Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 29, 1895, Page 4

[ “Tue OMAHA DAY BEE. 1. ROSEWATER, Editor, = - rUBL 1D EVERY MOT o . TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION o (Without Sunday), One ¥ and Sunday, One Year Datty 1 at... Daily Bix Montha e . Three Months tireiiveriieees Bunday Boe, One Year v Eaturday Tiee, Ons Year..... Weekly ©One Year.. Omahn, The T 1 Bouth Omaha 3 Couneil 1fults, Chicago Oific New York It Washington, " Corner N and 2th Bts roet of ¢ me, {bune Bullding. 1407 ¥ N CORRESPONDENCE Al sommunieations g to news forial matter shonld be 1: To the BUS ANl Busstness lettors addressed ¢ Omaha, ®e made pay THI ina_edl Yy Editor i LT T ohe € | PUBLISIING COMPA ATEM CIRCULATION Mshing pany, actual number ot full Dally, Morning, Fvenin during nday GE B. TZSCHUCK (Eeal) NP ary ¥ PR PN 20, e el it Y mor Holcomb s something of a writer himself. {e Tield wants one of the new rican gunbonts named after Queen Isabella. Why not eall it Kate? Tore and Harvey may be as fresh at the end as at the beginning of their long distance contest, but the public is per ceptibly fagged out by the performance. Sworn If it comes Lo a question of v between the governor and one ortwo memboers of the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings, each eitizen will have to decide for himself which he will vrefer to believe. ity The threatened attempt to precipitate a conflict between two of police officers will no countenance or support from law-abiding citizens, The contest between rival police boards must be settled in the courts and not in the stre Governor Richards of Montana threat ens to call an extra session of the legls lature in case an attempt made to consolidate the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern. Montana is bound have some excitement to offset the In dian war of which Idaho is boastin sets is It there are any stray murders lying avound loose in any corner of the United States or Canada the authorities wilk be perfectly justified in laying them to the credit of the man monster Holmes. Holmes must have killed every one who has murdered in the last few months, heen The Board of Public Works has de claved the position of sidewalk in spector vacant and declined to fill the vacancy. As o measure of cconomy thix is all right. *As a matter of politics it looks very much like a putup job to foist another howling dervish the pay roll. upon It 1s to ve sincerely hoped that the International phical now in session in London, will not omit to take notice of the increased height of Pik; Peak. When Pike's Peak grows a thousand feet at one measurement the phenomena ought certainly to attract the attention of the learned geographers. G congress, If any- self-respecting republican still doubts the imperative necessity of the purgation of city and county govern ment by a spontaneous uprising of all decent and law-abiding citizens he Monld by all means attend one of the political orgies that are being held nightly uirder the auspices of so-called *republican clubs.” In its career of nearly a quarter of a century The Bee has unmasked a great many impostors, adventurers &nd unmit- igated frauds. Among all these fmpu dent rascals and confidence sharps few have operated upon a smaller eapital and have exhibited greater adamantine cheek than Virgil O. Strickler, forme Pullman car conductor and more cently bogus social evil reformer. It begins to look as if the Nebraska free silver democrats will have to forego the company of etary Carlisle at their state convention next month. But then there will be nothing to stop them from attending the administration wing convention if the secretary consents to appear as its guest. If Mr, Carlisle will | only come to Nebraska he may possibly get the members of the two factions to- | gether, if only during the time that he Js delivering his address. re- Governor Holcomb's alleged satisfac- tion with the results of the penitentiary ment turns out to be pro nounced dissatisfaction. The governor very naturally objects to having words put into his mouth which he never ut- tered. If those’ who have been repre- | senting him as approving the penitenti- | ary in all its details pected him to let the wmatter pass without a protest they e by this time learned th they were greatly mis- | taken, steal ex According to Attorney General A, Sy lum Churchill, the institution for the blind at Nebraska City 1 an educational Institution, but the iustitution for the deaf and dumb at Omaha is not an edu cational institution. Both of these insti tutions are conducted on substantially the same plan and both have been de- clared by the supreme court in one breath to be educational institutions. No one but A, Sylum Churchill has the discriminating eye to distinguish be- tween them' in this respect. | had | A self THE CHARGES AGAINST STRICKLER For sublime Impudence, commend us i to Virgll O. Strickler. When grave charges affecting his official conduct as member of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners are preferred with Gov- ernor Holeomb, Strickleh auda- clously pronounces them to be “of so frivolons character as to_be an insult to the intelligence of the governor.”” He declares that the charges agninst Haze, which he, Stric ler, had been directed to investigate and report upon by the police commis sion, were dismissed by the board after | fair trial, and that Haze was a¢ quitted and fully exonerated. He fur thermore avers that he has never hesi tated to vote for the dismissal of an offi- when the evidence warranted dis- and solemnly aflivms that he not the remotest intention to incite insubordination in the police force when he rushed into print to announce that Ch of Police White had no legal right to make arrests or exercise the author ity of a police chief, What a brazen ralsifier! Ko the charges are the missal, ainst Strickler ar frivolous, Must a member of the police commission be convicted of murder or arson or house breaking be fore he lays himself liable to removal for official misconduct? 