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Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12
pleodiry,otbew world.

In sentencing the anarchists on SatlT-
day last, Judge Gary said in reference to
their elaborate speeches: 81 am quite
we'll aware that what you have said, al
though addressed to me, has been said to
the world" Ii is an evidence of the Sc
curity which our authorities feel in an in
telligont public opinion that these men
were given full liberty and as much time
as they chose to preach anew their doc
trines. They knew, as the court did,
that the telegraph would carry their ut
tcrances abroad over the land and that
every socialist and anarchist in the
country was as much part of their audi
ence us if they had been present in
Haymarkct square when like language
melted to deeds of blood.
Not in France, Germany, Austria, Rus
sia, IN fact, not in any country in Europe
would these men have been allowed, as
Parsons and Spies were, to occupy nearly
whole day each in the utterances of
their treason against the peace and order
of society. 1t was an abuse of their priv
ilege to say why sentence of death should
not be passed upon them, for them to re-
iterate their sedition and insult the Off
GERS of justice. 1t was taking advantage
of the courts mercy and the
peoples forbearance to justify
their hellish acts and call upon their fol-
lowers in effect to revenge their deaths.
And should these men escape yet by any
quIbble of law, they would be sure to at
tribute that escape to the intimidation of
the higher court by their seditious
speeches.
The whole country will join in the earn
est hope that not loop.hole exists for
these murderers' escape. Their speeches
in the court room would justify their
hanging as enemies of civilization, law
and order, had they done no more. They
repent of nothing that they have done and
in effect declare that they would do it
again. Everything that civilization
gives us of any value the acts and teach
ings of these men imperil, and they should
have no more mercy shown them than
the laws of all nations show to PIRATES.
The press dispatches represent the
judge, after sentencing Neebe to the pen
itentiary, as saying that each of the
other defendants shall be hung by
the neck until he is dead" Presumably
the Judge would make no mistake in this
matter, and vet it seems curious to sen,
tence men by wholesale instead of each
one separately and by name. 1t wou Id
indeed be strange should every other de-
tail of the trial stand, and this be fatal
de feet
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12
SEND BACK THE O5ELISk.
CIcopatra's Needle in New York a Re-
proach to the Nation.

Charles Chaille Long in the North
American Review: The secretary of state
at Washington was doubtless kept in
ignorance not only of the state of public
feeling, so manifestly hostile TO the re-
moval of the obelisk, but, more import
ant still, of the opposition of the khedlye,
which was only too apparent in his reply
to the interested consular agent, who did
not scruple TO employ the authority of his
Office to force the khedive to consent.
rewfk SAID: "Mr. Consul, take it; my
people complain; ] am delighted to see
that they appreciated these antiquities; |
agree with them that they are of great
historical value to us, but do not wish
to offend the great republic. This is not
the language surely OF ono who makes
a voluntary gift, but one made under
compulsion, and its acquisition was
neither "creditable to our nation nor ito
our day." and it is certain that Mr..
EYarts would never have authorized such
action had he been kept advised of the
true condition of affairs. But then it was
idle to expect that this should be so. the
United States consulate in Egypt has
been for many years an Augean stable,
and quite beyond the control of the secre-
taries of state, who seem to have aban-
doned 1t heretofore TO the questionable
care of their suhordinates. And hence
the series of scandals which have made it
famous"
Other nations, it may be objected, have
taken obelisks from Egypt. True, but
they found them buried in the sand, or
they took them from ssome remote and
ruined city. Cleopatra's needle stood on
a fixed and solid foundation in the beau
tiful and populous city founded by Alex
ander the Great. II WAS the only monu-
ment within the limits OF the city. 1t
was a monument Of Egyptian fame,
Egyptian art, and bore the name OF a
celebrated Egyptian queen. In Egypt it
represented part of her glorious his.
tory. In America it is meaningless and
senseless. Had one been constructed Qf
soap it would have been as appropriate
and perhaps just as enduring AT any
rate, no wrong would have been COM
mitted-no country despoiled.
Who shall say that the acknowledged
disintegratOn of the obclisk now is not
due to the intervention Of some ayenging
spirit, who seeks 10 redress its wrongs,
and thus commits Its crumbling sands to
winds which wait them back TO its east
ern home, there 10 eommingle with the
dust of ages from whence il Gamer BE
this as it may, lot us anticipate its abso-
lutte decay, and as / have already sug.
gested, raise a popular subscription and
"return TO the despoiled and outraged
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12
The Difference.

