Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 22, 1893, Page 4

DAILY BEE. Editor. A G THE —_— F. ROSEWATER, e TIN PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, h TER SUNSCRIPTION Puu\'l ro (v Ithout Bundyy) One Year. Dally and Sunday, One Year Bix Month Thre onth: Bunday Ree, One Ye Eaturdny o, One Yenr Weeldy fieo, One Year OFFICES Omnha, The I Bullding. Routh Oninha, cor N ' 1 18lafrs, 1 arl ago Office, 817 Chany New York, Rooms 13, Bullding Washingt , #.800 10 00 600 ) 50 ) 00 d 26th Streets. or of 14 and 15, n, 518 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. g All communientions relating to nows ane editorinl matier should be nddressed to the Editorial Depurtinent BUSINESS LET 3 8 4 usiness lofters and remittances shoule iy 1 Y Anlishing Company, toffiee orders of the com- DIG Lo’ the pany. i TH PUBLISHING COMPANY. BWORN STATEMENT OF OIROULATION Btate of Nebraska, County ot Do, . Taschuck, s treutation of THE 21, crotary of THe BEp ssolemnly swear that DAILY BEr for 1893, was as 'k ending Junuary follows: 3,909 vy, Janir 702 fanunr ay, Junuary Baturdiy, January 2 GEOR y me and subseribed 2st diy of January, 1893 1. FEIL, No 3B TZ80HU Bworn to in resence thi Piseat] N my Average Cireulation for De AN ENGLISH journal every president of the except Harrison, has had blue eyes. This discovery ought to greatly simplify the work of our national corventions in the future. United States, Ir soME of those New York news- papers do not stop saying damaging things about the World's fair the publi will begin to believe that the metropolis of the new world discovered by Colums bus is not too great to be slightly envious | of Chicago FRANCE should V all the fortitude sk an command and not make the wretched mistake of ¢ pelling the forcign newspaper corre- spondents who comment upon the Panama scandal. Publicity means puri- fication in this case. A NEW gun has been Invented by Dr. | Gatling of Gatling gun fame which will shoot 2,000 shots per minute. At the present rate of progress in this direction it will not be long before a bloody war can be begun and ended within a space of twenty-four hours, THE trade of England and other Eu- ropean countries with Central and South America during 1892 was less than in 1891, while that of the United States was largely i ased. The credit isdue 10 the policy of reciprocity inaugurated by the Harrison administration. THE project to unify the towns ad- Jacent to New York with the metropo- lis, making a mighty city of more than 8,000,000 souls, is now very seriously considered. It would result ina great centralization of municipal power, but " would not much change existing condi- tions in other respects. THE first year's results of the new in- come tax in Prussia show that out of @ population of 30,000,000 only 2,435,858 persons possess an income of over $225 a year. Only 10,698 persons have incomes exceeding 37,000 a year. Prussia does not eompare very well with the United Btates in the matter of incomes, Ir TAKES the whole judiciary com- mittee of the council to carry a copy of the eharter amendment measure to Lincoln for the purpose of having it introduced. The question naturally suggests itself whether Omaha has any representatives in the legislature, and, if so, whether any one of them could not be intrusted to take a copy with him down to Lincoln, ENGLAND seems disposed to enforce her protectorate over Egypt without re- gard to the feelings of the young khe- dive, who is anxious to be ruler in fact as well as in name. Ho has lately brought about the appointment of an anti-English ministry, and Great Britain demands that this ministry be dismissed. There is no doubt that the demand will be complied with without interference on the part of other European powers. A BILL has been passed by the Indiana legislature making it a misdemeanor for employers to threaton employes for belonging to labor organizations. Per- haps such a measure may not be neces- sary, as it certainly bught not to be, but in any event it is clear that an em- ployer has no right to threaten his em- ployes for anythiug that is not injurious to his interests. Mombership in a labor organization does not in itself injure anybody. THE idle workingmen of Europe, who ave suffering for bread because thoy cannot find employment, will soon find that their case is greatly prejudiced by the public demonstrations into which they are being led by the socialists. The latter are not content with street parades, which are perfectly harmless, but are constantly inciting the real workingmen to deeds of violence which have to be forcibly prevented by police intervention. This places the needy workingmen in a bad light and to some degree alicnates public sympathy. IT APPEARS that the prevailing senti- | ment among the members of the Manu- facturers association is in favor of hold- | ing another exposition in Omaha next June, though the matter has not yet been fully decided. It would seem as if there could be no question as to the wis- dom of keeping up theso annual exposi- tions, the initial gne last year having proved successful beyond