Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1892, Page 4

4 D THE DAILY BEE. E FOSEWATE Fur n - PUBLISHED EVERY MOl . OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY, TIRNMS O} URSCRIPTION. Dafly Pee (oithout Sunday) One Year iy and Sunday, One Year. EixM onths Three M he Fundny Bee, One Year. Britrdny Hoe, One Your Weekly Nee. Ono Year CIFICKES Omahe, The 'ee Bullding. Fouth Onaha, corner N nnd 29th Streets Councll Blufls, 12 Pearl Street Uhlenso Office. 5.7 ¢ hamLer of Commetee New York. oo 81, 14and 15T ne Buliding Washington, 51 Fotrteenth stre PONDENCE COoRl All communications relating 1o news and editorinl natter should be addressed te the Editorial Departm § LETTERS BUSINE All business letters and romittances shonld 1o addressed to 1 o Publishing Company. Omnha. Drafts, checks and postofiice orders 10 Lo made piyable to the order of the com- piany. The Bee Publisting Company, Pr DI‘iEIUl‘;. BWORN S$TATEMENT OF CIRCULATIO Etatoof Nobraskn lea County of Douplas. George 1 Taschuck, secrotary of The Beo Publisning conipany, does solemniv swoar that the setual eiredlation of Tk DALy Bee for the weok ending May I, 1102 was as fol ows: Eunday, Muy & Monday. My o, Fiheve Tuesday, May 10,000 i, Wodnesday, Moy 1100000000 Thursday, A1y 12 3 Friduy. Moy 11 Buturday. May 1§ § 24,184 B, TZSCHUCK i subscriled 'n my o e, Notary Pubiie. N T— L AL LT Average Cireulntion for Aprii, 21,416, F T LA SR L RO 1t on Harrison 1s that of the political hosses againsy the pooplo. Averago GEOR Sworn to before me yresence this 14th day of May, A, | FEAL N WE WILL presently see the opponents of the N forces Lo boat the proje braska Central deploy their t. “WHAT is so rare as aday in June!” bursts out the poet. Well, a clear day in May this year 18 the ravest thing we can think of. I1 15 reported that Tammany is about Mr. Hill. Tais isthe first genuine impetus that the Hill boom has received for weeks, 1o rt desc THere rowing belief that Henry Watterson’s control of the democratic party is confined to that portion of it which m be found bereath his own hat isn g THE report that Tom Platt will retire from polities if Harrison is nominated is tneredible, Mr. Platt could no more atay out of polities thana fish could stay out of water. i president will have his Capo May eottage lined with American tin plate. "'here is such a thing as Awmerican tin plate und the free traders are beginning to know it at last. Titk fowa prohibition editors on their excursion to California will be called on to explain, when they retusn home, about their disposal of the wins given them on their entrancee into the golden Blate. I 15 to bo hoped the new stroot signs w make their appenrance, at least ut tho inte tion of our principal steeets, It would do no harm if street signs were placed on every permanent Lamp post. I soon TRE demoerats in congress aroe talk- ing of cutting Dircctor General George R Davis olf the Columbinn exposition list. They had better not, for ho might return to polities, and if he does Illi- nois wiil go vepublican this fall by 60,000, Ti sad news comos from New York that Anna Dickinson huas been com- pelled to leave the Fifth Avenue hotel becauso she cannot pay her board. Poor Anna Dickinson, one of ths great- est women of America, but ruddorless and helpless. NEW YORK omphatically denies that ghe is jealous of Chicago. Now if Chi- cugo will deny with equal emphasis that sho expocts to outgrow Now York there may boan era of mutual gool feeling, though thera would be soma mental res- evvations on both sides, “Tow A lots,” say are going of the Chicago Inter rapidly along the Ocean, Big Mudcy just now, but not in a way to please real estate speculators.” But there is no real waste, after all, for those lots will stop somewhere, It is a real estato trunsfor without consideration, but it is perfectly regular. COMPLAINTS are heard on the Pacific coast of the unusually largo numbers of panese arriving in this country, and although uothing 18 said against the character of the immigrants, proba- bly because there is nothing to be said, it is evident that thoy are not to receivo a very cordial wolcomo. [t will ot b eusy to exeite a projudice against these people so long as thuy be- have themselves as well as they have, done hitherto. EDWARD BELLAMY vory partinently points to the fact, in the lust number of the New Nution, that wheit has been deopping in price for some weeks, but flour has not, which goes to show that the 0 consumer and wostern pro- ducor are nade to y tribute to trusts and combinations. This 's nls) suggest- ive of the fuct that the high price of meoat is strikingly at varviance with the Low price of enttle. The only question is, whut ure wo to do about it? Our latest dispatehes bring us tidings of groater and wore disis loods. From Sioux City comes tho tidings of part of the city under water and 8,000 poople without homes.. Omaha oxtends to Sioux City and other afilicted dis- tricts her profound sympathy and the eager profler of whatever assistunce sho mey render them in their dive dis- tross, Itis