Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 30, 1895, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY ROSEWATER, BEditor — PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. — — TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Bee (Without Sunday), One Year Dally Tee and Sunday, One Year 23| all duties on Imports shall be paid in If this were done there | dy flow of gold into the, OFFIC ee Bullding Singer Bk, C Pear! 'Street. Tribune BIAg. Omaha, The fouth O 415, N. W PONDENCE, relating to news and edi To the Washington, 1 cor Al communicat tordal matter should be addressed BUSINESS 1 FRS letters and remittances should b The Wee Publishing company checks and to the order of th BEE PUBLISHIN All b nddres Omaha, Drafts be made_p THE company COMPANY. STATEM Goorge 1 1ishing company OF CIRCULATION huck, secretary of The Bee belng duly sworn, says the actual number of full and complete cop of the Dally Mornifig, Ev and Sunday printed during the November, 1891, as follows Pub y average net eiren! Sworn to before me ence th's 30 day of De Heal.) Will th of France The rman Bmperor Willlam's only once a year. be another n birthdays com President Cleveland ¢ enough for the compromise get in their work. ves room to try to That me: ame the ¥ Secretary of Agriculture Morton turned to Washington. Cause effect! afte and The Japanese example has evidently not been lost on Mexico. be seen, will 1t whether ( sume the role of China. pmanins te however, natemal The Board of Idu mended for its ion is to be com efforts to work in this direction still further. Uncle Billy Paxton is right when le says the people of Omaha will ade quately support two good theaters. Bu the days of the country circuit barn stormers are numbered. A little less laxness in granting ind: criminate leaves of absence to polic men and firemen might something toward of these two departments. The special master traffic in Dougla: county has grown into an abuse which It is simply cannot long be tolerated. a fence to assist unprincipled shyste to take advantage of defenseless Tliti gants. What's that! in Lincolnshire, England! That i something that Nebraska has thus fa been saved, notwithstanding the ence of destitution in a large her territory. The president’s message announce that a new bond issue is coming. If i is not authorized by the enactment o a new law by congress it will be mad under the authority of the same law a the last two issues, Great Britain is taking her turn with Nebraska, of snow heavy snows now. And which stands more in need than any other inhabited region on th globe, has to be content with a paltry trace of the beautiful. How Iu his reconciliation with President Cleve land! Otherwise he might again fin Limself in the predicament of bein compelled to follow a leader whom h regarded as his personal antagonist. The fees recelved by the variou eounty officers in this smte form th subject matter of more bills before th legislature than any other one ‘With so many bills to choose from the thing to be feared is that the legisla- of ture them, will fail to agree upon any A careful analysis of one of the local trade reviews fails to rev thor's houest judgment of the trad situation. He puts up a straw 1 and then knocks him down. slon reminds one of an ant specch by a candidate. It out to suit men of all shad the lectio; of opinion Lieutenant Governor Moore s ported to be exercising unusual care in examining all vouchers presented t him for siguature to entitle senator: and the employes of the senate to thei pay. The unpleasant experience of hi predecessor with doubtful voucher: has apparently not been entirely with- out results. There is a bill before the legislatur designed to circumvent the ward heele and political deadbeat. system of primary elections in citie of 10,000 population and over that i calculated to muke such elections true reflection of the sentiment of th best elements of yoters. tion devoutly to be wished. One thing the local state fair entertainments that will attract peopl to the city as well as amuse those wh come to attend the falr itself. Fai week must be made a gala week i every respect. The earlier the plans are devised the greater will be th opportunity to work them out in de tail. There is yet plenty of time, this object wust not be lost sight The side attractions to the falr hibition. BEE 16 | gold coin only. and 24th Sts, | Editor. postoflice orders o e | army Is regretting that economize and to be encournged to continue its contribute the Dbetter efficiency T'eople frozen to death ky that Senator Hill has had topic, au- His effu- is blocked It maps out a A cousumma- com- mittee will be expected to do will be to arvange for a series of parades and but can be wade just as important s the ex- THE REAL € The Inability of the government to procure gold and the insufficient reve- nues are the real causes of the trouble and embarrassments of the treasu With regard to the former the