Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 20, 1893, Page 4

l 3 1 38 :h;‘,“'\ g e — PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. [ — - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Ly Beo (without Sunday) One Year “fi and Sunday, One Yeur. ... [x Months ... ree Months . . . mduy Beo, One Yoar., ... turdny Bee, Ong Yenr. ‘eckly Bee, One Year. OFFICES, Omaha, The Bee Rullding. Bouth Omaha, corner N and 26th Streets. Council Rluffs, 12 Pearl Ktreet, mber of Commerce. o 14 and 15, Tribune 11ding Washington, 513 Fourteonth Streot. CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating o news and fditorint natter should be addressed: To the e ' BUSINESS LETTERS. All husiness lettors and romittancos shoald addrossed to The Beo Publishing Co mpany, ahn. Drafis, checks and postoffice orders 10 be tinde payable to the ordor of the com- pany. rilos lonving the city for the summer can s the Bk sent their address by leaving an order at this offico. PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Biate of Nebraska, Connty of Douglas, N e 11, Tazchuck, seorotary Sf THE BER pub- compnny, doos solomnly awosr that tho unl clrenintion of Tk DAILY BRE for the weok ding May 19, 1503, was as follows . ! K, 8worn (o before me and substribed in iy pres- oneo this 13th day of May, 1503, N. P, FEIL, 4 Notary Publie. e = Average Clreulation for April, 1803, 24,281 SEVERAL lame ducks are fluttering in different parts of the state over THE Brr's attack on the state printing com- bwe. . THERE is & widespread conviction in the minds of the democratic editors of the country that civil serviee reform is commencing at the wrong end of Cleve- land’s term of office. THE Kansas populists are reorganiz- ing the state militia and placing it upon & war footing. No one not in sympathy with the populists will be permitted to enlist. The moverment is ill-advised and will do much to excite popular dis- trust. b THE news that General Van Wyck has been prostrated by an attack of paraly- sis and is now in a critical condition at his home near Nebraska City will be received with expressions of sincere re- gret by thousands of friends, not only in Omaha but all over Nebraska. THE postmaster general has confirmed the report that no fourth-class postmas- ters will be removed except for cause. The country postmaster who has at- tended strictly to business and given politics a wide berth will have a chance to grow gray in the service if the now rule is enforced. ‘e " “THE decision of the state superintend- ent of public instruction to the effect that the selection of teachers shall be made after the newly elected membdrs of the school boards have taken their seats;” is one which will overturn long established customs in Nebraska; but that it is based upon good grounds of public policy will scarcely be denied. IF THE accounts of the murderous work of the Italian Mafia in New York and Brooklyn are correct,and they ap- pear to be well substantiated, it is high time that measures were taken to rid this country of a class of foreign immi- gration much more objectionable than the Chinamen. This band of secret as- sassins has seemingly transferred its operations from New Orleans to these cities and is carrying on tho deadly work with appalling boldness. Assassinations #e becoming alarmingly frequent. The police rocords show that since August last fifty-two persons, mostly Italians, have been picked up on the streets of the two cities in an unconscious or dying eondition. Each one had been assassin- ated in some form or other, but of those who recovered not one could be induced o discuss the probable causes leading to the attack, so terrorized wore they by fear of the consequences at the hands of these dread seeret assassins, It seoms almost incredible that in this country such murderous foreign banditti could exist and carry on their bloody work without detection, but thus far the anthorities have been unable to make a ‘omse against the leaders of tho Malfia, whom they know and who direct the ‘assussinnations. ————— IT 18 the opinion of the oldest close observers of the trend of public affairs in Washington that never since Jeffor- #on adopted the theory that “to the vagtors belong the spoils” has the pressure for office been so0 great as sinco the inauguration of the present ad- ministration. The drastic ultimatum Issued by the president to rid himself of the annoyance of persistent seckers for public place merely transferred their importunity to the various exccutive departmonts of the governmnent. And now theyin turn have issued orders shutting out the offics seokers and di- recting applicants for place to call upon the respective heads of bureaus and divisions in which appointment is sought. The political legacy left by the father of demooracy to be perfected by Juckson is proving a most grievous Incumbrance to their latest suc- cessor. It would not be strange. thereforo, should - the statement of the New York Sun’s Washington oo