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WITH Armour in Omaha it means con
siderable for Nebraska.
WITHOUT bucket shops , gamblers or
boodlers.Chicago , the city of Hams , will
make a charming summer resort.
Two passenger trains have recently
bcon robbed in Minnesota. Can it bo
that Cole Younger is being avenged ?
AUMOUU & Co. will take charge of the
packing house now occupied by Thomas
J. Lipton. Omaha is not losing any of
her prestige.
COMMISSIONEK SI-AUKS , metaphorically
speaking , is making the sparks fly in the
direction of honest enforcement of the
the homestead law.
COLONEL FUED GKANT , it is predicted ,
will bo nominated by the republicans of
Now York for secretary of stato. The
returns after the election will show what
there is in a name.
THE Now York World advises Governor
Pattison to "camp in Omaha until ho can
communicate with the panic-stricken
natives , " who are fleeing before the
Pacific investigators.
THE traduccrs of Governor Thayer
continue in their indecent cause , nnd
Governor Thayer continues to possess the
respect and confidence of the reputable
people of Nebraska.
ELEVEN of the hostile Apaches have
returned to the reservation. It the
United States army can avoid moating
the other nineteen , it Is thought the In
dians will secure no scalps during this
outbreak. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
NEW YORK'S base ball club had a game
"called" on thorn , nine to nothing. It
Is hoped that Now York will keep up
this style until the game is called on
Jake Sharp twelve to nothing , for con
viction.
DAKOTA haa boon visited by a frost.
The enterprising newspapers of the ter
ritory take advantage of the weakness of
sweltering humanity by advertising the
fact as one of the rare and peculiar ad
vantages enjoyed by the settlors.
REV. MK. SAVIDOE , in his sermon Sun
day , against ball playing on the Sabbath
day , said there wcro seven clubs in each
league , lie was mistaken in this. There
are eight. Yet Mr. Savidgo showed
more knowledge of the game than has
boon shown by umpire Doaglo.
AND now the Republican wants to shifl
the responsibility for the mutilation ol
the section of the charter relating to
parks upon Senator Linlngor. This is
decidedly cool. It h notorious that Mr.
Liuingor made an earnest appeal against
the mutilation of the charter , and sought
up to the last moment to have the park
provision restored. But the judiciary
boodlers under the load of the editor o
the Republican and his associates of the
oil room lobby carried the day and do-
fontod the section relating to parks.
It may not bo out of place incidentally
to recall the fact that Captain Wilcox
whoso friendship for Chief Soavoy is the
prime cause of opposition to the chief am
the police commission on the part o :
Councilman Hascall , was down at Lin
coin working cheek by jowl with the
charter wrecker of the licjniblica )
against parks. Curses , like chickens
como home to roost.
A O.UEAT many of the arbitrary regula
tions of railroad companies woult
speedily como to naught if people whc
have the intelligence to know when tboj
are impositions would disregard them
Justice Field , of the United State :
supreme court , recently sot an example
in this direction that is interesting. He
went to the railroad office in San Fran
Cisco to purchase a round-trip ticket tc
Portland , and on being asked by tin
ticket seller to write his name on tin
ticket refused to do so , on the grounc
that there was no law In the Unitct
-V States compelling him to sign a railroai
ticket. The otHclal on learning who tin
objector was promptly handed over tlu
ticket without tha signature. As a Sat
Francisco paper remarked , "it would b <
a strange law which would require nj
one to enter into n written contrai
which be had not read , and of the con
touts of which he was in entire tguo
rauco , " and yet ilmllar demands an
Bade by reilroads every day and ac
dad to. .
OH llooms. ' '
When mdn biro themselves out to cor-
) orallot)3 ) as procurers , seducers nnd cor-
uptors of the people's representatives ,
hey are capable of almost any infamy.
t is not at all surprising that the miscre-
ints who have played thd decoy for the
Nebraska railroad boodlors should delib
erately add perjury to their more detest-
iblo crimes.
Several of these political prostitutes
mvo testified under oath bcforo the Pa
cific railroad commission that they
tncw nothing about legislative oil
rooms and never heard about an oil
oem , except as it was mentioned by the
UKE. This will surprise John M , Thurs-
ton in his Minnesota retreat.
Legislative oil rooms have notoriously
been kept open at the leading hotels at
the state capital during every ses
sion of the legislature since the
railroads entered the domain of
politics. These resorts were always
supplied with a full assortment of choicest
liquors , wines and cigars and the hotel
bar was usually kept running all night
catering to the oil room orgic.s.
