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Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15
SECULiR SHOTS At The pULPIT.

Chicago Post: A st. Paul Methodist min
lster has been summoned before the confer
cnce because he went to "A Chicago theater
Where FEMININE charms arc liberally dis
played. The good brethren want to know
all about it.
Kansas City journal: The Kentucky
preacher who has been turned out of the
pulpit because he persisted in running for
the legislature should go into the populist
party, where it is every mans duty to seek
office, regardless of occupation.
Philadelphia Ledger: Rev. John Hutchin-
son, pastor of the Presbyterian church ut
freeport, l.. l., preached a sermon,
"lhe Tongue n short time ago, and it led
TO a breach in his congregation that has
ended in his resignation. There seems to
have been too much of it.
Chicago Post: Salute the brethren"
wrote st. Paul, with a holy kiss" Parson
burrows of Huron, S. d., is more catholic,
He includes the ~sistren in the number Of
those who ought to be saluted and is conse-
quently in trouble. But in this, as in few
other cases, virtue is its own reward.
Minneapolis Tribune: A Massachusetts
DIVINITY student answers a matrimonial adj
Ve~rtlsement, exchanges photos with "A SUD-
posed wealthy Denver widow, and gets mar
RED by mail. lie is now in Denver without
cash on acquaintances and pOnderiug upon
the text that faith without works is vain.
Springfield Republican The Congrega-
tional ministerial union of Chicago has pro
~nounced against the no-prObatlon-af ter-dcath
par TO missionary service. 1t did not need
the great religious congress to melt away
that frozen Junk of dogmatic theology. but it
VIII necessarily now contribute to the in
tenslty of the warm rays of liberalism.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

sertations and trost 20 luck that some OF
this will be abSbr bed through their
pores; but this can scarcely he called
teaching nor IS it education"
This brings ls w tho true function of
the small collage-the preparation of
young men for a still higher education,
either in the great universities or in the
so-called more Practical pursuits of life.
This preparation includes the ground
work of u liberal education in language.
literature and soiencea and the strength
ening of the character which is to guide
the student in hts future career. y per-
son we'll prepared by such methods can
secure benefits in an ov~ercrowded uni
versity lecture room without trusting to
luck that he will absorb some of the
learning that is permeating the atmos-
phere. The small college,, moreover,
brings education to the doors Of its
patrons. Small colleges can and will
eventually dot all the various sections
of the country, but the number of great
universities must remain attainable only
by the comparatively few. Small col
leges must continue to dispense the edu-
cation intermediate between thai af-
fordcd by the public schools ana by the
larger universities.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15
BLASTS ERoM RAMS norm.

Love and necessity are the only cures for
laziness.
If noise were religion u bass drum could
produce a revival.
The biggest kind of sinners generally feel
religious in a graveyard,
The cholera is one way God has of show.
ing us that he hates dirt.
The hypocrito is only on his good behavior
when he thinks he is watched.
The devil goes to church every timo some
man Joins to help along his business.
n wise man can see all there is IN a FOOLS
head every time no opens his mouth.
The man who can pay his debvs aud won't
do 1t would steal if sure that he wouldn't
get caught.
IL is astonishing how many kinds of people
the devil can catch when he bats his hook
with money.
In religious matters there are people who
think when they throw "A straw to Il drows-
ing man they havo done enough.
Too many church members think the
world ought TO have been saved long ago be-
cause they have now aud then put a nickel
in the collection basket.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15
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In mis- address at the celebrate IN o
the centennial anniversary of Williamsf
college Chancellor Garfield of the Ne
braska State university referred to the
disparaging remarks that are so often
INDUCED in respecting whai are termed
the small colleges of the country. 1t is
perhaps too commonly ssumed that the
success of IN educational institution,
like that of u bargain sale or a travelling
circus, is to be measured by its drawing
qualities and that a small business al
ways means a poor business or a cheap
business. That there are many small
colleges that are both poor colleges and
cheap colleges the chancellor would
probably be the last one to deny, but
that Il small college must necessarily
have a small influence in educational
matters is an u~nwarranted inference,
against which a vigorous protest must
be raised.
The first great advantage claimed for
the small college is that it is prc-emi-
nently the safe college. Not that it
harbors a less proportion of oilers or
rogues than do the great universities,
but the very fact that the numbers in
attendance are few conduces to an init
mate association between students
and professor. 1t is said that the
most powerful inspiration is that
which comes from close personal
relationships. The personal influence
which the members of a college faculty
exert upon the students is as valuable
an education in itself as anything that
may be learned from lectures, recita-
tions or books. The small college is
the college that seeks TO build up indi-
yidual character, while the attendant
upon the great university must have his
character formed before he commences
his university career.
Another feature Of the small college
is hat small classes enable more
thorough work to be done. There is a
limit beyond which the efficiency of a
teacher cannot go without impairment.
Without subscribing to the doctrine
that the ideal education calls for but
n pupil aud one master we may yet
enter a protest against the economy
which sacrifices the interests of the stu
dent to the advertisement given by large
classes. AS Chancellor Garfield re-
marks: st is one thing to fill a lecture
room with tudents over whom Tasses a
steady flow of more or less learned dis
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15
Compromi,c lnadmissible.
pbJII5,Inbiu Ir1 ,,,

