Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 11, 1895, Page 4

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SHUCK. 1'in my pres- ba: 595, 1L, Sworn to befora me and by wnce this 24 day of March (Seal.) | Notary Publle. something the last minute. China thought sibly happen at it didn’t. But | Business is improving throughout the country, not on account of the free sil-| ver agitation, but In spite of it, Like Tom Murray's hotel building, the union depot project is a long time com- ing, but its consummation is only a matter of time. Mr. Pullman says wealth does not bring happiness. But that will not pre- vent any of our millionaires from con- tinuing their quest for more wealth and incidental unhappine railroad enger men are still at it. There is more fuss and feathers over one cut rate ticket than there is over the ninety and nine full fare lambs that have been gathered into the rail- road fold. The Now we will learn whether the paj ment of the indemnity which the Jap- anese are about to exact m China will really have any appreciable in- fluence in raising the price of silver on the bullion market. The Mardi G 1l 8 are now on thelr voyage to the port of Omaha They are dreams of beauty and artis- tle color and design. They must prove to be one of the grentest drawing cards of state falr weel. If vepresentation In congress were to be apportioned according to taxation fustead of taxution according to repre- sentation the political complexion of the national house of representatives would | y different from what it fs. It the y company were compelled to remove Its tracks when- ever it ceased to make regular use of them it would in all probability be less inclined to abandon particular lines slmply Dbecause other lines pay more profitably. Our free silver friends ought not to begin with 1772 in their argument for free colnage. ‘hiey ought to appeal to geology and the prehistoric record of the earth to prove that silver existed before gold and is therefore entitled to superior privileges. Let us give the motive power people a tp. The outlook now is that when the year's erop shall have been har vested the demand upon their rolling stock will be very great, and in alffcult to meet. So they better get their house in order. There are opportunitics for real es- tate investments in Omaha that will never come to men of this generation again. The foresighted homeseeker or capitalist will not be slow to get a foothold here. The next five years will bring him handsome profits on bis in- vestments. The award to Dorgan for his peni- tentiary property won't consume the en- tire $35,000 appropriated by the state for the purpose of buying out his inte est. The appraisers are bound to leave enough of the appropriation to p for thelr own services at a handsome per diem compensation, There is no dearth of intervenors in the canal mandamus proceedings. Had there been no mandamus the inter- venors would unquestionably have at- tempted to block the canal project by process of injunction. The mandamus method is, after all, and notwithstand- ing threatened delays, the quickest way to settle disputed law _Involved. the points of Lvery one who has kept up with the testimony In the cases against ex-Treas- urer Hill and his bondsmen must know exactly how to proceed to procure an official bond when elected t er of the state. All that is necessary is to go to the banks and tell them how much of the security they are expected to fur nish. A treasurer’s bond without sure- tles supplied by the banks would ba an unheard-of phenomenon. Whether the new departmental or- ganization of the High school will result in any material saving to the taxpaye will depend upon how many teachers are employed at the lower range of salaries. If most of the teachers now employed are to be made heads of de- partments with corresponding salaries the expense of the school will be as great as now. ‘ihere Is only one way to keep expenses of the High school . down and that is to keep the aggregate sl ki WHY POOLING PERSISTS. “Questions of the Infraction of the interstate commerce act must be dealt with by the attorney general” Chalr- man Morrison of the Interstate Com- merce commission I8 quoted as saying in a special dispateh to one of the east- ern papers. “It Is a mistake to say we wink at or In any way encourage pools. For instance, nccording to news- paper report, there has been formed a money pool on freight rates eastbound from Chicago, St. Louis, ete. We often find there Is some truth In such re- ports, but are unable to find anything definite upon which proceedings can be brought. When we do we turn the matter over to the attorney general. When we get back to Washington we will probably learn something more definite about the alleged castbound wmoney pool,” Of course the Interstate Commerce commission does not actively encour- age pooling. Things would have come to a pretty pass should the officers ap- pointed for the particular purpc among other things, of abolishing this forbidden pr: be found actually alding and abetting the railroads in vio- lating the law. When it is charged t the commission has regularly winked at pooling, all that is insinuated is t ice, the pools have not been suppressed and that the commission has been, if not blind to thelr existence, at least gentle In thelr pursuit. In the same column of the very newspaper from which the interview with Chairman Morrison Is taken is a report to the effect that owing to the opposition of the Missouri Pacific and Wabash roads the western tonnage pools which were nearly completed are practically sus pended. The information is further given that the gist of the agreements was that the roads turn over to com- petitors any business in excess of their agreed percentages, and that there been no divergences since the month, nor will there be any until is agreed upon. When the pooling bill was up before congress one the strong pleas made in its favor was that pools do and will exist, and that the interstate commerce act had proved powerless to put them dowr The members of the commission, at that time anxious for the passage of the bill, did not think it worth while to deny the reflection thus east upon their administration of the law. The railroads do not ask encourage- ment in their efforts to evade the pool- ing prohibition. All they want Is to be let alone, and so far they seem Lo have had their own way unmolested. I'er- haps it is owing to defects in the law, perhaps to the inactivity of the attor- ney general, as much as to the leniency of the commission. But there is no doubt that pooling could be abolished if the different authorities charged with that duty set about in earnest to ac- complish that result. more schedule of revised percentages of IN THE INUEREST OF FAIR PLAY. The canal proposition is the most im- portant matter now engaging the at- tention of the district court. It affects the interests of every taxpayer of Doug- las county. The decision will affect not only the present generation of taxpay- ers, but several generations yet to come. Whatever may be the division of senti- ment velati to the feasibility of the canal as a constant and unfailing gener- ator of cheap power, the overwhelming majority of the community Is pr nounced in favor of public ownership in preference to corporate ownership. In other words, if we are to embark in this enterprise and bond the county to carry it out the great mass of citizens want to own, control and operate the canal. On that point there is practically no division, barring alone the parties whose private interests conflict with those of the public. In the interest of fair play parties who have iutervened purely in the interest of the corporate schemers who desire to prevent any attempt to give public ownership of power, water and electric light supply a foothold In this city and county should be barred out of the contest now pend- ing in the courts. The canal law is doubtless defective in’ many points and if these defects af- feet the validity of the law or prevent its execution under present conditions the courts should so decide and save the citizens the expense and turmoil of a special election. It is manifestly to the interest of all concerned that every debatable point in the law should be adjudicated before an election is ealled, but all frivolous attempts at delay and interposition of objections not inspired in the interest of the public should be discountenanced. If in the end the law is declared to be valid the question whether or not our citizens desire to ame the Habilities and risks involved in the undertaking will be remanded to the people for discussion and final de- cision, IN THE DEMOURATIC CAMP, The silver fight in the democratic party threat to utterly demoralize and disrupt that political organization, for whether the champlons of free silver or the friends of a sound currency are successful in the next national conven- tion of the party there undoubtedly will follow a disintegration which will place the party in a hopeless minority for years. ments grows In Ilinois the The battle between the two ele- in flerceness and vigor. ound mon democrats, wnder the leadership of Senator Palmer, are actively at work, while the free silverites, who claim to be a majority of the party in that state, are leaving nothing undone to promote their cause, sceming not at all discournged by the comparatively Insigniticant vote which they were able to get out in Cook county. In Obhio the free silver democrats, who have been signally defeated in two campaigns in which they made free silver an issue, are laying thelr plans to secure delegations to the coming state convention pledged to the adoption of resolutions committing the party in that state to the free and unlimited colnage of silver. Senator Brice has publicly announced his determination to fight this element in the party and