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S —————————————————— SRS REEE R THEOMAHA DATLY BEE 15 ROSEWATER, Editor, PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING, Drlly Moo v, Daily 1 #ix Mant) Three M Hun Snturday Weok RIPTH One Year Bouth Or Counell 1 Chicagn ( e Fou Washington, 14 Al ecmmun‘cationg relatic t tra) mnttet should be nar BUSINIRS LETTERS Al business ottors aid 1 ncidressed to The T 1ol Ot D, Sk and b Do mide phynble th. the ordor of he combany IO e PUTTLISITING COMPANY. 11 Twenty-tourth Sta, rl wreet Chamber Tribune DIdg and eli- e BAItor. 1A he any, ters 1o ATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. 13, Taschuck, wecretar The eo Pub. lishing company, benk duly sworn, says that the 1 number of full and complets coples of The Morning, Evening and Sunday e printed mont of March, wis a4 follows 2,4 L HUCK my pr GEORGT becribed | 1401, Notary Sworn to before me anid ence this 30 day of A On the whole May day turned out to be a rather tame affair all the world over. Are the democratic lawyers of Omaha to be excluded from the benefits of the district attorney's office in this state? s Do nat forget that every dollar expended for labor or material by patronizing home fn- dustry Is equal to $10 put in circulation. R Judge Scott’s attention is respectfuily called to the presence of a large number of dentists within his jurisdiction who are sald to have a powerful “pull” with mem- bers of both bench and bar. 1t s remarkable with what ease the rail- roads secure a report on the bill amending the interstate commerce act so as to permit pooling, while bills for the protection of the people and employes languish in the com- mittee pigeon holes. The 16th day of May will be the twenty- fifth anniversary of the completion of the first Pacific rallroad. As yet no steps have been taken in Omaha to commemorate the event and celebrate the day on which the golden spike was driven. Of course there is no clew to the lynchers at Missouri Valley. It would be an extraor- dinarily intelligent coroner's jury that would discover who comprised the mob per- petrating the lynching. That is not what a coroner’s jury Is summoned for in cases of =this kind. It Buffalo Bill's wild west shows continue to draw upon the inhabitants of the Indian reservations for performers in his great aggregation at the same Increasing ratio as during the past few years the American In- afans will constitute the most widely trav- eled class in the whole United State No discrimination should be made by the county commissioners in compelling ex- county officials to straighten up their ac- counts. The county has been quite liberal in the remuneration of its employes and can not be expected to defray unauthorized expenses for work which the regular office force is paid to perform. The members of the State Medical associa- tion are discussing proposed changes in the medical code which alm to abolish the dis- erimination against those practitioners who do not belong to one of the recognized schools. Less code and more common sense would ralse the assoclation several degrees in the common estimation put upon it by the public. Des Moines people have probably become well enough acquainted by this time with the character of Kelly's army to revise their opinions so hastily expressed while the army was lingering the banks of the Missourl. They may now reserve their denunciations of the “cowardly conduct” of Omaha in pursuing a humane course toward a body of men whose chief offense is their poverty. Judge Ambrose deserves to be commended for exhibiting a great deal of forbearance in the recent proceedings in the street car cass, when there was provocation for instituting contempt proceedings. The judge did more to preserve the dignity of the court by ignor- ing the personal reflections from the lawyers than could have been done by seeking re- dress at his own hands and punishing the lawyers for contempt. The arrest of Coxey and his chief assist- ants upon charges that are merely technical in nature 1s another stupld blunder. It was frivolous and altogether unnecessary, inas- much as they had not succeeded in creating any disturbance demanding the interference of the police. It is more than likely to create that sympathy for Coxey throughout the country the lack of which has been the greatest drawback to his venture. It offers an opportunity for the populists in congress to jump into the breach as the defenders of the oppressed and.to make political capital out of the occasion. It gives Coxey and his friends the desired chance to pose as mar- tyrs to the cause of oppressed humanity. It will, moreover, stimulate other bands and armies of the unemployed to press on toward Washington to reinforce Coxey. Danbury, Conn., had a smallpox experi- ence the other day very similar to that which Omaha underwent a fow weeks ago. A shabbily-dressed stranger walked into the oty hall and after making a tour of the offices sat down In the selectmen’s room. When finally noticed and requested to state his business, ho answered, “I've got the smallpox.” Examination by a physiclan confirmed his own dlagnosis and he was promptly quarantined in the streets until preparations could be made to care for him elsewhere. Every one in the eity hall went through a process of fumigation and vaceina- tion. Two cases more precisely alike in clties so widely separated could scarcely be lmagined. They show how bereft of reason the victims of a scourge of this Kkind become, exposing an entire community to contagion for want of a proper appre- clation of what they ought to do. | THE OMAH IMPRUDENT WORKINGMER. The great danger to the Interests of Amerlean workingmen 1s Imprudent leader- Tt Is a very easy canse by hast tory of American incidents caused attompts on the part of Hot- to plunge beyond their depth. every must be respoct for law sot by General Kelly himselt of a ecaptured for carrying his army eastward from Councill Dluffs gave him impregnable position before the country and cnlisted uni- versal popular sympathy In his behalf. The aggressive pollcy which Grand Master Sov crelgn proposes to Inaugurate, as outlined by the dispatches from Moines, will, It carried out, place General Kelly and the cause hip and overconfidence. thing to wreck a worthy The h diva 18 and ill-advised action Iabor {s full of by foothardy hoaded leaders Tho #ood The example in refusing to avall prerequisite in contest citiz nship and train an Des he has espoused in a very question- able attitude. 'The seizure of railroad roll ing stock by force cannot be justified under protext. It fs revolutionary lead to bloody collision soonor or later. Rail- road prope any and must ty I8 not common property, and would not be subject to willful seizure even it the roads and operated by the government he railrond managers ay b very arbitrary and exacting in their demands for accommodations and rates, but under the iaw this is their privilege. Any attempt the by strikes of their employes will meet with little popu- Iar On the contrary, it is lia- ble to create a reaction in popular feeling toward the men who block the highways of merce and subject the public to incon- loss b reason » of train service. The only legitimate for General Kelly and his army s to pursue thelr way castward as don: from Counell Bluffs to Des Their forced march across Towa 1 hardship, but it will biect lesson what law-ablding American citizens can and will endure when cngaged In a movement they belleve to be for the common good of the toilers. Such a spectacle would be more impressive than parading in the streets of Washington and unrolling a petition on the steps of the capitol. were owned to coerce railronds sympathy. venience and of discontinu- an course ley o Motnes v ent sorve as an NORTHERN STRIKE, undertaken at a time of industrial dopression seldom result in a signal victory for the strikers. More frequently the men engaged in strikes against wage reduction have been unable to carry their strike through to a successtul finish. The Great Northern strike s an exception. In this instance the railway cmployes have secured in the brief period of eighteen days practically all that they demanded in the first place. The order reducing the wages of all classes of trainmen by 10 per cent is withdrawn and the men go back to work under the condi- tions that prevailed before the strike. The railroad company recedes substantially from the attitude which it had previously assumed. The success of the strikers will necessarily give a considerable impetus to the American Railway union, under auspices the contest was waged. This organization, to which the others have looked somewhat askance, will thereby secure a status in the labor world which up to this time has been denied it. Tt has shown more strength than s expected by most of its critics, although at the same time its discipline has by no means approximated perfection. It none the less effectually blockaded the operation of the Great Northern road, with its 4,500 miles of track, for nearly three weeks, shut- ting off some of the communities along the line entirely from railroad facilities, seriously impeding the prompt dispatch of the mails and demoralizing the railroad’s business gen- erally. It by the pressure exerted through the commercial bodies of Minneapo- lis and St. Paul that the strikers ultimately gained their contest. A further point of interest Is the method by which the result has been brought about. President Hill of the Great Northern has contended all along that he was willing and anxious to submit all differences to arbitra- tion, but the officers of the American Rail- way union professed to fear that they would not be able to secure a fair and impartial decision. So confident were they that they would win at all events that they refused to agree to any proposition looking toward arbi- tration until almost the last minute. Hay- ing once accepted this method of settling the problem they must have had their faith in the policy of arbitration materially strengthened by the outcome. The settle- ment of the Great Northern strike is an ad- ditional argument for the cause of arbitra- tion. TIHE Strikes whose was WAY OF DOING BUSINE. Mr. S. L. Wiley is decidedly smooth and as handy at tricks as a three-card-monte sharp. His talent and ingenuity in devising loopholes through which boodlers can creep with impunity are as matchless as his per- sistency In blocking any effort to get an honest city electriclan and competition in electric lighting. When Mr. Wiley found himself beaten two months ago in the bids for clectric lights his man Friday, Hascall, denounced Pardee & Co. as straw bidders, impostors and blackmailers, who wanted to hold up the Thomson-Houston people. When the parties filed a satisfactory bond for 25,000 as a guaranty Wiley's acrobat fairly leaped from the trapeze and struck right and left against any further franchises being given for electric lighting. Hascall fol- lowed up this thrilling performance with the omnibus ordinance which embodied con- ditions that no company could accept. This attempt to perpetuate the existing monopoly was 50 brazen and glaring that the Wiley contingent in the council lacked the courage to put it through and face their constituents, Then came the junket to Californla, which afforded three weeks further procrastina- tion. All this time Wiley had cne thing in view only, and that was to retain