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    THE OMAHA DAILY BEfl ; MONDAY , JUNE 4 , 1888.
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AVKKAttE DAILY CIUCULATION18,152
THIS school election takes place to
day. Every patron of the public schools
and every taxpayer should give practi
cal expression of his wishes through
the ballot box.
Tin : prohibitionists at their national
convention at Indianapolis nominated
Dr. Brooks , of Kansas , for the vice-pres
idency. The choice is n good ono. A
man , with such a cold water name was
cut out for a prohibition candidate.
A DKSl'EKATK woman who shoots her
husband's lawyer in a court room , and
n jealous husband who cuts off his ene
my's car with a pen knife , ought to sat
isfy the cravings of Chicago at least one
day for something original in the crim
inal line.
SKVKN hundred delegates will attend
a convention at Huron , Dak. , to protest
against the delay of congress in grant
ing the great wheat country its state
hood. By the time congress gets ready
to admit Dakota seven hundred conven
tions will bo hold by the indignant
Dakotans.
THE non-partisan school board ticket
is made up of successful business men
who are capable of managing schools
from a business standpoint. All of them
are men of education , some of them
graduates of loading colleges , and thcre-
fore capable of understanding just what
our school system should bo and where
it is weak.
TITEKE were over 6,000 votes cast on
the cable franchise. It is infinitely of
greater importance that 5,000 electors
should voice their sentiments for school
management for the next three years.
The question is , will they do it , or will
they slay at homo and lot the ward bum
mers and political strikers poison the
system of school management ?
THE incorporation of the Nebraska
Southern railway company at Superior ,
Nob. , in Nuckolls county , looks as if
stops had boon taken by the Santa Fete
to push its nose into Nebraska from
Warwick , Kansas , just across the line
and about ton miles from Superior. If
the Rock Island builds a road through
Fnirbury and other southern towns of
Nebraska , there will bo lively competi
tion between rival lines to dispute the
claims of the Burlington in that section
of the state.
Tun mining interests of Colorado and
Montana have taken quito a boom. Not
uly are the leading mines yielding sat-
2tuctory ( results , but now and abandoned
Claims are being worked with improved
snachinory with marked success. The
Qniiuul report of Director Munson , of
(3hc mint nt Denver , puts the gold , sil
ver , copper and load mined lust year nt
827,601,182. This is a very encouraging
Hhowing. With the reduction of the
cost of mining , smelting nnd transpor
tation , and with the improved methods
now in use , the mining industry of the
wcsllms assumed mammoth proportions.
Tin : high protoctionibts of the cast are
trying the fat out of the manufacturers
to fuwiibh "soap" for the spreading of
iigh tariff literature nnd for "other pur
poses , " Five thousand dollars has been
collected from merchants and manufac
turers of Now York City alone. At
this rate quito n respectable sum will
bo realized if Boston , Philadelphia and
other cities are assessed in proportion ,
The uondor is that thcbo merchants and
manufacturers , who nro continually
pleading loss and depression of trade ,
owing to demands of their working
people , can scrape up enough for this
fund without ruining their business.
THIS unjunt discrimination of the
Union Pacific against Lincoln was so ob
vious that the verdict just rendered in
favor of the merchants of that city ns
ugainbt the railroad must receive unan
imous approval. There is no city in
Nebraska which , desires to live nt the
expense of a sister city. The welfare of
ono ia the welfare of all. The unnatural
and artificial booms which the railroads
too often build up cripple the energies
of the state without aiding any particu
lar locality of it. But the victory of
Lincoln is gained at the oxpen&o of the
Union Pacific , which had alone profited
by ] x > cketing the excessive freight
chnrfes afj.iitibt the merchants of that
ity :
Fretting Under Dictation.
There IB reported to bo a consider
able disposition nmong the democratic
delegates to the St. Louis convention to
rcsont the ewooping dictation of the ad
ministration managers , or to put it
moro correctly , of Mr.Clovcland , and to
assort some independence at least with
regard to tlio selection of a candidate
for vice president. Tlio rcnc-mlnaUon
of Cleveland being conceded , there is a
gonoral'wlllingncss to allow the man
agers for the president to name the or
ganization of the convention and fratno
the platform , but when it comes to the
question wlio shall occupy the second
plnco on the ticket these recalcitrant
delegates nro said to feel that the
administration whip might prop
erly bo laid away and
the representatives of the party
bo permitted to exorcise their free
judgment in choosing a candidate.
This sentiment is understood to bo
especially strong In the Indiana dele
gation , and is shared to some extent by
the friends of other aspirants. _
If there is such a feeling it is
creditable to these who entertain it.
The autocratic authority which Mr.
Cleveland has presumed to exercise
over the party is without n parallel in
the history of American polities , and it
is not surprising that democrats who
have some respect for the traditional
character of their party , ns well as for
their own manhood , should bo disposed
to revolt ngainbt such bossisui. It
places the party in a most humiliating
position to have to confofas that it
is absolutely dominated by ono
man , that practically it has no
will of its own , and that what it shall
say nnd do in its national convention
will bo simply a formality in.ratiilcation
of the will of a single individual. It
cannot bo otherwise than an irritation
to self-respecting men to feel that they
ire merely puppets , powerless to act c.x-
cept ns the master hand shall pull the
string. Such has not been the way in
the past , and there is a suggestion of
degeneracy aud degradation about it
which must grate hard upon many old-
school democrats.
