Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 18, 1892, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. k. lln-u\\'u FN. Fdltor — ru lll I‘i”l‘ D EVERY \dl)ll"llNU omom. PAPER OF TH! cm TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. gnuy Tee (withont Sunday) One Year ily and Sunduy, One Y flrl'! uv‘||||m' ‘Three Months, undny Bee, One Yenr 200 Saturduy itée, Ong o wnviy | R Weekly Bee, One Year ‘ WWhevvis. 00 OFFIC Omahn, The Bee Building. South Onrha, corner N and 26th Stroets. (l mell Rluffs, 12 Pearl Street 2o Offic 17 Chinmber of Commerce. New York, Rooms 13, 14 and 16, Tribune Bullding. Washington, 513 T CORT All_commn editorinl maiter Editorial Departn RUSINESE LETTERS All husiness letters and remittances should e addressed to The Beo Publishing Compa Omiha, Drafis, checks and postofiice ordors 10 he miude payable to the order of the com- pany. TAE 8800 10 00 2 60 arteenth VENC nting to news anfl addressed to the BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, BWORN STA CIRCULATION State of Nebra Countyn MENT OF of Tie BER inly swear that ik DAILY BER for 02, was as fol- 26,005 Friday, Baturday, December 17 Average.... ... . .24, GRORGE B. TZSCHUOK. o me and subscribed tn my December, 1892, P! FEIL, Notary Public. svember, 20,059, 8worn to lef presence this 174 (Seal] N Average Cii THERE is no abatement of the gold fevor in Arvizona and the territory will soon be full of disappointed scekers alter riches. THE people of Chili still feel unkindly toward the United States, but this coun- try gons right on about its business just the same. THE city of Montreal finds it impossi- blo to soll 4 per cent. bonds at par, and yot Montreal is one of the most pros- perous cities in Canada. A MAYOR'S signaturo i1s & very essen- tial thing on a citv warrant, as Mr. Wiley may have discovered when he called on the comptrolle NEXT to the distribution of spoils the question that most profoundly agitates the blooming statesmen at the state éapital is the inuugural ball. THE London woman who threw her- self at the feet of Paderewski would probablj have gone insano if she had seen him before he had that ravishing hair cut off. REMEMBER that a Christmas present selécted by the giver is worth far more to the recipient than its equivalent in money with o carcless ‘‘gq and buy your- self something.” A FARMER in Mills county, Towa, just across the river, shipped 242 head of cattle to Chicago last week, for which he received the sum of $: .80. This is a fair showing for a victim of calam- . ity. IT 18 a very serious question whether the supreme court of Nebraska will gain any renown by interfering in any way with questions relating to the election or qualification of members of the legis- lature. I 18 now the purpose of Venezuela to resist and prevent all further British encroachments on her territory. This is an old complaint against Great Britain, and ubout every country on the globo has made it at one time or another. THE Californin wine makers are dis- gusted because they are to be allowed only a space 26x28 foet in extent for their exhibit at the World’s fair. Their exhibit will have to make up in quality ‘what it lacks in quantit; continues to be good in Omaha, according to the weekly review A R. G. Dun & Co., and no dullness is _weported in any westorn city, Tho ac- tivity here is indicated by an increase of 818 per cent in clearings over the corresponding week last year. A VERY startling question reaches us all the way from Alabuma. It is em- bossed in stud-horse type and reads as follows: ‘‘Is Jones governor de facto ¢ ‘We confess for once we are puzzled. Jones may Ye governor defuncto for all we know. But we suggest that the question be submitted to the supreme eourt of public opinion, from which no- ‘body can appeal. It wiLL be comparatively cheap to get into the World’s fair, but it will cost & heap of money to see the side shows. The Moorish palaces, Bavarian villages, the White Horse inn, Astraddle on a Donkey, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, and an endless number of big and little attractions will tax the visitor’s pocket- ‘book and make him wish that Colum- bus had never discovered America, Tee snow still lies undisturbed on the sidewalks around the site of the new government building and nobody that can be reached appears to be re- spousible. It is certain that there will not be Leat enough engendered by ac- tivity inside of that board fence to melt the snow, and it now looks as if it might remain there all wintor unless the city suow shovel brigade is set to work at the job. TRE idea that the Bourd of Trade is run for the exclusive benetit of the grain men is erroncous. The organiza- tion pays no money on their account and they do not avail themselves of its privileges more than other members. If it were possible to maintain an open board tho grain dealers would be ‘gainers by it, but that is out of the guestion at present. The best way to reovive the Board of Trade and make it practically useful to the city is to