Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 14, 1895, Page 4

[ PURLIS TERMS OF 81 Dally Pee (Without Sunday), Oue Year....$800 | tant points in & comparatively few years. Dally llee and Sunday, Ons 1% | Long distance telephening is now vastly ex- | e T 2 | pensive, but it is pointed out that important Eunday llee, One Yo i :jrr:|»|v»'rv.n= in tolls are inevitable and that it | ety tice 0% Yeur 5 | will be possible to rake as low rates as the OFFICIS, telegraph on acecunt of the saving in oper- Omahn, The Tiee Thulidin . 2un ts, | 11OTS, messenger service anl olher features ok e BT per N and Hh LS. ) of the business.—Lincoln Journal Ch. 7 Chamber of Commerce The advocates of government tele- New York ms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Nidg. S ehina ton, o B Bireet, N. W graph have not bheen waiting for this | CORRESTONDENCE, - lsuggestion. The teleplione has been orint o A ettt T tne Eaitor, | part and parcel of the postal telegraph | BUSINESS LETTERS | systems of Great Britain, France, Ger- ot ™ e siee” Toubiisning company, | ARY and Austi years, and the Omali. ~ Drafts, “checks and postallice vrders © | pewspapers of Europe have for the e e PUBLASIING COMPANY. | most part discarded the telograph by === = - - === [ substituting the telephone for their BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. | o5 distance as well as thelr short dis- Goorge 13, Tzchuck, wecretary of The Tice Pub. | . Hshing compan; en, says that correspondence. In Swed and iR Do o oy Jses | Norwny the government telephone during the month of February, 18%, was | goryfee extends to every hamlet from . 2,108 Stockholm to the North Cape and American tourists to the land of the midnight sun are amazed when they | | find that they can talk to theiv friends from the Baltic to the Aretic circle at b a trifling cost from o postoflice. '} While America truthfully boasts of R S greater diffusion of intelligence than | it any other civilized country and points Total ... . to a greater mileage of felegraph and B e i et telephone wires than all Europe, she is B lamentably behind Buropean countries Daily average .. in the matter of conveying intelligence il GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. | over electric wires, Loth in point of Sworn 1o before me and subscribed in my Pres- | cost of mess: and in the facilities ence this 21 day of March. 1% 5 ( (Seal ) N. P. FEIL, Nota ublie. for communicating either by telephone ing his dut favor, rega flings of the HED EVER PWATER, BUITOR, Te OMAHA DAy Bo MORNT RIPTION Chief Redell still persists in discharg- | The oxplanation of this marked dif- s fearlessly and without | forence is afforded by the fact that in rdless of the malevolent | Europe the telegraph and telephone star chamber or, constitute part of the postal system e and are operated solely for public con- Lvery time that any man is dis- [ venience, while in the United States charged from the fi he front as a victim of malice and perse- | T for cause cution. Now that we take it will be witl is sur the coun that il Wi, to come il Thompson's permission to appr bonds of the new pol has It is rather cruel and unp for the Greclan bend editor of the | the expiration of the Bell patent the Hyphenated to insinnate The Bee | lov ince rates are kept up by the i8 & pullback . That is the ex-|old combine. So long as the country clusive prerogative of our bifurcated | submits to these exactions the will Bottempor doubtless continue, but we believe pub- lie sentiment will at no distant day The Bureau of Statistics of the |COmPel the acquisition by the govern- Treasury department estimates the | Ment of all telegraph and telephone : lines as a matter of public necessity. present population of the United States D). This is of a guess as anybody else could make at 70,000,000 without knc about. owing wh at he is Mr. Kohlsaat of the Chicago Times- Herald u 10 '8 upon the next congress | Widely. Thousands of cotton and the propriety of pensioning all ex-pres- | Woolen operatives in the east are on This is not so mach a move to | Strike for higher wages; there is a 1dents. placate Grover Cley shelve Benjamin Harrison in. the com- ing hurdle r The most of busin the announ are help. Carri; unning race., hopeful cement g are and as i gn of the revival comes from Ciu it the and sl luxuries T which the most ashamed governor's chair or the idiotic and cow- ardly backwoodsmen who cremated a stuffed rag man tagged with Turney's name, Che Chic crats are about to begin the publication of a democratic daily that will pres the gospel The Omaha building are expected to follow suit at with Dr, Miller Jim Norvih as tr an earl; Martin as s fraudulent ernor Turney of Tennessce by a fraud- ulent legislature has culminated in an effigy-burning farc Tennesses of, g0 admi according continger 218U counting the in We do not know ans ought usurper nistration to it in St. the They would make things rattle. According to the census just taken by the police department of Buffalo, the about as » and police force to th Johnnie the ¢ commissioners ve all further objections nfessional muc! talkin, tois t nnati i carringe factories of that city, sixty in number, overtime