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

THE DAILY OSEWATER, Erit n BEL EVERY MORNING, PUBLISHED OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CATY. ES TIRMS OF SURSCRIPTION, Datly Bee (witnout Sunday) One Yenr w ¥ J'nily and Sunday. One VeSf..... .. Fix Months “Ihree Months v unday Bee. (ne Yenr Eaturdny I've, One Year Weckiy Tee, (o ¥enr OFFICE: Omnha, The Peo Putiding. South Omahn, corner N and 2th Streots Counell Riufr Chicngo Ofico. Now York, Rooms 15, 14 and | Washington, 615 Fourteanth § gssesas “ommerce. Tribune Batlding treot All_communications relating to news and editorinl shonld be addrossed 1o the i torial Dy L ITERS, All business letters and ramit tances should b ddrensed 1 biishing Company, Omaha aftn. o toffice orders to be mad payablo (o tho order of the company THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY BWORN TEMENT OF CIRCULATION. finte of Nevraskn, = 1 County of Doiglas, { Georgo . Taachick. secrotary of e BEE Pub- Iishing company, does solemnly swoar that the retual efrenlation o for the woek ending August 13, 1 Sundny, August 7 Monday, August § Tuerdny. Augist o Wedneaday, August 10, Thursdny, August 11 Friday, Augnst 12 20,580 2763 Average ). B TZSCIUCK. Eworn o0 before me and subscribed fn my pros- wmce this 13th day of Auguat, I NP F) 1. Notary Publle. July) for Averago Clreulation GRAND ISLAND hae also decided that Melbourne is a fakir. For a place on the sea const Gray Gables seems to have started up & sur- prisingly larze number of crows IT BECOMES more apparent every day that Omaha needs u first class fireproof hotel of metropolitan dimensions. WeAver's followers are the cuckoos of this campaign, for they ave laying all their political oggs in Cleveland’s nest. IN INDIANA the leaders of the Gray hoom have discovered that they were fnot smart at the Chicago convention and %0 they are now smarting. THERE are a good many people in Omaha interested in getting a refund out of the Iron Ifall, which appears to be on the eve of a collupse. Tuw Rocky Mountain is attempt- {ng the impossible task of convincing sensible people that Cleveland and Har- rison are politically identical, THe Ketcham furniture is still com- ing and the city elevators continue to work in their usual perfect manner, and it's no wonder the mayor’s smile has departed. OMAHA’S packing record for the past vear has been 517,000 against 483,000 for the year previous. But a year from this timo Omaha will be second on the list of packing cities. AMONG the few letters which the Gray Gabbler has not written is that one to Bill Harrity, asking him to re- sign his place as secretary of the com- monwealth of Pennsylvania. WE ARE glad to announce that Mr. Lorenzo Crouvse has returned to Ne- hraska and will remain in this state for at least two years, tlis cosidence after January 1 will be at Lincoln. ANTHONY COMSTOCK, the famous prude, is said to possess the largest gal- lery of “'the nude in art,”” in New York. If consistency is a jewel Mr. Comstock is evidently a paste dinmond THE Connect itin was in camp last week and possessed the unique fea- ure of & Young Men’s Christiun associ- ation composed entirely of militinmen. Can it be possiblo that the decay of the protane corpo-al is near at hana? OLp MAN HOLMAN, having reap- peared on the stage for a brief period to assure the American audience that one and one make two, has retired to the wilds of Indiana to laugh in his sleeve at the duped natives of his district. HENRY Lapoucnere did not feel like taking a place in tho cabinet be- cause he would be compelled to retire from his editorship of London Ziuth, w position which pays him $39,000 per year. If Henry had only spoken of this matter we are confident that we could him have found America, a suitable editor in IT1san ill wind that blows nobody good. The controversy between the Bourd of Public Works and Sidewalk Inspector Wilson throws a good deal of light upon the fast and loose methods that prevail in the munagement of our municipal affars. It has been an open socret for some time that the construc- tion of wooden sidewalks has been very profitable to certain lumber dealers, who know how to circumvent the regu- lations. —e Tug Fifth ward republicans claim they will have the highest flug pole in town, We know the Fifth ward is very ambitious but if the Fifth ward doesn’t bring in the largest majority for Hapei- son, Reid and the rest of the ticket she will not get much glory out of that high- ast pole. Brass bunds, plumes, poles and processions may be necessary to pump up the enthusiasm of the boys but they don’t chunge many vo It is organized aud persistent work that counts in a campaign, ANDREW DICKSON WuIte in his great specch at Chiutaugua Monduy mude some startling statomonts of the growth of crime inthis country. Among other things he said that crimoe is in- creasing more rapidly in the United States than in uny other nation in the world and that only one murderer out of fifty was convictod and executed, The reason for this he ussigus lurgoly to the extreme leniou of juries and governors. The Clay-King case s a ampl Prof. White thinks the remedy livs in sterner luws and more vigorous expressions of tho clergy and of schools on thesubject. This question