But this feeling will probably not
effect anything. There may bo a few
men in the convention bravo enough to
declare themselves in favor of a little
show of independence , but they will not
bo numerous enough to change the
order already fixed upon. The will of
Mr. Cleveland will prevail. It is said
that the administration managers , see
ing the possibility of a storm , are pro
ceeding very cautiously. The adroit
Mr. Scott , who represents the adminis
tration , is keeping his own counsel and
doing nothing to provoke antagonisms.
The only matter that remains to bo set
tled is the candidate for the vice presi
dency. It is no longer a question that
Mr. Cleveland wants Thurman , audit
seems pretty certain that the veteran
leader will accept if the nomination
shall bo given him ns the unanimous
choice of the convention. The work of
the administration is to bring this about ,
and while some finesse may bo necessary
to accomplish it , thcro is no doubt
tboy will bo successful. There is
really but ono aspirant who is likely
to show any stubbornness in the matter -
tor Gray of Indiana and it ought not
to bo very difficult to dispose of him.
Others who have boon prominently
named nro so entirely under the influ
ence of Mr. Cleveland's will that if ho
docs not desire their names to go before
the convention they will not bo heard
of there.
\Vo do not , therefore , aftach great
importance to the premonitions of dis
cord in the St. Louis convention. The
few men who would Hko to relieve the
party from the humiliation of abjectly
submitting to the dictation of ono man
will find themselves so small a minority
that they will not have the courage to
declare themselves. Thus the adminis
tration programme will bo carried out
to the end , there will bo tin appearance
of harmony nnd enthusiasmnnd for the
first time in its history the democratic
party will go to the country with a
ticket and platform constructed at
Washington with the president as the
solo architect.
The Appropriations In Danger.
The next fiscal year of the govern
ment begins July 1,80 that there re
mains but little moro than three weeks
in which to consider and pass the most
important of the appropriation bills ,
making provision for the expenditures
of the government during the fiscal year
1888-0. In the opinion of Senator Alli
son at least half a dozen of thcbo bills
cannot bo finished before the .expiration
o' the current fiscal year , so that it maj
bo necessary , in order that the govern
ment may bo enabled to meet its obliga
tions , to adopt the irregular course o
continuing present appropriations b )
joint resolutions.
.This state of affairs the hotiso
is. wholly responsible for , and the
trouble is that body goes on from
year to year repenting the dereliction
and no earnest effort is made to reform
its conduct. There was a similar com
plaint labt year and the year before , niu
although the promieo wns mndo that
there would bo a remedy applied , it is
scon that it has not been curried out
Every practical man knows very wol
that there is no satisfactory reason why
appropriation bills should require four
or five months in their preparation
The estimates of the several depart
incuts of the government are submittet
to congress at the beginning of the SOB
siou , and two months ought to bo ample
time in which to prcpuro every bill pro
viding for the n6cessary expend
itures of the government. Will
this done other appropriation bills
could take whatever time was ncccs
sary , since their fate would not be a
matter of serious concern.
But it hits not suited the proscn
chairman of the house appropriations
committee to do this , and hence this
an mini difficult v. From one motive or
another he bus found it to the ad vantage
of his personal aims to hold back the
appropriation bills , and , regardless o
publie criticism , ho has pcrtibtcntl )
done so. It may not be practicable U
apply a remedy iu the present confess
Efforts to do so in the last congress
failed , and they arc likely to fail so
long as Mr. Randall remains at tlio
head of the appropriations committee
But it will bo possible to effect a reform
n this matter in the next congress , and
whichever party is. in control ot the
muse of the Fifty-first congress will bo
expected to institute the reforni. This
s purely a business matter , with which
K > liilcs and political scheming ought to
mve no connection.
The Non-Purtlfltxu Ticket.
The meeting of representative cltl-
? ons to nominate non-partisan catidl-
lates for the school board agreed upon
a ticket composed of the following
gentlemen ! n. II. Bright , C. F. Good-
nan , John Rosicky , Henry Pundt , Fred
Uillard , Samuel Kooso , Churchill
'arlcor and Augustus Pratt. The first
bur are republicans and the last four
democrats , but none of them is so act-
voly identified with politics as to bo
iroporly classed as a politician. The
.ickot should command itself to
every intelligent voter In the city. The
candidates are among the best
mown and most experienced of our
justness men , who deservedly enjoy
.ho confidence of the community. They
are men largely concerned iu the in-
.ercsts of Omaha. Their names nro a
juarantco ot integrity. Some of them
liavo served the city in an official ca
pacity , and aa public olllcors have a
clean , untarnished record.
The ticket commends itself to the
vote of every republican and every
democrat of Omaha. The four republi
cans nnd the four democrats named uro
men who stand high in tholr respective
parties. They are above suspicion of
using the board of education aa a chess
board to further party politics at the
expense of education. They are men
who have no side-show attachments of
political workers and favorites. They
have no alliances with contractors or
with city officials. Equally divided be
tween the two parties , the board of edu
cation , composed of these representa
tive men , will bo freed from all partisan
preponderance. It will bo in fact , as
well as in title , a uon-parlisan school
board.
The citizens of Omaha can make no
mistake iu supporting this 'ticket , and
ovcry one who believes that the schools
should bo kept wholly free from all
connection with politics , should give it
a hearty support and work zealously for
its success. If all such will do their
duty wo have not a doubt that the ticket
can bo elected , and such a result would
bo a memorable triumph of a sound
principle which would bo of the greatest
benefit to our public school system.
