Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 20, 1894, Page 4

& _'OMAHA E. ROSEWATER, Bditor. f—— = PUBLISHED — EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIO! Daily (without Sunday), One Year. Bally Boe and Bunday, One Fear.... . Bix Months a5y g Three Months Bunday Bee, One Baturday Bie. Weekly Bee, On Dee Bullding. Corner N and Twenty-fourth 8ts, 12 Pear] street. Chicago Office, 317 Chamber of Commerce. New York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bldg. Washington, 1107 I street, N. W CORRESPONDENCE, | All communieations relating to news and edi- | torial matter should be addressed: To the Editor. BUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittances should be addressed to The T ‘ubiishing company, Omaha, Diafts, checks and postoffice orders o be made pn to the order of the company. i i3 PUBLISHING COMPAN Omaha, The Bouth Omaha Counell Plufls, STATEMENT George B. Tzschuck lishing company, being the nctual number of of the Daily Morning. nted during the month of October, follows OF CIRCULATION. y of The Bee Pub- duly sworn, says that full and complete copies Evening and Sunday Bee 1894, was R TR Felurned Loas deducts coples for unso d Ve . 10,087 4,370 § o TH T 1. TZHCHUCK bed in my pres. 1504, Total Dally ave ot ¥ T fet eirculntion GEOR Sworn to_hefore me and sulse ence this 3d day of November, (Seal.) N. P. FEIL, S S, The republican legislature up to the platform pledges. must live This Is a good time to renew fi the patronage of home industry. ty to What would the statesmen out of a job do if the lecture platform should fail then No one seems to be competing with Franklin MacVengh for the honor of the complimentary vote of the democratic members of the legislature for United States senator from Tllinois, It is idle to talk about painting the election booths while the temperature is around the freezing point. The un- sightly booths should be removed and painted just previous to the next elec- tion. The rebuke administered to railroad domination and boodlerism in the de- | prominent WHAT WILL THE PARTY GAINY that Judge Holeomb had been elected governor of Nebraska by some 8,200 pluralit state tinged been of a capltol with has talk more contest or on This talk was at first said from the republican but after almost all date. emanate committee, up the hend of the ticket express have been switehed upon a new track name private capucity without either the in st republican committee, Such intimations are curate and misleading. it once inac Vader elections th is no other stituting proceedings exe notice duly given by a qua In ofher words, the republican committee, were It disposed to conld aet composing mittee. Tt one conneeted pretend that will take the way of in )t throug) ac it re is mor with the committee tc some private individua initiative in this enting the com claimed to be in possession of any evi dence of fraud against Majors. No one except Mr of hi¢ friends to whom he has giver juterest in such a contest, Majors has been reported to have sonul Mr. rep: that course. should be given by auy one will know that the move has been in stignted by the republican state com mittee and that both the resour and the by bas Th Wi the purpose of the governor's chair? that committee are in s of the procecdings. question immediately reality arises counting Majors to remember that in theory at I¢ supposed to represent the republ party. Tt is not expected to represen ny particular man, whetber he is defeated candidate for office or manager of a giant rallrond corpora tion. It is supposed to consult onl welfare of the party. The mere fac that the legislature is overwhelmingl republican, and might, by the exerc Hver since it beeame definitely known the air in the vieinity of the less be- | half of the defeated republican candi- state the vepublicans wlo had been trying through the campaign to bolster | themselves unfayorable to contest pro ceedings on the slim evidence of fraud that has so far been collected the rumors that notice of contest would be filed by an individual elector in his wtion or the encouragement of the the law which provides for the contesting of | lified elector. state nly through some member | over useless for any matter. No one except the state committee has | Majors and possibly a few promises of appointments has any per- | and wtedly indicated his disapproval of If, then, notice of contest the public leged evidence of frand collected the at is to be gained by a contest for into And in consider. ing this question the committee wants the v the THE OMAMA I.L with the reserve constantly lable to be depleted or even swept away by drains to meet the export demand, there s danger that the credit of the govern- | ment may at any time be fmpaired and that In consequence the paper obliga- | tions of the government will depreciate. | But give the government an assured | gold revenue that will enable it to main- tain the reserve at the amount deemed adequate to meet all demands and the | danger will be averted and all cause of distrust will disappear. Then every dol- lar would be as good s every other | dolar, beeause all would rest upon a sound and amply fortified basis. There is another point in connection with this question which it is pertinent to refer to here. It is objected to the plan of making all or a part of the customs duties payable in gold that im- porters would get the gold from the treasury by presenting greenbacks and pay it in fof duties. This is