Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 13, 1892, Page 4

THE E. RO! ;’_UHIJSH“‘,D — e OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY, TRRMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (withont Sundny) One Vear.... ono v Daily and Sanday Bix Months Yoar Yenr OFFIC Omalis, The Ree Buflding. Bouth Ounln, o J Washington. 913 Fourte CORR Al anfeations relating to editorinl mattor should be nddrossed itorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS, Al business letters and remittances should be Iressed to The Bee Pablishing Company. Omaha. Drafts ke and postoffice ordors to bo made pryablo to the order of the company THE YUBLISHING COMPANY. news and to the d BI BWORN STATEM Btato ot Nebraskn | nty of Dotiglas, ( o 1 Trsch ek, we JF CIRCULATION 88, ary of The Reo Pub: Ml company. does Iy awenr that the net unl eir ALY BEE for the weck ending | was 48 10110Wws Bund v weisens 80,880 Mong 28424 i Thuradiy Fri Buturday, Averag GEORG / Eworn to boforo me and subscribed In my prosence hix 11l day of June, A, D, 1502 BEAL CHUCK N. 1 FELL, Notary Public « Cireulation ftor May, RATIFY tonight. Wi observe with pain that Chili and Germany are displeasea with Harrison’s nomination. O~ of the most brillinnt decorative Qisplays ever witnessed in this city is that of the Industrial exposition. REroRTs of another crisis come from Chili,. That country needs a new stylo of civilization imore than does a new c she OMAHA republicans ave urged to at- tend the meeting position hall to- night and to take along their democratic neighbors. ment is and all the contests are sori- English grow more like -ny year. NEARLY overy seat in Parli contested The icans ous. Ame Tz death of Colonel L. L. Polk may nossibly have removed the last obstacle to the triumphant march of Whirligig Weaver to the Omaha nomination. THE prophet who made that renowned teip from Joppa to Jerusalem would have an easier time today. A railroad is being built between the two poin TrxAs soldiers will appreciate life in Omaha this week. There’s nothing like having matters arranged to give gu a feeling of home, even to the weather, A Trxas man has sued Governor Hogg for $50,000 for calling him “a pro- fessional Liar” in one of bis campaign specches, It is pretty hard on amateur to be thrown out of his c in that way. an 55 ASTE N inventor has invented a process by which he promises to make gas at 2 cents per 1,000 fect, His discov- ery is ill-timed, howover, for the demo- cratic eampaign orator will presently be in the field. DEMOCRATS who are disposed to feel happy over the president’s renomination are invited to read the rool and wise re- mark of Henry Watterson—*‘The presi- dent is without doubt the strongest man the republicans could have nominatea.” Tur Fort Wayne and Indianapolis base ball ¢lubs do not seem to eatch the spirit of the hour, but parsist in losing games at this tme when all Indiana neople should be pounding the life out of their opponents. We fear they are not loyal Hoosier: T people who attended the opening of the exposition at the Coliseum.on Suturday were highly edified by the good showing made for Nebraska indus- tries. The exposition is a great edu- cator. 1t gives very tangible evidenco of the greatness of this state. For a good, big, grasping and relent- less monopoly we commend the Bell Tel- ephone company, People who bought #1,000 worth of shares a few years ago are veceiving only #6,000 per yoar from it now. Stundard Oil and conl compa- nies have to work for a living in com- parison with the *‘hello” business. REv, DR PARKER of Pittsburg says thut the supposition thata man ean bo both a politicien and a gentleman is tho seyerest strain that can be put upon human faith, The trouble with Dr Parker is that his opportunities for observation have been limited. He ought to have been in Minne: woe polis lust Tue imperial council of the order of tho Nobles of the Mystic Shrine will be held in Omaba in the third weok of Auyust, immedintely after the triennial conclaveof the Knights Templar at Den- ver. Itisexpected that not less than 5,000 Shriners will visit this city and re- main hera severaldays. It is announced, also, that w number of communderies of Koights Templar will visit Omaha and sojourn hore threo days, This will be one of the most interesting events of the yeuar, and the distiugnished should be finely enterinined. They are wen who lknow w tertainment is und ns well how Lo appreciato o goner- ous hospitality, Our citizens will be axked for contributions to entertain the ymanderies, provision having beeu made for the Shrinors, and it is conli- dently expected that there will be a lib- eral response. Omaha hus nevoer entor- wined & worthier body of men than will be hiere during the third week of August and they wust be well taken cave of, visitors o BOOMERS ON THE GROUND. Tho democratic national committee has opened its hendquarters at Chicago, and a number of members of the com- mittee and other lights of the party are already on the ground making preparas tions for the coming fray. Those who look upon Governor Holes of lowa as a dark horse morely, a man to be consid- ered when a compromiss upon ‘‘some good western man’ becomes imperative as o means of averting war, will be sur- prised to learn that the advance guard of the Boies boomers arrived in Chicago last Friday and immediately began oper- ations. The nomination of President Hurrison, they say, makes it absolutely essontinl to success that the name of Horace Boies shall be inscribed on the demoeratic bannor, It is cluimed that the Boies sentiment is strong through- out the eouth and west, and the growth in population in the western states is urgod as a strong reason why the east ghould no longer have w controiling voice in the selection of a presidential candidate. The western