxed to pay their salaries. The people of Ne- braska do not want to cripple or ruin the railroads. All they ask is that the railroads shall not levy an extortionate and oppressive tax upon tho producers of the state. Lasv winter when the legislature was in session the railroad managers would have been only too glad to have conceded a reduction of 20 per cent on grain, live stock, coal, lumber and other heavy commodities in the face of the Newberry and Stevens bills, but like Pharoah of old, their hearts were hardened as soon as the legislature had adjourned, and they would not let their obedient servants on the State Board of Transportation make even the most trivial concession. What is demanded is not a radical mensure like that vetoed by Governor Boyd, cutting into the established schedules indiscriminately and without regard to fair earnings, but a roason- able reduction which will relieve the producers, stimulate traffic and in the long run benefit both the people and the rallways. The Newberry bill proposed o apply the lowest Towa schedule rate to Ne- braska. In Iowa there are 8,400 miles of railways earning for 1891, $43,102 399, an increase over the preceding year of 81,784,265, In Nebruska there are 5,400 miles of rond und the gross earnings of the lines are not proportionately equal in the twostates. Therefore, an arbi- trary application of the lowest Iowa maximum rates to Nebraska wounld not be just to the railways of this state. A reasonable maximum rate based on the Iowa schedule and tuking into account the differences in conditions bevween the two states should be sstablished by the State Board of Transportation just as soon as iy can be formulated. Will the board do iws duty to the people,or will itcontinue indetiance of the overwhelm- ingsentiment in this sate w uphold and sustain the extortionate oxactions to which for years Nebraska has been sub- jected? - —— THE INTERCONTINENTAL RAILWAY. Some one has recently pradicted that before the close of the present century the great project of a pan-American railway will be an accomplished fact. This is hardly probable, but that such a railway will be constructed in the not very remote future is not at all doubt- ful. The project, however, is one of such vast proportions that it is wot likely to be undertaken until the de- mand for an intercontinental road is much more urgent than at present. When that time comes, as 1t certainly will in the progress of commercial de- velopment in this hemisphere, there will be no trouble in finding all the cap ital nocessary to carry out the project, and whatever difficulties are in the way will be overcome. It is undoubtedly true, as claimed by the advoeates of this enterprise, that the construction of such a road would go far toward securing to the United States the commercial supremacy of the world. Such a bond of commercial union between this country and the countries of South America would give the United States the nearly entire control of the South American trade, and with this secured we should easily be the foremost commercial nation of the world. Hence the project of a pan- American railway is one to be encour- aged. There is more to be expected from it in the way of material benefits than from reciprocity agreements and it would be of the highest value in a political sense. The difficulties to be overcome are very great, but they are not insuperable. A well informed writer on this subject says that it would: be foolish to attempt a line at present across any portion of the valley of the Amazon east of the Andes, and there may be elevated passes in the mountains which will oppose progress for many years to come, but in spite of all this the demands of commerce will compel the most stupendous enginearing under- takings. The ability to attain the de- sired result will be found whenever the necessity for it becomes manifest and urgent, It is believed that an intercontinental railway would possess a very distinctad- vantage for the whole central portion of the United States, The cheaper tele- graphie facilities, improved postal ser- vice, and ease of specie remittances to all southern points, which will acerue trom railroad union of the hemisphere of republics, will materially hasten the day when New York will become tho financial center and clearing house of the world. American influence, says a writer on this project, will flow along such a chain of railronds and its branches as the waters of a river follow its chan- nel and spread into every inlet and cove along its margin. The result will be a commercial conquest of South America which we could never otherwise effect, for without this aid to our supremacy we should be merely upon an equal footing with every other nation which runs fast ships and sends agents to sell to the peo- ple of the south. The progress of rail- road construction in South America, and more particularly in the states of Colombia and Ecuador, is favorable to the project of an intercontinental road, and it is suggested that advancing in this manner the pan-American railroad will come quietly as a natural growth. ‘We shall have it without haraly realiz- ing how it came, shall fall easily into the use of it, and through its agency our trade and finance will command re- sources which in conjunction with our own riches will place the United States first among the financial and commercial nations of the world. 