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Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07
SHOTS At THE EARLY BIRDS.

Brooklyn Eagle: 1t will be great fun to
see William C. Whitney get away with David
b. Hill, if he feels like doing so. AS against
Whitney Mr.. Hill couldn't hold Tammany
Hall the half of half of the half of min
ute.
Chicago Mail: There is plenty of good
presidential timber in Senator Don Cameron,
and in spite of the effort to bslittle it his
candidacy may yet be worth considering by
the republicans.
Kansas City Star: Brother Mckinley is
getting the usual amount of newspaper puff
ing in connection with the late Ohio conven-
tion, but it would appear that Brother For
aker picked up most of the plums.
Minneapolis Times: Mckinley is rapidly
being forced into the unhappy position of
the logical candidate. 1t would be a much
happier condition for the major If he could
but induce the public to believe that he is
the Foraker candidate.
New York World General Benjamin Har-
rison Of Indianapolis is a great man, but no
Indiana man was ever yet great enough to
risk his dignity in 50-cent straw hat while
engaged in conducting receptive candidacy
against an Illinois dark horse.
Philadelphia Record: The presidency of the
United States is an office of such dignity that
the possession of it might fill the measure of
the highest ambition. But no man that runs
after it should be allowed to get it, The peo-
pie should have a free, unasslsted choice. The
fact that Tom Reed took to the woods when
invited to a powwow of candidates was
greatly to his credit.
Globe-D Democrat: If the sunstroke removed
Morton from the presidential track, and if
Foraker's victory in the Ohio convention
handicapped Mckinley the work of picking
out the winner in the convention is simpli-
fled somewhat. Reed, Harrison and Allison
though are In the race yet, and two or three
more entries may be made between this time
and the meeting of the convention.
Springfield Republican: What the country
is waiting to know is what sort of luck Mr.
Reed had on the hunting trip that took him
so far into the woods that he could not be
reached by the invitation to Chauncey NJ
Depew's harmony" dinner. Did he capture
any new ideas on the money question, for in
stance, or test new kind of trap to catch
delegates, or practice at a mark with the
opening gun Of his campaign? There is a
market for the diary of that trip if Reed
wants to publish 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07

Des Moines Capital: Omaha men can talk |
silver, but they cannot play ball

Des Moines Capital: Omaha men can talk
silver, but they cannot play ball.
Sioux City Journal: The superintendent of
public instruction in Iowa has decided that
cyclone caves may be paid for out OF the
contingent funds in charge OF the school
boards. and good many boards are pre-
pairing to do that very thing.
Des Moines Leader: SO far Candidate
Russell is the only aspirant for the repub-
lican nomination fer the governorship who
has had the courage to outline his views
upon state and national questions. We
know where Russell stands; we ought to
know where Drake Mcfarland and the rest
stand.
Sioux City Journal: Even the staid Omaha
Bee fails to resist the temptation to pun.
1t says that in deposng Archbishop Ken
rick from the sec of st. Louis the pope has
raised Kain. This is on a par with the
Keokuk Gate City's statement that now hs
las been knighted Henry Irvings company
will play nothing but one knight stands.
Sioux City Tribune 1t is worth noticing
that w. j. Bryan went to Des Moines to
talk to the populist crowd and that Fred
White, who recently went to Sioux City
to train the snap convention gun. presided
over that meeting. Populist-demoCrats
meet there today with the evident intention
Of forming a coalition, and, as Taubeneck
OF Illinois, chairman of the populst ma
toHaI committee, says, WreCklnS tne uenO-
cratic party.
Sioux City Tribune: The Iowa saloon ques-
ton has some elements at work to make
it factor in this falls campaign, but moth
ing has contributed so much to this end
as the opinion of the supreme court on the
case which went up from Judge Spurriers
court in Polk county. He held that any
saloon keeper, ostensbly running under the
provisions Cf the mulCt law, must prove tho
SufflcienCy of the DptitiOn authorizing tho
county auditor to issue certificates. The
Icon men are thus compelled one at time
to prove that a majority of their fellow
citizens want them to run their places.
1t will be practical impossibity for them
to do this in most of the counties of the
state. 1t is even doubtful II they can do 1t
in Woodbury. county. This opinion, from
the highest court apparently puts an end
to all pretense of the satisfactoriness of the
law. The saloon has only one other APP
peal, and that is to the voters, but mean
time it may well prepare to go.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07
PAR4PHR4SJNG BEN KING.

