Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 19, 1895, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE TUESDAY; FEBRUARY 19! 1895 | —= —_——= e ——— Ll B Toe OMAHA DALY B« —— PUBLISHED EVF Patly Dee (Without Bus Dally Des and £ Fix Montha Fiieen B Weekly Bee Omaha, Th Bouth Omad r Bk, C Councll Bluf 1 A & Ko R Tribune Bldg. 0T Btreet, N. W CORRESPONDENCE. A All commurnications relating to news and_edi- Rorial matter should be adiressed » the Editor. SINESS LIETTERS All business letters and remittances should Rddressed Tl 13 Tublishing comp it ek PUNLISTING COME rner N and 24th Sts Washing! be * CIRCULATION. retary of The Bee Pub. duly swom, foll_and comple ning, Evening and = e s month of Janua ctunl Daily M THE APPOINTING POWER. Since the very beginning of constitu- tlonal government the appointing power hias always been regarded as an execu tive function. In every state govern- ment, for example, it is usual to vest in the governor the authority to appoint the most important public officers not clected directly by the people. The gov- ernor 18 thus held responsible to the citizens for the character and efficiency of the men whom he appoints. The republican party in particular has time and time again committed itself to this principle, until it is now almost an axiom of republican government. Upon this point the message of Gov- ernor Crounse, sent to the legislature Just previous to his retirement from of- fice, offers some very escellent advice. Referring to the fact that in the ease of some of the Institutions of the state | the governor appoints the superintend- ent and other officers, while in others | this authority Is given to the Board of [ Public Lands and Buildings, he does not } | liesitate to express his condemnation of Total Less un Dally averago.. *Sunday Sworn 1o thi fore 24 day me i ¥ not Sen ened cabinet tor Hill for that thrc vaecaney ? The way to reorganize the Whisky trust is 1o take the water out of it. Has 1ot the sthte had the small end of the penitentiary lease long enough? There is no Tonger any doubt of the fact that Omaha has a new fire chie serimmage fo Vster Gi The late M with the shoes of the ¥ threatens to interfere the funeral arrangemen Speaker Reed is atty attention to make up for the obscurity into which Speaker Crisp appears to have fallen, Douglas county has once more privilege of having her affairs istered by ¢ the board composed exelusi of republican commissioners. rely Power is not alw ure, at least one member county appointing board scems learned by unpalatable e as of the to have erience. The National Council of Women the United States began at V yesterday. of ashingten Here is an opportunity for Let him send it a A Dboom in international bimetallism will be the natur sult of an inter- national monetary conference, sum- moned at the instance of the German fmperial government. For once on the last bond proposition the votes of the Nebraska delegation in the house were recorded harnoniously on one side of the ledger, without dis- tinetion as to democrat, populist and republican. Any one who would have intimated three months ago that Senator Hill would be the principal defender of President Cleveland's financial polic; would have been given what,ein vulgar language, is called *“the horse laugh.” We are sure the people of the United States will try their best to bear the disappointment brought upon them by the failure of congress to act on the various matters of importance on which congressional legislation was expected. The Brook et only vow formally dee’ared off, although it was off, in fact, weeks ago. There 1s nothing gained to labor by refusing to recognize the failure of a strike so soon as that failure is plain and beyond recall, ative logrolling is nothing less than a species of covert bribe-giving and bribe-taking. A measure without suili- clent merit to pass unle incorporated into a trade ought not to be pulled through on the strength of some unas- sailable bill. Legi In law fraud vitiates all obligations. If the legislature were able to give bind- ing foree to the penite contract extensions, those would be voidable in any court in which the manner in which they were secured should be shown up. Secretary Carlisle is said to look as if lie had lost his last friend. 1ie may not be down to Lis very last friend, but he las probably succeeded in losing many in a short_time as any man in public lite, with the possible execption of his illustrious chief. The Board of Five and Police Com- missioners is huving no difficulty in se- curing all the good firemen that can be accommodated with positions at the present rates of pay. Why, then, should the legislature attempt to compel the city to increase the salavies in the fire departinent? A day Croun or two before ex-Governor o sailed for Europe he told a re- porter of o New York paper that Ne braska had been injured by exaggerated reports of the condition of drouth suf- ferers. What a pity he did not express hiwself on this matter to young Mr. Hitcheock, Old Honest John Powers is deputy labor commissioner. As president of the National Farmers alliance