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Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29
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Chicago Mail; An Omaha preacher has
told his pensioners how TO vote. Pretty
soon some OF them will be telling him how TO
pray.
Kansas City Journal: The Iowa ministers
who are supporting the third party prohibit
ton ticket In the belief that they are help
ing the cause OF temperance may be con.
scientious, but they show q lamentable lack
OF common sense.
ST. Paul Globe: One preacher, at least,
has silenced the criticism of the local press
upon his conduct. He lives in a small town
in Illinois, and has Just married the editor OF
the paper there, who happened to be a young
lady OF considerable beauty and fine mental
cndowments. IL is TO be hoped that in this
case, at least, the press and the pulpit will
work together in harmony.
Washington Star: The New York and
New England synod has decided that DIR.
Briggs shalt not lave any further hearing
so farsas 1t is concerned. The doctor can
console himself with the reflection that he
has already succeeded In getting his views
pretty thoroughly before the public. He
will doubtless realize that it may be for tho
best, as a protracted Briggs discussion on
the heels of the silver debate would newt
ably prove a tax ON popular patience.
Kansas City Star: In one respect at least
/. yesterday (22d) was ACUTE notable Sabbath.
Colonel lngersoll and John L.. Sullivan held
services that packed the buildings. III some
of the clergy are a little sore over their own
small congregations let them remember that
the colonel and John are novelties and there
Is always a charm In novelty. III they were
a steady article of diet every Sunday morn
ing, not to speak of two or three times dur
ihg the week, they would soon find them
selves discoursing to a faithful few. The
crowds that greeted them yesterday argue
nothing disheartening to the religious
teachers.
Philadelphia Times: The Baptist min
listers who attended the anniversary meet
ings IN the city during the past week were
confronted by two vital questions now cal
ing for disposition in that great denomina.
ton. The scarcity of Baptist ministers and
their education are the direct issues in point.
The annual report shows 80, T03 churches and
only "a, 79S ordained ministers. Next to an
inadequate ministry, as far as numbers go,
the delegates discussed the lack of prepare.
ton, with no special way marked out as 8
solution. This is an interesting situation, as
it indicates Baptist growth to a remarka ole
| 1auraa
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29
NOT BEFORE THE PEOPLE.

OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 2S.-To tho Editor Of
THB BEE: In the morning edition of TuH
BEE for October "a was published a commu-
~nication from me concerning the Platte
canal. From this | quote as follows: "On
the information that we now have we would
not be justified in spending one dollar on
construction. We are only IN a preliminary
stage of investigation. To vote the sum OF
81, 5O0,0O o in bonds would at this time be
premature"
Il also challenged the promoters of the
bogus Platte canal enterprise TO produce one
piece OF evidence to controvert these state
ments of mine.
They have not done so.
They cannot do so.
There is no canal proposition before the
people. There has been talk about a canal.
This talk has materializod In nothing but a
proposition to buy-mind you-buy, not to
construct q w~aterworks or electric light
plant. Will the voters oe hood winked by
such trashl If we are TO have a canal, then
why not investigate the canal projectl Why
should we buy something elsei
III the canal power plant is to cost g., $780,
600, then why should we issue 81, 800, 900 Of
bonds for the pbrchase of waterworks and
electric light pianist Can our '~canal"
friends throw ony clear. sober light on this
s~ubjectf Very respectfully,
CURTIss C. TURNER.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29
THE OMAHA DAILY ZEE SUNDAY, OCTOBER %, lses-TwENrY PAGES.

strongly that merely on busi-
ness principles II would be wise
policy for the government to
make adequate provision for the
protection OF these ports. That letter
of Mr.. Tilden's arrested the attention
OF the country and strengthened the
public sentiment in favor OF proper coast
d~efenses, but it had no effect upon the
administration or the party generally
away from the exposed and unprotected
seaports. Mr.. Cleveland had then come
from Buffalo, which does not need de-
lenses. He has since lived in New York,
so that he may have changed his views
on this subject, but however this may
be, it is not probable that the present
congress will vote any money for coast
detenses. 1t will find a valid rea-
son for not doing so in the
condition Of the treasury and
the revenues OF the government.
With the prospect Of a heavy de-
felt at the close OF the fiscal year no
money should be voted for anything that
can wait, and probably no ono will ques-
ton that further work on coast defenses
may be put off two or three years with
out danger. Having no troublesome or
threatening international controversies
we may feel entirely c%omplacent regard
ing the security Of our seaports.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29

