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Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15
BIninc's Tactics.

A Washington special to The Boston
Herald says: 81 was a delegate to the
Cincinnati convention in 1876, and also
to the Chicago convention in $780," said
a Maryland politician tonight. 81 voted
for Blaine seventeen times at Cincinnati
and three times at Chicago. / stopped
voting for him when | saw there was no
chance of his securing the nomination.
No, | don't think he will ever have the
following he had at the last two conven-
tions. Mr.. Blaine had the best equipped
fighting force at Chicago of any one
No candidates ever had better generals
managing their anvass Failure, under
the circumstances, was considered a final
defeat, and all of Blaine's friends regard
ed it as such. A few weeks ago |
happened to occupy a berth in a
sleeping-car adjoining one occupied by
Blaine andaprominent Maine politician. |
was awakened by the sound of voices in
the night. j recognized Blaine's voice
Immediately. His friend was urging him
to follow out a new line of policy at the
next national convention. He advised
him to get himself elected as a delegate
to the next convention, and be on the
ground prepared to take advantage of
circumstances. Mr.. Blaine finally agreed
to think it over, and | think hat is the
next move he contemplates. You see he
would have no difficulty in securing the
leadership of the Name delegation. In
that position he would be able to WELD a
large influence. He could not do more
than to dictate the nomination, however.
He would undoubtedly have a following
from the rural districts, where the people
are slow to accept changes or to alter
their minds when once made up. Mr..
Blaine, us the leader of the Maine dele
cation in the next convention, will be the
most important factor in it,"
800 you think Gen. Arthur will be
brought forward as a candidate?"
81 have no doubt of it. Everything
points that way now but Mr.. Blainemay
be able to defeat his nomination"
"An incident of the Chicago conven-
ton probably changed the result. When
the delegates met in caucus every one
felt hat war would commence on the
craftsmanship of the convention. Mr..
Conkling made a long speech. Herecog-
nized that many delegates differed from
him personally, but that should not cause
ill feeling The Grant men were not
strong enough to elect a chairman, but
they could prevent the election of an OBJ
jectionable man. Eugene Hale respond
ed for the Blaine faction, and acknowl-
edged the wisdom of ~Conkling's sugges-
ton. He then asked the New York SEN
ator to name some one that they could
all unite on. . MI. Conkling mentioned
j. Morrison Harris, of Maryland, and
this was satisfactory to Mr.. Hale. Mr..
Harris at first refused the place, but
finally consented to allow his name to be
used. When the voting commenced,
however, all the Blaine men, with the
exception of two, voted against Harris.
He hen got up and formally declined to
be a candidate, and Senator Hoar was
subsequently chosen. The failure OF
Hale and his friends to keep to the agree
ment was the foundation of the bitter
feeling that was engendered between the
two factions, Grant and Blaine"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

colonies for agriculture Is by no means
proved. Their products are as yet lin
tied. The whole of Australia only pro.
duces about as much wheat and barley as
California, and wheat culture. we are
told, has made little advance in New
South Wales of recent years. Wool has
been the chief export, but if we are to
believe a tract published by Christopher
Rolleston, c. NJ. g., auditor general,
president of this colony, the limits of pas
turage have already been reached. The
wine of Australia bears a good reputation.
but grape culture is in its infancy.
Oranges ear be raised, but to what extent
is not known. Hides, tallow and canned
meats are sent abroad in large quantities,
but beyond these and the few other arti-
cles mentioned, the export trade amounts
to little. We do not see how Australia
can ever be largely engaged in manufac-
lures, its streams being few and its situa-
ton for supplying the wants of the world
not very favorable. Without navigable
streams, and for the reason just given, its
foreign commerce must also be limited
principally to the export of raw material
and provisions and the import of all lines
of manufactured goods needed by its in
creasing population.
We have no desire to rehearse the re-
sources of this country or to show the
differences that exist between it and the
so-called Australian continent. There is
nothing really valuable known to COM
merce that cannot be produced in the
United States. Hundreds of streams are
navigable and thousand furnish water
power throughout the year. Nearly
every area which is unproductive-a few
hundred miles in the mid-continent
excepted-has water convenient for irri-
CATION. We believe that the four States,
Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Iowa, can
alone produce as much as Australia will
be able to produce one hundred years
from this time. This country is not "a
fertile rim surrounding an immense
barren area. The two lands would be
similar were all the broad extent of ter
ritory between the Allegheny noun
tains and the Sierra Nevada and the
Gulf States and the basin of the great
lakes useless so far as agriculture
is concerned; in other words, a
desert like the central plateaus of the
Australian continent, In spite of all
these disadvantages we believe that Aus
t%ralia, judged by its individual colonies,
has a great future. But its people must
cease throwing it's vast unknown and
worthless area into the face of mankind,
as if its being a geographical colossus
were its greatest merit. Quality rather
than quantity is the standard of judy
ment in this era of refined common sense.
A word of counsel to visitors who come
from Sydney and Melbourne may not be
amiss. Too many of them form their
opinions of the United States from q
casual glance at California. We are
proud enough of our state and its advan.
tages, but we are only a specimen brick.
We are less than one fiftieth of the great
country to which we belong, and those
who wish to know us as a nation and a
people should visit and examine thor.
oughly all there is of interest between
the two oceans and the great lakes and
the Gulf Of Mexico.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15
The Iowa Campaign.

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1t would seem to be impossible for
those who guide the fortunes of the Re
publican party to stumble into a blunder
out of which their opponents would not
forthwith kindly help them by proceed
ing to make one more open and inexcusa-
bic. The democracy has deliberately
put itself to a disadvantage in Ohio, such
that, while it seemed at one time to have
a fair chance of carrying the state at the
ensuing election, it's defeat is now virtu-
ally conceded. And in Iowa, where it
had the advantage of being opposed to a
doctrine which is theoretically indefen-
sible and practically a failure--where it
seemed impossible that it should miss
the plain and straight way which might
conduct it, if not to victory
at least to such a degree of
success as it had never known in
that republican stronghold has actual
ly been able to discover and fix upon a
course which will 60 far to deprive it of
this advantage, and array against 1t all
the decent elements of the community.
The campaign there is now fairly opened,
and from the reports of the speeches
made it is apparent that the republicans
are thoroughly in earnest, and that the
probability which at one time existed
that they had thrown away their oppor-
tunity ard l.st their cause no longer ex-
lists There never was at any time any
question Of carrying the state, though it
was thought the customary majority
would be greatly reduced. 1t now APP
pears not unlikely that the anticipated
reduction will be counterbalanced by ac-
c~essions Of disgusted democrats, and that
the party will secure about its customary
number Of members Of the legislature.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15
Australia's Prospect.

Sall fraflclScO ChroHlclc.
Sir Henry Parker, late govern. r of
New South Wales, is authority for the as
sertion that when Australia is as old as
the United States it will be far ahead of
us in civilization, by wh.lh we presume
he means that not only will the popula-
ton be greater, but the products, i'm
ports, exports and general business will
far exceed ours in volume. We do not
like to differ from IN intelligent gentle
man who is so evidently American in his
sympathies, but it is apparent he has ar
rived at his conclusions without a thor
ough examination of the history and re-
sources of this country. 1t is true that
the population of the United States
when independence was declared was
only 5000, 900, or about that of Austria
liza to-day; but the settlers occupied only
a strip of the Atlantic coast, while nearly
all the rest of the country was unknown
and occupied by savages. All the terri
tory that is of much value in Australia
has been explored and most of it has been
for some time open to occupation.
No hostile tribe, but only
the inherent barrenness of the
region, prevent the settlement of the vast
semi-desert areas of theinterior, Agricul-
ture, on which almost every country
must depend if it expects to attain a
high degree of prosperity, needs plenty
of rain or numerous streams that can be
used for irrigation. The streams in
Australia are few and are dry most Of the
year. The rainfall is light, except along
the coast. Most of the immense regions
OF the interior have but a few inches of
rain annually and this quickly disappears
without doing any good. In the north
ern part the sandy deserts extend nearly
to the sea-coast, the monsoons from the
Indian ocean not carrying enough mos
ture to penetrate any great distance be-
fore they become evaporated by the ex-
cessive heat. In Southern and Western
Australia there is more or less arabic
land, but it is greatly out of proportion
10 the whole area. Our comments apply
to the whole Of the island and not os-
p~ecially to Victoria and New South
Wales, which form its garden spot, they
being temperate, healthy and very pro
ductiye.
But the a~daptability of even these tive
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