en- courage all clusses of business men to avail themselves of the advantages which it offers, instead of holding back upon the plea that some particular class is more benefited than the rest. 600 | | As LOCAL RATES MUST COME DOWN, Tiver slnce the first locomotive whistle wos heard In the State of Nebraska the Missourl river hnas boen the dividing line between moderate exaction and highway robbery. The moment any commodity crossed the Missouri it was subjected to an arbitrary railroad tax vavied at the pleasure of the traffic man- ager. For years and years the people of Nebraska have borne these exactions not always without murmur or protest— because their lawmakers were cor- rupted and their servants on the rail- road commission shamefully neglected to do their duy. It has always been conceded by rational peovle that railways running through a sparcely settled region can- not carry freight ns cheaply as railroads running through a densely settled scc- tion that affords them heavier traffic. vegards Nebraska that differ- ence was more marked twenty or cven years ago than it is today. Ne- wska with a population of 1,100,000 1892 is not the Nebraska a population of 150,000 in 1872, But the railrond managers persistently ignore this change in con- ditions and continue to discriminate’| against Nebraska and the region vond. They voint to the marvelous de- | volopment of the vresources of the transmissouri country by railroads, but keep on levying the same tribute on populous Nebraska and her $100,000,000 worth of annual products that they levied upon Nebraska when she wusa part of the American desert. Thoy still sing the same old song aubout tho low through rates as an offset to the exorbitant local rates. This voluntary beneficence on the part of railroad managers will no longer satisfy the groat mass of their patrons. The high local rates have not ¢ robbed producer and consumer, but they have been a damaging drawback to Omaha and every other city in Ne- braska., This is admitted by every merchant, except possibly the favored few who enjoy robates, drawbacis and free transportation for their commercial travelers. It isadmitted confidentially even by the favored jobbers, who are tulking loudest agaivst any reduction of | rates because they are subsidized to talk it. High local rates have wellnigh de- stroyed our lumber market and erippled | our dealers in heavy commodities and our mills and factories. Exorbitant | local rates are alone responsible for the fact that Omaha has not been able to cope with Kansas City us a grain mar- ket. Kansas City boasts seventeen grain elevators aund forty-five grain handling firms. If the local grain rates from the interior of Nebraska to Omaha were as low as are the rates from | equi-distantlintevior points in Kansas to Kansas City, Omaha would handle the bulk of tho grain raised in this state and a good portion of Kansas and South Dakota grain. Now why shall not Nebrasia have Kansas local rates on grain if she can not have the lowa rawe? The only reason is the refusal of the Bur- lington, the Rock Island and the North- westorn systems to give Omahaa fair chanco to compste with Chicago and Kansas Cit; How much lmmel' will Nebras] submit to the ar- bitrary levy of high local rate How much longer will the Suite Board of Transportation continuo in deflance of public sentiment and in | violation of the repeated pledges of v.hc republican party to tolerato the impos tion of exorbitant burdens by the rail roads? Will the coming legislature dare to shirk its auty to carry out the mandate of the constituticn that re- quires them to establish reasonable freight and passenger rates? THE BEE voices the sentiment of the people of Neébraska, regarlless of party, in demanding s material reduction of local vates. This demand cannot be staved off much longer if wo judge tho temper of the people rightly. to FUEL IN E AMERICA. It is not impossible that the vast and apparently inexhaustible coal deposits in the United States may yet play a very important part in the commercial com- | petition botween this country land. It is well known that Ingland can produce only a small pary of the | food supply required by her people and that the only way in which the people | can be fed is by exchunging the products of the factories for the food products of other countries. It is clear enough that America must in | the future supply England with the greater portion of her bread and moat, and if reliance is to ba placed upou re- | cent estimates of the availablo English coal supply, it is reasonable to expect that in time, and perhaps beforo many years, wo siall have to supply England with many products in the manulacture of which chenp fuel is necessary. Observations recently made in Groat Britain by Bdward Atkinson, the well known statisticiun and economist, indi- te that the coal supply of that country rapidly approaching a state of tieal exhaustion; that is, that it is be- coming enormously expensive to mine on account of the great depths reached avd the small