Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 1, 1892, Page 4

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Trachuck, secrotary of TiE BEE Pub Yehing company, docs solemnly awear that the actunl olrenlation of TIE DAILY BER for the week ending August 27, 1502, was as follows: : GEO. Eworn to before me and subscribed in my pres ence this Zith day of August, 159, N T8 is the nig day of the fair, it in, with all your family. Mgs. CorpeTT says Jim will win the fight, but Mrs. Corbett is not a proph- etes. — How hilarious the Nebraska demo- crats did become in regard to Governor Boyd's record! . REPUBLICANS and democrats alike are unanimous in their belief in pro- tection against Asiatic cholera. EVERY protectionist this year wiil vote the republican ticket and that will explain Harrison’s groat victory. AT LAST the lone subscrintion from Towa has arrived. That is one brand, at least, plucked from the burning. WETRUST that the harvest excursion- Jsts will all stop off here and view the best town bvetween Chiongo and the Pacific. TaE sporting editors are already on their way south to *‘do up” both Sulli- van and Corbett, a job others have found quite difficult. IT 18 quite evident that Cleveland when he put his veto on the pension Milis for deserving veterans put his ‘whole foot in it also. ALTHOUGH being vigorously pursued by Taubeneck, Weaver, Harrity, Brice and Vandersnort, the latest information reveals tho rainbow still ahead. ONLY 113 deaths occurred during the month of July in Omaha. We chal- lenge comparison of that record with Ry other city in the United States. THE democrats and populites will fuse today in South Dakota, but that is no guaranty that the state wiil falter in its steady purpose to go republican this fall. OMAHA secures the selection of the state democratic headquarters, which proves that oceasionally the democrats exhibit more sense than the republi- cans, A NEBRASKA man has been discov- ered who can see the planet Mars and many objects on the surface with the naked eve. And he isn’t an alliance man, either, EVERY time a_ci n of Omaha has occasion to go to the union depot he comes away with that tired feeling. The pig-sty appearance of that place is be- coming more marked every day. No SIDEWALK inspector has been ap- pointed to take Wilson’s place. This ought to be looked after. We need u sidewalk inspoctor. We also need a man who knows how to check a lumber bill. THE correspondence botween Secro- tary J. W. Foster and the Canadian nuthorities relative to the retaliation matter shows that we still have a secretary of state who knows his busi- ness, THE netion of tho council in cancel- ing thelumber contract will meot the aporoval of taxpayers. The work of ex-Inspector Wilson in pointing out the dofective planks in the city’s lumber pile was doubtless worth what it cost. THE democratic congressional conven- tion which met at Council Bluffs Tues- day ended in a row over the nomination of Judge McGeo, his own county, Potta- wattamie, giving nearly ull its votes to his competitor. This bodes another re- publican walkaway in a district which wert democratio in 1590, THE city council was wise in recom- mitting tho report of the committee on public property and buildings with ref- erence to the further purchnse of furni- ture. Now it transpires that the list submitted was preparved by the agent of tho Ketcham company, to bs purchased of that company. The assumptioa that, Omaha furniture dealers are not to be considered in this competition is all wrong. They should be givea u chance 1o bid. —_— THERE i8 no worthier organization in the city than the Board of Associated Charities, which is planoing for greater work than ever this wintor. It is under the patronage of some of the leading men of this community, Mr. A, P. Hopkins has been tireloss in his efforts to make the work of the board effective, and to bring to it the contidence of all peisons who are. willing to coutvibute their substance ‘1o allevinge d.stross, with the assurance that what they give will veach those worthy of aid. The ©.tizens of Omuha should extend to the hou of charities liberal aad thusiastic support, TIWO ADMINISTRATIONS. Tt is noteworthy that the democratic organs and orators studionsly avoid comparison between the administration of Cleveland and that of Harrison. But the prominent democratic leader, Mr. Adlai E. Stevenson, hus thus far had the temerity to make such a com- parison, and he was o membor of the | last democratic administration, acquir- ing in that connection exceptional dis- tinction for the number of republican postmasters roplaced by democrats, thereby :orcofully illustrating the solicitude of that administeation in promotitg roform of the civil sorvice. On the other hand, republicans invite euch comparison, knowing how greatly the ndvantage is on their side. T his very ablo speech opening the repubiican camprign in lown, the prin- cipal portions of which ars given olse- wheve in this issue, Senator Allison re- fers to the rocords of the two admin- istrations, and the contrast presented is calculated to arouse the pride of every republican. No three years in our his- tory wore more prolific of achievoment in tho intecest of national progress