Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 23, 1895, Page 4

OMAHA DAILY B. ROSEWATER, SRY MORNING. avor. PUBLISHED EV PR RM& OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Tieo (Without Sunday), One Year.. Datly, Tien and One Year Bix Months . . Thires Mot Bunday e, On Baturday Tiee, On Weekis ‘e, One Yenr.. OF| Omaha, The Ree Bullding. Bouth Omaha, Singer Dlk., Corner N and 24th Sts, Council Blufts, 12 Pearl ::nvr!.' Commaro Chicago Office, 817 Chamber of Co eree. ow Sork Tome 15, 11 and 16, Trivune M Washington, 1407 ¥ Street, N. W, CORRESPONDENC All communieations_relating to torial n should be addressed 8 L R } All business Tetters and remittances should be addrensed o The fee Dublishing company, g"\’lh Drafis, checks :‘\hv‘ ;" Ilw Mee lhv“l;ll to Tiade payabIE (o Lhe order of the Compan Kl Bt PUBLISHING COMPANT. 233383 Iy ews and edl- 'o the Editor. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Georgu 1, Tzschuck, secretary of The Tee Pub. Hshing company. being duly sworn, says that the acul numier of full and complote copies of the Daily Morning, Fvening and Sunday Dee rinted” during the month of January, 1895, was follows: 1 18 10,464 19,513 19,48 ks v Less unw Tot Daily av *Sunday. nd . TZSCHUC cribed In my pros GRORG Sworn fo before me and s ence this 20 day /f Febriary, 1595 N. P. FEIL, Noiary Public. N b ok Bebiossi Muoist N T'he interest earned on deposits of pub. Tic money by right Delongs to the public and should be eredited to the publie. No, we don't think George Washing- ton would, if restored to life, like to ex- change places with Grover Cleveland. Perhaps if President Cleveland should ask congress to do exactly what he does not want he might be more ful in having his wishe: rd out, sueee The bills for the removal of the state capitol and of the state fair have excel- lent prospects of Keeping one another everlasting company. We baven't heard yet whether Con- gressman Mercer secured the pen with which President Cleveland signed the South Owaha postoftice building bill. Mexico can; ic rep- its We only learn how popular 18 as o smwmer resort when a oceurs in the position of diplon resentative of the United States at capital. Several prominent politicians in Ne- braska doubtless fecl easier now that the great railway corporations have been relieved of the necessity of fur- nishing the income tax collector with complete list of all their salarvied em- ployes. The advocates of the depository law repeal bill profess to be very much con cerned over the loss of public money sustained since the law went into effect. What really disturbs them is the loss of revenue of the various treasurers from farming out the public funds. Omaha will soon colored fire company in its department. Now lot the colored firemen be on their mettle to prove that they arve as good five fighters as their white associates. A healthful rivalry, among the different companics may conduce to an increased efficiency of the service. The State Relief commission has at Inst asked for bids from particular busi- ness houses for supplying certain staple grocerics nnd provisions. Hitherto its purchases have apparently been made in private and the public has been studi ously kept in the dark as to the names of the sellers and the prices pald. Now that it is proposed to buy goods at com- petitive sale the public will demand that the contracts be made publie, so tl it may know every detail of the transac- tions. The appointment and confirmation of Judge E. M. Ross to the new cireuit Judgeship for the Ninth district will ce tainly avouse considerable dissatisfac- tion among laboring men on the Pacific slope, who have felt themsclves ag- grieved by his treatment of the strikers arrested during the recent railrond strik ey look upon Judge Ross as specially hostile to all labor interests and a movement has even been inaugu ated by Blanton Duncan to request his impeachment at the hands of congress. His promotion will not be quite. so wel- come to them as would his removal. Nearly every mail brings some com- plaint of delay, stupidity or apparent neglect upon the part of the State Relief commission. The Bee has made fgw of them public, though they come from trustworthy sources, It has stood al- most alone in its strictures of the con- duct of the commission and, while some good has resulted thevefrom, there is yet much room for improvement. But it I8 not the business of a newspaper to force the adoption of strict business methods in the affaivs of the cominis slon. Its duty is done when it reflects the publie dissatisfaction if not disgust at the way public oficials conduct the business of their office The complaint coming from Furnas county that the published report of sup- plies sent there by the State Relief com- mission and the supplies actually re- celved do not tally de: % something more than mere casual notice. 