Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 20, 1893, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. — ~ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ly B Ithout Sunday) One Year y !I M?.‘:Mny.(mn‘Vr’nr. . x hs Lty ay Hoe, ., 0, Ong Yo turday ‘eekly Boe, One Year OFFTURS. Omaha, The Beo Buflding.« South Omaha, corner N and 26th Streots. Council Rlaffs, 12 Pearl Street, Chicago Offien, 317 Chumber of Commerce. New York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bullding. Washirgton, 519 Fourteonth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and ditorial matter should be addressed: To the Faitor. RUSINESS LETTERS. All bustness Iettors and remittances should e nddressed to The Bec Publishing Co mpany, Omahn. Drafts, checks and postofiice orde 10 he made payable to the order of the con pany. Partles Jeaving the city for the summer can ent their address by leaving an oftice, " PUBLISHIN COMPANY. The Dee Chieng Tar DALY and SUNDAY D Chieago at the following places: Talmer house. Grand Pacific hotel. Auditorium hotel. Great Northorn hotol. 1s on salc In ells It 180 State street. N Files of T Rer can be seon at tho Ne- M’En bullding and the Adminisiration build- Ing, Exposition eronnds. e - 8 s Btate of Nebraska, ey of Dowitan. | Robert Hunter of Twy Bex oes solemnly swear that the act: THE DAILY Br: for e week ending June ‘was ns follow Bunday. Jun FowaE B, TECTUCK, ~/— | SWORN to befora me and_&ubseribed in 8Ear | my presence T June, 1893, —~ iy Public. TuE fact that Minister Blount has not resigned the Hawaiian mission has not prevented soveral prominent southern statesmen from publicly declining it. A LARGE part of Governor Crounse's vacation will doubtless be taken upin the study of the problem of inducing a B10,000 lawyer to accept a $2,500 judge- ship. A NEBRASKA editor insists that the Manufacturers and Consumers associa- Lion of this state commence a war on the trusts. What's the matter with the at- torney general of the state? Ir ERNEST STUHT will spit on his hands three times and tie another knot Into his scalp-lock he will probably be able to get a purchase on the court house with his patent Broatch tackle and lever. THERE will be ten applications for places in the internal revenue service under Collector North, to one for the vacancy on the district bench created by the resignation of Judge Davis. And the former places pay equally as well, Tow HAS any one heard anything of the enforcement of the law against the whisky and starch trust rebate system passed by the Nebraska legislature last winter. The enforcement of the law would matoerially injure the trusts.which are operating in this state. ‘WESTERN people will understand the seriousness of the drought in England from the statement that good hay readily sells for 340 a ton there. Unfortunately hay makes an unsatisfactory ballast for pn Atlantic'liner. Otherwise the ship- ents of the commodity would be heavy rom tho west. THE appointments of Thomas D. Rob- Inson to be surgeon-general, Frank Arbuckle to be recciver in the land offiee of Colorado, and of W. M. McMec- hen to be the new postmaster at Denver, affords unalloyed satisfaction to the straight-out or “white wings” faction of the Centennial state democracy., But the president’s selections are wormwood end gall to that faction that perched upon the political fence last fall, IT HAS been discovered that the code of rules recently promulgated by the State Board of Purchase and Supplies with so much ostentation were veally prepared by Superintendents Hay, Arm- strong and Mallalieu of the Lincoln, Boatrice and Kearney institutions res- pectively. The rules are all right, but the mombers of the Board of Purchase and Supplies have been shining in a borrowsd light ever since they accopted the credit for devising them. Now 17 is all over and no one should fesl unhappy. The Princess Kulalia wants the American people td have as pleasant memories of her as she will always have of them. No one has offended the princess and she has not Intended- to offend jany one. Prince Antoine has not been offended by any failure of attention to him, and has been Qelighted with his opportunities for pbservation. Altogether everything is lovely and the royal goose hangs high. THE proposed Methodist boycott of the ‘World's fair, if finally attempted, will fail because it does not appeal to gbdod old-fashioned Methodist common sense. Methodists do not refuse to patronize the railways and street cars on week days becsuse other people choose to ride on Sundays. Neither dothey keep away from public parks six days in the week because others visit them on the seventh. If the Methodists wish to make their boyeott & success they will show pru- dence and good judgment by limiting its operations to Sunday alone, THE annual meeting of the National Federation of Labor will be held at Chicago during the latter vart of August. The federation represents the ! wlapgest organizod force of working peo- ple in the United States, and the pro- cecedings of this convention during the progress of the World's faic will attract ial attention. That it will display 0 same wisdom and conservalivisw in its deliborations that have characterized its meotings in the past there is no reason to doubt, Tho proceedings may be made to yield immense benefit to the trades of which it will be composed throughout the country. CONGRESS OF BANKERS AND FINAN- CIERS. Tho deliberations