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ule of tlio Wilson bill only emphasizes
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UP TO the present moment it may bo
said that Governor Mitchell of Florida
la not a believer in the policy of non-
i titer furonco.
Tunitn Is raw nmtorial enough at our
doorn to make Omaha a manufacturing
city of 300,000 , people if the necessary
capital is properly Invtwtod.
WHAT became of the 11,017 , barrels of
oil that wore rejected by the state oil
Inspector during 130II because they failed
to come up to the test flxod by law ?
Tin ; ways and means committee won't
bo uhlo to recognize the disfigured Wil
son turiir bill by the time the committee
of the whole gets tlirough dealing with
it. It's a wise father that knows his
own offspring.
Timin : columns of Louisiana lottery
advertising on one pugo and an editorial
on the violation of the gambling laws on
the opposite page shows a jewel of con
sistency fit to ornament the snout of the
biggest hog over slaughtered in a South
Omaha packing house.
CONGKESSMAN WiinuLEH displays a
commendable frankness in acknowledging -
ing that ho intends to vote for the Wil-
'son bill , however "nefarious" thatmo-is-
uro may appear to be in his personal
view. Mr. Wheeler knows upon which
oldo his bread is buttered.
Tun Brazilian correspondents report
that both sides to the little controversy
desire to put un end to the fighting.
Tliis is the first intimation that the Bra
zilian revolution had reached the fight
ing stage. Heretofore the fighting has
boon done ovpr the cable lines.
IP Tin : Brazilian government really
wants tocomo loan agreement with the
insurgents , why not each stake his for
tunes with one of the principals in the
proposed Florida prize fight ? Such an
arrangement would have the merit of-
ending two wordy fights at one blow.
Tun proposition for a national boule
vard stretching from the Atlantic to the
Pacific , and lined with shaded shrub
bery , was probably conceived in the
breast of the philanthropist who denred
to make the return homo of the disap
pointed ofllco seeker at Washington as
cheerful as possible.
WHILE wo are about it confiscating
dice boxes and wicked slot machines lo-
C'lted in cigar stores , don't lotiis forgot
the prize popcorn and candy packages
that our confectioners are selling.
There is a newspaper , as also several
theater programs , which tell how to
get rich for nothing by patronizing cer
tain lotteries.
EMi'icuou WILLIAM is a ahrowd mon
arch , In spite of his many peculiarities
of character. Nothing could so add to
his popularity with the masses as a
reconciliation with Prince Bismarck re
sulting froiu overtures first made by
him. The emperor has bjon unveil to
action none too auou if he desires to
avail himself of the opportunity before
it shall have passed beyond his grasp.
A YfiAK has elapsed since the Capital
National bank at Lincoln closed its
dears and thus enabled the public for
the firht timu tb become .acquainted with
Its financial methods. Tlio president of
the bank has boon sentenced to the pen
itentiary for live years , but there is a
well founded baliof in Lluojln that all
of the men connected with the swindle
have not boon exposed. There is still
nu opportunity for justice to exert it
self In the Capital City.
Tun suggestion that Senator Hill Is
organizing another cabal to defeat the
confirmation of Wheeler II. Pockham
to be associate justice of the supreme
court will hardly create muoh enthusi
asm In the country , either among demo
crats or republicans. The interests of
litigants before the court are of too
much Importance tJ bo hampered , oven
at the duslro of politicians who desire to
Increase the discomfiture of the admin
istration. There is such a thing as too
much factious opposition. '
IT MUST ho n nice quality of .oil which
the Standard OU company Is attempting
to pan o'T upan unsuspecting patrons in
tfobraiku whan 41,017 barrels out of
122,32 * ) Inspected , or over one-third of
Iho total , h fnin-l to bo halow the low
itandurd demanded by the Nebraska
law. If the product of any ordinary fac
tory ohowod ono in every three defec
tive , eu t miarj would bogln to suspect
Mint M m lhlng was radically wrong.
Tim pJMl t nHJ of the company In send.
tux ( JstiMDUall Into Nabraika can
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TDK POMCr JlKHAnDIXO 'SUOAlt.
The action of the house of representa
tives in committee of the whole , in de
ciding to place refined sugar with raw
on the frco list and to abolish the
bounty , was a distinct triumph of the
radical element of tha democracy and the
men who are advocating an inuotno tax.
If this action is Bio'ainod by the house ,
as there is every reason to expect It will
bo , and Is allowed to stand by the sen
ate , It U perfectly easy to BOO that It
will bo fatal to the domestic sugar In
dustry , No one familiar with the con
ditions will for a moment contend that
it Is possible to maintain and develop -
volop sugar production in this
country without the fostering sup
port of either a duty or a bounty , and of
the two It has been sulliclontly shown
that the latter la the more effective ns a
stimulus to the development of this in
terest. With both removed our sugar
producers and rofluors will hardly bo
able to long withstand the destructive
foreign competition that will follow.