1Is it necessary that the cha of 1 de folations of every of the code before to I What are facts in this feasance ine provision they the eriminal frivolous? More than a year ago The Bee pointed out the necessity of police reo tion and urged the dismissal of officers who had shown themselves to be dis. lonest, disreputable or incompetent spurred on by this demand, the police commission invited the editor of The Bee to place at its disposal such in formation as he might have concerning the misconduct of members of the for A rul in exeen tive session In the presence of all the members of the board. Papers and affi- davits supporting charges of misbe lavior against a number of police off mong them Chief Detective Haze, given into the hands of the com missioners at their own request as the basis of an investigation. This w on June 5, 1804 Within a few ther 1l of the accused offic suspended or summarily \niza statement made wias fter seve either Tismissed. The investigation of against Chief Detective which mbodied of the flagrant violations of the police code, was by dir of the board given over to Strickler. Damaging testimony against ilnze was given Strickler by the police matron, My Cummings. Her state nent, supported by oflicial records ot the police court, should have been sufli dent to cause Ha lisgrace. It was proved that Haze had M two oceasions prevailed upon girls under age who had been rescued from wises of ill-fame and ordered sent to the Home for Fallen Women at Mil ford to refuse to enter that institution One of these girls was induced by Haz 10 o to his own home, and after a short period drifted back to a disorde sort, The other girl, Laura I subsequently shot and killed in an as sdgnation house in this city, The life o thix givl would no doubt have been saved had she not been persuaded by Haze to refuse to abide by the advice »f her parents and accompany Matron Cummings to the Milford home. According to Strickler all this is fiiv- But law. pecting citizens will agree with The Bee that this act alone rendered Haze totally unfit for any place on the police force. Instead of reporting to the commission these facts, uncontradicted and indisputable, Strick ler not only exerted every influence to shield Haze, but went further a actually urged members to promote him to a < eaptain Strickler now has the insolence to de clare that Haze was exonerated by the board when he knows that he himself never made a formal report on the ter id there is nothing on the record to show that the board took any action. The truth is Strickler know- ingly and wiltully seeks to mislend the public by talking about a previous in- stance, when a Scoteh verdiet was ren- dered by the board upon other charges made against this same Haze, Strickler's hypoeritical Aemurrer to the second charge against him is too {ransparent to decelve any one con- ant with the facts. It is notorious that Strickler has been in constant and close communion with discharged policemen who are secking in every way to ineite insubordination within the force. When a police commissioner aid and comfort to malcontents and conspirators he fails to appreciate the responsibility of the position he oc- cuples. Strickler may think the de- mand for his summary retivement very frivelous, but in army parlance it is a military necessity. were the Haze, most charges some ction e to be dismissed in olous, ve gives WILL WORK SERIOUS INJURY 1f Comptroller Bowler of the Treasury department, who has arrogated to him- the extraordinary pr tive of passing upon the constitutionality of a law of con hall finally decide not o pay the sugar bounty authorized to be paid by the last congress and shall be upheld by the president in such de- cision, great injury will be done not only to the chiimants of the bounty, but wffrey of Louisiana, of the matter, said that an 1 by the comptroller will 088, {ean the financial ruin of many persons. | The claims have been generally hypoth- ecated by the banks and the action of the comptroller in raising a question as to the validity of the law has already produced confusion aud distres: While the planters, said Senator Caflrey, pre duce only sugar, they large purcl ers of many commodities necessary to the conduct of the business and are in debt numerous manufacturers and merchants for machinery and supplies. These outside people will be the chief sufferers If the claims are not paid, as they are the creditors of the men to whom the bounty is dwe. It is also said that bounty certificates have been used as collateral for loans and are in the hands of innocent partles, who will suf- fer an injustice it they are not paid. It appears that Secretary Carlisle and s | constitutional CTHE OMATA DAILY Rip: - ; s ' AL i B S5k BRSNS 3 A e A 30 e MG 03 g - the nssistant attorney general approve the action of the