Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 10, 1894, Page 4

CPHEOMAHA ])’AILY BEE. IWATER, Editor. VERY MORNING RLISHED TERNS OF 8U Daily fico ¢ Daily and Sunday. 8ix Monihn Three Moniis Sunday Teo, Ono ¥ Saturiny lice. On _ Weekly Tiee, One SURIPATON You Yenr Sonth Omana Council e, Chicigo Ol Ehamber of Commeree, Yow York, rooms 13, 14 and 15, Teivune building g, 511 Fou t smunieations Felatly e 11 e padrossed: Ed Ra, A Dustiess Ir tan nddressed to The Piblishine company, Or Drafis, ehecks and oraors 10 b ble o the order of e company < THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAN a mNould b aln, nade ! OF CIRCULATI oeretasy of Tre HER Pt on Aolemnly swear that U itk DAILY. iEy for the week Avorago Cireulation for December, — e NEBRASKA democrs mig have more to be thankful for if y clo Tobiag Castor had a fow more s law. ons-in- Paul lka > in- 1IVE below at make the people of N iter resort the TuIrT should realize what a habiting. 2010 get down to sermons “for curiosity of the women which the preacher be aroused to a high WHEN w men only" th the myste: oxple tension. o8 TER all the Jacksonian banquet was not altogether devoid of practical results. The president observed the day by appointing a democratic post- master for the city of Aurora, Neb, A FEW Nebraska counties have prof- ited by the enforcement of the depos- itory taw during the past year, but the banks and county treasurcrs have prof- ited more in those counties where the law was not enforced. Tir women have come in for a fair share of the legislative offices in both seouses of the Towa legislature. The lack ¢ woman suffrage has no perceptible in- fluence in preventing the women from " securing a part of the spoil THE state depository law has come to stay. It is both constitutional and wise and any efforts of state officials charged with its enforcement to evade or ignore its provisions will but react upon the party responsible for their election. TowA’s prohibitory liquor law is serupulously observed by the railroad lobbyists at Des Moines. No liquor is sold by them contrary to law. It is all given away to parties who are expected to make proper returns when the time comes., THE journalists of Nebraska who are 80 prompt to rush to the defenso of state officials who are known to have deliber- ately ignored some of tho best laws ever placed on tho statute books are signifi- cantly silent in discussing the morit of the laws themselves. THE democrats of Nebraska must now be convinced that the successor of Dr. George L. Miller is a convert that will die in the faith. With such a display of Jacksonian pictorials even Old Hickory would be forced to admit that nobody ever slopped over quite so much. THE new school board will have to wrestle with a 350,000 deficit in its in- come and a $10,000 increase in its outgo. Like thetelograph builder who has to splice a broken wire the board is puzzled how to make the two ends meet without putting in another length of wire. HiNRY WATY N promises to say nothing and to do nothing to make the transit of the Wilson bill into law barder. And he forthwith makes a speech condemning that measure as fail- ing to come up to the pledges made in the democratic national platform. Wat- terson is scarcely more consistent than ‘Wilson, SECRETARY MORTON ought to be given leave to print the remarks which failed to materialize from his lips at the Jacksonian jamboree. It would be a pity to loave unsaid the noble thoughts which must have been inspived by that grandiloquent and alliterative subject— “Treath Points Out the Proper Path in Politics; Right is Alwa; xpedient.” ... GO AwaY from home to ews. The Lincoln Jowrnal ¢hat some heavy failures may soon bo resxpected in Omaha. This is the same {ibewhiskered rumor that has scen fiv yomonths of hard service, yet the commer- I"\"\'inl situation in Omaha is gradually but wilowly improving, Nothing but bitter- bogess and malignity could prompt a news- —=aper to give such reports respecting uy city the color of truth, n the furniture in the city hall is in- 00. Five thousand insur- would be ample. There cannot bly be more than 5,000 of loss on hall furniture inany event. The building is fireproof, the partitions are fireproof and no fire can extend beyond ihe suite of rooms in which it might break out. All the furniture in the building is not worth #35,000, although it may have cost ns much as $40,000, THE promised friendly suit to test the constitutionality of the law which re- quires the treasurer to invest the pe manent school fund in state warrants jailed to matorialize during the recent ession of the supromo eourt. The zeal f the members of the Board of Educa- tional Lands and Funds seams to hav shrunk from contact with the court. The supreme court meects again next week, and perhaps the cficials who are | alraid of the law may muster up their gburage to the sticking poiut. ! intimates | | | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1894. ; THE REPUBLICAN REPL The republican side of the tariff de- bate was opened by Represontative Bur- rows of Michigan, one of the best in- formed exponents and champions of the protective policy in congress. The por- tion of his speech elsewhere published | shows that no mistake was made in se- lecting him to follow Chairman Wilson of the ways and means committee, and the friends of protection may confi- dently challenge w comparison of tho two utterances. 'Tho speech of the democratic leader was vory largoly made upof theories. T'he republican reply is wainly based wpon facts and experience familiar to the whole people. In the ono case thore is a freo use of | assumption, a large dealing in possibil- ities: in the other actual conditions, own and felt in overy tion of the country and by every class of the peo- vle, are the solid and unassaiiable foundation of the argument. The democratic cause, presented by one of the ablest of its champions, offers noth- ing better to commend it to popular acceptance than vague supposition and uncertain estimates. The republican cause citos to its defense a record of unparalleled national progress ana prosperity. Mr. Burrows ascribes tho de- cline in the public revenues and the general derangement and prostra- tion of business to the ascendancy of the democratic Demoerats who have faith in the wisdom of Mr. Cleveland will hardly venture to deny this, for the president, in his message to the extra session of congress, admitted that the apprehension of a radical change in the fiscal policy of the country bhad an in- fluence in producing industrial disturb- ance and business deprossion, and he took oceasion to counsel those engaged in the industries not to allow themselves to be controlled by any such fear. The advice had no effect hecause the in- terests affected by the taritf could not feel any confidence in the demucratic party. Mr. Cleveland had be- fore his clection declared that the democracy was not a party of destruc- tion and he had plainly indicated that he had no sympathy with the platform declaration that protection is unconsti- tutional, but when the election was over the leaders of the party proclaimed that they proposed to strike protection as hard a blow as they dared to. This alarmed the industrial interests of the country and the conscquences are familiar to all, The period botween the enactment of the present tariff law and the advent to power of the democratic party was one of the most pros- perous, as Mr. Burrows pointed out, in tho history of the country. Contrary to democratic predictions the manufac- turing industries of the country were largely increased under the law of 1890, our foreign commorce was materially enlarged, and domestic trade roached unprecedented proportions. The year of 1892 will long be memorable as one of exceptional prosperity, when ail branches of business were carried on at a profitand labor received full employ- ment and liberal reward: The revenues of the government during this period were ample for its requirments, and thero is not a reasonable doubt that they would have continued so, and that there would not now be any danger of a treasury deficit, if the over- throw of the tariff legislation of 1890 had not been the declared purpose of the demacratic party. If that party were disposed to demonstrate whether or not there is justico in the republican claim that its success is responsible for the prevailing conditions it has but to abandon, as Mr. Burrows suggested, the policy upon which it has entered, recommit its tariff bill and permit ex- ing tariff regulations to remain un- disturbed. Undoubtedly the result of such a course would be a revival of in- dustriai and business activity which would furnish the world a new and most remarkable object lesson. Mr. Burrows' analysis of the Wilson tariff bill is keen and searching, and his declaration that the proposed policy “is no longer an experiment, it has be- come a public erime,” will be app ‘oved by a large majority of the American people. MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR BOIES. The biennial and valedictory message of Governor Boies, delivered to the Towa legislature vesterday, furnishes a comprohensive review of tho affairs of the state and makes a number of recom- mendations which should receive the careful consideration of the legislature. lowa occupies the enviable position among tho states of being out of debt, and the estimates for the present bien- nial period warrantthe expoctation that she will retain that position unless the new legislature is extraordinarily ex- vravagant. Asis the case with nearly overy state in the union the revenuo laws of Towa do not operate satisfac- torily, and a revision of those laws is the very first recommendation of the re- tiring governor's message. He says if all the property in Towa not properly exempt from taxation can be mado to bear its faiv share of taxesand publi ofMcials will faithfully porform their duty there will be noreason for com- plaint that the burdens of taxation are either oppressive or unjust, Two-thirds of the revenues of Towa are oxpended on the public institutions, Excopt the penitentiaries, each of these institutions has a separate board of trustees. Each board naturally seeks to obtain all it can from the logislature for the institution under its control, tho inavitable result of which is t) swell the aggrogate demand for these institu- tions to very high figures. A single board having supervision of all these justitutions would, in the opinion of Governor Boles, bring about a more economical management of the publio in- stitutions. Tho siderable space to the industrial schools of the state und & most earnost argu- went is made for a change in the law or the rules regarding confinement in these schools, so that children who have com- mitted no eriminal offense and been sen- tonced simply for incorrigibiiity will not ba kept in confinement as many yoars a3 those committel for a grave criminal offense. The retiring governor has not overestimated the seriousness o/ this matter anl there ought mossaga devotes con- 1o be no doubt that the legislature will apply the needed romedy. The gov- ernor recommends a revision of the laws regulating the formation of private cor- porations, saying that they are too often used by designing men for fraudulent purposes, On the subject of prohibition the mes- sage discusses the various propositions that have peen made for regulating the liquor traffic and urges that it is “a plain duty of the lawmaking power to provide for the control of the liquor traffic in Towa by general statutes and to frame these upon the theory that their provisions, whatever they may be, are to be equally applicable to, and equally faithfully enforced in, every part of the state.” In the opinion of the retiring governor, “the true policy for thoe state to adopt on this subject is municipal and township local option with carefully guarded laws for the con- trol of the traflic wherever legalized by a vote of the electors. In this way alone,” he concludes his referenco to this subject, “is it possiblo.to save to each locality affected by the law the right to regulate its provisions so as to meet the desires and requirements of its own people.” Tt is presumed that Gov- or Boies contemplates a license system as part of any plan of regulation that might be adopted, which, of course, should be established by ceneral statute. PUSTAL STATIONS FOR OMATLA. Our dispatches from Washington tell us that the suggestion of THE I hat Omaha needs several postal stations in the suburban districts to supplement the work of ti sral postofiice is already bearing fruit and that Congressman Mercer bas filed an application with the postmaster general asking for the estab- lishment of such stations, Omaha has long ago outgrown its postal facilities and suffers grievous inconvenience every day on account of its hampered servi Every littlo village with a few hundred inhabitants is equipped with a postmas- ter and a postoffice authorized to do a general postal business, while Omaha, with its 140,000 inhabitants scattered over g vast area is, compelled to put up with a few postage stamp agencies as feeders to the postoffice proper. Two or three postal stations conven- ient to the residents of the outlying dis- tricts would at once relieve the general postoffice and improve the service to all concerned. The great bulk of the postal business of the country comes from the larger cities and the larger cities contribute by far the largest relative amounts toward the revenue of the department. They ought to be entitled to the latest improvements and the best available service consistent with the general efficiency of the whole department. Postal stations bave been instituted in othev cities with weaker ms than Omaha and have invariably given general satisfaction. If the re- sources at hand in the postal depart- ment prevent the postmaster general from at once establishing all the postal stations that are needed.let him give orders for one or two for the time being and supply the entire number required by the business transacted as soon as the appropriations warrant the outlay. DIRECT AND INDIKE XATION. The distinction between direct and in- direct taxation is important to the peo- ple of the United States chiefly because the federal constitution requires all di- rect taxes levied by congress to be ap- portioned among the several states ac- cording to their population. Indirect taxation, on the other hand, may be con- stitutionally imposed without reference to state lines and may be collected by federal officials immediately from the party, who advance it to the treasury without the intervention of state au- thorities. As an economic distinetion, however, the classification of taxes intodirect and indirect taxes is one whose usefulness has been greatly overrated, and one that has on the whole resulted rather in confusion than in simplification. The dificulty which obstructs every precise use of theso terms is the fact that they no longer express anything but an arbi- trary conception, nor ave they terms upon which there is any general agree- ment as to their meaning. Originating with the physiocratic systom of economics, which viewed land as the only productive factor in pro- duction, the basis of the dis- tinction between direct and indirect taxation was made to rest in the source from which the proceeds were obtained. The physiocrats, arguing that agricul- ture alone gave a product in excess of the cost of production from which the wages and remuneration of all other oc- cupations must be supplied, believed that all governmental revenue must likewise be taken ultimately from this surplus fund and favored that form of taxation which they thought would do this most directly. But reject the geound work of this theory and we must also reject the assumptions based upon it. Recognizing no ono field of labor as giving a surplus fund from which all taxes must come it is impossible to maintain a strict line of demarcation batween taxes that ave divect and those that ave indirect. The modern idea of indirect taxation, 80 far as definitions have been attompted, is that it comprises such forms of taxes as ave shifted by the person who first pays them upon some other person in the form of increased prices, greater rentals or decreased wages. But the incidence of taxation has been found to vary so much with variations in modify- ing circumstances that it would be wrong in most instances to say that a particular tax is always borne by the party pay it or is always shifted to others. The effort is most gencrally made to shift the burden to another, but it is by no means universally successful, even with the same form of taxation. To say then that a direct tax is one that is never shifted is simply to confess that the only way to find out whether a tax is direct or indirect is to levyitand in- vestigato results, and then rest assured that the uext timo it is to ba collected different results might be obtained. A elassification so inaccurate can be of no avail whatever in applying the mandate of our constitution, An appreciation of this difficulty has led many writers to base their distinec- tion upon the intention of the legislative body by which the tax is imposed. Not to mention the pessibility that the legis- lature might omfitito expross its inten- tion or that th@'fntentions of different members voting.fon the same proposi- tion might be totally at variance, it is clear that the exfdblations of the legis- lative bhody may bo utterly without foundation. Tt fay expect a tax to be borne by the owners of houses when in fact it is shifted npon the occupiers. Such a tax would'rémain unshifted only in case the ownerand oceupier were one. To makoe the interpretation of tho con- stitution rest on the intention of the legislature would bems pernicious as it is preposterous, One way alorie leads out of the diffi- culty and that was early seized by the supreme court when the question before it at the close of the last century. terms direct and indireet taxation in the constitution have been construed ina strictly technical senso as referring to sueh os as the framers of the constitution Tmagined could not be shifted. The only taxes which they had in mind as direct and which® they commanded to be apportioned among the states according to population have been further deelared by the court to be a poll tax and.a property tax—a ruling that has quite recently heen af- firmed. This legal distinction is, of course, purely arbitrary, and coin- cides with no one of the economic classifications. Tt leaves outside of the constitutional restriction taxes that are generally reterred to as direct and includes some that are frequentl shifted. But it has the meritof defini ness. It informs congress just where it stands and offers something tangible as guide. For constitutional interpreta- tion this arbitrary ruling will suffice. but continued use of the terms direct and indirect taxation can contribute nothing but confusion to discussions of finance. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and his ad- visers in the State department ave being taken severely to task for what is termed suppressing the news which ar- rived from Hawaii by the Corwin. The administration does not seem to want to tako the public into its confidence in this matter, doubtless for reasons satis- factory to itself, but quite unsatisfac- tory to an inquisitive people. Those who are complaining the loudest insist that whatever might bo thé nature of the information kept secret its publica- tion could not have had any pa ticular effect upon the events that must be oceruring on an island 2,000 miles from our shores, and cut off from communication short of a week or ten days. The president possesses the right to withhold publie -documents from the senate whenever he thinks such course necessary to the conduet of official busi- ness and so clearly’ has the right to withhold them from the public under similar circumstances: As to the ques- tion of expediency, there is ample room for a difference of opinion and nothing short of really ‘weighty reasons can justify the secrecy that has been thrown about these latest dispatches. By THE way, why is not Father-in- Law Crounse impeachable for refusing to enforce the mno-treat law, the anti- gambling law and the law against forni- cation in the state of Omaha? The gov- ernor of all others isin duty bound to see that the state laws are enforced in every part of the commonwealth. If he cannot enforce the laws he can quarter the militia in the burnt district, and if they cannot suppress the social evil he can have the assistance of the regulars from Fort Omaha and from all the other forts, arsenals and navy yard THE report that two of the secretaries of the State Board of Transportation are soon to be retired is hardly worthy of credence. In the first place the execu- tive officers who comprise the state board are not in a positicn to vote their convictions if they really desire achange of secretaries, and in the second place “hey have not sufficiant moral courage to shake off the two barnacles, even if the latter had no railroad backing. ORE our own Parkhurst delivers that sermon **for men only” he had better direct the deacons to look carefully in all the nooks and corners for some member of the female sex who cannot ropross her curiosity. It is even possi- ble that some short haired person of the weaker sex will exchange her pante- lettes for pantaloons and get a front seat disguised asa man. Such things have happened. _ Some fellow who signs himself Git- teau-Prendergast has written a letter to Mayor Bemis in which he threatens him with a terrible fate if he does not mend his ways in making offensive appoint- ments. This may be an idiotic hoax or it may be anarchistic bluster. In either case it is inspired by the vindictive as- sauits that have been made upon the mayor recently. ‘WHAT might have happened had the disastrous conflagration at the World's fair grounds occurred while the exposi- tion was running in fyll blast will fur- nish a theme for dire speculation. Every one who attended: tbe fair, however, must be thankful thiat no such calamity marred the success’ of this greatest of undertakings. A THREE days more and the Towa sena- torial agony will bp over. The quartet of interested congrésgmen may then re- turn to their duties:at Washington, APTER all the opatars at the Jack- sonian feast had felidgitated everybody upon the all-pervadiug harmony among the democrats of this state, Dr. Miller { rose and for ten minutes turned all the other pictures to the wall. He declared thero was no harmony in the party, whose leaders were today, as formorly, carrying knives in their sleoves seeking the destruction of one another. The doctor was the only man at the feast who dared tell the unaproned truth about the situation ON EVERY ton of coal shipped into Omaha the transportation eharges are from one and a half to four times the price of tho coal at the mines. The peo- plo pay the freight. With inexhaustible deposits of coal all around Nebraska our people are compelled to pay extortionate prices for all grades, with absolutely no prospect of relief. An Economt New York What is the use of the Pennsylvania democrats nominating anybody run 1inst Mr. Grow for congressman-at-lay Pennsylvania's sentiments were shown de cisively at the November election, The op- position might us well let the special elec- tion go by default —— Tell the Tru . Kanaas City Star. e correspondents in Washington would make better reputations for themselves if they would stick closer to the truth in re- id to Hawaii and not insist in foisting on country their own private opinions i wild gue Mischief enough has veen done and recklessness should o by ull self-respecting correspondents. It's & Mistaken Ben Nebraska City Press The most serious objection that has been made to the annual message of Mayor Bemis i, which has been the subject of much controversy because of its advanced and 1 cort ys, is that he enters into a controver a minister, it seems to be the general beliaf that a minister is not to be held responsible for what he say: s il Looking at the Bright Side. Cineinnati Times. The country is gradually recovering from the effects of a long and " disastrous panic, but the crisis_of the discase was months ago. The progrcss of national c valescence is justly encouraging. Dur the last three mionths the improvement has been marked. There is no reason why it should not continue, why business of every kind should not gain handsomely with —the new year. Suggostion. Prisne. — - Progress Irresistibl Chicago The effort to show what electricity gan do in propelling boats on the Erie canal seems to have excited among the boatmen a feel- ing of prejudice and opposition akin to that which attended the introduction of travel half a century ago. The trolley wire stretched alon; bout two miles of the canal gave great offense to the boatmen and they cut the wires, so that1t was fouad necessary to employ gudrds along the banks before tho experiment could be proceeded with. Then it was a success, fully justifying the terms in which iv_was spoken of subsequently by Governor Flower, who is one of the most eu- thusiastic supporters of the new mode of propulsion. ————— Bemis and ployed, Grand Island Journal. The question of vroviding for the destitute unemployed in this country is getting to be a serious one. Mayor Bemis of Omaha is to be commended for the attitude he assumes on the question. At a mass meeting recently- held inj Omaha to discuss the matter the mayor emphatically condemned the polic of some of Omaha’s’ wealthy men who have asked the city to retrench expenses by dis- pensing with the making of auy public im- provements. The mayor declared that if those men who had been made by the city of Omaha had attended the meet- ing and offered to devise means for making morc employment for labor, instead of at- tempting to stop what was already under consideration, they would have shown more public spiriv und philanthropy. The ma, further stated _that he was ready and v ll- ing to do anything in his power to provide work for the unemployed. Mayor Bemis takes the right view of it. 1 there ever was a time when a wunicipal, state or na- tional government was in duty bound to pro- vide employment forlabor that time is right now, und Mayor Beris is entitled to the gratitude of the destitute idle laborers of Omaha for so manfully standing up for them and sitting down on the cold-blooded aristocrats who would see the laboring element sturve that their taxes might be hghtened. If the policy of Omaha millionaires prevails generally, and private and corporate employment of labor is con- tracted to the minimum everywhere, what in God's name is to be the result? 'There can be but one result. The millions of laborers who are a part of the government, driven by hunger into_a frenzy, will resort to strikes and riots. Itisto be hoped that congress will do something to relieve the financial stringency and that pending cou- gressional action such policy Mayor Bemis advocates will prevail sufficiently to keep the relation between capital and labor peaceable, if not equitable. Stdney Never before has such a popular interest been awalkened in the subject of irrigation in western Nebraska. A few pioncers in the work have been engaged for in digging cauals and sinking money. - Their efforis to. develop various sections of the county have met with anything but encouragement. Still they have plodded along fuil of faith in the future and that in time the people gen- crally would come to their way of thinkiug. An oceasional good year which served to stimulate hope kept back their plans trom a successful issue for a time, but again bad years served to turn the attention of the peo- Dle to irrigated farming. And now the subject is bemg taken up and is receiving most favorable comment and atteation frow many who were before couscientiously op- posing it. Thus does time bring about an honest change in the ideas of honest men, and irrigation is becoming the popular fad of the day. The attention given the mat- ter is widespread and universal among tho people. And the question naturally avises, will the subject receive the practical atten- tion which it desevves, or will the agitation end in 1dlo talk and vheoretical vaporings? It is safe to say that unless the agitation takes a practical turn a lurge amount of vhe labor expended during the past summer in bringing the question before the people will have been done in vain. Canals arenov built ou wind, and if the people wait till the government builds their canals for them tha present generation will have pussed away before auy practical benefits shall have occurred. Trust in God is doubt- less o mighty good thing in any community, but it will never build canals, There are many communities that can have a system of canals in operation long bofore the pater- nal hand of the government gets a move on itself, provided only there is the proper amount of nerve and enerey and faith com- bined with werk among the people of that community. 1t takes all’ of these clements to build canals. The laws of the state, though simplo, are favorable to tnis work, and 1t lies with the people themselves. All the beautiful vatloys of the Platte and trib- utary streams can be brought under a sy tem of irrigation during the next tive s if the peoplo take hold of the matter in a practizal way. The governtient will have a certuin and yery important work to perform, but the people in scores of districts ueed not depend on the government at all. Let there be action as well as agitation, Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, fezezeio) Baking Powder | will CONSUMPTION OF COAL, Ord Quiz: Tme Owmana Ber has been giving some rather startling fieures about the cost of heating the stato Institutions of Nebraska, as compared with the cost of heating other large bulldiigs. The figures not prove very pleasant to thoso in authority, but they will prove enter to thom,' and seem to prove also that the chambermaids aro o little careless about leaving the windows open too much, ov that vhe conl heavers let too much of the fuel fall to the street in unloading it. The cost seems to bo about douvle what it should be. O'Neill Sun: Tue Osaua Beg | ing of no small amount of pr courage " ring that is manipulating state institutions and robbing the taxpayers of thousands of dollars annually. The latest expose shows that it ¢ s twice as much to furnish coal for tho state institutions as it does buildings of similar size in Omaha, such as Tie BEg and New York Lifo buildings. ~Another curious thing is tho fact that the Home for the Friendless has been paying from $3.79 to £0.49 per ton for coal, whilo the asylum has only been paying from $2.2 ) for the sameo grades of conl. Both institutions are in Lincoln, s there no relief from this rob- very. dosory- ise for its i The Right of states to Coin Mon Governor Waite in North Amer Review, As a matter of constitutional law there can be no doubt that the concurrent right of the national government to make legal tender does not in any way affect the right of astate to make gold and silver coins, domestic and foreign, a legal tender within its borders, and yet'thore is no necessity that there should be any conflict between any state and the general government. In 1792 congress enacted that §71%; grains fine silver_ should constitute the money unit of the United States or the American dollar. Tho power was given by the states to gress in_order that it might cres uniformity of ue of mone states, and such a money unit havinz been created there is high authority that the trusi given to congress in this respect is executed and can neither be changed by congress or the states. Daniel \Webster recognized the constitutional right of a state to make a legal stanaard of money, but held that the ue of such tender must be the money unit established in So long as goneral government made the silver of the United States and the foreign ars of our sister republics in North and South America legal tender at not less thun ans fine silver to the dollar, there was no necessity for any state to legislate as to legal tender. The remedy is for each state Lo enact that the silver dollars of the United States and of our republics in North and South America, containing not less than 3711 grains fine silver, shall be a legal tender by sale, or at 100 cents each, for all debts, public and private, collectable within that state. ——— An Astounding Tressury Decision. New York Herald, It is very funny to find the treasury ‘‘bear- ing' government bonas, yet it appears to be virtually engaged in that work. Buanks permitted to issue circulating notes to the amount of 90 per cent of tho face value of government bouds deposited with the treasury. The 2 per cents now outstanding ma called in at any time, and this fact, together with the low rate of interest they bear, causes them to sell at about 96. But when- ever the government redecms them it, of course, must pay the full face value. A bank which desired to svbstitute 2 per cents with the department instead of 4 per cenis has been informed that the former will be accented as basis for circul tion only to the extent of %0 per cent of the par vaiue ‘This reflection upon the credit of the gov- ernment might well create consternation among the holders of bonds if it were not too absurd to be seriously arded. That schoolmaster who is abroad should be brought home in a hurry by the Treasury department. Or perhaps it would serve the same purpose if subordinates were not per- mitted to deal with matters of such wagni- tude and importance as the one in question. S Humiliating Lnconsistency, PhiladelphiaLedger. The whole history of the efforts of the democrats to reform the revenue laws is one that must he humiliating to thinking mem- ber; of the party. Itstarted oaton its mission of reform with the purpose of reducing taxes ; it is confronted by obligations that make it seck rather to iucrease the revenue. It de- clared over and over again for a tariff for revenue only, yet in its mad effort to destroy the protective principle it has framed a tariff bill, not for the purpose of getting revenue, but for the purpose of reducing it. And, being then compelled to seek other sources of taxation, it reverts to the odious war tax, which it has denounced in its party platforms as emphatically as it has declared agamst protection! Such uureasonable in- consistency has seldom been exhibited by a great pariy, and it has naturally brought about a revolt which threatens to wreck the proposed revenue legislation und the party as well, an g Will Benelit All Clases. Elkhorn Exchange, “There is not a farmer in Douglas county but should do all he could to encourage the beet sugar culture, for it certainly means a big thing for the farmer, It will not only within itself bo a_profitable investment, but willalso raise the value of farm land and will give a vast amount of employment to the common laborer, and also increase the value of market gardéning near the eity, for certainly it will make a great many more people to feed. W 4 iniog | in fighting tho rotten republican | 7 BROWNING, KING The largest makers and 8311or3 of fine clothes on Earth ) Your money’s worth or your money back. NERRASKA AND NEDRASKANS, — o The York county court house has been in- sured for $53,000. A thief at Grand Island robbed tho widow Jonos of half a ton of coal tho other night. Aftor an illness of only a fow days of perf tonitis Dr. H. E. Harrington of Bertrand passod away. sars spent in tho banking ddes has roturned to labor on tho Grana [sland Independent. Captain A, Alleo, the well known Grand Army man, who recently filled o governmnient position in the distillery at Nebraskn City, \as located 1n Beatrice and will ongage in business. Another frrigation enterpriso started at Lodgo Polo to utilizo the under- flow. ‘Tho plan is to form a stock company with shures av £10 each, to bo paid mostly in labor; and_aig ditches 'from the Lodge Pole valley to the hills on either side August Cohrs and wife, living south of Madison, met with serious iujuries in driving home from town, ‘Theie wagon slid off a brit drawing tho horses after it. Mr. Colirs was rescued with a badiy cut head, broken shoulder sand inte: 1 injuric and Mrs. Cohrs with an avm badly broken The Tilden Uitizen 18 1 year old and 1s very vigorous for a baby. Alvendy Iditor Fields is preparing to branch out” with a new press and a bigger sheet and the ap- preciation of his enterprise ought to bo shown in o antial He is print- ing one of the has been will undoubtediy soon st v wood for murdering Maggie Ml tho daughter of a well-to-do f v Crete, she was an tOr10us reso Lincoln prior to her ap- vearance at Deadwood. She is only 16 years nd it is charged by her family that sho 1 astray by a woll knovn traveling ad that hor downfall dates from ¢ visit to this city at his solicitatioh. The girl is charged with murder ia the first degreo and her life is Dead Fmott, is rmer living mate of 4 no: N RE neouraging § Globe=Den perat, at increase of & 700 in was made by the New York weck justended is ing mdication as faras itgoes. The expansion of ner £3,000,000 in the reserve, however, which was made in the sume time, shows that the sup. bly of ¢ ccoeds the demand and that no 1 improvement in business has yet set in, An loans which banks in the e FESTIVE JESTERS, It 1y Buffalo O Tt fs with some men Chey amount to little until with some fe T they get a gatoe on the Re Some kirls are not bout sitting in the lap of luxury; mto At A goose appr are always down on the pefiow much . tho feathers Boste anserip hooflicers of the army fter to have whistles in their sword They will then be better able to return Dblow for hiow. ribune an_understand why o 15 represented as old, but why do they always pleturo hin as lean and skinny? “TSuppose it Is beciuse everybody seems to want all tho spare time he ean get.” Indienapolis Journal: “I have justdug up a groat story abouta family skeleton,” said the now reporter. wswoered the editor of the Weekly tle. “Is there any meat to 1t7" “Working as you do Philadelphia Record remarked -~ the among contaglous discases, visitor to the professional nurse, “ain’t you afrald of catching thin “Oh no," “re- sponded the nurse, I used to be a dotective.” Washington Star: “What d'yer tink ob do Corbott-Mitchell fight?" said one sporting mun ' never will be," “Dat's jest “Aw, dat o was the reply, { . not'in but or Texas Siftings: Bob Keyworth was paying attention to a widow up in Harlen ndam,” he said, as he offered hér a bouguet, “you are getting more and more bowutitul every day." 2y agzerate, my ds aimed the Indy, very much flattered. oll, then, let uy suy every other * snid Bob. THE P Ne Oh! a very Industrious fier brothers She writes Before sho geis ready for bed iie all other hobbios at present has cast and pronounced them n bore, ‘mother declures the fiv likély to last: A week, or, perhaps, a day more. —_——— HIS PROPER ATTITUDE. Providence Jowrnal. u know I love you,” ho obseryed; 1115 words were curt, his tone Incisives A saucy smile her red lips curved Tho while she tried to look submissive. “But mo no sllly romanco rules, And if you think to find me pleading, Down on'my knees, like other fools, You'll find your hopes are quite misleading* Sald she, “Although you are so rudo, I cun’t help wishing that I kuow, sir, Whether your stere resolves preciude, Your knecling down to tia my shoe, sir."* Ho knelt to knot the loosened bow; 4 “And are you suro you love me dearly? She gently breathed, still bending low. “With all my heart,” heanswercd clearlys to become my wife." Her laugh rang out: “Yes, i you ple she sald, “I1lgladly sharo your lif, i Now that you've usked meon your knees, sir. “And wish yc ST i I Amss aea: Iy w Ay w W A A W W A A Ae Y AAmaeA: W W . A s ST Will pay the express If you send the money for £20 worth or more | | 2 | . Pointing our way. Everybody does—they point at us as the only place where the quality of what we sell is not effected by the price. They point to us as cutters of prices so genuine thatothers hold up their hands. December prices awfully. There are some grand bargains in suits, overcoals and underwear for both boys and men, and as to winter caps, from a 2-year old boy to a 100-year old man, we have them and give you20 |- per cent diseount if you buy. ter than ever to trade with us. BROWNING, KING & CO. | 8. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, We've cut our = =4 It will pay you bet- [