1In this view of it the project of an intercontinental rail- road becomes one of commanding im- portance. GENERAL BOOTH'S WORK. Most veople have read General Booth’s book *‘In Darkest England and the Way Out of It,” which has had so remarkable a sale, or know something of the novel methods proposed by the great captain of the Salvation Army in that vpublication. The indefatigable leader of this new and eccentric reli- gious organization asked the public of England for an initial gift of $500,000 and an annual income of $150,000. This would scem an extravagant demnand and few people imagined that he could securo even half the enormous sum re- quired. The prejudice against the Sal- vation Army and the apparent impracti- cability of his wholesale charities were thought to be insuperable obstacles in the pathway of his success. However, the money rolled in and a year and one month ago at u great public meeting in Exeter hall the gratifying announce- ment was made that General Booth had raised £100,000 for the work he had so graphically outlined. He then and thers executed a deed of trust to himsell as trustee, binding himself to expend the munificent donations of people who had faith in him, for the purposes set forth in his book and no other. A year’s application of the principles advocated by the Salvationist backed by ample funds is a grand vindication of his foresight and a refutation of the state- ments made, by men who did not know, that Booth had exaggerated the poverty and vice of London and overestimated the number of wretchedly destitute men and women who are unable to earnsa livelihood in the world’s metropolis. The work as organized by General Booth provides in the firat place twelve food depots and night shelters in London., There are also places of the sume character maintained in other cities of England but for the purposes of illustrating the working of this original system of organized charity we shall quote only from figures published in the New York Independent applied to Lon- don. A shade above the food depots and nignt shelters to which the hundreds of homeless, penniless denizens of the East End may resort, are the three ludging houses called the Ark, the Hurbor, and the Light House, where cheap food and lodging ave provided. Tne popularity of these institutions is illustrated by the fact that during fourteen months ending November 30th last 2,606,648 meals of cooked food were served and 307,000 lodgings were provided. There were 25,000 free meals supplied, 96,555 wmeals to children, mainly, were furnished at a farthing each. Othors were served at half penny and varying prices up to four pence. The veds were furnished ut from two pence to four pence per night and the receipts from the people benefited | being | £88,140, The general was surprised that reached £26,570, the outlay the institution should be so nearly self supporting as all readers will be who are in any sense infprmed upon the practical bookkeeping of charity onter- prises, This is the elementary work of the great plan. The next step is to organ- ize their labor and provide employment for the willing, workless myriads of n | crowdedcity. A Labor bureau is con- ducted at which 15,607, applications for emnployment were made lust year and the Salvationists were ab'e to secure work for 80 percent.. Of the number thus set upon their foet the larger pro- portion are skiiled labérers. Thore is a vast host of loafers, idlers, ignoramuses and indolent, half-staryed poople whom the Labor bureau pot care for and these are taken into ‘Blevators’ (facto- ries) conducted by General Booth espec- fally to help men into employment and to stimulate them to honest labor. Food and shelter only are provided for the first four weoks and the first job is usually wood-chopping, Several trades are carried on, however, and willing men are encouraged tolearn to do some- thing more profitable than the breaking of kindling. As many as 2,000 men wore received into the factories and of this number very few proved to be in- corrigible, only ninety-eight being dis- charged for misconduct and but eighty- five leaving of their own accord dissat- isfied. Tho others were temporarily assisted, found employment elsewhero o: are still at work in the *‘olevators.” Then there is the farm colony to which men are transferred and the city colony where, in a score of ways, men, women and children are cared for and given something to do. No idlenessis tolerated and only the feebie and ill are pormitted to purticipate in the benefits of the system without making some sort of remuncration gauged by the age, abilivy and condition of the assisted un- fortunate. The Prison Gate Home ie maintained for tho benofit of released jnilbirds and offenders. The officers of the army meet discharged prisoners at the prison gates and invite them to par- take of the good cheer of tho home. During last year 217 cases were receivod and the figures show that eighty-six went either to situations, to the factories or to the farm colony; eighty-four have left or been dismissed and only four wore arrested from “Tho