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Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01
THE REsPoNaIBILIrY

The people Of Nebraska will justly
hold the republican party responsible
for the failure Of the legislature to
enact laws that would relieve them
from the oppressive exactions of rail-
roads and compel these corporate
monopolies to bear their proper share
of the burden Of taxation. During
the late campaign the republican
party and It's candidates made solemn
pledges that the notorious abuses from
which the producers Of this state were
suffering at the hanis Of the railroads
should be corrected by restrictive laws.
When the legislature convened the
republicans assumed the responsibility
for such Liquidation by organizing the
house through the machinery Of q re-
publican caucus. Upon the speaker
nominated by that body devolved the
duty of appointing the committees
that were to formulate railroad legis.
lation. How did he discharge that
duty2 By packing the railroad com
mittee with men who were from the
outset opposed to railroad regulation.
Through this committee every effort
to reduce railroad farce, limit freigh,
charges and revise the present system
Of taxation, was thwarted and de.
feated.
In this committee every measure
tending to afford relief from legalized
highway robbery was %strangled, and
when at last the senate, where the
republicans were In the minority, did
pass q moderate bill that limited the
passenger rate to three cents per mile
and reduced local freight rates 20 per
cent, the republican house treated 1t
with contempt and allowed 1t to die
without aver taking q square vote on
its passage.
As If to add insult to injury, the
railroad committee, packed by Speaker
Humphreys with monopolists, sought
to impose a costly sham on the PEG.
pie, by attempting to create q com.
mission that had NO power to regulate
railroads.
This was very properly rejected al
an unmitigated fraud by the senate.
The outcome Is that the people Of Ne.
braska must for two years longer sub.
init to piilage and robbery at the
hands of railroad monopolies. 1t ha.
been the boast of republican leaders
that the republican party was equal
to every emergency. General Mander.
son in his memorable speech before
the Legislature assured the people Of
Nebraska that the republican party had
within it all the elements of PROGRESS
and reform-that II was not only ca.
pable of dealing with every great
problem, but determined to solve
these problems In the interest of the
masses. In the face Of broken prom
iaeu and such shameless disregard Of
the known and expressed will of the
people. General Manderan, however
much he may be respected, can moi
inspire confidence In the republican
patty.
However, much men may be attached
to the republican party on account Of
its past achievements, Its failure to
grspple with the vital Issues of the
hour, and Its coalition with corporate
monopoly, deprive 1t of the confidence
and support of the masses who still
cherish republican principles.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

A fogyism which opposes public
improvements generally shirks taxes.
The men who are bowling moat loudly
in Omaha against draining our pestiv-
erous creeks and paving our Doggy
streets, are paying taxes on property
at the rate Of $50 an acre, which Is In
the market at $500 q lot.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

Twice thirteen thousand will drop the
party In Nebraska, now that 1t has
proved recreant to Its trust and failed
to redeem Its sacred pledges to protect
the people FROM e1tortion by railroad
monopolies.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01
The Presidents Burden.

De'roi, Free Press
No n breads an adjournment Of
congress 90 much - President Arthur.
Owing to certain opinions entertained
of them by their constituents, there ID
Q steamboat full of congressman who
will, after the 4th of March, have NO
visible means OF support. To provide
at the public expense places and In
comes for this hungry horde, that can
conceive of no scheme Of the universe
which omits office and salary for them
at the public expense, will add to the
gray hairs and crows feet OF the execu.
tive countenance.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

DAKOTA will not be allowed to enter
the sisterhood of statea until after the
next presidential election. The DEM
ocrats gambled and lost on Colorado,
bat they will take no chances on
Dakota.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01
Not Home to the Rent Collector.

Not Home to the Rent Collector.
Texas siftings.
SIS your father INF" asked an Aus
tin landlord In search of back rent,
The little boy, who was sitting on the
steps devastating a lsrge slice Of
bread and butter, replied between
bite:
mo, he amt In town."
"Suppose you go and ask him if he
is not In"
she amt up yet"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

THIRTEEN THOUSAND republicans
severed their connection with the
party In Nebraska last year because
they were disgustsd snd disheartensd
with the misrule of II > railroad bosses
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

PARTIES like men must be judged
by their actions rather than their pro-
fesaions and promises. The conduct
of the late legislature affords the only
tangible proofs Of the Sincerity of the
republican and democratic leaders In
their pledges to right the wrongs from
which the people of Nebraska have
suffered at the hands of railway mono
polv.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

THE city election takes place on
April Sd. Ten candidates for mayor
have put In an appearance, with
Shinn's addition yet to be heard from.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

REPUBLICAN professions Of anti
monopoly in the next campaign will
be read In the light Of the legislative
record. A few may be taken but more
will be left.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

AS GERMANY has prohibited the
importation of the American hog, con.
gress ought to retallate by levying a
tariff on L..mburger cheese.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01
THE COUNTY ATTORNEY BILL

xk1E OOuNIx xOfSWE BILL
Before Its close the Legislature pass
ed a bill abolishipg the office Of dis
trict attorney and creating that Of
county attorney. This measure, which
was crowded through the last hours OF
the session, was passed without any
opportunity for its discussion by the
press or Its confederation BY the pso-
pie. The BEE believes it to DO unwise
and e1travsgsnt, Injurious to the best
interests of justice and only adding
new burdens to the taxpayers of the
state.
Under this law there will be one
prosecuting attorney to each county In
our state, with salaries running from
5000 a year In the smallest to $1,000
In the largest counties. Nebraska hal
now sixty. eight counties, including
those of Cherry, Loup, Brown and
Dawes, added at the last session. Al
at present constituted, six district at
torneys conduct their prosecutions al
at an annual expense of $1,50C
apiece, or 5000 for the
entire state. BY the new
judicial re~distrioting the number will
be increased from six to ter
at q yearly cost of $4,000.
Under this county attorney law si1ty
eight county attorneys will be elected
Their salaries In the aggregate will
be $43, 600 q year,, An increase Of $34,
600 over what the state now pays fol-
her district attorneys, and ct leas'
$2S, 900 wei what she will be com
PEELED to pay under the new district
ing.
II 1t could be shown that thu
present system of one attorney fol-
each judicial district was inadequat,
for the proper disposal of cssel
brought before u courts there nigh
be some excuse tor the proposed
change. No statistics have beer
brought forward to prove that tn
work lis too heavy, that the crlmius
dockets are not promptly cleared o
that any interest whstever has suffere'
under the existing plan. The salar
-ranted Is not too much to &c
are good men. There have bee
complaints that 1t Ia too small to q
tract really able lawyers to the duties
In our own county the time when OF
ab,est attorneys were not ashamed
accept the place has passed, and her
a. elsewhere, the office ID r
gasded more as q stepping stone
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01
pUy

WHEN a party degenerates into a
mere engine of oppression and its ma
chinery Is used to perpetuate tax shirk-
ing, extortion and highway robbery 1t
~forfeits the support of all honest men
and becomes a dangerous enemy of
the public welfare.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01
Time Setting Thing Even

Buffalo Express. ,
The Washington correspondent OF
The Cincinnati Euquirer now, how
ever, ASSERTS that General Hancock
was right; that the discussion In con.
gress has shown clearly that the tariff
Is a local issue and nothing else. II
might, therefore, appear not only that
General Hancock was wiser than any
body else on tariff questions, but that
he spoke more wisely than he himself
knew.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

gss-The wonders OF modern chem
istry are apparent in the beautiful
Diamond Dyes. All kinds and colors
of Ink can he made from them.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

CORRESPONDENCE All Communl;;
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OF THE BEE.
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iressed TO The BEL PUBLISHING COMPANY
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the Company.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

EVERY candidate for mayor Is the
werkingman's friend.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

THE late president CT the Omaha
Labor Protective union has an axe to
grind at the coming city election.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01
How natural il is TO be suspicious.

How natural It is to be suspicious.
Truly this Is an age of suspicion.
Nevertheless, Capt. +. M. Howes, Of
the steamer William Crane, Merchants
and Miners Transportation Line be-
tween Boston and Baltimore, who suf.
isred severely from rheumatism, caused
by the exposure incident to his profes'
sion, was cured by st. jacobs Oh.
This ia no suspicion.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01
The Omaha Bee.

Published every morning, except Sun
ay. The emily Monday morning daily
Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

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Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

ARCHBIsHoP PuRcKLL's failure Ia
duplicated on q smaller scale by the
disastrous failure of the Roman Gath.
olio Augustinian society at Lawrence,
Mass. No n assume for q moment
that there was any rogusry In the
case. . The seven hundred and odd
thousand dollars for which the poor,
wandering people of Lawrence are now
looking seems to have been invested
with . stupidity aud reckleHsnesi
-Sloh was scarcely less than criminal,
ut 100000 In church
hen the books already
felt of $4,000
very bad fnan
Idly bankeI
guilty
lie
tee,
Arcel,
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Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

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Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

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The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1883-01-28
TIE LIGHT INFANTRY FAR.


The large and enthusiastic meeting of cit
zens held at the Armory of the Washington
Light Infantry Corps on Tuesday evening
last, and the highly respectable and useful
array of names appearing as committeeman
IN the interest of the contemplated fair, al
ready makes the latter an assured success.
This meeting was by far the largest prelim.
mary meeting of the kind ever held in this
city, and from the earnestness displayed by
all present it appears that this fair will
eclipse anything of the kind ever before
seen here, and no doubt a sufficient sum
will be realized to construct an armory for
Colonel Moore's splendid battalion. The
Skating Rink on New York avenue has been
selected as the place, and April 16 as the
time for holding the fair. We have re-
peatedly in the past urged upon the people of
Washington the necessity of erecting for the
Corps an armory which would make the Light
Infantry more comfortable and give them
assurance that their services were ap.
preciated. We have always believed that
the people would promptly respond to
any demand this command might make upon
them, and our belief has been sustained,
if the meeting of Tuesday last is any indica-
tion of the earnestness of those who promise
to make this fair successful. The people of
the District know this Corps and its numerous
and unremitting public services. We can
not, therefore, permit the present opportu-
nifty to pass without urging every citizen to
give what aid he can to this deserving
cause. In other cities the banks, Insurance
companies, gas companies, street railway
companies, and other public institutions
largely contribute to support their nailitia.
BY all means let them now unlock their
money vaults and contribute handsomely to
give the Light Infantry an armory and the
city the hall it has so long needed. The
militia are great protection to private and
public property, and there are none who
should be more willing to contribute than
such institutions and, corporations as We
have named.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1883-01-28
THE NAVAL mn.

The Naval Appropriation Bill as passed
by the House contains little that is good
and much that is bad. Tho abolition of the
titles ensign and master is good thing,
but uuimportant Last sessions legislation
stopped promotion in the lower grades Of the
Pay Corps. This bill provides for filling the
corps by detail from tho line. If this is
good thing it ought to be forthwith applied
to the Army, for the conditions are some.
what similar, the difference being that the
naval paymaster is commssary and quarter
master as well as paymaster. The abolition
OF the grade Of commodore with the pro-
vision allowing but one promotion for two va
cancies stops promotion to a degree which
will nearly destroy the efficiency Of the
Navy for any real service, The grade of
commodore is proper one and should be
retained, and steady flow of promotion is
essential to the vitality of the service.
The most vicious thing in the bill. how
ever is the postponing OF the construction
of cruisers, which is the real need OF the
Navy, in order to spend money ON Robeson's
old monitors which seem to be a sort of bot
tomless pit for the public money. With a
lew fast cruisers to give employment at sea
to our naval officers the perpetual efforts at a
reduction of the personnel will cease, but they
will continue, perhaps with increased force,
until the cruisers are anoat. 1t is at least
doubtful whether the monitors, when COM
nj AT al NVil1 4.
defense, so great has been the progress in the
effectiveness of heavy ordnance since they
were designed. At all events, it is tenfold
more desirable to have cruising vessels. The
friends of the Navy should not lose sight of
this consideration, for the interests of the
whole body of officers depend upon their
having cruisers to serve upon.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1883-01-28
RALLM1l 1CCLDENEy.

