Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 28, 1894, Page 5

THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. B, ROSEWATER, Editor PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. | CIITTION. Year TERMS O Daily Bos (withe Dinily and Sunday, Hix Months Mentiie sUL Sunday) ome Year 180 10 M 500 one Chamber of Comi 13, 14_and 15, Tribuno BIOK. W CORRESPONT Al commun; ne relatin torinl matter should b addresse BUSINESS LETTE Jetters and remittances should be Tho Jes Publishing checks and_postofti 3 the order of (he company. 1 PULLISHING COMPANY A1l business allreased to Omaha. Draft b made paval THE I ATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Taschue of T1 Actual number of full and gomplete cop 3 Dally Mornin ning and Sunday Lee pri during the mon: arch, 1891, was s lows 1 2. H Georga lahing ol tol 1.00) Totnl Sivevuae ductions for unsold and ¢ COPIES wevvrierins ¥ i stalsold Dally nverage not * Sunday. elruiation GEORGE 1. TZSCHUCK. A1 subseribel in my pros 11, 1504, I N Hwarn t ence th hofare me Lifll: ary Public. point the country is mot There fs no danger of losing con- Coxeyite shuffle On appre- hensive. gress In th one “Bad beginning, good ending,' so goes the old saying. There Is still hope for improve- ment In the team representing Omaha in the Western league. baseball The people who are loudest in their cries for the retention of our present absurd and inequitable system of tax valuation are pre- cisely those who make use of ts dofects to cover up their own successful efforts at tax shirking. —_— Governor Jackson insists that he is thor- oughly convinced that his conduct in rela- tion to the reception of Kelly's army at Council Bluffs was exactly ‘“the right thin, What would he have had to do in order that his conduct might constitute “the wrong thing?" The mere fact that extensive improvements have been made at Arbor Lodge, the homa of Secretary Morton, is no justification for the rumor that the secretary intends shortly to return to farm life in Nebraska. Secr tary Morton has not yet wearied of cabinet pudding as served in Washington. Those petitions for paving are about due, it it is contemplated to have the paving lald this year. The money In the inter- section paving fund must remain idle until “he property owners confer the requisite jurisdiction on the council to draw on it. The work of paving is waiting on the action of the property owners. Congressman Bland promises us that he will have another free coinage bill ready for his committce to report to the house by the end of mext week. Unfortunately Bland is quite likely to keep his promise this time. Congress may possibly know when it has had enough of free silver meas- ures, but Bland, never. At last accounts Kem was still indig- nantly resenting the “meddling” with the affairs of his constituency at the hands of his republican assoclates in congress, whom he has discovered to have entered into an unholy conspiracy to rob him of the credit for the alleged work that he is performing as their representative at Washington. Protests against the enforcement of the obselete law deducting a portion of the pay of a congressman for every session of the house which he fails to attend are mild to what they will be when the various absen- tees come to draw their salaries for the month. Congressmen are not the kind to make willing martyrs of themselves, par- ticularly in relation to their money mat- ters. Chicago must feel considerably better now that the second competition for the privileg of removing World's fair buildings has re- sulted in an award to a firm of local house wreckers on a bid $12,500 greater than that which was previously accepted from a St. Louls firm. The prestige of taking the job away from St. Louis is alone worth the extra money which the Chicago bidders offered to pay. Tt now transpires that the huge losses which the Western Passenger *association rallroads are willing to undergo in to cut under, the Union Pacific immigrant traffic are not so huge after all, because of the fact that those roads have little or no Immigrant busin Their anxiety to risk all the mmigrant business that they have 1s based on a greator anxiety to get hold of the rest of the husiness order Ex-President Harrison practicss what Lo preaches when he Insists that it Is the duty of a former high official to give to his fellow citizens the benefit of his experi-nee in good sound advice. A man who has served sue- cessfully as president of this great nation for a term of four years all the mors welght to his utterances upon questions of public policy. There are still many things which ex-presidents can proper'y do. adds The employment of home labor is an in- tegral part of the home industry movement Our manufacturers and jobbers and mer- chants must depend upon tho patronage of the workingmen who reside here to make their entorprises successful. They ought then to reciprocate by encouraging the em- ployment of the laborers. The development of a demand for home labor must go hand n hand with the development of a demand for the products of home industr. | Ponalties are nominally accruing agalnst | the rallroads for every day that they re- fuse or mneglect to bulld the transfer switches whose construction Is required by the provisions of the transfer switch Thelr deliberate lgnoring of the law is only additional evidenco of thelr supreme confl- dence fn their ability to induce the courts to nullify the act of the legislature fn case proceedings ever get that far. Does the State Board of Transportation intend to in- stitute sult to recover the peualties imposed by the transfer switch law? Delay Is more thau evor suspicious. law. THE GENERAL UNKEST condition of uarest In which