If the majority are as earnest, as deter
mined for the repeal OF the Sherman law as
the minority are against its repeal, the
Sherman law will be repealed before the end
of the present week. If, however, as it has
been suggested, there are many of the ma
jority who, while protesting anxiety for the
success of the repeating bill, are willing that
u shall be defeated, it is likely TO be-
defeated; but, unless the temper of the peo-
pie should suddenly suffer a radical change
it will be likely to go hard with every sona-
tor who, either directly, through indirection
OF Indifference to the country's demand for
relief from the intolerablc silver burden, as
sists to render such relief impossible. The
demand which the country makes upon the
senate is for the unconditional repeal of the
Sherman law and the maintenance Of the
principle of the right of the majority to rule.
There should be no thought of compromise
and no anticipation of defeat.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15
INFLICTING UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP.

NFLICTING UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP.
Whatever be the outcome of the pres
ent effort to force the repeal of the
Sherman silver purchase law by means
of continuous sessions of the senate. the
fact will still remain that the test Of en-
durance insures neither the rights of
the majority nor the justice of the sue
ceSsful cause. a resort to the eXhaus-
ton process is intended to operate upon
the contending parties to the fight. but
its baneful influence cannct be confined
to the senators alone.
The men who have brought on this
unusual trial of strength seem to have
had no thought of the hardship unneces-
sarily inflicted upon innocent persons
h are in 10 way responsible for the
senatorial situation of today. They
seem to have forgotten that "a host Of
senate employees are compelled to at
tend on every within and fancy of the
senate, They seem to have overlooked
the fact that although there may be no
difficulty IN securing relief for the sena-
torial watchers whenever they may be-
come tired. the humber of employees who
can relieve one another is strictly linn
tied. Continuous sessions are more ex-
hausting for the pages, messengers,
doorkeepers, clerks, stenographers and
sergeant-at-arms, who are made to do
almost continuonsl duty in the senate
chamber, than it i5,to the active p%artici-
pants in the legislative struggle itself.
Employees of the senate, to be sure,
understand that's They are subject to
summons for night sessions and they
expect to serve eYtEa time when extraor-
binary conditions 5demand it. Toward
the close of a Short session of congress
1t is the regular thing to keep the sem
ate in session so long as there is bust
ness TO be transacted. This, however,
occurs but once in every two years.
Although the present resort to cOntin.
nous sessions has but few p~recedents, it
threatens to pave the way for frequent
repetition. Expedients OF this kind are
unnecessary cruelties. They are only
employed now because the senate re-
fuses to adopt rules that will permit a
majority to demand a vote after a rea-
sonable time for debate upon any meas
ure has elapsed. They infict hardship
upon innocent and blameworthy alike.
II the senate employees should refuse in
a body to lend themselves TO any such
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

