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Do not fail to read the article
from our Lincoln correspondent
It is a daisy.
The appointment of W. H. Mon
ger, of Froment, as federal judge
for the district of Nebraska, has
been confirmed by the senate.
Congressman Linhey, of N. C.,
says the number of first voters who
join the democratic party is be
coming fewer each year in that
state.
Nevada unquestionably needs all
the advertising it can get out of that
prize fight Its governor made that
plain by his toadying to Jim
Corbett
Thebe are people who ' insist that
there is a connection between the
recent Bryan majority in Nebraska
and the unusually large crop of jack
rabbits in the state.
Col. Ixoimolx. says the desire to
acquire great wealth is insanity.
It he is right, there are lots of
insane men at large, and Col. Inger
soil Is one of them.
By the, time the Senate, at the
next session of Congress, corrects
the errors in the abitration treaty
Secretary Onley will not be so
proud of his part in negotiating the
treaty.
Okx of the best little country
papers in the state is the Pierce
County Call, and the business men
of Pierce should give it better sup
port in the matter of advertising.
It is “a thing of beauty and a joy
forever.” _
The present legislature had better
pass the appropriation bill and go
home before they make jackasses of
the entire lot. More fool bills are
introduced this session than ever
before, and the entire lot will be
charged up to the party.—Schuyler
Quill, (pop.)
Fbank Thompson, the new presi
dent o! the Pennsylvania railroad,
deserves all the good things the
newspapers are saying, of him, bat
he will probably tire of reading
them long before the applications
for “possess”, which will follow the
marked oopies, stop ponring in on
■ *““• ' . ■ ■ _ .. •
Thi attention of our readers is
called to the article on irrigation on
the first page. A large portion of
the residents of the district do not
> Understand the subject, and we hope
the artiole will be the means of
- giving them seme enlightment upon
"■'’it It is a snbjeot that is of vital
importance to-the residents of the
J Jistriot, and we hope that the mat
ter iHll be thoroughly investigated
.•bytjrem.; ‘ ; '
Thi voters have already endorsed
the republican assertion that, this is
' a billion dollar country. It is there
fort s waste Of time for the demo
- , <3r*t« to be jawing because the ap
is: propriations of the present Congress
.v. wiil go. beyond that amount No
"v needless appropriations have been
’Shade and-none-of the money will be
k • paid out except for. value reoeived;
* that’s all the people wish to be eer
» Vanofc
Attobxbt-Gkhibjjl Habmon aeons
to be equally adept at writing an
^^nwsssld the House for the failure
*;'--of this administration to attempt to
enforce the anti-trust law, and in
preparing a brief for the Supreme
Court arguing that the crew of the
" ‘alleged filibuster steamer, Three
f Friends, have’beea guilty of piracy;
and neither role is calculated to
\'yH:
increase his popularity with the
people. 44m%:-h;
? ; * -. • V • ' 1
Afteb President Cleveland leaves
the white home, he will write a
book. I{ Bryan had only held off
until he left the white house before
giving his “First Battle” to the
world, there would be one book less
on the market; as he will never
reach the goal of his ambition.
It would be a good thing if some
otherwise sensible people would only
understand that nothing makes more
unrest than the continual preaching
of unreast There are few natures
which cannot be made dissatisfied,
because there are few, very few,
people who believe they have all
they deserve to have.
Thomas Watson, the populist can
didate for vice president, received
twenty-seven votes in the electorial
college. Four years ago the popu
list nominee received twenty-two
votes in a three cornered light The
Schuyler Quill is of the opinion that
the populist party was used to fur
ther the ambitions of the democrats.
The announcement published in
the daily papers the past ten days
that Eugene Moore, who for four
years served the people of Nebraska
as auditor of public accounts, was
about $20,000 short, has fallen like
a bomb shell in the midst of a pic
nic party. The shortage is insur
ance fees, which he collected and
failed to turn over to the treasurer.
He claims that he owns a mine in
Colorado and that he will pay the
state $500 a month until the amount
is paid. Wo think the best policy
to pursue would be for Mr. Moore
to dispose of his interest in the
mine and straighten up the matter.
If he owns a one-third interest in a
mine that pays $1,500 a month in
dividends, he ought to be able to
dispose of it and settle the shortage
at onoe. He owes xt to himself to
dear his name from the stigma
attached to it by reason of the pub
lished announcements of his short
age, and he owes it to the party
that elected him to the position and
honored him with the largest
vote of any man on the ticket.
We sincerely trust that the matter
will be satisfaotorilly adjusted.
DISCRIMINATING DUTIES.
The American Economist has
taken occasion to discuss quite fully
the subject of discriminating duties
in favor of goods brought here in
American bottoms or, per contra,
against goods brought here in
foreign bottoms. This proposition
was drafted into a bill and offered
in the United States Senate by Mr.
Elkins of West Virginia, and known
as Senate bill No. 3232. The measure
has for its object the enoournging of
American Merchant Marine, and
proposes that goods brought to this
country in foreign bottoms shall pay
10 per cent duties advalorem more
than if brought in American
bottoms.
It is the principle in this law
which we wish to advocate rather
than the rate ot additional duties
proposed. It will be admitted that
the same proposition(when a law)
was very successful in the establish
ment of the American Merchant
Marine in the early history of the
goverment In fact, it is conceded
by all historiane that a law similar
to the bill introduced by Mr. Elkins
was the direct canse of the great
growth of American shipping. .
The proteotionist stands for pro
tection to employees of Americans
transportation companies on land;
he also stands for the protection of
Amerioah seamen. It is a well-known
fact, and enforced by our shipping
law, that American seamen reoeive
higher wages than any seamen in
the world. We are creditably in
formed that the cost of operating
American ships,' based Bimply on
the question of wages, is nearly
double that of other nations. It is
manifest then that American ship
ping can be fostered in only two
ways—vis., by bounties and
subsidies or by discriminating
duties. The American people are
not in any temper to take up an
elaborate system of subsidies, but
they have dedard themselves in
favor of protection upon land and
qea.
The discriminating duty plan
simple means that goods brought
here in American bottoms shall pay
the rates of duty laid down by law
and that goods brought here in
foreign bottoms shall pay an addi
tional duty. The difficulty to Amer
ican shipping is not in securing a
cargo going abroad, but rather in
securing a cargo returning to this
country. A homeward cargo aided
by a discriminating duty would
unquestionably make a great de
mand for American ships, and it is
believed that every shipyard from
Maine to the gulf, and on the Pacific
from San Francisco to Puget Sound
would be busy with orders. This is |
not simply an opinion, for the same
policy when in effect during the first
decade of this century accomplished
the same result
We regret to know that there is
opposition to this wise measure of
protection, and especially coming
from Philadelphia, as expressed in
the resolutions or memorial adopted
by the Maritime Exchange of that
city last week. This Maritime Ex
change, like some other organiza
tions of the kind, may be simply the
agent of the North Atlantic ship
ping pool—a foreign trust which
should be investigated. The foreign
shipping interests have become so
powerful in this country and so in
volved with the transportation inter
ests that it is not difficult to secure
opposition to a measure of this kind.
It is also quite possible that the
American line owned by the Inter
national Navigation company (now
heavily subsidized) which has fully
as many ships under a foreign flag
as under the American, has taken
an interest in defeating this patri
otic proposition. This measure
would create activity in ship build
ing and restore the American flag in
the Merchant Marine. Every one
who favors adequate protection by
import duties should favor the policy
of discriminating duties, for it will
accomplish for American shipping
the same grand results to American
interests in the ocean carrying trade
that protection has given upon land.
—•American Economist.
A GRAND-STAND PLAT.
The governor’s action in sending
special messages to the legislature,
calling attention to the fact that ex
State Treasurer Bartley has not
turned over to the state all the
money shown by his books to be in
his possession, is well understood to
be a grand-stand play for political
effect. Bartley stated, long before
he vaoated his office that the condi
tions were just as the governor says,
hence the executive message reveals
nothing new. Bartley said first, as
he says now, that the money could
not all be immediately produced.
It is in banks, necessarily for safe
keeping, and it is difficult for them
to produce it on call. To do so will,
he says, break some of the banks
and lose the money to the state,
whereas to give them reasonable
time will enable them to realize on
their securities, preserve their con
tinuity, protect their hundreds of
depositors and soon pay the state in
full
It is conceded the treasurer ought
to have been in each shape that he
could turn over, spot cash, with the
office to his successor every dollar
due the state. This would be the
ideal condition. Bartley has done
some things as treasurer he ought
not to have done, and the Tribune
has criticised him for it, but we
believe there is nothing in the pres
ent situation to justify the gover
nor's burst of righteous indignation,
except to furnish campaign thunder
for the populists.
It must be borne in mind that
conditions during the three years
just past have been extraordinary
conditions. Money has not been
absolutely safe anywhere. Treas
urer Bartley had to keep it in banks.
If it requires six months for him to
safely withdraw it and produce it
for the use of the populists, it is not
to be wondered at
The public will readily under
stand that the governor is simply
yielding to an impulse to open the
campaign at this early date.—Fre
mont Tribune. \
M. A. Hahns will auoceed Senator
Sherman, as senator from Ohio,
when the latter gentleman enters
the cabinet He will make an able
senator.
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