Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 24, 1893, Page 12

THE _OMAIA _DAILY BER THE DAILY BEE. B ROSEWATER, Fditor PURLISIED EVERY MORNING st Datly T Qand Daiiy # Fiee Sunday 1 15, brilidis CORRESPONDENCE. and ot Edltor LETTEY Al brsine 1 rémit addr Drafta pyable to Wartle nmer ik By sont 2 i At b 08 should be THE BEE PUBLISHING COMF The Ben in Chic Tie DALY and SUNDAY [k Chjeago at the following places Palmer house Grand Pacific hotel. Auditoriun hotel Great Northern hotel Gore hotel. Leland hotel Fites of Tk Bew ean ho «e braska building and tho A ng, Exnosition gronnds is on sale in n at tho Ne- inistration bulld- SWO. F CIRCULATION, state of N NT eretars of TiE e Pub- wwear that the for the week DATLY T Qunday Monda Tuiend Welne Thursd: Friday. Sptent Saturda WK wed in my 103 -, 1803, 24,075 WiTh this kind of weather the con- tractors for publi have no excuse for del pushing their work rapidly to completion. works ean y in week in September finds con- > to act upon the sub- jeet for which it was called than on the first day of the extra sesaion, ThHe ity foot ball teams are already in the field. The college yell of triumpli will soon permeate the most remote corner of the eountr THE last gross in loss ha var AN ESTIMATE of #16 slon payments for the fis 1803 throws something like a damper on the prover atitude of repu reopenings of and other tional institutions ally attry attention than their commencement exercises at the close of their But the beginning of the school year is as a rule much more significant than its close. ven- olics. The y colleges usu- less ot IT WOULD scem to mortal that the pension bureau has enough to do in disposing of the seven hundred odd thousand pending pension claims without calling upon the men who are now logitimately drawing pen- sions to show why their names should not be dropped from the rolls. an ordinary THE sons of tho late and much ma- ligned Ernest Seyd have come out with a statement that their father never vis- ited the United States after the year 1856.+ This knocks the last vestige of pluusibility from the literary invention that he brined congress to drop the silver dollar from the list of standard coins in 1873, THE carnival of erime in the Cheroke pis a disgrace to our present civilization and is directly traceable to our barbarous methods of istributing the public domain. From this one point of view it is consoling that there is little probability of having many more repetitions of these disgrace- ful speculative serambles for land. 1w in progress COCHRAN, the Philadelphia mint robber, had a great penchant for bibles and books of religious character. Some of our worst politicians have a similar penchant for attending church mcet- ings and social gatherings, The same desirve for an appearance of respectabil- ity may uccount for both classes of the phenomenon, IN LOOKING for opposition to the re- nomination of Judge Maxwell, it will be well to watch the insurance companies, whose managers have sworn vengoance upon him. Many cases against fire in- surance companies have by them been appealed to the supreme court dur- ing tho past fifteon years, and Judge Maxwell has many vimes docided that a fire policy means what it su, THE queries propounded by Mr, W, S. Poppleton to the projectors of the Platte river canal strike the cove of the propo- sitions about to be submitted by the eouneil and county commissioners to the voters of Omuha and Douglas county. We shall be pleased to print the sponse to Mr. Poppleton’s inquiry, and trust that the obstaclos which he seoms to see in the way of the enterprise are not insurmountable, WhHiILE tho Board of Public Works is expending that money appropriated to reliove the idle workingmen by afford- ing them work upon the streots, it might not be a bad idea for it to have some of the pavements on our main streets placed in better vepair. There are numerous holes in Furnam street whose presenco could now be spared, and it would not requive a very vigilant eye to discover other points whore a small ex- penditure of lubor would produce a most marked improvement in the thorough- fare, THE Associated Chavities of this propose to oven a school to train m ried women who have worthless hus- bands to support themselves as laundresses. Married women who have worthless hushands may be deserving of charitable assistance, but the most effective means of relieving them musy be to reform the husbandsand to compel them to provide for their wives, 1If marriod women with worthless husbands are t0 become the specisl wards of charitable organizations, we fear that a great impetus