Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 17, 1894, Page 4

The Oh;lAl?)\_[iAll‘Y BEE. [ B. ROSEWATER, Editor, PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. TERMS OF & RIPTION. afly Bee (without Sunday) One Year......§ 00 y Bee and Sunday, One Year. 10 0 Eix Monthe. ...l ovos Thres Months ... Bunday Bes, One Year Eaturday Dee, One Year ... Wowkly Bes, Ono Year s OFFICES. wha, The Tee Dullding. Bouth Omana Cormer N-and Twenty-tourth Sta Council Bluffs, 12 Pearl Street, Chicago Office, 317 Chamber of Commerce. fiew, Fork, oome 13, 14 and 16, Tribune Blde. Vashington, 1407 I Street, N. W CORRESPONDENCE, o nmunications relating to news and edt- e 1o pe. nfressed: To the FAltor. BUSINESS LETTERS ) business letters and remittances should be adtrensed "t “The " fee Fublishing company, Omaha, Drafta. cheeks and postoffice orders to e made pavable to the order of the company. S TR ik PUBLISHING COMPANY. 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FEIL otary Publie, When 1 am I propose to dis- charge my duty to the best of my ability. 1 wil tng that can be dono to bring about a safe, economical and conserva- ot n cubscribed 1894, do everyt tive administration of affairs of our state it that the falth and intainod. —Judge xposition hall, September 11. government and ko6 t credit of the state are od ab at e democrats have apparently given up trylng to explain the result in Maine. Kentucky will redeem herself by trying to Breckinridge at home. This week will tell us who New York re in their march to recapture the state government in November. reform Congressman Is to lead the ublicans The next sensation from ably the loss by of an entire yellow suit and plumage. China will prob- some high official whole set of recount Grand Army veterans are returning home from the national oncampment with the customary report that the last rean‘on is always the greatest—until next year. Miss Pollard got a second verdict egainst Congressman Breckinridge. Tler only diffi- culty now lies in the fact that hoth finan- cially and morally he is exscutin proof against all judgment: It is incumbent upon Omaha that her works of public improvement shall be main- tained and extended the coming year as in years past, The ways and means of doing tlis must be devised by the city council. Permit us to remind the farmers of Ne- ‘braska that this s the season when the Russian thistle spreads itself over unbidden territory. A little watchfulness " at the present time may save much worry and work later. The members of the Board of Health are being kopt so very busy in preserving their own officlal heads that their various projects for investing the taxpayer's money In orna- mental institutions for the various d classes are sadly lacking in attention. ective It the reorganized State Board of Healtk will now abandon their efforts to enforce an absurd medical code and pay some attention to the questions affecting the health af the people of the state It will have an oppor- tunity to vindicate the law by which It was created. Pugllist Ccrbett is about to invade the sa- cred precincts of the Boslon stage with his theatrical combination. It will no doubt be hard upon the people of Boston to worship at the footlights of a forcign fistic artist after having enjoyed the privilege of their own actor-artist so long. The world moves, even in Boston, It is not always safe to be of royal blood even in these democratic days. We have an 1llustration of this in the case of the Spun- 1sh general who issued a manifesto «luiming heritage to the house of France, and got himself two months under military arrest for his folly. Hereafter he will be content 1o enjoy his liberty as a common citizen, A recent estimate of stock now held by the farmers and stock raisers of Nebraska Is the best evidence that in the greater por- tion of the state stock will be wintered as heretotore, there being ample feed for the purpose. High-priced corn will insure high prices for stock, so that many farmers in Ne- braska will be able to discount the failure to a gratifying extent, crop Efforts made by some of our prominent merchants to secure the state fair were oc- casloned at this time by the announcement that the state board would reach a decision on or about September 18. It now trans- pires that the matter has been deferred un- til the regular January meeting of the board. The law specifically states that relocation shall be voted at the regular January meet- ing. The state fair management won't be able 1o tell whether it has g balance on the debit of on the credit side of this year's account until the proper deductions for political passes shall have been made. - If all the rallroad shouters who rode to Lincoln on passes and had free entrance to the falr had pald admission there would be no doubt as to the financlal success of the undertak- ing. Some of the cuckoo organs will doubiless try to make political capltal out of ihe re- port that the German sugar manufucturers are complaiuing of the new American tari® law and are demanding furthor protective duties from their own government. It is to be noted, though, that the American Sugar trust Is not finding fault. Since the sugar schedule was wrranged expressly to please the Sugar trust, the faet that it suc. cesded In this object at the expense of sugar consumers and manufacturers (s not @ mat- ter for rejolcing THE (URRENCY QUESTION. The issue that will probably engage the | attention of the country for the next two years more than any other will be that of the currency. It seems to be generally con- ceded by both of the great parties that tarift agitation is to be stopped. That Is, there 18 to be no agitation for a general revision of the