HUMOUS are afloat that the railroads
for the first time in ton years are com
pelled to cut down wages and to reduce
their force. The era of economy has
evidently set in with a vengeance.
Railroad managers , however , should
have learned by this time that cutting
down the wages of employes is a very
poor way of squaring accounts. Reck
less railway building , cut-throat rate
wars , and the maintenance of a horde
of political workers in every cross-road
and county through which the road
runs , bring about that state of affairs
when a halt must be called in the ex
travagant use of the railroads' earnings.
THE northwestern plow trust held a
meeting at Chicago , but suspended its
prices and terms for the full trade. Tlio
reason was that the eastern manufactu
rers cut such deep furroughs into the
trust's price list that the western deal
ers could not keep pace with them. If
the eastern plow will aid in raising a
big corn crop the farmers of the west
will bo doubly thankful to the eastern
manufacturers.
STATE AND TKUITORI' .
Nebraska Jottings.
Pickpockets abound in Covington.
The Genoa Lender prints n boom edition.
Sherman county has organized a republi
can league.
H. B. fillnrd assumes control of the Cen
tral City Nonpiireil.
The Loup City creamery receives 7,000
pounds milk per day.
Whitney is rejoining over the fact that she
will have water works.
A large number of Seventh Day Advcntists
arc camped at Grand Island.
Tecumsoh's electric light plant will illum-
iiuito thut town within sixty days.
The electric light company of Nebraska
City will purchase another dynamo.
The thirteenth annual fnir of Jefferson
county will occur September 25 to 23.
Kearney's starch fnctory will ho in run
ning order soon , The plant cost 50,000.
The Southern Nebruskn Medical society
will have a meeting ut Fuirhury on the 20th
of June.
Herman Nelson , a twclvo-ycnr-old boy at
Wnhoo , was kicked by a horse and will proh-
ubly die.
Tliero nro not loss than 125 men now nt
work near South Sioux City , on the bridge
approach.
Tlio Chadron Daso Ball association has pur
chased n block in the southwest part of the
city and intends to enclose it between this and
the Fourth.
On the theory that a solid growth heats n
boom , Nebraska City willlmvoasijuad of the
Salvation army to revive any drooping spirit
that may need it.
The building of the Falrbury soap works
begins to loom up. The framework ia up am !
it is expected the manufacture of soap will
begin by August 1.
The Htuto board of public lands and build
ings has visited the blind institute at Ne
braska City , and members huvo expressed
themselves as well pleased ,
Nnnro county receives monthly In pensions
. ' 1.50 , which is distributed nmong thirty-
four persons an average of $ ! Mn per mouth
to each object of Undo Bain's benevolence.
The heroic efforts of the townsito company
to pull McCook up the hill and , rarry the
postofllcc , land onlco , etc. , with them is no )
not altogether appreciated by the citizens of
the plains.
Tliero were many licart-soro and weary pil
grhns returned from the clam hake ut Shogo
Island yebturday , declaring that never again
would they visit the pluco. Hut u year will
dim thuir memories.
James McKlmstry , of Frenwut , for getting
cashed n money order belonging to another
man his chum , and appropriating thu
money to his own use , will spend omo time
in mediation ut the penitentiary.
A pair of oxen were stolen from Woncl
Kreluy. u farmer residing four miles from
Crete , Friday nicht. A wan who would take
the risk of stealing and making way with u
team of oxen is ccitainly arsperate.
The Bancroft Journal says : "Quito n num
ber of young Indians returned from Hamp
ton collepe yesterday , uuiong them Miss
Susan LuFlesche , who has just graduated in
medicine and expects to pnietieo among her
people.
Jf the tone of the country press JTOCS for
anytmug the Fourth of July will bo moro
generally observed in Nebraska this year
than ever before. The different prourammcb
announced will make the proud bird of free
dom tired.
The 0,000 trees recently set out In the city
pants of Hastings , under the direction of
Councilman Stock , are in u line growing con
dition. Ten years from now Hustings will
bo known as the "City of 1'arks , " according
to the Journal. .
Mrs. Jluldnh A. Miller writes from Spring.
lale , O. , to the Lincoln postmaster , Wanting
to know the whornbouts of Chnrlcs Winfield
Miller. She says ho Is "her dear baby boy. "
a strong man now , nnil "her heart Is hreak-
ng to see him. "
Tlio villngo of Plekroll , In OntfC county ,
ms been somewhat , agitated about the mys
terious departure from that place of n pho
tographer by the naiilo of Latiuior. He loft
ast Friday evening ! nnd has not been heard
'rom since. Ho was a young man anil xvoll
rcspectod.
"Everything is running smoothly on the
Q. " Bays the Columbus Democrat. "Tha
engine which pulled the freight train in
icro on Saturday MsC was nllowed to die by
the ' -scab" cnglneoV , nt Emerald , nnd it took
the crow several l\6\m to get the hoilor filled
Avlth water , palls b4ing used for that pur-
> oso. "
There is considerable talk of forming in
Oakland nn nntl-snloon republican league ,
a branch of the slate league , whoso purpose
shall bo to demand of the republican party a
recognition of the right of the people to
vote on the prohibition question iu Nebraska.
The result of such n formation would amount
to nothing ,
"Tun BEE hns done n good thing for
Omaha nnd Nebraska In ridding them of the
iresenco of the notorious quack doctor ,
Lowell Hooves , whoso practices were sucti
as need exposure nnd publicity. And still ,
there nro few beings who boast that they
icvcr read n newspaper , " remarks the Col-
lumbus Democrat.