he favored the sixteen-hour a day proposition for farm hauds. The question is, Has his convictions on this subject undergone revision since the day he presided over the meetings of the alliance o this city? eting enongh | wdmin- | the present pr “This is wrong,” says Governor Crounse. “The governor | shiould be charged with the appointment in all these eases, and he alone should | be responsible to the people for his ac- tions. The vesponsibility for a bad ap- pointment should not be a divided one, and not dircetly traceable and chargeable to any one person. Con- siderations of a political or partisan charaeter,” he continues, “may be op posed to a favorable aceeptance of this recommendation at this time, still sound legislation should not be avoided for fear of the loss of some partisan ad- ntage.” ) 1t these ave good reasons for concen- trating the appointing power in the hands of the governor more than is now the case, how much move powerful are | the veasons against divesting him of sueh appointing power as he now has! Yot, there are numerons bills pending before the legislature now in session intended to fake away from the gov- » power of appointment to va to vest it in Dboards in which he can have only a minority volee, I any voice at all. Is there any renson hehind these propositions except the considerations of a political and par- tisan character to which Crounse alluded? Have not the lessons of the recent past taugnt all politieal parties that in the long run nothing is to e permanently gained by sacriticing principle to party spoils and partisan Ivantage? If the legislature wishes to abolish useless sinecures well and good, but if it seeks mevely to eneroach upon the powers of the chief executive it will mistake the temper of the people. ice. on 18 crnor rious offices, and Governor A TRAMP NUISANC Omaha householders are complaining just now of a new phase of the tramp nuisance that threatens, if not checked, to become quite serious. There are to be sure tramps and tramps, some of them deserving in their misfortune. But there seems to be a regular organization of professionals in the city of late who make it their practice to ask for assist- ance only at night or in the early even- ing, and then to boldly apply at the front door, with a request, not for food, but for moncy to procure a night's lodging. There is no reason why these men should wait until after dark before making their rounds unless it is that they can not then be well asked to per- form work in return for the alms or that they hope to frighten defenseless women into complying with their de- mands merely to be rid of them. In most cases, when told to return in the morning for work, they fail to reappear, or, if they do, it is at nightfall that they come, with excuses for not presenting themselves In the daytime. We are inclined to believe that many of the petty thefts that are being re- ported are committed by these night wandering tramps, who are encouraged by timid householders. The police do not scem to take cognizance of these prowlers, or at least their efforts have thus far failed to repress the nuisance. A great many people are making it a rule to refuse point blank to give money to all tramps who do not apply for as- stance in the light of This course proved partially successful. If it were followed by all the citizens who ave bothered in this way and were sup- ported by a more rigid police surveil- ance it would doubtless be substantially effective. has THE DISCRIMINATING SUGAR DUTY. The senate finance committee last week made a favorable report on the Dbill to repeal the duty of one-tenth of a cent on sugar imported from bounty paying countries, the republican mem- bers of the commitice making no ob] tions to reporting the Dill. Senator Aldrich, however, representing the publicans, moved to recommit the meas- | vre, with instructions to report a bill for the re-enactment of the reciprocity provisions of the McKinley act, to pro- vide for paying bounty to growers of domestic sugar, and to supply deficien s that wmay result from removal of duties on sugar by imposing duty on wool and ing sing custom duties and internal taxes on articles of luxur Phis is regarded as indicating a purpose on the part of the republican senators o inaugurate a debate on the tarift question, with the purpose of preventing action on the repeal bill, which they could very easily do by this means, Of course there is no possibility of passing a bill through either house pro- posing o restoration of reciproci duty on wool, and a bounty on sugar. ‘There may be a few democrats who are not unfriendly to the reciprocity polic but the large majority of them are un- alterably opposed to it. As to wool, the very Dbasis of democratic revenue Te- form is free wool, and of course only democrats from sugar-producing states could be expected to give any counte nance to a bounty on that product. Senator Aldrich's motion, therefore, whatever may be thought of the merits of the propositions sub- mitted, was certainly not made with any idea that these could be adopted, and therefore it must be con- cluded