Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 1, 1894, Page 4

A FREE SILVER CONGRESS. A= was expected, the congress at St Louis of delegates from the transmis- sissippl states devoted its attention * GUBRCRY ally Beo (Without Bunday), One Year. ;m Bes and Sunday, Ono Year. ix Mon‘hs . . . Three Months. Bunday e, On Baturday 13 Weekly Year.. OFFICES. Omaha, The Bee Diu Bouth Omaha, Corner N and I All business | addressed d Omaha, being _duly sworn of full and complete coy Dally Morning, Evening anday ring the mouth of October, 189, Wi the of the printed as follows: 2. 3 i | 7 [ 7 de coples Total rold 1) Dally average e ‘ CHUCK. hefore n this (Seal.) , Notary Public. —— e Will the seat of war be transferred from China to Alabama? The foot ball season is Let the barbers once more take heart. The Thanksgiving day poct now fecl warranted n turning Christmas and New Year's. The first step in the crusade living pictu state of suspended animation. The new foot ball rules are Yes, more open to the undertaker. Has it g Detaware that Btates senate mill? It will De interesting to observs whether the new bond issue means any material increase in the national bank circulation The throng of curiosity court during the recent murder stitute attraction. Every office sceker ought to join foot ball team. He would then hav the best possible kind of preparation to teach him to accept defeat and disap- pointment in the right spirit. We might be tempted to appoint an- other day of thanksgtving weather man would generously us of the murky atmosphere t been enveloping our mornings. it th pliey The Board of Education may as well cut the gordian knot and abolish th office of attorney to the board. By thi course it will not disappoint any one of the applicants more than another. The new 5 per cent bonds are alread listed on the stock exchange. At th price pald for them, howeve cessful Didders cannot have have been made. It ought not to be a very and Council Bluffs to agree measures that will put a stop to priz fights on the so-called disputed territory near Cutoff lake. & The thing that now worries the old state house gang most is what kind of men the new governor will appoint t administer the state institutions. nipulate or buy up? The members of th ring hope so, and they ar their influence in behalf of applicant whose co-operation they either have or hope to gain. President Clev about providing and wasn't so for on the rejection of his candidacy for democratic renomination. Breckinridg has been drawing salary as minister t Russia now for some months. That i what make eral other companions in misfortun wonder whether presidents are also un- grateful. Tom Johnson, the great Ohio trader, I8 trying to show low well h ran In the recent election by pointin, to the fact that although beaten b 4,500 votes he was the most lightl, beaten democrat in the state. And thi; he thinks, that he so open! free trade, pure and simple. of the defeated in other states contrive to pre ilar argument to show how mu they did because of some hobby to which they sul 'nt a sim particula eribed A subscriber write: the windows in one of the booths at the corner of Twenty. and Caldwell streets have been | in and the lamps kept there stoler Similar depredations have been com mitted upon booths located in v, other precinets, the perpetrators electio ent ev dently thinking that the booths are kept standing fact is, for no other reason. that it has been proved costly experience that these suffer considerable damage they are maintained in longer than s necessary. Ty the The damag has to be made good by thé taxpayers W It 18 bad enough to obstruc every time they are set up for a election. the streets without cause, but *elty. Take down the election booths. s8R0 10 00 500 | Fwenty-fourth Sts, 10,05 21,145 a'in my pres- nearly -over. his attention to is to reduce them to a iid to provide for a game that is more open. otten to the point down in the road to the United leads through the divorce -seckers which has been hanging around the eriminal trial will now have to look around for a sub- y the suc- turned much of a profit on any sales that may difficult mat- ter for the police authorities of Omaha upon will they be men whom the ring ean ma- exerting all slow Congressman Breckinridge of Arkansas immediately Chairman Wilson and sev- free is owing solely to the fac poused the cause of Can't some demoeratie candidates ) better to inform us that oken rious by booths wheneve: streets worse t0 do It at an actual expense to the mainly to the question of the free coln- age of silver, and its action on this | question showed that it was composed chiefly of men devoted to that policy. The resolutions demanding the imme- | diate restoration of the free and unlim- {ited coinage of silver at the present ratio of 16 to 1, “without waliting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth,” was adopted Ly an ov whelming majority. There was a sound and sensible minority report regarding silver, but it received only seventy- seven votes against 213 in opposition. | It was thus plainly demonstrated that calling this a congress to consider west- ern interests was simply to mask ‘its real object, which was to further the cause of free silver, The resolutions adopted declare that paper money should be issued only by H neral government, that the pro- posed reformation