Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 9, 1894, Page 12

Y np P e T T —‘I_';m ;)MAHA SUNDAY BEE. “B. ROSEWATER, Lditor. PUBLISIED BVERY MORNING. NS OF SUBSCRIPTION. afly fles (without Sunday) One Year Paily Teo and Sunday, One Year.. Blx Montia Three Months Bunday Beo, On Batnrday K, One Weekly Tee, One Omaha, Th Bouth O Couneil THL Chicagn Of New York Washington, wl Strast uber of Commerce. V1 and 15, Tribune BIAg. v newa and edt . To the Editor. torfal mx Al busin, and remitta addressed o Publis Omaha, Dfis ciicks and pe ade pnyable t the orde o M VR e PUBLISHING ¢ BTATEMBENT OF CIRCULATION. Qeorge 15, T zsehuck, seeretnry of the T Nahing company, beig duly sworr the actual number of (ull of The Daily Morning, Evenl printed during (he month of Aukust, as follows: M Pab- that coples 1994, Feturn, Daily avern & elrculation. "% Sunday GEORGE B, T Sworn (o before me and subscribed in premence this 4th day of September, 154, (Seal.) N, P FEIL, Paniic. The Astors might have been Kind enough to have waited until the Vanderbilts had finished. Pugilist Corbett and Pugllist Jackson have nothing to arbitrate. The only way to settle their little diffcrence |s to fight it out. The reopening of the eastern colleges will be submerged in the enthu that will attend the rcopening of the football season. [ — fasm This Is the year of record breaking per- formances on the track and in the fi:ld. The man or beast with a record for prowess nowadays is not sure of keeping it twenty- four hours. The Philadelphia Press, replying to a state- ment of the Chicago Inter Ocean that the democratic party does not know whether it 18 a-foot or a-horse, insists that it is neither, but that it is afloat. May we amend by sug- gesting that it is adrift. Herr Most and Madeline Pollard are ap- parently running a race to see which of them can et on the stage first. When they have once made their debuts it will be in order for them to compete with one another to see which can get off the stage first. ———— President Cleveland had more than he could manage with congress on his hands. It is therefore no cause for wonderment that he s in no hurry to call a special ses- sion for the purpose of carrying further the fight for tariff reform, which, he says, is only begun. It the people residing along South Six- teenth street object to tho delay incident to the repairing of the viaduct over the rail- way tracks at that point, what must be the sertiments of those residing along Eleventh street, where the viaduct has been closed to public traffic for months past? Bven the staunchest of the democratic or- gans receive the Vermont election returns with the remark that nothing else was to have been expected. They must be in sore stralts when they have no ready-made ex- planation to account for this democratic de- feat by more than usual majorities. In giving some advice regarding the pur- chase of books for a small library, Eugene Field insists upon including “Shakespeare, in one volume and without notes.” Happily there are a few people left who still believe that Shakespeare has not been improved upon, even by the best of modern annota- tors. The Viking ship that braved the waters of the Atlantic and circled through the St. Law- rence and the great lakes only to fall a prey to the dread rock and shoals of the Chicago river has been raised from the depths to which it sank and is again ready to dis- cover all of America that is still left un- explored. From the encrgy which one of the Illinofs senatorial candidates is putting into the pre- election campaign one would be led to er- roneously suppose that the people of that state were really to choose a United States senator at the election in November, instead of leaving the matter to the legislature that * 18 to be then selected. The national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic takes place in Pitts- burg this week, but it will not interrupt the cultivation of the Grand Army vote by the political veterans on the republican state ticket. The candidates are too busy with the old soldiers who have votes in Nebraska to waste time with comrades who reside in other states Lumber dealers do not anticipate any dearth of lumber on account of the great forest fires in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Migkigan, On the other hand, they profess 2 fear a glut of the lumber market next year, for the reason that so many trees that have been killed but not destroyed will have to be cut as soon as possible to save them from borers. Cheap lumber has come to stay. The proposed new roadway to Fort Crook when completed will doubtless be one of the best patronized roads in the county by people Who go out for pleasure driving. At the same time it will have to be used for o great deal of traffic of various kinds between the city and the military post. Its corstruction should therefore be planned with all of these objects in view, and & ‘road should be built which will subserve them all, it possible. Henry Irving fears for the English drama because (he music halls are encroaching on the theaters. Richard Mansfield, too, is out with a lamentation that the stage is truck- ling more to spectacular displays and elabor- ate mountings than to real dramatic art. The apprehension is that the stage carpenter and the inventors of startling mechanical de- vices may make all the hits with the pubile, 1o the exclusion of the actor. But the num- ber of stage-struck people