seams now worked, The increase in the cost of coal has amounted 1o $6,500,000 for that used by the British railways in a single yenr. [t is stated | that in many mines the larger veins have been driven so deep that they can be worked po longer, £othat the companics are compelled to fall back upon thin veins previously pussed as being too in- significant to be worthy of notice. The price of coal in London and at all of the factories using it has greatly increased, nnd the supply of coking coals used in the manufactur steol is upproaching exhavstion, Durhim mines aro 2,000 feot deop and | even at that depih the veins ave ouly [ two feet in thickness. The price of coke | for steel making is #5 a ton against $1.40 | in Virginia and $1.25 in Penvsylvania. All kinds of appliances for economizing ‘ fuc! have been adopted by British manu- | facturers, but the consumption of tho 1 | | of | The | supp'y that nature has planted under English soil must necessarily continue at un increased rate yoar by year unless science shall provide some cheap sub- stitute for coal as a fuel. 1t is not to be supposed that the actual quantity of coal hidden in the depths of | | and under | throttled t | 643, | 207 county jail prisoners in a million in- | of Kan ited | are North Dakota, | nesota is 1,693, W | Tnsu | In juvenflo reforinito joa’ and Eng- |~ | auspic | the chea | dation of conere | Chicago, Bur English sofl will toon be axhausted; the problem has to do only with the cost of gotting 1t out. Labor never can be chonper in that country than- it 18 now uniess human beings find a way to live without food or clothing or shelter from the elements, Nothing but labor can over uncover and bring to the light of day the coal that reposes thousands of fect deop in the bowels ot the earth. Hence it follows that tho cost of fuel must hereafter exaert an important in- | fluence upon manufacturing in Groat Britain. Men have often speculated upon this subject in the past and have been called idle theorists, But theoriz- ing does not send up the price of coal and it is certainly going up in England, with every prospect of going higher. The coni supply of the United States 18 80 vast that the mind cannot compre- hend it. Itis ily and cheaply mined normal conditions it can be sold cheaply. It will not always boe con- trolled by hungry monopolists but will be placed in the hands of the consumer at faiv and reasonable prices by reason of a lagitimate competition that is now combinations. Upon the abundance and cheapness of our coal supply will depend in great mens- ure the industrial future of this country, and it is not unlikely that the fuel question will have much w do with the contest for commercial suprem- acy botween the United States and | Great Bri AUPERISM has been favored by Mr. H. H. Hart, secretary of tha State Board of Correction and Charitios, with an ab- stract of the biennial report of the board (not yet published) in which are made very interesting comparisons by states and sections of crime, pauperism and insanity., The facts ara compiled, of course, from the last census and they presont n good showing for Nebrasku, only t2n states having a betterrecord as to the ramber of state convicts in a mil- lion inhabitanis, twelve as to the num- ber of county jail prisoners in a million inhabitants, five s to the number of in- mates of juvenile reformatories, and eleven as to the number of almshouse paupers in a million inhabitants. The number of state conviets in a mil- lion inhabitants credited to Nebraska by census bulletin No. 31 is 869, and among the states that have a better record are Minnesota with sin, 314; Towa, 326 ith Dakota, and North Dakota, 336 The ratio of Illinois is 538 and of Kansus ebraska is crodited with ) 12 habitants, and among the states that have a better record are Minnesota with 160, Towa 171, South Dakota 157, 3 is 303, Nebraska is given 224 inmates of juvenile reformatories in a million in- habitants, and among the states that bave a lower ratio are Minnesota with 218, Missouri 134, Kansas 146, and Tilinois 100. Nebraska is cred- with 275 almshouso paupars in a inhabitants, and The rati. million among the states that have a lower ratio 2; South Dakota, 161; Colorado, 211. Tho ratio of Min- nesota is 280, Towa, 848, and Kansas, 416, Of insane persons Nebraska is given 2 in 1,000,000 inhabitants, and but two northern states, Colorado and Wyoming, show a lower ratio. The ratio of Min- onsin, 2,083; Io 1,279; Kansas, 1,250; 1,215, and South Dakota, 1,675, Missouri, North Dakots 043, It an interesting fact that of tho surviving soldiers of the union army residing in Nebraska only 116 out of 10,000 ure in the soldiers’ home. No other state that has a state soldiers’ home shows so low a ratio. A summary of the foregoing facts is as follows: NUMBER OF PUBLIC CHAR OUT OF BACH MIL- LION OF THE POPULATION. va3u0)| uYNVIQAN Ul s = yioN oW ul Pris In county jals 'llnnw-nlunl\ howing, though it is to be hoped that in the next census Nebraska will stand still better in all these