Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 15, 1895, Page 4

THE OMAHA DALY BEE 1. NOSEWATER, PUDLISIIED EVERY MORN! TERMS OF § y Tiee (Without Bund nd Sunday, One BSCRIVTION, undny Tios, O Year Eaturday Tiee, One Y Weekly Dee, Cita ¥ OFTICES, Omana, The Ties Dulldlng A Bouth Omaha nger Blk., Corner N and 2ith Bta, Council Bivts, 12 Pearl Etroet, Chicago Ofce, 21T Chamber of New York, Itooms 13 Wanlington, 1107 F Commarc Tribune DBIdg. w3 and edl- Edftor tions uld bo relatl Adl To the LETTERS nd remitian Tubli s and pos e order of ti I'UBLISHIN Al eommur torial matter uld bo npany. Al busin o addr Oma be ma Dr THE BEE = - )F CIRCULATION The Tiee Pul says that ples of unday Bee 1805, was as BTATEMEN George . Tanchugk, weet Yshing company ng the Al numbcr of full the Daily Morning, Eve printed during the month follows e 10,00 H A } H 1 uple! A S L 1,108 19,101 18599 19,085 2000 T T 19,105 19,151 19,218 19,06 19126 R ATIORY TZICHUCK worn to 1in my pr ence this 1 Beal) tary Public. the to Wiri come The men who organized trust will now be forced their sober senses, to still several monopolies deserve the There a and combines which of the Whisky trust. t Jim Hill thinks of the uction In freight rates to Montana polnts? r wh 72 per cent re from the river The fi evidently that loud ment. e silver coinage agitators are laboring under the delusion noise betokens sound argu- “Fpee silver at Memphis” Is the way gome people are speaking of the Mem- phis assemblage. But there wasn't anything free there except fre peech, According to the decisions of the re- spective supreme courts, It is possible to have parallel railway lnes in Ken- tucky, but impossible to have them in Nebraska. The judge presiding over the court where the alleged Barrett Scott lynch are being arralgned apparently does not appreciate the intervention of the attorney general in the matter. Before the silver convention shall have adjourned many days we may ex- pect to hear of the “discovery of im mense beds of the white metal right i the heart of the eity of Memphis. Some of the free silver leaders are already exhibiting jealousy of ex-Con- gressman Sibley. The sea of free sil- ver Is so narrow that it won't float many presidential booms at oue time. Now If Managing Recelver Clark will £o but a step farther and order the rates fixed by the Nebraska maximum rate law cffective on his rond in this state all will be forgotten and forglyen, It was grand on the developed at the Masonic lodge session that Masonry is increase in Nebraska and that there are more Masons in Nebraska than ever before. This a most gratifying exhibit. is We hope soon to see dirt flying on the new grade of the Omaha-Fremont tramway. The project up to date is all on paper and it is known that the rail- road people are quite willing that the scheme should be smoked out. The Bee favors economy and retrench- ment in municipal and county govern- ments, but the attempt to enforce re- trenchment by fraudulent and discrim- inating assessments will not find favor with the rank and file of taxpayers in this communit, Mr. Greenhut, ex-president Whisky trust, professes to be with the decision dissolving that cor- poration. If the decision had only come while Mr. Greenhut was in con- trol his joy would doubtless have been _reversed. It makes a great difference whether a man is with the ins or with the outs. of the delighted Postmaster Martin says that ever since he assumed the duties of his fed- eral office he has had a daily headache on account of the poor ventilation of the postofice building. We venture the suggestion that there are several people in this vicinity both willing and anxious to relieve Mr. Martin of his troubles—postmastership and aches at the same time, If Attorney Ing in the cases against the all Iynchers of Barrett Scott under the ex press instructions of the legislature we are certain that he was not in- structed to keep postponing the cases Indefinitely. If the accused parties can be convicted at all they ought to be convicted as easily now as after the lapse of three months more. Heretofore the railroad rate makers have put Utah common points into a pocket and forced upon shippers to those points even rates with those to Butte and Helena, The radieal reduc- tions just announced by the Unlon Pa- eific equalize the rates to all these points and reduce the tolls from the Missourl river to all of them. This will prove a great boon to the people of Utah, and it ought also to enable Omaha shippers to increase their sales to all points in Utah and Montanz. It be- hooves our jobbers to make the best of this new opportunity opened up to them, and we have no doubt they will be quick to do se. | paper Is to disenss public measur | poticy THE PENTIENITARY STEAL. Governor Holcomb endorses the poniten- tiary appraisement as being fair. It is now in order for The Pee to charge Governor Holcomb with suddenly golng wrong.