may be given to the movement which is transforming men into worthless husbands. ity WAt Wirn T T A8y \LL BE DUNE CIFIC RAILR banded dabt of tk and their branch e 1 fon including m bonded for Arrears of excoed $240, which the mortgage holder, of & of 33,000,000, with win and 200,000 mpaid 00,000 carries o first mor 00,000 and a seeond mort yout $18,000,- gage gage 000 ¢ “The road is b a floating de rto perhaps $20,000,000 more, of things th the government overdue int sides weighted down by amount Under this condition 1 is, What shall do whoen the first mort able two y ernment l questi the foreclosure pay- ars hence? Shall te ells gov- the road go for off road shall it buy i1 road and ate it as a government railroad, it mop the slate and lot the road be sold out 1o the best bidder and be re ganized with a view to earning inter on the actual monoey il? We believe it to bo to the tho peoplo west of the Missouri that the last plan of settlement b purs canse it will ptace the road in condition not only to meet the competition of rival lines that are ized for an ¢ third of that for which the Union Pacl ) and take what the the first first mort mot pay age and ope or ot inve: interest of is stoc lower than transcontinental road Vo are met at the ontset with the ques tion, Shall the United States 000,000 to the Union Our answor is Co ers of the This is not any Pacific railrond? ¥ not if the own road areto pay this debt contemplated or proposed. The owners of the rowd. the stockholders, | are not expected to pay wsingle dollar The whole debt is to be saddled upon the people, whe to pay interest and prin- cipal in excesive toills and perpotuate equally high rates on every other road leading to the Pacific coast. But why not let the government pay Off the fivst mortgago and take the rowl? Wo answer, Because it is uttorly impr ticable. The only time the government, has ever operated railvoads was during the war. A military railroad, operated by soldicrs during ntartial law, is one thing and operating a railvoad in times of peace by federal employes and federal officersisan entirely diffevent thing. The military roads were oporated regardloss of cost, public convenience or carning et The U Pacific under govornment ownership would have to bo managed and operated with a to public comfort and carning abilit 1t the income fell short of the ¢ost of main- tonance and running expenses cong wonld have to tax tho whole country o male up the deficit. The fact that some railroads in Germany and Austria are managed and operated by the govern- ment affords no proof that government ownership of railvoads is- practicable in this country. Government ownership of railroads in Europe is due to tho wants of military powers in times of war. As an investment they have not been asuceess. In Germany and Austria the railway men are enlisted like sol- diers and paid a meve pittance. But if such a thing as a government railroad across the continent could be operated as cheaply as any road operated by rail- roud corporations, and the politics of railroud employes would have no bear- ing upon thoir ability to sceure positions or their promotion according to capacity and merit, ther 11 would be great barriers to the acquisition of the Union Pacific by the government, If the gov- ernment is to buy in the Union Pacific it must also buy in the Contral Pacifi and it must also own and operate the principal branches, which consti- tute the principal feeders of the system. Suppose the government should buy in the main lines from Kansas City and Omaha to Ogden, how could it be made profitable if it should allow the Burlington, the Rio Grande or the Santa Fe toacquire the Colorado branches of the Union Pacific, that tap the principal wmining or the Oregon Short Line, which the road with Puget Sound and all the intermediate timber and mining regions? Ono of two things the government would have to do—cither buy ont the branch lines and assume a colossal debt, perhaps more than double the actual value of theso lines, or it would have to build oxten- sions and branches from the Umion Pacific main line and terminals to the mining camps, cattle ranges and citios between the Rockies and the coast. That means launching into an experiment that would involve millions of outlay and -would promote more job- bory and thiovery than the country is now afllicted with in the entire federal service. There is, moreover, no need of two railgoads where one will carry the traffic, There are now five truuk lines to the Pacific coastand there is nof traf- fic enough to earn a faiv income for three, The result is general