Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 8, 1893, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THE _DAILY BEE.| Ovmraha, The Bee Bulling, South Omaha. ‘corner N and Twenty-sixth streets. 1 Citumber of Gommerce. 17 Chisn " 1% 19, 14 4nd 15, Tribune bullding. 518 Poirentn streeh CORRBSPONDRENCE. e 11 communications relating to news ~di- 10rm i Aiould bo Adiirased: To tho BAIOF. HUSINESS LETTERS. AN business Tetters and semitiancen shouid be ' 6 Tt e Publighing Compan X Dt ahecka A postofics orders 1o o made ¥+ 01 the company. ik the €11 for thes Summer oan have 1t o thelr nddress by leaving an order At Dusincas oMee. THE RER PUBLISHING COMPANY in Chicago. Tur DALY and SUNDAY Bee Is on sale in Chleago at the following places: Palmer hoi Grand Pacific hotel. Auditorfim hotel. Great Northern hotel. l‘iolro lllnlllllv 1 eland hotel. Fiies of THE DEE can bo seen at the Ne- braska building and the Administration build Ing, Exposition grounds e SWORN STATEMEN State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ~te Sworn to befors me and sl Tl In my 4 REAT, | presence this’ 20 duy of September. 1805, =~ N. P. FetL, Notary Public. 1893, 24,075 Republican state con ber 5, 10 5. m. ic state conveution, tion, Lincoln, Octo- Lincoln, THE way to relicve the unemployed is to give those who ave willing to work something to do. CONFIDENCE is returning. The in- creasing list of marriage licenses is an unfailing indication. THE World's fair directors cannot af- ford to huve any dishonest or bribe-tak- ing judges on their court of awards. DEBATE in the House of Lords does not indicate a very widespread disposition to yield to the wishes of the House of Commons in relation to thoe home rule bill. THE interminable controversy be- tween Auditor Moore and Commissioner Garneau has at last gotten into the courts. Now for uspeedy and final de- cision. BY PLACING tho balance of power in the committee on rules the democrats in the lower house of congress appear to display a deep-seated distrust in their speaker. FRICK is an unfortunate name at this time for any candidate. It recalls too vividly the man who fortified Carna- gle’s castle and imported Pinkertons into Homestead. — I'r 18 certainly an anomaly in the law that imprisons those Missouri judges who refuse to order the levy of a tax to pay for bonds donated for a railroad that was never constructed. IT 18 bad enough for railroad man- agers to tamper with legislatures, but when it comes to packing the supreme court the people may as well surrender the whole state government to their ten- der mercies. HOW DO honest republicans of Ne- braska like the shameless abuse of Judge Maxwell by the Fremont railroad organ that calls the chief justice of this state, who- has lived in Nebraska thirty-seven years, political carpet-bagger? LATEST rumor has it that the presi- dent intends to appoint William B. Hornblower of New York to the vacancy on the bench of the United States su- preme court, in whose favor some of the other prominent candidates are said to have withdrawn. MissoURIL is getting after the bogus bond swindles with u sharp stick. Ne- braska authoritics can earn popular ap- proval by immediately instituting pro- ceedings ugainst the companies that are preying upon our citizens. Their pres- ent inaetion is inexcusable. IT 18 now announced that Millie Christine, the two-headed woman, is to be one of the great attractions at the Nebraska state fair, If the managoment can only secure the presence of our esteemed double-ender, its collection of bipartite wonders will be unexcelled. THE word of President Clark of the Union Pasifie ought to be pretty good authority 100 the assurance that the pros- entretrenchment in the wages of its em- ployes is to continue only until the re- stored business of the road will permit a return to the previous schedule of sal- aries. ANOTHER long-felt want has been sup- plied in the ranks of Omaha newspapers under the name of Populist. TIts editor and publisher, George W, Brewster, is a veteran printer well known to the craft of this ity as a vigorous exponent of the financial views of the green- backers and populists, NOw THATthe banks have shown thoir ability to withstand all pressure people who have been frightened into hoarding money und keeping it stored in safety deposit vaults or hidden in old stook- ings will find it to their advantage to re- deposit in the banks, make it earn in- terest and give it a chance to circulate. IN SELEOTING Mr, D, Clem Deaver as chairman of their state central commit- tee the populists have conferred a de- served compliment. Mr, Deaver has for years been a hard worker in their cause, and while we differ with him radically on many issues, we regard him as & man who has the courage of bis convietions. SUME MORS NULLIFIOATION. Not content with having had the max- imum freight rate law hung up in the federai courts, the railronds seem do- termined that no legislation enacted in the interest of the people by their representatives in the last legislature shall ever receive the force of law. The point of attack has now been shifted to the transter switch law, which was intended to relieve shippers from sending