Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 29, 1894, Page 4

i . i ' s THE_OMAHA DAILY BEE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1801 ' e THE OMAHA DAILY BEE “B. ROBEWATER, BEditor. TERMS OF Dally Bee (without Daily Bee and Sunday, One Year. 28332388 OFFICES Omaha, The Tee Ituildl Bouth Omaha, Corner g«,mnr\l llll’l’Yl 12Fr 8 S Cominen picago O wmber of Commerce. New York 1 and 15, Tribune Bldg. Washington, 1407 ¥ Street, N. W CORRESPONDENC ANl eommunications relating to news and torial matt uliressed: To the B | Twenty-tourth Sts. reot should be fee T company, Omaha, Drafts ke and_nostoffics orders 10 be-made pagable to the order THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY ANl busineas I addreased to The o BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. iy being duly Bworn, says that 104, Was 4 of The Dal rinted dus ollows: i, month of July, 1013 ” RETRC T i 5 H i 30 30,018 Lews deductions coples Total sold i 4 Datly average tiet cireu *Sunda: 5 SCHUCK. Bworn to befo e and susscribed In my pres- ence this 1st day of August 1894, (Seal.) P. I"EE1L, Notary Public. GEORG 70 NEBRASKA REPUBLICA All republicans who are opposed to the domination of rallroads and desire to resent the attempt to make the party subservient to corporate monopolies and public thieves are hereby invited to express their views by letter directed 1o me personally, suggesting the best method for defeating the election of Thomas Majors. All communications will be treated as confidential when so requested. We must make an organized effort to save the state from the blighting misrule which bas repudiated the pledges repeatedly made to the people in our platforms; has made the execution of our laws a farce and looted the state treasury. Notice wifl be given in due time through The Bee what action will be deemed most advisable to accomplish the ends in view. B. ROSEWATER. Carlisle knew w ordered the printed. he was doing when he »w customs collection blanks The president’s letter writing mania has gotten as far as the Catchings stage. It will probably be epidemic before very long. The story of the robbers who set out to corral Chicago would make an excellent anti- dote for yellow-back, detective-evading lit- erature, The vision of harmony which local demo- crats have put up beforo the eyes of ex-Gov- ernor Boyd may yeL prove to have been but & mirage. ‘When Mr. Bryan gets control of our local contemporay perhaps he will take down some of the lying announcements at the head of its editorial column. Happy Is ihe man who has a large stock of whisky on hand. He is even happler than the man who has just made away with & large stock of whisky. We suppose that Senator Hill secured the pen with which the president did not sign the tarift bill, and that e will cherish it as an invaluable souvenir of the tariff fight. ‘We don't see why Senator Gorman should foel it incumbent upon himself to repair to Burope for rest and recreation. It is not usually the victor who runs away after his conquest. Of course we all feel with President Cleveland “the utmost disappointment” in the wicked fate that has denied him the privilege of signing a tarift reform bill. After wait- ing 5o long, too! No, Mr. Pullman’s salary wasn't reduced, because it would have been difficult to have found a man to take his place. Mr. Pullman is too rare a jewel to be exposed to the temptation to resign. They will all be at the reunion at Grand Island this week. And if by some unex- pected accldent the reunion is not a suc- cess, It will not be because of the poor at- tendance of political veterans, The Breckinridge campaign s still on and 18 attracting the attention of the women of the Ashland district more than ever. It the women of the district would refrain from taking sides the men would settle Mr. Breckinridge's career on short meter. A republican paper of an adjoining town, now In the hands of a recelver, proposes to print a campaign sheet for the Majors propa- ganda, Let it be dome. The tattooed can- didate will need it. Only wind-blown rail- road organs can be induced to call him great. 8t. Louis is to have a formal opening of its new union passenger station on Septem- ber 1, which goes to remind us that there is absolutely nothing to prevent the completion of Omaha's unfinished union station, and the removal of the disgraceful s'.2d that now goes by the 71ime of depot. President Cleveland says that the tarift bill provides for the raising of at least 4700000 of unnecessary revenue. What Nas become of the great democratic principle of spariug the people all unnecessary bur- dens of taxation? Does the new tariff pro- pose to take money out of the pockets of the people that is not at all needed by the na- tlonal treasury? Is this the kind of a tarift the democratic party has been promising? There are a great many ways in which local merchants can show their interest in the Labor day celebration without closing thelr stores up tight. A general decoration of the business portion of the c'ty will con- tribute largely to the success of the demon- stration, so will a full representation of Omaba's varied manufacturing and com- merelal Interests in the parade. So will lib- eral contributions of prizes and of assistance to cover the expense account of the day's un- dertakings. The fact that a retail merchant does not feel able under the present circum- stances to close down his business for the en- tire day does not necessarily Indicate any lack of sympathy for labor and for labor's celebration. LABOR DELE Tre resolutions adopted by the convention of delegates from the various labor organiza- tions in this city on Saturday, in which the nomination of Thomas J. Majors to be the republican candidate for governot of Ne- braska 1s roundly denounced, mre a straw showing which way the wind Is blowing In the ranks of the workingmen. It was not necessary to go back more than a few weeks to find in the punctured record of the hickory- shirted statesman an incident that disclosed his subserviency to corporate interests as against the Interests of the workingmen The resolutions therefore call attention to the fact that when in his capacity as acting governor Majors was called upon by the packers of South Omaha for the use of the militia he refused to grant an audience to the representatives of the striking butchers who desfred to remonstrate against such a proceeding, and who announced their desire and ability to show cause why the militia should not be summoned. They fur ther assert that in all the Inqu'eles preliminary to bringing out the Netional Guard the acting governor rigidly ev.cluded representatives of the strikers from his presence and gave ear only 1o the exag- gerated and unfounded statements of the packers and the frightened acquiescence of ecitizens acting under stress of the packers’ threats, The delegates then join in denounc- ing Majors as “a man from whom the workingmen can expect nothing more than an ex parte hearing in any dispute between corporations and themselves, with the work- ingmen outside the door and the tions very close to the throne inside. The workingmen ought to have expected nothing different from Majors at the time the dispute was brought before him as a pretext for military government. A man who has for years consorted only with rail- road ringsters and boodle state officials and who has on previous occasions made himselt useful to the packers of South Omaha would not have been summoned to the seat of the strike were it supposed for an instant that he might by any possibility refuse to do the corporation bidding. Had the representa- tives of the strikers been permitted to present their story it would only have been to give a color of impartiality to an action already decided upon and in which Majors was to act simply as the mouthplece of the rallroads. Put this man in the governor' chair and the entire machinery of state gov- ernment will be in the hands of the cor- to be used at their beck and call and forcibly the yleld a passive submission in everything in which the interests of the two clash. No self-respecting and {ndepend- ent workingman can support Thomas J Majors for governor. corpora- in porations, to o laborer to rawe even compel WELCOME TO MR. Although the report has been current for some time that Congressman W. J. Bryan was about to assume editorial charge of the Omaha World-Herald and to become editor- in-chief of that newspaper, the report em- anating from sources that gave every reason for regarding it as authentic and credible, we have waited patlently for the officlal an- nouncement of the contemplated change be- fore bidding Mr. Bryan a formal welcome into the local world of newspaperdom. The accession of Mr. Bryan cannot fail to infuse, at least for a brief period of time, a new life and energy iuto the paper which is to be placed under his control, and if he succeeds in giving it a policy in some degree con- sistent he cannot but institute a noticeable improvement over what has gone before him. The publisher’s announcement states that the general character of his newspaper is to be maintained. It is to be hoped that the gen- eral character will be elevated. We fear that the advent of Mr. Bryan into editorfal journalism is, so far as his expecta- tlons are concerned, Intended to mark the beginning of only a temporary and not a permanent career. His place is to be used merely as a stepping-stone in the furtherance of higher political aspirations, and it the attempt proves successful another pub- lisher's announcement may be awaited in a few months informing the public of the exit of Mr. Bryan from the journalistic stage. On this point it may not be out of place to call attention to the fact that few editors have been promoted directly to high elective office. An editor who really speaks his con- victions freely on all subjects cannot hopg to avold coming In conflict with the opinions of the people on many points; an editor who sacrifices his convictions to every popu- lar clamor plays the role of the demagogue and like him soon loses the of the public. Tt is by far easier for the editor o promote the election of another to offl than to secure an elective office for himself. It, therefore, Mr. Bryan enters journalism as a side-play in his senatorial game it is quite possible that he may be gi disap- polnted. It he will devote his energles ex- clusively to his editorial duties he will bene- fit the people, the paper and himselt at once. Every one concedes that Mr. Bryan is a man of ability. The World-Herald has long been In greater need of a man of ability at its head than Mr. Bryan has been in need of a newspaper at his command. BRYAN. new be confidence WHAT THE WHISKY TRUST GETS. Because the new tarift has been dubbed the Sugar trust tariff on account of its munificent gifts to the great Sugar trust monopoly in return for the generous contributions of the latter to the democratic campaign funds in time of need, we must not conclude that the Sugar trust is the only beneficlary of the Dbill. Although less noise has been made over the share of the spoils about’ to accrue to the Whisky trust owners, the dimensions of that share entitle it to a good secomd place in the arrangement of benefits conferred by the democratic congress upon its fayorite monop- olies. There 13 as yet no telling exactly what the Whisky truts gets, but we figures that will enable us to obtain an ap- proximate idea. On July 