of the paper cur- | rency would ereate additional and pre- : | haps insurmountable difficulites to the return to bimetallism, and that the re |'monetization of silver must be a part of any new currency plan, or that such plan must be of a character to offer no fmpediment to a return to bimetallism as It existed prior to 1873, There are other declarations of familiar sophisms regarding the disastrous effects to in- dustrial society of the so-called demone- o | tization. ANl these are interesting as in- dicating the attitude which the free silver men in congress will assume to- ward any currency plan that may be offered at the coming session of con- gress which does not give some recog- nition to silver. It warrants the diction that this element will be found to be solid against the Baltimore plan or any scheme that the president Is likely to recommend for a reform of our s | curren stem, and this being so it is absolutely assured that there will be no curreney legislation by this congres: The existing financial system will re main unchanged until the next cong: can deal with it, and it may be neces- sary for the country to wait for a wise and satisactory reform of the currency until the republican party is again placed in full control of the govern- ment. Fortunatély the enunciations of the St. Louis congress and the attitude of the free silver men generally in regard to the currency can ereate no alarm or dis- trust. They are powerless for anything but obstruction, and this power, there is overy reason to belleve, they will be deprived of two years hence, when a congress republican in both branches will be chosen. The great republican victory in the congressional districts at the late elections gave assurance that the popular sentiment of the nation is overwhelmingly in favor of a sound and stable eurrency. It was a protest as well against the free silver agitation as against the determination of the democracy to destroy protection. It is not to be doubted that this sentiment will be as strong two years hence as it is now. Having shown itself to be distinctly n free silver congress, designed o pro- e [mote that policy and dominated by its ® | advocates, the perfunctory utterances of the St. Louis congress on other mat- ters will receive little consideration and exert no Influence. As it did not repre- sent the more intelligent sentiment of the transmissisippl states in its action on the silver question it will be fairly assumed not to have done so as to the other subjects. Thus it will prove to be, as those preceding it we barren of effect or influence. o a o e s y e THE ALABAMA CONFLICT. A new government of Alabama is to be inaugurated today and there is great probability that the event will be marked by grave and serious trouble. At the last state election W. C. Oates, the democratic candidate for governor was elected, according to the returns, by a large majority. R. F. Kolb, the populist eandidate, who made his third run for governo claimed that there had been fraudulent voting in the elec tion more than sufficient to wipe out the majerity claimed for Oates, and he declared his intention to contest the right of the democratic candidate to be installed as governor. Meetings of the e | supporters of Kolb were held and it was determined to sustain him in any 8 | effort he should decide to make to pre- vent the inauguration of Oates and se- cure the governorship for himself. Some two weeks ago Kolb issued an address in which he declared his in- tention to be inaugurated governor and called upon his followers everywhere to gather at Montgon the capital city, e |on December 1 and aid him in taking 0 [ his seat. After making the char s | frand Kolb said in this address that he had determined to discharge his full o [ duty to the people of Alabama, declar- ing that “by the grace of God and the lielp of the good people of Alabama 1 will be governor.” He promised that on December 1 he would be in Mont- gomery for the purpose of taking the ath of office and his seat as governor, nd he called upon good people in every part of the state to aid him “in all proper and penceable methods to uphold the law and set aside the power of traitors and usurpors in Alabama, Agreeably to this promise Kolb is now in Montgomery, and it is reported that 1 (50,000 of his followers will be there today, determined to back him up at every hazard. In the meantime the au- thorities have not been indifferent to the serious and threatening the situation and several thousand state treops are on hand fully prepared to resist any attempt by Kolb and his supporters to Iuterfere with the inaug 1. | uration of Oates. ) According to the latest information the plan of Kolb and the other populist i- | enndlidates Is to go before a judicial of- ficer and take the oath of office, where. e | upon they will appear before the legis- lature and ask for an investigation of the alleged frauds by that body. They r | hope to secure some democratic votes in the legislature in support of this re quest, but as the democrats have a ty in that body, which has lared that Oates was elected, t hope of the Kolbites 1s pretty cer tain to be disappeinted. What they will do In that case has not been in- | timated, but they give out that 1f the o a e s - y t n b e pre- | | the supply nature of | other party seeks honblc it will be ac- commodated. That