Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 18, 1893, Page 4

THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. | 1. ROSEWATER, Editor PURLISHED EVERY MORNINC TEIME OF SUBSCRIPTION wt Sunday) One Yoar One Yo ye OFFICES. i N a1 Twenty-fourth streets. Ler of Commerce. A 15, Tritume bilding CF wa and edi the Editor RUSINESS LETTERS Thie Tee Piblishing company, On PO o1 het 1111 BEF HING COMPANY N STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION I { W of Tay DALY 11y TZSCHUCK bod Avirage Cirealation for N e TrHAT bridge motor f not scem to be coming very fast i have business Do 111k people in Ha to any other time than to devote polities? GoMPERs still hangs president of the Federation of Labor, but he will miss the rivaley of Powderly sadly. on as assorted federal offices would be received by Nebraska demo- | crats a< the most timely Christmas gifts to be hado 1 the mav A FEW well MPEROR WILLIAM has again beaten ord for shooting hares. But President Cleveland stitl holds the lead as a duck demoralizer and a fish fetcher. Boss CROKER vesents the imputation that any of his suddenly acquived wealth | proeured by other than strictly honest methods. So did Boss Tweed. What are you going to do about it? was trans- men thrown 10 Tie vailroads will not portation to cnable the wor out of employment in Chic: their homes. But the annual lawyer lobbyists and political heelers will be duly delivered by January issue 0 10 reach passes to INFLUENZA is proving almost structive of life in Bucope as did the cholera epidemic. ‘The next great bene- factor of mankind will have to invent some means by which we can establish an effective quarantine against the im- portation of influénza germs. A DEFICIENCY of $200,000 is antici- pated in the appropriation for the ex- penses of the government printing office. Poo mueh wind in congress and 100 many investigations out of cong must account for the strain on the ve- sources of the government printer. Tug repairs ordered for the Eleventh street viaduet have gotten as far as the submission of plans: to & councii mittec This viaduct dangerous months age. the people forced to use this viaduet demands its proper restoration within a reasonable pericd of time. om- was declared | The safety of CONSISTE in the matter of ad valorem duties would be a jewel if it were but found in the democratic ways | and means committee. It insists upon placing a specific internal revenue tax upon playing cavds of 6 cents. per pack. T'his means a tax of 60 per cent upon a pack that now sells for 10 cents and of only 12 per cent upon one that sells for B0 cents. This does not look like equal- izing the burdens of taxation among the vieh and the poor. The poor man's amusement is to bn leaded down with taxation, while the rich c¢lub man's private game goes almost free. 11 new democratic postmaster at one of the smaller New York towns is de- seribed as the most thoroughly distiked man politically in the city. All this, simply because he happened to be one of the latest to the Cleveland democracy in New York. The appoint- ment of any other candidate, it is said, would have given general satisfaction but President Cleveland, here, as on so many other ceeasions, fortune to choose tions and to satisfy tributed by the present administration, the patronage is rapidly vindicating its reputation as a source of weakness to the party in pow converts W has had the mis- between two fac- neither. As dis- WHATEVER be the report of the Mae- leod investigatin ommittee the inves- tigation has shown conclusively that Macleod has employed men, ineurred expenses and disposed of public property quite at his own volition withont the slightest vegard for the rules and regu- lations estublished by the Board of Edu- cation. He obeys these rules when they suit his fancy and disobeys them when he thinks they humyper his actions. Such a man is not a desivable employe for the people who prefer to have the school funds expended so that the responsi- bility therefor may be traced and en- forced. Macleod’s services are no lon, needed by the sehool board. Mi. HiTeHCOCK pleads in cuse for his attempt to hold up applicants for liquor lidense that his object is to make the law odious. The trath is, and it is as plain as can be, that his motiv chisel men and women out of ¥ apiece. 1t is pure and simple blackmail. Hitchesek knows that the Slocumb law has neverbeen amended and is not likely to be. He knows that the law cannot possibly be changed before January, 1895, and if it dces not pass both houses | by an cmergency vote it cannot possibly bo changed before April, 1805. If he was honest in his claims and was en- titled to the amourt allowed by law for publication he would exact the full legal pate, which is $13.2 playing an audacious game ho would not pocket the money ho exacts by his threats. If he was not | blackmailing | NO STATK BANK CUURRENCY. The latest information as to the feel- ing in Washington regarding the pro- posed repeal of the 10 per eent tax on state bank issues warrants the conclu- sion that there is not the slightest danger of congress rostoring to state banks the privilege of issuing eurrency. This is given upon the authority of Mr. Springer, chairman of the house com- mittee