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

THE OMAHA DALY BEE. WATER, Editor, BV B R( PUBLIEH (Y MORNING TRRMS ¢ Dafly Bee (without Dally Bes and Sunday 2 Months Three Month Zunday Dee, Baturday 1 Weekly Itee, " BUBSCRIPTION Sunday) Ons Year.... One Year ~ sl 23333389 one Yenr . Ome_Year One Year OFFICES, Omaba, The Ties Bullding Bouth Omann. Corner N And_ Twenty-fourth Sta Counell THuffs, arl Street, « Chamber of Commerce. 18 13, 14 and 15, Tribune ¥ Streot, N. W, CORRESPONDENC tlons relating to news and edf- addressed: To the EdItor. 8 LETTERS, & Al bustness fetters and remittances should be addressed to The Tee Publishing company, Omaha. Drafta checks and postofice orders to be made pavable to the order of the pany " nEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. ag. OF CIRCULATION tary of the T duly xworn. tull 4nd complete Evening and Sun August, 189, BTATEME George 1L Tzach w Tahing company, being tual numher of Daily Morning. 4 during the month of as follows Pub- 21,86 22,000 Total . Less deductions coples ... for unsoid and " returne Total sold. .. e Daily average net circulation... nday. subsorih 1834, FEIL Pub n to before me presence this 4ih day of September, Seal.) P. Senator Cameron apparently Imagines that the road to the white house is marked by sixteen mile posts of silver and one mile post of gold How will the straight-laced and rock- ribbed democracy manage to carry off the state convention separated from Secretary Morton by a deep and stormy ocean? What are the candidates for congress in this district waiting for? Are they reluctant to commence operations before a few competitors shall have enter:d the fleld? more 1t s not so much a question of Mr. De- pew’s willingness to accept a nomination for governor of Niw York as it is of the will- ingness of New York republicans to tender him the nomination for his acceptance. Mr. Villard's friends express tha utmost confidence that he will explain satisfactorily what became of the Northern Pacific money traced to Lim but unaccounted for. The de- frauded stockholdcrs would much prefer the money to any explanation Mr. Villard may ofter. One-third of the members of the Board of Education vacate their places this winter. The necessity of selecting capable and honest men to these vacancies must no: be over- looked in the general scrambls for other offices. We want a few men of reputation and character to declare their williLgnoss to serve on the school board if el:cted. The Kansas Free Thinkers who held their convention at Topeka were very modest in their demands of President Cleveland. All they ask is that he shall immediately take himself away from the sight of human eyes forever. The Kansas Free Thinkers evidently do not appreciate the sizz of the president or they would permit him to have assistance in accomplishing a job %o weighty. It the railroad companies wish to com- plete tho alleged union station begun several years ago the people of Omaha will not hinder them. In fact, there is nothing that is hindering them now. But if they merely seck to secure a release from the obligations into which they have entered with the eity, they aro taking the wrong tack. Let them fulfill a few of their broken promises first as an evidence of good faith, While there are any number of prom- inent republicars in New York anxious to have the party’s nomination for governor this year, it is to be noticed that there is 1o one among them but who is of unble ished personal character. No man dares to aspire to the governorship of the great state of New York unless he can show a strictly clean record. Were It only possible to say the same of candidates in western states! We fnvite the attention of the now superin- tendent of schools to the possibility of effect- ing a considerable economy in the schools by having more of the principals do some actual teaching in addition to their duties of super- yision, for which they receive such generous salaries. There is not a single principal in any Omaha school who would resign her posi- tion if required to perform a little work of Instruction. It is not too lat: to inaugurate the change this year. What is the use of awarding a contract for electric lights to Wiley's company for the next three years so long as Wiley refuses to sign the contract award:d to his company for the balance of this year? Any other contractor who would treat the city in a cavallerly manner, as Wiley has done, and refuses to live up to the contracts he has made, and declines to sign contracts award:d to him, would be barred out from bidding for anything. But Wiley has a pull that ab- solutely demoralizes the council and deprives & majority of its members of self-control and personal freedom. How many municipal leagues are required to reform the government of a single elty? Don't the reformers know that by dividing thelr strength they lessen in a corresponding degreo their chances of accomplishing any g00d? It the advocates of the proposed la- borer's league have the same objects in view as ths already existing municipal league, thelr ald and co-operation will undoubtedly be welcomed by the latter. The reform movement can only be made effective by enlisting the advocates of reform all under one banuer. Let the first work of the vro- posed leagues bo to get fogether. Prof. yon Helmholts, who died Saturday, was the great physicist over whom so much ado was made during his attendance upon the electrical congress at the World's fair last ;var. He was undoubtedly the world's foremost student of physical science, and will staud for many years to come as an autkority upon those problems of light which Me investigated. His visit to America last year was & high compliment to the sclentific workers on this side of the