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L T LP—— TR DALY BER. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING THRMS OF SURSCRIPTION without Sunda) Ono ¥ 11y wnd Sundny, One Year SI% Montha Three Monthis Sunday Bee, One Y 10 00 900 4 50 200 160 ar E 100 OFFIC Omaba. The feo Butiding. South Omaha. o Turenty-sixth stroets ms 14, 14 and 15, Teibunio butlding ORTLESPON commiumfentions ol a1 miatior shoid be wlde BUSINESS L, o and ren i Tt Publihi 1l postoMmen orders 10 be made 1 of the compiny # the city for the summer can h 1 BEE sent (0 1] s by leaving au order at busiioss off THE 55 PUBLISHING COMPANY. Cormell Chieag NT OF CIRCULATION. Tne Brr Publish- Iy swear that the ¥ BEE for the week ending N Wit as follows: Eumday, Novenber 5, Monday. Noveniber f Tuepday. Noveinber Wi Anesday, Noven 1000 . Novenber 10, tiy, November 11 I prescence this [ R | prnncs in my r, 1803, Averago Circulntion for October, 24, HARD times have not prevented the directors of the Burlington road from declaring the regular quarterly dividend of 1} per cent upun an inflated capital stock. Wity should the council rugh through a fifty-ycar gas franchise ordinance at this time or any other time without a full public discussion of its merits and conditions? has gone by when the hang- ing of a man in effizy has any real sig- nificunce. "The chronic idiots who vent their petty spleen by a resort to the effigy habit receive only the condemnation of paople of all shades of political beliof. TaE da, legislature s over- whelmingly democratic in both branches and will clect a democrat to succeed the democratic senator r Washington when his term Democrats are welcome to this tion prize expires. consola- FRANCHISES to any corporation that supplies water, gas, heat or electric lights should not be granted without very full discussion and fair competi- tion. Inany event the time is past in this city for granting franchises run- ning for fifty years. THINK of democratic protests against abolishing protective Quties declared by the democratic national platform to be unconstitutional! The followers have ovidently changed their minds since they:helped to elect President Cleve- land on the basis of that platform. Ur 71O the present writing the Bra- vilian revolution has been comparatively a bloodless affair, and it is likely to re- main so as long as the Brazilian navy rides comfortably at anchor in foreign harbors. The newspaper correspondents are doing most of the hard fighting. THE endowment of the Columbian museum at Chicagd continues to grow with a gratifying rapidity. The public spirit and benevolence of the people of Chicago was by no means exhausted by the great sacrifices demanded for the successful conduct of the World’s fair. In her showing of public-spirited citizens Chicago occupies an enviable position, HASCALL'S sudden conversion to the anti-vice movement recalls the move- ments of a cuttle fish when pursued. The cuttle fish emits an inky fluid to keop his movements obscured from view, and Hascall’s peculiar performances i dicate that he wants to throw the public off the scent in some scheme that he has fathered or expects to engineer through the council. WHEN Councilman Munro moved that at least one week's time be given for the consideration of the fifty-year franchise to the gas company, which in- volves two generations of taxpayers and millions of dollars, not a single member of the council present was will- ing to seccond the motion, and yet tho ordinance was sprung from the recesses of the pockets of the chairman of the judiciary committee, had never been discussed in committee of the whole. CHICAGO'S coming city election prom- ises to be & war waged between the in- terests of the taxpayers on one side and the interests of the railroads and corporations on the other. The railroad element will be properly represented in the contest. It is to be huped that the taxpayers will appreciato the importance of the situa- tion and show that they arve still in the majority on a question of the control of a fearless and officient city government, THE State Board of Transportation received applications from the various railroads operating in this state asking to be exempted from' the penaltios prescribed by the transfer switch law nearly two months ago. The law calls for a prompt investigation and decision upon all cases brought before the board. ‘I'wo months action without a single decision does not betoken weil for the sincere intention of the board to carry out the spirit and the letter of the law. THE plurality of Bemis for mayor according to the official count is 2,100 and the official pilurality for sheriff 1s 1,255, which makes just 3,364 as the dif- ference between the mayor and the sheriff running on the same ticket. These figures should convey an impres- slve lesson to politicians who imagine they can win battles by centering their fire upon THE BEE and making its editor the candidate for every important office that is contested, The delusion that you can elect vulnerable candidates on the imagined unpopularity of Rose- water has been effectually dispelled by