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

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Tzschuck, wecretary of the Ttee Nshing company, being duly sworn, savs the_actual numbie of full and c of The Daily Mo ning, 12 JTrinted during the month & follow ub- that cople Bunday Ree 159, was 2 2 2) 21 “Total . TIs Lesn deductions for i FORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to Lefore me and subscribed in my presence tils 4l duy ot Beptember, 10k, Notary Publie. ] Whea I am ¢ 1 X propose to dis- charge my duty to the best of my ability. 1 will do everything that can be done to bring about n sufe, economical and conserva- tive administration of affairs of our state governmont and see to it that the falth and crealt of the state are maintained.—Judge Holeomb at Exposition hall, September 11, There must be a Chinese proverb some- where which, when translated, reads substan- tially: “Make war slowly.” President Cleveland has in the outcome of the Breckinridge c:mpaign a text for ancther lotter upon political morals. Keep all tattooed men off the republican county and legislative ticket and there will be no trouble to elect them by rousing ma- Joritie Governor Altgeld's disclalmer of political ambition and his chracterization of office seekers as ““a poor lot” ought to do a great deal to restore him to popular favor. Stanford university might accomplish more by advertising what s being done there In the way of educational work rather than what Is proposed for the future in the way of erecting new buildings. Won®t the administration see to it now that Breckinridge of Kentucky is properly cared for, in accordance with the precedent ot by the appointment of Breckinridge of Arkansas to be minister to Russia? How can the members of the Board of Health be expected to attend to their duties when they are required to put in the greater part of their time In dancing attendance upon the whims of.one of the judges of the district court? It looks as if we might soon have some serlous charges of jockeylng preferred against the fast ocean steamships which claim to have broken transatlentic records. Before long these races will have to be run with an official accompaniment of um; and referees. Explorer Wellman got so much free ad- vertising cut of his unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Polo that he is impatient to make another trial. Until he gets started on a new polar expedition the public will have to listen patiently to the announce- ments of what he intends ta do. Oklahoma people cherish the memories of the opening of the territory so dearly that they could not celebrate its anniversity with- out having the incidents cf a year ago r cilled by a race for the title to a plece of land. Most of those who raced for land last year, however, are by no means anxious to particlpate in another. The memcry s enough for them. Wanted, half a dozen straw men to serve as dummies on the democrstic state ticket, to be put up in Omaha on September 26 and knceked down in the state of Nebraska on Tuesday, November 6. Applications for these lucrative pesitions should be addressed to Toblas Castor at B. & M. headquarters or directed to the czar, and in his cbsence or disability to his m. f. (man Friday), Palmer. Inside information from Maryland Is to the effect that while President Cleveland is gotting all the resclutions passed by the dif- ferent nominating conyentions held under democratic auspices, Senator Gorman Is get- ting all the offices. Tho wily senator doesn't care how many times the president may be endorsed provided he can be sure that he has his own friends in all the offic Mr. Gorman always had the reputation of belng a practical politician, and unquesti-n:bly de- serves it. The chairman of the Board of Public Works dispels the idea that the board s in- curring unnecessary for th of asphalt pavement contract under which the repairs made requires the contractors to the pavements in g00d osndition and rds them the same pay whether little or much work Is neces sary to accomplish this object. < Under the clrcumstances the board is doing no more than Its duty in making the coutractors live up strietly to their agreement expense repair The have been keep The grand jury which has just br indictments #gainst the men the last Teunessee lynching does not mince matters in refersivg to the dastardly o Its report calls it “'the coM-blooded, brutal butchery of the six defenseless ), the cruelty of which would cause even a savage to hang his head in shame,” and it ndulges i the hope that the most vigorous presecu- tion will be continued unill eve.y en- gaged In the afMair suffers the extreme penilty of the law. Iu this hope every citl- wen of the Uniied States who Is interested in the upholding of law and order and the pun- fshment of criminals who violate them con- cur Upon the evidence adduced there ought to be no quest'on of their ultimate con- vigtion and sentence. Nothing less will Mghten, the - stain which this barbarious Atroeity has put upoa our eivilization. ught in implicated in man PLAVING A CONPIDENCE GAME, A few Qays ago a letter signed by nobody, purporting 1o come from the executive com- mittes of the State Traveling Men's League, was received by The Bee with a request to publish the following resolutions, suld to have been adopted at a meeting heid in Lin coln Sept mber 12: Whereas proaching We will be compelied election to ehoose republican and popullst nominees ernor. Bing in touch with the b terests of the state, and realizing every day | the deplorable and disastrous effect arising | from the possibility of* the election of the populist stat: ticket, we know from cur ex- perionce fn the past that this fear of our business interests Is well grounded. We