1 there were in the bonded ware- houses of the United Stales, according to the internal revenue returns, some 138,000, 000 gallons of spirits and whisky. When the senate bill providing for an increase of the government tax from 9 cents to $1.10 a gallon was sent to the house for Its concur- rence, and then to the corference committee, withdrawals of the spirits and of the more matured whisky were begun an a large scale, and only ceased after about ten days, when the talk of a compromise on $1 a gallon b came common. The withdrawals during the month of July have not yet been officlally stated, but they have been estimated by com- petent authorities at 3,000,000 gallons. Ae- cepting this estimate, we have a further esti- mate of 185,000,000 gallons of spirits and whisky in the bonded warehouses ou the 1st of the present month, Of this amount 9,000, 000 to 11,000,000 gallons are supposed to hay consisted of spirits, the remainder compris- ing whisky, rum and other liquors. As spirits are regularly placed in bond only for convenicut storage or for purposes of financlering, every one of the 11,000,000 gallons in the warehouse on August 1 could be advantageously withdrawn under the 90- have some TATES DENOUNCE MAJORNS, rmml tax In discount of the new tax of $1.10, With the 124,000,000 gallons of whisky it s different. Withdrawals of whisky in past yoars have been about equally distributed over the three years bonded period, amount- ing in each six months to one-sixth of the total. On this basis the withdrawals from July 1 to December 31, inclusive, this year, would amount to about 21,000,000 gallons The increase in the tax of 20 cents per gal- lon is, of course, a great incentive in stimi lating withdrawals, and it Is therefore believed that under present conditions the greater portion of the whisky which will be sufficiently matured to be with- drawn in the next six months has been or will be withdrawn before the bill becomes operative. The maximum withdrawals be- tween August 1 and the date of enforcing the new tariff law add up 32,000,000 gallons. The July withdrawals probably come near| counterbalancing any deficit during August, s0 that figure ought not to be very far out of the way, assuming, of course, that all the two years and six months whisky is with- It only the two years and nine months whisky is withdrawn the total will be 21,500,000 gallons, which may be looked on as & minimum. Figuring 20 cents a gallon as the sum saved by anticipating the in- creased tax, we have the profits of the Whisky trust ranging between $4,200,000 and $6,400,000, and more likely to approximate the latter figure. Even deducting the share which the barks and trust companies who have advanced the money necessary to pay the tax will demand, the Whisky trust will have to complain of what It getting from the new tari drawn. no caus is MR. CLEVELANI EXPL NATION, Mr. Cleveland’s letter giving his reasons for allowing the Gorman tariff bill to become a law without his signature is necessarily to a large degree apologetic, and being o it is markedly lacking in that bold and ag- gressive tone and spirlt which character- i7:d the previous utterances of the pres dent regarding tarift reform. It is in strik- ing contrast to the brave and ringing dec- larations of the Wilson letter, in which Mr Cleveland denounced the senate bill as a be- trayal and surrender of democratic prin- ciples, violative of democratic good faith the success of which meant party perfldy and party dishonor. Then the president had the courage of his convictions and he spoke with the frankness and firmness of strong and deep feeling. ubsequent events seem to have cowed and humbled him, and while in his letter to Representative Catchings he admits that the tariff bill is disappointing, that it contains provis in line with honest tariff reform, and that there are in- consistencies and crudities in the measure; while, also, he admits that there were in- cidents and influences in connection with its passage that are to be condemned, yet he apologetically remarks that this legislation “is still to democratic effort, and that it “presents a vast improvement existing conditions.”” Two months ago this same bill pronounced by the president a perfidious and dishonorable surrender of democratic principles with- out one redeeming feature. ‘What new light has = since dawned upon tho president that enables him to now view it as “a barrier against the re- turn of mad protection” and as furnishing “a vantage ground from which must be waged further apgressive oprations against protected monopoly and governmental favar- itism 2" The course of Mr. Cleveland in this mat- ter docs mot redound to his credit for cour- age and sincerity. There was devoived upon lim a great and grave responsibility and he has avoided it. Acknowledging the bill he allowed to become a law to be bad in many respects and to have been econ- structed and passed under improper influ- ences, he cannot be pardoned for not doing his duty by vetoing it on the plea that such a course would have separated him from his party. 1f Mr. Cleveland sincercly believed the bill to be so0 bad, so violative of demo- cratic principles that he could not sign it, he should have vetoed it. That would have been the courageous and the manly course, and in not taking it the president has made himself a party to the perfidy and disho which he previously declared were involyed in the passage of the bill. It is a humiliating position that the president is placed in, and probably nobody realizes it more fully than he. But what of the party? In his Wilson letter Mr. Cleveland put this stinging ques- “How we face the people after indulging in such outrageous discriminati and violations of principles?” Will the pres ident’s treatment of the bill “chargeable to democratic effort” and his Jatest commentary on that measurs improve the position of the party before the peoplz? On the contrar; Is not this an additional arraignment of the party, which under the circumstances is even more condemnatory than the first one. The palliatives which Mr. Cleveland offers are too weak to have any effect. His plea for free raw materials has spent its force, His demand that the party shall continue the fight for democratic tariff reform will o the party harm rather than gocd, for the people have had enough of it. The presi- dent would have been wiser, both on his own and his party's account, not to have written to Mr. Catchings, In doing so he increased the supply of republican campaign material, of which there was already a great abun- dance ons not in chargeable to was or tion: can A Washington special in the Chicago Tribune intimates that it will be well for > braskans to keep a close watch upon the War department, especially after the November clection, in order that the Department of the Platte may not get away. In other words, the Tribune correspondent reminds the citizens of Nebraska that eternal vigilance is the price of safety, The Bee cannot believe that Secretary Lamont would trifle with the Omana committee that recently waited upon him. We prefer to think that the secretary of war I to interfering with the present status as far as the Department of the Platte is concerned, because there are so many good and logical reasons for maintain- ing the present order of things, opposed It is regarded as highly probable that the republican state central committee will es- tablish headquarters in Omaha. The popu- lists have about concluded to pitch their headquarters tent here, while the democrats will do most of their scheming in this city during the impending campaign. This new distinction is all owing to the fact that the hottest fight of the campaign will center In Omaha and Douglas county, and the men Ip charge of ammunition and commissary supplies find it of advantage to be close to the prospective field of carnage. The president’s latest tariff letter is not particularly well caleulated to spread the tmpression that the tariff tinkering is at an end. He includes by inference himself among the number who refuse Lo accept the results embodied in the senate bill as the close of the war, and he ends by saying that tariff reform will not be settled until it is honestly and fairly settled in the interest and a patient and long-suffering a’u e serves warntng upon the business {merests of the country that 0 far as it 1168 W his power he Intends to keep up the' jriftability due to tarift un- certainty. Forfunately it is well known that the presidentiand his supporters in the present congress’aré powerless to effect any material changdi'fh the law. Next cou- gress, with its tépablican house, will not in- augurate any tafift’ jegislation that can run the gauntlet of ‘fhe white house. The president's noté ot alarm will therefore be recelved at its proper trade discount. to the benefit people. In ef The spectacular’ exhibition secured for Omaha by the management of the Courtland Beach association is having one of the good effects which was promised.for it. It Is at- tracting out-of-town visitors, whose pres- ence In our city is a benefit to all alike. The organization of excursions along the differ- eot railroads centering fn Omaha enable the people of surrounding towns to witness the exhibition and at the same time to patronize local merchants and get a general view of the city. Our local busines ought to appreciate the value of a drawing card of this character. men All the hubhub about the docking law in the house was scarcely worth the powder it it saves less than $20,000 the national treasury. It the docking law were forced against the congressmen's clerl stead of against the congr the treasury would b to en- in- men themselves considerably richer, Where We Are At. New York Sun. Jumping Tom Watson congress by the people Georgia district. M McDuffie, in sec made this remak, vepressed eiith “I tried to_sit the bible. 1 love people’s party, and I son Mr. 8. D. Walton of Augusta said that, “like the bible, the people’'s party will live evermore,” 1t A beautiful day for om. nominated for party of the Tenth John R. Wilkinson of nding the mnomination, full of good taste and jasm: stili, but Jesus Cl cannot. 1 rist, 1 love love Tommie love the Wat- e Kicked Out of a Job, Cincinnati Eaauirer. “ongressman Kilgore of Texas, who ed a door down when Czar Reed tried to lock & quorum in the hall of the house has been defeated for renomination this This is a _disappointment. Mr. Kil- is 2 man of note for other things be- es the vigor of his boots. Indeed, he has for a long time been one of the attractions making life in Washington bearable. He has the courage to object to anything he thinks is wrong, and, If we may use a word which the' slang editor of the York World is making war against, mighty hard to jolly him. A Ralnmaking Experiment, Philadelphia Pross. An experimenter at Redfield, 8. D., claims to have solved the problem of rainmak His plan is so simple that it is strange one thought of it before. He has been us- ing ethylearbonate, which produces a sub- diodide ‘of silver and a bymethylteroxide of carbon, although he thinks he will yet ob- tain better results by reacting fodic of tetreythyldiathere of diammonium and some of its nitru-hydrogenous congeners. We would st that he react the jodic of tetreythyldiathene of diammonium with the subcarbonate of tweedledee tweedle- dum, s0 as to form a carbondioxide of tumteenstitum. The’ thing would then be s clear as the tarif bill, and every farmer could be his own raipmaker. Strikers and the Denver The management it Union Pacifie, Republic: of the Union Pacific would do well to imjtate the good example set by President ery of the Denver & Rio Grande in dealing ‘with the misgulded employes who so foalishly quit work at the instigation of Debs in the recent strik: These men had no grievance of their own and they shoull have remained at work, as they Now seé vory clearly. But they ¢ not resort to violemce when they struck, and we believe that it woul policy for the management of the Pacific s the strikersba ast as it can aces for them. This is the sentiment nmunities through which the com- I lines run, and we know that the adoption of such a policy would be heartily approved by a vast majority of the Union Pacific’s patrons throughout Colorado. What Peopte Think and Say. ew York Tndependent. The democratic party, now it senate, house and president, s a faw in rdance with its poliey and promises, what has it done? 1t has delib- ately repudiated its policy and broken its denounced protection as a obbery™ in the campalgn and declared that it 80 much as that of and “robbery” are has the free to en- and years fostered no industry the sheriff. “‘Fraud” criminal, and canrot be condoned. The lemocratic party was solemnly pledged to root them out of our customs law. Everybody knows it has not done s has revised, but not eliminated; it ha duced, but out the “fraud” ana “rabbery on the contrary, re- enacted the ud™ and “robbery,” ahd is iilty of the crime it charged against the can party. It (s condemned out of N mouth. “its own head, it Mr. Cleve- land, in the face of defeat,” may be still lled its head, has declared it gullty of rty perfidy dnd party dishonor.” "It has 0 false to itself and false to the coun- nd, according to one of its own or- as put itself “in the pillory of u versal contemnpt.” And all this comes the end of a pe of "business prostra tion almost uncqualed in the annals of b country. 1wo It re- e The I"emocratic Failure. Harper's Weekly The acceptance by the house of rep sentatives of the senat rift bill is a sur- render of the democratic party to a small coterie of senitors who have been the active agents of the Sugar trust. It is the defeat of the just expectations of the peo- ple who vlaced the democratic party in power in Loth the executive and leg 2 branches of the snt, believing th it would refor: This disappoint- ment has b ated, but the con- tempt and a which it has aroused will not be the less for that reason. The demo- cratic party has failed to perform what it has declared again and again to be its mission. It has, therefore, invited distrust and def and will assuredly receive its the tari riff question is at rest for the mo- ment, and there will be no further agitation of it ‘during Mr. Cleveland's administration. On other ques ns, the drift of events must settle the attitude of parties. This much, owever, is certain, that for the first time the history of the country ingle mo- Iy, audacious, insolent an s rupt, has succeeded In di 8 a law affecting the neral revenues of the government an tarift poliey of the country. And for this consummation the democratic ‘party is re- sponsle. THE NEW ARRIVAL Whoop! 1 am the new And 1 Never tarift, sle Grover touched "e. You fellows stand back Where's your Mgkinley A‘\L thing the g and gimme room law now, eh? Hitereyer! love 0’ Cidl Bri din’ you, U you look #1¥t too lovely Aw, say, what #¥6u think of my togs? I'm going' to gwy Mom Reed Within_an inch-of his life, Wilson? Who's he? Of West Virginia? Wha-at? 15 it on the map? Well, you can't pliy horse with me Just 'because I'my young And a little bashfil Don't interrupt me, ‘please; I've a whole lot of things to do— This is my busy day Let's see. What's this first thing here? “Acetic or pyroligneous acid, Twenty per,cent ad valorem Well, that makes me Jaugh, T'll bet a cookie Gorman did that; It sounds like one of his jokes. But they can't get gay with me any maore. There's an income tax here somewhere. And o sugar tax till you can't rest a whole lot of other taxe the free list will not be Positively suspended Until further notice. And there you are. sle’s got to board and n't do man. Oh, vhat a head I've got! Those senators had a.great gait on them When they traveled with me, But now I've got to odge me, it right Bober up. : | | i CLEVELAND AND TOM MOORK. Mr .Cleveland has evidently been an at- tentive reader of Tom Moore's “Lalla Rookh.” In his letter to Mr. Catchings explaining why he allowed the tariff bill to | become a law without his signature, the president speaks of democrats “who have | marked the places where the deadly blight | of treason has blasted the counclls of the | brave in the hour of might.” Undoubtedly | the inspiration of this bit of rhetoric was found in these lines of Moore's finest poem: O, for a tongue to curse the sloye Whose treason, like » deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave And blasts them in hour of might. Mr. Cleveland might have copled Hofed's malediction entire with propriety. The language fits to a “t" the condition that oonfronted him, and expressess with incom- parable force popular contempt for the authors of “party perfidy and party dis- honor.” It reads as follows: That sun which should have gilt his grav Saw him a traitor and a slave: And, while the few who thence return'd To their high, rocky fortress mourn'd For him among t matchless dead They left behind on ‘s bed, He lived, and in the of morn Laughed'them, and Faith, and Heaven corn! for a tongue to curse the slave, Whos tr n, like deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of th brave And blasts them in the hour of might! May life’s unblessed cup for him Be drugged with treacheries to the With hopes, that but allure to fly, With joys that vanish while he sips; With dead sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips! Hig country’s cur his children's shame, Outcast of virtue, peace and fame May he at last, with lips afla On the arch desert, thirsting, While lakes that shone in mc Are fading of untouched, unta Like the once glorious hopes he blasted! And when from earth his spirit flies, Just prophet, let the damn’d one dwell Full in the sigh f Paradise, eholding Heaven, and feeling Hell! Ry POST-MOR M REFLECTIONS, Globe-Democrat: The theory of tho Me- Kinley law was that the country should pro- duce its own sugar, and under the operation of the bounty the yield of sugar in Louisiana alone jumped from 336 86 pounds in 1891 pounds in 1894, If Louisiana belleves in this form of industrial encourage- ment she marches crab-fashion as a demo- cratic state ‘Washington to Dbrin (Ia)) Post: Spent a year to make a tariff, spoiled business all that time, the senate pit 630 patches on the Wilson bill and the house adopted it, and befors Cleveland can make up his alleged mind whether t) sign or veto it or let it rip with- out his name, they try to amend the pesky thing some more, and are all chewing the rag and cussin’ and swearin’. Did you ever hear of such a rocky old party as the demo cratic? Farewell, imbeciles! You'll be ex- cused for thirty years. You bad every chanca and you “can’t do nothing” but make up- roar and mischief. Avaunt! Philadelphia Press: One of the most pitia- ble phases of the taniff bill aftermath will b the bitter disappointment which it is bringing w thousands of workingmen. In the midst of the industrial gloom which settled over the country as a result of the infamous policy of congressional corruption, the democratic leaders kept shouting, 'good times by and by.” But now that the bill has passed the falsity of these promises becomes apparent. Hundreds of thousands of men are still out of work, and those who do_resume begin ew with reduced wages. Nothing but a presidential veto of the infamous bill can pull the werkingmen of this country out of the slough of despond into which they have been led. New York Tribune: It cannot be consid- ered in any sense creditable that congr has repudiated an honest debt of $11,000,000 in order to make its aggregate of appropria- tions fall $3,787.879 belcw those of the Fifty- first congress. But it is also true that sim- ilar_repudiation of honest debts by the Fif- ticth congress made it neccssary for the Fifty-first congress to vote about $38,000,000 for deficiencies. This year the amount re- quired for deficiencies is cnly $11,829,545. Thus the actual appropriations for the com- ing year, exclusive of deficiencies in_the past appropriations, have been about $479,000,000 this year, against about $456,000,000 in 1390. It the sums formally pledged and honestly due to the sugar growers had been appro- priated the expenditures for the coming year would have been $490,000,000, exclusive of deficiencies, against $156,000,000 in 1590, S i TICKLER: CUrE Record Do you sing ‘Sweet but T am under treatment for it.” New York Pres Mars has no atmosphere “Is that s0? Then there pugilists in Mars.” “*Why not” cause where there can't be any wind."” Atchison Globe: We don’t believe a long. haired man know. more about medicine than a short-haired man. say now that cannot be any there is no atmosphere Syracuse Post: Admirer—Wh get all this wonderful strength Famous Strong Man—I was boarding house for three years, re did you carver in a Detroit Tribune: F woman holding the re driving you to drink? cond Hor (des remotest idea. st Hors 1S ove! -1 vou see a 1s she ringly)—1 haven't Tndin politica I don’ Apolis Journal: “What are beliefs?" know that 1 have Don't you belong your any. to ‘any party “Oh! Why didn’t you ask I am a democrat.” that at first? “Dawkins has bought a “Didn’t know he rode." doesn't 1 But him at such an that he couldn't the machine was astonishingly low resist the tempta- offered figu tion. “Who sold “Cutts, the “Oh!" it to him surgeon. “In your consultation, Bolus on Bibb's case did only on on “Ah! Wh “Our fec point.” t was that verett Wrest— : rich blokes don't know, anywny. Laymand Sowre—Wot's dat? iverett Wrest—Dey don't know ¢ of quenchin’ a t'ree days' Uirst. Cineinnati T They's one pl Boston Transeript: Johnny—T the difference between cannibals folks? Pa—Cannibals, my son, eat ene ; other people generally’ go no ther than to live on their friends and rel- atives, their Do you think Sick asked the invalid's Washington will recov frien H'm'm,” replied the physician thought- ally, “My answer depends on whether you mean physically or financially.” Star soon? Boston Transcript: sitting in will pe on the bows here and sit t just it,"" re at the man at the wheel away us far as possible from the spanker Washington Star: “Do you think,” said | the inquisitive man, “that the sei{lement of the tariff question will make times bet- ] It may,” replied Senator Sorghum, “in a general way. But iUll put an end to some mighty finé sport in speculation.” NOTE 1 wender,” said Mrs. the stern sheets, “why n climbing away out t? Why doesn’t he W., winking ot OF PREPARATION, New York Pr Time fi the scason's wearing late, And men have a deal to say On politics, and the candidate Is beginning his pipes to lay. With the drinking man the work is done Through the sample room and bar, While the heart of the temperance man is won With a “two-for-five" clgar, e Too Much to Expect. Cincinpatl Enquirer, Shall we have the prosperity mil before “the melancholy days of Novem- ber?* It is her too much to expect There will be an improvement. let us be thankful for that a approach healthy conditions gradually, The owne of dry goods and groceries will no doubt be able 1l them at fair prices, and there will be for the tailor, the maker, the mil and the modiste. There will be good sale for those things that enter Into house- hold and personal cconomy, but people will expect bargains when they' buy real estate for a good while yet, and there will not be & very active money markel. nnium | & man with a pun { near Co PEOPLE AND THINGS, Hon. Mr. Holman, M. C., of Indiana, did not object to a nomination for the ffteenth torm. Candidates for office should cultivate the friendship of the tafty manufacturer. He Is At the midnight hour fast night the “perfidy and dishonor'' of the democracy was finally consummated. To many of the democratic members the adjournment of congress typifies Honry Wat- terson's picturesque remark about the march from the slaughter house to the grave Henry Oeorge is out of polities. He was a Cleveland democrat, but elghtesn months of that company made him short on progre and long on povert The eountry ditto. Prof. Wiggins of Canada, who can foretell more stories that do not occur than any man in the dominion, threatens to move into the states and compete with Old Probabilities Senator Peffer declines to make political speeches In Massachusetts. His situation in Kansas demands all his energies since Silas Cameron's whiskers broke into the cam- paign. It is generally conceded that the spots on the sun are responsible for the crop disaster in the states of the central west. Even po litical spots have a debilitating effect on a campaign harvest. Talk about mysterious rappings and ¢ spirits out of the vasty deep.” The est seance of modern times is the of the Whisky trust calling spirits bonded warehouses. The thumping republican majority of Penn- sylvania is liable to suffer a reduction this fall unless Senator Quay's elghty-page speech is quarantined outside the state. There are limits to a parly allegiance even in Penn- sylvanis Alexander S. Blaine of Simpson county, Kentucky, left only one request when he died. That was to be buried in his silk-lined broadeloth coat. His maiden sister, with whom he had liyed many years, wouldn't allow the request to be complied with. The govermment of Italy cheerfully recip- rocates the efforts of the anarchists to make things warm for the monarchy. A batch of the anarchists have been transported gratis to Massowa, an island in the Red sea, which has the distinction of being the hottest spot on earth, Not the least inducement to prayer in connection with the adjournment of congress is the suspension of the Congressional Record. Groaning waste baskets will heave a sigh of relief, and Janitors will rejoice now that a great weight is temporarily” removed from their hands and minds J. D. Girton, a wealthy farmer living ne Flkhart, Ind., has made application for th appointment of twelve guardians, coupling ling great- success out of his novel request with the statement that his past life has been one of continued ter- ror, and that with the aid of twelve guar- dians he can yet make himself a useful mem- ber of society James Hesse of Russoll 1 104 years old, but ma frequently rides to the cou a distance of twelve miles James Hesse, is 70 quently assisted in the old gentleman, average man of 60 The Rocky Mountain News concludes, after much anxious deliberation, that Denver is an ideal place for an army headquarters. The loyalty of the News is admirable, but its successive failures to remove some head- quarters from Omaha suggests the advis- ibility of clinging to that which it has— Waite, for instance. Colonel John A. Cockerill, editor of the New York Advertiser and the Commercial Advertiser, is one of the latest suggestions as the republican candidate for mayor of New York. It Is said he could have the backing not only of his own party, but of the Chamber of Commerce, the City club, the German-Americans, and the independent democrats. The twin Rawson children, grandsons of Laura Keene, the actress, are determined to carve out for themselves a niche in the temple of fame. Th zed a band called the Kickapoo Terrors, which their papa broke up last winter. Their next effort was to run away and join Buffalo Bill's wild west show with 43 cents botween them, but they were ignominiously recaptured. itk L NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKA county, Virginia, s his farm and ty court house His son, Dr. old, and is fre- mounting his horse by who is as hale as the The Nuckolls county fair has clared off on account of the drouth. There is talk of paving the streets of York with brick, and the papers are urging that the work be begun at once, The Christian churches of Clay and Nu olls counties have just closed Very s cessful annual meeting at Deweese. The flouring mills at Rushville are run- ning eighteen hours out of the twenty-four, and are turning out from sixty o seventy barrels of flour daily. A corn knife deftly amputated the foot of 12-year-old Ben Johnson, living dova, and the severed member is now on exhibition in a doctor's office, pre- served in alcohol, The 17-year-old son of John Moler, residing north of O'Neill sixteen miles, was ace dentally shot and Killed while out hunting vith a companion named Howe. The boys were driving in*a cart, and young Howe Bot out o hold down a wire fence while the been de- a toe from other drove over. Moler had a gun in the cart, and in some way the gun slipped | down, striking the slats in the cart, and | was discharged, the load entering the boy's side, causing almost fustant death. or anything else. Reliable Clothiers, S. Gone to Slc The “renowned” makers of hats have all gone to sleep this year except John