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Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06

Omaha will soon take her place per-
manently in all the commercial and in
dustrial directories of the world as one
of the great cities OF America. For ten
years, since the census of 1880, Omaha
has been advertised abroad and in all
American reference books as a
city with population of thirty
thousand, six hundred and fortyfve.
This has been q serious drawback. 1t is
only within the last year or two that
capitalists ut the money centers of the
east have been impressed with the fact
that Omaha has passed the 100000 mile
post and WILL when the census returns
are in, show four times the population
she is credited with under the census of
1880. This marvellous growth rests upon
u very substantial basis. Few cities in
America are more favorably To-
Gated and none command a
wider range of tributary territory.
AS the commercial metropolis of the
most prolific corn and cattle raising
region in America and with all the facil-
tiles for converting these food products
lol tA lIol Slittiii hiINtity oubl StiiNo kDU'
Louis and Cincinnati as a pork and
meat packing center, and is certain
within ten years to be second only to
Chicago as pork and cattle market.
The industrial evolution which has fol-
lowed the establishment of great stock
yards and packing houses in Omaha has
given powerful impetus to other manu-
G.,
enlargement of our silver smelt-
ing and refining works, which now
boast the largest plant in America has
been followed by the enlargement of the
white lead works and several other fac
tories in which lead and other smelling
works products are important factors.
That Omaha is destined to distance
Kansas City, her only rival in the Mis-
souri, valley, in the next decade is con-
ceded by the most sagacious observers of
the growth OF these two cities. While
Kansas City is still in the lead, she is
now experiencing the reactionary effects
of an unhealthy and overstimulated
boom. Omaha, on the other hand, has
had no boom worthy of the name, and is
just entering upon an era of unprece-
dented prosperity. Her clearing house
exhibit will compare with that of cities
of twice her population. The proof of
the pudding is in the eating.
While the spring season has been very
backward this year this is the second
twenty-four page edition we have been
compelled to issue within two weeks to
accommodate the pressure from adver-
tising patrons. This fact alone speaks
volumes for the mercantile activity of
Omaha
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06
A Natural Born Anti.Monop.

Fremont Tribune.
The World Herald is the most rautankerous
and riproarious anti-monopoly paper in the
west It's editor, young Mr. Hitchcock, is by
naturr and training u real anti-monop, one
whose deepest sympathics so out to the toll
ing masses in their struggle for bread. Him
self reared in poverty he knows their bur
dens, their hopes and their aspirations and so
his heart beats in sympathetic unison with
theirs. Afforded no opportunities or ad-
vantagcs for an education except such as the
colleges of America and Europe supply, by
commcndable diligence in pursuit of know
ledge and by blistcrng his hands in
waiting for the inheritance of half
million dollars which has come to him
from his poor father, he now finds himself
occupying the exalted position OF owner and
proprietor of II great anti-monopoly daily
newspaper. When he looked around and saw
that TIE BEE had amassed fortune by
fighting along the anti-monopoly lines, even
such policy and such result achieved by
rival concern did not deter him from pursu-
ing the same policy which his poverty and
struggles so thoroughly prepared and rigidly
disciplined him for. This shows the grand
possibilities in this land of liberty for the
poor but worthy young man,
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06
SAW MN EXCLUSIVELY,

While Prince Bismarck hungered in
vain for chance to commune with the
outside world through the Omaha paper
which parts its name in the middle, one
of its numerous enjoys was bagging big
ger game. We read the thrilling in
formation by copyrighted special"
cabled from Cologne regardless of ex-
pense, that
III New Workers who have in their minds
eye the busy work-a-day politician, Dick
Crocker could see him as the UOrid-Herdld saw
him.
What a wealth OF pathos in the lines
The -" World Hcrald saw him. but the
blessed privilege was denied to the rest
OF mankind. How it was accomplished
is immaterial. Four or five thousand
miles of land and water are mere trihes
to the operator of the international
phonoscoop. Nor is it OF much concern
whether Richard was in the chamber
lain's office or waltling through the
echoing corridors with the chamber
maid. The nll-important fact is that
1.-The H'orid-Iierdld saw him. exclusively,
stretched full length on the sofa, his
chest covered with poultices and his feet
wrapped in rugs Evidently Richard
anticipated the alfliction of visit
The overpowerins desire of the oracles
of the old world to ignore the provincial
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06

