Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 22, 1894, Page 12

_THE_OMAHA DAILY BEE: 12 THEOMAHA DAILY BEE TERMS OF HUBSCIH Dally Bea (without Sunday Daily and 8 e Year Bix Months Thres M Bunday Onis You One Yeir ne Yen Al conm " Lot iR Mhould. b adrensed: To the Bditor BUNINESS LETTI All business lotters and remittances should be whitommet Lo e Toublisning. Company, S, Drattn, o G orders’ b be made Pt i PUSLISHING COMPANY. ATEMHNT OF CIRCULATION 1 o Pub- it the 2'oc The Recual purm Sty Mdrnin iy “Hieo printed durimg e month 1306, wan 4 fole fown k] n it il uge mot eireulation 0. TZSCHUCK. bed ‘in my p AR 01 su 1801, P, FEIL Notary Publie. ither prophet, dingly murky. the the Industrial outlook is exc lang In ge Tariff oratory must be on the free list. Otherwise our representatives at Washing- ton would not be free with what amusing to hear the Lin- about Omaha's selfishness of the Kelly host. Lincoln when it smells powder from It is sor coln organs in its trea becomes brave afar. idustrial recruits there railroads. No need to answer that question. If there were no railroads there would be no Industrials at the present time. Some one asks what the T would do if were no It is in accord with the eternal fitness of things for General Manager Holdrege and other railroad magnates to ask for protection at the hands of the police of Omaha, but when it comes to paying for sustaining the police and maintaining law and order these managers enjoin the collection of taxes levied on their protected property. Senator Gray of Delaware says that he would not dare go home if he should agree to postpone action on the tarift bill until after the people shall hiave spoken at the olections next November. That will not alter the voice of the people, however. Let the people speak once and Senator Gray may not care to go home at all for fear he might not be permitted to return to Washington. A d-year-old son of a New York peddler fell down from a fire escape the height of four stories the other day, and by dint of good luck in alighting on the shoulder of one of the neighbors got away with no more serfous Injury than a dislocated collar bone. It will be in order now for the neighbor to follow the precedent of the Laidlaw-Sage sult and sue the father of the child for damages for using him as a cushion to pre- vent its falling upon the hard, cold ground. The Tammany soclety of New York has Just elected its officers, consisting of thirteen sachems, a secretary, a treasurer, a saga- more and a wiskinkie. The number thirteen would be enough to doom the society to an early dissolution were It not for the counter- acting effect of the sagamore and the wiskinkie. So long as the wiskinkie persists with its Irresistible influence over all who come within its magic circle Tammany will be assured a long continued and charmed lite. In noticing the number of business failures reported each week by the mercantile agen- cles we must not overlook the fact that the percentages of increase over the number recorded for the corresponding week last year in both the United States and Canada vary almost simultancously. This is additional evidence of the solidarity of the two coun- tries. It Is difficult to affect tho general trade of one without affecting the trade of the other in a similar way. The business interests of the United States and Canada know no separating boundary line. Eighteen hours from Chicago to New York would have been regarded as an utter im- possibility only ten years ago. The increas- ing speed of passenger and mail trains that has been witnessed in the past few years in this country and Europe is one of the most significant marks of the progress of the times. Now when a railroad knocks off an hour or so from its fast time schedule it oc- casions merely a passing mention. But the really fast train is still exceptional. There 1s much room for improvement, both in speed and accommodations ofiered by the usual train service In the Unitod States. Some of our rallroad magnates are horror- stricken at the of boing pelled to haul a two of unem- ployed workmen in hog cars without getting first-class passenger fare, but thousands of political vagrants, deadbeats year in and y out winking a wink. It Is notorious that one of the roads of Omaha 3,000 annual passes to the political lazzaroni in one year, and pass books good for one trip to any place In Nebraska were in the hands of half a dozen political procurers to be dis® tributed to anybody willing to prostitute him- selt for the botrayal of tho people into the hands of the corporato oligarchy. possibility com- iment or y can haul and without bums out issued over With the advent of balmy spring the reg- ular anuual ero of budding Demosthenes and Incipient Danfel Websters is attaining a lusty growth in all our various colleges and academios. They will soon stalk forth to engage in the wordy battle of the giants and prizes for the intercollegiate oratorical contests will be carried home In triumph by the proud victor in the fray. Hope, ambition, aspirations for the imme- diate future, all are centered In this one overshadowing trial which promises applause and honor to him upon whom fortune condescends to smile. Until the supremacy in the fleld of oratory is finally decided for the present year the col- lego world will be all afire with expectancy. A laurel wreath of lasting fame awalts the sucoessful orator of 1804, MOVING HE INDUSTRIAL