Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 5, 1894, Page 4

THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. 5. ROREWATER, Editor. SHED BVERY MORNING. i ST TERMA OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dully Tee (without One Year. nily and Sunday, One 1x Month p $800 10 00 50 260 2m 15 (4 Sunday), Yenr o Y ‘. Qe Yeur + OFFICES ©@maha, The fee Building. Bouth Omaha, corner N and Twenty-fourth Sta. Cavnell T sonrl wtreat Chicn himber New IRE Washington, Weekly 1 f Comme Tribune BI0g. CORRESPONDENC « relating to news and edi- uld be addreased: To the Editor. BUSINT All business lottors addroased 1o Th Pub Omnha. Drafts, ch and e made payable to the order of THE DEE PUBLISHIN ETATEMENT OF CIRCULA' Goorge 1%, Tzschuck, secrotary of The e Pub. Hishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual pumie plate copies of The Daily Morning, unday printed during the moith wan a8 follows toral matter should be Ming company, atoffiee orders to smpany. IMPANY. 246 81 sl b Loss deductions for | Total 0Nl ..ooovsineiienses Dally average net circulation.... * Sunday Tl GEORGE . TZSCHUCK. Bworn to before me and subscribed in my pres- ence this 24 day of May, 151, (8eal). ! I, Notary Publle. The rule against former office holders does not apply to the office of public printer. By what authority of law does the city eouncil assume to make appointments to city offices that happen to be temporarily vacant? We leave it to the labor organizations and the shippers of Council Bluffs to settle among themselves the differences as to the responsibility of Omaha and Omaha news- papers for Kelly's sojourn in their vicinity. The success of the joint convention of the Nebraska and Iowa state dental associations in progress In this city ought to afford a hint to other assoclations of professional and business mien and laborers to adopt similar plans. The benefits conferred are plain and indisputable. Since the meeting of the democratic cau- cus on the tariff bill Senators Vest and Voorhees have become better informed as to the proposed compromise changes in that measure, Their ignorance upon this point a few days ago must now be all the more ex- asperating to them. A new drain upon the treasury supply of gold for shipment’ to Europe threatens to bring the gold reserve again to that point where Secretary Carlisle considered it nee- essary to issue bonds to secure more gold. The impaired gold reserve is a reserve only in name since the present administration took hold of the treasury. The county commissioners will be justified in making such arrangements to refund the court house bonds now drawing 6 per cent interest Into bonds drawing 4% per cent In- terest as will result In a clear saving to the county In the long run. There is no reason to tie the county down to long time bonds, but an opportunity to effect a real saving 1s not ta be overlooked. Lincoln has been belittling Omaha for per- mitting Kelly and his army to pass through this city and for dumping it upon Council Blufts. Now Lincoln's small contingent of booted petitioners 1s heading for Omaha. But Omaha Is not 50 narrow minded as to resent the Invasion as a measly exhibition of supreme selfishness and parsimony on the part of the citizens of Lincoln. The Sunday Bee will tell about the cele- bration in Omaha years ago when the cast- ern terminus of the Unfon Pacific road was located here. If the report be true that the Iilinols Central is soon to build a line into Omaha it should be made the occasion of a rousing celebration. This city wants a di- rect line to the northwest and a connection with the great Ilinois Central system will be the opening wedge. Let Omaha arise and bid the newcomer welcome, In contemplating the success or failure of army officers as Indian agents the intelligent citizen will not attach much importance to the warfare being waged against the agents at the Omaha and Winnebago agency and against Captain Ray at a Wyoming agency. The fact that hungry politicians are deter- mined to discrédit army officers in their management of affairs at the Indian agencies wimply shows that the flesh pots of office have not lost thelr charms for the average patriot, When the partisan democratic Philadelphia Record takes occasion to praise Mr. Frank W. Palmer, the outgoing public printer, who had charge of the government printing office during President Harrison's administration, it must be Incontestable that Mr. Palmer has glven no cause for complaint during his in- eumbency of the office. The new public printer, Mr. Benedict, was not able to com- plete his former term in this office with such a record, and it Is not safe to expect his presest term ) be much Letler than his first, Somebody must be putting the screws down upon the principal democratie leaders of New York. Only a week or two ago they were loud In thelr praise of Senator Hill for his bold and open attack upon the income tax feature of tho tariff bill, and they quickly backed up Senator Smith and the other recaleitrant democrats in thelr opposition to this obnoxious measure. Now they denouncing Hill for his attitud® toward the Wilson bill and are apparently endeavor- ing to Whip him Into line with the adminis tration supportors. For are hard to beat. are Inconsistency they Rational democrats comfort from can derive the election of a democratic congreasman In the Third Ohlo district on Tuesday of this week. The vacancy was caused by the death of Congressman George W. Houk, who was also a democrat and had been elected in November, 1892, by a majority of 4,516. The newly elected candi- date, Sorg, carries the district by a majority of only