It was in these oil rooms that Thurston
and his stool pigeons entertained mem
bers of the legislature with champagne ,
brandy and whisky until they wcro in
condition to drop into the pitfall which
the wily Union Pacific lobbyist had set for
them. It was in the oil rooms where the
legislative boodlors most did congregate ,
and yet the dissolute henchman who lit
erally lived in the oil rooms during the
legislative session pretend that they
never heard of such a placel The only
wonder Is that these case-hardened
wretches have admitted that they wore
hired by the railroad to keep the Ne
braska legislature from "making mis
takes. "
A Victory Over Ulno
On last Sunday the hotel keepers of
Now York wcro enabled to supply their
guests with wine at their meals , a privi
lege which had been denied them for
several previous Sundays. It may bo
safely assumed that the opportunity was
fully improved both by the hotel men
and these they entertained , and that the
line was not rigidly drawn at meal time ,
which however is very nearly continu
ous at New York hotels. It is also a safe
guess that a great mauy more people
wore registered at the hotels than were
in a legitimate sense guests. The excise
law which has boon in operation for
thirty years in Now York contains a sec
tion prohibiting the keeper of an inn ,
tavern or hotel , or any ether pc rson ,
to sell or give away any intoxicating
liquors or wines on Sunday oren
on olcction day to any person
whatever as a bo'vorago. In the
attempts to enforce the law that were
made from time to time the privileges of
the hotel keepers were not interfered
with , and it had grown to be the com
mon understanding that they were not
intended to bo amenable to the statute ,
notwithstanding its Very explicit lan-
'nago. But when Mayor Hewitt deter
mined that the law should bo rigidly ou-
forccd and carried that determination
into action the hotels wcro required to
submit in common with all other sellers
of liquor. They did so protestingly for a
coupla of Sundays , but finally the pro
prietors of two of the most prominent
hotels the Gilsoy and Fifth Avenue-
summoning a police officer to witness
their action , dispensed liquor to their
guests on Sunday. They were arrested ,
and the matter being taken bcforo n
judge sitting la supreme court , cham
bers , ho decided thafthe law did not per
mit thorn to sell liquors or wines to their
guests on Sunday. Thecaso was appealed
to the general term of the supreme
court , and a decision rendered , all the
judges concurring , reversing the deci
sion of the inferior tribunal and affirm
ing the right of hotal keepers to furnish
their guests with liquors or wines at meals
on Sunday or any ether day.
The general importance of this deci
sion lies in the siuglo fact that it makes
a liberal spirit of construction not too
common in issues of this kind. The prin
ciple which seemed to bo at the founda
tion of the opinions rendered by the
judges each submitting bis own view
independently was that the hotel is
virtually the homo of the guest , and that
to deny him the right to have liquors or
wine served there would bo to practi
cally deny him his homo rights with re
spect to this privilege , which no law
should be allowed to do. Ono of the
judges said if the construction placed
on the law by the inferior court wore
to hold , no person could on Sunday
or on any election day "supply
at his own table to members
of his own family a single glass of wine. "
Obviously no such harsh and intolerant
restriction was over intended , and if it
was it would be Impossible to enforce it
for any length of time in New York. It
is evident tiiat this statute needs over
hauling and remodeling. It is in the line
of these "blue laws" which the senti
ment of this time is wholly out of sym
pathy with , and the continuance ol
which is simply a source of annoy
ance and trouble without doing any good
to anybody.
Results of Co-Oporatlon.
For more than n generation most ot
these who have made the labor problem
n subject of careful and rational studj
have regarded co-operation as an import
ant factor in the solution of its ditlicuL
ties. It is interesting , therefore , to in
quire ns to the results of the application
of this principle. There is very little to
bo obtained , and not much of that en
couraging , from the history of its trial in
this country. Co-operative enterprises
have been established hero , and a few
have recent existence , but most of them
that have been undertaken had f
brief and troubled career , and either
wont to pieces or passed into the control
of a few individvals who developed the
necessary administrative ability to carry
them on , becoming simply like any ether
company , though perhaps retaining
the title aa co-operative estab
Hshmonts. Examples of this can be
found in almost every manufacturing clt ]
of the country. Of these establishment :
that are now running on the cooperative
tivo principle the reports of success an
not uniformly reassuring. A few an
moderately prosperous , as for example
those engaged in the textile trades a
Philadelphia , but generally they do no
grow , and their existence in of the "frou
hand to mouth" order. Co-operation ir
the United States has uot yet been such a
success as to contribute greatly to confl
donee in the system , but if the priucipli
is sound there can bo no doubt that ultl
inatcly It will be made successful.
Turning to England , where co-opera
ion has boon.longest In.practico and has
cached Its highest' development , there Is
ound to bo most substantial reason for
ho faith of those who believe in the
virtues nnd advantages of this sys-
era. There are 1,201 co-operative so-
ilctlcs in the United Kingdom , and their
nstory is ono of remarkable prosperity.
n twenty years they have done a total
nislncss of $1,839,000,000. from which the
ncmbors have derived $100,000,000 as
irolits. But even there the system ap-
> oars to have reached a limit beyond
which there is uncertainty , and perhaps
danger. At the great congress of cooperative
erative societies recently held , Mr.
Thomas Hughes , ono of the oldest sup-
lortcrs of the movement , delivered an
iddress on Its history and prospects , in
which ho said that co-operation in distri
bution in the purchase and sale of
articles of daily consumption had been
nn enormous success , but that co-opera-
: ion , where it had succeeded , find ceased
n a great measure to bo co-operation in
.ho early and best scnio of the word ,
The prosperous societies have devel
oped in recent years a strong
lesiro to go into the business of produc
ing. They have naturally reasoned that
; hey ought to manufacture at least a por-
Jon of the goods they consume , and for
which they have a ready and assured
market. This fooling has led two of the
largest distributing societies to nmnufao-
Lure boots and shoes on an cxtensivo
scale , nnd with successful results to th o
societies , but it is being done at the sac
rifice of the co-operation principle. The
workers in these shoo factories are not
co-opcr.Uors and do not share in the
prollts of the business. They got the
prevalent rate of wages m the market ,
and have just as many differences with
their employers as do the workers for
ether manufacturers. Furthermore , these
wealthy societies do not hesitate to use
their power to exclude weaker so
cieties from catering the liold in
competition with them. In a word , the
managers of those factories have all the
characteristics of human nature when
engaged m the conflicts of business , and
although Mr. Hughes warns the societies
against the introduction of labor which
has 110 interest in profits , as likely to
prove the destruction of the movement ,
there is very little likelihood ol their
heeding the admonition.