not a reasonable or even a plausible objec- tion. The importer is indifferent as to | what kind of money he pays duties with, It is simply a matter of con- venience with him, Until two or three years ago, until there begun to be seri | ous distrust regarding the future of gold | payments owing to the increasing silver | inflation, about 90 per cent of the cus- | toms duties were voluntarily paid in wold and gold certificates. The distrust | led the banks to hoard gold and supply their customers with other money with which to pay duties. With the disap- | pearance of distrust, for which there is no longer any excuse, and with the knowledge that the gold would flow back to them in the regular course of reasury disbursements, the banks would not hesitate to supply their pa- trons with all the gold needed fot duties. It is in the interest of the banks that the national tre shall be in an en- tirely sound and safe condition and it is an unjust reflection upon these institu- tions to assume that they would put any obstacle in the way of its attain- ment, 1 ) » i ) 1| 1 A PERMANENT ARY EXHIBIT. Nearly every city of any considerable pretensions in this country has some kind of a permanent art gallery or museum maintained as a public institu- tion. In Burope the same is true with regard to nearly every city and town, whether of any pretensions or not. Is there any good re why Omaha should not make at least a beginning in this direction, no matter how small that beginning m, be? It is, of course, not to be expected that Omaha will imme- diately or in the near future duplicate the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, or the more recently estab- lished Iield museum of Chicago, but it m t 1 t | Judicial eircles that commodity @ (it no denler can long secure lhlpmmn{ coal into Omaha at A lowoer rate 1 that quoted by the combine. Agrfay as Omaha consumers are concerned in‘a law that will break | up the local émibine, they will support any measure with that object in view, | and the Central Labor-union merits the aid of every member of the Douglas delegation ingpjl, efforts to accomplish the object sought, { o | A most important opinion written by Justice Harrisom of the state supreme | court, touchifg Habllity of fire insurance companies, hag mot received the atten tion its merit deserves. Justice Harri- son holds that in case of total loss of | property the company insuring . the premises is liable for the full amount | named on the face of the policy, any clause or stipulation limiting the liabil- ity of the company to a less amount being contrary to the statutory rule and | invalid. This decigion of the highest court of the state is well in line with | decisions of high courts in many oth tates. There seems to have been in recent years sentiment pervading a fire insurance policy, purporting to indemnify its | holder in case of a given loss, could not be repudiated by companies Issuing | it when called upon to pay the claim. | A chief characteristic of the up-to-date five insurance policy is an array of ex- emptions that enable a company to evade o large share of the responsibility assumed when the visk was taken. Jus tice Havrison has decided the law of this state to be (hat a fire insurance | policy is binding on the company upon its face. The decision is sound and will be appreciated by hundreds of citizens, who, having paid their premiums promptly and faithfully, have been foreed to appeal to the courts in order to get their dues, o The sultan of Turkey has decided, ac cording to the latest cable dispatches, to send a commission composed of thr members of his military household and one civilian to make an Inquiry into the rveported outrages practiced by his soldiers upon the Armenians. This might be accepted as satisfactory evi- dence of the sultan's desire to repair any injury that may have been done were it not for the fact that be is known to have made numerous inquiries into other complaints which have never re- culted in any positive action. There is too much reason to believe that unless some strong pressure is brought by the civilized nations the matter will never get further than’{he inquiry stage. The appointment of a commission to look into the facts is a device well caleulated NOV Y | up that Rosewater did it | selves | Magors a personal victory for Rosewater 1891, SOMBEWHAT PRRSONAL pivil Chicago Tribune: Rosewater of The Omaba | Bee laughs long, loudly, and last, Clay County Patriot: That Omaha had a sting In its “tale after all made a lot more spots on Tom Majors Westorn Wave: As the returns give the governorship to Judge Holcomb, the cry goes with his little Bee, Hercld: Nebraska repubiicans ald learn without any more lessons that 'y an not elect yellow d. in the face Rosewater and The Iee's opposition Standard: Republicans will never again nssert that “who The Omaha Be iIs for is defeated.” The astute politiclans will hegeeforth stop trying to le to them MBI 20 Bea | It Schuyler Stanton Pleket: Bditor Rosewater is one | of the few men in Nebraska who had poli- ties very much their own way. When publicans have norflinatio; future they will consult Editor Rosewater. | Central City Nonpareil: Cussing Rosewater | and damning The Bee does not chan mat- ters, Hand another than Majors been nomi- nated The Bee would have worked just as hard to elect him as it did to defeat Majors. Sioux City (fa) Tribu lditor Rose water seems a sort of Mo and Joshua rolled into one. He divided the Red sea