places that arc prosperous and growing,
so that continued and increasing reve-
nue. to the government is assured. Every
practical cqnsideration suggests that at
such places the government should carry
on its busiBc,s in its own buildings.
Among nutkarous examples that might
be cited, tolcA Salt Lake City and
Ogden In both these cities the
government is tenant. There is no
good reasouwhy it should continue to
be. Those cfttes have II secure position
and are certain to grow and the govern
mont can with entire safety construct its
own buildings there. having reference in
doing so to the time when these cities
will be two or throc times their present
population. 5Ehe same is true of many
other cities.
There is no way in which the govern
ment can put money into circulation with
such general advantage and benefit as in
constructing buildings for its own use
wherever the conditions of its business
make it practically desirable, on
grounds of both economy and safety, to do
SO. This is a legitimate way of putting
out the money of the government by
purchasing the products of labor and
giving employment to labor, which could
not possibly have any i'll effects, but on
the contrary would help materially to
promote the public prosperity, while
supplying the government with valua-
bic permanent asset. Kept within judi
cious limitations, u national public build
ing policy can be justified as eminently
wise and practical.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06
NATIONAL PUBLIC BUILDINGS,

1t has been proposed in the present
congress that the government shall
adopt the policy of constructing build
ings for its own use in all cities and
towns of the country where the postal
business has reached certain annual
revenue. There has also been introduced
a large number of bills providing for the
construction c. public buildings in cities
where there are none, or where the gov
ernment business has outgrown the ca
pacity of the old buildings. The more
than usually large demand for eXpendi-
ture in this direction has encountered "a
strong opposition, and no proposal of a
public building anywhere can now be
made without meeting with an unreas-
oning hostility which takes no account
of the necessity behind the proposal or
of the practical advantages to be at
tained.
1t is doubtless true that in the general
rush for building appropriations some of
the demands are eXtravagant and few
may not be warranted by the condition
of the public business. But it may safely
be assumed that in majority
of cases the buildings asked for, particu-
larly in prosperous and growing cities,
are required, and that for the most part
no greater appropriations are asked for
than are deemed to be necessary to pro-
vide for the future expansion of bust
ness. The great fault of congress has
always been in pairing down this class of
nDnpODri n lions instead Of unnuinp tbpm
with reference to the probable growth of
active and advancing communities. The
result of this short-sighted policy has
been that in nearly every city in the
country the business of the gov
ernment has outgrown every ten or
twenty years the capacity of the govern
ment building, and very much larger
expenditure is necessary to meet the in
creased demand than would have been
required to furnish an adequate building
in the first place, with view to the
possible growth of half a century.
1t is good general proposition that
the government of the United States
ought to pay rent for the premises it oc-
cupies. OF course this is sub
ject to limitation, but it will
apply to all places whore the
business of the government yields
"a revenue in excess of the cost of the
service amounting to fair rate of in
terest on reasonable investment in
buildings. There are many such places
whore the government is now tenant.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06
THE PITLRO1D OPERATOR.