comptroller, but there have been no other endorsements of his urse, so far as we have obsery Newspaper opinion on the matter has been uniformly against the comptroller on the ground that if he has th to withhold payment in this ¢ reasons, there Is hardly any limit to his authority to nullify acts of congress providing for a certain clas of payments, It Is urged that if this officinl can withhold payment of the su- gar bounty by analogy of reasoning he can withhold payment to the railroads for fast mail service, subsidies to steam. ship companies, and other payments that have been authorized by congress. It was certainly never intended that the comptroller of the treasury should exer- cise any such power over this class of appropriations as Bowler has assumed it would be to clothe with subordi- Undoubt and to allow almost autocratic authority a nate official of the tr 3 Dot v imatel we paid, | 1 edly the bounty will ultimately be paid, | Nothing is more certain than that if the s of the decision of Bowler, but {he matter suggests that the powers of this office need vy de- fined and so restricted that they cannot be used to overrule the authority of con- gre BIGGER THAN THE SUPREME COURT. There Is one man in the state of Ne. Draska who thinks he ranks higher than the supreme court His name is A, 8 Churchill. That collossal genius who around in the of the attor ral has just delivered an elab orate opinion in which hie declares that the Nebraska State Deaf and Dumb in stitute is not an edueational institution within the meaning of the constitutional iich all state institu aced in the of Public In rendering this provision under w tions not educations control of the Lands and Buildings. opinion the attorney not only zarbles the English linguage and n quotes the statutes, but he shows him self totally unfit for any in which he may be ealled on for reliable legal advic Mr. Churchill persists in ealling th Institute for the Deaf and Dumb Deaf and Dumb Asylum,” and then de- livers himse!f of a Ix tion on asylums and their sphere among public institutions, the ne propriety Mr. Churchill miz 11 it a Deaf and Dumb reformatory or penitentiary and then dilate upon the relation which penal institutions hold to educational institutions because inmates of reformatories 1l peniten: i peel involunt: instruction in stone-breaking, shoer and other useful trades. The State Institute for the Deaf and Dumb at Om never has been called an asylum or penal institution in any statute or appropriation act from foundation up to the present day. It was oviginally incorporated as a pri- vate school for educating deaf mutes and was converted into a state institu tion as a school and not as an asylumn or reformator As the author of the act v h made it a state institution and gave it its appropriation for its building, thes editor The Bee puthoritatively contradict the hase less assumptions of the attorn y general. The design, and only design, of the founde of the institute and the fram. ers of the law under which it Locame a state institution was to provide a school for educating deaf and dumb children. An asylum a place in which persons afflicted with physleal disabilities or men derangement are contined under the care of public offt cers. The State Deaf and Dumb insti- tute never was an asylum in an of the term. Parents and guavdi at liberty to withdraw children the institution and either assume ol of them or place them clsewh is no process of law to compol ance, nor does it require any log coss to withdraw. It evident that Attorney Churehill is pettifogging hec member of the Board of Public Lands and Buildings, anxious to ‘control the institution, It is, moreover, a piece of sublime arrogance for the attorney al to reverse the supreme court, which in a decision rendered during the present year declared in so many words that the Institute for the Blind at Nebraska City and the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb at Owmaha ave both edueational institutions within the meaning of the constitution. position its is PINTR: ns are from g IThere attena 1! pro- is General is L OPTIMISTS, A democratic leader is oceasionally found who professes to believe that his party will have some chance of electing the president and cc 'ss next year. Such optimists get their confidence, which is really of a rather fecble na- ture, from the improving financial and business conditions, which they hope will cause the people to forget what they 1 suffered in consequence of the economic policy of the democratic par enator Re Q. Mills recently remarked that he believpd the return of prosperity will give to the demo- cratic party next year an even fight for the presidency, and Sccretary Car- lisle has expressed practically the same opinion. These leaders undervalue (he intelli- gence of the American people. They do not give the voters of the country credit for the judgment and discrimination they possess. The mistake they make is in assumi that the people easily and quickly forget their injuries and suf- ferings. The sweeping victory of the republicans in the congressional elec: tions of last year attested the popular conviction that it was democratic policy which brought about the disastrous in- dustrial depression and was an over- whelming protest against that poliey. In order to obtain the full benefits of that protest the people understand that it is necessary to drive the democratic y out of control of every hranch of the government. Great was e complished by the result of last year's elections. It operated mi dence and to revive the industries of the country, It is impossible to doubt that had the elections resulted in the ch of a democratic house of representa tives the depression would have been prolonged, if not intensified. With that party fully committed to a further ad- vance in the direction of free trade, its retention of coutrol of congress must to restor ice | democratic MONDA inevitably have tnereased the fears of the industrial Hfetests of the country and caused a wiprq general contraction of industries thifh hnd taken pl The new tarlff was'nét'so bad as had been apprehended. 