Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 23, 1893, Page 4

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Its special cable news, unrivalod press dis- patches and its special telegrapbic service from every important point have gained for this paper an enviable reputation not alono confined to this state. ‘With improved facilities for reaching the people at a seasonable hour by Tie Brk spe- cial newspaper train, there can be no doubt that our patrons will continue to show their appreciation of newspaper enterprise. complete newspaper. been compelled Wirh Mr. Mercer on the committee on public buildings and grounds Ne- braska ought to be able to secure a few favors in the way of improved quarters for the federal officials in this state. OMAHA city bonds bearing 5 per cent Interest are now to be had at par in amounts of $100 and upwards. Such an opportunity for safe investment of svings will not be readily offered again, Nor one house committee chairman- ship has been given to the numerous members who come from the states west of the Missouri river. Rather shabby treatment for western democrats, we should say. IT WILL be pretty hard for railways that have claimed privileges under the constitution and laws of Nebraska to convince a court that they are not domestic corporations subject to state regulation. SENATOR MANDERSON'S efforts to have the public building at Omaha erected of granite ought to secure more support from people at this end who are interested in having the structure a substantial one. THE bill toaid the Midwinter National exposition at San Francisco went through the senate with a rush. We may expect to have applications for fed- eral aid from every county fair before many years elapse. THE secretary of the school board has presented a report showing the amount of monoy at the disposal of the board. Strange to say, the enumeration did not Include any of the interest which is paid on that money by the banks with which 1t 1§ deposite I¥r Tue Nebraska railways arve so anxious to have the question of reasonable rates judicially determined, why do they not proceed in accordance with the maximum freight rate bill which provides expressly for the trial of such complaints? THE western railroads are now climb- ing over one another in their haste to offer reduced rates to Chicago. They have finally come to the conclusion to make huy while the sun shines, and evi- dently regret having wasted so much time in making up their minds, COMPLICATIONS in the waterworks eompany's troubles seem o be increas- ing instead of disappesring. That special council committee might by adroit interference arrange to settle mwatters satisfactorily by purchasing the plant for the city. Everything depends upon.the terms with which the interested parties will be satisfied. It 18 immaterial whether or not the State Board of Transportation or their secretaries declared the freight rates in force in Nebraska a year or more ago to be reasonable and just. They may have erred at that time and thoy ave amply suthorized to change their opinions, ‘Whether the rates at present in force 14 and 15, Tribune | are now réasonable and just is an en- tirely different question. The legisla- ture has decided that they are not, HOW REPUBLICANS FEXL THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WHDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1893, [ mon senso--the one domanding that the The honest money republicans in con- | nation stop buyiny silver bullion and the gress proposs to do their duty to the country in the present exigency, but they have a just gronnd of complaint in the way they have been treated by the dominant party in tho lower branch of that body. The feeling that provails among thom was plainly expressed by Representatiye Boutelle of Maino in & recent interview. He said the adminis- tration relies on securing from the re- | publicans the majority of the votes that will bo in the house in favor of vepeal, and yet they put through under gag _rule, without consulting the republicans in the least, an agreement among themselves given | and refused the republicans the priv lege of offoring & singlo amendment. They might have even shut them out of the debate had it boen possible to do so. “The republican party,” said Mr. Bou- telle, “has been shamefully treated in the house and some cf those gentlemen feel v The mismanagement of the situation seems to have beon re- peated in the house. But I think that the republicans are patriotie enough to bury their feelings in this mattor and vote for ropegl, and I ecpeot to seo the bill pass the house.” Representative Grosvenor of Ohio re- ferred to the action of the democrats in a speech he made in the houso last woe Ho said that while admitting that with- out about 100 votes of the republican party on the floor of the house the ad- ministration will be driven to the wall and defeated, ‘they nevertheless assume that there are but two parties on this floor—the one, the democratic party, in favor of free silver, and the other, the administration, or, as the free silver party terms it, the Wall street party of the president and the administration.” Continuing, ‘Mr. Grosvenor said: “Our wish were not consulted in ordering this long debate and this complicated plan of campaign. We were not permitted to state our wishes as to the debate or the form of the ques- tion. We are not to be allowed to sug- gest even one amendment. The leaders on this side appealed for even fifteen minutes of debate in order that the country might know our position, but we were denied even so simple a request as that.” He said that the democratic party modestly suggests that the result of the proposed legislation is to prove to the country that the republican party got the country into all this trouble, “‘and then they call upon us to help gain a great victory for them, and when we are through with it thoy will go to the country and declave that the democratic party hus rescued the country from the pernicious legis- lation of the repubiican party, and while the process is going on they demand of us that there shall be no partisan poli- tics here.” The history of congress will be searched in vain for a parallel to the discourtesy and the disregard of the richts of the minority which are in- volved in the actionof the present house of representatives referred to by the re- publican congressmen from whom we quoted, and no fair-minded man will say that the republicans in congress are not fully justified in feeling indignant at such unprecedented and unwarranted treatment. It admits of no ex- planation that can be satisfactory to the minds of men who havea just sense of the fair consideration due to political opponents. But while the re- publicans in congress fecl strongly the disregard of their rights and their rea- sonable requests at the hauds of the dominant party, and while at the same time they realize that after they have helped the democracy to gain a victory that party will claim to have rescued the country from the pernicious legisla- tion of the republican party, they will not permit these considerations to deter them from the performance of what they regard as a paramount duty to the coun- try, with which nothing partisan in its nature should be allowed to interfe They have a right to proclaim their in- dignation at the shameful treatment they have received, but they will show that they have the patriotism to bury their feelings when the demand comes to them to act. Unless the most care- ful estimates fail there will be 100 of the 126 republican votes in the house cast in the interest of a sound and stable currency, and without the assur- ance of these votes there would be no hope for the financial policy of the ad- ministration, y sove. A SUGGESTION 1 KERS. Cannot the bankers of the country do something more than they have yet done to help in the restoration of con- fidence? It is proposed to hold a convention of business men in Washing- ton, representing the commercial bodies of the country, for the purpose of in- fluencing congress to stop the purchase of sily It is possible that such a con- vention might do some good. A thou- sand representative business men drawn from all parts .of the country and com- ing into personal contact with members of congress could hardly fail, it would seem, '0 oxert a great influence. That an effort of this kind on the part of those who believe that the stoppage of the purchase of silver by the government is the first condition to a restoration of confidence may be necessary appears from the indication that the silver contest in the sonate may be prolonged indefinitely. Senators ex- press the opinion that the extra session will run into the regular session, with the probability of the silver question being still unsettled when the date for inning of the regular session is reached, The one hope of preventing this, as now appears, is to bring to bear upon congress, in the strongest way possible, the force of public opinion favorablo w the repeal of the silver pur- chasing clause of the Sherman act. But in the meanwhile may not some- thing pe done by the great banking in- terest to in & measure reliove the dis- trust which finds expression in a gen- eral contraction of credits? Has this interest performed and is it now per forming its whole duty in the exigency? An eastorn contemporary, reomarking upon und doprecating the sectional fecl- ing that is being engendered by the financial question, observes that what is wanted at this time is honesty and com- i is abnormal and absurd. other that bankers, business men and y othor class of citizons stop hoarding money, suppress their inordinate fears, and resume ordinary business methods. Tven if congress will not do its part the people must do theirs, and the sugges- tion of our contemporary is that the first step in this direction should be the call- ing of a conference of the leading bankers of the nation to devise ways and means for getting rid of the friction between the various cities and the two sections, 1d between the business people. It says: ‘‘Just now every one is demanding vrency. Currency is bought and sold in the open market at a premium. This The bankers know botter than any one else that there is not currency enough in the civilized world to supply the bussiness of this country alone on a purely cash basts. 