the expecta- tions of its projectors. The question of & suitable building in which to hold an exposition this year is a serious-one, the old colliseum building being in such a condition that it is thought to be hardly available, but it is to be hoped that this difficulty may be met in some way. Let there bo no break ln the series if it can be avoided. | pointing out the surely,” | add a provision thy be | ing in this powe | tracting © her disgrace with | PERMANENT TENURE FOR JUDICIARY. Justice Brewer of the supreme of the United States delivered an dress a few days ago before the S Bur association of New York in which he advoeatod permanence of tenure of judicial offico. The subjoet he d ssed is cortainly a most importar the views of the distinguish worthy of sorions considol conditions O ad- Ao one fon. After which necessary a judiclal establishment part of the powers of ment, Justice Brewer said the ques- is whether, in view of this exigency, the fu of the judiciary should be strongthened and enlarged or weakened restricted. The great body of he as well versed in der as gov- fons and juc said, are | the affaivs of life as any body of men and they who unravel all the mysteries of accounting between partners, settle the business of the largest corporations, and extract the truth from the mass of scholastic verbiage that falls from the lips of expert witnesses in patent cases will have no diffic in determining what right and between em: ployer and employ tions of public right What ought to be done, in the opinion Justice Brewer, is to strengthen the and this can be accomplished manent And said Brewer, “if the judges held office by a life tenure, and with a y which cannot be it would seem as though had a tribunal as far removed from disturbir influences as possible, though if I were to perfect the judiciary system I would t they should also be incligible to political office and to that extent free from political ambition.” Ifit d that this is practically substitut- ing government by the judges for gov- ernment by the people, the proposition involves, said Justice Brewer, a total misunderstanding of the relations of judges to government. There is noth- of the judiciar; in the least from the id government of and hy the people. courts hold neither purse they cannot corrupt nor arbitrarily con- trol. They make no laws, they establish no polic They never enter the domain of popular action. They do not govern, is wrong and other ques- e tenurs of office. Justice we nor sword; | Their functions in relation to the state ction | ave limited to seeing that popular does not trespass upon right and justice as it exists in written constitutions and atural law. The impending social changes which must come from a wide popular unrest must be guided in justice to safety and peace, or they will culminate in revolu- i said Justice Brewer. But as against all the schemes of anarchism or alism, or any other plot or vagary of fool or fanatic, the eager and earnest protest and cry of the Anglo-Saxon is for individual freedom and abso- lute protection of all his rights of person and property. *“And to help and strengthen that good time,” said the uished jurist, “we shall yet see in every state an independent judiciary, made as independent of all outside in- fluences as is possible, and to that end given a permanent tenure of office and an unchangeable v.” It may be a Tong time before this prediction is real- ized, but there can be little doubt that at some peried of the future the people will come to understand that the condi- tions to a pure and incorruptible judi- iary, holding all interests unswery- y true to the mandates of justice, are those which Justice Brewer sets forth. COMMON OWNERSHIP OF STOCK. The common ownership of stock among corporations ostensibly engaged in com- petition with each other may become under certain conditions as inimical to the interests of the people as trusts and combinations to destroy competition. This view is taken by Chancellor McGill of New Jersey in considering the case of the New Jersey Central Railroad company, which has recently announced its withdrawal from the Reading coal combine and appealed to the court for the discontinuance of the proceedings for the appointment of a receiver. Previous to this announce- ment the chancellor had filed his opinion on the application, deciding every point in favor of the attorney general and ordering that a receiver be appointed to enforce the decree of the court. But he has now appointed a master in chancery to ascertain whether the com- bination has in fact been given up by the New Jersey Central, and has deferred the appointment of a receiver pending the report upon this question, The duty devolving upon the master in chancery will be to determine whether a common ownership of stock does not make the two systems practically one in interest, whatever their relations may outwardly appear to be. This is a que tion of fact not easy to decide. It will not be difticult for the New Jersey Con- tral to make a showing of competition, or even hostility against the Reading while this inquiry is in