Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 26, 1894, Page 4

The OwAlA Dany B B. ROSEWATER, Editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Year....$8 8 Daily Boe and Sunday, One ¥ear............. 10 0 Bix " Months ;: Eerssand e 800 Three Montiis Seuvesisbrbve 250 Bunday B 20 Baturd ve. Year 1% Weekly Be You > [ OFFICE: Oqaha, The Bes Building. Bouth Omaha, Corner N und Twenty-fourth Sts, uAeil Biuffs, 12 Pearl stieet Chickgo Office, 317 Chamber of e New York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bidg. Washington, 1407 F street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE All communications relating to news and edi- torlal matter shoul nddrossed | the Bditor. BUSINESS LETTF IS, All business letters and remiitances she to The Tee Publishing c Drafts, checks snd postoftice orders 10 be made puyable Lo the oridor of tlia company. HE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. MENT OF CIRCULATION. George B. Taschuck, sccrotary of The Bee MNshing company 0k duly sworn, says that the actual number of fuill and complete copl of the Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday printed durl month of October, as follows: t f s 90,9278 W P i 21,209 18 21141 19 L2 2 ] 2 2 . BERE (s Va5, v onottus e shvseasvasta OUROT, Less deductions for unxold and returned ‘copl ¥ e wee 10,08 ORI Ro1d L0000 o eoennvoiiasisunsnos SHBTD Dally average not eicculntion. ... ..i... ... 21,148 GEORGE 1. TZECHUCK Sworn to bofore me and subseribed in my pres ence (his 3d day of November, 1594 Seal.) N. P. FEIL, Notury Publie. To contest or not to contest—that is the question. The professional politicians and ward heete:s feel like dueks out of water these days. I has decided at last to hold off 1bsided. The typhoid discove are m; erum is the latest medical The various kinds of serum King their app tum. The inspeetor of welghts and meas- ures deserves credit for his efforts to make the coal dealers live up to the law enjoining full weight. New York has o S0't 4 corner on money, but it seems to be provided with the great bulk of the free gold coin that is to be found in the countr The crowd in attendance on the local murder trial continues undiminished in size as evidence that Omaha ‘s not wan!- ing in her shave of the morbidly curious. With bids for bonds adding up three times the amount of the proposed issue, it does not look as if the credit of the United States government were very much impaived. The new tax levy will be available beginning the fiest of the year. That will be the time to put the brakes on all proposals for extrayagant expenditures of public money., The Chicago Herald has gotten “the United States between China and Japan.” We suggest that the Herald has become a trifle mixed in its knowl- edge of geography. The conspiracy to count out the hon- estly elected governor of Nebraska will never be countenanced by reputable citizens of this state, no matter what may be their politic: The bar of Lancaster county is very ¥ood (o relieve the governcr « £ the neces- sity of choosing the successor to Judge Strode. The governor will doubt appreciate the Kindness, no This day will inform the taxpayers of Nebraska whether or not they are to be put to the expense of a costly contest proceedings merely to please the whims of the railroad autocrats ‘The local members of the legislature- elect are just commencing to appreciate the importance of the positions to which they have been elected. Most of them bever were in so great demand before. —_— The early bill gets the legislative con- sideration. Members-elect of the legis- lature will do well to have proposed measures ready for introduction during the first days of the legislative session. Now, if Yale can maintain her record against Princeton at the foot ball match next Saturday, the educational suprem- acy of that famous institution of learn- ing will be established beyond dispute for another year. It is. of course, to be expected that during every session of the legislature the same old coterie of marplots will seek to annul many good features of our clty charter and try to smuggle in ques- tionable amendments. There was some reason after all why Tom Reed did not invade Speaker Orisp's district to persuade his constit- uents to turn the speaker down. Mr. Reed would not sit easy in the speaker's chair unless he had Crisp on the floor in front of him. . It would be impossible, e¥en If they 80 desired, for the successtul bidders for the electric lighting contract to put a new plant in working order by Febru- ary or March. This is what giv ground for the suspiclon that a new Wiley deal is in incubation, — A popular perlodical announces in its prospectus a paper on “If Microscopes Were More Powerful.” We presume th author will try to extend comfort and solace to those democrats who have been straining the naked eye to see the remnants of their party power in con Bress, The motor car accident on Twentieth street, while serious enough in its re- sults, may be only a precursor of a more serfous catastrophe on the Dodge street grade when the cable cars are replaced by motors. The event is ominous and suggests the grave responsibility as- pumed by the street car company in making the proposed change, THE TRANSMISSISSIPPI CONGRESS. The congress of representatives from states west of the Mississtpp! that meets in 8t. Louis today has laid out for con- slderation an extensive list of subjects in which the transmississippl country is