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Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08


Tho December debt statement showed
hat the gold reserve of the treasury
has been reduced to loss than SSl 900, 900.
There is no great amount OF gold going
out of the country Mt present, but a re-
newal OF the outflow may come at any
time, and, If it should happen shortly, it
might be q serious matter for the treas
ury. The feeling abroad regarding
American railway securities Is distinctly
unfriendly, and it would not be surpris-
ing to see large amounts OF these Sc
c~urities returned here at any
time. 1t is estimated by the chief
of the bureau of statistics that
during the year from June, 1892,
to June, 1893, securities to the value of
not less than 5000, 900, 900 were returned
from Europe to the United States. OF
course there were purchases on foreign
account during this period, estimated at
about half the amount of the securities
returned. 1t is a question, however,
whether for the ensuing year the move
ment Of securities will not be almost
wholly in this direction. There is mani
testify a disposition on the part of British
capitalists to deal spariagly in our rail
way securities. 1t is apparent that they
have become more di5trustful of them
and this feeling is almost certain to
extend to the continent, whose investors
are very greatly influenced by
British opinion. The chances are,
therefore, that a large amount of our
securities will be returned, and that the
purchases will be relatively small.
From this point of view, WI may look
for another large loss of gold, and the
movement may begin at any time. In
the present circumstances it would prob
ably make an additional drain or the
treasury gold reserve and increase the
danger incident to the depletion of that
fund.
Recently published statistics show
that there has been a steady decline in
the treasury gold during the past four
years. January l, 1890, the total gold
in the treasury was 1915, Ol3, 454, and the
net gold S177, 1856, 295. January 1, 1894, the
amounts respectively were $l5S, 3O3, 10
and $50, 991, 600. 1t is thus shown that
in four years the loss in the total hold
ing of gold has been 1851, 1865, and
in the net holding 1906, 474, 6S5. Against
the gold now in the treasury there is
outstanding paper amounting to $780,
96S, 096. How much further can the
depletion of the treasury gold go with
outexciting apprehension for the safety
of the paper currency of which it is the
basis?
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

DO n repetition OF this under the pro-
posed individual income tax? The sal
aricd people who could not conceal tneir
incomes would have to Pay the tax, but
those whose income depends upon profits,
and perhaps upon a variety of produce
tions or upon q great range of transact
ions, could conceal their revenues in
some part and very generally they would
do so. Indeed. they would be more
likely to do this now than when the
necessity of obtaining revenu to carry
on the war for the union appealed to
every mans patriotism.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

FRANCE takes great pride in the 10y
atty of the French faction in Alsace-
Lorraine to French traditions and well
comes with enthusiasm every sign, how
ever slight, hat indicates the survival
Of French sympathy among the inhab-
itants of the lost province. France
cherishes an eternal hope hat she may
once more call Alsace-Lorraine her
own Nothing can shake her in her be-
lief that this hope will one day be full
filled, and it spurs her on to encourage
a close connection between the citizens
Of the two countries. This is the sig
nificance of the voluntary exile of Stras-
burgers in order to avoid service in the
German army Germany's acquired
territory of 1871 has not yet been assim-
iIated.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

William III. Hills, in Hdrper's Weekly.
What! charity? No, thank you, sir!
| haven't come To that!
Tn poor-in want-but I'm not here
A-hoiding out my hat.
I've two good arms, n willing strength
I'm not the man to Shirk.
l don't ask aims, sir. All want
Is Just n chance to work.
I'm not n beggar, sir, thank God!
/ only ask my right
A chance to earn what L and mine
REQUIRE, and In the sight
OF fellow men to be a man,
And hold my head up straight.
Whose child your child, sir, could not scorn
AS an associate.
NV wife and child need food and warmth
And | can give them all
They need, with work-and help, as well.
At any neighbor's call.
But idle hands are helpless, sir,
And so | ask of you
A chance to show what mine are worth
Some honest work to do.
Tn only one of thousands-and
We are not beggars, sir!
We're just as willing now to work
AS good men ever were.
Don't treat us, sir, like mendicants
Whom you would fain avoid.
But give, for Gods sake, IL you car,
Work for the unemployed!
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08
OPERATION or THE VAR INCOME TAX

