Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 2, 1894, Page 4

4 PSRN SRS THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Editor. o TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Tee (without Sunday) One Yenr Datly and Sunday. On Months Bunday Bee, One Baturday Bee. Ong ¥ Weekly Tlee, On Ye: OFFIC s Tlding and Twenty-for £y omahn. The 1 Sonith Omalia, cor 11 T T, 19 P YooniA 13, 1 100, 611 Fourte COUNESVONDERCE. . ANl communieations relating 10 s and edi- (i matter should be add To the EAIL BUSINESS LETTERS A huntnesa efter and Fomit wued o T Publishiiig cor cw and postofMen orders 10 tie order of the company. {111 BEE PUBLISHING COMPA Wanh el o Ahomd bo ny, Omana. be made 5 of Dotiglas, | B: Tzselnck, secretary of Tre Der Pub- Jany, doew solemnly 8w tho “ition of TILk DATLY BER for the week follows Gro, B Tzsene Wbsceribod (n my pres- January, 1 i ————————____ 1f Mr. Wiley is to dictate who shall not be city electrician the mayor had better nomi- nate Mr. Wiley, or better still, let us abolish the office. Kem has been heard from on the tarift. Mr. Kem may now draw the next install- ment of his congressional salary without the slight pangs of consclence. i Y heard nothing f relative to the crusade this spring. 1 and desirable. We have ym the park commission a tree planting scems to us both practi The park commission expended over $4,000 last year for an engineer. Why can't the city engineering department be required to make the park surveys and park maps? What excuse Is there for wasting money? The state auditor of M usetts esti- mates that the state tax needed for the en- suing year will be $500,000 less than last year. No such good fortune for most of the forty-three other states in the union. There is room for the suspicion that the fnsurance companies are quictly endeavor- ing to force a sentiment in Nebraska in favor of the repeal of the valued policy law placed upon the statute books several years ago. Although congress has decided to increase the tax on whisky by 10 cents a gellon, the price of the diluted fluid will remain unal- tered. " A change in the amount of water called for by the formula for diluting will 1ill the bill. The railway managers have made their usual annual announcement that free pass privileges have been discontinued. These good resolutions are made every year only to be broken when the political campaigns open in earnest. Lawyers in the senate are evidently in frreconcilable disagreement as to the power vested In the sccretary of the treasury un- der the bond act of 1875. After the bonds shall have been issued, they will be welcome 1o keep up their expest facto debate. The Bell telephone monopoly will undoubt- edly adopt the tactics of the Western Urion Telegraph company and by increasing its capigal stock to an enormous figure prepare to buy out weaker, but. ambitious compet- itors. The Dell company has evidently come to stay. The Towa reformers who propose to put an end to prize fighting by prohibiting news- papers from printing reports of battles in the ring should formulate a bill to prohibit men from thinking about :he subjest. As long as prize fights are permitted che ncws- papers will report them. Mr. Hornblower Is recelving congratula- tions in many quarters over the fact that as a refected nominee for a place on the bench of the supreme court of the United States he has been made one of a very distinguished company of lawyers and jur- ists who at one time or another have shared a similar fate. Rather poor consolation, we should judge. Confirmation would have made him one of a much more numerous company of distingulshed men who have been honored with membership in our su- preme court. Suppose the ward assessors make a note of the prices asked for the different sites proposed for the new market house to be flled away for roference when next they make up the tax lists for the annual levy. A comparison of the assessed values and the estimates set upon the property by their owners might assist the officers in a moro efficient discharge of their duties than is usually the case. Property is never quoted 50 low as when listed for taxation, nor ever quoted so0 high as when offered for sale to the public. The Nebraska railroads never held the people of the state in higher contempt than they do at the present time. In spite of the fact that the legislature, after years of earncst insistence upon the part of the peo- ple, placed a maximum rate law upon the statute books, a law faithfully modeled upon one already declared constitutional by the supreme courts ot Iowa and other states, the railronds have conspired to defeat the objects of the law by flimsy pretexts. They are only able to do this by the assistanco of courts outside of the jurisdiction of the states. Madison county's farmers institute wants Governor Crounse to summon the legls- lature in extra session to take precautionary measures against the further spread of the Russian thistle. Inasmuch, however, as the governor has up to this time declined to issue a call to the legislature to pass upon soveral other questions of even more urgent importance than this ‘“pestiferous weed" it is unlikely that he will heed this demand of the farmers institute. Should it be de- cided to reconvene the legislature it skonld not be restricted in its action to the consid- eration of the Russian thistle. The Philadelphia Press, alluding to the pro- Joct of a beet sugar factory to be erected at Omaha and the settlement of a large col- ony of Poles in Nebraska to cultivate beet farms, adds that the votes In congress dur: ing the past week removing the sugar bounty and making all sugar free will doubt- less put an end to the entire undertaking. And yet these Nebraska congressmen are on record against the investment of forelgn capital In an industry that would add mil- lions to our wealth and keep other millions that go out of the state every year for the purchase of sugar In circulation among our owa people. | PASSED THE HOUSE. The tarift bill, embracing democratic revenue scheme, passed the house yesterday by a vote of 203 to 140, The total membership of the house Is 352, classified as follows: Democrats, 216; re- publicans, 125; popullsts, twelve. There were nine members who did not vote. The result shows that the number of democrats who voted against the bill was loss than had been expected, and that the disciplinary work--of the leaders was offective. The popullsts, it Is presumed, all voted for the Dbill, so that deducting these from the af- firmative vote it fs shown that 191 demo- crats out of the 216 In the house cast thelr for the measure. Estimates of the number of democrats who wenll vote against the bill, because opposed to an in- come tax, ranged from thirty-six to fitty, o that the result domonstratos how litt reliance can be placed upon such estimatos. The fact {5 that when brought to the test very fow men have the courage to put thom- selves on record In opposition to a com- manding party poliey, however strong their objections may be to particular features of it. The passage of the tariff bill by a majority of 63 15 to be regarded as a decisive victory for the freo trade and income tax elemeont of the democracy and will undoubtedly stimu- lato it to make a vigorous effort for the suc- cess of the bill In the senate. The demo- cratic majority in that body, however, is so small as to warragt the hope that important changes will be made in the measure and that the Income tax proposition will be dropped. It is thought that perhaps a dozen democratic senators do not approve of this tax and if it should transpire that half that number are firmly opposed to it they could, by uniting with the republicans, de- feat tho tax. There is only one thing, how- over, that can be counted upon with any degroe of certainty and that is that the tarift bill will receive a more extended dis- cussion in the senate than it did In the house and the privilege which the repub- licans have of making the debate unlimited may enable them to secure some material modifications, It is understood that they do not intend to employ obstructive tactlcs, but they will take ample time for the thorough discussion of the measure and it 1s highly probable this will extend over two or three months, Senator Voorhees, chalrman of the finance committee, which will have charge of the bill, significantly remarked a few days ago that he was In favor of a revenue measure. As the Wilson bill con- templates a 1oss of revenue it may not have the approval of Mr. Voorhees and some other democratic senators. tho votes NO POOR MAN'S PARTY WANTED, A latest attempt to launch a political party, reported from interior Illinois, makes its appeal for popularity upon an aitogether novel line. The proclaimed object is to organize a poor man's party and to find its strength in the fact that there are more poor men in the country than there are rich men. It is easily scen that if the poor could be arrayed solidly against the rich with the sole dividing line of comparative wealth, the former would easily outnumber the latter and have things quite their own way. For the present, of course, its scope is to be local only, but if successful in its alms in a local field the principle would not fail to secure a wider recognition. The platform of the proposed poor man's party consists in the one pledge that no man whose possessions are valued at over $1,500 is to be given a nomination for office or to re- ceive the support of the organization The vossession of $1,500 is to be the insurmount- able barrier that will keep the proscribed candidates for public office from attaining the goals of their ambitions. Not that the new party will refuse to extend its member- ship to men having more than the designated amount of wealth, but if they join they must do 50 with the distinct understanding that they are to have no share in the spoils, and it may be anticipated that such a condition will put an effectual damper on all outside support. How the managers of the mnew party are to ascertain the exact value of each candidate's worldly possessions or what is to be done in case a candidate suddenly falls heir to a rich estate between the day he was nominated and the day of election are questions with which the platform has not yet ventured to deal. We infer that the poor man’s party will discourage all second term candidactes, since it must be a poor officer indeed who Is unable to save enough during his first incumbency to raise himselt beyond the $1,500 limit. But seriously speaking, every attempt to found a political party on wealth, as on religion, must fail of itself because it has no elements of stability. Every man has ambition to obtain a moderate competence at some not far distant day, and will not subscribe to a rule that may soon be turned against himself. Worse than this, tho test of wealth is most subversive of democracy. It substitutes a hard and fast line in the place of merit and principle. Instead of considering each proposition on its own promise of good, it asserts that poor men cin exact only laudable legisla- tion. Instead of welghing the claims of each candidate for office on the scales of true worth, 1t afirms in advance that the poor man is more deserving than his more wealthy rival, simply for the remson that he has failed to amass a certain prescribed amount of wealth. A party established upon such sordid motives cannot possibly hold Its members together, and it is for- tunate that this Is so, because otherwise a republican’ form of government would not long continue saf NEW YORK CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS. On last Tuesday, the day of the elections in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth congres- sional districts in New York City, the Times referred to them as of national im- portance, That paper said: “The Wilson bill is undoubtedly the main issue at the present time. It Is of the utmost Importance that the support of it should be strength- ened and the opposition to it diminished, to the end that the country may have a falr chance to try a just and rational system of custom house taxation, instead of the out- rageous, inequitable and unjust system at present in force.” In this way the Times, as a democratic organ, acknowledged that the democtatic tarilf was the issue before the voters of the two congressional dis tricts and 1t earnestly appealed (o them to strengthen the supporters of that policy by electing the democratic candidates in those districts. “The election of a single momber from the city of New York, the chief port of the United States,” sald the Times, “who opposes the principle of the Wilson bl would have a more calamitous effect upon the cause of tariff reform than the election of halt a dozen members in any other part of the country.” It declared it to be of the utmost importance that the democratic candidates should be elected by a majority 8o decided as to show that the people of New York are of the same mind now in respect to tariff reform that they were when the regular congressional elec- tlons were held. The Times did not exaggerate the fm- portance of these elections in their bearing upon what it acknowledged to be the main issue and which in fact was the ouly issue presented to the voters of those districts. The result is highly interesting and instruc- tive from the point of view of the leading democratic organ of the Empire state. 1 e e —————————————————— e e e 6t e, ( entire | cent t | THE Fourteentl district elected a demo congross by a majority exceeding id the democratic majority in the Fifteenth district at the same time was over 11,000, Last Tuesday the former district elected a rgpublican to congress, & man who believes fully in the policy of protection to American industries and earnestly advoeated this policy in his campaign. He told his constituents that he_belioved his clection WOUI 1uve an {Mportint mmuenc ble to the Wilson bill and appealed to them to cast their votes with this end in view. Tho large democratic majority of 1802 was overcome and for the first time a republican will represent in congress the Fourteenth district of New York City. It was not a purely partisan vietory. It was an em- phatic protest against the democratic tariff policy, made by the thousands of working- men in the district, who are having a most unhappy object lesson of what that policy means for them. In the Fifteenth district the result had the same significance, for although the democratic candidate was elected the democratic wajority of 1802 was cut down nearly two-thirds, showing that thousands of democratic workingmen in that district do not approve of the policy being carried out at Washington. How much influence the result of these elections will have upon the democrats in congress it is impossible to say, but it is to be presumed that some of them will not tnsensible or indifferent to the obvious warning it conveys. The democratic sena- tors from New York will hardly fail to see in it an appeal to them to insist upon ma- terlal modifications of the tarift bill which was the lssue in these elections, and, as shirewd politicians, they will be very likely to heed it. That others may be similarly influenced s by no means improbable. The importance of these elections as indicating popular sentiment is apparent and the dem- ocratic party may learn from them that their control of the popular branch of con- gress Is assuredly limited to one term. OMAHA 8,000 uniay be PECULIAR FINANCIERING. The following extract from Comptroller Olsen’s annual report throws a side light upon the peculiar financiering and manage- ment of the public library board: Amount in library fund, $24952.03, leav- ing a balance in fund of $11,352.93. In the library bond fund there Is only a balance of $9,778.63, and the directors claim that they will need all in both funds to finish up the library building, and insist that they must have a 1 mill levy for the present year. Your comptroller is not able to make any estimate of his own, as he is not in possession of the various contracts for the construction of the building. The surplus of over $11,000 now in the li- brary fund was raised by last year's tax levy for the maintenance and support of the pub- lic library. That means for the payment of current expenses, including salaries, rent, supplies and for the purchase of new books and periodicals. What right has the board now to divert this fund into the building for which the citizens of Omaha have voted $100,000 of bonds? This $100,- 000 was the limit fixed by the library bond proposition and ratified by the voters. Why should the board now demand the levy of a 1 mill tax for the coming year when they will have no rent to pay. With all due respect to the members of the board individually, The Bee is compelled to reiterate that the course they have pur- sued in connection with this library build- ing is almost indefensible. In the first place, they acccepted a donation of a lot with a re- versionary string tied to it. Should the city of Omaha grow in the next twenty-five yoars as it has during the last quarter of a century, we shall outgrow the new library building and forfeit the property to the heirs of the donor whenever it is vacated. In the next place, the hoard concluded that the lot donated for the library site was not large enough and thereupon it purchased an adjoining ot for §18,000 which was not worth exceeding $10,000 in cash. The bond proposition called for a fireproof building, but the board has given us a building with a wooden rafter roof. Why this was done has not yet been satis- factorily explained. To be sure we will have a very respectable library building. But wo have taxed the people on $18,000 for an extension of tife site. Weo have alreaay paid $5,000 interest on bonds and will con- tinue to be taxed at that rate annually for years to come. If, on top of this, the $11,- 000 in the library fund is to be swallowed up and a 1-mill tax levy imposed for this year besides, we shall be paying dearly for our whistle. REED ON THE TARIFF BILL. Hon. Thomas B. Reéd made the closing speech on the tariff bill on the part of the republicans and judged from the abstract sent to the press it was an effort worthy of the distinguished republican leader. He pointed out that the bill was odious to both sides of the house—to those who favor pro- tection and those who want free trade. Mr. Reed characterized the growth of the In- dustrial system of the country under the economic policy that has prevailed during the past thirty-three years as “a splendid monument to that series of successful states- men who found the country bankrupt and distracted and left it first on the list of the nations.” Referring to the vaunted example of England, Mr. Reed said that he had carefully studied her history and was amazed to find how little the example of England could teach. He regarded the question of wages as the vital question and declared that “to insure our growth in civilization and wealth we must not only have wages as high as they are now, but constantly and steadily increasing.” This was not a desire having its origin in love for the Individual, but in love for the nation. Mr. Reed stated an undeniable truth when he said the American market is the best in the world and that this was due to the higher wages of labor here. He pointed out that the democratic tariff policy pro- poses to lower wages and so lessen the American market, and having done this, to divide the market with somebody clse, and all for tha chance of getting the markets of the world. No more preposterous assump- tion is made by the advocates of the new revenue policy than that regarding our chances of capturing tho markets of the world under the policy they propose, and (hat, too, as they most absurdly contend, without lowering the price of American labor. “Are not wages the cost of produc- tlon?" asked Mr. Reed. “If the difference between the cost of production here and in England be not equalized by the duty, then our cost of production must go down or we must go out.”” It cannot be otherwise, and there is not a single sound or substantial reason upon which to rest the theory that we can successfully compete with countries where the cost of production Is much less than here and maintain the American rate of wages in our manufacturing industries, Mr. Reed dealt summarily with the olatm that the farmers will be benefited by the new tarift policy. “If, with cities growing up like magle,” he sald, ‘“‘manufacturing villages dotting every eligible seat and all swarming with mouths to be filled, the producers of food are worse off than when half this country was a desert, 1 abandon sense In favor of political economy.” He said that if the hope of agriculture Is In English free trade, those engaged In agri- culture had better ponder on the fact that while the wages of artisans have increased in England $2.43 per week since 1850, wages of agricultural laborers have increased 73 eents, and while the the only Lan 2, 1894, 14 tp tactories live as well s anybody exégpt Americans, the as. ricultural laborers jare, hardly better off than the continentak! pemsantry. England’s example will not 4§ fo¢ agriculture, said Mr. Roed. In dificfading, the distin- guishied republican lpader said he fully un- derstood how vain it was to appeal to that tribunal in the contrpl of men determined to break down the Hygtém of protection to American industry ,and American labor, but “in the larger field before the mightier tribunal which will ‘finatly and forever do- cide this question, #e ‘#hall be more than conquerers.” Can anybody doubt what the result would be if an appeal could be taken now to that mightier: tribunal, the people, upon this question of atjandoning the fiscal policy under which the country has grown and prospered and attained the first place on the list of the nations? Increasing the whisky tax by 10 cents with- out altering the length of the bonded period allowed 1s much more defensible as a revenue measure than was the whisky schedule as reported from the ways and means commit- tee. The committee bill was, it Is claimed, the result of an understanding between its members and representatives of the whisky trust by which the latter was to withdraw all objections to a change in the tax in re- turn for an extension of the time for pay- ment from three to cight years. The result of this would have been not merely to post- pone the collection of the additional tax for five years, but also that of the present tax. Instead of increasing the revenue derived from whisky it would practically have cut it off entirely during the time when it is most needed by enabling the whisky trust to keep all its stock fn bond without pay- ing a cent. This privilege would be cheaply bought by them for the extra 10 cents pay- able in five years, But while congress was about it, it might have gone further and placed the whisky tax sufficiently high to cover a good part of the gap In the revenues. But that is not the kind of a revenue tariff the democratic majority wants. cashire operatives The decision of the supreme court upon the two test cases submitted to it to de- termine the legality of the state depository law as relating to current funds and the law requiring the investment of the educa- tional funds in state warrants, will be awaited with no little interest. The court will determine two questions of vital fm- portance to the taxpayers of the state. It their decisions shall be favorable to the taxpayers, the illegal practices which have prevailed in the state treasurer’s office for nearly twenty years will be ended. The complaint comes from the Iowa state capital that the salaries of too many state officials are unreasonably high. Here in Nebraska some state salaries are unreason- ably high and others unreasonably low. In Nebraska the chief justice of the supreme court draws $2,600 per year, while each of the men who pose as secretaries of the State Board of Transportation draw $2,000 per year. If the secretaries earn their sal- aries the judges of the supreme court should receive at least $10,000 per annum, e One is forcibly remindled by the present railroad situation of thé famous picture of the Tweed ring, in which Boss Tweed and his fellow conspirators are ranged in a eir- cle, each pointing to the man rext beside him. Each of the transcontinental raflway managers is accusing the other of having first cut rates and seeks to excuse his own action on that ground., They have all been Biving secret rebates so long that it is im- possible to learn which fhaugurated the rate cuting. Among thé Rock Denvar News. The administration’ has struck the rocky portion of its route. Cleveland got a_fear- fully hard joit in the scnate when Horn- blower was dumped off the wagon, and now Carlisle has run against a_congressional rock pile which threatens 'to ditch his financial apple cart. S A ‘Will the Senate Check the Mob? Chicago Lccord. It is reasonably clear that if an honest and earncst effort were made in the senate to improve the tarift bill it could be trans- formed into an acceptable revenue measure sufficlently protective to guard the interests of American labor and the legitimate in- terests of American capital. A determined effort to comply with the promises of the Chicago platform of 1592 would do the husiness. That democratic document, how- ever, has been flung aside for the garnered wisdom of the income-taxers. ey Mr. Childs on Death. NewYork Commercial. The illness of Mr. George W. Childs of the Philadelphia Ledger seems to grow more and more serious. Mr. Childs is now 64 years of age, and his recovery from his présent attack is doubtful. The great Kind- ness and benevolence of Mr. Childs have endeared him to all who knew him, and it can be said that the death of no journal- ist today in this country would produce greater sorrow than that of Mr. Childs, To a party of friends, whom Mr. Childs was_showing over his splendid newspaper establishment a short time ago, he sald: t is one of my comforts to know that I have arranged the machinery of this of- fice from top to bottom S0 thoroughly that if I were to die tomorrow I would not be missed—everything would go on just as though I were here. And now that my life work is pretty nearly ended, the only thing that I am really desirous of is sud- den death when my time is come.” Belng rallled a little on his disposition to contra- vene the highest aspiration of the Chris- tian, Mr. Childs continued: “The only ob- jectfon I have to the Dpiscopal prayer hook is ‘the clause which petitions for de liverance from sudden death. I do not want to suffer; T do not want to linger; I do not want to be a burden to my friends. 1 want to pass from earth sud- denly.” That he may live to enjoy many years of useful life is the wish of the world to which he hai fmparted so much sunshine and sweetnes M NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, A farmers institute will be held at Merna February 27 and 28, Burglars ralded a drug store at Grafton and secured $2 in change and a lot of toilet soap. Mr. and Mrs, J. T. Dunning of Yutan have just celebrated their silver wedding anniversary. Union revival services haye been gress for some time at York and conversions have resulted. Thomas Glennon of Elmwood is under $350 bonds to ap) for trial on the charge of beating his crippled wife, Revival services will be oponed at follc February 15. Evangellst McKalg been engaged for the occusion One hundred guests attended the celebra- tion of the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Austin at Cordova. The bursting of a pipe In the steam heat ing plant of the O'Neill school necossitated the dismissing of the scholars for a tim: Harry Wilson of Bluo Springs has sue cumbed to the injurlos sustalned whilo play ing foot ball with the Wymore team on Now Yoar's day. He was yoars of age and very popular Fire at Liberty entirely destroyed the gro cery store of Charkas H. Palmor, the general merchandise store and realdence of Allen Sharp, the general merchandise store of King & Dick and a storeroom owned by Edward Buckley, unoceupled. Resolutions were adopted by the Madison County Farmers' institute calling on Gover- nor Crounse to convene @ special session of the legislature In order that some action may be taken looking to the oxtermination of the Russian thistlp, which s devastating the farms of northorn Nobraska. When County Attorney Evans of Thomas county opened his office door in the court house at Thedford the other morning he was surprised to find the m full of smoke so dense he could not see anything in the room. Investigation proved the floor to be on fire, but, fortunately, not in a blaze, A large holo was burned around the stove and clear through the double floor. Prompt action prevented what might have been & costly fire, in pro- many Nor- DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, FEBRUAR? ! SENT THROUGH WHOOPING Demoorats Pass the Wilson Bill in the House by a Big Majority. NONE OF ITS HARSH FEATURES SOFTENED Income Tax and All the Free Trade Pro- at 513 Fourteenth Street, {INGTON, Feb. 1. all its destructive and free trade and inquisitorial features, the Wilson tarift bill house at § o'clock this evening. On its final passage it recofved a majority of sixty-three votos. Seventeen democrats voted against the bill and no republicans for it. Bfforts were made at the last mo- ment to modify the measure 8o as to glve some little real protection to the farmers who grow barley and the sugar industry of this country, which s certainly one of the most promising and greatest we have, and then to recommit the bill to the ways and means committee, but the freo traders were still in the saddle, and every attempt to mitigate the crimes which this measure commits against American farmers, labor- ing men and manufacturers was over- whelmingly defeated. The free traders fairly howled with delight when they achieved their final victory and thrust be- uind them all doubt as to whether the bill would finally pass the house. The denunciations of bill and income taxes by democrats was only hypocritical byplay. The democrats who have been threatening to vote against the bill on its pasage fell down at the last moment and, like the cuckoos that they are, aided the administra- tion and the great unamerican mass of the democratic party in the house. ITS CHANCE IN THE SENATE. The bill will be in the hands of the senate committee on finance until the middie or lat- ter part of March, although Chairman Voor- hees announces that he does not intend to have it under his charge longer than four or five weeks. It will not be finally acted upon before midsummer. There is a great deal of democratic bluster in the senate about “‘tear- ing the bill-all to pieces,” “making a new measure on the Wilson ' lines,” and even about “‘beating the bill” if‘the income taxes are retained in it and protection to sugar, coal and iron interests are not provided. The very best information attainable leads your correspondent to believe that while there will be a number of minor change made in the bill by the finance committee, and several alterations made by the senate itself, income taxes and the general free trade and unamerican features which charac terize the Wilson bill will become law as they stand tonight. There is probably one chance in ten that the bill may be finally de- feated, and thers will be some modifications if it is finally passed into law, but there is little hope for labor and other industries. The farmers who in many sections of the coun- try, notably the northwest, contributed to the success of the party which has passed this bill, will have to suffer under its law, along with the rest of humanity. RFED'S ECONOMICAL UTTERANCES, There are two or three features in ex- Speaker Reed’s arraignment of the customs provisions of the bill which should recefve careful consideration by political economists and those interested in manufacturing. He thoroughly exploded the democratic theory that the advancement of the industries in this country is due more to invention than home interost and protection, and he made it clear to even the most stupid mind that free trade is an essential to England, which can only manufacture, and produces nothing from the ground. He also made patent the fact that anticipation of the tar- iff reform upon which we are about to enter is the cause of the present commer- cial and industrial distress. The>speech by Mr. Reed was unquestionably the greatest of his life. It was deeper and more logical and fuller of convincing facts than even his friends expected, while the impression it created in the house and must have upon the country was painful to his democratfc hearers, No man who has ever spoken upon the tariff was given a better hearing. The feature of the democratic arguments today was so English that all good Ameri- cans had to hang their heads in shame. It was a constant endorsement of and plea for the British system of free trade and di- rect taxation for the support of govern- ment. No one who heard ex-Speaker Crisp and Chairman Wilson will ever doubt that the democratic party would take the United States to a British system at a single bound 1£ it were possible, or that the sole mission of that party is to abolish every trace of the republican principle of protection to lome interests with the greatest possible rapidity. DEATH FOR DEMOCRATS. According to the unqualified statements of democrats in the house during the long and serious tariff debate, a number of demo- cratic states will next November elect prac- tically solid republican delegations to con- Bross. Texas, the banner hold of democracy, has announced through almost every mem- ber of her delegation In the house that if wool Is placed upon the free list and thrown into free competitfon with Australia and South and Central America, and blankets and the ordinary woolen manufactures are afforded a protective duty the state will be- come republican S0 far as congress sional representation is concerned. Wool is certaln to go upon the free list. There will be no restriction about the freest competi- tion in the wool trade, and the herders of flocks In all parts of the world may send all grades of wool into the United States with- out let or hindrance. This, according to statements made by Texas democrats in the house, will force the herders of the Lone Star state to drive their flocks to the slaughter pen and go out of the business of sheep raising. $ Nearly every democratic member of the delegations from Alabama, West Virginia and Pennsylvania have warned their col- leagues against placing coal and iron on the free list. More solemn and serious warnings against the political effect of this could not have been made; it is to return in place of democratic congressmen men who believe In the republican principle of m ing the oxpensos of the government by cus- toms duties, which are to bo lovied o as to afford protoction to American interests Coal and iron will be free in tho new tar- it law. NORTHERN STATES SPEAK. Without exception the democratic mem- bors from New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut have prociaimed that the in roads made by the Wilson bill upon tho leading industries of their states will prove Aisastrous to the domoeratic party. They have added that, if on top of these destruot- ive blows to manufacturers, s placed the income tax scheme, there will be no hope for them when it comes to electing congress- men. The malicious and viclous stabs at manufacturers and laboring men will not be altored in the Wilson bill, and the income taxes are to remain in that measure when it goos upon the statute books. Domocratic representatives from northern New York, Michigan and Wisconsin have in- volglied against the features of the Wilson bill which will throw their farmers and manufacturers into direct competition with the producers of Canada, and they are to be unheeded. The democrats from the prairie states, and even the popullsts, have warned the majority against cutting the life out of the farmer's.interests without giving him an adequate equivalent in any other direc- tion. The farmers are to be glven no relief bofore this vicious measure becomes law. Special champions of labor in the demo- cratic ranks of the house have been in a utate of cold perspiration for many days. They announce that any man with half sense Kknows that when factories and mills start up under the Wilson tariff law, labor will be employed at from 25 to 50 per cent reduc- tion from the wages pald under the opera- tion of the McKinley law. There is not a democrat in elther brgnch of congress who will contend for & moment that wages will be rewarded in anything like the proportion With unamerican income tax passed the [ patd during the past few years | and wp to that the o trade in the upintons the Ume when it democrats were going to adopt f According to open announcomeiis debate and private expressions of from democrats, the majority which the re- publicans will have in the NOXt congrass ean almost bo dictated by the leaders of the re- publican part SOME became know LATIE APPOINTMENTS Bdwin Canfield of Fort Dodge has been appointed a cadet the Point military academy. Fourth class postmasters appointed: braska—Hendloy, [Furnas county, Thomas L. Jones, vice W. D, Leach, romo Adams county,J. R. Crow, vice 8 @. Moore, resigned; Scotla, Gresloy wounty, Douglas Christy, vice W. 8. Hannon, resigrned. owa—Danville, Des Moines count W. C. Irwin, vice J. 8. England, removed; Mid- way, Woodbury coun Charles Hammon, vice F. W. Bush, resigned PERRY 8. g A Iror, IND TIINGS, to West HEATH. The a six home. Benham pounder muskot shot developed into | when the ccho of it struck There {s a growing suspicion that the re- calcitrant Missouri senators are to be ap- |v;n’wud With a cholco assortment of federal ple. Joseph Jefferson and his family will winter in the south. Mr. Jefferson says ru- mors about his withdrawing from the stage are untrue, and that he will continue to play 50 long as he has strength to go behind the footlights, Ex-Minister Phelps, United tor Smith and others have leased Lako Rutherford, near Deckertown, N. J. to- gether with 1,000 acres of surrounding land, and will proceed at once to erect a club- liouse and bathhouse with a view to creating a game preserve. Sig. Perugini, the baritone come the husband of Lillian Russell, was a New York waif, adopted in the family of the late James DoGolyer of Hudson, Mich Attracting the attention of wealthy friends in Chicago, he was sent to Italy for a musi- cal education and made his debut on the stage about ten years ago. For the time being politics is a minor question in Maine. The natives have vn- corked their wrath against the modern defi- nition of “Jag.” Having jugged and jogged along for forty years in the state of eal Dow, their opinfon that a jag is only half ‘a load is entitled to superior weight Doubtless half a load is as far as they dere 0 under the clrcumstances. Great hevings, Horatio, whither are we drifting? Here is the Virginia legislature snubbed, slighted and shivering in the shade of a corporation cgld shoulder. The mem bers must pay or walk. For them there are no speclal cars or prolonged junkets or ily pasteboards good on the main line branches. ~What mortal offense the Ie ture has commited is not made public is sufiicient to know that the privileges perquisites of offiice have been ruthlessly sus- pended by the railroads, and vociferous la- mentations profane the sacred soil. The flerce fires of dramatic realism are blazing brightly in San Franeisco. Beside the revamped Midway is the heroic side of desperado life depicted by the family of the “hero.”” The mother and three children of Evans are wobbling through the leading roles of a play based on the life of that no- torfous highwayman and murderer, who cently escaped from jail at Fresno. The outlawed father, it will be recalled, as- sisted in looting treasure trains, but his purpose, it appears from the play, was not to secure sordid gain, but rather to force that greedy, grasping corporation to dis- gorge its ill-gotten wealth. All through the play the corporation Is the villain and Evans the hero, and the curtain falls on the last act just as Sis Evans pipes this chaste sentiment: “De corporation gets it where de lady wore de beads.” ‘ Once upon a time the voters of Nebraska expressed themselves on a constitutional amendment, increasing the salaries of mem- bers of the legislature. On the face of the returns the proposition was defeated, and the State Board of Canvassers so affirmed. But the law makers felt there must have been a serious mistake in the count and ordered a new one, with the rcsult of a substantial majority for increased pay. Michigan state officers saw in the action of Nebraska patriots a pointer of some value to themselves. For years they have borne the burden of high honors and scant pay, and concluded that the salvation of the public service demanded a reduction of the former and an advance of the latter. The people voted on the proposition and the prospective beneficiarics canvassed the vote. A ma- jority of 1,800 was developed. Now it ap- pears that the proposition was defeated by over 10,000 and the state officers and stuf- fers are dodging the inquisition of a grand jury. States Sena- who has be- e Prohibition Folly in Iowa, Phitadelphia Press. The Towa legislature Is fllustrating the difference between making a_promise in general terms n a party platform and in carrying it out n legislation. The prohi- bition plank in the republican platform of last year meant local option if it meant anything. It was so accepted by the pro- hibitionists themselves, who bolted and nominated a state ticket of their own. The spublicans, however, carried the state by a_large majority, showing that the peo- ple indorsed their position. But now some republican members of the legislature elected in prohibition counties refuse to agree to any measure carrying out the terms of the party platform, and if they persist they can defeat any legislation on the subject. Such a result would be dis- appointing to a large majority of the Towa people who desire to have the present prohibitory law re) T,-u-,‘..n L Y i . I Tho L A h rgost maiers an 1 s3llers of 10 clothes on Barth WHERE TO FIND THE NEWS, arison Betwen Papers Printod Yestor. ¢ by T o and Would 1o Riva Tho daily comparison between the amount of reading matter, exclusive of commorcial news and advertisements, printed in The Boe, World-Herald and Lincoln Journal, gives the following figures for yeste Morning Beo, long, whle columns.. Morning W.-FL, short, narrow columns Lincoln Journal, short, narrow colunns Bvening Bee, long, wide columns Evenfng W.-H., short, narrow column: The best 1s tho cheapest. R ECHOES OF THA Kansas City Journal: Admiral Benham fs showing the Brazillan belligerents that the United States can hold her own in bloodless warfare with the best of ‘em. St. Louls Republie: Correct,” Admiral Henham. Our navy Is on the seas to pro- tect Amerlcan citizens and thelr property. Our forelgn policy goes no further, but it goos clear up to tho limit on that line. Minneapolis Tribune: Lot the American engle scream . and let the band play Vankee Doodle.”” The spirit of ‘76 and 61 asserted itself in the harbor of Rio do Janciro and Unclo Sam comes off with flylng colors. Chicago Post: Admiral Benham, by his spirited and prompt rebuke of the piratical Admiral da Gama in Rio harbor, has prob- ably put an end to the possibility of further interference by the naval Insurgents with American merchantmen. Kansas City Star: The conduct of miral Benham in maintaining the peace in the harbor of Rio Janeiro and protecting the persons and property of Americans in that locality, meets ‘the approval of our government and people, and, it is to be hoped, will bo allowed to form a precedent for future action in similar clreumstances. Minneapolis Journal: Mello and da Gama have played the pirate ever since last Sep- tember, and the port of Rio should be kept open to lawful commerco by the naval forces of cvery nation interested In Brazil- jan trade. The tomfoolery has gone on long enough at Rio, and it Is a good thing that the American commander has at last taken steps to put a stop to It. REY Com Ad- THE M SHOW, i the sak: out of ayune: To get out of of getting New Orleans the world for debt is sulcidal. to con- e on us. Galyeston News: When it come versation the barber has the ed; Plain Dealer: “I don't claim," sald St Gaudens, “that my model looks well at first blush."” Courier: When a good idea musician it is only proper that note of it. Buffalo strikes a he should make o tkee Journal: ates what o gooc been until he fors A man_never ap- ryvant his memory ts something. M prec ha drive a sharp- a “What will than a d you ever try York Pre: man_ to drink tongued woman ? broiled salt mackerel? i have o wings, haven' always heard so. erald tell iemoiselle in the shrubbery this _and she hasn't got wings.” “No, 11 have to 1y, At the club—By the who was the greatest liar? Munchausen. No; Rip Van he lie in the woods for way, Jones—Laron Winkle. Didn't twenty years? Courder Journal: De Jones—Say, old man, do you know that there is a town in North Carolina where_the curfew still rings? Van Brown—Great heayens, Jonesy! Don’t let my wife get on to it; she's an elocu- tlonist. “Brinkles says you dlanapolis Journal: o has’ no owe him $10," said the man W tact whatev v “That's very true,’ was the reply. “T'd have pald it long ago, only I was afrald of nurting his feelfugs.! | i do_yor ? 1 s SR 16 Would think T thoughs he needed the mone: WHY, OF COURSE. (Kansas City Journal.) “You told me that Miss Crowfoot Was ‘pretty as could be' I find her quite as homely As one could wish to see. She smiled—"1 told you truly, As you must sce at once; She's pretty as she can be,'of courses Al women are, you dunce. e Suve the Pieces. New York Sun. Democratic congressmen should try to help the party instead of putting an intol- erable strain upon it. Leave off wreckin and see what you can do in the line of salvage. Save the pleces. Don’t make It a total loss. A SPELLING Youth's Companion. ere liyed a man in Mexico, TREho, ali s 1ife aid battle o rightly spell such casy words Nahuatlacatl. He Swrote the names of all the towns, It took of ink a bottle, But could not spell 'l;(l‘no('hlltl.\n, Nor plain Tlacatecotl. He went to spélling school each day, And though a man of mettle, He could not conquer Topiltzin Nor Huitzilopochetl. ~_ He dwelt some time in Yueatan, And there, at Tzompantilli, He learned to spell one little “Twas Ziuhonolpilll, The joy of spelling just one word Did all his mind unsettle; But, spelling still, he choked at last On Popocatepetl word, iy Sres Your money’s wWorth or your moasy bass, L T 0 W Nebraska’s Ground Hog hog will come out and On February 2d the ground A nas_heae_a—scs A - Just a few left of those $1 ground-hog case. We had case. Will pay the express if you send the money for §20 worthi or more 1 T | [ O o olub and baste him on the ear——Come to think of it there are no ground hogs in Nebraska, but we can hang out a piece of sausage; that's ground hog, aint it? Another ground-hog case is that we will be out of the famous Lewis' and Dr. Warner's underwear pretty soon—save you $3 to $5 a suit if youbuy now. For 25¢ we will give you choice this week of any 50¢ 4-in-hand or teck. This is your this ad, but it was so lifelike that the printer ate it up, and we had to use the dog—-another ground hog BROWNING, KING & CO., | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, take a little journey in the country 'round about. Ifin the win- ter sunshine his shad- ow does appear we ought to take a ball S = and $1.50 neckties at 50¢. last chance—a a pioture of a sausage in S L o e e = S | P (4 ” A/