The agitation Of the postal telegraph
has incidentally drawn attention to the
railroad telcgrapher. In the parlance
of the profession the plug operator is in
the majority ON the railroad lines.
This also comprises raw recruits
from the commercial colleges and
cubs ! who have swept out the office and
delivered messages and ambitious farm
boys who hang around railway stations
and are willing to rustic and handle
freight and baggage with an occasional
chance to practice on the telegraph key
70 these boys the railroad managers
entrust the necessary railroad telegraph
ing at small stations as measure of
economy. While competent and expert
enCed operators demand from 800 to $50
per month the railroad plug will cheer
fully toll sixteen hours day for from
$40 to $50 a month.
y railroad operator up in Minnesota
asks whether the editor of TUE BEE,
who is an expert telegrapher, is aware
of the fact that the railroad plug has
within his keeping the lives and limbs
of the thousands of passengers who are
travelling over our railways unconscious
of their danger or the grave re-
sponsibility which rests upon the
poorly paid Aoys, that pound Brass
night and day in the railroad telegraph
offices. Certainly he was aware of this
momentous fact. He was railroad plug
himself once, and he has taken occasion
time and again to denounce the un-
economic system, which takes the risk of
wrecking trains and destroying precious
lives for the sake of saving few thou
sand dollars u month in hiring plug
operators.
The suggestion that the government
should license railroad operators the same
as steamboat pilots are, licensed on navig-
able streams and lakes is not new. The
editor of The BEE urged this innovation
upon Manager Stone, of the Burlington,
during the memorable engineers strike
in very forcible language. 1t is an out
rage, as well as great crime for any
public carrier to subject the lives and
property of their patrons while in transit
over their roads to the care of in
competent operators whose age in itself
would not justify confidence in their
judgment and presence of mind in emer
gencies that are liable to arise at any
hour and at any station.
We do not mean to assert that all
railroad operators are plugs. There are
many competent and intelligent young
men among them. But we do assert that
most of the plugs are railroad operators.
and if prudence, quick perception and
sound judgment-as well as sound read
ing are requisite in any calling, it is in
the position of railroad ODeratOr.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06
LUCKY JIM.
TerI'e Hdute EIprcSS.

Terr6 Hdute Express.
Jim was my friend, till one unhappy day
The usual cause-a pretty girl-came in our
way.
From that day on we seemed to drift apart,
For each aspired to win her maiden heart,
And though tried each art and winning vile,
Twas not to me she gave her sweetest smile.
Each day saw my chances grow more dim
Until-to my despair-one day she married
jim.
All, lucky jim
How cnvied himl
Three years passed on-long years they
seemed to me
And then jim died, and once more 'she" was
free,
Before me rose the hopes of the past
| wOocd, | sued, and married her at last,
Pvc got my way; and now she is my wife,
know just what there is in married life;
And when 1 think of jim, though under
ground,
Enjoying peace and quiet most profound
All, lucky JIM
How l envy him!
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06

'TTUF'TTTW' 0VTITV'TTTITI- -''IT<tJTt'
The people would regard it as good sign
if the constitution instead of being worshipcd
like Chinese Joss, should be stretched occa-
sionally by the senate in the interest of the
people till they could hear it crack Mr.. Lin
coin i'll order to preserve the nation, ripped
that venerable instrument down the back and
across the middle in his first call ortroops
The nation now needs salvation from many
growing evils and gross abuses of great
monopoies and giant combinations. There
are senators who, at every attempt to inter
pose law to protect the people, plead constitu-
tional obligations and restrictions. The coun-
try is pretty tired of this form of discussion,
not because it does not reverence the consti-
tuition, but because it does not believe it
stands in the way of any reform legislation
which the needs of the country demand.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06
THE MAINE LIQUOR LAW.

Kate Fields Washington of April 2 con-
tains the following from lifelong republican:
AS member of the Maine senate in 1858,
two years after the original prohibitory
statute had been replaced by a license law, l
voted for its restoration, being, on the whole,
inclined toward the belief in its practicability
at that early period of the controversy. That
belief has gradually died out, without develop
ing and conscious antagOnism toward the
idea. However, have decided views on the
question whether mere intellectual education,
unaccOmpanied by moral enlightenmcnt has
any tendency to promote moral in any direc-
tion. incidentally | have had occasion to
point out the increase of high crime in spite
of the enormously augmented expenditure for
popular education, the alleged progress in the
suppression of intemperancc, and even the
diminution of moderate drinking. In this
connection it should be remembered that the
population of Maine has been nearly station
airy for twCnty-siX years. Indeed, it might
be said, since 1850, as the census shows-the
first prohibitory law dating from June =, 1851
Since 1881 the number of ConYicts has about
trebed-indeed, more than trebled, if il
is remembered that in or soon after 1873
five or more Jail workshops were built in the
several counties into which all fclons whose
sentences do not exceed three years may be
sent. In 1850, or thercaboutS, ascertalned
that about seventy such culprits were actually
so imprisoned in jail work shops, who under
the old regime would have been among the in
mates of the state prison, of course their
number should be added
The only answer ever attempted 10 this
fearful revelation has been to point ont the
unqucstiunod fact that the war had a demon
alizmg tendency aud the assertion that there
has been dinnutOn of lighter offences pun
iShablc in lails | am not aware whether the
latter assertion is true or not, but it Is proper
to remark that, ny our law, Jail sentences are
limited To maximum of less thuu one year,
and state prison sentences to minimum of
one year, aud the former offences are de
Clared misdcmeauOrs, while the latter are
termed felonies Now the indisputublc fact
in Maine is, that If misdemcanors have de-
creased, fclOnics have enormously multiplied
since 1851. And the higher the Crime the
greater the ratio of gain; for instance, mur-
ders have multiplied hyefold. IL Is
also true that the number of in-
mates of our insane hospital at Augusta has
also steadily increased, although not in so
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06
The Good Credit of the Dakotas.

