Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 15, 1894, Page 12

L THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. PUBLISHIED EVERY MORNING. “RIPTION, One Year.. TERMS OF SUD: Year Three Bunday Eaturday Weekly | RT3TSS3 1R, 53 Vet wiroet Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bidg. CORREAPONDENCE torial mintter d he addre 1: To the Bditor. 58 LIFTTERS, FIE I DTN G COMPANY All b addrewsed Omahn e made OF CIRCULATION. George 11, Truchuck, secretary of The Mahing compnny, being duly sworn, says that the actunl number of_full and complete conles of The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday ee printed guring the month o March, 1301, was s fol STATEME! 29 35 34,000 19 21103 | ble. 700,200 16,710 Hions ‘for uneaid and returnad 1.530 2,082 *Sunday G B, TZSCHUCK Sw and subscribed In my pres- ence 1o before m this 34 day of April, 15 N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Let us all give thanks. Th the Pollard-Breckinridge breach of promise sult are practically closed proceedings in A Nebraska hotel keeper on account of tlie recent financlal depression he has reduced rates from §1 to $3 per day. That is a new way of reducing rat According to the best avallable data the United States produces annually 30,000,000 bushels of oysters. And the oyster industry is in full blast only eight months in the year, advertises peaker Crisp is not so far removed from Speaker Reed as he has tried to persuade himself to belleve. If anything, Speaker Crisp has distanced his predeccssor in the way of arbitrary rulings. The knights of reciprocity have announced that they will ask the republican conven- tion to nominate Judge Caldwell for presi- dent of the United States. This is inter- esting, but who knows: Among the latest rumors 13 one to the effect that Secretary Hoke Smith is learning to dance. Hoke has been making so many of the employes under him dance that a little of his own medicine will not come amiss. from Washington It s reported that right in the midst of the Bulgarian is the minister of war has sent a challenge for a duel to M. Stambuloft. It will be in order for the re- cipient of the challenge to forthwith change his name to M. Standemoff. Weo view with ajarm the courts to grant injunctions on slight pre- texts. A Chicago Jurist has enjoined a negro preacher from exhorting from a cer- tain suburban pulpit. We hold that this is g0ing a peg too far. Salvation Is free Iy every town save Chicago. tendency of movement is spreading throughout the state. The convention at McCook May 2 and 3 is the first announced in that section of Nebraska. The people are being aroused to the importance of irri- gation, which means that they will soon avail themselves of its benefits. The irrigation The stoppage of silver mining has no doubt boen one of the principal factors in the in- creased gold production of the United States during the past year. If we should strike an average of the gold and silver product the figure might not be much smaller than it would have been in normal times, People who are inconvenienced by these April showers will gladly submit to them in silence when they know how much they are doing to favor the farmer's crops. Thoe Prosperity of the farmer is the prosperity of all, and rain is no inconsiderablo element in what contributes to the farmer’s fortune, The people of Hawail appear to be making good progress toward the adoption of a con- stitution that will give them a permanent form of government. They know that they cannot expect annexation to the United States, at least for the present. Under the circumstances they are adopting the only wise course they could pursue. Colonel Breckinridge persists in his inten- tion to remain in the race for re-election to congress. Like the average office holder who has been accused of misconduct he wants a vindication and thinks that the people who sent him to congress owe him another ele tion in spite of the disclosures that ha made concerning his moral character. Breckinridge really represents h ents he should bo returned, alth supposition is almost incredible, * been It Mr. onstitu- ugh the The privilege which the lowa towns haye under the new mulet liquor law of fixing the licenso for liquor dealers at any price they may wish will in experiments designed to ascertain how high a liquor license can be fixed without being abso- lutely prohibitive. It must of bo restrictive the number of saloons, the higher it Is made the fewer being the sa- loons. It will therefore becomo merely a question of how much a dealer can afford to pay for his lcense, result some course on enator Dixon of Rhode Tsland ex; Tetire from the senate at the oxpiration of his present torm, next March, and to return tho of which inter- rupted by bis elevation to the senate. Rhode Island has had great dificulty of late to get men to represent her In the senate. It will be remembered that Senator Chace, the predecossor of Senator Dixon, relinquished his seat because he sald he could not afford to remain longer in the public service. This 15 now In the excuse offered by Senator Dixon, and the n rumors that Senator Al contemplating a milar course of Rhode Island ought to draw on senatorlal timber at the disposal of the other statos, to practice law was substance e have be leh s action | averag Boe Pub- | that | | of the the abundant supply of | AN ORJECT LESSON. 1t has been permitted The Bee to print the first authentic interview with Commander Kelly of the Industrial army. What he says of his foll: the | opinion respecting and tend to enlist sympathy for the unfor- tunate The com mander repudiates the that he Is at the head of a division of the Coxey con tingent, yet he admits that the primary ob. Ject of the expedition is to reach Washing: ton, there to enlist the support congressmen In behalt of his followers. There Is doubtless some truth In the statement that many of these men were lured to the coast by promises of employ- ment at the Midwinter their de- plorable condition is doubtless owing to the prevailing stagnation in all branches of in- not confined to the the members of this wers will cause a revision of the movement men In his command assertion ot western | unfortunate which s alone That dustry Pac coast | novel expedition are not tramps 1s evidenced | the prompt All they which they and der. conduct e le orderly they give th failing by their obedience ask is work, must be fed It s nearer the of congratulation that the rmy the better ¢ Commander be true, Oakland inexplic matte approach of the Accepti em of the the opinion of Kelly's the attitude authorities and Ogden them Our dispatches have ehronicled no act a lawless to at becomes defense men of toward of the Industrials tending to show disposition, their greatest offense being the seizure of a Union Pacific train at a station of Ogden. They are not hent upon d struction of property, and have pledge themselves to obey the laws of the land This arkable movement must conve a striking le to all thinking men. No will fail to realize the folly of its in- ception, and will prediet failure of its bject. Yet social conditions that make possible such an expedition must move men to action looking to alleviation of | ong the Industrial classes of the ren som to all immediate ¢ the distress country. TIHE EXPORTS OF CORN. Whil of wheat United States during the first thr present year have been only of av age there been a marked in- crease in the foreign demand for corn. The exports of this cereal for the months of Jan- uary, February and March amounted to over 20,000,000 bushels, against than half of the amount during the corresponds perfod of last year, the s for first quarter of the current year being at rate of more than $0,000,000 bushels for ire year. The total quantity of corn ported to Europe in 1893 was only 0,000,000 bushels, and the largest quantity ever ex- ported in one year was 89,000,000 bushels in 1890, though this amount was nearly equatled as far back as 1880. The total exports to all other than European countries last year was 46,000,000 bushels, which was a large falling oft from some previous years, and particu- larly 1890, when the exports to other than European countries amounted to 101,000,000 bushels. It is hardly to be expected that the corn exports for the current year will reach the proportions of 1890, when there were exceptional conditions favoring the for- eign demand for this grain, but the proba- bility is that they will equal the highest amount of any other year in the past, and may exceed it. The statisties of corn ex- ports from 1869 to 1893, as given in the re- cently published statistical abstr United Statés, show a wide varlation in quantities from year to vear. The foreign demand is not uniform, as In the case of some other grains, so that it is impossible to determine from the record of corn exports in any year what the probable demand of from the : months the exports volum has the the | the | ex- shipme another year will t An examination of the statistics does not justify the conclusion that very much has been accomplished by the special efforts to induce Furopeans to recognize the merits of Indian corn for human food. These efforts, instituted only a few years ago, lave been chiefly in Great Britain and Ger- many, and it fs shown that there was ex- ported to the former last year only 17,000,000 hushels, against 54,000,000 in 1890, and to Germany in 1893 und 1890 respectively, 5,000,000 bushels and 11,000,000 bushels. These figures certainly do not indicate that the people of Europe were. favorably influ- enced toward corn by the American repre- sentations of its cheapness and wholesome- ness, nor do they encourage the belief that further efforts In this direction would be productive of satisfactory results. The sug- gestion that corn only needs to become better known abroad in order to compete successfully with rye as a food for human beings appears sound from our point of view, but the difficulty is that there appears insurmountable prejudice among Kuropeans against this grain for domestic use, so that the poorest of them will the most inferior rye bread rather than sub- stitute corn bread. That this prejudice may be overcome in time s possible, but that the process will be very slow the result of efforts thus far plainly shows. Meanwhile it is gratifying to know that the outlook for corn exports in 1894 promises larger shipments than for either of the three pre- ceding y to be an eat ars. CABINET IRRESPONSIBILITY. cabinet should decide to hand in his resignation, as has been rumored, because of the position taken by President Cleveland with reference the Bland seigniorage bill, he will do 80 entirely of his own volition. It is re- neither by constitutional law by precedent that the members of the inet be all of even on the important public questions that may They share whatever in the sponsibility under form of resting If any member of the to quired nor cab- be one mind most arise. no re- for gove have executive action nment, that the president should to responsibility alone. I any - any his own ent it upon hi: will- he can- qit- upon upon one of them fear out order of the president relating particular administrative depart would become morally to give up his place to some one who is plan a fair trial, but resign b with the pry policy to incumbent ing to give the e sident not be expected to ause ters in opinion some matter of publl In this respect lies the chief distinction between the so-called cabinet ‘in the United States and the cabinets in the prin- cipal countries of BEurcpe. The members of the latter are usually collectively sponsible for their advice. Any ber who cannot bring himself agree ment wlth the policy decided upon by the majority ow it to himself and his leagues to resign, and In case tho tive refuses to accept the advice the the custom s for to a body. re- one mem- into col- execu- offered the cab- sign in A story is told celcbrated British statesman, who, whei a stormy cabinet meeting was about to break up, placed his back against the door and asked what the decision was to be, adding that it wade little difference which way they ¢ ed so long as all expounded the same view. Nothing of this kind by cabinet tnet of a fot a | not eniy | it | him | his colleagues to his view. | hypocrisy our | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, APRIL 15, ings, beca various mombers be agreed The only foundation for our so-called cab Inet to be found In the federal constitu tion s the brief clause that a sident In his discretion “to require the opinion In writing of the principal of: fleer In each of the executive departments relating to duties of offlec There Is no express contemplation meeting the consultation of any cabinet officer upon subjects of gen- public importance. The to require s he may se thoriz the pr the thelr respective cabinet or ral president is these written fit, but not may se is supposed to have chosen the varfous secretaries of the d partments with reforence to their representative characters and to the general froe opinions or not also to act upon them or The fact that he as he special | harmony of their views with the well known principles of the party to which he belongs should make their advice particularly val- uable to him. It does not, however, relieve of the responsibility for every execu- act, and therefore leaves him at lib- accept or refect the advice of his cabinet, be It unanimous or divided. The cabinet, then, being with us an_irre sponsible body, so far as the executive ac cepts or rejects its advice, no member has any right to feel aggrieved has not heen able to persuade the president and tive erty to because he His withdrawal from the cabinet Is neither required expected. It tries to Justify a resigna- tion by the president’s veto of a measure which he happened favor it will show t he s merely seeking an excuse to get nor he to — THE POLLARD-BRECKINRIDGE VERDICT The Pollard-Breckinridge Jury has awarded the plaintiff damages in the sum of $15,000. That this verdict will meet with general approbation goes without saying. The amount of the award cuts no figure. Peopla generally, we take it, have wasted little sym- pathy upon either plaintiff or defendant. The consensus of opinfon throughout the trial of this celebrated has been that the defendant richly deserved the condem- nation of an adverse verdict without regard to the damages upon which the jury might agree. He not only ruined the Pollard but he has scandalized many estima- 1 and women, sought to besmirce fame of a noted and his has wronged a great church or- ganization, which must suffer because of his prominent connection with it. Springing oud Kentucky family, Breckinridge had reached a lofty soci political eminence. His opportunities for good limitless and his fall closes a career which was In some respects remarka- ble, There is cause for congratulation in the fact that a congressman at the zenith of social and political power can be convicted in a civil court of an offense which has been too often condoned at the national capital. Colonel Phil Thompson simply reflected a tainted moral sentiment pervading the social atmosphere which he breathed when he de- clared that Breckinridge's offense was that his sin had found him out, and not in the sin itself. Such a viclous doctrine, of course, has met with severe denunciation by the pres But its author was weak enough to impute to the jury which he addressed the same low standard of morals which obtains in the circles which he had in mind. case womun ble n fair h the college, by Colonel 1 and were, ots of tho | The verdict, however, gives place to the hope | that a purer soclal atmosphere is demanded at the seat of government. It Inspires con- fidence in the court which has administered a stinging rebuke to a man of high stand- ing, surrounded as he was by men of power and influence. The way of the transgressor is hard, and it ought to be. COLLEGE-BRED CITIZE? Any one who will glance over the bio- graphical notices kindly furnished by mem- bers of congress for publication in the Con- gressional Directory must be struck with the uniformity with which the writers quite generally refer to their early education. Nearly every one points to the fact that he attended the public schools elther in this country or abroad and takes palns not to omit mention of his college career, even if he has had the benefits of only a singlo term’s attendance at some institution of greater or less learning. It must be plain to the careful observer that the percentage of college-bred men who take active part in performing the dutics of cltizenship is already quite large and yearly growing larger. For this there are perhaps many reasons, but among the most potent is the change that has come about in our larger colleges in the encouragement given the stu- dent to inform himself of the part which he is expected to play as a member of society after he shall have completed his college work. The colleges of today are more and more taking it upon themselves to impress thelr students with the responsibility that rests upon men who have had the advantages of a liberal education. That education Is not to be regarded as an end in itself, but as contributing to produce good and useful citizens. This is the significance of the address delivered by President Low of Columbia college last week before the mem- bers of the debating union of that Institu- tion upon the subject, “College Men as Citizens,” in which he insisted that their college work is only a preparation for the due discharge of civic obligations. While everybody in a republic ought to be a good citizen, and college men in no less degree than the average man, the former should bo able to contribute more by very reason of the opportunities they have had. These opportunities consist in studying the mistakes that been made by various peoples from the dawn of history down to | our own day; also in bringing into the arena of politics a higher order of idealism than that in the rough and tumble of the world, Tho danger that confronts the college man Just assuming the responsibilities of citizen- ship les, according to the view of President | Low, in the almost inevitable feeling that he ought (o count for more than other men. | This feeling generally expresses itself in a doubt of the wisdom of universal suffrage. But President Low does not hesitate to char- acterize this feeling as entirely without foun- dation. Universal suffrage, in his opinion, has been the greatest force ever set at work in the world to uplift the masses, It carries education to the uneducated citizen, The danger from the demagogue Is always tem- porary and In the long run honest and sin- cera counsel will prevail. The opportunity of the college man 1s in assisting in the eleva- tion of the masses. In performing this func. tion he 1s but fulfilling the requirements of good eitizenship Sound advice to students from men who, esident Low, have looked upon their » educations only leading up to a wider activity, and who, like him, have at- success in the flelds of business, politics and scholarship 1s tending to make coliege education in this country take a more have obtained as tained could happen in one of our cabinet meet- | practical turn. It is bringlug the duties of | so there 18 no necessity that the | a citizen he | ten | risdiction. | law at once intelligible and accessible. who ought to be in a position to understand them. It cannot fall to make the collgh-bred influ ential with his less fortunate fellow citizens It is of the! encouraging signs of the times to these man more one DAVID DPUDLEY FIELD. death of Day}d Dudley Field at the need age of 80 years removes one of the foremost, it not Amorican jur. Ist of the century he had seen his life work, well toward completion. His death must fallen with particular sevétity on his many friends, who read in the ncwspapers only a fow days ago of his return from Burope hale and hearty, and of his plan to retire to Bork- shire Hills for the summer, there to tinue his autoblography, upon which he was engaged Just previous to his sudden death. “My one great ambition,” said Mr. Fleld in perhaps the interview that he gave the public, ju ter landing from his re- cent trip abroad, “is to have my codes adopted all over the world nd published. 1t is only a quostion of they he and of these codes work. As his system ambition of its ally adopted was cor- He began ars the foremost, but not before advanced have con st They are writ when ation indeed new convert w legal reform the thor to have it respondingly increased in fleld fitty efforts to attain his chosen obj unremitting from the first, the bar in 1 he attained his initial prominence in the of law reform by a published letter on the reform of the judi- ten in 1839 and 58 before a committee of the of the second at- tim propa hav will be accepted introduction life each of au- been his gained groat univer: his work this over ago, and his ct have been Admitted to cause cial system up by an add ) York legl plan therein tempt to the legislature in 1841 failed, he returned to the charge with a series of articles upon the re- organization of the judiciary in 1846, which widely a v pamphlet form and which were not without effect the work of the New York constitutional vention held in that This was immediately followed up with a vigorous agitation for the enactment and eriminal proc he contended have since wr lature in advocacy set forth. A win were upon year, advant of codes of civil The codes for which in 1860 ow dure. completed and by York. In 1857 Mr. Field became the head of an ap- pointed to political code, a penal code and a civil code, which, to- gether with the two codes of procedure, w intended to supplant the common and statute law then in force. These finished until 1865, and then only the penal code was accepted by the state of New York, although other states have made ot them in their legislation, while California and the Dakotas have adopted them in full Mr. Field's “Outlines of an International Code," published in 1873, aims to round out his legal system o hs to cover the entire ground of municipal and international law. The purpose of Mr. Fields plan of codifica- tion Is to simplify existing law, both common and statutory, substantive and remedial. His code of civil procedure aims to do away with the common law forms of action and subor- dinates procedure to the merit of the cause. The complicated legal, formulas are abolished and in their place Is substituted a single ac- tion in which all the rights of the parties are to be determined at once. Thus the ar- tificial distinctions botween law and equity are sought to be ubliterated and the same court invested with both law and equity ju- His other codes bring together in a systematic and compact form the law relating to the subjects with which they deal. The great object kept in view is to make the They have all the merits of the most scientific codification. His code of international law, although it has not secured the recognition which its author hoped for it, Is already a standard for reference for diplomats the world over. The very fact that so many of our states have adopted Mr. Field’s codes and that they have had so great an influence abroad Is in itself a tribute to thelr worth. Whether or not his ambition “to have his codes adopted all over the world” is finally gratified the name of David Dudley Field will forever be associated with the benefits that flow from the policy of codification. wer been adopted commission to prepare codes were not use AN UNTIMELY MOVEMENT. A strike involving any large unmber of men Is always to be deplored. A general strike Involving 200,000 men, all belonging to one branch of industry, would be a na- tional calamity. Such a strike in a period of general business depression would have a paralyzing effect upon nearly every line of business and would result in widegpread dis- aster to the commerclal Interests of the en- tire country. Under these circumstances it is not surprising that.the announcement that the national convention of the United Mine Workers of America has ordered a general suspension of work In every mining district in the United States should create a feeling of apprehension in the minds of all who have been patiently awaiting the long promised revival of Industry. The United Mine Work- ers of America affect to control the labor employed in all the bituminous coal mining reglons of the United States, embracing parts of the states of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana; Tilinois, Missour!, Kansas and Colorado. It s claimed that the order has 200,000 members. To this number must be added many thousands of men whose employment depends upon the Iabor of the miners. Careful inquiry into the condition of the mine workers in the different states included in the recent order for a general strike discounts any alarm that might have excited by the announcement, In of the mining, districts are the men in a condition to engage in a protracted struggle with thelr - employers. Recent strikes have exhaukted the strength of the miners and broken their spirit They are exceedingly lax in their to the national organizatibn. more miners out of employment than at any In recent years, and eonsequently too m idle men who are willing to upon any terms. 'Times for such a strike. Even it it inaugurated it will . be tlonal, ) No sensible man will deny, however, that the miners have not a well defined grie ance against their employers, Tho price pald for mining a ton of coal is entirely dis- proportionate to the price received by the owner. he inequality will be readily ap- preciated by the man who pays from $4 to for a ton of coal it he will reflect that miner recelved but 60 to 70 cents for taking that same ton of coal out of the earth, The day may possibly come when the miner will been none alleglance There are accept inauspiclous should and not are be local na- the socure & more equitablo share of the profits of this great Industry, but before that time comes there must be a radical revolution in commerclal methods. and prineiples followed in this country. The policy upon which the transportation companies exploit the coal by structed. brought closer together, not 0 much i a lines of siness must be entirely recon Consumer and producer must be followed | 1894 TWENTY PAGES. The \ner eographical as In a commercial sen rights of the coal miners to a fair re for labor foot for the benefit of the and the atlon thelr must not be trample under conl barons raflroad companios Vienna B fellow emperor, ot clvil and municipal auth All this gratification hearty the Unite the out receptions On hi arrival in by heads the German found of declde to visit \perol recelved thie departments the caused pr ton archdukes the ities and ombassy must to th have emperor as evidence wel m hould he State have to banish at an of gllt-braid of this kind. We are able to maintain only one plainly dressed president and a fow uni formed Archdukes still a minug us, titled dignitaries the products of the Ameri can genius, Yot there is a large and intelli gent people on this side of the Atlantie who would appreciate the privilege of their respects to the ruler of the German would not ous e wonld sot expectation army ofileers are quantity with nor are paying to friendly empire. themselves out their welcome w folt. We sure would esteem a solid costumes, but heart emperor be the American the sincere and are German eption no less highly than he imperial dis- play at Vienna does The dec’sion of the supreme court of Penn- sylvania that a Masonic home is not exempt general taxation institution for eh arousing of un from the of that has been the from public favorable state as an ty is no end criticism Although 4t not to levy taxes upon of this Kind in that now restricts the exemption to cases there is no diserimination to the the relief. Where charity is to a single class, such, foi press for years custom private charities state the court wher as reciplents of ded only mple, as mechanics, Methodists or Masons, it is not a purcly public charity and is thero- for: ntitled to freedom from lability for taxes. It is urged that th has overlooked fact that cl ity must from its very nature be applied only to a portion of the community and that the state in its charitable is also to ations to the use of particular cla Should this new Pennsylvania doctrine be generally d we may expect to see the tax valua n and s exte ex- not court the institutions compelle Approp; s of its citizens. restrict particuiar accep! tions take a sudc harp leap upward Colonel Phil Thompson is being raked over the coals all along the line for his disgrace- ful plea in defense of his client in the Pol- lard-Breckinrldge breach of promise suit. He deserve: line and word of it too, for a more shamefaced defense of immorality and vice was never publicly proclaimed in any civilized country. Bven if Colonel Thon son’s environment in Kentucky has led him to believe that all men are the moral mon- sters that his client has confessed himself to be he has no right to assume that his observations hold for all parts of the coun- try. He might be invited to make further investigations, provided, of course, that he be securely guarded so as to keep him from contaminating unsullied communities. ever: Bond fnvestment companies will find an open fleld for operation in Iowa henceforth providing the postoffice authorities do not inaugurate an active campaign against them. If the bond companies can avoid using the mails they will continue to plunder without hindrance, as the legislature of that state neglected to pass the bill designed to pro- tect the people. It is to be deplored that the lawmakers of Iowa failed to see the importance of checking the rapacity of a dangerous class of swindlers When a New York Sun reporter sought see Dr. Parkhurst in order to get his opinion of the verdlct in one of the cases which he had instituted he found that he had disconnected his door bell and was there- fore inaccessible. The hint will doubtless be acted upon by others. A patent detach- able door bell ought to be popular with men who are in great demand by the inter- viewers. to The Massachusetts legislature has refused to pass the bill Introduced by one of its members to prohibit public fistic exhibitions by prize fighters, whether for prizes or not The people of Boston do not want to be slighted by the celcbrated bruisers, who con- descend to hold themselves up as the highest types of physical manhood. Culture might otherwise become altogether one-sided. Jersey Joins the Uni Globe-Democrat Cleveland and Hill there is a portentious significance in this defection from the democratic column, reproach that New Jer. ey is a foreign coun- try will not be heard again. That state ha joined the union, and it is extremely likely that she will stay in for a good many ye to come. For the parf Al Colorado Striking Color. De Republican, ases of gold at the Denver mint to the growth of the gold-min- ing industry in this state. The purchases for April this year are already about double what they were for the whole of the month last year. From present indications the record for the yar will be one of which all the people of Colorado will have reason to boast, The pur are an inde Good R St. Paul Ploncer Press. The raflroads of the country are both gen- erous and wise when they announce the willingness to ald the good roads movement by transporting material used in road c siruction from one part of the country to another at the lowest possible rates. The question of material is one of the most serl- ous to be faced by the friends of road ini- provement, g il L Panish Loufsville hope at that no politics party will spring up pledged to the imme- diate and unconstitutional abolition of slee as a curse to the race, or to its gradual abolition by prescribing the number of hours that varlous classes of people may permitied to indulge in what a selent i thority regards a8 a waste of time Public sentiment is hardly ripe yet for a cnactment that would make sléep a state monopoly. Now York Advertiser. The decision of the supreme court of the lited States that t a spir- ituous liquor within "the ning of th statute which prohibits the introduction of spiritous liquors into the Indlan Territory will be good news to the Indians, — An In dian will walk across the territory any time for a_jug of fire water, but if that is not to be hud he will compromise on beer The readiness with which the redskins fuli into the beer hablt, whisky not being avail able, shows thelr acute sensibility to the finer' influences of civilization. - Protest Agalust Politc Philadelphia Record American anglomanincs, ship a title and are anxious to ape yices of the English nobility, will no feel disgusted with the several heirs paren pecruges who are petith Parlia t to save them from the fu belng transterred from the Hou mons to the House of Lord these geatiemen, who have an political future before them In the Com ns, live in constant dread of a doom which would be welcomed by a good many e the greatest boon that providence could bestow. The incident shows how hateful the House of Lords has become to the English people, and how greatly an ambitious man's chances of advancement are lessened when he enters ity 1 Doom, who wor even the Toubt an: g of Com Three of honorable Those other | deck | IND THINGS. fountains greet the advent with considerable coolness. The junior fron a skillful mixer of cockts low PEOPLE Soda of spring | fs not only Halo fel Malne Is, but a senator of the Erie railroad means that business has revived sufficlently to Justify another looting combine. The Intimation that proceedings In the Douglas county court house are judiclally flshy Is probably due to the fact that a fow s were inadvertently dropped on the dome by the builders A BB the von Hartford Times, at the Hartford the other day f first time in fifty-eight the 27th of last month Reform has broken out clink of fvory chips and the emergency growler have suddenly become offensive to the nostrils of Oshkoshians and official dis Infectants are to be applied William Parker, the de Martinsville, Ind., lefc a legacy four living children out seven. Despite his extraordinary cares he managed to exist for 94 years The Department of Agriculture has come to the conclusion that bombarding moisture Is a great waste of gunpowder. The ad ministration doubtless believes that the old way of securing molsture has lost none of its” effective simplicity. It goes stralght, too. Among the congratulatory letters and tele grams received by Archbishop Ireland re tive to his address before the Loyal Legion was one from John Kvans, whom Lincoln appointed governor of Colorado in 1862, and who Is well known all over the country as a leading Methodist Claimants for the distinction of the oldest | rallroad engineer are rapidly multiplying and promise to overwhelm antiqu Musons, patriarchal 0dd and the surviving dames who once tossed kisses t G. W. of hatchet memory. But all are hushed, suppressed, paralyzed and strictly not in it with the gaunt, welrd sage if Mount Tacoma, the Snoqualmic chief in Portuguese leather binding, discovered by the Livingston of the northwest, Colonel Hope! The reorganization ble editor of the cliarter election in alled to vote for th years, He was in Oshkosh. The sed patriarch of of twenty- domestic the ellows of Missouri denies that hades is full of democrats. The executive is presumed to have ground floor facilities for ascertaining the political leanings of the condemned, but his denial unsupported b redhot affidavits will not be accepted a tirely correct. Whatever doubt may exist as to the whereabouts of the democrats who have crossed the divide, there is no doubt as to the condition of the living remnants of the party. Hades in inexpr and unsatisfactory. Judge Caldwell, the United States circuit Judge whose recent decree contravening the | order of Judge Jenkins in the famous strik case has caused so much comment, lives in a hand:ome house on one of the aristocratic thoroughfares of Little Rock. He is a great friend “of newspaper men, and moreover doesn’t believe in suppressing news. When the application for a_receiver for the Santa Fe system was made before him in chambers at Little Rock a great attempt at secrecy was made. Lawyer George Peck and the other attorneys came to the Arkansas capi- tal in a private car, rushed into chambers, got their decree and were just leaving the court room, when along came a reporter who had got some inkling of what was going on. He “help up"” the attorneys, who put him of, telling him to come down to their private car. The newspaper man knew what that meant, and made an appeal to Judge Cald- well. ‘The jurist turned to the Chicago law- yer, who was about to depart, and asked him to return the copy of the decree for a moment. The attorney reluctantly com- plied. Governor Stone s SR LAW AND LABOR. St. Louis Post: Judge Caldwell's decisfon that workingmen have rights which even railroad receivers are bound to respect is doubtless a shocking revelation to the erstwhile czars of railroad management. Kansas City Journal: The relation of organized labor to organized capital has reached the acute stage, and some change or readjustment is already a working neces- sity. Something has to be done, and this decision of Judge Caldwell’s is the beginning in the department of jurisprudence. Cincinnati Commercial: That was a sensible decision rendered by United States Judge Caldwell at Omaha, in which he took the ground that a combination of labor was quite as justifiable as a combination of cap- ital. Of the latter money is the controlling influence, while the capital of labor organi tions is made up of brains and muscle. He remarked, however, that hoth sides must be reful in the management of their affairs to keep within the law. Chicago Record: The time for the final solution of these questions has indeed come when two judges of concurrent jurisdiction render, in the same week, opinions as con- tradictory as those of Judges Caldwell and Jenkins. The sooner the supreme court de- cides the matter the better. Whatever the ultimate decision may be, however, the prin- ciple may as well be laid down Tight now that no equity can be found in any ruling which protects the rights of the employer while it gives the employe no means of guarding his own. R Sllence is Golden, Chicago Tribune. Probably not one man in a hundred knows the name of the governor of Nebraska. This Is the reward that comes to the gov- ernor in these diays who merely attends to of a total of twenty- | | evangelical minister who one of the Philadelphia Ledger: A preached his farowell sermon in churches of Day Shore, 1 Island, on Sunday, pitched upon the general proposi- tion that he hoped his successor would have more success than he had met with, but that he had grave doubts about it. There wasn't a moist eye in tho church Now York Sun: The revivallsts of evangelistic campalgn have up to this steered clear of party politics in their ser mons, They have not sought the help of these clergymen who muke it their main business to preach agalnst the municipal government. Several of the men who have boen invited to address the meetings have been notified that they must stick closely to the gospel, must seek only the conver- slon of the wicked, and must not even squint toward secular affairs. In this respect the course of the revivallsts has been judiclous and deserving of approval, City S On last Sunday rogular sermon over given in Har- sity by a Catholic priest was delivered by Rev. Peter J. O'Callaghan, himself a graduate of that institution. On Monday Rabbi Shulman of the B'nal Jehudah synagogue of this eity formally intr duced lie ministers’ alliance, composed of the Kansas City ministers classified These things are encouraging as showing the tendency of good men in our time to stand together for the general pur- pose of doing good, regardless of differences in belief which formerly separated them and led them to work apart to the general disadvantage of the good cause. Hoston Globe: The summary of the charges against Rev. C. Everett Bean of Portland seems to be that he once woro white pantaloons at a_ehurch pienie, where he also played base ball and showed a great fnterest In the game; that at another timo he showed an unchristian state of temper by declaring that the statement that he played cards was ‘“an infernal lle;” and lastly and worst of all, that he once drank almost halt a bottle of ginger ale while on a yachting party, and afterwards remarked that he only wished he had the rest of it to drink, or some equally good. In view of all Norrifying examples of misbe- haviour, how could the elderly sisters of the church help believing Rev. C. Everett to be a bold, bad man? TRUTHS ng the timo Kansas the first vard unive night was man runs Boston Transeript wkes his poeketbook Into extravagance it limp. Siftings Jubt the witys hopes (o g0 to a better land sporting man al- of narrow agent to bath is a “Life is full life insurance the Turkish Herald ,* said_the “Even 30stof escap his vietim. close rub, call hush money laddy when he planked down h for a bott paregoric to tak for use among the infantile portion ot his family “That's what 1 Your Mrs, € his squent Chicago Tribune : or h 1 has insured od of him! Offenrou Just to tantaliz od of him? He did it Indianapolis Journal: The pessimist has a hard time trying to Keep himself miser- able. No sooner has he discovered that all_things are going to the dogs than he finds himself in an attitude of cheerful resignation. Good News: Teacher—You are the laziest boy I cver saw. How do you expect to earn a living when you grow up Lazy Boy (yawning)—Dunno. teach school. Guess I'll Grip—*Know any one about here likely to give a fellow a week or a month's work?” “Well, I heerd as the judge was givin' some blokes 'ard labor yesterday in the next township." THAT'S THE WAY, Atlanta Constitution. When good times come, an’ all the roads Is smooth instead o' rough, We sit an’ whine In rain an’ ‘shi hings ain't halt good enoug! When all the crops is harveste An’ barns {5 full o' stuff, We whine an’ whine, in rain an’ shine: “They ain't half full enough! An' when life's over an we A seat that's fur from tc By some old saint, we mak *This ain’t half soft enough!’ iy London 8 Because you see me light and gay, Playing with that man and with this, You turn from me and coldly s “How frivolous she is!" cotator, Because you hear my laugh ring out areless, amid the ballroom's glare; You think that all I care about In life is only there, Because, to your disdainful look 1 answer with as cold a gaze, You sneer: My lady il can brook That one no homage pays." 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