respondent prove correct, that *‘Mr, Cloveland’s * experience with office ‘#eekors has convinced him that the pres- ent method of appointment to offige ’lhro\hch political influence has become & #eandal, and he is now revolving in his ind a scheme to doaway with it en- " .iMrely by & complete reorganization of 7 ' mentsas system.” A commissio n on appoint- far remived from political in- @8 the supremsé court, a law for ‘the creation of which, it is stated in the disvateh, he will probably recommend %0 congress, might prove s most effectual remedy for the evil resulting from the present system. |, It is a subjeot that may woll command the attention and enlist the carnost exertion of the ablest civil l service reform statesmen of the country. i it LR R AN OBJEOT LLESSON. The collapse of a seoroe or more of so- onllod banks that wera branches of the Columbia bank of Chicago or were mors orless intimately connected with that institution furnishes an instructive oh- ject lesson which the American people would do well to give attention to, in view of the proposal to restore the old system of state bank issues. These financial traps were organized under the laws of the states where they did business and the “promptness with which they went down after the collapse of the parent concern demonstrated how much confidence is to be placed in such institutions organized under the laws of most of the states. Of course theso banks did not issue currency. Their business was to take deposits from the confiding people in their neighborhood and to make loans to almost anybody who wented to borrow. They requiced no capital beyond some- body's note of hand, the capital being furnished by the depositors. The parent institution supplied the branches with ready money until the deposits began to come in and furnish a capital and after the deposits came in in sufficient quantity there was a flow of capital back to the head concern, which regulated its operations according to the aggregate of deposits in the system. As a naturatre- sult, when the parent institution went to the wall the entire system followed. There seems to have been no regulation or superviston on the part of the states whore these banking traps were put in operation, and they were permitted to gooniin their own way without any at- tempt to protect the people against pos- sible fraud and robbery. But what if these banks had issued currency? Inthat case, as the Phila- delphia North Americon vemarks, the head bank would have issued notes enough to furnish eapital for the twenty or forty banks that constituted the body and tail of the system. Then the de- positors who had deposited national cur- rency would have had their checks paid in the notes of these banks and the coun- try around the banks would have been drained of legal tender currency which the parent institution would have absorbed. When the inevitable time of accounting arrived the public would havo only the worthless issues of these banks to show for the good money they had deposited. The advocates of state bank currency will of course reply that if there should be a return to that system adequate safe- guards could be provided to protect the public against loss from the deprecia- tion of such a currency or from its changing value in passing from one state to another, but it is hardly possi- ble that this would be done, The whole business of regulating the issue of this currency and making provision for its security would rest with the states, and while some of them would rundnubtcdly make every provision necessary to the security of note holders others would not, and in time the volume of depreciated currency in the country would exceed the good, the latter being held by banks and cap- italists, while the former would find its way, as during the period of state bank issues, into the pockets of the wage earners and the small producers of the country. Itis practically impossiblo to have a currency of uniform value throughout the country when every state has the privilege of au- thorizing an unlimited issue of notes under whatever regulations it may prescribe, and no argument is needed to demonstrate the proposition that a currency which is not of uniform value is capable of working injury to all interests, but particularly to the in- terests of labor. The question of re- storing state bank issues, which the democratic party is pledged to do by its demand for the repeal of the tax on such issues, is likely to command & great deal of public attention in the near future, and everything bearing upon it is worthy of consideration. The col- lapse of a number of banks organized under state laws supplies a timely and pertinent object lesson. LOOKING APTER THE TRUSTS. If the announcement coming trom Washington that the attorney general is preparing to institute proceedings against the Sugar trust is true, there is a probability that the country may soon learn that the administration has not been unmindful of the implied promise made by President Cleveland in his jin- augural address that it would use all the authority it possesses to relieve the peo- ple from the interference and exactions of the trusts. The president, in that utterance, left no doubt as to how he regarded these combinations for the purpose of limiting production and fixing prices. He declared that ‘‘these aggregations and combinations frequently constitute conspiracies against the interests of the pesple and inall their phases they are unnatural and opposed to our Ameritan sense of fairness.” 1In this vicw of them he voiced the practically unanimous public sentiment of the country, as he also did when he said: ““To the extent that they can be reached and vestrained by federal power, the general government should should relieve our citizens from their interferencoand exactions.” Mr, Cleye- land ‘said these things witha full knowl edge of the fact that there is a genoral law which these cambinations have baen violating for three years or more and what he said wa; in offect a promise that his administration would endeavor to enfofce this statute. The country will be very glad to learn that there is a prospect of this being done. Proceedings against the Sugar trust would be regarded with more general interest than against any other of the great ¢ ombinations, for the reason that the exactions of this rapacious monopoly reach a greater number of people than do those of any other, Every household in the land pays tribute to the combina- tion which regulates the production an? fixes the price of sugar, and however small this may be in individual cases it amounts annually to a sum in excess of legitimate profit, which is an unjust and unlawful exaction of which the people ought to be relieved. It can be said more truly of the sugar monopoly than of almost any other that it is a con- spiracy against the interests of the people. Another reason why it is espe- oclally desirable that the government should proceed first against this powers ful combination, rather than against one less firmly intrenched, is that it would probably afford a better test of the law. It the federal statute against trusts is found to be strong enough to break down the sugar monopoly, none of the kindred combina- tions held to be obnoxious to the law can stand, and the overthrow of tiis combination would undoubtedly be speedily followefl by the dissolution of others if the government determined to vigorously pursue the work of suppress- ing them. The anti-trust act has not yet been subjected to a proper and ade- quate test, and the way to bring it to this is to proceed against the stronger combinations. Tt would have been unreasonable to expect the administration to take up im- mediately after its advent to power the task of enforcing the anti-trust law. Time was necessary for a careful study of the situation and for proper prepara- tion. The people will not be dis- posed to complain at any reasonable time the authorities at Washington may find it expedient to take in order that when they do act it will be on sound and safe lines, so long as it is known that this important matter is not being disre- garded or neglected. It is reassuring information that the legal department of the government is giving it attention. WILL NOT RETALIATE. The assurance said to have been given Secretary Gresham by the Chinese winister that his government will not adopt any retaliatory measures or do anything to disturb the friendly rela- tions between the two governments will redound to the advantage of the Chinese government in the good opinion of the world and places it in a far more cred- itable attitude than that occupied by the United States. While there is very little to be said in justification of the policy of this government toward the Chinese, and particularly with regard to the legislation for sending them out of the coun- try, China would have no difficulty in justifying resort to a policy of retalia- tion. If the Chinese government were to at once break off diplomatic relations with this country by withdrawing its embassy at Washington and handing our minister at Pekin his papers, and should follow this up with the expulsion from China of every American mission- ary and trader, it is not to be doubted that this action would be approved by the enlightened opinion of the world. It certainly would be by European gov- ernments whose manufacturers and merchants would find their trade with China materially enlarged if commercial relations between that coun- try and the United States were cut off, and it is rather to be expected that Eng- land, France and Germany may find op- portunity to encourage the Chinese to have as little as possible to do in a busi- ness way with this country. Of course there will be no direct effort to influence hostile sentiment toward the ‘United States, but thereare ways in whica this can be insidiously and effectively done. Our security against anything of this kind lies in the fact that the Chinese care less about patriotism and national dignity than they do about their commercial uffairs. When it be- comes a question of sacrificing their trade with another country as the price of maintaining their national character they can be depended upon to decide in favor of the trade. There is no people whose avarice is stronger than that of the Chinese, and everything else is sub- ordinated to it. They have a good ap- preciation of the value of the United States as a market for their products, of which we buy annually about 820,000, 000 worth, selling them our proaucts to the value of less than' 86,000,000 & year; 50 that the balance against us annually paid in cash is a considerable sum a8 the - Chinese regard it. They know very well that their trade with this country is certain to steadily grow, and as we are now one of their bast cus- tomers, there are the strongest possible practical reasons for not disturbing commercial relations. The mercantile interests of China may, conssquently, be relied upon to employ all their influence with the government to prevent any rupture, and, doubtless, this influence will be sufficient. The danger to be apprehended is from popular resentment, which may be man- ifested against the lives and property of American missionaries, and it is not likely that the government yould take much trouble to prevent this. But at any rate the forbearance and magnanim- ity of the Chinese government, under circumstances that would have led any European government to promptly adopt measures of retaliation, is very much. to its credit. HOw WELL Omaha's business inter- ests have withstond the financial tem- pests of the last few days is shown by the report of the clearing houses for the week ending Thursday night, as com- piled by Bradstreet’s, ¢This city stands well in the front rank, the inorease over the corresponding time in 1892 being 38.5 per cent, and the total volume of business amounting to more than $1,100,- 000 per day. DOES the fact that the Sugar trust de- clined to contribute to the republican national campaign fund last fall have any connection with Attorney General Olney’s reluctance to enforce the anti- trust law? — Condemnlug Clapteap. Globe-Democrat. It is an encouraging feature of the repub- lican situation that nearly every influential republicau paper that has had ‘anything to say about Clurkson’s address in Louisville has condemued it. ———————— Times Huve Uhsnged. Fhiladelphi ¢ 1imes. A month or so since the oficeholder thouent all he had to do was to go to Wash- inglon aud take his pick. Now in many cases he thinks it would have been money in his pocket if he'd stayed homo and gone w work with the shovel. ———— - Beotching Politicul Heresy, Chiicago Inter Ocean, President Cleveland svems 1o be as sensi- tive about his democracy us Senator David B. Hill, now that he s in ofice and has no further use for the auti-suappers. He re- fused to :&polnt Bascom Myrick, editor of the Awericus (Ga.) Kecord, to the post of d seo the presi- motto, “T am a Rartford o ‘The mugwumps have got ajnew phrase for the wholesale discharges taking place in the civil service in violation of the spirit of civil service reform. They dall it ‘‘weeding out the worthless.” Whnen republican president “‘weeds out hless” the mugwamps take columns' to how their virtuous feelings are outraged. Providence Journal The. country can get'along very well with- out Delegate Rawlins of Utah, who has re- signed his seat in congress bov:.flnne the pres- ident appointed wo& he had declined to indorse. If Mr. Rawlins has been under the impression all along that a congressman's duties are simply those of the patronage monger, the best place for him is within the confines of his original bailiwick in Utah —_—— Running Banks on Wind, Phitadelphia Inquirer, The practical lesson which the country has {Illl had of the folly of running banks on wind appears to have been needed in the central west. In recent years no one could have organized such a system of banks as Mr. Dwiggins projected in any of the eastern states. o laxity of the Indiana and Illi- nois laws presented the opportunity for some conscienceless u)mu]awr of the Dwig- gins school to step forward ana do exactly what Mr. Dwiggins did. The detailed re- }mru of his operations show that he took ull advantage of the chance, and they also indicate that he would still be in the same business had an_unexpected reverse not halted him in his meteorio career. —_——— Irrigation's Great Fature. Minneapolis Tribune, Irrigation has reclaimed 8,631,381 acres of arid land at a cost of §20,611,000 und given it a value of $04.611,000. There are estimated to be 542,000,000 acres of arid and worthless land in the country capable of reclamation by irrigation. The value of irrigated land ranges from $31 in Wyoming to $150 per acre in California. The annual value of the irri- gated product varies from $3.25 in Wyoming to 819 in California. Tne average tirst cost of bringing the water to the arid land-is $8.25, and the subsequent cost is $1.07 a year, the water right thus created being valued at $26 per acre. As less than 1 per cent of the reclaimable land has thus far received water, it is apparent that irrigation in this country has a large future. ——— THE CHINESE PROBLEM, St. Louis Republic: If the Geary law is to be enforced let the alien and sedition laws be enforced along with it so the people will have full opportunity to realize what kind of a government federalism makes for them. Philadelphia Ledger: Besides the gross injustice done to tens of thousands of hard- working Chinamen, we are likely to see sim- ilar injustice done by way of retaliation to Americans now in China. That nation will be more than justified in severing all rela- tions with the United States and excluding all Americans from the country. " New York Tribune: In §ftirming th consti- tutionality of the so-callgd Geary exclusion act the supreme court dgain demonstrates the fact that it underptands and respects the limits of its own juriddietion and author! ity. This has always bden characteristic of the court, and, perhaps thore than anything else, has assured to its dchnts the confi- dence of the people. f Detroit Froe Press: The discovery that there is no money with hvhich to pay the cost of cnfomln% the Ohinese exclusion sct uts the nation in a posttiontshat falls very ittle short of being ridiculous. Fortunately, however, the Chinese are not very strong in their perception of hifthor: Perhaps the people of California; if ipplied to, would ad- vance the necessary funds %o carry out the provisions of the ret. Boston Advertiser: Theaffirmation of the United States supreme'eourt of the consti- tutional power of cougress to exclude the Chinese from this country: will be gratefully received by the majority of people in this country. This is not a governmént or a sgs- tem under which Asiatics are a desirable addition to our people. They do not amalga- mate with us, and their presence in any con- siderable numbers is most undesirable. Throwing all sentiment aside, the Chinese are not wanted here by the great majority of our citizens, and they ‘will not be sorry that the bars against then ave to be set. New York Herald: The decision ot the court calls for the enforcement of the law. But enforcement has its ridiculous as well as serious aspects. There must be from 66,000 to 80,000 Chinece in the United States without certificates, If the accis enforced they must be banished. They cannot re- main here without certificates, and !heg can- not now get certificates. They must be de- ported b{ the United States to the country from which they came. That will entail an enormous ex{;enditum. and no appropriation is made by the act. It will require a fleet of steamships, and where are they to be had? Cincinnati Commercial: Chinese retalia- tion on account of the exclusion decision, the mode of that retaliation and subsequent warareall as yet matters of theoretical speculation. It'is assumed that deportin, the Chinese now iu the United States wonls be met by a reciprocal exclusion of Ameri- cans in China; and we caanot exactly see what great unfairness there would be in thav broceeding. Surely intelligent persons who have urged the passage and enforce- ment of the Geary act must have taken that not unnatural or illogical result into consid- eration. But it is also assumed that in the exclusion of Americans every American building m China would be destroyed and many of our countrymen killed. In that event, should the Chinese government not be able to show itself wholly without fault, there would be war indeed, and we should welcome its speedy declaration, e OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, The intense and increasing bitterness of the opposition toward Gladstone personally is in itself a tribute to his mastery of the sit- uation, and is based upon the anticipation of his ultimate success in accomplishing home rule for Ireland. Really the whole obstruc- tionist policy of the tories and unionists is a confession of defeat upon the nerits of the controversy. Another thing, which if true, points the same way, is the reported falling off in subscriptions to unionist funds. There was plenty of unionist enthusiasm and uniomist money, too, at the back of the anti- home rulers when the parlismentary session opened. The opposition boast then was that the government majority;, would not hold to- gether a fortnight, or aanoath at the most, Now both this enthusiasm and the money have diminished in the face of the steady gain in solidity and $t¥ehith the govern- ment party has made, a4 the apparent use- lessness of unionist oppegition. And yet that opposition cannot be saiili o have weakened. No government measure was ever more bit- terly contested. Probal ‘:yna property own- ing, the privileged, and fo 8 ponsiderable ex- tent the educated classes,iof Great Britain were never so solidly amfayed against a bill which had a tithe of'“¢hé support which the home rule Dbiff “fas. Certainly no bill was ever mgh;with such care- fully planned and systematic obstruc- tion, All that has"been accomplished =8 0 lce & candidate whom - 0 far is to pass through committeo the first clause—throe lines, —of the bill, and there are said to be some fifty pages of the clork's order book now covered with opposition amendments awaiting consideration. Many of these will probably meet the fate of the thirteen ‘“‘instructions” to the committee of the whole, which the Commons was asked to vote, but of which the speaker declared twelve out of order. Others must be de- bated, and maybe some of them will be adopted as the best way on the whole to ad- vance the passage of the bill. Still others will be disposed of by the closure, which has already been used so effectively. They will all be disposed ot in some way or other, and the bill will finally emeree from the commit- tee ina condition substantially satisfactory to its author, or, more properly, its inspirer, 0 ' There is doubtless a great deal more noise than sober earnest in the republican agita- tion which has again broken out in the Spanish Cortes and in the streets of Madrid. A party which has been able to muster only a soore of votes in the Spanish Parliament to six times the number of votes in favor of the ministry of Sagasta does not constitute a very substantial basis for a new republican movement. As for the midnight mob of men and women marching through the streets of Madrid, shouting for the re- public, it was an easy matter for the municipal guards to put them to rout by a few slaps of the sabre on the backs of the noisiest. Paris may be France, but Madrid is not Spain. It must be said, however, that within a recent period the conditions have become exceed- ingly favorable for the agitation against the existing Spanish monarchy. The queen regent has tried the patience of the people to the utmost by her mustakes in govern- ment, and she, as well as the Infanta Isabella, is regarded ns a mere creature of the detested party of reaction. Spanish pride, too, has been deeply wounded by the action of the queen regent in taking into her councils the ambassadors of Germany and Austris, whose advico has baen any- thing but friendly to liberalism. The gravity of the situation is still further in- creased by the discontent of the army with the projected military reforms of the min- ister of war, Lopez Dominguez. . »"n The prospects of the general election in Germany are not at present very encourag- ing to the emperor. Though the radicals stood very firmly together during last Satur- day's division they have since split into two factions. But even this circumstance is not likely to give Count von Caprivi a majority. The social democrat vote is sure to be increased, probably from thirty-six to fifty, and the Catholic center, which proved to be the pivot of disaster, will lose none of its strength at the polling booths. The em- peror's language to his generals at Tempel- hof is interpreted throughout Germany as a threat of a coup d'etat. His declaration that the patriotic munority was overborne by a majority which did mnot represent either the allied princes. the people or the army has greatly irritated the con- stituencies. The weck has also witnessed a revival of the anti-German particularist foeling in the southern states of tho empire. It is not improbable that the first vote will be taken upon many general issues and will show the anti-Prussian feeling above indi- cated. It will also be felt in the second bal- lots and may decide the fate of the army measure. It is not expected that Prince Bis- marck or Dr. Bamberger will seek re-election. * . e Nicaragua has an area not quite s> large as the state of Georgia and a population that {s estimated at 800,000. Its fertility has been known from the time Columbus discovered it on his fourth voyage to this hemisphere, in 1502. It produces all the tropical products, including sugar, coftee, indigo, dye woods and fruits, in abundance. There is no country of Central America with which intimate relations are so desirable. If the interoceanic canal is built across its territory and a stable government assured, an era of prosperity will open for Nicaragua which has had no parallel oa this continent south of the United States. Its rich mines will again be worked, its valuablo pro ducts will find a market and wealth and popula- tion will quickly flow in. But tho coming of none of these good things will bs hastened by such political disturbances as are now re- ported. » e Baron Nathaniel Rothschild has just taught the anti-Semites a lesson in charity by a splendid gift which he has made for the benefit of Viennese sufferers from pul- monary diseases, whiclr are peculiarly prev- alent in that city, owing to the cold winds and the dust. For some time-past a number of philanthropic persons have boen trying to found an asylum for patients of this kind, but only a fraction of the sum required was forthcoming until Baron Roths- child informed the promoters of the scheme that he wished to present them with his chateau at Reichenau, in the Semmering, for the new establishment, It would be difficult 1o exaggerate either the timeliness or generosity of this gift. The es- tate and pleasure grounds, worth 5,000,000 florins, are widely known among the most beautiful in the Styrian Alps. The baron will transfer the chateau and grounds to the society on the 1st of August, and has prom- ised to make all necessary alterations, It is hoped that it can be got ready for the recep - tion of patients by next winter. Baron Rothschild has already thrown open his park and greenhouses in Vienna to the pub- lic for a small entrance ‘fee, which goes to a local charity. His chateau in the Semmer- ing will afford accommedation for 500 beds. 3 e The report of the latest consus in Bengal, which has just been published, upsets sev- eral beliefs which hitherto have found gen- eral acceptance. For instance, it proves that the natives, instead of being averse to leaving their ancestral villages, are steadily moving from more densely peopled areas to those where the populativn is less crowded; also that widow remarriage is practically universal in Behar, Orissa,’ Chota-Nagpore, and among the lower castes of Bengal proper, and is unknown only among a very few high castes everywhere and the more respectable Sudras of Bengal proper. The report also states that infant marriage does not exist to any appreciable extent except in northeast Behar and among the Brahmins, Kayasths, and other purely Sudra castes of western Bengal. It also shows the great progress of Mohammedanism, which has in- creased more than 9 per cent in Bengal proper in the last decade, while the increase in Hinauism is less than 5 per cent. This fact is explained to be due to the desire on the part of the lowest castes to adopt a re- ligign which treats all men as equals. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest \J. S. Gov't Report, Roal ABSOLUTELY Baking Po’:\“der < TREIR SINS FOUND THEM OUT. Wahoo New Era: Figures show that the impenched officials did less work than did their predecessors. The overworked scheme doesn't go. Springfield Monitor: According to the testimony brought out at the impeachmont trial there was a steal ot just 4,271,580 pounds of coal at the asylum from July, 1501, to February, 1802, Blair Pilot: 1t is not very remarkable, if true, that in the impoachment trials at Lin- coln certain record books, when wanted by the prosecution, were not to bo found, but any records desired by the defense are forth coming without delay, The atmosphero about Lincoln is said to bo bad, but it scems o be worse sometimes tham others. When danger hovers over somebody's pet, the fog gots in its work with great vigor. Dodge County Leader: Lot the Lincoln Journal howl that the impeachment will hurt the state, it they will. The follow howls loudest that is hurt most. The people of the state have not howled yot, but as the scrows are anllnd to the gang of thieves their mouthpieco sets up a_terrible howl. Injure the state, forsooth. Why didn’t the Journal think of the state when its proprietors were srowlnr fat on the papof the state. If the ournal had had tho interest of the state in her keoping she certainly has been blind to that interest, or she would have attempted to have called a stop to the stealing. Schuyler Quill: When a newspaper makes the statement that no trath exists in the charges made against the board and at- tempts to show that it is only a scheme of another political party and “makes light of it, that paper is devoid of honesty, lonor, and endorses the plundering. Such n weak: ling is worse than the thieves themselves. Enough has already been unearthed to con- vince overy fair-minded citizen of Nebraska that a wholesale and systematic robbery has been going on by state employes and under the apparent sanction of the state oficials. Every honest ditizen is indignant over such a state of affairs and says that the perpetra- tors of the frauds ought to be punished. Wahoo Wasp: According to the testi- mony introduced in the impeachment trial, it took a wonderful amount of coal to run the Lincoin insane asylum during the yoar 1801 But the worst of all, the state paid for nearly three times as much coal as was actually used. o be moro explicit, for the month of December, 1800, and cleven months in 1801 the state paid for' 7,1241¢ tons, whilo the actual amount deliverad o the asylum was a little less than 01 tons. People generally make a vigorous kick 1f they are called upon to pay for something they didn't get and we don't believe that tho state should be made to vay for what it doesn't get any more than a private citizon. If the testimony in regard to the coal deal is truo our state officials were certainly guilty of gross neglizgenco in paymg for such an enor- mous amount of coal. Plattsmouth Herald: A number of small- bored newspapers throughout the state are still belittleing the last logislature for ap- propriating §15000 to prosecute the confi- dence men who, by some misapplication of the mercies of Providence, were clected to hold state offices. In the estimation of all patriotic, fair minded, honest citizens it was the oneact most worthy of note which was transacted during the lastsession. Whethor there be conviction or rot, it will make the people more careful who they elect to hold responsible state offices and will mako a noticeable difference in the deportment of those who are honored by such positions, whether they be of the Dorgan ilk or are honest, trustworthy men. 1o those who are trustworthy, such proceedings will re- move the temptations so far from them that they will not think of shrinking from their duty even though it were thrust into their faces, and to the dishonest ones, the fear of impeachment and the all-sesing eye of the newspaper men will keep them in the ‘‘nar- row path” whether they so desire or not. e s The country has tor centuries invited for- eigners to come to our shoras, and, “ifob- scene harpies defile the banquet of liberty, they are not unbidden guests,” says ox-Sen- ator Ingalls in a letter to Tue SuNDAY Bee. Don't fail to read it. SHORT S, Boston Transcript: admired by those who KIS OF WIT. Profile photographs aro aro fond of side Shows, Elmira Gazette: Tho average collego stu- dent noeds ess toot bnid niore tutor. Philadelphin Tim man thinks Unclo 8. him to go is a kind of Doubtless the China- s abrupt way of telling llar and cuif. Toxas Siftings: The man who keops hls mouth shut has never to eat any crow. Philadelphia Inquirer: A political orator out west was recently alluded 10 us a harangus outang. Washington Star: “Do you think cigarottes mitkes i man proof agalnst epidomi “1 do,” replled tho physicia wait to give the epidemic n chanc Philadelphla Record: “Old Coupon has glven up trying to cure his son of froshness. wos; L'hedrd "ho said ho wasn't worth his Atlanta Constitution: *“You are dying,” sald the preacher to the ancient offico holder. “Havo you any request to make?' “'Yos," gasped the sufferer. “Write out my resignation!" hey don't Kate Fiold's Washington: Callowe—If our engagement Is broken, I supposo you will ro- turn me the ri; ng. Marie—Why, certainly, if yo ick yours from this boxtul. | YO €n pick out PIONIC TRAGEDY. Washington News. He was strong and hale and hearty, till he fcnic party, And went g to the woodland on a day of pleasure bert; Now tho doctors'lances hit him where the snakes and hornets bit him. And they sy his constitution 18 not worth a PeWLer cent. ey PICKINSON'S STRONG PULY, Michigan Demoorata Ohjeot to His Suppil) of Patronage. Wasmisarox Bunmav or Tin Baw, 513 FountresTn Starer, ] Wasmrxaros, D. €., May 10 Juan Boyle, s member of the demoora'ys) state committee from Koarney, has bojy] here looking after patronage, He called Secrotaries Lamont and Morton and Po master General Bissell Don M. Dickinson, democratic national teo, had his right postmasters in Michigan question today i an emphatic manner. Chnirmiy Campau of the Michigan state committd'] filed a vrotest against Dickinson's notidh] with the postmaster general today. It wh) signod by Chairman Campau and memb 4 of tho stato committes, Dickinson, it (i claimed, has controlled overy postoffice aith pointment up to this time. The matt), | promises to attract national attention bl cause of Dickinson's pull with Presidewy: $ Cleveland. Western Ponsions. The following pensions granted are 3 ported : Nebraska: Increaso—David Rock, Geo Riser. ~ Original widows, ote.—Mi { Fredorick Gust, jr. Towa: Original-Barclay Benbow, Ji Andrew, Milton Black, Jamos San! cvease—Henry Harrington, Edgar Moss. e—Thomas Denny, William J. Mogef? n Pattison. Original widows, oto. &4 len Pattison, Aona Beaver, Mary illinms, Catharine Curty, Mattie Juckso:td Leah Bozarth (mother), Katharino Adraita South Dakota: Increase—Henry Haffoy %) George Brown. Reissue—~John Small, | i Nebraska Mattors, It was stated at the oMceof the suporvis: ing architect today that it was not probabdlg that the contract for work on the Omah™s building would be let before next woek., President Cleveland this afternoon ar nounced the appointment of John M. Crocke, postmaster at Kearney. k Comptroller Tckles has decided on thil name of receiver for the failed bank at Lin$H coln, and the name will bo announced prohyg ably tomorrow. There has been vel ) scramble for the plac H 41 -—— 0§ or Boy Wanted. - Willie IXehl, otherwise known as “Shawm rock,” a messonger. boy in the employ of th American District ‘Lelegraph company, an Willie Jacobs, a companion of Kehl's, m wanted by the police. Kohl, whose paren! live on South Sixteenth street, and who ha! been in the employ of the company abou¥ six months, was sent to the bank Thursdad afternoon with and he and Jacobs naver since been missing. In addition to the $354 1 chairman exevutive of t; a P. 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