tarift by either party. In the interview | reported with Mr. Wilson since his arrival | abroad, his promise is that the present tariff law is not to be disturbed, from which it Is to be assumed that the democratic leaders do not intend to push the supplemental bills that were passed in the first session of the They probably realize that it will be impossible to pass those measures and that it is the part of wisdom to let them go. They may make a little contest for them as a matter of form, but the opposition which they are sure to meet in the senate will defeat them. It would seem, thercfore, to be perfectly safe to assume that while the vift reformers will doubtless con- cfforts for a time in the second the present congress, they will them to the extent of a persistent present congress. so-called t tinue session thej; of not carry fight. In the there is matter of the currency, however, expected a vigorous contest to condition of things and order. The clement which demands, in ac- national platform, the nt tax on state bank has by no means abandoned its posi- tion, notwithstanding fact that it unable at the first session to obtain a recog- nition of There s every reason to will renew more its effort to secure of the bank tax, and there is a at that it will find more for this proposition than it did at though the chances of its may not be greatly improved. In the of the next house of representa- tives being republican, which seems almost thers will be a fight in the nate against allowing state bunks to issue currency, which undoubtedly defeat it, but when that Is accomplished the question of what shall be done for the future of the currency will still remain to be decided, and it is a question of the utmost importance. The present congr has shown its entire incapacity to deal with this nothing of a practical nature pected from It the policy, a, be carried into should have a restoration of the old system of state bank curreng ith an t evils cident to that system. This Is opposed by the conservative financial sentiment of the countr There is a consensus of financial opinion that there demand for a elastic currency than is supplied by the exist- ing national bank system, and a number of the best financial men in the country agree in the view that a state bank currency under proper regulations would meet the require- the difficulty is to provide the proper regulations. This has been the rock upon which every measure providing for state bank issues has split. The currency question promis¢s to occupy a large part of the attention of the present congress at the second session, and it will certainly be the leading subject of public at- tention during the next two years. The ne- cessity for a reform in the currency of the country is generally recogniz a wise and judicious policy of reform is yet to be suggested. Numerous have been introduced in the present congress look- ing to changes, but none of them has been of a nature to commend themsclves to public approval. Within the next ten years the national bauks will have no national bonds with which o secure their A system of bank currency is conceded to be absolutely necessary, What shall be done to provide such a currency that will be abso- lutely safe is the problem that awaits solu- tion, change present to introduce a the demc new in ratic party cordance with the last repeal of the 10 per ¢ issues the was its proposition. expect that it than before aggressively the repeal possibilit least, support the first adoption session, event assured, will question and is to be ex- as thus far) effect, we it outlix could is a more ments, but measures circulation. SILVER INSTEAD OF TREASURY NOTES. It has been known for some time that the United States mints were at work coining treasury bullion into standard silver dollars but the publc has up to this time been left in doubt as to the exact policy ¢f the adminis- tration with respect to this silver coinage. The attitude of the treasury upon this point has, therefore, been made the subject of a letter written by Secretary Carlisle and ad- dressed to Congresman FHeard of Missouri under date of September 10, in which an ex- planation is attempted cf the recent treasury ope: From this letter it appears that silver is being coined under provisions of the act of July 14, 1890, commonly known as the Sherman law, at New Orleans, Philadelphia and San Francisco. During the month of July $450,000 were coined, and during the month «f August §728,000. About the same will be during the present ations. amount coined month, amount as the September, and thereafter such secretary may consider advis- able under the circumstances The third section of the act of July 14, 1890, provided that the secretary of the treas- ury should coin each month into standard dol- lars 2,000,000 ounces f the siiver bullion purchased under the provisions of that act until the 1st day of July, 1891, and thereafter he should coin of the silver bullion purchased under the provisicns of the act as much as might be necessary to provide for the redemp- tion of the treasury nites issued in payment for the bullion, and that any gain or seign- forage arising fr-m such colnage should be accounted for and pald into the treasury. The purchasing clause of the Sberman law was repealed by congress at the extra session a year ago, but the remainder of the statute left in f ree The coinag going is under the authority by the section of the law just re- and the was unchanged now on is done conferred ferred it s paid int for the ordinary to, seigniorage derived from nd purposes of the governm while th nder «f the coins are h the treasury in order to provide for the demption of the treasury not:s issued in pay- for the process the public treasur ent, rer n tr Te- ment bullon The Is the gradual substitution of silver dallars for the outstand- ing treasury notes and the o inage of the re- sulting selgniorage as profit to the govern- ment. Secretary Carlisle gives the further information that during the last eleven 3,970, standard silver dollars coined from the bullion purchased under the act of 1890 have been paid out in redemp- tion of treasury notes, and the nctes so re- deemed have been retired and cancelled. We do not know at exactly what prica silver bul- lion was purchased by those particular treas- ury but, striking an average, it Is in operation months, notes, to say fair that the seigniorage amounts to nearly a third of their face value, or not less than $1,200,000. By this amount the ecircula- tion will have been actually increased when silver enough shall bave been coined to re- place the cancelled notes and pay over the profits on the seigniorage in addition. Should the continue indefinitely, all treasury notes issued under the act of 1890 will b2 called in and silver substituted for them, and the whole selgnicrage, amount- ing to some $50,000,000, will be coined and added to the circulation of the country. The process the | continuance of the process, however, must depend upon the willingness of the note- holders to accept silver for thelr notes, since Secretary Carlisle more than once an- it as his policy to redeem notes coin of the particular metal that the holder may demand. It remains to be seen whether all outstanding notes will in time be presented for redemption on this basis, has nounced treasury wi the RESUSCITATING A DEAD PROJECT. On next Tuesd i preposed to new shares in Canal company Aceording to dispatches from Paris the esti- mated cost of completing this canal {s $190,- 000,000, which is about double what De Les- seps thought would be necessary, according 1o his last estimate, There is no reason to put any more confidence in this later esti- mate than there was to believe the figures, and the chances arc that the later demand, great as it is, will be wasted just as the earlier subscriptions but the faith of the French people in the ultimate success of this project, despite the unfortu- nate experience they have had, appears to be inexhaustible. ‘The experlence of the years during which the deluded investors of Frane were pouring this profect all gocs to show that it is not possible to calcu- late accurately the cost of construction work under such which in the isthmus of Pax The whole history of this undertaking s it is practically an imp-ssible task, and yet with everything before in of this the French people seem still disposed to risk their money in the enterprise. Accordin, the reports two-thirds of the money callod for has been subscribed, and there seems to be no doubt that the whole sum will be taken. As an evidence of the (hrift cf the French people such a showing is certainly interesting and instructive, but what shall be sald of their judgment, after the experience they have had? It like utter recklessnes for a people to continue to put their money into an undertaking which has already swal- lowed up millions without giving any assu ance of ultimate success, Dut this is char- acteristic of the French people, and even after the subscripticn now called for shall have been expended without the results hoped for, which 1t is safe to predict will be the case, more money will be forthcoming on de- mand. A corresponding interest In the Nie- aragua canal on the part of the American people would long ago have assured the com- pletion of that euterpr it Issue the Panama w be earlier were; money into done conditions as those exist ma. hows that them evidence to OMATIA AND A MII The primary object of count afford farmers easy means for comparison of methods and results in agriculture. The blue ribhon that attached to a prize pumpkin or a giant stalk of corn was a source of pride to the honest farmer and an to his less favored brethren to adopt his methods and endeavor to emulate his success. The stock show was much the same, the underlying principle being identical, and whether the prize was given for a pig, a pumpkin or a patchwork quilt the end of the county fair was to reward abnormal productions that the general stand- ard might be raised through competition for a premium. Omaha will no longsr be satisfied with a “pumpkin show’ and a horse trot on a half- mile track will not draw unless there s a greater attraction than the interest attach- ing to the performances of unknown, and, in many instances, untried native horses. The State Trotting and Pacing Horse Breeders association deserving of all credit and encouragement in its efforts at building up a great industr braska horses have carried Nebraska's mame high up in the list A state that can point to an Alix and an Online need not be abashed in any company when fast liorses are men- tioned. It is a pity that Omaha has not, and in ull human probability will not, see cither of these great performers in their proud maturity. If thers was a track here on which contests could be held under con- ditions that would attract horsemen Omaha's people would have the pleasure once a year of seeing the best horses in the country. It is no longer a question. The success of the meeting managed by an Omaha breeder last spring on the track across the river attested the interest felt here. Nebraska s gaining fame as a breeding state, Our breeders have the blood and are developing colts whose racing qualifica- tlons are established beyond doubt. The state breeders meeting can be made a fixture for Omaha, but it involves the pro- viding of facilities adequate. There is no apparent reason why Omaha