Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 24, 1894, Page 4

I THEOMAHA DATLY BEE. : TER, Kditor. MONNING. - — TERMS OF SUBSCRIFTION ally Dee (without Sunday) One Year..... aily Bes and Sunday, One Year........... tx Months v hres Months. .. Tee, Y ay e y Bee, Omaha, The th Omaha inoil BIuffs, 13 Chicago Ofice, 317 New York, I Washington, mmerce. rribune Bldg. PONDENCE, ing to news and edl- o atter | ' ; To theEditor, torial matter should be add BUSIN Al business 1ot addressed Omaha s should be pany. mittanc Publishing e cks and mpany. MPANY. = OF CIRCULATION socretary of The fee Pub. Auly sworn, says that STATEM George 15, Taschuck Tiahing c being the_actu: of full_And complete eopies of The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee rinted during the month of June, 1594, was as ollows: e 2o Vosvoss 08 © 21,087 K] 20691 21808 20645 ¥ 13 24,09 21,728 21,508 . 2660 YT w deductions unsold and roturned oples . o 11,61 Total sold 634,787 Daily average 21,526 *Sund cutation GEORGE N TZSCHUCK. and subscribed in my pres- July, 154 o8y Sworn to beforo ence_this 3d day (Seal. Notary Public. His it come to this, that Hill and Cleve- land are the only two democrats left? It Is a wise man who can now set the day when a new tariff law will go into actual operation. It is remarkable how uninterruptedly the electric currents pass over the wires, while the $160 a month acting city electrician is off on his vacation. It is wonderful how the Lincoln news- papers always accidentally place Omaha sec- ond in the list of base ball clubs whenever the leaders are tied for first place. The macadam roadway in the bee line toward the Papio looks like a streak of snow flake, and those who travel over that pul- verized lime road look like millers after a day’s work at the hopper. — e Talmage has to go only as far as Australia to find out whether life is worth living. Most of his fellow men fail to find the answer until they have gotten considerably farther away from home. Grover Cleveland is still confident that the difference on the tariff will be amicably ad- justed. The president doubtless believes that you can catch more senatorial flies with sugar than with vinegar. The first victim to a fatal experiment with what the inventor over-confidently called a bullet-proof coat has been recorded. It may transpire that the bullet-proof coat is just as deadly as the bullets themselves. We are to be inflicted with another free sllver convention, under the ausplces of the misnamed Pan-American Bimetallic league. The league ought to have its demands satis- fled stmply to rid the people of further im- portunity. President Cleveland might have taken the heated condition of the atmosphere at this season of the year into consideration before glving congress, in his tariff leiter, the in- centive for another hot discussion on a sub- Ject over which so many members have al- ready become so warm. Senator McPherson of New Jersey has glven up a Buropean trip in order to remain at hand in the senate to sustain the position of President Cleveland on the tariff bill. This Is no more than a fair return for the several sacrifices that the president has been making for Senator McPherson. Philadelphia complains that the Schuylkill water supplied to 1ts citizens is so thick that it won't run through the ordinary street sprinklers. The Missouri river never was quite so muddy as that. Omaha water Iy good enough for street sprinkiing purposes even when taboooed for internal uses. South Omaha is all torn up over the im- pending change of postmasters. All that might have been saved if she had voted for annexatlon four years ago. But that would have kept Dr. Glasgow at his pill boxes, Ed Jobrston might not have been mayor, and so many other things might have been different, but— Coxey has finally lighted upon the practi- cal part of strike politics when he calls upon every sympathizer of the working classes to como out on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November and to strike at the ballot box. He ought Lo have discovered this before he started out at the head of his great peaco army, The meeting of the general executive board of the Knights of Labor in this city will doubtless give a considerable stimuius to the activity of local organizatfons. Omaha labor circles have been exceedingly conservative during the recent strike troubles, and an at- mosphere of conservatism ean not but benefit the executive board of the Knights. This meeting ought to clear up several obstruc- tlons which the labor organizations have en- countered. —— Contractors could not ask for more fa- vorable conditions for building operations, and it is encouraging to note that they are taking advantage of the season by pushing the work in course of construction. There 18 Still time to increase the number of new buildings to be erected this year. With a few more new residences and business blocks, Omaha's building record for 1894 will be quite creditable even when compared with the record of previous years, In how many different places does the Hon. James B, Weaver clalm residence? The last time ho was In the house ho represented the Sixth lowa district. He Is now a candi- date for congress In the Ninth fowa distriot, We are at the same time informed by the New York Times that he has established himself in Arizona, with a view to geting into the United States senate as soon as representation In that body 1s permitted, Mr. Weaver must be omnipresent when thore Ls a public office in sight, G st A A AL NO ATTEMPT 10 DICTATE. The Omaha Bee will not dietate the ticket to be nominated in the republican state con- vention. Stick a pin hore.