Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 11, 1894, Page 4

\HA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNINC = SUBSCRIPTION One_Ye enr. TERMS OF Dally Bee (without Sundny Duily Ttes and Sunday, One Blx Months Three Monthis H Bunday Ltee, Ona Yeir PFuturday Tee, Ohe Y Weekly Hee, One Year OFFICES, Omaha, The Nee Duilding. Counll Wuims, 12 Pearl Street Chicagn Ofice, 817 Cliamber of New York, Iooms 13, 14 and 1 Washington, 1 N cor DEN niea nie to nows and edi- wldresned: To the BAItor. LETTERS, ances should be company. Pwenty-fourth Commoerce. Tribune BIdg. W B, ANl comm ortal mutter s All addres Omaha, 1 be mad buain, and remi 1 4 Publishing nd postoflice orders to iy the order of the company PUBLISHING COMPANY. LATION of The Bes Pub. wworn, ways that nd complete coples ne and Sunday Hee July, 1891, was os OF CIRC ng_duly ot af full ning. K month il Dully M. il ot 10 21168 21181 "0 1 unssid ana returne 18,451 7700 ) Total sold B Datly average net clrcil *Sunday. GEORGE . TZSCHYCK. Sworn to betore me and subseribed in my pres- ence this st day of August, 1504 (Seal.) N. P. FEIL, Notary Pub Nominations thick and fast nowadays. are coming Denver appears to be coining the money with which to ercot mint fu Phila- delphia. a new —_———— the populist other part Whatever tax s safer tarift bill. income of the happens, than any The position of each political party upon the question of the present depressed cond thon of the country's Industrics: “I didn't do 1t.” Why not organize a house and a senate base ball club and fight the disagreement out on the diamond with the republicans as spretators, Fifth district republicans swallow every- thing but 16 to 1. One step further and they might have gotten hold of the financial plank of the populist convention. Mililiamen at $1 a day are cheaper than deputy sheriffs, and then, too, the state pays the bill. But military government is dear at any price. It Is not exactly the kind of gov- ernment which the American people prefer. The democrats are refolcing over their wonderful victory in Alabama merely to set the precedent by which they can exult over carrylng Mississippl, Georgia, Texas and the rest of the solid south when they find that they have nothing in the north from which to draw a ray of consolation. Not to let the tariff conferees have a _monopoly on deadlocks, the conference com- mittee having charge of the immigration bill has developed a deadlock all for itself. The fashion Is now set and wo may expect dead- locks on every piece of legislation which originates in one house of congress and Is amended in the other. If Gorman had attempted to deliver his famous speech on the president's Wilson letter in the house instead of in the senate he would probably have been declared out of order by Speaker Crisp and compelled to deosist and take his seat. Speeches of the Vilas order are the only kind encouraged by the rules of the house. The frills on our public school system are 1o be found everywhere from the kindergarten to the training school. In dispensing with them the Board of Education should make a clean sweep, The common schools are for the benefit of the common people, who want the substantinl basis of a fair education. Let the people who want the frills pay for them. County Judge Baxter deserves credit for going after delinquent administrators and ex- ecutors. It has become a matter of common belief that once get an estate into the hands of a court's appointee and it is likely to re- main tied up for an indefinite period of time. The object of administration is to settle the claims against an estate and to do it ex- peditiously is the first duty of the adminis- trator. It is gratifying to note that the returns from the Omaha clearing house again show a balance on the right side. This week's total volume of business is 244 per cent greater than that of the corresponding week In 1893. While the aggregate Is not so large as has been done in times past, the fact that it shows so large an increase must Dbe pleasing as Indicating the passing of the clouds that wgathered here a year ago, The school board may as well make up its mind at once that Omaba will have to be content with its present High school bullding for several years to come. It I3 Idle to figure upon replacing it next year with a more commodious structure, Untll the board's finances take a decided turn for the better the maintenan of existing facilities for education will be all the burden that the taxpayers ought (o be called upon to bear, Favoritism in the enforcement of the per- manent sidewalk ordinances must cease. The injustice of compelling one property owner to Jay stone walks while his neighbor is per- mitted to patch up his rotten planks 1s alto- gother too flagrant. The work of enforcing the ordinances should commence in the cen- ter of the city and spread out toward the suburbs. There is no longer an excuse for a single plank walk in the business area of the elity. 