The conclusion from results thus far
must bo that co-operation for distribu
tion is entirely practicable , and can bo
made of great advantage to labor , but
that co-operation for production is at
best hazardous , if confined strictly to the
the principles of the system , while to
keep it within such limitation has thus
far proved absolutely impracticable on
any largo scalo.
The Monetary Situation.
The reports of the leading clearing
houses of the country for last week show
a considerable aggregate decline in the
business of the banks. There was an in
crease , though a small ono , as compared
with the corresponding week of last
year , bnt the evidence of the figures
is that trade generally is quiet.
Such a situation is to bo ex
pected at this season , and it
will very likely continue for the next
sixty days , but the condition exhibited
by the record of clearings may not bo
duo wholly to natural causes. It is quite
probable that the bauks are disposed to
pursue for a time a very conservative
policy , induced thereto both by recent
commercial events and by'a feeling of
uncertainty regarding the future of the
money market. The effects of the devel
opments following the collapse
of the wheat deal , while the
severest damage was local , have boon
somewhat generally felt m financial cir
cles , and as usual in such cases have
incited to care and caution. Thou there
are tendencies in other directions which
conduce to the same feeling. Beyond all
this there is n question as to what the
situation may bo two or three months
hence , when there is an extraordinary
demand for money to move the new
crop. From the latest figures of the
treasury there doesn't appear to bo any
strong reason for apprehending an insuffi
ciency of currency for the trade wants of
the country during the next six months.
It is now believed that the receipts of the
treasury will not exceed the disburse
ments between July and January to the
amount of more than $30,000,000 , and
this sum can perhaps bo spared without
disturbance to the business of the coun
try , though certainly it would bo very
much bettor in the hands of the people
than the vaults of the treasury. The
banks , however , arc appar
ently not disposed to take
chances , and there is something in tills
fact to build confidence on. So long as
the banks adhere to a policy of giving
support only to legitimate enterprise
there need bo no fear of financial dis
turbance , or that the country will not
have the means to carry on its regular
business without interruption.
TIIEKE has not been ono word said by
any Omaha paper except the BEE about
the street sweeping jobs. Why are all our
contemporaries so silent ? Can the city
afford to pay $4,000 u month for street
cleaning ? 'If wo can afford to double
the street cleaning expense , is there any
valid reason why the contractors should
be allowed f 000 permonth more for sweep
ing the streets than the work can bo
contracted for ? Docs the condition of
the city treasury justify such a reckless
outlay ? Are not taxes high enough
without doubling the street cleaning ex
penses.
STAT12 AN1) TKUIUTOKY.
Nebraska Jottings.
Kushvillo has added a cemetery to her
list of industries.
The Fremont creamery churned 18,448
pound ; ) of butter last week.
Sutton business men want an excur
sion over the Kansas City & Omaha to
Omaha.
H. B. Fetz and W. E. Hitchcock have
blossomed out with the Times at Nonpa
reil , Dawes county.
The state of Beatrice is worth ? 5,315-
200 for tax purposes , an increase of
1200,000 over last year.
A brace of glib-tongued fakirs are do
ing Hamilton county for subscriptions to
an atlas that will relieve the rcsidcnU of
$20,000 or more cosh.
A. L. Bixby.'one of the brlchtest stars
in the profession , has retired from the
Naico county Journal. Ho goes west to
whoop up the country.
The assessors' returns of property in
Gage county shows 1,500 ! ) horses , 38,14- <
cattle , 1,818 mules , 21,203 sheep , 38,003
hogs , lands valued at $2,337,757 and rail
roads at f850,169.
Over 1317,000 in gold and silver was
paid in aonuiticj to the Omaha Indians.
this wcok , and there is now. n strong
demand among the savages for ( tiro-
water.
A terrible aflllction befell thd family of
West Johnson , living near Mead , Saunders -
dors county. Three of his children died
during Sunday and Monday of last week ,
stricken by diphtheria. Two years ago
the couple lost two children by the same
disease. Truly their cup of sorrow is
overflowing. '
The Tecumseh Republican denounces
the second class dilapidated cabooses
run on the B. & M. line in Johnson
county , ami frankly confesses that before
April 1 there was coiiblderablo enter
prise , courtesy and convenience shown
patrons of the road. The cash basis has
had a wonderful'cQcct on the editorial
temperament.
J. H. Buchanan , general passenger
agent of the Elkhoru Valley road , has
notified the people of the Black Hills
that the company will transport free of
charge to the Omaha exposition and
state fair at Lincoln , collections of pro
ducts for exhibition , ores of various
kinds , marble , stone , flro clay , brick , etc.
