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Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10
MORE PENSIONS.
Soldiers of the Late War lombard
the Pension Office.
Indianapolis News.

Indianapolis News.
1t looks as though the country were to
have another demonstration of the terrors
of war, for it is reported that applications
are pouring in for pensions account OF
disabilities incurred in the Spanish war.
1t seems to us that it would be well to
give this matter attention before the ap
plicans become veterans and while one can
denounce the pension robbery without be-
ing accused of a lack of patriotism. AL
ready $50 members of the Thirty fourth
Michigan regiment, or more than one
fourth of its enlisted strength, have sent
in applications for pensions. The District
of Columbia regiment is a good second with
$50 applicants. Then follow the Thirty
third Michigan, the Eighth Ohio and the
Second Massachusetts, the latter regiment
having 317 applicants. Only two of these five
Iegments-the Second Massachusetts and
the Thirty fourth Mchigan-were under
fire. the former regiment having uad num-
beT of men killed and wounded, while the
latter regiment had four men killed and
about twelve wounded at Aguadores bridge
Malaria seems to be the trouble with most
Of the pension claimants.
The extreme promptness of this move
ment for pensions will be better appre-
ciated when 1t is remembered that up to
looS, OF seventeen years dIleT lue ClOse Vi
the civil war, there were many regiments
that served throughout the war which dd
not have 100 pension applicants We do
not wonder that the pension Office expresses
the opinion that pension attorneys are
largely responsible for the raid that has
now begun. 1t is much to be hoped that
the soldiers who served their country so
nobl. in the recent war will not dim their
glory by becoming partners with the pen
sion agents in n scheme for depicting the
treasury. We do not wonder that many men
should, perhaps thoughtlessy, demand pen
sions. For the country has been educated
into a belief that all that a soldier asked
for he ought to have, without regard to
whether it was his due or to his own char
acter or to the nature and value of his
services. They are but following well
established precedent. And, of course, they
ought to be treated precisely as the SOL
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10
A NEW INTERPRETIGI GION.

The enemies of the civil service sys-
tenn ure said to derive no little satisfac-
ton from the opinion of Comptroller
Tracewell of the Treasury department
in regard to the civil service law. Ac-
cording to the Interpretation of this Of
fetal the civil service act is not a law.
but merely n rule or regulation of the
president and therefore an executive or
ticer can make an appointment as rep
resentative of the president and no one
but the president can call him to ac>
count for violation of the civil service
rules. 'Such alleged disregard of the
law" said the comptroller, sis not
violation of the civil service law itself,
but of an executive regulation by an
agent of the executive who is alone rc.
SponSible to the executive" If this
view is sound it necessarily follows that
the civil service commission is power
less and useless body except in an ad-
visory capacity, and indeed an official
of the Department of Justice is reported
to have said that a mistake has been
made in assuming that the commission
has any power to enforce the observance
of the civil service law. Its only power,
according to this opinion, is to assist
the president in making rules to apply
to the civil service law. "In fact" said
this official of the Department of JUS
iice, there is no civil service law, for
n law implies that 1t can be enforced by
the courts. This law cannot be enforced
by any one but the president of the
United States" Obviously, therefore, a
department officer may ignore the rules
and appoint whom he pleases to office
under him, being responsible only 10
the president.
This is certainly quite contrary to the
general understanding and it manifestly
opens the way to n virtual notification
of the merit system if the executive
We're disposed to permit this to be done.
There will be nothing of this kind, how.
ever, it is safe to say, under the present
administration, so that the foes of the
merit system will reap no advantage at
this time from the ruling of the comp
troller. The Washington correspondent
of the Philadelphia Press states that
the matter of civil service has been fire.
quently discussed of late by the pres,-
dent and his cabinet and it is under
stood that the system has been fully en-
dorsed. MI Mckinley is so strongly
committed to the system by his support
of it when he was in congress and his
declarations and action in regard to it
since that there need be no apprehen-
sion on the part of the friends of the
system that he will permit or tolerate
any impairment of it. Moreover, there
is no head of department who is not
in full accord with the president in re.
gard to this policy.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10
LET THE LESSON BE LASTING

LET THE LESSON BE LASTING
The decision of the supreme court up
holding the validity of the law taking
the control and management of the State
Home for the Friendless out of the
hands of private charitable society and
vcsting it in officials responsible to the
people should prove Il salutary bar to
all future schemes to have the state foot
the bills for public Institutions run by
private parties.
From the very first the state has had
the worst end of the bargain in its Home
for the Friendless partnership, which
was but repetition of the story of the
camel which dispossessed the Arab of his
tent. The unfortunate part of the con
troverSy growing out of conflicting
claims TO the management of the home
is that the two years of litigation have
practically ruined its usefulness, leav-
Ing the state to take hold of dilapi-
dated and neglected property and to re-
generate Il demoraliZed institution.
With intelligent and economical ad-
ministration this can be done, but the
loss sustained by the public should be
II lasting warming against indulging in
similar folly again. SO far as it de
wolves on the state to care for delin-
Guents and dependents in asylums,
schools or reformatories, the duty should
be performed directly through its own
officers and not through the agency of
private volunteers, corporations, con
tractors or societies.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

bUSlON ITUIISCTIDI.
The Cuban assembly, having learned from
Washington that not one cent more than
S3,000,0 900 could be obtained to pay
the Cuban soldiers to go home, voted
81 to 1 to accept that amount to dsband
the Cuban army and to adjourn without day.
The payment of the money will be con-
Quoted by General Brooke who will call
for proper vouchers and will see that no
STRAW men" are smuggled into the ranks
while the money is going round. The news
that the making assembly has dis
solved is the best we have heard from Cuba
for a long time.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

According to the official organ of the
state house popocrats, Representative
Weaver, who was elected last fall as n
silver republican on the fusion ticket is
expected 10y them TO be working with
the republicans in the next campaign.
Representative Weaver is a young man
of ability and promise and should he
ally himself once more with the grand
old party in which his father achieved
distinction he will be giving further evi-
dence of political sagacity. 1t is plain
that the disgust with the methods of
the popocratc machine is spreading
wide among the honest people who
were misled by the banner of sham re-
form.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10
THE GOSPEL OF GALILEE.

Listen. We sons of the morning!
Hearken. oh Christian land
Hush! while ye hear the warning
Borne from distant land:
Not with Trades sordid plunder
Not with the marching of men,
Not with the steel decks thunder
Cometh the Christ again.
Strength be to the strong who conquer
By the rifles ftful glare;
But love and faith be the anchor
OF a people who trust in prayer.
snail the muster of armed legtons,
Shall powder and blood make clear
To the dwe,lers in darkened regions
What American hearts hold dear?
l know that the Briton slumbers
on the Indian tigers skin,
With never a thought of the numbers
OF the tigers jungle kin;
l know that across the borders,
Sharp mown by the scythe of war,
The Cossack carries the orders
OF his master, the Russian czar.
l know-but why should ! reckon
The empires that Force hath known?
Go where their graveyards beckon
And dig for their story of stone.
This Is the voice of Palmyra
Smothered in desert sand:
This of PhoeniCian Tyra-
Sunk where her ships were manned.
The beauty of buried Damascus,
The glory of Greece and of Rome,
Rise from their graves to ask us:
Does America seek our doom?
We sailed" say they, with the current;
We followed the flag afar:
We poured our youth like a torrent
In the tide of foreign war;
"Ours was the loftiest passion
The ages had yet unroled;
Ours the latest fashion,
Whether of gods or of gold
The torch of civilization,
BY. might OF the sword and spear,
We bore to remotest nation
Behold us buried here
go ye on in the road of conUuest.
Go on in the path of blood,
And still the walls of the vanCuished
With psalms We sing to your God:
Go, load your Christ in a cannon
With the powder-prisms of hell
In the battery of MammOn
1t shall serve dts purpose we'll"
And up from the heather affairs
That perished so long ago
From the PAGES where Christian martyrs
Died that the faith might grow;
From the ashes and scattered embers
or people that murdered Paul
Came message my sou. remembers
Your fate is the fate of us ALL"
oh, Motherland, true and tender,
Say to the isles of the sea:
"Ye are ransomed. not to surrender
Ye are ransomed to make you free.
BY the memories. dear and olden,
OF Yorktown and Bunker Hill
BY the grace of the Rule that is Golden,
We grant you freedom still"
Then listen, ye sons of tAe morning
Awaken, oh patriot band:
Pray tonight for the dawning
OF light in our Christian land.
Pray. and work for the wonder
In the islands of the sea,
That needs no cannons thunder
The gospel of Gailee.
Lincoln. Neb. A. e. SHELDON.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

dicrs OF the civil war are now being treated.
Malaria resulting from campaign in
Cuba or the Philippines is quite as bad as
that resulting from a campaign in the
swamps OF the south.
Yet II the government will II may save
the country from muoh scandal to say
nothing Of money, and at the same time pro-
tect the good name Of the soldiers. And
we hope that the claims presented will be
closely scrutinzcd and that above all some
way may be devised Of checking the rapa-
city OF the pension attorneys, who seem to
have no sense Of their obligation 20 the
country and no regard for the honorable
fame Of the men whom they tempt into ask
ing for pensions to which they frequently
have no rieht whatever
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

One of the amusing jokes of the season
is the arraignment in the official pOpu-
list organ of the republican legislature
for voting great sums of money for all
sorts Of improvements at the different
state institutions and putting through
uncalled for appropriations by process
of log-rolling and trading. This populist
critic entirely ignores the fact that the
populist governor has n veto not only
upon every appropriation BILL but upon
every item in each appropriation bill,
and that not one cent has been voted by
the legislature for any purpose except
with the assent and approval of the
populist executive. Even appropriations
which members of his own party let
pass, confident they would be stricken
out through the watchful economy of
the governor, have been confirmed as
law by his signature. No arraignment
of the late legislature for extravaganza
will stick that does not include Governor
POynter.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

The party of purity and reform in Col
orado is sadly in need of IA purgative
if there is any truth in charges made
against the legislature which recently
adjourned in that state. The fusion
forces were in complete control, and,
while numerous scandals We're brought
to light all through the session, the
climax came with the closing hours,
when the clerk of the house ran away
with the copy of bill he desired to de
feat and was forcibly brought back and
compelled to disgOrge Now it is
charged that the clerks of the two
houses doctored roll calls TO make them
show that measures We're passed which
were actually defeated. The develop
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10
Pneumatic shares Fan Fiat.

The American Potteries company, one of
the recent products of the New Jersey trust
hatchery, went to pieces last week The
projectors of the combination, after having
spent $250,0O in effecting the organization
had to abandon the enterprise because the
public became too inquisitive as to the means
by which the glittering promises of the
prospectus were to be fulfilled. They did
some figuring on the back of the prospectus
and the outcome not being satisfactory the
shares were not taken.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10
Agonies of the ImperiaIists.

"A New York imperialist paper admits that
we must give to the Filipinos a despotism,
but let it be just one, it adds Another New
York imperialist paper advocated swapping
the Philippines for the British West In
dies Still another tried to calm the con-
science of a correspondent by saying that
the world is harsh anyway and such jobs
have to be done. They are an uneasy crowd
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10
Wars New Industry.

Mlnnea9OIlS TlmeS.
The liberation of Cuba has stimulated one
United States industry at least, and that is
the manufacture Of war relics. For some
years after the civil war the business was
prosperous, but in late years there has been
a great falling off in the demand for war
relics. The operations in Cuba have revived
the traffic, and large shipments of blood
stained machetes and other relics of the
naval and military conflicts are being sent
TO Santiago for the tourist trade.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

The changes of n year are almost in
comprehensive. A year ago the United
States was In the midst of active prepa-
ratlons for the war with Spain. Today
It is preparing to participate in an inter
national peace conference. No nation
on earth can equal the United States in
the facility with which it can transfer
itself from peace basis to war basis
and back again to peace.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

municipal ownership of gas and electric
lighting plants While public opinion is
rapidly crystalllzing in favor of munici-
pal ownership the people of New York
will hesitate II long time before they
commit such enterprises to the tender
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

State Labor Commissioner Kent has
labored very hard to demonstrate in
his statistical report that the mortgage
Indebtedness of Nebraska is constantly
increasing when every man, woman
and child in Nebraska knows that Ne
braska farmers have been paying OFT
their mortgages to the amount of NIL
lions and have realized enough from
their crops TO become money loaners.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

Now that the slot machines have
been temporarily withdrawn from cir
culation in South omaha, the stuppagc
of the monthly rake-off for protection
will curtail the income of the gang.
Was it for this that they spent their
time and money to elect Shields?
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

Hereafter the periodic demand for the
maintenance of the fire department in
full strength and efficiency should be
addressed to the governor, who by his
veto of the revised charter has set a
limit to the fire fund inadequate to the
purpOSe.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

For the census of 1900 Nebraska is to
be divided into six enumeration districts
corresponding TO the six congressional
districts, which are supposed to contain
approximately equal populations. When
the enumerators get to work, however,
they will not be long discovering that
on the population basis Nebraska's con
gressional districts are sadly in need of
revision.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

The Sunday newspaper on the Ameri-
can plan is making IA great hit in Lon
don. This is only another instance where
in short time every one will be asking
why the London publishers never
screwed their courage up to the sticking
point before.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

Great ado is made over the fact that
Governor Roosevelt travels just like any
ordinary person. While Governor Roose-
welt is not an ordinary person, this is
not an extraordinary proceeding to those
who know the sterling worth of the
man
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

AS long as the architects get per-
centage of the cost, including extras and
additions. the pressure for increasing
the amounts to be spent on the proposed
new school buildings may be expected
TO be kept up.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

Chicago Tribune.

NHTNUEU ITIDUTIV,
Our government only needs to maintain
stable government in the island for a year
or two. Before we are ready to leave the
Cubans will be seeking annexation as
eagerly as the Hawaiians did.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

Apropos of the rumored engagement
of the great war correspondent, Richard
Harding Davis, it is needless to remark
that, If true, General Shafter will not
expect to be among the expected at the
ceremonial event.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

The Jacksonian Poker club has been
notified by the county attorney to quit
it's favorite amusement. This strikes
right home among the bosom friends
of Herdman. 'Snoutrage!
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

the experiment in municipal street rail
way ownership, all the other American
cities will be glad to profit by the ex
perience
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

1t is in accord with the eternal fitness
of things for Governor Poynter's aid
de-camp, Walter Noise, to go the bond
Of the gamblers raded by the sheriff.
The bond is always part of the protec-
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

And now one enthusiastic ?dmlrcr has
referred to Governor Poynter as NE
braska's Andrew Jackson" Let Col
onel Bryan look to his laurclS.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

PhiIadeI0hia Record.
The Altgeld knockout in Chicago was also
something of a brainclout for Bryan and 16
to l. Altgeld had the support of the Demo-
cratic national committee.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

Colonel BRYAN denies that he Is about
to inundate the public with another
book. Credit to whom credit is due.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10
Get Thee TO the Wheel.

St. Louis Republic.
If j. Sterling Morton should not succeed
in starting his new political party there is
one just launched in Porto Rico that might
find use for him as a rudder.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

Will the Commercial club do its duty
by demonstrating against the damag-
ing misrepresentation of Omaha's bank
cleorinrsp
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

Arbor day is coming, but no one need
wait for Arbor day to begin planting
trees and furnishing up lawns and front
wards
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

State of Ncbrntka, Douglas County, ss;
George r. Tzschiick. secretary of The Bee
Publishing company, being duly sworn, i saE > >
that the acutal number of full and complete
copies Of The Daily, Morning, Evening ana
Sunday Bee, printed during the month oil
Marcb 1Spu ,uaa ug fDllOWS.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10
srRINGrIME MIRTH.

Detroit journal: Wifc-Oh. you're afraid
to go after the hurglarl
.Hushand-Well, ! amt afraid TO admit 1t.
Plttsburg Chronicle: There's another
cold wave" said Mr.. Pitt who had tho
newspaper in his hand, with the weather
forecast before him
'Whcre?' asked Mr. Penn.
IN the river"
Philadelphia North American: "Gra-
Cious,' exclaimed the stock yards calf II
can't drink this water"
whats the matter with it?" asked the
mother COW.
Tastes just like embalming fluid"
New York Tribune: trust has laid
hands on the trappngs of DEATH At Eliza
beth the liVerymen have combined to raise
the price for cabs at funerals TO 81 No
thrifty person will venture to die in Eliza
beth while this heartleSs trust Conspires to
put high tarim on funeral professions.
Chicago Tribune: do you mean to tel
me-" said the unfortunate litigant, that
the whole property in dispute has been
81 said It had been absorbed, my friend
not wasted" replied the lawyer, who had
got the most of it,
Washington Star: "Remember," said the
impressive moraist, that man in Office
owes something to the public"
That seems to be the impression in my
community" answered tbs politician gloom
lily. Since my election every man, woman
him"
Chicago Post: He had been studying the
lines of her hand for several minutes
I'm deeply interested in palmistry," he
said at last.
PERHAPS you would like to have a hand
for practice" she suggested.
That is how he secured hers
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

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Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

ments only serve to show that the label
is no guaranty of the quality Of the
reform contained in the nackagc.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

Net totaI sales ........... TS2, Cos
Net daily average. e................,.. zt'oo"
GEORGE b. TZSCHUCK.
Subscribed and sworn to before me TINS
1st day of April, 1899
(SeaiO II. l. PLUMB,
Notary Public in and for Douglas County
Neb.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10
Concentration.

The tendency Of the times In
all mercantile enterprises is
toward concentration. We
have fourteen retail stores in as
many big cities and we man
ufacture all the clothing that is
sold in them under one roof.
All OF Our energies are bent
on doing that one thing we'll.
BY manufacturing on so
large a scale, we are able to
take every advantage that
ample capital can give. We
buy cloths and materials in
large quantities and the work Is
done in our own factory under
the most economical conditions,
and under our direct supervi-
sion.
The customer gets the benefit
Of all this in better clothes and
lower prices. Will you look
over our Spring assortment
$500 to $500.
-
W; W,;ss'l!!! ;SssggSnslaS, s!!,S.! S.!,Mik&,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

Chicago Tribune: DO you mean to tel
me-" said the unfortunate litigant, that
the whole property in dispute has been
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

Detroit journal: Wifc-oh, you're afraid
to go after the burglar
Hushand-Wen, ! amt afraid to admit Il.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

81 said 1t had been absorbed, my friend
not wasted" replied the lawyer, who had
got the most of It,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE.

e. RosEwATBR, Editor.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-10

EVERY MORNING.