1t is really discouraging to note how some people find it absolutely impossible to get the distinction between prices and values driven into their skulls. The inflation of the eurrency will, it must be conceded, in- crease prices, although the Increase would be very Irregular. Its effect upon values, how- ever, will depend upon the irrcgularity of the Increase in prices. It would actually decrease the values of certain goods In an approximate proportion to the fincreass in the values of other goods. When it is sald that free colnage would increase prices there Is no admission whatever that it would In- creaso values generally. The price of labor is always the last to rise on the market and in the process of currency inflation the Jaborer 18 bound to get the worst of it WHY NOT ARBITRATE sherift and his deputies have in South Omaha by five te militia at urgent and TRIKE? The bheen | roinforced panies of ats of the packing honse The tro protection of cost of a military ceed $500 a day $15,000 for thirty saddled he quest yards mana question are Kkept lte a torce of $3.,000 1. now s to be upon the taxpayers of the dollar large, tha be spared will be ne sottlers farms by the drouth. What a the strike will be butehers ien overy for led of distress rel have b surance d and th a month? have W suppr At turbu subdued within we likely ath not just as to have as much nee in & Omaha days us we is seek in in sixty hav lay? This mat ter, trouble rifle ey course w try other f under, to have a very serious and those who to solve all r with the bayonet and repe whole ng tontly do not comprel this uld nevitably drive th coun sueh countries into militarism, as Germany and ign It one class of property ¢ are now groaning viiers are have ver they a of privilege military protection whene with employe have the month lisagreement sses of employers must There some manufacture but | Is Sup- scarcely a builder or a strike a strike plumbers, is contractor kout makers embroiled in or a | of o tailors, bakers for that Suppose that any one of these trades union should oceur South Omaha or Omaha, would not the eivil authorities expected to exhaust all their resour the effort to maintain order before any troops alled in requisition? We had than 100 builders' strikes trades strikes in Omaha within last ten and yet called assist his contest the strike mutual con- pose there fs or bricklayers, coopers, or hod-carricrs, matter. strikes in be to in have and the been were more union years, out to with Petered cession. We believe that the South Omaha can and should be amieably adjustd is no why the packing owners should not at least meet their former s half way by accepting their prepo- sition to existing diffc It is all very well for them to ass.rt that they have nothing to So far the public knows there is little or no hifference the prevailing scala paid and the of the butchers. If this fs true, why can't this difference be harmonized in stead of putting the county anl state to an enormous expense just the nity of the Suppose the pack:rs come out vietorious at the end of a long sicge, of which the state pays the expense, how long will it be before the leg- islature will make and put the stock yards under state regulation, just as has bren done in Illinols and Wisconsin with grain clevators and warehous The Bee has no dispo violence and intimidation, or lawlessness, but it believes grievances of workingmen and difterences between them and their employers ccn be adjusted by arbitration, every effort should be made to avoid conflicts and restore har- mony by mutual concession. This govern- ment must either be maintained by civil authority, or we shall drift into a miitary despotism which will override all law by force, have in every case no any employer In or was settled by troops strikers out ronhles There z00d reason hause employ arbitrate nee arbitrate, between demands to maintain outh Omaha packars? arbitration nd packing houses compulsory s, tion to enccurage any form of that wherever RENOMINATED BY The republicans of sional district rencminated B. Andrews of Adsms their candidate for representative in 2 The fact that Mr. Andrews was nominated by accla- mation attests his deserved popularity with republicans and may be regarded as a vote of confidence in his cbility to redeem the district. Mr. Andrews made a splendid two years ag) in the face of great s, and doubtless would have been elected had he received the loyal and enthusiastic support to which he was justly entitled. Mr. Andrews has the courage of his con- victions and is well equipped for discussing every Issue in the coming campaign, and It he is properly seconded all along the line his election over McKeighan or any other candidato the opposition may place in the fleld is assured beyond doubt. It will not do, however, for republicans ta be over-confident and take it for granted that they are sure to win because they have a capable and clean candidate. It will require unremitting work from now until election and perfect organization in every votng precinet to secure the ratifica- tion of the choice of the congressional con- vention by a majority of the people of the district, ACCL. P MATION. th congres- Prof. W. the have as con ess. canvass od PRIVATE FREIGHT VIES. By way of indir to proposed legislation requiring all railroads to supply and-maintain their own_sleeping, parlor and dining car service, attention has been called to the fact that the drain upon the railroad revenues by tha sleeping car companies is a mere bagatelle in comparison with what is taken by the owners of private freight cars. The latter are generally cither favored in- dividuals or corporations composed of inside rings with which the rallroads enter contracts calculated to enrich the ben ficiaries at the expense of the people who have their money investcd In the railroads. So it is claimed that whereas the Pullman company in 1893 received $9,200,685 for the rent of its cars and the Wagner company about §3,600,000, the total for all special ac commaodations of this kind not exceeding $12, 000,000 or $14,000,£00, the sums paid for private frelght cars average $30,000,000 each year Special frelght service thereforo costs over twice as much as special