Bridge,” as the home is termed. The others are still in the Bridge. Space forbids speaking in detail of the criminal investigation and preventive branch, the slum work, the rescue work, the help and inquiry de- partment, the farm colony and the over the sea colony, all of which have ac- complished good results. The clever but odd individual who began his noble career of helping the vicious classes to a better life by march- ing the streets with drums, tambourines and other ear-splitting instruments, has set the world an example of practical charity which must prove profitable in the future. By constant association with the poor and the wicked he has devised a system of help for those who have fallen into depravity, or what in some cities is fully as bad, abject poverty, and is unquestionably lifting thousands to a better plane of existence. His ideas, appavently so crude «and -impracticable, prove the opposi and unless his life woars out beforo the 'system is in full running order its success will be assured inside of five years. THE EDUCATION OF THE FUTURE. The zeal and energy which are being given to the development of the facili- ties of education in this country are greater now than ever before, and the most important results are to be ex- pected. All of the old institutions of learning are steadily expanding ana new ones are being established on a broader and more comprehensive basis than those we have. In no other de- partment of human aectivity is the ten- dency to growth and progress more marked. 4 The education of the future is there- fore a thoroughly live and interesting theme, and it is ably treated in the cur- rent Forum by Mr. Clarence King. He observes that education has always fol- lowed and reflected the great historic changes of society. From simple utili- tarian teachings of savages to the best scientific curriculum of the nineteenth century, education has simply mimicked the last phase of human activity. Hence a succession of one-sided men trained to one or more accomplishments, During 400 years men have been edu- cated with their backs to the future. Now in the age of science, education, like a slow moving, ponderous weather- vane, has swung around and points straight into the future. , This century has to its credit two intellectual achievements so radically new in kind, so far reaching in consequences, so closely bound up with the future of the human race, that we stand on the great- ost dividing line since the Christian era. Knowledge of the laws of conservation of energy and biological evolution plants humanity on a world of whose character and extent we cannot even yet form any conception. In all the finer blossoming of human ideality—poetry, drama, architecture, painting and sculpturo—other periods have so far exceeded us thay/ the poor nincteenth century can onlgstimnmer and blush But in knowledg&of'the scheme of crea- tion und manngy 0f unfolding of the cognizable univewse,: of the nature of matter, or the brgad laws which govern the ebb and flow, the conversion and effects of energyy:ws rise to a stature that dwarfs for#fyst! the men of an- tiquity. Until npw..there never was a great army of science, all marvellously trained, all unififid ’?_v the severe and approved facticdef induction, and in- gpired by the pussion of intellectual con- This is the age af emergy; next will be the age of Yiologye ! Mo enormous is the accumulating mi8y of scientific knowl- edge, and so stupendous its utility, that there is room for no surprise that edu- | cation yields like wax under pressure of the most uncompromising and power- ful of modern influences. Classical cul- ture is already outstripped and must lag | further and farther behind. Not to know { how nature and man wmanage the con- | veraions of enengy, not 4o #ee the carly | light of science beginning to penotrate | and illumine the very depths of space, to get no nearer thun Job got to the binding together of the sun and worlds, | to linger in archaic darknes as to the UNDAY, MARCH 6, 1802 SIXTEEN PAGES. building of the earth, tostop where Aristotie stopped in concention of the process of evolution, is to be a man with half his brain unborn. To choose be- tween the old classieal and the ne technical trainings is simply to decide which side of a man's mind shall be developed and which carefully destroyed. Utility casts the proponderating vote, and in consequence scientific and tech- nical education is expanding out of all proportion to the spread of the classics, and for a long time will assert its over- whelming unscendency. But the edu- cation of the future will aim at the sound training of man, It will seek to produce men the whole round of whose faculties have been exercised into harmonious life. — THE statement that a representative of the department of justice at Wash- ington, who caused the indictment of officers of the whisky trust, is now about to proceed in the same way against the cordago trust, suggests that the depart- ment of justice has gone systematioally to work to enforce the anti-trust law. Months ago the attorney general in- structed United States district attorneys that the law having been declared cgn- stitutional” it must be enforced, but nothing having apparently been done to carry