Nebraska Newspapers

    THE DAILY BEE-OMAHA WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 30. 1881 nn
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' . S. BOSBWATER. Editor.
No ONn boa boon selected to fill Mr ,
How's place aa assistant secretary of the
trewmry , but it is conceded that wcat-
orn man will have the place. Mr. Filloy
xrill probably bo hoard from.
Ir the llcrald wants to compare notes
on apodal dispatches wo are ready with
Uio Western Union receipts. Talk is
cheap , but the documents show who ro-
coi vo special market rcporte by telegraph.
IH TiTKiin to bo no demonstration to
celebrate the safe rotnrn of Dr. Miller
from Europe ? No brass bands , no illumi
nations , no firing of cannon or ringing of
church bolls to ( signalize this important
event ? .
* TUB Omaha street lamps need clean
ing. The gas company will probably
wait for the April showers to wash the
outsides , but when they will clean the
iusidos is ono of those things which no
follow can find out.
IT is an easy matter to edit daily
paper in Denver. Not a day passes by
tn Colorado without a first-class sensation.
of norao kind a tnunlor , a lynching , a
robbery , a miuo dinastor , a bank defalca
tion or something startling.
. Dn. WOOD , the great American con-
domnerof the Now York Sun ia doad. no
was called the condemner owing to his
ability to boil n column down to ton
words. Ho probably received his educa
tion in the art of condemning during the
period that a message of ton words from
Omaha to Now York cost $5.05.
" TUB democrats of Ohio inaugurated
the war upon civil service reform by
electing Standard Oil Fayno to succeed
Gentleman George in the United States
aonato. The democrats in congress , led
on by the hope of spoils in the n ar fu
ture , propose to follow up the ' 'Ohio
idea" by defeating , if possible , 4 any ap
propriation for carrying on the work of
the civil service commission. The St.
Louis Qlobe-Democrat saya that in the
.departments where the advantages of the
civil service act are just beginning to bo
'felt there is considerable uneasiness as to
the probable action of congress on this
subject. This uneasiness is not without
grounds , for a canvass of congress shows
a general fooling of silent contempt or
open hostility to the commission. A
number of the now democratic congress
men are clamoring for the loaves and
fishes , and their blind conDdonoo in their
'Ability to elect the next president upon
_ the simple issue of the offices makca
them still more anxious to got these
offices within roach.
RKLIEP FOB THE DESTITUTE.
There , is moro Buffering among the
poor of timnha than tbo people generally
have any idea ol , and some stops should
bo at once taken to rohovo the immediate
wants of the destitute. Unfortunately
there ia but ono regularly organized relief
aocioty in this city , and that is by no
moans sufficient to cover the field. 10n :
'Dos Moines 000 persons are taken care of
na a public charge. The people of Omaha
do not begrudge the money spent by the
county commissioners in assisting the
destitute , but prefer that relief should 10o
" it extended through this source. Relief
, ivon by private parties is well
11r
enough in its way , but U irregular
and spasmodic , and cannot bo depended
upon by these who must bo provided for
through the winter. The trouble , how (
ever , whth our county commissioners
't that they are dealing out aid with too
stinted a hand. They have cut down the
allowance of coal from half a ton per
month to ono quarter of a ton per family ,
Bad the coal supplied is the very poor-
eitin the market. A quarter of a ton "of ;
coal will not keep a family warm for one
month , and would hardly do the cooking
'ifthefiro is only used one houi a day
for that purpose and then extinguished ,
d.on
, The Woman's Ohrutiau Aid Association
purchase Wyoming coal at half-price , and
' we believe tha county ootnmUaionera can
. - , procure it at the umo rate for the benefit -
fit of the needy. The couunuuicnera
have made a mistake , however , in delegating -
lent
gating the aid business to Superintendent >
PJMroe , of the .poor farm , as he is a man
who neenui to think that women and chil
dren can keep warm by rubbing their
hands and can subsist on wind. It
U hoped the oommuwlonera will
wtonwt themselves more in behalf of
oir da Utut poor , and tee that no one
* niWifor , the absolute necewariw of life ,
Our people would rather bo taxed in i a
way for their titfrt than to be
o * individually from day to day by
" < M who represent therotelvei to been
I/ t
iw wmit of food.- ' ,
Tk Woman' * ChrbtUn Aid association
bu ewaiaUUw ia ech ward , and is do-
fug ir rythitig powible i6 relieve suffer
pr- ifl . Ooe of the object * of the society it
to put a atop to etrpet b ging.
LHT TlIkltK fill A'O yURTHKK DKLA.V ,
Now that the railroad attorneys see
that congress evidently means business
they are clamoring for a railroad commission -
mission , and tro resorting to their old
tactics of delaying and impeding railroad
legislation in every possible way. The
demand for a commission to obtain in
formation ia all humbug. There is nl-
d'y a railroad bureau , which ban the
hority to procure information from
the Pacific railroads and nil other
roads chartered by congress. All that
congress should do , if more ntatistics are
wanted , is to authorize the commissioner
of the railroad bureau to gather statistics
from all railroads. The facts about rail
way traffic will bo found to bo substan
tially the Bnrao. There are some points
upon which no further information
ia needed , aa they are well estab
lished. It is an established fact that
railroad tairlTs are arbitrary , unjust and
discriminating. It in notorious that ono
class of shippers enjoy privileges denied
another class. The Standard Oil com
pany , for instance , can transport its pro
ducto and secure rebates that nro not al
lowed to ita rival. Extortionate rates
are charged at competitive points by the
establishment of pools , and ono class of
patrons are built up while another
clasn are pulled down. The spiril
of the intor-stato commerce bill is to settle
tlo thcso questions. These abuses and
grievances can bo righted only by congress
through general laws regulating railroa4
traffic on all through linos. The inter
state commerce bills , now pending before
the house committees , are intended to
remedy all these evils. They propooo to
give the people relief without further
delay , and without the intervention o
commissions or uny bureau , and to afford
redress for grievances through the courts ,
This ia what the people demand and
what they will have. The question n
issue , and which must bo settled to tin
satisfaction of the public , is ono of fail
treatment and protection from oxtortior
and against ditorimination. Congress wil
not necessarily have to mnko the loca
rates on the various roado , but it mus
regulate the general conduct of rnilron
companies in their dealings with the pub *
lie and with each other. As to rates
congress will not undertake to do more
than establish a maximum and a mini
mum , thus preventing extortion as wel
as ruinous rate wars. Some railroad
companies need protection on well as th
public.
Congressman Reagan , in response k
numerous telegrams from railroad attor
ncys , nays that further oral arguments or
the inter-state commerce bill will not b
heard , but that written statements wil
bo received. It is gratifying to the pub
Ho , hdwovor , to learn that the commorc
committee will not delay aotion in ordo
to await the receipt of any such vrritte
arguments. The committee is well a war
that those arguments will bo but the a tor
ootypod repetition of the arguments mad
during the last three sessions of congress
The committee can find those argumoni
in print as public documents. The proi
peats for securing some needed railroai
legislation on the part of congress no
seems quito encouraging , nnleaa th
house of lords , aa the senate is no
called , undertakes to thwart the populai
will , as expressed through the house
representatives.