admin- fon measure proposes an entirely practicable remedy in proposing that | would be a ste | trensury which wounld undoubtedly keep reserve at the required amount. With such a law importers would de- mand gold of the banks and the would get it. It has been suggested 18 an objection to this plan that im | porters might draw gold. from the " | treasury wherewith to pay duties. They would not be likely to take any such trouble. Convenience I8 the importer's main consideration. He would as soon - [now pay duties in gold, as he did pre- t [ vious to 1801, as in any other form of money, and it is simply because the [banks will not provide him with the that he p in something else. [ the | gold Let congress ¢ paid in gold will that the they coin and there can they would do so. During the comparatively short period in which the treasury was replenish ing its reserve the banks would be ex posed to a drain on their gold, but with a supply of over $500,000,000 of gold coin outside the treasury, the estimate of the director of the mint, they would find no great diffi culty in repaiving the loss. After the reserve had been restored the treasury would pay out as much gold in its or- dinary disbursements as it received, and the banks would be thereby en- abled to meet the wants of their im- porting customers with the me ease as they did up to three years ago, when nearly all the duties were paid in gold. With the treasury thus fortified the disposition of the banks to hoard gold would ecease to exist and they could have no more motive for objecting to 1 supply gold to those whose business needed it than they would have to pay in any other form of currency. The president is doubtless correct in saying that a simple inerease of reve- L | nue will not cure. the troubles, but there can be no question that it would very greatly help to do so. With the expenditures of the government run- ning constantly in ox of the re ceipts and the deficit increasing every month, to be provided for by borrow- ing, it is impossible to maintain confi- dence in the ability of the government to meet its obligations, and the presi- dent is mistaken in assuming that “the spreliension now existing and con- stantly increasing as to our financial ability does not rest upon calenlation of our revenues,” and that “the time has passed when the eyes of investors abrond and our people at home were fixed upon the revenues of this govern- ment.” It may be admitted that this is not the sole cause of apprehension, but the fact that the government is steadily getting worse off financially «¢ | and the condition is such as promises ~|a further increase of the public debt certainly exerts an influence in creating distrust. There cannot be a reason- able doubt that if congress adopted S | measures for bringing the revenues up r|to the expenditures there would be realized an immediate good effect upon confidence. More revenue and the pay- ment of import duties In gold would give the treasury the needed rellef, S | though it would seem hardly possible tlnow to avoid another issue of bonds £ to restore the gold reserve, which has © | declined to a lower point than at any # | other time since resumption in 1879. THE NEW FRENCH ADMINISTRATION. The government of France is again fully organized. President Faure has delivered his message to the Chamber of Deputies and the new ministry has en sustained by good majorities in first appeals to the legislative body. Politieal affairs appear on the surface . | to be again ealm and placid, but there a is reason to believe that there are un- , | dercurrents of disturbance which will presently manifest themselves and no- body can say how soon another crisis may develop. The messa of President Faure promises well. It is patriotic in tone ud conciliatory in spirit. There is wanifested in it a due appreciation o | of the responsibilities which belong to the position and an earnest desire and parpose to faithfully discharge the duties devolving upon the chief execu- tive. He promises to carefully guard the constitution and to be vigilant in guaranteeing the applieation of consti- o | tutional law. This may mean much or ) | little, but it sounds well, as does that portion of the message which urges the n | necessity of union to the achievement of reform It can only be determined ). | When (e administration becomes in- volved as to some policy in a serious conflict with the legislative Dbranch, which will certainly come sooner or o | later, how sincere are these pledges and assurances and to what extent the president and his ministers are willing to go in-making concessions for the sake of union. The measure of Presi- dent Faure as a political force is yet to be taken. He has held respectable public positions, but none the responsi- bilities and duties of which were such as to enable a correct judgment to be formed as to his capacity for the task he now has. As to the cabinet, it Is composed wholly of conservative re 8 [ publicans, and few of its members A | have acquired any political celebrity, © | while some of them are almost un- known. The premier, M. Ribot, is for the third time president of the council, and .while a man of ability is not generally popular. It is said of him that he is liked only by the small band of politicians formerly partisans e | of the Orleanist mouarchy and now o0 | anxious to establish In France a par- ¢ | liamentary republic after the style of u | constitutional England. The new min- s | Istry has sigualized its entrance into e |office by two measures intended to V8 only insist and the importers anks with which be doubt no that according to 1 ) t s - N ® e " s r N S e “ 8 e- | placate the socialist element, both of which were overwhelmingly voted by the Chawber of Deputies, and there seems reason to expect from it wore on this line. It 1s in this divection which the pew | to der that duties shall lm{ deal shall provide them with that | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1895. administration will be likely to en- counter insuperable difficulties, for while it 1s a fact that the soclalist element Is strong and has been grow- | ing stronger, owing discontent, the people of France are very far from being ready to sece the government practically surrender the dictation of that clement. It may be good politics on the part of the new administration to have yielded as far as it has done to the social radical combination in the Chamber, but further compliance with the de- mands of the combination may bo hazardous. Astute observers of the political situation in France predict a short life for the Ribot ministry, but nobody 18 to apprehend that in any event President Faure is likely to follow the example of his predecessor. to the agrarian KEEP 1THE TAX RATE DOIWN. An informal meeting of the ecity council has been called for Wednesday afternoon, to which the heads of all the city departments and boards ex- pending money raised by eity taxation have been invited in order to discuss the question of the tax levy for the coming year. This meeting will prac- tically determine what the tax rate in Omaha is to be for 184 he esti- mates of probable expenses sent to the mayor the of the demands of each department will be taken up one by one and subjected to the most rigid serutiny with the object in view of reducing them wherever items are thonght to be excessive or not abso- Iutely necessary. It is highly impor- tant that this work be prosccuted inall fousness in order that the total tax be kept within reasonable bounds. tofore it has been too often the ase that each city official make up his ostimates upon the theory that if he does not ask for all he can get some other offic will ask for more and will got his supposed share. The result has been annual increases In the expendi- tures of almost every department. So long as the assessed valuation of able property in the clty was con- stantly augmented from year to year this did not have so marked an influ- ence on the tax rate as it would had that valuation been stationary. The valuation this year is actually less than it was a year ago, and to secure the same amount of money would quire a higher rate of taxation. the rate is alry s high as the tax- payers ought to be asked to submit to. As there are deficiencies in sev funds, while at the same time the Board of Education is pressing for a considerable addition to its usual de- mands, it is, perhaps, too much to ex pect the new tax rate to be materially lower than it was during the p: year. The people, however, insist that it shall not be higher. as basis ro- But UNIFORM BAR EXAMINATIONS. here are two bills before the legisla- ture intended to amend the law govern- ing the admission of attorneys to prac- tice before the courts of this state. One is senate file No. 42, introduced by Senator Watson, and the other house roll No. 48, introduced by Representa- tive McNitt. Both of them aim to ac- complish the same object, namely, the abolition of the present system of mul- tiplied bar examinations with different preliminary requirements and the ele- vation of the standard enforced upon intending attorneys. The Bee has already explained to its readers the disadvantages of the exist- ing method of admitting new members to the bar. They are, in brief, laxity and favoritism, offering loopholes for incompetents to foist themselves upon ignorant or unsuspecting clients. The remedy has also been pointed out by The Bee as consisting in more stringent requirements for admission to practice and uniform examinations conducted by some central authority for all alike without partiality or discrimination. Both the Dbills just referred to, al- though they differ from one another in minor features, contemplate the substi- tution of examinations under the super- vision of the supreme court in place of examinations by each of the different district courts in the state. But both the bills also depart from the prineiple of uniformity which they purport to set up by providing in express terms for the exemption of graduates of the Col- lege of Law of the University of Ne- braska. There is no valid reason why the graduates of any particular law school should be picked out for special privileges which other people equally able and deserving are mnot ac- corded. TIf it were desirable to exempt law school graduates from the necessity of undergoing bar examinations the exemption should be by general law applying to all law schools whose course of study and plan of work shall obtain the official sane- tion of the examining board. But there is no reason for any discrimination whatever in favor of law school gradu- ates as against the careful student in the attorney’s office. If the graduate of the College of Law or any other law school is really prepared to enter upon his professional duties, he ought not to be in the least troubled by the bar ex- amination which the supreme court would set. If he is not able to pass such an examination he has no business to practice law and he should not be smuggled inside the bar by any special dispensation, A law establishing uniform bar ex- aminations in Nebraska ought to be enacted by the legislature. But the ex- aminations ought to be uniform for all. We suggest that the authors of these bills modify their language so as to Dbring them into harmony with the motto of the state: Equality before the law. Some of the motormen who went from distant cities to Brooklyn to take the places of the strikers during the re- cent street railway strike telling terrible tales about promises, both of the rallway managers and of the representatives of the strikers. The men were given places as soon as they reached Brooklyn, but were not allowed to take the cars out of the barns. They were kept locked up in the companies' buildings, not permitted to go out at all, and half starved with one or two niggardly meals a day. Finally they threw up their employment and agreed are broken street | with tickets only to P'hiladelphia, where | state's to go back to homes on represen- tation that the kers would pay their return expense After the train had started they discovered that instead of fully paid fared they had been supplied they landed, penniless and without friends. It is needless to add that these | men were undétermined whether the had Dbeen treated-more shamefully 1 the strikers or, by the street rallway companie: ) The legislatuve has thus far taken no formal action looking to a careful fnvestigation into the condition of the finances. It is xnown that the situation critical, that expenditures have exceeded receipts for at least four rs back, that large sums of | public money are tied up in litigation if not lost altogether. Before a single bill making new appropriations or es tablishing new state offices the legislature ought to know exactly where the state stands financially and what the prospects of the state ury are for the next two years. It is the duty of the legislature to inform itsell and the people of these matters and that duty should not be delayed too long. is yes is passed treas. The legislature of Minnesota has ex pressed its opposition to the pooling bill pending in congress and has Instructed the Minnesota delegation in to vote and work against it. No legis- lature should be backward about ex- pressing itself upon questions of na tional legislation particularly affecting the interests of its own state, provid- ing, of course, the people have decided ideas upon the subject. The Nebraska legislature will be following good prece- dents set in other sf it it notifies the senators and representatives repre- sentin Nebraska in congress of the itiment which prevails here regard- ing the proposed Pacific railroad legis- lation. congress o8 The prev in r iling sentiment in this city pect to contributions for the re- lief of destitute people is that it is the first duty of the people of this community to care for the poor of Douglas county. The Associated Chari- t must be assisted in its work of alleviating distress, The Bee feels con fident that 1ts appeals in behalf of this worthy organization will not prove un- availing. Some of the numerous applicants for the vacant county commi might turn their attention with mor profit to the vaeancy in the govern- ment directory of jthe Union Pacific With proper endeavor the latter ma be made almost as luerative as the former. onership An Invineible [ Combination. Detiver News. Nebraska says it Has plenty of water; all it needs is wind power pumps. It had bet- ter engage its jlegislature permanently, also part of ours, . Seeking More Light. Chicago Tribune, It would have done no harm if Senator- elect John M. Thurston had stated just what he meant by saying he was “in fivor of the colnage of the: American | gold and silver inte-honest dollars. it The Sitoition in Nebrask: Springfield (Mass) Republican. Private letters from central Nebraska say that the situation there s not so desperate as has been made to appear. People are in many cases not only getting enough to eat, but keeping up interest payments on their mortgages. The winter has been mild and delightful ‘as a_rule, and as another crop season draws near a more hopeful spirit prevails. e Shaving the Coln. Chicago Herald, The United States treasury is selling gold bars at a premium. The premium s charged on the pretext that it is for ex- penses of minting and assay. But no such charge would be made If there was not a pressure for gold that is unusual and of evil portent. The fact that purchasers are willing to pay a premium is the most dis- couraging Indication that can be seen. ————— Oklahoma's Statehood Claims. Chicago Tribune, If Utah, Arizona and New Mexico are deemed worthy to come into the union then no consistent” opposition can be made to Oklahoma. The latter has now 250,000 peo- ple, or 76,000 in excess of the representation required.’ Utah has only 3,000 more than Oklahoma, ~ Delaware, Idaho, ~Montana, Nevada, North Dakofa and Wyoming ali nk below Oklahoma, which has a lurger population than Idaho, Nevada and Wy ming combined. So far as Arizona. is con- cerned, it has less than a third as many people’as Oklahoms ——e A Waste of Timo. Globe-Democrat. Senator Hill is correct in saying that this democratic congress ought to help the democratic administration out of the finan- cial troubles into which It has plunged. He is right, too, in condemning the silver end of his party’ for antagonizing all finan- cial “measures “which do not propose to throw the mints wide open to the white metal. No financial bill having a sliver clause could have any chance of passage. he serlous discussion even of such a meas- ure in the present unsettled condition of business would be exceedingly harmful to the country, —_— Gold Cure Suggested. Springfield Republican. A postmaster in charge of an off is the cash depository of sixty-two sim offices calls attention to the fact that du ing a year they see considerable gold in the recelpts, which are custgmarily placed on deposit in a mational bank. He thinks that if all postoflices were to deposit these gold recelpts in a,government subtreasury it might be in maierlal aid of the goveri- ment's gold balance. If ‘the banks all act as the New York banks are acting we should suppose the gold had better be placed elsewhere. To put government gold into their keeping 18 to lose it forever. pulsory Insurance | Chicago Tiecord. One phase of soctil reform In Germany s deserving of the highest praise, and 1 {3 not too much to say that it is a strong wall in defense of (he gavernment and of the existing soclal syStem. I refer, of course, to the ‘workinmen's ihsurance laws, one of the chief works of Bismarck and hij friends in the Reichstag, S0 far as inner policy is concerned: These three laws have taken effect at different times. The first one (In- surance against accidents while at work) been in force since October 1, 1886, and has produced a total of almost 328,000,000 marks. The second (insurance against sick- ness, ete.) brought in 822,000,000 marks, and the thizd (against old age and disability to work) has netted 36.000.000 marks, The total amounts o' '1,485,000,00 marks, or nearly $374,000000. AAd this means in the case ‘of the third law an accumulation of but four years. whole system is one of the most effecliye checks against pau- Berism and is a bulwark against the stead- ly growing accessions to the ranks of So- clalism. At the same time, since as yet the larger part of this'sum is' inyested in safe pupers, bearing low interest, this insurance system acts also as a steadying influence on the money market, and the sums col- lected for these thre¢ forms of working- men's insurance grow annually, Cor Germany, | the DECISION AGAINST STRIKES, Dubuque Telegraph: The Building Trades eonncil, a St. Louls organization representing thirty-two unfons, has adopted a new con- stitution which, after asserting that strikes aro failures and boycotts un-American, de- clares for arbitration and abolishes the “walking delegate.” 1t arbitration shall re- sult in decisions unfavorable and unjust to Iabor the St. Louls councll will be apt to revise its present opinion of the strike and boycott. Davenport Democrat: The Building Trades council at St. Louis, with thirty-two unions represented, has declared that strikes are failures and boycotts un-American. The council therefore discountenances both these methods of dealing with injustice and punish- ing offeders. Arbitration I the means rec ommended, and in the end that will prove the solution of the differences of opinion between few and the many, between money and muscle. The only argument of strikes is that they may hasten the better way of ing disputes. Buffalo Express: The morning light Is breaking. At a recent meeting of the St. Louls Building Trades council, delegates b ing present