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THUi OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY , NOVEMBER 27 , 1887-SIXTEEN PAGES. DAILY BEE. D Kvnuv MOUNINO. TKIIMP OK Bt'llSCHII'TION. Daily ( Morning IMItlon ) Including Stimtnj' iiiK.cme : Year . Jin no J'orHlx Months . fi < VorThrfi' .Month- ) . . - ' ffl Xlie < > tmilii : ftmdiiy HKK , mulli-d to any iid- < Jtr fl , One Veiir. . , . 3 DO OMAH * ( ) l KICK , No.CIHMlIUD r.MlNUlSTIIKlT. : NKW YoiiKOiTict : , lliiiDi I' . ' . , intni'M. IIIMM > - mo. WAKIIIHIITOS omc'K , No. 6W 1'oL'ii couiir.KpoNiir.Nn : . All communications i-Mutlng news nnd ertltortiil nnittcr Miould Ire uddrerd to the KUITOItOr TDK IlKK. JIU.S1N1 > .3 l.in'l'KltS ! All buctn < " ! S letter * nnil rcinlttiitici-3 lmiilcl 1 > ftdilrrsriilio Tin : HIT. I'i'iii.ifiii.Mi COMI-ANV. ( ) M.\llA. Drafts , rht'cWs mill postolllrn orders to lie luiulu PH ) Hblu to tliu ordur of thu company. The BecPnWIsliinfSpaiiy , Proprietors , K. KOSKWATEU , Elinoii. THU DAILV UKK. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Ndirnikn , I . . . > H < County f DmiKlno. fB tied. It. T/.M'hurk , secretory of Thn lee Pub lishing i-ointiuny , docs solemnly sweiirtlmt tlie Rctiiiimmifatloii of tliu Dally llei- for thu week ending Nov. a > . 117 , MIIH us follows : Hatlirdny. Nov. Ill ir.VpO ( Hunilny. Nov. > I4.WI Monilny. Nor. 'l I'vK-'i ' Tiiewluy. Nuv.'JS M.fistl Wednesday. Nov. Ii ! 11,711 Thursday , Nov. Ul 14,7i ) i'rldiiy. Nov. Si 14t ) Average 11.770 fJr.o. H. T/wiR'ir ; . BHorntnnnd subscribed In my presence this 20th du y of November , A.I ) . Ifs" . > ( Hr.Af , . ) Notiiry'Public Stntc of Ncbrnikn , I . fs > Sl County of DoiiKlnx. Oeo. II , Tzsdmrk , IHMIII ; first duly sworn , de poses und s > s Hint he ix secretary of The He < > I'lililIcliliiK iiin > , my , thut the actual nvenigu dally circulation of the Dully lleo for the month of November , It-WI , VVM copies : for December. ItHl , l.V-)7 copies ; for Jatitmry. 1WT , lrtaw copIiHj for I'eli- for July. IN > 7 , M.lrtfl copies : fnr August , 1W , It- 361 copies : forSriitemuir , Its" , H.iMUcopies ; for October , 1W , 1 ! , : ! . or.o. n.TXsnnrrK. Svorn to ntid Fiib crll > * . < l In mv present e this th diiy of October , A. 1) . 1KM7. N. P. IT.I I. , ( SllAI. . ) Notnrv 1'ublic. POWDKUI.Y'S periodic letter threat ening to resign lias evidently been Ktureotyped. BllACH has again defeated. Ilanlon. This event is decisive and tlio Canadian must now lake ti bade seat. Hut lie lias- had his day , u good long day too. If he is wise ho will stop down and out gracefu lly. Till ! state of Heatrico ih now looking to Washington again where Senatoi Paddnek is expected in a few days U commence shaking tlie bushes forMigtit plums. A bridge across tlie Blue river national , is conlidently expected , if the eonator fails to get n quarter of a mil lion for a custom house. K cities of the con nlry now clamor ing for the republican national conven tion , HO far as heard from , are Omaha St. Lotius , St. Paul , Minneapolis , Chicago cage , Cincinnati , UulTalo , Rochester , Wnhhington , New York , Albany , San Francisco and Denver. Among nil these claimants Omaha is most favored ns to location and hero the convention should be held. UP to the present wo have simply ap plied the thin end of a fifteen-cent raw hide to the bade of law-defying mem bers of the city council- But these desperadoes exhibit such utter luck of eontiveness that we shall bo compelled to strike them in the face with the bull of n black bnako whip. Instead of pay ing some respect to public opinion , tire going from bad to worse. Tun clergymen of Massachusetts un derstand that atleastin their profession there is no tendency towards centraliz ation of capital. A late inquiry inU the salaries paid this profession in the Bay State developed tlie fact that the average of income was less that oiu thousand dollars per year. Knowing thut the occupants of city pulpits receive ceivo largo salaries , those in the rura fllstricts will certainly never bccoint monopolists. IT is is about time for our citizens t < Call for a division. The sheep in tin City council must separate from tin goats. The men who respect law am honestly desire to carry out the wishe of their constituents must break awa ; from the conspirators who defiantly se themselves above all law , incite din Order and play in to the hands of burg Inrs , foot-pads and thugs by refusing t give our city clUeient police protec tioa. SAN PUANCISCO , as Omaha , is no particularly proud of her fctreot-swceii ing contractors. One of the papers o that city says : "Tho city pays about $711 000 a year to have its streets kept clean Ond Iho tax-payers very justly conceiv that they are ontiiled to get somothinj for the money which they pay for streo Sweeping. " Omaha pays about $20,00 a year , and her tax-payers are of th Buiiio opinion as those of San Fran Cisco. Tnr.iir. is a chance now lor Council man Ik'chol to redeem himself by cut ting loose from the law-defying bol > other who proposes to continue th policy of froozo-out on the police com mission and recklessly disregards th vroll known overwhelming sentiment < the community. As the representativ of the Fourth warel , Mr. Bochel has n right to continue with the disreputabl combine which has its mainstay in th Third ward dives and among the lawles elements of other sections of the eit ; \Vo shall presently see whether Mi Bcchel is past redemption. TIIKIIK is a universal protest througl out the country against the ruling of tl IMVtotllco department in regard to trai murks and pictures upon wrappers ai envelopes of third clues mail matter , large pnrtion of every community liarrasscd by the new order. The fan is in thu law