Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1895, Page 12

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. ROSEWATE! p— PURLISHED —— EVERY MORNING RMS OF Dally Bee (Without & Datiy, Bee and Sun 8ix Months v Three Months |UR: N and 2th Sts. Couneil 1uf ; Chicago OM her New York, 14 and_15 Washington, 110 Stroet, N, W CORRESPONDENCE “ommerce. Tribune Nnag. news and_edi- e To the Edltor, the nees should be company, orders 10 s company. COMPANY. mmunicat ATl busine ndaressed Omaha, Dr be made p TH STATEMENT OF CIRCC George huck, sccretary of The Mshing comnp being duly sworn, the actual ny of full and c of the Daily ng, Evening and Sunday month of November, 1801, LATION, Hee Pub- that ples Tee s follows o, 16 1 18 1 Total 3 Loss deductions ‘coples . Total wold Dally averag stary Public. Now *h Chicago ministers of the local for a scramblin to wear the rkhurst. wi nong. brogans The woman suff| chance in Kansas, on electioneering, even if they opportunity to vote. Ttesubmission is assured in South Da kota. This means another limited en gagement at remunerative wages for the numerous horde of professional pro- hibition agitator: another to keep have no Strange as it may there considerable number of people in United States who are not in the I alarmed by the appearance of the latest counterfeit ten dollar bill rem, Exemption from taxation Is the same &s a tax on one class of persons or prop- erty for the support of another class. No one should be forced to bear an- other’s share of the burdens of gov- ernment, It is to be foted that both the two mewly installed senators, Senator Bur- cnator Pritehard, climbed fnto the band wagon with their first votes, and voted with the majority on gua canal Dill. s daughter is about to marry a member of the French Chamber of Deputies, It is to be as- sumed that the prospective son-in-law made good use of his vote in the re- cent session of the electoral college. Dr. Parkhurst committed the egre- grious blunder of saying right out be- fore a Chicago audience that Chicago 18 worse than New York. We fear greatly that Dr. Parkhurst will have to walt a long time for his next invitation to make a public address in Chicago. The municipal election in Wheeling, W. Va, has gone overwhelmingly re- publican, an indication that the vepub- lican tidal wave of last November has not yet spent its force. This may be a tip on other municipal elections that are to occur in various cities in the spring. Notwithstanding all this hubbub about oleomargarine, the fact is indis- putable that the revenue of the federal government from the internal revenue tax on that product decreased during the last six months of 1894 by $161,548 from what it was In the same period of 1803, It is said that energetic politiclans are already circulating papers for en- dorsement for some of the new state offices which the legislature is asked to ereate. This is counting a great deal on chickens that are yet to be hatched. The legislature will do well to go slow with the bills to saddle new salaries on the taxpayers. Some of our surplus American states- men might better their condition by re- moving to France. France has a new ministry every few months, and eabinet places go abegzing for occupants. More ministries mean more ministers. The Ameriean statesman out of a job 1s only waiting for the chance to serve the French public in a ministerial ca- pacity. Paris boasts that her exposition of 1000 will surpass the World's falr of 1803 almost as the latter passed the centennial exhibition 1876, Parls' ambition Is certainly laudable, and will recelve every en- couragement at the hands of the people of the United States, but she will have A task before her. And then, too, It Wi take a good deal to force an Ameri- can to admit that our exposition has been improved upon. sur- of If the decision just handed down in Missourl, that the law of that state re- quiring all life insurances to be paid on death without regard to the cause of death holds good also for accident policles, is afirmed and the law re- mainsg unrepealed, aceldent insurance companies will have to go ont of busi ness. Under the present ruling people bave only to take out aceldent policies and then see to it that they die in Mis- sourl and they will have obtained life Insurance at a rate with which no regu- Jar company would dare to compete. Let the practice be carried on in any magnitude and it will break every com- pany that ventures to do that kind of business. Their ouly protection would be to raise the prices of accident in- surance to something commensurate with life insurance rates, but.that would destroy their usefuluess, The casiest reiedy is to have the law amended, STANDING IN THEIR OWN LIGAT. Governor Rickards of Montana, in his recent message to the legislature, de- clares that until silver is rehabilitated and free coinage at a ratio of 16 to 1 is re-established the mining industry of Montana ean not hope to realize its pos- sibilities. Governor Rickards 1s a | stanch republican and his declaration can therefore not be ascribed to popu- list monomania. For that very reason his utterance shows to what extent the minds of men are warped by self-in terest and environment. Montana is pre-eminently a silver state, and it would not be safe for a public man to express himself on the silver question in opposition to the prevailing delu- that free coinage at the ratlo of 16 and 1 is essential to the development of the silver mining tndustry to its fullest capacity. As a matter of fact the position of Governor Rickards and that of all other free coinage advocates retards the resumption of bimetallism on an honest basis, and consequently hinders the development of the mining industry to its full capacity. The silver oblem I8 pury 1 cconomic ques- 1sed on the same laws that gov- 1l othier known products. Sil n be mined profitably today at cents an ounce, and it Is being mined at 60 cents an ounce in such mines as are now in operation. At the ratio of 16 to 1 the price of silver would be $1.20 an ounce. Computing the cost, which menns the value of an ounce silver, at 70 cents the demand for §1 per ounce represents 59 cents of cle profit to the mine owner. Does stand to r n that silver mining can only be developed to its full capacity by a profit of 85 per cent on cost of production? What other product of the soil, mine or factory would dare to ask any such concession? What would be the condition of our manufacturing industries if the owners of iron, copper and lead mines should insist upon a honus of 85 per cent on the raw me with which they supply our American factori It is an economic truth that no man can gainsay that the value of any arti- cle or commodity is its cost of produc- tion. The price of the article is governed by the law of supply and de- . Ixcessive supply means low and heavy demand means higher price. I e therefore sometimes below and sometimes above real value or actual cost of production, This Is the true relation of silver to its market price. Remonetization at 16 to 1 is an tempt to give silver an artificial price ) cents above its real value, and the friends of silver ought to have sense enough to know that such a disparity between the two money metals would simply result in a complete withdrawal of gold from circulation, and that means ‘silver currency instead of bi- metallism. Under such conditions a silver dollar would only exchange for 50 cents worth of other commodities, as it does now in Mexico and South America, where free coinage at 16 to 1 prevails. When the advocates of free coinage get down to business principles and de- mand a ratio based on relative value, so that a silver dollar will represent 100 cents of the standard based on the cost of production, they will be in po- sition to ‘maintain their demands with some degree of consisiency. While public men in the silver states lack the moral courage to express their honest conviction on the silver question nine-tenths of the men engaged in min- ing, who know the difference between the cost of silver mining before the era of rallroads west of the Rockies and before the introduction of mining ma- chinery and superior chemical pro- cesses, would cheerfully consent to free colnage at the ratio of 25 and 1, and there is no doubt that all the silver mines that yield any product worth handling would be running in full blast it that ratio. But the politicians and visionaries will still keep on clamoring for free colnage at 16 to 1 and thereby re tard any concession to the silver in- terest. sion —_— BRITISH AGRICULTURISTS. While the American farmer unques- tionably has much reason for complaint, yet his condition—we refer to the aver- age—is a very fortunate one in com- parison with that of the British agri- culturist. The letter of Mr. Robert P. Porter, printed elsewhere in this issue, gives a most interesting state- ment of the agricultural situation in England, from which it will be seen that ming in that country has de- clined to an even worse condition than in our New England states, where hun- dreds of farms have been abandoned, and those which are still cultivated yield a poor return. The general im- poverishment of the English farmers and the apparent hopelessness of their condition make them really an object for the world's commiseration. Ilor years they have struggled on against tremendous odds, and all efforts to de- vise a practicable plan of relief have fail Their burden of taxation is even heavier than that borne by the farmers of this country. They are not more favored, it appears, in the matter of railroad charges, and perhaps the most serious thing of all is the exaction of the landlords. All things considered, the British farmer works under much greater disadvantages than does the American farmer, and he has no such encouraging outlook as the latter to give him hope and courage. In answer to Inquiries regarding the agricultural situation in Great Britain, Mr. Porter got these answers: The fall in prices, due to the policy regard- ing silver since 1873, and increased foreign competition, for which the so- called demonetization of silver by Euro- pean countries is also held to be in part responsible. This serves to illustrate the feeling among the agricultural classes of England as to the influence which has been exerted upon their in- terests by the policy regarding silver, and is interesting simply as indicating what may be expected of these classes when they again bave an opportunity to indicate their will at the ballot box. There appears to be no doubt that the great majority of the agricultural pro- ducers of England fully believe that the only means of relief for them is in bimetallism, and it the conservative party of Great Britain goes luto the next general election proposing to re- habilitate silver, as It now seems prob- able it will do, there is hardly a doubt that it will command the nearly unani- mous support of the agricultural pro- ducers, together with a great many manufacturers and wage workers, and that it wil be very likely to achieve success. It is by no means certain, however, that if Great Britain should in this way be committed to a policy mors sle to silver the agricultural producers of that country would derive any material benefit from it. They would not thereby be relieved from the exaction of the landlords, from the bur- den of taxation, nor from the disad- vantages of competition. It would seem that the only way to improve the condition of the British farmer Is to glve him some sort of protection, but this Is impracticable for the r on that the consumers of agricultural products who are not also producers are so largels in the majority that no protective propo sition could prevail. Nowhere is the question of agricultural depression com- manding more serious consideration than in G Britain, and nowhere there greater difficulties in the way of a solution of the problem. The world over the condition of agriculture is the most perplexing subject with which statesmen have to deal. It is commanding the most serious attention of the best intellects of Europe. Very likely it will finally be found that it is one of those things which can only be regulated through natu and immu- table laws, and therefore outside the reach of any legislation. GSCUE THE ASSUCIATED CHARITIES. Unless the liberal and public-spirited citizens of Omaha come to the immediate rescue the good work which the Asso ciated Charities has been performing for a number of years in this city will cease just when it is most needed. withstanding the general and app tive recognition which this institution has received at the hands of all classes of our people, the necessary financial support has failed at the eritical mo- ment, and although the demands upon it are as pressing as ever, unpaid obligations to the amount of §1,000 and a stoppage of revenues present an al- most insurmountable obstacle to con- tinuing operations. The question is, Will the people of Omaha permit this worthy institution to founder without one effort to save it? Are they ready to deprive the unfor- tunate among us of this refuge in their need? We do not believe they are. If the gentlemen who have been active in the management of the Associated Charities will only call a public meet- ing or make an appeal in some other way for the purpose of devising ways and means of meeting the present emergency, they will deserve every suc- cess. The work performed by this in- stitution is of a character not done by any other of our charitable agents, and, if not done by it, will probably not be done at all. Omaha cannot well do without the Associatea Charities. It should not do without it so long as there is any possible way to retain it. LODGE ON CONSULAR REFORSL. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts is a very earnest advocate of reform in the consular service. He some time since introduced a bill in the senate intended to put that service on a proper foot- ing, so that it may efficiently perform its true function of promoting the trade and commerce of the United States of watching over our business interes in foreign countries. At the anuual banquet of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation the past week Senator Lodge delivered an ad- dress on this subject, in which he set forth strongly the complete subjection of the consular service to the spoils sys- tem. This has been especially marked under the present administration. In the desirable positions, those which are of any lmportance eitner in duties or in salary, there have been 209 changes since March 4, 1893, only thirty-two consuls having been retained and most of these were appointed during Mr. Cleveland's first administration and r mained in office during Harrison's. Perhaps no preceding administration more fully applied the principle of po- litical patronage to the consular service than the present one has done, and yet, strange as it may seem, Mr. Cleveland is on record as in favor of applying clvil service reform rules to this serv- ice. There was one good result of the free application of the spoils system to the consular service, and that was in forei- bly calling public attention to the sub- Ject and strengthening the demand for reform. A number of prominent com- mercial bodies have within the past year expressed themselves as favoring a change in regard to this service which will put it on a strictly business basis and thus increase its usefulness and efficiency. As was said by Senator Lodge, the monstrous absurdity of turn- ing out of office men who have no politi- cal duties, but who are charged with important business functions, every time an administration changes, has been made painfully appacent. It hag furnished the explanation of the consu- lar incompetency of which our mer- chants so often complain, and of the ignorance and unfitness which so fre- quently make an American traveler blush for the representative of his country and his flag in a foreign land. The bill of Senator Lodge proposes a radical change, one that will take the consular service out of polities and put it on such a basis as that of European countries. Being distinctively a busi- ness service, the plan of Mr, Lodge is to make It so in fact. It proposes to se- cure ‘the appointment of men of good character and of ascertained fitness, so far as examination can show fitness, It gives a proper permanency of tenure dependent upon good behavior and com- petency, and would secure the continu- ance of experienced men In the service. It offers an honorable career by hold- ing out the hope of certain promotion to wmen who have earned it. Instead of having the consular service changed every four years and filled with inex- perlenced men ignorant, as a rule, of the language, habits and business meth. ods of the countrles to which they are aceredited, the proposed reorganization would give the country the steady service of train, nd competent men. Senator Lod, ry properly urges that this is a matter which the business men of the country ought to earncstly interest themsel?d¥ in, and bring thelr influence to bea¥ wpon congress. As it is not a party question, he believes that congress will nt the necessary re- form the |||nv|h‘-‘|fl‘f{ is convinced that the business men of the United States really want it ane are detbrmined to have it. But if #he busincss men do not exert themselves to secnre the reform congress will remain indifferent, and nothing will be done. Every commer- cial organization in the country should express itself on this subject. Under this title Dr. Antonin Dvorak, director of the National to; of Music in enrnest plea in Harper's Magazine for February for a more liberal trentment of music by America and the develop- ment of an American music to which such treatment would lead. Dr. Dvorak insists that we lave in this country all the prerequisites n ¢ to growth in this direction. The argument that there is no popular demand for cood in Ameriea is indignantly denied. Eve concert in New York, Boston, Philadel- phia, Chicago or Washington and most other cities, no doubt, disprove such a statement. American concert halls are as well filled as those of Europe, and, as a rule, the listeners, judging b; their attentive conduet and subsequent expressions of pleasure, not a whit less appreciative. How it would be with opera Dr. Dvorak says he can not judge because American opera audiences, as the opera is at present conducted, are in no sense representative of the people we; but he is confident that if ans had a chance to hear grand opera sung in their own language they would enjoy it as well and appreciate it as highly the opera-goers of Vienna, Paris or Munich enjoy theirs. The American volee morcover is, so far as this very competent critic is able to judge, a good one. He refers p ticularly to the depth and strength of the voices of the common people. It is a genel acknowledged fact t American singers now on the operatic stage compare favorably with their as sociates of different nationality, but thelr musical education and training ha invariably been perfected fhroad by foreign teachers. As to American com- posers, they are practically non-existent. The reason it would be difficult to state, but it is probably in some way con- nected with a lack of a distinctive American foundation for our music. Dr. Dvorak repeats his suggestion made some time ago that the inspira- tion for truly natural music might be derived from the negro melodies or In- dian chants. It matters not whether these songs are original or adopted. They exist as wusi¢ germs and are to be found in this eountry only and if properly cultivated' can be developed into something really national. In Europe art is patronized and en- sed by the national governments, and music, as the most widely cultivated of the arts, receives special attention. Not only the schools, the opera houses, but also the musicians themselves are lielped along by subsidies from the pub- lic funds. In Amerlea this is impossible under our form of government. Music must seek its patrons among people of wealth who understand its importance and are ready to establish endowments for its support. Only a beginning has as yet been made. But as music is the youngest of the arts, it must be the latest in a new country like ours, It remains for our national patriotism and our natural enthusiasm to give it the place to which it is entitled among the other youthful arts in America. Conser A USELESS LAW. The United States supreme court has in effect decided that the anti-trust law enacted in 1890 is of no use. The law has, indeed, been practically a dead let- ter since it was placed on the statute books, but it will doubtless be a sur- prise to the able lawyers who after much carveful deliberation framed this act, in the belief that it would, if en- forced, prevent monopolistic combina- tions, to find on the authority of the highest judicial tribunal, affirming de- cisions of the lower courts, that the act is inadequate to the aceomplishment of the purpose for which it was framed. The law remains valid and constitu- tional, but according to the decision of the supreme court it is not applicable to any of the existing trusts or com- binations, for if the Sugar trust is not a combination repugnant to the law unquestionably no other trust or com- bination is. If the sugar refining mo- nopoly does not fall under the deserip- tion of combinations declared by the anti-trust law of 1800 to be illegal then it would be ex- tremely difficult to apply the act«to any other of the numerous trusts. In short, the effect of this decision is to relieve every form of monopolistic combination from all danger of interference under this law. The case Involved the question whether the American Sugar Refining company, in obtaining coutrol of cer- tain refineries in Philadelphia by which it was enabled to secure a virtual monopoly of the sugar refining business of the country, did not the the anti-trust law, The federal circuit court held that no contract, combina- tion or couspirficy’ to restrain or mo- nopolize trade of commerce was shown by the facts, and dismissed the Dbill. The cireuit court ‘of appeals affirmed this decree, and the decision of the su- preme court closed the case with another affirmation. The decision was by the chief justice, and he said that the fundamental question was whether, conceding that the existence of mo- uopoly was established by the evidence that monopoly can be directly pressed under the act of congr the mode attempted. It was held that while the combination was made for the purpose of galn this was not to be accomplished through the control of interstate commerce, and in et that there had been no interference with interstate or forelgn comme: Hence it was a matter which congress has not the authority to deal with. There was a dissenting opinion by Justice Harlan, who sald that as the supreme sup- 88 In by violate’ court had held heretofore that interstate commerce meant more than mere traffic between the states and included the buying and selling of commodities, and the object of the combination of sugar companies being ouly the control of the manufacture of sugar, but also its sale, hie thought the ease was one which came within the scope of interstate commerce and was amenable to congressional action. There is one feature of the court's decision which is worthy of more than passing attention, and that is the statement that the supreme court had uniformly held that under the con stitution the relief of the citizens of each state from the burden of monopoly and the evils resulting from the 1 straint of trade was left with the states to deal with when confined to the limits of any of the states. This suggests t the only sure means of public protection against trust extortion must be provided by the The Sugar trust has thus won a de. clsive victory so far the anti-tru; law of 1890 is concerned, and of course all the combinations will rejoice in the result. It remains to be seen, however, whether the sugar-refining monopoly will be allowed to continue on undis. turbed or an effort be made to reach it under the section of the tariff law which declares snch a combination con trary to public poliey, illegal and void. It would not be surprising if the effect of the supreme court on were to stimulate the ¢ Mization of trusts. deci; UNIFORM COUPLING LAWS, At the annual meeting of the Divorce Reform L at Boston list week, o report of progress w made, from which it appears that nine teen of our states have in the last two years passed one or more acts cach in amendment of their v > or divoree laws, or both, and a considerable num- ber have increased their protection against licentious practices. In only one or two instances, if any, ean they be regarded as in the inte of lax- ity. If we were to go back a half dozen years the list of states and enact- ments would be greatly increased, and would include some thorough recon- structions of marriage and divorce law. Probably the stream of divor well- ing in volume in spite of these restrie- tions, though less rapidly than it other- wise would. Twenty-three states, so far as can be learned, have now ited commissions on uniform legislation on marriage, divorce, and seve other subjects. Among those recently added to the list are Towa, South Carolina and Virginia. It is expected that this year enough other states will join in the movement to insure so decided a ma- jority of the states that the commis- ions will go on with their work more confidently. It ought not to take many more of agitation to secure prac- tical uniformity of divorce laws