1t did not out the threat (o utterly destr protection. Afiterfean manufacturers saw that under it they would still be able to retain a share of the howe ma ket. The electibn 6f a republican con- gress gave assurance of safety to this inferest for at least three years, and the industries began to revive, Can there be a reagonable doubt t no such improvenent as has been in pro- gress during the last six months would have taken plice if the democratic party had been continued in control of congress? 1ged ity attitude regarding the cconomic pol iy that should prevail. Its most in fhiential leaders still insist upon further in the dire of free The democratic party has not ¢ st going fon trade. party should ag the government taril would scareely mtrol of pr be given next year the be so revised us to leave of protection in it. With this clearly understood by the peo- ple, and the effeets of democratic policy during the firmly I pressed upon minds, to assuime that they may soon again try the experiment of democratic rule is to dis credit their sense and lieve them incapable of understanding what is best for their interests and wel fare, sent vostige last two thelr years 50 ag common to be It is very news from the rising. Reports difficult to ble ne of the Indian up contlicting. What needed now man like Captain Jack Crawford, the far-famed scout who distinguished Limself in the Black ills country in ihe '70's as special corre ondent of The Dee. are A fivst-class cdueator will not accept the superintendency of the Omaha schools whien he tinds that his every act must be reviewed by a coterle of tarian zealots and political pot rusilors who know uothing about educational matters, sec- Howlin to Keep e-Democtat. Missourt does not produce ar silver, and yet a majority of her howl for it as if it grew on every in the state. Awalke, ounca of moerats cornstalk Sote K Tribun The new caief of police of Omaha is reor- ganizing the foreo us nearly as may be on the lines of competercy. And still there are people in Omaha less happy than Rosewater i1 Competeney the Mot Qu cntion, Giving n Report of United There is 8o nsul a ne Uneasiness felt in th nese city of Haikow at present, an week an Incipient rebellion was bul by the arrest of eight malcontents, who were ‘prepared to stir up strife. After a strict_examination by the authorities five of tucm were beheaded ahd their heads exposed on the city gates as a warning to othe sy s kb Sure 1o Help Yo Friemt Telegraph, Don’t pray fer ‘rain, but save the water you have. God mever does anything for us that wo can do for curse.ves. Build ponds and store the water for futare use. Locat lovators and pump the water out upon the fand ect irtigating wind mills and set them t this duy and age of the werld God helps him whao helps himse f. in Leather, Tribune. Chi- last nipped In the Be raelf, A Novelty w Yok The old leather the tests Hook on stel core, saying, finds latest made of a uesday “There's nothing exempiification ieather gun at Sandy The leather gun had a and though it was looked on with suspieion, 1t stood the severest test in a manner that won the admiration and wonder of all beholders. What use will leather be put to next? like its in pesaliue . Enforcing R i Citizenship. Philadeiphin Press, Ger has just collected, by the ald of four hips, $50.000 from Moroeco as in- demnity for the murder of a German trader. But the United States has neitaer obtained an indemnity nor satisfaction for the cowardly murder by a Nicaraguan offictal of Willam Wilson, an Amcrican citizen, in March, 1894 Nor has this country obtained any satisfac- tion for the unprovoked murder and partial ation of the property of an American n in Honduras. Respect abroad for the s of an Amerl citizen cannot be ¢ pected unless the government enforces re- spect as do Eurcpean nation: LON Pre-Emine Wealt St Louts Tn 1875:the corn erop of the United States was 321,069,000 bushels. The first large increase afterward was in 1880, when the figu-es jumped to 1,717,434,543 bushels. The largest crop ever made that of 1889, estimated in the government reports of 1890, t was 2,112,802,000 bushels. This year's yield promi the grea ever gathered. is for 2,400,000,000 bushels, western corn states the usually good. The south Is ralsing more than at any previous period, the vast capacities of Texas alone being able to add to the total corn product at a rate equalling that of the wonderful additions to the cotton crop which have been contributed there year after year. In spite of the enormous yield now al- most assured, the price keeps up fairly. At a Chicago price of 45 cents the general pro- duction will return a profit to the growers, Corn 1s the most valuable agricultural product of the United States; not only be- causs it is the largest, but also because it is manufactured and consumed at home. The total crop is transformed directly into human energy or adds to the country's employ- ment of industry by being fed to live stock 1t is corn which make: American people the best fed in the world; which gives them a variety and cleapness of meat foods, phenomenal when compared with the past of any other nation and striking when com- pared with the present There has been; some repining because Europe will not jmpart our corn and corn; meal in large quantities. Some earnest efforts have been made te introduce the many prep- arations for the tablg which we find pala- table and wholesome. Perhaps these efforts are not thrown away, but the most profitable export of corn Is7if 4he form of meat If the United States can hell abroad all the meat their corn will make, .they could be pleased rather than discomenfed it not a bushel of corn left our shores. ¢ When the south man- ufactvres its cotton’' as close as the west manufactures its’ corn, the wealth of that section will no louger suffer in comparison with the showing of,New England. There is more to regret U the large proportion of raw cotton exports, than in the small propor- tion of corn exporis. A corn crop of 2,400,000,000 doubled yield within twenty years. not far different—would create wealth and trade where both would do the most good It would be a debt payer to a vast amount It would improve the value of railway and real estate investments all over the west, The consumption of manufactures would set new limits. Corn is the poor man's crop. Requiring less fixed capital than any other staple product, it more quickly than any other af- fords returns for labor. It can be grown on almost any sofl and in almost any county of the union. It gives activity of production everywhere and distributes comfort to all classes. A great corn year Is a great year for the United States. We seem (o have one. es to be by “far The estimate In nearly all the prospects are un- est bushels—a at prices JULY 29, 1895, LOCAL CAMPAIGN CHATTER, Colonel Scott and Governor Hascall are running a race against each other in the howling dervish meetings. It is an open question which of the pair of foul-mouthed blatherskites can beat the other in vul rity and obscenity, Strickler's godfather, young Mr. cock, declares that Virgil O. fs not resigning kind. That fact was well lished when Virgil was dismi; d in disgrace | from his position as sleeping car conductor. Hiteh- of the estab- Judge Scott onght to be glad that the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners dis- missed that batch of incompetents, and agitators from the ranks of the polfve force. How could he otherwise have any ono to listen to his filthy harangues? rogues They say it was absolutely touching to see the pain Akin' with d expression that passed over Colonel face he had his first meeting the committee. The colonel bad an idea that fitness was the only test for office, but when he got Munn and Crawford and met ex-Policeman Walker and ex-Detective Pyburn he fiad revised his opin- fon of the of the enthuslasm that these patriots were professing for him The colonel has always trained with the silk stockiug set, and he's as awkward as a coun lover at the dervish meetings he has been attending for some weeks. when touching past unselfishness try Thero fs @ mew cause for a howl In_ the camp of the dervishes, Frank Crawford, Lawyer Munn, Pyburn, Claus Hubbard, Bam Macleod, Cunningham Ranter 0rg Stryker and Israel Frank were standing on the Patterson block corner holding the reg ular pow wow when a new n came along. He did not know any of the party, but he had been notified that the storekeepers fn that block had complained to the chief that loaters and rough looking characters we tantly blockading that street cor look at the crowd convinced him 1d he ordered tiem to move on was referred to the gr policem 2 con ner. One of his duty Tho matter committec vance ‘nonorable James Allan is rusticating in the Sheridan country. His beat In the Efghth 1s being looked after during his ab. sence by Charley Youngers and Halsey W. Reynoids, Charley Unitt 'aas sent word down to South Omaha that he is in the ring to meet all but ke would prefer to run against u 'Octor for county treasurer. “Tom 'Oc- 1 be dead h'easy for me and I wouldn't anythink better'n goin' against ‘im," Unizt says iter Dick Smith has made up his mind at last. He's going to run for sheriff on the dervish ticket. He thought for a time that he'd como out for mayor, and then declded that the city treasurer's shoes would fit him better. There's a story in his reason for not running for cily treasurer. A woman of Smith’s acquaintance wanted to rent a house and the heartless landiord wanted some as- surance that the rent would be pald. Smith called on the la ared him that the woman woud pay the rent. To make the assurance doubly sure Smith sald: “Why, Mr. Blank, Ul sign a hond guaranteeing the payment of the rent.”” That ought to have settled it, but it didn't. The landiord looked Smith in the eye and calmly replied: “That's all right, Mr. Smith. But who would you get to sign your bond?” The next morning it was given out that Smith would not be a candidate for city treasurer. lord and ass! Prof. Macleod superintendent is the latest candidate for of the city schools His fricnds say that there can be no question of his qualifications for the