Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 21, 1893, Page 4

4 === THE E. RUSEWATER, Rditor [N ot ot PURLISHED EVERY MORNING [ - - TTERMS OF SURSCRIPTION, Datly Bee (without Sunday) Ono Yoar.. 8,8 00 | Jaily and Sunduy, One Year weee 10 00 Bix Monthe. T 5 00 Three Months, 3 250 Banday Bee, One Year, .. 200 llllwf;l e, Ong Year, 1560 eekly Htec, One Yonr 100 OFFICES, alm, The Beo Bullding. th Ol corner N an Council Blufe, 12 Pearl St Chicngo OMee, 817 Cham e New York, Kooms 18, Building. Washington, 513 Fourtoenth Stroet. CORRESPONDENCE. ANl communi Ing to nows and editorial muttor sh ssea: To the Editor RUSINESS LETTERS, ATl business lotters and remittances shonld Yo addressed 1o The Beo Pabiishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, checks o postofiice orders 10 bo made payablo to the order of the com- 1 26th Streets. of Uommorce. 14 and 15, Tribune lenving tie ety for the summer can their address by leaving an ord; THE - in Chieago. and SUNDAY HEE 13 on sale In ollowing place THE DAL Ohicago at th Palmer house, Grand Pacific hotol, Auditgriun hotel. Gront Northorn hotel. Goreotol, Lelund hotul. Tiles of Tk BEr can b seen at the Noe- braska butlding and the Administration build ing, Exposition grounds. " SWORN STATEME £tate of Nobr: ENT OF CIRCULATION. a0, b Georgo 11, Tzschuek Ashing compi notual ofrenliilo i Augst | , August 13 BER Pib- that the ALY TR for the week 18 f0110WN: i Averago Cireutation for July, 1803, Tie New York « populists have adopted a platform which is composed in tho true calamity style. $DERS of Sunday openin World’s fair are now find than needles in at the more difficult to stack. 1 WHILE Chicago is talking so much of the Columbian museum, Omahé might Dbestir herself in behalf of her proposed museum, 10w democaats are now looking for » gubernatorial candidato who is willing to be sacrificed with the loast manifesta- tion of disuppointment IT 18 now clear that either the at- torneys for fhe plaintiffs or those for the defendants in the railway injunction pro- ceedings have been making some tall misrapresentations of fact. ToDAY should see the tennis champion- Bhips for the state of Nebraska decided. The winners will no doubt feel more elated than the successful candidates in the forthcoming fall elections. THE maharajah of Kapurthala and his party have gazed upon the beauties of an American congress and are ro- ported to have been greatly pleased with it. What a pity that they did not buy it and take it home with them. REPRESENTATIVE citizens in various large cities are meeting together and are discussing means for securing work for the unemployed. Would it not be advisable for business men in this vicin- ity to show a little more interest in the welfare of the unfortunate laborer? IF THERE is anything in the petition of tho railway attorneys praying for an injunetion to prevent the members of the State Board of Transportation from en- foreing the maximum freight rate law that has not yet been denied, now is the time to call attontion to the point. THE presont French el spond to the election of presidential electors with us, since the new parl ment is to choose the succossor to Pr dent Carnot. But France this time has notequalled the general tement cus- tomary during our presidential tions. tions corre- elee- PAWND in New York are not allowed by statute to charge more than 25 per cent per annum on the money ad- vanced on pledges. Some pecuniary ad- vantage could be secured by them in these times il they would but give up the pawnbroker's business and loan money on call to the brokers on Wall streot. THE oldest man in Towa is said to smoke, chew and drink; to swear like a pirate; to bonoted for gallantry, and never to lose an opportunity to flivt with the girls. If there aro any young men in this vicinity who wish to live to a ripe old age, hore is an example which they ought not to be averse to follow. THE free silver advocates have been making a great deal of nofso. To coun- torbalance this it is proposed to hold a national eonvention of representative business men at Washington in the in- terest of a prompt repeal of the Shor- man silver purchuse law, The lines of battle ave daily becoming more sharply drawn. WHEN the Burlington officials or stockholders are called to the stand to testify in tho injunction cases it will be a rovelation to the people. They will be compellod to explain by what proc of approved financiering the roads were enabled to pay a net wnnual dividend of from 20 to 25 per cent on stock watered to the extent of over 45,000,000, THE Burlington road, since its advent into Nebraska, has been the recipient of nearly 3,000,000 acres of Nebraska lands. This vast domain, in connection with fully $600,000 in local bond subsidios, ag- gregate in value an amount equal to half the cost of construction of all that sompany’s lines within the state. In view of this unprecedented donation it 1lly bee mes the Burlington to contest the right of the state to impose regula- tions for fair and reasonable freight rates. Nebraska has treated that road with great generosity and it ought not to be necessary for our people to sue for fair treatment at its hunds. LOUS PARLIAMENTARY SCHEME, { Tt is now stated on reliable authovity | that tho senators who avo. exerting | might and main to pravent the repeal of the Sherman silver purchase law until | after they are assured of logisiation still more favorable to the silver owners than that now on our statute’ books have hatched a scheme by which they will be able to a test of their strength without risking