Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 1, 1893, Page 4

€ om s . Northwestern will not close the gap be- “™ween Hartington and Yankton an effort _ doubtless in favor of permitting the !'Y‘V v 1 THE DAILY BEE. B ROSEWATER, Baitdr PUBLISHED EVERY MORNIN! TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. {1y Bee (without Sunday) One Year.. § 8 00 iy and Sunduy, Ono Year...... .10 00 ix Months . weeeen s 11: ‘hree Months 28 unda; r 200 turdn r 150 eekly Boc, Une Year .. 100 OFFTCES, The Ree Buliding. ornor N and 26th Stroets. Pearl Stroot, 317 Chamber of Commeree. New York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribuno WBollding. , Washington, 513 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONTIENCE. . All communieations relating 10 news and Horlal matter should be addressed: To the itor. RUST All husiness be addressed to Omuha. Drafts, check: s8¢ LETTERS, ors and remittances should o B blishing Co mpany, postoftice ler of tho 10 be mide payable to the ord pany. Lving theelty for the summoer can went their address by leaving an order at this ofiice. THE BEI PUBLISHING o o4 o COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. £won uck, soerotary of Ti® Bee pud- Msbing company, solomnly swour that the wetunl cirenintion of DALY BIEK for Uiy week ending My Zi. 1503, was as follow, Bunday, Viny 21 26,000 | Monday, \ay 22 Sworn 1o before mo and subsoribed in my pres- b1 £ May, 169, N1 " ence this 37th day of May, RS B o at the following places: Tmer hotise, Grand Pacific ot Auditorium hote « 1 tate street. I'lles of Tue Bk can be s 2 building and the Adminis ng, Exposition erounds. — Average Cireulatio at the N ation build- ARY MORTON has returned to Arbor Lodge. Disgruntled office eeckers will do well to keop off the grass. Tre death of Cyrus Fry, United States marshal of South Dakota, will be a sad shock to his multitude of friends throughout the west. He was one of the most popular men in the state. is a walking delegate to the anti-coal trust conven- tion. When he comes bhack it is hoped he will be prepared to attack the local coal combine, which flourishes and waxes fat. THE Wyoming oil fields aro being boomed by the Denver papers. When the Standard Oil company sees fit to open them up to the commerce of the world, they will be opened, and not before. OMAHA is still looking for a direct railroad into South Dakota. If the should by all means be made to secure a connection with the Hill system, which now penetrates the better half of South Dakota. . GOVERNOR FLOWER of New York has declined to appoint delegates to the anti- trust convention because it is against his Principles, he says. The governor is trusts to continue to take water, .. Ie may think that sooner or later they will all drown themselves. JAMES J. CORBETT has secured from a San Francisco physician a certificate that his liver is the natural size and thathe is in sound physical condition. Now, if the noted knoc! out would se- cure & phrenological opinion as to the normal proportions of his head a solici- tous public might 1est more assured. THE Omaha stock yards people and the stock commission men do not dwell together in unity. Manager Babcock recently demanded of them better bonds, and they have retaliated by demanding 8 reduction of office rents. Meantime the farmer is holding his stock, in hopes that the price will advance and that the eommission men will migrate. ONE E. A. Mears of North Dakota has been in New York, where he offered “securities” for sale with a chromo at- tachment. To every investor in a thou- sand dollars worth of his land mort- gages he vromised a free ticket to the World’s fair. He did not meot with #attering success, but is long on news- paper notoriety. Out here in Nebruska we offer investors colored lithograph ehromos in the shape of interest bearing ©oupons, —ee A CORRESPONDENT nccuses THE BEE of talking about irrigation at long range and ignorving the work done in western Nebraska. This is unfair. No other other paper has had as much to say about the stupendous undertakings in the way of ierigation ditekes in Ne- braska. We have described them, ad- vacated them and talked for more of them. Irrigation will redeem western Nebraska because it is profitable and in all respects feasible. THE “outs” may again possess their suspense with patience while the presi- dent and his cabinet have their outingy Mr. Cloveland will take a sea voyage outward of Capes Charles and Henry mext week; Postmastor General Bissell has already gone for a visit to Buffaio; Secretary Morton has left Washington to visit Chicago and Nebraska for a fow days; Attorney General Olney has gone to Boston and Secretary Lamont will be away about the same length of time as the president. PEOPLE who beeomo excited by the re- ported discovery of new bonanza gold mines in remote sections of the country Wil display common sense by waiting to have these reports verifiod before rush- ing off in expectation of digging up » fortune in less than o time, There are undoubtedly as rich unknown mineral deposits as any hitherto discovered, but it requires capital 10 unearth thom even when found. About as remunerative diggings as afford opportunity for a man of moderate means nowadays is the average corn fleld, 4 frrpgna - " REDUCLD IMMIURATION, The statistios of Immigration for the month