the eoun whieh demands think Hght upon uggest The try finds ftself today 8 one the serfous attention of eapabls who' may possihly throw some its origin and porhaps romedies that will restors a greater content- ment. The general unrest is in no way localized In any part of the Unitel althongh it may be coneentrated more than fn amother. It fs found in California and in New England, In North Dakota and in Texas. It extends cast, west, north, south, It reaches, htor da- gree, however, inte other countrl and Australia are considerable latent discontent, while even the Furopean countries are encountering unusual conditions among the working people. But in the United States the trouble s more manifest the eye, doubfless becau'e the United States is ordinarily most free from such demonstrations. This unrest, too, takes on numerous differ. ent forms, The spectacle of industrial armies composed of uncmploysd men rising up all over the country and heading toward Washington, where they hope to petition congress {n person to redress thelr griev- 1s the universal theme of the public press. These men are dissatisfied where thoy now are. They are convinced that they have nothing to lo'e and everything to gain by a ehange in thelr situation. They sec no prospect of a speedy change by remaining at home and so are cndeavoring to hasten it by meeting it half way. The number of those who have actually Jjoined the in- dustrial armies up to this time is com- paratively insignificant, but they have elicited such exhibitions of sympathy and approval from organized bodies df laborers where that they must be regarded as r represantative of a much larger number. At the same’time, despite the hard times of the winter just passed, we see the in- auguration of several large strikes, involv- ing men scattered over a vast area of terri- tory, not to mention the usual number of ller labor difficulties with which almost every city of any Importance is afficted The strike on the Great Northern threatens to throw out of employment the greater part of the operating force of that road and to hamper, If not interrupt, traffic over its lines. The great coal miners' strike has practically put an end to the mining of bituminous coal throughout the whole coun- try and nocessitates the idleness of at leas 100,000 men. Nor is the unrest confined solely to the employes, since many factories and mills are still shut down, owing to the uncertainty of conditions that render their financial success doubtful. The discontent among employes and employers reacts upon one another to the further disadvantage of both. The panacea which at the turn of 2 magle key is to dispel all clouds at once and forever is to be avoided as much in social disorders as in cases of physical dis- order. The general unrest has been the aggravated result, not of any one cause, but of many co-operating causes. The remedy is not to be found in any single leglslative act of congress or in any single measure of reform, but in a combined effort of all to better the present condition in every possible way. The revival is not to be effected in a day, any more than the disorder has been brought on in a day, but one, like the other, must be the slow process of time. The age when people waked up in the morn- ing to discover that the evils they were suffering were but a drcam s no more. The facts of the general unrest are patent to every one, and every one has his work to do to counteract the forces that make for canses and one State n one part to a1 Canada known to be t ats of e disoontentis i IR R T A UNIFORM BANKRUPT LAW. Action by the present congress on the question of providing a uniform bankrupt law is expected, but the indications are that nothing will be done before the sccond ses- sion beyond, perhaps, reporting bills in the two houses. Tt is mow evident that the tariff bill is not likely to be disposed of until far in the summer and after that currency Dills will probably command a great deal of the attention of congress. The democrats would like, if possible, to adjourn the present session earlier than usual. They want to got among their constituents and endeayor to explain away the disastrous effects upon the business and labor of the country which the proposed economte policy of their party has had. WIith this in view they are making a vigorous effort to get an agrecment with the republicans of the senate on a date for the final vote on the tariff bill, and it they succeed in doing this, which mnow seems hardly probable, they will hurry business after that bill is disposed of. Everything that is not of urgent importance will have to walt for the next session, and hence it is probable that bankruptey legislation will go over. As to the chances for this legislation in the present congress all that can be said is that they are uncertain. Some action ought to have been had before this on the bank- ruptey bill that is in the hands of the senate Judiciary committee, but it appears that de- lay has been caused by the failure of the subcommittee to prepare a definition of what constitutes bankruptey to be incorporated in tho bill. This is a somewhat singular reason to assign for delay, but it is seriously given. One of the acts declared in the Torrey bill to constitute an act of bank- ruptey 18 a trader's suspension and his failure to resume for thirty days, and until a petition is filed, while fnsolvent, the pay- of his paper for $500 or over. This is considered much too stringent by many advocates of the bill. Another provision which may be changed is that which makes it an act of bankruptey to sell on marging while insolvent. While the bill was before the house there was talk that the advocates of the anti-option bill would strike