their goods over a line longer than the shortest distance by rail between the points of consignment. The transfer switch law requires all railroads operating in the state touching at common points or at some near point, where freightis received and delivered, to build and maintain switches for their common use in transferving freight in carload lots from one line to the other. The roads are enjoined under heavy penalties to construct these switches and to give shippers a through way bill to the place of destination, charging there- for arate no higher than the sum of the local rates on the connecting lines. The law went ostensibly into force on August 1, but the penalties were not to attach until after the lapse of sixty days granted the roads to bring before the Board of Transporta- tion gpplications for exemption from its provisions at particular points where its enforcement would be unusually burden- some, and hence unjust and unreason- able. It was evidently under a misappre- hension of the law that complaint was made a few weeks ago before the board by certain citizens who sought to com- pel the roads to put in a switch as con- templated by the law. The law im- poses a duty upon the railroads without further -action on the part of shippers, unless the rallroads are exempted by the order of the State Board of Trans- portation. When, then, the Burling- ton comes as it does before the board and asks to be excused from living up to the provisions of the law in relation to switches at sixty- three points, it is practically scoking to nullify the whole law, and it behooves the interested shippers to look out for theiv rights. It is highly probable that those sixty-three points specified in the petition include most, if not all, of the places where the Burlington would be compellod under the law to construct switches for the benefit of their patrons. If so, the legislature could have gpecific- ally exempted that road if it did not in- tend that- the law should apply to it. The potition of the Burlington may he ex- pected to be followed by similar petitions from every other railroad operating within the state, and if one is entitled to relief, all will claim the same treat- ment. As we have said before, it rests with the Board of Transportation to make this law a reality or aliving farce. The responsibility of its enforce- ment can not be shifted by them. Unless they act honestly by the people in this instance the abolition of a board that has become notorious asa mere puppet of the railroads will be the first work of the next legislature SIDE QU BEFORE CONGRESS, The present” congress will have a number of important questiouns to con- sider besides those relating to the cur- rency and the taviff. The democrats have already given notice of their in- tenticn to repeal the federal election laws. A Dbill for this purpose intro- duced by Senator Hill of Now York was favorably reported to the senate by the judiciary committes last week, so that it is likely to takea conspicuous place in the deliborations of the senate very s after the sil- ver question is disposed of. A similar measure will be introduced in the house, and as the democrats in both branches are of course unanimous in favor of such legisiation its ultimate adoption is assured. It is not expected that it will be opposed by the republi- cans generally, though undoubtealy some of them will make a vigorous fight against it. As a matter of fact the fed- eralelection laws have for years been inoperative in the section of the country where they were intended to secure citizens their political rights. The house committee on the election of president, vice president and repre- sentatives in congress contemplates reporting several measures of general interest rolating to matters within its jurisdiction. One of these will be a bill changing the time for the meeting of congress. The constitution provides that congress shall assemble at least once in every year and that such meet- ing shall bs on the first Monday in December unless congress shall by law appoint a different day. Full authority is thus given to congress to change tho appointed day of meeting, but though frequently urged to doso it has never exercisod the authority. There ave cogent reasons in favor of a change, but whother they will prove to be moie effective with the present than with past congresses is a quos- tion. The indisposition to depart from & practice which has prevailed from the beginning of the government is strong and very difficult to overcome. Two other contemplated changes could only be effected by amendments to the con- stitution. One of these relates to the election of United States senators and the other to the term of the president and vice president. The constitution provides that the sonate shall be com- posed of two senators from each state chosen by the legislature thereof. There is a very strong and growing sentiment in the country in favor of the election of senators by the people, and if an amendment to the constitution pro- viding for the popular election of sena- tors wore submitted to the legislatuves of the states it is highly probable that the necossary three-fourths of them would rutify The people ought to be glven an opportunity to say whether or not they desire such a change, but it is hardly probable that at this time two- thirds of the senate—thatnumber in both houses being necessary 1) propose an amendment—could be induced to agree to the reform. It will undoubt- edly come iu time, butnot from the present congress. With regard to the presidential term, it is proposed to make it six years and to provide that the president shall be ineligible for re-election for the next succeeding term. There is & great deal to be said in favor umxmmuhmuhihhh producer has to pay doubted that its proposal would receive | the duty, and about the only in- very general approval, as would another looking to the election of president and vice president by the popular vote direet instead of through the anomalous and cumbersome method of the electoral colloges. The consideration of these questions will give congress and the country something to think about which will at any rate relieve the monotony of finan- cial and economic discussion. NEW CURRENCY SCHEMES. The conference held last Saturday be- twoen the president, Secretary Carlisle, Speaker Crisp and two members of the house committee on banking and cur- rency in reforence to formulating a bill to reorganize the national banking sys- tomso that state banks may be em- braced, has attracted a good deal of at- wntion. It is interesting and important asindicating the solicitude of the ad- ministration to satisfy the popular de- mand for more currency, and also as showing a desire on the part of the president not to entirely disregard the demand of a very large element of his party that the state banks shall bo accorded the right to issue currency. There is reason to believe that Mr. Cleveland does not favor a repeal of the tax on state bank issues by which such banks would be loft free to emit notes subject only to state regulation, but he is probably enough in sympathy with the state rights idea in connection with this mat- ter to desire that the state banks shall not be left in their present position. ‘What may be done to give them a bet- ter standing, so far as that is depend- ent upon the privilege of issuing cur- rency, seems to have been the principal object of last Saturday’s conference. Reports as to what transpired at this meeting differ somewhat, but all agree that nothing was decided upon, only the general outline of a plan for a reorgan- ization of the entire banking system so as to include state banks being con- sidered. Tt is understood that another conference will be held, with a larger number of financiers in attendance, in- cluding Mv. Voorhees and Mr. Springer, chairmen respectively of the senate finance committee and the house committee on banking and currency, at which it is expected a definite plan will be agreed upon to be formulated into a bill for submission to congress. Unless something better is proposed than the plan which is said to nave been out- lined at last week’s conference there is no probability that the further consid- eration of the matter by the president and those whom he may invite to confer with him will amount to anything. Any scheme which proposes state bank issues under federal control must fail, for obviously tho proposi- tion defeats itself. A “state bank under federal supervision would ba a blank contradiction, and it is certain that no such arrangement would be sc- cepted or tolerated by the sticklers for state rights. Does anybody suppose that the southern states would allow federal bank examiners to inspect the affairs ot banking institutions that obtained their charters from the states? There are several very weak features of the plan reported to have been considered at the conference, but the one abave referred to is perhaps the weakest. At any rate, it is enough alone to defeat the plan. There can be no compromis:s or make- shifts so far as the question of state bank issues is concerned. Either the tax which prevents such issues must be maintained or the states left en- tirely free to authorize the issue of notes by state banks under whatever regulations or conditions the legisla- tures may provide. The matter does not admit of any juggling, and if Mr. Cleveland wants to please the state rights element of his party the only way he can do it is to favor repeal of the 10 per cent tax. This he will probably not do. THE crder of the secretary of the treasury directing the manning of the mints at Philadelphia and San Francisco to their full capacity and the coinage of gold as fast as possible shows that the treasury intends to be prepared- to use its gold reserve to whatever extent may be nacessary to meet the obligdtions of the government. Nearly all of this re- serve is in the form of bullion, aud if the United States notes were not . be de- prived of their usual support; and the reserve were to be maintained, thisspecie would not be coined. In the dorm of bars the gold is easier to handle and store than it will be when minted, and tho loss from abrasion is redaced to a minimum. The coinage of this reserve is evidence that the secretary. expects that it will be needed to pay the de- mands upon the government