and prosperity than the first three of the Harrison administration. Foreign and domestic commerce largely increased, oxports for the first time reaching $1,000,000,000 in value. There was put into effect the principle of trade reci- procity, giving our producers suporior advantages in numerous markets, not only in this hemisphere but in Burope, and aiding in breaking down barriers that had long been erected against our were opening products, Home industries strengthened and incrensed, new ficlds for the investment of ¢ and increasing vhe demand for labo. A greatly improved postal service, wiich had steadily deteriorated under the preceding admmisteation; o large addition to the navy, of which the Amer- ican citizon need no longer be ashamed; provision for necessury const defenses; well dirested efforts for promoting better methods of agriculture; the reliefof the federal courts, und a judicious revision of the land laws in the intorest of the settler and the pioneer, are among the things accomplished by-a republican congress and administration for the gen- eral good. More important than any of these was the provision made for steady and safe increase of the currency, keoping pace with the growth of popula- tion and business, the currency thus pro- vided being maintained on a sound and stabie bu In no respect is the com- parison more favorable to the present administration than in the management of our international reiations. A weak and vacillating policy has given place ton firm and dignified courso toward foreign powers, with the result of greatly increasing respect for this government throughout the world. As was said by Senator Allison, the Cleveland administration and the demo- cratic house of that time dealt with none of these pressing questions, as pressing them as later, only ina way to show how not to do it. The attempt at tariff revision by a democratic house resulted ina measure 8o crude in its general character and so sectional as to some of its features that no body of intelligent logislators anywhere would have adopted it. Nothing was done regard- ing the currency, nor was anything done to advance the industrial and commer- cial interests of the country. The con- troversies with jforeign powers wero left unsettled, and the management of them had brought ridicule and reproach upon the country., The iusincerity of the professed 1 for promoting civil serv- ice reform was shown by numerous in- stances of the gross violation of the civil service law. There was not a depart- ment of the government that had not become more or less demoralized, so far as business was concerned, leaving an accumulation of work to be disposed of by the succeeding administration. Such are the records of the two ad- ministrations, from which it can readily be understood why the democrats are not anxious for a comparison. Is thore asingle good reason for assuming that if Mr. Cleveland should be eiected next November he would give the countr, better administration than 1885 to 18897 a he did from RETAL EFFECT, According to the president’s procla- mation of August 20, on and after today and until further nouice, a toll of 20 cents per ton will be levied, collected and paid on all freight of whatever kind or description pussing through the St. Mary’s Falls canal in transit to any port of the Dominion of Canada, whether carried in vessels: of the United States or of other nations. This retaliatory measure was authorized by act of congress of July 26, which empowers the president to impose tolls upoun freight not to exceed $2 per ton, und upon pussengers not to exceed $3 euch. He may also prohibit the pussage of Canadian vessels through the St. Mary’s Falls canal, It will ba seen, therefore, that the presideat has not exercissd his full authority under the act. He has simply prescribed the same amount of toll which the Dominion government collects from Ameriean vessols passing through the Canadian canals, It is probable that the president ex- pected that this would be sullicient to induce the Dominion authorities to abandon their unjust and unwareanted policy. ‘his goveram»nt aesired to protect its own ei 5 withoat mni- festing nny unfriendliness to Canada, hoping that such a position would lead the Cinadiun government to promptly remedy tho ng compluined of. This is to be inferved from the corre- spondence of the sseretzry of state with the British chargo d’ affaives ut Wash- ington, It would seem thal any such hopes or expectations ara to by disap pointed. The Dowminion authorities have, 8o fur as knowa, taken no action looking to an abandonment of “their po'iey of discrimination and there has been no intimation that they ave likely 0 do so. Oa the coatrary there is overy reason to expoct that they intend to continue it and thoy may even decide, a8 they threatened, to retraot the promise to remove the diserimination next winter. Whether the president will decide to 0 any further in the matter of “Fetalin- tiou dapends, perhups, upon the course e of the Canadian government. He has not exhausted his authority under the act of congress, and if the Dominion nuthorities manifest any further un- friendliness or show a digposition to push matters to the extremity, it is not to be doubted that the president will use all the power that congross has con- ferred upon him, GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. In the death of George William Cur- tis the country ioses one of its ablest and most polished men of letters. Al- though the literary career of Mr. Cur- tis was almost wholly as an editor, he having been for many years connected with the Harper publications in that capacity, he had long held a high po- sition among the very best writers in this country. His style was scholarly, elevated and polished, always elegant and often eloquent. In the discussion of political questions he adopted the high- est standard, and in all his writings of this nature there are the qualities of profound earnestness and sincere con- vietion. The lighter work of his pen is less known, but most of it is admirable and there is none of it that is not meri- torious, Mr. Curtis was for some yoars prom- inently identified with politics, and for a timo was strong in the republican councils in New York, but since 1884 he had been known politically as an inde- vendont, though his voice was used for the democr For twenty years he was one of the foremost advocates of civil service roform, having been, during most or ail of this time, president of the Civil Service Reform leagus, and he contributed more to the discussion and the promotion of this reform than any other mun 1n the country. Mr. Curtis was not a very old man, being in his 69th yoar at the time of his doath, which was hastened by o cancer- ous affection of the stomach. He was ono of a numbsrof cultured and bright minds which, duving the last half a contury, greatly enlarged the scope and improved the charaster of American Totters, und his loss will bo regretted by all who are coficorned for tho progress of and elevation literature in this country. A BOMBSHELL IN THE CAMP. The ninth annual report of Charles I. Pock, the democratic commissioner of the bureau of lubor statistics of the state of New York, has fallen like a bombshell in the camp of Grover Cleve land. It is the political sensation of the day and has created great consternation among the democrats of New York as well as elsewheve throughout the coun- try. Commissioner Pock says that he started his investigation as to the effect of the tariff upon the interests of manu- facturers and workingmen in December, 1890, believing that the result would prove the justice of the democratic op- position to the protective principle. *“The tarill question was taken up,” he suys, “‘because it has come to be ono of the greatest moment to workingmen, in whose interests my bureau was estab- lished. Now,Iam a democrat—a Hill democrat if you will—and I began this inquiry with the belief that the result would vindicate the democratic tariff position. The first returns came from the silk industry and were very pleasing 10 my way of thinking. But I am froe to admit that the report as a whole is not in harmony with the democratic platform so far as the tariff is con- cerned. However, my duty as a state official is to report things as I find them, and not as we as partisans would like to have them construed.” The commis- sioner says that the statements of the democratic speakers are not borne out by the facts. “Governor Canmpbell,” he ob- sorves, “said that not o single working- man’s wages has been raised as a result of the McKinley act. My reports show that there were just 285,000 men whose wages woro raised as o resglt of this law."” Mr. Peck’s totals show a net increase in wages for 1891 over 1890 of $6,377,925 and a net increase in products during the same period of 331,315,130, His in- vestigation, it will be remembored, was confined to the state of New York, and therefore shows but a small fraction of the gain in the whole atry. As to the importance which the commissioner attaches to the results of his work the following extract from his report speaks for itsel Of all the varied subjects investigated ana reported upon auring the bureaw’s nine years' existence none have borne a cioser re- lationsaip to the welfare of tho wage earners of the state or furnished the public in gen- oral with statistical data so valuabloto a comprenensive unasrstanding of the practi- val workings of tho one great economic question of the present day than the tariff. Tariff, whether levied ‘‘for revenae only,” or for “‘revenue and theinocidental protection of American manufacturers and American labor,” is certainly a question of such vast import as to enlist the most thorough and dispassionate investigation at the hands of the American poople. And while the present report has, under the law, besn confined to the state of Naw York, its results can but be taken as indicative of the conditions ex- isting in every section of our country whore mauufacturing aud industrial pursuits are folioived. With the exceptiou of e limited number of the great indusiries carriea ou ia our coun- try, no statoin the union offers a fleld so lod or extensive within which the statis- tictan can carry on his work with greater as- surances of intelligent success than is pre- "sonted by the stuto of New York, Within its borders wure to be found by far the groat- est number of manufacturiag establish- ments, the most varied industries snd the largest number of 1adiviaual employers and waye-carners of any of the forty-four com- monwealths embraced in the United States. Ho that, whatever the statistical data col- lected and tabulated may prove, relative to the effects of protection on labor and wages in New York, may justly be taken as fairly reprosentative of the conditions throughoud the whole country, The number of separate industries embraced 1n this roport is sixty-seven. The commissioner distributed 8,000 blanks to as mway purely wholesale manufacturers throughout the state, and of this number 6,000, or 75 per cent, returned full and correct answers. It thus appears that the investigation was thorough and comprehensive in its scope and that the effortas of the commissioner 10 got ut the fucts were geunerally sec- onded by the manufacturers to whom he applied for information. For tho first time during his service DEMOCRATIO EPTEMBER 1, 1892 of nine years ad/ieommissioner of labor statistics Mr. ‘Pck has rendered o really valuable,spevice to the public. Although he iscat demagoguo and has an inordinate lo¥a vt notoristy, 1t never has been claimnd, that he is dishonost. [n this ease his honesty was bad policy from o democeflt{$ polnt of view, and his roport has aroused the most savage indignation amon¥ the Cleveland men; but as he is a personal feiend and a de- voted partisan of Senator Hill he proba- bly does not takd'a very rueful view of tho damagoe ho has done to Hill's bittor- est political enemy, It is strongly hinted that the senator knew that this bombsholl was to bs dropped by the Iabor commissioner and that ho winked at the proceeding, To all who know the relations existing between the two men this must seom extremely probable. It was Peck who first proposed the nomination of Hill for lieutenant gover- nor, and it was through Hill's intluence that Governo: Cleveland appointed Peck to tho position which he still holds. When Hill became governor he kept Peck in tho snug office which ho had previously secured for him, and the commissioner still holds over by virtue of Hill's influsnce with the Ilower ad- ministration. To say that the senator was ignorant of the existence of the mine which Commissioner Peck has just sprung with such sensational effect is an affront to the intelligence of all who are acquainted with the close rola- tions existing botween the two mon. But the general public will care little about that phase of the case apartfrom its bearing upon the war between Cleve- land and Hill. The important fact is that the protective policy advocated by the vepublican party has been vindi- cated at the hands of a democratic offi- cial a8 the result of a thorough aud sys- tematic investigation, which he himseff declares was begun with the expeciation that it would prove the correctness of the democratic position on the taviff question, though it was not intended to serve a partisan purpose, Every manu- facturer and workingman in the United Stutes should give heed to this import- ant testimony. livery voter who has interests in any way counnected with those of business and labor should give heed toit. It presents the most abso- lute and undeniable proof of the useful- ness of protection as a means of sus taining find building up the industrial interests of this country. It shows be- yond question that protection is vastly improving the condition of the working- mau and gives the lie to all contrary claims set up by the apostles of free trade. It is no wonder that there is consternation in the camp of the enemy. THE trumped-up charge that Mayor Bemis has by any act delayed public works in this city is too Nlimsy to require more than passing attention. If the World- Herald veally wants to get at the bottom of all this, wearisome delay in the proseeution ‘of public works let iY look to the chairman of the Board of Public Works. 'Pho trickery and schem- ingof this one official area crying shame upon our city government, for which there should pe a speedy remedy. TuE street lighting service on out- lying streets has been the subject of many complaints. Almost 50 per cent of the lamps do not meet contract re- quirements. The proposition to with- hold payment under the contract until it is shown that the contract is scrupu- lously carried out by the lighting com- pany should bo adopted. The city must enforce contract provisions in all cases. IN THE history of Iowa politi there never were nominated tickets of poorer timber than are tbe various con- gressional tickets of the democratic party. The candidates seem to have been put up to get them out of the way when there may be a chance of success, Reflections on o Blaff, New York Tribune. Some Canadian statesmen must be reflect- ing just now that it pays to be fair, after all, especially when your neighbor refises to be bulldozod. Occupation for the Jawsmiths, Atchison Globe, Kansas 1s full of politicians who could do the state good by hiring out as scare-crows to the farmers. That is the kind of protec- tion the Kansas corn needs, Tweed Method: New York Commercial, To make the great American publio put the Reading railroad on its feet again alter it bad becn thoroughly wrecked, by putting up the price of coal, was an inspiration worthy of that typical democratic philosopher, thy 1ate William Marcy T'weed. e Busy Shops Prociaim Its Vulue, New York commerelal. Tho democratic theury is that the western people are a lot of haysoeds who are longing for froo rade. The fuct is thac a large num- ber of manufacturing establishmouts are springing up 10 the west which the hustlers do not wish 1o see crushed merely to tost a crazy theory. s Springer Ignores the Platform, Chioago News, Mr. Spriager does not attack the McKinley law ou the line laid down by the democratic platform, that it is unconstitutional, fvmignt bave been expectea that the democratic orators would assail the McKinley law upon the ground that it sbeuld not protoct rather thaa on the ground-shat it does not protect. e Opposed to # Change. Globggem crat, Business has nuLE;u disturbed 1n any ap- preciable degree politics this year. Usually presidential Gampaigns have a tend- ency 1o unsettle the public confidenco to somo extont aud o derange trade, but nothing of tiis sort is noticeal hus far in 1502, 'I'bis is a higbly satisf ry conaition of things, It indicates that the Beople do not look for an) change in the utive branch of the goverament as a result of the election. President B Don's speeches. New York Tribune, Every Americai ‘el educate himself for high contemplation of the future of bis cou try by roading Presidefit Harrison's speechos, The “leading thought upon whioh stress is constantly laid in" these publlc addresses i the fact that the great work of internal improvement and development is practically completed, and that the nation is destined 1o ocoupy @ position of pawer and influence among the great commercial communites of the world such as it has never before neld. " The Outlook lu Indiana, Indianapolls Journal. Within tbo past week reports have beon recelved at headguarters from every county, and republicans from all parts of the state nave reported in persod the situation io their respeotive locaiities. These reports and opinlous are unanimous to the effect that the ropublican oravization and tue rapk and filo of the republican party in Indians were vever betier prepared atthis stage of the campalgn o carry the state. Taroughout the state the party Is characterized by an earnestoess whalch is better than wild en- thusissm. Nowhere Is there lack of inter- est. Never bas there bosn loss of local dis- seusion. CAMPAIGN CLATTER. Tacksonian democrats havo returned from | Lincoln with a smile on their faces, but the | countenances of the Samosots are decorated with only a grim determination, which ressmbles the look sesn on tho features of the Tammany tiger whon it doparted from Chicago for New York. Governor Boyd's friends were a little too slow this year in getting a meve on them- solves. They will have a hard time convino- ing their chiof on his return that they have been faitnfal stewards, They are guashing their teeth already. The fact that many of the democratic can- didates didn't caro for what office thoy wero nominated as long as they secured a nomina- tion for something, was conolusively demon- strated by tho action of several of them who happenod to enter in o class in which there was a laree field. As soon 0s they had an opportunity to size up the situation and discover that something else offered bettor chances, they withdrew from tho first class ana entered at once in a new one, Partioularly was this trae of K. N. Crows, who secured the nomination for secretary of state, and who on tho night pre- ceding the convention was a red hot candi- date for auditor. And many another candi- aate, like Mr. Crowe, had a feeling of kin- ship for the old maia who declared, ‘‘Any- thing, oh Lord, anything—just so it's & man.” “Anything, oh Lord, anything—just s0 it’s an office,” was the patriotic sentiment that thrilled overy fiber of their being. Mr. Crowe was evidently given the nomi- nation for secretary of state just bocause he was a traveling man in order to offset John Allen, the republican candidate. It will be discovered, though, that he cannot begin to *‘make the territory” that his opponent can cover. Matt Goring seemed to be 1n it pretty deep for a man who didn’t even have the backing of his home connty. To bo temporary chair- man and a eandidate for attorney general will give Matthew glory enough to make up for the chagrin of defeatat the polls next November, Jacob Bigler had more sense than any of the other candidat's nominated at Lincoln and took his glory without subjecting him- self to the chagrin of defeat. Jake knows how defeat feels, for he weut down to it two vears ago us the democratic nominee for land commissioner. He aid the sensible thing in decliniug a second nomination, The Sage of Arbor Lodge and the Napoleon of the Tariff will have a littio set-to on the financial question in privats before they start out on their campaigning in the First district. The meeting will probably be a draw, and then thedemocracy will be treated 10 the spectacle of u divided house. Mr. Bryan proposes todevote his attention principally to the rural districts. He has 8,000 alliance members among whom to cir- culate, and bo is preparing a speech for their especial benefit. It will be chiefly composed of remarks about the burdens of the taviff and the need of more money i general cir- culation. If Mr. Bryan will show how more money can be put in individual pockets by a theory which would increase competition in farming communities and thus lessen the prices of farm products, he will have ac- complished a greater feat than that of squar- ing the circle. It is undersiood that Kom proposes to travel on bis shapa and on the record of what he didn’t do in congress, while McKeighan will make that old photograph of a sod houso do service once more. The allisnco duet might take up the question of the apprecia- tion in value of western farms outside of the arid and sub-aria belt and explain tho de- crease 1n farm mortgages in connection with a repudlican aaministration. Botter still, they might oxplain their total lack of influ- ence or standing iz a congress where their record is bavren of results, beneficial to a great and a growing constituency entitled to brains and service. The liottest campaign so far 1n Nebraska has been opened in the Third congressional district. Tho three candidates, Miklojobn, Kelper and Poynter, are out hustling and are doing lots of hard work. But the re- publicans assert that they have only just begun to warm up, sud that when they fairly get into action the other partios will bo out of sight and the ouly struggle will be to see whether Keiper or Poynter gets sec- ond place, A movo 1s on foot to form buswess men's cluos to work for the success of the republi can ticket. —————— THE PRICE OF SAFETY, Now York Sun: Immigration from Ham- burg should be stopped altogether. Hum- burg is an infected port. Minneapolis Tribune: tiou continue, for it i Then let the agita- conducive to modera- tion, sobrioty, cleanliness and all virtuesakin to godliness. A general cleaning up of per- sous und promisos won’t burt this country a little bit, St. Paul Pioneer Press: Tho clear con- scionce is @ good thing i times of peril, but there is nothing like a good digestion to op- pose to tho dendly gorm. It is a time for pre- caution, but uot a time for either panic or undue excitement. New York Commoreial : concealment 1f cholera Let us have no comes, This reat people is no emptyheaded child to be lulled into false security. Whben thescourge comes lot overybody know it and prepare to guari against it intelligently. Chicago Tribuue: First, then, 1n case tho cholcra should menace the city, give it no place for & foothold by the simpie process of cleaning and disinfecting filth. Second, let no one be afrald of it, but go about his or her business as usual with u cool head. Phiiadelphia Times: While the danger of the importation of Aswatic cholera 1s not great at this lute season of the year, it is best to err on the side of safoty. “The quar- antine against the Infected ports should amount o u blockade if necossary. Chicago Tiwes: [n au epidomic more per- sons are frightened to death thau fall vie- tims to the disease. Nothing 80 debilitates ¢ho constitution and makes an easy way for tho attack of illness as fear, Nothing is so good & prophylactic as sereno courage. Chicago luter Ocean: Lot the efforts of the well disposed citizous bo supplemented by » house to house visitation by the uspect- ors. Lot each householder, be notilicd of any defect 1o the condition ' of the alley in wne rear of nis residence, and warned of prosecutlon if itwe not remedied. Washington Post: No vessel of any de- soription, no passengers, no matter whom; no luggage Or CArgo, no matter what its character, coming from infected or suspected pluces abroad, should be permitted a landing place on our shores untl there is every guar- anteo that danger therafrom no longer exists, Boston Herala: With proper precautions, tho eholora can be keptout of this country, OF At Any raLe, 0du b8 prevented from mak- ing a dangerous lodgmont on our shores. And if it shovld cffect un eutrance, clean cities and thorough sanitary preparations oan safely be trusted to strip it of wmuch of its maligoity. Ciocinnstt Commercial: The best way, bowever, to_meaq the disease, if it should come, is to prepare for it. K'iith invites it Cleanliness aud correct hubits in the line of diet diseoursge it. Cholers can not come where the atmospbore is not contawinated by impurities and whers people take care of their personal babits, eating and drinking in woderativn and using wuolesome fooa. s Ingalls for World's Falr Orator, The Minneapolis Journal suggests the name of ex-Beoator. Jobn J. Ingalls as the World's fair orator Lo take ibe place of Breckluridge of Keutucky, wbo did what | o could in congrass to break down the fair. 1t remarks Whom does the Journal suggest! Whr, ex-Senator John J. Ingalls would do it well, What is the matter with him! Scholarl polished, piquant, a master of the Kngl tongue, brilliant rhetorieally, incisive in argument, effiorescont in presentation of national facts, historio facts, aad gitted in voice and manner. John Ingslis would do credit to himsolf and the American nation as the contral figure in the symposium of Columboian orators, If the Chicago I'ribune can improve on [ngal's let us hear from it WAGES AT ¥ Hore Are Facts That Every Ameriean Citl- zon Ought to Know, Noew York Commercial Advertiser: As might have been expected, the British free trade nawspapers of Great Britain have not beon slow to emulate the examvle of their American imitators in flguring out tho Home- stead strikes and riots as the direct results of a protective tariff, The eable columns of ourSunday papers all had references to thoso expected outbreaks of uninforiaed projuaice. And it is noteworthy that the eriticisms woro invariably of the same tenor, The Homestead men, according to the Ene- lish press, struck because they were driven to it by poverty. Under the burden of the McKinley tarift they wore starving, The price of commodities was going up all the timo. The scale of wages was beingeut down. Starving, reckless, hopeloss, theso unhappy paupers rose in rovolt awainst the odious ‘tariff system because thoy had no other remedy. Happily, by the time this unutteradle tis. sue of falsehoods reached this country the answer toit was ready, thanks equally to the misrepresentations of the British {r trado newspapers here, which first formu- lated them, and to the very thorough man- ner in 'vhich the New York Tribune has ascortained and tabulated the facts. Of course it is now known that the strike had little roferonce to the wages quostion. The point on which neither side could agreo was as to tho time of year when the scale should be signed. In one word, they show that $55.70 in July, 1802, and $88.80 in “June, 1802, would buy as much of all the articlos of food included in the table as $100 bought in Juno, 1859, The decline in the pricos quoted, reckoning the relative importance of each article, was 10.2 per cent from June 1, 1889, to July 1, 18 In clothing the decline was not so miarked, though there was a deciine. Thus the result as rogaras all articles quoted was a decline of 134 por cent from the summer of 1830 ‘o the summer of 18003 or over #!¢ from the summer of 1800 to the summer of 1801, and of nearly 5 per cent from the sumnier of 1501 to the present. There {s no earthly escape from this tabla and tho corclusions drawn from it, because the figures are transcripts from actual occur- rences, Meantime wages had been steadilv grow- ing, both outside the works and in them. In the former class wo find in & catalogue of 14 trades but one where an adyance of 25 cents a day had not been made since June, 1550 — 10 S0me instances as great as 7h cents & day. Within the mill works a similar increaseis found: tleaters. from $L30 to $4.51; from $645 to $6.93; though heaters from $1470 a day in 1550 dropped to 814 in 1892, a descont that still fell snort of plonging them into sturvation, Meantime in other mills heaters’ wages rose from $12 to $12.71; their helpers, first, second and third, from 21, $5.13 and $4.50 o & £5.36 and $4 respectively, In the twenty three inch mill the heaters rbse from $14.33 to SI14.76a day, the rollers from $12.27 to $11.65, the catchers from $7.56 to $7.04 and so ou straight down to the rackmen, whose wages rose from $1.75 to $1.80. So that every vear founa the Homestead workmen growing richer at both ends—re- ceiving movro monev every year and more goods for his money also. This is the fruit of a system which the domocrats declaro to be unconstitutional and which they are pledged to destroy. —— The Thumpers Exhaust, PhiladelphiaTimes. Some can’t understand how the pugilist can be knocked out by a compavatively weak blow on the jaw, when, to judgé from the talk with the majority of them, that is their strongest point, R PEARLS WITHOUT PRICE. Siftinzs: When a grain fie'd has got about ali it will hold, 1t Is ready for somo mower. Boston eript: Yos, Mars must be in- habited, it ot who could have palnted it red? timor th son delight. American: The first cool spell of villbe welcomed with snivers of Yonkers Statesman: A girl may not want to wenr her love on hor sleeve, but she usually Iiles to buve ber lover there. A late fad is to make ico crean: in the shapo ot bilifurd bulls. The boys are expected to take the ouo at once. Indianapolls Journal: “You may think,' sald the carpenter, “that it [ had a lot of “the trainmen ih the wost was not such money L wouldn't work, but I wood-work just the same.” Somerville Journal; Every bicyollst ought to remember that if he persists Jn bending away over the handie-bar when he rides, ho will” ru his skeleton so that it won't be B aftor ho i3 d ked to spell L will nucht.” in wrath, i tion of lath, { And warmed bim ap weil oh the spacht, yacht,” go Tribunoe: last nizht. sir? om (with one oar slit, half his whiskers | one, and footorints of u hizh old time il | were you over his face)~1 was assisting as an outdoor concort, my dear. Tabby (elaborately sarcastic)— It was 1 grand affair, no doubt. sir! Tom—It wus & howling succoss, my dear. Chicago News: “Why, m said the stump orator. “why cursed with poverty? Why & Why am I 4 poor man tonizh “Bocnuen you wiz too alifired lazy to work," #nld abystander who really should have been more polite . Are Wo Washington Star: ) 18, “the lanalord w ' that ho was o oxpec hore_today ana b ine next Monday for t! wd to get it, too.” sal es, and he seomed in enrnest about It." “Real positive, was he “Well. ns long ns ho feels so confident I don't 460 that there's any use of my worrying about it I reckon hio knows his own busi- ness.” HOW SUE WON HIM, New York Press. Two maidens and a single man On SUMMOE PLOASUTo m Each maid tried every She know the man to got. me and plan One dressod herse!f just like a nun, With nothing bright or gay: The drosses of tho other one Were cut decollete. Tht lattor eaptured him, and she Now has him at hor bock; The race was close, but, na We 800, Sho won Liim by « neck. s o HOW DOES 1T SEEM TO YOU Chicago Times, 1t soer s to me I'd like to 2o Where bellsdon't rinz nor whistlos blow. Nor clocks don't strike nor gongs don't sound, And I'd have stillness all around. Not roal stillness, but just the tro Low whisperinzs or tho lum of boes, Or brooks' fuint bbbing over stones In strangoly softiy tangled tones, Or maybe a cricket or katydid, O tho songs of hirds in the hodges hid, Or just oh sweet sounds us these To fill a tived honrt with euso. If 'tweren't for sizht and sound and smoll, 1'd like a city protty well, But when it comes to cotting rest Tlike the country lots the best, Sometimes it seams to me I must Just quit the eity's din and dust And got out whore the sky s olue; And say, now! how doss It seem to you? — - “ONLY A SMALL MATTER " But a Railrond Omahu to So 3 P. H. Morrissey, first grand master of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, was in the city yesterday to ses Assistant Gen. eral Managor Dickinson of the Union Pacific on a matter of more or less importance to the organization which ho reprosonts, but the oxact fwport of which he declined to make public, although he said that it was only a small matter. Owing to Mr. Dickinson's absence on a trip to the Pacific coast, the expected interview did not take place, and Mr. Morrissey left | last @ vening for Texas. In speaking of the affairs of the brother hood, Mr. Morrissey stated that its preseat memborship is about 27,000, making it numerically as strong ' as any of the ovganizations of railway emnployes, with the excoption of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Enginoers. He rogretted the outcome of the recent troubie at Buifalo, but said that the switchmen's cause was lost. when the acts of vandalism and incendiarism wero permitted. **Whether thoy were responsible for it or not,” he said, “‘the effect on the public mind was the same, and it lost che strikers the sympathy that had beon theirs up to that time, and resulted in placiog the militia 1 the fietd against them. Just see how absurdly foolish it was to at- tempt to wreck trains, the very trainmen and passengers on which may fairly be saiu to entertain sympathy for the strikers. In order to destroy some of the property of that corporation they risked taking bhuman lifa. *Ido not hold the switchmen's organ- ization responsible for these acts of lawless- ness, although it prejudiced their cause, forI know thattheroe is an cloment in all these or- eanizations, fortunately small, however, that the officers have difficulty fiun holaing down in times of trouole, and acts of violence are dezounced by those at the head of the organizations. The press is unfair in brand ing us as a spocies of outlaws and declaring that organized laboris organized lawless- ness, “I know that these men who have been clected to the responsible positions that they hold have worked up from the bottom,and are not only opposed to violence but are opposed even to radicalism. They are conservative men, and should no more bo held responsibie for the deeds of every member than should the city of Omaha be held responsible for ths act of overy individual citizen." Mr. Morrissoy said that the condition of to cause dissatisfaction, as many of the roads had recently granted concessions in wages and other matters that had loft little cause for complaint. Mr. Morrissey's headquarters aro av Gales- burg, Ill. Heis an ardent democrat and s personal friend of Adlai Stgvenson, but he found Cleveland a bitter pill, though he says he managed to get him down. He was in Texas two wecks ago and Is conversant with the situation there, and said that with the row between Hogg and Clark he didn't i know what was to become of the old-time banner democratic state thi — Back in Washingto WasHiNGTO: D. C., Aug. 81.—Secretary Charles Foster returned to the oity yester- day evening from Asbury Park. year. BROWNING, KING : & co. Largest Manufactu Deale: O Clothui i o World. " clties, plain of fali overcoats, the hats and furnishing is special in the chi whether they buy or not. duys, when we close ut 10 p. o “Uluznpa I'd buy my boy a new suit of clothes before [ e | SCDE him Off to school,” is the height of the average boy’s am- bition just now. ing the finest lines of fall suits for boys and children ever im- ported. No old styles. worsted, cassimeres and everything new -« Boys' suits, 4 to 14,2 up;14 to 18 ye: cry latest, at special pric gools in enlless variety. This sale dren's department—the coziest spot in town. Ladies who are out shopping will enjoy a rest in our easy chairs, to which they are equally welcome OuF 5L070 €10%08 At 6:30 p. m., oxcept Satur- We are show- New noy- new shades, in fancy and cheviots, cassimeres and checkel and striped 15,80 up. Full line . Boys' Browning,King& Co |S.W. Cor_ 15th & Douglas St