hoped thut tho succoeding intelligence y find the first roports somewhat exaggeraied, but in any evont in what Omaha can assist ne is ready and willing, Th has never been a time when she hesitated to render aid to the unfortunite aad the noedy. ous sincerely 1 THE HOUSE MATORITY REDUKED. Senntor Gorman of Maryland is another democrat who has little sympathy with the hooso-paring notion th Indiann demag Mr. Hol r and his adherents, I Marylar nator recogni that th must necessarily be a growth of oxpend In the course of a debate in the senate on the naval approvr ation hill a few days « r. Gorman said that xpenditu grow during the fo s of the Clevelund mini i, and ho presented a table st 1z that every congross since the Forty-tl with the exception of the Forty-cighth, had increased appro- priations over those of the proceding congress, no matter what administra- tion was in po total oxpend- itures un t Cloveland's administration, said S:iatos Gorman, were greater than under PPresident Arthur “and as the country grows and you go on with the construction of vour navy and open the harbors and make great guns these expend- deepen tie rivors and for the navy, itures must incroase. Anothor democratic of Delaware, speaking on the snme subject, said that whatever individuul opintons might be in rogard to the policy of creat- ing an American navy of modern build and equipped in modern fashion,**public opinion hias settled down pretly much to recogiize the necessity of a prudent and wise oxpenditure of money upon the nuvy of the United States and croating a naval force upon modern prin and constructod in modern fashion that will give us a standing among the nav vowers of the world and give us a se relinnee ns a commereial power which it 15 impossible we should have without sud armament.” Common views of this kind are not to be cxpected from men of tho Holman type, who are army und sonator, Gra, iples v an senso more politicians, but thoro are thous sands of intelligont democrats in tho country who will agree with Senatoy Gorman and Seoator G demoerats who appraciate the fact that this i growing nation, requiring from year to ar mose money in order to cirry on s affairs properly and pursue the march of development and improve- ment. It is manifestly absurd to expect a country of 65,000,000 people to meot its requirements with an expenditure that was found necessary when there was & much smaller population. The Holmun poiiey, if fully carvied out, would bring the country to a standstill, and while the peopte do not want travagance they desire progress. It is fortunate that there are democrats in who have the ago and candor to rsbuke the parsimony of the Holmun elemant of the party. THE NEW FREIGHT BURSAU. The action of the Board of Trade in subscribing annually $1,000 for the period of three years for the mainten- ance of the new freight bureau whs patriotic and wise. Tho need and ob- jeet of the freight bureaus arve quit well known in those cities re the have boeome as permanent and nseful as any other commereinl union. The luek of such a burean in Omaha is 1 In these days tho science of railroad- ing has me one in which the brightest brains are employed—em- ployed tosecure the grontest udvantages to the compunies they rep t Rail- ronds are pooled overywhere and are constantly combining for their own ad- vantages. ['or one individual or several individuals soparately to attompt to ecompoto with the trained men employed by tho railrond companios wore folly. The railw men would hold them powerless. Consoquently it is now pro- posed to constitute a freight bureau which shail have us its object the study and handling of the groat question of transportation of freight. It is no new matter 10 stato that the quostion of freight rates rises above all other gues- tions batween the railroad and the mer- chant. There is something more than a suspicion that a judicious investiga- tion would show that Omahn is being discrimimted inst by the railroads which run into this city. Al any rate it will ba advantageous to compure onr rates with those of othor points, and if the v evils and outragos it will then be our work and duty to remely them. And it ean be done. The action of the Board of Teade was eminently wise, congress con fest. beec re A DISAPPOLN "ATION, The irrepressible conflict between capital and labor, which has long had an important beaving upon Knglish politics, seems to be as far from mutually atisfactory adjustmeat as it evor was, and is us harassing to the party leaders as if it had not been the theme of years of debate and contention. lord Salis- bury has just done an unexpected thing in receiving a deputation from the Workmen’s association of London, with whom he discussed the labor question in u spirit that was at once coneilintory and uncompromising; conciliatory in the ad- mission of the justice of some of the grounds of complaint put forth by the workingmen, but decidedly unyielding as to the wisdom of their plans even from theic own point of view. The eight-hour day was the subject of the discussion