Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 16, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. 3. ROSEWATER, Bditor, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Mee (without Sanday) One Year 3800 Tnily_and Sunday, Oue Yoear 19 ® Ea e, On Weekly Ben, On OUFICE ot Twenty fouth Sts, CORIESPONDINC e aitor Wishington, vdressed LETTER Tetters and remittances shou The 1 | Publishic comp: fon, checks and postoflice orders (6 isable to the ordsr 0f Lie eompany, i1 EE PUBLISHING GOMPANY ETATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. + 11, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee ¢ company, being duly sworn, suys {ual number of full and complete Daily Morning, Evening und printed during the month of was ns folows 17 18 minication, trer whould BURINESH ATl businiess nddrormed to Omahn " b made (ieors Publishi that the a coples of Bunday January, Tiee 1894, al for the m reductfons for un net circulation. ! GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK E orn to before me and sul: my presence this 6th duy of Febry i (SIEAL) N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Peckham may more day of ticipation enjoy on an- Congressman Bryan will relieve the anxiety of his many solicitous constituents if he will only fssue daily bulletins informing them of thie progress of his inciplent senatorfal boom The that a gang of counte feiters {8 operating near Omaha proves con clusively that some men have been wuking money in spite of the prevailing business de pression. discovery We endorse the action of the finance com- mittee of the county in in- sisting upon a full and complete semi-annual statement from the treasurer as the cifically provide: commisgioners law spe- sioners have andacity to order a The Kansas railroad had the unparalleled company in that s to glve its patrons better train service. Such examples of rec lessness will have a tendency to produce a painful impression upon the sensitive souls of the members of the Nebraska railroad board. comm Usually London comments upon American political topics are either flippant or gro- tesque; but the men who write the leaders on the big London dailies are quick to perceive the fact that the odious income tax append- age is likely to be the death of the new tariff bill, and their very evident alarm over the prospect is perfectly sincere. Riker, the Chicago man who insists upon having the entire $50,000,000 bond issue knocked down to him by Secretary Carlisle, 1s a pegsistent crank, it he is a crank at all. 1f it were not trifling with the nation’s eredit, the sccretary might try the experiment of accepting Riker's bid and then sce what he would do with the clephant on his hands, The reported success of the insurgents at Rio, if verified by later dispatches, may very materially change the aspect of the Brazil fan imbroglio. The capture of important strategic points may give the movement, which Is at present but little more than a rebellion, all the dignity of a revolution, and in such an event forelgn powers would be justified in recognizing the belligerent rights of the insurgents, Whatever be the disagreement of the fed- eral Judges upon the question of afirming the new wage schedule for the Union Pacific, the roceivers canmot feel required to put the schedule in force upon a portion of the lines and continue the existing wage contracts on another portion. The equalization s just for all or it is just for none. The men are en- titled to equal treatment, no matter upon which section of the road they happen to be employed. The new bidder for the city electric light contract las confirmed the claim all along made by The Bee that light “for munieipal and commercial purposes could be furnished at a far less cost to our people and then leave a fair margin of profit to the con- tractor. The city council knows tiis as well as anybody and If itis really in earnest in its profession of economical tendencies it will see that the next contract, for electric lighting is made at a reduced figure. electric The city engincer's report throws some light on the question of relative cost of steam power in the city of Omaha. Large establishments equipped with the best ma- chinery and conducted on an economic basis obtain their power at all the way from one- half to one-fifth the expense Incurred by small concerns running under the disadvan- tages of ordinary circumstances, Power for manufacturing purposes can be gotten from steam plants right in Omaha atmost as heaply as In the best situated city in the United State v Resumption by the president of hix regu- lar aftornoon receptions to the public, which he had discontinued for past, ought to bo an encouraging sign to the democrats who are waiting for presidential uppointments. When President Cleveland feels able to donate a fow of his precious moments to shaking hands with an inquisi- tive public he ought to be ready to give the more lmportant topic of spoils distribution a little additional attention, There is at least this comfort in announcement, it we can't have an office we can have an ops portunity to shake the hand of Mr. Cleve. land without cost several months the It would not be a bad idea for some of the lawyers of the Beard of Fire and Po't e Com missioners to take a hand in defending the power of the license board to decide upon the merits of applications for liquor licenses where the various requirements of the law have been serupulously obeyed from usurpa- tion by the judges of the distriot court. Thls 1s not a question of granting a particular 1i cense, The decision of Judge Scott in the Kalser case threatens to destroy the useful- of the license. It will require an authoritative declsion by the supreme court to inform us whether a district judge may lawfully assume the powers vested by statute i the license board. noss | | WAGES IN THE IRON INDUSTRIES. At the meeting In Pittsburg on Tuesday of the Assoclation of Iron and Steel Manu- facturers It was agroed that the wage re- duction to be made when the new tarift bill passes the senate shall be 40 per cent, ap- plicable to men recoiving the highest wages The scales for the middle class and the com- mon laborers will be graded 40 to The proposed reductions on top of the heavy,cuts already made in the wage scales will make the difference between the wages under republican and democratic pol- This is the gloomy stares workmen In the Iron industries in the face, for although efforts being made to the democratic senators who have charge of the tariff bill that its wages to this cla from per cent icles about 60 per cent outlook which are induce to see passage means starvation of workers they are not likely effect. There appears to be no reason to expect that the duties fixed by the Wilson bill on iron and steel will be the seem to have any disturbed by senate, It would that further contem- plated reduction in wages is somewhat out of proportion to the cut in the duties on fron id steel products, but the manufacturers aim that it is necessary if they are to keep their mills running and successfully compete in the American market with eign manufacturers. It Is necessar} to take this competition into consideration, for it is rted that agents representing large man- ufacturing concerns have been cireulating through the country taking or- ders on the strength of the passage of the Wilson bill. This is by no means incredible, for than that as soon as this bill becomes law the Buropean of and steel will be advantage of it and will rush products the American market, even if they have to sell them without a profit, knowing that if they break down or seriously cripple the American in- dustries they will able to ultimately themselves the contest which the Buropean ers will undoubt- cdly make to obtain a larger share of the American market and our manufacturers will wage to hold the home market the cost of labor will necessarily play the chief part, o that it is quite possible that the con- templated cut in the of workmen in the iron and steel industries will not be the last. Much will depend upon how far manufacturers will be able t0 go In reducing the cost of labor in these industries. Wi abroad are now very near point and American under the democratic policy will be required to_compete with them may find some little consolation in the thought that possibly they are as low as they can be made without causing serious trouble for the foreign manufac- the for- in Burope nothing is more certain manufacturers ready their iron to take into can be In manufactu recoup European ges the starvation workingmen economi who turers. In any event, however, the workers in the iron and steel industries of the country must face the,inexorable fact that their in- for years to will be much smaller than they have been at any time since the republican policy of protection was instituted, while employment in these in- dustries will not be o certain as it has been for many years. What is true of these workers applies to all in the protected in- dustries, and very generally the rule of all experience, under like circumstances, will nold good, namely, that the percentage of wage reduction will be greater than that in the price of commodities. The industrial readjustment made necessary to meet the new economic conditions will operate most soverely on labor. There is no escape from this Inevitable consequence of demo- cratic policy. comes come CANADIAN RAILWAY COMPETITION. The financial demoralization of the trans- continental raflroad systems of the United States naturally invites attention to the ef- fect upon these systems of the Canadian rafiroad competition. Of course there are numerous reasons, more or less familiar to the public, why our transcontinental rafl- roads are in their present condition finan- clally. The story of mismanagement, ex- travagance and reckless financiering has been told repeatedly. The general business depression caught these systems when they were least able to withstand the stress, and the consequence is well known. But Cana- dian rallroad competition has undeniably been a factor in producing the financial de- moralization of the American transconti- nental systems, and the question as to what ought to be and can be done regarding this competition is one In which very great inter- ests are deeply concerned. The question is not new. It has been agi- tated and discussed for years, and at least two congressional committces have within the last four or five years investigated the matter with a view to ascertaining what should be done to relieve American roads from the most damaging effects of this com- petition, if not to stop it altogether. Two or three secretaries of the treasury have been called upon to consider whether the bonding privilege accorded the Canadian roads should not be either withdrawn or so modified as to require the allen corporations to conform to the provisions of the Interstate commerce law. Some attention has been given to the subject In congress, and in his last message President Harrison recommended legislation that would so regulate this competition as to render it less injurious to our railroad inter- ests. But the bonding privilege, which alone makes this competition possible, 1s still enjoyed by the Canadian railroads, and it is estimated that in consequence of it the trafiic diverted to those roads from American lines amounts to $20,000,000 annually. The corporation which chiefly profits by this is the Canadian Pacific, and this is felt to be especially objectionable because that road is essentially institution, built largely by subsidies and enjoying speclal ad- vantages and immunities from the Dominion government. It is a question whether this road could bo maintained without the large American traffic it gets, and it is contended that the government of the United Stat ought not to allow it & privilege which e ables it to prosper at the expense of our own transcontinental The Canadian Pa- cific belng to all intents and purposes a gov- ernment line, and its maintenance a politi- cal necessity both to the Dominion and Great Britain, it is urged that we should not con tribute to its support to the detriment of our own transportation Interests. And since we cannot subject the allen corporation to the law which regulates our own roads, it is Insisted that it should be cut off from the advantage it enjoys through the liberality of our governmen It will have to bo confessed that a great deal of force in this position, there is another side to the questio which a very large number of our interested The producers of the vorthwest the manufacturers of New gland, as was shown by testimony taken by the congressional committees, are strongly in favor of allowing this Canadian competition to They found in It a protection against exorbitant freight charges by and they gard it as highly thelr inter a government roads. there 18 but in people are and the continue. have American roads, re- necessary to ests and welfare. Investigation a few years ago disclosed the fact that this sentiment was practically unanimous in the sections named, and there is no reason to suppose that it is Its influence has thus far been strong enough to prevent any interference with the competition of Cana- dlan raflroads and it will very like tinue to be. Obvlously, however, the tion is of such Importance as to demand the careful consideration of congress. less 80 now. con- ques- JUDGE CALDWELL'S ORDER. United States Circuit Judge Caldwell has according to telegraphic advices substantially suspended the order of the district court for a reduction of wages of employes on the Union Pacific lines in Nebraska. He has not, however, given any assurance that he will not ultimately decree that the old sched- ule of wages shall be scaled down. Judge Caldwell seems to have objected chiefly to ¢ summary and arbitrary action of the re- their failure_to treat with the spokesmen of the employes before the order of the court was secured. The circuit judge has in effect merely hung up the order of Judge Dundy until such time as the voice of labor may be heard in its own behalf. The court will give the railroad men their day in court, when it will devolve upon them to show cause why their wages shall not be reduced contemplated by the original order of the lower court On the other hand, the Unlon Pacific re- coivers and the attorneys representing the interests of the government wlill be given an opportunity to prove if they can that the proposed reduction is justified by critical conditions and that the old contract made between the road and the men cannot be observed without jeopardizing the railroad property as well as the interests of the gov- ornment. The action of Judge Caldwell can be con- strued as being only a partial victory for the railway employes. Their complete triumph will depend upon their ability to convince the court when the case comes up for hearing that there are no sound reasons for a reduction of their wages celvers and as THE WAR ON THE LORDS. The opposition in England to the House of Lords has assumed proportions calculated to make that body of hereditary lawmakers tremble for the security of their power. A feeling that the lords constitute an entirely s mischievous part of the British legislative system has long prevailed and has been steadily growing in recent years. Representing the aristocracy of the country that body has never been in sym- pathy with any having for its object the political advancement of the peo- ple, and while it has not becn able to de- feat all progress in this direction it has re- tarded it. The reforms which have been accomplished in the interest of a broader popular freedom the lords assented to un- willingly and under an almost irresistible pressure. The spirit pervading that body has been uniformly favorable to the element of the population which it represents and hostile to every proposed innovation that involved an abridgement of the power of that clement and anenlargement of the authority of the people. Since the advent of the Gladstone govern- ment the House of Lords has been more ar- rogant in asserting its legislative preroga- tive than for many years before. The work of the last session of the House of Commons was virtually wrecked by the lords. In the case of the home rule bill nothing different was expected, although threats were then made as to what might happen if that meas- ure was defeated and undoubtedly this re- sult aggravated the popular opposition to the peers. It remained for the action of the lords regarding the employers’ liability bill and the parish councils bill, in proposing amendments to these measures which would render them practically worthless, to arouse this opposition and give it voice and this has been done with a vigor and earnestness which promise a contest of the greatest in- terest and perhaps of far-reaching impor- tance to the British people. Of course much depends upon the course that Mr. Gladstone may adopt and the ques- tion whether he will favor or oppose the dis- position of his party to attack the heredi- tary legislators is one that the opponents of the lords must just now be very seriously considering. He cannot well evade the mat- ter, and it would seem that he cannot make any concession to the lords without a great loss of prestige. Yet it is highly probable that Mr. Gladstone is not anxious to force a contest. As to the lords the indications are that they will not recede from the position they have taken under the bold and aggres- sive leadership of Salisbury, and yet so courageous a leader and hard a fighter as the ex-premier may find it expedient not to go to the extreme in aggravating opposition, It is possible the issue will be settled by some sort of a compromise, but it has served to show that there is a strong element of the people in favor of getting rid of the House of Lords. useless as well movement The opposition of the milk dealers to the enforcement of the ordinance recently passed for the protection of consumers is ill-timed and ill advised. Unfortunately a weak spot in the former ordinance enabled the milkmen to evade its provisions, but it is not at all cer~ tain that their threat to contest the opera tion of the present municipal law will prove successful. The necessity for this regulation is paramount. While it is true that the city cannot legislate any dealer honest, it can make adulterated or watered milk unpopular and prevent the sale of milk from diseased cows. Only a portion of the dairymen doing business in Omaha are guilty of dishonest practices, and they must be compelled to stop their unlawful work, not only for the pro- tection of the public, but also for the sake of the good reputation of honest dealers, It is the duty of the properly constituted offls cers of the city to rigidly enforce the milk ordinance. It must be demonstrated whether or not the milkmen have immunity from laws that are right and just. Senator Allen’s intimation of the odious presence of railroad lobbylsts in every nook of the capitol at Washington should prove a gentle reminder to the rail- road magnates who are trying to influence the legislation of congress. The railroad lobby, its machinations become a matter of public notoriety, is apt to be a dead welght to its employers, The railroads make a mistake when they think their inter- the employment of a paid pack wirepuliers fair the hands congressional and corner once ests requl ot treatment to insure of professional at committees. The volce of the Chicago press is unani- mous in advocacy of retrenchment In city affairs and of more equitable tax a ments. Upon the latter point the Tribune makes an observation which is applicable to prevalling In Omaha. It says that nts of property in Chicago are unequal, unjust, and inadequate. The fact that the increaso in the realty assesssment year to year s a trifle, while conditions from mere THE OMAHA DAILY BEE the records of the building department show | the cost of structifeh|between the dates of | assossment to be tens of millions of dollars in some of the towms, demonstrates that the assessors do not do their duty. It is the wealthy owner ‘Who profits by this. The taxes of the humbiM hduse and lot owner are about the year to year. If cottage s erected on,a vacant lot there s an increased ment It a ten-story bullding Is erected on a down-town site there is but a sifghtTchange in the valua- tion. ame from asse: CemNr——— If the lawyers havel good luck they may be able to bring the maximum rate injunc- tion to the attention of the federal courts about the tHme the next ot the Nebraska legislature fs ready to adjourn sine die. This will relieve the of the legislature of the necessity of pass- ing rallrond law. The friendly solicitude of the railroad lawyers for the members of the legislature Is touching In the extreme. cases session members another of the to the merely An_interesting chart of the path recent blizzard from the Pacific c Atlantic seaboard shows that Nebr. got the effects of the storm’s fringe, tho storm center passed considerably south of us. Nebraska’s reputation as the land of the blizzard is waning in the public esti- mation. while Seven years have passed since Nebraska suffered a “severe blizzard. During that time states east, north and west of us have been visited by terrific and wind storm Nebraska can no longer be desig- nated the _hnxllh of the blizzard. In fact the climate of this state is nowhere excelled. snow Wall street brokers are advertising blocks of new 5's at a slight advance of the upset price fixed by Secretary Carlisle’s circular that invited proposals for the bonds. The loan may become a popular one if it per- colates through the hands of enough brokers. Worse than War. New York World. Poor, unhappy Ilurope! She throes' of a tariff discussion. is In the and Ouatgo. ver News, with coin notes fssued in bullion purchas few weeks ken lisle will inform congress that he must more bonds to keep up that grezuback re demption gold fund. —— Party Characteristics in New York. Chicago Post. In accordance with the historical rule of New York politics, the republican party is again divided info two factijas—one which has plenty of gense and no hones and the other much honesty and no gern at all. Knowing the state of New we cannot doub{ how it will choose, Hur: ah for Tammany Hall, which has neithcr sense nor honesty! AT A TS The Coal Trust ¢ rlooked. New York Tribune. There is a possibility that the price of coal, which has been maintained in the face of hard times and the lizht consumn- tion due to a mild winiter, will be reduced. It is time that this.should happen. The exorbitant price which has been exacted by the producing companies and the retail dealers for a nuriber of years has been a heavy burden on the consumers, especially among the poorer ones, and particularly during these times: of financial depression Wheat, corn, petroleum, cotton—almost everything which, producers offer for sale and the people in eneral buy has fallen in price. Why has. not coal done the same? e How the Doctors Disagree. © Philaiiiphia_Press John 1. Davenport of New York has been the terror of ballot box stuffers and polit- ical thugs in New York for years. It is no wonder, then, that democratic heelers and newspaper organs are doing a hulu-hulu dance over his retirement by democratic Taw. - New York Sun. When the history of the United States during the nineteenth century comes to be written the narrative will contain few more amazingly grotesque statements than that for twenty-three years the government paid to one John I. Davenport the salary of a first class bank president for locking up in_an fron cage citizens who had com- mitted no crime. . WHITTLED TO A POINT. Atchison Globe: Every man makes a &ood husband for awhile. Glen TFalls Republican: The worn-out clock usually comes to an untimely end. Yonkers Gazette: The man who “itches for fame' is usually kept scratching. Elmira Gazette: Yes, Minerva, there is a vast difference between fast days and fast nights, Milwaukee Journal: Few ceited enough to be satisfied with hang of their trousers. men are con- the Philadelphia Times: The Salyation army is after Ingersoll. This won't do. The thing is to get ahead of him. man his Somerville Journal: Almost every worries more or less for fear that neighbors may be too extravagant. Philadelphia Recorc changes the complexion of thinge, ed Wigwag as he gazed on his wife's dressing- Lowell Courier: The poet writes of the music of the woodland depths, but he omitted to say that it is the pine tree that gives the pitch. Washington Star: The sympathetic world is now filled with grief over the shadow that recently came into the groundhog's fe. >uck: Cap Ricornus—Excuse me; but won't you have a bit of this delicious over- shoe. Miss Nannle Goat—No, thank you! I never chew gum, New Orleans Picayune: A young lady who was pelted with confectionary by the Rex maskers said: “To be candied, "I do not like for them to throw hard bonbons at Atlanta Constitution: running on? ““His record," “Well, what is 1t?" Stayed in congress six months and came home sober." “What's Brown TIndianapolis Journal is_a average man? Mrs. Figg—He i5.a man who s pleasant and smiling down town all aay, but who comes home and glyes his wife fifs to x up the average, Tommy—Maw, what Chicago Record:’ Hones—What have y raised that young bpolkkeeper's salary fo Don't you know that the young spendthrift squanders all his salary giving presents to e girl_he's infatuated with? lones—Of daughter. POPULAR AS THE MEASLES, Attanta Cotut itution The man who says, 1“1 told you s0," He meets you everywhere; He always finds you blue, you know, And leaves you In despair. Whether your life & blessing wins Or sinks in debpest woe; Whether iU's funcrals or twins, There's his “I told you so!" ourse I do. The girl's my FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1891, WHAT IS SENSIBLE PROTECTION? The Minneapolis Tribune recently con tained an editorial under the eaption “Pro toction that is Sensible,” which we repro- duce. Appended fs a reply written by Hon. William 8. Manning, the New York politi- clan The Tribune says: It fs probable that no Minnesota farmer ever saw in this state a Canadian farm tool. Indeed, more Canadian farmers, doubtless, use American farm tools and machinery, than Canadian made. Ameri can farm niachinery is used in every enlight- ened farm district on the earth, from Wash Ington and British Columbia In the west to Russia and India in the east. Nevertheless, there 1s a body of agricul tural implement makers who affect to believ that they are in danger of inundation fro Canadian and other “pauper” made machin- ery, and are making the afr in Washington blue with howls for protection on machinery which crosses all oceans and undersells pauper labor in its own strects and furrows. It is ridiculous to pretend that these de- mands are m; in the Interests of prote tion to labor, The doctrine of protection means that only industries which need shelter shall receive it, and only for such time as they need it. Prohibitive walls kept up to create a close market for combinations which are able to compete successfully With the world are no part of the system of protection to American labor, These clamorers are doing their best to bring reproach upon the entire protective system. Protection proper is a reasonable 4 business-like system. It protects from ster the young and undeveloped in dustry until it is able to compete with for- elgn_enterpris It enables a country to develop its industrial resources in the face of disastrous competition. But protection is not the proper name for that tem which puts a barb-wire fence about section of the earth to create a monop lized market for colossal enterprises which are superior to all competition. Protection is a busine regulation in behalf of needy industry, not an exclusive privilege for the ends of colossal combinations. The trust and the industry which conquer fo eign markets are able to take car selves without government aid The agricultural implement Industry, the lumber industry, the salt industry, the coal and iron ore mining industries, the petrol cum syndicate, the sugar trust, the binding twine combination, have reached the point where they are practically independent of foreign competition leir greatest com- petition, where 'there is competition, Is among their own ranks. It is unreason- able to talk of extending further protec- tion to these huge interests. They need no protection. They are superior to all for- cign _competition on the globe. Republicans should not make a farce of their princ ples by applying them to such concern Protection should be restricted to its legiti- mate and reasonable field. In this they will command the support of thoughtful and scientious vote both within and out he party. . PAUL, Feb. 11. To the Rditor of the ncapolis Tribune: In your issue of today your arlicle entitled “Protection that is Sensible” seems to me at variance with the true principle of protection for American in- dustry, and against the high rate of wages justly demanded by free American labor, made possible by adequate protection,. and which has brought to our country, within the past thirty-three years, the greatest pros- perity known in ancient or modern history. And it might be truthfully said that it “was chiefly because of the high rate of wages paid to labor, which increases the purchasing power of the people, retains at home their wealth, widens the market for the farmer, the manufacturer, the merchaft, and, unfortunately, that of the importer of competitive commodities. You say:' “It is probable that no Minnesota farmer ever saw in this state a Canadian farm tool.” For this blessing he has reason to congratulate Ifimself, for had it been possible—and thanks to protection it was mot—for him to have done o, it is more than likely there would not have been many prosperous farmers in Minnesota to use them; certainly not, if the mantle of protection of labor had been removed from that and other industries for like reasons. Remove protection from the agricultural imple- ment industry, and if labor does not descend to that of foreign localities! then the Min- nesota farmer will soon see none but Canadian—European more likely—farm tools of every deseription. But should that time come, he must seek In Canada and Burope for the market that the American manufac- ture of farm tools, and others, produced for him. This rule, without exception, applies to every class of competitive indusiry, raw ma- terials or not, which costs more to produce here, because of the high price of labor, than’ clsewhere on the globe. Unless that cost is equalized”™by a protec- tive tariff, or unless the wages are cut down to the level of our lowest competitive labor, all manufacturing competitive indus- tries 'must be and will be transplanted to the country that can produce the cheapest. From this there is no escape. Then, unless the experience of the past is reserved, and the logic of trade and commerce is a myth, the Minnesota farmer will find that when the foreign producer has no competitor here, and when he controls our market, the farmer will be compelled to pay quite as much, if not more, than he does now for his farm tools. This has been the result in the past, holds good now, and will hold good in regard to every competitive commodity imported into this country, whereas the reverse of this rule obtains under protection, together with the consequent increasing volume of production, which decreases the cost of pro- duction in, proportion to the volume pro- duced, and consequently the price. Tho question that should interest the Amerlcan farsaer most is the preservation of the home market created by our own in- dustries—the agricultural implement indus- try included—their retention within the horders of his own country, and the nearer to his own farm the better for him, is his salvation, and on it depends his prosperity. What if these protected machines, miostly covered by patents, do cross every ccean and “undersells pauper labor In its own streets and furrows?’ What does that signify to the American farmer? What does it signify to him if thess farm machines are given away, so loag ns they are produced at home and creates and re- tains for him a market, # market that ould otherwise be wresiad fom lim? he American farmer pays but a slight in- creased price for his farm tools in compari- son to the advan s derived from the home market, which the manufacture of the commodities produces for him. He should welcome the increase market rather than risk its loss. It the American farmer doubts that this is true he will find it only too true, to his everlasting regret, before the Wilson bill, as It passed the house of representatives, has been in operation one year. It is highly probable he will then be glad to offer his wheat and his corn, etc,, for half their present prices, and will be fortunate if he finds customers able to buy. No industry, whether it Is as old as Adam or as young as a new-born babe, can exist on equal terms against an Industry that can produce at a less cost The cost of production must be equalized must inevitably follow of that . 8. MANNING, Albany, N. Y. MeKinleylsm and Wilsonism, Gilobe-Demucrat MeK 8 sven if the worst that was e K re true, would be |u|n-.i " /ilsonism., The former ne e e hop. While the prospeet of the lat ter has closcd thousands of them. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, ol Baking Powder ABSOIUTELY PURE or ruin | PERSONAY, AND OTHERWISE, WHERE T0O FIND THE NEWS. rparison Botween Papers Printed Yastor- day by The Bee and Would-Ito Rivals. The daily comparison between the amount of reading matter, exclusive of commercial news and advertisements, printed in Tho Bee, World-Herald and Lincoln Journal, gives the following figures for yesterday York | Morning Bee, long, wide oslumns CO0INESs | Aforning W.-H,, short, narrow columns Lincoln Journal, short, nar.ow colimns %l Washington s afMicted with a horde of grars, professional and political Things have come to a pretty pass for the man whose “‘annual” carry berthrights To properly desoribe -k the Cleveiand motto s office fs a party bust biting forco in Now by the Stberian which bolitical factions The conviction of Mr. McKano, the Coney Island boss and expounder of seripture, means an increase i the ranks of statesmen fired out of a job. The fellow who orlginally asserted that Omaha had 6,000 persons dependent on pub lic charity possesses an imagination that for bids familiarity with truth In China when a bank fails all the clerks and managers have (heir heads chopped off and thrown in a heap along with the books of the firm. Atlantic City is in Iowa instead of China A New Yorkor wills $1,000,000 to Dr. hurst's vice suppressing socioty, The in crement of the bequest will facilitate a re vival of the famous leap frog game with beer on the side, A New York minister gives a rather lu minous description of the annual French mask ball. which he attended in the capac- ity of a reporter for the New York Herald, he promoters cxpect as a equence a tremendous crush at the next The great gray stuceo house on Connectleut nue, Washington, built by “Boss” Shep- , and successively upied by the conditions today, ild read, “A public he blizzard's intensified separates 8614 was e NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, Bids will be opened next week for the con- truction of a $10,000 flouring mill at Clay Center. The Unfon Pacific has decided to build a $10,000 depot at Sidney. Work on the struc- ture will bo begun April 1 An Ancient Order of United Workmen lodgo has been organized at Meadow Grove With thirty charter members, There are four surviving Mexican war in Johnson county. draw pensions of §8 per month A gang of thieves is decimating the corn cribs in the neighborhood of Clay Center, They carry off their plunder by the wagon Toad. There were 255 marriage in Gage county during 1803 was never used, but the oth intended purpose. The Broken Bow Republican that Judge Holcomb declines to be a candi- date for congre in the Sixth district The Chinese and Russian legations, has been | Jll0Ee 18 attending strictly to his business on bought by the widow of Mr. McLean of | the bench Cincinnati. She gave $102,000 for it. A number of DeWitt people have made Rear Admiral John L. Warden still wears '\”_';‘V”KLI‘U’_”‘\';:"C“ ‘“' “r"‘['m' -‘\ :l""ll.»ll u»"f »:u:;: the sear left by the wound he received from | \jor Doy Wil ecohomxh! by UsIAE, the the bursting of a rebel shell in the turret | wi'for wloeepiig purposes. : of the Monitor during her engagement with | =, e the Merrimac He 18 often seen strolling The. coronor e AL Edgar has dc leisurely along the streets of Washington, that John McKane, who wa ind ol X bed on his farm near town, died from natus The terrific storm which lashed Lake | ra) causes. The post-mortem revealed that Michigan into an ugly fury demonstrated | gisoase of the Kitlneys was responsible for the seaworthin of the famous warship the man’s demise. Illinols. At her moorings off Jackson park Giiioe LNl e redt s she buffeted the billows and S MLLEL LU LRI mocked their e L of pulling a gun from the hind end of a savage roar. Verlly the Illinois Is a brick. | giaigh with his hand on the muzzle. The The mayor of Chicago, as evidence of his | ygual result didn’t follow. While the gun sincerity, directs that 10 per cent of his | was discharged in the customary manner, salary be retained and applied to the oity’s | the load passed up Mr. Nissiey's sleeve, financial deficit. At last accounts his sub-'{ and qid little damage beyond ruining his ordinates had not fallen over each other in | coat and slightly puncturing the skin on their cffort to follow the mayor's example. | his elbow. The celebration of the birthday anni. The Bill introduced in the house by Con- versary of the lamented Lincoln brought | gressman Meiklejohn, authorizing the issue forth a variety of facial counterfeits, | of a patent to the Presbyterian Board of equalled only by the wealth of whiskers at. | Home Missions for a quarter section of land ached. But the genius among the up-to- | on the Omaha Indian reservation for school ate artists is the Chicago Journal wood | purpo: will probably become a law and carver, whose Lincoln sports a Paderewski | preparations are being made by the church shock of hair. society for the ercction of a new building. Experts estimate that Waldorf Astor's new | In his report oun the bill Mr. Meiklejohn toy, the Pall Mall Gazette, is run at a loss | says: “The Presbyterian Board of Home on account of the fine quality of the paper | Missions has maintained a mission school on which it is printed, whith is said to be | on the Omaha reservation in Nebraska for the most expensive used by any journal in | nearly forty years. The building at pr the world, As his income is something over | occupied for school purposes is old and $8,000,000 a year he affard to indulge for | adequate to the growing needs of the school, a few yi his hankering for artistic cod- | and the location on the banks of the Mis- fish bawls. sourl river fs remote from railroad com- munication and difficult of access. The George W. Childs made it a life never to speak ill of any one. If Smith | Presbyterian Board of Home Missions agree to relinquish their title to the land now went to him and told him that Brown was his deadliest enemy he sent for Brown and | used for mission purposes and receive in lieu intimated that Smith was the dearest friead | therefor a quarter section of land of more they both had on earth, and owing to the | desirable location, on which they propose to kind things Smith had said about him he | erect a school building at a cost of $7,500, to wanted to thank him and find out if there | be maintained for the education of the youth of the Omaha and neighboring Indian tribes. was any favor he could do him. : SHI : o ms vho 1s looked in | This agreement has received the unanimous B OO, e s obrel. 1oantan | approval of the councll of the Omaha In- New Eng s Edison’s rival, inve i 13. That same year he entered the Phila. | tain W. H. Beck, U cting agent for delphia High school, and on his graduation | the Omaha Indian four years later he was given charge of S Movements of ps. the High school laboratory and made an ass WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—A cable dispateh sistant professor. Prof. Thomson is still a comparatively young man of agreeablo | roceived at the Navy department announces the arrival at Naples of the United States manners and engaging modesty. Thomas W. Meade, who died the other day | g, Chicago. The Yorktown is reported to have arrived at Panama on her way north to in Portland, Me., at the age of 80, had a peculiar history. He had been a man of good position In Ireland and a noted Orange- | become a member of the Bering sea patrol man. He set out to fight Parnell at the | fleet. She touched at a number of ports height of his power, and by incurring his | in Peru and will make a cruise among Cen- enmity was boycotted, and finally, having | tral American ports before coming north. A Jost all his fortune, was compelled to come to | cable from China announces the arrival at America. Here he lived as an exile, leading | Shanghal of the Monocacy. W strange and solitary life, making no Py FPhiladelphia Fecore friends, An income tax I8 a resort of desperation. TIn great exigencles the government may be justified in saving itself by snatching at Whatover property may be In sight, but Mot otherwise, This is the opinion of Mr. Gladstone, who declares such a tax to be n engine of gigantic power for great na- tional purposes, but that the circumstances attending its ope tion make it difficult, perhaps impossible, or at any rate not de- sirable to maintain it as a porf n of the permanent and ordinary financ (L 'TORATION. soldiers of the Bt They all licenses iseued One of them s served thelr announcos trick rule of his ———— A Philanthropist's Will. Indianapolis Jowrnal. In bequeathing his entire estate to his wife the late George W. Childs added in his will that he did it in “full confilence that she, knowing my plans and purposes, will, by gift, during her life, or by testa- mentary writing, make such disposition thereof for charitable or other us will be in accordance with my wishes.” This is construed by Mr. Childs' friends as in- dicating that he had cl ¢ defined plans as to the ultimate disposition of his estate, and that his widow knows them accurately and will carry them out either during her 1ife or by will. This means that his numer- ous charities and philanthropic plans will still be carried on . The Boom In Business. Washington P:st. The business boom Is slow of develop- ment, but there are symptoms of steadi- ness ‘In it. While there are material de- fects in the Wilson tariff bill by which cer- tain industries are likely to be injuriously affected, the proposed legislation does not threaten to be universally ruinous. The prospect of its passage is becoming so well assured that an element of certainty has been injected into the situation and various branches of manufacture, weary of a long suspense and with accumulating orders, which are of themselves a sign of return- ing prosperity, will shortly resume opera- tions. EXF Minneapolis Journal. Those men who like to masticate The gland-exciting weed, Shoula be compelled to rusticate In pens where porkers feed For it is hardly delicate Tor them to board a car And constantly expectorate Where dainty ladies are. 1t's very hard to opacate The sickening, murky pools, And just as hard to dessicate These marks of nasty fools. I therefore wish to advocate A plan to cure the ill In spots whe ladies congregate, That ought to fill the bill, Take all who chew, and conflscate Thefr filthy plugs, and then In proper time you'll educate A'lot of decent men, BROWNINGKING | The largest makers and sellers ot fine clothes on earth, Your money’s worth or your money bacle, Good old stock Is all very well in everything but clothing. A » | Others can carry all they want to of it, but as for us we'll have none ol" it—not any, at least, if prices will be any inducement to the wearers of good clothes to buy. It is imperative that we get rid of our present stock and we have made some astonishing cuts all over the store. Tha eut is awful in the children’s department and in the furnishing goods, and the hats, but nowhere is the cut so deep as it is on the suits. A whole suit of clothes for $8.50 of our own make, is something you can't duplicate for nearly twice the money, Just like that all the way through. BROWNING, KING & CO., | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, Will uay the express If themoney for §20 wort ou send or more