Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1892, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEMIFRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 2 1892 THE DAILY BEE E. #GSEWATE e - PUBLISHED Eniro "~ MORNING. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY. - i e —— THRMS OF Dafly Bee (without Eunday) Oue ¥ Daily and Sunday. One Year.... Eix Months. Three Mont) Funday Beo. One Enturday 'ee, Ono Yonr.. Weekly Bee, One Year. OFFIC] Omaha, The Peo Bullding. £outh Omnhn, co N and 2ith Stroots, ¥ 12 Pearl Street, 817 Chamber of Commeroee. . Tribune Bullding. 883zEs8 CORRESPONDEN All_communieations relating to news and editorinl mattor should bo addressed to the k- ftorial Department. BUSINESS LETTER. All busincss Jettors and remittances should be addressod 1o The Bos Publishing Compuny, Omah: Drafts, ehecks and postofiice orders to be made Ppayable o the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. ttafeof Nevranka, | County of Dou) George . 'Tzachuck, secrotary of THE BEE Pub. Iishing company, does solemnly swear that tho netynl ojrenlation of TIE DAILY BEE for the week ending Augnst 27, 1892, was a5 follow Sunday, Angust 21....... Monday, Avgust A Augt Friday, August 20 EBaturday, August 27 Average ... ... Eworn to Lefore me and abscribed n my pres- enco this 71th day of August, 18 Notaty Publie. July 24,316, Average Circulation for THE Douglus county fair is a positive success. —— DAavip B. HiLL has announced where he is av on the question of protection. THE Sullivan fight may by this time next week he called a Corbett fight. Who knows? TrE democratic Peck of Wisconsin is more popular with his party than the democratic Peck of New York. TwE democrats of Nebraska should at least be given the credit of the courage of their convictions in this campnign. m— W believe this country is well pre- pared to ward off the plagues of cholera and free trade without serious damage Lthis year. THE citizens of Omaha are to be com- mended for their very prompt work in the direction of cleanliness. Let all join in this important work. BRrING Nancy Hanks out here and we will guarantee that with this fresh and bracing uir she will cut four or five more saconds off that trotting record. MR. GLADSTONE was knocked down bya heifer the other day and escaped turther injury by hiding behind a tree. The heifer was afterwards shot, we pre- sume, by jealous conservatives. Ir THE cholera breaks out in this country it will settle several vexed ques- tions: Whether or not Breckenridge will orate at the World’s fair opening nnd whether the fair will be closed on Bunday. ‘WARM sult water is the most recent and simplest remedy for cholera, but it seoms to be doing splendid service in Hamburg by reducing the mortality 50 per cent. It might be well to remember this simplo remedy. THE democrats of the Seventh Iowa district have nominated for congress a briefless barrister ot Des Moines named J. A. Dyer, whom Iowa college students of 1688 will remember as the author of an oration on the calamity plan, THE erection of another elevator and the starting of the roller mill are good indications of prosperity in Anselmo. The Weaverites ought to take measures to stop this sort of thing. It hurts their cause and thus delays the millennium. MANY of the merchants of this city have decided to grant their clerks a half toliday in order that they may see tho attractions of the county fair. With the perfect weather that has fallen to the lot of the fuir managers the attendance will be unusually large. —— THE smell of burning garbage may not be pleasant, and the smoke thereof may be even more pervasive ana dis- agreeable than the smoko of the cigar- ette, but the community will cheerfully endure it for the sake of cleanliness. Let the good work go on. SENATOR ALLISON has, ns 18 his wont, set belore the people a bill of fare composed of facts and figures which democrats cannot digest. There is no more clear and cogent statement of pub- lic affairs obtainable and it comes from an eminent and invalnerable source. CORPORAL TANNER writes to a Ne- braska friend to deny the report circu- lated in this state that he had joined the people’s purty. Perhaps 1t was not really necessary. If Corporal Tanner should become insune the disorder would not be likely to take that form, EX-INSPE N'S work was well done and his memoranda filed with the mayor wans ample justification for the annulment by the city council of the lumber contruct. What is wanted Is a contrace that will cover the various grades of lumber nctually used by the city. NaNCY HANKS has ngain lowered the trottivg revord, but it should not be for- gotten that Nebraska has somo colts that have also lowered the records in " their respective classes and promise to keop right on achieving fame for them- solves and this great state. We can grow fast horses as well us corn, ——— THE receipts at the Union stock yards in South Omaha for the month of August were 49,204 cattle, 111,330 hogs snod 14,201 sheep. This is an inorease over the figures of August, 1891, to the extent of 3,074 cattle and 40,010 hogs, with sheep about the sama. Such com- parisons us this are what puts so much confidence iu all citizens of Omuba. We re growing. A CHOLERA INVASION, The danger of an invasion of this country by cholera is now generally recognized, and the demand for precau- tionary measures has becomo as earnest as the occasion