that the object was to open a debate, which can easily be prolonged to the end of the session, and thus the vepeal bill be prevented from reaching ro- | 10 be issued should be p: a vote. Tt s thought probable that It would pass If it should be brought to a vote, but there appears to be a strong sentiment in the senate that we ought not to make this concession to the de- mands of the foreign governments which have established an embargo against our cattle and meats for the purpose of compelling the repeal of dis- criminating duties, Senator Platt doubt less voiced this sentiment when he de clared that if Germany wants to retall- ate it is a game that two can ji and that the way to ¢onvince that coun try that her proposed retalintion is un- derstood in this country is to make use of our power for retaliation on Ger- many. This is, perhaps, not a states- manlike view to take of the mat- ter, but it seems to Dbe held by a sufficient number in the sen ate to defeat the repeal of the dis- criminating sugar duty if they will to do so. tch a result would be a disappoint- ment to the cattle interest of the coun- try and particularly of the west, which lias been working earnestly for the re- peal of the objectionable duty. The action of the Buropean governments has already resulted in some loss to this interest and it is feared that if the duty is maintained other American in- Yerests may be made to experience in- Jjury by being discriminated against in European markets. Of course this coun- try can, as Senator Platt suggests, r sort to retaliation. The question is simply whether the duty is of suficient importance to Germany to induce her to carry the matter to the point of com- mercial W THE BOND TRANSACTION. The time in which congress was al- lowed to decide whether the new honds vable in coin or specitically in gold expired yesterday, and the treasury will now proceed to carry out its part of the contract, under which the government will pay, during the thirty years the bonds are to run, more than $16,000,000 in interest in ex- cess of what it wounld have had to pay il congress had authorized the substitu- tion of the word “gold” for that of “eoln” It is very gencrally conceded that these bonds will be redeemed in zold or its equivalent. That has been the course with the bonds alveady is- sued by the government, and undoubt- edly there will be no departure from it. Put the silver men of the house, aided Dy some republicans who there is reason to Dbelieve acted largely from partisan feeling, refused to allow this change in terms, and the price of this refusal is the generous sum above stated. What zood purpose has been served by this ongrossional rejection of an opporiunity to save the treasury more than $500,000 annually it would be interesting to learn. It has not put the bonds already issued in any better position, nor has it in the least improved the credit of the government. The cause of silver has not been advanced by it, nor is the pledge of the government to maintain the gold standard any less binding than before. We have simply declared that we are not disposed to make a specific agreement to redeem these new bonds with gold, and her than do so w re willing to pay a higher rate of interest, at the same time admitting that un- doubtedly they will be redeemed with gold. The only effect this policy is likely to have is to make future sub- scribers to our bonds, if another issue should become necessary, more exacting in the matter of interest. The contract made between the secre- tary of the treasury and the syndicate of foreign and domestic bankers has been verely eriticised. Democrats as well as republicans have condemned it in unmeasured terms as a transaction which gives all the advantage to the bankers, and one humiliating to the country. It has been declared that even baukrupt Fgypt has negotinted her loans for less than the figures given to the syndicate that has taken our bonds, and that this, the richest country in the world, will Gave to pay a higher rate of interest than Noirway, Belgium, and eyen the British provinces have to pa on their obligations. But all these make their obligations payable in gold, and undoubtedly if our government were to do this it could borrow all the money it asked for at 1 per cent loss than it must pay on the new honds. Unquestionably this transaction is some- what extraordinary, bit it is to Dbe borne In mind that the exigency was also extraordinary. It is not to be doubted that the syndicate of bankers will make a profit out of the trausaction, though the great gains estimated by some are not likely to be realized. But there will be some Lenefit to the govern- ment. Alveady gold exports haye stopped, and the scramble for gold has ceased. Shipments of gold from Europe have begun, and hoarded gold Is coming out of its hiding places. The nationa) credit is safer now than it was ten days ago, and the promise is that it will not again be so scriously menaced for n long time, perhaps never again, unless the next congress should make as great ilure as the present one has in deal- ing with the financial question. It