Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 29, 1894, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY B THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. e = B. ROSEWATER, Editor. —— PUBLISIIED BVERY MOUNING. i TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ally Tee (without Sunday) Ons Year ... Dally Tiee and Sunday, One ¥ ix Montha . hree Mon i Bunday B aturday 1 Weekly e O Ony OFIICR Omaha, The ftes Tuilding Houth Omulu. ¢ 12 Pearl Stie ieago Offiee. 417 Chaml Now Kork, Ttome 13, 11 Washington, 107 I £te CORRE! ANl communicat torial matte \nd Twenty-fourth 8ts, nmerce. Tribune Bldg. NCR. news and edi- W To theEditor. ting waned LETTERS and remittan BUSIN Al business | shoutd be - company, ehecks orders to 1o h company. Lol UL IMIPANY. THE 1R BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATIO! George 1, Tivc) 1ahing compan the actual number of Tho Daily Morni printed during the month of June, Tollows: 10 il 2,003 1 i 18 i 60,163 ens_de w for unsoid and returncd My St 7o Daily *Sund old ag et eirculation.. 2808 3 B TZSCHUCK. cribed in my pres- GRORC Bworn to before me and e ence this 3d day of July, 151 1 P, FEIL, N ary Public. Japan is reiterating the once popular Cali- fornfa cry that the Chinese must go. The United States stands ready to sup- ply the munition of war in exchange for cold cash or its equivalent, The heavens are again being bombarded by ralnmakers and preachers, but they give but a feeble respone to these noisy invita- tions. The end of the cruel war at Chicago is marked by the return of the deputy mar- shals to the ranks of the army of the un- employed. A little country can sometimes create a great deal of strife in this The size of Corea does not affect its power of occa- sloning a great big war. world The death of General Pleasanton, the orlg- inator of the blue glass cure-all, reminds us that the real clixir of life and fountain of perpetual youth are yet undiscovered. Why not hold the meetings of the tariff conference commititee in the white house and save all this Interloping between Presi- dent Cleveland and the leaders of the houso conferees? It Breckinridge of Arkansas gets the Rus- sian mission to indemnify the loss of a re- election to congress, what will Breckinridge of Kentucky get after his constituents shall have repudiated him? Senator Gorman berated the president be- fore a crowded house, while Senator Vilas eulogized the president to empty benches. Fulsome flattery Is evidently not very popu- lar with Washington audiences The country must be safe once more when it can get along without Mr. Depew for a couple of months. But Mr. Depew will kindly continue to send us his fatherly advice from time to time as he meets the interviewer on his European travels. Should China go to war in earnest the stringent provisions of the Chinese exclusion act may be called into active requisition to prevent the invasion of this country by Chinamen who prefer to be as far from the seat of hostilities as possible, It is positively amusing to watch some alleged democratic newspapers in their antics . to talk on the income tax, now that its enact- ment into law seems most imminent. Some of them are trying hard to work up actual enthuslasm over the matter, in spite of the summer heat. Richard Malcomb Johnston's lecture upon Mlilton at the Catholic summer school In New York is being referred to as a complete defense of conjugal love. As if conjugal love needed any defense. If there is any defend- ing to be doue, let it be done by tho devotees of extra-conjugal love. TMinois democrats are apprehensive that the fallure of the republicans to make a nomination for senator will leave their candi- date, Mr. McVeagh, without an opportunity to meet an accredited opponent in joint de- bate. This may be the chance to decline a challenge, which Mr. McVeagh most wants. It won't be for lack of an opponent that he will refrain from joint debates. The New York Evening Post is not satis- fled with the work of the Chicago federal grand jury. It is tearfully regretting that “the preachers and college professors who have been teaching anarchy to the ignorant masses and stirring them up to revolution” have not been indicted. The only way to appease the Post Is to hang everybody who Was not in favor of shooting down the strik- ers without warning. Nebraska falled to get any representation in the list of officers elected by the Shriners at Denver this week, although the states all around her sccured recognition. Nebraska Shriners will doubtless survive this over- sight, but they might make it the basis for & fight for the location of the annual meeting the next time the question comes up. Omaha ought to be allowed to entertain the whole - body of Shriners two years hence, instead of only those who pass through enroute to some other city. Senator Harrls, president pro tempore of the sen trled to declare a motion ap- pealing from his decision on a point of order tabled before the votes of the senators had begun to be recorded. It transpired that the effort was decidedly premature, the motion to table being lost on a tie. Had the vice president been In the chair and exercised his privilege to vote when the senators are equally divided, the motion would have been carried and the controversy ended without further ceremony. As it was there had to be three roll calls to dispose of the three propositions before the body. It was an oceasion where the absence of the sloe president came near causing & stinging Mafeat for the democratic majority i the sonate. SLUMS STA1iSTIC, Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright ha Just submitted a special report relating en- tirely to the slums of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Baltimore. In this boggy field ot Inquiry the labor commissioner claims to have fished out some interesting and structive statistics which of the reach of the national census taker, As a matter of fact, Commissioner Wright's com- pilation is for the most part within the reach were out of everybody that has in his possession the | publishied reports of the last census and Is willing to take pains to make his own deduc- tions therefrom. This s true as regardy the population divided by nativity, sex and age. The reports of the census takers for each of the precincts in the district covered by the shums show in detail all this infarmation, as well as the facts relative to the occupations of cnumerated and the number of people classed as illiterate. On this score, thercfore, the report supplies nothing The only points not included in the reports of the census enumerators is the condition of the health of the slum population, their earnings, and, lastly, the number of saloons and dives within these districts. en on these points reliable statistics have been glven to the public in New York by Dr Crosby and Dr. Parkhurst, and we presume the commissioner could obtained this information as to the slums of Philadelphia, Chicago and Baltimore from the chiefs of police and excise boards. The most striking feature of this so-called exploration of the slums Is the comparative preponderance of the foreign elements over native Americans within those lorrible slums. Upon reflection it must, however, be apparent that this preponderance affords no proof that the foreign ments are more criminal, vicious and ‘immoral than an equal number of natives In poverty flats. The reason why the tenements in the slums of large overflowing with Chinese, Italians, Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Ger- mans, and Africans is not because these wretched foreigners love to wallow in the mire and take to vice and erime like a duck does to water, but because they are obliged by poverty to seek shelter in the quarter where rents are lowest. The tumble- down rockeries in the lanes, alleys and by- ways of the slur turally become the habitation of the poorest class of the popu- lation. The fact that in spite of filth, ver- min and crowded flats, the health average in the slums s not below that of other portions of the great cities covered by the commis- sioner's inquiry affords reasonable proof that the police and health boards of the cities are doing efficient work in the way of enforcing sanitary regulations. RETASTATEMENT OF POSTAL CLERKS The proposal to reinstate in the railway mail service certain clerks who were dis- missed therefrom during the early part of the Harrison administration is In effect a proposal to disorganize and demoralize that very important branch of the postal service. The argument urged in support of this in- defensible scheme is that the removal of these clerks was for partisan reasons. Rep- resentative Bynum of Indiana, the author of the bill for reinstatement which passed the house last Tuesday, said in reference to these dismissals: the 4th day of March, 1889, the day on which Mr. Har- rison became president, to the 15th day of May, & period of less than two months, 1,700 democratic clerks, with records for efficiency and integrity therctofore uncqualied, were summarily dismissed and their places filled with virulent republican partisans without experlence. A more outrageous partisan as- sault upon a class of government clerks who had ecarned and secured their positions by laborious and eficient work cannot be found even In the history of the unparalleled greed of the republican party.” There has never been made on the floor of congress a more wantonly false and misleading statement than this so far as it applies to the motive which prompted the dismissal of clerks in the railway mail service during the period stated by the Indiana congressman. The facts in connection with this matter are of so recent occurrence as to be easily remembered. Under the first administration of Mr. Cleveland republicans in the railway mail service were removed as rapldly as competent democrats could be found to take their places, but down to 1888 a majority of the railway mail clerks were republicans. They were not “offensive partisans” in the sense of being “perniclously active” in pol- itics, but they could be depended upon to always vote the republican ticket. Mr. Don Dickinson was postmaster general, appointed to that position largely because of the repu- tation he had made as a political organizer In Michigan. The railway mail service was not under civil service regulations fn 1888, and there was a clamor from democrats for positions in that service, which the post- master general was very ready to listen to. To get as many democrats as possible into the service was deemed to be good politics and demanded by the situation, and without regard to what the effect might be upon the service, experienced clerks were removed for mo other reason than that they were republicans, and the places filled by demo- crats, who for the most part had little to recommend them except the fact that they were partisans of the administration. After the defeat of Mr. Cleveland in 1888, the democratic party having no further use for the railway mail service as a political machine, it was proposed to place it under the civil service regulations, and an order for the accomplishment was issued to take effect cight days after the incoming of the suc- ceeding administration. Mr. Cleveland was willing, from a sense of propriety, perhaps, after having filled the service with demo- crats, to allow the republican administra- tion a week In which to put a few of its supporters into that service if by any possi- bility it could in that brief time find op- portunity to give any attention lo this ser- vice, But when Mr. Harrison became president he was informed by the civil service com- mission that they had not been given timo enough uuder the order of his predecessor to make the arrangements necessary for the proposed classification, and upon this information President Harrison extended the time at which the classification should take effect a little more than a month. In the meauwhile the Postofice department had been overwhelmed with complaints of the Inefliciency of the postal service from all parts of the country. Senators and rep- resentatives wero appealed to by their