Tha Flattsmouth Esrali OVEK $:r),(V)0,(XIO of the .(WOWlO involved in the river and hnrbor lill ffoos to the Houth. Th;it in why over two-tliirdn of the tltinocratH in the Iiotiae voted for it. A FEW years ago wire nail were o deur farmers could not alTord to u.-e them, but now, under protec tion, the have fallen in price until they lire Hold for less than the tarilT on the imported article, and con ttumcra pet homt-made nailn which are not only low iti price, but the beet in quality of any made in the world. The public debt of he United Statea has been paid during the last ten years at the rate of $UXI,(HI0, OKI per year. The greatest propor tion has been paid during 1'rcni dent Harrison's term, the surplus revenues beinj; used to buy, bonds of the government in the open mar kets. During President Cleveland's term this was allowed to accumu late in the hands of favored banks and made a bugaboo of to help pass the Mills bill reducing the tariiT -Iudianola (la.) Herald. KEFK EKKNTATI VK II Ak'TkK of Ohio, lio also boldly says: "I am a dem ocrat," haH other fears than free sil ver and a protective tarill. Listen to him: "The great danger to Un democratic parly is that she will marry hei self to a few individuals, many of them like Mr. Hill, utterly unworthy to be contorted with, while she will divorce herself from the eternal principles of liberty and Klitical equality, and equal 'rights for all men with special privileges lor none." TllK democratic free bindinff twine bill was too great a sham and Dwindle even for the tarilT reform Mtomach of the New York Times. That muwump journal usually ltails with joy each and every redcu tion of protective duties, but the so called free binding-twine bill ws uch a transpartnt piece of elec tioneering humbug that it had to draw the line on it. The bill repre sented stupidity that was not to be applauded even in the name of tarilT reform. The Times was compelled to say: "The removal of the insig nificant duly on binding twine could be of no service to the western farmers, whom the majority of the members are supposed to have in mind. That duty ia only seven tenths of a cent per pound. The re moval of it would not perceptibly reduce the price of binding twine." THE MISSISSIPPI FLOODS. "The Maker of the Universe never treated but one thing which he could not control," said the distin guished orator, SergeantjL Prentiss, 'and that was the Mississippi river. He made it, turned it loose, and let it rip." This grapic view is practic ally confirmed by the annual Hoods like the one that ia now devastating tha southern portion of the country. The situation is worse in some re spects than has been known for sev eral years, and the result must be n loss of property and an interruption f industry that will seriously re tard the prosperity and welfare of thous.-mds of citizens. It seems to Le impossible to provide adequate and reliable means of protection against these terribledisasters. The great river has a way of turning the calcuhifiona of science to mockery, and brushing uside the most formid able defenses that engineering skill lias yet been able to devise. There re contiugences in its scheme of operations that can not be foreseen. The experience of one year is not al ways n safe guide for the next one. owing to the intervention of new nourcvs of danger and new methods of attack and destruction. Those who live in the ;!isiricts subject to overflow are never certain that they le iKTrnitted to raise a crop or to re main in their homes. They are at the mercy of a force that may ruin them Lu a day, and their elTorts lo avert the calamity count for little or notliing as a general rule. It is insisted by those who are lest acquainted with the condition of the prol.leut that the levee sys tem ia the only feasible plan of protection; but it proves to be a disappointment when put to a severe test. New breaks occur every year it points where perfect security had previously been felt, and it itt by no means sure that any form ot eml'.in AiiK'iit will resist the flood under all circumstances. A large amount of money has been expended in the construction of wiicji works, and competent engi ; have declared the most iin 'tHutit of them to be impregnable, out wit river sun repeats us disas ters year alter year in spite of all uch appliances. Possibly the system would be effective if the ex penditure had been larger. There is a goad deal of force in the sug- gvstion that it is not to be expected that defenses erected at a few points will stand the strain of such a volume of water as the Missis sippi now contains when other points are left unprotected. That is to say, a levee system of a local sort does not give asfurauce of safety because it takes account only of immediate facts, when in reality the distant considerations are the governing ones. If the whole country adjoining- the river from M. Louis to New Orleans i could be provided with levees, j these annual inundations would probably be prevented. The cost of such a system would be enor inous. of course, but the interes ts involved are also enormous, and the necessary outlay could be justi fied as easily as some others that have been made from time to time under the general welfare clause of the constitution. It is certain, at any rat;;, that the task of protecting the fertile and valuable lauds along the river against the floods that are now so damaging to their owners should be assumed by the government, and that the work should be done in a comprehensive and practical manner. St. Loui (J lobe-Democrat. PROTECTION AND THE HOME Congressman Dolliver's eloquent reply to Hryau is as follows: My young friend from Nebraska the ot her day took one of h is farmer constituents down from the canni bal tree long enough to use, him for the purpose of pointing the "moral and adorning that tale of the "plun dered homestead" or "the adven tures of a young married couple." You remember that he represents a younjf man in the act of selecting "a young woman who is'.willing to trust her future to his strong right arm,'' and beginning to build a