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

THE OMAHA BEE. ’|_"H EOMAHA DAILYA ATER, Fditor OF SUBBCRIPTION Sunday), Ono Year. TERMS o (without o and § Montii duy 1t urdny | ekly Omaha, T th O inell 1 1 and 15, oo, No W UESPON DENCE. ns rolating (o nows and sdl To the Bditor. IB8 LETTHRS and remittances should be o Pablialing company, and postoflice orders to v of the company 26 PUBBISHING COMPANY Al comy torial matt * OF CIRCULATION. t The 1 1l and complete copi Byening and Sundi nth of May, 1594, W printed qbrin Tollows: 703,187 Total o Tess deductions for unsold [ ‘coples i) % s net circuta JEORGE D, nd subscr 1504, i, Sworn to hefore me ence this 24 day of Jun N. P. No important legislation is to be expected from, the lower house of congress this week. Bryan will not be there. The senate has advanced from wool to silk. In the meantime the people are reced- ing from cloth to rags, Premier Crispl keeps his head in moments of emergency, although he has been officially decapitated on more than one oceasion. Bullet-proof coats are the latest European fad. They will soon constitute an indispens-* ablo garment in every gentleman's ward- robe. The question scon to be once more de- cided is: Do the janitors run the school board or does the school board run the Janitors? Boss Croker insists that the object of his Buropean trip is to witness some of the turf events on the other side of the Atlantic. Mr. Croker knows enough now to keep off the grass. Two more senators implicated in the sugar certificate speculation, one through purchases by his son, the other directly through his own dealings. No federal legislation has been more steeped in corruption than the sugar schedule of the new tariff bill. Stiver cnin will be accepted In Omaha this "% week In liquidation of all debts that may be contracted by the delegates to the confer- enco of free silver democrats. This is one of the special inducements upon which tho promoters of the meeting rely to secure a large crowd. The deputy United States marshals have made a big haul on the first day of their out. ing, but the marshal himself will reap a regular golden harvest. Those mileage bills at 10 cents a mile for the army of deputies traveling deadhead will yield enough revenus to enable him to stand the brunt of the whols democratic campaign. Is it not about time to have the Douglas county republican central committee con. vened for the purpose of issuing its call for the primaries to elect delegates to the stato convention? Calls have already been Issued In several counties, and there is no reason why Douglas county should defer its pri- marles to the very last day. Reorganizing the police force cannot be accomplished by dismissing incompetents and mischief makers alone. The vacancies must be filled by men whose reputations are unsullied and who give promise of im- proving both the discipline and the efficiency of the department. Too. much care cannot be exercised in completing the corps of officers in command of the force. - Past experience ought to teach a useful lesson on this subject. After all the squabbling and mutual re- erimination it looks as if New York wera going to hold on to the Indian supply depot. @hicago, in the interval, however, remains a branch depot. But it is not likely that she will cease her efforts now, particularly after having given New York so hard a fight to retain it. When the main depot finally comes west Omaha ought to see to it that a branch warehouse is established here. It 18 bound to come west before many years elapse, Senator Vest explained on the floor of tha senate that one of the purposes of putting Wool on the free list was to discourage the manufacture of shoddy. How doea this com- port with the democratic position that the power of taxation can be constitutionally ex- (ercised for purposes of revenue only? If it 18 unconstitutional to encourage Industries by means of tarift duties it is equally un- constitutional to discourage Industries by ‘Qiseriminating in favor of foreign Importa- tions. We have levied a tax on oleomar- garine In order to discourage its manufac- ture, and similar treatment of other articles might possibly be defended It they are con- sidered detrimental to the public weltare, A democratic senator, however, ought to be the last person to propose such a thing. It only goes to show how untenable the tarift for revenue only idea is. The gathering of a mob te force the fail and the subsequent revelation that a large body of colored people had organized to combat any attempt to lynch Sam Payne by force of arms suggests the imperative necs- sity of a more rigid enforcement of the laws and ordinances agalnst carrying concealed weapons, The right of citizens to carry asms In their own defense is Inviolate, but the prevalling habit of carrylog fire arms aud other deadly weapons by persons who aro disposed to use them on the slightest provocation fs a constant menace to public safety. There is mo reason whby any man not an officer should be permitted to carry concealed weapons about his person unless B life has been threatened or he can show #ood reason why he s obliged to carry them in self-defense. Hero s a fleld in lch the police can make Itself uscful. | contry THE IDLE CURREXCY. The people who are demanding more ocur- rency, on the ground that an increase of the circulation would stimulate enterprise and rostore business wotivity, ignore the fact, It they are aware of it, that nover before idle currency in the and never were the the financial centers Large sums of money have recently been offered In New York without finding takers at 1 per cent per annum for three months, and good four to six months' commercial paper, according to the New York Sun, can be sold at from 2% to 3 per cent per annum. Call money Is r cent, but in many instances The same conditions, It appears, prevall abroad. In London call money is quoted at % per cent per annum and discounts for three months' paper at a fraction under % per cent. In Paris and Berlin the Interest of money, though not so low as it is in London, is still much lower than It has been for years. The banks of Butope are overflowing with gold. The Bank of England has $180,000,000, the Bank of France $350,000,000, and the Bank of Ger- many $175,000,000. The Austro-Hungarian bank, also, as well as the national treasury of Austria-Hungary, has accumulated a large amount of gold to prepare for the approach- {ug resumplion of specie payments In gold and tho establishment of that metal as the standard of value in place of silver, to be completed during the year. It will thus be scon that all the great nations have an abun- dant supply of money, and that a great deal of it is unemployed, though those having it are offering it at extraordinary low rates. A writer in the New York Sun says that while the accumulation of idle money is an unfavorable symptom, in that it shows a diminution of activity In business, it is nevertheless a valuable practical refutation of the fallacy so often repeated and so ve- homently insisted upon, that ‘there is not currency enough in the country to meet the requirements of trade, as well as that other fallacy, equally often repeated and vehemently asserted, that the world’'s stock of gold is not sufficient for its business needs. The scarcity of currency last sum- mer when the panic was at its worst was due to hoarding, which the panic inspired, and it disappeared as soon as the panic had spent its force, “At no time before or since,” says the Sun writer, “‘was there any lack of the currency necessary for business transactions and if at the time enough cur- rency could have been created by any mag- ical process to satisfy those who asked for it merely to hide it away In safes and vaults the stock of it now lying idle would be at least double what it is, if not more. That the panic was not the result but the cause of a lack of currency is proved by the fact that In three years previous to it the silver purchases under the Sherman act had cre- ated $150,000,000 in legal tender notes, and that the exports of gold to which it is as- cribed by some were not as great when it commenced as they have been this year without creating the slightest alarm.” Nevertheless the agitation for more cur- rency goes on. With hundreds of millions of currency un- employed and no demand for it at the tempt- Ingly low rates of interest at which it is offered, is it not utter folly to demand that the supply be increased by the addition of a thousand million dollars or more? To what proper or legitimate use could this additional currency be put? That is a question which the advocates of currency inflation: do not satisfactorily answer, nor can they. What is needed is not more currency, but confidence that what we have can be safely invested, and confidence will not be restored until the conditions which disturbed and impaired it are removed. With the tariff disposed of and the fact settled that the currency is to be let alono there Is reason to believe that the pre- vailing disirust would largely disappear, and when that is the case there will be a re- sumption of business actlvity. - It would be no lelp to this result, but rather tho reverse, to resort to currency inflation. was there ®o as at of interest lower than much present, rtes at now. nominally 1 p it is unlendable. PREMIUMS FOR NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. The only way to judge our new system of awarding contracts for naval construction with contingent premiums for excelling the prescribed standard of speed set by the specifications and with the risk of incurring penalties for falling to come up to that standard is by the results that have been achieved under it. As was naturally to have been expected, the premiums paid have ex- ceeded the penalties exacted both: in number and in amount. The first four vessels of the new navy were not built under the premium system alall. As introduced, that system gave the bonus for the excess of horse power de- veloped, both premium and penalty being $100 for cach unit above or below what the contract demanded. So the Yorktown, with 398.25 surplus horse power, earned for its builders $39,825, the Baltimore $106,442, the Newark $36,857, the Concord $453 and the Bennington $3,600. After ithese vessels were ordered a change was inaugurated ap- plying the premium to the speed rather than to the horse power, upon Which the speed depends only in part. The sums to be pald are adjusted at so much per quarter knot in excess of the prescribed speed, odd quar- ters not being counted. Under this plan seemingly enormous premlums have been carned by some of the recent additions to the American navy. The Philadelphia and San Francisco earned $100,000 each for .68 and .62 knots of excess respectively. The Bancroft, at only $5,000 a quarter, with the remarkable excess of 2.37 knots, earned $45,000. The three 2,000-tonners, Detroit, Marblehead Montgomery, at $25,000 a quarter, with 171, L44 and 2.05, earned respactively $150,000, $125,00 and $200,000. The New York, with an even knot, at $50,000 per quarter, earned $200,000. The gunboats Machias and Castine, on the same basis as the Baneroft, made 246 and 262 surplus knots respectively, the latter belng the top record thus far, and of coarse earned $45,000 and $50,000. The fine and fast Pacific cruiser Olympla, guaranteelng 20 knots, really at- tained 21.09, and, .at $50,000 per quarter, earned $300,000. Finally, our erack Colum- bia earned $334,000 and the builder of the vew Minneapolis 1 counting upon securing $400,000 in premiums from tion, As to offsets of penalties for failure to come up to specifications there have been none thus far for speed, although there have been threo for horse power. These were those of the Charleston, with 383.84 units be- low the requirement, glving a penalty of $33,084; the Petrel, with 4.85, yielding $485, and the Mouterey, with 328.23, and. $32,823. The Charleston’s penalty was, for good rea- sons, remitted by congress. The promiums thus far earued for speed and horse power aggregate the great sum of $1,852,186.40. The subtraction of the penalties of the Monterey and Petrel make the net payment $1,118,~ §78.40. This sum will ba further licreased by perhaps $400,000 for the Minneapolis, with the Iudiana, the Massachusetts, the Oregon, and her construc- DAILY BREE: MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1894, | the Towa, the Drookiyn and the Briesson in | have ventured to asgpqt that all the improve- due time to be considere. The system of speed promiums, then, has brought out a wonderful capacity of our ship buflders to excel in the construction of fast war vessels and to exceed even the former stringent speed requirements of our naval engineers. The vossels thus built are in a position to keep up with and overtake any other large vessel which they may be ordered to purs It is claimed further- more that this speculative competition has actually seoured much lower bids from the contractors that would otherwise be possible, whilo the additional speed attained s i vory case worth the additional money that was paid for it. With the speed limit fixed as it has been there Is a practical certainty of a good round premium and the contractors count upon this when making thelr ofters. The experience up to this time seems to Justify all that was expected of the new system, and to warrant the report of tha houso committee on naval affairs that it has been “‘productive of the most satisfactory re- sults, A PERMAN No western city outside of Chicago is as favorably situated for a permanent interstate exposition as Omaha. Within a radius of 150 miles we reach out Into the heart of Towa and Nebraska and into the most pro- lific sections of Kansas and South Dakota. Omaha fs the natural entrepot for the coal, iron, ores, petroleum, soda deposits and precious minerals to be found in the Black Hills and in Wyoming. Fully one-third of the siiver and lead ore of Colorado, Utah, Montana and Idaho finds its way into the Omaha smelter, and the cattle raisers of the great corn belt and cattle ranges of Ne- braska, Wyoming and Montana find in Omaha their most profitable market. With all these products drifting Into her lap there 1s abundant material for a permanent Inter- state exposition that would exhibit the soils and minerals of a dozen states and territor- fes and present features that would be object lessons for investors and people who desire to engage in farming, mining or any enter- prise that would flourish in the central belt of the greater west. What is wanted s a building constructed with a view to making it convenient and safe for the storing and display of the raw materfals and industrial productions of Towa, Nebraska, Missouri, South Dakota, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana and the region on the Pacific slope north of California. It would take several years to complete the collection, but a very attractive display could be made within the next six months by the aid of the various railroads, mining companies and other par- ties heavily interested in the development of the transmissouri country. There is material enough now in the city of Omaha to make a very respectable exhibit, and that, t0o, ex- clusive of any display of the home Industry people. In order to make a proper beginning an organization should be perfected looking toward the enlistment of the necessary capl- tal and procuring of the specimens of agrl- cultural and mineral wealth and manu- factured products. An interstate exposition and museum gotten up on the scale commen- surate with the vast resources at our com- mand would bring thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of dollars into Omaha every year. And as the years went by the exposition would assume greater proportions and make Omaha more favorably known. As an investment the exposition might not be remunerative the first few years, but as an advertisement of Omaha and the terri- tory commercially tributary would be of in- calculable benefit from the outset. MEXICO WANTS THE CHINESE. Mexico, it appears, does not entertain any prejudice against the Chinese, but on the contrary proposes to invite them to “ome to that country and to offer them equal rights and privileges with the people of other couns tries. A treaty Is being negotiated betweern China and Mexico, the ratification of which is sald to be assured, that is most liberal in its: terms and cannot fail to establish relas tions at once intimate and mutually ad- vantageous between the two nations. It provides for enabling Chinese residents of Mexico to become naturalized citizens, with all' the rights of native-born citizens, and Chinese coming into Mexico are to be shown the same consideration that 13 accorded to people of the most favored nations. In al matters of commerce, the statement regard- ing the treaty says, the Chinese will be per~ mitted to enjoy the same privileges as are granted to other foreign nations, while the Chinese government will extend the same privileges and courtesies to Mexican citizens who may go to China and engage in com- merce in that country. It is reported that w great many of the Chinese in California will accept the opportunity to go to Mexico which the treaty will give them, and it is very probable that it will result in depopulating the United States of Chinese. The liberal policy of Mexico in this matter is in strong contrast to that of the United States, and undoubtedly that country will de- rive very material advantages from it. There is opportunity in Mexico tor making good use of a large amount of Chinese labor, and in addition to the population of a few hundred thousand from China would be a valuable help to the development of the resources of Mexico. There is not an oversupply of labor there, for the Mexican does no more work, as a rule, that his necessities compel him to do. Like the people of all southern coun- tries the Mexicans are not Industrious, nor are they a thrifty people. Of course such a people will not be troubled by competition in labor, so that the Chinese who go there will be in no danger of having such experi- ences as they have had in this country, With thelr willingness to work long hours at moderate compensation they will have no difficulty in obtaining employment, and Mex- fcan laborers will not interfere with them. Commercially the treaty will undoubtedly bo of very great advantage to Mexico. It will largely increase, in the course of time, the trade between that country and China; to their mutual benefit, From every point of view this policy of the Mexican govern- ment seems wise. Whather this invitation extended by Mexico to the Chinese to enter that country without restriction and to become eltizens thereof will ultimately have results troublesome to this country only time will determine. If tho invitation is as freely accepted, as It probably will be, it is quite possible that in the courso of years the Chinese population of Mexico will become excessive and that the attraction of larger opportunities in the United States would induce a movement of them to this country. It they eame here as citizens. of Mexico our present laws exclud- ing Chinese would not reach them. Such a possibility is, bowever, 50 remote that it need not now occasion any feeling of appre- hension. The returns of the city assessors show the same it not greater disregard for the law prescribing their duties as the returns of the assessors for the county precincts whish we have already criticized. Both of them show positive decreases in the total of tax- able realty when compared with the totals of last year, That s to say, the assessors ments of the past yek have besn more than counterbalanced by the shrinkage in values. This of course Is i Tiatter of opinion upo which peopls may!jproperly differ, but it dues not affect the question of assoasing property at its real value, as the law re- quites. The asses§ora have proceeded this vear, as in proviqudiyedrs, to fix the valua- tion at a small fraction of what it ought to be. The difference between the assessed valie and the ostmted true value Is great as over. 'Phfsanot only necessitat a nominally extfavaghnt tax rate, but operates to the détedment of Omaha irvestors who compare this city with other cities. The line of tax reform lles in tho enforcement of tHa law and the assessment of afl at its actual value. as it with revenue property The argument in the maximum freight rate case s reducing to mathematical exac ness some of the matters in relation to rail way construction and financiering of which the people have long been convinced in their own minds. That the great bulk of the cap- italization of Nebraska railroads is nothing but pure water is a matter of such common notoriety that it ought not to be necessary to give statistical proof of the fact. The figures adduced, however, are conclusive. Tho Sugar Plum Line. Washington Star. Mr. Havemeyer rests boldly upon the proposition t it 1s no disgrace to be found talking with a United States senator. —~ Infallible Sign of Clvilization. Detroit Free Pr South America fs rapldly coming to the forefront of civilization. = A banker was recently arrested at Buenos Ayres for em bezzling several millions of dollars, This is an evidence of advancement that must be considered infallible it M S, A Legisintive Curiosity. Globe-Democrat. In wool the tarift bill is for free trade; in sugar it is for revenue, chiefly private; in collars and cuffs, to please Senator Mur~ it is for prohibitory week adds to its be- fety and contradition. As a /it will occupy a place of Its own in the records of legislation, with a yery long tag attached giving the cost. Chicago Dispatch. Outside of the convention hall Tuesday the leader of one faction slipped his mouth over the finger of the leader of an opposing faction. While the work of mastication S suc fully progressing the last leader grabbed hold of the first leade vocal chords and vanked. Thus the L';\Inimlull of education |s fairly launched and Issues are set squarely before the people. S et Shun the Deadly Stuff. St. Paul Ploneer-Press. Ice water is a more deadly poison than prussic acid in these hot summer when gulped down in the draughts with which the overheat per- son usually seeks to allay his burning thirst. Iced water or iced lemonade should ve drunk cautiously in small quantities at a time. To inundate the stomac with ntities at once is like pour- s on a heated stove, and is the digestive furnac How About Sugar? New' York Sun. The democraticoparby is not for sale at any price. Wool @nough: to cover the globe would not bribe the demoeratic party to discard its principles, flaunt its own honor- able history in the fake, trample upon I own record, and commhit the unpardonable sin of delibérately»betmying those who had trusted it into the hamds of their enemies. So long as the incomertax, the platform of the populists, is lgft in the tariff bill, the democratic party Is ‘bound to refuse all dealings with Its advocates, and to stand immovable in thé determination that its own hpuor and the expeetations and inter- ests of its friends cannot be bought. The time for the sale of an entire political or- ganization in the United States has not yet come, A 'Efisely Rebuke. Milwaukee Bvening Wisconsf. Governor: Crounse of Nebraskd' 'rendered an important service yosterday in publicly and pointedly rebuking a callow college professor who had been invited to dellver the commencement oration . at - the Uni= versity of Nebraska, and who, fmproved the opvortunity by ‘ventilating ’some pet socialistic theories” which he had evolved from books, and which had no relation- to existing, social conditions and only very remote relation to the truth. Such theorists, especially in their at- tempts to instruct young men and women, are public mischief-makers and a menace to our institutions. Fortunately for us If we have a blunt old Governor Crounse to “call them down” every time they make fools of themselves. gt Recollections of BII Tweed. Globe-Democrat. Europe may be a haven of safety for Croker, but Tweed found it otherwise, though' he tried to, hide himselt in Spain; In 1870 Tweed gloried in his possession of $20,000,000. Three years later he was sen- tenced to the penitentiary for twelve years. On his first trial for forgery and grand lar- ceny the -jury disagreed. On the second trial he was found guilty on all the coun In two years the court of appeals released him, when he was rearrested on an old indictment, and again found himself behind the bars. 'He escaped to urope, but in less than a year was back in his old quar- ters in Ludlow street jail, where he died in 1578, The civil verdicts against him footed up over $6,500,000. The quaking confeder- ates Croker has lett behind find 1ittle come fort in the study of Tweed's fight with Nemesis. il No Masimum Rate Fremont Leader. Tt will be well for the people of the state to keep their eyes on the mode of conduci- ing the maximum freight rate case on be- half of the state now pending in the federal court: There are several things that would ‘seem to indicate that there has been no determined effort on the part of the El attorney to contest the jurisdiction of the court. ~ In the opinion Of the best lawyers In the state this should have been tested before any other question should have been considered or testimony taken. Why is not such a course pursued? The attorneys who appear for the state are understood to be to quite an extent under domination of the corporations and gave heretofore worked in their interest. © We must be excused it we do not have great confidence in them. We must remember that the republican’ party has shown itself opposed to the freight rate law, and these men all belong to that party, and althoush the bill was signed by a republican gover- nor and supported by a very few members of each house by that party, every effort has been made since that time to discredit the governor and other members of that party who supported the bill e The West n Sugar, New York Press. The republican purty made sugar free and reduced the cost of this necessary of life to every consumer In the United States It established the bounty system, which in creased the production of beet sigar in the west 400 per cent In three years, and which will bring the west.s Fevenue of more than 100,000,000 annually’ it it Is maintained for the' next ten years, democratic ent to Mr. to adop! uggle. teaders in the senate, Clevéland's orders, have a_ schadule which will in- crease the price of Sugar a cent and a half the first day of uext.January. The sum thus_extorted from, the people will exceed $10,000,000 a year; ahd every cent of It for the first two y Wikt go into the pockets of the Sugar trust, which is allowed, by the Cleveland-Carlisle sschedule, to import free of duty all the raw Sugar its agents gan purohade abroad whd ship to the United States before Januaiv,b 1€ wax not enoush that the trust should ‘have license to plun der the American people. Its shrewd man ers saw in the mainificent development of the beet sugar mdustry the prospect of the speedy overthrow of their immensely profitable monopalys .. They demanded @ Sehedule which should erush that industry, and thelr agents in thé administration and the senate promptly oheyed the command. Subservient senatvrlal cuckoos and demo- cratle senators whose pocketbooks are swollen with the nrofits of recent Sugar speculations may disregard th volce of Conscience and patriotism and yote for this outrageous scheme of robbery and confisca- tion when it comes up for final action, But what excuse oan Mr Kyle and Mr. Allen, the popullsts from South Dakota and Ne: braska, offer to their constituents if they vote to impoverish the whole west, and to tax the American people $0,000,000 a year for the enrichment of a huge monopoly? Senator Peffer has assumed a manly and patriotic position on this queation He Stands squarely on the antl-monopoly plat- form of his party, and shaws that ho s de- termined to defend the people who elected him. The vote on Sugar in committee of the whole was not decisive. The real test will come later. When it comes will it find Senator Kyle and Senator Allen on the side of the. people or on the side,of monopoly ? | ! | THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR. Lincoln News: Ross Hammond shows some signs of revolt agatnst the established order of things. He Is trying to boom Henry D. Estabrook for governor, when everybody knows that the republicans proposa to nominate Tom Majors or Jack MeColl to that position. Strang Reporter: The Mafors governor has seemed to be on the wane for the past few weeks, No one Kknows just what is the matter with it. It is apparently consuming itself with dry rot. If the re publican convention had been held threo weeks ago Majors would have boen nomi- nated. If it weroe held now, he would have to fight for it. On August 22 he may not be in it at all, Holdre boom for nds stic of Jack and foel good ehance to head ticket this fall. He Citizen: MeColl are growing certain that he has a the republican state has a host of friends in the state who arc very anxious to see him in the Rub natorial chair. Mr. McCoil has the rey tion of being a clean and able man, We never heard a word said derogatory of him in_any respect and we think that spoaks well for him. Soward Reporter: Lincoln men are nol 80 very mbitious for office, after ail. 1 M. Raymond of that city announced himsel! didate for the republican nomination ernor, but on Monday he issued a letter stating that he withdrew his name on acount of the great sacrifice of his busi ness interests which would be involved. Mr. Raymond has a large number of friends and would have been a formidable candidate His withdrawal makes the fight apparently a duel between Majors and McColl. North Bend Republican: The Ropublican has it on good authority that while in Fre- mont last month General Thayer ®ld to several of his comrades that Jack MacColl went to Canada in 1863 to escape the draft Of course the charge against MacColl is a lie. He was only 12 y old in 1863, and he did not come to the United States until 186 If the opposition to MacColi % going to stoop to such dirty tricks to secure what they want it s high time that the people know it. Gen- eral Thayer should be above being a party to any such contemptible trickery. Fullerton News: The name of Hon. George D. Meiklejohn has lately been mentioned in different parts of the state, especially in Lincoln, in connection with the governorship, it being felt by his friends that he could unite the party as no other man can. This plan might be a good one, but it won't work, as the News happens to know to a dead cer tainty. Mr. beiklefohn doesn't want the nomination for governor and wouldn't have it under any consideratio. He will be a candidate for congress in the Third district this fall, fosion or no fusion, and will at- tempt to knock the political filling out ot any man or pair of men the opposition may put up. And he will win. Wakefleld Republican: On account of his excellent service as governor of this state, and in a trying time at that, because of his sound judgment and_thorough honesty, we are still in favor of the renomination ot Governor Crounse for a second term. W believe it to be worth much to the good financlal standing of our state at home and abroad to have so able and honest an execu- tive as Governor Crounse at the head of af- fairs. The republican party can win with Crounse at the head of the ticket, for peopls generally know him and respect him. It is a bad year to make any experiments. Tho political sea is too much troubled for any but tried and seasoned timber. The conven- tion might do well to renominate Governor Crounse by acclamation. This would effectus ally quash the Majors-MacColl contest for the nomination, it would demoralize Brad Slaughter's machine, and in the end please The fr enthu. everybody but a few politicians. e THE SUGAR INFAMY, Courler Journal: Havemeyer as a politi- cian seems to be neither better nor worse than the majority of our professional states- men who seek to unite business and politics. Chicago Times: Mr. Havemeyer brazenly acknowledges that the Sugar trust is fatten- ing off the people, but it is suspected that the United States senate has been aware of this disgraceful fact all al-ng. Globe Democrat: Bo:s Havemeyer frankly says that the pending tariff bilk will increase tho cost of sugar to the consumer 1 cent a pound, which signifies that there will be several reasons for opposing the democratic party in every package of sugar bought by the average citizen. Buftalo Express: Supposing that Mr. Have- meyer has told the truth, and the whole truth, the most ardent supporters of the pending bill cannot escape the fact: The sugar schedule was lobbied through by the president of the Sugar trust and his assist- ants. They had facilities for meeting and talking with senators which were denied to all others. As a result, they got the bill changed the way they wanted it changed. Great is the Sugar trust! Chicago Herald: Mr. Havemeyer, accord- ing to the Washington dispatches, told Mr. Gray's calciminers that he could give the amounts of the Sugar trust's contribution to various campaign funds, but that he was advised that the amount of such contribu- tions was no part of the fnvestigation. “Th committee also took this view of the matter, is the laconic language of the dispatch, and it 1s not surprising that they did. An inves- tigation would probably have disclosed the fact that several members had large chunks of pork concealed about their respective per- song. Minneapolis Times: The senate cannot es- cape from Its responsibility to the country in this matter. If it takes Mr. Havemeyer's word for what constitutes a proper question it will never find out anything to his dis- credit. 1f it accepts his word it will be gravely suspected that it has taken some- {hing besides his word. The testimony of Havemeyer on the stand is the most brazen since the Panama scandal was ventilated in the French Chamber of Deputies. It is a national scandal, involving moral turpitude co-cqual with the operations of Tweed and his gang. Chicago Post: One can imagine with what pride the democratic members of the committee reflected that this was the con- .piracy and here the man to whom they had been made to crawl on their bellies. The trust was organized to extort money from the American people on a neessity of life. It has no other purpose or reason for existence. Yet democrats in congress, false to the principles of the party, and cowardly beyond description, have chosen this con- spiracy as the chicf beneficiary of its wretched tariff compromise, and, as If money enough were not already wrung from the purses of the poor by it, have voted it a gift outright of $50,000,000. Immigration at a Stundstill, Philadelphia Times, Immigration is at a standstill, a natural sequence to the business depression prevail- ing the past year, and the prese promises to take the place of the of the year 1856 While in some r this may be attributed to the industria ression, a leading reason is that the traffic b pild tickets has been set aside 1 law. Fully half the ha been wiped out, us dents are no longer able for relatives and friends. Those returning to Hurope have likewise told discouraging stories of the situation on this side, and this has had due effect. The steamship companies have also profited by experience, and are care- ful about acceptance, as they find that the commissioners of immigration know whom to take as desirable citizens. From Octo- ‘ber to Iebruary thé immigration was 51,646, against 119,576 for the previous period, and from February to May it has fallen off more than one-haif, The danger from fresh inroads of forelgners after land rather sales f forelgn-h to send than wages I3 ulso ove 8 the induce- ment to take up claims Do longer existd, the national domain being about exhausted. Sl ©ruel and Dixcreditable. Washington Star. Long distance horse racing in the United States was born and has died at Chadron, Neb, It will be remembered that the cow- boy race to Chicago last summer started from that previously unknown little settle- ment in the northwe er of Nebraska; there was a good d at may falrly be termed “fake' stion with the event, and the by horses and riders failed to prove anything that may have been in doubt. Oné day k nine horses started from Chadr run of 100 miles, and within twenty-four hours four of the horses died of exhaistio It is said that managers of the race are much disappointed, because they simply desired ‘to test the staying qualitics of western horses, and did not Intend any cruelty. It I8 decldedly discreditable to Nebraska that the law there should be in such a condition as to permit a race of that sort, but it will be Infinitely more discreditable to the state and the big- hearted west generally If those who ure responsible for the killing of the animals are not prosecuted to the law's extreme Hmit, DEMOCRATIC DISASTER. Norfolk Nows: growing weary waiting for dollar wh Perhaps Mr. Bryan wil oxplain the when his circus opens in Omaha next Thurs. y Arapahoe Mirror: The silver conferen to meet In Omaha June 21 will no doubt be a lafge gathering, and {t ought to be an enthusiastic and harmonious on No one will be permitted to speak who doesn’t be lievo In free silver colnage at a ratio of 16 to 1. 1t will do the demoerats good who attend. They will resolve to stay with the democratie party and seck the reform de sired at the hands of the democratic party Let the free silver lads confer, but don't mistake this conference for the Nebraska democratic state convention hat will bo Neard from later. Beatrice Democral thoir zoal to anticipate Mr. in the matter of fusion, lis fool have gone further than No wish more conservative followers ar to right things. Mr. Bryan's idea was a fusion of the popullst and democratic par ties. It was not his original intention to try and split the democratic party and carry the small fraction over to the pops. That iden was incubated by Hitchcock and tho crowd who wera sat down upon in the state convention a yoar and as they conld sea that they staod no show with their pop ulistlie Ideas in a democratic convention, they appointed themselves a committee, with power to appoint other committees, who in turn had power to select dolegates for a so-called “free silver democratic conven- tion The idea that so undemocratic a move ment should have the word ‘“democratic attached to It shows Mr. Hitcheock's estim: tion of democracy. He evidently Imagines that he and Smythe arc the democratic and his long association with narrow- republican rings has made him be- hat the selection of delegates and mittees by a close corporation Is dem- ocratie, But the fire has got away from them, and they have called upon Dr. Miller and Euclid Martin to consult with them and suggest such measures as in their judgment will be acceptable to a democratic convention. They have abandoned the idea of 16 to 1 silver, and will resolve for a free and un- limited colnage of silver, and at a ratio that shall preserve its parity with gold They will endorse Cleveland’s administr: tion, but will ask that Mr. Bryan be no inated for governor. It 1s understood that Mr. Bryan appreciates the necessity of ha ing a solid democratic support, and that Bd Hall, Bowlby, Casper, Ong and other rad- icals will be put to sleep with their 16 to 1 ideas, The work of the gathering is now being done by the Omaha committee, upon the lines suggested by Dr. Miller and Mr. Mar- tin. The “‘convention” will have completed its work, with the exception of speeches even before it assembles. Mr. Bryan ex- pects to have a platform made that will not offend democrats, and he will rely upon his own personality to appease popuii Thus the sooners will occupy the rear benches, and it is even doubtful if Judge Hardy s accorded a place on the program with the speechmakers. 5 LABOR NOTES. Nebraska farmers are It seoms that Bryan's fr and his now trying Kansas City, Kan., now has a trades as- sembly. 3 Lynn, Mass., has a labor church. The number is growing. Garment workers organized unions in Maine recently. Mine owners of England are about to put in coal cutting machines. The Firemen’s Brotherhood spent $16,000 for benefits during March. The various railway brotherhoods of Bos- ton established’a labor lyceum. Detroit trades council resolved that union men should not join the militia. An effort 18 being made to introduce eight hours in Norwegian railway shops. Socialist co-operative society at Frameries, Belgium, cleared $28,000 in the last year. Three thousand union garment workers of W York secured a Saturday half holiday. Cigar makers granted six charters during the last month and won a strike in Chicago. Adams Express company employes are forming branches of the American Railway union. Bellaire Nail company shut down on ac- count of shortage of coal and coke. Twelve hundred idle, Ot 180 bottlers in Philadelphia, fifty-five have given up selling beer made in a boy- cotted brewery. Reuben Hadfield, labor organizer of Akron, 0., calls for volunteers with $250 capital each to'start a co-operative colony. Five of the central organizations of New York appointed committees to make another attempt to amalgamate the centrals. Brussels, Belgium, has a co-operative bak- ery, operated by soclalists, which has just made a 20 per cent cut in bread. In 1890 the society had 100 customers, now it has 9,000. Delegates from the various railway brother- hoods held a convention in New York and resolved to watch legislation and also con- demned partisan politics on the part of workingmen, declaring that they should be Independent. The Dundee (Scotland) Courier has dis- patched two lady correspondents around the world to investigate, in the various coun- tries, the questions of woman's work and wages, and other questions of interest to women. They expect to travel about 26,009 miles, and their investigations will doubt- less prove to be of great value. four new Ny Men's Suits, in size 33 42 Sults, been selling at #10.00, now $ 94 Sults, been selling ut 812,50, now 6 Sults, been selling ut #18.50, now 79 Suits, been selling at $156.00, now n selling ut §18.00, now 20 Suits, been selling at $20.00, now 8 Sults, been selling at $22.60, now 11 Sults, been selling ut $25.00, now 4 Suits, been selling at 824,00, now 346 Suits at exactly half dolay | BTl RIS ek at Hall PriCe —mea of a kind, sometimes more. them before inventory—take your size at half price. 10.00 11.25 12.50 14.00 and Tuesday on account of the rain. the window and on front tables in the store. Browning, King & Co., W. Corner 15th and Douglas. PEOPLE AND THINGS, Perhaps Croker werit abroad trial of stoeds with Rosebery Portland, Ore., presents unrivaled clalms to the title, “The Venico of America.” Advices from Kentucky give color to the report that the war is not quite over, Dreckineldge 1s now falling back on his ancestors, They are too dead to resent It. | Adlal Stevenson Is diligently working & dential boomlet on revolutionary fesy Senator Quay took a turn at Sugar stock | without the intermeddling of a discrect valet. | The renomination of Governor Leweling i likely to intensify Mrs. Lease’s nervous prostration Sens Ing he of to arrange or Brice can more re his constituents After considerable dodging the senate e vestigators are slowly uicovering the Sane | dowes of tho candy pull | The residents of Aberdeen, 8. D, prayed for rain, and rain fell. The ingredients of the as Is a municipal seeret Man goeth forth In the morning with ums brella and mackintosh, and lo at noon he perspireth for a straw hat and a fan cnator Teller has so little regard for the presidency that ho would not accept a noms ination If tendered on a silver platter, Prof. Glibehin ventures the opinion there 18 nothing in the British constitution prohib= iting a_prime minister from talking through his derby. Boston and San Francisco contributed much toward the clevation of the stage. Chicago distances both by operating a theater on the roof of a cloud scraper. General Kelly committed an unpardonable offense fn attempting to “run in a bluft” on a Kentucky mayor. That functionary, promptly raised him out of town. The doctors and undertakers having dfs- cussed and disposed of perplexing problems, the mound builders should get together promptly and cover up what remains. The Rocky Mountain News gives two slumns of " reazons why Governor Walte jould not be renominated. The News ls charitable. It would save him from an un- merciful drubbing at the hands of publio disappointment The deluge in Oregon has gone down suf- ficlently to enable the occupants of local Ararats to venture into the valleys and view the dead. The result of the political rflow Is thus figured: Republican state 3 populist 751; democratio, 5; prohibition, 1,592, Out of respect for tho feelings of the friends of the deceased parties further details are omitted. i e BOUQUETS OF MIRTH. Ivocates free wool, believs adily pull it over the eyes About the only chance a Plain Dealer: has is to burn with poor gas consume indignation. There 1s often cloge re- Lowell Courfer: oked actions and lationship between desperate straits. Harper's Bazar Madam, have you the e for this pie?” sald the tramp. Yes; would you like to have a copy of madam, but I should like to destroy ginal,”” Said the tramp. Brooklyn Bagle: The Heiress—Do you think he is really a count? I'm afraid not; he sn’t braced me for a single loan ‘since we've been introduced. Detroit Tribune: “What do you mean by saying Goober is on the homestretch? “He is trying to get a ten-room family into a five-room house. ngton Star: Bunkins is soel- ally ostracised.” ‘ompletely an_outcast.” “ompletely. His social status is so low t he couldn't even lend money to & titled foreigner.” “AwW, New York Press: that you are always in debt? be ashamed of yourself, Jabson—Come, now; don't be too hard on a'fellow. You would, perhaps, be in debt, too, if vou_were in my place. Babson—What place? Jabson— to get credit. Babson—How s it You should Chicago Tribune: “Great Scott! What are they applauding that fellow for? He's 5ot a voice like a sawmill and he sings out of the side of his mouth.” ) “'Sh! They're trying to keep him on the platform till the boy they've sent after the cabbages and tin horns comes back."” PROPHECY FULFILLED, Richmond Dispateh. “The day is not far distant, dear, When we will fly,” He sald, Inventive progress clear To his mind's eye. About an hour succeeding that Her father grew Contiguous, and from the flat Henricus fle el OUR NIGHTS ARE COOL. Nixon Waterman in Chicago Journal, No matter where you choose to go, From Maine clear down to Mexico, We don’t know why they tell us 80, But yet it is the rule For people everywhere to say In some quite reassuring way, ““Oh, yes, it's hot here through the day, But then our nights are cool.” We've heard this story till we're loath To disbelleve it under oath. We may be deaf or dumb or both, But still w not a fool. We quite believe if one should go To Satan's burning realm below He'd say, “Our days are hot, you know, « But then our nights are cool Batr xR to 44--sometimes one siz® We must get rid of 5.00 6.25 6.75 7.50 9.00 51 Boys' 2-Ploce Suits 14 yonrs) olored. worth hoard of B, wolling hoya' Bults for ¥1 before? price continued Monday See them in