—Hastings Ne- braskan. The Bee has no desire to dictate the ticket to be nominated by the republicans of Ne- braska and would not assume that responsi- bility if it was given the privilege to do so The Bee has no political ends to subserve through either or all of the candidates on the state ticket. All the state house patron- age It would get in the next two years If it had the naming of every man from governor to school superintendent would not pay its ordinary for a single day. From the peewniary standpoint this paper has mor: at stake In the election of half a dozeh Omaha ward counclimen than it has in the entire batch of state officers, During the twenty-two years of its career The B: has outlived ten generations of state officers. It bas survived the ill-will and the good- will of governors from James down to Crounse and will not likely profit or suffer very much whether the state house is filled with friend or foe for the next two years or two decades, While The Bee has no desire to dictate candidates to the party which looks to it for support, it has the right and is in duty bound to interpose its carnest remonstrance against the nomination of candidates whose public record is Indefensible and whose candidacy would serlously jeopardize party success. In the language of the late Presi- dent Haycs, “He serves his party best who serves his country The party that represents what is best in the citizenship of this republic cannot afford to enter a cam- paign with any man as its standard bearer who has sought to destroy good government and allied himself with jobbers and public plunderers This is a republican year, but it is not a year for hoodlerism and ofl-roomism. The party cannot hope to win nor would it deserve success if it enters the campaign handicapped by tattooed The Bee has sounded the alarm against such a suicidal polley and it will not be deterred from its duty by the ery of “dictator.” Stick a pin there. running expenses best.” candidates. DEBS' APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC. The appeal of the American Railway union to the public, dated from headquarters in the Cook county jall, is a rather tardy bid for co-operation of the traveling patrons of Pull- man cars, which does not promise to achieve any very substantial results. The American public does not deny that the employes of the Pullman company have real grievances that eall for redress, nor would it hesitate to show its sympathy with the oppressed strikers in affording active assistance did it appear that its aid would restore to them their employment at the wages originally paid. But traffic on the Pullman cars on no small number of railroads was completely interrupt:d for over ten days and it has been demoralized for a much longer period with- out making any visible impression upon the stony heart of Pullman. The people would have to stay at home or travel in ordinary coaches for weeks, months, nay, years, in order to make the proposed boycott effect- ive. Those who are compelled to travel are not generally in the mood to Inconveni- ence themselves to this extent for an object of so doubtful attainment. ¥ If we analyze the public from which the Pullman company collects its revenue, we will find that it consists chiefly of com- paratively well-to-do peopie, the majority of whom are bound up with corporate interests and have little relation and lcss sympathy with the working classes. In the contest between Pullman and his employes they espouse the cause of Pullman and prefer to contribute to his coffers rather than to glve even a moral support to the strikers. Another portion of the Pullman patrons con- sist of women and children, to whom it would be an unnecessary hardship to compel them to undergo the discomforts of the average day coach. Men who would willingly give up the Pullman sleeper themselves will hesitats to impose that sacrifice upon their wives and children. Furthermore, in a boy- cott of this kind no one who participates secures any recognition of his personal efforts, because the ouly record of it is that found in the decreased receipts of the Pullman com- pany. Since no one would know whether a particular person is sustaining the boycott or bring home the responsibility for violating it, the tendency to depart from any good resolutions that may have been formed would be almost irresistible. The patrons ot the Pullman cars, then, are not the class which would be expected to respond unani- mously to such an appeal. The appeal is late because it comes after the mischief is dome. It is idle to speculate as to what its effect might have been had it appeared when the trouble first assumed serious proportions. It is doomed to fall upon deaf ears, coming as it does now, be- cause the people are convinced that coercion in any form is not the remedy required. The relations between the railway employers and employes must be regulated by federal legislation. A boyeott of Pullman by the public could at best give but a temporary solution for this particular case. What is demanded and what must come is a per- manent measure of relief that will make a recurrence of these rallway strikes impos- sible. That is why the present appeal must be in vain. IRONCLAD LABOR PLEDGES, According to San Francisco advices the managers of the Southern Pacific ralroad have formulated a written agreement which every man who desires re-employment is required o sign before he can be reinstated on the company's pay roll. By this agree- ment such of the former employes of the road who have been members of the Ameri- Railway union obligate themselves to sver and renounce their alleglance to the organization, and they and all others who are enrolled by the company pledge and bind themselves to join no labor organiza- tion of any dercription for the period of five years. This illustrates strikingly the autocratic character of railway managers in general and those on the Pacific coast in particular. The conditions which they seek to fmpose upon their operatives are void legally and an unmitigated outrage morally. It is inst public policy and the spirit of our inititutions to exict from any man or set of men conditizns precedent to employment that will abridge and deny the right of in- dustrial freedom to association in any legiti- mate ' organization, To say to any that he cannot get an opportunity to earn bread for himselt or his family by honest labor unless he surrenders the right most cherished by all free men—the privilege of uniting for mutusl benefit with other mem- bers of his class so long as the soclety, brotherhood or union has for its object legitimate ends- almost as degrading as to deprive him of his right to vote for whom When a maa sells his labor uot part with his inaliensble right to the pursuit of happiness by mutual asso- clation, and any pledge or coatract that can man he pleases. he does curtalls