ARMY OMAHA, April 21 To the Bditor of The Bee " much would a train to Chicago cost to ta he Industrial army re? Can: not the citizens of Omaha subseribe? T will give $100, RICHARD MANZFIELD. This very generous offer fron he eminent tragedian who I8 temporarily sojourning in this city will doubtless be appreciated by General Kelly and his men, but we doubt whether sufficient money can be ralsed by contributions to pay their way by rail to Chicago. The rall- road managers positively decline to make a reduced rate for transporting these men east of the Missourl, The regular passenger rate is $12.25 for cach person, and sending 1,200 men to Chicago by train would involve an outlay of ne y $15,000. The managers have been oke to make a box car rate, but they appear determined, for reasons best known to themsclves, to exact full first-class fa s Under these circumstances the only me of transportation be by trair and relays at intervals of from fifty to sixty Whatever ald is given must be with to 1 which must wagon miles a view ng teams and paying for pro- will have to be purch With a fair start from the river have no doubt that th will contribute liberally to speed on its way beyond the Mississippl. visions, along the route, Missouri Towa peop the a we EFFECTS OF GOOD MANAGEMENT. A report to be fssued within a few days from the office of Nebraska's chief executive will give the people of the state nding of the methods which o upon al state fnstitutions under th sent governor. It is no deflection from the truth to say that not for twenty years have the interests of Nebraska's Institutions been carefully watelied by the executive office as they have been during the past fifteen months. In the only a more definite underst have ents of the been impre the superintend- administration of the pr Nebraska's governors have been transfer all management of the past too often content to responsi- bility for the proper state institutions to the Board of Public Lands and Buildings. As a general rule that board has been equally content to shift the responsibility to the shoulders of the superintenden who in turn have not been glow to entrust many of their most important duties to the wder such con- ditions it Is not to be wondered that flagrant abuses became the rule rather than the ex- ception in the conduct of thi institutions. In the past fifteen @ remarkable progress has been made toward practical r form. T to feel t stewards. U months © been made superintendents hav at they are directly and personally responsible to the governor. Under the di- rection of the chief executive a uniform system of semi-annual reports have been de- vised and adopted. Under the new system of reports it is practically impossible for any fund to be misapplied or extravagantly e: pended without the fact becoming so glar- ingly apparent upon the face of the report that a complete and detailed explanation is absolutely necessary. The same reports, when applied to the records of former ad- ministrations, completely expose the flagrant mismanagement of some of the institutions and at the same time they will furnish a basis for compa which future adminis- trations cannot avoid .or ignore. Having once made these reports for a full biennial period, it will be futile for superiniendents to demand indefinite sums of money of the islature for the coming period. The practice of guessing at estimates will have been abolishied, for the reports will present to the ways and means commitice the cold, hard figures, from which it may be seen at a glance the exact amount it will be neces- sary to appropriate to maintain the institu- tions during another biennial period. The people of Nebraska have for years in- sisted upon the adoption of practical, bus- ison inesslike methods in the conduct of state institutions; but their demands have fallen upon hecdless ears. Men have been nom- inated and elected to office without regard to their qualifications for the important duties they are to perform. The politicians who have always controlled the state conven- tions In the past have arranged their “slates” and forced them upon the state conventions by shrewd manipulation, and then relled upon the party whip to frighten down the independence of republicans who dared to show signs of revolt. These tickets, made up in the back room caucuses, have been elected because the party has been s0 strong numerically that independence of political action could make no headway. But the republican party in Nebraska through the recklessness of its self-consti- tuted lead reached that polnt in its history when it can no longer force incom- petent men upon the people of the state. The narrow majorities in the last three or four elections have placed the party under the control of the who will see to It that unless good, clean and competent men are nominated to public office the party will be disciplined by defeat. The profes- sional republicans, wha know no argument stronger than the party whip, must be con- mt to go in s with the men who are insisting upon better state government, or must suffer political extinction. They men they must choose Now, GROWTI OF TENANT FARMING. The first inquiry made as to the extent of the freehold farming class as compared with the tenant class in agriculture was in con- tion with *he census of 1880. This dis- ne closed the fact that nearly three-fourths of tho farms of the country were cultivated by (hie owners, although