which congrc > s bhou 'imdify ns soon as possible. . It may bo commendable ambition in Postmast' ' General Vilas to attempt to make tl postal department pay its way , but should bo bonio in mind that this inst tution exists for the convenience of tl people and not as a source of rovonu The public has become so accustomed using trade marks on all sorts of inn natter that the sudden prohibition Ike practice p'rqvcs'lo bo a great iucu v oieiuv , ' . . - ' j Knl'orcc IIlull In season and out of season the BEE linn upheld the high 1 Icon so law us the most effective and practical regulator of the liquor trafllc. The only tangible argument which prohibitionists have brought against high license i * the fail ure of the authorities of Omaha to have the law rigidly enforced. For this fail ure the liquor dealers are not wholly responsible. When Mayor Broatch re cently ordered the chief of police to en force the provisions of the law , which prohibits the sale of liquor on election day , all but ten out of two hundred and forty liquor dealers obeyed the order and kept their places of business closed on election day. And this , in spile of the infamous reMilution adopted by the city council advising the liquor dealers to pay no attention to the law and the mayor's order. In other words , the liquor dealers have shown themselves more law-abid ing than the councilmen who are sworn to obey the constitution and laws of Ne braska. The ino t llagrant violation of the high license law is the disregard of the provision , which requires the pay ment of 81,000 from each applicant for license before ho can legally sell liquor. This provision was purposely miscon strued by General Manderbon when ho was city attorney. Under his ruling an ordinance was drawn in direct violation of the statute , and fjuiirtorly payments were allowed. This , of course , loft all the dealers in the same boat as outlaws , since no license could bo issued until the last quarter. But as General Manderson was the legal adviser of the city , his ver sion of the law held good until the courts decided otherwise. In due time the state supreme court rendered a decision which made the payment of $1,000 mandatory. No attention whatever was paid to this decision. The council and license board deliberately ignored and nullified the decision of the MI- promo court and have continued the lawless system up to date. A new departure has just been taken by the council , which calls for some plain talk on our part- and decisive ac tion on the part of the mayor. The council , by and with the advice of City Attorney Webster , has passed a re vised high license ordinance which is to take effect in January. This ordinance re-enacts the unlawful proviso that pay ments can 1)0 ) made quarterly and leaves the city in the .Mime attitude of reckless defiance of the law and the supreme court as it has been in the past live years. Why should men who arc sworn to obey the law violate their oaths and record themselves as outlaws':1 : And why should the city attorney give counte nance to such conduct 'i It seems to us the mayor has a plain eluty to per form , and that is to veto the ordinance. Wo believe in high license , but wo do not desire the law to remain a sham and i delusion. If the payment of 81,000 is ) pl > ressive , let the law bo modified. But while it remains in force , the author- tics have no right to ignore it or set it uside. Compliance with the law is the only safeguard against prohibition. The SalV'Kiiafds ol'tlic ICcpubllc. The Uov. Dr. Newman , who obtained ijreaI prominence ris the court chaplain of the Grant dynasty and staunch sup porter of the the third term C'a'sarism uis a happy faculty of opening his mouth and putting his foot in it. Dr. Newman delivered u Thanksgiving ser- 11011 at the national capital , in which he iloppcd over completely and exhibited lis natural tendency toward imperial- sm and despotic methods. Dr. Newman's text was ' 'The Safe guards of the Uopublic , " and this text afforded him not only ammunition to jombard the Roman Catholic church , which he regards as the natural enemy of the republic , but ho delivered a whole broadside at anarchists in gen eral , and Herr Johan Most and Captain Black in particular. Dr. Newman is reported as laying down the following cardinal principles : "Ho who by luiiKUugo Incites to treason is a traitor : lie who incites to anarchy is nn an archist. We must hold men responsible foi their utterances. " The doctrine which Dr. Xownuui lays down sounds very patriotic , but it novel was and never can bo carried into prac tical effect in a republic without seriously shaking its very foundation , Wcndol Phillip.- , and William Lloyel Garrison , who rank among the most loyal of Americans , publicly denounced the constitution of the United States m a league with hell. Horace Grcely advocated peaceable secession and urged congress to let the erring sisters go. Charles Sunnier Henry Wilson , Salmon P. Chase William H. Seward , and some of the most prominent public men openly denounced nounced the hanging of , lohn Brown who was convicted of murder and higl treason. But nobody , not oven the most rabid slave-driver oven demandei that Phillips , Garrison , Grecly , Sumner nor , Seward , Chase or Wilson should b < hanged of punished for treasonable ul terances. And how was it during tin war' ? It is a matter of history that fre < speech was tolerated all through tin north during the most trying time ii the history of the nation , and that tin great "safeguards of the republic" wen never allowed to bo repressed by an ; fear of treasonable speech. Copperheads were allowed to his their sympathies with treason into tin ears of loyal men everywhere , and tin only Interference1 with free speech wa by mobs , and not by the police. Win does not remember Brick Pomoroy'o in famous and treasonable sheet the La Crosse Jcnwcntt ? That paper was mor dangerous to public safety than all th anarchist harrangues , yet more thai one hundred thousand copies o it were circulated through the mail each week without interference , at i time when the laws of war would hav justified its suppression. Clement Yallandigham was about the only ma who was taken to task for stirring u rebellion at home , and ho was not him nor incarcerated but simply tranbferrc aero.