Atlantic, who pressed the invitation upon him, and those who had the privilege of assisting in his entertainment will certainly hold the oc: oo as gue to be *'wavs remembered. HE CANNOT SHIRK RESPONSIBILITY, ( republican administration Taylor, the sbsconding pop senator, served sixty-three days In the senate before he left. He could get pay for only sixty days, or $300, He got that and no more. He Was justly entitled to that and no more, hat ‘he got $i5 of this after he left the state is the sum of all The Omaha Bee charges against Colonél Majors. The Bee however, did for while make the public belleva that Taylof was paid $75 for time elapsed after he left the state. This I8 not true. The leglslature was in_ session for fifteen days after Taylor left, but not one of the legislators got anything for that ex- tra time. there is mothing in the charges made by The Bee against Majors for approving the $76 voucher, as Taylor had s 1 his full time, had received but 225, and was clearly and rightfully ntitled o the other §75, and got it. Auburn Post of talk ay for ome among the gullibles and holders of Nemaha county, but it will not wa h with of sense who have ta to inform them- selves about this scandal True, Majors has publicly declared befsre God as his witness that Taylor served sixty- Majors been suffering lapse of veracity before man as well before the Almighty for these many His testimony 1his will gainsay or records. The senate journal for 1891 is dedly bet- ter authoril Mr. Majors. According to the senate journal Taylor responded to the last roll call on the 20th day of March, which was the fifty-third of the (see page 695). That day’s session lasted sev- enty-five hours, and it was during that siege that Taylor was criminally abducted. The roll call of the fifty-fourth day of the ses- sion, March 24 (see page ) shows Taylor to be absent, and his name does not again appear be journal between that day and the of final adjournment, April 4, which was the sixty-fourth day. Had Tay- lor served sixty-three days the record would show that he remained duty until the day before adjournment, As a matter of fact, the fraudulent voucher certified to by Majors is dated March 31, which the senate Journal shows to have been the sixtich day of The tell-tale receipt signed by the lientenant governor's blank, Portlsnd, Ore., but written in eely's hand and ma out at Lincoln, rs the date of April 11, The enormity of the cffense committed by Majors in certifying to a fraudulent claim is not to be measured by the amount pilfered from the treasul but in the degree of dis- honesty displsyed under the peculiar circum- stances. A high crime had been perpetrated against the state by the abduction of Taylor in the midst of a session. Nobody about the state house, least cof all Lieutenant Governor Majors, was ignorant of the fact that a conspiracy had invaded the ate chamber and carried away of its members, thwart legislation whic! Majors himself was dging all in his power to obstruct. Neither he nor his political backers clean his official record of this indellible stain by pleading the baby act cr any amount’ of pettifogging. This kind do eon- sumption pass- men integrity and n the trouble common three days, but from a as ears, on point scarcely overturn the dec than day session on day on the session. Taylor dated Walt § be on from de sen- one to he can COMPARATIVE EXPENDITURES. There will be heard from almost every democratic stump speaker throughout the country in this campaign a comparison of the expenditures of the first Cleveland ad- ministration with those of the Harrison ad- ministration, to the disadvantage of the lat- ter. Senator Vilas did this in his address to the Minnesota democratic convention, and undoubtedly his example will be very gener- ally followed. He asserted that the admin- istration of President Harrison expended $323,000,000 more than the preceding ad- ministration, and to this he ascribed in large part the national distress of the last year and a half. While it will not be denied that more money was expended during the last republican administration than during the preceding democratic administration & bare comparison of figures, unaccompanied by any explanation, is misleading and those who make it do not desire to fairly and honestly enlighten the public. In the first place it is to be said that dur- ing the first Cleveland administration con- gress was divided politically, the senate being republican and the house democratic, the effect of which was to keep down appro- priations even at the cost to the public serv- ice of efficiency and the greatest usefulness, One of the promises of the democratic ad- ministration was economy in public expendi- tures, and a democratic house was disposed to make good this promise regardless of the growing demands of the public service. As a matter of fact, the service did decline in efficlency, in almost every department, dur- ing that administration. This was espe- clally true of the postal service, which had become so ineficient and demoralizing during the last two years of the first Cleveland admin- istration as to cause universal complaint, For four years the growing requirements of the publie service were not adequately provided for, so that when a republican president and a republican congress came into power it was found to be Imperatively necessary to increase appropriations in order to meet legitimate increasing demands and provide for needed improvements. Thus the Fifty- first congress increased the appropriation for the postal service over that of the preceding congress more than $22,000,000, provided $14,000,000 increase for the navy, and nearly $3,000,000 for. coast defenses, appropriated $1,400,000 more than the preceding congress for