con- ituents to seek a remedy for the wretched condition of afairs, which was causing loss and trouble to the business interests of the country and annoyance to mnearly every- body. The whole source of the difficulty was in the demoralization of the railway mail service, due to the sweeping removal of experienced clerks and the appointment to their places of men not only without experience, but In many cases without the capacity to' acqyire the knowledge neces- sary to the eflicient performance of the persons new. have cities are bs is arduous and exacting dutles of a clerk in the rallway mail service. Desiring to re- in- | rison administration did reinstate & large number of clerks who were able to establish fact that their dismissal was not of any fault in their record as em- ployes of the government, and It is a mat- ter of common knowledge that improvement in the service Immediately followed this action. Thus everybody using the mails was benefited, and at the same time justice was had been faithful and useful servants of the government. The rallway mail service was brought its highest state of efficiency under the Har- rison administra n. Its gre: importance as a part of the postal system was fully recognized and appreciated, and speclal effort was made for improving it. The standard of efficinecy thus attained has not been fmpaired under the present administration, but it will be impossible to maintain it 1t the clerks dismissed five years ago are refn- stated. Certainly, if the public, and es- pecially the business interests, properly un- derstood what fs proposed by the bill which has passed the house, there would be a gen- eral and most vigorous protest against it that even uncompromising a democratic partisan as Mr. Bynum would be compelled to give attention to. store the efMiclency of this service, the Har- l | | the be- cause | | | | | done to men who ONE WINT S CHARITY. The first comprehensive report of the work of poor relief accomplished in this county during the last winter, as givei in the statement of the county clerk, published a week ago, discloses some valuable infor- upon the subject of public charity which ought to serve as a gulde for similar in the future. There have been or two reports of priva charitable organi- zations thut did more or less effective work, but a comparison will quickly prove that the great bulk of the poor relief adminis- tered In this county is administcred through the county authorities and pald for out of the general tax levy. That the winter of 1894 was an extraor- inarily hard ono for the poor has become almost a truism, but the figures for the last few vears give us a statistical measurement of the facts. Whereas in 1592 there were 50 applicants for poor relief, to whom ods costing $15,808.35 were distributed, or an average of $28.74 per applicant, and in plicants, costing the county , or an average of $27.76, in 1894 the number of applicants was 2,002, and the cost to the county of $2 or an aver- of $14.80 per applicant. Of these, 211 are regular charges, receiving as- sistance at stated intervals, the remaining 1,792 being thrown upon the county as tem- porary dependents, the average length of time during which assistance was given being two and a half months. An interesting feature developed from the figures compiled by the county clerk is that the too readily acquired habit of charging the greater part of the expemse of poor relief to be due to pauper immigrants has no foundation whatever in fact. Over half—or to be exact, 1,079 out of 2,003— claimed to be of American birth, while 239 were Germans, 135 Irish, 108 Polanders, 119 Swedes, 90 Danes, 74 Bohemians, 51 English, 40 Italians, 33 Russians and so on. That Is to say, just the nationalities that are usu- ally accredited with furnishing us the most industrious citizens are represented the most among the applicants for poor rellef. Nor are they all, or even many, mere birds of passage, less than twenty confessing to have resided in the county one, two, three, four, five and six months respectively, 336 claiming to have resided here one year, and smaller numbers various years up to thirty years. We imust bear in mind that these facts have been gathered upon the appli- cant’s own statement, and that he might think it to his advantage to misrepresent them. Yet allowing for error, they make a remarkable showing. It is scen from this review that the greater part of the winter’s charity was dis- pensed by the county, and that any chairty organization scheme that fails to take into account the work donme by the county au- thorities must give but partial results. Pri- vate associations must, to be effective, co- operate with the county and make the work of the county the back bone of the entire system. Should the demands upon public charity continue to be heavier than usual during the winter to come, a plan of co- operative work should be carefully con- structed well in advance and systematic charity should entirely supplant all desul- tory though well-meaning efforts. mation work one county RATIFY L In an interview regarding the prospects of his proposed amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote, which has just secured the requisite two-thirds majority in the house, Congressman Tucker of Virginia gives as the reason for his con- fidence that the amendment will eventually be ratified by the necessary three-fourths of the states and become incorporated into the constitution, the fact that there is no limit to the time within which the states are to give their consent. What Mr. Tucker regards as a fortunate feature of the law respecting constitutional amendments s, however, quite generally regarded by author- ities on the subject as an unfortunate fea- ture, It not a positive defect, In the ma- chinery provided for altering that funda- mental document. The only express provi- sion of the constitution on this subject de- mands that amendments properly proposed shall be valld to all iIntents and purposes as part of the constitution “when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states