on banking and currency, who undoubtedly knows as well as any other man in congress the sentiment on this subject. A bill to repeal the tax will, it is probably 'd to the house, but even this is not assured in the opinion of My and he is quoted as saying that even if reported t would be as good as dead. The prop- to federalize state bank issucs has been abandoned, being manifestly impracticable and in any event acceptable to the radical advocates of who insist that the federal said, be report Springer, osition un- such issues, way with in this matter, claiming that they have a constitutional v banks to rency which cannot be vestricted or con- trolled These people maintain, notwithstanding the opinion of the supreme court to the contrary, that the imposition of the tax on state bank issues was without constitutional authority und nothing { will be aceeptable to them but the un- conditional repeal of the tax. As Mr. Springer says, n proposition of this kind would be opposed by the practically unanimous vote of the representatives the northern states. n of the banking and cur- committee is also authority for the statement that President Cleveland does not look with favor upon the pro- nosal to repeal the tax, and expresses the opinion that if a bill were passed by cor it would en- counter the executive veto' The dispo- sition seems to be to let the question be disposed of in congress, and undoubtedly this is the best eourse in ovder to put an effective quietus to the agitation. When this issue is disposed of, as it seems likely to be within a short time, it will become an interesting question as to what new poliey the will propose for obtaining an additional sup- ply of currency. 1t app that the man of the house banking and cur- rency committee has not been idle, and he promises that as soon as the house pusses the taritf bill he will have ready 1o report a measure dealing with securs ity for national bank circulation. [From the brief reference made to the charac- ter of this proposed bill it is not alto- rether an original policy that is contem- plated. Tt will provide that the government shall accept gilt-edged state, county and municipal bonds as security for national bank cireulation, and as the supply of su bonds is almost boundless and is constantly being added to, it is argued that their use by the banks as a basis of circulation would give the country an elastic currency without impaiving its quality. Inas- much the national banks cannot for many years longer have government bonds as secuvity for their civeulation aud there is a strong popular hostility to the government issuing more bonds, it the national m is to maintained as at present, per- haps there is no better plan for doing this than Me. Springer suggests. But it would need to be fortified by the strongest possible safegnards in ovder to maintain public confidence in the bank currency. There is a very considerablo clement in the present congress, largely composed of members of the dominant which is implacably hostile to the national banks and would vigorously oppose such a measure as the chairman of the banking and currency committee says will bereported. Itis therefore prob- Jematical whether this plan of giving the country an elastic currency could be curried through congress. ht to authorize iss cur- by congress, in congress from The chairm: eney ess for this purpose democrats as sys be COST OF THE LENGH STRIKE. The passing of the customary Jannary dividend of the Lehigh railroad is not the only place where the results of the Qisastrous Lehigh strike are manilesting themselves. Not only will the January dividend be passed, but many months are likely to elapse before the road again reaches a plane of profitable oper- ation. The outcome of the strike has been not only an impairment of the road as an income-hearing investment for its stockholders and bondholders, but also a diminution of its capacity to continue to employ its former labor force at the old rate of remuneration. The cost of the Lehigh strike has been a heavy one, but its burden will have to be shared by owners and employes together. Ina special veport to the divectors of the road, President Wilbur has made estimates of the loss involved by the re- cent lubor disturbance. The damage to the property of the company he cal- culates to be $77,000, made up of theso items: Damage to locomotives, $46,000; damage to cars, $19,000; damage to freight in wrecks, #9,450; damago to per- ishuble freight by delay, $2,550. Theso losses, traccablo largely to the work of | inexperienced or incompetent vs which were engaged to supply the places of the strikers, are but the smaller 't of the injury received by the rail- road company, During all the time that the strike was pending the road was to a greater or lesser extent lying idl despite the daily reports that the usu trains were moving on all branches of the lines. he decrease in net carnings | during this peviod is authoritatively os- timated at oyer $700,000, making a total loss to the comvany of nearly $800,000—a figure that will no doubt be considerably augmented when'the demoralization of business that will run well into the new ar comes to Ye considered, The positive loss to the strikers is of course