democrats ar- gue thut if an lndiann man is good cnough for the republicans an lowa man is good enough to be put uv against him, There is a difference, however, in the conditions governing the sclection of cundidates in the two purties. Governor Boies is practically unknown in the enst where names count for a grent deal among the democratic voters and work- ers. The democrats have nothing in the way of principles und purposes (o create enthusinsm except principles and purposes connected with the spoils of office. In the castern cities especially thoy would demand ocither a name o a burrel, und Boics does not represent either to them. They neither know him nor his friends. But the chief con- sideration in this connection is the fact that neither the Cleveland nor the anti- Clevelund faction has any idea of com- promising at all, and much less has either any intention of aceepting a com- promise candidute who is not on its own side. This may seem a paradox, but it is a fuiv statement of the case as it now stands, Hill would compromise on a Hiil raan and Cleveland would compro- mise on a Cleveland man if neither could be nominated. The situation may change before the convention opens, but at this distance the boom looks rather fragile. THE ELECTORAL COLLE: Th will be 444 votes in the electoral college of 1892, and 223 will be necessary to a choice. The ine o since the last presidential election is 43, of which number 20 will bo cast by the new states Boies namely: Idaho, Montana, orth Da- kota, South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming. The remaning 23 are the additional votes based on the unew ap- portionment to the old states, as follows: Alabama, Arkunsas, California, Colo- rado, Georgia, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Ore- gon, Wisconsin, 1 each; Illinois Minue- sota, Pennsylvania, Texas, 2 each; Ne- br If the states vote this year as they did in the last presidential clection and the six states which have since heer, admit- ted align thewselves with the repub- licans, us there is every reason to expect they will, the result will be to give the republican candidate 269 votes in the clectoral college naguinst 175 to the democratic candidate. A part of the vote of Michigan, however, perhaps not to exceed five, must be deducted from the republican estimateand given to the democratic. Upon thest figures it will be seen that the republicans could do without New York and still have a majority of five, but if they should loso Indiana also they would be ina minority of ten. There is no good reason; how- over, for regarding Indiana as a doubt- ful state. Harrison carried it four years ago, and nothing has been offered to show that he cannot carry it again. In fuct, Indiana democrats practically con- cede that Le will again receive the vote of that state. v is by no means improb- able that the six voles of Connacticut will go to the republican candidate noxt November, and the votes of West Vir- ginia, six in number, may also go in the same direction. The democratic plurality in the latter state four years ago was very small, and there is good reason to believe thut at the presidential election of this year it will be shown that the democrats have lost ground there. There are far better reasons for believing that the republicans will carry Connecticut and West Virginia than there are for the assumption of the democrats that they will carry any western or north- western state, Any careful and candid view of the situation must earry the conviction that the republican chances of winning the battle of 1892 are very much better than those of theiropponents. The republi- can candidate is unquestionably stronger in popular confidence than he was four vears ago, and the claim of republican policy to the support of the people hus been greutly strengthened during that period. DEMOCRATIC DIVISION IN THE SOUTH. There are factional divisions in the democratic party in the south which may well cause anxiety among the leuders of that party in the nation. The splitin Alabama is a case in point, and a nearly similar state of affairs exists in the two Carolinas, in Plorida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas, In all of these states the democracy is divided mto factions which are fighting each othor with as much bitterness as they ever fought the republican party, Hav- ing so completely suppressed the repub- lican vote in these states that they have no fear of it, the democrats are now at war among themselves, and the contest of the factions secking the power and spoils of oflico is shurp, vigorous and olentloss, There is fight on in Tennessee and in Texas over tho control of tho state conventions, which in both cases threat- ens to-eventuate in a spirit like that in In South Carolina the regu- lar democrats have put a ticket in the field, which will probably be antagonized by another ticket with Governor Till- man at his head, nominated by the alli- ance democrats. In North Carolina and Plovida o compromise was eflected be- tween the contending fuctiors, but there is still w grent deal of bitter feeling. The situation in Loulsiana was shown at the late state election, and in Georgia THE OMATA the democracy is far from united and harmonious, These conflicts are for the control of state affairs, and while they are of a nature to cause the leaders of the party at large some anxloty, it is questionable whether they affora any. ground for republican hope or expectation of hreak- ing the solid south this year. In his specch nominating Harrison Mr. Depoew sai “The democratic party is now divided, but the hope of the possession of the power once more will make it in the final battle more uggressive, deter- mined and unscrupulous than ever.” This is the safer view for republicans to take, rather than counting with