seems urgent. The ar- rival in our waters of the chole infected stoamship Moravix has had the effect to arouse the nuthorities to n lively appreciation of their responsibil- ity, and vadoubtedly everything prac- ticable will be done, with the least pos- sible delay. in the way of providing safeguards against the introduction of the drendel disease intp this country. The authorities at Washington are alert and active, and will do everything in their power. It appears that they are likaly to be somewhat hampered financially, the present congress having cut down the appropriation for the epi- demic fund, but unless the situntion be- comes very much more serious than is now approhended, the supply of money available for this use will probably be found to be sufficient. The question of the extent to which the federal govern- ment may go in establishing a national quarantine system is being considored, and, while it is understood to be the policy to co-operate with the states, the prevalent belief is that the president has ample nuthority to estublish n com- plete national quarantine. The stutes, however, will be urged to take the initintive in establishing quarantine ar- rangements, to be supplemented by such action ou the part of the general gov- ernmwent as may be found necessary or expedient. There is no question as to the power of the states to make and en- force quarantine laws, It is announced that the Treasury de- partment will issue u circular ordering a twenty duys’ quarantine of vessels, or longer if necessary. Quarantining the Canadian and Mexican borders is also urged, and such immediate precaution on our northern border is manifestly to be desired, It is demonstrated that cholera foliows the lines of commerce and travel, and this being so the neces- sity of providing precautions along our northern frontier is plan. Another suggestion is that the president should prohibit immrigration, and if it shall be found that he has the authority to do this there will be a universal demaund that he shall exereise it. There is a natural fecling of alarm in the seaport cities, but the activity of the authovities will doubticss have the effect to allay the popular upprehension, and itis to be expected that withina very short time the preciutions will be s0 complete as to reduce the danger of o cholera invasion tothe minimum. In the meautime the advice to everybody remains good to observe cleunliness in their persons and surroundings and to be careful regarding their diet. CLEAN UP PROMPTLY. The events of the last few days, which seem to render an invasion of this coun- try by cholera almost inevitable, should stimulate the avthorities of all cities to the greutest activity in providing pre- cautions for heading off the terrible plague. It is not wise to place any re- liance for security upon remoteness from the seaboard. Communication is so rapid and general that the causes of in- foction may be scattered over a wide re- gion of country, along the channels of transportation, in a very brief time, and there are numerous ways in which the sceds of cholera may be spread. They may be distributed through the mails, in clothing, in freight, and in other ways. Distance from the seat of the disease does not necessarily furnish im- munity. ! The most effective precaution against cholera, as against all other infectious diseases, is cleanliness. Cholera is pri- mavily a filth disease, dus to uncleanly surroundings or habits and fostered by imperfect and improper nutrition, It is most virulent in those localities in which these conditions are most pronounced. Wherever there is a thorough system of eanitation it does not muke headway. It is presumed that the authorities of this city are giving this matter the at- tention it manifestly merits and doing all they can with the facilities and means at their command to put Omaha in as cleanly a condition as possible. If such 18 not the case there should be no more time wasted in deliberation, but active and energetic work should be begun at once and persistently foilowed up until nothing remains in sight which cholera might feed upon. The money for this vitally important work must be found, and we do not believe there will be any difficulty in finding it if the right effort is made. At any rate it ought to be ap- parent to everybody that the time for action of the most vigorous kind is at hand. THE HOMESEEKING VISITORS. The harvest excursion season has opened and several thousands of people from eastern points are now within the borders of Nebraska to see the country for themselves and judge of its uttrac- tions and advantages by the evidence of their own senses. There is no other means by which those having no per- sonal acquaintance with the region west of the Missouri can so satisfactorily de- termine whether it suits their purposes and necds us by paying it a visit. The senson chosen for the excursions is favorable for cowmfort in traveling and pleusure in sight-seeing, und although the cornfields have not yet taken on the hues of the harvest the imaginution of tho visitor will readiiy supply the golden eur Most of the small grain has al- ready been harvested, but the excur- sionist can at least see wheve it stood, and if ie Ts of an {nquiring turn of mind, a8 it is to be assumed ho is, considering the object of his visit, ha will easily learn whether the flelds have yielded well or otherwise. These