passenger service It is furthermore alleged that where th slooping car companies earn 8 and 10 per cent for thelr the priva frolght car companies have bien making 2 and 30 per cent and even as high as 50 per R’ COMPA answer into stockholders cent. The enormous expense of the sleep- ing and parlor car: heavy burden thelr acquisition would put upon the equip- ment accounts of the railroads Is held up against the comparative inexpeusiveness of the private freight cars as well as the ability of the existing rolling stock to accommodate all the business now divided with the private freight car companies, It must be admitted that these arguments make out a pretty good against the private freight car companies, although they tail altogether to give the sleeping car com- panies a clean bill of health. All they prove is that the rallroad parasites are of many varieties and that the same reasons that invite an attack wpon the one can be appealed to by those who are fghting th other. This means that all the corporations favored with lucrative ralflroad contracts in the nature of exclusive privileges are lable to the rescue of the sleeping companies and to regard the attack upon the latter as in reality an attack upon all A powerful Influence will be brought to bear to prevent legislation calculated disturb and the case to rush car to | whola the present coadition of aflalrs, and the 0 THE greater part of this influenc: will come from the private freight car companies, both Interest at that with the they roposed greatest well legislation because they have stake the and because aware ot the the sleeping their privileges The priv and freight ot ar success means of pa remain out ot to car th car cannot long resy servic making attack nger e next point companies, the regulation reach govern and control SMALLEST IN PIFTEEN VEARS, has just been fssued from the bureau TIE There of statisties fo 1 delailed report on immigration the year ended June 30, showing the arrivals to have been 311,404 of 186,642 with the previous twelve months, nearly all of the large decline having been in the latter half of the This s the migration year since 1879, total fell is only fifths of one year, number cf a decrease as compared im- the two- ny when in the the arrivals were 497,936, get year, lowest when about year. in any 177,826, highest was attained to and the which of was 78 wore 623,084 Every ccuntry migrants showed it seen immigraton in in 1882, who ived In 1892 1893 they the number aliens count 3,992, nd in im- and er inflow we last country from a decrease that has the of foreigners within so short a time as has tak the it ol that the is maximum. In the number ot als at New York was only 11,549, nesrly halft of whichewere not true im- migrants, and it is probable that for the current menth the number will be still fur- ther reduced. Of cdurse the explanation chiefly in industrial tending immigrants have their friends to remain at home, and besides Furopeans keep pretty well in- formed as to trade conditions in the United States. Then there portunities being offere of the world, especially there {3 sald to be a considerable drift Europe to South America. Ancther gested cause of the decline is the of the immigration authorities in the The return last year than 2,300 persons excluded by our taught the steamship companies exercise greater in shipping im- migrants. The former practice of the authorities abroad in sending criminals and paupers to this country has abandoned. The the tmmigration It is interesting to note in this connec- ton that while the immigration has so largely declined the return of the fm- migrant class to Europe has been un- precedented. A New York paper states that the emigration from that pert during the month of July amounted to 19,968, which was nearly double the immigration for that month, and the outflow still continues. It is evident from this statement that the country is not now gaining population from foreign accessions and the chances are that it is not likely to do so for some time to come, because there is more demand for labor abroad than here, and those who have returned and found employment will be pretty sure to remain at least until the con- ditions in the United States have so im- proved as to make it worth their while to come back here. The situation ought to be very satisfactory to those who have clamored for a stoppage of immigration. is remerke this ne 50 extensiy reduction in n place in past to be the year, is rate decline ot July erved, at ar also, its is depr to found In- by be the asfon. been warned here ere attractions and op- in other in Africa, sections while from sug- ncreased vigilance enforcing of more laws. laws has to care 55 been largely But these are minor considera- industrial and business depres- great cause of the decline in tions. sion s Unlon veterans are not in favor with the administration at Washington. Perhaps it cannot reasonably be expected that they should be, because it the administration de- sires to be on good terms with the dominant element of its party it cannot show any greater consideration to the men who pre- served tho union than it does to those who altempted to destroy it. But from all re- ports the tendency has been to go to the opposite extreme and show the greater favor to the ex-confederates. There will be some facts bearing on this matter made public before the political campaign of this year Is concluded. The Grand Army men of Washington are preparing a lst of veterans who have been dismissed from the public service by the present administration, and it is said it will be shown