out the instructions the impres- sion obtained that the department had abandoned the ideaof proceeding against the combinations. It is now seen, how- over, that the work of ascertaining facts regarding certain trusts hasbeen quietly prosecuted, and it is probable that the government is in possession of a great deal more information than has been disclosed. This is obviously the most effective way in which to proceed against the combinations, since it gives them no opportunity for concealment before prosecution is begun, and puts the gov- ernment in possession of indisputable facts, It is not unlikely that in this way the department of justice has secured information regarding a num- ber of trusts, but atv any rate it is ovidently the intention to enforce the anti-trust law passed by the last con- gress. The administration could do nothing more certain to strengthen it in the popular regurd and contidence. THE refusal of the British government to renew the agreement with vhe United States under which the two governments last year undertook to prevent illicit seul killing in Bering sea may result in creating a new and serious complication. In the absence of an agreement the Canadian sealers will undoubtedly resume operations, because there is no reason to supposo they will pay any more attention now to the president’s proclamation than they have done in the past. In that cuse it will become the duty of this government to protect its interests in Bering seu by seizing all vesseis found there engaged in taking seal. Undoubtedly this will be done, and the feeling at Washington is that it may bring most energetic protests and perhaps retaliation by Great Britain, That possibility, however, is not to be considered. If the British government will not deal with the United States fairly in this matter, and decides to favor the piratical pouchers, this goy- ernmefit cannot permit its interests and the rights it claims to suffer because of the danger of protests and rotaliation if it shall undertake to protect them. Lord Salisbury has not shown the right spirit in refusing to renew the modus vivendi. THE council should put through the Sixteenth street viaduct ordinance first. Sixteenth street is already a great thor- oughfare. The wooden bridge which has served for a viaduct for several yours is liable to break down any aay. It is manifestly the duty of the council to have that viaduct replaced by an iron and stone structure adequate for the traffic that passes over the principal north and south thoroughfare. When that is done or as soon as that is pro- vided for the demands of Fifteenth street should be considered and acted on. The danger now is that those who desire to defeat all the viaduct proposi- tions ‘will do so by pretending to favor both. CrrizENs who have not yet indicated the number of general conference dele- gates they desiro to entertain should do 50 within the next few day: Great for Its Size, St. Paul Globe, Nebraska celebrated its twenty-fifth birth- day s a state on the first of the mouth, It is doing well for its age. e Elements of Statehood, Kansax City Times, Oklahoma is certainly entitled to statenood. Two of her loading cities are to have pro- fessional base ball clubs this summer, Al Declining Royal Advice, Chicago Tribune. Some of the Emperor William’s subjects who don’t like his speeches were Germans long before he became one, and they refuse to emigrate. ——— A Trade Characteristic, Washington Star. Claus Spreckles stands Arm against tho sugar trust. This is one of the times whon it1s a satisfaction to 866 8 man of sand 1a the sugar busine: Conftirms Popular Bellef, Globe-Democrat. In deciding thay the MoKinley tariff is all right the supreme court is merely indorsing what the people heve bosn saying for about 8 year and 8 balf. A New P of Insanity, Chicago Times, The Ivew York physician who declares one of the symptoms of 5. M. Field's alleged in- sanity 1s “an uninteiligent saduoss” has coluod & phrase worthy of Grover Cleveland. Was It a Conscls Ofering? Detroit Free Press. Was Mr. Rockefeller's munificent gift to the Chicago aniversity weant as & thank offering or as & conscience appeaser! The amount giveu is suggestively close to that re- ceived by Mr. Rockefeller's oil combination as a rebate on tin. St. Paul Plones ress. The sileuce that has followed Blair's an- nouncement that he is 8 candidate for presi- dent is o vast that the beo in his bonnet must sound like & boiler factory in active operation, Perbaps the wholo thing is a matter of wrong diaguosis on Blair's part due to an overdose of quinin —— New York Sun, ‘The bumble rad brother is beginuing to catch up with civilization, au? the precepts aud practice of the white mau with which be has beon brought into contact are vearing froit. Che Sun noted recently that an Indian in the far west forged the name of the post commander to a check, cashed the check, and disappeared. Within the past week or so another simple red man of Michigan sold his birthright to eight separate land covcerns and skipped with the procoeds. The Indian Wwho can swindle a western roal estato man should bo entitled to naturalization, at least. Central City Nonpareil. Tre Ovana Beg says that if the republican party of Nebraska will