progress, and after it is ended and the decision has been given in its favor it can easily back into line with the combination, so far as the matter of prices is concerned, while maintaining an outward attitude of independence. It is the belief of many that the efforts of the New Jersey authorities will, after all, prove unavailing, and that the coal roads will in future co-operate without any formal union, being held together by the common interest resulting feom common ownership of stock. By this listurbed, | and | d jurist are | ren- | good faith will go to the bottom of the matter and that strict justice will be done. The New Jersey authorities have shown that they are in no for trifling, and the most thorough and ef- foctive disposition of this cas possible under the law is to be expected. ART IN OMAHA, y citizen of Omaha who takes an t in the progress of art here and mood Ey intere its value as an educational appreciates | influence will be gratified to learn that the W recently tern Art assoeiation, which until has existed as a voluntary or- ganization, has been incorporated and | proposes to sustain a school and a public get | means the letter of the law may be evaded | while its spirit is violated to the same extent as it would be if the leases were continued and an open combina- tion maintained And if this plan would work in the case of the coal alliance, why would it not be equally practicable in the case of some other corporations in which there is or may be common ownership of stock? An obvious diffi- culty in the way of such an arrangement would be the dissatis- | faction lisble to arise at any time among individual stockholders, which might bring the matter into the courts; but it would doubtless be possible in some cases to cheat justice and rob the people by such a plan as that which the New Jersey Central is suspected of cherishing. It is to be hoped that the master in chancery appointed by the New Jersey court to sift this question of | | communi Omaha | the coal markets gallc As will be seen by reference to n article. elsewhere in this issue, the association has marked out a compr | hensive policy for promoting the cause in which it is engaged. The Acad- emy of Fine Arts has been placed under able directors, and its equipment is complete as that of any other similar thool outside of the larger eastern cities, while its course of study is as thorough as could be desived. The student will be given every opportunity to d his or her talent, and a valuable featy of the instruction will cou of lectures to which students will be ad- mitted without charge. The establish- ment of a public art gallery isa most important part of the plan of the asso- clation, which it is promised will be put into effect in the near future, and the annual exhibitions of art will be made ©lo] be ¢ much more attractive by veason of the | ability now possessed by the association to bring to Omaha paintings and other works of art from the art centers of the country. The Western Art association ought to receive the generous support of our citi- zens. The gentlemen who are its incor- porators have gone into the work in a wholly unselfish spirit. They are devo- tees who earnestly believe in the refin- ing and elevating influence of art upon a and who have faith that can be made an art center of which her people will be proud, and which will attract lovers of art from a mof country. We have doubt that this faith is w we expecet to find it presently shown to be 50 by a hearty and generous support of the Western Art association that wiil enable it to carry out all of its plans at rliest time practicable. no THE GRAS IPOLY. The report of the congressional com- mittee that investigated the Reading anthracite coal combination shows it to be one of the most complete monopolies ever established in this country. The process of absorbing the coal lands by the railroads has continued until the great bulk of the output, said to be fully 95 per cent, is directly or indirectly con- trolled by the railroad companics, Individual and independent mine owners do a very small por- tion of the anthracite coal producing business, and the tendency says the report, with increasing force, is in the direction of the entire absorption of the anthracite coal fields and collieries by the common cavriers which transport the product to market. Although the committee was not able to develop any direct stipulation, con- tract, agreement or arrangement be- tween the transportation companies, it could not do otherwise than reach the conclusion that the railroad companies engaged in mining and trans- porting coal are practically in a combination to control the output and fix the price which the public pays for this important and necessary article of consumption. There is substantially no competition existing between these companies. There can be no reasonable doubt as to the correctness of these con- clusions or as to the fact that this rapa- cious monopoly, if something be notdone to break its grasp, will in another year have the anthracite coal consumers of the country absolutely at its mer