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Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
Mr.. ConncIl's Bill.

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Mr.. Connell of Nebraska has introduced
into the house of representatives a bill pro.
viding tnat no laborer employed by the gov
ernmcnt shall get less than 81 per day It
would be too charitable to regard Mr.. Con-
ncll's bill as anything more than a bid for
votes. 1t is demagogy pure and simple, of a
piece with many other measures brought for
ward in congress by men who show an inter-
est in the worlinglnen whenever the congress
elections begin to draw near
Bills like this Conncll bill have certain
speclousness that sometimes dcceives, but
they are false in political economy and false
in politics The government is the repre-
sentative of the whole body of citizens. 1t
has no right to create favored class COM
posed of its own employees
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
Thayer's Work for the People.


Somebody favors the Nebraskan with a
marked article in state paper testifying to
Governor Thayer's manly and soldiery quail
itics, but deprecating his alleged third term
aspirations. This is very accommodating and
kind, and was possibly instigated in behalf of
somebody's first term aspirations. The gov
ernor has been too shrewd for this class of
people, however He has not yet asked for
third term, but his efforts to secure some
practical benefits for the farmers in the way of
reduced rates on their produce and more re-
Gently to change the swindling methods of
Chicago grain gamblers, who have it in their
power to place the value on shipments con-
signed 10 that market has set good many to
thinking very seriously about the advisabiity
of embracing the third term idea And if
that should be the prevalent notion we do not
know of single reason why every sincere
republican could not acquiesce in the decis-
ion. While we may not favor this as the best
plan to pursue, we see no reason for rcpubli-
cans to place themselves in an attitude of op-
position, when to yield to the will of the ma
jority in the party would be to stultfy them
selves
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
A Practical Repeal of Prohibition.

The decision which of the United States
supreme court has just rendered in the case of
Leisy & Co., against the state of Iowa, is
in line with many preceding rulings of that
tribunal and is in harmony with reason and
common sense. Naturally, of course, this
ruling will be followed by an immense in
crease in the sale of bottled liquors in the
prohibition states, as the larger packages
must usually be broken, and thus comes under
the police power of the states, before reach
ing the consumer So far as regards the
larger towns this means n practical repeal of
all prohibition enactments, and will hasten
the actual removal of all such regulations all
over the states ip which they exist and the
adoption of stringent and readily enforced
high license laws.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
FRANCIS N1URPHY's LABoRs.

Des Moines special to the Kansas City
Times: Francis Murphy, the great tenn
perance lecturer, has secured within the
past year in Iowa over twenty thousand
signers to the total abstinence pledge.
One would scarcely think temperance
reformers of this kind were necessary
in a state possessed of an ironclad law
against the snle of liquors, but it seems
that in Iowa more than anywhere else
work Of this character is sadly needed
and his campaign in this state has ac-
complished more genuine Temperance
work than all the prohibitory statutes
ever enacted.
Mr.. Murphy takes a sensible idea OF
intemperance. He does not expect "A
man who has inherited intemperance
in some serious fOrm-such as period
ical mania for drink, for example-to re-
form by the power of Mr.. Murphy and
prayer. He recommends such "A man to
the care of a physician.
1t is "A singular fact that the visits OF
Francis Murphy are nearly all opposed
by the local clergy. That was the case
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04

THE patriotic ladies of Washington
have formed an association for the pur-
pose of rendering to the republic of
France testimonial of national regard.
1t is proposed to raise by popular sub
scription fund sufficient To procure n
bronze statue Of Washington and pre-
sent it to the republic accross the sea, as
memorial to the patriots who rendered
priceless services in the struggle for
freedom The object appeals to all who
appreciate the valor and self-sacritice of
Lafayette and Rochombeau, whose
timely assistance dealt the death blow
to oppression and gave liberty its foot
hold in the new world. The spirit which
animated the French people one hun
dred and ten years ago was strikingly
shown in our own time, by the
gift OF the Bartholdi statue. To
supply in Il small measure the failure of
Americans TO reciprocate, the association
declares it to be "a fitting thing for the
ladies of America to offer to France some
memorial which shall convey to the
present and future generations our CRATE
full remembrances and strengthen the
ties which bind the two great republics
OF the old world and the new" The se-
lection of the statue of Washington is
eminently appropriate. The life and
character of the Father of his country"
embodies in the highest degree the most
ennobling features of our national exist
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04