Cincinnati Commercial.
If I should die tonight ard you should come
And gather with my friends within my
room,
And say while dropped the sympathzng
tear,
81 wish I'd paid that ten while he was
here"
1 think I'd rise, and, stretching out my
Would then and there, upon the spot, de-
mand
Not only that, but other sums I'd lent,
And which, in days gone by you'd got and
spent.
If I should die tonight methinks you'd say:
while he was here he never said me nay:
But, when l asked, he would, with lavish
hand,
Shell out. his dimes and dollars. on de-
mand."
But talking through your hat, when he is
Won't help a man whom you have always
Don't wait till death damps gather on my
1 need that money-let me have it now.
If I should die tonight, methinks I see
Your face among the SorroWing company,
Standing quite near, with bowed and rev.
erent head,
If so upon my word, | really think
I'd raise my head, and, with a ghasuy
wink,
I'd murmur "Rats!" and then I'd whisper
low: .
Just hand that dollar here before I CO."
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07
ANOTHER INSOLVENT TRUST.

The Cordage trust is again in trouble
Some two years ago, after big specula-
ton in the stock, which carried it up to
an extraordinary price. the discovery
was made that the trust was not solvent
and it passed into the hands of re-
ceigers. Subsequently it was reorgan-
lied and for year and a half had been
carrying on business upon an appar-
emily sound basis, though as now ap-
pears it has been all the time practically
insolvent. A few days ago the corpora
ton again passed into the hands of re-
ceivers, on an application which de-
clared that it had defaulted in the pay
ment of $4,000 and was not able to
meet its obligations. The president and
vice president of the company made afii-
davits acknowledging the insolvency of
the corporation. 1t Is now proposed to
again reorganize, or in other words to
put the trust in shape to repeat the
operations by which it has for number
of years been defrauding the public for
the benefit of the sharps and sharks
who manage it. The proposition for re-
organization is very plausible in it's
terms as all such schemes are, but moth
ing is more certain than that the trust,
when again operated by the men who
have twice manipulated it into insol-
vency and who are pretty sure to again
control it, will resume the former policy
and practices.
The past two years have given the
monOpolistic combinations pretty hard
experience, but now that business Is
reviving they are preparing for more
aggressive operations and it is to be eN.
pected that they will be found intrench-
ing themselves more firmly and pushing
out more vigorously in all directions.
What has been lost during the period of
depression they will endeavor to get
back with the return of prosperity, and
in order to do this all competition will
rs far ms possible be crushed out. 1t
has been said that trusts and so-called
monopolies, not protected by letters pat
ent or some other government grant of
exclusive trade, cannot long survive the
competition their large profits invite;
that the time always comes when the
trust has become so far inflated that il
| collapses, unless, indeed, it has been
sustained in some way by government
grants or favors. But the history of
trust monopoly in this country hardly
justities this view, But even if it be
admitted that such is the inevitable fate
of combinations to control production
and prices it furnishes no valid reason
why they should be given any tolera-
tion, or why there should not be strin-
gent laws for their repression. For such
time as they do exist be 1t long or short,
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07
Personal AND OTHERUISE