the officlal figures of the outcome in this city and county, €800 | months to THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1893. . A BRIGHTENING OUTLOOK There are cheering indications of a gradual resumption of business activity. Nobody of practieal judgment expected that menthe of distrust and depression would bosncceeded in & day by arestora- tion of the confidence and the enter- _prise which prevailed before the shock came from which the country is now re- covering. The destruction or serions impairment of confidence is a matter of days or even hours, but it may take restore it, The United States have a trying experience. The countey has« passed through a period in whieh credit has been severely shaken business and enterprise sub- jected to a tremendous strain, Tho ef- fect was debilitating, and, like an indi- vidual who has passed through a weak- cning fever, the recovery of strength must be gradual in order to be healthy. This is the natural process and no other is to be desired. What the country knows is that there is no longer any- thing like panic and that monetary stringency has given place to monetary ease, and with those conditions assured the resumption of business activity can be but a question of time. wral to ask how long a time will probably be required for the full realization of this desirable change. That cannot be definitely told, but as- suming that the favorable tendencies now apparcent are not disturbed the time of complete business rvesumption should not bo remote. Of course capital is still us regarding investments, but it is ieved of all apprehension rospecting ntinued soundness and stability of the currency. In that direction, at least, there is no danger. What it now aWaits is accurate information as to what changes are to be made inthe tariff policy of the conntry, and when that is known it may be expected that capital now idle will again seek active employ- ment. The present promise is that the knowledge desired regarding the tarifl will not be long delayed, and there is some reason to believe, also, that it will show no such reactionary policy as has been feaved. It is highly probable that the voice of the peonle in the late elections has penetrated the chamber in which the democratic majority of the ways and means committee is formulating a tarift bill and that it has not been entirely without effect there. Still capital will wait, as it should, for definite informa- tion, Undoubtedly there is more general economy among the people as a whole than for many years., Reduced incomes quite generully, and in many thousands of cases no incomes at all, compel this, Of course this retards the resumption of business activity and will continue to do 80 until the movement of capital again starts the wheels of enterprise. Inas- much-as there is now but one obstacle in the way of this being done, and the promise is that that may soon be re- moved, there is manifestly reason for regarding the outlook hopefully, The resumption of activity und prosperity may not come as soon as most pevple would wish, but the conditions seem favorable to its being reached sooner than many have believed possible. had WHEAT IN THE NORTHWEST. One of the effects of the hard times has been to cause a heavy movement of wheat in the northwest, he pressure upon the far mers on the part of creditors compeliing them to sell, although prices for some tune past have hardly more than repaid the cost of production. The majority of estimates placed the yield of wheat for 1893 in Minnesota and tha Dakotas at 100,000,000 bushels. Of this amount there was available for the market at the commeuncement of the scason, August 1, 80,000,000 bushels, the remaining 20,000,000 bushels being needed for bread and seed. According to a state- ment in the St. Paul Pioncer Press about 52,000,000 bushels have been marketed, leaving in the farmers’ hands, say 28,- 000,000 hushels, to be disposed of during the balance of the crop year, a period of over eight months, It is said thatit would be aifficult to recall another in- stance in the history of the northwest when 50 large a percentage of the crop had been marketed so early inthe sea- son. That 65 per cont of the supply should have left first hands during tho first three months ot the season, with prices 80 abnormally low, is due primarily to the pressire upon the farmers to meet their obligations. A large part of these fall due in October and November, and owing to the depression creditors have been more urgent this year than usual. Haud wheat prices been better the producers could have discharged their obligations without having to come s0 near exhausting their whole crops, but with the presont prices they have been obliged to sell almost double the ordinary quantity of grain to accom- plish the same result. In such times as the present the farmer gots little leni- ency from his creditors, and this is why ters of the northwest compelled to market their grain at values but little above the cost of production. It would seem, however, that the pressure is aboutover, and the disposition of the farmers,it is said, is to hold