Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1893, Page 4

4 I'AE OMAHA D.\I_LY BEE. ROSEWATER, Edier. E. PURLISHED EVERY MORNING. B TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION withont Sunday) One ¥ One Yenr €900 Tally e 0 Daily and Sunday. OFFICES. s N Twenty-fourth strects. CORRESPONDENC aing newa and et honia be To the Editor HUSINISS LETTERS y i ' ipany . Omaha w10 be made drtresmcd 1o The Bee Publishing ATt ehocks fand postofee THE BEE PURLISHING COMPANY ’ | orte iy SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebrasga, | County of Douglas. ¢ Gorge I, Tzachuck, & npany ton Sandiy, Docomber Wadnesdny, | ey e Filiay. Docen aturday Dees til S Wh day_ of Dy Fiin, Notary Ny presence —_— e S0 LONG as Tote Castor vemains in Washington there is still for democratic hopes. room ThRE rsh just now gives promise of being the most popular call- ing for those who are about to choose their oceupation in lif recei Tonk CASTOR has provided a fat gov- ernment job for his son-in-law. Tung demcerats may rejoice, however, that Tobe's available family is not very large. A PERMANENT ministry conducting the government to the satis- wetion of a majority in the Italian Pa iament would be an agrecable Christ- nas present for King Humbert. ALTHOUGH the democratie candidate, Mayor Matthews, was re-elected in Bos- ton the other day, it was with a plural- ity reduced by 7,000 from what he seived last v This is decidedly a republican year. re- ar, ANTAGONISM of the terests of the empirve Chancellor von Caprivi any more popu- lar with the German farmer than Seeretary Morton at present with professional American granger. WhHaA that? No funds available for the payment of congressional mile- age! We presume that this means that numerous mombers of congress will res main in Washington vather than utilize their railroad passes for a homeward journey during the holida agricultural in- is not making is his va. Tr wreare to believe the remarks made by the mayors and potice officials of the most enterprising Nebraska cities during their recent visit to Omaha, our police force and fire department by no means make the poor showing that many disgruntled critics have been too anxions Lo estabiish. Tii: Lincoln organ of the saline land jobbers ostablishes a complete defense of the proposed land grab by boldly pointing t2 one man who holds a piece of marsh near the city and who declines to buy at the price fixed by the couaty commissioners on the adjoining tract. Wo sympathize sincerely with that man. We wonder what he has done that pro- cludes him from standing in with the ring. TH professors are rapidly coming to the front, politically speaking. Only a short time ago one of the civil sor commissioners was removed to make way fora Kentucky professor of geology. Now Secretary Morton has selected a Tennessee professor of chemistry as his fivst assistant. A professor of English to revise the president’s messages would come in handy for the present adminis- tration. S1oux Crry's entire street car system is to be consolidated nnder one owne ship and management. This i5 hut an- other illustration of the futility of com- petition between franchised tions Omaha tried competition in street railway servi and failed to se- cure any lasting benefits from the ex- periment. Similar illustrations inevery oity of the country arve daily enforei the inevitable conclusion that some force other than competition must be resorted Lo to obtain adequate facilities and rea- sonablo prices for the publie from the franchised corporations, corpora- VIRGINIA i3 not to be behindhand in its propuration for the resumption of wildeat bank issues so soon as the pro- gram for the repeal of the 10 per cent tax on state bank notes is cavried vut, An energetic member of the logisluture is already pushing a bill to authoriz and regulate banks of issue in Virginia and at the same time to provide an out- let for Vivginia state bonds. 1t requires the banks to be prepared at all times to pay out 5 per cent of their deposits in lawful money of the United States and this is relied upon to maintain the value of the chocks drawn so high that they will pass current everywhere. All of which gees to admonish econgress to look before it loaps. 