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Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

The king of Abyssna is a generous victor.
His terms of peace, translated into plain
United States, are: Let the Italians go home
and all will be forgiven.
A Missouri paper declares that the speech
Of Senator Tillman should be treated with
silent contempt, and then proceeds to ignore
1t in three-quarters of column.
In suggesting prayer as the most effective
way of succoring the Armenians, Mr.. Glad
stone evidently believes that it is a holy
and wholesome thought to pray for the
dead.
Ex-Secretary William M. Evarts has COM
pletely retired from public life, and is spend
ing his old age very quietly in New York.
His eyesight Is impaired, but his mind is as
vigorous as ever
The movement to erect suitable monu-
ment to Edgar Allan Poe In Baltimore Is
making commendable progress, and has the
active sympathy of Balt!more's most repre-
sentative citizens. ..
The German-American citizens OF Balti-
more are taking steps to commemorate the
175th anniversary of the birth of Baron de
Kslb the Revolutionary soldier, which will
occur on June 30.
Daniel Chester French, the sculptor has
nearly completed the figure group and bust
OF the late John Boyle OReilly, which Is to
adorn a monument of the poet to be set up
In Boston next summer.
Captain Philo McGfin, the hero of the
from the terrible battering he received in
that action. He walks with a cane, and 1t
is feared that his eyes will never recover
from their injury.
Judge Morrow of the United States district
court in San Francisco recently decided that
a Chinese born in this country Is citizen
OF the United States and as such may come
and go as he pleases. The United States
supreme court will be appealed to on this
question.
There seems to be little doubt that John
b. Robinson Of South Africa Is the richest
man in the world. His fortune is estimated
at $3.50. 900 900. In 1873 Robinson was In
debt. He had kept grocery store in the
Orange Free State, but he could not make
both ends meet. He and his wife begged
their way for 300 miles to Kimberley. Here
Robinson laid the foundation OF his enormous
fortune by picking up rough diamond worth
$1,000 His ambition now is to be worth a
billion.
Here is a little anecdote from a British
source designed to illustrate the mathemat-
ical ability Of the Boers "Sx years ago an
Englishman owed a sum OF $500 to Boer.
When payment was demanded, instead Of pay
Ing the whole sum, he paid him only 1900,
On arriving home the Boer counted out his
money with the aid OF Ready Reckoner,'
and found that he had been paid f200 short.
He Immediately returned to the Englishman.
explaining to him that. according to his
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05
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REFORM is NECESSARY.
Chicago short on Union aud Long on
Remedies.
Chicago Times-Iierald

Chicago Times Herald.
There is little doubt but that the people
OF this city. are Just now keenly intent on
municipal reform, desiring 1t above all other
things, but they know not well how to pro-
coed. Like great giant in the presence Of
innumerable small enemies they are striking
out more or less blndly. hoping to hit some
thing. but not sure Of hitting anything
There are so many mschiefs to be cured
that IL Is almost impossible to concentrate
attention upon any one OF them. The
evil lies in our corrupt aldermen, cries one,
and that is true. 1t Is inherent in our mis-
chievous taxing system. says another, and
that is true. The townships should be consol-
dated demands one citizen. and that is true.
There is too much politics and not enough
of civic pride and patriotism among the
voters, urges another, and no man can gain
say It, Some say there should be a greater
ability on the part of the city to increase
its bonded indebtedness so far as perma-
nent improvements are concerned, while
others maintain that under system OF equal
and fair assessments the city might have
all the revenue II needed
Thus in the very multiplicity of the mis-
chiefs from which we suffer they all obtain
immunity. for reform does not concentrate
upon any one Of them. All Of these abuses
have the sanction of law, or at least are
inflicted under color of law. The corrupt
aldermen are legally elected the assessors
and collectors of taxes have lawful warrant
for their offices and so all through the
whole cormorant gang that live like jackals
of the body polite.
The city. like the shorn Samson, is bound
In withes Of the law, from which there is
no escape unless these laws can be re-
pealed.
Hitherto all the efforts for reform have
been spasmcdic and irregular. They never
last. The cool and wary politicians who
make the city their prey can well AFFORD
to bow before an occasional tempest for
after it has passed they know they can
emerge from their holes and bask once more
in the sunshine.
Nothing in reform will ever be perma-
nently gained until some constitutional
amendment shall place Chicago in sep
arate category from the rest of the state
in respect to taxation but how that can
be brought about is matter for discussion.
It's accomplishment would take several years
even If we all agreed upon plan, and
meanwhile the daily robbery goes on.
What, therefore, can be done in mitiga-
ton at once? Reform of the council. One
half of the aldermen are to be elected at
the coming spring election If those who
are going out with tainted regulations could
be replaced by honest men there would be
at least some gain, Another year might
purge the body thoroughly, and by that time
constitutional reform might have made head
way.
Let the word OF reform for the present
be: Cleanse the councili
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05
ATTACKING THE PUBLIC CREDIT.

