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I'D 1 !' 1 THK WKKKLY IIKUALD: PLATISMOr I II. NKIIKASKA, NoVKMJtKK 17,1 S!)2. b tll THE HERALD. rrpusum uaii.y kxci:it scnuay BY RHOTTU ER;a. HATES Or SUBSCRIPTION. nwr.v i-:ii i'kin. One Yivir in nd i teei . . . Si i Six munlliH Hy Currier, ier eik li WKi-KI.V KfUTIoS. lne Yeur In advance, l r.l If not ti.-iiil in .nlvam e, ".' i Kix 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' i "' Throe i il hs, W Telephone .Nutiiln-r :K Gov. UnVD has issued hisThanks giving jn . . 1 :i 1 1 1 - t ion. Cass county will he represented in tin' legislature by republican. Now that election is over, boom the city hall and opera house pro C. W. SiiKKMAN, the next post master, clinched hi claim on the job last night. Neiikakka ih nil right. The stale 1 ickft from governor down, is dected and Harrison carries t lit state. Omt) mid California have been paved by the republicans, but not until several days of anxiety had been passed. SEVERAL distinguished soldiers fell out idt' of the breast workH laHt Tuesday, and the breast works fell tn top of Home of them. THE city council meet tonight and will have the city hall opera bonne proposition up for consideration. Tub Herald hopes that the council will look upon the project with iavor. The third commissioners district will be represented for the next three years by a republican. Mr. Hayes having been elected by nearly 200 majority. Railroad traffic continues large throughout the country although net earnings continue small. The roads (ire doing a larger business than they ever did before, but on a very narrow margin of profit. Demokats would do well to re member that "what goes up must comedown." Democracy will fall with a dull, heavy thud one of these fall days, and England will drop the lion to half-mast in sym pathy with the Tammany tiger. TlIKKB is one thing about the Australian ballot system that favors the defeated. It takes bo long to get at the result that the defeated candidate is not instantly stunned. The awful truth dawns upon him gradually and he is thus given time to summon his fortitude. Hee. No "outs could ever before rest ho contented ami await the returns of reason and good judgment of the people. Democrats have a big contract if they maintain the pres ent standard in national affairs. From cellar to garret the nation is in apple pic order. Reithhca.Ns relieved from the responsibilities of public affairs can take a rest- It is safe to say ; however, they will now and then poke the ribs of the tiger, and make the wild cnt scream, and persuade the rooster to come down from the top rail of the fence. Ol'T of a total vote of 74,:0 in Hoston the prohibition candidate received (S00 votes. It in no sense represents the temperance senti ment of Hoston. As a political party and ns an influence in the cause of temperance the prohibi tion party is the deadest failure in sight. llAWKisox and McKinley are said to be the most unpopular Ameri cans with the people of Europe. They will not worry about that, Washington and Lincoln once were unpopular with the same people and for the same reason that they stood up for America as against England. The complete exposure of the assassination fake in Kansas leaves Jerry Simpson and his party mana gers in the exceeding ridiculous light. As usual, the democrats managed to get tangled up in the affair, and ore now, together with Jerry, the laughing stock of the whole country. With Ilainer, Metklejohn and "V Merrer in rono-ress. Xehrnskii will ot be obliged to assume nn ""ogetic air every time they think delegation at Washington. N'iat we are still bothered nn and O'Bryan and with O'Kem also, N boys will give ctability. SILVER QUESTION IN ENGLAND. The IliilUh journals in general are inclined to take too -umber a view of t lie i-ilvcr question in the I'nited Slates. They speak about an "impending disaster in America" and a "financial crisis in the repub lic" with altogether more freedom and posilivencss than the fact war rant, as interpreted by intelligent and conservative authorities on the ground. The weak element in our financial sciicme in the silver law of 1 '.). This law has not justified even the small quaiilily of faith re post d in it by its promoters. The law was never intended to be per manent feature of our fni.iiici.il scheme. Nobody t ver believed or said that il would solve the silver problem. It was put forward merely as a conipi omise, and to prevent legislation which would be infinitely worse. There wan a chance at the lime that free silver might secure in both branches of congress the requisite two-third.-) vote to pass it over the presidential veto, and the present act was brought forward to head olf such an eventuality. It was a makeshift, emphatically ami confessedly, mid was designed to be repealed when congress had a chance to devise something better. The men who championed it at (he time it was presented now think that it bus sejved its purpose, and are asking for its repeal. Undoubtedly it will be repealed within a year or two, whether a measure to take its place be devised by that time or not. The fears of Urilish financiers over the situation in the United States are altogether groundless. The danger, such as it is, in our present monetary legislation is well understood here, and will be ade quately guarded against. It is onty just, to say, too, that the dan ger is a :arcely as great as outsiders apprehend. For the present, at least, the notes which are being; issued under lH'.K) are being fairly well absorbed all over the country. Apparently they meet a real want in the exchanges which ought to be supplied. Nobody is protesting against receiving them. There is no gootl reason to believe that they will or can, within the next twelve or fifteen months, send gold to a premium. That they are inconven iently, and even dangerously, ex panding the silver element of the currency, however, is undeniable, and this consideration will compel congress to give early ami serious attention to the question. Hills for the repeal of the act were intro duced in the first session of the present congress, and they will be pressed in the coining session. The general desire is to await the action of the monetary conference before proceeding (o extremities with this law of ls'.M, but if England and Germany continue to resist our appeals for co-operation in the work of restoring international bi metallism we will have to discon tinue our unavailing attempt to bull the silver market single handed. In that event the act will be repealed, ami silver purchases by the government will be either reduced largely from present figures or be stopped altogether. No sooner is the political cam paign over than Dr. Parkhurst makes his appearance with a crusade organization that is likely to cause no end of trouble in New York, says the Lincoln Journal. He has arranged to appoint a special army of 1,000 inspectors who will make the roundsof the disreputable plan's of the city, noting the names and residences of the owners of all property used for liquor selling or any immoral purpose. The police men will be investigated, ami their relations with the law defying ele ment will tie closely observed. Facts will be collected about the failure of the city officials to clean and pave the streets ami enforce proper sanitary conditions. In short, these inspectors will collect all available facts tending to show the inisgovernment of the city of New York ami place them before the people in the most public way possible. The good doctor means well enough and deserves to suc ceed in this great crusade. Hut many who sympathize with him heartily in his work have no confi dence whatever that he will be able to reach any important or beneficial results. Through the trade made with the national democratic com mittee the city of New York lias been turned over irrevocably to the TaniiT.any organization. The bar gain has been made and the goods have been tied up and delivered. It will be many long years before the taxpayers get out of that bundle and it is hard to see how Dr. Park hurst will be able to help them with his new crusade. Hut good luck to him in his new work, nevertheless. Let the city council enter into a contract with The News now for the city printing, and make them fur nish a good and sufficient bond, the same as other papers have had to do. No MATTKK who is president, in dustry, honesty and economy will give every American citizen a good living, besides something to lay by for a rainy day. The? e is no danger that the tlial of progress which has been sweeping forward so rapidly since the republicans came into power will be turned back by a sin gle republican deleat. Let us be cheerful. The democracy doesn't want free trade half so badly as it wants the offices. As soon as it fills its belly it will go to sleep and the legislation of tlie republican con gress will remain practically undis turbed. Lincoln Journal. I'jtiHTY thousand new voters in