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All eyes are centered on Wash
ington. _ _
We doff our' hat to President
McKinley.
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War has been declared in the
populist camp.
Doc Mathews has resurected the
Stuttgart Free Press.
Wonder if the couuty attorney
got a new hat Wednesday morning.
The trans-Mississippi exposition
is booming. That’s right, shove it
along.
The last of the John Brown raid
ers :s dead, but the soul of old John
is still marching on.
Prosperity is coming, but if you
expect a shower of gold eagles to
day you are liable to be disappoint
ed.
> The collection of vieWs expressed
in old speeches by men of promin
ence is classed as enterprise by some
newspapers.
Mas. Ella Wheeler Wilcox may
, not get any money for her poem
used in Bryan’s book, but she is
getting considerable advertising out
of it
Ir a good president and a good
cabinet can make a good adminis
V tration, that of President MoKinley
will be one of the best the oountry
has ever had.
It would seem to a disinterested
party that if the Memphis conven
tion was a fairly representative body
that the “Reform Press association”
is misnamed. .
The Garnegie baby will go several
points ahead of being born with a
silver spoon in its mouth. It can
have diamonds for playthings if
papa Andy so wills.
r It having been definitely settled
that there is to be no factional fight
ing among Ohio republicans, the
democratic and assistant democratic
newspaper men will have to find
another subject to exercise their
imaginations upon.
Bbo. Williams, of the Blair Pilot,
will soon become a bloated bond
holder. Last week he was elected a
member of the board of directors of
a patent medicine company at Blair.
Judging him by his paper, there is
nothing too good for him.
Senator Sherman is one of the
last men in the world who would
choose a sensational newspaper as
the medium for making public any
intended line of policy of the new
administration. This is a fact which
reoent publications should cause all
sensible people to keep in mind.
The authorities of the Washing
ton and Lee university, who have
elected PoBtmaster-Oeneral Wilson
president, and those of the Univer
sity of Virginia, who have invited
. Mr. Bryun to address the students
during commencement week, evi
"• dently differ widely in their idea of
men.
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The people are more interested in
the coming inauguration of a new
administration, and it is-believed a
new era of prosperity, than in the
‘ doings of the dying Fifty-fourth
•t congress. Vet oongress is engaged
l in the very necessary work of mak
ing the appropriations to run tha1
administration for the next fiscal
year.
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If lies could be kept out of the
news from Cuba for a while, it
would be much easier for President
McKinley to decide upon his policy
toward the unfortunate island.
Fbom the way populists are
squirming, in our sister state to the
north, the republicans made a happy
selection when they elected Senator
Kyle to succeed himself. He will
vote with the republicans on the
organization of the senate.
Ex-Treasurer Bartley was ar
rested last week charged with the
embezzlement of about a half
million dollars. He was released on
bail and will be given a hearing to
day. He gave the following state
ment, in regard to state money in
his possession, to the press a few
days ago: “When Mr. Messerve
took charge of the office he requested
that all moneys which were not
covered by depository bonds be paid
to him in cash, amounting to some
$670,000. 1 informed him that the
times were such that it was very
hard to make a settlement in that
way, but I would comply with his
request although it might take some
time to do so. I have proceeded on
these lines and have collected
ana tamed over to him
about $154,000 and am settling
with him as fast as it is possible to
do so without endangering the loss
of funds. There is no necessity of
making a mountain out of a mole
hill; every dollar that is due from
me to the state will be paid in
reasonable time. There is not a
penny of the public funds entrusted
in my care that can not be accounted
for and while 1 have heretofore
avoided any newspaper discussion of
my affairs I desire to say that the
state of Nebraska has not and will
not lose one dollar through any
shortcomings of myself. When Mr.
Meserve took possession of the office
there was due from myself to the
Btate in all funds, including bonds
and securities, some $5,050,000. Of
this amount I have ocounted for and
turned over to Mr. Meserve some
$4,580,000, balance due $520,000.
This is abont the amount I owe the
state.”
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DECRYING OMAHA-DESTROY
ING NEBRASKA.
It is the duty of every represent
ative of the people in the legislature
to oppose such measures as are in
his judgment detrimental to the
public welfare. It is his privilege
to oppose any bill or appropriation
which he cannot conscientiously
support When this opposition,
however takes the form of unreason
ing sectional hostility it is discred
itable and inexcusable.
The opposition to the Trans
Mississippi exposition appropriation
on the grounds of its questionable
constitutionality is perfectly legiti
mate, ‘ although presedents estab
lished by nearly all the states with
reference to the Centennial exposi
tion at Philadelphia and by Nebras
ka in conjunction with other states
in the expositions at New Orleans
and Chicago leave no room for
doubt on that score. It is perfectly
legitimate to interpose objections on
the score of economy and the plea
of hard times, and an embarrassed
treasury, although the justification
is found in the assured returns
which will more than repay any sum
invested, and the impetus the expo
sition is sure to give to the further
development of the state’s resources.
But when a representative of this
commonwealth declares that he
would rather the exposition be held
in Kansas City than in Omaha, and
when others, inspired by local pre
judices and stupid jealousies, assert
that they will not vote money to
help build up Omaha, they exhibit a
narrowness of vision and lack of
state pride that is truly humiliating
to every loyal Nebraskan.
In 1880 Omaha had a population
of only about 30,000. Did the
growth of Omaha from 30,000 to
over 125,000 in the succeeding ten
years hurt the state of Nebraska?
Did this growth of Nebraska’s
metropolis retard the growth of any
other part of the state? Would
Lincoln, Fremont, Grand Island,
Columbus, Central City, or even
Fairbury, have grown more rapidly
than they did had Omaha remained
stationary? Did not Omaha capital
help to bnild up scores of Nebraska
towns and villages, and, what is
more, help to develop industries that
have made a home market for
Nebraska’s products? Would any
town in Nebraska have been more
prosperous if the city of Omaha
were on the east side of the Missouri
and paid tribute to the Btate treas
ury of Iowa, as does Sioux City?
Omaha is virtually Douglas
county, and Douglas county has
paid into the state treasury ih the
last twenty-two years more than
$2,500,000. Over $700,000 of this
money has been contributed toward
state government and for mainte
nance of state institutions since 1892.
And yet Omaha is decried as a cor
morant eating out the vitals of the
state! |
Kansas City has been built up on
the trade of Kansas, but Kansas
never receives a dollar of taxes from
Kansas City. If Nebraska, like
Kansas, were drained by A city in
an adjacent state which did not con
tribute toward maintaining its gov
ernment there might be excuse for
refusing to tax the state for a pro
ject that would increase its popula
tion and wealth. Even then an
exposition appropriation could not
be rationally withheld on the ground
of sectional prejudice. The legisla
ture of Iowa voted an appropriation
for the exposition at Omaha before
Nebraska was even approached, and
other states are following its
example.
It is an everlasting disgrace that
Nebraskans cannot see beyond the
village horizon and rise to the level
of broad-minded public spirit which
seeks to develop the state and draw
attention to the advantages it offers
to investors and homeseekers. -In
stead of decrying Omaha and
attempting to block its enterprise,
the state at large ought to rejoice at
the opportunity presented for join
ing with Omaha in a grand effort to
lift city and state up and hasten the
revival of prosperity.—Omaha Bee.)
INTERNATIONAL ' MONETARt
CONFERENCE.
The bill providing for an inter
national monetary conference has
passed both houses of congress and
will now go to the president. It is
a question whether the bill will
receive his approval, without which
it could not become a law at this
stage of the session. Mr. Cleveland
is believed not to have any faith in
the proposed conference, having
failed to act under the authority
given him to appoint delegates in
1895, and if he should sign tho bill
he would do so out of consideration
to the next administration.
The failure of this measure in the
present congress would, however,
but postpone its enactment. It
would very likely be again intro
duced at the extra session of the
Fifty-fifth congress, and promptly
passed, it being the determination
of the republicans to make this
effort, agreeable to the pledge of
the national platform, to promote an
international agreement regarding
silver. Mr. Dingly voiced the gen
eral sentiment of the party when he
said that having promised the
country to do this it is the duty of
the party to redeem the pledge,
although few may believe that any
practical result may come from the
effort. The fact that there were
only three republican votes against
the bill in the house shows how
strong the sentiment is that the
party is bound by its pledge to make
an honest endeavor to promote the
free coinage of silver by internation
al agreement. The outlook, it may
be remarked, for securing such an
agreement does not improve, even if
it does not grow less promising.—
Omaha Bee.
“Captain Close”
By Captain Cbas. King
Commences
Next
Week
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