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Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13
AN NRLECT LESSON.

1t is not uncommon for n certain class
of newspapers to assert that there is
no tin plate made in this country and
that the alleged existence of such an in
dustry is grOundless. OF course all bust
ness men who deal in tin plate know
that 1t is made here in very considerable
quantities. and they also know that the
growth of the industry was due to the
protection that was accorded it by the
last republican tariff law. At any rate
this fact is fully recognized by the tin
plate manufacturers of Wales. The
London Economist, in Il review of the
iron, steel and tin trade of Great Brit
ain for the first quarter of tire current
year, stated that the tin trade was
never so depressed as now. and said that
"the cause of this depression Is the
large production of tin plates in Amer
lea, which has been greatly favored by
the exceptionally low prices ruling for
steel billets. The price has been ac-
tually less in the United States than in
South Wales, and in addition to this is
the protective duty Of about ) shillngs
per ton" There is supplied in this an
edifying object lesson teaching that pro-
lection has built up the tin industry
in the United States to proportions that
have produced an appreciable effect upon
the industry in Great Britain, and that
this result has been attained without
increasing the cost of tin to the con-
sumer. Does not this most amply JUS
tify the republican policy so far, at
least, as the tin plate industry is con-
carnad1
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13
"A BLOW At IMPERIALISM.

The rejection by the German Reichs-
tag of the antirevolution bill was
distinct victory for the people and EN-
phatically demonstrated that in the
German empire the popular will must
be considered and respected by the
government. The rejected measure was
pet scheme of the emperor. 1t was
introduced first during the incumbency
of Capriyi as chancellor and was urged
repression of anarchistic conspiracy
At that time there seemed to be some
justification of it and popular oppoSi-
tion was not very pronounced, but with
the subsequent subsistence of alarm
over the anarchists there was devel-
oped Il general and most vigorous popu-
lar hostility to the proposed legislation,
which steadily grew in force This was
fully recognized by the government
and while it continued to urge the adop-
tion OF the bill manifested waning
faith in its efforts.
No measure brought forward since
the advent to power OF Emperor VIII
liam had less to commend it than this
anti-reyolution bill. 1t was repugnant
to the spirit of the age and its adop-
ton would have been n step backward
II proposed what would have been vir-
tually the abolition of the freedom Of
the press and it also abolished the
right of assembly and free speech. 1t
provided that the army and the navy
and every member of the military serv-
ice should be free from criticism and
imposed a penalty of three years i'm
prisOnment for making censorious COM
ments on either service or any member
thereof. Editors, publishers and writers
We're to be subjected to fine and i'm
prisonment for the publication OF any
thing detrimental 10 the public peace,
under which any criticism of the gov
ernment that might arouse the people
to opposition would condemn the au-
thor of 1t to the prescribed penalty. 1t
Is easy to see that such Il law would
have effectually destroyed the free
dom of the press. In short, this bill
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13
ITS TJFIABLE UOuICJDE.

The discharge from custody of Cor
don, the man who n week ago killed
his wife and her paramount, the son of
Governor Brown of Kentucky, raises
again the old question of justifiable
homicide. The criminal codes in all the
states of the union make the premedi-
tated and wilful taking of human life
punishable by the severest penalty
known to the law. They also prescribe
the punishment for lesser offenses, in
Guiding unfaithfulness. but the penalty
for the latter is never so severe as that
ordained for the murderer. No one,
therefore, can be justified in melting
out punishment to an offender greater
than that which he would suffer if con-
victed under legal forms, and even
were death the legal penalty it
is for the public authorities and not the
aggrieved citizen to inflict it. Homicide
is not justifiable simply because the
victim has placed himself under the
ban of the law.
Under the theory of our law there is
but one excuse for murder. That eX-
CuSc Is Sell-uelpUSe. LIE law Ol sell
preservation dominates all human law.
man in imminent peril of his life is
entitled to take such precautions as will
remove the danger. But even where Il
plea of self-defense is entered it must
be shown that no more violence was
used than seemed reasonably neces-
sary-that the death of one or the other
of the parties appeared to be inevitable.
But while it is true that murder com
mitted in self-defense is the only iusti-
fable homicide known to the law, it is
an indisputable fact, demonstrated
time and time again, that no jury will
convict in cases where the crcum-
stances appeal most powerfully to the
human instincts of the jurymen. 1t is
practically impossible to convict n man
charged with killing the despoiler of
his home and happiness When the
Louisville judge discharged Gordon
without trial he simply recognized this
undeniable condition. The Legislature
does not and cannot declare the taking
of life under these circumstances to
be justifiable homicide, but iuries do
and will continue to do so.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13
THE HILL JrRY pIsAGREEs.