North Dakota may be cheered by the re-
markablc success which has attended South
Dakota's first financial venture. A loan Of
Sl5O,OOO, bearing only per cent has been ne
gotiated for the southern state of the old ter
ritory at premium of nearly 10 per cent. No
state i'll the southern tier has been able to
borrow money on such favorable terms, nor
has any other state west of the Mississippi
even been able to borrow on such good terms.
AS South Dakota has done so North Dakota
should be able to do. The credit of the north
ern state has been made good by its refusal
of the spledid bribe offered by the Louisiana
Lottery company.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06

Written for The Bee,

Written for The Bee.
Awake, sad Earth fling off your gloom;
Now is Christ risen from the tomb;
Let every heart prepare Him room
He is risen
O'er all the world the greeting flies,
From starry cross of southern skies
The fragrant breath of Spring replies,
He's risen indeed
The morning stars the song complete
OF carth's ten thousand voices sweet,
And heaven and earth and nature greet
The risen Lord.
The gates of death were barred in vain;
The angels catch the glad refrain,
Aud chant in more harmonious strain,
Christ is risen
Awake arouse from smmber deep
Awake awake from winter sleep
Bring hearts, and hands, and gold and Keep
This Easter day,
A. C. MCILoY
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06

a COMMITTEE OF the New York legis-
lature has concluded an exhaustive in
vestigatiou of the question of overhead
electric wires, The recommendations
which will doubtless be embodied in Il
state law, pronounce in favor of the un-
dcrgromd system rs essential to the se-
curity of life and property Next II
Limitation of the current of light and
power wires TO two hundred and fifty
volts, ana that after the lst OF January,
1892, no overhead conductors carrying
currents for light or power purposes be
allowed in any street, highway or public
place in any city of the state having
population of one hundred and twenty
five thousand The evils of the overhead
system are particularly menacing in the
crowded eastern cities, and it is only Il
question of few years when the grow
ing western cities must follow New York
In forcing the wires underground
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06
Western Farmers and the Tariff.
chicago Tribune.
The British farmers have felt the effect


The British farmers have felt the effect of
increased competition from America and a
consequent reduction of their prices, but they
have still obtained rates which seemed high
to the American farmer and their manufac-
tured goods and wares have cost them little
more than one-half. Western farmers can
receive benefit from congress only by such re-
ductions of tariff on the necessaries as will
lower their cost of living. That is the only
way in which the tariff can be reformed to
the material advantage of the farmers, and if
it is not done by the republicans in this con-
gress it will be by the democrats in the next
in a radical and perhaps reckless fashion.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06
EASTER DAY.