are aware that capital withdraws from inv ment in under popuifst control as rapldly as obligaticns mature, and in a man- ner that works groAt bardship upon the people and interests employing the same, and that the results are the same where the possibility of such control helng acquired exists. The local conditions, drouth and crop fallur+ have impressed upon our people a8 never hefore, the necessity of irrigation of our arable lands, and many countles in our state have lready voted bonds to further these enterprise: 1 that th-se bonds must find a market in the east. It has been forei- bly brought to our attention that the bridge bonds in eue of the wealthiest precincts in one of th: largest counties in our state have been on the market and unsold and unable to find a purchaser owing, so say Harrls Bros., bond brokers of New York, to the fear that Nebraska may be weighted down with a populist governor. Therefore, b it Resolved, That we use our continued and constant efforts to defeat the populist ticket and “Stand up and be counted for Nebraska.™ Resolvel Majors between the for gov- sees (ne i | in the ap- | | { | i we recognize in T. J andidate for governor, a tent friend of the travel- by making for we are standing interests of the hat republican constant and cons ing men, and we believe tha his election a special effort up for the best busin ate ; 1t now transpires that there w commercial travelers present at the me of thiz so-call:A executive committee, and these men were picked the ranks of the league because they representsd firms that enjoy pass privileges and rebates at the hands of the Burlington. It is part of the constitution of the Travelers l:ague that polities shall be excluded from its liberations. But it would seem that the self-styled cutive committee does not think it sary 1o live up to the constitu- tion, which is presumed to guide and control the assoc The Bee bers of attempt to re just eloven i ting | eleven from de- ex nece; jon has received protests from mem- Travelers assoclation against the use the order political bunco One of the members this letter add from steerer uses language in a Norfolk sed to us The Lincoln clique that has imagine that hink for them: traveliug man for fifteen years and 1 will rt Tom ent out traveling I have this men do not read or been am a republican, not supp Majors and two-thirds of the traveling men that T the road say the same thing. We have had to swallow some rather hard doses, but not as hard as the one that is before us now. 1t would therefore, that the scare- crow gotten up in the interest of the tattooed candidate do not scare the rank But what does tlie executive committee of the Travelers league think of senate file No. the bill introduced by Thomas J. Majors in the state senate of 1887, by which it was proposed to empower counly commissioners, city and township officers and school districts to com- promise, scale or repudiate public debts? What do they say to the record Majors made as a of the house in 1389, when he recorded himself with only 1wo other mem- bers of 100 in opposition to the bill creating state bank examiners and providing against wildeat banking fraudulent practices by orations or individuals con- Queting a banking business in Would Nebraska county, town and precinet bonds find a ready market under a governor who favors (he scaling and repudiation of public debt? And, by the way, what was the reason that Logan county bonds and the bonds of several other western counties could find no bidders last spring, despie the fact that republican governor who is eminently and safe financial matters? seem cirenlars and file of commercial travelers. member out we had a sound on REGARIING A BANKING SYSTEM. Not the least important with h the next congress will be called upon to deal Is that of providing a banking system under which will be secured greater elastielty to the currency. This matter has received a good deal of consideration from the present congress, two meritorious meas- been proposed, but, owing to the of views among democrats, nothing was agreed upon, and it is not likely that an agreement on anything can be reached by this congress. A considerable element of the democratic party, possibly a majority, would abolish the national banking system outright and substitute state banks. would do this ling any safeguards for the protection of the people, leaving to cach state to say what sort of sccurity banking might be done on and how the business should be regulated. Others insist that banks is- suing should be subject to the supervision of the federal government and that congress should provide for such safe- guards as are necessary to render the bank currency absolutely sound and protect the people from loss. Between the conflicting views on this subject it Is probable that all efforts to effcct a change in the banking system of the country will*fail in this con- gress, and it may be necessary to wait until there is a republican congress and president before the legislation which the ablest finan- clers In the country concede to be desirable can be obtained. There to be banking. and an ade- quately secured bank currency Is to be de. sired, evin if it be not absolutely indispens. able. As was said by Comptroller of the Currency Eckels in his address a fow days ago to the convention of the Michigan State Bankers association, the importance of the bank and the relation which it bears to every avenue of trade al question wh and one or ures have diversit Some without” proy currency has got 1 commerce was never so well exemplified as during the distresses of 1598, The severest strain of the lation of 1880 feil in the first ins the banks of the country, causing of their deposits and construction of their loans and