far less than that which must be borne by the railroad company, but it is sufliciently large to make its want folt I is estimated to be not less than $80,000 This sum, however, merely represents | what the strikers would have earnod had they continued at their work, They | ave alveady reaping more of the whirl- | wind in the reductions of wages (hat have been ordered in all the branche the Lohigh service, and the delay th must ensuo before the rcad rega due share of traflie will necossarily tond | W delay the time when (ho old wagos o t government should not interfere in any | train | | of nsits | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: M( R DAY 'will be restored. And no computation can be made of losses sustained by laborers in allied industries which were hampored by the tieup on the Lehigh. While these estimatos make no pre- tensoat oxact accuracy and in their nature must be only approximations to the truth, they go toshow that the cost of the Lehigh strike mounts up well toward $1,000,000. This is a positive loss to society and one that can ill be sustained ata time of general business depression. Ttisa powerful argument in favor of gome device or legislation that will enable us to avoid this unnec- essary waste, to say nothing of the inconvenience to commerce and the danger to lifo and property involved in every such labor conflict. In this, the Lehigh strike is not peculiar. Society will be an immense gainer, measured solely by the materialistic scale of wealth, when the era of strikes is once and for all time behind us. DEMANDS HIS $100 REWARD. A few days ago Chief Oil Inspector Milton requested THE BEE to offer $100 reward in his name to any party that would furnish proof of a single instance of coal oil explosion in this state within the pastsix months, The first claimant to this reward sends us the following letter: Prarrsyovti, Neb,, Dee. 15.—To the Id- itor of Tur Ber: Regarding ths offer of the state oil inspector to pay $100 for proofs of lamp explosions, ote., I wish to say that on the evening of December 14 coal oil lamp in my office exploded, resulting in considerable damage. The explosion was seen by a police- man and other partics. They broke into the office and extinguished the fire. There could have been no other cause for thoe ex- plosion than bad oil. Tcan prove the facts above stated. Dit. A, SHIPMAY P, S.—Irofer to D. H. Wheeler, st., H. rke and . Colpetzer. If the statements herein made can be substantiated it affords tangible proof thatexplosive oilsave onsale in thisstate. While the test by the Foster cup under our state oil inspection law is very low, it is claimed by experts that it is high enough, if inspection rules are rigidly enforeed, to protect consumers from the dangers incident to explosions. The Plattsmouth case should by all means be looked into, and if the oil was bought from a Nebraska dealer out of an in- spocted barrel an investigation should be made as to the mode of procedure on the part of the deputy who made the inspection. If the oil was not certified to by an inspector the dealer should be hauled up for violating the law. o THE DEMOCRATIC PENSION POLICY. A discussion of the pension policy of the present administration was preeipi- tated in the house of representatives on Saturday by the proposed appropriation for special examiners in the pension service. While not objecting to the appropriation republican representa- tives vigorously attacked the course of the administration in its treatment of vensioners. The democratic defense was not strong and was more apologetic than anything els It is to be noted, also, that it came from southern men, one of whom had been especi- ally bitter in his hostility to the lust republican commissioner of pen- sions and who has otherwise manifested at every opportunity a deep-seated dis- like of the whole pension system. Those democrats whose judgment is not utterly warped and distorted by their prejudice against the policy of pension- ing union soldiers realize that the ad- ministration has made a grave mistake in dealing with this matter, and they are not anxious to invite or encourage discussion of it. The charge of whole- sale pension frauds was proclaimed vo- ciferously as soon as it was known that the democratic party was successful in the last national election and the country was told that a thorough policy of purgation would be in- stituted immediately after the de- mocracy entered into control of the ex- ecutive department of the government. Nobody objected to this policy if con- ducted fairly and justly. There is not anywhere a union soldier who desires that a pensioner be retained on the rolls who has no right to be there. It is the wish of every good citizen that the pen- sion roll shall be a roll of honor, bearing upon it only the names of those who faithfully served their country and are justly entitled to its bounty. But the present administration began the work of purging the pension list upon the theory that fraud was the rule rather than the exception, and instead of proceed- ing to correct tho alleged wrong against the people by adopting a course which would have given every suspected pen- sioner an opportunity of defense against the assumption of fraud