his grip on the city and prevent the competing bidders from getting a foothold, His tacties were all di- rected to that end, and his steady and stealthy efforts - have been aimed at the final rejection of all bids so as to leave him in position to continue charging at the ex- pired contract rate for an indefinite period. And Wiley has taken a new tack. Ho has directed a personal letter to mem- bers of the council, pledging himself to sub- mit a bid lower than $112 per lamp if they would reject all bids and vote to readver- tise for new bids. What excuse I3 there for such a plece of Jugglery? Two months have elapsed since the bids for electric lighting were opened. The lowest bidder has filed a sufficient bond as a guaranty of good faith, The Thomson- Houston contract has expired and the city has been left at the mercy of Wiley by the failure of the council to close the contract with Pardee & Co. Wiley's personal letter to councilmen I8 no guaranty to the city, even If there was any excuse for readyer- tising at this juncture. There is nothing to bind the Thomson-Houston company to carry out Wiley's personal pledges. There is nothing In that letter by which Wiley WILEY'S now himself could be held responsibla for a dol- lar. There ts nothing in the letter that would compel the Thomson-Houston com- pany to lower its prosent rate if Wilcy can Induce Pardee & not put In a bid higher than his own and share Defeating competition by rejocting the lowest b Co to compete or to and readvertising is by no means a novel trick. It playod and by paving contractors grading contractors, and was to the trump card in the garbage Suppose Pardee & Co. can be induced to bid again, and Wiley submit a bid or purposely should submit a bid defective In form, the city have against paying the $144 per lamp instead of $1127 Bvery councilman who goes on record In favor of rejecting all bids and readvertising wiil advertise himself as a willing tool of Wiley and unworthy to represent the tax- payers in any capacity THE QUESTION OF FREE SHIPS. The bill that has been introduced In the house of representatives providing for ad- mitting to American registry forelgn-built ships owned in this country is likely to me up for consideration at any time and involves a question of very great Im- portance. In the opinfon of our most exten- sive ship buflders if this measure should be- come a law the concequences will be very damaging to the ship bullding interests, un- less there is a reduction in the co:t of labor employed in that industry that will bring it to the level of similar labor in Great Britain. The only advantage which the forelgn ship builders have over the American is in the cost of labor. The president of a Dritish steamship company, who Is visiting this country, recently stated that the additional cost of ship building in the United States, which is 30 per cent greater than In Eng- and, is due to the higher wages paid. You pay the ordinary laborer,” sald this gentleman, “as well as the skilled meghanie, one-third more wages than we pay the same classes in the old country. All the dif- ference In ship building between the two countries lies in the labor. The materials as a rule are cheaper in the United States. I can get steel plates for ships in this country today cheaper than I can get them in England, but it costs so much more to put them together. It is also very much more expensive to fit out a ship in this country than it is with us, because ali the supplies and the equipment and the Httle tricks that we are obliged to have on every ship are from 20 to 40 per cent cheaper with us than on this side of the Atlantic.” Such testimony must of course be accepted as con- clusive with respect to the labor cost of ship building in Great Dritain and the United States, and this being <o the question to be determined is a very simple one. Shall we adopt the free ship policy at the price of cutting down the wages of labor in the ship building industry to the British stand- ard? The importance of restoring the merchant marine of the United States s conceded by everybody who has given any attention to the subject. The vast sum of money that annually goes into the coffers of foreign ship owners in payment for Amerlcan freights and passengers is a great drain that ought to be stopped or greatly reduced. It would be immensely to the benefit of our producers if this money were kept at home and expended among our own people. Be- sides our foreign commerce would unques- tionably be most materially benefited if it could be carried on under own flag. How shall this most desirable condition be at- tained with a due regard to all the interests involved? Under the existing policy we have steadily lost ground, the amount of mer- chandise carried in American bottoms last year being less than ever before, and doubt- less the record for this year will show a still further decline. There is no apparent rea- son to expect that the future will bring any improvement if the present policy is contin- ued. Some change of policy, therefore, would seem to be manifestly necessary, but whether it should go as far as the free ship proposition is questionable. But this propo- sition is in line with democratic policy and its adoption is to be regarded as more than probable. has been time again and have been contract not concludes not to what recourse would AN UNCANDID CHARGE. Nothing could be more unfair or uncandid than the democratic charge that republican policy s responsible for the popular dis- satistaction and unrest which are finding expression in the moyvement toward the na- tlonal capital from all parts of the country of bodies of unemployed men, who profess to believe that they can secure some relief