THAT subscription fund for the duke
of Veragua, which dropped so suddenly
from public notice, is to be dragged
forth to light once more, and another
attempt is to be made to l~iquidate the
But what is to be done for all the other
descendants of Columbus who have
claimed that they are equally as poor as
the duke? And while our Chicago mil
lionaires are aboutit why not come to the
rescue of the poverty stricken descend
ants of all the other navigators who
contributed to the civilization of
AmericaS
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

THE SLAUGHTER w THB RAILROADS.
The slaughter of employees and pas
sengers on the railroads of the United
States continues undated. The perfec-
ton of safety appliances and automatic
couplers can have little effect in reduc-
ing the annual number of casualties so
long as the legislation requiring their
Introduction upon all railroads is lack
ing in 50 many states, while in those
states where it is at hand the railroads
violate the avs with a reckless disre-
gard for human life. Instead of show
ing Il marked decrease in the list of
killed and injured, the latest statistics
just published by the statisttcian TO the
Interstate Commerce commission show
that it is still on the increase.
A glance at the figures for the acct
dents of 1872, comparing them with the
corresponding figures for previous years,
will give "a fair idea of the awful magni-
tude of the slaughter. To be sure only
2,55i employees were killed outright in
1892, ZIG less than in 1891, but at the
same tim the injured among the IN
ployes amounted to 2S,267, as against
26, 40 for 1891. Among the passengers
the killed were 376, or So more than in
1891, and the injured were 1927, as
against 2,9I2 in 1891. The statistician
to the Interstate Commerce commission
caliod attention to this terrible condition
of railroad traffic in the United States
as early as 1888, in which year the en-
ployes killed we're but slightly over
1000, and those injured slightly over
10000. His repeated recommendations
tina congress pass a law requiring rail
roads under heavy penalties to equip
their rolling stock with the most i'm
proved couplings and safety devices have
remained unheeded, while the extent of
the evil has steadily grown.
In 1892, as in 1891, the total number of
casualties has exceeded that of any pre-
vious year covered by the reports and
compares most unfavorably with the sta
tistics of European railroads. Taking
into consideration the known reluctance
of railroad officials to make public the
occurrence of accidents on their lines, as
also the fact that many smaller injuries
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is certainly alarming, nor can it be
viewed as an unavoidable phenomenon.
To regard the railroads as altogether
blamelcss is to shut our eyes to the I'M
disputed records. We have figures that
show that railroads are making prac-
tically no progress whatever in the
equipment of their cars and engines
with uniform safety devices. State leg
~islation and unenforceable recommends
tiOns of state and federal railroad COM
missions have proven of no avail. 1t is
time for congress to intervene. A bill
"to compel the use of safety appliances
on all railroads engaged in interstate
commerce" has been again introduced
into the present session of congress.
The blame for any continuation of the
slaughter will be divided between con-
gress and the negligent railroad officials.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15
useless device the senate would soon
be forced to come To its senses.

THAT prohibition does not prohibit
has once more beer demonstrated by the
recent decision of tho Kansas courts In
the Topeka club case. The prohibitore
law in Kansas, instead u stopping the
sale and consumption OF intoxicating
liquors, has served only to stimulate the
trade of the bootlegger and the growth
of the clubs. The clubs, which are or
ganized on a plan which secures tho CO.
operation OF its members in the purchase
OF liquid refreshments, have thrived in
nearly every city in the state,
dcmoralizing their patrons to II greater
degree than would be possible under
any rational system OF high license. The
test case just decided in favor of the
clubs will no doubt give them an impe-
tus wherever they exist and insure still
further violations of the spirit, if not the
letter, of the prohibitory law, IT. is not
so long z that u Kansas legislative in
vestigating committee reported that it
them to believe that the prohibitory
law has been enforced in any city of the
state through the agency of the metro
politan police or any other machinery of
the law Prohibition prohibits less in
Kansas now than it evor did, and it is
highly improbable that any legal enact
ment can be secured to bring the drink
ing clubs under the provisions of the
statute.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

IL THE action of the New Jersey
grand jury in investigating the COM
plants of hazing at one of the leading
colleges OF the country, located in that
state, results in putting an end to that
long-decricd practice. the authorities
will deserve all the credit that will be
given them. College officers, while pub
licly denouncing haaing, have too often
secre city encouraged it. When the
matter is taken up by outside parties
the ever-yenturesome students will
think first before they leap.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

