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Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-19
RELIGION IN POLITICS.
No Intrusion of Sectarianism In,
Party ounci Countcnnnccd.

No Intrusion of Secturianism Int
Party Councils
Perfect liberation in the matter OF re-
ligion and the complete separation of re
ligious and political professions have beer
a cardinal principle in The Bees platform
from its origin. AS early as March 10
1872, it outlined its policy on this subject by
editorially endorsing Horace Greeley's sen,
timents as follows: ,.r
''From time to time various foolish at
tempts have been made in this country to
organize political parties on the basis OF
opposition to certain religious doctrines OF
secret societies. Thus we have had anti
Masonic and anti-Catholic organizations
which, however, thanks to the common
sense of the masses, have generally proved
complete failures. Lately we have ru-
mors of another anti-Catholic party being
organized at Washington. The following ex-
tract from the New York Tribune shows
what Horace Greeley thinks of dragging re-
ligion into the political arena:
lis there anything in this rumor which
reaches us from Washington that a regular
no-popery movement has been organized
there? = = " We wish people would try
TO understand that Roman Catholics may
be religious exactly as Methodists, Presby-
terians, Independents, Unitarians, univer-
salists are religious. There is a mischievous
popular notion that the Roman Catholic
church may be divided into an oppressive
priesthood and a perfectly submissive laity,
and that all the sheep of the Roman flock
are extremely discontinued and unhappy,
and would bolt from the fold if the door
were left but for a moment open. Good
people, will you endeavor to comprehend
that a Catholic may enjoy his religion quite
as much as you do yours; that he is not
necessarily an idiot or a l~unatic; that the
faith that satisfied the mind of a Fenelon
or of a Pascal. need not appear contempti-
bic in the eyes even of an editor of a
Protestant religious newspaper? Detesting
bigotry everywhere, we find it unanimously
detested because it so spells what would be
otherwise excellent, and with some knowl-
edge of the on both sides of
ecclesiastical history, we entreat Christians
to tell as few lies as possible about each
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-19

hair-brained schemes. Its views on vision
airy labor reformers were expressed April
so, 1872, as follows:
wendell Phillips predicts a speedy decay
of republicanism and it's replacement by a
party based on the ideas now advocated by
Benjamin f. Butler. According to the
splendid dreamer whose visions are trans
lated into golden speech, when that glad
time shall come the world will be a para
disc and labor made the joy instead of the
bane of life. In our judgment, the grand
mistake on which Mr.. Phillips and his fell
lows erect their splendid theories is in for
getting or ignoring the eternal fact that
labor, and not ease, is the law of existence
and the glory of life. Growth and strength,
either physical, moral or spiritual. comes
and can only come from struggle and con-
flict, and the first thing which can at all
ameliorate the condition of the workingman
is for him to understand that the labor
which he is set to do is not a mere drudg-
cry, but something, when rightly viewed,
full of instruction and inspiration. The in
telligent laborer, we mean manual laborer,
commonly called the workingman. can see
in the processes of his toll the illustration,
fixed and beautiful, of the changeless law,
and learns 20 regard himself, as he is, as
one of the ministers at the bright altar of
science. He comes into close contact with
the infinite wisdom, to know which is after
all the highest life, and to obey which is
the most perfect happiness. The founda-
ton of all amelioration of the w~orkingman's
condition must be education. and to control
legislation and to mingle in politics fur
Their than to secure this, since by so doing
he becomes for the time being the instru-
ment to some extent of designing men,
is only foolishness. All men must labor in
one way or another. An intelligent tiller
of the soil is on general principles a hap
pier man than the lawyer, whose mind is
hardly ever relaxed, or the editor, whose
brain can never rest. or the doctor. who is
the servant of everybody. The tendency of
the age is to the elevation of labor, to a
reverend recognition of it's dignity and it's
worth. 1t needs more time for study and
perhaps recreation, and it will secure that
quicker by the natural processes of things
than by the annunciations of magnificent
theories by men who have chiefly their
nuyp anHc m gapUa
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-19

