Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 27, 1894, Page 4

4 TAE OMAHA DAILY BEE. 1. ROSEWATER, Bditor. PUBLISHED EVE BUNSCRIPTION. anday) Yonr One Yonr TERMS OF Deo (without an Sunia Monith Montha Sonth O e N ond Council Fiuis, 12 Venrl strect Vorl, ¥ 2, 14 and 15, 7 ¢ irteenth st TESPON DL e relnting to news and e wildressed : To the Iditor. S8 LETTERS, \d’remitiances shouid be Tablishig company owtoflice ord smpiny T1°A N Fwenty-fouth 8 m bullding. bun CORT bl BT T PUBLISHING ( * CIRCULATION. k, secrotary of The niz company, being duly sworn, « that th tual number of full and comp coples of The Daily Morning, Bvenir Sunday Hez printed during month January, JSH, was the 27018 %5 09 ofal for the month Less reductions for ) turned copies. . so0ld Iy averagd unday. i’ net clrcuiation.. . .. GRORGE B, TZSCHUCK Sworn to before me and subscribed my presence this Gth day of February, 1801, (SIZAL.) P. FEIL, Notary Public. Jerry Simpson’s estimate of Senator Allen Is complimentary to say the least. Can the senator conscientiously reclprocate the favor? Mrs. Leas out the east as 1s advertising lerselt through- ‘the greatest orator in the Nothing small abont Mary, except is th world.” her feet, The people of Brazil are said to be anxious for a s settlement of the so-called Brazilian war one way or another. So are the people of the United States. Judging from the public of the general master workman of the Knights of Labor, one would infer that he was sov- ereign in fact as well as in name. utterances Hereafter, when Governor Hogg of Texas wants to go out deer hunting, he will first consult the attorney general and will carry with him @ copy of the game laws of the state. Another fire is attributed to defective elec- tric wiring. Another argument in favor of the pending ordinance giving the city elec triclan power to enforce the rules of proper wiring. It the State Board of Transportation Is still on speaking terms with the B. & M. railroad its officials will have the grain rate from Fairbiry to Omaha readjusted so that this city can secure the trade to which it is entitled. Charitable organizations In all the large cities are still issuing urgent calls for funds for the prosecution of the work of poor re- lief. Spasmodic charity has had its day. The campaign against poverty is every- where sifting down to a systematic and steady onslaught. Let the jury in the case of the county Thospital contractors go out and inspect the building. It won't take twelve jurors long to determine whether defective work was done on the building when constructed. It is a monument to the most glgantic swindle ever perpetrated upon the people of Douglas county. The Knights of Labor will do well to think twice before willtully violating a restraining order of a federal court, how- ever odlous and unwarranted it may appear to be. The law Itself provides a remedy by appeal to secure the dissolution of injunc- tlons Issued without the necessary color of Jurisdiction. Eleven prisoners will be discharged from the state penitentiary during March. There has been a gradual decimation of the number of convicts the past year. The people of Nebraska must be growing better, and are not, as has been charged, “upon the verge of moral, financial and material ruin braska s all right. One report of the proceedings of the lower house of congress the other day says that it rosembled a bear garden. A sim- flar analogy expressed in another paper char- acterizes the proceedings as resembling a beer garden. This must be an unwarranted slander on the beer garden, and demands a congressional investigation, The persuasive powers of the Commercial club are being used successfully upon cour try merchants, whose trade the jobbers of Omaha want and must have. When Ne. braska merchants learn by personal contact of the manifold advantages of the Omaha market they will need no further induce: ments to trade here. Self-interest will do the rest. The old question of the right of the city to impose a license tax upon persons pur- suing particular occupations s again involving the clty authorities before the courts, The coal dealers license case pur- ported to have settled this last summer, when the eity did manifest interest enough in the adverse decision to appeal to the higher court. This question will not be settled until the supreme court settles it right, not The government of the United States s as fastidious as It Is exacting with reference to the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion law. When the Chinese residents of a Washington town prepared to comply with the provisions of the law and handed In thelr photographs for inspection it was found that they had forgotten to remove thelr hats before posing béfore the photog- rapher's camera and so will have to go through the ordeal more. WIll the woes of the Chinamen never end? once The county commisioners making a move in the right when they re- solye to require of the county treasurer a monthly statement showing the precise amounts of county money held by the dif- ferent banks that have been designated ae ecounty depositories. The publication of this statoment would be a further check upon the power of the treasurer to favor on bank more than another, and would at the same time take the people into the confi- dence of the county bookkeeping. There is mo call for secrecy In connection with the safekoeping of public funds, are direction OUR SPLENETIC DOGRERRY. Abont two months ago