r 4 TEEDAUA BEE-OMAHA WEDKESDAT MARCH 28 Omaha Bee. Published erety morning , except Bon * ay , The enly Monday morning daily , TERMS BY MAIL- Dne Y ( ! r.$10.00 I Three Monthi.ft3.00 8U Monthi. . 6.00 | One Month. . . . 1.00 CHE WEEKLY BEE , published every Welned y. TERMS POST PAID- Oae year.$2.00 I Throe Monthi. M ) WzMonth LOO I One Month. . . . 20 AMERICAN News OOOTANT , Sole AgonU NewideAlen in the United Statei. CORRESPONDENCE- Oommnnl- latfoni relating to News Mid Editorial .nation ihonld be addreuod to the Ucrron Or Tut Bit BUSINESS LETTERS All Bu lne Letters and Remittances ihonld be nd dressed to THE BM PUBLISHING COMFANT OMAHA. Drafts , Checks and Postoffico Jrdera to be made payable to the order of the Company. The BEE PUBLISHING 00 , , Props , E. RO8EWATER Editor. WHY don't Nobratka make a dash for the poitmutor generalship. ' If Colorado Is entitled to a cabinet officer Nebraska ought to bo. FnANK HAITON la shedding croco dile tears over the sudden death of Timothy 0. Howe while ho Is trying on the dead man's shoos. DonsEY makes a flit denial. No thief over flinches from perjury to clear himself from charge that would land him In the penitentiary. WITH MikoMoaneyaa chairman of the republican central committee , 01 d Hascall as the master spirit , the to publicans of Omaha are marching towards a pit-fall of their 9wn digging. THK BEE takes pleasure in explain ing that the article in reference to "Boggs , of .Nebraska , " copied from The Washington Critic , had no refer- euoe whatever to George H. Boggs , of this city , nor to his brother , John W. Boggs , of Blair , Neb. BEPORTH ara coming In from the v > usual qnsrters that the poach crop is again ruined. The poach crop has been ruined regularly for the last twenty years bat the Dataware or chards continue to turn out every year enough to supply the cravings of the country. THE rumor that there is to be a consolidation of the Internal revenue districts and a corresponding reduc tion In the number of collectors Is do- nlod. For the present no changes will be made in the list. This will bo gratetul news to several patriotic of fice holders In Pennsylvania , Ohio , New York and Illinois where the headsman's axe was expected to fall. Tout was when the republican party was brave enough and manly enough to nail Its colon to the masthead and submit its candidates fearlessly to the public In sufficient time to let them know who they wen asked to vote for. But under the generalship of Haseall and Mike Meaney the ticket will be put In the hands of voters on election day , and no questions must ho asked. That is boislsm with a vengeance. It only has Its parallel down to Lincoln where the railroad strikers are playing the same game. THE report vhioh comes from the east that the andltorsnlp of the Union Pacific railroad has been tendered to a Massachusetts railroad official is prob ably correct. Mr. Gannett , who has for many years stood at the head of that department in Omaha , virtually retired from the position some months ago owing to enfeebled health. His actual retirement will bo rocolvod with a regret which will bo all the more universal for the reason that his too close application to official duties has alone rendered It necessary. But we venture to say that tbo Asters tors , and the Coopers , and the How Itts , and the E parts , and the Taylors , and the Danas , and the Olaflas , and the Tlldons , did not put In an appear ance at the Yandorbilt shindy. Her aid. aid.As As usual Dr. Miller la mistaken , THE BEE'S solid and only special tele gram about the Yandorbilt shindig re ports that "Abram 8. Hewitt appear * ed as King Lear while yet In his right mind. " In the majority of his polltU cal public appearances the exact con dition of Mr. Hewitt's mind Is open to question. It will be gratijylng to Dr. Miller , who recently published a private letter from Peter Cooper's son- in-law just to show the sort of com pany ho trains with In New York , to know that in addition to being "In his right mind" Mr. Hewitt waa attended by his throe daughters , "whose costumes were much admired. " The gratuitous information ought to furnlih the editor of the Herald with materials for at least throe columns of 'Home Gossip. " WM , PITT KELLOQO has'boon called at last by the star route grand jury. He will promptly enter bis plea ol not guilty and take a seat with Brad ; and Doraoy. TUB Italian hand of John M. Thurs- ton la pulling the wires In the political puppet show. OniOAao is