"Tni : OMAHA HKK boasts of an Increase * of
its dally circulation of 4OJ7 copies slnco ono
vonr ngo. Tun DEC Is ono of the most profit
able newspaper enterprises in the country
nud owes its success mainly to the fact that
It is just what it pretends to bo n fearless ,
outspoken , uncompromising champion of pop
ular rights , " concludes the Wood Klvcr Ga
zette.
"Somo Nebraska editors , " says the Mc-
Cook Gazette , "nro putting In their time
abusing Tun OMAIIA UEE. Let n paper refuse
to place Its neck in the corporation collar it at
once becomes a target for n host of small fry
in the profession. The 13nc is independent In
Its opinions , nnd has a greater hold on the
licarts of the people than nny other paper in
the state. liclng condemned by the railroad
[ ircss Is Its best recommendation. "
Alva Cnffee , n farmer living twelve ntllos
northwest of Ponca and one mile from the
Missouri river , dug n well lost November ,
nnd upon reaching a depth of tweuty-llvo feet
struck a vein of pure sparkling water that
filled the well and ( lowed over the top nnd has
been llowlng over since. Thomas Hyah , a
neighbor of Mr. Caffeo's two miles distant ,
has nn artesian well that throws with consid
erable force an inch nnd n half stream of
water fit for the gods to sip. This well Is
half a mile from the Missouri river. Frank
Sutherland , five miles farther up the river ,
struck r good How of water at 303 feet. Mr.
Sutherland's well is within forty rods of the
river bank. '
Iowa ,
Cloth peddlers are doing Booue county in
good shape.
Fish Commissioner Car Ho n has planted
50,000 lake trout in West Okobijl lake.
The reunion of the old soldiers of Wright
county will take place at Goldficld Juno 14
aud 15.
The Methodist people at Loon nro doing nil
In their power to erect a handsome church
odilico.
Two brick business blocks nnd a now Cath
olic church will start the season's building in
Murshnlltown.
A baud of Indians int Crcjton are trying to
purify the blood of the people by means of a
remedy prepared by thorn.
B. W. McKeen , of Cedar Falls , has been
employed as assistant principal of the Audu-
bou schools for the next year.
A band of Gypsies , with four bears nnd a
couple of monkeys , cntettaiued the people of
Sac City for a few days last week.
Alta wonts a larger hotel building and
some of the citizens are talking up the mat
ter of securing the erection of one.
Twelve applicants for state certificates to
practice medicine -were examined by the
state board of health last Thursday.
Dakota.
Thcro is talk of sinking another artesian
well at Yankton.
The old settlers of Kingsbury county will
have n reunion June 9.
The Scotland Methodist church has been
seated with opera chairs.
Yankton is making great improvements in
the sidewalk department.
The people of Lennox are wrestling with
the question of incorporation.
The organization of an old settler's society
is being agitated at Carthage.
Tlio alumni of the Yankton high school
will hold its annual reunion Friday evening
of next week.
A gentleman from Minneapolis is looking
over Huron with a view of establishing a
business college.
The flrst creamery butter made , in Bur-
leigh county was turned out at the Bismarck
creamery Thursday.
Although the grass is backward the
creamery at Marion Junction shipped 8,000
pounds of butter last week.
A great deal of interest is being manifested
by the local sports of Springfield us to who is
the best at pitching quoits.
The citizens of Parkstou have called n
meeting to take stops for furnishing n
public drinking place with ice water for the
summer.
AiiHtrlan Ill h Ijilb Scandal.
From a Vienna letter : An immense
sensation was caused throughout Aus
tria by the recent suicide of Count Vic
tor Karolyi. Ho married at the ago of
twenty-five Baroness Irma Orzy , a niece
of the Hungarian statesman of that
name. About throe years after the
birth of his third daughter , Prince Vic
tor began to bo strangely neglectful of
hiH beautiful wife , who at length dis
covered that ho had become completely
infatuated by her elder sister , Surolla.
The latter , who was and is still mar
ried to Count Abraham Gyurky , u privy
councilor and chamberlain of Emperor
Francis Joseph , and by whom she has
had throe children , made no attempt to
conceal the fact , either from her hus
band or her Bister , that she fully recip
rocated her brother-in-law's affection.
A strangely captivating woman of the
Cleopatra typo of beauty was this
Countess Snrolta , who , after inducing
her lover to forsake hib wife and child
ren for her sake and to travel with her
abroad , actually ended by persuading
him to openly take up his residence
with her at his ancestral castle of
Cburgo , where they were boycotted by
all their neighbors and friends. Tlio
utmost sympathy was expressed on all
sides for the Countess Victor Karolyi
and her daughters , who had been
driven from their homo to make way for
their wicked relative. As years rolled
by , however , not ovpn the birth of sev
eral children could sulllco to prevent
Count Victor from brooding ever the
low of every ono of his former friends
and associates. Toward the last ho
sought to brace his nerves by copious
draughts of Russian * caravan tea , and
hud bccomo accustomed to drink as
many as thirty or forty cups a day. At
length the climax came , and on Easter
Sunday he was found dead , seated in nn
arm chair , wHlnvfowling-piueo between
his knees , and the top of his head
blown completely of )
With the mojt Imuon effrontery
Counters Surolto rcfubod to leave the
rustic until positively ejected from itby
the law olllcors. She hopes , however ,
to return thither ns its mistress , for
Count Knrolyi's will , which ib dated five
yearn ngo , bequeaths all of his vast pos
sessions , including hih casUeto hits mis
tress and to his illegitimate vhildnsn ,
wliilo hisdcborted wife and legitimate
daughters nro cut oil with a paltry al
lowance of $10K)0to ( ) bo paid by Countc&s
Sarolta to her bifater Irma out of the rev
enues of the estates. The Karolyi fam
ily have begun n lawsuit to got aside this
will , on the ground that Count Victor
was unduly influenced when he signed
it. It should bo added that Count
Cyurky , who is fatill alive , has continued
all along to maintain the moat friendly
relations with his wife , and , if popular
report is t < > bo believed , wus a frequent
visitor at Count Victor's castle ,
CAPITAL AND LABOR TALK ,
Rov. Latnar's Sound Expressions on
That Important Matter.