before being cut off from the bounty of the govern- ment, it went to work upon the hypothe- sis that all suspected pensioners were guilty until they could prove their inno- cence. It condemned them in advance of giving them an opportunity to be heard in their defense, and adminis- tered punishment before conviction. criminal charged with the most heinous offense against the law is thus treated, This utterly indefensible outrage called for and received the reprobation of all fair-minded citizens and the administration was forced by overwhelming public opinion to recede from its unjust and unwarrant- able policy. Buv this did not alter the belief created by its course that it is distinetly unfriendly to the nation's pensioners and it is hardly possible that anything it may hereafter do will re- move that belief. Nor will any expla- | nations or apologies which the defend- ors of the administeation may offer suf- fice to do so. Its true animus was shown in the order suspending thou- sunds of pensioners inadvance of a h ing, the great majority of whom wer able to prove that they were entitled to the government, bounty they were ceiving. There are demicrats candor to re- who have the snowledge the grave wrong cowmmitted the administration in this matter, Senator Voorhees has don in unmistakable terms, and the dor ¢ candidate for governor of Ohio at the lato election has condemued the pen sion policy of the administration in terms #s stroug as any republican has usod dgainst it. But it is not to be ex- | yeeted that the demeeracy will be in- | duced to show a more fricedly coucern erat for the men who, are the reoipienis of the national bownty, e — Tae New YOFK Sun wants to know whether the settlgment between the people and theo democratic party is likely to be satisfacfory to tho latter: if the paoplo belieye they have been gulled and that; the Chicago platform was only a confidence man's flash roll? Examine the eleotlon returns of 1803 and you will find 4n indication of the arfswer. Wait for the elections of 1804 and 1806 and you will have the answer itself. A LAW requiring railroads to post bulletins of the arrival and departure of all trains over ten minutes late has just gone into effect in Connecticut. It is difficult to see how this law can increase the speed of delayed trains, but it will have the effectof emphasizing the irreg- ularities of the t More punctuality and fower bulletins would be far more approciated. Counting the Coat. Philadelphia 7imes. I all its availablo assets were disposablo the Tron Hall could p ont on the dollar, When thoy were taken in its victims didn'{ think they were to get such quarters, bl bk it Cigarettes Along with Silver. Fremont Leader . Tue BEE suggests that tho third party insert a plank in_its platform against the sale of cigarettes. It sugeests it in & voinof pleasantry, but we accept it in earnest. ————— Dimensions of the Rout. ilobe-Democrat, The majority of 101,084 against Maynard in New York, as shown by tho official re- turns, is the best thing that has been done by that stato since it went for Harrison in 1888, A TS No Cuat There, Chicago Times. Wages have been cut at Pullman, but the waveling public will continue o pay Mr. Pullman the same price for an upper berth as for a lower, and to disburso enforced tolls to hiy servants under the nawe of tips. b sy Sauce for the Goose and ce for the Gander. Papillion Times, Tn view of Judge Dundy’s determination to arive obscene language from public places, it will be dangerous for the press to repro- duce any more of the after-dinner_speeches made by John L. Webster or Tom Majors, et Patriots tor Office Only. Washington Post. The Cleveland admimstration is over nine months old and not a_single anti-snapper has declined an oftice. It was all along sus- pected that the anti-snapper movement was not merely a health-producing enterprise. et gl That Long-Feit Want, Nebraska City News. And now comes the rumor.from Kans: City that John J. Ingalls is toaccept the ed- iworship of A mnew evening paper av that place. This is surprising, as we thought all urrangements hadbeen made to start a re- publican paper, with Ingalls as oditor, at Omaha and drive Tae Bee out of business. bl ol i} Inspection aud Frotection. Chicago Reecrd. Tnasmuch as the building and doan asso- clation seems destinea to absorb a notable percentage of wage earners’ savings, the wisdom of the system of state mspection and the necessity of making 1t ns nearly as possi- | ble a perfect suteguard, is at once anpurent. There are 0bvious reasons why the societies allure tho investor of small means, and it 13 justsuch mvestors who have little possibil- ity of redress when swindling has been vracticed. D M S e Only & Blackmailing Boast. Blair Pilot. 