that in numerous cases ex-confederates from Georgia and other southern states have been appointed to the vacaneies made by the removal of union vet- erans. One Grand Army man recently stated that he had a list 6T over 150 veterans who have been deprived of their positions in the public by this administration, and the list was mplete. Seventy-one of the 150 employes recently dropped from the rolls of the and pension divisions of the War department were union veterans. Somo of these were advanced in years, some disabled for manual labor by* wounds re- ceived in the line of military duty, and others are in large degree incapacitated for a rough and tumble contest with the world, though fully qualified to perform the public duttes assigned them. It Is well that all these facts be made public in order that the o1d soldiers may be more fully informed as to how they stand in the regard of this democratic administration. service not record The dismissal of the injunction suit in the case of Acting City Electrician Rheem is represented by a local paper as a backdown from the issue made in that case. This as- sumption is bascless. The Issue presented was whether the council had a right to usurp the powers of the mayor in the ap- pointment of municipal offic Judge Wal- ton ruled that the point was well taken when he granted the temporary injunction after a full hearing of the argument by the chairman of the judiciary committee of the council. When the council confirmed Mr, Schurig's appointment as city electrician the tention was at an end. The council had yielded on the point at issue, and the only question that remained was as to whether Mr. Rheem should receive any pay for the work he had done during the period he had played acting city electriclan. As the party that procured the injunction had no dispo- sition to deprive Mr. Rheem of his pay, the case was dismissed. That is all there Is about it, With the near approach of the completion of Fort Crook at Bellevue it may be well to ask what the county commissioners are doing to make an easy and direct thorough- fare between Omaha and the new post? Business and soclal relations bstween Omaha and Fort Omaha have for many years been of the most Intimate, due largely to the excellont roads maintained between this city and the post. The commissioners know that to retain this business when the army of the Platte will be removed to new quarters good roads are absolutely essential. Fort Crook The distance from this city to Bellevue is about twelve miles. This can be shortened a mile or two, and easy grades can be established that will afford almost a bee line to the garrison. An extension of South Thirteenth Is far too isolated from Omaha to to MAHA ',’,A"JY_, BEE_ SAJ'UI{DAY, AU”GE’fl;I], lfl"fl street to (fie coupty fine Is recommended | and should be esusider | Assur¥nices’ are given that o e binefited ady._ab_their own with*#h# 6ommissioners and the thromgl fort With a mifffiry, community of 3,000 to be 1 by the commission- the owners road | foin ers, of property stand r by such' o expense to han pugh extension Sarpy county to the established next epring within twelve mil of Omaha, the mmissioners owe it to the 5, [uterests of this city to afford facilities commissioners qounty ¢ busin peopl: at Fort, Crook as goc to the pving the main thorough reach the metropolis as are making in lmpi fares of Douglas county, All the democratic anfouhcements by New York papers that Platt had arranged to place the party ma- New York City In the hands of his chief lieutenant, Milholland, prove to have been extremely premature. The Mil holland contingent will have to enroll them the This they do gracefully and harmony » as It nothing had happened. atic papers may guess again the ex-Senatd everything chinery in selves along with will will be on t T regulars. doubtless ose demc A Capital o Glol nt congr gross for Republieans, s has made more cap for the republicans than any previous ne, and there Is much further service of that kind to be expected from it. An Invitation Deeli ew Yort Recorder. Pell the Recorder to go to — Hurris, United States senat The pre | G nessee. Thanks Tsha from Ten- for your polite invitation, but, yresent monopoly which the demo: rty has of the plac fear that be lonely if we were to accept - Statesman and Broker, Minneapolis Journal. Calvin 8. Brice, United States senator, publishes an adveértisement in New York papers offering to affect a settlement with the stockholders and bondholders of b Unlon_Pacific railway. In view of the fact that Mr. Brice is chairman of the rco ganizing committee of the Union Pacific system, he ought to be able to reach tiement that will be satisfactory to him- self, at least, o1 netnnati ¢ Those patriotic Americans who are weep- ing large, salty fears over the outrage of the Japs firing on a Chinese ship flying the British flag have evidently forgotien that John Bul's flag floated over confederate cssels that carried munitions of war into southern ports during the rebellion. The son of the Shogun may be a trifie slow in some ways, but he is up to the tricks of John Bull. 