Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 14, 1894, Page 4

TEOMAHA DAILY BEE. B, ROSEWATER, Editor, DLISHED BVERY MORNIN TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ut funday), One Year One Year Pally Doe (with Daily funday, Bix Months Three Mon(tis One Yenr OFFICIE, st mer N 12 TPearl streot, 37 Chamber of Commerce s 13, 14 and 15, Tribun ¥ atrest, N. WV HRESPONDENCE. Jating to news and edi- addressed: To the Editor LETTEY tances should be company lors 1o nd Twenty-tourth § DIdg, Al cotnn torial ront Al busiaes ad Oniatin ke and postol s the onler of PUBLISHING COM I OF CIRCULATION, sectetary of The T Vetnk uly sworn, says th r of full and complet 2 Hnda printed Daily Morning, Tvening und Sunday prir during the month of 3 1504, was as folloy Less dedu coples e net’ circulation JORGE . TZSCHUCK, ibed in my pres- stary Publie. last annual members of polic the to be the several This ought men's plenic for force. It was almost cruel in the State Repub- lican league to disappoint our friends, the anemy, by failing to furnish the hoped-for falling out on the silver question. Can it be that the epidemic of congres- stonal malaria mistaken President Cleve- land for a congressman? The fates ought to know that the docking rule does not apply to the president Nebraska republicans are not yet prepared to break away from the position in favor of sound currency which the party has al- ways occupied. They see no advantage to be derived from wabbling on silve The officers of the Sugar trust have learned their lesson well from the late Jay Gould. In republican states they are republicans and In democratic states they are democrats, but in all states they are for the trust. Abolish the public display of floral gifts at the public school commencements. Com- mencement flowers are all right in the pri- vacy of the home. They are all wrong when held up to the gaze of the audience in at- tendance upon the graduating exercises. Jim Kyner will represent Douglas county at the Denver league convention, but it will be a good many years before Kyner will again represent Douglas county in the legis- lature. On that point several people In this town will have a word to say next Novem- ber. Horace Greeley's bitter sarcasm that all ‘democrats are not horse thieves, but all horse thieves are democrats, might be trans- posed In milder fashlon by saying that all democrats do not carry wheels In their heads, but all the democrats who do carry wheels in their heads will be in Omaha next week to attend the 16 to 1 convention. The Hon. Wash Hesing’s whiskers, the hirsute rhapsodies which outweighed the lengthy petition of his rival, Colonel Frank Lawler, In the contest for the Chicago post- mastership, have succumbed to the ravages of the barber's shears. The shock has been 80 severe that the business of the Chicago postoffice is said to have suddenly fallen off in almost the same ratio as the whiskers. Congressman Breckinridge promptly denies that there is any truth in the story that he contemplates retiring from the contest for re-clection to congress from the Ashland dis- trict. He says that nothing but death can take him out of the race. If death doesn’t take some of the participants in the cam- palgn out of the race it will be a miracle for wonderment throughout the blue grass region. Brownell hall, which has just completed fts twenty-fifth annual commencement ex- ercises, 15 one of our institutions of learnin that has done much to extend Omaha's edu- cational influence beyond the boundaries of the city itself. It has from the first main- tained a standard of exccllence that has commended it to its patrons, and its patrons number among them some of the best citi- sons of the west, It is, to be sure, a pri- vate institution, and a sectarian institu- _ tion, but it has achieved a place among the best private sectarian fnstitutions of the kind In these parts, and may woll feel proud of its twenty-five years of useful existence. Susan B. Anthony's readiness to support the candidates, no matter who they may be, of the first political party in Kansas that endorses the suffrage amendment to be sub- mitted to the voters of that state is scarcely ereditable to the intelligence of women voters should they be given the sulfrage. Miss Anthony promises to urge all friends of woman suffrage to vote the populist ticket on condition of popullst support for her hobby. What becomes then of the argument that women will always vote thelr eonvic- tions, and other things being equal will al- ways vote their honest convictions? Wil the female vote be subject to the same trades and dickers as the male vote? Miss Anthony's confession destroys some of the fllusion with which the woman suffrage movement has been surrounded The genmeral electric ordinance has been hung up in the city council now for several months. Members of the Wiley combine have suddenly discovered that it would not do to pass any ordinance that would give every- body a chance to go into the electric lght- ing business and keep it up for an Indefinite period. That would seem to be a slap in the face of Bellweather Hascall, the father of the general ordinance. He clalmed that he was opposed to monopoly In electric lighting and therefore wanted to throw the gates wide open to all who wanted to submit to the conditions and restrictions imposed by the ordinance. As a matter of fact, Hascall and the other members of the combine have all changed thelr minds on this subject since the Citizgens’ Electric company have put in a bid of $57.50 per lamp. Had Wiley been the lowest bidder the general electric ordi- Bance would have been rushed through the gouncil with a whoop la! The Hascall com- blue s a dalsy, | as guardians of the public Interest to sur- | to consumers, THE CANAL PROPOSITION. The Omaha Canal and Power company has asked the commisstoners of Douglas county to submit a proposition to the voters for a subsidy of $1,000,000 to ald In the con- siruction of a canal that will supply about 20,000-horse for manufacturing pur- street railway motor power, electric lighting plants, ete. The promoters of this enterprise are for the most part heavy prop- and representative business ted in stimulating the growth of Omaha and thelr request is entitled to re- spectful and consideration. Before the commissioners would be Justi- fled In submitting the proposition to bond the county for $1,000,000 they are expected to consider and welgh well the conditions and terms of the contract which the voters are asked to ratify. It becomes their duty power poses, owners n inter sorious round the proposition with such safeguards as will insure not only the completion of the and the of the water power for public use, but also to ex- act maximum rates for the use of the power The people should not be asked to vote a million-dollar subsidy which at the end of twenty years at 4% per cent will aggregate $1,900,000 unless we can have guaranties that the corporation to whom this subsidy is voted wit give us our money's worth, It does not matter whether the men at the head of the corporation are Omaha citi~ zens or foreign Specific pro- visions must be embodied in the bond prop- osition for the protection of the taxpayers and made part of the contract between the county and the canal company. The prop- osition as submitted to the commis- sioners is too general in fts character and too one-sided. We are asked to vote a sub- sidy for the canal, to be pald over as the work progresses, until forty miles have been built and the whole million dollars has been absorbed. No part of the million dollars Is re- served as a guaranty that the canal will be completed and the necessary plant con- structed to put it in operation. There is no reserve or guaranty whatever as to the capacity of the plant beyond the statement that about 20,000-horse power will be gen- erated. No condition is embodied in the proposition as to the maximum cost of the canal and its equipment at the time it Is to be accepted. And last but not least, no pro- vision as to the charge to consumers be- yond the vague promise that the charges shall be reasonable. On all points the commissioners should require definite, binding and enforce- able provisions before the proposition fs submitted. In fact, there Is no likelihood that the bonds would be voted unless the proposition now in the hands of the com- missioners shall be modified and recast so as to fully protect the taxpayers as well as the future consumers of power. We entertaln no doubt that the projected canal is feasible from an engineering stand- point and we are convinced that its con- struction and operation would stimulate our industries, increase our population and very materially enhance the value of real estate in this city and county. It is manifest also that the construction of the canal would fur- nish employment for at least two or three years to a large number of workingmen and consequently would very materially increase the volume of our local trade. But we can- not afford to jump headlong Into a project that will require a million dollar subsidy without exacting reasonable guaranties that the project will be carried to successful com- pletion and when completed would be oper- ated in the interest of our industrial con- cerns and not merely for profit for a con- struction company. We also should have a clause attached to the proposition that will enable the county, the county and city or the city alone Lo ac- quire the canal and the plant with- in a fixed period at its actual value without computing franchises. We do not want to perpetuate a monopoly that might eventually dominate our city and county and levy tribute upon all our indus- tries. proposed canal conversion capitalists. now these AGRICULTURAL COMPETITION. Those who contend that the agricultural products of this country do not require any protection cannot have considered the growth of the competition in the markets of the world within the last few years. There was a time not very long ago when the Amerlcan wheat growers regarded with un- concern the probability that wheat could bo successfully cultivated In India so as to compete with them. They have not only encountered a sharp competition from that source, but from others where the work of agricultural development is only in the first stage. New wheat regions have been opened within the last few vears the possibilities of which arc practically immeasurable, and from all these sources of supply the wheat growers of the United States will have to encounter an active competition in the future. Some statisticlans have ad- vanced the theory that the time was near at hand when the world's yleld of wheat would not equal the demand and when this country wWould not pFoduce sufficient for home consumption. Tho conditions show that this idea is groundless and point to the probability that 50 far as the world's supply is concerned it will continue for an indefinite time in ex- cess of the annual consumption, with the possible consequence of still further de- pressing the price of wheat. The Argentine Republic promises to be- come one of the most formidable competi- tors of this country In the world's wheat markets and its competition will not stop with this. It s the only country on earth which can compete with the farmers of the United States in the raising of corn. We are no longer to enjoy a practical monop- oly of corn ralsing in this country. That is the one crop in the production of which we have supposed that by reason of our peculiar adaptation no other portion of the world could compete with us. But it s found that the soll and the conditions for raising corn in that vast country known