Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 9, 1894, Page 4

ATIA DAILY BEE. 3R, Bditor. VERY MORNING TERMS OF $URSCRIPTION. Balls Dew (withowt Snnday) Ono Year Iy and Sunday. Ono ¥ ix Months s Moniha 15, 14 15, Tribune building 14 Worirtenih atroot CORRESPOND! 3 it nmnnications rointing fo news and edi- Tor n 1d bo addressed: To th ditor. Al e and postoflice o F of the company PUBLIHING CoMPANY. OF CIRCULATION, v of Tie BRR Pub- uly swear that the Tige for the woeek 1 Mond e Wedy Thursdig Friday. Janu Baturda ~i= | Bworn to beford BEAL (my presence thin [ L T N.P. Average Olro A DEMOCRATIC congress resorting to the Reed rules in order to count a quorum would be an inspiring example of party inconsistenc JUDGING from the conflicting reports of the Matabele war from Cape Town, Captain Wilson and his followers must rival the genus cat with its reputed nine lives. A SMALLER interest rate on regis- tored state warrants would deprive the warrant-shavers of part of th incen- tive to speculate on the state's tempor- ary indebtedne TrALY is supporting a military and naval equipment out of its class. This is an explanation in a nutshell of the tax riots expressing the people’s resistance to oppressive taxation. SOME of our city councilmen are said to regret that they can clecta new ident but once a year. Twelve months isalong time to wait for the next square meal. WHEN old Harvard has to dismiss six professors on account of hard times it looks as if higher education were a luxury which people in straightened circumstances place among the first things to be dispensed with. THE attempt of two aotorious prize fighters to keep away from one another is getting tame beside the efforts of the Brazilian forces to avoid coming in con- tact with the Brizilian insurgents; but the methods of both present some resem- blance. ONE of the provisions of the Nebraska statutes prohibits the stato treasurer from speculating in state warrants dur- ing his term of oftice, but the statutes do not prevent the secretary of state from conducting a warrant brokerage office in the state house. RAILWAY employes are protesting against the proposed federal legislation against railway robbers for fear the provisions might be turned against them in cases of strikes, They evidently have no very ‘implicit faith in the vaunted harmony of all vailway interests. CoUNTY CLERK SACKETT 1ntimates in his annual report that the money ex- pended independently by the different charitable organizations in this county might, by a united effort, be more judiciously distributed. Mr. Sackett states the matter gently. Ge? together. IN' VIEW of the fact that the articles recently printed in THE BEE in regard to state finances have received the ap- probation of the state treasurer and his associates there is somothing a trifle vidiculous in the conduct of one or two newspapers that have heroically rushed to his defense. S0 LONG as the New York charity ball netted 812,000 as an offering to the destitute we may be sure that Chicago won't be satistied until its charity ball outdoos this achievement of New York. But healthy rivalry in this instance will be all the more welcome to the poor in both cities. THE past year witnessed but little railvoad construction in Nebraska for the reason that there was no urgent necessity for additional extensions. But eight counties in the state are without railway facilities, and these countie: will be supplied as soon as their popula- tion 1s large euough to induce railway construction in their direction, THAT report of the legislative com- mittee appointed to investigate the con- dition of the permanent school fund is in- tovesting reading just at this time. [t dis- closes an unusual unxiety on the part of the state officials comprising the state board to do all they could to avoid put- ting the plain intent of the law regard- ing the investment of those funds into offect. CROKER, the Tammany chieftain, an- nonnces himself as opposed to the indi- vidual income tax because he fears in tho long run the burdens will be shifted tothe poor in increased rentals and Llower wages tothe workingmen. If the proposal were for an income tax levied by the New York city government Boss Croker's word would settle the matte As it is, however, we shall have to await the action of cong Eprror STEAD worked himself into such a perspiration the other day wiren he handled a pick and shovel on the streets of Chicago for two meal tickets and a lodging that he caught cold while standing in line waiting to get his pay and hasn't dene any work since. The great social reformer will probably be content to confine himsell to speechos and appeals to the chavitable in the fu- ture. They are not likely to be so disas- trous to his health, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JANU RY THE WATTERSO A democrat of domocrats is Mr. | Henry Watterson, the able editor of the Louisville Courier-Jouraal, If not the author of the famous declaration in the last national platform of the democracy regarding the policy of protection he was its most brilliant and earnest cham- pion. He sincerely belioved then, and ho as sincerely belioves now, that pro- tection is robbory and that the polioy is unconstitutional, He is, in short, a freo trader through and through and would hasten the destruction of the whole protective system as soon as prac- ticable. Mr. Watterson is not merely a local force in politics. His In- fluence is not confined . to Ken- tucky. More than any other journalist of the south, and in a greater measure than most of the publin men of that sec- tion, the distinguished editor moulds and directssouthern popiilar opinion. It is also to be said of him that he has the courage of his convictions Among the many addresses delivered throughout the country in commemora- tion of Juckson day that of Mr. Watter- son before the Louisville club which bears his name will easily rank with the brightest and the bravest. It was in the most vigorous and characteristic style of its author. Mr. Watterson said this seemed to him to be an era of small things and small men, from which it will be readily inferred that he is not pleased with the proposed tariff policy of his party a it isembodied in the Wil- son bill. As a matter of fact he regards that measure as being entirely out of line with the meaning and the purpose of the declaration in the democratic na- tional platform. He had hoped that this declaration ended finally and for- ever ‘‘the long struggle botween the forces of light and darkness in the demo- cratic party, by stamping out a double- tongued assertion of its tariff polic Ho is disappointed, because he finds the new tariff bill “condoning and conserv- ing republican policies,” instead of re- versing those policies. But what would Mr, Watterson have done if he had been charged with framing a revenue meas- Ho tells his plan in few words and it hardly need be said that there is no protection in it. He would tax sugar, tea and coffee, abolishing the bounty on sugar. ‘I would continue,” said Mr. Watterson, “‘giving precedence as far as possiblo to revenue-yielding commodi- ties not produced in this country, down through the largest revenue-yielding domestic products—without the least re- gard to protection, incidental or other- wise—and when I got $200,000,000 1 would stop. Then I would frame an in- ternal revenue act raising $175,000,000 on spirits and tobacco—making $375.- 000,000 in all—and the rest, 350,000,000 or $75,000,000, as the estimates might re- quire, I would raise on an income tax, first on inheritances and dividends, and then, if need required, on big incomes.” Having done this, ‘‘in_accordance with the democratic mandate,” Mr. Watter- son would challenge the democrats in congress to vote against it if they dave. With warrants issued for bringing into the house of representatives a score or more of democrats who absented themselves because of their opposition to free coal, free iron ore, or some other feature of the Wilson bill, the question suggests itself whether it would ever be possible to get enough democrats together to order the arrest of absentees if a plan such as Mr. Watterson out- lines were to be presentod. As ardent a Jfree trader as the Louisville editor, Representative Bryan of Nebraska, opposes a duty on sugar for the reason that it would make the labor- ing man, the farmer and our poor- est classes bear more than their share of the support of the government, This view has cquai force in regard to coffee and tea. Subjecting these ar- ticles to a duty would be more certainly disastrous to the party doing it than would pbe the imposition of an income tax. Yet Mr. Watterson is right in the conclusion that this is the only thing to be done if the existing tariff policy Is to be abandoned, as he insists it must be in order that the democratic party shall be faithful to its promise, and there is substituted for ita tariff for revenue only, Perhaps a majority of the south- ern people believe with Mr. Watterson 1n the virtues of free trade, but there is alveady a vigorous sentiment in that seation, which is making itself folt, opposed to abandoning the principle of protection and thero is reason to believe that it will gain in strength and in- fluence despite the efforts of such apostles of free trade as the Louisville editor. ANOTHER CURRENCY SCHEME. A currency scheme in which its author, Chairman Springer of the house com- mittee on banking and currency, has great faith, is ready to be launched upon congress. It is a bill providing for the creation of a national currency commission, consisting of the secvetary of the treasury, the treusurer of the United States and the cowmptroller of the currency, which commission is to issue currency to any bank depositing rited States, state, county, parish or city bonds. The bonds, other than federal, must at the time of depositing bave been av par for two years and the interest paid up. The notes to be issued to banks applying for them shall be printed at the order of the commis- sion and shall be a full legal tendor re- deemable in coin. Tho notas are to ba exempt from the 10 per cent tax on state bank issues and the bonds from all tas ation, federal or local. The United States assumes all responsibility for the vedemption of the notes and the banks aro required to guarantee the payment of bonds deposited, their assets baing liable therefor. The measure pledgos the faith and dit of the Unitel States to the re- dewption in coin on demand of the na- tional currency notes and a sorve fund In coin is provided equal to 20 per cent of the outstanding notes. The banks ave to be subject to federal examination. Mr. Springer says ho wants to secure 3 the people of the United S'ates a safe and elastic currency, equal at all times and under all circumstunces to thé wants of trade and commerce, of uniform value throughout tho United States, and which shall atall times be maintained at par by being convertible into coin on - demand. He thinks he has hit upon tha right plan for securing these desirable conditions, his {dea being that his plan embraces all the advantages which eould possibly be secured through stato banks and is subject to nono of the objections which can be urged against state banks authorized to issue circulating notes, In the first place it is to be observed, conceding that this scheme is worthy of any seri- ous consideration, that the country now has a currency which is absolutely safe. Consequently such a measure as that of Mr. Springer's would not supply a safer currency. Would it glve a more elastic currency? Possibly, butis there not a great deal of unwarranted complaint on this score? The wonderful material progress of the country during tho past thirty years has been attained with the existing cur- rency systom, which has been at all times sufficiently elastic to meet overy logitimate requirement or de- mand. Just at present the supply of currency is largely in excess of an effectual demand and legislation in- tended to increase the supply could serve no good purpose in the absenco of a corresponding increase in the effectual demand for money. The fact is, such schemes as that of Mr. Springer are simply attempts to harmonize the various democratic theories and demands regarding the surrency and they are chiefly interest- ing as showing how many different de- vices are possible in connection with this subject. SENSATIONAL PULPIT ORATORY. 1t has been charged that I am attacking the city government for sensational pur- poses, but not one dollar of my salary is con- tributed by a man who is not in favor of my present course. I have been informed from two or three different sources that I would be run out of town, but the Methodist Episcopal church has carloads of preachers and I would be re- placed by another. I have also been ap- proached by a misguided friend and in tears urged to stop, thav they had it in for me, but I will not trim my sail to conform to an irresponsible press nor to oficials elected by the criminal element. This is the language used by Rev. Crane in his widely-placarded sermon on what he was pleased to call *An Agree- ment with Hell.” If this is not sensationalism we would like to know Mr. Crane's definition of sensationalism. The talk of running Mr. Crane out of town is a figment of the imagination, Everybody in Omaha remembers the intense ‘itement of the prohibition campaign of 1890. The great body of our people looked upon prohibition as a menace to our prosperity, and yet no prohibition agitator from Mrs. Gougar to St. John was molested. Prohibition- ists occupied a public hall for months, where their doctrine was constantly preached. They had a camp in town where meetings and rallies were held night after night. Rev. Mr. Merrill talked ‘prohibition, preached probibition and worked openly for prohibition on election day. And yot nobody threatened to run him out of town. This is a tolerant, intelligent and law-abiding community, nothwith- standing its sensational defamers. We do mnot drive people awsy who make themselves offensive to any class orcreed. The best proof of that fact is that Johnny Thompson, who certainly roiled up the Roman Catholics and pro- voked violence, was never molested. Mr. Crane is not in the remotest danger and nobody has any cause for shedding tears in anticipation of his being way- laid by Mayor Bemis. Chief Seavey, the gamblers or the keepers of bawdy houses. It is an atrocious libel for Mr. Crane to charge that he is maligned by an irresponsible press and that the present city officials have been elected by the criminal elements. In the first place Mr. Crane has been treated with courtesy by the press and his assertion that the Omaha papers are irresponsible is base- less, unless he refers to the Louisiana lottery sheet. Mayor Bemis was elected by over 2,000 majority and it will hardly do to assert that there are more than 2,000 criminals in this city. It might not be out of place to inquire who Mr. Crane voted for? Did he vote for Has- call? Did he vote for Bedford, or did he quietly cast his lot with the 2,100 crim- inals? The fact is that Mr. Crane is nothing if not sensational. The fact that he an- nounces as the subject of his next ser- mon ‘‘Prostitution,” and that his lecture is to be for men only, convicts him of pandering to sensationalism in its most repulsivo form. Why should a preacher talk about anything that women should not hear when women and their vices are the subject he proposes to disouss? Does he really expect to abolish the social evil? If so he is a greater preacher than any that has yet lived. MING UMAHA, Instead of helping to build up Omaha there ave always mavplots in this city who makoe it their business to foment in- ternal dissensions and fabricate defama- tion sbont her social depravity. Three weeks ago a couple of Canadians came to Omaha to investigate the workings of high liconse. They called on a couple of prohibitionists toactas guides. The only part of town they were taken through was the burnt district and a gambling den on Douglas street, They drank beer in a palatial house of ill fame in the night and bought liquor in six out of eleven places in the slums on Sunday. This experience was detailed in letters toa Canadian paper and Omaha was advertised as an outpost of civilization, ahotbed of immorality and erime. Sup- pose these people had visited the Chineso quarter of San Francisco: Hell's Half Acro of Chicago; Mott and Baxter streets and the Five Points in New York, Would that have made S K risco a Mongolan town, and ¢ 0 and New York be cha as the out- posts of hell? Boston and Philad are held up as madels of civili have their gamblors, s walkor footpuds and palatial brothels. Now why all this rant and cant about Omaha's tervible lawlessness and im- morality? And why don't the preuch- ers and reformors strike at tho worst species of open-house gambling, the Iphin | { | bucket shop and wheat pit? Why should not the mayle be impeached for permitting optiomgambling in grain and provisions? And'“#hy hus no pre acher y alled attentipn jo tho violation of the “no-treat” law? -That law has been on the statute Bddks thirteen yoars. Enforco that law ind most of the saloons will close their deors for good. Andyet not & solitary compiaint. has ever been filed against the men who troat. Why should not Bemis and all the mayors of the state be impeached for not enforeing this law? It may serve the pyrpose of preachers who want to draw orowds by lsensational sermons and it niay 'do for editors who want to throw dust into the eyes people to cover their political plots, and it may profit public plunderers who want to distract attention from their raids on the taxpayers to keep up this crusade, but every mar who sincerely desires to see our city grow and prosper must deprecate these mountebank per- formances. This paper has no defense to make of gamblers or iny class of law- breakers, but we will not give counte- nance to fanatical reformers who seek notoriety at the public expense any more than we will to the hypocrites and imposters that protend to back them when in reality they simply seek to use them to pull political chestnuts out of the fire. * DEBALE BEGUN. The action of the house of representa- tives in ordering the arrest of absentees had the desired result of producing a quorum in that body yesterday. A spe- cial order was adopted fixing January 29 as the date for the vote on the tariff bill and the consideration of the measure was at once begun. Mr., Wilson, chair- man of the ways and means committee, in opening the debute stated that the bill is a compromise of opinion among those entrusted with its proparation, and that any bill passed by con- gress must necessarily at least repre- sent such compromise. Ho indicated some of the difliculties confronting the work of tariff reform and rebuked those “‘whose zeal for refora was in propor- tion to the square of the distance from their own localities and industries.” He charged the responsibility for com- mercial depression and for the condition of the treasury to republican policy, making statements in this connection n leaders will have which the republic iting. Mr. Wilson no difficulty in 1 asserted that more than $150,000,000 in taxes had been released by the MeKi ley bill, a large part ot this by putting sugar on the free list, and said that but for this there would be no treusury deficit, yet the vrevenue under this law was sufficient for the requirements of the government until the success of the democratic party assuved a radical change of tariff policy and led to a heavy reduction of imports. The course of the last administration in paying off the public debt with the treasury sur- plus, which was the opposite of the pol- iey of the first Cluoveland administration, which for political reasons preferred to nurse the surplus, was unfayorably com- mented on, and other features of repub- lican policy condemned. As much time has been-allowed for de- bate in the'house ay was expected, and 1 is presuméd’ that the repub- licans are prepared to make the best possible’ use of it. So far as effect is concerned none is to be looked for, A few changes mny be made in the bill before it passes the house, but they will be at the demand of demo- crats. It is safe to say that no amend- ments offered by republicans will pre- vail, and the general opinion is that the bill will pass the house without material changes from its present form. Whether it will undergo many alterations 4n the senate is still a question. It is not prob- able that any limit will be placed upon its consideration in that body and this may enable the republicans of the senate to obtain some concessions. ‘They will doubtless ask for a great many, but the present understanding is that it is not the intention of the senate republicans to employ obstructive tactics with a view to unduly delaying action on the bill. They do not, according to all reports, expect to bo able to defeat it, but they do intend to wmake a determined and persistent effort to have the measure modified ina number of important re- spects, and in this they will perhaps be in part successful. The fact that dis- cussion of the tariff bill has begun will givo a senso of relief gonerally. The date fixed for the biil to go into effect is June 1, and its passage bofore that time may be regarded as probable. It is not possible, however, for it to give any relief to the treasury during the present fiscal yoar. MeMBERS of the Bricklayers and Masons International union deserve a hearty welcome at the hands of our citi- zens. No one who has watched the growth of Omaha from a mere village to a city of its present dimensions can fail to recognize the debt which Omaha owes to bricklayers and masons, who have transformed its business area from a col- lection of wooden shells into palatial blocks of br and stone. The brick- layers and masons ave an indispensable element in the population of every grow- ing city. Their assembly of delegates from all parts of the 'union to consicor measures of mutyal, benefit should have every encouragement whieh our citizens can ofter. ol THE contrast between the present ses- sion of congress and the session at which Speaker Reed présided 18 so marked that the present ses: ’uu is placed in the light of ridicule. Hére is a party with an overwhelnfing majority in the house un- able to transact publiobusiness because of tho refusal of its oyn‘mumhm-u to attend the daily s2ssions,s-All this leads to the suspicion that the democratic statesmen are not 0 anxious to carry out their | ante-election pledges as they were to make them. IT 18 quite probable that the country will be made aware of further friction among the members of the ways and means committee when itcomes to setilo upon the details of the proposed income tax bill. Where there ase so many poipts involved upon which authorities diffor so widely as they?do it will be too much to expect even the congressmen who have recorded themselves as in tavor of the scheme to agree upon minor matters. In fact these minor mat- ters are minor in name only. On their determination must depend the whole working of the law and whatever dissatisfaction that may arisa in case of its enactment will referred to as miStakes in arranging the details of the bill, Disagroement on those points, however, will tend to hawper the passage of the bill, Tt issafe tosay that the members of the subcommittee which forced this measure on the party are but beginning to appreciate the extent of their trouble be THE cheerful intelligence emanates from railroad headquarters that as soon as the attorneys can make a few more trips to Boston the injunction cases against the maximum rate law will be submitted to the court. It would be in- toresting to know just how much of the “testimony” that is being taken has any bearing upon the case at issue. There yet romains one more step in the farce that is being played on the boards, and that is for some country justico of tho peaco to issue an injunction restraining the federal courts from further prosecu- tion of the case. Such a step might bo ridiculous, but it would be fully in keep- ing with the proceedings in the case up to date. WOULDN'T the adoption of a rule al- lowing the speaker of the housd’to count a quorum make ex-Speaker Reed revel in the d'scomfiture of his once most bit- ter crities? It is amusing to picture, even in imagination, the Maine states- man chuckling over his jibes and cracks at the expense of the opposing leaders almost powerless Lo keep a quorura of their members at hand for the trans- action of public business. The Kirst Shall 1o Left, Globe-Democrat. Tt is one of Cleveland's peculiarities that he is more willing to give an office to a man who doesn't want it than to the ninety and nine who sit up of nights to long for it. ey Apacity. Kansas City Journal. With a party majority of 100 in the house, the democrats a unable to muster up a quorum upon a measure embodying the cen- ral pledge of their platform. This is demo- tic capacity for go nment., i o A Correetion. New York Tribune. A dispatch announces that ‘‘Wilson and his party have been entively wiped out.” This melancholy intelligence refe; English expedition in South Afri the author and supporters of the new tarift bill, whose extermination, however, cannot be delayed much longer ————— Steadily Losing Ground. Cineinnati Commercial. As timo rolls on the administration tariff proposition loses ground; the people are being heard from, and the volume of opposi- tion that goes up from the country is daily increasing. Still, it is probable that the measure will pass the house if Speaker Crisp can secure the attendance of a quorum, but it will be roughly handled, if not absolutely defeated, in the senate. e Injurto goration, Springfield Kepublican. The unewployed labor situation fs un- doubtedly l)(“ug overdrawn. 1t is being_ex- aggerated by partisans for political effect on congress in relation to tho tariff bill. It is being exaggerated by social reformers to arouse popular hostility agaiust the present industrial system. And it is being exagger- ated by kind hearts disposed to draw larger conclusions from particular cases than the facts justity. T Congratulating the Kickers. New Fork Sun. ‘We congratulate the faithful democratic members of the house of representatives on their success in blocking the Wilson tariff swindle yesterday. That bill should be de- feated at all hazards, and then vhey may have a chance of passing a genuine demo- cratic bill creating a tariff for revenue only. To pass Wilson's bill would be an_eternal disgrace to the democracy. A great politi- cal party cannot afford to jugele with its honor, and every democrat who supports that bill brands the stamp of lasting shame upon himself. e Quaint Consistency, PhiladelphiaLedger. The minority of the foreign affairs com- mittee of the house is too emotional in treating of Hawaiian affairs, It starts out with the declaration that *it is an uo- written, but universally accepted law that no administration of any representative government ever condemns the interna- tional policy of a vreceding administra- tion"—which may be doubted, as othe) 0 the international policy of the first adminis- tration must remain fovever unchanged. But, after stating in this general way the doctrine, *‘Our coun‘ry, right or wrong,” the committeo proceeds to condemn the present administration for its international policy. Sl E sy Prosperity on the Farm, St. Paul Pioneer Press. It is, we believe, the testimony of every country district, east and yest, that there is no suffering this winter among peoplo out- ities and towns. Kven in the ages.thero 1s, in many instances, a larger degree of prosperity than the aver- age prevailing, But everywhere there are homes for tvhose willing to assist in the light work of the farm of the winter season. Everywhere thers are opportunities for peo- ple who have learned in that way something of the rudimonts of farming, to obtam work for the coming year, and to make a begin- ning that will certainly lead them to homes and litule farms of their own. In this pr pect there is no taskmaster, no boss of any kind. —_——— NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKAN Fremont's building record for 1803 shows 301,250 expended. The snow storm has been of great benefit to winter wheat in Nebraska. The infant child of Mrs. Giffroy of Sow- ard swallowed somo concentrated lye and died after suffering for twenty-four hours. stern firm has offered to operate a ory at Beatrice if the citizens will i 5,000 1o put in the business, tory would vurn out 400 pairs of shoes dail John MeDuffy, asformerirosigent of Colum- bus, was killed' at Needles, Cal., while at work on the Southern Pacific roa His re- mains were brought to Nebraska for inter- mont. While Walter Smith was skatine on the creek south of Ponca he ran into some barbed > that somo one had stretched across the creck. The wire struck him in the face, cutting a gash about an inch and a half long in nis uppor lip and cutting almost turough to the teeth. It also cut him siightly on one side of his face. A peculiar case is now being tried beforo Judge Belding at Pawnce City. It seems taat in the fall of 1300 John (ilass of Burch- ave bought §2,600 worth of fruiv trees from an lowa nursery, The troes were duly de- livered and set’ out_by Glass and his note given In payment. The note was afterwards bought by the sBurchard bank, or rather the remaining part of the last payment, and Glass is now vrying to prove that he wis not in his right miod when he gave the order. Each side has three lawyers. There 18 much wystery about the burning of the Hamilton county court house at Awora Sunday and many rumors about 1t aro afloat. Tho entire building was burned o ground. The records in thetofico of y county judge and clerk of court are supposed to be safo, but the door to the Lreasurer’s vault was found open, and it is supposed was blown open, and all the records were destroyed, What money there was i1 the vauit was in the safe and is all right. ‘The records of the county superintendent’s und surveyor's oftices aro supposed to be all destroyed, PEOPLE AND THINGS, Generalissimo Wihson should move appointment of & party roceiver. o and Boutello seem to think waiian question is a Maine issue. Dentists are ablo to fill an aching void, but it takes a Jaoksonian foast to produco & capacious one. Hallam Tennyson, the son of the poet, who tnnerited his fathor's title, is engaged in oditing the lamented poet's correspondence for publication. Orogon distress which Pennoyer bewails fs more apparent than real. Two mendi- cants rocently run in had largo rolls of bills on thoir persons. Tho danse du the the Ha- vontre and the hula-hula both struck St. Loufs the same week and both were pronounced by the police entirely t00 tough for tho town, Things have como to such a' pass in Vir- ginia, sah, that masculine nfembers of the F.F. s decline tho title of colonel unless accompanied with u salary Ono of the hoaviest failures New York has known in many a day is that of John A, P, Fiske, n restauratour. Hoe is president of the Fat Men's club and weighs over 400 pounds, Sir Andrew Olark is roputed to bs the wealthiest physician who got his money by practicing medicine. Ho left $1,000,000. That is & good deal of money fora doctor, and {t required patients to got it In his story of the last moments of Lin: coln, Horatio King relates that Stanton, when the attending physictan, with his finger on the great martyr's pulse, announced that the end had come, suid with deop feel- ing, **He now belongs to the ages.” Mr. Howins, a citizen of Boston, hns tem vorarily in his nossession one of the gloves worn by Queen Elizabeth at her coronation Tt is vichly ombroidered in gold, with tho orb, crows and ostrich plumes, tho insignia nglish royalty, and was evidently mado to fit & hand of mora than ordinary size. Harry Kennedy. a famous song writer Just died It is a pity that he could not some of his songs to the g for instance, *Molly and 1 VHL Owe Ten Dollars to faud In?" “I Had Fiftoen Dollars'in Me tside Pocket," and “MeNulty, has mov > great African explorers and one of the test of them. He was tho comrade of Speke and ( and the predecessor of Gordon 1 the Igyp- tian Soudan. Ho will be remembered as the v of the Blue and Whit 't Lake and the | explor discov a vigo the slave trade. Pordinand Ward is now workin; printing shop in New York. A ago he was known as the-Naj nance,” but has done a turn for his methods of getting rich quickly and now is trying hard to begin all over agitin in an honest i His employer and assoc ikuow his past, and he is said to bo the best workman in the cstablishment. He learned his trade in the penitentiary and is making tho best of it. LA WINNOWING OF WIT. lelphia Reco are seldom : Lawyors but they all write ersus, Binghampton Republican: Undressed kids s good form for a Liwl. Al s I8 doubtless due ke people, rge part of the average to his 0 Courie: n's suc knowing how to t Atchison Globe: When o woman announces that she will keep open house informally it means that there will be nothing to cat. Philadelphin Times: As to rezulating hack- men, the matter of a public stand is not of so much interest to theni as the deliver. Lif he—T am so worried about my aunt. Sho fs at the polnt of ¢ Ho s that your wenlthy aunt?. sho- Yes.” flo, Well, never mind, dearest. You have my love, which Is greater than ever. Tndianapoils Journal; “Como to think of i, mused the letter “u,” I would like for some one to tell me Just hore I am at. [ Seem to be in the push and in’ the soup at one and the sume time." " said the hat' you alw d of servin; Washington Star: man In the restanrant, the cabbage up fine insi long picees." , & myself. Yoh se chrysantl ne out ob fashion. Texas Siftings: into t the morn itor, lindly; is there Are artment . what do you askets, sir. room at 8 o'clock | replicd the i he o down so ¢ anthing T ean do for you?" you connccted with th 7 of the paper?” T am oh do?” “Lempty the A LEALT.G QUESTION, Atlanta Const tution, When this coneress shali e over, Will the country be in clo: Lot us hopa—let ds hope that it willl Of cash—wilI there be plont Will one dollar reach to tweiity? Lot us hope—let us hope that it will! e Popullstic Working Day. Philadelphia Kecord. The populist secretary of state of Kansas urges the making of two hours the legal limit of a working day, on the theory that the industrial stagnation is due to over- production. No doubt the industrial situa- tion has been aggravated by overproduc- tion—-not of the necessaries of life, however, but of the quack remedies of social theo- rists, who have swung from the extreme of to the other extreme of fiat work- £ BROWNING, KING © 777 T The largest makers and 8»1lors of HEADLONG TU DISASTER, Chicago Herald ((h-m{' The Wilson bilL, plus an income tax, wili be suicide for the democratic party. Roston Globe (dem.): To do away with A war tarift and deliberately impose upon the people the war tax upon incomes would, as a political measure, by tantastically absurd It would fnvite censure and evoke bitter hos. wility. No war tariff! No war incomo tax! Philadelphia Record (dem.): Mr. Richard Croker, in speaking 1n his individual capac {ty agninst an income tax, roadily shows the fallacy of the contention that such o tax cannot bo shifted, by citing the case of land- lords, who, of course, would recoup thein. solv from their rent rolls. Mr. Croker makes small pretonsions to statesmanship, but ho goes to the pith of the mattor in s truly statesmanliko style. Philadelphia Times (dem.): To talk of reviving the tax on private incomes now is ness. Tho peoplo don't want it and the st of collecting it would be suffivient to lomn it as a revenue measure if thero © no other objections to it Congress has ample opportunity to provide sufficient revo- nue for the needs of the zovernment, cconom ally administered, by a readjustment of the present methods of taxation. A failure to do this will nov be excused, it will be only confessed, by the resort to an income tax New York Times (dom.): ‘The experionco of ths country with the income tax leviod during the war wo should suppose would be sufticiont for all time, All tha obje the tax and all its etoments of ur i p 1 operation that have be until they have becomo trite and © against the proposition of tho s committee, A fedoral taxi ng into the private affairs of a citizen and_domanding to know how much money he had made duving the year would boe far mor sive in theso times of peace thun i the war period, when a noble patriotism made men bear patiently and willingly bur dens that would be intolerablo now. For this reason, also, perjurie ovasio! ind concealments wonld bo vastly move frequent than was the case under the operation of the old fncome tax law hiladelphin Ledger (ind. rep.): Tho sure, as proposed, is class legislation of o worst description. 1t has been advo- ted by populists for the avowed purnose of making the vich pay the taxes and ving the farmers of their share of the burdens of wovernment. 1t has been framed by dem- agogues with a poor opinion of the An n apivit.of fair play. They think that the tax being imposed only upon the relatively small number of persons whose incom exceed #1.000 por annum, the great majority whoso “withers are unwrang” will view it with in- difference or applaud the imposition. But oven this is a mistike, as the history of the last incomo tax discloses, for that tax be- more and more unpopular as the limit emption was increased, and it was allowed to die by limitation because ainst 1t8 injustice. of finally of tho protest aj Kansas City 7imes. Caleulated on the basis of acty royal metal of is not g suppose, nor even silver. It is the lowly pig iron, which comprised 40 per cent of the metallic minerals mined fn tho United States durmg the year 1802, which is the latest year tabulated, “Next to pig iron tn value comes common bituminous coal, which wis worth m that year considerably more than one- sixth of all the miners | follows, tardil vor, and, with still ‘move languid step, building stono and copper, and finally the *precious’ metal, gold, comes i seventh from the top and equal 1 aggregate vaiue to about one- fourth of the pig iron, and not by a wide margin to one-third the soft coal. -— N RESOLUTION, 1 value the i, as many THE BROK Chicazo Dispateh. I cannot quite remember, but it sorter scems o mo Thet wo made closo o' '93; Wo was settin’ on a railing an’ we both jumped up an' swore Ther we'd stick to truth fer certain all through 1894, some resolutions toward the Then wo bound the resolution with a little good old rye, Stood beside the bar together for to see the old e die, An”L recolléct distinetly you called mo u jolly tellow, An’ we ke good u aclinkin' glasses till wo both gos ' mellow. When wo started iome together it were some= thin’ nrtor throe I was helpin’ you st the sino for me, An' Tleftyou et the gateway an' I opened wido my door Fer to {ind my wifo a waitin' In the middle o' the floor 1d steady, while you did An’ she asked mo what the clock sald an' I huskily replied 1s o little arter midnight, but T know she knowed I lied, An' T heard a sound like laughter, an' I'm sure ez suro kin be *Twas that busted resolution that we mado in '93, You gat home ten minutes later, an’ yer wife told mine today, Thet you said 'twas half past leven, an' you'd naver meant to stay out 50 late an' it wasmy fault, so you lied ez woll ez me, An’ there's no more truth about you than there was in ‘93, What's the good o' resolutions? Now, thev's what T want to know, When it only gives the devil, Tallow, a better show Than he had afore we did it, an' I says now, ex for mo I'm going to keapon doing ez I did in '93. Is't on straight?-- Yes, indeed, it's on and it’s on straight and more 7 R A=a=Aman A=Amas w than that it's on with a rush—Our January Sweeping Out Sale is—never before and probably never again will such prices be neces- sary to meet the de- mand for the lowest priced decent gar- ment to be had. We have cut the life out S T & A S S i T N of everything in order to sell them out. $1 neckties are 75¢c. are $8.50; all the $15 suits are $10 and so on all through the store—the sale is on with a sweeping vengeance in the boys' goods as well as the men's— anything in our vast store can be bought now cheaper than it could a week ago and cheaper than for a dollar. you will ever see again. BROWNING, Willpay the expross If you send the Money for $20 worth or more 1 T »’4!}‘ A | 5. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, | . ™ A A AR A A A $1.50 hat All the $10 suits == KING & CO.,