presumed to have a peculinr Interest, Among the more prominent questions to be discussed, however, are some which concern other sections of the country quite as much as they do the west, such as the remonetization of sil- ver, the N gua canal, a national \kruptey law, and anti-option legisla- tion. A good attendance of representa- tive men at this congress Is promised, nd its deliberations will undoubtedly be regarded with considerable interest, at least by the people of the west. The previous meetings of this congress ave not been so successful in the mat- ter of influence as their promoters hoped for, and whether the coming con gress will be Is a question. The one thing that has done most to impair the usefulness of these gatherings is the fact that they have given the greatest prominence to the silver question, thus showing that they were intended more to promote the interests of the silver | producers than for any other purpose, pretty much all other subjects being erely side issues. The country is not anxious to hear any more advocacy of the free coinage of silver, and when days are devoted to discussion of that subject and all others are hurriedly con- sidered it is not to be expected that the deliberations of the congress will exert much influence. It is to be hoped this mistake will not be made by the em- bly that meets today, and it will not be if the members from the silver states ave learned anything from the late elections. These indicated ve decis- ively that the people of those states are not so profoundly concerned about the free coinage of silver as has been sup- posed. The really important question for the consideration of the congress and the one which should be given greater prom inence 1Is that of irrigation. It is of tly greater concern to the transmis- sissippi country that some definite prac ticable policy be formulated regarding the reclamation of the arid lands than that silver be restored to free coinage, if it were possible to accomplish that under existing conditions. There is diversity of western sentiment respect- ing what should be done to promote gation, and so lon probably nothing will be done. wisdom of the transmississippl congress can be divected to no more useful task than that of unifying sentiment on this most important subject. The plan of an annual convention af representative western men_to disenss western inter- ests and voice western sentiment is un- doubtedly a good one, but the useful- ness of such gatherings depends upon the breadth of view and the national spirit that characterize their delibera- tions and declarations If these are mainly sectional, as in the case of the congress just held at New Orleans, they cannot be of much ue, A TIME FOR EDUCATION. In his speech at the banquet of the Home Market club of Boston last week, ex-Speaker Reed offered some sugges- tiond that will undoubtedly have the approbation of the great majority of re- publicans. He said that in order to utilize the republican victory, make it permanent, and give to the country a return of the prosperity of past times, the people must be educated up to the full measure of wisdom in this matter, or rather the people must educate them- selves. They have seen during the past two years the folly of the flippant talk about “tariff taxation,” “free raw mate- rial,” “markets of the world,” and all the other eatch words of the opponents of protection. They realize in a general way the soundness of the instinct whereby each country demands that its people shall have the first chance to do their own work and that everybody who is willing to labor shall have employ- ment at fair wages. ‘What we need now,"” d Mr. Reed, “is not general belief in our doctrines. We need teach- ing which comes from practical results. We need a distribution of the facts. During the next two years this country needs the help of every man who has the slightest morsel of truth in his pos- session.” Mr. Reed said further: “But great as our victory is, there is a greater which we must win. By your wisdom, moderation and good sense we must so govern this country that the great ques- tions of the next six years may have as noble a solution as the great ques- tions of their day had at the hands of those great republicans who preserved the union, upheld the honor of the na- tion, and gave the people thirty years of pence, prosperity and progress.” This is wise, judicious admonition, which, if heeded, will be likely to insure the re- publican party another long lease of power, It is reassuring to find that the great victory of November 6—a victory, as Mr, Reed rightly sa, not of the republican organization, but of its principles—has not prompted any of the recognized leaders of the victorious party to pro- pose for the future any extreme or rad- ieal policy respecting the question that was uppermost in the thoughts of the people at the elections. Every candid man admits that the result demon- strated the fact that a vast majority of our people believe in the protective pol- fey. They differ as to rates and sched- ufes, but not as to the principle. The great mistake of the democratic party was in assuming that the action of the people in 1800 and in 1892 was in re- pudiation of protection, when, as a mat- ter of fuct, in the former year they yielded o too ready credence to the mis- représentations and the dire prophecies of the opponents of protection, while in the latter year a very large body of them voted their prejudices. The repub