-s the border into the confcderat lines. Dr. Newman and other extremists d not socm to realize that free press an free speech arc the onfegiiarilii of our n public. 'Like Samson who pulled iiwa the pillars of the loniplo and crushed his i'hlllstliie enemies , under its ruins , the.'o but-blind patriots would break elown the safe-guards of the republic , in their zeal to destroy its onouiles. Several of the most prominent jour- fnals of America have already sounded tlie alarm and entered an earnest pro test against autocratic and lawless in terference with free speech nnd free press under pretext of repressing anarchy. The Philadelphia Jlicord whoso owner , Mr. Singerly is a live millionaire makes the following appealer or free speech : The right of freedom of speech is too pre cious to be violated even in the contemptible person of Jolmnn Most. Vastly moro harm can bo done by mulling such creatures as Most 'martyrs" to the causa of free speech mid free thought than by giving them unlimited privilege to bubble. Whenever a mini is denied the right of uttering sentiments that do not tnuot the approval of the majority freedom of speech Is destroyed. One pretext for abridging this in estimable right of free citUcns might bo fol lowed by another'until nt last n policemen's license would bo required before u man could utter nn opinion different from that enter tained by the public authorities. Strong and self-reliant communities do not hasten to ar rest people upon a inorcret > ort that they have used seditious and dangerous language. Such is the policy of Jealous despotisms , Which have reason .to dread crltlcBln , When open discussion is not tolerated , se cret conspiracy , which is infinitely moro dangerous , takes its.pluce. It is to the high est interest of society that it should know not only what Is said of it by its worst enemies but who those enemies arc , who are their leaders , und where they congregate. Uusslu keeps down all discussion on the part of the enemies of its despotic government with u heavy hand , nnd Kussiu is honeycombed with conspiracies that threaten to break out litany moment in a irrepressible llumo of revolution. Tho'.Pittsburg 7e ( ? er , by all odds the most inlluential and conservative daily of that great manufacturing city , tersely expresses itself on this question in the following language : That the American people abhor nnnrc'hy has been made very plain within the last year. With the peaceful wcnixm of the bal lot in their hands to effect a revolution when ever the majority feel the necesHlty of a change In the system of government , or feel dissutislled with its policy , they have no patience or sympathy with a method , or its advocates , who preach bloat * nnd murder and dynamite to right their wrongs. The citi zens of this country nro in the main intelli gent enough to know that anarchy would bo tin evil of such infinite magnitude as things ire , that they can best afford to bear the ills hey have rather than fly to others they know wtof. * * * * * * * * n tacitly approving of the measures taken to sileaco the anarchists , they should see to it hut the law of equal freedom is not trans gressed. In opposing the advocates of an- uvliy , in suppressing their meetings and im- u'isoning their writers there is danger that , he line may be ero-wed. If the mayors und he police force are to have the power to udgo of how far men may go in the way of agitation by speakers and press , we may soon see introduced the c/ar's method of suppress- ng socialism anil nihilism , The sacred re.ibines of free speech and a free press bhould be most Jealously and carefully guarded , and only bo restricted by the law of equal rights. The law proiHjrly takes hold of these who wickedly slander to their iujury , or who incite others to crime , but it is not a statutory offense for men to hire u hull unit alk balderdash if they desire to , or to ndvo- cute new ideas , however ridiculous they may ) c. Freedom of speech is one of the sacred ignis of n free people and should not be encroached upon , even to punish or suppress anarchists. The Co-Operativr I'rinclplo. When the last national convention of the Knights of Labor failed to make pro vision for extending the principle of co operation , and the general feeling man- fested regarding it seemed lacking in interest , the friends of co-operation bo- .ieved that an important duty had been neglected and a serious mistake made by the organization. Assuming , how ever , that the convention was in posses sion of all the facts regarding cooperative tive enterprises in this country , it it easy to see why the majority may have concluded that as yet the financial re sources of the organization could be em ployed to better advantage in other di rections. Co-oporativo enterprises have been undertaken in the United States on n much moro extensive scale , and during ti much longer period than is gen erally supposed. There are industries now being carried on upon the cooperative ative principle which were established more than twenty years ago , and then : were experiments under this plan at n remoter date which long ago failed , The