1t seems too_ineredalous for belief that after the flat failuro and jump-the-track tricks manifested by the Omaha double- ender in its last year's controversy with Tug BEE over clrcilation its editor should have the consummate gall to jump into the arena again and_shout his defiauce on the same points as if the subject was entively new. Hitcheock can hardly fool anybody at this stage of the game, on the question of World-Herald circulation. He dare not come to any sort of a showdown witn Tie BEg, but he continues to try by the quib- bling of a_dishonest trickster to keep his paper before the public as 4 competitor. Pl oty Develops a Pull, Washington Star. At last the Chinaman is started on the roud to a comprehension of the goodness and greatness of this country’s institutions. The appoinument of Wong™ Chin Foo of New York to act as Chinese inspector is at least a start in the direction of bringing the Ce- lestial under the civilizing and soothing in- fluences of the goverament pay roil. If John could be given to understand that he is eli- gible to the polico force or to other depart- ments of employment, it is very possible that the representatives of his race in this country would at once cut off their cues, woar commonplace clothes, learn to vote and even to write legible laundry tickets. el ety Give Us a New Unole Sam, Detroit Jowrnal. It is high time that a new conception of Uncle Sam should take the place of the li- belous caricature that has had its run for a contury or more. Where is the artist who sooks fame! Let him give us a picture of Uncle Sam more liberally endowed with meat on his bones, with better fitting clothes and a wifle handsomer face, if possi- ble. Cut his hair, trim up his whiskers and give him an caglo ey em. Make ls figure a scuiptor's model of strength and beauty. Place in his right hand the decla- ration of indopendence, the constitution of the United States as it is, and the Mouroo doctrine. Then put a chip on s shoulder and let hum alone. e Mecca of the Bum, Kansas City Star. The tramps are responding vigorously to Governor Lewellng’s call and are hastening to the torders of & commonwealth tho governor whereof greets them with a reful- gent and paternal smile. The travelers moving in search of work which they never have the fortune to overtake will march in the governor's highway across the length and breadth of Knusas. In the meantime the @ood people of Kansas will exerciso reasonable discretion and will extend assist- ance on what appears to be the facts of the case, rather than on the governor's signu- ture'and the broad seal of the state, The woadpile will continue to be the touchstone of genuineness and preliminary to break- fast. Jo A Tinfely' Kui Chicdgn Herald, In these naturalization times a certain facy should be known. Alate decision was given in a Nebraska case, in which a clerk of the court had taken His ‘book ana ofticial seal and had traveled throvgh the country deal- ing out naturalization ‘papers to such aliens as the loeal politicians indicated would vote for Lhe party to whivh 'he belonged. These naturalization coriificates were decided to be fraudulent and invalid. A man can be ord before a judge at the usual place of hoid- ing court. A me ark or deputy cannot hold a constructive trm of court at a coun- iry tavern or undgria cottonwood tree by 1ho roadside and{issve to local crowds law- {us naturalization Pag Highest of all in Leavening Power.=Latest U. 5. Gov't Report, al e DE | eago that blizzards shriek one made a citizen only in an open court of rec- | This ¢ good thing, & very good thing LD CEMBER 18 PEOPLE AND THINGS. Castor bread upon tho waters and garner the pastry Sinco the birth of the daughter of Count- ess Herbert Bismarck the ex-chancellor is a randfather six times The politieal temperature is 8o hot in Chi a8 they pass by and sink into the lake There are no “Infant industries,” shouts the bourbon free trader. Great Ciesar, the fellow should be born again. Gladstone is said by his opponents to have one log in the grave. The other membor is doing a regular business curing tory hams. “Thg most delightful of Colorado's products Just now is the newspaper accounts of gold discoveries and a corresponding decrease in the rage against goldbugs. Charles L. Poole of New Albin, Ia. rounded out 107 yearsand passed away thre vs ago. His remarkable pull is a mystery. He was not raised 1n Ohio The Georgia legislature declares for free coinage, wildeat money and an income tax The reported appearance of the pio wagon in that section is a clever Hokes Should the Lousville vlan of boycotting a corpse become general it behooves prospect ive stiffs to square accounts befor paking and get under ground with decency and dis patch The makers of threshing forming a combine to limit production. paternal strap and con'inue business stand The Coney Tsland boss will languish in jail for a brief pariod and it is expooted his ‘in volun! rotirement from ‘Sunday school leadership will prove useful and profitable— to the Sunday school. o Siddhu and Linda Ram, two Hindoos who were assistant commissioners at the World's fair, have gone to St. Louis to convert that city'to the tenets of the Arya Somaj. Tho progress of these Rams will be watched with interest. Mr. Neary of Newarlk, N. J., has received from the Treasury department a new £ note for one that was eaten by his goat, which he killed to recover the fragments that ac- companied his affidavit. Neary is in a £ bill and out a & William. Mrs. Hattie Gottrie of probably the youngest graudmother in tho country. She was married beforo she w 16, in 1576, and her daughter, born in 1877, also married bofore sho was 16, The grana: child, Eva, was born in September last. Virginia, “‘the