Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-29

titlOn has made rdu'CaHsin lTTesista
bic. The farmers cannot live agar st
your exports under entail and pri-
mongeniture,
THEY MUST HAVE FREE TRADE IN LAND,
or ten years hence they will be as ex-
tinct as the archew of Crecy. Under
the present land laws estates are tied
up in one family, improvements are
in many cases impossible, jointures
have to be paid to horde of heirs
out of the annnal rent, and purchase
and sale, when permissible, are ham
pered by costly forms and processes.
The occupier, in short, has to carry
on his back the owner, the owners
kin. the middle men, and the agent,
and, unless he can throw of this load
and become his own landlord, it Is
manifestly impossible for him to face
his transatlantic competitor.
CYPRUS.
Mr.. Gladstone is bent on surren.
dering Cyprus. That island is all
that remains of what Mr.. Bright
called the "ill-gotten gains of jinpo
Ism.
THE ABANDONMENT OF CYrRUs
has to all intents and purposes been
decided on. The premier, however,
is afraid to blurt out the announce
ment, and so he and his colleaoues
and the liberal papers are preparing
the public mind for the news by dilat.
ing on the unhealthiness of the eli.
mate, the uselessness of the only har.
Dor on the island, and the incurable
bankruptcy of the treasury. Minis
terial journals are out suggesting that
if Greece don't want it, it had better
be given back to the Turks from whom
it was filched. If no unfavorable re.
sponse comes from the people land
they are so much taken up just now
with home affairs that they have
neither time nor inclination to attend
to foreign matters), Cyprus will be re-
stored to the porte before the end of
the year, and the last shred of impe-
rialism cast away.
THE AMERICAN DEBT.
The Economist to-day tells the
American people that they ought to
suspend their efforts to reduce the
national debt, and abolish the exces.
sive import duties which restrict
foreign commerce. Other journals
,regretfully admit the battle of free
trade has to be fought over again in
England, and all conclude that the
retaliation movement is destined to
become powerful factor in British
politics, if not to be the leading ques-
ton of the day, before long. 1t is
more than likely that the government
will be compelled to increase the duty
on French wines. The present duty
works unjustly against the English
distillers, and the imposition of a
heavier duty would be both retaliation
against the foreign, and fair-play to a
home industry that has suffered
grievously for some years past.
Stories continue to be circulated in
the leading papers of
DEFICIENT GRAIN CROPS
and an approaching war of rates in the
United States These "bear" opera
tions have again caused depreciation
in prices and discouraged the general
public from touching American secur-
tiles. Herapath's Journal asserts
that Vanderbilt Is at the bottom of
this movement, and tells him that he
can hardly expect to retain the large
share of business his line has so long
done, and that he ought to agree to
divide competitive traffic rather than
bring on destructive war of tariffs.
In well informed circles in the city it
is not believed that Mr.. Van
derbilt originated the ''bear''
campaign. The entire plan is attrib-
.uted to Mr.. keene, who is said to have
lost heavily on Erie, and to be anxious
to recover by depressing prices. He
is alleged to have been operating
against. Erie while acting as director
of that road, and to have
sTRIvEN TO INFLICr LOSS
upon those who put him in fiduciary
position. 1t is also suspected that he
has prompted attacks which appear in
some quarters upon MIR. Vanderbilt.
Mr.. Keene's name is not much known
thus far in the city, but the more it is
heard of the less it is liked. 1t will
take considerable time to undo the
mischief created by his systematic
efforts to destroy public confidence il
American investments
THE TUNNEL BETWEEN DOVER AMI
CALAIS.
1t was announced the other day
that the experimental borings for the
tunnel between Dover and Calais hat
turned out very successful, but ex
ports say the scheme is a visionar!
one, and eminent engineers laugh a
what they consider wild freak o
imagination on the part of Sir Edwart
William Watkin. They want to know
how the debris is to be removed ant
ventilation secure for the workmen
1t would be. absolutely impossible t,
work trains enough through such
tunnel to make it pay unless enor
nous passenger and freight rates wer
charged. Sir Edwards estimate tina
the seven-foot drift-way cal
be completed in FIVE years i
ridiculed as gross absurdity. TIL
whole affair is probably meant as a
attempt TO raise the wind for tn
Southern railway, of which Sir Ed
ward is chairman,
| An. THE OLD MAN CONSENTS.
| A rumor, says that Count Herbei
Bismarck has at last obtained the cor
sent of his parents to his marriag
with the. Countess Caroloth, who,
will be remembered, eloped with hin
a few months ago to Italy, and ha
since been legally divorced from he
husband. In such q case Count Hel
bert would probably have 10 leay
Berlin for some time with his wifi,
and he would then apply for some fol
eign embassy, and il is already asser