homeseeking excursionists will be welcomed wherever they go, not morely us pofsible investors who would be a desirable acquisition o the popula- tion of the state, but as visitors who have u claim upon the disinterested hospitality of our people. Nebraska long ago pnssed that stage of develop- ment during which new regions de- pend rather upon extravagant predic- tions of future greatness than upon pulp- @ble proofs of past and present achie ve ment. Tho voice of the boomer is not heard in the land and the sveeulator does wot seize upon the skirts of the visitor and implore him to buy. But we are glad vo have these excursionists come and look upon our smiling fields, and if we show n little pride and enthu- siasm in poiuting out the ndvantages | which this country offers to the home- scoker it must be nccepted nsan en- tiely honest and sincere oxpression of | our belief in the rich and varied re- soumces of this state. Atany rate the homeseeking excur- sionists are welcome, andns much of Nebraska as it fs possible for them to | sce in the limited time which they have set apart for the purpose will be shown them giadly. They cannot see it all, for it is a big state; but glimpses here and there will give them some notion of the whole, It isto be hoped that they will try to visit some of the thriving young cities of the state as well as the rural vegions, for Nebraska s bocoming very proud of her growing centers of trade and manufacture, They stand as indisputable proofs of the prosperity and growth of the great agricultural intorests upon which they chiefly depend. 16 NORANCE OR MENDACITY. Candidate Stevenson said in his: Bloomington spcech, referring to the tariff with its provision for reciprocity “Itis worse than idle 1o speak of its benefits 1o the American farmer, * * * Inno instance has it opened up to the farmer an additional market for a pound of meat or a bushel of grain. Has it in a single instance given to the me- chanic or laborer increused wages?” Here we have another evidence of either the ignorance or the want of candor, to put it mildly, of the democratic candi- date for vice president. only very recently, but before Stevenson delivered his speech, that officinl statistics of the foreign commerce of the country were pub- lished, in which were embraced the re- sults of reciprocity. As & whole, these statistics show, and their authenticity cannot fairly be questioned, that the foreign commerce of the United States for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1802, was very much greater than for any other year in our history, exceeding the annual value of exports for the preceding ten years over $265,000,000. To this enormous commerce bhe furmers of the country contrvibuted by far the largest share. The exports of bread- stuffs exceeded the average annual value of the preceding ten years by tho sum of $131,206,224 The exports of cattle, sheep and hogs exceeded tho average snnual value of the same ex- ports for the preceding ten years by ! 071, Tho excess of the exports of pro- visions over the annual average of the ten years prior to 1891 was $27,703,482. The combined value of exportsof cotton, breadstufls, provisions, cattle, sheep and hogs, all clussed as agricultural pro ducts, in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1892, exceeded the exports of 1890 by the sum of 3159, 2: and exceeded the av- erage annual vaiue of the ten years prior to 1891 by the sum of 3215,965,639. As to reciprocity, it is credited with an inerease of exports to the countries with which reciprocity relations have been established amounting to over $10,000.- 000, but this is not all it has accom- plished. It had a direct influence in inducing European governmentsto re- move the long-maintained restrictions against the importation of our meat products, and thus this feature of the present taviff law opened additionat markets for millions of pounds of Ameri- cun meats, the demand for which, there is every reason to expect, will steadily grow from year to year., Another thing the tariff did was to reduce in 1892 by 20,000,000, as compared with the year 1890, the importations of horses, sheep, cattle, barley, oats, oatmeal, rye, eggs,, vegetables, hops, flaxsced and tobaceo, giving that much more home market to our farmers, With regard to the effect of the tariff on wages, if Candidate Stevenson had con- sulted, which it is charitable to suppose he did not, the report of a very careful and thorough investigation made by a committee of the senate, consisting of three republicans and two democrais, all of whom signed the report, he would have learned that since the present tarifl law went into effect there has been aslight advance in the wages of labor, mensured in money, in thirty occupa- tions covering a wide range of pro- ductive industries. But if this testi- mony is not satisfactory to Mr. Steven- son and his fellow democrats, there is more at hand, and from a demo- cratic source, which they will perhaps not decline tqaccept. We refer to that of the New York labor commissioner, just made public, which shows that in 75 per cent of the manufacturing indus- tries of that state wages were higher in 1891 than in 1890. The immediate constituency of Mr. Adlai E. Stevenson may be singularly ill-informed and credulous. This would naturally be inferred from the character of his speech to them. But however this may be, he has