1f eredit is to be annihilated, wo shall not only want free silver, but will have to stamp copper conts as dollavs, or kecp all the pres: in the country busy print- ing irredeemable greenbacks.” There is, of course, no danger that credit will be annihilated. but it is very badly shat- tered and ought not to be allowed to get into a worse condition if there is a practicable way to prevent it from doing 50. It is for the banking intorest of the country to determine whether theroe is such a way, and the sooner it can ad- dress itself to that duty, for we con- coive it to be a duty of the highest and most urgent character, the better. Never has this interest had a greater opportunity to do an inestimable service to the country and increase its claim to public confidence. eve PROHIBITIONIST MOVEMENT IN TOWA, The action of the Iowa republican stato convention in breaking away from the prohibition issue upon which the party has been foundering for some time was not expected to please the radical prohibitionists who had con- rolled the preceding conventions. Some few of theso will no doubt drift to the prohibition party, and if the movement for what is to be called a citizens tem- perance party materiali it will ignify nothing more than a reorgan- ization of the prohibitionist ele- ment. These men who propose to abandon the republican party on account of the local option feature of the platform do not want to be left entirely in the cold.” They had taken no part in the work of the pro- hibitionist convention which nominated the straight-out prohibition ticket, and they proposed to be heard in the guise of & citizens temperance party. After they have managed to secure some of the glory to themselves they will no doubt consolidate their forces and there will be but one prohibition ticket in the field. But competent observers for every prohibitionist who leaves the republican fold several others will be brought back from the democratic ranks. The republicans who were alienated by the prohibition planks in their party’s platforms during the last few years have never ceased to adhere tothe principles for which re- publicanism stands. This was shown by theresults of the last election contest, when Towa chose presidential electors who cast their votes for Harrison and Reid. These men cannot fail to use their influence for the republican state ticket now that the cause of their dis- satisfaction has been removed. They will again vote for the republican nom- inees at the coming el The republican candidate for gov- ernor, Mr. Frank D. Jackson, while in New York the other day, gave utterance to an expression of his confidence in just this result. *“*As to the liguor ques- tion,” said he, “I beliove that the sen- sible platform adopted by the republi- can convention will meet with general approval and will bring back to the party thousands of votes. Prohibition is an established fact in sixvy of the ninety-nine countie; In the others it is a complete failure. Local option will give all sections the right to choose and enforce for themselves.” The move- ment for another party in Iowa means simply the reorganization of the prohi- bition party. insist that COUNTING THE COST. Massachusetts furnishes a lesson drawn from costly experience for the benefit of western communities ihfested with bogus bond companies. The peo- ple of the Bay state poured millions of dollars into the pockets of pseudo- benovolent bankers, who promised to lead the poor and struggling from | erty to aflluence. What was the result? Let the record speak for itself, in the following letter t0 a gentleman in this city COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACNUSETTS, 1 ANCE DEPARTMENT, BOSTON, Aug. 14, 18 Dear Sir: 1t 1s only about five years sinoe the endowment and numerical bond oper- ators started thew schemes in this section. Fif: ix of these corporations organized in this state under the unfortunate law of 1888; 200 came in from New Hampshire, while Maine, West Virginia, Maryland and others furnished their quota. The craze has run its course aud the whole litter has been wiped out.and as the last five have recently:boen put into the hauds of receivers.it is a good time to sit down and review the affair and cipher out the net procecds. The Massachusetts corporations were re- quired by law to make statements to this de- partment and from them and from the recoiy- ers' accounts it appears that they acquired a membership of #54,000 and collected over $12,500,000. More than nine-tenths of these members received nothing whatever in retura, The outside concerns had no standing under our law and made no returns here, but they were of greater numbers and very active, and iv is safe Lo say that the amount of their operations was much larger than that of the Massachusetts corpora- tions. Probably the membership of these wnd the Massachusetts concerns to- rether was muot less than 1,000,000 and their contributions not less than §5, 000,000. Only a small percentage was re turned in benefits, and that mainly to the orgauizers and promoters of the games. The net results then are the ruin of thousands of poor families, a general demor- alization and distrust of all fraternal and mutual beneficiary inatitutions, the encour- agement of a pernicious gambling spirit, four of the promoters serving terms 1n the peni- tentiary and a score of others fugitives from Justice. This is the object lesson bequeathed to this community t'z'n\c!m swindles, not one of which was thtfy delusive and dis- hounest schome or offgrigd better opportun: ties for thievery by thidooperators than the one presented in yo#irfhquiry. Very truly yours. S, Sy, Deputy The lesson taught. Massachusotts at such prodigious cbk as well as the state’s manner of fealing with the swinders, should bestir the authorities of western states. - Pmpt and vigorous measures should be fhken to suppress bond companies umder whatever guise they oporate, not only as a protection for the unwary, but ta avert the scandal that must follow if these concerns are permitted to operate unchecked. THE people of New York City have become tired of the attitude of the ele- vated railway corporation toward afford- ing them rapid transit facilities. The mayor now insists that if private capitai will not build the lines required the city will itself undertake the work. This has been the real trouble with most of our ¢ities in connection with the monopolies of service. They have acted on the principle that the public shall only undortake such public enterprises a8 it cannot get private corpora tions to exploit, In European cities the opposite principle is observed as to such monopo- listic undertakings—the city controls all pablic works unless gompelled by cireumstance to hand them over to pri- vate concerns. With time, we too will bogin to distinguish hotween enterprises essentially public and those essontially private in theiv nature. SOME of Speaker Crisp's committee selections appear to have been made with but the slightest regard to the fit noss of reprosenting constituencios in- terested in the measures which they will have to pass upon. The chief offense in this respect is the committee on Pacific railroads, whose chairman hails from Pennsylvania, while excluding Harris of Kansas not one member comes from a state through which the Pacific rail- roads run. In view of the important legislation concerning the funding of the Pacific railroad debt to be taken up by this congress, this is unfortunate to say the least. REPRES takes the p HARTER of Ohio ns to inform the public that he is cortain of the passage of the Wilson bill by the house on Monday next and that he thinks the senate will in due season follow the lead of the house. Says he: “Incarrying out the recommen- dation ot the president the republican side of the house 'isias active, earnest and patriotic as is ou¥ own.” IRepubli- cans in geacral ave, acting on this question according to'what they beheve the interests of thé country demand; political spite work has no place in an emergency such as this. WHEN the legislatire comes to revise the banking laws ‘in the direction of more stringent regulation some pro- vision must be ‘made which will prevent bank officers from de- pleting the coffersi of the insti- tution by making-amsecured loans to themselves. Recent developments in many parts of the country have dis- closed altogether too mrany institutions in which depositors have been thus defrauded. STATESMEN with a good stock of oratory are now in demand in the demo- cratic congress, despite the laxness of industrial undertakings and the strin- gency of the money market. Parties fulfilling the required conditions may secure information guaranteed to insure success by applying to William Jen- nings Bryan, ways and means committee room, Washing Atehison ilob Railroad men say that Or the bulge on Kansas City asa business center. PRSR Not Enough to Fuse. Washin;ton Post. Having had a little experienc the Nebraska democrats will not be at home to any fusion propositions this year. History Repeats Itsell, New Yok R eorde More than o generation ago tho demo- cratic passed from power, leaving to the country the bloody legicy of a civil war. It returns to power, and the first crop of its statesmunship is business stagnution, in that line, The ki of e Globe-Democrat lowa was carried by the democrats for governor by 6,000 in 1850 and by 5,000 in 1891 but it was >d_ by the republicans by 23,000 for president in 1892, Bad candidate; und the prohibition 1ssue defeated th publicans four ye 0 and Lwo years ago, hut neither drawback is present this year, The Huwkeye republicans have stopped their fooling with tho prohibition issu They will_not roll_up as big a plurality a they did for president last year, but it un- doubtedly will be big enough to show that when the purty avoids blunders lowa is still securely republ Folly, lown Back in the Fold, St. Paul Pionecr-Press. There will bo no more uemocratic victorics in Iowa. ‘The republicans of that state have at last dissolved the foolish and fatal alli- auce that bound them 1o, the probibition cause and dragged them_down to ono defeat after another. It has taken a long and p ful discipline to inspire them with this wisdom, but the docd ja done u lus it wera possible, as it is, not, that any voliti- cal party in this coun ry should evi sider the policy of 1.,% ng forces w prohibitionists, it might be pointed o the experience of republipgnisim i lowa as an awfut and suficient in, Lhree Railrona befaults. New York Thibune, rilroads havégone into the hands of receivers this year, having aggregate lia- bilities of about $650,000,000. Their stocks and bonded debts aggregato about 505,000, 000, but tho uggragaio dtboks und bonds of all the railroads whicH defaulted in any one of the years 187275, “inclusive, were about $180,000,000 in the yea¥ 1574. The capital stocks of the E 1Réading and Northern Paciflc uggregate $21 183212, but the stocks of all railraads which“defaulted in 1574 amounted to only $103836,082 The bonds of the three great railroads, not includ- ing car llrusts or contigent obli- gations, land mortgages and tho like, certainly exceed by about 4,000,000 the ‘bouds of all the compavies which de- faulted in 1874, that amount being &51,390,- Includiug obligations not properly tloating debls, the three great owed $3%4,500,000, or $103,000,000 more thun the total bonded debt of ‘all the rallroads which defaulted in 1574 What the floating debt of the three great com- panies now s the various receivers would ike Lo discover, 'The aggregate is variously stated from §37,000,000 to 50,000,000, which would make the aggregate of stock and in- debtedness of which there was record some montus ago at least 032000000 for the three companies. It may bo presumed that the disclosures made by receivers aud the operations of the last year will raise the aggregate to about $050.000,000, which com- pares with about $480,000,000 for all the rail- roads that defaulted iu 1574, BRYAN AND HIS Indianapolis Journal: It Represontative Bryan or his frionds imugine that the Amor ican people think he made a great speoch on the silvor question they are yery much mis- taken. The people regard all such speeches as verbal rubhsh. St. Louis Republic: Congress needs one more official. There should bo a deputy ser geant-at-arms o koep order among the meta- phors. Mv. Bryan spoke of a mute appeal, which was a cry for help beating on the outor walls, Disordorly conduct among the figures of speech is an evil which calls for regulation in the interest of universal edu eation. New York Sun: Hon. William Jennings Bryan. the boy orator of the DPlatto, is a jowel in the ear of Nebraska and an orna- ment of her First congrossional district. Ho has tho temperament and the voico of an orator, and the laursis of silver speech are bright upon his brows. We congratulate him upon his honors, and 'tis with no grudg- ing spirit that wo venture to remind him that the peroration of the large silver speech with which he dolighted the house on Wednesday was of base metal. It glittered like a pyramid of cartwheels, and many an eye in Nemaha ana Pawnee will bo daszlod by 1t; but thero is nothing in it_but glitter and filigree. The pencovk, says the old saw, is ashamed of its logs. Hear, If you ploase, this specimen of Mr. Bryan's sounding brass and tinkling cymbals “The democratic party stands today be- tween two conflicting forces. On the one side stand corporate interests of the United States, the moneyed intorosts, o 4 wealth and capital, imperious, ar: compassionless. They are ablo Lo subs magnificently to campaign funds, The able to crush with their all-porvading in- fluence all who may oppose; and to those who fawn and_flatter they can bring ease These demand that tne demo- hall become the agent to exe- cute their merciless decrees, +On the other side stands an unnumbered throng, thoso who gave to the democratic party 4 name, and for whom it has assumed to speak. Work-worn and dust-bogrimed they make their mute appeal, and too often find their c help beat in’ vain against the outer v whilo others less deserying in ready access to legislative hails, This army, vast and daily vaster, pleads with the demotratic party to bo its champion in_this terrible confiict. 1t cannot press its claims amid sounds of revelry; it cannot march its phalanxes in grand par No gaudy ban- ners float upon the breeze. 18 “Home, Sweet Home'; its war cry Before the Law.’ *! Wo hate to call the Platte down from but we dust-b inter clamor sr tor of the the si inod clouds, must do it. The work-worn and rrimed are just the persons whose ts Mr. Bryan is opposing by his v a cheap dollar. The man who works with his handa has but one thing to sll-~the work of his hands. He is a creditor for every day be works, He is the inevitable and ehief loser by an infevior and lizod cy. The “moneyed in- of themselves in tho those of them engaged in the ilver business, for instance, The capitahst an wait until better conditions comos; the ng man cannot. What he loses he bsolutely. boy . tho small farmers, all ka would be i jured by and the silver Sound of his sentences will not help them. i b Rl ] THE ARING SKI1ES. Philadelphia Press: The two lessous present hard times can_learn the working- man are to appreciate the advantages he has over his father in the shorter hours ho has to work, the better pay he gets and the less prico he pays for the things he buys and tho greater comfort he derives from these condi- tions, and if the little pinch vhat will be felt in many houscholds leads the housewife to greal re and_oconomy in the kitchen the hard times will prove a blessing in dis- guise. Butte Miner: Every pleasure resort in and about Butte is well attended; the people proceed in their regular order of alter- nating business and pleasure without appar- ent knowledge of a national depression; they are indulging in ns many luxuries as ever; fecding tho olephant and throwing their money against the gray-bearded shell game with profligato hand; buying as good clothes as ever; getting marricd with moro eclat and orange blossoms than royallovers; indulging in honeymoons, wedding tours, divorce suits and other expensive social “functions,” and rejoicing over the rapid in- crease in handsome babies, costly robed chil- dren and thoroughbred youths. Philadelphia Record v, in all_proba- bility, the outof town exodus will have reached its climax. September is fast ap- proaching, and the last Saturday and Sun- aay but one in August have for years been regarded as the topmost round ind summit of vacation time. The period of recreation may be prolouged by reason of an undue per- sistence of estival hieat, yet the last week of August invariably turns the tide of travel homeward from scaside resorts and water- ing places. A fortunate fow will linger in the mountains or by health-giving springs; but within a fortnight the workers will all be at their posts and the much talked of re- vival of business will have bogun m earncst. executive committee of the Pan- n Bimetallic association has issued 1 to representatives of the 'ty-two states, the castern heing omitted, and in I the coun- of South and Central America and Old 0, to meet at St. Louis, on October 3, The call contains this remurkable ation: t is very evident that the center of the conspirncy”in this country to utterly demolish silver and thrust the United States upon a single metallic standara—thut of gold- -for its currency is in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore, The press of those cities has become thoroughly subscrvient to tho end of the conspirators, and has 8o imbued the minds of the people of the states in which S0 are und the surrounding states that they have all become hostile to the and advancement of the west anid Intho name of honest x.oney these are parties to the spoliation of our sections uml the cities named are the prime instigators of the crime. “The attempt to organize o sectional party, with a frec coinage platform, in the south and west, abetted by the foreign nations of Central and South America and Cld Moxico, would fail, because it would be founded on the false assumption that the east had in- terests and aims hostile to the west and south. The destruction of business in those portions would be followed by the paralysis of business of all kiuds in the scaboard cities, This consideration at once repels the imputation of u * iracy” of eastorn newspapers against “the welfare and ad vancement of the west and south.” Such a concoption could ouly find hospitality in “one-idead” brains, which find mountaius in mole bills and discover *‘men as trees walk- ing. Ko cast has enormous interest in overy wostern state, in the great lines of tran portation, in the public loaus of states, cities and towns, in favm mortgages, in the stool and honds of corporations, in every species of investment for money. The seciions buy and sell and trade together as froely as the inhabitants of a towa. When the sensitive nerves of business are rudely touched any- where in this country all the other soctions feel the shock. 1f the east should form *'a couspiracy” against the west and south it would simply be engaged in pulling down its own house about its ears, There is, there can be, no such thing as a “conspiracy” of the journals of the eastern cities Lo injure any portion of our common country in their presentation of the silver controversy. It s a question of monetary science as applied to the needs of the entire country. It s absurd to say that the eastern people “become hostile to the west and south, that eastern journalism has anywhere en- couraged such hostility. It has discussed the silver question from the standpoint of patriotism alone, and, whether its judgment his been right oF wrong, its motive There are honest diffe n in eyery section as to the . Iyer should hold to our curren is @ case in which there wust e tole and tew perato disoussion. It is ot concelvable that y intelligent westeruers, even those living the silyer states, will adopt this call of the Pan-Ameri- can Bimetallic association as the reflection of their views. The representatives of the association in Mexico and South and Central America may be indifferent to the interrup- tion of good feeling betweeu portions of our republie, but uo patriotic citizen of this coun- try will allow such asperations and senti- ments to pass unchallenged. PEOPLE AND THINGS, Paycho Citizen Train is the only prince ot blood at present on exhibition at the fair. yvellow™ fever which recently raged in w York is rapidly subsiding under the magie influence of Kurope's gold cure ho wise fisherman who clung to his seal- ins pending arbitration is considerably chy b I skins nave advanced & cach sos and conditions of men are*fur. { nished entortainment at the World's fair. 1 the pugs are treated to a professional sorap, | th Just as Kansas was growing tiresome in the public prints, a showaer of hailstones as large as baseballs happonod along and ve- | vived the vaudeville spirits of constitutional bleedors, Congressman Dryan's “muto appea ing in vain against the outer walls. not intended as a roflection on the army. Willie's mute did not ¢ or buat the drum. Western readers of eastorn papers are liable to be misled by luria _headlines, read- ing, “Downed by Cleyeland.” Such lines re- fer'to outdoor baso ball, not 10 the indoor bawl at the capitol. “Twenty thousand poots are expooted in Chicago on Poets’ day. This vast aggrega- tion will enablo tho average mortal to grasp the magnitude of the gray matter required 1o edify magazino readers. The saddest spectacle in Towa politics tho prosent desolate condition of Mrs. J. Lillen Fostor. In former years she was a calilope under high pressure. A tinhorn now makes her weary and heartsore, Thomas A. Fdison comes of a long lived stock. His fathor is still alive at Port Huron, Mich., at tho age of 0. His grand- father was 103 y old and two of his aunts lived to b 08 and 99 respectively. Samuol I3dison, the father of the inventor. looks for- ward to many moro years of activity. He is vory proud of his famous son, who is known to the family as “Al" Jacob Tome, the widely known millionaire Danker of Port Doposit, Md., celebrated his d birthday anniversary a fow days ago. Mr. Tome is a native of Hanover, Pa., from which place he went to Port Deposit 1n 1833, One of his latest acts was tho ostablishment of the Jacob Tome insitute for the education of poor boys, on which he has expended 50,000, Mr. Tome is still vigorous and tends to business. Hon. Frank D. Jackson, republican_candi- tate for governor of lowd, is a New Yorkor, ing_been born in Wyoming county in His parents moved to lowa soon after- He was graduated from the lowa to the bar. w until about threo years hen he was elected prosident of tho Royal Union Mutual Lifo Insurance com- vany of Des Moines. Ho has been a member of the state senato and was twice clected of state, There will be a notable gathering a Winnepesaukee, in New Hampshire, he New Hampshive Veteran Soldiers ciation has invited all the war governors to attend its aunual reunion. Accoptances nave alrcady been v 1 from Curtin of Pennsylvania, Sprague of Rtode Island, Holbrook of Vermont and Berry of New Hampshire, and the lotters have Just begun tocome in, Itis hoped that all the lving war governors will be present and_ that the occasion will be made oneof historic interest. 0ld General Sickles is as warliko as over. He opposed all debate on the question of re: pealing the Sherman law and proposed that tho house shoula remain in continuous ses- sion until that object was obtained. clared his willingn beat. was Ivation y & banner Lako oon. 580~ o camp 1 the capitol and have his meals brought to him. When this heroie proposition was declined he shook the dust of Washington from off his foet and went homo to New Yok, where ho will remain until “the wind-jammers get through shooting off speeches.” Then ho will return and vote. Congrossman _Johnson of North Dakota, bas tho funnicst lookiug whiskers in the house. In the last congress they were long and Pofforesque, but when he returned to at- tend the extra session they had been trimmed down to two ridiculous little poiuts. 1 trimmed them out,” he says, in_cxplana- tion, “*because I discovered that after milk- ing the cows at home the odor collocted in them disagreeably.” Johnson is a mighty agriculturist, and is_reported to roam about on his farm with his trousers suspended by i single picee of binding twine and with bis teet bure. ——— The Business End of Business. New York Press. At the Chamber of Commerco dinner, November 9, 1802, G over Cloveland, in his mado a fling at our ts. Those present at the dinner may recall the following admonition from Mr. Depew: *I sympathize somewhat with Mr. Cleveland in the feeling that he has, that too much is said about business in- threatening this, or business inter- ising that; and yet, as our friends have been out of power for thirty years and have not had the duty thrust upon them to deal with business interests, I want togive them this word of warning, that business interests have, liko the wasp, a iness end, and they had better be careful how they fool with it.” sl August Panic Mongers, Philadelphia Tomes. This August would be a dry it wero not for the calamity said that everyihing in nature has its uses, including_even the mosquito, whoso use, howaever, has not yet been discovered. The alamity howler must also haye his purpose in tho universe. Perhaps it is to keep peo- plo awake during the summer tion and prevent their falling iato too seductivo a re- dull month if wlers, It is need it try. rapidly taken up. BROWNING, Btore open overy evening tll 6.3 ore O rday sl 1. |8 i He de- | Largest Manutacturars 3n1 Rotallers ol Ulothing in the World FIATISM AND BANK Cotvsnus, Neb, Aug. 18, 1803.~To the BEditor of Tne Bee: Wil you kindly explain tho differonce between the Idea of Senator Poffer on issuing $300,000,000 of “Aat” and tho present cireuiation of national banks. Is not national bank circulation based om gov- ernment bonds; are not governmont bonds n promise to pay? Is there any coin now in the hands of the government to pay thoso bonds! Was there any money or coin in the hands of the government to pay the notes fssued during the war, commondy called groenbacks, or were they a promise to pay, basod on the faith and honor of the govern ment, the people ot this country. If they wero only promises to pay, with notbing in sight to pay with, issued at a time when it wis very uncertain what “the government' meant, how is it that Senator Peffor's idea 18 80 liablo to ridicute? I am asking for in- formation. Yours respectfully, XX. Ans. United States bonds are promises to pay, and national bank notes are con quently based upon promisés of the govern ment to pay. ‘Thegovernment has no monoy set aside for the payment of bonds, because they aro not yet due, but it hasa fund for the redemption of ' national bank notes, There is no difficuity with the circulation of promises to pay 8o long as they are redeemed in coinof intrinsic value. During tho war and untél 1878, when no notes were redeomed in coin by the government, greenbacks, as also national bank notes, were constantly worth than gold. ‘Lhe danger of fiatism is that papor will be issued in such quanti- ties as to drive out all our gold, and thus compel the government to suspend vedomp- tion. We would then bo piaced upon basis of depreciated papoer, as we were b fore. Wo have seen that the continuod pur- chase of silver sent so much gold out of the country that the $100,000,000 reserve was trenched upon. It would evidently take much less than $300,000,000 of paper to drive gold to a premium again. Wo want now to keep our gold, not to drive it away. s hdhedin) THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS. Aor Now York Press: rost and ¢ hins g0 u rest.” “Areyou golug away for ango this summor?™ “No, My wite o away for a chunge, and I am having Siftings: new novel, W public wiil o author must not “A Mere Accident” is tho titlo of a 1, A1 16 was 0 mere aceldent the ook it this time, but the the offense. Plenty of sleep is con- e a garment looks worn Eton Jacket s one ot thinigy in the world— iton. tho most absurd | before a pretty gir kin put ord: ow does Dempster al- 1o look so cool this awful out a long list of the 1y, next winter, and 1t Chicago Re wiys manag woither?” things he nearly gives Philadelphia Times: “Vacation” etymolog- fcally meaus empty. The word vrobably originated on a man's gotting back howo look= Ing at his pockethook and asking, “What ia there In 1e?™ Tu tront of Mr. Malloy's feed store stands a_ baby carriage which bears For Sale- uve Gone Ont of Busl- ne That dodgo won't work, Malloy. We've tried It sev 1 times and had to buy a now carringe every time. Superlor Times: hon you suspect the count had an- son for bro: ng his eugagement 1o recently tnherited a fortune trom an uncle. Washington Now. s a congrossn riding toward the capitol m dny the wind blew his hat ¢ footed colored citlzen rec stored 1t to the owner, your speaking tube.” A CULINARY PROBLEM. Ladies' Home Journal. Wo woro busy one duy in the kitchen, T deep in somo cook book lore, And ho perchod upon the table Driving a “conch-and-four.” n 1 had finished this sentenco recipe 1 h und, t on tho stove and stir constantly,” Tne driver looked around. And leaving his play for a ninute, 1le whispered in iy o could any ono Fom Masson in New York Sun. Alone by unding sea they ie in nncls whit She In her gown and her funty hat, Flecey and fhufy and white, YL promised to mar: 1 s00n," sho sald It 1%, S0 never fo: But I wanted 1o ask if you knew,” she sald, “That gowns like this are dear? I mention this gown 1t fits n ind feels so nice; If you're i good gucsscr, iy dear, maybe You'll it right away on the price.” “Why, certanly, poke, “I'm aware that your gowns are not low, And of course getting marricd is never a joke, Let us suy twenty dollurs or so." because, you see, dearest,” ne laughingly She smiled. "Twas n pitying smile she gave, 1t was ninety-five dollars,” quoth she And lier lover Fose s a gr Breon Wuve Ca 0 in from the sobbing sea. inoty-five dollars!” he echocd. “Well, well) EXCUSe 10 & moment, my own; Some one is calling me 1o the hotel, But an instant I'll leave you wloio.” And ho sped away, and his bill ho pald, And ho A his footsteps set; And us for the ninety-five dollur maid, Mauybe she's siuting there yet. Touching it off That is to say, letting it go, and if you had A | been in our store Saturday you would haye 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 Oh, but we We have 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 This is not a KING & CO., W, Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts.