Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 25, 1894, Page 4

R — THE OMAHA DATLY BEE. [ ditor, i ) EVERY MORNING. 3. ROSH TURLISHE RIPTION One Year TER Dally Tee (withont Sunt Daily and Sunday, One Bix Month g Threo Mon Bundny le Baturiay Weukiy Ttee, O ‘ OFFICES. . The Dea ulldine. Renith Omnlin. comerN and Tiwenty-fourth atrects. Coninell Tuie, 12 Pearl strect € fengo oMec: 317 Chamber of Commerce. Nevw York, roons 14, 1 and 15, Tribune bullding Washingion. 513 Fourteenth stroet CORRESPONDENCE. o 1 communieations relating (o news and edi- T, Adrnd s T thio Editor BUSINESS LETTERS ATl St Jottors and remitta addreana 1o The I e o T e, eliecles and nosto! THE DEE PUB on shonid bo 1pany, Omaha. A to bemade | BWORN State of Nobranka, ity of Douglan. George B, Tzachuck. seoratary of Tiw BER Pub- Muhing comp « wolemnly awenr that the Al cirentation of Tik DAILY Bk for the week | iz Janary 20, 1804, was as follows, Jnnuary 14 L Tanuary 16, Janyiary 16 January 17 fanuary 15 vy 19 iy 20 24,780 22/0%8 G, I TZRONUCK ¢ wubseribed in | Ay Of January tary Pubic. y gworn to before me o #rAL bmy prescnce thiw 20th 125 ko P. FELL, Averagn Cirentati podtind i S ot ABOLISHING the entire sugar sched- ule of the Wilson bill only emphasizes its characteristic as a tariff for deficit only. Up 10 the present moment it may be gaid that Governor Mitchell of Florida is not a believer in the policy of non- interferenc THERE is raw material enough at our doors to make Omaha a manufacturing ity of 300,000 people if the necessary capital is properly invested WHAT became of the 44,647 barrels of oil that were rejected by the state oil inspector during 1893 bocause thoy failed to0 come up to the test fixed by law? T ways and means committee won't be uble to recogmze the distigured Wil- son tariff bill by the time the committee of the whole gets through dealing with it. It's a wise fathor that knows his own offspring. THREE columns of Louisiana lottery advertising on ono page and an editorial on the violation of the gambling laws on the opposite page shows a jewel of con- ney fit to ornament the snout of the biggest hog over slaughtered in a South Omaha packing house CONGRESSMAN WHEELER displays a commendable frankness in acknowledg- ing that ho intends to vote for the Wil- ‘son bill, however “nefarious” thatmens ure may appear to be in his personal view. Mrv. Wheeler knows upon which side his bread is buttered. TaE Brazilian correspondents report that both sides to the little controversy desive to put an end to the fighting. This is the first intimation that the Bra- zilian vevolution had reacted the fight- ing stage. Horetofore the fighting has been done over the cable lines. Ir THE Brazilian government really wants to como to an agreement with the insurgents, why not cach stake his for- tunes with one of the principals in the proposed Florida prize fight? Such an arrangement would have the merit of ending two wordy fights at one blow. T proposition for a national boule- vard stretching from the Atlantie to the Pacific, and lined with shaded shrub- bery, was probably conceived in the breast of the philunthropist who desired to make the return home of the disap- pointed office seeker at Washington as cheerful as possible. WHILE we are about it confiscating dice boxes and wicked slot machines lo- cated in cigar stores, don't let-us forget the prize popeorn and candy package: that our confectioners ave selling. There is a newspaper, as also sevoral theater programs, which tell how to get rich for nothing by patronizing cer- tain lotteries. EMPEROR WILLIAM i5 a shrowd mon- arch, in spite of his many peculiavities of character. Nothing could so add to his populavity with the m as a reconciliation with Prince Bismarvek re- sulting from overtuves fivst mado by him. The emperor has bsen moved to action none too soon if he desires to avail hamsolf of tho opportunity before it shall have passed beyond his grasp. s A YEAR has elupsod sin National bank at Lineoln closed its doors and thus enabled the public for the first time th become gequuinted with its financial methods. The president of the bank has been sontenced to the pen- itentinvy for five yeaws, but theve is a well founded bolief in Lincoln that all of tho inen connected with tho swindle have not been exposed, There is still an opportunity for justice to exert it- self In the Capital Cit the Capital THE suggestion that Senator Hill is organizing another cabal to dofeat tho confirmation of Wheelor H. Peckham to bo associate justice of the supremo court will hardly create much enthusi- asm in the country, either among demo- crats or republicans. The intorests of litigants before the court ave of tuo much importance to bo hampered, even at the desire of politicians who desirve t increase the discomfiture of the admin- isteation, There is such a thing as too much factious oppesition, I MUST be a nice quality of oil which the Standard Oil company is attempting to pan off upon unsuspectinz patrons i Nobraska whon 44647 barrels oub of 122,825 inspeotod, or over ono-third of the total, is fHund to bo below the low standard demanded by tho Nobraska law. [f the product of any ordinary fac tory showed one In overy three defec tve, customers wonld begin to susp. shat something was radically wrong The parsistence of the company in send- 10g dunzecsas ofl into Nubraska can ouly moan that it is willing ) tako its chaucos o ha:inz It pass o lax inspec- 7 | " economic THE POLICY REGARDING SUGAR. The action of the house of representa- tives in committee of the whole, in de- ciding to place refined sugar with raw on the free list and to abolish the bounty, was a distinct triumph of the radical element of tha democracy and the men who are advoeating an income tax. 1f this action is sus‘ained by the house, as there Is every reason to expect it will be, and is allowed to stand by the sen- ate, it is perfectly casy to see that it will bo fatal to the domestic sugar in- dustry. No one familiar with the con- ditions will for a moment contend that it is possible to maintain and do- velop sugar production in this country without ths fostoring sup- port of either a duty or a bounty, and of the two it has been sufficiently shown that the latter is the moro effective as a stimulus to the development of this in- terest, With both removed our sugar producers and refiners will hardly be able to long withstand the destructive foreign competition that will follow. It is estimated that the capital in- vested in the sugar industry in the United States is not far short of $200,- 000,000, Probably at least one-fourth of this sum bas been invested since the bounty went into effect. Tt is now pro- posed tostrike a deadly blow at this great interest, and what compensatory benefit is to bo hoped for from such action? Will the consumers of sugar derive any per- manent advantage from it? Putting re- fined sugar on the free list may have tho effect of breaking up the Sugar trust and this would undoubtedly be abenefit, but after our sugar plantations are aban- doned and the promising industry of sugar beet cultivation is given up, put- ting our people entirely at the merey of the foreign producers of this necessity, is there any assurance that our people will not then have to pay as much or moro for sugar than they are now pay- ing? Tt is truo that we have been pro- ducing only aboutone-tenth of the sugar consumed in the country, but even this small fraction has exerted a wholesome influence in the interest of the con- sumers, and with the growth and devel- opment of the domestic sugar industry this influence would have become more marked. Cutoff this supply and who can doubt that the foreign producers of sugar will take advantage of i This effect of tho proposed legislation will not be felt at once. It may be a year or two betore it is realized. DBut that it will ultimately come as the consequence of striking down our sugar industries scems inevitable, The ut reckles: ness of proposing to at onco reject a mears of raising revenue when tho governmont is so greatly in need of rvevenuo and to withdraw all support from a growing indus- try representing a vast investment of capital is almost incomprehensible and startlingly illustrates the spirit and purpose which dominate the party in power. There 1s another thing not to be lost sight of, and that is the fact that in abolishing the bounty the contract entered into between the government and those who have invested in the sugar industry since the bounty went into effect will be violated, but a little matter of this kind Las no weight with the cheap politicians and self-seeking demagogues who are at the front in congress, even though ruin should come to hundreds of eonterprising citizens. With their minds intent upon an revolution neither sacred obligations nor the danger of disaster can detor them. Mr. Harter, democratic representa- tive from Ohio, said in the house that an income tax was the necessary alterna- tive of a duty on "sugar. The chief ex- ponent and champion of an incomo tax has pevsistently opposed a duty on sugar. The action of the house regarding sugar may therefore be accepted as indicating very strongly the success of the income tax proposition, so far as the house of representatives is concerned. Yet thero is some reason to hope that enough dem- ocrats will refuse to obey the party whip to defeat this most obnoxious measu LET TiiEM MAKY A REPUBLIC. Resolutions were presented in both branches of congress Tuesday proposing that this government shall permit tho peovisional government of Hawaii to do as it pleases. The senate resolution re- cites that the provisional government having been duly recognized the highest international interest requires it shall pursue its own line of policy. In the house the resolution presented proposed to extend the sympathy of this govern- ment to the representatives of the Ha- waiian islands who are making an effort to establish a republic there. he provisional govern- went of Hawaii appears to be pursuing its own line of policy regard- less of public opinion here or elsewhore, but inasmuch as thore secms to be a lingering hope with the men who over- throw the monarchy that there may bo a change of feeling in the United States that will permit them to realize their desire to becomoe a part of this country it may be expedicut that congress should make some such expression as is con- tained in the vesolutions introduced. In that case the senate resolution seems to bo the more judiclous, since it simply proposes to commit the government to a let-alone policy, at the same timo warn- i 1 nations that any interven- tion on their part in the political aMairs of the islands would be regarded as an act unfriendly to the government of the United States. As to the proposed expression of sympathy the American peoplo are not called upon to take any such position with vespect to any of the efforts and de- signs of the Hawaiisn provisional gov- ernment. Our poliey should be to simply let that government go along in its own way, as it seems quite able to do, only keeping a watchful supervision over American interests there. If Prosident Dole and his aaherents desive to ostab- lish a republic and succeed in doing there can be na doubt that the American people woild cordial end their sympathy, but they can well wait until the result is at- tained. They do not now know that the provisional government wants to estab- lish a republic or that anybody connected with the party that deposed the queon is making any sincere effort in that direction. There is ground for the 5 THE OMAHA suspicion that some oneo fully convinced of sibility of annexing the fslands to the United States, would not bo eager for a republican form of government that the American people could sympathize with, That would involve giving rights of citizenship to a great many of the people of the islands who are not now in aceord with the pro- visional government and who might ex- erclse their rights in opposition to its policy. A so-called républic which ig- nored tho rights of these people and rested upon the favor of a small minority of the population of tho islands, as is tho case with the present government, would have no claim upon American sympathy. Tt is extvemely diffi- cult to have any faith in the men in political control in Ha- waii, Their professions of high patriotism and of devotion to tho cause of civilization and Christianity do not carry with them a conviction of sin- ority. theless the American people will not discourage any efforts they may make to establish a republican form of government, and if they suc- ceed in doing this on a bassis of justice toall the people of the islands who have rights that ought to be recognized unde such a government the sympathy of this country will not be withheld. Such a consummation, however, does notap- pear to be probable in the near future. of these men, the impos- REPRESENTATION ON 11E BENCH, One phase of President Cleveland’s recent nomination to the supreme court vacancy deserves more than mere pass- ing notice, and that is the fact that the president has evidently felt himself to a certain extent constrained to make his choice from among the attorneys practic- ing in New York, or at any rate in the judicial circuit over which the late Justice Blatchford had been accus- tomed to preside. The feeling that the different secctions of the coun- try should be represented as vearly equally as possible upon the bench of the supreme court has been mani- fested in the highest judicial appoint- ments for some years past, and tho ten- dency to look upon that courtas a repre- tive body seems to be gradually becoming more and more confirmea. In the latest instance, for example, there was nothing whatever to limit the presi- dent's freedom of seclection over the whole United States, but in fact he confined his search for an available candidate to the leading city of a single state, as if able and experienced men re- siding elsewhere wore not to be consid- ered within the requirements of the emergency. The existence of this tendency to view the supreme court as a quasi-representa- tive body has secured some recognition on the bench itself, whether as a resuit or cause of the popular impression it will be difficult to say. In assigning the different justices to different circuits during the recess of the court the resi- dence of each is talen into due considera- tion, and whenever possible each justice is given the circuit which includes his own home. Thus the cireuit under Justice Brewer extends over Kansas, from which state he was appointed, and that under Justice Gray extends over his state of Massachusetts. Where two justices accidentally hail from the samo place, as do Justices Harlan and Fuller, the principle of representation has to be held in abeyance, but it is recognized so far as the circums permit. This system of circuit assign- ment undoubtedly‘adds to the incentive to select giew judges from vacant cir- cuits, for only by such a method can each secure a circuit comprising his own state. That no such system was contem- plated by the framers of the constitu- tion needs scarcely to be emphasized. The supreme court, in the minds of those carly statesmen, was to consist of the ablest jurists of the day, without reference to party lines or sectional rep- resentation. Justice is the same wherever the same laws are in force and requires no different interpretation from federal judges whother tho caso arises in Maine or Texas. For this rea- son they observed every precaution that was calculated to secure an inde- pendent, able and impartial judici- ary. Life tenure, with undimin- ished salaries, appointmont by the president, subject to the confirmation of the senate, removal only on impeach- ment, such were the means by which those ends wero sought. Other things being equal, it may be policy for a presi- dent to distribute even judicial nomina- tions in rough accordance with geo- graphical lines, butonce accept the rep- resentative principleas a binding prece- dent and the court will lose an impor- tant factor in its claim to absolute inde- pendence of responsibility outside of the constiteéion and the laws, NO NELD OF AN INCREASE. The Board of Education has decided to ask the council for an increase of the school tax levy to 3} mills, in the face of the fact that property owners are groaning under the welght of existing taxes. Now if there was any disposition on the pavt of the board to rotrench and prune down where the pruning knife could be used without impairing the efficiency of our system we might acquiosce without grumbling. But the fact is patent that the boavd is squander- ing money on supernumerarios and po- litical hangers-on. Every corporation and business firm in the country has been obliged to retrench by dispensing with employes that are not absolutely needed, and readjusting salaries within the bounds of their carning capacity. The board has done somo pruning but it does not exhibit a disposition to cur- tail expenses where curtailing would involve favorites or dispenss with fads. There is no law, for instance, that would Justify the admission of children under 5 years into the schools. The city is not presumed t> supply free nurseries ot the expense of the taxpayers. Thero is no reason why “the city should supply thousands of dollars worth of stationoery to patrons of the publie schools, and it is doubtful whether the free text book policy should extend into the High school. Nine-tenths of the pupils in the High school are sons and daugiiters of men and women abundantly able to pay for their books, maps and supplies These who cannot afford to bear the DAILY BEE: pense of toxt books, and stationery used in the High scheol eannot afford to have their children fale the High school course, H A round sum might also be saved by making principals of schools teach o class wherever it fs practicpble. In many of the smaller and medium-sized schools the principals have not enough todo to occupy their time. In any ovent the tax levy of last year should be ample for this year. COUNCILMEN do not differ from other people by reason of any perpetual lease on life and thoy are subject to the ravages of disease without reference to political faith or official position. Vacancies may occur in the membership of the council and there is no telling in advance whethor the first vietim will be republican, democrat or independent. It is cleariy the duty of the council to provide a method for the filling of coun- cilmanic vacancies whenover they may arise. Because thare happens to be no vacancy at present offers no valid reason for leaving this important matter to be decided upon the spur of the moment and under circumstances that may foster a resort to underbanded tactics. The city charter instead of providing for this emergency itself leaves the details tobe prescribed by ordinance of the mayor and council. There i3 a call for the passage of such an ordinance, not only to fill the gap in our frame of city government, but also to avold unpleasant entanglements in the future. POPULIST congressmen are not dis- posed to accept the income tax propos tion offered by the ways and means com- mittee as a suflicient surrender to the demands of their platiorm, and threaten to oppose the wholo scheme unless the measure is made to provide for a system of graduated taxation. It is not so much the principle of the income tax that they desive to be recognized as the prin- ciple of progression in the rate. Of courso tho democrats in congress dare not go further than they have gone with this unpopular revenue policy, but this will only serve to add the populist votes to the forces already couspiring for its defeat. A TEMPTING spread of mental pabu- lum has been prepared for presentation before the annual meeting of the Ne- braska Press association to be held at Lincoln this week. The list of oratori- cal dishes, however, fails to include several timely topics to which some of the promised attendants are peculiarly fitted to respond: ‘*The postoftice and the press; how the two may bo profita- bly combined,” “Federal grand juries and how to excite, their ire,” “The railway job office the only lucrative adjunct of the corporation organ.” Per- haps it'is not too late to revise the delectable program. THE self-appointed organ of the moral and religious sentiment of those parts clamors for tle passage of the resolution by the fire and police commission in- structing Chief Seavey to close all gam- bling houses, pool rooms and billiard halls. Why not also instruct Chief Seavey to enforess the law against lot- tery advertising? No law-abiding citi- zen can defend gambling in any form, but the money lost in Omaha gambling dens is spent in Omaha, while the money for Louisiana lottery tickets goes out of the state never to return, except as a bait for suckers and more money. TwO HUNDRED millers are holding a convention at Kansas City for the pur- poso of devising ways and imeans to widen the market for western flour. A memorial requesting congress to adopt reciprocity as soon as possible was adopted. The millers should remember that there is a market at home for their product. Lower transportation rates from the west to the east would more than treble the consumption of flour. Itis the cost of the freight that pre- vents thousands of familios from eating white bread, and enovgh of it. TaE Wilson b but still in the ring. What They Loat. Globe-Demcerat, It issafe to assume that the lobbyists who have just lost $230,000 by Clevoland’s vetoof the New York bridge bill are all Hill men. flo disfigured ——— Business Kesumption, New York Commercial Bulletin, TFortunately, however, we are now dealing with past facts rather than present condi- tions. So surprisingly rapid has been the resumption of work inall our industries in the pust uwo weeks that estimates are to be regarded as largely historic. It may be taken as a fair estimate that of those who had been thrown out of industrial employ- ments during the last half of 1803, from 50 to 60 per cent are now at regular work, and although they have in most cases had to accept reduceéd wages thoy are receiving compensation in a lower scale of living ex- penses. e « Up tho Record. New York Sun. Eighteen months have elupsed since the democratic craft set sail for the economic Eidorado of revenue duties and larger mar- ke ‘I'he business outlook is not reassur- ing. The things most confidently promised have not taken place. Many of the demo- cratic crow are inravolt, and the demand for turning the ship back toward the pro- tection coast is loud. Pretexis and argue ments are heard wm support or such a sur- render to cowardice, and Prof. Wilson, the coxswan, has a chart whoreby ho thinks the crew can all get back into port by sail- ing close to the wind. - Is there no Columbus on board of the democratic craft o $tand up boldly and in- sigt upon keeping:straight ahead on the course marked ouy by the last democratic uational convention? Sumn e s The Proposed income Tax. Qlobe-Democrat, T'ho principal objection to the income tax which the democritbs'aro secking to impose, is that it conflicts with the fundamental idea of an cqual aud nniform distribution of THURSDAY, JAN ARY 25, 1894, the public burdens. Tt signifies direct and obnoxious discrimination nen a cortain portion of the population, and that tho most thrifty and useful portion, In other worda, it is open and deliberate class legislation, and no ingonuity of sophistry can make any- thing else of ‘it. Those citizons who are capable and industrious enough to earn over £4.000 & yoar are to be taxod for the support of a govornment from which they derive no more protection or assistance than thoso who fail to earn that amount. The only form of taxing incom that ecan be logically defonded or morally justified Is that which includos all inconies, without regard to their relative accounts, and thus exacts tributo from each individual in proportion to his earnings and profits, he they large or small. That kind of alaw would at least be consistont and im- partial, though seriously objectionable in other respects. 13ut the plan now proposod 18 equivalent to tho urbitrary seloction of a glven class of peoplo as the proper ones to pay the whole of a tagleviod for the benofit alike of those who My it and those who are exempted from it. There 1s certainly no Justice and no fairness in such a method of raising rovenue. It is to be obsorved, furthormore, that the bill prepared by Mr. Wilson's committeo, whilo ostensibly intended to bo freo from oppressive and inquisitorial features, is really more odious in that relation thun the one passed during the war, which proved to be 80 very distasteful in spite of the neces- sity that warranted it. Under this new plan, the citizen who fails to report his in- come when it reaches the taxable limit is vo be held guilty of a criminal offense, punish- able by fine and imprisonment. Men sus- pected of having earned as much as §4,000 a year may be pursued by detecti and re- quired to prove themselves innocent of such an iniquity. The tax on salaries, not only of those holding public ofices, but also of those employed by business firms and corporationsy is to be deducted from the last payment for the y the party making such payment That is to say, employers are to bo mado agents of the government for the collection of tho tax by taking it out of the wages of the employes. There are other equally of- fensive provisions in the measure, all calcu- lated to invade the ordinary rights and privileges of citizenship, and to promoto perjury and evasion of all kinds as the only means of antagonizing and defeating a man- ifest wrong. I'he people of this country do not want alaw of that sort. They are wil- ling to pay all necessary taxes. but they are not willing to huve s imposed according to monarchical methods and in contempt of the rules of provriety and decency. The party that gives countenance and support to @& project thus discredited will ve driven from power at the first opportunity by a tremendous malority, whatever its excuse may be for its ill-advised and unreasonable conduct. = e~ Some Kallway Questions. Chicago Tt es. Twenty per cent of the mileage in America is in tho hands of receivers, and perhaps 20 per cent of the remainder ought to be. There are said to be over 170,000 railway men out of employment. The table of stock quotations shows an apparent loss in *‘values" since the panic set in of some hundreds of millions. 1t was indeed reasonable to assume that the public would be_interested to know why theso things are thus, 3 ate cause of railw tunes is, of course, the hard times. Partial suspension of industry and commerce is fol- Jowed at once by a corresponding curtail ment of the revenues of common carrier: But the shrinkage in railway *‘values” and business, vhe failures and recciverships, have been altogether out of proportion to the failures in business and manufacturing. Tt is this circum: which prompts the in- quiry, What is the special grievance, mal- ady, or weakuess of American railway prop- erties? - The answers made to this question by, say, a dozen of the most important railway men of Chicago show an amusing unanimity upon soveral points. Iu is practically agreed by these disintevested experts that if rail- ways were subject to no laws, or could make their own laws; 1f they could fix their own rges and the wages of thoir employes and, especially if, above all, they could abolish the interstate commission, the rail- way situation would be ideal—from the rail- way maws point of view. It may as weil be conceded that American railways have suffered some injustice at the hands of state legislators, especially in the west. But to the lay observer it is pretty clear that the railways have brought this hardship on themselves. The hostility of which they complain did not disclose itself until the people were persuaded that a rail- way corporation was not merely heartless, but thoroughly dishonest and lawless and would rather buy a legislature or corrupt a court than obey the law. Nor is this popular prejudice without foundation, as our statute books and the records of our courts abun- dantly show. The supposed honor of Amer- ican railway companies is a byword and a reprouch, at home and abroad, Not only are the corporations guilty of bad faith to the pablic, but of bad faith to each other; the history of almost any of the *‘pools” and associations is a record of agrecments made only to be wantonly and cynically broken at the first opportunity. Some of the com- panics are doubtless worse than ovhers and some may be altogether guiitless, but all must suffer like poor dog Tray. Having acquired in the popular estimation the status of felons the railway corporations are morally estopped from complaining of “‘hostile” laws. But even granting that they are sinned against as well as sinning, the railway experts who have given their views to the public must not complain if the pubtic distrust their competency quite as much as it denies their good faith. Here, again, to be sure, exceptions are to bo made, ‘As a general proposition it may be said that the roads have maintained their solvency and effectiveness in provortion as they have been administered upon business principle: The *good” roads are those whoso proper has been managed for the future as well as the present, whose road beds and rolling stock Lave been renewed and kept in repa whose munaegers, in a word, have recogni; that they owed a duty to the property, its owners, and the public as well as to Wall street. The **bad” roads are those which have been *'skinned,” as the ing is,at the behest of the gamblers behind tho scenes. These properties, being in effect so many ounters on the tables of the Wall street ‘dead falls,” have natually lost their at- ractiveness in times like tha present. But the underlying cause of disaster in the railway world is one which, bvaturally enough, railway managers are most reluctant 10 admit, namely, that they are incompetent, unable to cope with the task sot before them. And this is their_misfortune quite as much as their fault. They are, as a rule, very able men and quite as respectable as the nature of their employment wiil admit. Probab! they do as well as any other body of men similarly circumstanc could do. But in the nature of things they must work at cross purposes or to no real purpose so long as they ana the properties they control remain as they ave. The railway interests of America, properly considered, are so closely interwoven as to be one fabric. I'hey should be administered from one head and for a common purpose, not the least factor of which should be the welfare of the peoplo who created them. Instead, thoy are for the most part so muny private enterprises, hos tile to cach other and o the public, and Sfinauced” by a body of gamblers who know littie aud care less for the public and whom the public in turn cordially hates and dis- trusts. This is unfortunate and may involve, as our railway friends complain, a great injus- tice to them. But it is nevertheless true. Nor does the published tablo of railway finances serve to mitizate this feeling, for it appears that even in the calumitous year 1803, when the managers found 1L necessar to distharge 171,000 men and curtail othe expenses in proportion, tho net earnings of their roads were more than $10,000,000 I ox- cess of those for tho prosperous year of 1502, y misfor- Highest of all in LcavcningPoTW&l‘.-—LnlcsL‘ U. S. Gov't Report, ol Baking Powder ABSOIUTELY PURE PEOPLE AND THINGS. The euckoos are calling Willls, 'Tis & wise professor who knows his own tariff oill. Cloveland’s slide down Hill promises to bo more precipitate than he bargained for, The vigor of the Manitoban blast enables people to comprehend the policy of free raw material, The party of free sugar will need consid- orable of that article to effectually coat the income tax pill Tho {neMciency of Cal Brico's white house cnables the senator states Lo dispenso with curl pape Pictures ropresenting Uncle Sam _streten- ing the logs of nis pantaloons with straps a crucl travesty, Just now he is decid- short, “Drop it!" shout democratic organs in chorus, referring to the Hawaiian policy. 1t is evident the administration has taken o drop too much, Mr. J. A. Battles has just heon elected by the city council of Fitchburi, Mass,, super- intendent of streets for the fiftieth year in succession The small still voico” so oft apostrs phized by poets and preachers probabl refers to tho telephone chinvmers who whis- per, “They're talking now." A young woman In Greonford, Long Island, has been fined & for seissoring off the tail of her father-in-law's horso for spite. She should have docked 1t for fashion's sake and saved the £ Abo Slupsky is not & myth, but real tlesh and blood. Not long ago he kept a second- hand furniture store in St. Louis, but since the newspapers pickod him up he has bo- come a tull-fledged politician, Major Burke, Louisiana's treasurer who embezzled £3,000,000, is now managing a mine in Honduras belonging to o New York syndicate. e says he will return for trial when ho gets cnough money to defend his e. 1t 1s explained by way of St. Louis that the periodical fall of a stone from the Board of ‘tTade building in Chicugo is due to tho siesmic disturbance occasioned by the Chi- cazo woman putting her foot down with emphasis. L. B. Gaffey, the new associate justico of the supreme court of South Dakota, com- menced the study of law at the ae of 14, while on his fatber's farm in Wisconsin, reading from borrowed books. He was state's attorney for Hughes county, South Dakota, and is considered oneof the best rvead lawyers of tho far west. The wflueace of American ideas is march- ingon. General Croole always insisted thav the way to soothe and subdug rambunctious warriors was through the alimentary canal. Evidently Emperor Willia 1that idea in mind when he forwarded a_bottle of old wine to Bismarck. The result proved the uo of the remedy. The exite of ksruhe immediately bottled his wr: SR NEBRASKA AND SEBKASKANS. pull at the from two Supe shipped seven carloads of flour to Scotland, the other day A Lincoln man offers to locate & normal school at Grand Island for a big-sized bonus R. L. Cornwell, a teacher in the DeWitt schools, who has beeu in falling neatvh for some time, is dead. The hatf-breeds of the Santee agency gave a hop the other evening that was atterded by many white people as well as the clite of the reservation mixed reds. Rev. C. W. Savidge of the People’s church of Omaha has surred up thoe arimals in Nebraska City. He tatked in a church there the other night, and advised ail church members to keep the body clean as well as the soul. He suceceded in getting four old chewers of the fiithy weed to give up the bit; told them 10 go home and take n ath and be clean, The contest between O'Connor, republi; can, und Hemmett, mdependent, for clerk of Garfield county, has been settled by the county judge at Burwell. The ballots and returns were examined and passed upon by the judge, who decided that each candidave had received an equu ber of votes, ag- gregating 185 each. then cast lots, O'Connor, the contestant and holdover, win- ning. “The second annual meeting of the Douglas County Farmers institute will be held at Valley February 1and 2 and it promises to be a session of more than ordinary interest. Among the papers of esnecial value to be read on the occasion will be: *‘Suzar Beet Culture and the Douglas County Factory,” by Count Lubienski; “A Proposed Method of Securine Good Roads in Douglas County,” by C. C.'Turner, and an address by Chancel- lor Canfield of the State university. Other papers of great interest to the farmer will be read by experts. A large attendance is expected. Traitors to Principle. Cleveland Plain Dealer (dem.). Now we have great respect for great men, especially when they are in authority, but we have greater respect for great principles when they constitute the foundution of a great purty like the democratic party; and we profess to be just as able to understand these principles and to teach them to our fel- low men as a secretary of state who has been a republican all his life, or a ehairman of a ways and means committee who has been a professor in a smail university town in the mountains of West Vieginia. We would like to know by what divine right these men can claim to be infallibl We have neverseen their eredentials,but we have seen the principles of the democratic party, created by God and written in the hearis of men, and they are the only political in- THE CLEVELAND-HILL SCRAP. Now York Times: We repeat that Pros dent Cleveland has made a very sorious mi take, and {n vetoing this bill has fallen far shiort of tho breadth of view and soundn of Judgment that the peovle of his own state ad a rightsto expect of him, Buffalo Express. Clevoland may give reasons why the bridge bill should have been vetoed till the cows come home, His countrymen will coutinue to belicve that there was only one reason for his conduct, @ to get even with Senator tion of Hornblower. Philadelphin Pross: Possibly President Cleveland would have votood the North river bridgo bill anyhow, but it s extromely provable th t he was aided in reaching his conclusion by Hill's success in procuring the rejection of Mr. Hornblower. is not above retalinting on his enom republicans will not regret to see the breach between him and Senator Hill yawn wider, Chisago Post: A bridge ncross the Hud. son viver from Now York City to the Jersey shore was wantod, Tho bill was favored by Now York and Now Jorsey. ammany wanted it, Murphy wanted 10 and (or but) Hill wanted 1t “Tho bill went up to the president and he vetoed it before the trivmphant shouts of the Hill contingent over the Hornblower defeat had ceased to echo about the capitol New York Tribuno York and New Jersey bridge bill, which was returngd with a mossage to congress from the white house, President Cleveland may be considered to havo repaid his quondam ally, David B, Hill, for the leading part taken by the latter in bringing about the rojection of Mr. Hornblower. Tho New York and New Jersey bridgo bill is well known to be one of the pet. schemes of the senior acnator from this state, and, in spite of the reasons which the president yives in support of his vato, it will be dificult to ro- move the popular impression that he was actuated in the matter largely by a desire to got even with Mr. Hill, LIVE THOUGHTS In vetoing the New IN JEST. Philadolphia Ledger: Tho king of Italy fs not much over five feot in_helzht; Uncle Sam, also, Is rather short at present. B The only timo a n perfoctly control himself under ex- citement is when he is huntiog a burglar, Binghamton Republlean: Original sin was tho cause of the fall of man, and now when s man falls it 1s the cause of a good deul of orig= inal sin, ago Tribune: “In tho matter of family," slghed the poor mun who had ma 1 a widow with nine childrer 1 seem to have bitten off more than I enn shoe." New York loe | s Carrie- Sloper's husband opinfon of himself, Maud—-No. Ho has been reading over all tho love lotters ho wrote: her before they wero married. Ot ara—I lias don’t think much of an Now York Tribu name? Jages—Lots. Tknowa farmer that Is so mad about the Wilson bill that he won't ride fn a democrat platform wagon. Atchison Globo: The whito great deal of thme and money in trying t curl and the colored troniza peddior who sells u docoction warranted to take the curl out. Baggs—~What's in a folls spend o Philadelphia Record: Muggins hear how young Mrs. Baker's_ cookling had ved Baker's 1ifo? Buggins—No; I had no don she wis & £00d cook. Mugeins—she fsn't, uker ate some of her biscuits yesterday, and shortly after was struck in the stomach by a trolley car. The car wus badly w Did you Indfanapolis Journal: “Who Is that talke fng in the next room in such o high ke: u McChatter. He's trying to negotinte aloan. “What a pity it Is thata man money as easily as ho n raise his Somerville Tournal: vited me to €0 to U Belle—Did you hay stello—Ol, yes: Mr thun half o pound of candy at i Town Topics. ve first blushod behind a leat And with the serpent flirted, The fan hus brought our sex to grief And lovers disconcertod; But it has than ¢nough Since, I think 16 ti Had honor It is not for the ball room made But for the win ing, When in her s The foarl It hides tho hands wo fain would press With silent adoration, Yot gives the charmer's loveliness A'varied fuscinution. When pressed agalnst her ehilly ear Tt Looks so warm and cozy, Ttanakes her glowlng face appear o dimpled, soft and rosy; Wwhen sho sinks her proty nose Tn its recessos furry, Forth from hor eyes a rapturo glows That's suro our hearts to flurry. An. an Instrument defensive se, on flirting bent, Or when thoy're feeling ponsive; Whenever we our love confoss They blush and sigh bebind And when thelr lips we'd fain caress Right in tho way we find it. In short, it Offensive an: That walds ¢ It rouse ases, tortures, charms, And fills with perturbation; Just ke the fan it thrills, alarms, "And aids our subjugation. Whorefore of all 0ve's weapons sweet "Thoso two must ranic togother— The fan for sunmer evenings meet, fallibility that we accept or bow to. s ROWNING, KING ‘Dhe largost maiors and 9311ors of tine clothies on Barth The mufl for wintry weather. T Tt O St e Then comes a nic per cent off goes. ~ We wil you a suit or an overcoat. very nice hard times prices. trousers’ pocket to take it i BROWNING, Will pay the express If you send the money for #20 worth or more o - R 11 | N UL 1 I B T P ] After the Storm is over big lot to take off of a $6 pair of trousers. the price pretty small for a $3 pair. this sale for it will be money saved in your new | 8. W e day—a nice day to buy . trousers — especially nice because you can buy them of us now at a discount of 25 per cent, any mens’ trousers in the house —some flne ones,some finer, all good, this season’s goods—relia- ble as any made— more reliable than most trousers. It's a It makes No matter. 25 1 be pleased to also sell On these we are making You can't affordto miss n. KING & CO., Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, T I I o e e