Or HE Wax INCOME TAX.
A statement compiled by the commits
sioner of internal revenue has been pub
lished, showing the amount of tax de-
rived from income of all sources under
the law of 1852. 1t is an interesting ex-
hibit as showing the inequitable opera
ton of the tax. a noteworthy feature
of the statement is the proportion be-
tween the taxes yielded by the salaries
of persons in tho service of the govern
mont and that yielded by the income Of
private citizens. In 1853 the servants
of the government paid to the tax col
lector nearly half again as much as all
private persons together. InlS64 they
paid in about one-eighth as much as their
fellow citizens in private life; in 1866
about one-5eventh; in 1866 about one
sixteenth; in 1867 about one-fitty-ffth;
in 1868 about one-thirtieth; in 1859 about
one-torty-fourth; in 1870 about one
twenty-fourth; in 1871 about one-eigh-
teenth; in 1872 about one-twenty-eighth,
and in 1873, the last year of the tax,
about one-thirty-third. This wide range
is to be explained in part, of course, by
the fact that government salaries were
pretty steadfast during this period,
while private incomes varied from year
to year, but still it is apparent that the
persons having fixed incomes paid more
than their equitable proportion OF the
revenue from this source.
Attention is especially directed to the
fact that the ratio reached its very
lowest point in 1867, when the amount
collected from public servants compared
with the amount collected of private
citizens, as II to fifty-fve, the numer-
ical proportion of public servants to per-
sons not in public employ being no
higher than one in siXty-five, 1t was a
period of great activity in trade and
speculation aud all values were inflated.
Private incomes were large, at least IN
paper, while salaries in the government
service averaged no more than
ut present. Had the operation
of the tax been equitable the
employees of the government ought
not to have paid more than o%ne-seven-
tiath or one-eightieth as much as the
private citizens, allowing the latter to
charge of a considerable share of their
actual income on n pretense or an
other. What Is the obvious lesson?
The income of the public servant was
known to the tax collector ana could not
be evadcd, while the incomes of the pri-
vate citizens were not known and these
paid, in very many cases, what they
pleased. Everybody who remembers
the income "A knows that fraudulent
returns we're common everywhere and
it was we'll understood that the great
majority of persons did not pretend to
mako a = statement OF their incomes,
or anything approaching it. There was
both a vast amount of perjury and a
great deal of corruption practlced in
connection with this tax.
J. Can anybody iou bt that there would
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08
TRTTE TRIFL les.

Yonkers Statesman: A merchant very ap-
propriately advertises "a drive in horse
blankets.
Binghamton Leader: A dogs tail is not
necessarily a has been" because 1t always
points to the past.
Chicago Record: where did you get that
frightful Cold2" II have just mot a draft that
Jones drew on me-"
long in the store?" There was i'm Italian at
the counter, ana became so much Interested
wa tched until | saw the dago buy"
Texas s]lftipgs: What do you publish a
quircd IN irato politician of u country editor.
"For 81 in advance" replied the editor, And
you owe for four years"
Philadelphia Record; we'll, half n loaf is
better than none remarked the office boy
who had asked for Il day of and only got the
afternoon.
ess whose manuscripts are rejected, 81 have
not very much of what the world regards as
riches. But | have seventeen novels and six
poems, all in my own write.'
Boston Courier: When his wife discovered
a bottle of it in his coat-tail pocket he said 1t
was sozodont. She SAID 1t was all right,
'sozodont take too much of it,"
Philadelphia Ledger: The use of hypo-
dermic injections OF sleeps brains looks like a
mutton-head notion, but they are recon-
mended by an eminent bacteriologist as a
cure for epilepsy.
Detroit Tribune; Police Justlce-But you
say this man struck you first.
Prisoner-He did, your honor.
well, he must have had some provocation
what did he strike you fori'
Five dollars, your honor"
Indianapolis Journal: $50 you married a
telephone girl on account of her sweet voice,
ehp Are her tones as dulcet as ever?
"Er-well-they might be If they were at the
end of 5000 feet of wire, as in the old days"
Philadelphia Record: Blobbs-What was
Mrs. Oldgirls maiden name? Slobbs-My
recollection is that her maiden aim was
chiefly to get married.
JOHNNIE'S ERROR.
Little Johnnie took n mirror,
And he licked tho back all off,
Thinking, In his childish fancy,
1t would cure his whooping cough,
But on the morning of the funeral
Tho neighbors said to Mrs. Brown,
Twas II chilly day for little Johnnie
Whensthe mercury went down
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