chants say they can make money by buying
at Fremont and hauling their purchases
from here in wagons.
"These are fair samples Of the general
tenor of the press on the line of the Union
Pacific in Nebraska. While in some in
stances the complaints may be grossly eXag-
gerated, it is not likely that all of them
are unfounded. Some of these charges GER
tainly require refutation, or an early change
of program on the part of the managers of
to %criticise or condemn the policy of the
Union Pacific, we consider it our sacred
duty as an Independent journalist, to call
the attention of the officers of that company
to these abuses, hoping that. after due de
liberation, they will see fit to make such
changes as the eXigencies of the case de-
mand. We apprehend that the company
cannot wilfully maintain a policy destruc-
tive to the interests of the settlers on the
line of it's road and to an early
settlement of the country, which, in the
end, is expected to furnish the life, sineW
and backbone of its prosperity. The com
pany cannot well afford to defy public
sentiment and make every farmer and set
tier on the line of the road it's sworn enemy
when it is in it's power, by impartiality and
a liberal tariff, to encourage them and to
secure their good will"
RAILROAD LAND GRABS.
Nor has The Bee been partial in it's crit
icism of different railroads. Land grabs
ana FRAUDS upon Ine people OF the BoNSIH-
ment have been denounced, no matter by
whom committed. In this connection the
following comment under date of January
20, 1872, is interesting:
MANY of our readers will recollect mat
when the legislature two years ago pro
vided by a special act for the encourage
ment of the construction of railroads within
the state, donating 1000 acres of Land for
every mile of the first ten miles of road
constructed, special pains We're taken and
provisions were made to exclude from such
privileges the roads which hal received
aid from the general government. Some
time ago the Burlington & Missouri River
Railway company, which, under these eX-
press provisions, was excluded from receiy-
ing lands from this state, in order to cir
cumvent the intent of the law ani thereby
rob this state of land which it could not
by any direct means have secured, engaged
the Omaha & Southwestern Railway conf
pany to assume the construction of that
part of it's road extending from Crete to
Beatrice, at the same time furnishing its
own hands to do the necessary work, And
thus, after the latter company had lominally
complied with the statI-e and received The
20, 900 acres of land in direct violation of
the law, it again assumed control of the
said road. Tha silence If our local con-
temporaries upon this Dalpdbie outrage can
only be explained by their attempts 10
cover up all inquiry in the general howl
of corruption and fraud against the leglsla-
ture, which they not ouly fail to prove,
do not attempt 10 slibStantiate.'
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-19

making his preparations for charging the
sphere OF usefulness OF that Institution OF
learning. As could have been expected,
the first years experience has been OF
great advantage In opening the way for
a more thorough and systematic course Of
studies. The agricultural college, which
Is so handsomely endowed by the muntt-
cence of the general government, is also
to be opened this season. Nebraska az
fords a splendid opportunity for the student
in agricultural science. Her climate aud
prolific soil will draw hi.her thousands Of
young men from the far west who may
desire to cultivate the soil on scientific
principles. Every farmer in Nebraska VIII
rejoice to have an opportunity to give his
sons a thorough horticultural and asrieut
tural education at a very moderate expense.
We hope ere long to see the Nebraska
university course as desirable as that In
Michigan or Virginia. Nothing will tend
to draw to cur state an intellectual and
industrious class OF citizens as will q thor
oughly established system of public instruc-
tion, commencing with the free common
schools and ending in the university and
agricultural college"
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-19
RAILROAD DISCRIMINATION.
No Excuse for ENt~Ortionate Rates for
Transporting Freight.

The producer, too, has, in The Bee a
steadfast friend. Against railway extortion
and discriminating rates the paper has never
ceased to protest. The keynote of the
policy which has been pursued throughout
its whole career is to be seen in the follow
ing editorial of March II, 1872, headed:
The Union Pacific and Its Policy"
From almost every station along the
line of the Union Pacific between Omaha
and North Platte complaints continue to
reach us through the country press against
the apparently unreasonable freight and
passenger rates eXacted by the Union Pacific
company at these way stations. In sew
eral instances definite charges are made
by various journals, exhibiting the capricious
discrimination which tends seriously to
cripple the business men and settlers in
certain localities. Other instances are
cited where the expenditure of a small sum
would a community which is
persistently ignored in order to benefit
other more favored localities. For in
stance, the Columbus Journal of the 9Th
cites:
"'Guy c. Barnum left the city Monday
last with a drove of cattle, which he tells
us he will drive to the b. & M. road or to
Omaha, for convenience of shipping. 1t is
a little strange to us that the Union Pacific
railroad company does not give facilities
here for loading and unloading stock, Every
animal that goes on or OH the cars mere
must do so at the risk of a broken limb.
To put up one chute would not cost much,
would be a great convenience to shippers,
and would amply repay the company for
the outlay. The truth is that 1t is a
shame that our stockmen should be com
PEELED to drive elsewhere for shipping
facilities
THE Schuyler Register tells us that the
system by which the Union Pacific seeks
to develop this country may be seen by the
following:
One of our merchants has
shown us the freight bills OF a small lot OF
merchandise. about 1000 pounds. shipped
from Omaha, upon which the charges were
SIS. About double what 1t would have
been last year. Freight Agent Winning
understands how to induce and encourage
emigration with . yengence. Our mer-
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-19
DIVERSIFIED AGRICULTURE.
Attention of Farmers Directed to tho
OF Different Crops.

Attention of Farmers Directed to tho
Advantages of Different Crops.
Along the same line have been The Bees
efforts to impress upon the farmers the
benefits to be derived from a diversified
agriculture. Attention was called to the
endless opportunities of the Nebraska
farmer, as follows, in The Bee of October
20, 1871:
'The fertile valleys of the Elkhorn and
Papillion can be converted into fruit pro-
ducing orchards and fields, where small
grain, potatoes and sugar beets, and even
tobacco, would yield rich haryests for the
hardy sons of toll. The solution OF this
problem requires simply the division of
these lands into small farms like those in
the vicinity of Cincinnati, Cleveland and
other large cities of the east and south, sim
ilarily situated, Our citizens should, with
out delay, organize a society with a special
view of inducing men of moderate means
to settle on this land. There are now
thousands In Alsace and Lorraine, who have
made a lifelong study of the sugar beet,
and who would willingly follow a reliable
agent to Nebraska. There are others In
New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania who
could readily be inC ced to purchase and
settle in Douglas county. a sturdy ana
Industrious farming population is every
where recognized as a necessary backbone
to a prosperous city"
SUGAR BEET CULTIVATION.
Even the possibilities Of sugar beet cul-
ture were exploited by The Bee in the
first few months of its publication-an in
dustry whose establishment in this state
was later brought about with its CO.
operation. In its issue of October %, 1871
il said:
Renewed interest is being manifested In
the great enterprise of beet sugar making
in California, We quite fail to see why
Omaha should not emulate the spirit or
Sacramento. In Omaha, as at Sacramento,
there are doubtless but few, If any, experts
Just now in the manufacture OF sugar, but
where there is a Will, as all well know,
there is a way. Some time ago, accord
ing to our contemporary, "a gentleman who
is Interested in the success of beet sugar
manufacture was sent to Europe to gain
practical information and secure some one
to come to this country and take the
proper management Of the growth OF the
beets and their manufacture into sugar. That
gentleman has, we learn, not only secured
such an efficient person In one Mr.. Von-
Enstein, but has likewise secured, under
the supervision of that gentleman, the
proper machinery. made In Europe. where
with to erect the necessary mill. Thus,
then. does the afair begin to assume pro-
portions, and we may anticipate at no
distant day the successful continuance OF
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-19
AGAINST SALE OF PROXIES.
Protest Entered Against The Traffic
i'm Republican, Convention Votes.

Protest Entered Against The Trn ilic
i'm Republican, mention Votes.
In line with its refusal to submit to
corrupt political leadership is The Bees
opposition to the corrupt political methods
which those leaders employed. An apt IL
lustration is found in this editorial ON the
proxy system in it's files under date of July
II, 1872:
in a few days the republican state
central committee will meet to deliberate
upon the issuing of a call for a state con-
yention for the purpose of placlugr in nom
nation the state republican ticket. We
desire to say a few words to them by way
OF admonition. Within the last few years
unprincipled wire pullers have made the
trade in proxies a special business. Men
who pass in business circles as deadbeats
and among politicians as dead ducks ind tNIs
kind of trade very profitable when t,ey lose
their political stock and find themselves
left out in the cold. At the primo les they
lind some Indifferent or corrupt Individual
and somehow take his proxy to represent
that or this county in the convention. There
Is another class of proxy dealers even more
dangerous ana possessed OF less principle.
we reter TO the class of office hunters who
lay their plans for months in advance, and
by various tricls aud misrepresentation
known To the craft are i'm the habit of COB
bling up from ten 10 twenty proxies and go
TO the convention TO cast the vote for all
of these people. They generally get up a
corner in the convention and manage TO
ecure a omin ton Ivy combin ng with some
other rascal that =; nts an office. III this
practice Is to be REL ted at the next state
convention all reasonable hopes of a good
ticket must at Cnce he sfaad1red. We know
mat in several localities political bankers
VINO hold a deadly grip on the small dealers
IN the unsettled counties have already sown
tie seed for a big harvest of proxies. They
propose to come in with a pocketful of these
IN Jug noes and 4ictate the ticket. We hope
hat this system will receive a deathblow In
ne cal by direct prohibition Of all proxies.
Let each county elect it's delegates and one
OF two sets of alternates. II in the end
neither Of them are willing or able to at
tend the convention, II will be much better
to leave them without representation. Let
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-19
II REFORM.
In sympathy with the just Demands
Of the WngcworlSer.

III tht NH~st'NorlAer.
Always in sympathy with the just de-
mands of the wage worker The Bee has up
held the rights of labor and deprecated
corporate oppression and capitalistic aggres-
sion. Before its. first year had been passed
1t was defending the right of parade that
had been attacked in New York. On this
subject it said, December 10, 1871;
mot more sacredly to be preserved is the
liberty of person than the liberty of public
parade by all bodies disposed to use that
right as not .tTespassing upon the rights
of others, and We have looked upon it as a
most senseless Inconsistency that some of
the journals which clalnored loudly but a
few months since for freedom and protection
to the ~orangenian, have lately been equally
bCisteTous to deny the same privilege to
the internatioials 1t looks as if the jus
tice of the judge hinged on first finding
out whose OK is gOred and whose bull has
done the mistHieG In the latter as in the
former case. however, right triumphed, and
on Sunday hehihternationals of New York
marched in procession TO the memory Of
that good Frenchman, Rosselle, and In
token of sympathy to the cause to which he
became n martyr. Everything passed off
decently and in order. if we except the tail
OF the affair which was brought up by the
female communists, Woodruff and Clatlin.
. +" . The design of the internationals is eX-
planned by the London Spectator as 20 ole
Vate what Is commonly known as the work
ing class. Our idea is that the editor, au-
thor, preacher, lawyer, statesman and others
who labor with that grandest oi all I'M
plements, the human brain. ere as nHrh
working men as the typo, .he farmer, the
blacksmith and the driver OF a iaC!S Zane,
hut there are b~unglers and evil deslgn RS in
both classes who need wedding ou'."
NO ENCOURAGEMENT FOR VISION
ARIES.
At the same time The Bee has never had
much use for the professional labor re-
former for revenue only or the Missionaries
who injure the cause OF true labor by their
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-19

the convention cast its ballot for them.
Unless the proxy trade is broken up the
republican party will have to pack It's
satChel for Salt creek
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-19

and cut glass wine glasses from poor, hard
working clerks, who receive a salary of $40
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-07-17
Trustees Notice,

Notice is hereby given that the under
signed. Trustee OF HARRISON township,
will att md to township business on each
Saturday OF the year, at my office, ana
persons having township business 10
trrnsact are required to present It to nm
on Saturdays. !.
The township library will be kept at
nv home in Haysville.
Indiana School Books are for sale by
Henry Ruehrschneck in Haysville, and
Alan Harker in Kellerville, Indiana.
JOHN SKITz,
A.. IN laQ5-y. Trustee.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-07-17
Madison Township Trustee
Notice.

Notice is given that hereafter the Trus
toe Of Madison township will be at the
store room of Mr.. John p. Norman, IN
Ireland. on every Saturday, for the pur-
pose Of attending to township business, ~
md ali persons having business with the
township are expected to confine IL 70
those days.
The township library is kept at Isaac
Alexander's in Ireland, where all may
obtain the books. :,
The Indiana School books VIII pt
found at Norman x Gray's store al al
s;nas JOHN 4. NORMAN,
A.. IN ,a5--v Trustee Madison TIP
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-07-17

To legalize the saloons, we com
mence at the polls with a whisky
ballot. And it makes no difference
whether il is cast by preacher
teacher, layman, or thug; if it is in
favor of whisky candidate, or rum
ruled party, ii is a whisky ballot
lust the same. Now this whisky
ballot being cast for whisky part,
gives us the whisky law, and th'
whisky law gives us the whlsk,
saloon, see? Whisky ballot, whls
XIV party, whisky law, whisky sa
loon. That's logic.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-07-17

The devil never likes to have
man read a temperance page.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-07-17

This gold premium, unlike pro-
tective tariff, stimulates the exports
of the United States, while acting,
lust as a protective tariff does, to
reduce imports; therefore, either
free coinage will give bimetallism (
the whole world, or failing this, !,
will tend to secure the excess o
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-29
An Old Soldier.

GCOu WORDS.
"I suppose there are not many survivors
of the Balaclava charger"
The cd fellow looked portentous and be-
gan to accompany his talk with fore
finger laid upon his palm.
Nov. that's what can't make out Col
sent for me a few years ago to 20 to
a dinner in London of the survivors Of the
charge. You know how many came out
alive, ma am: a hundred and twenty, an,
of coorse, many of 'em dead by this or
aged min not fit to travel. Well, there was
crowds there by way o being survivors
I'm not good at numbers, but there was
more there than 1 saw coming out alive
from the guns. Who are these min? says
I. I don't reminder them. An what are
they dom here side by side with them that
was in the charge? aye. and was painted in
picturs Of 1t carryin' wounded lancers out
of tn engagement. Who are these min?
I asked, an, begorries. there was no one
to answer me. But 1 go no more to them
kind of dinners"
1t would be impossible to reproduce the
pride with which the old fellow swelled
himself out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-29
PerrOnnl Mention.

DR.. Finley has returned to the city after
months visit to Saratoga and Michigan.
Messrs VIM. F. Guide and Andrew Loffler.
IT., have returned from Cleveland, Ohio.
where they attended the society Of Ameri-
can Florists convention. From Cleveland
they extended their trip by boat on Lake
Erie to Buffalo and Niagara Falls, thence
to Philadelphia, where they were enter
tanned by Mr. Geo. Mackay. superintendent
of the Philadelphia market. and formerly
of the Center Market in this city. After 4
short stay at Atlantic City they returned
home.
Mr.. Elphonzo Youngs. jr.. who is spend
ing the summer in Europe. is now in Ber-
lin. where he is enjoying many rare orpor-
tunities of meeting some of the masters Of
music MI. Youngs' stay abroad this sum-
mer is mainly for the purpose of getting en-
tirely rid of a severe attack of grip. with
which he was Frustrated last December.
In the mean time ne IS devotins consider
about October i.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-29
JUDGE MacARTHUR'S FINERAL.
The Last Tributes to the Dead
Jurlst.

The Last Tributes 10 the Dead
Jurist.
The funeral of Judge Mac Arthur, who
died Wednesday afternoon at Atlantic City,
took place this afternoon al 30 o'clock
from his late home, No. 1a0l street
northwest The services We're conduct I'D
by Rev DR.. Horton. who is acting "a pas
tor OF the New York Avenue Presbyt rian
Church during the absence of Dr. Rad
clffe. During the services the Apollo Quar-
tet sang The Shining Shore" the favorite
hymn of the late jurist. The interment
floral offerings Were choice and tasteful,
especially those sent by the Bar Assoc:a-
ton and the Washington Humane Society
or the honorary pall-bearers, Judge Cox
represented the judiciary of the District
Judge S. F. Phillips, Walter ID. Davidge.
J. E. Norris and Campbell Darlington,
esqs.. represented the bar at large: Profs
II. o. Claughton and Thomas Wilson the
National University, of which Judge Mac
Arthur was chancellor and president and
Gen. Horatio G. Wright, L. S. A. Uetired,
and Thompson II. Alexander esd tn.
friends of the neighborhood
Or the active pall-bearcrs Hugh r Tag
CART, esq. assistant district attorney ana
Job Barnard. second vice president, repre-
scented the bar association: Messrs. Will
Jams and Meigs, the clerks office of the
Supre me Court of the District. and Messrs.
Paul a. Steele ana William r Guide the
Spencerian business College, before whom
Judge Macarthur had delivered a course
OF hfteen lectures Oh business law.