Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 28, 1892, Page 4

SIXTEEN PAGES fHE OMAHA DAILY B SUNDAY ;AUGUST 23 | ON THE RIGHT TRACK. In these days of unfortunate mis- understandings and conflicts between labor and capital in various parts of the PUBLISHED VERY MORNING. | country it is gratifying to note the har- —_— — = - = | monious and friendly foeling existing betwoon employers and employes in the city of Omaha and throughout the state of Nebraska. An {ilustration of this is OFFICIAL PAPER O;THE CITY. ———— = TFRMS OF SURSCRIPTION, Dally Bee (without Zunday) One 80 4 Laily and Sunday. One Year. 105 | found in the fact that the committes of " 2% | workingmon having in charge the ar- 150 | rangements for the annual Labor day 10 celebration here has asked the Manu- facturers nssociation to select a speaker to deliver an address on that occasion concerning the relations of the laboring Omaha, The Pen Bullding Eouth Omnhn, corner N and %th Stroots, Counell Blufs, 12 Pear] Stroet. Chieago Offce, amber of Commoree. New York, Rooms 18, 14 and 15, Tribune Butlding Washington. 513 Fourteenth Street. man to home patronage. Tothis request CORRKSPONDENCE. a the Manufacturers association has re- enioriat mtter showid bo aiaressed o the Tt | Dlied that it will not only furnish a itorial Department. Co speaker, but also a prime ox for the bar- becue. Morcover, tho manufacturers will lend their influence in every way to make the celebration of Labor day a success, thereby showing that they take the right view of the relations existing between employer and employe. Nothing but good results can ensue from this just apprehension upon both sides of the princinle of common inter- 88 LETTERS. All business lottors and romittansos should b addressed (o The Hoo Publishing Company. Omaha Drafta, ehecks and postoflion ordars Lo 56 mad payable o the order Of the company MPANY THE BEE PUBLIS HING Ci BWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Etate of Nebraskn, ! {unty of Dovilas,{ 1. ‘Tzachuck, secrotary of Tie REE solomnly swear that the 2 DAILY DEE for the week AL27, 152, was s follows y A kol i ests, What is good for the working- Tond IRy, AU man is good for his employer, and on Wednos the other hund the sperity of the Thuraday, Friday, August employer must inevitably tend to the Eaturday, August 27 advantage of the wage earner, assum- ing always that ench is actuated by a desire to be just and fair. In no other way can the interests of business aud the prosperity of the workingman bo 80 successfully promoted as by the recognition of this important principle. It should not bs a mere matter of tem- sentiment like the elfervescent sm of the Fourth of July. Tho mutual obligations of employer and em- ploye are deep and parmanent and can not become the toy of every shifting wind of canrice or passioft or prejudico without mutual loss and injury. The workingmen and the Manufae- Average .. GEO. B Bworn 10 before mo and s enco this Z7th day of Aug N. ZSCHUCK. a’in my pros stary Publle. Average Circolation WHAT in the world are the popalists of Nobraska kicking about, anyhow? Do they really know! JOHN MORLEY’S re-election gives the Gladstone party an opportunity to take ths. a fow good bre CONGRE nominatea by his admiring Texan con- y turers association are on the right stituents, His mouth and foot are about | 4.0 Y — — THE DEMAND UPON OULR SCHOOLS, SAINT JOUN is stumping it 1n New England. To make everything appro- priate, his sympathizers ought to open inck pot for him. THREE powder magazines exploded in Texas yesterday, but the people who lived a fow miles away thought it was a joint debato of the Hogg-Clurk partios, and so paid little attention to it. CANADA will have a surplus of 20,000,- The latest census bulletin, giving sta tistics concorning persons of school, militia and voting ages, shows that the number of persons of school age in this state in 1800 was 884,2: In 1880 the numoer was only 161,898, which indi- cates a gain of 222,857, of 137.34 per cent in ten years. Nebraska's per cont- age of incrense is far greater than that of any other state, except three or four of the younger ones that had scarcel any population at all in 188). The gen- L pOn L ALIDIBXPORS Uik Byeate el G e ey et e il s Btites and sho would probably liko to get” the | Sft Iereasg in the United Stutos United Stat: pers & 20 yes 25 to take some of it off her is where retalintion scores 99 age was only 22,53 per cent during the ten years, which shows that Nebraska’s increase was more than six times as great as the average. The number of males of voting age in this