and implies that it will be the policy of the treasury to use it for this purpose. There is no legal obstacle to this being done and if the purchase of silver is discontinued it is not appavent that ony harm could re- sult from using the reserve in this way. At any rate the government eosuld not, without damage to its credit, allow its obligations to go unpaid while holding this gold. There is a heavy deficit in prospect and Seoretary Carlisle is tale- ing timely precaution. Congress ought to find a way to obviate the necessity of making any serious invoad upon the gold reserve. e REPUBLICAN lawyers who aspire to honors on the supreme bench of this state may as well curb their ambition and wait until the bench is enlarged by constitutional amendment. Judge Max- well will either Jsucceed himself or bo succeeded by the populist candidate. This is not only the trend of public sentiment, but also the inevitable conse- quence of the hostility of the state house boodlers to Maxwell and the activity of the railroad politicians to have him retired and superseded by a man of their own stripe. THUS far the tariff hearings before the ways and means committee have clicited nothing of any value to the work which the committee has in hand and the promise that much of import- ance will be elicited does not improve. We have learned that the Bermuda pro- ducers of onions want the duties taken off, which is not surprising in view of formation, it it ®kn be so termed, that has been obffped. Thero was o promise something instructive regarding the ° development of the silk worm, hifithe flight of a major- ity of the committee summarily cut short the story,*Which the ‘‘father” of silk culture in the, United States had en- terod upon. The* fact is that this so- called “‘hearing)’' s we have heretofore remarked, is pugely a perfunctory mat- ter, and it is wHujfestly the purpose of the majority of ‘fixe committee to get through with it as easily as possible. There wxe a precedent which the demo- crats felt it would be jnexpedient to ignore altogether, but they do not pro- pose to devote much time or trouble in showing respect for it. of Ex-SENATOR JAMES HARLAN of Towa declines to endorse the citizens’ move- ment for prohibition in that state be- cause ho sees that it is simply & usoless complication in the political situation designed to throw the contest to the democrats. The aged ex-senator will not be led astray from the republican principles to which he has always sub- scribed. Neither will the great mass of Towa republicans. SENATOR TELLER asks for sympathy for his fellow senator, Mr. Stewart of Nevada, who was compelled to remain on his feet over four hours while ad- dressing the senate on the repeal bill the other day. In this case it would be muca more appropriate to request sym- pathy for the poor senators who were compelled to listen to four hours of Senator Stewart’s silver grind. Whence the Cronker Sprang. Philad Iphta Tinies. The frog carries a calamity moral with it. He's able to keep his head well above water, but still he croaks. Politieal Prognostics. Globe-Demncrat. Unquestionably the republicans will win in Ohio this year, probably they will win in Jowa auna Massachusetts, and they have at least an equal chance with the democrats to win in New York. ; T Y i The Trustful Trust in Olney. New York World. Attorney General Olnoy is & man of exten- ® information insome respocts, but there 4 theory that he would not know the anti- trust plank of the Chicago platform if he were to meet it in the middle of the road. A Note of Warning, Louisville Courier-Journal, The bald-headed brigade of the senate should, as it sits down there in the front row just under the footlights, know that its turn_ is every yeax coming seldomer and sel- domer, and now that,it has a chance to d tinguish itself aud.:do its duty by the god- dess of liberty it onght to show the old girl that it isn’t the stiek folks take it for. A Year of G Bables. Globeljemocrat. Glorious old 1§08l Gladstone, Darwin, Lincoln, Teunyson and Oliver Wendell Holmes were born. inghat year. Among the other great children of the year were Iliza- beth Barrett Brownigg, Edgar A. Poe, Jules Favre, Hannibal Hawlin, ex-Speaker Robert C. Winthrop, Mendeissohn, the German musician and composer; Proudhon, the French socialist- and political writer; T. S, Arthur, once u highly popular American writer, and Robors! M T. Hunter; dead a few years ago, who at ong time was one of the most conspicuous of southern st; Kansad ity star, For the sake of the bright plimaze of the American eagle, for the honor of the Ameri- can flag and for the everlasting glory of the Yankee trader, let us fervently hope and carnestly pray that when the czar of Russia and the manager of the Palo Alto stables look over the horses they are swapping the American can’ proudly say she did up old Russia in a horse trade if she didn’t come out even in the Bering sea business. The Bering sea matter was one of nutional diplomacy, but a horse trade is a sucred affair wherein every American feels a keen, proud, personal interest. e PEOPLE AND TH, 8. Bartholdi, the famous sculptor of Liberty, is doing the \World’s fair, From