It Is estimated that the capital in
vested in the sugar industry in the
United States la not far short of $200-
000,000. Probably at least one-fourth of
this sum has been Invested since the
bounty went into effect. It is now pro
posed to strike a deadly blow at this great
Interest , and what compensatory benefit
is to bo liopcd for from such action ? Will
the consumers of sugar derive any per
manent advantage from it ? Putting re
fined sugar on the free list may have the
effect of breaking up the Sugar trust and
this would undoubtedly bo a benefit , but
alter our sugar plantations are aban
doned and the promising industry of
sugar beet cultivation is given up , put
ting our people entirely at the mercy of
the foreign producers of this necessity ,
is there any assurance that our people
will not then have to pay as much or
more for sugar than they are now pay
ing ? It is true that wo have been pro
ducing only aboutonc-tonth of the sugar
consumed in the country , but even this
small fraction has exerted a wholcsomo
inllucnco in the interest of the con-
sumor.s , and with the growth and devel
opment of the domestic sugar industry
this inlluoncc would have become moro
marked. Cutoff this supply" and who
can doubt that the foreign producers of
sugar will take advantage of it ? This
effect of the proposed legislation will
not be felt at once. It may bo a year or
twoboloro it is realized. But that it
will ultimately come as the consequence'
of striking down our sugar industries
seems inevitable. Tlio utter reckless
ness of proposing to at once reject a
means of raising revenue when the
government is so greatly in need
of revenue and to withdraw all
support from a growing indus
try representing n. vast investment
of capital is almost incomprehensible
and startlingly illustrates the spirit and
purpose which dominate the party in
power. There IB another thing not to
be lost sight of , and that is the fact that
in abolishing the bounty the contract
entered into between the government
and those who have invested in the
sugar industry since the bounty went
into effect will bo violated , but a little
matter of this kind has no weight with
the cheap politicians and self-seeking
demagogues who are at the front in
congress , oven though ruin should como
to hundreds of enterprising citizens.
With their minds intent upon an
economic revolution neither sacred
obligations nor the danger of disaster
can deter them.
Mr. Hartor , democratic representa
tive from Ohio , said In the house that an
income tax wa * the necessary alterna
tive of a duty on "sugar. The chief ex
ponent and champion of an Jncoino tax
has persistently opposed a duty on sugar.
The action of the house regarding sugar
may therefore bo accepted as indicating
very strongly the success of the income
tax proposition , so far as the house of
representatives is concerned. Yet there
is some reason to hope that'enough dem
ocrats will refuse to obey the party whip
to defeat this most obnoxious measure.
2MK.1I .U.l/vW A H
Resolutions wore presented in both
branches of congress Tuesday proposing
that this government shall permit the
provisional government of Hawaii to do
as it pleases. The senate resolution recites -
cites that the provisional government
having been duly recognized the highest
international interest requires It shall
pursue Its own line of policy. In the
house the resolution presented proposed
to extend the sympathy of this govern
ment to the representatives of the Ha
waiian islands who are making
an effort to establish a republic
thoro. The provisional govern
ment of Hawaii appears to bo
pursuing Its own line of policy regard
less of public opinion here or elsewhere ,
but inasmuch as there seems to bo a
lingering hope with the men who over
throw the monarchy that there may bo
u change of feeling in the United States
that will permit them to realize their
desire to become a part of this country
it may bo expedient that congress should
make some such expression as is con
tained in thn resolutions introduced. In
that case the senate resolution sooins to
bo the moro judicious , slnco it simply
proposes to commit the government to a
let-alone policy , ut the same tlmo warn
ing foreign nations that any Interven
tion on their part in the political affairs
of the islands would bo regarded as an
act unfriendly to the government of tlio
United States.
As to the proposed expression of
sympathy the American people are not
called upon to take any such position
with respect to any of the efforts and de
signs of the Hawaiian provisional gov
ernment. Our policy should bo to blmply
lot that government go along in Its own
way , as it seems quito able to do , only
keeping a watchful supervision over
American Interests there. If President
Dole and his adherents deslro to estab
lish a republic and biiccued in doing
sj there can bo no.4doubt thai
the American people would cordially
extend their sympathy , but they can
very well wait until tlio result is at-
tallied. They do not now know that the
provisional government wants to estab
lish a ropublloor that anybody connected
with the party that deposed the queen
1s making any sincere effort In that
dlroothn. There is ground for the
suspicion that nome of these men ,
once fully convinced of the Impos
sibility of annexing the Islands
to the United States , would not
bo eager for n republican form of
government that the American people
could sympathize with. That would
Involve giving rights of citizenship to a
grout many of the people of the Islands
who are not now in accord with the pro
visional government and who might ex
orcise their rights in opposition to its
policy. A so-called republic which Ig
nored the rights of these people and
rested upon the favor of a small minority
of the population of the islands , as is
the case with the present government ,
would have no claim upon American
sympathy. It ia extremely diffi
cult to have any faith in the
men in political control in Ha
waii. Their professions of high
patriotism and of devotion to the cause
of civilization and Christianity do not
carry with them a conviction of sin
cerity. Nevertheless the American
people will not discourage any efforts
they may make to establish a republican
form of government , and if they suc
ceed in doing this on d bassi.s of justice
to all the people of the islands who have
rights that ought to bo recognized under
such a government the sympathy of
this country will not bo withheld. Such
a consummation , however , does notap-
pear to bo probable in the near future.
CM
Ono phase of President Cleveland's
recent nomination to the supreme court
Vacancy deserves moro than mere passIng -
Ing notlco , and that is the fact that the
president lias evidently felt himself to a
certain extent constrained to make his
choice from among the attorneys practic
ing in New York , or at any rate' in the
judicial circuit over which the late
Justice Blatchford had been accus
tomed to preside. The fooling that
the different sections o.f the coun
try should bo represented as nearly
equally as possible upon the bench
of the supreme court has been mani
fested in the highest judicial appoint
ments for some years past , and the ten
dency to look upon that court as a repre
sentative body seems to bo gradually
becoming more and moro confirmed. In
the latest instance , for example , there
was nothing whatever to limit the presi
dent's freedom of selection over the
whole United States , but in fact ho
confined his search for an available
candidate to the leading city of a single
state , as if able and experienced men re
siding elsewhere wore not to bo consid
ered within the requirements of tlio
emergency.
The existence of this tendency to view
the supreme court as a quasi-representa
tive body has secured some recognition
on the bench itself , whether as a result
or cause of the popular impression it
will bo difficult to say. In assigning the
different justices to different circuits
during the recess of the court the resi
dence of each is taken into duo considera
tion , and whenever possible each justice
is given the circuit which includes his
own home. Thus the circuit under
Justice Brewer extends over Kansas ,
from which state ho was appointed ,
and that under Justice Gray extends
over his state of Massachusetts. Whore
two justices accidentally hail from the
same place , as do Justices Harlan and
Fuller , the principle of representation
has to bo held in abeyance , but it is
recognized so far as the circumstances
permit. This system of circuit assign
ment undoubtedly'adds to the incentive
to select jiow judges from vacant cir
cuits , for only by such a method can each
secure a ciicuit comprising his own
state.
That no such system was contem
plated by the framers of the constitu
tion needs scarcely to bo emphasized.
The supreme court , in the minds of
these early statesmen , was to consist of
the ablest jurists of the day , without
reference to party lines or sectional rep
resentation. Justice is the same
wherever the same laws are in force
and requires no different interpretation
from federal judges whether the case
arises in Maine or Texas. For this rea
son they observed every precaution that
was calculated to secure an inde
pendent , able and impartial judici
ary. Life tenure , with undiminished -
ished salaries , appointment by the
president , subject to the confirmation of
the senate , removal only on impeach
ment , such wore the moans by which
these ends wore sought. Other things
being equal , it may bo policy for a presi
dent to distribute oven judicial nomina
tions in rough accordance with geographical -
graphical lines , butonco accept the rep
resentative principle as a binding prece
dent and the court will lese an impor
tant factor in its claim to absolute inde
pendence of responsibility outside of
the constitution and the laws.
JVO J\'Wf/J UV AN
The Board of Education has decided
to ask the council for an increase of the
school tax levy to 3i mills , In the face
of the fact that property owners are
groaning under the weight of existing
taxes. Now if there was any disposition
on the part of the hoard to retrench
and prune down where tha pruning
knife could bo used without impairing
the efficiency of our system wo might
acquiesce without grumbling. But the
fait Is patent that the board Is squander
ing money on supernumeraries and po
litical hangers-on. Every corporation
and business firm in the country has
boon obliged to retrench by dispensing
with employes that are not absolutely
needed , and readjusting salaries within
the bounds of their earning capacity.
The board has done some pruning but
it does not exhibit u disposition to cur
tail expenses where curtailing would
Involve favorites or dispense with fads.
There Is no law , for instance , that would
justify the admission of children under
C years into the schools. The city Is not
presumed ta supply free nurseries at
the expense of the taxpayers. There Is
no reason why "the city should supply
thousands of dollars worth of stationery
to patrons of the public schools , and It
Is doubtful whether the free text book
policy should extend Into the High
school. Nine-tenths of the pupils In
the High school are sons and daughters
of men and women abundantly able to
pay for their books , maps and supplies.
These who cannot afford to hear the ex-
ponso of text ho9k8 , and stationery used
In the High school cannot afford to have
their children fnlrb the High school
course , J
A round sum might also ho saved by
making principals schools toaoh n
class wherever , lt _ Is practicable. In
many of the smaller and medium-sized
schools the principals have not enough
to do to occup.v tjiolr tlmo. In any
event the tax lory of last year should bo
ample for this yoar. >
CoUNCiLMENdonot differ from other
people by reason of any perpetual lease
on life and they are subject to the
ravages of disease without reference to
political faith or official position.
Vacancies may occur in the membership
of the council and there Is no tolling in
advnnco whether the first victim will bo
republican , democrat or Independent.
It la clearly the duty of the council to
provide a method for the filling of conn-
cilinautc vacancies whenever they may
arise. Because thnro happens to bo no
vacancy at present offers no valid
reason for leaving this important matter
to ho decided upon the spur of the
moment and under circumstances that
may foster a resort to underhanded
tactics. The city charter instead of
providing for this emergency Itself
leaves the details to bo prescribed by
ordinance of the mayor and council.
There is n call for the passage of such an
ordinance , not only to fill the gap in our
frame of city government , hut also to
avoid unpleasant entanglements in the
future.
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POPULIST congressmen are not dis
posed to accept the income tax proposi
tion offered bv the ways and means com
mittee ns a sufficient surrender to the
demands of their platform , and threaten
to oppose the whole scheme unless the
measure is made to provide for a system
of graduated taxation. It is not so much
the principle of the Income tax that
they desire to bo recognized ns the prin
ciple of progression in the rate. Of
course the democrats in congress dare
not go further than they have gone with
this unpopular revenue policy , but this
will only servo to add the populist votes
to the forces already conspiring for its
defeat.
A TEMPTING spread of mental pabu
lum has boon prepared for presentation
before the annual mooting of the Ne
braska Press association to be held at
Lincoln this weak. The list of oratori
cal dishes , however , fails to include
several timely topics to which some of
the promised attendants are peculiarly
fitted to respond : "Tho postoillco and
the press ; how the two may bo profita
bly combined , " "Federal grand juries
and how to excitoj their ire , " "Tho
railway job office the only lucrative
adjunct of the corporation organ. " Per
haps itis not too ) ate to revise the
delectable program. .
THE self-appointed.organ of the moral
and religious sentiment of these parts
clamors for the passage of the resolution
by the fire and police commission in
structing Chief Seavoy to close all gam
bling houses , pool rooms and billiard
halls. Why not' ' also instruct Chief
Soavoy to onforcoitho law against lot
tery advertising ? No law-abiding citi
zen can defend gambling in any form ,
but the money lost in Omaha gambling
dens is spent in Omaha , while the
money for Louisiana lottery tickets goes
out of the state never to return , except
as a bait for suckers and moro money.
Two HUNDRED millers are holding a
convention at Kansas City for the pur
pose of devising ways and moans to
widen the market for western Hour. A
memorial requesting congress to adopt
reciprocity as soon as possible was
adopted. The millers should remember
that there is a market at homo for their
product. Lower1 transportation rates
from the west to the east would moro
than treble the consumption of Hour.
It is the cost of the freight that pre
vents thousands of families from eating
white bread , and enough of it.
THE Wilson bill is a tritlo disfigured
but still in the ring.
Wlmt alley I.iMt.
{ llabe-Demccrat.
It Is ssifo to assume th.u ttio lobbyists
who have Just lost SioO.OOO by Cleveland's
vote of the Now York bridge bill are all
Hill men. _
ItuslncKH KoHumprlun.
Kew 1'oilt Commercial lliillcttn.
Fortunately , however , wo are now dealing
with past facts rather than present condi
tions. So surprisingly rapid 1ms boon the
resumption of wor ! : In all our industries
in the past two wouus that estimates are to
bo regarded as largely historic. It may bo
talcon as n fair estimate that of these wno
had boon thrown out of Industrial employ
ments during the last , half of 189:1 : , from 50 to
00 percent are now at regular work , and
although they have in most cases had to
accept reduced wages they are receiving
compensation in a lower scale of living ox-
ponses.
Humming lip ilio Kooortl.
JVVto 1'nrfc ijiw.
Eighteen months have olupsod sinoo the
domocratlo craft sot sail for the economic
Kldorado of revenue duties and larger mar-
Uuts. The business outlook is not roi3aur- ;
Ing. The things most conlldimily promised
have not taken plauo. Many of the dome
cratlo crow are ItLtirnvolt , and the demand
for turning the ship back toward the pro-
lection coast Is loud. Protuxts and argu
ments are heard m support ot such a sur
render to cowardice , and Prof. Wilson , the
coxswain , has n chart whereby ho thlnlcs
the orow can all got back Into port by sail
ing close to tlio wintl f
js there no Columbus on board of tlio
domocratlo craft to Htand up boldly and In
sist upon koonlngo straight nhoad on the
course marked out bj the last dcmouratlo
national convention ? /
Tlio Pr < > pri ( nf income Tax.
The principal objuolidn to the Income tax
which the doinocr.ilta'Aro seeking to Iinposo ,
Is that It conflicts' with the fundamental
id 0,1 of an equal and uniform distribution of
the public burdens. It signifies direct and
obnoxious discrimination acalnat a certain
portion of the population , and that the most
thrifty and uaofut portion. In ether \rorda ,
it is open and deliberate class legislation ,
and no Ingenuity of sophUtry can make any.
thing clso of it. ThOse citizens who are
capable and Industrious enough to earn over
f 1,000 a year are to bo taxed for the support
of a government from which they derive no
more protection or assistance than these
who fall to earn tlmt amount.
The only form of taxing Incomes
that can bo logically defended or
morally justified Is that which includes all
Incomes , without regard to tholr relative
accounts , and thusiexacts tribute from each
Individual In proportion to his earnings anil
profits , ) o they largo or small. That kind
of a law would at least be consistent and im
partial , though seriously objcctlonablo In
other respects. Hut the plan now proposed
is equivalent to tie ! arbitrary selection of a
given class of people as the proper onrn to
pay the whole Of a tax lovlod for the bcnellt
nllko of these who /my / It and these who
are exempted from It. There is certainly no
Justice and no fairness in such a method ol
raising revenue.
It Is to bo observed , furthermore , that the
bill prepared by Mr. Wilson's committee ,
whllo ostensibly Intended to bo free from
oppresslVo and Inquisitorial features. Is
rc.illv moro odious In that relation than the
ono passed during the war , which proved to
bo so very distasteful In spko of thu neces
sity that warranted It. Under this now
plan , the cltl/en who falls to report , hi ? Income
come- when It reaches the taxable limit Is to
be held guilty of a criminal olTonso , punish
able by line and imprisonment. Men suspected -
poctod of having earned as much na $4,000 a
year may bo pursued by dotectlves and re
quired to provo thdmsclvcs Innocent of such
an iniquity. The tax on salaries , not only of
these holding public ofllccs. but also of these
employed by business linns ami corporations'
Is to bo deducted from the last payment for
the ye.tr by the party making such payment.
That is to say , employers are to bo inado
agents of the government for the collection
of the tax by taklnir it out of the wages of
the employes. There are other equally of
fensive provisions In the measure , all calcu
lated to Invade the ordinary righu , and
privileges of citizenship , ami to promote
perjury and evasion of all kinds as the only
means of antagonizing and dofoatlng a man
ifest wrong. The people of this country cio
not want a law of that sort. They are wil
ling to pay all necessary taxes , but they are
not willing to have taxes imposed according
to monarchical methods and in contempt of
the rules of propriety and decency. The
party that gives countenance and support tea
a project thus discredited will bo driven
from power at the ilrst opportunity by a
tremendous majority , whatever Us excuse
may bo for Its ill-advised and unreasonable
conduct.
homo JtulUv.iy Questions.
Chicago Ttn a.
Twenty percent of the mileage In America
is In the hands of receivers , and perhaps 20
per cent of the remainder ought to bo. There
are said to bo over 170,000 railway men out of
employment. The table of stock quotations
shows an apparent loss in "values" since the
panic sot in of some hundreds of millions. It
was indeed reasonable to assume that the
public would bo interested to Know why
these things are thus.
The immediate cause of railway misfor
tunes Is , of course , the hard times. Partial
suspension of Industry and commerce is fol
lowed at once by a corresponding curtail
ment of the revenues of common carriers.
Uut the shrinkage in railway "values" and
business , the failures and receiverships , have
been altogether out of proportion to the
failures in business and manufacturing. It
is this circumstance which prompts the in
quiry , What Is the special grievance , mal
ady , or weakness of American railway prop
erties ?
The answers made to this question by ,
say , a docn of the most important railway
men of Chicago show an amusing unanimity
upon several points. It is practically agreed
by these disinterested exports that if rail
ways wore subject to no laws , or could make
their oivn laws ; if they could llx their own
charges and the wages of their employes
and , especially if , above all , they "could
abolish the interstate commission , the rail
way situation would bo ideal from the rail
way man's point of view. It may as well
bo conceded that American railways have
suffered SOIPO injustice at the hands of
state legislators , especially in the west.
BUt'tb the'lay observer it Is pretty clear
that the railways have brought tbis
hardship on themselves. The hostility of
which they complain did not disclose itself
until the pcoplo wcro persuaded that a rail
way corporation was not merely heartless ,
but thoroughly dishonest and lawless and
would rather buy a legislature or corrupt a
court than qbov the law. Nor is this popular
prejudice without foundation , as our statute
books and the records of our courts abun
dantly show. The sunposcd honor of Amer
ican railway companies is a byword and a
reproach , at homo and abroad. A'ot only
are the corporations guilty of bad faith to
the public , but of bad faith to each other ;
the history of almost any of the "pools" and
associations is a record of agreements made
only to bo wantonly and cynically broken at
the Ilrst opportunity. Some of the com
panies are doubtless worse than others and
some may bo altogether guiltless , but all
must suffer like poor dog Tray.
Having acquired in the popular estimation
the status of felons the railway corporations
arn morally estopped from complaining of
'hostile" ' laws. Hut oven granting that
they are slimed against as well as sinning ,
the railway experts who have given their
views to the public must not complain if the
public distrust their competency quito as
much as It denies their good faith. Here ,
again , to bo sure , exceptions uro to bo made.
As a general proposition it may bo said that
Uio roads have maintained their solvency
and effectiveness in proportion as they have
been administered upon business principles.
The "good" roads are these whoso property
has been managed for the future as well as
the present , whoso road beds and rolling
stock have been renewed and kept In repair
whoso munairers , In a word , have recognized
that they owed a duty to the property , its
owners , and the public as well as to Wall
street. The "bad" roads are these which
have been "sltlnncd , " as the saying is , at the
holiest of the gamblers behind thu scenes.
These properties , being in affect so many
counters on the tables of the Wall street
' 'dead falls , " have natutally lost their at
tractiveness in times like the present.
But the underlying causoof disaster In the
railway world is onu which , naturally
enough , railway managers arc most reluctant
to admit , namely , that they are incompetent ,
unable to cope with the task sot before them.
And this is tholr misfortune quito as much
as their fault. They arc , as a rule , very able
men and quito as respectable as the nature
of their employment will admit. Probably
they do as well as any ether body of men
similarly circumstanced could do. Uut in
the nature of things they must work at cross
purposes or to no real purpose so long as
the" aim the properties they control
Vonialn us they aro. The railway interests
of America , properly considered , are so
closely Interwoven as to bo ono fabric. They
should bo administered from onu head uiul
for a common purpose , not the least factor
of which should bo the welfare of the puoplo
who created them. Instead , they are for the
most part so many private enterprises , hos
tile to each other and to thu public , and
"llnaucod" by a body of gamblers who know
little and cara loss for the public and whom
the public In turn cordially hates and dis
trusts.
This Is unfortunate and may Involve , ns
our railway friends complain , u great Injus
tice to tliom. Uut It Is nevertheless true.
Nor does the published table of railway
tlnanccs servo to mltlcato this fooling , for it
appears that oven In the calamitous year
JS'J.l ' , when the managers found It nuuc.ssnr.v
to discharge I71.00J men and curtail other
expenses in proportion , the not earnings of
their roads wore moro than $10,000,000 In ex
cess of those for tlio prosperous year of 1SIU.
Highest of all in Leavening 3Power.- Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
riiUl'f.K . ! A
The cuckoos are calling Willis.
'TIs a wise professor who knows his own
tariff bill.
Cleveland's ' slide down Hill promises to bo
moro precipitate than ho bargained for.
The vigor of the Miuiltoban olast enables
people to comprehend the policy of frco raw
material.
The party of free sugar will need consid
erable of that article to effectually coat the
Income tax pill.
The Inoftldoncy of Cal Hrloo's pull at the
white liouao enables the senator from two
states to dlspcnso with curl papers ,
Pictures representing Undo Sam stretchIng -
Ing the lees of his pantaloons with straps
are a cruel travesty. Just now ho Is decid
edly short.
"Drop ill" shout domocratlo organs In
chorus , referring to the Hawaiian policy. It
Is evident the administration has taken a
drop too much.
Mr. J. A. Battles has Ju.it been oleotrd by
the city council of Fltchlmrg , Mass , super
intendent of streets for the littloth year in
succession.
"Tho small still voice" so oft apostro
phized by poets and prc.u'hor.s probably
refers to the telephone charmers who whis
per , "They're talking now. "
A young woman In Oroenford , Long Island ,
has boon fined $ . " > for scissoring oft the tail
of her father-in-law's horse for spite. She
should have docked it for fashion's sake ami
saved the & ,
Abe Slupsky Is not a myth , but real llesh
and blood. Not long ago ; ho kept n second
hand furniture store in St. l niis , but slnco
the newspapers picked him up ho has bo-
coma a full-Hedged politician.
Major Iturkc , Louisiana's treasurer who
embe/led f,000,000 ! ! , is now managing a
mine In Honduras belonging to iv Now York
syndicate. Ilo says ho will return for trial
when ho gets enough money to defend his
case.
It is explained by way of St. Louis that
the periodical fall of a stone from the Hoard
of Trade building in Chicago Is duo to the
slcsmli ! disturbance occasioned by the Chi
cane woman putting her foot uowu with
emphasis.
Ij. 1C. GalTey , the now associate justice of
the supreme court of South Dakota , coin-
monrcd the study of law at the ago of M ,
whllo on his father's farm In Wisconsin ,
reading from borrowed books. Ho was
state's attorney for Hughes county , South
Dakota , and is considered ono of the best
read lawyers of the far west.
The inlluoncc of American ideas Is marchIng -
Ing on. General Crook always insisted that
the way to soothe and subdue rambunctious
warriors was tlnotigh the alimentary canal.
Uvlucntly Emperor William had that idea
in mind when he forwarded a bottle of old
wino to Ulsmarclr. The result proved the
value of the remedy. The exile of Prcd-
ericksruho iuiuiediutply bottled his wrath.
Superior millers shipped seven carloads of
flour to Glasgow , Scotland , the ether day.
A Lincoln man offers to locate a normal
school at Grand Island for a big-si ed bonus.
It L. Cornwoli , a teacher In the DoWitt
schools , who has been in failing health for
some time , Is < ieau.
The half-breeds of the Santoc agency gave
a hop the other evening that was attended
by Diany white people as well as the elite of
the reservation mixed reds.
IJev. C. W. Savidge of the People's church
of Omaha has stirred up the animals in
Nebraska City. Ho talked in a church there
the other night , and advised all church
members to l < eep the body clean as well as
the soul. He succeeded in getting four old
chowcrs of the filthy weed to give up the
habit ; told them to go homo and take a
bath and bo clean.
The contest between O'Connor , republi
can , and Hemmott , independent , for cleric
of Garllold county , has been settled by the
county Judge at Burwcll. The ballots and
returns were examined and passed upon by
the judge , who decided that each candidate
had received an equal number of votes , ag
gregating 183 each. They then cast lots ,
O'Connor , the contestant and holdover , win
ning.
The second annual meeting of the Douglas
County Farmers institute will bo held at
Valley February land 2 anil it promises to
bo a session of moro than ordinary interest.
Among the napers of especial value to bo
read on the occasion will bo : "Sugar licet
Culture and the Douglas County Factory , "
bv Count Lubienski ; "A Proposed Method
of Sccurlncr Good Uoads in Douglas County , "
by C. C. Turner , and an address by Chancel
lor Canfleld of the State university. Other
papers of great Interest to the farmer will
be road by experts. A largo attendance is
expected.
Traitors t Jrlnoi | > le.
Cleveland Plain Duller ( dcm , ) .
Now wo have great respect for great men ,
especially when they uro in authority , but
we have greater respect for great principles
when they constitute the foundation of a
great party like the democratic party ; and
wo profess to bo just as abln to understand
these principles and to teach them to our fol
low men as a secretary of state who has
Dcen a republican all his life , or a chairman
of a ways and means committee who has
been a professor in a small university town
in the mountains of West Virginia. Wo
would like to know by what divine right
these men can claim to bo infallible. Wo
have never seen their crcdcnllalsbiit wo have
seen the principles of the democratic party ,
created by God nud written in the hearts of
men , and they are the only political In
fallibility that wo accept or bo to.
Till ! . IXlt.lHU , AOItAl" .
Now York Times ; Wo repeat that Pros ( >
dent Cleveland tins made n very serious mis
take , and In vetoing this bill has fallen fat
short ol the bromlth of view and soundncu
of Judgment that the peoulo of his own statfl
had a r.'glltito ' ox pool of Mm.
Buffalo Impress. President Cleveland
mav give reasons why the bridge bill should
have bton vetoed till the rows t-oino homo.
Uls countrymen will continue to believe that
there was only ono icason for Ins conduct ,
namely , a doslro to got oven with Senator
Hill for the rejection of Hornblowcr.
Philadelphia Press : Possibly President
Cleveland would Imvo vetoed the North
river bridge bill anyhow , but it Is extremely
probable tlist ho was aided In reaching hli
conclusion bv Hill's ' success In procuring tha
rejection of Mr. Hornblouor. The president
Is not above retaliating on tils enemies , and
republicans will not regret to see the broach
between him and Senator III1I yawn wider.
Chuago Post : A orldqo across the Hud
son river from Now York City to the Jersey
shore was wanted Tbo bill was favored by
Now York mid Now Jersey. Tammany
wanted It , Murphy wanted it and ( or but )
Hill wanted it. The bill went un to the
president and ho vetoed It before the
triumphant shouts of the Illll contingent
over Iho llornblowor defeat had ceased to
echo about the capuol.
Now York Tribune : In vetoing the Now
York and Now .lersoy bridge bill , which was
returned with a message to congress from
the white house , Proaldont Cleveland may
bo considered to have repaid bis quondam
ally , David B. Hill , for the loading part
taken by the latter In bringing about tbo
rejection of Mr. Hornblowcr. The Now
York and New Jersey bridge bill Is well
known to bo ono of the pot schemes of the
senior senator from this state , and , In splto
of the reasons which the presided gives In
support of his y Ho , It will bo dllllcult to remove -
move the popular Impression that ho was
actuated in the matter largely by a deslro to
got oven with Mr. Hill.
K Tiiuvanrs tx . //.sr.
Philadelphia I.pilccr : The lilng of Italy Is
not much over live font In lu'Uhtj LTnclo Sam ,
ulbo , Is rather short at present.
Cleveland Plain Dealer : The only tlmo a
man can perfectly control himself under ex
citement Is when ho U bunting a burglar.
lllnghamton Kopublluan : Original sin was
the cause of tlui full of man , ana now when n
man falls It Is the causuof a good dual of orig
inal ln.
Ohlcazo Tribune : "In the matter of family,1'
sighed tli poor inun who had inurrlod a widow
with nine children , "I suom to have bitten oil
more than 1 can HIOC. ! "
Now York Herald : Clara I don't think
Currlu.Slonur'.s hiiubatid 1ms much of an
opinion of hlinsolf ,
Miiud No. llu has been leading over all
the lovn letters ho wrote her buforo they were
married.
Now York Tribune : Daps-What's In a
name ?
Jaggs Lots. I know a farmer that Is so mud
nbotilthn WlUon bill Hint hu won't tide In a
democrat platform wagon.
Alclilson dloho : Tlio whltn folks spend n
great deal of thnn and money In trying to curl
their hair , and the coloiea people patronlza
every puddlor who soils u decoction warranted
to take the curl out.
Philadelphia Uncord : Mliaglns Old you
hear bow young Mis. llakur's cooking bad
havocl Halter's life ? Htigglns Nu ; 1 hud no
jjdoa she \yiis a good cook. Mtlgiihib Hlio Isn't.
iluKcr ate some of her biscuits yesterday , mid
shortly after was stiuck In the slonmch by a
tiolloy car. The car was badly wiecUod.
Indianapolis Journal : "Who Is that talk
ing In the nuAtrooni In sucli a high key ? "
"Tlmt's McCliuilor. Hu's trying to negotiate
a lo.in. "
"What a pliy It Is that a man cfin't ralsa
money as easily as ho can raise his \olco. "
Somorvlllo Journal : Ustollo Mr. U"Blo ln
vltecl mo to no to the theater last night.
Hello Did you ha\o a bo\ ?
Kstollo Ob , yes ; Mr. Kcglo never buys loss
than half u pound oC candy at a time.
rill ! MUFF.
Town 'Jotitcs.
Slnco I > o flrst blushed behind a loaf
And with thu sornont lllrlod ,
The fan has bi ought our SOY to grlof
And levers disconcerted ;
lint It lias bad moro than enough
I'outlcal attention ;
I think It tlnw my lady's muff
Had honorable mention.
It Is not for the ball room made
1UU for the winter outing ,
When In her snuggest furs arr.ayod
Tin ) fearless Illrtgoub ncouMng.
It hides the hands wo fain would press
With silent adoration ,
Yet gives the charmer's loveliness
A varied fascination.
When pressed ngalnst her chilly ear
It looks so warm and co/y ,
It makes her glowing face appear
Moro dimpled , soft and rosy ;
Ami when she sinks her pretty nose
In Its recesses fillry ,
Forth f loin her eyes a rapture glow *
That'sBtiio our hearts to flurry.
In short. It Is an Instrument
Offensive and defensive
That , niiildi can use , on Illrtlng bent ,
Or when thoy'io fooling ponslvo ;
Whenever wo our love confess
They blush and sigh behind it ,
And when tholr lips we'd fain oaicsi
KlgUt In the way wo ilud It.
It rouses , teases , tortures , charms ,
And fills with perturbation ;
Juat like the fan It thrills , alarms ,
And nld our subjugation.
Wliorcfuro of all lovu n weapons sweet
These two must riyik together
The fan for summer evenings meet ,
The mutt" for wintry woatbor.
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The largest m.iitora an I sjlldM ot
Utio clothed on Eartu
Your monoy'a wortb. ur your mono/
After the Storm is over
Then comes a nice day a nice day to buy
trousers especially
nice because you can
buy them of us now
at a discount of 25
per cent , any mons'
trousers in the house
some fine ones.some
finer , all good , this
season's goods relia
ble as any made
more1 reliable than
most trousers. It's a
big- lot to take off ol a $6 pair of trousers. It makes
the price pretty small for a $3 pair. No matter. 25
per cent off goes. Wo will bo pleased to also sell
you a suit or an overcoat. On those wo are making
very nice hard times prices. You can't afford to miss
this sale for It will be money saved in your new
trousers' pocket to take it in.
BROWNING , KING & CO. ,
Will nay the exuross If you send I O W Cor Hth anfl Inilfrln < f
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