respects. STREET PAVING AND HOME LABOR. In un address at Chieago under the sof the department of political economy of the Northwestern univer- sity Charles 'I'. Davis discussed the sub- ject of public roads and strect pav- ing. His remarks upon the latter di- vision of his subject were of a practical character and evinced considerable familiarvity with a problem that has a deop interest for every city. One of the most crashing burdens resting upon the taxpayers of cities is that caused by the necessities of street paving. It is one of the burdens that cannot be shifted to the shoulders of futura generation, nor can it with avy profit to the tuxpayer | be lightened by the adoption of a tem- porizing policy. Experience has demon- strated in the city of Omaha and every whera else, that a poor pavement is more costly in the end than a good one, and the only question remuiuing is, what is t good paving muterinl? After reciting the objections to as- phalt, granite and wood M, Davis de- clares that vitrified brick is a form of paving material which fulfills all re- quirements, provided that it is made of the right kind of clay and properly burned and then laid upon a solid foup- . In the city of Chi- eago, in front of the freight depot of the gton & Quincy railroad, 15 & brick pivoment that has been in use | for three years, with an average of 4,000 teams passing over it every day, and yet it shows little or no signs of wear, coraing to the statements of the speaker referred to. , It is also stated that Galesburg, Ill., has bricl pavements that have been in use for more then nine years and have never required the expenditure of a single dollar in repairs. Philadelphia has over sixty miles of such puvements and Columbus, O., has mora than fifty miles. Some 800 cities and towns in the United States have turned to vitrified brick as the solution of the paving problem. For obvious reasons the production of ac- North Dakota 136, Wisconsin 205, | | upon others can do, they caunot safoly paving materiaf§ At home must be an ndvantage to the community using them. Omaha eannot produce her own asphalt or stone, but it has not beon domonstrated that there is not suitable clay for vitrified brick within onsy reach. Lincoln has an abundance | of it, and it is snid that a bed of the | snmo material Has lately been uncov ered at South Omaha. Much of the brick recently Iaid in our streets has | been imported from Missouri and els where. Its production athoms would give employment tg home labor, and as many miles of payements must be laid | in this city from year toyear for all time | to come, it is important that a material that seems destined to come into gen- eral favor should bo produced and laid by Omaha labor. From the standpoint of local interest and economy the sub- ject is worthy of consideration. PUBLIC B In the number and generosity of pub- lic benefactors this age sucpasses any that has precaded it, and in the list of philanthropists the United Siates leads every other nation. The explanation is to be found mainly in the greater dif- fusion of wealth, particularly in this country, whose wonderful development within a generation has multiplied the number of ve rich men an hundred fold; but the increase of ‘public ben- oficonce is in part due to a senti- ment of modern creation, which many men of wealth share; that the accumula- tion of riches is a trust in which the public has an interest; that when a man has amassed a groat fortune Yo which the public has contributed there is a reciprocal obligation imposed upon him, and while he is free to judge of the ex tent of the obligation it is in a sense hi: duty to return something to tho public. It is gratifying to believe vhat tho influ- ence of this sentiment is steadily grow- ing, and that wealthy men, at least in this country, are movo generally than ever hefore realizing their obligation in this respect und devoting more thought to the question of how they can hbest meet it for the public good. The munificent Eift just made to | Chicago by Mr. Philip D. Armour of an institute for manuel training, science and art; has served to again cali public attention t> what has been dono in recent years by men of wealth in the | way of public benefactions. A spirit of cynicism may find fault with the record as boing less extended than it should be, yet it is a checring one that inspires hopefulness of the futare. The establishment and liberal endowment of such educational institutions as the Drexel institute in Philadelphia, the Pratt institute in Brooklyn, and the Ar- | mour institute 1n Chicago, indicates a tendency in public benefactions which | cannot be too strohigly commended and | encouraged. The wealth that is devoted to advancing popular enlightenment | serves the highest purpose for which it can be employbd. It is practical philanthropy, the returns from which it is beyond the power of man to compute. The thousands who in tho years to come will go forth from the institutions estublished by Drexel and Pratt and Armour will exert