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cnre HIH | 2d day of May , 1MI. _ . , ,
( S-nl ) . N. P. Vnil > . NolRry Public.
The honorable Cunningham R. Scott never
opens his mouth- without putting his foot
In It.
Nebraska will be saving about $100 per
day when her floating Indebtedness Is cleared
away. It's a consummation to be wished for.
Bryan will not stand for re-election for
congress. The house of representatives has
become too circumscribed to hold his ex
panding ambition. t
It will take something more than a com
mittee of five to vindicate the dignity of
the senate from the well defined rumors
of Sugar trust stock jobbing.
Will Bryan become a populist , or does he
expect the populists to swallow the free
trade and silver democracy will the whale
swallow Jonah or will Jonah swallow the
whale ? .
The sixty-eighth annual meeting of the
Congregational Home Missionary society Is
the next national assembly which Omaha will
be called upon to entertain In early June.
No preparations should bo omitted to make
Omaha's part in the meeting one entirely
creditable to our city.
It will cost members of congress Just about
$13 a day to go home and fix up their political
fences for the fall campaign. Still it is hardly
probable that many fences will go to ruin.
There are good reasons for believing that
the sergeant-at-firms is a poor bookkeeper
when It comes to keeping track of congres
sional absentees.
Senator Morgan Is now taking his turn In
prodding Attorney General Olney about his
failure to enforce the anti-trust law. He
wants the attorney general to tell him
whether , In his opinion , there is any defect
In the Iqw. A superfluous question alto
gether. The defect Is In the attorney gen
eral , but that functionary Is unable to see It.
Congress proposes to protect the public
from false weather prophets by prescribing
a penalty of fine nnd imprisonment for any
one who knowingly- publishes false weather
forecasts or warnings. But how 'can a p r-
son know that a forecast Is false until after
the period covered has elapsed ? Does the
government weather bureau lay claim to a
monopoly of the privilege to make a guess
at the state of tomorrow's weather ?
The engineers who declined a ten days'
trip through the Yellowstone as the guests
of the Northern Pacific displayed.a laudable
Intention to remain frco from obligations
to railroad officials with whom they might
some time have to treat as representatives of
their brotherhood. But , by the way , how
does It como that the Northern Pacific , which
Is now In the hands of receivers , offers a
Junket to the delegates to an engineers'
meeting ? It seems to us that the receivers
and their subordinates arc abusing the con
fidence of the court for which they are
acting.
The report that extensive frauds have
been perpetrated upon the government In
connection with the Indian depredation
claims Is yet to bo verified. Still the con
firmation of the report will occasion no great
amount of surprise. It is not a difficult
matter to manufacture a bogus claim against
the government and bolster It up by false
testimony. The Indian depredation field has
long been successfully and profitably tilled
by unscrupulous lawyers , who consider It no
crime to rob the government. A strict In
vestigation should follow the present report
nnd the punishment Indicted without regard
to the prominence of the parties Involved.
A Nebraska farmer now a candidate for
admission to the state Insane aiylum Is
"laboring under the hallucination that ho has
received a commission from God to march
on Washington and expel President Cleveland -
land from his place In the whlto house. The
delusion of this unfortunate man consists
chiefly In mistaking the agent and In antici
pating the tlmo when his dlvlno commission
Is to bo carried out. If ho had only been
wlso enough to wait until the next presi
dential election and to allow the people of
the whole United States to assist him In his
work ho would have como out of the contest
with flying colors , The execution of that
dlvlno mission to oust the present president
from the whlto house Is necessarily pon-
poncd , but none the less Inevitable.
There will probably bo fewer people solng
away from Omaha for the summer this year
than there have been for several seasons
past. The effect of hard tlmoi is generally
to cut off the luxuries and most dlspensahlo
enjoyments of life and hard times will doubtless -
loss bo the oxcui > o offered In more than onu
case for the absence of the usual summer
season In the mountains or at the sea shore.
Thofo who remain In Omaha during the
heated months will bo surprised to find how
comfortable they can make themselves with
out leaving homo If they will only make the
effort. They will bo ablo. to amuse them
selves and enjoy the company of their
friends right hero In Onmha at a consider
able less expense than at their customary
summer resort. Qlvo Omaha a fair trial and
the out-of-towu vacation will lose half Its
attraction * .
During the progress of the preliminary
hearing of th" flennett-Hosewatcr libel cases
the charge was openly made In court that
the prosecution had been Instituted at the
Instance of conspirators for political pur
poses and personal revenges. Later on the
editor of The Ilee charged , over his own
name , that the decision of the police Judge
was known to nnd foretold by a prominent
court ofllror two weeks before the taking
of testimony had been concluded. In fact ,
the plot had become town talk days before
the findings of the court had been made
public.