a desperado who had been in Omaha only forty-eight hours held up A man going to his home in ome of our streets about 11 at night and made him hand over what change he had at the muz- The footpad was ar- tried In the district of highway robbery. his lawyers revolver. rosted by the police, court and convicted As a plea for a light sentence, him to tell the trial judge, who hap- pened to be the irascible and bombastic Scott, that he had brought $80 to Omaha on is arrival and lost all he had at the faro table. This may have been true, or it may have been a downright fabrication. In any event it furnished the judge with an- other opportunity to dance a jig on the corpus of the mayor and deliver a stump specch on Neensed gambling. Now, when the prisoner at himself guilty of gambling, robbery, he entitled double dose. The man who gambles at faro is guilty of a felony just the same as a dealer of faro, the man who delib- crately walks into a gambling house for the purpose of betting his money at an unlawful game is entitled to no sympathy. It after gnmbling away his money the man proceeds to hold up a wayfarer in the street with a revolver, he can scarcely plead the baby act, hecause he lost his money at faro. But Judgo Scott is nothing If not a dema- gogue. Why does he rave and froth at the mouth over the mayor talk wild about licensed gambling in The anti-gambling ordinance grants no license to nybody and the collection of the $150 fine in way be construed as a permit carry nbling. On the contrary it places in the hands of the public prose- cutor the needed proot for convicting keep- ers of gambling houses if he is disposed to them. Judge Scott certainly knows enough to know that the machinery tor enforcing the statute against gambling is In the hands of the sheriff, the county attorney and the judge of the criminal court. Why his spleen z1e of a bar confessed besides high- way was to a and moreover and Omaha, can no to on prosecute does the judge everlastingly vent at the mayor in this manner Instead of addressing himself to the law officers of his own court. The people of this community cannot hoodwinked by these periodic outbursts of self-asserting vir- tue. A judge is no different from any other public man who holds his commission from the people. A man may fool some people some time, but no man can fool all the peo- ple all the time. SOVEREIGN'S FOOLISH THREATS, General Master Workman Sovercign mis- takes the temper of the American people if he expects them to give moral support to his threats of violating the injunction is- sued by Judge Jenkins. It is poor policy, to say the least, for the leader of a great labor organization to announce amid a blast of trumpets that he intends to defy the legally constituted authorities of the United States. Violating an order of the court can only lead to other and equally serious violations of the law. The action of the master work- man sets an example to all the men sers of the labor organization which he controls, It tends to blunt their respect for law and to encourage lawlessness. It invites upon the instigator the penalties which lic within the power of the court to impose. Labor leaders, and chief among them Mr. Sovereign, have justly denounced in un- measured terms the corporations that have endeavored to evade the restrictions placed upon them by courts and legislatures. They have scored the railroads for not living up to the interstate commerce law. They have accused them of trying to get control of the courts and of refusing to obey their orders whenever the latter might not suit their purposes. Yet here we have Mr. Sovereign threatening to do exactly what the corpor- ations have been denounced for doing. It he ventures to ignore Judge JenKins' order, how can he expect his opponents to be held hack from doing likewise? Should the re- celvers of the Union Pacific, for example, dare to reduce employes' wages In the face of the ruling of Judges Hallett and Riner the country would be deafened by the righteous protests of labor organizations of every kind. Judge Jenkins' order may be wrong and he may have exceeded his lawful authority when he signed a paper designed to prevent the concerted quitting of work on the part of the Northern Pacific employes. But this will not Justify Mr. Soverelgn in deliberately violating the injunction. If the order is wrong there are remedies provided by law to establish the fact. The remedy fis by appeal or by a petition for rehearing, and not by deflance. It is gratuitous for Mr. Soverelgn to intimate that the labor organ- izations cannot get justice from the courts. The recent decisions of Judges Hallett and Riner and of Judge Caldwell prove con- clusively that the federal courts are ready to consult the interests of employe as well as of employer. Mr. Sovereign's threats cannot help the cause of labor. be PEFFER'S REPORT ON AGRICULTURE. The investigation made by a subcommittee of the senate committee on agriculture into the causes of agricultural depression, a re- port of which has been submitted by Senator Peffer, appears to have been very thorough and pursued with a purpose to get at the real fac The epitome of the report printed in The Bee shows the findings and the conclusions of the committee to be in a very high degree instructive and interesting, and they can be commended not only to those immediately concerned in agriculture, but to all who care to be well informed regard- ing that most important of all the interests