Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 4, 1892, Page 4

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Tzschuck, scerotary of Tie BEE Pub. 1ishing com oes wolemnly swear that the ctual eirculation of TIE DAILY WER fof the week ending Dec ‘mber 5, 1602, was a8 {ollows Bundny, Noven Mondny, Nov Tuesday, Nov Wednesdny Thursday. | ¥riduy, D Baturdny, by embir 2 ember 3. ..24,308 3. TZSCHUCK. ubxeribed tn my pros Notary Publle. Average eneo thisird (Seal] Average Circulation for Octd _—m Tur grand monarch said, I am the State.” The stuffed prophet says, “I am the democ L T French legislators are stirring upmore mud in that Panama case than tho workmen on the ¢ 1. McKEIGHAN is credited with being the uglicst man in congross. That is the tolai extent of his fume. Tue beautiful lesson of Garfield’s life, derived from his early carcer us a canal boy, has been completely spoiled and must be laid nside foreve Lewelling, the populist governor-cloct of Kan was once a cafinl boy too. SINCE Cleveland elocted the burglars have captured Chicago, the Panama scandal has erupted = Paris, mobhs have taken possession of Madrid and the grand jury has indicted Lizzie Borden. Who knows what's coming next? was ELSEWHERE in this issue THE BEE presents an exhibit of the prosperity of number of Nebraska towns Public 4md private improvem :nts of greater ov %488 mognitude have been tho rule, wvidence of gradual and substantial grewth. For months ‘11 BEE have heard n great deal about political farmors. In this issue a few figuves are given of the profits of actual intelligent farming. They show that the industri- ous Nebraska farmer is the most inde- pendent being on carth. Ir 18 gratifying to learn from Ne- braska’s commissioner general that the World’s fuir work for this state is get- ting on nicely within the limitations made necessary by the small sizo of the appropriation, but it would be more gratifying to be assured that the legis- lature at the coming session would not Tesitate to provide w suflicient sum of money for the work to make the Nebraska exhibit entuirely worthy of the state. TowA is to have a legal execution, the third in the history of the state. Jack Cumberland is to,be the victim and nis crime was the butchery of an old man and his wife in Shelby county, The fellow was sentenced to bo hanged for a similar offense in Kansus a number of years ago, but escaped. The execution Will tako place in February unless, as has often oceurred, the sentence is com- wmuted to u life penitentiary sentence. THE record of mortgage indebtedness In the various counties of Neb continues to show that tho farme: getting out of debt. Reports from aud Otoe counties make an excellent showing, the farm mortgages rel. d lust month being considerably in excess of those filed. Itis gencrally acknowl edged, except by o few cronkers, that the farmers of this state never have been so comfortably situated financially as they are today ka aro iage Tiie two lust general elections in Ne- braska were conducted under the Australian bullot system. Everyvody knows the vexatious delays that at- tended the count. In some precinets it was forty-cight hours before the resuit could be learned. The committee on charter amendments will do this com- munity a service by incorporating in the amonded charter a provision for a rapid count, the result to be publicly declured at the central police station ymmediately after the official count is comvulete in each precinet in the city The election laws of Illinois and Mis- souri contain such provisions. This is n matter in which the general public is concerncd. Everybody wants to know tho result of an clection at the ible moment after the polls ‘WirrH rich deposits of soft coal within 150 miles of Omaha, costing on the cars nuot to exceed $1.65 per ton at the mines, it looks us though the lowa railroads and the vetail merchants are conspiring to make the cost excessive. This coal in grades suitable for domestic use sells for from #4 to #5 per ton in this city. Give the railronds as much for hauling the coal as it is worth at the mines and still the retailer has a very fair margin, The Wyoming coal mines are owned by the Union Pacific railway. The coal retails in Omaha at 87 per ton, The company’s agents claim that it costs $6 a ton to mine and hul this coal to Omaha, The price is exorbitant and could be reduced to the great benelit of consumers and little detriment to the roads. The item of soft coal isan importantone in the household economy of most people, who demand that, the price shall be made a7 "\ _Paasonable, l THE SKY PARLOR DEPOT. The denth of Jay Gould need neces: snrily havo no bearing on the negotin tions for a union depot. Omaha is a city of 140,000 population. By the year 1900 sho will have fully 200,000 popuia- tion. Her extensive commerce and hor location at the gateway of the great overland railroad systom the enlargement of railrond transfer facili- ties a matter of absolut® necessity to the railronds. 