THERE is no occasion for the Nebraska
central bridge company to be cast down
because the negotiations with the Rock
Island and Milwaukee failed. If the
company will go ahead with the work
and show that they have something
more substantial than bridge charter
and to offer the railroads, they will have
no difficulty in securing patrons. 1t is
self-evidcnt that the Union Pacific yards
cannot accommodate all the railroads
that must in the near future cross the
river. The yards cannot be increased
except at enormous cost. They are
practically limited to the present area.
Every road must secure ground for a
round house and storage of cars, which
can be increased at moderate cost AS
business increases. This cannot be had
adjacent to the Union Pacific within the
city limits. There is practically no
room for extension except on the north
side
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04


The ce4hal to be held at Ogden,
Utah, in {hlf promises to be an affair of
more thaHt bfdinary and local interest.
The promSl@s OF are making special
efforts to qanw n large attendance from
the south, and there seems favorable
prospect tllat they will succeed in doing
this. 1t is announced that an excursion
VIII go fromsNew Orleans the latter part
of June and will stop over on its way to
Ogden at various western towns and
cities, very likely including Omaha. The
people of Ogden are manifesting de-
gree OF enterprise and push which is cer-
tain to bring that thriving and promis-
ing city into wider notice, it is reasona-
bly, to be expected to its very material
benefit L.f
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
Leese VS. Van Wyck.
KCdrngu Hub,

The World-Herald can now take its choice
between Attorney General Leese and General
Charles II. Van Wyck. AS the nearest ap-
proach to serving democratic interests, of
course it chooses the latter, That is all right,
of course, so far as the World-Herald is CON
oerned; but the position of the attorney gen
eral, who has perhaps served the whole peo-
pie as well as Mr.. Van Wyck, is on the other
hand satisfactory to the rank and file of re-
publicans The republican party is abund-
antly able to carry out any reforms within
itself by properly attending to the primaries
and conventions, and this is what it will do
In this year of our Lord 1890
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
Twenty-Hour Workers.
Boston Globe.

Whatever the. outcome of this proposed
gigantic uprising of the laboring manhood of
civilization seeking eight hours win be, God
only knows. us9
We are sure that Oswald Ottendorfer in
the current North American, has hinted at a
great truth. Development is the law. A
political liberty has been the result thus far
of centuries of ''Try, try again. so the bet
ter condition OF labor will not be attained at
Jump. But, little by little with experiment
after experiment at the cost of hundred
failures to one real advance, and of treasure,
strength, life worn with hopes deferred, the
God-given betterment of all the race draws
near
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
Rchoboam Mckinley.
Chicago Tribune.

INIItIDO ITIDUNt.
The reply of Major Mckinley to the eastern
and western petitions reminds one of the re-
quest Of the people of Israel to King Reho-
boam, which was
Thy, father made our yoke gricvous; now
therefore make thou the grievous service of
thy father and his heavy yoke which he put
upon us lighter aud we VIII serve thee
The answer which Rehoboam made after
talking the matter over with the Dclanos,
Lawrences, and Harpsters, the ram-raisers
of the day, was:
My father made your yoke heavy and will
add to your yoke; my father also chastsed
you with whips but will chastise you with
scorpions.
The result WIS that Israel rebclled against
Rehoboam and chose another ruler.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
The Eieht-HourDay.
ST. Louis Republic

Everyone who has thought on the subject
deeply enough to be able TO see the underly-
ingconditions of our present economic situa-
tion, must be more or less inclined to concede
the reasonableness of the demand for fewer
hours of labor. When ore machine and one
man do the work of hundred men, the nine
ty-nine men whose labor is saved ought to re-
ccivc some benefit of the saving. The only
way in which they can receive it directly is
in relief from the strain of long and hard
labor as necessity OF earning living. "a
living means the necessaries of life in suffi-
cient quantity.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
An Unfortunate Attitude.
aurora du) Beacon.