any confidence upon renping advantage from the divisions in the ranks of the southern democra The party in that section 5 may quarrel over the local spoils, but in the national contest the factions will get together and their votes will be counted for the presidential candidate of the party. Regular democrats and alliance democrats will stand shoulder to shoulder at the ballov box in support of the nominee of the Chicago conven- tion. We would not imply that the republican party should make no effort in the south. The tusk of redeeming that section from absolute democratic control, involving as that control does the disfranchisement of a large body of citizens, must not be abandoned. The vepublican party would be unfaithful to its principles and forgetful of its mission if it should relinquish the patriotic duty of securing to every eitizen in the south his right to vote and to have his vote counted. Itis pledged to accomplish this, and it is not to be doubred that the pledee will be fulfilled. But it cannot bo accomplished this year, and the republican party can expect no ad- vantage in the next presidential election from the democratic divieions in the south. EN 1 'RE COMME The capacity of the average Nnglish journalist for misapprohending the sig- niticanco of political events in the United States is extraordinary, but there is one fact that seems to have been driven homo to the Iinglish under- standing of late, and that is that tho re- publican party stunds as the representa- tive of the policy of protection to Amor- ican industries, a policy that arouses both alarm and resentment in England. The comments of the London press upou the result of the Minneapolis con- vention are curious and interesting. The Zimes lnys all the blame of the for- eign policy of the present audministra- tion upon Mr. Blaine, and looks forward, “with perfect equammity, to the in- creased chance of Harrison’s re-elec- tion.” This will seem a very strange view of the case to those who have made even the wost casual study of the ad- ministration. The **perfect equanimity” with which the journal quoted looks forward to the president’s ve-election is based upon the mistaken notion that he has been a mere figurehead and not the real president of the United States. That an enlightened newspaper, posses- sing every facility for keeping itself posted upor the subject, should goso wide of the truth seems incomprehensi- ble. But the Standard shows almost as dull an understanding as the Thnes. Tt says that “*Huarrison gathered =ll the authority inbo his own hands, turned the members of the cabinet into a set of secured the department clerks and credit for all the successes. The truth is, as all intellizent Americans know, that the president did nothing of the kind. He surrounded himself with able men who were admirably fitted for the duties which their several cabinet po- sitions imposed upon them, and he shared with them the responsibilities and, to a proper degree, the honors of one of the most perfect and successful administrations in the history of the country. y Such are the forces which shape pub- lic opinion in England concorning Amer- ican politics. One idea the British mind has successfully grasped, namely, that the democratic party, like the newly- arrived immigrant from the Emerald isle, is “*agin the goverament.” That is all the knowledge of our politics that is required to place free trade England on the side of free trade democracy. Every encouragement is offered by the English press to those who ave trying to break down the protective system by which this country has thrived and by which England’s commercial has been limited. The significance of this attitude of leaders of thought and opinion in Eng- land toward the vepublican party, and especially toward its loaders, who are most intimately identified with the pro- tective policy, will be plain enough to all who know what the effect of that policy has been. The recent utterances of Lord Salisbury in bshalf of a de- parture from the .present free trade policy of England and the adoption of mensures of rotaliation against this country for the injury it has inflicted upon English commercial intorests, sulliciently explain the position taken by the London press concerming the coming presidential campaign. The democcats are welcome to all the as- sistance ‘they will receive from that quurter. It will injure rather than benefit their cause in the minds of thoughtful men. domain Consolation Abroad, New York Herald. With Vesuvius in a state of eruption the American in Europe cau think of the pres| dential campaign, gazo on the excited vol- cano and feel at home. B The Land Signal Gun, Globe-Democrat. “I'ho Oregon victory looks like the begin- uing of a repotition of the events of four years ago, when the republicans marched to victory in & systematic and irresistible way. ’ The Coming Storm Chicagn News. gus in tho political heavens indicate that the demovratic couvention to assemble in Chicago within two weeks will have much the same characteristics as the turbulent and contentious gathering at Minneapolls. Iv is, perbaps, true that rivalry will notbe as bitter between any two aspir entor. New York Evening Sun. Indian eorn, as maize s called in Europe, is steadily making its way into favor in Ger- many. Thirteen mills buve been erected in order to grind the corn arriving in Germany from America. ‘'he modoof using the ground weal 15 10 combine it with balf 1ts bulk of DAILY BEE ryo flour. This loares the full Havor of the £yo, to which the Germans are accustomed, wittiout any percentible taste of the maizo. ‘Fhe same experiment, under slightly differ- ent conditions, has.