from congress. A western organ of democ- racy and free trade declares that what it is pleased to call “the new anarchy” was “born of the spurious doctrine of protec- tion,” and makes the utterly false asser- tion that it has been encouraged by the re- publican press “to gratify an insane par- tisanship.” The historian of the future, ex- amining the events of this time with a clear vision and an unbiased mind, will state the case differently. He will see, what must be obvious to every unprejudiced man today, that not protection but the threatened over- throw of that policy is responsible for hun- dreds of thousands of men being in idleness, and that it is the hopelessness of the out- look due to this menace which has inspired a small proportion of the unemployed to turn their steps toward Washington in quest of relief for themselves and their fellows in idleness. No republtean in public life and no republican newspaper has encouraged this movement, and instead of ascribing it to republican policy it would be much nearer the truth to say that it was incited by the indifference and contempt with which the petitions of the industrial classes have been treated by the party in control of congress. When democratic representatives refuse to glve any attention to the written appeals of the people and seek to discredit them it is not surprising that an effort is made to give these representatives an object lesson of the disastrous consequences of their pro- posed policy. But what s the real purpose of the men who are marching to Washington, as thelr leaders have proclaimed 1t? It Is to ask congress to authorize an Issue of hundreds of millions of currency in order to provide work for them. They believe there Is not money enough in the country and that the govern- ment ought to increase the amount. What party is responsible for this fallacy? Has not the democratic party for years fostered the demand for more and cheaper money? It was for greenback Inflation twenty years ! ago and it is for silver inflation now. A leading democratic senator, Morgan of Ala- bama, recently told his constituents that what is needed for the restoration of pros- perity in this country Is more money and that it we had a per capita circulation equal to that of France the question of tariff would be unimportant. The great majority of dem- ocrats, at any rate in the south and west, agree with the Alabama senator, and so do Coxey and those who are following him to Washington. Another thfag. Which party 18 it that is responsible for creating and fos- 4 DAILY BEE THURSDAY, MAY ,llrlrz A popular sentiment hostile to cap- ftal and endeavoring to array the working classes against the employers of labor, thus sowing the seed of Wheo¥new anarchy?” It is the democratic papty that has incessantly nurtured a spirit of revelt among the peo- ple and s still doing ¥6‘to the extent of its More prondiineed anarchisite ut. nevet ‘feard anywhere than eh with which the Inflwence. terances were are contained in the spe democratie teader of the United States sen- ate, Senator Voorhges, the dobate in that body the tarift und other democratic senators’hava not tar be- hind him. In all the long perfod during which the re publican was/ sechire against assault there fntimation of such a movement as is taking place of idle men marching to the seat of government to ask relief from the representatives of the people. When the democratic par came into power men were well employed and well paid. They would be now but for the democratic threat to destroy or greatly {mpair the republican policy of protection Falr-minded men can have no trouble in fixing the responsibility for existing condi- tlons, opened bill, been on policy was never at now thes; The Unlon Pacific debt reconstructionists are playing a very clever game before con- gress. The represcntatives of forelgn syndi- cates of bondholders and their allies, the New York and Boston stock jobbers, profess to be very much put out over the Olney octopus bill. They have registered a most solemn protest before the congressional com- mittee on Paciflc roads against some of the conditions in the Olney blanket mortgage scheme, which contemplates the consolidation of the bond and the floating debt of the branch lines and extensions with that of the main line of the Union Pacific on a 2 per cent interest charge, with the option of converting these bonds within twenty-five years Into a 6 per cent octopus bond. The alleged objection to this' plan by the Jolly masqueraders from Holfand, New York and Joston 1s to the proposition that the present im of the government against the main line of the Union Pacific shall be cxtended stem, when in fact they havo for years past been anxious to consummate just such a deal. The fact is the Olney oc- topus gives the stock jobbers and bond jug- glers all and more than they could have hoped for, but they want to smooth the way for the professional boodlemen for playing upon the credulity of their constituents After examining the ventilation of the hall of the house of representatives at Washing- ton a committee of cxperts has arrived at the conclusion that the ventilating system must be radically wrong and recommends that a new system be Introduced. The ven- tilation of the house has been a veritable rat- lole, into which each successive congress has poured the public money without remov ing the innumerable causes of complaint. Some experts ought to investgate what be- came of the money that has been spent upon the system of ventilation. That needs ven- tilation as much as the house itself. Another federal judge has declared that dealing in options is nothing more nor less than gambling and bas refused to give judg- ment for