the corn r BR
:
111 the world. M. liloch. .says (hat the
African war has demonstrated nothing
except the abandonment of the close
formation of troops anil the superiority
of marksmanship and a knowledge of
the topography of the battletlelil over
mere numbers.
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Lincoln
Thf composition of the next council
is a momentous matter. Why not
nominate men who have some stake in
the city? All the taxes paid by the
present councilmen amount to an in
significant sum. Two contemporary
councilmen wen- obliged to purchase
lots in the wards they represent before
they could take their places as mem
bers of the city council. A dollar or
two changed hands. The transfer was
made in order to comply with the law
that each councilman shall hold real
estate in the ward he represents. As
at present constituted some of the
councilmen are engaged in an organ
ized attempt to make their positions
pay. The pirates who Killed the seas
ran up a black Hag with a skull and
ci oss-bones painted on it. Before they
boarded a merchantman they ran up
the traditional pennant of plunder.
Kvery Tuesday morning The Journal
prints the doings of the council meet
ings held on Monday night. Kvery
citizen who reads the report sees again
the black Hag and the horribly grin
ning skull and cross-bones. The same
old crew of Portuguese and Malays are
pieparing to ship for another cruise in
the ship in which we are only passen
gers and have not a word to say. With
their knives in their teeth they are ad
vancing and they'll set us adrift on a
raf with a bottle of water because
there is no one in particular to get the
passengers together and concentrate
their overwhelming strength against
the pirates.
Mr. M. Weil of the Fouith ward is
mentioned to take the place of Mr.
Hacon who, as chairman of the claims
committee, signed a claim made by his
son for $73.00 for ten days' clerical
work. The change would be a ver
grateful one both to the Fourth ward
anil to the city. Mr. Weil is a busi
ness man of demonstrated probity and
ability. There are other men in the
city whom everyone respects who
knows an honest man from a robber.
There is Mr. II. Wittmann of the sec
ond ward, a man of patience, courage,
foresight and unimpeachable integrity.
As councilman he would be taking the
lii st step to the mayoralty, an otlice
which, judging by the activity in coun
cil matteis of a defeated politician, has
again excited his cupidity.
Mr. Wittmann has lived in this cit
for more than twenty-five years. He
belongs to the few men who accept
without question the conditions of life
as clever players accept the rules of a
game, play it and win. Lincoln men
could, if they cared enough about it.
put men like this one in the council.
They care about it spasmodic
ally: when they are reading
the reports of the city council
meetings; when they go to their
work in the morning and find raihoad
t nicks in the middle of a. down town
street and learn that the people's prop
erty has been given away without af
fording them an opportunity to object:
when they pay their taxes, which are
in many instances, about a third larger
than they were last year, and on other
occasions that demonstrate we are a
badly governed, a plundered people.
Kvery ward in the city has a large
proportion of respectable residents.
Itobbers aie an insignificant minority.
In every ward there are a few men
with a liking for politics and office,
any one of whom would represent his
ward with distinction. Yet only a few
of this latter type have eluded the vig
ilance of the minority who are in poli
tics for plunder and are now doing
their best to save the city from the at
tacks of the most unscrupulous crew
that ever attempted to divert taxes
fiom the treasury to their own and
their sons' pockets.
"Just before Christmas I am as good
as good can be." This refrain of the
had little boy's monotonous (limit just
befoie the season when he expects his
if la lives to present him with the
things he longs for. Is recalled bj the
promise of the councihnen just befoie
election "to deal with business mat
ters in a business way. ' Ity their own
confession six or seven members of the
council have, since their election, voted
on matters concerning the welfare of
the city according to the dictates of
petty spite against the mayor, and
without considering the interests of the
city. One of the councilman said in
speaking of their corporate change "f
heart. "The council gang has been
dissolved and business will be done on
business principles hereafter." Oh,
people of I.im olu. be not deceived ill
regard to the character of the present
council! Their conduct just befoiv
election is not typical. It will not de
ceive the people who read the papers.
There are agiicultui ists who still buy
gold bricks and bri k blocks when tliey
go to the metropolis, but most lesi
dents of Imcaster county. Nebraska,
take a weekly paper ami a wry large
proportion take a daily.
safety of the I'liiliil Stalls Tin sanu
oiiHidc i.ttious which led to the war
with Spain now ieiiiie that a com
mercial arrangement be made undcr
whltii Cuba can live.'
I'lesideut Koo.-evelt said 111 his mes
sage to ongress "I most earnestly
ask your attention to the wlsdim. In
deed to the vital need of piovidiug for
a substantial reduction in the tariff
duties on Cuban imports Into the Cult
ed States. Ctfba lias in her ituistitu
tion alliriiled what we desiled, that she
should stand in international matteis.
in closer and more fiieudly relations
with us than with any other powei .
and we me bound by every consideia
tion of honor and expediency to pass
commercial measures in the luteiest of
her material well-being." President
McKinlej's last message to America
said the same thing in the simple,
stlong words of the address delivered
at lEuffalo a few moments before he
was assassinated.
It really looks as though the tnai hi
nations of the politii ians in collusion
with the beet-sugar innmifai tuicrs .ire
r
WILL THE KING FORGIVE AND FORGET?
Miy'--.-mrML iiiP11 i1 Wl ' ' I 'I I ' 1
mzmgm
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Is King Kdward willing to eradii .itt
kingly ow once made that a Wttmoi.
dining his lifetime? This is the interesting i -tmii ft i
gossips of Kngland and this tountiy Tin ippon tin m ..f
more, whose mother was the cause of the king- vu
the United States special coronation emb.is-s. ni .mm ...
esting point.
1 for. t hi-
I II ' 'Milt
gl itlllg the
tiling Wit-
lll'-lllller of
t'ii inter-
Cubin Sugar
With Cuban sugar admitted liee beet
sugar would still make thirty per cent
clear profit. The recently published
correspondence between Messrs. Cut
ting and Oxnaid shows this. The 0
nard company has been used to making
so much mote than this that the pros
pect of free sugar frightens them. Mr.
Oxnard has suggested a bounty to Cu
ban sugar-growers of one cent a pound
on their product exported to this coun
try. The total of such a bounty, tak
ing as a basis the amount of sugai
exported from Cuba to this country ami
its natural increase if the tax were re
moved, would amount to $G,.".00,000 and
JT.oOO.OOO annually. Mr. Oxnard's pat
riotism is indicated by this proposi
tion. He would aid his own industry
by presenting public moneys to a for
eign people. That is, he wishes to make
liis countrymen pay more for sugar
and $7,500,000 besides.
Secretary Hoofs report reminds con
gross that "the peace of Cuba is neces
sary to the peace of the I'nited States
the health of Cuba is necessary to tin
health of the United States, the in
dependent e ot Cuba IS necessaiv o I hi
stiung i nougn to defeat a national
sense of what is light and honorable
.piesel b men whom the countrv
trusts. The sugar beet glowers in .Ve
biaska are oppo.-cd to the 0narl
methods and hae asked for a repeal ot
the duties on Cuban sugar.
Coventor Central Wood In the In
dependent refers to the practical bene
fits that the prosperity and health of
Cuba will confer upon the United
States. The obligations to do justii c
to Cuba are not all sentimental. The
General declare that the present
taiiff will cause the failure of Cuba's
two chief industries sugar and ti
bacio raising and this will result in
ruin and disorder. A bankrupt people
are of no benefit to anyone. Unless
I'ubnn sugar and tobacco me ad
mitted free the commercial condition
of Cuba will be worse than before we
"intervened" to protect the Cubans
from the cruelty and rapacity of
Spam.
