Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 15, 1894, Page 4

THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. PURBLISHED EVERY MORNING. — TON Yoar TIRMS ¢ Dally Do (without § Paily ard Sunday, One Year Fix Months Three M Bundag Eatiriay Weekly ome Omaha, T) Eouth Dmahn Councti 13 Chica w Yor Wawy ngt venty-tourth § of Commere A o Tribun and 1 Bldg. Ations relatipg to newa and edl AU the Bditor 1o 1 remittances should b Publishing company, and. postoflice orders to iler ot company. Al adir be made TATEMENT OF CHICULY ATEMENT, OF CHICULAR GgETEE D T, ersisatz i f compny, Ikt A4l e S setual pumbor o, fu S, ol AT e B A net cireuiation B, TZSCHUCK ribed in my pres- GRORGE Bworn to before me and sub ence this 24 day of June, 1% al.) N, P, F Notary Public. Three new federal circuit judgeships means a call for three mora willing dem crats. Confirmed loyalty to the principles of re- publicanism Is the one grand echo of the recent state republican league meeting. None of the railroads seem to want peace In rate matters so long as the blame for first cutting below the tariff can be shifted on to the other fellow's shoulders. It 1s wonderful how many different sizes an Industrial army assumes when described from the place where it happens to be and when announced from the railroad head- quarters. The chief of detectives has taken a lay- oft for a few days, but his permanent retire- ment is only a matter of a very, brief time. The city has no use for belled cats on the detective force. is a trifle disfigured but still In the ring. The eitizens and tax- payers must not relax their watch for the next shrewd scheme which this audacious trickster Is sure to concoct. Judge Ha:call Secretary Morton expects to spend a part of the summer in BEurope. We are sure that he has not been led to this decision from any fear of being summoned before the senate bribery investigating committee. Perhaps the people who are complaining of the snail-paced tariff debate in the senate want the senators to speak faster. But they forget that the average senator talks at a gait that makes the most expert stenographers gasp for breath. Beforo acting on the canal proposition the county commissioners will do well to invite prominent taxpayers and representa- tives of the labor organizations to glve their views of the matter. A proposition of such grave import demands serious consideration. The chairman of the judiclary committee has received a lesson in law in Judge Wal- ton’s court which ought to teach him that he is out of place as acting mayor of Omaha. But you can't teach Hascall anything any more than you can teach an old dog new tricks. Senator Quay Is not to be deterred from completing his installment speech by any device requiring unanimous consent to cur- tail debate. Mr. Quay prefers reading aloud and he has yet to read the remaining in- stallments for the first time for his own nformation. American and Buropean tourlsts in Asla will steer clear of China and fts black plague with as assiduous care as they did the cholera-stricken reglons of the con- tnent two years ago. China will be out 5t favor with the globe-trotters for some Uttle time to come. Omaha is not to be behind the other elties which are exposing corruption and incom- petency In their police departments and are taking steps to maintain . the discipline of thelr men. It Is Omaha's privilege to set 8 wholesome example by making the purging process complete and unrelenting. " The only complaint against that $100,000 in salaries still being drawn by republicans in New York Is that it is so much withheld from democrats who are anxious to serve thelr country. The republicans earn every cent that they get; but, then, just look at the number of democrats out of a job. Senator Vest announces that finance committee has agreed to amend- ments exempting fraternal and benevolent organizations from the operation of the pro- posed income tax. Now just heed some of the other protests that have been for- warded to Washington from all parts of the country and cut off the income tax append- age altogether, the senate The injunction proceedings to head off the raid of Hascall's acting city electriclan upon the eity treasury were instituted in the finterests of good government and not of any particular candidate for the office of city electrician. The injunction declares Hascall's appolntment to be without shadow of muthorlty, It permits the council to legislate the electrician out of office, but it forbids it to attempt to legislate its own nominee into office. Governor Crounse very neatly took the wind out of the salls of an Iowa professor who ventured to turn his address before the graduating class of the State university into a lamentation on the degeneracy of the times and the corruption of the govern- ment. The governor emphasized his. bellet that the country Is not wholly bad and tot- tering on the verge of destruction, that our courts are vesspools of corruption and founts of anarchy. He was certaln that no other country offered greater Inducements to its young. The lowa professor has not yet been heard from in reply. Perhaps after & few months time for incubation he may bo able to attempt & new defense of bis pes- simistic view of the future. | has A CANDID ADMISSION. It the Investigation of the sugar schedule scandal shall establish no other fact than that elleited from Mr. Havemeyer of the | Sugar trust, that the purpose of the forma- tion of the trust was to increase the cost of sugar to American consumers, it will not be a frultless Investigation. It s true that this candid admission of the sugar monop- oly magnate cannot be regarded as in the nature of a revelation. The experience of the American people has taught them what { the purpose of the Sugar trust is, and they Kknow from the enormous profits of that ra- pacious combination how well that purpose been carried out. But none the less the deliberate acknowledgment of the prime object of the monopoly by one who s fully authorized by virtue of his relations to It to speak for it Is Interesting and fmportant. It justifies all that has been said in denunci- ation of this grasping combination ana should intensify popular hostility to the proposed legislation, which would enable it to still further swell its gains and exact a larger tributo from the Amcrican con- sumers of sugar. This formidable monopoly has been most caroful to keep its operations from public knowledge. It refused to furnish any in- formation to the census bureau. It makes no public statements of its business. It acknowledges no authority, national or state, to inquire into its affairs, It s a law unto jtself. In the absence of accurate informa- tion it has been estimated that the annual amounts to $20,000,000. by Mr. Havemeyer to the senate investigating committee fully Justifies this estimate, and Indeed it is prob- that the profit Is even more than this. The annual consumption of sugar in this country exceeds 4,000,000,000 How much of this the trust handles is not known, but it markets by far the greater part. Havemoyer says the profit of the monopoly is three-cighths of a cent a pound, and that this s In excess of what consumers would have to pay if there was competition. The obvious Inference is that this is an absolute tribute which the trust exacts {rom the con- sumers of sugar, and if that be the case it doubtless amounts to considerably more than $20,000,000. At any rate this greedy and corrupting monopoly, which has its grasp upon public men and whose principal officials do not hesitate to admit the free use of money in politics, 1s taking annually from the people of this country in excess of a legitimate profit an amount equal to its actual capital. Yet it is not satisfied, and a democratic senate has voted to allow it to increase Its gains. The sugar schedule adopted by that body will, if it becomes law, increase the cost of sugar to the consumer ono cent a pound and enable the trust to add to its present exaction sufficient to in. crease Its profit by several millions of dol- lars annually. And this is not all. The proposed new duties are not to go into effect until January 1, 1895. This will allow the trust to bring In all of this year's crop free of duty and to sell it mext year at the ad- vanced price. This would give the monopoly perhaps $50,000,000, certainly the most mu- nificent gitt ever oftered by any government in the world’s history to a private enter- prise. The national treasury needs this money, but a democratic senate proposes to allow the Sugar trust to take it from the people without having to pay a dollar for tho privilege. Mr. Havemeyer boldly declares that “any. thing that will wipe out the trust will wipe out the industry.” The head of the sugar refining monapoly may belleve this and he may be able to convince some democratic senators of it, but there was sugar refining before the trust and there would continus to be if that combination .were destroyed, though a few men could not add millions to their wealth every year by plundering the people. The testimony of Havemeyer shows the Sugar trust to be an oppressive and a dangerous combination, and should impress upon congress the urgent duty of depriving it of the means of perpetuating Its exactions and increasing its power. AN UNEXPECTED PROTEST. The proposed abrogation of the reciprocity agreements between the United: States and countries of South and Central America ap- pears likely not to prove acceptable to all the countries interested. The State depart- ment has received from the government of Guatemala written protest against the pro- yisions In the sugar schedule of the pending tarift bill that continue in existence the reciprocity treaty with Hawall while abro- gating the reciprocity arrangements entered into under the McKinley act, and it is thought in Washington that this protest is the forerunner of others that will come from the other southern countries with which these trade agreements were made by the Harrison admini:tration. It is said In regard to the portion of the pending bill relating to reciprocity that there {s a mystery as to the motives that'led to the adoption of the language in the measure as it now staads. In the first of the several cditions of the tarifft bill that have come from the senate finance committee there was a provision absolutely abrogating the Hawallan reclprocity treaty and the lan- guage regarding the o-called McKinley treatles was £0 ambiguous as to lead to a controversy as to whether the bill abrogated them or continued them in force, In the subsequent editions of the bill the language was changed 50 that provision was made in express and unmistakable terms for the con- tinuance in force of the Hawailan treaty and the abrogation of the others. This reversal of the original proposition has not been ex- plained, but it Is surmised that the first pro- vision, which included the abrogation of the treaty with Hawall, was framed fn accord- ance with the suggestion of Secretary Gres- ham, who It 15 sald agrees with the claim set forth in the protest of the Guatemalan gov- ernment, and it is al:o stated to be a fact that the State department would be quite willing now to mpress its views upon those in charge of the tariff bill and have it again amended 50 as to provide for the abrogation of the Hawalian treaty and put all countries on the same footing, thus avoiding the charge of unfair discrimination made by the Hawallan government. It is hardly proba- ble, however, that the State department will make any effort In this direction, In view of the perplexities to which democratic mem-~ bers of the senite finance committee have already been subjected. There is a simple and easy remedy, should it appear that the proposed legislation 1s objectionable to the countries with which we have reclprocity ar- rapgements, and that is to eliminate from the bill the provisions relating to reciprocity and allow that policy to stand, The example of Guatemala may not be fol- lowed by any other country with which the United States hus reciprocity, but it 1s not dificult to belleve that some of these coun- tries, it not all of them, would regard the abrogation of these agreements with some degree of dissatisfaction, and certainly none of them could feel that such legislation w in harmony with the professed desire of this country to cultivate more lntimate commer- clal relations with them. So far as the Ha. net profit of the trust The statement made abl pounds. rmm} wallan troaty 1s concerned, 1t Is of a differ- ent characte from the agreements we have with Guatemals and other American reel- proeity countries, but, after all, we are per- haps as much bound in good faith to observe the latter as the former. We Invited these countries to enter into these agreements with us on the score of mutual interest, and there was an {mplied assurance that we would ad- here to this policy. The acceptance of the invitation involved radieal changes in the flscal policies of these countries. Our abro- gation of the reciprocity agreements will nec- essarily, therefore, compel the countries with which we have them to again revise their revenue systems, and it need hardly be said that this will not tend to make them feel more friendly toward the United States or to strengthen thelr confidence in the wisdom of American statesmanship or In the pro- fessed solicitude of the American people for a closer Intimacy between this republic and the Independent nations of this hemisphere. They will not soon agaln be disposed to give attention to any efforts on our part to estab- lish between the United States and other American countries more Intimate commer- cial relations, NO MORE USURPATION. The permanent Injunction granted by Judge Walton against the payment of the salary ot Acting City Electriclan Rheem will it 1s to be hoped put a quietus upon further attempts on the part of the council to usurp functions belonging exclusively to the mayor. Whatever has been said or done In this con- nection has not been inspired by any fll- will toward Mr. Rheem ay a citi- zen or electriclan, but from the sole desire to vindicate the law and prevent the council from usurping prerogatives that do not belong to it. The high-handed methods pursued by Mr. Wiley to depose an officer who had proved falthful to his charge were reprehensible, but the law left no remedy to the people against the action of Mr. Wiley's henchmen In abolishing the office. They have that power unquestianably, even when it is exercised against the public in- terest. But when they attempted to go one step further and sought to fill the vacancy by the appointment of a man of their own cholce the council overstepped the boundary fixed by the charter and virtually deposed the mayor himself. Had this revolutionary action been allowed to go unchallenged the council could and doubtless would have vacated every office created by ordinance and after filling the vacancles with its own creatures it could have kept its appointees in office for the balance of the mayor's term by simply refusing to confirm any appointments he might make. This wsa the natural sequence of Hascall's act- ing city electriclan business. The principles involved in this controversy £0 down to the ‘very bedrock of the fabric of governmnent which in every Instance, whether national, state or municipal, d=vclve upon three separate co-ordinate branches— legislative, executive and judicial. As the legislative branch the council can make laws and override the vetoes of the mayor, but it cannot take away from him the appoint- ing .power either directly or by indirect methods. That is fundamental and nobody knows this principle better than Mr. Has- call. Had the conditions been reversed and had he been mayor he would have de- nounced the usurpation in unmeasured terms. His demands for a rehearing are as cheeky as the attempt to appeal from Judge Wal- ton's decision would be preposterous. A WHOLESOME EXAMPLE. The pollce commiséion has at last taken decisive action for the reorganization of the police force. The summary dismissal of fifteen officers and patrolmen cannot fail to have a salutary effect upon the entire force. For more than a year the force has been demoralized and torn up by internal dissen- slons and personal fouds. Its efficlency and discipline had been seriously impaired and the whole body had become infected with a spirlt of insubordination. It had become absolutely necessary to either disband the force or reorganize by dismissing the fomenters of turbulence and the men who had proved themselves to be unfit and un- trustworthy for the guardianship of law and order and protection of property. In cutting the Gordion knot the commis- slon has endeavored, so far as we can learn, to be impartial and prevent if possible the imputation that it has taken sides with either the American Protective association or Romanist faction. In doing this they have struck the most effective blow at fac- tionism in the police department. The com- mission by its action has served notice upon the rank and file that every man Is expected to do his full duty and that malcontents and factionists can have no place on the force. The example made by the commission can- not but have a salutary effect. It will re- store discipline and improve efficiency in the department and it will moreover restore popular respect and confidence in the men who wear the star. The police of every great city should be a moral force. Their conduct should inspire respect for and obedience to law, and that can only exist where the police force is made up of men of good character, sobriety and strict Integrity—men who have the moral as well as physical stamina to do their duty impartially, The work of weeding out agitators and black sheep s of course as yet incomplete, but a good beginning has been made. There may, for all we know, be injustice in some of these dismissals, but the board doubtless has acted upon information which is not within the reach of the public or the news- paper: STEEL WAREHOUSES FOR GRAIN. A syndicate of capitalists is negotiating with the Chicago Board of Trade for assur- ances of concessions which will justify it in undertaking the construction of a system of large grain warehouses upon an entirely movel plan. The Chicago board has for some time been encountering difficulties with the different warehouse men with regard to the storage business recognized in speculative transactions on the Board of Trade. The promoters of the new enterprise propose to step Into the breach on condition that they are given control of this part of the busi- ness. The chlef fnaovation of the new system of warchouses is that the elevators are to be constructed entirely of steel, and to be equipped with the latest and most approved appliances for the handling of grain. Ac- cording to one of the western representa- tives of the syndicate a sallent point s to be what is known as the cyelone principle of moving grain in tubes or pipes with a cen- tripetal motion. It Is thereby kept from con- tact with the surface of the eonduits, thus belng preserved from injury by abrasion in transit. The process is also sald to offer great advantages in the way of airing, cool- ing and drying grain in a body without its actual transter as in existing wooden ele- vators. The blus belng of iron or steel of course roduce the necessary Insurance to & minimum, no small saving In itself. The new system of moviug the grain is likewise much less expensive than that now gen- erally in use and promises a material de- creasa in the tolls”thilfged for handling and storage. ' The syndicate which has eharged itself with the iIntrodwitidn of these Improved warchouses has .a_v‘-x».? of the larger grain centers in view Toeations, and it is only a quoestion whether the concesstons of the Chi- cago Board of Trath ‘wilk induce it to com- menee its work Ih thitt city or elsewhere. It the system shoulf, after practical experi- ment, glve substantfally the results that are claimed for it, it &5ild not be confined long to any one city. Tt whuld rapidly spread to other places, supplanting the wooden ele- vators and reduging’ warehouse charges throughout the whole country. The ‘steel grain warehonse may bo a long step toward the solution of the much vexed problem of grain storage and storage rates. 1t the last story told by Payne, the negro accused of murdering Maud Rubel, is true and can be verified, it places the confossed murderer in a position where he can expect little clemency from either judge or jury. The law must take its course in this case as in all others, but its administration should be speedy and certain. A prompt trlal and convicticn, 1t the facts warrant a convie- tion, will do much to restrain other wrong- doers, while unnecessary delay and dilatory proceedings must necessarily have just the opposite effect. Payne has proved himself to be accomplished liar, whatever his connection with the Rubel murder may be. an Watch for the relies of Jeffersonian democracy picked up at Monticello for the erpiress purpose of incorporation into Bryan's forthcoming effort at the free silver demo- cratic conference. 1If he is not able to prove that Thomas Jefferson was in favor of the free coinage of silver at the present ratlo of 16 to 1 his pilgrimage to the shrine of the great father of democracy will have been n vain. If Jefferson had only had the privilege of listening to one of Bryan's speeches he would unquestionably have been for free silver whether it compelled him to fuse or to turn populist or to start a little democratic party all for himself. ‘The free silver democrats seem to be wor- ried more than any one else over the failure of the alleged free silver republican pe- tition to materialize. There is time yet. The long lost petition may be uncovered in time for presentation to the conference of free silver democrats in Omaha next week. Republican Duty. Globe-Democrat. The first duty of the republicans this year is to maké the best possible nomina- tlons, and take no chances of winning with weak and unpopular candidates, 2 pg—— Useful Work for the Senate. Washington Star, If the senate keeps on with fts periodical investigation of newspapers it may reach a point where it can gracefully relinquish its present ostensible duties and establish that much discussed possibility in educa~ tion, the collcge of fournalism. e e Contagion of Disgust. Philaddiphia Record. democratic sehators who absent Ives from the senate and paralyze the effort of the party to push necessary legislation are finding thousands of imi- tators among disgusted democratic voters who stay away from the polls and let elec- tions go by defamit. ! oot Populism on the Wane, Philadelphia Inquirer, Official returns ‘from!seventeen of the In- diana cities in which eclections were re- cently held show that neither the popu- lists nor the prohibitionists were apprecia- ble factors in theé fizht. The voters took every chance to prove that they are not now"in sympathy:with third parties. The tariff and honest money are the chief issues of the time. They -are represented in the two old parties, -and the Indiana voters alized the fact. Battleground of '96. Buffalo Express. The vopulist claim now s that If the party has the right kind of a candidate in 189 ‘It can_carry these republican_states: Kansas, ~Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming and the two Dakotas. All these ‘states taken together have but forty votes in the electoral college, which is only four more than New Yoric alone has. Taking the populists at their own estimate of themselves, it I3 clear that the battle of 1895 will be fought In the east and not in the west. e Yunishment of a Crooked Promoter. Kansas City Times, g George W. McDonald, president of a guarantee investment company, one of the many companles that were doing business in this state two years ago, was sentenced to pay a fine of §1,000 and to serve eleven months in jail by the lower courts, which decision, was upheld by the United States court of app Mr.” McDonald talks of asking a pardon of the national executive, and President Cleveland may have a chance to pass upon the merlts or demerits of the multiple bond system. — Sugar Steal Record. Chicago Tribune, The Indlanapolis News (ind.), referring to the senate's action with regard to the sugar schedule, says: “The sad truth about the whole business is that it has been demonstrated that, no matter which party is in control of congress, the trusts and monopolies have more Influence with the statesmen than have the hard-working, t'supporting people of ~the | United States.” But In the sugar schedule the democrats alone, with the exception of Quay, are the zuilty ones. All the repub- licans voted against the steal except one mangy cur. e Prospective Land Grab. Chicago Tribune. The redoubtable Muley Hassan, sultan of Morocco, I8 dead, assassinated by his own son's friends, as report has it, but that is a matter of little consequence. * It is more to the point the complications that may ensue. It is intimated that France now may see to obtain control of Morocco, either by an- nexation or through the agency of some of the native princes, and thus recoup he self for the rather uniceremonius manner in Which she has been elbowed out of her share of territory in the Anglo-Belglan di- vision of the Congo Free State. What harm would 1t do if France were to take Morocco, so long as England has posses- sion of Egypt and controls the Mediterra- nean at Gibraltar? There Is no hope for Africa except by division among the Iuro- pean powers, and France should not be begrudged control of Morocco, which s of no use to England. Jer Tl Possibllities of the Boycott, Chicago Post, It takes @ brewer to understand the pos- sibilities of a boycott. He is the man who can swing a_double-edged sword 8o that it will cut only one Wuy. He can slash around with it i &) most ‘startling way Without danger to -imself. Employes of the Krug and the;maha Brewing associ- ation breweries of Omaha have declared a boycott against the beer made by those companies. That i ftself is not extraor- Qinary, for a very mediocre union can dec a boycolty it:1s a wise and fa Seeing one, however,’ that knows enough to exempt itself from the provisions of its own decisions. THe Omaha men are wise and far-seeing. They reserve to them- Selves the right to.drink the beer they have boycotted. :?Iéy declare that others must not and shafl ngt drink it, but they can'and will cax fong us it 18 firnished to them free. And WHeh it fsn’t they will strike. Great 1s the boycott! Its beauties are only beginning be understood, With Sudiclous exemptions-grom its operations it Ccan be made both euoyable and harmless, gl b has s il JU ‘ NERHASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Corp In most localities fn Dawson county is looking well, notwithstanding the lack of raln. The Gage County Toeachers' institute meets In Beatrice June 18 for a session of several days. The Chappell Reglister advises the farmers of Deuel county to put down artesian wells for irrigation purposes. The young men of Chapman have organ- fed a literary assoclation for holding debates and general Improvement. The Salem Chautauqua, which was to have been held July 22 to 20, has been postponed and will probably be heid August 6 to 12, Four of the horses that started in the 100- mile cowboy race from Chadron, Neb., hav died from the effects of the usage received. The Fullerton Driving association an- nounces an extended program for the 3d and 4th of July, with purses amounting to $900, Tho late 1alns have given wheat in John- son county a new start and prospects now are that the crop will be almost, if not quite, equal to that harvested last year. Hall county farmers report crops doing ex- cellently since the late rains and are confl- dent that in spite of the long dry spell they will harvest a good crop of late oats and wheat, and corn, they say, never looked bet- ter. It is getting to be quite the ““fad” for Fre- mont wheelmen to ride into Omaha, a dis- tance of thirty-eight miles, in the mornin on their wheels, which they do in about two Hours, and return fn the evening on the fast mail. An frrigating ditch will be constructed at Oxford. A preliminary survey has proved conclusively that the ditch can be built cheaply and made a complete success. Farm ers along the route surveyed are enthu- siastic over the prospocts. Five boys at Rising the other day made a cannon of a gas pipe, and, after four suc- cossful shoots, on the fifth venture with the “machine” it exploded, and four of the boys tasted powder, one being so disabled that he will have to remain in bed for a while, A Crawford belle, Miss Mamie Grimes, through her presence of mind, prevented a serious fire one day last week. Children had overturned a lamp and rushed out crying “fire," when Miss Grimes ran Into the house and with a bucket of water extinguished the flames, The ed'tor of the Ravenna News claims to have added the art of producing rain to his long category of accomplishments. He mot by appointment at Grand Island E. F. Mur- phy of Goodland, Kan., who unfolded to the editor of the Nows a scheme wherehy rain can be produced or money refunded. The News man promises to put his newly ac- quired accomplishment to the test at anearly day. Mr. C. W. Wilson, who has a system of irrigation in operation upon some forty acres of his farm near Ayr, pronounces his propo- sition a success, and is jubilant over the prospects opened up for him by artificial means . of supplying the necessary molsture to the crops upon his land. Other farmers are interested, and doubtless within a few years the lands along the Blue river will equal the famous valley of the Nile in pro- ductiveness. W. H. Williams, a Schuyler policeman, re- cently received the official notice from lead- quarters at Washington that a medal is now being engraved suitably and will be for- warded soon. The award is to William H. Williams, private, company C, Eighty-second Ohio volunteers, for most distinguished gal- lantry at the battle of Peach Tree creek, Georgia, July 20, 1860, when he volunteered to go to the front of the line as sentinel and thus took his life in his hands. : Tho Oh'o Platform. Chicago Tribune, One of the planks of the platform adopted by \the Ohio " republican "convention last week reads as follows: “We favor bimetaliism. Silver as well as gold is one of the great products of the United States. Its coinage and use as a circulating medium should be steadily main- tained and constantly encouraged by the national government, and we advocate such a policy as will by’ discriminating legisla- tion or otherwise most speedily restore to silver its rightful place as u_money metal.” What does this mean v were such vague and ncbulous declarations as thes put forth, which every congressional c didate will be called on by the voters to interpret, and which each one may inter- pret diffcrently. The convention should not have huddled together some conundrums and called them a platform. The coinage and use of silver m maintained and_encouraged.” More is to be coined, then. But if o, how much more, and on what terms? Is the coin: to be free at the ratio of 16 to 17 Or is it to be limited and some other ratio adopted? If freely coined, how is the gold parity to be preserved? The republicans in congress voted with substantial unanimity not to buy any more silver for fear lest the parity could not be preserved except by large sales of bonds for gold. Do the Ohlo republicans repudiate the course of those congressmen? Or have they found some way of using unlimited silver without endangering the parity? If so, what Is it? Why is it not explained in the platform or in a circular address? The platform says that “the use of silver as a_circulating medium should be con- stantly encouraged by the natlonal govern- ment.” In what way? The convention suggested no method nor amount. 1y the general government every time it pays a creditor to force him to take silver instead of gold? Nothing cotild discredit silver more quickly. Are the public creditors who loaned to be compelled to accept silver on the 16 to 1 ratio? What s this “discriminating legislation” which is spoken of in the platform? Who or what Is to be “discriminated” against, and when or how? Is it intended o coin a large number of siiver dollars which are worth intrinsically only 48 cents and then “discriminate’” against pensioners and creditors by making them a legal tender after failing to Keep them at a parity with gold, so that their purchasing power will be less than half thelr face? 1f more 50 per cent silver is to be used as 10-cent dollars it will be necessary to have a larger stock of gold in the national treasury to preserve the parity of the etals as money. To get that gold it il be necessary to sell bonds. By “dis- ninating legislation” did the Ohlo repu convention mean bond-issuing legis Did they mean that the govern- ment should have the option to redeem n gold or silver, or that a creditor of the Eovernment should have the option? The Ohio republican convention said the want silver restored to its “rightrul place What _Is its_“rightful plac We have over $600,0M,000 of it circulating at par with gold. Is not that its rightful plac They want it restored by “discriminating legislation or otherwise.” “Restored —to at or how? There is & vaguencss about t “otherwise” which is discouraging to I people. It leaves so much room for conjecture. It carries the impression that tricky office seekers formulated the silver plank of the Ohio republicans for the express purpose of deception. All that can be got out of this machine made platform s that iis framers are in favor of doing something “for silver” which they cannot or dare not openly avow aln. What I8 to be done or how it {8 to be done is not explained. Rach can- didate 1s at liberty to say what he pleases on the subject, and who can gainsay him? Was that the object of the platform makers? WY was such a boneless, bloodless, flesh- &host as this put forth in the name and behalf of the great Buckeye state in- Stead of a plain, intelligible declaration of sound money principle It is not cus- tomary for Ohlo republican politicians to hide their thoughts in a fog of words. They seem just now to be trying to catch votes by vague and deceptive phraseology rather than to announce principles. They seem to be flshing for popullst suffrazcs by adopting a platform which may “be twisted to_ endorsing free colnage and: a slump to cheap moncy. This weak duplicity never wins respect of honest minds. Now I8 the time for re- pubMcans to speak out more boldly ana flearly than ever before, mot to palter and equivocate, This Ohio platform will plague its inventors before the campalgn is over. It will make the party candidates apolo- glsts and explainers, disagreeing among themselves as to where thelr party stands on ' vital issue. Cowardly frimmers framed the money plank of the Ohio plat- form. erl Hean lation? Highest of all in Leavening Pows ol er.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE AND THI The coal strike promises to rival Colonel Bill Dalton in the number of premature obituario Germany and Austria support 150 cooking schools without materially swelling the mor tality tables, Muley Hassan is said to have had wives. Why seek further for the caus sudden death? Lawyers are increasing at the rate of 400 a year in Chicago. The difficulties menacing Justice are increasing in proportion Colonel Breckinridge's frequent apostrophes to his superhtive goodness serve to explain his determination to abstain from participa tion In the movement caleulated to kill off his competitors. A legislative candidate in Georgia expects his canvass to bo hulped forward Ly the ac quaintances he made while runniag a Lotel elevator. He expects, no doubt, that the many to whom he gave a lift wiil now give him one. TS, Mary Lease will attempt to ride into cengress astride the populist and prohibition parties of Kansas, 1f the Kansas eyclone attempts to score in the race the average eircus eannot hope to compete for busincss In the state, One of the arguments advanced fn support of church taxation in New York fs that property valued at $55,000,000 contributes nothing to the support of the government, Hetty Green has $60,000,000, and all but $40,000 eludes the taxgatherer, Prof. Ohmar Watt, the eminent expert of Saddle Creek, spurns the offer of the bearded 2,000 of lady of the council museum to assist in his | electrolysis investigation, The professor WIIL corral the subtle wrecker of pipe lines alone or perish In the attempt. Count Mitklenwicz has made a venture into the matrimonial sea, his partner being Miss Kthel Sewall of Melvale, Md. The count s a brilliant financial crook, a daz- zling promoter of emes with millions to Bot His former ventures collapsed, but the present one promises a medsure of success and soclal dash while the bride's cash holds out. Chlcago s trying to recover $2,1 from the railroads entering the city for dam- akes to property caused by the erection of aducts over the tracks. The pernicious activity of reformers is truly discouraging. Think of the audacity of a city seeking to enforce its rights against the corporations Of course It must be stamped out and the impertinent authors consigned to political oblivion. Dr. Everett, the scholarly congressman from Massachusetts, has a crony in the per- £on of Representative Geissenhainer of New Jersey. The Jerseyman smokes from morn- Ing until night, the doctor never smokes, the corngressman from the mosquito state likes to study fmmigrants and abhors civil sery- fce reform, while the doctor abhors the first and loves the second, and all along the line the tastes of the two cronies are almost exactly opposite, Eugene Field says that when Yates was In this country he wrote count of a presidential New York Herald. Seated at a table, he as asked what he wanted. He answered, A bottle of brandy and a few facts.” That was the old way. All Is changed now. Time was when a man was deemed disqualified for journalism by temperance and morality. To be regarded as an ideal reporter or a meritorious editor one had to get drunk reg- ularly and owe his grocer and his tailor. The late unlamented sultan of Morocco had a peeuliarly effective way of collecting his income tax. No inquisitive inspectors harassed the man of means. He usually re- ceived a polite invitation to dine with the potentate, and while masticating sugar coated pellets of paris green or some other equally effective soul propeller, the royal squad swooped down on his wad and tran ferred it to Muley's treasury. Meanwhile the interlor renovator had rendered the vic- tim incapable of registering a kick on earth. S i A Stab at the Heart. Philadelphia Record (dem.). In place of the tariff for revenue upon which “the “democratic party carried the elections of 1892 it is proposed to substitute a new edition of the Alc pleniented with a_fede: from the time of Je hour has the democ denounce a feder: an ac- Inauguration for the on_to the pres party failed to income tax as mis- vous _and _unconstitutional. This in- come tax provision in the pending tarift Dbill has been foisted upon the democratic party in contemptuous defiance of its plat- form and In violation of its principles. A party must be possessed of tremendous vi- tality If it can survive such a blow at the very heart of Its organization. HE W. Atlanta Constitution. From early in the mornin’ till closed late at night, The way they whooped his 'lection was a hallelujah sight; It was a reg'lar love feast, not one dissent- ing voice, An’' he went fer the people to the senate as their cholce. the polls They knowed he was the feller to keep things pure an' straight, Up there where folks is learnin’ how to fely speculat. They had a glorious layout when they Sfound they’'d won the day, An’ he went fer the people 'to the cap'tal far away. But when the term was over an' he his little stuff, hed Hid inside his pocket, an' was ready now to bluff, The people who had 'lected him—the chance . for bluft was slim, For he went once fer the people, but now they went fer him. bt £t 42 Sults, been selling at $10.00, now ] 94 Sults, boen selling at $12.50, now 6 Suits, been solling ut #13.50, now 79 Sults, been selling at $15.00, now 84 Sults, been selling at #18,00, now 28 Bults, boon selling at $20.00, now 8 Sults, been selling at $22.60, now 11 Bults, been solling at$25.00, now the store. of a kind, sometimes more. them before inventory—take your size at half price. 10.00 11.25 12.50 4 Suits, been selllng at $28.00, now 14-00 346 Suits at exactly half price Saturdauy. See them in the window and on front tables in CONORESASMAN GROSPENOR. Inspects the Site of Proposed Kiver Tme provements Ta ks Politle Congressman Grosvenor of Ohlo was yestor- day the guest of B. H. Robison, chalrman of the congressional committes of this district, and of Richard Smith, by whom he was ace companied on a carrlage drive around the clty, As a member of the house com mittee on rivers and harbors he was inters ested In the effort that Congressman Mercey I8 making t secure an $80,000 appropria. tlon for the protection of the river banks north of the city from further cutting away and a consequent change of channel through Florence lake. In order to more thoroughl look over the ground, he visited tho oth slde of the river and familiarized himselt With the general lay of the land, besides visiting the engineer’s office to get the neo- eswary plats and charts showing the past and present courses of the river. He exprossed himself as unfavorably disposed toward the policy that ‘fs belng pursued by the Missourd river commission, which is to begin at the mouth of the river and complete the work upward as {t goes along. He thought that 1t would be a wiser and altogether more sate Isfactory expenditure of the money It it was used at once at the points where most needed. He said he was fn favor of having the necessary work done here to afford the needed protection, and ssist the con- gressman from the Second Nebraska dis- trict in securing the requisite appropriation. In speaking of the strike in the Hocking valley, the general said that he was in sym- pathy with tho mincrs and had been from the start, although he did not agree with the plan of burning bridges and committing other outrages, such as had:been followed by some of the strikers. He was satisfled that after elght weeks of turnmoil the strike Was now over, but it would be some time bes fore the opposition ceased. An agreement had been reached between the miners and the mine operators by which a compromise rate of 60 cents per ton had been upon instead of the cut from 70 to 50 and both sides had signed it, but it would be some little time before the opposition o the more radical strikers would be silenced, The strike had thrown about 125,000 men out of employment, and as they were largely of a somewhat improvident class, spending all of their wages, the situation had been a seriaus one for them. That was now a thing of the past, while the strike had also brought about a change in favor of the more advantageous marketing of Ohlo coal. It had forced the O cents lncrease in Pennsyl- vania, which was contended for in behalt ot Ohio operators, and he regarded it as very much of a victory. General Grosvenor pald a handsome tribute to the worth and ability of the Nebraska re- publicans in congress, and expressed a san- guine hope of their return. While crossing the bridge he did a little advertising in a quiet way for one of his colleagues from his own state. He saw a sign bearing the in- scripiion, ““White's Yucatan Gum,” and promptly called attention to it. ‘““That man White sits at my left elbow in the house. He s a millionaire, having made his money from that gum( and does not care whether school keeps or not. He Is from Cleveland, but has now started for a trip on the Bu- ropean continent. Ho has been in congress but one term, and that is enough for him, according to his own statement, for he is not a candidate for re-election.” General Grosvenor left at 4:15 in the after- noon over the Burlington for home. —_———— AGITATION OF THE JOLLY FANS, Pittsburg Chronicle: Hiland—What a nul- nce that egotist Spudkins 1s. Halket— Right you are. He's a regular “1" sore. Tid-Bits: Said an Irishman the other day to a friend rrah, where will you find the modern building’ that has lasted as long as the ould wans?" will Atchison Globe: The woman with & Norse and buggy never acts quite as her neighbors would like to have her. Harper's Bazar: “How was it that Per- kins didn't get his degree at college this year?’ “You don’t suppose the faculty is Boing to let a fine foot ball player like Perkins graduate, do you?" Philadelphia Record: *“I saw your name in print the other day,” said one man to another who was very fond of mnotorlety. “Where?" asked the other, In pleased ex- citement. “In the directory."” New York Press: h has a great gift of gab. o talks, talks from morning t What a’ pugilist he would maki New York Weekly: , M; the parlor wants to see De Avnoo—A gentleman? ma’am, he's a real gentleman. me under the chin ma'am. at boy of yours “He has “that, night.® d--Gentleman In o ma'am. " Mrs. Maid—Oh, yes He chucked Yonkers Statesman: Bacon—They say irew's mind is all gone. Igbert—I'm urprised. She used {0 glve her hus- band a plece of 1t every day. Washington_Star: thing about 'Scraps from the Opera, the young woman who plays the p! “No," Teplied the mew clerk. 1 dfdn’e know” the " prima." donnas had _quarreled again.'" “Do you know, any- THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK. Indlanapolis Journal, Flowers all a bloomin’, Song birds in the sky, Real estate a_boomin’, In the by-an'-by. Trade is like er critter, Balkin' jes fur fun, But when oncet you kit ‘er Goes it on a run. Clouds hev siiver linin', Sunset brings the Fnhl; Life'll soon be shinin’, Bz it did of old. T & bR EATAS BTN E S SE A k+x |.;‘ckr;<.x Broken Sizes at Half PriCe ——em 346 Suits, in size 33 to 44-—-sometimes one size We must get rid of 5.00 6.25 6.75 7.560 9.00 51 Boys' 2-Ploce Suits $1.00 SATURDAY (6 to 14 years) Light colorod. worth Browning, King & Co., S. W. Corner 15th and Douglas