a vote upon unconditional repeal. The plan as out- | lined in the dispatches hingos upon the Voorhees bill, which has been reported to the senate from the finance commit- tee, and which it is understood will be pushed forward in advance of the Wil- son bill, which is to come from the house. What the silver advocates in the sen- | ate are aiming to accomplish is substan- tially this: They will transform the Voorhees biil, which provides merely for the issue of national bank notes up to the par value of the bonds deposited with tho secretary of tho treasury as security for their redemption, that the author himself will not be able to recog- nize it. Asit now stands it does not vefer to the Sherman silver purchase law and consequently contains no pro- vision for its repeal. By offering an amendment providing for the free coin- age of silver at whatever ratio scemns most likely to obtain a majority of the votes in {the house the silver senators will be able to discover who are acting with them and who avo opposing them. Such a move, it successful, would send | t) the house a measure for the freo coinage of silver at an agreod ratio and would leave all oxisting monetary legis- lation unaffected, except inso far as it is repugnant to the new act. The advan- tage which the advocates of silver would gain would be that the men who are for unconditional repeal fivst, and bimetal- lism afterwards, would be forced to show at onco how far they will go towards favoring an increased use of silver mone, This scheme, if carried out, will no doubt serve as secure an illustration of un- upulous parliamentavy tactics, but that the silver men in the senate have their opponents at their merey has been ovident from the very beginning, Whether it is not more advisable and oxpedient for them to show a disposition t0 bo fair rather than to take advantige of every technicality which the rules of the senato place at theiv disposal, is a question which it will be well for them to carefully consider. Logislation ob- tained by a trick is not apt to be popu- lar, and they themselves have boen loudest in their denunciation of what they have claimed to be such a trick. Although it has often been dis- proved, the silver men have nevor to refer to the act of 1873 in the most opprobrius terms. To ‘‘remonetize” silver by a scheme more reprehensible that that which | they have claimed **demonetized” silver will searcely recoive popular approval. If the silver advocates prove to be the strongor in congress on an open vote the people will either abide by the result or when the time comes will elect a con- gress that will more truly re them. What they now want is imme- diate action looking toward the relief of the present financial stringency and that action must be open and above | b EDUCATING COLORED ¥YOUTH. Those who are interested in the eleva- tion of the negro race will find much that is encouraging and gratifying in the report of the National Association for the Education of Colored Youth, According to this report the numbor of pupils now enrolled in thecolored public schools of the country is 1,309,251, and adding to these the number of colored children in mixed schools it is estimated s the total 1s at least 1,500,000, This is certainly a very excellent show- ing, particularly when it is con- sidered how short a time ago the race was enslaved. Since 1865 about 2,000,000 colored people, or about 28 por cent of those in the United States, have learned to read and write and avo now actively engaged in the duties of life, a fact highly creditable to the race. But the efforts of the colored people do not stop at primary education. They have forty-soven socondary schools, with 11,837 pupils; twonty-five colleges, with 8306 professors and students; twenty-five schools of theology, with 755 students; five schoals of law and five of medicine, with 426 students, and fifty- two normal schools with 10,042 students. A striking illustration of the progress the colored people are making is fur- nished by the recent school consus of Goorg That state has 4,605 white schools and 2,680 schools for the blacks, and of the 664,972 enrolled school ¢hil- dren the colored numbar 280931, In illiteracy the two races compare as fol- lows: Of the whites botween the ages of 10 and 18 years 11 por cent cannot vead and write, while of the blacks 27 per cent are illiterate. This isa show- ing very favorable to the colored race, when the relative advantages of the two racos ave fairly considered. Georgia, it is to ba remarksd, has baen excoptinally liberal among the southern states in pro- viding for the cducation of both and the v bo o \cos, monstrato what might seomplished by the eolored people if the other states of the south were equally liboral and considerate as to that raco. Those who reject the impracticable proposition for the deportation of the nogro race from this continent and in- 515t that if it be given a fair opportunity > develop it will amply vindicate its vight to remain here and share the privileges and advantages of free gov- ornment will find strong warrant for their faith in what the vace has accom- plished in the last quarter of a century and may very properly urge this as tho strongest pussible evidence that within two or three generations the colored raco in Amoerica will be quite as well able to take care of itself as ave some of tho accessions to our population from Europe. 