Tin- is-.uh in s(ju..nl before tin- peo
ple of this country Will tin ke.-p
their word to Cuba or let Mi Oxnirl
dictate the pollcj of this counfrv in-1
thereby disgr.Kt us imong r .Moo-
rum out n. thi...i ,n, i . . .
upioot tin tn s.mii.ii). ni i,i
civil institutions will. It men tike ;. i,
eral Wood mid t'otiiiiel Waring ha.
established there
Cuba's 1 million import .ili.nn
$70.0to,0oo woith every ir. Cn.i.il
Wood thinks that Culm can easily sup
port twelve million persons who won 1. 1
but several hundred million dollars
worth of goods abioad every ear As
the United States In the nearest Kieit
market most of the Hiipplte would l
bought In this count!-). A llbei.il
recipiocity policy will Invite Cub.ui
customers, with c lose. I pmtH our invi
tat Ion Is a mm kery and our promises
false.
The editoi of the K.in.san City St ir
asks if Mr. Oxinird, on behalf of tin
sugar InteicHta Is to be allowed to ex
pose the southern states to yellow
fever anil to prevent the development
of a gieat market on our sontli.in
coast? If the United State govern
uieiil dare not offend this autoti.ti.
perhaps It could tompiumUtc with
him. Possibly he would pell his light
to dictate for a lew million in a lump
sum. It would be cheaper for tln
I'nited States to buy up his claims f.o
.isli than tn allow him to ruin c'libi.
it. -v
A New Broom
I list i lit Attorney .lei nine i imp.i
tient at the slowness of Institutions
once effective, but now SO hedged
about by usage, precedent and tr.idl
lion that they do not fulfill the func
tions they were created to perform
The oi oner's olllce in all I ties of tin
iiuintiy needs rejuvenating, readjust
mg. tuning, originally. like an iww
institutions created in response to .1
need, it worked perfectly. It has grown
to be an old machine and for aiding
the ipiii k apprehension of a murderer
is almost useless. I5y the time the
loioner gett around to investigate .1
homicide the murderer Is fully warm I
and has fled or has concealed his trail.
Theiefore the New York .Ilstm ; .it
torney has organized a "Itoiiih nb
bureau." If the coroner and his Jur
were adjusted to their modern dutie
theie would be no need of the "Iniini
.id.- buieau." but it ih a long, tap
nddeti. circuitous route from a muidet
to tin- coroner's inquest. All police st 1
Mons of New York have directions t
telephone th luirticulars of every iiiur
der .is soon as reported to the "hoim
nle hmeau" anil as scin as the new -
oiin s in a member of lite new cbpiri
men 1 goes to the scene of the inurd- 1
with .1 1 imir.1 and a note book, lb
examines witnesses and collects all tt
information the coroner is supposed to.
hut does not.
An institution which serves Its pur
pose when llrst organized in the course
of time loses its relation to the events
it was meant to i ontrol Time mov.
and criminals itackty adjust them
selves to a nvv institution, but tl
latter is fixed and remains stntion.irv
while time Hows over it leaving a de
posit of mud. rust and debris of all
kinds that clog its . tinn. In tin
Middle Ages one order of beggim;
friars after another was organize!
The friars grew ric h fiom donations "i
the rich, built monasteries, laid in .1
n-iUtr of rare wines, grew to be ahboi
with larger income than their king an I
worst of all they grew away from tin
people. Then another order would
organized, and when that. In turn
grew rich, another. It is so with tin
'homicide bureau." Its functions at
exactly those which the coroner an I
his assistants were organized to j 1
form. Time has rusted the curom -. -joints
and obscured his ideas of tin
real functions pertaining to his olli.
Time will do the same for the "lunin
c-ide bureau." But in the meantim
and at the beginning the bureau rn..
sesses the energy and zeal of ne Iv
organized and mu Ii-neenVl Instn
tlons.
Wireless Telegraphy
Signor Maiii.1.1. who v, ), , .- .
1. 1. cit in .i. - ft-in Kiir" ind bv
111. .!!- V 1 ll 1 - I II II.
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