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THURSDAY, JAN. 00, 1890.
It seems that the rottenness of
Judge Chapman's judicial career is
just coming to light, and it smells to
heaven.
A. I. A. agents at Cincinnati have
begun proceedings to have all the Cath
olic church property not used as places
of worship placed on the tax duplicate.
Toe New York Journal has made a
poil of the senate and house and rinds
that the memhers of congress stand 8
to 1 in f ;ivor of the immediate recogni
tion of Cuban independence.
It does not necessarily follow that
the democratic nominee for president
will he a martyr, lie may becon.e a
pure-enough president. Democrats
have occupied the presidential chair.
rapillion Times.
"W II ex you find a man who is well
satisfied with present conditions' says
the Shelby Sun, with a breath of
Christian charity and tolerance that
would bring tears to the eye of a
potato, "he is either a money lender or
a chump."
Fr.o.M the way in which some law
yers plunder the estates of deceased
persons and of defunct corporations,
one is led to exclaim "blessed be noth
ing"' and to persuade men to give away
all that they have earned during the
lines of hard work and the exercise of
economy.
IIei: Majesty's poet, Austin, is the
victim of considerable comment over
his effort towards immortalizing Jame
sen's raid on tho lioers. It was writ
ten on the line of the "Charge of the
Light Brigade,' and a very bungling
attempt it seems to have been. About
as justifiable, also, as was Jameson V
'YraM. Fremont Herald.
Qui: neighbor of the News is still
seeking financial peace and rest through
the gold standard, but lindeth it not.
lie has got to that extreme stage of
idiocy wherein he imagines that every
body who does not agree with him is a
lunatic, and he raves and frets as if his
idiocy were about to become chronic.
If it were possible for him to learn
anything but then such a thought is
useless.
Toe .Salvation Army in this country
is soon to lose its most valiant leader.
liallington Booth, he having been or
dered to report for duty at London
within a few months, and there is
much disappointment among the mem
bers of the array in America. The
change is said to be made in the inter
est of the most progre3sive spirit in
the work. The general, his father,
wants to keep the management from
falling into a rut, and thinks a change
of commanders will do this.
Senator TnuiiSTOX has won great
renown over a private pension bill,
which proposes to give a general's
widow $75 per month. Allen took the
ground that a general's widow is en
titled to no more than a private sol
dier's widow. Thurston grew eloquent
over hi3 mother's S8 per month as the
widow of a private and thought the
general's widow should have the $75
per month. Millionaire senators
rushed to his arms with their congrat
ulations. John knows on which Bide
his bread is buttered, even if his father
was a private. John has no notion of
dying a private himself. Butler
Countv l'ress.
Ynnv. Nebraska, wakes up and or-
gizes a branch of the Nebraska Silver
League with eighty-five members to
start with. K. A. Gilbert, a lawyer of
standing, was elected president; John
Knott, a prominent uemocrai, was
olantcil Vim resident: George Cor-
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coran, populist, secretary; J. W. Fur-
rington, republican, assistant secre
tary, and Robert Armstrong, repub
lican, treasurer. Until the silver re
publicans of the west can see their
way clear to assert their beliefs by de
vising or agreeing to some plan which
will enable all the other silver men to
mass their votes with them, there is no
hope of victory for the white metal.
Until silver is restored prosperity will
remain an unfulfilled dream. There
are many silver men in David City.
How many are willing to show their
colors?-Butler County Press.
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Ex-Judge Chapman takes occasion,
through his organ, the Tribune, to as
sume that the criticisms on the allow
ances he made in the Citizens' bank,
are simply attacks upon him for per
sonal reasons. Ho gives himself too
much credit. Tub Jouknal, at least,
has no enmity of a personal character
to vent at Mr. Chapman. He had bet
ter turn the lamp of inquiry upon him
self and he will pray, like tho immortal
Scot,
"O, val some power the glfiie Rl'e us.
To see ousel's as aithers see us;
It wad frae mony a trouble fine us.
And foo!lsh notion."
It is just such exhibitions of favor
itism from the bench as were shown
by Mr. Chapman, when judge, that
creates anarchists and criminals in
this country; that disgusts men with
free government and makes them de
sire to live under a monarchy. Mr.
I'armele may be worth S20 a year as
receiver, where a lot of helpless depos
itors are u be bled, but such live aud
active institutions as th F.rst Nat
ioual and th lUnk of C.tss County get
along without paying so much to
their c naiers for carrying on their af
fairs requiring the best of judgment
and discretion as well as a knowledge
of book-keeping men who can at
least make out a statement without
assistance.
The Joukxal has no desire to
break down Mr. Chapman's .law prac
tice, and, in fact, in a personal sense,
is glad to see him get on his feet at
once; but personal friendship for him
or Mr. Farmele is not sufficient excuse
for overlooking a grave public wrong.
It looks as if these men saw that here
were a large number of depositors
who had been gulled into putting their
money into this bank; they were as
geese to be plucked, and Receiver Far
mele and Attorney Clark proceeded to
pluck them, ami Judge Chapman held
them down during the operation.
The Jol'kxal may be wrong about
this, and is willing to be convinced of
its error, but the explanation of Judge
Chapman has not been sutlicient to do
so.
Senatoi: Tellei: told a good deal
of truth in a little moral lecture he
gave his republican associates the
other day. In discussing the bond bill,
he said: "What I complain of is that
on this (the republican) side of cham
ber the majority f the republicans are
absolutely without a policy. You
have not got any aud you have not
dared to have any, and you will not
have one now. You dare not redeem
the greenbacks. That you know
would afford relief. You dare not go
before the public in 1S0O with your
candidate on that kind of a platform.
You know where you would laud. You
would be landed where the democrats
were landed at the last election, and
where they expect io be lauded if we
do not make some such blunder as
that. You are afraid to do that.
I know this bill is not going to be
come a law. You know that
your revenue bill is not going to be
come a law. It was not intro
duced for the purpose of becoming a
law. If it had been supposed that it
would become a law it would have
been a different bill from what it is.'
The fact is now divulged in the Eu
ropean press that liussia and Turkey
have formed an offensive and defensive
alliance, and that Turkey has prom
ised Russia to close the Dardanelles in
the event of war. Thus the Dar
danelles has now beoome the southern
outpost of Russia. "This briDgs Rus
sia into the Mediterranean with a ven
geance," says Fall Mall Gazette, "and
may necessitate the strengtening of
the English fleet in those waters. Fo
litically the effect will be far greater.
The treaty means that Turkey, realiz
ing her own impotence against disor
ders within and without, has decided
to throw herself into the arms of Rus
sia." Sexatok Wolcott of Colorado has
taken the side of English in the Mon
roe doctrine dispute, much to the grief
of his friends in Colorado. How inter
est does warp and guide one's judg-
ment. It is a well-known fact that
Mr. Wolcott is a heavy speculator in
stocks in New York, and his fear of
losing has driven him from adherence
to a patriotic stand to that of a cring
ing, cowardly worshipper of English
interests. If this free government of
ours is ever overthrown, just such
creatures as Wolcott will do it.
The present era of prosperity,
brought about through the efforts made
to keep up a gold standard, is so pro
nounced that nationnl and state backs
are failing in this state at the rate of
two or three a week. What a lovely
thing it is this gold standard to
create prosperity among receiverships
for banks.
MAKKS A POOR OIT.
JA.T CONC.KESS KECOGNIZK CUBA.
Congress seriously contemplates the
recognition of the belligeieucy of the
rebel government in Cuba. Taking
everything into account it is hard to
understand why this can, in decency,
be avoided. The fact has tdood out
prominently that a state of war has
existed on that unhappy island for at
least a full year, and during the past
six months a regular government vith
powers limited and declared by a writ
ten constitution, has existed, with a
president and other officers directing
the course of affairs; and these are the
conditions necessary, ucder the i tiles
of civilized nations to make recogni
tion the pioper thing for the rep
resentatives ot a nation in s tu( ath
with the cause of the rebellion. Some
thing like l2f years ago the colonies of
Great Britain in America united to
declare their independence against the
British Crown, upon the ground,
chielly, thai they were taxed without,
representation; that their wants and
desires were not consulted or complied
with by the crown or parliament. They
rebelled and after long years of war
won their contention. The people of
Cuba have submitted to just such a
condition for all this time have suf
fered fiom a tyranny as grievous, a
taxation far more onerous, without;
representative to plead their cause in
the Spanish cortez. Now that they
have risen to aims and have sIioaii an
ability to hold their own agaimt three
times the force that was brought
against the American colonies, it is
high time that the congress of a
liberty-loving people should at least
grant thero the rights vhich the laws
of nations clearly entitle them. A
do-nothing congress should "get a
hump on itself."
i.kt i n km mi:.
The dual democratic organizations
in Nebraska are pretty sick men today
and a few more d.ses of G rover's pat
ent English gold-cure pills will invite
the services of the undertaker. Let
him eouie. Our party principles can
not die, for indeed they are immortal.
but our party organizations would bet
ter grace a grave-yard than a state.
Welcome death, if only in his wake the
the democrats of Nebraska may fol
low with an organization founded upon
the faith handed down by the fathers.
Neither of the organizations in the
state today aie entitled to respect.
The one is a tool in the hands of re
publican tricksters, while the other is
always bartering for fusion with other
political organizations. Hampered by
such heavy weights the party has no
more show for its white alley in this
state than a bank-wrecker has for jus
tice in Judge I)undys court. As be
tween the two existing organizations
we insist that the one headed by Chair
man Smythe is regular, aud that the
one owned by Tobe Gastor is a bas
tard. Rut we believe that if both
could die before the flowers blcom
again, there might be builded a new
and true democratic organization in
which all the household of faith might
feel at home. Ferhaps it is sinful to
court death, but in all sincerity we be
lieve death to both our democratic or
ganizations can alone bring harmony
and so we bid the de-trover welcome.
Fapillion Times.
The long-continued contention over
penitentiary management, between
the governor and the board of public
lands and buildings, has been declared
off for the time being, and the em
ployes of the pen, including the wai den
have been paid their salaries. The
commission was finally compelled to
surrender. Theie never would have
been any trouble but for the fact that
Russell, the commissioner of lands and
buildings, was anxious to display Ids
authority, and make believe that he
possessed more power than the gov
ernor. The other members were led
by him into an attitude of antagonism
to the governor, and they permitted
him to run them until the supreme
court stepped in and stopped the fool
ishness then the ass's ears were made
quite visible.
The gold standard advocates in ;he
senate are getting decidedly the
worst of the debate and very
few of them have the courage to make
speeches. They seem to realize that
the facts are against them, the condi
tion of the country condemns their
theory and the philosophy of money
and finance refutes their propositions.
They have no ground upon which to
stand save that of cold, stolid dogmatic
indifferance to the welfare of the coun
try, their principals the bankers, like a
big dog gnawing away at a carcass
while he keeps smaller, hungrier dogs
away and won't let them have a bite.
They are a beaten lot, and but for the
power of the administration, would be
compelled to surrender.
firing In Your Hood,
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THK I1LAIK IIMiT.
; In this close of the nineteenth cen-
tury a century great in the progress
.of invention and discovery, pre-emi-j
uent in the diffusion of knowledge it
; is appalling to witness the lethargy
j that seems to hang over the civilized
i world, while the atrocities in Armenia
continue unabated. It has been the
proud boast of statesmen and seers
that the world has progressed and thnt
mankind has improved, and yet in the
East we see the spectacle of murder,
rapine, outrage and crime running
riot over a land ol-l in history before
America had seen the dawn. We can
see across the waves the burning vil
lages, the ruined homes, the corpses
all seated and torn upon the snowy
wastes, the dishonored womanhood,
the shattered and broken churches and
our ears are assailed by the cries of
those who were spared the iniliction of
death to sutler outrages infinitely more
terrible, ami it makes one grow sad
and sick at heart to witness, in the
midst of all this, the cold, business
like transactions of great and powerful
nations to whom Christianity seems
but the wand with which to conjure
wealth. It is time for action. The
dying century soon will be enfolded
with those that have passed before,
and its pages are being daily blackened
and distorted by these unchecked
crimes. Let America take the lead
and enforce the restoration of order in
Turkey and do that which humanity
and justice requires to check the
spread of this black blot.
The soldiers' monument erected by
the state of Iowa at Des Moines is be
coming h state issue. So much deal
favoritism was displayed in the plac
ing of equestrian figures and medal
lions on the monument that nobody,
save the friends of those represented,
is satisfied, and the whole state is
aroused over tne matter. For instance,
G. M. Dodge, u political general, who
never distinguished himself in any
battle, is placed as one of the eques
trian figures along side of John M.
Corse, S. R. Curtis and W. W Rel
knap, while William II. Kinsman,
whose heroism cast an everlasting
luster upwn the fame of Iowa, is given
a subordinate position. The soldiers
of Iowa are justly indignant that
political favoritism should take the
place of heroism on a structure of such
a character.
General Garcia of the Cuban pat
riot army has left this country with an
important fillibustering expedition,
having 3U0 men and a great quautity
of arms, amunitiou aud stores, and ex
pects to land within a day or two on
tho Cuban coast. The Spaniards were
watching him, but he completely fooled
them, getting his men and munitions
out on one ship, while he left on
another, the goods being transferred
at sea. Americans will watch with
anxious hope that he may get through
the blockade with safety.
A Prominent Wholesale lirocer of OiiihIih
Neb., Write:
To the alllicted:
Several years ago I discovered a
slight falling and bleedingof the lower
bowel which increased and became
very distressing. I made inquiry as
tothe nature of the disease and learned
that I had a somewhat aggravated case
of Hemorrhoids or Files. Was told of
several remedies and used them as di
rected, obtaining thereby some tem
porary relief. Not being satisfied with
such slight relief I cast about for a per
manent cure; when a friend directed
the use of the famous Magnet File
Killek. I used it. Immediate relief
from pain followed, and soon a com
plete cure was affected.
Very respectfully,
Oscar Allen.
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Attorney and Counselor at
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