Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 28, 1892, Page 4

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THE most obnoxious third party is the chaperone at a summer resort. CANADA evidently thinks American retaliation is equivalent to another word with the same ending. —_——— AS WE go to press the thermometer wishes to announce that it is doing busi- ness at the same old stand. It reALLY looks like paving this woelk, but we are not doing any whist- ling while in the underbrush. It MmUusT be genuine zeal which in- spires an Omaha fMinister to rosign his pastorate in midsummer to go to India, A hotter land than this. THE republican state of Pennsylvania has $6,000,000 in its treasury and the democratic state of Kentucky cannot pven pay its telograph bills, That's a pointed difference. Ir WE have ever said harsh things of Denver, we hereby withdraw them and sxpress our honest sympathy in its ailiction. Mrs. Lease and Woeaver were there yesterday. THE great question now agitating the big brains of Washington society is whether Justice Shiras will shave off those sideburns or agree with Fuller to Aisgrace the bensh with the ignominy of a beard. It wouLDp seem that the demand of #he Union Pacific telegraphers for a regularly graded scale of wages and * provision for overtime worlk is just. They deserve ns much consideration as any other body of skilled wageworkgrs. FOR the benefit of the people of Grand Island, attention is called to the fact that the weather clork predicts rain in that section within the next forty-eight houss. This prediction was given with- out reference to that $2,000 contract with an alleged rain maker. 2 BRIEFLY summarized, the democratic campaign promises are that if ‘they get into power the farmer will receive $1 per bushel for his wheat and the laborer will pay 25 conts per sack for his flour. There is nothing so elastic and con- venient as & democratic pledge. THE question that Leavenworth street property owners ask themselves is, Will Hugh Murphy carry out the contract to pave Leavenworth street with brick for which he is the lowest bidder? If he declines to sign the contract will he forfeit the $1,000 check on deposit with the Board of Public Works, or will Chairman Birkhauser hand it back to him? PEoPLE who will take the trouble to compare the tomperature of Omaha dur- ing the past fow days with that of other citivs where great heat has prevailed, and also the effects produced, will have to ndmig that while the temperature here chas been exce ptionally high and by reason of its long con- tinuance very oppressive, yet iv has not been 8o severe on humanity as the heat at Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and other places. The mortality in thoso cities, as the divrect result of the tem- perature, has been great, while here there has been one prostration from heat, and thut was not fatal. Omaha has had its share of hot weather, but it has brought only discomfort, making no death record to be romembered by. SENATOR ALDRICH, in his speech on tho tariff in the senate Tucsday, ro- plied to the democratic assertion that the protective system is responsible for the labor troubles in the United Stutes. He produced tho statistics of labor con- stroversies in Great Britain and the United States during the ten years from 1880 to 1800, and showed that while the number of strikes varied in this country from 610 1n 1880 to 798 in 1890 in Great Britain there wera 8,160 strikes during 1859, four times as many as there were in the United States during 1890. There could certainly be no more conclusive answer than these figures give to the claim that the taviff or the system of protectio hus anything whatever to do with labor difficulties. On the con- trary, if the statistics prove anything by way of establishing a relation between fiscal policies and labor disturbances it 1s that free trade is productive of such dificulties. Either proposition, how- ever, is obviously untenable and absurd, nd an attempt to make politicul eapital ut of it will certainly fail with intelii- gent people, and with none more surely than fntelligent workingmen. Discontent und dissatisfaction will pre- vail under any economic system, so long a9 Lthere are employers and omployed. A CALL FOR 1E There is a demand from the northwest for help to gather the harvest. The wheat crop 18 one of the largest ever grown, and in order to save it all more | hands will beneeded than can be had in that section. Announcement is made that the railroads will offer facilities to reach the sections where man are wanted and are ready to co-operate with the farmers. The east should supply all the hands needed. There is a consider- able number of idle poople in that sec- tion of the country at this season of the year, and, as an eastarn paper suggests, here is un opportunity for some of them to visit the northwest, study its bound- less resources and make a comfortable sum in tho bargain. A few months’ work in the Dakota wheat fields would fill up the gap and keep the savings in the bank for a rainy day or to add to the cowforts every American laboring man demands, It is to be apprehended, however, that the northwest will not be able to getthe help it requives from the east. Last year thers was a demand for farm hands in New England, and, although there were thousands of idle people in tho large cities, very few could be induced to accopt farm work, even at pay con- siderably above what that work usually commands. The city idlers preferred to take their chances where they were to going into the country. They woula suffer from the heat of the city and go to bed hungry rather than leave the bustle of city life for the quiet of the country, with wholesoma air, enough to eat and fair pay for work. If men would not accept farm work one or two hundred miles from the great cities there is small probability that they can be induced to go 2,000 miles to the harvest fields of the northwest. There is danger, therefore, that some of the greuntcropof wheatin that section will be lost, simply for the reason that of the army of idle people in tho country a sufficient number cannot be procured to fully harvest it. It is Absurdly claffmed by a class of politicians that there ave millions of idle men in the country and that this fact enforces the necessity for a vadical change in economic conditions. The number of idle people is far less than is assumed by the political alarmists, and if only those who are in enforced idle- ness are considered the number is rela- tively small; but at any rate, it is larger than is to be desired. Yet there is little reason for sympathy with people who re- ject work rather than sacrifice, even for a briof time, the few enjoyments which life in the city affords. How much bet- ter off would such people be if the cur- rency of the country should be increased to 850 per capita, or double that amount? They would get a very small shave of it, and it is a question whether the ultimate effect would not be to render their con- dition worse instead of botter. CORRECT VIEWS OF THE WORKINGMEN, There is a marked contrast between the utterances of prominent members of the Amalgamated association at Home- stead and those of tho organ of the so- cialists in New York regarding the shooting of Manager Frick. The New York organ roferred to the tragic oc- currence as one that ‘“can only cause honest satisfaction in the hearts of ull workingmen struggling for our great cause.” The real workingmen’s friends do not take that view. Secretary Mad- den of the Amalgamated ociation said: ‘*‘This is bad business. We are always roady to have a fair fight by legitimate means with those who may be contending against us, but we cannot too strongly reprobate an act of this kind.” Thomas Warren, another leader of the strikers, said: ‘‘There is not a millworker or laborer in this entire section that doos not deeply deplore the shooting of Mr. Frick.” Mr. Weihe, the president of the association, said: “T hopo the greatest punishment the law allows will be the reward of the dastardly and cowardiy assailant of Mr. Frick.” It is interesting to note how widely the sentiments of the workingman him- self differ from the sentiments of the self-appointed chawmpions and avengers of the workingman, the anarchistic crowd that is responsible for so much of the unfortunate prejudice against cap- ital which provails among the ignorant and unthinking. The pubiic is bound to take Mvr. Warren at his word when he says that there is not a millworker or laborer in Homestead who doas not de- plore the shooting of Mr. Frick. The expression of such sentiments as were called forth from the leaders of the strike by the shooting will do more to make frionds for the strikers and make amends for what they have done that was not lawful than anything else coutd do. If the masses will be influenced by such utterances and pay no attention to. the foolish and anarchistic vaporings of the socialistic press, it will be a distinet gain for the causo of organized labor. The one thing that the workingman needs first of all is public sympathy, and unless the public can have confidence in his self-restraint and law-abiding pur- pose he cannot expect sympathy. Such men as the leadews whom we have quoted understand this perfectly and are acting upon it. NOT A DIPLOMATIC ISSUE, Crivies of the administration object to the policy regarding Canada on the ground that it is a confession of inca- pacity on the part of our diplomatists, an admission that they cannot adjust by negotiation a very simple disagreement between us und our veighbor, “Aftor the lnudation,” says one of these eritics, *of the great diplomatic achievements of this administration with which the country hus been regaled by its organs, this is rather a humilinting confession.” It is a sadly perverted vision that sees anything of the kind in the recommend- ation of the president and the action of congress in this matter. The issue with Canada has passed beyond the domain of diplomacy. For yeurs the government of that country has been persistently violating 1ts treaty obligations, with great injury and loss to important Americon interests. Its at- tention has been repeatedly called to this wrong, but it has never even pro- posed to remedy it. It does not now show any disposition to correct the trou- ble which our government justly com- plaios of, but, on the contrary, il there is THE OMAHA DAILY I{!“‘,“_ anything more than more bluster in the talk of the organs of the Canadian gov- ernment, it is contemplating some policy of retaliation, in which course it will be wesly to get all the encourngement which Ameriean newspapers unfriendly to the administration can give. ‘the same papers that could find nothing to commend in the course of the president in the Chilian matter are criticising the course of the government in doaling with the treaty violations of the Cana- dinn government. It looks very much, observes one of these papers, as though the diplomacy in which the president has most faith is diplomauy with a club. The president evidently bolieves in adopting firm menasures for securing and maintaining the rights of the American people. Ho has shown throughout his administra- tion that while intending to do justice toward all other countries he proposed, to the extent of hisauthority, to require of other countries & just regard for American rights and intorests. 1t is one of the strong features of President Harrison’s character that he has the courage to ask for the country all that it may justly claim, and we do not be- liove that any fair-minded American citizen will think the lessof him for this. The persistent cou:se of Cunada in violating treaty ot ligntions, continued for muny years, justified decisive nction for rodress, and undoubtedly the groat majority of the American people ap- prove the president’s position. IN THE HANDS OF CONTRACTOR! Mayor Bemis has, after mature reflec- tion and thorough investigation, vetoed the ordinances for asphalt paving on Park avenue and other streets. The mayor’s veto is based onthe ground that the ordinance is at variance with the advertisement of the Board of Public Works, and its conditions virtually give the contractors who handte Trinidad luke asphnlt the monopoly of asphatt pavement in Omaha at an exorbitant figure. The council, with one dissenting vote. passed the ordinances over the mayor’s veto. The only tangible ground upon which the council could justify its action is a desire to provent any further delay of paving. On this ground alone the public and the property owners will sub- mit to the imposition. It is an open secret that paving would have begun three months ago if the contractors’ combine which with the franchised corporations has for years controlled our council had not constant- ly interfered. They did aov want com- petition and they did not want specific: tions that would compel them to furnish the best material and do good Work. This has been the whole trouble' from beginning up to now, and this is the chief cause of all the delay. If the board had allowed the contractors to dictate the specifications and had omitted all the conditions for maintenance that con- tractors regard as offensive there would have been no delay in the paving. There has heen, of course, a good deal of incompetency and favoritism on_ the part of the chairman of the Board of Public Works, but that alone would not have caused the tumpering with poti- tions, changing of specifications and turmoil. The moral of the experience we have had this year is that our char- ter must be amended so as to prevent even tho very slightest change of pav- ing specifications after they bave once been adopted by the Bourd of Public Works. It is not for contractors to say how these specifications should be framed or what conditions the city should exact. All they have a right to ask is that there shall be no favoritism and that every contractor shall be com- pelled to do exactly what he has agreed to do. ———— BUSINESS IMPROVES. There was a decided improvement in the business of the country last week, and the excsllent crop prospects indi- cate that the fall trade, for which mer- chants are already preparing, will be unusunlly large and profitable. The iron market has been considerab’y un- settled by the troubles in Pennsylvania, but a speedy recovery is anticipated. The Philadelphia Record says; “*In the iron trade there has been continued dullness in pig, and sustained activity in the demand for finished produ from the active mills. Uncertainty as to the duration of the suspension has induced buyers in some instances to place orders for advance deliveries. Prices of structural material show some advance from the rates ruling early in the month, and no concessions are obtainable on any kinds of finished iron. The moderate increase in unsold stocks of pig iron in the face of the heavy production of the last half yoar indicates that there has been an un- usually large consumption in spite of the depressed condition of the trade. The largest consumption on record was in 1800, when it reached a total of 8,059,679 tons; yet for the hall year ended July 1 the approximate consump- tion had aggregated 4,625,000 tons, or, in other words, was at the rate of 9,250,000 tons a year,” Business in general shows a steady improvement. In New York city the leading business men predict renewed activity and higher prices, Railroad earnings continue to show gaios. Of {ifty-seven roads making reports for the first week in July an increase of about 7 per cent in their earnings is shown, and for the second week seventy-eight roads show u gain of over7 per cent. There is at present comparatively little con- struction of new rouds and the develop- ment of the country along the lines of the old roads is progressing steadily. An encouraging outlook « for a stronger market is gonerally recognized by busi- ness men in the present conditions governing trade and commerce, The increase in our exports of wheat, corn and flour from September 1, 1891, to July 16, 1892, was vory large. In wheat the increase was 7,300,000 bushels; in corn 47,000,000; bushels; in flour, 8,900,000 barrels. It will be seen by these figures that the increuse in our corn exports was enormous. It is confidently believed by those best acquainted with the market and the conditions by which it is influenced that the foreign demand for American corn will continue to in- | crease, and that our exports of this im- | portant cerenl—especially important to | Nebrasku and other states in the west- THURSDAY, ern corn be't—will bo far greater during the present fisfli@ens than over before. Oxe would hink to read the lov- ing missives b on King Humbert of Ttaly and President Harrison that it has been hut a ye. \?Ipm those nations wore exchanging cablograms which burned the water in theic fury. POWDERLY ures the democratic papersfor thefr MWmmentson the Home- stead strike 1 Hugh O'Donnell ad- vises the mer oturn to work., Now the iron has &nd the soul of the bourbon **den canrale, Broateh has been a monomaniac on office for some years and has broken out in fresh spot. Ho now insists that hoe is cut out as tho most availabio candidate for governor when eversbody in town kuowvs that ho would be snowed under in Douglas county by from 5,000 to 10,000 votes, As a matter of fact he wouldn't com3 within 5000 of carrying Omaha for .anyor, let alone governor. The poor man is out of his head and if he don’t quit his foolishnoss the boodle gang will bleed him to doath between now and con- vention day. A star-chambor conference 1s said to havo boen held last night at tho courthouse bo- tween cortain county officiuls, Bditor Thomp- son and Broatch. In all seriousnoss tho question was discussed as to whother the Dougzlas county dolezation shoul | bo thrown t0 the head-and-front of tho old Tammany gang. What trasspired is not known, but it is said that Broatel reprosented that ho is convinced that thore is a long-felt want to have him crowned govaruor of this state. After the Nomaha county convention Tom Majors claspod Church Howe to his breus Aund Charch wept. It s said thore will be no need of the servicss of a rainmaker in Auburn for several weoks, even should tho hot spell continue, Although John C. Watson declined to run for congress he isu't out of politics by a long ways. He heads tho Ouoo county doloZa- tions to both the state and congressional conventions. The ilver Cresk Times balieves Hon. Lorenzo Crouunse **to be an able, sincere, up- right man. With him republicans could matke an agaressive campaign, with nothing 1n his record, 50 far as we know, 10 excuse or cover up.” Tom Majors, according to reliable reports, ha been doing a lot of farming since 'way early in the spring. As a result, it is said that he has “farmed out” all the patronage of the zovernor’s office in exchange for dele- eates to the state convention. Every office has bee filled in aayance on the supposition that he will be na.ninated and elected. The “lucky men” who have been favored with these political promios-to-pay are located in every part of the stafe and they are putting inalotof hard work these days to earn their salaries, or rather their jobs. Tho governor has quite a bit of patronage to give out, and the men Who have been promised an office by Majors form quito a small army. The Clatterer had prepared a list of oftices to be filied by the chiiefiexecutive of the state and the perquisites attached. Here it is: Governor's offlce: Privute socrotary clerk g5l First assistant elorl . Messenrer, ... .. B c0in hospltal for Insane: Superintendent And liy; 8 1,70) 1,200 1,000 ¢ for famiiy.) rintend sslstunt superintendent Matron. Norfolk hospit: Superintende Second ussistant superintendent Matron..... Hastings asy perintendent (An First assist: Socond assistant superintenden Stoward. . - Matron State penitentiar, Warden.... . (And 1ivin for famiiy:) Deputy wirden ... ... ... .. (And 1iving for funiily.y Physiciun, 5 Chuplaio. ... Soldiers how Commandant. ... E S (And 1iving for tamily.) Adjutant.... Quiurtermaste Su on Superintendent ... e .. (And 11ving for family) x deputies, eac Labor burey guar ljutunt general. department: Three members of Transportation...... vecacer Commissioner genoral, World's fair. 8:x airectors. . A . Fish commission..... ... . Board of Fire and P6lice commissioners. ate Board of fion ion The question which remains to be settled is, *“Does farming (this kind) pay?” Mr., L. Watson of Craig (Burt county) finds in his travels through Thurston, Dodge and Burt couuties that thereis a strong Crounse sentiment among the farmers, He says: “While Ihaveno particular interest in Judge Crounse any more than any other good republican, I am convinced he can get votes that no other republican will be able to control: The farmers that are allianco men, in many cases, say they can support Crounse and feel they are gotting a friend 10 the farming class. My judgment is tho republicans can elect Crounse, and ho s the man to defeat VanWyck.” A Cass county politician prophesies the nomination of Judge Wield at Nebraska City this evening at the First district republican congressional convewtion. He bases this pre- diction on the actiomof two southarn coun- ues of tho distriét! ‘Against which the best ropublicans of Cigs, county are bittery pro- tesung. o e A prominent Bfiyf county republican said last wvening as tha;.Douglas county delega- tion goes on govemor so go Burt, Wash- 1ngton, Sarpy and {ass. These counties will have 141 votes in the convention, e The Amende Honorable, Cliswgn News. Our respects to old Sol and we beg leave to take it all back, TNpre are meither specks, spots nor flies on bid, ————— Midsummer Madness. St. Paul Pioneer Press. According to the latest third party estl- mates they will carry thirteen stales at the presidential election, Asa samplo of mid- summer madness such prognostications are diverting, but if they don’t stone their provbets after the result is known they will show a singularly forgiving disposition, PRl L Adiar's Huge Contract, New York Advertiser, Adla bas pleaged himaslf to place the state of Illinois in the Cleyoland column this year. After the compltion of this simple contract he may be induced to complete the Panama canal, finish the Keeloy motor and pay off the French gooliation claims. If Adlal will Kkeop his native state of Kentucky in line no mora will be asked of hiw, —— Brag and Blam Indic nap dis News. Canadian news) ape s are calling upon the Dominion to give “v.ow for blow” o the United States. Thatis just the trouble,— JULY 28, 1892 they have been blowing too much. Our gov- | ernment savs to Canada, “Let us bave ai understanding that we will treat _vour ves scls just as von treat ours,”’ and Canada de- clares that if wo do sho will fight; bat she won't. She will come to our terms. We can got along without the Dominion much moro was no fight ovor Bering Sea it is burdiy probable there will bo one over the canals. P Confounding the Calams, Minneapolis Tribune, Kansas and Nebraska farmers are advor- tistug for harvest help and offering from £2,50 10 $4.00 por da, and the raiiroads stand ready to trausport barvest bands froe, or at nominal rates, And yet Messrs, Weaver, Donveliy ana their democratic colleagu SUll trot out in overy spooch tho same *‘mil- lion and a half tramps” which some imagi- N —— horn for Fodder, Hill City (B, H.) Tin Miner. The condition of politics in Nebraska has caused the Omaha World-Herald to get one of those wigeles on, that somo greut nowspapors find necessary ia order not to get left. But the W.-H. didn’t get left. That paper is not an “‘organ’’ any more, but a bass drum in the aliiance band, and hangs on the hind ond of the band wagon. PUNISHMENT OF PRIVATE I4MS. Omama, July 27.—To the Editor of Tnr Bee: Nature usually does her work prop- erly, but once in a whilo seemingly she fails to produce that which she iutends, ana, as a consequence, we see bora among maukind monsters that belong to o lower order of beings. When such an event happens then mankind is afflicted with a Nero, a Borgia or a Whitechapel fiend. Such a monster it seems has been produced in the state of Pennsylvania in our own times, 1 reter to tho cowardly brute, clothed with a little brief authority, Colonel Streator, who dis- graced not ouly his own state but the whole United States, last Saturday, by his brutal treatment of Private Iums, whom he had tied up by the thumbs for thirty minutes under thie supervision of two doctors, until the poor wretch fulnted under the torture. Not content with this, this fiond in human shapo disfigured tho poor private to the greatest extent he dared. No one will deny that the nad committed & breach of dis- cipline and that he ought to Do punished, in order that proper discipline be maintained, but every right thinking mind cannot but eondoemn the brutal manner in which he was punished. uud every American citizen ought to protest againstihe barvar- ism enacted in Peunsylvania. This monster Streator should not be allowed to occupy any position in which Le can give vent to his orutal nature, to the injury of those placed under the coward that such a being neces- sarily must be. Brutality always co-exists with cowardice. Ivery papzr in the United States ought to cry out against the monster, and so far as in their power lies wipe the stain from the nation’s good name, put upon 1t by this ‘‘what-is-it,” lest all civilized nations look upon us as havivg retrograded to the level of the dark ages, and aro hasten- ing to reintroduce the torvures of tho inquisi- tion, H. P. JeNseN. QUAINT COGITATIONS, solaler worth two bits any day to the umpire, When lightning it becomes evident ulwuys carry us out of Dalias Nows: It 8ee both nines slu iladelphin I to striking brow. hops won't danger. Chlenzo Times: nead off the idiot enough for you. Ton't try to hammer the who asks 1f this is hot The attompt wi 1 overheat yoursystem and the idlot is not worth the effort. New York Herald: hasn't any brains. Penelope—Pshaw! Ho Perdita (angrily)—Perhaps you don’t know | Strikers at Paxton & Vierlin that he is going Penslope—On know ubout him in fuct, to murry me. . 1 do—that's about all I Boston Post: A poor old toper. who was in the habit of zettinz lost on his way home, was asked how he could afford to_keen tl dog that was alwnys with him. *That dog.” he suid, “not only hoardas himselt but finds the officoholder would vernze domestic he wouldn't feel humble when he declares that he is the sérvant of the people. MIDSUMMER LAY, Atlanta Constitidion. The turpentine’s a-steamin’ from the hot, perspirin’ trees, y The river. turnin’, burnin’, is jes' yearnin® tor o h their twitches, in the ' the mockin' birds a1l too hot to sing! An’ yet, for all the blazin' of the white, un- ciouded sun. That burns the cattle grazin' till the beef cooks as they ru The campalzn drums are beatin', you hear the people yell; Red-hot, uu’ attll’ a-hoatin', an’ hollerin’ for —well! siient—for they're “There," sho said, standing on her tiptoc am about your size” *On the contrary,” said the disconsolate lover, “my sighs ure about you." Joliet Nows: Somerville Journa doing nowadiys? Jinks—Lookinz for work. Is that what wakes you Binks—What are you Took so n atraid I'll find it The days are warm, with s flowers the air is lud And in the hammock through the sunny hours now dreams the maiden. tof fruits and with a pout and frown awakes ams ambitious To grumbleat the noise her mother makes whilo washing dishes. Siftings: Heis a miss-zulded youth does everything his sweethoart = usks to do. will him Phitadelphia Ledgor: silver will huve to root people who have wares st tho 8 ell. Boston Transeript: Blook island is un- tortunate In huving a smallpox scaro right in the midstof the season. pitted. Binghamton Republican: We havo all folt the iron hoel of negro domination when we have failed to “tp” the colored waiter on time, A western landlord con plains of the story that his wife run away with a neighbor. It was only a rumor, THE METHOD IN IT, Columbus Post: Albert Bigelow Paine in Kansas City Star. We woro playin' & quiet game of draw, Muggius an' me un' Looney Ben, Queerest old chap you ever saw, (Accldent onco, un' fits since then.) Stralght enough, though, when his head was right. But skeery, you bet, when his spellscame on; hough things wero runnin’ on-smooth thut night, As tho hands wero dealt and the cards were drawn. Lucky old Muggins had won a lot: 13 casy—the loss was Bon's, Mu’ had Just opened & bik Juck pot, And 1 hind ilied on & palf of tens, When all of a sudden Ben gave a yell “That lifted our hair and raised the sw Then Just what happened [ couldn't toil, For Ben bud a fit, un’ we left, you but. Deserted like cowards, an’ left poor Ben— Flew through the window und took the sash— I reckon Hen smiled fora minit', an’ the; Walked out through the door an' tcok the Inthe family are more often the result of disordered digestionthan most people know. BEECHAM’S PILLS Ziid s Janily, by ouring Nick "' Bendache, Weak Stomuch, Impiived Digestion Dlsordered Liver, Coustipation and all B Nervous Disorders “rising fr uses. Corered with a Tasteless & Soluble Coating, Of all druggists. Price 21 co A Now York Depot, 303 Caual 5it. The producers of pig | us other | RAILWAY COMMISSIONS, Ex-Governor Larraboe of lowa is In Favor of Commissioners Elected by the People. SuervoNT, Ta., July 23.—To the Bditor of Tae Bee: Yours of the 20th inst. with easily than it can without us, and when thero | Feferonce to our railway commission at hand and noted. The object in having the railway commis- sion is to proteot the people against the abuses of tho rauroad companies, aud in order to have an effbsiont ecommission 1t should not be made a rondozvous for re- pudiated or broken down politicians or politicians of any other kind,as it is apt to be under tho appointive system, but the com- mission should bo composed of live and practical men and they should have ample uative reformer invented somo twenty years | powers placed in their hands. Of course, the greater the pawer lodged with the commission tho greater will be the efforts of the railrond companies te gotcon- trol of it, and this thoy will endeavor to do whether it is elected or appointed. A commission, however, elected b/ the people will be more sensitive to publio oginion, which is aftor alljtho ereat law- making power and it will feel more keenly its responsibility to them than 1t would 1f appointea aund the railroad companies will oven be a little more considerate in their de- mands upon tho commission on this account. Should the commission fall too much under tho influence of the railroad companies or should they become derelictin their duti the people would soon make the discovery and would apply the proper remedy. The peopie are as capable and with a hittle experience will be as likoly to olect men as well fitted for tnis offico as they do for Judicial, executive and othor uftices,and unon the whole I think it better to have them elected. Yours truly, 1AM LaRRABEE Kansas City Limes: Panusylvania militia ofticers have gone back to the days of cruel and unusual punishments, Tho spoeech, which was punished by a thumb havging, was bad, but modern sensibilitiesare shocked at a ponalty to which no criminal under any codo of Anierican laws is liable, Chicago News: A Penusylvania militia- man, rauking as lisutenant-colonel, ordered one of tue soldiors at Homestead to be tricod up by the thumbs and otherwise severely puaished because be cheered at the news of the shooting of Frick. Uertainly the soldier doserved punishment, But the ago of bar- barity has passed and the citizens of Penn- sylvania ave right i making written ro- test. Tortuce as a penal agency is intoleravlo whether administered by a Hindoo prince or a military popinjay in gilt buttons. Chicago Post: "I'he whole history of tho Homestead troubles has veon a series of brutalities. It bagan with Carnegie’s piteh vots and electric barbed wire. Tho impor- tation of the brutal Pinkertons was followod by the brutal assault upon them by the strikers. Then camo Berkman, the anarch ist brute, attracted by a certain magnetism to tho center of brutality. And now, when the tide of brutality runs low, here is an of- ficer of the militia to er to the unnatural appetito for savagery. When and where s wtoend? Minneapolis Tribune: ‘the poor victim of Stroator's savagery deserved punishment swift and sovero. Ho was a cowaraly dis- turber of disciplino—or at least tried 1o be, His conduct showed him to be neither a good soldier nor a_good citizen. But there are other methods of punishment more effica- cious and 1wfinitely less revolting to every sense of humanity aud decency than the one imposed. By this exhibition of the instincts of asavage Colonel Streator has incurred the hatred of the regiment and the conden: nation of all humane persons, For the good of the service he should be stripped of bis sword and spurs and sent to join lams in disgrace. AL THEIR PLACES FILLED. s Lose Thelr Positions and Profit Nothing. Twenty-one men were put to work yesterday morning by Paxton & Vierling at the new Krug brewery in place of those who quit vecause of dissatisfaction with their pay. Mr. Vierhing remmned there during the day 10 seethat the strikers did not interfere with them. Heosaid that he had many more applica- tions for work than he needed, ana stated that there was no question but that there were too many men lyiag iule toallow any jobs to R0 begging. Several of the old men are back in their places. They saia that all they wanted was to be assured of protection. —————— Stealing from o Bailrond. Special Oficer Dave Miller of the Union Pacific has been trying for a year to find the rat hole into which dropped so many coup- ling pins, draw links and other portable rail- road property. Tuesday he arrested a man named Hamilton who was trying o dispose of a cart load of draw heads to the junk dealer at Twenty-second and Cuming. In the junk dealer’s yard Miller found a bin filled with enough of the missing property to equip a small-sized railway. ————————e Change in 3 arnenu's Forces. Mrs. John S. Briggs has resigned from the woman's suxiliary board to the Neoraska Columblan commission and Mrs. Mollie Allan Book has been appointed to her place, also taking the position of president of the board. Mrs. Van Wyck has resigned the chairman- ship of the executive committee and Mrs. Langworthy bas been designated to fill that position, Getting to Be a Fad, Gus Matthews, a'laboring man went to sleep 1n the second story window of the Cun- ningham block, Thirteenth and Jackson streets, and along towara morning fell out, Beyond being awakened there was no dam- agoe done to Mr, Matthews' frame. C2 A NEW HINT FROM PARIS, Saropean Edition New York Herald FOR COUNTRY WRAR. A costume of cream oropon, with trimminge of whito mousselina do soio, spotted with black, and biack velvet ribbon. The bottom of the shoath skirt is adorned with two en. erailings of black velvot. The blouse cor: sage, full back and front, has a square docoll®age opening on a_fichu arrangemont of moussoline de sofo. Tho corsago 15 laced up the back and tightened at the top and around the waist by engralings of black vel- vot ribbon, the ends of which hang down over tho back and skirt rospectively. e AR ANOTHER CHANCE TO SETTLE. Jeffrey & Rich May Square Their Troubles Out of Court, The Rich-Jeffray controversy was due in Judgo Scott's court again yesisrday, whera Edson Rich was cited to appoar and show cause why ho wis not in_contempt for hav- 1ng disobeyed an order of the court. The case was called, but on account ot some of thn paftics being absent, a con- tinuance was granted until Saturday morn- ing. Recording to the atory tola by some of the interested lawyers, this means a settlemont. When the case is called Jeffroy will not ap- pear and tho contompt procoeding will be dismissed. —_—— Business Brie Windolph Bros., dealers in boots and shoos in Omaha, have dissolved. L. R. Borland, proprictor of the livery stable at Bdgar, has been succeeded by J. Hale. Miss KKate Wood & Co., in the millinery business at North Platte, are advertising to sell out. Tho two dvug firms of 1. J. Fink and V. A. Gannon, at Grant, have consolidatod under the firm name of Mink & Gannon. H. B. Fisher has opened s drug storo at 2513 N street, South Omahs, baving pur- chased a stock from the Richardson Drug company. ot e REPURBILI ST 2 CUNVENTION. The republican electors of the state of Ne- Draska are requosted to sond dolegates from theirseveral counties to meet in convention atthoolty of Lincoln, August 4, 1803, at 1) o'olock a.m.. for the purpose of placing in nomination candidatos for the following stuto offices: Governor; Lieutenant governor; Secrutary of state; Auditor of public accounts; Treasurer; Superintendent of public instrustion; Attorney general; Commissioner of publiclands and buildingss Eight presidential olector: And to transact such other business as may come before the convention. THE APPORTIONMENT. The soveral countics are entitied to repre- sontation as follows, being based upon the vote cast for Georgo H. Hastings for attorney genoral fn 180), givinz one delogate-at-larzo weach county and one for each 100 votes and the wajor fraction thereof: Counties, Adums . Boone Boyad Box B Brown Buffalo! 14| Kearney 5| . S|Keya Paha. 4 ©10[Keith.. L 17| Kimbali.. * iKnox 10| Lnneast 9| Lincoln. 4| Logan 8| Loup. Madison. * 84| Merrick Sherman Sloux. Stanton'. 7| Wheeler. 1{York.. 5 12| Total.. & It is recommended that no proxies be wi- mitted to the convention und that the delo- gates prosent bo authorized to cast the full vote of the delegation. S. D. MErcER, Chairman. WALT M. == SPROWNING, KINGE S 6| co. Largest Manutacturers an1 ratailazes of Clothing Block islund 1s to be | @ tho World P Til Mondayi]\—tlg 1 for the greatest sale ever heard of in this neck of the wools. Watch for Announcement, L Our store closes at 6:30 p. duys, when we olose at 10 p. m. o , except Satur- Browning,King& Co | S.W.Cor 15th & Douglas St SIS