and the argument of the workingmen was based upon two sub- jects—mors loisure for self culture and asupply of work for the uncmployed. Tho first object Lo d Salisbury suid was admirable, but the second he declared to beillogical, und supported his argu- mant from the mouths of tao working- men thomsolves. How, he asked, could the eight-hour day leave more work for the unompoyed if, as is cluimad, the laborer would do as mueh work in eight hours us b now does inten? All of the work performed by those now employ would still be doue by them under an oight-hour law and those who ure now unable to ind employment would be no botter off than before. But if the em- ployed should not do as much in eight hours as they now do in ten tha em- ploye:s would have to hire men now idle, thus increasing the cost of pro- duction, diminishing the consumption, and hones reducing wages. It is unnecessary to say that the con- ference was barron of resuits and that the deputation retired in worse humor than befove. It was evideatly the pur- pose of Lord Salisbury to solten his vis- THE OMAHA itors by the cordinlity of his and n candid admisaon of the benefit of solf culture, and then to co tham by his logio that the relicf which th nanded would rosult in disnstor him in a suitable frame of mind to appro- ciate his logical appropriation of their \egruments to hisown use, and it is Likely thit they went away with a fooling that they had been badly tesated, There is not much r n to hope that or and capital will ever “'got togethor ™ in kng- lund THE SOUTH AND THE WEST. Bnglish enpitalists who woere eager enough o few yeirs ngo to invest in property in the southern states are be- coming more conservative in conses quenca of their failuro to realize the profits expocted. The bright future which was said to b dawning upon the south was set forth too much after the manner that prevails among the Ameri- can promoters and boomers, und the re- sult hns been disappuintmeént. Tho truth 18 that some portions of the old south have been excossively ‘“pro- moted” of lato years and have not ful filled the proinises of those who brought them to the attention of northern and foroign investors. Perhaps there is no batter illustration of this than is found in Florida, A few youes ngo 1t was believed by many northern people that there was n mine of oxhaustless wealth in the cultivation of orangos in that state and that foctune awaited any man who could raiso money enongh o embark in that bus- This bolief wus fostored by the boomers, and large aveas of Plorida iand, much of it worth- loss, was unloaded upon northern peoplo who hiad eaught the orange fover. The result is just what might have been ox- peet Northern farmers and f-uit- s, and others who knew notning requirements of the busing growor of the went to Florida to plant orange groves and to bacome poorer year by year until they were compelled to give up and re- turn to the north. Many northern men ave still paying taxes on Florida orange land that has never yielded them a do! In many tho Ui wero killed by frosts when they were about to come into boaring, and even when good crops came the prices feil low by reason of glutted markets, In the cotton stites investors have wot beeause cotton kaus escaped the downward tondency of pricos and hus far too low to yield anything approaching the profits expected. But there aro social and industrial problems, too, which huve combined with low prices for products to depress southern property in the markets of the north s well as in England. The social inequality and the drawbacks arising from it have exerted a blighting influ- ence upon the movement to develop the latent resources of the southern states. These disadvantages ure too lamiliar to require particular notice. That they will long continue to retard the pros— perity of a great portion of the south is clearly recognized and candidly adwitted by the leading men in those stutes where the race problem is most serious. In bright contrast to the conditions which delay the promised millennium in the south is the amuzing develop- ment and prosperity of the young and lusty west. Social inequality is here unknowu, no race problem is possible, and & natural growth and extension of the diversified industries and pursuits to which this vast country is so admirably adapted has mado the future of the west sccure. Tho ‘‘promoter’ may invite forcign and domestic capitalists to invest in this smiling land and yot have a clear coascience, for the possibilities of the west put to shame tho feoble resources of the imagin- ation. The south must await her time; the west has nothing to wait for. lar, cuses 08 dreams of n fulfilied, the be not, been LAWLESS FAVORITISM. The appraisement made by the city clerk of the Belt Line railroad for tax- ation is $19,660. This is supposed to bs the value of the land and improvements thercon outside of fifty feet on either side of the main tracks defined as tho right-of-way. The valuition put upon the Belt rond by Jay Gould is $8,000,000, and itis fair to presume that