Detroit Free prcss; All efforts to patch
w the national credit by asserting our right
TO pay debts with a 50-eent dollar tend TO
hn'nclal distress and to the Generalization
ol our nnancial system. The pitchfork bri-
gade IN the senate Is working the nation
untold injury.
Chicago rimes-Herald: BY a vote Of AZ to
30 the senate free silver substitute for the
house bond bill passed yesterday afternoon,
and now goes to its final rest I'm A conferences
committee that will never revive H. The
government reigns as usual at Washington,
and the American people have not altered
In the least their devotion to the idea that
100 cents. not so, make dollar. The only
drawback TO universal content with abate-
ment of the free silver nuisance In the sem
ate is that Tillman is not abated with It.
but remains not only extant but unbound
indianapolis Journal: Under some clrcum-
stances the passage OF free silver bill by
the senate would have a damaging effect on
the public credit, but in the present case IL
was long ago discounted. All intelligent
Americans and well Informed fnanciers
abroad understand perfectly well that the
senate is controlled by silver cranks but
that the house. representing the more recent
appeal 10 the people, is Overwhelmingly
against free coinage. Thus the honesty and
conservatism Of the popular branch OF con-
gress will serve as an antidote to the other
wise dangerous action of the senate
st. Paul Pioneer Press: No rebel who
ever welded sword gun against the re-
public ever struck wicked a blow against
II as these men did when they sought to
undermine those fundamental principles Of
public morality on which all good govern
ment and all national prosperity is based.
The country has been passing through a
period Of financial and commercial disaster
without a precedent in its history II has
been mainly caused by the threat Of Just such
legislation as that attempted by the senate
yesterday. That senate is the only obstacle
to the return OF prosperity. IL II could be
swept into the sea and buried O. thousand
fathoms deep the bells would ring from every
steeple In the land In joyful acclaim over
the national deverance.
Kansas City Star: The blame for the fall
ure cannot properly be laid on the repub-
licans. for strong majority Of the repub-
ment. while a majority OF the democratic
senators voted for 1t. There was no ques-
tion of partisan politics concerned in the
vote. 1t was the result OF the rule-or-run
policy of the silverites, who are determined
to put the silver question above every other
consideration. These men must recognize
that they have not a majority of the people
back of them. They know that positive ac-
tion in favor Of free silver coinage is i'm
possible, at least for years to come. Never
theless they persisting in their agitation
Of the question, and they hope that the credit
of the government may be so badly shat
tered by the continued refusal of congress to
do anything to correct the defects in the
financial system that the currency may be
finally forced down to the silver basis without
any positive legislation for that purpose.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05
A SUFFICIENT REASON.

The veteran Senator Morrill,, in
speech in the senate a few days ago,
said that changes of revenue laws, or of
disc, are always troublesome to admin
lister, as well both to home as to for
eign trade, and are only advisable
when demanded by potential reasons
or when substantial improvements will
Justify the changes made. "rhe rea-
sons now for change" declared the sen
ator, "are abundant, but it may be un-
necessary to mention more than one,
and that Is a deficit of revenue" He
then proceeded to show that every year,
since 1893, the receipts of the govern
ment have fallen below the eXpendi-
lures and he said the deficit of revenue
should be remedied as early as possible
The veteran senator, whose reputation
as statesman is forever associated
with the first republican protective tar
iff, was right The all-sufficient reason
for a change In the revenue laws is
the fact that the income of the govern
ment is all the time less than the out
go, necessitating borrowing, which in
creases the interest burden on the peo-
pie. Yet the wise words of the aged
statesman seem to have made little i'm
preston, for there are senator's who
seek to kill off the measure for rails
ing more revenue by substituting for
it free silver bill, Notwithstanding
the fact that only few days ago the
tn l.;
of certain senators in this matter can
not be too strongly condemned, but
there is danger that they will succeed
in their indefensible effort to defeat the
revenue bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05
RAISE THE RAILWAY EMBARGO.

While Omaha, like nearly every other
western city, is wrestling with the prob
lem of retrenchment and reduced taxa
ton, there are other matters of vital
concern to the city's prosperity that
must receive consideration at the hands
of its business men and property own
ers. 1t Is the consensus of opinion
among those who are familiar with
Omaha's resources, that the greatest
drawbacks to its commercial growth
today are the discriminating freight
rates by which traffic is diverted to
other cities which, by rights, belongs
to Omaha. This arbitrary diversion of
business is gradually changing the
channels of trade. 1t has already
wrought incalculable injury to our mer-
chants and manufacturers, and threat
ems more disastrous consequences I'M
less they succeed in counteracting the
railroad combination that is throttling
them.
1t is idle to hope for permanent relief
until Omaha Is in position to command
the rate situation by the establishment
of direct outlets to the lakes and sea-
board. SO long as we are at the mercy
of the Chicago trunk lines we shall be
forced to submit to their unreasonable
eXactions and their policy of traffic di.
version for the sake of the long haul
What Omaha must do in the near fu-
ture is to enlist capital for the extension
of the railways that now point this
way, but fall short of reaching us be
cause of small gaps.
Conditions are now favorable for the
consummation of plans by which at
least one of these great seaboard lines
will make Omaha its western terminus.
Omaha should not, however. rest on its
oars because this prospect Is in view.
Its greatest need Is an air line to Du-
luth or Green Bay. An Omaha and
Lake. Superior railroad would enamel
pate this city from the arbitrary rule
combinations. 1t would insure for
Omaha the erection OF the great ele-
vators, storage houses and mills essen
tial to the creation of grain and
produce market. 1t would give Omaha
the benefit Of competitive lumber rates
and place 1t on an almost equal footing
with Chicago and Milwaukee in the
matter of its anthracite coal supply.
Such line would open up to Omaha a
part of Iowa that is eager to establish
close commercial relations with our
merchants.
Omaha, however, must not expect to
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

capitalists take the initiative. The pro
ject is by no means beyond their reach.
Such n railway has become com
mercial necessity, and there is no time
to be lost in taking the preliminary
steps. Other enterprises that promise
TO promote the growth of this city and
state need not be deferred or abandoned
prospect of an early raise of the rail
way embargo would tend to stimulate
and strengthen every project that de-
pends upon complete revival of in
dustrial activity.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05
THE POSTER MAIDEN.

New York Vanity.
Her eyes are grayish, brownish. blush
green,
The queerest eyes that ever set mine on;
Illumined with phosphorescent sheen,
The sort of eyes one sees when he's .
"shine" on.
Attired In motley colors. red and white.
All striped like n stick of peppermint,
She sits upon stream of liquid light.
For of boat there's not the slightest
hint.
Her reddish yellow, Cleopatra hair
CLOVIS like the sun above greenish shore,
While all around the circumambient air
Is filed with fearful purple clouds and
gore.
Nay. reader, this is not a nightmare scene.
Nor dream from the seductive poppy born:
A poster for the latest magazine
This wild, prismatic maiden doth adorn.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05
Wars woefuI Work.
Denver Republican.


The danger of famine following upon the
destruction of property in Cuba should hasten
conclusion of the war now raging in that
island Should the distress of the people be-
come very great 1t will be the duty Of the
United States to interfere. The Cubans, al
though today Spanish subjects, will sooner or
later become independent Since they are
our near neighbors. We have an interest in
them SURPRISING that we feel in men Of the
same race more distantly situated. Conse-
quentIy the United States should regard
their material welfare all the more closely.
They should not be permitted to be reduced
to great extremity through the refusal of
Spain to recognize their. independence.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

The Nebraska club will call n mass
meeting OF Douglas county citizens soon
In the hope that the people may gain a
better understanding of the objects
OF the club. Every man who desires to
see the population of Nebraska in
creased this year will support the move
ment inaugurated by the founders of
the Nebraska club. Minnesota is doing
most effective work in efforts to in
duce immigration, and Nebraska can do
anything Minnesota can do.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

Something will have to be done to
urers have not made their regular set
tlemcnt with the state treasury. If
these treasurers have collected money
belonging to the state they should be
forced to turn it over promptly. There
is a large enough hole in the state
finances, caused by the wreck of the
Mosher bank, without adding to it by
the dclinquencies of counties behind in
their payments.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

According to Paul Vandervoort the
police of Omaha have been under the
control of the editor of The Bee for
twenty-one years Habitual falsifiers
ought to have good memories. Omaha
has had a police commission only since
1887. Before that time the police force
of Omaha was directly under the con-
troll of the mayor and council. and in
the thirteen years preceding 1887 there
We're mayors and councils just rs par
tial to The Bee as the present mayor
and council or the present police COM
mission.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

Theodore Olsaaf has returned from
Cripple Creek t6 tell the people OF
Omaha that lie knows nothing of the
missing bondrwhich ex-City Treasurer
Bolln executed as custodian of school
money. The comptroller has had charge
of contracts and bonds of other officials
and Mr.. Olsen i'as comptroller was
naturally supposed to have had the
Bolln bonds. If such documents We're
by the council placed in charge of the
law department. where they belong,
much future annoyance might be
obyiatcd
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

Wheat and corn are now steadily advancing
in the regular speculative rise. which in
number of years notlbly in 1885 and in $780,
has endeavored to advance the price of grain
when the farmers had stopped selling and
cereals were in a situation where spectators
could secure options. The same result will
follow as in the past. Exports will be
checked from this country, they will be slim
ulated from the south temperate zone and
India and invisible" supplies will pour
forth. In the end this country will have lost
another share of it's foreign market.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05
Prospects are good that congress will

Prospects are good that congress will
enact measures providing for retalia-
tiOn In the treatment accorded Amer
lean life insurance companies in Ger
many. But retaliation is only the re-
verse form of reciprocity. If congress
can be persuaded TO resort to retalia-
tion in life insurance it ought to be per-
suaded to adopt reciprocity in equally
important matters
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

Employees of the city hall in dis
cussing measures of municipal retrench-
ment verify what The Bee has many
times said in reference to supernumer-
aries on the city pay roll. The city
council can, If it will, sift the matter
down and stop useless work in one de-
partment that must or should be done
by another. There are too many sine
cures and too much red tape.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

If the size of the lobby were an in
falliable indication of the course of
legislation tho railroads would have
nothing to fear from the present con
gress. Fortunately. however, there are
some representatives in the house and
senate who are able to see beyond the
throng OF. railroad lobbyists who have
congregated at Washington and to read
the wishes of the people whom they are
supposed to serve.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05
SOCIETY HAS THE POULTRY CRAZE.
New YorIS's Chicken Show Rivals the
Horse Exhibit.

New YOrIx's Chicken Show Rivals the
Horse Exhibit.
NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-The seventh annual
exhibition of the New York Poultry and
Pigeon association opened at Madison Square
garden today and will be continued until
the Sth. Over 5000 entries of high class
chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese and pigeons
are on view, the display of water fowls be-
ing especially fine. The exhibition represents
a dozen or more states and various parts of
Canada. Over $4,000 in money prizes has
been offered by the management and there
is every evidence that the show will be a
success. Society has taken up the poultry
craze and many persons of social distinction
are included in the list of exhibitors.
Theodore Havemeyer has entered a lot of
fancy Cochins from his fancy farm at Railway,
N. j.; Lyndhurst Farm of Gossburg, N. j.
and the Oakland Farm Of Taunton, Mass,
are also numerously represented.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

City Treasurer Edwards has pro.
pounded series of interrogatorles to
the Board of Education that it would
puzzle half dozen Philadelphia law
yers to answer. The sum and sub
stance of it all is that he proposes to
keep on depositing school money where
he chooses, so long rs the board is
credited with per cent interest. We
shall soon see what we shall see.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

Nebraska is entitled to sixteen dele
gates to the republican national con-
vention and an equal number of alter
mates. The men who would like to be
among the chosen few have not been
bashful about announcing their am
billions, but the lists will not be closed
until there are at least sixteen aspirants
to one place.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

Ready Reckoner.' he was 1900 short. The
ready witted Brton seized the book and
replied that II was last years The Boer
returned satisfied" AS an addendd 10 this
tale of sweet simplicity, II may be stated
hibited considerable mathematical precision
in settling some accounts on Majulia Hill
and at Kruegersiorp.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

If the legal luminary of the Lincoln
Journal had his way he would have the
declaration of independence revised to
accord with his new doctrine of the
sovereignty of the judges. Govern
ments were not instituted among men
to secure the rights of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness and deriving
their just powers from the consent of
the governed. Quite the contrary. they
were instituted, according to the Jour
nal, solely that we might have courts
providing places for judges who are
omnipotent and sovereign. 1t was truly
unfortunate for Thomas Jefferson that
he had to frame his famous declaration
without the brilliant luminary of the
journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

The argument of The Bee that the
Grand Army of the Republic reunions
be in the future held in the cities where
the veterans can have the benefits of
the comforts of civilization rather than
in n tented encnmpment with its con
ing taken up with favor by the state
press. The time when the camp must
be abolished as the feature of the re-
unions is bound to come sooner or later
and if the proposed innovation is intro
duced at once the chances will be i'm
proved for the veterans to live to attend
many more of them.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05
ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS ALL AT SEA.
Colonel Morrison Insists on a Sound
Money Delegation.

Colonel Morrison Insists on n Sound
Money Delegation.
CHICAGO, Feb. A local paper today
prints the following: Plans for the demo-
cratic campaign in Illinois have been twisted
out Of shape and beyond recognition by Will
liam r. Morrison Through his lieutenants,
William s. Forman and william B. Brinton,
Colonel Morrison sent word to the demo-
cratic state committee that the free silver
idea must be repudiated before they could
use his name with authority as the demo-
cratic organizations presidential candidate.
More than this he insisted that the national
delegates from Illinois must be sound money
democrats.
II the state organization, OF which Governor
.Altgeld is head, attempts to send silver men
TO the national convention, Colonel Morrison
serves notice that he will come to Illinois
in person to lead the fight against the sill
Yer advocates.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

The other day The Bee published a
news letter from Prof. Willis l.. Moore,
chief of the government weather
bureau, discussing the rainfall of Ne
braska. The subject is of highest i'm
portanee and was ably treated. A
Lincoln correspondent picked up the let
ter and sent it to the Chicago Record
and that paper published it. The gist
of the article was that return to nor
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

1t begins to look as if the west wing
of the postoffice building would soon be
ordered built by Uncle Sam. What
with postoffice extension, union depot
construction and the growing proba-
bility of Transmississippi exposition
buildings looming up in the distance,
the outlook seems to be quite proms-
iuu
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05
Put Aside Ambition.

A woman In Wyoming wishes to be gov
ernor of the state,i ana the fact that she is a
woman will not weigh against her in Wyo-
ming. She may MAKE a good governor or a
bad one-the countryIhas seen numerous in
stances Of both good and bad governors
among male executives, but the fact that a
candidate is woman should count neither
for nor against her. II she is nominated and
has better abilities than her opponent, and
belongs to the right party, she ought to be
Tod
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05

1t is perfectly proper for the federal
authorities to get after the timber
border. But there should be no dis
elimination in the prosecution. The
big thieves and the little thieves should
be treated precisely alike.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-05
A Literary Feast.

Nebraska is nothing il not right up with
the procession in culture. At literary func-
tion held near Lexington the other night one
had his ear chewed off and when
he tried to resent the Insult he ran up against
a revolver. The whole trouble grew out Of
the pleasant little pastime of dropping chaff
down the backs of the assembled guests.