or by conventions in three- fourths thereof,” as may be designated by congre It is not clear whether congress has power to fix a time limit when the pro- posed amendment must have been ratified or shall be considered to have failed of ratl- fication, though as a matter of fact congress has never essayed to do so. Reference to the practice of the govern- ment under this constitutional provision will show that Mr. Tucker is not entirely war- ranted by experience in looking upon the lack of a time limit for ratification as favor- able to the success of his project. Of the nineteen amendments that have been pro- posed by congress to the states, only fifteen ran the gauntlet of the necessary number of legislatures, and all of them were ratified within a comparatively short period. The first ten amendments proposed, September 25, 1789, were declared to have been legally adopted by the close of 1791, The eleventh amendment was pending longer than any of the others of the successful fifteen, being before the legislatures of the states from September 5, 1794, to January 8, 1798, or over three years. The twelfth amendment, proposed December 12, 1803, and declared duly ratified September 25, 1504, thus came through in less than a year. The same Is true of the thirteenth, proposed February 1, 1865, and declared ratified December 13 of the same year, the shortest period on vecord, The fourteenth was pending from June 16, 1866, to July 28, 1368, and the fiftteenth from February 27, 1869, to March 30, 1870. Four proposed constitutional amoendments SUNDAY, JULY 2 94 on the other n.r bave never been ratified by three-fourth ,Lr the states. Two of them wero offered along with the first ten, one relating 15 The representation in the lower house of congress and the other pro- hibiting congressmen from varying their own compensalion, One was proposed by tho eloventh Tongress In 1810, to disfran- chise any onepwhgy should without the con- sent of congress accept a gift from any forelgn power. The other, proposed in 1861, as a proventlve” bt the threéatening war, aimed to prevedt the adoption of any amend- ment to the*eofistitution authorizing Bress to abolikh''or interfere within any state with the domestic Institutions thereof. Under the pecullar status of the law on this subject any or all of these four pro- pesed amendments can be adopted tomor- row and fincorporated into the constitution by the ratification of three-fourths of the states compromising the unfon. That Is to say, there is no way In which congress can withdraw the propositions which it has made nor in which those states which have given thelr assent can rotract, al- though states which have dissented can change their conrses at time and ox- press their approval. It Is possible, then, by the states to ratify the lating to representation give themselves one every 50,000 inhabi themselves from giving congress power interfere with slavery in the states and thus to throw into inextricable confusion the law and the constitution on this point Skculd Mr. Tucker's proposed amendment pass the senate by the requisite majority, it might hang fire for years and decades and be suddenly made effective by the change of sentiment in one or two states that had all along opposed it. It is not at all prob- able, however. As is plain from the hl tory just cited, the chances are that unl a proposed amendment is ratified within three or four years at most, it will drop out of view, never to be heard of again At tho same time there Is an clement of danger in thus imperiling the stability of the government, not very threatening just now, but yet within the range of possi- bility. Congress might, we believe, furnish the remedy by inserting a time limit as a condition in its resolution. The absence of a time limit for ratification of proposed constitutional amendments is at any rate not the advantage claimed for it by Mr. Tucker. con- for re- in and representative for Or to prohibit this process amendment to the house nts. to CREDIT'S PART IN BUSINE: Very few pecple have any conception of the extent to which checks, drafts and other instruments of credit are used in the opera- tions of trade, taking the place of rency. The advocates of more money usually avoid, as far as possible, all refer- ence to the employment of ‘“credit paper’ in business transactions, leaving the unin- formed in ignorance of the fact that morc than 90 per centof the business of the coun- try is carried on by the use of this sort of paper and that the function of the cur- rency is confined to small or retail trans- actions, so far'us bsiness is concerned, so that it is not so much a question how much currency a country chas as the condition of credit in relatidn to its prosperity. The re- sults of carefu) inquiries have.shown that about 98 per cent of ithe transactions through the New York national banks were by means of checks; about 93 per cent in the other great cities were: by the same meaus, and that in the smaller cities checks aré used to the extent of about 81 per cent in transac- tions through the banks. It will thus be seen that for the whole country checks and other instruments of credit are used for more than 90 per cent of the business transactions, currency playing a very small part in commercial affairs. These inquiries have been directed to the use of credit instruments by people who use the banks. The present comptroller of the currency proposes to investigate more broadly, with a to ascertaining how generally the banks are used, and especially whether they are used by people of smail means. The circular of inquiry which he has sent to each nationzl bank calling for the report of condition on July 18, requests a report for the same date of the number of depositors and the amount of their deposits by classes. He asks for a scparate state- ment of deposits under $1,000, of deposits of $1,000 and less than $2,000, of deposits of $2,000 and less than $10,000, and of all de- posits over $10,000. The comptroller, it is said, is especlally interested as to what the results will be in the