Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 3, 1893, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE THE DAILY VATER, Editor. BLISHED EVERY MOR! TERMS OF SURSC Dally Bee iwithout Snnday) On Daily and Sinaay, One Year. 8ix Months. Three Montlis Bunday Beo, « Saturday Tan, One Woekly Bow, One RO TPTTION. Yoar ® 800 v 10 00 ¥ ¥ Year OFFICES, Omaha, The Dee Buflding. South On r Con 5-8lxth streets. Tribune bullding. Ui to nown and odi- ased: To the Bditor. | of the company {nz the oty for the Summer ean have 1o thelr address by leaving an order THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. The Bes in Chiongo. Trr DALY and SUNDAY Bee 1s on sale in he following places: Grand Pac Auditorium hotel. Great Northern hotel. foro hotel. | eland hotol, Flies of THE Brk can ho seen at the Ne- braska burlding and the Adwinistration build ing, Exposition grounds SWORN STAT! State of Nobraskn County of Doug MENT OF CIRGULATION wcretary of THE BER Pub- locs solemnly swear that the actual cireul itk DALY BER for the week ending Septombor 2, Azt 80 Auenst 1 GrORGE T TZ8CIUCK. ~i— | Sworn to befors meand snbseribed in {8EAL fprescice tiis pember. 1893, — Notary Publie. CONVENTION DATES, Republican stato convention, Lincoln, Octo- ber 5, 10a. m. : Independent September 5. Democratic October 4. state convention, Lincoln, state convention, Lincoln, THE British House of Commons has earned the promised recess. FOURTEEN months of woman suffrage pgitation is threatening the state of Kansas. Poor Kansas! OMAHA is making a better showing in its clearing house record than any of its ocompetitors, New York and Chicago in- cluded. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S return to Washington ought to give a decided im- petus to the work of the democratic headsmen. I 18 conceded that the Amg tional bank will resume busin month. That fact alone will hel alear up the financial atmosphere hore- abouts. PROSPECTS point toward the re- sumption of the suspended national bank at Ashland. The banks are turning tables and are beginning a run for re- sumption. EACH successive Grand Army encamp- ment shows an increasing number of ab- sentees who have answered the last roll call. A few years hence a Grand Army reunion will be a reminiscence. ACCORDING to Mayor Bewmis, THE BEE is a peanut, while Train is a cocoanut. But our worthy mayor forgot to say thawthe milk in that cocoanut was the 25-cent admussions to the monkey show. THE crowded advertising columns of today’s BEE afford indisputable evidence that the business men of this community have recovered from the lack of con- fidence lately manifested among some of them. —_— ‘WHEN the United States senate con- descends to do business upon Saturday and forego one of its usual weekly holi- days, vemay bo suro that it has come 1o appreciate the urgency of tho business before it. Tar World-Herald is deaf to the “mute appeals” for the money it raised for te relief of victims of the Shiverick fire. 1f the Fake Mill does not disgorge pretty soon these appeals will lose the quality of muteness. THE peovle of Towa are having their eyes opened to the fact that Boies has been nominated fer governor only as a running mate for Bestow. They prefer to get along without “Governor” Bestow now and forall time. e THE-accuraoy of our system of treas- ury accounting was again demonstrated last week by the completion of the count of 8740,817,419 turned over by the lust treasurer to his successor without error amounting to a singlo cont. THE Omaha city mission proposes to establish a charity rock pile. That is the most unpopular thing they have ever projected. An invitation to pa- tronize the mission rock pile will be indignantly spurned by the professional vagrant as if he was tendored lodgings in the pesthouse. —_— THE Park commission considered the subject of finding a fit name for the new park known as the Parker tract. The discussion proves that the commissioners had not given much thought to the mat- ter. Is it possible that among the hon- ored founders of this city, now dead, there is no name that could be thus ims mortalized? ey LAsT week 40,000 hogs were received 8t the South Omaha yards, as against 17,000 the corresponding week of last year. Thero was also a fair increase in cattle receipts, while firmer prices and » better feoling generally provailed on the market. The demands of local packers were active, which contributed to the better prices, and the outlook for the future is full of promise. IN HIS opening address to the Ameri- can Bar association President John Randolph Tucker said, in reviewing the legislation of this country during the past year: ‘I have received no report from, nor legislative acts of, Kentucky, Jowa or Nebrassa.” The inexcusable delay in getting out the last volume of Nebraska session laws is gaining for | Gladstono | of GLADSTONE'S TRIUMPH, After six years,of persistent struggle | to secure logislative independence for Ireland—a struggle which the enlight- cned world has watehed