It will drive out the few remaining inde- pendent producers and absorb what little coal lands it does not now control, and this having been done it will plunder the public more relentlessly than ever. The committec suggests that the only islation which seems expedi- ent would be, as far as practicable, to protect the individual and independent mine owners and producers from ex- orbitant and destructive di mi ion, and thereby enable them to compete in with the transporta- tion companies. Inorder to do this the committee recommends that the inter- state commerce law be amended to meet the effect of the Gresham Counsel- man decision, and that the long and short haul elause be made applicable to railroads which form commecting lines. These amendments to the law have been adopted by the house of representatives and will undoubtedly pass the senate. In that case the Interstate Commerce commission will be able to give protec- tion to individual and independent pro- OF MO | ducers to the benefit of the general pub- lic. An interesting portion of the commit- report, which should have the caveful attention of law makers gen- rally, refers to the acquisition by trans- portation companies of property not necessary to the business of a common which characterized as growing and dangerous evil. The that the railroad companies, s port of the committee, are in one way or another absorbing the timber, coal and iron lands of the country cannot be dis- guised, and that such ownership tends directly to monopoly and oppression apparent to every student of commerce. This presents a question which should receive the attention of state legis- latures, which alone are capable of pro- viding a remedy. DO PAY TO BUILD THEM? Specific examples of the benefits ac- cruing from the building of good roads are not very plentiful in the United States, systematic road construction upon improved plans having thus far been but little practiced in this country; but in all instances where road improvement has been undertaken the results have abun- dantly justified the expense by cutting dowu the cost of transporting farm pro- ducts to market and enhancing real estate values. A case in point is re- ported from Union county, New Jersey, where forty miles of good rock roads | B T — that is | | advance 21l founded and | wero built in 1880 and 1800, and this flustration s T Bne respoet peouliarly appropriate in vr wast, for the condi- tions affecting rodd construction in that | part of New Jawey, which is for the greater part flat, with a yielding soil, are much the sagaas are to be found on the prairvies of Ne¥raska. The forty miles of roads under consid- eration cost abowt £350,000, or less than 1 per cent upon; the valuation of property in the ¢punty at the time they were built. Sin¢é they were completed farm lands have advanced from b6 to 25 per cent in value and building sites from 50 to 300 per cent. The addition in value to the property through which the roads pass is said to have been not less than $1,500,000 in a year and a half, and this embraces less than the territory in the county. ase in taxes upon this sum alone will pay the yearly intevest on the cost of the roads and leave enough, if put at interest, to discharge the entire bonded debt as it falls due The increase in the value of building sites within a short distance of New York City might be in 1 accounted for without cogsic ng the improved roads as a factor at all, but the B in farm lands is due almost wholly to improved facilities for mar keting the products of the farm. In other words, the lands are worth more because they will yield a greater profit for the labor of the husbandman, But it is not alone the farmer who receives benefit. Chauncey B. Ripley, a promi- nent New York lawyer, who resides the New Jorsey road has dences taxable unty in which these improvements have been made, this to of them: The evi- of improvement are to bo scen on every hand. We have come to regard the excellent roads of Union county as contributing incomparably more to our present prosperous condition than any other agency. To one unfa- miliar with our road reform the trans- formations, which are real and substan- tial, would seem to be the work of en- chantment. The husbandman, the me chanic, the merchant, the genc citi- zen, whatever his calling or occupation, is satisfied and delighted with the road system. He emphatically deel that the roads are worth more than they cost, and, therefore, that good roa f This is the opirion, so far as is known, of every citizen of Union county. There is no one who would substitute the old condition for the new and have his money back. Thisis the result of the work of three years. here is nothihg exceptional about this case. In the'pain it may be taken as a fair example of what road improve- ment is capable of accomplishing. Doug- las county has $150,000 to spend in road building this year and the taxpayers of the county are certain to derive a hand- some return for their money. The country road movement is gaining great force all over the country{ conventions ave being held and organizations formed, and