he will have a considerable following, but the chances are that the free silver men salaries within fixed limits, will win, as they did last year. In Indiana there 18 a similar contest, with the chances apparently in favor of the free sllver element of the party. A warm contest Is on In Kentucky and Henry Watterson, In the Loulsville Courler-Journal, warns the advocates of free silver that If they commit the party to that policy the effect will be to disrupt it and give the state to the re- publicans. In Wisconsin, Michigan and other states the free sllver democrats are aggressive. -This conflict In the democratic camp will grow in interest, becanse the poli- ticians who are conducting the free silver eampalgn are firmly determined | to commit the party to their policy in the next national contest, and l|l|l1|ll|):1 will persuade them to desist or to aban- | don this purpose. They are for th most part men who have a personal ambition to subserve and who under- stand that to abandon the course they have marked out would almost certainly be fatal to their political hopes. The contest is one which republicans can contemplate with complacency, for while it is true that there are free sil- ver republicans they constitute a very small minovity of the party, and the fore can cause little trouble. There is no serious conflict in the republican ranks on this question, and it is not to be doubted that the next national con- vention of the party will take the same stand regarding silver that the last one did, nor is it at all doubtful that on such a platform it will earry the coun- The American people do not de- sire to abandon silver, but on the other hand they do not want a policy which would expel gold from the currency and give them only silver as the stand- avd. . THE DELAWARE SENATORSHIP. The republicans of Delaware, who have a majority of eight in the legisla- | falsifications would | s concerned. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, The rallronds can increase the attend- ance at the falr 50 per cent If they will and it beging; to look as If they mean to do so. Shofil@this prove true Omaha will forgive fam for a good deal of thelr cussedness §n the past. Mr. Bryan, véferring to Coin's Finan- cial School, says: “Of course no school was held.” ©f course not, but the au- thor of Coin’intended to make ignorant and unsuspeeting people believe that such a school was held. He intended to make people Believe that the prominent persons who are mentioned in it by name were setually engaged in the al- leged financial discussion and came out | of the small end. If he had represented his fictitious pupils by the names of Tom, Dick and Harry, or A, B. and €., his have been by no means so effective. Mr., Bryan now confesses that the chief expounder of the free silver fallacy resorts to most bavefaced falschood. But then false hood is the principal stock in trade of the free silver propaganda. The contest for the Delaw ship has ended so far as the legislature The legislators who visit the state capital from now on will have to pay their own hotel bills. It is need- less to say that they will not be found at the capital so frequently some one else defrayed the are senator- & when Xpense Washington Star. Hon. Bill Bryan has overflowed his banks again, and the sufferers on account of this freshet are thy who are compelled to come In personal contact with his views, Beware of the Toothp ck Toe, Cincinnati Enquir Suppose an office holder should refuse to be be “digciplined” on the money question, what would the president do about {t? And if the president got the man out, what would the senate do about confirming his successor? P ture in joint ballot, may not be repre- The Monarchial Syndieate. ented in the nto of the THEY-LOUMH | naw (hat (hiee BUTi powers. S congress. If they are not the individual | tendered thelr fiendly advice to Japan and chiefly responsible s one J. Idward | Wai'shat e front Goor with guns until it Addicks, who as a candidate for the | sider the possibility that the same sort of : M counsel may offered 01 senate s said to have declared at the | §iy/°Py % “nil MAY Vg, oftered it some beginning of the contest that if he e e et TNyt could not secure the election he would RHLIh i s e prevent any other republican from be- ing elected. This man Addic never known in politics until he en- tered the race for the senatorship and e appears to have had no other clabm to consideration than the fact that he is wealthy and contributed to the elec- tion of some of the members of the legislature. In doing this it seems that he made a bargain with these members to support him und most of them r mained loyal to him to the last. The course of Addicks in persisting in a lopeless contest will be universally con demned as a contemptible exhibition of selfishness and every sincere republican in Delaware ought to refuse to furthor te him in the councils of the are thirty members of