'The sinkink of the Kow Shung is none of our funeral. i e ho Man of Many Prineiplos. pringficld Ropublican, Bryan of Nebraska has announced his candidacy for the seat of Senator Man- in the senate, and he will have the of the Nebraska Free Silvi ic league, an paper and as many populists as will accept his declaration of principles. These are free age, a tarift for revenue only Zovernment control of railronds and elec: tion of United States senators by direct vote of the people. — Hall to the American Prince. Cleveland Plain Deater. All America rejoices, especially all yacht- ing America, because George Gould, with his yacht, Vigilant, has beaten the Britan- nia,”the prince of 'Wales' yacht. We won the' grand match in the face and eyes of the royal household and we are ablaze with glory. " All honor to Mr. Gould, as his honor reflécts also the honor of our whole coun- try. We like to beat those British fel- lows, whether it Is in prize fighting or In yachting, for to beat them on the sea is to beat the world L=t gh e A Premature Appeal. Denver Republican, An appeal to the governor of Nebraska has already been made in behalf of the in- habitants of the drouth-stricken region of that state. It seems a little premature, however, fo assert that these people are in immediate danger of starvation. Their corn crop has been injured, and in some casés 1t 18 totally destroyed.’ But that crop was of no avail to them for food, and so the conclusion seems to be justified that they can maintain themselves for at least as long as they would have to wait for a orn_crop to come to maturity in ordinary years. The fact remains, however, that the outlook for these farmers is discour- aging. — e—— Tuxation of National Bunk Notes. Springfiell Republican. Tax dodgers will learn with much regret that the senate on Saturday passed the house bill providing that national bank notes and legal tender notes or greenbac shall hereafter be subject to taxation unde the laws of the states the same as oth forms of money. The United States legal tender notes have hitherto been free from liability to local taxation on the ground that they represent a government debt and should therefore be classed with the inter- est-bearing bonds. People disposed to dodge taxes have thus found greenbacks a favor- “te form into which to temporarily convert some of their taxable property about the time of the annual assessment. . Ex Don't Go. Lincoln News. The morning railroad orzan has attempted another defense of Majors to the charges preferred against him by the Omaha Bee. This elaborate defense consists of & palpa- bly weak attempt to shoulder the blame for the running off of Taylor upon Rosewater, which on the face of it is a false: hood of the thinnest sort. Of course if Rosewater run Taylor off that is a complete defense to the charge that Majors signed a fraudulent vouchier, notwithstanding that he did sign the voucher. But to attempt to convince intelligent people that Rose- water ran a_legislator off so as to say that it was not done by the railroads is putting it a little too strong, especially when it was so vastly to the interest of the rail- roads to have him t. And it is also an insult to the int nce of the people, of which only the Journal is capable, to tempt to excuse a state official's perfidy Dby charging various crimes against some one else. Mr. Majors bears the ineffaceabls tattoo of the dishonored public servant, and the papers that are now trying to force him upon a party that does not want him may as well understand that such a defense will have no effect upon voters of the state with .the corporation cappers contriving to get placed on the various delegations to the state convention, - TRITE TRIFLES, Tuffalo Courier: If she could make her point by argument woman would be all right when it comes to sharpening a lead pencil. A Washington Star: “Pretty hard times,” sajd one mosquito. “Yes," replied the other. “I don't know when we have presented our bills so often with s0 few collection Chicago Tribune: “Yes," sald the young physic’ ‘n, with pardonable pride, *my prac tice is among the Best people of the city Almost every family on my list has a burial lot In the most fashionable cemetery in the nelghborkood.” Detroit Tribupe Clara—I should think you would feel cheap to be sold thus to a man you do not love. Mamie (anxiously) Do you think I ought to ask more? ew York Heralle “Does your husl ever make you @ promise and then bri it “Oh, ; hut Jack is so good—he always more than willing to make me new one.” i Kate Field's \('uh)!munn: Hayrick—Can't you fix this spliew sd that neither of us can et a divorce? Parson—You car effect if you whsh Hayrick—That's icdraw up articles that this is to be a g 40 a finish, York make a contract to that First Falr Bather They say there's man-eating shark close to the shor nd Fair Bather—Well, let him alone; he'll s0on starve to death here, o Chicago Record: ~ Mr. Hydebound (the violent partisan)—~Who Is that disreputable looking politiclan with the lubberly, famil- far manners? His Friend—That's date for the leglslatur Mr. Hydebound—Indeed? Fine, that sort of orlginality in public men, isn't it? I like to see & man of character with an easy and democratic bearing your party's candi- WITH THE CUSTOMARY APOLOGI Chicago Tribun Which I wish to remark, my langusge is plain, That for making a lark Of a Chinese campalign The smooth little Jap is peculiar, Which the same I am free to maintaln. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, I The tenants measure for evicted | in Ireland than any That it nable | A recent Mr. Leonard James ported the relief of the s commanding gre other in British by meny ner and attention subject a I 18 recogni from the polities a's it persons a s that Iiberal Henry be sup House vident t of Courtney bill in the fact dissident and Sir should riends th st Devonshire w, and the announcement uld urge the passage the bl in the upper house only on that the consent of landlords to reinstatement of evieted tenants should be made voluntary instead of compulsory Sarnestly ¢s the leaders of the Irish nation alists desire to obtain relief of kind for their suffering fellow countrymen, they do not feel themselves at liberty to leave the enforcement of the proposed law at th fon of landlords who may be actuated by personal or political motives. The ut most that they would suff John Mor ley to do was (o offer 0 that if the bill should pass reading in the House of Lords, the government would consider tho suggested amendment in com mittee. This overture was led by Lord Salisbury and the duke of Devonshire, who presented the alternative proposal that if the compulsory clause was withdrawn befors the messure finally passed the H of Commons, the bill should then pass a nd reading in the upper house. It is be Inferred that negotiations for a c:mpromis ro at an end, and that after the debate in the House of Lords, which s to begin on the 13th of this month, the evicted ten ants bill will be rejected. In that event, it is said that liberals and nationalists ar agreed that the government should fmmc dfately appeal to the country; hut although such u step may prove Judicious from a political point of view, it unhappily will not avail to shield thousands of homeless human beings from perishing through ex posure and want during the coming winter. [ ought to several Interesting chapters to the meagre volume of modern naval literature. Doubt- less two or three actions have already been fought of which the accurate history may be some time in reaching us. The rival navies are small and weak compared with of Turopean powers like EFrance or Italy, and neither is anywhere equal to the new United States navy. There Isn't a war ship owned by either China or Japan whose dis placement amounts to 8,000 tons; Japan, in fact, has none of 5000 tons, while China has but two of 7,000. Our cruiser New York has over 8,000 tons displacement, while the coming United States battle ships of the Indiana type have over 10,000 tons dis- placement. The important fighting craft of both China and Japan consists largely of what we would call protected and un protected cruisers, armed with modern high power and rapid-fire guns and torpedoes, mos them having been built at English yards. Battles between such ships will, of course, prove instructive, even if seaman- ship is bad and gunnery wild. Japan may be cxpected to prove superior on the sen because of the more scientific handling of which progressive and well-educated officers are capable, and because of the greater en- thusiasm and dash which would be apt to characterize the work of a navy whose super- fority is a first condition of ultimate suc- cess. Being an island nation and thor- oughly wide-awake, the Japanese should show much of the aptitude for the sea which has distinguished the English people. e The growth of Japan to maritime im- portance is almost wholly the development of a qusrter of a century, since the great revolution of 1868, which abolished her feudal system. And her manufacturing system, with modern machinery, also prac- tically dates from a pericd later than the end of our civil war. Her first cotton- spinning mill w3s established in 1865; a government woolen mill followed about ten years later. These remained ploneers until 1880; but during the ten years then beginning ' the textile mills had reached nearly forty In number, in the face of dif- fleulties which rendered them hardly profit- able. But the lesson in the art of con- struction and mansgement was at length learned, and since 1890 the growth cf these industries has been remarkable. A few weav- ing mills have been added to the spinning mills, and the imports of raw cotton for manufacture in 1892 resched nearly 105, 000,000 pounds, whereas half a dozen years before they had been less than 5.000,000. And_this is only one example of many that would show Japsn's resolute adoption of modern machine methods of manufacture. Meanwhile, her famous hand-made indus- tries have also added to her growing ex- ports, some of them, such as silks, having at least tripled in half a dozen years. Japan not only adopts modern machinery, but now makes a go=d part of that ma- chinery. meeting n advised that th by their Lords, The duke took & different meeting wa ident liberals however, uteome of that th W The war in the Orient furnish of s P Some little curiosity and apprehension have been excited in Norway, apparently, by the recent movements of the Russlan finance minister, M. de Witte, who, accompanicd by a numerous staff, has lately been visiting the northern coast of Norway on board a Russian man of war, on his way back from Archangel, where he had been studying the question of opening railway communication between St. Petersburg and the White sea M. de Witte landed at Trondhjem, whence he returned by way of Stockholm to Russia The correspondent of the London Times in Berlin says that “the Russian minist cruise has revived the apprehension cnter tained for some time past in Norway that Russia is determined ultimately to sccure for herselt an ice-free port on the Atlantic in one of the northern flords of Norway. Even if there be no ground for the suspic that the radical party might be prepared to pay the necessary price for I 1 support in the event of a conflict helween Norway and Sweden, It Is obvious that such a conflict might easily afford Russia an opportunity to achieve her object, with or without their consent; and, coming on the eve of a gen- eral election in Norway, is fraught with the gravest Issues for the internal peace of the Scandinavian peninsula.” Tho condition of the Persian peasantry not a cheerful one, according to a report just made by British Vice Consul Mr. Ringler Thompson. This gentleman writes hey inhabit mere mud hovels without windows and with a hole in the center of the roof to let out the smoke, and the filthy stale of the villages is Indescribable. At the end of the winter they generally find their stock either exhausted or running very low, and the great fes'ival of Nauroz at hand merly the peasant Knew that if his stock falled there was no hope of replenishing it He would have to go without his Nauroz festlvities. But now he knows that a week or two before (he festival the Russian specu lators will appear on the scene and offer the proprietor advances of moncy to sow cotton for them, the seed of which they provide, or buy up in advanmce the best part of his crop of wheat. The ignorant peasant {8 led to agree to bartering a part of h share too, and when the harvest is over he finds he has not enough corn to carry him through the winter. It the proprietors and peasants resist the temptations till the time of the actual harvest, the result is the same. The wheat goes at half price, the peasant finds afier a few weeks that he has not enough to carry him through the winter; | i and, worst of all, there Is no corn left for towns like Meshed, with 70,000 inhabitants Last year the crop was a fair one, but so much wheat was exported that the price of bread was four times as high as after an abundant harvest when there was no exporta tion." The practical operation a plan for helping working men who are deserving of aid, and from the description of the arrangement given by the United States consul at that city It appears to be working successtully. | F It s a sort of combination of mutusl aid ty and employment bureau, under the ction of a committee of seven men rep pting the labor unions, the employers and the city government. Subscribers to the bureau pay monthly dues of 5 cents | each, and the fund thus obtained Is increased by gifts from employers and by annual appropriation of $1,000 from the city eoun cil. Subscribers who are cut of work for two weeks are thereafter entitled to bene- | fits ranging from 20 to & & day. |t forfeit while ing whenever offered given gating 300 miles, be the running expenses. court, ent generally s good city of Berne, Switzerland, has in | 19 9P, in holding P 1T BRROL Shall the Party Comm b REPUBLICANS, it Itself to a Tattooed Siandard Bearer? The tronts candidacy of Thomas J. Majors con republican party of Nebraska as to its in the impending algn. To elevate him to the position of standard bearer will place the party he defensive and subject it to a galling fire that the a menace success an the following bill, certiffied to by T 3 Majors as president of the senate, was placed in the hands of the auditor and a warrant for $76 was lssued to W. M. Taylor as bal wnce due for alleged services In tho senate for the last fifteen days of the month: For Sevvices as € [2 p O dayor . 1501, .. 60 daysdls Miteage Dt Balance due, I hercby cortify that the above aceount e Avditgrindlic decounts. 577, P Ue?dOL7 77 A Aot B R AV ARy Stite Reecived of TI1. Deps B (S it could not withstand. every party leader on compelled to champion man who Is tattooed with a of fn-, dellible infamy. They would be confronted at every crossrond with the story of the forged census returns that scandalized the state at the national capital and placed a stigma upon the man whom the people of | this commonwealth had honored with a place in the halls of congress as their representa- tive. They would be confronted with the more recent misbehavior of that same ex- congressman while acting In capacity of president of the state senate. During two sesslons of the legislature in which he oceupled the responsible and honor- able position of presiding officer of the upper house by virtuo of his election as licutenant governor, Mr. Majors was notoriously a tool and capper for the corporation lobby, and exerted all his power and Influence during each session of the legislature to promote jobbery and assist boodle schemes and ob- struct, sidetrack and defeat all railway res- ulation bills and measures to curb the rapac- ity of corporato monopoly. SCANDALIZED THE STATE. During the session of 1891 the state was scandalized by the abduction of Senator Taylor, a populist, who had been elected on tho anti-monopoly platform, which pledged him to support a maximum rate law. It is notorlous that Taylor was on confidential terms with Lleatenant Governor Majors, and especlally with his private retary, Walt M. Seely. There s no doubt whatever that Majors and Seely must have known of the plot to abduct Taylor in order to keep him from casting his vote for the Newberry maximum rate bill. Taylor's abduction created such a sensa- tion that even if Majors had mot been ad- vised about the plot he could not have been jgnorant of the fact that Taylor had disap- peared. The fact that Majors directed the sergeant-at-arms to have Taylor arrested shows absolute knowledge on the part of Majors of the disappearance of Taylor. The records of the auditor's office show that Taylor had drawn $262.40 as his pay and mileage for the session up to the time of his abrupt departure in the middle of March. on Bvery candidate and the stump would be the candidacy of a be sec- March 31, when the session c THE TELL-TALE WNOR TAMAIORS, e I~ bl Comount, $ 79, " Lday of W, - al, orrct gl st and has not been patd. President,” 220N Wk SF The above fs a fac simile of the certificata signed by Lieutenant Governor Majors and approved by the auditor, as now on file in the office of the auditor of state. The warrant for §76 was cashed by Walt M. Seely, pri tary of the licutenant and pocketed by him. Taylor never received a penny of this money fraudu- lently procured by the connivance of the lfeutenant governor. This act alone stamps Thomas J. Majors as a dangerous man in any public office. When he certified that Taylor had served through the entire term he knowingly and wit- tingly committed a grave crime that lald him liable not only to impeachment, but to prosecution in the criminal courts. Had Majors certified to a fraudulent voucher in the army, or duplicated his own pay in the army pay roll, he would have been court martialed and cashicred in dis- grace. Where the offcnse was as flagrant as the Taylor voucher fraud, he would have been made to serve a sentence fn a military prison. Is this the kind of a man the re- publicans of Nebraska are asked to make chiet executive of state and commander-in- chief of the milltary forces of the commons wealth? THE SENATE OIL ROOM. The climax of infamy on the part of the lieutenant governor was the conversion of his private office adjoining the senate cham- b into a legislative oil room, in which quor was dispenzed freely to members of the who were addicted to drink, and to to ite sec overnad senate lobbyists, male and female, who resorted the room for debauching the law makers. Every fellow who belonged to the gang carried a Yale lack key in his pocket so as to have access at all times, night or day, when the senate was in session or at recess, to the demijohns and decanters filled with cholce brands of lquor, with which the lieu- tenant governor's room was generously sup- plied regardiess of expense by the corporate concerns whose bills were to be logrolled through and whose interests were to bo protected by tho bland, affable and accoms modating jieutenant governor. Can republicans stultify themselves and jeopardize their cause by placing a man with such a record at the head of the ticket? TAYLOR ORDER. Senate Chamber. @f?‘(/,hr\ 7 @yafmr\/, /2N e, /571 I Aenet (2 Al ard; w-alalanity Prte The above Is a fac simile of the order of the abducted ex-senator authorizing Walt Seely to receipt the vouchers and warrants for his uncarned salary. It will be noted that the order Is in the handwriting of Walt M. Seely, private secretary of Lieutenant n a/y.[ = 2~ Y ant /xm‘l/?(, latx 7 decfl/ (5 (0 ruehers ’ It purports to be dated at Portland, Ore., but is written on an of« ficial blank, headed with the name of the licutenant governor, at the senate chamber, Lincoln, Neb., with the ddte line left blank, the figures 1891, vernor Majors. Just what mean bring and those far have withou benefit Those who leave work all right to any assoclation, through officers, ts as an employment bur would-be employers The results thus tory, the members reporting at the large and comfortsble and accepting work quickly The its together ing work atisfi day rters, twice headqu a - Lopping Off Profitless Branches. Globe-Demacrat Pacific railroa that it will discontinue the | its Leadville branches, aggr ause they no longer pay As the Union Pacific s in the hands of receivers, this action is presumably taken by order of the feder and so the right of a railroad com pany to protect its interests in that way will probably not be contested in the pres case. The existence of such a eaking, 1s denled by sor who contend that thy ing of a railroad, particularly where ald I8 given, creates @ perpetunl obligat operate it, whether it is profitable or not fecisfon to that effect was ren | 1@ years ugo in an lowa case by Justi Hruner of the supreme court, when he wa acting as circult judge. On the other hand, a similar way, the supreme court of Kansas recently decided in the other way, that the owners of a road cannot compelled to operate it at a loss, but Jly take up the rails and remove to another locality without incurring liability for damages. It may be said t the question is still an n y to become a very railroad earnings continue The Union company has netice n of speratl 1wy ers. may ther t one to decline. i iy - - worthy Work, no is not “doing the cont it is doing a 13 pralseworthy in doing so Oh. hat nothing great deal much to | For particulars W0 eonvention of the prese hereafter, veat itself chserve the primaries which are inviting memb ongress to remain at home - HOT WINDS, for re-election. THE George W Ixpress, Into the furrows the golden grain Had been droppeid by many a hand, And up it sprang like the heaving main And billowed the barren land Crofts in the Beatr a sight that filled th Those billows of waving green And the joy of the heart was beyond control As it measured the gladsome scene A, 'tw soul, lark vod was the ang to its little by bob-o-link's lay, “"How goodl The meadow And blithe And the blackbirds shouted, How gool? Here's food for many a day!" the fa listened the rustling blades As they flash And sonndly § pread their And mer to 1in the dewy morn; pt while the cvening shades wings o'er the growing cor down in the depths of hell joy of earth, the breath that But a demd Had heard of the And he swore by him weil He'd smite served that Joy in Its birth. his blazing throne he came a'er the verdure cast with u f f fiercest flume n the simoom's blast And up fros And @ loc And then He swept And the withered in his awful track And yeilow were the leaves of green And the farmer grieved, “Alas! and alack!" 1 his heart grew sick at the scene. rn wa And his wife looked out with a tearless ey For she had not a tear to shed; And tearless in grief 15 the brazen sky O'er the hopes that are blasted and dead,