should not have such a has St. Joseph, where 35,000 people gathered to watch the races one day last week, or a running meeting equal to Kansas City's, where the inter:st continued unabated during a session of thirty days, under the auspices of the Kansas City Jockey club. It involves merely the construction of a mile track, with the neces- sary accommodations. Omaha could - easily avail herself of the experience of Terre Haute, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis and other cities, where the science of track building has been brought to perfection, and con- struct a track whose qualities will bring the hersemen of America to the city. The day of the pumpkin show and horse trot has passed in Omaha. It is a mile track or no track now; a show that will interest city people as well as country folks, or no show. Omaha taxpayers already grumble at the support given from county funds to the “Agricultural soclety.”” Their protest Is well founded. What Is needad is that some of the wealthy Omaha gentlemen, whose racing stables are gaining fame on eastern tracks, shall take hold of this and, with the co-operation of others, secure to the ecity a where horses may exhibit their speed, merchants and facturers may show thelr wares, and farmers and breeders their products and stock, and The Bee will assures in advance the success CK. fairs was to incentive is race meeting as matter In earne:, place manu- of the enterpri THE TRANSPORTATION OF MONEY. The treasury order taking away from the banks outside of New York City the privi- lege which they bitherto enjoyed of having mouey sent to them in small biils ftrom the subtreasury that eity end at nominal rates secured under the government contract, referred to in these columns a few days ago, called attention to the inadeuaqte facilitles for the safe and rapid transportation of money in this country. The government contract, of which mention made, is a with one of the express companies enabling-the treasury offi- cials to ship money from place to place at the rate of 15 cents per $1,000. To banks and private individuals the charge is generally at the rate of 75 cents per $1,000 for the same servie Notwithstanding these ob- viously high rates charged by the expross companies, it is the general custom with banks and other parties having large sums of money to transmit to insist upon having it sent by exprese. There are several other ways In which money may be sent from place to place, the have in has anew been contract of government Hself, through the postal service, affording two or three. All of these are cheaper thaf| the express service, yet they have been unable, for certaln reasons, to com- pete successfully with the latter for com 'mnl'l\fl\' small sums. Money of course, bé'mdiled as ordinary merchandise, but few pdofile would care to take the risk of such a prosedure. The package might be insured lugnadiate delivery by afixing an immediate dé¢fivery stamp, by which a ree- ord of it would be and a receipt re- quired from the it s ad- dressed. Tha package migat be sent at even less expense: by registered mail, involving still greater vare and offering the advantage of a written acknowledgment of delivery be- ing returned to the sender. But will not transmit money in this way heciuse it 1s not =0 safe as by express, and there is practically no redress it the package should be lost. An express company goods consigned to its care from ment it comes into Its possession reaches the consignee. From the department, the other hand, satisfaction to be had in case of a miscar- riage of the mafls is a promise to except can, made person to whom banks is responsible for the mo- until it postoffice on the chief in investi- gate the matter and a report upon the cause of the trouble. The shipper, it he desires can, we are informed, insure money sent by mail by taking out an insurance policy with an insurance company that mak lalty of such business. Adding the cost of a policy of this kind to the postage and registry fee leaves the expense of transporting money by mail considerably le: that of transporting it by express. Yet this method finds little favor with the banks, because it involves more trouble in the first instance, and, in the event of loss, there is a further bother {n making the requisite proof. There may be additional elements of prejudice against the postoffice and of conservatism in clinging to ancient usages, but the facts remain unaltered. Unquestionably the government itself ought to furnish facilities for the safe and cheap transportion of 1t to not simply to take away from the express companies a lucrative portion of their busi- ness, but for of public policy. It is highly desirable and often of the utmost importance that large sums of money should flow freely from one part of the country another. Adequate facilities for the tra portation of money are needed to insure a natural and unimpeded circulation. The monetary condition of the country can only be equalized throughout the different se tions by encouraging the movement. The saving of expense is also an item not to be overlooked. The government can, it it will assume the same responsibility for money transmitted by registered mail that the ex- press companies and 1t certainly ought to do so. pe € than money. ought do so reasons to assume, A long course of litigation was Qound to follow the enactment of new liquor legisls tion in Towa. * The mulct law has found its way into the courts and has run the gaunt- let of the first judicial decision successfully. It is but to be expected that it will be de- clared tllegal or unconstitutional by other inferior courts, and that its actual status will only be' considered settled beyond dlis- pute when 1t shall have been passed upon by the highest appellate court in the state. Registrars' aypointments a-begging this year. There seems to be a srand rush to take the oath of office on the part of those who have been fortunate enough to be deslgnated for the positions for fear apparently that ‘some one else might attempt to crowd them out of thelr places, are not going The Breckinridge eampaign was conducted singularly free from personal encounters be- tween the partisans on either side. Ken- tucky feuds, however, are notoriously long continued. There may yet be several cases of bloodshed traceable to the bitter feelings engendered in this contest. Chicago €nvies New York. Chicago Record. Chicago needs a Lexow investigating com- mittee of her own. And it needn't be any smaller than New York's committee, either. A Conflict of Statements. Springfield Republican We are told by Senator Manderson of Ne- braska and others that the new beet sugar industry has been killed in this country b the abolition of the bounty. But a dispate comes from Portland, Ore., saving that ny with a capital of $1,050,000 is being there to build beet sugar factories in the vicinity Lt Where Will it £nd? Philadelphia Inquirer. Judge Woods in hearing the argument fn Chicago in the Debs contempt case said that street car traffic is a part of interstate commerce, because street cars carry from station to station people enroute from one state to another. Logically, therefore, a cab, an omnibus or a hotel élevator is also a part of interstate commerce, and the line could be drawn out indefinitely 8o as to in- clude all departments of trade and business, ——— The Charms of the Star-Eyed. Chlcago Herald, Without the aid of another unarmed Ken- tuckian and without firing a shot Henry Watterson swept down on (he Grand Army of the Republic assembled at Pittsburg and coptured ' the entire organization, body, boots and baggage. Military history affords no Instance of a similar exploit by a single individual. Mr. Watterson simply made one of his characteristic speeches, and the legions which had faced the fire of rebel batteries without flinching surrendered to the charm of his oratory. When the vote was taken to decide where the next encamp- ment of the Grand Army should be héld, not one ballot was rendered against Louis® ville. Tt was a famous victory and the Ken- tuckians will be prouder of Mr. Watterson bas | than ever before. b L No Monovoly on Water. Coluga (Cal.) Sun. to irrigation” is the heading of a press dispateh in a metropolitan paper in which it is stated that a mass meeting of landowners, held at Long Pine, Neb., had voted in f&vor of accepting a proposi- tion of a corpdratibn to construct a canal through three counties, the counties to give a subsidy - of $350,000 arantee certain sales of . water. E strange that people will nlk deliberately into a slavery they must know will be galling. These landownérs, ‘these three counties, have credit (which'is capital) sufficient to bulld a canal @nd bwn it, but they n needs bring into the business a great poration that will Inevitably charge the traffc will b ' Then, when vested rights have grown up, when men and omen have favested their savings—their stored labor—in thé $tock of the corporation, these same people, ko anxious to put thelr necks in the yoke, !will raise a great hue and cry againstithe oppression to which they are subjected. The Sun has been telling people for the last thirty 1 odd years to keep thelt'necks out of such yokes, and the time to,keep them out is before they get in. The Bum has begged the people everywhere not to allow the monopoly of water, but when they do, when they beg for a King Stork, the Sun will never turn communistic ough to advocate the de- struction of vested rights. Don't allow the rights to become vested! “Favorable paper | a | POLITICAL POTPOURRL Porter of Merrick has been nominated for the legislature for a third term by the pop- ullsts Charles Rief, the Grand Island globe trot- ted, who onee represented Hall county in the legislature, has beensnominated for the lower house by the populists. He stands squarely on the Omaba platform. The political pot is boiling in Dodge county a little barder than in any other porticn of Nebraska at the present time. There are 8till several other counties to hear from be- fore the end of the campaign. The attempt at fusion in the Eleventh sen- atorial district was a failure, and when the democrats offered the nomination to Sen- ator Hale that far-secing gentleman had the yolitical perspicuity to decline the emply honos. The tepublicans of Frontier and Gosper countles have nominated a Methodist min- ister for the legisiature, and Phelps county has followed suit with a Christian preacher on the republican ticket. _ Several other clergymen are rumning for cflice on the pop- ulist ticket in various parts <f the state, but thero are still plenty of preachers to fill the pulpits end preach the gospel without any politics thrown in. Papillion Times: The latest scheme of the railrcads is to have the democrats nom- inate John McShane for governor. Of course they do not expect to clect John, but they do expect he will draw enough democratic votes from Holcomb to insure the election of Tom Majors, the railroad candidate. Those demcerats who are in earnest in their oppo- siticn to raflroad control in state &ffairs will not be led into such a railroad trap. Platte Center Signal: Majors may make some republicans think he don’t care for the support of The Bee and would rather have the supert of the B. & M. railroad, but it is eafe to say that the misdeeds of the past are nelther difficult for him to find nor pleas- ant for him to remember, but he will bear the much deserved rebukes, rejroaches and reminiscences with patience until after elec- tion, and if he is defeated the people can thank Rosewater for it Silver Creek Times: Some of the brass- collared crew think they can help Majors by abusing Rosewater. But if he tells such | fearful lies about Majors, why don’t they at- tempt to refute scme of his charges? The fact <f the matter is that Rosewater has no monopoly of that sort of information. The things he charges ¢gainst Majors are known of all men. Some of Majors' old neighbors { now living in this vicinity, who have known him for twenty years, freely admit that he is a railroad man through and through Howells Journal: It is enough to make the man in the moon smile to read the repub- lican platform regarding miximum frelght rates and then consider what Majors would dv it such a bill p. d the legislature. Majors spent seventy-five hours trying to defeat the Newb:rry bill four years ago and assisted to eal a state senator besides for the same reasons. Majors, as governor, could and would veto any bill that wucld in any way go toward making the railroads of the state charge a reasonable rate -for carrying freight. Grand Island Independent: The republi- { can party is In danger of being ruined by the railroad companies, which, by the packing of caucuses, primaries, county and state con- ventions, by the bribing of delegates and and by the unduly infivencing of officers and legislators have made them- seives the ruling power in the state of Ne- braska, threatening the independence of our state government and the liberty of our peo- ple. ~They have worked their tools into nearly all cffices, and, dissatisfied with our independent Governor Crounse, they now pro- pose to put Into the gubernatorial chair Tom Majors, who is 1ot only a notorious character through his conniction with several bad political swindles, but most dangerous as an obedient servant of the railroad companies. If he were elected governor, our l:gislature would’ be powerless to assist the peopls in their attempt to free themselves from the railroad yoke, as the governor's veto always would be ready to destroy every bill passed by the legislature to that effect. And If the republican party would be the cause of such a disaster, it would be its ruin. The party's unpardonable sin in our state affairs might also hurt its influence, in national affairs, though th: republican principles on national flnances, our tariff matters, on the protection of our industrial and agricultural interests aro the only correct and sound ones, If the republican party were found wanting and false, by refusing to fight for the people's rights against railroad corporations and rail- road oppression, the party would b: under the suspicion of being false and unreliable in everything, Therefore it is the duty of every good and liberal republican to resist with all his power the shameful attempt at making our subj:ction to railroad sovereignty complete by the election of Majors. No sensible man, who has a due estimate of his honor, of his independence and the people's liberty wiil acknowledge the duty to obey the dictates of blindfolded, hired or bribed bosses. Higher than the duty to party rule is the duty to the true interests of the party and to our country’s rights and feedom. We must save our country and we must save our party by not obeying the dictates of a | partly deluded and partly corrupted conven- | tion.” The independent republicans must re- pudiate Tom Majors and vote for the best man who is or will be nominated, and who has any chance of being ¢lected. The candi- | dates will all soon be before the people. ——— JABS OF THE JEST RS, He-—-The best thing to seal a pro- sal 18 a kiss, is it not? he—No. The best thing to seal posal Is a’ witness Truth e a pro- Philadelphia Record: good ing There is no 1 orm at Atlantic City, especiall bathing hours. k of dur- Chicago Post I'm looking for a salacious stor: he said, when found him searching a bookstall Can't you get appointed refere York divorce suit? Detroit Free Press: Chollie—Would that 1 were the glove on this fair hand. 1iss Manyseasons—Not at all a bad idea. } You are only a kid, you knuw. real a friend i a New But what is this new Never was anything That's the reason it is so deligh fully ab you know. There {sn't a natural character or a probable -situation in it. Oh, you must read it.” story like" it. Philadelphia Ledger: Judge Whaley of Madison, Tex., declined to hold a small boy who had been arrested for eating a dinner that had been sent to a schoolmate, No doubt the judge thought of the safe old axiom: Tt's a wise child that knows its own fodder. Truth: Mrs. Youngma—And so ling got the prize al the baby knew he would. It couldn’t have b wise. Old Bachelor (one of the judges) Yes madam, we all agreed that your baby was the least objectionable of the lot. my dar- show? [ sen other- Chicago Post congressman, as gathered around h n trust me entlemen,” said the ome _of his' constituents T hope you feel tha in congress for another n “The great trouble,” returned one of them dryly, that your tariff vote scems e'that you were ‘trusted’ at the Indlanapolis Journal: “I understand you have taken up with spiritualism fably remarked the manager; “I th you had more sense.” I did so, sir," sponded the tragedian, “in the hope occasionally seeing the ghost wal that York Sun: “T want to get a bullet- 1" he sald to a tatlor make them, sir," Do you know I'm to make was the reply. “I'm very could be sup | political speec West Vingini THE LAWYER Detrolt Free Press. In college days he used to lie On shady banks of brooks, ‘Which babbled soft accomparn To what he read in books. Now he has laid his studies by, To seck the legal dime, And, quite forgetting other days, He lies most all the time. rry. lied, in where I a few ments Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, 8. Gov't Report RoYal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE PEOPLE AND THINGS, The Washington Kentucky Maine believes longed count The star-eyed safely venture Kentucky. ow that Mr. an has spoken is hardly worth while for New Yorkers to go to delay the democtatic funcral until Novem- ber. Rev. verdict Is confirmed in in a full vote and a pro goddess into the of reform Ashland district ay ot Dr. Lansing of Boston declares that for soclal vice the Hub is the worst city in the union. New York may yet be vindi- cated, Dr. Talmage was worked by pickpockets for $60 in Melbourne, Australia. The incident promises to lend variety to boiler-plate ser- mons. Glve me the distribution of the pass exclaimed Prof. Glibschin to the patriots Saddle Creek, “and I care not who the platform.™ The bronze cquestrian statue of General George B. McClellan at Philadelphia will be unveiled October 24, and General William B, Franklin will deliver the oration Five men undertook to hold up a rural editor in New York. In their haste to reach the next county they nearly lost their breath, and the editor scored an exclusive. Grand Chief Sargent of the Order of Loco- motive Firemen says that the late “sympathy strike” inflicted a blow upon organized labor from which it will not recover in ten years. With Mr. Morton and Mr. Flower the lead ing candidates for overnor of New York, all danger of machine friction will be aver Both possess a sufficiency of political motiy power. N Red wine, cucumbers and marasch combination known as ‘“‘cucumber which Emperor William of Gern duced to his friends. He the nobility The fall of a ball of fire in the vicinity of Chicago Sunday can hardly be regarded as a meteorological phenomenon The sons of Maine in that section were a trifle premature with their fireworks. The attention of Mr. Corbett the expanding prowess of L the bounding gia of the Platte valley Denis s a holy terror when aroused, and thinks nothing of Maupin the earth before breakfast. Gentleman Jim had better look to his laurels, George G. Haven possible Tammany ot makes no s punch,” ny has intro is bound to elevate is invited to Denis Richards, who is spoken of as the candidate for mayor of New York, is a close friend of William © Whitney. He is also sccretary of the New York City & Northern Railway company, a prominent club man and the possessor of a “bar'l” of money. Barney Langtry, for secretary of state in Kansas, is the owner of a ranch of 13,000 acres in Chase county. The tract stretches a length of thir teen miles on elther side of Fox creck, which flows the year round and furnishes an at dance of water for 3,000 cattle, which fe the pastures. On his ranch Mr. Langtry a park, in which he Is collecting deer, ante- lope, elk and buftalo. the democratic candidate e THE COKNER TURNED, Philadelphla Ledger: Why should not the country now enfer upon a new era of pros perity? The question of the curreney has been definitely, unchangeably determined in favor of a sound,safe honcs! one; our industries have a known s led basis to build upon; manufacturers know precisely the conditions under which they are to operate. American enterprise, thrift, energy, courage will ad- ily adapt themselves to the new economic status, and if there is in sight no expansive business boom, there are the most satis- factory Indications of reviving prosperity, of that real, steadfast prosperity which is bet- ter than any spasmodic boorm. Providence Journal: Those lugubrious men and women who are all the time insisiing that the masses of the people in this country are just on the verge of bankruptey and starvation—and incidentally pointing out that the only hope of relief is in the application of their particular panacea—will not take much pleasure, it is to be feared, in studying the bulletin which the census bureau has Just put out in relation to farm and house owners and mortgage indebtedness. For, it appears from these figures that nearly halt —18 per cent, to be exact—of our population own their farms or houses; and that nearly three-quarters- per cent—of those owning such properties own them free of all in- cumbrance. That can hardly be taken lo mean that the genergl condition of our peo- ple is particularly bad. Philadelphia Inquirer: There is no mistak- ing the fact that the corner has been turned. In three weeks the bank loans at New York, | Philadelphia and Boston have expanded $7,392,000, railroad earnings in August show an increase of 1% per cent over last year, the first increase reported in twelve months: tho tonnage of staple articles increased 12 per cent in that month, and sales of general merchandise are larger. The increased tivity is felt in all sections, but me pecially in the south, where the large cotton crop, grown at a lower cost than any cotton crop ever before raised, has stimulated trade in every department. In the west, the low price of wheat, the cert ty that the for- eign demand will be small and the prospect that the corn crop may not exceed 1,300,000,- 000 bushels, as against 2,100,000,000 bushels expected two months ago, all operate to restrain buyers and keep the trade dull. But, nevertheless, the relief experienced through the settlement of the tariff question has stimulated purchases and the distribution of goods has been larger in the past two weeks than in any two weeks of the pr | quoted at ! GOVERNMENT OW RSHIP, Pancturing the Mlowh th od Arguments of Corporations. Bxaminer: To relieve the from domination of Mr. Huntington would fnvolve an Investment by the United States of about $60,000,000, in addition to sacrifice of so much of the present {ndebtedness of the subsidized roads to the government as could not be recovered from thelr stockholders. 1t would also f volve the continued employment of from 1,600 to 3,500 men, and the officials In charge might have to handle from $5,000,000 to $10,- 000,000 a year. This does n appear like a very overpowering undertaking for a gove ernment which spent $4,000,000,000 at one time in fighting, and which now employs 200,000 men in its ordinary business at & cost of $500,000,000 a y It would seem as 1t such a government might undertake the management of the Central and Union Pas cific railroads without utterly collapsing un- der the load Recognizing this obvious fact ton and his prefer to San Franc Pacific coast the the Mr. Hunting- political and journalistic friends broaden the controversy. When it Is suggested that the United tSates might profitably take possession of the Central and Union Pacific, they bog us to consider what a tremendous undertaking it would be to operate all the railroads in the United States. A question of investing $60,000,000 and em- ploying perhaps 3,000 men they expand into one of investing $11,000,000,000 and employ- ing 1,000,000 men ven here they oxagge that the rallroads of the United States are worth the par value of all the stock and bonds outstanding against them, ignoring the fact that many of these securities are worth nothing at all, and that very few would bring anything their faco in the market. On June the total nominal value of all ‘the stock of all American rail- roads was $4,608,935,418. The entire funded debt, including such purely speculative ses curities as income bonds, amounted te $6,225,680,821, and the other obligations ot all descriptions to $611,610,171. Thus the en- tire sum of the capital nominally invested in or secured by railroads in the United States was $10,506,235,410. But 61.21 per cent of the stock and 10.93 per cent of the bonds paid no returns, and, therefore, had little or no real value, while 4.9 per cent of the stock and 6.55 per cent of the bonds paid only 1 to 8 per cent a year. Mr. Huntington's advocates assume in order to get possession of the of the United States it would be necessary for the government to buy all the stock and all the bonds at more than their face value, As a matter of fact, all it would have to do would be to buy a majority of the stock alone at its market price. Atchison stock is 7%, Erie at 15%, Northern Pacific Oregon Short Line and Utah North- Reading at 21, Rio Grande Western at 10, Texas Pacific at 104, Wabash, Si. 1 & Pacific at 7'%. and Minneapolis & St. Louls at 3. Instead of having to pay $11,000,000,000, it is safe to say that the gov= ernment could easily secure a controlling erest in all the roads In the United States, including those it does not need and would never buy, for §1,000,000,000 But this Is looking too far ahead. subject of immediate interest is a smaller one. it is Mr. Huntington. - Destruction by Forest Fires, Globe-Democrat Forest fires are a far g r country than is_generally last census year 2,083 fir recorded, of which 1 persons clearing land by hunters, 508 by locomotives, 101 by camp. fires or pipe and 262 by incendiaries. That the loss of life and property by forest fires s largely unnec is proved by the comparative immunity from them in Canada and Maine, where the laws are stringent and the man a forest fire i treated as a public enemy. Canada maintains a fire patrol and fire wardens who are authorized to call for assistance. States that suffer from these dreadful fires should make a study of the Canadian forest ws, the success of which has been demonstratéd ate. They assume Tk 1893, that railroad at 51 ern at The much evil In this known. In_the 5" of this Kind wer were started by THE AMAT It was a stalwart fisherman, who bought a F1 ndred flis And vowed that way would tehing tro 1 never fishi He'd thought the task was watched it from the shore. - fishermen he straight- thousands—though easy as he'd He got a boat and anchored in of the pond, And had his fainily watching from a hillock just beyond. But_when he’ swooped his rod about, it made him feel quite flat To have the hook catch in the brim of his broad fishing hat. “Well beiter now,” he And gave his rod about his head. His children cheered to note his it did chance, alack! This time the hook, by some caught squarely in his back. the middie will said, a triple swoop accidents happen; we'll do around ace, but 0dd freak, “Onee more T'1L tr numbers odd ther And then he had a was like a_duck, For, as the fly went afr, amid the peals Of happy laughter from went in head o'er heels, And that is why man, they say, Hath never tried ill-fated day And that 18 alfo why knows not_beans use his favorite fish but canned sardines. he proudly eried; “in s luek.” chance to show If he hurtling through the his friends, he that very expert fishing to fish again since that it is folks say he Bec is not the trout A Sign. look at it. - WHAT FASHION F YOUR MONEY'S WORTH OK YOUR MON A streak of hard luck is often the best thing that can happen to a person o a people. greatest teacher, and many a man has learned to save a neat little sum because he economizo. wlio used to think that $35 to $50 was about the proper capar for a business suit. get a smashing good suit at the factory [that's us] and for $20 or $25 a real fine suit can be had of the makers [that's us again] worth $40 to $50. Prosperity comes from saving money. Did you see the corn at our corner? Take a CIES WE Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, S. W. Cor. V BACK. Experience i3 the had to There are people Now $15 will FURNISH 5th and Douglas.