discounts to meet the demands made upon them. The condition to which they were thus reduced was reflected in the lines of commerce, the stagnation in business. As then the dead- entd condition of the banks during that year reflected the status of our commercial world, s0 mow their increasing busivess marks the return of commercial activity. The function of the bank as “the handmaid of commerce'’ is one that cannot be disp:nsed with. The thing to be secured Is such elasticity in the bank circulation as will allow It to conform promptly to the changiog conditions of trade. It is generally admitted that this is not the case under the existing system. A cor- respondent of the New York Evening Post, bimselt a banker, makes the statement that at no time since the passage of the legal tender act and of the national banking act, with consequent retiring of the state bank notes, has the country had a currency that expanded at the time of moving the ver legls- 1ce upon depletion necessitating the re- the crops and contracted when the crops had reached the market, and he cxpresses the opinlon that a bank note circulation not se- cured by n deposit of bonds is the only cur- rency that can possess this power of expan- slon needs more and of contraction when less is needed. writer urges that the country must currency possessing the quality of elasticlty, and all bankers and practical financlers hold | How make 1t eriminal prascedings.- Among the papers are sald to be photographic fac similes of two rebate vouchers calling for the return of $3,000 to two shippers who had been large patrons of the Atchison It is even doubttul whether the guilty officlals would have the audacity to stand up and plead not guilty when they might with some plausibil ity ask for merey round th rebates have been constantly given by all the rail- the commis- | roads undereghe very eyes of soners and a@narently without sent, 1f not ‘ their tacit assent their provisions of the law been strictly forced from the very beginning, the rebate system would long ago have been broken up nothing like (he $7,000000 Atchison fraud could haye occurred | The hesitancy of the commissioners to go further now and to secure the conviction of the offenders ugainst whom they have so clear reported by a credible the fear of the knock-out blow which would be given the law in the prosecutions should fail. This Is no excuse whatever. As it is, the rebate lly knocked out when all the roads are viclating it impunity. It cannot be knocked further. On the other hand, a or two might do much toward supporting the belief that really in earnest about enforcing the law so far as | they If they make the effort we shall never know whether it is enforcible or not. when the country money, This have on the the same vicw (o provide such a cur- safe, as at be determis intelligent ¢ reney and abzolutely the for present, is 4 it s lderstion question 1o dis Had careful and 1\ SIGNAL JACANE latest VICTORY the Corean war, the est everywhere eription of the that all of the the courage were the Japanese. The Chinese strongly fortified position, decided advantage, while they had large a The latter, themselves the nandled aggrossive found of them became ess foe kilied A portion of the fores, roy, Li Hung Chang, marked bravery, defending their positicn to the pan, but generally the appear not to have manifested found that the fight them, and it Dee ™ porting a brilliant will be likely to in that struggle days’ news from re- Japanese and victory for renew inte The two fighting indicates generalship and on the side of army occupied a therein most of a case s authority to be interstate having a that as the again soldiers admirable As case ppears als as Japanese how- better with opera- clause s « ey thoved lause is practi and it seems T with skill in their soon as the the great paniestricken and the them by thousands, picked men of the vi showe were out any tion: as Chinese ouvietion they were b body o the commissioners are by can. do not Tast P S —— Old Tsham G. Hartls, who Is the senator from Tennessee in Washington, is trying his best to stir up some enthusasm for the democratic administration and its new tariff law down in the state which he reprgsents Mr. Harris has convinced himself that the tariff bill en:cted by he present congress is the best for the consumer and taxpayer that has been passed or offered in either house in the past forty years, This is de- cldedly uncomplimentary to some of his fellow demccrats. What about thg Mills bill that was endorsed by President Cleveland during his first term of office? What about the Wilson bill 28 it passed the house and as it received a similar endorsement from the president? How about the bill that was reported from the senate finance committee before transformed by the 600 concession (boRIBE D she | @mendments given as bait to the re- likely to have the earnest | [FACtOFY minorily? ~Were all these worse ABHORLT o Bt anEAh Revest AR law? Senator Harris any desire for | 55MS to hive forgetten that there have been She fs making her | Other demeocratic tarift measures offered in E aking her civilization. pf | CONETess during the last forty years. He feiumph, she 1 will. | CFainly presimes rather far in proclairuing Ddrikin their inferiority to the new hybrid law. Chinese much courage after they was going against that there must have great lack of generalship on their The dispatches suggest that the result of this battle may be decisive, 1t gives the Japanese control of Corea, and China will probably find it very difficult to get troops into the country should she decide to any more there. Of conrse, her resources in men are as yet unimpaired, but she has probably sent her best soldiers into and in any event it is obvious that r to