of the American people. Agriculture Is the basis of national wealth and prosperity. More than one-third of the population of the United States s engaged in agricultural pursuits, and the annual addition to the wealth ot the country from its farms is many timos greater than that derived from the manu- facturing and mining industries. The value of as accurate a knowledge of the conditions affecting this industry as it is possible to obtain will be generally recognized. Agricultural depression is not confined to the United States. It is a practically uni- versal condition. It Is severely felt In Great Britaln, where it has existed for several years. Only a few days ago the emperor of Germany publicly deplored the unfortunate condition of the farming inter- est in that empire. The agriculturists of Russia are having an even worse experlence, and, In short, the depression prevalls In every country of Europe, mot excepting Tance, though it 1s less severely felt in the latter than in other European countries Australla suffers from it, tries of South America. It Is, Indeed, a world wide afiction and it presents one of the interesting and important problems ef the time. Giving due considera- tion to this fact it s not possible to accept all the conclusions advanced by Senator Peffer In accounting for the agricultural de- pression in this country, but some of them are unquestionably sound, Among the lattar oune (s the still excessive transportatiom as do also the coun- most THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUES charges, tindoubtedly the most factor in tho problem, since it makes the greatest drain on the producers' profits, where it leaves any chance for a profit Senator Peffer reaches a conclusion com- mon with all investigators in this field, and that is that one of the most certain reme- dies for agricultural depression fs a diversi- fication of crops. On this point he finds in the sugar industry a highly source of advantage to the farmers of the west, and presents an argument in favor of fostering and promoting that industry which ought convince everybody who is not hopelessly prejudiced against national aid in building up any American industry. The report, after pointing out the difficulties to be overcome in order to successfully estab- lish the beet sugar industry, shows that the bounty method of encouragement had re- sulted in largely increasing the sugar pro- duction of the country, that of cane in- creasing in 1892 60 per cent and that of beet wugar for the same year 240 per cent. The report favors the retention of the bounty, expressing the opinion that it would cheaper to do this than to abolish bounty and restore the duty, and by Justifying this view a computation s given showing that under the bounty system there was saved to the consumers of sugar in 1802 over $34,000,000. This portion of Senator Peffer's report possesses peculiar interest at this time and ought to have a good effect on the senate, but it is hardly to be expected that the recommendation of a retention of the bounty will be adopted. The best that can be looked for regarding sugar, as now indicated, 18 a duty of perhaps 1 cent per important beet valuable to be the way of m pound. THREE HAWAIAN REPORTS. All who Hawalian reports interest in the carefully the United States foreign rela- report, not lost will to have question read submitted the by the committee on tions. These consist of a majority signed by the chairman of the committee, Senator Morgan of Alabama, and the re- publican members, a minority report by four democrats of the committee, and a supplementary report by the republicans of the committee. While there is nothing essentially new presented 1n any of these reports, they together present all phases of the question, 8o that the partisans of either side may find in them a justification of their views, The majority Morgan, who takes ponent of international law, acquits every body of wrong except Minister Stevens in ordering the American flag to be raised over the public buildings at Honolulu. The land- ing of American troops is justified on the ground that there was no power in Hawaii to enforce the laws and therefore it was the right of the United States to land troops on the islands at any place where it was nec- cssary, In the opinfon of our minister, to protect American interests. It is also held that it was the duty of our minister to recog- nize the new government as soon as possi- ble, in order that the citizens of the United States might be safely remitted to the care of that government, the hour when or the conditions under which the recognition was given being a matter of no material im- portance. Our minister, however, had no authority to raise the flag of the United States on Hawailan soil and declare a pro- tectorate and his action was void for want of power. The order to haul down the flag and abandon the protectorate is held to have been in accordance with the duty and honor of the United States. “To haul down the flag of the United States,” says the report, ‘‘was only an order to preserve its honor.” In regard to annexation the report says it has been a subject of almost steady contem- plation among the Hawailans and their kings and that the United States has always been regarded by the ruling power in Hawali as a sort of house of refuge whenever the exigencies of fateemight compel Hawaii to make her choice between home rule and foreign domination. Whether annexation is wise and