lican party would make an equally grave mistake if it should assume that the overwhelming popular endorsement of protection at the late elections cu with it a demand for an extreme cation of that poli The republican victory, the greatest ever achieved by any party in this coun- try, was a distinct demand upon the party in power to halt in its war on pro- tection, but it did not imply a call to the suecesstul party to go to the opposite extreme in maintaining the protective principle. What the American people want Is such protection to domestic In- dustries as will insure their continued development, enable them to retain the larger share of the home market, and will give American labor employment at living wages. During the next two ears the new tariff will be on trial I'hus far it is a complete failure as a revenue measure, and there have been no benefits from it in any direction. No- body expects it to be. permanent, be- cause nobody s satisfied with it. There I8 every reason to believe that the peo- ple will two years hence commit to the republican party the duty of giving the country a new tariff law, but this may depend largely upon the wisdom and moderation of the party in the mean- tima, IEF DEPARTMENT LAW: A new and startling interpretation of the law of the so-called “Voluntary Re- lief department” comes to us, from an Towa district court, in which a railway employe had sued for damages for in- Juries received in the course of his em- ployment. In this case the plaintiff had accepted the usual benefits from the Burlington Relief department for sev- ral months after Lis accident, after which he refused further payments and brought suit to recover damages from the railrond company, The contract of membership in the relief department releasing the company from all lability in consideration of the benefits accorded was of course set up in bar to the action, The attorneys for the railroad contend that the relief department and company are one whenever the question of liabil- ity for damages is concerned, and that the payment by one of them is the same as payment by the other. With this view the Iowa court seems to hold, where a Nebraska district court dur- ing the same week in deciding a very similar case declared the two organiza- tions to be entirely separate and dis- tinet. In the relief department the members are required to pay monthly assessments out of their wag just as would the members of any other mutual benefit society. Therefore, if the lowa decision is good law the railway em- ployes are really compelled to pay their own insurance merely to exempt the railroad from liability for damages in case of their injury.. This is a mon- strous arrangement, and if at present legal, it ought certainly to be modified by statute, The court which we have just criti- cised seems also to have enunciated an- other doctrine in connection with the same case that is equally short of the common conception of justice. The plaintiff set up in his complaint the alle- gation that the surgeon sent by the rail- road to attend him did not bring to his service the skill which every one has a right to expect from a qualified prac- titioner. This part of tne showing is substantially ruled out by the finding that the railroad company is not to be held responsible for the acts of its sur- geons. In other words, while the em- ploye is compelled to pay assessments entitling him to the services of a sur- geon, and while he has no voice in the selection of the man who is to fill that position, he is to be left without a rem- edy in case the company employs for that purpose some one who has not the requisite knowledge and ability in his profession. If such a decision is to be accepted as the proper interpretation of the law, railway employes really place themselves and their families at the merey of the railroad, and employers’ liability is but a shadow without sub- stance, KEEP IT OUT QF POLITICS. At a recent meeting of the citizens' charter revision committee it was pro- posed to amend the law regulating the police department so as to require ap- pointments to the fire and police forces to be submitted to the council for con- firmation. The motion precipitated a spirited discussion, and was promptly tabled. It transpires, however, that cer- tain local politicians are not willing that the matter shall be dropped, and are preparing to go before the appronching session of the legislature and lobby such an amendment through that body. No member possessing a full knowl- edge of the subject can lend his support to such a measure. When the law cre- ating our fire and police board was en- grafted into the charter its enforcement met with stubborn opposition upon the part of a large class of discredited poli- ticians who had hitherto controlled ward politics through the old system of appointments by mayor and council. It had for years been the custom for men to secure places in the fire and police departments as rewards for party service without reference to personal fitness for the performance of official duty. The patrolmen not only dictated the nomination of men for the council, but they exerted considerable in- fluence In the appointment of chiefs, captains and sergeants who, when in- stalled in office, felt the political power of the patrolmen, firemen and their bosses to an extent that discipline in the departments became obsolete, and de- moralization pervaded the entive fire and police system. This deplorable con- dition was tolerated by the people for years, yet protests were many, and the popular demand for remedial measures resulted in the present law, the benefi- cence of which no man ean question. The law which created the fire and police board wrested the department from the mire of ward politics, estab- lished rigid discipline over the force, and made individual qualification and merit the test for appointments. Non- partisanship was the cardinal principle upon which the board was ereated. “I'he governor shall appoint four citi- zens, one at least from each of the three political parties casting the largest num- ber of votes for city officers at the last preceding election. * * * Not mor than two of the members of sald boara shall be of the same political party, or 80 reputed’ The law further provides that members of the board in making appointments or considering promotions or removals shall not be guided or actuated by politieal motives or in- fluences, but will consider only the in- terests of the clty and the success and effectiveness of said departments. Years of experience bhave demon- strated the wisdom and soundness of the prinelple behind this law. The best citizenship of Omaha is prepared to de- fend it, and to defeat any proposition looking to the control of police appolnt- ments by theeeity council, We have'fifigther evidence of the con- fidence whigh,Judge Holcomb inspires in all whoshave relations with him in the testimgiilal made Saturday by the Jurors wio_have been serving in his court. They ot only thank him for the courteous treatment received at his hands, but also announce their convie tlon, regardltss of political opinion, that he will, when, governor, “exercise the same encrgy, Ampartiality and justice that he has shown as judge of the court,” Eyery one must share the expectationof his most intimate friends that Judge Holcomb will give the state an adminigtration of which the people will be proud. Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wrisht projo.es to stard up for the report made by the strike commission of which he is chairman. He takes direct issue with the railvond organs which assert that the conclusions presented in the report are not borne out by the evidence sub- mitted to the commission. If it comes to a debate on the points in controversy we may rest assured that Mr. Wright will need no assistance in defending himself., Tt 18 a significant fact that in Douglas county, which polls the largest vote in the state, the gubernatorial contest talk is confined exclusively to B. & M. head- quarters and to less than a dozen dis- credited republicans, who could not be elected to any office, however insignifi cant. No prominent republican, whose opinion is worth quoting, can be found willing to endorse the effort made to trump up a contest. One of the New York newspapers prints an article upon “Coroners Under the New Constitution.” We trust that this title is not to be taken too literally. If the coroners have already gotten under the New York constitution it is to be greatly feared that the time will not be long until that valuable instru- ment s dead and buried. The irrepressible Pennoyer of Oregon bobs up once more to remark that Japan has only followed his example in telling President Cleveland to mind his own business. Pennoyer's appreciation of the force of that good advice would be more conclusively proved if e would himself mind his own bu e ] Break Away. Loulsville Courler-Journal. We are told of hints from Albany that Senator Hill may be expected to break si- lence concernitig the recent little New York affair in which: he participated. By all means let him break. It is natural that a man in Senator Hill's fix shculd want to break anything in, reach. i —— The Consistency of O Phitadéiphia Record. The strangely incongruous spectacle Is now presented to the American people of an attorney general who could send the United States soldiers into the states of the union to guell a riot, but who can find no precedent for the dispatch of those same regulars into an anomalous territory in or- der to subdue'general lawlessness. it oty Premature and Impertinent. New York World. The open /letter which Mr. Wharton Barker of Philadelphia has just published asking MeKitlpy 'to define 'his views on the currency i Mikely to remain open a long time: befite McKinley answers it, In- deed, Mr. Barker ought to have known that it 18 distressingly impolite to write open letters to an Ohio man this long be- fore the cat is ready to jump. ey, A g Dissell's Rose-Pink Show. New York Sun. We obscrve that the administration is now putting a little more rose-pink ink on the face of the lovel ent Claudes dis- pensed at the postofiice. The next great Imeasure of reform is some more starch on Even the sickly green post- age stamp used to adhere when affixed. We advise Hon. Grover Cleveland to get his gum works running on full time. avdaris s The Bemis of Boston, Chicago Times. Boston had a mayor who signalized him- self as 4 strenuous combatant for the rights of the people against the aggressions of the corporations. Particularly did he fight the gas companies, compelling them to give the Deople “dollar gas” and exposing ' ther tricks of stock watering in the courts. But now the Standard Oil magnates ' have Dought up all the gas companies of Boston and its suburbs, consolidated them in one Corporation, and made the combatative mayor president of the whole at $0,00 a year. Monopoly can afford to pay fortunes %o its servanis where the people pay thelr pittances. Perhaps if the profils of monop- Oly went to the people this condition might be set right. —— JOKERS' TOUCHDOWNS. the other side. treeter—Were you Philadelphia Recor e s will? Gayboy— left much in your uncl Entirely. Washington Star: “Did that uncle of yours leave you any money?’ ‘‘He fsn't dead yet." “Oh! doesn't he hang on a long time?” “He does.” “Why don't you present him with a folding bed?” Atchison Globe: It is about the time of the year when we meet those superior per- sons’ who take a bath in cold water every morning. Chicago Record: Visitor (from abroad)— Is this Carrivan I see advertised on the bill boards an actor worth seeing? Native—Well, I should say so. He won seven fights stralght before he went on 'the stage, and he's killed t'ree men in the fourt’ act of the show he's been playin’ since, Milwaukee Journal: While there is often a temptation to take up a fight for some- body else, you will find that you are gener- ally left in charge when it comes to drop- ping it. Buffalo Courier: money in politics," well meaning person. Your supposition is indisputably correct, wearlly responded the candidate with a barrel. “I've put something like $10,000 in myself since my nomination.” casually remarked the Indianapolis Journal: “Her-neck-is-like the-swan's,”” she was warbling, when her husband remarked in the surly way pe- cullar to some. men: ‘Swans sing before they die,' ’ and the silence that followed was so exhausting that he took his hat and went to the club. Indianapolis News: *Brother, do you feel sure of your ground now?”" asked the evan gelist of the new convert. “No, I can't say that I do," repliéd the honest farmer. ““They's a morgidge on it for purty nign all it's worth," THE CIRL QF THE PERIOD Burlingtyn Republican. Oh, she's a dainty acronaut That floats-amang the crowd— A _girl of whom a fellow ought To feel immepsely proud! With arms eb¢aséd in two balloons, ‘V\'Ilh flaring skirts to boot, Upon her heall & hat that's spread Jut like a parachute! Oh, she's a dainty seronaut! J pind l'm l*’“rl‘)'hlmn hat walks witl er, though K Behind u. big batoon’ e" 0% 10 slgnt 1 suppose there must be | VOICK OF THE STATE PRESS, Shelton Clipper: The republicans of Ne- braska seem to be almost unanimous now in the oplnfon that if Jack MacColl had been nominated Governor Crounse's successor would have been a republican David City Press: The counties that the bolt from the democratic state conv tion were Otoe, Gage, Cuming, Fillmore, Custer and Red Willow, and their total | vote for Sturdevant was 1,172, It Is evident that the bolters didn’t_represent much after |all. It was a little flasco of the corpora- tionists, Virginia Times: Rosey did it with his Dee, as the face of the returns show that Silus A Holcomb is the next governor, If it was a personal matter with The Bee what matters it to us, the people say so, and that ends the matter. And you will ever find The Bee to the front, and when The Bee takes up the cudgel it wins every time, as several scalpless victims are aware. It would seem to a man up a tree that the best thing th republican party leaders can do is to make thelr peace with Rosewater. The Bee is a winner North Bend Argus: The Bee printed eighty-one affidavits from as many county clerks In the state certifying to the number of votes cast for each candidate for goveraor. The vote in the nine other counties were certified to by the secretary of state and the certificate published. Thus an afdavit was printed for each and every county. The Bee had made a certainty that its figures on the governorship were correct and shows that when Editor Rosewater starts out to do a thing he goes at it to win. The Bee made a noble fight and won Its case. Crelghton News: The republicans utinue their effort to bring forth a tidal vave of sympathy jn favor of Majors, so as to bring him prominently before the peo- ple as a candidate for United States senator. Their threats of contesting are all wind, and led still the farther they carry their bluff game the greater will be Holcomb's victory. The re- ception given Judge Holcomb by the eciti- zens of Broken Bow, regardless of party, Is a mark of the confidence Imposed in him by the citizens of his district. It lcoks as though they had implicit confidence in his ability to execute the laws of the state, without fear or favor and for the best inter- est of the people without political prefer- ment, Schuyler Quill: The Omaha Bee came out of the campalgn on top and away on top. It there is any man in the state of Ne- braska who has just cause to feel proud it is Bditor Rosewater. He opposed the election of Tom Majors as governor on the grounds that Majors was a dis{w:mm, dis- honorable scamp, and unfit to be governor of this great state. For this opposition Rosewater was abused by all the republican leaders and their small-bore newspapers. A desperate effort was made by the railrond corporations, as well as the state house gang and professional political bums all over the state, to elect Majors anyway. They made a dirty, personal fight on Rosewater and he never flinched, but stood up and battled for his convictions. Majors and his rotten outfit are downed and The Bee can claim the credit, while the people of the state say, godspeed the honest, fearless editor of The Omaha Bee, the champlon of the people’s rights and the fearless enemy of fraud and trickery. Papillion Times: Not long ago a gentle- man not