Though large considerations ara generally
left out Of the discussion, it is none the less
true that such horrible accidents as that re-
Gently ON the Southern Pacific Railroad be-
long properly to the great monopoly ques-
ton. No permanent and adequate remedy
for niggardly economy and consequent
criminal carelessness in the management of
railways can be found except through State
regulation aud supervision Of overland steam
traffic. While we have 9 system Of steam
boat inspection we have nothing CORE
spending to it for the protection of railway
travellers. The direct preventive ior such
disasters az that at Spuyten Duyyil and at
the Tehichipa Is . greater number and bet
ter payment Of traiumen and telegraph op-
orators, Only by paying good wages can
trustworthy service be secured. II is known
that the parsimony Of the millionaire mana
gers OF those great corporations has often
been the cause Of disasters and loss Of life.
State laws are very defective in provision
for the collection OF damages for death or
manning, and there Is as yet an entire lack
OF the remedial legislation which the General
Government ought 70 undertake.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1883-01-28
4 FORGERY AND A .sL1NDEP,

The Signal Corps and its officers have
lately been made the objects of libelous
attack in the form of pretended argument
in favor of transfer of the Weather Ser
vice to the Interior Department. 1t is un-
fortunate that the discussion of the present
and future status of the service should be
mixed up with ISLANDERS evidently invented
by malicious persons, for the Weather
Bureau ought to be placed on more sub
stantal and better footing. There can
be no reasonable doubt that, in the end,
the corps will be given that place in the
war establishment of the country that its
chief now seeks for it, and that a fair con-
sideraton of its merits, and of the bill now
before Congress providing for a better or
ganization, will end in this desired result.
None ought to feel more keenly the mesal-
lance with an anonymous slanderer than
those who have begun the agitation of the
policy of transferring the service to the In
terror Department The circular to which
we have referred is pretended to be signed
by the United States weather observers,
meteorological observers" are spoken of.
Thus, in the very outset, the paper is
tainted with fraud, for the weather oh
servers of the service had nothing to do with
its preparation, nor did they know of its
publication until they saw it in the news
papers. 1t further contains wholesale
slander on the observers by stating that
they signed paper protesting against the
transfer of the service under compulsion,
and because they were afraid of losing their
places.
Starting out as as forgery, the paper con-
tinues to be a lie all the way through. 1t is
false in stating that the signatures of the
men to the protest against transfer were
sought by the officers of the corps, and it is
false in all its statements about the service.
Not content with forging lie, the anony-
nous writer accuses both military committees
of Congress with being the tools Of the Off
cers of the Signal Corps. In fact, so whole
sale is the SANDER that the writer over
reaches himself and betrays his animus.
The truth about the paper from the enlisted
men of the corps is that las Of them signed
a statement that the service ought not to be
removed from the Army. That no coercion
was employed is demonstrated by the fact
that ten men did not sign. After the anony-
nous circular referred to appeared 1877 men
voluntarily signed statements that il was
"issued by some unprincipled person, no; in
"any wayconnected with the Signal Corps ="
that the signature, "U. $. Weather
"Observers, was " despicable forgery :"
that its statements were "untrue :" that il
did not "represent our views or opinions ="
that, on the contrary, the allegations of the
circular were falsehoods." The iOrger has, ,
on the whole had q bad time OF IT,
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1883-01-28
OLLNINE-

Probably az stupid thing as the tariff
monopolists are trying is to restore the duty
on quinine. The preposterous claim has
been made that the twenty per cent. duty when
levied actually made quinine cheaper to the
American consIlmer, whereas no economical
fact could have been more easily demon
strable than th at the whole amount of the
tax went into tn pockets of a few enormously
wealthy manufacturers of drugs. Since the
abolition OF the tax quinine has gone down
all over the woald, and it is now as cheap in
New York as in London and Paris. Further
it appears that the duty helped the Ameri-
can manufacturers TO maintain monopoly,
as is often the case with taxes of this sort,
since there are now actually a greater num-
Der OF American manufacturers of the drug
than there We're when it enjoyed ''pro-
lection - OF twenty per cent. That no pro-
lection was needed is proved moreover by
the fact that in 1852 we imported no lees
than 5,Ol0,547 pounds of barks used for
making quinine, valued at 81, s46,3
We desire to sss home industries fostered
by such protectim as can be attained under
tariff levied for its primary purpose of
raising revenue. But the monopolsts seem
determined, by insisting upon these blood
taxes, to break down the whole protective
system. The trouble with tariff legislation
is Of precisely the same kind with that
which makes River and Iarbor hills so
odious, 1t is grand concert of iobbery
in which monopoly taxes and anti-pro-
tectiye duties come out first best, and the
diGused industries which employ most of
the labor and ought to receive the first atteIA-
tion are generally the ones to be crippled
and destroyed.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1883-01-28
MARSHAL McNrcnAEl is making mistake

MARSHAL MChlICHAEL Is making mistake
in Judgment IT, represented he is spending all the
money allowed him for furnishing the new portion of
the city Hall In his own city of Philadelphia. Fur
nture can be bought to fully good advantage trans
portatlon and risks OF delivery considered of the many
enterprlsing dealers and makers IN this city. The
Marshal's office is supported by the money of the
business men of the District and 1t Is little enough
expect that when there is money to spend 1t will be
spent here where every bit Of trade needed as 1t is
not In an older and more commercial place like Phil
a,telphia. Our citizens did not complain of the
ap pointment of strangers and presidents to the
pr ucipal places under the marshal, because 1t
was said that he must have subordinate5 whom he
personally knew and could trust, but he will find that
though he holds office by Executive favor he cannot
wholly afford to make himself unpopular with those
with whom lie must come in contact aud do business
during his term Of office. Nothing could raise a
prejudice, and perhaps justly against him with
certainty than this reported discrimination In favor
of the place whence he came the place out of
which lie expects to make handsome living for the
next four years. This is not a matter OF awarding
contracts, 1t should be understood but of purchase Ia
open market, in which he has entire discretion,
Marshal Dougass's rhetorical assaults upon the char
acter of this city in his public lectures were tribe
compared to this substantial aifrOnt TO Washington
Dusiuess
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1883-01-28

One point We may notice as a specimen Of
the whole. Our Confederate says:
At Arpomattox, In 1895, s, coo Of them tthe Com
federatosl surrendered to the host commanded by
Grant.
Now the consolidated returns Of the ofi-
GERS and men paroled at Appomattcx show
that their number was 27,97l Figures like
those give the lie to the loose statements of
writing braggarts
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1883-01-28

GENERAL ATTENTION ought to be attracted
by the resolutions unanimously adopted by tho Ma
tonal Agricultural Convention, which In text rs
follows:
That the state and General Governments be invoked
to take the Initiative in covering the Watersheds and
heads OF large water the mountains with
useful forest trees to shade the from excessive
evaporation of moisture during the heat of summer;
ana that Inducements OF a practical nature be held
out 10 all land owners to plant useful trees over
springs and streams, and upon otherwise uutiable
lands, to preserve and attract moisture thus protect
ing from drouths, hurricanes, and fires. That 1t IL
earnestly recommended to every citizen use all dI-
genee In spreading before the people OF this agrcui-
tural commonwealth the Information and benefits be-
longing to this prime necessity for vegetable growth
and the alternative of neglect In the destruction of
vegetation, impoverishment of the soil, and drying
up OF the streams, reducing this hest food growing
country TO the condition of the depopulaed districts
of the old World.