out the “while Insolvent,” thereby making all sales on margin acts of bankruptey. It is thought that this may ho changed so as to abandou the definition altogother, or at least destroy the opening for amendment by the advocates of the anti- option law. It would sesm that these obj tions do not present any very formidable difficulty and they would not if there was a generally carnest interest In congress re- garding this legislation. Of course the business interests of the country can get along another year, or sey , without a uniform bankrupt | of so urgent importance to welfare of the commercial community some other matters requiring But if such a law is demanded in the in- terest of justice and in order to effect a fairer and more equitable settl:ment of the obligations of than possible undor present conditions—if it 1s necessary for the just protection both of the creditor and the debtor—the sooner the country Is given the law, in the best form that the wisdom of congress can framo it, the better, To make & law to which thers will be no objection 1s, of course, impossible. No such law now exists or ever will. What is known as the Torrey bamkruptey bill has been under consideration n congross for ment commercial words eral years It 1s not the us legislation. fnsolvents is s, | lnw-rnl years, and has undergone numer- | roads resist ous amendmonts. It has been. studled caros fully by the business interests of the_coun- try, as ropresonted in the commerelal o ganizations of every section, and has re- colvnd their approval. Those Interests have declared that law s needed, and never moro so than now. Their practieally unanimous opinion ought to be conclusive with congress, There Is a considerable elo- ment in that body, however, which regards this proposed legislation to supply a club to one class of the business anity with which to belabor the fortunate class. It remains to be this clement fs strong enough defeat a uniform bankrupt law. TO BE COMMENDED. The board commissioners 1s to be highly commended for the efficient methods it has adopted and pursued in plac ing the affairs of this county on a strictly This easy For years the affairs of the county have been conducted In a slip-shod and loose manner. There check upon of- ficials or any attempt to keep their expendi- tures within the bounds of law. There was no accountability for fees collected, pur- chases made or supplies and furniture on hand. The scandals of the county hospital construction and reconstruction, the un- methodical distribution of charity were among the legacics of former and the proper care and disposition of paupers, criminals and insane wards became a serious problem. While the abuses and defects of he old let-alone system have not all been the board has made gratifying progress in that direction. Among the reforms which the board is about to inaugurate Is the strict accounta- bility of officials subject to its supervision and the straightening out of crooked things done and defalcations by men who have formerly held office. In this work the board is determined to show no partiality partisan favor. Whenever the in the court house show any former official to have failed to straighten his accounts or whenever any ex-officer is found to appropriated to his own use fees over and above the amount allowed him by law the board is determined to collect the amount due the county from his bondsmen. This Is the plain mandate of the law, and it is the duty of the board. In prosecuting this class of offenders the board has no option to make exceptions or show favors. The statutes of Nebraska must be the sole guide. Under the statutes every county officer is expected to settle and turn over all moneys and properties of which he is custodian when he passes out of office. When the fees of any office fall short of the salary allowed by law the officer has a just claim against the county, and the hoard is in honor and duty bound to allow it. When the fees of any office are in ex- cess of the salary allowed by law it Is the duty of such officer to turn the excess of fees over salary into the county treasury. No officer whose term has expired has any legal right to collect fees due to the office which he has vacated. The fees belong to the office and not the individual who fills the office. When he ceases to occupy the of- fice he becomes a private citizen, and has no right to touch a penny of fees. Any other construction of the law would be prepos- terous. Where the officer has collected fees In cxcess of the salary fixed by law and fails to turn over the surplus he be- comes a defaulter just the same as it he had appropriated to himself money or prop- erty in his custody as an officer. In all such cases the commissioners have a plain duty to perform, and that is to in- stitute civil and criminal proceedings if upon demand the defaulting official does not turn over the funds illegally collected or appropriated by him. In pursuing such a course the commissioners will be upheld not only by the law officers but by all law- abiding citizens. sueh a as designed whether to of county business basis. has been no task was no boards, remedied or records have, BRING THEM TO TIME. According to the city engineer's estimate, it will take $5,000 to repair the Sixteenth street viaduct and make it safe for travel for a yvear or two. It goes without saying that the viaduct cannot be rccomstructed and propped without stopping street rail- way travel over it for a time. Now who is to foot the bill for making these repairs? The law requires the railroads to pay for viaducts across their tracks. It stands to reason that where viaducts are worn out and must be rebuilt that the railroads must pay their proper proportion