of February, March and April, | while showing an inecrease in the num- ber of immigrants since the beginning of the year, when compared with the statistics for the corresponding months 1 of last year, show a very decided falling off. The total immigration for the three months of the eurrent year was, in round numbers, 130,000, while for the same months of 1802 it was 170,000, It i noted that while the total has declined there has been a notable increase in the number coming from some of the European countries, as from Ger- many, England, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden and Norway, and Ttaly. The month of April brought a very consider- able inerense. also, from Russia, Hun- gary and Poland, as compared with the | preceding months of this year, though the total for these months was but little more than a third of the number from thoso cotntries for the corresponding months of last year. it is probable that the figures for May and June will exceed those of April, which in round numbers were 75,000, but. there is reason to believe that the total immigration for the year will be very much less than for 1892 It is thus made apparent that the greater restri tions imposcd by the United States aro having the expected effect, and the important question is whether they are operating to keep out the more desirable class of immigrants equally with those not so desirable, or with respect to whom there is the greatest amount of ehjection. An analysis of thestatistics does not supply an altogether satisfactory answer to this question, but it is doubtless safe to say that the proportion of undesirable immi- grants now coming into the country is smaller than for many years, and it is entirely probable that this will continue to be the case so long as the immigr: tion regulations are, as strictly enforced as they have been for the last year or two. The people of European countries have become pretty familiar with the re- strictions which the United States has impored upon immigration and the ex- traordinary care that is being taken to enforce them, and this knowledge does much to hold back the undesirable ses from attempts to come here. At the same time the steamship companies have learned that they can no longer safely take such risks as formerly in ac- cepting all sorts of people, and as a con- sequence are exereising greater care as to the character of the people they bring over. The system of soliciting emi- grants, il not abandoned, is carried on with more cireumspection than formerly. The fact that there is very little com- plaint now regarding the character of the immigration attests that a decided improvement in its general quality has taken place. There has not recently been any in- timation as to whether tho next con- gress will be called upon to consider the question of further restrictions, but it is to be expected that an effort will be made to amend the immigration laws in this divection. It is a matter which offers to certain politicians the oppor- tunity to make capital with their con- stituents and they will hardly allow a session of congress to pass without mak- ing an effort to increase the obstacles to immigration. With the south anxious to secure immigrants, however, it is not at all likely that these politicians will get much encouragement from a democratic congres: A LAME NSE. The effort of ex-Minister Stevens to defend and justify his course in Hawaii will not stand the test of fairand im- partial examination. The fact that his action in ordering the American flag to be raised over the government building at Honolulu, at the same time ordering ashoro marines from one of our naval els to support that action, was in effect repudiated by the last adminis- tration, is a sufficient answer to the at- tempt of Mr. Stevens to vindicate his conduct, which was in every re- spect unwarranted and unauthor- ized. There can be no honest dif- ference of opinion as to what the plain duty of the American minister was in the circumstanees. It was his right to take whatever precautions he deemed necessary to insure the protection and safety of American interests, but in order to do this he was not called upon to take sides with the rovolutionary government, and give it the aid and support of an American protectorate, which he did when he caused the flag of this country to replace the Hawaiiun flag and landed an armed force on Ha- waiian soil. Having taken such proper precautions as were necessary to pro- tect American Interests he should have communicated the situation of affairs to this government and waited for authority from Washington as to what further action he should take. This, however, was evidently too slow and deliberate a process for Mr, Stovons, He was undoubtedly in the seeret of the revolutionary movement and Leartily in sympathy with it, and imbued with the idea that it would be a great diplomatic achievement to secure the islands for United States, for which history would aocord him the largest measure of credit. He usnrped anauthority entirely outside of and beyond his diplomatic func- tions. More than this, he ad- hered to the wrong position he had taken after he had boen informad by this government that his action was dicavowed so far as it proclaimel the paramount authority of the United States in the Hawalian islands, thus ignoring plainly implied instructions from Washington. The Harrison ad- ministration was near the close of its term, there was uncertainty as to what the position of the incoming administra- tion would be in the question, and M. Stevens determined to make the most of the opportunity which this stato of affuivs affordad to help the revolutionary cause. In all these respects his conauct was unprecedented, unwarranted and in- exeusable, Mr. Stevens is not suspected of hav- ing any personal interest in the annexa- tion of the Hawaiian islands. It may be conceded that his motiyes in the mat- ter have been entirely patriotic, that he sincerely believes that it would be g great acquisition to the United States to sooure possession of this foreign terri- THE y, but this does not exouse his cowrse as a minfster of the United States, with woll defined diplomatic duties and obligations as the revresentative of this government. As to what the | ex-minister says regarding the de- sivability of annexing the Hawaiian islands it is not likely to make any change in the public sentiment on this question. He offers no better rea- sons for annexation than have been pre- sonted before and which have failed to convince most thoughtfal and conserva- tive people that it would be wise or safe for this government to depart from its traditional policy and enter upon that of incorporating remote torritory. The advocates of annexation have exhansted their arguments and they are overbal- anced and outweighed by the practical and the political considerations against annexing the Hawaiian islands. TAKE THE BROAD GAUGE VIEW. Some members of the Business Men’s association are taking a rather narrow viow of the relations that subsist be- tween the producer, tradesman and consumer. While they admit that the tin-pail brigade is the backbone of the tradesman they forget that the tin- | pail brigade can only be permanently kept in a city where the necessaries of life are abundant and cheap. The intrgsion of the peddler whom the retail trader wants to fence out by high license is not an unmixed evil after all. In this city the peddler chiefly deals in fruits and vegotables which are perish- i able and would in nine cases out of ten g0 to waste on the hands of the commis- sion house instead of furnishing the | poorer classes with what formerly was & luxury and is now regarded as essential in every household. The well-to-do classes patronize deal- ers who solicit orde's at their doors and deliver goods at their houses. If it is wrong for the licensed peddler to hawk his wares in the open street is it right for the unlicensed dealer to hawk his wares from house to house by his hired clerk? True, the peddler pays no store rent, but he does pay house rent and, after all. does not seriousiy interfere with legitimate traffie. If he cheapens the price of bananas, oranges and grapes, or disposes of a few dollars worth of domestic articles of trifling price nobody is ruined. On the other hand the peddler isa consumer of things that he must buy from the butcher, baker and candlostick maker. He is a contributor to the income of other peo- ple and it takes all kinds of people to make & city. It is altogether different when we come to consider the ruinous competi- tion of cheap john supply houses that ship inferior wares from Chicago and St. Louis to Nebraska towns and under- sell the local dealer. This class of middlemen contribute nothing to the general welfare or building up of a com- munity. They draw from the towns, but never leave a penny, excepting, possi- bly, the amounts paid to hotels by their traveling salesmen. e ——— Board of Fire Underwriters in New York the usual complaint of the un- profitableness of fire insurance was of course heard. The president of the association in response thereto urged as a practical means to increase the prosperity of the business, the reduction of expenses and increase of incomos., In view of the fact that the fire loss in this country for the year 1892 is reported at move than 3151,000,000, and the actual amount of insurance paid by the com- panies excoeded 381,000,000, a very com- monplace expedient would seom to be to curtail these heavy losses by taking greater precautions against fires. One of the surest means of accomplishing this would be by securing improvement in the construction of buildings, especially in the character of those used for commereial and manufacturing pur- poses. Tha report shows that the fire loss last year was a large incroase over that of the year preceding. The build- ing and legislative committees of the board could not more profitably engage their time than by devoting attention to this matter. The most disastrous fires oceur principally in large towns and cities and is attributed principally to the fanlty construction of the buildings. Wise municipal legislation in reference to the character and style of archi- tecturai construction, the increase of safeguards and improvement of fire-ex- tinguishing service, greater precautions against the origin of fires and vigilance in the suppression of incendiarism are somo of the matters that might profit- ably engage their attention. —— The comptroller of the currency seems to be looking after the national banks with as much vigilence as the circum- stances will permit, and it is not im- probable that he may find a number throughout the country in the eondition of the two in North Dakota which ho ordered closed. The statement regard- ing these institutions indicates that there has been some very loose methods recently in connection with the organ- ization of national banks, to say nothing of carclessnoss in their supervision. The evident purpose of the comp.roller of the currency to discover the weak institutions cannot fail to havea wholesome effeet. It is stated that the president is taking an carnest inter- est in the subject of bank supervision and intends to give the comptroller the full- est support in his efforts to improve the system of examinations, which quite generally has been very bad for some time. Not only ave practical men only to be appointed as examiners, but they will be required to give closer attention to their duties. The reforms said to ba contemplated are all judicious, but it will take time to institute them and somo will have to await the action of congress. Sound and conservative bankers will welcome all changes in the direction of improvement, I¥ You want to start any wildeat scheme of finance or commerce that may be devised by short-haired women and long-haired men, just locate in Kansas, where all the cranks in ereation are allowed to experiment without let or hindrance. The latest of these crazy-quilt reforms is the scheme to substitute pasteboard checks for money and carculate the pasteb ards among working people #nd farmors as modiums of axehanga,redeomable with commaditios of oquifl fiastaboard value. This mode of exchanjos'will soon restore to us the primitivé’ system that ante- dates Noah and hisark, Tho noxtthing we expect o hear «4 ‘1§ the manufacture and export of Kansas pasteboard ex- change checks by i) thrifty and in- genious Connecticut/ ' Yankoo who has been driven out of the green goods busi- ness by Uncle Sam's.detectiv THE state of Nebpaska has sued ex- Treasurer Hill in the eourts of Douglas county to recover kertain money that cvaporated during. the Capitol bank explosion last wintdn. Yesterday Mr. Hill demurrod, pleading lack of juris- diction. He obsorves that Lincoln is in Lancaster county, the seanos of the dis- astor, and he wants a Lancaster jury to try the case. All this is very queer. THE BEE has never posed as an oracle of the law, but has won its spurs as the exponent of unadulterated horse sense. Ex-Treasurer Hill, while in office, had in custody the funds of the state—the people. The district court of Douglas county is a state court and in every sense the peer of the Lancaster county court. Up here this important case can be tried by competent judges and by a jury of unbiased citizens. At Lincoln the jury must necessarily breathe an atmosphere that is made to order cspe- cially for state officials and their camp followers. The chances are the jury would be composed of men whose sym- pathies are, and have been with those whom misfortune has overtaken and wrecked. This is the truth about it. Why not say so? PRESIDENT PAGE of the Manufac- turers and Consumers association ad- dressed the Business Men's meeting, He advanced a proposition that will not meet any great opposition at the hands of printers and publisher. Mr. Page scored the business men of Nebraska who send their orders for printing and lithographing to eastern houses. He said the publishers of this stato had cheerfully cooperated with the men who had made home patronage popular in this state and were entitled to better treatment. ‘I'he logic of this statement is so clear that no one will challenge it. Business men expect much of the press and are not always thoughttul when opportunity to recipro- cate presents . They must remem- ber that no enterprise can be extended throughout this state without the aid of the press. THE filing by the .Chicago-Groat Western railway. 1 the counties of Towa which its lines penetrate, of a wmortgage of 380,000,000, given the Man- hattan Trust company of New York, is construed by the Sioux ity Jowrnal to mean that Mr. Stickhey has at last ac- complished the scheme: of reorganiza- tion upon which he; has’ been working for 4 year or more; ' Among the ex- tensions projected by Mr. Sticknoy is one line that will ‘have Omaha as its AT THE recent meeting of the National | terminus. The present’ financial strin- gency may, however, delay the Missouri river line for this season, e —— A Redeemiug Feature. Globe-Democrat. The only redeeming feature of the pro- longed session of the Illinois legislature is the fact that it is making the state repub- lican for the next twenty years. S Fall to Excite Sympathy. St. Louis Republic. A few failures among the big wholesale coal dealers may make the coal kings who have been extorting from customers during the past winter a little less anxious to hog things next winter. ——— Prematuro Candidntos, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Levi P. Morton does not look like Hercules, but it is suggestive of that Augean stable Job whon people announce that if he will carry New York this fall he ought to be the republican nominee for president in 1896, ——e Mourners Mignty Scarce. Pittsburg Dispatch, There is every evidence that the Whisky trust is suffering from severe exhaustion consequent upon a recent attack of delirium tremens. And there will be few regrets out- side the ranks of the conspirators if the combine never recovers. —_——— What Eeform Means, New Yo.k Tribune. At the present rate of putting out the old and putting in the new, when Mr. Cleveland gets ready Lo promulgate his grand scheme of civil service reform, by which the ofices are.to be filled by a commission and, once filleo. are to be emptied only by death, he will have a full set of democrats in them to start with. ————— What About the Cash? Clay Center Progress, By reviewing the evidence which the re- spoodents gave in the impeachment cases one would infer that they had been going down in their own pockets fo help build the prison walls, Kvery item they gave in was several thousand dollars short, but had been paid for. It might be proper to ask where they got the funds to make up their short- age. — Lot Them Sufter the Consoquences. Blawr Courler. We have had but little to say as to the guilt or innocenee of the accused state ofil. cials, whose hearing is now over and under cousideration of the supreme court. We do not wish to place the men concerned under the public censure undeservedly, buf, only remark that we would tremble with fear were we in their placo under the testimony. Weo believa that had these gentlemen paid more attention to deotails and oxercised ordinary prudence that volume of unfavorablo: testimony against them, as the case now stands, would never have accumulated. It'is & long chain of ofticial negligence that g; u‘ul ofticials never have to confront that v 'confronts them. Should they bo releas, upen any techni- cality, this same volume will remain in the. vaulls, to stare at thein fot all future time, If no technicality prevajly, the impeachment eannot fail. Fine wirmouts, parties and “hair powder” should net 3‘5 indulged in by the servants of the publfo When skl and at- W3t of the outh of tontion to business for: oftice. They must suffer the consequence, Whether they be whether they be light b« heavy. sere——— Jellerson Davis ln History. St. Lowts GlolBemocrat. The reinterment of “thé remains of the late Jefferson Davis jwesents occasion for southern orators Lo pay formal tributes to his memory, and u good rhetorical exug- geration is to be pardoued i such a case; but when the governor of Louismna sol. emnly characterizos Bim as “ihe groatest man is modern history,” the extravagance reaches the point of absurdity. It is not to be denied that Davis was ‘u man of cou- siderable alility, but he lacked the casential elements of greatness. He does not stand cumparison for a moment with other conspicuous figures of his time. There were inherent fuults in his character that prevented him from taking rank with states- men of the first class, and from gaining the best form of popular respeet aud wffection. It is not true that the south loved him in the sense that the north loved Lincoln, He was not a man who inspired reverence and ten. derness on the part of Lhose over whom ho ruled. His Lemperawent, his training, his OMAHA DAILY BER: THURSDAY, JUNB 1, mAT A tantes Md not commend him to the masses. He was autocratic, egotistical and supromety solfish. Thero was nover a timo whoen ho was on good terms with his sssociates, or when the people of tha south felt as kindly toward him as thoy did toward other con federate leaders. He was not truly herofe, and his place ia history must always be that of a man who failed to live up to his oppor- tunities. It can nover be forgotten that when the ill-starred confedoracy reached tho last ditch, and the only remaining question was that of the terms of surrender and tho eon- ditions of future peace and welfare, Davis Was not present to share the humiliation and the responsibility. When he saw that the end wasat hand, ho hastily c ted his personal effects and fled from t e, in- tending to escape to a foreign country. If he had been a man of real greatness he would not thus have deserted the people who had trusted him in the hour of ir extreme sorrow, but would have mained with them, scornful of per- sonal consequences. EHis fiight was a con- fession of weakness for which there is no excuse. When he was captured in dis- guise and brought bask to face the situa- tion, the world looked upon him con- temptuously, and his subsequent conduct only served to still further depreciate his reputation. He tried to play the part of a martyr, and only succeeded in advertisieg himself as a man to whom life was a burden and a misery because of his own folly and madness. In permitting him to live on un- molested after the war the government that he had sought to destroy inflicted the sever- est possible penalty upon him. His persis- tent snarling throughout those years of waiting for death was not indorsed by the southern people. They treated him with a certain measure of houor on account of the cause he reprosented; but in their hearts they did not' love him as they did Lee, for instance, and it is idle to suppose that his- tory will ever conceal or modify the simplo truth about him —_—— 4 AND NEBRASKANS. Barhydt & Livingston of Ashford have started for Arkansas with several hundred head of horses. Lightning struck R. B. Thompson's barn and gra near Cowles and both buildings were entirely destroyed with their contents, A stable belonging to Barhydt & Living- ston of Ashford was destroyed by fire aud o lotof harness and other property was de- stroyed. The editors of newspapers located in towns on the Burlington between Holdrege and Cheyenne will hold a conve on at Curtis Sasurday and organize an association. ‘While W. M. Barnheisel, proprietor of the Kearney paper mill, was investigating some hinery at the mill his hand was caught between two rollers and the flesh on two fingy as stripped from the bone. he seventh anuual session of the Long Pine Chautaugnua will be held from June 30 toJuly 13, The grounds are undoubtedly the prettiest in the state aud furnish more opportunity for varicty of recreation than ¢ other Chautauqua grounds in the west. A ‘fine program has been arranged for the ion and u successful assembly is as- NEBRA Burglars rifled the depot at Ames recently, but in. f taking monoy the ttention to the ticket c took tickets out of the center of every bunch, which price could be sold for about $1 amped the tickets with the station stamp and fixed them in every a4y just as well as the agent could have done, The agent did not miss the tickets until he reccived a communication from the ofticials that three tickets sold by him for Portland, Ore., had turned up in the hands of brokers in Denver. 'I'his is the third time the depot has been broken into this year. e s PEOPLE AND THINGS. General Willie Mahone of Virginia has de- cided not to make a farewell appeacance in volitics. An castern publication announces a pre- mium chromo styled, “The Landing of Columbus in Oil.” A Standard work, doubt- less. The legislature of Michigan has sent to the governor for approval a *jag cure” bill. Should the measure become a law bums in the second degree will be taken out and shot —at a gold cure institute. A son of General Zabala, the commander of the Nicaraguan insurgents, who recently won a victory over the government troops, is attending school in Boston. He was much elated at his father's military success. Mrs. Anna C. Fall, a young lawyoer of Malden, Mass., has been appointed special state_commissioner by Governor Russell, Mrs. Fall is not permitted to unite couples in marriage nor to read the riot act, although authority to perform these acts is vested in men bolding similar offices. F. G. Appley, a member of the Pawtucket, R. L, Boat club, has had analuminum racing shell made for him for the express purpose of rowing all the way from Pawtucket to the World's fair. He reckons on doing it in from six to ten weeks, and if he succeeds he will be duly placed among the exhibits. General Lord Wolseley, whose vanity is notorious, is said to be savage over the ar- rival in England of Lord Roberts, the retir- ing commander-in-chief of the Indian army, who is attracting an immensa amount of public attention. Wolseley believes himself to be about the &{ruumlt soldier England ever produced, and resents attentions shown to any one else, Lieutenant Nixon, who designed the cruiser New York, which beat all records the other day, is a graduate of the Annapo- lis academy, but left the navy to cnter the ship yards of the Cramys, The battleships Indiana and Massachusctts are being built from his dasifixm Licutenant Nixon was sent to England to study naval architecture, but seems to have surp d his teachers. —_————— JUNE POSIES, Philadelphia Record: *Why do you refer to Mr. Brown as a cannibal, Clara?" “Because in the summer time hoe lives on his father.” Pittsburg Press: The latest thing in dress 1s the now boru baby. Vogue: Herdso—Do you bellove in the falth cure? Saldso—Yes; oné treatment cured all the faith I had. Intor Ocoan: T wonder how sho koeps such a boautiful croamy complexion! Mra. Selluiilk—1 supposo she puts very little water with it. Philadelphin Tlmes: As representative of politics the cagle at least s not a typieal national bird. It nover thinks of r«utflurmx its own nest. Detrolt Tribune M{ lines are not cast in pleasant places,” sighed the poct, as he stood IH'IIIII‘M' by and saw his wifo throw his latest cifusion Into the kitchen stove. Indlunapolis Journal will bo a happy on she leaned T wonder It his lite suld Mrs. Noocupple, as or baby's crib. " Suswerd the Happy fathor, 4T it myself that he bas a rattle in shall 60 t good time. Lowell Courler: Itly tempered porson Lo wi Troy Press: Tho fact that a man's mind is nlladlu IID Is no sign that his conclusions ure ar- tificial, ot unusual fora high- curs-ory statements, Pross: Tho camel is a lucky brute. has to hump itself. It ne Atlunta Constitution: tons™* Yos. ‘e any luck?" “Lots. Bosurded at a hotel, played poker with a congrossman, shook s “with the president and loancd a senator §10." BLESSED SILENCE, Detroit Tribune, ‘The bell that rang for liberty Is prized "bovo all the rest. Its mossage grand to all the lana It tolled, and now s But not alone for sery Wo guard it well from 1 'Tis much esteemed, though cracked snd soamed, Becauso It keepeth sulll. “Just from Washing- ——~——e NAMING THE DAY: Kansas City Journal. One evening in the month of May, He begged that she would nawe the day, He would suggest some time in June, But that, she sald, would be too soou. “What did he think of Felruary?* He thought that sho was cruel—very, There surely was no reason why 1t should b6 later than July. At last sho eame down to October— Would that suflicer He still looked sober. Just then her fathor, stiff as starch, Walked inand said quite grufily, “March!* = | strong and impregnable treasury vaults, and EXPOUNDING A PEATFORM 1149 OaxLAND, Nob,, May 20.-To the 1ditor of Tne Bre: Tho leadtng editorial in your morning isswe of May 30, entitled “An Obe Joct Lesson,” has attracted unusual atten- tlon and stimulated debate among the peo- ple all over the stato on the money question I'he position taken, or rather the conclusions implied in that editorial, are to my mind so far fetched and illogical as to challenge the spirit of resentment in the ming of every true democrat who read the article. The opinions of Tue Ber on financial questions are generally rvegarded as reliable. but in this instance, whother it be co L or mot, thero s a widespread foel- |ing of opposi to the idea vthat the collapso of the Columbia bank of Chicago and its depeudent banks, in any manner furnishes an argument against the repeal by congress of the 10 per cent in- ternal revenue tax on state bank issues,” or at i the tax was rej and state banking corporations re-established the re- sult would be that depositors would put in national currency and hayve their checks paid in (worthless) state bank currency.” or “that ndequate safoguards would not by law in all the states be thrown aroand nil these state bank issucs.” The object of the editorial to which i rofer is, of course, to use the icident of tho failure of these so-called “banks as a covert attack upon the last national demoeratic platform and sup- posed democratic policy on the cir- culating medium question, and if gem- ocratic interests were reprosonted by a democratic paper in Omaha, capable and willing to take up the gauntlet thrown down in your “object lesson' attack on the demo- cratic party, of course, we common people would keop silent and be satistied with our champion. But no such champion has ap- peared. Not a word in the World-Herald, or any other paper that I have seen, taking issue with your assumption that if demo- cratic policies prevail such tinancial disastor as came to the Columbia band and its de. pendencies would be the rule, and, following a8 a consequence of such policios, the cur. rency of the country would becoma unreli- able. ‘This idea, no doubt honestly entertained by your editorial writer, is undoubtedly based upon the ante-bellum days, when more or less diffienlty was experienced with the unsecured uncertain paper so often designated by T as “wildeat money This will be reauily admitted, and a return toan irresponsible paper currency period is no more desired by my varty than s, 'The question cannot be discussed in all of its bearings in a newspaper article. But it may be said, in- cidentally, that this is an age of improve- ment and of such common sense and prac- tical improvements that the immense re- sources of the Anglo-Saxon race scem to be equal to every emergen The winds wer The ant marine catened by an almost irr and the heart blood e stood still, in awe of the ine a4 man of genit destroyed. The incer ton gin, sewing machin mowing machine and many other inventions as thoy were needed, while in this generation, time, space, sound and distance, have been ove come by electricity. An adequate circulat- ing medium is the greatest factor in a na- tion's development, and its prosperity in- crea with the expansion of that medium, providing in character it is souhd; comes correspondingly depressed by traction. In twenty years the government debt, in all human probability, will be paid and every United ates bond will have been called in and canceled. This must result in with- drawal of those national bank bills, to which your financial editors cling so te- nactously, and a contraction of the cur- rency, if no substitute is provideed, of nearly one-fourth. How are you going to remedy this? Whut will be the foundation of the national banks when the government bond is canceled? What will be the security of the people haundling their notest Do you say congress will provide? Do you mean that a government debt is to be maintained and in- creased, to be borne by the masses, in order that a moneyed clgss may be maintained at the expense of the people? A plutecrac, maintaived by law to enslave an eventually degrade the common herd? I think not. I know - that the heart of the great editor of Tue Ber or its con- beats in sympathy with those striving for the best intercst of the people, and it is not found in_increasing by illegitimate means the opportunity of the moneyed aristocr: Why then does the democratic party op- pose the 10 per cent tax on state bank is- sues? Because it fs an unjust and_excessive tax in the nature of class legislation and prohib- itory in character. It was designed ot to raise a rovonue, but to destroy all opposition to the national bauk robbers, who conspired during the dark days of the rebellion to con- trol for selfish, personal ends the cireulating medium of the country, in order that they might unjustly and ~enormously increaso their wealth at the cxpense of the common people. During which tune the financial operations of the government’s agents were 50 manipulated under the iufluence of tho money lords of America and Europe, that at one period a Shylock with $33,000 in gold could exchange it for paper cur- rency to tho amount of $100,000. Inyest this in $100,000 interest-bearing bonds —interest and principal payable in gold—de- posit these with the government, in its semi-annually draw his interest; and in ad- divion 1ssue his own notes, to the amount of 00,000, thereon, and loan ' them back to the People at exorbitant rates of interest; thus, under the guise of law, passed in the inter- est of the gold bags of the world by a sort . | of logal tedgerdematn, without an tent, change his modest capisal of 100,000 These clreamarances created i | the minds of the common people, who were robbed by them an averalsn of natural pre- Judice against the benoficiarion of the ? tem and a natural inclination to undo the gislation that gave them the field withoat competition, one step of which is o repeal ate bank tax I 31vO N0 one not oven the apologists of MeKinloyism will Jispute, At tha time it was mposed everything poss ble in the heavens above, the carth beneath, and the waters under the earth was taxed, Banks, railroads, expross companies, insure ance companies, the incomes of the rich and successful manufacturers, associations, all wealthy, as well as all industriat classos, were fo to feol the weight of the fron hand of unusual and mer 1t, was oxy for temporary unusual ions wora emorgencios, and as soon as the emergenay had passed_the taxes would be modified or L Well, the crisis p noarly a ) k 1 intorestsf have been and taxos reduced ox- cept upon the w ry comforts of the people and their moans for sccuring a necess ary eireulating medium. On the formo) theclothing, food and contforts necessary to. the enjoyment of life, the percentages taxed imports have gradually boen forced up from 41 per cont, where they wore at the 080 of tho war, to 61 per cent undor the. McKinley bill, and the prohibito of 10 per cent flat on state bank still re- tnains & monument to the exactions of the| money power aud possibly a menace to thel perpetuity of an adequate circulating medium, 'y ax also is odious to & democrat be 90 it s in the nature of class legislation wero possible to do business as a statel bank, using these state bank notes as a par of the bank's resources, it wonld be neces- sary to submit in addition w local assess~ ents to this government imposition of 10 per cent on tho actu tlation, while nae tional banks pay nothing on theirs and banks of deposit only pay their pro rata on actund capital, or about I' per cent on the same, as| they do under our present system of nssesa- ing. But of course it nover was oxpectad! that any one could or would pay this 10 per! cent, and the law was passed to destroy and; 1ot to build up tho institution Now, what would happen if it was re- pealed? State banks might be authority of the legis different states and the cireulating medium by the issue of their not could be done under such stances and safeguards as to make theso state bank notes just as safe and reliable the nations what_objection would even the financial editor of Tits Bes have to their issue? Do you say it cannot. bedone? Tanswer that by saying, as at the start, thero is a man for cvery ewmorgency. Would not it be possible for the banks of Omaha to issue a currency based ou the bonded indebtedness of your great eity, which is not over $1 to the $20 of your actual valuntion, that would be as secure and relinble as the national bank notes they issuo based ou the debt of the nation? _Could not t banks of Lincoln, Fremont, Norfolk, ¢ Island, Hastings and other of our perm cities do the same thing? Would not our school district, town, county and other, municpal indebtedness, that must long out- last the government’s obligations, furnish a steady, conscrvative and rellable basis for the circulating of these tools of trade? ALl of which must be but temporary uxpndlcnzul precediug that time when prosperity shall 50 bless our rich and productive country that all indebtedness shall be liquidated and we s L finally reach the only true and stable! basis—gold and s A. B. Cuaroe, e At the Mend of the Procession, Kearney Journal, THE OMARA SUNDAY BRE was agreat paper. and a eredit to that pushing publishing come- pany, as well as to Omaha and the groat west. There arc many good newspapers in the midwest, but Tur Beg keeps well up. towards the head of the processionus & newspaper among them all, We take a just state pride in 1t assuch, whether we like its editor or his political positions or not. FROM PARIS. Eurapeon Edition New York Herald A TIOUSE DRESS, Light changeable silk, the corsage drapeq over the bosom and showing underneath velvet corselet. Laco trimming on the com suge and shoulders over the tulle sleoves. Astonishment Was depicted on the call your attention to the prices. BROWNING, Etore open evory evenlagtill 6.1k xa'-uldl!'ull W ¥ BROWNING, KING Largest Manufacturors and Rotallers of Clothing fu the Wost. visitors the past week-——not only on agcount of our mag- nifleent new quarters, but also the great variety of new goods never weavers of the cloth con- tained In our suits have not allowed any poor material to be used in their make, and we have made them up as well as tailors can do the work. We specially tailors have made up to make an extra good im- pression during our opening week--There are many other choice suits in both the boys' and men's department that it will pay you to see. you with the latest style hat at half of hatters’ countenances of all our shown before. The line of $10 suits that our We can fit KING & CO,, | 8. W. Cor. 1th and Douglas Sts,