men; several thousand men employed in the great iron and steel mills at ort of | - Chieago are out on a demand for an and the Inereased demand for that class of ve- hicles affords abundant proofl of return- ing business prosperity, of Gov- The hor conflict to be | at the beginning of the industrial re in the | vival would seem to be most inoppor- they have committed a costly mistake. demo. | FOF two years there have been hundreds rmo- of thousands of idle people in the i country and as many more who had PYCAC | work only a part of the time and at Grover, i 7 reduced wages. During this period the federal s editor, r and Postmaster perintendent of civeu | POSTAL TELEPHONES, ! It is time for the advocates of the gavern- ment ownership of the telegraph to enisrge their plan of campalgn a little, Some of the experts are saying now that the telephone and not the tclegraph will be the favorite means of sending messages even between dis- or telegraph, they are operated by corporate monopo- e | Jies as speculative ventures for profit. invention of the telephone was expected to bring about a marked eut in telegraph rates, but ecombination is always sure to beat competition, The telegraph monopoly made haste to be- come a close ally to the telephone monopoly and both maintained exce: sive rates by a compact that prevented free competition. While short distance telephone rates have taken a drop sinee h TIHE PREVALENCE OF STRIKES. In the last report of one of the con mereial agencies It is said that the industries were distinetly gaining when strikes began which have spread quite “ o | formidable strike of coke workers in Virginia, whose conduct has made it necessary to call the military into sery- ice for the protection of life and prop erty; the furnaces in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys of Ohio have shut down owing to the strike of the work- increase of wages; there is a strike of miners to near Duluth which threatens become troublesome, and there ar strikes of minor importance. It is reported that the Amalgamated As fon of Iron and Steel Workers also proposes a struggle over the new . inauguration of tune and unwise, and it is hended that those who for the: to be appre- © responsible > conflicts will in time find that capital invested in manufacturing in- dustries was not profitable, but on the contrary the owners of mills and factories very generally lost money. The settlement, for a time at least, of the tariff question and the restoration of financial confidenc together with the fact that stocks manufactured goods in the country had become nearly population of that clty_ 1s exbausted, enabled the manufacturers BUlo. In 1800 waacredited by the |io vegnine operntions. Tn many cases they feeral censux. with ‘only" 258,004 in- |y oruntaity Incronsed wiges, not quite Babitants and 1 1880 with 155,184, If | 10560 e standard before the. tim of the recent enumeration 1s correct, and | g0 0 & SR HEC BB Hhe e of there I3 no reason why it should not be [ (GHESSON €O Wb BER 8 1 mRient approximately so, Buffalo has main- | a6 jmproved it could expeet a further faived o rate of Incrense during the | \qvance. The conditions are matertally past five years that is really remark- | anged from what they were three able, and if she coutinues to galn in fyone peo when the country experi- even smaller degree in the next few enced perhaps the highest degree years her showing in the census of 1900 will attract no little attention. Th policy effect upoi of the de; 1 the country is strikingly exhibited in tl ocratie free trade industries of th of prosperity in its history, T present tariff American manuf are subject to a sharper foreign com- petition than formerly and in order to meet this competition must do husiness at a smaller margin of profit than in nder the cturers is | e enormous Increase of imported textile | the past. Under these circumstances fabrics which necessarily must have | they cannot re asonably be expected to resulted in a corresponding decrease in | pay as high a rate of wages as when the output of American mills and | the competition was less and they were factories. The total fmports of dry |in fuller possession of the home mar goods into this country for the first|ket. Those who demand, therefore, four months of 1895 show an increase | that the pay of labor in the industries of $2413LI88, as compared with the Il be at once restored to what it same period ‘in 1894, In other words, s in the prosperous year of 1892, as forelgn made cotton, woolen and silk the case with some who are striking fabries are now coming into this ¢ untry in an increased volume, representing $75,000,000 a year in exc over 1894, when the McKinley tariff was in force. To pay for these imported goods we must export §$75,000,000 worth more cotton, grain and cattle, while at the same time the wage fund of the American factory workmen lhas been cut down by millions and local trade in the factory towns has been crippled to that extent. What Is true of textile fabrics 1 true also of other branches of “American industry. Manifestly the shrinkage in the volume of the circulat ing medium among the people is there fore not due to the demonetization