Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-13
IMPENDING RUIN.
Bluffs SlumbGring Upon
the Crater Of a Volcano,
Kissing Fires, 5mothrred founders
ana Earring Earth Portspd
tho Awfol Dangers That
Threaten.

The press should always be on the
alert to warn the people of impending
danger, and while no paper which has
the good Of Its city at heart, will ever
publish any small poI, yellow fever,
cholera, or other local nows that would
create undue excitement or stop immi.
grafton; yet when an overwhelming
disaster that may, perhaps, be miti-
gated or entirely averted, is hanging
like a cyclone above the town, then IL
Is the manifest duty Of all to sound
the tocsin of alarm. There is now
threatening TO over helm the city of
Council Bluffs, q disaster, In comparl-
son with which the obliteration Of
Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the
sinking Of the continent of Atlantis,
we're disasters of minor Importance.
This catsclysm will reach out Into the
surrounding states, and throughout all
the years to come, its baneful Influence
will be felt.
Prominent citizens hive been leav.
Ing their bones with secresy, their
destination and their objects we're
unknown. The city of New York was
thir first stopping place and a great
building In the great center of that
city was and is yet the scene of their
plot. Although these men occupy
high positions In the financial and
social circles Of our city, truth COM
pels rs to state that they we're there
to meet an arch iend In human form,
who Is, with them, plotting the ruin
of our best interests. From that
headquarters, emissaries or spies have
been sent all over this city and the
adjoining couatry. These spies have
carefully noted everything favorable
or unfavorable to their schemes, and
indirectly they have sown dissatisfao.
ton and aroused In the people an Am
bidon Is dangerous a. It Is destruot.
I've. The leading spirit In oil this dev.
iltry, 10 q man who knows no
party, man without bounds,
for thu whole world IL connected
directly with his Office, his private
telegraphio wires reaching out to all
points Of the compass. He Is without
respect for nationality, race or creed.
His seditious publications are already
circulated wherever the English Ian.
gusge Ia spoken. The man we refer
to James Gordon Bennett. The pub.
location Ii The Herald, of New York
city.
He IL about to establish here, at the
solicitation OF leading ciGizens, q
branch office from which to gather his
news, and he will let the world know
that Council Bluffs ia q live, thriving,
pushing city, inviting enterprising men
to come, and at the gate way of JON
tinents gather the wealth which Is
here for all that a use capital and
labor to advantage.
Tho advent Of The DAILY BEE,
with Its branch office, has already
worked irretrievabls damage by this
terrible method Of undermining our
''best interests" and Of course the
branch Office of the New York Herald,
II Its establishment should for one
moment be tolerated, will add to this
calamity an hundred told. Minneap.
oils has In this way been ruined for.
ever, by the Pioneer Press Of St.
Paul. For years Minneapolis has had
no morning paper of her own, and
has had to be content with making
-four for the world. We cell upon our
contemporaries In this city to come to
the rescue. Rouse the people, tell
them not to ''permit the paper to 90
into their houses Let not Council
Bluffs 60 down under the added
weight Of this awful incubus