Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 23, 1894, Page 4

—_— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JUNE_23. 1801, THEOMAHA DA TLY BEE B. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORN TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year Dafly Bee and Sunday, One Year.. Bix Months . Three Months Bonday Tee, On Baturday o, On Weekly Bee, Ono ¥ OF Dullding. rner N and Twenty-fourth Sts. 12 Pearl street N7 Chamber of joma 17, 14 and 13, 7 F street, N, W CORRESPONDENCE. ANl communieations relating to news torlal matter should be nddressed: To th BUSINESS rERE. business e pittances should be wed to The Fee Publishing com Drafta, chocks and postoffice or o the order of 1 EE PUBLISHING COMPAN = e “ommeree Tribune BlAg. Washington, A Qeorge B, Taschuck, seeret hing company, being duly » number ‘of full _and_co nily Morning, Kvening printed during the month of May, follows: nd Sunday 1894, was 2,200 1 22,718 18 46 198 1% Zonannanna al motd Sieivi s verage net circulation. GEORGE R. TZSCHUCK. Eworn 10 before me and subscribed in my pres- ence this 24 day une, 1% Benl.) P. FEIL, Notary Public. All that glitters is not gold and glib silver-tongued oratory does not pan out when put to the agua fortis test of stubborn facts. For the information of inquisitive readera we desire to state that the docking rule will not be applied to Secrctary Morton during his contemplated trip to Burope. The oldest member of the new French cabinet is only 42 years of age. In France they change ministrics 8o often that the line of promotion is not barred in the face of young men. If Mr. Bryan had lived in Holland during the tulip eraze of the last century he would have been a firm believer in the incalculable value of the Dutch flower that was regarded in those days as worth more than its welght in precious stones. Senator Peffer expresses his preference for a graduated land tax to a graduated income tax. The people’s party national platform, however, says nothing about a graduated land tax. Peffer is getting ahead of his party altogether too rapidly. Cernuschi, the eminent French financier, says the ratio must be the old ratio of 15% 10 1; the free silverites insist upon 16 to 1; the law of supply and demand on the mar. ket makes it hover about 23 to 1. Thus far the law of supply and demand seems to have the best of the controversy. Federal office holders in Nebraska will feel relieved on being informed of the groundlessness of the rumor that the civil service commission intended to dismiss all government employes who attended political conventions. If the federal office holders could not participate in the democratic state convention the convention might as well have been turned over to the free silver faction in advance. The administration cannot be so blind to its own interests. ‘We were confident that the free silver democrats were to have the benefit of the inspiration drawn from Monticello during Bryan’s recent pilgrimage to the shrine ot Thomas Jefferson, and we are glad that we were not disappointed. Poor Jefferson has had to stand as authority for numerous political heresies since he passed away on that memorable Fourth of July, and his seryice in this capacity s not yet at an end. The shade of the apostle of democracy must be having a difficult time while being called upon to father so many opposing doctrines, John A. McShane was not visible or audible among the 16 to 1 free silver spouters and shouters. McShane has large interests in a Mexican silver mine, but he does not find it profitable to have his silver converted into coin in the Mexican mint, where everybody may have his silver coined into Mexican dollars at the mere cost of minting. McShane has found out long ago that free colnage does not add one penny to the sellling price of his silver product. But young Mr. Bryan knows so much better than McShane or anybody else who has practical experience with _silver coinage fallacies. 5 Senator Teller was laboring under a mis- apprehension of the facts when he stated on the floor of the senate that no one ever ad- vocated an income tax as a means for the redistribution of wealth. There is an influ- ential sghool of German economists, led by the celebrated Prof. Wagner of the Univer- sity of Berlin, who favor a progressive in- come tax for the speelal purpose of correct- ing the inequalities that now exist in the distribution of wealth. Wagner would not confine this object to income taxation, but would extend, it to all forms of taxation so as to exempt the poorer classes and impose the burdens of government exclusively on the richer classes. Some of the avowed social- iats go even: further and accept the progres- sive income tax as a step toward socialism. Senator Teller should not be so ready to cor- rect statements of his fellow senators until he has fnformed himself on the subject. The latest amendments to the city elec- triclan ordinance provide that all companies, firms and corporations dolng wiring shall procure a license from the city elerk upon payment of $6 and passing an examination. The examination is to be conducted by a board consisting of the city el ctriclan, super- intendent of the city fire and police alarm and the city gas inspector. What an ex- amination by a board so constituted will be worth s one of the mysteries which the ordinance does not venture to explain. The present city gas Inspector disclaims any technical knowledge of electrical matters whatever. The ~present acting city ele triclan s a good telegraph operator, but has mo experlence as an electriclan. The super- Intendent of the city fire and police alarm may know how to string wires in open air, but his experience with Interlor wiring Is extremely limited. How the board is to exausne the companies, firms and corpora- tions {s not very clear to the naked eye. All' that 1s now necessary to insure the success of the examining board is to add to its membership Wiley, Hascall and Wheeler. | one first ANTI-OPTION BILL, PASSED THE HOUSE. The anti-option bill passed the house yes- terday by a vote of 150 to 36. This result was expected, though the majority for the measure was larger than had generally been counted on. The debate on the bill developed no impressively new arguments for or against and the opponents of the proposed leglslation consumed the greater part of the time de- voted to its discussion. The measure that passed differs In important respects from the introduced In the ing con- gress. It Is not so radical as the first bill, having been modified at the suggestion of representatives of eommercial bodles whose views regarding it were obtained by the author of the bill. But while materlally changed It has met with an aggressive and a persistent opposition from the men who make a business of dealing In options and futures, and the strongest argu- ments agalnst it have been urged by these through those who have spoken for them in the house. In view of the earnest and constant efforts of its opponents the passage of the bill in the house by so large a majority is to be regarded as a signal vic- tory for the agricultural interest, at whose demand for such legislation the bill was in- troduced. What the fate of the measure will be In the senate Is somewhat problematical, though the chances there are probably In its fav Its opponents are hoping that the sena will not be able to take up the bill at the present session and that more important matters will take up the time of that body at the short session next winter. Undoubtedly the the senate will endeavor to postpone upon it until the next sion, and this they may be able to do. A good will depend, of course, upon the activity and aggressiveness of the friends of the measure in the senate, and it s to be that they will make every effort to secure action on it at this session. As- g that it will pass the senate, the attitude of the president regarding it becomes a question of interest. There has never been any intimation as to Mr. Cleveland's views regarding anti-option legislation, or whether he has any, but it is likely that an effort will now be made to learn what position he may take in the event of the bill passing the senate. The probability is that he will be disposed to give a great deal of consider- ation to the opinions of the represeutatives of the commercial bodies who oppose this legls- lation and who will not fail to find oppor- tunity to get their ylews before the attention of the president if they are defeated in con- gress. These people are able to command an influence that may have great weight with Mr. Cleveland. The agricultural producers of the country are practically unanimous in believing that the system of speculation in farm products, which it 18 the purpose of this bill to suppress, is damaging to their interests, and for years they have urged congress to enact the legisiation to which the popular branch of congress has now given its approval. The opinion and wishes of so large a body of citizens are not to be ignored. .If they are mistaken a brief ex- perience under the proposed law will show it and that is the only sort of argument that will be conclusive. The experiment can be tried withont doing any very serious damage to any interest whose welfare it s the duty of congress to conserve. WHEAT AND SILVER. Although the falsity of the assertion of the free silver men, that a bushel of wheat has for the last twenty years, or since the alleged demonetization of silver, been worth nearly one ounce of silver and has fallen and risen in gold value concurrently with silver, has been repeatedly exposed, like that of the charge that the enactment of the law of 1873 was procured clandestinely and dishonestly, the partisans of silver still contend that the price of wheat has been and is still controlled by the price of sil- ver. They utterly refuse to consider the matter of production in relation either to wheat or to silver. In this country alone the production of wheat rose from 230,000,- 000 bushels in 1871 to 611,000,000 bushels in 1891, and though the official statistics of 1892 and 1893 show a decline for those years there is no doubt that they are In- correct and that the production was not much below that of 1891. In addition to this, India, which up to 1873 exported no wheat at all to speak of—her exports previ- ous to that year being less than 1,000,000 bushels annually—now exports heavily, the shipment of wheat from British India in 1891-92 having been 56,000,000 bushels. It has since been less, but still large. Rus- sia increased her export from 17,000,000 hundred welghts in 1878 to an average of 57,000,000 hundred weights in 1890 and 1891, the quantity being reduced in 1892 by the fail- ure of that year's crop. Latterly the Argen- tine Republic has become a large exporter of wheat. ~ Ten years ago the shipment of wheat from that country was less than 4,000,- 000 bushels, but last year it amounted, ac- cording to official figures, to 37,000,000 bush- els. It is estimated that this year the ex- ports of wheat from Argentina will reach 65,000,000 or 70,000,000 bushels. There has been an._ increased supply -of wheat in the past few years from other quarters of the globe, and a great deal of this wheat is pro- duced at a much less cost than here. It would seem that every intelligent man must see, with the facts of an increase of the production of marketable wheat before him, that *he so-called demonetization of sil- ver has had nothing whatever to do with the decline in the price of wheat, nor would the restoration of the free coin- age of silver cause wheat to rise in price excopt by bringing about a depreciated standa-d of value. Anybody who will take the trouble to investigate the fluctuations in the prices of wheat and in the prices of sil- ver during the last twenty years will dis- cover that there has been not even the most relation between them. The fact that they have sometimes moved up or down together proves nothing when it Is seen that for much the greater part of the time the movement of the pricés of each has been entirely independent of the other. The fall In the prico of wheat is due wholly to a production in excess of the demand and this condition will probably still further depress According to the returns of Eng- land's imports of wheat for May more wheat entered that country by nearly 2,000,000 bushels than for the corresponding month of last year, yet its imports from this country decreased 1,250,000 bushels. This difference was made up, as it was in the pre- ceding months, by a heavy increase over last year in the shipments from Russia, Australia and the Argentine Republic. From the latter country England received in May 42 per cent more wheat than in the same month last year, from Australla 40 per cent more, and from Russia 200 per cent more. Does not this present a clear explanation of the de- cline in price? Referring to the fall in the price of wheat since last January the New York Evening Post says There was of course the usual disposition amoug bimetal- list philosophers to ascribe this decline to silver demonetization. But unfortunately prec possible men opposition In action deal presumed an remote the price, for this theory our two other chief grain staples, eorn and oats; sold 1 to 4 eents per bushel above their January price in the very week when wheat had touched its lowest, Indeed, both corn and oats are selling today Above their price of ffteen years ago, though wheat is 50 cents a bushel lower. But corn and oats, though equally with wheat ex- posed to the Influences (whatever they may be) of silver demonetization, are not in any« thing Iike the same degree exposed to new forelgn competition.” The intelligent Amer. foan farmer will not be deluded by the asser- tion that the low price of his wheat is due to the so-called demonetization of silver. He will look at the practical facts as shown in the production and accumulation of wheat during the last few years, and he will seek a remedy for the low price of wheat, not in the free and unlimited coinage of silver, with the Inevitable result of putting the country on a silver basis, but in reducing production, THE BOARD SHOULD RETRENCH. From present indications the schools of Omaha will have to close down during the coming school term for a month or more by reason of the shortage in the school fund unless the board cuts its garment according to the cloth. Now, when a well-managed business house finds its available revenues decreased it meets the reduced income by a reduced outgo. In other words, the prudent business manager will retrench and cconomize rather than risk business failure or temporary suspension. It certainly would be deplorable to see the schools of Omaha close for ever so short a period during the school term. That would involve an frre- parable loss to the growing generation of boys and girls that depend for their educa- tion upon the public schools. It is the duty of the board to avert such a disaster by cutting down expenses wherever it is practicable to do so. Supernumeraries should be weeded out absolutely and exces- sive salaries should be readjusted. The teachers in the lower grades are earning atl they get, but th might be considerable reductions made in the high priced class without {njustice and without impairing the usefulness of the schools. The outlook for tax collections and incomes from license fees and police fines is not very encouraging for the coming year and the board should discount the future at its minimum and not at its maximum income. THE FEDERAL BUILDING. Congressman Mercer Is entitled to a great deal of credit for securing from the commit- tes on public buildings of the house a favor- able recommendation of the proposed enlarge- ment of the federal building in this city. The original design of this building con- templated a structure to cost at least §$1,200,- 000, exclusive of the ground, and the senate has several times inserted the requisite amount in the appropriation bills. Every ef- fort to get these appropriations through the house has heretofore been unavailing, al- though other cities whose claims were no better than those of Omaha had been favored. Milwaukee was given $2,000,000 for grounds and buflding; Kansas City secured $1,250,000 exclusive of grounds, while Omaha was only accorded $800,000 exclusive of grounds. The refusal of the house to make sufficlent appro- priation to carry out the original plans has compelled the supervising architect to make materfal modifications. The superstructure was limited in dimensions to immediate wants, leaving the west half of the building to be erected at a future time when a more liberal policy should be pursued. The dressed granite had to be abandoned on the face of the superstructure and uncut granite sub- stituted. The plans for the interlor would necessarily have to undergo changes that are not desirable in a building of the first magni- tude. The experience with the Chicago fed- eral building should have been a warning against stinting this class of structures. Now that the house committee has decided to recommend an appropriation for Omaha that will place her on an equal footing with Milwaukee and other cities it Is to be hoped that its action will be ratified by the house before the end of the present session, so that the supervising architect may be able to re- arrange his plans to conform with the orig- inal design. There is very little doubt that any appropriation made by the house will go through the senate without opposition. TO BRING PULLMAN TO TIME. The American Rallway union under Presi- dent Eugene Debs threatens to jump into tho breach in the workmen's strike at Pull- man and to throw all the power and prestige gained from its recent victorious contests with other railroads to the ald of the strikers. The plan of coercion proposed must depend, of course, upon the degree of perfection with which it may be carried out. The members of the American Rallway union are simply to refuse to haul Pullman cars upon whatever road they may happen to be in use. Cutting off the Pullman cars cuts oft the source of revenue of the Pull- man company and alms a blow directly at the pocketbook of that great corporation. It also throws into enforced idleness all the con- ductors, porters and other attendants of the Pullman car service throughout the United States, Force the fmmense property of the company to lie idle and the Incentive to make peace with the Pullman strikers will be wonderfully strengthened. There are sgveral obstacles that stand in the way of prosecuting this plan. The stop- page of the Pullman car service on all the leading railroads of the country would entail upon the public no inconsiderable hardship, and the patrons of the sleeping cars would be loud in their complaints against being made innocent victims to the greed of the Pullman company. At the same time, how- ever, it must be remembered that those patrons constitute a rather small and com- paratively well-to-do class, who can better afford to put up with some slight incon- venience than can the Pullman employes to submit to starvation wages. The legal obstacles are more apt to prove trouble- some. In more than one state through which the Pullman cqrs operate a boycott of this character has been brought within the criminal laws. But overlooking for the moment its approach to conspiracy, it con- templates compelling the different rallroads to break the contracts under which they operate the Pullman cars. It s con- celvable that some of them may apply to the courts for injunctional orders to restrain the employes from taking such a step. And there are some late precedents which might be cited which would sustain an order directing the railroad employes, It they wish to remain in their employers' service, to perform all the work that is entrusted to them, whether connected with the transporta- tion of Pullman cars or not. All this is on the assumption that the American Railway union is able to enforc its order and to tle up the Pullman cars on the greater part of tho rallway mileage in the country, The union seeks merely to in- duce the Pullman company to submit its dit ferences with the strikers to arbitration and in this must appeal strongly for the approval of far-minded men. Let the American Railway unfon once ‘3: up the fight and it | may be relled uponl uro:n‘:ute it with its well known vigor. Chicago 18 agitatig for freo school books in all the grades of the publie schools exeept the High school. ‘iNa wame arguments are being repeated thatp wefe used In Omaha sovon years ago and pwhich are as un- answerable now as thes. The free school book system has been proved a success wherever introduced, although there 1s room for debate as to éxactly where the line should be drawn. Chicago will have to cateh up with the proeggsion. Knifing Tndustry. Globef Derfocrat.™ The moment an Ohlo republican begins to loom up into national proportions the local bosses start out to sharpen thefr ¥ ord Passed, Kansas City Journal. Benator Sherman (s being congratulated having passed Tom Benton's long term as a member of the senate. Mr, nan ha Dbeen in the upper house of congress nearly thirty years, an ordinary lifetime. sl 1illy Calam in Action. Chicago Herald. Congressman Bryan, who is billed at sev- eral one-night stands in the west to ride the whirlwind and direct the storm in the interest of the bonanza mine owners, ought 1o have some consideration for the [armers, He says, and he ought to know, that he will not only sweep the region like a cy- clone, but he will set the prairies on fire without any extra charge for admission. This is likely to be bad for the crops.. Mr. Bryan should pause and reflect. His cata- eclysmic instinets, if they a ot checked, will lead him to cap the climax ith some. thing in the seventeen year locust lin which would be carrying the thing alto- gether too far. He should confine himself 10 metcorolegl al cis.urbances und crase the prairie fire number from the programs and small bills, - A Freak Platform. Chicago Tribune, The South Dakota populists are a queer ot. They put in their platform a demand for the nationalization of the liquor traffic, be- ginning with state control without fit to the st Thut means they want the profit of the middleman wiped out so they can get their intoxicants much cheaper. But they voted down a resolution in favor of free sugar. Perhaps they do not “take sugar in theirs.”” Dy refusinz to vote for free sugar they endorsed the vote of Senator Kyle in favor of making sugar dearer, so that the trust may be able lean up a surplus profit of something like §30,000,000 next year. Nothing is =aid in the platform about this amazing vote on the part of the populist senator, and nothing scems to have been sald about it in the convention. SE GRS Patriotism at a Discount. Chicago Herald, It Billy Bryan possessed any patriotism, instead of endeavoring to perpetuate the disturbances of our business interests in Nebraska, he would seek to tranquilize his state and' its neighbors in order that labor and capital might combine again to mutual advantage to continue the development of the ‘r-?uurvux of the great west now sus- pended. Mr. Bryan is not, however, made of thia kind of stuff. Patriotism in him Is sub- ordinate to another consideration. It is more profitable to him to disturb his state than to tranauilize it. It is his ambition to roar through the country, so far as may be in his' power, the cyclonic political era which has alreaay wrought mischief 86’ grave throughout the west. When he has fulfilled his engage- ment to his new employers Nebraska will give him an indefinite rest. e A Misfortunate Man. Chicago Record. Senator McPherson, like the old collier in “That Lass o' Lowrie's,” is “a very mis- fortunate man.” He has been in trouble before. The little sugar speculation in which his hired girl participated wasn't his first offense. At the same time he is regarded as an honorable, conscientious and able gentleman. He began life as a butcher and amassed a fortune in the slaughter house bukiness. At present ke owns the largest share of the stock in the Jersey City abattdirs, and is the chief partner of the Penasylvania railway in the stock yards there iHe has been quite as successful in- collifes as in business, but seems to be compitting blunders all tne time that would swamp any other man. The senator was a passenger on the steam- £hip Normannin two vears ago when she was quarantined so long in New York har- bor with cholera on board. e prolonging, Maximum Freight Rates. San Franciseo Call. A case 1s on trial in Omaha which fn- volves the right of a legislature, through « state board or otherwise, to fix maximum freight rates. Judge Woolworth, the at- torney of the railroad: cited authorities to show that higher courts had a right to render null and void legislative acts which are injurious and unjust to corporations as well s to common people. Judge Brewer held that these decisions only permitted the courts to strike out unconstitutional clauses in’a legislative act. But the rail- road counsel contended that the unconsti- tutional clauses were so intermingled as to, render the whole act unconstitutional. 1f the contention of the railroad attorney Js sustained legislative acts creating boards or commissions to fix such rates will be useless assumption of power. A railroad can always go into court and show that an act which restrains the exercise of a right to charge all the traffic will bear is injurious and unjust to its owners. Even when the maximum rate as fixed is high enough to assure reasonable profit to the road, the theory may be advanved 'that the road should be allowed to make a large profit between noncompeting points to compensate for possible losses between competing points. A decision in favor of the railroad In this case would place rail- road traffic above state law, leaving oper- ators at liberty to compete or combine, as might seem best for their own intei ts. Next in order would be an act compensat- ing from the public treasury railroads for losses sustained through the construction and operation of competing lines. The Nebraska Conference. Chicago Herald (dem.). A meeting was held at Omaha yesterday which was d as a “democratic f sil- vel conference.' Congressman W, J, Bryan was the most active man in the af- falr and managed the procee of which a favorable specimen of his cyclone oratory formed a part. Democrats outside of Nebraska do mot understand the rpose of a ‘‘democratic sllver conferencs in that state nor any- where else. They might as well hold 'a democratio protection conference or a democratic prohibition conference or democratic woman suffrage conference.. If it 13 something different from the demo- cratic platform and belief on the subject of silver it Is not democratic at all. If it Is the same thing there Is no need of it. Nebraska * democrats should keep aloof from this scheme, whatever its purport and intent. Congressman Bryan has formally cut loose from the democratic party and he has no right to use its name for one of his “conferences.” Democrats will be amply represented in their own state conyention by their platform and their candidates. Bryan's “conferenag’’ has nothing demo- cratic about it. Democrats always have made mistakes when they have followed the lead of polit- fcal adventurers on a wild goose chase after sensational methods of action. Bryan is not a_democrat; he says he is not; he is committing acts of hostility to the demo- cratic party. He should be taken at his word. 5 In all the alllances and “temporary make- shifts” of the democrats with the ‘‘popu- lists,” silverites and other ephemeral fac- tions they have been losers. They have combined and connived to elect three or four United States senators, and, for all the benefits which they have received, they might as well have helped to elect republi- cans, Congressman Bryan is engaged in some self-seeking, anti-democratic, ex- perimental scheme’ for his own profit and advancement; and no democrat should be bamboozled and humbugged into rendering him ald or comfort. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. One of the ways in which radicals propose to Hmit the power of the Lords is to give the Commons the right which our congress has to pass a bill over a veto. If the Lords refect any measure sent them by the Commons or amend it, the bill is to be the Commons, where it may be reafirmed and the amendment rejected. After the bill has been through the Commons the second time it is to be subject only to royal approval This fs not a bad suggestion, and not an easy one for the moderate tories and the timid liberals to reject. It recognizes the full right of the Lords to legislate and re- view the work of the Commons and to hold back extreme departures from tradition long enough for second thought upon them and for public opinfon to express itself. On the other hand, it recognizes that the will of the people is the supreme authority; that the Commons as a representative body has the best right to express that will in legislation and that the Lords have no right to be pe manently obstructive. All this, however, is afar off. The radicals may pass such resolu- tions as the one recommending this plan to their hearts' content without bringing the acceptance of their scheme perceptibly nearer, for John Bull moves never so slowly as when a privilege or a tradition {s to be attacked. the English obstructive returned to o The main obstacle to the accomplishment of Spain’s territorial objects in northern Africa s in the British government, policy is to prevent any European from obtaining a foothold in Morocco. When- ever the Spaniards have manifested a long- ing for a slice of Morocco the English rep- resentatives in Madrid have succeeded in stilling it, and the traditional policy of Spain tn Africa remains only a dream. The Span- tards understand full well that withont the sympathy and support of the English govern- ment an attempt to conquer Morocco would be extremely hazardous. In the Intensely fanatical hatred of Spain which inflames all the Arab tribes of northern Africa the con- flict might prove long and doubtful. As for the Krench, it would not be hard for them to come to an understanding with Spain in regard to Morocco, with a view to ll»lu“‘ division of the spoils. But the Spaniards want Morocco exclusively for themselves, and the English would not consent to a partition of its territory in which they should not share, and to this the French would never consent. In this situation it is best for all concerned that Abdul Aziz should be maintained on his throne. In the conflict of Enropean interests is the surest guarantee for Mchammedan rule in the ancient Arab city of Fez, as well as in Constantinople. The only serious danger that threatens the youthful Sultan of Morocco s in a revolt of some of the fierce Arab tribes in his own dominions. Should he be expelled from power, the Moroccan question would become one of great gravity for the governments of Burope. Thus Abdul Aziz has unwittingly become one of the pledges of European peace. oo France s In a better position for a quarrel with Great Britain than she has been since 1870. Not only is she in fine military condi- tion, but almost for the first time since the Franco-Prussian war she cag feel free to turn her attention elsewhere without the certainty of continental complications —as soon as she has begun. Italy, though in- volved in the African dispute, is not strong enough to take active part without German assistance, which she is unlikely to have. Tho Germans do not love England, who has steadily refused to commit herself to the triple alliance. They are in a bad temper about the covetousness of New Zealand for Samoa; they are not pleased with the Anglo- Delgian treaty, which has caused the present trouble, and above all they are not going to run terrible risks for the sake of others, if the Czar gives them to understand that med- dling on their part would mean a general conflagration, as there is plenty of reason for thinking that in case of need he would. As for the British government, though apt to be peaceably inclined in its dealings with great powers, it s less to be trusted t Seunl. | Altogether, while it would be too AHasty to jump to,the conclusion that the beaco of the world is seriously imperiled, Dhere is good ground for watching anxiously the developments of the latest international falling out. whose power P Among the many semi-independent states included within the broad limits of the British empire one of the most troublesome is the sultanate of Pahang, an appendage of the Straits Settlement, situated on the east- orn coast of the Malay penisula, about 200 miles by sea from Singapore. The sultan of Pahang is a troublesome customer, but one even more difficult to deal with Is Orang Kyah, who, while nominally a rebel against the sultan, is really suspected of being the latter's principal abettor in his favorite game of worrying his English over- lords. Whenever the ruler of Pahang desires to have a little fun at the expense of his British protectors, Orang Kyah is inspired by the sultan to rebel. An uprising headed by Orang Kyah which broke out in Decem- ber, 1891, was only put down after several months of fighting, and with the involuntary assistance of the sultan. Orang Kyah has apparently again received an inspiration. He has recently appeared once more in Pahang, and is engaged in his favorite pursuit of Killing the Sikhs in the employ of the Singa- pore government. Inasmuch as the rebels Totire to the jungle whenever they are beaten, and the British forces cannot follow them into their retreat, the uprising will be hard to quell. It s possible, however, that the sultan and Orang Kyah have played their game onee too often. The governor of the Straits Settlement is likely to carry out his purpose to install an Englishman in the government of Pahang, while the mis- chievous sultan will probably be transported to a safe place near Singapore. ey Concerning M. Carnot and the French prosidency an English newspaper correspond- ent writes: “If M. Carnot does not stand again, M. Casimir-Perier is marked out as his successor; but here, as in older republics, the most prominent man is not always elected, for an unknown man who gives umbrage to none may be put in at the last moment, not for his own sake, but for the sake of keeping out some one else. 1f M. Carnot stands again all the strategy now going on will be useless, for he will certainly be re-elected. He is playing a deep game. Nobody can fathom his intentions. He has taken a house in the Avenue de I'Alma, which is being prepared for him as if he intended to enter into possession next De- cember. This, however, proves nothing, though it is just as well to have a house ready in case of quitting the Elysee. It is very probable that M. Carnot will be pro- posed and re-elected, for, although som staunch republicans object to a man holding the chief magistracy for fourteen years, this consideration is neutralized by the difficulty of selecting a successor. 1f, as is alleged, M. Casimir-Perier has been actuated by a Qesire for the chiof magistracy, he has prob- ably miscalculated, for M. Carnot is not a man easily to reiinquish a high position, and, it re-elected, he will accept a second term with pleasure and gratitude.” e Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne on tho 20th of June, 1837, at the death of her uncle, King William 1V, Last Wednes- duy, accordingly, she entered on the fifty- eighth year of her reign, which surpasses in length any other to be found among existing Buropean sovereigus. With the exception of George 1L, who reigned more than Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Baking Powder fitty-nine years, Quoen Victoria has been upon the throne of England longer than any of her predecessors. Iudeed, she has actively teigned longer even than George 111, since | he was the vietim of mental disorders dur- ing the last ten years of his life that caused the aftairs of the kingdom to be taken out of his hands and placed in those of a regent Although she completed, about four we ago, her seventy-fifth year, the health strength of Queen Victoria indicate that may occupy the throne a long time yet Hers has boen an_epoch-marking reign in English history, and in that respect the Vie torian period may have a destinctive celebs rity like the Elizabethan — - AL POTPOURRL and he POLITE Lincoln News: The McKeighan campalgn has already begun. A deputy sheriff is scour- ing Webster county with an execution, hunt- ing some of Wild Bill's property upon which to levy. Lincoln News: It's easy enough to prove that white Is black and that light is dark. A political dark horse is usually a chestnut, and a chestnut horse is not a dark ove. Tom Majors is a dark horse to the extent that he is a chestnut, rfolk News: The Morton paralyzers and Tobe Castor annihilators opened their circus in Omaha. The alleged purpose is to talk free silver, but the real intention Is to give William Jennings Bryan a boost fn his sen- atorial aspirations and hammer a few long natls in the coffin of the administration wing of the party. “On with the nee."" Indianola Courier: In the third tier of counties from the south and the same dis- tance from the west line of Nebraska is located the county of Dawson. Plum Creek is its county seat. Lexington is in Dawson county, and near that place lives J. H. Mac- Coll, who is just now after the nomination on the republican ticket for governor of Ne- braska. It is evidently a race between Mac- Coll and Majors and the odds just now seem to favor MacColl. Central City Democrat: The administra- tion democrats of Ncbraska are not v numerous, but they are as sound as a nut on the main question. The main question the federal offices. h ove their country 0 much that if the silver men should happen to get on top they would be ready to shout just as loud on the other side. If Cleve- land's present disorders should terminate fatally there would be a lively movement awong the office holders, and all of them would tune their melodious voices to hurrah for Stevenson and to sing the song of free silver, The president probably won't die very soon, but he might, for God is good. If he does there will be some splendid speci- mens of ground and lofty tumbling and the acrobatic feats of the pie-biting brigade will be astonishing to behold. Nebraska City Press: The Lincoln News remarks: ““The Nebraska City Pr man has looked upon the face of Governor Crounse and is converted to the idea that the present executive should be renominatod.” As usual the New is wrong in its inferences. The Press Is certainly of the opinion that the gov- ernor is the most available man for election this year, the man whom the state and the party needs, but we are not led to this be- liet by any hypnotic influence. Governor Crounse has given the state an honorable and dignified, as well as cconomical admin- istration. Notwithstanding the peace of nearly every state in the west has heen disturbed by internal strife, Nebraska has had none of it. But in addition to this recom- mendation there are assurances that his message to the legislature next January will show a net saving to the people of nearly $1,000,000. . A Monopoly's Assist! New York World. Arguments have just been begun in the United States circuit court at Boston for the annulment of the Berliner telephone patent. There has been some delay—a delay seventeen years, in fact, or three more than the life of the'patent There s one argument which ought to be conclusive in itself—namely, that fraud saturates the case from beginhing to end, and that every claim made by the Beli Telephone company, as owner of the patent, is a demand of right extort money’ by fraud. This patent was applied for in 1877. The Bell Telephone monopoly bought the ap- plication. But the Bell company already had a_monopoly of the telephoné busine That monopoly secure until such time s its old patents should run out.. Had it ot this new patent then, it would have cxpired about the same time that the older ones did, and so would not have materially scd the company’s monopoly. a suceossion of and_fraudulent, of and po the issuance of the till_ November, 1881, when its old early run out. was to get_a double life for its nt monopoly. In that a court should certainly say it nay with emph But in the meantime, what is the publi to think of a system of official proceedings which permits this sort of fraud to the detriment of the interests of all the peo- ple? 1s there no law under which —the ent office and the Law department can alled to account for thus lending them- selves to a scheme of public robbery in the interest of a corporate monopoly? . Progre:s of the Destructic St. Paul Ploneer Press. The tariff bill has been twelve weeks be- fore the senate. Another week, they say, will end the debate upon it and send it to the conference committee. The wide differ- ence between the bill as it went out of the house and as it will go back to it would argue an irreconcilable diversity of views if there were any genuine principle at issue. As it is, there will be a sham fight in the conference committee, ending in mutual concessions, and a tariff law will come out of the struggle which will have at least one merit. It will permit business ts. of ars to BIlL OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Pennsylvanla manufactures leathor elgars, but they are for the use of practical jokers. In Corea umbrellas are, of olled paper, have no n.adles and are simply worn over the hat The state of New Hampshire pays $1 & bushel to farmers for all grasshoppers that they destroy A well rocently dug in the Arctic regions near the Okhotsk sea proves that the ground In that vicinity is frozen to a depth of nearly fifty feet At Deflance, la., there s a “living skeles ton” in the person of a man who Is § feet and 8 inches tall and who welghs but sixty= five pounds The only monstrosity mentioned in the bible was the giant who had “six fingers on every hand and on overy foot six toes, four and twenty in all’" See Samuel 11, xxI., 20, Quito, Ecuador, is the only city in th world fn which the sun rises and sets at 8 o'clock the year round. The reason of this 18 that it Is situated exactly on the equator. A Liberty, Me., man has a twelve years® growth of beard which is between six and seven feet fn length, He wears it plaited in a pigtail resembling a Chinaman's queue. Leuenhoek says that 4,000,000 webs spun by young spiders when they first begin to use the spinneret are not, it twisted together, as great in diameter as a hair from a human head. —— SILVERY JINGL Detroit Tribune: She (flercely)~A man wh mmits bigamy ought to be hanged. He—To be sure. Put him out of his misery. Town Topl He (passionately) thing stirs within me. " She (calmly) don’t you drink filtered water. Some- Why and a poor authorities you ought He's a bad scholar don't the college anyhow? He—But to hear his college yell! Record: The Ossified Man— 7 to assoclate with me. oof Man—Humph! I'm not 1 character as you are. Tife: She athleto; why put him ¢ Chicago You're too tou The Bullet- half as hard e Field’s Washington: He-Her heart < hard as glass. 1 can’t make any ims ssfon on it She—Have you tried a diamond? Even without & Philadelphia Times the tennis girl single stroke of her racket makes a hit Atchison Globe: when the street sprinkler him. It never cools n_man oft throws water on Tndianapolis Journal: “I hear that you have quit drinking. It would afford ‘m much joy to (hink that it were permanent.s “Well, it fs just this way. I have quit il 1 get out of debt. Would you mind lending me £20 to make the time a month or two long Judge: Higgs—Tiges Is prospering, lsn't he? Hatch—Oh, yves. He's got now to where he can sass his butcher. Pittsburg Chronicle: It's in the nature of things that when a man Is very short he should be more or less crusty. THEN AND NOW. Washington Sta In days of old, when Scots were bold, And went to war to work their wills, They raked the heathen Paynim dow! To cheering cries of “bows and bill And nowadays the summer girl, On lake and beach, or ‘mid the hills, Quite gayly conguers papa's purse To that same cry of beaux and bills, e At the Mercy of the Trusts. New York Tribune. The surrender is becoming abfect. Th new cotton schedule, although 30 per cenl lower in its average of dutics than th present tariff, discriminates laboriously an minutely for ‘the advantage of certain pros ducers, o that it is more complicated an hard fo understand than any other tari ever enacted. The agents of manufacturers who contrived it, and induced the senators ial auctioneers to accept it as the price of rtain votes for the Whisky and Sugat {rusts, ave probably the only people in th world who can tell just how high the pros posed duties are, or how effective they wifl be in excluding foreign goods of particulat kinds. ~Next comes a modified woolen schedule, which has been secretly arranged in the same strictly business fashion. Votet for the Sugar trust and its munificent bounty of $10,000,000 must be paid for. Th democratic vote buyers have got beyol caring _how much contempt they cast on the professions and pledges of thelr part P HIS ABSENT QUEEN., New York Sun. Tonlght Fast in my arms I hold thee, Anastasia, mine, My queen! Fast in my arms! And yet, (« If but last night I'd held thee Only in my hand— How then, indeed, would you Have been to me A queen imperious! Iforthen, Clasping as I did those other queens, Those three right royal ladies (And had 'em all the time), With that king full that Bill Jones held, You bet I'd stayed And whooped it up Until the cows came home, And, like a cyclone revolving out to hustle things, I'd rake the pot— That blg, that opulent, that fat jack-pot-s And stowed it in my jeans— If but last night I'd held thee Just in my one weak hand, O Queen! e S s (RS Xy b Ny Going to the bottom take inventory soon—tha $8.50—worth lots more. worth 50 per cent more in boys' department—See suit with another pair of S. W. Corner 15t Going to the Botton) stilts given away to boys Browning, King & Co., pag s e in price now--going to t's why—suits for $7.50 Boys' suits $2.50—$3— the $4.50 combination pants and cap to match , h and Douglas,