Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 23, 1894, Page 4

1 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. F. HOREWATER, Fditor. PUBLISHED EVERY M¢ KU BECRITTIC One ¥ TEIME OF Houth Om v-fourth Sta Counetl T Chicagn O New York, It Washington, 513 CORIE Al communien torial matter s It and 1 bune 114, Fourteenth street PONDENC na relating o Jid e ndressed ;T INESS LETTER and remittunces should be JMixliing company Postoftice orders o 2 the order of (ho company PUBLISHING COMPANY nd_edi i THE 1 STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. 1 Trschuck, seeretar Tihe ipany. boing duly sw miys t number of full and complete coples Tie Dully Morning, FEveninge and Sunduy 1 printed during the month of February, 183, wi wx follow 1 i 16 17 > the acti Total for th Less reductions month Tor unsoid and returne 7 i Taily average *Sunday et Ciroulat ax me M Sworn to | presence fore this 34 day The equinoctial storm toed the mark this year, pdergast has come to the con- od Friday is no Eugene Pr clusion that e too good for him. New Jersey has once more gotten down to the normal conditic senate.” New Jersey's experlence offers the parent p: of a state with but one dox that one senate is better than two. the littie more en- the admin offices in Nebraska with a thusiasm there won't be enough democ office holders in this state to run the conventions this fall Uuless dispenses The detective force of Omaha has out lived its usefulness and must be disbanded. 1t s rotten to the core and the police com- mission ought to know enough to know that fact by this time. Won't the newspapers please let the vari- ous members of the Gould family make their own matrimonial alliances for themselves? Should they need any assistance in these matters they will certainly not be bashful about asking for it. A week of conference and still no agree- ment upon any of the vi points at issue between the Union Pacific receivers and em- ployes. In the meanwhile the employes have the advantage of maintaining the old sched- ule of wages in force. The Mexican undertakers charge $1,000 for embalming the bodies of American vis- itors who succumb to the mildness of the climate. This fact will discourage many American travelers who may wish to visit Mexico and dead head their return trip. Chicago knows how to treat the con- gressional committee which is to investi- gate the necessity of a new public building in that city. Chicago succeeded in lobby- ing a bill for the World's fair through con- gress and she always profits from her ex- perience. Bvery community must go forward or be left behind by the stream of prosperity. United action Is the prime requisite for progress. Omaha wants all its citizens to work together for the common Iinterests and the Interests of all will then be best promoted. Some one might pertinently suggest tiat the secretarios of the State Board of Trans- portation are in every way qualifid for membership in the grand army of the un- employed which is to march on Washington next week. Two of the secretaries nave been unemployed for some time. The Brazilian revolution is not ended, it seems. The press companies announce that another decisive naval battle must be fought. In Brazillan waters a great naval battle resembles nothing so much as a game of checkers. And, it may be said, it is about as exciting and equally harmless. No one should underestimate the self- sacrifice made by Senator Voorhees in con- senting to return the tarift bill to the senate without accompanying it with a written re- port. It must have required a most pain- ful effort to thus voluntarily neglect an op- portunity to push himself into print. Little Santander is in rather hard luck to have one disastrous explosion In the harbor followed so quickly by a second. The latest catastrophe, however, savors something of reckless negligence, The people of Santander ought to have learned discretion in handling dynamite from the lesson of their experience of a few months ago. Chasing after prisoners on railroad pass collecting $10 for every 100 miles, and then drawing full pay for services as a detective is a fat job. But even such soft snaps could be overlooked if the detectives were honest and behaved d ntly, instead of covering up erime and holding up criminals for what there is in it. So enterprising a man as Governor Waite of Colorado would furnish employment for a host of unemployed war correspondents if he would transfer the scene of his belllgerent operations to the effete monarchies of Eu- rope. War scares are in demand on the other side of the water, but they are of but little use in this countr Western rallroads seem to be having more dificulty in making rate agreements than in breaking them. A long and successful prac tice of violating the provisions of the Intor- state law has made them adepts in refusing to be bound by thelr obligations. On the other hand, they are comparative novices in lving up to thelr agreements. The demand for bric-a-brac and antiques 1s still 50 large that prices are kept up to the very top notch. That accounts for the charge of $1,000 mads for embalming an American tourlst who had the misfortune to dle while visiting the City of Mexico. The old Egyptian method of embalming continues to prevail and people who wish to be mummi- fled & la Egyptlan must pay the penalty of thelr cultivated taste AND THE FARMERS content with expressing in his now feago address his contempt for a promoter political pur with cutting v of seeds ECRETARY MORTON Not in colobrated O the professional farmer, who as alliances for nor f granges and farms own at one fell swoop the numb usually ated by selected congressional tary Morton now goes refuses to allow the experts employed in. the Department of Agriculture the meetings of the different farmers’ nrganiza- tions for the purpose of delivering addresses subjocts In which The secretary for his means of letters, of which he coples at the disposal of accommodating Washington correspondents, and justifies him self arguing that explaining his position on the matter in controversy will rest all attempts to persuade him to his mind. As an example of the socretary’s characteristic composition, his letter the secretary of the Michigan Dairymen's association declining to provide for th of its meeting by sondng a lecturer out to Flint, Mich., at the expense of the department, Is an interest- ing bit of reading, but yet one that is searcely well calculated to restore the secre- the farmers’ eyes from o8 the farmer distri the government to ne step further and constituencles, to attend the producers are delights glve at length by dly places upon interested. to the reasons actions by onee on in entertainment tary to that grace which he has been so ruthlessly hurled. Tho insists that he can find no authority in law for him to a in the dissemination of correct id dal farming by means of addresses delivered L employes of the The practice been favorable to such a procedure, under the reform administration the precedents set by previous officials evidently have little weight. The allows these experts to spend thelr writing out their opinfons into reports and congress has for the printing and distribution of these reports, but let the same material bo given to a meeting by word of mouth, and, according to the secretary, the govern- ment ond the bounds of its immediate functions. “Where draw the line?" asks Mr. Morton, and he pictures awful consequences that might ensue were he to accede to this one request—every division of the Department of Agriculture filled with vacant chairs of employes who are engaged In lecturing to tions throughout the country, the government pay- ing their expenses to and from these meet- ings. But it was perfectly proper for the secretary himself to attend the forestry con- vention recently held at Albany and to ad- dress its members, although his salary kept on accruing despite his absence from Wash- ington, In this same letter Mr. Morton dwells at length upon the great saving which his economical administration of the department promises to bring the treasury, and he inti- mates that the farmers will appreciate the decreased burden of taxation more than they would listening to a lecture by one of the dairy experts. The people, of course, expect every branch of government to be economically administered, but they are not hankering after saving merely for the sake of saying that they have been saving. They instituted the Department of Agriculture to promote the agricultural interests of the country. If there is any virtue in maintain- ing the department in doing nothing the best thing the secretary can do Is to rec- ommend its abolition. In the light of recent revelations The Bee finds absolute jus- tification of its position years ago, when it opposed the creation of the department on the ground that there was no reasén for converting the bureau of agriculture into a department. ary sist 15 upon department has but law time provided immediately steps be the assoc THE NATION'S WEALTH. The census bulletin issued a few days ago in regard to the wealth of the United States, as shown by the census of 1890, con- tains much of interest to every intelligent American citizen. The figures make an appeal both to the pride and the patriotism of the citizen in showing the wonderful progress of the country in a period of thirty years, or less than the lifetime of a genera- tion, and they at the same time furnish most convincing evidence of the splendid effect of the economlic policy of the nation during this period upon its material develop- ment. No one whose mind is open to the argument of facts can study these statistics without reaching the conclusion that the policy of the republican party in fostering American industries is most fully vindicated by the results, and without feeling that the proposed departure from that pollcy would be a most hazardous step. It is hardly necessary to say that no other nation made anything like the progress of the United States in the time covered by these statistics, and indeed the history of the world affords no parallel to it. Remem- bering that four years of this perlod was passed in the most costly civil war in human annals, the advance of the American peo- ple in wealth and In the attainment of all the conditions of a higher civilization has been simply marvelous. In 1860 the true valuation of all real and personal property in the United States, ac- cording to the census of that year, was in round numbers $16,000,000,000, giving a per capita of §514. In 1890 the valuation was $65,000,000,000 and the per -capita $1,039. The percentage of Increase between 1860 and 1870 was 85.07; between 1870 and 1880, 45.14, and between 1880 and 1890, 49.02, Assuming that the increase of wealth since the census of 1890 has been at the rate during the decade ending with that year, the present true valuation of real and personal property In the United States s not far from $75,000,000,000. This great wealth is principally centered in the north Atlantic and north central divisions. Nearly one- third of it is in the New England states, New York, New Jersew and Penusylvania. More than one-third is in the north central division, embracing the states from Ohlo to Kansas, including Missouri, the Da- Kotas and Nebraska. hese two divisions together hold nearly $47,000,000,000 of the total wealth of the country, The southern states, Including the District of Columbia, Oklahoma and the Indian territory show a total valuation of a little over $11,000,000,- 000, or about one-sixth of the whole, Yet It Is these southern states which are now practically in control of the legislative de- partment of the government and are dictat- Ing the tarift policy of the mation.- The representatives of these states, which con- tain hardly more than one-sixth of the country’s wealth and which are barely keep- Ing step with the progress of the other sec- tions, are the champlons of an income tax, they know that nearly the whole revenue from that tax would be derlved trom other portions of the country. It Is estimated Lbat the income tax may bring into the government $40,000,000. Fiften southern states would, If they paid accord- g to the ownership of property as shown by the census, pay only $7,000,000 of that total. But under the exemption of $4,000 incomos it is pretty safe to say, from the census figures, that these fifteen southern states would not pay altogether $4,000,000 two because F: FRIDAY, MARCH 28 s expected to The rea- out of the $40,000,000 that be derived from the Income tax. son for the favor which the southern rep- resontatives in congress manifest for this thug becomen obvious. It Is an anom alous of affairs long tolerated by an intelligent enables the owners of one-sixth of the property m the United States to rule the conntry and apportion the taxes fo suit themselves Will the United States realize during the decade ending with 1900 the degree of ma- terial progress attained in the decade that ended with 1890, which added over $22,000,- 000,000 to the national wealth? There is reason to apprehend that they will not. On the contrery, it will be remarkable, If the democratic policy into effect and Is long maintained, it the country shall make any substantial gain between now and the taking of the next decennial census. No growth of industries can reasonably be expected under that policy, and that is the thing to increase of natlonal tax an be that value state certainly not to people in proposed goes essential wealth, an 10WA LIQUOR LEGISLATION. What is known as the “mulct” bill has passed both branches of the lowa legisla ture and will doubtless receive the approval As The Bee has heretofore said regarding this measure, it is a make- shift and does not meet the require- ments of the situation nor accomplish What was fairly expected of the republican party when it was restored to power. The mulet plan is simply a scheme to legalize the fines now collected in such of the cities as recog- nize tho futility of combating the saloon and have set up the practice of collecting monthly a stipulated sum, which Is charged nominally as a fine for the conduct of a dis- orderly house. The character of the plan is plainly set forth in its first section, which is as follows: ‘“There shall be assessed against partnership or cor- n registered pharmacists of the governor. every person, poration, other th holding permits, engaged in selling or keep- ing with intent to sell, any intoxicating liquors, and upon any real property, and the thereof, within or whereon intoxi- cating liquors are sold or kept with intent to sell in this state, a tax of 3600 per an- num. All such taxes shall be a perpetual lien upon all both personal and real, used in or connected with the busi- ness.” One-half of the revenue derived from this tax is to go into the general county fund and the remainder to be paid over to the municipality in which the busi- ness taxed is conducted. The liability of the liquor seller to taxa- tion does not cease here, for it is provided that “for the purpose of protecting the property of the orporation and its inhabitants and of preserving peace and good order thereln, cities and incorporated towns shall have power to levy and collect additional taxes and to adopt from time to time rules and ordinances for further regulating and controlling such traffic not in conflict with the provisions of this act.” Nor will the liquor seller obtain under this measure any substantial protec- tion against the penalties of existing law. The trafic will have no better legal status after the mulct plan has gone into effect than it has at present. Section 16 of the bill reads: “Nothing in this act contained shall be in any way construed to mean that the business of the sale of Intoxicating liquors is In any way legalized, nor is the same to be construed in any manner or form as a license, nor shall the assessment or pay- ment, or any tax for the sale of liquors as aforesaid, protect the wrongdoer from any penalty now provided by law,” but under conditions specified in the bill certain pen- alties may be suspended. These conditions are very stringent, as Indeed are all the pro- visions of the bill, glving the liquor dealer no privilege except the bare right to sell and affording him hardly any protection for the tax he is required to pay. Assuming that this measure will become law, its operation will be watched with in- terest, not only by the people of Towa, but of the country generally. It has been urged against it that It is impracticable, but this can only be determined by its application. It has also been said of it that it is in con- flict with the state constitution, and doubt- less this point will be promptly tested. At any rate it is manifestly a makeshift, leaving the liquor question still an issue to be fought over, and falling short of. what was expected from the republicans and what they should have had the courage to do. owner property, is LL A GRAND JURY. There are times when the public prose- cutor cannot fulfill the functions of a grand Jury. While the law makes it his duty to file an Information against every person who {s known to have commitfed a felony or high misdemeanor, he can only act intelll- gently in cases that have been brought for preliminary trial in the lower courts, or where complaints are sworn out by private citizens. Even In these cases the prosecu- tor very often 1s compelled to act upon mere information instead of sworn testimony that would enable him to judge whether there 1s reasonable probability of conviction on trial. Charges of bribery and collusion with criminals have been openly made against city and county officlals during the past six months, which only a grand jury can sift to the bottom. Thees charges have not only been made in the pub- lic prints, but they have been made from the bench. In several instances the prosecuting attorney has refused to take notice of these charges. In one of these cases alone has the court volunteered to instruct him to a searching in- quiry into the charges of alleged bribery of a city officlal. While Mr. Kaley is showing due diligence In making this inquiry he will be hampered by the barrier interposed in the law itselt. He cannot compel witnesses attend and he cannot make them re- sponsible for telling the truth and the whole truth when they are not under oath. In the interest of good government, and in order that the laws may be vindicated, it would seem to us to be the duty of the Judges of this district to call a grand jury to investigate any violation of the criminal code, and more especially the alleged cor- ruption of public officials, city and county. This Is due to the men who are under sus- pleion as well as to the citizens and taxpayers, The Bee would urge tho judges of this dis- trict to hold a conference at the earliest moment, and if they coincide with its views as to the propricty of a thorough investigation, a grand jury should be called as promptly as possible, make to The declsion of the supreme court affir Ing the power of the Fremont city council to impose a license tax for revenue pur- poses 1y one of more than mere local impor- tarice. It will be remembered that Judge Scott bhanded down an opinion in the coal dealers license case last summer in which, contrary to every precedent of Nebraska law, he maintained that the Omaha city councll had no legal authority to impose a license tax of $100 upon parties dealing in coal within THE OMAHA DAILY BE Its jurisdiction, despite (he express power conferred by the hagter to “tax and regulate” 0. The of that » the part city had been so Pmentably weak even an appeal from the decision of th trict court Had carried to the supreme court able position of Jud gScott would doubtless have been revers ru\‘ 18 indlcated by the result of this Fr se, which in every lcenso conduct of the that case not Als: the case been was tal unten mont ¢ way supports the criticism which was made by The Bee at thG tWne the decision was rendered upon the cohl: dealers license. The decision of the supreme court deny- ing the application for*a mandamus to com- pel the city council to impose the levy for school purposes asked for by the Board of Education must a salutary effect in holding the latter body down to an econom- administration of ifs affairs. It dis- poses of the contention that the has any independent power determination of the an- nual This eonstruction of the law appeal to fair-minded per- son, had the court decided other- wise there would have been no possibility of fixing the responsibility for the tax rate for each year. Tlhe school board would be able to dictate as to fts need and to re- quire the council to cut the appro- priations for other equally ne public services in” order to keep the rate as a whole within reasonable bounds, This de- cislon, to be sure, places the school system 0 a at the mercy of the city council, but it is only to a very limited extent. The Board of Education has an independent source of revenue in the receipts from nses and fines that suflices for the great bulk of Its necess expenditures. Taxation is resorted to only to supply the regular deficit from these sources, and so long as the board Is reasonable in its demands there will be no occasion for refusal on the part of the council. No hardship will result in this particular year, the non-tax rec the board to excoed the estimates put upon them. Tho 3-mill levy for school purposes instead of 3 plo to carry th extravagant have fcal permanently board the Tevy. school over tax must very because to down certain extent ary sine pts ot promise mill levy requested will be am- through, provided no anted expenditures are . Against such extravagant ex- penditures the veto which the council holds upon the tax levy will operate as a timely check. schools or unw The workingmen of Omaha should see to it that the assessors do their sworn duty this year. The great burden of taxation falls upon the poor home owner and the man who has a few hundred dollars worth of furniture or a small stock of merchandise, While the men who have amassed millions out of the rise of property and the men who hold mortgages and have money In bank manage to pay but a trifle or escape taxation altogether. The workingmen of Omaha are moreover vitally concerned in the equalization of taxds and raising of the assessment from the !u:! that the city is un- able to venture on apy Improvement for which a loan Is requirdd. We cannot even extend pavements or fewers or erect the proposed market house funless we can ralse tho assessment. The Ruestion is will the workingmen of Omaha| take the assessors in hand and make thdm do their duty as the law requires, or arc they willing to face another season of {disfrbss by reason of the want of employment? —_— L Time I8 demonstrating that the state in- stitutions are not-suffering so very much by reason of the somewhat limited appropri- ations given them by the last legislature. It Is true that in the Industrial school at Kear- ney some of the educational features have been suspended, but the inmates and em- ployes seem to be thriving under the en- forced economy. Even the Hastings asylum, which protested so vigorously through its friends that it could not get through with the small pittance voted it, has notified the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings that it has accommodations and can care for sixty additional patients, Chicago Re One of the signal virtues of the United States senate is its absolute stability. In the controversy over the tariff, for instance, it is right where it was when the session began. pelcis i e Lubricity of Expression, Globe-Democrat. There are 90,000 delinquents in the Kansas farmers alllance, which significs that 60000 persons iu that state have concluded to dis- continue the practice of trying to pay off markuggos with “articulate handfuls of wind.: B Tl The Real Kentu ky oo Chicago Herald, s Judge Bradley's ukase against carry- ing pistols into the cou x’mr"lbl eS8 not Uiv tend to the regulation Kent ky pocket pistol—pint size—the Breckinridge ‘trial wiil probably continue to limp along In a per- functory sort of way after all, Fall Crown. o Minneapolis Tribune, This may be an off year, but before it has ed t democracy will have received a most forcible hint of what they may expect In 1896, The crowning event of the year will be the electlon of a republican hiuse :l.l“:l))\tl\,ll'lnl‘n'r‘ to guard the interests of people during the last two years of Mr. Cleveland's lease of power. ? e Doling Out the Franchise. Cinclnnatt Enqu Hawall Ifl.lli have a constitutional con- vention. ”"1 erybody may vote save the Asiatics. This ‘might lead to a question whether the Japanese are As for the announcement that the rnment will pay no respect it happens to suit " the ¥ to handle a matter of that kind. Make your constitution, and then let the other peoy slze up to it. That is the way France did. The Wheat Frospect. Springfield Republican According to the government's estimates on the wh crop of 1893, and accepting the common estimates of per capita con- there ought to bé an' amount of hand less than the a visible supply reported. Hut the agricultural de partment now places the wheat in farmers' hands at 114,000,000 hushels, ta say nothing of the estin ed vigible supply on March 1 of above 80,000,000 bushels. The difficulties in the way of liftiug up the prices of wheat are appurent. the only w e Woman Suffrage In Wyoming. Wk Sun, The letter of Mrs.' Ell nted yesterday, oon esults of woman, suffr: yoming, s moremwatls! the other letters upon the subject which have been sent td UM Yet she does not furnish the facts ngedad to refute the alle- gation of The Omaha Jiee about the dread- ful prevalence of vice' and crime In Wyo- ming sinee the adoptiog of woman suffrage. The only thing of ady account that she offers in rebuttul of The Dee's charges I3 quotation from the Woman's bune, con- taining a statement my > by the accom- plished lady who s the 10 of that Journal, concerning the decrease of the amount of eriminality and the number of divorce suits In Wyoming between the years 188 and 180, What we need in t o 18 official a, with such details as will ald in the formation of a correct judg ment nd we must trust that the will yet b obtained through research the rds of the Wyoming courts, T would ly be instructive to all persg who the ftruth about one of thi inte) g questions of the tim Until w can get them we shall to ac The Omaha Bee's 1 that s8pool of W has bec r than ey © woman suffra Bee did not give proof of its state but 1t made some specifications an be fully met only by authentic tate of actory than any of , 1894, PEOPLE svery of an fileit ded as moonshine. tion has been ralsed in any quar- ting the green Coxey cavaleads of cranks will fizzle. Nelther Lowelling, Pen noyer or Waite will carry tho banner The talk of Adlai for president In 1396 is a cuckos attempt to awaken a slight slow of interest in the Cleveland ad- ministration Two Chicago their departire IND THINGS The dis still in New York Is re No obje ter to natul It s predi refer to 18 the Whether eriminals gravely from earth today beginning of a cloud-pushing job. smoke or fog, degonent sayeth not Brooklyn rejoices over the disappearance of Justice Sutherland, the MeKane judicial tool Kings courty is ahead $10,000 in forfeited bonds and besides saves the cost of a year's board The revised Wilson bill will produce a surplus of $30,000,000 per annum, according to treasury experts, hat plank in the wigwam platform which solemnly promised a reduction of cxpenses was evidently a “cowardly makeshift Senator Sherman's health is not in such a precarious condition as to occasion any great uneasines among his friends. He is off but for a brief season for a little rest and he s fairly entitled to it. He is now In his 7ist year and he begins to feel his years. Investigation by government engineers points to the conclusion that the Missouri river is leaking. There is more water In the upper reaches of the river than in some of the lower. The engincers think the river is rapidly dwindling away and will become a small stream Erastus Wiman, being a Canadian, has naturally engaged a Canadian lawyer *to defend him in addition to his American coun- of Montreal, uis Riel and ex-Premier Honore Mercier, has arrived in New York to ald in the defense of Mr. Wiman. The Michigan state officfals who padded the returns on the proposition to increase their salaries are mow out of a job, the supreme court having lorsed their re- moval. Indictments have been filed against themn Michigan's method of dealing with polit | rascality may be ied withoyt danger of infringement. Mrs. Catherine Connors West Lynn, Mass, and after the body had been taken to the cemetery some of the friends asked that the coflin be opened. The request was complied with, and as soon 2s the lid had been raised out jumped t family cat, which had crawled in beside the body while it was at the house. There are occasions in life wh almost a sacrilege to draw aside tieres and take a ap shot at robust pathos; to see a strong man bowed with grief, his portly frame racked, vet his lips giving forth no sound. The silent manifes- tations of woe, the solemn, suppressed sobs, do they denote the demise of a dear friend or the fracture of a heart by a sudden calamity ? 0. The griefstricken fon- dles a forlorn vest.. Unbidden guests made a sneak on the remainder of the suit. He does not mourn because they are gone. His weeps are provoked by the fact that the unknown owner persistently neglects to call for the overlooked but essential remnant of his festal to was buried at n it seems L = NEBRASKA AND NEBK KANS. Will Silvers has started the Times at Web- ber. A $10,000 brick hotel is to be erected at Wood River Columbus will endeavor to support fifteen saloons this year. William Atwood and wife of Plattsmouth have just celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. The grand commanders of the Knights Templar of Nebraska will hold its annual session at Norfolk April 3. The new creamery at Hastings will be In operation by April 10 and will sell its total output to Butte, Mont., parties. There have been four series of revival meetings Leld in Western the past winter and the good work still goes on. The citizens of West Unlon and Sargent, Custer county, have organized an irrigation company and propose to build a big ditch. A s'reet fakir at Plattsmouth was arrested for pulllng a tooth without a dental certifi- cate and it cost him $30 to settle the case. West point lovers of sport have formed an organization to protect the fish of the neighborhood from falling into the hands of people who use a seine. Colonel A. C. Jordan, formerly editor of the Omaha Republican and later connected with the Beatrice Express, has been granted a pension. He is now a resident of Morris, Minn. Mrs. Charles Seulaff, wife of a Buffalo county farmer, was badly burned while try- ing to save her children from perishing in the flames that destroyed bher home. She saved the children and will recover from her injuries. The Methodist ministers of the Norfolk dis- trict have concluded to locate permanent camp meeting grounds where meetings will bo held every year, and the towns of the district will be given an opportunity to bid for the location. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Neligh of West Point have just celebrated their thirtieth wedding anniversary. They were married in Omaha and took a wedding (rip of seventy- five miles overland to the homestead they had secured on what was then a trackless plain. The postoffice at Colon was broken into and robbed just before midnight. About $200 was taken from the safe, which was blown open. The man who did the job was evi- dently a professional, as his work showed up as that of an expert. Ho used a diamond drill on the safe and took such precautions that the slight noise made by the explosion created no alarm. Some persons who did hear it thought it was from the firing of a shotgun. The description of the robber as given Is that of a man 5 feet 8 inches in height, black mustache and stubble beard. He wore a black soft hat and brown over- coat. e THE OMAHA “MIN Minneapolis Tribune: Counterfeiters down at Omaha are making silver dollars containing just as much of the once precious metal as those turned out at the national mints, but the government detectives are after them just the same. Peffer, Stewart and Wolcott should enter a protest and apply for an injunction against the detectives. St. Paul Globe: An interesting point will be raised in the trial of the counterfeiters recently arrested at Omaha for making and passing bogus silver dollars. It is shown that thero was more silver in the counter- feit than in the genuine dollars, and that they were not “spurious’ in the legal mean- ing of the term. Can men be punished for giving the public a better article than the genuine? Chicago Tribune: If President Cleveland signs the Bland seigniorage bill or allows it to hecome a law without his signature the United States will give additional coun- tenance to the claims of the swindlers that they have a moral right to coin silver dol- lars at an outrageously artificlal ‘“valu of the metal. They will argue that are only seeking to seizo time by the f lock and take advantage of the debasement for which the advocates of the Bland bill are working to be brought around at some time in the near future. One would think the Omaha revelation ought to be sufficlent to induce the president to call a halt by in terposing a strong veto on the mad scheme to drive the country to financial chaos and the depths of financial dishonor. fastiioul o intie THE CALAMITY MAN. Cloak Tevie 15 & man—we know him well- travels east and west, fearful work to m-lll s Ther He Who finds it His goods, though they're th He has a dismal, gloomy As you could wish And with the cynic's He talks calamity You ask him how He sh And th We have not 8 Is @ en the worst. Business 18 always d A pessimist 13 And with a smile (hat's deathly Ho talks calamity, I with him, Son when at the golden gate Of heaven he doth appear, e chances are that he will state It's awful dull up here!” FREE SILVER AND WHEAT Jenator Pettigrew Prepares an Interesting Comparison of Prices, i NTIMACY BETWEEN THE TWO IS STRIKING Cotton Ineluded Argul that Free Colnng Would Restore Wheat High \lvo I the Showing fsilver Its Former Value, WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE 513 Fourteenth St WASHINGTON, March of South Dakota tatisties from offclal lative prices of throughout the past nty-two years, arvay of figures collated by extremely interesting. of wheatiat present is but a the price of 1872, the volume of wheat produced In this country last year I8 scarcely 20 per cent greater than in 1872, While the world's production of wheat was 45,000,000 bushels less In 1888 than In 1887, the price was 4 cents per bushel less, In 1880 190,000,000 bushels less of wheat was produced than in 1887, and yet the price was 90 cents, as comparcd with 80 cents. The crop of 1800 was 94,000,000 bushels less than In 1887, and the price fell to 83 cents a bushel, a decline of & conts. The crop of 1891 was 61,000,000 bushels loss than in 1887, and yet the price declined 4 conts per bushel as compared With the price in 1857, In 1892 there was produced 49,000,000 bushels less of wheat than in 1887, and the price fell oft 9 cents in 1892 as compared with 1887, So the comparisons go clear through the list Prices for wheat have steadily declined in spite of production. These figures are the figures of the world, and it cannot therefore be argued that while the crop may have fallen off in this country It increased in India and Russia and other wheat-producing countries, and that fnasmuch as the export ade rules prices it makes no difference whether the crop is large or small in this country if the converse is true in India and Russia In 1872 wheat was $1.49, silver $1.32; 1873, wheat $131, silver $1.20; 1874, wheat $1.4 silver $1 1876, wheat $1.24, silver $1.15; 1878, wheat $1.34, silver $1.15; 1580, wheat $1.25, sllver $1.14; 1882, wheat $1.19, silver $1.13; 1884, wheat $1 silver $1; 1886, wheat 8 conts, silve centi: 1988, wheat, 85 cents, silver 83 cents: 189), wheat $3 cents, silver $1.04 (when It was believed a free coinage bill would become a law); 60 cents, silver 73 cents 'HAN EVER BEFORE KNOWN. The price of wheat is now lower than the oldest inhabitant can recall; and the price of silver, is lower than in the history of the country. Silver is now worth % cents per ounce. . and March cotton $7.36. Senator Pettigrew says these abnor- mally low figures are due directly to the fact that the United States, India and the other great silver-coining countries have ceased to purchase silyer. Another table of flgures shows exports of cotton and wheat from British India during the years ending March 31, 1870, to 1891, and the eleven months ending February, 1892, disclose market prices for the producers in Indla for cotton and wheat far in excess of the prices obtained by the producers in this country. This, he says, is directly due to the fact that India was then a free silver colnage country. In 1886, when our farmers were obtaining 87 cents for wheat and 9 cents for cotton, the pro- ducers in free silver India received $1.02 for wheat and 11 cents for cotton; in 1889 we re- ceived 90 cents for wheat and 9 cents for cotton, while in India they received $1.05 for wheat and 11 cents for cotton. In 191 our farmers received S5 cents for wheat and 10 cents for cotton, while in India i wheat $1.09 and cotton 12 cents. In 18 when we received 60 cents for wheat and 7 cents for cotton, in India wheat was $1.21 and cotton 10% cents. As silver continues to de- cline in India, since It was demonetized by the British government, prices for farm products decline in proportion. In comment- ing upon thesc figures Senator Pettigrew says | that it we were to have free colnage of-silver | the effect would be the same as the discove of great deposits of gold and other develop- ing enterprises. He believes the United States can afford (o attempt free coinage without any international agreement, and he advocates the experiment until its effect is felt in the markets for farm products. CLERKS COMPLAIN OF ESPIONAGE. Pension office clorks complain that the; have for some tinfe been working under mar- tial law; that they are watched by detectives like a lot of convicts, insulted by superiors and kept under constant espionage. They say that physicians in the oflice have been detailed to shadow those who are away on sick leaves, and that the certificates of reputable physicians as to illness of clerks are ignored. This system has for some time been and is now being practiced with a view (o getting “points” on republican em- ployes under the civil service, 0 that they Senator has collated a tigrew mass of wheat world during A study. of t Senator Pettigrow is While the pric little over one-third bearing the r cott v o that the | movernment army of peace, which Is to arrive here from Massilon, 0., on May 1. He says he hopes o will be 100,000 instead of the promised 60,000, and that they will shake the very centers of Wall street in their demand for N fssue of gresnbacks and in opposition to bonds. Senator Kyle belioves will be made up mostly of men out of employment, toughs, tramps and brigands for a good time and that th honest Iaboring rather than who will simply free fora FIGHTING BOGUS A bill is to be introduced enlarging the law which taxes and regulates the sale of butterine or oleomargarine. I is proposed to compel all hotels, cafes, re taurants, boarding houses and other places of public entertainment using butterine ot oleomargarine to announce the fact, either on their bills of fare or placards. An in vestigation made into the sale and use of butterine in Washington discloses (he fact that nearly every one of the restaurants hotels, boarding houses and other places of public entertainment use this article exclu sively for cooking and almost exclusively on the tables, without the kpowledge of osts, It is found that throughout the country oleomargarine fs being sold as but ter n broken packages to consumers, and that the public is being fmpose upon to an outrageous extent. The consumers are fm posed upon In price as well ax in the arti ele, and it 18 belioved that the enlargement of the law regulating the sale of oloemar- garine or butterine will also regulate ity consumption at all places of public enter: talnment fn such a way as to make imposi tlon absolutely impossible. OF NEBRASKA IMPORT. Representative Melklejohn, with B. Peebles of Pender, Neb., made an argu ment this morning before the committea on Indian affairs on the bill providing for the taxation of allotted Indian lands, the same to be paid by the government. The bill has been referred to the Indian bureau “for an_opinfon Mr. Meiklejd able report on from the house morrow army be out BUTTER in congrest Mr. W n expects to secure a favor the Niobrara Dbri bill committee on commerce to- bill was fntroduced in t ate by Senator Allen early in the session and appropriated $7,000 for the repair of the government bridge across the Nfobrara river at Niobrara, which was seriously aged a_year ago by fce. ourth class postmasters appointed today Nebraska—Amanda E. Harmon at F bport, Banner county, viee E. 8. Wilson, signed, €. Preston at Ford, Warren county Gwynn, resigned, nd F. P ster, Monroe county, vice J. W, ry, removed Wyoming—C. W, Kin- at Big Horn, Sheridan county, vice A. Stocks, resigned. Fred Rustin, a member of the Yale uni- versity base ball team, played today in the mateh with the Young Men's Christian as. ation club in this city The ale team its usual spring tour of the south Henry, jr., son of Lien Colonel Henry of the Seventh cavalr, passed a successful examination for cadet. ship-at-large to the West Point Military academy and will be admitted in June PERRY 8. HEATH. et e CRISP COMI tuffalo Courler: The slow movements of average fat man rather tend to contra- ste makes walst. How dtl , Jim- holds th dict the theory that I Visit r ¢ dog Pantr says h Harper's Youny Peopl: you_happen (o name yo mie? Jimmie—'Cause pupa 50 much food. Life: The difference arms and a woman tryl housework is that one ¢ while the other fries and ¢ tween a bal to do her and Willilamsport Review: “I'm afrald yo don't love me much, John, or you'd leave your club sooner.”” ' “Why, my dearsh, I feft (hic) club over two hours ago. hen, T 8Up~. w-a-s,” replied the old man, “T engn* it. But hit's human natur not ter be sat. isfled. Evry time de fremometer rises hit puts me in min’ ob de time when we'll be sleepin’ on de roof an’ hollerin’ foh ice. Washington Sta “Uncle pose you enjoy the mild weath sant,” “to ‘Isn’t it p) r to another, Was said see_all these “Yes, and too, We haven't pass didn’t have a patent m any of them, ile barn that ne ad. on it.* « go Tribune an lady over there by the plano, “is the daughter of a wealth but_she doesn't seem to be at all up, because s0mc young aid Banks, bill poster, stuck sald Rivers, “but that is probably her diamonds are not paste. Philadelphia Times: A telephone gir] re- ceives calls, but she doesn't pay them. This part of the business is attended by those hiring the instrument. n I ler: Missouri Judge~Stand up, Have you anything to say why ntence of the law should n-t be passed u? “I'm not the prisoner, yer honor, detective: Judge (fi ely)—18 that any reason? A LAMENT. Atlanta Constitution. no more, O Sprin, Your praises I shall sing TFor when I say “the violets blow,” Down comes a pelting storm of snow, And anivering to my den 1 go— Deceitful Spring! No more, no more, O Spring! can be dismissed and places made for demo- crats. KYLE'S HOPE ON COXEY. Senator Kyle, the populist of South Dakota, is greatly clated over the coming of Coxey's ROWNI For all the flowers you bring, Shall I address to you one note, Howe'er your clouds may frown or float, To have the song freeze in‘my throat: iive back, give back my overcoat— Deceltful Spring! NG, KIN The largest makers and sollers of fine clof Your monoy’s worth o 5 on carth, r your money bac'c, Now, boys-- As we promised something nice for the boys a |few days ago, we wouldn’t go back on our word for floer. Then we begin anything, and on Saturday we give away a beautiful Easter Lily, potand all, to every suit purchaser in the the | on second our grand spring openings of boys' wearings and as we want to make a good im- pression at the start we offe sure inducement. We hav styles, and if you want yo r this pretty present as a e, an elegant line of new ur boy to have the very latest and best at a bargain, come Saturday and Saturday night. We have made a much larger pur- chase of Easter lilies this year than last, and are con- fident we have enough to | but you better come early t ast the day and night— 0 make sure. BROWNING, KING & CO., Willtay theexgressif you se e meney for 40 worthorm | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts,