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Tin : railroads arc distributing pusscb
to anil from Lincoln with reckless gen
erosity nowadays , nnd uro putting the
past"l > oards into hands whcro they wil !
do the most good.
K arc a peed many conundrums
which the people arc asking themselves
nowadays. One of them is how many
school furniture firms lind it profitable
to distribute presents of 825 ?
WHY not re-submit the state election
and give Ilascall an other chnnco ? There
is as much logic in this proposition as
to ro-submit the city hall location de
cided otico for all in good faith.
TIIK visit of a number of Alabama
democrats to the president-elect is one
of those incidents which prove that the
north and the south arc not so far apart
in interests and necessities lifter all.
TJIK decision of the millers to limit
the output of the Hour mills of the coun
try to ono-half their average capacity
for the month of January has all the
linger marks of n trust to enhance the
price of the prime necessary of life.
TJIK railroads of Nebraska are not al
lowing the grass to grow under their
foot in their efforts to gain control of
th'o legislature. They are .playing a.
.quiot but nevertheless a deep game to
capture the spoakorship and important
committees of the legislature ,
THE proposed establishment of exten
sive stock yards at Port Worth , Texas ,
is likely to cut considerably into the
cattle business of Kansas City. Fort
Worth is destined to become an import
ant cattle center and the leading mar
ket of the southwest for Texas beef.
ONKoftho things that the average
intellect cannot understand is the
Bcramblo for the vacancy in the school
board. There is no salary or other
legal emolument in the ollico. Can it
bo owing to an insane desire for ofllco
among the faithful , or is it a desire for
something olsoV
CHAUNCHV M. DKI-KW cannot very
well become minister to England and
accept the place of secretary of state in
General Harrison's cabinet at the same
breath. The earnest friends of Mr.
Depow had probably bolter consult Mr.
Harrison before they go farther in
pushing his claims.
Tun people of Nebraska do not pro
pose to allow the coining legislature to
waste and fritter away its energies in a
division of the spoils of oflicu. There
are grave nnd pressing questions in
volving their interests which must bo
mot immediately and satisfactorily
dealt with.
Dinmsii proposes to appropriate for
the health department of that city the
euin of slxtoon thousand dollars for a
crematory to bo used for burning city
garbage. This Is comparatively a largo
amount of money for the purpose. But
the people of Denver evidently regard
the health of their city of moro import
ance than tuo saving of a few thousands
of dollars.
i IIAUHISON is being urged
to Boloct his secretary of the interior
from the cast on the ground that a
western man has his judgment warped
by land , railroad and Indian complica
tions. A competent western man , thor
oughly familiar with the needs of the
people and the abuses under which they
suffer , would nevertheless bo the proper
yorsou for secretary of the interior.
Tim board of education on May 10 ,
1885 , entered into a contract with the
city to.jmy twenty-five thousand dollars
toward the erection of the city hall on
Fnrnam street , subject to ratification.
The voters of this city unanimously
approved the contract , and the money
was paid over and expended in the
basement ot the city hall. ' Now Rotten
Pavement Jim and kindred spirits , who
in common are living off the public
crib , are howling for the abrogation of
that contract and have pooled issues in
furtherance of a conildonco game to
defraud the board of education out of
twenty-five thousand dollars. Fortu
nately for the city , they will not suc
ceed.
POLITICAL CHAffOnSHTTlIB SOlTl'l
It would eecin to bo inevitable lha
within the next four years importan
political changes will take place in tin
bouth. There are significant indica
lions of a considerable revolt already
forming against the policy which hoi
maintained bourbon rule in the. southern
orn states and hold them solidly dome
cratic. The great business progress ii
aomo of the states of the south has glvoi
them a now element which has becomi
dissatisfied with a political system Urn
is not favorable to material advance
inont , and this element , almost wholl ;
industrial , is showing a purpose to de
maud that its interests shall not b <
sacrificed-to passion and prejudice.
A noteworthy circumstance in ovi
donee of this is scon in the visit ti
General Harrison of a committee o
proiiilnont boulhcrn men , olilolly froii
Alabama , and representing the manu
fucturing in to rests of that stulo , to liv ;
before the prosldent-olcct their view
regarding a political movement designed
signed to remedy existing evils am
bring about desired political change !
and reforms. It is not reported whu' '
transpired between General Harrlsoi :
nnd the committee , but the controlllnc
idea with the committee was oxplalnct
in the statement of one of them tha
they regard the old solid south a
a tiling of the past , that a brenl
up is at hand , and that they propose l <
make now alliances and bring about s
settlement of the perplexing race issue
Members of this committee hav <
hitherto noted with thb democrats
party , but they have become convincot
that the conduct and policy of tha' '
party in the south . .ro inimical to botl
the material and political welfare o
that section , and that the time is a
hand when its povor there must be
broken.
The course ot this movement will be
watched with great interest. Ilavinf.
its origin with men largely concornoi !
in Industrial enterprise it cannot fail tc
exert a most important influenceand iti ;
not unreasonable to expect that in the
industrial states of Alabama , Gcorgii :
nnd Tennessee it may become so politi
cal as to elTcct its object. The next ad
ministration should bo able to give
this movement valuable support and en
couragement , and it will be not the
least important part of its duty to do so.
If wisely managed , the task of brcnicing
the solid south may provo to bo less
difficult than is commonly supposed , or
than the democratic leaders of that
section would have the country bolievo.
7AT TIWIR TltUE COLORS.
There was an opportunity given in
the house of representatives Tuesday
which enabled the democrats of that
body to show how they fool regarding
civil service reform. Mr. Henderson of
Iowa submitted a motion to increase the
clerical force of the civil service com
mittee , whereupon Mr. Randall vindi
cated his democracy by opposing it. A
New York democratic representative
wont still further by moving to strilco
out of the legislative appropriation bill
the entire clause relating to the civil
service commission , which ho
characterized as undemocratic. An
other Now York representa
tive , prominent in the councils of Tam
many , supported the motion , declaring
that he had never favored the civil ser
vice reform policy , and never should
unless the political organization he
especially represented , changed its atti
tude. The motion of the Iowa ropro-
Bontiitivo was rejected , as also was that
of the Now York representative , the
democrats not daring to go so far as to
abandon the commission.
The discussion , however , sufficiently
demonstrated the hostility of a largo ma
jority of the democrats in congress to
civil service reform , indicating what the
fate of the reform would bo had the
democratic party boon success
ful in the national election. The omis
sion of all reference to this reform from
the president's message was simply in
deference to the sentiment which ho
knows to bo entertained by the largo
majority of democrats , and with which
it is more than probable Mr. Cleveland
himself sympathizes. Ho has shown
since the election a very eager desire
to extend the reform , nnd it is said to
ao his purpose to place as many
branches of the public service as possi
ble under civil service rules before the
expiration of his term. But it is obvi
ous that his object is rather to om-
jarrass the incoming administration
, han to advance the cause of reform ,
i'ho democratic party never has boon
in favor of this policy and never will bo.
THEY DO ATOT WANT IT.
A prominent member of the Canadian
parliament , and a liberal in politics ,
was recently interviewed in Washing
ton on the Buttorworth resolution.
While entertaining , as nil the liberals
of Canada do , most neighborly senti
ments toward the United States , this
jontloman regarded the "unity and as
similation" proposition as injudicious ,
ind not likely to bo of any consequence
except so far as it may provoke resent
ment. One thing , ho remarked , was
not taken into consideration in present
ing the resolution , and that is the
fact that the prosontgovornmentof Can
ada would bo entirely hostile to such
\ proposition. Since 1807 , with the ex
ception of five years , the government
lias been in the hands of the tories , and
it is a foregone conclusion , in the opin
ion of this gontlonmn , that neither the
present government nor Great Britain
would ontortuln the proposition. Ho
thought it would therefore bo folly to
irtako the offer. Ho admitted there are
icoplo in Canada who think the bloati
ng of the two countries under ono gov-
3rmnont will bo accomplished in the
'uturo , and a very much larger class
ivho believe in free commercial rola-
.ions with the United States , but the
innoxation Bontlmont is not so wido-
mrcnd as has boon supposed. The ten-
lonoy of the Buttorworth resolution has
jocn to produce irritation , while it has
jivcn the torles a powerful argument.
Canadian sentiment as redacted in the
iross of the dominion , and as obtained
jy American nowsoapor correspondents ,
s certainly far from encouraging to the
idvooatos of "unity and assimilation. "
'lie ideas advanced by Senator Stior-
min ura quite go no rally ridiculed , so
ur as they relate to annexation , and a
host of difficulties in the way of such
consummation are suggested. Thor
is plainly t very largo sentiment fnvoi
able to a policy of commercial rcclproc
ity , but it is intimated that this ma
decline if a plan of absorbing any portion
tion of the dominion is associated wit
it. In short , it is apparent that th
zcnl of the advocates of unity * nnd as
simllntlon is premature , nnd ns usual i
such cases is likely to do harm to th
policy of effecting a mutually advan
tageous commercial arrangement between
twoon the two countries , which is prol
ably practicable. With that accom
pllshcd , a generation hence the sltun
lion may bo mo'ro favorable to annoxn
tion , if such a policy shall then b
deemed wise nnd desirable. There i
no great probability , however , that th
somewhat sensational proposition of th
Ohio congressman will receive the np
proval of congress.
HASCAI.T.'S city hall ordinance passe
the council last night. Upon resubmis
sion and adoption of the proposition
set forth in it , the obstructionists in th
council will stand precisely in th
same relation to the city hall quostioi
as they do to-day. There can bo m
doubt that the voting upon a pormn
nont location will result in
stunning rcbuko of the ringstcrs win
have blocked the city hall entorpris
through personal pique. Mr. Ilascall'
Waterloo is good enough indication o
the temper of the people on that point
When the people shall have the sccom
ttmo voted the location upon Fnrnan
street , with the two hundred Ihousnni
dollar bond amendment , etc. , wha
change will be wrought in the prcson
situation ? The bonds already votoi
are available to the amount of oiii
hundred and sovonty-fivo thousand dollars
lars , and the location of the city hall a
Far n am and Eighteenth streets wa
specifically made , as has boon full ;
pointed out by Tim Bun. After thosi
propositions shall have boon agnii dis
posed of , what' assurance will the tax
payers have that the obstructionist
will not resume their present tactic
and block the building of the city hnl
for another year ? The action of thi
city council last night was worse thai
ridiculous.
MAYOR BHOATCII says h o is opposet
to the city hall rcsubmission ordinance
Ho sees no earthly reason why the cit.\
hall should not bo built on thu site and
under the conditions already decided
upon by the citizens. Yet ho states
that ho will not veto the Ilascall ordi
nance , for the reason that lie thinks
the people will roallirin their pasl
action by n largo majority. Wo venture
to suggest that it is one of the highest
and most important duties of an execu
tive officer to interpose his authority
for preventing the consummation of
unnecessary or improper legislation , a :
the mayor confessedly believes this or
dinance to be , regardless of his opin
ion as to what its fate might bo with
the people. Mayor Broateh may bo
able to satisfy his own mind that his
peculiar attitude in this matter is
proper , but a great many paople will
fail to see that it ts either consistent erin
in line with the plain requirements of
his executive obligations.
TITK BHE has stated its reasons for be
lieving that it would bo unwise to estab
lish a medical school in connection with
the state university. The regents are
reported to be now considering the
question of creating a law school as part
of that institution. The same objection
that applies to establishing a school of
medicine is applicable to a law school.
Either is outside of the purpose for
which the university was founded.
What that institution needs is not an
addition to its branches of instruction ,
but a judicious lopping off of some of
the features of its curriculum that are
useless and extravagant. That done , U
will bo time to consider the expediency
of introducing now departments of
study within the proper and intended
functions of the state university. At
present that institution is costing the
people a pretty liberal sum for the
benefits it confers.
A IIAII.11OAD to Pike's Peak , in Colorado
rado , is ono of the possibilities of the
future. The preliminary survey has
just been completed and the report of
the engineers is favorable to the pro
ject. A grade which at its maximum
will bo but thirteen hundred foot to the
mile , has been obtained. Considering
the fact that the maximum grade of the
famous Mount Washington railroad in
the White mountains is moro than
nineteen hundred foot to thu mile , the
Pike's Peak project appears feasible ,
and likely to become the railroad won
der of America.
TIIK corporations are beginning early
to lay their wires at the stale capital ,
nnd got ready the preliminaries of their
campaign lor obtaining control of the
legislature. This is conclusive evi
dence of their purpose to wage a desperate -
porato light , and is notice to the friends
of the people to prepare for the attack.
The railroads plainly intend to spare no
effort or moans to attain their object.
, They can be defeated If the honest rup-
rosontutivos ot the people are vigilant ,
linn and fearless.
PllESIDENT-ElJtCT HAUIIISON llUS
given it out that "the first shall bo
.last" in their greed for place. In other
words , the man who pushes himself for
ofllco shall bo ignored. Lot the school
board act upon the fcamo plan , and
ignore all candidates who nro working
day and night for the coveted vacancy.
A good man can bo easily found who has
not applied for the place. For -once in
the history of Nebraska , lot the ofllco
seek the man.
NKW Yonic CITY has appropriated
sovonty-flvo thousand dollars for the ex
penses necessary to celebrate the cou-
tonnial of the inauguration of George
Washington as the first president of the
United States. The commemoration of
this great historical event is to take
place in April , and the occasion will
undoubtedly bo ono of impressive
grandeur , that will fitly do honor to the
memory of Washington.
Tmf Burlington ia early on the field
it Lincoln with it ? oil-rooms especially
filled up to dispense favors to the moni'
bers-olcct of the incoming legislature.
Hero the dealsnml ; dickers are to be
miulo wherojur the sponUorshlp shall go
to a well kncrn'u pliant tool ot the rail
roads. And hove unscrupulous legis
lators are to-lKvfod on promises without
stint provided they will stick fast to
monopoly interests.
THKUM is a schcmo on foot by ccrtali ;
parties to mutilate the Omaha charter
by taking awny the nppointivo powers
of the governor which now Insure good
government. Lot the citizens of Omahr
'
see ( o it that'no'such attempt bo made
with their approval.
11 < jiicHtlon of Time.
JUDITH CltH Join-nil.
Cnnndn must sooner or later sco tlio troni
of events and take her proper place la UK
American union. '
Wnr i'orcos nl llnyti.
/Jns/on / Jlcralil ,
The Haytinn nrmy is inndo np clilofly o :
Hold mnrshnln , ninjor generals , brass bands
ninl several mokes armed with razors.
The Now Kxploilvc ,
Chlcatio Tribune.
Undo Bum ( threateningly ) Mr. Hull , kcer
on your own side of , the water or I'll blow
you slty hlRhl [ Fortifies his soncoast witli
oatmeal mills. ]
They Cnn Oo in llinl ISnrlv.
I'/i/wttfo / AVstM.
Society at Washington Is staying un very
lute these nights , The democratic part of it
can go to bed nt 8 o'clock every night next
winter without anybody finding It out.
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A Innv Grnclo < > f L'urliHiui Politics.
Fighting against the admission of terri
tories that are fully prepared for statehood
on no other grounds than that , if admitted ,
they will he republican states , is the garb of
statesmanship thnt 1ms made the democratic
party n national disgrace.
It Is n Republican Imiul.
Sun Fiwwfsro Chronicle.
It Is safe to say that the United States Is
rapidly bocomipg republican , nnd tills fact
emphasizes the folly of the solid south. The
democracy there is contending niralnst fate
itself and seeking to stand signmst the cur
rent of popular opinion , and the result c.iu
be only confusion and disaster.
AVIilo1 Awake Tcxa < i.
GloliC'Deinncnit.
It is quite true , as assorted by Congress
man Liuihiim , that the peopleof Texas are
notably broad-gauged unit progressive. That
is what distinguishes them from the people
of other southern states ; and the effect ia
seen in the fact that Texas prospers ut an
unexampled rate , while the rcst.of the south ,
with the o.vTcntioupf u few patches here and
there , gropes along in a limping and uncer
tain fashion.
Avoiding 1'iililicity.
C/i / > fti ! ; < ' Triliiuic.
Eminent statesman ( walking up to re
porter ) My face is familiar to you , i presume
'
sume ! ,
Hcportor I hnvo certainly scon you some
where , nnd yet T cannot exactly
Eminent statesman There is no use in
trying to hoop anything from the watchful
eye of a reporter. You recognizj me , of
course , as Congressman Hhink ?
Reporter Why , so it is ! May I Inquire ,
sir , the object of your visit to our locality )
Eminent statesman ( with dignity ) You
may say , gir , tlmt I am traveling through
hero in a quiet ! way , amlns far as possible
avoiding publicity. ' . -
Down on the Wtiltn Cap' ? .
2Vii ( < Kleif ! | ) ; < l Ilcconl.
Tlio immunity which the White Caps have
enjoyed has so emboldened them that , in
stead of coiilluing themselves in their deeds
of lawlessness nnd violence to sparsely set
tled tracts of country , they arc invading the
neighborhoods of largo towns and operating
with great audacity. Tlio self-ooustitutod
conorship which so many people tissumo over
the acts of their neighbors shows itself in
many obnoxious ways , but it has seldom
assumed a moro aggravated form than this ,
and its further toleration is opposed to all
ideas either of Individual liberty or of delegated -
gated enforcement of law and order.
AVhy They Don't Want Him.
1'Concer I'rets.
Colorado la to elect a United States sen
ator at nn early day , and accordingly the
irrepressible ex-Senator Ttibor bobs to the
surface with nn anxious why-not-uio look on
his saturnine features. But the pcoplo of
Colorado , as well as these of other states ,
have long memories memories which run
baelt to the robe do null episode , and also to
the ox-senator's proposition to the lute Sen
ator David Davis , the ulterior object of
which was the double marriage of the two
senators and a double honeymoon trip ,
something in the nature of a double Uncle
Tom's Cabin troupe , with two Topsies , two
Marlcscs and a brace of donlceys. Oh , no ;
the legislature of Colorado will hardly elect
ex-Senator Tabor to the United States sen
ate. What they would sell him a seat for is
another question.
STA.TK AND THitlllTOItY.
\e ! > raskii .lotting ; ] .
Initial stops have been taken nt Columbus
to form n Knights Toinnlur couimnndory.
Malarial fever Is making the weather hot
and cold for many residents of Wymoro.
The copy for the now city directory of
Kearney is now in the hands of the printers ,
Hastings will have eighteen miles of water
mains when the latest waterworks contract
is completed ,
The Platlsmouth schools will remain closed
until after the holidays , although diphtheria
is rapidly on the decrease.
The trustees of the Swedish Uantist semi
nary at Stromsburg huvo quit claimed the
property to the city , and thu building will in
future bo used as a public school.
Saunders county has lost ono of its
pioneers by the death of Mr. Throcltmorton
at his homo in Ashland. He voted for old
Tippccanoo lu 1810 and for General Harrison
In 1888.
The recent failure at Hoatrico is accounted
for by the local press by the fact that the
proprietor did not have snlllclont capital to
carry out his plan of soiling goods at less
than cost ,
The Fremont Herald suggests tlmt the
flU.OOU which belongs to Nebraska us her
share of the direct tux bo immediately given
to Pat O , Hawes before fcomo other boodle
burglar gets It.
A fit seized Harry Halter , nn Inoiato of the
Gage county poor house , whila ho was stand
ing at the head of thu utalrs in the second
story , and ho foil to the door below , receiv
ing tatul injuries.
The six-yoar-old son of n farmer named
Miller , living near Anselmo , has lost ono
side of his fate , amputated by the nlmrp
teeth of a vicious dog. Tlio ijoy will recover ,
but the dog i ? dead.
A frisky mule in a grading camp near
Crawford , caused its own death , together
with the incineration of its mate , two liorses
and a stable , by kicking over a lighted
lantern the oihor morning , The boss was
badly burned In trying to save his property.
A Greoloy county farmer named Grasso
was convicted at bcotln last woelc of tying
his wife with a ropa and boating her shame
fully , for which lie was lined f50 and coats ,
and will board it out iu jail , Grasso secured
his wife by advertising and claims that sue
is a holy terror.
The general manager and the general pas-
sengoragontof the Elklioru Valley road spent
tlio night recently ut Gcnovu , and hud a
serenade inflicted on them by the local brass
band. It is now questionable whether the
Improvements contemplated by the nvllroai
company nt that pliico will bo made.
lown.
Two millions liavo been sj'Mit in Improve
ments nt Fort MaJi on this year.
Intoxicants can only bo obtained In origins
packages nt Kcokuk these days ,
Two women attempted to burn Dr. Craig'
drug store nt Lohrvlllo , but wore dlsooverc
before they coulil accomplish their purpose ;
Ono hundred and twenty-four pases , tw
barrel * nnd ton kegs of boor were seized froi :
the custody of the Uock Island road nt Ot
tinmrn.
Mr. F. Schnltz , a miller of Uook Knpld
died of lockjaw us the result of having hi
lingers badly crushed in the machinery aboil
the mill.
A gang of eight tramps confined in the clt.
jail nt Creston pounded n liolo through th
walls of the cell Into un adjoining cell tun
drank nearly all of n case and a half of con
detuned beer which hud been places ther
for safe keeping.
The little thrco-year-olt ! son of William II
Fagel , a Scott county farmer , was instantl ,
kilted b.v the fulling of a heavy gnto upoi
him. Ho had climbed to the top of the gat- -
in order to wfivo his hand at his father , win
was returning from the city , nnd by the tlim
the latter had reached the gatb thu little fcl
low was dead.
A peddler who put tip for the night urn
Mnquokctn was so frightened at the throat
and boisterous talk of some men who wori
stopping ut the Banio house that ho lied Iron
the house in his stocking feet , ImtlL'ss , coat
less nnd clothed only in slnrt and pants. Fo :
two nights mid two days ho remained in tin
woods. When ho ventured to return , his fee
wcro Jrozen and ho was almost dead will
cold and uxhausiion.
Sturgis will indiilgo in an nrtcsinn well.
Tlio Catholic fair at Aberdeen reallzcc
$ TX ( ) .
An attempt Is being made to reorganise tin
board of trade ut Pierre.
A weekly newspaper is to bo started u
Spcarllsh in the near future.
A scon ? of German vocalists at Ucadwoot
liuvo organized a Llederkr.uiz club.
Captain Thomas Uussell , ono of UK
pioneers of the Hills , is to start a daily pupci
ut Sturgis.
A now brewery is one of the anticipated
good thing. ' which will bloom in the sprint
ut Rapid City.
lie. F.V. . Norton , of Aberdeen , has ac
cepted u _ uall from the Calvary Hnptisi
church ut s uulluon.
Valley Springs wants a few men with
cnpitul and nerve to Jevolopo the naturul resources
sources of the town.
There are about two hundred und fifty np
plications for seats in the lirst struct cat
that goes over the newly built track in Dead-
wood.
Dean Carpenter , of the Knpitl City School
of Mines , has boon elected n member of the
Colorado Scientific society , and proposed fet
fellowship in the Geological society of the
sumo state.
The farmers of Hrooklyn have organized n
society which they have named the "Farmer
Graders. " The members meet to discuss
economic questions. At their last meeting
thu exemption luwS wort ) considered , unu the
conclusion reached that the present exemp
tions from executions should bo cut down at
least 5U per cent.
CUKIIUNT IiITfiU/VTL'UB.
POLITICAL Sen N i : QrMitTKiii.r , edited by the
Faculty of Political Science of Columbia
College. Single numbers 7T > c ; yearly suia
scription J3.00 ; published by Ulna fc Cob
74t ! Uroudway , Now York.
It is certain that Columbia college
had a happy inspiration when it took
upon itself the creation of a quarterly
magazine , for that is precisely the
tiling in which current literature has
been deficient. 15ut wo cannot help
thinking that political science is not
exactly the Held in which tbo energy
and the knowledge of a great university
can bo most prolitably exerted. No
doubt the faculty of political science of
Columbia college imagined that by
treating all the subjects upon which so-
much heat is displayed with calm judi
cial superiority the review would be
able to exert a most beneficial influence
upon times that are decidedly out of
joint. It is incontestable that marriage
tics uro a mockery ; that labor is dis
contented ; that artisans do not know
their trades , and make a botch
out of every private job con
fided to them ; that financial
probity is a thing unknown ; that the
rich are becoming richer , and the poor
poorer day by day ; that there is a dread
ful crowding into great con tors of pop
ulation that has developed corruption
und depravity beyond belief ; that in
spite of the high estimation in which
women are held in this country they
are forced to do the hardest manual
labor , and worlc stripped to the waist in
iron foundries ; that religion has totally
lost its influence , and men openly de -
ride the high hopes on which their
fathers loaned , and that government
by the people has become a struggle
between rich bribers and conscienceless
Jemngogues for ollices where pecula
tion will yield a rich harvest. Under
tlieap circumstances the publication of
! i Quarterly Heviow by Columbiacollcge
from the plane of rigid impartiality
would bo a step in advance , if the facul-
Ly that does the editing know anything
: ibout tlio subject.
The very phrase ' 'political science
is misleading , for there is no
nich science , and the fact that a de
partment has been created for that
ivhich does not exist , docs not prepare
, ho reader to expect much of a maga-
iine that owes its existence to such a
source. A perusal of the articles for
; ho quarter ending December , 1888 , will
strengthen the conviction that the
acuity knows nothing of politics , and
ms not succeeded in creating a science
nit of the heterogeneous mass of .shifl-
ng facts. But there is a much worse
ndictmcnt to bo brought against thorn
ban Hlmplo ignorance ; instead of being
mpartial and judicial the articles are
norc than biased. ' .They are actually
> artisan---and as might have been an-
icinated , take tlio side of the classes
.gainst the innssos. An excellent ox-
.mplo of this is alforded by the article
in the "Legality of Trusts , " by no less
. person than Prof. Theodore W.