isone which certainly shouid recoive earnest study by all thiukiig Awmeri- cans, MORE ABOUT THAT RONBERY. | The Carnogle ;company, to pay its work- men “the differonce in wages,” is protected #9.52 per ton on steel billets, The mctual price that it pays its workmen ravges from #1.05 to $1.65 per ton on billets protected by o duty of #3.52. It has certified to congress that it wants and will collect the protection Of $3.52 and pay it to its workinen, in add:- | tion to paying them foreign wages. But it actually hands them only §1.95 per ton, steal- ing the rest. It gets its labor free of cvat. Aundrew Carnegie received $5,000 per day as | his sharo of this theft trom the wages of the workers in the mills and his partnors re- ceived as much more, but thoy were not satisfied. - 1Vortd-Terald. The abo s fuir specimen of the impudent falsehoods concocted by the party th lvocates a policy that would break down the industries of Americn and build up the mills and factories of Great Britain, From beginuing to end this statement concerning the Carnegie | company, the wages it pays and-the | profit it pockets, does not bear a faint semblance to the truth, The Carnegle works only manufacturo 12 per cent of the total output of tho steel mills of the United States. That means that 88 per cent of the product of American steel mills is manufactured in other factories. The tarift on steel billets was lowered by the McKinley bill, and if every dollar of tariff imposed is a tax upon the consumer and a rob- bery of the workingmun employed in the production of protected commodities, then the McKinley tarifl so far as it ve- lates to the products of the Carnegie mills operated in the direction of lower - ing taxes and reducing the buvdens of the workingman, * The truth is that the McKinley tariff reduced the duty on steel bénms from 1% conts to nine-tenths of w cent per pound. The price of steel bitlets has dropped from $27 to $22.75 per ton since 1890, That tact within itself would reduce the profits, computed by the impostors who purposely mis the state of affairs at How d, by more than one-half. But inasmuch as the computation is made on the basis that Carnegie receives the entire profit of all the steel product of the country, when, in fact, he only manufactures 12 per cent of the steel product, the whole charge turns out to bea tissue of false- hoods. Tho statement that the Carncgie com- pany pays only $1.95 for ali the labor required in the manufacture of a ton of steel billets is so foolish that even the World-Herald ought to be ashamed of it The fact that one man receives $1.95 for the labor wh he performs on a ton of stecl is used by that preposterous free- trad organ as a basis for the claim that )5 worth of labor is required for its production. It would be a waste of words to point out the absurdity of this argument. Equally silly is the state- ment that Carnegie’s share of this rob- bery of the workingman—that is, his share of the difference between $1.95 and $8.82 per ton—is $5,000 per day, and that his partners get as much more. The men employed in the Carr mills have been earning 3 from $1.40 to 38.70 a day, while the earnings of the most shilled English steol workers do not oxceed $3 a day, with the wages of the uuskilled in pro- portion down to 60 cents a day. ‘With this foreign labor American manufacturers could not possibi pete without a protective tariff. peal of the tariff on steel and iron products would close nine-tenths of all the iron and steel mills in the Uniteu States within six months and pauperize hun- dreds of thousands of workingmen who are now earning wages that enable them to live in comfort, while their children are educated in the public schools without cost. ‘The Carnegies and other successful mill men have grown rich not so much by the protective tariff as by the ac- quisition of patents for improved methods of manufacture and by the massing of their capital in risky ventures. We do not say that the Carnogie com- pany cannot afford to pay better wuges than it does. That is not the question. We only say that the arguments of the free traders show that they are dishon - est or olse totally incapable of compre- hending the tariff problem, NiE1RA 4 IN Co. A Nebraska is misrepresented in thoe Fifty-second congress. The views of public policy of her three representa- tives are not in accord with the opin- ions of & majority of her people. The dewocratic congressman is a free trador, He is the author of several free trad, mensures that passed the house, and his public utterances show him to be bit- teriy hostile to the Amovican system of protection and in favor of u polic, which, however designated, is in effec free trade. Only a very small minority of the people of Nebraska believe that it would be a good thing for the United States to adopt the English systen und thereby dostroy Ameriean industries or reduce American labor Jto the British level. The alliance congressmen misrepre- sent, 05 10 most of the doctrines they advocate, the majority of the people of Nebras The financial views of thesoe congrossmon do not agreo with those of the masses of the intelligent voters of this state. The proposition that the general government shall issuo paper currency o an almost unlimited extent would, if submitted to the psople of Ne- braska asa distinet issue, bo overwhelm- ingly rejected. The numbor of intelli- gent men in this state who advocate the subtreasury plan, or any like expedient is relutively smail, In other respects, also, alliance congressmen do not rep- nt the genera) sentiment of th thoughtful people of Neb aska. Thi state will have six representutives in the ":fty-third congress. There is every reason to expect that a majority und possibly all of them will be republicans. In the districts where republican can- didates for congress hayve been nomis nated excellent selections have been made. All are men of good ability and* high charucter, thoroughly in sympathy with the national policy of the party, anda would represent the state credit- ably. Every one of them wmerits the popular confidence, and if the voters of the several districts have adequate ap- precintion of the importance to the state of being intelligently and properly rep- reseuted iu congress, ull of thew will be for influting the currency very | the proposed fusion elected. Nobraska is without character or influenco in the present congress stmply for the reason that she is dis creditod by the character of her repro- sentatives. It will be most unfortunate if this is continued in the next congress. Undoubtedly the electoral vote of Nebraska will bs cast for Bonjumin Harvison. Few intslligent observers rosuit, notwithstanding of the democracy All signs ave question this and the populist party. favorahle to the ve-slection of the pres- ident. Thers ure equally good reasons for halieving that the next house of rep- resentatives will be republican. In the ovent of these promises being verified the advantage to braska of having a republican delogation in congress is obvious. At any rate the paople of this state should not allow themselves to be misrepresented in the Fifty-third con- gress as they wre baing in the Fifty- second. The influence of Nebraska upon national legislation, the interests of the state 5o fur as they may bo affected by congress, and the credit of its people for intelligence and honesty regarding questions of public policy, all demand that the classes of politiciuns who now compose its delegation shall not be re- turned to congress. DON'TSTAND UPON CEREMONY. he differences between the Board of Fdueation and city council regarding the quarters to e occupied by the board in the city hall suill remain unsettled. There is no doubt that the board has been shabbily treated by the council. The board furnished the first $20,000 ex- pended in the foundation of the city hall building. This money was furnished on the stipulation that one-eighth of the available spacg in the city ball building should be reserved for use of the Board of Iiducation, and the board was to have the privilege of desiznating the manner in which the space set apart to it o Ye lnid out. That ag L upon an estimated cost of $200,000, the limit fixed by the Myers plan. The abandonment of that plan and the con- struction of a building that costs over £400,000 did not relieve the council from its obligation to assign the board proper quarters in the eity hall building. The board may not beentitled to occupy one- cighth of the space, but it ought to have been consulted regarding the divi- sion of the rooms and it should have been courteously met half way when it asiced for the privilege of occupying its quarters, On the other hand, there is too much splitting and standing on ceremony. The city hall is not the proper of councilmen or members of the school board. These bodies are simply public servants for whose accommodation the taxpaPrs have erected n public build- ing. The board has no right to refuse to move into this building just because the members of a co-ordinate branch of the city government have been discour- teous or unaccommodating. The most sensible thing for the board to do is to move into the building without further de ind take its chances upon better accommodations when the members of the board and council get better ac- quainted with each other. THE WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS, Wisconsin hus been classed among the doubtful states this year. Four years ago it gave a vepublican plurality of 21,821, but in 1890 a democratic gov- ernor was elected by u plurality of 28, - 320, every democratic candidate for con- gress being also elected. In no other state was tho political change of that yeur more sweeping, and as there has been nothing since to 1ndicate a material weakening of the democratic hoid the state is regarded in most of tne estimates as doubtful. The republicans of Wisconsin realize that they have a hard fight on hand and they have entered into it by putting their strongest men at the front, sink- ing all differences and uniting for an aggressive campaign. They have nom- inated us their candidate for governor ex-Senator Spooner, and u batter selec tion could not have been made. There were ral aspivants for the honor, which was not sought by Spooner, but when he consented to be the candidate ail others promptly withdrew and he was nowinated by acelamation. The ex-senator is one of the distin- guished republicans of the country, n man of eminent ability and unblemished chal He occupied a prominent place among the leaders of the United Stutes senate and he could have had a place on the supreme bench if he had desired it. If any wan can redeem Wisconsin from democratic control he will do 50, and a mast vigorous canvass under his lendership is assured. Having accepted the nomination at the urgent cull of the party he will have no disaf- fection to overcome, but will be able to summon to his support a united and har- monious organization, There is a more hopeful outlook for the republicans with Spooner as their leade The democrac; which ob- tained power largely by reason of its position on the td tional issue, has not shown either marked capacity or honesty in its adininistration of affairs, The apportionment of the legislative districts was declured unconstitutional by the supreme court of the state, and in other respects the extreme partisan course of the party has dountless lost it fuvor with muny of those who two years sev acter, ugo went to it from the republican ranks. With so ablo and popular a leador as ox tor Spooner the repub- licans of Wisconsin ought to make winning fight for both the state and na- tional tickets. TRYING TO FOOL THE PEOPLE, The democrats ure disposed to call the present presidentinl contest a *‘cam- paign of education.” This is a departure from the traditional campaign policy of the democracy, and therefore it exposes the party to suspicion. Democratic campalgna have hitherto been planned with the view of pructicing upon the prejudices and passions of the ignorant. Is it true that the supporters of Grover Clevelund now propose to appeal to the intelligence of the people? Let us seo how they do it. In previous campaigns the democrats have always made a great disturbance about republican legislative extravagance. After the adjournment of the Kifty-first congress OMAHA DAILY I | a great howl was raised concerning the ' exteavagance 8f the *“billion-dollar con- gress.” Demaorat newspapers and orators boeame 'frantic with apprehen- sion and ragd Ms they contempluted what that congregs hud done in the way of appropriations. All over the land the “billion-doliar congress” was held up as an example'of ropublican extrava- gance. A billion dollars, of course, is a great sum, and it is not strange that many people were alarmed when they were told that mefisures had been passed by a republioan congress providing for the expenditure of so much money. It is not necessury now to explain why the Appropriations of the Rifty-first congress were large, It is sutticient to say that the money was not wasted. But what did the democratic congress do in the session just closed? The aggrogate direct appropriations during the ses- sion just closed were $35,070,808.78 more than those of the republi- can “billion-dollar” congress, In ad- dition to this excess, the present con- gross nuthorized contracts and expendi- tures on account of i and harbor improvements to the amount of $31,760. 521, Other exponditures by this con- eress make the grand total of $510,3 H00.57, or an excess of about $77,000,000 over the “billiun-dollar republican congress. So much for the first session. The second session is always more free of expenditures than the first, and as there will be no restraint of an ap- proaching y rosidential election it is certain that the second session will appropriate the public money with a lavish hand. These facts prove that the Gemocratic pretense of economy is a delusion and'n snare. At present the democratic lead- are not suying anything about the billion-dollar congress.” They know that theaction of their party mn con- gress has destroyed that argument. But they are trying to fool the people with deceptive statements concerning the of- fects of our industrial policy. The peo- ple are too familiar with free trade fal- lacies to be humbugged into supporting any party or candidate that prefers to promote the prosperity of Englund at the expense of our own country. — A SOMEWHAT unusuil and interestir bit of political news comes from Louisi- ana Itis the report of a movement among the sugar and rice planters of one of the congressional districts of the state, chiefly democrats, of course, to send a ropublican to congress, The explanation is that the democratic representatives have been attacking the tariff on ri and sugar, and under the circumstances the plante ve come to the conclusion that in order to protect their interests and those of the state it is n« ry to send republicans. to congress. *‘What we want,” say the planters, *is to send aman to congress who can get into the workings of a party that is favorable to ~ur interests, ahd, further, we want to send a liberal myn, a man who is in fa- vor of protétting our industries.” There are numerous interesting developments in southern politics now-u-dzys, of which this is certainly obe, for the movement is said to be spreading in Louisiana, It isinspired by self-interest, but there isa great deal of such interest in the south and ivis growing every year. The time will come when others than sugar and rice planters will demand to be repre- sented in congress by men who are in fuvor of protecting their industries and will have such representatives. s TuE democrats of Towa in their con- vention yesterd. were Dboisterously silent about the ‘‘parsimony’ of the recent congress. Here is what they said last year about the republican congress which spent $44,- 402,870 less than their own prudent and economical congress which just ad- journed: **We denounce the wasteful and lavish appropriations of the last coagress, which in time of profound peace expended an amount equal to one- third the total public debt incurred for the preservation of the union. ‘I'kis billion-dollar congress marks the final effort of desperate politicians to per- petuate themselves in power.” ¢ hitago New: Record. Nobles of the Mystic Sbrins entered Omaha on camels. The Gate city has frequently shown that it possessed humping abilities of the highest oraer. Cincinnati commercial. The pearl button branch of the calamnty howlers are ratber quiotnow. Tne mauu- facture of pearl buttons in this country bus vastly increased in the last two yoars aud prices huve declinnd 50 per c On with ¢ Philadel phia T nes, Dr, Cranfil has boen notified of his nomina- tion for the vico presidenoy on the prohibi- tion ticket. ‘The announcement was made by u delegation of about, 1,000 enthusiastic ad- mirers and the nominee bore the shock with groat equanimity, L IR Steiking the Wrong Way, Glive Dimoerat, In Buffalo the strikars made their usual blunder—they rosorted to violence and do- stroved property. T'hen the militia were cailed out and tha whole power of the state was turned agaiostythe strikers. suph Ivo strike prosecuted on lines ever yet won or ever can win, DeriAl Freo Press, Wars and rumérs' of wars make up the monotonous burden of reports from Centrai and South Amewiea. Venezuela is ln tho midst of a revolavion, razl is in sanguinary trouble with oueor Ler provinces, and Hon- duras has something of a war on hand, Chili has deposed her ruler and Bolivia is in & state of restiossiiass bordering upon revolu- tion. This sort of iews has been received for voars aud sucprises 10 0ne 5o much as would the assuragce of peac: among our southern neighbor§™ T'ho faot is that theso struggles usually driso from persoaal aiffor- ences, are in the main short lived and afford little comfort fof those who contend that republics are faittites. e e LHE SWENGING GATE, Florence B, Pratt, in Harp:r's Weekly, The twilizht is full of snduess, Aud the wind in its cont of gray Skulks ke u wolf thro' the shudows, And will not be scared awuy. Down at the toot of the garden The gute Is swinzing slow, As if invisible footstops Were pussing to and fro. Apd 1t seems to e, In my musing, They are foot of. my coming fat Thaut wiil ind thelr Way 30 w1y threshold nd pass it like the gate, 0 say, do ye bring good Y0 unseon niessougers? Oris it sorrow und boding Of future gricfs snd cares? The eate swings slowly, slowly, And the shutters croak and start; Isitin the glowing lamp liht, Buta shadow fills my Loart udings, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1892 CAMPAIGN CLATTRR, Two eandidates for congress were nomi- nated yesterday and there are only a few leit to name in Nebraska, In the Second distriot the only eandidate in the field =0 far is the prohivitionist, but the other distriots have their full complement of aspirants, ox- cept in the Fitth and Sixth, whero the demo- crats have not yot placed men in the field. e most important nomination mado yes- terday was by the republioans of the Fourth district, . J. Hainer of Aurora was se- lected as vhe standard bearer over a fleld of prominent and popular compotitors. Mr. Hainer was born in Hungary and is a rela- tive of KKossuth, Me. Hainer's father being vanished from his nativo lana with Kossuth, and coming to this country without a dollar. E. J. Hualner was 8 years of age whon his fathor landed in America, and was one of o family of nine children. Ho isa seif-made man, graduating from the lowa lodustrial school and froma course in law at Des Moines. He speaks several languages, and 18 aripe scholar as well us a thorough stu- dent. Ho came to Nebraska in the seventies, without a dollar and by strict attention to business has secured largo property interosts. He1s a good lawyer, but he has large bus ness and farm interests that require and ro- ceive much of his attention. He is a thor- ough-going ropublican. The indenendents of the Fivat district also named their man yesteraay in the person of Jerome Shamp of Lincoln. Mr. Shamp was a member of tne legislature six yeart ago, and made a record which Tie Brr summed upin two lines. That record was: *Mr. Shamp was a sort of a jobber with rairoad attachments.” That tells tho story briefly. According to demacratic auttovity Shamp's nomination means tho loss of 20,000 votes for Van Wyek. . At last Omaba has a candidate for con- &ress, although ho had to go out to Hastings to get the nomination. Brother R. W. Rich ardson has our wishes that he will, as a de- vout prohibitionist, follow the seriptural in- Junction that the fiest (nominated) shall ba tho last (elected). Democratic politicians i Douglas county are sadly missing the man with the gold- beaded cane, ex-Council Bluffs Mayor Vaughan, who had such a pull on fatlegged candidates, Omaha and Douglas county have not been well reprosented in the last two sossions of the legisiature, The commercial and politi- oal importance of Omaha and South Omaha demund a higher grade of men 1n the legis- lature. ‘Cnere is a domand for wen who have made a suceess in lifo, and espocially men of ood business ability. Should the business men of Omaha make tho 1ssue aud come to the front in support of a higher class of men for the legislature the city would profit im- moasurably as a result. Judge Allen W. Field, tho ropublican nominee for coneress 1 the First district, nas resigned from the bonoh. Ho casts off the judicial ermine October 1, so that his party may elect a sucoossor at the sama eloe- tion whieh wiil send him to congrass. Tho resigoution emphasizes his confidenco w his own election and makes the way easy for a strong and vigorous campaign in his behalf. ‘There was not much inter:st in Mars' ap- pearance among the democratic politicians. Wo understand the democracy has few as- tronomers, but many gastronomers, It 1s pretuy well undorstond that the lead- ers of the poovle’s party aro all wearing per- forated bats this year. “Say, Boss, d've seo dis nickel?” said a Burlicgton sleeping car porter, with a grin that disciosed two rows of ivory teeth in an honest, black face, The train had stopped, the goug had rung, and a party of politicians were hurriedly making way with a sandwich and coffee at the lunch counter. The portor had singled out an acquaintanco and proceeded to tell his story. ‘Chis porter, by the way, hns beon catering to the wants of sleeping car passen- gers for a number of years and knows most of the prominent politicians of the state. He also knows how to work them for tips and if any of them get away it bas nover boen his fault. Congressman Kem, bo said, haa ridden in s car for two days and nights, Kem had received at his hands the most subservient attention and had exacted so much service that fellow passongers got the improssion that possibly the porter was His Majesty’s body servaut. But the porter had dutifully met every requirement, while in his breast lurked the fond hope thut at the end of the run his rejard would bo amplo and in per fect keeping with the dignity and generosity of a member of congress at $5,.000 a year. The last day’s ride had been a hot and dusty one. Kem's patent leather pumps had been uicely cienned, wrapped up and putin the big valice and the heavy, hign top boots uad been taken out, polished by the porter and after a desperate struggle in the state room Kem had succesded in gevting bis feet into them. ‘The broadcloth Princo Albert had been thoroughly dusted, scrupulously folded and put away fid the log, time wora linen duster that had seen many & hard fought battle ontno Custer county hustings, again adorned the Apoilo- like frame of the stateman from the Big Sixth, The sik tile, too, had been tuken down from the peg ou the larboard side of the berth, stroked with tho nicety of a connowsseur and tucked away in the back- numoer hat box carried expressly for tno oceasion, Tue sweat stained slouch that Kem bad worn whon putting that mortgage on his farm had been fished out of the bottom of the valise, brushed up by the porter and placed on Keu's massive brow. Waen all this had been doue, the meta- morphosis was complete. Tho sleek con- gressman who had all summer long posed 1 the hotel rotundas of Washington, stepped off tho cars at Omaha tha personirication of simplicity of mannoer and dress. Heo earricd the bat box while the porter lugged bis baggage. The supreme moment was at hand, Visions of a shiniug gold piece or two or o biz round dollars chased one another 1 the mind of the faithful valet. The states- man's baggage was deposited on the depot platform, and the look of cager. expectan on the aarkey’s face caused Kum's heart to welt. Putting his calloused band in his off pants pocket he pulled out a bandful of the coin of the realm. Out of this he picked & nickel, and with an unexampled exhivition of gouerosity handed it to the porter, T'his piokel will play an Lwmportant part the coming campaigu in the Big Sixth, Toe porter carrivs it as a memento of Kem and 18 telling the story of o great man’s liber- ality to every one by moets. U Clevelund an Inter Ocean, We admire the English and the southern free traders, because they tell the trutn, We despise the northern free traders be- cause they dare not tell the truth, Freo trade, or “taniff for revenue only,” which is os near to free trado as it is possible o get under existing ciroumstances, meaus free admission from all countries in which lavor 1s cheap of all things that are, or easily can be, produced by the well paid lavor of Americans, and the cousequent reduction of the price of American lavor. It also me: the lwposition of duties *‘for revenue ouly’ on all such things as Amoricans need, but which they can not sufficiontly produoe, to which class sugar, tea, and coffos bolong. 1t hias been republican policy to make thos things frue of ducy, for tariff on thom is * tax," because it does not protect and thote- | fore it does not stimulate produciion and therefore does not exoite that compatition which necessarily JoWors prices to the con sumer, Just assure os it has boen repub- lican policy to make theso things fron of duty, it will bo domocratio policy to tax them. I"or when tho duties on wool, iron, tinpiate and othor articles are repealed, as the demo- crats promise that they shall be, there will | A be such a deficit in reven as will compol the levying of taxes onsugar and other articles that we me but do noc produce, or do not produce i sufiicient quantity for our use. Thonorthern democrats deny this, for thoy know that the workingmen never can bo persuaded to vote for a party whose policy it is to admit free of duty all things thatcom- pete with the products of northern labor and totax all things thataro bought with the wages of northern labor. But the southern democrats do not geny it. | 1 The New Orloaus Daily States, o leader of the ultra-bourbon demoorats Louisiana, had this to say to planters of that state, no later than the dth day of this month. Wo entreat a careful n! of EX ly the | Mr. when ho made his the SURAT | pogtmastor genoral. of the Treasury department, T0 [1AVE, ONE, CENT POSTAGE normous Inorense in the Postal Depart- ment Revenues. XCEEDING THE MOST LIBERAL ESTIMATE L Present tho Servies Is Almost Self-Sus, stor: the Improvemoent of thia Branch of the Gove ernment, B3 Founrerytn Stuser, Wasmisaros, D. C., Aug. 1 I tho rate of increaso in the® postal rove- ues continues the Postoflice departmont is Kely to becomo sol{-s istaining sooner than Wanamakor estimatod that it would fiest annual report as Sixth Auditor Coulton who hus Wasninarox Brerewv or Tim nkl.} porusal of our contemporary’s editorial ut- | oharee of tho finances of tho Postofice do- torance: partment, returned to his dosk two days ago The facts have shown, beyond all question, that tho Larliffor-roventio Jumocrats ars the friends and vho protectionists aro 001108 of the sugar industry. But these men are in- diferent to fucts, whilo they worship a name, That every demotrat who s an aut overy domocratie paper whieh repry thini hiave stoud resolutoly for the su nts any- irtars HE wi y republican who is an author- | the gof ory republioan organ, groat or ve denounced the tari,’ and that © republican purty repealed tho Sugar tarift, This 15 truthful history; not the less truth- ful that it is recorded by a democratic scribe. (As to what is in the future, wo will lot tho New Orleans Daily States predict. ‘e only differonce In the policies that rity and | quarter of the year proceoding. figu : 1 March reduction of lotter postago to following would be as follows: | 00; 1891, ) 10 find that the rovenuo of tho aepartment had increased ficiency of tho first quarter of 1802 was only about one-half of the deficiency for the first At such a rate that the de- Horo are the quarter ending doficiency for 2,488, Dofi 1, 1801, £ ( sponding quarter, 1592, & In tho argument which he prosontad in his first annual report (in which he favored tho 1 cont), Post- eral Wanamaker figared that tho for the yoar 1800 and for the astor ( &3, 3 1805, #6:20,4 51,0 43 1804, §1,512 be pursued by « usl ! o mark 1t 10 ne de ) LA T B o sala, would bo 50 fn- the zovernmont the suzar bounty wiil be | considerablo that the Postofiice department Whthdrawn, o the swgar G ol b resorsd; | could then be self-sustaining. At the rate of \.\hlu» if the repubil or protoction, party ! increase for the first quarter, 1802 (the cal- Withdns,n power the sugar Ly will bo | ondar year 1502 and the thira’ quarter of the T, Tt fs" the difforonen. it SGuiean | fiscal vear 1802 as woll), the deficit for that. people of Loulsiuna keep it in mind. ok one-half the defieit which M or loss than Wanamaker should bo only 1,480, Tho italics ure ns printed 1 the Dai ; States, This 1s & teuthint orsdimion: o | anticipated in his ostimates of two years the 1 X wgo. ss trathful because the utterance of a democratic prophet. Lot northern wage earnors and house- tolders of Al conditions take notice tha leading demoaorats declare v land is to roimposo the tax h sugar, say tho leading democrats” advisediy, for [ W the | ment to a selt-sustaining basis next year. Wil Be Accomplished Noxt Your. This ought to bring the Postoffico depart- In o light of this possibility it is highly prob- Wo | ublo that there will be a renewal in Mr. yaker's annual report of the recom- what the south wills that the northers dem- | mendation for a reduction of letter postage ocratic leaders accomplish is humble, even | to the humblest haughty maste; nn LHOUGATY, i in ilenn l"n\]‘s IReporter: “How treacherous | Vi un s, Yes, it is full of craf 4 bl Indianapolis Journa what Is an agnostic? A Jason “Why, it 15 a foiler that don't be- n nelther doetors nor preachers as long | f0 1 cent per ounce. It has never been tho submission to their poor but | policy of the government to make the Post- offico department, self-sustaining, and when- over it has seomed lik vrought about the cly that this would be orvice has been improved The cost of the ser- that the means of some way or other. ce has been reduced communication shoutd bo us chenp as possi- e, Mr. Wanamaker has always beld that tho auction of letter postage would eventually sult iu au increase of tho revenues, Be- re 1845 the letter rate was a complicated a8 o 15 In good hoalth, one. It was reduced and a uniform rate of 5 i - cents was estabhisbed in that year in the faco SheDo you t ke noth oursolt? ' of a small deficiency 1n the revenue. Iu 1851 o S Theytve @ that no thg Jotter rate was reduced to 3 cents and in 5 of whisky unless he been bitten by - rattlesnake, and the only snuke in town is six weeks behind his orders thi Harper's B of 15 a hard work and ho is still Hore it is his duneh’ hou uowing the Luwn,” sald Browne, | by ng Bronson the other duy. . sunlly mows the lawn during | 0 nd lunches the restof the time. | S re “Thit hiired man of yours | es: John luneb hour, & He is almost destitute, And 1ives on what e s walting until t The living he thind shbors sy, rity theows him; o WOrld shall puy itowes i, It Binghampton Republican: Pride often tinkes i full; other fellows take a drop oc sionally. 80 People who are able portunity to be days, Judzo: Master Harry (a saucy vouns bourder at zy tarm)—1 suy Mr. Lundlord, | on my papn Wants 1o know it _you expect to con- tinue 1o feed us The Landlord—Well, your mumma sald when she eame hero that it was principslly for the uir. Al on wind | 1883 to 2 cents. was now. mastor general in operauon of the senate, could very uncomfortable for the next congress b cutting the rate of letter postage in half. Each of these reductions a smail surplus. The post- his report for 1500 said at money received for the transportation mail mattor was a trust fund and it was procedud b, not proper to use it for any other purpose 4 in paying the cost of the work per- rmed in extending the conveniences of the rvice and reduciug rau The house of prosentatives. if it could obtain tho co- make things would take uway $20.000,000 from the ro- ceipts of the Postoffice departmont ana croate a deficiency which would have to bs made up by appropriations from other urces, More World's Fair Attractions. Tane, w wealthy merchant of San Mr. Francisco, wants to locate a Chinesn theuter the Midway Plaisanco at Jackson park, Chicago, to be operated in connection with the World’s fair. badly, he wants it so badly 1w fact that he has appealed to the Chinese minister who in turn appea'ed to the State departuent to Mr, Tang wants it very Ch 1 observe, aid him in gotting the privilege from tho fana," sald the profoss<or, “that 'y committoe on ways and means of the World's Mars as she. Why do you do that? fuir. Mr. Tang and a Chinese companion €0f i Juan-of-wiar us 'she! pro- | came through a fow days ugo and took s suit , tand why ropiisd the young won of rooms at the Arlingion and they haye AUREDOWCHODNANY | Syt been moving very mysteriously about the 0 Nows: Tu farther Nebras streots of \Washington and in and licw" thom ‘raincmikers boon dofn’ any- | Ut of the Chineso legation since, Their for ver crops reul mission hero was mot known “Not e zacly for mine. some bombs it bor Hinkses o week i nd il be dunimed i€ e’ newspapers tdon't suy ivsrainin’ In New York svate like the mischief.” But they shot off hy co : S gl Atchison Globe: 1t Is fun visiting in tho | an country ut this time of tho yeur. but when | in OVETYOno you mect comes to vIsit you next | iy winter, that's not quite so funn THE MISSING STEP, to New York Herald, He was a clever architect und built a house so no That uil the nefzhbors envied him, for every sin ‘le line Was fuil of perfectsymmetry and beauty v surpussed, And he himsolf said, fect house at last Weil, I've built a pe But ono night as he ¢! 10 “sneuak’ nis Wiy Up to his room, where, snorl his witey fuy. Ho got alonz all rght until Lopmost st hen rousod the thit wasn't there! © home late and tried ! o he reached the 5 soun 1 use by stepoing on the step Ar Boys--- the tail pa and too,w he we are now. "way do to close might a suit to couple more th some of You car just as suit. These prices this week. Our store closes at 6:30 p. m., except Batur- duys, when we close at 10 p. . Like su And car Then fold y. =BROWNING, KING & co. Lurgest Manutactirors vil ey ailae of Clothing lu ths World You like to be well dressed, too. made suits and at no more expense than in a shoddy Browning,King& Co until they ecalled at tho State department and wero introduced to Secrotary Foster by o Chineso minister. Mr. Taux makes mpluint that he appliea to the director neral early in July and was promised an swer by tho commiittes on ways aud means two weoks, bui has received nothing sco. The Chinose minister today tele- grabhied to the World's fuir people in regard P, LON. the matter . H, e ABOUT A WATERME Attanta constitution. When you thump it with your fingers and {s vy sound, glvos a he: X ain a-fallin’ on the dry an' mor ow ready an' prepure to SWipo, tstralght an' steady, till, itopens, rod an' Tipe! A ir Burlow carcful, an' take your melon Put one-haif on this side o' you, the other halt on thi Then tike the bizzest in your Inp un' teur the heart out, so! 1 smaek your Lips, an' praise the Lord from whom il biessins flow! You like Your ma will like the pric or-made suit, too. n they see the beauties putting on the boys just We have cut the price wn low because we have them out quick now. You s well have a Jim Dandy wear to school in a of weeks when it costs no an the cheap John affair the boys wore last term. 1 slide down the terrace easy in one of our tailor- |S.W. Cor 15th & Douglas St e 5 { " 7 4 { T ! 1 ] by