bank- ruptey, in spite of excrbitant rates. If the government would deal with the Union Pacific as an ordinary creditor who holds a second mortgage on a piece of property that will scarcely liguidate the first mortgago at sherills salo, it would ¢ross out its elaim usan uncollect- able debt and trust to chance for getting back any part of the elaim, In case of the Union Pacific, the goy- ernment if it cancels the second mortgage, make a settloment that will reserve to itself the use ot the road for trausporting its mail and military sup- plics at nominal rates, while at the same time causi iting ts successors to reasonable intorest and dividends on the actual value of the voad, Tkis certainly would be more beneficial to the pesple than to take 833,000,000 out of the United States treasury to pay off the first mortgage and assume $140,000 000 of bonded debt for the branch lines, with the abso- lute certainty of an enormous deficit in operating expenses over receipts for the Arst few yeurs. ion 0w vegions, connects CONGRESSMAN BRYAN is said to be at work upon a scheme of income taxation, but at last accounts had not come to any conclusion concerning the details of the plan. Inasmuch as the details are the chiel part of every system of income tax- ation, a little attention to them before iutroducing his bill would not be alto- 1, be- | d and bonded, but to give us rates | ever, a general reduction by lim- | EPTEMBER 'WENTY PAGES luated in ‘ of the ng t his pop he Bryan might sc the detail ing him. If he ex he n in t of I the wppl as Me is so pon please th ad his in 11 ac Wt bill will form a to build that | ¢lection at Ax weacy might as w o now a8 ineome tax which wod pedestal upon senatori which he imaginm i the hands is s0 asstduously in t endo iting ARRALGNING TIH | The PRESIDEN ha made that President (¢ tempted te allegation boen at- passing juently veland has CMree Congress into the bill for the rep st the s it silver 1890, has b e pur- insing clause of own man law en said making unse rnment of for or the gove that no senator clined to viministration regard- this purpe | vept ative the policy of the | ing silved and s whod support any consideration of patron- requests and of both o appoint- avded, are ibution the age. I | recommendation | of | branches eong have been di menmbers as | ments | that | to repeal and such opposed has given color to this allega- the friends of the | have strenuously denied that there is ny substantial g Very re- coently is nized | tion, but of prosident forid which is 1 organ of M. rge of at- £ no founds und the as the personul nd referred to tompted coercion tion in fact, dismissing it as unworthy of consideration by those who knew the nowspaper Clevel the ch a8 havir Bvident | the prc \ however, there are men in who either believe that the cnt has attempted coercion or arve detormined to play a desperato game to defeat repeal. The country will be sur- prised, if nos startled, by the introduc- tion in the senate of a resolution which platnly implies that the power of executive department of the govern- ment has been used to control the action of the legislative department, in violu- tion of the eonstitution. This resolution was introduced by Scuator St Nevada, and was probably the result of conference between silve A discussion of the resolution iv announced for Monday, and the disclosures then to bo expected will awaited by the country ary interest. The first impression is likely to be that this is part of the desperate game which the silver men are playing, but on reflee- | tion it will a v hardly possible that they would take so extreme a stop as to thus publicly avraign the president unloss they have something to present that will give them at least a sort of justifi- cation. If they are unable to offer any- thing to excuse such an arraignment of the president on o most grave charge they must understand that their failure would be disastrous to the cause they represent and to theiv political future, I'rom the point of view, therefore, thaf they ave staking everything on this ac- tion it is not easy to believe that they do without having some substantial basis for the arvaignment. This last and most unexpected move of the silver men shows their detorming tion to use every resource at their com- niund to delay and defeat repeal of the silver purchase clause of the Sherman act, not hesitating even at such as may be essentially revolutionary in their na- Monday's session of the senate promises to have unusual intevest for the country. senate M sonato bo 50 ture, RELATIVE RATES OF WAGES. Among the facts brought out