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Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22
Tax Dodging.


Denver Tribune.
The press of the country is alto
gether too tender on tax lodging. 1t
is in pure essence a species Of evasion
but little above grand larceny in the
moral scale. The plea that it is all
but universally practiced has some
weight in excusing those who would be
willing to pay their full share of taxes
provided their less scrupulous neigh
bors were compelled to pay up. But
after all the plea is a weak one and
unworthy of true citizens. Because
our neighbors dodge just debts is a
reason for exposing their lodges, but
is no sufficient pretext for going and
doing as they do.
Many honest poor men believe, with
o feeling of bitterness, that one Of the
ways to get rich is to learn to swear
lies to the assessor. The money thus
saved, if put at compound interest or
shrewdly invested, accumulates rapid
ly and in the course of ten or fifteen
years may made a man rich, who
otherwise would only be worth a few
thousands. 1t has almost come to be
the rule to condone this sort of NOR
ganatic perjury, and to wink at the
shrewdness of the citizen guilty of it
instead of insisting with earnestness
that he be exposed and punished.
And it is one OF the worst signs for
the future that the toiling masses are
coming to the conviction that there is
one kind of taxation for the poor and
another for the rich.
Every business man knows that it is
a favorite trick of rich men to have
their bank turn their money into ex-
empt government bonds the day be-
tore they make their return, and to
convert the bonds back into money
the day after this dishonorable dodge
is contaminated. This is as bad as
swearing that ones property is worth
only one-tenth its actual value. The
very men guilty of this proceeding
when taxed with asking usurous
interest upon the money they lend
invariably respond that they have to
pay four per cent. of that interest in
taxes. If pushed, they point to the
law thus taxing money. But in near
ly every case they here perpetrate a
deliberate falsehood. They make no
return of their money and pay no
taxes upon it. All the interests they
receive is clean gain.
All talk about curing this evil by
changing the tax laws is simply so
much quackery. There is but one
genuine remedy for this and kindred
symptoms of moral decay. 1t lies in
cnltivating a healthy police sentiment
which is not afraid to force the richest
man to do his duty. This thing of
counting and covering and toadying to
wealth must be fought, stem step,
everywhere and all the time, by those
at the helm of public opinion, whose
duty it is to resist the encroachments
of shoddy corruption.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

Rulers may die-the law never. a
wisely balanced constitution, an ably
constituted government and a patri-
otto and law-abiding people would
hasten to fill the gap. A new presi-
dent woulo step into the White
House, and with the chart of an over.
towering public sentiment by which
TO mark his service, n government OF
the people and for the people and by
the people would still continue its
great work without anarchy and with.
out disturbance.
President Garfield's death would ele.
vate to the presidency Vice President
Arthur. 1t is safe to say that the
change would be received to-day with
less bitterness than six weeks ago.
The course which he has consistently
pursued since the great calamity has
bcgotten the confidence and ever the
respect Of the people. Should he be
called to the high position now occu.
pied by General Garfield he would be
sustained and encouraged by the best
wiihes of the entire nation. With
every incentive to follow in the steps Of
his predecessor and maintain a public
policy which has been acceptable to
the nation there is every reason to
trust he would fulfil the expectations
which his dignifed and manly course
have raised in the minds of the PEG.
pie. II President Garfield should die,
which God forbid, there is every rca'
son why, in the midst of the univer.
sal sorrows and mourning which the
event would create, there should YET
be a strong trust in the stability of oui
institutions and the adequacy of ouI
national security.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

There are 5S5 Chinese children in the
San Francisco public schools.
An endeavor to abolish the German
language in the Louisville high schools has
just failed.
At Greenock, Scotland, the school board
has just prepared a series of eight swim
ming lessons for the school children-for
girls as well as boys.
In the primary schools of Lancaster,
Penn, writing has been introduced in the
first and second divisions, geography is
used as a reading book and oral instruction
is given.
Thomas A. Edison has found 1t necessa-
ny to establish a training school In New
York for his men, in which they can be ed
ucated in the elementary principles of
wiring buildings for the electric light.
Gen. ID. II. Hill. who was one of Lees
division commanders, is now president of
the Arkansas University. The school has
40 students and General Hill makes a
popular executive.
Mrs. Edwards, of the Carnaervon
school of navigation, England. has re.
oeiyed seventy. five pounds from the royal
bounty and special service fund. She has
taught navigation to hundreds of mates
now In the British merchant service.
The study of American classics, or
model selections from fayorite American
authors, both in prose and poetry, was in.
troduced as a half time study during the
last term of the Milwaukee high school
and was pursued with enthusiasm and sue
Cess.
The Prussian universities conferred last
year 566 doctors degrees, twenty-nine of
these being honorary. There were l2,2 l0
students in the eleven Prussian universe
ties last year. Philosophy claimed the
largest number, The total number OF
teachers was 94S.
1t is officially stated that the prepare
tory schools in this country teach eheiais-
try and physics to the same extent as the
colleges, and in essentially the same way.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22
Public Notice.
OMAHA. August 20, 1881

.oMAhA, hu5uSV w iooi'
To the Dealers in spirituous and Malt Liquors
in the City of Omaha:
The undersigned, having been re-
quested to act as a committee ''to Sc
cure by the use of all honorable means
the enforcement of the state and
municipal laws regulating the sale of
Intoxicating liquors in this city," and
having accepted said trust, would
urge upon you, as fellow citizens, a
compliance with the so-called "Slo-
cumb law" at any rate that you cease
putting yourselves in open opposition
and defiance of said law.
VIZ ask you in all kindness, can you
maintain yourselves for any length of
time in open opposition to the law of
the land2 In deciding this question
can law abiding citizens and lovers of
good order hesitatel
VIZ are not strangers to the fact
that among the means to evade the
law it is suggested that grand %juries
will fail to indict and traverse juries
refuse to convict. We feel authorized
to give the assurance that no such tri-
fling with law, with justice and de.
cency will ever be tolerated in the
court oyer which James w. Savage
presides. 1t must be a desperate case
where crime would seek immunity
from punishment through perjury in
the jury-box. Be admonished not to
add this to the other offense. of setting
a known law at defiance.
Let US, therefore, urge upon you,
notwithstanding the law may work
some hardship in your a~cquiesence
therein, that you observe the same
and thus avoid the strife and bitter
ness that is liable to follow your per-
sistent resistance thereof.
A request from you Will secure the
passage by the city council of the or
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22
THE MAYORS EDlCT
70 Close Up the Saloons on
Sunday Partially Obeyed.
Front Doors Were Kept Wide
Open in Some Cases.

The city marshal on Saturday night
informed the different saloon-keepers
that they would have to close up
promptly at IL o'clock, and that they
would also be obliged to keep their
places closed during Sunday. This
measure on the part of the marshal is
not under the Slocumb law, necessa-
rily, as there already is a city ordi-
nance for the closing of saloons on
Sunday. The marshal's mandate was
pretty generally observed yesterday,
and the old topers were very wrathy
thereat. A few saloons, however,
kent wide open doors, and seemed to
make no pretense at closing. These
were very soon located by such as
were disposed to indulge, and the re-
suit was that all who kept open did a
rushing business. All of them made
more than enough to pay the
fine that might be imposed.
Many other places were accessible
through the rear doors and there con-
gregated the old "soakers" in the
greatest delight. In a conversation
with one of the aforesaid topers he
said that he deemed it as very great
infringement on the personal rights
nf on Individual not IN ha oil, - .-l
his regular liquid "rations." He
said the town would be sure to 90 to
the "demnition bow-wows" if the
law was not repealed Immediately.
He took an enlarged view of the sit
uation and talked much on the consti-
tutionality of the law. To hear him
n would think that he had made
the law an especial study for years.
He quoted the constitution with rela-
ton to private rights and put hypo-
thetical cases from which he drew de-
ductlons quite unanswerable. 1t was
suggested to him that the best way to
have the law repealed and regain his
private immunitles was to follow Gen.
Grants advice with regard to bad
iaWo CiiioISC tiicHt SlTlCtly u1Ull the
authorities saw the injustice of them.
He said that might be all right, but
he wanted to know how the citizens
were going to get their toddy in the
meantime. He could not be persuad-
ed that the Slocumb law would allow
him to drink at all, and any way it
did away with treating, and that
would work the greatest injury to
him, for therein had been his chief
means of obtaining drink. Finding
him irreconcilable to the change that
had been wrought, he was left to pom.
der upon the numerous wrongs the
temperance people had put upon him.
Saturday night there was a great deal
of drunkenness noticeable upon the
streets. 1t appeared that many were
filling themselves in anticipation of
the drought that would prevail yester-
day. In many instances they were
successful, as their staggering forms
plainly showed.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

The New York World wants the
democracy of the Empire State to
throw overheard John Kelley. John
will refuse to be the Jonah of the
hide-bound bourbons, even with the
chances of being swallowed by the re.
publican whale.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

We are told that the keepers of sa-
looms in this city, who, ia defiance of
the law, continue the traffic in liquor,
threaten, if they are prosecuted for
violating the law, to retaliate by car
cying the war into Africa, and filing
complaints against temperance
men and pious frauds who rent
houses to prostitutes and gamblers.
by all means let them proceed with
out delay. II some of our pinks of
piety make a living by renting houses
for dens Of vice and crime, let them
be hauled up before the courts ana
punished. The law is no respector of
persons or stations.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22
NO MORE

THE Lincoln & Fremont railroad re-
Gently incorporated, has organized by
electing a board of directors and these
in turn have elected q president, vice
president, treasurer and secretary. A
special from Lincoln to the st. Louis
Globe Democrat says:
II is understood that propositions
for aid will be submitted to a vote of
the people along the line within the
next week or ten days. and if the
company meets with the success it de-
serves in securing aid, work will be.
gin ON the road without delay.
There is the milk in the c%ocoanut.
A company has been organized TO
build a railroad from Lincoln to FIRE.
mont.
The company has raised money
enough to pay for the incorporation
papers a seal and a preliminary sur
vey. If the people in tho counties
and precincts through which this pro-.
posed road is to run, vote the
bonds to pay for building the road the
company will see to it that it is built
And when it is built, the con-
struc ton company will find a pur-
chaser in one of the trunk lines, for
which this road in due time will be-
come a branch, and when that trans
fer has been duly made "the COM
pany' will retire with a cool $780,
900 Or more in county or precinct
bonds in their breaches pocket. This
has been the true inwardness of every
branch road organized by enterpris-
ing citizens of Nebraska, whether
in Lincoln or in Omaha, and IL
is safe to predict that is to be the out
come of the Lincoln and Fremont
scheme if the people are foolish
enough to vote the bonds. We ex-
pect, of course TO hear from our Lin
coin contemporaries that The BEE is
al Omaha paper, and Omaha does not
want q road from Fremont to Lincoln.
This is all bosh. THE BEE is in favor
Of all the railroads that capitalists will
build in Nebraska with their own
money. If the men who organized
the Lincoln & Fremont road have the
means to build such a road and are
willing to risk their money in such an
enterprise, THE BEE will bid them
God speed. But when they at
tempt to build a railroad
upon capital that is to be raised by
mortgaging the farms and homes of
the people along the proposed line of
the road their project cannot be
commended. If, as they represent, this
projected read is to become n connect
ing link for the Chicago & Northwest
r railroad-that corporation is able
to build 1T - and will build it withot
aid from anybody, just as soon as they
think it will pay them to operate it.
Any man who will vote a mortgage on
his farm for the benefit of a
railroad construction company is a fool
and any man who will vote a mortgage
on the home of another man against
his will to put money in the pockets
of n brace of spectators is a knave.
These are u honest, unbiased senti-
ments, and we express them because
we believe our patrons expect The
BEE to oppose every scheme that
tends to enrich spectators at the pub
lie
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

Omaha is a good business centre
and is growing rapidly but her future
must not be left IN the hands of six
or eight enterprising merchants while
the remainder of her citizens heartily
applaud newspaper imitation and but
ton up their pockets.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

There is accordingly a duplication of stu.
dies which simply wastes time. A discus
sion as TO the feasibility Of teaching such
branches in primary schools has called out
from a New York teacher q relation Of an
instance Of boys of nine years who, at the
end of a fortnight, were making their own
hydrogen and performing simple expert.
mpnfg-
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

The b. & M. are about to move
towards Denver. When they reach
there, combination and pooling will
deprive the public of the much boast
ed benefits of competition.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22
Don't Throw up the sponge.

When suffering humanity are enduring
the horrors of dyspepsia, indigestion, or
nervous and general debility, they are too
often inclined to throw up the sponge and
resign themselves to fate. We say, don't
do it, Take BuRDocK BLOOD BIrTERs, the
unfailing remedy. Price sl.00, trial size
10 cents. eod1w.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

The BEE acknowledges with thanks
the receipt of an invitation to and
catalogue for the Fourth Annual Elk
hibition of the Central Nebraska Fair
Association, to be held at Hastings on
the dates from September 10th to 23d
inclusive.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

The growth of every city depends
largely upon The ability of its citizens
to grasp natural Advantages and COM
mercial openings as they are offered to
them. The BEE repeats that Omaha
wants more enterprise and less wind.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

CORRESPoNDENCE-All Communi.
cations relating TO News and Editorial mat
tiers should be addressed to the EDITOR on
THE BE.
BUSINESS LETTERS-All Business
Letters and Remittances should be adj
dressed to The OMAHA PUBLISHING Con-
PAsY, OMAHA. Drafts, Checks and Post
Office Orders TO be made payable to the
order of the Company.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

NEBRAsKA's farmers are becoming
Interested in politics nearly as much
AZ Nebraska railroad managers, and
for the same reason. They want to
''protect their interests"
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22
Nebraska Republican State Gen.
trail COMMITTEES.

The members of the Republican State
Central Committee Of Nebraska, are here
10y called to meet at the Commercial Hotel
in the City Of Lincoln, on Wednesday, the
3lst day of August, A. d., 1881, at 2
o'clock p. m, for the transaction of such
business as may properly come before the
Committee. JAMES w. DAWES,
Chairman.
CRETE, August IL, 1881.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

EVERY monopoly henchman with
political aspirations has a number of
reasons why the farmers alliance is a
humbug Of the first water.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

Our correspondent at Rosebud In
dian agency presents the readers of
The BEE the most authentic narrative
yet published of the career of Spotted
Tail, with a graphic description
of the tragic death and bu-
rial of the great Sioux chief.
Incidentally MI. o. NJ. Carter, our
correspondent, who, during three
years residence at the reservation, has
enjoyed ample opportunity for obser-
walton, gives a most gratifying ac-
count of the marked change
that has taken place in the habits
and mode of life among the
great body of the Sioux located at
the Rosebud agency. Few people in
this section would have believed it
possible that these savages could be
induced to adopt civilized modes of
life in such a brief period.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

EVERY additional report from the
interior of the state adds new o
agement for a heavy corr crop. Late
rains have helped late paintings.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

The condition of the president is
such that the nations anxiety may at
any moment change to the nations
sorrow.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

The Ohio democracy are in the con-
dition of drowning men clinging to
temperance straws.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

The editor of the Herald is a wealth
er-cock on a Windmill. His latest
veerings have exhibited themselves in
the temperance gale.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

LAWS made by the representatives Of
the people must be enforced by the
people.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

NEXT to being placed in nomination
for a public Office the position of presi-
dental physician seems to be the
most unenviable.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

UNscRUPULoUs corporation nan
ayers have converted a public interest
into a private system of swindling
the public.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

The Developments of the territor.
les means increasing commercial i'm.
portance to our city.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

NEBRASKA will have n state fair this
year Of which she may well be proud.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22
The Omaha Bee

Published every morning, except Sunday
The only Monday morning daily.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22
OMAHA PUBLISHING CO., PrOp'rS
E. RosEwATER, Editor.

John Fl. Pierce is in CHARGE of the Circu'
alton Of THE DAILY BEE.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

TERMS BY MALL
ar,... $1,000 Three Months $500
Months 500 One %. LOO
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

THE WEEKLY BEE, published ev.
ry Wednesday.
TERMS POST PAID:-
One Year. $50. $500 Three Months. 80
Six Months. 80. 100 One e. ~
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

CRETE, August IL, 1881.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-22

sorrow.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-01-26
The BOurbOns.

II there has been any doubt in the minds
of candid men as to the propriety Of applying
the epithet Bourbon to the democracy, the
close resemblance between the prominent fea-
lures of the refunding bill which passed the
house on Wednesday, the 10th instant, and
the methods formerly employed by the abso-
lutte monarchs of the old Bourbon type to
force loans from reluctant moneylenders,
would fully justify its application to the
originators of this funding scheme. II is
essentially a democratic measure. It was
conceived by the democracy, and all the
democratic doctors assisted at its birth.
What object they had in view in bringing
this ill-favored progeny before a disguised
world unless it be to form sort of COM
panion imp to the Morey bastard, it is diff
cult to understand. II IL was expected to
create capital for an issue which would give
them fighting chance to win back the
next house of representatives or to elect the
next president, the democracy are only Civ
ing early and fatal proof that their capacity
for laundering has not been crushed out of
the party leaders by the disastrous expert
ences Of six successive defeats in great ma
tional contests for the presidency. In the
closing hours of their ill-gotten and ill-used
power in congress, with no pressing tempta-
tion to sin again, it was generally thought
that the Bourbon democracy might prove
capable of some act that would impart an
odor of sanctity to an exceedingly vicious
career; but they have wantonly thrown
away the last of long list of more brilliant
opportunities than ever fell to the lot of any
political party. This last blunder, the ma
turing and passing by the house of an i'm
possible refunding bill, however it may be
ultimately amended by the senate, will
prove to be the champion blunder of the
Bourbons. The events Of the late presiden-
tial campaign demonstrated their utter inca
pacity for sagacious party management.
When partisan passions have measurably
cooled and there is no immediate political ad-
vantage to be gained by partisan legislation,
shining opportunity for distinction presents
itself; but the democracy, true to its instincts,
improve it only to illustrate its utter incapac-
ity for true craftsmanship, and to add the
finishing impulse to the general pean of joy
and thanksgiving that will greet its exit
from powers abused aud misused. Complete
decentralization and incompetency bordering
on imbecility-if it is not pure, unmitigated,
cussedness-see to be the
condition of the democracy as party on
bidding farewell to brief and probationary
possession of power.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-01-26
An Effective Speech.

During the debate on the refunding bill,
Mr.. Horr of Michigan made speech rid
iculing the proposed three per cent bill,
which, while full of humor, was severe at
tack upon the bill. He said the bill was in
geniously devised to prevent the funding of
the debt. He maintained that short-time
bond with low interest could not be hoated.
and that the present bill may have origin
ated in the democratic policy of opposing
everything. He made resume of the things
opposed by the democrats as follows First
national banks; second, private banks (;
third, down on railroads; fourth, down on
all corporations; fifth, fearful on national
banks sixth, opposed to tariff; seventh,
want to repeal the tax on whisky; eighth,
want to have taxes taken off tobacco ninth,
opposed to improvement of rivers and har-
bors tenth, opposed to defenses of harbors ;
eleventh, want to curtail the army; twelfth,
want to strike down the navy thirteenth,
opposed to home defenses fourteenth, try
to prevent shipbuilding; fifteenth, opposed
to honest elections and fair count. He could
only find that they were in favor of First,
perjury; second, fraud third, free whisky.
Those of our people who heard Mr.. Horrs
opening speech of the campaign in this vii
lage in June can understand and appreciate
the force of the humor and argument COM
bined with which he would make and clinch
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