GOULD'S ( HIKED ,
If there is any evidence wanting to
prove that Jay Gould has boon recently
seriously "uquoozod , " notwithstanding
hia emphatic denials , it can bo found in
the fact that ho has ordered a general ro-
duotipn of expenses of the Western Union
telegraph company. In accordance with
his instructions , the cutting down of cx-
ponsos has already boon begun in the
Western Union office in Now York. The
manngor has boon ordered to keep his
pay-roll at the lowest possible figure , and
it ia said that this rule is to bo applied to
all the offices in the country. The
working force has boon out down in the
Now York office , and wo presume that
the force all over the country will bo re
duced. This course is said to bo the re
sult of an interview between Jay Gould
and President Norvin Green on Friday
last in which the
former
, became como-
what excited. It is asserted that the
now policy is against the wishes of. Presi
dent Green. It is not unlikely that the
next move on the part of Jay Gould will
bo an ordot to reduce the wagoa of tele
graph operators all ever the country ,
and at the same time y.so
the tariff on the tranomiasion of
mcsiagoa , Having boon "squeezed" him
self , ho now proposes to "tqueezo" the
employes of the Western Union and the
public in order to got even , The out
look for the operators under the circutn
stances is not very encouraging. Having
been beaten in their recent strike they
are not in condition or spirit to resist La
reduction of wages , and the great and
good Gould , aware of this fact , will no
doubt take advantage of the situation.
It should not be forgotten that the West
ern Union made up its losses , arising
from the strike , by quietly
raising Uioir tariff , and U still
remains at the elevated figures.
Tux republic of San Domingo now
wants a commercial reciprocity treaty
with the United States. The proposition
will embody a principle which is lacking
in the pending Mexican treaty and that
now in force with the Hawaiian islands.
This will be t > clause for the benefit It.of
American shipping , to the effect that
those articles of commerce which may be
admitted duty free into the respective
countries shall bo carried in American
built or San Domingo built vessels , The '
- friends of American shipping argue thai
this should be the fundamental principle
of all future commercial treaties botweei :
the United States and the islands of thit
hemisphere , in order to assimilate com
merce with now coastwiio trndo. It
scorns to us , however , that if thin treaty
is to bo similar to the Hawaiian treaty , it
cannot bo otherwise than in the interest
of some ring or monopolist. It will not
bo long before the real object of this
proposition will crop out somewhere. Un
der the Hawaiian treaty , Glaus Sprocklcs
got n corner on the HUgar trade of tboso
islands , and , building steamers of his
own , ho also has monopolized the carry
ing trade between Hawaii and this coun
try. In all probability acme shrewd
Ynnltoo has cornered BO mo of the pro
ducts of San Domingo , and proposes to
build a line of vessels of his own , so that
ho can land the products at San Domingo
in this country free of duty. There is a
nigger eomowhoro in that San Domingo
woodpilo.
KIMIIALL'S ITALIAN1 HANI ) .
Of all plans for railway regulation the
commission plan acorns most feasible }
With the exception of Nebraska , every
state which has had trouble with the rail
roads has resorted to this nicasuro of
regulation , and in every instance the
commission system has been successful
in some cases moro so than in others ,
but in nil cases enough to warrant its
adoption ns an experiment. In Iowa
there is to-day no anti-railroad party or
press and before the establishment of
the commission the agitation and agony
that were endured were far moro power
ful than anything of the kind that has
been the portion of the people of Ne
braska. Through the turmoil of granger-
ism and granger laws on the ono side and
railway bribery of legislators and subsid
ization of newspapers on the other , our
eastern neighbor came finally to the solu
tion of the problem. And since that
solution peace anil prosperity , alike of
the people and of the railroads , have on-
sued. Jtcpubltcan. *
The hands are the hands of Esau , but
the voice is the voice of Jacob. The fmo
Italian hand of Thomas L. Kimball , as
sistant general manager of the Union
Pacitic , is visible in every lino. You
may masquerade in the anti-monopoly
garb as much as you please , but you
cannot conceal the brass collar.
When the railroad organ crams into
the throats of the farmers of Nebraska
nine columns of extracts from commis
sioner lows , its design to mislead becomes
moro transparent than ovor.
Such a oonfidonco game may bo success
fully played by three card monte sharps
upon rural greenhorns , but it will not
deceive intelligent and well-informed
people , whether they are on the farm , erin
in the workshop , or in the storehouse.