back the modicum which remains in the hope of batter returns, 8o that it isexpented the vemainder of the season will be characterized by a hand-to-mouth movement. Whether this hope of the pro- ducers will be realized appears to be questionable, in view of the fact that the visible supply of wheat in the United States and Canada at the beginuning of the current month was reported to be the heaviest on record and the export movement since has not been large. It is the view of some that the statistical position of wheat should male it sell at 00 cents or $1, but if Europe will not take it at the curcent price it is obviously useless Lo hope for any material advance. The truth is there does et seem to bo much chance that there will be such a rovival of business before the next har- vests are gathered as will permanently raise the price of our food products. Such an advance must come from an in- crease in the consuming capacity of the populations to which the food predue's ave supplied, both on this side of the Atlantic and the other. The fact re- maius, however, that no farther con- l siderable quantity of wheat can be spared from northwest supplies in hand or in prospect unless a great mistake has been made in the estimate of the yield. It is suggested that the discourag- ingly low prices will inevitably tend to promote diversified farming, and it will be,well if they have this effect, but the thing to be expected is that the farmers of the northwest will continue on in the course they have baen pursuing. It is doubtless a sound proposition that pro- traction of low prices for any given pro- dnet means substitution of other crops more promising in their returns, but it will require more than a yoar or two of low prices for wheat to indnce any con- siderable number of the farmors of the northwest to give up growing that grain or to materially reduce the area given to its produetion, RAID!NG THE TAXPAYERS. Boodlerism is nearly as rampant and brazen in the city council now as it was when the Holly waterworks job was at- tempted. Dr. Cushing had no firmer grip on the council of 1880-1 than Mr. Wiley has on the council of 1893. That was shown by the defiant disregavd for the unanswerable protest embodied in the mayor's veto of the Thomson- Houston lighting bill. Every member of the council knows that the contract with the electric lighting company under which we are to pay $175 a year for arc lights calls for lamps of 2,000- candle power. This contract has never been complied with and thevefore the Thomson-Houston company’s claim to full pay is an imposture. Mayor Bemis in his veio asserts that the city electrician and other experts do not concede more than half as much candle power in the arc lamps as the contrac’ 1f councilmen were actuated by a desire to protect the taxpayers in- stead of seeking to help the contractors to rob the taxpayers they would have sustained the veto. When the identical claim for August and September was votoed before the election the veto was sustained. What made those councilmen who voted to sustain the mayor before the election turn right around and pass the claim over the may- veto aftor the election? Is not their action a dead giveaway? Is it not man- ifest proof that they regarded the claim as fraudulent and did wot dare to show their hand until after they were either re-elected or defeated? The question is, will the taxpayers of Omaha quietly submit to these repeated raids on the treasury? The remedy is in their hands if they seek it in the court: THE NOUIH AND THE INCOME TAX. Advocacy of an income tax comes al- most wholly from the democratic repre- sentatives of the south.. While the general sentiment in that section is op- posed to ‘any increase in the revenuc taxes now imposed and there is also a considerable opposition there to the re- ductioa of tariff duties upon certain ar- ticles, the sentiment is nearly unani- mous in favor of levying a tax upon in- comes. The reason for this isappar- ent. Tho number of incomes in. the south exceeding a few thou- sand dollars is not relatively large and consequently the rep- resentaives of that section favor this method of taxation because it would draw by far the larger part of the rov- enue devived from it from the people of the north. Prorably four-fifths of the returns from an income tak would be drawn from the people north of Mason and Dixon's line and the greater part of this: would come not from the capital- ists, but from the people of fixed sal- aries and ascertainable incomes, who could not evade thelaw. The number of such in the northern states is per- haps ten times groater than the number in the states of the south, bat at any rate it is certain that it an income tax law should be proporly executed the northernstates would con- tribute to this sowrce of revenue at least four times as much as would bs derived from the tax in the states of the south. The veason why the southern ropre- sentatives are practically unanimous in favor of an income tax is therefore plain. “The democratic majority in congeess is in a dilemma as to what should hs dono in the matter of rovenue