1If this is true, either the report of supplies sent out is incorrect and exaggerated or the contributions ar iyvlaid on their route before reaching their destination. In elther case some remedy should be im- wediately applied. The funds voted by the legislature and the pifts of charita ble citizens ave Intended for the relief of those who are actual vietims of the drouth. Diverting them from this pur pose is monstrous injustice to both the drouth sufferers and the donors. No ef- fort should be too great to wmake sure TH. Tt is sald that many of the southern democrats in congrese are manifesting a good deal of alarm over the growing feeling of discontent in that seetion be cause of the dishonest eleetion methods practiced thei he disgraceful condi tion of affairs in Alabama is familiar to the country. The evidence seems to be couclusive that the flagrant frauds were committed fn that state at the last clection by the demoe ie or ganization, which but for this would undoubtedly have been beaten, Having the power in its hands it of course re- fuses to allow an investigation to be made, which in itself amounts to a con- fession of guilt. But if this sort of thing reached its worst phase in Al bama it is almost as bad in some of the other states of the south. It exists in Georgin, Virginia, South Carvolina, Ten- . Arkansas, Mississippl and iana. In all these states the domin party continues to practice, as it 1 done for years, the most unscrupulous methods for retaining power. Having the entire control of the election machin- ery in their hands the democrats of the gouth manipulate it without regard to any considerations of right and jus tice. At the last state election in Tennes- see it hes been shown that the deino- oera committed high-handed fraud and these having failed to eleet their candidate for governor on the face of the returns they went behind these and him anylhow. setion fraud teiumphed in November in Virginia un- der the masquernde of Australian ballot reform, and the dishonest methods prac- tieed in Arkansas and Mississippi are familine (o everybody who gives any at- fention to election matters, 1t is none too soon that popular atten- tion in the south is being aroused to these conditions and that the hourbons of that section are awakening to the faet that there is a demand for reform whi will he compelled to heed, Tt was Inrgely through the pressure of this growing public sentiment that the Geor legislature was moved to take up subject of eleetion reform the recent session and pass new registration act, which it Delieved will go far to prevent fraud in the future. It also considered a ballot b, which will be acted upon at the next session. A powerful im- pulse ling undoubtedly been given to this movement in favor of election re- form by the 1apid growth of the pep iist vote in Georgia, which in two years in- creased from 68,000 to 96,000, A num- ber of the southern states have what they exll ballot reform laws, but it notovious that the 's do not prevent frand and the practice of dishonest methods in elections, nor will the; long as their administration eally in the hands of one party. absolute control of the registration by officials appointed by a political ring is onc of the abuses in nearly every southern state. It is v gratifying to find that throughout the south there is a recoil against the partisan methods and dishonest practices which for twenty years or longer have been a reproach to that section, and it is very earnestly to be hoped that this movement will grow in force and strength until it gives to every southern state an election system under which every ast his ballot and counted, most Ouis: it nessc seated is reform can fre it honestly citizen have EAT SCOTT 0N Omaha has n been treated to an exhibition of arrant demagogy at the hands of the man who counts himsell next to the Almighty. This time the great and good judge who constantly carries dynamite cartridges in his mouth discharged himself with a terrific explo- sion in the Young Men’s Christian asso- ciation building to an audience of real good citizens whom he sought to hyp- notize into the idea that he is the enemy of all crime and criminals, and espe- cially the aunointed scourge to drive gamblers and keepers of dives out of Omaha. The trouble with Cunningham is that he shoots fire balls from his mouth at the mblers and hits them with a feather duster when they come before him judicially. , Had the Great Scott taken his audience into his confidence he might have been able to explain why he has made the anti-gambling act a favce when it was within his power to make it effective The utes make the keeping of gambling houses a felony punishable by fine or imprisonment in the penitentiary, or both, at the disere tion of the court. During last year se eral gamblers were convicted in the court over which Cunningham R. Scott presided as criminal judge. Were any of these gamblers sent to the peniten- tlary or even to jail? Of coul not. They were fined $400. Now what is $400 to the man who runs a palatinl gambling house? Not much more than 40 cents to a poor laboring man who gets on o drunk. The gambler can ve- coup himself in an hour for his loss. The laboring man goes to jail, 0, Great Scott is a tervor to the gamblers! Very much like the belled cats that dow’t eatch mice who have been playing detective on the Omaha police force. All this rant and