banks of the smaller cities and country towns. He peets the returns from the city banks to show the gemeral use of the national banking system by small tradesmen and others who have to conduct monetary transactions. Whether the coun- try banks are avafled of to the same extent is a question which has never been answered statistically from so wide a basis of facts as the comptroller hopes to have at com- mand when the replies to his circular are received. It is thought that this inquiry, taken in connection with that as to the forms of money deposited by retail tradesmen, may afford some strong arguments to the ad- vocates of the wider extension of the bank- ing system, and it will certalnly throw a light of its own upon the use of credit in- struments by people of small means, for it will indicate whether any cansiderable pro- portion settle their weekly or monthly ac- counts by checks upon their bank account. Greater popular enlightenment on this sub- ject is certainly to be desired, since there can be no doubt that Its effect would be to materially reduge thenumber of those who demand that the/currency be inflated until it shall reach $50' pef capita. The principle cannot be too strongly impressed ‘upon the popular mind that it'is not the amount of currency, but the'soufdness of eredit, which 18 the basis of (ational prosperity. Argen- tna Is the mostistriking present illustration of this. That cowntty has no lack of cur- rency, such as I 1§, but credit has been 50 fously impaired that her peopfe are struggling almospihopelessly against disaster and distress that'@fd the product of wild Inflation and rekfess speculation. cur- view ex- DIGRATION | RESTRICTION 1, Boston, that ptolifill fountain of many organizations with béalitiful theorles and im- practicable designs, 18 about to launch upon the country another association of silk stock- \ng men whose .objedt Is to enlighten and educate the country up to the Boston stan- dard of viewing a' particular problem of the day. “The Immigration Restriction League,” as the new organization assumes to style itself, 1s said to already comprise some of the best known men of Boston and vieln- ity, chiefly professional men and college pro- fessors, with Mr. Robert De C. Ward, an in- structor in Harvard and editor of the Me- teorological Review, at the head. To vary the monotony of the subject with which he 1s usually engaged Mr. Ward has been ac tive In establishing the league, through which hopes to come down the GUE he trom 'cluud- and, leaving meteors above him, to Instruel the people of the United States that they are too free in permitting the immigrants from Europe to share in the blessings of their government. In the efrcular sent out to prominent men Inviting them to partake of the privilege of membership, the objects of the are set forth as follows: “The objects of the league to for and the further judiclous restriction or stricter regu- lation of Immigrati It win docu- ments and cireulars, solicit facts and infor- mation on the subject, hold public meetings and in overy way to stir up public opinion to the necessity of some action. It not an object this league wholly to prohibit immigration nor to prevent the en- trance of laborers or others of character and standards which fit them to become citizens. The league intends to be not a theoretical but a practical working body. It will not at first attempt to advocate any one form or method of regulation, any theory or hobby, but will endeavor to Inform and keep before the public all facts and all possible methods in the hope ot bringing about some reform in the prescut system, of whatever nature it may b It must intelligent people who recognize the value of a steady flow of immigration, so long as the vast expanses of unoccupied land in the west remain un setlled, that this is not the most opportunc time for advocating a further restriction of the classes that are permitted to enter into this country. It is not a better enforcement of the existing laws nor more rigid laws on the in force at which this league alms. but rather an Increase in the list of objectionable classes that are to be excluded. When for the past two years the annual immigration to the United States has shown an alarming falling off, and when at the present moment the number of emi grants taking passage to Europe exceeds the number of immigrants taking passage from Europe, the advisa ity of shutting the door to the few that are applying for admission and who comply with the stringent laws al- ready on the statute book appears to be questionable, to state it mildly. Our im- migration laws provide for the exclusion of paupers and criminals and contract laborers and for the return of those who fall upon public charity within a year after landing. 1t these provisions are cvaded, it Is the ad- ministration to whom the complaints ought to be made. This league, however, no intention of uncovering individual cases violation of the laws or to strengthen the officers who execute the laws. It wants merely to harp upon the glittering generality that there are too many people in the coun- try and that the coming of more means the crowding of those here. It wants to stimu- late prejudice against the foreign-born citi- zens of the United States. It is a mov ment of eastern people who fear that the west will grow too fast unless its resources are cut off. Its chief excuse for existence seems to be to gather in the $1 a year an- nual dues and spend them in printing tracts and employing a few clerks down in Boston. league of advocate are work Iusue try is of one appear to most same lines as those has of The national organization of the retail jew- elers intends to take up the crusade against cheap jewelry in dry goods and department stores and to restore the jeweler's trade as it was before the days of these mammoth establishments. This is not an altogether original movement, because other natfonal assoclations of retailers have agreed at dif- ferent times to make similar onslaughts against their competitors. The retail drug- gists, for example, not long