home which is the unit of society. The picture represents that he is robbed by the tariff on lumber, on paint, on furniture, on carpets, on tablecloths, "on knives, forks and dishes, on spoons, on everything that enters into the construction and operation of that home." And to make the picture all the more pa thetic and absolutely hopeless, the artist gives the unhappy couple no sign of defense except the lung ca pacity of the democratic party yell ing at the top of its voice, "Hands off!" Great laughter.) Now, without stopping to point out that the actual price of every article that enters into the "con struction and operation of that home" has been reduced in price by the republican policy of making them in the United States instead of Kurope, I want to ask my friend, or any other man this house, to name to me a country in the Old World where u young man without money can slip his strongright arm around a girl without means and take her into a home ot their own or give her even the piospect of a home, which is the unit of society? Applause on the republican side.) I have talked to hundreds of peo ple from Ireland, from Scotland, from Denmark, from Gerinnny, from the mountains of Norway aud Swe den, and they tell me that a day's work in the United States, goes fur ther than anywhere else in the world toward putting a roof over the head of a family, paint on a cottage, mus ic in the parlor, newspapers on the stand, carpets on the tloor, dishes on the table, something to eat in the dishes, and the divine light of love and joy in the sweet faces of wife aud children. They have come into my office again and again, husband and wife together, speaking in broken Eng lish the language of the thriftiest countries in Kurope, to ask my help and advice in mailing a little American money to the Old World for father or mother or brother or sister or sweetheart, living in lands where the labor of a lifetime is not enough, after paying daily ex penses, to pay their passage upon an ocean steamer. I have seen their tears falling upon the paper as they wrote out their message of hope aud courage from the only country on earth w here human life is lifted above the level of hopeless drudgery for the poor. I have often stood in Castle Gar den, at the gateway of the republic, watching that restless throng out of every kindred tongue and tribe of people. I have seen young men standing there holding in their hands a suit of "taxed" American ciotnes tor a uromer arriving on these shores out of the very conn tries where clothes are the cheap est. 1 Have seen young women timidly hiding under a "taxed" American cloak the bright colors of a new hat for a sister who had just come from a land where everything is so cheap that nobody can buy auythin g. Nor could I keep out of my heart words of welcoiiiC to those who have loved our flag even afar off, and have come hither to better their condition. And the day is coining when these fugitives from the hard conditions of the Old norm win stand an a unit with the republican party to keep the shield of American law before the cottages of American labor. I have not as much interest as some in the current agitation that seeks to shut the doors of the great republic in the face of mankind. I do not feel that we have been here long enough ourselves to begin to complain about the arrival of other people. I believe that men nud women who know by experience the burden of other countries are likely to serve the commonwealth as well as those persons horn iiiuoug us who go about complain ing that American life is not worth living. THE LADIES' HOME JOUROAL. The valuable and timely article "Flowers for June Weddings," by II. II. Matties, gives a pecular charm to the Ladies Home Journal. There arealsoa number of articles which are written by such wellknown wrt ers as Mrs. William K. Gladstone, Sarah Orne Jewett, Felicia Holt, A. J. Harry, Mrs. Henry Ward Heecher, Mrs. Lyman Abbott, Robert J. Hur- dette, Kev. T. DeWitt Talmage and a number of oilier well known writ ers. This number of the Iourn.il is thing of beauty and excellence' and is worth many times its modest price of ten cents. The Ladies Home Journal is published by The Curtis Publishing Comoanv of ir J Philadelphia, for ten cents per num ber, and one dollar per year. TllEKE is law and penalty for al most every social offense if one will but bring any given case to an issue. Kare indeed is it that the proprietress of a disorderly house is sentenced to imprisonment, yet such a person has been so sen tenced in New York as the first fruits of Dr. Parkhurst's intrepid crusade. And not only his one woman, the subject of the sensa tional trial, received a nine months' sentence, but a second woman similarly employed, will go to prison for a year. So the machin ery of modern society, as designed for the regulation of public morals, seems rather in disuse than to have been abandoned. Inter Ocean. U.N'fLK Sam shipped to Kurope this year l,4f)4,(X)() barrels at apples. The new arrangement Jor direct shipment of oranges from Florida the coming year will give Euro peans a still better chance to enjoy our lucious fruit. The large in creased demand of the foreign markets and the better arrange ments for shipment will cause the multiplication of orchards, especial ly those for apples and oranges. AsTKOXOMERs have observed eight tails to the new comet. It is a little funny, but as the democratic candidates for the Prtsidency in crease the comet keeps tally with its tails Cleveland, Hill, Gorman, Carlisle, Hoies, Campbell, Palmer and Gray just eight. Whether the tails will come together with a flap when Tammany reaches Chicago, astronomers and other people will note with interest. Inter Ocean. Dk. Pakkiii'KST goes right along throwing hot shot in New York. In an address on Tuesday evening to young men he said: "If I had a thousand young men who would take to this work with earnestness and think that the city did not be long to the police, but to them, I would take my oath to whip Tam many every November until Tam many became nothing but a stink ing