Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 16, 1894, Page 4

P S 2}! EOMAHA DAILY BEE B, ROSEWATIR, Bditor. IBLISHED BVERY MOR Seeooss - sassaes TERMS OF S( (without Sum One Year Months Montha T Tiee, 1y B turdny Wookiy i ©mnha, The Tiee Tuilding. Benth Omaha, Comer N and Comell Dlofts, 12 1 ntreet @hivags Office, 317 Chamber New | tioms 13, 1 Wanhington, 1907 F sireet CORRESE AN unlent(ons " torial matter shouid b T e All Dusiness letters nddr s Omnlin be n Twonty-fourth St g, na el s wiould he payablo to th Tilis BEE PUBLISHT ATATEM Gearpe 11, T Hebing compan the_netual numbnr of Thu Daily Morn printnd during e ollows OF CIRCULA Ao f The Hee Pube e . month of A 22,124 e 1000 4 21,574 10 1 12 i1 i 3 Total Loss deduetions f copies tal Dally v *Sundny. walil rage net circ GEORGE T nd subsert 1801 FEL ¢ Public 7 o THUCK Sworn to before m. n my mce thia 24 day of Jul Henl) N. ¥ o America to Ruropean that she has afflicted with uuakes for some years past retort taunts not been can earth- Here's to the Minneapolis, flectest of war- dps! May long hold the champion belt among the navies of the world. sho After Mr. Pullman ts his story a few more times he himself may be led belicve that he has been cruelly wronged. repe A It is safe to say that President Cle and during his brief return to the practice | of law ex-I Harri- won's fee of never cqualied $25,000. at the oppor- Gen- People who @ictatorship of tunity to admire the oligarciy eral Managers' as been now ratling have an of the have Debs elation. In the face of all the drawhacks that have been experienced within the past few by manufacturers the home mdustry move ent in Nebraska has been a decided suc- ess. Tho hitch in the canal proposition is $35. The commissioners insist that the promoters mall pay the election expenses and the pro- %wh‘!'s want the expenses to be borne by the ouniy. South Omaha has not suffered on account of the strike. Quite the contrary, it has Pproved a blessing in disguise in'the way of increased stock yards receipts and packing house shipments. The acceptance by both China and Japan of England’s offer to bring about a settle ment of their disputes over Corea by me tion s an example which will be wasted so far as Mr. Pullman is concerned. The state supreme court is vacating, the Woors of the district court are closed for the heated term, while the federal district court I8 looking ~wistfully toward the mountain fastnesses of Wyoming. Justice is tired and Jougs for & surcease from the monotonous grind. | Congressman Breckinridge complains that tho newspapers have been intentionally and gonsistently misropresenting him. _they did misrepresent him before his famous breach of promise caze, but it was mot intentional. Had they known him then ‘as they do mow they would always have ‘portrayed him in his true character. £ ‘As the number of immigrant passengers {ecrease the charges for steerage passage ‘on the transatlantic steamers go down. It the decline in immigration continues the steamship companies will offering bonuses for stecrage passengers. No one who desires to immigrate to America is at present hindered by the expense of the voy- be soon Fortunately the determination of the house committee on Pacific railroads to re- port the Relliy funding bill favorably to the house comes 50 late in the that it will necessarily have to lay over until con- gress convenes again in December. This will give the public time 0 examine and Qiscuss the proposed measure, and it s one that needs dissection, ion What's the use of going to summer re- worts when you spend your money ut home and enjoy greater comfort. Omaha 45 aboutas pleasant a place to stay in during July and August as Minneapolis, St. Paul or even Wuile the days are sultry the nights are cool and the air re- freshing. The fact that mortality among infants is lighter here than at most of the so-called health affords abundant proof that the safest place for a family is the home, and Omaha is a city of homes. can Denver., resorts The Washington correspondent cf the Chi- eago Record tr! 10 the public that the retary Morton left waeation was to secure rest one who has noted the nts of \socretary, his visits to the different centers of political activity and his conferences with the leaders of the administration in Nebraska must that to the wrong place It ho was seeking absolute rest. When Mr. Morton reaches Washington once more he may be able to seclude b ¢s to convey the imps why § for natn roxs Washington u absolute Any moven the farces nelude he came mselt in his office and reap the benefits of a va- cation. Pottswattamle county is some advantage one residents D of general of the state of low, as is evidenced by the opinion just by that officlal to the effect that th ire stat “Jegally responsible for T ihe $4,400 expended upon the miltia swnmoned to watch that Kelly's army did get away unnoticed from the vicl'ty of Council Blufts. This all the p Jowa to contribute to the sp gormance maoaged by Judge Hubbird and the other railroad attorneys, a privil which they will doubtless prize very highly Pottawattamie county, howover, succeeds erawling out of & very uncomfortable pre dicament. bound having ion to of attorney ap from its occupy the hand wi Piyment will enable ple of tac per- to Perhaps | $500 | soclation wnd ths Pullman co 2350 | the time being this defeat (s a serious back- 8| Al ormanized [ | | | | 2,05 | unfons; brief | | outset. U | have fore: TIE STRIKE AND ITS LESSONS. The great rallway strike \naugarated by the A, R. U. in behalt of the employes of the Pullman Car company muy be regarded an ond. The Railway Manngers as- npany have weorod a victory over the labor forces. For aot 10 the railway unfon and Incidentally to tho however, ged on both sidel end, will promote of railway winl labor, in the contest w roadjustment of operatives and rallway managers that bo wally benefichal. lessons of the strike must Impress bor leaders and workers the neces- operation and unity and the folly ftating strikes at a time when the glutted. The strike was the concurronce of vari- zations—engl nd telegraphers failure from the railway employes could ttion without drawing into Knights of Labor trades divided among themsclves the Krights and trades:unions could do them no a walk-out. Mr. Debs too He withont hi: host left in lurch. His chief ally, n, s more and visionary. His attitude in the fight bordered the He talked of bringing a million men into action when he really did at 10,000 would respond to his a the relations mu The por sity of it pre labor begun market Is without the railway firem o employes' organ neers trainmen doomed to the and was ited, 1 arl ght the the or good by was impulsive, counted the even and was Soverel, emotional on ludicrous, not know t The eonte some t might have been continued for had the Federation of Labor joined the railway union, but the final out- come would been the same, because the majo ay operatives had de- cided for that the strike was inopportune, In po time yet have y of ra themselve its political bearings and particularly attention the necessity of that will prevent a recurrence of rafiway disturbances the strike will be far- It will compel public men to discuss the relations of railway employes to corporate employers and force them to define their positions on the labor question and the settlement of labor troubles by arbitration. The strike has als drawn public attention to the dangers which beset the country by corporate arrogance nd the vital fmportance of legislative re- striction and regulation of public carriers. The cry that the Chinese o, started y Denis Kearney and the San Francisco lotters, inserted national platforms and formulated into congressional acts within than ten years. The de- of the working men will be heeded ind made effective just as soon as the poli- renching. peaceable must , sand into Tess mand ticians and parties realize that their success and supremacy dependent upon com- pliance. are TIHE COUNTY REPUBLICANS. The republican county committee has at last taken a itself and fixed the time for holding the primaries and convention for the selcction of delegates to the state and congressional conventions. Both of these conventions are to be held on the same day and only four days prior to the assembling of the state convention. While we do not have absolute proof that the date was set back in the interest of a coterie of political schemers and thimble riggers there is cer- tainly good ground for suspicion that the delay is not calculated to promote the inter- ests of the party. As usual the apportionment of delegates has been made with reckless disregard of the principles that should govern all delegate bodies. The state committee takes as its basis the number of republican votes cast in each of the respective counties. This Is the basis of representation for the various pre- cints in each of the counties of this state ex @pting Douglas. In this county Clontart precinct, which casts less than forty votes dtogether, and has never cast more than fiteen republican votes, s given five dele- gates, the same as the largest republican precinet in the county outside of Omaha and South Omaha. Tt is notorious that Clontarf, East Omaha and one or two other country pre- cincts which have excessive representation are rotten boroughs, whose delegates are in the market at every convention. This would have been a good year for a new departure, but the committee was not cqual to the emergency. The committee has clearly excecded its authority when it called the convention that is to nominate the legislative and county ticket. The life of the present committee will terminate with the next county con- vention and it is a piece of usurpation on its part to attempt to forestall the work which must devolve on its successor. The present commit- tee might as well have called all the conventions that are to be held in this county for the next five years. If its authority ex- tends beyond its own life there is no limit to its authority. That is a presumption which does not admit of argument. The action, being wholly unauthorized, will doubt- less be repudiated by the new committee chosen by the convention of August 14, move on AVORABLE CONDITION OF THE SOUTH It is an interesting fact that the industries of the south have not suffered from the de- pression as those of other sections have. A statement regarding cotton manufacturing in South Carolina says that twenty mills are now in tperation in that state and through- out the period of industrial depression every mill has been run on full time and has been making with but failures to record. Cotton manufacturing is carried on more cheaply in the south than In the north and Is evidently profitable. Returns regard- ing dividends show that capital invested In this industry pays from 8 to 22 per cent, the best average being 12% per cent for the past three y co mills alone in South Car money, two estimate ar lina earn §760,000 annually on an of about §$6.000,000, and this Is tion that the southern states have A new source of revenue that must The manufac- of cotton will continue to grow in the n why it shall not in time become an immense industry there. The article recently published by Senator Walsh of Georgla relating to the industrial dovelopment of the south that very litions prevail as to all indus- and that there is a great future for that it the people will make the proper effort to develop its resources. Thy sentative southern men who re- cently went to New York City to invite the attention of capitalists to the opportunities for Investment In the south werggable to make a strong presentation so far as the practical are but they ap- | p not to have been very successful in in- dueing the moneyed men of New York thelr money to the south, although millions of it is lying idle in the banks of ] the Ordinarily capital considers only of profits, It does not political or social condi- But it is stated, apparently upon good uathority, that the capitalists of New York do not leave politics wholly out of considera- | tion when the question of investments at the the indic uncovered wealth to them iring great south and there is no reas showed favorable co tries section repre: a concerned, ar to metropolis. the | concern itselr ab tions question south is prescuted to them and that the fact of that meotion being absolutely doniinated by the most reactionary element of the denr- ocratic party Is not without Influence upon them, But In spite of the eonditions which cleck emigration to the south aad tend to keep capital away from that section, the Industrial development of the southern states will go on and thelr prosperity will increase. Most of them are rich in resources that will cer- tainly be made available, because the world | will need th It is unfortunate that a majority of the people there are not friend | to the policy which s essential to industrial development, but in time they will doubtless learn wisdom in this respect. BUSINESS RECOVERY. Is to expect a activity within tue next In saying this it is not meant there will be a full and complete tion which will put the business country on the basis of two years ag both and foreign had unprecedented tions, bui There business roturn ninety that restora of the , when reason domestic commerce almost propor- simply that there will be a change in the direction of complete recovery, which will rapidly as sound and gitimate conditions will There are several substantial reasons for this view in first place, there is large amount of idle capital, the owners of which desire that it shall ning something It is probably not an over-estimate to that $250,000,000, or nearly one-sixth of the total currency of the country, 18 not now in use. The New York banks hold in excess of their lawful reserves more than $70,000,000, and there is a plethora of money in all the financial centers of the country. A few days ago a million and a half of money was offered to Wall street brokers for a year at 3 per cent, and the offer was declined. Some of the leading brokers have been able to get all the money they want and for 5o long a term as seven months at 2% per cent. This shows the plethora of money and the oty of its to make it earn something, and that when they see thelr way more clearly for its investment they will put it into business. There will favorable oppor- tunity for business investments as soon as the tafiff bill is disposed of, provided there are no very material changes made in the ending measure, which will not be so damaging to American Industries as would have been the Wilson bill. There are:no great stocks of goods now in the hands of manufacturers, and it Is only because of the enforced economy of the people that there is not a scarcity in many lines. With all the people employed considerably larger production than at present could un- doubtedly be profitably marketed. Another consideration, <nd perhaps the most im- portant, is the fact that with the ending of the existing strike there will come a feel- ing of confidence on the part of capital that will permit it to embark in enterprises. It will be felt that peace is likely to pre- vail for a considerable time between labor and capital, and that investments In the industries can be made with greater safety than before these Inevitable conflicts took place. It is sald to be the feeling in New York financial circles that the abundance ot money, the vast accumulations of gold in the vaults of European treasuries and banks, and tife fact that the liquidations made necessary by thd Baring failure have probably been completed the world over, will cause a demand for securities and for other properties which will inevitably increase prices and bring about certain forms of business activity. ~We are now in the uni- formly dull season of the year. The mid- summer period is always characterized by light trade and reduced activity in all in- Qustries. But there are good reasons for believing that the country has experienced the worst of-the depression, and that within the next three months there will be a de- cided change for the better, though a full restoration of business actlvity and pros- perity may not be attained before next year. The fact that there is a general feeling that improved conditions are soon to be realized Is in itself an assurance of better times in the not remote future. our attained be reached as warrant. the a very be ea active anx! owners suggests be a FLUCTUATIONS IN CURRENCY SUPPLY. According to the treasury computations there was an expansion of the currency during the fiscal year ended June 30 of more than $70,000,000. The aggregate money cir- culation on July 1, 1894, is stated as amount- ing to $1,664,000,000, against $1,593,700,000 on July 1, 1893. The present circulation, al- though §75,000,000 less than the largest amount during the past year—it was=§1,739,- 000,000 at the end of February—is much greater than it has ever been before at this time of year, the nearest approach to it having been in July, 1892, when it was $44,000,000 below its present amount. There were comparatively slight changes in silyer circulation during the fiscal year, the larger items of change being an increase in gold coln and the expansion of national bank note circulation, the latter amounting to $26,000,000. The New York Commercial Bulletin says that the present money circu- lation of the country is not only more ample than cver before at this time of year, but is more largely in the forms of currency required for the convenient trans- action of the business growing out of the crop movement and development of fall trade, and the treasury is also unusually well supplied with small notes and pre- pared to meet such requirements as are usual at this time of year and from now on until the crop movements are finished. Estimating the population at 67,000,000 the present supply of currency is a little less than §25 per capita, and It is probable that this will not be increased during the current fiscal year and possibly not for a longer time, Unless there is currency legis- lation by the present congress, which does not appear to be at all probable, the ad- ditions to the eirculation this year next must come from the increase of gold coin and of national bank notes. With re- spect to the former it is uncertain whether any Increase can be expected, because it Is impossible to foresee what the gold move- ment during the year will be. If there s a lberal foreign demand for our products and holders of our securities abroad are not unusually anxious to realize on them a con- siderable inflow of gold will take place, which would, of course, add to the ecircula- tion, but there is no assurance that these couditions will be realized, and it is possible that before the year expires we shall have lost gold. As to the national banks it is to be expected that they will increase the circulation of thelr notes as the clrcum- stances shall seem to demand. As already noted the increase of the currency from this source during the last fiscal year was §$26 000,000, and if there should be a general re- vival of business during the current fiscal year justifying a further addition to this clreulation doubtless the banks would make it, but this is contingent upon conditions which may not come about. The banks will act In the matter strictly upon business and of | { F_OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, oase thetr wote | d %0 long as there terd\TR and they will con- tract it as soon as fhof is a difterent condi- | tion. If congress Mol allow the banks to s to the par value of the bonds de- the prineiples. They circalation whenev, 1a a profitable 1ssue not posited (n the treasury cure notes thero undonbtedly be an Immediate addition the currency of $20,000,000 but there scems’to be not the slightest of this by the present congress, 0 large element that body hostile to the national banks. It is quite likely, therefore, that the cur- rency supply will not yary materially during months from the present amount, and undsubtedly that amount will be found ample to carry on the legitimate busi- ness of the country, even should it e to a much greater extent than fs now rally expected. Just now busiy is with about two-thirds of the supply of currency. There s amount of unemployed in the country. The surplus rescrve New York banks at the close of last 2,000,000, which was $77,- 000,000 in excess of the amount held at th ponding date last year. A relative condition of things exists at all the financial centers of the country, so that the currency supply for the requirements of a very axpansion of much indeed, is to expect the e Wiien, however, there s full of business activity the question of legislation for increasing the cur- rency to keep pace with the growth of busi ness will assume fmnort to would to or more chance being done is the in re. the next twelve im- " allable 1 large ne money of the weel aggregated $7 corr is ample onsiderable business—a than there within greater expansion, any substantial reason uing year. a restoration Our new park system is beginning to take on its permanent form and to its attractions to the recreation secking people for whom it is iIntended. But the means of reaching all but two or three of our parks miserably inadequate. It was, of course, impossible to select new grounds along the route of existing strect railway lines, but, the other hand, it was expected that the street railway com- pany would extend its tracks to each new park at the earliest passible moment. The best paying strect car lines now are those that lead to some park, so that it would ap- pear to be to the interest of the company as well as of the public that the extension referred to should be made. With labor and materials at their lowest point the construction of these branches this year ought to commend itself to the consideration of the street railway officials. The lines will have to be built in the very near future. Why not now, when the employ- ment afforded would be doubly appreciated by Omaha laborers? present are most on Republicans and populists have called their state conventions as usual without fuss and feathers. Republicas are dominant in the state, while the populists are pushing close up to the neck-and‘neck point. It is left to the democrats, homever, to make all the noise. While they polled but 37,000 votes on the state ticket at the last election they are now engaged in a monkey-and-parrot fight with the chairman of the state central com- mittee. A stranger“might Infer from all the turmoil that the democgats propose to elect the next govefnor of‘thid state. Far from it. The squabble simply “means that Bryan democrats want to nominate a man whom the populists will endorse in state conven- tion, while the straight goods, administration democrats will - hayeswothing to do with fusion in any way..shape or form. It is needless to say that in any event there will be a declded split inf the serried ranks of the unterrified, which must ultimately accrue to the advantage of triumphant republicanism. Mr. Depew takes altogether too hopeful a view of the attitude of the southern states during the pending strike troubles if he thinks that they have entirely abandoned the doctrine of states' rights. In stating that the so-called rebel states unanimously demanded the intervention of the federal power to restore order before everything else he is stretching things considerably. Among the men in congress who approved of the protest of Governor Altgeld those who were loudest and most outspoken in their ex- pression of opinion hailed from the southern states. Governor Hogg of Texas has also been quoted in an interview maintaining the ruthority of the state to first employ all its resources to repress disorder before that of the federal government interposes. Let a case arise in which the rights of the southern states come in conflict with the claims of the federal government and the old ante-bellum doctrine will speedily be pushed to the front. Mr. Richard Berlin, member of the Mis- souri River commission, has been spending a few days at Washington, getting his bear- ings and charts of snags and sandbars in front of Clontarf precinct during the coming campaign. It is also rumored that Richard's visit to Washington has some bearings upon Buclid Martin's late pllgrimage to the na- tional capital. That 9 a year sugar plum is very tempting in these squally times. The Chicago Herald, in congratulating the people of San Francisco and California on the close of their Midwinter fair, says that they deserve the highest credit for their pluck and enterprise in carrying the exposi- tion to a successful conclusion and that they will find their reward in the advertising it will give them. We hope so. It looks as it the advertising were to be about the only dividend the stockholders are to reap. Gratitude with & Reservation. Ka City Star, Governor Hogg, who thanked God for Texas the other day, 18 In a fair way to be jalled for contempt of court, and that, too by a little Texas judge. It is presume that hereafter in his expressions of grati- will note an dable Foresight. Hlobe-Democrat, 'he senate has decided not to remove the duty from the eggs of the Canadian hen, though it places the broom corn, cabbages and hard clder of Canada on the free list. \ting down the barg on broom corn is not a idea. The (demand for brooms from November on Will be phenomenal. LR D Totiin Dewnd the Pass. wushidgton Star, It has been proposed In the New York constitutional conventjon to make it a criminal offense for 4ny state official to ept & pass on a rallroad or other trans- ctation line. There would be less partial islation in favor of corporations if such W was adopted in all the states and rigorously enforced to the letter, e ent Ownership of Rallronds. Buffulo Express xpress is not an adv anfent ownership of rallrg K though we think it might better assume control of the one road which It practically owns now, the Union Pacific, than give it awiy to & corporation for fear of doing Komething soclalistic. But we do not believe in Wrguing with scare points, Govermment Ownership of the postal system, municipal ownership of water works and lghting plants and state ownership of the canals Rre soclalistic In exactly the same sense s government ownership of railroads. In Othér ‘words, neither of them is socialistic At ail, In the commonly accepted sense that Soclalism entails a confiscation of property m the present owners and & manag Nt by popular votes, or lack of any man- agement at all. Gove e of gov. The ds in general, OLITICAL POTPOURKLE Cosad Tribune: The bwstness Interests of the state demand » business man for Bovernor. Jack” MacColl wiil flil the bill. Blair P Republican victory Is whis- pered by every hill of corn fn Nebraska flelds this year. yminate good men, and do it In an open, honorable and clean man ner, and victory fs ours. Harrison Journal: It times count for anything be nominated for governor at state convention on the first deed, a ballot is needed at a Wallace. Star: Matt Daugnerty spicuous Just at present for what saging, but it is hardly probable that he quit sawing wood. He is (n the pink condition for the Broken Iow contest Holdrege Citizen: It I8 not necessary that the next governor should be a brilllant fol low, but it Is necessary that he should be an honest, capable and a level-headed fel- low. We have had that kind of an ad ministration for the past two years, and it is important that we have that kind of a man the next two years, whether it is the sameé man or not. Plattsmouth News: The outlook for W. J. Bryan becoming Nebraska's next governor grows gloomies each duy as the temper of the democratic state central committee is mada_known, The populist state convention has been postponed, it is said, solely in Dryan's interest, in order that he might g the democratic nomination first, and then the populists would endorse him. But Euclid Martin, chairman of the democratic state central committee, don't propose to take pirt in any such deal and persistently refuses to call the committee together at an ecariy dat the original Br. gram is al- ly fractured. Wahoo Wasp: There is no good reason why Saunders county should not send an earnest and enthusiastic delegation to the republican state convention for Hon. T. J Pickett for secretary of state. There arc no other candidates for state honors in the party in this county, and inasmuch as Mr. Pickett has always worked and fought for the party in the past it is not out of the way that those selected to represent Saun- ders county in the state convention should do a little fighting for him. Let there be no discord in the delegation from Saunders county and Pickett’s nomination is assured Let him be nominated and 1t will bring strength to the republican ticket of the county and state, His nomination insures his_electi Let the Saunders county del gation be solid for T. J. Plckett Sidney Telegraph: The outcome of the race for the gubernatorial nomination at th ands of the republican party is becomin more doubtful every day. Hon. A. E. Cady of St. Paul, we understand, is now in the race, and it Is by no means sure that I enzo Crounse, the worthy present incumbent fs not seeking a rcoomination. 1f this is true, then, from now until the convention is over the race will be very interesting There are few men in the state who stand better with the party than does Cady. He has been tor a long time before the people, and if nominated will not have a defensive campaign to make. He is in about the right location to stit all factions whose particular candidate cannot be nominated. —Governor Crounse has made a_ very, good executive and, while we do not know (hat he is in the ace, we believe that while he has during his administration antagonized some fir fluences in the party, yet if he is a candidate for renomination he will make it troubl some for some fellows who have already counted the votes. ot the sigus of the Jack MacColl will the republican ballot, if is 1BOR NOTES. The rival pressmen’s unions of New York have consolidated. The Indiana State Federation will meet at Peru on July 17. United Shoe Workers' union endorsed the American Federation of Labor platform. The International Typographical union sued five new charters last month. In New York City fully 80 per cent of the men in the building trades are unemployed. Philadelphia printers held a fal meet- ing and adopted the American Federation of Labor platform. Striking carpenters of Cincinnati made ar- rangements to freeze out the bosses and do their own contracting. National Patternmakers’ union, in conven- tion assembled, requested all union men to withdraw from’ the militia. Up in Saginaw, Mich., a teamsters’ union was organized with 400 mempers. Every man on the street railways is now union. Cigars are now being made in the Illinois state prison against the protest of Presi- dent Perkins of the Cigarmakers' Inter- national union. The English Labor Electoral association Intends (o add thirty members to the present number of labor representatives in Parlia- ment at the next election. The wage workers of Cleveland are di appointed because machines have been in- troduced for grading the parks, instead of giving work to the unemployed. The eight-hour day is being adopted by many of the largest private firms in En land. Tho government set the pace and eight hours and union wages obtain in all departments. The Lalance Grosjean works at Harri burg, Pa., have been compelled to shut down in all departments for lack of fuel and steel. About 350 men are thrown out of employment. Notices have been Jones & Laughlin mills, dering a sweeping reduction, which will affect 1,000 men and reach 45 per cent in some cases. Amalgamated men will suffer. The Chicago Trades and Labor assembly at its last meeting declined to admit the delegates of the Chicago Pressmen's union, on the ground that it had seceded from the International Typographical union to join an organization which is at war with the Amer- fcan Federation of Labor. o CALCULATED TO TICKLE. of Labor is- posted in the great at Pittsburg, or- It sounds rather well man_to as his better Boston Transcript: paradoxical for a perfectly k of his invalid wifé A man and woman can until they marry each they can't. Life: Stranger—Why don't your ecity officials supply you with better water? Resident (apologetically)—Well, you see, most of them sell beer. Chicago Record: b0 you believe that animal life undergoes constant changes in the process of evolution “Certainly. Haven't all Jung women you knew last winter be summer girly? Indianapolis Journal: “I am told,” said the caller, “that your husband is engaged in a work of profane history.” “Yes,” replied the author's wife. “It cer- tainly sounded that way when I heard him correcting the proof. Atchison Globe: argue pleasantly other, and then ome Chicago Tribune: ‘“‘Your hair, dear,” said Miss Irene, “seems to be badly tied' up. “ hadn't noticed It love,” ‘replicd Miss Laura, sweetly. I was looking at your misplaced switch." Arkansaw Travelc Aunt Amanda—I hear the Corners is goin' to have free mail delivery. Uncle Reuben—Another of them confounded citified notions! How's a man goin' to hear the news without goin' down to the postoffiice? Detroit Free Press: the reputation of being should say report belles her, then think s0?’ “Think 80! Why, she presente her husband with twins the other day New Orleans Picayune: The most w looking being on earth is the young doctor treating his first case, Subsequently he modifies his wise look. Hg knows there is nothing in it What aid you looked like @ meant to say as If you were Indianapolis Journal: She mean by saying that 1 chromo? He—Why—er—1 that you did not” look painted. Distracted Mother—0, ohn! John! Come quick! le's fallen 7 the well. Farmer Tightphist—Great Scott! T'll get him out. IUs the only good well on the place! *hicago Tribune RECOMPENSE, New York Sun 1 cast a pebble In the sea, Thinking that never moré As long as life is mystery "Twould come back to the shore, Twas thus she threw my heart away, It sunk into the sea, But Time is good and yesterday "Twas glven back to me. Prondergast obeyed the order for a walk- out The Sick Man of the East might try quinine for his shakes Pullman’s expla for what it neg! Criticlsms of western York papers ev.donce the Hght of the L ing_on on Wall is interosting chiofty o explain, ation by N cone eivili appaliing xow findings my 18 march- find grass W New York, ¢ troet. Sheor 1s & muttor atoir Now York uses the multiple five directory statisties {n order to distanc line. In the matter of figures, 15 a dalsy miles of buildings and recently sold $5,250,00( lalt The wife of Hon. Ignatius recently in St. Paul, aged 61 mplished artist an! singor acher in the Philadelp! nineteen-foot boa-constrictor rated a strike and walkont recently. After considerable negoti President MeBride of the Miner: having just passed through a strike siege, is not fn a mood to nance a sympa thetic cne. Experience is a great teacher. “Some of the correspondents of New York and other rural nowspapers,” 1s the way Chicago loftily refera to enstern news- gatherers. This s not the vanity of emi- nence. It is Harveyized nerve, Mcttosh of Princeton, while uburbs of Bar Harbor re Al native who iaquired his which were The n, exclal “Me- delusion, Ui street its on trest rallway rolting franchise in Detroit 0 a J man for Ehty ot Donnelly died She LR and f ly at ia school inaugu ation i Judic union, of Ex-P'resident rambling in the contly, n rur \in Cosh A section belled against and ate of oceani splanting. too exceedin tough. The late Willlam _Walter queathiod $10,000 to Charles merly Washir n correspondent York Herald bequest s a tes of esteer It is hardly necessary to men of wealth that the Phelps plan patented It is said mine owner Africa, is n on surrounding ill have none porsonal and Is & recently ro assaulted the m. This is a Will ot bear work upon of Fiji islanders sossive ta Ve of th reform that The material to be- for- New uial \ssure not Phelps Nordhofi of the is that Ce and only him with 1l Rhodes, the diamond political boss of South a_bachelor, but insists biche He but ried men his domestic stall. Any of his who murries is dismissed. Mar- in's carcer—destroys single- aim-=~is his mo Inesday last two of the oldest peo- ple on earth celebrated their anniversaries it the Home for the Awed and [nfirm Col- ored Persons at Philadelph Aunt Mary McDonald was 128 on that day and John Gib- son 120. Both were born in slavery, the former at Norristown, Pa., and the I Church Hill, Md. The ible pa remarkably activa for re died in Gl hrist, who v ¥ Gilehrist, who was a mechanical genjus. diffienit and delicate instruments and the chief aid of Prof. Pettigrew in s models for investigating the laws the flight of birds. He died a i5 wifo often saying: “He can hing but money.” Senator Harris of Tennessee mayor or alcalde of the town of Carlotta, Mexico. The senator, then General Harris and out of a position hecause of the fall of the confederacy, was quite willing to accept the honors at that time (1866), not through any fondness for Mexico, hut partly for the reason that Parson Brownlow was anxions to hang him, and his fature in the United States was not especially pron ———— PULLMAN PROFIT Facts Which ¢ in His Statement, nghold (Mass) Republican. the smoke of the present battle has the merits of the original con- Mr. Pullman and his em- 5 a of some pub- on. sely bearing on On W ter » other day “th was 6 He m Roverning poor wian make e was onco ome Overlooked After cleared away troversy between ployes will remain lic inquiry and discu on this point Is the financial condition of the Pullman company. Its operations for the 1ast two full fiscal years ending July sulted as follows: Sarnings . Royalties, profits Total revenu Operating expenses. Other expen Dividends on stock il 200,000 Surplus . Thus after declaring a stock of 8 per cent the compa surplus in 1893 large enough ranted an extra dividend of over 10 per cent, and in 1892 it could have declared an extra dividend of 8 per cent above the 8 per cent ctually divided. Ever since 1876 this company has paz dividends of from 8 to 9% per cent, and rare has been tho year (n which it has not carried a large ot - surplus account, which in the main has not been invested in the plant of the company, and is presumably avail- able in large part for diviston among the Kuvidel A aggregate sum to date of some § ), 001 or within $12,000,000 of the entire amount of capital invested in the stock. Mr. Pullman personally is a very wealthy man, said to be worth some $25,000,000. This is o ver its from manufacturing allel for richness is hardly the country outside of the one or two other combinattons. It cannot be found among the railroads or among ny of the ordinary manufacturing or met cantile enterprises. It is the biggest gold mino probably uncovered in the country before the advent of the “trust’ idea. When the great strike and riots of 1877 were precipitated by a reduction of 10 per cent in the wages of the employes of the Baltimore & Ohio and other roads, Mr. Gar- rett's company was paying 10 per cent on its stock, and the Republican held at the time that the company should have put at lea: a part of the reduction upon capital, reducing the dlvidend rate to, say, 9 per cent, after which ages might be brought into consideration. And at that time 10 per cent on money was far less above the general average of rates than it is today. It may be a question, ther fore, r philan- thropists and Iabor reformers to consider, whether Mr. Pullman, in view of the extraor dinary profits he and his company were accumulating, was or was not morally bound or share more generously with his men in the effects of the hard times. He believes in paternalistic methods and has put them operation at his works to a degree not anywhere else in America What could be more in consonance with this policy than at such a time to dip back into the surplus of $4,000,000 made in the single pr Vious year and keep up the wages of em- ployes who are so carefully housed and other- wise looked after as so many dependents at Pullman? It may not be true in other cases, but it is certainly true of such a system of pternalism, that wage reductions cannot be justified in the face of sueh profits as the Pullman company exhibits. Fopulism in Kansas, New York Post The overthrow of populism In Kansas seems assured by the decision of the demo- crats to run ‘straight' ticket this year In 1802 they used’ with the populists, and the two parties polled i Lewelling, a8 against 168,075 publican candidate. The fusion policy was Diposed at that time by some of the wisest leaders o democrats, but the argu ment that such a combination the electoral votes of the stat yikon prevailed with the ma Now, howeve democrats disgusted with the record fe administration as republicans, and with their vote generally cast for thel own ticket Tewelling can stand no chanc of re-election. dividend on the had left a to have war. remarkable showing of prof- industry. Its p w0 be found in Sugar trust and in equalled g t might from Har party much of e poniiet - ry Yo ston Globe lish contemporarles are prophesying direful consequences to this untry” from the cent turbulence, Carlisle said, when our civil war broke out YAmerici has taken an express train to destruction,” and whenever there 13 any {sturbance on this side of the® Atlantic our English cousing are apt to Infer that the general downfall of oun institutions Is r English friends should have Don't Wo raelf, John, me of our I at | his time not to get nervous ondition. The serene depths of American existence are unstirred by ruflles on its surface, over our these I | not ajor Gohoral, Brigadior General o misenry Genersl (o 1o Selecte Reviewing the tortheom hanges In the army, the Washington correspondent of the New York Sun writes: The retirement of General 0, O, Howard, for age, during the coming sutumo, has alic exolted specu- tion as to who will b n- ro Iy his Successor | deed, n double Interest centers in the event, eenuse the his o order promotion of a Vi will In sme live colonel of runk the H. Ruger, Wesley ke, A, MeD, Mo Wheaton and * kiwell 8. “Otis soldicrs of high guulifications and dise tinguished records, The first two are nas tives of New York and graduates of West Toint. shortly ufter his appointy feer corps, on Eraduatiy restened from the army, hut promy up his sword at the onthr civil war as lleutens ant color Third Wisconsin, He w wlier general in the weral “of voluuteers Gettyshurk and at and reached his than eight v brigadier gen- erat t 8 R <ty Ite turn give ) Thom, I {gadiers Merritt, ol brevets ¥y and for zallant Franklin, ¢ present gr had a brilliant with hrey eral in the ro Tavern, Hawe finai Vir at ively rather more Merritt, graduating in war record in the cuvalry, from major_un to major gens ulars for Gettysburg, Yellow Shop, Five Forks and the cumpaign, . £ major luntecrs Winchester, and He ) W brigadier iy i IS ke bigan his A captain Pennsvivania infuntry nel in the army for and also briza general spec for dise tin seryices duri ent bate tles Ol W 0 Spotteyls vania Hi weneral nd Cold Cldost of wich the ntored West Pointin tinuously, He was to general Nashy Shiloh, general field rvi n and General Otis be With the eivil war, not b the Military acailem vetted up to major lerness, Cedar Creck batiles in the Shir nded a division weral Otis was wnd volunteers idier general of with the Fourth brevetted career in the (tys iy the rmy, havi fro major 1 Tun " ireneral Petors. indoan the and Al interesting i services ibilities are neral Ruger, the wh 1 more pre- promoting from brigadier than in promoting from For obvious that once heen exercised, of seniority, In picking & ymotion, the reasons on which i worthy w0t would naturally continue to operate in future pro= motions, in ordinary pe woe, and with no cial sorvices tg miscon- duct to reprove. In s, the senfor brigadior, having been ced out in pref- erence to any of his present associates in at grade for promotion to 11, could count, if “other thin remain equal, on being first among them, also, made major s L When d ALl thus promoted he was the sc It is true that sometimes a_delay motion could made in fav very mo officer who eariier carly in major general nel to brizadier N hos is ba be is to retire Ruger retires Merritt not until and Geneval Otis eneral MoCook alone re- and indeed less than six General Howard, and this Ic srvice, may © him lowing General Ruger his 159 and G wntil 1 tires earlier monthsafter fact, with his the promotion, turn thereafter But who will be General Howard's i A much harder question to answer, ser 1 of the line Is Colonel W. K. Sh infantry, who began *his 3 Tieutenant of the Seventh Michiza He was brevetted colonel in the army for Ifair Ouks, and also brizadier general of volunteers, He scems to have as good a chance as anyhody just now, ulthouch he has frequently ~ been passed over, and, indeed, since he does not retire until 1899, would have other oppor- tunities if passed over once more Now. Colonel M. M. Blunt, Sixteenth infantry, will retire in a few weeks, and hence bes fore ney oceurs, while Colonel P, T. Sv ‘nty-second, whose chances for the t one time considered very good, for agze less than half months after the vacancy, that the interval may be considered too short to justify the chanzes involved in his assignment to t mmand_of a de- partn Then in order come Colonel H. ©. Merriam, Seventh infantry, retiring in 19015 Colonel 7 retiring In 8% Colonel J. W. Forsyth, Seventh’ cavalry formerly of Sheridan’s staff, who retires in 1898; Colonel T. M. Anderson, Fourteenth fnfantry, who retires in 1900, ‘and Colonel 1. F. Townsend, Twelfth, who_retires in 1867, 1f Calonel i1, W. Closson, Fourth ar- tiliery, who is five files lower still on the list of line colonels, move near the top, he would stand a very gond chance indeed promot it 1s many a year since illery cer has recclved the star, is highest in that arm. He retires in 1dier when That The the new br vacancy s filled? care two 50 rin the staff to he aw n those in the line. In r ¢ General John P, commissary general of subsistence, will ‘be retired for age. His successor will no doubt be one of the five assistant com- ry generals, of whom two, M. R. Mor- wan and T. C. Sullivan, are colonels, and the other three lieutenant colonels, In the staff departments seniority Is no more uarantee of the star than in the line. neral Du Barry, the predecessor of Gen- eral Hawking o8 head of the subsistence department, was the senior subordinate when promoted; on the other hand, General Hawking himself, who became chief in Des cember, 1802 the junfor of Colonel Morgan, though his senjor in years. Now, however, Colonel Morgan, who graduated from the Military academy in 1851 and served in the artillery until the outbreak of the eivil war, will azain be a candidate find perhaps the most prominent one. Dur- ing the present summer leave of absence of General Hawkins, which will carry him beyond the date of his retirement, Colonel Morzan has charge of the department. 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