Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 15, 1894, Page 4

4 S ——— - THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. T 1 ROSEWATER, Hditor PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING ¥ SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Dally Pee (without Stnday) One Yonr eam| Diily ard Sinday. One Year 1000 | £1x Montha vriv - 20 O Three Montha ) | Bunday Bee, o4 | saturday ee 1 Weekly Tee OFFICES New York FOomA 1 Wanhington. b1 Fe CORRF Tl DENCE. BUSINESS LETTERS And_ron Pubshin THE B comy LISHING COMPANY, SWORN f Ne STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION t Tirr New plemnly swenr t DATLY TR f Wil 118 follows Average Cirealation for De of the nsation! rotting tame Conghlin tr Really, Chi- A wioLe day without a new tax hill s two oppor- A SEPARATE gives the tun income democrats in congre ties to commit political suicide. Tue senate will | not profiting by the ¢ little excuse for ample of expedi- tious legigtation being s for it by the the Wilson bill in the t have it over consideration of If it house must come, GOVERNOR rency schemes have heen repudiated by the rank and file of the party. The timorous people of the east, who are hasty in bing financial he to the west, should make a note of this fact. Warre's populistie cur- resy THE judiciary committee of the coun- | cil has managed-to keep everybody mys- tified and on tiptoe about its intentions ns regards the mayor’s appointments. The populist party in the committee holds the trump card in the game. THERE is nothing so very extraor- dinary in the widely heralded exploit of the three men who held up a Cali- fornia town for thrée hours. Two or three men have held up the state of Ne- braska for more than a decade and secured thousands where the California banaits secured dollar re CAPTAIN WILSON and his expedition nagainst the Matabele are now known to have really come toan untimely end. Ttis to bo hoped that this last report will end the suspense which has enveloped Captain Wilson's fate for so long a time. 'The cable tolls on reports of his death must have mounted pretty high by this time. AN R rashly as- sorts that the passage of the Wilson bill 1 be followed by widespread activity in every factory and workshop in the land. Tt will be well for the Illinois man’s reputation as a prophet if his horoscope has not misinformed him. perhaps he really means that the re- vival of industry will take place on the other side of the Atlantic, HoN. ToBIAs CASTOR, member of the national democratic committee, de- clares that the Jacksonian club convert who has wreeked and ruined the papor founded by Dr. Miller has told a blank untruth about him. This is only another instance ot base ingratitud In view of the incessant legging Tobias has done to procure federal pap for that sheet ho has a right to feel indignant THE commercial agencies take a more hopeful view of the business situation. A noticeable improvement is reported sinco the new year was urshered in. Thero should bo no good reason why this improvement should not continue, The financial flurry has passod, banks hold many miliions in excess of legal roquirements, and capital now lying idle In vaunits and depositories will natur- ully seek invostment before long. T ‘hicago npwspapers which were so frantic in their comments upon alleged lawlessness in fow. weeks ago, when a numbe it merely talked of lynching a brace of bratal murderers, should 'n their to Ohio, where'the sta d soner citizens lynched a mere boy for a erime no less bratal than the mmitted in this state. Mob violenee is not ham pered by geographical linos in this country. ‘ ed sons a th S0 THE real of the 10 per cent tax on state bank takes a bac while the tariff controversy boards, and thor wildeat cu attontion of ¢ong should doc its eonsideration indofinitely it would only be anticipat- ing what the house ought to do with it should it bo repor It is a stroke of good policy not ta introduco this addi- tional bone of contention while the rev- enue bills are unacted upon issuos seat holds the is no teliing whon this ency scheme will securo the If the ch)mmittea od CONTRARY to the mistaken statements of g fow misguided newspapors of Ne- braska, THe BES has painted no dis- tressing tures of the condition of state finances. It has simply undertaken to show to the people of the state that the public funds have in the past been tematically farmed for the benefit few individuals. Tt has also pointed out | tho unusual proportions of the foating | {ndebtedness of the state and thus phasized the absolute nocessity for leg- | {slative cconomy. If the laws dosigned | for the protection of the state’s funds are obeyed and future sessions of the logislature keop the tax levy in sight in tho appropriation Eills there is no reason in the world why Ne braska should not occupy a placo in the | front rank of the states which are out of | dobs. om- considering | for improv | may be exercised only so REDUCED VIRE RISKS DEMANDED. The fact that losses by fires have ine 1 during tho past few years to an alarming extent has been duly im- pre merchants and property owners throughout the country by the steady rise in insurance rates and the constans complaints of insurance agents that their companies are longer reaping the profits to which they had The fact that firs in many od by the bearing on the matter. How to this development not a que of large insurance 08, but a question of reducing the possibility or probability of heavy losses by fire. Inereased insurance rates offer indemni- fication danger, but irer: in themselves they the destruc- tion of property in this manner. sed upon ome accustomed risks have quarters statistic be bocome g estal is flemly interact is ion vinst th do not P decrea: promise no diminution in Governor Flower in his recent message to the legislature of New York touched briefly upon this phase of the insurance problem-=the problem of decreasing the risk and thr i that the charges for insurance. He says that more stringent have anguested also compulsory investigation of all fires properly constituted In the former is espec building laws boen as local officers. cortainly room ally in have reg nits within there nt, western While the fire 1 ularly wh cities. tended wooden we ox- h hells have been proscribed we have been exceedingly lax in permitting Buildings to he erected of other little less inflam material. The inspection of buildings and the certification of plans for new buildings has seldom taken the form of enforcing the use of fireproof materials in their construction. Theo must come when the authorities to every citizen that his right nis own property far as it in- sures proper safeguards to tho property of Lis neighbor. Another imnportant point alluded to by Governor Flower is the increased fire risk owing to defective wir- ing. The introduction of electric light- ing, electric annunciators, electric mes- calls, telephones, telegraph wires, electric motors, the multiplica- tion of poles and wires in the strects and wlleys and the rapid oxtension of highly charged trolley lines, all tend to em- phasize the importance of properly in- sulated and properly located wiring within every large building. We have rvequired plumbers and engincers to take out licenses based on evidences of pro- ficiency in a calling which inyolve danger to the lives of persons dependent on their work. The work of instal'fmg electrical equipments has become equally important and demands equal proficier in the pe undertaking to do it. For this reason Governor Flower recommends that they be re- quired to prove their fitness before a board of electrical control and that pon- alties bo imposed on those who presume to wire buildings without the requisite certificates. In the matter of fire losses, as in so many other fields, prevention is always better than cure. We have introduced so many factors tending to increase the danger from conflagrations that cor- responding progress s necessary in taking measures to counteract. these fore: The place for this is in the construction and equipment of buildings. Oace reduce the risk and the price of insuranco policies must of themselves take a downward course. to raise buildings on electrical SO s0ns, A CANDID CRITIC. No speech on the Wilson tariff bill made by a democrat has attracted greater attention than that of Ropre- sentative Thomas L. Johnson of Ohio. This is due to the t that it was a can- did criticism of that measure and a courageous arraignment of the conduct of the party in contvol of congr M. Johnson, although representing one of the principal manufacturing distriers of the country and himself engaged in manufacturing, is an uncompromising free trader. He bolieves fully in the declaration of the democratic national platform that protection is robbery and that its application to tho industries of the country is in violation of the constitution. It follows, thore- fore, that he does not think his party has-done its duty in framing a new tariff bill because it is not absolutely a free trade measure. There are some articles which it proposes to protect, notably those which southora intorests want protected. It is a move in the di- roction of free t aud the Ohio free trader will vote for it as the best to b had at present, but he plaialy tells his purty that coming from a ‘democratic ways and moans committee to a demos house, as representing the an administration elected platform declaring protec: nnconstitutional fraud and asion of promise and of the gravest kind, ac the domocratic party lacks courage and honesty.” “To ade mit,” confinued this plain-spoken chams plon of free trade, “that there isany good reason for keeping up ono tariff tax othor than that of raising revenuo} ) admit that there is any spocial busis titlod to consideration taxes, to stulti tho atic position; it is to admit that wo are wrong in attempting to reduce the tariff at all,” Me. Johnson's avraignment democraey for delaying the work it was pledged to perform was unsparing and clicited applause from the republican of the house. He declared that if . Cloveland had shown the sagaclty and eourago the situation demanded the ink would not have been dry on the com- missions of his secrotarios would have been called i idea of noa tion an robbory, it isan « a political blunde nfession that uess ol fn r demec in lucing (i of the ore congross into extr; vollove the eountey of its dens of taxation.” But instead of *wo procendad to reit on our laur divide the spoils, ‘and the natior treated to acle of a and & congross having power crushing to the to petty of delay 508+ slon to bur- that s and was saident to remove rdens devoting their ene of porsonal elaims " The climax was reached when the house stood paralyzed bocause, de- spite the overwholming dom eratic ma jority, “dem-erats would neither furnish the spe discussion placos & quorum to be counted nor count the one | ing officers as THE OM that was really present.” Mr. on | further declared that “up to th thanks to our inaction, the wictory of the democratic party in November, 1402, has worked ovil, not good. While we have been fiddling has While wo have been & offices and peddling offices the ve asters that we predicted from lican misrule have come upon the coun- try.” As a consequence “the ery of dis- wress goes up from all parts of the land, and American by the hun- dred thousand are being fed by charity been king Rome burning. repub citizens n." republican in congress has scored more or » vigorously the short- © than was by the atic representative from the Twenty-first district of Ohio, and what he said was as just as it was candid. The pa has again demonstrated its insincority and ty, and it has done so ata to the country almost beyond com- putation. to prevent starva the democrats mercilessly pointed out moj comings of the | done den democratic its incapa cost CHANCES OF AN INCOME TAX A canvass of the houso of representa- tives appears to show that a majority of that body is opposed to an individual in- come tax, which it is now the intention to submit as arate proposition, in- stead of as a part of the internal reve- nue provisions of the tariff bill. Thero have recontly beon some strong expres- sions from democrats hostile to a resto- ration of this means of raising revenuo, as the administration is uncompro- misingly opposed to it there is good reason to believe that if ever the propo- sition is acted upon in the house it will found that its supporters are the minority, But if it should the house tl is hardly ay possibility that would through the senate. The administra- tion scnators would cortainly vote against it, and these with the repub- licans would defeat it by a large major- ity The Philadelphia Record points out that when the income tax was adopted inl as a war measure, the govern- ment at that time needing revenue from every possible source, the democrats were almost unanimously opposed to the tax, uttorly refusing to accept the plea of necessity in justitication of it. They denounced it not only as inquisitorial and demoralizing in its influence, but as an unconstitutional measure. Tt | was unconstitutional, they a, because congress has no power to levy a capitation or other direct tax unless “‘in proportion to the census.”” The Record asks if the arguments against this tax, on grounds alike of inexpediency and unconstitutionality, are not quite as valid now as they were when fir st urged by the democratic party, and the an- swer must be that they certainly are. Moreover, there is no such necossity or justification for an income tax now as there was thirty yearsago. Thon, as our contemporary observes, evory con- ceivable source of revenuo had been Arained - in order to supply the necessi- ties of the government, whereas in the present exigency this is not the case. Thero are other avai able sources of revenue besides an income tax, but the advocates of this obnoxious method refuse to consider them, either because of sectional or political consider- ations. Southern representatives regard the income tax proposition with favor because they know that nearly tho whole amount derived from it would be paid by the novth, and the few northern democrats who advocate this tax do so with the idea of promoting their indi- vidual political interests. It may be possible to find some excuse for the atti- tude of the former, but the latter ara demagogues pure and simple, and do not deserve any consideration. The advocates of an income tax are using as an argument the operation of the tax in European countries, saying that if it works well in those couuntries why should it not do so here. There are obvious reasons why arevenue moas- ure of this kind, while working satisfac- torily under the systems of government in Great Britain, Germany and Italy, would ba most. objectionable in its oper- ation under our system of government, The American people will not be in- duced to fa ¢ which encourages perjury and deception by the plea that it works well in European countries. In this particular we do not need to go to [urope for example. Wo have had our own experience with an income tax, and it was not of a nature to warrant a re- turn to that means of raising revenue, a se and be in pass oro it vor Nor oven the base ingratitude which impels the administration to distribute all the fat Now York offices to the anti- snapper crowd has baen able to turn the loyalty of Tammany, which reasserts its subseription to the democratic croed by once more proclaiming its suppors of President Cleveland. Tammany's-self- sacrifice in this respect is certainly something remarkable. It simply fol- lows the biblical injunciion to turn tho other cheek, inwardly chuckling over the triumph of its representatives in the sonate in securing an adverse report on the president's nomination of Horn- blower to the suprome court vacancy Confidently assuved of the local patron- age of Now York City, Tammany must yield to any extent in fedoral apppint- ments in order to maintain its standing in the national demoeratic organization. It was for this purpose that it swung around to Cleveland duving the last presidential campaign and its endorse- ment of hisadministration at the present thwe must b awded as & piece of political finesse aimed at the same object. SENATOR MANDERSON, whose intorest in legislation relating to the army has in rocent years galned for him some lit tlo distinetion in that direction, has in- troduced @ bill which will not meet popular & stanea it provides that 120 officars of the vegular army, active and retired, shall becamo instructors in private military academies and eolleges; that the sixty | d.officers © hall of vo tull inspec tha | in our opinion wproval, Iu sub. nstituting on tors shall rec while on duty: that inder dircotion of the L shall 1 ay departinents pay six offl the army o annually inspect alleolleges hav thu instructors, wnd | vig hereaftor appointments to Wost Point shall be made from students at colleges having officers of thd army as military instructors and from, deserving enlisted Should this will practioalty measure become law do away with the plan of ., competitive examing Wons open to all young Amoricans and substitute for it a system by which only mon, it present | the sons of the well-tp-do can ever hope to gain a commission in the army ago the ™ Yattack 80 SOMETHING over two years secretarios of the State Board of portation boasted that their the railroad companies rous and thoir. demands th such detormination and the roads wore compelled to mako g concessions upon interstate rates.’ statement and THE simply quotes the published langw tho why cannot the same secrotaries renew their de- mands with the “dotermination and for nd force the railroad com- panies to make *“concessions” upon coal rates that will give the people of Ne- braska some relief from the exorbitant prices now charged? upon was crowded force that ont I'ho Ber being true, secretaries verbatim same EMIGRATION from the United States continues to more than offset tho immi- gration into this country. At this particu timo, when our own citizens having difficulty tofind employment, this is probably notinopportune. There is always this diffoerence, however, that the outgoing foreigners have as a rule attained a higher industrial plane than the incoming. ones, This removes the pressure of competition at the top of the industrial scale, but not at the bottom. But when the tide of immigration turns the inpouring of unskilled laborers will no doubt push the American skilled laborer up higher than would otherwisu have been the case. ar a I't 18 to be hoped that the council will very carefully scrutinize every line and word that goes into the Metropolitan Union depot proposition. The rights of this city and its taxpayers should be very carefully guarded and no loopholes should be left for the evasion of any obligation imposed upon the company. Omaha needs a great union depot, but vested rights acquired by previous con- tracts must not be relinquished without sufficient guaranties that the main ob- AHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1894 PEOPLE AND THINGS, The vociferous opposition of New Yorkers to tho fucome tax means a saving of at least $2,000,000 n year if the kick is effective. Now Mexico College of Agriculture, at L Cruces, has {ssued a valu pamphlet on insect pests of the Rocky mountain region Como oft," pleasantly romarked Minister Willis, “Don't have to," charily responded President Dole. *“Good day.” “Good day.” Las Vewas, N. M., has enfoved summer liko weather this ‘winter, whilo ico has frozen fifteon inches thick seven or eight milos away., Even thou is indigestib brand of woather sterling qualities. One of the momentous questions wrapped a mazo of doubt is whether or not Presi- nt Dolo caressed his whiskers before call- ing the Willis bluff. Advices f Washington explain that Congressman Mercer's maiden speesh will not bo delayed much longer. What is now lacking s the inspiration of a kissablo baby. The most distr feature of the work of the “get-there, EIi," looters is that they rudely disturbed the' slumbers of St. Joe. For that offeuse there is no adequate puns ishment provided by the criminai code A Missoula, Mont., man has perfected a plan for “corralling an avalanche.” He has found an immense gorge of snow which never nelts, and he pr excavate it and use it for cold sto dressed meat for shipment east Murat Halstead, the erstwhilo “fi shal” of Onio politics, now editor Brooklyn Standard-Union, has decided to enter tho political fleld in Kings county. He has appeared upon the scene as a ward dele- 10 county republican committee, of hopes to become chairman. rze Lewis, the famous London r, it has been said, knows enough to hang haif a dozen of the bigaest men in the city. Heo said the other day: I have not kept a diary for over twenty years. When I found that my business was becoming so confidential I determined that I would never chronicle another thing, so when [ die ‘the confidences of London society die with me.’ " The government proposes removing the derelicts afloat on the paths of ocean com- merce, imperiling lifo and trado. It would not be a bad idea if the human derelicis on tand veceived like attention. They toil not, neither do they spin, but clog the wheels of progress and croak continually. They are of no earthly use on carth. They would be of some practical benefit if planted six feet under it. 'ho Philadelphia Public Ledger Almanac for 1804 maintains the high standard which is a conspicuous trait of the publishers. It coutains a mass of valuable information, as- tronomical and political, an_oficial, profes sional and religious directory of the Quaker City and suburban towns, and an eulogy on the life and works of the late Anthony J Drexel, the famous banker, philanthropist and business associate of Hon. George W. Childs Ouk leaves and acorns decorating its title page suggests the sound quality of the m tal provender generously supplied by the Philadelphia Times Almanac for 1504, As great oaks irom little acorns grow, so miy one rear a superstructure of facts from the \ the Morton brand of politios in some quarters the Morton has an abundance of ssin p0ses Lo ago for mar- of the lawy jeet will be subserved by the proposed change. A Harrowing Job. Globe-Demoorat. The farmers are kceping Secretary Mor- ton under the harrow in a most persistent and relentless fashion PSR agined Than Doscribed. Kearey Hub. Imagine the meeting between DeFrance, sentenced to life for robbing a mail carrier of Leent, and Charles 'Mosher, esq., who looted the Capital National of a few hundred thousand and was sent up for five years. Comment is supertiuous. Bettor s e Repudiation or Defeat. Denve "e, The result of the recent elections m Utah should be sufficient to warn the democracy of thut, commonwealthi that they must openly repudiate Cloveland and his adminis- tration or lose control of every branch of government within the, new “state. The people are waiting grimly anxious to hit the volitical party which represents hard times. —— A Chance to Viay Even. Holdrege Citizen, 1t the state is able to get & good rate of interest from the state moneys deposited in the banks it 15 possible that the state may ble to take up some of tho floating in- tedness that has been caused by the yin which the state finances ve been managed in the past, both in the matter of running the state institutions and in wasteful appropriation: Home Kuie tn England, Philadetphia Record. Under the Parish councils bill the govern- tont of London will be almost rgvolution- ized. The suffrage, instead of being limited to rate-payers, will be changed to what is in_effect mauhood suffrage. Women also will become eligible for ofice. Mr. Glad stone failed to get home rule for Ireland- but London is to have it in greater degree, perhaps, than any city in the world. - Green with Jealousy, North Bend Republican. The State Journal is always affcted with a bad case of Omahaphobia. It never loses an opportunity to sneer at the metropolis of the state, soying that it is all wind. Tho State Journal overlooks tho fact thav Omal a half dozen business buildings, any one of which cost more than any four Lincoln buildings the State Journal can pick out. Lincoln canuot build herself up by tearing down Omaha —_————— Tho Way Out. A Phfladelphia North American. Taxes on incomes are Justifiable when a forced loan is demanded by the exigencies of the times. There would be no necessity for this frantic search for means but for the unspeakablo cowardice of the party in power. The way out is twofold: Puta tax of 1 cent a pound on sugar, and a duty on high grade teas and on coffees and tho treasury will have revenuo enough. Or put low-rate 520 bonds on tho market until the idlo money shall be gathered into tho treasury. And then quit holding free trade likke a club over the country. B Tho Thelt in Jersey. Phitadelphia Ttmes (dem.). If the democrats of Now dJersey would have themselyes and their party respected by the peodle of that state aad by the country they will at once halt all efforts to steal the senate. The people have made it republican and their mandate should be obeyed. Instead of attempting to seizo it by violence, nnd thus maintain the semblance of power staincd by fraud, they should recall the democracy of the stute to houest methods and hounest obedience to the popn lar will. Inthat way New Jorsey can be vecalled to a democratic supremacy, but it can't be done by political thoft. Attanta wud the Grand Army. Washingtan Post If anything further wero necessary to con vince the peapie of this country that the war 1s really over, and thas iu their fratornal as- sociations, interests and sympathies tho two sections are once more huppily blended, the demonstration is to be found in the action of the commou council of Atlanta, Ga., whicl nas adopted a resolusion asking that the encampment of the Grand Avmy of the Re- public for 1805 bo held tn that eity. Whother the encampmoent goes there or that resolution aught of itself to settle ingering doubt yhat,may exist as to the fuil and final termination of the late un- pleasintness. AVeae mass of statistical information grouped in its pages. I'houg large restricted to Pennsylvania, its contents are sufti varied to be instructive and valuable to th general reader. Alexander R. Shepherd, once “Bo herd,” of Washington, and execr: lowest type of politic owner in Mexico. Heis fluence in Chihuahua. His hacienda in the mountains_is a regular fort, to protect the proverty from revolutionists and bandits of the country. Within are the homes of Shep- herd and his employes and the ore crushing mills. One of his doings is the introduction of paper money into that part of the country agawst the protests of the people und the peremptory refusal of the Mexican govern- ment, but Shepherd’s notes are now uni- versally circulatea all over Chihuahua. The revols of democratic newspapers against the Wilson bill and the income tax proposition is a significant _incident of the times. Against the tariff makeshift are ranged the New York Sun, Cinciunati Inquirer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Richmond Times, New Orleans Picayune and New Or- leans Times-Democrat. With the exception of the New York World, no democratic paper of prominence in the north supports the income tax proposition. The Chicago Herald, Boston Globe, New York Herald, San Francisco Examiner and Chicago Post support the.Wilson bill, but are uncompro- misingly hostile to the latter tax scheme. The Louisville Courier-Journal may be placed in this category. The Chicago Times and Atlanta Constitution criticise oftener than they commend the policy of the demo- cratic administration. With the excention of a few mugwump organs, the democratic majority in congress and the administration are without & cordial, aggressive supporter among the leading democratic newspavers of the country. FOR DEFRAUDING A HOTEL., Attorney From Dakota City Gets Into Trouble In Omana. J. C. Kavanaugh' was arrested yesterday afternoon for obtaining money under false pretenses. Kauanauch says he is an attorney and lives at Dakota City, Neb. He came to Omaha two weeks ago to transact some business and stopped at the Arcade hotel for one week. When he came to settle ho drew a check on the Homer State banlk, av Homer, for $32 and tendered 1t in parment. It was accep ted and the right change given in return. Kavanaugh left that evening and went, ho says, to attend court at Lincoln. After a few days the check was pre to the bank for puyment, but was protested, Kavanaugh having no account there at that time. Nothing further was said at that time and no radical steps taken to get tho board bill or the balance on the check. Yesterday, howoever, Kavanaugh came through Ouiiha on his way to Sioux City and had to take o train at the Webster street depot. and while there met a friend who told him his brother, Mr. J. Kavanaugh, had ar rived and.was at ono of the hotels. ' He then engaged a messenger to go to every hotel in the ety to see if his brother could be found During the boy's travels he brought up at the Arcade, where Kavanaugh had pre- viously stopped, and the clerk noticed the signature on thé messengor's note. Without saying anything he acoympauied the boy to tho depot. ‘The clerk at once recognized the man who, he atleges, hud defrauded him and showed IKavanaugh the unpaid check, ask ing that he walk with him to the hotel. On the way Kavanaugh was asked if he could settle, but he said he had not the amount with him, and he says this is the first he knew of the check being void. Then Ofticers Sullivan anda Meals were called and took Kava ugh to vhe station. Kavanaugh's only explanation 1 that h had always done business with the Home State butilk, as the president, C. J. 0'Con ner, who is also treasurer of Dakota county, is & personal friend of his, and had oiten honored overdrafts, but as O'Connor’s term has expired, and as he probably needed all the money he could gev, ho allowed the checls Lo o to protest. A Cheeriess Philadelphit Times (dem.). Tt is not to be wondered at that no demo. crat of high character and exceptional ability is sitting up late of nights to_secure a nomination for congressman-at-large. Under ordinary cireumstances the candidacy of a demc at for, any state office in Penn sylvauia is a candidacy for defeat. Under existing circumstances the defeat is certain to be intensitied. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, ol Baking Powder ABSOIUTELY PURE THE BEE AS A MONITUR, Whatover olse may of Rosewater and Tie Bee, it true that their existencs has a effect in keoping & number of our very bad politicians and offica holders in | straight and narrow path in | business for themselves and the public. | Wayne Democrat: Tue Dee THE SPURIOUS REFORMER. NewYork Truth The professional reformer is tho most sublimo of egotists. His bellef in himsolf is invincible. As viewsd by true stanaards ho | is nearly always a meddlesomo and per- nicious ass, but the marvelous thing about his wholo performance is the ease and com lotoness with which he deceivos himself It is this whizh makes him dangerous. I'he mau who has convincod himsoll has gone a long way toward carrying conviction to others. A broken down and incapablo pol itician who has failed to make even a decent vecord for himself or his party is driven into and 1nstitutions can be run as obsourity, whoro ho lounges about discon- | qig, NGRS TR G (R0 A8 at tentedly for vears until politics of afairs plicated and then behold him as o reformer, | Blair Pilot advocating any orplan that will [ good work in showing un tify his spite and advance him again | b conducting business for publicly, The men who are most violently [ Which it is made apparent deceived are the ewotists themselves; they | Beeded particularly in the pur bolieve In themselves, In other phases of | for state institutions Iife, as in politics, this curious faculty of | Well establishad and the peoy egotistical enthusiasm prevails. It is bind- | Should profit by the information ing in its effect on its victim they probably won't. Tomak Tako the most persistent tions most effective thuy sho formor in Ameries for instance. De Park- | to the people during next le hurst has achieved o degroe of celebrity in | Campaign and then pounded into t a year that many a stalwart genius has striven a lifotimo to attain, Ho is not a vulgar struggler for the money that lurks here and there in all reforming projects, but is u man of thorough learning and ne has had o wide experience with men, For many years ho has held a_position of importanco and power in New York, whero he took and gave advice and was at all tin enablo toreason. Yeta few months of the flerce and incessant publicity which our extensivo new spaper system throw upon this formerly sagacious and well-balanced man_ has mado him as implacable o fos to reason as the veriest fanatic of the middle ages. Dr Parkhurst’s assumption 18 almost tanta mount to claim of infallibility. He insists that he is right in his erusade against vice in spite of the protests of men skilled in the government of cities and familiar with such phases of crime as he deals with. Whilo he is incapable of weighing men and measures justly, his critics aro not. The judgment of men of intelligonce everywhere is that Dr. Parichurst is an upright, honorablo and sin cere man. Ho is fired with the belief that his method is the only one of exterminating vice, and he goes ahead spreading crime broadeast with unfaltering energy. He hus convinced himself. “The concentrated wisdom of centuries of government endorses the policy of admitting the existence of the vice thit Parkhurst at- tacks and confining 1t closely in a section of the city where it can be restricted and watched. It is so imevery capital of the world. New York's sudden break away from tra- dition and established precedent. is the only exception. It1s due to Dr. Parkhurst. He slieves that he is right, and that the rule of every city on earth, from St. Petersburg, Hong Kong and ucisco to London, Rome and Buda Pesth are wrong. He is a reformer and he has madeone great and sub- stantial success at least—he has convinced himself, But while he suns himself in his own satisfaction, the papers are full of the great and alavming spread of crime. Liter- ally, thousands of abandoned, criminal and vicious women, with their crowds of sat lites of thieves and thugs, who wero for merly closely confined in houses watched night and _day by the police, nave spread throughout the city. They have swar: into the tenement and apartment houses, where thewr gaudy finery and cheap splendor 5 wre the envy of honest” working girls, and | Puckc: Dashaway— 0l hore their influence is more pernicious and | With me tomorrow night? harmful_than postilenca’ of* imodern || Stuffor=Cartalulyiold follow: but times. They are evervwhere. The evil has | MR W (RS EE, spread far beyond police control, and the | Sguméer—f have anothicr dinner at 6. seeds so widely spread will form' an awful harvest—all of it due to “reform.” Aurora Sun people to the rottennoss that ex our state institutions, It an electric searchlight on office and exposes the m th the laws. We trust that ‘Ung Bee wil tinuo the good work until grow com blic rethods in the state, that hsc schomo but in discussed sion Schuyler Qu vestigating tho expen tutions and finds that in th and light there has been either a steal ov o terrible wasto, or both By paring the cost of heating and lighting Ber has s of the state fnstitution paid by s it shouid both larger than any state noticeablo that the £105,000 state is fully twice as m The fact is that a becn going on in the state re is one way. to bring that rn the rascals plete new sot. How indly vote partisanism and be robbe about and 1D - FUN T1LOSOPHY New Orleans P finally dead he shoy une: Untll dtry tolook alive Galveston Nows: The willing to Iot buy-gones be bankrupt is Glen Falls Republ A man never fzes how much of a conjunction “but until hie comes fn contact with an enterp 1t Ruftalo Courler: Those who there say [t 15 quito a bore to have highwayman hold a pistol at your have head other Chieago Tribune: Chicazo Alderman L pass to San Francisco and roturn. ing of visiting the Midwinter fair. Ratlrond Official-A sy cholee of routos? Chicago Alderman—Yes. T wint to of—h'mi~-by wity of Jacksonville, T Philadelphia Ledir tng only as a rewar Belglan prison authorities hive by weed out i great many petty troubles By for good behavior, Chicago R scorn)— | say like dat? Second sprint) yrd: First Mossi Boy what makes youru Messenger Boy his Lain't workin', sco? puusing Kato I SUpPOse yo! this week's sy Wright —No, sir; two's my Limit. Waterbury watch poct. 10's Washington: Editor the veutor of the times? wom Atest | v hushaad,” she replied proudly. Why, 1 didn’t know ho thing." “You should hear the excuses he gives coming home at 2 o'clock fn the morning." Lincoln News. Newspaperg agitation, combined with an opinion from The supreme court, has caused the state ofticers to conclude out the provisions of the state de law. This is right and prop The one thing to be guarded againstis the sufll- of the bonds presented, and too ereat bo bestowed upou this point. o A Puck in the sodden grasses, ository BIOGRAT POME. Dull, sullen, sighi The flying wrack is blow ire o'er the dank, eins i Drear desolation on ihe turbid river A haunting horror breoding over all, The wailing wind has set th srlun crovisses urer should be allowed to receive the mter- est of the million and a half belonging to the state in his possession, when there are certain safe methods of saving that 0,000 or §60,000 1ul t mouey to the state itself. — Composite Roforms." Washington Sta { means committee proposes of revenue- full And here this “pome™ ended — I've no Idea—have you But that don't matter since it s intended For one of our great mode The ways a legislation which is a composi® tariff, protection and free trade; and an in- genuity that is remarkable has been dis- played in selecting from these aifferent sys- tems to be embodied in this composite v features which are unpopular and obje able, while the characteristic merit or benefls of 1o one of the systems is attained. For instance, the com.mittec thre: mpose upon the people a revenue-tarift w to raise thercyenue, a protective tariff which antagonizes the protectionists and a free trade income tax without freedom of trade. THE MODERN maiden, dimpled, pretty, & Ealih OF golden huir, Hor eyes lit up with pity, Her fuce o'ercast with caro, “Her heart is sore griof-lader The kindly florist thought n deoply sighed the maiden And told him what she sought. “A bouquet, please sir, fashion Of roses white as snow; The red, roses of passion " ing. ) plilce bn this must know., West Point Republican, It begins to look as if neither e; “reasurer Hill, nor the present state oe Bartley, will bo held responsible $250,000 which was lost by the fail- ure of the Capital National bank, and that the loss will fall on the state. In other words the taxpayers will dikely have to pay this amount. ‘I'he peovle of Nebraska are beginning to do a little thinking of their own, and patience often ceases to be a virtue, “The whitost of white roses, Of that, please sir, bo surej I want the simplost posies, The symbol of the pur “Some little child is dying," The florist murmured [0W; Then to the maulden, sighin “Where wish you this to go With sobs her vol “My father's ha, “Ips just a little ok 7 My ‘poor, dear pug Is dead." e RDWN'!N‘:E»K'NG The largest make t9ollers of tine clothes on Barth Your money’s worth or your monsy back, Well! Well! Itis a well known fact by this time 'bout that sweeping out sale of ~ours, and there are | many wise ones among the population who are filling their buckets g i—=—=Y% " with the pure, clear ar- ticles from our well-spring of midwinter prizes. Winter has been taking a nap, but she is sure to take a crack at you when she wakes up. ‘Those caps of ours will protect you, and we are giving 20 per cent off on them, Elegant suits that sold in December for gro and $12 are now being swept out at $8.50. The $15 ones go at g10. You can't get a better suit than we will sell you for $16.50. They are our regular $20 line. The same proportionate cut maintains all over the store, Overcoats, underwear and the like are put down to such low prices that it is no trouble at all to sweep Store open till o'clock Saturday night. BROWNING, KING & CO., Willpay (. expressif you send the money for £20 worth of more them out. | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas | S Gt | [ B S | [ b T R AR B S s S reform of conl Tho points made s of Nobraska facs such prosentas 1 be presented lative me bers-clect from that on to the end of the ses- been insti mattor of heat great com man bo said is positively wholesomo very the wnsacting 18 doing 8 | mighty good work In opening the eyos of the ts inall of throwing treasurer's hods by which the state has been robbed through an evasion of con the state offices honestly and instead Tk Ovians Bee is doing some vogue from is \re e in the New York Life and Bee buildings in Omaha it is tho be. ystematie plundering has affairs for yo « change, irs tin our peo: stand up to 1 always real- been e burly with one hand while he rifos your pockets with the Twang ' think- by way 1y rmitting smok Wblo to with your legs oft rapid Dis s my day off. Do you could write five spring poems for 1 ain't any man, can’t you dine you will Washington Star: “Whom do _you consider asked one ver invented any- for weross the pluing o bied’s ery is like a soul's in pain, recds a-shiver By the bluck pool where wraithllke shadows might just as well be of what It means? W = = o e e O S G o S e o = S e ==