waters of republican success, clsewhere un- broken, and metaphorically made the sun (o stand still over Ajalon Hastings Democrat: The Ilean politician strikes fire on his tecth you mention Rosewate Whether it or not, they recognize in the defeat re- | | erage repub- it is so of Is there no balm in Gilead for these disconso lates in knowing that the world and the full ness thereof is their's? | Sterling Sun: The fact that the republi cted 80 large a part of the legislature and all the rest of the state ticket by big majorities against fusion of democrats and populists clearly chows that Holcomb was elec but not because fusion or populism | was popular in Nebraska, but because of the fight against Majors by The Omaha Bee, the heretofore leading republican paper of the state O'Neill Frontier: Some of Rosewater's cnemies are pointing with pride to the al- leged fact that the republican party is done with him. The Frontier can not see it that way. Rosewater will credit himself with the defeat of Majors and no one can say him nay, because there is no way to prove it or disproye it. Two years from this fall Rosey will urge the nomination of seme good man like MacColl or Cady, who will be nominated and elected, and then the little joss will ex- claim, “See what I have done! defeated Majors and elected someone clee; great is my influenc And again there will be none to say him nay. Rosey holds four aces and there is no way they can be beaten, Aurora (IlI.) Beacon The only place where the republican tornado struck a snag was in Nebraska, where Majors is defeated for governor by 3,000. The fight in that state must serve as a reminder to the re- publican party that it can not successfully sit down on a trained fighter like Hditor Rosewater of The Omaha Bee. A man who has given the best energies of his life to the cause of the republican party and has worked with voice and pen for its advance- ment and has helped make the politicians all that they are, raisiog some of them from obscurity into places of emolument and honor, must be treated with some conside tion at the hands of the party for which he has labored. Beatrice Tribune: That much abused and vilified man that has always been hated by | 1 | this efrect CORPORATION INTERFERENCE. The and result Californ o of voter ballots for the were each the failed of ole of voters (n rest of the t whose name Ian ballot la ing this man of tiee the in K says, “will b A warning, makes parly expect s to make In the | byare ke this deal fairly and, especlall capable and Governor Sprin The popul is to be, wh anti-republic on election Walte type fidenc Holc m th nd ha mb howe tion e, Wa putatic liticta fight over ¢ vernment the the floating under an the l¢ Indlanan | As 'Squire Stearns us he Robinson, Holcomb the anti-corp ago in Nebr the populist: dersed him, Hamer, soug] from the ben times he wo closures of 1 The populists thereupon den comb make law and his served with it 15 of im, sion abroad Nebraska mu He grew so his i He w in a gainst & votes No charges spirit volers railroads hot poration question on which he has now incompe! Stgnificant Resolta. W York Evening V'os of the election show the i . cast on the congi publi ection his icket stox an bec party nominee use som who 1 at the head. of Independenc democratic state entucky frankly the system. be A valuable lesson to the party. A ore independent even in a sound . to poll its full and honestly with Iy in local races, worthy men Seomb. 1 (Mass) governor ho looms up an candidate day, is not at all, but i of as a an respect of everybod d a fierco battle r r, for about thre Thomas Maj as his le on of being (he mos n in the state. It orporation power and Majors and unlimited vote his way in ad of by The Omaha birth, and d to say like has a ried out poration aska s e turned nominated him bt to gain fav nch that on a ould not order mortgages unty any a like promise, but oath of office the highest poriance that th st nece in poy credit populist nclination as beaten contest by over only th of dishonesty or t in growing vole, must ly st democrat, upheaval of some opulist for or by tmes anded that [ o n | while for governor thousands supported would not sustain the man The helps very much in encourag chair The ntral nowledges “The election as well ballot and If democratie must voters, nominate it the Republican Nebraska, about who kept popul hon the his t of Silas ging and unscrupu- was mainly the sta had the backing of means | through republican defections from Majors, He ald. of Governor t b Boe. years aflida but n more he caused This overnor arily be an unsafe man lar esteem that last he was named for supreme court judge, but and he made no « about y same ¢ W could be found against him in the last c patgn, and seem to be was chosen. BLAS Love always weeps when it has to whip. Birds with bright plumage are seldom fat One symptom of backsliding is a lack of the people, well pleased over Lk T8 FROM RAM' thankfulness, regardless he of man HORN. Nebraska independ- In each state the majority of | @b attempt to square the administration with sefonal the republican candidate, rey Aust that onl feet level- | | headed, earnest man, who commands the con- about > months before the republican ding opponent won When district Judge a year or two ago the democrats fin- The republican candidate, Jud nnouncing count of the hard fore- improved, Hol- | refused, | ing he would do nothing but according to | This defection of populists, but he was elected, and | inc because of the impres cor- ency party, | who OLNEY ON LABOR UNIONS. Minneapolls Tribune: The Olney opiniom s not in any sense a decision of any general principle, but simply a piece of speclal pleading In & particular case. It savors of ue | the labor vote, in| New York World | Judge Dallas on the controversy between the receivers of the Reading rallway and certain of its employes fs the most credit- able it not the most Important expression of his views that he has put forth since ha became attorney general Chicago Herald: It should be studied by all interested in labor questiors, and espes clally In the subject of the relation of ems ployers to the labor unions. The ‘entire ar« gument fs strongly favorable to organized labor and to peaceful methods for enforeln its claims. The intelligent reading public wil regard It as a pleasant surprise, considering its source. Mr. Olney's lotter to the r Hm he | as the anapolis Journal y General Olney The opinion of Ate is on a line with the nt decision of Justice Harlan as to the right of railroad men to organize and even to strike, provided they do not interfere with the rights of others or attempt to enforea their demands by destroying property, The decision and opinion are a complete refutation of the charge (hat the power of the courls and the government is used only to oppress workingmen | St Paul Globe: If Attorney General Olney had given out his letter to Judge Dallas be- fore the election, it would have jumped on as an electioneering dodge. It would have been open to that insinuation, correct and sensible as it 1s. Coming now, it shows the Iaboring element, who were so furiously un- reasonable in their denunciations, that they were unjust, and that Mr. Oluey did his duty in both instances, regardless of the political nsequences. In other words, he was & democrat. Brooklyn Eagle: The attorney general has had opportunities to occupy his time with matters that concerned him, and he might better have been employed fn that way than in offering gratuitous advice to judges. Thera are trusts in the country and there are laws against the existence of trusts. Mr. Olney probably has good reasons for taking no aetion against these big corporations, but the country is not unaware of the fact that he does not seem to disapprove of the illegal corporations. It is to be regretted that he found time to write this letter while he has been too busy to attend to more serious matters Springfield Republican: As to what stand- ing such a letter has in Judge Dallas’ court, we cannot s It bears an officlal alr and amounts to a letter of instruction. Presum- ably the court is its own master in this case. But, however that may be, Mr. Ofney gives good advice, ‘The laboring men, who have been o bitter in denouncing him since the Chicago affair, will have to mark out some counts in their indictment. We should not 'l want to understand the aitorney general, 900 | however, as holding that the strike is a sufi- clent or even tolerable weapon for the settle- ment of labor troubles in connection with the railroads. the A, has a urn is vit in ars 1 a in ear on. | ——— i XCUSE THESE SMILES, Philadelphia Ledger: One of the arrested for holding up a train at B Stone 1s named Hoe, He might plea 5 defense that it is natural for him get Into a scrape. men K- an to s Miss BElder's hair “Oh, no; it is human hair.'” it her own?’ Certainly; she | | | | mean s bought it.”" feat of Tom Majors came from within the republican party, and the party will be stronger by reason of this, self-ad- ministered rebuke. the rotten state house republican ring—a Iife-long anti-monopoly republican, and the brainiest journalist of the west—I. Rose- water and his Omaha Bee—contributed probably more than any other man to beat Majors and elect Holcomb. While all the subsidized and time serving republican papers of the state prophesied the downfall of Rosewater and asserted that his paper had no influence politically, their songs must now bo changed in tone and meaning, for most assuredly Rosewater and his Bee are a power in Nebraska politics. His pre- dictions are most accurately fulfilled to the letter, We all rejoice in the election of Silas A. Holcomb, Minneapolis Times: Al friends of Edi- tor Rosewater-of The Omaha Bee should pro- test against the editorial in the Nebraska State Journal, which calls him a ‘“fat- headed ophidian.” Not only is Editor Rose- water not a flat-headed ophidian, in fact, but the use of such a term as an epithet is not at all in accord with the high code of courtesy and dignity which obtains in all Nebraska journalism. It may be that the cditor of the Nebraska State Journal has gotten his terms mixed, and that by flat- headed he means level-headed, but then its use in connection with the word ophidian defeats this charitable supposition at the start, and Mr. Rosewatec's friends must come (o the rescu Mr. Rosewa'er is a mild-mannered and unobtrusive gentleman, who would never think of avenging so grave an insult himself, and the Times for one is willing to take up the cudgels in his de- fense. Madison Reporter: of arbitrary power, unseat the honestly elected governor of the state, does not mean that such high-handed procedure would be beneficial to the republican party. uppose the state committee should institute a contest and should not stop at stealing the governorship, in what position would it leave the party? After the recent bitter experi ence, is any one anxious to haye Majors on its hands two years hence demand- ing as his right a renomination and a vindication? Is it not about time for the leaders to admit that the defeat of Majors is the best thing that could have happened to the republicans of Ne- braska and that his resurrection after repudiation by his own party would undo the good work already accom- plished This much is as plain as d No contest on governor can be instituted without the backing and support of the state committee, and that committee will be held responsible for whatever injury the republican party may suffer as the result of a possible contes Rel pure by the month. Law wears fron shoes and don’t care | where it steps. | The minister who is preacher is a poor one. The meaner men are the more they want their wives to be angels. The truth we hate the most is the truth that hits us the hardest. Dyed whiskers are like hypocrisy. never fool but one person. The more polish you put on a mean man the better the devil is suited. Sometimes a prayer for a good meeting is not answered because there is bad ventila- tion. A le is often told without saying a word, by putting the rotten apples in the bottom of the basket, and undefiled never works | mgwn Topics: Mrs, McBride (proud! 1y)— My baby Lpegan to talk at a year old, M, Darley (triumphantly)—Mine began to talk at six months. Mrs, McBride (convine- ingly)—But yours was a girl baby. Detroit Free Press: Wife—I saw an odd thing down town today, right on the public square. fusband—What was that? Wife—A bachelor. Washington Sta Mrs, Nagger—We've been married nearly ten years and you have never been to church since the wed- ding day, Mr. Nagger—Um—ah—well, a burnt chiid dreads the fire, you Know. Indianapolis Journal: *“All the same said the unterrified Jacksonian, “the back- bone of the good old democratic party 18 d as ever.' ow that's so, the weaker brother, little meat left on it. THE DRAWBACK. Philadelphia Press. wonder that her brother s can easily form a nucleus of what will in time become one of the attractive fentures of fhe city. Omaha has, in the possession of its new public library building, a fireproof gallery for the exhibition of paintings and other objects of art, This repre- seits he investiment of & certain amount of public money, which ought to be put to constant public use. In other cities not much larger than Omaha, such as Minneapolis and Rochester, for example, permanent art exhibits are maintained ‘in connection with the public libravies. The collect’ons have heen secured chiefly through gifts by private individuals to the publie, and by the loan of valuable pictures belonging to wealthy citizens either indefinitely or for stated periods of time. The recent loan exhibit just closed ‘n this city has given us a glinps» of the art treasures to be found among us. If our public-spirited citizens, who are in a position to do so, would deposit in the library building galleries a few pictures at a time, varying the collec- tion from month to month, Oma would have a small permanent art ex- hibit that would be a constant delight as well as a powerful educational fac- tor for all of her citizens, not to men- tion the favorable impression it would create upon visitors. Omaha ought to ve such an exhibit, and it ought to ve it very soon. to throw the indignant Christian world off the scent:for'a while in the hopes that by the time it is learned that the scheme was nothing but a ruse the general resentment will have subsid If the Armenian outrages arve left un- punished the ‘Parkish governors and soldiery will take it as an indication that future outritges of a similar na- ture, if only practiced upon Christians, will be overlogked with equal readiness. B An' O vine_bas expres$pd pub licly the opinion that honest municipal govornment can only be sccomplished through a league of men embracing the membership Of all the churches, With- out entering into the merits of the proposition It is pertinent to recall the fact that every male church member in Omaha may participate in party pri- maries and thus secure the- seléction of fit men for public office. It Is the duty of every voter to attend the primaries and caucus Our election laws pro- vide ample means for the choice of com- petent and trustworthy men for muni pal oftice and for the redress of every abuse of popular confidence. When- ever a majority of the electors of Omaha, church members included, evinee interest enough in city affairs to participate in the selection of good men for office, under the system now in vogue, the city will be spared a repeti- tion of the scandals of the past. A remedy is in the hands of the friends of good government. If they do not apply it they must share some responsi- bility for resultant evils against which not more than a Omaha furnishes one of the execu- tive officers of the Guarantee Ticket Brokers association for the coming year, This is only another gratifying evidence of the activity and prominence of Omaha people in national organizations of every kind. They A meeting of the exccutive committee of the American Bimetallic league has been called for next week, It is highly important that the free silver fanatics endeavor to find out just where they are at since the revolution accomplished by the recent election. maurnfully but they assented is so darn S e ANOTHER TAP AT CLEVELAND, | NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., Nov. 17.—To the | They Editor of The Bee: I was amused at the | reasons given by our State department at Washinglon for declining to foin with Great | BUt B¢ doubts It for 10 like him, Britain in trying to straighten out the tangle | They would listen to her that China and Japan have got into over stoadiotngppiola Corea, y Gresham says the United DRAMATRIMONY, States cannot afford to enter into an alliance & £ ; | of this kind with a monarchical government. That Is true, for it is contrary to our re. | publican fdeas. But is it not true that we entered into an alllance with both Great | Britain and Germany during Mr. Cleve- | land’s former administration, and sided those | monarchies in restoring to the throne of | Samoa a savage, brutal negro? Having done | this with a miserable little Asiatic island with which we have no commerce, why should we refuse to do the same in con: | nection with China and Japan, with w]l\l)!i countries we have large and important in- torests? Surely we should join with Eng-| land's queen i an effort {o settle the Corean | difficulty, or else we ought to withdraw from the Samoan treaty. L V. T 't fondes ere their sister, how they'd love her! oft they say: According to the Chicago Herald, every ealamity that has come upon the national demoeratic party since Tilden’s days Is dve to domestic and personal factionism in New York state. We are fmpatiently waiting for the New York Stin to rejoin that of all those cal- amities President - Cleveland is the greatest. at her cticing ine ecreta ! My footlight goddess, how T haste To worship at your shrine; My life no longer seems a 'waste Bince you are to be mine, PAYING CUSTOM DUTIES IN GULD. Referring to an editorial in The Bee in which mention was made of the sug- gestion that in order to enable the treasy to maintain the gold reserve congress should provide, as was form- | erly done, that customs duties, or a Inrge percentage of them, should be aid in gold or gold certificates, a cor-| respondent submits the following: | Now is this not just what the govern- ment did during the war, and did it not Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, Bdward Rose- water lifts his head above the calumny of his enemies triumphant, respected and even beloved by a grateful populace, The glad- some light of reform breaking over Ne- Dbraska's fertile plains and scourging to dungeons gruesome and dark the grim shadows of corporation despotism reveals to us one countenance glorified by a noble deed. It is not in our province to inquire into his antecedents or motives. It is charged that his nature is evil, his associations corrupt and his motives sinister, yet towering high above all criticism ahd calumny, one truth And yet, when hearts should be most gay, There comes some cruel thought, Which into night transforms the day And makes our hopes us naught, Trofessional base ball players seem to Dbe very much like men in all other oc cupations. They no sooner see an im- mediate raise in salary than they run after it in total disregurd of the ulti- mate . consequences, If a base ball player acted otherwise the ordinary common sense individual would have his ealeulations unexpectedly upset. A subtle horror lingers still, Though pleasures come and go: It haunts me, wander where I will; Fate has décreed it so. Organized labor will appeal to the next legislature to establish a state printing office, wherein all the printing required by the state may be done by 1 beg to hear the truth from you, Declare it, good or bad Am I to be your and uninvali- Bx-Congressman Fiteh, now comp- troller of the city of New York, sa that he has no doubt whatever that the newly adopted constitution of the state prolongs his tenure of oflice for one year. Why should he have any doubt on this subject? Does not the position | pay some 00 a year? And did he not give up his place in congress for it? Another year at $25,000 is not to be seoffed. Congressman Holman, the great ob joetor, who was turned down at the last election by his Indiana constituent ‘says that the next national® campaign ‘wlll be @ contest between' two western men for the presidency and that the demoerats will go to Illinois for their candidate. 1t is to be hoped, for the sake of the democrats, that this i not | Intended as a notice of the contemplated | removal of Mr. Holman to Illinols. The Western Passenger association is onee more renorted to be on the verge of complete disruption. This associa tion Las been on the point of falling to pleces so many times during the last two years that the public has come to regard it much in the light of the feline species with their reputed nine lives, So far as its influence for the good of the commercial interests the west 18 concerned, the may as well bave been for some time past. of tion disbanded The county commissioners are going to obtain personal information regard- ing the persons who are in whole or in part dependent upon the county for poor | rellef. This is unquestionably a com- mendable purpose. If the county Is being lmposed upon by unworthy per sons It means that worthy persons are deprived of what they would otherwise be entitled to. No precaution can be too great to keep the public funds from golng to impostors and professional va- grants. We do not believe there are many such sharing in the county poor relief, and the efforts of the commis- sloners wust contribute to weeding out 80 far as is possible the few that there | war other money to depreciate? as every other dolay were required to be the war and for a long period sin that fact had nothing whatever as our correspondent assume: premium on gold. other mwon deprecinted relatively t gold, during the war, because there wa ¢ confidence in the promise of th vernment to v tions in coin. to e with th The specie standard wa, the w from ment res honds igsued ar was begun and the departur it came about when the gov drained the banks of their in 1861, This forced th | thelr action was soon. followed by suspension of nearly all the bank the country. As a consequence spe commanded a premiun and premium grew with the ing cortainty regarding the result and the progress of inflation by the government. it would have gone higher than it Qid-it reached 285 In 186G4—but for th fact that sured gold income from duties, the of th respondent, whether trine respecting the maintenance of th parity of all forms of currency, Wi aswer that on the contrary in line with that doctrine. depends upon the ability ment to redeem In gold on den of its obligations. In order to do It must maintain an adequate reserv of specie, which has been fixed at $100, 000,000, though in the opinion of som financlers it would be wise | the amount, since that | than 20 pe able in go not involve rpresents le The affect the relative value of other form cause gold to go to a premium and all And would not that be a yiolation of the republican | doetrine of having every dollar as good | Customs duties in gold during . but | Gold appreciated, or leem its paper obilga- maintained for a considerable time after n- coln srve in payment of the seven-thirty | banks of New York, Philadelphia and Boston to suspend speeie payments and in ase of un- | paper Possibly ever the government had an as- As to the other question of our cor- the proposed plan would mot violate the republican doc- it is en- The soundness and stability of the eurrency of the govern- \d any this to increase nt of the currency redeem- roposed policy does any discrimination in favor of gold, or at any rate none which could | tion lines centering in Omaha are solely | union printers employed and paid by | the state. To do this right and eco- nomically a new office, that of state | printer, must be created, which, under existing limitations, can not be done, There is no doubt, however, that the £ | plan contemplated would, if earried into execution, prove advantageous, both to the state and the printer's craft. For years the state printing has been done by contract, ostensibly to the lowest bidder. But there are thousands of dol- lars spent on work that ean not be an- ticipated nor intelligently submitted for als. The result has been that a in nonunion office in Lincoln has grown fat and lusty on the erumbs that fell from the state house table. Bills have been rendeged and paid far in ex- cess of the fair and equitable price of work performed. We suggest to the | men who are demanding a reform in the matter of state printing that they cause to be made a careful expert ex- amination of the vouchers covering | ¢ item of printing paid for by the state during the past seven years. We venture to say that the findings will open the eyes of legislators and cause | them at the outset of the session, when | the subject must come before them, to | apply strict business methods in placing | | the printing contract for the session. ) | e | o 8 | e 5 o e ] The Central Labor union will ask at the hauds of the next legislature a law to prohibit combines between coal dealers in this state for the maintenance | of excessive prices. We commend the iden to the thoughtful consideration of the Douglas delegation and suggest fu ther in the same connection that an in- e © | not, | sion of polygarsous Utah.” quiry should be made to ascertain what | Justice and equity there is in railrond | | tariffs that impose a greater transporta- | ! tion charge on a ton of coal than the | coal is worth at mines less than 300 | miles distant from Omaha, The Bee | has had considerable to say on this coal | question iu times past, not because there | is any particular fault to find with local | dealers, but because it is a matter of | vital concern to every householder in Omaha and the state it large. We have shown conclusively that the transporta- e s | s | responsible for the high price of coal of currency. Under present couditious, | here, and that they Luve pooled 0n the | ion should be at once begun. | and inreatened ta throw her in jail unless they cry out. —ee Carrying Conls to Newcastle. Globe-Democrat. A shipment of 50,000 bushels of corn from Alabama to Illinois and Towa marks a new era in internal commerce and will serve fo remind planters that raising corn for a home supply and to sell for cash is foc Mmore economic than ralsing cotton to buy corn. Wilson Dingnuses the Kick. Philadelphia Ledger. Chafrman Wilson comes up smiling and cheerful, but he can hardly be said to have Tecovered his senses, for he savs that *‘the Kicke came from the heels of the American Jle; that there was very little brains in RO at 15 not a very politic remark, even for a man who is prospectively “out of politics.” Suggestion from an Organ. New York Times. Another comment i3 to the effect the issue of bonds now is contrary to known views of the secretary of the t. ury and i an “insult” {0 him dlearly s a_matter for the secretary to deal with, The duty of the president 1s the same, whetherithe secretary sees it or | and the president is in the habit of | dolng his dutye Do his critics think thut | the situation cals for a resignation, and if 0, whose? The president's? ———— Real Causp of the Landsilde. St. Louls Republic. A perspicaclous. contemporary, & church organ, says that the recent landslide in Pofitics was “a.rovolt of the Christian sen- fiment of the couniry against the admis- There you have | Tt Mr. Clevel\nd ;may’ contend that the | result {5 his vielicstion and the confound- | ing of his party fves. Mr. Gorman may in- | siat that it was the fear of an Indefinite extension of tariff reform. Mr. Hill may | point out that it s the revolt of the | Iillionaires agamst: e income tax. And | Mr. Whitney and Governor Russell may | persist in the ppinjon that it was all be- | eause there is no'free coal In the tariff | faw. They aré ulf wrong. The Mormons did it O that he hat i A Pertinent Suggestion. Omaha Excelsior. The people of this city and county are looking. with some {nterest to see whether | the Douglas county bar will take any action in the arbitrary jailing of Patrick O. Hawes by Judge Scott for contempt cf court and the more then arbitrary act of the same Judge i Aining a lady "in the court room vho happened to say to her husband that it looked to her “more like power than Justice. The words were overheard and repeated to Judge Scott by an understrap per, and the judge, who seems to be riding P5 acath his hobby of the “dignity of the court,” immediately fited her for contempt it was paid instanter, 1 strikes the Bxcelsior that there is a remedy for Jeffryism in this country, and the lawyers are the ones to apply it If, on the other hand, the mind of Judge Scoti fa' unbalanced, as some say It is and has been for several years, his condition is to be considered. In either case an, investiga- stands unassalled, untouched dated, that the results of his struggle have Dbeen for the good. Where the battle waged fiercest, he staked all a man could stake and in a good cause, whatever his motives. Traitor? Back In the face of the perjured, boodle-soaked corporation harpies that are feeding upon the ethical body and blood of the commonwealth he flung the bribes, the chairmanship and promises, and under God's heaven he stood erect a free man and dared to raise his volce against corruption. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. Rosewater wears the wreath, Blair Pilot: The fellows enmpalgn from start to finish idea of downing Rosewater should take a tumble to themselves. The returns contain | a practical fesson, from the study of which both themselves and the republiean party may profit. The Bee rubs it in on them good and hard in its issue of Tuesday, and when we take into consideration the fact that one of the principal causes that resulted in Tom Majors' nomination was a desire to spite Mr. Rosewater the justification is ap- parent. The result on governor Is somewhat of a personal victory to Rosewater, but it is more of a victory to the republican party. Thousands of good republicans all over the state, many of whom had little if any more use for Rosewater than had the gang who | nominated Tom Majors, have alded to secure it. They desired as carnestly as did The Bee and its editor the overthrow of ring | rule and boodle politics in the party. The seven republican nominees on ‘the state ticket | below governor recelved pluralities averaging about 20,500 votes Holcomb beats Majors | by a good round 3,000, and by these figures | Majors fell behind the average of his tick:t | 23,600 votes. The result is in no rense a | populist victory. It is simply a rebuke ad- ministered by republicans to trcksters within | their own party. In this year of republican land:lides this rebuke Is marvelous. Had Honest Jack MacColl been permitted to lead the ticket, or had the nomination been made upon- a -basis -of honesty and. equity to the party rather than for the special benefit of its tricksters, there is no reason to doubt that the whole state ticket would have had | more than 20,000 pluralty. While R water 15 acknowledged as a chief factor, he was not. by any means the cnly oue. Thou- sands of other agencles have alded to turn Cown Majors and his hoodo gang. With the masses the issue was not, as the Majors oracles would all along have us belisye, Rose water and anti-Rosewater, It was an issue between honesty and corruption, and so many thousand republicans voted agalnst their | party mot in fhe interest of Rosewater, but of their party, as a matter of principle and because 1t was r'ght. And Ro:ewater aside, the defeat of Majors will prove the best tonie for the republican party of Nebraska that has ever been prescribed for it. The moral of all this is that Mr. Rosewater and the party cannot both be sat upon by trick- sters at one and the same time, —_— A Warning. Chicago Herald. who made this upon the single Let us mind our own business. We hlvel none in Asia. Money's worth or money baclk: Doesn’tCost a Cent More to dress in the viry latest style than to dress in old s-tylc duds, or toggery that is unbecoming to you. There are several styles of new hats— ing to you lect the one most becom- A splendid fur hat like the one shown for $2.50—good as lots ol f 85 hats—a real good hat for a ¢1, stiff or Fedora, double-breasted sack here Erect, alway good houldered s look well in the square-cut, square-s men shown— black cheviot, $10. DBetter grades at $12.50, $15 and $20, Overcoats and suits at all prices every late style, $7.50. $8.50, $10, and some at $235—worth it, too. " Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, S. W. Cor. 15th and Douglas.