logisla- tion. Proposals to invrease the tax on spirits, bser and tobace» ave mooting with a more or less formidable opposi- tion, in which the party is com- pelled to consider the possible loss of many votes. There i3 a strong oppo- sition in the party to remitting the duties on certain articles protected under the present tariff. The necoss ties of the treasury call loudiy for more revenue, and how to provide for this and at the same timo carry out the pledgo of the party regarding the tariff is the per- plexing problem. T the average dem)- cratic mind, in the south at leasy, the solution seems to be in an income tax, and there is every pospect that a very éarnest fight will bs made in behalf of this means of raising revenue. The ways and means committee has heard some arguments in favor of an incoma tax, but there is uncartainty as to how the majority of the cmmittee stands regardiog 1% It is also a matter of ¢njecture as ) the views of the ad- ministration, though theve 1s reason t) believe that the president is no% favos able to a return to this inguisitorial war tax. Nevertheless it walund oubtedly be urged in congress and will receive a vory considerable support. 3 The objections ) an incoms tax have been heretofore stated and they are tamiliar to everybody who remembars tho operation of this tax in the past. It was not during the war and it cannot bo made an equitable method of obtaining revenue. Honest mon and those whose incomes are fixed and ascertainable can be reached by an income tax law, batall others will evade it, and thus such a law will praove oppressive to one class while allowing those who shouid contribute most under it to escape all or a very large part of their just responsibility. The numerous objections to such a law, it would seem, cannot fail to outweigh the demand for it, which is prompted by selfish and sectional interes It is hardly possible that any large number of northern democrats will unite with those of the sough in support of an in- come tax. N THE Denver Republican manifests the right spivit when it declares that a stato situated as ' Colorado is does not need condolence. That paper points out that the resources of the Centennial state are of a mature to insure it con- tinued progress and increased pro perity if they are properly developed. It not only has ¢bAl and iron in great abundance, but #l%o oil, lead and build- ing stone, all of'which can be made to profitably employ labor and capital to a much greater extent than they have yet done. ““The variety of their re- souvces,” suys the Republican, “has been a matter of boasting with Colorado veople for years. Now is the time for them to show that their boasting has not been vain.” This is sound, common- sense advice, and it will apply as well to the other silver-producing states as to Colorado, even though they may be somewhat less favored with a diversity of resoury The time has come when the energy and enterprise of the people of these states is to be put to a more thorough test than ever before, and there can be no doubt they will be found equal to the demand upon them. They are recovering from what they professed to fear was a death blow, and there is every reason tu expect that they will ultimately gain by the experience. THE essity for ~ radical revision of Nebraska's constitution becomes more and more apparent cvery year. There are but few who will maintain that the present constitution is sufficient to meet the requirements of the state. 1t lacks broadness and comprehension. It af- fords too many opportunitics for disre- gard of the people's rights. Nebraska needs a new constitution which will give the people a more definite control of their own affairs, Whether the present constitution shall be vevised by a con- vention or by a legislative commission is & point that has never yet been care- fully considered. There is much that may bo said in favor of a revision by a commission appointed by the legislature, Indecd, a joint resolution looking to such revision was introduced at the last session of the legislature, but the inter- estin the senatorial contest detracted the attention of the members of both houses from the importance of the mat- ter. The same factor will doubtless de- feat the object at the next session. Gov- ernor Crounse may, yet find it advisablo to call a special sossion of the I lature to take up this and other important matters that will be neglected in the heat of the coming senatorial contest. ACCORDING tothe statement of the secretary of state;the State Board of Public Lands and ;Buildings has never vecognized the vights claimed by Dor- gan uader the alloged transfer of the prison contract from C. W. Mosher to himself. And yet the same board has permitted Dorgan to operate the con- tract for nearly two years without so much as & question as t0-his rights to do s0. Dovgan hag; given no boad to the state. He has possession of an immense amount of state property. Under the circumstances the neglect of the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings to take action in the matter amounts to an indifference that is almost