Railroad commissions have boon estab
lished in many states , but in nearly every
instance they have failed to accomplish
the object for which they were organ
ized , unless the object , as in Iowa , waste
to throw a sop M the granger.
In nearly all the states the commis
sioners were appointed by the governors ,
and the governors have played into the
hands of the monopolies by appointing
capoors or political hacks , who draw sala
ries for signing their names to buncombe
reports prepared by the railroad attor
neys. In California the constitutional
convention placed the entire control and
regulation of railways into the hands of
three commissioners elected by the pee
ple. The legislature was thus barred
from regulating the railroad traffic. The
Control Pacific managers found it easier
and cheaper to buy two out of three
commissioners than to purchase
a majority of the legislature.
The result is that California
is helplessly at the mercy of the railroad
robbers , reinforced by a railroad com
mission. The people of California will
abolish the railroad commission and resume -
sumo their rights to regulate railroads
through ( ho legislature as soon as they
can get their constitution amended. In
Georgia and Kansas , where the govern
ors have appointed honest commission
ers , the railroads have resisted every
effort to restrain or control their tratlic ,
nnd the courts have been invoked to pre
vent the enforcement of the orders of
the commission. By the time the courts
decide to sustain 'tho commission the
railroads will have a now sot of commis
sioners , and the people will find themselves -
solves again at their morcy.
Aud now a word about Iowa. Ten
years ago the granger agitation forced
the legislature to enact laws regulating
the railroad traflio. The passenger tariff
was reduced to three cents - a mile on
trunk lines , and freight rates were mate
rially reduced. A great howl was raised
by the railroad organs against this out
rage. All sorts of devices were resorted
to by the Iowa roads to obatruot the
honest execution f the law to make it
odious. Finally a desperate and organ
ized onslaught was mudo all along the
live to have the law repealed. Petitions
were circulated among the railroad em
* ployes and strikers asking for a repeal.
The merchants at all the little stations
were liberally supplied with passes. Pa-
pen were subsidized , and a falsa senti
ment misrepresenting the will of the
people wu created to enable the bribed
legislator to find an excuse for betraying
his trust. A final assault was made , and
the granger law regulating freights was
repealed by a vary email majority. In
place of the law a commisson was created
to regulate the Iowa roads , but the IOWA
.
railroads have never failed to regulate
tha commission. It U true , as Mr. Kim
ball intimates through his organist , that
there ii no anti-monopoly press or party in
Iowa , but forvoll that there is a deep-
rooted anti-monopoly sentiment that can
not be repressed. The leading Iowa
dailies bolonjj to the railroads. The [
Ifnwkeye is owned by the Burlington
road. The Council Bluffs Nonpareil b
an organ of the Union Pacific. '
The Dos Moinoa JltyMcr ia edited
by a railroad president. The [
Cedar Rapids Jiepubllcan foods on pap
from the Chicago & Northwestciu road ,
and so on. The1 o papers have kept down
the impending revolt , but they cannot
keep it down forovor. Only a few weeks
ago the Davenport board of trade passed
resolutions denouncing thu abiuoa to
which the people of Iowa hnvo been sub
jected by the railway monopolies and
they have published an appeal to the
people , in a pamphlet , which has boon
circulated through the length and
breadth of Iowa.
During the first week of the present
session of the Iowa legislature moro than
twenty railroad bills wcro introduced in
response to the public demand tor redress
and relief. Docs Mr. Kimball pretend
that thcso bills would have been intro
duced if the people of Iowa were satisfied
with their railroad commission. The
whole commissioner system of lown was
begotten by the railroads in their own
interest , and it served their purpose ad
mirably. Its days are numbered , how
ever.
A SUite Disgrace.
David City Jlopnblican.