increasing the practical usefulvess of the Agricultural department, made more lberal provision for public buildings, and in other ways made provision for what was deemed to be absolutely necessary in the interest of the general welfare. As a result of these enlarged appropriations the public service was improved and the whole country bene- fited. Wil anybody contend that money was wasted in improving the efiiciency of the postal scrvice, building up the navy, ex- tending the usefulness of the Agricultural department and providing for needed pub- lic buildings? By far the largest item in the increased expenditures of the Harrison administration was for pensions, but the democrats will hardly venture to criticise this during the pending campaign, or to defend the efforts made by this administration and congress to reduce by arbitrary and unjust methods the pensions of union soldiers and of their widows and orphans. The plain truth is that the first adminis- tration of Mr. Cleveland did nothing to im- prove the public service or to promote the general good, and excepting the work of the Navy department, there is nothing to be sald to its credit. With a large surplus at its command it refused to employ it In re- ducing the public debt to the extent it should have done, even quibbling as to its authority when there was a financlal exigency calling for rellef which only the treasury could sup- ply, at the same time permitting tens of millions to remain in the hands of the banks without any bemefit to the government During the first two years of the Harrison administration the surplus revenues applied to the payment and purchase of the bonded indebtedness of the United States amounted to very nearly as much as was applied to this purpose during the entire term of the first Cleveland administration Republicans will not deny that the last j 1s generally THE OMAHA DAILY BEF: TUES expended more money than its predecessor, but they will contend, and the evidence in support of the contention I8 conclusive, that every dollar of this money was wisely expended and was | a benefit to the country AFTER THE “CONSERVATIVES Certain democratic newspapers manifest a | determined purpose to drive out of the party the democratic os defeated policy of the extreme tariff reformers, exemplified in the Wilson bill lose opportunity celled statement tucky self, ser the as no se who and at these conservative senators. The recent of Senator Blackburn of Kene regarding an agreement between hin s the representative of a number of tors, and Gorman, Brice and the other “conservatives” as to passing In the senate the supplemental free raw material bills passed by the house, has been selzed upon as additional proof of the perfidy of the Maryland senator and his confreres in the alleged conspiracy against tarift reform, and the newspapers who are berating these sei- ators claim that Senator Blackburn has ace cused Gorman, Brice and the others involved with them of having broken As a matter of fact there is no such ac- cusation, Mr. Blackburn distinctly that Gorman and Brice refused to agree (o assist in passing the popgun bills for free coal and free iron. What the interview shows is that Blackburn, with other demo- cratic senators, promised the house demo- crats that if they would pass the senate bill tliese senators would try to pass through the senate the bills relative to free coal, free iron ore and free sugar. It is a matter of record that the senators who made this did try to those bills, but not control the necessary number of votes. So far as the free sugar bill is con- cerned, that was disposed of by the letter of Secretary Carlisle to Senator Harris, urging that the treasury nceded the revenue from sugar, and ther charce of the other measures being passed. It may be that Senator Blackburn really feels that he was betrayed, for he threatens to change the rules at the next session, order to pass these supplemental bills, As chairm rules he will doubtless attempt to do this, but there is not the least probability that he can accomplish it. According excellent such matters, nate during the present congress will change the rules for any purpose to applicable this congress The democratic majority s not strong enough to enter upon any sueh contest it is not likely to be united upon a prop:- sition to change the rules with the avowed purpose of passing the popgun bills, Even should a democratic majority be secured for this purpose, which is altogether improbable, the republican minority would undoubtedly ba defeat it. Senator Blackburn's threat, It is entirely safe to say, will amount to nothing. Meanwhile, it is interesting to note the efforts that are being made to oot out of the democratic party the senators who re- fusgd to accept the Wilson bill and who have contributed as much to the success of the party In the past as any other members of it. The mewspapers and politicians who are doing this evidently believe that these men can be spared without detriment to the party, but in its present poverty as to lead- ers, It they should accept notice to leave, it would be found undoubtedly that the party had sustained serious loss. The fight beiug made on these senators serves to widen th> breach between the democratic factions, and this may result to the benefit of country. to strike a blow 80~ their pledges. promise could pass was never a possible in n of the committee on to very opinion on the not be to and able to to the MATIZED (€ ”A.’H'l',\' WORK. Reforms accomplished by the Commercial club of Indianapolis are attracting the at- tention of political economists. One of these pertains to the treatment of the poor of that city. A fund is appropriated by the club for the wholesale purchase of supplies, which are put in charge of a competent storekeeper. Applicants. for aid are re- quired to return an equivalent in work and arc eredited at the rate of 121 cents per hour on their supply account, the storekeeper pro- viding them only with the necessaries of life. Dr. Albert Shaw says of the system that it has produced the best results of any within his knowledge and to have solved the problem of charitable work in population centers. The plan adopted by the Associated Charities of Omaha is in some respects similar to that of the Indian- apolis club. The labor test Is the salient feature of both. It is highly probable that if all Omaha charitable societics would pool issues under the lead of the organization known as the Assoclated Charities a high degree of success could be attained during the coming winter. At any rate ths city and county author- ities should at once require a registration to be made of every person in the city now in destitute or helpless condition. Every person who applies for aid should register his or her name, place of residence, trade, and prove by ecvidence the length of time they bave resided in Douglas county, This would protect the taxpayers from the imposi- ticns of the fall influx of paupers sent here by county officials throughout this section and would also afford a reliable basis for an estimate of the amount of relief work to be performed throughout the season. That every able-bodied, applicant for relief must be required to work In return for aid given conceded. The management of the Assoclated Charities might advertise for proposals for bids covering the estimated anount of supplies for thirty, sixty or nivety days, and it might also undertake to bid for certain contracts involving labor in order that employment afforded to its dependants, Relief work in this city and county this must be blocked on a larger than ever. If it be systematized and Judiclously supervised better results can be attained at less cost than heretofore. Oncs let the well-to-do people of Omaha know that every cent of their contributions will be worthily bestowed there will b> no lack of funds to prosecute the charitable work of this city. The philanthropists of Omaha can do anything that those of Indianapolis can do. All they ask is that the men and wemen who devote themselves to this great work of humanity shall safeguard against the imposition of mendicants professional beggars seems days might be season out scale them and Chancellor Canfleld has taken it upon him- self to deny over his own name some of the exaggerated stories of distress in western braska that are being eirculated throughout the east. The clianc:llor's word will probably &0 very far to correct any wrong impressions that may have gone abroad, but even he is compelled to assertions without going into details or esti- mates. A report of the exact extent of the losses from drouth and the probable assist- ance which the drouth sufferers will require, based upon the Investigations of a duly ap- polnted committee and put forward as an authoritative and semi-official statement of the actual facts will go further o effect the | out a prearranged program make very general and broad | object desiré® Than any number of letters written by ent men in their individual capacity, have the facts. Here we he data by which to judge the results the Maine election. Mr. Hughes, ch n of the democratic state committee s that the republican can. didate for glvefnof will not be elected by a4 majority greater than 11,000, On the other hand, M. Manley, chalrman of the republican natiomal executive committee and member from the state of Malne, assures the republican notffinee that his majority will not be less than 8,000, If the returns show an ovef Mr. Hughes' estimate midy sure that Maine republicans have than done their share in holding the standard of’ their party. increase wo will up- be more The Board of Public Works find upon fn- vestigation that a mew floor must be I upon the Sixteenth street viaduct. To leave the old floor in its present decayed condition weuld amount to criminal carelessness upon the part of the officials in charge. They will ask the council to appropriate an addi- tional amount necessary to cover the cost of a new oak floor. In no other way can the viaduct be made safe for traffic and It weuld seem to be the duty of the council to provide means for the work at its mext regular meeting in order that no time may be lost in completing the viaduct repairs, to The hygienic congress at Buda Pesth must have been surprised at the energetic protests of the American representative against the adoption of resolutions on subjects forelgn to its scope. Its m:mbers are not accus- tomed to being thus hindered from carrying They will prob- ably try to let the American representative in on the inside the next time they wish to conduct a congress o suit themselves. Corea occupies the position of an imparti but futerested spectator. The Vermont Ghbe D The republican majority in Vermont this is nearly twice as large as the total st in that state for Cleveland in 1892 Drift. nocrat The Tired Mugwamp Feeling. New York Times. The fountains of order and sanctities are being poisoned very earth, Hs stability seems to undulate under our feet glow darker and darker, and the stars by which we used to sail are one by one going out. We hear in the twilight, 5o ill-omened, a elamor of voices—but all speak different things. We are harassed by inexplicable fears, but no counsels reassure us for more than an instant—a fleeting instant ——— Ony Cause of Munieipal Corruption. Toston Herald. The effcrt in the New York constitutional convention to fix the time for holding municipal elections at dates separate from those of state and national voting is one that ought to succeed. It has long been in operation and is a success here. The probs sason for continuing to hold such fons together in New York is the op- portunities they afford for trading among politicians. In ‘this way both elections are corrupted and the people suffer doubly. of all hourly distruste our he by us. The skies The Louiklana Defection Chicago Tribune. 0 soon to tell what the re- na_sugar planters will n tell méch better after the November election. Tf these malcon- tents have had a change of heart on the entire subject. of protection and are as will- re for the products of northern of southern caneflelds, then the republican party will give them i cordial welcome. But If they are figuring simply to get a bounty for their sugar, remaining free trafle democrats as resards everything else, then they need not expect the repub- licans to tlal rebelifon Tt is a litth volt of the amount to. Disgust that T New Y Is at the Polls. is 'what the resuit in Vermont is a disgust 20 profound t rats would not take the trouble %0 to the polls, their vote falling off about a quarter as compared with the co responding election of 15%). The democrats of the C Mountain state are as ‘in- domitabl are to be found anywhere, but even they have become wearied with the shufling performances of their part since it came into full possession of the fed eral government. There Is every reason to expect a similar manifestation of public sentiment in Maine and. throughout the north in November. Only one thing will save the democrats in any state. That is atroelous blundering on the part of the re- publicans. o L it The Battle tor Decency. Chicago Herald. It looks now as if the Kentuckians of the Ashland district would send a decent man to congress in place of W. C. P. Br ridge. ~The primary election occurs Saturday and the Breckinridge managers wish to apply a rule requiring each voter to take an oath to support the nomines before he deposits his ballot at the primary The demand for such a rule shows the | weakness of Breckinridge's cause. If it is insisted upon, W. C. Owens, who is the leading opponent of the disgraced con- gressman, will withdraw from the primary and make the race before (he people as an independent candidate. His = withdrawal would give Breckinridge the democratic nemination, but would not mean his re- election. The people who are behind Owens in the fight for decency and manhood are able to control the district and their candi- date could hardly be defeated. —— Frospective Duel of Washington Tost. Colonel Thomas P. Ochiltree, the Knight of the Sorrel mane and the Torrent Tongu has ridden boldly to the tent door of Hon Bourke Cockran, better known as Sir Or Rotundo, Knight of the Double Straddle and the Iron Jaw, and, smiting that great warrlor's shield with a dreadful and re- sounding smite, has cried aloud: “Come forth, thou thrice faint-hearted chump, and let me cast thy giblets to the wind!" In other words, Colonel Ochiltree an- ounces his_intention to run for congress in the Tenth New York district, provided Hon. Bourke Cockran is to be his opponent. He makes no secret of his contempt for that melodious person’s prowess, and de- clares that with such a foe to whet his appetite he will consume a whole pudding in November by himself. He taunts the brooding inmate of that tent. He clamors, v, thunders at the door. He swats Sir Ore’s shield until it rings again, and hi deflant sneer re-echoes from the shudder ing hills. ———— Hrace Up and Work, Philydiphia Ledger Tn the fullnels of time, when the repub- lican party comes’ again to its own and once more obtdims control of the govern- ment, the tariff-will be carefully, aga- clously revised and made more protective, more helpful tg American capital and labor} but until that time does come let everybody &0 about hix busiiess with all his might, digging, hammering, sawing, plowing, carrying, manufs buying and sell- ing.~ It is a betier, wiser and more profit- able thing to manfully face the situation, whatever it may be; and to make the best, not the worst, of ity It is a long and stupid cry to Jupiter th ¢ome down and pull bu ness out of the'Tut of dep: in which It Tos 80 long Houndered. Ing that foolish cry,: 166 eve shoulder to the, wheel a push it forwards te the activity and pz oSRErity. put his own 1 lift it out, and goal of business The least atten- alamity how! great natural tion paid to the ' better; with thd the land to be deVéloped, to be made the most of. In the intelligence, energy and thrift of 63,000,00s0f people there is neither time nor place for idle whining over the #pilled milk or the dead horse. The thing 10 do now is to g0 to work and make the best of the situation. SEOW. £abliusiastic. over thefr par-"|- POLITICAL POTPOURRL There are two democratic county ecentral committees in Johnson county, and, as & consequence, “harmony’ fs not the watch word. Geneva Gazette: Rosewater making Majors out a lar in defense of himself and attack upon Bdward upon the platform during the republican state convention last week. Rosewater's legislative record bears the light a good deal better than Majors' census record. Roger Ryan, a pollicoman at Grand Isi- and, who announced his opposition to the cardidacy of Tom Majors, was surprised the other day to receive from the tattooed state: man a new coat and vest to match his uniform, But it will take more than a suit of clothes to purchass the support of Ryan. There are a lot of republicans in Hall county who cannot be purchased to vote for Tom at any price, and Mr. Ryan is one of them Plainview News: Tt has been stated t the action of the republican state convention in nominating Railroad Majors was intended as revenge on Rosewater, who was laboring diligently to defeat Major's candidacy. Thus we have the spectacle of the g. o. p. sacrificing its alleged principles to personal prejudice, and nominating a man who stands o “earthly show of success merely to re pudiate Rosewater! It is a sad commentary on Nebraska politics The democrats of Hamilton county are trying to persuade the populists out there to sacrifice d Newberry, of Newberry bill fame, on the altar of fusion. They want Newberry withdrawn as a_candidate for the legislature as the price of their voting for the balance of the populist ticket, and they also agree to send a delegation 1o the con- gressional convention favorable to Judge Stark, The middle-of-the-road men will probably carry the day. Somebody evidently juggled the vote by which Deyine was nominated for congress by the populist convention of the Third dis- trict. Coifax county was only credited with one vote for Robinson, and now three of the delegates from that county declare they put in their little ballots with Judge Robin- son's name inscribed thereon. It's a little late in the day for an investigation, and as the “other fellers” said to Billy Summers in the republican state convention, “What are you going to do about it?” Silver Creek Times: The supporters of Majors do not deny that he is a tool of the railroads, but to counteract the effect of his well known record as a railroad man, they are now saying that Holcomb was once a railroad attorney, and that he is now as much 5o “at heart as he ever was. But will any one of them be checky enough to say that he thinks Holcomb would be likely to veto a maximum freight rate bill or that there is any doubt whatever that Majors would veto such a bill it presented for his signature? George H. Clark once ran the democratic ticket in Tha contracted a debt for $700, which he a serted the county central committee had agreed to He sued for the amount and the case has just come up in the county court at Hebron, revealing a peculiar state of affaivs. Clark insisted on having the democratic central committee identified and its chairman brought into court, so that he might know who was bringing suit. After a search of the records it was discovered that the judge befors whom the case was being tried was the chairman at that time The present chairman was next sent for, and, after considerable delay, the bailiff re- turncd and said he could not be secured at that time, as he was then in jail. The case was taken to the district court. s IND THING succeeds in his dramatic for senator on er county and P No aristocratic pedigree is complete with- out a certificate of scandal The name of Governor Ramsey of Minne- sota should be added to the list of surviving War governors. There is consolation for George Gould in the fact that his family centerboard is ail right up to date. Nature ordained the rocky conditions en- veloping Nevada. Circumstances reared its politics on the same plan. No rainmaker appears to claim credit for Sunday’s downpour. The cloud-compellcrs seem_to have lost their nerve. A member of company C, Sixth regiment, who' had been through recently saw his own grave in cemetery at Antietam. New York and Chicago report assessed val fons of taxable Strange as it may appear, asse cities render some equivalent aries Mr. Depew fears his connection with the railroads would embarrass his campaign should he consent to run for governor of New York. Such modesty would make a hickory shirt blush Some people in Memphis are roaring be- use & local political ring manipulated 800 saloons and ran them without license. The town, however, has not reached the Omaha plane of a judicial groggery. Mrs, Amelia Bloomer of Council Bluffs en- Joys the satisfaction of a vindication after a long, weary wait. It was in 1851 she began wearing the famous costume which bears her name. was then living at Seneca Fall N. Y. where she published a temperanc paper_called the Lily. In addition to being a prohibition advocate the paper also devoted considerable space to the subject of woman suffrage. A Mrs. Miller, who in 1851 paid a visit to Seneca Falls, appeared in the bifur- cated dress, and Mrs. Bloomer published a description of it. She and Elizabeth Cady Stanton adopted the style and advocated its general adoption. The Bloomer costume is now the rage in Paris, and what Paris de- crees the fashionable world obeys. IN A MINOR KEY. Vermont the war, the national increased property. ors in those for their sal- Chicago Tribune: Banks—Here's a queer fashion item. It says ‘baggy-kneed trous- ers are coming to the front. Rivers—Where else could they come? Galyeston The only way to make friends of some people is to begin by mak- ine all their enemies your own. Buffalo Courier: Strangely enough the busiest tongues are generally responsible for the most idle words. test slang ex- Philadelphia Record: The You're losing pression of contempt i your centerboard.” Atchison Globe: Conscience doesn't get its th for fifteen years. Previous to that children do bad things and sleep all night as if they were innocent. Chicago Post: “I belo New York families, sir. “Where's the certificate of your scandal?” ng to one of the old (after mind, Jest re- an' the Harper's Bazar: Farmer Brow fourteen hours at haying)—Ne Tommy, hayin' don't last forever. member that winter's comin’ soon, nothin' to do but saw wood an' tend cattle an’ go to school an’ study nights. Fliegende Blaette Doctor—I told you plainly that you should rub the brandy that I ordered for you about your stomach, and now you have drunk it! Patient—Yes, but, you see, doctor, I have never in my life cared much’ for externals She stamped hi “Look me in the eye,” she commanded. He complied. “Thirty” dollars, please,” he ob- served, after a moment, A faintness came over her as she remembered that he was an oceulist Detroit Tribune foot. Life: Ethel-I don't believe young; do you, Edith? Edith not too young. KEthel—When I think of it, it seems hardly possible that my mothe wos married before I was born. Idith— od gracious! Is your mother that old? REVENGEFUL THOUGHTS, Washington Star. Once we feared the haughty ice man—and we do, a little, yet; But the {ime i now appi thralldom we'll forget And on the day of parting we'll refrain from any fuss, But we'll treat him much more coolly than he ever Lreated us in marrying No—that is, paching when his Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, 8, Gov’t Report al Ro VEFTHD Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE Unprecedented mnd Dangerons Streteh of Judicial Power, (Mass.) Republican the contempt cases leaders of the recent railrond boyeott hicagu is likely to be less, that excitements of the occasion have worn aw than Is fairly The of these better when we consider that, prior of the United States leaders of the engineers from ployes and traffic of certain employment of the Judiclal tirely that the Springfield Interest In axainst ow warranted. cases will be to in of with courts brotherhood interfering the roads, such was jesued power new; injunetions punishment these of the nal cases, and the infliction of fines or 1 prisonment or both without trial by and in the sole discretion of the judge. Some time ago a committtee of the n tional house of representatives, after inquiry into the injunction cases through Judge Jenkins of the Pacific road, made a report the dangerous nature of the power assumed by the court. It was manifest the committee that if this power be conceded and freely exercised, jury and all the safeguards put idministration of justic through of progress in civil liberty would ¢ naught. Here, now, we have a point, Debs and his tellows have be not for crimes alleged to have been mited in violation of accepted or law, but for an alleged disregard orders of a court. They are alleged in contempt of court. Their ‘“trial’ punishment are thus put in the hands the judge who may accept as much or little proof as he pleases and inflict ever punishment he plcases. We make no, sort of question and the rest richly deserve straining treatment But we may question whether, to secure that ment it is safe to establish pree threaten the very foundations cial order. It is power to punish for contempt the courts never was intended strotched. This power has, where any degree of civil liberty established, been confined generally against the officers of a court connected with the trial of cas for c injunctions ntempt involves in refusal the trial about me of that concede to be to of a superior court But now we find boundaries which exclude Judicial would in the end alme If these men can be prisoned on the findings and decisions of judge, for violation of a sweeping issued on his own authority, there is prac cally no limit of the law. They can enjoin and whatever they choose, and can th fine or throw men into prison without nur ber on charges of contempt preferred, tri and decided by themselves. We may well pause before conceding to | extraor- | the courts the right dinary a powe The occasion may dema unusual action, but it cannot, casting aside of the fundamental rights American citizens. If there is not enough to reach these men through ord nary criminal charges tried in the ordinai to exercise 80 law enough to reach them. e g AT DONOVAN D HIS WHEEL Kansas City Times: The trip of Lieutes ant Donovan from Cheyenne, Wyo., Omaha on a bicycle will furnish to obe: setting asid rdinary processes of justice in erimi- Publie the at the importancy understood the action enjoining locomotive em- an en- at Chicago were of unheard-of scope, and that ¥ m Jury an arlsing Northern setting forth thus to should by the centuries to in | n held | com- nacted the | 1o be and ot as what- Debs | strong re- well Dunish- | ents that of our Judi- perfectly plain that the to 50 in all countries has been hold and persons or against Judges and magistrates of fnferior tribunals Wwho refuse to heed the judgments and orders the power extending to the right of trial by jury from our im- a order i to the power of these officers whomsoever en n- ed warrant the of law H- ry | way before a jury of their peers, the cases had better be dropped until we have obtained | n- to the first actual proof of what could be done with the wheel on long marches, under ordinary ci cumstances of war. Hitherto all tests considered the bicycle merely in its relatic to the relay or dispatch service. Chicago Record: This ment is undertaken with the countenance the War department and its purposs is demonstrate the efficiency of the bicycle a long march. Licutenant Donovan Is an e: pert wheelman and knows his road. H confidently expects to arrive in schedule time. more than eighty miles a day. Springfield Republican lieutenant - have on interesting experi- of to in x- 1o Omaha on 1f he does he will have done of infantry in the United States army, equipped as for the field, with three days’ and fully armed, is trying to reach Omah from Cheyenne, Wyo., a distance of miles, in six days, mounted on a bicycl His exp-riment has the countenance of th War department. ions ha 500 . ho But it will have to be said that until American roads have been greatly improved the army except at weather. odd times n —_—— A4 GR T KELIEF, Somerville Journal The world seems brighter everywhere Since congress quit The nation’s breathing purer No doubt of it. The men whose business is their chief Cot n heave big sighs of relief. They don’t dread being brought to grief Since congress quit. air, And go it Is the country through Since congress quit We all feel mighty glad It didn’t sit Another month in Washington In that case what could we have done? You see new life in every one Since congress quit don't you? the bicycle can be of little use to dry NO GREAT EXODUS FROM NEBRASKA, Chancellor Canfleld of the State University 8 Exaggorated Reports, LINCOLN, Neb, Chancellor Cane fleld of the St has Just sent the following letter ta the Hoston Journal in ane to ed in that paper as a special trom Chicago decrying Nebraska To the Editor of Boston ave Just been handed n copy or special dispatch, appearing in your issus of August 11, under the title of “‘Farmers’ 3xodus,” in which, in the form of an inters view with some orter,” referonce Is mace to the drouth and other “misfortunce” of Nebraska. Some s atements contained there In are so remarkable s to call for a reply, even at this late date. For instance: ‘‘Corn Is our staple, and when we lose that we loso everything.” This is only a halt truth, even taken at its worst, or at its best, as we please. 1f we lose all the corn we do’ not lose only lose the corn crop for one though we sald of the manu- Lowell: “Cotton is their only when they lose that they lose rything.” They have not lost their fac- tories, nor their homes, nor their crodit, nor their savings, nor the productive power which belongs to every hopeful, intelligent Amerl= can. Al these things are left in Nebraski even If the corn crop goes; and all these things abound in Nebraska whether the corn crop goes or not “South of the Platte those of totgl fallure. There is nothing ahead for the people who live in that section, It is being depopulated as fast as the peopls { can get out of it. South of the Platte hap= | pens to contain a big halt of our cntire popu= lation, the largest city in the state, with the exception of Omaha, and almost innumerable smaller towns, as well as some of the finest farming land hat lies out of doors anywhere in the union” The statement quoted above is simply and absolutely absurd, The reporter or oxporter or deporter, it I8 pretty hard to tell which it is that is mak- ing the settlement, secms to seo his own abe surdity and immediately qualifies the states ment by saying: “West of Hastings and | south of the Platte there is a_general | exodus.”” But this is aearly as absurd as the first statement. Writing rapidly aud from memory I recall in the section last referred to such towns as Mindon, with 2,000 population, Holdrege with 3,500, Blue Hill with 1,000, Red Cloud with 3,500, River- ton with 800, Franklin with 1,200, Blooming- ton with 1,000, Orleans with 1,200, Oxford with 800, Arapahoe with 1,200, Beaver City with 1,200, Indianola with a 1,000, McCook with 3500 and Imperial with 800. There are fifteen counties in the district named, In which, according to the census of 1890, there was a population of 125,000, which has been largely increased during the past four rs. To talk of this domain, with these Well established towns, and with the amount of capital invested in both town and rural life, as being subject to a general exodus, or anything that is like a general exodus, is_sheer nonsense That Nebraska has suffered and suffere severely goes without question. That it has suffered more than most of its neighbora 18 not true. That it has received a mortal blow is not true. That a great many peopla are withdrawing from Nebraska is undoubt- edly true. A great many of them are in the habit of going somewhere for the winter and returning in the spring. Some of them are honest, intelligent, hard-working people, come here with littl: or no capital. Some of them had a little capital, and little or no experience. The great mass of those already, in retreat had neither capital nor exp:rience, and consequently had no_staying power, wherever they may be. I do not mean by this that we are glad these peopl> are going; that is not true We are sorry they are obliged to go; we are sorry it they go suffer- ing, but wonder how they exp:ct to better themselves by going; and we do not like to have the credit of the state, its general repu- tation hit and hurt by such senseless and ex- aggerated rumors as you saw fit to publish. The emigration from Nebraska to other states, oven in this particular year of espe- clally unfavorable conditions, is not at all equal to the emigration to 'Nebraska from other states every year of the calendar. Of our entire native born population in 1890, 2,500 were born in Massuchusetts, Count noses some time this winter and report how many of these “went home.”’ Very trily yours, JAMES H. CANFIELD, Chancellor State University. Pl 8 te university swer an article which app telegram the Journal: T of an article acturers at output, and the conditions are NEBE. There are 207 pupils enrolled in the Syras cuse schools. The Thedford Banner is the latest ventura in the newspaper field in Thomas county. The Pawnee City Republican has changed owners and will hereafter be issued as a morning paper. The Central tion will hold September 25, 26 and 27. Thieves broke into the Dunkard church near Sidney and carried off a large quantity of Sunday school literature and picture cards purchased for the children. As the church authorities are not out much, they hope the literature will have a good effect on the thieves. A petition is being ecirculated to be pres sented to the commissioners of Lincoln county for the consolidation of several pre- cinets Into one for the purpose of holding an Nebraska Veteran its reunion at assoclas Broken Bow election to vote bonds to assist in prospecting for artesian water. The new precinct i3 to be known as Artesian precinct, add in case the project should prove successful it would mean a great deal to the northern portion of Lincoln county. YOUR MONEY nearly double—splendi wuar SHION © WORTMOH OR YOUR NEY BACK. 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