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

1 e . THEOMAHA I)A\I_I:YVIH",EA. litor. E. ROSEWATER, F PUBLISITED EVERY MORNING, OF SUBSCRUPTION Yonr TR Daily Boo (without Daily_and_ Sunday, Montha res Montha Tieo, One Yoear Faturday liee, One Year Weekly Iles, One Year OFFICES, o Dullding corner N and 1ufrs, 12 strest 7 Chamber of Comm o 15, 14 And 15, Tribune bldIng. 3 Fourteenth eirest CORRES unday) One One Yeur Twenty-fouth LETTERS mittances should be incsa lettors and Addressd to The Des Omaha, Drafts, checks Ve made payable to fhe THIE BEE George 13, " Publishing company, that the actual number of full and cor copies of The Daily Morning, Evening o Hun ¢ printed during the month January, 180, was as folow: 19 1.4 Fe Total 0r 722,320 Less re turned Total Dadly ave Sunday. month...... tions for u ge net clrcuiation.. TZSCHUCK. subscribed GREORGE B. before me and my presence this 5th day of Iebruar (SIALL) P. FEII,, Notary Publ Sworn to The prices of everything on the market have fallen of late, and there is no reason why the price of arc lamps for street light. ing should not take an appreciable tumble. also The figure upon the audens Colum bian will be draped. Boston will be able to accept the prizes which she has won sithout fear of exposing herseif to everlast- ing moral turpitude, med, The crank who sent a threatening letter to Chauncey Depew couched in the choicest of classical Latin must have a high opinion of the literary attainments of any man who is able to converse with the pope. A prominent member of the Commerclal club s sanguin» of better rates for Omaha on live stock shipments the great ranges of the southwest. This is a con- summation devoutly to be wished. from Congressman Bryan's time s not so pre- cious now as it was a few weeks back. He is not only able to attend to his extensive and burdensome coirespondence, but also to devote considerable attention to the careful cultivation of his proposed senatorial boou It is safe to announce that the proposed fisticuff between those two distinguished ex- ponents of brutality, James Corbett and Peter Jackson, will not take place in Omaha. This city draws the line at a race war, to say nothing about prize fights The State Board of Transportation still permiits the Elkhorn road to disregard its famous order reducing hay rates. The mas- terly inactivity of the board suggests the suspicion that its meek submission to the raflroad manager may have been carefully prearranged. We tender our congratulations to the Uni- versity of Nebraska on this the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its estab- lishment. Future progress in correspond- ence with its past advancement will serve to keep it in the front rank of American state universities. The consolidation of Omaha and South Omaha and the abolition of a separate county government within the bounds of the municipal corporation is sure to come in the discernable future. Intelligent dis- cussion of such inevitable development fs never out of order. Two democratic congressmen from New York, who voted against the Wilson tariff when it came up in the house for final passage, have already been asked to resign by an over-ardent tariff reform club having members from thelr districts. But their resignations promise to be slow In appear- ing. The grain shippers of McCool Junction are in earnest in their demand for equitable grain rates. They are entitled to even rates with the shippers of Fairmont, a town only 1 few miles distant. The State Board of Transportation might bring about the needed relief if it felt disposed to mediate on be- half of the people. A republican has been appointed to the position of meat tagger at the packing house at Nebraska City. Democrats in that neck o' the woods are frothing at the mouth in righteous indignation over the affair, and Secretary Morton, strange as it may seem, Is held responsible for the offense. The office pays $720 a year, without trimmings, yet the old Otoe war horses deem it worth fighting over. The merchants of Hastings have com- bined in a protest agalnst the 20 per cent advance in rates, The Insurance companies stand pat, and have notified the Hastings people that they must pay the Increased rates or all policles will be can- celed. This smacks of trust methods and reudors all insurance. companiés liable to the penalties of the anti-trust laws and our statutes, which forbid any combine or pool for raising prices. insurance Referring (o the recent elrcular notitying Chinese residents of the United States that in caso they are not duly registerod under the amended Geary law by May 3 they will be deported without merey or delay, the Phila- delphla Record says that this should satisty the recalcitrant Mongolians that the admin- istration means business this time. We trust so. A year s usually enough time to enable any well meaning set of officials to get down to business. The insurance men have taken up the cudgels in support of the amended electrical tuspection ordinance. Now ‘let them take up the buliding ordinance and demand that its provisions be hereafter strictly enforced in every respect. This ordinance was in- tended to minimize the liability to fire or the total destruction of property by the flames. The insurance men have a vital in- terest In its enforcement. It would pay them to employ an expert to see that the ordinance {s observed by ity offictuls, archl- tects and contract builders, JUDGE JENKINS BEFORE CONGRESS. The decision