present indications there will be no necessity for the oftice secking the man. Alpheus De Haren, an Odd Fellow since 1824, died at Mouroe, Wis., last Monday, aged 93, For some unexplafnea reason the Nebraska populists failed to nail their planks with single tax. Signs of prosperity multiply, yet the Veragua improvement fund continues in the throes of collapse. Geperal Casstus M. Clay claims to be a Kentuckian, yet he drinks no whisky and uses no tobacco. He will be 83 years old next month, ‘There is comfort in: the news from medical sources that the grip is & thing of the past. The grip of anthracite coal barons remains as perilous as ever. Congressman Bryan's metaphoric mute and Napoleonic drummer boy are experi- encing grave dificulty in establishing their identity and habitation. The House of Lords is struggling manfully to maintain a close resemblance to the United States senate. A mejority of the members are classed as “‘tiresomo talkers.” Since general confidence took the reins last month railroad and industrial stocks have advanced from five to twenty points. And the trend is upward and onward, ‘Lhe weather dopartment is not only loyal to the west, but furnishes a quality of ster- ling sunshine which.puts corn in a mellow, husky mood. More power to Junius. A year ago vhe New York Worla whooped in the highways and hedges for Cleveland and prosperity. Now 1ls energies are tasked dispributing free bread o the hungry. Barney Baruoto is the richest man in South Africa. Ouly a few years ago he was a dealer in second-hind elothivg in London, His wealth is estimatésd at $100,000,000 and he is part owner 1 “$very railroad, mine, tramway and big'ibuilding enterprise in Cape Colony. » A “Souiety of ‘Pérfectly Gontlomen of the :«r 1ze been organ- ized in New York, for'the ostensible purpose of supplying lucu”%mnd cigarettes and cast-off clothing to fobr but virtuous actors, A reserve force of police has been detailed a8 ascorts for the biflet. W. K. Vanderbilt’s new yacht, the Valiaat, has been fitted up regardless of tne financial stringency. The iutgrior is hung in French silk and the carpel an artist's dream. When Bill gets seagick he ean tumble into a bed made of Pollard,gak carved in the high- est style of art and, warth §15,000, Henry Wolcott, byother of the senator, has been in Washingtoa recently. He is older and wealthier=than the free silver apostle, and when séme one askea him why he didn’t go iuto polives he smiled and re- plied that one politician in the family was enough. “Asitis he added, “I have to stay at home and make money for Ned to play poker with.” 1t is announced again as a dead sure thing that Emin Pasha, the African explover, per- ished in the jungles. The copper-hued com- ander has been resurrected so often that tho news should be allowed to cool before digestion. Mounwhile the wires to Ujiji will be kept hot until a cablegraph of the coryse is secured. Yaug Yu, the new Chinese minlstor at Washiogtou, is & man of prowpt action and independent spivit, When he had been in Washington three days he had sels home, which he will occupy immediately, is ot in the neighborhood which for years has been chosen by the diplomats, but in one of the suburbs, Columbia Heights, command ing 4 fine view of the city. He has taken two houses, 1o bo ocoupied by himsolf and fawily and his twenty attaches and servants. Pure Young UDAY, SEFIEMBER 5, { idle. 1598, VOICR OF THR STATE PRESS The Only Propar Thing to De. Gering Conrter. The proper thing for the ropubliean con- yention to do is to nominate Judge Maxwell for supreme judge. The self-esteeming por- | tion of the vepublican party has mo fight with Maxwell, Triokery Will He Itesentod. Kearney Jonrnat. The republican party witl itself repudinte anything that smacks of trickery or a joo to defeat Maxwell. Ihere are many honest re publicans who are opposed to Maxwell for good reasons not connected with any decis- ion he has made, but they will resent any- thing like a }H\Ck(‘(l convention and it wiil be a sorry day for the par g when it ocours, Simply Brainiess. Tilden Citizon. The World-Herald says N. D. Jackson should not be elected distriot judge becanse he is u republie What miserable rot to be vomited forth by a metropolitan news- which is supposed 10 employ beains on 1ts editorial staff ! If no more serious charge than this can be brought against an aspirant for juaicial honors it is better left unspoken. Dodge Connty tor Maxwell, Fremont Plail. Dodge county is for Maxwell all the time, and the only hope of those who oppose his renomination is that they may keep the voters from the primarics and thus prevent an honest expression. The contemptable tactics of the chairman of the county contral committee, who is the leader of the anti- Maxywell forces, in withholding notice of the snap_convention from the other repubiican papers of tho county js sufficient exempli- Heation of the lengths thoy are willing to re- sorh to in order to gain their ends. the primaries and vote to reward judicial honesty. Set down on the self-constituted bosses and snap convention makers and sot down on them in A manner that will leave 1o doubt us to what you mean. Go to A Strong Able Candidate. Lineoln Call. The independent state ticket will be con- sidered by all impassioned observers as a strong one. ‘Uhe party machinery that had things manipulated to nominate iRagan was routed early in the day and tae fleld won, with Judge Holcomb as 1ts candidate. From those who know the judge well, from those not members of his ~political party, there seems to be a very general verdict that he of good ability who has made an sxcellent record as district judge in tho Twelfth district. He isa young man with much of his future before him, and his nom- ination will remove much of the usual per- sonality in this campaign and cause the bat- tle to be fought. as it ought to be, on the political professions of the populist party as laid down in ther platform. There’s a Lesson for Kepublicans. Lincoln News, In naming Judge Holcomb as their candi- date for supremo judge the independents of Nebraskn have put their best foot fa ward. Mr. Holcomb is a young man, but 35 ars old, in personal appearance almost the 't counterpart of Senator Allen, and, while his fame asa jurist has been confined to the western part of the state, the fact that he has no record to attack or defend makes him a strong candidate. The lesson to be drawn therefrom by the republicans of Nebraska is that to win in this fignt they must nominate the party’s best m one who does not bear the railroad brand and whoso ability, honesty, integrity and fealty to the interests of the peo- ple is without question. The fighy in Nebraska this fall will be on tho anti- monopoly issue, and the republicans must meet it fairly and squarely. There is an impression not confined by any meaus to the ranks of the independents that the judicial ermine has been too often worn by men whose first interest was that of the corpo- rations when any contest wus on between them and the people, and who have be- trayed the confidence placed in them. Whether this be true or not, the News leaves it to the people, who are as well informed thereon as any mnewspaper. The fact re- mains, however, that the impression pre- vails, and if the republicans of Nebraska have the vrime political wisdom usually cribed to them they will see to it that the Reese treachery is ‘not re-enacted by the corporations and their henchmen, A PEOPLE'S COURT. How Rallronds Riveted a Cinch on the Courts of Mlinok Chicago Herald: Failure of the legislature to pass any law directly inimical to raiiroad or other powerful corporations has left the poor people of this state more abjectly than ever at the mercy of these remorseless organizations. They coutinue to take life at e crossiags in collisions caused by the criminal neglegance of uheir agents and in consequence of their own niggardliness in providing adequate safeguards, mechanical and human. If they take life the highest sum a jury can assess is $5,000. From that verdicl or auy iess than thai they can appeal to the appellate court. . The plaintiff is generally poor. He has not, or his wretched orphans and widow have not, the means wherewith to pursue the defendant vo the end of the judicial road. Lawyers must live by their profession. If poor people hire vhem they must pay for pro fessional service. The problem now is to se- cure justice for poor people, at least approx- imately, without the interposition and con- sequent compensation of lawyers. A fine piece of work was done by cornora- tion ajents in the construction of the appel- late court of Hiinois. - Its magnivude and sig- niticance have thus farescaped appreciation. If a jury give in a damage.case a higher sum to the heirs of a victim whose life was taken or to the victim himself, in cases of bodily injury, than the corporation be disposed to pay, the corporation takes the 1ssue to the appellate court. That court, on a ques- tion of merely improper instruction by the trmal judge, may set the judgment aside; but if the veversal be against the plaintiff he cannot go over that court to the suprome court, while the defendant, if the reversal be against it, can go over the appellate court to the: supreme court and drag the poor plaintiff through avother year or two of want. When at length the case is settled a large proportion of the cash finally collected must go for counsel fees and costs, Can any rational and honest man under- stand why the corporation should have this second right of appeal and the individual it has injured or ruined have not the samo right? A shrewder bit of corporation law- making never was accomplished. Whatis wanted for the simplification of such suits is a people’s court without law- yers. Under the new statute covering costs of beginning suits, if a plaintiff swear he is 100 poor to pay the $10 required he 1s en- titled to have his cuso entered without cost. This is a sound prineiple under our constitu- tion, which declares that every person ought to obtain by law “right ana justice freely, without being oblized to purchase it, com- plotely and without denial, promptly and without delay.” Lut the constitutional maxim lacks com- plete fulfilment. There ought to be one court in every county where a layman can state his own case, present his wilnesses at he state's expense for