And now Judge Scott lias unwittingly un
masked the plot by .a public declaration
that stamps him with Indelible Infamy , In
explaining why he had concluded to waive
his alleged prerogative to preside at the
trial of this case Judge Scott used the fol
lowing language , word for word :
Before the case caino into this court , In
fact when there was talk that a criminal
proceeding would bo Instituted against the
defendant before the police magistrate , I
then opened up a correspondence with one
of the Judges of this state , not of this dis
trict , stating that I apprehended I should
want to change dockets with him nnd have
him take my docket nnd I his. This was
agreed upon. Now that was before Iho
preliminary examination. Since then , after
the preliminary examination was had and
before there was an Information filed , I
renewed my request to have a change of
dockets with the judge.
Now this Is on my own motion ; not a mat
ter that the law requires at all.
Was there ever a more scandalous confession
made by any Judge from the criminal bench ?
How did this upright and Impartial Judge
como to talk about a criminal case before
any charge or complaint had been formu
lated , and to whom did he talk If not to
the conspirators who hatched and Instigated
the prosecution ? How did this most upright
judge como to the conclusion that ho would
want to exchange places with another judge
In the trial of this case If ho did not know
what conclusion the police court would
reach ? How did he know what Would be
the nature of the testimony and whether
or not the defendant would be able to Justify
his publication ? What right has judge Scott
to Insult the six other judges of this district
by publicly declaring them to bo unfit to
take his docket In the trial of a case In
which they are not known to have any In
terest or bias ? Does he not by his own
confession leave the Inference that he was a
party In a conspiracy Into which no other
member of the bench of this district could
be drawn under any conditions ? Was there
ever a more scandalous exhibition made
from the bench ?
THE ItKLIKVDKI'AIITMKXT Ift COURT.
The decision Just handed down by the
supreme court of Nebraska In the case of
the Chicago , Burlington & Qulncy railroad
company against Wymore will open the
eyes of the railroad officials to the fact that
their cleverly constructed relief department
Is not an Infallible device to stave off suits
for damages suffered from Injuries Incurred
by men in the employ of the company. This
suit Involves a ruling upon the validity of
the pretended contract of release which
every railroad employe Is compelled to enter
If ho wants to secure the benefits of the
Insurance and sick funds of the relief de
partment , but It goes only half way to the
core of the matter. It deprives the railroad
of a part of the alleged Immunity from lia
bility for Injuries to employes and leaves
the remainder of the question to be decided
when It shall como up.
In this case It appears that the widow of
an employe who was killed In the service
of the railroad company was suing for dam
ages In her own behalf nnd In behalf of
her children , although the deceased had , as
member of the relief department , signed a
contract of release and she herself had ac
cepted the insurance benefit due her and
had receipted for It "In full satisfaction and
discharge of all claims or demands on ac
count of or arising from the' death of said
deceased which I now have or shall here
after have. " The company , of course , set
this up as a bar to recovery , but the court
holds that , by accepting such payment , the
aggrieved party does not necessarily waive
her right of action ; further that neither the
contract of the deceased as a member of
the relief department nor the acceptance *
of the money or release of liability on the
part of the widow operated to bar an action
either for her own benefit or for the benefit
of her children. In other words , the rail
road company cannot force Its employes to
contract away the rights of their wives and
children , nor will the acceptance of an In
surance benefit , to which the beneficiary Is
entitled , serve to release the railroad from
all further liability.
So far as this decision goes , well and good.
It protects the widows and the orphans from
the rapacity of the railroad and the weak
ness of the railroad employe. Let the court
go a step further nnd throw Us shield about
the employe himself. Let It say that an
Injured employe still has a remedy at law
for damages against the company , In spite
of the Iniquitous pretended contract which
the relief department forces upon him. Let
the court do this nnd the relief department
will bo relegated to Its proper place as a
mutual benefit nnd Insurance association , In
stead of as n cunning device to deprive sick
nnd crippled employes of their rights nnd to
keep the widows and the orphans from re
covering the Indemnity which the law allows
them.
QUKST10XIXO
That was n timely resolution which Sen
ator Morgan of Alabama Introduced calling
on the attorney general for Information as
to whether any proceedings were pending
against the Sugar Jrttst , and , If so , what
stage they had reached ; If not. whether , In
the opinion of the attorney general , there is
any defect In the anti-trust law. The Ala
bama senator , If wo are not mistaken , sup
ported with his vote the anti-trust law passed
by the Fifty-first congress , and ho has al
ways been regarded as one of the able law
yers of the senate who believed that legis
lation would prove effective , If properly en
forced , In suppressing the trusts nnd com
binations at which H was aimed. He Is also
familiar with the fact that the last national
democratic convention declared for the en
forcement of existing laws against the trusts
and that the
present administration came
Into power pledged to do this. There was
no equivocation or ambiguity about the lan
guage of Mr. Cleveland In reference to this
subject In his Inaugural address. Ho char
acterized the trusts as being generally con
spiracies against the public Interests and
declared it to bo the duty of the federal
government to protect the citizen against
their exactions nnd oppression.
The promise of the democratic party and
tha pledge of Ita president have not been
kept. Moreover , no serious attempt has
been mudo to redeem them. Proceedings
wcro Instituted against the Sugar trust In
connection with Its purchase of refineries in
Philadelphia , and the decision In the lower
court wv- adverse to the government. So
far as known Attorney General Olney was
satisfied to drop the matter there , when ho
should hare taken It to a higher court. It
U desirable to obtain the opinion of the
highest tribunal upon the anti-trust law , am
hero wai a most favorable opportunity , but
the public has no Information that the at
torney general availed himself of It. The
most rapacious and unscrupulous monopoly
In the country was permitted to enjoy Its
victory without further question. This Is
the only Inttanco of any effort to apply the
anti-trust law under the present mlmlnls
tratton of which the public has any knowl
edge. Early assurances were given througli
the medium of newspapers friendly to the
administration that the law would receive
a thorough test , but these , like the promises
that preceded them , have amounted to
nothing.
Undoubtedly Senator Morgan read the an
nual report of Attorney General Olney , OIK
If so he Is aware of the fact that that
official does not have a favorable opinion
of the anti-trust law. He regards that act
as being defective and Inadequate , but while
offering an Ingenious argument to show this
he avoided any suggestion as to how It might
bo Improved and made to meet the pur
pose for which It was passed. The plait
truth Is that Attorney General Olney Is not
In sympathy with legislation of this kind
Ho Is the friend of corporate power , whether
In the form of monopoly or not. The coun
try will await with Interest the response
to Senator Morgan's resolution.
PLANKS LUOSK.
There are a great many planks loose In
the sldewalkvdepartment that need hammer
ing down very badly. We have ordinances
that require the laying of permanent side
walks of durable materials on paved streets
The ordinance not only prescribes the quallt >
of the material , but also requires the owners
of adjacent property to construct their side
walks of a uniform width. The enforcement
of the sidewalk ordinances has been most
shamefully neglected. Stingy or penny wise
property owners have been permitted to con
.tract for bogus concrete Just to save a few
dollars and the Inspectors do not seem to
take any exception to such evasions of the
requirements of the law.
In the very heart of the city , on the cor
ner of Fifteenth nnd Farnam , a plank walk
raised at a foot above the curb Is a constant
eyesore as well as n positive obstruction to
travel. A plank sidewalk on such a busy
corner might be temporarily endured If there
was a building being erected on the abutting
lot. But as there Is no Immediate or even
remote Intention of constructing such a
building the owners should be required to
conform to the same conditions that are en
forced upon other property owners.
Another striking divergence from the re
quirements of the sidewalk ordinance Is the
want of uniformity. In several of the blocks
within a stone's throw of the court house
and city hall there Is a variation of from
four to eight feet In the width of sidewalks ,
an evidence of either favoritism or lack ol
efficiency on the part of the Inspectors. If
tha city has any authority to compel the
laying of sidewalks and to prescribe the ma
terial , the ordinance should be enforced with
out fear or favor. If the city has no such
authority the ordinances are a mere farce.
Omaha has a right to feel proud of her pave
ments , but people should not be compelled
to use the middle of the street.
OF THE COAL CONFERENCE.
The conference of mine operators and
miners failed to effect a settlement of the
Issue It was called to consider , and the
promise now Is that the continuance of the
coal strike Is simply a question of endur
ance on the part of the miners. These
people are Individually poor , their scant
earnings not enabling them to make any
accumulation. The funds of their organi
zation do not amount to enough to provide
for them for any length of time. Under
different conditions they could hope to ob
tain assistance from other labor organiza
tions , but as It Is few such organizations
are In position to extend a helping hand ,
and probably none will bo disposed to do so
to any extent because they cannot tell when
there will be a demand from their own mem
bers for every dollar they have. The coal
miners will , therefore , have to fight their
battle without any material aid In a finan
cial way from other labor. It Is needless
td say that the operators fully understand
the situation In this respect.
The failure of the conference Is very much
to bo regretted for a number of reasons.
A prolonged strike , such as appears probable ,
must entail great hardship upon the miners
and their families , whoso meagre resources
will bo soon exhausted. The "consequences
to the Industrial and transportation Interests
of the country will bo very serious. Already
many manufacturing establishments have
been compelled to shut down for want of
coal and railroads have been forced to re
duce their train service , thus adding largely
to the army of the unemployed nnd Increas
ing the general distress. There Is a coal
famine at many places and It Is only a mat
ter of a few weeks , If work Is not resumed
at the Idle mines , when the famine will be
come general , causing Incalculable trouble
and Inconvenience- millions of consumers.
Finally there Is the danger. In the event of
the operators attempting to force matters , of
conflicts that may Intensify the gravity of
the labor situation. The striking miners
constitute a formidable host If they should
hold together , and while they have thus far
generally shown a disposition to carry on the
contest In a peaceable way there Is no as
surance that they might not under exasper
ating circumstances prove capable of caus
ing a great deal of troublci.
The blame for failure to reach a settle
ment seems to rest chiefly upon the oper
ators , Only a small number of them at
tended the conference and these were mainly
the smaller class of operators , who It ap
pears have made contracts at prices consid
erably below those of last year and therefore
went to the conference with no Idea of mak
ing any concession that would bo acceptable
to the miners. Most of them did not remain
to tha close of the meeting , thereby Indicat
ing the absence of an earnest dcslro to adjust
differences and effect a settlement upon what
disinterested persons could regard as a fair
and reasonable basis. The only proposition
submitted on the part of the oper
ators was admitted by some of
them to offer too low a basis for mining.
It ought to have been possible , It would
seem , for the two Interests to have agreed
upon a compromise , but It appears to have
been the unanimous sentiment among the
representatives of the miners , as expressed
by President McBrldo of the national union ,
that "there could bo no compromise along
the lines of starvation wages , " There may
be an honest difference of opinion as to
whether the miners wcro wlso In Insisting
upon a restoration of the rates for mining
before the reduction ot last year , In view of
the continued business depression , but there
can bo no doubt as to the unfairness of the
proposition submitted by the operators.
Future developments In this very serious
controversy , which affects all Interests and
every portion ot the country , will be awaited i
with anxious concern. The Injury already
done suggests the disastrous consoqucticos
that a general coaj _ famlno would produce
nnd such a condUlbn teems not to ba re
mote. There should , be no delay In making
further efforts to bVlhl ? I'IB ' mine owners nnd
the miners to an.agreement.
No one will question the right of or
ganized bodies o ( JabarltiB men to study mil
itary tactics. Thlsjs a tolerably free coun
try. But at tlifljSino time the laboring
men should conslljor seriously the proposal
before adopting 'iJ&hc ' lawnof many states
now prohibit thuXmploymcht | ot the odlou
Plnkerton soldlerjfjHind within a few year
at most they wlilSbo prohibited In every
ntata In the nnfgn. Public sentiment I
doing that much at least for labor. Tha
courts are also rapidly coming to the point
where sympathy with corporation Interests
will no longer bo tolerated. The cause of
labor Is steadily advancing , oven If the on
ward strides cannot bo discerned for the
tlmo being. The laboring men will find the
ballot more potent than the musket , bu
they must use the ballot with the same cotir
age that they would use the musket If callei
upon In defense of their country and Its
flag. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The United States grand Jury will soon bo
grinding away on the usual batch of com
plaints. The same old Indians that have
been on the list of witnesses from time I in
memorial will be on hand again to testify
that fire water was furnished to them n
exorbitant prices by bad squaw men on
the reservation. The man who forgot to
put a stamp on his cigar box will bo
cinched end brought up standing to pleau
guilty. And the fellow who cut a twig
from a tree on the NIobrara will be re
minded that ho has laid himself liable to
indictment for foraging on Uncle Sam's
preserve. Incidentally there will bo the
usual amount of spring medicine making for
the fall campaign , the season's compliments
to the district attorney , the presentation o
gold-headed canes , watch charms and cats
eyed scarfplns , with pledges of cterna
friendship. .
The good work of J taking up Nebraska's
floating Indebtedness 'should not bo allowcc :
to falter Just because a firm of Lincoln war
rant brokers proposes1 to hold up the law for
a "test" case. The case should bo treated as
an Individual case. But very few people wll
object to receiving their money. The mer
chant who sells supplies would rather have
the cash than the 7 per cent Interest
for , In trying times like these , money to do
business with cannot bo had at the banks
for that rate. The laborer will prefer the
ready cash to n warrant. It Is only the men
who have grown rich In the speculation on
state warrants who will raise any objection
to the enforcement of the law. Let them
object , and , In the meantime , the people
will expect the board and the treasurer to
do their duty. " (
We shall soon sojo whether Mr. Wiley's
written promise to reduce his charges for
electric lighting ; to' ' the city Is worth anj
more than his word lo the same effect. Whj
should ho offer to supply lights at a lower
price than his lastjjld when ho has com
plete control of the city council and can dic
tate his own terms ? Confining the pro
posals for electric lighting to the one com
pany that already lias a monopoly of the
local field Is not calculated to bring relic !
from extortionate charges.
Will the people of Omaha confess that they
must awfllt. the .jjleajuro ofJtbo. Burlington
railroad in the" matter of viaduct repairs'
Must persons u lng those viaducts place
themselves in dally Jeopardy of their lives
because that railroad defies the law and the
authority of the city officials ? It Is about
tlmo that the Burlington railroad be told
that there Is a limit to Its privileges and ex
ceptions. If it does not want reciprocity , let
It have retaliation.
Painful l.uck nf Courtesy.
Chicago Tlmca.
Investigate the senate ?
Nonsense.
Abolish It !
Sign of tlio Times. .
Globe-Democrat.
Building operations nre picking up In New
York City , where seventeen ofllce buildings ,
from eight to twenty-four stories high ,
have been contracted for. The low price
of bulldlncr materials will help business
this sunimer.
Tlio Throbbing Question.
Chlcajjo necord.
How much la a college degree worth ? A
student of the University of Nebraska has
sued for $25.000 damages because the uni
versity declined to grant him the degree of
bachelor of laws. At this rate what ought
the degree of half-back on the foot ball
team be worth.
Sntlsfiirtory Ilxpliiimtlon.
Denver News.
"By far the most remarkable political
phenomenon of the day , " says the Toronto
Week , "Is the rapid growth of democracy. "
This Is spelled with n lower case d , and
has no reference to the party that Is now-
repenting In sackcloth and ashes the elec
tion of Mr. Cleveland.
Importation of Ideas.
PhllnilelpMa Ledger.
Wa nre becoming liberal borrowers of
foreign Ideas. The Australian ballot has
been legalized by many states. The re
publican nnd democratic state conventions
of lln pnchusettr have recommended a trial
of the Swiss Initiative nnd referendum. The
same state Is seriously discussing the Nor
wegian liquor license system , and resolu
tions favoring It were unanimously adopted
at a mabs meeting In Springfield on Sutur-
duy.
. , llronklng Up the Tailing Tendency.
ClilcaRO Dispatch.
In Helena , JMont. , General Hogan , who
led the Commonweal nrmy which stole u
Northern liiclflc train nnd wns captured
two days later by United States regulars
nt Forsythe , was sentenced to six months
In lall. The Commonweal engineer , fireman
nnd forty captains nnd lleutenantH were
sent to Jail for 8xty | days each. This Is
the right sort of treatment for lawbreakers
and It should have u tendency to make the
iresent pastime Rf train stealing somewhat
ess popular. i .
Curing' ! * Chronlo ICvlI.
IMillatalpl'Ha Press.
This docking thL' siflarles of congressmen
'or nbsenco seems rather a small business ,
jut If persisted In nnd thoroughly done
t would do much to correct the evil of
chronlo absenteeism , , There nro very few
members who wo.uid.be indifferent to the
cutting down of tm lr salaries , nnd the
formal notice convt'ytil to their constituents
iy this process of Ihfllr tnnttcndunce at the
sessions of congreBsjund neglect of duty
would have a wbowspme effect. There nro
members of both , hpuso and Hennto who
Iraw salaries for which they return almost
no equivalent. Tney are chronic absentees
given over to pleasure or business other
than that wliloU'they tire paid to perform.
This Is n fraud onu in. wrong , nnd even if
locking salaries , fc Abandoned Homo other
dniHtlu remedy , fthould , be found for this
abuae. '
great
, ,
ornitit t. I.VD.S TJM.V ounn.
Lord Rnscbcry has not fulfilled the expec
tations of his friends In his leadership of
his party. He has been conspicuously lackIng -
Ing In dignity nnd seriousness. Succeeding
a statesman who wns always profoundly In
earnest and who never divested himself of
a marked statollncsa of manner In discuss
ing public questions , Lord Rosebery has dis
played a Jockeying and flippant habit In
dealing with factions and In meeting pplll-
Ical crises. Ho has made n series of speeches
on the vital question homo .rule , each ot
which lias produced a different effect and
two of which have required strained and
labored Interpretation. A prime minister
who startles the Lords one night with his
stark , naked candor , and then labors to
convince with flippant sophistries n hardheaded -
headed Scotch audience that he has been
generally misunderstood , Inspires distrust
and suspicion rather than confidence. Per
haps U Is the contrast between Mr. Glad
stone's stately dignity and Lord Roscbery's
jocular banter that places the present prime
minister at n disadvantage ; but ho has cer
tainly lowered the tone of Ilrltlsh politics
since he has been In ofllce. His speech at the
National Liberal club was below the high
level of English political leadership. It was
jaunty , light-hearted and not without dex
terity , but It was the speech of a prime
minister who regarded n political crisis as
something like a horse race that might be
won by a neck. Sir William Ilarcourt hat
appeared to much better advantage than
Lord Rosebery since Mr. Gladstone's retire
ment. Indeed , he has done so well that
many liberals no longer attempt to conceal
their regret that tlio succession did not
fall to him. When the government was
placed In minority on the opening debate on
the address It was through Sir William
Harcourt's brilliant tactics tlmt the situa
tion was transformed. HeJias led the homo
rule party In the Commons with consummate
skill , and the government's triumph In the
budget debate was mainly won by his strong
defense of his financial proposals. While
Lord Rosebery has been Imitating Lord Pal-
merston nnd Lord Beaconsfield. Sir William
Ilarcourt has taken Mr. Gladstone's place
as a government leader , capable of giving
sledgehammer blows and at tno same time
bent upon maintaining the dignity and deco
rum of English public life.