B. Stetson, and he'sthe man that put them to sleep, for he made his “Stetson Special,” and they can’t touch it for style, It's a modest, elegant hat, and we're sole agents. The few summer suils we have are going at half price this week. Browning, King & Co., HOLME: AT BIGHTY-FIVE. Another Anniversary of the Gentle Poet's Wrirth, On the twenty-ninth day of August each year Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes cele- brates the anniversiry his birth in he summer Beverly Farm, Mass. Ho was born August 29 09, While there no public expression on his own part these latter days he is never forgotten either by his many personal friends who send their contributions of love, or by the world of admirers who have constituted ‘themselves a loving family to keep him in affectionate remembrance. Wherever he js, upon that day will he be “home” to those who love and honor him. To those who have the privilege of being with him and of secing his dainty hands open telograms and letters from friends at & dis- tance or from strangers, there {8 an oppor- tunity given of securing one more mental photograph against the time when their post shall have climbed the hills of God. For he has long stood alone on those Alpine heights, the summits of fourscore, close to the tabernacles of the sky Yet Is there no sadness in his heart at the thought of other hunters who used to “spoak” him from other heights with the ringing horn. The home in which the poct has spent his later years, says the Detroit Free Press, is a browastone house, coveres with a luxuriant growth of English iv which con- ceals dcorplate and bell handle from the 100 curious gaze of passers b, It 18 on the “water side of Beacon street,” and the view from the poet's libr covers the Charles river basin. Here, surrounded by the luxury that his poet soul loves, on a commanding height betwixt town and coun- try, amid the profuse decorations of modern household art, Dr. Holme spends the time when he is not at Beverly farms communing with nature in her simpler forms, which to him in his true spirit of poetic appreciation are the most exalted It is worthy of record that while Oliver Wendell Holmes has been instin tively a society man all his life, he has omitted the forms of society from his poetry. His wit and sarcasm have touched on many of the trivialities of social life; his genius, never. He tells young writers that he recelved no pay for his first work, but was glad to get it printed without any compensation. His fine poem, “01d Ironsides,” was included in this unpaid list, which first appeared in_the Boston Advertiser. Dr. Holmes is very proud of a copy ot his poem, “The Last Leaf,” which he pos- sesses i the peculiar handwriting of Edgar Allan Poe, whom he once met, and who he made an fmpression upon him he can forg: When Dr. Holmes sits down to compose he requires the actual contact of pen and paper. It may be that he will not need them, for ot the fancfes that crowd his brain, even now when he rarely writes for publication, nons may be acceptable. If he is writing a stanza for” a friend or the dedication of a book it must be done with the same exquisite care t has envircned his b'st poems. His neat s and perfect order are against all traditions cf the muse; the desk In his hand- some library looks as if it were eternally new and nothing upon it had been disturbed by any approach to work Dr. Holmes is the last star of the magnitud which is left in the poetical firmament here is n stellation to lighten the horizon when he shall have passed out of our range of vision. Long may it be before our heavens shall be darkened and we look fir him in vain, LR CARROLL WRIGHT AND HIS PASS, Pullman _Investigation re- veals the fact that investigators have Pull- man passes. This is about all it does reveal, Chicago Record: Commissioner Carroll D, Wright has made a previous inyestigation of the Pullman company and secured an annual pass on all Pullman’cars as one result of it. He still carries the pass and clings to the be- lief that it is Mr. Pullman’s personal friend- ship for himself thal caused that gentleman to treat him so handsomely. How long will honorable officials like Mr. Wright continus to hug the delusion that corporations extend favors to them out of disinterested friend- ship? Chicago Post: We suppose it will not be denied that Mr. Carroll D. Wright has a per- fect right to acorpt and use a free pass on the sleeping (and dining?) cars of th man Palace Car company. We p has this right both as a private c as the commissioner of labor of the United States government. Nor do we question the legal right of this eminent gentleman to sit as head of a commission sent to examine judicially into a situation in which Mr. Pull- man is the principal figure, although we con- foss the exercise of the right would have been more tasteful to us if Mr. Wright had explained ear'ier in the proceedings that he was a persoual friend of Mr. Pullman. As we understand them, legal rights are not con- cerned with questions of delicacy. Mr. Wright could have 1 1 the Pullman pass to carry him to Chicago to investigate Pullman. Through motives of delicacy he refused to do 0. Similar motives should induce the Treas- ury department to reimburse Mr. Pu'lman in the amounts “saved for the government” by Mr. Wright's previous exercise of pass privie leges. of home at first American rising con- Denver News: ume he izen and ntary Fact. fleld Republican. States senate is confronted with the uncomplimentary fact that no less than fourteen state conventions this year have declared in fa of the election of senators by popular vote, And the eastern 1d many more western states are generally et to be heard from. The United ep. Cor. 15th and Douglas.