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Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Tho late "Olver Optic" once wrote play
for his son-in-law, Sol Smith Russell but
1t didn't seem to strike the popular fancy
Signs CT spring are becoming visible down
east. The Board of Health OF Jersey town
has recommended ice cream as a cure for
hlccoughs.
The new Carnegie baby is sole heiress to
fortune estimated at from s25, 100000 to
s60o000G0 Mr.. Carnegie is SO years of age
and has been married just ten years.
When the governors of New York and
Michigan talk over the long-distance telc-
phone. tho burden of their remarks has
nothing to do with perpendicular irrigation.
The kaleidoscope pictures OF the Carson af-
fair are said to be chock-full Of blemishes
and may prove failure. The negatives
have been sent to Edison's laboratory for
development.
Among the ancestors OF DR.. Nansen was
Hans Nansenf born in 1898, who explored
the White seat spsnt many years in the
Iceland trade and wrote a geography which
described Arctic routes so well that copy
of the book was IN use as late as 1S41
Louis F. Posi-, EDITOR of the Cleveland
Recorder was sentenced to ten days in the
county Jail and to pay fine Of 5000 for
contempt OF court in publishing a criti-
cism OF Judge nGsflson of the court of
common pleas. eh The summary sction of
the offended conrt dlas made the editor the
lion OF the toanGh Public meetings have
been held to giVeYdxpressiOn to the indigna-
| tion of the people. aud brass band serenades
| break in upoa the reyeries OF the editor
| every evening. Sjar appeal has been taken
and that will probably be the end OF it. The
! incident served useful purpose in showing
| popular contempt for those who, clothed with
| brief authority abuse their power for pur,
| poses OF revengen
| LCnna II. Winsow of Kansas City appears
| in court with tale of woe and a demand
| FOR S2.50O damage from lodge of the Mac,
| cabees Wlnslow AYERS that he was Induced
| TO ride the traditional goat and as a conse.
| queace accumulated various pains and aches
that refuse to yield to medical skill. The
| Maccabee "gcat" appears to be really
| bird" of It's kind. Winslow says he wa.
! led into The lodge blindfolded and shoeIess
| He hcbbled around on gravel the carpe
slid from beneath his feet; he turned
! somers lult over sandbags; several persons
punched him in the Stats he was jerket
ID the ceiling, swan on air, dropped into 1
sheet and was tossed around quite gaily
Il was pretty tired" says Winsl)w "bu
didn't kick" The last degree, that o
walking a slanting plank broke him up
! The jump also broke his leg. For thes'
reasons the victim Of the goat insists tina
those who danced with glee over his antics
should pay for the music.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06
TIE MISSISSIPPI FLoons.

Ii Is impossible to estimate with any
degree of accuracy the losses from the
Mississippi floods, but they are enor.
nous and the work OF devastation is
still going on. Thousands of square
miles of farm lands have been over
flowed, hundreds OF thousands of dol
lars worth Of property has been swept
away and destroyed, there has been
loss of life and an army of people have
been rendered homeless and destitute.
1t is one of the severest calamitics this
country has ever known already and
the end of the destruction and desola-
ton Is not in sight. 1t is quite imuoS-
siblc for any one not n witness OF this
work of devastation to have any ade-
quate conception OF It's awful character
or 10 realize the hardshipS of those who
surl.r from it. but 1t is impossible TO
read the accounts of the disaster
wrought by the floods without feeling
Il profound sympathy for the unfor-
tunate people who arc the victims of its
resistlcss fury. These people will have
to be cared for and whenever they ask
for assistance the response of the coun-
try should be prompt and generous.
They have behaved hcroicaily in their
efforts to avert the calamity and they
must not be permitted to suffer any
hardships which 1t is possible to re-
lieve.
1t seems almost mockery to talk OF
causes and remedies in the presence or
such calamity and yet 1t is well to
remember that forest destruction Is IN
very large measure responsible FOR 1t.
That fact should impress the country
with the necessity of preserving the for
ests and It ought to have an influence
upon the determination of the question,
now being considered by the president,
of revoking or modifying the order OF
Mr.. Cleveland establishing forest reser-
yatiOnS
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06
SOME RECENT APPOINTMENTS.

Indianapolis Journal: Without being
asked President Mckinley appointed the IT.
year-old son OF the late General Sheridan
a cadet in the Military academy while Mr.
Cleveland refused when requested to do so
Chicago Chronicle: The appointment OF
Andrew ID. White as ambassador to Ger
many is creditabe to the administration.
Mr. White Is man Of large education, is
trained in international law and has had
experience as a diplomat. He has little OF
the lingo about him. is not offensive as
partisan and has the reputation of being
lsyel-headed man.
Sioux City Journal: Major Ccnger OF
Iowa, who Is to be United States minister to
Brazil, was instrumental while a congress-
man in having the weather bureau trans
ferred from the War department to the
Agricultural department and separating 1t
entirely from the signal service. But he Is
not responsible for any of the weather the
bureau has dealt out.
Philadslphia Record: Measured by all
around ability and experience the appoint
ment OF Andrew d. White of New YORK
as our ambassador to Germany Ks certainly
the strongest yet made by President Nc
Klnley in selecting diplomats to represent
the country at the capitals OF the greater
powers Mr. White Is a man OF hlgh
character and accomplishment, who Is SURE
TO render the republic eredltable service.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06
RANsUMs SCHOOL TAN BILL.


The most vicious measure affecting the
taxpayers of Omaha that has been III
troduced into the present legislature Is
the Ransom Covell school tax bill that
passed the senate Saturday. The Dill
proposes to clothc the Board of Educa-
ton with absolute power to hX the
school tax rate and requires the council
to include it in the city levy. Under the
proposed law the school board is en-
powercd to make an estimate of all the
money It desires to have raised for the
maintenance of the schools, for new
furniture, school books, construction ana
reconstruction of buildings and force
the taxpayers TO contribute the fhll
amount III taxes without regard to the
other burdens they are called on to bear.
The effect of such change in the
law would be to stimulate wastefulnesS,
cNtravagancc and iobbery and pile up a
mountain of taxes on the people without
excuse or Justification. 1t would leave
the door wide open for pillage and plum
der, under the preteXt of promoting the
cause of popular education. it is scarcely
credible that such n measure can be
passed through the house, especially In
view of the notorious fact that its in
snirotion comes from Ransom'S brother
in-low. Covell. who agreed to have this
bill put through the legislature If he
were retained as the paid attorney of
the Board of Education.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06
A REPUBLICAN, Law.

Those who charge that the republican
party has favored the trusts lose sight
of the fact that the antitrust law or
1890, which applies to every combina
tion and contract in restraint of trade,
as declared by the supreme court of the
United States, is Il republican law. AS
was said by Representative Grosyenor
of Ohio in the house during the tarlff
debate this act was recommended by
n republican president, enacted by re-
publican congress and approved by a
republican president 1t encountered the
vigorous opposition of the democrats in
congress and MI Olney as attorney
general in the Cleveland administration
took the earliest opportunity to discredit
the law. his first annual report pro
nouncing it defective and inadequate.
Yet up to that time no effort had been
made by that official 10 enforce the law,
although Mr.. Cleveland entered upon
the presidency with IL promise to use
all the authority given the executive de
paltment to relieve the people from the
eXactiOns of the trusts and similar COM
did no better than his predecessor. He.
too. profcssed to find the law defective
and insufficient, and although he told
congress-. in response to Il request FOR
information as to what steps had been
taken to enforce the antitrust law that
the Department of Justice had endeav-
ored to investigate complaints regarding
trusts and combinations, nothing was
really done toward enforcing the law.
The only proceedings under the law dur
ing the last administration were insti-
tuted by its predecessor.
The decision of the supreme court that
the antitrust law is valid and can be
enforced and that it is sweeping in its
application to every form of combina-
ton and contract in restraint of trade,
shows how shallow was the assump-
ton of these democratic officials in re
gard to the insufficiency of the law and
how derelict in duty they We're in not
making adequate effort to enforce 1T.
instead of contenting themselves with II
perfunctory investigation of complaints.
The trusts steadily grew in number and
i'm power during the Cleveland admins.
| tration, yet there was no attempt at re
preston, either by endcavoring to en-
force the law or by new legislation-the
antitrust provision OF the existing tariff
act being designed to apply To only one
combination. Why did not the demo
Gratis when in control of congress remedy
| the then alleged defects in the antitrust
| law? Why did they not show, when
| they had the power, that they were sin
cere in their professions of hostility to
the monopolistic combinations?
The republican party manifested it,
opposition to trusts by eaacting II com
prehensive and drastic law against them
"A law which met with determined dem
ocratic opposition. The republican party
holds the same position now that ii held
| in 1890 in regard to these combinations
1t believes they are hostile to the public
| interests and should be suppressed
President Mckinley Is unqualiiiedlS
committed to this view and there Is
every reason to expect that in due time
the administration will take steps to en-
force the anti trust law wherever it ap
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06
NEW roRcS TRADE DECLINING

NEW TORES TRADE DECLINING
The commercial supremacy of New
York is said to be threatened and the
business interests of that metropolis are
seriously considering the question of
what is necessary to maintain and in
crease the city's foreign commerce.
There is no apprehension of any serious
rivalry with an other Atlantic port for
European passenger traffic, but 1t is said
that the great grain export business has
slowly but surely been diverted to Balti-
more and Philadelphia, and to a re-
markable extent to New Orleans. 1t
appears to be the opinion of some
familiar with the export business that
New Orleans, by reason of its natural
situation Is going to command more
and more of the grain and provision ana
cotton export trade of the south and
southwest. 1t is fact that the COM
merce of New Orleans has been steadily
growing and the projects for better IA
cilities of transportation to that port
certainly warrant the expectation that
it will continue to grow and the in
crease must of course be at the eX-
pense of the Atlantic ports and par
ticularly New York 1t may not be
very long time when Texas ports also
will command considerable share OF
the exports of the southwest.
1t is hardly possible however, that
New York will ever cease to be the
commercial metropolis of the nation,
but It would seem from the great con-
Germ being manifested there in the fact
of her declining export trade that her
commercial interests are confronted by
Il renl danger to avert which prompt
remedial measures are necessary. III
appears that the export trade of Phila-
delphia and Baltimore Is favored by
railroad differentals at the expense OF
New York but it is suggested that the
removal of these, which the exporters OF
the latter city have long been unavail-
ingly endeavoring to have done, would
be only partial remedy for the sltua-
ton. 1t having been found that the
great steamship lines do not have to go
to New York to secure freights the eX-
pediency of a more liberal policy toward
them is being considered. But in any
event New York will maintain her com
mercial supremacy. All conditions as
sure this
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06


Candidate Rryaus home, state of Nebraska,
Is largely populistic in every department of
its government, but in passing the bill
prohibiting corporations from making con-
tributions to- thes campaign fund of any
political party II has rendered service to
the cause ofepolitical morality which might
we'll be followed by states with a better
political record I.,.e a.3GlH~
corporation which is wholly the
creature OF law has no natural right to do
anything that is not specified in the law by
which it is created. And we believe that no
corporation has ever avowed that the con-
tributing to campaign funds was among the
purposes for which, it was established. 1t
has no moral right to make such a contribu-
tion because it is not moral being AS
corporation 1t can have no interest in
politics except a mercenary one
If the Nebraska law should be adopted in
every state ard enforced in every campaign,
a great any of the difficulties in the path
Of honest politics would disappear.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06
Uncle Sam Holds the Sack.


The statement that the government has
paid nearly 100000 in settlement of claims
by aliens who have suffered from mob violence
and that in no case has restitution been
made by the state in which the outrage
occurred, indicates a weak point in our ma
chinery of government AS the several states
have no official relations with foreign powers,
the national government must hear and ad-
Just all complaints made by the latter against
citizens of this country, and thus it Is
obliged to pay damages for acts which ii
could not prevent, and for which it can
collect no indemnity in its turn. On the
other hand, the states feel no particular OBJ
legation to restrain their citizens from at
tacking foreigners who may be among them,
since the national government pays the bills
and they have no trouble on that score.
Some arrangement by which this particular
form of mob violence, which is specially to
be deprecated since it may plunge Us into
war, can be suppressed, or, at least, dis
couraged, seems eminently desirable.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06
LIKE SIXTY.

New York Home Journal
siSty! How can ! believe it?
And saying it over, l wander
About in somnambulic way.
Sixty! Why. that means the summit,
The peak, the very tip-top.
From here, am an old woman?
No more of life's hppi-ty-hop?
Is 18th that t an me old i"SS i%dyS Say tr"s
speectacles sray hair, vest, and wrinkles
All here comes friend of my girlhood,
Do look so old and so faded?
oh, no! That never can be.
Yes, this is your birthday" she prattles
How young you are looking! Don't say
That you are a day over ifty.
For no one would dream it today"
Those weary and faded eyes
Ttat white hair under brown friszes-
0, Katie, you cannot disguise
What time has written. so plainly
=. All over your face and my own
At least, not let 1t be known;
For sixty, you know. means that eighty
Is ever and ever so near
We thought we were SO old at forty;
How young now the fiftes appear!
"Once sixty meant aged. but now, dear.
And she laughs, but not like the Katie
l knew in the long years ago.
See. here comes my friend who Is eighty!
How erect, and dapper and trim!
Rather stiff. rather slow I'm his gait, but
There's nothing decrepit in him
"MN child, you are still but youngling;
It's all in the heart, getting old
If one is alert at the crossings
And bundles up well from the cold,
And keeps clear of croakers and mummers,
Rheumatics, high-pressure-why. then,
At eighty, like me, it's quite easy
TO be just the youngest of men,
And gayly We hop off together.
Lets pretend we are twenty today;
What is 1t those youngsters are Saying?"
For old folks they're really quite gay"
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

The Bee has always upheld the doc
trine that institutions supported out of
the public funds should be under pub
lie management. For this reason it has
favored state control of the two or three
state-supported institutions that have
been under private management. The
only way to secure strict accountable
ity for the expenditure of public money
is to have the money spent by officers
whose duty is solely to the public and
who are sworn to perform that duty.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

On matters affecting local interests
ONLY. tho legislature processes to accede
to the requests of the members whose
constituency is Immediately concerned
on the principle of allowing the widest
latitude of home rule. The Dill permit
ting Douglas county to bond itself FOR
the purpose of promoting the exposition
comes strictly within this class OF law
making. yet some of the rural repre-
sentatives insist on telling the people or
Douglas county that they ought not TO
want the privilege they have asked. In
asmuch as the bill aims merely to let
the voters decide at the polls on the
question Of exposition. bonds 1t passes
comprehension why anyone who cannot
be concerned in the remotest degree
should enter objections or put up OBJ
Str,IrtiOnS
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06
Millions to Keep the Peace.

The French government proposes to eX-
pend $4,000 600 francs for additional war
ships. The European concert" is so har-
monious that each nation embraced in it
is compelled to increase it's army and navy
to protect itself from the others. If it
were not for friends and allies France and,
indeed each. Of the great powers might
reduce its armyo and navy. Peace costs
nearly much as war, when, in order to
maintain it, 1t is deemed necessary to sup
port enormous armies and navies, and
even increase them from time to time.
There is danger of national bankruptcy in
Europe, arising from the great military
expense to which, the nations are subjected
in keeping each other from fighting.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

That the republicans recognize no
silver issue in the municipal campaign
is established by the fact that 1t has
men on the ticket who are advocates OF
free coinage. The issue is good city
government and the republican can
didates taken all together give the best
promise of an honest. efficient and
economical administration of the city
affairs for the next three years.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

The charter amendment validating the
renewal bonds issued by the city has
gone through the legislature, but as it
is without the emergency clause it can
not become effective for three months
This amendment, however, ought to set
the city's credit right and remove an
embarrassing obstacle in the manage
ment of the city's finances.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

The Bryanites have announced their
Intention, in case the democratic candl-
date for mayor of Chicago succeeds in
his campaign, to claim his success as an
achievement of bimetallism. OF course
do with the city election in Chicago
than 1t has with the choice of officers of
any private corporation. The BryanItes
were always OF the claim-all variety of
politicianA
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

The railroads could not make the anti
scalping bill into law at the last con
gress, but they seem to have limtlesS
confidence in their abilities to push the
pooling bill through this time. There
is no general demand for legalized pool
ing so far rs the public is thus far
II w,
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

With Gladstone learning the bicycle
ard General Schofield, Benjamin Harri-
son and Andrew Carnegie sturdily main
tanning the increase in the country's
population, the end Of the century would
seem to be period of hope for those
who are well advanced in years.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

Ex-Treasurer BARLEY, when arrested,
asserted that he was calling in his
money and would make good his entire
shortage if only given time. The weeks
are being prolonged into months, but
Bartley's money has not been produced.
Is it not high time that defhulters'
promises be discounted and the culprits
dealt with as they deserve?
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

Washington Post.
1t will be remembered that some days ago
Senator Platt OF New York, while passing
out of the senate, was struck on the fore
head by one of the heavy mahogany doors
and had his head badly cut.
How did you hurt your head. senator?''
asked friend the ether day.
Il was passing hurrodly out of door, y
was the reply. land / was struck by 1t. But
it wasn't the white house door," added the
senator with a smile.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

We shall soon see whether or not the
new Board of Fire and Police Commits
siOners is really in earnest in its pro.
fessed determination to keep the fire
and police departments divorced abso
lutely from politics.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06
Coal Bnrons Titzsimmoned.
Globe-Democrat.

The Combine" of railroads constituting the
Hard Coal trust doubtless feels a little shaky
since that decision against the Transmits
souri, Freight association was rendered. The
sins of the latter are mild compared with
the outrages perpetrated by the coal pool.
Some trusts have done good for time,
directly or indirectly, but the hard coal
combination is not among them. An attack
on this monopoly at this time would please
hon tr,,
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06
wattcrson Enjoys Himself.

LOUlsNIIIe NuUTIVT-JVuIIIHI'
The decision OF Japan to discard the silver
standard and adopt the gold standard de-
prives the American free silverites OF one
Of their last props. Indeed, 1t leaves Mexico
as about the only remaining nation with any
recognized pretensions to civilization that
still clings to the obsolete silver standard
And Mexico would soon get rid of 1t II she
were not in the position of the man holding
the bears tail.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

Mel Redtield is paving his way to join
the silyerlte party. That fusion con
gressional nomination is tempting
plum, but ms Cunningham Il. Scott and
Frank Ransom jumped the track before
he did, his chances are very slim.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

Employees of the lower house of the
legislature will be paid only for the
time actually put into the service OF the
state. Even then, some of them will
draw more out of the state treasury for
the session than the men elected as
senators and representatives.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

Hot weather and an aching desire
for Il more rapid distribution of patron,
age are the two Incentives that wil)
urge the senate 10 get through with the
new tariff bill just as quickly as posi-,
BILE under the circumstances.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

Rancid Ransom says he did not back
cap the exposition appropriation. He
only got 1t cut down from $35O.O0O to
100000 and tied up for six months. He
Is undoubtedly entitled to any benefit he
may derive from this explanation.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

Under the new charter the council will
have new and increased responsibilities
and the necessity for the election of
capable and experienced men as mem
bers of that body becomes correspond
ingly reinforced.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

1t Is hoped that kinetoscope pictures
may be made of the scrap between the
Methodist church and its recalcitrant
member John j. ingalls,, who attended
the recent prize fight and is subject to
discipline therefor.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

Senator Ransom has begun to explain
his record before even the session has
closed. Mr.. Ransom will also be ex-
planning his record for good while
after the session shall have terminated.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06

Members of the legislature are again
reminded that the constitution disquali-
fies them from appointment to offices
created under laws which they help to
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-06
Rcpu,iintes His Parole.

IhlCHBO NNIVHIVII'
The alleged American. Sanguiliy, over
whom so much trouble occurred and upon
whose release by Spain the jingoes so
plumed themselves, has proved his grati-
tude by returning secretly to Cuba. He has
gone, the dispatches tell us, "to strike a blow
for Cuba ibre." The next time he finds
himself in Moro castle his admirers at
Washington may have more difficulty in
securing his freedom.