mother of presid and Mahone, has suffered another wrench of her proud soul. Iven the hailowed name of Lee was dragged in the political dust. A senatorial caucus turned down Fitzhugh and clevated oue Martin, How the mighty has fallen ! “That all women, both great and small, love sugar and sweetmeats is true. ‘1 here’s Fanny Davenport, who must have her peppermints along with her Marc Antony and cated snakes; Florence Rockwell, who de clares she cannot_play Ophelia to Keene's yHamlet” unless she has Ler peanut brittle, and Ellen Terry, with her passion for pre- served pears. machines are The maternal shingle will unrestricted at the old Lowell, Mass., is nts, —— BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN, Tt lightens a duty to resolve to perform it choerfully. Some men are morc afraid of than a woman 18 of a shotgun. 1t is much easier to be contented without riches than it is with them. The man who lives only for himself is en- gaged in very small business. The man who would have done so and so if ho had been thero, never gets there. | There is more help in an ounce of encour- agement than there is in a ton of advice. The man who repents on a sick bed from which e recovers generally backsiides be- fore he pays his doctor's bills The man who unconsciously does much to sour the milk of human kindness is that fel- low who snores in the slecping car. The father who does not put good reading matter in the handsof his children has never done any real prayivg for their salya tion. criticism A Rank Injustice, Lincoln Ne As the facts in the matter of the manage- ment of the Burlington Voluntary Relief de- partment become known it is very evident that the state insurance deparument ought to take the matter in hand and compel it to | incorvorate as an insurauce compiny, sub- ject to the wise rules and_regulations gov- erning companies of that character. While it may be trae that in forming this depart- ment it was the aim of tho company 1o af- fora its employes, who belong to either the probiibited risks or are compelled to pay ex- orbitant premiums for accident protection in regular companies, an_opportunity 1o gev the benclits of accident insurance at cost, yet the operations of the department will, if the position it takes be sustained by the courts, be a rank injustice to the employes. “The statement has been frequently made, and the News believes it hus not been con® tradicted, that, despite the name it bears, the compiny requires every employe o bo a member of the reiief devartment and to con- tribute a certain portion of his earnings cach mouth to the accident aud death benefit fund. The company in return guarantees to pay all expenses and all claims. 1f the v: ments for benefits are greater than the r ceipts the company makes up the differonce. This would on its face appear to bo most magnanimous on the company's part were iv not for the fact that one of the clauses in the agreement which the employe must sign provides that the acceptance by him or uuy member or representative of his family of the amount of his _claim against the depar ment acts as an estoppel of any action at law for money to recompense him for his in- juries or his family for the loss of his sup- port. While1tis yet to be decided by tio courts whether this in reality acts asa bar 1o a suit at law, yet the fact thatit is in their agrecment has prevented the company from bewng made defendant in numerous suits. Suppose, for instance, that through no fault of the employe, but by reuson of de- fective aplinnces or lack of tho proper num- ber of men to handle the compang’s cars, an cwmploye loses his life or is injured 5o badly as to prevent him from working any more. According to the regulations of the reliof deparument he would receive a cortain stip- ulated sum, §00 or $1,000. He would have received a similar amount if there hud becn contributory negligence on his part, but bo- cause he accopts from the reliof departnent what is his due on his accident policy the | company claims that he should by the courts be refused an_opportunity to compel it to recompense him or his family for the loss of his carning capacity. The company's posi- tion would be an equitable one were it nov for this fact. In fixing the amount of duos or premiums which shall be paid the _officers of the depart- ment undoubtedly calculated it so that as near as possiblo the disbursements equaled the receipts. In other words, that all the funds that are paid by the depart- ment come from the employes, The com- pany claims that at the end of each period thero is o deficit which it is compelled to make up, but_nevertheless, the conclusion is irresistibly forced upon the investigator that 1t is & very cheap way for the company to liquidate all damage claims. Another feature that distinetly operates 1o the benefit of the compuny is that there is nothing in their agreement which pre- vents the company from discharging a mou after he has beer: injured, and thus shutting off s sick benefits, although it is but fair to the company to stute that there is but e on record where this wus doue. o is still pending in the courts as a point o2 law ¥ On the whole, the man who investigates the Burlington Voluntary Relief department must be impressed