REFERENCE TO LATE STRIKES.
Tlio First of a Scries to lie Trenched
lly the Unptlst Divine on Biib-
Jccts of Tlmrljr Inipor
tnnco to All.
nclntlon of Capital nnd Labor.
Kov Dr. Lamar , the talented pastor of the
First Baptist church , preached the flrst of n
scries of sermons on popular subjects before
a largo mullonco last night. The reverend
gentleman's subject was , "Tho Itclatlon of
Capital And Labor , " and his text wnsi "Cry
aloud nud spare not ; lift up thy voloo like a
trumpet , and show my people their trans
gressions , nud the house of Jacob their sins. "
The fact that God put the religious instinct
so deep in man's nrUure , Is the chief reason
why It has not been destroyed. It man
could have- destroyed It , ho would have done
so long since cither by the process of neglect
ing it and leaving it to starve , or by thrott
ling It with his own hand , This religious in
stinct 1ms over been hi the way of his fullest
abandonment in sin. While ho has fallen to
great depths , yet this Instinct still cleaves to
him nnil protests against his wrongs , pleads
with him against his sins , warns him of his
guilt audfw casts a judgment and a doom.
M is this fact which makes n soil in man's
nature Into which the seed of divine truth
can full with some pro pcct of growth.
Hence God still seeks to awaken him and to
save him , and so it comes to puss that
each generation has had witnesses
of his love. In souio form ho
has sent messages to every generation. Our
generation 1 ; not in this an exception to the
past. Wo sometimes fall Into pessimism
and conclude that our's ' is the most wicked
ago of the world , and that our community is
the most wicked any where to bo found.
That is probably not true ; yet it is sadly
true that wo are very fur from being what
wo should be and might bo. The old sin of
human selfishness and rebellion against God
is taking on new forms of manifestation nud
calling for new treatment. Some of these
modern manifestations of human selfishness
threaten to destroy the peace and stability
of this fair laud of ours. If there couiu not
a change for the better ; if there can bo no
inllucnce to keep in cheek this selfishness ;
If thoSotit the bottom of this mischief will
neither listen to Gad , nor to those who love
their fcllowmen then nothing can save us
from anarchy and ruin ; then Indeed
d.vnnmlto will have come to stay. As a
Christian teacher therefore wo must "cry
aloud and spare not , " for it comes within
our province * to deal with the great move
ments and questions of the time , and to
show where they run counter to God's ' laws ,
and where they violate the brotherhood of
man , am ] if possible to point out the remedy.
Let us therefore consider the relation of
capital and labor.
By a figure of metononiy , capital and labor
are put for those who on the one hand own
money in largo sums and on the other have
labor to sell. The relation of these Is called
"Tho Labor Problem. " To discuss any
question Intelligently It is necessary that we
got a clear conception of It. It is necessary ,
therefore , that wo understand what Is meant
by the labor problem about which so many
people are puzzling their brains. It is this :
The conflict of the selfishness of the men
who own capital , with the selfishness of the
men who have labor to soli.
It Is not , therefore , a conflict between capi
tal and labor , but the conflict of the selfish
ness of the capitalist and the laborer. Please
understand that what I aui about to say docs
not apply to all capitalists. Some of them
are grand illustrations of the wise use of
capital and are In no wise connected with
those iniquitous schemes which arc working
so much mischief to the country. Let us
look flrst at the selfishness of capital. I
speak first of him because ho was the one
who took the initiative and is responsible for
precipitating the conflict. There is
scarcely an avenue of business
he has not laid his hands
on and appropriated to his own selfish ends.
He first began by forming syndicates on rail
roads. Ho owned n through line and he
wanted to compass certain ends , and having
large means at command forced a neighbor
ing road to combine with him or go into
bankruptcy. Thus ue laid his silver grip on
hundreds of roads and robbed the original
builders. Next ho forms u pool on freight
and travel and forced all competitors to his
terms. Then ho forms a ) > eel on the wages
of his employes. Not satisfied with filling
his f apaCiOiia maw with things pertaining to
the luxurious indulgence of the wealthy , his
greed extends to the life-blood of his em
ployes , and like the lion man-eater , having
on uo tasted blood must continue in so doing.
