Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1894, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JUNE 10, THEOMAHA DAILY BEE, | PUBLIEHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year...... Dafly and Sunday, One Year. I Bunday Bee, One Yenr. Weekly e, One Year OFFICES, hree Commerce. 5, Tribune DIdg. CORRESPOND! ne relating to o Al communieat L 1 101 matter should be addressed Bt AIl business Jotters nddr 1 Oma be made and remittances should be e Publishing company, . ks and postoffice orders to vable to the order of the o Y. HE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. CIRCULATION ’ says that the STATEMENT OF George 1, Taschuck, Hshing company, b artual number of ing, Bve onth of o E Total SNV 1ot Less deductions for unsoid and o net’ circulation.. B TZSCHUCK in my pres- GEORC Bworn to bofore me and subscribed ence this 24 day_of o) f All Nebraska lead to Lincoln this week, politically speaking. The court holds that South Omaha Is, legally speaking, a town of the second class. Commerclally speaking, however, nobody can say that our thumping suburb is not a first class city. roads Joan of Arc is fo be honored with an an- nual fete by the French people in recogni- tlon of her services to the.state. Joan evi- dently did not dream what was coming or she would not have departed from this earth 80 soon. Heavy rains the past forty-eight hours appear to have been general in the enstern half of the state. It now looks as though the threatened drouth has been avoided, which means a great deal to the people of Nebraska, Judge Jenkins once threatened to resign from the federal bench because he happened to be a director in the suspended Plankinton bank. But there is no intimation of resign- ing when congress casts strictures upon his Judicial actions. No officer has a right to invade the pri- vate apartments of respectable citizens without a search warrant. The wonder is that certain alleged detectives have escaped severe drubbings when their insolent con- duct s considered in the light of the law. Tt was Senator Allen of Nebraska who made the motion to table the resolution to retract the claim of the United States against the Stanford estate for its quota of the Central Pacific debt.. Senator Allen is taking a more active part in federal leg lation than any other recent member of t senate has taken during Lis first year in congress. The federal courts themselves enough business the institution of railway out being loaded up with of an arbitration committee. Congress should seck to relieve the courts of the necessity of interfering in strikes in- stead of forcing them to take a hand whether the parties want them to do so or not. are taking upon relating to strikes with- the duti The question “What shall we do with our irls?” is again agitating the parents of the prospective sweet girl graduate and is now as susceptible to as many different answers as ever before. In the meanwhile the girls have been doing about as they please. This year's girl graduate will probably succeed in having her own way just as her older gister dld when she came home with a di- Ploma in her hand. By afiirming the decision of Judge Gross- eup against the promoters of the bond in- vestment company that was brought to grief at Chicago a few months aso, the circuit court. of appeals announces to the remaining bond investment swindlers that they can have no hope of relief from that source. They have had their day and must now seck pastures new. If they continue to prose- cute thelr business they will only be court- ing conviction under the federal laws. By signing the New York and New Jersey bridge bill President Cleveland may pos- sibly stem the tide to some extent that s rising agalnst him in his home state, but New Yorkers will neyer forgive him for vetolng the original bill. The president’s action has simply delayed the beginning of that great enter- prise by nearly a whole year. A year's obstruction of the traffic between the metro- polis and its New Jersey suburbs is no light matter. —_— Congressman Walker {s complaining of the poor ventilation in the hall of the house of Tepresentatives at Washington. = Does this indicato another raidsupon the treasury by the ventilation tinkerers who have been con- stautly perfecting the ventilating apparatus of the house without improving the vitlated atmosphere one particle? Let congress buy a tent and hold its sessions in open alr. This plan would be more inexpensive and ©auld not ‘be made responsible for the deaths of more congressmen than aro now credited to defective ventilation The Cripple Cresk miners appear to be about ready to capitulate. But who Is to Pay for the time and property lost in con- sequence of their senseless strike and dey- flsh work at the Strong mine? They were getting 33 for a day of nine hours and struck for elght hours, while thousands of idle and starving men were climbing the mountain passes In quest of work and thronging the citles of Colorado begging for bread. Tao these men opportunity to work nine hours for $3 would have been a precious boou, yet It was worth any wan's life to appear at Cripple Creek asking for work. A strike under such conditions eahnot win the sup- port of popular favor. It Is all wrong during the desperate hard times now prevailing in Colorado, and no kind of sophilstry can make it right, ABOLISH THE MILEAGE SWINDLE. Among the frauds constantly practiced upon the national and state governments none are more glaring and impudent than the mileage bills of United States marshals and sheriffs. These ofclals draw 10 cents a mile for presumed cost of travel by rafl, water and stage coach In serving writs, mak- ing arrests of prisoners and conveying pris- | oners and other persons to and from penl- tentiaries, reformatories, insane asylums and other institutions. The marshals and sherifts are not only allowed the 10 cont a mile charge each way for themselves and their deputies, but also for the persons they con- vey. The practice of some of the marshals and sheriffs has also been to pocket part or all the mileage of their deputies, who, as well as themselves, travel on passes all the year round. The 10-cent mileage rate was established from twenty-five to fifty years ago, when staging was the common mode of travel wost of the Missouri and when the railroad fare as 10 cents a mile. For the last ten years at least 3 cents per mile has been the or- dinary rate in Nebraska and staging 1s virtually out ot date, Now, why should the state pay more than 3 cents a mile to any officer or why should the government allow marshals and deputy marshals more than three times as much for mileage as they would have to pay it they were paying fare, The mileage swindle is an incentive to friv- olous arrests and bogus trips to serve papers. It is not only an imposture upon the tax- payers, state or national, but it promotes in- justice and fosters dishonesty. The magni- tude of the mileage rakeoft scarcely be overestimated. The records of the auditor’s office at Lincom show that the mileage Dills of the late sherift of this county during his term of two years aggregated about $4,500. The actual fare paid it no passes had been used could not have been over $1,000. It cost the tax- payers from $30 to §30 every time a truant boy or a girl was sent to the Kearney re- formatory, and for every prisoner taken to the penitentiary the charge was from $10 to $12 for mileage, besides other expenses for hacks, meals, etc. Why this mileage swindle was not abol- ished years ago is incomprehensible. No greater allowance should be made to any of- ficer than actual expenses, for which vouch- ers should be required in every Instance. THE ERA OF ECONOMY. The American people are more liberal con- sumers than any other people In the world. Taken as a whole, they have more of the luxuries as well as the necessarles than the people of any other country. The wealthy class of Americans perhaps do not live more generously than the opulent classes of Eu- rope, but the middle class here unquestion- ably live better than the corresponding class abroad. The large majority of the people of the United States have more of the comforts of home, dress better and spend more for eating and drinking than the majority of the people of Great Britain or Germany or France do. This has been the case during the last thirty years, or the period covering our great Industrial development under the policy of promoting domestic in- dustries. The effect has been to educate the masses of the American people to a plane of living which the masses of no other nation are familiar with, and they naturally resist every effort to reduce them from this What the average American working- man regards as starvation wages may be considerably more than the workingman in the same line of employment in England or 1y other European country recefves, but this does not weigh with him when the con- sequence must be a relinquishment of some of the comforts or even luxuries which he has been used to having. It seems to be necessary, however, that everybody should recognize the apparent fact that we have entered upon an era of cconomy, the duration of which may be prolonged for years. Indeed, there is in- telligent opinion that we may never again have In this country the high average of prosperity that marked the past thirty years; that capital cannot hereafter make such gains as it has done and that labor must not expect to command such com- pepsation as It has recelved during the pericd of our wonderful material develop- ment and progress. Those who think this way may take a somewhat too pessimistic view of the future, but they certainly have scme substantial reasons for their position. This country has gone ahead at a most extraordinary pace and its productive capacity Is admittedly far greater than fts ability to consume. With our industries fully employed the annual output leaves a large surplus over the home demand, for which other markets must be found or stocks accumulate to an extent that will compel periodical curtallment of production in order to work off the excess. To enable our manufacturers to competo in other mar- kets with those of Burope the standard of American wages cannot Yo maintained at the point it reached during the progress of industrial development and while we were producing no more than we consumed and much of the time a great deal less. It s not necessary that the wages of American labor should be reduced to the European standard, because our labor is more efficient than that of Europe, but they cannot re sonably be expected to be restored and re- main at the relatively high point reached In the past, under phenomenal condi- tions of growth which it is hardly possible the country will ever again experience. Then the outlook for the agricultural interest, which 13 the basis of national prosperity, does not promise 5o high an average of pros- perity in the future as it has had. The low price of the principal agricultural prod- ucts of which we produce a surplus, and the increasing competition with us of other agri- cultural countries In the markets of the world, convey the warning that the farmers of the United States need not look for a return of the high prices of wheat and other products of which the surplus is marketed abroad that they have heretofore received. Capital, also, will have to be satisfied with emaller gains. Of course there will be a generally lower range of values, so that the dollar will represent more In commodities, but the margin between income and neces- sary expenditure will be less, compelling the observance of greater econcmy, Nobody needs to be told that the practice of economy Is now general among our peo- ple. The well-to-do, the professional man, the merchant, the banker, all feel the neces- sity of exercising more than usual prudence in exponditures. With millions of the peo- ple there Is an enforced economy more severe han the great majority of them have ever known before. Deplorable as are the privations experienced by many the lesson the people of this country are learning will not be valueless it it is wisely considered. It ought to teach that con- sorvative progress s the safest, that ex- travagance is as unwise for a nation of peo- ple as for an tndividual, and that there must always come a day of accounting and of seltlement. This great country, with fts inexhaustible resources, will again be pros- can plane. perous, There can be no doubt of thi But the prosperity that is to come will, there 18 reason to belleve, be on more con- servative and safer lines, and therefore probably more enduring or less liable to extreme changos, ILLEGAL ¢ HES AND SEIZURES. The high-handed proceedings that have been going on in this city for a week past, in which men under the cover of their pre- tended authority as members of the detec- tive force have been entering into private houses unbidden, searching through the rooms, Insulting women and making un- warranted and impudent demands upon de- fenseless persons whom they happen to bave found, constitute an invasion of the rights of citizens which calls for merited The securlty of the home is one of foundation stores of Anglo-Saxon Frem time immerforial the freeman's house has been his castle which no one dare invade except at the peril of his life, Freedom from seizure or Imprisonment except by the law of the land was affirmed by the battle-won magna charta, and the law of the land even at that early time demanded the production of a specific warrant by the officer who sought to selze any person or thing. This doctrine was engrafted on tho foderal constitution by the amendments adopted as a bill of rights and it s found in every state constitution now in force. The provision of the constitution of Ne- braska on this subject is a verbatim copy of the fourth amendment to the federal constitution, It reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and selzures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon prob- able cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.” This means that searches can be Icgally made only after the officer has pro- vided himself with a specific warrant which comes up to the standard of definiteness prescribed by the constitution. General warrants are not to be recognized as suffl- cient authority, because they leave it in the discretion of the officer to apply them arbitrarily to any person or place that he might choose. If mo search can be legally made upon a general warrant there is not even the shadow of authority for a search made without any warrant at all. When- ever there is probable cause for any search which appears to be demanded by the cir- cumstances, the judiclal machinery is at hand to supply the warrants as soon as the requirements of the law are fulfilled. In the absence of such warrant the officer who undertakes to make an illegal search Is as responsible as any private citizen for the injury which he commits. And, although application should be made for a searcn warrant, it Is never to be issued for the purpose of obtaining evidence of an In- tended crime, but only after lawful evi- dence of an offense already committed. The recent fllegal searches In this city have thus infringed upon the constitutional guaranty in every possible direction. It s not a question whether people of questionable reputation are to pe permitted to evade the law, but whether the right of the people as a whole is to be violated with impunity. Without the safeguards thrown about the home by the constitution no one would be certain of remaining there un- molested for a moment. All that would be needed to justify breaking Into the pre- cincts of a man’s private residence would be an allegation that he was of suspiclous character or that he might, If left alone, be contemplating the commission of a crime. Our government has been instituted for no sich interference with the citizen's private affairs. The constitutional guaranty against illegal searches and selzures is an invaluable civil immunity that must be defended against invasion, whether by usurping officials or by public servants pretending to act under colorable authority. MUNICIPAL AUTONOMY. The question of municipal autonomy, which has been brought prominently to the front by the recent revival of interest in the promotion of good city government, is at- tracting peculiar attention in several quar- ters just at present. It Is the question what position & city ought to occupy under the law and the constitution In relation to the legislature and to the people who reside within its Jjurisdiction. The subservient place which the municipal corporation holds under the existing legislation has been the occasion of no little friction, to say nothing of actual corruption and abuses, whenever cities have sought to have thelr powers amended or enlarged by the state legislature. With us the municipal corporation is a creation of the state, just as private cor- porations, and is subject to the various restrictions and conditions under which in- corporation is permitted. The municipal cor- poration is a public corporation, however, and therefore may have public duties im- posed upon it, In which case It i held strictly responsible for the proper exerclse of those duties. In thelr exercise, more- over, they are constantly subject to the orders and*directions of the legislative body, although they cannot shift responsibility upon the principal in the actic Thero Is also a reverse side to this per- petual interference of the state legislature with the organization and powers of ipal corporations—charter tinkering, as has come to be universally know time of the legislature Is monopolized. every session by bills to amend the laws gov- erning different clties in the state. Not a year passes that the city of New York does not ask for legislation relating especlally to it. In 1830 only one such act was passed; in 1880, 146; In 1893, 80. In Nebraska, where the necessity of passing general laws on this subject is enjoined by the constitution, the situation is not much better. The gen- eral laws in reality apply to only one or two cities, and each legislative_session sees dele- gations at the capitol asking that innumerable amendments be incorporated into the statute, The biennial process of amending the city charter begins before the legislature con- venes and ends usually but a short time before it adjourns. The plan for municipal autonomy pre- sented by President Low of Columbia college to the. New York constitutional convention last week contemplates the definition of & fleld of action in which the municipal cor- poration shall be free from legislative inter- ference. This ‘might be done in several wayi—Dby specifying the subjects over which the municipality should have exclusive con- trol and leaving all others to the legislative body; by specitying the subjects over which the legislative body may exercise control and leaving all others to the municipality; or by lmiting the fleld of each and glving welther residuary power. President Low in- clines to favor the first mentioned method and prefers a division along the lines that have already been drawn in our law of municipal corporations between what are known as governmental functions and what aro known as municipal functions. The AR rebuke the freedom. state would reserve,4a itselt the ulumnu-‘ control of the police PiFloxcise, hoalth, edu- cation, courts, charitié dnd corrections and elections, although it would be at liberty to delegate the work under these headings to the municipal government If It so de- sired. The city would by the constitution be left to regulate its own affairs that come under the general designations of streets, docks, parks, city works, bulldings, fire de- partment, corporation counsel, ass ments, collection of taxes, finance, audit, admiinistra- tion, salaries and choice of local officials. There would of necessity be other limitations on the exercise of these powers by the mu- nicipality, but the restrictions would be Im- posed by the constitution and not by legis- latlve enactment. Within the field mapped out to it the municipal autonomy would be protected, not only against the citizens and other municipalities, but also against the logislature ftself. The only method by which the municipal administration within this fleld could be altered would be by the will of the cltizens expressed through their votes, and the ¢nly way their power to make such alterations could be curtalled would be by the process of constitutional amendment. TRADITION WITH RUSSIA Resolutions have been introduced in both branches of congress for the abrogation of the extradition treaty with Russla. They request the president to give notice to the Russian government that the United States desires to terminate the treaty, which was ratified In April of last year, at as early a date as may be. A petition has also been sent to the president and to congress, by the soclety for the abrogation of the ex- tradition treaty with Russia, setting forth the objections to that treaty, most or all of which were made public during the pen- dency of the treaty in the senate. The ecir- cumstance which has renewed attention to this subject was the refusal of the Rus- sian government to grant the request of Rabbi Krauskopt of Philadelphia, an Ameri- can cltizen, to visit Russia, his object being to ald persons of his race and religion to move from thickly populated parts of Rus- sia to those more thinly settled. It is as- serted that under the treaty of 1833 between the United States and Russia Mr. Kraus- kopt has a clear right, as an American citi- zen, to visit Russla, bul it appears that he preferred not to exercise this right with- out permission from the Russian govern- ment. His intended mission was entirely philantbropie in its nature, and the refec- tion of his request furnishes another illus- tration of the narrowness and intolerance of the Russian government, and especially of its hatred of a people whom it has cruelly and mercilessly oppressed and persecuted, It is a valid objection to the extradition treaty that a free government like the United States cannot consistently encer into such an agreement with a despotism like Russia. The radicat-difterence between the political systems and the legal methods of the two nations forbids the idea that they can hold such relations to each other as are involved in an extradition treaty upon cqual terms. Any congession made to a government like that ofj Russia by this re- public, in the way of dxtradition, must be made at the risk of sadtificing some essen- tial principle of freo imstitutions. It is the opinion of many intelliggnt Americans that this has been done in the existing :treaty, and therefore the demand for its abrogation. In ratifying the extradifton treaty there is no doubt that the meriate acted contrary to the judgment of a mafqrity of the intelli- gent people of thecOuntry. ~ The press, trrespective of politics; was nearly unani- mous in opposing ' ratification, and there were strong petitions from some of the best citizens against It. There Is one respect, it has been remarked, in which the resolu- tions for the abrogation of the treaty will have a great advantage over any previous proposition on the subject. They can and will be discussed openly, at any rate in the house. An open discussion of this treaty by the representatives of the people, which would clearly disclose the public opinion re- garding 1t, is to be desired. Meanwhile tho efforts of those who ask for the abroga- tion of the treaty should be zealously directed to obtaining as strong an expression as possible of public opinion in the form of petitions to congress. It is not question- ablo, we believe, that could the volce of the American people be heard on this subject It would be overwhelmingly in favor of the United States withdrawing from this agree- ment. 2 EVADING THE 1SSUK, The way in which the opposition to the woman suffrage movement In New York state has been conducted must strike tho impartlal observer as a cowardly evasion of the real question at issue, It may be that the opponents have “been actuated by a sentiment of gallantry, or that they have been from the first so certain of thefr suc- cess that they have deemed an open con- test unnccessary. Yet they have by their action conveyed the Impression that they were afrald to make a vigorous campaign. Instead of defining the issue squarely they have simply sald: “Women! You do not know what you want. Some of you want to vote. Some of you do mot want to vote. Most of you haven't given the subject a thought. Get together among yourselves and anything you decide upon will be accepted.” This of course Is a mere subterfuge. It ls but a temporary makeshift. It is, further- more, evidence of the reluctance of tho men to shoulder the responsibility which rests upon them of deciding the matter. It has, none the less, been the provailing argument against woman suffrage In New York and 1s agaln being resorted to for the same purpose in the Kansas campaign. It seems to have become so attractive that even Governor Crounse, in his otherwise excellent article in the current North American Re- view upon the woman suffrage movement in Nebraska, Is led to venture the pre- diction that If at any time the general wish of the women of the state shall be for the elective franchise he has no doubt that it will be accorded to them. 1f, as is sometimes clalmed, the suffrage 18 & natural right, the desire of woman to exercise it ought to cut no figure whatever. If it is a natural right every woman is entitled to it whether she asks for it or not. Of course on this assumption we could not stop with woman suffrage. It would carry with it the suffrage for every alien who might be domiciled temporarily within our borders. It would enable the Indjan and the Chinaman to vote. It could not con- sistently draw the line at the arbitrary age of majority, but would have to confer the franchise on each boy OF girl so soon as he manifested sufficlent intelligence to go through the process of casting his ballot. Rejooting the natural right doctrine, how- ever, as overy Intelligent person now does, we must lay down certaln qualifications as nocessary to entitlo one o ask for the privilege of the suffrage. Is the expressed desire - for. & thing an mfallible test of capacity to use It? If so the children of 10 years of age have only to agree among 1894~ TWENTY PAGES themsel that they want to play wuh] torches to establish their clatm to the com- mand of such playthings. The judgment of the majority of the interested parties is to be taken as the standard. No one, how- ever, will want to admit this as a seneral rule of action, The woman suffrage question then resolves itself into a question of expediency. Not “Do the women want to vote,” but “Ought women to be allowed to vote?' Its probable eff et upon the upon the nien, upon the government, fs important, Whether the women would make use of the suffrage if they had it has a bearing on the question. But give us all the women In the land unanimous in thelr request that fthoy be allowed to vote and the men who rre voters will still have to meet the Is- whether the requast 18 a women, now sue and reasonable decide one A Pennsylvania grand jury which was in- structed to Investigate the death of a man who was lynched by a mob has gone through the farce of summoning and questioning witnesses and has finally made a report that it Is unable to discover any one to whom the responsibility for the affair could be traced, All this was natural enough and merely a repetition of what transpires in nearly every similar case where the authorl- ties make a pretense of trying to get at the culprits. There is not a lynching in the country where the perpetrators could not be identified if the local officials- did thelr duty from the first. But for the very reason that the mob usually ro- celves tacit encouragement from the of- ficlals and other people of the community its members are seldom brought to answer for thelr lawlessness. Pennsylvania grand Juries are no different than grand juries in other states. That must have been a wedding with brilliant prospects at which two members of Kelly's Industrial army were united as man and wife. It anything were needed to show the recklessness of the Industrials as re- gards the future this would be conclusive evidence. Here we have a couple marrying who have been for months without work and who are on thelr way to Wash- ington ostensibly to urge congress to give them an opportunity to work. A man who marries in this condition cannot even have any hope of being able to support himself and family for some time to come. Ho doubtless argues that he cannot be any worse oft than he now is and that marriage may possibly improve his chances of getting along more comfortably. His companions, however, should not be encouraged to follow his example or else we may eventually have a continuous line of the Industrial army genus. Roscher, the eminent German economist who died last week, was one of the founders of what is known as the historical school of political economy. About the middle of this century economic study had fallen into ruts on the lines laid down by tho succes- sors of Adam Smith and Ricardo to such an extent that students and practical men were repelled by It rather than attracted to it. Whatever we may think of the merits of the historical method, to its in- troduction under Roscher and his assoclates is due the reawakening from which the science is undoubtedly a great gainer. His own contributions to economic theory are scant Indeed, but his historical sketches are excellent and alone give his great work an imperishable value for convenient refer- ence. Roscher long ago attained a per- manent | place in the history of economic literature. The criticisms of “Creme de Mynt” upon the Omaha girls published in last Sunday's Bee have raised quite a storm of adverse comment, not alone among the Omaha girls, but also among their admirers, who hold down desks at the packing houses and who collect notes for the banks, who feel that the slurring allusions to them are unwar- ranted and unjust. Few of the Omaha girls profess to seek a position that would rank them with the “swelldom” of the east and consequently do not care to have thelr ac- tions judged by the standard that prevails there. We print two or three protests that have been called forth by the article in questlon, which attempt to set forth the merits of the other side. The Omaha girl cannot fail to profit by the discussion. Kansas City and Denver papers have be- come puffed up because a few national or- ganizations have recently chosen those cities for their annual conventions. The newspapers omitted reference to Omaha in that connection. Our people have but re- cently entertained the Hibernians, are now entertaining the Congregationalists and next woek will have the pleasure of throwing the doors open to the homeopathic doctors. Conventions of national importance are partial to Omaha. "They never come once that they do not want to come again. Here they get pure, bracing air and plenty to eat, while at Kansas City *ney get nothing but smoke and cinders, and about all Den- ver has to offer is thin air and scenery. The Most Effective Protest. Chicago Inter Ocean, The protest of the business men of New York doesn’t cut much of & swath among the bosses of the administration at Wash- ington. But walt a spell, and the business men will have their innings. The present race of tariff tinkers will go like the dew beforo a summer sun upon the first ballot. Repudiation In Chlcage Chicago Heralk It has been the boast of Chicago in the past that, even with the catastrophe of the great fire to cripple her resources, she never tolerated even a suggestion of repu- diation of her debts. It remained.for a ecullar sort of Chicagoan to stain her onor #o far as possible by refusal to pay the claim of the injured French exhibifors at the World's fair. And there is plenty of money on hand to pay the claim. —_— Thelr Doom Sealed. New York Post. The prize fight and the lottery die hard, but they are dying. Louisiana and Florida are now the only two states in the union where the laws permit prize fighting. The governor of the former, in his recent mes- sage to the legislature, strongly recom- mended the passage of an act which will put an end to it, and It {s expected that the suggestion will be followed. No doubt seems to be felt that the next legislature in Florida will pass a_similar law. The lottery, driven out of. Louisiana, has se- cured 'a temporary foothold in’ Florida, through a change in the old law secured stealthily by its agents from the last leg- islature,” but public sentiment is so pro- nounced against the evil that vigorous ac- tion seems assured at the next session. —p———e Barons Tighten the Scrows. New York World. The action of the combination controlling the output of anthracite coal at this time 18 a plamn object lesson for the publio touching the purpose and morality of mo- nopolies. The general strike of the miners of bitu- minous coal has caused a scarcity of fuel. If the natural laws of trade and competi- tion were working unrestrictedly the effect would be that the owners of anthracite coal mines would mine and sell as mnuch coal as could be disposed of In place of the soft coal. The controlling desire would be to sell a large quantity and get hard coal into use where it had not been used before. The effect of the strike has been quite contrary to this natural effect. The monop- olists of the anthracite coal flelds have voted to restrict the output Instead of en- largng it, and to raise the price. They thus comspire to cause & coal famine for thelr enrichment, SECULAR SHOTS AT THE rrr. Philadelphia Bulletin: Now that Rev. Dr. Smith has been sent to join company with Rev. Dr. Briggs, it will be in order for them to start a church of their own. As men of conscience they can no longer r main in the Presbyterian fold, for they have ceased to bo Presbyterians. If they decline to retive the logic of the eituation will demand their expulsion as herotics They eannot carry old-fashioned Presbytert anlsm on one shoulder and mild infidelity on the other Indianapolis Journal: A controversy in an African Methodist Episcopal church at Princeton, 11, kas resulted completely breaking up the congregation, with a singl exception. The pastor's wite, falthful among the faithless found, still sits under his ministry, though everybody else has She pliys the organ and acts as audi- ile he preaches and gives out the , Which they both Join In singing n congregation fs at least very com pact and homogeneous Springfield Republiean: The latest sug- gestion concerning the method of serving wine at the communion would have the pas- tor or deacons carry a towel with which to carefully wipe the edges cf the cup after each communicant has partaken. Just im- agine the spectacle and give the genfus who originated this suggestion credit for devising the most effective means possible for roh- bing the communion service of all solemnity Boston Globe: A Je City Methodist has sued the church there in which he used to bo a power for $100 damages. It seems that the church had been hiring one of the deacon’s houses for a parsonage, and when he got disgruntled and ordered the church to vacate, the trustees took out the amount of an urpaid subscription’ of the -deacon's from the last installment of the rent. That made the deacon hopping mad, and he says now that unpald subscriptions shan't be gathered n that way, even It he has to carry the matter up to the United States supreme court —— PEOPLE AND THINGS, | Soclety in Portland, Ore., Is decidedly in the swim, The volce is the voice of the sel the hand I8 the hand of Havemeyo The Columbian flood is a confluent of the deluge that engulfed the political hopes of Pennoyer. The duke of Westminster's estate is 80 great that its valuation is measured by mil- lions of pounds, The running sore In Rosser's mouth fsn't a circumstance to his activity running for shelter thirty years ago. Prof. Garner, the monkey philologlst, short, sturdfly’ built man, with dark, eyes and ourang-outang whiskor During the last presidential campaign Mrs. Gougar reccived $5,000 for fifteon speeches delivered in Massachusetts, Mrs. Gougar certainly speaks for herself Nature has been exceedingly lavish with Pennsylvania, nor has she ceased to bestow favors on that fortunate reglon. A baby Just born there is supplied with web feet Governor Waite spurned a serics of speeches prepared for his benefit In the vi- cinity of Bull Hill. Bloody Bridles feels competent to do all the talking necessary. A Chicago judge decides that striking a person with two pounds of butter does not constitute assault with a deadly weapon. The court declined to take judicial notice of the strength of the weapon. A monument surrounded by a statue of James Monroe is to be erected in Rio de | Janeiro. A statue of Admiral Denham training the guns of the Detroit on Da Gama’s scurvy crew would be more appro- priate and expressive. William C. Van Horne, president of the Canadian Pacific railway, whom the queen has just made a knight commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, is a native of Illinois, and began work as a tele- graph operator at the age of 13. Mrs. Hetty Green, a New York miser, has given the pernicious tax gatherers a cold shake by transferring her boodle across the water. 1t Hetty and her kind could be in- duced to migrate with their goods the country would have cause for rejoicing. Chicago justly boasts of a hero who plunged nto Chicago river to rescue a drowning man. Voluntarily and unhesl- tatingly he faced sewer death, dashed Into a sea of squirming microbe, and plucked a struggling human from a clammy embrace. Cheors are seant recompense for such daring. Give him a new sult of clothes or a monu- ment. A notable wedding occurred among the pre- Knickerbocker residents of New York last week. Mrs, Holy Blanket, a swarthy Sioux widow, and Mr. High Bear were made one by Rev. John E. Lioyd, in the presence of a distinguished cosmopolitan company. The bride wore a handsome gown of draped army blankets, their carmine tints harmonizing with her radiant complexion. The lovely skirt was trimmed with a profusion of old point polka dots, bemeath which peeped a charming pair of embroidered slippers. The corsage was heap V shaped, fringed with a rufle of real ochre. An accordeon-pleated smile and bear's teeth ornaments completed the bridal trousseau, The bridegroom wore a tuft of rare feathers in his hair and the air of a martyr. His manly frame was en- wrapped with the regulation government toga, the trousers, frayed at the end turned up and fringed with snake rattle Buffalo Bill gave the bride away, and Rocky Bear and Flat Iron did the honors for the bridegroom. A delicious wedding breakfast of stuffed Newfoundland dog was served in the tepee of the Ogalallas. but BLASTS FROM RAM'S HOR A profuse tongue plays the devil's muste. A lost opportunity never finds its way back. Most people believe fn the total depravity of somebody Virtue never stops cause the banks break A lle feels easy only when It forgets that paying dividends be- | 1t has a truth on its track The man who tries to decelve himselt decelved by the devil Religlon has begun to starve whenever It beging to walk with its hands in its pock= ets You can generally tell how much roligion A man has by measuring it with his own hait-bushel Every man out of which he will only make a erop others s has opportunitios and talents a rich harvest may come, If BO at it in earnost and try te SALVE FOR LONG SERMONS, Detroit ammar) uls the Frea Pross What papers) acher (to class in I8 syntax? Johnny (who Ten dollars or thirty xas Siftings: 1 man of veracity ? ) you consider him & Tey?" “I say, do you constiler him a man of veracity?”" '“Well," there's no tellin’ what he might do if he was mad and had a gun.'” Milwaukee Journal: People who know you are right are not always anxlous to have you go ahead well Courler: A sitting hen 1s Axious as to the outcome of her she broods over it constantly. quite mission; “Do you feel rtoms, “dootor?' has promised Chicago Inter alarmed _about Doctor—Not now to pay the bill Ocenn tanks' syr His fathe Philadelphia figures ame easy ra have Ledger A. Mackintosch the men pulled tn a speaks They might have expected to found him umong wet goods. Harvard Lampoon: G do you bell Yes, ( o, orge—Amelia, dea © that love s blind? Amella: darling. George—Then, dear, any need of keeping the gas burning. Detrolt Tribune: He drew her close to his bosom. me heart,”” he yhispered, “is all I want She smiled radinntly, “Yes (her voice was low and musical), more would he superfluous, as the circulas tory system Is arranged.” Indianay bitfonis “Yes, lis Journal; * a prohls n't you, Uncle Bildad?" fd the ofd man, “I am, T don't believe in usin’ wotter fer any other purs pose than a heverase That wasn't exactly meant to say, and he people smiled. EARLY RISING. Washington Star. It is fine to see the sunbeams overtop the eastern hill Bards have ever sung of sunrise, and, most likely, always will; But he who loves that morning nap, will certainly agree That the jolliest kind of sunrise is the kind you do ne what the old man couldn’t see why SE il Many or the Few, Donahoe's Magazine. business depression and _econom! of the past few years have been ue to a drift away from the strict principles of equality. We have invited class distinctions by legislation that pits one line of activities against another, All classes are not permitted to keep step in the march of progress. It Is bad statess manship to set thousands at tofling in the ditches fn order that one man may live in ease-on the mountain tops. To grow an acre of corn to abnormal proportions and permit fifty acres to run to nubbins I8 not £ood agriculture; to put two behind a shop counter in order to keep brother at college 18 not good policy. A common step upward in cducation or business is better for a thousand people than many steps up for one person only Statesmen keep thefr on the great average of men, made substantially homo- geneous in character through the educating stimulus of a efvic pride and spirit. 1f our educated men inot see this, as many of them cannot, they must go 'to the wag- faring man for wisdom. It will not be the first time that the many have taught the few in political affairs. P OLD-TIME DAY James Buchanan in_ Harper's Weekly. T can see the river gliding, as it used te long ago, Round the shoulder of the meadow where the thick-set willows grow I can here it purl and ripple, Tullaby, To a little’ barefoot dreamer gazing up into the sky. Yonder lie the brown old farm house, crown’d with chimney huge and square, And the barn, beloved of swallows, with its weathercock In alr. I can hear the river ripple blend with cow bells from_the hill, And the far-off clang and rumble of the log- frame in the mill, How I loved to lle a-dreaming in the deep and quiet grass ‘While I watched the ghosts of noonday through the flelds of heaven pass! I was happy—Oh, 80 happy!—while the purl- ing of the stream Seemed to weave o little poem for the music of my dream! Oh, to taste once more the pleasure that I knew In years gone by, ‘When my heéart was full of sunshine as the summer morning sky! Oh, to feel that outdoor gladness when the days were fresh and long, And the bluebird climbed to heaven on the ladder of his song! in a gentle A& P for good value, then yo These are the kind of pric: are Hi. HEN a worthless article is sold for nothing —costs you something to get it home. But when you get the finest quality and the lateststyle suits for $8.50, $10, $12 and so on and boys’ suits for $2, $3 and up, accompanied by our guarantee ‘Browning, King & Co., 8. W. Corner 16th and Douglas. s P A B 5 M gh‘ u get a bargain, indeed, es to look for, i | : ?