of silyver, but to the Increased volume of fmports for which we have to pay in money or its equivalent in American products, for that which mills and factorie at a loss or manu ing the prices of goods n inerey is not flood of importations, those who lave capi dustries will not ¢; is no profit in them the American market, which could not disastrous to Ame It would seem t if it is allowed to do so, e of wages, are asking practicable, re to be operated ‘ture vite a large It is certain that 1 invested in in rry them on if ther and to materially advance prices would be to give for- elgn wanufacturers a larger share of 1 to be ultimately fean labor. t would give due consideration to these conditions and be satisfied with a situa tion that promises to steadily lmprove that labor shall be paid all that the busiuess of the country will Justity, unless s by advane the result of workingmen It i3 desirable | Union Pacific and Burlington tracks THE OMAHA DAILY but it ought to be plain to everybody that at the outset of the resumption of industrial activity is not an auspicious time for inaugurating labor conflicts, HEADS OR TAILS? “A mere Increase in the amount of money In the country will be of little benefit o the masses of the people, be cause th cannot get it This sentence Is quoted from Senat Pefle book, “The Farmer's Side. It is the most sensible sentence that has recently been uttered by any of the udvoentes of free silver coinage, It is sensible beeause it shows the absurdity of the free siiver position, The free silver men set up two con- flicting claims. They say that free ilver coinage would be of great benefit to the farmers and the laboring men and people of moderate means gen- erally, because it would enable them to pay their debts more easily. Of course the only way debts can be paid more ensily *is by paying them with money less valuable than that in which they were contracted. They can be paid more easily in silver only when silver money is cheaper than the standard currency that prevails today. Jut the silver men also v that free coinage at 16 to 1 would immediately raise the market value of silver bullion to the mint value. They profess to be- lieve that the United States alone is able to create a sufficient demand for the money metals to maintain them at a legal io of 16 to 1. If this were accomplished silver money would be made just as valuable as gold money is now and only so far as it were ac- complished would the mine owners be- hind the free silver agitation rvealize advantage from such a policy. The question is, How can free silver lead to two so diawmetrically opposite results? The mine owner is promised his profit out of raising the price of silver. The poor debtor is promised relief from his burden in cheapening the standard in which he may dis- charge his obligations. If free silver brouzht the market ratio up to 16 to 1 the people who owe money or bhave com modities to sell would be no better off than at present. If it should not bring the market ratio up to 16 to 1 the mine owners who are playing the free silver fiddler would be most dismally disap- pointed. AMBITIOUS PAl The report that Japan is seeking a aty arcangement with Niearagua by which she may secure privileges in the Nicaragua canal is another indication that the statesmen of the island em- pi vigilantly looking out for every opportunity to obtain advantages for their country. While there is no defi- nite information as to what concessions Japan desires to secure from Nicaragua, there appears to be no reason to doubt that negotiations have been opened be- tween the two countries with a view to securing for the former whatever privileges may be granted consistent with the rights already accorded to the United States in connection with the Nicaragua canal. It is said that Japan concedes that this country 18 en- titled to superior advantages, but she wishes to be placed on an equality with other untries having treaties with Nicaragua. This information is regarded in Washington as presenting a new factor in the question of the use and control of the nal, and it is one that will probably strengthen the opinion that the United States should take full con- trol of that waterway. The desire of Japan to have equal privileges there with other nations is easily understood and this fact need not cause us any disturbance. Japan is not likely to make any request for concessions with- out a full and fair understanding with the United States. There Is reason to think that she appreciates the fact that it would not be good policy to do anything which might militate against the friendly relations between the two countries and would even 1 P o little sacrifice to avold any complica- tion with this country. But there is reason for some solicitude regarding the policy of Great Britain in connec- tion with the eanal, which it is quite possible may assume an aggressive form when it becomes known to the British government that Japan is ne- gotinting for concessions. It is not ditlicult to conceive how this undertaking may become a source of serious international complications and perhaps it will be impossible to avoid such complications if the canal is not uader the complete