# *
Slgnor Francesco Palsserra , in his report
on the Italian war budget makes very In
teresting comparisons between the military
expenses of the principal nations. In case
of war Austria can arm 1,350,000 men , Ger
many , 1,890,000 , Franco 2,112,000 and Italy
1,010,000 that Is to say , Austria has 32,900
soldiers and sailors for ever/ million of In
habitants , and. In the same proportion , Ger
many has 38,600 , France 55,000 and Italy 32-
GOO. The value to civilization , or oven to the
national Interests of the different European
countries , of this enormous expense Is
problematical. The excuse always given
for It is that one nation must have big
armies In order to preserve Its autonomy
from. assaults by the others. Europe Is
called an armed camp and the present con
dition an armed peace. It would be nearer
truth to say that the nations are afflicted
with a military mania. If the matter were
less serious It might almost be called a fad.
Any of these warlike nations would be quite
as well prepared for war If It substituted
mere volunteer mllltla for Us armies and
saved its money. A full treasury Is a bet
ter protection than a drilled army with
weakened finances behind it. The Franco-
German war Is , of course , responsible for
this great spread of the military Idea. Ger
many demonstrated In that contest the ad
vantage of having an army ready to throw
Into an enemy's country Immediately on the
declaration of war. France was held to have
shown the folly of lack of adequate prepara
tion. Yet It was the weakness of govern-
ernment and lack of skill In the command
ers rather than the poor preparation of the
soldiers or Inferiority of weapons which cost
France her defeat. Success In war depends
on generalship more than anything else , and
great generals , like all other geniuses , arc
born , not made.
* *
It seems likely tha't fresh trouble Is brewIng -
Ing In France between the government nnd
the. , clericals In consequence of the law de
claring that all church accounts , Including
the receipts for the letting of chairs , must
bo audited by the prefects. The most recent
opposition to the edict comes from Mgr. Co-
ulllle , the archbishop of Lyons , who has
directed the church councils In his diocese
to prepare their accounts In the same man
ner as heretofore. For this Insubordination
the payment of his stipend has been sus
pended. The bishops themselves are not all
agreed upon the effects of this law. Some of
them think It harmless , or at least capable
of being made so by slight amendments , but
others strongly condemn It as an encroach
ment by the state on the province of the
church. The cabinet meanwhile has decided
to appeal to the council of state to annul
Archbishop Couillle's pastoral. M. Spuller
Is likewise to request all the bishops to in
form him of any pastoralstissued by them on
this question. As for the 1,100 church coun
cils , which , out of 40,000 , have refused to
obey the new law , the government threatens
them with dismissal. Each council consists
of the parish priest nnd the mayor , as cx-
offlclo members , and of a handful of- parish
ioners , some chosen by the bishop and
others by the prefect. It Is regarded as
peculiarly unfortunate that this source of
discord should have arisen Just at this time ,
when the moderate party , In church and
state , Is anxious for peace , and M. Spuller
has been preaching the "new spirit of mod
eration.
* * *
According to the reports published In the
Vienna newspapers , it seems that the recent
riots in Hungary , at Hod Mezo Vasarhely ,
were the outcome of a rather serious btato
of affairs. It seems that not alone In that
neighborhood , but throughout the whole dis
trict of Alsold , there Is widespread dlscon
tent among the agricultural population. They
are well organized under the leadership of
a former police agent named Kavacz , a man
of herculanean frame and intrepid character ,
who has secured great Influence over the
peasantry. The local society Is understood
to have 0 000 members , and Is affiliated with
the International social democratic party at
Buda-Pesth. The object of this local organi
zation Is said to bo redistribution of the
land among the people. At the festival , on
March 15 , In commemoration of the granting
of the constitution , Kavacz declared at a
public meeting that he and ills fellows
would join In the celebration , ns they were
lot Magyars and had no fatherland. Only
those who possessed something had a father-
and They themselves owned nothing , nnd
were accordingly International. It Is now
stated that the attack on the town hall was
nado for the purpose of rescu ng Kavaw.
According to an official report , half the
) ollco force made common cause with the
socialists and refused to obey orders , fho
eaders of the social democratic party In
lluda-Pesth strenuously deny all responsl.
illlty for the disturbances , for which , they
say the conduct of the local authorities was
chiefly to blame. The party , they say. re
pudiates all violence , and advocates legal
mil peaceable propoganda for the extension
of Its principles.
\Vhoro Tommy Wataou U At.
Kansas City Star.
Kx-Coiit'ressman Tom Watson of Georgia ,
-
vholVnow Presiding over the populist con-
volition of that state , declares that If the
domocruts hail followed out the principles
f the Chicago platform there would now
, e no southern populists. Watson Is about
? lKht for once , and many a congressman
vho uees retirement before him after next
ilarcli will Borrow-fully endorse his declaru-
lon.
Highest of all in Leavening Power Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
ABSOHJUTEDf PURE
WILL KEEP IT AT DES MOINES
United StnU s Pension Aecnry is Not t ) Ho
Htnmeil from There ,
WHAT JUDGE HAYES SAYS ABOUT IT
Cliiltim to tfnn * AMtirniirr * from tlio l'rr < t <
( lent tlmt the Locution Ulll Not llo
Cliiingod anil tlmt mi limit
Will Ho Mnilu
WASHINGTON UUUKAU 01- ' Till : linn.
1107 F Street , N. W.
WASHINGTON , May 18.
JuilRO llnycs of IMvcriport , the only demo
cratic member of coiiRress from Iowa , nr-
rlvcil hero this morning. lie says : "I called
on the president In company vlth Toho Cns-
tor of Nebraska mid National Cummlttce-
man Richardson of Iowa about two weeks
ago and the matter of the petition agency
was laid beforu the president. Mr. Klclmnl-
BOH and myself were Informed by the presi
dent that ho was not ready to make an
'
appointment yet , and that ho Is not entirely
satisfied that Mr. llrlce Is the proper man to
appoint. He Rave Mr. Castor to understand
positively that ho had no Intention of
removing the pension agency from es
Molnes to Omaha , and I do not think Mr.
Castor had any foundation for the belief nor
any warrant whatever for sending word to
Nebraska that the president was Inclined
to change the location of the pension agency
I am perfectly confident that an Iowa man will
be appointed In a very short Unitnnd that
llio agency will remain where It Is at Ues
Mollies. National Commlttceman Richardson
Is expected hero , anil I presume ho will
arrive not later than Sunday evening , and
we will liavu an opportunity to sue the pres
ident upon this subject some d.iy next week.
There Is not n shadow of doubt In my mind
that the pension agency will remain at Des
Molnes. "
"I have no news , and am making no no\\s ,
nor la anybody making news at this end of
the capital , " said Senator Allen this after
noon. "I am an Interested on-looker hero ,
trying with Christian fortitude nnd patience
to await the slow nnd tedious process of
'getting together , ' in which my democratic
friends are engaged. It seems to me that
It Is almost Impossible for them to agree
upon a tariff bill ; certainly they are not
making progress In the formation of a bill
Which Is In accord with the pledges given
In their national platform In. ISO. . I hope
that they will bo able to accomplish some
thing , no matter what , for they canijot get
the country Into much worse condition than
it Is now. "
Second Lieutenant William J. H. Home of
the Ninth cavalry at Fort Hob In -
son , Nob. , Is transferred from troop
H to troop F nnd Second Lieu
tenant Law son M. Fuller , also of the
Ninth cavalry , Is transferred from troop F
to troop II.
Representative Bryan , In reply to an In
vitation from the house committee on Inter
state and foreign commerce , will , next Fri
day morning , apepar before that committee
in the Interest of his bill to amend the act
to Incorporate the Maritime Canal company
of Nicaragua.
N. S. Harwood of Lincoln and Dan W.
Cook of Beatrice arc in Washington for a
few days.
Secretary Morton has recommended a re
duction of ? 30,000 In the appropriation for
the distribution of seeds under the agricul
ture bill. An amendment has been offered
by Representative Plckler making the ap
propriation $160,000 , which is exactly the
amount appropriated last year , and this
amendment was adopted.
B. F. Douglas has been appointed post
master at Dysart , Tnma county , la. , vice
Joseph Ferron , removed.
The scnato committee on agriculture has
requested the secretary of agriculture and
the secretary of the treasury to give their
official opinions concerning the ndvlslblllty
of the passage of the Manderson bill to
amend an act to define butter and Imposing
a tax upon nnd regulating the manufacture ,
sale , Importation and exportation of oleo-
margerlne. _
teil the Floor.
Kansas City Journal.
A sensation was created In congress on
Monday by a crank attempting to address
HIP bouse from the gallery. Cranks nre
only permitted to address the house from
the floor.
JlK.tL AX1 > irtKAL.
Madeline S. Hrldups In New Yoik Advertiser.
I took my worshiped one to see
"C.unllle" the piny that so attracts
Intending , incidentally ,
To breathe my love between the nets.
But from the moment Armand stepped
Upon the stage , her earnest eyes
Their yearning gaze upon him kept
With fin live tears and stifled sighs.
And each time that the drop scene dropped
Until It rose again , her talk
Was nil of him ; she never stopped
About his smile , his voice , his walk.
Camllle , she thought , might prettier be ,
Hut he was splendid , noble , great.
"Oh. I could love him ! " This to me ,
Who trembled for my own sad fate.
Strange ! That the mimic lover , tried
And tortured thus iihouli ] give her pain ,
While the ical lover , at her side ,
Ignored and silent , chewed his cane.
Tlllt SVNtAl' 1IKK.
Among tlto loading features of The SUndur
llee will bo :
"Lourdes. " the llirlllliiR story by M. Eola ,
the preceding chapters of which have so licM
Iho Interest of the readers of The Hoc.
Carpenter's letter from China , telling of
the financial system of the Celestial empire ,
which dates back a couple of thousand
years before the Christian era. A few
mmlnt and pleasing customs nro detailed ,
such as beheading n bankrupt.
"Heredity and 1'olltlo.i. " by 1'rof. David
Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford university ,
dealing with the chronic pauper nnd crimi
nal , and briefly touching on the problem aa
It presents Itself to the political economist.
"Tales of the Wartime , " relntliiR the
terrifying experience of some of the hoys In
blue , nnd revealing why Meado's division
was not supported nt Frcderlcksbiirg.
A review of the biennial gathering of the
women's clubs at Philadelphia , together with
many mutters of peculiar Interest to the
feminine reader.
History of the first newspaper over
printed In Nebraska , nnd what the editor
said In his first edition.
The society page will contain a faithful
chronicle of doings In the smart world ; the
sporting department will treat of all timely
topics and recent events , \\hllo the secret
societies and musical societies will nnd
adequate representation.
Tin- reputation of The Dee as n newspaper
will bo fully sustained by the Sunday Issue.
Special cablegrams from the principal
European news renters ; full Associated
press service by leased wire , covering the
entire continent ; bpcclal telegrams from all
points In The DCO'H territory , Washington ,
Chicago and St. Louis ; complete local news
reports , Including the most reliable nnd com
prehensive market reports published west of
Chicago. In fact , the news of the world la
contained In The Sunday Dec.
rti'Ki.tun
Lowell Courier : A dllllcult place to keep
one's balance nt the bank.
Detroit Tribune : A Friend I hear your
son Is Rowing his wild oats.
Mr. Way back Dinned If the farmer In
him ain't bound to show.
Cleveland 1'laln Denier : Husband Why ,
woman couldn't go to the polls without an
escort. '
Wife And man can't come away without
two.
Indianapolis Journal : Caltoc Women
have mighty queer ways , don't you think.
Uncle SI ?
Uncle SI I kaln't say thet I know much
about women. I only been married four
times.
THE ONE THING REQUIRED.
New York Hun.
You say you do not love mo , dear. I
know this must be true ,
But you need not give back the heart that
I once gave to you.
No , not the heart , but I would like to get
the other things ;
I'd like to get that silver back , also thosn
diamond rings ,
For I can get along without the heart ; yes ,
dear , that's true ,
But , oh ! for nil the hard-earned wealth thai
I blew In on you !
KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort nnd improvement nntj
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. TJio ninny wlio live bet
ter than others and enjoy Jife more , with
less expenditure , by more promptly
tui.ipthic the world's best products to
the needs of physical being , will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles cmbiaccd in the
remedy , Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to Us presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste , the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of n perfect lax-
fltive ; effectually cieansing the system ,
dispelling colds , headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession , because it acts on the Kid
neys , Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance. ; i V
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug I
gists in HOC and $1 bottles , but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only , whoso name is printed on every
package , also the name , Syrup of Figs ,
and being well jnfonr.ed , you will not
accept nny substitute if oflercd.
ff
GO.
Tliu l.lrgoHt nmlciTS and Bollori oC
Uno clothes on uartli ,
Your mouoy'fl worth or your money h.to'c.
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The Summer Suit.
The weather may be against us for a day , but
don't ' forgot that in the
midst of winter , we
may be in summer
and you don't want to
bo caught without the
latest style , long * out ,
sack or cutaway suit
The correct styles , the
best material , the per
fect fit , these are as absolutely certain adjuncts to our
suits as the buttons , You got a tailor-mado suitof us
that costs no more than inferior goods elsewhere
Wo don't make so much profit , but wo sell more
than anybody. Prices range from $10 up.
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