by the westigation of the committes on way and weans, none is more important than the information obtained in regard to the relative rates of wages paid to labor in the United States and the principal countries of Burope. The testimony on this subject is 5o convineing that nobody an doubt it. It was conclusively shown that American labor receives from 75 to 300 per cent more than labor in like in- dustries in the leading IZuropean coun- tries, the testimony to this effest being given by men who have worked for vages in the samo occupations in the United States and in foreign countries, and by thorough investigations made by manufacturers and officials of the gov- ernment. It has also been admitted to ve a fact by importers, with perhaps one or two exceptions, Compelled to admit the superiority of American wages, the advocates of an abandonment of protection fall back upon the proposition thas one American workman does as much, produces as much in a given time, as two or three persons do in Barops, and argue from this that the labor cost of prodaction herc is no greater than there. How- o gratifying this may be to Ameri can pride, the truth is that there is ver | littlo in it. American workers aro more productive, as a rule, than Euro- peans, but not o much wore 5o as to equulize the difference between tho wages here and abroad. The testimony taken by the ways and means committes on this featuve of the inquiry, whether given by men who had themselves worked in mills and factories in Europe as well as in this country, or manufactirers who had employed labor in a foreign country as well as in the United States, or manufacturers whoss Lopinions were based upon eareful, patient and intelligent observation abroad and experience at home, conclu- sively showed that the theory regarding the relative productive capacity of American and foreign workmen, which assigns to the formor such an over- whelming superiority, has no sub- stantial foundation. The most elli- gent testimony is that while the average producing capacity of the | American workman undoubtedly excoeds that of the European it does not do so to any such extent as to ejualize tho difference in wages. Nobody will ba surprised at this who is fumiliar with the facts set forth in the report submitted to the sonate last year | and signed by democrats as well as 1 publicans, and who has knowledge of the reports of the commissioners of labor of New York and Massachusetts submit- | ted to the goveraors of those states Wbout n yenr g testimony of all ngres of lab nt tariff of the nl 50 was dhn anced undat Tt ix only sinc 1ed that The fs demand blon m o d licy has threate have bog olin a peculiarly of w wrgen up kingmen Thik The niq of notables w gions at the W this congross of in con Sleinres inte equaled T'he earth, at met PARIAMENT OF REL world ha¥ nover before w s and s G ONS the gathering nt of T'he scove of reat S0 impressive a parliam fa ionists li- m was tion, 1ts, and it has been v used the world un of this exhibitions fons of the other, s sessions havoe ar throughout thet international { all the rveli with mmon an rost by of any foature peac each have upon a have v for a and have joined in sup; common Deity ism have to conceal their most platform, clas hands sommon purpose, to the Bigotry uad sectarian- heen ications for once ugly heads, while th tative men « Il faiths calmly, earefully and it is belioved hon- ostly etrines have sen adopted by them with reference to morality heve and man's hope of a here after. Itis certainly to tted that an eminent American clergyman, who is said to have declined to fellow- ship with the moembers this at parliament, should have had the bad taste to publicly attack the faiths of our Oricental vis Christians who fear that a of doctrines with heathendom can inany way undermine their own faith certainly de the compassion of people of all veli- compelle which be re; comparison Ve other * amount of ture has been contributed to by the parlisment. halted long cnough the truth rding gious teachings of i Wl Mohammed. The fiv great ions, facing each other on neutral ground, have been permitted to tell each other where they can touch valms, and for the first time in all the world’s history can the student of this branch of ethnological reh find himself confronted with abstract doctrines of the faiths of untram meled by strange enviconments and un- varnished by special pleading. revelation to 1stude of all religious beliefs ¢ have been gathered fi writings and pulpit discuss who are broad enough to believe that humanity ov s more good than bad at heart and that men of all 