1tis of no use to dicker for a second rate railway station. We want and must have a union depot in fact as well as in name. Whoever steps into Mr Gould’s shoes will soon realizo that Omaha will make no bargain that does not give her a guaranty of such a pas: senger depot as is to be found in De- troit, Milwaukee, Denver, Portland and almost any railway center of any pre- tentions, The bugbear of General Dodge becom- ing president of the road c have no further tervors for Omann. General Dodge did all that lay in make Omaha a way station and a suburb of Council Biuffs, but he failed lamenta- Dly in his efforts and schemes. He can do no worse now than to le with a sky parlor for a depot, with the inev itable prospect that Omaha will soon ko up and muster backbone enough 10 nssort her rights asa railroad termi nal city, not only in the courts butin the legislature. In uny event we can afford botter to firmly insist upon our legal and com mercial rights than to barter away theso rights for foar that o change of managers of the Union Pacific will clyb us into obedience and submission to whatever demands they may make. makes n his power to ve us FRENCH LABOR LEGISLATION. The action of the French government in rogard to labor legislation is esting to all who are concerned in lab questions in this country. The chief fon at issue isthat of cstablishing he us a day’s work. But the ed tho iimit for women to “and as passed the law prohibits the employmeut of children under twelve years of age, or under thirteen without certificates of primary instruction, and restricts night emvloy- mentand prohibitsunderground labor for women. Tho lawmaking power has refused to decieo in favor of Sunday observance and therefore the new law dovs not rnate that day as a day of rest, though it provides that there shall bo ono day of rest in seven ana there is to be the obsarvance of all national holis [it In few Buropean countries are labor- ing people better off than in France, yet theiv condition 1s far from being as favorable in any respect us that of the workingmen of America. heir lot is hard enough as 1t is, but it is luxury in comparison with that of their brothers in Europe. This, however, is no reason why the condition of our own working people shouid not be improved and their burdens made as light as possibie by legislation designed to promoteevery interest that concerns them, SPECIAL AG ICUL PURF. In his annual report the secretary of agriculture refers to the efforts he has made to bring about freer and larger intercourso between the department and the farmers by means of adequate representation of the department at all agricultural gatherings. These efforts have been only moderately succossful owing to the limited facilities at the command of the secretary, but what has been done in this direction has brought about geatifying results and shown at the same time what might be accom- plished were congress to provide the Department of Agriculture with the necessary means to carry out this objec The plan of the secretary of agrico ture is to equip the depurtment with an adequate force of intelligent, go- ergetic special agents, well acquainted with the agricultural interests in their own section of country, and qualified to represent the department creditably on all public o To reach its fuil measure of usofulness, siys Secretary Rusk, itis essentinl that the depart- ment bo brought home to the farme in sucha manner that thoy will be made to realize that it is their depart- ment, and that they are acquainted with it, and it with them. This is cer- tainly a reasonnble view of the relation that ought to subsist betw cultural community and ment of the government, which spo- clally represents the interests of that community, and if the plan proposed by Seeretary Rusk can cffect the pur- pose of bringing them into more intimate association without involving too great an outlay it ought to bo adopted. 1t is to see that there are possible Mits of very considerable import- wco in the plan. At any rate here is a practicl matter which the farmers of the country would do well to consider in the meetlngs of thoir organizations, and it posses-es an interest for all classes of agricultural produccrs, 1If the farmers believe the plan would be a good thing nnd want it they should take measures to pression to their views and wishes, for otherwise congress will not be likely to give any attention to the matter. In any event none is likely to be given it by tho present congress and the next one will have to be pressed hard for any legitlation in the interest of agriculture. Another suggestion made by Sec tary Rusk that the Department of Agriculture should be represented abrond by spacial nts, charged not only with the duty of spreading in- formation in regard to our own agricul- tural resources and the availability of our agricultural products for foreign use, but also to keep the department thoroughly informed in regard 1o all matters relating to agriculture and to the markets for agricultural products in foreign countries, by which our own producers could be vnabled to compete with the foreign producers. What has been accomplished by the special agent of the department in introducing Indian corn to Europeans is cited as s the importauce of the Agricultural de- partment being represented in foreign countrigs, There can be litile doubt us to the expediency of such . policy, but there is very small probability of its ever being adopted unless there is a or a6 wsions, n tho agri- the depart- give ¢ howing united and porsistent demand for it from the farmers of the country, Mani- festly, both theso matters aro of suffi- clont concorn to the