DOUGLAS county is called upon to feed
monthly an average of 200 prisoners at
the county Jail. Just how 80 great a
number is properly disposed in the lin
tied space of the Jail building is a per-
picking question. That the crowded
condition is detrimental to discipline
and proper treatment of criminals will
be conceded by all men conversant with
the situation. 1t is only a matter of
time when Omaha and Douglas county
must make better provisions for the
safekeeping of prisoners. With a city
Jail the average enrolment at the
county bastile could be reduced ono
half, which would greatly improve pres
enU conditions in all respects.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

THE incorporators of the Metropolitan
Union Depot company mean business.
They have filed articles of incorpora-
tion with the secretary of state and will
have their organization perfected
within n few days. Ordinances looking
to the submission of a proposition to the
voters of this city are being prepared
and will doubtless be introduced as soon
as the council committees shall be APP
pointed. Unless n cog slips somewhere
work on the great depot will be begun
early in the spring..
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

LAWYERS retained TO defend crimi-
mails are expected, of course, to grab at
every straw to nave the neck of a con-
victed murderer, But it is extremely
doubtful il there is any law or precedent
which would justify the liberation of
McGinn because of Judge Sc)tt's blum
der in fixing the date Of the execution
two days short of the To-day interim,
If there is u law under which u con-
demned man n cheat the gallowS and
laugh at justice upon such a trlling
te%chnicality it is high time that such
law be wiped out Of existence, Too many
criminals escape punishment upon moro
technlcalities. The line ought to bs
drawn somew here.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

doing business in that state annulled.
These companidi DE said TO have So
cured their charters Of Incorporation
upon misrepresentation Of the facts OF
their proposed schemes. Excluded FROM
the use of the United States mails, they
have taken reftge behind tho express
companies, which are conveniently sub
lect 70 no descriptions as to aiding lot
terry operations. They have no stand
ing under state laws, however, and the
state courts muIt b5 resorted to to sup
press the romnant OF their business.
Energetic action BY state officials will
soon put an end TO these unlawful con-
Germs.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

JEFFERsoNtAN simplicity and an am
bassadorship under the present admin
istration seom to have nothing in COM
mon, particularly, in the case OF Ambas-
d Runyon's establishment at Ger
many's capitol. Old Ben Franklin, who
astonished the French court by appear
ing in the royal presence in his home
spun American made suit OF clothes,
would himself have been astonished had
he seen an American diplomatic repre-
sentative driven to the palace of the
German emperor in q magnificent equip
age adorned with brightly painted
American eagles upon each of the car
riage panels, drawn by elaborately
caparisoned horses and attended by
iiveried %coachmen and footmen brilliant
in their uniforms of blue and white.
Ambassador Runyon is evidently trying
to set a pace that only equally rich men
can follow when others succeed to his
position. The turnout such as has been
described is hardly in keeping with the
traditions of our republic. President
Cleveland would not venture to move
about Washington in similar state, and
it is by no means called for from any
American ambassador at a foreign court.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

INAsMUCH as eastern insurance COM
panies have declared war upon the
property owners of Nebraska it would
be interesting to know just what the
state government is paying them for
risks upon its buildings. We venture
to say that Nebraska has paid enough
money in insurance premiums the past
twenty years to cover ten times the
actual loss by fire. At any rate the
record would be interesting.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

For the past five months from twelve
to fifteen insane patients have been har-
bored in the Douglas county Jail, at a
cost of about S75 per month. A Jail is
not the place for these unfortunates. If
the county commissioners cannot send
them to one or the other of the state in
situations, they should be kept at the
county hospital, where better accommo-
dations are afforded at less expense to
the taxpayers. An insane man must re-
ceive better treatment than that to
which criminals are subjected. The
wonder is that relatives and friends of
these insane wards have not long ago
protested against their being detained
in the county jail. There is every rea-
son why they should be removed with
out DELAY.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

NEBRASKA has three legal repositories
for current state funds authorized to re-
ceive altogether not owe $3.50, 900. In
the meanwhile the state treasurer holds
in the neighborhood of a million and a
half upon which the state is entitled to
draw interest. There is still room for
further applications of banks wishing to
receive state deposits.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08
Timely Hint to Bankers.

