Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 22, 1894, Page 12

THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Editor, — PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. 8 OF SURSCRIPTION. Dally Tee (without Sunday) One Year.... . Dafly Bee and Sunday, One Year. BixMonihs vk Threo Months. . Bundny Tee, One ¥ Batorday Tiee, On Weekly Dee, Onn ¥ 2838333 o Do Buttdin Bt o, Gomer N Sind Twenty-fourth Sta. Conmenr s 93 Pewn sirvor T hieago O, 51 Chambar of Commerce, New Fork, Tooms 18, 14 Tibune Mg, Washington, 1477 F » y CORRESPONDENCE. 3 di ymunfcations reiating to nows and edi- el e aditeased: To the Editor, LETTERS 1 Femittances stould be Publishing mpany, o postofice orders 1 ni "ot the company. AT All e torial be made payal) THE BEE " CIRCULATION George 1 secretary of The Bee Pube 1ahing. comy ‘nk duly =worn, says that the actunl number of full and complete coples of The Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of June, 1594, was as Tollow, STATEMENT L. 22,015 24,005 21,067 2182 21,601 21898 008 Total i Less deduotions for unsold coples e 11,676 854,787 Total soll ¢ Ll Datly average net eireulation *sunday. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. ence this 30 day of (Seal,) e e Governor Waite of Colorado has formally announced that he Is not a candidate for the United States senate. This is rellef, in- deed. Pullman gets his regular quarterly divl- dend whether school keeps or not. This does not look as if he has been running his busi- ness at any very great loss. —_— Secretary Morton says he is pleased with the president's latest tariff letter. But he would be more pleased if Mr. Cleveland would come out flat-footed for free trade. United States s its career to be confronted with an emigration problem? Has the fmmigration question solved Itself by the little deviee of cheap steerage rates on out- going steamers? 1s it possible that the thus early in The United States troops went into Chi- cago in the face of remonstrances, and they depart in spite of further remonstrances against their withdrawal. Some Chicago peo- ple would like to have a permanent police force supported by the federal government. Debs has been nominated for the presi- dency. So has Coxey. So have a host of others who have risen to temporary notoriety or fame. In the meanwhile the next presi- dential election is still two years removed, and the next president will be a republican. Some of the senators who are so boldly defining their positions on the tariff issue have changed wonderfully from their former attitudes and are quite likely to change again when the proper Inducements are offered. ‘Walt until pressure is brought to bear and watch for the political somersaults. That much heralded patriotic offer of the New York banks to furnish the national treasury with all the gold required for ex- port appears to have been all chaff and no grain. The gold reserve is down lower than ever, while the New York banks are hanging on to the gold In ther vaults. The fact, however, has not been blazoned to the world. The precedents that are being set in the Afferent courts that are considering cases against the strikers with reference to the obligation of the telegraph companies to pro- Quce telegrams sent over their wires will have to be reckoned with in the future in cases of an entirely different nature. If the labor organizations do not have an oppor- tunity to turn these rulings in their favor before long many careful calculations will be unceremoniously upset. The correction of the unofiicial announce- ment of 23.05 knots the speed of the Minneapolis on her trial trip, made from the official data, places the actual speed at 23.073 knots per hour. This apparently in- significant change means an addition of $12,100 to the enormous premium earned by her builders. The noticeable feature of these corrections of unofficial time schedules I8 that they almost always increase both the speed and the cost to the government. A correction that corrected downward would be an anomaly. as The New York Sun is trying to make ordinary mortals feel cool despite the sum- mer temperature by telling them of the men who have to work in places where it is really hot—men in sugar refinerles, iron foundries, glass factories work with the heat of a furnace refracted upon them from morning till night. Stokers and coal heavers in steamships have to endure a temperature of over 120 degrees, and fre- quently as high as 160 degrees. One hun- dred In the shade is luxury to those who know how to appreciate it 2 Nebraska Is to recelve $6,900 this year out of the §400,000 which congress annuaily ap- portions among the several states to assist in the support of the militia, New York, of course, gets the lion's share of this money, over $31,000, while Arizona winds up at the bottom of the list with $2,000. The practice of the federal government con- tributing to the maintenance of the state militia dates from the beginning of the contury. It is justified on the ground that the militla is kept chiefly for the purpose of upholding the federal government and can at any time be mustered into federal control. Chalrman Wilson himselt will probably be the next member of the ways and means eommittee whom it will be necessary for the president to take care of. The example has been set with the appointment of Con- gressman Breckinridge of Arkansas to be minister to Russia because he falled of re- nomination on account of his support of administration measures. A similar fate threatens Mr. Wilson because of his advo- cacy of free coal, and it s understood that he has been promised a good federal pos tion should he lose his place In congress. There always has been more or less of a tendency to appolnt ex-congressmen to fod- oral offices, und this tendency will doubt- loss bo visibly accelerated by the proposed palicy of President Cleveland, UNION PACIFIC FORECLOSURE. The receivers of the Union Pacific rafl- road have finally reached the conclusion that the shortest and most desirable ‘way out of the financial troubles that have over- taken the Unfon Pacific management is by foreclosure of the mortgage. This has been the vosition of The Bee for the last ten years. Welghed down with a colossal debt and explofted by its promoters and successive owners the road has for years been fn no position to compete with rivals that were not so encumbered. As the years went by the accumulated defaulted interest has enormously increased the debt, while rival lines have cut down fts trafic and decreased its earning power. All the schemes of reorganization that have for thefr object the exten:ion of the honded debt and perpetuation of the present fixed charged are but makeshifts fn the interest of stock jobbers who expect to boom and their stock. Ostensibly the funding the Interest of the govern- Is the heavie:t creditor of the reality the whole burden of fall upon the region of to the road. Bvery dollar, Interest, would have to be the patrons of the road in the high which of the Missouri would every this uld the patrons of the make good the fixed fund, but the reor- endeavor to resume upon millions unload schemo 15 in ment, which company. In the debt would ntry tributs principal and extorted out of exorbitant prevall this sid be maintained on Not only w required to sinking would on millions rates, and rates now other road In section road be charges ganized concern paying dividend of watered stoek. The fereclosure of the mortgages would wipe out the stock altogether and put the road on a solid basis of actual capital in- vested. It would place the road in posi- tion to meet all competitors and enable It to favor its patrons with reduced rates. While the government would a great part of its claim the people of the whole country, who are the government, would derive incalculable advantage from the lift- ing of the incubus by which they have been weighed down for %0 many years. othing would do so much toward reviving the prosperity of the transmissouri country as the foreclosure of the Union Pacific mort- Bages. and lose STRENGTH OF ORC ) LABOR. There is a popular misapprehension regard- ing the numerical strength of organized labor in this country. There is really no accurate information as to the active membership of labor organizations, due to the fact that most of them refuse to divulge their own numbers, while some of those which profess to give their numerical strength probably somewhat exaggerate {t. The most careful estimate made in recent years of the numerical strength of trades unions was that of Mr. R. J. Hinton, a friend and advocate of these organizations, published in 1885. He only oftered his conclusions as an approximation, stating that in most cases information was refused him and he had to make estimates based upon various data. The result of his investigation was the belief that labor organizations included one-fifth of the per- sons in those occupations, industrial, mechanical and mining, transporting, etc. which are usually referred to when labor ts spoken of, omitting agricultural, domestic, professional, commercial and clerical labor. In the opinion of some even the estimate of one-fifth Is considerably too high. The figures presented by Mr. Hinton footed up to about 700,000, from which he deducted nearly 90,000 for duplications, reaching the conclusion that all labor organizations, in- cluding small local bodies, which he lumped together, embraced in round numbers 611,000 persons. It is a question whether the de ductions for duplications were not too low, and it is probable that if it had been pos- sible to obtain absolutely accurate figures of the membership of the various organizations the aggregate estimated by Mr. Hinton would have been reduced by at least 100,000, mak- ing it but little over 500,000 as representing the enrollment of all the labor organizations of the United States in 1885, This of course was exclusive of the Knights of Labor. At the time Mr. Hinton published his report the Knights claimed 600,000 members, but the last report made to the grand master workman only shows an aggregate of 64,000 actual paying members, It is estimated that in 1800 the number of persons employed in gainful occupations, that is persons who are not living on their incomes, was “21,740,000. This number of course includes both male and female work- ers of all occupations and trades. Of the 13,000,000 voters in the United States it is safe to estimate that only about 10 per cent, or 1,300,000, are enrolled in regular labor organizations. These figures are interesting and instruc- tive, 80 than to the workingmen who belong to labor organ tions. While skilled workmen constitute the rank and file of trades unfons the operatives of the transportation companies and the men employed in the factories, mills and mines vastly outnumber the mechanics in the build- ing trades. The introduction of labor sav ing machinery and the gradual ahsorption of all mechanical employment by capital controlled by corporations, syndicates and trusts has been a powerful incentive toward recruiting the ranks of labor organization As yet, however, they only include less than one-fifth of all the labor forces outside of the agricultural clas and to no class more MIDOC, No one has in recent years made his first trip to Europe in one of the palatial passen- ger steamers that ply between the ports of the Atlantic seaboard without being surprised it not shocked at the extent to which gam- bling is carried on from the beginning to the end of the voyage. The leaves the pler before the men with sport- ing proclivities repair to the smoking room and transform it into a veritable gambling den. Al the Qifferent games of t do not require speclally prepared ap- paratus are soon in full blast and the stakes are adjusted to fit the sums which the par- tiolpants can afford to venture. Nor Is the gambling confined to the male denizens of the smoking room. Women passengers fr quently induige in smallor games among themselves and quite generally subscribe to the different pools that are daily devised These pools are as numerous and as varied as the inventive Yankee genius can contrive There are pools upon the daily run of the ves- sel, upon the time of passing the next ocean steamer, upon the length of the entire voy age, upon minute of landing and upon a host of other uncertain events. The pools are open to all and the women are, as a rule, not backward in subscribing. The winner in midocean, as on land, is expected to “set up the less fortunate players in the game. The gambling evil on the great trans- Atlantic steamers Is sald to be increasing rather than diminishing. Since the clos!ng of the open gambling houses in New York under pressure of tffe recent purification movement, this fleld has not escaped the watchful eye of the professional gambler. Deprived of his vocation om land, he hus steamer scarcely chance THE | taken passage to Burope and likewise taken advantage of the almost universal gambling mania that discloses {tself among his fellow- passengers. Many have been the cases re- ported to ship officors where the shrewd dealer of cards has swept away the fortune of come unsuspecting victim. So rich has the field proved that numerous of the so-called “talent” are said to spend their entire time in golng back and forth between the United States and Europe, of course clearing ex- penses in the interval. According to reliable reports, midocean gambling has come to be a scandal upon American tourists. The officers of the ship are practically powerless to interfere if they would. They permit and sometimes even encourage it, because it makes their lme a_favorite with excitement loving travelers That something ought it all will readily admit. Just how is the perplexing question. Unless the American authorities take the initiative the remedy is likely to be long delayed to be done to check THE STANDARD OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT, Senator Allen's supplemental report the senate sugar investigating committes down in clear and unmis- takable language the rule that absolute in- tegrity should bo the standard of congres- sicral conduet. “There is, of course, nothing new in the this assertion, which must be regarded as an old-fashioncd adherence to what are generally suppos:d to be the stricter public morals of the founders of the republic rather than a new- fangled innovation of the close of the nine- teenth century. We hav had the wise old saying that honesty is the best policy, but, unfortunately, in recent years have come to view it as inapplicable to the conduct of public officials, No senator representative in congress can be called strictly honest who, when there is a conflict of public and private interest self to be influcnced by the latter to the injury of the people whom he represents. The only way to insure this honesty, in th opinfon of Senator Allen, is by forcing se'i- ators and representatives to relinquish their holdings in all private enterprises that may be directly or indirectly promoted by congressional legislation. “It s impos- sible,” says he, “for me to conceive of a porson who is engaged in discharging the duties of the office of United States senator, and who may at any time be required to consider or vote on a measure affecting the public welfare, to divorc: his private inter- ests from those of the public; and if he is cempelled to neglect the one or the other, [ think we have a right to conclude that he will invariably neglect the public. interest to preserve his own.” The conflict of public and private inter- ests, however, is not alone injurious to the public when it appears among the senators and representatives in the two houses of congress. Senator Allen himself says that the sugar investigation disclosed only two senators actually engaged in Sugar stock speculation. These were Scnator Quay and Senator McPherson. He exonerates Senator Ransom altogether by laying the blame in lis case entircly upon his son and the mes- senger to his committee, who made their in- vestments without the senator's knowledge. Yet these two persons were employes of the senate, and how far tha speculating fever had taken hold of the other senate em- ployes the committee does not venture to inform the public. What was reprehensible in the senators must have been reprehen sible in but a lusser degree in these minor officers of the government, although they have no vote upon the bill which is to make another fortune for the Sugar trust. What are we to say of men highcr in the official scale who have knowingly made their per- sonal interests rest upon the work of tariff legislation? What of the Nova Scotian coal mines purchased since the presidential elec- tion by a company including the cabinet officer nearest to the president with the returns upon the investment dep ndent upon the placing of coal on the free list? And other influencial officers of the administra- tion are doubtless financially interested in various entorpr which hope to make great gains by their influence over legisla- tion. They use their official positions for the purpose of lobbying bills that ave to inure to their own private benefit. In failing to extend his standard of con- duct to all public officials instead of to sen- ators and representatives alone Senator Allen has fallen short of the mark. The same Integrity Is necessary in the men who lave been given othr positions in the public service, although they may not have the same power for evil. Office is a trust whether it rosponsibility hinmediately to the people in their capacity or to some appointing The public welfare must dominate all private interests it we are to have a government for the peo- ple as well as of the people and by the peo- ple. as a member of lays substance of always or owes electoral power. AMERICAN INTER 74 states that war has and Japan A London dispaich been declared between China growing cut of the controversy regarding Corea. The report needs confirmation, but the probability of hostilities between those countries is very great, active preparations for war having been going on by both for wome time and each is In condition for carrying on an active conflict should it be begun. The United States government has made an effort to bring about a settlement of the Corean by peaceable methods and in this Secretary Gresham has been subjec to eriticism on the ground of having unduly interposed. It has been al- leged that our government sent an official dispatch to the government of Japan pro- testing against the occupation of Corea by Japanese trcops, in the ahsence of any official denial of this charg retary of state has vigorously condemned for all diplomatic pro- pursuing a course he has enunciated in regard to our international relations It is highly improbable that Secretary Gresham has made any such mistake as he is charged with, Nobedy, it is safe to say, would realize readily than he that it is not the business of the United States to undertake to dictate to a friendly power regarding its foreign policy I a matter with which this country has no legitimate cern. His uniformly conservative attitude with respect to our international relations forbids the idea that Secretary Gresham has gone s0 far In this matter as to against the landing of Japanese Corea. All that our government ably done in the way of interposition is to urge upon both China and Japan the adoption of peaceable methods for the sottle- ment of the dificulty, to which there could be mno proper obj especially United States Is entirely disinterested in Corean affairs, There appears good reason why this country should be- come Involved In the controversy, but this would not necessarily result from a tender of friendly advice, or even from am offer controversy doing and the se been breach of well as for the policy pricty, as contrary to more con- protest troops in has prob- fon, as the not to be no lows him- | to mediate batween China and Japan It desired by those countries. Tt is stated that the suggestion has been conveyed to both governients that the Interest of the United Stated in [’lll Aslatic matters is solely for unrestricted ‘commerce and the general welfare of nations. 1t seeks no territory on the western khore of the Pacific ocean and desires in te future to have no offensive or defensive irelations of a political nature with Asiatie But It views with deep concern n war In the east, which might eventually Invol¥e other powers and even affect the pedee of Burope. Certainly there can be no valid ghjeetion to representations of this kind. It appears that the United States has always manitested a very cordial interest in Corean affairs, having opened that country to the world In 1882, It also appears that in our treaty with Japan there is a provision that the president of the United States will act as a friendly mediator in of dim- culty Japan and any Buropean power at the request of the Japanese govern- ment. There is warrant In this for the profter of the friendly offices of our gov- ernment in the present case. Furthermore it s stipulated in our treaty with Corea that in the event of injustice or oppression the part of other our government would exert its good offices In the Corean government. There Is certainly ample fustification the United States secking to bring about an amicable adjust- ment of the controversy between China and Japan regarding but whether this nitions. case between on powers for Coren, government will be able to accomplish any- | thing seems somewhat doubtful. Japan, which has more extensive interests in Corea than China, has not as yet shown a dispo- sition to let the trouble go to arbitraticn, possibly from a feeling that China, having broken faith in sending troops to Corea with- out the consent of Japan, would do so again whenever opportunity offered. A war between China and Japan would be an Interesting conflict. The latter is thought to have the sympathy of Russia, which is anxlous to acquire a port in Corea, and if this sympathy should be actively manif it would give Japan a decided advantage. American sympathy would of course be with the Japanese, whose governmental system 1s largely modeled upon that of the United States. HE URBAN POOR. Bvery time that discontent or widespread distress is disclosed in any of our larger cities some wiseacre is sure to advance as an infallible remedy for the unfortunate situa tion exodus of the urban poor to the healthful and free agricultural fields that are waiting for industrious cultivators. When destitution was most prevalent during the hardships of the past winter it was urged that there would be enough for all if the un- employed would only leave the cities and scatter to the country. When the Indus- trial army demonstration was at its height the men participating were advised to head for the farms rather than for Washington. Now that the strike troubles have been man- ifested in their greatest severity in Chicago, the second city in the land, the same remedy to provide against their recurrence is again brought out. As one writer states it, “It these labor strikes would but drive hundreds of the poorest poor from the city into the gardens and green fields they would be bles- sings in disguise,” All this sounds very well and serves nicely to confirm the complacent optimist in his complacency. To believé that' the urban poor have their destinies in their own hands and that they can obtain “good health, good morals, wholesome food and a comfortable sheiter” merely by consenting to abandon thelr squalid quarters and taking up a resi- dence in the ever-inviting country, one of his fecling of partial responsibility. The truth is, however, that there is nefther probability nor possibility of an exodus from city to farm. Every year the number of immigrants from country to city exceeds many times the number of city people who exchange city life for farm life. One of the most noticeable characteristics of the century just closing has been ghe remarka- ble growlh of the larger urban centers, nov only in the United States, but throughout the whole world. In this country city popu- lation has gained steadily upon rural popula- tion, the proportion of inhabitants living in cities growing from 3 per cent when the first census was taken to over 30 per cent when the last was taken. And as the natural rate of increase in the cities is quite generally less than that in the country, the grow(h of the cities due to the immigration of rural inhabitants has even exceeded this percentage of increase. The the greater portion of these country people immigrate into the cities is cither that they the life the farm or that they are unable to make a succese at farm work. A large part of “the poorest poor’ in the cities consists of the poorest poor of the country and to send them back to their point of departure would better their condition in the least. They failed once in the country, they failed again in the city and most likely would fail once more if they again changed their residence. It takes, moreover, fewer men to cultivate the same fields than formerly, when improved farm machinery was almost unknown, and even it the destitute from the city were willing and able to take to farm life they have neither the destitute from the city were willing and able to take to farm life they have neither the necessary experience nor the necessary capital to make farming pay. It is, there- fore, idle to expect the privation attendant upon financial depiression upon troubles to reverge the current of the popu- lation movement or to check the inflow into the large cities; ' The problem of the city poor will have to be s0lved on the spot where it is found. The city poor must be relieved in the citles; they enabled to work thelr own salvation for themselves by merely transplanting some of them to a les densely populateil sofl By WAY o) ADA. The senate addpied a resolution a few days ago calling upon thy, secretary of the treas- ury for information as to whether immi- grants who by law are entering the United States, are entering from either Buropean or Chinese ports by way of Canada, and also whether inspection of Immigrants Into this country from Canada is efficient in enforcing the United jmmigration. The ‘senate further asks to be Informed whether the steamship lines between Buropean and Canadian ports are subject to the same regulations as to land- ing immigrants destined for the United States as are steamship lines to the ports of this country. The reason for these Inquiries is the ported fact that the steamship runniog to Canadian ports are now favored by this administration st the expense of those running to American ports, The lat- ter have to pay the head money of wigrants and must al:o Telurn such as are an relieve census reason cannotendure on not or labor cannot be laws of States the concerning re- companl im- behalf of | | mission OMAMA DAILY .BFF: SUNDAY, JULY refected by the Immigration authorities, re- quirements Which lines running to Cana- dian ports escape. Obviously, therefore, a very great advantage fs enjoyed by the lines entering the ports of Canada, and it 15 sald that these lines advertize in Europe to guarantee admission into the United States to immigrants, and to - prevent any from being returned. This they do without trouble, it is said, by reason of the failure to make proper provision for the inspection of immigrants at the Canadian border. The made that the Inspection which the Treasury department has established in Canada is an fnspection in name only, and that it really facilitates the entry through Canada of immigrants into this country. The Canadian steamship lincs are not ecom- pelled at their own expense to return any immigrants and all the haras- ing conditions imposed on lines running to the United States Under present cfrcumstances, when about as many people are returning to Europe from this country as are coming here, plans to restrict immigration seem altogether unneces- sary, but none the less if our laws are being evaded or contravened and in an undesirable class of immigrants g abled to get into the country, the necessity of applying a remedy will not be questioned. If it be a fact, have been rejected at our ports have after- wards turned up in this country and it has been proven that they came in by way of Canada, everybody will agree that such a state of things should be stopped. This ter of immigration into the United States through Canada has always been more or loss troublesome, and the suggestion that it ought to be stopped altogether will meet with pretty general approval. charge fs escape consequence en- as stated, that paupers who ma The possibilltfes of a coming reform in the American of free lunches gested by an order of a Chicago restraining the proprietors of saloon priv- leading office building whose restaurant priviieges are held by other pa ties from supplying customers with thing in the nature of meals. It appears that the restaurant privileges and the sa- loon privileges were cach exclusive, but that the saloon was in the habit of furnish- ing free lunches that detracted from the pa- tronage of the restaurant. Its free lunches were of different qualities and quanti- ties, and at certain hours of the day, when taken in connection with a 25-cent glass of beer, sufficient to satisfy the hunger of a man who might be craving for a well developed repast. This the point why the free lunch principle should not be carried out to its logical end. Why should free lunches not be graded according to the status of the customer? What right has @ man who pays but 5 cents for a glass of beer to devour as much, if not more, free lunch, and lunch of the same quality, as the man whose thirst require a mixed drink costing several times that amount? Does this not justify the inference that the man with a highly cultivated taste is paying for the food of his less educated fellow? The injustice must be apparent to tho most cursory observer. The incongruities of the free lunch system call loudly for reform. practice is sug- court ileges in a were, raises The president is said to be experiencing great difficulty in finding a resident of Tiiinois competent to act as a member of the strike commission and in whom he has sufficient confidence, who is not in some way tied up with the great corporations di- rectly or indircetly aftected by the Pull man boyeott.” This is confirmation of charge so frequently made by labor leaders that almost all the influential business men are so dependent upon the great corporations that they cannot be relfed upon as a rule to form unbiased opinions of matters in which those corporations are interested. The president, it is reported, wants the com- to consist of the commissioner of labor, representing the workingman, a busi- ness man to represent the commercial terests, and a lawyer to represent the cor- porations. The corporation lawyer Is to he found in great abundance, and his selec- tion is causing the president no worry. The Qifficulty is to secure a business man whose presence on the commission will not give the corporations double representation. the in- It is to be borne in mind that the increase in receipts from internal revenue taxes shown in the weckly treasury statement is accompanied by a decrease in the revenue from customs receipts. The distillers are taking whisky out of bond from fear of an additional tax, while the importers are rest- ing on their oars, waiting for the tariff to be lowered. In the long run the government must lose from both operations. It will get less revenue from the whisky tax that is now being paid than if the goods were al- lowed to remain in bond the whole legal period and pay the increased tax at the end of that time. It will get less from the cus- toms duties because by the time the porters renew their activity these duties will be less. All this, of course, on the supposi- tion that a new tariff .bill passes. If all tariff legislation fails the government will share in the losses caused by the interruption of the importing traffic. The national treas- ury cannot possibly be the gainer from the delayed tariff agitation. im- A Barrier to Politieal Advancement, Somerville Journal. There 1s no doubt that a man can be a politician and at the same time be a con- sistent, active Christian, but such a man fsn't likely to get very high in politics. Toston ( The United States is at last getting a navy that will compare fayorably with any navy in the world. May we keep on until we et the or after we get it, may wi asion to use it in actual warfar el A _; Riot Bill of "77.. Philadelphia Times. The cost price of the dumages the railroad riots of in Allegheny county amounted to $2,772 This was the extent of the cash settlement by the commissioners, the Pennsylvania railroad recelving $1,600,000 as its share for wreckage and ruin, and some of the bonds issued then to meet the payment of claims are maturing now as an echo of the great lock- out of seventeen s Ag0 done in protacte. ribune. Ward's eagerness to if duty ‘called for Thrillivg New York Next to Artemus save the country even the sacrifice of every one of his second cousing on the fleld “of battle, there has been no more striking exhibition of unself osity in the United States than le of the democratic party hero- o discharging its pecuniary obligations to the Sugar trust by levying tributes upon the workingman's breakfast table. The scene vividly illustrates the quaint but handy old democratic principle: When duty calls, find a substitute. e reri— Paper a Nocessity. Philadelphia Record. Sunday newspapers were admitted to the mbly grounds in Chautauqua, N. Y., nday because of the prevailing interest In western strike, and it 1s that they found' eager read- is really nothing incompatible the Bunday newsp press and autauqua system. Loth are for the instruction and nt of the head and hearts of the people, and it I8 alto gether Iikely that in the' fullness of time Chautanqua will have & Sunday newspaper press of its owm. AECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Plain An Omaha was brought World's fair load oft Cloveland Dealer: preacher says “this sorfow on Chicago for opening the on Sunday.” This takes a great Mr. Puliman Kansas City Times: A Chieago has adopted tho “free lunch” plan so long and successfully the drawing card of the Chicago saloon, but fn reality neither give a “free lunch,” for in the saloon you must buy a glass of beer to get the lunch free and to enjoy the church free lunch you aro required to purchase a concert tlcke! There fs nothing really free in Chicago ex- cept luke air and lung trouble Minneapolls Journal: Rev. Myron Reed, who, on Sunday, declared for anarchy and pillage, at Denver, has been “‘getting there” for some time. Some yea ago, when he was pastor of a church In Indlanapolis, he was fond of making people talk by the s what wild sententiousness of his sermons and straining after sensational utterances He ran for congress in Colorado and was de- feated, although he “‘rushed the growler” of demagogy at a prodiglous rate. Courfer-Journal: At last the secret is out It is an Omaha preacher who has turned it out. He Iifts up his volce and reveals that the strike was “‘a retribution sent upon the people of Chicago for the awful sacrilege committed In opening the gates of the World's fair on Sundays last year.” It is simply appalling to think what will happen when the Lord gets ready to send a retribu- tion upon the people for opening the Midway Plaisance every day and Sunday, too St. Paul Globe: The words of Archbi-hop Ireland on the labor troubles are those of wisdom and candor, and should be pondered by every citizen, whatever his religlous or political leanings may be. The archbishop's solicitude for the welfare of the laboring classer, of which the membership of the Catholic church is mainly composed, cannot be called in question. e is too manly to counsel a course pr inl to their interests, too clous to be deceived by the sopht tries of one side or the other, too sin cere in his convictions of the duties of citizenship to be swerved from the cause of right by any unworthy influence. Let every one read and heed his counsel, and they will have no c e for vain regrets. Chicago Herald at injustice is fre. quently done through a misapprehension of circumstances, An instance of this kind was the refusal the other day of the Chautauqua assembly to allow a Methodist preacher to lecture before it because he had umpired a game of base ball on Sunday. It s clear that the assembly was in error. No doubt the idea was that the parson had indulged in sinful recreation, while any one who is familiar with the duties of an uni pire will be perfectly certain that he sumed the position as a mortiication of both the flesh and the spirit. The idea that an umpire gets any fun out of a base ball game on Sund or any other day can be enter- tained only by people who have never seen the game played. church U BEASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. Borrowed clothes never fit. It is death to a lie to become lame in the feet. To the eyes of a mule short deformity When the devil comes to an empty mind ho is sure of a place to stay all night A whole bushel of notions don’t weigh half as much as one little stubborn fact. The man who is true to his own kighest interests cannot be false to anybody else, If there is any dog in a man it is pretty apt to growl when his food is not to his taste. When people get to quarreling about their creeds, the devil stops being anxious about their decds. Many a man refuses to love his neighbor as himself because he has a garden and his neighbor keeps hens. Either selfishness or laziness fs the prompt- ing motive of the man who is always on the hunt for an easy place. Many a man who started out to reform the whole world changed his mind before he got into the next country. CURRENT SIFTINGS. ears are a Noah was an expert with the gloves. boxed everything in the ark. It is not right to consider man a pirate Just because he sheds a few privatecrs. It is no sign that a hen meditates harm to her owner because she lays for him. Some men become bald quite early in life, while others die and have their wills offered for probate before their heirs fall out. To cure a woman of stammering ask her what she thinks of the girl her husband came near getting engaged to a couple of years before she married him. A sewing machine agent falling il was told by his physician that he must prepare to pay the debt of nature. “On the install- ment plan?” whispered the agent, feebly. An Towa man has a theory that sunshine can be hottled up or imprisoned in such a way that it can be utilized on gloomy days. He has built a great tank for storing it, but it looks a little queer to see him groping about with a lantern to ascertain how his sunshine Is getting on, . Natlonal Comedy on Stone. New York Sun. Nine busts of granite have been finished for the exterior decoration of the ne brary of congress in Washington worthies who first come to the front Walter Scott, Dante, Demosthenes, thaniel Huwthory Emerson, Irving, Goethe, Ten Franklin and Ma Judging by the newspaper cuts, a great va- riety of expression has becn obtained by the respective artists who have made these nine busts, Walter Scatt has the in tent, forward gaze of a_college sprinte walllug for the word Go. Dante looks as |t Dr. Chauncey M. Depew had just refus to ‘accommodate him with a pass to Buf- ? The model who sat for Demosthenes Puck's Weary Waggles, Henjam anklin is slyly chuckling over his stcc in lodging a big charge of electricity in Na thaniel 1awthorne’s back hair. Macauliy has put on a beautifully and symmetrically ed wig, Ralph Waldo Emerson pot the raroad pass which Dante miss>d Wishington Irvin listening to Hon Amos J° Cummings’ best and latest anec dote, and Goethe has just caught through his alert ear an Invitation to drink from a man whom his soul loathes. — For pietur- esque an‘mation the work of the several senlptors 15 meritorious. I this s only a begicning, the front of the new | brury bullding bids fair to be a Human Comedy in stone. The appearance of the second nine will be awaited with great in- terest. e ar Na- e Lamentation of Private John, Washington Dispatch to Chicago Record. T asked John Allen, the funny man from Mississippi, |f the house is going to aceept the sugar schedule in the senate ‘Why of course we will," he replied. “We alway give in when we have a row with the sen- ate. We are going to raise h—1 for awhile and let on as if we never, never would be enslaved by the trusts and plutocrats, but when we get out of wind we are just going to lie right down and let them step on our necks. That is the way we always do, and it 15 very mortifying for a man of my pride and high moral principles to realize that while the trusts are having to pay n big price for the senate they are getting the house for nothing. I tell you no one car imagine how it grinds a man to read all about this bribery and speculation in the newspapers and the pools the senatof in and the colossal fortunes they are mak ing and not have e him a dollar hill The T ™ Philadelphia Ttecord. no sooner fallen upon Author s proposed bill for an Amerf Immortals, Cummings of Silence has Lew Walice can Academy Representative An York gitating the founding of an order in the United States an 18 to the French Legion of Honor, with its red ril bon. He has asked gress to create bowknot of distinction, which shall be be stowed upon distinguished Americans, and for the unlawful wearing of which a fine of | $100 shall be provided. Very evidently the Buropean taste for decorations and rank is {noculating with its vanity the plain democ racy of our daddies. e The Newspaper as » Teacher. Washington Post “Phe newspaper is surpassing the librar- fes In teaching the people to read,” wald Prof. Harris, United States commissioner of education, at the recent meeting of th National Bducational soclety. Undoubtedly there I8 more reading of newspapers than of all other publications. ~The growth of the daily press is one of the great facts of fury. It has not superseded books Jortion to its growth, for there hus steady Increase in the number of ught out, but it has be- the one spensable thing, In the of reading, to all Intelligent men and me- Missouri | PEOPLE AND THING Hogg and ha'mony seem to be drifting apart in Texas It satisfles national pride to know we ecan ngland in a serap Accounts agree that this {s the most en- gOgiMg season At the summer resorts. In drouthy thnes a green lawn bears tes ony to the strength of the owner's hose. The tarift of $10 to Kurops has stimulated | aristocratic emigration. Ward MeAllister | has gone abroad The subsidence of striking tumult gives the sea serpent w chance to work up a froe "ad" for some seaside resort A huge rattlesnake killed in Colorado had worked its body Into a knot. It doubtless sympathized with the tie-up, With New Mexieo and Arizona In the union, the field of blue will contain forty- seven stars. There's luck In odd numbers. Public officials anxious for another term { W appreciate the news that lightning | struck the same spot twice In Pennsyl- vania Sugar do | | tin | King Havemeyer plays the violin with tderable delicacy of tou This fact was noted when he touched the strings | in Washington “Can the | auires an | strength ot the push. | open to conviction, Butte wires that no offered the federal tr Kind of Butte lead and fune country trust exchange. the senate?” In- Depends on the The members are resistance will be ops. That Is very and besides it dispenses with al bills. The mosquitoes have driven A of a section of Nicaragun. I\ | sons the grip of Americans on is somewhat precarious. Trifles oft produce startling transforma- tions fn church. Men who are usually alert | and vigilant become wholly ansorbed in other things when the basket appears. Chicago railroads have been called upon to pay a bill of $10,000 incurred in boarding the police during the strike. The bill is striking evidence of the sustained and vigor- ous as®ulting qualitios of the p The young son of York has ho Edward Albert George Androw Patrick David Christian. This extensive handle takes in all shades of polities, races and creeds, but it remains to be seen whether he will stand Pat in the royal game. Philadelphia bombarded the heavens forty-five minutes on the night of the Fourth, and is now scherly kicking against the bill of $5,000. When men enthus with the spirit of or any other year, they are barred from rejecting the bill in the morn- ing. The Pantheon in Parls affords sepulcher thus far only to thirty-five illustrious dead, including tho remains of President Carnot. The body of Renan must lic for ten years in the cemetery of Montmartre before it can be taken to its final resting place In this historical edifice. A Brooklyn judge issued an order re- raining an actress from singing and danc- and a Kansas judge enjoined a Wichita family from playing the organ. A long suffering public have reason to rejoice that the courts repel domestic anarchy and dare uphold the oriflamme of liberty. Joaquin Miller is growing on nia ranch a mile of roses, families live too close together; therefore, in place of building one large house, he has erected four small ones—one for his mother, one for his brothers, one for his own use and the fourth for his guests. Let us seo that the record of evolution among the suffrage leaders of Kansas fs true to life. Mrs. Lease appeared upon the politi- cal stage Topeka and was for a moment serenely calm. Suddenly Mrs. Diggs ap- peared. Now, Mrs. Diggs and Mrs. Lease do not harbor the Damon and Pythias brand of affection toward each other, consequently a palr of cold shoulders were displayed. Said Mrs. Lease: “I rejoice to find that certain individuals who at one time knew nothing outside of one little ism—prohibition —and one who _telegraphed over the wires that the people’s party was dead and that the governor was a traitor are now in the people’s party.” This inimitable dig touched Mrs. Diggs in a tender spot, She sprang to her feet and shouted, “That's a lie.” Friends fnterposed and no hair was shed. g LONG 8 lericans out similar roa- New Jersey 1 christened for his Califor- He belleves SALVE FOR RMONS. Jlicky baby se the house. at Indiarapelis Jou “Has that young man_ proposed v “Nat yel, mamma, quiring it ‘your cough ous. but he has been in- was anything seri- You don’t catch I'm no- t; but then Joston Trans me in any such sc body’s fool. She somebody may marry She seems to 1 men. Miss Bath- ared that she hates Judge: Miss Jayl very popular with the beach she has dec ice cream. Chicago Dispatch: dor Sandusky of the African Methodist church of douisville has just been convicted of stealing forty- two buff cochin china chickens. — We hope he will bear his punishment with Christian 42d. Boston Transcript: the poor man's natural dessert no aristocracy about the custard ple. is to say, no upper crust. There 13 That Washington Star: “These s terrible hard times,” said Meandering Mike. “You bet they is,”’ replied Plodding Pete. “A feller can’t go nowhere lookin' fur work nowadays without hevin’ some offered him. Brooklyn Eagle: Carleton—Did you hear that Giddiboy and his wife have had fre quent quarrels since their marriage Montauk—I don’t believe it; they live In one of those measly little flats where there is not cven room for an argument, Chicago Record: “What w tives in voting that ordinan indignant constituent of the alderman. “My motives,” said the alderman, with the dignified ajr of one repudinting an - sulting innuendo, “were the highest I ever acted upon. e your mo- asked the FORLOR ew York Press. His flery rays the sun sends down The flies are tickling the bald man’s And the pesky things arouse his hate ‘As now and again he slaps his pate. The agile girls out of town have gone, And a seat in front when the ballet's He cannot_get, for the playhouse gy closed for the summer, alackaday! §o he fans his face with a palm leaf fan And thinks of himself as an ill-used man IKE WALTON'S TALE OF WOE, own, on New York Evening Sun, I've just got back from fishin In the ripplin’ mountain brook, Where in boyhood s I angled With bent pin for a hook. And a home-made line o' linen, Pastened to a birchwood pole That's how T used to tackle e Down in the cup-rock hole! swell outfit this year, A reel and fly hook, too; And it cost me tweniy dollars For a fancy split bamb I bought a The ripplin’ brook still rippled, And my bosom swelled with' joy, Just exactly as it used to When a-fishin’ as a boy But the rest somchow was dif'rent, For the blamed fish wouldn't bite, Thotgh 1 coaxed an prayed an' cussed ‘e From early morn till night the leader line troes; qitoes for gnats and fle: flies snapped off gled in th And was pl My feet siip a moss-grown rock, I turned ot And the air wis full of cuss words— But my clothes were full of wet! I broke that split bamboo off short, My heart broke with the erack; Then | sndly picked the pleces up And took the first train back! - - PAVL PR 1 often see A viston ) Lace-curtained in a dim retreat, Framed by a window square, And dimly in the dark recess, I see her raise her arm To comb or fasten buck i tress, Unconsclous of her charm I see her move toward the light, And then I see—a frown! As with a little fiing of spite WOIDeL. The cruel shade comes downs