cant of the explosive Scott about the municipal officers who countenance gambling and other luw-breaking is o disgusting piece of 4mposture upon credulous, law-abid- ing citizenis, Cunningham has been on the eriminal beneh for fifteen months, He had the ma- chinery in his hands to suppress gam- bling and other ecrime He bhad the vight and the power to direct the county attorney to file complaints against keep- ers of gambling houses and owners of eriminal gesorts. Why didn't he do his duty Why did he stand up and en- dorse as a good law officer a sheriff who allowed his deputie: v prisoners to gambling houses while they were in his custody and found no fault with that sheriff for failing to suppress lawless vesorts instead of giving them age? Why aid the terror of vice and crime appoint the sheriff as recelver of rents from keepers of houses of ill-fame and haye those illegal exactions placed to the credit of Martin, the of the burnt distric Did not this make the sheriff, who is the executive law officer, 111 GEAND STAND. N boss that the resources of the state commis- slon are distributed awmong the proper parties, an accessory in the perpetration of tol- erated erime and vice? Why bas the great and good judge hung up the lottery cases that have been pending in his court for the last year? Is it hecause he is afraid of libelers, or is it because his leniency will silence the paper about his judicial usurpa tions and make the lottery organ puff | him every time he gets off one of his grand stand harangue MERCER'S PEACOCK FEATHER. When Congressman Mercer introduced the South Omaha postotfice building bill everybody thought it was a delusion and a snare, Such a thing as a federal pub lic building within three miles of an other federal building in the same state has never been proposed or thought of. The only exception is the city of Brook Iyn, with more than 600,000 population and located in a different county from the American metropolis. Mr. Me himself had no idea that the feat could e accomplished even if the bill passed both houses of During his first term President Cloveland had ve toed the Sioux City postoffice building Lill because the town was, in lis opin fon, not entitled to a federal building. With a heavy defieit in the trensury.,” the and approval of the South Omaha bill seemed practically out of the question. But Mercer's proverbial Tuck does not seem to desert him, and, con- trary to all expectations and predictions, the appropriation is now a fixed fac That puts a peacock feather into Mor- cer's hat. The yellow Jacket will doubt less follow in the due course of time. CONZTess, passage FIGHTING WINDMILL The Commercial club has cipitated into a ridiculous windmills by the Lineoln bre Omaha Fake-Iactory. manifest to everybody endowed with ordinary horse sern that the move to velocate the state fair permanently at Lincoln was nothing more nor less than a stuffed club with which the Douglas delegation was to be threatened into supporting extravagant appropriations for public institutions at the state cap- ital. Our enterprising contempor h has a natural bent in the dive tion of the sensational and imaginary. joined in with the move and pounded the tomtom and sounded the hewgag until it actually succeeded in attracting attention and making a mountain out of & mole hill. There is just about as much chance of the state fair'being permanently lo- cated at Lincoln by an act of the legis lature as there is of putting the capital on wheels and moving it to the junction of the B. & M. with the Grand Island & St. Joe railr been pre- fight upon weh of the been o ' A GOVERNMENT CABLE. As was expected, the house of repre- sentatives has decided against the scheme of a submarine cable between the United States and Hawaii to be con- structed by this government. The sen- ate proposed an appropriation of half a million dollars to promote *this enter- prise, to which the house by a quite de- cisive majority refused to agree. In this it undoubtedly represented the pre- dominating sentiment of the countr which it is entively safe to say isi not in favor of the government engaging in any project of this kind. Nobody questions that jt, would be a good thing to have telegraphic communication be- tween this country and the new repub- lic in the Pacific. There is consider- able trade between the United States and Hawaii, our citizens have valuable interests there, there are and will con- tinue to be more or less important politi- cal relations between this country and that, and probably occasions will arise when quick communication would ba desivable and valuable. All these con- siderations and more can be urged in behalf of the proposal to connect the countries together by cable. But they do not show that there is any such im- perative necessity for this connection s would justify the government in un- dertaking the construction of the cable. AS was entative Hooker of Ma such a proposition had ne been made before, and it may be added tbat it would rot be made now but for the demand for annexation. It is well understood to be primarily in the st of annexation that the scheme of o government cable was con- ceived. If a cable is laid between this country and Hawaii it ought to be done by pri- vate enterprise, and if it can be shown that it would probably prove a paying investment there will be no difliculty in enlisting private capital. It is esti- mated that the cost of laying a subma- rine cable between San Francisco and Honolulu would be approximately $2,- 000,000, but if it were to be undertaken by the government there can be little doubt that double the estimated amount would be expended before the cable was completed and ready for use. Pri- vate enterprise, on the other hand, would probably be able to construet it at less than the estimate of cost now made. A great effort has been made to create public sentiment in favor of a govern- ment eable by the statement that Great Britain was seeking concessions for the laying of a submarine cable from her North American possessions to Hawaii and that if she succeeded this country would be placed at a disadvantage, The warning has been uttered that the Hu- walian government could not long be trifled with in this matter, and that ir we did not do something speedily it would bargain with the British govern- ment. There is nothing alarming in all this. It is not at all probable that the government of Hawail will make any alliance, commercial or political, that would be detrimental to its rela- tions with this government, because its existence now depends, and for a v long time will depend, upon the fact that other nations recognize the fact of the United States standing in the rela tion of a guardian to the infaut republic, The atest security of the Hawaiian government is in the Mouroe doctrine, and It is not likely to do anything that would place the young republic by yond the application of that doctrine. As to the osed British cable, if it should be built there can be no doubt our government could make perfectly satisfactory arrangements to use it as it might,need. The matter was not finnlly disposed of by the vote of the house on Friday. 1t will go to a con ference between the two houses and AGALY, cor | fi some sort compromise is possible, bat it is e hoped the house will firmly adh o its position, Member the Nebraska delegation in congress deserve encouragement in their efforts ,r gecure a congressional &1 appropriatiol the expense of property,_owned by the federal go ernment m"fihrmm other cities, the M-.w..,ir'm special assessment cost of street improvements is made a charge against the real estate particu- larly benefited. Qwners of property along the same. streets have been com- pelled to pay #heli“shares of the expense of paving and there is no reason why they should he asked to contribute also to the share that belongs strictly to the sderal government. In the city. of Washington the national treasury de- | one-half the of the entir municipal government. Tt onght cer- tainly to pay the same as other property owners for special benefits, especially since it contributes nothing in the way of general The crying need of the people of this state just now is grain for stock and seed grain for spring planting. Without it there prosperity of the farmer, the merchant and, above all, the railronds, is solely dependent upon an adequate and prompt supply of grain. The-wnfortunate tillers of the soil must not be left to the merey of money sharks who will rob them of their crops in consideration of ing money for seed grain, It is the duty of thi tte to provide n means whereby gEain may be provided for actual land owners and farmers, The importance of this subject must impress itself upon the minds of all intelligent men. snator Pettigrew is going to bring up the auestion of a federal appropriation for the purchase of secd grain in aid of the drouth sufferers as an amendment to the sundry civil bill. It is possible that such an amendment will be held to be in order and that the senate can be brought to a vote upon the me proper. As Senator Pottigrew is a re publican there may be less opposition from republican senators to his amend- ment than there w to the one pro- nosed the other day by Senator Allen. The senate will have an opportunity to the anistake then made. It is greatly to be hoped that Senator Petti- grew's amendment will be entertained and aceeptedl, Ivane- sure s correct When it comes to an appropriation for new buildings for tho Lincoln insane hospital the Omaha delegation ought to forget their an- t'pathy to Lincoln dn the remembrance of the fact that over 20 per cent of the inmates of that hospital’ coma from Douglas county,— Lincoln News. 1 Douglas county is not a deadhead in the state band -wagon. She not only pays one-cightli ‘of all the state taxe but is also ¢harged up for the inmates in the asylum. For all that, her delega- tion is expocted-to-be fair-and liber: towsy ekl the SAs thine agement shall, be- ééonomfe and honest, In this vegard there should be no: sc tional feeling or local jealousy. VAR (61, “ill Do. Chicago Post, If it §s true as charged that barrel of whisky in the cellar diana state houge it is idle to legislature to adjourn e Business at the Old Stand, Chicago Tribune, In the matter of divorce facllities South Dakota Is now prepared to meet any com- petition. “Thankrul for past favors by strict attention to by continuance, etc. Sl Waiting for a Chance. Globe-Democrat, There is an immense in the business Interests of this country and the way to give this a chance to as sert itsell {3 to secure freedom from possibility of congressional interference for the next ‘eight or nine months. e The Country Nosds u Rest. Globe-Democrat, What the country needs now more than anything clse is a respite from currency perils, and this it cannot have while con- Bress'is in session. A wise congress, or congress which would reflect the ' ave age "business sense of the country, could do much in two or three months, or tven in one month, to remedy the existing finan- cial evils and usher in immediately a pe- riod of business prosperity, such as Ap- peared on the resumption’ of specie pay- ments In 1879, but the men who roach thls level will be'In a hopeless minority in t next senate. This Is why the country is content for a time to bear the ills it has They are light and transitory comparod with those which the next senate will en- deavor to inflict, e Ning Back tho Bluf, A St. Paul Ploneer Press, enator Wolcott's little blufr is too trans- parent to fool anybody, The whole gaine of those who brought the Jones bill bofors the senate is as easily seen through s Uit of boy's play. They had not the least desire that such a bill shouid pass; because they do not want the profit of free colnage 10 £0 to the treasury, but to the owners of silver mines. 1If there had been the laast pl‘(mret'l of its passage, every man of them woul have voted as s0lidly against it as ainst a bill to retire silver from clrcula. tion altogether, They simply set up a bit of a job, to fool the Deople with pretended virtue; then, having met with the solid cp- position of the honest money men, Wolcott brings in his free coinage resolution s o substitute, and . the attack which meant anything §s abandoned —_— Corporate Omch in the onate, Washingtbn Gor. Chicago Herald, Bvery special Hiterest in the United 5(“!.% is_rapidly. entre; hing itself in the senate. If thig tendency continues muel longer 1t “will be necessary ‘to cease distin. guishing the "mmémbers of that body by their party afflfatlons and give them clar, sification ‘accoming to the interests which they ‘represents Already these considers. tions are sllun’(l:r it N party In the near future 1451115 have (o do away with the ¢ 8idé of the chambe the repub- n side anddthe” popullst corner. ann. i descriptions of scenes on the floor use h phrases as the: “The m lently opposed by the Tran aleond” party s The leador I sectiont ‘advised 8 V. vote I the nekaiv s b followers to the silyer mindrditalk of holding o o (ufi,. The ('l.ivmlul An railroad section was much excited; The Sugar trust party has 'I)I;:)l:‘;;x:‘ ‘()h'.‘.)l‘ l),m'uN in the center of ¢ chamber;" “The ° o not satistied WY jts ll\’..-f".‘(l‘:m“ T being 0o far W the r ar; ramp's sena- tors ‘were not in their seats toduy. b busy at the house end of the capitol, Where the naval appropriation bill was . der consideration ;" "“The Bteel and ir bilL® This is not wholly a° fancy picture of the senate of the future; it is stromng) suggested by the senate of today ¥ of the never ntinental of the Stand- indemnify the city for paving around the pleces Under the an be no erop put 1, no matter how favorable the weather may be, The i smug 1R, avhile at (i TEANEN i there is a In- expect the it hopes siness (o merit a recuperative force ure was | on the floor, | OTHER LANDS THAS Tn his recent speech in London Lord Salis- bury lamented England's want of a constitu- tion such as ours to give a stability to her institations and prevent radical changes about which the people have not been con- sulted. Bngland's only way to ebtain the countey's opinion on a given proposal is to dissolve Parliament and go into a general election on that particular issue. A Parliament may go on altering the constitution long after it has ceased to bs in accord with public opinion. Just here, Lord Salisbury con- tends, the Lords are useful. They put a veto upon proposals they think a majority of the people disiike. They do not undertake to de- feat changes the people have clearly voted for. They would not dare to do that. The conservative contention, in fact, is that the House of Lords has never refused to approve a measure after public opinion, as expressed at the polls, has shown itself to be in its favor. Just at present Lord Sajjbury thicks his party would win if a general election | $hould be held. Hence his desire to induce Lord Rosebery to consult the people. 