So he indulges in trusts. Land trusts , lum
ber trusts , sugar trusts , oil trusts , coal
trusts and iron trusts , we often let terms
mislead us. Nine-tenths of you in thinking
of the socialists find your mind dwelling on a
class of people -who are blatant in inlidolity ,
desperate in hate , and who are plotting the
destruction of property and of law-abiding
citizens. Your definition ia too narrow , for
the capitalist is a socialist. Ho is tea
a largo extent responsible for the birth
and growth of socialism. Let us soo. What
is a socialist ! Ho is one who forms a trust
with other men to compass certain ends or to
acquire certain profits. To bo concerned in a
trust and to bo u socialist is one and the same
tiling. Observe. The socialist says to all
other people of the world "You shall do ns
wo tell you if wo got our way. Your property -
orty shall bu occupied and used according to
our notions. You shall conduct your affairs
by our rules. You shall do a cot tain amount
of worlc and receive so much pay. " Just
this is what the majority of every tiust says
to the minority. They dictate to the minor
ity the price at which they shall soil their
productions and the amount they shall re
ceive for their labor. Suppose , for Instance ,
that 100 canning establishments In Nebraska
are all dplng well. They are living and lett
ing live. Uut sixty of them determine that
they are not making money fast enough : so
they form a trust. They say to the other
forty who aits satisfied , "You join us , wo will
then limit production and we'll run up the
price of our goods 60 per cent. If , however ,
you will not join us we'll put the price down
50 per cent and we'll bankrupt the last one of
you. " The other forty yield and the public
are robbed. We must all understand that if
are not till- the general Introduction of ma
chinery , that syndicates , pools and trusts became -
came possible. Before the days of ma
chinery there was no labor problem , although
there was both capital and labor. Thus ft
comes tot'pass tliutiill this conflict Is produced
by the men who own machinery , and these
who work It for pay. The owners wish to
get as largo profits nt as little outlay as pos
sible , and the men who do the work wish to
get as much pay for as little work ns possi
ble. Thus the selfishness of the machine
owner comes in conflict xvlth that of the ma
chine worker. Kemumhcr capital without
labor to develop it Is useless , and labor with
out capital to sustain it must pel Ish. Let us.
therefore , quit nil this foolishness and
wickedness of cultivating n conflict between
capital and labor. It is only when the
selflshncbs of the employer or employed al
ters thu normal relation that a conflict on-
uues ,
The laborer Is guilty of the same thing for
which hu condemn the capitalist. Ho forms
trusts to accomplish certain ends for him
self against the capitalist , Hu wants to
force his employer to corno to his terms and
to do as ho says. Often it means
violence , outrage and murder ,
to his fellow laborer who refuses to do as the
Trust says. Indeed all trusts , whether of
employer or employed means u surrender of
personal liberty and is iniquitous in its con
ception and disastrous usually. lluw are
1,000 men employed at fair wages , 000 of
tliein form a trust and put the wages up and
demand that the employer shall do as they
say and that the other -40J shall exact the
s line wages as they have demanded or they
shall not work at all. So by violence , or in-
Umlduiion , the contented laborer is placed
into enforced idleness , and his family mudo
to snder more or less. Thus the laborer rc-
jicuts the iniquity inaugurated by the capi
talist. The loss , in'money in the late strikes
is n very inconsiderable part of the whole
loss , tho1 that itself ii amu/wg the loss to
the Brotherhood , the loss to busmen , the
disturbance of commerce , the breaking up nf
homes , tlio hostility and strife ongtnderrtl ,
all these things octulls learful responsibility
and guilt Eon tho.se who causoi ) this evil ,
there bhould bo abundant light sl.ed upci > U
"Many remedies have been uuggostoil , but I
shall note onlr those. Itn \ proposed j
lv Lot congress and the several states en-
net an arbitration law which shall roqulro
the submission of grievances to n board of
arbitration. Let It be so that the employer
cannot cut down wages without the sanction
of this board that it is necessary ; and lot It
bo so that the employed cannot put up wages
n6r inaugurate n strike without the approval
of tins board.
2. Co-opcratlon is proposed ns n panacea.
The laborer 1 * to share the profits of the fac
tories ( or railroad * ) on certain conditions
\cttheotnployor Is still to determine how
for and how long the workman i to shore m
the profits. It is ntllt the Interest of the
owner , nnd not of the workman , which is to
determine the profits the workman shall
share. This very co-oporatlon may bo turned
by the owner Into the means of oppressing
the workman. Wo can see that while this
plan might for a tlino alloy the symptoms ( of
strikes ) , It will not reach the disease Itself.
Is there , therefore , no remedy of universal
application I I answer yes ; it is
"Lovo workoth no ill to his neighbor.
The law ot love Is the only ono which
can touch the disease. " Let love toke the
place of selfishness , and lot the golden rule
bo the basis of every contract between the
workmen nnd owner. Instead of having
employes sign a contract not to quit work
except upon ten days notice , nor for the em
ployer to discharge without such notice , let
both sign the "golden rulo. " "It contains
the sum of nil wisdom nnd the solution of nil
social evils nnd the ills of every individual
soul. " There has never fallen from lip or
pen of any statesman of nny ngo such
iwlltleal wisdom as that which Paul gave to
the Gelations when ho said , "Hoar ye ono
another's burdens and so fulfill the law of
Christ. " I cell on workmen , statesmen and
capitalists to ponder these wonts. When
this law becomes incorporated into human
business , when employer nnd employed ,
capitalist and laborer do Indeed bear ono
another's burden , then shall strikes cease
from off the earth , dynamite bo forgotten
nnd the rich nnd poor will meet together In
ono common brotherhood before the Lord ,
the maker of them all I know one factory
where this principle has been applied
for forty years , nud such n thing
as n "strike" bus never occurred
because the owners , moved by this principle ,
have always provided good wages , good
homes , good schools , good churches , preach
ers nud librarians , and surrounded their pco-
plo with influences both healthful and hap
piness producing. And vhen times were
hard , they remembered the days when profits
were good , nnd so run the factory at n dally
loss for months rather than discharge the
men , who had nothing but their wages bo-
twocn their families nnd want.