Two prominent citizens and business
men of this city recently visited the state
reform school at Kearney , and being of
an investigating turn of mind , they wont
through the various departments and in
quired into the condition and treatment
of the inmates , as well as into the meth
ods and principles on which the institu
tion is conducted.
Their report as furnished to the Repub
lican is sufficient to stir up the indigna
tion and pity of any citizen whoso nature
is Duscoptiblo in any degrco to human
feeling.
The unfortuim'o children nro in many
cases without sufficient clothing to pro
tect their young and tender bodies from
the life-sapping blasts of winter , and
some of them were on tlo frozen play
ground barefooted in midwinter. On
being asked if they went without foot
gear from choice , they answered that
they did not , but that they had no boots
or shoos.
Further inquiry disclosed the fact that
the appropriation made by the last legis
lature for this benevolent branch of our
state institutions , was exhausted within
five months after the appropriation was
made. The most remarkable thing in
this connection is that there is nothing of
mentionable import to show where the
money was cxpmidcd.
The beds are furnished with scant and
miserable clothing , covered of course with
spreads that deceive the superficial ob
server. The rooms ore without proper
ventilation , without firof cold and more
barren than the ordinary barn of a com
mon farmer.
The "washroom" that has until recent
ly been used , is a small , cramped con
cern , about 10x12 , used aa a privy and
wash-room combined ; no stove , frozen
towels and sickening suiroundings.
The institution has been run practical
Iy without records. The entire absence
of any real information regarding the
management or expenditures was con
spicunus.
Until lately there has been no safe in
which to keep the records or other valua-
ubk's , had they cqisted , and the safe that
ia there now is the old safe formerly used
by Glen Kendall , superintendent of pub
lic lauds and buildings. Our committee
was informed that Kendall had shipped
the new safe , which had been purchased
by the state for the reform school , to his
brother at St. Paul , Nebraska , and this
old rattle-trap was chucked onto the
state at our own isolated Towksbury
to complete the sot of shabby furniture.
The only records which were turned
ever to the present superintendent , the
committee was informed , consisted of t
memorandum advertising book , sent ou
by aomo wine company , with the com
pany'a advertisement on ono aide of the
leaves and a blank on the other. In this
dirty little pamphletitho names and ro
spcctive religions , accompanied by dat
of entry of the inmates are enrolled.
The addition , which is a separate
building of itself , and for which $60,000
was appropriated , judging from the
foundation and area , will , when completed
pletod , actually cost not moro than $30 ,
000. This fine- plum of 830,000 was
raked in by Van Alstyne , the party whc
built our present school building at twc
prices , and whoso work has caused such
general cuasing amjng taxpayer * in this
neighborhood.
Our advice to old Ben Butler is , com
west. There is a vast field hero for such
an inveterate and plucky export.
EDITORIAL AMKN1TIE8.
The York Democrat proascs iti dcxlgore
"with fond recollections , " unU feela better ctf ,
The UlysDC * Dispatch coiuMera n cash-lu
ndvanco mibaciibor tha noblont work of Uod
The Talmavo Tribune has been sold toCltirli
I'ulfor , who will do for the town oil ttut hii
uamo Implies.
A. L. Stonooypher , of Th Chester Tri
buuo. Is the jimrimlistlo "kid" of tills nUto.
lie la ouly 17 , mid a yooii leap year opjx > r
tuulty.
The Blue Springs Motor baa changes
h&tulj. The proprietor will have to cunt i
now roller bofuro lie can ox ; > oct to mold pub
Ho opinion.
A panel ! pointed Cretan ho kicked up quit
nn odor by bohllug up to public guzo th
blemUhed | > edaU of n rival , and howling for
clilorldo of lime
Th foreign dead-bead odvortlior Is receiv
ing a very unanimous bouncu from the preen
o { tha state. Cash lu udvunco or Its equiva
lent U iicur the rule.
It U said tbat Saunoon was tha first adver
tiser to display klmuoU In two columns. The
Idea was taking , for several thousand people
tumbled to hia rocket.
II. A. McCormlck , of The Bart County
Nonrii , pot into a abootlngscrape at Covlugton
with a Ulnt lock musket , thu other day. lie
had a hunt time of it , but will noon got
over It.
Tha "Itocky Mountain Orange Blossom"
boa appeared in Denver. It In ft matrimonially
inclined nhoet , devoted executively to mar-
rlag taattera , and is Just too lovely for any
u o. It ia a leap year venture , autl will noon
pop.
pop.The
The mnttAgera of the Ute fair have good
reason to congratulate themselves and their
patrons on locating the inhibition In Omaha
thin year , It appeara The York Times hod
foul ileolgnn on the nhow if Lincoln had to-
cured It. "We'intended to exhibit our feet
at the vtate exhibition this fall , " iaya the
editor , ' 'but wo cannot afford to pay uaiupor-
tatlou on thetn clear to Omaha. "
O.he State Line KegUter , published at Hub.
bellTh yerconutyitrlkMrlghtfrom the shoal-
tier lfll en all . . oeculaun. _ . . _ . _ AddnMuing . . _ tha bull dozers _
uf tha fc. l.l. % * 1 flit W fi l
neighborhood , The Jleglator proclaim *
In slugging wonla : "We bollevo that we own
thouutoriol on which the paper U priutoil.und
we luteod to run it according to our Idoaa of
Jouroklliin. Wo do not Intend to bo bulldoz
ed , or dictated to by any man cr tet of men
M to what our paper * h All contain. W shall
take the liberty from tlina to Umo , to Btota
what wo think U for tha interest oe against tte
InUrent of our town , und ol o to epo k our
outltticnUon vhatwo think U morally or
religiously right or wronR , and If any i > artie
Uoalretotaltoauyo coitlou | to it , mid uoth-
Ing but a good drubbing \rill do , they will fiud
iw t our olHoo from t ) iii the inoruioff until U
Injlio e oulog. "
rivali ' 'If ' U lj"ni > Ml ( i8 ( " "jTm"cn > W
chump or n foMlllfcmta nl 7n '
gooialam to cd t n nowipapor
and totnaVc warm-on anybody ulthout put
ting lilt foot lute hlfl month over ? time ho
opcnn that cap.iclonr orifice. " Hero is another
/illusion to an ' eitf craed contemporary" :
"That licreilltiry idiot , JcfUnndeJ polyp0-
mitt and political fraud , seems to feel had bo-
cauio we Indulged In gmzte * | > crtonal allusions
to many gentlemen of nUndln ? throughout
Montana , ' Wo can't undewtaml how thia can
"ffccthlm. Ho is neither a gentleman , nor
lui ho any fttimllng nnynhoro except M a
buffoon , mountebank and mi"tr. Ho in al o n
ftanctlmonion * hypocrite , and a spiteful nnd
niOHHUTOHY Ii/VVT.
Sir , Trontnmti's fUntomcnt ol' ltd
in Kunnan.
TTV-V.T.X , Nob. , Jail. 28,18&1.
To the Kdlcor uf TIIK BKE.
DUAU SIK : Believing that you , like
every true journalist , nro ever in search
of the latent and freshest facts concern
ing all questions of public interest , I
tnko the liberty to tvflk you to publish the
enclosed statement of Air. Troutman , a
prominent attorney of Topcka. Mr. T.
has always enjoyed the reputation of
being candid and careful in hia views nnd
accurate in his fltatomenta.
Among the moro radical temperance
element , Mr. T. Lao been considered a
little conservative nnd Blow to move with
thorn. Hoping you will find place to
publish thcso nutementa in full , 1 remain
very rcspoctfuily yours.
FMAKK J. SIDLRT.
Prohibition in Kansas.
THE KESDLT OP THIRTY MONTHS
OF ITS OPERATION.
BY JAMKA A. TUOUTMAN , TO-PKKA ,
TAKY KAN8A3 SFATK T1SMPBKANOK
UNION.
*
On thu 4th of December , I mailed a
series of questions to every county attor
ney , crunty superintendent , and police
judge , in the state , for the purpose of
learning the effect and present status of
prohibition. Itaplios have been received
from over one-thud of the sis hundred
letters sent out , constituting a full report
from sixty-six of the eighty-ono _ organ
ized counties of the state , including all
the populous counties. These replies de
monstrate three facts favorable to prohi
bition :
First That it has materially decreased
the number of saloons
Second That an unuaunlly largo per
cent of the prosecutions undeu the laws ,
have resulted in convictions.
Third That the principle of prohibi-
bition is qrou ing stronger.
It must be berne in mind that these
figures como from the officers of the state ,
without reference to their vifws upon
prohibition , and are therefore not subject
to the imputation of being the product of
fanaticism , lit our letttr.i wo stated that
wo wanted the facts , whether favorable
or unfavorable to prohibition.Vo bc-
liuvo the facto were given , and that thu
figures presented are as authentic as can
possibly bo obtained.
In these sixty-six counties there were
708 saloona prior to May 1st , 1881 , the
date that the prohibitory law took effect.
There are now , in the same territory ,
"
! 513 saloons , ICO , "or over half of which
are in Loaveuworth ; leaving but I
saloons in the sixty-six counties , not in
eluding Leavenworth. Prohibition , iu
less than two years , has closed305aaloons.
During this time the population has in
creased 12 per cent. It our aaloonB had
kept pace with the population , wo would
now have 292 saloons ; BO that in reality
prohibition has prohibited 470 saloons in
the territory named.
Prior to May 1st , 1881 , there -woro
saloons in every ono of those sixty six
counties. To-day the 313 saloons in ex
istence are confined to twenty-five coun
ties , ever half the number beiug in a am
glo county. Prohibition has therefore
absolutely driven the saloons out of forty-
one counties , in which they existed Bunder
license.
"You can't convict the saloon-keepera1
has boon so often repeated that many regard
gard it as an axiomatic truth. In the
early stages of prosecutions , it was diffi
cult to convict. But the reports of the
officers who have charge of. thia class of
caspa , allow that as a general proposition ,
it is far from the truth. In the districi
courta of these counties , there have been
1GO cases tried , resulting in 351 oonyic
tions , 47 acquittals and 02 hung juries ,
or seven convictions out of every nine
canes tried.
In justice courts there have been 57-
coses tried , with 378 convictions , 75 ue
quittals nnd CO hung juries , or eonyic
tionB m thrco fourths of all caaca tried
In these cases the tines imposed amount
to § 93,200. In addition to these fines ,
*
there have boon 81 saloon keopera ini
prisoned , for various periods of time , aggregating
grogating 137 months and 19 days , or 11
years , 5 months and 19 daya.
There has boon a larger proportion of
convictions in whisky asea than in any
other claes of cases tried , aa reference to
the criminal docket of any court in ilie
state will prove. There are now pending
in the distrio. courts of the state 218
coses , showing a vigorous determination
to complete the work BO well begun.
In fiftyono of thoao counties , the reports -
ports all aureo that the principle of pro
hibition is growing otrongor with tha poc-
ple. In seven it is reported weaker ,
while it remains the simo in eight. This
of course , is a moro matter of judgment.
If prohibition can accomplish these ro
aulta in 30 months , who can any the ox
periuont hou failed ? Or , how _ long i
will bo until tha unyielding sentiment o
loyalty will crush out the 313 etraaglini
saloons still running ?
Boycotting French Goods.
GUEBNHUCKOH , Pa. , January 20. Las
night 27 mon mot and formed a Becre
oath-bound brotherhood not to buj
French goods and to boycott all dealer
soiling them until the embargo on it
pork is taken cfT
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