the agitation is proceoding with vigor and with promise of practical results wher- it has be started. Nebraska needs improved rogds as much as any other staté, and a more Fenerdl awaken- ing of her people to its importance is necessal Counties, townships and school districts can carry this work forward without awaiting the ue of the present effort to establish a national road department. new ever WHILE this countr anticipate war than any other in the world, it is gratifying to know that the war vessels of the United States carry the best armor ever made, our ste armor plates having been shown by r peated tests at home and abroad to be superior to any other. The London En- gmeer gives an account of a trial in which the American plate was brought into competition with four rivals representing the highest Euro- pean advancement in armor construction and easily proved its superiority. Nearly every projectile had sent its point through European plates, but not one could penetrate more than a few inches into the American plate. In order to decide whether the latter could be perforated at all it was decided to em- ploy a ninc-inch gun with a projectil ighing 406 pounds. i@ journal r ¥ trial: nine-inch prc weighing 406 pounds, was fired with a striking ve- locity of 1,655 feet per second from the 35-caliber gun. This penctrated and broke up, fracturing the plate in fissures running from the previous points of impact, but no part of the plate fell, no bolts tere broken, and only one bent. A second similar nin, inch projectile was fired with a strik- ing velocity of 1,889 feet per second. This broke up, but brought down the whole plate in fragments, together with the woodwork and backing. The shell point, which was broken, just reached the wrought iron skin behind the back- ing.” This test demonstrates that the American armor plates are incompar- ably superior to any others in the world, With such armor owr battle ships have nothing to fear from those of other na- tions. \n ‘introduced in the s praposing a bounty for We do there is for the BILLS have b state legislatur the production of su: not know what adoption of such legislation, but that it would have a good éffect in stimulating an industry which it is desirable to pro- mote there can be no question. The action of the lastlegislature in repeal- ing the beet sugar bounty was a mistake. There is every reaspy to believe that if the bounty had :been retained Ne- braska would “How be growing double the amount of sugar beets that were raised last year and that we should have in the state several more sugar refineries than there are. Nobody who has given the subject intelligent consideration doubts that this can be de- veloped into a most important and profit- able industry, giving prosperity to hun- dreds of farmers and employing a large amount of labor, but it must have en- couragement. What FEuropean coun- tries found to be necessary in order to develop their sugar industry is no less essential here, and as all those countries have found great advantage from their policy industry there is every reason to believe that Nebraska would find a like policy ' bee chance the | in | in building up this | beneficial. This state is capable of pro- ducing sugar beets equal to the best in the world and in quantities sufficient to supply a large demand. It manifostly | would bo a great mistake to pormit so | promising a source of prosperity to abandoned or to fall short of the devel- ypment of which it is capable, be | THE results of inguirics made in this country and abroad by the United States comimssioner and his agents concerning the advantages of industrial education will be made known ina port soon to be transmitted to congress. Commissioner Wright took up this work a means of supplementing his statis- tical reports with information relat- ing to manual training as practi cal under different systems in this country and FE and with the view of contributing something of practical value to the discussion of this important subjeet. The report will resent a detailed review of the progress of manual training in the United States and in 1 1o, and will show the results that have been achieved in the prepara- tion of young men for occupations iring skill that can only be attained Commission as made departure | from the conventional lines of statistical work during the past year or two, not the least important of which is this in- quiry into the subject of industrial train- ing. The country needs and must always need killed men, and loi as this is true th will be a ptublic in- terest in systems of manual training and the results which they are accomplish- ing. or ope, several wor 80 THE penalty of civil degradation, which is likely to be imposed upon the deputies guilty of corruption in con- nection with the Panama canal frauds, provides that a man against whom it is pronounced cannot be either a juryman, an expert, a professor, a guardian, a member of a family council, a soldier or a witness at a trial, and in addition to these disabilities he may be imprisoned for a term not exceeding five While this may not seem very | punishment for such an infamous ¢ | as these men is in reality grace that could be inflicted upon a F'renchman to be brought under the operation of this law. The trial now in | progre 1y exposing more rotten- ness. A list containing the names of those implicated shows that more than 100 of the deputies were beneficiaries of the Panama fund in amounts varying from 1,000 to 300,000 francs. The pun- ishment of all who were concerned in this gigantic robbery will relegate a large number of precious scoundrels to disgrace and oblivion, but it will not restore their stealings to the pockets of their poor victims, ye severe ime of, it dis- accused the deepest are UNDER the provisions of the Geary law, which became operative last Ma, registration of all Chinamen in this country is rendered compulsory under penalty of deportation to their native country. The time allowed by the law for such registration is one year, so that the penalty will have to be enforced in a few months in all cases of noncompli- ance. Thus far scarcely any of the Chinamen have complied with the law, and in nearly all éases' wheie influerices have been brought to bear to induce them to do so they have refused. Tt is estimated that the cost to the United States government of sending home the Chinamen in this country would exceed $10,000,000. There is little probability that congress would provide such a sum of money for this undertaking, and it therefore looks as if the law would prove a dead letter. The Chinese problem is not yet solved. Nebraska Fuarenish Norfolk N 3 Sioux City has made up its mind to hs corn palace this fall. Nebraska will help furnish the corn to decorate and contribute coin to help pay forthe corn, as she has in the past. ©: e and Effoct, Chicago News, Mr. Edward Murphy, jr., has_been duly elected to the senate froy New York. M Cl smile as he takes his meaicine is expecte me of the masteriy cfforts of his administration. 3 — Henrl the Popular. Kansas City Journal, If the United States senators were electod by a vote of the ne Colonel Henry tterson would be unanimously chosen to represent Kentucky for the remainder of Mr. Carlisle’s term e ed to Bitterness, Boston Globe, The man who only a year or two ago an- nounced that the gulf stream had turn ward the coast of New England und th climate was speedily undergoing tropicali tion has not been heard from of late. nd Humbugs. {eago Tribune, Mr, Trude s ives assurance t intention of compromising with pro of the fads in the pablic schools. is most gratilying. The mud pie making fad isnow sure to go. The faddist cannot save it. as no the rk Adv rtiser. Senator Warren of Wyoming expre confidence that the republicans will be to defe cheme to steal the senatorship from that state young, ardent, honest and body the just such a to him, man us - e Liquid Persuasion in Italy, New York Tribune, It is notonly in the United States that reating constitu n important feature of elections. According to the statistics which have just been published in Rome concerning the cost of the recent general clection in it appears that over £2,000000 was ad. In some districts tk nd wine without stint at andidate nse for an entire we before the election, and one candidate is t have spent no less than £20,000 for ele cxpensos of this particular’ charg view of the extraordinary cheapness of Italian wine, the £2,000,000 mentioned in the statistics represents a quantity of alcoholic liquid almost sufticient to submerge the en- tire city of Rome. ~ The Logle of St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The best thing about old Ben Butler was his keen enjoyment of the hatreds bestowed ubon him, and the fact that he never went out of his way to placate an enemy. his faults, of course; indecd we know person outside of the mocrat ofice who is wholly without r, what is the next best condition to his faults but does not_acknowledge them; but when But- ler's faults are put in the scale | virtues they seem quite trivial. Kme did uot tell the whole truth when he that all the world loves a loy He have added that all the world loves | too—that is to say, a good, strong, on | cilable hater, like' Benjamin F. Butler, and | we may add, like U, S. Grant and Koscoe hater, He had | of no | against his | Conkling also. A man should love such eno- mies e may have among women and chil- dren; indeed, he should have no enemios | t among women or children ; but when it comes to his own sox and hisown equals in lifo and station he should do no loving of his enemies until he has first got even with them. Love and hato are the obverse and roverso sides of the same modal, and the strong haters are always, under 'tho necessary change of conditions and persons, the strong love ada’s Crashing Debt. Boston Journal. s For a community which aspires to inde- | § pendence the Doniinion of Canada makes a | | sorry flwancial showing. 