Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 5, 1894, Page 4

4 OMAHA DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. (i Editor, TERME OF TRIPTION. Tiily Toe (withont Daudly and Sunday, One ix Moatl hren M Sunday | Hatur Weekly T nday), One Year Yeur Omaha Sonth O $PONDENCIS, relating to hould e addressed : T BUSINESS LETTERS. ttors and and_edl Editor ciil matter the whould be company, nd postoflice orders o v Ot the company. 3 COMPANY Fublishir Al Busine: il (4 COLISH CIRCULATION ™ TATEMENT g T wec blishing that the netu, bein nurgber of full of The Daily Morning, 1 e printed Auring the month of ke was as foll 801 Cireutation 17 TZSCHUCK ribed In my NGT and sul £ March, 1594 P. FELL, Notary Public —— e Grover! Three more years of An old song adapted to new “Grover! ditions closed their whether ambling houses have doors. We shall presently gambling bas been suppressed The g sce Jubal Barly and Beauregard have joined the majority, but the drawings of the Louisi- Honduras lottery will continue at stated reziods as heretofore Tobe C; 2 tional iziles a the 2,000 more reached Boyd still stor has once apital and Jim It is to be sincerely hoped that the re. mainder of President Cleveland's present term of office will constitute a marked im- provement over the sample we have Just had The establishment of a few branch post- offices in Omaha will come as a sweet boon to the members of the local democracy. A few more places for the faithful may thus be provided. A few more attempted train robberies in the vicinity of St. Joseph and travelers will be tempted to steer clear of that section of the country. Train robbers are not among the most approved devices for attracting immigrants and tourists. Whatever is projected in aid of public fmprovements this year must be done through the county commissioners, unless the governor should call a special session o the legislature to enable us to change the charter limitations. The announcement of the death of Mr. Charles 8. Goodrich will cause profound sor- row among all classes of our citizens. Few men in the city had as large a circle of warm and devoted friends, and no man in Omaha who has ever been in public life had fewer enemies, This week ought to see a revival in the business of distributing federal patronage among the patient democrats now o weary of waiting. The only way for the president to justify that hunting expedition is to show renewed energy in sending long delayed nominations to the senate. The milk dealers still hold out against the police regulations for the protection of health and prevention of food adulteration. The question is are the milk dealers above the law any more than the dealers in meat, truck gardencrs and grocers? If so we ought to know the reason why. Women delegates to the populist city con- vention in Denver asked that only one place on the ticket be given to a candidate of their sex, but unable to secure even this small concession. Woman suffrage in Colorado is not what it was cracked up to be by Senator Cary of Wyoming. be were, When a New York congressman who has owed his repeated re-clection to congress to Tammany support Tammany methods resigns from the general committee of that organization, there is some reason to believe that he might possibly have secured his election on his merits had they not been obscured by Tammany corruption. and own Pennsylvania democrats are trylng to de- rive consolation from their recent ndslide the conviction that the enemy has done them a good turn in show- If the result of the congressional election Is a good turn for the democrats, the republicans stand ready to help their friends again in the same man ner, some from ing them thelr weak spots. Two p the secretaries of the State Board of Transportation twenty- four closely printed pages to argue that local troight rates should not fn D braska. Now that these secretaries incubating a report on the (ransf switch law they will probably require as many pages to explain why the law should not be enforced. required be redu same are The supreme court convencs at Washin ton today with a bench once more complete filled. Numerous Important cases have been held over on account of the late vacaney and will be brought up now as quickly as possi- ble. We shall not have to walt long to learn what opinions the new associate jus- tice holds with regard to welghty questions of constitutional interpretation. State Treasurer Bartley s of thé opinlon that every dollar of the floating indebtedness of the state can be wiped out before the close of the fiscal year, on November 30 of the present year. In order he must have the co-operation of every county treas urer in the state. Nothing but the prompt collection of delinquent taxes, together with the payment of current taxes duo the state, will accomplish a result so greatly to desired. The times are not favorable prompt payment of taxes, but much may by upon treasurers to do so be to be accomplished *he part of county energetie action THE LAST TREASURY STATEMENT. A defleit of nearly $50,000,000 for the eight months of the current fiscal year is the salient fact in the last treasury statement This I8 very much larger than Secretary Car- lisle’s original estimate of what the deflcit would be for the entire year and If the monthly decrease for the remainder of the yoar should equal that for February, which nearly $7,000,000, the deficit on June 0 next will fall little short of the highest This condition of affairs clearly vindicates the secretary of the t bonds, by which the government has been placed in possession of net cash, exclusive of the gold reserve, to the amount of $38,000,000, which will be sufficlent to enable the treasury to meet all of its obligatione for this fiscal year and have I balance