of the congross of bankers and financiers which will meet in Chieago today and ocontinue through- out the woek, will undoubtedly com- mand the earnost attention of everybody who takes an interest in financial affairs. The congress will be attended by a large number of practical bankers, besides whom there will be present men of inter- national repute as financiers. Such a gathering cannot fail to contribute a great deal of most instructive mdtter to the current discussion of financial ques- tiony, all of which will receive consider- ation, and it is to be expected that its deliberations will exerta very decided inflnenco upon the public mind. There could not be a more auspicious time for the meeting of such a congress. The country is at presont in need of the very wisest counsol to be had on the questions that this gathering of learned financiers and practical bankers will discuss. There is a great deal of ill- digested and misleading opinion being supplied to the publie in the current dis- cussion of financial matters, the correc- tion of which could not fail to do much good. The national legisiature will meet in oxtra session within the next three months for the purpose of considering the financial condition and taking action for remodying the difficul- ties which are held to be a menace to the prosperity and welfare of the country. Tho congress at Chicago may prove to be an important influence in helping to make clear. the wise and proper course to be pursued by the con- gross at Washington. The indications are that the latter body will be in need of all the instruction it can obtain in order to enable it to adopt a judicious policy, or to prevent it from adding to the difficulties and complications of the financial situation. The congress at Chicago will be able to discuss the questions that will be pre- sented to it free from all political or partisan considerations. The bank- ers and financiors who will partici- pate in it will understand that the deliberations will be of world-wide in- terest and they may reasonably be ex- pected to broaden and clevate their views accordingl, They will advocate policies and principles not with refer- ence to what has been done or what is intended by ono political party or the other, but from the point of view of practical results, and they will not con- fine their observation to our own coun- try, but will extend it to all the great financial and commercial nations. We shall get the views of able men from every country with which the United States has extensive trade relations and we shall get much valuable in- formation as to the financial methods of those countries. For these rea- sons the deliberations of the con- gress will have a strong claim to the respectful and serious consideration of the American people. It ought to be an entirely safe prediction that the weight of opinion in the congress will be very largely in favor of that financial system which oxperience has shown to be nec- essary to the maintenance of a sound and stable currency. WANT THE AMERICAN MARKET. It will be remembered that at the international reciprocity convention re- cently held at St. P’aul the Canadian delegates were unanimous in favor of reciprocal trade relations between the Dominion and the United States, though they generally admitted the difliculties in the way of such an arrangement grow- ing out of the necessity of a recognition by the Dominion of the commercial inter- ests 0! Great Britain, The speaker of the Ontario legislature, in a recent interview, said that tariff reform is all very well in its place, but what the farmers of Canada want above every- thing else is free access to the American markot, both for buying and selling; that is to say, the widest possible measure of free trade with their neighbors. Before the pres- ent tariff law of this country went into effect the products of the Canadian farm which found a ready and profitable mar- ket in the United States amounted in value to $12,000,000, whereas the value of theee products exported to Great Britain amounted to only 700,000, This shows why it is that the Dowminion farmers are anxious for a resumption of reciprocity with the United States on the most liberal terms, regardless of British in- torests, Their trade with this country four years ago was cighteen times as great as with Groat Britain, with every assurance .that it would increase from year to year, but since a tariff was put on their products they have almost lost the American market without having increased their trade with Great Britain. No wonder that these farmers are largely in favor of an- nexavion, A liberal convention, to be composed of delegates from every province in the Dominion, will meet at Ottawa today. It is understood that the annexation question will be the most conspicuous in the attention of the convention, notwith- standing the efforts of the officeholding element to exclude it. The French lib- erals, It 1is sald, and a good many liberals from Ontario have come to the conclusion that the time is ripe for independence, which is annexatioh by another name. The parties are preparing for the next general election, in which the question of annexation promises to play no insig- nificant part, though it is not expected that its advocates will get more than a small minority in the parliament. ‘What the opponents ol annexation are hoping for is such & change in our tariff snd such a friendly disposition on the part of this country toward reciprocity s will do away with any excuse for seeking political union with the United States. It is quite possible that they may be disappointed in both these rospects, The Cleve- land administration has not yet shown any purpose to wholly re- move the tariff barriers and it is by no means certain that the Dominion gov- ornment will be disposed to offer such terws of reciproeity as this government will be willing to accept. If it is ex- pected that the present administration will make any sacrifice of American in- torests in order to obtain closer trade with the Dominion it may as well be THE_OMAHA_DAILY BEF: dismiseed. If the farmers of Canada would enjoy the bonefits of the American market they must induce their governs ment to offer more equitable torms of reciprocity than it has yet presented, TOO MANY PAPER PROJECTS. Omaha must do something tangible to keep from dropping to the rear in the race for commercial supremacy. We have had altogether too many great projects which never materializo, except on paper. We have had several ter- minal railway projects, elevator projects, hotel projects and last, but not least, great canal projects that waore to have been fairly under way. Some of them have, of course, been windbound by ad- verse financial air currents, but that has by no means been the only obstacle en- countered. The trouble with several feasible projects that would help to build up Omaha has been the lack of homeo support, or rather the disposition of our capitalists to pull back rather than help to drive ahead. It is right and proper for solid moneyed men to keep out of reckless speculation, but no really mer- itorious project should be allowed to go to the wall for want of public spirit. We are not disposed to particularize, but we all know that the greatest drawback to Omaha's progress has been and still is a lamentable want of concord and ¢ v-ope- ration among men who have the largest means at their command and could have done for Omaha what Jim Hill has done for St. Paul and Duluth, and what the Pullmans, Armours, Pecks and Mar- shall Fields havo done for Chicago. The opportunities for public spirited millionaires to quadruple their capital have been just as great in Omaha as in other promising western cities. The Creightons and the Kountzes could have owned the Union Pacific road just as Stanford, Crocker and Huntington own the Central and Southern Pacific. Omaha capitalists own oxtensive interests in the Wyoming oil fields and they could by this time have rivaled the Rockefel- lers and Flaglers had they organized a company and put into operation a pipe line from the oil ficlds to Omaha. What has been done by some men of enterprise, push and daring can and will be done again. The opportunities for building up Omaha are abundant. What we need now is concerted action by men who have made their hundreds of thou- sands in Omaha and ought to be willing to reinvest it for the benefit of Omaha. It is perhaps right and proper in this connection to give due credit to the men who have established the great stock yards and packing houses at South Omaha as well as to the men who are now trying to establish a Manufacturing center at East Omaha by bridging the viver and providing extensive terminal facilities for railway traffic. This pro- ject has already passed the problematic stage and with ample eastern financial backing cannot fail to prove a source of material growth and prosperity to Omaha. AMERICAN SECURITIES ABROAD. One of the most favorable indications of returning confidence is shown in the improving demand abroad for American securities. A considerable part of the demand upon this country for gold dur- ing the past year, and perhaps for a tonger perind, has come from the return of our securities by foreign holders, in- duced either by fear regarding financial conditions here or because what seemed to be more profitable investments were offered elsewhere. It is probable thata large amount of English capital which had been invested in American stocks found its way to Australia, and very liicely more of it would have gone in the same direction but for the financial dis- asters in that quarter of the world. The Australian failures have been a very se- vere lesson to English investors, and while not quite as serious in their conse- quences as the Argentine collapse which carried down. the great banking house of the Baring Brothers and the effects of which are still felt, quite bad enough to induce English capitalists to place their capital elsewhere. It will doubt- less be some years before the investing class of Great Britain will be disposed to again risk much in Australia, and mean- while it is not unreasonable to expect that they will turntheir attention rather more freely than they have done fora year or 80 past to American securities. Of course a great deal will depend upon the future financial policy of the United States, and it need hardly be sald that events here are being very closely watched by foreign financiers. The question as to what this country may do regarding silver is undoubtedly one of groat interest abroad, but there is apparently a growing feeling of con- fidence that there will be nothing done to make the situation worse than it is and that in any event the public credit will be maintained. The doginant sontiment in KEurope, or at any rate in England, wnquestionably is that there ought to be a radical change in our policy regarding silver, and until there is such a change it is to be expected thatinvestments in Amer- ican securities will be made with caution, but the fact is well understood abroad that there are really no safer or more advantageous investments, Foreign holders of approved American stocks have never suffered any serious or per- manent loss through them, and there is no very substantial reason for appre- honding that they may do so in the future. Those socurities that have be- hind them the inexhaustible and steadily developing resources of the country may experience variations in speculative value, but they cannot long remain depreciated and are almost certain to ultimately become profitable. With an improving financial condition abroad, as shown by the latest advices, there Is reason for the opinion that the bottom of the financial depression has been reached. ST THE outlook for the market that will be afforded farmers for their corn crop this full seems enccuraging, no matter how large the yield may be. What with the demand that is likely to arise from the old world for corn food from prefer- ence, 1ts use as & factor in the manufac- ture of beer, aud its utilization as a sub- stitute for the deficient wheat supply, it will doubtless also supply the deficiency that is likely to arise in the rice crop. Reliable reports on this season's rice erop are by no means gneouraging. The acroage and promised outeome in North Carolina and Georgty e considerably below those of lnst yeas, In Lounisiana, along the Mississippl river and in other old parishes there some lossening in acroage, though in the. southwest the culture is being prosecuted on a larger scalo than ever bofore, the number of planters being greatér by 15 or 20 per cent. South Carolida 1§ also up to the average, but the promisq in other states is unfavorable, excepting perhaps Texas, where the prospect isonly fair. THE single tax theory is pushing it- self to the front in Towa and while there is no probability that it will find a lodgment in the statute books it is inter- esting to note that the commission au- thorized by the last general assembly to revise the revenue laws of that state are considering a bill submit- ted for their inspection by the single taxors, Their bill provides that prop- erty shall be listed into threo classes, viz: land values irrespective of improve- ments, capital and personal property. Tt further provides that the board of super- visors of any county shall, upon the petition of at least five per cent of the voters, submit a proposition to collect the necessary revenues from one or more of these classes. The conservative people of the west who naturally look with disfavor upon the single tax theory would hardly be surprised at the intelligence that it was gaining ground in Kansas, that state already famous for its impractical ex- periments, but they hardly expect the people of Iowa to lend it countenance. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has retreated to the classic shades of Buzzards Bay and the place hunters in Washington may now swarm over the White house grounds to their hearts content. The Dilference. Globr-Democrat, Heretofore in this country real panics have been started by business suspensiors, but Just now business suspensions aro_caused by an artificial panic. Quite a differeace. What was cause in 1873 is purely effect in I NG The Clouds Roll By. Cincinnatt Commercial. The atmosphere of the financial world 18 gradually clearing. It will never be abso- lutely clear until the black cloud of silver that hangs over the Treasury is dissipated. It is a cloud whose silver lining serves only o emphasize the storm it enfolds. e Campaigning o4 Dea Philadelphia Record. A lively campaign over the prohibitory liquor question is predicted in lowa next fall. But the people of Towa, like those of Maine, are becoming reconciled to the situa- tion. While the prohibitiodists rejoice in their law, the others get ' their liquor with- out any trouble, and the saloon keepers pay no license for selling if Suicidal New Orlea The proper way of working for the better- ment of the silver industry is clearly to pro- mote an international agregment which will secure to the white metal meral recogni- tion, The disasters attending the Sherman Iaw prove that an attempt, to settle this proolem for ourselves irrespe>tive of foreign action is sulcidal in the extrgme, Eetnaa It's an Acknowiedgment of Error. Wisner Chronlele. The report comes from. Lincoln that the Board of Public Lands. and Buildings has formuluted & new set of rules regulating the furnishing of supplies to the various state institutions ana the cndorsing of vouchers. The disclosures of the recent impeachment case has probably opened their eyes to the need of a reform in the method of transact- ing the board’s business. e ey A Fight for the Right, Greeley Oitizen, Too much credit cannot be given Tur Owmana Bee for its honest course in the im- peachment case. The great republican organ of the west, its editor a member of the national republican committee and standing high in the councils of the party, stood nobly for the right and thereby has incurred tho enmity of those and their henchmen whom the majority of the people believe with Maxwell are guilty as charged. S et The Muscles and the Bloycle, New York Sun, Enough is known to warrant pareuts and others who have control over the young of both sexes to encourage them to use the bicyelo subject to the single restriction of never pressing their exertions to the limit of their muscular ability or protracting them to the point of extreme fatigue. A whole- some fatigue 1s that which, after rest, leaves an appotite for meals and is followed by sound, dreamless slumber. If these con- ditions do not follow then there is some- thing wrong somewhere, and the loose screw is likeliest to be excess. Let Grover This, Boston Herald (Dem.) The discussion of a third term for Presi- dentuCleveland affords occupation for cer- tain editorial writers and perhaps amuse- ment 1o certain people who read their arti- cles. It would bo premature, if there were any importance to be attached to the sugges- tion, but it is hardly worthy of serious con- sideration at any time or in any aspect. There is a conservative tradition of the American ple that forbids a third term for a president, and it has all the force of absolute law. This was settled some yoars since on a well remembered occasion, and nothing could well be moro idle than at- tempts to reverse the verdict, —————— Ruining Grttysburg, Philadelphia Ledger. Another battle of (;nnynou?; is needed for the protection of the old field. The elag- tric railroad company is destroying land- marks and changiug the face of the country right in the old lines of battle in a way to arouso tho indignation of every patriot, President Cleveland could not do a more popular thing than interforo for the protec- tion of the field. If necessary, the entire property should be condemned for a national cemetery. The man whuudn o way under the law to throttle this “réitrond company, and compel it to abandon its selfish purpose, will deserve well of his countty. Oniy One Way, su sWin, Holdrege Nugget, The campaign this fall will be one of great fmportance to the IWpuhli;:an,Jnfly in the state of Nebraska. It is its 'duty'to select the best and cloanest men ¥ its ranks for office. The scrambles made by the indepen- for & place on their tigketin the past wiil not be a marker to the horde of oftice soekers that are beginning to figure on an office mow. A great mln{ ‘of ‘those who joined the populists becatse they thought it was policy have not.get asked for any- l.h(n%‘ 'hey have now served their appren- ticeship and are now 10 press their claims, and Republicans will carry off the shw 1f they mominate good, clean candi- ates. —————— The Root of Prosperity, Indianapolis Journal. After ail that may be said about business prosperity, it depends largely upon the vol- ume of the consumption of the groat staples produced by farm and factory and the ability of the people to pay for them. Consequently 80 lou&u the wage earners of the country have full employment and good wages tho volume of consumption will be large and gen- eral business will be good. By as much as wages aro reduced tho capacity of the people to purchase is cut down aud production must be reduced, To curtail production closes factories and reduces the acres cultivated. 1f the European countries which depend uron other lands for 8 market for thelr sur- plus manufactures would increase their wages one-third they would create a new TUBSDAY, JUNE 90, 1808, homo markot bester than the open markets of the world, 1f the free trade pledge of tho party in power should bo earrled out: wo shall bo foroed todemonstrato the truth of the forogoing statomonts. e NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, G. W. Hunt has bocome ths editor of the Norfolk Herald. Germg people are to vote on A proposition 1o fssue bonds to build a new school building. For the second time in _two years C. N. a‘ickor(ng of Steele City has lost his barn by ro. The Thayer county Christian Endeavor societies are holding a convention at Belvi- dere this week. Douglas county has a new paper, published at Millard, It is called the Courier, and is creditably edited by W, T. Detweiler, The first annual race of the York county wheelmen will be run Thursday, and a long list of prizes has been hung up to be con- iested for by the bykers of that county. A traveling fake doctar who recently vis- ited Beaver Crossing, has the womon of that place after him, and they brand him as a villain. He left town after barely escaping a shower of rotten eggs. Guide Rock is having a mad dog seare. A rabid canine rushed through the streets the other day and bit cattle and dogs by the wholesale before it could be killed, Now everybody in town is gunning Tor dogs. Nebraska only misses by a fow miles hav- ing had born in her confines one of tho curi- osities of the age. C. W. Boyerof Tully, Rawlins county, Kan.,, has a colt with six foet and it walks on all of them. The ani- mal's front legs are double from the knees down and separate below the fetlock. The colt is three woeks old and healthy. A 9-yoar-old son of A. H. Mantkor of Eim Creek filled a fruit can with powder and then dropped a lighted match therein. He failed to get action immediately, and bend- ing over peeped into tho can to see what the indications were. Justas he got his face near to the can_ the explosion occurred, which resulted in burning his oyes and face hnnl{l. Tt is thought, however, he will not 1ose his eyesight. The Chase Manufacturing. company of Weeping Water has made an assignment, turning over its entire assets to its credit- ors. The company has been manufacturin, sewing machines, wind-mill towers an small implements about two years. It has been known for some time that the company was hard pressed, and the assignment does not cause much surprise. An offico was for- merly maintained at Lincoln, where some of the stockholders and ofticers reside. ez - by PEOPLE AND THINGS. William Deeker of Hollidaysburg, Pa., who is 82 years of age, has started to walk to the World's fair. ‘The Nebraska man who has 100 acres of wustard seed in bloown will make it hov for his patrons. Don’t you make a mistake. The jag cure is voted a failure in Towa. The strongest decoction of bichloride is un- able to counteract the effect of bootleg or drug store juice. Mr. Chauncey Depew insists that raiiroads should reduce rates to the fair. The roads over which Chauncey holds dominion main- tain rates at the top notch. William Waldort Astor’s London paper is earnestly advising Britons to stay away from the World's fair; and perhaps, after all, it will be just as well for the Engiishmen not to soe a counwry that turnsout such men as Mr. Astor. The wealthiest negro woman in the United States has just died. She was Mrs. Amanda Dickson Toomer of Augusta, Ga., aad she in- herited nearly $500,000 from her father, who was o wealthy white farmer of Hancock county in that State. Attorney General Olney, who, with Speaker Crisp, was invited to deliver the ‘“long talk” at Tammany hall July 4, has written_a letter regretting his inability to do so. Mr. Olney will be in Boston that day in pursuance of a business engagement made @ month or 80 ago. President Aylesworth of the Drake Uni- versity at Des Moines recently accepted the Prohibition nomination for governor. Now the trustees of the university have requested him to drop the nomination or the presi- dency, as they don't want the institution drawn into politics. There is joy among the offico seskers in Washington over President Cleveland's in- creased amiability. He is always in a good humor; is apparently always glad to see them and makes a call at the white house pleasant all around. Ho cracks a great many jokes and laughts heartily. Of course they laugh too. Lord Morris, who regards the Irish ques- tion as a case'of ‘“a quick-witted people be- ing ruled by a stupid people,” is a native of Galway, He succeeded Lord Fitzgerald asa law lord. The title carries with it an in- come of $30,000 & year, but is not hereditary. Tt is, in fact, the only’ democratic feature to be found in the house of lords. The marquis of Lorne, who is governor of ‘Windsor castle, has taken it into his head to fortify that venerable vile. He has put a lot of old brass six-pounders into the rouna tower and is making other war-liko prepara- tions. It is believed thav his object is merely to muke the castle more ploturesque, rather than to attempt seriously to strengthen it from a military point of view. The death is announced at Paris of Cap- tain Soufflot, who was one of the very few survivors of the Grande Armee. Had his life been psolonged until December next, the gallant veteran would have reached his hun- dredth year. He was the nephew of the architect who built the Pantheon, and en-, listed in 1810 at the age of 17. e was made’ o commander of the Legion of Honor last year, Reov. J. R. Cashen, pastor of a church in Swinburne, near Benton, Pa., was presented with a purse a month ago by his congrega- tion. He bought a pacing horse, and a few days ngo got anothor purse of $300 from one of his deacons by beating the latter's horse inawile spin, Now his flock wants Mr. Cashen to return the monoy, but the pastor saysas thero was no bet, only a forfeit, he will stick to the lucre, and an effort is being mado to have his resignation called for. When Lioutenant R. E.{Peary sails noxt week for the Arotic regions he will take pigeons along for use as mossengers in con- nection with his exzplorations. The plan as at present outlined is to place on board the steamship Falcon a cote similar to that car- ried by the United States practice ship Constellation in the cruise of last summer, with the expectation that the birds placed in it here will know it as home sby the time the vessel reaches port in Greenland, The cote is then to be transferred to shore and the birds used as messengors to it until the winter sets in, For the winter the birds will be transferred to & loft fn the peak of the house Lieutenant Peary is taking along for his headquarters, the young birds to be drafted from this w the spring for whatever work he plan’s for the summer's campaign, ——— SOMEBODY SALTED IT DOWN, Five Thousand Dollar Oampalgn Fund Which Never Renched 1ts Destination, Savr Lakg, U. T., June 19.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bre. | —General James S, Clark- son, the Iowa politician, and Colonel Isaac Trumbo of California, have been in Salt Lake sevoral days investigating charges made in the Tribune concorning the dis- posal of $5,000 of Utah's contribution to the republican national campaign eommittee. Bishop Hymen B, Clawson of the Mormion church, who was inatructed with the hand- ling of the $5,000, gave the money, it Is charged, to Trumuo to turnover to Clarkson. Trumbo says the money he received was for California, where it was used by him. Clark- son says ho knows nothing of the §5,000, yet the receipts for that amount sre counter- signed by him. A $5,000 draft was discovered to beina Salt Lake bank, made out to the order of J. 8. Clarkson. The politicians will remain in Salt Lake a week with the hope of straight- ening cut the scandal, which promises some sensational developments. Clarkson and Trumbo claln that the $5,000 was received and reported for by the national republican campaign committee, but Cnairman Thomas H. Carter of Moutana, who receutly visited Salt Lake to unravel the mystery, says posl- tively that the #5000 has never been re- celved by the national committee. ey Not Forgotten. Truth: Eaton Saltzer—Whero are those oysters I ordered on the half shellt Waiter—Don't get impationt, sah; we're drefille sho't on shells, but yo're next. CLERGYMEN DISCUSS TAXES Omaba Ministerial Association Grapples with Honry George's Theory, VESTED RIGHTS Of OWNERSHIP DEBATED Rev. Frank Foster Speaks In the AfMrma. tive, While Rev. J. M. Wilson Differs with Him the Subject, on The Omaha Ministerial association took a whirl at Mr. Henry George's theory of single tax yesterday in the Kountze Memorial church. The subject was introduced by Rev. Frank Foster of the Emanuel Baptist church, who supported the singlo tax theory, The opposite side was taken by Rev. J. M. Wilson of the Castellar Presby- torian church. Rev. Fostor presented the objectionable foatures of the present indirect method of collecting the rovenues of the government. He struck the taniff system of the United States several hard raps and held that the sytsom of collecting rovenues by the assessment of customs duties and tariffs was a cumbersome and burdensome way ot raising money with which to defray the expenses of the govornment. He favored a direct tax and a land tax only. Under the present arrangoment of taxing porsonal proporty the spoakor held that there was an immense amount of shirking. Proporty was not assessed at anything like its value and the burdens of taxation wore vory unevenly dis- tributed. Consumer Carrins the Buardon. He held that the consumer was the party who invariably got the heavy end of the burden in the matter of taxes. Amer- ican ownership of transatlantic vossesl and the American merchant marine business had been completely paralyzed, he said, by a systom of tariffs that wore imposed for the alleged purpose of benefit- ing the very business that had been de- stroyed. Ho held with Henry Georgo that all taxes should be maae to boar lightly upon the producing classes, and that taxes should be collected in tho easiest and cheapest pos- sible manner, putting no citizen to disad- vantage. All taxes bearing upon manufac- tured goods were evidently paid by the consumer. The levying of taxes on manufactured goods always raised the price, whereas the placing of ‘taxes on land would have the opposite _effect and would prevent speculators from holding lands they did not wish to use simply as a moans of realizing an Under the the s arrangement, he claimed, wo would not see Omaha tored over thirty square miles of territory, but the houses would all bo conveniently lo- cated. The town would be consolidated. There would be no capitalists making a for tune out of vacant land by sitting around waiting for other people to build up around their property. The speaker held that no man had a moral right to hold land that he did not use or occupy. He touched upon the r_m'crminty of the present method of taxa- fon. “‘Wo are told,” sald the speaker, “that the Board of Edueation is likely to come out about 50,000 behind next uary unless thero is a grea s increase of saloon business and of revenues collected from other sources of crime within the next few moaths. We have no assurance under present arrangements as to how much money is going to be collected for the purposo of boar- ing the expensesof our state, our munici- paliwy or even our government. But give us a single land tax and wo will know exactly how much to count on.” The spoaker said he was nolJ!h‘mflng for government owner- shipof land. That was not necessarily n part of the Henry George theory. Difference of Opinton. The negative side of the quedtion was vig- orously represented by Rev. J. M. Wilson, He opnosed every step in the Georgo thoory from start to finish. He claimed that the tariff issue was in reality nota part of the discussion, but since the speaker who opened the debate saw fit to ring it in he would de- fend it. The tariff system had been the means of building up many of the most useful and beneficial industries of this country, and had made it possible for people to enjoy greator independence and to supply their every day wants with more of the ne- cessities and luxuries of lifo at home than they could have enjoyed if they had de- ramled on foreign countries for these things. Rev. Wilson believed that Henry George had the best of intentions when he advocated the single tax theory, but he was simply advocating somothing that would be ruinous to the country if adopted. As a matter of fact, Mr. Wilson held, pau- Kurism in England and in the United States ad diminiched during the past ten years. Wages were higher than thirty years ago and the people as & whole were in better condition, Farmers Would Become Nomadlo. Touching the single tax theory Mr. Wilson said that the revenues of the ocountry were all raised from land taxes, the poor, farmers of the country would be obliged to give up their holdings and become wanderors on the fuce of the earth, swelling the” number of pAupors and rost- less people instead of wreating an improvement in the condition of the country. The taxes would be 0 high that overy man who owned a sinkle Tot in Omaha valuod at 8,000, for instance, wonld be oblized to n{ upon that simple plece of property at loast 160 every yoar in The result, would be that all lots and s would eventually deift into the hands of monopolios and rents would be raised to extortionate figures. Such a course would break up the howes of th. 1 believe in the right his home, oarnost, people have a place on earth that they eall home. That is more to them than it 18 to anybody else. When you break up that idea you striko a blow at ll the noble institutions of civilizoa socioty. 1 beliove the Henry Georye thoory would lead us right straight into n common ownership of fand, a govern ment ownership and control of iand, and in iy estimation that would bo a calamity." Vested Rights of Ownership, T would like to know how it happens that itis rightand bost for the entire nation 1 own Tand if it isnot right for a single fndiviaual to own land. If the people, tho gove ernmont, can own land, why cannot a stato own land? And if it is right and propar for a state to own land then a county could own it. If the peoplo of acouaty can own it then the people of onc township, say fifty persons, could hold land and finally you como right back to tho rights of the ndividual and find that as a matter of jus- tice and equity ono individual has just as much Fight to ownership of land as a hun- dred or a thousand or a million individ- uals. There ‘is o good deal of non. senso about this business of making land a difforent spocies of property from build- ings. Ifaman cannot own land ho cannot ownanything. How can you claim a building or even the coat that is on your back if you cannot own the ground upon which you hive? The George theory would reduce ‘the vom- mon_peoplo to a state of serfdom. They would be obliged to do as the ruling powor in the country directed and such a thing as a home would be out of the question” The aMrmative was given fiftoen minutes in which to oloso the arguments, and al- though the ministers preses were evi. dently anxious to take the matter up in general discussion, they decided to give the rost of the time at_their disposal to Rev. B, J. Dupuy of Paris, France, who was present and is interested in the work of evangeliz ing France. The learncd and interestin gentloman talked for half an hour in pro- senting the work of the association he rep- resents, ——— BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE, §t. Louts Post: Tho lawn mowor cut Is not s0 popular as it once was. Thore aro flies on it. Baltimore American: In some rospects Bal- timoro is much slower than {ts sistor cities. For Instance, it s no rans on its hanks. Philadelphi: From DParls comes runiors that a e dressing fashions the chignon is about to go up head again, Rats! The cut worm that fs 1s callod agrotididio by 11t something else. Nell-Who v ammer at Clan nith was the b tho most rings Faston Expross: destroying the the sclentists, Somerville Joury When o girl fiest Dbegins to wear long drossos tho advont of the mosquito soason dovsi't seem nearly so droad- ful to her as 1t did only twelve short morths bofore. St. Paul Globe: The whisky trust, which wissuppased to b on the briukof death. turus out to be full of spirit. There 1s a man In this :4]1‘)(!,“»\!. he won't even Dansville Breezo town who hates whis) B0 to see a tight ropo w ms to he about the onsequenco whoso stand= upon the maintenance of el Troy Pross: Our only nation of an. ing doesn’t. depon & war footing. Dotroit Free Press: A stoely blue oye e sald to Indicate a covetous disposition, whilo & Dblack eye frequently indicates that 1ts pos- sessor g0t more thun he wanted. . Philadelphia Rocord: Clty Editor—Wade through this sormon of Do Longtulk's and see what's in it; it's protty long. Assistunt-That's all right. T can wado through that oasy cnough; {Usnot very deep. MUTUAL COMPLIMENTS, Harper's Bazar. Ho sl she was so lovely thut 1t she went to the fa Noone would look at other things Whilo she was staying there. Whereon upon this tlattery (he maiden stralghtway sat, And sald If ho went out thero, too, They'd rent him for a flat. S N A FLE.TING JOY. Clothier and Furnisher. Soon the maidens will bo going Where the ocenn breeze Is blowing, And with freckied cheoks aglowing They will dance along the shore; And the youth on his vacation, With his hoart wll palpitation, Will engago in deop filrtation With the girls who've gone botore. ‘With his necktie all a flutter And a flannel sult quite utrer, Words of fervent love he'll mutter As they walk aloifg the sand, And with rosy 1ips all smiling A5 tho timo thoy aro bogulling, Sne will 1isten to him piling Up the love at his command. And he'll think himself in clover, As he dreams at midnight of her, But when, his vacation over, Back to town and toil ho goos, He will not be s0 elated As he views the ever-hated Heaps of high, accumulated mn- for ,(’f(llly Summer clothes. BROWNING, KING Largest Manufacturers and Rotallers ol Clothing In the World. This is the Way To dress up if you ars going jin swimming We have an elegant line of bathing suits at very moderate prices. All well made goods and guaran- teed not to be waterproof. Everything that is stylish in men's or children’s wear you will find in some one of our many depart- ments. The workman- ship and the fabrics used in the make up of our suits are not to be found outside tailor shops. We havs a knaok of selling at about half tailors prioess.