oontinues un- A NEW CONSTITUTION. From Lexington, the home of Jack Mac- Coll, comes u proposition to the people of Nebraska for the adoption of a new organic act which is to be substituted for the con- stitution of this esmmonwealth: Article 1. The state of Nebraska shall from and after this date, comprise all of that territory lying south of the Platte river and east of the west line of IHall, Adams and Franklin counties ARt 2. All of that territory lying north of and west of the foresaid state f Nebraska, that formerly comprised the said state, |8 hereby declared to be a suburb of the said state of Nebraska proper, and s attached 10 the said state for the purpose of being gov- erned. Art. 3.1t shall dents of the sald to annual conven! said st in ord into the ground place. Art. 4. If at any time any part of the sald suburb shall have the audacity to send a candidate for any state offi to any state convention the said candidate shall be imme- tely crucified, as an example to all who may be inclined to hanker after those things which by divine right beling to the state proper. Att. 5. Whereas it has been discovered that onc Th mag J. Majors of the said state of Nebrarka d4'd, by the bravery and patriot- ism, of which he held exclusive control, save the country from disruption and disintegra- tion during the years 1861 to 1865, and that he has at all times since then had the people under his paternal care guarding them and guiding them through all the trials and vicissitudes of political life, serving them in any and all pacities in which there wers emoluments, regular or irregular, present or prospe it is hereby ordered and decteed thai he, the said Thon Majors, his heirs and assigns, forever he declared perpetual candi- dates for higi office, so that future genera- tions may enjoy the privileges long enjoyed by the present gemerat'on, that f casting their vote for the said Thomas J. Majcrs, his heirs or assigns Art. 6 voters of the said suburb of the state of Nebraska are hereby authorized to wear a collar of brass, or other metal, with the name of Majors insctibed there n. Provided, hcwever, that if at any election for office any voter in said suburb shall fail, neglect or refuse to cast his vote for the said Majors or his assigns, then he, the sald voter, shall be deprived of the privi- lege wearing said collar forever theres after. The Bee ventures to suggest a few amend- ments to this document 1. Al legislative, Judicial powers are hereby vested In the general man- ager of the B. & M. railroad, to be known as the railroad czar, and such other railroad managers as may co-operate with him. All offic:rs of the state shall be commissicned by the railroad czar and exercise such functions may be allotted to them. 2. All elections shall be free and open the people, but no candidate, from constable up to governor, shall be eligible until he has f r his nomination from or, in his absence, from Captain H. E. Palmer, spe- cial ipsurance commissioner and partner ex- traordinary. In of disability, absence from the state or preoccupation of the czar and his m. f. (man Friday), the powers, duties and responsibiiities of seleeting publie officers and passing upon the availibility cf candidates shall exercised by General Solicitor Marquette, assistant, Attorney De- weese and Treasurer Taylor (not the ab- sconded). 3. All bills for raising revenue shall orig- inate with Tobe Castor, J. H. Ager and Walt M. Seely, and the amounts raised shall be apportioned among the boodle politicians of the state, regardless of party, according to their wants and necessities. 4. The freedom of railroad trains, Pullman cars, telegraph and telephone lines is hereby granted exclusively for all delegates, lobby. Ists, political shysters and every retainer con- nected with the dominion cf the state by cor- porate power, and any person who, by speak- ing, writing or printing, opposes said railroad dynasty shall be deemed guilty of high treason and forever banished or beheaded. 5. The Capital Naticnal bank of the city of Lincoln is hereby recrganized, under the sole management of Charley Mosher, who shall act as custodian of state funds and loan freely and without expectation of re- payment to mendicant politicians and boodle officials whatever amounts they may require in the pursuit of their vocations. 6. J. W. Johnson, seerctary of the State Board of Transportation, shall supervise the state press, supply all editorial stoolpigeons with railway favors and stock editorials de- fending tattcoed candidates and impeachable officials, and blackguard and defame every paper or edit'r who prints any complaint against railroad discrimination or overcharge. 