both parties are very determined admits of no question, and there is great reason to apprehend that the intense bitterness of feeling between them will not be appeased ex- cept by bloodshed, As to the merits of the conflict there ran be no doubt that the claim of frauds | made by the Justification that the, Kolbites I8 not without but it is hardly probable were 8o extensi as is as- According to the legislative official count Oates received a majority of over 75,000, and it is manifestely un- reasonable to claim that the frauds were sufficient to wipe out this large majority. Kolb has been three times a candidate for governor and has every time claimed that his defeat was due to frand. He has a following that has been very loyal, but he appears to be a politician of the narrow-gauge type and of a mischievous disposition. There will be very general interest in the events at Montgomery today. FOOT BALL IN OMAHA. Next to the signal victory of the Uni- versity of Nebraska team over thelr Towa rivals in the Thanksgiving day foot ball game—and it was a victory whose importance is not to be depre- eated—the chief significance of the event is the increasing populavity of foot ball and the growing interest In the sport among the people of Omaha and of the neighboring western cities. While the foot ball fever has been raging for several ye throughout the east, and whole communities hayve been going wild over the exhibitions of skill at foot ball between teams from the larger colleges, foot ball has languished in the west almost solely because of lack of popular support. The throng in at- tendance upon the Omaha game this year surpassed in size, in character and in enthusiasm those of all previous years It seemed as If alm every- body was there, and those who had no pretensions at knowledge of the play were the most eager to be instructed. In a word, the progress of foot ball in popular favof is a very gratifying and noticeable feature. We must not, however, omit to at- tribute a large part of this growing pop- ularity to the better training and the greater skill which the visiting teams from the universities of the two states have been bringiug with them. In the Thanksgiving day game the victors won simply because their opponents were outclassed, and yet the Iowa play- ers, in the opinion of competent critics, were considerably in advance of their predecessors of a year ago. The work, moreover, was commendably free from the brutal action and unnecessary vio- lence with which the east has of late been inflicted. If the improvement of the western foot ball teams keeps pace with the spread of general knowledge of the game, there is no reason why foot ball should not occupy the same pre-eminent position in the local world of sport that it does in cities east of us. LIMITING THE CUAL OUTPUT. The anthracite coal barons are not overlooking the opportunity which the approach of cold weather regularly pre- sents to so adjust the supply to the de- mand that their interests shall be better subserved. Ata meeting of the eastern agents of the principal anthracite com- panies held in New York City on Tues- day a resolution was adopted, subject to the approval of the presidents, who, it may be confidently asserted, will lose no time in expressing their approval, that the total output of the mines for the month of December be restricted to 2,500,000 tons. To make their action all the more emphatic the agents also agreed, subject to the approval of the same authorities, to advance the prices of the various grades of coal delivered at the water line from 20 to 25 cents a ton. As soon as the effect of the re- stricted output begins to be felt they hope to be able to send these prices up still a few more notches. The meaning and extent of this ac- tion may perhaps be better understood when it is explained that the coal out- put for June of the present year was 5,200,000 tons. The limit for December established by the agents' agreement is 2,500,000 tons, or less than half that of six months ago, and a still smaller percentage of the capacity of the mines under the existing conditions of avail- able labor. The wholesale price of an- thracite at the water line means the de- livery of the coal at the piers of the coal- carrying railroads. But if the whole- salers are compelled to pay more for their supplies it will not be long before the difference is reflected in the retail price of coal and generally augmented by a slight additiom to the intermedi- aries' profit. The reason for the new limitation on output Is alleged to be the demoralization of prices at inland points. This demoralization is said to threaten the entive coal market, and in order to bolster up the trade returns must be restricted and a new schedule fixed for the seaboard cities. When the reaction sets in the coal operators hope to see it affect the inland towns as well as the points of water competition, The prices just be- fore the new agreement was entered into were some 75 cents less a ton than had been at the same time a year ago. It is greatly to be feared that the anthreacite operators will not be satis- fied until they shall have restored prices to last year's plane, and sent them per- haps a little higher to make up for lost profits of the interval. INCOME TaX APPROPRIATION. It is expected that the income tax provision of the tariff law will again be the subject of debate at the coming session of congress, Very likely an ef- fort will be made to repeal it, and the opponents of the tax mmong the demo- crats ean draw argument against this legislation from the result of the late clections. The democratic senators and representatives from New York, for in stunce, can plausibly elalm tifat the overwhelming defeat of the party in that state wits measurably due to the income tax, and this will apply as well to the resuit in other eastern states, 1t s not questionable that thousands of democrats were led to vote against the party because they bellieved this tax, imposed In a time of peace, to be wnnecessary and unwarranted and not in harmony with the past policy of the party. They opposed It, also, because it is dlfllnefly ch_ lofluln!h\n and for tue additional reason that the demapd for it cAme almost wholly from the south nnd W@ munifestly prompted by prejudice a t the enterprise and wealth of the north, There is no probability, an effort t successful, strong enowy suggested t incolne tax the hands o expected 1 howey that se who favor it are prevent this. But it is he means to render the division abortive are in % opponents, and it is '@ very earnest attempt will be mndw usge them. The Treas- ary departs has authoritatively an- nounced tha $ipossibility of collecting the tax Illll’mul{w“flln machinery Is provided, arfo do this there must be a liberal approprintion. The appropria- tion for this purpose already made will, according to the statement of the treas- ury officialg, searcely do more than se cure the merest preliminaries for the assessment and collection of the tax. It is thought that there will be a vig- orous fight made against any further appropriation for this purpose, and there seems to be a feeling of confi- dence in some quarters that it may be successful. There is not much proba- bility, however, that this plan of,ren- dering the income tax provision aborttve would have any other result than to delay the appropriation, thereby post- poning the arrangements for collecting ihe tax and keeping the government out of revenue from this source for months beyond the time when it should be re- ceiving it. If the appropriation for this purpose were to be made in a separate measure there might be some hope of defeating it, but it will be embraced in one of the regular appropriation bills, and thus its passage will doubtless be assured. The income tax will not fail for want of money to carry it into ef- fect, but as to: the amount of revenue xpected to be derived from it there 5 reason to belie it will not be re- alized As it is reasonable to assume that the popular repudiation of the democratic revenue policy had reference as much to the income tax as to any other feature of that policy the repub- lican house of the next congress will be fully warranted in insisting upon the repeal of the tax or refusing an appropriation to continue it in effect. The jury in the Sam Payne murder case found the accused guilty, and fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. It will be difficult for those who have watched the progress of this trial to reconcile the verdict with the law and the evidence. To the thoughtful mind the suggestion will come with some force that thie jury, having determined the prisoner guiity of the terrible crime as charged, fild not consistently limit the degree of punishment to imprison- ment for life. On the other hand, it will be conceded that no man is capable of considering every phase of the case, dispassionatély “dnd thoroughly, as are twelve men whose undivided attention has been glvun to the trial, and for this reason the people of this community will acquiesdy§rpcefully in the findings of the jury. is hardly probable that the notice of ppbdl filed by defendant's attorney. will be persisted in, as a ver- diet of acquittat-rould not be hoped for upon the damaging testimony adduced. Sam Payne may consider himself very fortunate indeed, and is doubtless con- tent to let the matter rest just where it is. ——————— The announcement from the platform of the Stock exchange in New York the other day of the dividend just declared by one of the eastern railronds is an innovation occasioned by the false re- ports spread a week ago of the quar- terly dividend of the Burlington. The Burlington, whose directors met in Bos- ton, found itself compelled to reduce its dividend from a 5 per cent to a 4 per cent basis. The rumor was circulated on Wall street, however, that the reg- ular dividend had been declared and some speculators succeeded in turning a small sum during the commotion. The precaution of announcing the facts au- thoritatively Is not necessary just now while the other incident is still fresh, but it may be of service after it shall have been forgotten. The Thanksgiving dinner given by the Peoples’ church to the poor of this city was a notable event. Dinner was served to over 1,000 persons, and to those unable to attend the festal board, dinners were sent to their humble abodes. The sick, halt and blind were remembered alike. To hundreds the kindly ministrations of Rev. Savidge and his co-workers came as harbingers of great joy. With them, Thanksgiving day was a reality and not a mere mat- ter of sentiment. Hundreds of Omaha's best people contributed to the success of this bountiful dinner. Supplies were ample