from each of the thirty-two build ing unfons in St. Louis, the office of walking delegate was abolished. The preamble of the titution which was adopted boldly as serts that strikes are unnatural and that boycotts are un-American, and both methods are discountenanced. Arbitration Is the method that will be employed in settling difficulties between employes and employers in St. Louls hereafter AND THINGS. PrROIL) Mrs. Shute is a candidate for office in Colo- rado. Her aim is not d; The Record affirms that “Chicago weather is immenss"'—as a builder of ice bergs. Mrs, Nicewinter lives in Cedar county, Mis- sourl. Mr. Cold Wave is a regular visitor to the locality. Ex-Senator Warner Miller pronounces David B. Hill “the greatest man in New York poli- tics.” The ex-senator is out of politics. A Kentucky woman, addicted to the poetic habit, committed suicide (n Cincinnati. Sev- eral magazines were found in her luggage. Senator Sherman’s Pullman rider to the pooling bill hias congealed enthusiasm for that measure. The pugnacious Ohioan sticks to tho issue of berth or death, Minister Grip, Swedish Washington, has been Venczuelan claims comm to grasp all the fine at issue. Beerbohm Tree, the English actor, is said to look more like a clergyman than an actor. He is more than six feet high, straight as a soldier, with auburn hair and large but well molded feature J. R. Lamar, the “Monte Cristo” of Idaho, is a native of Holland. He is small in stature, with large features and red ha and has been a sailor, a glue workman bartender and a butcher. As be is now a millionaire, he has given up the other jobg, Henri Rochefort’s life of exile in is not without its compensations an income of $30,000 a year to spend, he is able to maintain a handsome home in Re- gent's park and to indulge in works of art ayd fine horses. He is very hospitable and very generous. The wife of the French premier, M. Ribot, is an American lady, formerly Miss Minnie Burch, the daughter of a wealthy banker, Isaac H. Burch, who, after unsuccessful pro- ceedings for divorce, settled a large sum on his wife and went to Paris to live, accom- panied by his daughter, at that time a little girl. Max L representative at asked to sit in the sion. Grip s sure points of the matters London Having andy, the spendthrift, the “little sugarman” of the Paris boulevards, has a rival in extravagance in the young son of M. Cail, the great iron founder of Grenelle. who is cutting a_wide swath with the pa- ternal millions. His crowning achievement was a supper to some clubmen and actresses, at which each of the fair guests was pre- sented with a_costly bouquet. That which one of them, Mme. Liane de Pougy, received was held together by a bracelet valued at $30,000. A blooming New York statesman, con- vinced that masculine patience has been stretched to the limit, has introduced a bill in the legislature to abolish the high hats at the theater. The proposed reform will send great throbs of joy abounding through the frames of long suffering man- kind. Hitherto they have courageously endured measureless misery -and _suffered mental martyrdom rather than chide the gentle sex. The oppressed are ready for revolt, and will follow wherever Gotham's reformer dare to lead. The Tribune of Lead, merrily on the ingredients that combine to make a readable editorial pags. “The newspaper man who would have his editorial page read,” says the Tribune, “must keep his soul bubbling over with enthusiasm and human sympathy His head must be full of the knowledge of current events, his conscience must be keen and independ- ent, and his weather eye must always have a slant toward the humorous. Then he will_produce editorial columns worth read- ing.”" And so belicving he caresses Ris shining brow, pats his throbbing chest and modestly adds: “This is why our own cditorial page is so interesting.’” S. D., discourses e s NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, C. C. Whipps has sold the Dodge Adver- tiser to Birge E. Burns of Scribner. Four criminal cases are on the docket of the district court, now in session at Ogalalla. For thirty-two days there has not been a prisoner to come before the police judge of Plattsmouth. A number of horses have died in the vicin- ity of Burchard from eating too freely of cornstalk fodder. Ryland Parker, the first county judge of Holt county, died at his home in O'Neill at the age of 80 years. A stock company is being organized at De- Witt for the purpose of building an opera house that will cost $5,000. There have been twenty-five additions to the Methodist church at Nebraska City as the result of the revival meetings held during the past two weeks, Albert Muldoon wants to be county judge of Keith county to succeed J. W. Wilson, who has been appointed commandant of the Soldiers’ home by Governor Holcomb. The 18-year-old son of N. C. Christianson of Holdrege tried to pound a cartridge into a gun, but he only succeeded in shooting him- self just above the eye. The wound is a bad one, ‘but the boy will recover, The infant child of James Randall, residing near Fairbury, was found dead in bed the other morning. It Is supposed that an older child threw the clothes over the head of the infant in such a manner as to smother it. e Sole Achlevement. New York Sun. In one year Mr. Cleveland's administra- tion has ~already increased the interest- bearing public debt by $100,000,000, or more than 17 per cent; and it wants authority from congress to increase the debt by $600.