Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 30, 1894, Page 4

THEOMAHA DAILY ]EFFI_. VATER, Editor, B ROSE PUBLISHTED EVERY MORNING. v-fourt streets. wneree. {bune bullding fons relating 16 iday. Jannary 1A, J B, 78Uk A in my pres- Votary Publ PresitaM is eansing a peck of trouble for both his friends and his foes. Nor even in the ratio of passes to paid admissions will the Midwinter fair yield the palm to its Columbian predecessor. Tie Union Pacific re s have no reason to find fault with the judicial cut of salarics. Thoy still remain in con- dition to keep the wolf from the door. e Tk proposal of the Bell Telephono com ¢ to increase its capital stock to £30,000,000 may be taken as a pretty sure indication that that company proposes t0 go into politics. IT REMAINE seen whether the income tax sop to the populists will sorve to bring the populist support in the scnate to the president's policy of making federal appointments. NO PROPOSALS for the coming issue of bonds seem to have been withdrawn as yet by tho threats of injunction pro- ceodings to restrain the secretary of the treasury from accepting them. It will not be for want of bids that the bonds will not be issued. THERE is but little hope for serious competition in the matter of public tele- phone rates. The Bell company will doubtless control the telephone business in the United States for many yoars. Legislative action and the postal tele- phone alone can give the people relief {rom extortionate rates. WnEN Emperor William proceeds to roturn the visit just made him by Prince Bismarck we may expect to sce the ex- chancellor try, if possible, to outdo the recent lavish hospitality of the emperor. A royal reconciliation’ could not be properly efected without the many costly accompaniments of splendor and pomp. Tmis is the iast week of the tariff agony ag far as the house is concerned. It is to be hoped that the serate will waste no time in either accepting or re- jeeting the bill. The business intorests of the country have a right to know just what they are to expect from congress, and they have the right to know as soon as possible. s EIGHT years scem to have brought about a marked change of sentiment in the mind of Senator Hill. Then he went on record with the statement that the president should be unhampered by senatorial interference inmaking ap- pointments. The New York senator should vote to recommit the views he holds at the present time. THE loss to the Nebraska Wesleyan university by the fire visitation yester- day morning is to be deplored, even if it will not cripple that institution, The ‘Wosloyan university has heen one of the moat progressive of Nobraska's de- nominational colleges and it could ill afford to lose so valuable an adjunct as the Haish Manual Training school. AN OMaHA preacher having answered the question why young men stay away from church satisfactorily to himsolf proposes now to find out why young women do likewise. This seems to be an altogether unnecessary inquiry. How can he expect young women to crowd into churches from which the young men continue to absent them- selves? THe Towa legislature announces that it is ready to tackle the Russian thistle and to proceed to demolish 1t by means of radical legislation., Tackling the Russian thistle ought to be good prac- tice prepatatory to tackling the liquor problem. A strict compliance with the demands of the last vepublican state platform is what is needed to restore re- spect for the laws which the legislature enacts, Tur quick recovery of the Sugar trust from the assaultof the stock brokers im- mediately after the action of the howso in placing raw and refined sugar on the free list proves conclusively that that great monopoly is not to be feightenod even by the prospect of free sugar. Ac- cording to the oft-repeatod assurance of the free trade contingent the Sugar trust ought to wither like a blighted rose. ‘There Is still some work cut out for Attorney General Olney UTAR'S prospects of rly admission to the union are daily brightening, and its years of patient waiting now promise . the expected reward. Wero the Utah statohood bill free from every conn tion with the bills for other territories there would be but an insignificant oppo- gition to its immediate eractment. But, even tied up as it is with less worthy applicants for admission, there s every indication that it will be fuvorably acted upon by the prosent congress. The re- publicans having decided to interpose no obsteuctions its fate must rest en- tirely with the democrats. A SECTIONAL DEMAND. That veteran democrat, General Bickles of New York, said in the houso { of representatives a foew days ago, re- ferring to the income tax proposition, that he regretted to see a drift in the dnbate toward the idea that the wealth of the north and east should be subjected to peculiar charges for the support of the government. He declured that it will bea dangorous menace to repub- lican institutions when such a principle is tolerated in the name of democracy. Feeble attempts were made to refute th rge made by Mr. Sickles that the demand for an income tax {s sec- tional, but they only served to justify it. There can be no doubt that the southern democratic representa- tives, with a fow from the west, and particularly those who advocated free silver, sco in the income tax an oppor- tunity to punish the east for defeating their pot project, and with many of these the income tax will be supported mainly for the purpose of revenge. Looking upon the cast as the seat of the ‘‘money power” they advocate the income tax as a means of muleting that section. Mr. Livingston of Georgia declaved that tho alth of the north had been obtained by unjust taxation in favor of that scc- tion, referring, of course, to the policy of protection, and this is the spirit and sentiment which control the men who are demanding an income tax. Their disposition is that of retaliation and it is a disposition which every fair-minded man mustdeplore and condemn. The southern representatives do not fear such an income tax as the one pro- posed because they know it would be little felt in that section. They remem- ber how it was during the last five years of the first income tax, when it was as applicable to the south as to the north. Then all but an insignificant fraction of it was paid by the latter section. In 1867, when all incomes over $600 were taxed, a single one of the thirty- two collection districts in New York paid more income tax to the na- tional government than the eleven states of Virginia, Téxas, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Missis- sippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Avrkansas and Florida. In 1869 the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Massa- chusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois and California paid 75 per cent of the income tax collected by the gov- ernment, while they represented but 40 per cont of the wealth and population of the country. It is true that the south has made a great advance in material development and prosperity since the period of the first income tax, but it is questionable whether it has a larger proportion of incomes over $4,000 as compared with the north than it had in . 1867 incomes over 8600. But grant that it has and it is still true that the north will pay much the larger share of the proposed income tax and in a ratio much exceeding its wealth. Itis the knowl- edge of this that makes the south prac- tically solid 1n support of the tax. Can anybody doubt that if it were proposed to impose an income tax similar to that of 1863, which was far more just and equitable in its provisions than the one now under discussion, it wovld be vigor- ously antagonized by the south? It was strietly appropriate from every point of view that Mr. McMillin of Ten- nessee should make the opening speech in advocacy of an income tax, and if anybody can read his remarks, 50 far as reported, without find- ing justification for the charge of sectionalism and prejudice made against the supporters of the income tax proposition, there must be some fault in his mental processes. But the country may as well be propared for the success of this measure, so far as the house of representatives is concerned. The southern free traders demand it and that element dominates the house. The revenue scheme as it stands will un- doubtedly be ipassed when it comes to a vote and the majority for it will show that few democrats dare to antagonize it. What will happen in the senato is not so clearly foreseen, but there is some reason to hope for wiser action on the part of that body. AS TO CANADIAN TKADE The National Board of Trade, in ses- sion at Washington last week, adopted a vesolution proposing an amendment to the tariff bill with a view to enlarging trade with Canada on reciprocity lines. The idea of these practical men was that the tariff bill as it is, while it pro- poses to open the American market to Canadian products, does not provide any plan by which American products may find their way move freely into Canada.. Of course no attention has been or will be paid to their suggestion. The statesmen who are in charge of the new tariff bill are not concerning themselves about mwarkets for the products of this country, agricultural or manufactured. What they are seoking to accomplish is to make our home mar- ket more accessible to foreign producers, professing to believe that in this way the prosperity of our people will be on- hanced. They do not believe, so far as can he judged from their course, in com- merefal reeiprocity in any form or with anybody. The very term is offensive to them, and they propose to do away with the policy as it now exists just as soon as that can be done. They have taken astop in this direction by repealing a seetion of the McKinley law relating w0 reciprocity, the expected effect of which will be to bring about an early termination of the arrangements with ous countrics effected by the Har- rison administration, S0 far as Canada is concerned it ap- pears that her people are very well sat- isfied with the dem:ececatic policy, und eagerly hoping that it will be sue- cossful, Thoy see in it a great oppor- tunity for the agricultural interest of that country, which for years has been on the decline. Until now the Canadi- uns cage desived reciprocity, but with evorything they could reasonably ask and even more assured them under the proposed new tariff poliey of the United Statoes, they have no longer reason t wish for any such arrangement. If the democratic tariff policy goes into effect they will not only have a free mar- ket heve for nearly all of their natural products, but will be able to dispose of o considerable quantity of their manu- factured products. Certainly they could have no better or more satisfactory ar- rangement for themselves than this, and they are not called upon to make a single concession in return for the great boon of the Amerioan market. On the contrary they may, if so disposed, in- crease their tarift diserimina~ tions against th products of the United States of all kinds coming into competition with their products, and it 1s to be expected that they will do this as soon as the time arrives when it can be done expediently. . The practical men .of the National Board of Trade could plainly ses these things. They undorstand that the Americanagricultural producer, alrendy hard pressed to-make ends meet, will be placed at a still greater disadvantage when he encounters unrestricted Cana- dian competition in his homo markets, and they reasonably thought that in re- turn for this we ought to ask some con- cossions from our northern neighbors. But this 1s not according to democratic ideas. That was strictly ani distinctiy arcpublican policy, and, therefore, not to be tolerated by the purty now in con- trol of the government. NO PEAST AND NO FAMINE, The outburst of spasmodic charity which has been worked up in this city within the past few days by emotional appeals for “immediate relief” bodes no good to the multitude of destitute people. Tt simply results in a feast followed by a famine. The good people of Omaha have responded to the hysterical ery for immediate relief and piled up a mountain of perishable food. They aro falling over each other in the mad rush to feed the hungry, and for the time being there is a glut, not only of the things needful to support life, but of luxuries and delicacies, It goes with- out saying that many of the destitute have received more than they can possi- bly consume as the natural result of in- discriminate and unsystematic distribu- tion. In anothei week the reaction will set in. The feast will be over and there is danger that many will go hungry. And if a three days blizzard should set in, which is likely to happen any timo within the next six wecks, or even in the latter part of March, we may witness some terrible suffering. Now what is wanted is not spasmodic charity, but well directed, systematic relief. All charity organizations and every man and woman imbued with a desire to succor the destitute should unite their energies aod act in concert to tide over the winter. Their sole aim should be to prevent suf- fering for want of fuel, food or clothing. There is such a thing as reckless and wasteful charity, and that is precisely what we are stimulating when we resort to excessive and promiscuous distribu- tion of perishable food and provisions instead of supplying only what is needed and keeping up the work through the entire season. THE POSTAL TELEPHONE NEXT. The expiration of the principal tele- phone patents has raised the expecta- tions of the numorous patrons of the telophono that the monopoly will soon be broken, with beneficial results in the way of improved service and cheaper prices. Aftor having paid the royalty upon the exclusive privileges granted by congress for the legal term of years the people certainly have a right to de- mand that they be given some of the advantages which have accrued from this great invention now that its in- ventor has been royally rewarded. ‘Yet we doubt very much whether this reduction in the cost of telephone serv- ice 13 to be sccured through the organi- zation of rival telephone companies and the encouragement of competition. The management of the telephone has so many points in common with that of the telegraph that we cannot afford to over- look the obvious lessons that have been taught by every experiment that has been made to establish a per- manently competing telegraph sys- tem outside of the great Western Union. Every such attempt has ended in dismal failure, the smaller company being swallowed up by the greater, followed by a more than corre- sponding inflavion of thealready watered stock upon which the people aro re- quired to pay dividends in the form of exorbitant tolls, A telephone war, no matter where it may be preeipitated, cunnot be mush different from the many telegraph wars which we have had and which have always led to consolidation, When, for oxample, the Philadelphia pavers ery loudly for compotition in the telophone business, as they are now do- ing, thoy persistently ignore. the fact that competition would be disastrous to an efficient service; that the very nature of the telephone excludes the regulating influence of competition. No ono will contend that the lines alveady in exist- once are uot, with their ordinary ex- tensions, in a position to accommodate all the patrons who may apply or that the investment of large additional capi- tals will enable the work to be done any cheaper than Is now possible. A very large part of the valuo of the telephono lies in the very fact that it is conducted by a unified management as a single concern. Every patron of the telephone wants to be able to com- municate with every other patron of the telephone in the same terrvitory, and thisis plainly an impossibility where there are soveral warving competitors, What is aimed at is a reduction in price, not a decreased efficiency. It is useless then to manent rvelief from the monoploy through competition, telophons must be treated other municipal monopolies, it be compelled to pay for ali privileges for using the public streets wnd its tariff of charges should be subject sto legislative control. This policy will do for the present. In the near future the government will under- take to scquire the telegraph: of the country for operation asa part of the vostal system, and to this systom the telephone naturally belongs. Tho postal telephone and the postal telegraph are the ultimate goals of the latest postal development, both here and abroad. Relief from the telephone monopoly lies expect per- lephone The as must future not in the indiscriminate grant of tel- ephona franchisps o pretended com- poting companies, .but rnllmfi in the postal telophone,” ¢ THE ONLY: PRUE THEST. T. W. Blackburn, who has been ap- pointed city prosegufor. by Mayor Bemis, has resided in Omuha almost continu- ously for nearly. olghteon years. He has always been ancactive republican and a good citizer: He is a man of in- tegrity and standing fn the community. Although it is Jess than three years since he was admitted to the bar his firm has already an established practice and there is no question as to his compe- tency for the office, . Nevertheless some self-appointed leaders of the A. P A. say he shall not be confirmed, because he had the hardihood to state publicly in & communication to Tie BEEabout a year ago that he did not approye of the moth- ods or purposes of that organization. Such intolerance is unamerican unrepublican. Froe speech, fro and free men were the watchwords of the founders of the republican party, and no good republican will deny the right of any man, whatever be his creed, race or nationality, to speak and write his hon- est sentiments concerning any public measure, public issue or political organ- ization. If reputable men are to be pro- seribed and barred from official positions because, and only becauss, they have thecourago of their convictions and daro to express their honest sentiments about any measure or organization, what be- comes of our boasted American freedom? Republicans in and out of the council should remember that proseription for opinion’s sake is a dangerous two-edged weapon. The only crucial test which rvepublicans have a right to apply in dealing with appointees is their republi- canism and reputation for integrity. and press It 18 reported that the Canadian authorities have come to the conclusion that the experiment which they have been making in offering bounties to immigrants who wounld settle upon the lands in northwestern Canada has proven a failure and that the practice will be discontinued in another month. This does not mean that they are con- vinced of the failure of the bounty em, but that no bounty which they were in a position to offer would be a suflicient counter attraction to the natural advantages offered by the United States. The opportunitios open to every immigrant who comes to this country are in themselves a bounty powerful enough to draw the energetic from their cramped positions in European countries. So long as America con- tinues to harbor a laboring class better paid and better cared for than other lands the difference will constitute a practical bounty for immigrants, who will not fail to take advantage of it. e ANOTHER year must elapse before the reports of the Interstate Commerce com- mission will show the actual effect of the depression of the past season on the railvoad interests of the country. The report just issued from Washington simply carries the operations of the rail- roads of the country up to June 30, 1893, and the business depression had just set in at that date. 'Enough is known, how- ever, to assure investors that the six months foilowing June 30 were ex- tremely disastrous as far as railroad operations are concerned. It is to be re- gretted that some method cannot be de- vised which will enable the commission to bring its statistics up to the times. POLITICAL lightning struck so close to Omaha yesterday that thece is reason to hope that the next bolt will reach this side of the Missouri river. Bx- Congressman Tom Bowman becomes postmaster at Council Bluffs, as was fora- shadowed exclusively in THE BEE, not- withstanding the fact that he went all the way to Washington to use his influ- ence in another candidate’s behalf. Bowman’s appointment is a mere streak of luck, but there are numerous demo- crats in waiting here who would give a great dea) for a taste of Bowman’s luck, EVEN the most flamboyant imagina- tion has as yet failed to see in the rec- onciliation between Emperor William and Prince Bismarck the assurance of the long promised European war. The incident possesses no international significance and may be taken as an evidence that benvath all his frivolity the youthful emperor of the Germans possesses a heart that can be warmed to friendship for the man whose genius gave the empire of Germany to Burope. THE unexpected opposition of Richard Croker, the Tammany chieltain, to the income feature of the Wilson bill has a sinister significance which the dem- ocratic majority in congress will dis- regard toits sorrow. Your Tammany chieftain has an unpleasant wmanner of righting what he considers a mistaken picco of legislation, He simply over- turns majorities and trusts to future campaigns for a majority more com- placent to his ideas. INTEREST in the tariff debate this week will bu somewhat overshadowed by the projected contest in the United States supreme courtover the legality of Secretary Carlisle’s proposed bond issue. Aside from their mere legal as- pects there is a well:fdunded doubt as to the expedience of the contest to be started by the Knights of Labor, Ir THE contest between Senator Hill and the president icontinues much Jonger it will soon be 'necessary for No- braska laborors in the democratic vine- yard to forward their petitions for place to the New York genator. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: I'UESDAY, JANUARY 30, I89L NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. J. M. Snyder has been elected president of the Sherman County alliance. Charles C. Page, o young man from Tili- nois, now fills the editorial chair of the Hold- rege Progress, To advertiso Butte and Boyd counties the Butte Gazetto urges the resurroction of the defunct board of trade Bertrand shipped a total of 831 cars dur- ing 1803, consisting of 002 cars of grain, 119 of stock and twenty of broom corn An irrigation convention of delegates from the four northwestern counties of the state is to be held av Crawford February 6. itor Barnes of the McCook Times- Democrat has taken unto himself Mr. O. N. Poterson as a partuer In his journalistio miserios, Furnas county expects a building boom as 800n a8 spring comes, and work in the quar- ries around Beaver City is even now boing vigorously pushed. Out in Custer county a jack rabbit roundup is designated a wolf hunt if tho party succeeds in bagging one wolf to ove fifteon of the smaller gamo. A Table Rock editor records that a fellow- townsthan who iost a horse recently while leading the animal to water knew not that it was sick until it began to drop dead. J. . Rosenberger,a Nebraska City barber, wagered his long auburn locks on ‘the out- come of the prize fight. He now hos : cold in placn of his handsome head of b Valentine wants a city hall and oper: house. It is suggested that twonty of her ms contribute each $100 to the enter- e and form themselves into n company. Alliance children have outgrown the ac- commodation of their public school. The en- rollment so far this year has roached 340 pupils. Every wock, save one, since the school opened in September new names hav been added to theroll. - Another teacher has recently been engaged to aid in the grammar ciment, 2-400-pound heifer Tierneys of Broken which was sold Bow South was purchased by a Jersey City belioves he can feed her up so that by the end of another year she will weigh 3,000 pounds. She would then be the largest cow known to Americ 'he town of Maynard has a budding sen- sation. When tho town was started a fe- male barber named Mrs. Hitt opened a bar- ber shop, and all the male population for miles around flocked to her chair to be shaved. The female portion of the wvillage became suspicious and held an 1indignation meeting. This did no good. Saturday Mrs, “Buck’ Neligh called upon tho beress and notitied her to leave at once, his she has not yot done, Harry ae Merritt, the bad man from Custer county, with two or three shooting affrays to his credit. has started in a new line of business. Last week he pleaded guilty in court to assaulting Mrs. Shroat, a teacher in district No. 82, throe mil east of Broken Bo The lady drove acr a corner of his hay farm, instead of follow- ing the laid out road that goes around the claim, and instead or proceeding against her in u légal way on a charge of trespass the ungallant and unmaunerly man resorted to physical force, ,ors in the northeast portion of Buf- falo county are having their lives made weari- some by a gang of cattlo thieves. The bold bandits, ind are content with almost any kind of live animal. They take hogs or chickens or whatever comes in their reach. Recently they made a raid on the hog pen of a farmer near Ravenna and took twelve fat, hogs, leaving in their sie¢ad the same num- ber of scrawny pigs. A note tacked on the fence read: *‘Get these ready for market as soon as possible and we will be back after them. Good nizht.” There is talk of or- ganizing a vigilance committee. = PEOPLE AND THINGS, If Rio is kept in hot water much longer it will settle itseif. Reducing the duty on cod liver oil will tend to soften the coffin next fall. Later det: contradict the report that Mitchell declined to take Corbett's hand. Colonel Tom Ochiltree lost his watch in New York and is in a mood to Corbettize the thief. Time! The debate on the diamond schedule of the tariff,bill shows that orators, like death, love a shining mark. The president of Hayti is elected for seven years at an anaual salary of §24,000. Hence the occasional scrimmage. Mrs. Gladstone is 81 years old and she possesses that vigor and vitality which is so remarkable in her husband. Having resumed the tobacco habit after a lapse of four years, Tom Reed counts three cigars a day & working quorum. The objection of the administration to the nude figure on the Columbian medal was not against its artiseic features, but be- cause the nakedness mirrored prematurely the effect of vhe tariff bill. The Lodge in some vast wilderness the poet sighed for has nothing in common with Tenry Cabot, the Massachusctts senator, who has just completed a $100,000 residence on Massachusetts avenue, Washingion. The paramount minister sent to iavite TLobengula to come into camnp is prepared to secure peace oven if he is obliged to fight for it. His supply of olive branches consists of machine guns with 500 men to pump them. “Increasing the duvy on diamonds,” ex- claimed the exchange editor, ‘“was a blow aimed at the profession, but it falls short of the mark. Our attachment for paste sur- vives the storms and vituperations of low- browed statesmen.” Bourke Cockran came to this country in 1871, poor aud with only a fair education, He worked and studied hard and it was not long before his talents were recognized. He 15 now regarded as one of the wealthiest lawyers in the country. Dr, Cyrus Edson's experiments with a view to curing smallpox by the mid of red nghtrecalls the big run Geweral Pleasanton’s blue glass fad bad for a time. And lots of people believed the blue light cured them of various ills or benefited their general health, Mrs. John Braddock, a native of Hungary, who wus sent to Siberia for oxpressing political opinions in Potersburg, was said to be 80 years old when sho escaped from Siberia and made her way to this coun try forty yearsago. She died in Hazleton, ; Inst week. Tom Reed has begun his campaign for the prosideucy, and in_a practical way. The members of the house have a habit of bring- ing their little children in on the floor of the house occasionally. Whenever a republican member does this Reed is eful to take the child on his lap, talk to it, and tell it stories. The lute George Washington of Savannah was o great-grandson of Lawren ington, a brother of the great G wis & North Carolinian by bivth, uate of Yale and a luwyer. His age was 70 years, Before the war Mr. Washington was an old- line Whig, but when hostilities bogan he ast his lot with the confederacy. Mrs. Annie S. Austin, the newly elected mayor of Pleasanton, Kun., 1s described as “'a buxom woman of 200 pounds, and quite intelligent.” Her husbana is a* railroad em- ploye. -She wns the leading speaker in the Campnign which resulted in her election, and olectioneered so cleverly that sho weat into oftice with & majority of twelve votes. A Connecticut youth is trying to break his father's will on the ground that the old gentlomun was not in his right mind when he made it. As a proof of his extreme ecc- centricity évidence has been produced show- ing that he was caught in the act of kissing a governess within a few hours after her lu- stallation. There can be no doubt that this conduct smacks of insanity, uniess ivcan be Shown that the gOverness was an irresisti- Dle vision of animated loveliness. In that avent the old man's sanity was above par, He Highest of all in Leavening Power.=Latest U. S. Gov't Report, Rl Baking Powder ABSOILUTELY PURE OLD WINE A8 A FEACEMAKER. Boston Globe: Prince Bismarck and Bm- peror William are to moot and kiss with o | smaclk tnat will be heard all over Europe. | Washington Star: Tho p 1 of n bottle | of wine from the emperor of Germany to Bismarck may bo morely n ruso to populurity with the German temperance vote. Philadelphis Timos: In friondly meeting Bismarck the emperor: *1 bow to the and Wilhelm will answer: same.” Chicago Journal: Hoch! The compliments of the season, and wili Princo Bismarck ac- cept the distinguished consideration of Em- poror Wilhelm and a bottle of rare old Rhenish wein! Chicago Times: Jmperor William and Bismarck having kissed and made up, there might bo hope for the reconciliation of Cleveland and Hill if the president had the German emperor's sensc, Chicago Herald: The offect will bo gra- cious on the natioual spirit of Gormany; i it, us roported, it was Crispi, restored to premiorship at Romo, who brought it about, the motive will bo found in an_ invizorated domestic policy in Ttaly and the londing of money enough’ by Cierman bankers to get the nnances of a tottering dynasty into at least temporary working order. Cincinnati Commercial: The reconcilia- tion between the kaiser and Prince Bismarck doos not necessarily mean that the ‘“old man of blood and iron" is again to be in- trustod with the reins of government. It means rather that Caprivi will stay to_do the bidding of the master,and that Bis- marck, as fav as possible, will be used to emblance of indorsement to the imperial policies. The kaisor 1s a wily young man. Chicago Post prises, pares in novelt German the fires of ro flercely for four years styled “that presumptuous boy," then wino has at last been put to o use { Neal Dow would not condemn, When the lying enemies of Grant sought to weaken Lincoln's confidence in that famous soldier they told him that Grant spent the greater part of his time in drinking whisky. *Tell me the brand,” said the president, ‘‘and I will send o 'barrel to every officer in the army.” 1t would be interesting to know tho brand of wine which has reconciled tho enmities of Bismarclk and \William 11, R e Prodding that Pays. Norfolk Jowrnal. ever clse may be said of Tur OMATA hand at awakening the public officiuls. Sinco Tue Beg began stirring up the question of deposits of state funds there is a large in- crease in the number of banks that are will- ing to pay interest on such deposits. S R An Unfortunate Union, Loutsville Courier-jownal, It is unfortanate, wo thinlc, that it ha been decided by the democrats of tho hous to tack the income tax to tho Wilson bi While it is not probable that it will defeat the Wilson bill in the house, it may en- danger it, and there is no good reason for such cs. Every tub should stand on its own bottom. their coming will remark to popular Will," “1 Otto say the William is full hed none t com- v with this. If the founder empire ha rowned in wine ontment which have flamed inst whom he of sur- Wha BEE, itis a_good Pushing Irrig Kea ney § The question of irrigation 1s being brought to tho attention of the people of the west with a force never before equaled. In most of the western counties of this state local organizations have been perfected and pub- lic agitation of the question has been wide- spread and general. The organization in this county is officered by wide awake and progressive men. If othier countics are as fortunate in this respect much good may be expected when all organizations make a united pull for a single purpose. e Tim Sedgwick's Surprise Party, Lincoln Herald, It is a maiter of some surprise to seo Colonel Sedgwick of the York Times make the following ferocious thrust at the rail- roads: In fact there has been a good deal of an- archist talk in Nebraska, and if men can be taken at their word thoro iro somo anjrchists hero wlho would seriously object to being calied such. When u man runs contrary to existing government, when ho defies the liws, damns tho constitution, refuses to submit to the mandates of the court and resists oflicers of_the law, he is an anarchist. That's the talk. Brother Sedgwick knows thav the law is for the great as well as for the small, for the rich as well as for the poor, and he is a man who is not afraid to say s Hurran for the awakening of Brother Sedgwick! — - Farmers und Sugar Beots. Elkhorn Exchange, There is being great interest manifested by the promoters of tho sugar beet project, they having formed committees for the pur- pose of canvassing the farmers to secure tho required acreage. It is to be hoped that every farmer willdo his part, and thus se- cure for Douglas county the sugar factory, which will give employment to many, and besides raise the value of every foot of real estate 1n this and adjoining counties. We would be pleased to see some of our Elkhorn farmers get a move on them una do their share toward securing the proposed factory. Other towns, especially Valley and Millard, have been making quite an effort in the way of contracting acreage of beets, but us yot our Elkhorn people have done but very little. Don’t get bebhind; get a hustle on hako his | which even | youand make & sho SIZED UP IN FIGUKES, The Bee Prints the News, While Woula<Be Rivals Don't, Just to show its readers how much they are gotting the best of it Tk Bre has again made a comparison of the amount of rending matter in Tur Bex, the World-Herald and the Lincoln Journal of yesterday. 'I'he figuros follow Monsixa Brr long, wido columns Morning W SHOTL, NAFTOW Columns incoln Journal, Short, NArFow coluning. VENING BEE, long, wide columns. vening W.-11., short, nurrow columng “Tho best is the cheapest. 42 20 7 2% Suggosts an Agao. Honwells Journal One yoar ago the Nebraska legislature passed ‘a maximam freight rate measure, While tho bill was not all that had been hoped for and was no doubt fauity in somo respocts, yet it was a move 1n tho right diroetion and the people in e rojoiced that it had become a law., The railroads used every means in thoir power to provent this measuro being made a_law, but after it had been passed and signed by the governcr they announced that thoy would not fight it, but would reduce thefr rates to comply with tho bill. = This statement on their part was too good to bo true and the peoplo ro not at all surprised wheu ¢ attorneys saveral railroads doing business in ka commenced procecdings in the 1 court to test the constitutionality of o Since that time nothing has ard to the law and still chareing their old rates. ow tho people of Nebraska would like to know how much longer 1t will be before the court will hand down 1ts decision in d to the law in question? Many think that it would not be at all out of the way v the members of the State Board of Transportation to order a reduction in freight rates, the same to remain in effect until the court should hand down 1ts decision in regard to the maximum freight rate meas- ure, i in view of events this is asking too much of a bord that has done little more si ation than make excuses for the It is fair to pre- sumo that the court will render its decision before the meeting of the next stato legisla- ture, 80 that if the law is declared unconsti- tutional one may be passed thav wiil stand tho test. Thoe way things stand at present it looks very much as though the courts are in league with the railroads, st A Contliot of Laws. Philadelphia Record. The provisions of the proposed incomo tax bill, relating to tho taxation of the revenues of corporations, would seriously encroach upon tho domain of the several atates, Apart from the centralizing and socialistio tendencies of this proposed legislation, ita offect would be to causea conflict of laws, with both the federaland state governments tapping the same stream of revenue. — There Are No Flies on Us. Fatrury Fairplay. Tre Owana Beg is walking right along in 1ts usually industrial path and furmshing the peoplo of Nebraska as _reliable news over. _The plague of a fly bothereth not the busy BEg. tho —————— POINTED REMARKS. Boston Transcript: The tattoo artlst has designs on his customers. Tho outcome of a man's Buffalo Courler: ys Is largely dependent upon courtship nowad: his income. Philadelphia Record: A Maine man smoked a cigar won from a slot machino and fell dead. Maun-slot-er! Binghamton Republican: A streot car con- ductor knows what tho wild waves are saying Whon he sees & woman wivo her parasol. Indfanapolis Journal: Watts—Do you sup 0s0 these meteors we see somotlmes com rom some other world? Potts—From the way thoy blazo, T should sy that they must conie from the néxt world. Tarper's Bazar: Pat—Phat bo that yezare dhrinkin' wid yer whisky? Mike—Apollinuris, Pat Pat—How duz it taste? Mike—As If me fut wor aslape! Washington Star: “Does literature vay," asked the talor. Tshould suy so," replied the country oditor. very tinio wo print a poom the author comes in and buys at loast twenty coples of the paper to sond awvay.” < Life: City Editor—Well, what did about that accident on the P. 1. & New Roportor—Ql, It was nothing. City Ed- itor—Nothing! Why, the dispatehes say 1t w terrible! New Reporter—Well, T just came from the president of the road, and” he ought 10 know. Pusk say, de lYuwl)mlllffiivfl it up. tle seems to be trylni to mauufacgure a word about twenty syllabl long. : Young Wito—Tsn't that lovely! He'll b & great scientist some day! u learn R. R.? Young Wife—What is baby trying to Tndianapolis Journal: “My dear youth,'* sl the solemn old gentleman, “did you not Kknow. that playing marbles fov kedps was gambling?" “1s that s0?" asked the small boy in groat astonishment. “W'y, T always thought gam- Diing wus something'wicked." EQUAL TO THE OCCASION. New York Press What hours of happiness I spent That day behind the speedy span, When Joytully I slelghing went, With SarahAnn. Tho lovelight sparkled in her eyo, Tor cheeks glowed with crimson tint; 8he took the reins from me, and [— I took the hint. The largest maie & co. fine clothes on Earth Your monoey’s worth or your monoy back. d931laes ot = AnoAr AsasAs A i a suit ference. length of time. choice of a fine selection of at 50g a tie. EASA AT AR, Ao chance again. You may BROWNING, Will pay the express If you send the money for §20 wortfi or more Foreign or Domestie. It makes but little difference to the purchasers, but when the Lewis full fashioned underwear, that sells never for less than $3.50 to $4.50 a piece, goes at a straight $2 a garment; or when Dr. Warner's well known underwear that retails for $5 and $6 goes garment—.then it does make a dif- g cause we' won't buy any more—oan't afford to sell such fine goods and sell them at such ruinous prices for any Also some awfully low prices on broken sizes of other underwear. As drawing card we have put in all our 506 four-in-hands and tecks at a quarter a- tie. know when we say double value, it's so. | S. W. Cor.15th and l)uugl.ls.sti health for only $1.50 a We won't do it long, be- 1l be sold out—then we We will, also, give our $1.50 and $1 neckties You No such be too late if you wait. KING & CO.,