ago formulated a plan by which they were to boycott ail job- bers and manufacturers who sold patent medicines and soaps to the dry goods mer- chants, but thelr success seems to have been decidedly meager. The Jewelers now find that they are underbid by the jewelry de- partments of the large concerns and are un- able to compete without giving up some of their accustomed profits. This they are very loathe to do, and so they expect to try the same plan of refusing to buy from jobbers who sell to the proscribed dealers. Whether they will succeed any better than the drug- gists remains to be seen. If It is merely an effort to keep prices up, it will have littlo or no sympathy from the public. The large department stores flourish because they fill a public want. The most effective way for the jewelers to hold their patronage is to tempt customers with goods and prices that are unexcelled. It is now made public that the jury of awards in the manufactures department of the World's fair voted unanimously not to pass judgment upon the face powders submit- ted for competition, on the ground that there are no fair means of testing their merits and that they are used in secret only. The jury, however, had no compunctions about deciding upon false hair and artificial teeth. Wo think the members of the jury displayed crass ignorance when they sald there are no fair means of testing the respective merits of face powder. Had they sought advice they would soon have had the whole subject elucidated to their satisfaction. When a majority of the council voted for the resolution to increase the rate of wages of men employed under the Department of Public Works they knew that they wero making a mere spectacular show that could not possibly have any beneficial effect. Tho charter requires city laborers to be paid current wages—no more, no less. The coun- el cannot make wages higher by resolution. The workingmen understand this, as they also understand and distount the bld which certain members of the council are trying to make for their votes. current adelphia Record. It will make small difference wl senators shall be elected by the peop! by the politiclans o long as a ik able to dominate the senate. e —-— erful Country, This, merville Journ It 19 an interesting fact that every one cf s mmer resorts that Is advertisad in papers is described as *“the most beat U= ful spot In Ame That being #0, it 18 evident that nobody can be disappointed in Foing anywhere e The Turn of the Tide. Globe-Dy June's rallway earnings wer: worse than May's, and July's thus far ire veorss than June's, but the turn must be near at huns, Wiien cong by either killing it ing it gets through monke tarie bill the rallroads as w Lustie, or Four Won Slanders on u Fooj Kansas Clty Star. In the denunclation of working people now in this Hollunders are sometimes Includ Poles and Huns, themselves by their son. The Hollanders are and ndomitably industrious nothing in common with th occasionally, when it is any particular class of p 18 overdone, Just now are screaming for “exclusion’’ who a few years ago W “welcomin, everybody from everywhere to our shores and takini foreign-horn country the 1 with the atingulshed and unrea- peaceable with ot of politiclans | drawal of soldiers from it [ care to seCure the votes of the new arrivals immedlately on thelr landing, SECULAR SHOTS AT THEPULPIT, Atlanta Constitution: ‘When a preacher begins to talk about Christ s an anarchist his friends should swear out a writ of lunacy and lock him up. Philadelphin Ledger: One of the charac teristics of religious activity in our day is the mobilization of young workers in church work, The annual national and interna tional assemblies of these societies attract world-wide attention and interest. These assemblies bring together as many persons a8 the national political conventions, and few clties now have balls large enough to ac- commodate them, St. Paul Globe: Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb, tho missionary from Turkey who announced his intention of converting the American people to Moslemism, has aban- doned the enterprise. He finds too many religlons here ahead of his. He spent a good deal of money in the publication of a Moslem paper at New York; but his wife, more farseeing than he, invested a thousand dollars in a farm in New Jersey, which now offers him a retreat. Kansas City Star: My, effort to Mohommedanize the United States glves signs of exhaustion. A suit has been brought agalnst the American prophet of Islam for attempting to obtain money under false pretenses, and all looks dark. The original Mohammed pr ted his faith with the sword; lLis ° American successor seems to have had no sword, and what worse, no mouey. Without either of means of influencing opl n it is useless to start a new religion or revive an old one. Mohammed Webb's THAT SPECK OF Boston Globe If China should really go to war in good carnest she could bring a gi- gantic army into the field. Her population is almost innumerable, and General Wolse- and the late General Gordon have pre- ted that Europe may some day be overrun by a great Chinese inundstion. China would be powerful If she were aware of her power. Chicago Herald: Should the latest reports of active hostilities prove authentic, we shall see a cruel and frightful conflict, which will not cease until European concert stops it in the name of humanity, and when the, stop comes it will bs found that Corea has ac- ceded to demands for freedom and equity of intercourse. Japan will bear the brunt of the struggle, but the civilized world and Corea will be the heneficiaries, St. Paul Globe: The war between China and Japan, which has now begun, will not be a long, but it will be a bloody one. Japan has the advantage of a better and more modern armament than her neighbor. T Japanese have learned more in the past ten years than the Chinese have acquired in a contury, and, although inferior in numb are vastly superior in their methods Mere brute force will soon be ove me by well directed and intelligent effort. Chicago Tribune: Should