MRS. ADA BITTENBENDER, whose
legal attainments are Of no inferior
order, has for the second time been
placed in nomination by the prohibition
party of Nebraska as its candidate for
justice of the supreme court. Barring
the question Of a woman's eligibility for
the supreme bench and the %decadence of
prohibition as an issue, Mrs. Bitten
bender makes a very creditable candi-
date. She is as modest and unassuming
as she is earnest and forceful. The
platform on which she is nominated
covers every conceivable and inconceiva-
BILE subject within the range of Ameri-
can politics-prohibition, woman suf-
frage, Henry G~eorgeism, socialism, Bel
lamyism and populism. The only OBJ
stacle that Mrs. Bittenbender will
encounter in the campaign is u lament
able shortage OF votes.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15
Army and Navy Boozers.

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Army and navy boards disagree as TO
whether drunkenness or alcoholism is q
disqualification for promotion. Commodore
Johnson, who had been treated several times
for alcoholism" was passed twice by a
naval board, aud after "a long delay made a
captain By the president. Mi, Cleveland re-
fused to act on the recommendation of the
first board. aud so the second one was called.
Another board has just refused TO recon-
mend the promotion of Passed Assistant En-
Llnecr Mintler because he mas an uncontrol-
able appetite for intoxicants, according TO
his own confession. Mintzer can't see why a
little thing like that should bar his way up
ward, and has appealed TO the secretary of
the navy from the decision Of tho board. 1t
Is to be hoped hat the secretary will sustain
the board. There ought to be little room in
either the army or the navy foe drunkards,
or for men who, like Miutzer, cannot abstain
from whisky, or required frequent treatment
Tor alcoholism, like Johnson.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

THE establishment of Il press censor
ship over all Geographic. dispatches
concerning the progress Of the cholera
in Hamburg is not calculated to improve
our facilities for guarding against its in
PRODUCTION into this country. The laud-
able ambition of the German authorities
to suppress exaggerated or false state
ments should not be allowed to go to any
extreme which may interfere with the
health regulations of the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

COMPLAINTS are becoming numerous
among the exhibitors at the Worlds
fair that the distribution of medals and
diplomas by the committees on awards
is altogether too indiscriminate. 1t is
not so much a dissatisfaction with the
Judgment of the %juries as with the lavish
ness which is being shown in giving an
award to nearly every one who has made
Il display at the exposition. According
to the reports, practically every eX-
hibitor has been given some kind of an
award, with the result hat no one of
them will be able to say that he excelled
his competitors. In the eyes of both
the recipients and the public the medals
and diplomas must consequently lose all
significance and value. This is said to
be true in no small number of depart
ments. If the reports are reliable the
system is certainly one to be deprecated.
1t will tend to take away from future
exhibitors all incentive to compete with
one another for honors and to make the
public distrust every distinction which
may be honestly claimed by painstaking
and enterprising manufacturers.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15
ELECToRAL REFORM IN AUsrRL.

In taking the initiative in the move
ment for an extended suffrage the Aus
tpian government has undoubtedly made
a shr ewd move. More modern govern
ments have f%oundercd upon their oppo-
sition to Il popular franchise and more
revolutions have been occasioned during
the past century by the refusal of the
favored few to admit the masses of the
people to their privileges than by any
other single cause. Everywhere the
same forces have been working toward
universal suffrage, and n by one the
states that have persistently held out
against these demands have been forced
to accede to them.
Electoral reform in Austria dates from
1873, when the law was changed so that
delegates to the Reichsrath, previously
chosen by the provincial Parliaments,
were thenceforth to be elected directly
by the people. The suffrage, however,
was limited in It's extent and distributed
among groups with different electoral
influence. The agitation since then has
been for an extension of the suffrage,
the radicals demanding also an abolition
of the group system. The bill just pre-
sented to the Relchsrath by the minis
try aims to cut of the latter by
granting what is reasonable in the
requests OF the moderates. Itintroduces
what is practically universal suffrage,
the limitations referring only to mill
tary service, education and the payment
of taxes. Following, as it does, the re-
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

HoNoRs are simply showcring upon f..
Ellery Anderson. Besides his appoint
ment as government director of The
Union Pacific he has been made q MEM
Der of the commission which is devising
al improved form of government for the
public school system of New York. Add
to this the r~eceivership of the Union
Pacific. his own law practice and his
supervision of mugwumpian politics and
+. Ellery must be kept a pretty busy
man.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

THE taxpayers of Omaha have a right
to demand something more than eminent
responsibility from the men who are
seeking positions in its executive depart
with responsibility, the successful can
didate must give evidence of fitness and
ability. And, it may be remarked,
there is no better evidence of fitness and
ability than a clean record proven by at
least one term of public service.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

cent extension of the franchise in
Belgium, it cannot but have an inn
portant influence upon those continen-
electoral privileges exists. The bin, when
enacted into law. will place Austria in
line with the other progressive consti-
tuti0nal states of Europe and hasten the
day when popular government can claim
TO have conquered the whole OF the
modern civilized world.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15
Preserve tho Forests.
Chiedgn hter ocean.

During President Harrison's 'administra-
tion there were fifteen forest preserves
declared in various sections OF the union.
President Cleveland has wisely added an
other large forest preserve in Oregon. Thu
coming generation ought to have an opportu-
nifty TO sec u great forest, The forests
should not go with the red man and the but-
falo. Life and health and the fertility of
the country largely depend upon preserving
the forests. The old pioneers were the enc.
mics of growing trees. This generation
should not be, Preserve the forests.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15
Enough Tor IA Generation.
MinmedpOIIs Tribune.

There are too many centennial worlds fair
projects on the taps just now. After the
big show at Chicago is over the people OF
this planet will want a rest from that sort
of thing for a few years. Let's all agree
that the next Worlds fair shall be in OBJ
servance of the 4OOth anniversary of the
adjournment of the present extraordinary
session of congress, and let it go at that.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

The way in which the housc is setting
days for votes upon important bills and
carrying out the program of its commit
tee on rules offers an example which
the senate might prolitably follow.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15
Glimpses of the Dark Valley.

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After all his busy life and brilliant
t%riumphsin one of the most eventful lives
of history all that Prince Bismarck now
desires is undisturbed rest. Realized ambi-
lions are but a small solace amid the
lengthening shadows which mark the APP
preaching sunset of his life.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

THE people should be prepared to be
surprised when the new tariff measure
is reported to the house from the com
mittee on ways and means. The men
who placed q democratic administration
in control of the federal government
Will then wonder what possessed them
last November.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

AT THE recent meeting of the stock
holders of the Western Union Telegraph
company the outstanding stock was re-
ported at $04, $40, 600. There was, how
ever, a lamentable absence of figures
showing how much of hat stock con-
sisted of dividend bearing water.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

SAYS the New York WOrld: THE
custom of waving politics in electing
upright and able judges is by no means
a novel one in this state. 1t might be
followed oftener with advantage to the
public" Upright and able judges are
as necessary in Nebraska as in New
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

THE Kaleidoscope of medical fads just
now presents the public with a newly
discovered treatment of consumption.
The ~time-honored elixir of life is ex-
pected to reappear with the next turn
of The wheel.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

NEBRASKA ought rot to be troubled in
finding a few more Irish-American citi-
zens who are eligible for the presidency
of the Irish National league. Having
had that Office SO long Nebraska should
not give it up without an effort to re-
foip II
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15

Chicago Post.

What the country needs, says an Omaha
banker, is not more currency, but more con
fdence. Confidence? We have had too
much al~ready-in the patriotism of certain
members of the United States senate.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-15
VIII tho Music Hold Out?

j. Sterling Morton is tiguratively dancing
a war dance over the alleged political grave
of the silver-tongued Bryan, and has as
sured Cleveland that Nebraska is almost
solid in his support. What will Morton say
to Grover next month at this time after in
dignant people of Nebraska have spoken!