1t would seom tho | | part of discrotion, before attempting to sot up in business alone, for the country to demonstrate its ability to take care of itself, | DS wife who had spent yet the oficial financi year ending June 80 s follows, as stated by the Ottawa Free Press: “An’ in crease of over #,000.000 in the gross debt of the Dominion; an increase of in the net debt; a decrease of &1 nue. while the expenditure was increased nearly 800,000, The total expenditure last year, capital and ordinar) 2,872,318, and the total revenue ' 1 d debt on June and the net debt 24,1 debt of the Do- | t minion is more than one-qus as | 0 that of the United § ing, while that of Canada The population of Canada twelfth that of the could Canada get alon 't Britain? statehood. atement for the is increasing about one- | p United States, How | h if she cut loose from | F Self-support should go be- i Sunday Laws and the stitutlo .“ Washington Post. le It is perfectly clear to our mind that con. gress will g invade the liberties of the people and violate the spirit of the oc tion when it begins to enact laws pr !'ul s of conduct for the individual In this country is authorized to actas mentor | 4 for his neighbor; no lawmaking body g legislate men into church The 1 our liberties fled from just such tyraunic nd il!l4'1\- able tyranny as Colonel Shepal nd his coadjutors are now endeavoring to f ir blood will have been shed in vain if such 1 enterprise su Open the fair, or rathe ve the managers free to govern it as the Postponeas far as | | be the first blow at the sacred rights of | & men, 1 stitu- | vibing | g isslo; snort Washington Dispateh to the ¢ o Sergeant-at-arms Vi B aska by the vepub- | P’ mmittee with the hope | ©! to untangle the sena- and bring about the | P 1 senator. Mr. Valen- | © iber of “the house of he may be able s Manderson and | in ing him clected | W the senate. He has an | 1 ave more strength in the | b h islature than either Senator | 5¢ Paddock or John M. Thurston, both of whom | are struggling to get a majority of the votes | 8 by a combination with the populists, a - - i Bring Your Reform, iu Chicago Inter Ocean, Watterson queries: “What s *d about sugar that it should not be ta ' Nothing, colonel, absolutely nothing. It is a sweet morsel which tou the nation's tongue, but go right in the tax and “down’ the robbe ft that oppresses the poor man,” and makes him quarter of a cent more for his : pail faucets and bungs, but knock in the head of the barrel, and, as it were, scoop thiugs cording to the rules of the Chicago demo- cratic platform t he may Colonel there sa hes popon | W b Keep Them at Home, Atkinson Graphic (rep, While the Graphic does not believe in drawing the sex line too taut in the ploy- ment of public servants, yet wise discretion would dictate that the state leg should not debase the moral status of female purity by bricging it in contact with the im- moral microbes that swarm in the state house at ev session of the legislature. Manhood is debased enough by such assoc s without dragging womanhood into the infected mire that biennially impregnates | w the moral atmosphere at the state capitol. s0 e ms S i w s Lorenzo Crounse is governor of Nebraska, én though the bickerings of a spoils-seek- ing legislature postponed the event for a fow | .4 s. Now look for some good appoint- ments—no hackneyed and warty leeches who have lived for years on public’ pap, but ans, honest and all, men. If it were wise the governor would be a great dis- appointment, ey How Jersey Does It. Minneapolis Journal, New Jersey imposes no state tax except for public school purposes. The revenue last year was $1.573,854.15, of which $1,500,- 000 was der from the railroad tax and the tax on corporations, The collateral in- heritance tax yielded §21,508, New Jersey | OO makes very good corporations if | be they do sometimes run her legislature, y ———— of Earned a Rew: Pt Globe-Democrat. There is not a word bein land's duty to do something for Gemeral Weaver, and yet he is more indebted to that unique person for his election than to any other one individual in the country, i, Dana on O1d Jerusal New York an tell the Am vho are about to make a they will find it lal m aid about Cleve- | fic sh ci an I de to trip rth espocially if, bofore gofn edgo with the re tates, which is diminish. | the best? winds u populist No one | to interprot the | inders of | coptain very 1 1 tions finds fault with; and such, alas! Don't wait to fool with | hand for the de are too many bab high wure | for bigger th lieve that money Tur Be established a board of arbitration, one-half the members directly by organized lab the state and half by c: part board should be given sup: cept in clearly defined cas o Meanwhile by this bx who violate: their while to stion pend a wook ora fortnight fn Jorusalem, there, they take he pains to acquire a good fund of knowl about 1t, and to bocome ncquainted 18 of modern research in and rudite, thoughtful and upright oman may be of great sorvice to an i stranger in Jerusalem. We conld upon this subjest, but it is not - - SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Chicago Dispatch: When o clomgyman tops from his pulpit to mix into local poli ics thero is excellent ground for the beliot hat he does 8o more for personal advertis ug than for the sake of municipal reform