If there are any good government clubs in
Turkey the managers wisely keep it dark.
Ex-Governor Foraker of Ohio should be
compelled to place tenders on his political
trolley cars
Secretary Carlisle is one of the few public
men with a past sufficiently noteworthy to
agitate the present
The fact that President Faures father was
an upholsterer accounts for the sons pen
chant for soft snaps.
Du Maurisr declined Boston managers
offer of an American lecture tour. He is
wise to let well enough alone.
Lightning killed and skinned fat porker
on Long Island, and an up-to-date native
cooked the carcass on an electric stove.
Before the money of the constitution was
defined or seriously thought of, wampum
was the sacred circulating medium of the
natives.
The ever-glorious is less than four weeks
away and not a lonely cracker has yet an
nounced its approach. Is the small boy af-
flisted with wheels?
Sunday shaving in the Empire state is
limited by law to New York and Saratoga.
Even Brooklyn, the somnolent, must wear its
bristles over Sunday.
The country no sooner settles down to
enjoy the profound peace and perspiration
of summer than host Of dyspeptic calams
appear to disturb it. Advanced Chicago
clergymen have just discovered that the b-
cycle is not compatible with christianity.
Give em header.
Captain J. H. Martin would make an ideal
cabinet officer. His proposition to make
Grover Cleveland president for life at a sal
ary of 100000 not only entities him to a
conspicuous office, but would place him in
happy accord with the administration at the
start For secretary of state, Captain Martin.
The right honorable gentleman from New
York. Richard Croker, is breaking into the
top crust of royalty in England. Albert
Edward backed Richards horses, and Richard
gallantly reCiprocated by backing the princes
horses. What matter which won when the
glorious sport serves to bring together the
retired and the would-be mOnarchs.
The eminent specialist, Dr. Leyden, has
been summoned to the Caucasus to avert, if
possible the doom of consumption which
hangs over the Grand Duke George, the
brother of the czar and heir apparent to
the throne of Russia. The enemy against
whom DR.. Leyden has to fight cares no more
for the heir to the throne of Russia than for
the poorest moujik in the empire.
The authenticity of the current story Of
Mrs. Jack Gardner's polite attentions to the
Italian king may be questioned, but the tale
is lively enough to live. 1t appears that this
Boston society leader sent the king large
basket of flowers while he in Venice,
and that the monarch somewhat pro-
voked that the courtesy was shown
to himself instead of to the
queen, was about to order the flowers
thrown away when one Of his aides re-
marked "Oh, it is only a gift from some
gardeners wife"
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07
Cost of Producing silver.

In view of the reiteration of claims that
silver is worth $1.29 per ounce and that there
is no real reason for depressing the price
below that figure, it may be interesting to
read the results of statistical inquiry into
the cost of silver mining in the United
States for the latest census year. The sta
tistics were gathered and compiled under the
direction of DR.. Ivan C. Mchels. They show
that the product of Arizona included 1917
036 ounces of silver, the cost of which was
$95S 1856, or a trfe more than So cents per
ounce. California produced 1,O65,O36 ounces
and obtained from the same ore more gold
than was sufficient TO pay all the cost OF pro-
ducton The product of Colorado was 49,
416 SCI ounces, which cost IS 1903, 1893, or a
little more than 80 cents per ounce. The pro-
duct of Montana was 13, ,437 661 ounces, the
average cost for each ounce being Al cents
The g. 966, ,933 ounces produced In Utah cost
an average of 48 cents each. The total pro-
duct of the five states named was Al, ,703 527
ounces and the average cost OF the whole
was only Al cents an ounce. III California
be left out Of the count, the ore in that state
containing enough gold to pay the cost of
production, the cost was about 43 cents per
ounce for the average Of the rest.
Here was a production in one year sufti-
cient in quantity to make SO, 900 silver
dollars at an average cost OF Al cents each
If no allowance was made for the value OF
the alloy They could be manufactured at
43 cents each at a profit If the pure silver
were furnished at Al cents for each one, or
at 45 cents each with a fair allowance for
profit to the miner and cost of transporta-
ton. This was for the year 1889. Since
then the production in Colorado has greatly
increased, that Of 1898 being estimated to
exceed by 100000 ounces the product OF
any preceding year, and the cost of produc-
tion has materially decreased. 1t is said the
average cost in Colorado now probably does
not exceed SO cents, and it is known that in
some of the larger mines 1t is considerably
less than S3 cents. So at present prices
the silver producing industry must be
prosperous, and there is not the least show
Of reason why the government should come
to the rescue Of the 900 people interested
in it when such ''rescue" would involve
terrible loss to 20 900 900 other people in the
United States If anybody else than those
33, 900 persons want cheap dollars why do
they not howl to have each dollar at present
in existence called two dollars, and be by law
made good for the payment of two dollars OF
current indebtedness. That would answer
every purpose for which cheap silver money
by free coinage at 16 to / now is demanded
by any one else than the 200 persons who
are silver miners or their dependents
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07