at the inception Of the undertaking, and
have given the worldan object lesson in
what the United States can do which no
other country is likely to attempt to
equal in this generation. Indeed, IL,
there is ever another such exposition it
will probably be held in this country.
1t was a costly enterprise, but there
will be few to contend. that IL has not
been worth all that has been expended
on 1t, il not in material benefit to the
country, then in its educational inau-
ence and what it has shown to the world
Of American CAPABILITIES. 1t is an event
of the closing years of the nineteenth
century which is certain to be long
memorable as by far the greatest of its
kind. 1t is safe to say that while other
nations may attempt to initiate none
will surpass it.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29
PEOPLE I'M THINGS.

The Ferris wheel is to remain in Chicago.
Nothing smaller would fit the municipal
head.
The Wonder is that the entire peniten-
tiary did not so. 1t has been under fire for
years.
Baron Talkenhoel has arrived in the
country. His presence in Washlngt ton is not
necessary now.
What a varied assortment Of trouble would
have been avoided ii Adam had had a gun
when he was tempted.
Cousin Ben Folsom completed his educa-
tion recently By graduating from the Kelley
institute in Orange, N. j.
Mr.. Cleveland's daily prayers having
reached the spot, a distribution of the loaves
and fishes is now in order.
The Fries family-mother, son and sou-in-
law-of Williamsburg, n. Y, invested Sl3, 900
in bogus gold dust. The mother died on dis
covering that she was defrauded.
Senator Plump's estate will probably pan
out about 81 zoo, 900 for his heirs. Kansas
speculations are not as protitless as the
shrieking brethren would have the country
believe.
In a day or two the Worlds fair will be
transformed into a bargain sale.
If the record of Chicago day is not then
eclipsed it will be evidence of the decline Of
woman's greatest fad.
A congress of railway surgeons was to be
held IN st. Louis last Thu sday, but owing
to pressing engagements along the tracks
the meeting was lot sufficiently attended to
attract attention.
f. X. Smith of Oakland, Cal, who ex-
tracted a fortune from the borax beds Of
Death valley, is to build a castle of borax
brick. The cockroach 1000 affects indiffer-
ence, but it is insincere.
William Waldorf Astor has assembled
another round in the ladder that leads to
Immortality. He has bought the black pug
dog Man Friday. Mr.. Astor believes he is
the only American who owns n black pug.
A wildcat banker fleeced Kansas out of
unknown thousands of dollars and was &C
quilted. Another resident sold Il few TASKS
of liquor, was convicted on thirty-tive counts
and sentenced to 1850 days in Jail and to pay
u fine of $500.
The business men of Denver areurged to
boycott Chicago. The proposition will startle
Chicago-abOut as much as a fiy-speck on
the dome of heaven. 1t is proba BILE the sug-
gestion is prompted by an affection for Chey-
enne as a supply point.
Mrs. Flower, wife Of Governor Roswell p.
Flower of New York, is a regular contributor
to many charitable institutions, which she
aids to an aggregate extent of $3.50 a week.
Mrs. Flower is as shy as n schoolgirl, and
her modesty has prevented her from having
herself photographed. Her portrait is now
being painted by an Albany artist.
Verdi, the veteran composer, passed his
S0th birthday recently. He lives in absolute
seclusion in his beautiful villa of SAINT.
Agata, near his birthplace at B~usseto, and
Is still, in spite of his age, an early riser, 6
o'clock being no unusual hour to see him
about the gardens, which he loves with
scarcely less affection than his horses.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29
A DEFENsEs.

