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OBSERVATIONS.
In the short time that he has been
at work, Mr. McArthur Iiasftilly justi
fied liis appointment as water inspec
tor. Ills report made to the council
last Monday evening presents the re
sults of an inspection of the south
side of O street from the viaduct to
thirty-second street and includes the
Lindell hotel. The most startling
item of the report concerns the Brace
building which has not paid any
water rent since Octolier lS!o. Water
commissioner Byers' register shows
that although there is a meter in the
Brace building, no one has inspected
it since he assumed the office. Mr.
McArthur found that the meter had
been moved from the st where it
liad originally l)een located by an of
ficial of the water department, into a
place almost inaccessible under the
elevator. It has proliably been dead for
many months. "When Mr. McArthur
shut off the water mains he found that
water only flowed from the faucets ou
the first floor. When the city water
was turned on it was a few moments
before the water reached the fifth
story. Of course if the water had
come from a reservoir in the roof the
faucets on the fifth story would have
leen the first to respond.
Such immunities, secured by un
scrupulous rich men. from a tax
whicn is supposed to be shared by all
is what makes a man a socialist and if
he is not careful he becomes what the
ultra conservative calls, an anarchist.
Oppression of the whole community
u f ' ESTABLISHED IN 1936
LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, OCTOBER .. 1897.
by an outlaw who holds the com
munity up by cleverer and safer
means than foot jkhIs use should
bring the oppressed to the siipMirt of
the law instead of causing them to
cry out against the system. Now the
system that the iwople have evolved
through centuries of institutional
growth is all right. It is organic and
can not without danger be radically
changed. All the trouble is with the
men. whom year after year the voters
elect to see that the system is carried
out. Therefore the trouble is with the
community itself. The ring that has
so long Ieeii in control of the city of
Lincoln has brought it to a condition
where the many are made to bear the
burdens of the few and their own too.
lie who hath much has laid hi load
on the back of his neighorand by an
occasional gift to the neighborhood
lersuades him that the load is not so
heavy as it feels. The rate of assess
ment in the last four years has been
constantly increasing. Why? Is it
liecause as in the case of the Brace
block, certain landlords have Immmi en
abled by manipulating the mayor or
the heads of municiiKil departments
to have their taxes remitted or over
looked? Through these pinchingyears
of want the small holder of real es
tate in this town and county have
laid their tuxes with increasing dif
ficulty. The fire, school, police and
"administrative excuses of the city
remain the same but the individual
owner jkijs more and more. Why? Is
it as easy to get out of paying a tax
on re.'Il property as it is to elude the
water tax? AH those citizens whose
property has been sold for taxes in the
last three or four years or who have
paid them at the cost of privationsare
interested in these questions and
should encourage Mr. McArthur who
is fearlessly inspecting the revenues
of the deiKirtmeut to pay the ex
penses of which it has Iwen necessary
to raise the levy. When the citizens
of Lincoln once realize and confess
that the heavy taxation is due to the
boodling of the ring so long in con
trol, they will rise up and forget the
names they once answered to. they
will be no longer republicans or dem
ocrats, but citizens banded together
to protect their proiierty from hood
lers. The Slot machines are the primary
school of gambling which the most
resectable and worldly-wise resNt
with difficulty when away from
home. Yet the slot machine is pre
sented to the small 1mv on every
IM'uuut and candy stand in the city.
Tlie professional-gamblers do not ojh
ixise the slot machines for they ad
mit that it is educating "a clientele
from which in a few years they will
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reap a heuctlt. It is so easy to make
a little tree crooked. County Attorney
Munger says it is very difficult to get
rid of the machines. If the present
chy ordinance is hard to construe
against the slot machines, it is easy
enoiigh for the city council' to make
one esjiccialb formed to destroy this
IKirticularevil. Something ought to
Itedoue Itefore the potential states
men and philanthropists are all
turned gamblers and hangers on of
fortune's skirts.
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The Dingley bill is creating trouble
in more than one way. A letter from
a corresiHiiulant in Paris says:
"We drove morning and afternoon
and the great city was finer to me
than it had ever been lcfore. I had
no shopping to aloorb my time as
there is general cessation of that oe
ciiKitiou under the iernicious tariff. I
lxiught one gown which absorbed the
entire sum allowed me by the govern
ment. We all feel as if we were un
der an autocracy that limits our free
will and 1 hear curses loud and deep
against our legislation. Already the
governments on this side are plotting
counter restriction and already the
system is beginning to cut off com
merce with other nations. The AVip
York Evening Pout publishes daily
statistics of this falling off. Some
wise heads think that the policy tii'ust
le moderated owing to the pressure of
general indignation. It is mortifying
to me to feel ashamed of my country."'
The foregoing is written by a woman
of unusual acumen and knowledgeaud
her observations are worthy of atten
tion. The yellow fever scare is frighten
ing much business away from New
Orleans. Even those migratory
families who leave the north when
the mercury drops below zero navedej
cided not to go to any of the Gulf re
sorts this winter though they must
know that all fever germs are killed
by the first frost. 'ew Orleans, after
the first frost, is as free from yellow
Tever germs as the arctic regions.
Since Ben Butler's day no germs
have ever deveIojed there. The fever
is brought into the city from South
America by steamers insufficiently
quarantined. Of course when, once
started in that warm, moist climate,
the evil is done and an epidemic
rages of greater or less extent ac
cording to the strictness of the
quarantine and the sanitary condition
of the city at the lime of infection.
The feeling in the southern states
whose commerce has leen so greatly
damaged by this last attack of yellow
fever, is very strong against allowing
ships from fever infected ports to
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touch at any United States iort. The
sanitation in cities of islands in the
South Atlantic and in cities of South
America is very bad. American ports
should le strictly protected from these
places where ellow fever flourishes
the year around, where there is no
frost to destroy genus in ambush a
hundred years or more waiting for a
human animal, not inoculate by
climate in which to develop. There
are quarantine regulations but that
they are not strict enough is indicated
by the present epidemic.
Mr. Thomas Doane, who died last
Friday at West Towiishend. Vermont
was known in Nebraska ast he founder
of Doane college. In the east his
fame was established by the construc
tion of the Hoosac tunnel of which he
was chief engineer. As a civil en
gineer Mr. Donne's reputation was
among the lirst in this country. His
work will live long after this genera
tion is dust. He built the first line of
Burlington track into Nebraska. After
the fire in Boston lie straightened the
streets which was perliajw a greater
feat than loring into opiosite ends of
the Hoosac mountain and meeting in
the center with a variation of only a
quarter of an inch in the alignment.
Mr. Doane was a fervent member of
the Congregational church, and a life
long believer in Christian education.
It was largely by his iiiflucnjte
that Doane college was established at
Crete where Mr. Doane then lived.
Every year at commencement; time,
lie was present at the exercises.
In appearance and character he
was theereet uncompromising I'uritiin
of colonial history, with the puritan's
sternness modified by a sunny, warm
hearted nature which made bin the
center of a large group of friends and
relatives.
An unprejudiced onlooker at the
football games at the university feels
nothing hutadmiratinii for the splen
did young fellows who meet each other
in shocks which would loosen the
tendons of an ordinary human leiug.
They are fearless, eager and very
seldom unfair, they cast themselves
on the ground between touch downs,
with an abandon, an unconsciousness
that the ground is made of dirt that
heljis the spectator to get rid of any
over fastidiousness that has been
accumulating since the time when
he was but a handful of dust himself.
The game requires, courage, brawn, a
quick eye and a quick wit. Fatalities
sometimes occur, but considering the
utimlcrof games and the twenty-two
plavers engaged in each one. foot ball
lias very few victims. The Wesleyan
and State university teams are sam
ples of young Nebraska manhood, that
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