Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 31, 1895, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAgAf pnfi ATER, Baitor, EVERY MORNI BECRIPTION, OFFICES, Omaha, The Bee Rullding. Bou “ouncil Blufs, hicago O New York, Washington, Cor. N and 24th Sts. smmerce. nd 15, Tribune Bldg t, N, W INDENCE. relating to Rooms 13, 140 CORR Al communicatic torial matter & BUSIN All business letters and remittances should be addresced o The Tes Publ company, Omaha, Drafts, checks and lee orders to to the order of the company PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1 news and edi- To the Edi IMENT OF CIRCULATION huck, secretary of Th befngduly sworn, say r of full and complete ¢ g, lavening and Sunday during t th of November, 1504, as follows 16 ot 14 1 Total Losn deduction. coples . Total rold Dally average it Sworn 10 hefore me and s th day of T al.) i 1501, 1'in my pres. ry Public. That bill to reimburse Ahe three state “Impeachables” promises to be the Banquo's ghost of all future Nebraska state legis] Gfass cartwheel dollars are being shoved off upon the unsuspecting people of this community. The bankers pro- test. They want more elastic cur- ren a That presidental pared on Sunda higher than the for the bt strike at. me Here Sunday o was pre- 1s something news| A list of county 11 prope now exempt ment would afford very interesting reading. Here rich field for tax- payers and municipal league y in th from ta it can got every new ry new enter- prise of any kind that may come herve. There is business here awaiting great harrel factory. Its success m: De assured from the outstart. In fact, there is no better location in the vest than Omaha for manufacturing enier- prises. One piece of important legislation is alrendy assured the people of Nebraska by the present legisiature, An amend- ment to the constitution increasing the number and v of justices of the su- preme beneh is bound to be submitted in some form for the approval of the voters. Had Secretary Ludden of the state relief commission made publie the daily receipts and disbursements of the com- mission he would have disarmed much criticlsm. The demand for such daily publication can not be taken as a re- flection upon his Integrity. It is sim- ply a business proposition. Dr. Parkhurst asserts that he en- Joyed his visit to Chicago and hopes to repeat it many times. He ought to take some of his prominent fellow New Yorkers along with him the next time he comes west and let them have some of ‘their New York provincialism Lknocked off by coming in contact with a Chicago environment. If, as has been so positively claimed, the authorities of ITolt county have evi- dence implicating a large number of men in the murder of Barrett Scott, Is it not high time that the suspected par- tles be arrested and placed in custody and arraigned for preliminary examina- tion? he guilty parties ought not to eseape through official neglect or delay. Query: Will the Douglas county fair next fall be held on the new state fair grounds or will it be again located on the old site? The natural presumption is that the two fairs will be merged, but the assessors of realty hereabouts have not been so informed, nor have they been officinlly notified to assess the old race track property owned by private parties, Despite the dull season the State Manufacturers and Consumers associ tion s forging ahead, frequently scoring fresh triumphs and always active in spreading the doctrine whose chiof tenet is the patronage of home indus- tries. When the day comes, as it must soon, that business stiows a marked revival this vigorous organization will be in position to do the most effective work of its existence. The ladies of the Home for the Friendless would not be so ungallant as to discriminate against the mem- bers of the upper branch of the legis- lature, and so they have entertained the senators at lunch as well as the lower house members, As Governor Holcomb has a veto on appropriation bills, the governor ought to be the next to be invited to rtake of the hospitality of the home. .The peculiar feature of all the Lar- rowing tales of destitution in Nebraska and of the piteous appeals for contri- butions that are appearing in eastern newspapers 18 the total omission of names and the complete neglect to lo- cate people and places so that the statements may be verified A story that is so indefinite as to the characters playing roles in it that it might be ap. plied to any state in the union must be put down at once as manufactured out of the whole cloth. It is simply amazing that reputable journals will print stuff that on its face presents every iudication of pure fiction and pot 8 siugle evidence of truth. n | donbted], | yat | ana unlimited coir | existing WILL NOT COMPROMISE. Assuming that Senator Teller Is au- thorized to speak for the silver men of the senate, it is their intention not to permit any financial legislation at this session of congr which does not give the fullest cognition to silver. las been sufficiently apparent all along that this was. their position, but the Colorado senator has been the first to unqualifiedly proclaim it and un- y free silver senator and representati will be found hes concurring in the declaration. iMese advoeat of what the monetization™ or the “rehabilita- tion™ of silver pr to take every possible advan of the financtal exi- ney to further their policy, and if that cannot prevail they intend that nothing el 1L The embarrassments of the treasury, the credit of the gov- rnment, the security of the business of the country against worse panie and more disastrous depression than it has experienced, have no weight with these against their d ud that silver be restored to the position it oc- upied before 1873, Appeals to them of whatever nature are utterly futile; ts and arguments exert no influence. IFirmly settled upon the proposition that the government must resume the free e of silver at the ratio, they are deter- ender 1o part of their cept 10 compromise. And strong enough to carry out United they can defeat proposition that is not v to them, and, knowing this, they are very sure to be united. Thus the decl; tion of Senator Teller that no compromise legislation could be ef- feeted at this session of congre: ry great significance. iis attitude of the free silver men is not only an insurmountable obstacle to any legislation for the relief of the this congress, but it is v to be also in the next congress, if maintained until that time. The ad- ates of the free and unlimited coin- of silver in the senate of the next congress will be more numerous than in the senate at present. The vaecan to Dbe filled in that body will be occ pied by men who are committed to this policy. They will therefore be in 4 stronger position than now to die- tate terms. The next house of repr sentati with' its overwhelming re- publican majority, from which the coun- try would reasonably expeet sound and fe financial legislation, will not be ole to accomplish anything if the band of free Iver senators hold together in their determination to force their policy upon the country. And there is ov reason to apprehend that they will hold together. They believe that their opportunity- Is at hand; that out of the business distress and the diffi- culties and embar ments of the na- tional treasury they can achicve the result for which they have been per- sistently laboring, and they are encour- ged in this by the suggestions of com- promise proceeding from sources hith- erto hostile to them. It is an extremely unfortunate and perplexing situation. The worst pos- sible construction . will be given it abroad, to the increasing detriment of our public and private credit. Toreign investors in American securities and properties will see in it a surer and stronger tendency toward a silver basis and will be more eager than ever to withdraw capital from this country and realize on our securities. .The outflow of gold will go on, with damaging ef- fect upon financial confidence at home. Greater business depression will natur- ally follow. The free silver fanaticism has already wrought immeasurable harm, but it seems to threaten still greater injury before it has run its course. The duty of the friends of sound money to stand by their guns was never more urgent than now. o 'S hose men legal to sur policy and to a they are this purpose. any financial satisfactor mined THE DISCRIMIN. SUGAR DUTY. By a vote of 239 to 31 the house of representatives on Tuesday passed the bill to repeal the duty of one- tenth of a cent on sugar imported from countries which pay an export bounty on sugar. This result was expected, though the majority for the bill was er than had been counted on. The opposition to repeal was based mainly on two propositions—one that the elaim of violating treaty obligation was ques- tionable, and the other that there was no evidence to show that our meats had been excluded by Germany because of this duty on her sugar. The German government, in protesting against the discriminating duty on the ground that it violated our treaty with Prussia, made out a case which was convincing to the president and the secretary of state, who officially acknowledged the Jjustice of the protest, and this, if not absolutely conclusive, ought to have great weight, The subsequent action in luding our eattle and meats, while taken on the ground that disease had been discovered in them, was un- doubtedly inspived by the duty. It is true the German government has neyer admitted this to be the case, nor was it necessary to do 8o when there was other sufficient ground for asking the removal of the duty. Grant that the prohibition against our cattle and meats was retaliatory and even intended to be coercive, we were none the less hon- orably bound to correct our mistake when it was shown that we had made one. Waliving all consideration of the question of self-interest involyed, and this is very important as affecting the welfare of the great cattle and meat producing industry, the simple fact that this legislation violated treaty rights is enough to justify repealing it, and it seems that this consideration had great influence in determining the action of the house. It appears to be questionable whether the bill will pass the senate. It will be vigorously opposed Dby the Loulsiana senators, as it was by the representatives from that state, al- though the duty Is of very small conse- quence in the protection it affords to the Louisiana sugar interest. Its prin- cipal value is to the sugar refining mo- nopoly, which is understood to have instigated it. It will doubtless be an- tagonized, also, by those who insist that no changes shall be made in the existing tariff law, as well as by sena- tors who are bound to stand by the sugar schedule as it is. Of course such THE OMAMA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1895 R e —————— a combination will easily be able to defeat repeal, with the short time that remains of this congress, so that the re- mark of Mr. Reed that no one expected the Dill to become a law was signifi- cant. If it falls there is reason to fear that the end of the hostile policy of | BEuropean governments toward Ameri- can products has not been reached. | Our meats are now excluded from most of the markets of continental Europe, | unfriendly action on the part of only a few more countries being necessary to shut them out from that part of the world altogether. There is a strong demand from the agricultural produc- ers of Germany, France and other coun- | tries for better protection against the mpetition of American products which those governments are not dis- posed to ignore. Incidentally, at least, the discriminating sugar duty affords the agrarian clement of a conside portion of Burope a very persuasive argument in support of their demands and one which it is quite possible will | be effectively urged if we adhere to this policy. It is to be presumed the inter- ost most dirvectly concerned will con- tinue its efforts for the repeal of the duty and it will need to exert all the influence it ean bring to bear in order to secure it. AN ADMONITION FROM WYOMING Governor Richards of Wyoming has sent a special message to the legisluture of that te urging a material redue- tion in the salaries of all the appointive state officer He has taken this way to show the people that he appreciates the financial hardships which they have gone and i salaries in all private ests ments are suffering a severe shrink- age, bringing them down to the basis of the reduced cost of living, he sees no reason why the pay of state offices should remain unchanged. Governor Richards in his message therefore rec- ommends specific reductions in the sala- ries attaching to designated office: ing in amounts from $500 down. The reports from the Wyoming capitol fur- thermore indicate that the legislature is in complete accord with the governor on this question and that the retrench- ment recommended will be promptly ef feeted by the enactment of the neces- sary legislation. ‘Wahile this is going on in Wyoming the only measures affecting state office: that are being considered by the Ne- braska le wture are Dbills either in asing ting salaries or creating entirely new ones. If all the bills of this Kkind that have Dbeen introduced into the two houses of the legislature were to become law the number of places on the state salary list would be almost more than enough to go round. Yet, so far as the immediate ources of the state treasury are con- cerned, the condition of the Nebras ury could not be very much worse. Some of the members beginning to understand the real situation and the straitened ecircumstances of the people, and the bills for new state offices will find little or no favor with them. Nebraska is hardly at that point where a special message Trom the governor is required to urge the neces- sity of cutting salaries, but the need of going slow about raising old salaries and creating new ones cannot be too strongly impressed upon the legisla- ture. A CHARITY BALL—WHY NOT? The suggestion is offered by one of The Bee's subscribers that Omaha should have a charity ball this winter. In other cities the charity ball is the annual event in the best social circles, its recurrence being looked forward to not only by the needy, but also by the leading devotees of fashionable society. Omaba has not had a charity ball upon a scale commensurate with the social standing of her people for a number of years. This has not been because of the objections usually raised against such an undertaking, namely, that it is putting on the cloak of charity to cover the dissipations of the rich, but because no one has taken upon himself the initintive. There will always squeamish few who will object to: a charity ball from a moral standpoint, but the fact remains that it is a harm- less device for helping a worthy eause, and there is no good vreason why Omaha should not have one as well as her sister cities. We have in Omaha a number of benevolent institutions that are struggling along with meager re- sources that would be deserving bene- ficiaries of charity offerings We have several halls which are suitable for the purpose, and musicians and decorators and caterers who would De glad to con- tribute their work at cost price. We have also society leaders who are able to undertake the management of the ball, and who will do'so If properly en- couraged. The suggestion certainly (i mands serious and careful considera- tion, and if we are to have a charity ball we ought to have it now while the calls of the poor and anfortunate among us for relief are so urgent. be a certain Senator Peffer's proposed amend- ment to the pooling bill defining un- reasonable rates to be *such as are in excess of what is required by the carriers in order to pay the operating expenses of the roads under an eco- nomical administration and a reason- able profit on the actual value of the property, not to exceed 5 per cent,” s, with perhaps the exception of the limitation to 5 per cent, quite sensible, in view of the de- cision of Judge Brewer on the Ne- braska maximum freight rate case. An expression from congress to this effect would be a protest against the view of reasonable rates enunciated in that decision, and would but voice the pro- test of the people e wh o A writer in the New York Sun who declaims against every form of govern- mental interference to settle labor dis- putes by arbitration and conciliation thinks we are now arrived at a point from which further steps in the direc- tion already taken will land us where the government will make rules for every affair of life. In other words he looks upon arbitration, no matter what form it may take, as merely a fore- runner of socialism. It 1s govern- wental interference, and governwental Interference Is the always-to-be-avolded monster, Government interference by its militla and policeman to over- awe strikers at the request of corpora- tiong, however, is not at all socialistie, On the contrary, it is the only thing to be done in the estimation of all ranters of this class. It makes at deal of difference with the purveyors of socialistic bugbears, whether the government interference Is with the military or the givil authorities, It ghestionable whether the right to use the streets of Omaha for the operation of slot machines to dole out lemonade, pop and ginger ale, which the city council has sought to confer upon the Woman Christian Temperance union, is not a franchise requiving, to be valid, the procedure prescribed by the charter for the grant- ing of franchises. No one doubts the good motives Dbehind the Woman's Christian Temperance union in this atter, or that any profits which it may derive will not go to worthy charvities, yet the patentee of the slot ma; must expect to get a profitable royalty out of its use, and so far as he is con- corned the city is giving away some. thing of vatue. Venders of soda water and lemonade, who pay rent or licenses, may also object with some show of reason (o the free use of the streets for this purpe The dearth of lemonade stands has thus far not been notice- able in any part of the city where the demand 1 anted their creation, As was to have boen exp charges preferred by a discharged em- ploye of the engineer's department wzainst City Engineer Rosewater have fallen flat. The council committee to which they were referred for investi- gation has reported that the testimony taken did not elicit sufficient evidence to substantiate the allegations. The committee might have gone much fur- ther had it been inclined to do justice to the matter, and have said the testi- mony did show the charges to have been entirely groundless and to have been instituted at the instigation of contractors dissatisfied with the rigid regulations enforced by the engineer's department. Thus the wonderful dis- closures promised by the men prose- cuting these charges have failed to raise even a tempest in a teapot. is ver; cted the It ought not to remain fo: the hack- men themselves to protest against re- ducing the fee for nackmen's licenses from $10 to $5. The revenue from these Ticenses 0 the support of the public schools. TI@ [school board has been complaining loudly of a lack of funds, but it has neyer taken any action to protect its réverime from miscellaneous licenses. The ppesent license fee ex- ‘ted from Baikpien does not appear to be exorbitant. It may be exorbitant compared with the exemption of other public carriers, but this might be reme- died as well” by’ making the licenses more unifornr as by cutting them down. The reasons ‘urged in the hackmen's protest, however, will not hold water. The populist senators ‘will in a day or two, so soon as the new members elec- ted to fill wacancies from Montana and Wyoming assume their duties, hold the balance of party power in the senate. The next question Is, What do they propose to do with it? Seokine the Unattain Philadelphia Times. Wanted—Patriotism in congress, ) A Melancholy Remembrance. Globe-Democrat. The farmers will long remember the pres- ent administration as the one under which the price of wheat has done more falling than was ever known befor ble. e e There Is the Trouble, Chicago Record. If the members of congress showed one- half as much energy in applying measures of relief for the financial situation as they have shown in inventing them the ocrisis would have been passed long ago. 1t Has a Mighty Pull, Minneapolis Tribune, The strength of the organization behind the Nicaraguan canal job {8 indicated by the fact that the proposition to virtually donate the enterprise $10,000,000 was pushed’ through the senate In the face of a bankrupt treas- ury. . Talk Less, Work More, Courler Journal, Senator Hill has been telling the New Yorkers what congress should do. Some- how most of these congressmen seem to know when they get outside of Washington a great deal more about the duties of con- gress than they know In Washington, —— A Subsidy Experience, Philadelphia Times, The senate has passed the Nicaragua canal bill, pledging the credit of the government to the amount of 70,000,000 with interest for an indefinite period to the enterprise, The house has not acted Upon the bill, howeye and is not likely to concur in it during th remaining days of the present session, In view of this fact it will not be necessary for the press or the people to take the subject into very serious consideration. If there were any danger that it would become a law it might not be amiss to recall the experl- ence of the government with the subsidized Pacific railways, Another Idol Shattered. Philadelphia Ree L One by one our brightest idols are shat- tered. Here comes the Agricultural bureau at Washington with the startling statement that the peanut is not a nut at all, but a bean. ~ The hand of Boston may be ‘seen in this ‘insult to the proud American peanut This is the last straw, and the great Amer can people will not bear it. Seven citl claimed the honor of Homer, and three cons tinents boast the title of the birthplace of the peanut—Africa, South America and Spain. - But America has adopted the chee ing but not inebriating “goober” as her own, and “even Boston . cannot monopolize its glory for herself. rei—— Muley Men Must Pay Up. = Sloux City Tribune, here will bé no regret over a dec it of the supreme court hignded down Moniae A firm o Mills county bought liquor 1o Omaha, received it, consumed 1t and then sought' to escape Dayment by setting up the claim that, the sale was unlawful i lowa and the enforcement of payment therefore agatnst) public policy. he supreme court decides that the sale was legal one and that,’ therefore, the squealing buyers cannot reéeover back the money they have paid, Jt was urged that the sales were madé Iy Towa because the pu chaser did not aceept the liquor until it was tested, but Judge Deemer, who rendes the opinlon, ‘siipped around this by dra: ing the lowing distinction, “The law he says, “has,made a refined, yet no loss obvious,” distinetion, between an option ty purchase If sdtlsfactory, and to retuen ¢ not satistactory. 1n the’ one case title will not pass until ‘the option Is determined and in the other case the property passes at once, subject to the right to rescind and CLEVELAND AND ¢ St. Tauls Republic (dem.): One advantage 18 on ihe side of the president. He know his own mind and s roady to do something. Criticism will come with bad grace from domocrats, republicans, national bankers or bullion sellers, who cannot join in promot- ing a practicable solution of the difficulties St. Paul Ploneer Press (reph: Incldent- ally, the mossage of Mr. Cleveland clears the way of one hoary-headed fallacy. Why, asks the fiatist, should we pay Interest on a debt when we can carry it with promises to pay that bear no interest? The president shows that the fden that the noninterest bear- ing debt costs nothing is an insane delusion Kansas City Journal (rep.): To go into the market for the purchase of $500,000,000 of gold, then, will not benefit the people here or elsewhere. The only real basis of finan- clal strength fs the prosperity of the people. To seek it In any other direction is folly. Any apparent relief in that direction is but a on—an_expensive delusion. It will not take long for the people to find it out. Denver Republican (rep): Folly, false- hood and knavery run a neck-and-neck race in the message seut to congress by President Cleveland yesterday urging the enactment of a law for a new Issue of $50,000,000 of 3 per cent bonds, payable, principal and inter- est, in gold coin of the present standard weight and fineness after fifty years, to take up and cancel the existing legal tender notes. Kansas City Times (dem): It Is a wise, patriotie, manly course to pursue in an emergency of infinite danger. If congress will act upon it promptly, earnestly and vigorously the trouble which has been hang- ing over the country like a dark and dange ous cloud may be removed and the demo- cratic party emerge from the pit into which it has been cast, renewed, reinvigorated and restored to the confidence and affections of the people. Minneapolis Tribune (rep): — The presi- dent’s present plan 1s sound and it is the only feasible plan that will insure immediate re- lief. Representative inger has intro- duced a bill to carry it into effect, and it i to be hoped that the republicans in congress will see their way clear to support it it may become a law before the expir the present congress. We believe that the passage of this bill would be followed by an immediate improvement in business. Denver News (pop.): The scheme 1s a damnable one. If carried out it will entail nothing but misery—misery the depth of which has never before been reached. Like the car of juggernaut, it will crush the life out of its own worshippers, but it will also destroy who pro- test against its enormities. The sen- ators and representatives from the west and south should make the fight of their lives to defeat it. Let their battle cry be that of Napoleon's old guard: ‘““We die but never surrender Atlanta Constitution (dem.): On the other hand why should the administration betray alarm? Mr. Cleveland alone is responsible for the false and fatal Interpretation of the law that permits the creditors of the gov- erument to discriminate against all forms of government money except gold. Why should he or his administration feel alarm over a situation that he has invited and contributed to? Why should the banks pre- tend to feel alarmed over a situation that they have created and out of which they have reaped such tremendous profits. Chicago Tribune (rep.): The message is a truthful and temperate statement of the situation and of manly resolve on the part of the chief executive to do his whole duty in the matter. It merits the most hearty indorsement by every honest man in and out of congress, and its suggestions ought to be given the force of law at the earliest possible moment. Every republican senator and representative should vote for these recommendations and show that they are glad to be able to support a democratic president in doing his duty by the people. Chicago Record (ind): Until the time when a monetary commission or another con- gress can perfect a new banking and cur- rency plan some means of relief is abso- lutely necssary, and the measures proposed by the president appear to be @s good as any. As Mr. Cleveland points out, no mat- ter how bimetallism may be regarded the silver men can no longer deny the im- portance, rightfully or wrongfully acquired, of gold.” Protection for the gold reserve is simply a necessity, every other course leav- ing no alternative but repudiation and dis- honor. Chicago Herald (dem.): The president's plan goes to the root of the whole matter without opening the question of state bank circulation or circulation based on anything besides United States bonds. It it should be adopted there would be no more scares about the depletion of the gold reserve. The ex- port demand for gold would soon cease, or at least become so moderate that it would not alarm anybody. Indeed, the current would soon turn toward us, because confidence in our securities abroad and the foreign de- mand for them would be in a great measure restored. Kansas City Star (ind.): The message of President Cleveland to congress is a plain, strong appeal for the salvation of the credit of the nation. Silver men may denounce it as a complete surrender to the bankers, partisans may decry it as partisans do every- thing originated by their opponents, but the solid, common sense of the country will recognize the mesage for just what it is— namely, a patriot’s appeal to patriots for such legislation as will forever banish the uncertainty and lack of confidence which underlies the business troubles of this coun- try. RRENCY REFORM. ——.— NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Boone county farmers will hold an institute at Albion on February 7 and 8. The Western Nebraska Educational asso- clation will meet at Sidney April 26 and 27. As the result of friction in the Callaway schools, Principal Shaver has resigned and A. D. Harrls has taken the place. Incendiaries started a fire that destroyed a notorious house of ill-fame in the vicinity of Columbus, causing a loss of $1,600. Theodore Boehm, a member of the Grand Island band, blew so hard on his horn that he ruptured an artery in his nose and a physician had to be called before the hem- orrhage could be stopped. Some of the youth of Oakland have in- dulged in the pastime of digging a robbers’ cave of extensive proportions and arranged in the most approved dime novel style. The authorities will endeavor to suppress the in- stitution, Five years ago Casper Raasch of Scribner lost a horse on account of a defective bridge, and sued Dodge county for the value of the animal. The case was carried to the supr court, and that court has decided that the county must keep its bridges in repair or pay for losses, Peter Bussey, living four miles northwest of Norfolk, had his short crop of wheat nicely stored for the winter, consisting of about ninety bushels, The other morning he went out to load up a grist for the mill and found that sixty bushels had been stole leaving his family without sufficient brea for the winter and seed for this year's crop. —_— Broadening an Old Question. New York Tribune. The old question, a nation of rascals? assumes a broader character to one who studies the politics of the whole world, “Are we an aggregation of rascally nations?’ I8 more apt to be the inquiry. The conditions which have existed for years past in the dministration of American cities have been often pointed to as an argument against the success of republican ent.” But that loglo proves all ethcr government worthless, ccounts of whole- sale corruption pour in om all over the world. The systematic bribery of officials o Blackmadling by newspapers which ex- {8t in France have endangered the exist- hee of the republic, and at bottom were the main causes of the crisis which the country Is just golng through. The Pan- ama scandals are matched in Italy by the transactions between banks and politicians which officials do not dare investigate. China sends & story of corruption which is Startling even to victims of Tammany rule, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, S, Gov't Report RoYal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE PEOPLE AND THINGS, for “sound” deliberations. The impression is growing that President Cleveland Is a gold bug. AS a type of the French cabinet M. Bourgeols was not cast in the right mold A few public men are born economists The majority fasist on economizing on other fellow. Mr. Cleveland has gone Into trafning agalr | preparatory | on his hanas. | | in sawmill, thus filling the political injunction, ay nothing, but saw wood.' natlon to contest for his old seat senate when Peffer's term expires. The examination of would-bo jurymen Minneapolis presents the edifying spectacle of a court dispensing premiums for ignors Christian K. in the noe. the port $2,500, of Philadelphia, at a tipping servants and waiters the marquis of Pullman regards as of infamy, There is a state penitentiary at Cheyenne designed for the safe-keeping of criminals Its greatest success so far is in keeping tie warden. ybody else goes. Felix Faure Is the first pre who has been a confirmed smokes several cigars a day. Casimir-Perier indulged in cigarettes Uncle Sam should exert his powe vent war between Mexico and Guatemala Better fight for peace and save this country from an epidemic of lockjaw American names would precipitate. r. Parkhurst vindicates John eminent reformers, after a fow investigation, pronounced Chic city on earth. Some dislo up Chicago river at the wrong moment. The forced sale of her old home Mrs. Kate Chase-Sprague destitute, It said. She has nothing but b that she can call her own, a policy smoker. hour ago the viles left and t is in debt to friends for small sums of money advanced to her. Her decline within thirty years from aflluence and the highest soclal position almost to actual want is tho direst of misfortunes, Senator Baker of Kansas sa he is not a church member, since childhood repoated every evening little prayer that his mother taught him. Whercupon the Lawrence Journal suggests “If he hopes to retain his good character and standing he ought to learn another little one to repeat fn the morning while his sen torfal term lasts. will not go far in Washington.” Senator Pritchard, the new man from North Carolina, who has just taken his seat, is now the youngest man in the senate, being only years of age. Senator-elect Butler of the same state, Is still younger, so that they will probably be referred to by the frivolous writers as the “North Carolina kids,” or the “baby senators from the Tar-Heel state.” Senator Pritchard is in every way a self- made man. He started as a printer's devil, and finally learned how to write squibs for the weekly paper that employed him. RS = Whny Gold s ported, Alfred 8. Heldelbach in the February Forum. If it be true that Burope no longer sends us large quantities of securities, and since the merchandise balance is very consider able in our favor, whence then comes this unsettled debt which keeps clamoring for ayment in gold, and which it seems we can liquidate with nothing else? The explana- tion is simple enouzh. The United States owe to Burope (apart from the ordinary mercl balances as d by the custom house returns) an- yet he For money spent by Am about carried in forelgn ships, abroad, minimum 4. For profits of for doing business here, and of non- residents, derived from real estate investments, partnership profits, about. 4 These figures have been carefully gone over and represent a very cohserva- tive estimate, so that the actual total is more likely to be larger than smaller. In order to pay this vast annual indebtedness to Burope the balance of trade in merchan- dise would have to reach at 1 t this sum, but it has never done so. The merchandise balance (Including exports of silver) in our favor in 1894 was $261,000,000, and large as this was it still left a very large amount to be paid for. This balance could be paid only in securities or in gold. ‘So long us European creditors were willing to take our securitles or reinvest their balances in American enterprises, there was no inordi- nate call for gold, but as they no longer seem to wish to take our securities to any extent nor to make permancnt investments here there is nothing left but to ask for and Insist upon payment in gold This leads up to the question: Why do they not wish to take our securities or make investments in our enterprises? Simply be cause the developments in our raliroad management have filled would-be investors with disgust and anger, end above all be- cause they are dismayed at the condition of our treasury and our currency, and fear that if they leave or invest money here they may not be able to get back as good money as they gave. They have no doubt of the good intentions of the government to uphold the parity of gold, silver and paper, but they cannot help doubting its ability, under the present conditions, o to do.. Thus, fear is one of the main causes, and this fear will not be (H.Tu]v:\lt‘vl until we are on a sound basis, and no basis Is sound that does not provide for a redemp- tion of all currency in the money of the world—gold. %Q‘mm Greatest value ever or U Some of the Corresponding reduetio ment, and men’'s $6 and $7 BROWNING, Congress has a little more than four weeks Colorado maker the to taking a republican congress Ex-Governor Pennoyer has returned to his | Ex-Senator Ingalls announces his determi- in Ross, has been appointed master warden of salary of 'n he The prince of Wales has declared against This {s what dent of France He | Of course to pre- which Central Burns, al boatmen stirred o is wardrobe has not been replenished for two years, while she that while has a One little prayer a day A CLUSTER OF SMILES. Inter Ocean: He-1 could belleve that this was ono of mother's own ples, dear, 8he—Could you, really, darling? He—-Yeaj it tastes as i it had Been made about tem years ago. Washington Star 1de," sald Unela Bben, “am ter de chillun_whiit bakin' pow- - [dah am ter de cookin’, Yoh can't raise ‘m right wifout it, but foo much am gwine ter spile ‘em sho.” "| Somerville Journal newspapers are that their Women having a hard matter is all_sot on impossible with the on daily time, now linotypes, linotype machine Harper' n his h 'ns? Bazar: 1) Mr. Dunn ( When' shall I eall Owens—Well, it would hardly bo 't for you to call again until I have d the present call patd ain bill Mr, Life: The New York Girl-Lord Dumloy, aid you ever hear the joke ahout the muscum-keeper who had two skulls of 8t | Pau, When he was - boy and the wi man? Inglishman what s it? Atlanta Journal: Judge—T understand the plaintilf is suing for a h Attorney 0%, your honor, but there seems to be a hiteh’ about the ' evidenc: Well, ¥ an't suddle the resy on the e [ court, Let the case proceed, Ross, the father of Charley 1s n o Detrott ver fsn't r husb o Press: “I'm 80 sorry sup- 1v.,'" sald Mrs. Dinsmore to her wh'n he came in. 1 attended the £ of the sewing circle this afternoon 't oget away.” “Hemmed In, asked her husband, ew York Record: There Is great economy of time in la 8o many thinga hever need to be done at all It you 1 m off. a TRecord: “This Is suraly & growled the dog as he missed cat and buried his teeth In a cake of cold snap, the ice, ON TH STRE veland Plaindeal tubborn man_ was he, With Nead of silvern glow; And thus, in croaking tones to me He said, “I love the snow!" 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