3, veligions and tongues have mueh in com- mon will be confirmed in their tolera- tion, while bigots who condemn to eter- nal punishment all people that do not subseribe to their individual views are left in confusion. The parliament of religions cannot but eclevate human- ity in the minds of thoughtful persons, for hore thoy find that the same car dinal virtues are essential to goodness in the eyes of the Christian, the Jew and the Mohammedan, the Buddhist and vhe Brahman. It may be objected that the differing faiths ave strengthened by this confor- ence of the ablest preachers and teachers of each and all, and that thevefore the congress adjourns with the abstract and infallible truthsof true religion as much a matter of contention as The Christian will not abate one jot or tittle of his belief in the doctrines of the bible and the Mohammedan will continue to turn his faco toward Mecea while he recites passages and prayers from the koran. So all the other worshipers will abide in their faith. This [ narrs ew to take of a congress so liberal in eoheeption and so magnificent in results. Mon everywhere are bettor for being acquainted with each other. Friends and ibors who exchang visits do not persccute each other, It is 80 in religions. America has proved this, Christian sects in other lands and in other times hated each other more cordially if possible than Moham- medan ever hated Christian. Associa- tion, acquaintance, interchange of senti- ment and open discussion of apparent differences has made Christian fellow- ship something more than a vagary; it is now a well grounded hope. The minor differences Dbetween religions which bow in reverence to the Almighty God not so widely separate a common humanity as to keop them continually at warfare with each other. This congress has opened the eyes of the world to the fuct that men who follow Confucius may really bo as cager for the truth as those following Moses. There are points of contact, accepted grounds of belief and common purposes enough to harmonize very marked divergences as to deta and to avoid destructive antagonism, The world’s parlinment of religions marks an era for religious thought and will do much toward re-establishing vhe doctrines of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhoud 'of God. The epoch of universal peace, of worldwide toleration in matter belief and of a common effort of 411 good men of what- evar faivh to mako all men better is not many decades distant. instructive the Christianit to hea the rel Judah, Budd liters world has nhina o rol rese: the men It is a swhose ideas cept their own m fracmentary Men s, orywhere ever. is ne one need of veligious PEOPLE must wonder whe srtile brains OFfinato which are daily startling the country with new schemoes by which the silver mine owners may be able to unload their cheap silver as money upon the ipeople at the old price without waiting for congressional logis- lation. ‘The las} one, which comes 10 us by way of Texas o the effect that a syn dicate, ineluding' prominent men of Toxas, Colorado, Missouri and Kansas, is being formed to coin silver into dolluvs of a hexagon shave av the rate of $1,000,- 000 per month or more, if the legislatures of these states will declare such coin a logal tender, is either a roport made out of the whole cloth or an evidence of how supremely ridiculous some of the silver advocates are able to make them- selves, Notonly has the state legis- lature no authority to ¢oin wmoney or authorize its coinage, but it is strictly prohibited by the federal constitution from making anything a legal tender except the gold and silver coins of the United States. It is said that a private hexagonal coinage of gold passed ocur- 2 all those | divected at slifornia daring ta logal tende enforeed and m wa only by nion w fused to ch ostracized pay his debts in the power vested in any is an oxc it 1 States or for amp metal tutiom of Unite but he efforts cannot of the eoin money silver mi of product fof more than the ma If the circulation of silver is all they de let their sterling spoons, They would disposing sire, them stamp hars not bo in fringing on the connterfeiting law wants to ot might do so at his own valuation a scheme would bo vidic than the coing nd them Such any one who ac no mor 1lous plan for a priv of silver dolla A CLOTURE rule has adopted;in the United States s causo it has nevor The people still - prefer to have the se abid its traditions, but those raditions also enjoin it upon the hope minority to refrain from unneces It nover nte wen really requi by sary dilatory pro ditions to bodies, new