Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 4, 1893, Page 4

1 THE _DAILY _BEE, "~ E. ROSEWATER, Editor. PURLISHED EV’ER‘ MORNING. 777 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday) One Year gfl“ lln': Sumany, One Yeas . Ty Omaha, The Tiea Bullding Sonth Omaha. corner N W rogma 14, 14 and 15, Tribune bullding. BT Fourieenth Atroet. CORRESPONDENCE. At wnfentions relating to hews and edi- torial matter should be Addressed To the Bditor. BUSINESS LETTERS. aviiiie 11 business letters and remittances shoul thv-u‘wl o The Bee Publishing Company Omaha. Drafia. ¢ Ky a rmnl\nm:w orders o be made blo b0 e company. DT Riea foasin the ity for ths summer can have their address by leaving an order GE PUBLISHING COMPANY. The Hee in Chioago. Tae DALY and SUNDAY Bee 1s on salo In Chieago at the following places: Palmer house. Grand Pacific hotel. Auditorium hotel Great Northern hotel Qoro hotel nd hote Fiies of ThE Bew can bo seon ab the Ne: braska building and the Administration bulld ing, Exposition grounds SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, State of Nebrask; of Trr BrE Pub- y swear that the LY BER for the week GEORGE B, TASCHUCK. subscribod in my 20 day of September, 1893, N. P. P11, Notary Public. ~m ) 8w 8EAL | prosence this Average Circulation for Aue., 1893, 24,015 Republican state convention, Lincoln, Octo- ber 5,10 a. m. Independent September 5, Democratic October 4. state convention, Lincoln, state convention, Lincoln, THEhouse of representatives is losing no opportunity to adjourn over the con- stitutional three days at least once a week. THE Chinaman is again in congress and is the subject of as bitter a denunci- ation as ever. In the meantime the Geary law remains unenforced. THE fate of the home rule bill now rests with the House of Lords. And the fate of the House of Lords may rest with its action on the home rule bill. THE movement for a vrohibition-re- publican ticket in Towa is not meeting the expectations of its promoters. Pro- hibition is no test of republicanism. THE pinnacle of populist ambition is to produce politicians. They despair of ever contributing to the world a man who can claim the rank of statesman. HOWEVER expensive the new liberty bell may be, it can never secure a place in the hearts of the people beside that of the old cracked but historic Independ- ence bell. FRED DOUGLASS maintains his reputa- tion for good common sense when he says vhat the negro must work out his own salvation in the line of persistent proficiency. MILITARY demonstrations on the bor- “der between France and Germany may tend to repress any warlike yearning of the French, but they will scarcoly make them feel any more neighborly toward the Germans. THE American laborer should demon- strate to his European competitors that he can celebrate Labor day without nay- ing recourse to disgraceful riots, such as usually characterize the labor demon- strations abroad. THE populists have been advised to become politicians. From tho character of the men who have drifted irto their ranks most people would conclude that they have tried to be politiciansall their lives, but have euded in miserable failure. SEPTEMBER has arrived but as yot ng word from President Cleveland relative to his tariff policy. In his message to the now congress he said that he had in- tended to call an extra session not later than September to consider rovenue mattors. Have these matters become any less important since congress has convened? A DEMOCRATIC congressman jusifies his change in attitude on the question of quorum by the fact that he has become four years older in legislative experi- ence. With four years of experience under the present democratic adminis- tration, the men who voted for Grover Cleveland will have amplo justification for likewiso changing their attitudes, 1718 reported that holders of over $2,000,000 of the $3,800,000 in bonds upon which the Union Pacific has been en- deavoring to secure extensions have consented t) the plans of the divectors, “That is very well for a temporary ex- pedient, but isn't it about time to give some serious attention to the govern- ment indebtedness of the company that 18 80 800n t0 become due? CITIZENS in the sistor cities of Minne- sota have organized against the coal combine. The coal barons have been having things their own way so long that this move will no doubt cause them some little anxiety. But fora vigorous fight against that grasping mouopoly, the counter movement should take in the people of the whole northwest. The citizens organization should first be ex- tended before the struggle. — THE action of certan eastern insur- ance companies in raising the rate of interest «n thew mortgage loans from 43 and 5 per cent to 6 per cont is exciting no little unfayorable discussion. Sowme interpret it as indicating a belief that the stringency of the money wmarket is yet to coutinue for some months, but on the other hand it is widely condemned s sacrificing permanent intorests 0 se- Jiring a little temporary gaia. A CONSPIRACY UNMASKED. For the past throe monthe, and in fact ever since theacquittal of the impeached state officers, thero has been a concerted effort by the boodlers at the state capi- tal and the railroad bosses at Omaha to contrive schemes for shelving Judge Maxwell. Thevenerable judge has been a thorn in the flesh of the state prison rings and printing contract swindiers ever since he had taken his seat on tho supreme bonch. When the first lease of penitentiary convict labor was made to Bill Stout, Judge Maxwell, seconded by Justices Lake and Gantt, interposed a veto and enjoined the lotting under the fast and loose contract which had then been That made the penitentiary con- tractor and his successors his unrelent- ing enemies, When the State Journal company at- tempted to perpetrato a gigantic print- ing contract swindle upon the taxpayers of thestate, Judge Maxwell thwarted the job and made the Journal gang of public plunderers his undying enemies. Judge Maxwell's decision on the right of the state to regulate railroad rates, either by legislative act or through a board of railroad commissioners, has rendered him very obnoxious to the railroad mavagers. So the judge found himself bitterly opposed by state house rings, penitentiary rings and corpora- tion lawyers every time he came up for renomination. But tho greatmass of republicans have unwaveringly sup- ported the fearless and unpurchasable judge and the corporation cohorts were overthrown twelve years ago and again six years ago, and the judge was trium- phantly renominated. That was when the republicans had from 15,000 to 25,000 majority and a nomi- nation meant an election. Now that the party has a narrow margin, if it is not actually in the minority, the enemies of Judge Maxwell have adopted new tactics. They not only propose to pack the re- publican convention with corporation henchmen and men that train with the boodle gang, but they also propose to malce it impossible for Maxwell to be clected through an endorsement by in- dependents, or for any man to be nomi- nated or elected who will not be sub- servient to their inter made. sts, With thisend in view, the cappers and strikers who are on the pay roll of the railroads and maunipulate both the republican and democratic machines have for weeks been industriously cireu- lating through the state and secretly orgauizing the dependent employes of theroads and the annual pass men to pack the primaries and conventions so that no man be placed on any ticket who has backbone enough to resist the bland- ishments or threats of corporate power. In order to make sure ot the defeat of Maxwell every district judge has been urged to enter the lists as a candidate, and where the distriét judges have re- fused to play catspaw, unprincipled, self-seoking lawyers have been induced to anunounce themselves as candidates. Bach of these candidates and all of them jointly are to be pitted against Maxwell, whom they expect thus to choke off. In order to prevent an endorsement of Judge Maxwell by the populist conven- tion, the stool pigeons and galvanized anti-monopolists, who have been smug- glod by corporation managers into the populist camp, have worked upon credulous farmers and workingmen in favor of a straight popu- list nomination and nothing else., This has been the keynote of all the decoy ducks that mix with the populists for revenue only. And to make the conspir- acy doubly sure, several so-called populist lawyers, with the late railroad lobbyist, Regan, at the head, have been encour- aged to be candidatos on the populist ticket. Now, with possibly two or three ex- ceptions, every Nebraska lawyer who professes to be a populist is an imposter, simply playing apostate to his old polit- ical faith to sell out the new party to the highest bidder. This is a very caustic charge, but it is the unvarnished truth, The average lawyer who talks loud against monopolies and bankers is a monumental fraud, either hired by cor- porations to work the populist racket or elso waiting ready to do the bidding of the corporations for a price or for a posi- tion on the railroad staff, Will the people of Nebraska allow themselves to be hoodwinked and hand and foot-bound to be delivered over to the tender mercies of the corporations? Will the new reform party, which claims to bo desivous of purging the stats house and upholding a fearless, unbribable judiciary, allow itself to be dupea by mouthy mountebanks and reprobates into helping the railroad ring and the boodlers strike down and repudiate the grand old man who has stood manfully and fearlossly for eigh- teen years as the honest exponent of the constitution and laws of Nebraska? If they do, they will insult and strike down the honest men of all parties in the late legislature who sought to re- deem Nebraska from corruption, mi. rule and reckless raids upon the public treasury. industriously REPORTS of isolated cholera cases in the cities surrounding New York har- bor and of renewed outbreaks of the diseaso in various parts of Burope again caution overy one to exert all possible care in rendering conditions unfavorable t0 its spread in this country. The peo- ple of the United States have had suffi- cient experience during the past two THE OMAHA such as was imminent about a year ago. Authorities in the east are doing everything in their power to pre- vent its inroads and with co-opera- tion of citizens in general there will be little danger of more than a fow sporadic cases. The great demand of the day is excessive cleanliness if there can be such a thing. With uncontami- nated water supply and with extraor- dinary efforts in the health and sanitary departments of our city governments, the cholera will not be able to gain a per- manent foothold with us. Every one, however, must do his part and refrain from needlessly inviting disonse. TOO MUCH LIKE A HIPPODROME, Dave Mercer was elected to congress by going around among the country bumpkins kissing babies. That proba- bly explains why County Judge Bller is teying to be so sweet on the women who have children that want to see the World’s fair. The judge generously volunteers 10 pay the fare of a counle of dozen childron providing the Psycho man can get the railroads to make the fare 85 for the round trip. This is a proposition with a string tied to it. Why does not the good and generous judge put up acouple of hundred dollars and lot as many children ride on it as the roads will carry at regular World's fair rate: There is nothing to hinder him or anybody else from chartering a train for Chicago or from contributing any amount they see fit to any number of people willing to accept their donations. The chief objection that can be ad- vanced is against taking money out of the school fund or any other public fund for a World’s fair excursion. Incident- ally the attendance of men who ave bait- ing for votes at the Train hippodrome 13 too transparent, and therefore makes it look like a campaign barbecue where the candidates buy the roasted ox and the people have to pay for him. By the way, why can’t the enthusiastic politicians and editors who want to edu- cate other people’s children at the World's fair grounds, pass ‘round the hat among themselves and invite Bar- num’s menagerie to come to Omaha, where the children would learn natural history by an inspeetion of the animals. There would be a chance for the over- worked schoolmarm and underworked and underpaid parent to come in and enjov the luxury of a trapeze perform- ance and bareback riding of two horses going in opposite directions, like our ac- robatic politicians, with Psycho Train as the ringmastor. THE PIANO FAD. Just now when the funds to the credit of the public schools are running low any scheme to divert the money that belongs to teachers and junitors to the purchase of things not absolutely needed should bo discountenanced. Music in the public schools is at best an accom- plishment rather than a partof free school education. So long as it involves no other outlay than tho pay of two or three singing masters it may be sub- mitted to by the taxpaying patrons of the schools without grumbling. But when it is proposed to supplement the musical fad with the purchase of half a dozen pianos, it is time to demur. If the school board invests in any pianos it should buy the very best, and that means an outlay of at least $3,000, Cheap John pianos, rated at from 350 to $250, would be only good for kindling wood in less than five years, Besides that, they are objectionable for the reason that they tend to miseducate the ear of pupils that may have some musical talent and should get their elementary music from a perfectly toned instrument. So the question resolves itself into this: Will the Board of Education be justified in taking $3,000 out of the treas ury for the purchase of halfa dozen pianos just to please the faddists? We believe we voice the sentiment of nine- tenths of the school patrons when we say, most emphatically, no! Thero may a time come when the school board has more money in its treasury than it knows what to do with, and even then it will be a mooted question whether that fund is intended for musical instruments, rather than school books, scientific ap- paratus, toachers’ salarios and fuol, THE TARIFF HEARINGS, Today the committee on ways and means will begin giving hearings to manufacturers and others interested in the tariff. The daté fixed for the last hearing is September 20, so that if the committee meots every day, exclusive of Sundays, for the purpose of these hear- ings, there will be only fifteen days de- voted to that purpose. This, however, does not correctly indicate the time that will actually be given to obtaining the information which the committee im- plios a desire to obtain, since it will meet only for a short time each day, and it will be more nearly correct to say that probably not more than forty hours will be given to this purpose. Practical men will not need to be told that very little can be learned about the vast and varied industries of the country in that time. Noting the fact that the ways and means committee of the Fifty- first congress, which passed the Me- Kinley act, bogan to give hearings on Decomber 26, 1889, and continued its sessions for such purpose until February 27, taking nearly 1,400 printed pages of testimony, the Philadel- phis Ledger obsorves that the pres- ent committeo seems disposed to act with to0 much haste. That paper very properly suggests that any change in the taviff should not be made without ample time for refection on the part of the members of the committee, and the fullest opportunity should be afforded to those citizens who desire to communi- cato their views to the committee. Manifestly the democratic majority of the ways and means committee do not believe this to be necessary, for they de- clined to extend the time of the hear ings when asked to do so by the republi- can members of the committee, and it must be obvious to everybody that the decision to give any hearings was entirely perfunctory. It was the practice to give manufacturers and others concerned in tariff changes an opportunity to be heard and it was deemed expedient, that was all, not to ignore this rule, but the majority of the committee made the time for the hear- years to o lounger fear & eholera scare | ings as short as possible without in- DAILY BEE:)MONDAY curring the risk bf fnaking it absolutely ridiculous. The faet is there is no in- tention to make use er give consideration to any informatiof whieh may bo sub mitted not in line” %ith the settled pur- pose of the demaceats regarding a re- vision of the tariffic No facts or argu- ments which miy” be presented to the committee, with a view to maintaining existing duties on any class of manufactfired products will have any weight ,or influence upon the work of revision. Indeed. it is said that the democrats of the committeo will go right ofi ffaming a now tariff bill while the hearings are in progess, and it is even stated that the chairman of the committee already has a measure abeutcompleted. The republican mem- bers are not to be consulted until a bill has been framed, when as a matter of courtesy they will be permitted to look itover. But notwithstanding the fact that the giving of hearings s simply in pursuance of precedent and purely perfunctory, the manufac- turers of the country will be wise not to withhold any information or expression of opinion they may deem it proper to make, to the end that the party in power shall not have the opportunity to say after a new tariff law has been enacted PTEMBER that the industrial interests of the coun- try declined a chance to be heard and thereby impaired their right to find fault with the result. Eveon if what they present to the committee shall go for nothing now it may be of value in the future discussions of the question. of New York charitable OFFICERS organizations have, after careful investi- gation,'come to the conclusion that the' existing sources of relief are quite suffipient to meet the emergency now upon them, = The cases brought before them during the month of August just cloged number twice those of the same month last year and the probability i that they will be correspondingly greater as the winter approaches. Yet despite this fact, these organizations, whilethey ask for pecuniary assistance and contributions, are earnestly depro- cating any system ‘of general or ind: criminate relief without careful investi- gation into each individual case. In one of their manifestoes they say: “It must be remembered that the prevailing business depression exists all over the United States and that if it should be in any way known through the press or otherwise that general and indiscriminate reliof was being given in New York, there would immediately be attracted to our ¢ity such an army of the unemployed, ‘not to speak of the tramps and worthless idlers who are only too glad to subsist on charity, every relief society and agency would be overwhelmed, and the ability of our city to maintain this" influx of paupers would be exhausted. Now 1s the time for the exercise of philanthropy, but it must be intelligently, applied if harmful results are to be avoided. Under pres- ent conditions the' nébd of the charita- ble organization i§ all the more appa- rent, ) THE New York Swn. has been:' struck by the inconsistency of a democratic ways and means committee devoting its time to the hearing of interested manu- facturers when the democratic ‘national platform declared a protective tariff un- constitutional. Sohas everybody else. SPEAKER CRISP'S railing at what he delights to call **Czar”, Reod is not very consistent with his own action in depos- ing Mr. MeMillin from the committee on rules simply because he happened to be at variance with him on certain im- portant propositions. A Stalled Sevession Movement, Globz-Demeral, Mr. Bland scems a littlo slow in executing s laudable threat to leave tho democratic party because of its treachery on the silver question. e The ly of Boits, Kansas Oty Journal, Boies’ luck may still cling to him. Prohi- bition republicans in lowa arc attempting to organize s bolt, Kepublicans can be as big fools as anybody when they try. nd Lots of It. cao Post, Secretary Carlisle says that the amount of money now outstanding in this country is 204,783 more than. on September 1, 1592 disposes of the populist and silver maniac cry that the country is perishing for lack of more money ails the country is a lack of contid e e The 6,000 Mar New York Commer: The west 1s enthusiastic over a mass meot- ing in Omaha the other evenng wi do- clared unanimously for free silver coin 16 to 1, and there were 6,000 peoblo in the hall. One of the nice things about America is the abseuce of fences, 80 far s opi and talk are roncerned. . . Farewoll to o Senator Morrill has obtained an indefinite leave of absence onaccountof ill health, His countrymen, without distinction of party, will join n hoping that his health may soon be restored, and that he may con- tinue to occupy for years yet his place of un- obtrusive but acknowledged pre-eminence in the finncial and economic discussions of the senate, i Sliver Holds Own, Minneapolis Tribune, One of the curious features of the financial situation is the absencé of uny effect upon the price of silver by the passage of the Wil son bill. A great bropk was prodicted, but the price did not even fllitter on tho uay the repeal bill was pussed. Kor nineteen days provious 1t hud not beer quoted on the Stock exchunge. As a mautdrof fuct, the price of silver has been little uffected for a year by treasury purchuses or prospects of free coin- age or the reverse. TR Wo Lead ALl Nutions, Detroit kreo Press American firemen roéently went to London and opened the eyes df thatsomewhat sleepy city 1o vho possibiliutsatiginablo by tiio tighters of the fire flsd. Now some dis- tinguished foreign commissioners have seen how American applibaces facilituto vhe gathering of a great Avyest, o square i of wheat being cut and bound while they ware watching the operation. Amorica has unrivaled rosources and the most approved wethods of realizing upon them. There is no chance for hurd times o contitue long in a country 80 blessed, if its legislators do their duty. e Death Blow to the Swindle. Hed Cloud Ar us. The action of the banking d Nebraska i pronouncing bon illegal corporations and deout lottery swindles has had a depressiog offcot on tho promoters In this state, It has dawned upon them that the game is up sud that a business which promises such splen- did returns for themseives and friends on tho ground floor Las gono glimmering. Al though the promoters loudly assert that they are conducting an honest, legitimate busi- ness, aone have ventured to defend the artment of couwpaies g them us scheme or refute the charges. Thoy affect contempt for eriticisio und dssume wd air of | . 1893, martyslom. A fow have ventured into [rint at advortising rates with a_jumble of nsurance statistics, which have no bearing upon the question. Thoy talk about joalously and insinuate that boodlo provoked the attack. Theso protenses are in kesping with the bold plan ng the Border. Minneapolis T; ibune. A botter system of inspection of immi- grants along the northern boundary hus been ordered. This will have the effect of keeping out a good: many undesivable immi- grants, as large numbers havo been smuggied over the Canadian frontier. It will also make nice snug berths for a number of de- sorving democrats. All in oll it is & com mendable departure. puinedeD Cherokee Rush, Philadelphia Record, Tt is alceady apparent that the throwing open of the Cherokeo Strip to settlemoent next month will be attended by confusion, with a possibility of riotous demonstration. 1t is said by colonization experts at Guthrie that, according to tho best records over mado in land office registering, the entire nine booths will be unable to _resister more than a total of 14,000 of the 500,000 waitin people in the five days allowed them. RRed tape methods will b apt to go down beforo the mad rush of the homeseckers. The sys- tem pursued in apportioning among eager sottlors tho reraining portion of tho public domain is evidently in need of intelligent rovision. Sabbatarimnism Run Mad. New York Post The differenco botween th! *anada could hardly be more vivi trated than by the fact that the ¢ routo has nover allowed street cars to run on Sundays,and thatata special election just held a majority of over 1,000 was cast ngainst granting them permission to ran on that day in future. There are seven daily news: in tho city, and only one of the numby any favor to the innovation, Toronto is a city of about the same rank in population as Troy, N. Y., Mewmphis, Tenn., or Atlanta, Ga., and the idea that street cars should not be allowed to run on Sunday in such cities seems 8o absurd to us that it is hard to un- derstand how 1t could be held in Canada. Sk SHERMAN DRIVES THE NAlL, Kansas City Journal: Senator Sherman has grown tired of hearing it said that he demonetized silyer in 1878 by trickery, and he proposes hereafter to brand all such state- s. It naturally takes aman of Mr. Sherman’s temperament some time to get warmed up, but twenty years of denunci- ation and abuse has finally roused him. St. Paul Pioneer Press: John She put a favorite falsehood of the free sil through a process of electrocution whicn ought to put an end to it. It turns out thav Ernest Sey, so far from desiring the do- monetization of silvor, wus an earnest bimet- list. But Senator Shert not_flat- ter himself in demonstrating the story to bo A falschood he has put a quietus upon, All the more it is to bo expected that Don- nelly and his ilk will keep on repeating it. Minneapolis Journal: John Sherman in his speech administered to the favorite false- hood of the free coinage people tho third thrust it has received this session. Con- gressman McCleary forced Sibley of Penn- sylvania to admit that Irnest Seyd, the alloged bribemonger of the tho “gold bugs,” etc., was an silver advocate. Senator Morrill quoted a long letter of Seyd advocating silver, and now M. Sherman strips the last rag from the silver bugs' preteuse and tho falsehood stands out in ull its nukedness, as does in- deed the twin lie about the surreptitious passage of the coinage act which omitted the old silver dollar from the coins. Globe-Democrat: T'he speech of Senator Sherman is the most valuable contribution which haus been made this year to what m bo called the Jiteratureof the silver que: tion, While the distinguished Ohioan joins the rest of the sound-money men in demand- 10g the repeal of the purchase provision of the law of 1500, he points out that other causes have conspived with this act to bring about the present financial depression. Among them were the Argentine monetary convulsion early in 1890, the collapse of vhe xreat house of ‘Baring Bros. in tho latter partof the same year, the heavy drafts which Austria-Hungary ' made upon us for gold in 1591 and 1892 in'order to plave herselt upon a gold basis, the Australian panic of a few months ago, and the balance of trade inst us this year, which drew muck of our gold to Europe. gt s PEOPLE AND THINGS. enthusi; he better the cut of the farmer the greater his prosperity. Neal Dow thinks prohibition 1s working. It is—fermenting trouble. 'he threatened bolv of prohibition repub- licans in Towa is water-logged. An operation on the jaw of calamity would be hailed with much joy in the land. The total admissions to the World’s fair since May 1 was a trifle over 10,000,000, It must be admittea there is a great deal cy in the work of an insurance agent. If Cleveland’s jaw is a trifle out of whack, his “pull” continues in superb physical con: dition, The quantity of prospective pie may be measured by the activity of senatorial Sup- porters of the administration, The frolicksome Clark Howell, of the At- lanta Constitution, indulges in ‘A word to the Senate’—three-quarters of a column long. Cleveland’s organ 1n Denver has turned crated toes to the skies. No waon- Hundorgans have a hard grind in that 1o, Ofice seekers who have grown weary wait- ing for a distribution of federal provender n secure a feast of “pi” by calling on the compositor. tewart's love for silver is not ming. In all cash transactions he uses gold--not that he loves silver less, but the yellow is o convenient, you know, Of all sad words of tongue or p marck takes the prize: *lam uneasy.” ex- claims the prince, “'when there is a chancel- lor who acts without consulting Anybody.’ The sultan of Dioclokata is mentioned as a probable visitor to the fair. His lowness is about four feot in what is commonly called height, but there is nothing short about his full namo, which is Huimankoewonseno- vatimgalogonabgurrachmansaydinupnotogo- mode, Seuator Proctor is soon to begin the orec- tion of a fine house in Washinglon at the coruerof Vermont avenue and K streot., Tho stone for it will be sent to Washington from Senator Proctor's quarries i Vermont, whence most of the marble used in the con: struction of the western terraces of the eap- itol was brought. Mrs. Patti Lyle Collns of Mississippi is an invaluable worker 1u the dead letter oftice in Washington, where she is known as “tho blind reader—not that she is blind by any means, for she is wonderfully keen sigated. she hus a remurkable facility in ascertain ing the iutended destination of lotters are “blind” b Prosident Samucl Sloan, of the Dels Lackawanna and Western raioad, is orth dox to the backbone and weeps bitterly the necessity for running trains on Sunda, Ko 18 especially opposed to Sunday excu sions and_ will_ only consent to them upon payment of extra rates, 4 system which in- volves the spoiling of the Sabbath-breakers and the eariching of the righteous—by the righteous being understood Samuel Sloan and bis fellow stockbolders, Senator Hill's distuste for the society of the fair sex is 50 pronounced that he tikes s meals privately when at hotels. Ho was driven to this step by the request of a lady at the Arlington hotel in Washington, Sho asked the head waiter to place ber at the table at which Senator Hill was sitting. Ho heard the whispered request, saw tho lady take the seat near bim, and then arose and lefu the dining r hefore tinishing his weal. He never again appeared In the general dining room of the Arlington, Aun associate of George Stephenson in_pio- | neer railr work, Rev. Italph Swin burne, is now living in Ashiand, Ky., at the age of 58 years, and is said Lo be the oldest railroad eugineer in this country. As a boy | ne first met Step! ou while” repairing a wooden rail 1ue n weastle. Later ho was the contractor for the Stockton & lington road, and others of wh Stephenson was the chief eogineer. Swinburne came to America in 8550, and au first was engaged in railroad work, butin a few years he retired and removed to his presout home, where he was orduined as & | Bapust mivister, VOICK OF THE STATE PRESS. Slogan that Will Win, Lineotn News, The slogan of the republicans of Ne- braska this year must be: The railroads must keep theit hands off. Refers to the Ratiroad Dirk, Matte County Argus. “The republican dagger has been drawn. Tt will be plunged into the vitals of Chief Jus- tice Maxwell. They Never Would He Missed. Crete Videtts, A fow mombors ot the state central com- mittec think they are the only real good ro- publicans in Nebraska. Tho soouer they are rotired the better it will bo for the party gonerally. Precinet Politios Just Its Size, Tekamah Herald, the Worl erald’s leading edi- torials on outside districtand county matters causes country politivians to shudder with fear lest Hitcheock take up the cudgel even in precinet politics, Yes, tho World-Herald is a great pape To read Oniy n clam, Seward Reporter. The republican state central committeo call provides for a large convention, nearly 1,000 beine the number of dolegates, Tho Reporter is inclined to think that the num- ber is entirely too large, and that it would have been botter had it been one-third less, le Bxpress. A hint to politicians: Keep quiet and lot the people, especially the farmers, oxpross their viows as to the policies and candidates. There is a vague unrest in the political at- mosphere that means il to tho bosses who are manivulating mattors irrespective of tho public wish. ISt 0 StPAW. vlegraph. The effort 1s being maae to turn down Chief Justice Maxwell on the part of some of the republicans. Tt is said he 1s not liable to be nominated by the republi state con- venton, but if placed on the ticket by the alliance or by petition the people of Ne- braska will have a splendid opportunity for ascertaining what a host of friends Judge Maxwell has in this state. Not If Honest Mon Are Awake. Pender Times. The republican ring of Nebraska has played their first card to defoat Judge Max- well for suprome judge. The republican county conventicn of Dodge county—the Judge’s home—has been cailed to meot noxt week—sort of a snap convontion. 1t is tho intention of the gang to send a del egation to the convention opposed to the judgo from his own county. Will they succeed Ensy Way Kill the Party, Lincoln News, The matter of the supreme juageship is oxciting the stute press just now. If the ro- publicaus act wisely thoy can win this year with ease, but if they allow the railroads to e candidate, us tne vailroads have ato the habit of doing, it would bo chieaper to purchase a good, serviceable mill- stone for use around its neck than to go through the worry of a campaign. Just One Wise Course. Blair Pilot, There is but one wise course for the No- Dbraska republican state conyvention to pursue. 1t should nominate Judge Maxwell and thus insure pa 85 0t the polls. The judee is a coi 0 who never truckles to any man or party, and because this or t legal opinion vendered by him does not accord with the views or interests of others, is no reason at all why he should +be sat down on. More than this, his opinions are mostly in line with the wmass public sentiment. If neis defeatod be the werk of the bosse defeat their party at thy of it will es who will thereby polls. Tecumseh ('} Republicans must bo alert to the duties of the hour. The conventions, both county and stato, will soon be held. Don't let any pe sonal likes or dislikes prevent the nomina- tion of the strongest ticket possible. Lot the work be done so that no apology will bo necessary after the conventions are over. The fight will be a hard oue this fall at best, s0 don't load the ticket with weak timbor. The fusion idea 1s quite popular among our enemies and very likely “the fight will be agast the combined forces of the demo- crats and indopendents. ‘That ought not to frighten us, however, for with 4 judicious ticket the opposition can be “put 1o sleep.” Let each republican put party above self ana the victory is won, The Union Pacitie, York Times, It has long been a popular delusion that the government has a_claim against tho Union Pacific railroad that some day might be paid. Probably no one that fully under- stood the situation has entertained any such idea at any time since the government. took the second mortgage on the road as security, When coneress allowed another mortgago, for more than it would cost to build the rond today, to take precedence over vhe one hold by the United States, it virtually surren- dered its claim against the road. In a couplo of years the bonded debt of the Union Pacific begins to fall due, ana thero are no funds to pay it. The fixed c *s have been so great that by straining every nerve, charging all they daro and economizing on every point, thev have not been ablo to pay runni enses and meet them, to say noihing ot filling ck with coin to pay bonds and mortgages with, Tho ontcome will bo beneficial to Nobraskn and the entire west. Tho Mt movaage will bo foreclosed and the road sold ander it, This will wipe out all_othor clatms, and ghe company ean then be reorganized with an in- dobtedness that it can take caro of without bleeding the public to faintness. Then this great ploneer Nebraska lino will be on an equal footing with other western railronds and the state can control it, ns it does othor lies, without any interference from the general government. Tho sooncr this hap- pens the better for us all LOWERS, Lowaell Conrler e bigger the ho hiay field the nore prosperous t AUTOMY cutdown in 0 OWnor Troy Pross: It anybody's actlons spoak louder than words they must be those of the buss drammor, Rlmira Gazette: Jagson says hls sorvant girl finds so much’ fault with things that ho classes her with the hiro critics, Buffalo Coutler: The pastry cook doesn't have to be much on religion to bo a ple us sort of a fellow. Washington Star: “Life," oxclaimed the man who enjoys being a misanthrope, “Is nothing but one fong hustlo for a chunk of ice or & Tump of conl Galveston News: 11 the stampof the govern- nent could bo put upon the som: nelgh- d lio wouldn't it be a dandy circulating ndelplin Times: It shouldn't be hard for a maiden to tho a knot with the young man whon she can twist round hor fingor. 13 this the buroau of fn- formation?’ sald Mrs. Meddergrass to the clork at tho World's' fale grounds. “Y matam.” “Then T wish you'd toll me wh Silasds, 1told that old man of mine he'd got lost, an’ now he's gone an' done it.” Harper's Bazar: Truth: Miss Hatfield-Saylor—Y oubeltove in marriago, don't you? Mrs. Whirlsfare-—Bellove 1w ehlld, why—1 practico it! in Graclous, “Rooms? What do you mean?" “Well, his wifo dréw the plans and didn'y havo anything but closots, MER MISTAKE. Detroit Free Press, Girl in h Reudi Man comes by and Takes & 100k, Girl is anxious That tho man Think she’ Booklsh plan. Tle's from Boston, And the gal Think's ho's intol= Lectual. Man steps up; ad- lires hor gowns es the book is Upside down. oo Sl Destruction of Forests. September Century, The United States sells its forest lands at £2.50 an acre, lumber companies indirectly acquiring a square mile of land for littlo over 1,600, while the timber on it is ofton worth £0,000. The French government for- ests roturn an average profit of §2.50 an acro annually from timber sales, or 215 per cent interast on the value of the land. The United States now owns only enough forest land to provide a contiuual timber supply to its prosent population, if forests are man- aged und_lumber used as in Germany. The nited States ctly in the position of o man making large drafts on and using up an immensc idle capital, which, if properly iu- vested. would return an_juterest sufficient for his expenditures. In 1585 the government of Bavaria sent an expert forestor to study the timbers of the United States, who stated: *In fifty years you will have to im- port your timber, and as you will probably 1i . proference for - American kinds, we shall now begin to grow them in order to be ready to send them to you at the proper time.” KEETER. I am a Jersoy 'skecter, nud I revel by the sen, A-l)\flll;:dm{l'\ and common folk in a manner bold und free; Today I'm full of English blood; tomorrow every vein May hold” tho bluest, richest goro that evor came from Spain. Another day I'm like as not to sing “Die Wacht am Rheln,' From_ having bit a German whon perchance o ara tmes when, reoling on my happy daily ways, Itakon nip thats, Puris-bred and hum tho “Marselllaise.” Oftimes I am & Russlan from my wing-up bl Oftontimes I hold the richest blood you'll find on Murray 1l Sometimes I take a mixture, but I flud 1t does ot pay, Unloss I'Wish to suffor pain for many an anxlous day. For T haye found that when I've bit & Briton and a Oclt, T'm protiy sure'to suffor fa the rogions of my bolt; And when a Frenchman I have nipped, of Germans I keep froe; I do not want a battlefield down in tho midst of me. From which T think 'tls evident, while seem- ing free from c; I have to keep & watehful eye upon my bill ot And that s why T stick by you, my friend, tho livelong night; I'm dieting—and if T may, I'll have another bite, BROWNING, KING Largest Manufacturors and Retallors of Ulothing In the World. I'm Here Again Just to tell you fellows that if you don't like the new style suits B, K. & Co. are showing you have certainly forgotton my teachings. They are beau- tiful, I think, and so does everybody else that wears suits at all. don’t, wear These are not that kind, but the finest tailor-made garments out. Every yard of cloth, Some people you know—they hand - me - downs, inch every of thread, every button, every lining, every every- thing goes through as careful preparation as in any tailor shop. The difference is that while tailor shops make one suit B, K. & Co. make thousands, and consequently sell at half their prices. Suits and light overcoats for boys and men now in. BROWNING, Blore open every evenlo; P avuraay bl 1 KING & (0, e {8, W, Cor. 461 and Douglas Sts,