violating contracts arising out of such transactions. If this doctrine becomes generally accepted the option broker will have to rely upon the honor of his patron rather than upon the obligation of a contract. Under such a limitation the business must be confined within a smaller field Premature Conclusion. Philadelphia Times. Another reason why Coxey hasn't seared congress is that the majority there belong to the unterrified. A Prolonged Plaster. Denver News. Attorney General Olney's plea for the re- organization of the Union Pacific company would extend that corporation’s debt to the government for 110 years, It will hardly find much favor in congre e is liss, corder, asses of the London the “downfall of the republic because of the Coxey armies. A thousand years after the English monarchy is dead the republic of the United States will be alive and kicking. It came to stay. B Libel in a Name. ity Star. Kansas courts have been called upon to decide that saluting a man as “*Brecki ridge” 18 a gross and painful libel. And yet while other states are wrestling with such questions Kentucky is expected by the proud possessor of this name (0. vindicate im. The wild editorial press are predictir o Administrative Distress, innati Comr the scandal of the defectize armor p ate ished the new cruisers and battlshij Mr. Herbert can do nothing about it. The president has to stand by mis bargiins That letter of Carnegle's denouncing the republican party and protection was worth something (ot Iministration, but not as much as is being paid for it . avo Peace. Iphia Rocord, The confederate veterans as- sembled in reunion at Birmingham, Ala., yesterday (! ant’s birth imously adopted a resolution askin; irand Army of the Republic to accept Atlanta's Invi- tation _to hold the grand encampment there in 1895, Truly, the aspiration of General Grant, “Let us have peace!” has been more than fulfilled, Peace has been followed by concord and brotherhood. It is a long way to Atlanta, but the Grand Army boys ousght to go there again. e a Soclalistie Scheme. New York Sun. To put the income tax law upon the stat- ute book is to authorize a communistic and confiscatory system of which no man can tell the end. Its advocates cannot deaden the opposition to it by this praiense of 1ts temporary character. - Whether for one diy or for a thousand years, the principle of it al the evil of it are the same in kind., It is class taxation. It I8 the beginnng of inequality and the end of democracy. 1t 1a the robbery of the well-to-do for the benefit of the less well-to-do. It is the confiscation of private property for the benefit of private individuals. It is'an aftack upon the righus of property that no than who believes in property can afford to- countenance, AL Governor Jackson at the ¥ron Springfield (Mass.) Reublican, Governor Jackson ¢f°lowa Is a sample of the kind of man nat wanted in public office when a matter s l({njbv dealt with of the “Commonweal" army sort, He has called out the militia of/ Ut state since Iy's army reached Iowd, 'and then sent the soldiers home agajn, When Kelly talks with him he tells {the. army to ko ahead; when a railroad itorney gets his’ear he favors suppressi jactlon, and so on. The man to meet such an emergency is e dis- creet enough wat¢hfully to keep his hands off as long ak the band of wanderers is keeping within the rikhts common to all citizens, and quick and fearless in action when common rights’ come to be trans- gressed. If Washington is possessed of such officlals, there{wil be no trouble, Well! well! Poundin The Vi Chicago Tribune, Now that Kelly's army vicinity of Council Bluffs disturbanc curred an made to selze trains, and the people of that ity have an opportunity to make them- Ves heard, the real facts in the case are ming out. Thirty-four of the wholesale firms of Council Hluffs have joined in a » Marvin Hughitt, president of the Northwestern road, stating that there has bee no meeting of business men in that eity to denounce the action of Judge Hub- bard, as stated by some papers, At a subsequent meeting of business men the action of the railroads was declared to b ht and legal and was heartily indorse them. At the same meeting It was de cled 1o make @ public statement of w lly occurred in Omaha and Coun dluffs, has left recent pt was PEOPLE AND THINGS. Coxey's road was pretty bard, yot the fin tsh was through flowered paths The shaking up of the Moribund (n Greece Is & foretaste of what the fall has In storo for Ameriean bourbons, “Ah, sweet are of ad-ve y exclaimed the poet, as he pocke fttance from the soap nanufacturer. In view of the annoying and frritating fre quency of the practiee, some method of arbl tration should be adopted to prevent ball teams going out on strikes The sultan of Turkey Is take a tour of Rurope with wives. '0or man, his cournge essential ingredients of discretion, Congress ought to set aside a day to hear the Commonweal “‘Unknown.” Otherwize the impression will get abroad that professional courtesy Is a lost art among fakirs, Andrew Carnegle's purchase of Egyptian mummies was completed at an opportun, moment. From all accounts the antique &t ffs are for more cndurlvg tan the plate ho Is furnishing the government the uses ar about to under half a hundred lacks the tions rock in selsmie convul 8, nature has its seasons of life and Inertia, arnfes c \d go, men are born to strut awhile upon the stage and pass Into dust. All things change, with one exchange. The price of ice In Omaha bids defiance to the laws of nature, Every the unamerican Press of that city records the melancholy fact that “at the end of this memorable (grand opera) performance the stock of every tlorists’ stand- tnofohilio_emfwypemfwyppuu.” The