1118 a very serious thing for one sur- geon to aceuse a fellow surgeon of bheing the direct cause of the death of a patient attended by the latter. If the defend- ant in the MeKenna wmurder triul sue- ceeds in cscaping convietion by showing that his vietim would have recovered were it not for the unskillful treatment given him, he will merely shift the wponsibility from his own shoulders to thoso cf the attending surgeous, A pro- fessional man is sup) sed at all times to employ the ordinary skill of his calliy, and a jury should ha reluctant to helleve that a buman lifo has been trifled with by those who are accu in theiv power to suve 1Y, unless the ey lence on the point is overwhe!ming, / 1,210, tomel to do ol | THE STATE LEGISLATURES Within a few woeks many of the state legislaturos will be in session and popn lar interest will divided between these “local congresses” and the national legislature. The im- | portance of the former cannot easily be overrated. A state logislature has to consider and to deal &irectly withsome of the most vital interests of the people it represents and the scope of its power is bromd. Local taxation, the regula- tion of corporations doing business within the state, provision for maintain- ing the system of public education, po- lice regulations covering a wide field, the proper maintenance of various public institutions, legislatlon for conserving the public peace and securing the administration of justice such, in part, are the duties that de- volve upon a state legislature and touch y the interests and welfare of the people. The meeting of the legisla tive present fully the popular thought and aspiration of sover commonwealths must, there- fore, always be of interest. The of the legislatures that meet next month will perhaps be regarded with than ordinary in- terest, at least locally, by of the unfortunate state of affairs affecting the condition of the peoplo. In every state where these bodies will soon assemble there is a multitude of idle people who a clamoring for the means of subsistence and ! who cannot be allowed to "he outlook for most of these isas gloomy and unpromising as it well could be, so | far as employment is concerned, and the drain which has already been very gen- ally made upon municipal and county vity renders it almost cortain that with the severest of the winter yet to come far greator provision than usnal | I have to be made for the care of the destitute in order toaver rdinary sufforing, Undonb edly the legislatures generally will be appealed to for such | assistance as they may properly give to communitics unable to adequately for their indigent and they will have no more imperati duty to meet than this. In thegreat manufacturing states the amount of distress now preva- lent is unprecedented, and in these the rislatures will be called npon to do all in their power to afford relief to the un- employed who ave destitute With regard to legislation of general interest it is to be hoped that every state | that has not an anti-trust law already on its statute books will enact one bhefore its legislature of 1894 adjourns. The attitude of the present national admin- istration, asdefined in the report of the attorney general, toward the federal anti-trust law, appears 1o fully warrant | the conelusion that effort is to be made to enforce the law. The opinion of the legal adviser of the ad- ministration is that the federal act prohibiting trusts and combinations is inadequate, and evidently be- lieves, also, that not congress, but the legislatures of the states ave the proper be proper most close bodies which r most ign assembling more son economi | | | starve. wi extr no serious he straint of trade. 1f this corvectly vep- resents his position the monopolies ave assured of nearly four years mére of toleration and encouragment unless the states exert their power to suppress them. [n any event, however, judicious ‘}smL.- laws against trusts and combind- tions can only serve a good purpose and the sooner they are generally adopted the better. [n some of the states whose slatures meet next month theve are questions of g importance to be passed upon, not the least among these being the prohibition question in Tow! e BANKING SCHEME, multitude of plans for a new banking system that will be pre- sented to the attention of congress it will, perhaps, be possible to formulate a scheme which will be acceptable to the intelligent financial judgment of tho country, and which will meet the de- mand for an elastic currency. Oune. of the most determined advocates of finan- cial veform is Representative Walker of Massachusetts, who takes the position that the federal government should not be burdened with maintaining a vapor currency, but should be merely the cus- todian of the metallic issues of the coun- try. Mr. Walker has vecontly submitte to the house committee on banking and currency a plan embodying his ideas. and which, it is presumed, the commit- tee will consider, together with other pluns submitted to it The first proposition of this plan is that the United States government shall be completely velieved from any re- sponsibility for the current redemption of any circulating government or hank currency notes whatever, and thereby reiioved of all expense