state in 1890 was 301,500, a gain of 172,458, or 133.64 per cont since 1880. hands. Th its point. WITH a etart of $12,000 the New York World hue succeeded in raising $8,000 in two weeks for the wild west campaign. At that rate they will have raised enough to carry a democratic county in [ This percentage of increase is only ‘Wisconsin by January 1, 1893, equaled by Montana, Wyoming and Washington. In Nevada there has MINNA GALE, perhaps the ablest of | been a decrease of 7 per cent in the the nctresses who have supported Booth oand Barrett, will be married next month and after a few woeks will leave the stage. That is, she thinks she will, But there will bo many u galo before she does. voting population, but all other states have gained. One fact presented by this cansus re- port is significant and’ interesting. It appears that in the south Atluntic division bat 5.07 per cent, and in tho south contral division but 6.55 por cant, of the males of voting age are fordign- born, while in the western division 41.67 per cent are foreign-bo n. This em- — Tue World-Herald's feeling because wo called Cleveland a strad- dler. Then why, if he isn’t a straddler, doesn’t he answer that lettor of the s are hurt . e s 3 oo ok phasizes the fact that the south is not Freo Trudo leaguo while he is spoiling | ¢t ncting immigration from abroad, reams of paper answering other corres- pondents? while the west is gaining very rapialy in population, and adding correspond- ingly to its productive power by reason of & continuous influx of foreigners whoave applying themselves diligently to the development of the resources of the country. It is not necessary to soek far to find the reason of this almost unanimous preference for the wast on the part of immigrants, They are kept away from the south by the social condi- tions existing there—by the disrogar. of law and of human rights which pre veils in the southern states. In the west all men are equal und there is pov- fect freedom,of thought and speech for ‘every man. The remarkable increase in the num- ber of persons of sehool age in this state from 1880 to 1890, and the growth which is still going on at the sume rate, must impross every thoughtful citizen with a sense of the imperative nesd of con- stant enlargement of the scove of our public school system. And it is highly ble to the state of Nebraska that with such a rapidly growing demand upon her educational resources she has steadily maintained a supremacy among all the states of the union in respect to the education of the young. If the growth in population and in the number of children of school age continues for unother decade as iv did from 1880 to 1890, the demand for school accommodau- THE Chicago Herald is another paper which needs some one to introduce its news columns and its cditorial page to each other. It goes on day after day swearing that thera is no tin plate made in this country, yet its 1ssue of the 23d contains a full account of the establish- ment at Brooklyn of a tin plate factory which will turn out 8,000 boxes per weele. THE populists are going to establish eastorn headquarters at Boston, How the culchawed fotk will stare at this crowd! But their tune c! in the east. Hero and in Colorado und California the tle-cry is free silver. In Boston freo silver will not be men- tioned but Bellamy and the single tax will reign 1n its stead. There's nothing like consistency. THE eable system in Omuha is cor- tainly very ineflicient. Bosides the slowness of sveed, the irrogularity of travel is very annoying. Thero is hardly & day 1n which the cable does not stop from fifteen minutes 10 an hour or more, This is a thorough nuisance and the public has a right to demand a botter adjustment of cable running to prevent vexatious delay and confusion. Perfect the system by all means. m:\*i‘flx‘lt:)lu;fll‘)ll ‘I'ux!:‘ r;m;fl UP‘_ i t3 por | tiong will be enormously incrensed. We v September 1, which is now | 101 hat the d w close at hand. It is so decreed by the Finreatibe Gompninlll-he tully met from yeur to year .and that our present high educational standard will never be lowered. combine and there is no appenl from its decision under the conditions now ex- isting. The railroad companios in the deal ave fighting for life in the courts of Now Jerscy and Pennsylvanis, and s the fight will naturally be more or less exponsive, thay will no doubt heep on hoisting up the price of coal to keep even with the game, e ——— THE great fiem of Isloomingdale Bros. of New York city have tried the experi- ment of advertising extensively during the suwwer months, even more