to meet the demand. ‘The pro- verbial generosity of our people found another exemplification. It Is more Dblessed to give than to receive. Even Chicago demands that its police department must be taken out and kept out of politics. No scheme of munic pal reform is of more vital fmportance than the absolute divorce of the police department front the partisan machin No man, nor, clags of men, will be per- mitted to lobby any charter amendment through the next legislature of this state havingiin ylew the placing of our police force -back into the hands of politiclans. A fan's political and re- ligious creed Ginjot be made a test of his fitness for servige in the police depart- ment, whererindividual merit and effi- clency must determine the question of qualification: 1 the Very Lust Ditch. Papiilion Times. Majors has sat last given up his contest scheme, but hig friends still insist that the ballots cast at the last election ought to be recounted by ‘thé legislature. dles hard. The old gang ————— sublime Spectacle from Peru. Wealth Makers. We are pleased to see that Colonel Ma. jors finds o much cause for rejoicing in the eneral victory that “his own personal de- feat seems & mere Incident. hat a sub. lime spectacle of party worship and pers sonal unselfishuess he reveals in his final pose. — - Thiak of Their Teeth Meanwhile. Chicago Inter Ocean. 1If Germany Insists upon living upon jerked horse meat instead of juidy American beef- steak it is her privilege, but a republican president and congress will away with the petty legislation which has pro- duced such results. The German people are only trylog to b care of their own in- terests. eal the tax would be | CTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The war which Japan has successtully waged against China may be regarded as one of the most Important of the century, on account of its far-reaching consequences. It creates a first-class power among the na- tions of the carth from one which only a quarter of a century age was consldered barbarous, and over which extra territorial jurisdiction was insisted on by civilized coun- tries, and from which only now It s about to be emancipated by the United States and Great Britain, 1t makes Japan, in a measure, supreme in the Yellow sea, and a fighting power which will have to be considered by England, Russla, and other nations interested in_eastern questions. It opens up for it be- sides a great future as a maritime, commer- clal and progressive nation, with important interests to be looked after over the whole world. Japan's eagerness to adopt civiliz- ing influences, and its conduct during the present war, render it easy to regard with some complacency its defeat of ignorant and barbarous China, and less difficult for the other .great nations to recelve it with some degree of cordiality as one of their class. . It is evident that the Russian people have confidence in their new ruler and that they expect much from him. That he has re- mitted various debts to the empire, mitigated sentences of Imprisonment, and granted am- nesty to certain political offenders does not, of course, foreshadow his future policy, for there Is always a show of clemency at royal morriages. Still, he has already given utter- ance to sentiments of a liberal and pacific character, and there is a strong bellef that he will not only reform abuses, but seek to strengthen existing friendly relations with the powers of Europe. If this belief is realized, the effects of such a course will be tar-reaching. On the one hand, it will help the Internal development of the empire, on the other it will be a guarantee that when the Chinese empire is broken up and new und more clvilized forces are at work Iy Asla, the great povernments of Europe will wield an influence for good, instead of read- justing things on the old plan of battling for dominion and supremacy. v The military and naval journals in England are beginning to devote some attention to certain small fronclads which have been added to the German flect during the last few years and which are unrepresented in the British navy. They were designed originally for coast-defense ships, and were intended to guard the two ends of the North sea and Baltic canal, but their sea-keeping and fight- ing qualities are so highly esteemed that they have been classed as battle-ships. Bight of these vessels are in commission already, and their behavior in the recent maneuvers elicited warm official approval. Although much alike in appearance, the newest boats are improvements upon the earliest type, having nickel-steel armor and boilers of the latest water-tube design. All of them are remarkable for the small amount of wood used in their construction, a point of much importance in the light of the recent engage- ment on the Yalu river, in which one of the features was the frequency of the fires caused by the bursting of shells amid woodwork. The ironclads are 239 feet 6 inches long, 49 feet 3 inches broad, and, at a displacement of 8,500 tons, draw 17 feet 9 Inches of water. Their engines, driving twin screws, are of 4,800 Indicated horse power, and give a speed of between 15 and 16 knots The armor con- sists of a complete all-round belt 7 feet 6 Inches broad and 9.4 inches thick, of two covered barbettes of 8-inch steel, of a 1.37- inch steel deck, covering engines, boilers, torpedo