agficultural pro ducers to merit their serious attention, and if they do nop care to consider them they may be sure nobody else will. The question of having the Department of Agriculture represented at agricul tural gatherings at home, and by spe- cial agents in foreign countrics, offers an interesting topic for discussion by farmers’ organizations and is com- mended to their attention. THE LDUCATIONAL EXHIBIT, Many of the leading cducators throughout the country some time ago united in a protest against the totally inadequate provision that had mado for the accommodation of the ea- ucational exhibit at the World’s fair, A little later it was understood that the matter had been congidered by the d and thot a separate building would be erected for that exhibit in- steading of tucking it away in a corner of the manuincturers’ ball as had been planned. This was encournging to the friends education. Some of the mem think it unnecessary to build the-proposed structure, while others are idifferent, After much urging they have proceeded so far as to direct that inquiry be made as to the cost. It is to be carnestly hoped that noth- ing will be allowed to stand in the way of carrying out this project. The eause of education would bo greatly promoted by a creditable exhibit of the kind con- templated and visitors from abroad couid not fail to be deeply impressed by it. The utmost pride should be taken 1n this department of the fair by every patriotic citizen, and the preparations for it all over the country ought not now to he cheeked by a foeling of uncer- ainty as to whother room is to be pro- vided for it.e T.et tho committee push the work and give the country to under- stand that the educational exhibit is to be amply provided for. NO BENEFIT 10 THE FARMER. Secretary Rusk said in his rec nual report that while the rainmaking experiments wero conducted aithfully as divected by congress, the facts in his possession did not justify the anticipations formed by the be- liev n this mothod of artificial rain- making., The recent failures of Gen- eral Dryenforth in Texas support tho view of the secretary of agriculture upon this subject. 01 Wednesday night Iast he kept up a continuous bombird - ment of the skies until morning, The explosions ware terrific and were heard for a distance of thirty miles around. There were 175 shells, twenty-five bal- loons, each containinz 900 cubic foot of hydrogen-oxygen, and 1,200 charges of roselite exploded A few clouds drifted across the sky, but no rain fell, and it is by no means cortain that the clouds were produced by the bombard- ment. On the following night the ex- periment was repeated without effect. ‘Whatever theoretic foundation there may be for the belief that rain can be produced by explosions it scems to bo demonstrated by experience that prac- tical results of real value are not to be expected. It is hardly worth while for the government to spend money in such experiments when there are so many ways in which it could be used for the advantage of the farmer without any experiment whatever. If a vote of the farmers could be tiken on this subject they would probably be found to be practically unanimous in favor of using the money spent on rainmaking in some other way. It is 1mportant that appropriations made to- carry on work designated to benefit the agvicultu class shouid be wisely used, for there is a strong opposition to every measure looking to government paternalism, a name that is given to every undertak- g of the government inbehall of the farming class. The great importance of the agricultural interest entitles it to all the consideration it has ever re- ceived from congress, but caro should be taken to avoid everything that will tend to bring ridieu’e upon the rovern- ment and those to whom it sseks to ox- tend special assi Tae ralnmak- ing experiment was well enough within reasonable limitations, but there demand for its continuance. The farmers have no confidence in the bom- bardment idea and are content to take their rain in the old fashioned way. PUBLIC SCHOOL DEFICIENCIBS, Tho pride of the American people in their public school system has mueh to justify it, but it would be a grave mis- take to nssume that tho system is not still eapable of grest improvement or to pretead that it has accomplished or is accomplishing all that could reasonably bo expected of it, It will doubtless as- tonish the great majority of educators and of intelligent peop'o genorally who take an interest in cause of popular edu- cation, to bu told by 5o high an authos- ity as President Kliot of Harvard that its results are disappointing, far as relates to the wiso conduct of life, He finds that there has baen an inadequacy and a misdivection in popular edusarion which aro responsible for its failure to cffeet what it was reasonable to expect., I"ublic education, says this distinguished educator, should mean the systematic training of all children for the duties of life, and this it does not gencrally and thoroughly do. The system of popular education as practiced is defactive, in the view of President Eliot, in not giving suflicient attention to tne reason- ing fuculties and observational The changes suggested are, in the first place, to m ke practice in think- ing, or in other words the strengthen- ing of reusoning power, the constant