criminal. THe Iowa legislature has a difficult task before it when it meets to tackle the prohibition question. The republi- cans should make no mistake. The party’s adherence to the prohibition error has nearly destroyed it in that state, and any mistaken policy now, when the tide has turned, will be almost fatal. Now that the democratic press has re- covered its assurance sufficiently to point to the recent republican tidal wave asan endorsement of the present administra- tion, it is fair to presume that the bour- bons have caught their second wind. WirLiam T. STEAD, editor, from Lon- don, has undertaken the moral reforma- tion of Chicago. This is the first inti- mation ever given to the public thut the distinguished London journalist expects to live to be 1,000,000 years old. AS LONG as 80 corrupt_a city as New York can resolutely set its face against there is hope for the people of Nebraska. HASCALL'S post-election spasm for social purity at least amuses the popu- lace and does the people no harm. It is not dangerous, By a Large Majorlty, Indi tnap s Jiurnal, If the sdministration’s uupatriof Amorican policy in Hawali been published before the election the re- publican majorities would have been bigger than they were. The people of thiscounty: do- nou believe i haulini down the Amerl can flag and restoring monarchies, —_— A Braggarc led Down, Chicago Herald. Prompt demand by tho State department for explanation of firing on a ship under the American flag bas brought from Hunduras apology instead of explanation. No explax ation was passible that would not have mado vence. | The little braggart of ica will exercise more discre- s valor mext time iv wants to take a political refuzoe off a vessel flying Uncle Sam'’s colors. i i——— A Mouth'ef Disnstors, New Yorl Tribune. It would appear as if the month of Novem- ber, 1803, were destined to remaiu memor- able for 'the number 0f terrible explosicns that are signalizing ‘its course. Although the month is not yes half over, two appalling catastrophes of thas eharacter nave already taken place in Spainywhile in the cable dis- patehes published today will be found an ac- count of a thurd dissstrous explosion in Rus- sian Poland, rosutuing in the loss of many lives and in the destruction of & nuwber of houses. TARIFF TALK. Chicago Post (dem.): That is the true doctrine of democracy ‘Cheer up, it will be all_right in the spring.” In the mean time the winter is coming on and tho tarift must be reformed —nay, abolished, we should say. New York World (dem.): Tha eal of the McKinley tariff, like the repeal of the Sherman silver purchasing law, is some- thing 0 be dono promptly. Business de- mands to know and has a vight to know what it is to expect. Indianapoli (tep.): When a declaration by congress that there shall be rift logisiation for two years would start up industries which would give omploy- meut to half the idle men and women of the country, the refusal of the leaders to do so seems little less than downright cruelty. Cincinnati Commercial (rep.): If the demo- crats in power at Washington are really sin- coro in their declarations of interest in tho restoration and maintenance ot prosperity, they have an easy way of proving it _to the people, and tha peedily fling the re- port of the ta in the waste baske Philadelphia Inquirer (rep.): The people demanded the repeal of silver bill. They gotit. They now demand hands off the tariff, and they will have their way or krow the reason why. Uunless the demo- cratic senators go back upon their own rec- ord and push through cloture there is not likely to bo any tariff legislation in this con- gress. The republicans in the senate will not allow it I City Times (dem.): Lot no demo- crat be deceived, The duty of the hour for the democratic party is tariff reform. Tho country has a right 10 expoct a prompt set- tlement of this question in the line of the promises of the democratic platform, and a failure of the party to understand its duty and perform its mission av this time will be its ruin. No party caucuses are needed to hatch compromises and evasions. San Franciseo Ixaminer (dem.): dential conceit and obstinag sional supineness have brought the catas- trophe. Lot congress tell the president to mind his own business, which is to execute the laws, and without the lossof a day when it reassembles proceed to carry into effect the promises of the Chicago . R form the tariff and smash the trusts. Re. store silver to its constitutional place mn the currency. Cowardly trimming has oeen tried; now give courageous nction a chance. Chicago Herald (dem.): effect a reform worth having and to secure prolonged ascendancy to the party of reform is to adhere strictly to the doctrine of the democratic platform that no ta riff or excise, should be laid for any other purpose than to raise needed revenue, and that it is essentially unjust for government to promote the interests of any eluss or section by means of taxes or in any other wa, Let the demo- cratic party hold fast to this aoctrine and apply it fearlessly, regardless of selfish”ap- peals from uny quarter, and it will win and