Omaha Enterprlse In san Francisco In .
Receivers Hands

SAN FRANCISCO, June 6.--The California
Safe Deposit and Trust company yesterday
filed suit for the foreclosure OF mortgage
Of s25OO00 against the Union Stock Yards
company, whose extensive plant is at Bodeo.
Contra Costa county. +. w. Sumner was
placed in charge as receiver. The Trust
company is acting as trustee for the bond
holders and alleges failure to pay interest on
the bonds as reason for the foreclosure. The
stock yards company was organized by
81 900 900 invested in the plant. The con-
cern has never paid, owing chiefly to the
action Of ,the San Francisco butchers and
the competition Of a rival packing establish
ment near San Francisco which was backed
by the Armours Of Chicago.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07
sympathy fr6i%@ a true Christians rather

sympathy fron- true Christians rather
than her husband
This conclMSioh does not dctract from
the effectiveness of Mr. Irvine's mission
work outside of his own family. The
testimonials which Mr.. Irvine has pro
duced from various ministers, bankers
and phlanthfopists and which The Bee
has already. published, cut no figure
whatever in the matter of his divorce
and his dsSsoYtion of Mrs. Irvine.
Neither does the fact of his declining
$1,000 offer, from the Central presby-
teran church Of New York Immediately
before or afterdhe had renounced Pres
byterinn doetlDe and professed con
version to Congrcgationalism Such
traits and acts may commend him rs an
unselfish mission worker, but do they
oblitcrate the questionable methods by
which he rid himself of wife whom
he had pledged to support and protect
through life?
These unpleasant reflections are forced
upon The Bee by the persistent attempt
on the part of Mr.. Irvine's admirers
to represent him as Il victim of mali
cious persecution when in fact his own
acts have brought him into uncnviable
notoricty, and his over-zealous friends
have compelled the publication of letters
contirmatory of Mrs. Irvine's side of the
story, and set him in a still worse light.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07
wHr kEsHrcK cor A coADJuroR
archbishop Kain Makes Statement In
regard to tho st. Loula AmAlr.

htENFu W Nne Sts lOutt AHtTs
ST. LOUIS, June 6.--Archbshop Kain, In
explanation Of how the action Of the college
Of the propaganda In regard to his elevation
to the archdiocese Of st. Louis
came to be misconstrued In the Associated
press dispatches from Rome on Tuesday. says:
The college of the propaganda on May 81
issued decree enlarging the powers of the
coadjutor archbishop Of ST. Louis but in no
way changing his dignity or title. The de-
cision Of the propaganda was made in writing,
signed by the cardinals and a copy Of the
document was spread upon the records of
the Vatican. The paper was then referred
to the pope, who Immediately saw that some
thing more was needed and sgnifed his In
tention of issuing a bull translating Arch
bishop kenrick and promoting his coadjutor.
Notification Of this action by the pope was
conveyed to mo in the cablegram, a copy of
which has already been given out. This
bull is now being prepared and is not yet
day the news of Archbishop Ken
rick's removal was cabled from st.
Louis to Rome the press representatives
there probably looked up the records, and
finding the action of the propaganda upon the
books concluded that a mistake had been
made" Archbishop Kain states that he
does not expect the papal bull to reach him
before ten days from now. He expects the
letter from Cardinal LcdOchowSkps Cablegram
within the next two days.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07

they are inimical TO the public interest
and welfare. working injury alike to
the buying public and to honest compel
itors. 1t is Il question whether the coun-
try will ever realize that full measure
of progress and prosperity that seems
possible to it so long as any considern-
bic proportion of its Industries and trade
is largely controlled and regulated by
monopolistic combinations which crush
out competition and put II check upon
nili inrntisn
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07

]. s. ClarksOn has been again un-
bosoming himself in the public prints
Dn the brilliant prospects Of Senator
Allison for the republican presidential
nomination. If Clarkson only keeps
On talking it will not be long before Mr..
Allison's chances will have gone a-glim-
mering. The most profitable move that
the friends of Allison could take at the
present moment would be to have Clark
son effectually gagged or hire him to
salk for some one else.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07

1t will be remembered that when the
maximum rate law was about to be-
come effective the Nebraska roads mu-
tually agreed not to interpose an objec-
ton, but to let the law be put into oper-
alton and then base n case against it
upon the hardships that might lie proven
by experience under the law. 1t will
also be remembered that great deal of
noise was made by Lincoln shippers
over the discovery that the maximum
rate law would put Omaha upon an
equal footing with Lincoln as a dis
tributing point. Anything that men
aced the special privileges of the city
of Lincoln also threatened the SUI
premacy of the b. & NJ road, whose
managers were appealed to for protec-
ton. Disregarding the compact made
with other Nebraska lines, the matter
of cooking up an injunction suit was,
for appearance sake, taken up by PreSi-
dent Perkins, and hence it happened
that the papers in the great injunction
case were filed in the federal court here
before General Hawley, the late attor-
ney for the ElkhOrn road. and John NJ.
Thurston of the Union Pacific knew
anything about it, In view of these
and other facts that might be cited to
the purpose, is it not apparent that the
b. 4 NJ. railroad is determined to de
Drivc Omaha of decent train service
or any other service just so long as the
people will submit?
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07

AMSTERDAM, N. " June CA bad
break in the canal occurred yesterday a quar-
ter of a mile west of Pattersonvile A
chasm 200 feet wide and forty feet deep
was made. The water from the canal
poured through the break IN flood, sweep
ing its way to the Mohawk river and carry
ing huge trees upon the bosom of the tor
rent. The break grew out of small leak
caused by muskrats burrowing through the
canals bank Navigation will be entirely
suspended on this section for at least a
weak
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07

The Dixon, ILL.,. capitalists who let
Charley Mosher milk them dry will now
see what can be done toward getting
satisfaction out of Mosher's underStudy
Whatever may be the merits of the
claim of the Dixon people as against
Dorgan, the case filed by them will help
TO determine the true legal status of
Mosher's contract and the assignment
thereof TO Dorgan. Nobody knows the
relations of Dorgan TO Mosher and 1t
may yet have to be determined whether
Dorgan has any title to a cents worth
Of property In the pen
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07

SAN FRANCISCO, June 6.-The Pacific
Mail Steamship company received a letter
from Manaanillo yesterday giving the names
Of the survivors of the steamer Colima who
recently drifted ashore at BlaclShead, below
Manzanillo. They are: w. II. Bryan,
cabin passenger two seamen named James
Ackman and Angel Santa Marie and b. b.
Owens and Jose Perquers. The two lattaJ
were reported as saved several days ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07

In the abstract the resolution of the
city attorney looking to possession of
the water works by the city Is not far
out of the way. Suppose, however the
city should be compelled to take the
water works this year under appraise-
ment, how could it pay for the property?
Desirable as public ownership of water
supply may be, the water plant repre-
sents several millions, which cannot be
planked down at pleasure.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07

The B. & NJ. railroad owns and con-
trolls the city of Lincoln to all intents
and purposes. 1t names city and
county officials and judges on the dis
trict bench; it, dominates the CONNER
cial organizations, be they of any force
and influence; it controls the action of
state house rings. as well as municipal
rings, insofar as the interests of pub
lie carriers are concerned in hauling
supplies to state institu ions and in pick
ing successful bidders; it owns, either in
fee simple or by proxy, the leading
morning paper of the capital, and, in
fact, there is but one paper there the
editorial policy of which the general
manager of the b. & NJ. cannot and
does not direct from his throne in
Omaha. No one at all familiar with
the facts can gainsay these statements.
To admit their truth is to cite the rea-
son why the train service in and out
of Lincoln is so nearly perfect On the
other hand, it is plain to discern the
purpose and intent of Nebraska roads
with respect to Omaha-they are deter
mined to dominate or control our affairs
and there being resistance offered the
Burlington managers will starve our
people into quiet submission.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07
Reports by Trre'ponsibles.

Secretary Morton Purposes to increase the
value of the government crop reports by
multiplying the number of correspondents,
but satisfactory results are hardly to be
expected so long as the correspondents are
simply private citizens, without any official
responsibility. The crop reports should be
made by the postmasters Of the country,
under strict directions, and with the penalty
of removal for neglect of duty
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07

1t seems that the impending departure
of Mrs. Cleveland for her summer resi-
1ence has been daily announced for sew
eral weeks, at any rate Now that she
has actually departed from Washington
the Washington correspondents will
have an opportunity to keep guessing
for while on her probable return.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07

A great load has been lifted from the
minds of all St Louis people now that
the man-of-war named after their city
has been safely started on its way to the
great naval review at Kiel. The sue
cess of the naval demonstration un-
questionably depends upon the appear
ance of the st. Louis.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-07

The state press is falling into line
with respect to booming the forthcoming
state fair. AS Il matter of state pride
the country quill drivers are willing that
Omaha shall have an opportunity to
show the people just what Il state fair
ought to be.