eloquent advocacy of this principle fills
the ~monopolists with alarm.
II isdemocracy against monopoly. This
is the paramount issue in England and
France, as well as in America. Here we
are facing another form Of the pressing
issue in the fight against the telegraph
monopoly, which has managed to get
astride Of the business of the country
and is forcing the people to carry it and
pay enormously for the privilege. The
railroad m%onopolies pushed into the
background for the moment by the inso-
lent demands of the Western Union mo-
nopoly and the strike it precipitated,
have reached a point of arrogance and of
peril in this country of which those in
France have no idea. The transporta-
ton interest in n continental country like
the United States is too vast and vital in
its Importance for French statesmen to
grasp. To-day that interest is in the
grip of a dozen millionaire railroad
kings, who fix the terms IN which
western farmers shall sell and
eastern merchants shall buy the
produce of the country; and whether
farmers shall be bankrupted, and what
the working people of the East shall pay
for food. These are only two out of the
%monopolies that to-day rival the govern.
ment in ruling the people, and do more
than any American government would be
permitted to do to rob and impoverish
the people. And the paramount issue in
our politics to-day is not bank nor tariff
nor internal improvements, nor any OF
the questions politicians gable about; it
is democracy and monopoly. Which OF
these shall rule in Americal
And on this issue the democratic party
has no choice, but by its history and
principles and sympathies it IS forced to
take the side of the people in opposition
to monopoly.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

IT is apparent from the receipts of the
government during July that the revis-
ion of the tariff is not likely to result in
a loss of revenue, there being an actual
gain of nearly a million dollars in custom
duties AS compared with July, 1882. The
abolition of a part of the internal revenue
taxes and the reduction of Others have,
however, had a decided effect on the in
come of the nation, and, on the whole,
the public revenue will be slightly dimin-
ished by the legislation of last winter.
The tariff must be still further reduced in
the interests of every one except the in
dustrial monopolists who thrive on exor.
bitant exactions from 80, 000, 900 of our
people.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

SENATOR ALLISON opened the Iowa
campaign for the republicans at Clarinda
on Saturday. Judge Kline, the demo
cratic nominee for governor, has been in
the field for several weeks. If Mr.!
Kline ever had any hopes of securing an
election, or even of seriously reducing
the republican majority, he has thrown
them all away by declaring himself not
only opposed to prohibition, which would
have met with a ready response from
many republicans, but by announcing
himself and his party unalterably
against any restriction of the
liquor traffic whatever. Judge kinne's
speech, in which he declared for 'a
saloon on every hill top" has created a
deep disgust, even among democrats,
while it has driven back into the ranks
thousands of republicans who were falter-
ing in their allegiance.
Democratic blunddeing is the deadlicst
foe to democratic success. But of all the
blunders made by the party in state
elections, the mistake of surrendering tc
the advocates of an unlicensed liquor
traffic in a state which by DC, 900 majority
declared for prohibition two years ago, is
the worst. 1t is n blunder so monumen
tai that no one but u bourbon politician
could have been guilty of it. 1t was par.
ticularly uncalled for under the circum
stances. The radical stand taken by the
republican convention which threw over
board Judge Day because he refused t.
uphold the constitutionality of the pro
hibitory amendment, seemed to assure
permanent republican disaffectlon. Blu
the position assumed by the democratic
party and its candidate discounts il
idiocy the blunder of the republican con
vention, 1t has strengthened the party
drawntloser the party lines and assure,
in advance an overwhelming republican
victory. For all of which the moss
backs who never forget anything excep
their own mistakes, and never learn any
thing except new methods of laundering
have only themselves to blame.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15
OMAHA. Aug. Nth.

TO the Editor of TuE BEE.
| am a workingman looking out for II
lot to build a little house upon. ! have
saved $3.50, but find that no lots within
n reasonable distance of the city can be
had for that sum. Men who paid from
5000 to $500 for their property four years
ago are holding it at from four to eight
times that figure. With real estate as
high as it is ut present, there does not
seem to be any lots for workingmen in
Omaha. f.. Il. 5.
The demand for local real estate con-
tinues good, but there is a feeling that
residence property on the extremes of the
city boundaries has been pushed up too
high. Almost every week sees new adj
ditions mapped out and plated. Farm
land and swamp land al be turned too
fast into city lots. OF course as long rs
the owners of such property can hold
their lots and meet interest on their
mortgages prices can be maintained.
But prices are too high in some portions
of Omaha, and must come down. There
is no reason why lots two miles
from the center of the city should be
held at their present figures. If Work
ingman will wait a few months, or, at
most, a year, he can buy his $3.50 lot
within a reasonable distance of town.
1t will probably not be a corner lot or
situated on a paved street lit with gas
lamps, or supplied with city water, But
property in some of the latest laid out ad-
ditions on the outskirts can not continue
at its present inflated rates.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

Congress ought to abolish the terrific
rial law-making power, and rule the Ter
ritory through n commission. Congress
itself makes all necessary laws for the
government of the District of Columbia,
and why not for Utah2 Until the Nor
mons are excluded from all participation
in the Territorial government, there will
be trouble and polygamy will continue TO
flourish. -C2euetand Leader.
This is the heroic remedy urged by ex-
Senator Paddock. But what right has
congress to disfranohise thousands OF law
abiding citizens in Utah because a por-
ton of the voters in the territory profess
a belief in poiygamy. Under the Ed
munds law polygamists have already been
disenfranchised, A government by CON-
mission would increase political patron
age, and furnish fat positions for chronic
Office seekers. But these minor adyan-
tages would be more than set of by per
nicious example of the establishment of a
territorial tyranny under whose rule the
habeas corpus would be suspended, the
right to trial by jury abolished, and all
citizens, both innocent and guilty, de-
priyed OF their dearest political rights.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

ACCORDING to tie new treasury regula-
tons, brewers will hereafter be required
to make an official showing Of all mate
rails which enter into the manufacture of
their beer. The news will be welcome
10 many consumers of the article. There
is a prevailing impression that since the
jump in the prices of hops last fall aloes
and various other drugs have been used
in large quantities in the preparati,n of
this popular beverage. The new treas
ury regulations, if enforced, will be of
assistance in preserving the public health.
In addition they will be of assistance to
honest brewers who use barley and hops
instead of injurious drugs in their bust
ness. Pure beer is much less dangerous
than the doctored article and tho con-
sumption of lager has become so uni
yersal in the United States that this
latest move on the part OF the treasury
department is in the line of a wholesome
reform.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15
THE following was the estimated rail

THE following was the estimated rail
way mileage of the world on January l.,
1888; United States, $4,000; Europe,
100000; Asia, 5000; South America,
1000; Canada, $500; Australia, 5000;
Africa, 2,2O0i Mexico, 2 ,100-grand total.
$4,000 miles. These figures are not
exact, as it is impossible to obtain official
returns within a year or, two after date,
and so it is necessary to use the latest
available statements and add the probable
number of miles of road that may have
been built in different countries since the
time the latest statistics published with
authority were issued.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

The Ueraid denounces some one for
''slandering the army because attention
has been called to the needless and num-
erouS ''inspection trips" which are being
made for official pleasure combined with
official business in the Department of the
Platte. We say needless, because it is a
matter of comment among army officers
in Omaha and of good natured laughter
at posts outside of Omaha that the Gin
spection" business has been greatly over
done during the past year. We shall
shortly give a comparison in dollars and
cents of the amount Of mileage drawn by
General Towards staff and that by Gen
eral Crooks staff during the first year of
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

POLITICIANS who claim to know the
force OF the wind and the direction of the
current, quietly assent that should Gene
raj Arthur decline to be a candidate for
the presidency, Secretary Lincoln will be
taken up by the stalwarts. Mr.. Lincoln's
canvass would be made on his fathers
reputation. 1t would be a campaign
based on a powerful personal sentiment.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

THERE was another furry OIL Wall street
yesterday in which the bears came off
victorious, forcing stock down to the
lowest notch they have reached for years,
Great excitement was caused on the
street by the failure of George William
Ballon 81 Co., II of the largest firms
of brokers in the city. 1t is rumored
that several other firms are seriously en-.
bariassed.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15
Reports from financial centers show

REPORTS from financial centers show u
continued decline in speculation and a
decrease in bank clearings which are now
% per cent. lower than at the CORES
ponding period last year. No record of
the clearanccs of Omaha banks is pub
lished because Omaha bankers refuse to
pay the necessary clerk hire to compile
a weekly statement of the amount of
business transacted through their insti-
buttons.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

The Chicago Inter ocean has a leading
article on "The Dangers of Prosperity"
They are great. No one will attempt to
deny it. But the Inconvenience of adj
versity are even greater.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

SENATOR ALLISON will receive general
sympathy in his affection. Mr.. Allison is
one of the a lest and ~clearest handed
men in the senate and is personally popu-
lar among his constituents.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

AT the rate at which grading contracts
are being let, the surplus of funds in the
city treasury available for electric light
ing promises to be too small to be seen
with the largest kind of a microscope.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

BANK failures and business failures
while giving no sure grounds for fear that
a panic is upon us, show that prices and
speculation have dropped close to the
haitian
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

The subcommittee of the senate com
mittee on labor is in session in New York
investigating the telegraph strike and it's
causes. The statistics collected will fur
nish an excellent basis for pressing the
popular demand for u postal telegraph
system before the next congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

THERE is a rush of immigration towards
Washington Territory and labor is said to
be in excellent demand in the territory
of Henry Willard.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

Sr. PAUL is erecting over 100 brick
business houses costing nearly $4,000, 900
and 145 frame stores worth an additional
half a million.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

AN attempt, of Parnell, to rebuke the
English government through the defeat
Of the appropriation bill for the Irish
prosecutions failed yesterday in the house
of
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15
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