hold the confidence of the people. But if it revises the tariff on protection lines and goes tote hunting among the populists and other cheap money eranks, it will bo turned out of power as soon us people get a chance at it after they recover from the demoralization of the silver panic. —_—— PEOPLE AND THINGS, Presi y and congres- The Hawaiian restorative proves a dismal failure as a democratic tonic. The saddest thing about the pospective death of Mrs. Maybrick is tvhat it would leave Gail Hamilton without a grievance. While the administration 1s in the restor- ing business it should not forget to restore the king of Concy Island to the court officers awaiting him, « Dr. Depew will visit Pompeii whilo on the other side. History records that the city wus destroyed by some very powerful after- dinner apouting. People possessing musty and frazzled thrones will learn something to their ad- vantage by communicating with the dewo- cratic administration. A Philadelphia girl recently laughed her- self to death. The cause of the fatal mirth is not announced, but it is probable she was induced to read a Times editorial on the tariff. ‘Parsney and Doclery, a pair of Missouri democrats, have been neatly turned down in the distribution of federal pap. Vest and Cockrell are not as lonesome as they looked last week. 3 Wiltiam McKinley was bora in Ohio. Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Harrison —all the presidents elected by the republicans, with the exception of Abraham Lincoln— were born in Ohio. Prospective Nasbys are a unit in declaring that the restoration of some decayed throne in some far off land and the placing of Bissell thereon would readound to the giory of the administration and edify the hung: Jt should be remembered 1n connection with that off-color transaction that Queen Lil sent her seal brown daughter. Princess Kaiulani, to plea¢ with Cleveland, and the princess subsequently was lavish in lauding the graciousness of Mvs, Cleveland. Kaiu- lani is a greater diplomate than Van Alen. @ The Denver Republican is suffering from another attack of Omaha These at- tacks are becoming quite frequent and it would not be surprising if fatal results fol- low. Meanwhile the greatness which the Republican covets is anchored on the west bank of the Missouri and sheds its gracious light anda vivacity on the dark and spiritless surroundings of N. P, Hill, One of Wisconsin's two statues for the national collection in the old hall of the house of representatives in the capitol at Washington is to be of the heroic missionary Pere Jacques Marquetto, French explorer, who made, with Louis Joliet and five others, a remarkablo canoe ftrip down the Missis- sippiin 1673, They are generally considored to have been the first Iaropeans to explore the great river, and, with the exception of De Soto, the first to 100k upon it. The Den It Philad:Iphia Press, Turn which way it may there for democracy. If it shall keep faith with its plodges tho people have warned it of the punishment in store for it. 1f it shall break fait it has not an issue or a principle to stund on. And thus it fluds {tsell at the be- ginning of a democratic administration dis- trusted, repudiated, abandoned und ove thrown by majorities that are simply stu- pendous to contemplate. 1ts legisli Lcsl must be mere patchwork. Obliged to raise rovenue it must raise it, but the money must be had In o series of bills, none of which ywill moet the approval of the people. Can it be possible that out of the dangers that boso ittho democratio party can pull itself through another presidential clection? Can it successfully bamboozle the people again? danger R — Judge Field's Italian Hand, Phlladelphia Record, The ref of the ssnate to confirm the ‘nomination of Mr. Hornblower for associate justico of the supreme court is attributed mainly to the opposition of Judee Field. The ground of s opposition s understood to be because of litigations that must come before the supreme court in which Judge Field anticipates that the views of Mr. Hornblower might possibly be influenced by his past protessional connection with similur litigations, This is rather a slender basis for opposition; but it may suffice, as a new nomination must be made, and My, Horn- blower may not desire a grudging honor even if the president should again propose to name him, e Tho Wiy 10 el P Atlants Comstitu'iow dem.), The truth of the matter is the adminis- tration must get down to a practical busi- ness basis, and the soouer it does so and stops flirting with mugwump theories and Boston ssms the better it will be for the democratic party and the people. Highest of all in Leavening ower.