or takes away this right Is not worth the paper it is written on. It could never be anforced in any court, and no legls- Iatfon can ever make ft valid. The only way rallroad corporations and all other em- ployers of labor can insure fidelity on the part of thelr operatives Is by paying them fair wages and accord'ng to them humane treatment. Rsilroad managers who treat their employes as rebels and seok to humill ate them by imposing ironclad oaths an self-degrading contracts are sowing the seeds of discontent and fomenting more strikes just as soon as the labor conditions Improve. The Southern Pacific managers have a right to exclude from employment every striker who has resorted to violence, in- cited destruction of property or resistance to law officers, but they commit a fatal blun- der, to call it by a mild name, when they force men who have committed no overt act to berter for bread their God given right to Individual freedom of fellowship. Under such conditions will always harbor a resentment that bodes no good to their cor- porate master GORMAN DE, Senator Gorman men ENDS TH ENAT has ceased to be an ad- mirer of Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Gorman is one of the half a dozen conservative sena- tors to whose influence most of the amend- ments to the Fouse tariff bill are due and he was consequently attacked in the letter of the president to Mr. Wilson. Yesterday the Maryland senator reented this attack and in ‘a speech, characterized throughout by strong feeling, defended the action of the e on the tariff. He did not mince words and there is no ambiguity in his ut- terances. He ‘gave the history of the tarift bill in the senate, told how the senators in charge of the measure had frequently dur- ing the progress of its con ideration called on Secretary lisle in reference to it, while some of them had also talked with the president, and asserted, backed by the testi- mony of that Secretary Carlisle had unqualifiedly approved the sen- ate bill and that the president had given senators reason to belleve that he was not opposed to it. The unqualified statements of Mr. man, supported as they are by the testi- mony of the senators who revised the tarift bill, certainly places Mr. Cleveland in an awkward position. If he gave such assur- to Senator: Harris and Jones as led them to believe he approved what was being done by the senate—and the country will unhesitatingly accept their statements—then the president has clearly been guilty of duplicity. According to these senators Mr. Cleveland, while not regarding the compro- mise bill as altogether satisfactory, was willing to accept it a: the best that could be secured, but his letter to Mr. Wilson indicates that he was never willing to ac- cept the senate measure. In any case it is obvious that the president did not act in this matter In a perfectly straightforward and in showing this fact to the coun- try Senator Gorman has done more to dam- age Mr. Cleveland in popular confidence and lave all the mistakes which tho president has madé during his public carcer. 1In the first place Mr. Cleveland should not have meddled at all with tarift legislation, but having done so he ought to have been honest and straightforward and not misled senators, as he appears to have done. The language of Senator Gorman regard- ing the president was none too severe under the circumstances, and his declaration that conference committees should be free from outside influences will be endorsed by men of all parties. There s no principle in our government more firmly established than that the executive must not interfere with tho legislative branch of the government, and this principle was clearly violated by . Cleveland in his letter to Mr. Wilson. From the attitude of Senator Gorman, evi- dently endorsed by a majority of the demo- cratic senators, it would seem to be entirely safe to predict that the senate will adhere to its tariff bill. The house has indicated its determination not to accept that measure. But should it finally conclude to do so the president could not con:istently sign the senate measure. There appears to be very small chance of tariff legislation by this congress, a prospect which the country will regard with unmixed satisfaction. several senators, Jor- ances MORE WORK FOR CONSULS. If the bill which passed the house of repre- sentatives last week becomes a law it will add materially to the duties of our consuls in Burope. It is a measure for the Investi- gation of aliens coming to this country and provides that no allen immigrapt shall be admitted within the United States unless hie or sha, shall exhibit to the United States inspectors of arriving immigrants at the place of admission a certificale signed by the United States consul or other authorized representative of the United States at the place nearest where sald immigrant last re sided, setting forth that the consul or other United States representative has made an in- vestigation concerning said immigrant and that said immigrant does not belong to the class or classes of alien immigrants excluded from admission Into the United States under the provisions of the act of congress of March 3, 1891, or by any other law of the United States that now exists or may here- after be passed. It also provides that it shall be the duly of United States consuls and representatives in other countries to In- vestigate and grant or withhold certificates, as shall be dlsclosed on investigation under the directions and instructions of the State department. Tho author of this measure, Representa- tive Stone of Pennsylvania, who has been zealously endeavoring for several years to secure legislation of this kind, explains its purpose to be to prevent the criminals and paupers of Europe trom being admitted into this country as immigrants, He says that the testimony taken by the committee on naturalization and immigration of the Fifty- first congress shows that forelgn countries not only encourage Immigration to this coun- try of criminals and paupers, but use pub lie money to pay their expenses here. It is unquestionable that this has been the case, but it 1s safe to say that nothing of the kind is being done now, for the steamship companies are extremely careful not to bring over anybody