Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 6, 1893, Page 4

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THE BEE TTERS. ! mittances should )lishing Company. ks and postoffice orders to the order of the com- PUBLISHING COMPANY BWORN STATE Btate of Nebroska Cour Georgo B, Tzschn Tublishing compin he uctual eirculat the week ending follows Eundny, February ¢ Mondiiy, Pehrunry Tuesdiy. 1" Wednesdi Thursday. Mireh 2 Fridny, March 8 Faturday, March 4 GI tary of Tne Ber soleninly swear that 3 Ber for | Murch 4, was as it to vefore me and subseribod This 4th dyy of Marchy NP Fen in Average Circulatiol A Goop many bills have been killed by the legislature and a good many \more ought to be. Tig valued policy law should not be taken off the statute books. The fire in surance people should be satisfied if the law is not made more sweeping. THREE weeks more of the legislature, which moans that a good deal of devil- try is liahle to be perpetrated and some really meritorious measures may be e acted into law between this and the 27th of Mai Ir THERE is to be a legislative siffing committee it should be made up of men who can be depended upon to siftout the bad bills and leave the good bills in. he average sifting committee is not built that way. ARE there any more insane people in Nebraska whom Marshal Slaughter can hold down long enough to enable him to earn mileage from Omaha to Washing- ton and back? If so, heorshe can be accommodated upon application. THE new senator from Montana, Lee Mantle, who was appointed last Satur- day by the governor, has the advantage of being o self-made man, who has achioved success in life from a humble Dbeginning as o telegraph operator. THE floods in western Russia and east- ern Germany are causing enormous Josses. Those European vivers are as merciless as our own. and the popular distress occasioned by their ravages is worse every year than in this country. THE veward offored by the Arizona Jegislature for the capture of Kid, the renegade Apache Indian, has been in- creased to $12,500. A large number of young dime novel readers from the effete east will soon be on the track of that red man. THE toast proposed by Governor Rus- sell of Massachusetts to Governor Mc- Kinley of Ohio shows that the Massa- chusetts man does not allow political differences to prevent him from recog- nizing sterling virtues when he sees them. I7 18 to be hoped that the true spirit of prophecy was upon Dr. Miller when he told the Current Topic club of the brilliant future which his canal project will open up for this city. A population of 500,000 would help this town consia- erably. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE MOR- 70N will suddenly find that he has twice as many staunch democratic friends in Nebraska as voted for him last Novem- ber. Nebraska has alwvays been noted for its heavy crop of political sun- flowers. THE democratic Nasbys will now be- gin tosend ina crop of petitions. But who is who in the distribution of federal offices for Nebraska? Is it Morton, Tobe Castor, Bryan, Boyd, McShane or Fuclid Martin? Don’t all speak at once, if you please. THE western tour planned by ex-Post- master General Wanamaker will give a great business man an opportunity to acquaint himself with the resources and development of the greater west. Hewill be welcomed everywhe and nowhere more warmly than in Omaha. THE Illinois legislature special point of regulating the sweating shops and proposes a city health in- s making a spection that is designed to make Chi- vago keep clean during the exposition year. Ifsuch alaw is passed, and the city health authovities co-operate with the state inspectors, perhaps something will yet be accomplished. BY THE way, what has become of Mr, Cochrane “of Nebraska,” who was ap- pointed to some federal office a week ago and lost in the shufle? Who is Mr, Cochrane anyway, when did he live in Nebraska, where did he live and what did he ever do to entitle him to distinc- tion at the hands of the vepublican party? CONGRESSMAN BRYAN entitled to credit for securing the passago of his bill to compel nonvesident capitalists who use the machinery of the United States courts for the foreclosure of land mortgages to publish their notices of foreclosure in the counties in which the land is located. This will, in a measure, protect parties who have mortgaged their farms from snap-judgment and the pale of their lands without competition from parties who know its value and trunk line pre | not. mway desire its purchase. WILL THEY HEED THE LESSON? In discussing the question of reduced railroad faves %o Chisago, Harper's Weekly for Mareh 4 hits the nail squarcly on the head when it says: “In ordinary business it may be entirely right for & merchant to get all he can for his fces or hi wares, but the railway companies are not conducting an ordinury business. Tt was reported recently that one of the | dents had asked a Chi- | cago hotel keeper and Chicago mor- chant whether they wonld reduce their prices during the fair. Iach, as the story went, said that he would Then the railway president upon them and asked why his. company should be usked to reduce its profits any more than merchants and hotel keope Thi story was denied by the railway presi- dent, but he said that it fairly repre- sented his views on the subject. So it may: bat if his views ave permitted to be carvied out in regard to the fares to and from Chicago, then the railways will have failed to do what the public has a perfect right to expect them to do and this right is founded in reason and confirmed by precedent. “The railway companics do not con- duct an ordinary business, and the motives of ordinary business men can- not bo permitted to control the actions | of railway manage Railway corpora- tions have been created by the public and given most extraordinary privileges, and to the ereating power the corporations are under continuous obligations. What is for the public interest should always be considered by the railway managers as of the first importance. When the public interest is forgotten the public i likely to retaliate. Indecd, in many in- stances in the southwest the railway companies have found that it is not Mitable to too long neglect these pub- obligation "Uhis is very plain talk and does not como from an organ of anarchy or cialism. It is a pointer which Nebraska railway managers should heed at this juncture. Unless they make concessions to the popular demand for reduced local rates they will be tau in Nebraska the lesson that has been so costly to ral roads in the southwest turned 80- IMPLICITY. The great inauguration pageant at Washington on Saturday was in striking contrast with the simple ceremonics that attended the induction of Thomas } Jefferson into the presidential office in 1801, and to those old-fashioned demo- erats who still adhere fondly to the idea that their party represents Jeffersonian simplicity, it must have been extremely painful. No just criticism can be made upon the splendor of Mr. Cleveland’s inauguration, for it was in keep- ing with the spivit of the age and reflected the tastes and wishes of a great majority of tho people. But is it not about time for the demoes, | racy to cease parading itself before the world as the party of Jeffersonian simplicity and plainness? The regal magnificence of pomp and circum- stance that were witnessed at the nat- ional capital on this occasion wholly belie the claims that the democratic party still clings to the simple traditions of its ecarly days, and it is idle to appeal to the records of the dead past in the face of the conspicuous facts of the living present. Thomas Jefferson s a simple, plain and unosten- tatious man, as possibly Grover Cleve- land would be under the same condi- tions that existed ninety years ago, but the times have changed, the country has grown rich and mighty; and popular vanity and extravagance have kept pace with that growth. Human nature, which is much the same the world over under identical conditions, is merely as- serting itself in this country today as it has always done everywhere. The peo- ple of the United States are proud of the triumph of popular government, proud of the wealth and power which this country has achieved; and it is not un- natural that they should wish to make the inauguration of a president as im- pressive as possible. But Jeffersonian simplicity, that choice old quality to which the demoe- racy has laid claim so often, is now as utterly extinet in this country asif it never had existed. It belongs no more to the democratic party than to any other. There is no such thing, and the sooner the phrase is dropped out of the voeabulary of the politicians the bette It will be hard to econstruct a demo- cratic platform without it, but it will have to be abandoned as worthless junk that has served its purpose and had its day. THE ERA OF MONOPOLY. The forces of monopoly are steadily ineveasing. Hardly a week passes with- out the announcement of some new com- bination effected or in process of organ- ization. The fact that there is a law on the federal statute books declaring trusts and all eombinations to control production and prices unlawful does not in the least operate to vestrain or check the growth of trusts. Congressional in- vestigations and recommendations have no influence in preventing these monopo- listic organizations. Last week there was recorded the consummation of a spring wheat millers’ combine said to embrace several hundred millers in Minnesota, North Dakota, Towa, Wis- consin, northern Ilinois, und the spring wheat mills of ew York state at Buffalo, Rochester and Niagara Falls, representing a daily output of flour reaching into the hundreds of thousands of barrels. It isstated that minimum ratos for flour have already been estab- lished and a cutting of prices subjects the offender to a heavy fine. It is in- tended to extend the combine, if possi- ble, und if it proves a success it is not doubted that the winter wheat millers, who constitute an equally powerful branch of milling, will organize in like manner. The regulation of the output is to be expected as the next step of the organization. With the output and the minimum price of the product regulated the maximum price of flour would un- | doubtedly regulate itsell to the satisfac- tion of the millers, Another combination reported to be in process of organization is the sole leather trust, which promises to be the biggest of all of them. It is said that avrangements have been made whereby about $75,000,000 capital is assured to the combine, and pending negotiations contemplate making the amount $100,- 000,000, The sole leather business is in comparatively few hands. Fifty cerns practieally control the whole trade. It therefore offers peculiarly favorable conditions for the organization of a trust. Some idea of the magnitude of the business may be gained trom these facts: About 2,000,000 hides are usod in this country for leather every year. Of these only one-fifth comes from abroad, South America supplying the bulk of the foreign hides. The people of the United States spend $2,000,000,000 per annum for shoes, Obviously there is a great money-making opportunity for a sole leatlier trust. The anti-trust law passed by the Fifty- first congress has been in force about three years, yet the combinations it was intended to suppress have had absolute immunity under it and ave stronger to- day than when it was enacted. In only a single case, and that one of velativel small consequence, has it proven effect- ive. When applied to the whisky trust it failed, and none of the other big trusts have been disturbed by it. It is appar- ently a wholly uscless statute, yet the lust congress failed to amend it 80 as to make it of some service or to adopt any legislation to check the growth monopoly. Perhaps the Harrison administration did all it could to enforce the anti-trust law, but however this may be, it is not to be doubted that the influence of the combinations was stronger with the Pifty-second congress than the demands of the people for relief from monopolis- tic exaction, The new administration is pledged to hostility to aggregated interests for the purpose of controlling production and prices and destroying business competi- tion. Mr. Cleveland referred to this subject in his inaugural address in lan- guage the meaning of which cannot be mistaken. The eountry will wait pati- ently to see with what sincerity the promise of the president was given. Perhaps he may be more successful in ing the anti-trust law than his v, and the obligation upon him to endeavor to enfores it is oqually strong. cone VERY OLD CLAIMS, The record of every eongress for many yeavs contains a veference to a class of historical pims of which ve few people have any knowledge, and in the closing d of the Fifty-second congress received the usual attention. y are the French spoliation claims and had their origin nearly a century go. Between the years 1790 and 1800 the privateers and cruisers of France seized and detained, or, as in most in- stances, converted to the use of that government about 1,500 vessels belong- ing to citizens of the United States. For these acts the government of the United States demanded compensation of France, and France onits part demanded compensation of the United States for its failure to observe the stipulation of the treaty of 1778 relating to the alliance between the two countries. ‘When Napoleon came to the head of affaics in France, and when a state of hostilitics existed between that country and England, the commerce of America became the prey of both parties upon the suspicion that our vessels were engaged in contraband trade. Thae treaty of 1794 with England gave offense to France,and upon the ground that it eontained stipu- lations which were in contravention of the treaty of 1 On that treaty and on the decrees of the French authorities touching our commerce we were brought to the verge of war with France, and by an act of congress of July 7, 1798, the treaty of 1778 was annulled. Then came criminations and claims from each party resting on our part on the destruction of our commerce and on the part of France on our disregard of the obligations and duties imposed by the treaty of 1778, In the year 1800 the plenipotentiaries of the two countries framed a ‘*‘conven- tion of peace, comme and naviga- tion,” but as they were unable to concur in a mode of adjusting the antagonistic claims of the two countries negotiation as to these was postponed. In 1801 the senate of the United States declared the convention fully vatified. Upon these historical facts the court of claims was called upon to pass upon this ques- tion: Did the United States by the treaty of 1801 assume the payment of such valid claims as citizens of the United States had theretofore held against the government of France? The decision of the court was against the United States. On the question of lia- bility the claimants were required to prove the validity of their claims as against France. Of the aggregate of about $32,000,000, petitions representing nearly $18,000,000 have been dismissed for lack of evidence, due largely to the length of time since the events occurred. Judgments have been 1 ed to the amount of something over 3,000,000, for the payment of which congress has made no appropriation. The number of o still pending before the court of claims is about 4,600, representing claimants scattered all over the countr y. It is hardly possible that more than one-third of the total of these claims will ever ba paid, but whatever the amount of the judgments that may be finally ren- dered, it will vepresent the only money paid or satisfaction of any sort given by the United States for the relinquishment by France of the treaty of 1778, by which, on the one hand, our independence was secured, und by which, on the other, we guaranteed in perpetuity to the crown of France the possessions then belonging to it in America, SOME 2% THE country expected some expression from P lent Cleveland, in his inaug- ural address, on the important ques tion of Hawaliun annexation, and his silence was, therefore, something of a disap- pointment. There have been reports that he was strongly in fayor of annexa- tion and also that he thought there should be more deliberation over the question before it was finally decided what course to pursue, but it is now ap- parent that the authors of these reports had no substantial ground for them Certain eastern journals that gave out the information, with an alr of author- ity, that Mr. Cleveland would recom- of | mend a commissipn to make a thor- ough inquiry intolthe politieal and com- mereial conditign¥’ involved in annoxa- tion will have somp trouble to satisfac- torily explain their deliberate deception of the public. A¢'if is the country is entirely in the datk regarding the atti- tude that will b taken by the adminis- tration on this subject, but it is probable that it will not haxe to wait long for light. Tt is to bb expected that before the extra sossion 6f the senate adjourns the president will communicate his views to that body regarding the treaty that is before it for ratification. Mean- while it cannot be profitable to con- jecture what his position may be, but the country will await its announcement with a great deal of interest. THE report that the new administra- tion contemplates an issue of gold bonds with which to fortify the treasury gold reserve is not incredible. It is well known that both President Cleveland and Secreiary Carlisle favored the amendment to the sundry civil appro- priation bill providing for an issue of 3 per cent bonds, and that both believed it might become necessary to adopt this course in order to maintain resumption and protect the credit of the govern- ment. The assurance given by .Mr. Cleveland in his inaugural address that all the powers vested in the executive would be used to maintain a sound and stable curvency and keep the govern- ment it unimpaived was s nific and may fairly be in- torpry as pointing to an issue of bonds if the emergency should be such as to demand it According to tho report the administration would find no difficulty in negotiating a sale of $25,000,000 of bonds abroad, or a greater amount if desired, upon terms that would net the buyers 3 per cent, under arrangements that would insure the treasury ample protection. It may hap- pen that an issue of bonds will not be found immediately necessary, but if it should be decided that it will ultimately have to be done it would seem wise to anticipate the possible emergency. The effect of doing this would certainly be helpful to financial confidence, which is undoubtedly in need of strengthening. nt expressions of opinion on the conviet labor problem, presented in a number of interviews in THgr SUNDAY BEB, shows how widely men differ on this impovtant subject. Upon one point, however, nearly all are agreed, and that'is that conviet labor should so far as possible be prevented from coming into competition with that of the honest wage earner. This is a principle that must be adhered to in any attempt to solve the problem TH THE efforts of the Manufacturers asso- ciation to secure a ;good exhibition of Nebraska flour at the World’s fair de- serve succ This state is rapidly coming to the front in wheat production and the flour made by Nebraska mills is equal to any in tho mavket. It would be a serious drawback upon the pros- perity of the state to have the impres- sion prevail that it can raise nothing but corn. I1 18 estimated that the World's fair will take 000,000 out of Nebraska. This makes it all the more important that the' fair should be made the means of sending something back, and this can only be done by advertising the state and thus securing additions to its popu- lation and the volume of its business. MR. CLEVELAND had something to say in his inaugural addvess in behalf of frugality among the people. The best proof of his sincerity will be a frugal administration in which the money won by popular frugality shall not be waste- fully expended. Silen Reigns Suprome, Central City Nonp rel, Have you noticed any of the bills for which the people have been clamoving be- ing passed by the legislature? Don't all speak at onc e Pusey ay Slated. New York Tribune. Isaac Pusey Gray of Indiana: Cheer up, you may get a consulship after all. For they ¢ that Mr. Cieveland was heard to de- o S Business” Administration, Cincinnati Tribune, Down to the present writing Mr. Cleveland has made mnwme appointments —namely Kight cabinet officers and one private s tray, and eight of the nine appointee: Lawy “Business men” will soon b wonder-when the preference for their cluss will begin. An Improssive Scene. New York Advertissr. Swiftly and solemnly the democrats aro swooping down on Washington, 3wiftly, be- cause they fear that some of the offices may get away before they arrive. Solemuly, b Cause they are about o appear in the pre ence of the Anointed One with all his conse- crations fresh upon him. It is an impressive scene. e Let All Honest Mon Got Together. Schuyler Heral If those members of our s or of -the pr regulaving freight rate less of par 1nes, the, ht accomplish something. The whale people of the state not those of , demand that th ratos should be i let their sentatives seo to it that their demands i complied with. There asimable ex- cuse why a reasonable rate bill should not bo pass ads have woverned this matterso their selfish satis faction loag enough. - h Tor th Fremont Flail, The speech of Tom Majors at the Morton reception is said to hive caused the brazen chandelie) o turn S pt with shame Even the World-Herald refused to publish it Too T Plattsmouth Journal. since we hedvd that foul story re- Tom Majors. it the Morton banduet, wderi at the Ever lated b we confess to have been w point of it was. A dirty 5 excused to some extent if it has a point that is pertinent, but the only point to Tom's story to be seen was the telling of it on such an occasion and by such an official. A question some interes cay rogular about the ¢ s in dining cars s are $30 o montl make on an wverage § o trip botwe York and Chicago in *tips.” Sometimes | they make as much 08 $3 or $10 a trip. Now the sompany pays the head cook on 4 car § & month, the under cooks $60 each and the dishwasher #40. it expects the public to make up the small | Wages of the waiters! It is precisely the | same plan that is pursued on tho ocean | steamers, wher o stewards roceive o rely nominal sum in the way of with ihe expectation that each will give a liveral fee. Why do not the rail wages L Isn't it plain enough that | passenger | rond companies stop this wages, insist on good servic nouncements that any waite Sip" will be discharged? - Hogin Blair Pilot Ono of the worst frauds perpotrated so far by the presgnt legislature was in the pre tehded recount on the lost constitutional amendments, and now, when the work is completed, a'fataidefect in the law author- izing it is discovered, which effectually wipes out the whole proceeding. And the people will rejoice that it is so - - Demand for a Rond Law. Red Clowd Argus. Nebraska needs a nineteenth century road law, and the legislature should not adjourn without placing one on the statute books. Country roads should be practically as easy of grade as the bed of a railway and con- structed upon the same principles. Give the people the means and the power to build £ood roads and the present system will soon bea thing of the past. Phibedsts “SS— Dowlsm and Dranken Chicago Tri cal Dow estimates that there are 2,000 abitual drankards in Maine and opposes the bill now before the legislature for curing them by the Koeley process on the plea that it will be too expensive. But how does it happen that there are.2,000 habitual drunk- ards in Maine where the sale, manufacture and use of liquor are prohibited by law? As the father of prohibition now acknowled it is a farce would it not be better to the money by licenso for curing these drunkards than to allow them to die drunk- ards, aotice, pay falr and post on who accepts Frand Fro Pathos and Y Chicago Herald, Princess Kalulani, who claims the ri pssion to what used to be the Haw tearful address to the Kaiulani writes like a o8 the temper of those whom she addre The citizens of the United s are not much concerned over the divine rights of kings, queens or prin- cesses in exile, 1t is scarcoly to be believed that the United States will make tho mis- take of annexing impossible territory at the behest of sugar kings and Amer adven- turers, it of iian has issuec ) people, schoolgirl and mist n e 1 Democratic New York Sun. It will probably be found that the aggre- gate of appropriations passed by the Fifty- second congress nearly equals, i1 it does not exceed, the stupendous total achicved by the Dbillion congress, Senator G n stated in debate a day or two that the appropriation bills they stand today carr; 10,000,000, a greate ever been appropriated atany one session The failure of the democrats in the Iifty second congress to ot the expectations of the country, to fulfill the mission on which they were sent to Washington, and to re- deem the pledges with which they began in 1301, is disgraceful. Disgrace allure, N Nothing Like Leathe Philadelphia Recor Iired with a burning zeal for combir the makers of sole leather have set organizing a huge monopoly in the manufac: ture of that necessary article. The tanue re to be bought out with stock of the proposed sole leather trust, and the forme owners are then to bo hired as tendents and managers. 1t will L000,000 to §100,000,000 to this ambitious scheme, yet no difficuity anticipated in raising the money. The peo- ple of the United States. who spend in each year over 0,000 for shoes, will note with interest this new project to bring their footwear under syndicate control. tion. New York Independent. As for the president himself, he has dis- charged his h official duties with such conscientious regard for the best moral sen- timent of the country and for the interests of the Amel n_nation, and with such statesmanlike ability, sounduess of jud ment and firmuess of decision, that hLe n justly be called a model president, He retire to private life with the hearty res; of all whose regard is worth having with the en ity of tho: only whose proval is i ) be coveted. We hope t four years the country will call him from'his temps retirement to be again the head of this great nation whose pros- perity he has done so much to advance. st e No Precedent for Annexation, George Tickn r Curtis in North American Review, If Tam asked why there should not be ‘a now precedent made which will extend the scope of acquiring foreign tervitory by treaty so as to make it include the acquisi- tion of a foreign country not contiguous to the United States, and not necessary to any interest of the United States, my answer would be two-fold: First, that the constitu- tion has received such an interpretation for a long period of time as would be entirely inconsistent with the making of any such new precedent; secondly, that if we acquire by & construction of the constitution is contrary to the long settled one, there will be no limit to future acquisitions of the same kind. When once the greedy appatite for more territory is excited it will go on, and will ‘grow by what it feeds on."” Public attention has been directed to the fact that Governor Marcy, who was secrets of state under President Pierce, authorized the United States minister at Honolulu to negotiate a treaty with King Kamehameha for the transfer of the sove Sandwich islands to the Unite Before the negotiation could be completed King Kame- cha died and his ceessor did not hoose to alienate the sovereignty of the islands. This action of Governor M: is cited us if it amounted to a precedent, ‘but Governor Marcy's personal authority cannot ome the two precedents of Loui ' which were hed be into office, or ecedent of ich was e after he left wn it overcome the precedent of Florida, which was conveyed to the United States by Spain in order tona n debts due from Spain to our govérnment and to citizens of the United States. e WORLD'S FAIR NOT Ly will pect and ap- he came The “White City,” s the World’s fair geounds and buildings ure termed, has the cquipment of » modern municipality a combined water capacity of 54,000,000 gallons a day, and will soon huve 100,000,000, 1t has twenty-five miles of water mains and 201 nydrants A hundred more be provided. Thero are threo steam engines, fou chemical engine a la truck, wate forty hose carts, b of hose, nd fire extinguishers, 500 fire pails, g eam fire boat, sixty-five firemen boxes, 150 patrol ~tele- phones, 500 guards, complete electrio lig and sewerage system, ete Mr. 8. S. Thompson of Garfield, Washing- ton state, w the many exposition buildings at the expira- tion of the exposition?” The main buildings, epting the national government building, re the property of the Chicago Columbian xposition company and will be disposed of 4s the company sces fit. So_with the build- fngs of states, territorics and foreign govern- Ownership is vested in the respec- tive governments, and the disposal of the ive buildings rests with theowne f the buildings are to be preserved for various purposes, but all must be re- moved from the grounds within three or six months after the close of the exposition. There never were so many restaurants as there a going to be at the World's fair. Along the promenades around most of the buildings you will sce tables tables--some waited on by Americans, others by Frenchmen, others by Germans. others by Chinamen panese and Ttalians. very queer and pretty buildings ave restau rants such as they have in Ceylon, Japan China, Algiers, Morocco, Switzerland, Ho land, Paris, Indig You will s people eat with sticks, with their fingers ad with knives and no forks. But th drinking will be even more wonderful Lit- tered everywhere out of doors are prott, little stands and booths and eaglelike hous called ki sks.” Hundreds of these are for the sale of water at a cent a glass hers are tea drink sorts, kept by Oriental pople ; others are chocolate booths, ttended by pretty young gi others are coffee stands; at others you can drink cocoanut milk from Cuba, or lime juice, or sugar and water, & the French do. And scattered ymong all theso often beautiful little build ings are others, lit lly by the hundre for t40 sale of chewing gum mounds of sweet flowe sum than has | about | It has | “What is to be done with | nd tables and | Some | peanuts, candy and | | a mighty fc TRUE LIGHT. Christinnity the Source the Highest Advancement. Rov. Dr. Edward Neaton Barrett of Towa v occupiod the pulpit at the st ¢ terfan church yesterday. Ho is fore delivery, at times eloquent and teresting or dull. The text 1., 9, rovised version: ““Thon was the trué light, even the light which lighteth man coming into the world." Dr. Barrett said that modern scionc clares light to be the center of nature teries and wonders. Christ is discerncd to be the center of ‘the world's spir the source of spiritual and mo beauty and friutfulness) the which men are lifted to the and without Him life is enigma. Chbrist has been the unreve but intense desice of . all_ nations Men have always be: ling after Him, if happily they might tind Him, He is the great all in all and can no more be left out of the great developments of human his. tory than can the sun from the natural world We have happened upon times when would be vhilosophers would have us be lievo that religion has been and still is a hindrance rather than an inspiration of human progress. Wo are told that churches have become the bane of modern civilization, foster mother of caste, club house for the rich, in_which the poor, the lubor-ridden masses find no place But philosophy which iznores the holy scriptures and the Christian church as fag rs in the development of the race 18 pur- blind, shallow and wilfully perverse. Relig ion has been at the basis of all civilization Science was vorn of man's desive to find the source of the divine , which he cannot believes lies behind ible and visible things. How litt is good m v civilization has other than a Christian gin? It was the chi which orad- ted the darknes of medical s, bore the seeds of all our modern culture, taught liberty of thought and it was the growth of this spirit that gave freedom to the slave and elevated woman to the rightful place. It was the church which first built the hospital, the asylum, the orphanage and which still sup- ports them. The church has built the fa- mous schools of learning inboth the old and new world, The money gi to build and endow and equip our modern insticutions for the clevation of our race has come chiefly from Christian purses. Then consider the downfall nations, and upon he sc their ruined grandeur written this common and without hope.” I'he sharp critics of faith are neither wis Sunshine is often obscured by miasmatic vapors, but y world survive a4 perpetual of World's ful in never unin was from John overy of godless Ichers which hide nd glory may be Without God nor just murky and How could the u cclipse of His rain of truth in the tions of the world that selfishness and ide and intolerance ¢ often hidden be- neath the cloak o profession. What » the chi h might be if only she were free from these hinarances. Let her throw aside every weight and let her be ar. rayed in the panoply of licht and truth and sincerity and love, and she shall go forth conquering and to conquer. —— INTIMIDATED THE VOTERS. How Hyppolite Carried the Last Election in Hayti. NEW Yomk, March 5.—Panama spondence of February 25 says: Ac to the Haytian press the late elections Black republic were a simple farce. Hyppolite, the president, named his own ofticial candidates for congress in every*leg- islative district, and by the rigid applica- tion of his shotgun policy at the polls pro- cured their “election,” The people's nomi- nees were “defeated"” in every district The candidates of the populationof L'Anso la Foleur and Port Macot have been de- tained at Cape Haytien. The people’s candi- date of Grande Reviere was arrested, tied with ropes, and having narrowly escaped being shot, was finally sent to € with his_sister and co are at this moment in the dungeon prison at th rding n the relative: > (the people’s bly sent candidate, with upwards of 800 olector obliged to beat a retreat in the fac most daring menace, leaving bi be proclaimed victor by a few soldicrs In other electoral districts the people's candidate felt it prudent to retire quietly from the unequal strife. At the cape the populace had put up only one candidate. Affairs were conducted there with less pressure and more calmnes: frauds were perpetrated ve with sufficient show of authority by u gr statesman and also by a great general, both of whom were chiefs in the government's electoral campaign. The people are univer: these high-handed offic Reveil, a journal published at Cay s the native city of Hyppolite, commenting ed- itorially upon the result, : “Letno or himself. The elections as they hay conducted in the north, at least, Vi r effect in modifying public opinion; and, besides this, the facts speak for them- selves and ask sufficiently if they can be approved of by men who understand all the evils to which such measures might even- tually lead.” e AMUSEMENTS. ted with ““The Fair Rebel” opened a_four-night en- gagement at the Farnam Street theater yes- nd every seat was taken at both performances. The play is one of the best | ions, th tongued | " | tion of the of the military dramas and was prosented by ncapable ‘and well balanced company. Tho plot discloses a pleasing combinn tion of comedy and pathos in which opportunity is found for a number of absorb ing and effective dramatic situations scens in Libby prison and the voy uetion of the hi break for liberty through the tunnel w specinlly well recetved Miss Ianny Gillotte was fully equal to the title role. Hor acting is very quiot and un assuming, but none the less effective. The singing and acting of Miss Jennie Whit beck complotely captivated the audi once and she was oblige to re spond to. repeated recalls he male quartet divided thd musical honors with Miss Wh k. Miss Kato Osterle mado hit in & vory dificult wter, ana Mr. Edward R. Maiwson, as the hero of the story, won no less favor. The minor parts were well sus- tained, and altogother the performance was far mors entertaining than the average. ing Showing, Falls City ournal, The legislature is pledged in all ite branches and without regard to politics to attempt some reform fn the state's taxation taws, Tt has been suggested that a great deal could be accomplished in this line by making it the duty of some county officer to publish the assessment roll as returned by the nssessor, and particularly that portion wting to personal taxes. If any ono will take the trouble to examine the personal s sessment roll of this county, he will soon be of the opinion that Solomon didn't know what he was talking about when he said there was nothing new under tho sun. No paper could afford, from any point of view, o publish the asse nt roll on its own responsibility, but if syme country cor mpulsion of law made the publication, mith would discover that while he wasn't worth one-tenth of what Mr. Jones was worth, Mr. Jones wus not assessed one- tenth as much as he was. The general pub- lic would discover that capitalists with many thousands of dollars worth of per- sonul property were not paying taxes on more than from | to 5 per cent of it. A largo assortment of other facts would come to the public’s knowledgze that would soon correct many evils in our present assessments, It is nish now, in which every shrewd prop- y holder engrages, to see who can make the lowest tax return. The public generally corrects most of the evils of which it is aware, and a little broad daylizht reflectod on the assessment rolls would soon make many changes in them. COMICAL GLEANINGS, Philadolphia Times: As to provailing fash- lose of winter scems rather long in Quips: “IT0 behavod drendful at the swarr: safd Mrs, Partington. “Actod like a porfi idiom Rochestor Demoerat: No mat the rond Is financially an eng times has to whistle fof his pay. how solid wcer many Philadelphin anything durin cross the occat, everythi Rocord Lent i “Are you giving up “Yesi I'm going to P sure 1 shallgive up Detroit Froe | Thoe rumored combina- su ind whisky trusts is very ous. The next thing we héar they will bo 2 into hot wate on gettl Cleveland Plain 1 discouraging thing tl this life is the dest coupled with the bel bont the most c to a mun in to whip an cnemy, £ that he can't do it. Vashington Post of fish,” said (he ot uny’ oldos wrked {he bo. lightning rod contract that out (o be & promissory nots "he shark is the oldost ountry sehool teachor, than the si 1 guess,” signod ' s turned woman in a I w York Tribun ne stamps. *Whi 1th the whisker s sold her some 3 1 which Columnbus is pietured with a few hours growth of beard. Life: She as much as I helie You siLy. o you don't earc for me you do. With you, I think, ight, ot of mind." 1y)—You are right, for when you are out of my sight I am out of my mind BRING A BUNDLE, veland Plain Dealer, ' in_the lap of spiin robin redbreasts seck the tenddr crub, Where'slighing post tunes his 1 re to sing, Come, good aven with a hickory club, THE SAINT AND SINNER. Home Journal. Heartworn u ry the woman sat, Hor baby sleeping deross her knee, Aud the work hor fingers were ¢ Soemed o pitiful task for such Mending shoes for the little foet That pattercd over the cabin door, While the bells of the Subbuth day swoet, And thé neighbors passed by the open door. rang The ehildren played, and the buby slept, And the busy ticedlo went and came. When, 1o, on the threshold stone there stept A priestly figuro, and named her name “What sheift 5 ihts for the Sabbath ¢ When bells 1ling, far and near The peop! to priise and pra Womin, why are you tolling her droam sho answered Tow: my days are work days ull; 1 know no Sabbath. [ dare not go Where the beautiful bells rin t For who would 100k to th nd ¢ And tend the childr I pray in sile ForGod's lov Like on “Father in nd cally rink ars passed Horl 1y Stood w nds to bosom pressod: thrice blessod, » unt thou on ming angels . she passed hi; Shoes on the 5 ed the we! wekly, gentl Who had mends Largest Manufacturers an 1 Rotailers of Clothing ia thy World We're After Him Just wait another winter till that season gets him on the snout. he work his shadow trick, met him he'll be very, that blooming little ground- hog sticks his nose above the ground, for we've organized our forces and we've sworn to find him out, and the man who comes upon him will smash around when Then nevermore hereafter will because when once we've very sick. Long will live the recollection of the year of '94, when the death of the Mr. Groundhog brought mild winters evermore. To us will be the glory of producing early springs, and we'll sell the thankful people all their clothes and furnishings. Ladies and gentle- men, our ambition is not to become wild-eyed poets, but our spring suits and overcoats, which have just arrived, are the very essence of postry, that's why we became poetic. BROWNING, Store open every eveninz till 61} Baturday tlllo KING & CO., |~ §. W. Cor. 16th and Doaglas 3t The