principle has also had a wide appli cation , having been tried in most of the ; manufacturing cities of the country , The history of these co-operative enter prises is not all of a discouraging na ture. On the contrary , there are in stances of highly gratifying successes , But the results of the experiment in tlie United States have , as a whole , not beer satisfactory , and it is interesting anil instructive to note the causes cited ii explanation of this. The New York SIM recently invcsti gated the history of co-operative en terprises in sixteen representative cities east of the Mississippi , will the result of finding that the failure ; largely outnumbered the sui'eesscs , am that of the latter only a very few won worthy of comparison with similar in dustries carried on by individual capita and energy. The failure of most o these undertakings is ascribed to lacl of business skill and judgment , conten tions among managers and inability ti compete with the regular trade. Tin general history is that so long as a eo operative enterprise , for which ther was a fair field , was conducted on btric business principles it prospered , bu when these coated to bo observed in it management it failed or went into private vato hands. Many now large and prosperous porous enterprises had their beginning as a co-operative experiment , havin been rescued from disaster by boin changed into private or joint-stoe concerns doing business after the en ( Huary methods. There have been , however over , some uotiible successes which ar convincing examples of what can b accomplished when co-operation 5 started on correct business principle and these are adhered to. There ar several very succes-sful enterprises i Now York ; the co-oporativo bhops e the plumbers and coopers at Mihyauke have been in operation for nearly tw 5 > oars with entirely satisfactory result * the co-operative , fufulturo muuufuclor at Indianapolis , started several years igo , has boon a market ! success' , the co operative broom factor ' at Now Orleans lias been so sucoo sful that it is now doing iiuiro business than any of its competitors ; there are BO vocal successful co-oMrutvo | | shoo fac- lories in Masghclrttsetts , and a few other oxninplc's ' exist else where. In all cases where co-operation lias been successful its effect upon the labor market in Its locality had been Ijonollclal. In the system of cooperative tive stores , also , the failures outnumber the successes , but tlfo history of several issociations demonstrates that the sys- : om can be made successful and highly > onofielal when conducted on correct jusiness principles. Those interested in the cause of co operation must learn from the ascer- aincd causes of failure what is neces sary to bo done to achieve success. I'liero does not appear to IKS any sound reason why the intelligent working . lasses of America should bo less able than tho.-e of Kngland and Germany to conform to business principles and re quirements , and in both these coun tries co-operation has been greatly successful. In England almost every town has its co-operative association , ind in some of the larger cities these associations have accumulated great wealth and have proved to bo a great lower for ameliorating tlie condition of , ho working classes. German olllcial statistics show that nt the close of 18S ( > .hero were in existence -i.llW co-opera- ivo societies against ' 1,170 in 1885 , a growth that indicates the success of .lieso associations. Co-operation , both n the production and in the dislribu- , ion of commodities , contains the prom- so of greater advantages and benefits o the working classes of the United States than any other principle or sys tem with which they can concern them selves. It is advocated by the most Sn- elligent and earnest friends of labor as .he most certain and effective means ) f securing to the wage earners greater independence and a better re- .urn for their labor. That co-operation uis not been more successful in the LInited .Slates is due to no fault in the n-lnciple , and the causes of failure are remediable' . The subject is one which every intelligent workingman should make himself familiar with , and which every association of workingnien should 'requontly discuss. A HlKTliliiK on too. When Mr. Seward negotiated the [ iurcha-0 of Alaska and authori/.ed Kus- sisi to draw on the "United States for $7.200.000 , it was thought by many of the statesmen who opposed the purchase , that we- had laid in too much stationary iceberg and totem poles. But , in these stirring times when desirable corner lots , within two blocks of a cable ne ire searched for and purchased at placer mine prices , we i t once appre ciate the magnitude of the Alaskan ac quisition. And now coiqes Herbert C. Jones , who claims to 4 bo jja lawyer and genius , and submits u proposition to the Pacific coast Steamship company where in he offers for the mere "nominal sum of S-10,000,000 to build. } a Railroad from Portland , Oregon , to Juneau , Alaska , His plan is to popularize the project by soiling five million shares at ten dollars lars each. In fact , the projector is not a particular man , and would not object to ice-watering the stock to double that amount. It Dimply daze'.i the intellect to dwell upem the possible results of this great enterprise. At five per cent the inter est on the investment would be only two million live hundred thousand dollars per year. The fact that it would be necessary to run a freight train once or twice a month to supply the citizens of Jnnoau and surrounding country with their wet groceries and bring back ice bergs , chunks of gold and Alaska diamonds mends , at once justifies the investment. Then for three months in the year there would be excursions , carrying perhaps from eight to ten tourists per day , ninety per cent of which num ber would probably be dead heads. This assures handsome divi dends to the live million stockholders. Within a few years a Siberian branch could connect .luncau with Kurope. Bridge Behring straits , orfor that mat ter , Mr. Jones could dig a tunnel while he is capitalizing hiscompany. Thence on to Asia , Indiaand intospacel George Francis Train could give one psycho twist and build the road within twelve months , providing Jones would join and organize an Alaska Crodit-Mobiler. In that event congress will liberally endow the road with an aurora-borcalis subsidy. Among the > incidental advantages it might be suggested that the ruddy Ksquamaux maiden could leave her far north-land home Saturday morning , do her shopping in Portland , Ore. , Satur day night , and bo back in time to ac company her beau , who grows fat on tal low candles and walrus oil , to church Sunday evening. Tliis now communication with the suburbs of the north pole would also give the ticket scalper a chance to advertise his Alaska iceberg compound cupon tickets for Fourth of July excursions at reduced rates. But over and above all tho.so potty consideration and inci dental advantages to bo derived from the outlay of the few million dollars in executing the brilliant , but by no means aboriginal scheme conceived by Mr. Jones whoso salary should bo increased to nine dollars a week , , is tlfo assurance that the price of ice in San Francisco would go elown twenty dt'grees below Cicero. i As to Jones , he will not only bo im mortalized in America , but the czar ol all the Hussias will confer upon him n patent of nobility and change his name from plain Herbert Jones to Ivan Jonosokobilowitch. Tin : result of the hearing in pi-ogres ; before the. inter-state commerce com mission , which relates to the arrange ment existing between the Standard oil company and the leading southern railroads , will bo regarded with great and general interest. The inquiry ii maelo on the complaint of a refiner ol petroleum at Marietta , Ohio , who is one of the few whom the Standard has no1 been able to drive out of the business His trade over im extensive portion ol the soutUwcot has , however , been al most destroypd by the competition ot the great corporation , which by reason of iti contracts with the railroads is. enabled to greatly undersell the Mari etta refiner. Ho therefore nppoals to the commission for relief , stating that unless ho can have equivalent rates ho must , like others before him. give up the struggle , The investigation has now been in progress u week , nnd some of the developments have been of a very Interesting nature , all fully justifying the complaint. On the evidence pre sented it is not easy to see how the com mission can fail to decide that a most unjust discrimination in favor of the Standard has been practiced , and that the roads guilty of thiscourso are amen able under the law. It is intended to bring the olllcersof the Standard before Lho commission if those gentlemen can lie found , in which case the country may gel a great deal of interesting informa tion regarding the methods of the great monoHly | of which it now has no accu rate knowledge. It is the most notable ease the commission has had , and the outcome will bo u matter of very great importance. PiiKiinr.N'T-MAKiNO in France is a very different matter from what it is in Iho United Scales. There the president is not elected by the people , but by the senators and deputies constituting the chambers , and the whole business may be consummated in a few hours , as was the case when Grovy succeeded McMahon. There is no campaigning , in el the opportunities for wire-pulling ire very limited. Thus when McMahon liad determined to resign , his purpose was announced to the chambers at one i "clock in Hie afternoon of January.'lOth , 1S7l. ! At once , upon completing the reading of the letter , the president of the chamber , then M. Grevy , pro ceeded to read the artielesof the consti- LUtion which required in case of vacane'y in the presidential office , that the senate and deputies shall immediately meet in convention and elect a succes sor. That was at , " > : " ( ) of the same after noon , and the convening of the assom- uly was announced for 4 : . " > ( ) . At that liour the .senator * , and deputies mot , and M. Grevy was by a very large majority elected the new president. The outre Lime from thu announcement of the res ignation of one president to the election of another was not more than five hours. The letter of President Grevy , announc ing his resignation , was sent to the chamber last night , and the same course that was gone through when ho was elected will bo again pursued , though very likely more time will be occupied in choosing his successor. THK most earnest republicans in Cuming county take a great deal of comfort in the retirement e > f Judge Crawford from the bench. This nonpartisan - partisan juggler was beaten by over 500 majority in spite of the desperate cllorts made by "straight republicans' ' of the Valentino stripe. They traded the entire county republican ticket off for Crawford , and the stalwart ex-congressmen himsoH displayed two roestors in his window jubilating over the democratic victory. The doleful news of Crawford's , defeat has , however , east a deep gloom in the camp of the bolf-styled ' 'straights1 while Crawford , like Jeremiah of old , goes about mournfully in sack cloth and ashes. IT took .several years of hard fighting to rid this city of shysiering and thiev ing justices of the peace. But the roust abouts that had the new charter mutilated last winter revived