and risk of muintaining any coin vedemption fund or coin mousure of value, the risk and expense of both to be devolved upon the banks, This would be done by requiv- ing each and every bank to assume pro- portionately the curvent redemption of a new groenback and practical destenction of the legal teader note in its present i form, the banks toaccept a new greenback in place of the present one and ba re- sponsible only for its current redemption lanl the Uuited States government to be responsible fr its final redemption. The latter provision is somewhat ob- seure, but probably means worn, soilol and mutilated. The plan alss eontem- plates the proportionate assumytion by each and every bauk of the current rve- demption and practical destructim of the excess of silver certificates, and to cause silver dollars to an equal amiant to be covered intd the tremsary a3 bullion, but to leave in eirculation, as now, every einel silver dollar we now Ishave that the n2ipls can b» inlueod to use. Othor provisions of the plan are that the federal government shall coutinue to exwercise supervis all banks and make public th ditiong that the volums of notes shall ba suffisiently clastie to ex- pand to meet the extremest demands of the peaple anl act automatically, as nevar tr excead in volume the amount nezded: that civeulating cu reney notes shall be sy issnel as nt to bucrease the interest paid on loans of | capital, shall be uniform, and shall b so issued and reissiied as to ba foreed back 10 the bank issuing them and where | st needed; \hat there shall Le positiso A NEW Out of the | over ir con- ivculating of the penple | power to deal with combinations in ve- | security from loss of noteholders: that the United States government shall on special occasions provide temporary safeguards over deposits to dispel fear, and that the' government shall act simply as custodian of coin and issue stificates of deposit thereon, as is now done. A measure of this kind would divorce the government from the banking busi- which in the opinion of able financiers is most desirable, and it woula lead to the country having in due time but one kind of vaper currency, which would also doubtloss ba a good thing. although it cann st fairly be said of the four kinds of paper currency we now have that they cause any sorious trouble or confusion. Tn these two respects the plan of Me. Walker would perhaps op- oerate advantageously, but it is not ap- parent how such elasticity of the cur- is to be attained under this scheme as wonld always meet the ex- tremest of the people and never exceed in volume the amoudt needed. or how ecirculating could bo issued and reissued as to be forced to points where most needed. But the plan of Mr. Walker shows that ho has given this subject very careful consideration and it is certainly worthy the attention of all who are interested in the problem of financial veform. The most serions complaint against the existing system is that it is not sufficiently elastic, and whoever shall suggest a practicable remady tor this defect without danger to the sound- ness and stability of the curvency will furnish the solution to the whole problem. rency demands notes s0 i OMANHA AND SOUTH DAKOTA, Omaba has rail communication with nearly every county in western lowa, with northern Kansas, with the entirs habitable portion of Colorado, with southern and northern Wyoming, with the Black Hills country, Utah, Idaho and Montana, but this city is practically cut off from the trade of that vast avea of South Dakota east of the Missouri river adjoining Nebraska's northern border. No other country naturaliy tributary to Omaba is vicher in resources and prom- ises more remunerative trade for Omaha jobhers, grain dealers, manufucturers and stock bu, The map shows two stub lines veach- ing from the main lines of the North- western system in Nebraska almost to the boundary line of South Dakota. The map also shows that great trunk lines lead oat of the stock ranges and wheat fields of South Dakota divect to Chicago and Minneapolis, It is apparent on the face of things that the Northwestern managers have for years been parties to a pool with all roads leading eastward, by the terms of which Omaha is fenced out of South Dakota. This is done not through antipathy for Omaha, but be- cause such an agreement insures to the castern roads the long haul on all Sonth Dakota products to markets less advan- tageous in many respects than those of Omaha and Kansas City. [Feeble efforts have been made from time to time by Omaha to break the pool. Itis not an easy task. The line just completed from Sioux Falls to Yankton is heading for Norfolk. It partially graded. Jim Hill, that great St. Paul railroad magnate, is understoed to be back of this enterprise and may ultimately make it a part of the ( At Northern system. At any rate, the com- pletion of this line would give Omaha through trains to Yankton and Sioux Falls, the result of which would be to force the Northwestern to close the twenty-four mile gap between Harting- ton and Yankton. Thus Omaha would two div lines into South rors. is secure Dakota. The completion of these lines is of the utmost importance to Omaha. Every business man familiar with the situation will concede that. It should be the policy of the Board of Trade and the Commercial club to urge the early com- pletion of the Norfolk line. It will serve as the opening wedge. Other roads will certainly follow. Omaha has been deprived of nher share of South Dakota trade long enough. It is there, waiting the time when our business men will go and get it. ct TRE TELEPHONE ROYALTY, Omaha pays about $80,000 a year for telephone rental and exclusive of charges for long distance transmission. One-half of this sum, or about $40,000, is paid as u royalty to the Bell telephone monopoly for putent rights that shonld have ex- pired last spring. In other words, Omaha’s ntribution to the Bell tele- phone monopoly is $40,000 a year. On a fair estimate the towns outside of this stato in Omaha must pay fully $60,000 more for one-half of the rental on the Bell instruments. One hundred thou- sand dollars is taken out of Ne- braska every year and dropped into the slot of telephone stock jobbers, who for more than fourteen years have extorted millions upon millions from the people of this country for an invention that should have been bought by the govern- ment at a fair price for the use of the people. But by the collusion of patent office officials and pliant judges this tribute is still levied beyond the expira- tion of the patent, and will probabl continue to be levied for ten or twelve years longer. Meahtime the helpless patrons of the telephone must submit to being fleeced und thousands of people who could afford to pay a reasonable price ave deprived of the benefits of the invention. The telephone royalty Is very sugges- tive of forced contributions which were exacted by monarchs of old from theiv subjects and vassals as a tribute to voyalty. There is just this difference, however: The royal robbers gave in re- tarn for the tribute they levied pro- tecticn to their subjects as against ordi- nary vobbers and rapacious neighbors. The telephone freebioters don't pretend to muke wny veturn D the royalty thuy exact from local eompanies and through them from their patrons, except the use of instruments that eould be duplicated for ninoty days' rental. By rights and by law henestiy interpreted the use of the telephene should now be as free to all the people as the use of the steel pen, the ¢ al ol lamp, the rubber ringer or the sowing machine. If the efforts made bs ex-Attaney General Miller were fol- icwed up by his suecessor the outrageous tios, on an oxpired perpetuated by the 1y would bo short- now imposed conld patent songht ¢ Bell telephone lived, and the THE YUORNE S SILVER BILL. Probably nooodyt will eare to soriously question the clalm of Senator Voorhees, chairman of the, penate finance commit- tee, that the sil¢ar 'bill introduced by him is entirely his own creation, and it is not easy to understand how anybody could suppose that Mv. Cloveland, after the long fight for discontinuing silver purchases, could give his approval now to a measure which proposes to renew that policy on a reduced seale as soon as the seigniorage in the treasvry should be eoine hore has bean somo dif ence in statements regardic amount of the with the present of the government it would “tak about two to coin it, so that the idea of Mr. Voorhees is that the country may safely rosume the purchase of sii ver at theend of that time. [t is quite possible that the administration, or at any rate the secretary of the treasury,’' is favorable to utilizing the seignioage as one means of averting a treasury de- fieit, but it cun be regarded as abso- lutely certain that the president will not approve of any proposition to in- crease the government's stock of silver during his administration. Never friendly to that metal as a part of the currency, except in a subsidiary ca- pacity, there not the least reason to believe that Mr. Cleve- land is less hostile to it now than in the rast and it is inconceivable that any cirenmstances can arvise which would in- duce him to change his attitude toward silver. Referring to the stoppage of silver purchases by the government the president said in his message that he had no doubt “‘the ultimate result of this acticn will be most salutary and far-reaching.” Obviously such legisla- tion as Mr. Voorhees proposes, so far as it provides for returning to the pur chase of silver, could not fail to have the effect to defeat this result. As to the question of an international agreement regarding silver My, Cleve- land indicated a friencly attitude to- ward it in the suggestion of his message that the president might be given gen- eral authority to invite other nations to aconference at any time when there should be a fair prospect of accomplish- ing an internationai agreement on the subject of coinage, but there is nothing to indicate that he has ever expected to force European governments into an agreement of this kind. 1f Mr. Cleve- land or anybody else entertains this idea he may disabuse'his mind of it by reading the recent utterance of Chan- cellor von Capfivi regarding the financial ~ position of Germany, showing that the government is entively satisfied -+ with - existing conditions and does not contemplate any change. Indeed, there is not the least indication that any European -govern- ment is thinking of gny modification of 1ts financial system in the interest of ilver.” Having ‘wécumulated gold re- serves whioh they deem to be sufficient for their financial safety they propose to maiatein them and therefore to hold on to the gold standard. Coming from the chairman of the senate finance committee the measure introdvced by Mr. Voorhees will receive move attention than would otherwise be given it, but there is small probability that it will ever get beyond the com- mittee. the the age, but mint facilities seignic vears THE regularly recurring agitation for a Greater New York is again in prog- vess and the legislature of the state is to be asked to passa bill providing for a vote at the next general election by which the sentiment of the people in the districts sought to be annexed may be ascertained. If tho inhabitants of Brooklyn and the outlying suburbs show themselves favorable to the plan of giving up their local government and subjecting themselves to the obligations of ‘metropolitan residence then the remainder of the heme for con- solidation is to be taken up and pushed. The talk of consolidatign has been rife for some years, but up to this time the New Yorkers have been unable tomake the peopleof the de- sired districts see the real net advan- tages which it is claimed would accrue to them from a unitied city government. Greater New York will, no doubt, be vealized in the not very distant future, but the first step should be in the direc- tion of a more honest and economical administration of the New York of today. After that the time will come when the suburban towns oanuot bo kept out. A Republlcan State, ailadelphia Record, no great comfort for the taxpayer in reading thay the state treasury is bulging with cash. All mouey in the treasury in excessof the amount needed for economical administration represeuts an overdraft on private resources. The tax levied on per- sonal property for state purposes is no longer needed. At the next session of tho legisla- ture the task of cutting down state taxation will bo an sgrecable feature of legislative labor. There is — Wars Sl Alarm; New York Sun. As we hear of mteh talk in Europe about the danger of the sadden outbreak of a great war there, 1t is wopthwhile to remember that there has very often been talk of the same kind ever sinbe the close of the great war of 1870, whea “France fell under the blows of Germany. o At least twenty times during those years vhe prophets have given warniug that urope ‘was on the verge of & great war and thiatsdvar was inevitable, or could not be averted, @ would be begun within $0 many weeks or months. It has, in- deed, looked av umes as though these propliets were inothe right, and yet we know that they have been in the wrong all along, except in IF7: It is possible that they dre in the wrong ouce sgain. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1893, OTHER LANDS THAN OURY The British admiralty has evidently been deeply improssed by the recont Franco-Rus sian naval demonstration, and the English naval authorities continue to make loud mands for & considerable incroase of British fleet. Great Britain, it has boen asserted, must be as strong in fronciads and twice s strong in cruisers as any two powers (meaning probably France and Russia). The personnel of the linglish navy must be tncreased from 70,000 to 90,000 officers and mon {n order to be in condi tion to immediately reinforce the Mediter ranean floet. The of the program in constructing vessels demanded has alone been estimated at £27.500, 000, The weak spot is pointed out by Sir G. T. B, Hornby, admiral of the fleet, to be the Moditerranoan. It is truo that Great Britain hasno militaty harbor in that sea on the hither side of Malta (Gibraltar in its present condition boing useless asa nav station), while France has two magnificent fortified narbors in Toulon and B Tunis, which latter has been strongl flod 1 violation of the pledges of France not to strengthen it. Through this gauntlet the British fleet would be obliged to run on its way to Malta and the east; and. considering the great progross made i recent yoars in tho efficioncy of the men and guns and ships of the French fleet, England would probably be beaten out of tho Mediterranean 1n the event of war. cost the The roal question of the day in France as well as overywhere clse in Europe is social- ism. Socialism is itself divided into its various camps, from s mere extension of the function of the state to thorough going col lectivism with anarchism at the end of the procession, for while few socialists are anarchists all anarchists are socialists, But all the varieties of socialists agree at bottom in deprecating, docrying or denouncing private initiative and private property and in asking for a broad extension of the work of thostateand its assumption of railroads, factories and the great bulk of the work of manufactuw transportation and distribution. In Ger many this party has a fith to a fourth of the votes, and woile it is weaker w France, it lected sixty or seventy dopu ties, it carried the heart of P nd its load ers feel that in France, asiu Germany, the future is their own. Under these civ- mstauces, the attitude of the liberal party, which rules France, toward social- ism becomes most important. Hitherto, liberal French leaders have temporized Tue line between socialists and radicals was not clearly drawn and the votes of the former were counted as republican asiwell as the lavter. The past election changed this. Init the socialist party became clearly de- fined apart from the radicals. The iberal or republican party, with the aid of the mon- archists, who sustain the repliblic, w given a majority independent of the radicals and soclalists. s Sig. Crispi has again proved himself tho foremost among Ttalian statesmen. Recog- nizing the fact that the present political sit uation in Italy demands the suspension of party politics and the patriotic co-operation of herablest and most representative meu ne has called men of his stamp to his cabi- net. ‘The financial condition of Ttaly de- mands the practice of more than small econ- omies by means of which perhaps three or four, millions annually could be lopped off from her expenditures. A retrenchment of at least £20,000,000 per annum wouid be required in order to make good the deficiency between the state's income and her disbursements Inorder to accomplish these financial forms it would be necessary to reduce the army by at least two corps. Now, notwith- standing the euormous sacrifices entailed, nothing has become so firmly ingrained in the minds of a majority of the Italians as the supposed necessity that the kingdom should rank as o first-class military power. It will be a strong government, indeed, which shall overcome this alnost universal sentiment and obtain the popular consent to the reduction of the army. What is ne the is to assure the overwhelming ratification of any such plan beforehand by uniting in its sup- port all of the lteading men of the ‘moderate aud conservative elements. This, no doubt, is the explanation of Sig. Crispi’s action in calling such apparently hostile elements to the support of his government as ave r resented by the Marquis di Rudini and Sen- ator Saracco, the great Italiun financier. There neea be no apprehension that the other powers of the Triple Alliance would not readily consent to a substantial reduc- tion of the Italian army. It would be maui- festly to their interest to have a solvent ally, even though its war footing should been alminished by an army corps or two, vather than an ally whoso overgrown mili- tary establishment is rapidly bringing it to the verge of bankruptey. Inany view, the Italian situation is one which will tax the utmost skill of the most accomplished finan- iers and statesmen. * The crime committed by the man Vaillant has not only welded togetter all the sound and decent elements of the French commu- nity in support of the ministry, headed by M. Casimir-Perier, but it has smoothed the way for an international coalition for the extermination of professional anarchists, A proposal to that end made by Spain after the Barcelona outrage was coldly received by the French government, but public opin- jon in France has undergone a change since it has become evident that even the people's representatives assembled in parliament have no safeguard against wholesale mas- sacre. Hitherto an anarchist detected or sus- pected in one country could tind refuge in an- other, but henceforth it is probable that no asylum will be open to him on the continent of Europe. One wholesome consequence of such a general combination ay enemies of society will be a softening of international enmities and a lessening of the chances of war. For what do the causes of dislike and jealousy between Frenchmen and Germans amount to, compared with the momentous antagonism between the up holders and the assailants of the existing order? There 1s not a nation on the conti- nent of Europe which would not willingly suspend, for a long term of years, its aspira- tions for agerandizement if, meanwhiie, it could have assurance that the anarchists would be stamped out. . o Considered as & whole the cabinet headed mir-Perier is reresentative of the opportunist and moderato opinions, which are supposed to have been sanctioned at the last general election. 1t is more representa- tive of the ostensible majority of the Cham- ber than was its predocessor; for the mem- bers of the latier held views irreconcilable Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, | L9 Re Baking Powder with those of thete chief, and. consequentiy | M. Dupuy had 1 rsery fidence tnat ber intendod after obtaining a vote of to dispense As 1t 18 acknowledged on all hands the vrogram submitted to the ( by M. Dup commanded a large majority A vou it s pected that the successor will differ han ¥ would hav had it been pressed o scarcely to proposals in any esssenuinl fen M. Casimir-Perier and his col agues will pursuc a relatively conservatiy and antisocialist policy may be inferred from their own political antecedents as well as from the composition of the Chambe The fact that the new cabinet is hailed wonically by M. Clemenceau as a triumph for the pope indicates a reneral belief that it will 80 far rocognizo the friendshipevineed by Leo XIT1 for the French republic serve the support of the ropublicins. The other Raynal is a Jew, and that M. Burdean been denounced by the anti-Semites s un agentof the Rothschiids, may as evidoace that the government will the good will of influential financiers. e oxe of his astode so-called facts, that M vallied Although the action of the G ment in revokin, the dec Jesuits was a triumph of the party of the couter, aided by many liberal and inde pendent members, it is of little practical im vortauce. The separate states of the Ger- man empire that tave laws against the Jesuit establishments will not be affected by this legislation: nor will it be necessary for the states that have no such laws, the assent of the Federal council, or Bundesrath, will be necessary before the resolve of the Reichstig on Friday can be come a law. The wain importance of the action of the Parlinment is in its moral m fluence as indicative of the sentiment of the Germans in regard to the Jesuits. 1t is quite evident from the vote that they are no nger held in so much dread and aversion as in former generations. There is no doubt, at the same time, t the modern methods of the Jesuits have done much to lessen the feeling of aversion i Germany, if ot to in spire popular opinion in their favor. o Socrotnry M Roport. New York Sun. In his first annual report as secretar, agriculture Hon. Julus Sterling Morton shows a becoming desire w0 minify rather than magmfy s office. He admits that, *as organized, the Department of Agvicul ture offers opulent opportunities for the ex ercise of the most pronounced paternalism.” This is evident, and we (uote the secretary's words merely to show how under the rays of his poetic temperament alliter in his report like pumplkins i a_corn pateh. Such phrases of “aidactic data,” *persistent purpose.” “parallel period,” “ratinally re duce,” sdimensions of distribution.” 1 than the plow. Yet, after all this debauch of 0's and p's, Mr. Morton holds that “there are many proper ways in which the federal government may legitimately scrve the cause of agricuiture.” Themost proper way in which the federal government can serve agriculture is to let it alone. i sedngere s The Wildvat Mania, Chicago Tribune. Why are the southern democrats in Georgia and other states of the south so very anxious for a reissue of state bank cur ren ! It must be for the reason that th wish to bring round again the reign of the wildeat. They w unconstitutional of credit to be ei orman 1y against the Besides, unprotected, rotten bills without redemption, the loss to bo sustained by the ultimate holders of the bills. Theso advocates of reddog currency can have no honest purpose in urging their wildeat schemes upon the country. Globe-Demoerat, The Wilson tariff bill should bill for the free coinage of pa S - Crane Iro PriabeLenis, D be called a ~The Crane Iron company assigned to Robert 1. Kennedy of | this city a Pa.. today. £2,000,000. 1 Leonard Peckitt of Catasqua, The company is capitaliced at — e PLEASANTRY AT THE POLE, Washin ton tar., T de season b Decomber, when de Chrisnius crop is ripe. Awde snowilakes orter scamper Cum do sky, When do cotton clouds am chasin’ cross Ao azure fur tor wipe De speck ob fros' fum out do oye, ity takes his almanac an’ seratehes ob his hend, Case he's ske and you, An' de snow birds sit er laflin’ on do ob his sled, Santy, is 1t hot enough fur you?" moon-man's Ole rt about de thaw, 'tween me runners De reindeer am a hunkerin' fur a bit o exer- Dey's pesterin’ him de mos’ dut doy kin do, An' de way den animiies sings out'in chorus s 1 sin “Hello, Santy, is 1t hot enough fur you has ation blooms | reveal | artist in whose haud the pen is mightier | ant to flood the land with | culated for n time among | the people as money and then dropped out | | James A, Garfield's Family: \ 1 | | tmpident BROWNING, KNG fThie lavgest malkers and sollers of | e had e Tocked i e RURRKLING BRILLIANTS, Fliira Gazotte: No, Minetva, tho (e that binds together the hearts of the theatrical profession 1« not & railrond tie Brooklyn Lite Ve that cures can be effected by the Inying on of Mrs. Clatter - Most certainly. Teared my boy of smoking in that way. Mas Chattor-o yon bee Chicago Inter Ocean: “Poor Tom did 1 take part dn the foot hall No. but’ he foll down the back Sta! Ay you coutdn’t tell but what he ha t got Philadelphia Record of A& man's b his chrysanth Yo e nk acecount by t i n't toll o magnitude of B Il Suy or impt ) Cour New Roarder-One thiny for these eges. Thore's nothing bold ntoabout them, Landiady - Bold o Tdon't undersiand. Now Boarder= Why. ot s Bit (oo fresh, you know Roston Transeript cluinied Sowerby, o tisenent headed Look at that for without so much hout el Did Tiek Tust 1 encoun 1y ek ee red un aavors Al disenses healod free.” an offer! And here am 1 1« i sinele solitary disonse Ay man ever hive such Dia ks, Not insta 1 yon Ma o8 12 urged 21 helloving, aelly," respondad e, 1 S0 you every day, but o Tinks, “Tor 10 helleve entor Washi you," SO 1hat's o on the police wton ¥ ar you | Colonol Gor ke i dog wh The colonel used to b Ol L shoot n (og it NIRRT The snow has dreifted 1o hor bic The holy bud has dyed hor b Hereyes, Tike stars on Christnins eve, Shine out with glances, coyly. meo The Haneo every wh nand bereios ¢ adly not Tliere's mistheton above he Special Features THE SUNDAY BRE A Recent Visit to Fort Sumter: My today He will also toueh upon th control of liquor trat ollna, Other intoresth A Christmas Caro’: WESUNDAY BEE will contain the wordsand musis of anew and orlginal Christnns song Tobrated m The New Y first time Rosewater will deseriin it x Fort Sun g Bs recent st HOW AvALen of state Vo in South i facts conipossd Charles Crozat Co will i St Thons' City. on Chirtstias day, for (he 1 was submitted 1o Me. Max Maretzeh, »Cthis city. Of 1t ho “t L ClEIS s RonK iy harmontzed. opentng in anged for quartet. 10 is weil fupl Ben i then o and a swor done protty melody The Swedes in Nebraska: ie Johnson's second papcr will treat of the ettements in varions con Their reward for charaeteristio 1 perseverance Kate Field's Letter: An appeal 0 women (o patronize and 10 buy Amertean made g inst the pract ee of inporting e and ralnent and believes that Ameriean ma facturers are konl cnoweh for Hor foreibie avguments will be read with interost aperous Swede of the state v, theify lome industrice s, She protests sily articlos Lifo at the ex-preshlent’s old home it Mentor, Mra. Garfleld a rich though unassuming lady, Interesting shetehes of 5 0f thy family. other memb, Crimes of Early Days: Nebzasica in the that history avenged Rivals of Niagara Falls: Wakeman con! mazni Christmas Gifts for Boys. Timely Suggestions to Fad~How An Intended, Deeelved Consternation n U e Baek a's Deserving Poor: Jf thee seenes at the headquarters wly aid bread. the wintee brated mu s s, © il of west The 10st at10:101s deeds Ouly @ few of them e his wanderings amid the of Norway- Grandeur and its - Fashion's Latest Foolid He Wrought And He Never Bridad Py local ¢ clitions where th poor are daily elamoring for Plan of the Assoetated Charities for campalgn. The Fellow That Looks Like Me: Lustances of ludlerous and sometimes (mi sing mistakes that have b Ade 1 Omahi on wtromg personal resemblanee of ty work aceount of the well known eftizens, Stories of the Street: An tnteresting colleetion of stories i whieh loea uf 1 rortraycd- Bits of color with Hile THE SUNDAY BEE i i the elty y shading Suits, Wil pay (e express if you send the money for §20 worth or more $7,500 of Men’s and Boys’ Overcoats and Ulsters at Half Price Today and Tonight, BROWNING, KING & CO., | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, AR A