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Rl fZezezo) Baking Powder ABSOIUTELY PURE NERRASKA AND NERRASKANS. Tucius T, Dailoy has boen sentenced at Tekamah to one year for burglary. Tho Norfolk sugar factory turned out its three millionth pound of sugar this wook Harry Henton, formorly station agent at Superior, has been transferred to Plain- view. Judge Hayward has returned to his home in Nebraska City after an extended visit in New York. Incendiaries set fire to Rinnoth's lunch house at Broken Bow, but the flames wero discovered fn time to prevont a serious con flagration, There is an effort beine made to throw out the vote of Harrison townsnip, Nuck: county, because the county clerk sent a lot of ofiicial ballots there by mistake for samples. It will hardly work. iitor Sprecher of the Schuyler Quill and ames Langley, ehairman of the Colfax ‘epublican contral committee, came a8 the result of election hard talk, but their fricuds soparated them before much damage was done. The elite of Table Rock turnod out the other evening in force and gave an old sottler a testimonial of their vegard in the shape of a charivarl, Thoe occasion was the marriage of William Fellers, one of the sub- stautial residents of the city, to his son's wife's sister, The peculiar part of the sery- fce was the fact that the happy couple were Joined together in the bonds of wedlock while seated in a buggy during a downpour of rain, and the minister was forced to vor- form the ceremony with his body encased in u rubber coat. The aampness of the occa- sion, however, it is said, did not dampen the ardor of the partictpants, The Bim Crcek Champion says: L. P, Wells, whilo working the highway about three miles northwest of this place last lay, plowed up a lot of bones that, from their sizo and appearance, we Judge to have belonged to the leg of n mastadon. bones are only fragmonts from sbout joints, hat no cortainty can Be ascertained as to their length, but in all probability the ani- mal to which they belonged had a leg about twelve feet long.” ‘They were found sbout two feet and a half below the surface, where a hill was being cut down. Tho bon which are about six inches in diameter, were brought to town Tuesday and placed in F. M. Barney's shop window, where they have excited the curiosity of all beholders. —i Trend of the ¥ on, {obe-Demoerat. ionger any reason to doubt that the democratic party has started on its Wattersonian “march throngh u slaughter house to an open gray e GAGS AND GRINS, There is no veland Plain Dealer: The nore the pro- fossors try to suppross foot ball the more the students kick. If you want to learn just # man stauds foflow him into a crowded ar. Binghamton publican: — The man who beats a bass deam should never be encouraged 10 try to beat the record. Boston Transcrip me?” sald th pounds ¢ hurry. “Sorry,” sald ‘the butch twoor three ahend of vou. Su not have your liver out of orde 't you wait upon B! omer. “Tw *but there are you would “Did you know that wig, a glass eye and had il Hmbs? but with all her false ho lovos hor Tid-Bits: A lonely spot ona dark night— Would the gentleman be kind anough to assist A poor man? Besides this londed revolver 1 have nothing else in the wide world to call my own. Lite: Hojae t it 0dd that Staggers will never admit that he is drink? Tomdik—Not at ull. Lo simply does not know that hio is loaded Bostou Transeript: Tonant (hesitatingly)- I'vo been reading a very good articlo in my paper, hended “Rents Must Come Down, Lundlord (confidently)—All right, you just come down with the rent, Somerville Journal; 1t that a younganan is. religious because ne regulatly to prayer meeting. 1t may bo the girl who'ts the religions one: isn't always papors "he ro- pliea. out ad v THE ESCAPRD TURK. Cleveland Plain Dealer. @ Disconsolate ho sat beside Tho Midway's Tonely pitl About his ears the wild winds plied The measure of thoir writh - “Och, wurra, warra!” moanod he loud, I'vé lost me taste for wurk '0ss that in that nag crowd Oi'd shitay six months & Turk!" Springfield Graphic. Thoy wero enguged. She came 10 him With oyes that glowod us hot us hades And said, with angry look and grim: “I'm told, sir, you have ki two Indies!" “Why, durling, how ubsurd your rage! He, inughing, cried, *"T'was but In fun; Together udd both uiridens’ age Twould but amount to tweniy-one!" Her anger s00n was laughed ought of ten and ono bright as the Tover's hi O, rogue! Though wh Sho did not know the tr That one of them was only t The other tempt { ment of POLICY OF INFAMY Sontning Revlew of the Administration's Trentment of Hawail. New York Sun (dem.): The announce the Cleveland policy respeoting Hawaii has come. It is not the American policy. [t isnot the policy of the United States government, ot of the people of this ropublic. Tt is not yet, thank God! the policy of tho democratic party, 1t is nelthor more nor less than the personal determin tion of an executive officer, charged with MPorary power, to uso that power t enforce a personal conclusion, and %o commit this country to ms personal conelusion, regardless of consequences in infamy omblood. Stripped of every special plea and specious pretext surrounding the essential fact, what 18 the purpose which Mr. Cloveland now de- alled report of his ntary ot statet To crush the life out of a young republic, al- roady recognized by us as an independent and respousiblo government; to employ the armed power as well as tho moral influence of the United States to thrust back upon a civilized people, American in their instincts and habits and aspirations, a