a power in the world of science, urt ana mechanical | production of inestimable value and im- portancs, Other woalthy men have shown a no less generous interest in the cause of education. A few months ago »r, John D. Rockefeller gave $1,000,000 to the University of Chicago and has | contributed toother institutions of learn- | ing. Mr. Catnegie, who is a most carn- ost advocate of the idea that woalth is a trust and that its possessors owe o duty to the public in disposing of it, & few years ago -estublished a school of music in New York, provided for a great public library in Pittsbureh, and has in other ways shown his practical philanthrophy. The number of smaller gifts to aducational institutions would swell the list of benefactors to hundreds. Much more might be done in this direc- tion. All wealthy men are not equally generous, and some will not acknowledge any obligation to the public, but 1t is only just tosay that there isa great deal of true philanthrophy among the rich men of America—far mo-e, un- questionably, than in any other country. The encouraging fact in connection with this subject is the growing ten- deney among men of wealth intending to make public benefactions to put their purpose into effect during thair life- time. One of our greatest philanthro- pists, Me. George W. Childs, has pur- sued this course, and in a recent e he says, in reforence to the principle: s T have rarely in my life seen an estate admin- istered as I know its owner would have desived, T think that all rich men, par- ticilarly those who have no children to inherit their property, should spend their money themselves in order that they may be able to seo with their own eyes the good which the julicious spending of money upon othars can do.” [ The opinion of Mr. Childs 1n this mat- ter has the forco of oxpart testimony, and wealthy men with desizns of public beneficence will bs wise to give head to it. There is abundant experiencs to vindicate its wisdom. The puble bene- faction that 1s left to the care of others after the benefactor 13 dead is in danger of fuilure, partial or complete. It would "ba gratifying to be able to say that the rich men of Omaha bave shown an adequate vecognition of their obligations to the public as the custo- dians of wealth, but'such is not the case. With the exception of Mr. Joho A. Creighton, whose liberality as a public benelactor is not yet oxhausted, none of the rich men of this wity has shown any broad or generous phitanthropic interest in the public. Theg may contemplate doing 80, but if they would act upon the advice of Mr. Childs and have the grat- ification of seeing themselvss the good which the judicious spending of money ACTORS. postpone much longer the carrying out of their purpose. A NEW and interesting feature in the industrial lifé of Omaha is the chemical manufacturing concern recently estab- lished here, in which Dr. Mercer is in- terested, and for which he is responsible | a8 & prime mover. This is the only es tablishment of the kind in this country west of Indianapolis, Chicago having nothing like a complete plant for the manufacture of drugs and chemicals, At | | | freight bureau. | freight | it, | it would be worth all it ¢ | congress. 02—TWENTY- pment this utuh\lnhm«n\ omploys only eightoen workmen, but as soon as it is in porfect running order it will require tho services of at loast sevonty- five men. Not only will it increase the number of workingmon employed in this city, but it will also aford & mar ket for certain vegetable products in- | digenous to the soil of Nebraska and others that can be produced here, Thero is every reason to believe that this enterpriso will bo successful, and thero are scores of other industries that might be carried on in this city as profitably as elsewhere. All that is necded is a little enterprise and courage on the part of capitalists. The fleld is wide and offers opportunitios that ought not to be neglected. THE projectors of the canal by which a portion of the Platte river is to be brought to Omaha have already com- menced the work of surveying the route, which indisates that they mean business and do not propose to lose any time. Tho enterprise isan important one and its completion may mark the beginning of & new era in the industrial life of Omaha. Tho chief excuse given by the business men of this city for not | engaging moro extensively in manufac- turing is that fuel for power If this canal fulfills tions it will solve that problem ina groal measure. Omaha wants manu- facturing enterprises and must them if she is to properly fiil the p! which she occupios us the chief busi ness contor of an immense which development is rapidly going on. is too JRETARY NASON says that avery membor of the Board of Trade favors the proposed freight bureau, and that the opposition was directed against the motion to bind the board to a three- voar contract involving an annual ex- pense of $1,000 to mantain a If thers was wanting any evidence to show the narrow policy that has been pursued by the board