Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 27, 1892, Page 4

S THE DAILY BEE —eae B ROSEWATER, Enrron — PUBLISHED — - = OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY. < = e 1Y MORNING THFRMS OF SURSCRIPT atly Bee (mitnoat Sunday) Ono Yoh and funday. Ono Year..... .. &ix Monthe. ... . Ceesieaees Three Monihs. Euniay Bee, G Y087 turdny Hiee, Ono Yesr Weekly Pee, Une Vear . OFFICES Omaha, The Uee Bullding. Eouth Omnha, corner N and Counell Bluffs, 12 Pearl Stroe Chiengo Office. 317 Chamber 0f Commeres. Kew York, ltooms 15, 14 and 15, Tribuno Bullding hinkton. 615 Fourteenth Str CORIESPONDENCE.( ANl communica ating o Whouia bo addressed Horinl Department NUSINESS LETTERS Al business | and remittances shonld be wdarensed o ' ho Bee Pobiahing Company. Omaha i sstoflice orders 10 be made 3T tho company [o——t 8882338 ith Stroots news and to the Tu SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Etate of Nebraskn ! County of Douglas. { Ashing 0! netual circ 3 0F T1E DATLY IR for the week ending November 13, 1802, wis ns follows Eundny, Nove Monany, Average 010 bofore his ixs dgy of Average Cir bod tn my pres- Notary Publio. tion for O ail to hear teivil servico re- form."” any cry of L Omaha's charter be revisod hero {n Omaha by its friends; not in Lincoln by its encmies. o — Just let them put that taviff back on sugar. Then the dear people will find what a genuine democratic ‘‘robber tarift” is. Ir FATHER RIG pre ion about the comet becomes true, star-gazing Sunday night wilt not be a sentimontal occupation A¥FrER ull our ng against tho Michigan plan we would be more pre- sentable na n party if the whole country had adopted that plan at tho lato clec tion, RE is & movement to divide Kan- sas into two states. That poor state is badly enough split now with its cranks on prohibition, woman suffrage and fiat currency 7 THE city hail elevators don’t elovate worth a cent. Queer how some excel- lent busicess men in their private af- fairs become worthless business men for the public. THESE jewelry robberies ara becom- ing altogether too common. It is a great deal safer to run a book store in this town. But book dealers don’t know how to adver A FEW things that we cannot abolish by chacter, but should abolish by ordi- nanee: The smoke nuisance, the over- head wire nuisance and the extortions of the electric lighting company. PauL NDERVOORT’S ~connection with an industrial alliance is a huge joke, ‘Paul has had an aversion to labor and industry fiom childhood, and has not done an honest days work since he has come to manhood’s e; OMAHA took a day off and paid due respect to the amenities and conven- tYionalities of Thunksgiving day, and yet her business, according to the clear- ing house reports,shows an increase ot 22,5 per cent over the corresponding weok of 1891, “Tho is mentioned in cabinet position. is Mr. Irish had inti- mate relations with Iowa democrats for many years,” And often declared that the democratic party was eternally dend. TuE millers of Minnesotaare still anx- jously wating for the Furopean dealers 10 begin stocking up, but ghey continue 10 be disappointedin their flour exports, Last weelc’s direct export shipments woro more than 11,000 burrels less than those of the preceding week, and less flour was made last week than during Aany previous woek in three months. TaE Sioux City Jowrnul siys: name of John P. I[rish connection with a But the trouble IT SEEMS that there is really a possi- bility now that work will be commenced -on the projected Central school building this winter and that it witl be built next summer, It was to have been ready for ocoupancy some time ago, but that does not cut any figure, Recent experience in the matter of school buildings in this city has prepared the public mind for delays. CoLORADO justice is a little slower than the Kansas kind when train rob- bers are concerned, but two desperadoes in the formerstate have just been given sixteen ycars ouch in the penitentiary for robbing a Denver Pacific train last August. One of the men, it issaid, *hroke down and cried like a child,” which was an uncommon thing for a train robber to do. MR, POWDERLY says the democratic party has gone into power under false pretenses. This is natwal enough, for it always did denl almost exclusively in fulse pretouses; but the remarkable thing ubout it is that such imposture should have been forgotten or condoned by a majority of the people. Judging by vesults, it cannot be denied that they actually believed that the party bad reformed this year, WHEN does the Board of Fducation propose to stop its nonsense about oceu- pying the new quarters in the city hali? ‘What right has the board to squander the school