barbarous monarchy, in the person of a vilo and ridicu- lous person whom they have driven from the throue; to undo the work of a revolution which made Hawaii a republic, by means of a counter revolution by coun d'stat planned in the white house at Washington and secrotly — but deliberately ordered by o president of the United States! That is the Cleveland pol The Ameri can policy was scttled long ago. It has nover aried. Tt was never better defined than by James Buchanan, o democratic secretary of state, whon he sped to the new-born republic of 1843 in France this nssurance of America's sympathy for overy people struggling out of the forms and traditions of monarchy: *It was with one universal burst of enthusinsm tho American people hailed the late revolution in France in favor of y and ropublican government. In this feeling the president strongly sympathizes. Warm aspirations for the success of the new republic are breathed from every heart Liberty and order will makae France happy Her destinies, under Pro are uow in the hands of the Freoch people. Let them, by their wisdom, firm- and moderation, refute the slandors of r enemies and convineo the world that thoy ar \ble of self-government.” That is the American polic The dato of the révolution overthrowing monarchy w Fraace in 1848 was February 24, "and news canie slo Atlantie. The date of Buchanan's spirited message to the new republic was March Polk ana Buchanan ¢ tain whether the new republic represent & numeri v of all of the peoplo then iub: nee. They did not in quire whether a numerical majority would have preferred the continution of mon They did not ask whether American ¢ residing in France had borne a in tho revolutionary movement, or even whether the ofefal representatives of the United States government had manifested sympathy with the Frenchmen who overthréw Louis Phillippe. President Polk aud his s 'y of state sent out no commissione ithority paramount and instructions tigate Minister Rush's attitude towardethe revolutionists, and: to make a case, 1f possible, to warrant Ameri- can intervention in behalf ot the friendly king who had just been dethroned. They sent to the'young republic the godspeed as above printed and knew that behind the: that message of sympathy aud joy was ev true American heart; Just as ove ican heart would have been behind Cleveland and his administration 1f a similar message had gonerfrom Washington o Honolulu in March of this year 1803. Never before now has an American execu- tive undertaken to stamp out republicanism and to set up monarchy in any part of the world. Never before, we believe, has an American president issued orders for the as- sassination of a free and successful govern- ment. Never before has any officer ot this goverament undertaken, upon his sole re- sponsibility, and without consulting congress or the people, to decide the destiny of a for- eign country in diplomatic relations with ourselves, Never before has a president in- vited or commanded his_cabinet advisors to assist him in the odious business of setting up again a rotten and broken throne. Was there no American spirit in the inet when this policy of infamy was de 1 Walter Q. Gresham would have done well to tear his commission into pieces and fling the pieces In the face of his master, rather than to sign his name to the document which car- ried to the nation yesterday the aunounce- ment of the nation’s shame, So cunuingly and so secretly has the way been prepared at Washington for the restor: vion of the wretched Liliuokalani at Hono- Tulu, 1t possible, before the public sentiment could assert itself in the United States, and so adroitly have the promoters of the coup detat timed the publication of their in- structions in order to cover Minister Willis® movements under his secret instructions, that the astounded people of the United ates do not yet know what has happened Hiave the lopes of the woman who called herself queen, of her wterested British triends, of the mercenary Spreckles, of the dull and projudicod Blount, who went out to make a law; case against the Hawaiian government, been crowned al- ready by the success of the counter revolu- tion ordered by the president of the United States? Has sLiliuokalani been murched back to her throne under escort of American pots and to the music of “Hail, Colum- biy?” Or are the intelligent, respoctable and patr citizens of Huwali fighting today agamst American troops and dying in ets in a strugele to preserye the gov- t they have established and tho sings of liberty and order which the thought they had obtained for themselves and their children? BROWNING, KINg & co. Largest Manufasturars v L 2asailaz of Glothing in tas Worll It's high time You paid some attention to your health and k—l;\;l where to 'get it. bodily comfort. ‘We are doing a rushing business now—and why not—this kind of weather ought to make you buy that winter suit or that winter overcoat that you have been put- ting off so long. You cannot help but You know that you'll get the best article in the world if you get it of us. 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