rules odings new con- arise fegislative to confro must meet those conditions be devised IN SELECTING Scenator as alternate to ex-President Harrison, the orator for the next meeting of the Army of the Ciumberland, the veterans of that great corps have paid a eompliment at onee to the senator and to the state of Nebraska, which he vepre Manderson ‘nts, ure of Confirmation, Minncapolis Times. Judge Hornblower, who has been ap- poiuted to the supreme beneh, should have the warm aporoval of Scnators Stewart and Teller when he comes up for contivma- tion Fixing I Globe-Democrat toand oste W to ching visit W i tations wel to IMrench impulse to the in nanufactur ar clouds. ———— it for Healthy Nogs, Detroit Free Pres Secretary Morton comprehands the situa tion very decurately when he declares that the Américan consumers of povk shall have atleast as much protection throuzh caveful inspection as 18 @ven to foreizners who gt theiv supplies in this market. The tendeney of the old system was to send the nid bealthiesy nork abroad and sell that of an inferior quality at home, waters wi dustry of A Moy cinnati Commer husterers nst the repeal v bill are becoming supersensi s over tho naanimity with which the press alls for immediate action on the measure. “They should be informed that the peess is aying as many “nawsty things about them as their constituents a If they did the postal ofticials would interfere with the circulation of tho journal that published them, e OPEN LETTER ECIHOES. Fremont Leader: Rosewater handled Richards in pretty much the way the Paw- nee Indians did the man whoshot the squaw. Ho virtually skinned him alve. Fricnd Telegraph: Yes, L. D. of Fromont has revived tho memd ward Rosewater, and it would much better for Mr. Richar tively refrained from monkeying buzz saw. Broken Bow Republican: L. D. Richards letter to Rosewater a few duys ugo, s published in full inTue Bex with reminds one of t buzz saw. Richs Richards of Fd- been had he en- with the won't doit again Wayne Democrat: L. D. Richa have forgotten that Rosowater thing of an open letter writer hi never would have penned that friend Edward, and th a1 thorough skiuning, Superior Sun: Iditar Rosewater of Tur BEE is after Hon. L. D, Richards of Fremont, itoss Hummond's hien right-hand bower, with a_shaj the w he jabs and the ards squirms is amusing. 1t won't do for such men as Rich- ards to stir Rosey up, for when he is thor- oughly aroused he is wors 10,000 “wassup: d he make his stinger felt through ‘Fne Bee for mang o long da Blair Pilot: There aro several otherwise good republican newspapers in this sf which seem somehow to have that the best way to win a fac vty fight is to malkce war on Rosewater and 2 R If these papers would devote the same enorgy to maintaining the integrity of the party and its principles that they do to attacks on Pie Bee editor, v n supremacy in this state would bé 1o un- rtain quantity York Democrat written_a letter cds musy s some- solf, or ho pistlo'to his ved himself D, 1 1insy chards has townsman, Maxwell, upon which the Stateé al feols con od to remur cver Mr. Richards writes a letter h ally says something, Our memory rries us back to 1590, when Mr. Richards during the whole campaign, to werit letter or do something to tell where he stood on prohibition, and if any man ever suw the letter or expression thit told the story he should be paid a reward; yes, Riciards ‘is a great lettor writer, but the other fellosw, M. Rosowater, is something of a three-column lotter writer himself. Plattsmouth Hevald: One L. D, Rick who resides in I'romont, sent an open le to Tue Bex, in which ho supports the nomi nation of Frick for supreme judge, upholds the “snap convention™ of Dodizo cotnty and denounces J Mixwell in round numbers. From what we can glean from the let it shows that the railroads have combined’ to down Maxwell and are using L. 1D, Richards, Irick and somo soven or eight members of the Dodge county central committee as stool pigeons, and ‘having sot them up in the corner beside ~ the furnace they expect to broak burk over their heads until after the cloction. 1t js measley attack upon the ability of Judge Maxwell and insinuates that the decisions of the able and conscientious jurist w based upon law, but upon tho pre an old and_ infitm man who is not rendering a deci N unon the se. As everybody knows, this is 1 base misropresentation and a dastardly aitack upon the one man in Nebraska who holds the interests of her people closest to his heart, and secondary to nothing but lifc itself. 1f we are any Judgo of “caustic r jofnders” and “open’ lotters wo would D. Richards would rather through Unclo Sam's postal hencoforth than to read it in Tue S ny Jow nal {lver bright, jows helgh tain ) foolish, Joe! sod on—the Turk awol went thunderi sulphur smoke d its pall upon the sky His echolng axe the woodmun swung; The wis @ lad of high renow And desp thy pearly caves Lmong, Giles Seroggins courted Mollie Brown. Loud roars the wind in constant blast, And cloudloss sets the sun at even, When twilight dows are falling fast, Aud rolls the thundor-drum of heaven Ob! ever thus from ehildhood's hour, fiy torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Beneath yon ivy-mantled tower The old 1rog crowks Lis sorenade. My love 1a like the red, red roso 1o bought a riug with posey tru Sir Barney Bodkin broko bis nos And, Saxon, | um Rodorlek Dhu! thut | into flow | chaprer THE PLATTE RIVER CAN AL, 100 CUTE FOR ANYTHING Pornted and Fertinent poanded by Mr. W O f T Questions Pro Einirn Gaz s the dent and speak 1y, as 1t we Atlanta Constitution I talker an' niy . DOt ol bt () 1 run tor \ mes | great proo ro ongress, san is o know why n he only b and con iyt e city ; thied, to construct it Duftalo Odutior | grun He, of all 1 things as ho fids thon the funds ] 1 by th fourth can be carried on and without boing public ec In ro saleof ity and county boy and, that the work t ' Galveston News 0res most | for | thoy ) Al ople hive WO DU WAy honestly and economically 1t all the b ato the good re A trones nade the opp ity lutions ruption and ard to thes obbory 3 Inte follow wontarin Miss Wayhack lorfuily woll, docsi gest themsclves, s, considering i for Mr. Hascall vocato of the enter four points, the carries hor nun questions s on bor of yoars which it would other 1 be well or S0 ading ad veland Plaln Doaler: “Fhot co 1e Lije, “o" tho expre b Ir moncy in old « )y ans 1. As to matter of b 18 it n rivor is vor whetlier the plan is s - ind asa Dotrolt ¥roo Deess farming country AUe | Dhakotn to for | mostly" he s and engineering This look sald w travelor nitive Wiiat that the water in the being constantly appropria irrigation and other purposes, so that 1l roplied the latter, bric tain places above the Loup fork at cortain dry ana Platte, Atlanta ( edevilout of the editor, Brothor the vo Just sald the soasons of the yoar, it is now quite exeitod whore formerly there was 4 good ow " erfed th Wpit; the mintstor nureh i you (s you nght 1o will ot tinue in th the 1 those streams w tak the Loup fork and Khorn until Gatventon News: Ao look at a knotty (o | \ \ | thien walk oft wind levo (1 wtions pooply from all 1 bo insuflicient to ides and As tho proposed terminus of the park is fully as dist tho » e d canal at wntas Florence . Smytho -1 10 pretend sit on your lap Seymour i tor 1sed will no have ntire present water works plaut plicated, in adéition to th oting the canal, bef prise will be availablo as a wat 1. As o whether the canal fully built and owned by the city cost 1yvou used to pretend that of constri d o sit fn el ro the enter- supply Cu Bad yon | Shave to 10 ¢ wo have How can it bo built and owned exclusively | fouer by tne sity, when the v“"‘\"\“ Ly 00,000 of the bonds? (And in this connec 0, i we are 1o go outside of Omaha, why should not South Omaba issue honds also?) htleigh -Why o Where in the charter is to be found tne J' A LN wthority of the eity of Omaha to build_and | Sreetear Condu construct irrvigation aitches and canals for the developmeat of power, and will any court | Somorvilte o 10 1180, 14, axle (1O allow the city to constroct an iveigation and | man who is e tooth pulied pawer canal on the ground that it is intended | Whetherhe dossn't think that tils I Justa partially as a water supply, particularly feet day. when we already have a complote ana thor- oughly equipped systom of wator works sub ject to condewmation under the charter? In taking water trom th horn river and turning the waste i ion ereek, s proposed, how is it i escape the following provision of tion vi, )/ viled Statutes of cbraska, 1803, entitled “Water Rights and Irrigation “The water appropriated from a river siream shall nov be turned or perrritted vin into the waters or channels of any or river or stream than that from which it is tiaken ox appropriated. unless such stream excecds 1 width 100 foet. 111 As to whether the funds necessary to build can bo raised by the sale of city and county bond: Docs the chav issue water wo the appropriat works, and does th. wer 1o appropriate and purchase include the power to construct? Eiven if such power includes the power to coustruet, is it not confined in its exercise to the establishment of one