as the Argentine Republic are equal to those in the United States, with very much cheaper land and labor than here. Argen- tina has just begun to discover its possi- bilities as a corn raising country. It has an area about fifteen times as large as the state of Nebraska and with the exception of a few provinces In the mountainous section almost the whole of that extenstve country of 1,118,000 square miles Is adapted to the raising of corn, and It Is said that among the mountainous provinces there are valleys and plains most fertile on which are grown forty-five and fifty bushels of, corn to the acre. Not more than 4 per cent of that country s under cultivation, yet it exports 80,000,000 bushels of wheat annually and over 20,000,000 bushels of corn. Referring to this competition, Senator Platt of Connecticut sald a few days ago in the courso of a speech in the senate that corn ean be bought cheaper in the Argentine Republio today than it can in any corn growing state of the United States. It can be brought from tho Argentine Republie and landed In New York at less frelght than Is paid for bringing corn from corn growing states, I undertake to say," con- tinued Mr. Platt, "that with the pending bill passed a man can take New York funds, which are gold, send them o the Argentine Republic and buy corn at silver prices, and bring the corn to New York, where it be- comes gold, and if there were enough of it in the Argentine Republic, shut out from the castern of this country every, bushel of western corn.”” The agricultural schedule of the pending tariff bill proscribes a duty of 20 per cent ad valorem on wheat, corn, rye and oats, but each of these products are to be admitted freo of duty from any country which imposes no im- port duty on the like product when exported from the United States. As the Argentine Republic has no duty on wheat and these products would come Into the United States free, and for the same the wheat and rye of Russia would enter the Amerlcan market free. Undoubtedly Canada would take off the import duty on wheat %0 as to get a free American market for that grain. With the price of wheat and corn already down below the profit point and an increasing competition that threat- ens to still further depress it, a policy that will throw open the American market to our competitors and enable them to share 1t with our own producers certainly does not seem to be wise or to show a proper and just consideration for the great agricultural industry of the United States. portion corn reason INCOME TAX INEQUALITIE If the democratic majority in congress is determined to pass the tarift bill with the obnoxious income tax schedule attachment, it we are to kave the income tax despite the protests that are being raised against it upon all sides, it fs time for our repre- sentatives in congress to devote some atten- tion to the crudities of the existing bill and to attempt, if fossible, to remove some of its most glaring defects. The opposition in the senate has proceeded upon this theory with the schedules fixing the import duties, offering and voting for amendments calcu- lated to save as many of our American in- dustries as is within its power. A tariff with the least deviation from the existing law is far preferable to one that makes the first move toward free trade a leap over as much ground as possible. The proposed income tax will be burdensome enough even after it shall be perfected to the furthest extent that the democratic majority will allow. There are two pitfalls to be avoided in the construction of any ‘new system of taxation, particularly a system of income taxation. They are both species of mequality: The first, discrimination between the taxpayer: the second, double taxation. There is always a large class which evades the payment of taxation whenever there s che slightest possibility of doing so by converting their wealth into property within the exempted classificatiors. It is bad enough to pretend to tax only those whose Incomes exceed $4,000, but as the tax in fact strikes in- comes less than $4,000 it derived from cor- porate investments it is bound to act as an encouragement to people of moderate in- comes to transfer their investments to something not included in the tax. Again, as pointed out by the St. Louis Republic, the language of the bill, which prohibits the deduction of interest on bonded debt from the income statement of corporations, ap- pears to relieve the bondholder of all obli- gation to pay taxes on his income, whether above or below the exemption limit. If such is the case thero would of course be a rush to convert taxable funds into cor- porate bonds, and thus to avold the tax. It is at this point that the evil of doubls taxation comes in. The corporation would have to pay on its whole income without deducting interest paid, and, unable to in- demnify itself from the bondholders, would have. to subtyact the sum from the stock- holders’ dividends. In other words, the stockholders would be taxed twice to pay what the bondholders in strict justice should contribute, In addition to their own taxes. Where corporations are stockholders in other corporations the same difficulty is likely to arise, if not guarded against, so that the dividends of the first are taxed a seccnd time when included In the dividends of the sccond. Double taxation of this kind Is unjust from every point of view. There are doubtless many other important points in the income tax schedule that re- quire similar definition and perfection it they are not to occasion inexcusable ine- qualities. Thesc obscurities and defects should not be permitted to pass unnoticed. A few timely amendments may prevent widespread injustice. SPARE LIFE INSURANCE, The proposed income tax, according to the opinion of some of the ablest life insurance managers In the country, will raise the cost of life insurance or lessen its benefits for rich and poor alike. The claim Is that the income tax provision it goes into effect it will compel lifo insur- ance companies conducted on the mutual basis to pay a tax of 2 per cent of the money carned every year upon their investments, regardless of the fact that such funds are not the property of rich corporations run for the profit of their stockholders, but be- long to all of the policy holders, the majority of whom are poor or in moderate circum- stances and have incomes far below the limit of the exemption provided by the pend- ing bill. On the other hand some authori- ties say that this is a mistake, clalming that the exemption in paragraph 59 of the DIl as it now stands, will suffice to protect the interests of life insurance policy holders. There 1s an organized effort being made by the mutual life insurance companies to se- cure a modification of the proposed tax as affecting these companies, and it is probable that it will be successful, for it ought not to be difficult to convince the representa- tives of the peoplo that it would be a most grlovous error to impose a tax which would tend to discourage persons from making pro- vision for their families after death. If the Dbill as it stands s not intended to affect policy holders in life insurance companies run on the mutual plan, as some hold, then this should bo made so clear and explicit that there could be no doubt or question about it. It is reported that the senate finance committee is considering the question of modifying the income tax proposition with a view to making it acceptable to the demo- crats who are opposed to the tax, and it is to be expected that if any changes are made the interests of lite Insurance policy holders and of savings bank depositors will not es- capo favorable consideration. Although not apparent, it is very probable that the vigorous protests that have-been made against the proposed tax have had some effect upon the senate democrats, and It the statement be true that there Is a dis position to make the Income tax provision acceptable to the democrats who are opposed to it there may be a radical modification ot this portion of the revenus bill. It is doubt. tul whether any concesslons that might be made would induce Senator Hill to support an income tax, but the feeling may be that is so worded that it it Is expedient to gratify the wishes of demos crats like Gorman And Smith and Brice, who, although pledggd o support the proposie tlon as it stands, probably desire some modi- fleations. But no hdfiges reasonably to be expected will make this'feature of the demo- cratic revenue polloy.iacceptable or render less unjustifiable such degislation In a time of peace, when, hy"'ln"e' admission of demo- crats thomselves, It Ja’ unnecessary. Nor wiil any changes rajleyp it of the odium ot sectionalism that atiaches to It. Mr. Havemeyer, president of the Sugar trust, says that the sugar schedule of the | mew tariff bill ts still far from satisfactory to him. He probably asked for even more than the democratic senators were willing to give, however much they may recognize the obligations of their party to the trust. Noth ing short of an absolute monopoly of the sugar refining business, with the privilege of fixing prices at will, would be entirely and completely satisfactory to Mr. Havemeyer. Supremacy of the Majors. Chieago Tribune. The calling out of the militia will end the war, Sooner or later the miners must yleld to the majors. PHNEGFE. 5. =% A_Revolution Impends. Kansas City Journal. When confederate soldiers stand up and announce that henceforth they intend to vote the republican ticket, Missourl dem- ocracy may well begin to inquire where 1 is at. Waonders of Military Justice. San Francisco Chronfcle The decision of a court-martial Is some- thing to arouse wonder in the mind of a clvillan. Here is Lieutenant Maney, who shot down Captain Hedburg when the cap- tain had his hands full of bundles, acquit- tod by o military court of murder. but adjudged guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer. The western civilian calls a man a oward and a sneak who selects such an ccasion as Maney did to get revenge on an enemy, but under the military code this offense scems to be “conduct unbecoming an officer. The Passing of Pennoyer. New York Times. The disappearance of Pennoyer from the American political horizon Is a_matter for congratulation beyond the confines of Ore- gon. Pennoyer s, in €ooth, a horrid hood- lum. He calls himself a_democrat, and he was elected as a democrat, but essentially he is a populist in the most offensive sense of the term. He has made himself con- spicuous by insulting, In the crudest and grossest way, two successive presidents of the United States “of opposed political faiths.” Also he has been appealing to the fgnorance of his people in Oregon with a simplicity that might have been attractive it it had not been mischievous. In fact, there could not well be a worse kind of man than Pennoyer. i Work, Nov Hirag. Chicago Tribune. ‘Working, not bragging, should be the business of this campaign. Instead of as- suming that the democrats are already de- feated, go on” with the hard work needed to beat them. Tell the voters what the democratic leaders have done (o (deserve defeat, as by glving the rapacious Sugar trust 50,000,000 of taxes, Organize in every precinet, prevent ballot box stuiing, and get out ‘the full vote. These are the meth- ods that lead to victory, not boasting about sweeplng the state from end to eml be- cause some discontented democrats in the Fourth Jjudicial district slapped the first candidate—for a honpolitical offico.-who came along, and relieved themselves of their wrath therehy on the blunders of thelr party leaders in Washington. T Reform the Jury System. Kansas. City Times. Willlam J. Bryan of Nebraska recently addressed the graduating class of jaw stu- dents at the National university. In his ad- dress the Nebraska congressman advocated reforms in the jury system, amonz which were the adoption”lof the 'California and Kentucky system, whereby three-fourths of the jury can reach a verdict in eivil cases. The speaker nandemned the sys- tem prevailing in some states where jurors were excluded who had read reports of the case in the newspapers, theraby excluding that intelligence neceéssary o make a com- petent juror. Mr. . 3ryan's rewarks are timely and directed against a great evil in our trial courts, namely, dealing out justice by ignorant and imcompetsnt juries. His position s to elevate the juries of the country, and thereby reach that more in- telligent justice. The position that a juror should be rejected because he 15 the reader of a newspaper, followed to its complete sequel, would fill our jury Loxes from our insane asylums. The system is both out of date and contrary to sound sense. Star-Eyed Goddoss Spenks. Loulsville Courier-Tournal. With overwhelming changes of party ma- Jorities going on all_about us—in the face of such a popular rebuke to the incapacity of leaders as no politicians ever recelved before in the history of the country—it Is worse than folly, it is a crime, for demo- crats who yet relain some self-respect and to whom have been wont to look for unselfish counsel, to bate their breath and hold their tongue. The feathers of the ostrich are fair to see, but his meth- ods of self-protection are ridiculous, They are not to be imitated by democrats. The tarift bill which is about to pass the sen- ate is abominable. ~Practically, it will yield the consumer little, If any, relief, 1t presents the democratic party In the char- acter of both a fool and a fraud, crippling the cause without a shadow of compensa- tion. The administration should in some viay—there wre many ways—disentangle itself. The house should throw it out by a single vote, The committee of conferenve should promptiy report itself unable to agree. The ways and means committee should promptly bring in a measure involving revenue only—a simple tariff scala raising $20,000,000 on fifty single items—no schedules and no classifications with their misleading subterfuges and confusing in- cldents—and, if this be rejected—as it doubtless would be—adjourn ‘congress and £0 to the country, placing the responsibhi- ity where it belongs, pledging the pasty to stand by Its guns and to fight Its batue upon the line of principle and honor untl the people shall decide, conclusively ‘ana for all time, whether we'are to live under a free trade system or under a protective system. THE FLIGHT OF CROKER, Kansas City Star: Mr. Croker has slipped oft to Burope on the eve 0f another examina- tion. Mr. Croker's health is so precarious that he may be called away to California or Burope at any time. It is a mere coln- cidence that his health began to droop just after the revolt against Tammany last fall. Chicago Times: Boss Croker's present pllgrimage to Carlsbad in search of mud baths is probably due to his turtle-lfke in- stinct to hunt his hole when danger threat- ens. The Lexow investigating committeo is the agency from which Turtlo Croker is prudently fleeing to 00zy_concealment in this Instance. Chicago Inter Ocean: The flight of Croker before the senatorial committee now Investi- gating municipal crookedness in New York is a virtual confession of gullt. The peo- ple will put that interpratation upon it. The constitutional conventign now in session at Albany will see in it gviddnce that something radical must be done to reform the govern- ment of big cities. B present copstitution is nearly half a_cenfury old, the one framed in 1867 having been,tdipfted by the people. The shadow of Croker's back in flight must rest as an impressive feminder of duty upon the convention, plealiink’ eloquently for re- torm. N Chicago Tribune: chard Croker, the ex-boss of Tammangjljagain on the run. These sudden disappearances of Croker are always storm signale dicating that there Is general danger ahead for Tammany and particular danger for, Crpker. The health of the ex-boss Is always affected so that it needs an overland trip or a sea veyage when- ever the slow moving processes of justice begin to menace Tanfmany. This time it is a sea voyage, which 48 fifcessary to improve the tone of his stomach and brace up his nerves, which have been shattered by the effort of accumulating & large fortune with- out working for it. New York Tribune: ~ The wholo edifice of Tammany misrule and corruption is erum- bling, and the rats are on the run. The pre- cipitate flight of Croker is only one indica- tion of the consternation which has over- takon the corrupt men who have 5o long plundered this town, and who only a fow weaks ago were either contemptuously de- riding or audaciously defylng the effort to dislodge them. Unless we greatly mistake, the coming week will bring new revelations and developments which Wil {nicrease thelr dlscomfiture and send more of them whirl- ing, perhaps out of the country, perhaps up the river, at any rate out of public life and into the obscurity of disgrace. POLITIOAL POTPOURRI, Stewart Ledger: There Is plenty of good politieal timber in the republican party from which to choose the state tioket. Let none but the very cholcest be taken. Plattsmouth News: Strong congressional, legislative and county tickets will greatly strengthen the state republican ticket. It the republicans desire to win they will close up all the gaps. Atkinson Graphie: The republican press of this district, In fts just excoriation of Congressman Kem, may be wasting its pow- dor. Some other fool of the populist brand may get the nomination. Lincoln News: It Is quietly hinted that although there are a good many checks in a blue hickory shirt but few of them have ever found their way to the treasurer of the republican state central committee. Hustings Nebraskan: It is reported that Billy Bryan Is to make the speoch of his life in Omaha at the free silver convention Bryan has been making “specches of his lifo" ever since his advent to misrepresent Nebraska in the halls of congress, but the good he has accomplished or that he has prospects of accomplishing is not visible to the naked eye. ¥ Blue Springs Sentinel: The democracy of the state is trying to hoodwink the popullsts into_attending a silver convention to be held in Omaha on the 21st inst. and after (hey get them all there to have Billy Bryan ca ture them by his eloquence into support a fusion ticket with himself as candidate for governor, with the additional promise that he is to be made United States senatcr. It Is quite a scheme, but it Is somewhat doubt- ful if the independents will follow very nu- merously In a democratic wake Plattsmouth News: There are many catch phrases used by soft-shell democrats and populists which are deceptive in the ex- treme. One of these is that the country Is now suffering from business stagnation be- cause of the scarcity of money. thing could be farther from the truth. There is more money per capita In the United States today than ever before in the history of the nation. It is In banks, stockings and cellars, however. And there it will stay until there fs activity in business. That will not come until the tariff-smashers are defeated. Wakefleld Republican: It is generally con- ceded that George D. Mefklejohn will be re- nominated for congress this fall by the republicans of this district. No reason has yet been given why he should not ba renom- inated, and, for that matter, re-elected. Al- though belonging to a minority party In congress, and thus prevented to a greater or less” extent from assisting in shaping p tive legislation, Mr. Melklejohn has never- theless made an exceptionally good record as a representative, as even his political ene- mies have to concede when they come to cxamine the same. Howells Journal (dem.): The free coinage conference to be held in Omaha on June 21 is simply a well laid scheme to lend a part of the democratic party into the independent camp. At present it looks very much as though the plan would work. The leaders openly state that If they do not succeed In capturing the next state convention that they will go over to the independents. Their threats are foclish In the extreme and their efforts to dictate to the next state convention will be a dismal failure. It would be nothing strange {f many of them did go over to the independents, for many of them who signed the call have been n the habit of voting that ticket—they have been democrats in name only. Let them go into the independent ranks, and then we will know where to find them Wayne Republican: C. S. Coney, the pres- ent county superintendent of schools in Stan- ton county, Is receiving a good many kind words as a candidate for the nomination of the republicans as state superintendent. Mr. Coney fs in the full vigor of manhood, and is reputed as being one of the best school men in the state. That his own people think well of him Is evinced by the fact that he is now serving his fifth term as superintend- ent in that county. The superintendent is one of the offices that requires a peculiar fit- ness to properly discharge its duties, and we are assured by the very best of authority that the gentleman in question possesses the very qualities that would give us an able administration_of the office. The country north of the Platte is entitled to tho office this time, and if we all unite on the proper person we can get what we want. P e PEOPLE AND THINGS. Let the critics rave and masticate their checks. Rosebery is a three-times winner. According to the revised lexicon of the senate, public office is a sugared trust. Blustering threats and bold defis hurled about Lexington, Ky., smell strongly of moonshine. There is a definable something about an heiresses’ figure that vells the blemishes of a bathing suit. The chinch bug is abroad in Tllinois and the trepidation of the democracy Is increased correspondingly. Senator McPherson’'s son abstains from squaring himself by contributing to the _national conscience fund. Tomorrow is flag day, the 117th anniver- sary of the adoption of the stars and stripes by the continental congress. ‘The contagion of pie consumption is spread- ing in Boston to such an extent that the supremacy of the festive bean is seriously menaced. Before the New York police investigation proceeds much further provision should be made for an increase in the number of penal institutions. The broad, swelling activity and frre- proachable loftiness of the Frazer river has sickened the Mississippi, and the father of waters is confined to its bed. The rolling thunder of Oregon reverberated arcund the national capital without attract- Ing attention. Evidently the saccharine statesmen had taken no stock in it. General Artz of Kansas is said to bo the most successful of the Commonweal leaders. He has passes on all the Kansas railroads and furnishes his men four meals a day. Mr. Wanamaker says the House of Com- mons 1s as dignified a body as the American house of representatives. Just where the dignity comes In is left to the reader to de- termine. It will take $28,000,000 to carry out the program arranged for celebrating the 60th anniversary of the dowager empress of China. This sum equals the amount blown in on fire and smoke on America’s natal day. I PROVOKING CUSSES. Plain Dealer: Yes, “life Is a stage," but there's no encore. Apothec Would I be here Harper's Bazar: ry (roused at 3a. m)—Well? Catnips—Thunder, no! at this time if I was well? Atchison Globe: The only apparent effect of advanced clvillzation seems to be that children begin to worry at an earlier age. Philadelphia Ledger: Baron Hirsch has bought Matchbox, the horse that ran sec- ond In the Derby the other day, and ex- pects when it comes to the scratch to make a strike with him, It hardly pays wasts ing your time te a boy what you did when you were of his age. Heé would rather pass the time telling you what he is golng to do when he becomes a man. Boston Transorip lin; Philadelphia Record: A cat s sald to have nine lives, This may account for the nine muses. Galveston News: There is no place like the home of one's sweetheart, New York Herald: Dimpleton— that animal you sold me Is too lively. Horse Dealer—Aren't you a married man? Dimpleton—Yes, What has that to do with it? Dealer—I supposed, of course, you wanted a’horse your wife couldn't drive. Detroit Tribune: Servant—Miss De Boots says she can't see you. Mr, Chollyboy—Ah, I got that impression when T met her on the street, but I wanted to be sure about it. Minneapolis Tribune: It Is the quiet man who looks as though he might pass the hat at the temperance meeting who develops the biggest yell when the umpire decides In favor of the home team. LOFTY COOLNESS, Judge. "Twas at a roof garden I met her (I was bent upon taking the And now 1 can never forget her, She's & maiden so daint My love, cruel lass, she ne ‘Bhe took up with ‘s lover more bold— I got much more air than I needed, ‘or I'm left wholly out in the cold! ON THE NEED FOR A NAVY Why the United States Needs Her Vessels in Time of Peace. ASSISTANT SECRETARY M'ADO0’S ADDRESS Tells the Moys at the Newport War College the Time Has Not ¥et Co All Peoples Can Die Harmony. NEWPORT, R. I, June 13.—The com- mencement exercises of the United States war college on Coastors Harbor Island opened In the college hall at 1 o'clo: Assitant Secrotary of the livered the opening address Mr. McAdoo, alluding that the civilized world vaning beyond the era of war ald Sharing the lovo of peace which grows slowly with our advancing clvilization, I yet cannot blind myself to the fact that we are very far fudeed from an age in which force is not the handmaiden of clvilization itself. There are wrongs deeper than tho wounds of war, and fndignitics more awful than its horro ) long as the contending elements of good and evil exist, so long as right and wrong struggle for supremacy, so long as fron prejudice defends justice, so long as the strong oppress the weak, and moral right cannot restrain the cruel hands of prevailing might, so long the sword will be powerful and controlling in the fate of man and nations." Turning to the conslderation of the needs of an efficient naval force in this country, the secretary said. “The only hope of military or political Jomination on this continent by Europe would come from the dissolution of the unlon as the result of peaceful or of forcible secession. Had the late civil war resulted In a dissolution of the union it is quite possible that north and south of the contending lines small confederacies would have been formed, and by local jealousies of the weaker ones contending for European alliances might have been followed by for- eign invasion. But £o long as the republic maintains its present imperfal territory her absolute and unqualificd dominatfon of the great occans within the temporate zone of this continent, she stands as against forelgn aggression on her own sofl, proud, pregnant and irresistible. Our Achilies' heel is at the water's edge. A million men on shore, were they ever 5o brave and armed, could not pre- vent the tremendous and certain destruction that would be wrought by an explosion of a monster shell filled with™ high explosives in one of our cities fired from the great guns of a battle ship lying safely beyond the range of our nearest fort. Five hundred men on a battle ship well handled by a master of its art might save from destruction that which 100,600 armed men on shore could not re. store. And while our country s possessed of vast materfal resources, especially in the great valley of the Mississippl, still in the very nature of things our storehouses are upon the seaboards, and this will continue as long as the great oceans are the free highs ways of the people.” MYSTERY k this forenoon. vy McAdoo de. to those who held was rapidly ad oy ARTIALLY SOLVED. Body Found in tne River but Flve Months Absenco U ST. LOUIS, June 13.—By the discovery of the body of George Remmert in the river a strange mystery has been partially cleared. George Remmert was a porter and had been with his employer for thirteen consecutive years. to meet his employer to talk over some pri- vate business. The conversation was held, Remmert said goodby and_departed, some- what in a depressed state. This was the st seen of him until his body was discovered in the river yesterday. When found the body was beginning to decompose and the identity was discovered by the apparel which was recognized by his family and relatives. But it is in this apparel that the mystery sur- rounding Remmert's disappearance {8 dis- closed. The shoes he wore on the ddy ho was last seen were almost new, and these shoes were found on the body when found in the river, and they show no signs of wear. Nor did the other articles of his apparel show any Increased wear. The body had been in the water not over ten days. Taking theso facts into consideration the unworn or un- used condition of the man's apparel and the time the body s sald to have been in the water, in connection with the time which has passed since his disappearance brings about the question, where was George Remmert in the interim between the date of his disap- pearance January 1 and the placing of his body in the river? NOT ONE CENT ON THE DOLLAR. Bubble Bullding Assoclation at Denver— Poor Depositors Robbed. DENVER, June 13.—W. W. Brazie, as- signee of the Natlonal Co-operative Build- ing and Investment asociation says the cons cern will not pay 1 cent on the dollar. In August, 1892, W. A. Hemphill after examin- ing’ the books of the concern reported that its assots were $121,000. When the assignment was made there were $71,000 liabilities and no assets. Assignee Brasie says he cannot find out where the money went. The loss blows through town. On January 1, he went to the store | Hot Coats —ma 0 THIN you can see through them—the wind them—in light dark—all cool—every size under the sun— we speak of the sun only because these coats and vests are sun shielders—only complete line in S gl falls principally on poor depositors. The presidont of the assaclation was Willlam J. Smith, who It Is sald,. is now conducting assoclation in Pittsburg. TWENTY SEiL POACHERS WARNED, States OMeers Proceeding In the Execution of Thelr Orders. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., June 13.~Pri- vate advices from the Bering sea, dated June 3, state that up to that time the United States fleet had warned twenty sealers, of which elght wore American ships. The orders regarding the treatment of sealers were not opened until after the flect left here on May 16, and. were found to be as follows: When a sealer fs boarded by a naval officer, Baglish or American, he ex- amines the log-book, under date of May 1 whore, {f a sealer has been previously boarded he will find an entry. This entry will &how whether the sealer has been warned or licensed. So far the sealers have offered no objection to being searched, and all seemed to he anxious to learn the wiission of the patrol fleet and get back to port. In fact, the English men-of-war carried orders from owners of sealers which fitted out at Victorfa to return to that port. Besides making an entry in the log-book in regard to boarding the sealer the officor selzes or scals firearms and ammunition. The sealing of arms and ammunition Js done by placing the ammunition in a canvas bag which s carefully tied and the knots cov- erod with wax, which is stamped with the ship's official seal. The arms are lashed to- gether and officially stamped. Then the se is told he can take out a license It he wishes which entitles him to seal after August. Al senlors are given copies of the president’s proclamation and act of Parlla- ment SEATTLE, Sitka, June steamer Mohic patrol flect, and supplies United , June 13.—Advices dated The United Statos flagship of the Bering sen arrived in port today for mall having been on a cruise of five days about the Kodink islands. On the third day of the cruise, in heavy weather, the lookout on the Mohican saw a vessel well in shore. The war ship bore down on the ship, which at once put on all sail in an at- tempt to get away. The wind favored the schooner, 80 orders were given to fire across her beam. The Hotehkiss sent a couple of shots after the schooner, which then hove to. When boarded she proved to ba the Volune teer from Seattle. There was no direct evi- dence of illegal sealing except that her arms and fmplements were ready for use. These were all ‘sealed up and the Volunteer or- dered to Sand Point to await the end of the close season. The next day a similar per- formance was gone through with the schooner George R. White, also of Seattle. The cap- tains of hoth vessels were angered at belng boarded, and acted in such a manner that the officers expect more trouble with them. The next time they are found away from Sand Point they will be seized. There are Hable to be many selzures within the next fow weeks, as some of the vessels ordered to remain at Sand Point have put to sea in the absence of war vessels from that place. Gt VR R EXPLORER CHAN. R HOME. Back from a Two Years Sojourn In the Heart of Africa. NEW YORK, June 13.—Willlam Astor Chanler has just returned home after a three years absence abroad, twenty-two months of which have been passed In the heart of Africa in reglons never before pene- trated by white men. % “I am in excellent health,” said he, “with the exception of a sluggish’ liver, the result of two years in Africa, which I propose to wash out at Carlsbad immediately. I have come home hurriedly for family reasons. While my expedition has not been entirely successful, owing to tho descrtions of my men and a plague resembling lockfaw that broke out among my camels and mules, I have gathered a large amount of sclentific and geological data which will compose the report 1 propose to make to the New York Geographical society. Willlam Astor Chanler, youngest of all explorers, is only 28 years old and was gradu- ated from Harvard seven years ago. He 18 tue son of the late John B. Chanler and a great grandson of the late John Jacob Astor, from whom he inherited a large fortune. In 1888 he made a big game shooting trip to Mashon land and was the first white man to | g0 completely around Mount Kiliman Jaro. £l Blow for krazilian Rebets. PARIS, June 13.—A dispatch from Rlo says: The chief of the provisional governs ment at Desterro has been arrested. TE. Somerville Journal. The sweet girl graduate just now Is busily employed; In_fact, she's so preoccupled She must not be annoyed. She's writing a deep essay o Life's Highest Happiness,” And likewise being fitted to Her graduation dress. Now, when a girl of sweet seventeen Has two things on her mind Of such transcendant consequence, The world must needs be kind. For making beds Is not at all “Life’'s Highest Happiness,” And how can she wash_dishes fn Her graduation dress? So don’t expect too much of her Just at (he present time. Remember that her youthful brzin Is thinking thoughts sublime. get her essay done will be Jife's Highest Flappiness,’ And pretty soon she'll read it in Her graduation dr colors or Browning, King & Co., S. W, Corner 15th and Douglas,