Chicago, mostly drawn there by the World's fair work, upset the re publican equilibrium in Illinois. The elements that make New York city democratic have made Clm-ago democratic enough to overcome the rural vote. Ami it is probable that from this time forward Illinois will be a doubtful st; tc. The republican party gave the World' fair to Chi cago. The return for the great com pliment to the great city of the west is not quite what was expected. Already there is dissatisfaction in democratic c imps over the re cent election. The I'lattsmouth Journal and Nebraska City News are indulging in a war of words, all occassioued by the defeat of J. Stcr ing Morton. The News claims Norton was knifed by Hryan and the Journal resents such a thrust, but then the News is about right. THE people will find it hard to pay $.TO,00il a year more for their sugar than they are now paying, but that it is one of the probable prices of democratic tariff reform. The coming session of congress win do a very tain one, as the dem ocrats will not be disposetl, for obvious reasons, to do anything more exciting than draw their pay. Ohio began to be shaky when she sold a senator-ship toCalvin S. Hrice instead of giving it to some compe tent and worthy man on his per sonal merits. Thomas H. Reed will not preside over the next house, but he will make life burdensome to the man who thall be chosen for that service. THE FARMERS' CONCRESS. The coining session of the farm- ts, national congress in this city is attracting wide attention and will certainly turn out to be a notnOic meeting, both in attendance and the value and interest of the proceedings. It is time for the people of Lincoln to prepar to suit ably entertain this large body of representative men, and for the farmers of Nebraska to put them selves in readiness todotheir share in promoting the success of the meeting and in profiting from the presence of these practical agricul turists in a three days session at the state capital. I If 1,000 delegates attend fie con vention from outside the t- ate, at least 1,(XX) Nebraska farmers ought to be found who will meet th m. He sides helping entertain the visitors they will be able to do the ilate a good turn by telling them iidivid ually and collectively of the ound less agricultural resources nf Ne braska ami of the many social, religious, political and dim; ic ad vantages enjoyed by the leoplc who are so fortunate as to reside within her boundaries. Thijmeet ing affords nn opportuniV for standing up for Nebraska (n an unusually effective way, mil our wide-awake farmers wijt see that it is not neglected. It is pleasant to notice tu.i Sec retary Kout. . Pumas of th. state board of agriculture appij-iates the situation. He has aire ranged to make a display products of the state in t'uj chamber. In this work thJ y ar- f the nate board deserves ami will doubtless iveive assistance from every partof the state. Representatives hallvill be filled with progressive rmers coming from nearly every iate in the union. To place a liltli expo sition of the resources of Noraska but a few feet away is a brigt idea, and one that will be sure t bring much favorable attention this state. The people of Lincoln ha some thing to do in helping aloig the good work. They are ased to decorate their places of business in honor of the event, and to aist as they are able in making thl visit ors comfortable. The contrition will open next Tuesday anl con tinue until Thursday. Lincoln Journal. j The committee to whom was re ferred the city hall-opera house proposition failed to maka a re port last Monday night. It is understood that they will report at the next meeting. LOGICAL RESULTS OF DEMO CRATIC RULh IN AMERICA. The wage workers of this country will read the following among the many announcement-' of the Hrilisb press and. we hope, be able to de rive some sort of comfort from Hum. that Hriti.-h gold was used in enormous quantities to influence the late national election in the interest of Hritisli commerce and it ascendency will become apparent as events transpire. If the laboring classes who elected Mr. Cleveland can see any thing except disaster to their interests in the utterances of the Iinlish press we are quite cer tian they must lead those utter ances by the aid ol the magnifying glasses of the free tratle importer. Hear the cablegrams from London and Liverpool. A iinniiier nf I lit- interviews represent the eiti.eiis of the Itelt'ast us jiiliiliint uvrr Mr. t'levehoiil's virtciry, iiikI iis tulk iiiK of imiliiiiK else lint the tin industry havliii sntlereil tlirunli the McKinley tiirlll. Sir Diiniel Dixnn, the mayor of the city, win, is a ship mvner. snys lie is re juireil fur the -like of llella.-l. unit lie ml tieipates more truth' hoth in her exports iiml in fieiulits Can the wage earners of America derive any comfort from the fact that democratic ascendency in this country is to destroy our infant tin plate industry. Again: Aniinilierof Welsh tin plate manufac turers. Whose work have lieen closed, are Kivinii tint ice of :i resumption nf work ut their estijhlisliiuents, The news of the demoi Tsi tie victory has heen received with Krcut satisfaction in the iron mid tin plate mauiilactui init districts of (lre.it llritniti. Can the wage workers and honest democrats of tjiis country sec any thing but disaster to American interests in the announcement of this direct result from the election of Mr. Cleveland.- v otild the Welsh manufacturer start up again with bis tin plate works if it is not a fact that he expects the democratic party to strike down and destroy the American tin industry V The Welshman had to close his works the moment we enab.ed the Yankee to mrniifacture in this country. Hence, when democracy destroy an industry in our country, they build up one for the benefit of our great commercial rival and enemy. Can the wage-earner of Ameaica see this. Hear the London Times: London, .Nov.l'.'.-TheTiuiesHays: The democratic victory is so complete thnt il curries with it nn utilisation to net up to the pleilKt-s if the Chicago pliitfortn. It is no longer necessary for Cleveland to usHuuie the heduiti);, ininitni.iiiii tone which marked his letter of acceptance. The republican party now de mands the fulfillment of democratic promises strike down the present tariff law and give us southern and British tariff for revenue only. Nothing less will do and, we hope, the wage earner of '' oountry will blame only himself when be comes to compete single handed ami alone with European wages. REPUBLICAN STEADFASTNESS The National deleat of Tuesday was hardly if any less a surprise than the one of two years ago. It ditl not seem possible that with the country, East and West, more generally prosperous than ever be fore, every industry thriving, no body idle who had a mind to work the cost of living on the decline and the rales of wages on the in crease the people would decree chance says the Inter Ocean. Hut that is what has been done. Two years ago the party was staggered by the blow, the column made to waver by the shock. The republi can press showed here and there indications ot a disposition to make a surrender of principle. It was not until I'resideut Harrison's annual message, a mouth later, came out, with its ringing and un daunted championship of every distinctive doctrine ol the party that nil symplons of demoralization passed away. Something of that kind was needed then. Not so now With one voice and unequivocal, distinctness the republican press so far as heard from, is as thor oughly loyal to the principles of the party as it would have been had these principles won a great and splendid victory. There is no tin certainty in the note sounded. hatever the democracy may do or fail to do there is no "shadow of turning" in the republican press individual politicians, men who worship at the shrine of immediate results, may webble and vacillate but the mitfbty von.. . has the clarion ring of the unfalter ing uteadfastness. Two years ago two republican newspapers in this city wfre for surrender. One had been that way ever siuce Cleveland's mesiage of 1S87, with a slight respite daring- a part of the campaign of lMauda little let up in the fall of 'lS'Aij the other had stood forprote'O" very since it was founded, fie rty or fifty years. Hut not'K: of he kind is heard from eit)" The Tribune and, the Journal ... , j lisrmsitimi in neither snow s nnji i Bnrrender in the facM defeat. The .former heads its ltftl'"r or,icle of yesterday, "RepuKatia have noth 1 ing to be OBhame-of," and declares that -'were they to tight the battle over again they w ould adopt neither new policies nor new nicthocls,"add ing, with an increased emphasis, "When their national convention met at Minneapolis il stated with clearness the posit io., m i.ie party on the great (piestio..- rt hich inter ested the country, an I Ci-ir candi dates accepted its plai;." :ii .vithout qualification. There weie no at tempts at evasion or pervcr.-ion." This is the spirit of the whole arti cle. Not the slightest suggestion of free tradeism crops out. The republican party is not dis mayed by defeat now any more than it was in 1W or Is1!. It ac cepts occasional disaster as a part of the fortunes of politics under a popul ir form of government. The democracy will now be put upon trial. From 1M" to lv.t it was hedged in by a republican senate. Now, with the aid of the populists of the senate, it will have a majority and after the Itli of March next will be in power. It must do one of two things, either abandon its hostility to protection or put that hostility into practical effect. The republi can party as a political organiza tion can afford to await with equa nimity the result, and as to the ef fects upon the industrial interest of the country of a return to free trade, if such a return should be made, in whole or in part, they would be no worse for republicans than for dem ocrats. Hard (imrs,like good times, are shared by the people, irrespec tive of party. With the republicans unialteriug in their loyalty to pro tection that fundamental principle is in no danger of overthrow. The sun may be eclipsed, but its fires can not be put out. The election is over and the north-west has demonstrated its loyalty to the republican party, and Iowa has repudiated the pretended Hoise and Nebraska has repudiated usurper Hoyd. In the clocely crowded districts where labor is en gaged in strife with the employer, the day labors voted the demo cratic ticket. The democratic man agement sticeeded in pulling the wool over the employes eyes down east, and making him believe that his employer was in favor of republican supremacy. This gave Mr. Cleveland, New York, Connect icut and the eastern States, and with the German Lutheran vote in Illinois and Wisconsin, these states. In the northwest where the agri culturist was dissatisfied two years ago, the prosperous and wise administration of Mr. Harrison has loyalywon back the farmers sup port. In Iowa, Nebraska and the Dakota' the party Iiiih nniii con- trol and will maintain control. TJIE IlEKALI) now desires for the satis faction the laborer of this coun try, who depends on day labor, that the democratic party may control luiiy Doth branches of congress, and that, that party may have courage enough to fully carry out thedeclaral'on of the Chicago plat form, repeal the present tariff laws and give the county pure and simple tariff for revenue only Anything less will be cowardice, At the same time we predict that the democratic party will not dare ftilhll its promises to the country It is a party of negation, of obstruc tion and any policy which embraces aggressive action or a radical dc parture from the policy which the great republican party has pursued in this country will never be adopted by that party of obstruc tion. The democratic party can build a stone wull across the public highway of progress in this country but it can never and will never at tempt to hew out a new and broad highway for itself and the people Mr. Cleveland's policy of admini stration will consist of empty plat itudes and declarations based on democratic traditions of what An drew Jackson or Thomas Jefferson may have said in some nolilical demonstration in the davs when this country was wholly undevel oped. Four years of obstruction. accompanied by hard times and cheap labor will satisfy the wage workers of this country and the IlKKALl) is willing that the obiect lesson proceed. MR.TKAVIS tells us lie intends Hlllnir TlIK I'LATTSMorril Hrkai.ii fur lil.,-1 iniide iiKiiinst him in the tiiniimimi. "ypvood Echo. lr , attorney Travis has Kfood grounds for bringing suit KainstTllKHEkAi nf., ki.... don t he get a move on himself and bring suit instead of running around the county telling the dif ferent papers what be ,; do. Come on Mr. Travis with your ' "c., or noici your tongue. The IIekald doesn't believe Mr. Travis "7J8rhatcon8titutesa libel and would be pie...H , .. , V' ivacii mm the lawonthatsubjc.,. The Hek ALI will have more to eay t.ow. ing Attorney Travis hereafter. I'mwm . ... niuxeed Postmaster Street in th --- - RUSSIA'S SIDE OF THE PAMIR ' QUESTION. ; One of the most marked things P about Russian diplomacy isitiiv ?i perial character. Russia rarely or T perhaps never appears in the ro1 j oi applicant lor lavors, diplomat 1 or otherwise. When the czar. f. instance, wants mo..ey, but an int v1 niation of that fact is suflic;erit to set .the governments of Europe, whether of the Dreibund or inde pendent, at work to accommodate . him. When an alliance is made it " is rarely that the czar funis it neces- $ sary even to make the first advances. Hence the czar since the time of Napoleon has occupied more nearly than any other of the rulers o Europe the position of arbeter i " European destinies. And when t comes to action no country of Etitj rope acts with the promptness and'Jj vigor of Russia. As a rule ;i!ho f Russia's foreign policy is carried forward so swiftly and surely on' the line chosen by herself that when a quarrel or a war is precipitated it is generally some other country tnatieeis compelled to resort .t arms to ssert its rights again" Russia. This at present seems to be the situation in the Pamirs, where both England and Russia are maneuver ing for position in the contest winch is to decide the suoreinacv of Asia and the East. Of England's real or supposed rights in the Pa mirs which led her to send troops to the aid of the Ameer of Afghan istan, the world has been kept fully informed by England herself. Of Russia's claims and rights little has been heard. This usual defect or characteristic of Russian diplomacy has for once however supplemen ted from authoritative Russian sources. The Turkestan Gazette of Sept. 20 contains a full exposition of Russia's rights in the Pamirs, and its translation and appearance in full in European papers has placed the Pamir questions in a de-.' cidedly more favorable light, as re- 'j gards Russia. The Gazette is the smi-oflicial journal of Turkestan., and it evidently speaks of Iht Pamirs. The Gazette traces the history of the Pamirs from thetimel of Marco Polo's accounts to thtf1 present and more especially for the last ten years when the country first became circulatially known to Europeans. What constitutes ' the Pamirs is thus defined; "The Pamirs constitutes a mountainous country formed by the conjunction 1; otthe I hum, Shan, the Muz dagata j aim uie Hindu hush, and bounded on the north bv the T rails. Al:tii range and on the south by th-j Hindu Hush. It extends north to south ISO miles and west to east 200.1 ,..M,.L. I....... - ... t. ... linns, oeiweeu me iviver 1'iudta on r i i - r nn- wesi aim me j;isikoi ridge withcV i its branches on the east. This plateau raises to a mean bight of I iboilt 12.000 feet :l , - ' n v lVt.l tlllU presents a disorderly distribution of inountainsof various sizes, sur rounded on its bordeisby the high est chains of cloudcapped ranges and peaks." The permanent population of the I amirs is placed at about 1,500 souls. The Kerghiz naniads who inhabit this "roof of the world'' are de- , scribed as "a wretched, sickly set ot V people." After having the detailed ' history of this lofty table-land and the internal and external influences brought to bear upon the Ameer of Afghanistan during the last terr years the articles claims to estab lish the fact Hi .1 n .. , i diiiirs ue- lllllir to It'iisi i I,,, .. . 9t "K"1 uirect ,( iuherituiie.. fi-.i... ,1... i..... 1-1. ) on; iiim ivminaie of Khokand, The Afghans and Chinese since 1S85, according to the Gazette, have been slrivingto share the Pamirs between them, and at the same time the limits of the British power in India were being extended north to the south of the ft iimuu luisu. Ihe events 0f last il ........... 1 t Y , ' . summer ieu KiiHsia toaRrcrt again her right to th- Pamirs, and n the Hnttsh troops sent ro "aid" the Ameer, the Gazette says: "It j;, I10, very probable the Auieerof AfnO.:ir, istan asked for assistance from the Indian governmen, a suDnositinn we may add the Inter-Oce ;ln qia time ncro HUirveHtcd. V article it is clear that Russin iu. lieves she has aright to the I ,;,., i and the histoy of Russia shows i t...i ..1. . ' A . . i mil sue is oi usually diffident ibout claimig her own. In f , lair- ness it 111 ust be admitted that the arucie in qesiion makes u 1 "uuiiir showing fr Russia, and places th t amirs uuestion in a iW;,i...i..- I re . . mi-lily different light from that il,r,.. tip'i it by the Lritish land has some heavy work before ber if she attempts f pass H. Hindu hush and extend her empire oti the north.-InUT-Ocean. NEW Yokk never declares for th same party two presidential venra in succession. The rep,8 earned it in ISOUhe democrats in 180S, Uie renublL-ana .,-.. 8 democrats in l!0, the r....i Hi, IIIC (K'tlOiratB in 10O, .. j.. ... "vr"UllC:inu republican ii Insk . ' ,ne . . : atid the crara in ls'll It ,;ii u . "'"io" i- 1 I "A, K ! "--A