beneficial to both governments is a question that must receive the consideration of both governments before it can be safely settled. The recognition of the provisional government Is held to have been lawful and the course of the present administration in endeavoring to bring about by peaceable negotiations a restoration of the deposed aueen was right and proper. Somewhat in- consistent with this view appears to be the following passage in the report: “When a crown falls in any kingdom of the western hemisphere it is pulverized, and when a scopter departs it departs forever, and American opinion cannot sustain an Ameri- can ruler in the attempt to restore them, no matter how virtuous and just the reasons may be that seem to justify him.'" The supplemental report of the republican members of the committee holds that the appolntment of Blount was not in accordance with the constitution, that the orders plac- ing the naval force virtually under the com- mand of Blount were without authority of law, that Blount had no rightful authority to give the order to haul down the United States flag, and that the provisional govern- ment, having been fully reorganized by the Harrison administration, its successor had no authority to attempt to reopen the questions determined by such recognition and to en- deavor by any means whatever to overthrow the provisional government or to restore the monarchy which it had displaced, The mi- nority report condemns the entire course of Minister Stevens, two of the minority, Sena- tors Butler and Turple, expressing them- selves in favor of annexation under preper conditions. These reports make a valuable addition to the literature of the controversy. senate Senator an e report, drawn by high rank a THE ROOK ISLAND CONTRACT. Omaha cannot remaln an entirely disin- terested spectator to the effort on the part of the Union Pacific to set aside the con- tract by which the Rock Island railroad has been given access to Omaba and South Omaha over the Unlon Pacific bridge and a right-of-way over part of the Union Pacific tracks between this city and Denver. By this contract Omaha has enjoyed for the past few years the benefit of direct connec- tion to the capital of Iowa and other towns on its line between this city and Chicago and a competing lino through a part of the region south of the Platte that has con- tributed largely to the cattle trade and pack- ing industry at South Omaha. What will be the effect upon Omaha if this contract Is abrogated? Will the Rook Island be compelled to resume its former transfer system at Dillonville, and would It not have to abandon its Denver passenger trains by way of Omaha, and turn all its South Platte trafle to Leavenworth and Kansas City? True the Interstate Bridge and Terminal company might connect the Rock Island with Omaha over its bridge, but how would that give the Rock Island ac- cess to South Omaha? Suppose even that a compact could be made to run the Rock Island frelght trains In and out of South Omaha by the Belt line, would not the road be absolutely cut off from connection with {ts main line south of Lincoln? This 1s & matter of vital concern to Omah and it this city has any legal rights under its bridge and depot contract with the Unfon Pacific, these mn\! Bnoutd be entorced. The city should make itself a party to the proceeding pending In the courts so that no snap judgment may be taken, even by agreement betwder“the Rock Istand and Unfon Pacific, by #6h Omaha would be deprived of whatever benefits have accrued under the contested ontract. In any event steps should be takehr '#t once to ascertain whether any of the interests of this city are Jeopardized by the proposed abrogation of the Rock Island contragt, and whether ths city 1 in position to prevent its cancellation without other gugganties that will fn< sure for us the continuance of the traffic we have already acquired by the privileges which the Rock Island now enjoys over the Union Pacific bridge and the main line, now A careful perusal of the columns of Ne braska daily and weekly papers shows that many public and private enterpriscs are awaiting the opening of spring, when they will be launched and carried to s Bonds will be voted in a number of counties for irrigation ditches, court houses and branch railroads. Towns will vote bonds for water works and Local capitalists are asking for bids upon projected business blocks and residences. Several churches s00n be built. In fact there appears to be an onward move through- out the state, more noticeable than hereto- fore. This does not seem to be compatible with the song of despair and business depres- son that has Lield sway the past six months It Is evidence of the native strength of Ne- braska and her ability to recover from tem- porary business troubles. coss sewage systems. are to Retail trade Is dull in Omaha among the majority of merchants. The large have attracted the people by advertising what they have to sell. During the weather the average citizen indoors evenings anl reads his newspaper, directs the way to the bargain counter. the proprietors of small stores would adver- their goods they, too, could increase their sales. During hard times people are forced to look for bargains in purchasing the necessaries of life. That they must buy is self-evident. The merchant who knows best how to draw them into his store is the successful merchant. The late A. T. Stew- art did more newspaper advertising in dull times than when the people enjoyed gen- eral prosperity. That his policy in this re- gard proved profitable Is conceded the leading merchants of Omaha. stores cold eops which it tise by Do the people of Omaha and Douglas county want to secure the location of the state fair for the next term of years? If they do they will have to exert themselves and offer. inducements that will attract the State Board of Agriculture to this city. It the state falr is worth trying for at all, it is worth a campaign that is organized to win, © Other Nebraska cities will not be backward in urging theit claims, and Omaha will have to make out her case If she expects to secure the prize. It the people are not anxious to have the fair lo- cated in this city it will be well to have their attitude distinctly understood. A weak attempt made at the last moment and ending in failure would be worse than no attempt to secure the fair at all Within a few days the transcontinental railways will open one of their biennial rate wars on Pacific coast business. It makes little difference to the line officials whether or mot the roads are deep down in the slough of financial despond, controlled by high salaried recefvers. They go merrily on cut- ting one another's throats, making a solomn compact to maintain rates today only to break It tomorrow, and throwing the prop- erty of eastern stockholders into the rail- road junk pilo. To be sure, people who want to travel between “the states” and the coast will derive a temporary benefit. There are, however, other interests to be subserved. No bankrupt institution can successfully en- gage in a cut-rate fight. If the police commision decides to order the suppression of gambling and the closing of all gambling houses the chief of police will be expected to enforce the order to the letter. We have had closed gambling houses that were never closed and we have had pool room gambling that was never molested. This shuttlecock and battledore play will scarcely be tolerated hereafter un- der pretense that gambling has been abso- lutely suppressed. There should be no loophole for holding up favored gambling louses by policemen, city detectives or blackleg lawyers. There 'Is nothing more demoralizing than a bribed police. Recently The Bee has received no less than a dozen queries relating to the status of naturalized German-American citizens and their liability to military impressment should they return to the fatherland, It is a generally accepted fact that any German who may have left hix native country with- out having performed military duty cannot find immunity under the laws of the-United States should he return to Germany and fall into the hands of conscript officials, The laws of this country do not protect natural- ized foreign-born citizens to that extent. Military service is a duty that every man owes to his country on demand. Major Charles F. Humphrey recelved a well deserved tribute to his merit as an officer of the army in his appointment as chief quartermaster for the Department of the Platte to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of General Dandy. Major Humphrey has had an extensive experience in the quartermaster's department and Is already familiar with the work which is to be assigned to him in his new capacity, His past record is ample assurance that the efficiency of this branch of the service will be maintained at the highest standard. We extend our congratulations to Major Humph- rey. Loutsville Courter-Journal, And so King Lobengula 1s dead, poor fe low. Heathen as he was, who can say he was not a patriot #ccording to his lights It was a sorry day for him when the white man found out that there gold in his hills and fertile lands in his valleys. Lack- ing the craft of other South African pote tates, who have compromised with the Iduropeans, he recklessly attempted to butt the bull oft the bridge,” with the usual re- sult. Highest of all in Lcaveninggwe&—Latcst U. | ot DAY, FEBRUARY 27 1594 A GOOD MAN GONE WRONG. Buffalo Express: 80 McKane must not be | regarded as “a good man gone wrong,” but as a “bad man found out.” It {8 no reproach to religion that McKane claimed to be re. liglous. But it Is to be hoped that his fate will werve to recast the ideas of n great many Americans as to what constitutes a good citizen and as to what constitutes worldly success. It is time we all realized that a very good neighbor may be a very bad citizen, and that a man's public conduct should correspond with his private profes sions. Indianapolis Journal: It is not ereditable to any church that a man who has been no. torfous o long as has McKane has been per- mitted to use it as a cloak to his evil deeds. For years McKane has been notorious, not only in politics, but in protecting vice in Gravesend, but all the time he has been per- mitted to be superintendent of a Sunday school and to he a leader in the church And now the presiding elder says that. if it shall appear that he is guilty of the crimes charged against him he will be expelled unless he expresses contrition! Philadelphia Record Our esteemed respondent who wishes to know our opinion that “fine old Trish Catholic, Boss Mc Kane,” 1s respectfully informed that we have a very poor opinion of him. But as the boss has not yet resigned Sunday school superintendent at Gra and as the Methodist church has n cancoled his membership in that resp. religlous body, it I8 too soon to load him onto the Irish Catholles. The disposition to bring reproach upon any church by rea- son of the wickedness of any of its members is as shallow as it is uncharitable and un- reasonable. Springfield Republican: The trouble with MeKane is that he has done what so many other professing Christians in all denomina- tions are doing every day, drawn a sharp line of demarkation between his religion and his business, A rarely if ever per- mitted the former to in ere with the latte Probably he was not consciously a hypocrite, We see his like in every walk in life—nien who look after the main chance in this world week days with a very obtuse consclence, and for the main chance in the next world on Sundays; and yet Jesus sald some pretty sharp things about this sort of Christians, and did not hold out to them very bright hopes of the future. cor- ssend BIASKAN A big eastern brewing company is to open a distributing depot at Grand Island. A building and loan association has been rganized at Clay Center with a liberal sub- cription. Bids for the reloc fair are now in order. both want it. Albert Macha, a Pawnee man, was thrown from a horse skull fractured. The S-year-old son of L. D. Mundele of Hubbell fell under the wheels of a wagon and had one leg broken. A “Gideon’s band” of 200 members has been organized at Pawnee City as a result of the revival services there, Burglars broke into the depot at Holbroo the other night and secured a lot of tickets, a little money and the contents of two mail sacks that they cut open. The Cozad Journal has heen leased by a company of local populists, with Senator Darner at the head, and a straight indepen- dent paper will be issued. Some miscreant fs still sending comic valentines to the good people of Holbrook and they threaten to tar and feather the offender if they can discover his identity. A desperate looking tramp, having in charge a cow and a young calf, struck town last Tuesday, says the Papillion Times. He quartered himself and his live stock in the sheds in the rear of the Lutheran church and slept during two bitter cold nights be- side his cow. He claimed to have plenty of money to pay for a hotel lodging, but said ho preferred sleeping with the cow, as it was better for his health. S, Reform and Reformers. Buffalo Express Dr. Parkhurst spoke at a public meeting in New York on Saturday night. He justly complained of the Insincerity of Boss Platt in regard to the investigation of the police department. But Mr. Parkhurst failed to all that he himself had been asked for tance by the senate committee and had refused it Parkhurst hardly denies now that his fight is against the police force, rather than against vice. Parkhurst's usefulness is gone. His methods strike the people as calculated to do more harm than good. As an instance, pictured face was hissed in a Buffalo on Saturday night by an audience «d of respectable, middle-class men and women. Reform suffers most from its friends. A law and order league in Sedgewick county, Kansas, has gone into bankruptey becausé it could not afford to pay the salarles of the spotters whom it employed to detect liquor saloons. The reform movement which depends on the spotter will be dis- graced inevitably, and will serve only as a stumbling block 'in the way of other re- forms in the community where it exists, ————— The Courts and the Railronds. Howells Journal. The decision in regard to the constitu- tionality of the maximum freight bill has not yet been handed down. How much longér is this farce going to be kept up? Have the people no rights that the courts are bound to respect? How much longer will the railroads of the state be allowed to violate the laws of this state? These are {mportant_questions to the people of Ne- braska. If a railroad corpo ion can, by commencing an_action in court, keep a aw hung up forever it is about time that the people found it out. Courts are cre- ated for the purpose of administering law and justice, but in many instances they utterly fail to do so. It is high time that the constitutionality of the Newberry bill was settled. How much longer will the people have' to wait upon the sweet will of the courts? tion of the Burt coun Tekamal and Lyons county young and had his e, A Senatorial Candy Kansas City Time Few people not acquainted with the sub- ject understand the desperate efforts being mude by the trusts to perpetuate them: selves through the new tariff bill. Around the lobby each day at Washington a battle is being waged as fierce, but not so bloody, as though two armies’ were engaged. in this terrific strife the Sugar trust is leading, despairing efforts, extending even to t ence In Washington of influences from Terre Haute, will not check Senator Voor- hees in his determination to push the Wil- son bill to consideration by the senate at the earliest possible date. it Keep at it Till 1t § Sitver Crocks Times. Between them, the railroads and the courts have so far succeeded in making the maximum freight law a nullity. The law was probably no good any w for on; reason, if no other, that constitutional quirements_were not complied with in its passage. Next winter it should be re-en- acted and with such care and such amend- ments that even a raflroad court would not ake to set 1t aside, i RS How It Looks to Charley, New York sun. eland thus continues to evince mpt for his own profession in his own state. He has won no victory over Senator Hill. He his simply run away from him as far as he could get; yea, even to the mouths of the Mississippl Seant Comfort, Washington Star New York is now engaged In the tusk of comforting herself with the reflection that it 1s not 8o bad as it would have been Iif the supreme bench appointment had gone say, Oregon, which is hundreds of mile: farther away than Loulsiana. L Cold Fuct, Globe-Demoer it he present administration has made more votes for the republican party than any other in our history since that of Bu- chinar Mr. Cle his con Gov't Report, Baking wews Powder HERE AND THERE. Three years and five days more of Grover. | The returns from Pennsylvania show what a full vote and a fair count will do Bob Buchanan's literary life Is enlivened with an average of one “scrap” a week. Sig. Crispl hurled Lis opponents over a political Niagara and has an optical cataract in reserve. A fortune awalts the inventor of of preventing sedentary- polish on the bosom of male divided skirts Justice White owns a few sugar plums in Loufstana, and, therefore, as becomes a patriot, favors protection of home Industry. | The Chicago Herald quotes postage stamps | and aldermen at unchanged prices. They are the only known commodities that hard times fail to depress. Those state officlals of Michigan versalility In padding returns on a sition increasing thefr salaries forced them out of a Job, are now fnvited to while away their idle hours contemplating the outcom of seven indictments Whisky and sugar is said to be the stum- bling block in the tarift road in the The combination has impeded the locome of greater bodies than the senate, yet its well known dangers the hrave snd patriotic alike tackle it As viewod by republicans, P aks in thund nes against the truction bill. To democrats thesc e regarded as the despalving cries of p tection cormorants, All depends the political leanings of your auricular nerve usan B, Anthony affectionately strokes the hirsute napkin of Senator Peffer and lovingly declares the Kansan the sweetest and dearest champion of woman's rights. As Mrs, Pefer holds the position of confi dential secretary to the senator there is nd possible danger. When the election board of district of the Twenty-third ward burg made its report of Tuesday's the following statement was writte certificate: “'Wo hereby certify that there are no democrats left in this district, owing to the Wilson bill”” Not a democratic vote was offeged in the precinet, Chief Justice Jeune of England has ruled that a minister of the gospel has no right to plead as a privileged communication in court the substance of a confidential communica- tion made to him as a minister by one of his parishioners. e court, he not the in- | dividual, must ,udge when (he (nds of justice equire such sccrets to be made public ecrotary was once taken to task Harbor who thought he did not recognize her. “‘Ah, judge,” she said, “I am afraid you don’t remember me; 1 met you here two years ago.” ‘‘Remember you, madam?” was his quick reply, with one ¢ courtly bows; “why, I've been trying ever since to forget you. And she laugh- ingly exclaimed: “0, go away, you dear, tful old southern humbug! INDUSTRIAL REVIEW. t Johnstown, Pa., re- a means | whose propo- senate. | lon | with the | nylvania Wilson the First of Pitts election on_ the ama THE The Cambria mills sumed with 1,000 men. Bradstreet’s has it that mills starting up to those shutting down are as 10 to 1. The large furniture factories of Willlams- port, Pa., are preparing to resume opera- tions, The Philadelphia & shops will run five days four hereafter. The rolling mills of the Valentine Iron company at Bellefonte, Pa., started on full time last Monday. They have been idle all winter, The works Reading railroad a week instead of Calumet Coal at Greensburg, with 300 men, several months, he Ashland Emery mills of Perth Amboy, N. J., which have been closed down for sev- eral ‘months, resumed business last week with a full force of employes. The Celland & Campbell lace factory at Columbia, Pa., will resume operations at once, after a suspension of several weeks. Several hundred hands are employed. The Lake Side Nail company of Hammond, Ind., has announced that it will start its full plant early next week if the men would ac- cept lower wages than the Amalgamated scale, A Fall River, Mass., dispatch the print cloth market there is in a very favorable condition and there are good pros- pects that most mills will continue running until April. The Birmingham, Ala., Rolling Mill com- pany has signed an agreement with its employes, and the mill, which employes 1,000 men and has been idle since last July, will resume next Monday. All of the furniture factories Rapids, Mich., are now running on either full or part time, and they have orders enough to keep them busy until July, when the next semi-annual furniture sale opens The Barbour Flax Spinning company at Paterson, N. J., which employs 600 men, women and girls, has given notice that its Grand street mill, which has been working three days a week for the past few months, will resume on full time next Monday. The Iron Age prints an interesting para- graph about the happy solution of the wage question in an eastern manufactory. Last summer the proprietors told the hands it would be necessary for the latter to accept a cut of 25 per cent in wages, otherwise the works could mot be kept running. The hands submitted without protest. A few days ago they received in cash the full 25 per cent, with a statement’from the em- ployers that business had not been so bad and Coke company's Pa., started up last after an idleness of says that in Grand | somewh as feared and the workers were wlcome to the money. BUILDING-LOAN NOTES, The Omaha issued 380 sha ing February. There are 220 assoclations in Now Jorsey, with §2,000 shareholders, 21,400 borrowers, and investments aggrogating $31,802,000 A building and loan assoclation was or- ganized fn Clay Center last Tuesday and 150 shares subscribed the spot. The officers chosen are: H. E. Mchowell, president; A. " kins, secretary; H. E. Steln, troas- urer; Willlam M. Clark, attorney The question of usury raised in appealed from the Cass county dist Is w vital one will doubtless s of stock dur- the case et court to Nebraska associations, and be vigorously contested in the supreme court. A decision advorse to the associations would mean a reconstruc- tlon of existing systems, The value of organization among builling and loan associations was demonstrated in ongress recently, The amendmont to the income tax clauss of the tarift bill, exempt- ing assoclations doing business within the tates In which they were organized, was directly due to Judge A. 8. Winter of the Ohio State league, and Judgo Seymour Dex- ter of the United States loague. It was in- ced and its adoption secured by Con- grossman Hauk, whose sudden death fin Washington two weeks ago shocked the country. Dayton, O, with.a population of 61,000, has an aksociation doing more business than the combined business of Omaha assoclations and equal to half the business of all the as< sociations in Nebraska. The Mutual is the strongest assoelation fn the United States, and its report s instructive as showing the eat populatity and success of the Ohlo practically a co-operative bank. The receipts last year amounted. to the enor- mous sum of $1,68 Tho loans on mort- gage security a to $080,280; with- drawal of runnin $451,691; of paid-up stock an_expense of only $16,- 140.49, than 1 per cent - TICKLISH THOUGHTS, an; W at runs on a reef tpt: The battleship does long but when she then comes the tug 'w York Weckly you a Christian one hus ever nday Ol Lady Beggar accused me of My friend, Well, mum, workin' on s Journal who voted “You for Indianapo the fellow are one of change, aren’t i vou iy ige for a five.” ston st man ton. T INirst 13o; meant fc Teacher -Who w loy -George Washing- Second oy Adam, 1 didn’t Know you the irst Next nantly) gners. Journal: A dar with the his father merville be very poy ter time if and sleigh, young g only man can 5 in the win- owns a horse Detroit Free P it stor ' she exc They on Jefferson avenue. iimed, “look at those straw. 't they a lovely red?' “Of *he replied; “ihat's the way blush at the price asked for them were passing “Oh, they Vogue: Donald (af call on you oceas seem as old frien: ifave I not seen you ore? Miss Lester (cuttingly) Yes, you saw me hanging onto the strap in the car one day last weck while you were sitting down. r the b 1 Migs L We “T would T w ned with she were sh Kansas City Journal bird,” she sang; he Ii and sub voice, if serecching owl. re a cowl, 'd be a Somerville Journal: When a woman cane vasser begins to talk business with a man, she always starts in with o little gasp. has gone away, and the man thinks over what she has made him prom- ise, it Is he who gives the gasp. HEROIS y-haired, broken-down old man, inken eye and cheek, Climbed up the steps one winfer's day, ‘With humble mien and m He rang the bell and a woman came And stood in the open door, And a smile spread over his wrinkled face As he saw his wife once more. And_the old, light shone In his And his husky voice grew clc As he said; “It almost knocked 'me out, But I matched that ribbon, dear.” OLD JOHN NENEY. J. Whitcomb Filey. John's Jes made o' the stuff— Old John Henry— He's tough, I reckon, but none too tough; Too tough though' 's better than mnot enougl Says Old John Henry. He does his best; and when his best's bad, He don't fret none, ner he don’t git sad, He simply ’lows it's the best he had, Old John Henry! o commonest His doctern’s jes of the plainest brand— Old John Henry— face an’ a hearty hand 'S religen ‘at all folks understand, Says Old John Hen| He's stove up some with the rheumatiz, And they hain't no shine on them shoes o' his, And his hair but teeth 1s. Old John Henry. A smilin’ hain’t cut, his eyes He feeds hisse'f when the stock's all fed— Old John Henry— And sleeps like a babe when he bed, And dreams o' hea bread, Says Old John Henry. He ain't refined as he'd ort to be To fit_the statutes o' poetry, Ner his clothes don't ilt fits me, 01a John Henry. Boes to on and home made him-but he BROWNING, KiNf The large cloth Your money Not over yet Don t delude yuuraall‘ with the for the vest of the wh)l,er and save it till fall, oarrying over any goods, making sure of getting rid t makers worth or your money and sellors of on earth, bac't, idea that winter is nearly over, because it isn't—not for sev- eral moons yet. Don't keep on wearing that shabby suit any long- er, but get into a new one and be in style as well as be pretty. We have cut the prices down so low that you can afford to wear one Never we take this means of of all goods now on hand. The prices will surprise you when you see the suits. We can’t quote any prices, and the different kinds so for our space is limited, varied. We'll scll you a suit if you come in, and the price alone will do it. BROWNING, Willuay ibeexpress if youseud | the money for $20 worth or more KING & CO., . W. Cor.13th and Douglas Sts,