not helped the democratic cause at large by assers tions and assumptions which are readily overthrown by reference to in- disputable facts. Mr, Stevenson ha supplied the texts for some of the mos forceful republican arguments thus far in the campaign, FALSE, FOOLISH AND HURTFUL. The opinions of trade journals upon subjects which do not come within their special doma'n are usually conservative and often valuable, In reply to a cor- respondent’who wishes to know whether it would be safe for him to invest money in the milling business in Iowa, Kansas or Nebraska, the Milling World suys: It wo are to believe the crop figures and mortgage-payiog statistics ppblished in tbese states, they are prosperous common- wealths, in which a miller of means ought 10 be avle to find mauy good chances for in- vestment, If we aro to beiieve the Weavers, the Peffors, the Simpsons and others of that class of men known as “‘calamity bowlers,” then Kansas, lowa and Nebraska are in a terrible fix, mortgaged to death, their farm- ors woeping night aud day over poor erop returns and low market values, aod the mortgages piling up so rapidiy . that the arithmetic can’t keop up with the tremen- dous tigures, and those states age €ood ones for & miller, or anyvody else, to stay away from. If these men are lying about those states, they oueht to be silenced, as they are dolug just s wuoch to check immigration as | by the Millings,World as tations were wh correct. If they are telling the truth, ngroutsider should invest w dollar in either of thpse states. This presentd’ilh nspect of the case not often alludeds to, and one that is worthy of serious-uttention. The crop figures and moffgnge paying statistics of the states referred to are regarded proofs of prosperity, but agdt is unable to recon- cile such evidence with the blatant declarations of the prophets of disaster, it1s unwilling tb ussume the responsic bility of advising the correspondent as to the wisdom of taking the step which he contemplates, It is by no means strange that outsiders should bo thus perplexed. The evidence seems to show conclusively that Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska are good states in which to invest money, but the calamity peo- ple proclaim the contrary with such extravagance of rhetorical vociferation that those unacquainted with the facts aro unable to reach any conclusion whetever astothe real merits of the case. “If these men are lying about those states,” says the Milling World, “‘they ought to be silenced, as they are doing just as much to check immigra- tion as though every one of their representations was wholly correct.” Well, they ave lying, and their men- dacity will produce exactly the result predicted—that 1s, it will tend to dis- courage immigration and will cause in- vestors to turn to other fields. If the plans of the calamity prophets had been laid with the avowed purpose of inflict- ing the greatest possible harm upon the states in which they are working they could not have been better calculated o uchieve thut end. It cannot be taken for granted that everboby will under- stand that the calamity howl is designed merely for political effect. Thousands will believe thut so much smoke must indicate fire. The case to' which wo have referred is probably only one of hunSreds where capitalists desiring to invest money in business enterprises in the west have hesitated to do so because the apostles of aisaster and ruin have given the lie to statisvicl proofs of pros- vérity and progress. it ought to be easy for every intelli- gent man to see that no good can come to Nebraska or any other state by pro- claiming to the world a condition of popular distress and disaster that does not exist. The cry of the people’s party is false, foolish and hurtful. though every méx‘énm ealamity reprosen- OFFICIAL reports us to the European wheat crop, which are the only ones to be depended upon‘tn these days of stock- jobbing rumors, continue to indicate a shortage. The Hungarian minister of agriculture, in his estimate of the world’s crops, surpluses, and require- ments, states that Burope will have to mport something over 170,000,000 bushels of wheat this year from America, India. and Australia. This affords ground “for the belief that the European demands upon this year’s American supply’ will fully justify pre- vious prediccions. Mgs. LEASE’S fog-horn voice is re- sounding in Iowa these days, reminding the people of that state that they are miserable and downtrodden even if they do have money in their banks, own their homes and are educating their children at colleges. Fortunately for them, the farmers of Towa are not at all aflicted with acute aamphoolia. Democratic Acquaintance with Truth, New York Tritune. MeKinley prosperity has ceased to bea republican” campaign hatlucination. 1t is a reluctant and compulsory democratic-confes- sion. ———— Generosity Isn't Kpidemic, Globe-Demvicrat, ‘Tnat democratic western corruption fund grows slower than even the Grant monument fund did. 1t may wmount to something by 1596, but 1t will be of no use for 1892, i Sl riadd The Coul Trust Piped That Way. St. Paul Pioncer-Press. The managers of the new tissue paper trust declare that the objeet of the combine 15 to do business more ecopomically, and that it is not proposed materially to advance prices. This is thinner even thun the tissue that the trust will make. The Cam| Must Wait, Phtladelphia Ledger. It will hardly bs worth while for the politicians to attempt tostart their campaign at this time. Trey will have to wait until Messrs. Sullivan and Corbett have settled their differences if they want to engage pub- lic attention. o Refuses to Explain, New York Advertiser. “General” Stevenson, in his speech in Bloomington, IiL, paid no attention to the charges that he was a, rebel sympathizer during the war, but confined himseli Jargely 1o the *‘robber tariff’’ and the terrible force oill. 'he public really does not care what Adlai thinks, or thinks be thinks, question; but it he was with the boys 1n blue during the war he ought to be making ar- rangements to establish that important fact. e Three Protection Argumn: Cinelnnaté commercial. In 1857 & yard of good gingham cost from 20 to 25 cents. Now a yard of the same quali- ties brings, at retail, from 8 to 10 cents, A pair of boots of moderate quality cost $5 thirty-five years ago, in_the good old freo trado times.” A better pair can now be bought for 83, In 1857 & dozen fFIY cins cost 83. That was in the free trade times. Now a dozen cans of improved pattern ean be bought for 50 to 60 cents, ——————— ‘The Idiot Who Kooks th New York Adv:rtiser, If we had statistios boaring on the casual- ties resulting from the 1diot who rocks the boat, the exhibit woula be appailing. o 18 one of the most deadly enemies the human race has to contend with, The umbecile who blows into the muzzie of his gun to sce if iv is loaded is & friend o mankiod, for he blows oft his own head bel he bas time to point the same at his sis viction that it matter of intell boat and the 1o Boat, under the satuled con- loaded. And yet in tho the man who rocks the o blows iuto bis gun rank about equal. Elv,h are soveral degrees below the wild as#% colu and the individual who lacks the requigite discernment to go in when it rans, AL e i A Patriotio Button, New York Sun. A man of ordinary @opearance and fairly well dressea, looking like a downtown busi- ness mun, perhups u morchant, or & Manager, or 8 lawyer, or a steamship agent, or a manu- facturer, came into the countingroom of the Sun yesterday on business, wesring in the upper buttonbole of the left-hand side of his light-colored sumumer coat & miniature Amer- ican flag, measuriog about an inch ono way aud & balf inch the other. He bad » manly look. ‘There was American independence in bis countenance sud siyle. He wus evidently proud of Lis country and its flag. He gave evidence of this fact in bis faco when he no- ticed that the symbol which he wore in bis buttonbole was observed. Perbaps his wear- iug of this duinty Awerlcan symbol offered an exampie that may be useful in theso times, The mun was wnkoown Lo us, but we are strongly disposed to guess that he 18 truo Ameriean patriot, whethor he was born in tuis country or any otmor. The American flag bas n meaning, and its meaning ought to beknown to evers person who has the priv- ilege of living under it. Modern False Prophots. Porttand Oregonian. Senator Peffer savs that ‘‘the people's varty will carre Nebraska, Colorado, N vada, Moutana, Wyoming and the two Da- kotas next November, aad, ‘vithout tho least doubt, Georgla, Alabama and Mississippi. Wo shail como very near carrying Texas, and have & large vote in Arkansas and Mis- sour.” Tho gentloman with the abbre viated whiskers 1s too modest oy far. He should at least have included Oregon as a vietim of the political cyclone he is propha- sying; for, has not General Weaver declared liis contidence that notuing can preven; the election of people’s party electors in this state this fali! Mr. Weaver is a competent judwe, t0o, for he ocoupied nearly three days crossing the state by rail, and in a airect line. —_—— Something About Mirage. New York Sun. For the edification and instruction of cer- tain misguided democrats and for their rocla- mation, if possible, to the tranquil ‘paths of political sanity, it will be profitable to quots some part of a description which an obseryer furnishes to the Globe-Doemocrat of St Louts. He is writing about the mirage land of eastern Texas, whoro you can see what you want without asking for it and without gett ingut. In that portion of the staked plain which strotches from the Pecos river to the Fan- handle the atmosphore, this citizen reports, plays odd freaks and makes strange revela- tions. When the sun is at the proper angle for the purpose it is possible to see a belt of timber where none exists, A ranch may be hftea out of a valley and seton a hill. A sheep herder grows into gigantic proportions and his lambs become elephantine. A railcoad train in the distance looms up 100 feet high and appears to be about five miles long. Three or four miles to the east of the town of Mia- land, if it be about noon of & sunny day, the strunger will see a fine littlo city in the midst of a glistening lake. The silvery water moves in gentie ripples as if bofore u gentle breeze. Avout 800 windmilis are ap- parentiy in motion above the city and it does not seem that the tract they stand upon can exceed a mile square. Around this city and the lake !s a fringe of dark green tiraber. Boyond the timber is a boundless expanse of greon grass, On the prairie cattlo may be seen grazing, As the train comes nearer the cows appear to become mastodons. ‘Che sheep seem to be wooly horses. The build- 10gs shoot up into tho heavens. Tho wind- mills become Eiffel towers, standing on noth- ing. The people walking across tho street tread on air. There is a general repeal of the law of gravity. The lake has suddenly disapoeared; the city vanishes; tha trees become men and the mon trees. Then the travoller steps upon a real wooden railway plattorm and out into the dusty. sandy thoroughfare of a Texas town. He experiences of a suaden all the disbeart- ening sensations with which the rawbow chaser is familiar on election night. To the overheated imagination of the polit- ical mirage huuters endless cavalcades of democratic recruits, deserters from the re- publican camp are constantly marching to the strains of inspiriog music foward the democracy in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ne- braska aod Minnescta. These states are aflame with excitement and enthusiasm. The democratic vote is growing like Jack’s bean stali, and the republican vote is rap- idly shriveling into nothingness. A tariff reform circular expands until it covers a whole state like a panuply. A free trade speech, uttered in shrill and piping accents to an audience of throe dudes, & small boy and an unnaturalized tourist from Canada, becomes a trumpet blast, in tones of thunder reverberating through valleys and billsides, and calling myriads of political volunteers from forge, loom, anvil, work bench and factory. By this mirace a mem- ber of the New York Reform club appears to be six feet high. His placid eyves dilate with the fury of battle. His spike-tml coal vecomes sharpened to a point, and he re- sembles tha devil of a fellow, his bangs turned to horns and his crutch cane a phan- tom spade, with which he hurls tue whole republican vote into the bottomless pit of oblivion. At closer vision things change, and this is what appears to the sober-minded citizen divested of his mirage phuntasy : | Repubiican majority, 1834, 1 Republican majority, 188 n majority, 1884 n majority, 1585, § Republican mujority, 1884, 1 Republican mujority, 1858, § Republican majority, 1881, I Republican majority, 1888 § Republlcan majority, 1884.... Kansas ... | Rupublican majority, 18880080150 No democrat shoula misuse valuable tirae and needed political ammunition by going on a mirage bunt in the west this year. B JERSEY AND THE COAL COMBINE. lowa...... ¢lsconsin J Kepubil Wisconstn | feBubl Neb Michizan Chicago Inter Ocean: The decision made against the scandalous coal combine by the chanvellor of the state of New Jersey is as clear as can be. Ho rules 1t to be wholly il- legal, Philadelpnia Press: Coal quotations were low last year, aboormally low. A just mean woula piaco ‘the price” of coal somewhat high r than last year's quotations; but the advance this suinmer has tred a publieirrita- tion which it 1s idle to deny and foolish to disregard. Chicago Herald: The decision of Judge McGill 18 a sweeping one. It forbids the Pennsylvania and Reading snd the Port Reading railroads from operating the Jersey Central, and directs the latter 1o resume con- trol of its own property and franchises and the performanca of its corporate duties, Chicago News: The decision is plain common sense. It is the doctrine that the stato or the people have not created and would not create corporations having the right to form consolidated corporations that in one thingand another would exert a power superior to the power of the people them- selves, Philadelpbia Time: If the New Jersey lease was indispensable to the harmonious working of the several railway lines om- braced in the leases it would be a serious set- back to the progress of the Reading; but the leases wero not inspired by spoculative in- terests, but by the imperious demanas of common interest, and the railure of tne lease will not 1 any practical way impair the co- operation of these linos. Cnicago Tribune: The decision 1s sound in law. It 1s also sound in its incerpretation of the law, as aesigned and intended w0 pro- tect the people from organized attempts at wholesale injustice, - from contemplated robbery on a vast scale. 1v cannot be too hignly commended for the way in which it asserts the rights of the publie, and probes 10 the bottom the false pleas which bave been adduced to justify the action of the bard coal combine, New York Herald: If Chancellor McGill's ruling 15 upheld by the courtof appeals a very serlous respousibility will be placed upon New Jersey to meet the issue thus She cannot afford to have her laws antly disobeyed even for the wugnificent object of enabling afew gentlemen to gov dividends oo their investments, If the suit similar to that Chancelior MeGill decidea, which is now being pressed in Pennsylvania, should have a lilke result the governor of the state would be authorized in confiscating the charters of the offending roads and bringing them to subjection oy force. It 18 not in- concelvablo that if the leading persists Now Jersey will huve to resort to equally radical measures to vindicate the suthority and efticacy of her laws, e IN A PECK OF THEOUBLE. New York Commercial: His name is Peck and he Is & democrat. But he bas scored a p'int for the republicans. Indianapolis Journal: “What next!” the democratic mauager asks ou reading the Pock report. Nothing worse for the democ- racy Is possible. Now York Recorder: Mr. Peck bas told the truth and 1t is & disgrace to our polities Lhat public men sud public journalists are begioning to abuse him because he did not conceal the truth and send out & wass of lies to decelve the people. Minpeapolis Tribune: 1o New York in 1500, accordiog to Labor Commissioner Peck, only 7.08 of thestrikes for increase of wages failed and only 2.78 per cent of the sirikes for decrense of hours falod. The net gain in waes was &1,122.883. Commissioner Poelc also states that strikes sucosed only when industrial conditions are favorable to pros- perous industry, What bocomes, then, of the domocratic tirade on the Bad oftact of tho tariff on steikes! Chieago News (ind.): Because the renort is favorable to the McKintey law, and thore- fore unfavorable to Mr. Cleveland's tarift position, the conclusion is jumped at that Hill and Peck have juggled the figures to make a showing that protoction actually doos protect the workingmen. Upon this far-fetched assumption it is argued by demo- ernts that Hillis trying to assassinato the chances of Cleveland. This is all very com- forting to the republicans, New York Advertiser: When Mr. Clove- land remarked in Madison Squaro garden that the rmluclivu tariff was adding to the wealth of the rich and.was robbing the farmer ana the workingman by stealth he was evidently not supplied with tho neces- sary statistics, The report which has just been made by Commissioner of Lavor Peck bears directly on this subject; and it shows that Mr. Cleveland, in making his Madison Square statement, was the victim of defec- tive knowledgs, as usual. New York Tribune: Testimony of roal importance vegarding the offect of - the pro- tective tariff on wages is furnished by the report of the New \'orkfinum bureau of statistics of labor, which 1s summarized elsewhere, Mr. Charles K. Pock, tho vom- missioner in charge of the bureau, is a demo- crat and has held bis prescut offico for nine years. e was originally appointed by Governor Cleveland in 1883 Tho investign- tion of this subject was doubtiess begun with the expectation of obtaining democratic cam- paign material, but the result will not be at all to the free traders’ tastes. Tue inquiry covered the year immediately preceding the enactment of tho McKinley law and the year immediately following it, and embraced sixty-oight industries, employing 2 sons. What Commissioner Peck 1s that for the latter yoar thers was a net increase in wages of $6,377,000 as compared with the preceding year, and an increase of £31,315,000 in production. Theso are striking and mstructive figures, particularly us they are the outcomo of investigations carried on wholly under democratic auspices. *'I ealled thee,to eurse mine enemios, and, behold, thou /| bust aitogether blessed thom,” RAPS SHOR D SHAKP, Philadelphia Times: As he roads of tho continual confliets betwoen labor and capital there 1sn't A tramp in the country but says: “GIVE VS 1 rest.” Washington Post: One of the horrors of the eampaizn is the series of boller-plate cartoons now running in the rural press. Indlanapolis Journa! edly mixed in our fam papp. My wite is a den: fean and the buby, as neu. is » calamity-howler. Lite: “John," she s fountain, “What Is 17" B\ cents n good deal to pay for a gloss of sarsaparilin?” fes nre deeid- ras I can make out, 1, as they left the soda adelphia Records [ Tohn L Sullivan's to be published today, is any- 2 liko its distinzuished author, it is cor- » muke a powerful bit. New York World: Child you say that u man at 40 s elther bhysician. Papa is 40, so what is he? Mamma=—Iie is not a physician, dear. 1 heard tool or Mamma, aughts of lve water, ov good for cholers and mighty bad for the pa- tient. Atchison Globe: Tlow a man hates to glve away a Is-cent elgar. Binghamton Leader: The predicted failure of this season’s corn crop so worked on the mina of a local chiropodist that he has been on u toot for u week. Cape Cod Ttem: 1t does not tmpalr a stage manager's usefuiness to hive an obliquity of vision, that is to suy to huve u cast in his eye. New York Herald: Jess—I went to a for- tuno toller last night and she told mo 1 was to marey o Brivish poor. ' B oW very un- imentary! She must have mistaken you for a concery hall girl Lowell Courfer: Rapt attention—tho atti- gudo of the man who is hit with a poticeman’s y. ——— THE PEOPLE'S PARTY KNOWS IT. M. H. Bacon in Washington Fost. Three times three are sixty-six. Straws not needed for making bricks, Urops depend on polities, And the people’s puriy knows it. Plow and hoe are both played out; ‘The way to farm is to run about X meetings wad storm and spout, And tho people’s party knows it. 0, this will be a glorious land, And when things are done us we have plauned We'll have prosperity fresh and canned, Aud the people’s party knows It. When we've kicked the plutacrats down stairs And purzed Wall street of its bulls und beurs We're ull u-goin’ to be mlilionaires, And the peoble’s party knows it. The leaves of the trees 'll be doliar notes, And diamond rings around the heads of ‘oats, And af ver tips on the horns of the goats, And the people’s party knows it. The cheose 'll be silver and the butter ‘Il be wold, The stroams "Il run Whisky—hot and cold, And the mugwumps forzet to scold, Aud the people’s party knows it. S0 hurrah, hurral for the groat P, P.; 1 nd ( Ads B and X fs 7 And the people's McCooK, Neb., August arzest Manufa plain whether they buy or not. “Ift I "uz pa I'd buy my boy a new sutt of clothes hefore [ sent him height of the average boy's am- bition just now.. We are show- ing the finest lines of fall suits for bo ported elties, ys and children ever im- . No old styles. worsted, | i meres and everything new. Boys suits, 4 to 14,82 up;14 to 18 year of fali overcoats, the very latest, at special prices. Boys’ hats and furnishing goods in enlless variety. This sale is special in the children's department—the coziest spot in town. Ladies who are out shopping will enjoy a rest in our easy chairs, to which they are equally welcome Browning,King& Co DID NOT LEAPE TRE STATR Frank Parkison, the Esoaped Captured tn Wyoming. Cnryrxse, Wyo., Sopt. 1.—[Special Telo gram to Tum Bew.|—Frank B. Parkison, who esoaped from the county jall under ro markable eircumstances last September, was brought here yesterday by Doputy Sherif Mellar of Rock Springs. Parkison was A soldier and he was teled for he murder of a fellow soldier at F't. Russel named Roy Baker. Tho evidenct was purely circumnstantial but Parkison was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to eight yoars in the penitentiaty. Ont night in Septomber thoro was & knock on thy iron door of the jail which is in the rear of and forms part of the court house. When the guard opened the door he found himself iooking down the muzzie of & big six-shooter. The guard was bound hand and foot and then cagod. Parkison and Charloy Millor, sinco hanged fora double murder, wore both reloased, The latter was captured the next day, but Parkison made his way to Kook Springs ang went to work in a coal mino there. He has llved there ever since. A few days ago he was recognized by & man who had been an inmato of tha county jail and his arrest fol- lowed. There was & reward of $100 for tho arvest of Parkison. P — RAN INTO AN OPEN DRAWBRIDGE. Marderer, Three People Killed by the Wreck of the Fast Mail, Newnura, N. Y., Sept. 1.—The fast mal train on the Hudson River railroad mot witk a aisastor at the New Hamburg drawbriage this morning. The draw had been opennd and was Just being closed when the tran dashed on it. As the bridge was nearly closoa the engine jumpod the gap, but the tender failed to cross, Engineer Joseph Owens and Fireman Ea. ward Best were instantly killea. Mail Clerk J. H. Kane was also instantly killed. Half a dozen passengers wore slightly in: jured. “Tho bridgotender claima tho signals were properly set. Tho dead engincer was one of the best employes on the road -— DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT DENVER, A Faro Dealer Kills His Shoots Himself. Dexver, Colo. t. 1—Sbortly after mia- night Henry D. Orm, a faro dealer, shot and instantly killed his mistress who was known heroas Dolly Reed, but whose vealname wns Lavissa Hildekivke, who came hera from Hazleton, O. Orm then shot himsell and will probably afe. Orm is about 23 yents of age, whilo his mistress was 35, They had quarreled and she throatened to leave him, whereupon he took her life and made what will possibly resultin a successful attempt t0 end his own, et e Stolo Lots of Government Timber, Gurnnie, OKL, Sept. 1.—S. J. Moore, deputy United States marshal, tas Just re- turned from an extended trip through the Kiowa, Comauche and Apache country, where he went to arrest parties who have been stealing timber off the government land in that part of the territory. Ho reports that the sottiers of Greer county, Texas, aro chopping and hauling this timber to market and lave followea this Industry until the country has been stripped of its wealth of timver. Tho marshal’s posse brought back sixteen prisoners and committed them to Jail. ‘I'ne government has ordered the soldiers at Fort Sill to arrest all rarties horeafter de- tec‘L‘ad 10 cutting timber on the government and. Mistress and e Indisns Daneing Again. Guranie, Okl., Sept. 1.—A number of dep- uty United States marshals are in the oity and report that the Indians in all parts of the territory are now dancing the sun anc messiah aances, One deputy states that the Apache Indiaus huvo joinod the Cheyennes, Comanches, Kiowas and Arapahoo tribes sad that the five tribes arc now traveling ffom one reservation to another, asncing at each, While he was at Auardarks, tho deputy says, there were several hundred Indians of these tribes joined iogether in the dance, which was kept up from eurly in the evening until daylight. During this time many old scalps were rasurrected and the performance looked much like a war dance, Selzure of Sealers Causcs Protests. Vicrorm, B. C., Sept. 1.—The news of the seizure of one San Francisco and three Victoria sealers by Russian gunboats has created a great sensation here. The Sealers association is preparing to have a statement: telegraphed to the premier at Ottawa. The Board of Trade will also embody the facts in @& memorial to Ottawa and the Vancouver board will be requested to co-opurate, NasnviiLe, Tonn., Sept. 1-—Eighty-eight conviots were sent back to Oliver Spriags under a strong guard last mght. At Clinton a military detachment joined the party, The counvicts aro the ones who were driven from Oliver Springs by the miners. Two hundred were sent to Tracy City today under guards, and 575 to lnman on Priday. Equal Rights New Zenland. WeLtsaros, New Zoaland, Sept. 1,—The house of representdtives has again passed the bill extending the elective franchise to men which was rejected in 1801 by the islative council. 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