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Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

ish a certain band for offences committed
and fails TO do 80, they lose confidence in
him. If he is more merciful than he
promised to be, they discover in that
manifestation a weakness which dimin-
ishes their respect. But if he Stays,
whips or otherwise Furnishes, as he has
threatened, they fear, respect and trust
him. They place their lives in his hands,
confident hat they will be treated well or
i'll as they may deserve. The Indians have
the utmost confidence in General Crook.
He has always kept his word with them,
and especially when he has promised
them a drubbing. He relies upon his
Indian guides under circumstances which
would inspire distrust in another gen
eral. 1t would seem to follow that he
knows how to treat them SO as to insure
their good behavior in the future. The
bewildered war department might, there
fore, safely leave the solution of this In
dian problem to General Crook, and place
mea at his disposal to carry out his
vieAs. If he has made any blunder 80
far, it is in too much success. He brought
back more captives than the authorities
know what to do with.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28
Its Political Effect.

Buffalo Express.
That the common sense of the country
hould hold the present administration
ultimately responsible for the hideous
mockery of justice in the failure of tho
star route prosecutions is not a natural
result, though, as we have before said, it
does not appear to be a just conclusion,
at least 30 far as the president is con-
cerned. The common sense of the coun-
try is not, as a matter Of course, infaiii.
bic in judgment, though it is not very
frequently at fault.
But be that as it may, in this case, the
republican party certainly cannot afford
to take issue with the conclusions of the
country's common sense. The political
effect of this costly burlesque upon crimi-
nal prosecution must be taken into &C
count. Nothing could better serve the
ambition of the democratcy than to have
its antagonist heavily handicapped in the
struggle by being forced to carry the dead
weight of Dorsey. And the conspicu.
GUS part played by the great I'm.
convicted in the last election can
not be forgotten and will not be over.
looked. The enemy is quick to see the
mischief in it. A noted democratic pcli.
tician was heard to say the other day
after dinner: "We've got EN-! we've got
EN-! BY - we have only got to say
nothing and do nothing, and we have go'
EN- sure!" In commenting on this story
Harper's Weekly shrewdly remarks; I'll
vino ~veritas, and it is worth while to SCI
in this expression and in the tone of thu
democratic press the probable line Of thu
democratic campaign"
The way to thwart the democratic plal
is to do just the contrary of what it
leaders expect. The republican part,
must not rest content with repudiatinI
all responsibility for Dorsey and his pals
it must decline TO identify itself wit
those who are by the country held re
sponsible for the costly failure to convic
the star route thieves.
Whether that failure is the fault o
only the misfortune OF the administra
ton, is no great matter from q politics
point of Wow. The real question i
whether in the .next fight the republica
, party can bear to be put on the defensiv
: in an untenable position, merely to Jul
!. tify the administration. We don't thin
it can. The party will have enough
. hold its own, on the strongest ..groun
: with the strongest men at the front.
0 must not undertake to do battle with Il
: common sense of the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28
Crooks Captives.

San Francisco Call. T
y The question which puzzles the war
and interior departments is what to do
with General Crooks captives. The in
terror department sustains the Indian
agent at San Carlos in his objection to
receiving these wild Apaches, and the
war department does not know what else
to do with them. The situation is the
more complicated by the report that
there are one hundred and fifty to one
hundred and seventy-iive warlike Chiri-
cahuas who propose to surrender upon
condition that Crook will guarantee good
treatment. The only thing that stands
out with certainty in this Indian business
is that General Crook surprised the
war department by coming back with a
train of captives. The presumption APP
parently was either that he would get
killed himself or kill all the Indians he
might encounter. The time seems to
have arrived, if indeed it did not arrive
some years ago, when a steady policy
should be adopted toward. hostiles In
dams. Ii tribes or bands are to be hello
responsible for crimes committed by on,
or more of their number, let that policy
W ptuSibiiito tiiu hootsiitiCo SaAiiSo VI
with the understanding that captive'
would be treated according as evidence
against them might determine
The band could choose between
the surrender of the really guilt,
parties and the punishment o
certain leaders who might or might no
be guilty of the crimes charged agains
the band. The Indians Crook has in hi
charge are known collectively to hav'
committed many murders. Precisel,
upon what terms they have surrendered
is not known, but probably not with tn
expectation of being punished severed,
for their crimes. The one hundred an'
, fifty Indians still at large, who propos
to surrender il General Crook can assur
them Of good treatment, certainly do no
expect to be hanged, rs the,
: really deserve to be. The lac
of a policy in the treatmen
; of hostile savages has doubles
caused many outrages TO be committed
There is nothing which touches the saw
) age mind like keeping faith. If a mil
| tary leader declares his purpose to pun
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

NEw YORK republicans, after a vigor-
Gus effort to restore party harmony, seem
to be as far removed as ever from the
point after which they have been striving.
The party machinery is still controlled
by the stalwarts and the $4,000 half
breeds who refused to vote for Folger
last fall are practically as much unrepre-
sented as they were before that memo
able campaign. A bourbon is a man who
never forgets anything and never learns
anything. The bourbon republicans
seem to be doing their best to destroy
what little is left of the republican party
of fifteen years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28
A Little Girl Sent by Express.
ll...iIIa M \ IIarald

At the Buffalo, New York & Philadel-
phia station yesterday, on the arrival of
the 2;55 train, there stepped down a pert
little miss of possibly four winters and as
many summers. Upon her hat was
pinned a label with the words, ''Titusville,
Crawford county, Pa, and a similar one
decorated her waist. These tables told
more of her than she herself could tell,
for she only knew that she was Maggie,
the daughter of John Brennan. 1t seems
that she came from Smithport, starting
yesterday morning, and though without
a ticket or money, had come through
direct, and without missing connection.
Inquiry further developed the fact that
several days ago Brennan, who resides at
Selkirk or Grand Valley, inquired at the
express Office for a little girl who was to
come through by express. 1t was this
knowledge that enabled McVelta, of the
express company, to tell where the pre-
%cocious child belonged. James Petit
gress took her in charge, and she will be
sent to her father to-day.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

The Mississippi at st. Louis is said to
be higher than it has been in twenty-five
years, but the latest dispatches announce
the water as falling with good prospects
that the bottoms will be in sight again in
a few days. The damage done at East
st. Louis to railroads and manufacturing
interests is put at scarcely less than a
million, while the OVERLOOKING of the
banks along the Illinois shore north and
south of that point will almost equal that
amount.
Although high water in the Missouri
and its tributaries has not reached the
same stage as in the Mississippi, there
has been a great deal of damage done in
various parts of Nebraska and Missouri,
particularly at Kansas City and st
Joseph and along the valley of the Ne
maha in this state. The incessan'
rains Of the past few weeks
have swollen the smaller streams
and railroad bridges and embankment
by the hundreds have been washed away
The st. Joseph & Western and the Atch
ison a. Nebraska have been the heavies
sufferers of the local roads, but all tn
trunk roads have suffered more or less
For more than a week past mails ant
passengers from the south and southeas
have been forwarded i~rregularly AM
with difficulty. In Nemaha county tn
damage to property is reported at 500,
900, and johnson county is a heavy suf
ferer. Northern Nebraska has escapes
with comparatively trihing losses, al
though wind and rain have combined il
doing a small amount of damage over
large area. The Missouri at this poin
has noe been at all threatening and i
now falling.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

The BEE as usual leads its contem-
poraries in a review Of Omaha's school in.
terests and the full reports of the work
and condition of our city educational sys-
tenn will .Bes read with general gratifca-
ton. Omaha cxpends $l0O, 900 annually
on her schools, whose standard Of eti-
cheney is steadily increasing. There are
-still many improvements that might be
made, and that will doubtless be made in
the near future when opportunity and
permit; but in their present con
dition u schools are something Of which
the city may well be proud, and they re
fleet credit on both superintendent, prin
cipals and teachers.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

Iowa republicans are now in conven-
ton at Des Moines. A governor and
member of the supreme court are the
principal nominations to be made, but
interest chiefly centers upon the posi-
ton which the party will adopt in regard
to constitutional and statutory prohibi-
ton in the state. 1t seems certain at the
time of writing that there is a clear ma
jority of prohibition delegates in the
convention, and the party will again
commit itself to a policy which common
sense and experience have proved to be
but impracticable and d~estructible to
party organization. The record of pro-
hibition during thirty years of the trial
has shown c~onclusively that an absolute
refusal TO sanction the sale of all intoxi-
eating liquors only makes free trade il
whisky selling while it deprives the stat,
of the revenue derived from its taxation
And the principal history o
the past three years hai
demonstrated that any party that ven
lures 10 run counter to common sense b.
committing itself to that system will b.
disrupted within a comparatively shor
period. No one is prepared to deny thu
evils resulting from the liquor traffic, o
TO underestimate the value of any metho'
which gives a reasonable assurance o
restraining or curing them. The trouble
with an absolutely prohibitory system
that it has never been enforced, an'
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28
NO 4 LSSIrES.

There are really DO great issues be-
tween the live parties" said Abrsm s.
Hewitt the other day to an interviewer.
That is the truth in a very small nutshell.
1t would take a powerful telescope to
discover the question of vital public in
terest upon which the opinions of the two
political parties have crystallized sufi-
GENTLY on different lines to make it an
issue.
There is no issue ON the tariff.
Both parties demand a tariff for rev.
enue with incidental protection for
industry and affording liberal compensa-
ton for American labor. But the demo-
cratic and republican leaders are shrewd
enough to forsee that a campaign with
free trade as the issue would certainly be
a losing one. Indiana and Ohio were
largely lost by the democrats in 1880 on
this battlefield. The mistake is not like
ly to be repeated in 1884. Civil service
reform is not an issue between the par
ties. Each is interested in the civil SER
vice chiefly for the patronage
which it offers. A civil service
reform which will keep the ms
in is as enthusiastically believed in
by the republican leaders, as is one that
will put the ms out by the democrats.
The politicians of both parties have a
supreme contempt for rules and regula-
tions, excepting as they will allay popu-
lar clamor and stop the mouths of the
theorists.
Nor is there any issue upon the ques-
ton of the finances. Resumption has
taken that trying question out of politics,
and the sVeady funding and payment of
the public debt has removed all induce
ments for tinkering with the treasury de-
partment. Upon the advisability of con-
tinued silver coinage there is some diff
ference in the opinions of party leaders,
but no fixed consent in the party organi-
cation.
No one who has watched the records of
congress and the professions of party
platforms will venture to assert that the
restriction of monopoly is an issue be-
fore the live parties. While no portion
of the record Of the republicans has been
more open to criticism by its opponents,
the railroad and industrial Hobbies in con
gress have been as largely recruited from
the democratic as from the republican
ranks, and no democratic leader has
dared to arraign republicanism on this
ground for fear of hurting a boomerang
which would return to his W party
ranks.
Mr.. Hewitt is quite right. "There
are really no great issues between the
two parties"-because both of the exist
ing dominant parties are too cowardly to
make an issue of a score of important
questions which are pressing for political
solution.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

or $4,000 a year they would value their
positions more, and, therefore, would be
honest in their dealings with the COM
pany. He was satisfied that the charge
of dishonesty of conductors was greatly
exaggerated. A mans honesty could be
usually rated by his habits on the road
and at home. He would not employ a
man who loitered around saloons, bucket
shops and gambling-dens, and drove fast
horses. Conductors should be paid sala-
ries which would permit of their laying
by something for old age. He felt graft
fed always when he heard a conductor
who had been on the road twenty-five or
thirty years had a nice home or good
farm, and he would be the last man to
insinuate that because he has so ~prospered
that such property had been purchased
by stealing from the road on which such
conductor ran.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28
Issues for 1884,

Philadelphia Record.
Our esteemed contemporary, The New
York Sun, filings out the banner to the
breeze:
Turn out the Rdscdls!
The Republican Party must go!
The Den Of Thieves must be cleared
ont!
The device is excellent. On the other
side of the banner should be painted:
Turn in The other Rascals!
II is time for q change!
When there is nc Quarrel about
Principles there should be no monopoly
Of Punder!
SO emblazoned, on the one side and
the other, The Suns banner should be a
hit.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

Passenger Conductors.

indianapolis Journal.
An ex-railroad manager, who in days
past has ranked among the best, and
who well understands what is expected
of passenger conductors, remarked yes
terday that he did not approve of the
methods now adopted to ascertain wheth-
err conductors were honest. He thought
the tendency was to degrade the service
and make dishonest men of those who
were honest. This ''spotter" business,
he said, was creating a sentiment with
the travelling public that all passenger
conductors were thieves. This, he was
satisfied, was not the case. He was con-
tdent that as a large per cent. of the
conductors were honest as in any other
service on railways, in banks or bus
mess establishments. He thought too
much was expected of a conductor for
the salary paid him. For instance he is
expected to dress neatly, and to do so he
must purchase three or four suits OF
clothing a year, as the wear and tear is
great in railroad service. The conductor
is paid 500 to 500 a month, and the
earnings of nearly two months are re-
CURED to clothe him properly. Usually
a conductor is away from his home two
thirds of his time, and he is expected tc
board at a good hotel, to make friend.
to the road with which he is connected
by keeping his end up in treating to
cigars, etc. In fact he is subjected e
numerous incidental expenses, the eyad'
ing of which would damage his reputa
ton and that Of the road. He remarked
that we laughed derisively when it wa,
said he must have agood watch; if he hac
a poor one it would not be safe for himtc
run his trains by it. The fact was that
conductors position, at best, was II re
sponsible one and productive of large ex
penses, and he should be paid a good sal
ary-one on which he could take care o
his family properly and conform to al
reasonable requirements of his position
which he cannot do ON 800 per month
He thought were conductors paid 3 100
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