the old nuisance and Omaha is to-day again cursed with a brood of justices who will prey upon the community like grass hoppers on a green corn patch. One ol these mock turtle law expounders ha * just boon caught in an unmitigated piece of rascality in collusion with the notor ious Van Ktten. It behooves the county commissioners to demand his resigna tion or have him removed to Lincoln. POLITICS AMI POLITICIANS. The Falls City Journal quotes Tom Majors to prove a i > ollticul point. The evidence is a1 far-fetched us Donnelly's cipher. It is understood that Colonel Colby IK now managing a life insurance cemp.my. Having adjusted the loss on his iwlitieal death , tin. colonel feels much at home in his new po sltioii. Appleget's majority over Thomas in the First district was L'.OW , while Hroady's ma jority ever Stull was Ml. The First is si banner district. And it might bo suid that thu Third und Seventh uro not slow. The members of the Lincoln city council who were lined for e-ontempl of e-ourt express their intention of going to jail. Wo arc pained to state thut none of the members ol Omaha's city council have any biich inten tions. Thu Pl.iltsmouth Journal wants Mr. Hoytl to resign us a member of the democratic uu tiouul committee , or else have his son-in-law , Mr. Uierbower , let go his United States mar shalship. Mr. IJoyd will nol follow that ad vice. Neither will Mr. Hierbower. They both know und appreciate a good thing wliei : they see it. A Wymore paper says Watson Pickerel has gone to Washington to uccept u positioi us third assistant door-keeper of the United Slates senate. The fair Watson is u graduate of the Lincoln oil rooms , and undoubted ! } understands his business. When Paddocl became senator thirteen years ago he recom mended Captain Ashby for sorgeant-at-urm ; of the senutt * . Hu did not nmko the riflle luckily. Wo huvo not heard whether Mr , Paddock will recommend the captain for sec retury of the scnato this time , or only have liiin appointed minister to the isle of Man , POLITICAL POINTS. In Cincinnati the prohibition vote was onlj about ono-thlrd as great as in lib,1 ; . The Philadelphia Inquirer ( rep. ) think1 the republican defeat in Virginia Is a victory iu dlsguUo. It would seem tlmt the result of the Mury laud election has saved Higgins , if ho wai ever in danger. General Hr.igg , of Wisconsin , has forgottcr all his grievances and publicly Indorses Clove Iciml for a second term. "Why wouldn't Grcsham and Hnwloj make a good republican tleUcU" inquires tin St. Louis Globo-Dcmocrut. When the will of the people controls the muscles of the people , the will cannot hu hup pressed at the polls nor counted out , by tin trickster. The Cluvoland Plalndealer ( dcm. ) think ! there will bo no dlniculty in re-ulcctlii Mr. Cleveland "if the democrats in congro : will do what they should Uo. " A large number of btatcaiucu who have tic ' " * * ' ' % . . our for the pliilnti at their Indignant neigh bors , ro vastly exercised over the political situation In France. It is the true polle\v all round to have nn open light on the principle of protection , and let the best side win. Should tin ? next can- vuss be coniltied mainly to the civil-sen Ice Issue and the tariff , without re'sn'rviit Ion or dodging on either side , it would do much to lift the controversy of ls $ mvuy from sec tional lines and make it more national than It 1ms been for fifty yonrs. National conventions have outgrown the habit of looking to members of congress for presidential "tips. " Hut the public will watch with no little interest the Indications as to the probable digiKi.sltlon of the treasury surplus. Thut huge pile of Idle money In the treasury of the United States , wrung from the people by unnecessary and Indefensible taxation , Is the central fact confronting the statesmanship of the | > orlod. Several half brced sheets' , including the Chicago mugwump organ , says the Chicago Tribune , nro much concerned ever an alleged iintl-Hlaliic scheme to hold the republican na tional conve'titlon In New Vork where "local inllueuco" is expected to tell heavily against the man from Maine. The mugwumps and independents should not permit themselves to become unduly excited or anxious over this or any other alleged plot against Ululiie. Oimitm e'omiiiK to tlie Kront. $ l > i ( ny/irM / MnnUtir , Omaha Is coming to the front as ono of the leading stock markets of the country. Must Mukc Oilier ArraiiKcincntH. Clitcnt { 'J'ltlmnr. The time is coming when the United States must enlarge its navy or pare down its Mon roe doctrine. Oft' UH Itnlanuc. I'hlliiiltliilita Cull. Who is that man ! Thut is George Francis Train. Ho's all right. The rest of the world Is a little off , however. A Dangerous- Thing to Do. ( .Vifriii/o / Ti flume. H is a dangerous thing to step on take chil blain of u red-headed man in a crowded street car Just previous to a change in the weather. lust thcTliliii ; . I'iffoliifiltsHitch. ! . How would this suit the ubbreviiitors ? "Senators and gentlemen . Having read the newsp.iperh , you know what the country needs. Go to work. G. C. " Mlglit Have Included Omnlin. h'dii I'miie/cco / .IryniKiiif. It requires more real talent to prevent one's sc.f . Irnm being run over and run down in New York or Chicago than it does to edit n weekly paper In California or servo in Iho stuto legislature. Sparks' .Mistake. /uiiixiM Cltii Join mil. The resignation of Land OIY.ee Commis sioner Sparks Is an event that we have not seen the end of yet. Thotroublewitli Sparks was simply that ho took democratic profes sions of reform to mean something. - - A Severe Punishment. .1fw.cn ( / . T. ) Mlnar. Judge Buck at Murray , the other day , or dered u Jury to bo fed on bread , incut and water until they could decide on their ver dict. The foreman sent in word that the bread and meat were correct , but the water , the jury 'hoiight , was uu unwarranted pun ishment. _ Would They Not Destroy tlie Bombs ? ftmi/clo / ( V'cr. ) StunddHl. A subscription has just been taken up in the Slumlord olllcc for the purpose of buying some bombs to throw at the colored school girls who play baseball opposite the main entrance of our studio. Some of their screams would go through u four-inch plank and then tear u fellow's cur-drum. Life LcnvcH. The day , with its sandals dipped in dew , Has pushed through the evening's golden gales , And a single star in the cloudless blno For the rising moon in silence waits , While the wind that sigh lot he languid hours A lullaby breathe o'er the faded ( lowers. The lilies nod to the sound of the stream That winds along with u sullen How , And , either awake or half In a dream , I pass through the realms of long ago , While faces peer with many u sniilo From the bowers of Memory's magical isle. There are joys and sunshine , sorrows and tears , That check the path of life's April hours , And u longing wish for the coming years , That hope ever wreathes with its fail est flowers , There are friendships guileless , loveasbright And pure us the stars in the halls of night. There are other memories bitter pain And buried hopes und a broken vow , And an aching heart by the restless main , And the sea breeze fanning a pallid brow , And a wanderer on the shell-lined shore Jibteiiiug for voices Hint bpcuk no inoic. There are passions stiong and ambitions wild , And a llcrco dcsiio to stand in the van Of the battle of life and the heart of the child Is crushed in the breast of the struggling man , But short the regrets and few the tears Thut fall on thu tomb of the vanquished years. There's a quiet and peace nnd domestic love , And joys arising from fuith and truth , And a love unquestioning fur above The passionate dreamiiigs of indent youth. And kisses of children on lip and cheek , And the parent's bliss which no tongue can speak. There nro loved ones lost ! There are litllo graves In the distant dell , 'ncath protecting trees , Where the streamlet winds und Uie violet waves , And the grasses sway lo the sighing bree/e , And wo mourn for the pressure of lender lips And Iho light of eyes daikened in Death's eclipse. And thus as the glow of the daylight dies , And Iho night's lirst look to the day is cast , I ga/o 'ueuth these bcauU'ul summer skies At the pictures that hung on the wall otthe pas' . Oh , Sorrow nnd Joy chant a mingled lay , When to Memory's wildwood we wander uwuy. uwuy.A VtiXKU TfU ICBTIOX. At a recent publio sehool entertainment in Omaha , a question of eon ldoniblo iinjwrt was discussed by two young Americans. "Resolved , thutvi'hnnksgiviiig l a better day for a boy than the Fourth of July , " was the vexed question deftly handled by these who may bo regaidcd us experts In determining just what Is the best thing for Iho average boy. There urc several standpoints from which this rcaUy mateii.il question may bo viewed , from any ono of which It assumes a perplexed form. Viewing It with parental eye the topic is not relieved of any of its perplexities. In the good old days when a "chip of the old block" was subservient lo Iho parent tree , and elgarclto smoking a rello of Iho dark ages , paterfamilias was conceded to bo the besl Judge of wujit was good nnd what Inju rious to the young hopeful. Admitting , for Iho hitko of argument , thut the saino author ity vests m the parent of to-day , it will cer tainly bo dilllcull for them to determine bo- twcon an ailment relieved by a physician and ono remedied by u burgeon. U Is perhaps the experience of every mother that the ono < : duces the same loving hymputliy OR the other. The mangled linger requires luc fcuulc wutUiful caru uul uUeu- tlon as t4io stubborn manifestations of.wr overloaded .itonmeh. ! ' , ' ' . aWhentlio mnttei-of ccwl ( s'fyol nmtcVlnI , Interested paitles wQuld i > crhups ask , for porno easier problem ; but In view of the economy with which a Thanksgiving ailment can be treated In every well rcgnlutod house hold Iho latter would porlmp * win the tiny. From a boy's standpoint , thv nuesUou Is open to discussion. It cannot bo dismissed with the indifferent remark : "Kvery one lo his own taste. " On the authoi Ity of ono who was n boy himself , for a many years as was consistent , the assertion Is nmdo that all boys glory In the oame taste. An unwritten law in the code of boydom , ono old as that of the Mole's , requires the "cutting" of any boy who attempts to vary in the taste from the orthodox pii'fer- ence. All boy.s sec alike. When one varies from thl.s rule ho ceases to bo a boy and the historian can wonh his hands of the resousl- | ) blllt.N of his entire future. To George WashIngton - Ington alone has been accorded the distin guished honor of retaining for his boyhood the respect of bojs , after having committed an unboylsh net. 4 Individually regarding all questions alllto which affect their Interest there Is Utllo doubt that the boy himself Is seriously put out in solving this question. The Fourth of July offers many opportuni ties for display , n pasttlmo fully appro- dated by the average boy. Excellent chances for noisy demonstrations are not few , nnd in accordance with it time-honored custom the day is celebrated in n manner peculiarly pleasing to the Juvenile. On the other jiaiid J'CjOveriior's Sunday" " " strikes u long "and "oft felt want with thu young inuii. The only Inducement ever suc cessful in drawing him uwuy from a noisy demonstration has been the prospect of ; i good dinner , , \et just as often has he left n partially finished feast to Join the din and fru.of . noisy companions. Taking It all in nil the question is a hard nut for the boys to crack. AVhatever preference the parent may have and whatever doubts the literati may enter- toln upon this subject , the world Is in debt to the \oung gentleman who negatived the qurs tlon for u thought which undoubtedly settles the discussion us fur us the boy is concerned. According to this young man \\lio is destined to mtike his mark in the world , the Thanks giving boy revels in his unholy uppitite , and leaves the fray with the ailment of a home guard. "What could bo more undignified , " asks he , "than the ap pearance of a boy among' his fellows doubled up with aches and pains In the region of his suspender buttons * How different from him is Iho Fourth of July kid , who meets his trials as a soldier , and is borne to his home to receive the sympathy of his parents and Ihe envy of his companions. " This is a stunner. The argument is con clusive. TIIK OMAHA KoeVfPAD. The conclusive proof of Omaha's greatness is the presence of f no footpad. This creature of nocturnal habits and free lunch is never where thenis nothing to steal. Ho is the "breaking out" on thu body politic thut shows allluenee and high living. As soon us respecl- iible people in Chicago und Now York began to disguise as boodlers and do wholesale thievery , the footpad saw the enormity of villainy would befoul all kinds of robbing , nnd lie came west. As long as those cities plumed the legitimate , they were the parudino of sundliaggers. From the shadows of slumbering iwllccmcn they leaped upon thu "tipped" waiters and tipsy aldermen and gobbled fortunes in u night. There was a kind of a bock beer bravery in leaping upon the corsetted dude from the caveinous dark ness. It took sand , a hag of It , to tackle tlin red-c.\ed night editor and the belated minister. Not because of dangerous resistance , but the awful risk of getting nn.tiling. . Compare such a heroic occupation with that of the sneaking bondler leaping into the overflow of Iho city treasury in broad tlojlight and blindfolding the guardians of public trust with greenbacks. The footpad came to Omaha because hero the policemen are not paid to do their duty. Knowing thu loose way even paid police duty was done , he fell bale in the Omaha plan. There may bo glory enough in the glitter of brass buttons mid the underside of u saloon racket to keep u policeman constantly on top ; might possibly lure him to stand the Jackass kick of the north wind , and patrol the peril ous sidewalks of the city without pay. Hut the undersigned is not betting that way. The footpad is not putting up bunds on thut the ory. ory.After After night , | > cople on the street nre not ns courteous as of old. When two men meet In thu shadow of a building , they glare at each other , their canes rise like the belligerent tails of two canines , uud they pass with n suspicious silence thut is moie omliiuus limn n growl. The other night Smith and Jones met In one of thosogicat gaps of gloom. Smith ncrvoimlj raised his cane a little. Jones saw Iho rising glimmer ol thu puMc diamond ring anil lifted bis cane in icadincss. Smith saw him one bettor. Jones dittoed , their e > cs glared , coat-tails swelled , their rannsde- scendcd simultaneously and they \\nllupcd each other like a spring carpet beating be fore they discovered they were members of Ihe same church. Asidi ) from the dangerous character of the sidewalks lliere is nothing to mar Ihe felicity of Iho footpad save the impecunious charac ter of the victims. Thu pad goes through a night's "hold ups" and gets less ( if possi ble ) than the steward at the church collec tion. Indeed , a pad , wiser or la/ier than his puls , lei one of Iho city churches collect it by day und he stolu Iho contribution box ut night. Once In a great while n pad will get so hard up that ho will i-vcii cmhno the discomforts of our street cur sen Ice fur the sake of rob bing the cash box at the end of the ride. Hut the oilier nlghl u pad took the Cuming stieet cur and was so worn out standing up , anil crippled by being stepped nu , when hu went for Iho cash box Iho driver knocked him over with u cud of tobacco found on the floor of Iho cur , and delivered him to Iho police. It is n t true Unit the stieel cur company docked the driver's wages for fooling nwuy time on the comfoit of a passenger In secur ing the footpad In u seat , Some of the reported robberies urc not chargeable to the footpad. The victims huvo held up their "hundtt" before starting homo and staked too much on a bob tail flush. The husband leaves IIH ! wife to corral the < children and putn new plunk In Ihn plalform of his pantaloons. Ho has imiiortunt diplo matic business down town. Ho digresses into painling Iho town mi nnarchlstlo red. H'A-ounds up under the nnm do plume of Iho Wild Color Mixer from Kulamuzoo , Al ! ! a. m. the policeman fishes him out of the gut ter. Ho has been sandbagged and left un conscious in the papers. Frequently ho has only been slugged In the neck with Z beer bottle held with inullco uforethouglil in his own hand. fi Many persons with caturrhal breath have whisperingly ukcd mo what to do when or dered up by a footpad. I do not claim too great fumlllurity with the business , but my advice is : If you uro an average Omaha citi/en with every cent safely locked up in icul estate , throw up your bunds. Don't worry about the etlquelto of the occa sion. The footpad will sliow you how to hold your hands up. The only Iroublu will bo holding yourself up ; but Uio foolputl kindly help * Iho Imaging at tho. knees unil collupsn of Iho vertebra and relieves you ot all umbarrafchincnV und your vuluublcH. Lu U.