st least one-third of this value is in the lands outside of the right-of-way. An up- praisement of less than $20,000 on 2,700,000 in property is dvcidedly liberal-as compured with assessments of other real property. But oven that as- sossment has not yet baen paid for last yeur. So much for the city. The county has u right to collect taxes on the entire Belt Line railroad which begins and ends in Douglas county, At an appraisemont of one-tenth of its value the assessment would be on $800,000. But, instead of ussessing the Bolt Line as a separate property, as the law provides, it has been returned as part of the Missouri Pacific and assessed at $33,451, including Missouri Pacific depot, roundhouses, switches, et Nobody wants the railroads to bo taxed any higher than the property of other corporatio s and individuals, but when such glaring favoritism is shown it becomes almost a public scandal. THE NEW BRIDGE. On June 16 the voters of Omaha will decide whether tho city shall have a railroad bridge over which all roaas will bo permitted td onter the city, or shall continue indefinitely at the mercy of the Union Pacific. The importance of this matter cannot be overestimated. The deeision of tho voters will dete: mine whether Omaha shali by the year 1000 double its population and business, or move forward only at the prosent rate of progress. No intelligent and un- prejudiced man can doubt what the ef- fect will beof bringing half adozen more railroads into this city. 1t will stimu- late growih as nothing elsu hus aver done. The removal of the disadvantages undar which Oinaha now labors in con- sequence of the Union Pacific bridge monopoly would give an unprocedented impetus to business in all branches. Manufacturing enterprises would be attracted here, the jobbing trade would ncrease and in every way tbe added facilities which the Nebraska Central bridge would give would result in benefits 10 vhe city that would repay a hundred DAILY B IS which it s proposed to | the colany Such a promise ought to i ’suwm man solieitous for the future Wogress and prosperity of Omaha 1o usdhis efforts for the suceess of the bor osition. Tt wili encounter opposition. Insidious effort will be made 1o work up hostility to ity and the friends of Omaha wj sod to be active and vigilant in ortlor/to win. Thero is every renson to expoect that the proposition will carry. beeause it would b a reflec tion upon the common sense of our peo- ple 1o suppose that they would reject such a promise of relief. But it isnever wise to be over-confident, and the only safe to work constantly and zenlously to bo | done coursn s long as thero is work The opportunity to push Omaha ahead, with small cost to the community I und without any risk, is at hand, and our plain and is to im- prove it. imperative duty e —— FOR BETTER SCHOOL PARKS. There is one elemoentof a city’s beauty | and grace in which the faic city Omaha is sadly and woefully deficient. Whiie keoping pace with rival western cities in commeree and growth, it must be confessed that she ings behind most of them in the matter of school grounds. In St. Paul, for example, the citizens have made the school parks places of delight, provided with beautiful lawns, | trees, fountains, playgrounds and with many other wsthotic and comforting fentures. In Minneapolis much the vme plan is followed. The lessor citics of Des Moinos, Kunsas City, Spring- field and Peos not to mention many others, take great pride in their hools and thewr cnvironments, In ety itis the rule in every village to concenter ull the loveliness and grace possible in the school building and the grounds. Schools ave their only boasts and they are determined that they shall be beautiful. Now thera is no sensible or logical reason in the world for Omahia pursuing an opposite cowrse, It 10 honor nor t for Omaha to be compelled to admit that thero weely asightly ool park within her borders. And it is the positive duty of every Omahan to steer all visitors clear away from the Leavenworth, Hartman, Park, Dodgo and Cass schools, whose surrounding. of is s are simply disgracoful. The High school building is well situnted and | partially well surrounded, but the op- | portunities there are not improved to | the extent of which they are capable. It ss0all over the ecity. One of the greatest prides of Amevica is her free school system... Wo can stoutly refer to it as an exponent of our progress and enlightenment; but if the old proverb, that knowledge comes from association and environments, is true, then we have little to im ‘in the knowledge of Owmaha childrens Beuwify the school grounds. Would Sava Campaign Expensos. New York Herald If Mr. Cleveland and My, Hill were to con- sult solely the welfara of tho democratic party they wonld Fetirs from the presic tial contest at onc: LA Savors of Diluted 3 Chicagy Times, The way in which the Missouri river is cutting land off cemocratic states of Ne- braska ({) and Iowa and depositing it on the doubtful Kaunsas shoro savors of offensive partisanship, o SRR o Things Settled, Globe-Demoerat. Tho repabl arty can clect any man to tho presiconoy this year whom it may nom- | inate, and it has decided to nominato Harri- son in spito of the objections of disappointed oftico seekers, e e Working for Their Fodder. St. Paul Pioncer Press. How cood and pleasant a thing 1t is to ob- | serve that none of Mr. Cleveland’s dearest friends have deserted him—that all his old appointees and office holders are out on the skiruwish line, williug to fieht, bleed and die for him. Tho ox knoweth his stall and the ass his mastor's crib, and please do not for- wet it. ———— tor Barbour, Washington Post. A man of quiet and reserved habits, stead- fast in his friendship, and boyond reproach in his personal life, Senator Burbour leaves benind him a name that, apart from its in- delible connection witn public evente, will bo hold in decpest revercnce by the peoplo of the state which bad entrusted to him tbe higbest honors aud responsibilities witain its gift. S —_—— ic Lion and Independent Lamb, Yorl Pres. Sowa of our independent friends are insist- ing that thero snall be no fusion betwoen the domocrats and indepondents tnis fall, Don’t worry, bretiren, There will be £o attempt at any. Tho two parties wiil fight tho re- publican enemy, each for itself, until it1s seen which is tne fittest to survive. That one will absorb the voters and the other will vanish. That is the process and thero is no need 1o try to hasten it,—Lincoln Herald. Coxrect you are, brother. The domocrat who is fool enough to turn in and help a fel- low of his own size to lick a big bully, while the fellow continues to call you hard rames, and 1s scared to death for fear you will offer to help bim, is too big & fool to have any weight witn the great mass of democrats, T'he idea of democrats running after the in- dependents, for the privileze of getting a chance to voto for some crank who wants to got un office, is too ridiculous for a moment's consideration, and the democrat who is fool cnough to imugine that tho independents would endorse him is too biga fool to be of any usoand had betier be defeated than elocted. No mau can serve Lwo mastors, - Tho New York Muc! Harper's Weekly, The most serious blow to tho prospoect of democratio success in the election of this yoar, whoover may bo tho candidate, has been @iven by thegourse of the democratic legisluture and exceutive in the state of Now York. If the revall within the party which this convse bas produced should triumph, and ond In a reogganization of the party us an agency of the viows which reform democrats hold, & more satisfactory political situstion Domoc ine, THURSDAY, MAY e e e e e e e e e e e . s e e e s | to | the ropublican national covention i than now exists might be reached. One ot the convincing arguments u the republican 10, 1802, convention At Chicago In 1500 against the nomination of Mr, Soward was that 1t would transfor to Washington tho Albany roy ilean machine, n vory riodoest instrament compared with the presont Albany demo cratic machine. Mr. Soward's friends wore vory suro of his nomination, but Abraham Wi dis- wir universal all intelligont pro to Lincoln veas solectod may anla ohe and patriotie Amer duced by the prospoct of the Washington, to operato with sourcos upon a national arcna, of the damo cratic power which has been supromo at Al bany during the last winter, which bagan tho session with tho theft of a legisiature and ended with placing in the hands of Tam many hail the control of the eloction i the city, which decides tho result in tho state! - apital or the 1 Kearney Hub, This romance about the contem plated ro moval of tho state penitentiary from Lincoln Kearney is becoming interesting. At first it had the appoarance of a joko. Now the newspapors havo progrossed so far as to boable to give the details of tho whole scheme. Tho Ravenna News dovotes & third of a columu to tho subject, from which it is loarned that a syndicato of capitalists has been formed to offer a largo tract of land, « big cash bonus, ote., ete, The Hub expocts that Kearney peoplo will awake somo of theso bright mornings and behold the vam- parts of the penitentiary frowning from Capital hill, 50 long reserved as o sito and ans would not be transfor national re | future seat of stato government. - COMING EVENTS. “The peopla’s national convontion at Omaha, July 4. ‘T'he d&mocratic national convention at Cht ago, June 21, ‘'he republican national Minueapolis, Juno 7. eneral Van Wyek talks about “I*roo Sil- und 1ts Itelation to Labor” in Denver, convention av Mr. Edison 18 confident of his ability to estavlish telephone connection with Mercury aud Mars, and says ho can find out whether the inhabitauts of those planets aro civilized or savage. Licutenant Totten, having failed to make tho world wind up its business on the day ho had fixed for that event to come off, will now taio his revenge by writiug a history of the human race from tho creation to bis own fuiluro as a prophet Senator Stanford, it s said, will rosign carly next year should a ropublican iegisla- ture be clecied this fall in California, Iu cipient apoploxy threatons him, and his phy= sicians have warned him that absolute rest aud freodom from excitoment ure imperative in nis present condition, Among the delegates from N ow Jersey to the vet- cran millonaire, John 1. Blair, wio is widely kunown in the northwest. Mr. Blair is now 02 years of age, but is hale and vigorous and one of the mosi carnest and uncompromisiuig republicans in the country. He has attended s a delegate every national counvention (whig or republican) since 1540, He voted for the nomination of Genoral William Houry Harrison, and forty-oight years lator for the nomination of his erandson, the present president. Mr. Blair's fortuno is estimated at fifty millions. “Talk has alveady commenced as to who shall be the presiding oMcers of the Min- neapolis conventior. McKinloy is sad Lo bo an aspirant, Fassett of Now Ycrk is making aquiet but extromely vigorous under-ground canvass for the permanent vresideucy, and Galusha A. Grow, who was a membor of tho Thirty-fifth and ‘Chirty-sixth congresses from Pennsylvania, would liko tho place, aod Quay and Cameron are both for him, but he 13 100 old. It will require a clear head and a thorough knowledgo of parlismentary rule to preside, and Kansas mon say the senate never had a bottor prosiding officer thun Ingalls. They and the Missouri repub- licuns will put Ingalls forward for the place. e s 40w JOINT R. Chicago Journal. In Iowa the railroad commissionors have adopted a schedule of Yot rates,” as tho phrase is, for railroad freights. They bavo provided' that the prico of transportation over two or more connecting railroads shall be but hittle or no more than if the haul was over a continuous line. This is us if & law should be enacted that if a man bought a coat m one store, a vest in another, and trousers at a third, the cost of his entire suit should be the samé as if he had bought all the garments ut the same place. The lowa courts sustain this absurd legislation. Siowr Clty Jmrnal. But here are somo facts. The railroad companies themselves had joint rates, ‘‘but little or no more than ir the haul was over a continuous line.”” When the now railroad law went into effect some of the companies withdrow the joint rates wherover they thought it would badger the public and tend to create prejudice against tho law, but conceding the rates where thew saw fit. ‘When they were askoed to make joint rates they gave as an excuse tho nallegation that, the law did not permit this to be done, al- though they were doing it whorever they chose. When it was deciaed that the law perimitied -the making of rates by tho com- panies they then took the grouna: that they could not be legally compelled to mako joiut I'he State Board of Railroad Com- ioners aecided, 1 accordanco with this view, that the law 'was so defective that the companies could not be compelled to put joint rates into effect. The legisiature at tho next session nccordingly remedied the defect of the law and required the commissioners to mako & schedule of jowt rates, which they have done. Those are some of tho facts, and they makea very differeut showing from that which is evolved out of the iguorance and prejudico of the Chicago paper, B T ON THE CONFERENCE. Philadelphia Record: The committee on the itiverancy of the Methodist Kpiscopal genoral con forence, now in session i Omaha, has saopted a report in favor of the abolition of the pastoral limit. The drift of sentimont in the church has boen in favor of this chango for somo time, and it is in keeping with the progressive spirit of Methodism. Chicago Mail: At a meeting of Sabbatari- ans in Omaha yesterday & Boston divine said thut if the American Sabbath could not be presorved in any other way ho was n favor of eleoting nous but Americaus to office. Such & know-nothing course uecessitates ‘Americans going to primaries, and the aver- age American “hasn't time to while away around primaries.” Kansas City Star: The scarcity of chap- laius in the army and navy has beon pointed out to the general conference of the Meth- odist Episcopal church at Omaha, and that body, in the missionary spirit which dis- tnguishes the churen of John Wesloy. pro- poses to supply thedoficiency. The spiritual condition of the army and navy is probably as satisfactory now as it ever bas been, but that docs not imply that it is not susceptible of improvement. Indeed, it 13 an open secrot that many of the chaplains themsolves are proper subjects for a new mund copiovs vaptism of grace. If the Methodist clurch still possessed the militaut 1upulse whici made it such a great moral power a hundred yoars ago it might undertake the evangeliza- tion of the army and navy with abundunt prospects of a glorious harvest of souls, but it is doubttul whether it would be equal now to the difiicult mission of casting out the sins which so easily besot men whno enjoy the loisure and feed upon the meat which tonds to stimulate fleshy inclinations among whe soldiers of the reguiar army aud the sailors of the Americau navy. Highest of all in Leavening Power.