of the cost if the viaduct crosses more than one railroad company’s tracks. It also stands to reason that any street railway company enjoying the right-of-way upon the viaduct should bear a fair share of the expense of its maintenance, Councilman Hascall wants the city to take steps at once for reconstructing the Sixteenth street viaduct to the tune of $5,000, or whatever it may cost to put it in passa- ble condition. Where Is this money to come from? Mr. Hascall wants to go ahead anyhow and incur the bill whether there is money In the treasury or mot or whether the railroads contribute their portion or . not. There are two views to take of this matter. One fs to tinker up the viaduct and wait two or three years longer for the railroads to construct a now one, taking tho chances of having the entire burden thrown upon the city by a change of char- ter which the railroad lobby will try to juggle through the next legislature. That, of course, would mean a continuous patch- ing of the wretched wooden bridge for an indefinite period. The city never will have surplus enough in the treasury to build a substantial fron and steel viaduct of proper width over the gap between Leavenworth and Pierce stregts, and the chances of get- ting $150,000 in bonds voted for it are very slim indeed. The other is to force the railroads to come to time and have a new viaduct built this year on the plans already adopted by the Board of Public Works, It the viaduct Is to be closed for patehwork we may as well close it for building a new one. That need not take much more time than will be taken up in rebullding the old one. The mew plers can be bullt without interfering with the old viaduct, and the new superstructure can be put in place almost as rapidly, if not more speedily, than the stringers and trusses of the old one can be relaid. Mr. Hascall ought to know enough to know that it mever pays to rebuild an old house. If we are to spend $5,000 let us do it on that part of the new viaduct, the ap- proaches, which the city may be required to pay for under the charter. If the rall- the enforcement of the law, never fafl to do on every oc- casion, let us flight it out in the courts Meantiine, down the entire viaduot and let Sixteenth street across the tracks between Leavenworth and Plerce bo open for wagon travel. Make the railroads come to a deed stop with all their trains before crossing, and compel them to establish gates and maintain gatckeepers to prevent to which they take THE OMAHA DAILY BEE , APRIL .28, 18)4. ATURDAY aockdent. When gt has beon done we imagine the railrd managors will a way of getting offough money for building the vinduet in ordance with plans adopted by the Board of Fublle Works. Lot rights tested -omeo and for all dovise Another batch of pension attorneys have been disbarred from practice before the de- partment for violating the pension laws by tllegal feos and ting false vouchers. These porion dosiryve no sympathy from the fortune being that t apply themselves ness in other flelds stil penaity of disbarment @ mone too severe for men who take advantfge-of the of deserving veterans, particularly when the law allows them fees suficiently ative for ail the services which ronder. ox sharks jeople, the chief mis y are left froe to ally nefarious busi- 1 to them. Tho exactir to ¢ op tgnorance remun they may What measures has the Board of Bduca- tion 1 to sccure an accurate and com plete school census for this year? The ap. portionment of state school moneys Is based upon our enumearation of persons of school age and the enumeration is correct Omaha will be deprived of her just share in that distribution. The work should be undertaken In a businesslike manner in- ad of parceling out the positions of school census takers, as has often been done, to incompetent men who have some political claims upon different members of the board. devis unless is Unfortunately the people are not mitted to know what the assessors are doing until after their tax lists are comploted and placed on file. They go on placing a valua- tion upon property at an absurd fraction of the true value despite the fact that the law calls for a valuation of all property at the fair market pricc. Omaha suffers daily from her ridiculously low tax valuation and her alarm- ingly high tax rate. A fair tax valuation at the hands of the assessors would do away with both these evils. per- Kansas populists must be hard up for con- gressional timber if they have to request General Weaver to remove to thelr state in order to run for congress. An imported candidate would labor under serious disad- vantages, which have doubtless prompted General Weaver to decline the kind offer. After running for the office of president of the United States it would be too much of a come-down to his dignity to stand for the position of representative in congress from the state of Kansas. Here Wo Go Again. New York Sun. Kill the income tax! Wrench its coils off the body of democracy. Incredible Folly. Louisville Courler-Journal. Two prominent-—Alabama young men Kilied each other because one of them ob- structed the other', view of a political speaker. Such folly 15 almost incredible. There Is no justificatipn for Killing any- body at a politichl sbeaking except the spealker. The 1] Springfield (Mass) Republican. Secretary Carlisle's ‘replenished gold ra- serve will present a baldy damaged uppei ance after this woek's gold shipme Surope. If the shipments keep on, more be rowing will have té follow, but them is likelinood that they will to any great ex- tent. Anyhow, no reason for alarm lonser cxists, and none will be felt. The situat) is very different from what it would Le were the government ' still foreing large quantities of depreciated dollars into eir- culation. e Bleach-itoard S Detroit Free Press, It Is far from an,edifying or reassuring spectacle to see the menibership of the na- tional house of representatives fade away below the quorum point in response to the attractions of a_base ball game. With neither branch of congress doing anything and the alleged statesmen having the in- terests of the country in trust going out to vie with the bleachers in yelling appro- val of grand stand plays, the suggestion that a republican form of government s still experimental will not down. et o e INCOME TAX DOOMED. New York Herald: Our Washington corre- spondent reports that the democrats in the enate are awakening to the fact that it will he a suicidal blunder to force the obnoxious income tax through and are be to realize that in order to pass the they must first cut off its infamous populist rider. It is said that Senators Hill, Murphy and Smith will not vote for the bill with that rider on, and it is believed that several other democratic senators will follow their example. Washington Star: It is beginning to look very pointedly as if the income tax feature of the tariff bill were doomed to death or mutilation. The democrats who are respous- ible for tho bill are beginning to think very seriously upon the situation, and many of them feel that they can hardly afford to sacrifice all tariff legislation to this one item. The spirit of “take what you can get and be quick about it” is spreading, and they may decide to take what is given freely and afterwards fight for the rest they want. It is evident to those familiar with con- gressional legislation that the bill must be made a party measure, with a solid demo- atic support, in order to b> pasied. ————— CLEVELAND'S TALK TO THE BO The letter of Chauncey I No other New York Sun (dem.): Hon. Grover Cleveland to Hon Black Is a dishonest document. adjective describes it Washington News (dem): The presi- dent has never said anything more timely, more forcibly or more wisely. He has marked out the path of democracy. Wil democrats follow in it or go astray and be lost? St. Paul Globe (dem.): When Prosident Cleveland makes up his mind to give publi- cation to his views on matters political the occasion chosen is always timely, and his words selectod with due care and uttered with force and aptness. St. Louis Republic (dem.): Mr. Cleve land advises the democratic party to strive for principles rather than spoils. Can't we strive for both at once? Mr. Cleve land is no less a tariff reformer because he gets $30,000 a year for It. Cincinnati Enquirer (dem.): Mr. land’s appeal to demucrats to conque appetito for office suggests a scene in las Nickleby,” in which Squecrs, the master, eats a hot .beefsteak, With accom- paniments, in they fifesence of the half- starved children wiibsd hard-hearted parents have consigned thefh to the tender mercies of “Do-the-boys Hal." As Mr. Squeers turned tho last morsel ‘of juicy steak round and round upon hisfork before placing it in his mouth he safd té the luckiess little chaps: “Ah, boys_ human nater is a rum “un, she 18! Whedsy 8y have conquered your appetites you have onquered human nator." What democrats ‘those boys would have made for these timest Let us be good. Cleve- their Nicho- hool- THE w.\*.u.krnl T KICKER. Wasieicn Siar. “Whatever s, i§ right,” I' I'll never sing that song The modern motte, I'll ac “Whatever 18, s wron; Just think of how delightedly We'd bask In summer's charm! What hours of sweet coutent we'd pass If heat were not 8o warm! ‘What blissful comfort we could know In mor now speed illy! What weeks of indolent repose, If cold were not 8o chilly! Think of the rambles we might take, With freedom from regret, Consulting nuught but our desires If rain were not so wet And 0 by night and day I'll raise My walil both loud and long To make this foolish world believe “Whutever Is, is wrong.” OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, Bélglum's ministerial crists has been set- tisd by King Leopold in a manner that meets with general approval and is calculated to Increase ‘the reputation which he posses es o being a man of fufntte potitieal ingenuity and fortility of resource. He has acccepted the resignution of the prime minmster, Besr- nnert, and of one of his colleagues, and hns appolnted two new men, hitherto belonging to the dissentient conservatives, to the cabl- net, the direction of which he has intruted to M. de Burlet, the minister of the Int rior Morcover, by agreement with the disser tients, it has been declded to leave the ques- raselita upon went to tion of the rep fon of minorities, the government majority for settl:ment by the new chamber, thus Jeaving the way clear for the now Parliament to pass the electoral law render- ing possible the general clection in October by the extended electorate. What the new chamber will be like not even th: most daring of political prophets ventures fo prognosticate W prime ministers have re- tired from office with distinguished a record behind them as M. Beernaert, When he came fnto office, in 1884, the defleit amounted to 16,000,000 francs, whereas for the ‘past slx or seven years there has been a large annual surplus—this, too, notwith- standing the fact that there has been a notable decrease in taxation. In 1856 he put down with a firm hand the serlous riots in the mining districts, but, seeing that they were not wholly without ‘cause, inaugurated a magnificent serfes of laws for thy working classes, providing, among other things, for the formation of councils of masters and men, for the facile acquisition of houses and gardens for the laboring classes, and for the prevention of the abuse of alcohol. Under his enlightened administration the penal and pricon system has been improved, new de- fenses constructed along the fronticr, the moral and physteal condition of the army bettered, and the railroads and postal ser- vice of the country developed. r would it be just to forget the leading part taken by M. Beernaert in establishing treaties whereby the Congo Free State had its future secured, and by which, moreover, the suppression of the African slave trade was rendercd a mat- ter of concern to all the clvilized countries. wen What Is there to show for an expenditure which is lterally breaking the backs of the Italians and reducing them to the exhaustion and despair which characterized the Gallle provincials in the last days of the western Roman empire? Enough has been spent on popular education to increase the propor- tion of conscripts who can read from 43 per cent in 18871 to 59 per cent in 1892 It is plain that, from the view-point of flliteracy, [taly s still one of the most disgracefully backward countries in Europe. The number of miles of highroads has been increased since 1870 by only 11,000, still exhibiting for Italy only seventeen miles of highroads for 10,000 inhabitants, against eighty-four miles in France. A good deal has been spent on rallways—about three-fourths of the whole network belongs to the state—yet all the lines put together have a length of no more than $,800 miles. It is not, in tri those appliances and agencies of civilization which may be classed under the head of civil expenditure that the huge sums levied or borrowed by King Humbert's government have been lavished. It is their army and navy for which the Italians are taxed almost to death. The Italian war fleet has been nearly trebled in ten years, comprising at present 329 vessels and 21,000 sailors, against 117 vessels and 9,400 sa‘lors in 1882 In the last mentioned year the military establish- ment, including the standing army, the first reserve and the sccond reserve, represented a total of 1,085,000 men; in 1552 the aggre- sate had risen to 3,027,000, During the last five years the expenditure for military pur- poses has averaged §$86,200.000 annually, and has absorbed 28 per cent of the national reve- nue. The deficit which confronts Sig. Crispi could be wiped out tomorrow if Italy would withdraw from the triple alliance and cut down her army to the level of her resources But this will not be done; and that is why the destiny of the Italian people presents one of the gravest problems in the contem- porary history of Europe. . Some very interesting statistics are pre- sented In the rtecent official returns of the British army. It appears that its aggre- gate strength on the first day of the present year was 219,000, being the largest ever known under the present establishment, and, in fact, exceeding by about 3,000 the au- thorized maximum. It is naturally im- possible, with the constantly recruiting and discharging, to keep the force always at the exact point set by law, but the purpose doubtless Is to keep the average for the year close to the maximum, and, indeed, it Was 216,400. The army reserve has been continually increasing for the last twenty years, but from special causes there may be a_ slackening in this increase next year. However, a permanent, first-class reserve of between 70,000 and $0,000 can be counted on. Out of th: militia many men joined the regular army, navy and marines. The yeomanry cavalry has been decreasing for some years, but the volunteer force con- tinues to show an upward tendency. According to the London Standard, at no previous time has there been so large a force of enrolled men available for service in case of nced. First comes the regular army, with nearly 220,000 of all ranks These could be immediately supplemented by 80,000 army reserve men znd 30,000 militia_ reserve, making in all 330,000 men available for serviec abroad. most ex- ly the same nuriber would then remain enrclled for home defense, namely, 000 volunteers, 94,000 militia and 100,000 y nry, making 000. Thus the aggregate for foreign and home service, in case of emergency, would be 662,000 wen. e After twenty-two years of bitter strife be- tween crown and Parliament in Denmark the conflict has been brought to a close and a reconciliation effected, with the result that, for the first time since 1876, the budget pre- sented Dby the cabinet has received the sanction of the Folkthing. During all these years King Christian has persisted in re- taining in office the conservative cabinet of M. Estrup, notwithstanding that it pos- sessed no majority in the Lower House of the Legislature, but only in the Upper Chamber, The result was that the Folk- thing refused to vote any of the supplies required by the administration, which, con- sequently, was forced to levy taxes by royal Qecree. Year after year this has gone on. and it speaks highly for the patience and common sense of the Danes that they should have tolerated o long such a very flagrant encroachment by the erown upon their con- stitutional rights and prerogatives. True, frequent attempts have been made to fm peach the ministers, but the king has alw interposed his veto, and one of the principal features of the compromise which has just been effected is a bill of indemnity for the cabinet. So thoy can no longer be held to account. ——— IN MOODS MERRY. which pleces yeo- cler: A cltizen of Geor- zia has in his keeping two cges said to be forty years old. Here's $10 that says those eggs can't be beat. Arkansaw Tra Chicago Tribune: “I eall that one-eved brindle cat over there Bill Dalton, id Rivers, “‘because I've killed it eight’ or ten times and it has always turned up next morning with an alibl." Wite (at_party) walst of Mrs. Shapely fts her perfectl doesn’t 1t? Husband (looking intentiy would if there were enough of it Brooklyn Life: \ a dpgs in the market “Yes, but the trouble is one has to have a prescription in order o get it Judge: That decollote ; say, that money i : Dootor—Just think; six The boy' Life: The Young Doo of ‘my patients recovered this week 0ld Doctor—It's your own fault, my You spend too much time at the club, Indignant Constitu- Indianapolis Journal: utterly e to ent—8ir, you have proven our principles Y il ll Shllh man—Nothing of the sort 1 merely wore them out and got a new sct, ANOTHER VIEW, Puck. This fact in chaste, poetic Language oft 18 at us hurled: The hund that rocks the cradle 15 the hand that rules the world,” from a truthful standpoint, 'his thing cannot be put; For the reason that the cradle, As a rule, 15 rocked by foot. EVORES LOUD DENUNCIATION Vigorous Editorial Exprestions on the At* tempt to Abridge Liberty of tho Fress, CONTEMPT FOR : A;‘ UNJUST JUDGE Time for Might Wearing t People to Iise Up in Their that Petty o dudicinl K of Power. and 8 Tyrants mine Aro Shor polis Times: Judgo Scott of Omaha in committing Editor Rosewater of the Omaha Bee for contempt of court appears only to have done what a good many judges would like to do had they the nerve. The courts of this country, it Is suspectod in some quar- ters, have become the repositories of tho monarchicai principle. That prineiple finds its expression in arbitrary action from which there Is no appeal. There are no monarchs In this country. The legislature may pass laws and citizens may test their constitution ality in the courts. Laws affirmed in the lower courts are good unless somo one wishes to go to the expense of carrying up an ap peal. The people of this country are justly proud of their judiclary system, and with all its faults, which are fncident to human imperfections, they look upon them as o refuge from the contemptible politis of logls- latures. The powers reposed in judges are vast, they are necossarily so. But in propor- tion to their power judges should be subject to free, fair and open criticlsm. It would be unrepublican to give to a class of men in the community monarchical power and to admit the old complimentary proposition that the king can do no wrong. In other words, there ‘Is nothing sacred about the person of a judge. Yot of lata years thero has grown up a partial system of terrorism amony the courts, It {8 being assumed more and more that Judges are the bearers of a shibboleth; that they are the Levites of a republic, charged with a sacred and mys- terious mission. This foeling makes Judges often resent personal eriticism out of court and endeavor to punish it by the of the law of which they are the trustec not_the propriotc The' Rosewater case Is a flagrant instance of a growing practic In that case the paper of which Mr. Rose- water s proprictor criticized the action of Judge Scott in the matter of two indictments. He charged that favor had been shown the rich man and justice meted out to the poor man. The reporter who wrote the matter was arrested for contempt, fined and sent to jail. The proprietor was also brought into court, fined and committed to prison. The Judge tried to refuse him the privilege of protesting against the sentence, but was overawed by the sturdy conduct of Mr. Rose- water. The action of Judge Scott was un- doubtedly the result of personal plque. He had already punished the author of the arti- cle. It was a grave question whother he had that right to punish, as contempt of court_criticism of a judiciei et already com- pleted. He managed to L=.ome judge and jury in his own throvgh the conven- tional handle of contempt of court. This is the process by which judges protect their dignity. It is also the weapon with which they assert their personal importance. It a poorly defined, vague and variable power, depending for its meaning in the temper and spirit of the court. It is analogous to the king's prerogatives. It Is the mask of judi- cial violence, and until defined and its limit- ations ascertained it is a distinctly undemo- cratic power, liable to misuse through ignor- ance and to abuse through knavery. Chicago Post: Tmprisonment of a newspaper publisher for “‘constructive' contempt of court was attempted In this city once vears ago. The incident served for all time as a warn- ing to oppressive magistrates in Cook county. Probably the assault of Judge Scott on Edward Rosewater of The Omaha Bee will result just as the Storey-Willinms in- cident did—in disaster to the usurping court. The case s one of flagrant violation of the liberty of publication. Two men were arrested in the act of robbing a rail- way station. One was poor. He was sent to the penitentfary. The other was the son of wealthy parents. He was released. The discrimination was typical. Similar cases are well remembered in Chlcago, It is not beyond the recollection of even the youngest of us that punishment of a man of *‘good family’ who ‘“voted right” and was known to the judge was impossible in a certain austere court of this district, even though the culprit was guilty of robbing the United States mails. In the Omaha case a reporter made some natural deductions from the judge's conduct. If the aspersions had been cast on an ordinary citizen, or even an ex- traordinary one off the bench, his only re- course would be proceedings under the libel law. Scott preferred to judge his own case. Ho held the reporter guilty of contempt and sent him to jail. Not satisfied with this, he haled the publisher into court. In spite of his protest that he knew nothing of the article until it appeared, Mr. Rosewater was fined $500 and sentenced to jall for thirty days. It is good to read the defiant blast with which the journalist received the sentence and the unspeakably mean cir- cumstantial orders of the court with regard to its enforcement. It Is also cheering to know that the state supreme court promptly granted a supersedeas before Scott's victim had spent six hours in jail. But the fncident should not end here. The Omaka newspapers will do well to abandon their notorious feuds for the purpose of leveling the arrogance of this petty tyrant. The in- solence of the courts in interfering with all | rights except thelr own, to it with thelr heads among the stars in lofty judgment of the groundlings who made them, has been Rrowing intolerably. But the day has not yet dawned when a judge can lay his fingers on the threat of the press without very great peril to himsel. Wichita Bagle: The imprisonm tor Rosewater Ly the Omaha Judge, the inte yention of Justice Caldwell by his Un States marshals, and the finding of the Unit States fenate committeo against Judge Jon- Kins, all oceurring day hofore yesterday roported in yesterday morning’s df but emphasizes the Kagle's expressions late touching bench-mads laws and fudiclal tyranny, The perverieness of a Cloveland administration fn its dogged obstinacy in the interest of corporations and of classes, and the nertness of a congress which utterly fatls to comprehend the serfous situation that has p d the industries and para- Iszed the enterprise of & nation, akainst which 65,000,000 of people are protesting un- heard, are but oppressive anomalics which in all good time can bo rectified at the ballot box. But the genius of American liberty whose constitution reserves to the pople the power to enact and to repeal laws and to make and to unmake ruicrs, falls im potent before an authority created as a con sorvator of, and a bar to the legi<lative and executive commissions. The fmpotency of needed redress comes of a falure of the founders of a prople’s government, in their organie law, to limit the term of service of federal Jud which omission has logically led to an assumption of prerogatives never intended, and finally to the pre ent marked Instances of u-urped jurisdiction, all built up and sustafned solely upon precedents estab- lished on own, n transitu, findings The mel to nopular government tod: not th AKINE POWOE OF execntive au- thority, s judiciary. The fears of the people tnat justico may be denfed them are not from a rulership which inheres fn them- selvos, but In the prefectura of courts against whose mandates the fundamental law of the land has sealed their 1ips and withheld their ballots. of B The conduct of Judge Scott in_the farcieal contempt proceedin aguingt Bdward Rosewater, editor of he Omaha Bee, constitutes a judicial outrage of the bhighest degree. The procecdings, ending in a sentence of imprisonment in jail for thirty days and a heavy fine, were Shameful and disgraceful. If there was con- apt, the judge merited it, and will re- ceive it from the whole community. The rocord of the case warrants the assumption that the judge had a gradge against the editor, and abused and usurped the power ot a court to wreak vengeanc Mr. Rose- water boldly faced the musie, and those who know him will need no assurance that he will fight it out on the line of his rights as a citizen, Now York Mail and Express: Editor Rosewater of The Omaha Bee has been or- dered to remain a prisoner for thirty days and pay a fine of $500 for making caustic comments on the carcer of Judge Scott of that city. Mr. Rosewater s vitriolic some- times, but Judge Scott cannot shut off tho flow by a short term of fmprisonment. The editor {8 a self-made man, who Dhuilt up a great newspaper by his independence and courage, and those who know him ex- pect that he will emerge from the present unpleasantness with victory on his side. Glenwood Opinion: Judge Scott of the Qistrict_court of Douglas county Tucsday found Editor Rosewater guilty of contempt (0 sentenced him to thirty days in jail and to pay a fine of $500. Rosewater went to jafl, but was only therc about three hours, a writ of supersedeas being granted by Judge Post. 1f Judge Scott hauls up all the editors of the country for contempt he will have a big job, for we “on’t think there is one ot them but has contempt for him as a judge and a disgrace to the judicial bench. Sioux City Journal B L 3 Cedar Rapids Gazette: The general opinion will be that Editor Rosewater was unjustly imprisoned by Julge Scott, who seems to consider himself above criticism of any kind, Mr. Rosewater made a good point when ha urged that the employer could not be justly imprisoned for the criminal act of an employe, committed without his knowledge or consent. Minneapolis Tribune: For a few days The Omaha Bee will be edited from the fail. It is a safe prediction that there will be just as much contempt of court fn its col- umns as ever. The Bee always had a hot and active sting and the Incarceration of Editor Rosewater will not tend to dull fits point or reduce its temperature, Minneapolis Journal: Being elected judge does not always strengthen a man's *good judgment. The Omaha magistrate who sen- tenced Editor Rosewater for contempt de- served all he got in the way of back talk om the indignant editor. A little briet authority upsets some men, and Judge Scott is evidently one of that kind of men. Davenport. (Iowa) Tribune: Mr. Rose- water, editor of The Omaha Bee, two days ago, spent six hours in jail for contempt of court, or of Judge Scott. Now a whole lifetime in jail would doubtless not be sufficient to show his contempt for that court. Towa City Republican: Judge Scott made a grave blunder in sending the editor of The Omaha Bee to jail. 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