THERE is a great deal of misapprehen-
sion about what the government means
by paupcr emigrants and some high
minded philanthropists are protesting
against its refusal to offer asylum to
every class of refugees regardless of their
previous condition or present circum-
stances. Theoretically, it makes little
difference to our government whether an
emigrant is rich or poor so long as he can
take care of himself when he lands on
our shores and is not Mt once made a
charge on public charity. Our country
is big enough to absorb many millions of
able bodied men and industrious
women who as producers will add to its
wealth and increase its incorporating
capacity. But we do object to being
made the receptacle for Swiss beggars
and cripples, French criminals
and the poor creatures who are
collected from Irish warehouses
and lshipped by the hundreds
from Queenstown and Cork in order tc
relieve England of the expense of %careine
for them. We have enough native pau.
pers and ~unfortunates ithout furnish, =,
hospitals an!d! raves fox these nom othe
Countries. Neither New York or othe
seaboard states can afford to increas
their burdens in maintaining local char
ties for the purpose Of tightening tn
load caused by English misrule. That
the position taken by the state. depart
: ment, and II is the correct one. w
: want all the able-bodied emigrants VIII
can land, and We are ready to welconl
them and to furnish them opportuniti,
o for lettering their social and politics
Q condition. But decrepit old men All
Q women, beggars, cripples and crimina
= shipped by foreign governments to Il
United States, will not be received witt
It out an energetic protest.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28
In ordering a stricter enforcement of the

In ordering a ~stricter enforcement of the
law against gambling houses, Mayor
Chase has taken a step that will be gen.
orally commended by our citizens. With
in the last year the number of disrepu-
table sporting men in Omaha has been
greatly increased, until the city swarms
with crooks who class themselves as
gamblers in order to hide their real pro.
fession. If gambling cannot be entirely
suppressed, gamblers can at least be made
to ply their trade behind closed doors,
and with a little display Of energy they
a be cleared out, and the business left
in the hands of men whose antecedents
are known to the police.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

ST.. PAUL has just passed a rigid build
ing ordinance which provides for the SUI
perintendence Of the erection of public
buildings, sewer connections and plumb
ing and safeguards against loss of life or
property by fire. Omaha needs a build
ing law scarcely less than St. Paul, but
the effort made by Councilman Herman
more than a year ago fell fiat. 1t cannot
be revived too soon.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

never can be, because a state law cannot
restrain a personal appetite. The true
method Of dealing with the problem is
that which Nebraska has adopted in her
high license system, which places such
checks and restraints around the business
as to throw it into responsible hands, and
at the same time brings our schools a
handsome and increasing evenue
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

In is reported that Montgomery Blair
is dying, Mr.. Blair Gomez from a fam
lily of distinguished politicians. His ia
Their, Francis Preston Blair, was
one of the founders of the re-
publican party. His brother, Frank p.
Blair was the democratic candidate for
the vice-presidency in 1868. MI. Blair
himself was one of the counsel in the
famous bred Scott case, and entered Mr..
Lincoln's cabinet as postmaster general.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

THE investigation Of the Office of Super
vising Architect Hill, at Washington, is
bringing out some scandalous testimony,
which, If sustained, will place Mr.. Hill
side by side with Robson, Babcock,
Belknap e. Co, as another monument of
republican misrule.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

NEBRASKA farmers are too busy cult
waiting crops to write much for thepapers
or to attend many anti-monopoly meet
ings, but they are doing a powerful sight
Of thinking on the great issue Of the day.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

DISMISSAL from the army and eighteen
months in the penitentiary was the SEN
tence of the court martial in the Wasson
case, while those who ought to know
claim that the president will approve.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

The Ohio supreme court has declared
the Scott liquor tax law constitutional.
The election music will now begin to
play in the Buckeye state with Hoadly
and Foraker as the rival band leaders.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

No MORE letters have been printed
lately from Dorsey and there is some
anxiety expressed over the report that he
has has abandoned his intention Of pub
lishing a Complete Political Letter
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

THE Chicago Herald makes the peril.
nent query whether the secretary of the
navy will throw in the useless officers
when he sells the useless ships.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28
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E. RosEwATER, Editor.

COLORADO sandstone will be a milestone
around the neck of every councilman who
votes to force it upon our citizens against
their expressed will.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28
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Mr.. Hewitt is quite right. ''There
are really no great issues between the
two parties"-because both of the exist
ing dominant parties are too cowardly to
make an issue of a score of important
questions which are pressing for political
solution
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28
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