The offer is a generous ono and will bo
accepted.
The Fremont Oil company , of Glen-
rock , W. T. , was organized in Fremont
Saturday last by the election of G. W. E.
Horsey. E. II. Barnard , C. 11 , Toncray ,
W. E. bmails and \V. \ J. Crane as direct
ors , who were aftcrwarcs elected in the
above order , president , vice president ,
treasurer , secretary and general man
ager. The capital stock ot the company
is § 1,000,000 , and the object of tiio organ
ization is to develop 8,000 acres of oil
and coal land which they already pos
sess.
lotvn Items.
DCS Moincs county claims to have as
line iiro-clay as thuro is in the world.
An institution to be known as the
Evaporated and Condensed milk com
pany , with a capital of $100,000 , will lo
cate at Cedar Kapids.
A Davenport rifle team carried off the
honors at the lifth annual contest of the
Northwestern shooting society , and their
captain , George Cook , made the highest
individual score.
The Davenport Democrat says two men
were arrested there and lined $50 and
costs each for "fighting and disturbing
the police. " A man who would wantonly
disturb the police should bo shot or hung.
Conductor Harry Uarr mot with a pain
ful accident at the Esthorvlllo crave ! pit ,
Thursday , while switching some cars.
Ho was knocked down by the pilot of the
en cine nnd. the wheels passed over the
ball of his heel , cutting off the flesh up to
the ball of his foot.
For some time back so many potty
thefts have occurred in northeastern Van
Burcn county that detectives were set at
work to discover the thieves. Their in
vestigations resulted in the arrest of
Harry Vance , George Kliso and Albert
Van Winkle. William Van Winkle es
caped arrest by running away. The
proof against the gang is positive and
they will all no doubt receive the full
benefit of the law ! ' ) '
UfAh.
The Utah railroad company , a branch
of the Burlington , Has been organized in
Salt Lake City.
( ,
President Potter and a partv ot Union
Pacific officials distributed a large quan
tity of railroad swcqtuess in Mormondom
last week. ] * , '
Mineral shipments from Salt Lake
City for the week ending July 18 wore :
Twenty-two cars bullion , 137,899 pounds ;
10 cars load , 280,313 pounds ; 20 cars sil
ver and lead ore , &J0.250 pounds ; 0 cars
copper ore , 101,000 pounds ; total , 04 cars ,
1,810,203 pounds. , ,
The sureties of George Q. Cannon , the
saintly unlawful cohabitor of Salt Lake ,
have sought to bo relieved from liability
on their bond , bnt the territorial supreme
court of Utah decided against them.
They appealed to the United States supreme
premo court. The amount at issue is
$40,000 , with interest and costs.
John Tobin , the Kansas City man who
has been lecturing against Mormonism ,
is about to institute a suit against Salt
Lake City for property valued atone
million dollars. Tobin's claim is based
on the following facts : In 18G3 ho was
obliged to fly with a penalty of death
hanging over him should he return. Just
before John D. Lee was hanged for the
Mountain Meadow massacre , ho con
fessed that ho had been employed by
Brigham Youne to murder Tobin. Ho
hau in fact attacked his party and killed
several but only succeeded in wounding
Tobin. At that time Tobin was obliged
to fly from Salt Lake City. He then
owned considerable property in the heart
of the city. That is now estimated at
being worth over $1,000,000.
Montana.
Bullion shipments from Butte last
week amounted to $134,088.
The Drum Lummon is producing bul
lion at the rate of 13,000,000 a year.
Seven prominent mines in the territory
paid dividends aggregating $1,043.500
during the first five months of the year.
A railroad company backed by the
Union Pacific has been incorporated to
build a line from Butte to the National
Park.
The end of the Manitoba track is now
within the confines of Montana. It will
boom ri ht along now till it reaches
Butte and Anaconda.
Ill's believed the tunnels of the North
ern Pacific railroad in Montana , where
caves have obstructed travel this winter ,
will never bo safe until they are arched
witli solid masonry , which will bo an
enormously expensive undertaking.
Pacific Coast.
The now directory of Los Angeles
figures out a population of 00,008.
Mother Hubbard dresses are forbidden
on the streets of Albuquerque , New Mex
ico.
Spokane Falls Is to have a steve fac
tory , paper mills , oil factory and woolen
mills.
Large gray timber wolves are destroy
ing calves and colts in Bear Lake county ,
eastern Idaho. , ,
The coruor-stono qf the now Catholic
cathedral at Sacramjnto was laid with
imposing ceremonies Just , Sunday.
The Piuto population in Nevada has In
creased nearly 2,000 since the census of
1830. On that date ittwas 7,700. It is es
timated now at 0,200. i
The count of Indian * at San Carlos con
firms the previous count that only six
teen bucks and ono squaw are absent
from the reservation
A narrow vein of "coal and another of
copper ore have beih'tllscovered by the
deep cut for the railroad near v\ bite
Pine , on the southern'side of thoSIskiyou
mountain. ' .
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The board of rc oits of the Arizona
territorial university , ! have contracted
with the Ithaca ( N.A.woll ) augur com
pany to bore a 1000-fooc artesian well at
lucson for | 5,000.