in this country. ational asts The deadly cigarette has lapsed Into & very precarious condition in this state since the women of Omaha decided to wage war upon this hideous monster. Great on lends. Globe-Democrat. The Peking Gazette, a_journal that was 200 years old when the Normans conquered Bogland, has the further distinction of hay- ing had’ 1,900 of its editors beheaded. Its contemporarles acknowledge the scoop, and have no idea of trying to break the récord. The Hitch in Arbitration. Detroit Free Press. Arbitration Is one of the easiest things in the world when both parties are willing, but when either of them refuses to submit their differences to that mode of settlement it ia made Impossible. This appears to be all there s to a question that has of late re- celved so much attention. —————— Fllling ure's Reservoirs. Kansay City Star. It fs an {1l wind that blows no good, and the blizzards which are piling up the ‘snow in the California mountains speak of a fruitful future. The more snow the more water in the spring, and t mcre water the greater crops. The mountains are nature's reservoirs for the great plains to the east and west., ——— Condemned by the Record, Chicago Tribune, The democratic policy is a failure. Out of its own mq demned before the American people. Dur- ing the less than two y it has been in operation it has done a vast amount of mischief in_addition to the fearful one which Is expressed in dollars by the bank clearings. They show a reduction of 27 per cent, but do not tell the whole story. The comfort of the average citizen of the United States has been reduced much more than that by the miserable democratic attempt to improve his condition, and the end fs not yet, though there now is room to hope for betier things, seeing that a republican majority is assured for the next congress. e Harmless Fire Alarms. Springfield (Mass.) Republican, If southerners in congress are anxious to brag about their devotion to the lost cause they can do so. The cause about which they talk is lost, dead and buried beyond all "possibllity of resurrection, and as the Years ko on fs seen more and more, even y the coming generation of southerners, to have been the saddest of mistakes. 1f in the face of these unyielding facts Talbert of South Carolina_or “anybody else cares to tell the country through the pages of the sional Itecord that he is proud of votion to secession, nobody need waste a moment'n anxlety worrying over the evil consequences of his outbreak. It only meas- ures the man, just as Boutelle of Maine measures himself along a different line. self- th it stands col roven PEOPLE AND THINGS, Perhaps the spirit that moves Mexico con- tains more pulque than patriotism, There are just twelve men in ihe United States senate worth a millon or more each. No patriot has yet petitioned for the re- moval of legislative sinecures from the shores of America. The country is reasonably safe. The new senator from Kansas suits democrats as well as republicans. Now that Mr. Breckinridge voted for Chi- cago's postofiice bill, the windy city is con- vinced he I3 not as black &s he was painted. Mr. Money of Mississippi has evolved a plan to ease the financial stringency, It is not necessary to discuss his plau. Money is all right. Unmarried business women in eastern cities aro crowding into life insurance companies. They regard it a better risk than that of matrimony, malnly because there are not men enough to go around. A lonesome $5 bill was discovered tucked away in an obscure corner of the South Da- kota treasury. If Mr. Taylor will send his address the balance will be forwarded. The finder 1s willing to let the taill go with the hide. There was a short, sharp and decisive par- liamentary contest in the Chicago city coun- cil at the last meeting, and Cushing, Reed, Roberts and other authorities emerged in a mutilated condition. One member raised a point of order, and landed neatly on an op- ponent’s mug. Another member made a mo- tion, but fell short and was slugged vi- ciously. The member from the ’steenth ward, who held the floor in a recumbent position, called for the cyes and nose, and while aitempting to masticate a slice of the latter, had a dark-blue corona constructed around his peepers. A bath house statesman, in the midst of an eloguent peroration, was cracked in the jaw, and suddenly took his eat as the chairman's gavel struck time. S0 rapid were the motions and the bumps that the presiding officers fied and put out the lights. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Cedar Rapids Gazette: Rav. Mahood of Sioux City is making himself prominent. A pumkin on a pole would also be prominent He has elevated himself in publio. He should have pondered over the truth, *He that exalteth himself shall be cast down." That will be the result in his case. Kansas City Star: The Rev. Edward Davis of Oakland, Cal, in order to make a sermon Lmore realistic, appeared in the pulpit re- cently arrayed as Richard 11T, and portrayed the fate of that monarch. The reports are that he made a sensation—which was prob- ably what he desired—but no mention I8 made of deep impressions on the audience. Savannah News: eculiar spe opening of the ¢ Bishop Duncan to those delegates who chew tobacco not to expectorate on the floor or the handsome new carpet, which has recently been put down. He told them that if they must chew tobacco to go outside, and they would find & nice, new curbstone and plenty of fresh sand to expectorate upon, or they could bring their cuspidors, and, in case of an emergency, they could use their bats. The Rev. J. P. Depars put in a good word for tho preachers by saying that on Tuesday he was in a rallway passenger coach with twonty of them, and not one in the party chewed tob 0. Chicago Herald: Rev. J. L. Brandt of To- ledo, is a *‘reformer,” and in a recent sermon read what purported to be a letter from a policeman, charging the chiet of police of that city with drunkenness and with having ordered members of the for to make false reports in regard to saloons. The chief of police indignantly denied the truth of the charges, and demanded the name of the person who wrote the calumniating letter. As it was becoming decidedly sultry for Rey. Mr. Brandt, he promised to withdraw all the charges he had made next Sunday, from his pulpit. Discretion, truthfulness —and commen sense are qualities which but few of the preacher reformers appear to possess to any great extent The Springfleld Republican Eptscopal pastoral lotter just fssued as the most important theological utterance of the last twelve months, t is a warning” it says, “to a large number of the most pro- gressive, scholarly, thoughtful and pro- foundly reli is men in that church that they must face backward, or be under the ban of heresy, and a notice to the young men that they must be content with but little, if any, ‘more liberty of thought than they would find in the church of Rome. This has not been the history of the copal church in the past; on the contrar: it bas been one of the staunchest defenders of freedom within its own body, and this fact makes this reactionary utierance of the bishops all the more remarkable.” regards the HERE AND THERE. Mexico's standing army numbers 000 men, with 175,000 reserve fores Ten years ago Om population was 61 1d the assessed valuation of taxable property was $9, For the first time in many years the treas- urer of Douglas county was not compelled to register warrants during 1894 until the st day of December, paying all warrants as soon as’ presented. Bills cannot be introduced In the Nebraska legislature after the fortieth session day. The constitution limits the session to sixty days, and members can receive pay for that time only, at the rate of $5 per day. The Income tax law became effective on the 1st day of January, 1 and will re- main in force until January 1, 1900, it not repealed. It levies a tax of 2 per centum upon the gains of every person in the United States whose income exceed $4,000. Such tax is due and payable on July 1 of each year. Any person who may make a false return to the collector is liable to heavy penalty, which amounts to confiscation of his entire income for the year. If the tax is not paid when due, 1 per cent a month is added as a penalty for such neglect. Ono swindle doth tread upon another's heels, so fast they follow. Bond Promoter McDonald_had scarcely reached the inside of a jail in Illinols when a group of curbstone brokers organized the American syndicate, with a capital of §5,000,000. The purpose of the syndicate was that of Investing the mcney of others in options; and within seven months bad worked up a colony of suckers in the central states. It prospered for a time, and yielded fat dividends. The remnants of it is now in the hands of a receiver, and the promoters are dodging the postal authorities. Obio was its richest fleld for unloading its stock, and a few in Towa and Nebraska took the bait. A partial list published in the Chicago Tribune shows the following share- holders in lowa and Nebraska: Iowa —D. Weeks, Delmonico hotel, Maquoketa; F. M. Speck, 314 K avenue, Cedar Raplds; P. J. Van Laplandam, 1316 Orleans street, Keokuk; C. M. Leroy, Burlington; A. C. Green, Middle- town; W. J. Davenport, Council Bluffs; M. Welker, 607 Main street, Council Bluffs; J. A. Roff, box 502, Council Bluffs; E. S. Wil- son, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad, Commerce; T. Henry, 1305 Capital avenue, Des Moines; R. S. Raram, Keokuk; W. K. Beechley (investment broker), Cedar Rapids. Nebraska—Charles M. Glair, box 470, Lincoln; Thomas Birchell North Platte; Arthur M. Edwards, 8/* North Sherman _avenue, Omaha; H. M. Brazie, box 153, Wymore; P. L. Winkle, 1013 Farnam street, Omaba; F. L. Howell, Brownell hall, Omaba. el i Prospoctive Kelief. Indianapolis Jour It is expected that the revenues of the government will be increased soon by the dutles on raw sugar, the stock of which bought in for a rise being, It is thought, nearly exhausted. By April it Is belleved that the sugar and extra whisky tax will wipe out the monthly deficlt, but sugar will be 40 per cent higher. about 45,- ! boy BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. Thinkers have their hands on the wheels of the world. Tact wins when great gifts without it would fall flat The less we have, the more angels wone der when we give. When an honest man sta: polls the devil votes. When good seed is sown, ground the better the crop. A selfish man Is about the ugliest upon which augels have to look. It our faults were written on our faces how quick we would all hang our heads. The lazler a man is the greater thingy he is going to do when tomorrow comes. There is no bigger fool than the man who thinks he can get rich by robbing some one else. A stereotyped pray! than none, but it from heaven, It is needful to be able to suffer long and be kind than it is to preach with the tongue of an angel Had the serpent in Eden been as ignorant of human nature as some preachers, there would have been no fall. It is easler to make steam without fire than it 1s to keep from backsliding without golng to prayer meeting. SALVE FOR LONG SERMONS, Atlanta Constitution: A Missis: an play on three accordeons at once. And ¥ me of our northern exchan, are Writing vigorous protests against lynch law in the south. away from the the better the thing may possibly be better never brings down fire more Ippl man Milwaukee Journal: 1t 1t were not for ranks reformers would make Chicago Tribune: “I don't t to 100k at polities as a *observed the good man, v not? I'm a ward heeler,” said the nd put my whole sole into it.” nscript: The preacher was in- psodies over the glorles of the think you matter” of dulging in rh New Jerusalem. Little Johnny listened to a while, He then whispered “Mamima, is he an advasice “I told him he might call T always had the gas turned clock.”” “What did he say to that? “He said he would be sure not to come before that time, Adams Smithers—Brown, you are i what do vou think i Ut this woild? Brown— . 1 think it's Freeman: el read m catest thing Well, to be ac the clreumference, Brooklyn Bagle: maw, why 18 that bottie like o )t rye in it, I s got pa’sinip shrank behind the refrigerator. 1 hes cross the way start- sunter, and though the women let_their husbands come to took all the money to the oy timidly Indianapolis Jourr fair proved a failu It did. The church bargain re willing t our affair they other peopl Boston Courler: have carric Humorist—Y leave it with Chicago Tribune: Uncle Allen picked himself up from the slippe walk and rubbed the back of his head. “When one sees stars on a cloudy night,” he soliloquized, “it may be considered am something striking." your church ed W “Humorous Editor:—You this_joke a little too far. Sad sir; that is why 1 wish to THE VERY LATEST. Detrolt Free Press. “What's the latest thing out?” Asked a gossipy she think," was the answer, ‘My husband must be.' e THE COMING PARADISE. Eugene Fleld in Chicago Res I saw her 'mid the long green s Of silky corn in summer time; I saw her midst red hollyhock: And watched the sunlit pantorime, For lovelier brown was in her hair And_silkier brown fell o'er her eyes, And, fairer than her garden fair, I Saw a coming paradise. hed ‘with her the heavy musk Afloat upon the eventide, behind her in the dusk med I walked close by her sid¢ stole my breath; there T kissed the lips of Death— Yet lived, with her, in Paradise! At morn T found her where lush grass Lived, specked with lilies, white and large} Al, solemn clouds that pause and pass Afar from sea-green marge to margel Yet when I look again to see That one swect face of all most wise, Across a dark infiinity Glows evermore that paradise! At night the glow-worm held his lamp \gafnst hor for i pure and white, And down the greensward, cool and dampy She wandered minstrel of the night. I hear her often when I tread The soft turf where I know she les— They count her name among the dead— Then flames my surer paradise! If in_the realms of amethyst And plains where buds are blossoming Are clouds of gold or purple mist— 'l find her, in some eve of spring, Her lilied limhs asleep amid The glory where some angel flies And stops, where softly she has hid My chilihood’s dreams of paradises 80, mear her grave are hollyhocks, Tted like her lips; and there along The brooklet grow the tasseled stalks, And_thither s the robin's song. That far-off perfume haunts the air; Wan moonbeams overfill my eyes— 1 dream, and fondle with her hair, C.Huy, RELIABLE cl.on:n‘;“’q Your Money's Worth or Your Money Back, And call it all my paradise. We're Cutting Prices— That's an assertion so easily made that every once in a while somebody makes such a remark—they may mean it—We don’t know—but we do know— that—we are cutting prices—and we are cutting prices as we never cut prices before. A good long black beaver ovércoat with an ulster collar—our $30 coat is cut to $15—How’s that—also a genuine Irish frieze ulster cut from $28 to $1 Same way all through the suits and overcoats. downright good coat— We've added a lot more pants to our cut price counter-—at —$2—$2.50 —$3.00— $3.75. Pants in the lot worth and formerly sold as high as $7. All good trousesrs— our own good make—Oh, eutting prices hard. we're cutting prices and BROWNING, KING & CO., Reliable lothiers, 8. W Cor, 15th and Douglas.