1E percentages of increase and de- creaso in the weekly clearing house re- ports are calculated upon & comparison of business done this year with that of tho corresponding week of the year pre- vious. That uccouats for abuormal figures in those citios which have had paring houses but a short time and where a percentage of Incroase may be shown notwithstanding an immense de- crease of business. This fact must also be borne in mind when we come to ¢ amine the reports which will be given out next year, and which will then make comparisons with our current clearings. It will then appear that those cities which have been doing best during present hard times ~ will show a comparatively small percentage of increased business, while those cities in which clearings have dropped to al- most nothing will figure out an enor- mous increase after they have again ve- turned to normal conditions. If we should judge by the clearing house per- centages alone that will be calculated, say in a year from now, we should be wonderfully misled. These limitations upon clearing house figures must not be overlooked. THE QUESTION EOTIONALISM, One of the ablest and strongest speoches made at the present session of congress is that of Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, and no part of it is wiser and stronger than that in which he points out that there is no question of sectionalism in the financial issue. Any man or party in the eastern states, said Mr. Hoar, who should desire to have the valuo or the purchasing power of the dollar increased in order that the value of debts, or that assured and perma- nent incomes might be increased, or in order thav speculation in gold or in credits might bo rendered more profitable, would bo hurled from power and buried in in- famy by the swift and righteous indig- nation of the whole people of those states. “The prosperity, the power, the happiness, the rapid growth of the northwest and the south,” said the Massachusetts senator, ‘“‘are as dear to the people of New England as their own."” He declared, and the truth of the declaration cannot fairly bo questioned, that the merchant, the manufacturer, the builder of railroads in the eastern states, is a constant and perpetual debtor. The wage earner, the depositor in savings banks, the holder of the policy of life insurance, the widow and orphan who are living on the spare savings of the husband and father in his iifetime dre constant and perpetual creditors. They ave alike interested that the obligation contracted today shall be precisely the samo obligation, no greater and no less, when it is to be discharged, five or ten or twenty years hence, or whenever its annual or semi- annual interest is t> be paid through- out that period, and these people are not peculiar to any one section of the country. Senator Hoar said he did not believe that any large number of the people of the northwest desive the destruction of property, umpairment of credit, or any injury wiatever to the people of the northeast. ‘“Their ambition is to ac- quire property; their hope is in the es: tablishment and maintenance of credit. They always have depended, and for a long time in the future must depend, for theso things on & closo allisnce and an interchange of advantages with the peo- ple whose childven they ave, with the states whence they came, and with com- munities from whose -institutions they have modeled theirown, and with whom in the great and glorious future they must live or bear no life. Chief among the resources of the west is its altliance with a wealthy and prosperous east. The wealth of the east must perish but for its alliance with a wealthy and prosperous west.” Thi; is the position of all intel'igent and fair- minded men, and those who attempt to raise a sectional question and to array the west against the cast ave enemies of the country and particularly of the west. oF STATE BANK ISSUES Senator Gordon of Georgia has intro- duced a bill to repeal the 10 per cent tax on s bank issues and the subject will probably be debated in the senate during tho present weck. It was remarked when the bill was introduced and re- ferred to the finance committeo that it attracted very little attention, but it would be a mistake to coneclude from this that the proposition will not have a very considerable support in congress. ‘The cireumstance of there having been little manifestation of intorest upon its introduction in the senute was simply due to the fact that it had been antici- pated. No demand in the democratic national platform is made in strngor terms than that for the repeal of the tax on stato bank issues, and it was endorsed by the unanimous vote of the Chicago conven- tion. Not a single objection was made to it in that body, and it went forth to the country as the unqualified desire of the representatives of the democratic perty. There is oxcellent reason to be- lieve that the democratic members of congress from the south are practically unanimous in favor of having the demand complica with by the party, and they will have help from the representatives of the middle and western states, though not all the democrats from those se tions will support the proposition. The representutives of the eastern states will oppose it and the republican vote in both branches of congress will undoubt- edly be solid against it. The proba- bility of the passage of such a bill as that of Senator Gordon’s is thevefore by no means good, and thero is even a possi- bility that it may never be brought toa vote. ‘What the attitude of the president is toward this proposition no one appears to know. The newspaper that is pre- sumed to know more than any other re- g>ding the views of Mr. Cleveland said some time ago that he