Major General @. o. Howard, COM
handing the Military Department Of
the East, makes an urgent plea in his
annual report for further appropriations
for the construction of coast defenses.
The appropriations made by the Fifty
first congress for this purpose were suf-
ficient to make a beginning in the
proper protection OF our harbors, but
General Howard urges that the work
should not be allowed to stop. He says
hat the best economy in the long run
for the government is to continue
these works when once commenced,
without other periodical Interrupt
tions than those occasioned by the
severity of the winter months. The
most important ports, like those
of New York, Boston and New Orleans,
need the first attention, but the defense
will be far from what it should be until
such cities as Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington, those nea Hampton
Roads, Charleston, Savannah and Mo-
bile shall be properly covered by defen-
sible works we'll manned with modern
ordnance. General Howard points out
hal the navy cannot be wholly de-
pended upon for defense, since the navy's
work in case of war is rather in the Of
fenive than the defensive establishment,
so that for the defensive purposes of per-
manent works the sea coast batteries,
including mortar shells and other pro-
iectiles, and all the modern torpedo
preparations, must be kept in mind.
, The s%oundness Of General Towards
views will not be generally questioned.
Very nearly every body will concede that
our exposed seaportst should nave ade-
quate defenses and that the government
having CONNIE need TO provide these il
should go on with the work until it is
completed, for unless this is lone there
will be a very considerable waste OF
public money. A good many millions
have beer expended in coast defenses
and still our principal seaports are
far from being as well protected as they
should be. The government ought moi
10 throw away all this money by dis
continuing the work Of providing proper
defenses. But this is very likely what
will be done. The party in power has
never shown any interest in this mat
ter. Some eight years ago, shortly
after the first administration of Mr.
Cleveland came into power, the lat
Samuel j. Tilden addressed a letter {.
the president in which he urged upoI
his attention the great Importance Of
proper system of coast defenses. H.
pictured in vigorous terms the terrible
disaster that could be- wrought by ships
of war in attacking New York, Boston
and other exposed ports, aud argued
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29
CAUSES FOR DECREASING IMNiGRA
TON,


A very marked decrease in the num-
Der Of immigrants has beer noted at the
port of New York. The record for the
third week Of the present month
gives the number of arrivals at 2,647
only. The number for the first twenty
one days in October was 10, 766. Imml-
grafton was suspended during October,
1892, on account of the prevailing chol-
era, but during the corresponding
period of 1891 the number of arrivals
was %, 206. In other words, II we regard
the immigration of 1891 as normal
and there were not extraordinary in
centives to immigration at that time
the immigration at present has
been reduced to less than one-half
pated.
The statistics of immigration show
that the influx of foreigners into this
country has been greatest in times Of
greatest prosperity.and least in times i'm
mediately following business depression.
The decrease in the arrivals at the port
Of New York, while probably the result
of numerous cooperating circumstances,
must be ascribed in the main to the in
iuence of our recent run of hard times.
A ndecrease in immigration into the
United States signifies, as a rule, either
that the attractions which this country
has to offor in the way of more favorable
openings for laborers as compared with
those attainable abroad are operating
| Loo, aA,n 81 q, 49,, +1.- Az I.. hoo
has been reduced to such extremities
that he cannot scrape together the small
sum required for the expenses of re-
moval. The latter we know to be I'M
true, for the cost of migrating from Eu-
rope to America has been reduced so
low that any one who is likely to pass
muster as a desirable citizen can now
raise the necessary funds. The causes
of the decrease must be resolved into the
simple fact that theaaverage European
laborer fears at the present moment that
he will suffer a detriment rather than a
benefit to his materialwelfare should he
venture to cross the ocean.
This stoppage of immigration is at
once a result and a cause. 1t is the re
suit of reports of hard times in this
country and of rumors of starving un.
employed which discourage the hopes oil
the ambitious poor. But it also reacts
as a cause immigration is heaviest
when times are best and helps to make
times better. Theonewly arrived immi'
grant invests his savings, creates a de
mand for goods and adds to the wealth
producing force of the country. The
absence of immigration subtracts these
elements from us. Many people emf
CRATE If they are able and take with
them the products of their industry il
this country. Times are dull and they
languish from the very van of a flow o
incoming population. The return tt
prosperity must be necessarily slow, bu
one of its most reliable signs will be tn,
Inauguration of another tide of increased
European immigration.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29
Prosecution OF BoDd Promoters.
Miung1D0lfs Tribune.