about 1,700, a decrease of 2,400 from what his predecessor secured. The New York Sun, alluding to the signifi- ecance of this contest on the day before the election, added this illuminating remark: “Mr. Sorg is a very rich man." This may account for even the small majority by which he succeeded in pulling himself into congress but cold some THE JENKINS REPURT. The report of the congressional Investigat- ing eommittes upon the Jenkins injunctional orders adds one more chapter to the story of organized 'abor {n the federal courts. It Is, furthermore, a chapter in which organ- ized labor secures treatment favorable to its cause. While finding no valid grounds for Instituting Impeachment proceedings against Judge Jenkins, nor even recommending a specific resolution of censure for his con- duct, the committee takes a decided stand agalnst the abuse of authority which it asserts his actich to have been. The orders fssued by Judge Jenkins were, in the lan- guage of the report, "a gross abuse of the power of the court; were supported by neither reason nor authority; were beyond the jurisdiction of the judge, and were therefore vold.” The position assumed by the labor leaders Is unqualifiedly endorsed as the correct one and the second writ directed against the officers of the different labor organizations and purporting to forbid them from advising with the employes of the Northern Pacific to quit in a body or to strike is termed “more reprehensible” than the first directed against the employes only. There are several points in the Jenkins report that lay bare the weak spots in our system of law as administered by the federal judges. Thelr whole equity jurisdiction has been developed from precedent. The law re- lating to receivers, particularly to recelvers appointed to administer bankrupt rallroads, is almost entirely judge-made law, and as such has been expanded in a way detrimental to the prompt determination of justice. The system allows Judges to issue crders for a recelvership without appeal, or, it appeal is allowed, to hand the railroad over to the control of receivers until the appeal may be heard. The road is thereby enabled to elude its creditors and to escape daying its lawful debts, while the same parties who brought it to a stage of bankruptey are permitted to continue in charge as appointees of the court and with greater powers than they had when they managed the property in their own right. The committee believes that the lati- tude enjoyed by the courts is too great and unwarranted, and recommends that these dangercus powers ba subjected to statutory definition and limitation. A similar criticism is passed upon the authority assumed by federal judges to de- clare anything and everything contempt of court and to punish for contempt without reference to the status of the act complained of under the statutes that ordinarily apply. What would be merely a breach of contract, or, at most, a misdemeanor, on the part of a railroad employe so long as the road is solvent, is sald to be contempt of court the moment the road passes into the hands of receivers. In punishing for contempt, too, tho federal judges assert that thelr power is unrestrained, both as to amount of fine and duration of imprisonment, which may be in- flicted without appeal. The committee does not question this statement of the law, but it Is firmly convinced that this power, also, should be subjected to more preclse deter- mination by congressional enactments, which shall prevent the abuse of the authority clalmed by the judiciary over persons whose acts they may construe to be contempt. It the Jenkins investigation shall result in legislation that will render impossible in the future such usurpations of power as was manifested in the Jenkins injunctional orders it will have served a most useful purpose. The investigation will at any rate tend to make the federal judges more care- ful and circumspect about allowing them- selves to be led into corporation traps, and will impress upon them the necessity of im- partially hearing both sides before coming to a decision upon any matter of such im- portance as this. It ought to put an end at once to the Issue of injunctions designed to prevent employes of bankrupt railroads from exercising their rights as members of labor organizations just the same as if they were In the service of a solvent corporation. THE FIRES AND THE WIRING. Every time fire breaks out in any building in this city in which electric lights are used the cause of the fire 1s ascribed to defective wiring. This reminds us of the now common verdict for nearly every unaccountable death: “Died from heart faiture.” Fires in theaters, store houses and factories were pretty nearly as frequent before electric lighting was known as they have been since. Defective wiring may be and doubtless is responsible for some of the fires we have had in Omaha, but defective wiring did not generate all the fires. This must be admitted by any rational person. The only preventative of fires from defective wiring is through in- spection and tests by competent electrical experts. A city electrician who Is not an expert would be no better than no electri- cian. An incompetent city inspector of wiring would in fact be worse than no in- spection, because no dependence could be placed upon his work and his certificates would be worse than useless. Now what s to be done to insure electric Inspection by a competent expert? It seems to us this is not a very difficult problem to solve. The city employs a boiler inspector and the ordinance requires that every boiler in use shall be inspected by him and offi- clally certified to as sound and safe. For all that the boller insurance companics take no risk until thelr own inspector had made a personal examination of the boilers and steam apparatus. For this the owners of buildings who take out boiler insurance are obliged to pay indircctly just the same as the who out a life insurance policy pays for the fee of the doctor that xamines him. Why not apply the practice of the boiler insurance companies to fire insuranc Why should not the fire insurance companies designate their own in- spector to test the wires In electro-lighted buildings? They assume the principal risk when they issue the policy, and they cer- tainly would employ no electrical expert whom they did not know to be qualified to point out the defects in wiring and direct what changes are to be made. Such an in- spection will be doubly desirable. It will afford assurance to the companios that they have assumed no risk on account of electric wiring, and it will afford assurance to the policy holder that he s In no danger of fire from that source. Inspection by an in- surance expert will moreover put the re- sponsibility for unaccountable combustion on something or somebody else than the deadly wire. If we are to have constantly increas- Ing Insurance rates under pretemse of de- fective wiring the poliey holders will prefer to pay for the time and services of an in- surance inspector. In the present situation, with Wiley, Wheeler and Hascall trylng to dictate who shall be the city electrician the only way out of the difficulty is Insurance company inspection. That may cost the owners of bulldings and stocks of merchan- dise more money than city inspection, but It Wil save the taxpayers $166 a month and incldental expenses man takes Some of the members of the Board of Ed- ucational Lands and Funds express a fear that tho idle money in the school fund can- not be invested ln state warrauts except by paying a premium for the same. Suppose this to be true, what of it? Doesn't the board buy county bonds at premiums right along, some of them entirely unjustificd? If it can pay premiums on Douglas county bonds it can do the same on state warrants. But the people are not ready to tolerate any speculative enterprises in state warrants on the part of the state officials comprising the board or thelr confidants on the outside. The Interests of the state must be carefully pro- tected, THE VOICE OF INDIANA. The voters of Indiana have made answer, through thelr town elections, to the tariff re- form arguments of her democratic senators and representatives, and it is an overwhelm- ing repudiation of those arguments. There s a great deal of manufacturing done In Indiana. Al of her cities and larger towns have bullt up by manufactures and thelr future prosperity depends upon the maintenance of these industries. Her popu- lation {s essentially Industrial, and it has experienced the full severity of the depres- sion caused by the assault which the demo- cratic party is making on the economic pol- fcy of the last thirty-three years. Great numbers of her working people are idle, wages have fallen, and distress has been as general there as elsewhere. The intelligent voters of Indiana fully understand the rea- son for this condition of affairs, as was plainly demonstrated by the result of the voting on last Tuesday. Two years ago Indiana gave its electoral vote to Mr. Cleveland, whose plurality was a little over 7,000. If the late elections had extended to the entire state the republican majority, estimated on the basis of the vote Tuesday, would have been between 40,000 and 50,000. Can any intelligent man be at a loss to divine the significance of this ex- traordinary political revulsion? The simple explanation is found in the fact that the largest republican gains were in the manu- facturing centers. The idle workingmen and those whose wages have been cut down embraced the first opportunity that has been given them to proclaim thelr hostility to the democratic tarift policy. A striking example of this Is furnished in the result of the election at New Albany. Long years ago that city was given up by the repub- licans as hopeless, but it passed under re- publican control last Tuesday. More than twenty towns which for years had been democratic were turned over to the repub- licans. In short no such sweeping ma- jorities as the republicans rolled up have ever before been reported In Indiana. That the Hoosler state can be safely counted in the republican column for this year and two years hence there can be no doubt. It would be well it the protest of her people against democratic policy could have some Influence at Washington. THE SENATE AND THE SUGAR TRUST. It has been alleged on the floor of the senate and in the columns of responsible newspapers that senators have been dealing in the stock of the Sugar trust upon the In- formation which they possessed regarding the intentions of the flnance committee. There is circumstantial evidence to support the charge. No schedule of the tarift bill has been tinkered so much as the sugar schedule and in every change that has been made the influence of the trust has been apparent. That great monopoly has main- tained a lobby at Washington during the entire time that the tariff bill has been under discussion and It Is a notorious fact that the members of this lobby have been furnished with exclusive inside information regarding the sugar schedule by the men who have had charge of the bill. The president of the trust has visited Washington and held con- ferences with the democratic senators charged with the duty of revising the tariff bill. The fluctuations in sugar stocks