haretofore, the board’s action in tiee burean matter proves it. The idea that a freight bureau can be main- tained for $1,000 a year is absurd. Five thousand o vear will be required to make the bureau of practical util- With a compef man in charge st. ent ThE railway postal clerks are sub- jected to greater peril in the perform- ance of their duties than any other cluss of government employes. Post- master General Wanamalker has several times recommended a system of pay- ments to the widows or minor children | of these hard worked public sorvants who may meet death it the lite of duty, the money for that purpose to be take from the funds arising from the fines of negligent clerks. The matter has re- ceived some attention from congress, but without vractical result. There can be no sound objection to the recommenda- tion of the postmaster general and the men in whose behalf it is made are worthy of such constderation. Tue adoption of pneumatic postal tubes in the larger citiesof the country, as recommendad by the postmaster gen- eral, ought to receive the attention of 1t is believed that the iutro- duction of these tubes would greatly en- hance the cconomy, convenience and efficiency of the the postal sorvice, and if the experience of European capitals is of any value the belief is well founded. It is an improvement cloarly in tho line of progress and there is no good reason for delaying its adoption. Chicago Tribune, Omaha is in the grasp of a powerful relig- ious revival. Omaha has been needing some- thiug of the kind for a long time, = A Popular Ehitadelphia Times, The only difficulty that prevents the economic law, “‘the est good for the greatest number,” belng put in operation is that so many people think the greatest num- ber is Number One. e The Fall of W hite Metal, Globe-Democ The legal ratio of value between silver and gold in this country is about sixtcen to one, but the commereial ratio is in the neigh- borhood of twenty-five toone. - Silver is now down near the lowest figure at which it has ever been quoted, i v Tk Assalling Party Vitals, St. Paul Pioneer-Press. There could be no better means of calling the attention of the democracy to th enormity of atrust than the ne of the price of enthusiasm, as the whisk: v done. A combination to raise the price of bread might be endured, but a blow like this at the very vitals of democracy is a different thing. Greed Balks Reform, Philadelphia Press. British stubbornness and British selfish- ness are the rocks upon which the int tional monetary conference seems likely to ngland, with her customary either to have the lion's accrue from the nder the whole work of The Future Great, Globe-Democrat, Another movement to_annex Brooklyn to New York has been started. The union of these two towns is undoubtedly a fact of the near future. They contain together about i hitants now, or more than are n the world except London. By 1l have passed beyond the 3,000,- inany ¢ 1000 they 000 marlk. e Getting Information, Judge. (stranger travelling What do they v up there for? saw them on trains in the west, wkson Dean (en-route to court of app Well, when they have a collision the man ' has orders to take down the Kill the injured, beeause in case of only #,000 is the limit of damages. e Plaints and Practice, New York Tribune, Those opulent democratic patriots who have spent o great deal of time during the last six months in lamenting at luxurious dinner tables the miseries of countl trodden American paupers, would s under a special obligation to relic and ndminister comfort during the blessed B h is now almost at haud We commend them to a lavish distribution of their resources, L On with th Washington Star, Mr. Knowlittle in New Yark)—~Why! ave that I never br: i ‘Tespor comments on the necessity for ample naval preparation. No man of intelligence needs a prophetic eye to see the troubles whi dy beclouding our relations in C and South Amer nd any diligent r o8 which the yg and the argument. Keep on building ships of war and spend more thuu a mere pittauce on the naval militia, | and deg | tation and being made expecta- | territory in | UR PAGES —— lnlnmnrmv. Harper's Weexty, Many darnest and patriotic men have of Inte oxpressed their alarm at the constantly swelling stroam of foreign immigration flow ing toward our shores, and the newspapers are teeming with articles and the debating clubs resounding with speechios on this topic Itis argued that our country has in the courso of time become too well settled to require many more for its dovel ment; that almost in the same moasure as our need of immigration diminishes, the number of immigrants landing sofl es: that as in quantity, i quality; th while for large majority of the imm grants consisted of desirable elements, such as the Germanic races and the Trish, now the number of Slavs, Hun garians, Russians and Ttalians pour ing in grows in alarming proportion we are receiving in large masses a kind of population which other countries are anx fous to et rid of : that, in short, the