war break out and the great powers not interfere there can be little doubt how it would result A war botween Japan and China would be like a war between England and Burope. Japan, like England, has about 40,000,000 of people, while China, like the rest of Burope, has 300,000,000 or more. Geographically Japan bears.about the same relation to China that England does to Europe. The Japanese have a better and stronger navy than the Chinese, as they are a more progressive peo- ple and quicker to adopt modern naval idens, The Japanese navy has tweuty-two fighting vessels, twelve of them stecl,” one of iron, seven composite and two wooden. OF these five are completely armored and eight are protected cruisers. Thelr average speed is about ninetcen knots an hour and two of them are capable of twenty-two and one hall. The Chinese navy has been greatl strengthened during the last ten years and it now excoeds that of Japan in numbers, but not in fighting capacity, as it has but one first-class battleship and its nine best cruisers are all of the second class. A war between China and Japan, however, would not be fought on the water. It would be a fight between armies, and in such a fight China would conquer by sheer force of num- bers. On a peace footing the army of Japan numbers 73,000; on the war footing the most it can muster is 260,000. The Chi- nese army on a peace fooling numbers 300, 000, while its fighting strength is a round million. It i{s moreover now armed with foreign-made mproved weapons. Eugene Uleld's Porcrait of Debs. leago Record. The newspaper portraits of B. V. Debs are not accurate. - They represent him as fat and sleek, and he is not. Debs is tall, blue-eyed, pa smooth-shaven, and in- clined to baldness; he looks very like Nye, and the fact that he wears spectacl emphasizes the resemblance. He dress very plainly but neatly. He talks fluen . He'is an omnivorous reader, and he partic: ularly likes poetry. OFf address he is can- did and cordial; he has to a degree that quality called personal magnetism. Five minutes w i him would suflice, we think, to convince a reader of human nature that Debs is a man of high ideas, honest con- victions, unswerving Integrit; great intel- lectual vigor (or perhaps, raihier, zeal), ex- ceptional simplicity of character and con- summate impracticability. His traits are those, we believe, which, taken sinzly, are most admirable, but which, bunched, are very likely to get him into trouble. Al Effect of the »ugar Deal. Philadelphia Record (dem.). The sugar ships are crowding into port In hot haste to escape the apprehended duty on the raw material laid in the new tariff bill, and never before in the history of Philadelphin the harbor so with cargoes of this character. The r have already laid in such large supplies that they can stand the congressional dilly- dallying” Indefinitely; it is the government which is suffering by the loss of millions of revenue which it even now nceds. The state of the treasury alone should make an imperative demand upon congress to get to- gether and perfect the revenue system on a basls of prineiple that could be trusted to stand the test of time; and if wisdom and public spirit shall be’ permitted to have sway In Washington this demand will not long continue to fall upon unheeding ears. g 'ublic Mo Jhe-Democrat, The mails for months have e down with worthless tariif spe 5,000,000 speeches have heen members this session. A ¢ has sent out 1,000,000 copies of his spes on the income fax,.and a Michig, has mailed 200,000 copies of his The people have to pay for the tr tion of this rubbish, though it the worst existing obstruction to a revival of business, Better a stone when bread is sked for than one of these wordy and waoden exhibitions of vanity and imbe- eility. oy. n weighted Over e The True Remedy. New York Sun Compromise, when it was absolutely im- possible in honor, has forced and prolonged the agony (o which this country has bee B0 oulrageously subjected in almless, un principled 1" inconclusive quarreling ove the tariff.” But one course is consistent with alleglance to the democratic party and loy- alty to American polities: Stop the tariff fight on the spot. Destroy the bill as the fruit ¢ compound felony, and let the democracy marshal Its hosts under its own DA S Modern Desi; tions of Thief. Denver News, takes a loaf of hread i3 a thief. It he 5 §10,000 he becomes embezzler; ut $50,000 he is a defaulter; 00,000 he s a Napoleon of fin1. sl dant Ezeta has made away wion 31,000,600, and we are anxiously waiting for som: to invent some name sufliciently 1 'gh sounding to fit the o LU THEY WANTED ALL THE WATER. Ranchmen Cut a Dam Bullt for the Indian Authorities, DURANGO, Colo., July 23.—-A dispute over vater rights has arlsen lotween the Indian authorities at Forc Lew's, sauth of this city, and the ranchmen along the La Plata river, which has been referred by the farmer to the secretary of the interior. Since the with- vis tho bulld Indlan sehool, thero a dam A man who it for an srationd ings have been used While soldlers were was built about six mies up the river to furnish a water supply. Tae water has been used for irrigation as wel! as drinking pur- poses. Ranchmen, who want all the water on their farms, recently tore the dam uway and warned the Indians if they a‘tempted to rebuild it they wouid b2 shot. In spite of the warning they are rebu iding the dam roker Battorshall Iy TORONTO, Ont, July 28.—Sanford B Battershall, whose namne has ! s printed this week in connection with the in vestigation of Sugar trust influensss by the senate committee at Washington, bas been here for some time, but left last evening for Hamilton. PEOPLE AND THINGS Senator Hill democrat Hor their berth Mowbray! Byldently tho subject The flashes of silence | publican senators can be at long range President Harper of the University of Chie engo s an admirable performer on the ec net. The quantity and quality of his hot aro familiar to most editors. It is due the genial and vorsatile Mul- hatton to say that he was not in the vielnity of Council Bluffs when OId Sol Ignited tho pavement Honest” Dick Tatc 18 an oxceedingly in the senate, after dry spell binders comfort by glving the lonesome will enha west a wide The Governor name Hogg suggestive not exhaust indulged In by re- seen and admired the Napoleon of the Kentucky state treasury, has been located in Japan. His opinjon on’the Corean diffienliy does not excite enthustasm in the vicinity of the looted vault After paying his actual living expensces, Represen fve Sibley of Pennsylvania di vides the balance of his salary among chars itable institutions in his distriet Mr. Sib- ley's exampie is not liable to become opi- | demic in congress. J. L. Weaver's torrid the lowa republican invoeation at nvention exeites much comment. The reverend gentleman certainly violated the propricties and threw the un- written law of custom to the winds. How uiich more becoming to observe the golden rule and “Speak not i1l of the dead.” 1t s generally eded that China, p sessing overwhelming numbers, will come out victorious in a war with Japan. Dut Japan possesses a rescrve power that critics overlook. If the worst comes, the Japs can turn defeat into victory by a simple mane ver, A drove of rodents turned locse at a critical moment will stampede the enemy. The Star of Bethlehom, which flickers at Leeds, Eng., grasps the strike situation by the topknot and exhibits the many sides of it in this sty “A blg_revolution is now €00g o in United States of America, and there is !itle doubt that the government Will be defeated. The dictator, Debs, his been driven from his palace, and he and his ters are now hiding in the mountains. trouble has been experienced the capital of Chicago, where Grover Cleveland, the ringleader of the rebels, has obtained ‘complete control. The rallroad track at that place was torn up and thrown into the Mississippl river, a stream consid- crably longer than the Severn, and the stockyards, where the government palaces are situated, have been razed to the ground, The trouble was started by a ned Pullman, wlio has a stronghold in the moun- tains of 1linois, oue of the most considerablo provinces of the country. The man Pulle man manufactures a cattle-car.” e BLASTS FIROM EAM'S HORN, Tt is always safe to be right. Foreboding is always an enemy of rest. Men are often gainers when they lose their money. What a little god some very big peoplo worship. Too many people would rather have glory than goodness. St. Paul never carriel a stick in which to notch his converts. Socle'y is what people know they are watched. Tho devil walks beside the man who goes to church with a long face. The man who don't care what others think of him is not worth their care. “Is the young man safe?’ Not while his father is taking crooked steps. The man who does no praying at home often prays too much in church. The man who is least willing to practico is sure to find the most fault with the preaching. People who are always telling their troubles are never at a loss for something to talk about. are when they SALVE FOK LONG SERMONS. Christian World: He was a countryman, walked all busy thoroughfare sign over the door of a manu- establishment: Cast-Iron Tt made him mad. He said that ¥ fool ought to know that. Would it Bilkall s one ta bit. in town, Boston you it 1 trusted emplo: stand he owes cv surprise of my I under- Buffalo horse was W certainly looked that way. skate persisted in covering tance wrong end to." say Plungem's the race.” " “It The blamed half the dis- Courie hey acked in Detrolt Free Pr Jilson—What do you think of the proposition to put the United States flag on postaze stamps? iks—Don't like it. Why no “0ld"Glory has never been licked. Miss Haverly—Uncle Ned has the Vogu tking of my sister's two funniest little childs Haverly—Well, their names are Fb- and Plorence. He calls them 1bb and Flo of the Tied Indianapolis Journal: Watts—What do thinlc of the idea of popular election of tors? Potts—I hardly know. Do you think it would result in the clection of popular sen- ators? Tiazar: hear Charlie Wil- sment to that Boston girl 13 off."” Charlie made a bad mistake, He wrote a poem in which he made cle- matls rhyme with tomatoes, and she threw him over. Harper Kkins' engn Washington Star: brary in this town there public 1l asked nember ot 1 luck an’ short provi 1 with pathos. “Here 2 place where a feller can't even get food for thought! IRBATNIESS, Detroit Free Pross, “How big was Alexander, pa, That people eall him great? Was he like old Goliath, tall, His spear a hundred welght? “Oh, no, my son; not quite %o large, I think it safe 'to say, As was the umpird that wi Conduct the game today. e ND OF THE “PRETTY 500N saw . Ella Wheoler Wil I know of a land where the paved With the achivve. It 15 walled with the money we meant to have saved, And the pleasires for which we grieve, The kind words unspoken, the promises b “hoon And many a covet Are stowed awiy there in that land some streets are things which we meant to There are uncut jewels of possible fame Lyl bout in the dust And many a noble and lofty aim Covered with mold and rust And, oh! this place, while it s Is farther away than the m Though our purpose Is fair get ther The land of “Pretty Soon."” ns 50 near, n, yet' we never The road that leads to that mystic land I8 strewn with pitiful wrecks, And the ships that have salled for its shin- ing strand Bear skeletons on thelr decks. It i farther at noon than it was at dawn, And farther at night than at noon; let us beware of that land down theres 1 of “Pretty Soon." e HEN REPL Truth Dear Dalsy: I'm reading his lette Poor I, whom I once loved th He says, My dear girl, you had better Come joln me out here in the west. “Oh, come to me, sweetest! my only— (Here his tears blot the words for awhile) My dariing, I'm awfully lonely, 2 Aud 1 long for the light of your smile.” An! Jack, foolish Boy! must 1 answer, And rack your poor heartstrings pain? Though how u Sl love me, with lor heaven you can, sir, cannot explaln d, you must bothew keep yourself truei For I've promised to marry another, Who's many tunes richer than yod