[bpsp tried in Ireland, where two parts of maize flour are usually mixed with one part of ordinary wheat flour. Indead, the bread prebared in this mauner by the Irish peasanta is voth palatable and nourishing. — - —— Reposing Destiny. New YoHe Advertiser, Mr. Cleveland is edlmty reposing at Buz- zard’s Bay. Ho jrives inimself no concern about Chicago. He s discounted his victory, and his confidence in Destiny is as profound as was that of Davia when he loaded his sling and‘dtarted in to termiuate the existence of Golvath! ey A Tragle Spectacte, Chicago Inter Ocean. In the wreck of mattor and the crush of worlds now in progress about us, lot us fora moment and prayerfully cootemplate the Hon. David B. Hill of New York, an uuo- happy man who has bitten off more than he oan chew, and is slowly choking to death. - AFTERMATH. JOKER: Bomerville Tournal: 1t pays to be good, but. the mun who is x00d only heeause It pavs s 10t the one who will get the bighest salary. Smith, Gray & Go's. Monthiy: “How be- novolent you nre gotting (" obsorved u visit- ing friend, 18 tho othor tossod a dime to un organ grinder, h Y os," was the rep'y: “not s dago's past bur T give something to the poor." Hnrper's Weekly: “Talkin' 'bout 'splosives. dls yer dymonite’s de sploainist thing ever I conio erost. Dore wuz wman wukkin longer us in de rock-cut the ratirond, which ‘e had on A hat 1ike s Well, sah! de stuff went off somohow, and when we foun' him over de mountnin in de udder county hit had done blowed him thro' his hat, uti’ de brim wuz 'roun’ his unkles, Clonk Reviow: Kincley—Well, old man, I so0 your duvghitor has got mareied, Allow e 1O congratulite vou Binzo—Piease don't do it now, old fellow. Wait for six months Kingley—Why, what's tho matter? Bingo (despondently)—The bills trousseau are Just coming in. for her GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. Chicago News. Prematurely and cock-surely grew a boom In health most poorly, with ambitions thut would lead to any helzht. But 'twas derided till it hided and so it up and dieded and now we're Koing 1o blace iv out of sight. - ON THE OTHER SIDE. An Opponent of Bonds Ve the Nebraskis tilates His Idens. OmaAna , June 11.—To the Editor of Tnr Brr: Some weeks ago, Mr. Dumont requested that all articles against voting a subsidy to the Nebraska Central Railway compauy should be signed by the parties writing thesame. A disinterested person might naturally inquiro the motive of this request. He might ask whut differenco it would make with the argument whother 1t came in from an humble individual in the lower walks of life or from one who, to all appearances, was at its pinnacle. 1f the argument were good, its source would cer- tainly be immaterial. The subsequent course systomatically pursued by the advo- cates of tho bonds revesls the object of that requost. Argument has been auswered by abuse. 'The term “corporation cormorants,” “‘tax shirkers,” *‘old fogles,” ‘‘moss backs,” “tin horners,” ‘“enemids,” ‘vog in the manger,” and other like glassical expressions have been flung out by the wholesale; and every man who has ventured to oxpress his disapproval of the bonds, or even his doubt as to their advisability, has peen the subject of a tirade of personal abuse, Even one so fair as John D. Howe tecomes tainted with the same proclivities when un- dertaking the task of an advocate in this unrighteous —cause. “I'he lion skin” of fair and gentlemanly argument seoms be sufficient to carry 1o success thi upou the public treasury, and must be “eked* out by the fox skin’ of trickery aad abuse. It is not strange that this is so. With every falsehood some grain of truth must be interwoven, to make tho fa'se ap- pear plausible, and in the vast mass of abuse there has been commingled a semblance of argument. But in undertaking to reason the question, the advocates of the bonds do so0 larzely upon false promises, Mr. Howe says *‘that for twenty years a freo bridze and terminal company has been the crying demand of the hour, that 1ts reali- zation means for Omaha more than anythiug that has ever occurred in its history.” Let us consider ihis. Doos the Nebraska schemo contemplate & “free” bridge! If so, why do they rofuse to state so in the proposition. 1s it becavse to state this would, as Mr, Howe says, “‘defeat the schome?’ To poso before the people of Owaha as the projectors of a “free” bridge, and at the same time to ask capitalists for tho money to develop a money making enterprise means deception elther to Omahg or the capitalists, We may rest as- sured that the deccived party will be the samo old vistim of so many former decep- tions. 1t will be Omaha, So far from mak- ing this a “free"” bridge, the Nebraska Cen- tral refusod even a reasonable maximum bridge rate, and have undertaken to befog the public with that useless clawse for arbi- tration. Mr. Howe tells us the maximum clause would defeat the scheme bocause 1t would frighten capitalists from embarking in the enterprise, T'hen capitalists must be induced by the prospect of profit on the amount invested, We are told that this scueme will cost £5,000,000 for the briace, the depot grounds and improvements, the right of way and tracks through the city andin order to invite capitalists it must be made to appear that it will earn a good percontage on thut amount over and above the cost of maintenance and repairs, To do this and pay only 8 per cent on the mouey invested = will require an annual income of neariy $1,000,000, What amount of traflic has the company 1 sight to produce this enormous income ut reasonable rates. Only about 200,000 or 300,000 cars now annusily puss through this city, aud the new bridge cannot hopo to get more than & falr pro- lm\'lmn of thew. If it secures 100,000, or even 200,000, cars per aunum they must’ churge the present bridge rate in order to produce this income. In the face of these facts, in the face of the fact that this schemo has been conceived and-planned on ascale of enormous expense, an expeuse only oqualled by the celebrated “Nickel Plate,” what folly to call it a free bridge, one which 15 to raiso Omaha out of the slough of despond. 