IL is a pleasure to note the fact that the
government has entered earnestly into the
work of putting a quietus upon certain lot
lery enterprises incorporating as Invest.
ment," mining ~''loan," guaranty" and
bond companies. They are lotteries pure
ana simple, differing from the New Orleans
establishment only in nomenclature. Their
tickets are bonds" and Stocks" their
prizes ''loans.n The government will pro
coed against them in exactly the same man
ner as it attacks the great lottery at New
Orleans. by prosecuting them for using the
mails for illegal purposes and by excluding
their correspondence and printed matter
from the mails. Cases have been made up
against q number of the leading companies
and win be brought 10 trial very shortly.
AS between the outspoken lottery and
such games as these the lottery is 70 DO pre-
ferred. Th latter calls itself by its true
name. states its chances, pays larger prizos,
has fewer opportunities 10 defraud and does
not masquerade under the style and titles
OF reputable concerns. The bogus bond"
Investment company does Infinitely more
harm than the avowed lottery ard should
be even moro strictly dealt with by the
courts.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29
REP 1T BEFoRE me TAXPAYERS.

KEEP 1T BEFORE IHE TAXPA YERs.
Thousands of our most intelligent
citizens still labor under the delusion
that the 81, 800, 900 bond proposition con-
templates the building Of a canal. Some
of our brightest business men have been
made to believe that any attempt to
divert the money from the canal would
be enjoined by the courts. The reverse
is true.
The proposition as submitted to the
voters of Omaha reads as follows:
Shall bonds of the city of Omaha In the
sum of one million five hundred thousand
dollars 81, 500, 900 be Issued for the appro-
priation and purchase of waterworks and an
electric light plant for said city and the APP
Precipitation and purchase of the land re-
qulred for such waterworks and electric
light plant, the said bonds to run not moro
than twenty (20) years and to Dear Interest,
payable semi.annually at n rate not to ex-
coed live 10 per cent per annum, with cou-
pons attached, the said bonds to be called
'W aterw orks and Electric Light r1ant
Bonds and not to be sold for less than pnr;
the proceeds of said bonds to be used for no
other purpose than. paying the cost oil the
appropriation or purchase of waterworks
and an electric light plant and land there
VI bhe ~ oehtA Nv W. w
time to time as may be required during the
years 1894, 1898 and 1896.
There is not one word about a canal in
this proposition. If the bonds carry the
proceeds can only legally be used for the
purchase OF the waterworks or electric
lighting plant. The proposition places
no restrictions upon the council as re-
CARDS the purchase. The council can
have the works appraised or it can
agree with Wiley upon the price to be
paid without even going through the
formality of an appraisement. The
council can override the mayors veto if
Wiley can control twelve members, and
the courts canno interfere unless abso-
Lutte proofs can be furnished by unim-
peachable witnesses that tho bargain
was consummated by bribery or fraud.
Any man who asserts that the bonds
to be voted under the proposition sub
mitted can be legally used for a canal is
an imposter. They annot be so used
ever if the Legislature should amend the
charter so as to authorize the city to con-
struct the canal or acquire its ownership
by purchase. No law can operate back
ward.
All who really favor the canal project
should vote no on the proposition.
Those who do not want to mortgage the
city for ST, 500, 900 without restrictions
and safeguards will certainly vote no.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29
BLASTS rnom nam,s nons.


When faith goes TO market 1t always takei
q basket.
The devil feels sure Of the man who lives
IN aimless life.
A child's first question Is the first round Ia
the ladder Of knowledge.
A chronic grumbler can be set down as a
person who loafs too much.
Some mon Join church from the Same mo-
tive that others rob II bank.
Too many people have an idea that no.
hgion can DO measured by the length of the
face.
You can't toll how many friends God has
IN q community by counting the church
spires.
The less a preacher believes Gods prom
Uses the more particular he is about the size
OF his salary.
Before some men are willing to cast their
bread upon the water they want to be sure
that II is going to be mentioned in the news
papers,
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29
Taking 1t seriously.
Washington star.

There are a few finicky folks who think
that there is a vast danger to health in the
Anticipated greenbacks that are kept In cir
culation until they are fit subjects for the
South Capitol street establishment They
will doubtless protest against the idea Of
squeezing II bushel of wheat into q pancake,
embellishing it with the buzzard mark and
setting II afloat through the unwashed chan
nels of trade For, says Mr.. Edison, this
wheat dollar is never to lose its quality as
food, and when banks fail and checks are
dishonored and hard times set in, the ancient
and honorable stocking toe will be aban-
doned for the boiling pot, aud the dollars Of
our posterity will be soaked-in a culinary
sense-until the sign of the buzzard disap-
pears and the germ-laden disk is ready to be
turned into bread and batter cakes. With
specimens of the wretched issue of Han
cock twos' still in circulation, the PROPOSE
ton of Mr.. Edison is a trifle nauseating.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29

THE Philadelphia Public Ledger reads
a timely lesson to councilmen who
habitually neglect to attend the meet
ings OF the body to which they have
sought and gained an election. 1t says
that las long as a man is a member he
should make it a rule to arr ange for his
presence a regularly as he would for
any business engagement, and whoa he
finds he cannot do this he ought to re-
sign, for he has no further IN .ral right
TO a seat in the municipal legislature"
When Mr.. Bedford was a member of the
Omaha city ~council he was absent from
meetings almost as often as he was pres
emit. And he didn't resign OF refuse his
salary, either.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29

THE enthusiastic reception of Presi-
dent Carnot on board the Russian fleet
at Tou1on was intended to reciprocate
the favors attendant upon the lavish
welcome of the Russian naval officers
into Paris. Whether or not the pres
ent demonstrations have been carefully
prepared for the effect they may have
upon the French people and upon the
people of the surrounding countries,
they must be received as definite con-
firmation of the intimate friendly re-
lations now existing between France and
Russia. These nations have witnessed
many changes in their attitudes toward
one another in the past, aud will nc
doubt witness many more in the near
future. But in the living present any
nation which picks q quarrel with
France must know that it will have to
reckon with Russia also.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29

CONGRESSMAN BLAIR promises to
spare his associates in the house from
further personal endeavors to push the
educational bill which bears his name
and upon which previous congresses
have been forced to waste SO much time.
Blair practically talked his own bill to
death on more than one occasion. With
out his active efforts in It's behalf it's
chances of becoming law may be consid-
cred omewhat improved.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29

FEW people have contended that the
silver senators were %insincere in their
fight against the repeal bill. They have
simply been blinded by false notions in
respect to monetary doctrines and the
overwhelming %pecuniary interests of
many of their constituents in mining
properties. They will soon see that UNI
conditional repeal is by no means the
calamity which they have been predict
inc.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29
The Topmost Price for Coal.
CbjcnoO Post.

n transfer of Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western railway stock to the Vanderbilts is
believed by some Wall street prophets TO
~foreshadow another Increase in the price OF
coal. II Is not cheering news on the first
shrewd day OF the early winter, and we may
take the liberty of doubling it.
The price of coal is about rs high now as
1t can be without cracking the endurance OF
the people. The Reading and other com
binations have blown up the bubble as far
as it will 60 safely. Another blast and il
will be soSpsuds in the pipe. We have no
fear of the Vanderbilts. They are not
going TO put coal, Lackawanna or other, in
tho socialistic fire which burned for gov,
ernment seizure Of the coal fields last
winter.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29

THE substitution of John l.. Pierson
for Frank Thompson as candidate for
the Board of Education is a very graft
flying improvement. Mr.. Pierson has
been an excellent member of the board.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29

II THE Illinois Central decides to
avail itself of the interstate bridge to
make its entrance into Omaha the East
Omaha Bridge and Terminal company
Will DO entitled to credit for having
done a good turn for Omaha. The Hi
nois Central would make a valuable
addition to Il railway facilities and
give us Il direct outlet into a section of
country that Omaha has only been able
TO reach In a roundabout way.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29

MACLEOD won his place on the school
board pay roll through his rustiing quail
tiles as a ward worker, and is likely to
retain his position for hat reason. He
is a political necessity to certain mem
bers of the board, who are under obliga-
tions to him, and who foisted him upon
the city pay roll as the easiest mean of
paying off such obligations. As usual,
the taxpayer gets the worst of it.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29
The Indian as a Soldier.
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER,

B~rigadier General John X. Brooke of the
regular army, in command of the Depart
ment of the Platte, says that the principal
difficulty in the handling OF Indian troops is
their inability TO speak English, and he adds
that from his knowledge of the race he
thinks this inability springs from the racial
dread of ridlcule, the Indian trooper being
afraid to try to speak English lest the white
soldiers laugh at him. In this respect the
Indian is very much like the white man, and
the difficulty is, therefore, perhaps net in
s~urmountable.