with eager and unceasing interest and which has com- manded the profound sympathy of every | friend of popular sclf-government— has _carried through the House of Commons & measure of home rule and crowned a magnificent career statesmanship with its grandest hievement. The world undorstands this consummation does not secure and that right of self-government which the great majority of her people ask and justice demands. It is, after ail, but little more than a promise, against the present realization of which stands the now gnable of the intrenched in the House of Lords. s a promise full of hope and encouragement, for it comes from the masses of the people, and hav- ing given it thore is evory reason to believe thut they will continue loyal to it until it be fulfilled. The long and trying battle for justice to Ireland, which forms one of the most extraordinary chapters in human history, must be still further prolonged, but it will be fought out under somewhat different conditions from those of the past. British public opinion has been steadily advancing in the direction of a larger exercise of popular rights and of a greater partic- ipation of the masses in tho affairs of government. The suffrage, relieved of the limitations and the restrictions of a fow years ago, has given to nearly all the people the right of representation. What the masses of Englishmen enjoy and cherish in this respect they will not deny 1w Irishmen, and 1if a House of Lords obstinately persists in ignoring and defying the pobular will the people will deprive it of its prerogatives and if need be sweep it out of existence. With Mr. Gladstone the intelligent masses of Great Britain have faith in national liberty, und like him also they will r pel tho charge that any particular braanch of the race is incapable of self- government *when every other branch has displayed capability on the same subject and has attained to success which is an example to the world.” The power of wealth and of classinfluence is undoubtedly stili strong in England, but it is declining, and it will gain nothing by the rejection of the home rule bill by the House of Lords. Nevertheless it is not doubted that the peers will reject the measure, and probably without much delay. Of their constitutional right to do this there is no question. What may follow th action is not now foreshadowed. It will furnish no reason for dissolution, and the presumption is that the majori in tho House of Commons will g0 on with the legislation it has proposed to adopt, embracing matters of great importance to the country. Mr. Gladstone undoubtedly has his program for the future fully perpared and, it is safe to say, there will no hesitation in carrying it into effect. Meanwhile the grand old man main- tains his place among the greatest statesmen of the century, and every- where throughout the civilized world the hearts of men who believe in the vrinciple of popular sclf-government will respond to the acclaim that greeted Gladstone after his trinmph. power CREDIT ECONOMY. Economists have delighted to describe a cycle in the development of industrial exchange which compels nations to pass through threestages in their transactions —that of barter, that of money and that of credit. Credit they say is the di; tinguishing feature of modern advanced civilization, and to 1t they attribute in a large part the great strides that have been made in recent times in wealth and progress. But if to credit we are to as- cribe this multitude of advantages, we must also charge to it some of the disad- vantages under which we now lab . Commercial crises were unkn wn to nations which had not emerged from the stago of barter economy. They were unimportant during the stage of money economy. They have beenconcomitants of the development of credit, and with every extension of that complicated system the recurring crisis has become more severe and more disastrous, This phase of the prevailing stringency has attracted the attention of Mr. Albert C. Stevens, the editor of Bradstrect’s, who treats of “The Phenomenal Aspects of the Financial Crisis” in the September Forum. He is quite certain that the evolntion of the eredit system has never before been carried 80 far as now and says that aside from retail trade it is demonstrable that more than 95 per cent, perhaps as much as 98 per cent, of the actual business of the country in- volving tho transfer of products is done on eredit. Tt is common complaint that of late the season for selling goods of various descriptions has been beginning ~ourlier, whilo manufacturers and jobbers are compelled to give their customers longer dating on their bills, This means simply an oxtension of credit and the man who can make cash pur the advantage over his competitor: Another element that has assisted in making credit economy stall more com- plicated and delicate is the wide em- ployment of the mercantije agencie These st tutions are organized for the express purpose of facilitating credit transactions and they