far removed from the head of one of our greatest railway systems ad- mitted to the editor of The Times that dur- ing one specific year the political and legal expenses of his road equaled the total passeng:r receipts, and the gentleman gave it as his opinion that the railroads would make more money if they would go out of politics. This is a damaging confession, coupled with an honest opinion. The Times fully believes the railroads could make more money by letting politics alons than by try- ing to control every state election. Once let the people feel and know that they were not being dictated to in politics by the com- mon carrlers and they would soon lose much of their bitterness toward those whom they now believe are trying to overthrow the popular will. The raflroad corgorations have through their own crooksd dealings lost the confidence of the people, and they can never and should never recover it until they step aside and let the people run things to suit themselves, free from the corrupting in- fluence of passes and other favors which the rallroad politicians know so well how and where to bestow. Silver Creek Times: The B. & M. Journal, since election, continues to sustaln its weli earned reputation of being a lylng, monopoly railroad sheet. It still Keeps whacking away at Rosewater, and when a truth s not just to hand a lie will serve its purpose equally well, or even better. In its issue of November 14, speaking of the editor of The Bee, it says: “His attempt to secure defeat for the republican state and leglslative tickets in Nebraska has falled.” Now the truth is, as the B. & M. Journal and every well informed person well knows, that Rosewater made no such attempt. In common with thousands of Nebraska republicans he did oppose Majors, but neither he nor they opposed the balance of the state ticket nor the legislative tickets, | The opponents of Mr. Majors have no excuses | to make or favors to ask. And not only that, | but they take a good deal of solid satistaction | In knowing that for once it has been possible for republicans to knock out a disreputable railroad ringster of their own party, who never had any business on the ticket, and would not have been had the bosses taken any note of the wishes of the men who usu- ally furnish the votes, The B. & M. Journal assumes to rule Rosewater out of the party. That s very funny. Who set up this great railroad organ as dictator in such matters? Possibly Mr. Rosewater's constituents may have something to say about that. Suppose the republicans of Douglas county should elect Mr. Rosewater as a delegate to the next _republican state convention, what would the B. & M. organ do about it? Rosewater, instead of forfeiting his republicanism by his opposition to Majors, has, on the contrary, proved it. There is a kind of republicanism that 1s more dangerous to true republicanism than all the efforts of democrats and pops, and that kind of republicanism is always kept on tap in the editorial rooms of the B. & M. Journal. But if the Journal and those for whom it assumes to speak propose to read Rosewater out of the republican party, will it kindly state what it is golng to do with the rest of us who are in the same boat of | opposition to Majors? We are very anxious to know about it right off, and will humbly stand with hats in hand until this would-be august arbiter of the destinies of republicans lets us know our fate. The fact is, that if the railroads and rafiroad influences could be fired out of the republican party, body and breeches, in which case we very much fear | the Journal outfit would go along, too, there would hereafter for some time to come be no other party in Nebraska worth speaking of. s ¥rom Wint Day to This. Globe-Demoerat A vivid fdea of the breadth of the gulf | of time which stretches between the date of Winthrop's entrance into national poli- ties and today may be given by citing some of the mlghl( changes and events which | have taken place in the country in ‘ih» n- terval. At the time when the Twenty sixth congress met the whig party had not yet gained its first presidential victory, and | the Dirth of the republican party was fif- | teen years in the future. Van Buren was president, and fifteen of the twenty-three | presidents which the country has had along o this time were still to enter power. The country had about 17,000,000 inhabitants, or only about a fourth of its present total. Only twenty-six states were in the union, s compared with forty-four now. Missouri and Arkansas marked the westernmost boundary of the states, and almost all the vast territory between them and the Pa- cific was a wilderness. Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California 1 the domain’ in general comprising the southwest ction of the union in our days were then ign territory. The slavery extension question, which was destined (o dwarf all other issues, had not yet reached Its burn- ing stage, and the war with Mexico was seven years distant, while the mighty con- flict between the states was more than a score of years in the future. ! RET ] ABSOLUTELY PURE Highest of all in Leavening {’ower.—La!est U.S. Gov't Report Baking Powder | Two [ tong way in that direction HINTS FOR LEGISL, TORS, North Bend Argus lature handle Wil the the question of meni laws? There is plenty improvement in the present most any change could not be amiss, North Bend Argus: The coming leglsla- ture will have an opportunity to immortalize Itselt on rallroad legisiation. The repub- lican party of this state has ever declared itself In favor of reduced railroad rates, and in its last platform declared in favor of the enforcement of the maximum bill until declared unconstitutional by the courts court has decided that the bill constitutional, — but unjust. We will have an opportunity of seeing whether this republican legislature will draft a just bill and endeavor to have it put Into force. Harrison Journal: When the legislature convenes and takes up the question of making provision for the drouth-stricken portions of the state, it is hoped that the members will consider that it will be a great step it they help prevent the recurrence of such conditlons as now exist in many portion things can be done which will go a One is to make gocd irrigation laws and provide for ex- periments for artesian wells, and the other is to provide a liberal bounty on beet sugar, | such bounty to be pald to the grower of the beets. As the northwest districts are repre- sented by an element opposed to such things, the proper steps should bo taken by those who have been elected from other districts, | new legl! the assess- of room for law, and al but whose raage of vision and thought ex- tends beyond themselves. Paplilion Times: Every citizen of Ne- braska is supposed to know the laws which govern in our state, and yet how are the to know them when not a single law is pub- | lished to the world, save in book form, and | then only after the lapse of nearly a yi after the laws have been passed by the leg lature, Such a system is unjust. Every law passed by a Nebraska legislature should be published immediately in at least two | newspapers in every county. In no other | way can the people be made acquainted with the provisions of laws which thy are compelled to obey. The Times does | not from a mercenary standpoint advocate | | the publishing of laws in newspapers, W would have the advertising done at a very | low price—say one-third of legal rates. This would entall a very small outlay upon the state,“and the benefit to the people would be great. If it is right that ‘“ignorance of the law should excuse no man,” then it follows certainly that the state is in duty bound to take every avallable step to dispel the gloom of ignorance. Tekamah Herald: Our next legislature would do well to make some changes in the Australian ballot law. We would prefer the form adopted by Ohio, Indiana or fowa. The ticket in those states is so arranged that each party's candidates are placed under separate heads, 8o that the voters who desire to vote the straight ticket can do so by making a cross in a circle above the ticket for which he wiishes to vote. The law should also be changed in regard to sample ballots. These are almost uscless now, as the voter cannot get them in time to look them over. We favor the publication of the sample ballot in the newspap:rs of the county, and they to be a copy of the official ballot. By this means a distribution of them would be insured and the expense would be lessened. And why not, when we are amending it, adopt the New York plan and commence the counting of the bal- lots befora the close of the polls? It would not cost any more to have the extra men to keep up the count because It would shorten the hours. If some amendments along the lines suggested were introduce we are confident that they would recelve cordial support, especially from members that have had experience on election boards under our present law. It is our experience with the present law that prompted these suggestions. L RESPECTFULLY DECLINED, Courler Journal: The reply of Japan ap- pears to be all that could be desired, and the incident oloses in a way that is alto- gether satisfactory to the people of the United States. Our government has dls- charged its treaty obligation without having to assume the difficult and thankless office of mediator. Chicago Post: The amiable offer of Presi- dent Cleveland to act as mediator between China and Japan has been airily declined by the Japanese. There is nothing to ar- bitrate, they say. The cat has swallowed the canary. The victorious Japanese army s a few hundred miles from Pcking, and every cable tells a fresh story of the flight of the moblike Chinese army before the irresistible advance of the invaders, Atlanta Constitution: The American peo- ple sympathize with the Japanese in their struggle with China and hope to see them carry the war through to the complete | triumph which is already assured. There {8 no earthly reason why the State depart- ment and the president should make an ef- fort to stop the war and save China from any of the consequences of her disastrous conflict. If China wants peace let her hotst the white flag and ask Japan to name her terms. Let them fight it out and settle their trouble in their own way. It is none of our business. s PRI VTGS neinl Consecrati Cincinnat! Enquirer. The president is sald to be working out a scheme of public finance. As he has shown a great deal of repugnance for democrats and democratic principles in other matters, perhaps he will ko back on St, Jackson and attempt to revive the United States bank. Fi | bore. | thelr municipal schemes. PEOPLE AND THINGS. Japan finds very little to arbitrate at this stage of the game, Rube Kolb threateng the bridles in Alabamd. China's proffered Indemnity to Japan coms prehends a mammoth tael of woe. Oklahoma's claims for statehood are Habla to be spolled by two many Cooks. New York's Chinese paper Is called to wade in blood te new “Daily Unterrified Roar of the Trump of the Dragon of War. Ex-Mayor Hugh Grant, Tammany's cane didate for mayor, paid $17,000 for the privi. lege of staylng at home. The Chinese navy certainly needs new coms manders, but the army has too many active and accomplished skipper: “Brooklyn must and shall be preserved exclaims the Bagle. Cholly Knickerbooker stands a good chance of ge(ting the mitten, The democratic delegation from New BEnge land In the next congress will act as a unit on every question. He Is Mr. Fitzgerald of Massachusetts His experience In the tunnel line londs & pleturesque flavor to the corporation assertion that Mayor Sutro of San Francisco is a great He successfully tunnelled through The widow of Stonewall Jackson says that when he was courting her he made it a ru never to read one of her letters on Sunday or send one to her so that It would be likely to be carried through the malls on that day, “To win in 1896, says a stentorian southe ern volce from outside the breastworks, we'll have to get hold of a new fssue,”” 1t he could get hold of the new one of 3 per cent gold bonds he'd finds millions In ft— fifty of ‘em. It may bo comforting to those who have been invited to the feast to learn from the experience of a courageous Minnesota demo- crat that the crow s an edible bird. While he does not recommend it as a regular diet, he avers that for flavor and quantity it beats quall, legs down. That is a notable victory won by the res publicans in Mount Vernon, N. H., last week, For ninety-one years the town has been demos cratic. This year it is republican. The total vote cast was seven, of which the republicans ptured four. The total does not seriously imperil the pre-eminence of Clontarf in polis tics, Preachers and poets do not usually leave their heirs large estates, and Oliver Wendell Holmes and Prof. Swing were exceptions to the rule. The Boston poet left his son & fortune of $300,000, while Prof. Swing's es- tate Is worth about $80,000, It consists of a handsome residence and of stocks, bonds and mortgagos. The McWhirter tragedy at takes its place in the list of criminal mys- teries. McWhirter was the editor of a dem- ocratic paper which exposed corrupt political ring:, and was shot down at his own door. Large sums of money were spent in futile search for the murderers. The last trial of a suspect resulted in acquittal. Richard Vaux, who danced with Queen Victoria when he was a boy and who suc- ceeded the late Congressman Randall in the house of representatives, was met the other day in Philadelphia by an old acquaintanca Fresno, Cal., | who congratulated him on being so full of lite. Life, life!” exclaimed Vaux. “Why, don’t you know I am the only living demo- crat left in Philadelphia? All the others ars dead, dead!" The bonds of mutual admiration and courtly esteem heretofore existing between the editors of the Chicago Inter Ocean and the Chicago Tribune have been sundered, and will remain in a fractured condition pending the settle ment of the senatorial question. The warmth of the union which has contributed much to the dignity of Chicago as a resort of summer has been superceded by arctic blasts severe l"(nungh to build icicles on Uncle Joe's whis- ers. Occaslonally a public officer is found who achieves distinction by making a trust squeal. Attorney General Moloney of Illi- nois instituted proceedings to annul the charter of the Spring Valley Coal company, which not only dodged taxes and made false returns, but monopolize coal land and operated truck stores. Finding the attor- ney general could not be bluffed or bought off, the company is now trying to get with- in bounds of law by lopping off unauthor- ized branches. The “pluck-me'" stores have been abolished. e THE CUCKOO, ew York Sun. There never were fowls 80 mild and meek As they to thelr keeper true, They were mum as mutes when'er he'd speak, wAnd thien theyd sing Cuckoot hen he had done, each son of a 4 Would crazily cry Cuckoo! e They fluttered around the Child of F “Thelr throats full of Joyrul seunds, They celebrated his worth and weight (Three hundred and forty pounds): Now hang it all, and drat this fail Of three hundred and forty pounds! The dreadest deed that ever was hears, pahat drend deed must we do; For Cuckoo must bury the Mugwum pIhe n‘l‘\mvgm:n Bird, Cliclool T r it y Cuckog be interred the Mugwum; By the Mugwump Bird: Cuckeoi™? Pl Afar to the land where the dodos si . On the Megatherium's knees, & We Cleveland birdies have got to flit; So hurry up, Cuckoo, please. One Cuckoo! cry before you die, And we'll die together, please, “Money’s Worth Chinee Turkee the our Two more will be given to These are this season's prod pan Wednesday eve, have the long tails that a turkeys as well as coats. it's necessary to guess abou fers from our way. Reliable Clothizrs, S, or Money Back,” “Mel}can man buy turkee, and eatee allee up, But Chinee man know better and likee nicee pup”—We're for 5| turkey that we're going to give to the person who guesses nearest its weight. the next nearest guesses. uction; no old styles, and we'll deliver them to your address all ready for the You'll also notice that they re popular this season in The turkey is the only thing in our store that t. Any one can see what the goods are—that’s where the turkey's weigh dif- Any purchaser can guess. *’Melican” kind, and in window you'll see a large Browning, King & Co., W. Cor. 15th and Douglas, i e