Detroit Free Pross: A 1 onary and s in sa mong the savages of Africa were rocently andbagged and robbed in Omaha, When they will doubt sturn to with pronounced views as to our u civilization ew York Herald: If religious folk were roest they could wash tho face of the 1and make it clean. But why should common people hurry to church on Sun- 1y morning when thoe chureh lets them s alone during six days in the we tien tells them on the seventh day that they re nothing but poor rable croatures at mis Atchison Globe the peoples arty minister in the Topel se, tries in is prayers to make a px i the Lord 1o scores the other side titions, and with a short p specch for the e, When a man takes politios nto his prayers, the ple have a greate ontempt for the man aud his party, and g ss resveet for religion w York Tim it nate the importance of the pope's of Myr. Satolli as a pern ate in this country, or wrongly act, but it seems to us that Americans will see reasons for reat satisfaction in the announcement that un-American_tendencies in the hurch have been checked, and with a firm and, from the vatican itsclf, York Sun: It is the length of the ly perfunctory sermon delivered in th Y perfunctory manner that congroga is the hough o umin The ay be easy to over: ap. st ointment postolic dele on-Uatholic ve product of mon of this sort oceu tes of time, it will iing of the sermon, then, is not the mportant_ subject for consideration. 1t is oW to infuse genuine enthusiasm into the ulpit and sympathetic fervor into the hearts f the people Chicago Times: Rev. Carlos Martyn iteer of realistic tendencies, yes loctrified a Chicago congregation by a ¢ that the “devil lurks in the. jour and.” Rev. Carlos apparently ut little of modern journalism. In any rell-conducted newspaper oftie the devil arks in the composing room during working ours, and where it listeth his diabolical ul to lurk at other times. Realistic reachers should be sure of their facts, as hould realistic novelists, painters and ctors. Realism and metaphor are to cach ther as oil is 1o water—they don't mix, and 1 the attempt to make them do so u grew the pulpit only fifte m too long, A pu (list's knows some mess is usually the result BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. Give a lie ght to live and it will reck the univ aith without works is fire under the boiler The man who is mean to a il anywher ‘T'he shortest cut to the masses is to get all 1 sinners in the church converted One trouble with the church is that there s in it from four to six fect the an engine without hild is a good No man can sleep well in cloudy weather when he knows that he has a sandy founda- on under his house. There are people who ¢ aim to be praying the h ' who never take anything y 2-cent piece to church, The devil 1s well satisfied with his day's orlk whenever he has got some man to be. an make him happy The world is dying because there are not more people getting such religion that those ho live in the sume house with them can pe it. te of a man's spiritual health can accurately determined by what he ys at home, when things do not go right, ai by what he s 4 g - i STATE INDUSTRIAL SUPREME COURT. Neb., Jan. 2. Jnder Liaxcon: “To the Editor of tate law there should bo of which should be chosen v operating within tal employing such bor, or which employs a certain number ore of workmen ir orall branches of its ular business. Such a controver sme authori of infringement 1 the rights of the supreme court. It should » seated in session during a period of each ar to hear complaints, to pass confiliatory pinions aud express decisions. A compla ade by any individual laborer, corpor or order represented should be filed in the of- €of the byard within a certain period,other- se this court will not attempt a heari all former o w be enforced. Any ruling mado vd should be tho unanimous d sion of all its and not the assumed uthority of a r sing sich boary Any laborer n and hould by ing order subject to ted by this board sion not made null' by superior court, or uses force of the ROWNING, KINg=g’ Largest Manafacturo: of Clothing in Immovably tight Up against the rear of ou occupied by Mrs. Benson, who is to vacate ceed to tear out |giving us one o western country., | our new ]l'.(]&lL'L'. least a thir proportion. in prices also. sometimes 3 times as much, now be sold cheaper than our next few weeks. BROWNING, KING & CO., Store open every eveninz til 633 | Baturday tili 10 o o g RS i within a few weeks, when we will pro- | pointed business houses in this entire | lare closing out as much (present stock at reduced prices. so that we can be ready to start in new again in $16.50, and so on, have been reduced at While overcoats are cut down in the same Boys' clothing has reccived a severe shoc The pants that are odd in size go at $2.00 up to $5.00 and a little mor rs anl Rotallers tne World r store is the room now the dividing wall, therchy f the largest and best ap- the meantime we s passible of our v A6 Suits for $10, $12.50, $13, any pair worth 2 and Damaged goods wili not perfect garments for the S, W. Cor. 15th and Douglas St