control of the United States. This question will doubtless be even more earnestly dis- cussed in the next congress than it was in the last and if the report of the commission of enginee appointed to investigate the enterprise, which is now on its way to Nicaragua for that pur- pose, shall be favorable to continuing its construction, It is more than likely that the next congress will favor the building and econtrol of the canal by the United States. PULL DOWN THE VIADUCT. In every city where railway tracks are on grade or below grade and viaducts have to be erected for the public and convenience railroad companic required to pay the of these viaduets. In some cities they also have to pay But in Omaha railronds persistently refuse to bear their just and legal nrovortion of the cost of viaduets, even though they enjoy right-of-way privileges that are worth willions of dollars without having paid a penny for them, and are moreover virtually exempted from local taxation, Sixteenth street is now the prineipal thoroughfare of Omaha. The viaduct on Sixteenth street across the has become an absolute necessity to accom- modate the heavy traffic between the south and north sides. The present viaduct is nothing more than a wooden bridge, designed originally as a tem porary mukeshift The ramshackle structure has been unsafe for a number of years and should have been demned and torn down long a Its vepair last year was so much money thrown aw We * now confronted with the question, What shall be done to give the people on the south side the relief to which they are entitled at the con g0, | being TUESDAY, hands of the, rajlronds? The city has no funds withswhich te construct a new vinduet and 1§ nb} 1ikely to be In posi- tion to do so for the.next two year All that it maypossibly be able to ¢ would be to pay for the reconstruction of the approaios The railroadsesmpantes seem disposed to resist every ‘bffort to make them comply with thelr obligations. There is only one wiy (0 bring them to terms, The city should condemn the viaduct as unsafe, adopt plans for a com- modious substitute of stone and iron and have the' oM viaduct torn down. When is done the railroad com- panies will have their choice between assuming the risks of the dangerous Sixteenth street crossing come to time and pay the assessment for the new viaduct, If they choose the former they will soon get tired. It will be no small matter for them to maintain gates and guards at the principal roadway between the north and south, even though part of that traffic should temporarily be forced back Thir- teenth street. There is no use of temporizing with this viaduet trouble, If allowed to re main in its present condition the city s to carry all the risks of aceident, which, in case of a serious disaster, might amount to more than the cost of the whole viaduct, If the city closes the viaduct to all traffic except foot pas sengers we can look for no relief from the embargo for years. The true policy is to force the issue between the cit and the railroads by the same tactic pursued by that greatest of showmen, P. T. Barnum, when he was taking to shoot the big elephant. had been vainly trying to to Barnum persmade his partner to a division of thefr menagerie animals and in his des- peration coneluded that the shortest way out of the controversy was to shoot his half of the elephant. The great showman in his autobiography tells us that he brought his partuer to time. The way to bring the railrond managers its half to time for the city to shoot of the Sixteenth street elephant. There are thousands of patriots who are anxious to have the news—anxious to giv the Protestant preachers as fair a hearing as is accorded to Roman priests and itinerant lecturers of the Jesuit Sherman stamp.—A. P. A. Organ. Do these people read the daily papers of Omaha or are they content with the pabulum of brazen fabrication that see to inject sectapianism into our politics? Auy constant render of the daily papers of Omaha will attest that the Protestant preachers ave given 1,000 lines of re- ports of sermons and lectures for every line that is given'to Roman Catholics. The fact is that the sermons delivered in Catholic churches are reported very varely and the papers are not ed to report any of them unless on some ex- trnordinary oecnsion. The A. P. A. agitators and ex-priests were given ten times the space that was given to Father Sherman and he was given prominence chiefly because his father had marched to the sea. How does the copperoid proposition strike you? There are millions in it for every man who can get in on the ground floor. Woman at ter isest. Atchison Globe. A woman looks prettier getting a baby to sleep than she looks upon a public platform. PG Prospective Leg Pulling. Chicugo Record. Tho Florida legislature has taken up a bill to reduce sleeping car rates. The officials of the sleeping car companies will now.put their legs in proper position to sustain another pull. — .. 