-~Latest U. S, Gov't Report. Roel Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE [HELPING OUT FREE SILVER ! | What the Administration 11 ) and i is Doing for tl | | LITTLE HOPE FOR LEGISLATIVE ACTION | Democrats Rofuse to fear Out Party's | Pledges Opposition from Western Senn | tors That Is Poorly 1 The International o Wasnixatoy, D C., May 18— [Special to Tie Bre.| - T'hoso who are intc s In the silvor question are anxiously awaiing a de‘l nite aunouncement from the white house of tho succoss of the aaministration in bring ing about an international conference. Thoughtfal men, who are devoted to bi motailism, look uponjtho efforts of the prosi dent and his advisors as wise, prudent and patriotic he socuring of a fren colnage law in this country alone, and unaided by the co-opera. tion of other nations, appoars, aftor repeatod efforts, to bo ut! impracticablo. Tho de- foat of tho free colnago bill in the house at the present sossion of congross, by an over whelming majority pledeed to free coinage, teayes littlo doubt that tho final success of freo coinage advocates must como from steady and progressive legislation 1 con- junction with other natious. Just mon who are not actuated by porsonal animosity or chagrined by disappointment accord to Prosident Harrison and bis cabinot great credit for perfoet good faith in tho offort beiug made to bring about interua. tional co-operation in the behalf of silver, In tho of the defeat of fros coinage in the house the statement of a Colorado seu- ator that it was brought about by tho use of federal patronago falls rathor flaz, No ono accuses President Harrison of having ais- trict influcnce with the democratic party and the senator will 1ook in vain for the ap- polutuicnt of any democrat at the instance of the democratic majority in the prescnt bouso of xoprosentatives. What the Admintstration Has Dono, A roview of this a very friendly administration disposition discloses towards silver from " ths beginning. Tho law of 1500 was practically procurred in dofiance of th so-calied Senaiorial friends of silver, L, in perfect harmony with tho president, tho scerotary of the treasury proposed to increase the purchases of silver to 6,000,000 ounces per month, and was willing to sup- port the proposition to buy 10,000,000 ounce extra during the then current year, in orde to take up the surplus which injuriousiy affected the silver market, Sucretarv Windom thought that by thus increasing tho purchaso of silver the commercial torces would be brought to the uid of tho govern- ment in restoring the ancio parity, and thereby making a transition from existing law to free comago casy of accomplish- ment without any percoptiblo dis- turbance to our internal or external financial relations. Everybody tow considers that it would have beoi very wise to havo adopted the suggestion of Secrotars Windom, mado in tho second session of tha Fifty-first con- aress. The history of tho transaction shows, howeve of silver indignantly with Mr. Windom, atd on the contra charged ‘him with beinz a ‘gold-bug, apused bim in and out of congress and in- sisted that they wouid bave fres coiuago or uothing. The same mon uroe today opposing an international conforenco by every means in their power, including billingsgato mis- represontation and, in some wstances, paipa- vle falsehiood. What Some Scnators Iave Suid, It 15 suggested by more than one of those auxious for some movement to benefit silver that the loud-mouthed eritics of the ud ministration, who are condemning tho efforts to bring about a conferenco, do not waut tho silver question settledat all, feuring their oceupation might disappear with the settle- ment of that great 1ssue, A seuntor from Colorado is roported as having opealy charged that this goverament, and not Bagland, suggosted, in tho courso of correspondence, ' that’ the ' aiscussion bo limited to the consideration of means for tho ealarged use of silver rather than to con- sider the question of free and unlimited coinage. 1u this connection it is suggested thatif the senator did not know that his statoment was enurely false when he made it, ho had smplo means and full facilitios at Dis disposal to entirely oemonstrate to the sausfaction of any reasonablo man that he was makiug o false statement, Again, a certain senator from Nevada is reported as having seid that tho president was merely working with tho international conferenco to get up a little political capital just before election. If this senator did nct know that his statement was false ho might havo readily ascertained that to bo tho case by inquiring at the Treasury department where he could have learned that the admir isuration had been for more than two yvems strenuously striving to bring avout the very conference that is now supposed to e near at hand. ~ 'Tnis statement, historically true, effectually disposes of the senators petty implication that the presidont has merely sprung this question for electionoering pur- poses. In the face of violent opposition from tho senstors from Colorade, and one from Ne- vadr, tho administration is pursuing tho even tenor of its way perfecting srrange- mer t. for the provosed conference. Theonly o.position bemg encountered, as far.as tho records of the senate and house of represen- Lend us Your Ears-- 29 3 for this coat. At Ui p. ., except Suturdays. at 1) p. that the so-called senatorial frienas | ofused to co-oporate | 10 give our etaployes their evenings, wo close (7 ¥ b tAtives diaclons, Arisos from the ranressnta. 1ivon of the states most directly iuterestod i Tellor, W and Stowart seom alarmed AL Eho LHODRKL of tho Administeation maling # ANoee Vory violent ana 11l natured 1o wid, A TAF a8 possible, tho peoplo of tho statos roprosented by theso gentiomo Mape for Ultimate Sucoess tor is, At prosent, out of the v o present it s dout it / a with referonco to the nternationnl diplomacy 1mposes this correspondonco tho customary d wic restraints, However, it is curre 1orst 1 that the ferc of N clent wr ons has N oxprossod Lo insure the appointment of conforces ail the meoting of the conference at no dista. 1t baine concedod by everybody that 1o silver islation can bo secured at this sos slon of congress, itis only lamentable at the administration and those lauda blo forts o wake progress through diplomncy should be untag onized ¢l by throe senators repre senting states seriously interoste the uccomplishiment of results, It is dify | accouut for their attitude, except on the basis that they aro willing to subordinato ti intorosts of their states in thosilver Juestion - 10 the expression of their porsonal | to President | seo that tho actually accor in defiance of in their political down fall LAY Washinzton is 1o on Plhiladelphia ossified keleton tho bone of cor outlong enc Lowoll Cour auished by Jor siuid thit Sho w over met us ho A woather pr seetion of the « Pittsburs Dispateh hottoms of ski after walking Washinatc askod tho fore tly display nishedl by And th con estly, aimost d tiog ip the dri A girl from Caused u st And tho pa; T wholg That the sn lolphia tar-cra Loon Washingt nbor, ydelphy s L sa n mir failure til Support a man in tho stylo lie Gazot accustomed o, Buffaio Enqu secm, it 1s KOt Tho more 1quacious ho grows. LIFE-LIKE REFLECTIONS. Tom Masson in Cloak Review. It's May. Tho moth n Beouuso the In Juno The lovers Beneath the yeilow, mellow woon, Aiid 0 Wo 2o Away from To sunin > A In summer ¢ The shining Sho flirts an Her pa will v, It does what is promised Hero's the proof—if it doesn't do you good swithin reasonablo time, report tho fact 10 its makers and get your money back without a word—but you won't do it | ; smady is Dr. Pierce's Favorito Pro- seription—and it kas proved itself tho right romedy in noarly every Tho ¢ ness. 1t is ¥ overything — up enfeebled an any othor modic rgest Manufacturers and Rotatlors Ulothing in the World. And we'll tell you —Jcan get the biggest bar- gain in a spring overcoat you ever saw in your life. For $12 we'll give you the choice of any light weight overcoat : Thursday only. Now listen; some of them are $15, some $18, others $20, 50 and $25 overcoats, our own make pring, all colors and necarly all sizes. But we only have 200 of themand we close them out Thursday for $12 And Thursday only, $12. Browning, King &Co |S.W. Cor 15th & Douglas Sts in od Saturday while You burz ludy her war on the moths with a Star tarrison. They can success of tho pres mplishing something for ver their opposition, woild result WOE A | —n | HLOAND Wax Par, { Post: A Texas oditor was N i bathine couragoment fOr innovations in | Rocord: Mme. Alhing - That wwtully quarrclsome, Mr, ro rlght, my dear. 1o his bown atention around this musoum uigh. for: Adoniram, who was ean ashia ata raeal spelling mateh, 18 tho 1ost fascinating giel ho foll boneath hor s hot §s without itry. honor in this Dark trimmings at the TS stylish just now. N need be out of this fashlon two blocks Stars “What aro you dolnes man of 1he compositor,who w Ing the names of beverages fure ine morchunt positor answored simply, mol- eprocatingly. that ho “wis sot- ks, " the Nilo, who was late, ir when sho got to the tote, Ders noxt dav, ol 1o 41y, vile that she lind on was groat Record: The honsewifo has sort of S hyah.” safid Unelo Zob “dit con ress done sot down on mint prospex y ol tn; I mer shame, wit do Julep Mar te: fage will continue to 1 our young women learn to as ulways boen irer tact tl vdoxienl 1ore as it may Mumm a wan 1o - ay 0w pipes Lis merry lny, e sealskin's put away, nd soon will he seen to spoon winter and Its snow and its torrid glow. ach muid rr slothes wil pro wnd or £ 1while d walks with wanton smfle, countu tessening plio. makes me Peoplo ask marritgo a failuret Of course 'taint; s'poso 1 don’t know my b what am T horo for " If the wo- men only keep healthy thoy koep in good spirits and cupid 18 in demand Lot overy enfecblod woman know this —thero's a remody that'll curo her, tho_proof’s pos =] y7 caso of femalo woak- ot a miracle. It won't cure but it has dono more to build broken-down women than 10 known, 1 where you the house, I RISY S