old world is dumping its refuse upon our soil; that many of the imm antsare so ign fgnors for upon ¢ imm fon grows nt of their native popu American citi rin labo aded as to permit no hopo bocoming aseimilated with the that with them they ! ruinous compotition to our zens not only a ng people, | butalsoa seed of anarchism and other subyver sive tendencies, and outlandish notions dan gerous to our political system and - social orders and that in view of all this it is neces savily greatly to restrict, if wot enti o prohibit, immigration in order 1o save this public from serious trouble 1t will be admitted by every faiv-minded man, whether or not he accepts all these ations qs true, that the great steain of nt immigration has brought us ¢ number of persons whose v does not appear desirable on mental and moral _coudition people are they ! luss of unskill k which ability or prey doing_the rough loast{ntellectual And why do they come in such numbers? “This isa question which has not received in the discussion of the general subject the consideration it de The great mass of unskilled labor ers come to the United States because son body wants to employ them here. And when ve ook at the m closely, we whole community wants them for a ser- ot be dispensed with matter of common observation that tive Americans en their daily bread by wds s constantly de s son, who, mstead Lying npon his father's acres, or of acquir farm for himself to walk behind the Plow, runs away to town to tey his fortune in s upation which will not harden his 1 his skin, is no longer an_e but is fast becoming the rule. The An 1 no longer likes to dig ditches, or to work on the highways, or to throw up railroad embankments, or' to do the rough work in coul mines. But this class of work has to be done, and somebody has to be found to do it; if not the native American, then somebody else. 1t is idle to” say that the native American is crowded out of such empl ut by the competition of the for- eign immigrant who is willing to work for lower wages; for the number of An who would perform that sort of w rd work with their asing. The farme :ption, an indispensable service for which s needed the laborers for this indispens- wn_from every class of The bulk of the immi- generally regarded but asade- to the new states in the themselves to agricultural se who do not come here to ate the soil mostly settle down in towns hants or mechanics or small trades- But fow Germans are willing to join lowest ranks of labor-not as if shunned hard work, but because it ambition as soon as possible 1o be- come independent, to found permanent homes and to improve their condition in a methodi The same may be s: of Swedes. The I im- many of whom were ong” the workers hovel, are gradu- from that kind of rms or to _en in “The upshot of all thi that the labor here mentioned has to re- cruit itself very la ¥, if mot altogether, from that class of foreign immigrants which is considered the most undesirable, aud that, however objectionable that cluss muy be in other res put to a use which can- not be dispensed with. In dealing with the question of immigra- tion we h therefore, to deal at the same time with ocial condition which will be found practically to stand in the way of all sweeping measures of restriction Although there is at present a very sirong and widespread feeling among our people favoring such sweeping measures, yet it is not probable that this feeling will find ex- pression in logislation equally sweeping. While readily admitting that in point of numbers we are receiving much more immi gration than we need, yet we cannot close our eyes to the fact that it is extremely difeult, if not impossible, to devise a plan of restriction, the practical execution of whic would mot in a large measur exclude the desirable immigrat together with the undesirable, The actment of such plans into law would in ably result in a conspiracy of very import and powerful interests to evade ‘therm. the same reason the enactment of such laws will turn_out to be politically impra 5 The probubility is that we shall have to 0 men. the they 100, found with pick and ally withdrawing cmployment to go to other oceuy | whom | tion cease their hunt fo | the } bility for the find that | | churches wil ke the best of the las as It stands, &x- cluding paupors, idipts, oriminals and so oty perhaps to strengthi it by judiclous amends ments, keoping in view the Hmits of oxisting possibilitios and to employ evory moans a! forded by out political and social (et tions o lead the obstreperous forelgn alements upon the path of wnl |||m‘l hip. This task will, especially as 1o ond generation, appear far loss hor it now scoms, if woll taken in hand. In the meantimo we should deprecate the extray gant notion at present entertained by many well-menning peoplo that all the ills of our. political and social condition are owing to the influx of ignovant and depraved persons from abroad. Thase who b ground wholly misconceive the or ture of many existing evils, and will it to overlool