1nil the Joyful Tidings, Chicago Times-Herald. All good cltizens ought to rejoice that a court of the United States has enjoined the unauthorized dramatization of “Trilby.” Mr. Du Maurier or any other laborer is worthy of his hire, Besides, we've had enough “Trilby" to last a lifetim e Sure Thing. Globe-Democrat. The recent rains in the west have greatly improved thc ugricultural outlook, and the promise of a restoration of good times. Bountiful crops will solve several political problems that are now giving the country considerable trouble. LN Where the Fiat Failed. Kansas City Star. Brazil Is just at present laboring to restore her paper money, which was issued under an old-time gre:nback fiat system, to a par | with gold. The flat money men of this coun- try would do well to study the living ex- perience of the greatest of South American republics, ——— Chasing & Phantom. New York Tribune. Senator Voorhees of Indiana s deeply en- gaged In a still hunt for what he calls “the parity of value” between gold and sifver. It Voorhees ever discovers such a ‘“‘parity” he ought to have it stuffed. The world i full of men who refuse to believe that any such thing exists. ————— Disputed Titlo a Natlonal Dangert Brooklyn Eagle. Disputed title holds in it the gravest dan- ger to American institutions. The investiture of defeated men with office and the denial of office to elected men Is that nullification of elections which destroys both confidence in and affection for government among the peo- ple. The reversal of the people's will in Ten- nessee last week (is agother case of peril anl sheme. Those who.study the root causes of the facts that jeopardize free Institutions find them in the instances and facilities to wrest the declaration of elections from the will of the people @t the polls. Savagery In Warfure. Kapeng-City Star, that the Spanish in Cuba kill the Insurgent prisoners who fall into thelr hands is not improbable, the only question whetler ey ever really fight any battles or take any prisoners. There is noth- ing in the history; v Spaniards in America to indicate that the “quality of mercy” will ever be displayef{ fl any warfare to which they are parties.” It'is in their blood to kill the helpless. Huy~ Bouth Americans have never advanced Deyond the veriest savagery in their ideas of war. The battles between the Chilians and’ Pefvlans were massacres after surrender as before. The Spanish troops In Cuba will kill the Insurrectionists and the cry of the Cubans will be “Death to the Spaniards,” and it will mean what it says. The story MAY 14, 1895. PROBLEM SOLVED AT LAST A New Money Metal for America’s Money- loss Millions, | COPPEROID AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR GOLD Millions in It for Men Who Wield an In- flaence—A Bonanza Editors and Politiclans—The Free Colnage of Copperold Dollars. for HANCOCK, Mich., May 6. Chicago Tribune.)—I am the president and principal stockholder of the North Lake Copper Mining company, which company, you are aware, is the owner of the greatest copper mive in the world. | We have a capital stock of $10,000,000; | have expended nearly $1,000,000 for the por- chase of the land, machinery, sinking shafts, ete. We were just ready to commence an enormous business when the financial panic followed by the strike of our miners caused us to close up. We are in debt $500,000, and will soon bacome bankrupt unless something can be done in our favor. We have title to | 1,956 acres of land, a mountain ridge nearly | three miles in length and about one mile in | Editor of the width, Under the surface is a vein of nearly pure copper ore averaging about thirteen feet thickness, Our skilled engineers, after a | careful ins) tion during the last three years, | estimate that we can, from this mine alone, | produce 231,000,000 tons of pure copper, and |can furnish it for less than $100 per ton. 0 much as to the capacity of our mines. xt, I wish to say that one of my brothers has resided in Paris for the last five years, and has been intimately associated with a celebrated chemist, who has recently made a wonderful discovery. He has invented an amalgamated metal composed of antimony and several other metals and acids. This metal, when combined in small proportions with pure copper, will produce a wonderful metal called antimonie copper. This new metal is as hard and enduring as gold, and resembles gold so much in appearance that nine persons out of ten would think 1t was gold. About the only real difference be- tween gold and antimonic copper is that the ter is much lighter in weight. It is, In fact, just about one-half the weight of stand- ard gold, and a coin made of the same size and shape as an American $20 gold plece will weigh just one-half ounce avoirdupois. Considering ‘that this metal looks just like | g0ld, and is as permanent and lasting as 'K.,m_ why not make it the real basis of | | in American’ money? Now, Mr. Editor I know that you are called a geld bug and have always opposed of cheap mo and claimed it was not honest money, and all that. But when you realize what a wonderful sugges- | tion T am going to make I feel sure that you | will_chang= your mind utterly and flop over [ to free copper, just as a ol of prominent any kind democrats recently flopped over in favor of free silver. Now, my proposition is this | That we get up a powerful organization and work day and night until we effect the free coinage of antimonic copper at the ratio of 2 to 1 of gold. Two to 1 is a proper ratio because gold fs twice as heavy as the new metal. 