who 18 likely to bo returned by our immigration authorities. Of course, oriminals will get in, bacause some of them are well provided with means, and the pro- posed consular investigation might be benefi- cial in keeping out this class, but It is hardly nocessary as to paupers. However, there does not appesr to bs any very serlous objec- tion to the proposed law, except that it would impose considerable additional work upon some of our consuls and necessarily incroase the expense of the service. Of course, If we had such & law, allens desiring to come to the United States who could show a personal record satisfactory to the consul would be dlsposed to make the work of Investigation by that official as light as possible, while there would probably bo few applications for certificates from persons whose record weuld not bear ¥hvestigation. Doubtless the con- suls will not look with favor upon this meas ure, but what they may think of it s not important.) The only question s, would the proposed legislation more effectively exclude the objectionable classes than it is possible to do unddk existing laws? If it would it Is desirable. ‘ SELKING SUGAR TRUST STATISTICS. The Information Representative Harter has esked Prosident Havemeyer of the Sugar trust to furnish the subcommit- tee of the house committee on manufactures will be very Interesting to the country if the head of the trust supplies it and makes a truthful -statement. The Information sought by Mg, Harter relates to the present value of the plants of the American Sugar Refining company and what these plants could be replaced for; the actual annual profits of the company; the annual salary of its gon- eral officers; the paid-in cash capital of the company and the present surplus fund. Mr. Mr. Harter figures out that with the pro- tection now given the trust it receives nearly $40,000,000 annually and he suggests that as the company asks a continuance of favors it ought. to be disposed to give the information asked for. As Mr. Havemeyer 18 at liberty to comply with the request or not, as he shall see fit, it is probable, Judging from his past course, that he will not supply the information. The policy of the Amerlean Sugar Refining company s to observe absolute secrecy re- garding it: affairs. It does not let the public know anything about its business. It re- fused to furnish any information for the census and it does not publish any state- ments, &s other corporations do, from which the public could obtain a knowledge of its operations. In view of this policy it is not at all likely that Mr. Havemeyer will turnish to Mr. Harter the Information asked for, and should he decide to do so the trust- worthiness of his statement would be ques- tionable. A vast monopoly organized as this one i< and which is almost absolutely a law unto itself cannot be depended upon to give a truthful account of itself except upon compulsion. The only way to get at the facts as to the value of the plants of the Sugar trust, the actual amount of its capital, its profits and other matters about which the country would like to know, is to bring it into court, where it could be compelled to produce its books. This, however, will not be dome by the present administration, which has manifested a tender interest in the trust, despite the declaration of Mr. Cleveland implying a different feeling. If Mr. Harter could persuzde Attorney General Olney to institute proceedings against the American Sugar Refining company under the anti-trust law, making the direct charge that the company cxists in violation of that law, the information he seeks could be ob- tained, not, of ccirse, in time to serve his purpose, but still for the enlightenment of tho public. But whether the president of the trust de- cides to pay apy attention to the request of Mr. Harter or not, the public fully un- derstands that the American Sugar Refining company, whichi practically has a monopoly of the business, is making an enormous amount of money annually out of the con- sumers of sugar, that it is paying large divi- dends on a capitalization of several times greater than> the=actual’ value of its prop- erty, and that it exercises an influence in politics and. upon legislation which s dangerous to the public welfare. These things the public: is already aware of, and while it would be interested in precise in- formation on the scveral matters presented by Mr. Harter, it needs no additional knowl- edgo to satisfy it that the Sugar tru:t Is one of the most rapacious of monopolies and ought to receive no consideration what- ever from congre s. which Arkansas populists anticipated President Debs' appeal for public co-operation in his fight upon the Pullman company by refusing to travel in Pullman cars. The Arkansas populists went to attend their state conven- tion a-foot, a-horse and in chaises or any way they chose so long as they drew the line at patronizing the railroads, and one of the delegates asserted that he had ridden over 200 miles in a springless farm wagon in order to answer to his name when the secretary should call the roll. All these great sacri- fices were made, of course, out of sympathy for Debs and out of hostility for Pullman, and particularly to make a grand stand play for populist votes. It is confidently ex- pected that the loss of income sustained by Mr. Pullman by reason of this course of the Arkansas populists will force him to at once make terms with the striking workmen at Pullman. It remains to be seen whether the same consideration will be shown Santo Caesario, the assassin of President Carnot, during his trial this week that was accorded Prender- gast, who was hung for the murder of Mayor Harrison. It is safe to say that when once the verdict of guilty is pronounced, the Italian anarchist’s doom will be sealed with- out the hope of elther insanity proceedings or reprieve. Golng Tnrough the Motlons, Globe-Democrat. The Towa democrats are going to hold a state convention this year, as usual—on about the same provocation that the Texas republicans are in the habit of doing that sort of thing. B Coneeit Called Down. Springfleld Republican. Some of the English journals commented on the raflroad strike as if a labor war Was unheard of in the queen's dominions. As a matter of fact, according to the labor correspondent” of the London Board of Trade. there were 692 strikes and eight lock- outs in the United Kingdom in 1892 e MALIT - ulentiotiy Hern 18 0 Coudition. Chicago Herald (dem.). The democratic party is not in power at the mational capital. It cannot control lex- fslation in congressi It is helpless to important and yital measure, which W promised in the democratic platform of 1862, and which by an enormous majority the people demanded at the ballot box. ropy Not in E Kinshd City Star. The Pullman Palac clared a regular Quart Jestel day of 2 per cent ,Mlght per cent a year 18 not such' a measly return on stock” which Tepresents the cost’of construction multi- piled by several units. The Pullman cor- DPoration is not puLering enough to keep it awake at night. Sofic Gtape Shot. New Yik worl, Iistory repeats itself. Away back in the revolution we won (e testy of “putting {he shot,” while the English won most o the ‘Tunning and jumping events. Now akaln wo win “putting the shot” and the Finglish beat us at running and jumping, It 18 such a good sign that we ought not o mind the defeat of our college boys. Abuandon the Hideous BiLL New York Sw There s & tremendous cry for peace at any price and the termination of this deathly discussion, by the passage of a tariff bills, no matter what. We are as anxious for such a blessing and are as ready to assert our right to it as anybody, but we refuse to pay for peace with the deliberate sacrifice of the principle for which we made wur. We are in favor of 'the tariff controversy ending on the spot, by the most emphatic condemnation of its Qlsgraceful fajlure possible, namely, the en- tire abandonment Of the' enterprise until the democratic party comes 1o its own. Philant dence. company R Ve, DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1894 * ' CLEVELAND ON PARTY PERFIDY. Philadelphia Times (dem.): In any event the prosident has made it understood that, whoever olse may waver, ho stands true to the cause he represent New York World (dem.): The advice of the president {s good. Coal and iron ore must bo made free and protection must be denled to the Sugar trust St. Louis Republie (dem.): The senate bill Is bad enough; but for the democratic party to go to the country with the presence of the MeKinlcy law on the statuté books as an fssue would be o turn the campalgn Into one long and dreary explanation. Boston Advertiser (rep): As the letter stands, Its tenor and apparent intent are to Justify and indorse, though with a thin gulse of reluctance, one of the most Impudent and corrupt pleces of leglslative jobbery ever framed by ‘“party perfidy and party dis- honor." Now York Times (dem.): Mr. Cloveland is in full accord with the position announced by Mr. Wilson, and he would refuse as in- dignantly as the chairman of the ways and means committee to yield to the dictation of Mr. Gorman. In that refusal the democratic party of the nation will firmly stand by both. Louisville Courier-Journal (dem.): The pity of it is that the fight which Mr. Cleveland is urging the house to make, and which that body seems ready to make, Is not for a more inspiring cause—is not for a straight, honest tariff-for-reverue bill, instead of for the compromiss with protection which s the basis of the Wilson bill. New York Tribune (rep.): If the tarift bill goes through as it passed in the senate millions will ask, with Mr. Cleveland, why the wool of the farmer was made free and the great corporations are enriched by millions for each. That very question the president himselt may have to answer if the bill goes to him for his signature. Cineinnati Bnquirer (dem.): Mr. Cleveland is not wearing democratic armor. He has not a record on tariff reform, or on any other principle of the democratic party that justi- fles him in dictating to the democratic sena tors. The senate cannot maintain the self- respret which the people demand of it if it yields to the president’s edict. Philadelphia Ledger (rep): Republicans can view the situation with equanimity, since it threatens not only the defeat of the tarift bill, but the disruption of the demacratic party. Even the president, as the head of the party, declares, in effect, that it would be better mot to pass any tariff bill than under stress of necessity to abandon demo- cratic principles. Boston Globe (dem.): There Is not the shadow of a doubt that the president speaks in this matter for the overwhelming majority of his party. The only thing to be regretted is that Mr. Cleveland did not publicly de- clare his unswerving opposition wecks ago to any tariff measure which should fail to number among its advantages the granting of free raw materials. Springfleld (Mass.) Republican (ind.): We incline in the view that the letter will have the effect of marshaling the reform forces in congress to a successful stand against the rascally combination headed by Gorman. But let the issue be joined at once and a final vote had. This continued delay and un- certainty is having a killing effect on the business of the country. Philadelphia Press (rep.): The president has grappled with the Gorman-Brice cabal. He would have been far stronger before the country for this fight if he had taken high ground against the Sugar trust. But, choos- ing his own ground, he still makes the fight. The battle call has sounded. Its significance is not to be mistaken. Either the president must suffer defeat or the Gorman faction must go down. Washington Star (rep.): The desperate struggle between the Wilson tarift bill and the Gorman tariff bill is interrupted by the vigorous and unexpected intrusion of the Cleveland- tariff bill, which remarks loudly that it can whip both of the other com- batants. The Wilson bill, which s getting rather the worst of the original encounter, welcomes the interfercnce, while the Gorman bill fumes with indignant resentment. The characteristics of the Cleveland tariff bill are free coal, free iron and a duty on sugar. OLE IS TROUBLED, IN SOUP, Yuly 23rd, 1894.—To the Editor of The Bee: Ay bane In trouble and Ay tank Ay write you latter. Ay had almighty gude yob in sawmill on Yim river in Dakota, but Ay yump ma yob and go to Chicago age two walke to take yob on railroad. Ay vear over-alls in sawmill, but Ay hare Ay gat yob on railroad like brakeman and wear wide-bottomed pants. Ay had gude yob In sawmill and make sevent$-femt cents a day. But Ay hare Yon Yonson ha rade newspaper and it say Irishmen haraise hal in Chicago. So Ay tank Ay gat gude yob there. Ay tal Yon Yonson gude-bye and Ay buy saxsteen dollar tacket and yump on train. Ay work two day and Irishman ha hit ma on head with brick and call ma Norvegian scab. Ay not like dat so Ay yump job. How vas dat for crazy? Den Ay tank Ay go see ma broder in Omaha. Ha bane purty gude fella_and haf almighty gude yob with Yim Stephenson. Ven ha see ma, ha say: “Halloo, Ole, vare you Kkam from? Ay tank you vare on Yim river?" Ha bane purty glad to see ma, but ha say Ay bane crazy to yump yob in sawmill, and Ay tank so, too. Vat you tank? Omaha it bane purty swift town, Ay bat you. Ay tank Ay get no yob hare. Vat you tank? Ay bat you if Ay gat yob Ay not yump Ma broder ha say ha mot Kape ma and tal ma to gat hump on ma back. Ay tal him Ay gat no yob, b id Ay must look for yob. So Ay gat Stephenson ha write latter to ma old boss on Yim river but but ha say Ay gat yob like Damocratic party run kontry. How is dat for crazy? Ay tank des bane purty hard times. vat you tank? Ay bane in des kontry sax yare, femt mont, treo day and sax vake, Yon Yonson ha write ma des bane almighty gude Kontry and ha say for ma to come hare quick. Ay vish Ay hadn't come. It bane purty gude kontry femt yar ago, but Ay tank Ay vont change so Ay voted damocratic tacket two yare ago. How vas dat for crazy? Ven Ay Rat gude republican like Knute Nelson for president Ay tank Ay bane all right agan. Vat you tank? Ay hare ma say des vinter it bane almighty hard times and ha tank a man ha bane mighty big fool to yump yob now. Ha tank sax loaves of bread bane batter dan no loaves at all. Vat you tank? Ay tank so. Ay vill write you agan ven Ay gat out of soup and find yob, OLE IVERSON. e BRYAN MUST DECIDE SOON. OMAHA, July 23.—To the Editor of The Bee: The article published in The Beo this morning entitled “Bryan Must Decide Soon' has some statements that do not exactly express my views toward Bryan, and in order that my friends and Mr. Bryan's friends may fully know my position I will ask your kindness to allow me a little space In your valuable paper. In the first place, of course, I have no authority to say what our party will, or will not do, any more than what is unmistakably explained in our platform. I have repeatedly said on the stump and over my signature that such men as W. J. Bryan and W. F. Gurley, who I believed to be lonest and able, would always receive my in- ividual support, no matter what ticket they wero running upon, and I will say it. Now, in relation to Mr. Bryan for governor, it is true that I do not believe that our party 13 going to endorse him for that office for several reasons. The first and most im- portant is that he is not a candidate for the ofice of governor, and furthermore his friends are unable to have thelr convention called before our's s called if we did intend to endorse him. Our people belleve that Mr. Bryan 1s bettor fitted for United States sen- ator, and that In that position he would serve them to better advantage, and now this is my position individually. I think that Mr. Bryan should be in the populist party, but It he sees fit not to come to us and still fight along the lines that ho has in the past I am perfectly willing, and I think that the majority of our party are willing that If ho and his friends will bLelp us carry through our state and legislative ticket that we will make him our next United States senator, and of him and Allen In my humble opinion’ Nebraska could well be proud. Re. pectiully, D. CLEM. DEAVER, NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, Work has been bogun on the new Hamil- ton county court hor The Burt county Sunday school convention will be held at Lyons August 1 and 2. A revival operated by four young men will be begun at Nemaha City this week. The Christian Endeavor soofoties of Fur- nas county will hold a convention at Wilson- ville July 28 and 29, The Baptist Young People’s union of the Loup and Elkhorn association will shold a rally August 8 and 10, B. 8. Littlefleld has sold the Grant Sentinel to C. F. Smith and will put in all his time doing the county judging Tramps set fire to the farm house of James MeAllister, near Pawnee City, and the build- ing and contents were entirely consumed The 15-year-old son of Superintendent of Sehools Barton of Aurora was thrown from A horse and sustained injuries that will prove fatal, The Tilden Citizen has agaln changed hands and fs now in the possession of L. C Bargelt, who will conduct it as a republican paper. The Nehawka Register has been discontin- ued and the plant will be moved to Bur- chard, where a new paper will be estab- lished. Broken Bow people have been notified by the city marshal to cut the weeds in their lots or the city will do the work and assess the cost against the property. While handling a gun in the First National bank of Holdrege, Fred Alden accidently ex- ploded the weapon, putting a bullet through the plate glass front. Luckily nobody wa injured. A bolt of lightning at Beaver City en- tered the house of Willlam Mason and tore out one end of the building. Although the ocoupants were in the side of the house damaged by the fluid they were not injured. Jake Fries, the weak-minded young man who tried to wreck a Rock Island train near Table Rock and who was arrested as a dan- gerous lunatic, escaped from the jail at Pawnee City and had twelve hours of libe before the sheriffl overtook him and robbed him of his liberty. While carrying a lghted lamp In search of medicine, Mrs. John Train of Liberty fell and threw the lamp against the wall. It broke and the ofl ignited, setting fire to the house, which was entirely destroyed Mrs. Train was rescued from her perilous position by her brother just in time to save her life. Nothing was saved from the house. The Santee agency correspondent of the Niobrara Ploneer says that Bill Campbell sold a bunch of cattle to the Bloomfleld butcher, for wh® he received $200 cash When the cattle were called for the Indians refused to deliver them, and, upon applic tion to the agent, he investigated