13 Omaha 1n such a sloughi Ave we suffering 80 greatly from this *bridge monopoly{’ Weo have heard so much of it that ali or many of us have come to accept the state- ment without investigavion or thought, Is it not possible that we herein have mado a mis- tako! May it not be that this conunual how! of Omaha at the mercy of the Union Pacific has in thoe past and is now doing us a great deal of injury, and isnot substan- tiated by the facts!' When we wero a small village the Union Pacific nad the power to Central absolutely contro) ~ the oity and I douot “mot thdb ‘the company did, just what every: oue elso would, the thing 1v believed to be for its intevest. Bridge rates wore $10 a car and passenger rates 50 cents & hoad, But Omaba, in spite of all these disadvautages, has nad a steady and coutinuous Reowin. A growth more marvelous and rapid than that of any other city In the history of the union. The power of the Union Pacific has steadily declined. Competitors in 1ts business have gainea a foothold and bridge tolls and rates have as steadily and continually fallen uutil today we do have a “frec” bridge, as free to all in- tents and purposes to the shipper as we could possibly nuvewers there no Missourl river flowing at our eastern border. Let me expiain, - All frelzht shipped to or from Omaba east of the Mississippl river is dolivered to the shipper without the collec- tiou of a dollar for bridge tolls. What, then, becowes of this buo and cry about the bridge monopoly! Stop and think, I8 1t uot possi- ble that the people of Omaba are bemng used s the moukey used the cat, to rake in chest puts for the railroaa compunies! Let me repeat, the werchunt who receives goods from or ships freight to the territory east of the Mississippi river does not pay & singlo ceut for bridge tolls. Bridge tolls wure paid, but thoy are paid by the railway company handliog bis freight, and if Omaba stould build & free bridge on which no chargestiould be made for crossing, the railroads alone would gain the beaefit and freight to and from Omaha would not be a doilar less. Freight rates arc not lado and unmade by Individual ralironds, Thero is a mizantio pool controlilng this western country of which overy railrond is a_member. In the socrot_counsels of that pool, the rates of Omaha, of Denver, of Kantas City, of St. Josaph, and all othor sections of the vast Wost are detorminod, This pool can be broken not by bridge, not by a hundred mile line into Towa to connect with somo railroad now & member of that pool, but only by a railroad all the way to Chicago Such a road, and such a road only, 1f managed outside of the pool Would eive com- petitive and reduced rates to the enst 1t is only a few months since Omaha was the scenc of a great and bitter legal contest. Guant eoroorations were the combatants, and we were made to_believe that if the Milwau- kee and Rock Island réads could gain their suit the long emonrgo wouid ve lifted. Our papers advocated the cause of those ronds. Our citizens shouted in unison for them, and great was the rejoicing when at last ‘they were victorious, We seemod to s0e a new day dawn for Omaha, and the first Milwau- keo train was greeted with crowds and cheers, But time passed on, tveoks grow into months, and months into & year with no reduction of rates by those roads, The Milwaukeo and Rock Island trains rodoe daily into and through our city, and on those traius and cars not & dollar of bridgo tolls has been levied by the Union Pacltic road, but has the shipper noticed any mauterial reduction in his billt Omaba did the shouting and the fighting, but the Mil waukee and Rock [sland roads have quietly #athered in the persimmons, and wo have yot to sea any disposition on their part to divide with us the fruits of that victor, Would it not be tho same shoulu these other roads come over this mew free (1) bridge of the Nebraska Central which is to be 80 “free” that they won't even agree to & maximum freizht rato? It is onlv a few years since Douglas county voted to this same Nebraska (entral a large bonus for which they ugreed to give this free bridge and union depot and terminil facil- 1ties, all to cost $1,000,000. What was tho result? We soou ascertain that we wero voting our bonds aud our money not to help Omaha but to help the Milwaukeo and Rock Island roads pound & good contract out of the Union Pacific company. Those railroad companies and they alono re- ceived any benefits from our donation. The same Nebrasica Central and the same men are now asking for a new and enormous subsidy. May wo not well ask what is in the wind! Aro the Milwavkes and Rock Island rods, or somo other road desiring to wain some new advantage over the Union Pacific, and taking this convenient Nebraskn Central in order to hampor another bargain ! Wo may well ask ourselves whethor tho good, if any,to come outof this new pro- posal will not accrue to these or somo other railroad compauy rather than to Omaba or Douglas county, Can wo afford such a thing! Are wo hersouly for the convenience of assisting ono corporation to down another! Wo are told that tho 100 miles of road to bo built in Town wiil bring to our doors ‘‘at least half a dozen railway companies,” and for this magmficent promise we are asked to contribute the sum of 100,000, Remembor, the Neoraska Central road does not **propose” to build this 100 miles of line. Itonly “plans to construct or cause to be constructed”’ that line of railway. “Chere are six or cight lines from Council Bluffs radiating to_various parts of lowa, but over these railronds do not_come theso half a dozen companies, and 1 challenge Mr. Howo or Mr. Dumont to draw