throw off the corpora tion yoke, or rathor the suspicion of it, it will carry the stato all right this fall. Tue Ber is vory ready to give advice, but will it help the party to do thist When a clean man 1s put up for eovernor will it stay with him, or will it help elect a corporation tool, as it did in 18001 —— VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS, York Timos: Nebraska's delegation in the national republican convention will bo in creased by six votes this year and every one of them will ve for Benjamin Harrison, Crete Videtto: Tur Omana B with its customary ‘'get there" proclivities, published a four paze supplement last Tuesday, giving a concise review of the bistory of Nebraska during tho past twenty-five yoars. It was an interosting paper. Western Wave: Tho anniversary of Ne- braska edition of Tiur Omana Bek was an- other flow of enterprise and greatness raroly shown by papers that have not reached the standard of excellonce that is contained in every issue of Tir Ber. Sutton Advertiser: Tuesday's Bre con- tained a supplement giving the history of Nebraska's admission into the union, the twonty-fifth anniversary of which occurred March 1. It is worth preserving as a record of contemporaneous history. O'Neill Frontier: If the republicans would win this fall they must Insist that the ruilrond eloment that has 8o often dominated and diotated in nominations be relegated to the rear. Public sentiment is nearly always right, and the man who proclaims that the people have no eauseof complaint against the encroachments and demands of railroad manipulators is oither himself a corporation tool or is incapable of clear vision. ~ We be lieve the bone and sinew, the voting strength, if you pleaso, of the republican party, favors such legislation as will put the railway corporations on a business level with other enterprises that do not have mil- lions at command, and that the disposition is to make these corporation beelers and sotici- tors tako o back seat. Now is the time for country republicans to assert themselves for the right. They have the strength, surely, and by giving close attention to the pri- maries they will accomplish much more than 0 seek a new party, The republican party is all righu. Tt is some of the so-called leaaors that need *‘trimming.” Proceed to trim. Grand Island Times: The standard Learers of the ropublican party this year must be men of honor and integrity, posses- sing eminent fitness for the various positions to which they aspire, and to whoso pre ous record no breath of calumny attach The location in the state of the candidate f¢ gubernatorial honors, while of serious im- port, is not 50 vital as the question as to whether he is worthy and commands the osteem and confidence of tho people. Petty bickerings and personal animosities must be laid aside aud complete and perfect unity prevail in the ranks. Tho campaign must be made s0 aggressive as to keep the enemy on the run, and there will be no time to bo dovoted to making oxcuses of offering apologies for any mna whose name may be on the ticket. It should not bea question as to whom we can nominate, but whom we can elect. This is a d})m‘ll)d of political unrest and discontent, and the crack of the party leash has ceased to terrify. Men and meas- ures must be the basis upon which the battle bo waged. Men of sturdy, noble char- actor, of rocognized _integrity and ability; who would be faithful to every trust imposed in them; men whose nomination would honor the party rather than themselves. With such waterial, and the party committed in its declaration of principles to the advocacy of such measures as would b> of unguestioned benefit to the masses of the people, sucesss will bo assured us. If our candidates are the reverse of this, upon a platform composed of glittering gen- eralities, saying much- but meaning little, the good of which is preached beforc, but practiced not after election, as has been the case 1oo often heretofore, tho party will be rebuked and our cause suffer such a set-back as will take it vears to recover from. The Times is not pessimistically inclined, but it looks ahead and is willing to teil the truth. FACETIOUS REMARKS., Envious rivals insinuate that the green borealis seen at St. Paul was the refiection-of the town on a neighboring bank of fog. Atehison Globe: There is only one time that finu‘lkuow exactly what a man is: when he is oad. New York Herald: vyer (Indignantly)— There was lylng before there were luwyers. Client (bitterly)--Yes; but there couldn't have been lawyers before there wus 1ying, Tn a crowded, stranded street car: Concductor—-Move forward, please, Disgruntied Passenger--That's what we skould like to have your car do. Boston Transeript: Philadelphin Kecord: “We're In a pick now,"” said amun ina crowd. “A regularjan snid another, “Heaven preserve us!" moaned anold lady. Lowell Courier: 8pot cash: The nickel the telescope man gets for letting you “peek’ at the sun. New Orleans Pij coat $i0 and up year. | fill mail orders. | Open Saturduye vl 10 Other ovenings till 6:3 BROWNING, KING | S, W. Coraor 15th anl Dyazlas St Grand Spring Opening--- We spring our spring goods ——-on you tomorrow morn- | ing, and such spring nov- elties as they are, too! All | the neatest shapes and shades of suits and over- | coats for spring wear. Cheviots, checked cashmeres, finished worsteds, Scotch tweeds, etc., variety. as high as you want. The | spring styles are very neat and nobby this An early inspection invited. We Browning,King & Co "|S. W, Corner 15th and Douglas Stg good as a mile In a pedestrian race, and ow, Iap is enough for any miss. DAVID B, AND THE PUPPY. Albany Jowrnal. How doth the busy David B, Tmprave each waking hour In gath'ring foll'wers overy day wn s submissive Flower. How skillfully helags his plans, Tow noatly writes his slate, And Iabors hurd to be the man Chicago ‘Il nominate Chioago Tribune: Rag Man (at the baok ir? whut ['ve 0 to buy stops) rhage man, On on'll i Tt you want them Rag M acking down buyin' rags. I'm not the Boston Jestor: Re I understand you have a murderer inoarcer- atod hero: how oun | get necess to hin? Alert Sontinol--Get uxes to him! smoko! 1, Billy, here's a pal o' the prisor assnoakin' In concenled weapons. Stigg y good man. THE DEACON'S WAT, New York Herald, For twonty 0dd yonrs the aeacon had worn That sugar Toaf hat, und the lining wis torn From picking out ponnies aftor golng the rounds; 1t was suffering wounds. But the dencon sw as doncons d With wn “1do vum ! and *1 tell yow SThat Fim 15 100 good 10 o thrown wway. Wha Knows 1wy want a halo somo fino duy. from a dozen soro now S, WATTERSONIAN IDEAS, Chat with the Gre: ditor In Which He Discusses Poll al Prefere . Hon. Henry Watterson, editor of the Lou- isville Courler-Journal, was in ths oity yosterday, tho guest of Mr. W. N. Baboock, goneral manager of tho Omaba Stock Yaras company. Mr. Watterson lectured in Coun- cll Bluffs Friday evening. Mr. Watterson, accompaniod by Miss Bav. cock, callod upon Tre Bee. Mr. Watterson is an interosting talker Speaking politically ho said that in reality thero was no political party. “Many ropub- licans and many dewmocrats,” said he, *aro half-protectionists ana many are half-froo rad Ther is no great party hold to iple—men stick to the party name for spoils. Those in power are work- ing for mercenary ends moro than for tho principles upon which one or the other party Imny stand, ‘I ondorso the action of Prosident Havrl son in removing democrats under a ropub- lican admiuistration. But I think every head of & bureau_or department should bo held responsible for his own administration. Ho ought to be permitted to dismiss or om ploy whom he deems best for the service. It is not possible Lo remove all oflice holders whenover an administration goes out of power: manv subordinates 1t is necessary to retain in order to carry out the work efii- ciently. But the ordinary places for which it is easy to find suitablo “men, should all b subject to a change in administratiou. Thore is no good reason why democrats should hold these positions undor a republican adminis tration and vice versa.” Mr. Watterson exprossed himself as highly pleased with tho appearance of things in Omaha, Ho askel about Charles Offut of this city whom he had known in Kentucky. He said that Mr. Offut had befors ho promising future in the south, and was to learn that ho was downg well in Omaba. Mr. Watterson’s father, associated with four other men, built the first long distanco telegraph line in this country—from Louis- ville to New Orleans. Théir invostument vras not a great one, but their profits in the deal reached many thousands of dollars. Mr. Watterson left last evoning homeward bound. CORDAGE TRUST COMES NEXT. A Move Started By the Government to In- dict the Oflicials, Cucago, TIL, March 5.—Charles M. Hor- ton, the representative of the Department of Justice, who swore cut the warrant for the j arrest of President Gireenhut aund the other whisky trust ofticials last week, has been in- vestigating the methods of the cordage trust in this city for several days. Last night Horton left for Minneapolis, where he wil! confer with the United States district at tornoy and secure additional evidence to prove that a combination controls the cord age market. Horten's investigations have been conducted in 4 secret mannor, but the partial facts leaked out this morning. The facts which Horton socures will probably he laid beforo the federal grana jury at Boston, New York or Philadelphia. Relterates its harges. Cwicaao, 1L, March 5.—Last weok the Inter-Ocean was suod for $200,000 damages by the National Union company of New York for alleging that company was & tool of tho National Cordage company. This moru- ing that paper published a two-column articlo practically reiterating its charge and in ad- dition cailing upon tho attorney general of tho United States aud the attorney general of 11linois to proceed to securo tho indictment of James W, Waterbury, Coauncey Marshall, Frank T. Will, John A. Tucker, E. M. Tucker, jr., G. Weaver, John C. Furman, Edward M. Fulton and 'Charles Ahrbury of New York, directors of the National Cord age vompany, for operaung a trustin contra- vention of the la Fatal Result of u Night Ou MixxearoLs, Mion., March 5 sult of a runaway early this morning whilo returning from a roaa house, Lottio Mitcholl is dead, Ksmma Erickson is fatally wounded, aud Herb Bedford 1 dangerously hurt. and un- plain in endless | A suit or over-