examination by a just and fearless judge, and secure justice with- out the present cumbersome, costly and dila- tory process. The public administrator or some person acting in such ecapacity should be the representative of plaintiffs who male oaths that they are paupers and cannos hire counsel to prosecute their rights. The pre- siling judge should be an interlocutor of all parties, seeking only truth and justice im- partially bevween them. In case the parties to such actions before such a court preferred reference of the cause o a board, sy of three arbitrators, the find- ing of such a board should be final on both sides. e ] Bearoity of Farm Detroit Free Lress. From all over the country has come the cry that harvest hands are scarce. In many sectious old men, womon and children were called upon 1o heip gather the erops because able-bodied laboring men were not Lo be had. T'his is a state of aflairs which should not exist when there are 80 many workingmen Instead of the distribution of labor which should exist in a country of our vast extent and varied resources, this class of ponulation is largely congested in our great cities and wanufacturing centers. It is among the evils fostered by a protective system which atiracts capital to the tield where itis favored, stails the enterprises which employ labor, stimulates production beyond the demands of consumption and, when orders cease Lo come iu, throws hua- dreds and thousands out of employwent, bor, (4 RESUMING OPERATIONS, About 700 were given omployment in the Braddock, Pa., wire works which started up this woek. The William Clark thread mill at West- erly, R. 1, started up Tuesday after a four weoks shutdow... The Clyde priat works at River Point, R 1., resumed this weelc, and will run four days a week for the present. All departments of the Carnegie steel mills at Homestead, Pa.. resumed Wednes- day, employing 2,000 men. The main cotton and yarn mills of the Pacific mills at Lawrence, Mass., reopened Wednesday, giving employment to 2,000 per- sons, T'he stove works of the Anshutz-Bradbury company, Allegheny, Pa., which have been Glosed for some time, bgan operations Tues- day. ho Shaw Stecking company of Towell, Mass., is occupying its new mill, recently comploted, which increnses the producing capacity fully 50 per cent. The Valley Falls mills of 500 looms at Providence, it. L, started up sonday, as did also the Oliver Iron and Steel works, the Hamesworth Steel company and the Howe, Brown & Co. steel mill, all of Pittsburg. The Keech & Brown mills of Valley Falls, R. I, the two mills of the Quidnick com: pany at_Quidnick, R. I, the Carolina mills at Carolina, R. I, and the Riverside Kuitting mills at_ Little I'alls, N. Y., resumod opera- tions this woek. The Windsor Lacks (Conn.) Steel company has a contract for rolling out 14,000 pounds of aluminium ingots into rods twenty fees long and ome and three-fourths inches in dinmeter, Tho rods are to be made into bolts. The material is composed of about, 12 per cent of aluminium, and is a bright yellow color and very tough. It will resist the action of salt water and 1s therefore used in boat building. The Waterbury Watch company reopened its works this week after the usual annuval vacation of one month. The Waterbury Cloc A ready opened and given persons afier a two wi Business in the brass foundries i good and Jooking brighter every day. Money i3 not as searco as it was, and employers are now experiencing no trouble in making up their pay rolls, NEBRASK 1 BIRASKANS, Rock connty_revublicans will hold their convention at Newvort September 23, “The Harlan county republican convention has been called to moet at Alma, Septem. ber 20. “The Orleans seminary will open Septom- ber 26 under the direction of Prof, .. L, M- Brian. Five head of cattle standing along a wire fence near Potter wero killed by a stroke of lightning. The se wood Fair and Dl held October 3 to 6. A horse beioneing to a Ravenna man fell into a ditch and landed on its back, and, no- body being on hand to rescue 1t, the animal 5000 died. ¥ A. H. Robinson of Norfolk slip) vat of hot sugar at the s had one leg parboiled from the ankle to the hip. Ho was lucky to escape with his life and a preserved leg. The Episcopalians of DeWitt have just occupied their new church, a beautiful edifice costing $2,200. The building will be consecrated later n the season, when the bishop returns to Omaha. I2d Potter, « horse thief confined in jail at Tecumseh, had made a saw to work his way to freedom, but unluokily his tool was dis- covered and he was finally tried and sen- tenced to the penitentiary for three years. North Platte business men have interested themselves in a scheme for an wrigation canal and have taken steps to have made a preliminary survey from a point on the North Platte river near Paxton across the Platte valley to the South Platte river. ‘The republicans of the Ninth _judicial dis- trict have nominated Judge N. D. Jackson of Neligh to succeed himself on the bench. Judge Jackson was appointed by Governor Crounse to the place vacated by W. V. Allen when he was chosen United States senator. Burglars are active at Aurora. Thé other night they broke into the