Again the circling year has brought
J around the cheerful Easter-tide. The
fathers and founders of the primitive
| church buildcd better than they knew
when they established their feasts in
harmony with material and corporCal
conditions. The first of days in the
Christian -Christmas-com
TO us when all around is gloomy and
drcar and when the cold and frost of
winter serve to accentuate the warmth
and glow of merry frcsides. Easter, the
principal festival OF the Christian year,
comes with its story Of resurrection
at time when nature presents in the
budding promise Of field and tree a sym
Dol of hope TO man. 1t matters not that
there were dissensiOns between the
churches OF the cast and the west re-
garding the time of the resurrection of
Christ. and that not until the fourth
century after that event were the con
nicting churches pacifed by the agree
mcnt to make the western usage which
has since prevailed universal. This does
not dctract from the value or the
impressivcnes5 of this anniversary to
the Christian world, for II large part
of which its lesson is illustrated
and enforced by the renewing life of ma
ture-the putting forth of grass and bud
that are soon to enrich the earth with
beauty and glory. In the new life that
is beginning to adorn the fields and
shoot forth from tree and shrub and
vine, there is IL source of strength for
the faith of all who accept the miracle
which is today celebrated throughout
Christendom, and wherever men preach
in commemOlation of this festival they
will find in the resurrection of
nature a symbol of hope, the
promise of u life beyond the
grave. Thus it was that the wise men
of the council of Mecca, more than tif-
teen centuries ago, happily bringing into
association the miraculous and the
natural, gave the Christian church one
of its most influential arguments of
faith.
TO the faithful whom the coming of
Easter releases from restraints and pri-
vations today will be most welcome, and
their observance of it as festival will
be full and hearty. To a much greater
number it will bring no change in their
daily practices, but they should not be
needless of the story. For all, nature at
this time holds out an invitation to hap
piness, and they are unfortunate indeed
who can find none in the renewing life
and the dawning glories that appear on
every hand.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06
Detroit Tribune.

Who shall decide when doctors disagreed
The New York Tribune of recent date con-
tanned two ably written articles on the Cana
dian question, the one written by a Dominion
journalist, who says that annexation is inevi-
table; the other by border Buffalonian, who
says annexation is impossible. And both
articles are based largely upon what the
writers believe to be the prevailing sentiment
in Canada regarding annexation, And so it
goes. You can get anything you want in the
line of arguments for and against annexation
and of the very best quality too. All the
same gentlemen of the jury, annexation SEN
timent in Canada is growing, and don't you
forget to rememberit.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06
OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

Ballot reform Will never be instituted in
New York state while Governor David b
Hill is chief executive and the republicans in
the legislature have not the two-thirds ma
jomty necessary to pass Il bill over his veto.
The democratic newspapers in New York at
tempt to defend his course but it is indefens-
iblc. Hill is opposed to ballot reform because
ballot reform would operate injurious to Hill.
He is opposed to an efficient high license law
for the same reason, and self interest is his
sole g1lide
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06

Now that works of art are about 10 be
put upon the free list our enterprising
double-decker contemporary will be in
condition to offer as n bonus to every
person who patroni1es its want columns
valuable works of the French and Italian
masters. While the patronzers of its
free want columns who are in quest of
domestics may fail to get applications
from houscmaids, nurses and cooks they
will at least have the glorious consoa-
tion of stimulating the introduction of
real works of art into Omaha regardless
nf nX DppSn
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06
OF eN pens

THE decision of the Burlington to
push the Alliance branch into the heart
of the Black Hills insures direct railroad
connection with peadwood this year 1t
will force the Elkhorn road to close up
the gap beyond Whitewood, thus giving
the metropolis of the Hills the choice of
two roads. The extension of both lines
is of incalculnble value to the commor-
cial interests of Omaha and Nebraska,
and equally SO tothe development of the
Hills, which has long been seriously re-
tarded through lack OF transportation
facilities
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06

beginning to see that their immediate
and future prosperity depends on annex
alton. The more they investigate the ad-
vantagcs Of union the more firmly
will they be convinced that they have
everything to gain and nothing to lose
by joining in making both communities
one in municipal interests as they are
now commercially and industrially.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06

Fremont IftbuNc.
"BccfstealS' Roberts, who went from David
City to Oklahoma where he was given an
appointment in land office, is after an APP
pointment to the supreme bench of Oklahoma,
1t is said that his credentials are elaborate
and even calculated to oyerawe the president
when ne gets his eyes on them, "Beefsteal"
must have been growing in grace very rapidly
since he emigrated from Nebraska, But it
may be that his peculiar talents We're not APP
prcciated here for what they were worth,