tanning a high-low-jack UMOM campaign. * " > * * * * * THE CITY CAMPAIGN. The democrats of Ooiaha hold their primaries to-day aud will Dominate their city ticket to-morrow night. That is late enough. But the ropob llcans In under the leadership of Ilai call and Mike Meaney have kept back their call and will not nominate a ticket until Saturday evening. About four hundred republicans who patron ize the ring organ will learn on Sun day who have been nominated , but the mass of republican voters In this city who depend on THK BEE will only inow whom they are asked to support on the day before election. From the very outset of this cam paign the political shysters nnd jobbers who are managing It for the republi cans have sought to dovlso a schemojthat would enable them to run the gaunt let of public opinion successfully with jtholr gang. It waa an open confession that the candidates wore not to bo the true choice of the republican party after a thorough comparison of their merits but simply the product of pri maries packed with repeaters and roustabouts , and a convention made up of thp elements , that could bo depended upon to open the road for Tweedlsm in Omaha. Yon may take the horse to water but you can't make him drink. Yon can put up a job on the republican party but you can't make the reputa ble republicans give It their support. Two years agothe same old gang foisted Hascall on the party and wrecked the whole ticket , This year they Imagine they can pull through by holding back their ticket to the last mlnnto. As a matter of fact , their ticket Is doomed In advance. Whllo some good men will doubtless bo put en as ballast , the rotten hulk cacnot stand the gale that will blow next Tuesday , Hundreds of good republi cans will have nothing to do with any ticket gotten up with such reckless disregard of decency and precedent. It is far bettor that another severe lesson should bo administered than that corrupt andnnropubllcan methods should bo endorsed. ' SUPPRESSING AGITATORS. The British Lion is roaring loudly over the outrages committed by the " Irish press" In America , and Minister - tor West has boon requested to draw the attention o [ our government to the utterances of O'Donovan Rossas' Iriih American and Mr. Ford's Incen diary Irith World. Just what Mr. Gladstone expects the United States to do [ under the circumstances it Is difficult to determine : We have no law to prevent the publication of crit icisms of foreign governments by polit ical exiles , and If wo had such a law no American jury would enforce It. The English ministry have poor memories if they fail to recollect that in 1858 a like demand was made upon England by the French government , and that Mr. Palmerston'i ministry fell under an attempt to pass a bill embodying the principle advanced. The same arguments which defeated that measure In the English parlia ment would make its defeat two times more overwhelming In the American oingress. The people of the United State * have no sympathy with anas- sins , but they will never abridge the freedom of the press. Daring the civil war the English press was , for the most part , hostile to the union. It gave constant aid and comfort to the confederacy ; and through Its influence on the English oapltallts , who furnished the sinews of war to the southern government , pro longed by several years the existence of the confederacy. How would Mr , Gladstone and bis ministerial col leagues , several of whom were In power during that period have treated' demand from the United States for the suppression of the in condlary press of Great Britain. They would have hooted It out of the for ilgn office. What the English min istry calls "tho assassination proas , " lives and thrives from the criminal blunders of the English government Its treatment of Ireland , The moment the Irish problem is settled , as it only can bo settled by giving that country a fair measure of local gov ernment , the O'Donovan Rossas and Pat Crowes will bo out of a job. As has been well said , there la only one way for England out of the difficulty , and that la to como to terms with the reasonable Irishmen , Having done this she will not suffer long from nn- i o isonablo Irishmen , AT Its last session congress voted a reduction of throe dollars a thousand In the tax on cigars. It Is admitted that consumers will got no benefit from this change In the revenue laws , and the manufacturers propose to pocket the additional profit. On talk account the cigar makers of the conn- try are preparing to strike on the first of May , unless their employers aqroo to share with them some of the bene fits , amounting to a tenth of a cent on each cigar , or a dollar a thousand. For our part , wo sincerely hope that they may get It. Their success will help to distribute the reduction of revenue among the people , and thus to efface that lightening of the public burdens which the was ostensible pur pose of congress in reducing the tariff. The tax is reduced enough to take ten or twelve millions out of the treasury , but not enough to lesson prices to consumers. A reduction of a third o | a cent on a cigar will , of course , not touch retail prices at all. Thus tbo twelve million ! lost to the treasury will all bj pockatod by the 410,000 to bacco dealers in the country , unless the cigar makers got a share of It , ON THE RIGHT TRACK. When the New York legislators found Itself baulked In Its effort to reduce the elevated railroad fares to five cents , by the veto of Governor Cleveland , ( another [ stop was jtakon to bring tbo great monopoly to time. There Is a law on the Now York statute books empowering the legisla ture to make changes in the charters of any railroad companies where the net Income exceeds 10 per cent on the capital actually Invested. If It could bo shown that the not Income'of the elevated roads was more than 10 per cent on the capital invested , the leg islature could amend the charter that anthorloed ten cents faros without touching on what the monopoly at torneys call "vested rights. " Two weeks ago ( he Now York sen ate passed a resolution requesting the state engineer , Silas Seymour to fur nish information as to the real coat of the elevated roads. Mr. Soymonr made a report that shows him to bo as useful a tool of the elevated railroad syndicate as ho was fifteen years ago of the Credit Mobiller ring when ho acted as consulting en gineer of the Union Pacific. He made a report In which ho took the ground that the actual outlay must be com puted by the amount of capital stock and bonds issued by the company. His opinion rests on the proposition that It is the common practice of rail way corporations , both In his state and the United States , to charge the losses of discount on their securities to the cost of construction , equipment and other necessary expenditures , and there appears to bo no valid reason why those elevated railway companies should bo Inhibited from pursuing the same course. Such a plea could only emanate from a railrad attorney. It enunci ates the dangerous doctrine that the public must submit to a tax for the use of public highways based upon fictitious values. A rail road company may lasuo stock at a nominal value of ten cents on the dolltr. They contract ? with a con struction company composed of an In side ring of railroad directors at an extravagantly high price and divide the stock among them. They will then bond the road as faat as a section of It Is constructed at two-thirds il Its real valno. And then the sum total of stocks and bonds Is to bo taken as the actual in vestment , upon which the patrons of the road are to bo taxed to pay Inter est and dividends. This Is nothing more nor less than legalized robbery. And when the railroad kings insist npon a fair return on millions upon millions of fictitious capital , they are no better than the masked road B gents who board their trains and compel its passengers to give up their purses and watches. The people of New York have allow ed the elevated roads to occupy and obstruct their streets. The owners of property on those obstructed streets have sustained millions of damages without rocnlvlng any other return than the benefits derived by the gen eral public from rapid transit. They would cheerfully allow the owners of he railroad to earn fair interest on .heir . actual investment , but to quad uplo the real coat and demand that .ho people shall pay dividends on the tiflitod figures Is taking an ell where > nly an Inch Is Intended to bo allowed. The railroad question will never bo settled until this evil Is corrected , and just system of capitalization and profit la established. The Now York law with respect to actual cost , aa In- orprotod.by State Engineer Soymonr , moans absolutely nothing at all. His 'opinion" ' Is perfectly ridiculous to any ono who knows how railroads are built In these days. The Now York legislature Is on the alght track , and It is to bo hoped that It will bo able to aocnro a fair ap pralaemont of the value of the property it has under consideration and act accordingly. If It can deal with the matter justly , and wring the water out of the elevated roads or compel them to regulate their charges on the basis of real cost , they will es tablish a precedent that must sooner or later be followed In every state of the Union , THKBK was a sound of revelry on Fifth avenue on Monday night when W. H. Yandorbilt gave what is said to bo the moat expensive and luxurious private ball ever given In America , The entire expanse of this 0(000 ( of regal msgnlficlonoo was over $50,000 , the single Item of champagne footing up tha neat sum of $2,000. The party waa hold In a palace which with Its decorations , furniture and brao-s- brae could not bo replaced for $5,000- 000 , and the Invitations bore the signature of a railroad king whoso annual Income at his own estimate is more than $20,000,000. Yet within a quarter of a mlle of this gorgeous and luxurious exhibition of folly hundreds of poor men and women were shivering In wretched hovels and pauperism , and want and misery were stalking the streets on the east side of the city scarcely a pistol shot's distance from the marble stops of the Fifth avenue mansion. The cost of this entertain ment was equal to the life pay of any three of the laborers on Mr. Vander bil'a road , and equal to the entire yearly earnings of a thousand section hands on the Harlem or Hudson river railways. _ _ _ _ _ _ CALIFORNIA is alarmed over the pos sibility of a failure In her wheat crop. The spring rains are delaying much longer than usual , and unless there Is a generous rainfall within two weeks' time , irrigation will have to bo depended - pondod upon to supply a crop Itrge enough for the homo market. List year California exported 40 per cent of the entire amount of wheat snnt from the United States. A failure In the wheat crop on the Pacific coast this year , taking into consideration the certainty of small harvests abroad , is a serious prospect. No Rotponao. Em Frxnclico C H. The politicians have been gently tap ping at the heads of their leaders to too If the sound omitted would call out any response from the people. The head tapping so far has not boon pro ductive of great results. The heads tapped have given forth a dull sound , the tone of which conld not bo Inter preted by the pooplo. Blalne , Sher man , Edmunds , Wlndom , and at last Conger , have boon sounded , but their names bring forth no response. It may bo necessary to state that the lat ter is a senator from Michigan , dis tinguished for nothing In particular but his hostility to a portion of the American family of states. The next presidential contest will doubtless bo fought by the present parties , but neither of them represents the strong undercurrent of opinion existing among the people. That opinion Is not , as has been represented , a ten dency to communism , but a de termination to resent the encroach ment of associated capital. Under the pica of vested rights and the obli gation of contracts , capital Is seeking to emancipate Itself from legislative control. It declsros that it is not Bale subject to thp sense of justice of the people , to which our Ilyes and liberties are subject. A tribunal which is held to bo sufficiently honest and intelli gent to make and administer lawareg ulating the conditions under which in dividuals may live and act , Is declared not to bo sufficiently honest and Intel ligent to make and administer the laws regulating the ownership of property. Those Ideas must bo eradicated from the minds of the representatives of as sociated capital before they will be come In the full sense of the term good citizens. Their present purposes are at war with republican Institutions. No man who has recently obtained prominence In public life is sound on this question. The senate Is espsclally unsafe. It can hardly be said that there la a man there who represents the pooplo. They nearly all take the corporation view of ( the rights of prop erty. When Thurman , of Ohio , went down before the opposition he had provoked , he loft no successor , It la of no nse , therefore , to tap the skulls of senators In the search for presiden tial timber. There is very little dif ference between the parties on this point. While the democrats sound the heads of such men aa Justice Field , and railroad president and director Jewett , they cannot reproach the re publicans for making similar experi ments with Sherman , Conger & Co , There is a principle which will show Itself In some future campaign , the as sertion of which U necessary to the permanence of the republic. That principle is aa to the relative rights of Individuals and of property. Is the law which la sufficiently supreme to take life to be paralyzed when it comes In contact with property ? If we may trust the people with our lives and liberties , may we not also trust them with our property ) The great cor porations say we may not. The right to live Is , in their opinion , less sacred than the right to obtain all the ad vantages they can from the possession of property. The fallacy of the cor poration argument will soon ba shown. It only needs are careful examination of Its claims to secure its rejection. Against property In any form , whether held by individuals or corporations , there Is no feeling , but against the claims of property to bo above the lawn to which our lives and liberties are subject , there Is a growing opposition. TflH YANK IONS. Interesting and Gossipy Talk With the Trader on the Agency. Bloux Cllj JonnuL 0 , 0 , Sporty , one of the most genial and broad shouldered of up country men , who Is post trader at the Yank- ton Indian agency , about sixty miles above the capital , left for home yester day after spending a day or two In Slonx City in selecting a stock of goods. He entertained a reporter of The Journal for a half hour In Inter- eating talk concerning the Yankton Indians , which occupy their own reservation of 600,000 acres , and num ber 2,300 bucks , squaws and pap- poosea. He first remarked that It was somewhat unusual for him to purchase goods In Slonx City so early In the spring , but he had some hopes of an early break up and wanted to bo ready for the first steamboat that went up the river. 'The Yanktons mostly have houses , although a good many don't lire In them , preferring the topees. It Is difficult to bring them to the Idea of adopting the civillzsd style of living , as , like the Winnebagos some time ago , they regard tbo houses too hot in summer and too cold In winter. Of counn the Yanktons nro made up of a good many different grades of In dians as regards civilization. Some of them are industrious and good. Of this number perhaps the best man In the1 tribe , John Reo , died recently. Ho had some laud under cultivation and was a decidedly smart In- dlan. There are others , too , who are just an wild as ever , and cling to'all of their nomadic customs with persistence. Ono peculiarity about the Indians Is that they don't appreciate what the government gives them. If an Indian gets a suit of clothes from the government he In variably sells It to some of the wildcat traders just on the boundaries of the reservation , nnd then como and bny at my store what ho thinks is bettor. Of ccurto the Indian loses on the ope ration , aa he geta comparatively llttlo from tbo wildcat traddr. Those fel lows who trade on the onUldo do qnito a bnelnws The Indians cut a good deal of government timber and carry it off the tgeucy to sell to these parties , who will buy anything from a dead hog to a stick of timber. The schools are pretty giod. Sixty or seventy yonngludlans are in atten dance at the government school ; about fifty at the Episcopal school , and a number under Rev. Mr , Williamson's Instruction , There are besides two day schools tanght by native teachers. The missionaries there , Revs. William son and Cook , are doing all that conld bo expected , and they have the con fidence of the Indians , which is every thing. "Yon ask mo about the agent ? I had rather not bo quoted as giving any idea concerning Mr. Ridpath. A special agent , as you know , Is there Investigating the atulrs around the agency , and ho will probably finish his work in about a week. If I should be obliged to express my opinion regard Ing his report , I would say that it will be accompanied by a recommenda tion for removal. Ridpath doesn't know anything about Indians and not too much about business. The In dians don't llko him and have de manded his removal. The police take no stock In him at all , and do not act under his directions. On the night after the special agent arrived the safe at the agency , which contained several hundred dollars , was taken outside and an attempt was made to break it open with a sledge hammer. The back of the safe vas crnshed In but the money was not obtained. Agent Ridpath called the Indian pollco to look at the safe and express their opln ion as to who had attempted the rob bery. They looked the ground over for a few minutes and then said to him : "You did that yourself. " They told the special agent the same thing , and you couldn't get an Indian on the re servation to believe anything else. There is something peculiar about the redskin's honesty. They are , of course , inclined to steal , but nut one of them will take any chances. I can have goods shipped from this city by steam * , boat , unloaded on the bank , nnd leave them there unprotected all night and not a thing will bo touched. If , how ever , an Indian get his hands on some thing in the store when he imagines neither I nor my clerks are looking he will steal It. "Tho treaty with the Yanktons was made by the commission with the chief Strike-the-Reo and the head raon of the tribe without difficulty. The work of the head men may bo regard ed as that of the tribe , because the former are politicians in a certain sense , and they won't put their signa tures to anything their constituents will not support , if they know It. I saw the members of the Indian com mission at Yankton the other day and had a talk with them. They say that if their treaty isn't good the Black Hills treaty isn't It is pretty nearly imposelblo to got the signatures of three-fourths of a tribe which is scat- teted over as much territory as the Yanktons. Col. Pattoe was out there eight weeks trying to git signatures to an agreement with them to sell a part of their land to the Ponoas and failed. The Indian commission will go to the Agency next week and will make a new treaty with the Yattons. The members of the conmlasion think the bill will pass at the next session of congress without much trouble. " To make a good salad dressing In the ordinary way , good condiments , plenty of time and no little skill are essential. DPKKEE'B DRESSING supplies these requisites. All grocers sell It. THE GREAT GERMAN REMEDY FOR PAIN. lUHiTii and earn RHEUMATISM , Neuralgia , Scittici , Lumbiga , BACKACHE , U1D1OT , TOOTUCHl , SORE THROAT , QUINSY , SWELLINGS , SPRAINS , ScrintM , CaU , Bralm , FROSTBITES , DCRNS , SCAX.DB , 4nl til other bodlltchu tn4 palaa. nm CISTS i BOTTU Sold by all Droffliti aoi Dealjrt. DlrKlloDB In 11 U A. Tof ! ft C . ) lBora , BiL , C. B. A. JOHN D , PEABODY , M , D , , PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON , IOFFICE ROOMS. 3 & 6 1607 FARNAM ST. Re ldertc 1714 Douglas Btrtet. Omahi , Neb. ALMA E. KEITH , Removed from 1222 Farnam 8t to IOO Co. Fifteenth St. , opppslte Poitofflce. Will ojxa on lUrch 10th , fine lot at pattern bonnet * and bate , rit bnni , etc. AUo ) rge addl- tlonito the ttock ol Hair GooJi. comprUInt all the nOTtltlei ol toe Ituoa. 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Stock fed with Ground Oil Cake in the fall and win ter , Instead of running down , will increase in weight and bo in good market able condition in the spring. Dairymen as well on others who use it can tes tify to its merits. Try it nnd judge for yourselves. Price $25.00 per ton ; no charge for sacks. Address 04-ood.mo WOOODRIAN UNSEED OIL CO. , Omaha , Nob. M. Hellman < fe Co. WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS , 1301 and 1303 Farnam St. Cor. 13th OMAHA , NEB. MoMAHON , ABERT & CO , , Wholesale Druggists , 315 DOUGLAS STREET - OMAHA NEB. McNAMARA & DUNCAN. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN KENTUCKY AND PENNSYLVANIA WhiskieS ! in fond or Free. Also direct Importers of WINES , BRANDIES AND ALES , Jobbers and Manufacturers of Fine IR , S Agents for Jos. Schlitz * Milwaukee Beer- Bottled and in Kegs. 214 & 216 S. 14TH STREET. - - - OMAHA. . FEB. 0. F. GOODMAN , DRUGGIST AND DEALER IN PAINTSOILSVABNISHES And Window Glass. OMAHA. . . . . . . . . NEBRASKA A. M. CLARK , Painter&PaperHanger SIQH WRITBIU DECORATOR. WHOLESALE & RETAIL WALL PAPER I Window Shades aud Onrtalne , OORNIOE3 CURTAIN POLES AND FIXTURES. Faints , Oils & Brushes. 107 femtk 14th Strot OMAHA NEBRASKA BROOM AND 'BRUSH ' WORKS. Cor. of Fifteenth and 'Pacific ' Streets. JR. E. COPSON & 00. , Proprietors. Will commence operations about April I , m2G-m&o 1m OITT PLANING MILLS. MANUFACTURERS OF Carpenter's Materials ALSO SASH , DOORS , BLINDS , STAIRS , Stair Railings , Balusters , Window and Door Frames , Etc. Ftiit-clau facilities for the Manufacture of all klndes of Mouldings , Planing aad < . matehlfifr a Specialty. Oidera from the country will b promptly executed , addressall communloatl ute A. MOYER , Proprli