The jury In the case against cx-
Treasurer Hill and his bondsmen to
recover indemnity for the $4,000 Of
state money lost In the Capital National
bank failure has been discharged, hav-
ing failed to arrive at an agreement.
The disagreement of the jury was not
wholly unexpected. 1t could have been
safely foretold before the jury was em-
p1neled. When it became evident that
no verdict could be reached there was
nothing left for the court to do but to
disband the jury and save the state
from piling up costs.
The disagreement OF the jury is
nevertheless unfortunate for the state.
1t leaves 1t still doubtful whether the
taxpayers will be able to enforce the
bond Of the late treasurer or will have
to bear the burden of Mosher's steal
ings themselves. 1t Is questionable
whether the case Is ohe that really calls
for jury trial The charge of the
court was to the effect that If the bond
were properly executed the state was
entitled to Judgment upon 1t. The tes-
timony in the case brought out the fact
that the instrument was drawn by Hill
and signed by the various sureties
with the expectation and intention
that it should be delivered as the Off
cial bond of the state treasurer. 1t
was endorsed as accepted by two diff
ferent governors and Hill assumed
office and performed the duties Of
treasurer with the understanding that
that instrument satisfied the condition
of giving bond required by law before
he could have qualified for the place.
The questions to be determined were
solely questions of law and their appli-
cation to n written instrument, ques-
tions that are ordinarily determined
by the court and not by the jury. The
defense rested it's case principally upon
the subsequent declaration of the failed
bank to be state depository, but
while the court admitted the depository
bond in evidence Professionally it prac-
tically ruled it out by emitting all
mention of it in it's instructions. Such
being the case, the state had right to
insist on the liability of the bondsmen.
new trial may result more favor
ably for the state. The trial is, to be
sure, an expensive proceeding, but
where there is such a large sum at
stake and where there are such vital
questions at issue the people look to
their attorneys to exhaust all reason
able means of recovering 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13
urAus NEW CONSTITUTION

Chicago Herald: A glance at the new con-
stitutlon which Is 70 be submitted to the peo-
pie Of Utah In November will suffice to show
what tremendous advance is In store for
womanhood In that territory when 1t shall
become q state. Not only Is the federal stat
ute prohibiting poygamy confirmed, but
woman suffrage is established at one sweep.
This is a far cry, surely, from the regime
or Brigham Young, and 1t Is not surprising
to ind the authors Of such reforms proposing
also to abolish the grand jury system and
to reduce petit juries to eight. Utah, al
ways interesting as a territory, promises
to be even more SO as state.
Chicago 1nter-Ocean The Utah constitu-
tional convention has so far provided for no
lieutenant governor in the list Of state ofli-
GERS. The little state Of Delaware has no
such office as lieutenant governor. and the
verdict Of the peope last fall has been COM
pletely changed by the death Of Governor
Marvil. The republicans carried the state in
November but the hold-over senators kept
the state senate democratic When Marvl
died, in March, the democratic president Of
the senate became governor. Utah should
provide for such an emergency so that when
the people elect officials representing one
party or policy there will b. some one to
slip in when a governor dies and carry on
the work rs II was begun.
Chicago Record: The constitution which is
to be submitted to the people Of Utah in
November for their approval or rejection
has been signed and completed 1t prohibits
poygalny, as do all the states; 1t provides
for woman suffrage, as does Wyoming; 1t
does away with the grand jury system as
does Michigan, and it DOES not provide for
lieutenant governor, in which 1t is like
Delaware, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia.
Maine and some other states. 1t incorporates
some new features in trials by jury provid-
ing for petit juries Of eight persons. six Of
whom can render a verdict except in Grim
inal cases, when a unanimous verdict is re-
quired to convict The constitution provides
for a school system that is comprehensive
and If well carried out will give the new
state a high rank in educational matters.
The success Of the commonwealth will depend
largely on the dominant spirit that will con-
troll it. Woman suffrage will mean in Utah
what 1t means in no other state, and that is
the supremacy Of the church in political af-
fairs. The population Of the territory in
1890 consisted Of 110,463 males and 97i42
females, or total OF 207 ,905. The member
ship Of the Mormon church is 144 ,000 OF
which nearly the entire number are in Utah.
This would give the Mormon church the alb
solute control of the state, especially with the
franchise Of suffrage extended to the women
of that church.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

was conceived ln spirit of intolerance
and In rejecting 1t the Reichstag has
administered aotroper rebuke to that
spirit which IA Sf the greatest signifi-
cance as demonstration of the weight
and influence of the popular will.
1t was saido some time ago that in
the event of the defeat of the anti
revolution bill the Relchstag would be
dissolved and another election ordered,
but it Is now suggested that the govern
ment will hardly venture upon an cleo
tion in the present state of the popular
mind. 1t wouldobe profitless to conjec-
ture as to what course Emperor VIII
liam will decide upon. lie does not
bear defeat with ,equanimity and it is
not to be expected that he will give up
the struggle for the legislation which
he believes necessary to strengthen the
imperial power.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13
THE MODERN LEARNED MAIDEN

Louisville Courier-Journal.
where are you going, my, pretty maid?"
ITO Vassar college, sir, she said.
Sir she said,
Sir" she said,
"To Vassar college, sir" she said
MAY / go with you, my pretty maid!
"'Tis a female college, sir, she salu;
How may one enter, my pretty MAD
Solely by intellect, sir she said.
what will you do then. my pretty maluf
"Take an A. b. II l can,' she SAID. 49,.
"Then won't you marry me- my pretty
NAY, we are bachelors, SIR" she said.
"What will you do. then, my pretty maidY'
II shall be Master of Arts she SAID.
Then won't you marry me- my pretty
maid?" :, -, ia
''what will you do. then, my pretty maidF'
'Try for a Phi. D.. sir" she SAID. ..
Then, /, won't marry you' my pretty
Nobody asked you, SIR, she said.
Sir" she said,
Sir" she said.
Nobody asked you, sir, she saiu'
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

instructing the select committee of the
house 'to inquire whether, by the con-
sent of the people, or of the state gov
ernments, or by compensatlng the slave
holders, It be practicable for the gen
eral government to procure the enamel
patton of the slaves in some, or all, of
the border states, and IL so to report
bill for that purpose" In the follow
ing year, March, 1862. President Lin
coin sent a special message to congress
proposing compensated emancipation,
the message concluding with this fervid
appeal: 'In view of my great respon-
sibility to my God and to my country, l
earnestly beg the attention of congress
and the people to the subject"
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13
Lamentations OF pemocracy's Jeremiah.

MIR. Wattersonsi is wholly out of this pres
ent contention. Ffve-and-twenty years of
hard and thanl5tsssl toll leading forlorn
hopes and filing ,tEnpOsslble breaches, have,
he thinks, earned him the right to a much
needed respite, il not to an honorable dis
charge He Is quite worn with pioneer
work; going ahead and blazing away, under
fire from front and rear. He is nowise re-
sponsib!e for thshp present situation. 1t has
come about over his efforts to avert IT. and
as no man can be expected to accept the
responsibilities or leadership when he has
no specific plan and can offer no reasonable
assurance, let those who have and who
can, lead ahead,I and, except where con-
victions OF right and 5duty may interpose he
will follow. As an humle follower, he will
still hope and pray that the worst may not
betde, but that, under God, all things shall
work to good ends,l even though at this
moment he mayenot be able to see a great
deal of sunshine in that quarter OF the
unterrifed and triumphant democracy.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13
Stuart Ledger.


