Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 28, 1895, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY l;g:r:_ ROBEWATER, Bditor. MORNING. PUDLISHED — EVERY TERMS OF Dally ee (Without Sunday). Dally Htee and Sun One Bix Months Thee un Sty Weel SUBSCRIPTION. One Year e Year o | OFFICES Tee Puilding. Singer BIk., Biuffs, 12 Pearl 7 Ch Omalha, Th Bouth O Council Hcago Office v York, It Washing! Cor sts. ' of Commeree. me 13, 10 fnd 15, Tribune BIdg. 1407 ' Street, N. WV, CORRESPONDINC i ANl communications relating to newa and_edi- tordal matter should be addressed: ‘Ta,the Editor, BUSINESS LETTERS. s lotters and remitiances should be to The fiee Publishing company, Drafts, checks and_postofl pavable to the order of the company. A BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. N and 2ith All 1 addressel ATEMF Tzschuck & company, being duly tual number of full of the 1 Morning, Eveni printed during the month of a8 follows OF CIRCULATION, cretary of The 1 and complet nd Bunday mber, 180, Pub- that oo Total Loss dedt coples . tions for unsold and returned otal sold Daily avera P fhed in my pr 1504 . Notary Publie. n to hefore m day of D Sw Don't be surprised if we s an other invitation for hond proposals from the s ¢ of the treasury be- fore the w 11 have ended, ve We will very soon be encountering estimates of the amount of money lost by the street railway compinies and their employes on accouut of the great Brooklyn strike. 3oth Senators Gorman and T were careful to be conveniently absent from the senate when the question of ap- proving President Cleveland's attitude toward ! il eame to a vote, It 15 to be noted t of Tra ition is not displaying any solicitude to preserve its power by instituting an appeal from the de cision in the teansfer switeh law. 1t the State Board spor There is room for some good-sized hunks of reform in the state printing work, Tadded reports and the publi- ecation of unnecessary matter are swelling the bills for printing beyond all renson. The expenses of maintaining the mu nicipal administration of Omaha have inc ed five fold in the last ten years. Who will venture to assert that the work performed has increased in the same ratio? There Is some danger that the peo- ple of Brooklyn will become o uceus tomed to walking during the pendency of the great street railway strike that it will long time to get them to resume their patronage of the street cars. ake g Senator Hill advises e their factional quarrels. Mr. Hill felt some of the results of the democratic policy when he was snowed under as candidate for governor in New York. His advice should have come a little sooner. It Is to Senator Pettigrew that Pres- fdent Cleveland owes his rescue from the threatened defeat of the resolution approving the course of his admin tration in Hawail. Senator Pettigrew ought now to be able to go up to the white house and not only ask for what he wants, but also get it The people of South Dakota are find- Ing that xome of thelr county treas- urers have followed the example of thelr defaulting state treasurer in using public funds for unsafe invest- ments, and that they are the ones to suffer in every instance. While re- vising the laws for the safeguard of the public moneys South Dakota will do well to give attention to the office of county treasurer as well as that of state treasurer. democerats to Twenty-five years ago 10 cents a mile was considered a very exorbitant eharge on the railroads. Now 3 conts a mile 1s considered excessive, but the mileage rate to sheriffs, bailils and county ofiicers Is still 10 cents a mile, even where the officers are traveling on railrond passes. Why should any officer he permitted to charge and col- leet any more mileage than the regular passenger rate? Such petty pilfering does more to lower the moral standard among public officials than downright embezzlement. Chairman Wilson insists that instead of bankruptey staving the government in the face we are moving steadil and persistently toward a surplus, The United States will have no difficulty in staving off a bankruptey, but it will not be the fault of the present demo- cratle cougress, As to moving toward a surplus through constant deficits, that is certainly a novel plan. If Mr. Wilson believes it to be so excellent a finaneial policy he ought not to be at all backward about putting it into operation in connection with his own private financie Rev. Luther P. Ludden golten to sign himself manager” of the Nebraska State Relief commission. When the commission was fivst reorganized it was given out that the officers were the customary ones of president, vice president, s tary and treasurer, with Mr. Ludden holding the position of secretary. It has been apparent for some time that the head, body and limbs of the com- misslon were all combined in Mr. Lud- den, but it is only within the last two or three days that he has assumed a title commensurate with his manifold activitles. Tt is to be presumed that hencetorth the other officers will be bumentioned and unheard. has now a8 “general ! fous orders 0 | A | every s | foreclose 2| of the § | this plan. PUSHING THE FUNDING SCHEME. The senate committee on Paclfic rail- ronds, presided over by Calvin 8. Brice, who is also chairman of one of the re- | organization committees of the bond- holders of the Union Pacific, Is so anx to announce in advance its ad- liesion to the Reflly funding bill that it flings precedent to the winds in order 15| to make a report to the senate before even a bill on the subject has reached its hands. tion at this time is, of course, the same as that which has been behind several | recent moves of the railroad in and out of congress, namel the passage of the funding bill adjoarnment. this one idea that is controlling wetion of the promoters funding scheme. The receivers been cutting down the cha in order to make the condition of the rond appear to be as bad as possible, imultancously with this suits have n brought in the federal court to the first mortgage bonds in the interest of their owners and to the entire exclusion of the government claims, It is well known that the road not worth and would not sell for more than the amount of the first mort- gage bonds, but by threatening the government with the extinction of its debt without repaying a single dollar 70,000,000 due it is hoped that be enjoled into snatehing at the Reilly bill as the only acceptable alternative. The suits brought to fore- close mortg: bonds on the different braneh lines are part and parvcel with By further threatening to split up the road and thus rob the main line of the branches that were really paid for out of the earnings belonging to the government, still another lever is brought into play. 1f it can be proved to the satisfaction of congress that the line over which the government lien extends s valueless Dy itself this wonld, it is supposed, be a great argu- ment for continuing it under its exi ing management. With these threats on side the report of the Brice committee is thrown out as a bait on the other. It in effect s to the house that it must pass the Reilly bill as agreed to by the Wall street magnates or no other bill will ot favorable consideration in the sen- ate. It extends an invitation to the house to send over a particular bill, promising to help it along. It is possi- Dble that the house may bite at this bait, 1use under the house rules the men on the inside are able to shut off debate and bring the proposition to a vote. But then the question must arise whether Mr. Brice and his ass tes can ca out their part of the in in the senate. The people, who in the long run will have to pay every cent of the Union Pacific debt, are universally op- posed to any measure that will con- tinue the road on its present basis of overeapitalization. They will back up their true representatives at Washing- ton in everything they may do to block this gigantic scheme to legalize the fraudulent bonds and watered stock on which the Union Pacific asks per- mission to fix rate schedules for the next fifty years that will enable it to meet interest, set apart a sinking fund for the principal, and pay dividends. A CURRENCY COMMISSION. Among the numerous financial propo- sitions which have been introduced in congress, one of them contemplates the creation of a commission to consider and investigate all the questions relat- ing to the currency of the United States, so far as the same may be nec- essary, w0 the establishment of a ju- dicious system of currency upon a per- manent basis. It is provided that the commission shall consist of twelve per- sons, and it is to report its conclusions to congress not later than the second Monday in December of the present year, that within a week after the opening of the regular session of the Fifty-fourth congress. TFour members of the commission are to be appointed by the president, not more than two of whom shall be of the same political party, four by the president of the sen- ate and four by the speaker of the house, subject to the same restriction, the four named by the speaker to be representatives who have been elected to the Fifty-fourth congress. The bill makes it the duty of the commission to take Into consideration and to investi- gate thoroughly all the various ques- tions relating to the currency, for which purpose it is empowered to visit varions portions of the country., In reporting to congress it will submit such recommendations as it may deem 10 be to the best interests of the United States. One objection to a currency commis- sion has been that it would contain a majority of members of the party in power, but this measure, introduced by Senator Smith of New Jersey, obvia this objection by providing that not more than half of the twelve commis: sioners shall be democreats. It is rea- sonably certain that at least half of would be seleeted from the sound money elewent of the party, so that it is highly probable if such a commission should be created the majority of it would be men unfavorable to the free coinage of silver at the present legal ratio, and also to all fiat money schemes. The president, 1t is safe to assume, would select only such men, and 1t is not at all likely that the presi- dent of the s te and the speaker of the house would fail to give the sound money elements in the leading partics a falr representation on the commis- sion. g In view of the fact that there seems to be no possible chance of any cur- rency legislation by the present con- gress, the proposal of a commission, if it can be constituted of the right sort of men, to thoroughly investigate the subject and report its conclusions to the next congress, is certainly worthy of consideration. The advices from London indicate a strong feeling of distrust in financial circles there re- garding the monetary situation in the United States, and the fecling in the British metropolis reflects that in every portion of Eurepe where our securitics are held. There Is a conviction abroad other lobby to forc It have dis- service, I is CONEIess one that not ouly is the governwent credit | it | The purpose of its publica- | | they a of the ng men and closing repair shops | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: menaced, but that there s danger of the currency system of the country be- ing weakened and corrupted. The ten- dency to make concessions to the free men gives warrant for this feel- ing. It is very probable that the crea- tion of a currency commission com- posed principally of men of well known sound money views would have the ct of allaying the feeling of dis- trust abroad, and such a result would have material advantages. The trouble is, however, that the sil- ver men in congress will probably not permit such a measure as that pro- posed to pass. They seem determined to obstruct every proposition which does not make the concessions which re and they are strong enough to defeat any measure not satisfactory to them. In order to pass a bill ereat- ing a currency commission it would doubtless be necessary to guarantee the silver men o larg sentation on it THE BURLINGTON JOURN. The Burlington Journal, which for some months past has been contesting the bogus claim of the Omal ake Mill to *“largest circulation in Ne- braska,” offered a premium of $5 for the Dbest iswer to the conundrum: “Why has the State Journal the larg- est circulation in Nebraska?' One of the competitors for the prize made the following answer: “Because it aly tells the truth!™ D everybody would naturally have expected the genius who wrote this terse composi- tion would carry off the prize at sight, but he did not get it. Moral: Don't tell a lie when you know it is a lie As o matter of fact, The Omaha By ing Bee alone circulates twice as many papers in Nebras the B. & M. organ, that is, providing Omaha is in Nebraska. And The Morning Bee has a larger circulation in Towa than the Journal has in Nebras] admitting that Council Bluffs in in Iowa. 0w, s WRESTLIN WITH A PROBLEM. The city council, Board of Education and county commissioners are fronted with a problem. The cit county taxes have become almost un- bearable and property owners cannot stand an increase in the face of busi- ness depression and ruinous decline in real estate values and rentals. While the community is willing and anxious to inaugurate public improvements that will give employment to labor and stim- ulate a revival of prosperity, the uni- versal cry is for retrenchment and greater economy in all departments. The problem is how to maintain effici- ency and do the essential work with the limited revenues at the disposal of the ¢ity, county and school board. The most pressing need of the city just now is an increase of the fire force. There is a a demand for an increase of the polic force. Can these demands be satisfied within the limit of the levy for fire and police? We believe they can, providing the vor, council and police comm will muster courage enough to reorgan- ize the police and fire forces on the line of imperative necessity. They should organize these forces on the basis of service and merit. This can only be done by making the charter more elastic in regard to the pay of policcmen and firemen. The charter places all police- men on the same pay, whether they one month or ten years. There con- and serve should be a minimum and a maximum of pay. There are a thousand men in the city ready and anxious to begin work on the fire force at $40 a month for the first six months, with an in- ase of §5 a month up to the maximum of §70 per month, With such a sliding scale the force could be materially increased without exceeding the levy. The same principle should govern the Board of Education in regard to teachers. The board should furthermore retrench by lopping off fads and high-priced favorites that can be dispensed with without injury to the schools, The county board has already made a ditable exhibit of retrenchment, but there is room for mas al saving in re- 1justing salaries to the scale that now prevails in banks and in mercantile fiouses. This applies with greater force to the city hall, where clerks who could not earn $60 a month anywhere Zot- ting $1,800 a year. The Bee has always favored liberal salaries to public officers, but there is 1o excuse for squandering mone cially at a time when every doll large as a cart wheel and hundreds of taxpayers cannot earn enough to pay living expenses L espe- DODGERS, It is not generally supposed that the senatorial elections in the different states have any direct influence upon pending legislation. Such an influence, however, is exerted and we are afforded an instance of it in the recent career of the pooling bill in congress. One of the best informed newspaper correspond- ents at Washington explains the de A appemrance of the report of the senate committee to which it was re- ferred by saying that the committee was purposely withholding it from the senate until the various contests for re-election should be out of the wa number of senators whose assistance is highly desirable were anxious to avoid putting themselves record on any railroad legislation so long as they were posing as candidates for the favor of their legislatures, So soon as these senators who object or pretend to ob- jeet to legislative concessions the railroads had set themselves ri be- fore their constituents there no longer reason for further delay. We are thus able to see in the senate the same effects of biennial that we see in a more marked degree in the house every two years. Senator who are ambitious to remain in the senate resort to the petty politics of dodging issues before election and defy fng public sentiment after election, Here, too, we find the associates in the senate of those who ar king election willing and ready to play into their hands by staving off delicate legis lation until the crisis is past. It will not do to say with any degree of assur auce that If these railrond bills had come to a vote eavlier the vesults of the senatorial contests iu different SEN. to it was elections states would bave been very different. But | taxa MONDAY, their delay urthh after those contests have been cljséd may, and doubtless will, have approciable results on the vote which thy will receive when they do come up. ‘1t 1§ probably impossible to prevent sugh political maneuvers in the senate, but. they will certainly be checked If the'senntors know that their actions are underdtood and watched. The whole question of city debt limit rests upon the veturns made by the tax assessors. If we had an accurate valu- ation of property, as the revenue law requires, we wounld never have been under the necessity of exempting par- ticular kinds of bonds from the opera tion of the liniiting claus A low tax valuation and a low limit of indebted ness go hand in hand, and likewise the reverse. Give an lionest assessment of Jle property and the city debt limit will adjust itself auntomatically to ex isting demands, Perhaps Senator I is trying work up a boom for himself as Pr ident Cleveland's next secretary of the treasury. to irth tness, Galveston News. ot us rid ourselves of the impression that one's belt is the measure of his great- ness, ot Gre [R—— Flonds In Time of t. Paul Ploneer Press orporations have no soul, it, 18 sald, are frequently ge The Milw and Notthwestern Rallfoad compa ars Now paying their annual taxes t Dakota, although they are not due March,'in_order to replenish the tre cleaned out by Tayl - ng, Pash it Along. Kanzas City Investigations of municipal governments re becoming “the thing” all over the ountry, but, fads, they will onabiy imont of good. cannot be too much light thrown upon the dark places in the cities of this country, but until asury Good - clo In the Way. Democrat. The country is not clamoring tional board of arbitration, or for any leg- islation upon the subject. 'If the parties to labor controversies wish 'to settle them by rbitration there is nothing to prevy proceeding, It is only necessary to the arbitrators and agree to abide by decision, No ( for a na- —_———— Compnres with Philadelphia 3 Reports of Japanese victor! hand with their usual monotony, 12,000 Chinese have been routed Chong, with a loss of 900 killed, victors, it riously related, lost but one man. Perhaps the battle of Hai-Chong will £0 down in history as a companion piece to the battle of Orleans, where the loss of the Ameri s compared with the British, was § dricans. come to This time More 8. Iphia Record, Latter-day medicine been responsible for two prevalent public s the germ fright and the appendicitis apprehension. It onsoling to remember at times in this bac logical age that the vast majority of bacilli are not harmful; and it is with a new sense of st learns from (h endicitis is not such a dr 1. The fact is that s rarely, and that of people who eat grapes, ber: rult with seeds in them and are caught is insignificantly small. Nor, when caught, {8 it necessary—it now scems 0 Tesort o' a serious operation. Salvation ppears to be contiined in such a simple remedy as sweet ofl-one to two ounces, ad- ministered internally every three hours.' The doctors are evidently not going to succeed in killing us all off, after all. Sucllg Teficlent 1n the Art ot Kicking. Detrolt F Tt is the customa, we excel in most things all other civilized people; and in the moments when we are perfectly frank with ourselves we are not apt to limit the Boast cven by the qualifica- tion implied in using the phrase most things. Yet thereis one art in which as a people’ we have not attained the high- est ideal excellence. Walving the question whether there are natlons or peoples which can claim pre-eminence in the art, it must be confessed that ns kickers Amé s fall lamentably and sometimi shamefully short of the possibilit Not v as individuals but as communities— and more notably perhaps as communities than as individuals—they neglect their op- portunities and subject ‘almost abjectly to impositions which call loudly and emphati- cally for that form of remonstrance and opposition which by common consent has come to be called a “kick. e PEOPLE AND THINGS, Ex-Governor Hogg is about to take to the pen. The lamentations of the cuckoos are ac- entuated by reason of their inability to catch on to the Honolulu real estate boom. Senator Baker of Kansas was born in Ohio. Nelghboring states are generously compensat- ing for the Brice deficit in Ohio’s representa- tion. A bill Is pending in the Montana legisla- ture prohibiting gambling on the ground floor. Montana reformers believe in going up higher. Sleeping car regulation introduced in _the Some of Mr. Pullmg miscarried. Perhaps ad cur appendicitis the percentagi in bills have been Missourl legislature. annuals evidently the mear approach of dissolution accounts for the failure of congress to place on administration the responsibility for the Brooklyn strike. Queen Lil should rather be encouraged in he olts. They prevent her visiting us and giving her impressions of America and Americans on short acquaintance, W. F. Wilcox, father of the leader of the Hawailan revolt, resides at Newport, R. I. At last accounts Maine had not determined to visit the sins of the son on the father. Five million