rooms, and magazines, and of steel shields for all guns, .o The information that the Russian Black sea fleet will soon be permitted to pass into the Mediterraneon through the Dardanelles without any protest from Great Britain seems entirely credible in the light of recent events. A cordial understanding with Russia would be cheaply purchased by Great Britain by her consent to a departure from her time-lonored policy regarding the Dardanelles, which she would be powerless to prevent in the long run. The centre of population in Russia is being rapidly shifted to the south, and a Russian demand to be relieved from the stipu- lations of the Treaty of Paris, which confine her navy in the Black sea, would be irre- sistible. Groat - Britain would do_better to greet the Russian fleets in the Mediterraneon as friends than to meet them as foes. The new Triple Alliance seems to be emerging out of the realm of dreams into the region of practical politics. o Devotion to the old Shinto faith is not ex- tinet in Japan, and a great temple at Kioto, on which ten years and many milllons have been expended, s still incomplete, and work upon it not suspended even in the time of the greatest war which the country has ever had upon its hands. The women of that country give sign of their plous zeal in this work by contributing portions of their hair, which are braided into cables and used in the (ransportation of material to be em- ployed in the construction of the building, Of these a large number have been worn out in the work accompanying the structure at Kloto, but more are forthcoming, showing a spirit of zeal and sacrifice among the women there not to be outdone by any of the mis- sionaries among them, or by the builders of rines and temples unywhere. Shintoism Is the old faith of Japan before the introduc- tion of Buddhism and the Confucian philoso- phy, and does not now absorb a large part of the religious Inspiration of the country, but still preserves a measure of vitality cnough to bufld a new temple now and then amidst the ruin of its old ones, and supply testimony that In spite of the infiltration of newer faiths the lamp of its older one is still trimmed and burning. It has no theological scheme and no speeific code of morals, inculeating in general cbedlence to and reverence for the mikado, who in that country is the direct representative of the gods; and as a religion really amounts to little, not enough to jus- tify the erection to it of such a spacious and costly tabernacle. Japan is going on at such a pace in the adoption of medern usages that she will no doubt have a president before long after the American pattern, and then there will be nobody for the new Kioto altar to burn its Incense to. oo Princess Bismarck, aside from the rank she enjoyed as the wife of her husband, pos- sessed a decided character and a vigorous personality which made her an important figure In the personal life of Germany for a generation, It was to her determined and vindictive disposition that the public attrib- uted the sharp personal edge of some of Prince Bismarck's: quarrels, and the some- what undignified attitude of unavailing pr test which he maintained so long in his en- forced retirement has been popularly attrib- uted to her influence. She had, in short, both the determination and the narrow per- sonal view characteristic 6f women of her type, and both made her interesting. Nor is her husband, in accordance with a familiar and frequent experience, likely long to sur- vivu the love of his youth and the companion of all the years of his long and historic career, —_— ED THE CONGRESS, ST. LOUIS, Mo, Nov. 28.—-To the Editor of The Bee: It should be known to your con- stituents in Nebraska that any vote taken in this Transmississippi congress purporting to represent the sentiments of the Nebraska del- egatlon 1s & farce. In fact, the entire con- gress is an assemblage of disappointed, dis- gruntled, played-out p:liticians, who assemble to ventilate their spleen and get free ad- vertisemeats sent home. 1 talked with the representatives of the Nebraska delegation who left the city yesterday, and while they were careful not to say too much, I learned that the committee which had be:n appointed on rules and resolutions had been invited to withdraw, o that W. J. Bryan, who is not a delegate, and has no right to sit in the convention, could get in scme silver resolu- tions. In fact, there are only three dele- gates in the congress that were appointed by the governor, the rest of them being ap- pointed by the mayors of different towns, Yours truly, E. L. MALLEY. DENOU. — Buying His Way to the Sena Courier-Journal. J. Edward Addicks, the wealth, man who is claiining Mr. Higgins' seat fi'ine United States senate by right of pur- chase, 18 not at all backward in the matter He declares that he oarried Delaware with his money—that he pald the poll taxes of the voters, organized them and supplied funds wherever needed, expending in this way between 50,000 and §100,000. Delaware DECISION OF JUDGE DALLAS. Minneapolis Tribune: Laboring ‘men and Iabor unions, as well as corporations, will find thelr true interests to le in living up to | the obligation of contracts, expressed or im- pled. This obligation Is the binding force | which keeps clvilized soclety together, and It | 11 becomos the chief law adviser of the fed- eral administration to seek to weaken it | Chicago Herald: This case leaves the | problem no nearer solution than it was be fore. “The real question,” as Judge Dallas | ‘involves the right of an employer—a | rallroad company not in the hands of re- | , or recelvers of a bankrupt railroad, | other corporate employer—the right arge an employe on the mere bald | ground of membership in a secret labor unfon.” And the rights of Individual em- | ployers will need to be defined after the question is settled in regard to corporate em- ployers. This question stands where it did. | Indianapolis News: It must be fraukly said that workingmen themselves are almost solely responsible for the strong feeling of anta nism_which exists against unio Th toolish rules and silly and destructive strikes | have made not only corporations, but pradent | business men, extremely reluctant to lave anything to do with them. This is noto- rlous. And yet, on the general proposition, | we cannot but think that the atiorney gen- eral is more nearly right than is Judge Dal- las. Labor is virtually driven into organ- | {zation by the combination of capital. And | in spite of all their evils and childish per- formances, trades unions have been good | things for the men who belong to them. In the mere matter of wages alone they ha accomplished great results. It would, ther fore, be unfortunate to have it judiclally d cided that a man may not belong to th except with the consent of his employer. — - NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. The winter meeting of the State Keepers' association will be held at December 4 and 5. The Nebraska State grange wil hold its annual meeting at Blair, the exercises open- ing on December 11. The young ladies of St. Paul have organiz>d a club for the entertainment of their friends during the winter evenings. The Women's Christian Temperance union of Butler county will hold & convention at Rising City December 5 arfl 6. The Presbyterlans and Methodists of Schuyler are running opposition revival services and many conversions are expected. Mr. and Mrs. Seth A. Sheldon of Norman have celebrated their golden wedding and expect to live to see their diamond anniver- sary. Editor 0. D. Crane of 'the Arcadia Courler has left his wife to run the paper and has gone to Oregon to establish another news- paper. Henry Schutt, an 8-year-old boy residing near Fremont, was knocked down by a run- away horse and received injuries that re- sulted in his death. Owing to the hard times the Episcopal church at Neligh has been forced to close its doors and Rector McKim has preached his farewell sermon. Tom Root, a farmer living near Callaway, lost his balance while working on a wind mill tower and fell to the ground, breaking one leg and otherwise bruising him. His family is in straitened circumstances as a result of the drouth. John Cooper, a 14-year-old boy, was struck by the sweep of a stump pulling machine while at work near Dunbar and received injurles in the abdomen that resulted in his death two days after the accident. It was not thought that Le was severely injurel unt'1 a few minutes before he died. A meeting in the interests of Christian education was held at Ogalalla under the auspices of the Western Nebraska conference of the Methodist church. An address was made by Chancellor Crook of the Wesleyan university, who urged that the university be given the support to which it was en- titled. B Auburn | ———— The Protest Was Heard. Bla'r Pilot. A higher sense of Integrity among the people demands that in politics as in social gr, business matters a roasonable degroe of fairness, candor and honesty shall prevail. The ‘republican party has been growing weaker for some years past, largely because it has permitted ‘corruption and cussedness to dominate its councils and to select its candidates. A third party, largely recruited from its ranks, has grown to formidable proportiovs, which, had it remalned true to its traditions, would never have had a be. ginning. They were largely driven from it by tricksters ‘and party manipulators. Church Howe was right when he sald, *“The old ship is leaking.'” To its enemies from without it was always impregnable, but its enemles from within have caused it to be tried as in a fire. The remedy is within the party and must be applied from within. It must “clean house” when the occasion demands it and relegate to the rear cor ruptionists of all sorts who assume to dominate while they mould its acts and licles. Lot the honest expression of an onest ‘laity be at all times heard and heeded ‘and the grand old party will soon win back all its wandering members_and again resume its prestige and power. With renewed vigor and the benefits of adverse experience it will more than ever before be the party of progress and of good govern- ment. It was for this that more than 20,000 good ' republicans n this state registered their protest at the polls against corruption thelr own party und ‘voted to Their protest was heard, the hou cleansd for the time, and two years hence they wil have 0od, clean “ticket, one thal will command the support of the tinited party with large additions to it. Things will “naturally gravitate towards a party that buries its own tricksters, and this is important for all republicans to keep in mind at all times. | 8ot a vibrating hammer to | action of the opening the letter box to take | out the contents winds the alarm afresh and | shoe, | the test, fc | hina | even INDUSTRIAL NOTRS. The plant of the United States Iron and Tin Plate Manufacturing company, Demmler, Pa., resumed operations a few days since. This was the first establishment to start after the shutdown some time ago. Compressed gas for locomotive headlights has boen used for some years in South Amer- fea, and this light s being applied on twentys five suburban engines now being built by | Brooks locomotive works of the Central rafle way of Brazil. A novel alarm letter box has been intro- duced, the principle of which 1s to let house- holders whose doors are fitted with the ap- paratus know when letters, etc., have beem dropped in, thelr welght releasing a catch which allows a short spring to uncoll and ring a bell. The the cateh fs reset by simply closing the box again About twenty rs ago Cermany opted the system of compulsory insurance of works ingmen against accidents. Since that time there has been pald inio the reserve fund about $88,000,000, of which about $20,000,000 now forms the capital. In the year last re- ported more than $7,500,000 was pald In ine demnities, and more than $3,000,000 was added to the rescrve fund. It is now proposed to ex- end the system to apprentices and employes whose wages do not exceed $476 & year. Reoent tests made in Arizona of alum- inium horse shoes indicate that while the so far as perfected, will not wear quite & month when subjected to the severe moun. tain rcouting in that section, Lieutenant R Wallace, Second cavairy, who made nd that the front shoes lasted some twenty-eight days (306 miles) and the shoes twenty-three days (260 miles), agh country covered with lava rock. As country traversed was unusually rough for Arlzona, this may be taken as a fair indicatio; -clad aluminium shoes will answer y requirements of the cavalry service. o shoes have particles of highly tempered steel pressed into the sole of the shoe by a pressure of some 100 tons, which makes the wearing surface practic B thri th Buffalo Courler: Ilken modestly de- clkths 10, awe the Immense fortune he has accumulated all to others, “Yes, the money wi by Bilken's fallures in busin Philadelphia R to another climb,” s indicator announced a floor. made chlefly cord: “T am summoned d the bell boy as the call from the top Journal: “What dv I guess. It has the past thirty Indianapolls, ward you live in, Watts?” he [ncurnble ward, n going democratic for how are ' named Well, they ke H Syracuse Post: W things over in Tos any new ple “Aristotle” i Wentman Noo, But T heard a man thers ask for a Plato soup. Dallas News: After one puts a project on foot he then has it on hand. n Star: Speak gently; It 18 bet- Jur temper not to tax; speak gently twice and then wade In and take Washin, ter fa once or an axe, Philadelphia Record: Boarder—Madam, ¥ have found a nickel fn my hash Mrs. Mealer—Oh, that's all right. I put it there: 1 thought I'd give you a little change in your diet New York Sun: DMrs. Wibble—I found my cook in the Kitchen today, crying be- cause she had broken one of my cholcest pitchers, Mrs, Wabble—Was she so sorry? Mrs. Wibble—Oh, yes. It fell on her foot. Chicago Record: The Mald—No, sir, my mistress {s not at home. The Caller (savagely)—Well, tell her mot to sit before a front window with the cur- tains open, then. Atlanta Constitution: “What did you get for your vote, Uncle Jim?"* pe Well, suh,'dey gimme a lame mule, but he dled “You came out loser, then?" “No, suh, I reckon not. Dey throwed out ten er my votes. LOVE'S LABOR LOST. Kansas City Journal, He used the finest paper And the best of pens and ink, And his manuscript was perfect, Not a blot, or flaw, or kink; Every day he toiled and lsbored the midnight ofl he burned— wrmmf. articles for publishers, Which promptly were returned. THE LITTLE SCHOOLMA® AM. Harper's Young People. Speak of quecn and empress, Or of other ladies royal, Not one of them has half the power Or subjects half o loyal As she, the little schoolma’am, Who trins along the way To take the chair she makes a throne At 9 o'clock each day. Her rule is ever gentle; Her tones are low and sweet; She is very trim and tidy From her head unto her feet. And it matters very little if her eves be brown of blus; y simply read vour inmost heart L P AR e you, The children bring her presents, Red apples, flowers galore, For all the merry girls and boys This queen of theirs adore. The darling little schoolma’am, Who reigns without a peer, In a hundred thousand class rooms ‘Money’s Worth Riggoing Out the Boys-- It’s been a steady stream all day—none of your | ball center rushes—but a nice active trade that gets the garments transferred to the cus- tomers—some of the sizes are all sl gone in some of the kinds, but there are Ju:-L stacks of 'em yet. Boys' Suits—Reefers—Boys’ Ulsters—Cape Over- foot, coals—all in one great two over a dozen different lots for choice—many- of them are worth up to $6.00. Sale closes Saturday night. N. B. ounces. M. C. Thaxton, guessed 20 lbs. 15614 ounces. J. V. Brady 3rd. We hope they enjoyed 'em. prize. Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, 8. W. That turkey weighed 20 pounds and 12 or Money Back,” days' sale. Your pick of at an even THREE FIFTY 4204 Burdette, won it, R. T. Raynold got 2nd Cor, 15th and Douglas. This gayly flying year,