matters and discovered that the cattle were those issued to the Indians and Bill Campbell had nothing to do with them. Bl has gone up to visit Red Cloud. — PEOPLE AND THING Matrimonial tie-ups go right on regardless of the consequences. Japan would doubtless polish Smashing China is quite different. The Maryland peach crop is safe and the democratic administration still lives. An early and liberal consignment of sugar is needed to sweeten life at the senate end of the capitol. A proclamation against perfidy and politi- cal anarchy is due from the white house. Call out the troops. If the Butte contingent of the industrial revolution heeded Debs' advice they were careful to keep it out of sight. George M. Pullman has two brothers who are clergymen. Their opinjon of the camel and needle-eye illustration is not stated. The first thing the new arbitration com- mission should do is to arbitrate the ques- tion of veracity between the senate and the white house. Senator Arthur Phew Gorman's arraign- ment of “cowards in high places’ demolishes the malicious story that he has an impedi- ment in his spine. Another member of the Washington family {s dead. His first name was Thornton, and ho was a great grandson of President Washington’s brother Samuel. Prof. Glibhin solemnly asserts there s nothing in the political situation to warrant the democrats of Nebraska holding a state convention to mominate a ticket. Chicago's pre-eminence as a summer re- sort cannot be successfully aftacked when cggs are cooked in Lake Difchigan and lara tried out of live hogs at the stock yards. Daniel K. Belknap, station agent on the Erie road at Hornellsville, N. Y., has main- tained a tie-up with the company for forty years, and shows no signs of loosening his grip. Philadelphia papers confirm the report of a base ball fracas in that city. Those who cherish the belief that the Quaker city 15 a quaint, dreamy, back number should revise their opinions. 1 One of the fastest stenographers in the country is Miss R. Maude Wolfe of Boston. She writes fluently in three languages and her notes are so plainly written that they are readily deciphered by her assistants. The suffragists of New York have plunged from heights of oy to depths of despair. The fayorable report of the subcommittee for suffrage, regardless of sex, was Sat uponm, 13 to 4, by the full committee. The mean old things! Young John Jacob Astor, in his new lhouse facing Central park, New York, has carved in marble on the outside, his own bust, his wite's, his baby's, his father's, his grand- father's and ever so many more. Another queer feature of the Astoral architecture is the capital A's which dot the house in every direction like the Napoleonic N's on the old French empire furnitur Amid the strife and turmoil ragi party councils in Washington, the ran! file of the democracy will fiid a large gob of consolation in the following flattering testimonial from the Arkansas popullsts, to wit: “We continue our demand for a graduated income tax and congratulate our- selves that we are rapidly educating and converting the democratic party.” The wear and tear of administrating the Treasury department killed Manning and Folger, but their fates were exceptional, a: most of the secrctaries of the treasury hav been long lived. There are seven former secretaries still surviving: Hugh McCul- loch, George S. Boutwell, Benjamin H. Bris- tow, John Sherman, Walter Q. Gresham, Charles 8. Fairchild and Cnarles Foster. The same number of ex-secretaries of war sur- vive: Schofield, Cameron, Ramsay, Lincoln, Proctor, Endicott and Elkins e ARMY PAY D. " . o the F Navy Journal » day like a pay day, an’ the ace llke New York, &'s no street like the Bow'ry when out upon a lark An' there's not a bloom host that wear the blue As can give the Fust a polnter where to go or what to do; When the money is a-burnin® Tn the pockets o' your clothes, An' to keep the ball turnin’ Is the only thing that goes. Corea. in the Army and Wil Stokes, 0, therc ment o' the An’ you figger out your 'debtedness—to who, how much, you owe; the gin mills are a-buzzin' with thelr winders all a-glow; An' the fakirs flockin' steady like muskeet- ers flit about; An’ a pass for you is ready when you want to take It out: While the doliars are a- With a most provokin’ Falrly flutterin® and tinglir In the fingers o' the boys, An' nglin® Tom? What'll ye Tom? Take anc ith m Comrades west and ¢ ades cast in many & skirmish, many a spree; 088 It Oft! an’ If you hevi't any thing in view Let's run over to the city to old “Number While the rocks a An' @ pair o' pretty eyes Smiles upon you, softly callin’, Ah, §ood evenin'; walk in, boys." Howdy do, hev', other o gayly rollin', 8o th ne'er a day lke the odds if, In the end You' dd to the guird house, having fought bosom friex All_bruk' up and busted, summary ahead It was glorlous while it plper must be paid; AN’ the captain reads the charges, An' with many a pulpit trick on yer horeld lite enlarges An'—you gets it in the necls, |, pay day! What's blast it! with a lasted! now the ——— DEATH RAVAGES OF BLACK Desoribed by an Amerioan Physioian in a Lotter to The Bee, CHINESE FLEE FROM FOREIGN DOCTORS irious Mensares of the Natives to Stay the Plague-Lles Toltt About Amorlean Physiclans—Great Canton 1os- pital Almost Desertod. Letters recelved from a prominent Amerk can physiclan in Canton, China, by a mem- ber of The Bee staff say tho plague fs worse than ever In both Canton and Hong Kong. Forty thousand Chinese have fled from Hong Kon not because they fear the plague, but because thoy are afrald of the forelgn physiclans, who have been ordered by the English to make a house to house inspecs tion. It is the bellef of the Chinese that the foreigners arc sent to polson them so as to make them die quicker and the most sen- satlonal stories are told on the streets of the treatment undergone by those Chinese who have fallen into the hands of foreign doctors. Posters have been freely displayed In every part of Canton saying that the doe- tors dissected people allve, took people on board the hospital ship who did not have the plague, put the living with the dead and gavo the patlonts poison the first thing upon their arrival on the ship to make their death sure. As a consequence of these lles the great American hospital at Canton has been deserted by all the patients that wero able to leave, and it is considered dangerous for any Chinese to go there for treatment on_account of the mobs. Two American lady doctors have been se- verely beaten by infuriated Chinese because they administered medicine to a_man with the piugue, as the people declared that they had given the patient poison. Since this oc currenco the viceroy of Canton has statloned soldlers in the streets in citizens' clothes to prevent a rccurrence. He has also {ssued an order for all forolgners to keep off the streets and to cease giving medicine to the sick. The Chinese believe that the scent bags made to relieve the sufferings of those stricken with the plague are aeadly, and the viceroy has glven orders that no more of them shall bo distributed and all mentlon ot the words “‘scent bags” has been prohibited. This proclamation, however, has not been en- tirely oboyed and the Chinese still continua to post notices on the walls of the city warn ing the people against the “foreign devils. Dr. Mary W. Niles, who sends the above information, also tells of how the patents suffering withthe “black death” are treuted. She has hired a boat on the river where all her plague patients are taken. In addition to rent of the boat, she is charged $10 for every death that occurs on board, as the Chinese will not_use a boat on which there has be:n a death. To prevent the payment of this extra fine, when it is seen tnat a patient Is about to dis, he is removed to a ferry boat ad- joining, where he can pass away without it entailing any extra cost on the physician, A Chinese gunboat under the direction of the viceroy, is engaged daily In taking all the sick from Hong Kong to Canton, and as a consequence there Is great indignation in the latter city over the action of the authori- ties. The Cantonese say their city would be free from the plague if the cases from Hong Kong were mot brought there. The reason for transferring the stricken ones fs that Hong Kong Is a center of trade and the pres- ence of the disease there is causing loss to commerce. Nearly all the forelgners and the wealthier Chinese have left the city for nearby towns that have not as yet been infected. There is great fear that the disease will spread still more. Several attempts have been made by tha Chinese themselves to stop the progress of the disease. They first brought all the idols from the temples and forming them in pro- cession, marched them around the city. During the march, however, a number of people died, and the scheme was abandoned as worthless. It was then decided to change the date of the year, as it was believed that the gods would cease troubling the people if they could be fooled into the belief that the present calamitous year was ended. The gods, however, have not looked at it in that light and the people are still at their wits end to know what to do. penastion SSRGS RESCUED FROM THE WRECK, Evening's Excitement for Visitors t Sea- bright—Five Sailors Suved. NEW YORK, July 23.—For two hours yes- terday evening the summer visitors along the New Jersoy coast In the vicinlty of Sea- bright raced up and down the shore watch- ing five men clinging to the crosstrees of their vessel, which had just gone down, It was but twenty-five minutes from the time the hardy life-savers put out from the beach on their errand of mercy until they had reached the wreck, and the imperiled sailors, one atter another, were taken from the rig- ging, but to the walting thousands on tha beach and blufts it seemed as though hours had clapsed. The vessel was a two-masted schooner, the Robert H. Mitchell of Balti- more, bound from New York to Norfolk, She carried 150 tons of salt in bulk. Sha had sprung a leak and was rapidly settling when & distress signal was hoisted and the captain and crew climbed into the rigging, where they clung until rescued. Among the excited spectators on shore was ex-President Harrison. = Shot Him Dead to Defend Himself, ST. LOUIS, July 23.—Late last night Her- man Klugman shot and killed Edward Cook- sey, one of whose sons was thrashed by Klug- man several days 2go. Last night Cook- sey, armed with a club, and two others, one of them*flashing a piatol, lay in walt for and attacked Klugman. Secing he was likely to fare ly, Klugman ‘drew his owd weapon and shot Ccoksey, who lived but a few minutes after being shot. Klugman is under arrest. e MIRTH IN SHORTI METRE. e Press: Little—Have you any Mutch—No; ine are all visit me at moment’s Detroit Free Pr distant relatives? near enough to notice. Philadelphia Record: *“The; re few more disappointing things In life,” says the Manayunk Philosopher,” “‘than balloon ascension to a man with a stff neck.” Somerville Journal: The first time a man W a pair new tan shoes down the stroet it is a great relief to him temporarily to hear any other noise. s you going away asked Snipkins Snaggs. “The miele: A nagg replied Pittsburg Ch for the sumn “Don't need to, summer Is still here Strange Buffalo Courler: Dinkle Dank hould be overcome by the heat Great Scott, man! I 1ost $10 on it wife put alnly v of nature.’ nseript sty n i “Does your herself?" the first la Boston Can electriclans explain why Siftings: sgative 1s always a positive? Record: IUs so far to the credit of i man that when his girl 14 locked in° his arms before marriage he never thinks of a latch key. Freeman: The architect of the planned wisely. 1f a dog did not his tail his meaning would be \ he showed his teeth Atchison Globe othing hurts a boy's feelings more than to act smart in front f a girl who 13 staying all night with his Sister and then get whipped for it in her presen Adams universe laugh with misunderstood wh Detrolt Free Press: Miss Boston (a vis. ftor)—I was so sorry 1 couldn't attend the ball last night, but T understand you were there and were quite comme il faut, He—-You bet your sweet life I was: [ had two forty-fours in my belt and carried & Winchester UP AND DOING, Atlanta Constitution. There t no use in sittin® In sittin’ still and wishin' While there's i can with balt to fill An' lukes an' cams for fishin’ stille The man who makes the dollars now, Them dollars ls pursuin’; He's on the run one hour by sun, An' always up an' doin's