wi the fact that itis s for the com- pany Baking Powder ABSOILUTELY PURE OLL INSPECTTOY, Papillion Times: 1t has beon proven time and again that the oils sold in Nebraska are such as are not ailowed to be sold in other states. Tar Osana Bee is making a splendid war on the Standard company, and it is to be hoped, with salutary resuits Winside Watchman: Tue Ovaua Bre ro cently had a three-column expose of frauds by state oil insvectors, 1f T'ne Bee is right, one is nover safo while a lamp is burning in tho house. Not only this, but the consum er s being ¢ ed by the vetailer, who is en tirely innocent of any intention to commit fraud. Though Rosey 1s cursed for innuar erable things, it cannot be denied he is not afraid to expose rottenncss wherever he finds it Cortland Herald ing a vigorous fight for a_bet oil inspec tion in Nevraska. Tie Bee says 1t is tho farmers and the residents of the smallor towns and villages who aro obliged to con sumie oil for lighting and heating nurposes Uhey aro entitled to have wh v pay for A state law aims to protect consumers of oil from injurious and dangerous mixtures A strict onforcement of the present law is the least that is demanded until botter legisla tion can be obtained Bloomington T Ovarid Bre is mak i Echo Tue Osmana doing meritori work in showing poor qualtity of coal oil on sale in the towns in the state, I'r tigations it looks very much had become the d g ground for all the angerous, worth oil the Standard Oil company had 1o place on the market. The proper ofticials should lose no time in going to the bottom of the afair and bring lawbreakers who endanger the lives of wholo families promptly to time. We would lik to hear of some vigorous prosecution under our lawvif the factsare as bad as rej seated. The oll law does nothing more than furnish employment for a few political rene gades who belong Lo the party for revenue principally. Blair Pilot: T Ovany a scries of articles showing practiced upon the people of Nebraska in the matter o oil inspoction, anad it 18 truly aid that “‘these disclosures of bogus oil in spection are meeting widespread approval throuzhout Nebras The bpublic rests under tho presumption that the law gives it protection from dangerous oils, and it s fair to presume that it was so mtended by the enacting power, but_ under the system practiced it is_shown that oils ted by the inspectors of other states ave dumped into Nebraska and sold bgoadeast. Numer ous specimens secured from various parts of the state have been tested, and almost uni y they prove far below the established that can lawfully be sold and in ble and dangerous in the extreme, Bee is doiug a good work By w tho ifforon Tue BEE'S iny as it Nebraska Bee is printing up the fraud SECULAR SHO1S AT THE PULPIT. Philadelphia Press: A ve Iurope hopes to abolish anarchy by praye The most effective prayer in such cases is the ono that 13 uttered by the clergy man one minute beforo the drop falis, Chicago liecord: A preachier in Maine has astonisned his congregation by sayiug that he can always preach better when he has a few dollurs in_his pocket than when he has none. Tho dollars give him confidence, 1f this peculiar trait of character wero general among clergymen it is to be feared the world wouldn't hear as many fino sermons it does. Kansas City Journal: Two pious young tadies of MckKinney, Ky.. engaged in a o whip fight in church, and lashed each other's shoulders and backs' some time befo separated. The dispateh adds: “As a re- sult ten additions have been made to the church.” If the fair combatants had been lowed to fight it out the entire community might have been saved St. Louis Republic Ligivus newspaper of any denomination brings to the discussion of any public or quusi-political question that degree of fair- ness und impartiality to be expeeted from jouenals which assume to act as censors of the secular press. 1t is not too much to that the secular newspapers, as a rule, are more mindful of the equities in any given case thau ave their religious =ontemporaries. It is not often that the religious journalist invades the field of nolitics, but when he does it is as a destroying angel bearing five and sword. Minneapolis Tribune: Tev. Stephens Wright, pastor of a prominent church in Brooklyn, is outon a sirike. Ho put ou his coat, 50 Lo speak, and walked out last Sunday. His stril or against & cut. He had not been compelled to work with a nonunion choir or a scab sex- ton. The gentleman who passed the hat and the boy who Fumped the orgun were per- fectly satisfactory from the standpoint of trade ethics. There was no dispute us to hours, scale or overtime. The iwhole difi- culty arose from the neglect of the spectre to preambulzte at the customary intervals, In other words, his satary had not been paid for several wecks, Chicago Herald: Rev. Wilbur G. Warner is pastor of the Grace Methodist Episcopal church at Indianapolis. He prepared cently a speetacular display for his pulpit. He haa delivered some scrinons on the ey of card playing and gambling, and he illus lustrated one of his recent discourses by shuffling a pack of monte cards in the pul pit, a deacon playing the part of the green- norn betting on the game. I'he exhibition occurred Sabbath