If thcso principles of love cannot remedy
those evils and solve the labor problem , then
God docs not know the human race which he
created. To say that the gospel in visionary
and Impracticable is to say that God docs not
understand the world and has given it laws
xvhich will not work among men. Love to
God and love to men that will solve the con
flict between capital nnd labor. Let us re
turn to the old plane of the brotherhood of
men nnd believe that God knows best what is
wisest nnd what will work best In the world
ho has made.
Education nud tlio Employment of
Children.
Eliza f , Andrews.
For years the world has been on a
moral crusade against the employment
of children in mines nnd factories ,
while the far greater evils that result
from the mothers going out as wage-
earners hnvo attracted comparatively
little attention. Labor , within certain
limits , is good for the child , giving it a
wholesome moral discipline , and train
ing it for the business by which it is to
earn its livelihood ; but , when u married
woman has to neglect her natural duties
for the responsibilities that properly be
long to the other sex , it is time for hu
manity to protest in the name of her
offspring. No ono individual can fulfill
satisfactorily the double or , I should
say , the triple function of bearing nnd
rearing children , nnd providing for
their maintenance. I am a laboring
woman myself , and nave mot with some
success as a breadwinner ; and I know
that the conditions of performing this
function satisfactorily are quite ineoin-
ntablo with those arduous and import .
nt duties which malco such heavy de
mands upon everyconsciontiousmolher ,
especially among the poor. In the
homes of the very poor there are no
hired servants to keep the household
running smoothly while the mistress is
away. The wife of the laboring man
is frequently cdolc , nurse , house-maid ,
laundress , all in ono ; and if she must
go out 0.3 n , breadwinner besides , what
is to prevent the domestic engine
frem running off the track and
getting itself hopelessly ditched ?
Of the two evils , if both are evils , I
am persuaded that it is better that tlio
child should tro out to labor than the
mother. Liberty , uncurbed by the
check-rein of parental restraint , is a
more than doubtful blessing , for the loss
of which the child that taucs its moth
er's place in the shop or the mill is
more than compensated by the advan
tage of having ner care at home. It is
of far greater importance to the physi
cal and moral well-being of the child
that it should have a clean , well-ordered
homo to receive it outof working hours ,
than that its working hours should bo
abolished. The real hardship to
the children of the poor lies not in
setting them early to learn the
wholesome lesson of labor , but
in leaving them to grow up amid the
discomforts and dangers of a neglected
homo , while the mother is bestowing
upon loom and bpindle the cure that in
the natural birthright of her little
ones.
But here wo are confronted with the
question of education , and it will bo
asked , How is the child over to learn
anything if put to work BO early ? Such
considerations , however , need present
no real difllculty , if wo could
once rid ourselves of those narrow
views of education which bound
it by the walls of tlio schoolroom , and
can see no way of learning anything
except by getting it out of a book.
Education , in the proper SOIIBO of the
word , is that course of training which
will best lit an individual for the busi
ness of lifo , or , to speak moro accur
ately , will best enable him to adjust
himbolf in harmony with his environ
ment. The kind of education that is
best for any person will depend , there
fore , very much upon what hib envir
onment is to be ; and as it eortarily
cannot bo maintained the environment
of the majority of mankind is such as to
require a very great amount of book-
learning , it mny reasonably bo ankcd
whether some of our popular theories of
education do not need remodeling , By
thin I do not mean that our facilities for
higher education should bo in any way
diminibhod , but only that wo should use
iv little more discrimination in applying
them , and bestow the highest ndvan-
tugob where they are likely to do most
good , Man } ' well meaning teachers
labor under the idea that tboy muut
spend their best energies upon
dull pupils and go on for
veurs tin-owing away their time
in trying to accomplibh what the home
ly wf&dom of our fathers has pronounced
the impossible task of making a "silk
purse out of u EOW'B oar. " Trim your
bow's car , clean it and comb it and make
as decent and reputable a SOW'H car out
of it as yon can , by all means , but don't
put your gold and ponds into it under
the belief that it is t > silk purso. Ad
our Georgia farmers wiy , put your guano
on your best land and you will get a
paving cro .
Each department of the world's work
can bo best carried on bv thut > u who are
lilted for Hi The intellectual work ,
like every other , can bo carried on
with success only by these who have
some capacity for it , mid , by bestowing
nn elaborate intellectual training npon
nil alike , without regard to natural
qualifications , wo damage both the stnta
nnd the individual--tho Btato ( by wast
ing its resources in unrcmuncr-
ntivo intellectual products ; the in
dividual , by lending him Into fields
where ho is forced inlo competition
with these better equipped for the
struggle for existence , nnd ngninst
whom , by the inexorable law of the
"survival of the llllost , " ho has no
chance to contend with success.
Whcro pco'plo have money to pay for
the education of their children , there
is , of course , no remedy ; and in our
private schools nnd colleges wo mny expect -
poct always to see rich blockheads
grinding through the process of what
they call getting nn education ; but
where the stnio pays the cost it has n
right to see that its nionoy is spent so ns
to secure the greatest benefit to nil con
cerned. This can bo done by n rigid
system of grading , each school being n
stopping stone to the next higher. Lot a
certain standard of scholarship bo re
quired in each grade ns a condition of
entering the next higher , and lot nil
who do not como up to this standard
pass out to the factory , the workshop ,
the plow the wheel , the lathe to what
ever , in fact , is to bo tholr life's work.
The requirements in the lower grades
should not bo too high , and every one
should hnvo nn opportunity of learning
to spoil , rend , and wrlto , with some
thing of the four cardinal rules of arith-
inntic ; but nftor that the standard
should bo rapidly raised , so as to weed
out all hut the best material before
reaching the high school , nnd thus
avoid tlio great econohiic misUiko of
turning into poor scholars material that
might have mndo good artisans and
mechanics.
Under such n system , the weary mass
of juvenile mediocrity that cumbers
our high schools and keeps down their
stnmmrd of scholarship would bo
switched off early on the right track ;
for , since the vast majority of the hu
man race must live by the work of their
hands , it is quite as important that the
hands should bo educated as the head.
Schools of technology are needed for
such of this class as may bo destined to
callings requiring special skill , such as
architecture , joinery , engraving , and
the like ; but , for the rank and file of
hand-workers , I question whether the
mill and the workshop are not
the best schools. To many they
arc the only available ones , for the
families of tlio very poor can ill afford
to sustain non-producers , and to them it
is essential tnat the labor of every
member should bo directly remunera
tive.
If wo take this broader view of educa
tion , there is no reason why its claims
should can Ilict with the humane em
ployment of children in work suited to
their strength , at a comparatively early
age , nnd there tire cases where the en
actment of laws against it would boa
positive cruelty to the children them
selves. Especially is tliis true where
keeping them at homo would neces
sitate the mother's going out to labor.
Unmarried females can work as bread
winners without detriment to them
selves or to society ; nnd the evor-in-
crensing band of "superfluous" women ,
which is so significant a feature of our
advancing civilization , is quite suffici
ent to supply nil demands for female
labor without calling mothers away
from their natural post of duty.
It is not a matter of more sentiment
to reserve the mother's time and labor
for her children , but of sound political
economy. There is no question of
greater importance to the state than
the training of its future citizens ; and
a homo where thrift , clean
liness , and good government prevail ,
with that moderate amount of domestic
comfort which the hand of a tidy woman
can impart to even tlio most meagre
surroundings , is a more powerful factor
in the production of a good education
than all the schools in Christendom. I
have often been struck , in the school
room , with tlio vast dilYoroncc that ex
ists between well-mothered children
and these poor little Ishniuclitcs who ,
through want of either time or capacity
on the part of the mothcV are lolt to
scramble along the path of lifo as best
they may. The teachers , with all our
hooks and methods , cannot lend n child
oven to speak correctly , when it hears
nothing but bad English at homo ; how ,
then , can our endeavors , temporary and
intermittent as they must bo , counter
act the demoralizing influence of the
shiftlessncss and disorder that prevail
in a homo from which the mother is al
ways absent ? It is beside the mark to
object that the mothers themselves
are often so ignorant nnd thriftless
as to make their presence little
to bo desired in any liorao ;
can we expect to find models of
the domestic virtues among those who
have never had the opportunity to prac
tice them ? Wo all know that there are
foolish and incompetent mothers in
every wall ; of life ; but would anyone ,
therefore , argue that it is good for chil
dren in general to bo deprived of the
cnro of their mothers ? Such faults of
the poor as arise from lack of oppor
tunity wo may hope to correct ; those
that are inherent in human nature I
leave to the moralibt , as beyond the
scope of this paper.
A Strand * Hoinaiice.
Maud St. Pierre is in tlio backwoods
of Conrouho county , Alabama , nays a
special dispatch to the St. Louis Globe.
IJor history has been going the rounds
of the press , but her whereabouts wore
unknown until to-day. Four years ngo
there was quite a sunsation bocausu of
the disappearance of John W. Neul , of
ITuntsvillo , Ala. , private secretary to
Miss St. Pierre , said to bo a lady of
wealth. This event occurred at Andor-
bon Station , Tonn. , where Miss St.
1'iorro was startling the people by
princely transactions in minunil lands.
Miss St. Pierre deeply grieved over the
loss of Noiil , and presently who , too , dis
appeared.Tlicro wore rumors that the
woman had murdered the man uho
loved. The middle of April liwt the
skeleton remains of Neal wore found at
thobasoofn clilf near Andorfcon sta
tion , and it was presumed that ho mot
death by falling over the prceipico
while intoxicated ,
Information obtained recently flhows
that Miss St. 1'lnrro , after leaving
Tonnebseo went to Milton , Flu , , whore
she remained until her funds gave out.
Slio loft several largo trunks as security
for hoard , but when these wore opened
tlioy wore found to contain nothing nut
wood. In January , lust year , bhe ar
rived in Conrouho county to take charge
of a school , but did not receive the posi
tion. She took lodging with an old
couple and [ remained until labt month ,
they receiving nothing in the \\i\y of
pay hut a draft on Colonel Cranton , ol
Washington , said draft not to bo pro-
borited until Juno. During her stay she
went extensively into the purchase of
timber. She made largo contructs ; ,
embracing thoiiHanils of ncres , which
wont by default latoly. She has moved
fifteen miles back of Hrowton , Ala. ,
where Hho seeks the greatest seclusion.
Although Imndbomo , finely educated ,
gifted as a musician and always fash
ionably dressed , hlio associates exclu
sively with the illiterate. The people
she is now with are trying to get rid of
her.
her.Tho f
The cltv council of Leon 1 Mill at work on
the electric light question. The location hai
not yet bucn decided , hut s'lveral poii.ls are
In vfuw.