dur- ing the operations of the subcommittee of the senate finance committce clearly indi- cated collusion and it Is said that several of these senators haye made fortunes from their dealings in the stock of the trust. It is significant that none of the senators impli- cated in this charge has ventured to deny it and so long as they remain silent the public is warranted in believing that there is sub- stantial ground for the allegation. That the Sugar trust is able to exert great influence at Washington Is unquestionabls, It contributed generously to the democracy in the last national campaign and it can be depended upon to do so again if it is prop- erly cared for by this congress. The senate democrats have shown themselves well dis- posed to satisfy the demands of the monop- oly and there is every reason to believe that in doing this some of them have profited by it. It is nothing new for senators to make money by yielding to the behests of the monopolies, but this fact does not mitigate or render less deplorable the apparentiy well founded charge now made Tat senators have used their position to operate for their per- sonal aggrandizement in the stocks of one of the most grasping trusts that has ever cursed this country and have entered into collusion with this monopoly to perpetuate its power to exact tribute from the Amer- ican people. been For the second time the supreme court has taken occasion to give the attorney gen- eral a little personal advice as to his duties. In the case involving the constitutionality of the law requiring the Investment of the permanent school funds In state warrants tho attorney general set up the somewhat childish plea that in order to carry out the law 1t would be necessary for the Board of Zducational Lands and Funds to remain in continuous session the year around. Tho supreme court refuses to accept the plea that a law that involves a little work on the part of a state official must necessarily for that reason be unconstitutional. Chlef Justice Norval rather pointedly calls the attention of the attorney general to the fact that the purpose of the law can easily be attained. It will only be necessary for the Board of Educational Lands and Funds to direct the state treasurer by resolution to pay a certain stipulated price for state war- rants, and to fix the amount from time to time that the board may desire to so invest, According to the opinion of the city attor- ney mandamus proceedings to compel the as- sessors to llst property at its fair valuation can only be instituted by a taxpayer, and cannot be maintained by the city. The principle applied to parties secking a writ of mandamus Is that they must show an im- mediate interest in the performance of the act for which they wish an order of the court. Every taxpayer of course has such an interest in the enforcement of our laws regarding tax assessment. But the city is nothing more than the whole body of tax- payers and residents in thelr organized ca- pacity. The city cught to have as much in terest in the matter as any one of the tax- payers, not to mention the additional Inter- est in that s revenues depend largely upon securing a fair tax valuation. The law gov- erning assessors, however, 18 50 plain that there should be no need of further induce- ments to get them to do their duties. They willtully and keowingly violate the law every time they {ist proparty at less than Its true ] rs should be held Iaw as it stands market valuo. The asse: to their duties under upon the statute bool who have gone befor, it fs suggested by a prominent republica park commissioner to be naged nest Tuesday should be a republican| While a man’s polities or his activity In polltics cannot be regarded as substifutes for qualification, there are certainly b sufficlent number of ropublicans in Omaha_fully competent to fill the position. s With no word of ;sxw’usmrm for those that. the now York World, Mr. Cleveland 18 oh record In the strong- est terms against trusts and other con- spiracies of capital, but Mr. Cleveland's opinions °em to make very little diffirence to Attorney General Olney. i e nlightened Setfishness. Chicngo Journal Patriotism Is booming In this glorious land, Just note how willing every com- munity is to sacrifice its unemployed for the purpose of swelling the ranks of the Commonweal army located at some other place. PNl S S Guardian of Specinl Interests, Loulsville Courier-Journal. But what's the use scolding a_crowd like that? The senate is mot the guardian of the gencral interest, but of special Interests, Its members who Have a close personal in- terest in coal lands, fron beds, silver mines and various industrial enterprises, will see to it that these interests do not suffer. As for the rest of the country, let it shift for itself, ———— Wail of the Doomed. Adanta Constitution. Tn the face of these facts the senate con- tinues to postpone final action on the tariff. The wheels of commerce are stopped, in- dustry s paralyzed and the discontent of the masses Is assuming a disorderly phase. But the senate heeds none of the signs of the times. The flood of tariff talk rolls smoothly ‘along and no progress is made. The people are out of patience. How much longer must they wait? M R Protection and National Prosperity. Chicago Tribune. 1t is ifficult to believe that after the ex- perfence of the last year the workingmen will be persuaded as easily now by the democrats that protection is against their interests as th were In 1802, They must be able to see the absurdity of the claim that the sudden nanic and prostration of the last nine or ten months are due to the republican protection system. For elghteen years the times had grown steadily better and the country had become more and more prosperous. ‘The development of national resources had gone on interruptedly dur- ing that period. The number of persins em- ployed in the manufacturing industries of the United States increased from 2,732,505 in 1880 to 4,711,832 in 158, while the amount of wages paid increased from $1.334,000,000 in 1880 to $2,282,000,000 in 18%0. There was nothing spasmodic about the growth of the country from 1875 up to the spring of 1593, This was not a feverish, but a healthy ad- vance. This was a growth by which all and not merely a few prospered. Every in- terest throve. (e THE OLNEY OCTOPUS, Denver Republican: In very flne and flective style The Omaha Bee exposes tho true Inwardness” of Attorney General Olney’s plan to saddle the United States government, with Jthe watery obligations of the Union Pacific company. The scheme will surely be rejected by congress. Denver News: In an article reproduced clsewhere from The (Omaha Bee, the first real facts in regard to the Union Pacific re- organization bill, as drawn by Attorney Gen- eral Olney, are given to ‘the public. These facts were not made clear in the press re- ports, but even upon that statement the News expressed tho opinion that the bill needed considerable modification. Upon the showing of facts and figures made by The Bee, it is evident that the bill should be re- jected entirely. The News does not agres with the Omaha conterporary that foreclos- ure Is necessary, as the chances are that by that means the government debt would be wholly lost. Let a falr extension be given on the bonds, and in refurn let the debt that has been piled up on the road be scaled down, and the company started on a new basls with fixed charges so reduced that it can pay its obligations and at the same time meet its competitors on equal terms. San Francisco Call: Not much is expected of Attorney General Olney in his official ca- pacity. Since he has been attorney general he has not shown any disposition to quarrel with the corporations he formerly served, and which, so far as the public knows, he still continues to serve. His proposition, therefore, that the United States give the Union Pacific 100 years in which to pay-its debt took no one by surprise. It was about what was expected of Olney. It was not sup- posed that he would see any impropriety in a sottlement which permitted the managers of that road to keep the millions they have taken from the people by construction and its subsequent earnings. The only settlement the people of the United States will accept is that the law provides for. If the road can- not pay it must hand over its property, In- dividuals who have not had a chance to steal tens of millions have to pay their debts or go into bankruptey. The foreclosure of the mortgages on the two Pacific lines will give the government a chance to try an experi- ment. Legal control of transcontinental rail- roads having failed, it might be a good plan to see what would be the cffect of competi- tion. The only competition possible is by the government. It is not necessary that the government should operate a road; it may hold a through line open to traffic on payment of toll sufficient to pay interest on tho cost and keep the road in order. There will be no trouble about competition when the government invites any responsible party to run a train over a government track, sub- ject, of course, to rules and regulations to prevent collisions. — e PEOPLE AND THINGS, Cigars made from leaf grown in the Ger- man-African tobacco flelds are sold in Lon- don. They are called ‘“Kamcruncigarren,” and are warranted to eradicate the habit of friendly sponging. A lot of impatient young men in Hunt- ington, Ind., who had urged Rev. Samuel Rothermel In vain to abridge his sermons, stopped one last Sunday by shying eggs at him. This also stopped the service, and the young men are to answer in court for their conduct, In Omaha dwells an author. Few have heard of her, but may have read her stories, and enjoyed them. Her name has ap- peared In Ballow's Monthly, Kate Field's Washington, Youth's Companion, and other weil known perfodicals. ~This lady is Belle Louise Plerce, and sha lives with her sister- in-law, Mrs. Roe, at 1520 South Fifth street. Sho 15 a gentle-voiced, sweet-faced littlo woman, Her stories of Arkansas life are truly delightful. She excels in dialect. Haying spent much time in the Ozark moun- talns, she loves to portray the extraordinary characters which only those wild districts can bring forth. Miss ‘Plerce has been cor- respondent for the Indianapolis Sentinel, Chicago Inter Ocean, Kansas City Journal and other leading ddillés. She has con- tributed much to refigious papers, among these the Mid-Continept and Zion's Herald. This clever young minln intends to go to Chicago next summeriand make journalism her profession. Much of the fame acquired by Omaha is due to the praises sung)by her sons dom- fciled in other parts. Among these the newspaper men reared or trained in this city are most steadfast ip their loyalty. No matter where they rohm,¢whether amid the smiles of fortune of EIVing adversity a round, seeking adventure or recreation, Omaha holds a large 5pace In their affections. It is a pleasure to the “stay-at-homes” to note that the wanderers manage to more than hold thelr own\in the race, and fre- quently forge to the front. A few years back Mr. A. J. Kendrick chased the festive news item as a member of The Bee staff of reporters. Possessing & “riose for news," a plquant style of expression, and the cssen- tlal faculty of making and holding friends, he easily became a leader among his fellows. Chicago soon annexed him, and there, as in Omala, his abilities were rewarded, he hay- ing held the responsible position of city editor of the Evening News for several years. Re- contly he moved to Arkansas and {s now pub- lisher of the Fort Smith News-Record. The suspiclon that Kendrick holds a blanket mortgage on success appears to have some foundation. e WA 0 D OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The arguments In favor of a local legls- lature for Scotland are similar in tenor to those which have become fimiliar to us through the speeches of the mombers of Parliament for Ireland. The country has been suffering for years from agrarian distross and enforced emigration, which has drained away much of Its bust blood to the British colonles. Is as tonacious of his Hibernian himself. He his separate qualities and those of his southcrn nelghbor. As a rule lie entertains a notion, which the history of India and the other colonies justifies in part, that Scotland has made the British empire much as New England has made this coun- try, and Prussia_tho German empire. It may be urged that there is no general paralysis of industry in Scotland, such as we find in Ireland, requiring urgent attention. But this fact fs united with an absence of tra ditional hostility to England and a safety in geographical position which would probably predispose the British public more favorahly to the Idea of Scottish home rule. The real objection to a loeal parliament for Scotland among the English conservatives will spring from dislike of the conscquences rather than of the measure itself. To refuse the conces slon to Ireland after granting it to Scotland would be an Inconsistency, which even the skilled dialectics of a Balfour would find it hard to defend. We shall probably find the opposition fairly harmonlous, therefore, in the avowal of opinion that Scotch home rulo Is a retrogressive step, fraught with calamity to Britain and to the world. nattonality as the refuses to merge France without an ally in Europe, may be no less a great power than she is, but she will hardiy be a disturber of Buropean peace. The historic analogy of the first republic does not apply in these days when trained armies are counted by the miilion, and when the game of war has become an exact sclence. With a supreme effort France could put nearly 2,750,000 men into the field, but the combination formed against her can com- mand 5,260,000 To meet Germany, Austria and Italy on equal terms, the Russian al- llance s to France an absolute military necessity. But if Russia fs drifting into a position of neutrality, if not alienation, ther must be an indefinite postponement of the French policy of revenge. If the reputlic is to recover the lost provinces it must be by coming into the arena of peaceful negotia- tion and uncovering, for a time at least, the mailed hand. For all that counts for peace- ful progress, this is a great gain. The con- stantly impending menace of war keeps hundreds of thousands of men out of pro- ductive employment, and diverts to the sup- port of bloated armaments millions of taxa- tion wrung from overburdened toilers. Re- move the menace and the yearly sacrifice would be unnecessary. If Germany has nothing to fear from Russia she need not keep a quarter of a million of armed men within easy distance of the Polish frontier. It Russia is chiefly anxious to cement her new found friendship with Germany, her great western fortresses need not be so superlatively well guarded and the camps which they environ ought to become merely points for experimental mobilization. Let France remain as aggressively disposed as she may, half the present peace establish- ment of the German army would, while France stands alone, be more than sufficient security against the most reckless war in- itiative from the side of Paris. oer The restoration of trade between Germany and Russia, with the prospective marriage that 1s designed to keep the relations of the two governments friendly, will have jor its first effect upon our trade the reversal of the conditions that prevailed during a good part of last year. Germany will take less grain from us, and will probably send less manufactured goods to us, though this re- sult will not follow so directly, for the German manufacturers will of course try to hold all the new trade they have secured at the same time that they rocover their old trade. What larger results, in years to come, may follow from this reconciliation of Russia and Germany is a matter of inter- esting speculation, but not for prediction. Italy is nearly ruined by her military and naval expenditures, and lately asked her partners for permission to reduce her army, but this was refused on account of the atti- tude of Ru . This having undergone a change, Italy may be permitted® to reduce her land forces and put some of her ships out of commission. A report has come from Russia_that 200,000 soldiers are to be fur- loughed, ostensibly to aid in harvesting the crops, but with great doubt whether they will be recalled to the colors in the fall. Only last year Gernfany increased its military establishment on account of the danger of war with Russia; if there be no longer danger of that, the increase at least, and perhaps something more, may be dis- pensed with. Conscription and the enor- mous taxes necessary for maintaining the armies and fleets have had very much to do with the flow of immigration to this coun- try. With reduced military establishments there will be less for the peasantry of Europe to flee from. e President Carnot is not a candidate for re-election and in his retirement France will lose the counsel of a man who has proved to be much greater than anybody believed him to be when he was made chief executive of the nation. His administration has not been entirely free from mistukes. It has been marked by numerous stormy crises and difculties comparable with the most serious the republic has endured. But it is only simple justice to say that through them all he has shown himself ‘‘rich in saving common sense,” and rich also in absolute honesty. BEach conflict, morcover, has terminated ‘in victory for the republic, 80 that today popular government in France is more securely established and more ap- proved than it was at the beginning of his administration; more, that is to say, not merely through the strength naturally gained by lapse of time, but through the positive and aggressive virtue of things done, M. Carnot deserves well of his coun- try, and his country is not unmindful of the fact, There can be little doubt that he could casily secure re-election if he wished it He does not wish it, and, thanks largely to his own good work, there is no impera- tive need that he should again assume the burden. He will retire, therefore, amid ‘peace with honor,” with the happy con- sciousness of having served his country well and of having set an ennobling example to his fellow rulers. He will be the first French president who has served out his term and retired to life. without compulsion and without scandal. And be- cause he will have done this it will be cas! for his successors to do the same. The future of French republicunism has been made more secure, and of popular rule in all Europe more hopeful, by the publie services and personal example of Sadi Car- not. e The spread In the Austro-Hungarian em- pire of revolutionary doctrines among schoolboys and apprentices seems to have extended to Vienna. At any rate, about 120 lads between 15 and 17 years old met the other day in a restaurant in one of the suburbs inhabited chiefly by the working classes, under the presidency of a boy of about the same age as the dictator of the Omladina, and, like the latter, a Czech, The young agitators avoided the presence of a police commlssary by the arrangements made for admission. The object of the gathering, which lasted for nearly three hours, was to establish a soclety of appren- tices, which, according to one of the many speakers, will form a part of the great army of the people in the struggle for liberty, equality and fraternity. The speakers re- produced the main points in the speeches of their elders at the social democratic meet- ings. It was agreod that in the event of a strike the new society should arrange for all apprentices to joln the workingmen. odus from Italy. s Clty Star, us spectacle In New York on the 224 inst. Twelve hundred Italians landed on Ellls fsland and 5,000 Italians gathered to welcome thelr country people. This would make mnearly 7,00 tallars in sight, and (he 1,20, 1t was stated, were but the advance of 20,00 who are expected to arrive by the 1st of June, From Buch facts as these It would be eas celve that in a short time the United States would be o new Italy and the Itallan penin- sula a wenerally deserted reglon. The ¥ Kan: There was a cu Moreover, the Scot | | comment: distinetions in | {28 | and the kind t to con- | IN RE SCOTT. York Times: The Times stops the press to say Judge Scott has neither resigned nor gone to the insane asylum. Reports to the effect that he has done one or the other or both lack foundation Blue Springs Sentinel: Mr. Rosewatm contempt was to editorially score the cranky erratic Judge for actions that evoked eriti- cism, and the Judge, It seoms from this dis- tance, has taken this occasion to get even Blair Pilot: The Omaha Bee continuos to roast Judge Scoft with timely and merited clipped from the pross of the coun- The Judge is getting lots of notorioty usually makes a man red- headed. North Bend Republican: The nowspaper criticlsms of Judge Scott's arbitrary action in sending Editor Rosewater to jail has raised a clamor that is deafening,” but ho dare not put his fin out tho sound. They might get mashed in the cogs. Gothenburg Star: Edward The Omaha Bee and Judge Scott had another t weck and the editor was fined and sentenced to thirty days in fail contempt _of court. The judge is ap ahead on the first round, but that ssn't signify that his action was justifiable or that he will be ahead at the outcome. The judge of a district court has no right to use his official position to shield himself from the criticisms of the public press. Ho should have no more rights than the humblest citizen. Judge Scott's sensi- tive nature is out of place on the district bench. Pawnee Press: Judge Scott-of Omaha hes brought upon himself not only the contempt of Mr. Rosewater of The Bee, but of the press of the country in genoral. That official organized himself into fudge, jury and wit- ness, on a pretense of maintaining the Qignity of his cour! tried Mr. Rosewater without glving him vrivileges lezally due him, found him guilty, fined him $500 and ordered him placed in fail for a period of thirty days. The supreme court, however, came to the editor's rescue and released him The bar and the people of Douglas county should lose no time in relieving Scott from further judicial career. Superior Sun: - Rosewater was found gullty (?) of contempt of court in the shape of an editoria! in The Bee reflecting on the decision of Judge Scott last week, and sen- tencid to thirty days in jail and to pay a fine of $500. From the shaking up The Bee has been giving that gentleman, it appears that Rosey Is not to be shut off even though he breed another contempt case. A little thing like that can't scare The Bee from doing its duty as it sees it, and Scott has ot that paper stirred up till'we predict that he will emerge from the conflict feeling as though he had in a most successfu) manner stirred up a very live nest of hornets. We want to bet on The Bee. The spite work of Scott was rank. Rosewater $500 for Lowell Courfer: Swift travels by rail, while his army march on foot and rall at Swift. Plain Dealer: Tt is no trouble to see that wealth is a curse—as long as the other fel- low has it. Washington Star: *I notice,” said the ed- itor to the novelist, “that in every chapter you refer to the hero as having ‘an elastic step.’ Why do you do this? “Why— ou see, he's one of ‘these cau- tious men w 80 out doors without wearing overs 0 neve 0es, Philadelphia_Ledger: E. M. Crane of Boyd county, Nebragka, claims to have se- cured excellent maple syrup by tapping the box elder trees along a siream there, Looks syruptitious, so to speuk. £o Tribune: “You can have a square sald the Maryland farmer, “If you bme out in the back yard and turn grindstone for me while you're wait- nk, 1 forager stiff Chi meal, will the ing. “I'm not that kind of a o ir,”" re- plied the Commonwe Washington Star: “Riches have wings," said the prudent man. “Of course they have, replied his im- provident friend. = “That's why they are so useful in helping a man fly high.” Indianapolis Journal: The street railway prom d been talking to the alderman for nearly three hours, and had never once mentioned “stuff.” “I am afraid vou are a wicked person,” said the city father. “Me? Why? fou seem to be trying to get something for nothing."” DANGERS OVERCOME., Cleveland Plain Dealer. Statesmen to the right of them, Statesmen in front of them, Statesmen to the left of them, Bellowed and thundered; Snapped all their jaws In air, Seant was their bill of fare— Yet bravely got they there, Coxey's two hundred, e THE RETURN. ‘Washington Star, Once more the sun-kissed crowd we find Upon the bleaching boards; Once more the gladiators come With bats instead of swords. The clouds are quivering with the shock Of that spontancous cheer, Which wakes the world and lets it know The base ball game is here. Unheeded must our sages now About the tariff talk; The festive quorum may, unwatched, Kick up its heels and’ balk; And Coxey’s army on the march Inspires no trace of fea The country’s wrapped in one glad thought— The base ball game is he -a,,-fl‘m,:.n e i w W S A A e an % e b ors In his cars to shut | THE SUNDAY BE WILL CONTAIN: TOLS " LONRE,” s “IHE GOLDEN SPIE.” "CHINA'S BIG: ARSENAL ™ "B PORTS INAMBRICA, “NBFORM [N PRISON DISCIPLING.” THE NS OF THE WORLD, Special attention is dirccted only to a few of the leading features of The Sunday Boe The story by Zola continues to be as ab- sorbing as ever—a fact which, considering that the action of the story is not greatly ad- vanced, shows what a master the author s of his own peculiar methods of work. The description of diseases and of the cures wrought are full of details which indicate how deeply the author has studied o, unlike Balzac and Flaubert, his great predecessors of the realistic school, he never falls into error of describing for description’s sake. Everything is distine- tive and grows naturally out of the require- ments of the story, which s and not retarded by all this wealth of curious fact. One feature s becoming very ked as the story is developed. When Q4 in writing it M. Zola announced that nothing in it would show his own opinfons on the subject or offend the sus- ceptibilities of the most ardent beliover. This promise is being fully kept. M. Zola is content to present his facts candidly and stralghtforwardly, leaving his readers ‘to draw conclusions for themselves. Under the title, “The Golden Spike," will be presented an Interesting account of the celebration attending the completion of tho Union Pacific railroad a quarter of a century ago. Omaha as the initial point figured con- spicuously In the great national ecvent, and The Bee has taken pains to recall many interesting facts incident to that carly con- quest. No epoch in the city’s history is more warthy of commemoration. Senator Chandler has introduced a bill in the United States senate providing for the establishment of a free port on the seaboard. The scope of the measure is treated of at some length in an article which will appear in The Sunday Bee. Carp's letter from Shanghai tells of the big Celestial gun factc It will be an eye- opener to readers of The Bee who may im- agine that China must depend upon anvils and blunderbusses to defend the empire against invasion. Her fortifications are im- pregnable and her flect is said to be able to cope with any on the high seas. The super- fority of Chinese iron fs shown, as is also the marvelous mechanical skill of the Mongolian, Students of political economy will be inter- ested in an article upon the subject of prison reform presented in The Sunday Bee. The paper is from the pen of Mr. Frederick Wines, chief department criminal statistics, cleventh census. Mr. Wines s the highest authority In this country on the subject of crime and criminals, He has made the sub- ject a life study and writes with force and authority. He has been secretary of the Na- tional Prison associatfon and a leader in prison reform for many years. His paper presents a striking array of facts on one of the most serious problems of the. time. The reputation of The Bee as a newspaper will be fully sustained by the Sunday issue. 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