residence of Dr. Steenburg and stole his watch and a small m of money. At the residence of Mr. er of the firm of Baker & Wales thieves also broke in and stole a suit of clothes, his watch and about $5 in money. exposition of the Elm- ing association will be s THE PASSING OF DR, GRAVES. St. Louis Republic: No matter what the fact, tho impression ‘must remain that Dr. Graves has convicted himself. Buffalo Express: It is a pity that men like Dr. T. Thatcher Graves do not commit suicide before they commit murder. Chicago Post: Dr. Graves possibly did the wisest and most comfortable thing for himself, but as for convincing unsentimental folk of hisinnocence thereby—that is unother matter. Denver Republican: This ante-mortem appeal will not teud to reverse tho popular opinion that Dr. Graves was guilty. His channel of escape from the final determin- ation of his case confirms all of the damag- ing testimony which preceded the act of self- aestruction. ~ It reveals the fact thas chief among his accusers was his own conscience and that the knowledge of his own crime be- came, in the end, more than he could bear. The wicked heart could no longer keep its own secret. Inwords which Daniel Webster has made immortal, “‘there was no refuge but suicide, and suicide is confession.” RIN ROASTS, Truthe "1 nald $200 for this terrier” “Skye high, b7 El earn can. ta Gazotte: Lite to the bunco man e the fecls that he must do all that he Lowell Courlor: One feature ot a cyclone Is worthy of general Imitation: it always does 1ts level best. Washington Star: “How's the business oute 100k with you?" askod the cnstomer. “Encourngingly dar plied the ehlmnoy Galvéston News: fronts the fast young ot up now or let down auestlon that cons n_Is whether he will or, Boston Transeript: ou know that. fool ean had heardso: now I ke Don' s (annoyed) Bass: questions? W it Ohleago Record put out. Elnine—-What's the matte Etl Why, sho went to *h Ing a fearful fuss over a it £liel-Emma‘s awfully trouble of mak- mouse and éoma {ofind out there wasn'v a man near to look at her., Wiladelphia Rocord: obsorved the be Is dirty with n hittdiy sny that it is not P “Woll," I Chicago Tribune mukes my halr so Hanks--You huy tivers—( wondor what arsh and dry. V't wot your new hat yot. Lito: Ohc Are you fond of the water? ¥ Exceedingly! At tho mero thought o r the bounding waves, Iean searcely ol ©s, that's the way it afects mo, Mr. Castor wouldn't. eall fn the baby. Now thatit is dead wsoliblo. ays it Is i comfort ural death. She h to know It Iavo you sccured s nd floor yef, Mr, Goslin? 1 hiaven't been looking tor a lodger, mads Mrs. Fanglo I'm cortain my husband told me you had rooms to let in your upper story. IDENTIFEED, Boston the man But he calied for & schooner of lagar In alofty and lordly way. And tho crowd rou Looked over the The man with the m Whilo wondering who d the fish and the crackers S0 haughty, G might bo. But the bartender mu; T think he must he n From the way that he's navig That schooner across the od softly, ing Wit TR I HAD I BUT KNOWN. New Yor Had I Svening Sun. it known n those four fair dof untold wonlth and brighter That you would hold end arrayed, 1d ud cold— I would not then 50 prodixal have grown ud I but kno When to the dealer you replied “Thanks, none for me?" Iwatched your marble brow and trembling 1p, And Ialighed unto myselt and thought with lec, 5 “T'vo got him dead this trip?" T thought that you had caught a simple flush, right as a maiden's blus) Or, quite as sure to luro you to your fal A tempting seraight. And laughed to think how 1 should earn your hato. 1 would not now be loft to wall and moan ad Ibut known. A HINT FROM PARIS. w York Herald, A WALKING DRESS, This is of light beige cloth. Baunds of gul- pure lace form a blouse over draperies of mauve surah, pleats of which show between the bands of the corsage. Mauve surah gir- ale around the waisi and tnree bands of mauve surah around the bottom of the skirt. l, BROWNING, KING Largost Manufacturors and Rotallors b ot Ulothing in the World. Now, will you be good? If you are going to school next Monday, we'll [ do a little wearing out on this old suit of yours so that you can get a new one. B. K. & Co. are now showing all the new things in school suits—Don’t al- low the apparently low prices on cheap stuff' to keep you from looking at these nice clean = ! goods which are also offered at very low prices—so low indeed that there is no excuse why your boy should not be well dressed. This week’s special line of sehool suits in cheviots and cassimeres in modest light and dark shades have an extra pair of knee pants to match. Nov- elty {suite in zouaves, Kills, reefer suits and reefer overcoats for fall wear ara very attractive. All these suits are tailor-made up substantially with the greatest of care and will in every instance give good service, because they are the best goods to be had. Without doubt you will find here the most complete assortment of novellies in caps, beautiful to behold, ever seen in Omaha, all at specially low prices before sehool calls. BROWNING, KING & CO., on every evoning Ul 61 Store opes areey oy ol |8, W, Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts.