Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 7, 1894, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1894 THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. by E—nnsv;\vr}r:n.:mu;w: = p———— PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION aily Bee (without Sunday), One Year.. nfly Beo and Sunday, One Year. ix Monthe Wessoisirisers hres Months anday Bee, One Baturday Tiee, One Y Weekly Bee, One Year OFFICE The Bee Bulldin Bouth Omaha, Corner N and Twenty-fourth Sts. Cotnoll WIuffs, 12 Pearl street Chicago Office, 317 Chamber of Commeres, Rlew York. iome 13, 10 and 15 Tribune Bide. ashington, 1407 ¥ street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE, AN communications relating to news and edl- Porial matter should be addressed: To the Editor. BUSINESS LETTERS. AllL business lettors and remittances shonld be Addressed to The Dee Publishing company, Omaha. Dratts. chocks and postofMes orders to mada i ' of the company TH 1ING COMPAN e = STATEM George 11, Taschuck, secrotary ahing company, beini duly sw actunl number of full and comple Dally Morning, T and Sun during the mon(h of June, 154, was s v 1 CIRCULATION. [he 1ee Pub- 21841 Total deductions for 1a urned 11,676 G 21,82 Total Dally ave *Sunday. nold net ¢ SCHUCK. Bworn 1o heforn a ed in my prosence this 24 duy (Seal.) That last bonfire at the World's fair grounds was just a trifie late for the Fourth of July celebration. Sympathy for the 1s compelled to forcgo is particularly in order. Pullman porter who his accustomed tip Mr. Rheem fs still playing city electrician, but it is a game of solitaire in which the winner is also the loser. Pullman can afford to remain unconcerned when the federal government volunteers to fight his battle at its own expense. The peo- ple pay the bills. ‘Whisky and sugar are expected to make the tariff Dill slide through the conference committee and through both houses of con- gress. Whisky and sugar is a timo-tried prescription that has often proved its ability to make things slide. The laying of macadam goes merrily on in the direction of the tree claim of the gentle- man from the Little Papio. But the next blg rain storm is liable to leave more rents and creases in the rocky roadway than can be repaired in a week of Sundays. Labor day Is the next public holiday on the list, and now that it has been made a national holiday, its observance this year ought to be something out of the ordinary. Omaha must not fail to participate with formal exercises and parade in this year's demonstration. “Shooting the chute” is the pastime that 18 to supplant riding in the Ferris wheel in the amusements of the Chicago swell set. All classes in Chicsgo seem bound to have some kind of shooting in these days. Shoot- ing strikers, shooting soldiers and shooting craps are the remaining varieties from which the gay Chicagoan may choose. The refusal of Mme. Garnot, the widow of the late president of France, to accept @ pension from the government because she_considers the honors paid to her hus- band sufficient testimonial of the nation’s appreciation ought to be heralded aloud throughout the length and breadth of the land, Bxamples of this kind are alto- gether too scarce In this great republic. — What a pity that the Impeachment of the mayor is no longer vested in the city coun- ell! How happy Hascall and Wheeler would be i they could sit in judgment on their own charges and hand down a decision formed in advance of the trial. But under the present charter thelr connection with the case, except as prosecuting witnesses, ceases with the filing of the papers with the district court. —_— Money ought to be more plentiful just mow than it has been for weeks past. All the holders of public and private bonds upon which semi-annual interest is due July 1 have received thelr payments and ought to be in a mood to spend some of it. At the same time the corporations Wwho had to pay the Interest have ceased locking their money up In anticipation of it. The change ought to be noticeabl Brazil's congratulations to the United States on the occasion of the one hundred and eighteenth anniversary of the birth of the nation shows the friendly feeling that exists between the two greatest American republics. It shows also that Brazil still remembers the impartial treatment accorded her by our government during her insur- rectionary troubles last year. Such Inter- shanges of international courtesies deserve general approval and encouragement. The Board of Health seems to consider the Interests of the garbage men only, to the utter exclusion of the demands of the public. The people have a right to have their refuse collected regularly and disposed of in an in- offensive manner. This subject comes prop- erly under the supervision of the health board, but that board has persisted in let- ting things drift along without taking any decisive action. If any members of the board do not caro to attend to business lot them resign and make way for some one who will perform. the duties of the office. Further unnecessary delay will no longer be re- garded as a joking matter. The teachers In the public schools abject to having the school year shortened because they fear that with less work they will be given a corresponding decreased pay. A shorter school year would be very welcome to them provided they can have the assur- ance that they will draw the same salaries a8 at present. This is, In fact, what we have had the past year. By having a nominal sehool year of forty weeks the school board bas enabled the teachers to draw forty weeks' pay, but near the close of tho year It has knocked off the last weck, thus lessen- ing the work. If we are to have this per- formance every spring we might as well make the official school year shorter and let the taxpayers have the benefit of It rather the teachers. The people certainly ‘should not be called upon to pay for work that s never done. THE RAILROADS, THE PEOPLE AND THE STRIKERS. The Amerledn people have always been equal to every emergency. Every great prob- lem which confronts us today can and will doubtless be without the of the republic or the destruction of the fres Institutions that have been estab by patriotic Americans at a sacrifice of blood and treasure. The conflict between the rail- ways and thelr forcibly empha- solved disruption operatives sizes the fact that rallways arc the arteries | of commerce and Industry and telegraphs the nervous system that conveys intelligence through the entire body. The contention of rallroad managers that railways are purely private with which the state has no right to interfere has long since been brushed aside. Their appeals for intervention through courts and by military only, supplement the declarations made heretofore by congress and the highest judiclal tribunals that rallroads are public highways and as such subject to supervision regulation by national and state authority. The situation that now confronts the coun- try Is, Shall these public highways be ob- structed and blockaded by tle-ups on account of grievances of rallway ope tives? Shall the people who travel by rail be put in Jeopardy of life and limb and shall of the country be sub Ject to paralysis by these violent conflicts between railroad managers and oper- atives? It Is as the country that railroads shall be operated un dly as that ftself shall go on uninterruptedly. iness and In- dustrial activities upon the continuance enterprises force and periodic the comme; periodic important to nterrupt the government All the b manifestly and safe operation of the raliroads. When a railroad is chartercd the which operates it the obligation to supply its patrons with a commodious and reliable train service through competent operatives. It behooves the man- agers of railroads therefore to organize and supervise their forces in such a way as to make them most eficient. They tacitly as- sume an obligation toward their patrons to prevent all interruptions of travel and trafiic and by rights should be responsible for such interruptions unless they are caused by un- avoldable accidents. Up to this time raiiroad managers appear to have regarded the rights of the public to safe and uninterrupted sery- fce with supreme indifference. Instead of devising plans for the adjustment of differ- ences and grievances by arbitration and mu- tual concessions they have persisted in a policy of domination and coercion. Ignoring public rights and obligations to their patrons, they have persisted in treating their large armies of operatives as if they were in private employment and could be dispensed with at any time. They have acted as If they were managing a mill or factory that could be closed at pleasure. Many if not most of the railrond strikes that have oc- curred within the last twenty years were provoked by the rallway managers, when they could and should have been averted. Now we have reached the stage where something must be done that will forever do away with railway strikes. The present strtke may be put down by main force, but how long will it be before we have another outbreak of even greater violence and more damaging to the commercial and industrial interests? It is amazing that in all these years of periodic tle-ups by engineers’ strikes, switchmen's strikes and general railroad strikes the men who govern the country, the corporation managers and thelr retainers in congress and in the cabinet have never even sug- gested the enactment of a law defining the relations of public carriers to their employes. Such a law is imperatively needed in the Interest of the railways, the public and the rallway employes. The public highways must be kept clear whether for the passage of a mail car or a freight car. The country can no more tolerate the holding up of a train by strikers than by road agents. Such a thing simply means anarchy in its most estructive form. On the other hand the railway employe has rights which the rail- way managers must be taught and forced to respect. These rights should be defined by law and enforced by government supervisors. The railway operatives should bo enrolled under conditions that will in- sure for them employment during good be- havior at fair wages; promotion from the ranks based on length of service and merit and a reasonable allowance in case of disability in the performance of duty or in old age. The army of rall- way operatives exceeds 700,000. They naturally form an integral part of the army of organized labor. The great body of these men are thrifty, sober, intelligent Ameri- cans. They are not inclined to lawlessness except under extraordinary provocation. With proper recognition of their rights they can be induced to submit to such reasonable regulations as would absolutely insure im- munity from railroad strikes. This, in our Jjudgment, is the solution of the problem, But if the railroad managers stubbornly per- sist In ignoring the conditions under which the railroads of this country must be operated government ownership of railroads will be forced upon the country as a matter of self-preservation. are dependent corporation assumes SUGAR IN THE HOUSE. It there is any substantial ground for the reports that come from Washington a ma- Jority of the house democrats are not dis- posed to accept the sugar schedule of the senate bill, and a vigorous fight over it in tho conference committee is expected. The chances are, however, that it will remain without material modification, and that in order that it shall do so the senate members of the conference committee will make con- cesslons to the house as to other schedules. The opinion is that the democrats of the senate are prepared to sacrifice almost any other industry, or more than one, in order to retain the sugar duties as they passed tho senate, and as the trust, in the opinion of nearly everybody, desires they shall stand, The* tenacity of the senate democrats in this matter has been marked, and it is not believed they will yleld anything now it they can possibly help doing so. Whether or not this schedule is the result of a bar gain with the Sugar trust, as has been charged, the course of democratic senators regarding it invites the belief that thero is ground for the charge, But should the sugar schedule remain as It is the trust will not fare so well as was promised that monopoly when the schedule was adopted in committee of the whole. It was then provided that it was not to go into effect until January 1, 1895, which would have enabled the trust to fmport a full supply Of raw sugar for next year free of duty and sell it at the advance which will take place as soon as the duty goes into effect. To have done this would have been to practically present the trust with tens of milllons of dollars, while the treasury would have real- 1zed nothing from the sugar duty for nearly a year. The vigorous and persistent protest agalnst this proposal to enormously enrich the monopoly at the expense of the people and the treasury had the desired effect and the bill was amended 80 as to provide that the sugar duty shall go into WA et rr s eftect when the measure be- comes law. This will cut down the ex- pected gains of the trust by many mitons, though it will still profit largely by the change In the tariff regarding sugar, for It has been Importing all the raw swgar it could obtain since it became assured that a duty would be imposed and will continue to add to its stock as rapidly as possible. Ac- cording to statistics the Importation of raw sugar for the eleven months ending May 31 was not very much fn excess of that for the corresponding period of the previous year, but imports for June and July will undoubt- edly very largely exceed the amount for the same months of last year, and on every pound of this sugar admitted free the trust will get the advance incident to the duty. It is therefore certain to derive an enormous benefit from this legislation. In addition to the 40 per cent ad valorem on raw sugar there is a differential duty on refined of one- elghth of a cent a pound, which will inure to the benefit of the trust solely. It will thus be seen that the democratic senate has made ample provision for en- abling the rapacious sugar monopoly to enormously Increase Its already inordinate profits, and if the sugar schedule stands as it is the srust will take millions out of the pockets of the consumers of sugar before the national treasury can derive any revenue of consequence from the sugar duties. A number of prominent house democrats, among them Chairman Wilson of the w and means committee, who, it Is presumed, will e one of the house members of the conference committee, have publicly ex- pressed their opposition to the senate gar schedule and their determination to an- tagonize it, ~Mr. Wilson is reported to have sald recently that a mafority of the demo- crats in the house are opposed to it. Un- doubtedly the principal contest in the confer- ence committee will be over this schedule, and it is very likely to be prolenged. Speaker Crisp, it is understood, will name the house members of the conforence commit- tee today, and when that is done there will bo a better chance to judge as to the prob- able nature and duration of the conflict be- tween the two houses over fixing the ulli- mate form of the tariff bill. su- INCOME TAX IN SIGHT. Just as the tarift bill as passed by the senate s almost “totally different from the bill as originally reported from the senate finance committee, and the latter equatly different from the Wilson bill agreed to by the house, the bill as it finally emerges from the conference committee may be unlike what it was at any of its previous stages. One feature, however, has persisted through all the changes. The income tax schedule was incorporated into the bill in the house committee on ways and means, it secured the approval of the house, kept its place through the deliberations of the senate finance committee and the amendments pro- posed on the floor of the senate, and still holds on in the conference committee. In the senate the income tax proved upon the vote to be stronger than the tariff bill itself, and it drew the support of both populists and republicans who opposed it on the final passage. Unless then the entire bill Is de- feated on a failure of one or both houses to accept the conference report, the income tax is practically certain to become law. It is plain that a considerable number of the men who voted for an income tax in either branch of the national legislature did so not because they were convinced that the income tax is the only just tax nor that the anticipated proceeds are an absolute necessity to the public treasury, but be- ciuse they knew very little about its merits or its demerits and were willing to give it a trial as an experiment in order to sece how it will work in this country. Even if it proves to be a failure they argue that it cannot do much harm before another con- gress Is ready to repeal it. Whether or not the income tax is to be a permanent feature of our financial administration depends upon how it is received by the country and whether the returns are commensurate with the cost of collection. Restricted as it is to incomes in excess of §4,000, except when derived from corporate investments, it will strike so small a proportion of the people directly that there is little chance for gen- eral dissatisfaction. Only with a complete reorganization of our revenue system can the income tax, however unjust, be elimi- nated. In the meanwhile the people may prepare to keep account of their annual in- comes for the benefit of the federal income tax collector. PENSION REDUCTION. The falling off in pension expenditures is one of the striking featurcs of the monthly statements issued by the Treasury department. The complete record of pension disbursements for the twelve months end- ing June 30 shows a reduction as compared with the payments of the previous year of $18,000,000, and the figures show that the falling off in the monthly payments has be- come a fixed feature of the situation and Is no occaslonal accident, as was thought might be the case when the falling off first began to appear. The figures vary some- what from month to month because they do not represent monthly payments to the same pensioners at the same agencios, but quarterly payments at different agencies. The agencies are divided so as to make the monthly payments as nearly equal as may be, and a proper comparison can only be made by taking figures three months apart, Tho pension appropriation for the next flscal year has been passed by the house at a larger figure than-the actual expendi- tures for the year just closed, but the probability Is that there will be a further falling off, and it is estimated that the pen- sion expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1895, will not exceed $135,000,000, or & little more than an average of $11,000,000 per month. here Is good reason to expect that from this thme on there will be a steady decline in the amount of the annual pension pay provided that no changes are made in existing laws for Increasing pensions. It is probably safe to say that no such changes will be made and that the pension system will remain as it Is for some years to come. Certainly nobody would propose to cut down pensions, and on the other hand it seems to be the opinion of men of all parties that the laws as they stand are fair and just. This being the case, and the maximum of expenditure having been reached under these laws, annual payments on this account, which is the largest single obligation the government has to provide for, ought to become less from year to year, and doubtless will do so. It Is mot to be expected, of course, that the annual decrease will be to any such amount as the falling off during the last fiscal year, because a con- siderable part of that was unquestionably secured by a policy which will not prevall hereafter, or at any rate beyond the life of the present administration. There is not a reasonable doubt that many worthy pen- sloners and others who were justly entitled to be placed on the pension rolls have been deprived of this governmental beneficence ments, in furtherance(pf ghe policy of pension re- duction, and thevafore unjustly. If the methods Institdfedat the beginning of this administration [“fh reducing pension pay- ments had been, anhered to the falling oft would undoubMdiy have been .very much greater, but nc;"mc price of a much larger measure of infistice than has been suffered by deserving unfonssoldiers. The scheme of “purging” the fikision rolls adgpted by the present commisgloner, f it had been fully rried out, would have saved more millions to the public treWsury, but It would have grossly wronged 'tlibusands of the brave de- fend of the government. For the in Justice that has boen done there will come u time of reparation. The American people do not approve a poliey that deals unfairly with the who preserved the union fn order to save a few million dollars a year. The country has for years witnessed a steady growth in pension expenditures Hereafter it is to see a gradual deeline, from legitimate cause, in the annual de mand upon the government from this source. The next generation will not feel the payments on account of pensions to be anything of a burden, men The leading Chicago dailles—Tribune, Her- ald, Inter-Ocean and News-Record—have been hurling shot, shell and canister into the rail- way strikers morning, night, and the strikers have now returned the fire by boycott resolutions. The Big Four of Chicago have the thing in their zeal to reciprocate the favors of the raflroads. The public may not be aware of the fact that the big Chicago dailies owe their extensivs circulation outside of that city chiefly to the newspaper trains which are run out of Chi- cago, over nearly every trunk line, between midnight and 2 a. m. These speclal trains, which cost the Chicago morning dailies not a penny, are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to them annually. Last year The Bee paid $63 a day for a special newspaper train from Omaha to Plattsmouth over the Q, Just twenty-one miles, and then it was considered a great favor. The Burlington road and nearly every trunk line out of Chi- cago runs fast newspaper trains from 300 to 500 miles distance year in and year out. The only pay they get for this service Is from Uncle Sam, and that is taken out of the pockets of the taxpayers. No wonder the Chicago Big Four are willing to make them- selves useful in times when the roads want to create public opinion in their own favor. noon and overdone An advance of 2 cents a gallon in the price of whisky attests the fact that the Whisky trust cannot even wait until the tarift bill is enacted into law before taking advantage of the concessions which it makes to it. So confident is the trust that the whisky schedule will not be altered by the conference. committee that it no longer sceks to conceal the real effect of the promised increase of the internal revenue tax and lengthening of the bonding period. Un- fortunately, there is reason to believe that the trust is not mistaken as to its power over the democratié authorities that govern the action of the present congress. Boss Croker [Is credited with saying on his return from Europe that he had been out of the country so long that he had almost forgotteni which party was in power on this side of the water. Mr. Croker's memory may be failing, but his foresight is still quite good, as is evidenced by his in- sistence that hé tsstill out of politics and intends to remain so. He would have no difficulty whatever in stating which party will be in power after the next election, Collapsed. Denver Times-Sun. Gougar's campaign of spleen, mis- ntation and villification, seems to allen by the wayside. L e R The Ups and Dogns. Philadelphla Times. The action of the senate on whisky has made it go up 3 cents on a gallon. Which way thelr individ tion makes it go Is merely a matter of speculation. Advantages of Ownership. St. Paul Globe. It the government owned the railroads “few employes would die and none re- sign,” no matter what the wages or the hours. The postmasters of the country are not overwhelmingly paid, but they never “strike.” e Too Much Pateraallsm. Philadelphia. Record. What is this “government control” that the paternalists and protectionists prate about as the cure-all for industrial or po- litical evils? It is simply a central despot- ism. We have too much government med- diing, not too little e Keep OfF the Denyer It takes all sorts of kickers to make up the world. A min writes the New York Herald complaining because George Fran- cls Train occupies a bench in Central park to the exclusion of all others. This Kicker would find a cougenial home with the pop- ulist party. Mrs. repres nd Placated. Yark Sun, has been pacified and Unless the senate erses the course of the senate in committee of the whole, the Whisky trust will be allowed to taKe its toll, too. Whisky and sugar; a mixture that will prove very unhealthful’ to the democrats at the polls.” The democrats in the senate evidently have a platform of thelr own as to trusts, and it reads: “We recognize trusts and sweeten them every time."" The Sugar trust fattened. . The Mouso and the Tariff, - Chicago Record. How far the house will be able to undo the workings of the senate is, of cou a matter of speculation. The one fa most apparent now is that the measure as i stands can hardly fuil to be highly unsatisfactory to the democrats of the house. If it is accented without numerous and liberal changes 1t will probably be be cause of the assumed necessity of relieving the country of suspense by the passage of some sort of bill, whether or not it be in accord with the principles avowed by the majority in congress. B Pullpjan Frofits, Xchange Pullman’s Pglace. Car company was or- ganized under, the Jaws of Illinois in 1867, It I3 engaged ifi the’ sleeping and parlor car business, and manufactures all other kinds of rallwiy cars. The number of cars en ployed in the scrvice at present is about 3,500, The compiany’s busiiess extends over @hout 125,111 mités of the prin: railways throughout then United States, Canada and Mexico; also 4o some extent in Burope The annual income is enormous. Poor Manual for 183 giyes the figures for 1! as follows: ~GFods’ earnings, $3,061,081; o 751; minufacturing and oth i) total income, expensel; including Xpenses, [DSurange, etc.. $, portion of malptaining and operating slecping car azgeglations, I ol penses, $4,35 | Bet éarnings, 35,615,989 interest on bonts, ‘$5 dividend on stock, $2,000,000; surplus’ ¥ R Discovéry oF Auclent Colns. At Monteverde, in Hannibal's wir chest turns up fu itine coin still worth par after of burial, the metal of which “they” are compase remaining uncorroded and the Punic d vices stamped upon th retalning ther primal legibility. " They were probably d sited in the soll then in some unrecorded eason of panic, fiscal or military, and in the pressure and confusion of after events forgotten. 1f they could have drawn in- terest during the Interval the increment would rebulld Carthage and restore the pavements and sculptured friezes temples of Baal and Melcarth, and set adrift again the fotillas of the Byrsa and unroll the banners of Dido above the 1. But _they reappear without usufruct, dim with burlal and disease, and will find their way Into museu 1 e positories of such ware, not helping any modern problem of finance or circulation, but pojnting over dgain the moral that The bust outlasts the throne, The coln, Tiberius, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, Although the auestion of an international ugreement among the ¥uropean powers to socure the gradual reduction of thelr stu- pendous milltary establishments fs no longer belng discus od in the sensational manner wheh charicterized the debate several months ago, It would be a mistake to suy- pose that the movement had been abandoned According to well informed observers who are famitar with the inner workings of continental polities the project is assuming practical shape in a propossl to establi:h the present rate of expenditure by the pow- ors for mliltary purposes as a maximum not to be exceaded by either of them during the remaining six years of the century. While the command to halt has not been uttered, the word is in the afr. It was heard in the promise recently made by Sig. Cr to curtail the expenditures for the Itallan army. Among the miltary spirits of Eu rope, however, the bellef s still strong that an occasional “‘blood-letting” is necessary to Insure the welfare of a nation, or, as it has been sald more wittlly and less brutally by an Amerlcan eplgrammatist, “clvilization sometimes take: a Iift on the powder cart But the feeling is also growing that if the whole resources of the nations of Rurope shall continve to be squandered upon powder carts there will soon be no clvilization to lift “re The antagonism between the Czech and German elements in the population of Bohe- mia is becoming continually more acute. In Prague, where the Gormans are outnuni- bored by the Czochs in the proportion of five to one, the municipal council recently ordained that the nanes of the streets should be printed in Czech only. The mat- ter was taken into the courts, which de- cided that It was one for the local author- itles to decide. To spite the Germans a great many Czechs have put up tablets con- taining the names of the streets in Rus- sian, Greek, French, Italian and Latin. Thus at the present moment may be teen in the neighborhood of the fruit market a tablet bearing a double inscription in Latin and [talian. In conversation with foreigners the Czechs affect the use of French or Rus slan and are reluctant to converse In Ger- man. The Latin language is also spoken. A stranger asking his way in German in the streots of Prague risks recelving an abrupt answer or none at all. The munic pal conneil only accepts petitions written in Czech, and only employs clerks of that ni tionality in the postoffice and in the com- munal administration. A short time ago the fire brigade of Prague had to purchase a number of horses. These might have been conveniently procured in Poland or Galicla, but the Prague municipality preferred to buy them in Russia. More recently the cor- poration wanted to change the titles cf most of the streets and public squares of the town, but the stathalter of Bohemia told them that they had better attend to more pressing business, and thal it would per- haps be as well to give their attention to improving the water supply of Prague. wre The troubles in Corea have largely grown out of tho efforts of a party which is sup- posed to be under Chinese influence to pre- vent the introduction of western or Buro- pean Ideas into the penin:ula. Japan, which is progressive, favors the spread of such ideas as being helpful to the tncrease cf her very large trade with Corea, while China sides with the old-time or conservative party. That the Corean government, too, is pro- gresive is shown in the fact that the king has asked the United States government to interfere. This, of course, it could not do, further than to tender its good offices should any effort be made to settle the difficulty, 80 that Corea, with a small army and no navy, would seem to be at the mercy of any strong power bent upon its conquest. But there is another factor in the affalr which must not be lost signt of, because so much hinges on it. A southern strip of Siberia adjoins Corea on the north, and Russia, it is believed, has long wished to gain a foot- hold on the peninsula. Vladivostock, her only port in eastern Asia, is in a high lati- tude, and i: ice-bound for a large part of the year. If she could secure Corea's splen- did ‘harbor of Fusan, which has no such natural disadvantage, a great gain would accrue to her both commercially and strat- egically, and- her southward progress would be unobstructed. She is not likely to stand by quictly and see Corea absorbed by an Asiatic power. If Japan should make such an attempt it would have to be with Rus- sla’s consent, and this she is not likely to ask for. On the other hand there have been intimations recently that a secret treaty had ‘been concluded between China and Russia by which the latter power would have possession of the disputed Pamirs, thus giving her a highway to India. Thus Great Britain's Asialic empire would be menaced, and the imbroglio would deepen. If there should be war in the Orient, it may be set down as being certain that the Mu:- cavite will be central figure in the conflict. wew Both Chira and Japan have been provid- ing themselves with armies and navies or- ganized and equipped on the European plan, and, in immediate readiness for war, they are not ill-matehed, though China, of course, has much the greater resources with which to carry on a prolonged contest. The Chi- nese northern squadron, which is the one that would fir:t be called into service, con- sists of four armor-clads of about 9,000 tons each, one turret ship, five small protected cruisers and about forty torpedo boats and gunboats. The Foochow, Shanghai and Canton fleets contain altogether about twen- ty-five vessels, but most of them are small or are intended only for coast defense. China has well-equipped arsenals and dock vards which are capable of turning out mod- ern warships, and the work and superin- tendence is all done now by Chinese. The Chinese have also made great progress in the use of modern weapons. Foreign experts who saw the naval maneuvers this year de- clared that the next European nation which gets into war with China will not find the Celestial gunners shooting wild. The men handled their pieces like veterans, and the ranging and sighting were done as well as the average practice of this kind in Buro- pean batteries. The Chinese army of the Green Flag numbers 539,000 men. They have been organized on the European sys- tem and armed with modern guns and drilled by English and German officers. Thero are several other armies and militia organizations, the total number of Chinese troops being about 1,035,000 men, of whom 387,000 are regarded as fit to meet European soldiers. Japun's navy is little, if any, in- ferior to China. It~ comprises thirty-five modern vessels, and their crews, like the Chinese, have been drilled by Ruropeans. Japan's army, however, Is much weaker, the total forcs being not more than 300,000 men, with a peace effective of 50,000. Their equipment and drill have received the same attention from European instructors as have the Chinese. Either power can muster a very respectsble force on land or sca, and the war, It war there should be, would be no petty struggle. “ee There have been persistent reports of late that Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is about to be recognized by the European powers in general and Rusida in particular. On this point the correspondent of the Lendon T mes in Vienna writes: “I am enabled to state ositively that the situation remains unal- tered. During the past‘seven years the czar has refused to recognize Prince Ferdinand as the legitimate ruler of Bulgaria, and the mere dismiscal of one of the prince’s minis- ters could scarcely be expected to alter the Russian emperor's resolve. It Is said that he will never recognize any Cathclic prince as Bulgarlan soverelgn. But, however this may be, there is not a particle of evidence to show that M. Stambuloft’s resignation is in any way likely to induce the czar to re lent. The position of affairs has been de. scribed to me as the status quo ante, with no probability whatever of any change. Many people were doubiless pleased to see M. Stambuloff relinquish office, as for a long time he had set Russia at deflance; but there is nothing in either private or officlal ac- counts received here to Inspire a glimpse of hope that the czar will ever modify his at- tude towards the present prince of Bulgaria According to the treaty of Berlin, the for- mality that has to be gone through consists in the confirmation of the prince's election by the porte with the assent of the powers. he first move, therefore, would have to come from the iultan, but there is the best reason to believe that the idex of taking any initiative 1o that direction Is us remote as heretofore from his Ottoman majesty's in- tentions." oo In the present Corean war the weapons used are almost as primitive as those of the Tinklits or the Quichias, or the Pata- gonians, consisting of clubs and other mis- siles, bows and arrows, wooden spears and wooden cannon, showing that the improved armaments of the modern period have yet some considerable spaces of the world to conquer. The only advantegeous thing about these weapons s that a given number of soldiers will go farther with them and la longer many times than with the improved varlety. Chine ¢ commanders and armies until recently relied a great deal upon noise In warfare and upon the expositicn of large dragons made of teakwood and pasteboard, but have learned by experience against for elgn {nvaders to distrust the efficacy of both and have adopted the arms of their ene mies. The Coreans ha similar leisons to learn; that their bows and arrows and woodén guns are what are known as back numbers, and if they wish to shine in arms and cc®juest they must fmport the im- proved fety ety INDUSTRIAL NOTES. New Zealand uses Philadelphia locomotives Missouri produces 1,200 tons of zinc a year Amerfca makes 10,000 tons of paper a day Over 4,000,000 people in this country Hy upon the wages pald by railroad companies. The value of the steel manufactured in the United States every year is about $500,000,000. A Latah, Wash., man has cycle which he claims will successfully on the single track of a railroad When the alumintum cap was put on the Washington monument it cost $8 a pound Now it can be bought for 67 cents a pound tric mosquito bar has been invented renchman. Just as the mosquito touches it the insect receives a death shock By an English invention camel's hair, cot ton plant and chemicals are being substituted for leather in machinery belting with con siderable success. A combined land and water cycle rench invention, while a water and land boat has just been built in Sweden. The boat is provided with six wheels, enabling it to run on the rails which connect the two lak on which it plies, suitable gearing auickly transferring the engine power from serew to wheels, Aluminium is gradually working its way into various products in the iron line. F periment has proved that aluminium mixed with iron makes the latter metal pour smoothly, prevents blowholes and liability of cracking, and benefits the iron in ever way. Such experiments have been succe fully made by the Michigan Stove company at Chicago. The Eiffel tower, built wholly of metal, is an example, and a good example, of a_step in the direction which architect will be driven to follow in the future. The great railway stations, exhibition buildings and other structures of steel, conecrete, paper and glass, which the needs and inventions of our day have called into existence, show which way flows the stream of tendency. The new building material has come to stay. In an- other century houses may not merely be built with steel girde: they may be made of metal frames bolted’ together, and grip- ping walls of papiermache. Then the age of the tent will return. A man will buy his house from a manufacturer and will hire a site to set it upon. When he moves from one place to another, he will take his home with him. Building leases will die a nat- ural death. Towns will wander about, and a great many curious results will arise. invented a bi run I8 a new Ameriean L Demand. Philadelphia Ledger. An_unusually valuable and government report has just been issued by the State department, showing the magni- tude of our foreign export trade in lumber, The work consists of the reports of United States consuls in every country and it veals the fact that we are shipping tim- ber to every nation, and In many countries our_wood shippers control the trade. This trade, while very extensive, is small to what it would be if more vessels could be procured for transportation. The lack of transportation facilities alone, it is said, prevents the substitution of wooden houses for those of other mat in many coun- tries. From this exhibit stilll greater development of our lumber trade may take place, but its effect upon our already too rapidly diminishing wooded area would be disastrous unless the restoration of the denuded area is conducted on a more cxten- sive scale than has yet been attempted. One of the consuls sound a timely note of alarm, and predicts the destruction of our forests if we continue to scil our lum- ber to other countries e Honors to a Colored Philanth s City Star, ure has voted an appropriation for a bust of Thomy Lafon, a negro, who left a fortune of $i00,000 to local charities. Louisiana had before ac- knowled; generosity of Judah a member of a race not many centuri ago in Christian countries despised and “baited with the rabble's curse,” and now returns thanks to one allied to cas but yesterday a race of sl gifts prove that charity, like mer PS a8 the gentle dew from heaven,” quel shows that it is not in the heart of ‘man to remain unresponsive to the touch of benevolence, no matter from what source it comes. The distinctions of religion and of race vanish before the “one touch of na- ture.” suggestive opist. e Senatorial Cownrdice. Chicago Herald. The indictment by the Washington grand jury of Edwards and Schriver, the two hombastic newspaper correspondents, and the practical exoneration of Sugar Trust Havemeyer ls another instance of the cow- ardice and hypocrisy that taint everything connected with the United States senate Of course, the newspaper men will never be ought to trial. Neither would F meyer had he been indicted. But the phincy which cringes to the millionaire while pretending to reprobate a bloviating correspondent IS sickening, nauseating and Qisgraceful beyond expression. SHOT HIS TWO BROTHERS, In the Absence of John Hesse utal cident O« CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia., July G.—(Special Telegram to The Bee)—During the absence of John Hesse and wifo from their home, near Jessup, their oldest son, a boy of 13, got his father's gun. It was discharged accl- dentally, the charge striking his two younger brothers in the head. When Mr. and Mrs. Hesse returned home in the evening they found one of the boys lying on the floor un- conscious and the other badly hurt. The older of the two boys will probably die nd Wife Towa Republicans Meet at Malvern, ALVERN, Ta., July 6.—(Special Telegram to The Bee.)—The republican convention met at Glenwood today and selected delegates to the various conventions as follows: State con- vention at Des Moines, July 11: Hon. John Y. Stone, Colonel A. G. Chantry, C. 3 Greenwood, I. Phillips, W. 8. Goodell, John Sunderland, John Junquist, D. L. Heinshimer, Dr. Powell, Mr. Bolican, Judicial convention at Red Oak, July 17 A. J. Chantry, Dr. Powell, John Y. Stone, D. L. Heinshimer, W. M. Evans, 0. R. Pat rick, 8. Gilliland, . B. Woodruff, John Parker, A. W. Culver. Congressional _convention, - Council July 18: W. D. Evans, Willlam Mr. Burton, Robert Patrick, A, J Wickham, A. Purcell, John two others, The delegates go uninstructed choice of W. 8. Lewis for judg Hager for congressman is assured. Married nt Shenandoah. SHENANDOAH, Ia, July 6.—(Special to The Bee)—Walter H. Taylor of St. Louls and Maud T. McCor were married today by Rev. A. E. Grifith of the Methodist Episcopal church. Bluffs, Swarts, Tolles, J Dyson and but their and A, L M Dumage in the Hills, DEADWOOD, 8. D., July 6.-—(Special Tele gram to The Bee.)—A heavy rain storm has prevailed In this section all day, and dam- age along the rallroad has been considerable At Elk Creek, on the Black Hills & Fort Pierre, twelve miles fron Deadwood, a cloudburst did considerable damage, wash- Ing out bridges and many narrow escapes are reported, and it is still thought some people have been caught by the flood. - All Qulet Coren. FRANCISCO, July 6.—The steam- ship Oceanic, thirteen days from Yokohama, arrived this morning. Since the landing of Japanese troops in Corea and the marching of a force of 1,500 Japanese to Zoul for the alleged purpose of protecting the Japanese legation, thera have been no startling changes in Corean affairs. SAN THE SUNDAY BEE. Special attention fs called to a fow of the noteworthy features of The Sunday Bee: As Zola's story, “Lourdes,” nears com- pletion It grows in dramatic power, It fs the literary sonsation of Paris today. For brilliancy and unabated (nterest it has rarely been equaled rank Carpenter In his Peking lotter tolls of the terrible plague now raging in Canton and Hong Kong, whore coffing cannot be provided fast enough to meet the demand. “Carp" portrays scenes of the epidemie that are most horrifying in detail The United States commissioner of edu- cation sets forth the demands for educa- tional reform—Character More Important than Knowledge—The New Education vs, the Old An article of cabinet officers unusual interest on noted men distinguished in the executive departments of the government, with a review of the changes in cabinet lite during recent administrations. On the woman's page will be found a liberal budget of timely and interesting matter. ‘The sweet telephone girl divuiges secrets picked up on the wire, and tells of men who try to “get comic” with central. he sporting department will cover the week's news and gossip. It Is designed to interest the devotees of all outdoor sports. fal and musical circles will have a faithful chronicle in The Sunday Hee, while secret socleties and labor eircles will be fully represented he past few average rea The Beo's strike news this section is covering quately. The Sunday Bee promises the best reports, local and telegraph, For news of the world l unday Bee. - JOKERS' WRITES, days have demonstrated to the great superiority of No other paper In the matter ade- the Life: Righteous Wife (at breakfast)= Henry, will vou axk a blessing? Henry (examining haxh)—~We've blessed everything here before, dear Arkansaw Tom man’s intellec’ by dat fine wine Is mos’ glas-es, wile s1°p b in schooners. alius served up in * 14 invariably paraded Stock xchange Man tight now, don‘cha’ne 1 wish some of it would stagger then! Chips Money s awtully Johnni my way, Indianapolis Journal are you making any immortal soul? “Am [?7 I'm trying to save every can these hard times." <My efforts dear brother, to save your hing T Atchison Globe: “How," writes a dis- tracted parent to this office, “shall 1 con- vince my daughter that the Youns man sh goes with I3 worthless rake?” Have her marry him. *So old Tightfist is ¢ for the benefit ad! the Buffalo Courier: Never did a_thing town, did he?" “NO; never before, Town on pawn- creatures, w has its' re- Though some look lespise th busin: Judge: brokers and quite must confess their deeming features, Life: “Does son, Mr. Jay?' “Well, he s; aged.” “‘Has she sald anything “No. But when he put his arm around her waist last night her lapdog licked his hand. tiss Hudson smile on Daw- s he feels somewhat encour- Indianapolis Journal: One Instance—"Do you mean to tell me,” said the soulful young woman, “that you have never yet met the woman whose presence and totch thrilled vour whole being in an utterly in- describable manner? “Only once,” sald the ‘It was when T wa woman dentist.” THE FIENDISH IMPULSE. Washington Star, The boy stood on the burning deck He would not stir an inch; But those who 1oft that awful wreek Saw him turn pale and flinch. weary young man, in the hands of & What depth of angry woe was his! A number of the crew Stole up to him and murmured, It hot enough for you?" e Foderal Control and Obligation. York Workd It operating railroads is a and raflroad are public servants in y sense that can justify fed control of their acts, then the federal government must not only protect the railroad compa- nies against thefr employes when ‘here ix a quarrel between them—it must also pro- teet the emploves in all their rights and privileges as public servants, It must guar- antee them adequate wages, reasonable hours of work, proper vacatfons and all elie hat it guarantees Lo other gersons i the public service. It must stand security for thefr wages if the companies default, It must restrain railroad managers frow nagging interference with them. It must forbid wage reductions except by consent of congrest. It must insure raliroad em- ployes as secure a tenure of office as It insures other government employes. This 18 the inexorable logic of the case, If the government interfercs in behalf of the rallway companies to prevent rallway employes from enforeing their demands in ways permitted to all other workmen, ft must in_common fairness Interfere to pro- tect them against oppression on the part of their employers. Bither they stand to- wards the government as other workmen do, or else their status in one which entitles them to peculiar protection, while sups jeeting them to peculiar control. “Is ublic service Beneath the shade of the apple tree The maid in her hammock swung And lent her elody That the fe warblers’ sung, lace for ¢ soared high, scarce rippled It was i, IFor the merd And the bree b st o the pool as it went by. the grassy As we watched the swallows ‘round her fly, She was dreaming weet day dream, But she suddenly rose with startled eye, And uttered a plercing scream, What caused the fright of the maiden air? A grub In a coat of fur, A squirming erpillar th Had just got the drop on her. N g0 7 KNOWLEDGE mprovement anc enjoyment when who live bet- and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly Brings comfort and tends to personal rightly u“-.fi. 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