barrels of beer were consumed in New York City last year, Two and one- third barrels for cach person, young and old, gives a faint idea of the Saharac thirst raging in Gotham. Green goods men introduced several hogus bills in the Indiana legislature and the men bers are said to have exchanged genuine stufft for them. These sharpers missed their calling. They ought to foin the lobby. “Your municipal depravity is greater even than that of New York' said Dr. Park- hurst in Chicago. And he was roundly ap- plauded. Any claim of superlority over Gotham tickles Chicago pride, China arrogantly refected Japan's orig- inal overtures regarding Corea, and ridi- culed the assumption of the little fellow, Mexico might extract a few valuable les- sons from China's experience, without firing a gun Brooklyn offered prizes some time ago for a battery system which would dispense with overhead wires. ‘Governor Morton responded with & few batteries, but they are not likely to secure the prize. Still, their claims are sufficient to insure réspectful consideration at a distance. Mr. Reed’s prominence as a possible can didate for the presidency has stimulated his correspondence 10 a point where it has be- come a burden.: He recelves hundreds of letters every day, most of them assuring bim of success, and it takes tho greater part of his time to attend to_them, “It is hardly worth whil discussion of the question whether Mr. Thomas C. Platt is a fit person to put in control of the republican party in this city and state,” says, the New York Tribune. Then it proceeds (o discuss the question in two-thirds of a column, wide measure. Marion Crawford's father started in as a wood carver, and by a curious freak of fate he designed the handsome mantels in the house of his future father-in-law, Mr. Ward, on Bond street, New York Later in life, when he was a sculptor in Rome, he met Miss Louis Ward, wooed her, and married her. The novellst was born abroad A verdant whose eyeteeth had been cut sailed into Jersey City, with a grim detel mination and a black jack, to meet green goods men. He cornered them in a room, applied the black jack, and made away with $1,600 In genuine bills. The police nabbed ! , took away the mouney, and an en- lightened court taxed him $40 for carrying concealed weapons. It is a rare foggy day when & Jersey cop gets lelt on a green to pursue the life goods deal. JANUARY 28, 1895 BARRETT SCOTT AND HIS SLAYERS. Beatrice Democrat: It s hoped for the good name of the state, that the guilty par- ties may be brought to speedy justice. Columbus Telegram: Now let the cow- ardly assassins of this man be hunted down and made to pay the penalty of their terrible crime. Burt County Herald: Every law abiding citizen must join in the hope that the guilty parties will be ferreted out and brought to Justice. Dakota City Bagle: It is to be hoped that justice will be meted out to every person who was In any manner connected with the disgraceful affair, Weeping Water Republican: The highway murder {s one of the worst outrages that has ever been perpetrated in this state and the guilty parties should be summarily pun- ished Central has paid with his gained funds? Minden Gazette: criminal himself, but that offers no excuse for his cold blooded murder. It those who were guilty of it will also meot the punishment they deserve. Red Cloud Golden Belt worst that be said the men who murdered him are simply murderers incapable of ever determining what is right or what is just. Shelton Clipper: While Barrett Scott's defalcation cannot be condoned, his asa nation was a thousand times worse, and it is hoped his murderers may be brought promptly to justice without the expensive delay usual in such cases, Craig Times: . Barrett Scott's should be punished, Mob law in some cases, but not in money is the cause of the crime, as in this one. There is no doubt that he should have been punished, but death was too much of a punishment Cedar Rapids Commercial: This tragedy is a blot on the fair name of Nebraska that lawlessness is not altogether to blame for. It has become altogether to common a prac- tice to punish the petty thieves and let the greater ra escape, and it is only fair to say that our courls of justice are not altogether blameless for this deplorable af- fair. Seward City Nonparell: the penalty for his wrong life, but what has Holt except an increased expenditure Barrett Scott doing county of e was an inexcusable Admitting _the can of Barrett Scott murderers 18 justifiable case whers Reporter: It fs greatly hoped that the men guilty of the murder will be properly punished for the crime. No matter low strong the provocation, the killing of Scott by a self-constituted band of avengers was murder, and the fair name of Holt county will be stained with disgrace un- less the murderers are punished according to their deserts. Platte Scott had to be Center Signal: Tt s committed a crime, true that he should have been punished according to law, but mob law was not ] stifiable, and it is our sincere desire that man who had anything to do with this helrious. Grims, elther" dirsotly or: tndirbotl may be tried and punished according to the laws of our country. orfolk Journal: Lynching one so brutal in its nature as the lynching of Barrett Scott, is a crime against civili- zation, as well as one against the law, and should be punished accordingly. —The people of Tolt county should see to it that no false sentimentalism is allowed to interfere with the administration of justice, and the perpetrators of this crime should be ferreted out and punished as they de- serve. North Bend Argus: Many people became incensed at the many methods adopted to prevent Scott from receiving just punishment for his misdeeds, but none can stand up and champion the manner of revenge taken by those who committed the lynching. We believe that the courts are entitled to a severe censure for the manner in which this case has been handled. Had Scott been guilty of stealing $50 he would have been convicted at once. Kearney Hub: There can be no higher or more imperative duty devolving upon the law-abiding citizens of Holt county than the conviction and punishment of the lynch- ers of Barrett Scott. The crime is one that for brutality stands almost without par- allel among civilized people. The previous offenses of Barrett Scott have nothing to do with the case, and do not justify a crime so foul and diabolical. The murderers should get the full benefit of the law. Auburn Granger: As the case now stands people of Holt county are out the $70,000, her fair name has been disgraced because of the fact that justice slept while intrigue ran riot and because one of her citizens has perished at the hands of an irate mob. The bondsmen for Scott’s appearance in court will of course be released, and it Is not probable that the county will ever recover 1 cent from his official bondsmen. Who is benefited by the whole proceedings? No one, unless it be, as some believe, that there were others in the deal who will divy the spoils. Tekamah Burtonian: There is no doubt much more sympathy expressed for the fate of Barrett Scott than is really felt. This looting of public treasuries Is becom- ing a trifie monotonous. The defauiting treasurer of Holt county, the aristocratic thief that stole a fortune, died an ignoble death at the hands of a mob. Bvery ef- fort to wipe out the disgrace of mob vio- lence s being done, and no doubt the gullty will be brought to -justice. If Ne- braska has been disgraced by some of the most high handed of robberies, she will not add to the category of her humiliation mob law. Lyons Sun: The law and order loving people of Nebraska note with satisfaction the prompt measures taken by Holt county to bring Barrett Scott's murderers to jus- tice. For the good of the state and so- clety every man connected with that af- fair in any way should suffer the extreme penalty of the law. Barrett Scott’s crime was a_ great one. He not only nearly wrecked the county of Holt, but the subse- quent wrecking of the Holt county bank swept away the savings of hundreds of farmers in that vicinity. He should, and undoubtedly would, have been punished, but his crime did not merit death. Stanton Picket: There Is no argument that can be produced in justification of the murder of Barrett Scott. If the outrage was com- mitted by Scott’s political enemies, composed of destitute farmers who had been robbed of their, hard earnings and what their families werein need of in unreasonable taxation, only to see it stolen from the county by Scott, and then to witness the lax arm of the law in dealing with him, makes it casy to under- stand how they may have thus been goaded to reckless desperation, and then to have him appear among them in their destitute cond tion riding In a fine carriage and accon panied by his hired coachman was simply placing the match to the bomb which his own acts had prepared. But even they were not justified in taking the law into their own hands end committing a crime far more henous that his had been. Madison Reporter: Outside of all consider- ions of religion, of conscience and duty, it true end profitable as en axiom of life, physically, mentally, morally and spiritually, that what man sows he shall reap, and the fate of Barreit Scott is an awful example. They were wrong, murderously wrong, who murdered hm. Scolt was wrong. It was all wrong, but so long as human nature fs what it is one wrong will follow another. There's a sermon in the idea that one wrong paves the way to another, and includes the innocent as well as the guilty, Revolutions and mobs and strikes and lynchings in all ages were born of a cause. Some one starts a fire, and presently it destroys a city, in- cluding the one that started it; some one drops a seed and in a thousand years or less it I8 a hemlock forest, covering half a conti- nent, Barrett Scott wove the fope that hanged himself. and the end is not yet. Chadron Recorder wing Barrett Scott's case from an impartial standpoint it appears that his friends are very much to blame for the sad ending of his life. Public sympathy, as usual in such cases, has to a very great extent turned in his favor, but from evidence true that and it is and especially it | gathered promiscuously about Scott possessed very little of Holt county money. state of affairs will never be kuown, but it is pretty generally believed that he was pre- vailed upon to loan money to certain firms in O'Nelll that were in close quarters, with simply a promise to return the loan in plenty of time. Whether this is a plea made In Scott's behalf or not is a mystery to the public. However, as that may be, he has paid the penalty of his crime and ten times over. Even though he had been one of the greatest outlaws of the unfon, it wmust have required an unimaginable brute to have taken The true him under the circumstances he was taken It is to be hoped that his lynchers will be brought to justice. 1s hoped | YOICR OF THE STATE PR, Superior ing that Journal: There 1s one has come of the great of last year. It has forever oft the rainmaking fraud. The who heretofore had been duped by then all thoroughly convinced that these were only prophets of Baal Columbus Journal: Regulate ? Well, in the name of conscien not? Is there any corporation t is more exacting in its charge for servi and does anybody know of a single reason why they should not be subjected a schedule of reasonable rates, the as a railroad company rfolk Journal: It State Auditor Moore will termination to issue pay more than the statutory Iative employes, and let fought out in the courts elected to make laws have a right ride and late the law, it is public should know that fact McCook Tribune: The prosent should enact a law that will encouragement and the widest ble for the advancement of irrigation admit this much. Proper legislation s perative. It is quite necessary that a lo out be kept for jobbery. It is cssential irrigation’s future that we start upon Just and equitable basis, Geneva Journal: Auditor Moore w in annuoncing that he would not draw rants. for more employes for the legisla than the number specified in the statute be allowed in each house. The auditor not a court, and he can simply judge law as he finds it on the statutes. If members of the legislature wei private business and had to m expenses on their own account, the num! of employes prescribed in the statutes wo be found to be very nearly sufficient. Weeping Water Republican: Omaha secured the state fair for the nest five yes The new grounds will be located at Side station, and will be very convenient passengers on the Misgouri Pacific who w to attend. Omaha made a ma ificent to secure the location of the exhibition that city, and now that it is over, Linc is making a hard kick over the matter, she did not make any noticeable effort forehand as she doubtless thought the cc dro € 18 to be hoped t stick to his warrants to number of 1 the matter 1t a body to ov time sgislat give missioners would favor that point anyway. Grand Island Independent: The licans in the legislature are doing their power to hurt the republican and to get the reputation of road and extravagance party. The lican mafority of the senate has on keoping the 100 employ though the law says the sixty-six. It is a ridiculous three employes for each member of nate are required. Twenty-three senat voted for the illegal extravagance and_we are sorry to Caldwell was among them. Lincoln News: The cause of the frequ secret meetings of the county treasurers sociation for the past several months is plained. A bill has been introduced for repeal of the law relating to county dey itories, although there is apparently no g reason’ why such should be the ease. law is imperfect in some of its details rop all Top insis s of the sens shall be o assertion t quisites of the treasurers and increase the revenues of the taxpa: new law has also changed the political status | t was | candids backer, of county treasurership fights a fight between the banks which would get it and thus reward his while now it is largely a matter of individ merit. DBlair Pilot: once is Sate Auditor Bugene Mo has again demonstrated his integrity fearlessness in the people’s interest way that all good citizens will appla The constitution provides that the sen shall not have to exceed si all told—which is twice senators. about elghty on addigg to the the number the number pay roll, daily. and W In fact, was tacltly understood and announced that the number would exceed 100 by the mid. of the session. Very quietly, Auditor Moore notified the senate that had exceeded its authority, and intima that the warrants for pay of employes excess of sixty-six would mot be approved by him. The reckless extravagance of 1 islators needs an anchor to hold it within the bounds of law and decency, and people will rejoice if they have found in the person of Auditor Eugene Moore. Lincoln News: are glibly echoing the refrain that best thing for the government to do the matter of the Union deal is for the government to allow debt to be refunded, or, in other words, tend it, and make the annual thereon reasonably small, derstand the situation, or are desirous mortgaging Nebraska and the western sta through which the main line runs for halt century. The owners of the road not expect to have to pay this mortga It they sccure this extension they exp the people along the line of the Union Pa- that. ‘When Judge Brewer declared in his recent decision that the Newberry maximum rate bill called for lower rates than the road cific, the patrons of the road, to do could afford, putation the he used as a basis of co inflated capitalization of ness. If the government debt is extended, will be the first mortgage bonds, and these would together represent an amount which equip the road twice. could happen for be the extinguishment of the governme lien, but it would hardly be honest to ta that selfish position, The best thing th choked | farme fakirs telephone | good of mei wa o doing their | the salary Wi offer part eing the ra scheme, say that onr Senator The . but its chief effect has been to reduce the per- necessarily and in ix employes Regardless of this, the senate had but firmly, The astute editors who Pacific mortgage the payments either do not un- the Union Pacific, plus its big bonded indebted- Nebraska would doubtless bless- uth rs | are tie nce, hat exi an to | about doubt stituents consclence 1t he permits his public acts to ™Te o oR Lincoln News: Some of Is to bo dirccted but that this matters {t is doubt m Wh pedito Rule a Is a rellc honestly on good t by caucus man and no can would RAL, the republican | leaders who have not been very successful in leading the republican members of the house with a string are now agitating the holding of a caucus through which legisia« ile there 18 no materially ful it it would | be & very good thing for the people of barbarism, sorve his con- erms with his be regulated by the steering committee of a on of o hat de s- | have displayed the be | col or the | ver th ure All | im ok for a as is ght | 18 r ure to is the | the | ele 1t ber | & uld has est | oo for | ish ‘ Y in oln but be- om- tet re m col ub- in ty. ail- ub- ted ate, nly hat the ors ) tr of ha il | ac th | ent as- ex- the [ 1 r 00d ual ore sa a ud. ate of th was it dle it ted in Th o eg- the it the in °X* | He of tos a a0 e, cct | Al Do m- 50 hat ent | 7€ ke | Persons figure up the vote say that | The | vest fought for trol and out right Phila | ahead Finly Boston r when_wo used to make mud pies together? Chicago Alderman next inte Indian: ing cashie Washington Star: tossel, But in_blockin’ Jest stays there, It s noticeable tha who are favorably of legislation prporatic ueus. those ucus plan lars, ing this plan of procedure, W | to keep the tag securely anchored und Nothing could @ caucus plan be mor of enacting was the method adopted by t proper | the last two setslons and d scope possi- | 1t8elf to the public. In legislating for a great in_carrying out seldom done by platform any of t that one commends itself most heartily | legistates for the taxpayer The republi anchored in contro can afford to allow to uso the caucus who have taken xeat urely it sment tle over 1,000 votes last ticklish position in are an_ pa the fall | given the populists legislative control also. which t the majority agitating the those who on tag on their and are evidently desirous of adopt- which will tend ¢ the viclous than logislation. It he populists in s not commend like stato No- | braska politics should not be considered save This but that of the not so raska pledges. ho partios, instead ty 18 1 in N the corporation club upon it. trouble to a change of a would have the party nds {8 well known to those western rep- who have so and redeemed from a portion of the state t to the party for four y y to whip them into ucus method is talked of. niative rs have been voting with their colleagues are Il be seduced into wo gods The News trusts that there will be no at- mpt to fasten the caucus presentative. Every man o itted to vote as he think nstituents and the people dictation, in matters s nothing whatever to do uest test a legislator can u the session in determinir s served well ed by his own conscience tion, can be used to bin e support of Iniquitous m pulistic, not republican. I | more ot it. RELISHED BY Tnquirer: is an do _you elphia us How en the inging. know ? angeript: She—Do but mud What w Re r Chairman oint_of order. he Chairman-State your Joblots—The ald cat is punching me in feres with my speech. Dies are want n fon. word: Mis| Alderma er Chair polis Journal: “I an o the Bustup b man_ who walked station, “and T want to give mysc “Ve you an you?" well,” said the police s “that people in V) is too expensive. 100,”" rep! at g They're right, ain’t one MELAN Detroit I here s only There is only a misty gloc er the lifeless leaves on mold shovel and es used to bl A TIP-TOP MA Atlanta Constitutio of a show. e mever lets the gas burn got breath to blow; plan; D Man! n't nothin’ on the tariff, an’ sich, on’t know that folk: he's a-growin’ ri When 1t 2o He takes a toddy hot he flings o fan, legislation he" Tip, Top Man! never takin' note; kinder quliet, him how to vote; their pl r in bloc Tip, Top, Man! legislation he' oWHING, Ifl/y‘. Q' IlEI.IABl! uotmms o Worth or Your Mon y Back, We're Cutting Prices— That's an assertion so easily made that every once in a while somebody makes such a remark fearful hipping where and faithfully The caucus destroys ind Binly inventor nds of his (rousers man 1s growin’ courageously m populist con- that has been cars, and it is line that this On matters in | which the farmers are interested these mem- the populists, that they strange collar on any ught to be per- s bost for his encrally with- the party with it. The se at_the closo 1z whether he is that ap- nd sense of luality of d members to casures and 18 .t us hear no That man out of luck. Binly—\Why, ' leg! you remember no long ow s the e n Joblot: man! Ir point of order. jerman in the the ribs an’ it abscond- 1 the the police £ up. nt,“have m the ank," into' oné in this city who can identify “I g0 sald Mrs. Corn- Washington think ed her husband. in ten that a snowdrift, deep and cold, om, the cherished Where the ros>s used to bloom. There's only a man with his nose aglow; With pick and He chases the slabs of ice and snow Where the r broom, oom, He ain’'t so much on speakin'—on makin® full while he's Ain't nothing’ of a orator—bullt on another But’in blockin' leglslation he's a the silver bill poor while when it's s o Don't know what bills they're readin’~he’s till they tell An’ then he makes o riffle and follows out s —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 overcoat with an ulster eollar—our $30 coat is cut to $156 ulster cut from $28 to $15; Same way all through the suits and overcoats. added a lot more pants to our cut price counter—at —$2—$2.50—$3.00— $3.75. and fermerly sold as high as $7. Pants downright good in the lot -How's that—also a genuine Irish frieze coat— We've worth All good trouseers— our own good make—Oh, we're culling prices and cutting prices hard. BROWNING, KING & CO., Reliable Clothicrs, e W L . 15th and Douglas, e