memory". Uncle Sam has lost and Mexico gained a strip of ground averaging a mile in width across the south western border. It came from an error in a survey and was not de tected until after the treaty had closed the way for making a cor rection. It is arid land and is not likely to be of any large value until the climate changes or water is poured upon it by artificial means. A fakticulak-ly fine counterfeit was detecteil at the sub-treasury yesterday. It was the production of a pen and ink artist, who did his work so well that the bill passed through one of the city banks with out detection. The counterfeit is of a $T0 greenback of the series of 180. New York Commercial. When the renublie:m f ti, house refuse to vote, and thus break tne quorum, they are denounced bj the democrats. Hut what is th matter with that 130 di-innrrnt ! ma jority'f It can't keep a quorum of us own. SKck'ETAKY TKACT wants to name the next new cruiser Alabama, but the name is objected to by some ot the democrats in congress. They do nos seem to know that the war is over. ANOTHER W1EE BEATER. ohn Zetka Amuses Himself by Beating His Wife. LITEM TIMES WITH THE POLICE. Jake Coff man Starts Out to See the Town and Meets With a Serious Accident The Sewing Ma chine Man Gets Ten Years. The police were called over into Hohemian town this afternoon to quiet a family row. Marshal Fry went over and John Zetka was en gaged in paralyzing his wife a la Sullivan. He had hi r down in the corner of the house chastizing her with his list. During the melee the woman had succeeded in blacking one of his eyes. Zetka was brought down town and placed in the cooler to sober up. He will have his hear ing Monday morning. Got Two Years. Word comes from Seward that C L. Wilsey, the festive sewing ma chine agent, who was arrested on the charge of bigamy plead guilty to the charge and and was sen tenced to two years in the penitenti ary at hard labor. Yesterday afternoon Jake ColT man hired a horie and buggy lrom C. W. Holmes to go out in the coun try to see his wife. He returned and about 11 o'clock he was pretty drunk. Officers Fit.patrick and lilack attempted to arrest him when Al Durris jumped in and said that the ollicers should not arrest him as he would take care of him. The officers had a tussle but failed to get their man. Coffman started off in his buggy out Lincoln Avenue aud iu some way caught his toot iu the front wheel of the buggy winding him around the axel of the buggy. Hur ris was either with him at the time or found him aud instead of trying to extract him from his perilous po sition went off and left him aud also left the horse hitched to the buggy. In the meantime some body went to C. W. Holmes' house got him out of bed and told him he had better go and get his horse aud buggy, which he supposed was in the barn, out on Lincoln avenue. During all this time Coffman was lying in the mud under the buggy suffering intense pain, having his ankle broken and his leg severly bruised. This morning warrants were sworn out aganst Jake Coffman for being drunk and discharging fire arms an the street and also for Al Hurris and Geo. Hillings for refus ing to help arrest him when called upon by the officers. It is understood that Coffman will have a warrant sworn out against Hurris as soon as he is able to be out. Coffman was taken t3 the doctor's office aud had his ankle dressed, when he was taken to the Cottage house where he is resting as easy as could be expected. Geo. Billings plead guilty to the charge and was fined $3 and costs and Durris was lodged in Jail. FARM LEGISLATION. Democratic and alliance orators and papers do not call attention to some of the republican legislation which has proven beneficial to the farmer. Here are some of the things they omit when discussing and curs ing the republican party: The Hoinstead act, secured by re publicans over democratic votes and vetoes, giving to the settlers of the west and northwest over 100,000,000 farms and i:C,0M),000 acres. The agricultural colleges and sta tions, including 5'2 farm schools and colleges, 54 agricultural experiment stations, and 27 farmer's institute. The national cabincnt department of agriculture, devoted to the inter ests of American farmers both at home and abroad. The home markets for diversified and profitable agricultuie provided by protested manufactures in every city of the Union; an increase of factory families and farm-product consumers amounting to over 1,000, 000 since 180. The foreign market for farm pro ducts, secured by republican recip- rocityjand government meat inspec tion, in five Kuropean'states and in most of the states and islands of Latin America. The National Interstate Commerce act regulating railways; for the pre vention of railway discrimination and combination, and securing of fair transportation rates ami pnvi leges. The republican anti trust law, which iu one jear has caused the dissolution of the whisky and oil trusts, and is likely to lead to the suppression of the twine and sugar trusts. The oleomargarine legislation the proposed lard, pure food and anti-option bills, for the protec tion of fann products against fraud ulent competition and speculation. The increase of national circula tion from f 1:55,400.0(10, or fll'i per capita, in 1H00, to $ I. (SiK 1,500,000, or $27.74 per capita, iu l'tl; and the ac- companvmgdeerese of interest rate from one-half to three fourth:-. 1 ne enlargement of the nee im port list from IS per cent in 1S.77 to Si per cent iu lv.tl 2, and the saving of $100,000,000 in unnecessary reve nue taxes on sugar, colfee, tea, mo lasses and binder twine. The almo.-t treblingof theexports of bread stuffs, under the McKinley tariff, during the year just closed, and a general decline in the cost of all manufactured necessaries. The decrease of Canadian imports Ofjfarin products; the est jbli.-hinent of sugar beet, flax ami hemp culture and manufacture; the encourage ment of irrigation and timber cul ture, aii( the development of water ways for the cheapening of trans portation. 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