- 000,000 more, which would more than double thé public debt as the Cleveland adminis- tration found It. in time of peace, with no extraordinary démands pressing upon the treasury, this self-proclaimed reformer of the national finances, elected to office to give the coun- try a tariff for revenue, a revenue from a tariff, has glven to the country Instead of that an additional burden of debt and promise of debt mounting in the aggregate to the figures of A Ereat war's cost. Bond sales for revenue! That Is the pol- Clevelund “and his sole the reward of the mouther of ises and the shifty borrower of cash with to cover the fallure of perform- ance; the shameless breaker of pledges and the audacious maker of debt N A Colorado Conundrum. Denver Republican, Surely some advocate of the single gold standard ought to be able to explain how and why the treasury and the country lose gold when silver is outlawed and gain gold when the white metal is used for monetary purposes, Clevel, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, 8. Gov't Report Royal Baking owder ABSOLUTELY PURE INDUSTRY LUST TO WALES Oontrol of the Market in the United States for Tin Gone. PRINCIPALLY PINING FOR TIN PLATES United States Has Broken Up the Monopoly and Now the British Are Urying Aloud T Already Broken Up, Manufacturers WASHI fallen upon GTON, Jan. 20.—Evil times have ith Wales as the result of the establishment tin plate works the United Consul Howells at Cardift has made an exhaustive report to the State department upon the subject howing that the manufacturers there take a very pessi mistic view of the future. He says that until recently South Wales enjoyed a monop of the tin plate trade. The United es has always been and still remains consumer, but since the of supplying wants in this, as she has long since been doing in other branches of fron and steel, there has been a considerable falling oft in the American demand withaut compen sating supply from other markets, Ther fore the difference has been an entire loss to the Welsh manufacturers, few of whom appear to be interested in the new works on American soil. The year of 1804 has been a wretched one and it would argue a sanguine temperament indeed to look forward to better prospects this vear in face of the probability of the American demand growing still smaller. among all classes fnterested that the Wils tariff would immediatel er in a revival of trade, but by this time hope has given way to despair and throughout the district one hears only rumors of stoppages of works, requests for concessions and deman for reduction in wi The manufactu have been straining every nerve to decrease the cost of production and labor trouble have followed. Not only will s be per- manently reduced, but hundreds will be added to the thousands of tin platers already out of work and the trade union is practi- cally disorganized. The consul encloses local newspaper saying: “The American tin plate works, which it was thought would have to stop, are going on as vizorously as ever, competing for and often securing or ders which formerly came to this country. Their po: actually improved re- cently, inasmuch as they have not obtained a reduction in wages of about 30 per cent the strong effort made me direction has up to the present time proved futile, except in a few isolated cases. Probably the most striking feature of the year's trading has been the serious diminished call for tin plates from the United States, the native works being equal to supplying almost the whole of that im- portant trade. There has been also a di- minished demand for charcoal tins. A feature of the year, too, has been the large shipments of finished block plates not only to the states, but to the continent. It is not thought, however, that this trade will continue with us, but be gradually absorbed by native mills States. oly stal the undertaken eatest she has task her own any very an_extract from a T OF CONGRESSMEN, ver Men Up In Arms Against tho Presi- dent's Message. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Many of the sen- ators approached decline to express an opin- fon on the president's message. As far as they express themselves it is generally to the effect that conditions have not been materi- ally altered and that much will still depend on whether the attitude of the silver men has been changed by the message. On this polnt the democratic silver senators are gen- erally non-committal, while the republican and populist silver men are quite outspoken in declaring that they are not appeased. Senator Hill endorses the message without apparent reservation, saying: “The president states the situation very accurately. Perma- nent as well as temporary relief should be granted at once. I trust that there s good sense and patriotism enough in the present congress not to refuse consideration of this subject. The business interests of the coun- try desire and demand action and the demo- cratio party cannot afford to antagonize that sentiment.” Mr. Bland, the silver leader, says: “A gold bond means a gold standard, and this is the first presidential proposition’ ever made that brings congress to the direct Issue between the gold standard and bimetallism. Right now the battle must be fought out.” Mr. Bryan of Nebraska—That messago and that bill will make the most abject surrender to the gold conspiracy ever proposed. I can- not conceive how any friend of silver who be- lieves in bimetallism now or hereafter can advocato it for a moment. It is the Wall street idea in parliamentary language. Mr. Newland of Nevada—It is intended to place the government on a_gold basis at once, to raise the value of gold and increase the burdens of the debt-bearing classes, But the silver men will fight it. Representative Hartman of Montana—The message is an absolute declaration ‘for the gold standard, providing that the bonds be paid in gold. Senator Dubols of Idaho—While the presi- dent declares himself a friend of silver, he is | va Hopes were cherished | endeavoring to prevent anything being done for sflver by proparing A message which would prevent silver from ever becoming & part ot the money system. ““The adoption of the president’s plan,” sald Mr. Stewart of Nevada, “means 20-cent wheat and 2-cent cotton.” Senator Waleott of Colorado—The president speaks of the “‘tyranny of pre-concelved oplfi- seeming o overlook the fact that he s himself a proper subject of his own ism. snator Teller—It is easy to see that the president Is wedded to the gold idea. His bond is a gold bond, and would weld a_gold standard upon the country. It Is the bankers' bond, which gives the banks the absolute ntrol of the finances. There I8 nothing in it for silver; nor is thero any possibility ot the adoption of the plan in the senate. - AND LUCID, blunt truth is some- two-edged sword, LIVELY Galves! times News: A sharper than a ant know, ivantage ith: “\What tage? T don't aware of what by the but I am the coin I, in ot n Milwauk pointed out or race he specimen of Journal typical generally 1ot When a man of a certain o about the 1s ss i worst th ston Dulletin: “Say capital of Switzerland Jack (who has just returned from abroad, ‘‘Why money they get from travelers, of course. Jack, what is the Gorham here below' ¢ but when he irnal: Man wants wealth's bright gets but little golden ealf, the horns and heels he | wants the other half. Tom s casge was lucing a 80 very punctillious, and in especially anxious about good impression. But the florist made the mistake of sending with the roses the card that bore the (nscrip- tion: “Do the best you can for $2." Indianapolis “It is an empty wagon that m most nolse,” said the man_ who delights to talk in aphorisms, CWe of that?" retorted the ofher man. “It is just the other way with a man, He makes the most nolse when he 1 ul Washington Star: “This Hawailan aues- tion is Hf your most interesting afairs of state,” said the visitor from abroad, “Well,” replied the eandid Ame started ‘out as one of our aftairs but it's gotten to be simply affairs.” TO THE KITCHE Chicago Tribun favor to implore, Cook Marte, Grant it and I'll ask no more, Cook Marie, Feed me, If you' will, on gristle, Riscults iike leaden missile, But, for heaven's sake don't whistle, Cook Marie! UTATION RUINED MATL. I've NOLHER RE Somerville Journal A hush falls on the crowded pond, The skaters all stand still. Sach feels pulsating through his velns A momentary thr And now. with intere The small boy's he For now at last he's going His honored pa on skates, He's often heard the old man tell Of what he used to do When he was young—the “figure elght And the “spread eagle,” too, The “grapevine” and the “outside edge, The ““Virginia rail fence And he knows what he's going to see Is going to be immen And pa strikes bravely out at last, His heart quite free from fears, Although he hasn't put on skates Before for thirty years. He strikes so bravely out, In fact, He cuts too wide a dash— One foot goes right—one foot goes left— And down he goes—ker-smash! He doesn't really break the lce— It is ten inches thick- 3ut just the thought of Makes him extremely sick. He limps ashore—alas, alone! The small boy didn’t wait, He'll sneer when pa tells stories now Of how he used to skate. ating now OATS Not like oatmeal. Far more delicious and delicate. Cooks quicker, too! 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