The Chicago anarchists convicted, not
of murder but of conspiracy against soci-
euy, are to hang. The public and the
press generally applauds the action.
Fear of social violence and of the results
which may follow the teachings of these
misguided men has aroused pressure
of public opinion under which they have
been crushed. But how is it with regard
to other conspira.ors and other conspl-
racies?
The coal carriers of Pennsylvania, roll
ing in wealth and high in social influence,
have conspired to restrict the production
of coal at the mines. They have decreed
that to raise the product used alike by
poor and rich, thousands of laboring
men shall be thrown out of work and
women and children be deprived of 4
more than bare subsistence to
increase the boards of millionaire
capitalists Hunger and poverty, perhaps
starvation will be results of this con-
spiracy against society. But not voice
is raised to talk of lynching or the gal.
lows, and press, pulpit and lecture plat
form dismiss the subject as one of triiilng
importance at best, outside the reach of
law and small in comparison with the
| conspiracy which led to the Haym ark ket
riot of last May.
In st. Louis Jay Gould and his asso-
ciates have conspired to throttle all
competition in transportation Within
| the past few days they have gathered to-
| gether all the outlets from Illinois coal
mines, the belt line which circles East St.
Louis and the bridges and ferries which
| cross the river. With no aim but their
own personal aggrandisement, these cor
| poration conspirators have carried into
| successful operation a plot against the
| liberties of one of our largest cities by
| which every man, woman and child can
| be taxed at their mercy. But no court of
criminal jurisdiction will be invoked,
No jury of their peers is likely to pass o
verdict upon the offense. No judge will
assume the black cap and pass sentence
upon conspiracy whose effect may be
more widely destructive than that for
which Spies and Fielden, Parson, Schwab
and their associates will suffer before the
| year has ended.
| 1t is easy to reach and easier still to en-
force the penalties of the law against
men whom poverty and vice drive into
antagonism to human life and social
order. The anarchlsm of the poor is
hemmed in by statute restrictions. OH
GERS of the law stand ready at any mo-
ment TO apprehend the offenders. The
press may be counted upon to mould
public opinion against the criminals, and
society will applaud the sound of the
drop which hurries them off into eter-
nifty. But the socialism of the rich, the
conspiracies of capital, the attacks upon
the economic laws of supply and demand.
whose free and untrammelled working it
Is to the highest interest of society to
| preserve, stand on different footing.
'Enemics to society" seems to have a
restricted application, bounded by the
wealth of the offender and the glamour
which millions of money throw over
wrong doing.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

WHEN MIR. S. Ii. Calhoun formally no.
titled the democratic convention at Hast
ings by letter that, having been ap-
pointed to a federal Office he could not,
in obedience to the presidents circular
order, be present at their deliberations,
he made himself needlessly conspicuous.
1t is probable that he would not have
been missed had he not written. 1t is
probable also that if there had been any
chance to elect the nominees he would
have been there anyway. As 1t was, he
had a chance to show his loyalty to the
president without hurting the party.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12
The Tides of Trade.

Bradstrcot's record of failures through.
out the United States for the nine months
ending with September, as compared
with the same period of 1885, is very fav-
orable TO the current year, the number
being Sl1 less. The assets this year TO
liabilities were S7,397, 07O more than last
year, showing al improvement also in
that direction. In New York city, how
ever, there has been an increase of lSi
failures In this Year over 1885.
The record of Bradstreet's shows an in.
innate connection between failures, rail
road building and immigration. Thus
and in 1873 the great panic, praelpitated
by the failure of jay Cook, began. Then
immigration foil off steadily, reaching it's
lowest point-l4l ,s57-in 1878. In that
year also We had the greatest number of
failures before 1884, viz. l0,47s. As the
country began TO recover from its depres-
sion the resumption of railroad building
and the increase of immigration went
hand in hand, until 1892, when we built
the extraordinary amount of 1885 miles
OF road for the nine months and received
n foreign access Of population of 7sS, ,092.
In that year business failures fell TO Z, ,e35
for the sans period.
Then followed another depression. In
1888 failures increased TO 10. .29O, and but
1895 miles of road were built. In 1894
there were II SEQ failures, and but 2Gl9
miles OF road built, Immigration mean.
while having fallen 10 something like
1856, 600. Last year our failures were 800
less than in 1854. and for the nine months
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12
Paws widow a Pensioner.