left. Without the sale ds it 1s obvious that the treasury would pelled the of some of its obligations and thus in effect to declare its But le the situation fully justifies the actior of the treasury it at reproach to the party s responsible for it. been of as has taken place during the last and Increasing the public was ostimate the course of asury In lIssuing been ¢ to pass payment insolvency of the secrotary time s a policy the same There revenue snomic would have no such loss eight months, for the d party’s garding the tarift. The policy of that party has had the effect to gr tations, while at the damaging home industr continue to be the case, until the policy there will probably be an foreign goods, which will the receipts from customs, flooding the mar- ket these goods to the continued in- Jury of domestlc manufacturers and Amer- fean labor. The two certain things in con nection with the democratic tarift policy are that it means a large falling off in the cus: industrial compen- consequently no debt, radical neces- but for course re sty seratic atly reduce impor time and same seriously this will 1 to Importations, effect. Then active inflow of for a time swell gues Into with toms revenue and a stoppage of The promised reduced of progress at home, satory benefit is necessities. It s a deplorable affairs, indeed, which the dc party has brought the national treas the country, and it is not and when there is to come a decided change for the better. The industrial conditions are perhaps quite as bad they months but there is no as the rent which has taken place will continue. As soon as the led start up or to increase their output has heen satisfied there is likely to ensue another scason of dullness, and at any e Amer- ican manufacturers may be expected to go y slow until they ascertain what forelgn competition they are to encounter under the new tariff policy. Until there is complete readjustment there cannot be full resump- tion of industrial activity, and this will take time, possibly a much longer time than is generally believed. So far as the nationa treasury is concerned it is now in a dition all obligations for the cur. rent fiscal year. It is quite possible that after that more bonds will have to be sold. certain state of nocratic and easy to see how cost to not now as were a few g0, surance that ight improve demand which manufacturers to to con- to meet THE GREATER NEW YORK. After twenty years or more of agitation the people of New York City and Brooklyn and the adjoining towns and villages are to be given an opportunity to say whether they desire to be incorporated into one large city. The bill which passed the legisla- ture and was signed by Governor Flower last Wednesday simply provides for an ex- pression of public opinion. The vote on the proposition to make one great city out of New York, Brooklyn and the adjoining towns and villages to the number of fourteen is to be taken at the next general election, in November, and in the meantime this ques- tion will probably engage the attention of the people of those cities and towns to the exclusion of almost every other subject. If the proposition is carried New York will at once take rank as the second city of the clyilized world, exceeded in population only by London. The area of the territory which it is proposed shall be under one municipal government s 317.77 square miles and the population embraceg in it, partly estimated, is 2,005,792, The population of London is about 4,300,000, of Paris 2,450,000, and of Berlin 1,650,000. In 1830 there were about 1,850,000 people in the territory which it is proposed to embrace in the greater New York, the increase in thirteen years having been over 1,100,000. The same percentage of increase during the remainder of this de- cade would give to this territory a popula- tion very close to 4,000,000 and in another ten years it would probably reach the popu- lation of the British capital. There very cogent reasons why this proposition for a greater New York should prevail, but whether they will be found sufficient to secure a majority of the popular vote for the proposition it would be hazardous to predict. New York is cortain to be- come, in the not far future, the financial and commercial metropolis of the world and there are the best of reasons why that city should be put in the way to also become the first city of the civilized world in popu- lation. This would be accomplished by the success of the and it should therefore appeal to the pride and the patriotism of the people interested. VICE IN CHICAGO AND OMAHA. For years Omaha has prided itself that it was run on the wide-open plan. It con- trasted’ the gay life and business activity of the place with the somnolence and Sunday stillness of certain Iowa towns, where the so-called “‘goody-good” people exerted their fatal influence, the conclusion being inevit- ablo that Omaha's push and enterprise was wholly due to Inspiration drawn from the loon, the gambling hell and their natural concomitants. But the past year has tried them as by fire. Business stagnation, suffer- ing thousands of the unemployed, and other conditions which these suggest, while across the “Big Muddy,” in the despised state of lowa, comparative Immunity from these dread conditions has been enjoyed, have led the people to reflect that something beside open wrong-doing lies at tho base of busi- ness success, whether the individual, the municipality ‘or the state be considered.