7. All powers not expressly delegated by the railroad sovereign to his retainers are hereby reserved for the czar of Nebraska and his successors at B. & M. headquarters. he the duty of the resi- subuh 1o send delegates ns, to be called by the r that they may be pounded and tawght their proper ex:eutive and as to procured a the railroad man ¥ permit czar, rida case be THE SUGAR BOUNTY COLLECTABLE. Ex-Senator Edmunds, whose opinion on questions of law is very generally regarded as worthy of great coosideration, said in a recent interview that every cent of sugar bounty due under the McKinley law s col- lectable and can be recovered in the United States courts in sults brought for that pur- pose. He said that the refusal of the secre- tary of the treasury to pay the bounty to licensed producers on the crop of 1894 cannot be justified in law or equity. This view is very widely entertained and it invites a determined effort on the part of those having a claim to bounty under the sugar schedule of the McKinley law to prosecute their de- mand In discussing the proposition to abolish the bounty Senator Blanchard of Louisiana sald in the senate that while, as a legal proposition, the legislative power had a right to withdraw the bounty for the future, bounties earned could not be withdrawn by the legislative power. His position was that it part of the bounty for the year had been earned, and earned before the law granting the bounty had been repealed, it is not in the power of congress to withdraw the bounties s0 earned. He declared it to be well settled that bounties carned cannot be withdrawn by leglslative action, because, under such cir- cumstances, they acquire the character of vested rights, and he cited a number of authorities in support of this position. On July 20 Mr. Blanchard said, in the course of a speech in the senate: “The greater part of the expense of the sugar crops of' the year has already been incurred. In this way and in this sense the greater part of the bounty for this ye = has been earned. If the bounty be cut off now by repeal of the existing law granting it the fact would still remain that part of the bounty for the year had been actually earned before the repeal of the law; earncd by the outlay of funds to make the crop; earned by the fact that the crops of cane and beets, out of which the sugar s manufactured, have already been grown for the year; earned by the fact that more than half of the callendar year during which the crops are grown froi which the sugar s manufactured has elapsed; earned by the fact that in the case of the beet sugar manutacturers licenses for sugarmaking for the year have already been issued.” These certainly constitute a cogent and forcible argument. In reference to this matter the Cincinnati Commercial Gazetle says there are uumerous THE OMAHA DAILY BEW Aocielons of the supreme court of the United States which declare that any law which is in the nature of a legislative contract not be The consists of the ¢ of an mct re tting parties to de A things and the government those thiugs are done to give to the parties nccepting the offer and performing the required certain emoluments named; and second, the accept- ance by the of the offered by the govermment. The contract is thus This describes the lation establislied between the government and the sugar producers under the MeKin- ley law, That act provided that any person entering Into the business of producing sugar should, upon compliance with the require- ments of the act, receive a specified bounty on sugars of a certain grade, and this bounty was to be paid for fourteen cons:cutive years. Numerous the ofter and entered into the business of producing sugai while those already engaged in the industry enlarged the scope of their operations. They went to a large in full faith that the government would carry out its part of the doubt can repenied. tegislative first, auiring or pern certaln specif agreeing in the event contraet private that acts priv. parties terms complete exactly persons accepted expenditure ontract, that th there be a reasonable ha just and equitable c m inst the government? The sugar producers propose to test their rights in this matter in the courts and it is to be hoped they will adhere to this purpose. The best legal opinion is to the effect that they it they cannot secure the whole of the bounty for the year's production they may, it any rate, get what Can peaple have a good case, and as earned at the of the passage of the new law. The issue is one that ought to be judicially deeided. ate INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM, We have been asked by several correspond- ents to explain clearly and briefly as possi- ble exactly what is indicated by the terms “initiative” and “referendum.” In reply we may say that these terms refer to particular devices that are being advocated in some quarters in crder to make the legislation of the country conform-more nearly to the cise will of the majority of the people. There are really three forms of legislation—direct legislation, representative lcgislaticn and im- posed In the first, the people the laws themselves make scond, they choose repre- the laws; in the third, the laws are made by others and imposed upon them. The initiative and referendum legislation who are to obey the laws; in the sentatives to make are devic:s intended to secure to the people the chief benefits of the first two forms at one and the same time. - Initiative nd referendum are said to be Swiss institutions, and whether they in fact originated there cr not, they have attained their greatest popularity in the cantons of Switzerland. We that in some of the cantons the enly legislative function of the councils is to formulate laws that the people may pass. Swiss constitutions, like our own, give to the people a certain right of initiative in the rights of petition—gen- erally coupled with a duty-on the part of the body petitioned to give the prayers of all petitioners full and careful consideration. But they also go mueh further, and in many cases confer an imperative initiative by pe- tition. Any petition which is supported by a certain number of signatures and which de- mands action upon a specified matter must be heeded by the council. The council must take a stand upon it, and then to make it eftective it must be submitted to the popular vote for approval, even if the action of the council upon It has bien unfavorable, The last part of this process, namely, the sub- mission of a law to popular vote, is known as the reterendum. The referendum is more widely adopted in Switzerland than the in- itiative. At stated Intervals every year, in almost every canton, all important acts agreed upon by the councils are submitted to the people for their approval, regularly, whether are told in some demanded or not, in others only upon petition of a prescribed number of citizens. In either case it oper- ates to give the people a direct veto upon legislation of importance. Initiative and referendum are thus not necessarily ccmplementary. We have both of them fn isolated instances in this country and right here in Nebraska, chiefly with ref- erence to questions of local government. No local authority, for example, can issue bonds for any purpose of public improvement with- ut having the assent of a two-thirds ma- jority of the voters at a special or regular election. A similar proceeding is required for every amendment to th: state constitu- tion. On the other hand, in our citfes a pe- tition of a certain number of property owners is necessary to give the e uncil jurisdiction in order that they may assess the cost of any street improvement against the benefited property, and in particular details the wishes of the property owners are mandatory. The advisability of introducing the initiative and referendum into American legislation, both together or either separately, is a question cutside of the present inquiry. PACIFIC COAST FRUIT. This year, more than any previous year, will develop the importance of the California and Oregon fruit industry to the American people. Everybody remembers the alarms that were sent out early in the season that the peach crop was almost tofally ruined by late frosts, and although those reports have proven to have been considerably ex- aggerated, the peaches derived from those sections to which we are accustomed to look for them have not been up to the average in ordinary years. Now we have the informa- tion in addition to this that the apple yield which at the beginning of the said to be quite promising, is not going to average up. Men who claim to be speaking with full knowledge of the situation { hesitate put authority that will not be much fair average crop. a considerable export Burope, particularly to England, and this year, account of the almost complete European apple failure, the demand for American exports has already become quite | brisk. The consequence is thal the supply for home consumption is to be cut down even below the limits of a partial crop. This being the fruit situation, it becomes necessary for the people who require cheap fruit to look to the Pacific coast and to the tropics as the sources of their supply. Fortunately both of these places are sending to our markets more and better fruit than before found thelr way there. Bananas, pineapples and other South Ameri- can fruits reach the tables of the ordinary people where not many years ago they were luxuries of the rich alone. The products of California and Oregon orchards, shipped by special fruit trains 1o all quarters of the | country, are by reazon of their improving qualities and Ing prices forcing a strong competition with the home-grown products. It is plain that the feld for these fruits Is only beginning be cultivated If the consumption of fruit by the American season was is do not forward as apple erop a third of the has always been trade in this to themselvés American more than 10 the There line on have ever decre o | the people continues, fmy grow in the next decade In the same rafio Chat It has in the lust, the fruit oroane will of the most imporwnt in the eountry. Bastern fruits, cut of the market in time of poor crops, will Lyvs a hard o reguin their former plaves The results are reaper feuit, better frall, more abundant frait—in other words, beijps lving for the masses THE EMPEROR FARMERS. The remarkable addtess of Emperor Wil liam at the batiqapt following the recent mili tary maneuvers, which appears to have mad a profound impréssion in Germany, is chiefly Interesting for the evidence it furnisies of the great agricultural depre on in that em- pire. “The past four years cf grieyous cares have weighed upon the farmer said the emperor, and all through his address there was a tone of anxiety and solcitude for the condition of the tillers of the sofl. ~ Willlam realizes the sity for 1 eontented and prosperous peasantry. He understands the value to his government of promoting tha weltare of the large agricultural class. 1t that element of the p-pulation can be kept satisfied and perity it can be counted upon for tioning loyalty to the throne and a sure bul wark against any movement that menace the authority or the security of the government, It is obviously the conviction of Emperor William that it is much important to conserve the interests and wel- fare of the agricultural producers than it is to concern himselt or the government &bou the wishes of the nobility, and he plainly manifested this sentiment when he excluded from the banquet two members of the nobil- ity who are not in sympathy with his poliey on the agrarian question. Undoubtedly in this respect the empercr shows sound states- manship. He of course desires the loyalty of the nobility and wants its support of h's policy and measures, but he ean do without (his much better than he could do without the hesrty and earnest loyalty of the great body of German farmers Probably agricultural depressicn Ger- many is not more severe than in most of the other countries of Europe. The British farmer has long been having a hand-to- mouth existence, the outliok is for a worse conditicn, owing chiefly to the very low price of wheat The agricultural producers of Russis are even worse off, distress among them being well nigh universal, while those of Austria and Hungary are represented to be in a very unfortunate condition. Even tho French farmers, though better off than those of other portions of Europe, are far from prosperous. The situation to which tho Emperor Willlam calls attention is, therefore, not peeuliar to Germsny, and it presents a problem the momentous character of which is not exaggerated by the interest in it which the kaiser has manifested. How is the problem (o be solved? So far as Ger- many is concerned; what can the govern- ment do to relieve the distress of the agri- cultural interest? This was the great ques- tion that confrcnted the foremost statesman of Germany, Bismarck, and while for a time he seemed to have met it, the present evi- dence s that his solution was not conclusive. For a time the:policy of the great chancellor brought exceptiomal prosperity (o the farmers ¢t Germany, but!while that policy has been maintained by ‘his Successor it is seen not to have maintained its first success. Whether the present emperor and his ad- visers shall prove to be wiser and more far- seeing than their-predecesscrs time will de- valop. 1 In the meanwhile’ the whele agricultural system of the world presents a most inter- esting subject of study. The tarmers of no country are at this time prosperous, and as in nearly every country the agricultural pro- ducers are the most important factor.in na- tional prosperity it follows that so long as this great interest is depressed there can be no general revival of prosperity. In other words, a renewal of profitable business ac- tivity is contingent upon profitable farming, and the latter does not exist anywhere in the world at this time. How shall it be brought about is ome of the commanding questions of the time. Industry const be one out tim IND THE evl nee nsured a fair measure of pros n unques- might more in nd The intimation by Judg: Woods during the hearing of the strike injunction contempt cases that street railways can be considered as engaged in interstats commerce, because they are used to transport persons en route to railway stations to take trains for distant points In other states, opens another Vista into the possible extent to which the prece- dent set in the recent railway strike may lead the federal government to interfere in labor troubles. Let this view be adopted and it at once becomes the duty of the fed- eral authorities to prevent the int:rruption of street rallway trafic in every city in the country. Every controversy between a street rallway company threatens to interfere with interstate commerce and comes under fed- eral jurisdiction. By similar analogy every express company, every public carriage, ev- ery public dray, every public messenger, is engaged in the work of interstate commerce because it is habitually employed to trans- port persons or things on their way to points outside the state. Onee accept the doctrine that the federal government is to protect interstate commerce in all its forms and the logical outcome is the practical annihilation of the states. The Philadelphia Record, which professes to voicy the principles of the democratic party, suggests that forest fires that leap from state to state, regardless of boundary lines, have become a mational visitation, and that sooner or later the federal government will have to take:m hand in the problem. Shades of Thoinas Jefferson and Andre Jackson! What “afé we coming 1o next? Has the dcmogratia party ropudiated its states’ rights Aradithons so far as to now stand ready to orguuize federal fire de- partment and ifivade the states to prevent the spread of fire? ' Paterualism in its worst form may b akeadys in sight. — e e The Towa sta®falt closes again this year with a big defiett, which the taxpayers will be expected to mjKe good. The Nebraska State Board ofpAgrigulture has decided to hold its annuatufaisdespite the discourag:- ment of hard thh It 15 to be hoped that the Nebraska enfefprise will at least come out somewhere myareven financially, as the taxnayers have all they are anxious to care for in defraying thé necessary expenses of their state avd logal sovernments for the present. Dr. James O. Welling, former president of the Columbian university at Washington, who died on Tuesday, was at the time of the outbreak of the war of the rebellion one of most Influential newspaper writers in the country, occupying us he did the position of political editorial writer on the National Iutelligencer. D Weiling left collegiate work to go inta journallsm and retired from the latter to re-enter the educational field He was successively comnected with St John' college, with Princeton and with the Columblan un'v:raly, from the presidency DAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1504 of which ago. He sclentific titutional and int he resignod only a few months trequent contribator to the subjects of @on national law and intended ote the closing years of his life to Sompletion of o elvil death what was A liternture on 1o ¢ the i oxtensiy of the late deprive 1 to most American history. work on t Hie sulden students of valuable contribu- listory will promis tion to war. historical be a The success county fair has not howling Omaha has outgrown pumpkin and been cubbago s The is an every other thing that could be rstate exposition, up on a would make it & world's fair An interstate exhibition w per ont exposition nd constructed with of hydranlic power, steam and There would also have to be buildings for an art exhibit that would giv to painters, skilled w in metal, fabrics of the The managers of our county fair have worked under discouraging condi- tions, If th'y would enlarge the of their activity and center their rigies upon an interstate exposition they doubtless recelve greater encouragement large city only draw int scale that ministure. i planned appllances ade 1c gotte in uld buildings, all the modein electricily seope western sculptors and riers wood and loom. would “Beyond all question nodern disease. today where last generation.” This is a quotation from a recent of a colebrated preacher It is most probably amply borne out by the facts. It therefore affords a basis for some nineteenth century Malthus to devise a new theory of the imminent destruction of the human race. Just let the ratio of increase be maintained and the next generation will see four suicides where the sees two, and each one following will double the number of its At this rate it ought not to take so very many years un- til the increase of the world's population is arrested, and not many until living man shall h taken own The prospect an contemplate suleide ha two become There are suicides thire has been one in the sermon predecessor. more his attractive every life is one not to We are reliably informed that there are a number of children in the public schools, particalarly In the kindergarten department, who are not of school age, and who are not logally admissible to them. When it difficult to afford school accommodations to all who entitled to the instruction it must appear to be wrong to divert any of the school funds to purposes that are out- side of the school board's jurisdiction. The law" limiting the school age to children be- twe:n the years of 5 and 21 ought to be rigidly enforced, particularly at the present time, when economy in the administration of ths schools s the first and foremost watchword, is 50 are After Speaker Crisp's declaration at the democratic .mass meeting in Atlanta that he was in favor of the immediate free coin- age of silver at the present ratio of 16 to 1 he must have felt extremely uncomfortable under the hot blast which Secretary Hoke Smith poured out against the free silver coin- age mania. The latter characterized the plan advocated by Speaker Crisp as being “utterly at variance with sound business principles and fraught with incalculsble evil.” The two speakers of the day ought to have got- ten together before they appeared before the public. We knew Mr. Depew would be heard from before he returned from his European trip. The people of the United States would have a difficult time to get along without re- ceiving advice from Mr. Depew at the regular stated intervals A Triumph Long Globe-Demacrat. Amella Bloomer has | triumph of t nsible dr nd wore forty vears ago. All that was needed to convince the world was a pretty girl on a bieyele built for one and a fashionable send off in Paris. ——— Flat Contradietion. Indianapolis News. T. V. Powderly makes the amazing state- ment that “twenty years ago there were no men in legislatures or congresses who knew, from actual experience, what it was to work for bread.” We venture to say that there has never been a time in the histor of this country when the national congress and the state legisiatures were not made up in large, if not the larger, part of men “who knew from actual experience what it was to work for bread Our True Stan Atkinson in Mrs. the & to see s she de- Edvwi the September Forum. The true standing army of the United States—the only one on which we can rely for effective or useful service in the future is the great body of teachers in our common schools, academies and colleges. This num- ber has increased from 29931 in 1872 to 77,000 (n 1892 The app:opriations for schools two_periods have Increased 6 to $155,000,000, and yet how short we are in our’ comprehension of the duty and the responsibility which now rest upon us! e The Time for Prudent Enterprise. New York Tribune. It is a good time for determined and resolute efforts, and for a reasonable and prudent confidence. he situation does not encourage any crazy booms In pric any wild and venturesome expansion of production. But it ants 4 most earnest effort on the part of American producers in each department of industry and trade o compete as best they can under the new conditions which the tariff gives them, and it some fail in the effort it is only reason- to expect that many will achieve un- Losses and Gains of Tart Reform. New York Tribune. All that business has gained, all that labor has gained, by enormous losses and sacri- fices thus far is a beginning of “further aggressive operations,” further agitation, loss and sacrifice, Labor has been com- pelled to sacrifice from its earnings in on year a sum about as great as th national debt created by a four v bellion. The loss of capital may be juc from the labilities of firms failing 000,000 commercial and banking last year and §1,20),000,000 of railroad bonds. And all this for ' nothing except that democrats may tell ignorant men that they have passed some bill instead of no bill and the trusts may get their millions each. If this is tariff reform every man who has sense enough to manage any business or farm or to earn wages at anything will say the less of it the befter. No more destroying agita- tion if such are the fruits. If instead of tlement for all our losses we get only » beginning of contraversy, with infamy and plunder, it is time to end the thing. A Maniy Man. Portland (Ore.) Evening Editor R: man who ca own whese sram. ewater of the Omaha Bee Is a ries his sovereignty under his It is absolutely refreshing, lays of political degeneracy, to se a'man of substance who has the courage of conviction and who has the independence to publicly condemu his own party for its wrong doing. At this distance from the scene it is diificult to tell how much justifi- cation Mr. Rosewater has for bolting his party nominations, but if one-half what ¥ays about the republican gubernato cadidate is true, or if he believes it ta be true, then he would have been no sort of a man If he hadn't boited. Party discipline is all right s it commends itsell to the intelligence and to the moral sense of the rank and file, but when it is per- verted into an instrument for the promotion of corrupt cr incapable men to public office then the higher duties of citizenship justify @ revolt. The purification of our American politics depends upon men of Mr. Rose- water's type. men who are recognized as the represeniatives of the best soclety and who hold positions of influence, If they b come subservient to corrupt machine pol tics then there is no hope. But when the and mssert their manhood by pre claiming (hat the duties of citizenship are paramount to the demands of party they a standard around which all patriots can rally and give assurance that popular government is not yet a failure. The Ne Dbraska republicans are fortunate in having n leader like Edward Rosewater, who is more of & patriot than a partisan, THROTTLE, Minneapolis Tribune: A pointed by Minneaplis eitizens on record a Atting of James Root; it had _mentioned man MeGowan er could have got comparative safety Indianapolis Journal Root, in has pla tribute the would have his feilow-hero, whose aid teain to they ' HEROES AT TH | | | also without the of When many places, was told he had the hero of the country he replied did my duty” It takes the of courage an from a sen class of men or with less Tocomotive Buffalo Express its heroes. The Minnesota forest | brought forth many, not a few of doubtless never will be heard of by lie. But there is one hero whose and deeds arc known and never should forgotten. The brave engineer, Jam | who stcod at his throttle and piloted burning traio back eight miles to - the where most of his passengers found showed the quality of courage heaven-bori highest who this idea enginvers. a0 more fri which polis Times: How little ng public realize the courage herolsm which watch over journeys by and which are never falling in the pres of danger. The h of the nation in the engine cabs, and it is only when are brought face to face with their self-sacrifice that we appreciate how much we owe to thelr vigilance and to their ad herence to the post of duty, no matter what the danger or certainty of death that con fronts them Chicago Post agree with the and rail roes sit We are not sure that we bard of Minnesota who asks ‘ame to “erect a monument on high to this immortal name not born to die.” a wayward witch and she has put many bad monuments to worthless who write books and such that it is hardly an honor to a man of genuine action raise his effigy. Better still, we'll en grave Jim Root's name on our hearts and say ‘“‘Here’s to you, Jim! Take care yourself, You are a trump.” el b PEOPLE AND THINGS. up Sidewalks around political being liberally tatooed Corporations actively interested in politics are susceptible drafts, corners Nebraska democrats might Che to head the ticket Nebrask induce He runs well s white wings are caressing the delusion that the machine gun is not loaded. Bill Nye has concluded to retire from the platform and give etymology a Turkish bath The emperor of China some rights in Corea, but disposed to respect them William Waldorf Astor says he is he was born in America. Americans rocate the sentiment, Welley “'Tis an il wind that profits nohody Political parties in Minnesota may well fore- go the task of stumping the state he overwhelming rout of the Chinese at Gazan indicates that Li Hung Chang ha hickory shirt concealed on his person neral nnounces he has the Japs are not sorry recip- than it is going out, but the difcuities in the way of salting an eagle are greafer than ever. Oliver Wendell Holmes has not hesitated to express his pride in the fact that the year of his birth gave to the world four of its great men—Tennyson, Darwin and Gl stone in England, and Abraham L'ncoln in this country. And when his own name was “0, [ sneaked in, as it were,” Cleveland is oue of the eight presidents who never attended college, the oth iz Washington, Jackson, Van Bur Fillmore, Lineoln snd Johnson. fifteen, including Grant, who was a Pointer, were all college-bred men. It s curious’ fact, howevor, that neitier Yale, Dartmouth nor Columbir has furnisted one. Another bl n discovered in the moral armor plate of the country's 400, Just as the Vanderbilt ndal began o wane, the Astors waltz to the front. James Coleman Drayton has instituted proceedings for divorce from his wife, a daughter of William Astor, for reasons that drag aris- tocratic morals to the gut'er and send virtue shrieking to the woods. James H. Budd, who is being run for gov- ernor of California by the democrats of that state, was given what was regarded as a complimentary nomination for congress in the district represented by Mr. Paigo ten or twelve years ago, but he hired a buck- board, traveled all over the district, speak ing to the few or many who would listen, and when the votes were counted it was found that Budd had bloomed into a full- blown congressman. This shows what de- termination and a buckboard will do. The Washington Star says of H. M. Bralv, the famous photographer, who was onee the petted favorite of fortune, whose heart and purse were ever open Lo the pleas of al- versity, and to the largess of whose !auniy there was scarcely a limit, 1s cripp'ed . body, with failing eyesight, and harassed almost to madness hy the stings of pever Still, hobbling around as he is on -ratches, with his wonderfully valuable colle:tinn of nistorie pictures and negatives threacencd by the demands of creditors, he proseryes almost a happy demeanor and seems to live again in the days when fortune was Loustiful comimittee ap- ed herolsm been well {f he the place Engineer burned nearly to death and wounded | become “1 only kind herolsm to face death calmly of duty. and there Is no other quently of winning applause than tvery calamity produces fires whom the pub- ne be Root, his lake, safety. Is does the 1ce heroic Fame is people of | are Gold is coming into the country now faster added to the list the doctor modestly added: | thelr pleasant howrs. 1t anybody imagines that Emperor Wil- llam of Germany parades the dignity of hig Job at all times and on all occasions, he should take a look at the imperial yacht when the Kiiser and his chums are aboard for a frolic, Eccentrie variety performances are provided, consisting f singing and play= | Ing in character, exhibitions of rapld sketchs ing In caricatures, impromptu versemaking, ete. Among the participants in these merry« makings are ambassadors, ministers and pro- fessors, who are included among the ems or's guests. — BLANTS FROM RAM'S (HORN. Character is what we are in the dark Never did any harm, eh? Well, neithet did & rotten eg| [ Religion 1s lke eh mugcle; it we do not usa it we will lose it When the wie the devil is hepled. Solomon ot a good deal of his wisdom in the school of experience. The golden calf men worship l comes & cow that. gives milk A fool soon shows that he has an empty head by the questions he asks. Nobody ever made iife any brighter for another by growling and grumbling. There are some | pear to work at ed are elected o offics never be- preachers who only ap- thelr trade one day in the more your fire will enemy your hates you, Kindness Kkindle the hot- on his 1t would bankrupt i in company that nsider good It is right for charity but she has not don gone all over the heaven fo some church ngels {0 pillars to begin at home, her duty until she has world - | | | FOR LONG SERMONS, SALVE Milwaukee Journ | awaits every man, it leisure time blowing a While does not horn, rtunity in ity Detroit Free Pros and he was happy exclaimed, folding are mine alone mured_softly; he had accepted him You sweet thing,” he her In his arms, “yom Come off," &hé mur- needn’t think you've ou 1 Constitution es expect to K they will hav ¢ 18 a barbecue e light oration at nij If the moonshine vep up with the can- to be double-quick. ry morning and & ht. Detroit Froe P lor_doesn’t know Wife—Neither long after Washington Star: I | longer,” said the blacksmith's anvil. ‘What's the matte inquired the sledg “I gel all the hard knocks, while the be 1oes nothing but put on airs.” e and whit home is do some married men until midnight A bache- won't stand it any lows ! Chicago Tribune: The Mother- afraid Willie is going to be ne he holds the book (in the retail ety line)— L. He's getting that way from watehing out for counterfeit mone There's plenty of flies in our store, Caros line, but there ain't any on William. Will-Why do you al- those corks with you when you B0t il on your flancee? Jack—Well, vou see, she lives in a flat, and I use then for stopping up the speaking tubes when T am bidding her good night in the vestibule, his eyes. w York Herald Ways carry Tndianapolis Journal sald the salt-barrel philosopher the office starts out to seck country it usually near a barr “I have noticed,” | “that when i the man in this ! begins looking for him i | Chicago Tribune: *I thought on the ground floor,” said the sy | friend. “Ground _floor pwled the victim, “That's where [ am now. The stock [ bought was elevated rajlwal shares!” Pittsburg Chronicle: this suit,” said Sna “Beg pardon, now on a cloth “That's quite right. 1 don’t want you o charge more than the cash price.”” “Vou must ggs to his tallor, v, but 1 am doing business b basis,” replied the man ot charge Chicago Record: Mr You only 16, Madgie? that. Madgie—~I know it. But I ean't tell that I'm 21, can I, when my big sister is stic ing at that age and everybody knows we ain't twins? Hopperley-—-What! 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