had never given the question of repealing the tax on state bank issues any serious considera- tion and therefore at that time had no definite opinion. It is, doubtless, safe to assume that he has not since given the matter more than passing thought, but at any rate it is doubtless a shrewd guess that Mr. Cleveland will not favor repealing the tax and opening the way to a restoration of state bank currency. He is old enough to have hud some per- sonal knowledgo of the currency of the ante-war poriod and that being the oass ha,,may salely be counted in opposition to the proposal to again flood the sowntry with that kind of money. We ohisatve that some of the advocates of the repeal of the tax set up the claim that itis finconstitutional. As the supreme court Has decided the tax to be constitutional, this argument will not help the case of the peovle who want to get rid of it. No greater financial mistake could bo made than to again permit state banks to issue currency. eapor than Mot be-Democrat. The house debate on silver furnishes a striking illusteation of the fact that the tariff isn't the only thing that men can talk about in a fluent fashion without imparting any information. e .———— Looks that Way. Louisvits Courter~Journal. Oh, no, the dsmocratio party does not mean what it said at Chicago. [t was only talking through its whiskers. For parucu- lars read the president's message. Then ine terview Larry Neal of Chillicothe. fobliuntet \burrainiy Perhups. Central City Nonpareil. Tur Bee is rustling to have Omaha made an Indian supply depot. with fair chances of success. If the other Omaha papers would work as hard for the upbuilding of Omaha as Tne Bee does much would be accom- plished. PRt Harmony Suro to Win, Nebraska City Press, There is no uncertaioty in the stand taken by lowa republicans against prohibition as a stato issue. Ropublicans of prohibition and anti-prohibition tendencies agreed that pro- hibition was no test of party fealty. That is a harmony which will win. prbisoisi Al i There'll e a Fight for Victory. Kearn y Journal, The political campaign in Nobraska this year will bo short, sharp and decisive. Re- pbublicans should bucklo on_their armor ana get ready to swing the republican column to a decisive victory. It is ours if ropublicans but do their duty, not only as & state but as a county. P A Proaching and Practice, New York Commerelal, We oxpected it. The Ute Thdi; annoying one corner of Colorado dauntless Governor Waite cries to Washing- tou for help. When Dryden wrote *Is fool or coward writ on my face?” he little thoaght that from the virgin west would emanate an order to claim everythiny. bkl i) Turn of the Tide. New York Commercial. When this snow melts thero will como a flood. When the doors of vaults begin to swing backward there will be so much cur- rency that business will not know what to do withitall. Money will be a drug and the currency broker will find it difticult to malke his salt. The boginning of this end ought not to be far away. il Gt The Cherokeo Strlp. Philadelphix Record. The hungry specutators who have been waiting to rush into ‘the Cherokeo Strip to seize upon the most cligible townsites will find that the untutored savage has learned a thing or two. Under tne terms of the cession of the lands to tne government the Cherokees are entitied’to an allotment of 160 acres each. They have just completed their selection of lands, and wisely they have all chosen tracts adjoining the railroad that runs through the strip. The Indians wilt get tho best lands’ und the townsite com- panies will get left. e The Beat Kind of Nows. New York Sun, There is not any more ploasing news in these days than are those items from vari parts of the country ‘which tell of the fac- torics and mills thui” have resumed opera- tions, the banks that have opened doors which were tempovarily closed, the mines in which the shutdown has come to amend, the business houses which have got over their troubles, the foreign domand for Amer- ican coreals, the heavy business of railroads, the releasing of currenicy-in private hands, the assurred strength of all our savings bauks, the arvival of gold from Europe and other such things. ——— The Way to W Hayes County Republican, “This is a good year for the republicans of Hayes county o stand together. They should meet the common enemy with solid ranks. Good, clean and thoroughly compe- tent men only should be permitted to find a place upon their tickot, and it is a duty which every true republican owes his party to sce that this is Hayes county never had a more competent set of ofticials than the republicans i office at present, and if an equally good list is nominated at’ the county convention there will be no question as to their election by old time majorities. i For Modilication, Siowr City Journal, The republican party of low the contest this year on imjp —the ground of absolute hone fidelity v its highest purpose. That pur- pose is, in accordance with the declaration of thie barty in this state, year after year, to be loyal to the will of tne ~people ou the pu. Zling aud serious question of liquor legis tion. It has definitely put itself m line w the will of the poople of [owa. Since 18%) there have been multiplying in- Qications, especially during the lust year, that the judgiment of Jowa was being pro- foundly ‘affected by the results of uho e: periment which has been in_progress, under the present liquor code, during the lnst de- cade. ‘The election of lasi year, following the election of Governor Boies in 1830 and 1891, and in conncetion with the expressions of sentiment of the last cight months, mado it clear beyond doubt that the convietion was ut ormed that tho present luw had upon full trial failed 1 material points and that modification was necessary. has entered gnablo ground ty, candor and h If any one had lingering doubts they wero swept away by the meoting of the repul lican state convention, In the preliminary zos and intercourse of tho delegates visitors 1o the convention, the fact which towered above all others was tho al- most universal acknowledgment that moditi- cation was nocessary. What made this fact more notable, significant and obvious was that the scknowledgment was made with such emphasis, not more by anti-prohibi- tionists than by prohibitionists, by vhose who for years have stood by the prosent probibitory code, and who would today be only too glad to stand by it uncomproinis- ingly if there was longer a shred of hove, and if their judgment did not admonish them of thoir high duty to move forward a more eficient mothod. Tho convention itsolfy in its formal pro- cocdings, afforded crowaing proof of tho al- 0st unanimous desireof the party for mod- filcation, ‘Tho vote on¥oll call on the mo tion to strike out tha eoncluding clause of tho temperance plank a3 roported from tho Platform commitlee, Was in 00 Sense i test of the seutiment of the convention with 1 gard to change. As wirendy remarked, that Was ulmost unanimousi/ In the debato on this motion, which dontinued over threo hours, and in which the freest and fullest opportunity to bo heard ever given in o state convention in this stateiwas improved Lo the utmost, those on oncsude as well as those on the other candialy proctaimed on the floor of the convention'ghat they recognized the nocessity of modification. And the most powerf i\ appeal orf bohalf of the plat- form as roported attd”hs tnally adopted, was the magnificent®peech of Mr. Temple of the Eighth congressional district, which he declared the strongest probibition dis- trict in the state, himself a prohibitionist of pronounced type. The platform as adopted under all theso circumstances, und in har- mony with the other towering proofs, de- monstrates how definitely and conclusively the judgment of tho republican party of Towa and of the people of the state has been resolved Lo the conclusion that modification is necessary. The republizan party had tho courage and tho patriotism to meot the fact. 1t had the candor in couvention to wear its heart upon its sleove, to open wide the door to the amplest expression and to take the peoplo of Towa into its contidence. It has Kept its word to the pbople, and they will believe that it will keep its word now, There aro 1o secrets, no ambiguitics, no disposition Lo play with this great subject and to sub- ordinate it to selfish partisan iuterests. Tho republican parly is with the people of Towa. SPEECH, Norfolk News: Now that ‘the great leader” of the democratic party has deserted it, who will take his place! Mr. Bryan? Globe Democrat: Congressman liryan of obraska proves himself to be an orator by showing that he can make a good spooch on the bad sido of an important public question. Nebraska Uity Pross: There 18 said to be danger that the capitol dome at Washington will burst. Bryan has his head in it, and the swelling has crowded the sides quite out of position. Should this great head be re- moved now the whole structure would cor- tainly collapse. Fremont Tribune: When Mr. Bryan figures that national banks, if they were ailowed to issue currency to the par value of their bonds, would make a profit of 12 per cent on their circulation, he displays an aptitude for juggling with figures that ought to warm the cockles of the -hearts of his populist frionds, Minneapolis Tribune: Tom Reed will probably make a speech in the house on tho side of repeal. If he does, young Mr. Bryan, the infant phenomonon from Nobraska, will wish that ho had never opened his head. it is ono of Mr. Reed's chief delights to lot the wind out of the sophistries of sophomore statesmen, Dotroit Froe Pross: Mr. Bryan is an elo- uent talker and a brilliant word painter. o reaches the throng with an almost irre- sistible power of abpeal, but’ in all that he said he was appealing most strongly for a secticn and a special interest. Ho showed himself a great man restricted by the wishes of an exacting constituency. Philadelphia Ledger: When Representa- tive Bryun, in attacking the ‘‘old bugs,” remarked that “the man who said the peo- ple could despoil the government was called an anarchist; but the man who maintamed the right of government to despoil the peo- ple was called a_patriot,” he was greatly applauded. Nobody appeared to notlce that the man ho was knocking down with sar- casm was A man of straw, having no oxist- ence in tho flesh. Kearney Journal: Mr. Bryan showed his ignorance of the national banking law and statistics relative thereto and was beauti- fully called down at Washington the other day. When ho was brought face to face with the fact of his ignorance and misstate- ment on the subject, he acknowledged he £ot his figures from the World-Herald. The explanation was sufiicient, and to avoid sim- ilar chagrin he will doubtiess be careful of going overything on tho demo-pop organ hereafter, Plattsmouth Herald: W. J. Bryan takes the Omaha World-Herald as authority that the national banks are now making 1235 per cent on their circulation, and says that for this reason he will opposo the bill introduced by Senator Voorhees, allowing to in srease their circulation to a valuo with the bonds deposited, which 1s sup- ported by the president. Sccretary Carlisle and other prominent man, when in fact, the national banks today are not making 2 per thew civeulation according to Comp- kels' statement in his ofic Bryan 1s rattle-headed enoush World-Herald > ashamed record best, but when he takes the for authority—woll—he ought to b to mention it, especially under the roof of tho capitol building. Chicago Horald: Tho silvery Bryan closed nis de lamatory onslaught upon the silver purchase repeal vill with a eulogy of Jeffer son. But Mr. Bryan did not say when “Thomas Jeflerson advocated the purchase of silver by the government. He did not say when Jefferson proposed to coin 60 cents worth of silver into a dollar and force people to take it as the equivalent of a 100-cent dol- lar. He did not even allude to the fact that Jefferson stopped the coinage of silver dol- lars vy exceutive order without consulting congress about itatall, and that not one such dollar was coined thereafter for thirty years. If Mr. Bryan had stated these thinzs probably he would have found some dificulty in making the house understand what a eulogy of Thomas Jefferson had to_ do with the 16 to 1 free coinage scheme of repudia- tion. Chicago Tribune: Representative Bryan of Nebraska made what is called a pretiy and glittering sveech. Ho had a good voics he gesticulates nicely, and _his rhetoric i florid and imagination ' vivid and exaggora- tive, It is casy to unaerstand how he pleased the gaileries and the gir floor of the house with flowers of specch and with poetical quotations. What should have been & cool, careful financial argument w a denunciation of what he called tho i less deerees” of the money interest which “brought ease and plenty to those who fawn and flatter,” followed by a description uttered in tho theatrical, pathetic tone of voice of the “mute appeal of the work-worn and dust-begrimed” masses whose battle hymn, it appears, is “Home, Sweet Home.” Aud yet a short_dollar, which will buy only half what a sound one will_purchase, never made home any sweeter or its owner happy. After skimming the froth and foam off M Bryau’s declamatory plea for a workingman, whom he says he “would like to help,” but whom he is sceking to hurt, there remains a sour and nasty residuum—a “demand” that gold b expelied from American circulation and that silver monometallism be subst wuted for honest bimetallism and that ther be unlimited coinage of 371 grains fractional | silver dollars, with no wold support. This is his recine for making home happy and thai isall there was to his eloquent harangue when boiled down to its substance. mining never uas been one of the interests of Nebraska. It has raised wueat, corn, hogs, sheep and some. statesmen like Bryan, who are sillier and absurder than sheep, but it has produced no_ silver. Why then should Nebraskans run their legs off to give the silver miners to the west of them moro for their motal than it_is worth in the world’s market! Since 1578 thoso miners have been paid by the government u certifi- cate conyertible into gold for every dollar worth of silver they sold. They huve sold a goid dotlar’s worth of silver for a gold dollar, but now they “demand” free coinage with less than 60 cents of silver in the dollar, and they dub that fraud on the public bimetallic money, and Bryan supports their fraudulont scheme Do Nebraskans think that sort game s honest or feasiblo? of skin Nebraskans cod dollurs whoso purchasing power is 100 doposits ble cents in gold. When tho farmer one in o bank or an old boot itis desir that when he takes that dollar outa y thereafter it shall bo worth as much when he put it away, not merely for pa debts, but for buying dry goods and g ceries, and lumber. and farm imploment: If this man Bryan of Nebraska had his way his constituents would have 50 and f0-cont dollars, whoso changes in value they could no more keep track of than of the move- ments of “the wicked flea whom no man pur- sueth.” Mr. Bryan can taik more woepfully and wailfully than Mr. Bland. Ho can mako a “swootor” spooch. He can groan moro pi- thetically. But il has not as much mule sense as th Missourian. The latter has learned something, He has found out that the 16 to 1 ratio will not do; that the people have found out that 16 to 1 ratio is a moss, old “stiff," hollow aad covered with mold, and that it doesn't go as oue stallism, Mr. Bryan lives 5o ta west of 1 it out, As Rip Van Winkle, wakw his slum- bers, thought ( o 111 w king, so M Bryan, coming out of the remoto wild west near the Rockies, does not know thi the 16 to 1 ratio 1s playel out and has been thrown on the ash heap where other financial follies have gone before, He should dvocate the ratio of 27 1o 1 or drop the cheeky pretenso of beinga bimetallist, Mr. Bryan may have some inflience on the stump talking & fist sophistry to simple- minded people. He may be ablo to boguile somo of tho farmers of his own stato. But unless he changes his tactics he will have no influence at Washington. Among tho trained and educated men who find their way thero fulsome flattery of toil by a man who doos ot toil himself and abuse of bourds of trade ‘and chambers of commerce by one who is ignorant of their functions do not count as urguments. ‘The speakers who have real influence at Washioglon in shap. ing legislation, ure those thinkers who deal in facts, not froth. aud in statistics instesd of poetry, on the floors of congress. o e Where Summeoer Reosorts, Sau Francisce Chronicle, Whatever may bo the real results of the exploring expedition which went down the Colorado from Yuma to the gulf, there is no question thut the members will be able to bear testimony o the heat aloug the river gt this season. The sun beats down on this streteh of territory with & power not ex celled fn any other part of the world. Suez and Aden are notorious for their ovenlike heat, but to the man who has ever traveled aboul Yuma in August not even the shore of the Ited sea has any terrors. He strewed the | NEBRASK 'S PROSPERITY. Konrnay Journal: Whila the manufactur ing industries elsowhore have closed down, Koarnoy's factories aro running on full time with increased forces, and still advance ordors are not reached. Schuyler Horald: Fine horsos in Nebraska are becomiug numerous and are attracting the attention of lovers of good horse flesh all over the country. A finecollection of horses was shipped from Fremont, destined for ex- hibition at the World's fair, Thus does No- braska loom up! obraska City Press d and tell ever; Bear constantly in aintance in other who may be looking about at some time for a location, of the enviable record of Nobraska City this year. Ask any casual observer of other parts of tho state how favorably the city stands. 1t is at the head. Alnsworth Star-Journal: We have ob- sorved during our seven years residence in Brown county that farmers who stuck to their farms, good years and bad, are all well fixed. Some who havo sold and gone away have done well, but all who havo remained, with the exercise of common industry and judgment, have prospered. Let us all keep vight on in tho middle of the road. North Nebraska Eagle: Dakota county is 10 be congratulated on having passed, so Tar, through these panicky times without a fail: ure of any kind, more espocially among our banking institutions, Although slight runs have been made on some of thom at different times and they have been looked upon with a good deal of suspicion, their last published statements show them, one and all, to be in first-class shape, and unless something un- foreseen occurs they ure and will continue to be as safe as any pank across the rivor, Norfolk Nows: Tho corn stalks in tho Nobraska fields aro groaning under tho heavy weight of wall-filled ears, rains have assured more than an averago ‘op for this year. Nebrasia, proud of lor position in the corn-growing belt, hopes soon to reach second place in the list The crop rocord of Nobrasica in 1802 is going to be sur- passed this year. While sho now occupies fourth place among the coreal-producing states, tho fact must be taken into consider- ation that her rivals are The recent older and were dotted with farms, and in some localities thickly populated, whon Nebraska was known as a howling' wilderness. remains a vast area of uncultivated land for the homoesecker and the plow. When this land js under cultivation, Neoraska's show- ing will far surpass those now in the lead. Wakefleld Republican: Immigration into northeast Nebraska this fall and next spring promises to bo large. The big crops raised around here this year, and every year, are the means of bringing 'in the best class of new sottlers and keeping them w they nave located here, A corn makes from sixty to eighty bushels to theacre, as this does, is_exceptionally good Ther 18 still plenty of the best wild some improved land to be had her reasonable prices and on easy ter really a fact that there is no botter loc anywhere for a man of moderate means than this part of Nobraska, 1t is hard to find a man who has settled hore on land and gone There y tion of the healthicst climate in the world, good society, churches, schools and the very best of all manner of privileges besides. ~ Fail ures are uncommon and a foreclosure is very unusual oceurrence, 5o rare that it at- | tracts general attention. — BEAMING BRIGHTNESS, Washinzton Post: Just at the present timo {ho most desitablo dmmigrant is” tho yellow boy. Boston Transeript: Thor said in favor of the summor friends than in wintor. Philadelphia Led; To what | may return a ratio, as Hamlot observed, | parent by about 16 to 1. *sono thing to ho One has warmer Pittsburg Dispateh: A man named Trump Jall in_Fayotte county for keeping Ak-casy. The sherlfl's high card was a gun. Indianapolis Journal: Perhaps the man who snatehed 25,000 from the window of a St. Paul bank and ran off with it 1s following the ad- vicw of the DeWspapers. to put money futo cir- culation. aturally enough the ealamitists continue owl with dogged determination. Wi to Boston Courie n a man gets Into a peck of trouble he Is quite content to hide his light under a bushel. «, King & Co's Monthly: T pe you liked the Tast box of eandy, dear.” Sweets to the sweat. | Fanny—Why, you importinent thing. Tt was | all marron gluces. Do you mean to insinuate that I'm a chestnut? Philadelphia Record: “Ah_me! | why it is that time goes so swiftly?" the spur of the moment urges It o Brooklyn Lifo: Tom—Y T anny I Brownt i i I w Per os, Molly, T were out prety lite list night, but' the tide was so stroni it was hard to come back very fast. Alico—Yos; T remember in physics it says the length of the spark Is. proportional to- the strength of the current. | Washington Star: Tt was one of the locali- ties where soda water intemperaneo flourishes, | Tfo_was very sleepy and remark “My dear, T thinic Tshall e down. had inore than forty winks, today 1 she oxcluimed, “do you want me to put you in an inehriate asylum?* Ihaven't THE GOLD BUG Judge. “My father ownad a silver lode And now 'tis mine,” ho ericd #Oh, take a load from off my ) Anid say thow'lt be my bride. DAUGHTER. art “Unload thy heart elsewhere Thy lodd's n fieklo store. Love [aughs at silver w As low us she sald, "ts down That is to | try. rapidly taken up. BROWNING, Store open every evening Ll 6.3). oAy vl 10, | BROWNING, KING Lurgest Manufacturors 4n 1 Rotatlors 0i Clothing in the World. 18 PEOPLE AND THING Aftor the bawl is over in congross, what! Corn 18 80 high in Kansas that the voice of calamity is smothorod. The ratio of imagination to_Information in the silver debate is about 1,000 to 0. Twilight holdups may be rogarded as & protest agaiust the hoarding of monay. Mrs. Henry Ward Boechor is rapidiy g in health, She will Angust 206, Mr. Yung Yu, tho now Chineso mipister to the United States, who has just arrived at San Francisco, brings eighty-two people in his suite and eighty tons of luggago. Lightning-chinned mother Leaso is carry- ing reform at a cyclonio gate. As prosident of tho IKKansas Board of Charitios she is bouncing offensive republicans and hirling pops. 1t is & mistako to think congress has done nothing to increase the circulating medium, The house resolution paying mombers milo- age for riding on passes went through withs out debate. In theso times of doubt and discord, & man who insists “I'm a_democrat,” should be re- quired to furnish plans and spocifications of his platform, *not necessarily for publicas tlon, but as an evidenco of good faith.” Mr. Joremiah Webster Flanagan of Texas, who achieved an oftice by exclaiming at & national convention, “What aro we here fort" is in condition to sympathizo with the author of “Wheroam 1 at?" Both are}out of a job. “The Philadolphia Ledger throws an oloc trie light on an important piscatorial point. 1t explains that a pelagic fisherman is_one who, reashing a considerablo distance from shore, suddenly discovers he left his bait flask on the bank. Postmaster Wills of Nashville, Tenn., has ot tho newspapors of that city on his ' trail by issuing an order forbidding the lotter carriers, under pain of dismissal, from com- menting on the financial situation, “as sen- satioual reports are at this time mischiovous aud dangerous.” fail. be 81 yoars old QUESTION. WERS, Prence, Nob., Aug. 10, the Bditor of Tim Bee: Wil you kindly tell me the total number of paid adinissions to the World's fale up to date and oblige? Yours truly, HERDMAN F, From May 1 to August 19, 7, week ending August 19, 700,476, Exerer, Neb, Aug. 18.~To the Editor of e Ber:' Can you tell me if the Oklahoma or Cherokee Strip has beon duclared open or not, and ohli J.3. Covr. No oMcial declaration has yot been mude to open this land. OMAIA, Aug, 18.~To the Whichof these sentences tor English —So soon LELAND, 515 for ditor of Tue Bee: orrect, or the hit- 15 possible, * o a8 soon CONSTANT READER possible” would scem to be As" and “so' have almosy tho flrst boing used as o con- nd an adjective: the second as an ujunction and As equality; so a deg of relation ood S0 is used a demonstrative ative'in conjunction with as. In tho S50 5000 as possible,” the degreo is pressed in *possible,” and thus the cor- relative so_should give way to as, denoting that the action must bo accomplished within timo cqual to. that. expressed by *possis G the better, * common use: junction adverb, denote unde nterjection 5 R BLANTS FROM RAM'S HORN. The real wiso man never makes th mastake twice. The right kind ofa smilo never hurts a prayer meeting. Fine words on a anything in heaven, 1f o woman is ovor merciless it is whon she gots a mouse in A trap. There is such a thing as trying to live on blessings and starving to death. “The man who rides a hobby is always com- plaining that the world is too slow. Peopte who blow their own horns soldom furnish good music for other folks. “The prayer meeting is more than half dead in which no song of praise is heard. A solf-made mun spoils his work every time he opens his mouth to praise himself, YO FA gt 7 JOLLY TIMES A-FISHING. tombstone do not mean Atlanta Constitution. 0, 1t's Jolly times a-flshing in the summer or the sprin, Along the et yureh has bed, And you wateh the minnows skipping whero thie speckled trout Is king As you listen to the bluebirds thy br: sing, While you choose an Daro to hewvo your It And the s iri the bottlband the worm's on tho sked ereck where the redbreast among tho current and pro- 0, 1t's jolly thnes a-flshing when the 'skecter's onthe wing And tho salty prespiration trom your blist= erod nose 15 dropping; And vou bathe your parching thirst in the hosom of the spring, While the redbugs are a-boring with exnsper- ating sting; And dreamly sit watching, fondly list'ning i S In the bottle or the cork s on the string. 0,165 Jolly th welkin ring And the watering ing showers po And you think you've caught a rile ora ling. As you jerk your tackle up with a ing Uil In the trectop Instead of on tho s a-flshing whon you hoar the )t of heaven Its rofreshe moceasin, o isequons snikobite's in the bottle and the cel Is on the strin 'l Touching it off say, letting it go, and if you had been in our store Saturday you would have thought Uncle Sam had brought back the good old times we read about. did sell lots of suits. taken off from $2.50 to $7.50 on each suit, making such an extra low price that even if you do not need it now, it will pay you bet- ter than savings bank interest to pick out a suit now and put it | away till spring, broken size or broken lot sale, but a nice clean stock of the finest suits ever brought to this western coun- If you hesitate you are lost for they will be Oh, but we We have This is not a KING & CO., W, Cor. 16t and Donjlas Sts,