necessities of reforniand improvement whiclh lie in an entirely different divection e SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Jay Gould complished no public good du time, but cort Chicago Post have aoe g his life it is that the public is not Denefited by hearing his memory abused from the palpit Philadelphia Ledger: Fvangelist Moody's opinion thut the prayers of himself and fel- 10w passcugers saved the Spree from going 10 the bottom of the sen isnot very widely nfirmed, oven by clergymen, many of shrewdly conelude that the work ot the captain and crew had something to do with it There must be watehing as well as prayin 20 Dispateh au o Colonel Robert G. Tn. ress to the admirers of ovening, summed up the cruside in this pointed quess 1 the ministors had their way and were constituted a legislature to make the laws which they thought necossary, wh Lask vou, would you prefer to live,” here ina well regulated penitentiary New York Herald: 1f the chur horesy Sabatasinn or s would und combine for edomption of the tempted the world ould rise under a new impulse. Our jous people cannot evade their responsi- vils of which they complain. ¢ isu't much use in preaching about rell herenfter until we clean up some of little hells within a stone's throw of our own doors, Washington Star usly daring sug that ehur and much more Itmay be n scandal- stlon, but it is none the s Wwould be more popu- comfortable if they were tilated as carefully as arve all stylish liquor saloons and high grade restaurints. Steam heat and not too much of it in winter and electrie fans in summer may seem some- what radical, but the time s coming when be oquipped with these com- forts Philadelp claint that the st Wils 1 passenger, prayer naturaily ber'of Boston elergy nations who have b subject. The eficac ituil sense is not mong men of any ¢ angelist Moody's on which e ved by the power of ridicule of a num- nof various denomi- in 1 on the of prayer in the spir- a debatable question o but the power of human beings to make the ways of Provi- dence conform to their own short-sighted ways in matters strictly material by mere act of petition is a vastly differen , Any assumption of the latter prerogative would savor far more of cgotism t CUHE OMAHA Oxama, Dee. 16 BOARD OF TRAD. To the Editor of T Beg: A time clo under the above head was read with interest, no doubt, by mora than oue outside the membership of that body. It covers a line of thought often sug- gested to the business man who is mterested in the success of its effor There ave many men now actively engaged in business here who came to our city somo years after the board was organized, and no doubt a few of them can reeall some action or effort of the ba means of th must give this ing the growth ng this location. tion credit for help- Ly of the citv in the past. v do for the busi- ness men in the future remains to b The commereial intercsts we hav ill make the nec v commotion supported in thei y any other organi s men now well known be the latter alternative jur Board of Trade scems to have become 1 with fi success that a bro: its divide Our esent i but ouly in par ado justify the effort tions a fight must be competition that spes on acquired torritor, new arguments to customers in this disputed te must have the same argumen tages that have been held over us so long then what is ours by right will be ours in their “tion l'lum tho avenues does In the other divec- hould contain n whose ef- ul; whose I'support in bring the greatest silroad — interests should bo men training in rail- The dircetory of the board men, who ean’ control men- forts have made them suc thusiasm and ener confidence. In order to effort to bear upon our some of the dir wio had s¢ voad worle as oficials (or near them) 50 they would know of their own personal knowledgze how to meet and oy come the det are comnceted with the question, We have such among our busines men whose tact_and knowledge would be the advantage of our A manufs association has grown up among us of men who see and Know our present requirements. Each of these bodies could be benefitted by co-operation. Why not ronize home industry” (with emi- phasis on industry) in selecting the new flendwm’nc,kms@ & Largest Manufacturers and co. Rotuilors of Clothing tn the World, Oh, my eye What-a sale we've had this week. Going to ulsters. you see. and ulsters. carried good suits for $2.50, splendid ones for $5, Well, the $6 ones are $2.50, a square cut of 3g. $6 sort are $3. Same with boys' overcoats and $5 overcoat for $2.50. are only two or three sizes in each sort. That's why we cut 'em so deep. break jn price in broken lots of men's overcoats keep it up, too--for a few days, anyway, be- cause there are some boys' odd lots yet. Many came to see if it was so and found it so, for its always so when we say its so. You know we always SoSeENERAE The $6 ulster $3. There Broken, Big BROWNING, KING & CO., Store open evory evening till . | Baturday till 10, §. W. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts,