Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 1, 1894, Page 4

Y B. ROSEWATRER, Editor. DLISHED EVERY MORNING BUBSCRIPTION, One Year TERMS OF Dally Tee (without Sunday). Dnily and Sunday, One e Manthe Three Montha Funday Beo, On Baturday Do vekly Tee, On Year Year. And Twenty-fourth Sta. 1 atroet ambor of € 13, M and 15, ¢ 8t., N. W, NDENCE, na relatin i Lo add BUSIN 1 ANl business letters and remitian aldeossed to The Tiee Publishing ho, Drafte, checks and postoftic pade payablo to the order of the eom; THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPA Tribune BIIE. Al communient torinl matier s whould be eompan orders t ny. Y. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George 1% Taschuck, secretary of The Lee Pub- Meling company, belni duly sworn, says that actual number of full and complets copies of Daily M vening and Sunday fiee print during th th of March, 189, was as f Tows 85 Total Less reductions for coples Total sold ... Daily average no * Sunday. irculation... GEORGE Bworn to before me and subscribel ence this 34 day of April, 1804 P. FEIT, Notary Publie. The rate war situation may be thus summed up in a nutshell. The railroads don’t want to agree and are afraid to fight. Hard times do not seem to be perceptibly affecting one of the industries of Omaha Judging by the number of marriage licenses 1ssued. When mine operators raise the price they pay for labor every time they raise the price they demand for coal, there will not be so many protests against the price of coal. The terrific bombardment which Judge Scott is receiving from the press all over the country reflects Indirectly upon the bar of this district. What will the bar do about it. Under the dilatory and obstructive pro- ceedings of the city council the prospects for an early reduction in the city's electric light- ing bills have not improved as they should have done. The Wyoming people are justly proud of their new sheep shearing Industry, but when it comes to lambs they cannot hope to successfully compete with the brokers of Wall streot. The rallroads show their consistency by making low excursion rates to passengers who can afford full fare and demanding sogular rates from those.who can scarcely pay anything. The county commissioners have begun thelr work in earnest to recover money due the county from delinquent ex-county officials. In this work the commissioners have the support of every taxpayer in the county. Greece does very well as an earthquake center, but in the matter of cyclones and blizzards the United States still bears the palm. Let Greece confine her cnergles to the production of world-beating earthquakes. Towns throughout Nebraska are becoming impotent and restless under the burden of the constant raising of insurance rates upon the policies they have taken out. When the rovolt against high insurance rates comes it will be state wide in its extent. e The Sixteenth street viaduct Is condemned as unsafo, and 1t is estimated that it will take $5,000 to patch it up so that it will be good enough for a few years. Why not begin this year to build the new viaduct on the plans adopted by the Board of Public Works, The discovery that General Coxey wears elaborate creases In his new spring trousers will probably result in a revulsion of Bos- ton and New York sentiment in his favor. There can be nothing so very objectionable in a human petition in boots surmounted by creased trousers. Those suddenly discovered herds of wild buffalo that are turning up in all parts of the west would certainly be surprised if by chance they should happen to run into one another and join their forces. All of them together would, no doubt, have a hard time in reminding an old trapper of a respectable sizcd herd of buffalo of two decades ago. Governor Jackson seems to have gotten to the point where he will have to admit that his military flasco at Council Bluffs was not exactly “all right.” He is reported to have said that he will take no action in re- lation to the Kelly army at Dis Moines until requested to do so by the local author- ities. His conduct cannot very well be “‘all right” at both places. It the Great Northern have any further difficulty in protecting thelr “Interests” against their employes they might have botter success by applying to the Nebraska Board of Transportation. Tho latter organization has effectually “pro- tected” the interests of the Nebraska rall- roads for wany years past, and it shows no slgn of losing its grip. raily officlals ‘What does the school board proposo to do about making some of tho larger school grounds prosentable and attractive this year? It has the opportunity to add materially to the good appearance of the city and to the comfort and convenience of the people who liva in the vicinity of those grounds. The schools grounds can in many cases be trans- formed into small parks at but a nominal expense. If anything 1s to be done in the matter this year it should not be long de- layed. That was a significant remark of a Chi- cago mine owner, who intimated that his father might break away from the combina- tlon and pay the striking miners the price for their labor they demanded. He sald that thoy could not afford to lose money by continuing the struggle. This amounts to a tacit admisslon that the mine owner can make money by working his miners at the {ncreased wages demanded. There is a very Joud susplcion that the combination between the mine owners was formed as much for the purpgse of keeplng down the price of labor as for keeping up the price of coal. REV. CRANE'S ASSAULT ON OMAHA. A man who cannot seo anything good a community 13 too good to live in that com- munity. Omaha does not seem to sult Rev. Frank Crane. He never utters anything but vituperation and promiscuous calumny about this clty, its officlals, newspapers, merchants and workingmen. The Kelly incident fur- nishicd him another opportunity for sonsa- onalism, notorioty and abuse. According to Mr. Crane the sympathy shown by Omaha people, and especially Omaha workingmen, for Kelly's Industrials was reprehensible, be- 1o in his opinion the movement will usher in a relgn of terror in America and because Omaha did not offer Kelly and his men food nd shelter for an indefinita period instead f trying to help him to transportation to hicago. Such unreasoning abuse can be sndoned when it comes from papers and people in would-be rival towns like Lincoln, Councll Bluffs and Stoux City, but it is utterly uncalled for and contemptible oming from a man who makes his me here and knows or ought to know the neumstances under which Kelly's Indus- trials came to Omaha and went forward on their way to Chicago. Nobody in Omaha is in the remotest way responsible for the organization of the In- dustrial army under Kelly. Nobody in Omaha urged them to come this way and nobody in Omaha gave them any intimation that this city would entertain them on thelr arrival. Thefr coming to Omaha was volun- tary and without intervention on the part of Omaha or its papers, and their going was voluntary and uninfluenced by any action on the part of Omaha authorities or Omaha citizens. Kelly and his men reached Omaha in a Union Pacific train bound for the trans- fer statfon at Council Bluffs, where they oxpected to get transportation over one of the four Towa lines to Chicago. Kelly never expected to stop over In Omaha, and the provisions given the army on Its passage through Omaha by the city authorities and sympathizing citizens wera accepted, not as inducement to move on but as voluntary contributions to an orderly bedy of American mechanies and laborers in need of relief. The detention of Kelly's army at Council Bluffs_and its barbarous treatment while near the Chautauqua grounds were not an- ticipated when the Industrials passed through Omaha. Nobody in Omaha expected they would remain at Council Bluffs more than a few hours. Nobody in Omaha dreamt that they were to be bully-ragged and penned in for a week by militia and denied even the poor privilege of cattle car accommodations at stock car rates. This Is known to Mr. Crane, as it is to everybody in this com- munity, and yet he prates about Omaha's inhumanity and selfishness, when, in fact, Omaha did everything possible to supply the wants and alleviate the sufferings of the Kelly contingents, even after they had left Council Bluffs, The fact that Kelly posi- tively declined to use the train forcibly taken for his conveyance from Weston dis- proves the assertion of Mr. Crane that they were a band of marauders and outlaws. When it comes to calling these men vaga- bonds and outlaws, because they are march- ing in a body without means to pay their way, Mr. Crane should remember that the apostles and the multitude that followed them were also without means to pay thelr way. They were tramps in the broadest senss of the term, and it Mr. Cranc had bien the Roman proconsul he would have had them all put in the chain gang. The Kelly movement may be and doubt- less is fll-advised and deplorable, but why should Mr. Crane dencunce Omaha and the people who have extended sympathy, ald and comfort to distress. The intimation that the Omaha press, meaning, of course, the daily papers, gave encouragement to this move- ment for momentary popularity and selfish ends Is as insulting as it is groundless. There has been no encouragement given to lawlessness, riot and anarchy. On the con- trary the press of Omaha, and more es- pecially The Bee, has counselled only peace- ful and lawful methods and means of rellef and deptecated the incendiary threats of the Hubbards and the attempts to incite the men to violence and bloodshed under pretense of protecting railroads from destruction and lawless seizure. WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS IN NEW YORK. The campaign of the woman suffragists is on in New York. When the constitutional convention, for which delegates were chosen last fall, comes to assemble at Albany next week it will find the issue squarely pre- sented for consideration in a revision of the state constitution whether or not the word “male” shall be omitted from the clause pro- viding the qualifications for ihe exercise of the suffrage in New York. That convention, it is true, will have plenty of other work to attend to outside of the consideration of the woman suffrage question, some of them cqually as important, but thus far the ad- vocates and opponents of the extenslon of the franchise to women have been the only ones who have taken the pains to make themselves heard by the general public. The woman suffrage campaign In New York, 5o far as it has been chronicled In the press, has obtained a peculiar form. Not only has it been carried on almost exclusively in New York City, as if the question were one of comparatively little interest to the remainder of the state, but the women have also assumed that their opinions alone de- serve to be consulted. They have proceeded upon the theory that all the women will have to do to secure the franchise will be to appear before the constitutional con- vention in person or by petition and ask for it. They think that If they can make the men believe that they really want to vote all obstacles to their profects will be immediately removed. They have further argued that the co-operation of the high- toned women of fashiongble soclety would lend a certain cclat to the movement where an equal number of unknown workingwomen would receive attentlon whatever. So for several weeks the woman suffrage agl- tators have been holding parlor meetings in the houses of the weallhy leaders of New York society and have been Inviting every- body to step into Sherry's, the Fifth avenus caterer's, andleave thelr siguatures upon tho petitions that are preparing to assail the convention so £oon as it assembles, They have bent their energles to get the wives of men with prominent names to give thelr influence, doubtless under the impression that the wish of the lady of fashion ought to carry more welght than that of the or- dinary self-supporting woman. Strange to say, the opposition to the enfranchisement of the women has likewise been marshaled in very much the same way. Wives of men equally prominent in various walks of life have established an opposition headquarters at the Waldorf, an equally fashionable re- sort, where they have invited people to sign thelr protesting memorials, and they also have organized parlor meetings to counter- act the work of the advocates of woman suffrage. Although later in the fleld than the latter, they are sald to be working with unabated energy and confidence. During all this heated controversy no the THE OMAHA real arguments for and against woman suf- frage seem to have been almost completely overlooked. It has been a question whether more women will ask that the suftrage be granted them than will protest against being burdened with the duty'ot voting. The con- sequences of widening the extent of the franchise upon polities and political eon- tests, the resuit upon the governmental ma- chinery by which our free Institutions are controlled, the effccts upon the morality and well being of the women themseives, tho natural obstacles that prevent women from performing the duties imposed upon men, have received scarcely more than passing mention. The women have been making all the nolse; the men who will have to decide the question have been unusually quiet. The matter will doubtless be serlously de- bated when ralsed in the consticutional con- vention. Should that convention determine to strike out ho word ‘‘male” from the suffrage qualifications in its revision or to submit a separate constitutional amend- ment cmbodying the same point, the real issues will be brought before the people. Bven It the majority of the women of New York ask for the right to vote, the present voters will have to declde ‘whether the women are not asking for something which they ought not to have EFFECT OF THE COAL STRIKE. The great strike of the bituminous coal miners, which is now extended to all the principal mining districts of the country, is producing the expected effect upon other industries and increasing the army of the unemployed. Last week a number of mills in Cleveland were compelled to shut down because they had not a supply of coal and several thousand men were thrown out of work. Other establishments in the same city will have to stop operations within a short time if the strike is not settled, and this state of affairs is not peculiar to Cleve- land. There is probably not a manufactur- ing city in the country that has on hand a sufficient supply of bituminous coal to last thirty days, and very few establishments have provided themselves with sufficient to enable them to run that length of time. Some of the railroads also are likely to run short it the strike should last for thirty days, though generally the railway man- agers have shown a more Intelligent fore- sight In preparing for the possibility of a prolonged strike of the miners than have the manufacturers. The annual consumption of bituminous coal In the United States Is not far from 115,000,000 tons, or over 9,000,000 tons, monthly. In anticlpation of the strike ac- cumulations were considerably larger than usual, but it is believed not so large as to prevent a very gencral stoppage of manufac- turing and a great deal of embargassment to the transportation interests if the contest between the mine owners and the miners should last beyond a month, while a consid- erable number of establishments have al- ready shut down and many more will un- doubtedly have to long before the strike has continued a month, if it should hold out so long. According to a bulletin issued three days ago from the headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America at Colum- bus, O., there were at that time several ex- tensive sources of supply which had not been affected by the strike, but some of these will be cut off today and active efforts are being made to induce mincrs in the other fields, chiefly in Maryland and Virgnita, to join in the movement. The failure of these efforts, however, would not help the situation much, for all the flelds not now involved in the strike produce annually no more than enough to supply the consumption of the country for a single month. The bulletin referred to speaks in a tone of confidence in ultimate success and indicates a spirit of determina- tion to prolong the fight. It says: “In the present movement weak knees are conspicu- ous by their absence. Let the spirit of calm determination continue, for although there are a number of places still at work, they may delay, but cannot bring about your de- feat. In a short time the stocks of coal will have disappeared and your victory be assured. A conflict of this kind under existing cir- cumstances cannot be regarded otherwise than as peculiarly unfortunate. It not only increases the number of unemployed by the addition of more than 100,000 coal miners, but it threatens to throw as many more peo- ple out of work, a considerable proportion of whom have only recently returned to work after a more or less prolonged period of idle- ness. To a very large number of these being again thrown out of employment it will be a peculiarly distressing hard- ship. DBut the coal miners are not without justification. They have been work- ing for little better than starvation wages and resistance to the attempt to further reduce their already wretched pay for hard and perilous work was to be expected. It is said that the miners are not in a position to carry on a long contest, which is probably the fact, but they may be able to hold out long enough to bring the mine owners to more reasonable terms than those which are the causo of the reyolt. The miners will have the public sympathy so long as they make their fight a peaceful one. —_— AMERICAN INTEREST IN SAMOA. The State department will at an carly day send to congress, agreeably to a request of the senate, all the correspondence relating to the Samoan islands, in the political af- fairs of which this country inter- ested several years ago. Without golng Into detalls 1t will be difficult, perhaps, to re- call the fact that near the close of the first Cleveland administration the question arose Whether Germany or Great Britain should establish a protectorate over Samoa or the autonomy of those fslands should be main- talned. The United States have a coaling station at Pago Pago harbor, which gave this country an Interest in the decision of the question. Great Britaln then manifested no particular desire for control of the fslands, but Germany, having by far the most ex- tenslve Interests there, Bismarck, who was then chancellor, showed a rather aggressive disposition to bring the islands under Ger- man control. The Cleveland administration was apathetic, if not wholly indifterent, and nothing decisive had been done when the Harrison administration came in. The sub- ject was taken up promptly by the latter, which insisted that American interests re- quired that Samoan autonomy should be pre served. The firm stand taken by this goy- crnment had the desired effect. Blsmarck receded from his ageressive attitude and an agreement was reached by which Germany, Great Britaln and the United States be- came folntly responsible for maintaining the Independence of Samoa under a monarch acceptable to the people, This arrangement worked with little jar or disturbance until recently, when the dis- credited aspirant to the throne reasserted his claim and Inaugurated a successful reyo- lution. The result is a political state of af- falrs Which threatens to be disastrous to all forelgn interests In Samoa, and there is agaln talk of elther Germany or Great Brit- became DAILY BEE TUESDAY, Aln eatablishing a protectorate there or an- nexing the fslands. Thus the United States government s agafn ‘¢onfronted with the question whether it shall allow this to be done or continue to tAWist upon the main- tenance of Samoan 'dutonomy. There has boen, %o far as known,.no formal proposition submitted by elther «Great Britain or Ger- many, but it is said that informal proposals in regard to the dfdposition of the Islands have been made to th¢ State department, and Ambassador Bayard has been in corre- spondence with Secrotary Gresbam on the subject. Washington dispatches report that the disposition of the administration is not to interfere, and that probably no objection would be made by this government to either Great Britain or Germany assuming control of the islands, but it is hardly conceivable that this government would abandon the e: isting arrangement without requiring in its place an understanding with the other pow- ers to the Berlin compact by which ample protection to American interests would be assured. Beyond maintaining a coaling station iIn Samoa the Interests of the United States In the islands are not very important. But it is undoubtedly highly desirable that this country shall have a coaling station there, and the question is how far we can safely and consistently go, having a due regard for established national policy, In making ‘‘en- tangling alliances” with European powers in order to retain this station. The present relations of the United States to Samoan affairs are confessedly anomalous, and If a change can be effected without harm to our interests there it would seem to be the part ot wisdom and sound policy to make It. There ought to be no difficulty in making an arrangement with either of the friendly gov- ernments of Great Britain or Germany by which all American interests in Samoa would be perfectly secure and this government be free from any connection with the political affairs of those remote islands. The hard times season is not without its ludicrous features. The spectacle of the dry goods counter soldiery of several states valorously marching with all the glory of tailor-made regimentals agalnst small bodies of unarmed and hungry men is one of the things that serve to keep people good na- tured in spite of the times. The exercise don’t hurt the soldiers and it does not in- jure the men who are compelled to stand up In front of the bayonets. It's a blood- less war and one that will not encumber the pension rolls. The operation of railroad trains with federal troops will never become popular in the United States. There must be something radically wrong in the treatment of its em- ployes by a railroad company that prevents an amicable adjustment of differences with- out an appeal to the regular army. The great strikes of the past have been settled without a resort to arms, and the employ- ment of the military by jthe Great Northern will simply widen the breach between em- ployer and employe. e If, as Secretary Carlisle insists, most of the changes in the tariff ‘bill now under con- sideration by himself and the senatorial coterie are ‘“‘quite unimportant,” how will their incorporation into ‘that measure serve to improve it materially? ~Unimportant changes are not worth worrying about. The fact that the proposed changes are occasion- ing considerable controversy within the dem- ocratic camp proves that they are important, Secretary Carlisle’s dssertion to the contrary notwithstanding. The ultra-radical press of Chicago s boasting that the men who compose the Commonweal army raising in that city are 5o weak from hunger that they will not be able to commence their proposed march to Washington. The picture is not a credit- able one. Hunger is a prolific soil for the seeds of socialism. Pounding a War Tax. New York Sun. No_genuine democrat, no sober American, can hesitate o moment to throw aside the tariff bill as a uscless and silly bauble, if an income tax is the price of it. S Not Innovation but Performance. Phitadelphia Times What the democratic party wants is not a new policy, but the faithful execution of that policy which It has distinctly professed and which has been distinctly demanded of it by the people in two successive general elections. 1f the democrats in congress had gone promptly to work and had demon- trated their capacity for legislation, they would now be getting the credit for im- proved industvial condftions, instead of still suffering under the blame for disas which they did not crcate, but whic have as yet failed effcctivély to meet. The Guest of Arbor Lodge. Chicago Times. 1t 1s understood that President Cleveland will spend part of the summer in Nebraska, the guest of Secretary Morton. If he does it will be a liberal edueation to him, in J of the fa that Farmer Morton will vor to surround him with the atmosphere to which he has b decustomed. What Cleveland needs most is personal contact with western men ana western conditio of which he s as ignorant as a clam s of calculus, It's a sad pity he is not taking his little lesson under the tutelage of Bryan instead of J. Sterling Morton, fmwever, AR Th: Kansas Woman in Oftice. New York Tr The only female treasurer of a municipai- ity in Kansas waltzes gayvly into consple ity as a defaulter in the sum of $L:0), which hits probably been expende ckhair, spring bonnets and silk dres and is therefore irrccoverable in any form avail- able as currency or good collateral. If she had been a man and of like predilections she would probably have stolen twice as much in half the time and invested it in solider 1f less ornamental securities, But considering her sex and the moderate re- sources of Fort Scott she did pretty well and may run for the office again by way of vindicating her, administration. The Unlon ¥ ifie Settlement. Denver. Republ The government of the granted the Union Pacific Railw pany millions of neres of land and than enough bonds to build the roac the purpose of bullding up the west, that these bonds are coming due, and now that the business conditions of the country more than ever demand close attention, lot congress look to it that in reorganizing the Union Pacific Raillwdy company they put it in such hands ami entail such conditions upon it as will stimulate the growth of all the sections which Tt {i Let them be especially cars ) reorganizing this road they do inate the gen- eral welfare or the Welfare of any great section of the west to the special interest of the beneficiariel of the old Credit Mo- bilier, —— Bishop Bonacum and the Clvil Courts, Chicako H It has long been th Catholic church In thi that all contentions authoritles and their be reserved within ecclesiastical jurisdic- tion and disposed of without reference to civil courts, - The subordinate clergy were the first to break this rule, and in the be- Kll\llhlfi their Insubordination, as it was deemed, subjected them to further penal- ties, ow the higher authorities show a disposition to seek remedy for alleged wrongs by appealing themselves to the clvil tribunals against disobedient subordinates. The action of Bighop Bonacum, at Lincoln, in seeking an infunction to restrain Father Corbett from exercising sacerdotal functions in a parish from which he was ordered to retire by the bishop, 8hows that the state tribunals are being recognized on all sides as the only effectual arbiters of disputes in this country. The mission of Delegate Satolll was chiefly designed to avert this projection of religlous quarrels outside the church Itself, but in this respect it seems to have been' only measurably successful. com- more rule of the Roman country to malntain between its higher subordinates should MAY 1, 1894 HE'S AN OBJECT OF CONTEMPT Press of the State Still Expressing Its Opin- ion of Judge Scott, DIGNITY OF THE BENCH LOWERED | No Justice In the Action Taken, Which Was an Outrage Upen the Freedom of the Press—Something of A Boomeran Ord Quiz: E. Rosewater of The Bee, and likewlse one of the reporters, were arraigned by Judge Scott of the district court on a charge of contempt of court. The local re- porter had censured the court in the col- umns of The Bee. He was hauled up and sent to jall. Then the editor in chief was sent for and lodged in jail without much ado. Evidently the reporter hit a tender spot in Judge Scott's judicial anatomy. Wisner Chronicle: Judge Scott protended that he found it a distasteful duty to punish Rosewater for contempt in order to maintain the dignity of the court, when the fact Is that everybody knew it was a pleasure to vent his spite upon a personal enemy. Judge Scott's outrageous act has done more to lower the dignity of the bench and cost it more respect among all who love fair play than anything which The Bee has said or could say. Hastings Nebraskan: tion at hand it From the informa- is hard to determine where the contempt comes in. Judging from ri ports it would seem that the judge had arrogated to himsel! the power to use the bench as a medfum through which to throw a citizen into jail for an imaginary personal wrong, If this be true, and there scems no doubt of it, Judge Scott’s action will not commend him to the people as a proper per- son to hold the honorable position now occupied by him. Bertrand Herald: The despotic Judge Scott of Omaha has vented his spite on the editor of The Bee by sentencing him to thirty days in jail and to pay a flac of $500. The judge acted as both prosecutor and jury, and al- though it was proved conclusively that Rose- water knew nothing of the article complained of until after it appeared in print, the above sentence was imposed, and Scott even denied the accused the lawful right to speak beforo pronouncing it. Such a high handed pro- ceeding is outrageous. Pender Times: Hditor Rosewater of The Omaha Bee was jailed last Tuesday by order of Judge Scott of the Omaha district court. Tho crimo for which he is punisied is claim- ing that somebody had a “pull” with the court. Mr. Rosewater knew nothing of the publication of the article, and the reporter who wrote it has already been convicted by the judge. Just how all this can be done is known only to that noted jurist, Cunning- ham R. Scott. The number of judges that are qualified to retire, either from lack of ability, partiality to the rich or lunacy, are increasing, Creston News: Editor Rosewater has been having a tilt with Judge Scott of the district court at Omaha. Scott fined him $500 and costs and sentenced him to thirty days in Jail besides for alleged contempt of court. Editor Rosewater was taken to jail, but only remained there a few hours before a stay was secured from Judge Post of the supreme court, when he was released upon glving a $1,000 bond to abide by the decision of the supreme court, to which he had appealed the case. Rosewater alleges personal spite as the animus of Scott’s verdict; and if that is the case Rosewater will make it hot for him. The frecedom of the press is the point at issue in the case. Norfolk Journal: The trial of Editor Rose- water and Reporter Percival of The Omaha Bee by Judge Scott for contempt of court is something more than a mere personal matter between the men named and Judge Scott. It involves the question of the right and liberty of a newspaper to criticise a public official, even though that official be a judge. It may be true that the parties were in con- tempt of court, but certainly they were not given an opportunity to prove that they were innocent, and to deny a man that right is usurpation. In his course in the whole matter Judge Scott has belittled the dignity of his office, and his action should meet with hearty condemnation everywhere. Albion Argus: Edward Rosewater, editor of The Omaha Bee, was sentenced to thirty days impriscnment In the county jail and to pay a fine of $300 for contempt of court by an Omaha judge. Rosewater may have been severe in his criticisms, but the action of such a judge as the one who sentenced him is an outrage against American citizenship and American freedom. Some judges are altogether too free to defend the honor of tho “bench” when a lawyer or court is eriti- cised, yet “professional etiquette” allows a lawyer to go unpunished for committing crimes that would send an ordinary man to the penitentiary. Rosewater in jail occupied a post of honor compared with a judgs who would disgrace his office by taking advantage of official position to get revenge for an offens: Superior Journal: There has been a per- sonal quarrel on for some time batween Rose- water of The Bee and Judge Scott of the strict court of Douglas county. The Bee's reporter along last March wrote up the court in big shape, charging it with partiality. Secott had Rosewater arrested for contempt of court and yesterday committed Rosie to jail for thirty days and fined him $500. Rosewater asked for a stay of execution of the order of the court, but it was no go, Scott's bile was working and nothing short Of sending Rosewater to jail would satisty his extreme sense of justice, And to jail le had to go, and stay there till his attorney could get an order from Judge Post of the supreme court to let him out on a §1,000 bond. It one-half The Bee reports of Judge Scott be true, certainly he is unfit to sit as a judge. Ausley Chronicle: The action of Judge Scott of Omaha, in sentencing Mr. E Rose- water of The Bee to pay a fine of $500 and serve thirty days in the county fail for an alleged contempt of court, without giving the accused the rights afforded him by the constitution and laws of Nebraska, is the most disgraceful judicial proceeding ever re- corded in the state. There is no doubt but what Scott had the right to arraign Mr. Rosewater for contempt, if he believed the dignity of the court had been assailed, but neither Scott nor any other judge has the power to rob a cltizen of any of the rights vouchsafed to him by the constitution and statute laws. The action of the court wa nothing less than a rape on justice, and well may we tremble for the Institution of liberty when such dangerous men are entrusted with the sacred powers of the judiciary. The case has been appealed to the supreme’ court, and there Mr. Rosewater will be accorded a respectful hearing. Lincoln Courier: A careful perusal of the proceedings In Judge Scott's court in Omaha in the whereln B, Rosewater was charged with contempt, fmpels us to believe that Judge Scott is very much out of his element_on the bench. He ought to be in one of Mr. Coxey's cclebrated armies, The Judge said before sentencing Mr. Rosewater on Tuesday: “It is known that the state of Nebraska is dotted all over with the graves of men sent there with broken hearts on account of this man." We do not know how many men M sewater has “sent there” with broken hearts, and we cannot see how this has anything to do with the ditor's contempt of court. Mr. Rosewater's character as a man and his course as an editor were not at issue before Judge Scott The judgs conducted himself like a struck child throughout the case, and whether Mr Rosewater was guilty of contempt or not, he has made a spectacle of himself that is con- spleuously disereditable to the judiclary of the metropolls. Nebraska Democrat: It is our opinion that the decision of Cunningham R. Scott in the Rosewater case was the most despotic decision ever handed down from the bench in this or any other district. The public owes the bench a dogree of respect which it always stands ready to show, but when a by his action forfeits the right to the of the people, it reflcts on every judge on the bench. Edward Rosewater did not write the article for which he was fined and sent to jail, and if Judgo Scott expects to be able to make new laws, as well as to enforce those in existence, he will caus public indignation to such a degree that Ne braska will become as warm as it Is re ported Towa did for him. We are respecters of law and order, but when the eccentric itles of a judge override all law and even common sense, it 18 time to call a halt. Pub- | case lic opinion 1s & unit on the proposition that the supreme court will reverss his decislon In less than thirty minutes. We regrot that there are not more stringent laws against men who persecute instead of prosecute. Wallace Star: Editor Rosewater of Tho Omaha Bee was yanked up before Judge Scott, fined $500 and costs and sentenced to board at the county bastile for thirty days, all because of alleged contompt of court, The jug-handle proceedings leading wp to the sen tence were very amusing, the offonded judge making a holy show of himself fin his anxiety to turn on tho serews. Every intelif gent man who will throw prejudice aside must admit that Rosewater got everything possible except justice. If that same Judg cott isn’t a natural object of gontempt, t N such an object cannot be found in the wicked city of Omaha. e Bee editor may be guilty of contempt, but tho suprome court will probably label it “‘Justifiable.’” ot at Long Range. Washington Star: Editor Rosewater 1s now under suspicion of using the court for a display advertisement Sloux Falls (la) Argus Leader: Judg Seott of Omaha, who sentenced Editor Ros water of the Omaha Bee to thirty days' in Jail for contempt of court, is too thin-skinned and too thick-headed. Chicago Inter Ocean: The Omaha judge who did not. like “the stinger end of The Bee™ and Jailed fts editor will wish he had not long before he gots through with it His hide will rattle on The Bee's back fence one of these : Minneapolis Tribune: Speaking of the trial and sentence of Editor Rosewater for contempt of court, the Kansas City Journal wants to know If something can't bo done to elevate our courts, The newspapers are doing their best, are they not? Not a day passes that some judge is no® blown sky high by an editorial petard. St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald: Talk often wins a verdict, but it did not in a recent c at Omaha. There Editor Rosewater clearly distanced Judge Scott in the matter of talk, but the judge rendered a verdict all the same confining the editor to jail. But talk will_come uppermost in the end, and the verdict will be sct aside by a higher court. Cleveland Plain Dealer: Bditor Rose- water of The Omaha Bee has been fined and sent to jail by Judge Scott of the criminal court because he presumed to criticise somo of the acts of the court. The alleged offense committed was in allowing an article to be published in his paper, charging that somo partiality seemed to have been shown by the judge to certain criminals, A poor man was entenced and the son of rich parents was given his liberty. Both were caught robbing a depot. The word “pull’ ‘was ased in the articlagand this proved the red flag that roused the judge. The reporter who wrote the article was arrested first for con- tempt of court, and then the editor. Al- though the evidence showed that Mr. Rose- water knew nothing of the article or its pub- lication; the judge found the defendant guilty and sentenced him to jail, refusing to give him a chance to appeal. The action of Judge Scott was evidently caused by his desire to make somebody suffer for the compunctions of conscience he felt. Without entering into the merits of the case, it would seem that the judge had ex- cceded his authority in his “treatment of Editor Rosewater. If a judge does not want to be criticised he should be above eriticism in all acts. The papers are the voice of the people, and they have rights that should not be trampled upon. It would seem as though the Omaha editor has a chance to make the Judge suffer for alleged false imprisonment. Minneapolis Tribune: Judge Scott of Omaha may be the right stamp of judge for some of the monarchies of Europe, but he has no proper place on the American bench. * * * Judge Scott had Editor Rosewater, edi- tor In chief of The Bee, arrested for con- tempt of court. All the witnesses in the caso testified that Rosewater was not in the office on the day of the objectionable report; that he knew nothing of the article until after publication; that he knew noth- ing even of the case; that he gave no in- structions regarding the report; but on the other hand that the rule posted by him for six years was that no editorial comment should be made in the news columns. The reporter who wrote the article appeared as a witness and admitted that he wrote the article without instructions and without con- sulting any one and solely on his own motion and responsibility.s He admitted, on the other hand, that he wrote it contrary to the standing instruction mot to Inject editorial comment in his article: Had the case been a civil action for dam- ages, Editor Rosewater would have been liable because he was the responsible owner of the paper which published the article, But the case in hand was a criminal action. The essential fact in the case was the malice of the defendant. His absence from the office on the day that the article was written and published, and his ignorance both of the facts and of the article, preciuded any pos- sibility of malice on his part. But that made no difference with the court. Judge Scott found his opportunity to get even with a political opponent. Rosewater was given no opportunity to present his case before a jury, or to secure a change of venue to another judge. Scott mercilessly pursued his victim, There was no evidence whatever presented | by the state, except the published article, but Scott needed no evidence. He served both as witness and prosecuting attorney in the case, overruled every objection made by the defense, attempted to deprive the de- fendant of an opportunity even to speak a word in his own behalf why sentence should not be served, and gave him the extreme penalty. The closing paragraph of Scott's decision—which, by the way, was written out I e ] P | | O G Y The BROWNING, KIiG gest makors and fine clothes ou carth, Your monoy’s worth or your before the trial commenced--and the subse quent conversation between the court and the defendant’s atiorney cloarly oxhibit the animus of (he court The animus of the court that when the mock pectu- tors shouted in the hearlng of the court, “Put him ou “Put Scott out!” From be- ginning to end the decision of the court was a bittar and personal stump howl, dealing neither with the facts nor tha law in tho case, and personally denunciatory of Roses er's character and carecr. The court even sneered at Ros:water because the latter was born in Bobemla, although Rosewater had come to this country as a child, and had fought for his adopted country through the war while Scott was taking his lefsure at home. The existence of such men as Scott of Omaha on the bench Is a menace to free government. It judges take advantage of their position to use the court as an instrue ment to revengo their own personal griev- ances, there Is no safety for life and person. It is cecdingly bad taste and dangerous precedent for any judgo to try a case in which his own gricva s are Involved It a Judge may at any time cause the arrest of an editor who comments unfavorably upon a deciston, and may himself try the case, write the declsion and sentence thoss who criticise his action, there Is no freedom of the press in connection with the discussion of court matters and the I8 no protection of the public from corruption in court pract The people do not attend court in person, but depend upon the press to glve reviews of the trial. If the press is lable to arrest and {mprisonment for unfavorablo corament upon the conduct of a case, whether that comment be false or true, ourt has com= plete protection for every form of corrups tion which it may be tempted to practice, If an cditer may be imprisoned for every reporter’s sentencs which the interested judge may call libelous, there will be no In printing court news. History s that oven courts are not incorrupti- Befors the era of the free public press, these was no department of govern- ment tn Europe more notoriously and tradi- tionally corrupt than the courts, The era of a free press and the era of a pure bench dawned together and their sun will set to-s gether. was %0 trial was over palpable - & MAY MIRTH. New York Herald: “That's the end of | as the boarder said to the landlady whén she gave him the tafl of the chicken. Yonker's Statesman: As they are using electricity for cooking, the day may not be far distant when the Young housewife shall be able to cook some electric light biscuits. Washington Star: “What makes ple move on the first day of May t's the love of varlety. They like to ex. perience new kinds of domestie discomfort.” many Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Now hoss trad- in',” sald Uncle Pete, “may be all wrong— but hit keeps lots er hypocrites out of heaben,' Life: *“My own cousin, an’ she didn't recke ernize me!” “Don’t mind it, Sally, wimmin Isn't ac- countable for what they does when they gets a Mary de sledicine collar on for the first time!” Texas Siftings: “Just look » color of this water. Why, [U's not fit to drink!" sald an indignant guest to the waiter at a hotel in Seguin, Tex “Dat's whar Hit's 1 olin’ yerse't. de glass what “dirty Detroit Iree Press: “The best is the cheapest,” remarked the axiomatic boarder, “TRat’s %o In the case of butier, at least assented Mrs, Hasheroft, “The cheaper it is the bett “I'd like to know how you arrive at that conclusion.” Why, it lasts so much longer than the higher priced kind.” Indianapolis Journal: Mr. Fitts—What Is all_this_horrible smell of musk? Mrs. Fitt put some on the curtains to kill the smell of stale cigarctte smoke in them. 1ldig—The plan roevery time en—That's odd Plttsburg Chronicle: Sq next door makes me swe hear it played. MeSwilli It's an upright plano. THE BILL AND THE BALL Vew York Herald From Wilson bill and income tax We gladly turn awhile To watch our base ball players slide To s in fine style. cd out the old war cries And blamed the umpire sore, And in excitement quite fi Hard times were at the door, For be the tariff high or low, Our Income great or small, We care not when we go to' see Our club play ball. - SAVE UP YOUR ROCKS. Atlanta_Constitution, When the world is sunny, Save up vour rocks! ‘When you're out of money, Nothin's ever funny— Not a bit o' honey; Save up your rocks! Time has got a sickle— Save up your rocks! If you need a nickle You'll be in a pickle; Won't laugh when they tickle— Save up your rocks! Take what life is bringin'— Save up your rocks! Sce the flowers a-springin’; Arms of love a-clingin® Hear the birds a-singin “Save up your rocks!" P i 1§ aof \oney bao It will soon be hot Then if you haven’ t bought that Spring Suit you'll wish you had. The best styles al- ways go first. 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