position. He had of the janitors of the schools for sev- ars and has recently graduated from a educational institution, having been superintendent of the Nebraska School for tho Deaf for a day and part of a night. He lept at the sign language, and this qualification has proven a strong attraction for votes in the Board of Education, whether it is of any value in the conduct of the schoo's or not. Israel Frank and George Stryker have both promised their support to Prof. Macleod, and the rest of it ought to be easy. g ¥ eral is an Doc Saville has not decided whether he wants anything in this campaign or not, but if h wants anything he won't be bashful about asking for it. Several years ago, when the doctor was new in Omaha politics, there was a city convention in progress. Doc had hired a man to name him for one of the candidates When the time came for nomi- nating speeches Doc discovered to his dismay that his spokesman had left the convention lail to get a bracer for the duty before him There was no time to select a substitute, and the doctor rose and modestly said: “Mr. Chair- wan, 1 nominate Dr. J. J. Savill The modesty of the man caught the convention and he was named as one of the candidates. AND OTHERW a PERSONAL The street swecping reformers of New York achieved a cleanliness never before ex- perienced in the city, but the work caused the taxpayers twice the dust of former years. The fact that a real deacon testifies to the appearance of a sea serpent at an Atlantic coast summer resort is not considered con- clusive. Jersey applejack Is no respecter of deacon The American Ple company has formed a trust in Brooklyn. Fortunately the residents are not obliged to go dry on any day, hence the danger Is not as great as it would be across the river. Judge Goff of the United States circuit court has pronounced unconstitutional the West Virginia law imposing a tax of $500 on dealers in cigarettes. This is a form of smoke nuisance not easily suppressed. A majority of the democratic editors of Missouri, in convention assembled, declared for free coinage of silver, but the policy is not to be strictly enforced against subscribers desiring to pay in gold, copper, nickel or paper. Everything goes at the counting room. There is a warm controversy in Utah over tho right of women to vote in that territory next November, when the constitution will be presented for ratification. The republicans deny (hat the women can vote until ratifica- tion has taken place, while the democrats contend to the contrary. A profuse syndicate writer perpetrates this among other quaint similes descriptive of the new attorney general: ‘‘Elegant is the word most applicable to Judson Harmon. He is clegant, with an elegance surpassing all ele- gance. Ho is as clean and sweet and well- groomed as a load of hay.” The battle for reduced water rates contin- ues in Denver. Tho contest has been trans- ferred from the city council to the courts, many consumers having refused to pay the regular to.l and sought protection in the courts. The struggle of the company to main- tain Its grip and pay dividends on excessive capitalization Is said to have cost quite a sum. A contribution of $2,000 was made to the campaign fand last spring. Besides this snug roll, the company, it is said, blew in an additional $10,000 to elect fis candidates for the council in various wards. Boodling comes high, but political corporations must have it. Mr. John H. Parnell, brother of the famous home rule leader, has been elected to Parlia- ment from South' Meath. After the death of Charles Stewart, Mr. Parnell moved from Georgla and took possession of the fam- ily estate at Avondale, whereon is located “The Meeting of the Waters,” celebrated by Moor With his Amerian experience as a guide, the new owner has built up a novel and profitable industry, which he has lit- tle or no competition. The estate now sup- plies a large per cent of the umbrella han- dles used in the Unitetd ates, the furze bushes which abound in that section being )} utilized for that purpose, A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICR, An Earnest Appeal on Behalf of Persceuted Editor, Papillion Times: Brethren of the Ne- braska press, the home of one country editor in this state is engulfed in the gloom of death. The wife of that editor's bosom, the mother of his bables, lies {n her coffin, await ing the dministration of the funeral rites She did not fall a victim to disease. She loved her husband passionately. He was her {dol. Seeing him forced behind prison bars by the damnable prejudice of a magistrate who defifed him the right of a fair and im- partial trial by a jury of his peers, the poor worran, so strong In love, yet so weak In body, was prostrated by the nervous shock Al that loving attentions of husband and friends could do was done, the best medical services were ever at command, but unavail- e died, and in her death every N braska newspaper man las cause for sorrow because, while not ting that due to the prejudice of Judge Scott against her husband's cause, we do positively assert, upon authority of the attending phy clans, that death was hastened by that fair judicial blow. The brother editor here referred to is Mr. W. 8. Raker, editor of the Gretna Reporter. All are familiar with the history of the outrage of which he and hi family directly, and overy editor in the stat indirectly, are victims. We all know that his constitutional rights were denied him by a prejudiced W he de- fending befc that court inst a charge of criminal libel all know that if Judge Scott's rulirgs as to the law of libel are allowed to stand freedom of specch will be a thing of the past and the constitution’s declaration in favor of liberty of the press will be a lie The case must be appealcd to the suprem court, which tribunal will be asked to over- ride and set aside the decision of tho gont and prejudiced trial Judge. Th will money—not but more than poor Raker can afford. He is not a pauper. Ha owns his small office and a home, but we should not permit him to sell or mor the roof above the heads of his motherles babies in order to provide funds for prose- cuting to the highest courts a suit ivolving the rights of every writer in the state, Rather let us say to the doubly afflicted brother: Keep your home for your children. We'll care for your cause in the courts! Acting upon the promptings of its own heart, and by advice of many newspaper men in the state, the Times has undertaken the task of ralsing a small defense fund by popular subseription among newspaper men, and in accepting the sacred trust as custodian of that fund pledges its word of honor to the brethren that not one penny shall be ex- pended for other than legitimate expenses in- curred in pressing the cause of Mr. Raker to final detern ination in the supreme court fvery contribution of 5 cents or more will be duly acknowledged in these columns vouchers for expenditures will also be pube lished. It more money than necessary shal be received it will be turned into the State Press association treasury, or refunded to contributc may direct. The following contributions have been re ceived for the “Raker defense fund:" Papillion Times ............ Great Western Type Found Fremont Herald Omaha Bee... asser death w solely un w court himselt on was A0 cost much s, as the $15.00 15.00 10.00 5.00 Lincoln Journal: Hon. Edgar Howard the Papillion Times has started a fund assist Bditor Raker in carrying his sult to the supreme court. Mr. Howard heads the list with §15, and other newspaper men are invited to chip in. of to It is a worthy cause. Keirncy Hub: The case of W. S, Raker, editor of the Gretna Reporter, is a sad one, He was recently convicted of criminal libel in an Oma cour At the time of his arre st his wife was stricken with nervous prostra- tion and a complication of diseases and has just died, leaving four motherless children. It is certainly time now for friendly inter- xention. The law apparently strained to convict him. In any event he has been punished sufliciently. e THAT EXTRA STON Alma Record: If we must have an extra session of the Twenty-fourih Nebraska legls- lative assembly, let us put it off until the corn s all husked. Lincoln News: And now some Insisting that it would be a very nice and agreeable thing for the legislature to meet in extra fon. About the only object possible to be attained by that would be to enable the members to compare the character of the jobs they have succeeded in knocking down since they met. Columbus Telegram: me hungry poli- tick; are trying to induce the governor to call an extra session of the legislature on the ground that not enough revenue was provided for at the last session, and in conse- quence the state government will run out of uff’ to meet expenses in the course of a few months. An extra session would be a most expensive way of getting around the culty. Blair Pilot: The members of the legisla- ture, who it is said are urging the importance of an extra session to revise| the revenue laws of the state, should have thought of this when they were squandering their time and the state money In the regular session cathauling over unimportant, frivolous poli- tical matters to the mneglect of the few matters of interest and importance to the state. If the legislature would first give its attention to the most important state business and leave its factional strife and petty nonsense for a special session its regu- lar sessions would be much more satisfactory to the people. Fairmont Signal: There is considerable talk of an extra session of the legislature to devise means of raising necessary revenue to run the state machinery next year. As the matter now stands there must be a very large deficit If something be not done to meet the contingency. The assessed valuation of the state is over $12,000,000 under that of last year, and as tho state levy could not be enlarged, it follows, of course, that state funds must be short. An extra session is a very expensive expedient and should not be resorted to if it is possible to avold it. The matter should be thoroughly ventilated, and if possible a better solution of the dufficuity should be found. KExtra sessions are good things to let strictly alone. Papillion Times: Everybody concedes that the revenue laws of Nebraska are farcical, and biennially the press and people of the state declare they will elect a legislature whose members will repeal the obnoxious laws and enact better ones in their stead, but legisla- tures come and go and the faulty revenue laws remalin intact. At each legislative ses- sion bills for the betterment of the revenue system are introduced, and for a time there is promise of relief, but ever and always these reform measures are permitted to die in the closing legislative hours in order that pet political bills may live. Believing it impossible to secure relief at a regular legis lative session, a great many citizens are now discussing the advisability of calling a spectal session, at which none save revenue bills can be considered. From a personal standpoint the writer, who s a member of the legislative body, would not favor a spe- clal “session, for Indeed it's an expensive pastime playing lawmaker on the salary in vogue in Nebraska, but we do agree with many of our coniemporaries who declare TALK. fellow is the (hat there fs no other avenue to rellet. Wo are of opinfon that Governor Holcomb would be fully justified in calling the legislators tos gother for the oxpress purpose of revising the revenue laws. When leglslating along party lines the present logislative body was brutally partisan, but if called upon to enact measures nonpolitical we really believe the majority members would serve the state ace coptably. joneva Journal: A o talk extra of tho legislature for sideration of amendments to the revenue laws has Leon started at Lincoln, but Governor Holcomb s quoted as saying that e it one wero to be called it could not be called before winter, and that while he had talked to two or threo persons about tho necessity for an extra he had not yet given m: much thought. The only reason advanced why ghonld be called is that with the constantly dec g assessed valu- ation, owing to the flagrant vialation of the assessment laws by the assessors, and the of mills that can be levied the revenues of the state extra 1 bo include st not more than o State ofelal flgures to mean that un lone before that time the A debt of a mill in two years fr about an the cone sesslon s in the » or two compute_the ss something state will have n and a quarter of dollars m now N silver question he is an intell had, and doub in what m through f employing silver in our ¢ extent that prudence for the entire v of our in- mean- on will while, to th of the Justify. But Senmator he may hol use of sily lume currency Allison, whatever out looking to has never yot b stood as favoring the sudden opening of our mints to the free and unlimited colnage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, independently of the action of other monetary powers. In the speech to which allusion has been made the senator sald, in closing: “I know of no interest in the United States that can possibly favor the suggestions that have been made upon this floor which lead to a silver standard and which will bring a silver standard.” tions enlarged 1 misunder- - Right ¥ Minneapolis Tim Nebraska has the reputation of being slow savo when moving with the impetus supplied by a cyclone, but the exception to the rule has appeared. A forger arrested in a little town there ono day was sent the next day to the penitentiary for a term of four years. There was nothing slow about that, and the pace set ought to excite a spirit of emul tion. The ok, rinelyp imes-Herald a democrat and he s when boodling. *To boodle to discard party adhe- slon. Boodling is not the exclusive trait or tendency of any party. It is a practice adopted with more or less eagerness, and car- ried on with about equal pertinacity, accord- ing to opportunity, by venal men of all par- ties. Do, Ch Your boodler i not a republican it is first necessary not PEPPERY POIN New York We that a marri ircome that a man Man—Yes, He has to. or—1 ve on requires. am_told half the Married ‘How did Gilbats ment position? bout the duties Indianapolis Journal: get €0 ImMportant & govi He doesn't know a thing of_the office.’” but he knows a lot about his cone gressman.” Pittsburg Chronicle; s a gardener, wasn't he? Sauildig—Yes, MeSwillig inal queen of spades willigen—Adam w Did that make Eve the orig- Washington Star: “Doan_put in yoh time perducin’ " advic Uticle 1ben. “‘Da mahket foh it am mighty po'. Ff teks it foh nuftin he am 1'ble’ ter he done yoh a favor.” er man ack like Cincinnati Tribunc: “Say,” said the editor, “it seems to me that this expr of yours about showing a clean pair of he is not just the thing in the report [ race.” Al right,” answered the y Teporter. “Just stick in a ‘w’ and make sah pair of wheels."” city York Recorder these new rac om my own experi, use your money goc there. “Wonder why tracks kite tracks ice 1 should say it's up when you get hey Philadelphia Record Iby is Svengalied. foot’s aslel he—0, gracious! My He—What? She—My Detroit Tribune: T to_the spot, » you'the c fearfully No, augh mind." 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I met her in the ballroom, and I danced the two-step so She sald, “You dance the very best of all the men I know.” twas a lovely I walked upon the saffron, wave-beat sands with that fair maid. And told her that I loved her, that my love would never fade. And she, she smiled 50 swe that she was m It needed not her * ing 8o benlgn, tly that I knew to prove my ble I bought a ring—a beauty—"twas a brilllant <olitaire; It dazzled all beholders; yond compare. It cost two hundred dollars, from Biffany. And when she put it on she come with ecstacy. 'twas indeed be- and It came seemed o'er- We drove together, walk the sea and storm; We strolled at eve wh noon when it was warm. I bought her books and roses, her to the dance, And told her that mj one smiling glance, together, braved it was cool, at and I took best reward was just And all went well until one night another fellow cam I never knew, and do that fellow's name. 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