1 insist upon antimonic copper in- stead of pure copper, becauss my brother and I have an option for tne purchase of the patent for the making of that kind of cop- per. Of course we will allow the copper | miners of the world to have the free coinage of that kind of copper at the United States | miats, but they must pay us a royalty of 50 per cent for the use of our antimonic metal compound. I will make you president of the grand organization and will expiet your news- paper to take the lead of the whole country. I promise to pay you $100,000,000 for your | services, to be paid when the result has been fully obtained. 1 promise also to pay $10,- 000,000 to each of the gold-bug newspapers in all the big cities of the United States and one-tenth as much more to the gold-bug country editors. It will not be necessary to pay the free silver editors anything, as they are all now in favor of getting a good dollar for filty cents worth of silver, and when they find they can get as good a dollar for 1 cent they will certainly fall in line with us In regard to certain ‘“on the fence” silver papers, like the Inter Ocean, I will promise to pay them one-half the price I have offered the gold bugs. 1 will al:o make to Grover Cleviland the same liberal offer I have made you. And will also pay to congressmen the same rates 1 have named for city editors Without stopping to figure it up you may think T am offering more than I ought to offer for the passage of the free copper act; but just think—after the law has come into effect our copper will be worth $10 an ounce, and the 231 tons of copper yielded by our Great Northern Lake mine will be worth $73,920,000,000,000. The royalty we will receive from other mining companies will pay all the bills I have promised and our company will have the clear product of our own mine I wish to say to you that I am a free sil- ver man, not because 1 Lave any Interest in silver mines, but because I am in dsbt $500,- 000, and I would be happy if I could pay my debts at half price. , it you feel like accepting my offer you must come out at once in favor of free silver. All the newspapers that are to stand by us must do the same. It is absolutely necessary for us to have the free silver bill passed by both houses of congress, signed by the president and its legality afterward ratified and confirmed by the supreme court of the United States. When this is done and the people of the United States see that con- gress has the legal right to say that 50 cents’ worth of silver is equal to one dollar's i worth of gold, they certainly will agree that congress has the right to say that one cents' worth of copper shall be equal to one dollar's worth of gold. Our chances for success are grand. The populists are and always have been right on this line. It Is true that they have demanded free greenbacks, but paper costs as much per pound as copper, and they will not object to this slight change. The democrats are fast falling in line with us, and all we bave to do is to bring over the republican party. I will send an agent to attend the Republican Club convention at Cleveland, 0., and will give him funds to try and convert them over into the free silver line now, and in later years will use the same means to get them into the free copper line. If the Tribune will do its duty all will be well. 0.T.C. e To Smoke or Not to Smoke. Chi g0 Times-Herald, Secretary Gresham's iliness is thought by some of his friends to be In part due to his excessive smoking. The secretary has been for many years a great smoker of rather strong and poor cigars. It is believed that he might now rally faster it he had not smoked so much. Secretary Morton has stopped smoking altogether. Postmaster Gen- eral Wilson, who did not take up smoking till after he was 40, has becoms so fond of his cigar that, like General Grant, he ad error in this country which has bien turned back by the rock-rooted barriers of common sense, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Ryl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE mits he often cats dinner for the sole pur- pose of making a cigar taste just right President Cleveland some time ago, on the | advice of his physician, gave up smoking till after dinner, and even them he smokes at most two clgars, ey The Duty of the Hour, Courler-Journal, The duty of the sound money men every where Is to fight fanaticlsm with facts, to meet passion with logic, to answer mere assertion with history. The free silverites make more noise than they will make progress. Theirs is not the first wave of PATRIOTS FOR REVENUE. Minneapolis Journal: The A. P. A do not know whether to attach themselves to some one of the national polltical parties or to put up a ticket of their own nd go It aloge. They probably will not venture to do th latter; it would show thelr weakness too plainly Detrolt Free Press: The A. P. A. conv tlon at Milwaukee talked a good deal of bun- | combe about a separate political party based upon the pecullar principles of (hat organ- fzation, but it will end in talk. Men thus inimical