huve reached a perfection in recent years unthought of two decades ago. Thoy enable a busi- ness man to do a credit business coex tensive with the country and muke every financial disaster immediately felt in every industrial center of the United States. They have commenced to stimulate the fabric of international credit until the flow of capital to and from the great financial markets is an event of every day occurrence. With the higher evolution of credit money and with this increasing possi- bility of crises, we must have new fac- tors making for stability in financial mattors. Mr. Stevens does not go into this question, but his intimation that all the most disastrous panics have boen traceable to a debased or unsound cur- rency, coupled with speculative bank- ing methods, suggests the first point of departure. We must have a permanent gives Miis state some unenviable notoriety, currency system no longer subject to perpetual eongressional tinkering, i | pon that a5 & astawe must Have a | banking system under a strict puml.»; supervision which shall render fmpossi- | ble any fraudulent or unsafe manipula- tion of the depositors' funds.” Credit economy is here to remain untifsome- thing more useful is devised. . To reap the benefits and to avoid its eviis ve- quire not its abolition but its control. TIME THAT IT WERE SNUFFED OUT. There are half a dozen rohsons why the children's World's fair excursion scheme should be discouraged and di countenanced. Two reasons, howev should be sufficient to people of ord nary mental grasp. One reason is that sending children like sheep, in droves, would be a. reckless disregard of the duty socioty owes to itsell and the protection which parents and guardians owe to children. The second reason, which is equally potent, is that the scheme involves a large out- lay of money which should be kept in circulation in Omaha. Even at the lowest estimate it will t from $10 to $20 for each person that goes to the World's fair, if they return within forty-eight hours. if they romain four days it will cost $10 more. In other words, the workingmen and the business men of Omaha cannot and should not take from $30,000 to $50,000 out of this town at this time, when every dollar is needed for bread, meat and raiment. This may sound very selfish, but we believe that the time has come for snuffing the whole business out and let its promoters evolve something that will put money into Omaha instead of taking it out and scattering it around in Chicago under the pretense that Omaha will get a big advertisoment. Ty THE DISTRIBUTION OF PROPERTY. One of the most interesting ana valu- able of the addresses at the annual mecting of the American Bar associa- tion in Milwaukee was delivered on Thursday last by Justice Brown of the United States supreme court, his sub- ject being the distribution of property. The distinguished jurist sketched the history of the strife between eapital and labor from the days of the great strike of the Israelites, the conflicts between the Roman patricians and plebeians, the feudal lords and the merchants of the middle ages, down to the struggles of the present day, showing that strikes, s0 far from being peculiar to modorn industrial enterprise, are as old as eivil- ization itself; that they prevail most ex- tensively in the most enlightened and wealthy communities, and so far from being an indication of extreme poverty ave equally as frequent in times of gen- aval prosperity. and that'the wit of man has as yet devised no schome. whereby they may be prevented oreven alleviated. Justice Brown said that the ideal state ty pictured by some. enthusiasts, where neither poverty nor riches should provail, is utterly inconsistent with human charactor as at present con- stituted, and it was at least doubt- fui whether such a state .would conduce as much to the gen- eral happiness as the inequality which excites the emulation and stimulates the energy. ‘*‘Rich men,” he said, ‘‘are ossential even to the well being of the poor, It is they who, in & thousand ways, develop the resources of our country and afford employment to a countless army of workingmen. One has but to consider for a moment the immediate consequences ot the abolition of large private fortunes to appreciate the danger which lurks in any radical disturbance of the present social sys- tem.” The oft-repeated statement of certain so-called philosophers, of political dema- gogues and of trresponsible agitators, that the rich are growing richer while the poor ave growing poorer, Justice Brown declared to be wholly untrue. Private fortunes in this country are larger than they have ever baen before, hut the con- dition of the laboring class has improved in equal ratio. The workingman re- ceives better wages and works shorter Lours than ever before, while his wages buy more of the ¢hrmforts of life. *‘Ho is ter house tter clad, better fed, better taught, reads better and cheaper papers, sends his children better schools, and enjoys more opportuni for recreation and for seeing the world than ever before.” The in- creased number of large fortunes Justice Brown ascribed to that process of centralization which has been going ince the introduction of the railway and the telegraph, the commercial effect, of which is epitomized in the single word combination. He regretted this result, since it is better for the country that there should be a hundred small pro- ducers of a single article than ono groat one. But he thonght that the causes which have been effective in the amass- ing of large fortunes are already cous- ing to operate, and as the country be- comes more perfectly developed and more thickly inhabited will ceaso to be important facto ““The time is. coming,” said Justico Brown, ‘when the country will have all the railways required, when the production of manu- facturers will exceed the demand, and the wages received so neur the price of the article produced as to leave little or no profit to the manufacturer.” This time is yet remote, but there is no reason to doubt that 1t will come. Considering some of the schemes for securing a more equal distribution of property, Justice Brown said the social- istic theory relegated the question to the region of impossibilities, go-opera- tion unpractical without a radical change in the character of the laboring classes, and so-called compulsory arbi- tration would logically result in either confiscation to the em- ployer or slavery to the em- ploye. He believed that legis- lation is incompetent to effect any vadi- cal change in the social status or in the relations of the employers and the em- ployed, and that even if such change were possible it would be attendoed by evils which would inevitably throw the whole system in to confusion. ~ But it does not [ollow that legislation can do nothing to improve those relations or to palliate the evils of the present situa- tion. Legislation may fix the number of hours of a legal day's work, provide that payment be made at certain stated periods, protect the life and health of the working man against accidents or to os "TEMBER diseases arisin a‘nm i1l-constructed ma- chinery,badly Ventilated rooms,defective appliances or dangerous occupations and may limit or f®Ribit altogether the la- bor of women and children in employ- ments injurious to their health or be- yond their stronfth. Moro than this, it may forbid the dharter of business cor- porations for any other purposes than those of mining, manufacturing, insur- ance or (rmmyrn*lml:m. and especially for farming or trading purposes, or traficking in gny” manner in the necos- saries of life. With the aid of judicial power it may pu¥/an end to combina- tions having for their oBject the control and monopoly of particular articles of manufacture. It may put a stop to the vicious asystem of build- ing railways and other public works through constrnction companies organ- ized by the directors of the road in their own interest. Justice Brown thought that state ownership of monopolies is a fleld upon which legislation may enter, experimentally” at least, and per- haps with great ultimate benofit to the public. He had never boen able to perceive why, if the government may be safely intrusted to carry our letters and papers, it may not with equal propriety carry our telegrams, or why, if our mu- nicipalities may supply us with water, they may not also supply us with gas, electricity, telophones and streot cars. They are all based, said Justice Brown, upon the same principle of a public ownership of the streets and highways, and a power to grant fran- chises to third persons, which the munic- ipality, if 1t chooses, may reserve to it- self. Something may also be done by legislation toward securing a more equal distribution of property by limit- ing the power of the testator to dispose of his estate by will. “The natural right of every man to the enjoyment of his own property and to the increment thereof is recognized by the laws of all civilized nations, nor do they limit in any way his right to accumulation. His right to dispose of it aftor his death, however, stands upon a different foot- ing. That is a creature of statute and subject to the legislative will. 1If for- tunes should multiply in the next half century as they have in the last decade drastic measures may have to be in- vented. LONGER OR SHORTER WORKING DAYS. The brunt of Samiiel Gompers' ve- marks at the labor congress was di- rected toward establishing this proposi- tion, that the solution of the problem of the unemployedjlips in, the redv the number of hours in the working day. Looking around us at the present time wo see thousands of men laid off from their work or farted to accept reduced wages because *fhe factories and the mills can no longer dispose of their products. With every addition to the unemployed, with every reduction of wages received by thé laboter, the pur- chasing capacitgeiol 'that yast army of consumers is loswoned, and “this in turn decreases the demand for the goods of those who are looked to to afford ex- tended employtifght. Eyery one who manages taretaifis hisposidon seems to be depriving some of his fellows of equal opportunities. Why not, then, says Mr. Gompers, by equalizing the work to be had, lessen the number of hours which each is permitted to labor, fand in that way give work to every one who is willing and able to perform it? Mr. Gompers is plain in stating his own position. “I believe that so long as there is one man or woman out of employment who needs work, who can work and wants to work and cannot find it, the hours of labor of those who are employed are too long.” How much the working duy would have to be shortened in order to securo the desived result or whether such a result could ever be se- cured, even though the working day were reduced to five minutes, Mr. does not;venture to speculate. it is quite . conceivable that tho shortening process might go on under these conditions until the working day shall practically have disappeared. What is intimated, although not as- serted, is that the share of the product which any laborer now receives shall not be lessencd or divided with the ad- ditional men who are to be given em- ployment, and this is evidently to be ve- lied upon to create a constantly grow- ing demand for goods that shall enable all industries to be conducted to their fullest capacity. The troublo with all plans of shorten- ing the working day without reducing the rate of wages paid is that it has not been proven, nor can it be proven, thata man can produce as much in a shorter number of hours as in a longer number, There is acertain limit, perhaps, be- yond which it is not profitable to em- ploy labor, but below that limit the product decreases with every decrease in the time devoted to i% The wage earners receive their reward out of what they produce and they cannot re- ceive what they are now getting if they do less work. What follows? Just what Mr. Gompers bas deseribed with- out seeing the forpe ‘of the example. The employer fiuds in these hard times that he wmmnot maintain his regular pay roll wishout a positive loss. Ho says to his men'fhat he will have to reduce his force, ‘thig he will have to,r tronch expenses, ##t he will possibly have to cut wagiiand that if ne is not permitted to do thjshe will have to shut down. There is Ingi other alternative, He is subjectod 'o+(losses all the time, while his employesswho do not hesitate | 8 moment to makfidemands upon the least sign of prospéiity, want to evade every vestige ..P_'fl;;uwc. with his ad- versity. A shorter working day when the present working day is attended with a loss is simply an impossibility and that is all there is to it. Our sys- tem of distribution fiay be defective and less work with more pay may be the out- | come of its reform, but taking it as it now stands it forbids the employment of all the unemployed until the return of confidence and prosperity justifies sueh an extension of industey. What Mr. Gompers and other labor reformers should strive to bring about is an increase of employment. First, by the extension of public works and con- struction of harbors and waterways that are needed for interstate and interna- tional commerce; second, by the construc- tion of publi¢c buildings wherever the . 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES. — = government needs & public building for postal, revenne and judi third, by stimulating home industry and the utilization of oar raw materials in mills and factories labor in forcign countrics. In other words, adopt a policy that will creato om- ployment for the idle workingman with- out decrensing the ecarning capacity of the men now employed SOME of the absurdities of the contract labor law which excludes immigrants who come to this country already under engagements to work for parties in the United States were disolosed by the rvecent episode in connection with the arrival in this country of Henry Trving's company of players. When the roster was called, aftor the hoat had landed, it was foind that four of the men were missing, and only aftor diligent inquiry was it learned that the gas engineer and three calcium light manipulators had been detained by the immigration officials. ~ They were subjectod to the usual questions, and when they replied that they were under con- tract with a theatrical company the order was given that they should be sent back to the port from which they came. On remonstrance and threats of an appeal to the Treasury department at Washington, the moen were allowed a rehearing, Evidenco was taken as to the line of demarcation between a trade and an art and the men were finally ad- mitted on the ground that they are art- ists. So it is now settled that the men who adjust the gas lights or manipulate the calcium effects for the stage are artists and not laborers. The law recog- s contract laborers and not con- tract artists, and so these men are per- mitted to secure an entrance to the country. This incident shows to a nicety how easily the officials may relax the rules when they desire. [t also shows how ridiculous an interpretation must be given to this law to avoid its working hardship. It may bo perfectly praver to keep out men with littlo or no skill who, by lowering the standard of life, prevent American laborers from earning fair wages. But to exclude men whose skill renders them desirable ad- ditions to the community and who do not, come into active competition with wage earners already here is an altogethor unnecessary feature of the,law. So long as the letter of the law remains as it is we may expect officials to twist its con- struction in a manner similar to that just noted. UNION PACIFIC DIRECTOR MILLARD presses the belief that the recent re- ductions of salaries on that line are but temporary. It is a matter of regret that the signs of the times do not point to a restoration of the old scale of wagos. The process of paring down salary lists is general throughout the country. It prevails especially in industrial es- tablishments, the great majority of which have reduced wages from 1 to 20 per cent. The point has been reached where proprietors must either reduce expenses or shut up shop. Merchants and manufacturers of Omaha can con- gratulate themselves that times are not as bad here as in many other cities. THE Sioux City authorities are ac- cused by our county agent of sending destitute family to this city. The up- er people have been notified that a repetition of the offense will subject them to prosecution under the United States pauper laws. This action will be heartily endorsed by the taxpayers of the community, who have been imposed - upon by the unprincipled ial purposes; | to the exclusion if | possible of wares made by underpad | PEOPLE AND THINGS Senator Hill f« 50 and bald headed. Congressman Kilgore's capacity for kicks | ing is undiminished. After all,the greay question bofore the bar is: What'll you have? The silver storm center has veered about 600 feet from tho south to tho north end of the national capitol. In pronouncing & large majority of the silvor party liars, Senator Sherman was somewhat Solomoncaqua and decidedly pic- Mayor Harrison has reduced the rents of his ClWeago property, residents are not content. Thoy crave a reduction of the rent in his face. Only 10,000 descendants of John Smith were present at the annual family reunion in New Jorsoy recently.s A general mvitation {eill not be issued until ho next consus yoar in Jersey Chicago emulates Omaha In ono rospect. Most of the money collected for the families of victims of the cold storage warehouse firo has not been refunded, tho committee feariog, doubtless, that sudden prosperity would be njurious. A Toxas paper declares that ex-Senator John H. Reagan “is being mentioned in sol- emn tones and hushed voices” as a_candi- date for governor this fall Mr. Bryan's +‘muto appeal” appears to be running at large In the Lone Star state. Mr. Richard Croker has grown weary of maintaining a stablo of race horses. = His winnings have not come up to expenses and he proposes to devote . his attention to Tam- many schemos, which invariably yield hand- somely. Great head, that of Richard, Free silver loaders no longer claiw every- thing. Kditor Pattorson of the Rocky Mountain News telegraphs his paper from Washington under date of August 30: I atisfled ifa voto was taken tomorrow onditional repeal would carry In tho St Tho losses caused by the hurricane on the Atlanticcoast are estimated at §3,000,000, dis- tributed from Florida to the St. Lawerence, In the vicinity of Suvannah the wind attained a velocity of 100 miles an hour and in New York fifty-four miles an hour. Waves fiftecn feet high broke over the Battory wall. The loss of life will probably reach 700, Mrs. Ada M. Bittonbender, it is-hinted {n knowing quartors, is not avorse to a nomina- tion for jnstice of the Nobraska supreme court on the populist ticket. Ada 18 & pop, and prohib. of long standig, a lawyer of much skill and fluency and a pillar in tom- perance organizations. To these gifts should bo added the ability to spank a baby with grace and a slipper. J. T. Boyd ot Indianapolis has addea bico to that of Licutonant Totten, and declares that the ond of the world is at hand. In support of his theory he says that the Chronological socioty, composed of noted scientific men, has arrived at the same conclusions as thoso reached by Lieuten; Totten and himself and that all proph points to 1809 as the date of final smashup. Senator Perkins of Callfornia is a self. made man, When ho was a youngster in California, ' friendless, and with only $3 in his pocket, a Mr. Knight, a merchant of Oreville. gave him a situation as portor, where ho could earn regular wages, $40 4 month. When ho had made a place for him- self in the business world he sent for his old employer, who had 1n the meantimo mot with | misfortune, and gave him a bookkeeper's place in his office worth $175 a month, General Lew Wallaco was invited by tho Indiana post of the Grand Army of tho Re- public to which he belongs, to take com- mand of the battalion from Montgomery county, including all the posts in that at the national encampment in In- dianapotis. Ho has written a characteristic reply, declining to rob u_deserving comrade of s honors, and saying that ho will b found in tho ranks of the post, duly sized, and will march with the res — e BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. An honest critic is u good friend. People with no faults have few friends. Cloven feet are often found in patent leather: The faith that moves mountains began on grains of sand. It docsn't make a lie any whiter to put 1t on a tombstone, Every time a wise man makes a mistake it teaches him something. A kind word can be made to strike harder than a cannon ball. Every drob of rain that strikes the earth does its best to give man bread. Some of the organ’s sweetest notes come from pipes that are out of sight, = Every time a sinner hears a sermon with- out repentance the devil gives his firs an. other stir. When a man is praying for a corn crop God expects him to do something toward it with a hoe. 1 There are things that look much better county officials of this and neighboring states. ‘Douglas county -cares for her dependent paupers, as everybody knows, but it does not follow that this county shall be made the asylum for the indi- gent of the entire west. THERE are unmistakable signs of a return of better trade conditions in this city and state. The jobbers are sending out their traveling men again in antici- pation of a heavy fall trade. Money is not 5o tight, a better feehng prevails among local bankers and the situation generally is reassu d Played. Philadelphia Times, The arrangements for the march of ro- turning prosperity are in the hands of Gen eral Confidence, General Public and General Business. S B Promtuture Happines Minucapolis 3 r Boies 1 credited with being in a tively happy frame of mind over his nomination, Uncle Horace, however, is likely to find out before long that conditions have changed somewhat since the republican state couvention was held. —_— Look on the Bright Side. Cinecinnati Commereial, There are no couspirators in this country agaiust silver. The foolish provosition that bankers and capitalists are encmies of silver has no substantial foundation to rest upon. But wait_awhile and all this will be made plain to those who are directly interested in the output of the silver mines, Business will soon be adjusted to the new conditions, 28 it could not be adjusted to the inflated values of the white me| The Home Training, Minneapolis Tribune, The ministers bave been discussing tho bad boy problem and casting about for the best mothod of making the bad boy good ¢ preventing the good boy from becoming b The first step should be the education of the | euts toa seuso of their responsibility Parents nowadays ave inchined to entrust too large a share of the training of their chil- aren to the public schools, the church and the state, Character is formed at home, —— on't Be Alarm St. Paul Ploneer Press. Nobody need be in vhe least alarmed about the reported preparations of the committee on waysand means to prepare i Lariff reform bill. ‘Phe announcement that the proposed reform s to cut down the tariff to au extent which leaves the Mills bill wholly out of sight is exactly what might be expected of u commitiee that had no intention that any | tariff bill should pass: They will make it 50 | extreme and 30 violently radical us Lo insure its defeas. ————— Auother Ridiculous Soheme. Chicayo Herald, The cammereia) separation scheme of the “populists’ meets with ridicule from some | intelligent sources und with criticism from | others showing its absolute impracticabitity | and folly. Yet the delegates from the vari ous “‘populist” states will meot at Chicago Sevtember 11, the day before the anarchist | international conventiou, and will discuss | their project with great flippancy, as if the rrents of east and west comuerce, amount- | ing to §500,000,000 8 year, could be changed as easily ws the current of a brook ina | meadow, from “heaven than a milk wagon at a preacher’s door on Sunday morning, The man who starts out to use up the bible will bo too old to enjoy his victory by the time he gots through with his job. ——— Justice to Labor and to Capital. New York Advertiser. Employers should not seize upon the op- portunity offered by our business trouble cut down wazes unless they aro absolutoly compelled to do so, and workingmen should be willing, whenever that nocessity exists, t0 accept that just reduction which will en. able the employers to keep their shops open. Euch should be willing to help the other in this cmergency. tailor shop. BROWNING, BROWNING, K} Largest Manufacturers and Rotallers ot Olothing in the World. certainly forgotton teachings. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT, 2o Post: DPotato bugs drove s Kan- sas preachor from his pulpit the other night. Tho average insect in that state is equal to the ordinary dynamo. Kansas City Journal: Tho mental aber ration of the Denver minister who requested that his salary bo reduced on account of the hard times is not at all likely to take an epi- demic form Chicago 'Timos: Rev. George Schwoinfurth of tho Rockford boon driven b COhiy Jaco Hokven nus times to ped- dle garden voge 1T his vegotables are wood and if ho oasonable prices ho is to be congratulated on making an honest living. New York Sur Away!" is the titloand tho refrain of a hymn which was sung with rovival fervor last Sunday at the camp meoting of the colored peoplo of Brooklyn. The words make ahelpful motto at all times for the white brothren and sisters as well as for the col- ored. We can't always push the clouds away, but we can try to Kansas City Star: The ministers are all having their say about the “fnancial strin- gency” and thoe duties it imposes in the way of honesty and fortitude, which is woil enough in a way, but thera could not be & better opportunity to call attention to a bet. ter class of securities than earth affords and the propriety of investing where thieves do not break through and stoal. Clicago Inter Ocean: Father Keogh, preaching in St. John's cathedral at Mil: waulkee, assumed one of the highest pro- rogatives of a piest of the Christian religion by denouncing those Catholic aldermen who had voted new powors and new facilities ot vice to the drinking deus of the city. Would that all priests and ministers, Protestant and Catholiv, were equally courageous, Would that Father Keogh's course were emulated in Chicago. Chicago Herald: One consoling feature of the hard times is the news from Roclford that Messiah Jake Schweinfurth has taken to peddling green corn and garden truck order to keep “heaven" in operation. Jacob has not done anything so much to_his credis s1vco he painted signs up in Michizan many years ago. He has allowed other people to work whilo he has posed in velvet coat and embroidered slippers for the admiration of his “angels.” “Push Those Clouds i BURNISHED TRIFLES, Philadelphia Record: When money grows timid it makes the rest of us shy. Atlanta Journal: In those days of bank strin; ey It takos an artist to draw money. Squibs: An uptown Christian assoclation announces a “chalk talk by « reformed milk- man." Galvest It is not t his horns, Philadeiphia Timos: bers of young men starting out to muke a name for themselves in lifo hit on Dennls? News: The fast man is no snnil. iidity that induces him to draw in How Is It such num- Buffalo Courler: While a division fonee isn't tho most sensational o ting In the world, it frequently furnishes the nelghbors some- thing to talk over. Dotrolt I'rec Press: “It is measures, notmen, we whnt," spouted the stump speaker. "L Isn't anything of the kind,” exclaimod a sum- mer girl, and'sho loft tho place Tndian: 18 4 wom: widow Socioty (Editor—Tere know If u grass . solf: VA s tore he murniure B ¥ o Do WHL T walt il my of my appoint change con Washington Star: The man who is prone to affectations in his spoceh should drop them at once. Anybody who ealls It “Septembah” is not allowad to eat oysters next month. Kate Fiold's n-goln’ ter start a now suloor what'd be a good name fer 1t? Bond—I1-ni; how would Smile” do? Washington: ~ Ragan-—] ut by th t “The Winuing COLLATERAL NOT SATISFACTORY Chicago Itecord. She murmured, "It [s quéer; I do not understand ‘Why you should boldly ask me here "0 frust you for my hand. “Times aro hard,” she sald Unto that youth so rash. Love onee might do, but now, Instead, A girl must havo thie cash." Bl Eon Al POOR LO'S P . John H. Lewns in Boston Globe, o tho Iy St e the an rode with grand mien and majestle, ixed his burning glinces on it, Glured with fixed gaze on the cabln, Never did bis eyoes forsake it As he onward strode toward it, To the hated stranger’s wigwam To the cabin of the palefac: From his path the startled rabblt Fled away In sudden terror, And the lioron, the shu-shu-gah, Called in anguish fre the marshes, From her haunts within the marshé Walled aloud with awful anguish, Soon he stood within the cabln, talsed his arm and smote the wood work, ited thon in expectation. Waited long with stolid patience. hon the dool slowly on od, Opened cautiously and slowly, And the stood be G I'm Here Again Just to tell you fellows that if you don’t like | the new style suits B. K. & Co. are showing you have my They are beau- tiful, I think, and so does | everybody else that wears suits at all. ‘ don't, wear These are not that kind, but the finest tailor-made garments out. Every yard of cloth, thread, every button, every lining, every every- thing goes through as careful preparation as in any The difference is that while tailor shops make one suit B, K. and consequently sell at half their prices. and light overcoals for boys and men now in. Some people you know—they hand - me - downs. every inch of & Co. make thousands, Suits KING & (0., Btoreopengrort oy ehiad M 4* |8, W, Cor 16t1 and Doaglas §ts, “— - l j |