fund for a rented building when it is in @ position to save the money by occupying quarters in a five- building which the city already owns? It certainly cannot be excused by reason of the defective elevator service in the city hall when everyvbody that is compelled to deal with the Board -of Education in its present quarters 15 obliged to oliab up u' steep stairwuy. : OMAHA DAILY SATURDAY o e R S R (65 BN ORGANIZING THE LESISLATURE. The ecoming legislature will be in ! position to render the people of Ne- braska invaluable service, Composed in main of the bone and sinew of the | stato, its members are men ambitious toclimb the ladder of fame and popu larity. Most of these mon have never been subjected to the temptation that comes in the shape of political sooils, corporation employment or downright boodle. Thoy scarcely roalize that a man who barters his vote or influence awny for place or plunder hencefarth beeomes the abject tool and slave of the corporations and politicians who have bought him. Everything depends upon the way the iegislaturoe is organized. If the spe and clerk of the house and secretary of the sonate men of intogrity, the people will have assurance that the leg- wslature may ba dependad on for good | wor If on the other hand the sters and vogues that th and spoils sucesed in legisluture a set of men of their own ilk and stripo the pooble of Nebraska can hope for mothing oxcept anothor raid on the state treasury. Acordibg to veliabls ady hunt hus been in prozrass evor day after to v able and vulnerable legislature for the combine of 1893, [t3 main eflort is to eontrol the organiza- tion of the' two houses by massing all the memwbers who bave strings tiel to them into one bunch rogardless of party and voting tham for the men that will sift out all the good bills and sift in all the jobs and stonls. This program will be carried out un loss the honest man of all parties form o phalanx and protect the st inst the conspivate Weo have confidence that the majority of the tegislaturo is made up of incorruptible men, it is of more consequence to tho people of Ne- braski that the legislature shall redeem its promiso to reduce taxation, abolish rhaul corruptionists in i reasonuble prctoe \gainst undue exactions s, than it 1s that any party shall teiumph in its organizatios The veople of Nebraska demand and naven right to expeet thut the seandals of formerlogislatures shall aot bo re- prated; they demaud f: play for ever, good measure and every effort at re- form; they have a right to oxpect that the uextspeakor shall not mortgage him- self, soul and body to the conspirators who are concocting troasonable piots to perpetrate highway robberies by tho aid of the men whom the people have electad to muke laws for them, Let every member of the legislaturs range himself from now on cither with the people for good governmont or agninst thé people for plundec and boodle. Thero can be nomiddle ground. There can be no paliation for voting with or- ganized jobbery undor the pretense of serving.the pavty. Iist the senatorial fight take care of itself. As faras tho republican party is concerned, it can better afford to lose a senator than de- stroy its fuwure by helping to destroy geod government. ker | ure ving- ve by jobbery folsting upon the s oostill ince the nit purchas- members of the election sinecur oflico nnd 10 the producer of public c: on A PERMAN 7 ARNING CLASS. The time is very near at hand when the sudden descent of winter will for a time put a stop to building operations and compel . suspension of the great work ol street improvement in which somany men ave now engaged. [t is inevitable that a large number of wo k- ingmen who depend upon such employ- ment must be thrown out of work, No doubt they expect this and make due allowance for it, and among the prudent ones thera may be little difficulty in getting through the winter, even if the enforced idleness shouid continue un- interrupted until the arvival of warm wenther. Muny of them, perhaps. most, will find somothing to do to prevent their pockets from becoming entire y empty, but the steady income ut profit- able wages will be cut off for a time. Thero is food for rellection for philo- sophical business men and capitalists in the unccrtainty and irregulavity of the cwployment provided by public im- provements and private building enter- for u great body of wago eurners this cit Upon the wage earners Omaha merchants are in a great degreo dependent, and many interests are con- 'ned i theiv prosperity; and they can only truly prosper when they have con- stunt and profitable cmployment. At present a very large proportion of our wage earners are those engaged in the building trades and in street improve- ments, The o now and always will be needed for the prosecution of such work, but a much greater productive and consuming class should be added to the population of this city by the estab- lishment of factories. By manulactur- ing alone can the city become populated with wage earnecss who are pormanent and whose employment is not subject to fluctuations by the operation of which they are made to feel that their interest in the town may be only temporary. The factory employe is much more lilk to consider himself as having a stake in tho prosperity und progress of tho com- munity than tho workingman, how svee skilled and valuable he may b2, who does not know how soon e miy ba com- petled « eek empluyment-elsewhere. This is the phase of the question to which attention is especially invited, and no business man of sound judgment will deny that it is consideration of gront importance whether the growth of the perminent wage-earning o ement is promoted or not. It has been the expericnce of all eities that manufactur- ing entorprises by this means do more the diraction of subsvantial and lust- ing improvement than any other form of activity in which eapital can be em- barked. It is by this means that great communities of home owners are built up, for the idea of permanency and pro- gressive development is always asso- ciated with manufacturing. Omaha needs more of it, and if the capital now practically idle in this city were more freely invested in indust ial enterprises here it would produce results that would immediately be recognized us beneficial. A permanent wage-earning class, constantly employed, is absolutely essentinl to the working out of the problem of developmeut 1n this western metropolis. Dusiness men koow this and freely admit it, and to u certaln degreo they aot upon it, but more | of no better way to | in the state of & misapprehension than to say needed. CONCERNING FEUERAL APPOINTMENTS To Trn DEMocrATs oF Tae Stata: 1 know roliove my friends 1o them, in this public munner, that 1 do not intend to take any part in matters of federal patronago in Nebraska during the coming adminis tration of President-Blect-Cloveland Geoner L. MiLLes. Omaha, Nov, 3, 1502 Now that Dr. Miller has unloaded the burden of office brokerage and- spoils distribution, it would seem to hay eminently proper and timaly for other democratic leaders who are sorely har- assed by the horde that hankers after the fleshpots to emulate the example set by De. Millar, and loavo the task of distributing the loaves and fishes to Bryan, Meke an and Kem, who will be sitting on the right and on the left of the throne of Grover for the next two vears, Who will be next to abdicate? Will it be Bueclid Martin, who carvied N braskn triumphantly for the ht democriey without a scrateh, or will it be Governor Boyd, who threw the 85,000 Woaver and [field, but missod his culeulations of carrying tho 1o by several thousand? Will it be Tobe Castor, who held the bag while Boyd had the ear and purse 10 national committee? Will it be Governor Morton, who: now aspires to tial voward for his seif-sacvificing devotion in leading a forlorn hone in the shaps of o cush ioned seat in the Vnited States senate? doemoc 8 to a subs IMMIGRATION BY WAY OF CANADA, The offorts recently made by the Cauadian government to indues immi- grants from Lurope to settio in that country instead of the United States have doubtless baon duo to the fact that t many Buropeans sosk- this continent ha passed Canada and located in this In the latest quarterly report of tho burean of rtatistics of tho Tre ury department some figures are given upon this subject which have not for soveral yoars pust appoared in the st ustical veports of the bureau. In 1885 the government discontinued the statis- velating to immigration from Canada and Mexico, but they have now again boen taken up in respect to Canada and fhe figures given for tho past seven years, cmbodied togethor in the present quarte report, show that the “rvivais from Tguropean countries at Canadian ports, bound for the United e us follows: In 1885, in 1887, 91,053; 1 1888, 85,708; in 1880, 84,862; in 1890, 103,854 in 1801, 1 These figures do not include the arrivals of Cunadians in this country, but only Europeans who have come through Canada. The Canalian statistics aré for calendar years and thevefore the immigeation in tho first hall of 1892 -cannot be given and comparison with our fiscal yvears is not casy. Butitisto be noted that a very considsrable portion of the immi- grauts seeking homes in the United States come by way of the Dominion. For instance, the total numbsr.of ar- rivals of immigrants in the United States from all sources during tho fiseal vear ended Jung 80, this ye 623,084, while tho B r of thosc iving hore by way of Cunada in 1891 was 105,213, Tt is not surprising that after sec 50 many thousands pass over their ter- ritory into the United States the Cana- dinn people should wish to turn the tide and secure o largér sharo of the industrions and thrifty sons and daugh ters of foreign lands, whoave con- stantly crossing the Atlantie. Itis to be assumed that by far the greater part of these immigrants who land at Canadian ports are bound for the western and northwestern portion of the United States. They maio citizens of a worthy class and are appying themselves lously to the development of tho boundless weost. The Dominion un- doubtedly needs them, but somchow it does not uttract them. It hastoo strong a flavor of Jurope. ‘These homos seekoers ve turning theiv backs upon European institutions and setting their facos toward those of the United Siates. Ne- braska is getling a good shura of these people and can acgommodate a great many thousand mora if they ave of the right sort. cIvirn VICE REFORM EXTENSION. Tt is known that bafore the election President Harrison contemplated an ex- tension of the civil service regulations 80 as to include tho consus bureau, the bureau of engraving, and perhaps somo other parts of the public service to which it may be applied. It has boon stated since the election that he had de- cided not to do this, on the ground that an outgoing administration should not do anything to vestrict the patronage of its successor; and again it has been re- ported that he was still considering the matter and might make tha oxtension, the Civil Service commission advising such a course, omo newspaners opposed to the ad- ministeation, in discussing the matter, have intimated that it would be an act of dmpropriety on tho part of the presi dent totake any further action in the di- rection of extending ecivil service re- form, They aguos that having left open ag sources of patronage certain branches of the public service Ixe should allow the question of placing them under civil sor zulations to ba de- termined by the succeedling ndministra- tiou, bis roasoning hus a measure of plausibility, but fair-minded wen will concede that thevo I involved a ques- ticn of duty and responsibility which ought not 1 b> aflected by motives of delicacy. If President Harrison be- lieves ghat it is incumbent upon him, bofore retiving from office, to extend civil service regulations wheve they are not now applied none but the epoilsmen of the party that will come into power u few mouths hence will complain if he acts upon his convictions of duty, and certainly nofriend of civil service reform could reasonably find fault with his doing 80, The extension of this reform is notsup- posed 10 have anything to do with party politics. It is assumsd that both par- tics are equally favorable to it. and one of the claims put forward in certain quarters in behalf of Mr. Cleveland ha: been that no public man was mor ag ing homes o threugh country. | vigorous and courngeous action is | heartily devoted teithe rotorm. 1t this bo true the praifent-olect could not consistontly ohjeck, to the present ad- ministeation givng civil service rogu- lations as wide "{iff extension as possi- ble. 1t o President Harricon, it is safe to say, will be governed 1A' this matter wholly by his sense of what the public interests require and his duty demands. He has done more than affy other president to advance civil serwioe reform, proceeding as fast as the ‘vonditions and circum- stances justified, and whethor he goes further or not will depend upon what he believes to be right and necessary. In any event there will be no just ground for questioning the integrity anad fair ness of his motives THE ANTI-OPITON FIGHT. According to Washington dispatches there is promise of a havd fight over the anti-option bill at the coming session of congr The opposition to the moasure is said tobe strongly organized and from the fact that many long speeches agzainst the proposed law e snid 1o have been prepared, it appears that its opponents have been active the close of the tast session. The bill is on the calendarof the senateand it is be- lieved that o majority of senators feel hound ty vote for it, butits enomies hope to “talk it to death.” 1t is to bo supposed that the friends of the measure have also boen active. for while they have some advan the situntion they must appreciate the necessity of keeping their lines un- broken and being fully prepared %o vig orous! cnew the contest whenever the bill is reached. They ought to under- stand, also, that if they fail to pass the measure through the presont congr tho chunces of securing such legislation will be greatly reauced. loro ia small probability that the next con- gross will bo well disposed toward legis- lation of this kind, and still less that the next administration would approve it. The record of the democratic pacty does not warrant the expectation thut it will bo particularly solicitous to ve- spond to any demand of the agricultural broducers of the country, andas the most, vigorous opposition to the anti- option Dbill comes from the cotton ex- changes of the south and commercial bodies in the east whose membership is laveely democratic, it will have groat influence with the next congress and administration, Unless the friends of anti-option ure successful in the pres- ent congress, thérblore, they will con- tinue the fight under great disad- vantages. The purpose of the proposed law is Lo suppress illegitimats speculation in the agricultural products of the country, and it has received the endorsement of farmers’ orgamzations very generally. To state this is suffigient to indicate the classes who are in conflict over this mensure. The pelducers have very strong veasons for their advocacy of an anti-option law, since age in ENFORCE CONTRACT PROVISIONS. Among the most Mlagkant abuses 1n our public works system is the failure to enforce stipulations. The Board of Public Works awards con- tracts for paving, sewer construction and grading. These contracts in nearly overy 1nstance contain express y sions as . the time when the work is to bo completed. But the contractors never coancern themscives about this condition, They begin thei work months after the contract has been ed and in some instances they have not begun work until more than a yeur aftor the worke should have been completed. In some cases extensions of time have been granted under various pretexts, but in most cases they are never even asked. S a thing as prosecuting a contractor or his bonds- men for failure to:complete the work within the time limited by the contract has never been known in this city. Quite the contrary. the filling of n con- tract within the time specified would be like the breaking of a record. Glaring instances of this reckless neg lect on the part of the city to enforce contract obligations occur every season, Talke, for instance, the contracts let last vear and this year for paving St. Mary’s aveanue, Leavenworth street and Seven- teenth street between Farnam and Ha. ney, or the grading of Douglus street. The cont ors in ench of these in- stauces were given ample time %o do their work before the inclement weather got in. But they deliberately put off the active work until the cold and sturmy senson. Theso delays in eompleting public works affect not merely the ty at large, but the occupants of building adjucent to the improvements are need- lessly subjected to damage aud incon- venience. The streets are not only made impassable, but in many instances valuable buildings are damiged and ruined by overflow of water, landslides and undermined excavations. There is no excusg for such wretched business, No indig@fual or corporation would suffer a conti¥etor to ignore his obligations without enforcing n penalty for damaging deldv. | Tho city should either do businessin a business way or abolish its Board @f Public Works and council, What 15 8ho object of fixing a date for the completion of a pavement or u geade if it is to be optional with the contractor to take bis own time and delay the work whenever he finds it difficult or move cxpensive to push the worl. ovi- PROTA Precautions fo ployesin facto from accidents by which they ave liuble to loss of life and limb have long bean demanded by the labor organizations. The terrible death of an employe of the smelting works in this city, as a result of his being caughu by a revolving shaft, and on the same day the loss of un arm and probably the life of a workman in & Council Bluffs imple- ment warehouse, are iliustrations of the great importance of such precautions as will render similar cusualties less fre- quent. Many of the states have factory in- spection laws, which are enforced with groater ov less effectiveness, but in some atates, one of which is Minnesota, the .aw is inoperative aund the labor unions ure demanding & remedy, In the local cases above relerred to 1t does not ap- the pro penr whether there was any blame on the part of the.employers or not, but in many instances lives and limbs have heon lost by workmen bacause of the ab- solute unsafoty of the machinery about which thev were woirking. So far as possible such carelessnoss should be pre- vented hy the enforcemant of laws whase provisions could not be evaded. e National Grange hus adopted a rosolution asking congress to favor the plan recently pronosed for the creation of a divison of pu vonds in the De partment of Agriculture. The associa- | tion recontly organized to promoto this undertaking has succeeded in croating n wide public interest in it and action by congress concerning it is not un- likely. Another recommendation of real importance made by the grange is that the Agricultural department shall havea bureau rvolating to fruits ana their murkets The experienco of recent years has led fruitg s to consider numerous plans for extending their markets and preventing local gluts by which the business has been made unvertain and unprofitable. The plan now under considerationsmight bo | of great benefit to the fruits by enubling them to keep in- formed as to the extent and condition of tho crops of various fruit ‘hey now have to depend upon meager informa- tion received from commission men dur- ing the shipping scuson, and even this is furnished to comparatively fow. Owing tosthe perishable eharactor of most of the fruits producod in the United States it is important that growers and shippers should have all the information obtainable upon matters affecting their market. The vropriety of estublishing a bureau of public roads cannot be called in question. The only thing quoestionable is the right of a handful of political farmers to call themseives the National rOW! producers of ange. Tenry 1s Wiilin Roeky Mountain News, Henrv Villard of the Northera Pacific rail voad is sn oponly announced candidate for . Tho subsidized J ould be auite content with Mr. Viltard 1a the cabinet. Where S New ‘Tho large democratic majority 1n this tovn seems to have stirred the Salvation army to a realizing serse of the dangers which threaten tho community, We welcomo tho gene and high privates, the lads cud lasses, in their conclave and may they do the very best they can for us. At the samo time we have our doubts and fears vation is 2 s e That Mo al, Botes (Idado) Statesman. Dr. Miller of Omuha serenely takes unto himself the cregit for having effoctad a trade with the Mormons, by which Utah and Idaho were carried for the democrats, Hp must bo a queer sort of & man to take credit for something that never existed, for rosults that wera never attained. In Utah the domocratic majority was terribly roduced, while ‘in Idabo the democratic party was buried out of sight. e CLEVELAND'S DOUBLE D, Sioux City Journal: Tammany will get the offices just tho same, whether Cleveland swd “I'll be damned 1f I will’’ or not. Washington Post: Governor Flower is unable to understand wky there should be so wch commotion over Mr. Cleveland’s big "Dopn Minnaapolis Journal: Cleveland told Tam- many he'd be doubly damned bofors bo would give down the oMicos. Doss that en- title bim to the honorary degree of D.D.? Boston (Globe: Mr. Thomas G. Sherman ought tosco that the telephone which re- ported our Grover as usiug a big, big D is instantly vomoved and replaced by’ a more moral as well 8s more reliable viece of appu- ratus, Indianapolis Journal: One of the burning questions of tho hour in Now York 1s: “Did Mr. Cioveland say, ‘I will be doubly damned’ to Bosses Shechan and Croker That sort of swearing betrays & painful familiarity. . New York Press: The anti-snappers stiil swear that Mr. Cloveland swore, wherens the Tammany statesmen swear that he did nothing of tie kind. There seems to be a useless surplus of swearing over this ques- tion of historical truth, Milwaukoe Sentinel: There 1s one part of that Shearman story of Mr. Cleveland’s firm- ness which doss not give credence very easily. ThatMr. Cloveland is couragcous every schootboy Kuows; that he was profanc in his exhibition of courage is simply the uu- thinkabie. New York Recorder: Whether Mr. Cleve- land made use of a ‘'ouss” word at the famous Victoria hotel dinner or not isa question which impartial history has not yeu determined, but therais no doubt that the air of Tammany 15 today sulphurous with damnatory epithets B TRUIHS OFT VEILED IN JEST. Chicazo Pribune: observed the sporting editol “lsn’t the ‘wodgze' of two oppo: teams about y V-V-section us you ever saw of cruelty.” \editativoly, toot ball amplo of Cape Cod Ttom: She looked up at the cloek 1: and he “You are thinking'it is time for me to 20, With u sweet smile she answ “You could make money as & mind reade New Orlenns Picuyune: are found in music b ‘The bars of miusic Boston Transcript: A night larl is followed by the morning swallow Philadelphia Record: The man who is 1id- aled with bullets zenerally gives it up. Imira Gozotto nover secm Lo hi are buried, Jugson sayssome follows galned ground till they Atchison Globe: Call u friend’s attention to the burden on your back and he will com- fort you by usiine you to look at the one much beavier on hisown, Indianapolls Journal: “What is nolso nhout?” ns'ed the eity consin. T nswered the farmer's diwoghtor, us sho harkened to the chorus of the Dorkin and Plymouth Rocks, “Is another secret 1uld bare, all that Puck: Pursy—1' ing to put story office bulldins that will be ment to the Shelloy L you'll have to ) mighty imagingt've architeot, th Good Things Never Die Among the good things thav help to make enjoyable our puddings, creams and pastry, which have been used by millions of housekeepers for years, is Dr. Price’s Delicious Extracts of Lemon, Orange, Vanilla, etc. ‘These flavors di“er from all other extracts in their manner of preparation, quality of fruit used, their freedow from all injurious substances, their superior strength and delicate and agreeable taste. One trial proves their worth, slxtoen- Wl orna- 1o after o OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. England’s snpremacy in India Is again ooing threatenod, Russian aggression fin the Pamir and Russian intrigues in Afghan- istan tareaten to increase the diMculties of the central Asian problem. England, Russia, China. Afghanistan and Porsia are each in- terestod fn this quostion; and the probable course of the Muscovite is arousing much anxlety throughout Kurope. Recently it WAs aunounced from St. Patersburg that Colonel Yanof’s Pamir expedition would bo heard of no more if the Knglish government should give conclusive proof of its intention to pursus a liveral policy; as 1n that case Russia would bo certain to have all her “righteous” claims allowed, tho first of whichi is the possession of the headwaters of tho Oxus, This is equivalent to saying that it Russia should got all that sho dosires she would leave Kngland in poace. But Russia has violated both the Chinese and the Afghan frontiers; and it is not 1n England's vower to give away what belongs to China and Afghanistan, nor is it to her interest to stand oy while Russia is trving to coerce thom. It i3 uo doubt true. that Russia s much votter prepared for a forward movement in Asin than she was at the timo of the Penjduh incident 1n 1855 but sho 1s not yet propared for the greut strugulo that is to decide the question of supromacy in Asia. The exist ing systom of communication between Russia and central Asia is {ncomplete, sithough the progress made in Turkestan and tho Trans- caspian provinces has boen very considor- able. The population of IRussian Central Asin1s now about 7,000,000, controlled by a gacrison 41,000 strong; and as this aumber of troops would bave to bo roduced in the ovent of an invasion of India there would bo an {ucentive to revolt on tho part of tho Tarkestan tribes and tho T'ranscaspians Ono of Russin's dreams has been that if she should invade India tho native population would rise against their Auglo-Saxon ralers and welcomo the troops of the czar with open arms as their friends and deliverers; but she seems to have forgotten that mutiny may begin at home, and that the tvibes of “ranscaspia and Turkestan might soloct as an opportune hour for revoit the very timo when Russin's amuition aud earth-hunger should bave led her to start her armies dowu what hins been cailed the “historical slope.” ‘T'he oponiug of the Reichstag this yeur has been signalized by a speech from tho om peror, in which he brings tho weight and authority of his name and placo directly to tho support of his chancellor. Atter declar- ing that there is now no special oceasion in the condition of Ituropo for alarm, ko gocs on in the next sontence Lo insist upon the necessity, the “imperative duty,” of strougth- ening the defensiva capacity of the empire. Lkt is to say, it is not enough that tho pre: ent position of Germany should be main- tained. Itmust be improved by the with- drawal of still moro raen from productive in- 5Ly, and by the tmposition upon that 1ndus- a still heavier load of taxa- By way of compensation, It is rromised only that, whilo military servico is uraversal and compulsory, tho term of it shall be reduced to the minimum compati- blu with military efficiency. [ven so, it witl bo necessary to “open up new sourcos of rey- enue,” and this 1t Is proposed to do by in- croasing the tax upon boor ana liquor und by a heavy taxation of ‘“‘stock operations.” Doubtless these objects of taxation are well chosen, although the proposition that beer is a luxury would excite in many parts of Gormany a lively dissent. But tun effect of these repoated appsals Lo the Garman people for fresh sucrificos must bo to maks that practical people inquire, with renewed and sharpenod interest, what they have gained by the consohdation of (Garmany, the victory over Frauce, and the establishmont of the empire. Tho answer is not casy. They nave conquered Alsace and Lorraine, which after twenty yoars, they still hold by the tonure of conguest and no other. These provinces. held in spite of thomsclves are a source not of national strengch, but of na : As Great Britain would be strouger wit hout Ireland, oven so would Germany bo stronger without these disaifected and mutinous pos- sosslons. And get, in order to retain pos- sossion of provinces that do her immeasur- ably moro harm thun good, except from & strictly military point of view and by the strategic advantages of the fronuer they furnish, the German peonle are compellod to undergo greater burdens than they endured before they possessed the provinces. For, without doubt, the German possession of the provinces 1s the only potestial causo of war visible 1n Burope. If they wera noutral- 1zed, under a guarantes of all the powers, the Kuropean armaments might be 8> much lessencd as almost to disband the enormous armies that now exist. According to tho latest disoatches ro- ceived from Yoxohama thero scems no pros pect of any immediate settlement of tho serles of political crisises which have suc- ccoded one another 1 Japan sinco tho open- ing of the first National Logislature some Lwo ars ago. Krom the outsct & for $2.50 and ¢ as high as you want. suit. makes the pric you something nice, uys, wheo we close ut 10 p. w. { durance and a the new constitution has failed te gvo satisfaction to the larger por. ton of the paople. The cadinet at pres- ont is depandent on the wiil of the emperor, and not on that of parliament. Tho radioal party, which constitutos & Inrge majority both of the electorate and of the parliament ary reprosoctation, is detormined that thiy ull be altered, and that the ministey shal bo subservient primarily to the logislature, instead of to the mikado. The moro sober minded of the Japanese, who, however, find themsulves in a swall minority, would profer that the oxisting svstem should have a fair trial, and side with the emperor in shrink 1ng from allowing changes of govarnmeiut to be dependent on the oaprices of the lower house ‘The radicals bavo taken advantagoe of theit numerical superiority in tho latter to refuse 1o voto the necessary supplies for the eary ingon of the government until thelr de- mands are concodod, and the resuit s that there 18 a constant change of cabinets, which 18 productive of much confusion and publie jury, According to the latest advices Count Ito, who is onc of the most shrewd, energotic, avd, A tho samo Ume, unscrapu- 4 fous of Japaneso statesmen, ‘has now ac copted the task of forming an administra: & tion, and it is expected that 1t ho coutinues to find parliamont rocaleitrant ho may roc- ommend the empagor to adopt the oxtromely 4y fin du siecle method of a coup d’etat, and to & issue a decree susponding for sevoral yoars to come legislative government 1n Japan, 4 A St. Petorsburg correspondent says that g foreiguers in gonoral havo no adequate con- coption of the changes which i tho course of a few years have contributed to metamor- phose and regonerate the Russian army. The Procoss may ve trathifully describod as anow birth, Formerly, marvelous powers of on- courage which know no foar of death were the main characteristios of the Russian soldier, who whon abandoned to himselt had no wore initiativo than a log of wood. At present ho is carofully taught, trainod and drilled, Knows as much about | military technical mattors as the avérage Turopean soldier can assimilate, and still cul uvates the old qualities which alone would give him a vast superiority over somo of tho most highly eulogized troops of at least one gront powoer. Then as to numbers. A few veurs ago the infantry consisted of twoive rogiments of the uatd, sixteen rogiments of ¢ grenadiers and 165 rogimonts of the line. ‘6 Goueral Vannoffsky, the enterprising war 4 minister, has within a comparatively short timo added seventy-four reserve cadre bat. talions, which aro to serve as the nucleus vound which as many veserve regiments of two battalions each are to bo formed. Asa matter of fact, this has already boen done o with twontv-three of the reserve battalions, These facts should continually be borne in % mind by those who accuse Germauy and * Austria-Flungary of taking the wmitiative in imposing unbearable burdens on tho tax- A paviog populations. IRussia, whom no other * power would or contd attack, and who can searcoly pay her way, is actually compelling - ' her neighbors to equalize thewr chunces against her in war. e FOOT RALL 48 THE GIRLS SEE IT. Boston Courter. 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