Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 27, 1894, Page 12

12 P e THEOMAHA DATLY BEE, E. 1 AT dito = = oemceasy PULLIZNED EVERY MORNING. emm—— = == TENMS OF 81 RIPTION. Pasly Bee (without Sunday), One Year. iy and Swwlay, One X Monthy I'ree Month 41 Bundny i At 12 Lirday 1160, One YCAr 8 aekly Tice, Une Year OFFICE Omaha, Tho 1 Bouth Omal, Counell D, Chieago Oflicr. ow York, 1t Vashington, iaing. 2NN Tventy-ourth Ste. reot ESPONDRNC i anientions relnthe to news and edi- TAttor e A A: To the Edtor. All busin addresscd 1 says that the coples of The Tteo printed s s follow 1ishing actual nu Dally Mo during the Total Less deductions coples .......... for Total sold. i Daily average net cironla Sunday. N, TZECHUCK. bed in my pres- otary Public. States marshals What will the United do to prevent their fees from falling off when the Industrial army fad finally flickers out? Congress to remain in session all sum- mer! The very thought of it makes per- epiration spring from every pore of the songressman’s body. Denver finsurance agents are seeking to use an advance in rates as a club to compel the city to enlarge and improve its fire de- partment. 'Twas ever thus. None of the numerous base ball assocla- tions have yet been disrupted, although the season has been on for over a month. There 18 hope for base ball millennium. It does not make the slightest difference how many dollars any country, state or community has per capita so long as the bulk of the money lays idle In bank and !'safety deposit vaults. These ecclesiastical trials of ministers ac- cused of heresy appear to be becoming a regular feature of the annual synod each spring. To the lay mind they seem to be “‘merely threshing over old straw. Something new would be appreciated. Tho Boston Industrials weren't shoved Y upon ‘the grass. The great marble room was none too good for them. Another instance of “fHie superiority of the effete atmosphere of Boston over the product of the breezes that sweep across the western prairies. By a peculiar coincidence Kansas and Nebraska calebrate the forticth anniversary of thelr organization as territories on the . same day, May 30, 1894, The Kansas-Ne- _/braska bill ushered them Into the world as " twins. After eventful careers for forty years they can both reach over the border line and congratulate one another. Upon what principle could the alleged at- tempt at bribing two United States sena- tors have been conducted by which one was oftered only $14,000 for his vote and the other $26,000? It is this invidious discrim- Ination that has aroused the resentment of the whole senate. The constitution expressly provides for the equal representation of the meveral states In the senate. —_— _Mr. Wiley now proposes to supply electric lamps of uncertain candle power for $106 per annum from and after next January. For the last four years the city has been paying Mr. Wiley's company $17,600 a year for 100 lamps and bills at the rate of $176 a vear per lamp will doubtless continue to be presented to the council from now until November, when contract No. 1 ex- . pires. Omaha people should encourage the pro- posed excursions to this city by glving the excurslonists a welcome that will make them want to return. By making their visit to the city enjoyable and satisfactory in overy way the ties that bind Omaha to the Tost of the state will be considerably strengthened. It will be worth while to cultivate among the people of the towns within easy reach of Omaha the habit of occasionally repairing to this city for amuse- ment and recreation, For years the state of New Jersey has been the resort of persons who wanted to marryt and could not comply with the legal requirements of the states where they resided. Matrimonial mills in all the cities of the state did a flourishing business and preachers and maglstrates reaped a rich harvest. This stato of things has been done away with, the legislature having passed a marrlage license bill that Is stringent In fts provislons. Reform makes slow progress in New Jorsey, but this last is one of the most commendable in recent years, The editor of a new populist newspaper, who formally presided over a democratic Journal, announces that his policy will be the same as always, “the only difference belng that we shall advocate the putting in power In our governmental affairs the people’s Independent party instead of the demoeratic party.”” With the democrats in congress shouting for free silver and voting for the popullst Income tax It begins to look as If this were all that is needed to transform the democratic newspapers of the country Into good populist organs. Some new cars on one of the eastern rall- roads that have been constructed without the accustomed mirror at each end call out ; an’ indignant protest from the Philadelphia Press. That paper insists that although " they may be neither beautiful nor artistic they serve a useful purpose. It is inflieting an unwarranted hardship upon the women passengers to deprive them of an opportunity 10 seo that their hair is properly curled and that thelr hats are setting correctly «8 they get up to leave the car. The womvu should Institute a boycott to have the mir- xors replaced in their usual positions. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MAY I e 27. 