1t may noG DO entirely impe rtinent to
suggest in this connection that the banks
might begin to relax a little in their policy
of boarding vast reserves and BIO more lib
eral in the extension of accommodations to
ali who can find legitimate uses for money.
Let the banks do something toward in
spring confidence among the people and
confidence will be measurably restored.
Idle money is the milestone that hangs
around the neck of the American people TO-
day.
They are become like misers starving
amid an embarrassment of riches.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08
Just Like Omaha.

In the la~nguageof the politician, the school
jauitor of Detroit is decidedly in the push
and has pretty much his w way as TO the
time that he works and the unvarying regu'
larity with which me draws his salary. He
can secure the services of q substitute for
weeks ut a stretch and the taxpayers must
settle, not only with the %ianItor, but with
the man who Performs the services for
which such %ianitor is employed.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

. A WRITER in a local sheet contends
that business depression throughout the
length and breadth of the nation is due
largely to the money squandered by
sight-seers at the Worlds fair. Was all
the money so expended exported to other
nations or burned up? Is it lost to the
people, never to return?
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

TIE New York Sun presents its read
ers with ga Short History of Damfool-
ishness;'' in other words, the policy of
the national democracy upon the income
ak question. The Sun never becomes
squcmish about words.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

WE II gratified to observe that the
iTacksonian b%anqueters will attempt to
galvanize the party tonight by e%Xtrava-
giant use of the electric tluid. We know of
no better use to which electricity could
be applied, nor of no subject standing in
greater need Gifts llfe-giving properties.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

TT IS indeed refreshing to see our city
~councilmen all lined up at the banquet
ing board with white-winged harmony
and good cheer playing a star engage
ment. 1t may be different, however,
when the standing committees are
announced.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

II IT takes the state board as long to
pass on every bond offered as security
for state deposits under the depository
law as it has for tho last three acted on,
the state will not draw interest on much
of its current funds for some time to
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08
Bear This in Mind.

bTUUt-D tWTUJTWI'
1t is well to bear in mind that while the
number of business failures in 1893 was
greater than ever before, the number of
business enterprises was also greater. The
proportion of failures TO the number of per-
sons in business was not much larger in 1893
than it was in several years in the past in
which there was no actual panic, while it
was not us large as during the convulsion in
1879
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

1T is reported that Euclid Martin will
challenge the democracy of Buffalo Bill
tonight. The latter has never applied
for an office since Cleveland was first
elected president, and this fact is taken
to mean that his intentions at this time
are not honorable.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

WE desire to intimate to the new city
and county officials, who are for the first
time enjoying the felicity of official life,
that public office is not a private snap.
The business of this city and county will
mot run itself, but demands the same
care and attention bestowed upon any
private firm or corporation whose bust
ness is of grea t magnitude and impor-
tnnnn
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

JUST why the populists refuse to assist
the democrats in congress in their efforts
to ecure q quorum to act on the Wilson
bill, after the committee on ways and
means has decided to Incorporate in
its measure the income tax plank Of
tho populist party, is a mystery to the
uninitiated. Are the populists in favor
Of an income tax only so long as it is out
nf reachY
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

NEBRASKA soil has become world
famed as presenting the most inviting
field for sugar beet culture. The signs
of the times point to the establishment
of sugar beet factories within our bor-
one of these. We can get it if we
1,,t1n
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

IT COSTS the city Of Louisville, KY,
500 a wear for each electric arc lamp
used on it's streets. Omaha pays $40
for the same service. This is q tip for
the new city council.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08
Couldn't he Thought OF.
III yI.I,J.,I1. Ia-,.s.

In the plans which certain western rail-
road managers have submitted for economic
ing in company affairs there are several sug-
g~estions of reduced wages for the employees,
but thus far no official has intimated that
his own salary should be cut down.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

THE eight hour movement cannot but
receive a certain impetus from the
introduction of an eight hour working
day for the employees of the British a
office. The United States has instituted
this reform in several of its governmen-
tai departments and it is expected that
eventually private enterprises will be-
come adjusted to the same basis wher-
eyer the nature of the work will permit,
lust now, laborers arc anxious for any
employment without regard to the ques-
ton of the eight hour working day, but
when the movement is again tax IN up
with a return to prosperity, the cause
will be found to be considerably
strengthened by the recent action of the
British government.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

ATTORNEY GENERAL WALKER Of Mis-
souri, is setting a good example in insti-
tuting proceedings to have the charters
Of the bogus bond Investment companies
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

THIS is to be an eventful week at Des
Moines. It marks the return of the re-
publican party to control of state affairs.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08
COMPENSATION FOR FRANCHISES.

The first important act of Chlcago's
new mayor has been to veto an ordi-
nance comforting Upon a private corpo-
ration the free use of the streets of that
city for the purpose of constructing and
maintaining an elevated railroad. The
ground upon which Mayor Hopkins has
refused to affix his signature to the ordi-
nance is that it failed to properly pro-
tect the city's interests and to provide
for adequate compensation for the valu-
able privileges granted. Upon this veto
The Chicago papers have been pouring
LAVISH praises. 1t is being held up as
marking the beginning of a new era,
when the public is to receive at least a
partial return for favors granted to
franchised corporations, and when the
old system of giving franchises to every
one who may ask for them at their own
terms is to be permanently left behind.
The policy which Chicago has just in
augurated was anticipated in Omaha
under Mayor Bemis by several weeks
and the passages of Mayor Hopkins
veto message might almost have been
copied from those emanating from Mayor
Bemis. 81 see no reason" says he,
''why the city should not, in considera-
tion of its grant of this valuable fran
chise, share, in some slight degree, in
the profits which the company is certain
to derive therefrom later on. And
again: ''If the city has in the past
failed to exact adequate, or at least rea-
sonable compensation for the granting
of similar franchises, that is no reason
why we should not now make a Begin
ming in that direction" Once establish
the precedent OF exacting returns for
public privileges and the seeking of free
franchises for purely speculative pur-
poses must cease of itself.
The royalty of 5 cents or every 1000
cubic foot of gas sold to private con-
sumers in the city of Omaha, which has
just begun to accrue by reason # the
new gas franchise ordinance means that
future franchises of all kinds, if granted
at all, must be bought at their reason
able price. 1t means that Omaha in
tends to guard it's property as carefully
as would a we'll conducted private COR
enthusiasm over q prospective share of
2 per cent in the gross receipts of a
rapid transit company after the expira-
ton of ten years, the concession which
Mayor Bemis secured from the local gas
company deserves no less appreciation.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08
The size OF 1t.
Chicago Post (dem.h.
1t Is q nincompoop tax.
Activity In the Saddle.

Washington Star.
Activity is growing in all branches Of &C.
cupation in this country, including adverse
comment on the Wilson hill,
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08
Sentiment and Substance.
1LMS.

Charity is the fairest of all graces, and
like many pictures, it looks best in relief.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

New York Press: what were you doing so
long In the store2" There was un italian at
the counter, and / becumc so much Interested
in his appearance that | stood there and
wa tched until | saw the dago buy"
Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-08

Yonkers Statesman: A merchant very APP
propriately advertises ~ drive in horse
blankets.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-02-15
A Beauty ParIor" swindIe.

A west end lady was recently
caught for $500 by scheme which
has been worked in all the large cit
les. She was induced to buy out a
beauty parlor, as it is called-a place
for the sale of cosmetics and all ar
ticles which will enhance the charm
of the complexion-and which was
alleged to have a good trade and
plenty of stock on hand. An inven-
tory showed that she had invested
principally in empty boxes, but still
the good will might be worth some
thing. When former patrons came
around and threatened suits for dam
aged compilations, she was glad to
move and escape with her life. It is
said that this scheme is worked ev-
cry day in the year on innocent pur-
chasers in Chicago. - Cincinnati
Times-Star.