The secretary of the Interior has re-
versed the decision Of Commissioner
Black on the claim of Lila May Pavy,
widow of Dr. Octave Payy, late acting
assistant surgeon United States Army,
under contract with the Greedy oXpedi.
ton, who died of starvation mt Cape
Sabine about June 6, 1881 Some days
prior to the termination of Dr. Paws
second yearly contract he notified Lieu
tenant Greely that he would moi renew
his contract for a third year, but
would continue TO serve without
pay. A short time thereafter Lieu.
tenant Greedy placed him under arrest,
charging, among other things, insubor.
dination. While still under arrest and
after the expiration of his service con.
tract he died The commissioner of pen
sions rejected the claim upon the ground
that he was not at the time of his death
in the service of the United States. The
secretary. in reversing the commission
er's decision, is OF the opinion that, be.
ing under orders OF an army officer, at
the time of his death, he was, under
liberal Interpretation Of the law, in the
government service, and the war and
navy department having paid his widow
for his services up 10 his death thu peti.
ton should be granted, Mrs, Payy's
name was ordered 10 be placed on tho
pension roll at$l7 per month.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12
PIeuro Pneumonia,

The frequent appearance of pleuro
pneumonia among eastern cattle at vari-
GUS places widely separated is most
alarming. The danger of a general epi-
demic and the urgent necessity for the
use of every precautiou against the
spread of the disease cannot be too
strongly urged upon the stock growers of
the west. The evident reluctance OF the
authorities to take prompt and effective
measures to stamp out the malady where
it has appeared is piece of criminal
negligence from which the entire
west may be made to suffer.
Pleuro pneumonia is the most insidious
and deadly disease TO which cattle are
subjected. 1t is communicable on the
slightest contact and no known remedy
affected herds. In its rapid
spread it is without parallel among dis
eases TO which cattle are subjected. In
England alone since the effects have
been noted S400 900 worth of stock
have fallen victim to its ravages.
Such scourage is not 10 be tampered
with. 1t cannot be handled with gloves.
While doctors and commissions are dis
putting, the seeds for millions of dollars
ofloss to the stock interests of the United
States are being swiftly disseminated.
Every animal that has been exposed in
the slightest degree may at some futur
time become new centre for contagion.
Every stable or feeding ground, box car
OF cattle pen where one of these were
kept may poison healthy herd. Once
started on its tour the deadly infection
can scarcely be stamped out by any
amount of care and energy.
The duty of the authorities east is plain
Every infected animal should be at once
slaughtered with every animal that has
been in the least exposed. There should
be no temporizing, no counting of the
| present cost, nor figuring up OF values
lost or injury done. The value of all the
beasts in the Chicago yards would be a
triiling bagatelle 10 the damage which
might be caused by the escape of a single
affected animal.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

Hon. GEORGE ID. MEIKELJoHN has
been rcnominated for the state senate by
the republicans of the Twenty seventh
senatorial district The endorsement is
a deserved one. Mr.. Meikeliohn has done
good service for the people of Nebraska
at the state capital. His record in the
last legislature was without flaw. Hon
estly representing the wishes of his con-
stituency, he set his face firmly against
the Establishments of the railway lobby,
and proved an able and efficient advocate
of the interests of the producing classes.
Mr.. Meikeliohn will receive a rouslng
majority,
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

AS the Sixteenth street viaduct ap.
proachcs completion, the value of this
important Improvement becomes more
apparent 1t will give Omaha north
and south thoroughfare, practically
level, for four miles of its length and
paved for nearly half that distance. Six
teenth street has improved as rapidly as
any of our leading streets, and at no
distant day is destined to be q great
retail thoroughfare throughout large
portion of its entire length. But the
viaducts on Sixteenth and Eleventh
streets will not only improve the streets
for which they form bridges. Their COM
pletion will raise property values in the
entire section across the tracks which is
now rendered inconvenient of access.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

THERE is not a republican on the
Douglas county Legislative ticket who
favors prohibition. Not one. Each and
every candidate stands firmly on the
platform adopted by the republican
county convention several weeks before
the republican state convention passed
their submission resolution. Douglas
county republicans, like the republicans
in dozens of other counties in Nebraska
believe in home rule and will voice their
beliefin practical way in the legislature.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12
PoeticaI Grammar.
Three little words you often see
Are articles, a, an and the.

Three little words you often see
Are articles, a, an and the.
A nouns the name of anything,
AS school or garden, hoop OF swing.
Adjectiyes the kind of noun,
AS great, small, pretty, white or brown.
Instead Of nouns the pronouns stand
Her head, his face, your arm, my hand.
Verbs tell something TO be done
To read, count, laugh, sing, jump, or run.
How things are done the adyerbs tell,
AS slowly, quickly, i'll or well,
Conjunctions join the words together,
AS men and women, wind or weather.
The proposition stands before,
A noun, as in Q er through the door
The interjection shows surprise,
AS o how pretty, All how wise.
The whole are called nine parts OF speech,
Which reading, writing, spelling teach.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

SENATOR VAN WYoK is the only avowed
candidate Of the republican party in this
state. There are said TO be three or four
other candidates in reserve who base
their hopes on the support of the rail
roads, but General Van Wyck is the only
one, who has appealed to the party for q
reelection based on his past record and
who has been endorsed by convention
after convention of straight-out republi-
cans as their choice for the senatorial
sueeession,
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS has sent
his annual report to the secretary OF the
interior. 1t will be an interesting and
readable document for the land-grabbers
when the details are made public. In
spite OF abuse and detraction. Mr.. Sparks
has kept at work unearthing frauds and
throwing new safeguards around the
rapidly decreasing public domain by
which several millions of acres OF the
public lands have been wrested from
illegal holders and restored TO the people.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12
GENERAL KAuLDARs still ren

GENERAL KAULDARs still remains in
Bulgaria melting opposition TO the
government and tomcntlng insurroc-
ton. General Kaulbars' programme is
somewhat similar to that of Baron
Mentchikoff Mt Constantinople in 1883
where he tried 20 bully the sultan into
conceding the ezar's claims and sue.
-.ceeded in drawing on the war for viii ch
Russia was thrsting.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

1.-THE senatorial boomlets of the railroad
candidates ought to be set in soak for
sprouting at an early day. The election
is only three weeks away, and General
Van WYck's supporters seem TO be in
heavy majority.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

GRADING has begun on Harney street
and is in process of completion on
Leavenworth. Omaha is rapidly bring
ing her east and west thoroughfares down
to grades which materially shorten time
and distances between the city suburbs
and the neighboring county precincts.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

ANNOUNCEMENT is made of the compile
ton of the "Belt Line" The BELT
Line" is the Missouri Pacific entrance
into Omaha, nothing more and nothing
less. 1t was shrewd scheme to enlist
local interest in a pretended local road
which was in reality only the extension
of Jay Gould's southwestern octapus.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

NEW YORK reports loss of S34, 900, ,OC0
IN her bank reserve from the amount
held year ago. This is an indication
that the hoardings OF capitalists have left
the bank vaults and gone into the chan
nels of trade.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

CONTINUED complaint is made of the
drenching of our streets by the watering
carts. The complaints are well founded.
The contractors who have the job IN hand
should be brought up with round turn
and compelled to change the size of their
sprlnklers. As an alternative 10 steady
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

SIX republican collectors of internal
revenue have so far escaped the official
guillotiue at Washington, Their death
warrants are beng prepared. MIR. Cleve-
land proposes to enforce his peculiar
views of civil service reform II il sweeps
the name of the last republican Office
holder from the pages of the blue book.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

For Governor-JOHN NJ. THAYER.
For Lieut.. Govcnor-H. IL. SHEDD.
For Secretary of State-G. w. LAWS.
For Treasurer-C. II. WILLARD.
For Auditor--H. A. BABCOCK.
For Attorney General-WILLIAM LEESF
For CON- Public Laads-JoSEPH SCOTT
For Supt. Public nstruction-GEO,B.LA b. LANE
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

JAKE SHARP will squeal on the Doodle
aldermen of New York. The man who
squeals on the Doodle candidate from
Nemaha Will create almost as much of a
sensation if he tells the whole story of
Church Howe's private and public
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

EX-SENATOR HILL of Colorado claims
that his defeat for the senate was due to
the corporation who paid rs high as
$1,000 for votes against him. Mir. Hill
oyerestimates his Importance. The
average Colorado legislator can be cor
rallied for quarter of the money.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12
Honors TO Minnie Hauk.

NHIcuu1 TffTIIi.
When Minnie Hank sang at Bozeman, NJ.
T., the other evening the resources OF the
territory were taxed 10 their utmost by the
gentlemen who wished TO do her honor. One
admiTer sent up between acts two gold mug
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

city OF Alexandria her lost monuu, 70.
This would be an act worthy of gear
Gus people" This is far better {. a
parailine waterproof, which only p3s"
longs the agony. Tho obelisk Is sufCrj :;
from consumption, and only ChaLE yf
climate can save il from annihilatioa
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

MINISTER JACKSON has been recalled
by Mr.. Bayard from the Mexican mis-
sion. This will unpleasantly recall
Sedgwick to Mr.. Jacksons memory.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

In London sewer gas is destroyed by
electricity. The genius who can invent
an electric plant to destroy the stencil
from Omaha slaughter houses will be
placed nicho above Edison in the pop
ular esteem.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

THE report comes that Secretary Endi.
colt is anxious to hand in his resignation
as Secretary of War, tho reason assigned
being his disgust with the interminable
iealousies and wire pullngs in the ser.
vice and the quarres and backbtings
among officers of high rank There is
doubtless much truth in the complaints
of the secretary. In these piping times
of peace promotion is slow and rivalry
runs riot. Washington, however, is the
worst place TO observe the operation of
the army. The soft service brigade
with which Mr. Endcott is thrown most
in contact eXaggerates all the faults and
and shows fewer of the virtues of the
army officer than in any other station in
the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12
Too BrainY.


Mr.. Henry George is making a remarkably
energetic canvass, and is arOusing much en-
thuSiasm, but, nevertheless, he will probably
be defeated. lie is altogether too brainy a
man for a mayor, as mayors 80 nova
days.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

THE cable road is still puzzle which
is being solved very slowly, The ques-
ton is whether 1t is "a combination
puzzle in which the street car company
will ultimately have something to say.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

ABOUT the time the cable cars begin
running, and regular trips of suburban
trains are made on the BELT Line the
real estate boom will take another rise.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12
Our Eccentric Language.

The eceontricities Of the EngIi5h IAN
guage are often the subject OF foreign
dissatisfaction, and form the obstacle OF
A Hollander of education who was lately
called upon to address an American
meeting illustrated the trials In language
by most natural slip in synonyms;
Ladies and gentlemen" he said, feel
ing his way with care, sit is great pleas.
ure for me to speak words 10 you. The
convention is so homelike to me, and the
people of the convention are SO pleasant
and so hoInely." At this point sub
proceeded il was evident that he was in
nocent of the turn his compliment had
taken.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12
delicate washington Persifiage.

NuSHIlgtOh tFVIc..
as Cleveland back?" said visitor TO a
funny man in Newspaper Row. The papers
say 50" was the reply; "but 1 think he Is
more stomach than back"
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

dust we now have continual mud. Y Citi-
zens owning carriages complain as loudly
as pedestrians, After a ten minutes
drive on some of our paved streets in the
wake of the sprinkling carts, a buggy or
carriage looks as if it had been wrestling
with the mud of a country road after a
spring shower. Smaller holes in the
sprinklers and moro frequent trips of the
carts are what are needed.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-12

gets; another silver.mounted tooth from a
bear; another an Indians scalp, and still
another Sioux war bonnet found on the
Custer battlefield. 1t is passing strange that
no one thought to give her photograph OF
the last man the citizens had for breakfast