— Chicago Journal, It is in accord with the eternal fitness of things for Chicago papers to preach ser- mons on Omaha vice and depravity. It London Is the modern Babylon, Chicago Is her only rival In America. Chicago Is the largest cesspool of vice in America, not ex- cepting New York, and her spasmodic efforts to suppress gambling and repress the dives and dens of vice to mere shams, Every Sunday morning the Chicago papers contain column upon column of adver- tisements of Immoral resorts and sollcitation of patronage for such places, If any in America been running wide open year in and year out it has been Chicago. are proposed consolidation are known be personal town has It comes with very bad grace for a paper Chicago, which has grown hoary with in a oty that supports 9,000 saloons thousands of dens of vice, to taunt depravity, and it comes with poorer grace yet for any Chicago man or paper to taunt Omaha about business stag- nation and the sufferings of the thousands of unemployed. The destitute and unemployed in age and Omaba with THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MARCH 5, people in Chicago today would outnumber the entire population of Omaha We apprehend that Omaha's moral or commercial, will not suffer by com. parison with that of Towa towns and cities. In the first place, the largest town in Towa has only a trifle more than one-third of Omaha’s population, and consequently the incentive for vice and crime must be cor. respondingly less. In the next place, Omaha’s badness has been kept within sight, while the badness of Towa towns has been kept under cover. No truthful person will contend that Towa towns are free from the evils of intemperance, gambling, and the soclal evil. They exist in proportion just as they do in Omaha, with this difference, that they flourish surreptitiously. In any event, Chicago has nothing to boast of over on the cleanliness, de- or freedom from want and distress condition, Omaha score of cency among the unemployed. ED 100 MUCH, The ablest statesmen America has produced concur in the opinfon that we are governed too much. One of Amcrican democracy appears to be the ten- dency among the people to regul thing by statute. In this respect and xceptionally prolific fonary dead-letter legislation experi with intended to the appetites and passions of man, far from shaking thelr faith, their trustful confidence ‘law.” It has to them In method that Gov the striking features of Kansas of vis- Their repress Towa are and nce laws has only strengthened in the of never, apparently, occurred their abiding faith in the certain are beyond human regu fon They appear to oblivious of the fact that statutory dead- letters and laws that are beyond the reach of the it and the court and offer which no jury will bring in a verdict lower the stardard of public morals by lowering the popular respect for law. These ineffective legal restrictions individual freedom of action have nated in the dead-letter prohibition and in laws that are equally inoperative in every community in which the great of already educated standard of abstinence from drink. Instead of pruning the statute books of dead-letter legislation the present legisla- ture of Iowa appears disposed to add and multiply these cumbersome and foolish strictions. Governor Jackson has now before him for gnature or rejection a bill which adds one vear to the term of any prisoner w tempts to escape from the peniten , no matter how far his attempt proceeds before detection. It s aped the lawmakers® that the only wit- ness against the would be the guard, and that ordinary penitentiary walehman would have little difficulty in pro- longing indefinitely the term of any pris- oner for whom he might conceive a dislike. Another bill awaiting the governor's ap- proval makes “hunting with dog and gun" on cultivated ground a felony. Certain United States statutes concerning the right to bear arms and to take fish from running streams, etc., are overlooked in this delight- ful measure. That it will make the owner of the cultivated land the owner of all the wild game thereon, creating a system of private game preserves such as does not ex- ist in America, was probably not consid- ered by the cultivated owners of the culti- vated land, who only looked to an inhibi- tion of the occasional visits from the city chaps, who with the costly gun and high bred dog tramped joyfully across the stubble in September and October, secking the birds that had been fortunate enough to escape the snares and spring guns set by the farmer’s son or hired man. Of course the city sport may trudge along the lane, but he must not cross the fence or he's a felon. It is not intended to protect the game, only the cultivated land. - Other billa intended to ‘“protect” the farmer contain provisions equally well di- gested and about as capable of equitable en- forcement as the foregoing. Even the “mulet” bill, which the devotees of sumptu- ary legislation are working so diligently to pass, contains such provisions as makes one end of the prohibitory law contradict the other, to say nothing of the inconsistency of permitting the sale but forbidding the making of liquor. Unless Governor Jack- son uses his veto power with discriminating determination the present Iowa legislature will go down in history as one of the great- est associations for the promotion of litiga- tion and the repression of individual liberty ever known efiicacy things be for upon culmi- laws mass people are not tSatte re- ms to have e observation prisoner an PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT, 1 reliable advices from Washington are to be credited, that amiable friendship which is supposed to exist in theory between the oc- cupant of the presidential chair and the heir apparent to the throne is sadly lacking in fact. President Cleveland went through al- most the whole four years of his first term In the white house without any incumbrance in the vice presidential office. He became accustomed to consulting only himself and his favorites in the cabinet upon mattters of party policy. The republican president pro tempore of the senate had no claims what- ever upon his beneficence. He' felt himself in a position unapproachable by any of those who surrounded him. From this realm of pic- tured superiority Mr. Cleveland has been un- able to remove himself, although clrcum- stances have been greatly altered by the fact that there is now an occupant of the vice presidency who has feelings and am- bitions of his own. The vice president, we are told, has been given to understand that he constituted nothing more than an ornamental appendage to the democratic ticket which was pulled through in the fall of '92 by the personal popularity of the president. President Cleve- land wants to reserve the nomination of his successor on that ticket to himself and has frowned down upon every movement of the vice president that is calculated in the least degree to give him prominence be- fore the public. By the latter this treat- ment_has not bean appreciated and acknowl- edged with the ardor that is befitting an at- tendant upon the court of Mr. Cleveland. The result of the president's attitude toward the vice president has, as might have been expected, been to drive Mr. Stevenson into closer relationship with the democratic cabal that has been opposing the president’s personal policy. The vice president neglected to assume that position of bitter hostility to the free silver men which incumbent upon the true administration democrat, of his utterances have been taken to convey the Impression that he may himselt be slightly tainted with the free silver heresy and this s by no means the caper that will commend him to presidential favor. He has assoclated rather intimately with Senator Hill, having accompanied the Albany to attend the New Year's reception given by Governor Flower, and while there made an address before the New York State Bar assoclation, in which he made a com- plimentary allusion to Senator Hill. It has furthermore been charged that the vice president took a hand in the fight over the supremo court vacancy and that he made so was senator to bold as to assist Senator Hill and his friends to compass the rejection of Mr. Peckham's nomination. In th¥ K& was perhaps not a very active particiarn®,’but he lent the anti- Peckham forces alf'the moral support at his command. W Coming down it is charged that given the requosty' the consideration to which they are by his position The vice preaident has no offices of his own ¢4 distribute and what- he nd of patrona has president to " ghibstions tife president of the vico not ontit ovor he wants to encourage his friends has to ask for at the hand of Mr. Clov The vice president has been rather on sido of modesty {f' hig demands for office, but the number of his candidates who have falled to secure the desired places ex- ceeds that of those whd have come out suc- cessful, It is little wonder then that the relationship between the president and vice president is morely official formal in- stead of personal and intimate, The vice president does not find the encouragement which had hoped from of the white house for his ambition for promo- tion. What is to hinder him from seeking that encouragement fn other quarters? THE DOMINATION OF THE BRIGADIERS. The attity of Senator Brice of Ohio against the domination of the soutlern men in congress Is said to be approved by other who are un- nt the yet and he the occupant northern democratic senators, derstood to be disposed to unite in resenting the spirit which southerners exhibit, particularly with regard to the tariff. The statement is made on whitt app to be good authority that before the Pennsyl. vania election sort of standing tween certain democratic from the north that if the repub! carried the election by a leavy majority these senators would assert their rights, not only as great manufacturing belfef was that show that th vember elections last sectional the there was a under- sen. ators ns nators, but as representatives ot The would constituencies. Pennsylvania's vote nifested at the No- manent, reaction ma year was pel was probably increasing, and would indicate the complete overthrow of the democratic party at the November elections of this year unless a radically different course was taken by the democratic party in congress, whether Mr. Cleveland approved it or not. The position taken by Senator Brice gives color of credibility to the statement regarding an unders between northern demo- cratic senators, but whether any practical re- sults will come of it seems at least question- able. The democratic senator from Ohlo was not at all amiss in his characterization of the men charged with the important duty of revising the tariff. They are all from the south, and none of them represents a manu- facturing constituen They respectively live in country towns, where there is no op- portunity for them to learn anything In a practical way about the operation of the tarift in relation to manufacturing indus- tries. They may be of exceptional ability as theorists, but without some practical knowl- cdge they cannot be good tarift builders, and it was a mistake to commit so important a work to such men, and all of them from the ame section. The time for the northern democrats to have resented this was at the outset, and, having fafled to do this, they may now be denied what they ask in the interest of their constituents. What they have done, however, Is to supply the repub- lican party with valugble testimony as to the sectional feeling which has largely con- trolled in framing the new tariff bill, and good use will be made of this testimony at the proper time. anding The work of the German silver commis- sion will be watched with unusual interest by the people of this country, who have thus far looked in vain toward Germany for an officlal expression of sympathy with the movement looking to a larger employment of silver as an international money. Germany has, since 1871, been regarded as hostile to the use of silver. It tried to unload its stock of silver coin upon the market and was only prevented from continuing this policy by the losses with which it was threatened by the falling prices. The report that the silver commission is attracting general attention in Germany is a hopeful sign for those who expect ultimately an international monetary agreement. It is announced that “Hon." A. G. Wolt- enbarger has returned to Nebraska after a protracted sojourn in the east, and that he has decided to abandon the prohibition plat- form and to attempt to earn his living henceforth by honest labor. We hope he will be strengthened in his good resolution. Had he and his assoclates exerted themselves to build up and increase the prosperity of Ne- braska as much as they have to slander her reputation and to pull down her credit, his return to this state would be much more ap- preciated by Its residents. The mere fact that a veteran s drawing a pension for total disability resulting from wounds received during the war will not unfit him for further fighting service. Wit~ ness the encounter of the two captains at Lincoln, in which the totally disabled pen- sloner got the better of his opponent. The man who was beaten In this bloody fray deserves a pension for the violence done him and his feelings from the government which has thus deceived him into believing that the disabled captain was not dangerous. A Change Iy Indianapolis Journal The absence of Mr. Cleveland from Wash- ington does not seem to affect congress. It is just as incompetent without him as with him, A Chunk of Truth. Cincinnati Enquirer (dem). fact s, the democrats want the offices, and they are beginning to “talk out loud"’ about thelr wants. They haven't meal In their motiths, They are speaking in unobstructed tone ey of Things. Chiéio Times. The fluctuations of the “Big Muddy" are such that Omaha may find itself some fine morning in the state of lowa. In such in- tesesting case the “crank state” may recall the retort of Btephen A. Douglas to the bully who threatened to eat him up and swallow him." “If vau do,” said the “Lit- tle Glant,” “you will have more brains in your belly than in your head." AL LT Get Down to Business. Minneapolis Tribune, There 1s one way, and just one way, for the democratic majority to do business and perform the trusy with which it Is en- trusted, and that s to do what Speake Reed ' did and | what the supreme court indorsed—count a quorum when it is present. The house can compel the presenc mbers, and if it has the unt them when It ge The t a quorum to do business, whether filibusterers stultify themselves or not. il et A Recolver Wantod. Indianapolis Sentinel (dem) The people of the United States are en- to know what their representatives doing to earn their salaries. Kor the last two weeks they have been doing prac- tically nothing. Iriday they did even less than usual, and, still worse, they pre- 1 a spectacle which must have brought blush of shame to the cheek of every true American citizen. Had such disgrace: ful_and unbusinesslike “methods valled the meeting of the board of directors of y private corporation stockholders d ve immediately applied for a receiver, d the presentation of a record of the sceedings would have secured one beyond & doubt 189 1. FUSION REPUDIATED, of Nebraska 1 tion, The Official Orga Exeorintes Miscegen A few days ago a party who signed A William V. Allen Man ** made a proposi tion for a unfon of pogulists and democrats in the coming campaign through the World Herald This nounced and repudiated by the state organ of the popu lists, the Alllance-Independent, under the caption, “Proposed Political Prostitution the substance of which is as follows This “Willlam V. Allen” man is doubtloss a democrat and it s more than likely he holds down a desk in the World-Herald office. No real populist can be found among us so utterly devoid of political sense as to pro- pose what he proposes. If any man calling himself a populist did write the above letter he is ashamed to let his name be known that is evident, and he is a traitor in the camp. The place for every man who wants to fuse with the democrats is. and has ever been, with the democrats, He is made of trading, purchasable stuff Such men not populists. They can’t be. They haven't enough of the salt of principle in them to ave them from the dunghill and they are n offen to the moral sense of every honest man, They work the greatest possible harm to any reform party they attach themselves to, and they bring to any such party com plete destruction it allowed in one or two campaigns to tie it to or fuse it with either of the corrupt old parties Great snakes! What s the democratic party that it should come courting the popu- lists? The half-masked servant of the gold bugs! The V ot addle bug” and rake! The painted prostitute that for a year past has been lying (In every sense) with the Jofn Sherman crowd! It was placed in power by secret Wall street in- fluence and funds, by platform ambiguities and lying campaign promises, by disgusted, discouraged republicans of the working cluss by playing the gold bug act in the east and the free silver act in the west and What did it do as soon pig-headed, bull-necked Grover, with a mugwump-endorsed, civil reform (!) character? Elected on a form pledged “to the ke of both gold and silver, without dis crimination against either meral or charge for minta it f administrative ac was to call a special session of con- zress to entirely close the mints against ilver, and so corruptible were its leaders, g0 great the power of Cleveland ple and the banking fraternity's ubiquitous political in. fluence (campaign funds), that the damnable deed was done. The republicans helped to do it, of course, but the democratic presi dent demanded it at Wall street's behest and over half of the democratic member the house, the popular branch of the legis tive body, repudiated the national platform 1 struck down half of what the last demo- cratic convention called the “standard money of the country That one act, joining hands with the republican leaders and usurers to cut off the people’s supply of money and double debts and make perpetual slaves of the peopl hould make the demo. cratic party a hissing and a by-word, a hor- ror and a loathing to the people. But that was not all It in natic 1 plat- form denounced the robber trusts and mon- opoly combinations of capital, and said “We demand the rigid enforcement of laws made to prevent and control them, together with such further legislation in restraint of their abuses as experience may show to be necessary.” And then, in the interest of the trusts and corporations, Cleveland ap- pointed for his attorney general a man who | in his annual report declares: “The United States ‘cannot limit private citizens in their rights to accumulate or con- trol property; mor prescribe the price at which property shall be sold; nor pass crim- inal laws about the intent and purpose of citizens in buying and selling.” And he in the same report adopts as his own this Judge Jackson definition of republi- can anti-monopoly: “Monopoly as prohibited by the statute means an exclusive right in one party, coupled with a legal restriction or restraint upon some other party which prevents the latter from exercising or enjoying the same right.” "That 1s the sort of sham anti-trust and anti-monopoly party we are asked to fuse with; the kind that makes bonds for Wall street and the people, and which defines monopoly to be something we haven't got. It is an anything and every(hing, free silver, single gold standard, wildcat banks, bonds and promises for all, goldbug, straddlebug, high-eprotective-Wilson-tarift-for-4ncidental- ‘revenue-to--creat¢-a-deficit--for--grecnback-- bought-gold-interest-bearing-paper, _sucker- catching, _intrinsic-boodle-democracy, and the devil behind it, which we are asked to trade with. And just look at the democracy in this state. It is simply republican machine No. 2, run by Sterling Morton, Tobe Castor, Jim Boyd and a lot of railroad, Wall street, ad- ministration ple biters. In the last conven- tion but one it was for free silver, and clected Bryan on that platform. In the last convention it turned goldbug to please Cleve- land and get the postofiices, and threw Bryan down and trampled him in the mud by a vote of three to one against sustaining him himseif scheme is de plat in his course, a course marked out for him by the previous convention. And how did the democrats vote fin the last election? The.returns showed that in Otoe, Cass and other countles where they were strong enough to elect their entire county tickets they elected their county offi- clals, and on the state ticket, instead of voting for thelr own candidate, Irvine, or for our candidate, they threw their strength to the republican railroad candidate, Harri- son. They, in fact, elected Harrison and de- teated Holcomb. To the republican party with all your fusion. We are not in it. We can just thresh the earth with you both, and we are just going to do it. If the honest rank and file democrats and the Calhoun, Bryan Broady sort of men haven't got sense enough to come over to the populists, where they be- long, they can just literally go to the dogs and stay there, A e LIBEL BY E. TGY. Buffalo Express: Z. T. White of Nebraska City, Neb., has been found guilty of criminal libel in helping to hang J. Sterling Morton in efgy. This may be gratifying to the private feelings of the secretary of agricul- ture, but it will not tend to remove the dis- like which led to his symbolical execution in the first place. Philafielphia Record: Two citizens of Ne- braska have been placed on trial charged with haying libeled Secretary of Agriculture Morton and his son Carl by hanging them in effigy; and the case, it Is stated, is ex- ed to constitute a unique precedent. Yet in the common law acceitation of the is any malicious publication by writ- printing, picture or effigy tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt or ridicule. The Nebraska statute in re- gard to libel will prove to be unique if it shall fall to fit in with the case in point. Minneapolis Tribune: At least one of the Nebraska yeomen who expressed thelr dis- approval of Secretary Morton's official cour by hanging him In effigy has come to grief. His name is Z T. White, and he has been found guilty of libel by a' jury of his peers. Sentence has not been passed upon him, but the penalty for the misdemeanor in Nebraska 18 a fine of $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding six months, or both fine and imprisonment. It 18 to be hoped that Mr. White will be treated to a fine sufMiciently heavy to impress foi ever upon his memory the folly of hang in efigy as a method of disciplining a public officer. Chicago Times: ng, In Nebraska it is libel to hang a man in efgy, the person libeled being he whose effigy swings in the wind—not he who makes the halter draw. It Is no bar to guilt if the person libeled be a member of the Cleveland cabinet. Even if he be the most unpopular of secretaries of agriculture, this agricultural state gives him the full benefit of the majesty of the law. In a word, tho man or men who a few weeks back strung up the stuffed image of Hon. J. Ster- ling Morton thereby incurred the penalty of | the law of criminal libel, which in Nebrask 18 a fine of $500 or six months Imprisonment in the county jail, or both, in the discretion of the court. Good, old Spartan Nebraska! Wo advise Mr. Cleveland to take an appeal from the national verdict to that state of wheat flelds and popullsts. His stuffing would there be protected by law. lity Acknowledges the Power, Kansas City Star s McKane pald a high complime ublic press when he told a r » starting for Sing Sing that the Ras befol papers were responsible for his present con- | dition VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. Hastings Tribune: 1. Rosewater an swered St. John fn a masterful and suc ful article, and showe? that in every respe this state 1s ahend of Kansas arney Hub: With the gamblers being run out of Omaha and the searlet women out of Lincoln, the smaller citles of the state may reasonably expect an influx of popula tion during the carly days of Mareh Genon Leader: An exchange sneeringly says that Rosowater is likely to trot out Cady for governor this fall. Well, Rose water or no Rosewater, Mr. Cady would make a clean, strong candidate and a good governor “all-e-samee Falls City Journal: While hunting up the congressional timber of this district don't overlook Hon. Sam Chapman of Plattsmouth His republican admirers are legion and their praises loud and long for his ability and for his rapidity in movement in a race for a stake of such importance Tekamal Burtonian of the “old gang™ that the to see brought out for state officers next fall are Treasurer Dartley and Auditor Moore, Kor the rest of the ticket glve us an entire new set of men. Tho success of the repub. lican ticket In Nebraska demands this Cedar Rapids Commercial: About time Paul Vandervoort will commence wag his wondrous faw in the alleged inte of labor The vociferous Paul vigo voices the various wrongs of laboring m but for every word uttered in thelr behalf he thinks a thousand in favor of himself for some office with large salary and no work Paul is the apostle of his own mouth and was never known to work with anything clse, Bloomington Fcho Omaha is an avowed before the republican come into the next conver delegation that on the him. Omaha las a whole who have their eye on the United States senatorship, and they won't be sidetracked yvernorship. Omaba politiclans are a lar set to other politicians, only there are too many of them for so small a state as ours. If we had more people it would be sler to get us on the run PEOPLE AND o only two men Burtonian wants this to rost sty W. J. Broatch of andidato for governor, onvention, and he will fon supported by side won't want list of statesmen TIINGS. Ex-Boss McKane's condition is sew Just sew- lough the weather suggests the contrary, wise man will continue long on coal The president drinks coffee from a cup worth $100. Jeffersonian simplicity grows apace, The Colorado secession movement is a heroic effort to get from under the demoraliz- ing Waite, The Pennsylvania tidal more than one “has been.’ Beaver was eclected to the Bellefonte. Rev. Dr. William H. Furness, the spearian_authority, delivered a lecture at Philadelphia the other day which had been written a generation He s in his 91th year and is still vig The report given out a Cleveland was sick, and which was subse- quently pronounced an “epidemic of men- dacity,” arose from a diagnosis of the con- dition of the administration. An ancient colored dame has been found in Indiana who remembers secing Washington when on his way to rk to be in- augurated. The discovery puts a wedge in Ohio’s claim to a monopoly of prehistorie remains. resurrected Governor town council of wave great ago that e TRITE TRIFLES. Plain Dealer: The congressman-at-large is a terror to the sergeant-at-arms. Philadelphia Record: Many of the best acrobats can't even balance an account. Dallas News: With a vain one fulsome compliment drinks, young pays for man two Philadelphin Times: TIn init L as a Mason probably in usual goat a pair of kid ting Mrs, tead of the were on hand. Lowell Courler: It was so cold Saturday that it was no unusual sight to see an ulster frieze. 3 Blmira Gazette: Jagson says the ambi- tious artist may not be supecstitious at first, but he soon begins to depend on signs. Toledo Blade: “Oh, there a terrible funnel-shaped cloud ' coming this way “Well, the funnel begins soon then. into the cyclone cellar. is Tribune: “Is the mistress of the house in?" inquired the peddler. *“No," re- plied the tired-looking, timid woman who had gone to the kitchen door to answer the knock. “It's her afternoon out. Truth: Older Sister— to see you soak your bread in the gravy. It's exceedingly bad form. Clara—Well, it's awfully good taste. Chicag ara, I'm surprised Boston Courfer: The boy halted in front of the blacksmith shop, when the proprietor queried: “You are s your father told you to get the old mare shod, are you?’ And the boy said shooe: TIP. Browning, King and Co.'s Monthiy. It bills and dins and work were born of sleer It cares were fancles, and In slumber deep Our enemies pursued, yvet ne'er o'ertook us, While friends were ever kind and ne'er for- 800K us; If riches grew on bushes all around If all they wanted e body found; If glittering things were gold, just as they Why, friends, for sure, this life would be a dream! Your mouey Made a Hit worth or your money bac'. GREATER NEW YORK. Extent of the Proposed Consolidation ard Tt Signiticance. The movement for the consolidation of New York, Brooklyn and outlylng rural communities In Kings, Richmond and West- chester counties lacks the approval of the to a succosstul struggle covering twenty-five years voters to bring end a The bill submitting the proposition to the voters was passed by the New York legislature ten day's ago and has recelved the approval of Governor Flower. Tho communities the two most fn Brooklyn. The Far Rockaway county the affected are many, but portant are New York and line proposed starts from and running through Queens northerly and northeasterly through towns of ~ Hempstead and Flushing reaches Long Island sound at Little Neck bay. Passing through the middle of the bay, and turning to include Harts fsland, Which is already the property of New York, it enters the county of Westchestor through the channel that divides Huntors island from Glen island. Crossing the county, it includes the thre t suburban parks, and reaches the Hudson at Mount St. Vincent immodiately south of Yonkers, Running southerly it end Raritan bay Within these are included all Richmond county and Kings county, the towns of Jamaica and Flushing and part of Hempstead in Queens; the town of Wests chester and part of Eastchester in West- chester county. New York, Brooklyn and Long Island are the cities that would bo included In the charter of the greator New York The first and most obvious reason for the consolidation, says Harper's Weekly, Is the practical fdentity of the interests of the peos ple who dwell within the proposed boundu ries. Nature has made the three gr Islands—Manhattan, Long and Staten—t boundaries of the wonderful bay into which enters two-thirds of the imports that to the country. Irom the very first York has been the center of the active that has been lived about these shores the commerce of the great community been ca The ships that have brought the merchandise of Europe to the new world are tled at her wharves; the transacs tions of commerce have been' conducted in her ofices and banks and counting rooms. Those who have dwelt in Brooklyn or in the rural communities of the neighboring counties have lived on the toil and trade of the motr Year after year this has grown to be more and more the fact. Brooklyn has been called the “hoarding house,” the “dormitory,” of New York, and what Is true of Brooklyn is true of Staten fsland and of Westches and Queens. Practically the people who dwell in the ter- tory which it is proposed to include in the consolidated city—the greater New York— are one people, having their home interests where they dwell and their more Important business interests where they spend their active days. This is the center of the hive, but it is not the whole hive, and the cen which declares the people living on Man- hattan island to constitute the population of New York does not tell nor even indi tho truth. From such a_declaration one cannot begin to determine New York's real importance among the cities of the world The lesson of the past history Now York and its neighboring towns fs that an- nexation is inevitable. It is the wildest absurdity to maintain separate municipal and town governments, each with the burden of its peculiar expenses, for people who are all united in interest and who are chiefly con- cerned, no matter under what local govern- ment they may dwell, In the character of the government of the central and largest munleipality where the busincss of the whole is transacted. Recognizing the logic of such a_situation, the ecities of Brooklyn and Willlamsburg were united many years ago, and to meet the demands of the northward- moving people who were crowded out of tha narrow limits of Manhattan island, the towns of Westchester county lying between tha Harlem and the Bronx were long since annnexed to New York. Under present conditions it is possible for the criminal classes of New York City to escape the jurlsdiction of Superintendent Byrnes by crossing the bridge to Brooks Iyn, or golng to the rural districts of Ric mond, Queens or Westchester county, T man_whose store 15 within a dozen bloc of the city hall should enjoy for his busl- ness and his dwelling, which may be twelve B ot Clty in come New lite Hera has miles from the hall, the same police protgc-.... tion. His chief pecuniary intérest is whore his business is, and consequently he is more deeply concerned in the government of the metropolis than in that of the villago of city where his home may be situated. The consequence 15 that those who might be best citizens in the smaller communi- ake no interest in local politics, and there is bad government, the government of the unprosperous and uninteiligent, of the people who stop at home, the small re- tailers, the local bo: the men to whom the mental activities and moral impulses of the great city are as remote as they are to the dwellors in the hill towns of New England. el LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR George A, Baker. “Love your neighbor as yourself'— So the parson preaches: That's one-half the Decalogue— So the prayer book teaches. Half my duty I can do With but little labor, For with all my heart'and soul I do love my neighbor. And I've preached the word T know For it was my duty To convert the stubborn heart Of the little beauty. Once 5 Missionary lu For her sweet eyei Also loves her ne crowned own that she shbor. We did—We did—We are having an elegany, trade.-—selling more spring overcoats than our tailors can press. They are beau- ties and no mistake. Everyone who has any notion of buy- ing one, when he sees them, always takes one—The styles and makes are very handsome. We're selling all of Wilson Bros.’ plain white shirts adollar straigh t;going to quit carrying them; have shirls made to our order here= after. You can get a good shirt cheap now. Our new spring styles In hats are creating quite a sensa. sion—They are not only up to date, but the prices are so decidedlo much better than hatters’ get that we have no trouble in disposing of them. BROWNING, | S, Will vey the exgress If you send the woney for 20 wort fi or mioro KING & CO., W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, TR e o AR i A AN y