1894—-TWENTY PAGES. W3 On Wednesday of this week, day of May, 1894, Nebrazka pasees the fortioth year aince her organization L torritorihond. Porty years age on that Jay President Plorce signed the famous Kansas- Nebraska bill, whish gave to Nebraska ot only a definite territ: but aulso a tersi- torfal goverminent. Nebraska forty yoars back wax, of course, not the Nebraska that Is known toda; Provicus to that tme the name was attached to what was supposed to be a wild and barren waste of ferritory stretehing north of Texas and west of the Missourl, north as far as the Canadian border, and wita an unknown western boundary, “The Nobraska land” was synonymous with “the far west,” and many wero tho tales of desperate ndventure go ing the rounds of the people In the states supposed to have drifted fn from that un- explored roglon. The territory of Ne- braska, as defined by the Kansas-Nebraska bill, exteaded north and south from the 40th to tho 49th degree of morth latitude, Its castern boundary ran along the Missouri and White Barth rivers, and its western boundary skirted tho crest of the Rocky miountains, It included territory which has since been Included In the states of Ne- braska, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Mon- tana, North Dakota and South Dakota. The Ka Nebraska bill had a two-fold importance to the people of the United States. Without going into its detailed his- tory In this place it is enough to say that its bearing on the slavery question was appar- ently an afterthought Incorporated into the bill as an amendment while in the hands of the senate commitice on territories. This feature, which was almost the sole topic of the discussion in congres?, threat- encd to obscure the importance of the main question, namely, the opening of this vast territory to the settlement of white men, making possible the thriving towns and pros- perous farming communities that are now distributed over the country west of the Missouri, Not that the influence of the Kan uas-Nebr bill on the determination of the slavery question is to be underrated. It was, as Von Holst calls it, the begin- ning of the end, the preparation for the blows that finally burst the chains of bond- age unden which the black inhabitants of the United States were toiling. The bill left the question of permitting the exist- ence of slavery to be decided by the in- habitants of the mew territory. The changes which forty = years have wrought fn the boundaries of the territory to which the name Nebraska is applied are cqualled and mora than equalled by the changes in the character of the popu- lation, its wealth, its government, its soc'al conditions, Tested for twenty-three years by the experiment of territoritood, Ne- braska became a state in 1867 and celo- brated the twenty-fifth anniversary of her statehcod two years ago. The few hun- dred traders buying furs from the Indians have grown by constant accretions to num- ber over 1,000,000, while the red men have been presied back to the few remaining roservations. The vast wilderness once known as the Great American desert has been proved to be better adapted to agricul- ture than most of the eastern states, Land then valueless, and to be had for the taking, must be purchased by the incoming im- migrant at a good round sum, because the rallroads and the cities have brought the lands into actual contact with the market. Nebraska at forty years is a strong and growing infant. She deserves the warmest congratulations upon the celebration of her birthday. POVERTY IN EUROPE, While deploring the privation and hard- ships to which millions of our own people are subjected by reason of the industrial depression it is well to bear in mind, though there be no comfort in the fact, that pov- erty and distress are not peculiar to this country, but on the contrary that the na- tions of the old world have quite as much of them as we and with far less assurance that they may be relieved in the near future, Industrial and business depres:ion is world- wide and while it may be somewhat more severe in the United States than in the larger commercial countries of Europe the effects upon our people, in proportion to population, have not been more serious than upon those of European countries, and for the reason that for the most part the un- employed here were better prepared for the unfortunate experience of a term of idle- ness. Had the depression here been less prolonged, covering a few months instead of extending over more than a year, the great majority of those thrown out of work would have suffered mo serlous privation, but in Europe generally the workingman can lose little time without encountering hardship and being compelled to appeal to charity. In Great Britain there is relatively more poverty at this time than in the United States. The number of unemployed people there is perhaps mot actually as great as here, though there cannot be very much Qifference, but of the impoverished who must depend upon charity the number in the United Kingdom is undoubtedly as large as in this country. Germany is not quite so badly off, but the labering classes of that empire have been having a very hard expe- rience for the last year or two, and great poverty and destitution have prevailed, par- ticularly in the rural districts, where the means of obtainizg relief are not so good as in the cities. France is considered one of the most fortunate countries of Europe, but it is reported that fn Brittany the beg- gara are so numerous that they infest the highways in armies. The number of unem- ployed in Franco is large, and the labor problem is quite as much in the attention of statesmen and philanthropists there as elsewhere. Perhaps the worst conditions prevail in Austria-Hungary, where, accord- ing to late statistics, 4,000,000 persons, one- fourtcenth of the population, are supported at public expense, and a large majority of the employed earn only from $72 to §$120 a year. The impoverished condition of the Itallan laboring classes Is notorious. In short, there Is in every country of Europe an amount of poverty and destitution which, relatively to population, 13 fully as great as in the United States, and in some of those countries greater, A knowledge of these conditions abroad may not serve to reconcile the unemployed in this country to the temporary hardships they are experiencing, because they may reasonably feel that in this great republic, with its immeasurable resources, there are no such excuses for idleness and poverty as exist in the old world. Our people are not taxed to support an emormous military establishment and to maintain the extrava- gance of royalty. Our government does not koep hundreds of thousands of men out of productive employment living upon the pro- ceeds of the labor of others. Then there Is tho Intense competition batweeen European countries, which operates to keep at the low- est point the rewards of labor. What the people, and more especially the working classes of America, may learn from a study of conditions in the old warld is the wisdom of maintaining here a distinctively American poticy, nuder which the work of materfal de- velopment can go on, demanding the full, ant and remunerative employment of Iabor. It Is the threat to abandon that pol- iey that is largely rosponsible for the unfor- tunate conditions in this country. IPLE HELPLESS? It the views of Representative Warner of New York regarding anti-trust legisiation are sound the people of the United States are helpless against the oppression and ex- actions of mounopoly. In a recent Inter- view Mr. Warner is reported as saying that be advised against a proposed amendment of the anti-trust law so as to give the at- torney goneral of the United States greater power and cvercome the objections of the conrts, the purpose being to anticipate a gen- oral crusade against the trusts. He ex- pressed the opinion that any amendment of the law would amount to nothing, and safd further that it Is absolutely impossible to 50 frame an anti-trust law as to antict- pate all the devious ways of trade com- bines. “You can readily make your laws strong cnough to deal with trusts as now formed,” sald the democratic representative from the Thirteenth congressional district of New York, “but as soon as the law is made the trusts change their plan of or- ganization so as to take them just outsde the pale of the law.” Such an acknowledge- ment as this from a man charged with the duty of legislating In the public interest, which fnvolves the protection of the people against the extortion of combinations of capital, made possible by the crushing of competition and the monopolizing of the market, may be mildly characterized as extraordinary. The anti-trust law passed by the Fifty-first congress was the result of most careful deliberation. It was not hastily devised and hurrfed through without sufficient considera- tion or discussion, but was deliberated upon long and earncstly by the ablest lawyers of the house and senate. It recelved the support on its passage of other able lawyers in both branches of congress. It was under- stood, of course, to be a tentative act, which it would probably be necessary subsequently to amend and modify. But In passing it congress was committed to the proposition that trusts and combinations In restraint of trade and to control production and prices could be reached by law. Is it pos- sible that the statesmen and eminent law- yers, like Senator Sherman and ex-Senator Edmunds, for example, who, after a most careful study of the subject, committed themselves to this proposition, were mis- taken? Is it probable that these and other distinguished lawmakers who supported the anti-trust act and who have since expressed confidence in its eficacy, if an adequate effort were made to enforce it, acted under a delusion in assenting to the principle embodied in that law? Few not interested in the maintenance of the trusts will be disposed to think so, for if the people, as Mr. Warner implies, are powerless to pro- tect themselves against this form of monop- oly, it is but a question of time when it will dominate and control every branch of trade and business, as it is not far from doing already, and will make its own terms and conditions wholly regardless of the pub- lic interests or welfare, We should have a muititude of monopolies, which, being be- yond the reach of the law and acting to- gether for thelr mutual interest, would con- trol and dictate the administration of the government and order legislation to sult themselves. There would come the rule of monopoly, of combined capital, overriding the will of the people and trampling upon every public interest not in harmony with the interests of monopoly. There are not many who will acquiesco in Mr. Warner’s view, which amounts to an absolute surrender to the trusts. The great majority of the American people will not acknowledge any such helplessness. They will not concede that their sovereign authority is so restricted that it will not reach a power whose existence and growth is hostile to public policy, as the courts have repeatedly declared, and even a men- ace to popular government. That the anti- trust law has not accomplished what was expected of it is true, but whether this is due more to defects of the law than to lack of zeal and intelligent effort for its en- forcement is a question. One thing is well understood, namely, that the present admin- istration is not In sympathy with the law and does not propose to make any very serious effort to enforce it. It is not prob- able, either, that the present congress will do anything to remedy whatever defects there may be In the law. But at any rate the American people are not ready, nor will they ever be, to surrender to the trusts by admitting that they are powerless to pro- tect themselves against the exactions and the rapacity of these monopolistic combina- tions. HE P JUDICIAL REFORM. The editor of Harper's Weekly, referring to judicial reform, which he regards as one of the two most urgent and serious subjects that are to come before the constitutional corvention in session in New York, says that judiclal reform is a question for the lawyers alone to settlz, With this assertion intelligent people must take decided issue. It can no more be admitted that the lawyers hold an exclusive vested right fn the judicial system of any state than that the bankers are alone concerned with the organization and conduct of the state treasury. The lawyers are particularly affected by changes in the machinéry of justice, just as the bankers are particularly affected by changes in the methods of banking the state funds, but in neither case can they assume that they are the only ones to be consulted, While_the lawyers are in almost daily per- sonal contact with the machinery of the courts, and are in a sense officers of the court, it must yet be rememebred that the cass adjudicated involve the rights of per- sons and property of the entire people of the state. ‘The humblest lawbreaker, who owns nothing but the coat on his back, the widow and the orphan, who are compelled to go to law over their. heritage, the wealthy million- alre, whose wealth 50 many less fortunate persons are anxious to share, each is dirsctly interested in judiclal reform, although not one of them fs eligible to a place on the bench. It is of the most vital importance to every one who may possibly become a suitor In court that he shall have access to @ judicial tribunal that is absolutely im- partial in its administration of justice. To secure on the bench fearless and independ- ent judges of unimpeachable integrity, who will inspire confidence in the people and con- vince even the defeated litigant that his op- ponent has been victorious because of the merit of his cause and because of that only, is one of the first requisites of a free gov- ernment. The qualifications of candidates for the bench must be prescribed with this object In view. The method of appointment or clection best ealculated to secure inde pondent judges, the tenure of office best calcu- lated to keep them independent, the best machinery by which they may be ousted when they cease to be independent or ro- tired when they are no longer equal to their takks—all these afh duestions which concern not the lawyers alprie, but the whole people. Neither are theitwwyers alone interested in the proceduro 'bf the courts. Thelr knowledge of remgdial law gives them an advantage over the daymen, but it Is to be used in behalf of ‘the lawyers' clients Whether the codfts” are adequate to the business to be brought before them or jus- tice must, be long delayed until a particular case Is reached ofi'an overcrowded docket often determines \whether justice is to be attained at all. Tat the conduct of a trial should be as expeditious as possible is always greatly 'desired by parties to either criminal or civil suits. Dvery Indi- vidual, moreover, fs interested in having the procedure as simple as possible and free from opportunities for technical error, as well as In knowing that, should justice be denled, a speedy and certain remedy Is at band by appeal to a higher court. Our courts are the bulwarks of our personal liberty and the guarantes of those rights of private property which the law allows. Referring to their construction and proced- ure as questions for lawyers alone betrays an altogether unwarranted and tes narrow a conception of their fmportance to every person in the land, ADVENT OF MORE GENERALS. Way back in 1861, when the secession fever had reached a white heat In South Carolina, the funnygram showman, Artemus Ward, was accosted by a flerce fire-eater and requested to define his principles. ‘“‘Secesh,” responded the gallant showman without wincing. *I am a dissoluter, I'm in favor of Jeff Davis, Bowregard, Pickens, Captin Kidd, Bloobeard, Munroe Edwards, the devil, Mrs, Cunning- ham and all the rest of 'em.” “You're in favor of the wah,” sternly asked the fire- eater. “Certingly. By all means. I'm in favor of this war and also of the next war. I've been in favor of the next war for over sixteen years, and what Is more I'm willing, it need be, to sacrifice all my wife's rela- shuns In the war." When the war had fairly begun a few months later Artemus announced to the American people that he had organized a volunteer military company, composed ex- clusively of officers, in which every man ranked as brigadier general. Had this ex- ample been emulated on both sides of the bloody chasm the American people would have been in position to ‘“outgeneral” all the rest of the world. It might have been foreseen that the coming generation would either have to start another bloody war or run out of generals altogether, a condition that would be most humiliating for a nation with a capital “N." But providence never forsakes Its own. Manifest destiny keeps this great land of ours within its proper orbit and shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we may. As the old generation of genefuls is passfng away new born commanders pf. armies, full-grown and fly-blown, have been ‘generated. The generals of‘tle vintage of '94 have made their advent with the erup- tion of the Commonweal armies. Al- ready thelr number {3 leglon and the roster of genprals has only Just been opened. From the, effete east and from the wild and. woolly west, and fin fact from every quarter of the compass the generals are marshalling ihgir hosts and getting their names blazoped, in bold. relief on the pages of'every mewspapér In theland. ‘In one single ‘issue, “tht of Saturday. morning, the Associated press: has chronicled the movement of twelve gemerals. We have heard from General Coxey and General Kelly, from General Sanders, Genmeral Ran- dall, General Copeland, General Baker and General Ross. We have heard about General “Jumbo,” and last, but not least, our own General Kelsey. Like the generals of Artemus Ward's famous ‘‘horse marines company,” our modern generals hold thelr commissions from the ranks and there Is no distinc- tion between the gereral who commands a platoon and the general that commands ten battalions. ~ The generals of the Common- weal take as much pride in their title as i the generals that commanded at Gettys- burg, Vicksburg or the Wilderness—every mother’s son of them will be known as general up to the day of his death. What effect the advent of the Commonweal general will have upon military titles can scarcely be prognosticated. If these titles are subject to the universal law of supply and demand we fear thero will be a very appreciable decline in the quotations of the military title market. There is one con- solation, however, the country will not be without a varied assortment of generals for many years to come, bureau of natfonal health is strenuously urged by Surgeon Gen- eral Sternberg of the army, who takes the advanced view that the public health should have been represented from the first by a The creation of a cabinet officer. Very few outside of the ranks of the surgeon general's professional Dbrethren will be likely to coincide with this view, but a great many will approve his proposal for establishing a bureau of health in the Department of the Interior, which was recommended some time ago by the New York Academy of Medicine, It Is only when there Is a threatened Invasion of gome particularly dreaded disease lke chol- era that everybody becomes aroused to the necessity of a general system for the protec- tion of the public health, and yet Surgeon General Sternberg makes the impressive statement that the mortality from the pre- ventable diseases which prevail in all parts of the country, suoh- as consumption, ty- phoid fever and diphtheria, is far greater than that caused by cholera or yellow fever in, those countries Wwhere they prevail habitually. Even in the countries where the exotic maladies flourish the mortality from them is not 0 great as from the non- pestilential diseases,, The surgeon general expresses the bellef, based upon foreign sta- tistics, that a natfonal bureau of health would mean an added saving to the country of 08,000 lives every year, an assumption which, it 1t were possible to verify it, would Justity a liberal expiéiiditure for such a bu- reau, Establishing, spfeguards for the pub- lic health is & well recognized function of government and the''proposal of Surgeon General Sternberg is certainly entitled to earnest consideration. Emt—p— The wheat producers of the United States have a formidable competitor In the Argen- tine Republic, which, during the last few years, has been making great progress in wheat ralsing. Last year there was ex- ported from the southern republic 30,000,000 bushels of wheat, and It Is estimated that the quantity shipped this year may be double that amount. It Is suggested that in view of the long eontinued very low price of wheat in this country’ the effect of this addition to the world’s supply deserves the careful attention Of American wheat growers., It appears that there are some pecullar advantages in buylng in the Ar- gentine market. There s no premium on forward shipments from the republic-and for this reason European buyers can contract for supplies as far ahead as the deliveries from the current crop run at the same price that Is pald for spot wheat or wheat for fmmediate delivery, Thus they save the carrying charges which are added here to the price of spot wheat for future deliveries. There are other methods of trading which operate against the American seller and serve to make the Argentine competition more formidable. The development of wheat production in that country has not yet reached the limit and the effect of its ad- vance upon the future of prices must be very material. It is obviously a factor In the wheat problem, so far as the United States is concerned, of deeided importance. The usual charges of plagiarism made against the victor in the Intercolleglate oratorical contests are making thelr appear- ance this year as heretofore, and as they will probably reappear annually in years to com The college orator s either a machine-like parrot or a much abused man of genius, If he is a plaglarist the contest might as well be given over to a considera- tion of the merits of rival declaimers recit- ing the same piece chosen in advance with reference to its capacity to bring out the clocutionary powers of the contestants. When each participant s given months to prepare his oration it amounts to prac 1y the same thing even if he Is consclentiously original. A real forensic tournament re- quires extemporaneous speaking upon a sub- ject of general information. preciude Such the allegations of a con- test would plaglarism, The National Conference of Charities and Corrections, in session at Nashville, has been devoted to the discussion of ways and means by which modern society cares for its dependent members. The past winter has seen many charitable experiments under- taken, some of them successful, others only partially successful, still others total fail- ures. This assembly affords an opportunity for the discussion of the year's experience in which the novel schemes for giving re- lief to the unemployed will be fully venti- lated, the fraudulent ones exposed and the praiseworthy ones commended. Some such crucible is necessary to test the value of the different devices that have been launched upon the world of . charity. Anything that this conference shall decide to recommend Is certain of attaining a widespread intro- duction. Bcc:nl the Blow Hole ‘Washington Star. Perhaps it will be found that the trouble arose through the inadvertent employment of an expert in porous plasters to superin- tend the construction of armor plate. —————— Sowing Seed to Renp Votes. Kansas City Star, The house members do not propose, simply in the interest of economy, to cut off their most rellable source of votes. The seed ap- propriation has been unanimously put back to the old figure e Now You Seo It, Now You Don't. Louisville Courler-Tournal. A certain judge has handed down the solemn decision that a wife IS the property of her husband. Of course. The man who caught the bear by the tail also con- sidered that animal his property. gt L b Forest Kansas City Times. The exact bearing upon forest preserva- tion of the proposed bill for limiting the timber to be sold from public reservations to 50 per cent will be better understood when [t is known how much the reserva- tlons’ hie suffered . from the commercial spirit of those in charge of them. The time is unquestionably at hand when steps toward forest protection must be taken in this country, and the government, with its vast landed 'Interests, is the propér agency for making the start. e Reflect ons on Plugged Plates. Cincinnati Commercial. Carnegle has been defrauding the govern- ment on his contracts for furnishing steel plates for our warships and has already heen assessed $140,000 therefor. How much more he ought to pay is not known, but it is believed to be very large. Nor is the ex- tent of the damage to vessels already afloat known, as the frauds have been so carefully concealed as to be difficult of detection. It is propbr to say that Carnegie is not a Coxeyite, nor does he tread on the grass, the marble walks being always at his service and the doors of the capitol stand- ing wide open to receive him. ————— To Reform the Senate. Loulsville Courler-Journal, There s, most of us delight to belleve, a Proyidence above us, which is continu’ ally “from seeming evil still educating £00d.” With this faith we find it possible that even the amazing delinquencjes of the present United States senate may have beneficent consequences, ~That the senatorial I to the idols of selfishne: and_miscalled “‘courtesy, hraim s joined . pride of “purse nobody entitled to be outside an insane asylum is pre- sumed to doubt. But this particular Ephraim cannot be let alone, as was his t prototype, because there are too many interests compromised by his idolitry. He must be deprived of the ability ‘to make a colossal nuisance of himself. i — Menacing Public Firetraps. Washington Post. In an editorial on the recent destruction of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, Engineering News strikes from the shoulder, and strikes hard, at the cheap manner in which many large buildings are constructed. Attention is_especlally directed to the rapldity with which the flames spread over the great auditorium through the medium of the the walls and papler-mache _covering of celling. “It seems well nigh incomprehen- sible,” says this conservative journal, “‘that a building designed to hold a great’ public assembly could have been deliberately made ch a (inder box by those entrusted with its design and construction. The pitiful ex- cuse that the papler-mache was echeaper than plaster Is the only reason that has thus far been made public for the use of this material.” In this, as in most other instances, cheapness was far from being economical, but in spite of the lesson taught at such tremendous cost, similar errors will continue to be made 5o long as mankind is “penny wise and pound foolish.” —————— Restlt of the Coal Tax. Chicago Record. The present coal strike I8 in part a re- sult of the duty of 75 cents a ton on bituminous coal. “The tax was retained un- der the McKinley law to enable the mine owners to pay higher wages, keeping the Nova Scotig coal out of our markets, so that it would not compete with American- mined coal and thus force wages down to the point reached In Nova Scotia, If it is true that the duty of T5 cents a ton enabled the American mine owner to pay his miners respectable wages it 18 also true that he did not do It but put the extra price he received for hix coal In his own pocket. The wages pald the men In the mines dropped us the orofits of the coal operator swelled his ank account. Now the scarcity of coal has so Increased Its price that the 75 cent duty cuts no_figure and coal from Nova Scotln and Wales {8 belng shipped to Atlantic seaboard cities in 1,000,1on lots. Within a week 20,000 tons of such coal have arrived at the port of New York alone, e Modern Metaphors, Chlcago Herald. These be parlous times, according to thu thinkers of advanced thoughts, and the exigencies of the situation have called forth numerous rhetoriclans whose strong point appears to be metaphor of the Sir Hoyle Roche variety. Not to mention Governor Tillman, who recently proclaimed that his armor was an honest heart, the Nushville American arises to announce that “‘a upas tree |s casting its deadly shade over the bowels of the nation,” while Oklahoma Sam, a silver shouter of some reput the people of the country to ‘rlse I might and throw off the yoke thal ing thelr very vitals." Anatomical meta- phors seem, indeed, to be in favor, for it is only a few (days since Marshal Carl Browne, the hypnotle leutenant of General Coxey, d that libert had been stabbed to the he with poli nen's clubs—the stab- bing belng done when he was hauled off the Krass front of the capitol by one of HMajor Moore's myrmidons. 1t will be teresting to watch the development of t palgn against the figures of rhetoric. orators have only made & beg We shall Bave warm work anon, PEOPLE AND THINGS, Farewell marriage tours will prosently become a popular feature of tho drama. The new comet's appendage banishes the terrors of fly-time. It's tall Is 10,000,000 | miles long. A more equal distribution of the rainfall would form a popular plank in the up-to- | date platform. ! Despite the wide divergen on finance matters, all classes agree on the | necessity of change for the bottor. Christopher Columbus Jones was favored, and justly so, with a reduced sentence. The burden of his unabridged handle was to the | court & recommendation for mercy. r. Cleveland may joke about Shaw's whistling,” remarks the New World, “but there's nothing funny Elijah’ Halford's jubllant whistle at ent." The of opinfons | Mrs, York about pros “What Omaha avthor of Congross Has Done,” {s preparing a_companion mono- graph entitled, “Chips that Pass In tho Night.” Tt will inangurate a new deal in literaturg. A tree in City Hall square, Now York, that once sheltered Washington, was blown down recently and nearly mangled an alderman, Even to things inanimate, temptations are sometimes frresistible. An English exhibitor at the World's fair has returned the medal and diploma awarded on the ground that they are with- out value. Nothing less than gore will ex plate this insult to Chicago Henry W. Grady, a son of the Georgia orator, has just been admitted to the bar at | Atlanta, after passing with credit a severe | examination. He resembles his father both | in appearance and mental endowment. A bug sharp has discovered that the male | members of the seventeen year locusts fur- nish all the nolse, while the female species attend strictly to business. Tho sex of the discoverer Is discreetly kept in the dark Michigan's new senator, John Patton, Is | regarded in Washington as a handcome man. He is compactly built and fs in rcbust h He does not look his 44 years. 1 brown eyes, a slight mustache, and | Is iron gray. Ex-Senator George I Edmunds of Ver- mont has been elected an honorary member of the Union League of Philadelphia, a dis- tinction that has been conferred upon but seven other gentlemen since the organiza- tion of the league in 1863. Charles Harris, the Milwaukee man who wrote “After the Ball,* has just presented to his uncle, Joel Chandler Harris, the Georgla writer, a charming little lakeside property near Oconomowoc, one of the most beautiful of the Wisconsin' spas. Tobacco haters in Boston recently held a speclal memorial service in honor of the late David Dudley Field, who was a cordial hater of the pipe. In view of their close proximity to Connecticut, their dislike for cabbage cremation is not only excusable but commundable. Ex-Congressman Tom Watson may be a blatherskite, but he occasionally says a neat thing, as, for Instance, when he declared the other day that “two years ago we were fed upon the ambrosia of democratic expecta- tions; today we are gnawing the corncobs of democratic reality.” The bill for a greater New York did not include South Daokta, but Gothamites are diligently trying to supply the omission. Out of twenty-six divorces granted at Sioux Falls recently, twenty were to New Yorkers. Still, there are fifty members in the New York colony, and recruits are arriving al- most daily. The junior Green B. Raum is defendant in a divorce suit in Philadelphia. Letters to his wife read In court show him to be a vietim of an enlarged cranium. While at the World's fair he traveled on his shape, und imagined himself an irresistible masher, “They can't help falling in love with me," he wrote his wife, referring to Chicago women. The monitor to the masher's name ts superfluous. The senate began operations on the tarift bill on March 2. After seven weeks dili- gent work one whole section and several paragraphs of the second section—in all three pages—have been disposed of. There are 690 paragraphs in the second section, 105 sections and 231 pages in the bill. At the rate of progress shown thus far, if there are no changes in the senate and {t remains in continuous daily session, there is a possi- | bility of a vote being reached before the close of the nineteenth century. The unpleasant story recently published regarding little Ruth Cleveland turns out to be a cruel fabrication. A correspondent at Buffalo, where Mrs. Cleveland and the bables are visiting relatives, wires the New York Tribune that he has seen the child and heard her prattling to her nurse in a way that effectually disproved the canard. Mr. Perrine, stepfather of Mrs. Cleveland, told the correspondent that Ruth has pos- session of all her faculties, and is more than ordinarily bright and quickwitted for a child of her age. — A Tax on Thrift. New York Horald. A forcible fllustration of the Inqiquity and injustice of the Income tax craze I8 afforded by the clause of the bill which imposes @ tax on the earinings of savings banks. This is really a tax on depositors, and will have to be deducted from the in- terest due them, As everybody knows, these depositors number a muititude of poor peo- le, including many widows and orphans. Plowever small their Incomes may be, they will all be taxed 2 per cent, though the biil purports to tax only incomes of $,000 and upward. Such a measure, besides béing un- just and obnoxious, is well calculated to do widespread mischief. Stamp it out without hesitancy or delay { ean unlock many hoar | Th BLASTS FROM RAM'S ITORN. A life of crime is often the reult of ning in debt, It is fo what we o Ishness to try (o reascn about nnot kuow The day becomes longer evory time & lazy mun looks at the clock. The one who has sufferol has a key that It Is much easler to love scme people than it Is to agres with them Put a plg fn & partor and it would immedi- ately begin to look for mud. When the devil can't go to church himsolf lio always sends & hypocrite. If the devil had to work without a mask le would never leave the pit. Time sots his chisel a little doeper whens er there is a trown upon the fa ctirsantaasiens SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Cloveland has resign Plaindealer: Brother Talmage 1 once and boen fired out three times, but he's there yot. Minneapolis Journal: The Southern Meth= odist Episcopal church conferen: has adopted a resolution recommending union with the Nortiern Methodist brethron. The war separated them, but tho brethren are beginning to realize that tilities were suspended In 1868 St. Paul Globe: A Prosbyterfan ministor horsewhipped by a woman whom he had slandered at Cadillac, Mich., the other day. Clergymen may learn in time *“that he who bridleth his own tongne is greater than ho that taketh a city,” and be greatly the gainers by tho | Minneapolis that Archbishop T A great man and son. mes: Pope Leo declares eland I8 “a good man, learned man and he has all my esteem.” Now why doosn’t Pope Leo, loving the archbishop so much, glve him a red hat? Archbishop John would appreciate the hat, and so would his friends, Chicago Herald: Clergy of the established church in Wales are not lacking in humor. have lssued a protest against dises- tablishment on the ground that it would deprive the poor of thefr legal right to chureh seats. The spirit of Sydney Smith and Deau Swift must laugh at logic which Is even funnier now than it was in their day. Kansas City Star: The preacher in poll- tics has recelved quite an endorsement - at the hands of the Southern Mathodist gene conference. Rev. Dr. Kelly of Tenness who was suspended by his bishop becanse he neglected his flock to make a canvass for governor on the prohibition ticket, has been not only reinstated, but encouraged to run again if he can get the nomination. St. Louls Republic: Without irreverence, we may remark that all preachers who wish to get into politics can learn some pretty good politics and some pretty smooth wird pulling by gett'ng n che inside of the spring’s great religious assemblies. Thero has been an election of cardinals in Burope a marshaling of forces in the Presbyteria general ussembly over Smith, several n dis= puted matters before the Southern Methodist authorities at Memphis and other subjects which have aroused the political faculty in men of the cloth. e SALVE FOR LONG SERMONS. “You know that fellow Chicago Record: ello down the street who has the lung teste Uy 1) “Well, I've got a grudge against him and I'm going NOW to Steer our congressman up against his old machine.” Balttmore American: Among the latest spring openings are the series of earths quakes predicted by weather prophets. Detroit Free Press: She (severely—Henry, what is a_poker chip? He (frankly)_It's a chip oft a poker, 1 suppose. Did’ X Buess it? Buffalo Courfer: Jillson says it is lucky for some men that the law against suicide doesn’t provide a penalty for shooting off one's mouth. Puck: First Burglar—Any luck lately? Second Burglar—No. Worked all night on a safe and when I got it blowed open it was a folding bed. Chicago Times: A Methodist preacher has appointed a whisky gauger at Peoria ground that, to the pure all things are pure, ‘Washington Star: fault finder, Uncle Ehen, “gits mo’ int'rest flum ves'ment dan any uddah man in de wurl’, He kin stah’t wif nuffin’ an’ hab trouble ter las’ ‘'im his whole life LIPSOMANTA IN BOSTON. Indianapolls Journal. A maiden In_Boston he wanted to Kiss, Although ‘twere a kiss frappe, But when he attempted to osculate her The maiden had, something to say. o Sxcuse me, dear sivif T seem to be rude, But bacteriological’ blis p is not what I want, and kiss me you can'ty For microbes exist in a kiss. —_———— HOPE ON! 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