If we could get the ear of the head push
of the Fremont Elkhorn and Missouri Val
ley railroad we would like to ask why we
can't get a passenger train in here from
Omaha before 10 o'clock at night? II a
train would leave Omaha at about a. m.
we could get our letters and papers about
3 p. m, which would be a great benefit to
the business men Of Atkinson. In fact, 1t
would benefit every town on the road. With
out being too inquisitive, we would like to
ask why the change couldn't be made? We
would like to read our Omaha papers the
same day they are published, instead of the
next. Atkinson Graphic.
The Ledger has been preaching this same
doctrine for the past three years. What is
needed Is a mail train-also carrying pas
SCI gers-leaving Omaha at o'clock a. M.
and making rapid time to Deadwood. North
ern Nebraska is entitled to better mail facili-
ties than it is now getting over the Elkhorn
line. We think that if the proper pressure
was brought to bear upon the postal author
tiles and management Of the Fremont Elk
horn & Missouri Valley line a better mail
service could be secured. Win not Messrs.
Rosewater, Hitchcock and others make a
hard effort TO bring this about?
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

Harper's Weekly calls the resolution
adopted by the New York Legislature
inviting Canadian annexation an ILL
timed proposition. 1t says that the
present time is especially inopportune
for such action, because while our
government is engaged in trying to
avert British Intervention in the affairs
of the American continent 1t is the
acme of absurdity for any Legislative
body to attempt to interfere in the
affairs of a British colony. Nobody in
Canada seems to have taken the New
York invitation seriously. When the
United States wants to make an an
neXation it will not have to rely on n
state Legislature TO act for it,
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13
Battling Against Mighty Evils.
New York Tribune.

BY the first amendment to the constitu-
tion of the United States, 1.-THE right of the
people, to petition Tor redress ,,,,2i or
right has been often exercised, but never,
we believe, on so large a scale as in the cas5
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
union, which has prepared a petition over
one mile in length calling upon all ciyillz ID
governments to prohibit the sale or alcohol
to President Cleveland, and soon the gisan-
tic document is to be carried abroad and
taken to the several capitals Of Europe.
Later other countries are to be visited The
effectiveness of such a campaign may per
haps be questioned Not so the zeal
earn5 stness and devotedness of the organ-
zation responsible for it.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13


How are western people to protect them
selves against the tOrnadoes of the end of
spring? Cyclone cellars and the like are
useful In theory, but a tempest that gives
no time for preparation defies all precau-
tions At present the only defense that
suggests itself is to build strongly in the
honest brick and mortar. But then, where
are the boundaries of the tornado districts
They seem to cover almost the whole of
the country. According to so good an au-
thorlty as James Fenimore Cooper, the
windows in the virgin forests of New York
and New England testified to both the fire.
quency and the severity of tornadoes in
prehistoric times, 1t is true that we are
not often visited by them now, but why
not? A tornado is an eddy on the edge
of a cyclone. We get cyclones enough, and
are often enough on the edges to be vic
tImized Our protection Is due, probably.
TO the rolling country that breaks up the
rotary motion Of the tornado
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13
TO Protect the Home Product.
New York Times.

Mr.. Mccarthy of the assembly of Illinois
proposes to put that body on the right side
If ne can of what to him seems burning
question. He thinks 1t is a giant evil and
a monstrous wrong that citizenesses of the
United States should eXpatriate themselves
by marrying foreigners. Particularly 1t
saddens him that they should marry titled
foreigners, and he has introduced a joint
resolution for the purpose of warning them
that il they pursue that course they can
not look for the approval of the legislature
of Illinois. According to the resolution
the legislature invites the daughters or
Illinois not to give their hands in marriage
to any person who is not a native or
naturalized citizen of the United States,
and expresses its conviction that the daugh-
tiers of Illinois ought to show themselves
patriotic in their sentiment and disdalnful
Whatsoever This amusing proposition was
amusingly referred to the committee on
heard of 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

st. Paul Pioneer Press.

One of those morbid statistiCians who
live to invent new miseres for the human
race has been computing the number OF
hours spent by the average business man
discovered that thirty-seven and one-half
days of eight hours each are. spent at
luncheon, twenty-five and two-thirds days
at breakfast, and forty-live and one-half
days at dnner-that is, nearly one-third OF
the entire, year is spent at the table. And
be made doubly profitable by the employ
ment of hred readers. that he who
eats may read by proxy and fill his mind
with current literature and his inner man
with the fuel of life at one and the same
me
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

Senator Morgan predicts that if the
democratic party does not adopt plat
form in favor of free coinage of silver
it will not carry a single state in the
union. 1t is to be noted however. that
Senator Morgan does not venture to pre-
dict how many states it will carry if it
does adopt such platform. That is a
horse of II very different color.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

II the Sixteenth street viaduct is dan
gerous to the life of people passing
over 1t. it should be put into a safe
condition without unnecessary delay.
The courts have only recently decided
that the railroads whose tracks necessi-
tate the viaduct are responsible for the
expenses of maintaining it in good
order
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

The oldest American actor Charles w.
Couldock, who ~ an American by adoption,
having been born in London, has just ce!e-
brated his S0th birthday and retired from
the stage. His professional career covers
a period of sixty years, during which he
played with Macready, Charles Kean, Char
iutte Cushman and other eminent dramatic
lights, but his 4greatest personal triumph
was "Dunstan kirke" in Hazel Kirke,
which he played, 1000 times. He is known
to theater-goers everywhere, and will long
be pleasantly remembered.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

Why should Bland waste his time in
converting Colorado to the free silver
cause? Didn't Sibley convert Colorado
only II few weeks ago? And didn't
Warner convert Colorado only shortly
before Sibley did it?
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13
NOR TONS CHERRY TREE RATCHET

ST. Louis Republic It strikes us that Sec
retary Morton might have made two bites out
of that Colorado Cherry, but he didn't.
Milwaukee Sentinel: Secretary Morton is
one of the best letter writers whom Mr.
Cleveland has appointed to office. He never
talks unless he has something to say, and
he usually puts his facts and opinions in plain
language, which is forcible without being vio-
lent. What he says about free coinage is
more specific and more effective than any
thing Mr.. Cleveland has said upon the same
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

A man up in Burt county wants the
railroad that passes in front of his
farmhouse to pay nearly $4,000 for
failing to have It's locomotives whistle
when approaching his railroad cross
Ing There are some other people liv-
ing near railroad crossings who we
are sure would be willing to pay the
railroads IL they would take their whis-
ties of.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

Chicago Times-Herald.

IhIcaBR blInes-fteFaIu'
Why not preserve the purity of the Ian
guage? Loose writers speak of the bicycle
suits as ''bloomers." If they had ever seen
Amelia BIoomer back in the fifties, they
would use some other designation. The
original bloomer garb consisted of a skirt
of calico worn to the knees, with straight
cut panteiettes worn to the tops of the
shoes. 1t really was hldeouS garb Call
the bicycle dress ltnickerbockers, or some
other not Inappropriate name, and let
'bloomers" go down to oblivion.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

There are several things in the way
OF Don Dickinson becoming President
Cleveland's secretary of state. In the
first place Mr.. Gresham would first
have to retire and then Mr. Cleveland
would have to offer the position to Mr..
Dickinson. 1t is hardly safe to rely ON
contingent contingency.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

couple of Omaha inventors have
patented an automatic street sweeper
that will sweep the streets and load the
garbage into the wagon all at the same
time. This is n blow at Jim Stephen
son's dago industry.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

1t Is plain now, If not before, shat
on all the state boards of which the
governor is IL member Governor Hol-
comb is to be Il mere figurehead when
1T comes to matters of policy or patron
age
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13
The Road TO Victory.


The republican party, putting resolutely
aside all thoughts Of a compromise platform
and candidate, must take the field with an
uncompromislng candidate upon a platform
of sound, safe money, as that road only
will lead them to certain victory. The
common demand of the democracy for
dishonest, unsafe currency creates the op-
portunity of triumph for the republican
party; 1t Is too great one to be sacrificed
to Il straddling platform and a compromise
candidate, no matter who he may be.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

The death of the German anti-revolu-
tionary bill will doubtless be the cause
of several important political changes
in the imperial government That is
the difference between legislation in
parliamentary and in presidential
nnmnt ring
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

If the lesson of the case against ex-
Treasurer Hill and his bondsmen Is to
be utilized the proper authorities will
see that careful examination Is made
of the bonds of all state and local otli-
GERS now serving and assurance had
that none of them are worthless by
reason Of technical defects.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-13

If all the members of the late legis-
lature are not soon on the state pay roll
1t will be only because they failed to
pass enough of the bills creating new
tax-entlng places.