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OFFICIAL rOUXTY EHSPAPLIC.
Ax industrious statistician figures
that the route from England to India
is ste wn with $400,000,000 worth of gold
and jewels, owing to the many shipping
disasters.
John J. Ikoalls says that he was
not converted by Sam Jones because he
is an Episcopalian. By the same token
he i no longer a United States senator
because he is a republican.
Thene are over 100,000 mea out of
employment in Vienna. It might be
supposed from the resemblance that
Vienna is working under a McKinley
tariff, but she is not. She is working
under one a few degrees higher.
Amoso 1,000 opium patients treated
by the Dwight institution there were
1:2 newspaper men, 140 doctors, 22
bankers, 8 ministers, 128 lawyers and
424 women. The great moral reformers
of ihepres3are vindicated by figures.
Sksator Turpie has succeeded 'n
having the republican postmaster at
Indianapolis removed a year before the
expiration of this term. Indiana has
rem lined the land of wonders ever
sin'e Harrison was elected president.
The Plattsmouth News is objecting
because the tariff on diamonds has been
increased from ten to fifteen percent
ad valoram. That is the way the re
puolican papers work in the interests
of the laboring men. Nebraska City
News.
.Shall, the fifty-fourth congress be
democratic or republican? The presi
dent and the democratic leaders in
congress have much to do with the
answer. They have much to do with
the spirit of the party as it enters the
campaign. Is it not time for getting
together on party organization?
Sksatoh Hoar has made a speech
at Jersey City in which he declared
that every factory iu the land would re
sume uader the assurance that the Mc
Kinley law should be undisturbed for
three years. The senator is impeached
by his previous declaration that they
would resume immediately after the
repeal of the Sherman law. The sen
ator from Hawaii is out of order.
There seems to be some disposition
on the part of the senate finance com
mittee to consider the pleas of the wool
men for a duty on wool. Free wool is
the best feature of the Wilson bill as it
passed the hou.-e. and if the senate
proposes to restore the wool duty it
might as well substitute the McKinley
bill for the Wilson bill, and be done
with it. The bill without free wool
would hardly be worth a(tariff) tinker's
profanity.
Unless the Bland bill for the coin
age of the seigniorage becomes a law
the administration will issue another
$50,000,000 block of bonds of dubious
legality. It might be wise for the
bouse to pass resolutions which will
check the avowed purpose of the secre
tary of the treasury and the president
to proceed with the bond outrage.
Wall street is hungry for more bonds
and played its cards so well with the
first batch that it will probably get the
second at less than par.
CAPITAL CORREsPONDENCK.
WAsnixoTON, D. C.,Feb. 15.1S94.
Washington ought to be, even it it is
not, the most magnificently improved
and equipped city in America. Cne
chief reason for this is the fact that the
people of the whole country have paid
for the improvement of its streets and
the ornamentation of its parks and
pleasure grounds more than ten mil
lions of dollars this besides all the
millions of money that have gone to
pay for the erection of the numerous
grand, imposing and beautiful public
buildings, including the capitol, the
treasury, the state, war aud navy
buildings, the patent office, postoflice
aud the less imposing and elevator-like
pension office. And besides these, the
colossal monuments and heroic statuary
which so adorn ana beautify the parks
and "circles" at the intersection of the
streets with the avenues throughout
the city. But seemingly old, this
prod'gality is not enough to exemplify
the liberality of congress. A statute
has long been in force which provides
that congress shall pay oue-half of the
expense of conducting the city govern
ment, including the expense of the
courts, the water works system, street
improvements and street cleaning, the
public schools, the police and for keep
ing up all paraphernalia of city govern
ment. As one result of this system the
public schools are conducted on a very
liberal plan, including the teaching of
modem and ancient languages, music
and dancing. Still one btars as much
growling among property owners
against high taxes as there is in Cass
county. The taxes here amount to
about 3 per cent on the assessed value
of property. One must conclude, there
fore, that the growl is a constitutional
prerogative, or a constitutional weak
ness, rather. I suppose if the govern
ment were to pay all their taxes for
thuu these rich property owners would
growl because they were obliged to
collect their rents themselves.
The Bland bill for coining the seig
niorage is now on in the house, and it
is bringing out a revamping of all the
silver and anti-silver oratory of the ex
tra session. All the bankers and
money changers of the east and their
attorneys on the floor are fighting it
with all possible energy and vigor.
They recognize in it an entering wedge
to free coinage, and it gives these old
Shylocks the horrors. There is evi
dence, however, that quite a number of
republicans will support the measure,
in addition to a much larger number of
democrats than there were who op
posed the repeal of the Sherman act.
WHAT CAUSED LAST SUMMER'S PANIC?
To some people this might seem a
dead ifsue, but such is far from being
the case, in view of developments re
cently made. Doctrinaires tell you
that it wa? brought about by fear that
silver certificates were about to go at a
discount, and specie payments would
be suspended on account of the con
tinuance of the purchases of silver
under the Sherman act. Others claim
that it was caused chiefly by the fear
of congressional action on the tariff.
Many people of the west, however, be
lieved that it was the result of a con
spiracy on the part of financiers and
the banking interests of the country.
In this direction the following extract
from a letter of the Washington cor
respondent of the New York Sun of
May 1st, 1893, throws a flood of light.
He said:
"The stHtement of Mr. Carlisle to
the New Yoik bankers makes it clear
that while Mr. Cleveland works con
gress the bankers will be expected to
work not in New York only, but
throughout the country, doing their
utmost to pinch business everywhere,
in the expectation of causing a money
crisis that will effect congress power
fully from every quarter at once."
There you have it; a declaration
Neat-Fitting-, Stylish and PT HTUTMr
Extra Quality - - - UJLU 1 111 IN U
Prices, Like the Clothing, Guaranteed
in advance of the causes which brought J
about the most disastrous panic and )
universal distress that ever atllicted
this country. Truly a disease must be
very desperate which required such a
severe remedy. The president and the
bankers together seem to have sown
the wind, but the p .or people of the
a untry have reaped the whirlwind.
C. W. S.
A SWEEPING CONDEMNATION.
Judge Dundy of the federal court at
Omaha took oocasi. n to announce
after his recent ruling allowing the re
ceivers of the Union Pacific railroad
to reduce the wages of the employes of
that corporation that the order did not
prohibit the employes from resisting
the proposed reduction by all peaceful
and lawful means at their command.
This was a distinct disavowal of any
effort to assert such an authority as
Judge Jenkins had asserted and en
forced in the Northern Pacific cases,
but Judge Caldwell, who has just re
viewed Judge Dundy's decision, goes
still further in the direction of limit
ing the powers of the federal judiciary
and declares that Judge Dundy had no
power to issue such an order at the
petition of the receivers and without a
hearing in court of any protest the em
ployes of the road might make.
This opinion will strike the public as
beingeminently just. The Milwaukee
and Omaha orders have provoked a
great deal of opposition all over the
country. They have been generally
recognized as the assertion of powers
dangerous to all classes of citizens and
there has been accordingly a protest
against them confined to no class or
section. They have found but few de
fenders anywhere, and these have been
utterly powerless to give them stand
ing or support in public opinion. They
have, however, served the eood pur
pose of bringing out the real law for
such cases.
Judge Dundy (who doesn't appear
to lie at all happy these days) took oc
casion during a trial of one of the
Mosher suits in Lincoln the other dav
to severely denounce Mosher for the
system of robbery with which he looted
thebank The News suggests: "Why
didn't the judge indulge iu his verbal
castigations of Mosher when he was
before him? Why did he curb the
righteous indignation that must have
burned within his bosom when this
bank-wrecker was in court ? Why
did he not then give comfort to the
creditors, the dupes of his financial
Macbiavel, by giving him the limit of
the law, twenty years, instead of the
least he could give him five years?
Why did he consent to the district at
torney's dismissing the other indict
ments against Mosher and allowing
him to plead to the one on which he was
sentenced as it is understood had been
agreed upon between the district at
torney and Mosher's counsel?" Echo
answers why.
It is to be hoped the report that the
labor element has engaged Col. Itobert
(S. Ingersoll to argue its case against
Judge Jenkins is untrue. The cause of
labor is too high and glorious a one to
be handed over to a notorious mer
cenary a man without enthusiasms or
honest convictions, selling his great
talents for silver, and always ready to
sacrifice a truth to an epigram. We
would rather see labor represented by
a simple, honest man in - a finannel
shirt than by Ingersoll with all his
wealth of (words and his gorgeous
raiment.
The home market which our repub
lican friends assure us they have been
so assiduously fostering for the last
twenty years has done the farmers
mighty little good. With no place to
sell their wheat, even at the startlingly
low price of 55 cents, the farmers
would be puzzled to tell what good it
has done them to protect iron barons
and put money into a few monopolistic
pockets by a farcical pretense of build
ing up a fictitious tin-plate industry.
THE FARMER'S .SIDE.
.v correspondent in the New York
World ably discusses the tariff question
from an agricultural standpoint. He
says that exports can only be paid for
lawfully in imports. We cannot law
fully be paid for them unless the pay
ment passes through the custom-house
and is made an import. Go! 1 and sil
ver are metals imported and exported
the same as iron and copper. No
money is or can be exported or im
ported. Every dollais' worth of any
thing kept out f the country must
either deprive some American citizen
of that dollar's worth in payment for
something he has made with his labor,
or prevent him from making with his
labor something for that dollar's worth.
Our exports are mainly agricultural.
Half our male workers are on farms.
The tenth census says that the "esti
mated value of all farm productions
sold, consumed or on hand for 1879
was S2.213.402.5G4. Our exports for
the fiscal year endii g June, 18S0, were
5683,961,091, or 31 per cent. This was
value at the place of export. The
farm price was at least 23 per cent.
Our farmers not only supplied the
"home market," but 25 per ctrit of
every farmer's crop had to be sold
abroad or given away. If sold abroad,
he had to take payment, t xchauge it
for what was wanted here, in foreign
manufactures. In 1S0 he took in
payment and "imported" foreign
manufactures valued at S423,99.016,
and 5244,235,730 in crude or partly
manufactured goods. Every dollar's
worth of these imports became the
products of American farm labor the
moment it touched our soil. It made
not the slightest difference in the labor
question whether the farmers obtained
the silk they now had by weavii g it or
by exchange for corn; whether they
had dug out of the ground the iron
they now had or obtained it in ex
change for potatoes. Whatever they
had was the final product of their farm
labor, and it was not the product of
foreign labor or of any other lal or but
their own. The foreign trade had
given both profitable work and profita
ble wages to 25 per cent of our farmers,
or rather furnished 35 per cent of the
work and wagts of each farmer, and
the profit on the exchange was a profit
secured by American farm labor, to
which it had been a lawful riuht, aud
of which it should not be deprived.
INCOME AND lMI'OKf TAXES.
We cannot understand why people
prefer ihe income tax to an import
tariff if they study the two systems
thoroughly. Hastings Tribune.
It is very simple. The income tax
always comes out of the man who can
afford it, while the tariff often conies
out of the man who cannot afford it
and who has to make up for it b a
deficiency in the comfort of himself
and family. But the worst feature of
the tariff system is that the man who
buys American made goods pays an
enhanced price, and the difference he
pays does not go to the government at
all, but to the man who makes the
goods. The tariff tax falls mainly upon
the necessaries of life, the income tax
upon the surplus above $4,000 a year.
Under the tariff system of collecting
revenue a man may pay hundreds of
dollars a year more for the manufac
tured articles he needs than he would
have to pay under free trade aud still
not a dollar of it see the treasury. It
simply goes as a bonus to the manu
facturers. That is the basis, gist and
purpose of protection, and P is wrong.
The tariff is the clumsiest and most un
just method of raising revenue known
to the world, and would not be toler
ated, much less supported, but for the
accompanying benefits to a rich and
powerful class of men who gain extra
profits by it. Lincoln Herald.
And now that the Wilson bill is sure
to pass the Illinois Steel company is
starting up all its works, with the idea,
doubtless, of retrieving that 5349,000
deficit it reported as the result of last
year's operations under the beneficent
protection of the McKinley measure.
COME INTO THE FOLD.
Lincoln Herald.
We desire to call the attention of onr
populist friends to a situation which
they declared would never come about.
A year or two ago, when Bryan began
to talk and the democrats to resolve
about the income tax and other and
further shifting and equalization of
burdens, they one and all declared that
these things could never be done
through the democratic party. They
insisted that Bryan and men who agrted
with him should come right over to the
new party, where they would have
sympathy and assistance, and might
stand some show of bringing about
what they desired. And, moreover.
they grew, some of them, angry with
those whodid not accept the invitation.
But we beg them to look over the
field again. With scarcely a dissenting
voice the democrats of the house have
passed the income tax requirement,
aud that in a shape that makes it safe
to go through the senate and become a
law. Democracy in lightening the bur
dens of the poor and weak and laying
added burdens upon the rich and
strong, and in every way effecting the
reforms that our populist friends have
been demanding.
Now we invite them to come over
and help us. They cannot, do any good
where they are--only harm by useless!
dividing the forces that o::ght to be
consolidated in the light against repub
licanism and contraction and high
tariff.
In May, lb!0, the republicans passed
the McKinley "bill and in November of
the same year the democrats elected
'Z3S congressmen to the republicans'
eighty-seven. But the McKinley law
wasn't repealed. In January. 1SS4, the
Wilson bill being on the verge of pas
sage, the republicans elected one con
gressman,a very young and garrulous
individual with the burlesque name
Lemuel Eli Quigg. - Straightway the
republican press declared the Wilson
bill "smashed."" Thus do circumstances
alter cases.
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Akers Allen. known otherwise as
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favorite for it is a sweet little touch ol
home life. But there is ano her side
to the picture. Many a mother rocks
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nor sleep herself. She is always tired,
has an everlasting backache, is low
spirited, weary, nervous and all that.
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Walt Mason tells this in the Beatrice
Express: "Attorney-General Hastings
is fond of quoting the scriptures, as all
good men are. A couple of weeks ago
lie was getting his grip ready for a
journey, when two or three state of
ficials gathered about and asked him
where he was going. 'I go,' said Mr.
Hastings, repeating a familiar text,
'to prepare a place for you.' Then he
went away, and the next day the of
ficials heard that he was visiting the
asylum for the feeble-minded in Be
atrice." State op Ohio, City of Toledo,
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he is the senior partner of the firm of
F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in
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