than during the winte INTERNATIONAL MONEY, A remedy for the evil resulting from the derangoment of the money markets of the wold in consequance of interna- tional transfers of gold is proposed by Henry Clews, the well known New York buuker and financier. He proposes us a substitute for nctusl transfors of gold o system of international money in tho form of bonds issued by the four great goldpaying nutions, the Unitod States, nd they have boen Eng| Iy 3 TR more than gratified at the results. Too | 218lnd, termany and France. — All of many big houses deom It thelr duty o | these nations enjoy an equully high advortiso only 1t a time whon ponple | YUt and aro absolutely solid on a gold basis. It is proposed by Me. Clows thut ©ich of these nations issue what mighy bo callod international money in the form of government bonds beaving uniform rate of interest, principal wua intorest piyable in gold, the principal payabie at'a long date, say fifty years, having coupons uttached payable quar- terly. It is suggested that ench of these four govornments limit the amount of such luternational money issued by itself to $200,000,000, which would m ke 3800, 000,000 in all. The bonds would be equivalont to gold, and bearing interest at the rate of 2 par ceut they wouald have a marketablo sale in ali the money caaters of the world. *When- ever un Amerioan propossd going to Europe,” says the suthor of this plan, *all it would be necessary for him to do, iostead of taking out w letter of oredit, actually need their wares und aro walk- ing over cach other to get them any- how. 1t is bolioved that big summer advertising ‘will bo the rulo hereafter, aud 1t is o businesslike and rule. sensible THE moeoting of the union volerans at Superior was not a political gathering, but whon one of the speakers roforred to Cleveland’s pension vetooes it was evi- dent that the veterans had a devidedly strong feeling on thav subject. Well, why should they not? The groat pen- sion vetoer was no friend of theirs when they were fighting the country's bat- tles nor when his authority as president of the United States gave him un oppor- tunity to hold them up bofore the world us alwms-seekers unworlby of con- sideration. or would be to buy whatever quantity of the bonds of either of these four nations to ropresent the amount he intended to spend, which would be cashed, allowing acerued 1nterest up to date at par, less a small bankers’ commission. The bonds should be in denominations of 100, 8500, #1,000 and $10,000. When the traveler reached London he would find it just as easy to sell one of his bonds as it would be to draw money against o let- ter of'eredit. He woula repeat the same thing at every point he would touch. Even trade balances could be partial if not entirely settied by this interna- tional gold interest-bearing money. " This arrangement would hardly suit the silver people, and we are not pre- pared to say that itis entirely practi- cablo. Mr. Clews is a recognized finan- cial authority and his views are always worthy of respect, but this internavional money scheme is theoretical and may be oven to serious objections not now apparent. 1t locks woll at first sight, and will boar discussion and investi- gation. A NOBLE SO d In the midst of the columns of stories of strife and bloodshed, strikes and evie- tion, parricides and fratricides, treason and scandal, 1t is refreshing to rend here and there tales of quiet devotion and unweuried philanthropy such as have bepn rrent rvecently anent the “‘Shut n” soclety. For fifteen years it has been in existence, although but half of that time as un organized body, but its work has been so quietly and modestly done that few of the ‘“‘shut out” ones have known of it until recontly. Its active members are the inactive ones, those who are shut in thewr homes by any form of bodily infirmity and shut out from the wide world of work and pleasure. It had its origin i the lone- liness of one sufferer who longed to com- municate to some other sufferer. Hear- ing of such a one she wrote, and a correspondence resulted. Soon others joined the circle and the band became 80 large that a mogazine was started dovoted to the interests of invalids. The maguzine is called *The Open Window,” and its circulation runs into the thousands, scattered all over the world. Jennie Casseday, the saint of the flower mission, is one of the promi- nent members of thissociety; Mary Love Dickinson was for a long time the ed- itor of “The Open Window,” and many others of a national reputation ave in- terested in the work. The aim of this society 18 not to give financial aid or medical direction, but rather the dissemination and mutual exchanging of reading matter and the interchange of thought and of words of cer, by letter and in other ways. To many invalids the connection with this society is the one bright spot in a life of pain and sadness. The associale mem- bers are not invalids, and to their friendly and kindly efforts the best work is due. Any invalid may become a member of the society, if too poor to pay, without any charge. The children are banded together under the name of Little Sunshine Makers, and well do they honor their name. To those who think so many invalids must create an atmosphere of gloom, it would be a revelation to read the little ne and see how each one strives something that will cheer, some- that will brighten, not sadden. thing The hypochondriac, the self-nbsorbed semi-invalid might learn a lesson from these to whom so much has been denied. This organization gives the lie to the thought that men and women aro be- coming selfish. Many society women thus accomplish much good of which the world knows nothing. Those who are shut in suffer much; they are angels of mercy who seck to give them somo grains of comfort without querying as to race or creed. —_— RAILROAD PROFIT NHARING, Profit sharing has been tried with more or less success in various branches of basiness, but it has never until now been suggested in connection with raii- roading. The recent strike of the switchmen on New York railrounds nas renewed consideration of the labor problem in its relations to the transpor tation interests of the country, and among those who have contributed to the discussion is Mr. Ingalls, president of the Chesapenke & Ohio Railroad company, who believes that so fae as the railroads are concerned the solution of the labor problem is in profit shar- ing, and in his anaual report he sub- mits his views for the consideration of the stockholders of the corporation of which he is the exccutive officer, The suggestion coming from a practical railrond man deserves respectful consid- eration. Prosideat Ingalls says that the prob- lem of the future in railway manage- ment seems to be how to make a fair return to investors while rates are con- tinually going down and wages are in- creasing. “‘A large portion of the time of your officers and managers,” he ob- serves, "is taken up in meeting and consulting and discussing with the ocganized bodies of labor on the ques- tion of wages. Stockholders should consider a plan of establishing a com- munity of intorests with the employes. If the company has arrived at a financial position, as your di.ectors think it has, when it can safely be expocted to earn its fixed charges and a surplas, they would recommend that the surplus be equitably divided with the employes.” Mr. Ingalls presents his plan in this form: “For instance, 1if your capital is #(0,000,000 und the wages of the em- ployes in one year amount to 3,000,000, lot that be the rate of division. If your surplus earnings are $650,000 a year it would be 1 per cent for the stockhold- ors und 1 por cent to the employes. An employe, then, who had served for the entire year without accident caused by his own negligence would receive his 1 per cent unon the amount of his pay. As the earnings of the company 1ncrease the percentage will be still larger, Of course this plan would be practica- ble only with raileoads in tae conditicu that the Chesapeake & Ohio is repre- seated to be in, and thevefore could not be made general, at uny rate, not at once. Itis questionable, also, whether it would commend itseif to the favor of railvoad officials and stocxholdes gen- erully oven if its practicability, espe- pecially in the great systoms, ‘domon!t:'nted. d¢ is not doubtful that the great "‘"J"Y(‘w: of man engaged in the railroad busigess would welcome a sound solution of &he labor problem, but it is doubtful if'mrmy of them would be willing to find iw §n the community of interests whichithe plan of Mr. Ingalls contemplates. Pho natural tendency and disposition of théea corporntions are hos- tile tosuch an artthgement. Besides the security under Such a plan against con- flicts would be By ino moeans complete, becuuso o failurhto carry it out, for whatover reason; would be likely to cause controversy. What is needed to solve the labor problem so far as the railroads are con- cerned is some goneral system pre- scribed by laiw under which both the companies #nd the employes shall be re- quirad, under heavy ponnlties, to sottle any difforencos that may avise without interfering with the business of trunspor- tation. There should be general logisla- tion upplying to all interstate railronds which would provent, us faras it is pos- sible to do so, any intorruption of the service which the roads render to the publio, and sooner or later such legisla- tion will be demanded by a public senti- ment that will not be denied. THe danger of the business of the country being brought to n standstill by the stoppage of railroad transportation through strikesis growing greater every year, and tho only effective way of averting it is by general legislation of the character suggested. 1IN OMAHA. There are several cogent ronsons why the plan of 1nstituting local opera in Omaha should veceive liberal encour- agement. Inthe first place its success would exert u valuable influence in pro- moting the cause of musical art here. We are making as a community good vrogress in this respect, but there is needed the stimulus of a4 high order of musical entertainments to give proper form and direction to the popular taste and invigorate the desire for advanced musical culture. Every intelligent porson recognizes the value in an educational way of the compositions of the masters in music. However admirable and thorough the schools may he, no musical education can be completed and rounded out that does not have the benelfits of a first-class operatic stage. It is there that we get the very highest form und expression of musical attainment, glving inspiration to the appreciative and leaving upon the mind impressiong which are a perennial incentive to effort for higher achieve- ment. Tt naturally follows that this class of entertainment is refining and elovating, for it'is 'nn essential function of the best music to carry the thoughts and emotions above and away from the commoner affairs of life and beget pure, gentle and ennobling sentiments and aspirations. The position of Omaha warrants the expectation that it will some day be- come a recognized musical ¢enter ex- erting an influence over a wide region of country for the development of the “divine art.” It.depends entirely upon ourselves whether this shall be’attained at an early duy or put off toa remote period, or indeed, whether it shall ever be attained. There is certainly enough of weunlth and intelligence and musical interest in this community to warrant instituting a local operatic stage, and we believe there is also sufficient liboe- ality. The movement to accomplish this is making favorable progress and its success is now well assured, but there is still opportunity for our citi- zens of means to show their interest in the commendable project and it is hoped those who have not done so will give it a prompt and generous support. ‘TrE Chinese exclusion law is proving a rather troublesome enactment to the treasury officials. Two interesting de- cisions have recently been rendered. One related to the application to return to this country of two Chinese boys who came here when 5 vears old and were taken back to their native land. The secretury decided that they are not empt from the provisions of the law. The other case was that of two Chinese boys who were born in the United States and taken to China, and in this case the decision was that as the boys were born in this country they are entitled to eiti- zonship here. Perhaps the most trou- blesome question relates to the coming in of Chinese who have been naturalized in Canada und Mexico, and thereby ob- tained treaty rights us British and Mex- 1can citizens. The regulation requiring Chinese to register goes into effect Sep- tember 1, and the fact that a represen- tive of the Chinese government has ar- rived in the United States, prostmably to seo that his couutrymon are justly dealt with, shows that that government is not altogether indifferent us to the interests of 11s peoplo here. Tho possi- bility of complications with Great Britain and Mexico growing out of this legislation is its present most serious feature. Tiue BEE presents today another in- stallment of facts showing that the prices of articles fn zeneral use in this city have not iucreased in value under the present tariff“law, and, of course, this is true of this section generally. Our informatiod 'was obtained in all cases from trustyworthy merchants, and is presented with absolute confidence in its uracy. DPhe facts submitted carry their own aizument, and it is un- necessary to \move regarding them than that they Completely refute the assertions of Lo opponents of the tariff. 'We commena them to the care- ful attention of’#ll our readers who desire correct information in a matter of goneral interest. — THE jeers at churcbhes and ministers made by the disciples of Mrs. Lease and Weaver, have arrayed against them the entire religious press of the country, and that represents many thousands of voters. Itis perfoctly safe to say that 0o small pars of the credit of Harvri- sou’s election in 1888 must be given to the religious pressand the membership of the churches, —— Tue weeting of the Awmerican HBur association at Saratoga was an event of great importance to the attorneys of this country, us it 15 every year. It were | brings together probably the greatest 1881-84, and 8,034 in 1885, To say that bankruotoy is localized or even more noticeadle in proteotiva countries thay in countries professing froe teado, Is an absurdity on its very face, Mr, Springer was not content with these misrepresentations of this sub jeot at Detroit. He goes on to say that “Tho numover of com- mercial failures increased in 1801 as com pared with the year 1859, the year bofore tho passing of the MeKinloy bill, 12 per cent, and the labilities increased 27° per cent. Tho McKinley law did not inprove the financial situation, on tho contrary 1t seems to have addod fuel to the flame." Why select the year before tho passago of the MoKinley oill instead of tho year before 1t went into offoot? Simply in order to make the increaso 1 bankruptoy appear greater by adding in two vears instead of one. The MoKinloy law did not go into force until July, 1801 its effect upon business could not be seen in the statistios of that voar. The real results are far different. R. G. Dunn & Co's statement for June 80, 1892, roporte tho failures for tho firat six months of tho present yoar at 5,508 a8 aganst 6,074 during the same period in 1891 The total liabilities of all failures “whioh ocourred in the first six months of 1502 wero 02,000,000, whila for tho same poriod in 1801 they wero §02,000,000. Tha first six months of the vear aftor the Me- Kinley bill wont into effact saw a deoreaso of 571 in the number of failuros and £32,000,- 000 in the amount of liabilities from the six months just previous to the enforcement of that law. If therois any Inferonce to be drawn from theso figures as to the relation botween the tariff and bankruptoy, it is that the McKinloy bill has so steadied mar- kets as to strengthon business and re- intellectual body of which wo can bonst. The addresses of John F. Dillon and Randolph Tucker were thoroughly char- acteristicof the men and creditable to the association. IF ANDREW JACKSON should sud- denly return to life he would be sure to wander into the wrong political camp. What a painful Wifference, besides the fifty odd years, theve is between Jack- son and Cleveland ! FREE TRADE FALLACIES, 1 Protection and Business Failures. It any one person can be taken to embody the views of the democratic party upon the subject of protection. it must be he who was selocted, prosumably upon acoount of his pre- eminence and exvraordinary cababiiities, to vreside over tne important committeo on ways and means in the prosant demooratic house of representatives. Hon. Willlam M. Springer of Illinois is thus the official head of tho forces gathered to attack the protuct- ivo systewm as iv exists in the United States. Ho assumed to have something more than “a slight knowledge of the science of po- litical economy’’ and he has ventuged to out- line the plan of attack in a carefully prepared speech delivered recently at Detroit. In this speech, however, ho not only displays an utter non-comprehonsion of economic method but also descends to the lowest depths of demagogy. ‘I'he whole of his so- called argument turns upon the cry that the asieep you » TOPICS TOUCHED GINGERLY. Washington Star: overhnuling her L. the plural of Atchicon Globe: 1t takes a man to go home and grumble because dinner is not roady. and thon got intorosted In y newspapor and keep dinner walting for bim until it is cold. Philadelphia Times: Whothor olosed in time ot not. the doors of too many get=rich-quick schemes Appesr to be mainly trap doors. The Boston girl Is now in to find out whether or 1us" is galll, Ohloago Tribune: aln may yot be moved through pipe iines. Look at the vast quanti- tios of smokinz tobuceo thut have gone that way. Harsh fato had done for her fts worat, And at her anguish seemed to sooff; 1found the gentle mald had burst Hor loft susponder button off. Lito: arink. Miss A, ( little woary)~\W hut could sho have driven you to that you would have Ilked bot- tor? Widower--It was she who drove me to Now York Horald: oll~This marrying arich wife Is of no Markham—Why not? Lovell-Reonuso even aftorshe's fast n't find hor pocket! The Toronto World calls the Unitod Stated an “international bully & “swash-buckler nution” and a “diplomatio shark. KNOOKED OUT AT LAST, New York Sun. Stop, teavelor! boneath this mound Thore l1es n fistio star. Ho hind the best of every round, Except those at tho bir. Now York Tribuno: Now that a man namoed Brown has been found who spolis his name “Broughne,” the thing todo is to find a man named Jones who speiis hisname “Joughnes," and put them on oxhibition. s Philadolphin, Record: A tramp who was smiling swootly us ho slept on a bench In Nington sqiiare was asked whon ho woko what he had been drea s 8uch u blisstul one,” ho piled, policy of protection is responsible for 3 know the camel hns fifteen stoma all the ovils, disastors and onlumitios thay | 9160 tho numbor of falires. Nona wro | Know the amol hing thy camiol with a groat havo bofallen this countey for the past thirty | 0 DDA @s those who will not | Uhirtfor beer: s ) of & fow of his | 500 'Thechairman of the ways and means:| oy g oae why thoy marrled. yoars. The plausivility ¥ 3 : o nte domands for ther a more careful non. | COMMILee could havo scoured thoso HRures | 11y ks mon aur o iorm ey, ooy, matriod. Ll L if he had been at ull disposod to make a fair | lish lor. N sideration, Dollie and sho hasn't any money, not showing. The first accusation that Mr. Springer ng. beon on the stage,nor done anything iike that Many people, ignorant of the real sources | And her fathor iSonly a common American orings against tho protective tarift is that It of blnkr‘l}plnv Sl e not eVl Kulokorbockor 1 Guirt. wndor- has occasioned all the "“f‘“:”“ "“.'“"“"uc“n‘r‘m first plausible theory advanced. Tt wasto | aaiG (MIth % beignt ougho-Lorhups— consequeut losses to creditors in T these that Mr. Sprinzer addressed his | Perhaps they were tn lovo! time: “Ho states his proposition as foliows: urning v the buraau of statistics of the Treasury aepartment, I find that during the past twenty-five years, while protection has prevailed in all “its vigor just as its friends would havoit, a vast army of individuals, firms aud corporations, i the United States, amounting in number to nearly 200,000, have succumbed to the pressure of hard times aud have gone in bankruptey. Their aggrogate liabilities have exceedod §3,500,000,000, Just how much was realized in assets 18 not given in the statistics, but wo al. know that as a rule out little s reaiized by creditors of bankrupt estates. Nor 1s it kuown how many porsons there wore 1u tho long lists of creditors of these bankrupts—how many there were who were losers of these §),500,- 000.00."1 To bezin with, 1t18 nota fact that the creditors of bankrupt estatos realizo nothing at all in ocases of business failures. Statistics show that asa rule the assets average in the neighborhood of 40 per cent of tho liabilities, so that not much over one- half of these £3,500,000,000 could possibly bo charged to the evil effects of tho tariff. But can the smallest iota of this loss bo charged to the tariff? A mere glance at the tables of bankrupicy as compiled by R. G. Dun & Co. will prove that overy such charge is entirely witkout foundation. sophistry at Detroit. He sought to instill in the minds of his auditors the 1den that the causes of business bankruptoey were difforent in protective countries from those operating in free trade countrles. Now all who have any conception of the immuta- bility of economic laws under similar condi tions must see at ouce tho fallacy of this assertior. The causes leading to buank- ruptey are not only traceable, but have already beon traced. Bradstroets divide these causes 1nto two main classes—thoso that are due to the faults of those failing and thoso that are not due to tho faults of thoso failing. Under the first are ranked in- competence, including lackof capital, negloct of business and fraydulent disposition of proverty: under the second bhead come dis- aster, tailures of others and special or un- due competition. By classifyi PAILUY SN T | Amiount Liabllith Yenr.|yres, 1880|475/ oA 7 it el e Fatlures in the Lin | i I Unitod Statos 1506, 15 dne to Incompotence Inexperie Unwise crodits... Fatlur others xtra Compy ¥ Disaster (comm olal crisis) Canada present the samo traco any correction be- ~The tigu proportions. To tween these causes of business failures aud the policy of protection’ woula reguirs a per- Totals son of moro than human iutelligence. Tho ve e: § nl;nll find 13- welexaming; ese i (ura, e, tiir | reet majority of the failures in this country that the course of bankruptey and of tariff legislation have no nccessary connection :":wu’”'ifi‘l"hhflr":“ SHas wtiony c:‘x:lul The cris 1857 under the free trade regime | P! al, hojcrsls ol = Their projectors either begin business was the occasion of 4,832 failures, involving habilities totke amount of §201,750,000, The | crisis of 1873 duriug the protection period was marked by 5,183 failures with liabilities to the extent of §228,499,900. In othier words the failures of the great free trade panic, though less in number, involved a greater liability to creaitors by 63,350,100 than the panic of 1873, notwithstanding the fact that the tarifl had been lowered 10 per cent in 1872, the preceding year, The number of business failures in 1857 was, as stated, 4,992, It decrcased slowly unul the outbreak of the war, vgen it jumped to 6,993, A further decrease onsued for & few years, followed by steady in- creases. 'I'he number first reached the 10,000 mark in 1878; v thea fluctuated for five yeurs and again touched 10,000 in 1884, since which time it has, with the exception ot the years 1856 aud 1887, remaited above that figure. It has unot only increascd, but has also decreased under the prorective tariff. It has not only decreased, buc has increased during the frec trage period from 153 to 1861, The inereas in the numiber of failures with- in the past twenty-five y 3 10 proof of a shrinkage in wealth or decliue of pros- perity. It1s porfectly natural that the num- ber of falures should keep pace with tho cxpansion of commerce and population, The volume of business in 1892 is moro than three times greater than it was in the decado ending with 1560. Looked at geographically within the Unitea States, tho statistics prove i refutably that protection has not been the cause of business fallures. The great num- ber of bankrupteies occur, not in the dis- tricts where the tariff has oporated most, but rather in those locaiities which are desti- tuto of manufacturiug interests. For the yoar 1501 the oumber of ousivess failures, compared to the number of parties in busi- ness, was 1o the southern states, 1 to 50; 1 tho Pacific states and territories, 1 o 46, These states are chiefly miniug and agri- without sufficient capital or attempt to do too much business for the capital employed. The tendency to concentration of entorprise is uot at work i the United States alone. Itis justas marked in freo trado England and the various countries of continental Enrope. Itis the concomitant of the indus- trial age. Progress involves change. It means tho advance of some and the retro- gression of others, It means success for tho capable and failure for the incompetent and unfortunate. Tnis failure 15 in business termed bankruptey and increasing bank- ruptey is to be found in every country of the clvilized world, protective as well as non- protective, VicTor ROSEWATER, Detroit Fres Press. Now that tbe scourge of cbolera has reached Germuny the gates of entrance to this country should be guarded with every | care, for war itself would bo less a disastor than the coming ana spread of this devastat- g plague, R ] t Largest Manuf cultural. At the same time, the sim- ilar tigures for the eastern states were 1 to 91; for the middle states, 110 100; for the western states, 1 to 120—all increusing in prospority under the tariff logislation, If protection causes busiuess failures, freo trade ought to secure immunity from such disasters. Butths is not so. ‘he Dominion of Canuda hus a tariff such as 1s demanded by the democraue party, but siill it has beea 565 1857, 1889, 0, 1,847 1801, 1,880 or 1 i every 45 of thoso in busivess. IfMr, Springer's argument bo sound, then Great Britain ougnt | | [} to be the very paradise of busiuess men—ts | | cases of bankraptey ought 1o be au 1nsigoif- cant mimmum, What are tho facts! Ac- cording to Mulhall the annual averages fo Euglund and Wales alons wore: ¢ FNGLAND AND WALES. if ambor. | Linbilities | ‘falliure. artis And io the whole United Kingaom the annual average for the perlod I879-81 was 18,720 failures with £31,800,000 liabilities. | Nor is the phenomens of bankruptey ex- cluded from the continent. o Germany there were 5,905 business failures reportea in 1852 and 5,912 fu 1536, Tue anoual ayor- ago ln Austria was 900 in 187175, 1,504 In 187080, and 1,017 10 1581-583; in France, 6,443 in 187275, 5582 lu 187680, 7,180 in your heart gool. Men’s, hoy: Our store closes at 6: diys. whel wo wheat trust. 0. they're zot While th shade, | aarker shade of tbe costume. BROWNING, KING= rors and Dealors of Clothing in the World, New Arrivals. 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