is certainly to be hgped that the govern- ment will never again be comnelled to be a party to a transaction of this kind, but those who condemn it do not give the administration just credit for an honest effort to protect the credit of the nation unde traordinary conditions, A law having the effect of taking the state fair away from Omaha after it has been formally located here for the next five years by the body in which the decision Is at present legally vested would be very wuch in the nature of retroactive legislation. If the legisla- ture wants to provide for a permanent location of the state fair after the expira- tion qf five years that Is another ques- tion, involying only the right of the State Board of Agriculture to upon competitive proposals, When the bill is considered on its merits, how- ever, it will meet considerable opposi- tion. There are a dozen cities in Ne- braska that will want to compete for the relocation next time and will be en- titled to compete. Should the force bill pass the legislature the possibility of such competition would be shut off, ‘This would not only be detrimental (2 t the place the interests of those cities, but to (W® state as well, lex! Permanent location by ative epfrgment would throw the dend welght of state fair expenses upon the ftaxpayers;~ The state would not only have to, ageume responsibility for any deficit, but, would have to appro priate money for permanent buildings and for thefr maintenance. The state would thus W put in the attitude of a show proprietor and its agents would act as gatekeepers, collecting money from the people who patroniz how. Under competition In the my te fair logation the people of the city where the fair is held must provide | grounds and buildings at their own ex- pense. There 18 no sense in the me ure to saddle this unnecessary burden upon the state, What is there in the railrond pa ger business that causes so man wars and so much fus: over traffic agreements, divisions of rates, arbitrary tolls and long lhauls? Passenger traffic of a trunk line is only about 80 per cent of the earrying busi nes: rule. The greater part of a road's revenues is derived from freight traflic. But the general freight agents seem o be able to abide by compacts made nothing and saw wood. Yet everybody knows that freight agents ar prone giving secret rebates where competition is active and sometimes they have Leen known to give free fransportation to shippers to get the business. Perhaps the freight men are adepts at covering up their irregular fracks. And then again a car load of freight can't talk like a car load of school ma'ams or a theatrical advance agent, rate to The women of Council Bluffs who advocate statutory prohibition propose to imitate their sis e:s of Sioux City and embark upon a erusa against the saloons of Council Bluffs, Prohibition- ists in Nebraska have all along con- tended that the prohibitory law of Towa has been and is being rigidly enforced to the satisfaction of all concerned in their canse. What have they to say to the action of their co-laborers across the way which will accomplish no final result than to publish the fact to the world that statutory prohibition is a howling mock We suggest that the good women of the Woman's club interrupt their inter esting discussions of public questions long enough to inquire which of thei number is the author of those brilliant examples of English, expressing a belief that “fines and licenses is a crime,” de- manding a constitutional amendment “deflecting the funds from their present source into other ‘channels” and intimat- ing that Dbeiter results would be ob- tained “if the money were applied to a hospital fund, where the physical mentally diseased might be eared for.” The Papillion Times, whose editor is a democrat and a member of the legis- lature, makes a bitter attack upon Se retary Morton, whom it holds respon- sible for the appointment of Buclid Martin as postmaster of Omaha. It is a bit significant that unfavorable com- ment upon the appointment of Mr. Martin has se-far been confined to demo- crat This argues for a higher degree of harmony than has herctofore pre- vailed in the various camps of de- mocracy. ved Congratulations, Sloux City Times. Euclid Martin, the new postmaster -at Omaha, has not’yet received the congratu- lations of the Nébraska delegation in' con- gress. Mr. Dryvan and Senator Allen are particularly “silent on the subject. e strike Losses. Globe-Demacrat. According to the estimate of the senate committee on education and labor, the strikes during the past six years have in- volved losses aggregating $8,536,850; and it is impossible to sce that the labor problem has been in the least degree simplified by this enormous expenditu — - Scandal of the West. New York Sun. The divorce law of South Dakota has been a shame to_the state ever since it became a state. Tt has glven the state a bad name. It has had a demoralizing in- fluence upon {t. It has brought evil upon many families. It has been a source of fraud. It has been useful only to unworthy men and women. At one time the law was so amended as to r quire a party to a divorce to reside half a year inthe state before beginning an action; but this amendment was repealed last week, and only three months' r dence I8 now required. This legislation s highly discreditable to South Dakota, It is proof that the legislature has no concep- tion of the proper grounds for divorce, or that it is regardless of them. It widens the door of ruin, —_— Tho Bell Working Congre Philadelphia Led The Bell Telephone company, not satls- fied with the monopoly it has enjoyed for several “years under “government patent, and the great advantage over competitors it SUIl enjoys through its established ex- changes and its experience, is striving to get an extension of government aid in its control of the business. Two bills, Nos. 5361 and 6098, now beforé congress, are in- tended to amend the patent laws for the benefit of the Bell company, They should not be permitted to pass. The Hell com- pany has obtained in abundance the r wards the patent laws Thold out to in: venta and Its course in r fruits of that monopoly hus re exceedingly ‘obnoxious. The publ tently submitted to by law; it will not tolerant of otl exactions authorized by laws to be passed for the special benefit of the Bell company, ————— Men on Guara, Washington Post. In the language of the wild and woolly west, which they represent, the silver seni. tors ‘are now camped upon’ the trail Hereafter, when the observing spectator casts his eagle eve over the senate c ber he will always notice at least one jtor, on suardy The persistent Peffer may be strangely absent; the massive Allen may slip off down town to get his buttermilk and sandwich; the vigilant Cockrell ;b elsewhere; in' fact, there may be three vacant desks In the senate ch The elghty-fourth will always be fill its solltary ocoupant,will' be a sllver or. Afraid of sqme, men have Dels sil amber. i, and sena- coup d'etat, the determined to hereafter take watches, 50 to speak, while the senate js in session. No “gold bug' is to be able to slip through the senate a bond issue schy i no friend of the administration 18 to rush into the statute books, by a sim- Pl reauest for unanimous, consideraiion, o aw placing I8 country * e ercy’ WoPlacing Yy "at the mercy of Not much. Eometimes Dubois, silver it will sometimes Stewart, sometimes somebody always ' somebody, The upon “the tower, and the; than desert théir posts. be Teller, ometime: Wolcott, ' Sometimey sometimes else. But watchmen are y would rather die and feathers | other | untold | THE GOLD BOND DRAT. New York World: (dem.:) nation that should be forced to pay an ex- tortinate rate of interest. It would not do %0 It a loan were offered to the people, dona In France. Atlanta Constitution (dem.:) that the cuckoos who, against their own con- victions, may feel themselves compelled to | defend ‘Mr. Cleveland's gold bond scheme, | will claim that It the echeme had been in- dorsed by congress {t would have resulted |in a saving to the people of $16,000,000 dur- {Ing the next thirty years, | Chicago Inter Ocean (rep.:) The very day | the president made his bargain_ with | the London gold bug bankers ‘“‘coln™ bonds sold ‘n our market at a premium of 10 per cent. The last $50,000,000 of 6 per cent bo running for ten years, sold three m a premium over 17 per cent, | Who has been playing bear for Uncle Sam? Denver Republican (rep.:) will prove false to its duty if it does not im mediately pass a concurrent resolution an- nulling the contract recently made between the admistration and the Shylock syndicate. It that contract is carried out according to its original terms the people will be com- pelled to pay a bonus of $10,000,000 on the original price of the bonds, and $13,000,000 more in interest on that honus for thirt years, or §23,000,000 in all for a bond sa amounting to only $62,400,000. Chi Tribune (rep.:) The failure of congress to authorize the fssue of gold bonds instead of bonds made payable in coln"" entnils a loss of nearly $16,200,0000 upon the people of the United States. That is not far from 25 cents per head of the total popu- latfon. It means nearly $1.25 to the workingman who is the head of a family f five persons. It is a big price to pay for blatherski tory in favor of free silver 1 for relative picayunish objections by a sound money men to the terms of a contract made in despalr of sufficiently prompt action by congress, Buffalo Express (rep.:) United States would save §16,000,000 by the gold guarantee. Th is true on the supposition that it will pay in gold any But_this §16,000,000 difference can be m up by paying part of the interest in silver, and since the money lenders insist on buy ing the bonds at terms which imply a par- fal silver payment, it would be good business sense to give them what they buy. It cer- tainly would be much more just than to con- firm by legislation the contract which would let guaranteed United States bonds go at par, Why the gold honds, under this contract, would actually bring to the government less gold than the coin bonds! St. Louis Republic (dem.?): this month August Belmont sawdust of Madison Square awarded ribbons to the torriers, At that time his fame rested on the owner- ship of the champion brace of the gamy breed which was the height of eanine vogue. As bench show judge and president of the American Kennel club he gradually ac- | »d national reputation. he designates to the government the terms upon the hundredweight shall be furnished for redeeming currency notes. He negotiates with a president and a secretary of the treasury in secret upon the fate of a nation's contracts. That is the beauty of a free country. You can’t tell when the man you esteem be- ncath your serious motice will have a big slice of country standing in his name. Sl o NEBRASKA AND NEBRASK A The dates for the Saunders county have been fixed for September 10 to 13. Broken Bow has a new paper, the Custer County Union, started as the organ of the new political party, the “unton.” While the Fremont city council was dis- | cussing the advisability of putting in a mu- nicipal lighting plant the gas went out. Rev. Mr. Ernst, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Wayne, has tendered his r. tion to take effect in March, He will re- move to 1linofs. A Holdrege dog had his jaw broken and a doctor was called who mended the fractured bone with a silver wire and will attempt to save the animal’s life. ‘A farmer mamed Reager, reslding near Seward, was thrown from his cart and his neck was broken, death resulting instantane- ously. He had been drinking. It is understoed that Rev. C. E. Battelle of Omaha has been called by the Presby- terian people to preach indefinitely, says the Niobrara Ploneer. It was his letter to The Bee which had more to do in bringing carly relief to the settlers in Raymond town- ship and Boyd county than any other cause. Frank Landle, an aged German, was found murdered at the door of his cabin about ten miles northeast of Loup at Davis Creek. He had been killed by a charge of shot fired at short range, striking him in the back of the neck and lifting the whole top of the skull, The perpetrators of the crime are unknown, as Landie was a pauper, being unable to work on account of having years ago frozen both hands and feet, resulting in amputa- tion. A ludicrous mishap was the loss by C. W. Wallis of his costumes at Humphrey just as the curtain about to go up, says the Madison reporter. A Norweglan girl going from Newman Grove to Norfolk picked up Mr. Wallis' satchel and left her own and departed on the train, and when Mr. W. opened the satchel to put on his costume he found it contained a night robe, corsets and other miscellaneous and unmentionable arti- cles of female apparel and virtu, Sheriff Derby of Butler county had a pretty clcse call for his life, according to the David City Press. He went down on the valley to serve a summons on Leonard Vincent. When he drove up to the house and went in Mrs. Vincent kad a nice reception prepared for him in the shape of a double-barrel shot- gun, cocked and leveled ready for business. The sheriff grabbed the gun and succeeded in getting it away from her, but she had another in reserve, and as she was getting it he withdrew, ~He brought the shotgun home with him. Vincent was not at home at the time. The Vincent farm was recently s0ld at sherifi’s sale, and Mrs. Vincent has grown morbid worrying over the matter. Samp Cooper, who was with the sheriff, does not care to travel with an officer again, Loulsville and the nd Army. with the pennant of the city of up with the ensign of the col of Kentucky—up with the stripes of the nation—and, if k_of battles, what have any of for in th kamauga, of Antle though, whilst well _re This is not a We presume | Congress It 1s sald that the Six y stood rden stump-tailed ars in ago the and fox- United States which gold by fair r-Journal So, up Louisville monwealth stars and we must us to and C) it orktown and and luena Kentuckian who invoked dead al camping grol Kentuckians, fitti ky soll such as remain ot t'so well, whom we fought them with all our hearts— in_honoring them we celebrate ourselves for soon, too soon, the page will be turned down, the door will be closed, and it will be written of us all -blue coats and gray conts—undistinguished and undistin- Euishable at last, the one from the other on that farther Shore where “Glory walks with solemn fhe bivouac of the dead ——— A Prize for lowa, Cedar Rapids Republican Some twenty years ago a cowboy depos- fted §3,000 in a Council Bluffs national bank and went west to look after some cattle, While there he was killed, and all efforts to find his heirs, if he had any, have proye fruitiess. After ten years, according o th law, such unclaimed money reverts to ti state, Auditor McCarthy is now investigat- ing the matter, and it is probable the state treasurer will ‘receiye quite a respectable sum from the original amount, to which will be added the accumulated interest 1y wel- { come o K | those who fan | 80 well—welcor round, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. 8. Gov't Report Ro Baking Powder | necessary | thus far | Dosition where all neces: BRYAN AND THE DONDS, Cedar Rapids Republican: braska, speaking in opposition to the gold bond fssue on Thursday, eald “the demo- cratio party owed the president nothing.” Mr. Bryan, being a democtat, though Inoc ulated with populism, ought to know how the account stands; but it strikes one very forel bly that the democrats owe It to themselvos, as woll as to the president, to support him in all carnest endeavors to extricate the country Bryan of Ne- | from the embarrassment fn which that party has placed it Kansas City St Mr. Dryan's theatrical remark that Tie would gladly die “if by dying he could prevent the passage of this biil the issue of 3 per cent gold bonds, suggests the unhappy fact that the failure of the number of democrats to die has successfully retarded all manner of legislation. The country rofuses to be stirred by Mr. Bryan's heroics and is reasonably re- Joiced that in a few ys he will be in a ty of dying for his removed. Times: Mr. W. J. Bryan, a objects to the resolution authioriz- ing the president to buy gold with gold bonds on the ground “‘that the secretary of the treasury redeems United States and treas- ury notes in the kind of coin selceted by the note holder,” whereas under the provisions of the law he might elect to redeem them in coln other than that selected by the note owner. — In other words, while the note owner demands gold, Mr. Bryan would have the government pay him in silver. The ef- foct of such an interpretation of the law by the sccretary of the treasury would be to create a premium on gold. The only benefi claries of such a result would be the Wall street gamblers who might find fine pickings In buying and selling gold as they did on Black Friday, and before and after that eventful day from the time that the govern- ment suspended specie payments until it re sumed again. Mr. Bryan, who is trying to make the public beliove that he is the repr sentative of the people, s really the repre- sentative of nobody but’the Wall street gam- blers. He is assiduonsly carrying grain to their mill, and so far as appearances indi- cate, he is doing it without compensation to himself. will be Kansas City state n country PEOPLE AND As a sensation center lessly left Georgia's claims as a some foundation in fact, The old flag flutters merrily from many appropriation flag poles. Governor McKinley {s doing considerable talking, but is not obliged to record his vote. The Soutliern timely article that section sleigh cowbells, The introduction of a bill in the Connecticut legislature to prohibit t ting is a sugges- tion to the lobby to get down to the national single standard. Li Hung Chung has been reinvested with the yellow coat, peacock feather and other celestial regalia. Willlam Wilson still shivers on the lee side of the blizzard. Dr. Booze of Baltimore is having a recount of the vote by which he came in second in the race for congress in Maryland. He ex- pects to get there. Booze always does. A dazzling collection of “sun dogs” was witnessed in several Missouri towns last 2vidently the November returns from Missouri had just reached the neighborhood of old Sol. An alderman of St. $30, sawed, split_and St. Paul s hope- winter resort have States on Magazine prints a summer temperature in Paul, on a wager of piled a cord of wood in eight hours. That's nothing. It is a poor alderman who cannot saw less and make more in the same time. Seven hundred and fifty Chicago clergy- men were invited to preach on municipal patriotism last Sunday. A majority re- sponded, but the result cannot be determined untii the ward managers manipulate the primary returns. While the German emperor and empress were out sleigh ridgs in Berlin they came across three small 1%s snowballing in Thier- garten. One of the snowballs struck the emperor, and the culprit, abashed, ran® up and said: “Did I hurt you much, Herr Kaiser?” His anxious tone made the em- peror laugh, and next day he sent the offender a memento of the meeting. Thirty years ago a Pennsylvania editor turned his pile of $500 over to an impecuni- ous friend, who hurrled westward in search of health and fortune. Recently the editor was informed that his i f. crossed the range and bequeathed him $50,000 to repay the loan. Incidents of this kind, however, are too rare to popularize journalistic loans., The amount outstanding far exceeds the re- turns without counting the ‘‘uncarned in- crement." Tobacco as consumed by great poten- tates is an interesting topic to the majority of men, The emperor of Germany smokes cigarettes, the new czar of Russia prefers a pipe, Prestdent Faure of France is a great consumers of cigars, the sultan of Turkey alternates his cigarettes with a hookah, President Cleveland puffs a cigar after dinner, but smokes less frequently during the day than ho used to; the emperor of China has no time at present to smoke anything. SR , If Not Beauty. New York Sun, The American School B lishes the portraits of a considerable num- ber of state school superintendents who have lately been elceted. In North Dakota, Colorado and Wyoming these high nd we add with sat s not a single pretty one among them. 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