throughout the south the proportion of such farms was hardly, on the averag®, 60 per cent. The Inquiry made in 1890 shows that a marked change took place in the preceding decade, there having decided increase in tenant farmin, In every state for which stat published the proportion of persons ownir which they worked was less in 1850 1580, he greatest decline in the proportion of frechold farmers has taken place in the south, which s probably to be explained by the fact that the colored people have gone largely into farming, of course In nearly every case as tenants. In New ange in the same direc- tion, while gen‘ral, has not been so marked as In the southern states, though than in the states of the northwoest, more striking examples are thus noted: In Massachusetts the number of freehold farm families declined from 35,206 to 20,370, while the tenant families increasel from about 8,100 to 5,206, In Maine the 2,780 tenant families had increased In the decade to 4,741 and the been ics have b farms than in more ngland ths o mor 50 frechold families had declined from 61,628 to 67,391, Towa In the decade gained 3,521 owning cultivators and over 16,500 tenant iltivators, Georgla lost 3,844 owning cultl- vators and gailned 39,906 tenant families, Regarding the significance of this general and extended growth of tenant farming or of the landlord system the Springfleld Repub- lican thinks It shows that the tenant is find- ing it more and more difficult to get posses- sion and the freeholder more and more dif- cult to retain possession. “‘There does not seem to be any escape from this conclusion,” | says that paper. “The conditions aurrounding | the enltivation of the soll have been growing harder and not easier, and wo seem actually | to face the unpleasant possibility of th | planting i this country of ndlord sys tem of wide and increasing extent.” The | situation certainly presents an exceedingly { Interesting problem, for the facts certainly | upset the theory of ome economists, one whom recontly sald, evidently in Ignoranc of the census results of 1800 In regard to this matter, that the southern tenants are gradually changing into treeholders as the colored men become progressive and ambitious. Manifeatly the facts do not Justify this view. Still there does not appe to be any very good reason for the situation, though everybody will concede that such an extensive landlord system the facts regarding the growth of tenant farming foreshadow would bo most undesir- able. Assuming that the change in the pro- portion of farm tenants to froehold farmers during the decade from 1880 to 1890 shall repeated In the decade from 1890 and there- after, it will be several generations before the latter will be in the minority. But decline In the proportion of frechold farmers Is it not probable that rounding the cultivation of the soll will im- prove rather than become harder? With the return of industrial proxperity, which must come sooner or later, and the growth of pop- alarm over as is there any real danger of a steady the conditions sur- ulation, it would seem that the business of farming must become more profitable and those engaged in it better able to retain possession of thelr lands, The conditions for some years have not been, it must be confessed, gencrally favorable to the agri- cultural interest of the country, but the at- tempt to make tarift policy altogether responsible is disingenuous. That policy has given the farmer a home market which he would not have had without it, and it is ot the highest importance to his future welfare that this market shall be preserved to him Agricultural development will not go forward s0 rapldly hereafter as it the past twenty years and this branch of industry will be less Hold the American market for the American farmer, under a policy that will permit it to the as it has done during in ore. competition steadily grow, and improvement in agri- cultural conditions will be inevitable. THAT AVERAGE WAGE, That mine of statistical information, the federal census for 1890, may not be free from error, but it certainly ought not to bear the blame for the unwarranted and fallacious deductions that are made from the data which it supplies. much ado hag been made in various quar- ters over a figure that has been advanced on the authority of the census as the a For some weeks erage wage for tho employes In the dif- terent manufacturing industries of the country. In some cases even this limitation has been forgotten and the figure has been referred to as the average wage for all wage earners in the United States. This figure, $183, has been appealed to on one side to illustrate the beneficence of the protective system, on the other in refuta- tion of the argument that protection tends to keep wages up. It has been pro- claimed as indisputable evidence that the laborer in this country is better off than abroad, and it has been selzed by the so- clalists as an indication of the unequal distribution of wealth fostered by our s tem of industrial liberty. Finally it has been compared with the figure $476, simi- larily obtained from the data compiled in the census of 1880, and the difference of $7 between the two has been taken to rep- resent in so many dollars the material progress made by the American working- man in the period of ten years from 1880 to 1890. It ought not to be necessary to say that the census of 1850 did not present the fig- ure $176 as the