maintain a hold there will to send double the force of the Japanese. Tt is a question whether uropean powers would permit ar out Japan by sheer force of and if the latter should now pro- would seem send vast Corea, in ord she have the China to w numbers, pose negotiations would b and ments. peace, very T NS the present Japan disclal conquest the ns territorial fight in interest of now, in the day of her ing that the war shall stop, the powers of Europe will doubtless be to exert thelr influence to that end. disposed 7 One of tie Canadian railway companies has just inaugufated a new system of paying its employes with checks, which, if gen- erally satisfactory, mey be introduced upon other lines fu ‘lr country and in this. There are two reasons which have led to payments by checks. instead of by cash. In the first place the risks attendant upon the transportation of large sums of mcmey in piy cars and the repeated counting of the money is done away with. Secondly, the railroad is anxious to assist in making more avallable the banking facilities that have grown up at jvaridus points ‘along its lines By depositing its pay roll funds in th binks and dfaWlik on them by check the business of thé Banks will be materially encouraged. | Therg is, of course, some in- convenisnce dhusedi to the empldye who has to have a check cashed before he can spentl any part of his wages, but the merchants will soon become accustomed to the new or- der and recelve checks almost as readily as they receive cash. Both railroad people and bankers will be interested in watching whether the experiment proves as success-. ful as anticipated A GOOD INDICATION. The improvement that is taking place in the iron industry furnishes a very good indi- cation that business is reviving. The condi- tion of this industry is commonly accepted as about the most trustworthy barometer of trade, and observation has pretty firmly established the fact that it is a generally safe guide. According to statistics published by the Iron Age, the very best authority in the country, there is a very decided ncrease in the output of the Llast furnaces of the country over this time last year. September 1, 1893, the production of pig iron was 83,434 tons for the week ending on that date, and for fhe week ending October 1 of that year it declined to 73,895 tons. For the week end- ing September 1 of this year the production was 151,113 tons, the largest output in any week since July, 1893, In the meanwhile, that is, from September to September, there was a wide variation in production, the smaliest output for any week of the two years being in the week ending June 1, 1894, when it was 62,517 It will thus be seen that the production for the last week of August was about 150 per cent greater than for the last week of May, certalnly a very significant increase, The Iron Age also supplies figures of the reduction of stocks of pig iron, which indicate that the rate of consumption is greater than the rate of pro- duction, which another very encouraging fact. The New York Ti has been publishing from day to day interviews with bankers and merchants regarding trade conditions, and all impovement, not a few of the merchants reporting a much better busi- uess than they had expected. Very gener- ally these business men expressed the opinion that the improved conditions will be main- tained and that a healthy, legitimate trade from now on may be counted upon. It is not believed that this can be seriously in- terfered with by any further efforts at tarift tinkering in the present congress, because there is a feeling that the republican minor- ity in the senate can be relicd on to success- fully resist any movement the democrats may make in this direction. The next session is the short session, and any proposed tariff legislation which the republicans do not want they can defeat by well understood methods. Meanwhile, the people will cordially welcome every Indication of improving business and will earnestly deprecate any action or threat of action that may in the least degree retard progress to a full recovery of industrial pro- duction and commercial activity. It may be a long way to a revival of the general and mag- nificent prosperity which blessed the country before the advent to power of the democratic party, with its thrcat to overthrow the policy which had produced that prosperity, but the country demands that it be given a falr opportunity to recover from the general and disastrous depression that has prevailed during the past year and a half. tous. The amount of money aside for the pavement of Military road with sandstone suficed (o secure just two miles of paved roadway. The same amount expended on the other roads for macadam gives a pave- ment considersbly longer. The difference between the two will not be s0 much in evi- dence at the beginning, but when the neces- sary repairs come (o be counted in the stone pavement will doubtless prove more satis- factory than the macadam. We have found by actual experience that in the construc- tion of city streets in the Igug run the best is the cheapest. It will be, indeed, sur- prising it experience with the newly paved country roads does not simply afirm this to be true, set ne: note an our Word comes from Wyoming that Kansas City commission men are trying to monop- alize the cattle shipments from that state and thus prevent the South Omaha market from securing its share of Wyoming sales. Kansas City leaves no stone unturned that will ecntribute to her aggrandizement at the expense of cther western towns. Omaha can easily hold her own If she will only counter- act the efforts of her competitors. Her ad- vantages ought to enable her not only to keep her present field intact, but also to extend the territory from which her mar- kets are supplied. Kansas City should not be permitted to have her own way unob- structed, A Pertinent Query, Scrlbner News. Query: It Rosewater's oppo Majors makes more votes to Majol do the Majors organs fight Rosewa making more votes for their candidate? SRR L Kicking Againat the Squeeze. Indianapolis Journal The veterans at Pittsburg were so at the refusal of the rafl factory rates that It was even proposed to hold no_more januyal encampments unless the roads would grant a uniform rate of 1 cent a mile. If the encampments should be abandoned, whith' rhay happen before long, only the deleghied ‘would meet to transact the business of 4he ‘Grand Army. e —— Where (g Boodle Came 1a. Gtbhe Democrat. The books of th¢ New Orleans Traction company show thit'it has paid out $2,75),000 on “franchise “actount.” The amount re- eived by the scity. falls short of this by hundreds of thepsands. The eity sold one street franchisc of §700,000, and the purchase immediately resodd ft for $880,000. The enor- mous secret traflie in franchises in cities that give them awhy may be figured out ac- cordingly. i s, bR angry oads to grant sa(is WORK FOR The equanimity with commission INTERSTATI COMMIS! which the interstate received the disclos- Little regardiug the rebates to shippers by the Atchison company past in direct violation of the provisions of the interstate law, and the deliberation with which it has proceeded to make inquiry into the truth of the allega- | tions, do not strike the public as promising | particularly well for the early | of the offenders. When the Atchison rovelations were made, and it was shown beyond dispute that by a system of secret rebates the income of that road had been intentionally overstated to the enormous ex- tent of $7,000,000, there were ominous mut- terings that the law should be invoked, and several of the interstate commerce commis- sioners assured the people that if the facts should be verified the law would be speedily | and promptly vindicated. It 1s now weeks since these disclosures were made, but still not a single step toward the enforcement of the law which provides such severe peualties for discrimination in freight charges of this kind, Tho statute mukes the offense purishable by a fine of $5,000 and imprisonment of the guilty rail- road official for & period of two years, It is understood that Expert Little has placed all the evidence at his command in the bands of the commissioners, and that there is no question as to its suMciency to Justity ION. commeree ures of Expert years prosecution | Need of a Natipoal Divorce Law. Indlapgpalis Journa The need of.a;general divorce law is demonstrated ajew by the unpleasant pre dicamgnt in whigh many possessors of Okla- homa divorce decrets now find themselves, and yet these vietims are not to be pitied Married couples with good cause for divorce have no trouble in securing legal separation in the states where they reside, and, as a rule, thelr resort to the distant courts of Kota or OKlahoma, where the law 15 wide open,” is @ practical confession that fraud, or, at least, an evasion of justice, is being aftempted.’ Indeed, the °so-called “residence” within the jurisdiction of the court is fraudulent, since It is known to all concerned, Includi o , that & m jority of the a not bona 1l | residents, but are only walting the expira- tion of the specified ninety days and the issuing of the desired decree to return to their homes In cither states. The tangle i which the patrons of (he hasty divorce mill find themselves who have matried agaln only to find the divorces ille ihe wsecond marriages consequently may serye as a warning to other men and wormen dissatisfied with matrimonial bonds, but the tangle Is one Lo excite amusement or disgust, and not sympathy for the sufferers, in the minds of onlookers, T POLITICAL POTPOURR 1t the republican state central committee Is casting about for an appropriate crest for its stationery, it might adopt a hickory shirt, couchant, and a raflroad pass rampant. W. 8. Bummers, who was euchered out of his nomination for atiorney general at the late republican state convention, has sud- Iy become a man of wonderful oratorical powers and of unrivaled ability in the eyes of the men who (id the euchering. Mr Summers doubt knows enough to con sider the motives and the source of the soft-soaping flattery that is being heaped upon him by the railroad organs When the Dodge county statesmen were plugging up thelr scheme to folst a Majors delegation upon the county, the 200-pound pugilist who delights in exhibiting his sores went to Jim Wintersteen of Fremont and detailed the scheme to him. Wintersteen was a red-hot Majors man, but honest in his advocacy of the Peru statesman. He was asked if he would go to the convention dis- Rguised Crounse delegate, and after the ormal ballot cast his vote for Majors Wintersteen's reply was very emphatic, and would not leek well in print. In’ sub- stance, it was to the effect that he was a Majors man, but if he was nt to the con- vention as a Crounse man, he would stay by Crounse until the cows came home. Win- tersteen was not one of the Crounse dele- Kate Colonel Majors is a varied rescurccs This proven by any numb:r of illustrations. But e of the greatest “grafts” that the states- man from Peru works upon credulous people is the “blue shirt,” He constantly refc to it, always wears of deep Indigo hue and flaunts it in the face of the people His latest move is cennected with this shirt After his alleged nomination by the republi- can convention last month, Majors went home, and, eccuring a pair of scissors, cut into little bits the shirt he wore at the time of the convention. Then he had some cards printed, announcing his nomiation and bear- ing a little motto conceived in his own mind. To each of the cards h astened a ece of that blue #hirt, and sent a card to each old soldier who had en an_active part in securing for him delegations from the various counties, One of these cards was nt to an old soldler in Columbus, who had help:d Majors out in the campaign. When the Columbus man received the card he grew red in the face. *‘What in thunder does Tom mean by sending me this blamed rag growled. *Does he imagine that he X me for my work by sending me a piece of his shirt tail?” And the Columbus gentleman tore the card into little bits and threw them into the st t. This is a novel method of campaigning—holding out one's shirt so that friends may grasp it and pull one into office, It reflects credit upon the brain of the statesman who conceived it. NEBIRASKA AND NEBRASK A bridges are an of vast assertion may be Twenty new Cadar <ounty L. P. Gross, being built in a Missouri Pacific brakeman had his left hand caught while making a coupling at Blmwood and badly crushed. The old soldiers of Hayes and adjoining counties will hold a reunion in Paxton's grove, at Carrice, September 25, 26 and 27, Rev. W. M. Crother, the builder of the Methodist church at Ravenna, has just been installed as pastor of the Methodist church at Hailey, Idaho. Rev. Louis Bendin, who has been pastor of the German Lutheran church at Wisner for ten years, has accepted a call to the church at Plerce. The Young People’s Christian association of Doane college, at Crete, have issued a handbook and presented a copy to each the students of the institution. Tom Cromwell, a young Cass farmor, sold a nice bunch of shosts, receiving in payment therefor $115. It was too late to take it to the bank, so at night he placed it under his pillow and went to slecp. In the mcrning he awoke to find his money gone. His hired man also had a splendid watch and chain end $5 in money stolen. 1t is supposed to have been done by tramps. Thero §s going to be considersble suffering among the new settlers on the reservation th's winter unless steps are taken to relleve them, says the Nicbrara Ploneer. The superyisor should be informed of distress, and the county will no doubt take care of them to a certain extent, Pride should not in the way of hunger. The Women's Christian Temperarce union of Niobrara are at work gathering clothing, but should be mere liberally aided, and if the other unions ot the county could assist it would be out of place The spectacle cf a dians bowling around stretched out in entirely too frequent, says the Pender Re- public. Decisive steps must be tiken to rid the town of this disgusting nuisance, A kill or cure remedy should be applied. To begin with, every Indian found in a state of iutexication should be sentenced to ten days hard labor cn the stréets. Then there are two or three bootleggers that should be given ten minutes to leave town. Lastly, & tax should be placed on the sale of cider thet would prohibit its being handled in the town. Hardly any one but Indians drink cider, and most of the stuff that is dealt cut is prepared especially for the red man's oonsumption and would craze a grindstone, while the best is almost as bad as the vilest liguor. The authorities should look into the matter and act upen it. The Indian jag must go. — UNCOVERED IN GOTHAM. Chicago Post: The New York senatorlal commitiee's investigation day by day devel- ops a depth of corruption in which the whole life of the city seems involved. It would be hard to say whether the villainous policeman who searched the clothing of an honest woman for money or the member of Dr. Johu Hall's chureh accused of bribery who admitted that he was a liar on the stand, probably perjured himself and still confronted the committee with a smirking face, was the more odious. Philadelphia Ledger: Evidence elicited by the Lexow committee, which is investigaling the New York police department, goes to show that green goods swindlers had little difficulty in plying their trafic in New York and Jersey City. These confidence operators appear to have been practically licensed by certain police authorities in high position and to have likewise com- manded the services of detectives at the rallway stations and persons in the em- ploy of the telegraph companies and post- offices. If the allegations of the witnesses be true there is little wonder that green goods dealers flourished so luxuriantly. New York Herald: Mrs. Caela Urchittel told the Lexow committee yesterday the most astounding story of police blackmall that has yet been heard in this city. She came to this country from Russia three years ago with her fatherless children. Alded by the United Hebrew charities, she kept a boarding house and accumuiated $600 With her little savings she bought tiny cigar store at the corner of Ridge and Broome streets, She lived in the back rooms with her three young children She is ignorant of the language and customs of this country A ward detective calied upon her, she says, and demanded §50, saying that she bad made her money in a bad business and that she was still engaged in it. When she refused to give him money, she says he arrested her, subjected her to indignities while searching her for money, took her through the streets at 3 o'clock in the mora- ing and finally had her sent to Blackwell's nd beoause all she could give him was 25 of the $50 he demanded. = L Bound Nense from Sovereign. New York Herald. neral Master Workman Soverelgn of the Knights of Labor I reported a3 strongly ondemning strikes. *“They widen the breach between and labor, and no matter ' it is sore over its de- taliate at the first oppor- tunity ‘It is in study and education and the wise use of the power placed in their hands through the ballot teat workingmen must hope for relief from the conditions of which they justly complain.” This is sensible talk, and if all labor enders took the same view there would be fewer strikes and In consequence less suffer- l".f among workingmen Htrikes arve costly resorts, since they en- tall sheavy losses upon both sides. Even when the strikers win thelr losses are likely to exceed their gains, Moreover, a spirit of dissension and discontent injurious to both capital and labor is fomented Tt 1s encournging to note that wag? earncra are gradually cpening their eyes to this truth. This s shown b the fact that Strikes are not so common as formerly, county not score of drunken the streets or alley or by In- lying getting VILLAINY of THE STATE PRESS, Dennett Nows: “The republican party s greater than any corpceation,” Is a statement which finds an echo In every part of Lan- enster county. The feeling that the republi can party, and not the corporations, should rule our conventions is growing every day. Silver Creek Times: Other things being equal, an old soldier who Is & candidate for offics’ ought to have the support of old sol- diers. But army services cught not to be considered paramount. At the most, but comparatively few old soldiers can hold office, and when one s a candidate for office he should be content to stand on his merits just like anybody else. Scme old s-ldlors wers very bad soldiers, and are bad and or indifferent citizens; some Who were first-class soldiors are no good as citizens, while others who were good soldiers and ar £ood citizens might be neither it nor com potent to hold cfice. We are getting very tred of this old soldier racket. At tho late republican state convention it was worked for all it was worth, and will be worked for all it is worth during the campaign Lincoln Hersld: Al over the decent element of the republica repudiating Thomas J. Major: ' are {ired of rallroad candidates tired of voting for men to whom ests of certain corporations are dearer than re the interests of the whole people. They aro tired of voting for men forced on to them by the machine. They are tired of votin for continual and everlasting office seekers. who will use any means whatsoever, crimi- nal cr otherwise, to break into the public crib. They are tired of voting fir men Who ccnsort and advise alone with gutter snipe politicians. M:jors has proven two things by h's record as a public man: First that he is a thorough tool of the railroads. Second, that he is th-roughly unscrupulous. The people of Nebraska den’t want such, a man for governor. Fremont Herald reeted Hon. E state the party s people They ur the inte The large aundience that Rosewater at the opera house was composed of representative cfti- zens of all political parties, The distin guished editor spoke for three hours, but wis listened to with marke ttention until the cl It cannot be denied that Majors will lose many votes as & result of Mr. Rosewater's visit, for there were frequent expresslons made by the people as they left the cpera house showing that they had heard enough to make them doubt the truth of the fulsome praise bestowed upon Tittooed Tom by the official organs of the ralroads A noticeable feature of Mr. Rosewater’s visit to Fremont was the long string of prominent citizens who called upon the gen- tleman at the hotel, there being many among them who have been known to vote the publicin ticket without a scrateh e s ND THINGS, should be for years, PEOPLE Breckinridge running well at the mouth. The speedy record of “Robert J' suggests the proper pace for General Che Governor Waite has open his campaign with a Gatling. Henry C. Bowen, the veteran publisher of the New York Independent, added one year to his four scora on the 13(h The government is coining $1,000,000 of silver a_month, but ther 18 to' be as much difficulty as ever in getting them. Alfred W. MelIntyre, republican cand for governor of Colorado, fs a nativ Pittsburg, Pa., and a Yale graduate, of 1873. A new asteroid is named Chicago. As the political complexion of the town is undor- Eoing a change, it is believed the party in power will decline to mount. The ancient and venerable has been trotted out by the Peunsylvania to lead a forlorn of the congressional districts. Vaux? Charles B. Matthews, the populist date for governor of New York, possesses a moderate quantity of political lubricant, and In addltion can draw on his Buffalo oil refinery for a barrel or two. Sig. Schiapperelli, whose fine Ttalian hand traced the camals on Mars, might b induced to do similar service for the Platte River Canal company. Just ncw he Is patiently looking for other lands to ditch and conquer. Marsbal Bazaine's son has recently re- od to France from an unsuccessful trip 10 Mexico, where he sought to have restorcd to his mother money conflscat:d by Mexican government. The family is in abject poverty. Mr. Kurino, the new Japanese minister to Washington, is said to b» an American in all but birth, He wears the clothes common 10 a gentleman in this country, including either a derby or silk hat, and Is careful not to let his conversatio either of them. t The New York promises some innovations in organic law that might be profitably copled els:where One abolishes the $5,000 Timit of liability for loss of life and another prohibits the ac- ceptance of rallroad passes by officcholders. Both amendments are on third reading. The governors of a number of states, par- ticularly those of the south and west, have expressed their views about the English com- mittee that has come to this country to in- vestigate and denounce the lynching system. The general tenor of their expressions seems to be in favor of lynching the committee. The ‘“oldest postmaster in the United States” has been turning up in all parts of the country, but the friends of Roswell Beardsley of North Lansing, Tompkins county, N. Y., claims that he still holds that honor. He was appointed a postmaster by President John Quincy Adams in 1828, and is still in office given credit for concluded fot to Mr. Buckalew democrats of hope in_one Where is Dick candi- tu now constitutional convention the | escape through | SIGNS OF PROSPERITY. Chicago Herald: A new era of prosperity fe at hand. With the expansion of busi« nees to absorb the redundancy of the curs rency, everything will be placed on solid ground. Further tarifft changes, not abrupt nor extreme, but all in the lne of reducs tion—to cause harmony of action in all it8 movements—will strengthen the growth of every industrial and commercial Interest, intrench public and private credit in- better defenses, lighten the popular burdens, and promote the general welfare St. Louls Republic: 8t. Louls has caught the rising breezes of prosperity ahead of all other cities. Wholesale and retall busi- ness is active, the hotels are orowded, facs tories are busy and ev is not only sanguine but hustling did not shake a single pilllar of our strength, ‘The territory in which most of our trading i8 done stands as the most productive and solvent n the country this year. This era of general prosperity is to be the era of greatest growth in St. Louls. Philadelphia Record: In commenting on the multiplying evidences of trade revival a New York banker remarks that a redcem- ing feature of the situation is ““the enormous product_of gold which will be put out this year. It will approximate $42,600,000, and Will be the largest in the history of the country. Another banker of the same city calls attention to the fact that ‘one result of the Asiatic war will be a call for American siliver, That is an cncouraging sign, be- cause silver Is worth more 10 us as mer- chandise than as money., We produce sil- ver, and the demand for our siiver will be a great commercial advantage to us." With enlarging markets for the products of our mines as well as of our mills and flelds, there is good warrant for the hopeful feeling which prevails in all business cf cles; for it is evident that a business re- vival based upon manifestly stable founda- tions 13 not a mere temporary spurt, but is well assured of permanency - TAPPING THE FUNNY BONE. Buffalo musical ge cerned? tim Courier jus as far g Yep; knows when to quit every Life: He Higbee would have m through his fortune in a month if it adn't been for his wife. She--How did she prevent it? He-She spent it herself. Brooklyn Plain Dealer: When one is so foolish as to tie a4 cow’s tail 1o his own leg in Ay timae hesshould at least have diplomacy enough to attempt to deny responsibility for the results Chicago Tribune; 1 used to hear it pre dicted that Miss Strongmind would go nta Some day und become a _stump *RIWell, she did take the stump. She mar- tled @ man with an amputated Teg. Truth; Wife—1 must 1 fear I've gol dropsy Husband—Where were you w coal seales, Hush 1 weight 18 normal £o to the doctor; 1 weigh 230 pounds! ighed? Wife nd—Then don't 3oston Bulletin: Professor the gorilln)—Gentienen, you must zive me Jur undivided attention. It I8 impossibla for you to form a true idea of this hideous animal unless you keep your eyes fixed on me, (lecturing on Chicago R Cullfes. to_fight with M \ at all Morbett v )t unless he wot Kind of paper the agreement written on. ord Arn’t you goin' stipulates is to be Star: “De ‘blessin’ in dis- Uncle Eben, “am like de Dey mout’ be right ez kin 1 gits ober yoh "spielons.” Washington guise,” "' said n wif a alias e, but yoh nebbs She on the Right—Mrs, S person. re of her Joston Budget: Newrich Is certainly a most odi I really belleve that she thinks 1 dog than she does of her boy. She on_the Left—I haven't a doubt of it, You see her dog has a pedigree Mr. Justjoined to do? was reading about cooking by électricity, #0 I hung the chops on the electrle bell, and I've been pushing the button for half an hour, but it doesn't seem 1o work. Brooklyn Eagle earth are you trying Mrs, Justjoined—1 What on New York Sun: Mr, you think of the Jatest kissing {5 unhealthy? Ir. Hunker-1t 15 quite happened o catch me ki and 1 was laid up a whol ns—What do al dictum that Hugs medi; true. Mr. Munn ing his daughte week A SONG J Harper's b a song last night that took me back tear mother's knee in auld lan I heart To my sy And, oh! as 1 sat list I wished 1 had across mine. - ———— A SHATTERED IDOIy ping to its strains, the man who sang it Detrolt Free Pross, My love, could you but be once more The girl whose heart I treasured! As in the summer days of yore The sands our footsteps measured, 1f could only be to me What you were then, dear maiden, My gloomy heart would not now be With sorrow heavy laden. How I recall you ntle touch, The words of love soft spoki For I adored you, dear, 80 much— And now, my idol's broken. 1 did not think it, dear, of you, Indeed, I scoffed the rumors, But now 1 knbw that it s try I've seen you wearing bloo YOUR MONE look at it. WHAT A streak of hard lueck is often the best thing that can happen to a person o a people. greatest teacher, and many a economize. who used to think that $35 to $50 was about the proper caper for a business suit. get a smashing good suit at the factory [that's us] and for $20 or $25 a real fine suit can be had of the makers [that's us again] worth $40 to $50. Prosperity comes from saving money. Did you see the corn at our corner? Take a ASHION FANCIES WE Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothie! s, 5. W, Cor. 15th and Douglas S WORTH OR YOUI MONEY BACK P Experience is the man has learned to save a neat little sum because he had to There are people Now $15 will FURNISHY