1t must send keen pang of regret to the
hearts of all true friends of temperance to
read the announcement that the ministerial
association of Omaha has decided TO take no
part in the temperance meetings about TO be
inaugurated in that city by Francis Murphy,
the great temperance evangelist The rea-
son these sanity apostles of theological aris-
tocracy will not cooperate with Mr.. Murphy
is because he is not a third party political
agitator. Mr. Murphy believes in reforming
men by operating upsn their hearts and con-
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04

MONTANA people unite with the rest
of the country in protesting against cor
porate spoilation of the Yellowstone
national park. The attempt of mer-
cenary lobby to force through congress a
bill granting an exclusive right-of-way
through the park to a plug road is an
outrage on the public. There is no ex-
cuse or justification for permitting rail-
roads to cross the borders of the park,
much less to give exclusive rights to any
corporation The park belongs to the
people and no railroad corporation should
be permitted to invade and despoil the
grandest pleasure ground in the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
A skeleton grins below.
PERsoNALAND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Chicago nter-Ocean: ''No man is iudis-
pensablc,n says Senator Ingalls, But Grover
Cleveland will be among the last to approve
the sentiment.
Minneapolis Tribune: No demo ratio
newspaper has been so enterprSing aS 10
state that Grover Cleveland shed real tcts
when he heard of Samuel j. Randalrs death,
Boston Herald: Senator Bar's latest
sch eme to have the sale of liquors prohibited
in the District of Columbia may be looked
upon as dcep,laid plot to shorten the CON
gresSional sessions.
Peoria Trans cript: Senator ingalls,
favorite book in the bible is Job. This 4
probably because there is a wide diflclrnc>
between job and Ingalls,. Nobody ~
imagine ingalls, covered with boils and tah
that is, without shudder. And no -
Ingalls, would have tonguelashed such com
forters as Job had.
Detroit Tribune: An Indiana paper has
something to say about 'Senator VOORHEES,
first public appearance" but what the peo-
pie are most anxious to hear about is posi-
lively his last public appearance.
Chicago lntcr-Ocean: A Boston paper
proves that Mayor Grant is still "in sympd
thy with the common people," because "he
rides horse with long tailn every morning
down through Central Park 1t is new test
for a Tammany aristocrat.
st. Paul Pioneer-Press: Governor David
Is. Hill in effect, says he will sign no ballot
reform bill that will prevent an ilitcratc or
drunken man from voting the democratic
ticket man is known by the constituency
he keeps.
Peoria Transcript: There is some disSa isan
faction among the democrats on the matter or
running old John M. Palmer for United States
senator, but the St Louis Republic which,
in connection with Mr.. Palmer, owns the party
in Illinois, will probably hold their rccalcl-
trant noses down to the grindstone.
Louisville Courier-Journal If Mr. Me
Kinley kills the glucose business other
farmers than those of Kansas may have corn
TO burn. o, Williaml William! why didst
thou ever leave thy native Ohio TO dabble in
the statesman busincsss
st. Louis Globe-Democrat: Clifton X
Breckenridge might have been defeated for
reelection if he had resigned his seat after
the murder OF his opponent, John Nj. Clay
ton, but defeat under such circumstance
would have been far more creditable to him
than retention of his seat has been under
present conditions.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04

DURING the past five years New York
city has been robbed of millions by Off
cial boodlers Feeble prose cutions were
attempted, but the friends of the crooks
delayed proceedings so that out of twenty
or more rascals only one reached the
penitentiary. Every attempt to mete
out the full measure of justice was
blocked by the district attorney. The
anxiety TO shield the public robbers is
in startling contrast with the unseemly
haste displayed in indicting members of
the Worlds staff for writing and pub
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
1t NuIlifies Prohibition.
Chicago Herald.

