Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 18, 1894, Page 4

ROSIEWAT PUDLISITED EVERY MORNING { TH Dally Boe (v Dily and Sundny £1< Manth Tiiroo M Eonday £ rurday i Woukly Boe, CRIPTIO! One Year oF 87 O Vear One_Yenr One Year OFFICES, 3, 14 15, ! W7 F street, N, W CORRESPONDENCE. A1l edtiimunicntions relating toral matt M‘Mw Pl Washington, and edi- the BAltor. HUSINES AIl business lottors to The Omatia, Draftw be mnda vl THE IEE P LE nd remittances Publishing ¢ and postoflice orders to Jor of the eompany. LISHING COMPANY. ahould b mpany, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. wocretary of Th iy, be ily wworn, & r of full and compls ning, Bvening and 8 during the month of April 424,080 22,243 251 fudindcues Total Lesn deduction coples v Total sold.... Daily average ne * Sunday ation SCTUCK. GEORGE . T7 n my pres- and subscribed 1891, Bworn to hofore me ence this 24 day of May. 1. tary Pu The state warrant shavers are still doing business at the old stand. The republicans in the senate might with advantage follow the example of the demo- crats and get together upon their policy with reference to the tariff bill. Wait but a little while and you will see senatorfal votes listed on the Stock exchange and quoted at varying prices from day to day, according to the state of the market. The paving contractors appear to have abandoned the work of laying pavements and to have taken to the work of securing pro- tests against the materials used by their competitors. The frresistible attractions of city life are again impressed upon the public mind iby the man who murdered his wife because she refused to give up her residence in town and consent to live upon a farm. Those senators must have an exalted opinion of the value of their own influence dn the senate if they give credence to the story that parties stand ready to pay $100,000, if necessary, to secure a coveted vote, We now know why Coxey wanted to go to Washington with his booted petition. He wished to inform himself upon the work of congress preparatory to going there as a full-fledged member. Coxey is to be a can- didate for congress. A Chicago paper sees signs of metropoli- tanism in the discovery of a smoke nuisance in Omaha. The fact is Chicago is behind Omaha in smoke consuming devices. What we are now urging Is the rigid enforcement of the smoke ordinance. The talk about using brick for country road pavements is out of the question. The experiment on Leavenworth street in this city shows just what a brick paved country road would be even with a concrete base, which costs more than the brick. Up to this time the street car company is not seriously alarmed as to what the council will do after the electrician gets home from Chicago. It is confidently pre- dicted that Mr. Murphy and Mr. Wiley will be able to come to a satisfactory under- anding without coming to blows in the seouncil chamber. The bill for Utah statehood has been re- ported favorably to the house and awaits the time when it can be called up for action. ‘The prospects of its early consideratiom are not at present very bright, but those who have it In charge should watch their op- portunity, Utah ought to have a regular Tepresentation in the next congress. ‘We have not yet heard the explanation of the change In the invitation for electric “Mighting bids, by which the capacity of the lamp to be furnished the city was reduced from 10 amperes to 9.5 amperes adjusted to forty-five volts. Perhaps there is no ex- /planation to be offered except that Wiley ‘and his tools were confident that the fraud would not be discovered. The acting city electrician Is full of volts, \watts, amperes, ohms and all that sort of electrical gibberish, but all this sclentific gabble does not prove him to be an expert selectrical engineer qualified to make chem- fcal and electrical tests that require years of special training. The most amusing part of all these mummeries are the learned disquisitions of that eminent glass Insur- ance sclentist, Councllman Wheeler. What Wheeler does not know about electrics would eat through several 2i-inch water mains and pass through all the gas pipes from Alpha to Oma The objections to sandstone as paving materfal for country roads on the score of ceconomy are absurd. I It is true that andstone paving blocks will cost three times as much as macadam, the block pave- ment will probably stand five times as much wear and take one-tenth of the repairs. We all know that wooden blocks cost about one-third as much as sheet asphalt for pay g, And we know it to our sorrow. The cheapest Is not always the best by a long way, It the proposition before the com- missioners was simply to lmprovise a pave ment that will reach the furthest for the least outlay they should builld a plank road Omaha s ready and anxious for a first ‘olass roof garden which will be accessible and attractive as a family resort during the summer. The roof garden oné of the latest fads in the eastern cities, and a most sonsible fad at that. Such an conducted upon liberal lines and kept freo from objectionable features will certainly command the undivided patronage of all amusement-seeking people who are compelled to remain In Omaha during the summer months. Its popularity w.ll depend entirely upon Its management, who must that it does not degenerate Into & rendeavous for lsreputable characters. Omaha has need for a rospectable amusement resort and will support oue of that kind when It is opened. uch an enterprise should be encouraged. is enterprise THE OMAHA REDUCTION OF CIRC The per capita eirculation at present, cording to a statement prepared from the official figures at the treasury, Is less than t was January 1 of the current year. This Is due in part to gold exports and in part to a reduction In bank circulation. It is es- timated that more than $12,000,000 in gold has gone out of the United States sin May 1, of which upwards of $10,000,000 was taken out of the treasury. As legal tender notes must b from elreulation to there has contraction medium the extent At same on a ac- in withdrawn gold, the circulating the gold exported. been going duction in bank circulation, as shown by the fact that the bonds of banks deposited In the treasury have clined in amount from $207,000,000 to £2)1.5 o This would In- dicate bank circula- tion the current year $5,000,000, but probably it has heen somewhat less than that. The following statistics from an official treasury statement are interesting Since July 1 last year, when there was in culation of all classes of money $1,593, 5,411, the circulation had increased up to May 1 to $1,601,703,000. On July 1, 1893, the estimated population of the United States was 66,916,000, and on May 1 of this ¥ 68,153,000, The per capita circula- tion June 30, 1893, is stated as fol- lows: July 1, $23.80; August 1, $24.02; September 1, $25.01; October 1, $25.2! vember 1, $25.49; December 1, $25.57; Jan- 7 1, $25.65; February 1, $25.56; March 1, $24.90; April 1, $24.85; Ma $24.83. It will be observed that the per capita of cir- culation Is greater now than months ago, with an Increase of population, the decline having taken place since the begin- ning of the current year. It is to be expected that the reduction will £0 on o long as the outflow of gold continues and until there is a resumption of business to Induce the banks to increase their circ lation. With regard to gold exports, if the usual experienc: is repeated they will prac- tically cease within the mext five or six weeks, but it is impossible to estimate with any degree of o-rtainty what amount will #o out during that time. The situation Is excaptional. For example, In April of last year the imports of merchandise exceed:d the exports by a little over $17,000,000. In that month of this year, on the other hand, the exports of merchandise exceeded the im- ports by nearly $5,000,000. In April, 1893, the gold exports exceeded the gold imports by $18,000,000, or about the amount due to for- cigners for the month’s excess of imports of merchandise, but during April of this year, when the foreigners owed us nearly $5,000,- 000 for merchandise, we ncvertheless ex- ported gold to the amount of $9,000,000 in excess of Imperts. Treasury offictals, it is said, argue from this condition of affairs that the gold balance will fall rapidly. So far in this fiscal year, of which less than six weeks remain, the exports of gold have been In excess of the imports of that metal to the amount of about $60,- 000,000, notwithstanding the large balance of trade in our favor. Why this is so Is a problem which the treasury officials do not attempt to solve. The explanation Is to be found in the fact that the Austrian government is still ac- cumulating gold, and as other European countries are holding on to their gold, the greater part of what Austria is getting doubtless is supplied from the United States. Another thing is that while the trade bal- anca is In our favor we are still a debtor to Furope, which holds our securities to a much arger amount than the trade balance, and thes> securities are avallable both in the settlement of balances and in drawing gold from us, But while there has been since the be- ginning of the year a slight reduction in the circulation per capita, the actual efrculation May 1 was greater by $08,000,000 than In July 1 of last year, so that there is noth- ing in the rated decline to strengthen the de- mand of the advocates of more money. There is an ample supply of currency for the pres- ent requirements of business for its prob- able wants for a considerable time to come. A CASE OF MISTAKEN CREDIT. Commenting upon an address dellvered at the meeting of the National Raflway Sur- geons’ assoclation, held at Dallas, Tex., last week, the Philadelphia Press complains that the rallroads of the country are not given sufficient credit for the good work which they accomplish through their surgical service, The statistics supplied by the ad- dress are to the effect that while in 1893 the number of employes killed on the dif- ferent railroads throughout the United States was 2,254 and the number Injured 28,267, and while the number of passengers killed was 376 and the number injured 3,227, making a total of killed and injured of 34,- 126, yet this “unpleasantly large total” must be offset by the 40,000 sick and injured per- sons who were cared for by the rallroads at some time during the year. In these 40,000 cases it is sald that the railroads not only supplied medical assistance but also paid all thelr expenses, and in many instances contributsd In addition to the support of thelr families during the period of thelr disability to the extent of several nfillions of dollars, On this account the Press wants us to revise our opinions of the railroads and instzad of looking upon them as the soulless corporatiors that the public gen- erally believes them to be, to give them tha proper credit for the provision which they make for those harmed while in their care or their employ. We must admit that if, as the Press infers, all these good deeds were done by the railroads of the country entirely volun- tarily and out of a pure spirit of public charity, they certainly ought to be credited with something to balance thelr numerous and frequent misdeeds. But will the facts bear out such an inference? Should the railroads be glven credit for something which they do only because they are com- pelled to, for something that they do as a matter of financial economy to them- selves, and not in order to alleviate suf- fering or to relieve the unfortunate? What are the facts as to the medical and surgleal departments of the great American rail- roads? In the first place the cxpense of the rall- way physiclans and hospital service is in very fow cases borne by the railroad. The employes are required to submit to regularly recurring deductions from their weekly or monthly pay as forced contributions to the lospital or insurance or sick henefit fund. The company add- an additional sum, but the bulk of the fund Is extorted from the employes, who are at best paid none too well. - Yot, although the remuneration of the physiclans and surgeons who are to attend them is furnished chiefly by the men, they have neither voloe in their selection nor power to control or dlsmiss them. The officers of the medical department are re- tained at the expense of the employes to care for the interests of the railroad com- pany as against those of the employes. Look at the question from still another in order wonre been a to the of of contraction th since the beginning of to the extent of about ua ten may standpoint and the eredit which should be | given the rallroads becomes of yet more | doubtful character. The rallroads are, by | common law, responsible in damages for any injuries which their passengers or employes sufter tf8m defects in the service In the absence of contributory negligence. The rail- ronds then are legally liable for all the nec- | essary expenses for the care of | those who are injured on thelr lines. surgieal and medical attendance they furnish fs directed toward those damages as small as possible, always set up as a counter claim wheneve victim dares bring suit in court to his rights. The raiiroads doubt- | less consider that they drove a very good bargain when they had their surgeons at- tend those 40,000 cases in 1803, They played their part from purely selfish and mercenary No one s desirous of ll"uri\'iunl credit, however small, which thelr actions may properly deserve. But if they would devote more energy to tho prevention of railroad accidents, rather to securing settlements from passen- gers and employes who have been lessly maimed, they would have a claim upon the public for credit. —— fncurred which making and are the maintain motives. the railroads of any than need- better ANOTHER BIG STRIKE IN PROSPECT. The proceedings of the convention of the Amalgamated Assoclation of Iron and Steel Workers, in session at Cleveland, will be watched with great interest, not only by the 15,000 members of the association, but also by the manufacturers of iron and steel who employ members of the association. The Indications point to a probable general srike of iron and steel workers in the United States. It is stated that they have been making secret preparations for such a strike. Thousands of the iron workers in the Pittsburg district, the report is, who are working ostensibly as nonunion men, are in reality still members of their old organiza- tion. During the past six months, as the stress of circumstances has forced the em- ployes ot mill after mill to accept terms other than those demanded by the scale of tion, it has been given out that the mills were nonunion and that the amal- lodges at them had been dis- banded. It appears that in the majority of cases this s not true, that the old lodges are still in existence, and that not a single lodge has handed in its charter. Last winter, when workers at various Pittsburg mills were forced to sign so-called tronclad agreements, the president of the Amalgamated association announced that if manufacturers proposed to fight an open organization in that way they might be forced in the near future to deal with a secret organization. From the reported fact that secret lodges are flourishing in the Pittsburg district it would seem that his words were prophetic and that the hint they conveyed has been acted upon. But the assoclation Is not as strong now as it was a few years ago. The present conven- tion does not contain much more than half as many members as attended the conven- tions in the more prosperous days of the organization, and the reduction of the mem- bership of the association has of course been accompanied by a decline in financial strength, Five years ago this organization was large and powerful, exerting an influ- ence within its field second to mno other labor organization in the country. It con- trolled the principal mills, and its word was almost law to the mill owners. Since then it has lost power east of the Allegheny mountains, except in a few localities, and Is not nearly as strong west of the moun- tains. : It is still, however, In a position to give the manufacturers a great deal of trouble, it the Cleveland convention should adopt a policy that might precipitate a contest. The iron and steel trade is experiencing depression in common with all other in- dustries and under existing conditions it would be the wildest folly for the workers to invite a conflict. They will be doing well if they can hold their own for the present. They have had some disastrous experiences in the recent past which should prompt them to act now with caution and con- servatism. This is not a time for ex- perimenting in attempts to secure better wages, and if the convention of iron and steel workers shall be governed by wise counsels it will do nothing likely to bring about a contest between those It represents and the manufacturers, for there cannot be a reasonable doubt what the result of such a contest would be under existing condi- tions. the associ gamated RAILROADS AND VIADUCTS, The city authoritles are still wrestling with the railroads over the question of con- tributing their proper shares of the cost of putting the existing viaducts over Eleventh and Sixteenth streets into a safe condition. Under the charter the railroads are required to pay for vladucts over every crossing whenever the mayor and city council deter- mine the same to be necessary for public safety. In view of the fact that the viaducts are a protection to the rallway com- panies against damages for Injuries liable to be sustained at grade crossings and savo them the cost of maintaining guards, the law cannot be regarded as working In- justice. In Omaha the railroads have been more than repaid for any outiay they have made for viaducts by the liberal grant of rights of way that are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is not all. They have enjoyed almost entire exemption from local taxation, when by rights they should be made to bear their proportion of the bur- dens of city government. In the aggregate thelr tax exemptions have amounted to cnough every year to pay for a new viaduct, According to the estimate of the city en- gineer the cost of the contemplated repair of tho Sixteenth street viaduct will not exceed $4,600. Divided between the Union Pacific, the Burlington and tho street rallway com- pany the amount taxed against elther of the companies would not exceed $1,600. The street rallway company and Union Pacific have agreed to pay their proportion of the The Burlington road absolutely re- fuses to contribute a dollar. Why does the Burlington refuse to pay its share? Only a few days ago Manager Holdrege notified the mayor of Omaha that he wanted protection for the company's property by our police force, for which his company does not pay, and furthermore served notice that it would hold the city responsible for damages to its property by the Commonwealers who might pass through Omaha on their way eastward. Consistency 1s not one of the jewels that adorns the Burlington management in these parts! They refuse to pay $1,500 once In five years for repairing viaducts over streets through which they have been given a free right of way. Their lawyers say that under their construction of the law the elty must pull down the viaducts beforo they can be made to pay anything toward rebuilding. Well, then, let them have thelr way. It is the right thing to do if the city is o have a docent viaduct. We have submitted for years to a vermin-eaten old tmmigrant shed expense, r | its patronage as a depot and we can stand it without a DAILY BFF FRI DAY wonden mantrap m-. the next twelve mont, By all means pull bridge and mako th with a duplicate of th Moantimo let the maintain gates and rmermh street for wn the rickety old flroads it nth stroot viaduet 1s required to M5 at every crossing in the city that is nof’ ptétected by a viaduct, It s time forithe ity to its rights. 1f the Burlington_wants a fight with Omaha it be acaon This city has been truculently sibmissive for years It has given to the Dufington the cream of but its r(vr\r& have never been ted. replace raif be about assert can modated m appreclated or rociproc The democrats who contend that congress has no constitutional authority to levy a tax on stat: bank and this is the econ- tention of many of them from the south, will probably be no more willing to accept the authority of Albert Gallatin, the dis- tinguished secretary of the treasury in Jef- ferson’s administration, than they are that of the supreme court of the United States, but everybody will be disposed to re- [ value, In writing of the United States bank, Mr. Gallatin, who was of great ability, asserted the right of congress to “lay such a duty on all bank notes as would convert all the banks into banks of discount and deposit only, and annihilate . paper currency and render a bank of the United States unnecessary in reference to that object.” E among the radical sticklers for state rights there has never been any questfon about the con- stitutionality of the state bank tax, yet whenever the question of repealing this tax shall come up In congress there will un- doubtedly be found a number of men there who wlll strenuously maintain that congress overstepped its authority in Imposing the tax. The constitution plainly gives to con- gress full power to regulate circulating money, whether coln or paper, and it Is good and safe doctrine that this power should never be shared by the states. The privilege they once enjoyed in this matter was outrageously abused, to the great detri- ment of the country, and it would be a grave mistake to repeat the experiment. fesues, else a man copt Postmaster Dayton of New York has fina!ly decided to resign his place as delegate to the constitutional convention of that state in order to avold all possibility of vlating the law that prohibits postmasters from engaging in the service of any state during their terms of office. His decision in this matter will not injure New York's pros- pects of securing a revised constitution and cannot fail to redound to the benefit of the postal service. The law is based upon the general consideration that no one can well serve two masters and is sound in prin- ciple. It is only to be regretted that it does not extend to other federal officials, We have had altogether too many instances of one man holding fumerous offices at the same time. No onfé ‘but the all-grasping officials will suffer from ,an abolition of the practice. 3 Des Moines' official expense account for the entertainment of Kelly's army during its nine days stay in that kity, as approved by the city council, consists of $480 for special policemen, $225 for “the ‘rent of the stove works as an army barracks at $25 per day, and $44.78 for meat., The amount expended for police was thus twice as great as that ex- pended for food and lodging combined. This does not, of course, include the contributions of charitable individuals in their private capacities, but. it shows how much the Des Molnes city treasury‘suffered by reason of Kelly’s visit to that' city. Omaha spent nearly as much on food for the army alone, although it did not even stop within her city limits, Omaha can certainly challenge comparison with Des Mofnes on its judi- clous investment of the money devoted to the Kelly army While the warrant shavers are in the front of the latest move to obstruct the exccution of the law requiring the in- vestment of the school fund moneys in state warrants, they are well tailed up by the favored bankers who have been getting the benefit = school money deposits without paying interest to the state. The extinction of the floating Indebtedness of Nebraska would reduce the profits of these two classes of treasury barnacles. That is the reason why they are both so interested in main- taining the debt unimpaired. If congress has no constitutional power to impose taxation for any other purpose than for revenue only, what is the democratic majority in the senate doing in attempting to adjust the duty on opium so as to pre- vent as much as possible the importation of that drug ir any shape? Is it constitu- tional to use the power of taxation as a preventative of revenue? But, then, the democrats in congress have parted company with their Chicago platform. Democratic Testimony, San Francisco Examiner, The national democracy has submitted to the mutilation of the tariff bill in the interest of the trusts. e Not Entirely Out of Place. Chicago Recort. The crank who trled to make a speech in the house of representatives made the slight mistake of not getting himself elected a member before making the ef- fort., e A Marked Di Globe-Democrat, Is true, as the democrats say, that republicans_consumed ten monihs in passing the McKinley law; but then that was a measure (o promote and not to destroy prosperity, and so the delay did not cause general business depression and discouragement, Irrestatible Demand. Boston” Gl British goldolaters amgl their allies may seek to Ignores the great and growing de- mand for the restoration of siiver to the yorld's money, but'lt Will be ail in vain Their citadel may be “defended n s zealously, vet it Must: fall at last, and the people of every civillzpd land will have “thelr own' again, 1t the Al A Feasibly Mot Kansas Gty Star, The settlement of, all differences between the Great Northern Rajlway company und its_employes by an afbitration board ¢ Hilai s men Shoull fobm & susossans for future difficulties of the Kind. Business n are deeply interested In securing good and nre also prosperous or otherwise as thele. customers, the vast majority of whom are workihgmen, a well or poorly paid. , i Where the BIF Comes In, Philadelp! The bill introduced in the Ohio legislature to appropriate 369 o der the cost of removing Gal army Coxeyltes Trom ‘o rallway train 18 DUt ono tem i the lengthening expense &ccount the payment of which must ultimately fall upon the r Industrinl army of the country—a fact which, it fully appreciated, should make the latter chary of any expression of sym- pathy for what s literally and in all senses an extravagant business. The Doctrine of Communism, New York Sun, Under cover of .darkness and secrecy the president of the United States has again Beized upon the lighthouse tender Violet and converted. that now celebrated vessel to his private use and convenience. Thia s a practical appilcation of the principles and doctrines of communism. Reduced to the last analysis, it is difficult to see In what manner the act of Presi- vic dent Clevelund, alded and abetted by See- | tetary Carlisle’ and ighting Hob Fvans, | differs from the selzure of frelght trains 1 the Great Northern railrond by the wani Coxeyltes. In the latter case United States troops were calied out prevent the outraze and to restore th property to the control of the federal government ! . e NEBRASKA AND NEBRASK NS, | Kearney s to have a That fs a thing she A revival wiil be at Tecumseh with command. Madrid thinks she has a curiosity in shape of a woman real estate agent. is a hustler and advertises S. B. Thompson is now one of the visors of Custer county He was to succeed Wilson Hewitt, who had town, Clyde Vale, a 16-year-old Superior boy, was thrown in front of a cornstalk cutter by a runaway team and one leg was so badly | mangled by the knives that amputation may be necessary. wo of Grand Island's tainted fairies were run in by the police and no one would pay their fine, so they were locked up in female ward of the city bastile. Soon aroma of strong, old illuminating gas ay detected issuing from their room and an investigation disclosed the two prisoners in a state of collapse with notes by their sides saying they had gome to the happy beyond. ~ But they had done nothing of the | Kind, for a little fresh air revived them and they were soon fully on earth again. Willlam H. Brown of BElsie, Perkins county, has a_scheme, and he has written Congressman McKeighan about it and given the letter to the Madrid News for publica- tion. His plan is to tap the Missouri river between Bismarck and Helena and divert its channel so that the stream will flow acro the arid region into the Guif of Mexico. He proposes to call the stream thus created the Progressive river, and he thinks the plan will solve the problem of irrigation and of furnishing work for the unemployed at the same time. i ainling E AND THINGS, Bland’s presidential boom childlike and inoffensive. Cloveland cast his bread upon the waters of Missourl, and lo! it returned as dough. San Francisco papers advocate the interests of silver without diminishing their admira- tion for the Golden Gate. Congressman Berry of Kentucky strikes a lofty key when he speaks. He is the tall- est member by three inches. Cengratulations to Bismarck on his last birthday numbered 11,000. The popularity of tho iron chancellor outruns the mellow influence of his breweries. The distressing slump in New York poli- tics s not solely due to the retirement of Dick Croker. The Hon. J. Sloat Fassett is abscrbing fog in San Francisco. The rumor that Cleveland’s picture was turned to the wall at the Missouri demo- cratic convention is a foul slander. The picture was not brought into the convention hall. Lillian Russell has shaken her third hus- band forever and aye. The frequency of this practice by the airy Lilllan suggests an_ innovation on the diamond-stealing ad- vertising scheme, Even Mrs. Cleveland comes in for a share of censure because she gives too much at- tention to her children and too little to soclety. “That is the one bright feature of the administration. The reason why the ideal alderman is represented with a corpulent body is be- cause that condition renders him impervious to criticism. With his expansive girth it is difficult to “‘rub it in.” Paragraphers will welcome the senate to the charmed circle. But they insist on more than_six paragraphs in five hours. More speed and better quality must be shown or the union will be dissolved. When Galusha A. Grow was vigorously supporting the emancipation proposition in the war congress, George Washington Mur- ray, who sits beside him in the present house, was a barefooted slave boy on a South Carolina plantation. Amid the desultory remarks on platforms and like monthly topics in the Missouri dem- ocratic convention, there were a few enliv- ening expletives. Impressive periods were driven home with hardened dukes and peep- ers here and there closed under fistful hyp- notic influence, Dowe, the Manheim tailor, whose bullet proof fabric is likely to make many others as well as himself wealthy, was so poor when he had his discovery completed that he had to borrow a revolver to test the cloth. Even up to within a few weeks his condition has been but sew-sew. ———— QUESTION OF COUNTRY ROADS. cob pipe factory long has sought tarted the 1st of Evangelist Plerson June | in | the She i super- | pointed | left | | i | PEOP. is necessarily OMAHA, May 17.—To the Editor of The Bee: Within the last week a great hue and cry has been raised before the Board of County Commissioners over their recent de- cision to use certain materials in the pav- ing of country roads. Each class of ma- terials has found its advocates and its de- tractors, and unstinted criticism has been poured upon the luckless heads of the un- fortunate commissioners who have been compelled to make the choice from the rival claimants. Atter a fundamental error has been com- mitted it is usually the case that the men who have not the time or inclination to probe the subject to the bottom content themselves by attacking separate details. It is thus with our country road paving, The fundamental crror was committed two years ago by a somewhat misguided, though prob- ably well meaning, board in’ submitting a proposition to bond the county in the sum of $150,000 for the purpose of paving or macadumizing country roads. In spite of protests, in spite of sound argument show- inging its inexpediency, the present board has gone ahead and sold bonds to pay for work that shall ever be unsatisfactory, that can never return value received for the money expended. The reason for this can be briefly stated. There is not a road in Douglas county, of any important length, that is in a fit con- dition to receive a permanent surface. Owing to our foolish system of locating roads on the section lines we find our- selves in possession of a system of roads that is a disgrace to an intelligent com- munity, a system that stands as a paradox in the ilght of the end of the century. Yot with all our boasted freedom from tradi- tlons, with all our self-asserted western en- terprise, we rush blindly ahead and decido to perpetuate a system at the stupidity of which the Incas of Pern would have won- dered, For before white men saw Amer- fea the Peruvians had bullt a system of highways that would put us to shame. There Is no standpoint of utility or econ- omy, there is no argument of reason, be- fore which our road system does not stand condemned. It matters but little now whethe sandstone or macadam is to be used, the money that is spent in perpetu- ating these monstrous roads is to be wholiy wasted, and this work shall stand in fu- ture years as a monument to the unreason- ing haste that characterizes so much of our so-called public improvements. CURTISS C. TURNER. WE GIVE In our Extension Full Indemnity Policy insurance against all that any other accident policy covers, and, in addition, against fatal in- juries resulting from sunstroke, freezing, lifting, somnambulism, gas, poison, or choking in swal- lowing, which is WHAT NO ONE ELSE GIVES. The United States Mutual Accident Association, 820, 422 & 924 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Cuapues 1 Pra, Wi Buo. S, Prestdeat ‘Bocretary. H. A. WAGHER, State Agent, ! nity 203 First Nationa! Bank Bulldln;. THE IDEAL AND THE REAL. Pallmanism Not for Industrint Chicago its Pullman from the Inter. tmmediate rosults the strike at cannot fail to attract renewed ate tention as the outcomo of an industrial ays tem which, at its beginning, was widely hailed as a model The Pallman commu has advertised abroad | as much as the famous model villugo | Krupp works in th industrial troubles came as a sur to those whe learned regard it ax an ideal Tlhe present strike, sign that such a community for all industrial aiiments forward very squarely the questi as to whether the Pullman system Is or Is not a o thin The plans upon which the co inity was formed are well known. The village is owned by the Pullman company from which many of the company's laborers rent their houses. The stores where th workingmen buy their provisions are also the property of the comp; the merchants being me tenants, Thus most of the workingmen have a double account with their employer, recelving certain wages for their | work and paying back a portion in settle- | ment of rent and watgr and gas taxes In- | directly they contribut® money to their em- ployer by patronizing the stores rented from the company. Since the reduction in wages cases have beon reported In which an em- | ploye's wages barely balanced his indebted ness to his employer and left him but a pit tance for current expenses The advantages which ar clalmed for the Inhabitants of this somewhat paternalistic community are many, and some of them are genuine. The company, as the landlord and proprictor of the town, keeps th: public streots and alleys in condition and ncts as general caretaker of the village. The ten- ants have the advantage of residing in a community designed to be a “model” in the ||||Ih-|.| of sanitation and comfort, and anned with a view to common rather than Individual benefit. Far more than all, the benefits are offered to the villagers ready- made, 50 to speak. A living system which no body of men not working in state of socialism could devise has been perfected and placed at their dispozal without their effort. They live In better houses and amid better surroundings than possibly they could expect to do if they had been required in- dividually to supply their own living ac- commodations, It is suggestive that while Mr. Pullman's “ideal” system has thrived well enough in prosperous times, it has been of little avail in ameliorating matters during times of ad- versity. And a_highly significant phase of the trouble is the fact that the features of the system which constituted its advantages during the days of gool wages are now its most evident drawbacks. The intervention of the company in the affairs of its men as landlords and—indirectly —as provisioner was all well enough for a time. But now the company as employer reduces wages while the company as land- lord does not reduce Its rents, and the work- ingmen have found themselves caught be- tween two adverse forces, both of which are moved by one agency. It may not be claimed that the company has used its power wrongfully, but the extent of that power in swaying or coercing its men is unquestioned. " It is possible that the de- fects in the Pullman system are not so in- tegrant to it that they might not be weeded out, leaving the groundwork intact. There is always in prospect the Krupp village, wherein® 25,000 workingmen dwell in an “ideal” industrial community. But for the present it ought to be sufiiciently evident that the Pullman plan does but little, if anything, toward precluding industrial troubles. Record: Apart in boen here and nearly at the Germany, and doubtiess rise had to however, fs at least a i not a panacea and it has brough P — THE CAPTIVE COMIC Yonkers Statesman: The man with an elastic step should go upstairs at a single bound. Philadelphia Record: A suburban paper, reporting ‘a meeting of a Woman's Dre Reform league, says: *“Thirty odd wom were present.” Truth: Wiggins—And do you think that skinflint is a_miser? Drump—Miser! Why, that man would pro- pose to a woman by postal card. Buffalo Courler: “Gotrox has sent that wooden-headed son of his on an ocean voy- age. I wonder what for?" “T understand somebody told him if there was anything in the boy the sea would bring 1t out."” Somerville Journal: The inconsistency of man is never better illustrated than when he pays good money for an alarm clock, and then gets flighting mad the very next n ing when It goes off spitefully and wakes him up. Indianapolis Journal sing the classical song, of cour: He—No, Indeed. It's the medical depart- ment that sings in that way. I am in the law school. We sing it “Puil My Leg Off.” Philadelphia Record: like to get a silk hat. Dealer—Yes, sir; what size? Customer—I don't know. You had better take my measure. I was elected president of u political club last night. YELLOW. She—T_suppose you “Saw My Leg Of,"” Customer—I'd Cleveland Plain Dealer. Away with presidential hope, That racks the welghty brain; Away with things of lesser That se ki % Vulgar things— I'm wearing yellow shoes, 'nfl':fm‘f‘)“ ROWNING, KING The largest maker: ne elothes on earth, our money’s worth or your money bac'e. | BRYA FORNALLY DECLINES He Will Not Be a Candidate for Renomina- tion in the First, CRITICISES THE COURSE OF LEGISLATION None of the ard and He Alone Must s 1 Horonfter Act tter to Chinle- dy. IN BUREAU 1407 | WASHING Street N, W In a letter mailed today Broady of the First district committee Congressman that he will not be cong' Byran He says xpect to be u candidate for any Al return private life with more Interest public affairs than 1 when I entered congress,” The letter of Mr. one, and s replete republican not but &l to in Bryan with & mocratic is a very criticlsms ot and populist W, WASHINGTON, May 17. artios Come Up to i Stand: OF THE BEE, Chairman ssional nounces a candidato for re-slec- | tlon to congress this year. ‘I do office, far had long the part and contains the remarkable statement that ‘a few demoerats who lean toward the re- publican doc incoma tax, may prevent relief to our people, It th clal policy becomes the polic: cratic party 1 do not see any the continued existonce of the party, because the republicans, lowed that policy longer, are pared than we to support it this contest with deep rine on the ta with th> ald of the pres reason better interest, for sult ficlent emphasis to reform, but &ly tax and the election ators by the people they have the advantage party in the fact that they free and unlimited coinage present ratio, the “necessity for advocates the of United States stro over any of silver at ' question and ent, the bringing of any financial president’s finan- of the demo- for demoeratic having fol- pro- 1 shall wateh my political affiliations will depend upon its re- he popullst party does not give suf- tarift Income sen- On the silver question other a unit for the the There are indications that the populists will concentrate their efforts toward securing the reforms which are dear to the hearts of those democr inspirations from At a thme like may determine the action house, we cannot afford name above principle, organization to the good. The situation in Nebraska difficulties, for while a large the people are apparently in measures which I, in common populist representatives from have supported, the friends who take and a single ats Jefrerson this, when to put or guard neglect of the the is full favor with that scem thelr Jackson, vote majority of the of the senate or party party party or. of of the state, to be tded into hostile camps, while the enemy with a minority because of our dissen- 3 duty for reforms to effec- organizations those who are I believe who are in Join together and tive, even though are maintatned. 1, in control of the party organizations fer defeat in the middle of the road victory shared by others, spons ing the best man who has a chanc that it carnest make their separate however 1s the those volce of pre- to I shall avold re- ibility for the consequences by support to win.' a The Towa Construction company of Sioux for and City was today awarded furnishing and placing the heating ventilating apparatus for the new building at Paris, Tex., at its bid of By direction of the assistant war, Corporal Mons T. H, Seventeenth infantry, Wyo., to date June 3, 1884, will charged from the service of the States on tho receipt commanding officer of his station. e Gt RS Sugared Coin and Sandbagging. Chicago Post But we fail to see wherein, to its vulgarity, this attempt is more immoral than the suc ruption of which some of the tentious eastern senators have tims, It Mr. Hunton had §25,000 he would be right drel, ' But what then shall be Senator Murphy, who secured tion” “for the shirtmakers of threatening_to vote against the Smith of New Jersey, who the finance committée into steal to the “special N of which he is the r the contract Allquist, Fort D. A. be except at most been oy oW public 500 soecretary of company Russell, dis- United of thls order by the as bribery sful cor- pre- Vie- pocketed his called a scoun- sald “protec- of by ot sandbagged granting Jersey presenta- a Harris and Pugh and White (of California) the sugar-gr who are own pockets? Of the ser up the sugar schedule while lated fn sugar certificates York Stock exchange SEASONABL Clothie The lovel and ving Brice and rman ? tors who they in THOUGHTS. and Furnishs now upon the gate At eve are gently swinging, And rhead, in lofty state, The twilight bird s singing. To go upon his northward trip The tramp is now preparing, And every one who has the grip, Has given up despairing. The merchant has a brighter eye, For spring trade up 18 looking, The buyers now begin to buy, And orders he is booking. The only man who's glum at all— And this is not surprising Is he who ev > last fall Has done no r and sollors ot It’s Time. It's It's time to buy that light coat and vest, time to put on that new straw hat. It's time for boys' shirt waists---stilts with $2 worth, Most complete assortment, at various prices. BROWNING, KING & CO., S. W. Cor. Fifteenth and Douglas Street of enators from Louisiana ceking to pass laws to line their held ] = i = 3 =é-’74 0 7 riS = =St ot == S specu- the New L8