1f he were in the premier's shoes he would prob- ably, like him, hold on to office | possible, long as o When the hew czar of Russia ascended the throne the lopes of the revolutionary party were strong. A declaration of amnesty was made, which assured the liberation of 20,000 prisoners, and this was taken as a prophetic | token of the liberal tendency of the new ruler. It was even hinted that his relgn would ses the concession of something like a constitu- tion to the Russian people. But it is no new | thing for a new czar or emperor to show liberal tend s in the early stages of his reign, and Nicholas 11 does not seem as if he proposed th stick to them. His recent utter- | ances inldicate a complete change of attitude, |and a manifesto which has bean secretly printed and circulated in Russia by the revo- lutionary party shows that the spirit of dis- affection is as strong as cver. *‘You, your- self,” the document says, “have killed your | popularity and atienated all that part of so- clety which is peacefuly struggling forward; you were the first to begin the struggle; long it will proceed.” Russia has always b a puzzle. The great majority of her peop those who ought to be the chief support of a liberal government, do not seem to be able | to comprehend it. The ruler who freed mill- | fons of serfs was rewarded with assassination and the peasant class are so ignorant that they would not understand the character of a constitution, but would expect it to be seif- operating. It is a thorny path that the new czar has entered upon. The late czar held by common repute, the position of conserva- tor of peac: among the nations. Should his son become ambitious, and engage in war, the situation would operate as a lever to bring to light the revolutionary element among the people. It is not at all probable that protests will be made in any quarter outside of Belgium to | the proposals which will shortly be submitted to the chamber of deputies at Brussels to formally annex the Congo Frec State. Bel- glan sovereignty over that vast region in Central Africa was invited and contemplated by the Berlin conference of 1881-83, by which the “‘general act” for tha cr ion of the Congo Free State was formulated. It was the Belgium legislature which restricted the contemplated union between Belgium and the new state, and declared the sovereignty of King Leopold over his African dominion to be “exclusively personal.” The Belglum people until quite recently were indisposed to assume the cost and other burdens of a gov- ernment in the African wilderness. King Leo- rold, thus left to his own resources, did not stint in the supply of means out of his liberal private fortune to provide for the govern- ment of his colonfal empire. His administra- tion of the Congo state has cost him from first to last something like 25,000,000 francs, and he has promised to continue to make an annual appropriation of 2,000,000 francs out of his private purse toward the expense of governing the dependency. Of late years the administration of the Congo state, which in its beginning had been | quasi-international, has passed almost ex- clusively into Belgian hands, and the Belgian ‘peopl2. scem -to. have at last perceived the vitue of the possession of a large and growing colonfal market for their manufactures and products. King Leopold's far-sighted liberal- ity and colenial enthusiasm is now likely to receive their appropriate reward In a public | acknowledgement of his disinterested bene- ficence in behalf of his countrymen. e The relations between Berlin and St. Peters- burg are now of an unusually friendly char- acter, and social democracy is to be repressed Wwith a stronger hand than ever. As soon as the kaiser resolved to become reconciled with Bismarck, the resignation of Caprivi, as chancellor, was inevitable. His successor, Prince Hohenlohe, did not declare any definite policy until he had met and advised with Bis- marck; Friedrichsruhe became a place of pilgrimasge for Germans of every party and class who wished to do honor to the old exile, and now the emperor, helmet in hand, will follow their example and seek to make amends for tne humiliation which he heaped upon the man whom Germans generally look upon as the greatest living representative of their race. It is too early yet to forecast what effect this aceptance of the Bismarckian poliey will have upon the future of the coun- try, but it must stir the heart of the aged ex-chancellor to see, his regime established in the empire which he created. Until the Japanese shall have insisted upon terms of peace which might prove prejudicial to the rights of neutrals, the intervention of third parties in the matter which concerns only the two belligerant nations would be an impertinence, Japan has not yet had an op- vortunity to formulate her demands upon China, It is not her place to state her terms of peace. The initiative belongs to China, and it Is upon China that the powers should bring pressure to bear if they be really in- fluenced by a philanthropic desire to termin- ate the war. The Japaness are doing their best to hasten this end in the only way open to them, by persistently defeating their en- emy and annihilating his arm'es and navies. Russla’s efforts to induce the powers to joint intervention will probably prove as futile as the earlier attempts of Great Britain in the same direction, and even if the Brit'sh lion and the Russian bear should be induced to forget their past differences and roar in con- cert in an endeavor to deprive the empire of the rising sun of the fruits of its vic- tories, the other powers might be found to have a serious objection to a course o utterly opposed to every principle of justice and international comity. wes late Archduke Albert of Austria was soldier of the Austrian serv- considerable victory which interrupted the successful course of the Italian army iIn the war for the lib- eration of Lembardy and Venice—that of Cus tozza. He had military genius, for the flell of Custozza was won against great odds, and the Austrian victory was so complete that the present king narrowly escaped being taken prisoner in the confused retreat of the Italians. For that victory he was glven the grand cross of the crder of Maria Theresa, and was the only commander in Burope who I held it, as It was only granted to generals who won victories against great odds, Albert served as military governor of Mayence and | as civil and military governor of Hungary. His victory «t Custozza was the only break in the defeats suffered by Austria in the war of 1866, which terminated with Konigratz He was then niade commander in chief of the forces aga nst Prussla, but did not enter the field. In 1869 he was made Inspector gen eral of the army. The Archduke Albert was held in the highest honor by his cousin | Francis Joseph, and he was equally esteemed by the soldiers in the ranks, to whom he was always sympathetic. The emperors of Germany and Russis bestowed on him the A rank of fleld marshal in their armies. The the last emin=nt ice, and won the one | Highest of ail in Leavening Power.— Latest U. 5. Gov't Report Roval ABSOLUTEEY PURE Baking Powder it | A LOADED BILL Designed to Valued Folley Law. OMAHA, Feb, 22.-To the Editor of The Bee: The bill Introduced by Senator Hahn of Adams county, senate file No, 220, creat Ing a standard form of policy to be used by insurante companies in this state would be all right If the form preseribed did not repeal the valued policy law. The bill is a shrewd measure drawn by the in- surance compact to secure tho repeal of the valued policy law under the gulse of Insurance regulation. It should therefore be very closely watched by all who be lleve that the insured are entitled to some protection, to the end that it contains no provisions to conflict and thereby repeal the valued policy law. The arbitration pro- vision of the blil, as it now stands, would certainly do that very thing, and should be so amended that arbitration would ap ply only to the adjustment of losses in curred on merchandise and other personal property, There is no need of arbitration inycase of loss of real property, as the valued policy law fixes the measure of damage In case of total loss at the face value of the policy and makes that incon- testable. That is the hest protection that can be given the Insured against the wiles and schemes of the underwriters, The term “standard policy” may sound very well, but its practical benefits to the insured will be very limited indeed should accomplish mission and repeal the present law uniform style of policy would, of course, be a_ declded advantage, and a’ law of that Kind should be enacted, but none of its provisions should operate as an annulment of the present law I would suggest another amendment to the bill, and that is o provision prohibiting the use of the S0 per cent co-isurance clause in all insurance contracts In this state. This scheme, adopted the insurance companies about two ye ago, IS an imposition upon the Insur biie, whereby insurance companies are permiited to practice the rankest extortion upon their policy holders. Co-insurance is a smaoth scheme adopted by the insurance compact whereby the in sured are compelled (o in for 80 per cent of the value of their property cr el pay the insurance companics a promium for the_privilege of carrying a portion theimsWwn risk. It is o plan wherel under certain conditions, the insured a taken into copurtnership with the insu ance companies in case of loss, but de- barred from participating in any of the profits derived frem the premium s, and under its operation nearly every pol- icy holder in the state was compeliod to increase his insurance from 20 to b per cent in order to comply with its provi- slons. It s called “co-insur: term has a smooth ort of an equality o operation it is the ranke ing_only the element of physi class it as robbery. It is a tribute levied by the insurance corporations upon the public in such a smooth manner that its victims do not realize that they Dbeing robbed. 'To jllustrate: You have a stock of merchandise valued at $250; you make application for an insurance of $1,500 and pay the required rate of premium therefor. Inreturn for the money pald _you receive the compuny’s policy for $LGM, but at- tached thereto is an 80 per cent 'co‘insurance claus total loss on_the merch . and the insurance sompany s accepted your premium for § 1 tenders” you 1125 as settle { the loss,”and informs you thi nly insured for three- fourths of 80 per cent of the value of your merchandise that you therefore b 1 co-insurer with them to the of one-fourth of the indemnity called for in_your policy, or $ Notwithstanding the” fact that you b paid premium in full for $1,500 indemnity, you are compelled by the cd-insurance clause to accept the settlement offered and pay the company the regular premium rate for the privilege of carrying one-fourth of your own insur- ance. It is a distinction without a diffe ence between such a contract and obtain- ing money under false pretenses. No man should be compelled to buy more insurance than he thinks he needs or feels able to carry, no more than he should be compelled to ‘buy more merchandise than he thinks the needs of his trade demand, and after he has paid the rate of premium demanded insurance companies should not be permitted to compel him, in case of loss, to bear a portion of the burden that th have exacted a compensation for carr: ing. In case an actual loss has been su tained equal to the face value of the poliey, the ingurance companies should: be compelled to pay the full amount of in- demnity for which they have accepted premium, The legislature should see to it that the valued policy law is retained in- tact, and that the co-insurance roblingpolicy holders be don HO; Senate File 220 e Repeat its nee' sound conc because that and implies a ssion, but in s extortiol e to —_— FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Chicago Inter-Ocea 0ld Man’ of the colorad race in America. Chicago Record: Long after the echocs of war had died away Douglass was using his influence, his industry and his eloquence in the effort to place his people in the way of the finest achievement and the broadest enlightenment. It was an unselfish life and | unselfishly spent. The people of his race can never cease to look upon him as one of their truest friends and strongest advocates. Chicago Post: It is a matter of sincere regret for those who entertained a concep- tion of Douglass as the unselfish friend of freedom that he should bave fallen after the war to a plane on which he had to be dealt with like other repairers of roads and menders of bridges. But the fault was human and not destructive of his better self. The spirit of the older Douglass survived In the frequent protests against the social ostracism of the black, which has taken the place of actual slavery. Impotent this was of necessity and must be while race traditions stronger than the oldest of man- made laws survive. But it proved that the germ of Douglass, the manumitted slave, re- mained in Douglass, the welcome adviser of He was the “Grand written | l CUT TO PLEAS Philadelphi 108 with me, man, as it “You don't cut ang 1 the ax to the ice the handle. remar flew oft 8yracuse | tett; him. Tost: He-I_think Percy Gibe 18 & perfect cnlf. She—You misfudge He could not be perfect in anything, Chicago Inter-Ocean: “Wae old Ifeavys | foot pleased with his daughter's seleation of | 8 husvand?s “Oh, yes, he knew he would have somes | thing” to boot In the bargain." i Detroit Tribune: Young Bashful | know what to do with my Young Gayboy—1 always | waist. 1 never hands at a_ball, let mine Boston Courle Banks should engage some New se keepers to sall thelr men-of-war, anks—Not to serve meale for them, I hope? Banks—No; to repel boarders, The York Chinese boarding Tud Sunday School orge Washington's for cutting down { son did it teach? had buried the ha Teacher father cherry Little tehet When forgave him tree what le Johnny—~That ho Washington Star the father of this thoughtfully “Of course he 18, replied the ot “Wel, TH bet that he'd feel like takin® his country out in the woodshed if he could sec how it's carrying on today," “George country," Washington fa sald one boy 8t. Louls Republic flippant young mar will be “any. ool heaven?' Colonel thoughtrully at his b before answerin man, puhaps not, am morally suttin’ it will be one sah.” “olonel,” asked the “do you suppose there old “corn whisky i Bloogr pufred cliar ceconds ‘P not, young he finally said. ut T sah, that the absence of £ the leadin’ features of helly few AN ANSWER Yonkers Sintesman The teacher called the grammar One bright midwinter day, And said: “Ny children, now The hens they sot and’ lay So tell me what the people do- Now, think right hard and tr And then a sorrel-headed boy Yelled out: “They sit and le ——— THE NEW WOMAN, class you know Tom Masson in New York Sun. She talked with gr intensity of ench man's base propensity, and &poke with volubility of woman's higher plane; She dwelt on domesticity with mental elas- v, and said that sych felicity was Iy quite in vain, With gestures oratorieal and phr phorical, she volced the pow 1 that woman had untold, spoke with al dramatical stematical, and ballot box and votes not hought 's meta- s numer of voting spherical, with gold. She said in each vicinity the doctor: divinity would come from femininity bloomers they would be; And matrons with rapidity would thelr timidity, and no more congress would we see. of in lose all assininity in And while with such audacity she showed her great o ity, and " talked with great didacity, her husband learned to sweep; And while with such agility she dwelt on her utility with such intense pugnacity he put the twins to slecp. 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