object of ull teaching, from infancy to adult age, no mutter what may be the subject of instruction, After the most necessary manual and mental arts have been acquired, those subjects should taught most which cach individual teacher is best fitt2d to utilize for maik- ing his pupils think, or which dovelop best in the individual pupil his power to reason. There should wise extension to the trus observation studies alreidy introduced into the earlier years of the school system, and more time ¢in bs given to th of nccurate deseription and u tive composition in writing. heon rectoty of bers being me is no 50 powers, be own be a practice umenta- We must BEMBER 4, SUNDAY, also teach alaborately in schools, eays President Eliot, those subjects which give practice in classiieation and ine duction. For the older pupils the time devoted to hi&'mix-.\t 1dies ought 1o be much increased. is o disgrace to organizsd oducation.’ says the prosi- dent of Harvard, *“that any nation should rofuse, as aur own people are g0 apt to do, to le from the experionce of other nations; the schools must have failed to teach history as they should havo done, There is other testimony hardiy loss valuable to the deficiencies of the puvlic schools. Dr. J. M. Rice, a trained and experienced educator, has published a sories of articles in e Forum on tho public schools of a number of cities in which he shows a most astonishing lack of sound methods of instruction in the schools of nearly all of these citics. This condition is to no small extent due to the fact that politics plays large apart in the eleetion of and the sclection of toachors 100 school boards but there is found to widely prevail false princi ple f toachin An noted by De. Rice is that of the schools of In- dinnapolis, which are entirely freo from volitical influence, aod of which hoe says that they exist foe the benefit of the child and not for the benefit of the board of education, superintendents and teachers. The sole nim in teaching is not to secure resuits that will tell in excoption favor of the teacher, by loading tho memory of the pupil with facts, but the comfort and woll-heing of the ehild is considered and the lessons made attrac- tive. It is unquestionably too wencr ly the fact that pupils ave converted into automatons. They are given long lessons ) lenrn at home in order that the teacher may show results. The child is relentlessly vushed and sym- pathy is lacking. The child does not learn to reason, but to recite. The views of these eminent educators should be carefully considered by teachers evorywhere. Perhups they raay boe studied to advantage by the teachers of Omaha. 5 THE cotton planters of the south learned a les=on last year and they have protited by it. They planted a larger area to cotton than ever before and gathered a greater crop, the result being that the supply was very much in excess of the demand and prices do- clined to an unprofitable point. This year the aren was greatly reduced and the yickd will not be much more than one-half that of last season, the conse quence being, of course, that the pr of cotton has advanced and the planters will make money. It was simply a business quostion, and it suggests that there is no govd reason why farming generally may not be conducted on business principles—that , for in- stance, whon a erop of any grain is e cessive one year to such an extent as to reduce the price below the profitable point, contract the area of such grain the next year, as Secretary Rusk recom- mends should be' done with wheat in order to maintain it at a profitable price to the produger. It has heon well said that if farmers would conduct their business with much alertness and ability and euterprise us merch:nts do they would be much bettor off, but they are slow in adapting themselves to ¢ cumstanc Aly they get into a rut and stay there, giving little or no heed to the demonstratad folly of such a conrse. Most of them scem not to understand that farming is u busi- ness, and that to be successful must be conducted on business principles. as Very gene Tue remarkable crusade against ob- scene publications now in progress in Chicago is producing results that could hardly have been hoped for even by the most sanguine members of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, under whose auspices it is being conducted. The state’s attorney and the district attorney are taking hold of the work with extra- ordinary 7 and, the: publ sellers of obseeno literata panic. A number of convictions have aliegdy resuited from their labors and many more will doubtless follow. Such campiigns as this seem to be ne ary once ina while in such cities ¢ Chicago. « Vicious literature not to be by the ordinary ope tion of the lnw, or at least it seldom is, Probably Chieago hus more of it than any other city in the United States and the fact that she is becoming ashamed of it is an epcoursging sign of the times. The makers and venders of vile literature will have a slim harvest dur- inz the World’s fair if the prosecutors a in the fight to stay, us they say they are. The who'e country has an interest in the crusnde and all decent hers and are in a sunpressed people wilt hope that it will not be per- mitted to languish, CHicAGD seems to be suffering fror an epidemic of erima, On Thursday night seven safes wece robbed in one building within a square of police head- For somo weeks past high- way robbevs have torrorized the vity, ping s0 far as to hold up a policeman on bis baat and rob him of his re The police foreo is said 1o ho paralyzed on aceoant of insuflicent appropristions and the eriminal is taking advanta of its opportunitic The prevalence of crimes of violence is attributed to an influx of hard charac ters who have come from all over the country o establish themselves in Chic- azo for business during the exposition yeur. 1f their vecord for the past few weeks is only u beginning, what will b the extent of their operatiors after the exposition has been opened and the city is throngod with visitors, Tt looks as if there would have t6/bs about ten police- men to every block to iusure adequate protection. quarters. in one instance g ver, ik stoamship companies which bring immigrants to this country have heen watehing with keen interast the delib- erations of the United States senate im migration committee which has in session in New York. The testimony of several prominent physiciuns wus o the effect thut there was great danger of the introduction of ¢holera into this country next year from Europe, and these witnesses were of the ovinion that suspension of imwigration for a year would be & proper msasure to prevent such a visitation. The manager of the Humburg-American Puacket compan y been e e snid that if immigration fa euspondod for & yonr tho company would eimply Iand its Immigeant prssongors in Can | Congross ada, Of course the Canadians would profit by such logistation, for their rail roads wonld get the business that goes to American ronds, The of the Whita Star line pronounced the scheme of eutting off immigration for o year simply absurd. There are many who take this view, belioving that the disease may be kept out by the oxercise of proper eare without excluding all im The experience of last sum- mer will enable the authorities to estub- lish an effective quarantine system and the total oxclusion of immigrants will probably bo found unnocessary. It is not yetknown whother the senate immi- gration eommittee will clusion bill or not. agont migrants, preparo an ex THe ostensible German governm ward a reason given by the nt for bringing for to restrain omigration is desire to protect creditors, but this 1s so obviously a toxt that no one will be deceived by it. The real military one, fhe army bill having had the effect to quicken emigration to such an extent that the government nizes the necessity of taking some effect- ive step to provent a great loss of mate- vial for its standing uemy, The emigea- tion bill 1s a vory stringent moasure, providing among other things that per sons proposing to emigrate must gi notico to the police, who will advertiso the matter, so that all those having obli- gutions to the state or to private indi- viduals may be compelled to dischargo their obligations before leaving. The enactment and enforcomont of this meas- ure would amount practieally to a decree ainst the expatriation of by far the larger portion of the German people, but it is questionable whether it could bo en- foreed. The youth of Germany, there is reason to believe, would not patiently bow tosuch a ty reason is a rocog: sannical expedient for compelling them to remain at home and do military duty, and it is altogether possible that if the bill should become a law Emperor William will find in it a cause of more serious trouble than an he has yet had to deal with, The Ger- man peovle are patriotic to a degre but they will not tamely submit to such a despotic policy as the bill to restrict emigration proposes, Wit each successive election_ there arvises a dispute as to how much com- pensation judges and clorks of election shall receiver for their services. In Kansas City, under the general election Laws of Missouri, judges and cle paid “not to exceed $1.50 per day.” This is considerably below the Omaha standard. s are i Towa traveling men had a splen- did reunion and banquet at Des Moines Friday night with speeches by ex- Governor Liwin of Keokuk and to-he- Governor Cummins of Des Moines. There is no class of men for whom the public has better wishes than the com- mercial traveler HOLDING UP LIGHTNING RODS. Itace s Not Always to the Swift Nor the Battle to the Strong. Nance County Journal: Senator Paddock has tho first rizht to bo rezuraed to the son- ate from Nebraska on account of the vaiua- ble services ho has rendered during the past six yeurs. 1fthe repiblicans cannot unite upon him whatis the matter with Meikle- john? He could unite all factions. Auvurn Granger: Among those favorably mentioned for United States senator 15, if, Harris, state senator-elect trom Nemaha aud Johnson counties. Mr. Harris 15 a man whose abilily and intogrity cannot bo called in question; yet these are qualifications laowm looked for in selecting a United States senator. . Wayne Herald: T. J. Majors and Senator Paddock seem to be 1n the lead for United States senator, the latter having much the better show. A numver of independents will most certainly voto for him becauss he has given strict attontion to Nabraska's in- terests and did not favor the MeckKinley bill in many respects, Blair Pilot: Senator Paddock will hardly o re-clected, even shonld rapublicans con- trol ou joiut ballot. Aud be should not be. It republicans in the legisiature caunot secure tho eclection of a stalwart of their own party, they should and probably will give their support to a square-toed democrat rather than a balf-aud-half man, Fremont Tribuue: Thoreis u wonderful similarity in tue tenor of the press notices theso duys which favor Paddock’s re-elec: tion, 1hbe senator is evidently running a literary buresu, ‘Phere ure also a largo pumber of these papers which are cunning tieir own bureans and there is a singular unanimity in their opposition to Faddock, Lincoip News: Wo trust that Senator Paddock las seeurely locked and soaled up his qoor while ke 003 off to Washington to belp keep the couutry in the straignt und nacrow path. There”is no b heme that wily voung man, Hon. Tom Majors, may evolve by the 20th to securo @ Jarge portion of Hon, Algernon's, bagga Nebraska City Press: Without disc ing Scuator Paddock in the least, itis bo- coming cvident to those who gazeat the vending senatorial contest from this corner of the state that the senator will hardly su ceed in being his own successor. ‘Lhere aro oo many aspirants for his shoes among the men who would have Lo support uim 1f he wero olected, York Democrat: Let tho fellows who are boominz Wil Hastings for United States senalor Kkeep pounding on the big druwm. ‘There 18 no better or purer mau 1o the state of Nebraska, and would do tho state credit in the senate. Judgo Hastings has proven himself a statesman upon every occasion, und now if ho can o elected sendtor, it will e i the olernal fitness of things. Help the Hastings hoom boys. e can be-elected Lroken Bow Leader: ‘The name of Gov ernov-elect Crounse is mentioned in connee- Uon with tue United States senatorship from this state, and also Georgo D, Meikiejohn, Lincol Las two or three aspirants who woula like to ent the coulest, and more than likely will ith the independent and democratic candidates mentioned the eances bid fair for the biz portion of the timo of the coming legislativo session to be frittered av Over the senatorial coutest slizh Leader: Hon, teorge I, Keiper of . hias been suggested us 8 candidate for Uniled States senator upon whom both iudependents and democrats could unite without either party sacrificing its princi ples. Ho has @ large number of frie amoug the older members of tho legislature suize bis true worth ana_consistent and continuous work in betalf of the people and good government. Iu such a position his attainments as 8 scholar would tind awple scope apd rocognition. Uuforiunately for his prospects of election Le 1s not a_vesidont of the South I te country, which has always sbown @ dispoaition to igore the claiis of the nort portion of the state, Neligh Advocate: There sbould be no fae- tional fight @mong republicans as to who shall receive the caucus unomination for United States senator. The field stould be carefully looked over and tbe stralght re- publican, with ability to creditably fitl the position, who can command tho lavgest sup- part from the opposition, should receive tho nomination, If it is Mr. Paddock, well and zood. 1f he cannot do so0 iet him siep back and givo Lis carnest support to tho strongest candidate. ‘There sbuuld be no trade or icker, no sacrifice of republican princ 10 the 6ffort to secure the requisito strength to elect. 'Tue principles of tge republican porty arc right, and if wo cannot stand by thew and elect & senstor lot us go down bon- orably and maintain our scll-respect and ap- proviog conscience. O T e e g v e 1802- TWENTY FOUR PAGES, now | MREIGHAN VS THE BARTH. While at the Paxton yesterday afternoon, an MeKelghan was waited upon by a number of the grain en of the eity and asked 1o give his assistanco (o the defeat of the antl-option bill. He was rather noncom mittal as to his viows on the subject, bt de voted most of his timo to teiling what other members of tho houso and senato said and thoueht about 1t, Roegarding his sonatorial aspirations, ho said that ho had not yor made up hismind as to whether or not ho wanted a seat in the sonate, as ho had one fu the house and ho was inclined to think that thet eave mAn more prestige than the other would. *"The floor of the house is tho ereat arena of debate, and thitis whero all the big fights come on, whila the senate of a lot of gray-headed who have to keep still showing what fools they Ican bave tho ontire support of the fndependents in tho legisla ture for the senate if I waat it, for I havagot tho whole taing right in my fist. I can have the nomination 1n a minuto if 1 only say the word. The thing wiil bo done in caucus, for our folks are going into caucus whothor the republicans do or not. You seo my district clocted an independent to the legislature from cach of the eightoen counties but two, and they wero Igat simply by adamphool deat on tho part of the domocrats, and thoso are all my fel Mostof tho filty-four indo pendeats i tho logislature como from Kem's district, and they a my meat 1 have the nomination myself or it go right where L~ say. I pulled those fellows through, and I did 1t in my county by trading votes for myself for the candidato for tho legislature. My plu- rility in my county wasn't mueh over 200, whilo Harmon had over 400. 1 gnew tuat [ had votos to spare, so I traded them whero they would do the most good, and the follows that 1 electod aporeciate it, 1 can carry my district auy day on @ straizht fight by over 5,000, Our voto fell off somo this yoar be- causo things was sort of mixed up.~ Boya's lotter writirg hurt us, He's noted for his d—d blundering anyhow. Then the repub- licans biad a lot'of ready cash, aud they hired whole pile of our feilows to stay ut homoe and it was impossible to et them to tho poils. What cut my vote down mors than noything elso was the way thov rinted the tickets. Tn tho independent counties they would print tho ballots with mo set down as o people’s party independent and democrat and in° the uemoeratic counties as a democrat ana party indevendent. Then when our fellows COme to run aown the right hund side of the ticket to wark their votos thoy didu’t notico anything about tho names of the candidates, out just marked mechanichlly opposite overy: thing that was branded independent. They ouly saw what was right along the margm, and, seeing where my name was marked as a democrat, they just passed it by without warking it, and that thing alono cost mo over 2,000 votes. 1t was the same with tho democrats where they expected to vote for mo as an indevendent, for 1 didn’t seem to be there. That ain’t anyihing new, for they've been charging all along that I ain’t a democrat, nor an independent, nor anything else, but it don’'t make sny difference to me. 1 guess I get there just about as otton us any of "em. When T was a ragged, dirty, barefooted kid in Tllinois T ran across old ‘Long Jouw' Wentworth, and he said to me, ‘Bill, when you wantanything just go after it,” and I alwavs followed that advice. When 1 see anything I want. [ just go after 1, and I have most alwavs got it. It I conclude I wanta seat in the senate I’ll go after it, and don’c you fret about me uot getung there. Paidock ain’t in it. He can’t oven hold his own folks together. There ain’t much show for any republican, though they may bu some Of our votes. ‘There wow'tany dom crav got theve either, and Bryan don’t stand aghost of ashow. Van Wyck isn't init, though he may be a candidate: but what can aman living in Nehraska expect in Uhis fight? Iv's gowng to the South Platte coun- try, whero tho independents aro thick, and Van Wyck don’t live there, How many in- dependents ure there down where ho lives When askea about the provable comple fon of the senute, the congrossman said that ho hadn’t been paying any attention to it but he thought tnat the independents and domocrats viould control it, and ks mannor of speaking would lead one to think that there woula be forty 1udependents and less than half a_dczen® democrais 1 that body. Ho again drifted around to tho cousideration of the ability of the members of *he senate and roasted Senators Jones and Stowart of Ne- vada, declaving that it always mado him laugh to sce them get up on the floor and read for two days on speeches that they had paid E. D. Start of Olifo to_write for them, be cause they were not abio towrite thom thom- seives. Aud that, he assoried, was-the kind of material.they bad in tho senate, and ke didn’t kuow as he was anxious to go there. 1 composod millionaires to kosp from aro, 0ws, can will ‘There will uncoubtedly be a noticoablo fallingeff in the Red Cloud boom as soon us Cougrossman MecKeighan starts for Wash- ington. For somo days past there has boen astring of hungry office-seesers something less than a mile long, reaching nearly from the depot to tho congressman’s house and back again, and every man in the line la- bored under the delusion that McKeighan would have the distribution of the federal patronage in the state. In very few cases did the congressman endeavor to disabuse the minds of his eallers, but on the contrary tried to intensify that beliof. 1t is stated on rood authority that he has promised y everything under the sun, au rai instancos has promsed the same plum to & number of different individunls. A Bloomington democrat is authority for the statement that the postoflice ab that placo Las already been promised to three wen, and as the senatorial fight does not -y people’s | come on for A month yet that one office 18 atlli good for mnother half domen promises, Thoro wero some of his callors, however who recelved no encouragement, but thay wora fow and far botween, and included only the on who very evidently had no influance whatever with any of the members-elect ot bo toxislature, To theso, McKoighan said, *Tuis ain't an independent administration. Don't you know that Grover Cloveland s the man what got elected I But {f there was any doubt in any case, MeKelehan deomed it safer to promise an office or Lwo than to take any chances Sherift W, ). Mawhinney of Nane 19 An aspirant for penitentiary. connty the wardenship of the —_— - KELIGIOUS TTHe wanR . Dec. 8. To the Bditorof Trr Bert 1 propose for one s & Protostaut,theson of & Provestant minister, married to the daughter of a Protestant minister, and a member of & Protestant denomination, to enter publicly my protest against_the reckless, rolentloss and unteasonable warfare which 18 now veing waged in Omaba against my Catbolio follow eitizons, No Catholic bas appealed to o for sympathy or sueiested that 1 should say & word in his behalf; in fact outside of my own fawily no ono has had a hint of my PUTpose to antagonize the sentiment which T regrot 10 800 S0 prevalent in this communit Lam simply moved by my Amer of fair lay Lo rovolt against whe 10 me to by unwarranted persecat spectable, law-abiding and numerous of our Nothing 15 quite so unreasonable, so bigs oted, 80 virulent and so dangerous fs relig- fous hatrea. No crueltios have ever exceeded thoso perpetrated fn the name of religion, Nothiog is more un-Amorican than_potitic partisanship based upon religious ¢ifferen No antagonism in a community can 80 com- vletely estrange neighbors, ana overturn good order, as that which arises from con- tentions over church relations. 1t is there. fore always a source of rogret to fmir- minded Auericans who do not mix thoir denomina- tional predilections with their political preferencos, to find a religious or somi-rolig- fous issuo at stake fn eloctions. In Omahia the anti-Catholic socicty has so grown in numbors that it is in control of L he city, Among its Members are many persons enti‘led to contidonco and respect, although they havs joined an un-American secrot political organization. But thore are mem- bors and Joiders in that arder and kinared socioties who are there for ona or both of two reasons. luither they are fanatical ant Catholics, or they hopn for political udvan- tag0s from their membership. [t is unfortun- ntely this class which makes tho most noiso and gives trend to the public utterances and private persecutions of tho organization, They and their sympathizors, whom I am sorry to see some clergymen of the Protestant churches, have ereated a senti- ment against Catholies in Omaha which not only eauses worthy veoplo 1 tnat denomina- tion persounal pain, but affects their business, injures their reputation in tho community aud shuts off avenues of employment and ad- ; vancenent from thoir ehildron to which, as ( { Ovans body Am erican citizens, they are eutitled, ‘I' his 1s unfair, Omaha has never suffered any ovil from Catholies, lor aro mo mbers of that church. taxpayers are adherents of that faith There has never been any attempt, or suggestion of an attempt on the part of that churoh, or any of its members, to control the schools, tho government or thecounty affairs. What- cver may be true in other localities, as faras Omaha is concerned, Catholicism has never been a forco in poli- p tics which att2mpted to antagonizo any pub- i fic_improvement, the public schools, or any g well-defined public poliey. There isin my . mind no more reason in Omaha for an anti- Catholic socicly, than for an auti-Methodist, or anti-infidel society. ‘Thero can never in America bo any excuse for a secret political roligious organization, and in this city there ln‘ loss excuse if possiblo thun anywhere else Lam in favor ot an amendment to the na- tional constitution, which shall be strong enough to make it impossible for religious issucs to have political consequenca or im- i portance. 1 am also in favor of taxing such property belonging to religious bodies as i3 g not used by them for religious, charitable or gl educational purposes, but [ do protest most solewnlv against this un-American 1dea of asking whother a man bolieves in consub- stantiation or transubstautiation, before determining to vote for or against bhim as a candidate for public oftice. Not the religious belief, or the nativity of the candidate's parents, but the merits of himself should bo the test'of his fituess or unfitness for public trust. 1 hope the people of Omaha will sco that this antagonmism has already gone too far, and that the time has come to frown upon those fanatics who would fan smoldering nt) cmbers of religious batred into flames of dis- 8 covd. It 18 high timo that tho tide wero e turned, If the ill will which has beenstirred off up between two classes of our eitizenship is fe permittea to row in inteunsity, 1t will bo sd vears before the good feeling of former times 1l can be restored. We should bo manly enough, i every oueof us, 1o accord to alt our neighbors liberty of conscience, houesty of purpose and personal patriotism, and troat with them as =) friends and not as enemics of the common- wealth, T. W. BLACKBURN best citizens Her lurgest % Evils w Fear to flisk, Brooklyn Times, The rolo of the rieh man is a hard one fn life. In death it is filld with serious difii- & cultios. The rich man’s ante-mortem spond- wngs are viewed with: critical disteust, min- gled with an uncertainty arising from the difficulty of knowing just. wuut thoy are, His posthumous disposals aro stamped with unreserved criticism. Thoso who forgive bam for having any money avall find it ex- cecdingly difficult to agreo upon the extent of the cceontricity, now to say the nsanity, which lea him to dispose of it as he did, EERROWNING, KNG =5 & CO. Largost M anufacturors vl Clothing in the Worl | Heavy Is the worl that applies best to those great over- $3.50 hoy's overcoats. Our store closen at 6.8) p. i, exc Qikys, when we close at 10 p. w. r———IENE. un on thoze $5.00 3-picce boy’s suits and the $2.50 and We get more for them usually, probably that causes the run, but they are elegant goods and a bargiin at a dollar or two mor Browning,King&Co t Satur- coats that you'll need yetand we're selling now at low prices—-as low as is consistent with the gool quality and general.up-to-date style-of all our suits and We are having quite a overcoats. J [S.W.Cor. 15t & Douglas 1%