a possible line of railroad from Council Bluffs 100 miles in any direction and show how over that line a haif a dozen railroads can reach Omaha. If such a line could connect with half a dozen railroads the only theory upon which can be based the statement that these roads will come over that line must be that it is to be like the briagge—a free line, But does the proposition say thist No. It says that tho Nebraska Central may bwld or cause to be built such a line and 1f, therefore, any one of these dozen roads mentioned shall happen to build a branch line into Council Bluffs the ebraska Central can domand this §100,000 trom Omaha. We are asked what risks we would incur it it shoula fail after we have voted the bonos. But a few can be mentioned: First—We should impair our eredit. you thought. of the siza of this subsidy— $750,0007 Nearty egual to all the bonds voted this year for public improvements. Such an exhibition of the tendency on the part of this community to throw away its securities cannot fail to be disastrous to our credit, A very small matter influences the credit of a city or community and if theso vonds ~ are voted all other bonds of tho city must be sold at a greatly reduced price. “In this wuy wo shall lose thousands of dollars. The result will be that Omaha will lose its reputation as n_conseivative city and the day of our prosperity be put for into the future. Second—To vote these bonds drives all competitors out of the field, and this is just what the Nebraska Central wants. They cry monopoly, monopoly, when they are seekiog to fasten upou Omaha the most burdensome monopoly she hus yet experienced, ana have the affrotitery to ask that Omaha pay for it. “There are several corporations now in_ ex- istence whose object is to bridge the Mis- souri river at this place, and furnish inde- pendent terminal railroad facilities in Omaha. If these bonds are voted to the Ne- braska Central all other corporations seck- ing to do the same thing may as_weil with- draw from the fleld. This is a scrious thought on the part of the taxpayer. Lot us suppose that the Union Pacific is antagonis- tic to auy other bridge; which is easier for that company to fight agaiust, a whole field of rival corporations or to have the number reduced to but one? If theso bonds are car- ried, until they expire, the Union Pacific can give up fighting the interstate company and all others seeking to bridge the river, und devote its entire attention to the Nebraska Central. Has the Nebraska Central in the past 50 conducted itself in the performanco of its pledges that Omaha should vut into the control of that company the entir possibility of a bridge at_this point, and by that act destroy all the efforts of other eiti- zens who are trying to give us a better thing without asking aid for so doing! Third—It is & great mistake to suppose that if these bonds are voted that they are not payaolo uuless the enterprise is a success. Vhen the Nebraska Central company takes possession of the six blocks of land §100,000 is payable. Suppose they stop right there and nothing more is done, that would muako a very nico real estate speculation, would it not! “Has any provision been madeto get back this $100,000 in case the balanco of the work should fuili Not any. The proposition 18 not built that way, When 100,000 have veen oxpended in improving tnut land Have another ~ $150,000 is payable. This 1m- provement may be by the Nebraska Central or any other railroad company. Noithor does it mean o $400,000_depot, bit may be only & ‘‘calf shed.”” Suppose the Missouri Pacific concludes to build a depot there as the assignee of the Nebraska Cen- tral, aud we pay this $250,000 and nothing more 1s done, we have no ‘‘fres” brides, no terminal facilities, notuing for which we have really paid this money. [s there any provision by which it may be recovered if the bridge is not buitt ! Not any. S0 you might go on from item to item aud you wil find that this proposition is so constructed that for a very small amount of work the Nebraska Central will be at liberty to stop whonever it ploases after drawing from the clty ond couuty a large amount of money. But that is aot the idea which they present to the people. They build up before us a magniticent ‘‘castle in theair,”” a grand papor work, and tell us this 15 to bo their gift to Omana, for which they are Lo receive a certain subsidy. ‘They neg- leot to say that the proposition is so drawn that they have tho option to accept all, or any part of it; todo just as much asthoy 506 it and roceive a largo bonus, 1o glve us for that not this complete structure but an abortion, How many opportunities does this put into their hands for trading! How easy it would be to go to Jay Gould and offer for a consideration to sell out the union depot site and bonus. How easy it would be to g0 to the Union Pacific and sell out the county bonus, 1f the Nebraska Central are acting in entire @ood faith, these various proposi- tions would have been put in under an entirety, so that all of the enterprise would have boen assured or no part of the bonus would be payable, ‘These are the risks that we run if we vote these bonds, whether the enterprise suc- ceeds or not. 11 it succeeds and is all built, this now tax of §0,000 per aunum 1s placed on record & first mortgage on every piece of proverty in Douglas county, ~ Aré the tax- payers ready to add to their iucumbrance! Does any man for & moment believe that by subsoviption this §750,000 bonus could be raised among the taxpayers of this county? Hardly possible. And yet, wo are toid that the opponents of this deal are not taxpayers. Has the laboriug man a mortgage on his home which he hopes to pay off 1a better timest What folly it is to start that pay- went by locreasing the incumbrance. ANTI-BOND VOTER. HONORS JUSTLY BESTOWED The Active, Stirring and Brilliant Oarcer of Whitelaw Reid, AUTHOR AND EDITOR, DIPLOMAT His Rise from n Country the Front Rank of Ay Ists Brielly Treaced—A Splon did Record, Newspaper to Whitelaw Reld, candidate for vico presi- it on the rapnblican ticket, Is one of the bast known journalists in the United Statos, o his repututios as a journalist ho ho cently added that of a successful having served his country well as winister to France, There is n moral in the lifo of Whitelaw Reid well worth the attention of the youth of the country, inasmuch as it exemplifes what can be dono by cuergy and persever- ance. Born on October 27, 1837, at Xenia, O, of Scoteh ancestry, bo has ever preserved tho raits of cbharacter of that nationality. Rob- ert Chariton Retd was his father, while his mother, Marion Whitelaw Ronalds, was a direct descendant of the famous Clan Ron alds of the highlands. One of the fivst Kentucky pioncers was his grandinther, who camo from the south of Scotland, but who, ut the veginning of the present century, crossed the Ohio river into Cincintau, of which he vecame ono of the founders, His vaternal grandfather had the veputa- tion of beiuw one of the ors. It is velated of him that the land in Ohio of which he was proprietor was ob- od only ou conuition that 1o would oper. 4 ferry ucross tho river every day in the week, incluging Sunduy. This wits wore than his conscience could bear, ana ratner thau break the Sabbath duyghe abandoned his property, purchased u new cstato Gresue county, und thero founded tho town of Nenin, where his grandson was vorn. tho Rev. Hugn McMilan, also a Scotch Covenanter aud uncle of Whitelaw Roid, prepared the latter for college. At that timo Mr. MeMillan was not ouiy a trusteo of Miami university, but ho was also prineipal of an ucademy at Xenin, During his academic and college carecr, the reputation of young Reid was of tho best, and vefore no had atuined his niueteenth year hoe gradu- ated with the highest bonors. Money at that time, so faras the Reid fauly was coucerned, Wis none 100 plenti- ful, and young Whiteluw cast ubout uim for some employment. most immediately to was offered the principalship of the graded chool at Soutn ~ Charleston, O, Whilo the cy was small ho was frugal, and man- aged” in time to save enough to repay his fathor the money that had been expended upon his college course. ro diplomat, faithtully aod rnest of covenant One year as n school teacher scemed enough for the youny man, At theage of 20 he purchused the Nenia Nows, and us tho ediior of that journul he first gave vent to his ardeut republicanism. From tho very start he tricd 1o make his newspaper un_exponent of his party’s principles. He had ontered politics long belore that Lime, however, as in the Fremont campaign of 1556 ho went on the stump for his parly and aid excellent service. Av that time tue Tribune, guided by Horace Greeley, had become a power in_the country. Whiteluw Reid was a constant reader of it and he was a strong admiver of Mr. Girecloy's articles. These very articles belped materially to mola his_character and to fit him for the services which e after- ward performed for the republican party. Mr. Reid first became a real figuro in poli- tics in 1500, when, although a warin personal frienda of Mr. Chase, he advocated Mr. Lin- coln for the pre: Oatside of Iitinois, his was the first westorn newspaper to takoe that position. Later on the martyr prosident mado his famous speceh at Cboper Union and then started westward. Mr. Reid went to Columbus to meet him, escorted him to Xenia, and introduced him av the raiuway station to the citizens of that place who had congrosated to meet him. From that hour until the presont White: law Reid has oeen luboring for the welfaro of the republican party. Tmmediately aiter- ward she patd a visit to Washingtou and then entered vigorously into the campaign by accepling the position of secretary of the Grecne county republican comuittee. Growing tired of editing 3 local paper, Mr, Reid, 1 tho winter of that year, accepied a position on the Cincinnati “Times us legi latve correspondont. Before that be had written letters to the Cincinnati Gazette which had_been received with favor. His compensation for his correspondence to tho first named paper was the munificent salary of & per week. It was enough, however, to pay bis board bill, and at that time ho cared for littlé more, He looked upon it as being paid so much for studying in a good political school. He held his position only o few weeks, however, as tbe aditor of the Cleveland Ho ald, struck by the vigor of his articles, of- fercd him 815 por week for a dmly lottor This offer he accented, and lator on the Cin- cinnati Gazotte also ordercd a daily leter, for which they were willing to pay $15 por week. his F'rom the date of his acceptance of last offer may bo uraced the brilliant v which ho afterwards pursued. Left the legislature at the close of the to become the city editor of tho Ci cinnuti Gazetto and bield that position until the war broke out, when he went to tho front as correspondent with McClollan's staft, and it was in that eabacity that ho won his spurs, Every one who #aad the nowspapers ana literature of that ‘time can well remember the letters from the seat of war, published in the Gazotte over the nom de plumo of “Awate.” His graphic pen depicted the strugglo in a manner that few war corre- spondents on eithier side of the Atlantic have equaled, As correspondent ho went through the first and sacond Virginia campaigns a8 woll as tho Tonnessee campaigns, and he was also present at t'ort Donelson and Pittsburg Landing. Before the latter battle o was seriousiy 11l in bed, but ho left 1t to witness the struggle, and was the only correspondent who actually saw tho fixht, Few things did more to boom tho Gazotte than his graphic story, 1t fillod more than ten columns, and Whitelaw Reid, known to the world only us ‘‘Agate,” haa gainegn national roputation, Ho was aiso presont at the sloge of Cor- inth, and ovea to this day he rolates how he aud tho othor correspondents were annoyed by tho petty tyranny of General Halleck, which finally resulted in thelr votirement from headguarters, Tu tho spring of 1502 b wont to Washington, and while there was offerea the managoment of w well known paper of St. Louis. On hearing this, tho owrners of the Gazette fnereased his salary, and sold him, on good terms, & large proprietary interest in the concern, I'bis was the basis of iis toaneial fortunes. At ouce, almost, he became a prominent cor- respondent at tho national capital and was appointed Librarian of the house of repre- sontatives, While in Washington he met Horaco Greeley for the first timo in his lite and the two at once becamo close frionds. Mr. Greeley {mmodiately after the fivst in- terview invited hiin te como to New York and join the Tribune stafY, but Mr. Reid pre- torred romaining whero ho was as the Trib une’s Washington correspondent. on while attending to his dutios at Washington Mr. Reid found timo to do some var reporting and among his oxpioits was a visit to the battlofield of Gettysburg und wriling from there ono of the best accounts of the battle ever published. Whon tho echoes of the war had died away, Mr. Itefd, in company with Mr. Chase, mado'a tour of the south, and as a rosult of that trip ho afterward publisticd a_ volumo entitled, “After the War: A Southorn Tour," which had n wide salo. Tn the spring of 1506 bie leased threo plantations opposite Natchez, where he planted many_acres of cotton, which proved a failure. ~The next vear be made a similar vonture inAlabama, Which proved profitable in more ways than onie. He found time then to write his “Ohio in the War,” which formed au_important part in the standard history of tho great ro- beilion. It was in 1808 that Mr. Reid became editor in eharce of the Cincinna i Gazotte, He was also its correspondent during the impoach: 11 for bave ment trial of President Johnson nothing clse, his work there would gained for him a reputation. Then Mr. iey renowed his invitation and shortiy aftor ward he bocame an caitorial writer ‘on tho paper which he practically owns today. Jobu Russell Young wis ap that time man- aging cditor of tne Tribune, but ho soon wave wav to Whitelaw Reid, who held the coutideres of Horace Greeley more than any other man on tho staff. It was o who, in 1870, by & layish expenditure of money, sent George \W. Sinalley and many others to the Irauco-Prussian war, and secured from them a cable servico that was the envy of the old world as woll as the ney. # Shortly after Horace Greeloy’s nomination for the presidency 11872 he resigued tho position of editor-m-chief in favor ot White- Taw Iteia. It 1s not necessary to relate hero he story of that campaign. That iv ended in defeat was not the fauit of Mr. Reid. On tho contrary, the journal of which he was tho bead did'yeoman sorvice, The death ot M, Greelev followed, and it is related that the last words spoken by him were mto the ear of the voung man who had succeeded him in the Tribune. During 1872 and 1873 the Tribuno received a setback: but slowly it bezan to riso agaiu. In the presidential campaign of 1876 it sup- ported Mr. Hayes, and n tho bitter conflict over the disputed votes of tho southorn states iv was constantly for peaco. Not long aftor, Mr. Reid, through his staff, succocde in unraveling tho mystery of the famous bateh of cipher telegrams which passed between Mr. Tilden's ugonts in this city and the democratic agents and manageys in thesouth and in the far wost. In 185 Mr. IReid warmly espoused the nomination of James G. Bliine, but when CGeneral Garfield secured the prize ho did not hesitato tosupport him, and it is an admitted fact that the republican vietory of that year was largely due to his exertions, In 1884 ho agam labored hard for ) Blaine, and when the latter secured the nomination he used ail his influonce to se- curo bis election. In 1588 he supported Gen- eral Hacrison; and if any man living was en- titled to recognition at the hauds of his party, it was Mr. Reid. p'to the time Mr. Reid was offered tho fon of minister to Franco he had stead- pos Fastly rofused il political honors. Hayos and Garfield both aske come Amerlcan minister to Ge| declined. Journalism, he then thought, was more in his hine. On March 19, 1839, he was appointed min- ister to t'rance by President Harrison and accoptod. Before tnat, in 1878, tholoxislature of the statoof New York clected him & rogont of the State university— life posi- tion. Theso ave the only oftices ho has heid up to date. Mr. Reid s a man of attractive presonco, finely proportioned, erect and rather above the avorage height. His countenauce is opon and manly and at the samo time dignitied and commanding. sl RS An odd and protty trimming for hats and Dbonuets consists of shaded oats dyed to any color desired, Crimson oats, purple ana brown shading to a light fawn tnt, aro formed into wreaths that ornament the brims of bonnets with charming effect. Presidonts (@<= SPROWNING, KINGE & & CO. ufacturers and Roetallers ot Clothiug in the West, Largest M Shoulder Arms-- Ul sale on men's suits. will always reasonable prices. evory duy Ladies who wear our $1.00 and $1.50 blouse waists will appre- ciate our half price sale of ladies’ and children’s Il blouse waists tomorrow* | They'll be 50c and 75c. In order to give visitors a chance to try our cloth- also be made on hot weather neckties, [ underwear, etc. The best selections of é summer coats and vests, straw hats etc., Browning, King&Co ram aa i {ot ¢t it e | 8., Cor. 150 & Douglas Sts Special prices will