) wight , who is president of the Colum-
ila college law school. This actually
H HO wrong in its bearings that it might
invo been written us a legal opinion In
aver of trusts , bought in the usual
nun nor. Wo most earnestly protest
gainst the custom which is
'ocoming ' prevalent of lawyers
writing what are apparently
pontanoous artUiles , purporting to give
no real individual view of the author ,
ut which are ordered and paid for by
lionts , who wish to form or to light
ublio opinion. And it is patent thnt
rofossor Dwight's article may justly lie
ndor suspicion of belonging to this in-
unouB category.
The gist of the professor's long and
iborod article is that a trust is In it-
alf a colorless thing , a legal contriv-
nco containing no element of good or
ad , and that it must bo judged by its
urposo. Ho then takes the Brooklyn
ugar trust , and argues thau its pur-
oses were not illegal , and wore not
gainst the interest of the public. With
agard to the first statement , no doubt ,
iio professor is correct , because it is
uroly a question of law , and no ono
news the law bettor than ho doos. But
1th regard to the purpose ho either is ,
i' affects to bo , profoundly ignorant ,
ud his innocent conviction that the
usts only aim at most praiseworthy
bjocts reminds ono Irresistibly of Law-
or Howe defending a murderer , and
using all his arguments upou the sup-
osition that his client is whitu us snow
oni all blood Btaius of killing. It ia
unnecessary to follow the profsossor ii
his showing that the avowed objects o
the sugar trust nro not illegal , becausi
no ono caroa a rap whothoV they are o
not. The question that concerns tin
nubile is as to the nature of tlio real ob
jccls. The llrst ono , of which Indooi
the trust deed says nothing , but whicl
came out incidentally in the state hives
tigatton is that it isacontrivance whicl
permits illimitable watering of stock
Kach sugar refinery surrenders its slocl
to the trust and receives in exchange
trust stock certificate ! ! . It was provoi
that the general average of the trus
Ptock given In oxohnngo was double tin
value of the property or stock surren
dorctl. A man whoso refinery wa
worth SI,000,000 roooiveil trust cortill
catcs to the amount ot $2,000,000. Thi :
was precisely the way Cornelius Vim
dorlnlt the inrst. manipulated the different
ont railroads wiiich consolidated fern
the Now York Central. There won
llvu or six of tliom , and thov surroii'
diM'od their stock and IranchiKOs to the
amount of $27,000,000 , anil he ( the trust
proriH'dod to isstio Now York Central
stork certificates to the amount ol $83 , '
000,000.
But there is a wide dlvorgonco bo
twopii the views of Vanilorbilttho I'M ' rat
and the Brooklyn Sugar Trust company ,
for the former intended to obtain 8 poi
cent interest on tlio watered stock bj
raising rntns , and ho carried out his in-
toutions to the letter. The profits ot
the sugar trust nro derived In the same
manner as the prollts of the Chicagc
dressed meat combination , not from
consumers , but from the producer. Both
aim lo destroy competition in luiylnfj
hocaiHO it is manifest thatwhon instead
ot a number of buyers in eager rivalry
against each other , there is only one
strong impersonal bidder , the price
which the seller will got ywill bo just
what the purchaser will choose to give.
Iio will , in fact , bo the market , just as
Louis Qusiloiv.o declared himself to be
the stato. So long as the raw material
of which sugar is made is practically
derived from foreign countries ( for the
sugar raising parishes of Louisiana
must bo dismissed as unworthy of com-
sideratioii ) , no pinch will bo felt in this
our own limd , and no class is likely to
howl about its wrongs. The fact is that
the Brooklyn s'ugar trust really proposes
to do evil that good may como to a sec
tion of the community the consumers.
But should sugar over bo inndo
from sorghum or from .boot root
either in largo quantities , or absolutely ,
then there would bo coiihidi'rablc yell
ing from the farming element , because
the farmers would be compelled to take
what the sugar trust would allow them.
And as the trust relics for its prollts
chielly upon its power to squee/.o the
producer , wo may rest assured that it
would not bo particularly generous to
the raisers ot Itools and sorghum. This
is precisely the way things have worked
in the dressed meat business. It is cer
tain that meat is in better condition
nnd of higher quality , nnd upon the
whole cheaper than before the advent
of the Armour-Cudahy-Swift-Lliim-
inond & Co. combination. There has
been a alight increase in the rales for
prime cuts , but all the remainder of the
carcass is sold much cheaper , so that
there can be no doubt that the con
sumer is benufittod. But the cattle inon
upon the ranges have a very different
story to tell. They got about one-third
of what they used to receive , and they
are us much the creatures of the com
bine us if they were their chattel slaves
and Herded 'their cattle for them.
'Thus. O yoCecropian beus , do ye make
honey , but not for yourselves ! "
There is no analogy possible between
the ends of many trusts , and the devices
which were forbidden in the reign of
Edward VI , and the professor's learned
exposition is a pure waste of energy.
In those old times men schemed to en
hance prices in various ways. But cap
italists now understand that the moro
it costs to live , the higher the wages
will necessarily bo , and tlioir aim is to
reduce to absolute slavery the producer ,
so that prices may drop slowly nnd con
tinuously and wages will go with them.
Lasallo partly pointed this out loner
ago. Hitherto America has had a rem
edy for the ills ot labor in the uowor to
resort to agricultural pursuit , but for
some yenrs past the tactics of the capi
talists have made farming a ruinous
pursuit. Circumstances over which
oven capitalists had no control , have
raised to a great height the price of
wheat , and promise to raise it still
higher especially in tlio event of a
European war , and this , for the time being -
ing , has given the farmer a breathing
spell and a gleam of prosperity. But in
tlio terrible silent war which 'capital is
making against produce nnd labor ,
such bits of good fortune arc
but temporary , and suspend withou
altering the operations in force agains
thorn. The b'olcaguorod city is tempo
rurily relieved , but the blockading
armies still maintain their ground , and.
capture roomy only a question of timo.
Worst of all is the fact that the ill-
judging unthinking workingmen re
gard every rise in the price of a com
modity as a wrong done to themselves.
They will not see , and they cannot bo
taught to see that high prices for fooi
nnd clothing necessitate high wages.
It may bo argued that this equalizes
things , und that it makes no difference
what a man'H earnings arc if ho gets a
comfortable decent livelihood out of
them. But this is not true. So long
is it pays a man to be a producer , there
ivill bo a relief to pie crowded labor
narkct. When it doesn't pay a man to
aiso produce there will bo a flow from
ho farm to the city , and tlio labor
narkct will be still moro crowded.
L"ho pricosof produce ought to bo the
vorkingman's steam gauge. When
below a certain point , there
nust bo an explosion. Now as the aim
if many trusts is to force them below
his point ; it is not difllcult to see that
ho community is dangerously menaced
jy them.
? JIK DiAitr AND LKTTEHS OP OOUVKIINRI'II
Mouiiis , In two octavo volumes. Edited
by Ann Gary Morris. Published by
Charles Scrlbnor's Sons , Now York.
Since Peter Cunningham edited the
jttors of the earl of Orford , bettor
nown as Horace Walpolo , nothing has
vor appeared that rivaled that collcc-
Ion of witty mischief so closely as the
, -ork under consideration. The tusk
f selection arid of editing the diary
ml letters of Gouvernour Morris has
eon most admirably performed by a
randdaughter , und it Is fortunate that
Iio young lady hud more sympathy for
loraturo and for history than prudish-
ess , or the world would have lost a
ook that is destined to Immortality.
L will be a standard work , and no 111)-
nry in America worthy of the mime
nn ull'ord to bo without it. Lot no man
link ho understands thu I'Yonch '
evolution because ho has read
'arlylo ' , and sklmmod the pages
t Dickons' ' "Talo of Two
lltics , " Lot him read this diary ,
nil ho will have the subject in full
nd as it really was. No ono who does
ot belong to the craft of lotlors can
eallzcd how much is sacrificed by un
uthor that ho may bring out what ho
insiders his own line points. Gouvor-
our Morris wua in the French rovolu-
011 , and no ninn.il part of it. His tulonta
3 a financier wuro known , and when'bo
rrlvod in Purls /or commercial pur-
osos , and also charged by President
/ushington with a mission to arrange
ir the payment of the 1'Yonoh ' loun to J
the fddoral congress , ho was nskoil trt
givri his aid towards the restoration of
order in the French flnnncofl. His
most intiinato friend was Tn Hey rand ,
then n priest nnd a bishop , but us disso
lute and abandoned ns the wildest rnko
In Piirifl. The diary contains the most
extraordinary picture over penned of n
nation gone wild , incapable of Industry ,
or of concentrated action , or of intolll-
gent thought , because through timlml-
( illustration the machinery of finance
was clogged. The women wore as wildly
reckless nnd as dissolute as the inon ,
but actually showed moro capacity for
public- affairs and moro comprehension
of the drift of things. Into this state
of vicious nnarchy Gouvornour Morris
plunged. Ho was still young , in
clincil to voluptuousness , and possessed
of few scruples. Ha enjoyed himself
thoroughly , and ho conlmoil to his diary
everything that passed , all the women
to whom ho laid sli > go , and all thi o
who with a .smirk und a twirl of the fan
proclaimed their wllhngiioss to hobo-
sieged. Yet over and anon the cynic
ism of their depravity shocked him , unil
ho made protests In hla diary ngain.it
tlio reckless wickedness around him.
His famous diary is broken in two parts
boniuso during the Hobuspiorro period
ho did not duro lo keep it. He resumed
it when ho left Paris , but ihoro is a
marked change , and there are certain
internal evidences that ho wrote or re
wrote tills section in his old ago , passed
ill Morrisuniu. The lottprs are lor the
most part formal ones , with the except
ion of these ho wrote to the English
ambassadress at Paris. As ho inndo
copies ot them all , -oven the tondorost ,
it can easily bo understood thnt they
uro vastly interior to the diary , and am
in fact Btiir and pedantic , written with
un oya to posterity. But the diary will
secure for him immortality , for it is
not only most racy reading" , but it ia
the best history of the revolution , tak
ing into account its fragmentary char
acter , that was cvor penned.
_ _ _ - - - - - ,
St > rlo About Iilncitlu.
Baptist pastors , says the Now York
Times , listened to some interesting1 re
marks by A. J. Consult , the artist , on
"Personal Uominlsccnecsof Abraham
Lincoln. " Mr. Oonant said his Ilrat
acquaintance with Mr. Lincoln came
about through his being requested to
paint Air. Lincoln's portrait for the Ilrat
exhibition of the Western Academy of
Art at St. Louis. It was his custom , ho
said , in painting this to go to Mr.
Lincoln's olllco in the old state building.
us Mr. Lincoln was at that time ( ISliOJ
busied with political affairs and could
not Und time for formal sittings.
The lirst time Air. Conant visited Mr.
Lincoln for this purpose ho found the
expression upon his face quite the reverse -
verso of the melancholy and serious one
he nnd supposed , he wore. It was so
bright , animated and genial that Mr.
Conant ut ouco made up his mind to
depict it if ho could. With this in view
it was hib custom to toll humorous
stories , which , when they touched Mr.
Lincoln's fancy , made him forgot for
the time his absorbing affairs.
Ono day Air. Lincoln told how. when
"running. " us ho termed it , his gro
cery store at Salem , near Springfield ,
he got his lirst taste for law. A farmer
drove up with a broken down lior.se and
a wagon tilled with household "plun
der , " und asked him what ho would
give "fur the hull load. " Lincoln
looked over the lot of old pots , puns ,
kettles and stuff , and gave him half a
dollar. The man went olT unci Lincoln
stored the stuff. Some weeks after the
purchase LincoH had occasion to usu
some of the barrels , which wore filled
with some of the old "truck" ' bought in
the 50-conl purchase , und us ho turned
out the con louts ot ono of thorn , under
the old rusty pans a dilapidated copy of
"Blnclistono's Common tan'-va" came tu
light. Lincoln eyed it curiously nnd
laid it aside. Later in tlio uftiiViioon
ho picked the book up and began to
read. He soon became absorbed , in it ,
and from that day on he read all the
long leisure hours which lull to tlio lot
of the country grocer. This was the
first inkling ho had of any taste in the
direction in which ho afterward at-
taincd such success.
D Another story the artist told was ona
which ho said ho had himself told Lin-
coin and which ho had used on several
occasions , on two of which ho had boon
interrupted before ho got to the point
"and , " said the artist , "if there WUH
anything which annoyed Mr. Lincoln
it was this. It caused him lo always
remember the man from whom ho got
the story. The story was of u Missouri
man who wont to a stublo to got a horuo
tu take him to n convention lo which
lie was going us a delegate with a hope
) f nomination. The stable keeper was
} f u different political persuasion and
javo him a horse which ho calculated
vould break down before ho got thero.
3is calculations proved true and the
nun lost the nomination. On his re-
, urn to the stable the disappointed Mis-
iourmn asked the stable man if ho was
ruining that horse for u hearse. The
nun said , "Kinder guessed ho wasn't. "
'Well , " said the mini , "if you are , he'll
lever do it , for Iio wouldn't get a corpse
o the cemetery in time for the resur-
ecllpn. "
This story Lincoln hud twice tried to
ell , once from the roar of a train , and
rus carried away by it before ho got to
he point , and a second time , when pros-
nt at n gun testing , when the gun was
rod just us ho reached the Missouriaii'd
only. '
Do as vou pleuso when you please to
0 right ; and you will always do the
roper thing in taking Bigelow's Poai-
ivo cure for coughs , colda , and all
uroat und lung troubles. Pleawunt to
like nnd cures speudy. 50 cents and $1.
ioodmun Drug Co.
SiiHplcIoucd ol' Train Wroolcini ; ,
William Carey , who keeps a blacksmith
liop on Tenth nnd I < cnvoii worth streets ,
MS nrrcatcd yesterday nnd confined In the
ity jail , It Is jiroi osed to brin n chui-KO of
ain wrecking UKiilust him. Ho is thouRht
1 liavo been the man who turned the switch
mt derailed the U. ft M. onprmo the ether
inlit. Ho was prolific * in lib romarku to thn
ngineer at the time ,
Choking Catarrh ?
Iliivoyon awatcnoa from a disturbed sloop
Hli nil thu Jiorriblo Htmxutlon * of an IIB.IUMIU
niching your thront ami jirusHlnK thu life.
rentli from your tlclitonixl'flioiitl' Huro you
Jticml the languor nnd debility tlmt mirccod the
lortlocliur yutir throat itnd Iiuud ot tills en-
rrli-jl matter ? Wlmt a clonn ) liiK inllueiico
exert , ; , upon tlio mind , clouUlilK tlio memory
id lining the head with palna unit ntnmso
) tse ! How illlllcnlt It lu to rliltlio nasal paa-
, ( . throat i Ul ( lung's of this ] > olH < moiin mucus
I L'a" tl1,1)0 ' "ru nlHlcteil with caUurrli.
un ; dlllicull to protect the Hyutum nu'alnst ltn
rtlier progress towards the lunjra , llvor and
iliioyH. uiriiliyHlctuut will admit. It Is a ter-
Dlo dlHunso. nnd cries out for relief mill cure.
J'ho ramnrkalilo curiitivo rioworn , when all
tier reoiedlwi utterly full , of HANruim'a KADI-
.r , t'uiir uro ntu < i > te < l by IhousuniUnvlio ( 'rate-
llyrfcoiiiinonilHt < ir lfo\v.Hiiirerer . No tatB-
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intUtoil by the most i-u p4clnbl < and rellablo
tiach package conlalr.sono bottle of the HADI-
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I.Mi'iiovnn iMiAi.Kii. wild treatise ami dime' ! y
ins , mul iMoolil liy all UrugBlsw for $1. If
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