the two houses of the Delaware legislature, so that sixteen are nec ry to the elee- tion of a United States senator. Henry A. Dupont, who received fifteen votes, was declared elected by the speaker of the house, and the republicans claim this to be legal on the ground that the aker of the senate ing became or reduced the membership of body to eight and of the legisla- to twenty-nine, making fifteen suflicient for the election of a senator. There is a nice point rafsed in this connection upon which, in the event of a contest in the ate, the decision will probably rest. It is expected that the governor, who is a democrat, will refuse a certificate to Dupont and ap- point a senator, on the ground that the legislature adjourned without elect- ing, and in that case there will be a contest before the senate, which is the sole judge of the election and qualifica- tions of its members. As tho senate has made a precedent against the right of a governor to appoint a senator where the legislature has failed to elect it is to be presumed it would adhere to it in the event of the gov- ernor of Delaware appointing a senator, and If it should hold that Mr. Dupont was not elected, which is not unlikely to be the case for partisan reasons, Delaw: will have but one senator in the next congress and the victory of the republicans of that state in electing a legislature will be to this extent a barren one. ‘What republicans everywhere will es- pecially regret 1s the fact that this is- sue will probably prevent a reorganiza- tion of the senate by the republicans, it being suggested in Washington that the democra*s may find it to their In- terest to continue in control of the committees as long as possible. It is pretty safe to say that they will not reject this opportunity to hold on, even for a brief time, to the little power which control of the senate gives them. The Edmunds act which was passed to put an end to the practice of poly- gamy out in Utah, is, we are told, being appealed to in Washington to compel the colored people living together there to take out marriage licenses. The act is general In scope and therefore applics to all territory of the United States not wnder state government. The people of Utah were ha »d by it for only a short time, The service to which it is now bejng put in Washington is practi- cally that of a collector of marriage license fees for the local officials. Moses P. Handy thinks he sees some connection between the fishing season and the irauguration of strikes by or- ganized labor. So soon as fishing Is good the strikes begin. And by the time fishing gives out the strikes are concluded. At least, so he says. But if admitting all this to be true, what has the fishing season got to do with strikes? The city officials claim to have dis- covered several leaks in the gas piping of the city hall. The gas bills for the city jail Indicate that there are similar leaks there. But when it comes to stop- ping leaks the city officials should not stop with gas pipes. The railroads leading into this great commercial metropolls promise low rates to and from the state fair, Send these tidings out into the byways and hedges that all the people may come. navy in good fighting trim, it L s S No Kesurreotions, Cleveland World., The commander of the confederate veter- s of Chicago naturally tries to break the force of the criticlsm upon the dedication of the monument to the lost cause there. e says that Grand Army of the Republic posts have very generally decorated the graves of the confederates and the confederate: graves of the union soldfers in the ceme- ter The money for the monument was malnly raised by himself, and no northerner asked to recognize the right of the con- federate cause. But neither “he nor any other southe who was an actor during 61-'65 can or will forget the past,” and, adds, “it i3 not reasonable to expect us to change our original opinions.'” Bul this Is the very reason why a monu- ment to the confederate cause on northern soll is illogical, wout of place, improp>r and intolerable. The decoration of a grave from year to year j§ a passing sentiment that may ceaze at any time. It certainly is likely to be temporary. It Is not intended to_perpituate a brincipie or & oaus. But a monument, if it has any meaning at all, is meant to he a perpetual’ memorial, The graves of heroes and statesmen may be neglected, and often are; but moruments survive, not merely as tokens of sentimental affection, but as ‘tributes to services in a ETent caiise orcin Behalf of a worthy prin- ciple, on why this ex-confederate Is so the” Chicago monument is be- t and will not forget the hé has not “changed his Had he done so he would ca opinfons.” little or nothing about the monument would be far more likely to be achamed of it than to be proud of it and busy himself in t i aring 1t down rather than In erecting When montments shall be erected any iere in the south to the memory of coln and Grant; when the anniversary of their births is celebrated there, then it will be high time monuments in the north to the lost cause and to the wrong the confederates undertook to uphold and per- petuate. But by that time the pzople of the south will not” want to erect monuments to Davis, Lee and their soldiers. They will feel that they are no more deserving. of monuments than George 111 or Cornwallls, who struggled to uphold tyranny and op- press their fellow men. They will conside them as complete faljures as the French now sider Louls XVI or Louls Na- poleon. Rational upq(\shhm to confederate monu- ments Is not based upon hatred or a spirit of revenge, but upon sound moral principles, an earnest and sincere desire not to allow those principles to be confused or ob- scured. There should be no resurrections, - COINAGE SENTIMENT. New York Tribune: President Cleveland's letter to Governor Stone of Missouri proves clearly enough that the writer's hand has lost none of its cunning In the difficult art of subterfuge and evasion. History will recognize Mr. Cleveland as the American statesman who could write more letters on tarift and currency without uttering a posi- tive opinion on either of those subjects than any other man of his time. Milwaukee Journal: It is a curious fact that while the country was on a paper money basis, at the time the national banks were established, the people west of the Rockles would none of it, but insisted on an exclusive gold currency. So strong was this feeling that provision had to be mado in the bank- ing law for gold banks on the coast dif- ferent from those in the east. They would not_accept the national bank except on a gold basis. This state of affairs continued till the resumption of specie payments. Now these states are all for silver. They stood out for a gold monometallism when all the rest of the country went to paper; and when the rest of the country come to a gold stand- ard they make haste to put themselves into he silver ranks. New York Times: The sound money men in the democratic party have a hard fight before them. They cannot go into it too soon or too resolutely. We publish this morning a careful statement of the probable action of the conventions of the two great parties on the currency question. It shows that In each convention there is likely to be a platform with a silver plank reported; in each convention that plank is likely to be rejected, in the republican by a heavy majority, in the democratic by one small but decisive. With platforms substantially alike and candidates whose views are in harmony with them, the democrats will, on the basis of their present strength, probably have a plurality in the electoral college, but not & majority., In that case the electlon would be thrown (nto the house, and the republican candidate would be elected. Louisville Courler-Journal: “The stamp of the government is a solemn guarantee and pledge of, JAts, (money's) redemption,” says one of Seflator Blackburn's disciples. 8o it 1s when on a paper note or a silver coin under the present system, but under free coinage of yilver the stamp of the gov- ernment on a silver dollar would mean noth- ing except a gwarantee of the quality and quantity of the” silver the coin contained. Silver under free coinage would not be re- deemable. It would be what our silver friends are wont to call “money of final re- demption, If it should not be worth more than 50 cents is worth now, the govern- ment could not#make it worth more by re- deeming it. And if it could, what should it be redeemed INY old? Then we should have not a double standard, but a single gold standard, Agalnst which the silverites are so vociferously invelghing. * he | MAY 11, 1895 OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The Scandinavian crisis has developed a now phase. Hitherto the demands of Nor- way for the recognition of her constitutional rights of the act of union with Sweden have been met by purely passive resistance on the part of the Swedish king; but the de- olsion of the Rigsdag, at Stockholm, to ter- minate the commereial treaty with Norway 1s In the nature of active retaliation. The Swedes profess to be very fearful that in according Norway her undoubted right to separate consular and diplomatic representa- tion abroad the political union between the two kingdoms would be impaired; bul they have apparently no scruples in severing the commercial union between the two countri It seems that, notwithstanding her super- forlty in wealth and population and her much larger army and navy, Sweden will still shun open hostilities with Norway and will preferably resort to chicanery in combating the claims of her unwilling yokefellow. The danger of the situation, however, lies in the possibility that, despairing of gaining her rights elther by constitutional means or by | force of arms if unaided, Norway may be driven to enter into an alliance with Russia The cession to Russia of Varanger-Fiord, on the north coast of Norway, whereby the Muscovites would obtain a large and ice-free harbor on the Atlantic seaboard, might prove czar. King Oscar, on the other hand, is supposed to have received us:urances of sympathy and even of substantial assistance from Kaleer Wilhelm, The brave struggle of republican Norway for practical inde- pendence of aristocratic Sweden should be sufficient In itself to arouse the sympathetic interest of every lover of political liberty, . The chances of the Armenians recelving redress for the sufferings they have under- gone or even of enjoying a period of im- munity from Turkish persecution appear at present to be very remote. The commission of inquiry, from whom so much was ex- pected, seems to be accomplishing very little and fts investigations drag wearily along month after month without showing signs of coming to a difinite conclusion. The delay in the inquiry, as a recent report from the the locality states, increases the sufferings of the Armenians, who are over-ridden by Turkish soldiers and police officlals. The only thing in the whole disgraceful business that it is a pleasure to dwell upon is the interest shown by Mr. Gladstone in behalf of this much persecuted people. Although be originally stated that little was to be expected from a man of his what he could do would be mously, as an ordinary English the cause of common humanity, the mere personal influence of so powerful and dis- tinguished a man, acting in an entirely un- official manner, has made itselt a potent factor in the case. Mr. Gladstone, while not overlooking the local atrocities, roundly denounces the sultan and the porte. Their action in the question ha considers as worse than_their conduct in regard to Bulgaria in 1876. Too much cannot be said in praise of the unselfish, noble and broad minded spirit which causes a man of Mr. Gladstone's years to take up and so warmly advocate a cause so urgently in need of influence. It Is strange that the brightest hope the Armenians have of recelving proper tre | meut in the future at the hands of the Turkish government should come from the influence and the respect universally ac- corded the opinions of the great retired Eng- lish statesman. done anony- subject in When Sir William Harcourt, the English chancellor of the exchequer, introduced the budget in parliament a few days ago he remarked that it might be the last time he would take part officially in a budget debate. | This remark was taken to mean that he | proposed to restgn, or that he looked for an | early dissolution of Parllament, either ot which events, the latter especially, is now within the probabilities. There is no ques- tion as to the existence of serious dessen- sions in the Rosebery cabinet. Sir William | Harcourt will brook no interference with his plans, and when he is opposed in any way threatens to bring in his local option meas- ure, which, it is believed by his colleagues, would defeat the government if brought to a vote. There is no indication that Lord | Rosebery contemplates resigning, but it is not thought that he desires Parliament should live any longer than to permit the government to pass certain bills. The fact that there was a liberal victory at the last two by-elections, and that the tories and the unionists are far from being in harmony has encouraged the liberals and they be- lieve now that they can cary out the min- isterial program. But a general election and a by-election are two different things, and the chancellor of the exchequer probably predicted rightly as to his future. The visit of little Queen Wilhelmina of Holland to England has again aroused the discussion known in European courts as “The Dutch Marriage Question.” Although Wil helmina is not yet 15, it is not at all improb- able that she may be betrothed within a year or 50 and married by the time she is 17. It she should die the question of succession would be an awkward one for Holland. There are unfortunately very few possibilities in looking for a husband for Wilhelmina. Her husband must, of course, be a prince of royal blood, and he must be a Protestant. The Dutch also object to an out and out German prince. All these things have made the he- reditary duke of Saxe-Coburg the most likely candidate. As a grandson of Queen Victoria, his father an Englishman and his mother a Russian, little objection could be raised on the score of his parentage. His being likely to succeed his father as a duke of a German state would have to be put up with in this case. Queen Wilhelmina is rather delicate, and the court physicians urge on her mother, the queen regent, the advisability of an early marriage. o There are points in Burope and Asia at which cholera has already appeared this year. For some weeks it has prevailed to a more or less extent In several of the prov- inces of Russia; it bas broken out among the Japanese troops in Formosa and it has appearsd at the Red sea port of Mecca among the Mobammedan pilgrims who jour- neyed thither. This annual pilgrimage has long been a serlous menace to European and other western nations. It is true that Turkey, Egypt and Persia have made united efforts 'to establish measures of quarantine against the plague, but so far they have been inadequate, a fact largely due to the inherent apathy of oriental officials. The appearance of the scourge in Russia is even {more to be dreaded than the outbreak in Formosa. The Japanese are thorough in thelr sanitary precautions, but Russia has always lagged behind other European na- ions in the adoption of strict and effectiv sanitary regulations. The people, too, are densely ignorant, and every effort made to | protect them against an epidemic ls re- nted. Had it not been for Russia it 13 fe to say that cholera would long ago have been expelled from Europe. As it is, the most careful precautions are unable to pre- vent it from invading other parts of the continent, especially places to or from which there is a steady flow of immigration, as it takes the direction of the seaports and the lines of travel leading thereto. Statistics show that Germany is really now a manufsctyring nation and can no longer be called an agricultural country. The subject has been seriously discussed in the Reichstag and the statement is made that in many of the factory towns the per- centage of young men physically fit for the army has gone down to 10 or less, factory operatives not being so robust as young men from the country districts used to be. A like condition of things is sald to exist in France, and this weeding out of “‘a bold peasantry, their country's pride,” might have important results in the event of elther of these two great powers going to war in the near future. Highest of all in Leavening Power.-— Latest U.S. Gov't Report Royal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE a strong temptation to the government if the | ars and that | | pulling down a flag, which was hoisted where | { it did not belong, is base imitation of the policy of Cleveland and sham in Hawali! What infamy! Small wond therefore, | the wonted smile to his face. SMART MONEY JINGLES. Washington Star: England leaves Corinto, but she takes a good chunk of the Monros doctrine with her, Chicago Dispatch: Tt will be noticed that the British troops were hurried out of Corinto Just as soon as Uncle Shelby Cullom began to daub himselt with warpaint out in Call- fornia, Philadelphia Record: England has hauled down her flag In Nicaragua for good and sufficlent reasons. It an American admiral had done that thing how the patriotic gall of the Fryes and the Lodges would have come, hot and foaming, to their lips. Courler-Journal: Still it se Bull has really gone. The marines embarked, two war vessels sajl‘d away, the British flag was hauled down, and only one vessel lingered for the supposed purpose of saluting the flag of Nicaragua. The idea of Britons s that John that the heart of the Jingo is bowed down Nothing but an immediate declaration of war against England will have power to restore New York Sun: Compared with the prin- plo thut involved, the sum of money at stako {s tiivial. A hundred times as great an amount might b demanded by a Europein power, making it impossible for a small re- public of Central America or South America to pay It until after months or years of hos- tile occupation of its territory. And this precedent was created, o far as appear without even an attempt by the administ tion at Washington to avoid It, or to reach a settlement in some other way. Great Britaln may well be satisfied with her success In this affair. She gains not only all the money she asked for, but a sig- nal diplomatic triumph. That triumph, how ever, will be short lived. More than one precedent created by Mr. Cleveland's admin istration will not last beyond Cleveland's term, P LAUGHING MATTERS. Milwaukee Journ, Too many people think they can help a man up hill by cling- ing 1o his cont tail, ? o Boston Transcript: Wife—Mrs, Aller has gone abroad to betreated by a Parisian physician. Husband—So? She always had a predilection for French heels. lis Journal oracular boarder, 8 pretty conclusively,” admitted ful Idiot, “but at times it gets Indians said th “It ta the Ches rattled Money talk: Washington Star: Here 1s somethin, that will interest you,” said the host, 1 have a large, collection’ of Works pertaining o ore, hank you,” replied the modern v “but 1 don't’care so very much lore. What I'm interested in is p Detroit Free Press: He—Did you know that Jimkins had been living a double life for the past six months? She—No! The horrid wretch, He—Yes: he gave up single life when he got married, Harlem Life: Mrs, Midlage—After you've been married a year or my " dear, you'll know better t ifie r poc t-hire band that he owes you of d votion. Mrs, Younglove pray? 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