evening. It attracted the greatest congregation that ever had ap. peared in the church. Immense intercsy was displayed, and the failure of the deacon to win on the desig ed ‘‘'sure car elicited roars of laughter aud rounds of ap- plause. It wasa delightful and instructive Sunday evening entertainment, zious society in It is rarely thata re- Edward Ey ST He The largest muk fine clot Suits, Ulste Halt Today an BROWNING, [ S 1l pay ‘hyexpressif you send :vlw m«:n) for $20 worth or wore AAAAAAASAAALL AT S 0 was not for a raisoe | 1 BROWNING, KING 87,500 of Men's and Boys’ Overcoats and: UIAN AND STATRROOD. Perhaps it would be just s well to let Uncle Sam see that polygamy 18 thoroughly suppressed before allowing Utal to take control of herself. (ilobe Democrat: The fact that Utah can vo reliod upon 1o @ive a democratic majority outwelighs all the serious objections to her admission as a state in the eyes of the pres ent house, Denver Republican: The republicans did right in supporting tho bill. 1f, as a party, they had opposed it, it would have hurt them in the far west, more especially in view of the attitude of eastorn republicans pon the coinage question Kansas City Star: Republican opposition to the admission of Utah may be due to the insuficiency of population, but in tho light of history it would scom that the probable political complexion of the new setators ot au imvortant figure. It would be absurd to say that state making has not been and will not be a measure for partisan advantage no less in the admission of the Dakotas, \Wyoming. Idaho and Washington than of Utah. 1t is significant at least that the re. publicans did not cvy a halt until all sure republican territory had been gathered Bos Advertiser T'he refusal to admit Utah to statehood for the present violates no right of anybody or of any section. State. hood is 4 hoon 1o be given, not a right to be demandod. A territory is & croatire of the states, is theiv nroperty in a constitutional sense, to do with as they please. If they choose to mak states, fv is their right; it they choose not to mako states, it is their ploass No one has the privilege of ap- pealin fon. No good of wiven why thoy vstate i this in- © are very grave and un- answerablo reasons why statehood should not be granted to Utah ag presont Buftalo Express: The territory contained in 1800 a population of 1380 it was 143,003, "The rate of inc about the san as in New Mexico than in any other .tato ov ter Nevada and Avizona. The democratio party claims 1o ubjeet to pocket boroughs. but, by passing the bill for the admission of Utah yesterday, the democratic house took steps to create a new one. Utah is o desort, 1t can expect but little immigration except Mormou converts. 1f the power of the Mor: won church is broken Utah as a state would become a second Nevada. If it is not broken, that is reason eunough for compelling Utahi to wait Chioago Record of Utah 905, In ase was and less L oxcopt SEASONABLE CHERE. Roston Courier Inther Lis wito. A barber has no right to Florlda Times its own butter 18 wise cow that knows 1o Commercial: A miner may ho ever 1off, but he can’t help getting in a hole astonally Tol Buffalo Courler: “Thickled's ignorand ot him into a box at st “Has, oh Kind'of'a Hox" Jury hok. o s What Atlanta Constitution: “Here s Christmas_ ode,” “said the por You're off,” cried the editor. " cent Lowed yestorday.” littlo . timidly: i the Tast Dotroit I'reo Press: 1o collvet Tliey kept hi although it w doing was al New York Sun: Vietin ts not to talk while you Barber —Hos purdon; money easier than thaf Binghamton Repubii not inclined 1o be tallutis bore when he finds th did Hitlo jobs yall time on the run, S plain o the knowing that his s dun i have sir; 1 can varn give you 50 my The burglar is bt he is w great safe locked. Life: Miss Westend that Adi and Eve Mr. Murray Hill lived in paradise vants. I'hen you don't believe ly Tived in paradise? yes, thev. st have Qida't have to keep Ol the: Puck: The | 1t of suspicion scented with cloy is generally anapolis Journs ty tough whe ts a stone, Weary Watkins -1 \whon 1 didn’t have no kic n you sce, th £ wit” the rock th ry Iliggins— re comin’, o was alittle rye went ADDED T0 Wi sTOMY Kansas City Journal, The school in which to learn, he said, anght; 1 and wood, nd usoful know sought One day while he was walking out, A cloud came up and rained; He scrambled through a barb wire fence ny new points gained. Lol g L THE MUNARCH. New York Sun 1 do defy all humankind, When onee [have made up my mind To move me, standing like a clifr that mocks the wind | Like some vast clond-cushrouded sea, Weapt in niy own immensity, 1 brood and swash. My thought surges and swells in nie. Within myself, an awful shrine, 1 werk, [ plan, deyise, combine. Have all the craft of siate and government down fine. Customs and precedents [y The laws 1 lightly bend or b Inspired by wy great Self. cal Ak ward Myself the I live above all party cries. In my high air theirclamor dies, Shawmed by my sacred Self, whercon there are no flies unsel but my apon my throne self-revolving, absolute, alone. 1 nped no e 1 sitsubling Self-centos R . Lt B & 15 crs il s ollors of 4 on Earth rs at Price d Tonight, KING & CO., W. Cor.15th and Douglas bts.