to one of the fundamental princl ples of our government know that in politics | their only hope of spoils is in the carrying | on of a guerilla warfare. Philadelphia Record: It would appear that in the opinfon of some greedy persons the | Dominion of Canada fs not big enough to | hold the people who wish to live in it. S they have started an American Protective asseiation party in Canada. Canadian dele- | gates are in attendance at the A. P. A. me Ing of the supreme council in Milwauke with a view to affillation or consolidat.on o the members of the association in both coun tries. As there are 3,456,696 square miles of territory in Canada, and a population at the last census of 4,833,239—nearly two-thirds of a square mile for every mother's son or daughter—it would seem to be a little too 8000 to commence crowding. JGa -, PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, Texas s suffering from a coplous deficit in the state treasury, coupled with silvermania In summing up the effect of the May frosts the bl ting of the premature straw hat was overlooke The haughty and fearless emperor deferred making his mark till the close of the war. He eigned the treaty of peace. Bismarck hopes to live to be 100 years old His stock of stelners was substantially in crésed at the last anniversary. Omaba cheerfully yiclds the hail record to Rochester, N. Y., where 250,000 panes of glass were shattered last Saturday. According to Susan B. Anthony woman is earnest and lofty, but question is whether she will hold her mouth while dressing the baby. Down in Kantas a number of doctors dope with oplates a man who persists in talking himself to death. He wants to make speeches day and night, and his topics range from 16 to 1 to temperance. They speculate in real estate in Berlin, too. Count Stolberg-Wernigerode recently s0ld his palace in Wilkelm strasse for 9,000,- 000 marks ($2,250,000). Sixty years ago the property was bought for $30,000. Owing to a sudden precipitation of business through the activity of the hip-pocket, Ken- tucky undertakers have deferred action on the proposition to substitute “Morticians" for the gruesome title of undertakers, Dan Rice, the veteran clown, is over 70 years of age, and lives a_quiet life In a cot- tage at Long Branch. Thirty years ago a monument to the genfal merryman was erected in a public square in Girard, Pa. The Hon. Charles A. Dana's office cat has cvidently withdrawn from the contest for the first prize at the New York cat show, for the Sun expresses amazement because a majority of the visitors to the show have been women. In the Interest of historic truth it should be noted that only 477 votes were cast at the silver primaries of the democratic party in Chicago two weeks ago. When the party has a real live issue to contend with it rolls up 140,000 votes fn the cit A jury of his peers in Missourl has pro nounced Dr. Arthur Duestr sane. doctor killed his wife and child a year ag but as he has the call on a million or more dollars the coin cast a serious doubt on the health of his upper story. For the information of the Sioux City Tribune in particular, and deluded democrats in general, it should be stated that Omaha has not had a democratic newspaper since Walter Roilly Vaughan doffed the mantle of Andy Jackson and hied to Chicago. William S. Steel, chief coiner of the United States mint, whose resignation, tendered more than a year ago, has just been accepted by President Cleveland, has been in_continuous the new the real pins in service for thirty-four years. He entered the institution in 1861 as a tant weigher in the deposit weigh-room. He was made chicf coiner in 1885, and since that time the entire coinage output of the government has been under his supervision. Andreas Haftas, the last veteran of the Greek war of 1821, did not realize his great ambition to live until 1901 in order that he might say he had seen three centuries. He was born in 1779, and was, therefore, 116 years old. One of the strects in Athens Is named after this aged man, and when his death occurred recently a vast number of people attended the funeral, which was a pub- lic one. ———— Protest Against Harbarism, ew York Sun. We desire that the Cuban war fully respected and our during the continuance of international law shall be neutrality laws fully which may any day be used to our disad- vantage in the ravishment of our cities on the Gulf and the Atlantic, The n be no gcod reason why, if those of the Cuban in- surgents who may be taken prisoners are indeed butchered by the Spanish troops, we should mot enter a protest in the name of clvilization, under the authority of the American government, Boys’ Suit They are bea —None better in The $2.00 sui | perfect gems of value. The $3.00 suit is & tan m | sells at ¢5.00 in any other ho [ These are all our own fir for the occasion— but goods As these prices { much more. cannot guarantee the assort Tuesday. Reliable Clothiers, S.W. Cor. | play conrtier BROWNING, KING & GO. ADMINAL MEADE Washington Star: Admiral Meade prefers to be out In the audieuce, where he can make remarks about the performance when he feels like it Qlobe-Democrat: Admiral Meads appears to have retired from the navy for the pur- pose of securing au opportunity to denounce the administration for its lack of American- Iem without being conrt-martialed for disre- spect to his supertor officers. Buftalo Express: It has been known for time that naval officers who refused to to the political authorities at Washington have been subjected to persecu some tlons and been made the victims of unfair liseriminations. Admiral Walker was pun- ished for daring tu make a report on Hawalian affairs which was at varia the administration's views by relegation to um- important shore duty, Commodore Stanton suffered the humiliation of Leing superseded in command of the South Atlantic station for no apparent reason than that e was too boldly American. Captain H on was re- leved of the command of his vessel on charges which could not b» wined. So it has gone. Positions in the navy seem to have been treated as mere political offices, the {ncumbents of which must act the cuckoo or suffer. And now this monstrous malad- ministration reaches its culmination in driv- ing Admiral Meade, who ne of the best officers of the mavy, into retirement. Meade commanded a ship during the war and took part in several important actions. IHe served under both Farragut and Porter. He has performed distinguished services since the war, for which he has many times been highly commended by his superiors. He is just the kind of officer whose services the navy needs for as long a period as it is poss ble to retain them MY TIME MIRTIL Philadelphia_Inquirer: Wods—How you dig your bait when you go fishing? Cods—With a corkscrew. do the little and Knew aces and Thomas Cat: T gently sque hand so closély held in mine, it was a lead pipe cinch—four nine, Waterbury: Jones—I sce the silver men are getting more and more fanatical. Smith—How's t Jones—Why, they golden rule, refuse 1o b wnize the Chicago Post: as sho ever married? ‘Once—on the South Dakota plan.” What's that? he divorce del back of the marria Washing squog ever Britain, Never,” replied the warrior. “Well, go out and irritate him a bit got some ground that I'd like to own. Well, father, T co is printed certificate.” on the n Star: tusulted Has the King of U asked G at He's Detrolt Free Pres: think I shall marry Father—Marry thing to marry on. Son—1'd like to know what with the girl's father. 1 million, Son Why, you haven't any- the ma'te s worth Chicago Tribune, the little boy from the countr are these the bulldings they c: pers ¥ “They are, Tomn d his city unele, ommy took a comprehensive look over- hea he sky does need s bad, dow't’it, Uncle George pin’ here pretty * he rejoined. Chicago Tribune: “It seems to me, 1 the man with the market basket on his arm, looking discontentedly at the stock of ribs and shanks hanging on the hooks, hat the bony part revival has struck this pretty hard.” sir,” replied the man behind the apron, eyeing him sharply, “it's hard to make both ends meal, these THE CENTRAL Jud best pirl s a Central girl, She often strikes me dizzy; or sometimes when I ask a kiss She pertly answers “Busy." GIRL. My And if T hesitate for words While trying her to wo: She looks up with a roguish smile And saucily asks, “Through?’ e A GASTEONOMIC SONG. Wil T. Hale In Atlanta Constitution, Though critics may denounce my muse as ily crities can, Today 1'll sing a strain of things which blease the inner man! The birds, the flowers and the streams— ruléan skies above The deeds of he who have died-the tender passion, love; All these have ser nd all thei Since God earth’ tears together sy And until the end still the subjects Embalm in flowing similes of gold; :d for themes for song, changes run 08 drove ' of time some ol erse e away, and bard will 1 with 1bos But I will risk the ‘critics' sneers and drill a lay instead, To glorify the excellence of brown corn- dodger bread! How memory at the thought of it adown the past will steal To o) e round the table ri ed and enforced. But there can be no reason why | T When we round the ta rank A the Cleveland administration should over- | Tne ‘dishes of bolled sumptuousness, the streteh any provision of our neutrality laws bread with crust of brown, in the interest of Spain for the purpose of [ The Iilk so cool and rich 'tWould shame r s o cheat we have in town. perpetuating, near our seaboard, the oxist-| o - the cheat w ve In tow: 3 ence of those huge European battlements| Ye$, these are conjured up again, and set my longing mouth A-watering for the shortenad pone best here in the south! And oft T think 'twould suit me well, when resurrection day Shall dawn and Gabriel with his shall raise my sleeping clay, If angels bringing me some dish on walch the saints are f Would et before my hungry eyes a pone of dodger bread! made trump Bargains. Monday and Tuesday we make a spacial si'e of 2-piece suits at three price $2.00—%$2.50—%$3.00. uties-——every one of them the world. 1is a Vermont gray, Ox=- ford mixture; also a brown mixed cheviot; | nicely made up—long cut coats. The $2. 50 suit is a gray or tan, cassimere orcheviot ixed cheviot that ordinarily use. st-class make—not imported intended te have sold for are special for this sale we ment to last longer than ROWNINC KNG & (0 . 15th and Douglas Sts.