decline of United States in the metrop- olis shocks and shivers the palladium of liberty. It may Interest those who have read pen sion speeches to know that there are about 4,000 persons living In foreign countries who receive checks from Washington quarterly in ment of pensions. There arer2,0 0 in C n ada, who revelve § ,000 year; 600 in Ger- many, recelving $95,000 a year, and 750 In Great Britain whose checks aggregate $126, 990 a year. One man in the Fiji islands draws every three months, and four times a year checks are sent «© men who are living in Africa. Richard D. Barclay, active connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad company on the first of this onth, was the immediate helper of Colonel Thomas A. Scott when the latter, as assist ant secretary of war, had charge of military transportation by rail during the war of the rebellion. The sorvices that he then ren dered were of the greatest value to the country, and when Colonel Scott became president of the Pennsylvania railroad he marked his appreciation of them by making Mr. Barclay the general assistant, in which position he was retained by President Rob- erts. FRUITLESS ovidence of York he week or so furnishes spirit of New who severed his STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE. Cleveland Plain Dealer: Even death gets tred of walting for the red tape to unravel at Washington. obe-Democrat: There never was any reasonable room for doubt about the validity of his claim, and he asked nothing but the confirmation ot his title to a piece of prop- erty that he had acquired by legitimate pur- chase. Boston Globe: If the history of the Me- Garrahan case shall stir up congress to see to it that at least a decent fighting chance shall be affcrded to a claimant against the government a great and much needed re- form will be established. Washington Post: A victim of protracted injustice, of a cruelty unprecedented, of a wrong without parallel, he has passed to a reward with which human tribunals have nothing to do; and the vast property of which he was robbed is still in the hands of the robbers. Cincinnati Commerelal: Though poor in all_but expectations, McGarrahan had the spirit of a millionaire, and longed for the day when he might reward those who had been kind to him. He never grew fulsome in promises, but he entertained notions of what he would do “‘some day.” Detroit Free Press: Had he devoted to any straightforward business one-half the energy, perseverance and labor he gave t the pursuit of this will-o'-the-wisp he would undoubtedly have made a worthy sucbess of it, to say nothing of the freedom he would ve_cnjoyed from the wearing anxiety (o which he has at last succumbed. Chicago Record: Tt is a story of a long in justice, in which the contributing factors were political intrigue and congressional dilly-dallying and stupidity. On the other side was a patient, kindly £oul, who believed the United States government would not fail to right the wrong it did him. Now it can never be righted, and the fact is an ugly spot in the country’s history. Indianapolis Journal: The rich owners of the New Idria quicksilver mines, which they stole from poor Billy McGarrahan, can enjoy their dishonestly acquired property now in peace, but they ought to cower under the consciousness that they kept the rightful owner of the mines out of his property nearly forty years, and finally pushed him into his grave, worn out and broken-hearted New York Tribune: McGarrahan, just dead and buried in Washington, was the representative of hope deferred, but it did not make his heart sick, and he outlasted a succession of public men, carrying his con tinuing disappointments with never failing cheerfulness, and probably making u better living out of his visionary. Mexican claim than if he had come into its possession forty years ago. ey THE JOLLY SOUL Yonk it: “It cudn’t doies.” rs Gazette: The Irishman'd view of a great shame, so it is, that a man have a little immortality before he New York Weekly: [Fair Missionary— Wung, why don't you como to our Sunday school? Laundryman pologetically) — 1 gotee wife in China. Texas Siftings: Mr. Blunt—My dear count you remind me of a watermelon. Count—In at way? Mr. Blunt—Although you are very seedy, you are admitted into our best families without question. Washington Star: “It certainly has done Silas good to jine the church,” said Mrs. Corntossel. ‘I'm glad to hear it," “but how kin ye tell?” “He went fishin® yesterday an' owned up ter not gittin’ a bite."” said the visitor, Puck: Temperance Advocate—My friend, pause before you enter that gilded den—re- flect— you have a family, no doubt children waiting for you at home! Dejected Stranger—Y cleaning house! but my wife is Philadelphia Times: Policemen think they have a hard time, but they ought to know what burglars go through New Orleans Picayune: The man who love tobacco only to smoke, will take snuff wh it comes to'a pinch Anyway,” 1 don't remarked the tele- Indlanapolis Journal: send people into eternity, phone to the trolloy, ‘No,” retorted the trolley,"you merely ruin their immortal souls.” Chicago Tribune: Many a man who howls loudly about the ‘“wrongs of soclety” and the “inequalities of our social system' al- ways lets his wife carry the baby. ABOUT THIS TIME New York Press. The advertiser paints the fence, he butterfly is on *he wing, The shrike is heard in thickets dense, Nocturnal lays the bullfrogs sin The crow the corn just sprouting swipes, Large strings of fish t slays, The congressman s laying pipes And vernal poets piping lays. TRUE TO HIN PRINCIPLE Indianapolis Journal He is an anti-base ball crank, And to his faith so true That he won't wear his diamond Until the season’s through Nor will he feast his inner man Upon his loved mince pi For fear that In the pustry's dept There may be hidden i Last Sunday, at his boarding house, He ralsed a wrathful howl jecause the only meat there was Was stuffed and roasted fowl Last week, also, he foreswore drink And will not booze at all, or fear some friend may ask nim in ome and have a ball ROASTED T0 A RICH BROWY Judge Scott Turned Over and Basted by the Press of the Country, ONE MORE TWIST GIVEN TO THE SPIT | Clothed with & Little Wrief Authority Me Arrogates to Himsolf Attributes of Infallibilivy Ful Sway to Vindictiveness, and Gives Howells Journal: When The Omala Be gets through with Judge Scott that some what cranky Individual will he enquiring where he Is at. York Times Everybody in Nebraska s scared to death for foar Judge Scott will un dertake to fine them in proportion to the con tempt they feel for him. Salem (Ore.) Statesman: The boasted free dom of the press doesn't count for much in Omaha, where fitor Rosewater of The Dee lias been Jailed for printing in his y truth which refloctsd upon aute Judge. Butte Gazette: ditor Rosewater of the Omaha Bee has beon fined $500 and sentenced to thirty days in the county jail for contempt of Judge Scott's court, It will be big ad vertisement for The Bee, but will not reduce the contempt Hebron Jourr Judgs Scott of Omaha will not be sustained by public sentiment in contempt proceedings against the editor of The Omaha Bee for publishing a criticism against his ruling Such contempt pio. ceedings are boomerangs. Humphrey Democrat: When a judge stoops so far beneath the dignity of his offlce to deny a citizen his mere legal rights he nould be welghted down in a tan yard with v load of Limberger cheese until the stench vould becomo so great that it would pene- trate his filthy conscience, Sac Clty Sun: For critiefsing in his paper the partiality of an Omaha judge, Editor Rosewater of The Omaha Bee was arrested by order of that judge for contempt of court, sentenced to thirty days in jail and a heavy fine, and sent to jail without an opportunity to appeal and give bonds. It is one of the worst outrages against the freedom of the press ever committed in Ameriea York Times: Perhaps Judge Scott is anxious to become noted as the most in famcus Judge that ever sat on the bench in America. Again, perhaps he is cra It a serfous and awful thing to contemplate a_madman occupying the position of judgc of the district court, Again, it is possibl that he is a natural stinker of peculiar and exquisite finone: It is hard to size up a treak sometimes. Columbus (0.) an Journal: The action of Judge Scott fn sentencing Edward Rosewater »f The Omaha Bee to imprisonment for alleged contempt of court was a rather high anded proceeding. But Scott is probably one of the fellows who, clothed with a little brief authority, is inclined to make angels weep. Instead of showing his contempt fo the court Editor Rosewater was probably try- ing to conceal it. Sacramento (Cal) Bee: The attention of the readers of the Bee is particularly called to a dispatch from Omaha, to be found on the seventh page of the paper today. In reading it one could well imagine himself to be in Russia, or in England during the days of Jefreys of infamous memory. It is not the “license of the press” which needs to be checked, so much as it is the damnable autocracy of the courts. Mobile (Ala) Register: There are still some sturdy sons of liberty left in the land. One of them Is Edward Rosewater, editor of The Omaha Bee. He was sent to jail for contempt of court a few day ago. He <ot a supersedeas, and is out on bond. The case is interesting. It is the general be- lief of lawyers that the finding of the court will_be overturned by the supreme court when the case comes up for review. Leavenworth Times: A judge at Omaha sentenced Editor Rosewater of The Bee to juil for thirty days and fined him $500 for contempt of court in criticising the action of the court in punishing a poor man and re- leasing a rich man, both of whom had been engaged in the same crime. In this action the judge does not hurt Rosewater, but does more than a thousand newspaper criticisms could do to bring the court into contempt. Peorfa (IIL) Herald: Judge C. R. Scott, who is holding forth at Omaha, has taken the first step toward Kicking himself off the beneh. In his court a poor man was severely punished while the son of a rich man was given Lis liberty, though guilty of the same offense. Tecause the partiality in these cases was commented on in The Omaha Bee, the editor, Mr. Rosewater, has been imprisoned and heavily fined by Judge Scott. It js safe to predict that Scott will be out of a job when Rosewater gets through with him. Central City (Neb.) Democrat: It looks to us as if Judge Scott of Omaha, in his contempt proceedings against Editor Rosewater, is cither the most arbitrary and vindictive judge on earth or clse he is as crazy as a March hare. The article in The Iee on which the prosceution was founded was not written by Mr. Rosewater, nor was he aware of its publication. We have no doubt but that the editor is guilty of contempt for the judge every day that he lives—in fact we don’t see how he can help it—but in the se complained of he certainly is not guilty. The freedom of the press is involved in this case, and every newspaper in the state ought to come to Rosewater's defense. It makes no difference whether we like the man or AT N2 5. 0 Gty 6§ AN A1 6 0 W 53 it i B g not, he is at least a fearless and an able editor, and all the press ought to resent this persocution. A few hours in jail will not hure the great editor and it will possibly his subscription 1is?, Sat the principls Involved comes home to all of us. We bid the editor godspeed in his offorts to roast the judge and we tenst ho wiil cook him to the queen’s taste. Wo have oursoif roastod editors and cachers, occaslonally, but wo never tried our hand on a Judge, That must bo delightful, Turn him over, Bdward, and rogst him on the other side. Hurwell (Neb.) En rprise: Some time ago The Omaha Bee took occasfon to criticlse Colonel Scott, who was afterwards elocted district Judge of the Omaha district, and the other day the honorable judge, to get even, had Rosewater “pulled” “for contempt of court, the nlleged “contempt” arising from a publication in The Ige wherein compars isons were Indulged in. The Judge acting ag prosecuting witne s the court prompts Iy found the prisoner iy, and, without towing him to say a wor his own do- fonse, sentenced him to tirty days n jail and o pay a fine of $600. Judge Secott will hereafter find a whole lot of citizens who have as much for him as has Bdward of The Tee, Bvansville (Ind.) Tribun, elitor of The Omaha Pes, to Jall for contempt of was that a reporter for Rosewater's knowledge or local article, fn which he inequality in tho administr that eity, cliting as eviden case of two men wh bing a rallway station. Onoe of them, heing a poor man, was sent to prison, while the other, the son of wealthy parents, was given his liberty without the case coming to trial, The judge who had dismissed the case was 8o disturbed about the article that he sent to Jafl the reporter who wrote it and the pros prictor of the newspaper that printed It. There is u justifiable and unjustifiable way of criticisiug a public official, and even & Judge on the bench is not so sacred W personage that a newspaper s de- barred from expressing an honest opin- fon as to the wisdom or honesty of his acts. If there s now a greater frecdom on the part of the press fn crit- icising a judge than there formerly was ft is In a great measuro due to the conduct of the Judges themsclves. Whatever apparent sanctity used to be felt for the judges of our courts, much of It has been sacrificed by the Judges in the unscemly scramble too many of them go into to secure offices. When a candidate for judgeship resorts to the same tactics to secure his nomination and election that a village constable cmploys to secure his position the former must not feel hurt it the public regards the two as about on a par persomally. If a judge once elected uses his position to secure a continuance in office, or to “‘make himself solid,” he must expect the contempt which the public may feel and the newspapers express. Contempt ot court and contempt for a man who hap- pens to be a judge are by no meuans the same thing, and oftentimes a judge may do a thing that will bring the whole judiciary system’ of the state into greater obloquy than will all that any newspaper could say of him individually. “When a judge holds that any fair criticism of his acts Is a con- tempt of court he has mounted a higher horse than he can ride. Bay City (Mich) Tribune: A few days ago a local article appeared in The Omaha Bee pointing out the partiality that had been shown certain prisoners by Judge Scott of the Douglas county district court. Two men had appeared before him, charged with break- ing into and robbing a railroad station, and one—a poor man—was sentenced to prison, while the other—the son of wealthy parents was allowed to go free without even the formality of a trial. There was mno que tion as to the facts in the case, but the judge, feeling aggrieved that they should appear in public prints, had the reporter who wrote the article brought before him and sentenced him to thirty days in jail for contempt. Thinking, doubtless, to make a good Job of it, Judge Scott concluded to also arraign Editor Rosewater of the of= fending journal. When the case was called for hearing on Tuesday last the court pro- ceeded to pass sentence, but this did not suit Mr. Rosewater, who stood upon his rights and demanded that he should be heard, and, although there was much con- fusion, he managed to say that if there was any contempt on his part it was of the people of Douglas county for helping place a man of Scott’s stamp on the bench. After six hours in jail Mr. Rosewater was released on a supreme court supersedeas, *aind the whole affair has aroused the greats est public indignation against the judge. In henighted and czar-ridden Russia the course of Scott would have been fully In keeping with the spirit of his surroundings and would have excited no surprise, but that tho editor of an American nowspaper should have been summarily Jjailed for a statement the truth of which stood u challenged fs almost beyond belief. The courts are made up of men who are only human, and in many instances these foun- tains of justice have become clogged and corrupted” and would have caused spread evil but for e and untrammelled press, keeping wa ward over the interests of the people. liberty of the press to criticise public ser- vants was among the principles that were fought for by our ancestors, and it is too late now for a man like Scott, a coward and perhaps worse, to successfully abolish or abridge it et How Times Have Chang Globe-Demaocrat. stic reception of Harrison by convention at Indianapolis i would be very dif- tion contempt Mr. Rosewater, has been sentenced court. The offense » Bee, without Mr, sanction, wrote a pointed out the tion of justice in * of the fact the had been eaught rob. The enthus the re sugges ferently at Albany ROWNING, K| The largest fine ake lothes on earth, Your money’s worth or your mone, Do you want to learn? Watceh our window Watch this space | FRIDAY. BROWNING, KING & CO. §. W. 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