The Reno reduction-works are kept
constantly going , and It is now certain
that the capacity of the establishment
will have to bo increased or other works
of that kind erected if business continues
to increase. They are now receiving ore
from California and all portions oi No-
veda , and the returns have been bo far
entirely satisfactory.
For Sulc.
One newspaper Campbell press , bed
32x40. Ono Potter Cylnder Job Press ,
bed 22x93. Ono boiler and engine , shaft
ing and bolting. All in good order. Will
sou this machinery very cheap as. the
owner has no use for the same. Address
to 1120 Capitol Avenue , Ginaha , Neb. .
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HOW THfeY TAKE IT.
Central 1'nolflo IttivcnRO on Potter
Ilttlcf ) for the Now Koutc.
San Francisco Chronlclot Uailroad
gossip centers on the latest move of Tom
Potter. In deciding to "throw over" the
Central Pacific and handle all Montana ,
Utah and Idaho freight , to and from this
city by way of Portland , Potter Is giving
the Southern Pacific company consider
able food for reflection. Not that the
Southern Pacific company cares for the
losts of business oh , not but it did not
think after all these years of close con
nection with the Union Piiclllo that the
latter company could have it in its
corporate heart to thus rudely tear
asunder the bonds of commercial union.
So now the Sourhorn Pacific company is
"cooking up" some choice form of ven
geance. It is deemed likely that it will
use the Sunset routu for working out a
grand scheme of retaliation which shall
make Mr. Potter wish ho had never heard
or dreamed of such a thing ns routing
Utah freight via Portland. Now rules
and conditions governing the shipment
of freight to the territory reached by the
lines named in the \o\nl \ \ tariff wcro re
ceived yesterday. Irom these rules the
following extracts of special interest to
local shippers nro taken :
No shipment , however small , composed of
ono or more classes , will be carried for loss
than would be charged upon 100 pounds of
second-class freight.
All freight for which carload rate Is pro
vided must bo loaded at point of shipment
by shipper , and unloaded at destination by
the owner or consignee , oral tliolr expense.
All cars loaded with property which Is to
bo unloaded by owner or consignee , whether
at side track or regular stations , must ho un
loaded within twenty-four hours ntter ar
rival at destination , or a charge of S3 per day
or fraction thereof will be made for each day
thereafter until unloaded. The companies ,
however , reserve the right to unload and
clmnro the owner or consignee of the prop
erty for the cost or expense of same , the com
panies to be ontlioly exempt from nny lia
bility for deficiency In quantity laden In
them. A charge of S3 per day or fractional
part will also be made for detention of cars
( longer than twenty-four hours ) which have
been ordered by and reserved for shippers.
The companies do not uuaraiitoa to carry
the freight by any particular train , nor in
time for any particular market , and will not
bo responsible for losses occasioned by de
lays.
Agricultural Implements , wagons and sim
ilar freight , when loaded upon standard
gauge lint cars , should not bo loaded to ex
ceed twelve fcot in extreme height above the
top of the rail or nine feet six Inches in extreme -
tremo width ; and upon narrow gauge cars ,
eleven and one-half feet high and eight and
one-half feet In ( extreme width. The com
panies reserve the right , when the rules are
not complied with , to either refuse the freight ,
to transport It entirely at owner's risk of in
jury from collision with snow-sheds , water-
tanks , etc. , or to remove any excess from the
car and cliarco first-class rates upon the same
Freight will bo charged upon the stakes , etc. ,
If delivered. If left with car no charge will
bo made.
Unless otherwise provided , the minimum
carload weight of a standard gauge car shall
bo 00,000 pounds ; of a narrow igauge car ,
16,000 pounds. Cars may bo loaded to their
marked capacity , but In case no capacity Is
marked thereon , 28,000 nounds may be loaded
to a standard gauge , and 00,000 pounds in a
narrow i uo car , and bo charged for at the
carload rate provided. All In excess of such
maximum weights will be charged for as
provided in the western classification.
The minimum carload weight shall bo
20,000 pounds upon freight Interchanged be
tween standard gauge and narrow gauge
points.
Forty Per Cent Discount.
Salt Lake Tribune.
Silver miners are losing about $10,000-
000 annually because of the discount on
silver. Because of that discount the pro
ducers of the country at largo are losing
the same percentage on their products.
This is proven by two or three facts.
The silver dollar will purchase as much
wheat or cotton or tobacco or any other
product as it did in 1873. While this is
true , nil settlements are reckoned upon
a gold basis , and wo have the same result
that would befall the dry goods merchant
were some ono to substitute for his
three-foot yard-stick a stick that meas
ured 48.0 inches in length. It would re
quire 30 per cent more cloth to make a
yard. The truth of this is proved in
another way. We have paid on account
of the national debt and interest , in the
last twenty years , some $2,000,000,000.
and yet of the products of the land , in
cotton and wheat and tobacco and every
thing else which labor produces.it would
require as much to pay what is loft of the
debt as it would to have paid it all m the
beginning. This moans simply that
for some reason the shrinkage m values
in the United States in twenty years is
equal to quite forty per cent , or just
about the same apparent shrinkage
which through various legislation caused
silver to seem to decline , but which is
really the appreciation in the purchasing
power of gold. We find the same result
at every turn. Thus the 3,750,000,000
pounds of cotton raised last year in the
United States did not bring so much
jvs the 1,800,000,000 , raised in 1873. In
1873 there were exported 3,502,080 bar
rels of flour , which brought $10,381,001.
In 1885 there wore exported 10.048.145
barrels which brought only $53,140,330.
That is in 1873 a barrel of flour was
worth within a trifle of $8 , in 1835 it was
worth less than $5. Forty per cent , of $8
is $3.20 , and 40 per cont. taken from the
price of flour In 1873 gives its exact
value in 1885. Another way to state it is
that the purchasing power of gold
has increased just 40 par cont. In
1880 there were m round numbers
50,000,000 of people in the United
States , and the specie and paper
representatives of money in the country
amounted to $24.10 per capita. Popula
tion is increasing at a little more than 3
per cent per annum , and trade is increas
ing much faster. That makes the popu
lation now a little over sixty millions ,
which is substantially correct. If there
was not too much money in 1880 , tiiero
Bbould have bcon added to it smco
$240,000,000. There has been no such
amount. Moreover , there has been locked
up in reserve funds quite $300,000,000 in
gold. This steadily swelling advance in
business equal to the creation and full
equipment of a state annually the add
ing of 20 per cent to the people , and the
steady light which has been made on sil
ver has brought around the shrinkage In
values by the simple action of a natural
law. While this warfare upon silver has
been going on , all the time there has been
$400,000,000 , in greenbacks in circulation
to secure the payment of which $100,000-
000 in gold lies in the treasury. If in
stead of the Bland law congress had sim
ply passed a law making in compul
sory upon the treasury ollicials to re
ceive American silver bars UOO line
and receipt for them in certificates re
deemable in silver coin or bullion , and
retire greenbacks as fast as those certifi
cates were issued , wo should now have
had in lieu of thorn $100,000,000 in paper ,
behind each dollar of which there would
have been 4131 grains of silver ; the $100-
000,000 in gold held for their redemption
would have bcon in circulation among
the people ; silver would have been back
in its old position , beside of gold , and
the wheat and cotton crop of last year ,
together with every other crop , would
have brought 40 per cent more than It
did. It is not too late to begin now
whore the wrong was done , and to re
store silver to its old status , and with it
the product of labor. Unless this shall
be uouu the shrinkage will continue until
a universal smashing will follow. Wo
suspoot that the movement to speculates
in silver bars in Now Yorkis simply
born of tbo knowledge of this fact , and
that the projectors of the scheme are
simply , in a romid-about way , accepting
the inevitable. Their action ought to bn
such a hint to congress ad shall make the
proper adjustment ol tbo matter ' easy.this
coming winter. , . . .
MASSACHUSETTS PRIS05S ,
Report of the Legislative Committee.
Severe ArralRnmont of the System of
Contract Convict hnlior.
Uoston ( Jlobo : The legislative commit
tee on prisons has submitted its report as
to the condition of the penal institutions
of the commonwealth , and tliolr recom
mendations in connection therewith.
The following is an abstract of the docu
ment :
The committee has visited and in
spected every penal institution in the
commonwealth. They wcro found , as a
rule , in very creditable conditionj the ex
ceptions to neatness and cleanliness wore
very rare , and confined entirely to county
institutions. The Institutions which
came under the direct charge , and super
vision of the state , viz. , the state prison
of Massachusetts reformatory and the
reformatory prison for women , were in
their usual excellent condition. Good ,
wholesome food , well ventilated quarters
and humane treatment arc the prevail
ing characteristics. The food appeared
to ba well cooked , nutritious , and given
in sulhciont quantities to satisfy the nor
mal appetite. If there is any criticism
to be made upon the management of our
state prison and reformatories , it is
that the prisoners are dealt with too leni
ently ; they appear to bo treated as if In
an asylum or tx homo , and not a place of
punishment.
Wo believe that the present nolioy is
of manifest injury to the prisoner and
the commonwealth. It should bo more
rigid and severe , especially in its appli
cation to the state prison. Humane treat
ment Is all that is required , and human
ity does not demand that the criminal
who has violated the laws should bo ab
solved f.-oin the rigor of his punishment.
The committee in visiting the prisons of
Pennsylvania , New York and Now Jer
sey found a vast diU'erunco in the se
verity of discipline as compared with our
prisons. Hard tasks , long hours and lack
of privileges there prevailed.
To the philanthropic heart the senti
ment herein expressed may seem hard ,
but it must bo remembered ; that wo are
dealing with criminals many of them
confirmed criminals. It is a practical
question , and must bo met with prac
tical ideas. Uur criminal class is grow
ing abnormal , and is not this untoward
growth duo in some respects to society
itself , which condones the oil'cnso by
softening the punishmentT
A law has been passed by the present
legislature affecting the sentences of
habitual criminals. It provids that after
the third ollen.se punishable with confine
ment in state prison the sentence shall
not bo less than twunty-iivo years. This
provision is now in operation in Ohio and
Connecticut. Its tendency will bo to
drive the confirmed criminal class out of
the state to localities where sentences arc
shorter , thus relieving our prisons from
one source of its population.
There appears to DO a constantly grow-
ing.ovil in tbo matter of sentencing men
to the reformatory for the offense of
drunkenness. This institution was es
tablished for the purpose of separating
the youth offenders susceptible of reformation
mation from the continued criminal. Its
purpose was not to found an asylum for
inebriates , yet that Is the direction in
which it is rapidly drifting. The treat
ment of the unfortunate victims of appe
tite should bo entirely different from that
laid down for the youthful criminal , yet
as the rules cannot bo made elastic the
course is cho same. They arc not crim
inals , and should not bo treated as such.
Yet. as long as they are sentenced to the
institution they are obliged to conform to
the system established.
This is detrimental to the criminal as
well as the inebriate. Believing that
the interests of the state demanded the
separation of these two distinct classes
who come before our courts your com
mittee reported a bill establishing a
home for inebriates , convinced that such
an institution would relieve the reforma
tory from an incubus which at present
rests upon it.
COUNTY INSTITUTIONS.
In most cases the jails and houses of
correction were found in excellent con
dition. There are a few cases , however ,
which deserve some criticism. The build
ings are , as a rule , in very gooa repair.
In some counties there is a disposition on
the part of the county commissioners tu
delay needed repairs on tbo score of ex
pense , This is not true economy ; it is
absolute waste , not to say crimiuality.for
the responsible oflicors not to provide
the moans for necessary repairs and the
improvements which common decency
requires. There is a too common senti
ment among county ollicials to pose as
watch dogs of the troasury.and they thus
oppose measures manifestly in the inter
est of economy.
An illustration can bo scon in tbo case
of Essex county , when the county com
missioners opposed an appropriation for
the purpose of rebuilding the house of
correction at Ipswich. This building is
tilled with Tilth and dirt to such a degree
tnat it is impossible to cloansoit ; ventila
tion is very poor. Kssex county in the
near future will cither have to construct
an entirely new house of correction or remodel -
model that at Idswich. The loss expen
sive plan will bo to rebuild at Ipswich.
CONTRACT CONVICT I.AllOIt.
The committee have personally exam-
mined the several systems of prison
labor as practiced in other states. They
are unanimous that the contract system
in wrong ; that it is a violation of the
rights of the manufacturer and the workingmen -
ingmon ; that it is unwise in principle
and unsound in practico. Wo have ,
therefore , reported a bill abolishing the
contract system , and providing that the
convicts shall bo employed in manufac
turing such articles as can bo used in the
different state institutions , those goods
to be made by hand labor.
It establishes the ollice of general
superintendent , whoso duties are to
supervise the labor of the convicts in tint
state and county prisonsIn most coun
ties there appeared a great lack of abil
ity on the part of the county commis
sioner in managing the labor of the con
victs. They show manifest incompetcnoy
in this respect. This glarmgl shows
itself when in some of our houses
of correction the labor of the prison
ers is lot for from 8 to 15 cents per day.
With this view it wai decided to bo for
the best interests of the people that the
power should be taken from the county
commissioners , who had made it evident
that they were incapable of properly
conducting the labor of convicts.
The committee 1 ? thoroughly in narnest
In its belief that if properly administered ,
tin proposed bill will accomplish the
long.lookcd-for result of relieving our
worthy manufacturers and workingmcu
from the harassing and ruinous compe
tition which they have so long under
gone by reason of the unjust competition
with convict labor.
But it must bo berne in mind that the
system will be a failure unless the gen
eral superintendent and ollinials subor
dinate to him are in practical accord
with the intent and purposes of the bill.
Upon them will rest the responsibility ,
and to them must the people look now
that it has become a law.
Thn Corporation In I'olltlcs.
Now York World : The Pacilio railway
commission is getting some facts in lU
investigations in the west which , explain
and'justify the growing hostility of the
people to great corposatior.s. '
. Air.'Thomas L. Kimball , the 'general
traftto manngnr of the Union Pacific road ,
was brought to admit that ho had often
undertaken to defeat "legislation hostile
to the company , " and that ho had some * , '
times "mlluonced the nomination , olco- 1
tlon or defeat of candidates" In the Intel
cst of the company. Ho denied any knowl
edge of the use of the company's money ,
though he would not deny that money
might have been used without his knowl
edge.
The fact that the undlputcd transcript
from the company's books shows the dis
bursement of OVIT $ ' . ' ,000,000 for which
no explanation has boon given , and the
further fact that Mr. lluntington admits
the employment of professional lobbyists
at Washington to "sco that the company
received no harm , " Indicate very plainly
that Mr. KlmbaU's efforts and those of
other olllcors anil agents of the company
were sustained by the power of money.
It Is this invasion of the domain of pol-
Itlcs and of government by the corpora
tions that gives danger to their diniua-
tion. When they interfere in the choice
of the people's representatives , and se
cure nu'ii who will serve them instead ol
the public , elections become a farce and
government Is perverted from its bnno-
hcont purposes. The commission should
put its probe deeper. The country would
like to know more of the methods by
which the Pacific railway companies have
"protected their interests. "
'How the Jiaril Times
David A. Wells , in Popular Science
Monthly for July : Thu period of eco
nomic disturbance which commenced in
Io73 appears to have lirst manifested It
self almost simultaneously in ( Jormany
and the United States in the latter half
of that year. In the former country the
great and successful results of the war
with Franco had stimulated every do-
partmcnt of thought and action among
its pcoplu into intense activity. The
war indemnity , which had boon exacted
of France , had boon used in part to pay
off the debt obligations of the govern
ment , and ready capital became BO
abundant that banking institutions of
note almost begged for the opportunity
to place loans at rates as low us ono per
cent , with manufacturers , for the pur
pose of enlarging their establishments.
As a legitimate result , the whole country
projected and engaged in all manner of
new industrial and financial undertak
ings. In Prussia alone 087 new joint-
stock companies wore founded during
the year 1873 and the lirst six
months of 1873 , with an aggregrto
capital of $481,0 15,000. Such
a stata ot things , as is now obvious , was
most unnatural , and could not continue ;
and the reaction and disaster came with
great suddenness , as has been already
stated , in the fall of 1873 , but without an
ticipation on the part of the multitude.
Great fortunes rapidly molted away , in
dustry became paraly/od , and the wliolo
of Germany passed once from a con
dition of apparently great prosperity tea
a great depth of financial , industrial.'and
commercial depression that had never
been equaled.
In the United States the phenomena
antecedent to the crisis wont enumerated
at the time to bo , "a rise of prices , great
prosperity , largo profits , high wages and
strikes for higher ; largo importations , a
railway mania , expanded credit , over
trading , over-building , and high living. "
The crisis began on tno 17th of Septem
ber , 1873 , by the failure of a comparatively
unimportant railway company the Now
York nnd Oswego Midland. On the 18th ,
the banking house of Jay Cook & Co.
failed. On the 10th , nineteen other bank
ing houses failed. Then followed a suc
cession of bankruptcies , until in four
years the mercantile failures had aggregated -
gated $775,805,000 ; and on January 1 ,
1875 , the amount of American railway
bonds in default amounted to $7811,81)7,055. )
Sport ns n Means nnd its an End.
"The Physical Proportions of the Typl-
calMan1)yD. A. Sargcdt , M. D. , In-
Scribner's Magazine for July : At no time
in the history of our country has more at
tention bcon given to the subject of phy- ,
aical training than is given to it at the
present day.
Schools colleges , and Christaln associa
tions , are building costly gymnasia , while
athletic organizations , ball clubs , boat
clubs , tennis clubs , etc. , are forming in
many of our towns and cities.
Fifteen thousand dollars is expended an *
nually to bring the Yale and Harvard
boat crews together at Now London , and
it is estimated that f 50,000 docs not meet
the yearly expanses of the athletic organ
izations of these two universities. Add
to this sum the cost of athletic sports to
the smaller colleges and and city clubs ,
and the total would foot up in the mil
lions.
The object of this outlay is to van
quish some rival club , to win n cham
pionship , to beat the record , or to furnish
recreation and amusement to those who
are willing to pay for it. With the rep
resentatives of our institutions of learn
ing , and with a portion of the intelligent
public the object of the encouragement
given to athletics is to counteract the en
ervating tendency of the times , and to
improve the health , strength and vigor
of our youth.
This being the fact , the questions at
on eo arise , now largo a proportion of
young men in the land systematically
practice athletics ?
Probably Jess than ono per cout.
How large a proportion of these who
are members of athletic organization ! !
take an uctivo part in the sports fostered
and patronized by their rcspeotive olubst
Probably loss than 10 per cent.
In the opinion of the writer the cause
for so little active interest in athletics is
an increasing tendency with us , as a people
ple to purmio sport as an end in tuclf
rattier than as u means to an end.
In making excellence in the achieve
ment the primary ohji'nt of athletic ex
ercises , we rob them of half their value.
Mo Wanted to Tell n Little Story.
Detroit Free Press : "Boss , I'd like to
tell you a little Mory , " said Abraham
Scoot as Stobbins loft him on the mark.
"Well , go ahead. "
" 1 was bo'n In Alabama bcfo' do war ,
an * my grandfather was a "
"Never mind your grandfather , pris
oner. What were you doing last night ? "
"Boss , cnn't I toll whar I was lo'nK"
"No , sir. "
"Can't I tell how do war sot me free ? "
"No , Bir. "
"Can't I toll how I got to Detroit from
TnsoaloosaV"
"No , bir. "
"Doan1 yoH want to know how I
growed up from a poo1 , no-account nig-
gor to whur I ar' now ? "
"No , sir. All I want to know is what
excuse you have for getting drunk and
raising a row last nlglHi"
"Bos , rlo war sot mo free , un * I had the
awfuljnst timi ) coming from Tusca - "
"Thirty days , Abraham I"
'What turr'
"For being drunk and disturbing the
peace. Fall back. "
"Boss , I left Tusoaloosa in do spring ,
an' it took me u hull - "
"Kemovo the prisonorl"
"Ytss. sab. Ho prisoner will dun remove -
move hls.solf. lis am do wust co't I
obor had a lawsuit wld , an' I'll dun go
offsrx' do blzness wid somebody clso ! "
School Superintendent.
Sheriff Coburn yesterday morning said
that to accommodate * ho children now in
town , and those who vrould como horn
in time to attend the opening
of the schools in Soptoiubor , at
least forty now rooms vould
be required. Ho thought the i\ow board
would elect the superintendent. Ho did
not know that Mr. James would bo reelected -
elected ; bufthought ho would. The only
candidate whoso name bo Jiad hoard
mentioned was ( ho late prlucipal of th
Fremont schools '