average wage for (his coun- try any more than the census of 1890 has presented the figure $483 as the average wage. The census officials made certain in- quiries Into the operations of the prin- cipal manufacturing establishments in the United States and among the questions asked in the circular letters to the em- ployers were questions relating to the num- ber of employes on the pay roll and. the total amount of wages paid. Both censuses give the total number of employes returned in the industries under investigation and the total wages paid during the census year. That, however, is as far as the census officials go. It remained for the popular statistician to divide the total wages by the total number of employes to et the dividends of $476 and $483 re- spectively as the average amounts of wages acerulng to each employe. Such a calcula- tion is by no means justified by the data upon which it is based, even were the lat- ter acknowledged to be strictly accurate in every respect. The amount of wages given, of course, includes all that has been paid as wages during the year. Many of them may bave been employed but a short time and may figure in the returus of a halt dozen or more manufacturers for whom they may have worked within the period of twelyo months. So at best the figure $153 could stand only for the average wage for the average number of days that the average laborer worked for each employer. Again the number of employes includes n, women and children, skilled and un- illed, beginners and experlenced hands. m To which of these does this alleged av- erage wage apply? Certainly not to the children, for they could not possibly earn that much; not to the men, becauso they get much more; nor to the women, who probably secure something less. The aver age novice must start with less than $483 a year, while the long-serviced mechanic secures twice or three times as much. Such an average, assuming its correctness, no class of laborers. It gives information to what the average man, woman or child may ex- pect to earn, should he decide to seck om- ployment in the manufacturing industri of the country. It may be argued perhaps that each av- erage wage for the two different periods is obtained from corresponding data, and although clearly based both are subject to the same error therefore Qifference between the two, then, or $7, represents roughly the progress of the Amcrican laborer during the period elapsing between the two censuses. This Is almost equally fallaclous. The average, as we have seen, will vary with the length of time the employe Is at work, and the number of times he figures as the employe of different manufacturing concerns. It depends further upon the relative numbers of men, women and children entering into the average num- ber of employes. Seven dollars will then be too little if the length of time each em- ploye Is at work was less in 1890 than in represents one no whatever as census upon error, measure of The and are comparable. 1880. It will be too little if the employe has on the average worked for more em- ployers in 1890 than in 1880, It will be too little it the number of women and children relative to the number of men em- ployed has increased in the interval. In other words, the probabilities are that it ! 9 SUNDRAY, APRIL 22 ———— — = I8 much too Jjptle. Not only I th Average wage unreal and unmeaning, but It Is also deceptiyh and misleading A DIFFICULT (NSTITUTIONAL POINT The ruling made by Judge Nott of the court of claimsfhjs last week that there is no necessity undar the constitution for th prosident to sign all bills passed by congress | during the session of that congress deals with a very dinféuit point of constitutional law. The constitution does not say direct that the president shall sign a bill or return it with his vets Within ten days after it shall have been pri that If any bill shall not be returned within ited to him, but it says the ten days it shall become a | R manner as If he had signed it, unless the congress by their adjournment prevent its return, In which case it shall not be a law.’ The universal usage the ganization of the federal government been for the president to sign all bills which he might approve before the adjournment of the congress by which they w remaining unsigned at the time of adjourn ment silently failing under what is kuvwn almost since or has o enacted, all as a pocket v justify his actio ment of his rea ), unless th i , should file with it a state ons for refusing to sign it The result of this has been that the bills rushed through one » president or both houses of con gress during the last few days preceding ad journment have accumulated upon the hands of the president so that he to give them the careful consideration which they should reccive, On the theory that he has no power over a bill except during the life of the congress that passed it, it been the of the president and cabinet to the capitol on the last has been unable has custom his to repair day of the session in order to be able to sign bills up to the moment of adjournment. On March 3, 1893, President Harrison was called upon to sign private int resolutions and many of which it must have been physically impossible for him even to read. Only one Important excaption to this rule has been noted In the long list of bills that have passed through congress, and tisin the c od by Pr examine and three twenty-two general acts, thirty-seven acts, o7 the ¢ pture sident 1properiy act Lincoln eight days after the adjournment of congress and under which the point of constitutionality was raised in this Should the affirmed by th doubtless be before the court of claims decision of Judge Nott bo upreme court, to which it wil arried, it will to a great extent change the practice that has prevailed up to this time and will enable the president to give the bills passed at the end of the ses- slon the same consideration as those passéd at the beginning, There s one lmportant point involved in this question which, while it may have been touched upon by Judge Nott, has been en- tirely overlooked in the newspaper con:ments upon that decision, which quite gencrally commend it. No difiiculty arises in respect to the bills passed at any long session of congress, because adjournment, being en- tirely within its control, is so arranged as to allow the president ample time to sign the bills that may be presented to him. Nor would there be any very great complication with respect to the,bills passed during the last days of the short session that falls in the middle of a prestdential term. The pres- ident might simply hold the bills and ap- prove them at his léisurc within the consti tutional ten days. But how about the short session of the congress that expires with the presidential term? Can bills presented to one president be signed by another? The bills which the outgoing president might ap- prove might be exactly those which the in- coming president would disapprove. would scarcely be expedient for the preside to leave bills passed at such a time to the tender mercics of | r, especially if that succs to a different political party. The question of constitutional power != one of the highest moment. But decide that in accordance with the ruling of Judge Nott and even then the rush to sign bills at the end of the short session will still recur, not every two years, it is true, but certainly every four years, It sor belongs NORTHERN TENSION OF REPUBLIC. Two United States senators, one from Maine and one from Michigan, have re- cently expressed the beliet on the floor of the senate that the ultimate destiny of the Dominion of Canada is to be absorbed by this country. Senator Hale spoke on this theme with the earnestness of profound con- viction. He said that no man can acquaint himself with the conditions of life found upon the two sides of the line which separ- ates us from Canada without becoming con- vinced that at no distant day that line must disappear and the two countries be made one. The United States will absorb Canada. Seventy millions of will not go to 5,000,000, but the 5,000,000 will come to the 70,000,000 He would like to see the confirma- tion of this union in the near future, and he thought this to be the general feeling of intelligent and patriotic men in the United States, while he was confident that the feeling is growing with tho business men and the industrial classes of our north- ern neighbor. The Maine senator expressed the belief that the middle-aged men of the senate will witness the extension of this republic north- ward to that impenetrable ice barrier Into which no life nor industry can make its way. This union ought to and will result om natural causes and by peaceful pro- cesses. “There will be no war. There will be 1o invasion of Canada. There will be no strife and no battlefield where the Anglo- Saxon will meet his brother of the sa blood. It will be aunexation, desired by Canada, based upon the sentiment of all her people, the place-holding class being the last to glve way, this iment will be founded upon spectacle of a greater prosperity this side of the border which the Canadian will to share and enjoy.” e believed such a union will be beneficial tg-both, The entire mar ket of the United States will be thrown open to Canada and her [undeveloped resources, and the upon sen people desire commercial, mineral and agricultural, will open an immense fdld to our enterprise, our capital, our skill and our labor. Senator McMillan of Michigan spoke in a similar vein, saying that the people of his state would welcome the -absorption of Canada tnto the union, bt Unquestionably this €éeling is very general along our northern border, but it is not apparent upon what substantial facts these senators base their opinlon that Canadian annexation Is a possibility of the near future. There is, unquestionably, a consid- erable annexation sentiment in the Domin lon, but it has not-yet attained sufficient strength to exert any decided influence and there Is no evidence that it is growing at On the contrary, the probability is 1s not as strong It was a A few Canadians adyocate annex- it would be wise present that it year ago. ation because they beliey political policy. They in & republi can system of government. But the large majority regard annexation wholly from the commerclal standpoint and will be perfectly willing to remain subject to the rule of the now as believe 189 PAGE {-~TWENTY it has been be The Idea of extending this republic north fore for year ward to tho impenetrable fee barrler fs a very catching one. It makes an appeal to natfonal pride and patriotism. But there are some practical considerations that need to be thought of in connection with the sentimental. A great many thoughtful peo ple belleve that the domain of the republic 18 now large enough for the security of re publican institutions and that to absorb Canada, with its heterogeneous population, a large part of it unfit for our form of gov ernment, would but increase the dangers to which free institutions subjeot A e nfon, mu. tually f: and just, which would bring the people of the two countries Into closer trade r ge of both, would be desirable and ought to be practicable. Eng land would hardly make a serious attempt to prevent such a unfon if the Canad ar fal union with the Do ways ations to the advan an people should earnestly desire it, and the United States could enter into an arrangement of this kind without Incurring any political danger. But annexation might be fraught with perils which it Is not now possible to foresee. A majority of the people of the United States would approve clo trade relat with our northern neighbor on a ba is fair to both ther they the but it is very questionable it would be to believe wise annex Dominion. KELLY'S APPEAL From The Evening Bee, April 21 General Kelly of the Industrial army has issued the following appeal: WESTON, T pril 20.—To the People of Towa Desiring to move eastward as fast as possible, and desiring also to abide by the laws of the land, I am forced to ask on half of the Industrial army for aid in obtain- ing horses, wagons and harness sufficient to help us across the country, all other means of locomotion having been denied us save those of nature. I will make this my appeal to the citizens and liberty loving people of the great states of Nebraska and Iowa. Will you assist us obtaining this aid? Yours respectfully, CHARLES T. KELLY General Industrial Army. It is to be hoped that the citizens of Towa will respond liberally to this appeal. General Kelly has already demonstrated that he is not the leader of an army of outlaws. Under the most trying circumstances it has stood the ordeal of obedience to the law and re- sistance to all attempts to provoke it to violence and bloodshed. The refusal of General Kelly to use the locomotive and cars which the unthinking and exasperated sympathizers from this side of the river had seized and placed at his disposal affords striking proof that the leader of the In- dustrial army is determined not to forfeit the sympathy which law-abiding American citizens have shown for him. The rash friends of labor ori this side who sought to relieve Kelly's army by an overt act can render the cause more effective service by responding to General Kelly's ap- peal with substantial aid and teams that will carry the army at least two days' journey from the Missour. By the time the divisions of the army have reached Red Oak, Atlantic and Dunlap they will have no trouble in getting all the teams and horses they need to proceed on their march to Lake Michigan. By the time the army has sed the Mississippi Governor Jackson, h his militia, will take a place in history 'y much like that occupled by that famous king of France, who, with twice ten thousand men, marched up the hill and then marched down again. cros o o After securing all the publicity that he could wish for his wonderful one-minute speech, which, when printed, filled fourteen columns of the Congressional Record, Con- gressman Wheeler condescendingly agrees to withdraw his remarks. This little episode, like the expunging of the famous senate res- olutfon censuring a president of the United States, serves only to make the speech of Mr. Wheeler more conspicuous than ever, which probably suits him exactly. The only way to curh the ambitions of congressional orators of this kind is to insist that nothing be printed in the Record that is not author- ized by the hou! Withdrawing printed re- marks hardly fills the bill, Russia wants to reorganize its patent tem on the model of the American patent office. Congress ought to take out a patent on our patent office system immediately and sell the Russian government the right to its use In its territory for a good round sum as royalty. Amerlcan ideas ought to bring a premium even in Russia T Test of Democrac, Globe-Democrat. Apparently one of the tests of demacratic orthodoxy nowadays is denunciation of the administration, — —— csting the Impossible, Philadelphia Record A patriotic correspondent of the New York Sin wants o reduced fac simile of the ald Sug flag put upon the 2-cent postage stamp. But the scheme would only work with u self molstening stamp. The old flag can't be licked. S e ] A Siap at Brico. st T Republic (@em.). Senator Drice of Ohlo expresses the opin fon that “the world is determined upon a shrinkage of prices.”” About t percent > of reduction does the senator hope to ce In the Ohio senatorial caucus next vinter? Country, One Flag. Kansas City Times, The mayor of I'hiladelphia is tisht In de ciding that no flag but the American shall float from the roof of Independence hill Even the emblem of o meritorious an or ganization as the Universal Peace society, i celebration of such a triumph as the singning of the Bering sea treaty of arbi tration, should not replace “Old Glory." There are things which are well enough ul 1y, and this is one. Just as Everybody Supposed. New York Sun. Year after year, and all the time, the criminal reports of the city are vastly ‘mors favorable to women than to men. The lnw Kers of | 1ale cex are bul £ w | cre, ymparison with those of other sex ining the police returns for the of this year, and compiring he retuing of various terms of we Lle to say that there | statistioal proof that the moralization of women 13 far sup: to that of men ol i s Punish the he w York 1 The news comes from St. Paul that the Yellowstone park has been overrun during the past winter with hunters. This fs con trary to law. Under the fostering care of the government a herd of bison wns gath ered In the park—the last herd on the con tin nt £5,000 head of c1%5, b § es moiin- tain sheep, moose and other disappearing species, have found shelter there. But the law and the force of troops are both Inade quate for the protection of the game and the reservation. Congress should see to it that both are strengthencd, Dritish government it they can enjoy the advantages of the Amorican market, This class of annexationists, having t | of access for thete products to th are no longer zealous In support of t posal Canada shall become a part of | the American union. Satisfied w e out 1ook which a change of tarift policy present | they are not agitating the question of di | solving their connection with Grent 1 and throwing themselves into the f the United States. In view of what the democratic tarift policy proposes to do for the Dominfon the subject of annexation is in abeyance fn the Dominfon. The obvious fact app to be that the conservative | in ada Is stronger at this time | PEOPLE AND THING | The oarly bud catches the frost Tohn Jacob Astor ix about to publish a mance. A novel tralt in the family Is to be commended It s ger weeded that Attornoy | General Oy betrayed a trust that | was incorporated, | The imutterings of war having subsided In Council Bluffs; an oyster war has broken " N sey to even up things | Sen i \as Just won his first case [ tn the United supreme court. Lucky dog $ better to be born baldheaded than handsome The up-to-date razor-tipped shoe will sor fously discourage star gazing without par- ental consent. Tho expression of the too Is dectdedly pointed | Much of the regret felt over the srowth of Industrinl armies Is due to the well grounded fear that an overproduction of colonels will follow The decisl 1 of the supr Carolina on the liquor law d the fnalienable right of the natives to take thelr constitutionals. Senator Smith of New Jersey sends a note of deflance Minne s and Omaha Kickers by declaring agalust the odious in come tax. “If that be treason, make the st of it.” “Don't go into polities,” sald General Har- rison in his final lecture to the students of tanford umversity; “above all, never se | an office.” In the immortal words of Elder Shinn, Do as 1 tell you, not as I do.” The death of Mr. Carson Lake, a noted politieal writer, recalls an fneident in which his protty wife was conspicuous. During the Minneapolls convention Mrs. Lake created a sensation by leading the famous Blaine cheer, which lasted half an hour. Gall Hamilton regrets to see women en gaged in an efort to secure the ballot for themselves, She looks upon it as a “move ment backward tow the miocene hipparion and eocene anchither fum’ and other horrid and unpronounceable things, . In a repor men and mastoc horn, guardian of the D ? her estate is shown to consist cheifly El sugar plantation and jce company stock and about a bushel basket full of rings, watches and other jewelry. But she is marriageable. Judge Henr C. Caldwell, who rendered the much-talked-of decision in the Union Pacific receivership case, is quoted by his litelong friend, Judge Wright of Des Moines, as saying that, such is his aversion to usury ha would make it a penitentiary offense g more than 6 per cent for the use of ey. Though she Is past 70, Rosa Bonheur | spends a long and busy day at her easel Photography 15 her only recreation. Her atelier is so crowded with artistic treasure as to be, in an admirer’s phrase, a_“priv Louvre.” It contains many complete and ncomplete works of her brush, some of | which are said to be tions of her earlier year Bismarck has lost none of his old-time gallantry. It was arranged by the deputa tion of ladies who personally visit«d him to present the 400 bottles of finest Rhen wines contributed from Baden, Hesse a the Palatinate that cach of them should Kiss his hand upon being presented, but the old soldier kissed them instead, and not upon their hands, either. Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris will take a house in Washington and hopes her mother will also make her home there. Mrs. Sar- toris is wealthy and enjoys an income from property left to her by her father-in-law of s great as the produc- §$30,000 'a year. Her eldest son, Algernon, is still_in ‘England, and will remain there until after his graduation at Oxford, when he will return to this country. M neral Grant is also well off. She makes liberal allowances to her children, and aside from this is reported to have $24,000 annual in- come. Senator Sherman entered the house in the same congress with Mr. Morrill, who cele- brated his 84th birthday last Sunday, and served one term in the senate be e Mr. Morrill entered that body. Mr. Sherman has served twenty-nine years in the scnate and was six vears in the house. Mr. Mor- rill has been in congress thirty-nine years, twelve of which he passed in the house. Allison of Towa has been twenty-one y in the secnate and ten in the house H younger by six years than Mr. Sherman nineteen years the junior of Mr. Morrill. McReynolds, the Windy Bob of the Colo- rado secession movement, s not to be con- sidered seriously. While managing a theater in Lincoln he succeeded in acqui ing some reputation as a_graceful and pro- digous liar. He pressed the button and secured a snap shot of a soul at the moment of departure from the body and drcw a startling pen picture of the event, which made the rounds of the press three years ago. A little later he succeeded in discov- ering Brigham Young alive and well, al- though Brigham’s remains had been mould- ering in a grave in Salt Lake City for years G previous. A trifling discrepancy in facts are of little consequence to Bob. He is an admirer of truth at a safe distance. The Colorado secession suggestion Is evidently intended to revive his reputation as a fakir, An Overdone Profession. Philadelphia Record, The medical coll turn out doctors at the rate of 6,00 per year. The growth of population is about 3 per cent per annum, nst 8 per cent increase in the numbe of doctors, As the public health remains unimpaired, it s evident that the medical department’ of professional business is over- doi There are too many lawyers and do 1 the lawy nd doctors are ready to admit, | | | | CHANGES i Chicago Mall Father MeGlynn s to be | given o parish in Minneapolis. The news- papors of this country would have proforred | to see him move to Lincoln, Neb.,, where | Bighop Bonacumn has now eighteen separate and distinet parochial rows on haud simule taneously. Dr. McGlynn would have adidcd much interest to the situation Detroit Free Press: The New York prose bytery has again elected anti-Driggs doles gates to the general assembly; but so long as the trustees of the Unfon Th glcal seminary stand by the distinguished | “ne he can snap his fingers at the | presbytery, synod, assembly and all the st of the ecclesiastical machinery Detroft Tribune: A Harlem congregation has taken its pastor to task because he exers cises on a bieycle and rides down hill on a hand sled “prone upon his stomach. Weo recall no seriptural injunction that would debar a man from riding & wheel, and so long us the good dominie is n ght slid. tng up hill he Is violating o law of nature. St. Paul Globe: The action of the Geor gla Baptists in opposing a constitutional amendment which shall recognize the deity prompted by a spirit of genuine patriotism. These men think religion and e stato should be kept separate, and deprecate the njection of anything into our organic law that will tend to lessen its Influence over every citizen. Chicago Journal Revelations are made in much more conveniont form nowadays than they w to be, and it would seom that the inventive spirit of the age had af fected the cel 1 sphiere in quite as marked a way as it has the mundane. Yestorday a revelation was given to th Latter Day Saints at Lamonl, la., in prin form, and the type and ink and paper were of the very Intest mak Progress s confined by no pent-up Utiea, Springfield (Mass.) Rspublican: The trial of Roma atholie Dishop Bonaenm of the Lincoln b., diocese upon charges of all sorts of malfeasance in office has been turned into a farce by a ruling of Arch- bishop Hennessey, before whom the trial was to be held. ® & ¢ The archbishop refused to hear evidence upon 1y chargoe except such as were based on personal grievances of priests and others against Bishop Bonacum. From this ruling the com- plainants have appealed, first to Papal Del gate Satolll, and it he refuses to hear them or decides against them, to Rome. Really the issue involved fn the case is whether priests and laity in the Roman Catholie church have any rights which a bishop is bound to respect. It is the contest be- tween ultramontanism and Americanism. St e g COMICAL PUFFES. Philadelphia Record: If you can ‘‘raise the wind' the “dust” i3 quickly collected Sifting: A beetle can draw twenty times its own weight. So can a mustard plaster, Dallas &0 along i action, ws: No orchestra_can hope rmoniously without concert of Life: City Mi you sorry you sir; I'm in here fc slonary—My friend, aren’t » in here? Prisoricr—No, having five wives. Constitution: “I ne Where is Tie now? \ewheres a-learnin’ of Latin,” old man? rails in dialect fer to pay John's Atlanta these days. “He's Off “And th “Splittin bills.” ver sce John : Watts—J yelo, will y he world is the use of him humping Potts—He Indianapolis Jour that fellow on'the bi i Kate Ficld's Washington: Dr. Fourthly=> You believe there can be more than one future state, do you not? Westenberg - Oh, there are Arizona my doubts and New Mexico—but' I have about Utah. Philad Iphia Record: Mamma—Willie, you must not interrupt mamma while she s 1king must wait unt SLops. na, you neve it il be- nst Board of muke their de men simply be they living by dealing in futu she said, s «he lawyer's fed the attorney. “No, from my grandfather snapped, as she bolted through the door and slammed it behind her. SUBURBAN, Puck He carried a yellow dress suit case As he ran for the homebound train, Down the city street, with a rosy fuce, All puffing with might and main. into rom And no one supposed, fr As he capered with ne slip, That a bagful of butter and mutton chops He held in his maddened grip. HAPPY DAYS, m his lively hops, Atlanta Constitution. Sing o song o' happy days comin’ up the slope, All the country listenin’ to the tinklin' bells o' hope; Happy in the meadows an’ happy by the streams, happy’ in the daytime, your dreams! An’ an' happy in Sing a song o' happy days comin’ up the hil Stngin' 'in the breczes an’ ripplin' In the rills! 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