IHWUUU fftTUIU.
The recent decision of tho United States
supreme court cOndemning as illegal the sciz-
urc ofliquor in its original packages in Iowa,
which had been shipped from Illinois, is un-
deniably one Of great moment 1t involves,
of course, the proposition that this liquor
cannot be seized until 1t has been drawn out
into glass and is on its way to somebody's
mouth, and therefore, practi cally, thatit can
not be seized at all. This amounts almost to
a notification of the prohibitory law.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
Good Advice to Larry.

oI. IsVWTS IIIUUt-DcWUCFNV.
Tammany has had Editor Godkin, of the
New York POST arrested several times, but
the grand jury has refused to indict him.
Now if the Post, after exposing the corrup-
tion and ineffiriency of the Tammany faction
will support the republicans who will run
against Tammany in the coming election, it
will show sense and consistency as well as
courapn
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
Politicians Have Their Eyes Peeled
TTgmDnt TriIlJP

The gathering of the grangers, members of
the alliances, knights of Labor and other or
ganised bodies of labor at Lincoln May 81
will be matter of interest to the politicians,
although the call for the meeting says it is to
be strictly non-partisan. If any considerable
number of the oranges and alliances are rep
resented at the meeting you may depend
upon it that the politicians will he only too
glad to listen to their tale of woe and promise
to do their bidding.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
Dorsey and His Fourth Term.
Stuart Led1er.

Some of the farmers at the shrine of mo-
nopoly are trying hard to make it appear that
Congressman Dorsey will be popular candi-
date if he should desire nomination for
congress for a fourth term from the big
Third" The fact is as patent as the nose on
mans face that the bulk of our voting popu-
lation- the farmers-have had a sufficiency,
a plentiful safety of Dorsey rule, and the
more the few of his paid and pampered
henchmen persist in forcing the issue of his
candidacy the more unpopular he will become
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
Better Than Riches.

1t is better to be born Benton and become
the brother-in-law of a congressman than it is
to be born rich. A brother of Tom, our
horny-handed auditor of state, who is a
brother-in-law of Congressman Dorsey by
marriage, has been appointed postmaster at
Salt Lake City. Having helped member of
his family into an elegant berth, he will at
once proceed to reduce the corn rate again on
the Union Pacific between Omaha and Coun-
Gil Bluffs.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04

plastered one breach made by the rising
water another appeared, until we became eN-
haustcd and disgusted with disappointment.
So It is aud ever will be with tho use of pres
ent methods for the control Of railroads. By
the time one source of friction h plastercd up
by legislation the people are confronted by
another When the government acquires
and operates the railroads, the great railroad
problem will be satisfactorily solved, but
never before
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04

THE cleanup of the assets of Napo-
leon Ives if properly handled will net
the creditors five cents on the dollar
The creditors ought to be thankful for
small favors from financial emperors
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
Latter.Day Know-Nothings.

st. Paul Pioneer Press.
Quite evidently the st. Paul prohibitionists
are in the field for-votes. 1t is not neces-
sary qualification that the man who votes
with them should be strictly sober, either.
Politically, the prohibition party is no more a
temperance element than were the old-time
knownothings
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS
UdhOo Wasp.

No party dares to refuse the demands of
the national alliance, and we speak advisedly
when we say that the republican party is only
waiting for an opportunity to act The re-
lief may not come in the exact way supposed
by the alliance, but it will come nevertheless,
and that speedily. Not through a new party,
for it would take decade to build one strong
enough to do what the republican party is
ready to do at your bidding. The party is
your servant, command and it must obey
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04

section looking to movement for an
alliance Of interests with the west will
be very sure to receive respectful con
sideration, for after all the west is far
more practical than political, and its in
terest and sympathy can always be
counted upon for every undertaking that
contempates the material progress and
prosperity Of the nation.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04

nTHE Saturday half-holiday movement
among the wholesale houses is COM
mendable one. The jobbing interests of
the city have reached plane to justify
the adoption of the rule in vogue in all
large eastern cities.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
AT THE FETE CHAMPAGNE,