general system of water works, and_can it be extended 1o the duplication of an adequate system at present existing and subject to condemnation? Can water works bonds of the city be issued to pay the cost of a project of which the water supply is ouly a minor part? Can county bonds be issued to subsidi: an en ise which is not a public improve ment, and in what sense would the proposc canal, which is to furnish _power and water for Omaha, and is not neoded for irrigation purposes, bo . public improvement to the county at large? IV."As to whether the canal can be con- structed honestly and economically and withi- oat jobbery. The peoble of Omaha rightly have confi dence i the gentlemen composing the pro- posed commission to take charge of the con- sbruction, bUL is it not true that the commis- sion will be merely the ereature of the city council « unot, under the law, be thing els Is it not & fact that under the charter the mayor and council alone have the power to appropriate and expend money and approve contracts! Can the proposed commissioners do anything more than vecommend? Can they take o single active moasuro without the consent of the council? Will not their m be weaker than that of the Boara of \ before it acquired power by statelaw to make_its own rules and havea tax levy foratself, and when 1t was obhiged to look to tue council for funds and ratitication of all its rules aud regulations? Will not the s proposed to be given the commission with the charter powers of the Board of Public Works? Can the co sion be invested by the council witl dependent logal power whatever? Have we anything more than the mere so of certain individuals to gu that councilmen can be relied without interference the expenditure of $1,500,000 to an artificial citizens commission not recognized by state law when the cou cil will have the constant power to take tho matter practically into its own hands? The proposed commission would | only the mere shadow of authority, anc Napoleon suid, there is no such mistaké in public matters as placing your confidence in theshadow of authority when the real power is somewhere else. Yours respectfuil VILLIAM 5. POPPLETON. BROWNING, KNG Largost Minufastarars v | ataiises ot Viothung in be Worll. ouer w tho tines o nis o Barhor Ui contrary, fsed tho pric to @ quarter. Cuds Balsed dho prico of shiving! Why? Everybody hus such o long face now s can be law county is to contribute wning, King & Co’s Monthly: Mra, W Yo stop, sir, when Wy ro 1 thought you wero 15 Lowell Courior YOu" ws the man i Sleeper remarked to she!f ubove, Lfeel myself e lo his ¢ henenth i borth in tho upanion on the WY EARLY Washington Star. Wo have only roached Soptonbor SUITOVOS e e re’s 10s 0f (e botore the holidays make Drices and the leat or Lo | Ana vot, when gy Decomber comos Bappy eares, oi, how You'll wish you had gone and bought ChrISUIAs presents now I8 PROM RAM'S HOLN with your n Iivery man who robs the sell. Our faults atteact more attention than our virtue: The man who grumbles docs not pray half enough. A dead churchand a live proachor ave hard to keep togethor, N. 1 do zood as hie has opportunity ng the occupation, d of religion in tho street car as you profess in church A hyvocrite is a man who, m trying to fool everybody else, ouly fools himself The man who sits down to wait for son thing to turn up will need a cushion on his seat. One reason why some wicked as other peonl is 1ot have the samo chance, 1 HINT FRON U poor cheats him- pive the city power to bonds for any purpose but Lo are not as wuse they do pe be KIS, European Edition New York Herald any- Ay on to leave 55083 A FALL CATE, e of black cloth, trimmed black and gold braid ; collar of feathers, with fancy black ostrich Either of ’em, And at any priee you wish to pay. OF course there is a difference in the quality and in the trim- mings, but they are all RELIABLE, and the differ- ence in price is an honest one, agreeing exactly with the differencs in the worth of the garments. Tne $8.50 suit i style just the same as the $10, $12.50, \. $15, $20 or $25 sort. Thesz last two are gems that any merchant tailor would be proud of and he'd send you a bill of $40 or $45 in or one of them with an easy conscience. They're worth it, 0o, but you gt them at factory prices from us. OVERCOATS: Nice fall overcoats. Those nice, smooth, hard finished fellows that keep out the cold and shed the Omaha dust, and at the same time are light in weight. The prices are not heavy either. From $8.50 up. BROWNING, KING & CO., Btore open evers oventng uli e | W, Cor, 16t and Daaglas Sts. suturduy viil 10 - - > 3 [ y 4 ) »