of the house judiclary com- mittee to report a resolution adthorizing it to investigate into the various circumstanc ted with the now celebrated writ of injunction fssued by Judge Jenkins to pre- vent the employes of the Northern Pacific from striking will offer an opportunity for transferring to congress much of the dis- alon which is going on in labor circles and in the press. It is scarcely expocted by any one that such an Investigation will unearth anything to justify the institution of im- peachment odings against the judge, although the original McGann resolution was Introduced with that purpose fh view. After tho investigation is completed the committee is simply to report to congress what action, it any, should be taken in case it finds that the judge his authority or abused his powers. The recommendation i3 likely to favor a more explicit defini- courts conne on has exceeded mor tion of the power of the United State in matters of this kind than the censure or condemnation of any particular Judge As & matter of fact, judges are every day {nnocently overstepping the limits of their legal Jurisdic n, exceeding the authority iferred upon them by law and abusing the powers of process vested in thelr court: If this not so the need of appellate courts be reduced to insignificance and new frials would be occurrences of un- usual rarity. Were an application to be mado in overy such case to have the con- duct of the judge investigated by congress that body would be swamped by the peti- tions from aggrieved In all these cases the law itsclf affords the remedy by appeal higher tribunal. Any evidence W would justify a congressional investi- gation ought certainly to constitute substan- tial grounds for ng the case up appeal. It becomes the duty of congress to interfere only where there has been an in- tentional of law on the part of the judge or a willful abuse of power. Such charges, it proved, would warrant impeach- ment proceedings; not so a mistaken judg- ment or a wrong impression of the extent of powers. The Investigation of the conduct of Judge Jenkins will bring out the facts presented by the Northern Pacific injunction case and inform both the receivers and the employes where they stand respectively under the existing laws of the United States. Tt may disclose where those laws are defective and suggest amendments required to guarantes to each of the contending parties the exer of their mutual rights. There is a bare possibility, but not a probability, that it may show Judge Jenkins to have acted under improper influences. But the investigation can- not affect the restraining order already is- sued. If Judge Jenkins exceeded his authority, that order was from its inception without binding force. If not, it must stana until dissolved by the proper judicial author- ity were, would uitors, to a carry on disregard RESULTS OF DISHONEST ASSESS MENTS No more pointed criticism of our wretched assessment system could be devised than the condition in which Omaha finds herself to- day with reference to the issue of honds for the prosecution of needed works of public im- provement. A city to be prosperous must be progressive, and it can only be progress- ive when it cxpands at one and the same time with both private and public enter- prises. Public improvements must go hand in hand with the growth of private business enterprises. No city can remain stationary. It must either go backward or forward. And it it goes backward in public enter- prises it will not be long before it will also g0 backward in the private business of its citizens. The threatened hitch in the con- tinuance of a policy of public improvements arises solely from the failure of the ward assessors to perform their duties. If the annual assessment lists showed a constant and steady increase corresponding with the actual increase in the value of taxable prop- erty the bond limit would be progressively receding. Nothing short of a complete re- vision and reorganization of our system of property valuation will serve to clear the track for the rapid advancement of the city, Omaha is not alone in suffering from vi- clous assessments. The people of Chicago have just had their attention called to the same abuses by a report of the city comp- troller, in which he shows that the valuation of real property owned in Chicago as re- turned on the assessment lists has been de- creasing for several years past and is now, when the population is nearly 1,600,000, less than it was twenty years ago when the pop- ulation was under 400,000 Personal prop- erty in Chicago is likewise returned at a less valuation than it was twenty years back, although the total has increased very slightly in recent years, The comptroller furthermore gives a table showing the assessed value of real estate, the popula- tlon and the debt of a half dozen of the larger cities of the country from which he calculates that “while the valuation per cap- ita Is in Boston, $1,800; in New York, $1,000; in Philadelphia, $750 (on realty alone), and in, Brooklyn, St. Louis and New Orleans cach $500, in Chicago it Is only $160. Taking the assessment of Omaha at slightly over $20,000,000 and the" population at 140,000, we find that the per capita valu- ation 1s less than $150, a showing even worse than that of Chicago. Going on to examine the comparative statement of taxable prop erty, rate gf taxation, taxes'levied and gen. eral bonded debt made in the annual report of the comptroller for the city of Omaha, we find that, notwithstanding the important improvements that have been made in this city every year, the total valuation has re. mained between $20,000,000 and $21,000,000 for the past five years. The personalty re- turned 1s actually no greater than it was in 1887, and the realty rated but a fow thous sands more than In 1889. The bonded debt, however, has been almost doubled in that period. An honest assessment would have shown a corresponding Increase in the valus ation of taxable property. TIRED OF THE CONTRACT. The speech of Governor MeKinley before the convention of the Ohlo League of Republican clubs bristled with telling points and timely suggestions. The dls- tinguished Ohlo republican leader seems to have been at his best, and with a theme entirely to his liking his address was vigorous, stirring and incisive. Ho sald that If the party in power at Washington would reject the free trade doctrine, as it has al- ready the free colnage doctrine, it might emphasize Its want of good faith to party pledges and party professions and add an- other to its many Inconsistencies, but in “doing so it would increase the faith of the people in its business sagacity, its financial wisdom and its true American spirit. It s to be regretted, sald Governor McKinley, that the people must suffer so long from the acty of their own agents, but the lesson, dgge @& it has been to the country and its vast interests, may be effectual. “It will teach us all that elections are serious publio transactions and that thelr effect does not end on the day of election, but continues through the legal and constitutional term for THE OMAHA which president and congress are elected, and cannot be ended sooner, and it teaches us also that small and extrancous matters, local dissensions and personal and sectlonal prejudices should not control in great public elections any more than in great principles and questions of public polley.” The theory of popular government, sald the governor, is that the people are supreme and the officers are their servants, but the situation Is one where the servant is supreme and the mas- ter is temporarily helpless. Governor McKinley pointed out that while the party in power is reducing the revenue of the government it is also reducing the incomes of the people, and the people and the government are getting poorer at the same time and from the same cause. The cffect of the proposed democratic economic policy 1s not only to diminish the occupa- tions and wages of the people, but also to diminish the value of the people's invest- ments, Every plece of property has shrunk In value since the party of tarift reform entered into possession of the government. Everything has diminished but the people's debts. The people, declared Governor Me- Kinley, “are tired of their contract before the period of its legal termination.” This was demonstrated In the elections of last November, and nowhere with greater dis- tinctness than in Ohio, where the lssue was clearly made between and the economic principles enunciated in the demo- cratic national platform. The more sagacious democrats fully understand that the people tired of the contract by which the democracy was given control of the legls- lative branches and executive branches of the government and would gladly repudiate it now If it were possible to do 6. Nobody seriously doubts that the next house of rep- resentatives, to be elected In November, will be republican, but unfortunately it will not be able to undo any of the work of this democratic congress. It only protect any further advance in the direction of free trade. If there was a general election at this time it is questionable whether a single state outside of the “‘solid south” would go democratic, and it is probable that even sev cral southern states would renounce democ racy. protection are can THE NEW YORK REPUBLICANS. The movement of the republicans of New York City for a reorganization of the party will be watched with great intercst by re- publicans throughout the country. There lias not been for twenty years or longer so favorable an opportunity as there is now for the republicans of New York City to deal a crushing blow to the power of Tammany, and 1f they fail to take advantage of it an- other such opportunity may not come within the next twenty vears. Tho election last month of a republican congressman in one of the districts of that city, the first one chosen in fourteen years, overcoming a heavy democratic majority, and the large reduction made in the democratic vote of another district, attest a remarkable change of popular sentiment in the commercial metropolis of the nation within little more than a year. New York has suffcred se- verely from the effects of proposed demo- cratic policy. Her vast manufacturing in- dustries have shared fully in the general depression, her enormous commercial inter- ests have had a disastrous experience, and an army of her people have been for months in enforced idleness. Having more to lose than any other city her losses have been relatively greater than those of any other. The workingmen of New York do not need to be told what has caused this condition of hffalrs. They understand fully that the: re- sponsibility for it rests with the party in control of the government and no sort of political sophistry will dissuade them from this belef. They remember that before the country was menaced with a radical change in its economlc policy by the election of a democratic president and congress that they were well employed at good wages and no sort of theorizing will persuade these men that something other than the proposed policy of the democracy is responsiblo for their idleness and their reduced ivages. Applying practical facts to the sltuation they can reach but one conclusion, which is that to the apprehended reactionary course of the democratic party are due the misfortunes of the last year. So belleving, a majority of these workingmen, there is every reason to think, are determined to rebuke the party that has brought them so much hardship and privation and that has refused to listen to thelr appeals. There s only one effective way in which they can do this and that is by uniting with the republican party. That thousands of them will do ths, If the repub- licans are harmonious and manifest a sin- cerely patriotic desire to conserve the in- terests and welfare of the country, rather than to promote the political ambition of in- dividuals, there can be no doubt, and once having become affiliated with the party a large proportion of them would stay with it. The danger s, however, that the work of reorganization will not be permitted to pro- ceed without factional conflicts which will repel many who want to unite with the party, It must necessarily, in order to command confidence, do away with bossism, but it is apparent that this is not going to be an easy matter. The men who have been for years doing the party bossing are not dis- posed to surrender thelr political power into other hands and they will make a very dotermined effort to retain it. It s un- deniable that some of these men are a dead welght on the party, standing as they do for political methods which are abhorrent to the better class of citizens, but they fully belleve In themselves and they have ad- herents. Hence they will not give up unless compelled to and this means factional wars fare, perhaps prolonged and bitter, with in- ovitable damage to the party. It s very much to be regretted that such is tho case, for New York will doubtless continue to bs a plvotal state In many coming presidential elections and the vote in New York City generally decldes the attitude of the state. If the republicans of that city should sucs ceed In materially reducing the democratio vote there, as they may do by harmonious and united action, the state would probably be mafely republican for years. Such a possibllity 1s surely worth striving for and 1t ought to appeal to the patriotism of the republicans of New York City. Wo have recelved a protest from an in- dignant citizen against the street railway company for permitting the banks of snow along either side of thelr tracks to remain as an obstruction to vehicles. We appre- hend that no reasonable man will hold the streot car people responsible for the present condition of the streets. The company's charter compels it to keep its cars running the greater part of every day. During such heavy storms as the recent one a large force of gpow plows and sweepers has been con- stantly at work clearing the tracks. The pyklie will not tolerate the cessation of the car service and the people have a right to demand good service, But the company 18 not responsible for the heavy precipita- tion of snow and it is not morally or legally obligated to cart all the snow off the streets DAILY BEK DAY, THUK traversod by ita trajns. § Property owners dump snow from thffir dldewalks into the streets, as they hgvd a right to do. Cer- talnly no one expefsfithem to cart the snow to a vacant lot or fof sewer man-hole. No human being nor fofpany of men can be blamed for the present condition of our streets between curb lines, Among the constitutional, subterfuges which seem to be—fattng into disrepute In Nebraska {s the State Board of Health, cre- ated by the legislature three years ago ostensibly for the pufpose of protecting the lealth of the state against the practices of Incompetent physiclans. The board ft- selt is composed of-three state officials who delegate their authority to a board of sec- retaries. The seckelaries simply use their positions for the purpose of punishing physi- clans who violate the stupid monument of laws known as the code of medical ethics, The only standard by which a physiclan should be judged is his competency. It he can pass an examination that proves lis knowledge of medicinal sefence he ought to be granted a certificate, whether he ad- vertises In the local papers or not. If he cannot pass such an examination he should be prevented from practicing a profession to which he clearly does not belong. Those property are protest- ing against the expenditure of the money voted for county road paving are certainly a trifle late in registering thelr dissent to the proposition to pave the county roads. There must be some public improvements made here this year. The people have voted for better county roads and are willing to stand the expense. The project is not to be blocked at this stage of the proceedings, after the bonds have been sold, by the mere protest of a few heavy taxpayers. owners who The pledge made in the platform of the Towa republicans during the last campaign is distinctly in favor of giving to those local- ities in which prohibition has proved a fail- ure an opportunity to regulate the liquor traffic with a view to restraining it within manageable lines. The legislature elected to carry out this promise, not to re- solve itself into a debating club upon the question whether any such promise was made. Actions will speak louder than words. was A petition has finally been presented to the Massashusetts legislature asking for a law to prevent slugging or unnecessary roughness in games of foot ball played be- tween teams representing different colleges or other educational institutions. When the abuses get this far it will be time to pass a law abolishing foot ball games. As yet, the rules of the game have sufficed to keep the sport within the bounds prescribed for friendly contests, Depression Works a © Philadelphia T mes. Results show the monopolist Is not tirely without feelinge He now fe heart in his mouth; formerly it was all in his pocket, ; " ggp S Out of Mis Element, Globe-Democrat. Congressman Bryan of Nebraska does not drink, smoke, chew ory swear; and a puz- zled country ‘would naturally like to know how he continues to be a democrat in spite of 80 many drawbatks, Sl £ An Army Awaits the Commission. St.Paut Glohe. There are now 8,223,%7 men in the United States subject to’ military duty, and all but seven of them' are willing to'enter the army—if they can get a fat job in the quartermaster’s department. Political Kidnapping. Chicao I'erald, He (Lincoln) was the great democrat of the last half of ,the nineteenth century. His fame may approptiately be Teft in the care and guardianship of the children, the future citizens of the republic. ange. Growth of Cuckoolsm. New York Sun. One thing in praise of political cuckoos may be sald truly and unreservedly: The supply keeps up steadily with the demand, and it must be reluctantly admitted by ali democrats that during the past eleven months the demand has been abnormally large and cumulatively increasing. ————— The Torn Democracy. Cinetnnati Ocmmercial, A veteran observer at Washington makes the statement that at no time since the days of Andrew Jackson has there been an_ exhibition of more bitterness in party politics in regard to the president than there is now. In point of fact, however, while democratic members of congress may consent to follow the lead of Mr. Cleve- land, they do so under protest, and are thoroughly dissatisfied. The efféct is ap- parent 'in the country, and the result will be fully demonstrated’ at the next general election that occurs, and in all intermediate elections that may happen between this time and November, 1804, il England Reaping the Whirlwind. Globe-Denocra Perhaps “something ought to be done for silver,” as a London paper says, now that it is down to the lowest figures ever reached in that locality, but the people of that re- glon ought to understand that something would have been done for silver long ago if England had consented to lend a hand. England, however, refused, in all the in- ternational monetary ~conferences, to do anything toward rehabilitating silver, and Germany, owing to the British example, also held aloof. Tf England will consent to do its share to rd restoring silver to its old place In the world's currencies, at some uniform ratlo, the other great nations undoubtedly will ' quickly joln in the scheme, e Verge of Prosperity, Chica_o Record. We believe the country is on the verge of an era of great prosperity, and that within a few months at most there will be no complaint of the lack of or depression in_business. W, believe this for the following reasons: Thére is scarcely a manufacturer of sta- ple goods in the country who has any con- siderable stock on hand. With the threat of business depression manufacturing en- terprises at once checked their output of goods, and during the last seven months surplus stocks have been exhausted. Even now the manufactories of the country are gradually putting a few more men at work and exhausted stocks are being replen- ished. Again, the business men are practically out of debt. The insolvent and kless have falled, while legitimate busin en- terprises have paid up, reduced their stocks and are ready for the revival of business when it shall come. It must not be oyerlooked that wholesale merchants are not earrying large stocks of goods, while retailers, in city and country have 'bought spavingly and have empi shelves. 0 0l The banks are full of money which they are anxious to loan at low rates of inter- est, and every idla dollar {n the country 18 on the lookout for profitable investment. In domestic life very ‘man or woman who, for want of money, has made the ‘old coat or d do an extra six months of service, will have to purchase new garments. . The result of all'{his' is that, from manu- factory to kitchen” there must soon be a new start, and the flnancial condition of the country is exactly in the situation to encourage a revival of business. Confl- nce 18 returning, and is only restrained by the complaint gf Hard times for which there really is very Hittle reason or excuse. On th FEBKUAKY 19, 1591 PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, Advertising furnishes the right breeze for A bargain sale. Chicago's prominence as City has been re-established. In the matter of blizzard blows Chicago has the edge on New York. A Duluth editor was rewarded with an office. Carry the news to Lincoln. This section ‘of the Missourl valley Is clearly outside the pale of the blizzard belt. There Is no lack of evidence showing that cuckoo notes are readily convertible into commissions, The eastern blizzard what next November the democracy. Texes Siftings is authority for the state- ment that Governor Hogg of Texas has two children Ura and Ima. Whatever Httle hope queen Queen Lill clung to has been further diminished by the discovery that she practices on a plano, The Colorado legislature has done nothing 80 far, but the people do not object to paying a salary bill of $60,000 If the members agree to go home, The advance guard of civilization and rum in Africa wisely decline to credit reports of the death of Lobengula without a burial certificate attached. A Massachusetts statesman has introduced in the legislature a bill to prohibit foot ball This measure Is an attempt to preserve the native lcicle from exercises calculated to thaw it. An Ohlo woman recently celebrated her 106th birthday. This rare specimen of the vintage of 1788 attributes her wealth of years to the comforting influences of a wells worked pipe. . James Gordon Bennett daily grows more to resemble his father. His hair and mustache have become white and his walk and general manner are like those of the elder Bennett. The Chicago Herald's claim that Lincoln was a great democrat-has some foundation A newspaper picture represents the martyr president wearing lambrequins of the Dick- inson-Peckham-Hesing varioty. A photograph of Mr. Gladstone making his maiden speech in,the Commons in 1833 has come into the possession of Mr. Labou. chere. It represents the present premier as appearing on that occasion in white trous. ers and a frock coat with brass buttons. With characteristic enterprise and prompt- itude the Globe comes to the rescue of the shocked city fathers of Boston and enve- lopes the nude library building figures in capacious creased pants. The aldermanic cult is thus enabled to view altitudinous art without blushing. Eliza Worthington, a colored woman liv- ing near Chattanooga, Tenn., gave birth recently to triplets, two of whom were black and one white. Three reputable physicians, who attended the woman in confinement, and fully fifty private citizens, who saw the children, vouch for the truth of the story. g e NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. the Windy is a foretaste of holds in stock for An “Old Maids” club has been organized at Harrison. “Let’s irrigate” is the cry going up from every county in western Nebraska. Stratton has been religlously awakened and nine people have been Immersed. While playing with his brother, 7-year-old Willie Seabel of Murdock fell and broke his leg. A stock company s being organized at Valentine to operate a creamery and cheese factory in that city. Mrs. John Burgert, who settled with her husband in Pawnee county over thirty years ago, is dead. She had been insane for eigh- teen years. Editor Eller of Blair ascribes the downfall of young Garner, the would-be green goods shark, to the fact that he was not a sub- scriber to the Courfer. C. Doty, an aged Plattsmouth man, was struck by a B. & M. train and badly in- jured, but he will probably recover. He was deaf and did not hear the whistle. The 5-year-old son of Al Trumbull of Grand Island picked up his father's revolver the other night and shot his fond parent through the hand. The boy wasn't bloodthirsty. It was an accident. The commissioners of Colfax county have secured a_quantity of dynamite for tho pur- pose of blasting the ico from around the wagon bridge across the Platte at Schuyler, 80 it will not be carried away with the fco when the latter rises and goes down stream in the spring. The party of Presbyterian missionaries who left for Siam from Grand Island and Wood River, including Dr. Thomas and Mrs. Shields, have been heard from en- route. In a letter from a relative in Canton, a Bee man is informed that the party had quite an exciting experience. They stopped at Canton and visited missionaries there. On the morning they were to sail for Bangkok they started for the steamer in charge of a leading missionary and a coolie. On the way to the dock Dr. Thomas stopped to buy an umbrella and the Canton mis- sionary stepped into the shop with him, telling the coolle to take the balance of the party to the ship. When Dr. Thomas and his guide reached the steamer the others could not be found. Searching parties were sont out, but no trace of them could be dis- covered. Finally the steamer sailed without them. Late that night the missing ones were found on the river front by an Eng- lishman and taken back to the home of thefr friends in a worn-out condition. The coolie had lost his way and had led the peo- ple a wild goose chase all over the city. Outside of giving them a good scare and causing them to miss the steamer no harm was done. e RIFTS IN THE CLOUDS, St. Paul Pioneer Press: Every Indication points to a season of exceptional activity to make up for the practical cessation of pro- duction that has held the workingman in its merciless grip for three-quarters of a year. Chicago Record: Obviously no statlstics will convince the farmer or anybody else that he is prosperous when his income is small and his outgo large. The fact of utmost importance to the country is the evident ability of the agriculturalist to sustain him- self and his dependent, the country merchant, without apparent distress. The record of the last few months in this particular is much stronger proof of real financial stabil- ity in the agricultural communities than any data the census bureau can furnish, Where financiers had expected slow collections in the rural districts, and possible failures, the collections in settiement of annual accounts have been good and the number of failures among merchants comparatively small These are the signs of reserve strength in the farming community, and they form the real basis of hope for better industrial con- ditions in the near future, Chicago Post: Business progressing more rapidly, most people think. Cash is accumulating very fast in the hands of the merchant class, and there is a disposition on all sides to take advantage of discounts on close payments in the purchase of goods. Forced sales of bankrupt stocks are being numer- ously attended by buyers with plenty of money, and a keen spirit of competition for bargalns is springing up. The unexpectedly large returns from several important cash sales of wholesalo stocks rccently has opened the eyes of observing people to the fact that the country is again filling up with money. New proof on that point is hailed with unfeigned delight. The people have been dosed with liberal lip and typo- graphical assurance that the times are mending. Substantial facts in evidence on that point carry more weight than mere talk, however well founded it may be. are convin convalescence is however, than Highest of all in Leavening Poweg.==Latest U. S. Gov't Report, LD Baking Powder SENATOR ALLEN 0N SUGAR| He Expresses Himself in Favor of Paying Bounty Promised by Law. DOES NOT WANT TO PROTECT THE TRUST His Sentiments Are Wholly in Behalf of the Producer—Henry T. Oxnard tas Somo Very Pro- nounced Views, WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BEE, 513 Fourteenth Street, WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. was today asked by The Bee correspondent what his sposition was with roference to the protection In the tarift bill to the sugar interests of this comh- try and he replied: I belleve that all of those sugar factorles which were established under the pledge and promise of a bounty given by the McKin- ley tarift law should be protected. 1 think the tariff bill which we are about to pass should carry out the bounty promise, be- cause there have been millions of dollars invested in good falth under the provision of it. It would be obtaining der false pretenses to repeal that bounty afford no protection to the large in- vestment and industries, which would never have been created but for the solemn prom- ise of the bounty now in the law. I am in favor of making all grades of sugar free from duty and building up our domestic fn- dustries by the bounty principle, but rather than act in bad faith and destroy our do- mestic sugar industry, 1 would favor a duty upon raw sugar for protection and rev- enue. I am not in favor of any duty which will discriminate in favor of the refiners or help the Sugar trust, which I regard as ;me of the most corrupt monopolies in ex- stence,"” When Mr. Henry T. Oxnard was informed by The Bee correspondent today that the brazen {mpudence and corrupt methods of the Sugar trust lobby were disgusting men in congress to an extent that it was preju- dicing and fnjuring the legitimate requests of the beet and cane sugar manufacturers for a bounty or protection by a duty on the raw article he said: “As far as I am concerned, and so far as the other sugar makers in the country are concerned, it would be better that the Sugar trust was wiped out of existence. We do not ask for any protection for refining. We only ask for protection in the manufacture of sugar, which iIn turn will equally help the farmers who produce the beets and who ralse -the sugar cane. The sugar manufacturers have no connection whatever with the trust, in fact their interests conflict, and we have no knowledge of what the trust is demanding at the hands of congress or how it Is work- ng."” MAY ANNOUNCE THE SCHEDULE SOON. Intimation was made today that the demo- cratic membership of the senate finance com- mittee intended to announce its decision on the sugar schedule in the tariff bill in ad- vance of the report on the entire measure, and before the end of the week. The Sugar trust lobby has grown so bold, scandalous and insulting in its methods that no decent man can afford to rest under the suspicion of having been influenced by it, and there are two or three majority members of the com- mittee who declare that they will no longer rest under the imputation which might at- tach to them by delaying the publication of action upon the sugar schedule, It is likely that sugars of all grades will pay 1 cent or 1% cents per pound duty in the senate bill, but even if a discriminating duty in favor of the reflners was reported by the committee, it would be quickly rejected by either house of congress. The sugar interests of this country are suffering in their efforts to se- cure honest protection by the brazenness of the Sugar trust lobby. The Whisky trust lobby has probably won its point with the committee, and will get an increase of tax and an extension of the bonded period. IN A GENERAL WAY, Headsman Maxwell says he has guillotined over 2,000 more fourth-class postmasters during 'the past ten months than J. S. Clarkson did during the same period of the last administration. He says there is scarcely a fourth-class republican postmaster left whose services can be dispensed with, Deputy Commissioner of Pensions Bell said today that the pension disbursements for the fiscal year beginning next July will be $25,000,000 iess than for the present fiscal year, and that before President Cleveland retires from his present term pension dis- bursements will be brought down under $100,000,000 a year. Fourth-class postmasters appointed today: Towa—Battle Creck, Ida county, J. C. Hare vey vice H. W. Cheney, removed; Burnside, Webster county, J. A. Williams vice J. R. Conklin, removed; Dickens, ‘Clay county, Bugene Slowey vice H. R. Brownell, resigned; Jackson Junction, Winneshiek county, J. P. Marron vice F. K. Goddard, removed; Jessup, Buchanan county, I C. Underwood vice V. W. Davls, removed; Modale, Harrison county, W. F. Sharpnack’ vice E. Sharpnack, re.’ signed; Ray, Appanoose county, Ryman Me- Daniel vice' F. P. McNeff, resigned; Rays mond, Black Hawk county, W. S. Dietrich yice E. D. Marble, removed; Thor, Hum. bold county, C. B. Atzen vice O. T. Thompe son, removed. Utah—Layton, Davis county, W. B. Vaider vice W. A. Hyde, resigned; Senator Allen money un- Mill Creek, Salt Lake county, J. D. Cume mings vies H. L, Morgan county, J. R Shurtleff, removed Itepresentative Halner today introduced a bill to remove the charge of deserting against the mHitary record of Willlam Henry Johnson of Nebraska Representative Meiklejohn has been ad. vised that Willlam Brunk of Clarks, v and J. W. Newmeyer of Callo; havo been placed on the pension rolls R. M. Jester, superintendent of the Crow Creek Indian school near Chamberlain, 8, D., fs here. e has just been notified that his services In his presont capacity are no longer needed by the commissioner of Indian affairs, and he I8 trylng to ascertain why, He believes his dismissal is wholly partisan, enator Kyle was today assured by Secre tary Hoke Smith that Agent Wright at the Rosebud agency would not be disturbed, but rotained in his position. Wright Is en. dorsed for rotention by Senator Kyle and the Indlan Rights assoclation. Mr. Hayes of Chamberlain, 8. D., Is a candidate for tha place. PERRY 8. HEATH. SRS cltcie TO FIND THE NEWS. Rogers, removed; Morgan, Stuart vice A. Dy WHERE Compar tod Yoster- day by Rivals, The daily comparison between the amount of reading matter, exclusive of commercial news and advertisements, printed in The Bee, World-Herald and Lincoln Journal, glves the following figures for yestorday: Morning Iee, wide columns, . Morning W.-H., short, narrow columns Lincoln Journal, short, narrow columns - NT IN BLIZZARDOM Boston Transcript: A man is like a gas jet. The more he blows the less light he Eives out Botween P 30ty bt 26%% MERRIN. Chicago Inter-Ocean: The more healths a man drinks the less he will have him- self the next morning. atling has » appropri- Joston Herald: Young gone on the stage. ately billed as a son of a gun. Texas Siftings: When a public office- holder comes to feel that he is o big gun it is time for him to be fired. Philadelphia Times: Possibly the roped arena may represent a serious battle, but any girl knows the kind of an engagement the real prize ring stands for. The editor who is always feeling the pulse of the people is not really interested in their heart-beats. 1t is his own circulation that he is looking after. Detroft Free Press: Dude—My ancestaws came ovah in the Mayflower, don't you know. Bluft—As ballast? Brooklyn Life There 18 always Washington Star: sald one actor to an- room at the top, other: “You wouldn't believe it, “if you were to notice the negro minstrel performance.” was the reply, gallery a Somerville Journal: No one has ever yet described in detail the feelings of the man who leaves a blockhded electric car in dis- gust only_to see the car start up and bowl gaily by him at a fifteen-mile-an-hour clip Defore he has traversed 300 feet of side- walk. Tndianapolis Journal: “Dear me!" ex- claimed the lady journalist who was edit- ing a hion article, “I must get an old- rose penc % “What for?" “This plece is describing a bruntete, and this shade of blue would be so unbecoming to her complexion!” Washington Star: “I understand you saw the play last night," said she. No,’ replied the melancholy young man, s behind the woman with a high hat “But you could at and enjoy the mus “No. I was next to the man who spreads himself over three seats and Keeps time with his feet.” east sit comfortably SHE DID. Kansas City Journal ‘hat fellow Phipps comes here too much,"® Said Susan’s papa grim; “We'll have to put u stop to that— You must sit down on him."" Now, Sue is an obedient girl, Refpects parental powers; 8o when young Phipps came 'round thap night "= She sat on him two hours. SR . The Popullst Air Line. Springfia (Mass) Republican., The private secretary of the governor of Kansas returns from Texas with glowin, reports concerning the proposed populis anti-monopoly railrond which shall connect all Poplandia with the Gulf of Mexico. Tha gulf terminus, he says, is to be Port Boli- Var, opposite’ Galveston, and “‘work will actlially begin on the construction within forty days,” the first link to be forged being the fifty miles between Port Bolivar and a junction with the Southern Pacifio raliroad. Towns along the proposed route are to supply ties, while promises of money Are 80 abundant as to put the “pops’ in high feather. Of course, the railroad isn’t needed, but that doesn't matter; it's an Yexample” of some sort they are after, and we are disposed to think they'll gef one. —_—— ONLY. Tndianapolis Journal. She was only a typewriter girl, Beating her young life awa: With a click-click, ‘clickety click, ‘And getting one’dollar a day. She was only a typewriter gir], ‘Working the whole day loni With a click, click, clickety click, As the burden of her song. 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