Ella Wheeler iloor in Frank Leslie 3 NClrspdUcr
With her checks aglow and her eyes ashinc,
While the mad hours merrly fit.
We watch the beautiful queen of wine,
Queen of hearts and of wit.
Like the Ginning of bells her laughter swells,
And over her corsage low
Her round breasts rise in soft, flushed dyes,
Like sunset tinted snow.
From her small heads crown to her fingcr-tips
She is fair as fair can be,
And bon mots fall from her ruby lips
And the listeners laugh in glee
On brow and breast rare jewels rest,
On round arms sparkle and shine;
For fortunes are cast like leaves in blast
At the feet Of this queen of wine.
AS sit and look in that perfect face
Isee-not beauty or youth,
But ghastly skeleton grins in it's place,
A hideous thing, in sooth
On the bare breast-bones CLEAN costly tones
From the skull hangs long, damp hair;
But the flesh and blood are grave worms
This flesh that makes her fair.
And the grave-worms drop from her skeleton
lips
mat held the secret OF mirth;
They slide and crawl to her tingcr-tips
That are green with the mould of earth
What if she held out those hands to youi
You would rise in terror and flee;
Yet under the flesh you thrill 20 view
Is what / shudder to see -
All that looks beautiful, bright and fair
Save a tress of hair and a gem, -
Belongs to the worms i willpo share
A banquet of flesh with them
Smile, my lady, but | am cold
You cannot win me so.
Though your bosom is wax and your hair is
gold,
A skeleton grins below
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
Time for Both to Keep Quiet.

PttSburD Dispatch.
when two of the prominent men of the ma
tion reach the point of controversy where all
that either can say is to call the other cow
ardly and variegated liar it is time for both
to keep silent
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
The Missouri River scow Line.
Chicago Tribune.

For some reason that new line of steamers
on the mighty Missouri materializes but slow
ly' In vain st. Joseph tunes her songs, and
Kansas City cries. The catfish still in hungry
throngs the stream monopolize.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04

M. EIFFEL and Edison propose to build
for Chicago u tower five hundred feet
higher than the Paris cloud scraper.
Some such lofty structure would be a
great convenience just now to assist the
managers of the fair in looking for
funds
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04

sciences by eloquent persuasion and through
the instrumentality of the gospel rather than
by passing laws. Mr. Murphy has reformed
more dissolutc men has done more for the
cause of temperance than the combined efforts
of all the third party prohibition dreamers in
the United States
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
An Enterprising Kansan.

ATcHIsoN, Kan, May Special TceGro..
to THE BEE, ii. p Pomeroy, a wealthy cjti
migration agent TO Norway and Sweden al
his own expense, Mr.. Pomeroy owns 2O,0ct
acres of land in Graham county, Kansas anC
he wants TO establish Swedish colony on il
The man selected TO make the trip is Henry
M. Olsen, Swedc who lives in Graham
county.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04

THE crowded condition of TIE BEES
advertising columns shows that chromos
are not necessary to secure purchasers
of sterling wares.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
Civilization and Justice.

NeW York Herald.
The inventor of the locomotive cab is still
living. The inventor of the railroad sandwich
is dead. Civilization and Justice go hand in
hand, as it were.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04

THE weekly bank statement shows the
reserve has decreased 1905, 200. The
banks now hold $3,129,OOO in excess of
legal requirements.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
SINGLE COPY POSTAGE RATES.

OKLAHOMA is at last invested with
territorial powers. The reign of lead is
waning.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
Hint to the surplus smashers.

Philadelphia Press.
The republican party will reduce its major
ity quite as fast as the surplus if it wastes
the latter on extravagant appropriations.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04

fishing biography of the wreclSer of
the Stewart estate. Fellows and Hilton
have good reasons for making common
cause against the men who have exposed
their hyI&5ssy.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
A Kansas Theory.

LOlIlsrtTe COuTicT-J0UlldT.
The theory that drunkenness is disease
may have originated in Kansas, where so
many thirsty people frequent the drug stores.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
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County OF DOuplnS S.

county Of DOuglns 81
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poses and says that he is secretary of The
average daily circulation of THE DAILY
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