— World-Herald, The functlon of every honest news- s and public men without fear or favor. This has been and will contmue to be the of The Bee, It always has com- mended what it has believed to be right and condemned what in its judgment dovs not promote the public welfare. It has the courage of its convictions and will express those convictions whether or not they are in accord with the views and actions of mayors, con- gressinen, judges or governors. The fact that The Bee advocated the election of Governor Holcomb has im- posed no obligation upon it to endo is doing, of Governor all he has done as governol will do. One of the acts Holeomb which The Bee bhas not endorsed Is his policy relative to the Mosher-Dorgan penitenti- ary contract. The governor ap- proved the penitentiary purchase bill in spite of the remonstrance of the editor of The Bee. He doubtless sincerely be- lieved that the inte of the state would be best served by the plan ém- bodied In the bill. In this we believe the governor will find that he has be mistaken. The bill was drawn at th instance of Dorgan and railroades through the legislature by the boodle gang during the last hours of a sixty- jive day session. It gave Dorgan a legal statu® as o contractor, although he had never given a bond, and had re- ceipted the contractor's vouchers with the name of Mosher. As a matter of equity Dorgan was entitled to pay for any property that the state desired to juire from him, but the state was un- der no obligation to buy him out and pay him three prices for the chattels which he claimed to own. Much less was the state obliged to pay him thing for the unespired term of Mosher's alleged lease of conviet labor. Mosher himself owed the state treble the value of the contract, if it had any validity or value, besides the 236,000 of which the bank wrecker had robbed the state treasury. There was no necessity whatever to pass a bill for the relief of Dorgan in order to get rid of him. He could have been readily ousted with the privilege ing with him such of the rattle- teaps to which he could establish a clear title. Governor Holcomb may be satisfied with the penitentiary appraisement. If 50, he has been woefully imposed upon. The idea of paying ,408.90 to Dor- gan for a lot of pups and grindstones that would not feteh at publie sale any- where $5,000 is a sad commentary on the intelligence or integrity of the ap- praisers. They credited Dorgan with every gas pipe, water pipe and waste pipe in the buildings; they credited him with materials, utensils and furniture which had been bought with the state's money, and they estimated the con- tract as worth $20,000 a year when Dor- gan himself would not resume it as a ft under present conditions. When it came to compute the value of the cells which Mosher was to have built thir- . years ago the honest appraisers figured the cost at present depressed prices and omitted the ssential part of the state’s counter-claim, the use of the cells for the thirteen years and the incidental damage. The whole transaction is rank and glaringly fraudulent and from this con- clusion there can be no escape. SOUTH CAROLINA DISFRANCHISEMENT. The political element in South Caro- lina which is seeking the disfranchise- ment of the colored voters have now a clear course to the accomplishment of this, in the opinion of those who are conversant with the situation in that state. It will be remembered that a short time ago Judge Goff of the United States circuit court decided that the South Carolina registration law of 1894 was unconstitutional, on the ground that its effect was to disfranchise a class of persons entitled to the suffrage, and es fally that it was designed to diseriminate 1inst colored voters, the court Issuing an order prohibiting the governor, the commissioner of elections and all other persons charged with the duty of holding elections for delegates to the constitutional convention in Sep- tember next from taking any action under the registration law. In his deci- sion Judge ff condemned the law in strong terms, declaring 1ts provisions a8 to qualifications for registration to be a stupendous outrage. The South Carolina authorities lost no time in carrying the case to the cir- cuit court of appeals at Richmond, and it was given prompt consideration by the court, which a few days ago ren- dered a decision dissolving the injunc- tion and dismissing the original bill. In an opinion by one of the judges of the circuit court of appeals it is said, and this is presumed to voice the opin- fon of the court: “It seems to me that it is a dangerous encroachment upon the prerogatives of the other depart- ments of government if the judiclary be intrusted to exercise the power of interfering with the holding of an el tion in a state. If the supervisor of one county can be enjoined from the per- formance of the duties imposed upon him by the election laws of the state from whom he holds his eommission, those of the other counties ean be also. Thus a single citizen in each county can enjoin an election throughout _the entive state and thus deprive thousands of their right to vote. If a court has power to do this free elections are at an end.” Under this decision the South Carolina authorities will at once prepare for the election of delegates to the constitu- tional convention, and it need hardly be said that every precaution will be taken to prevent the colored voters from getting any considerable representation in that body. It is the judgment of those who are familiar with the situa- tion t the convention will put such limitations and restrictions upon the suffrage as to practically disfranchise the negroes, who constitute a majority of the voter The bourbon demand is that government by white men alone must be maintained, and this element osts will see to it that the new constitution makes ample provision for this. Some of the friends of the colored people urge that emigration is the best thing for them, but for a large majority of them this s manifestly Impracticable, A colored race convention is to be held next month to consider the situation and advise a course to be pursued. It Is not unlikely that this issue will be a fruitful source of serious conflicts be- tween the white and colored voters. THE WORK OF THE PERIURERS. It Is currently reported that the ag- | grogate assessed valuation in the city | of Omaha will fall short about $3,000,- 1 000 ot the aggregate property valuation [of 1804, That means that the city reve- nues at the rate levied by the council will next year fall $120,000 below what is needed to carry on the city govern- ment under present conditions. This presents o very serious aspect, and de- mands decisive action at the hands of the city authorities. The method of assessing property in this city has for years been not merely in flagrant violation of the statutes, but a systematic discrimination against the middle and poorer classes of taxpayers, 1t was expected tl tion in favor of honest assessments under su- pervision of a responsible general as- sessor would awaken the assessors toa sense of duty. While there has doubt- less been great shrinkage in re tate values within the past few years,:the assessments did not represent one-tenth of actual values. To say that the city of Omaha, with twenty-six square miles of area and more than 100,000 popu tion, has only $53,000,000 of assessable property more than she had in 1872 with an area of fifteen sozare miles and a population less than 20,000, is a most monstrous imposition. The property of the franchised corporations in this city is bonded for nearly $10,000,000, while the valuation of all the property in Omaha, real and personal, is returned at §17,000,000. What impression will this f assessment make abroad? How can the city government be maintained on such a basis? Is it not about time for the council to direct the city attorney to take the assessors in hand and pro cute them to the full extent of the law BEFOGGING THE 1SS A republican in the republican state of Towa who aspires to political position ought to be perfectly clear and straightforward in discussing the cur- rency question. If he is opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 by this country alone he should say so, while if he is in favor of that policy he ought to plainly declare himself. There can be no excuse for equivoeation, and, least of all, for any attempt to befog the issue and create confusion regarding it in the public mind. Upon this question the people ant from those who aspire to be their aders a plain and unambiguous state- ment of their position, and not some- thing that will admit of almost any construction. Mr. Harsh of Union county, Towa, who has represented that county jn the state senate, wants to be the republican candidate for governor. At a conven- tion of the republicans of the county a few days ago the delegates to the state convention, whom Mr. Harsh was pe mitted to name, were instructed for him. In his address to the convention Mr. Harsh stated his position on silver, and the published synopsis shows it to be decidely unique. There is one point in this statement, however, that Is plain, which that Mr. Harsh believes in independent action by this country regarding silver, his declaration being that “it is useless to wait for other na- tions until we show them that we have definitely settled on a policy and in- tend to carry it out.” In this respect be is in full sympathy with the free silver men. What Mr. Harsh would do is to fix a date in the near future “for the going into effect of a law pro- viding for a true double gold and silver standard.” Without considering the folly of the idea of a double standard, which has never ted in fact any- where, we ask what would be the im- mediate effect of the course Mr. Harsh suggests? Can there be any doubt that it would precipitate a more dis- astrous panic than this country has ever known? American securities held abroad would flow in upon us in enor- mous volume, draining the country of gold; the treasury. gold reserve would be swept away in a week, leaving the government with nothing but silver coin with which to redeem its obll- gations; there would be a universal scramble to collect debts, to call in mortgages, and to convert all forms of securities into cash with which to pur- chase gold; everybody having gold would hold on to it, knowing that it would go to a premium. Long before the time for the going into effect of the law which Mr. Harst proposes we should be on a silver basis, in eom- pany with Mexico and China. Mr. Harsh thinks we might coin our own silver product and shut out that produced abroad by tariff or other- 0 any rational man believe it would be possible to prevent foreign silver being smuggled into the country in enormous quantitie There is vast extent of frontier between this country and Mexico and Canada. It would require a force very much larger than our standing army to prevent sil- ver bullion being brought into the United States from those countries, and when brought here there would, of course, be no means of identifying it as of foreign production. But even If this plan were practicable it would not provide a “double standard,” for we should still go to a silver basis. It is evident, if we may fairly judge from the synopsis of Mr. Harsh's ad- dress, that he has given the silver question only superficial study. The great majority of the republicans of lowa are undoubtedly sound on the sil- ver Issue, but in order to show that they are so they must select candi- dates as to whose soundness there can be no question or doubt. We venture to predict that this is what they will do. audulent The men who tampered with the leg- islature last winter and defeated the single assessor elanse of the Omaha charter revisioft bill have overdone the Job in tampepidg with the assessors this spring. Vil the eitizens of Omaha tamely submit:to, having their legisla- tors bribed aud:thelr assessors subsi- dized in orderthat the class most able to pay their tA¥és shall be relleved of their just and egual share of public burdens? —_— What must &trfke people as the sur- priging thing about the Whisky trust decision is the fact that it did not come sooner. The trust has been operating to the disgrace of the state of Illinois for years and 18’ status as a corpora- tion was practieally recognized by the court that appolnted receivers for It. Had proceedings been fnstituted and pushed as soon as its activity bec perniclous the trust might have b dissolved by order of the court before it had time to do all the mischief it has accomplished. But still, better late than never The B. & M. road can of course stand the tremendous loss in freight tolls which the radical cut of the Union Pa- cific must entail, but it will go exceed ingly hard with the Denver & Rio Grande, which presumably must depend largely upon its Utah traffic for subsist ence. Just what proportion of its los: the Burlington will have to share is another matter. Meantime the Mis. souri river shipper will take his bene fits and not worry over constructive deficiencies in gross raflro rnings. Omaha will regret exceedingly to lose or Halford, whose trans to Den ver has just been ordered by the p master general at Washington Halford has made himself a part of the community and taken upon him- self much of the exacting work of sev- eral organizations intended for the up lifting and development of the people. What is more worthy of mention, | has made his work count. We can only deplore what is bound to be Den- s gain and Omal lo Major Sized Up w Proverb, New York Evening Post Much of the Cuban war news with which we are favored from day to day fs open to the suspicion implied in the old Spanish proverb, “Luengas vias, luengas mentiras'"— lies are whoppers in proportion to the dis- tance from which they come. ot L 0 Draw Your Own Conelusion. Louisville Courier-Journal Compara the body of substantial business men who constituted the sound money con- vention at Memphis last month with the gathering of chronic politiclans, agitators, populists’ and Coxeyites In the free silver convention at Memphis this week sages foons King Bad Taste. Lonis Republic. A company of British troops at Windsor, Canada, refused 'to ‘ride on a harbor flying the stars” and stripes. The British soldier exhibits such horrid bad taste in his costume that he can hardly be expecte exhibit any apprétiation of beauty in bunting colors, e e Silveriam in the Nex: House, Springfield (Mass.) Republican. A careful canyass pf the members of the next national house 'shows that free silver will be in a_smaller minority in that body than ever. No less than 220 of the 244 re- publicans are against the proposition, and with thirty of the 105 democrats also op- posed an anti-silver majority of 144 is fig- ured out. The free coiners have not only got to elect a president in 1896 to put their pol- icy in force, but 'to overturn the membership of the house. e — The Unknown Kansas City Star. The vastness and seclusion nese empire 15 shown by the fact that while it is believed that a number of mission- aries have been murdered by the natives, it is still a matter of doubt at which of two large citles the massacre occurred. This means that China should be thrown open If the Japanese war does not have that ef- fect, then the civilized nations should join together in accomplishing the work. In a world which is becoming so crowded as this there should be tolerated no vast spaces around which “no thoroughfare” is posted. If the Chinese government cannot control its murderous mobs In the assaults on un- offending and peaceable foreigners, then for- eign powers should intervene with police regulations. It China cannot learn from Japan other instructors should be supplied. ———— The Western Crop Outlook, Chicago Inter Ocean, The reports from Nebraska and the far west generally are to the effect that the late rains have fallen so widely and so coplously as to Insure a good corn crop. This is highly encouraging. Our Illinois farmers do not know what the word drouth really means. There are large tracts of farm lands between the Missouri river and the Rocky mountains where for two years it seemed as if the Lord of the harvest had quite forgotten the farmers, and all for the scarcity of water. The soil is rich enough. There is no trouble on that score. The great need was the rain maker. It is truly amazing that the ploneers of the far west have shown so much pluck during these two seasons, and they certainly deserve the turn in fortune which seems to have come to them. If a season of plenty does really come to them, and of improved prices, the whole country will share in the benefits. With our network of rallroads there is no isolation. The remote frontier and the seaboard have a unity which was impossible when this century bgan, or even when it had reached the middie point. —————— The Indian in Chieago Re Towa has just awakened to the fact that within her borders are 500 Indians who of all tribes in the country show the least progress. For sixty years the Sacs and Foxes, now gathered about the agency at Tama, have been In touch with civilization; for forty years they have been on the Tama reserya tion. And yet a few days ago while the clergy of Tama and Toledo were in conven- tion to consider the best plan for redeeming theea semi-savages every available Indian on the reservation was assembled at a grand dog feast, where fifty animals were sacrificed to the soup kettla It may be questioned if the zeal of Towa ministers will allow them to approach this problem with thehard-headed and perhaps hard-hearted solution. For years these In- dians have been *.barden upon the general government and a double burden upon the white settlements for a hundred miles around. They are both national and local mendicants, fostered by a sygtéme of toleration for their idleness and lazindes. ,Wh: should they adopt civilized ways? Instand-up collars and cut- away coats agency rations would be stopped and ‘local charity cut of. These Indians are settied on the finest ag- ricultural lands in the state. They have a fair knowledge of farming, but are too lazy to work. They ahowd be required to earn thelr living. TaKe away the opportunities which they have-as docal beggars, stop the dog feasts, curtail the Issue of government supplies and othorwise remove the premium that has been put upon vagabondage. of the Chi- Highest of all in Leavening Po: Re OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. As oloction after election fs held to ANl vacancles in the English Houss of Commons, the last being the liberal defeat in Edin- burgh, the dismal fact must force ftself upon every friend of Irish home rule that its opportunity Is gone for a decade, and probably for a longer period. Irish divisions have ruined all chance of Irish wutonomy. This 1s disagreeable, but it is true. For nearly three years the liberal majority has grown less and less. It has dwindled from forty to elght by the loss of svat after seat. In every by-election opposition to Irish home rule has been the aggressive policy of the conservatives. Its support has been assumed by the liberals because it was party policy. So far as the opinfon of the United Kinglom can be taken in the Intervals between a gencral election it is clearly opposed to any extensfon of local government to Ireland. Conservative suc- cess 18 now as certain in the approaching contest for the next house as any future political event can be. Lord Salisbury and Mr. Balfour, in thelr opposition to home rule, will ' probably have a majority independent of Mr. Chamberlain and hfs liberal unionists, If this left the liberal party supporting Irish autonomy there might be hope for the Irish cause; but Eng- lish liberals are weary of the unavailing struggle. This issue handicaps them in every English eclectoral division, but the few which have an Irish population. It hindes their action in Parllament. Irish divisions negative any benefit which might come from an Irish alliance. The practical result is that Irish reforms, Irish autonomy and Irish influence have today less ground for hope than at any time for twenty-five years. They are likely to remain under a cloud until a new Irish leader appears. e The resolution adopted by the Norwegian rthing preparatory to further negotiations with Sweden in refer to the existing differences between the two peoples shows that better counsels have begun to prevail & the radicals of Norwa Hitherto the ans have insisted upon a separate minigter of foreign affai and a separate consular service, which Sweden will not n- cede. As Norway s now entirely independent of Sweden in all matters of internal admin- istration, the union would exist only in name it the demand for a separate administration of foreign affairs should be granted. While claiming the right to select her own con suls because of her great commercial supe. riority to Sweden, Norway insists that the expenditure of the consular service shall be paid_out of the general treasury. To the Swedes a total separation would be prefe able to a mere shadow of union But the Swedes are determined that Norway shall not exercise the power of sovereignty within a nominal union, and that there shall be no separation. It ought to be as apparent to ths Norweglans as it is to the Swedes that the union of two states is of the highest importance to them both. While Norway has a mercantile marine which is second in rank in Burope, she has neither a navy nor an army for her defense, Sweden, on the other hand, has a very small mer nt marine, but a considerable navy and army for the common defense. From a military point of view the advantages of the union are de cid:dly on the side of Norway. It seems strarge that the Norwegians should be will ing to sacrifice these advantages on the que: tion of the power of appointing a lot of for- eign consuls, when in fact most of the con- suls of Scandinavia are citizens of Norway. ‘e nee The fact that a division of the Russian army of the Caucasus has been ordered to Kars and other frontier stations and that trocps have been conveyed to Batoum to strengthen the Russian force on the fontier facing Armenia, is evidence that Russia is making ready to act in the Armenian ques tion. In the treatment of that question she seems to be thoroughly in accord with England. The latter power, under the obligations of the Anglo-Turkish convention, will have to take the initiative in propo ing that the authority of the sultan over the Christian provinces of Turkey shall cease. It may be, however, that Russia will be called_upon to carry out this proposal, and that Turkish Armenia may be occupied and administered by her, just as Austria occupies and administers Bosnla and Herzegovina There is no doubt that England does not entertain so much jealousy of Russia's in- terference in the affairs of eastern Europe as she once did Russia’s march to Con stantinople is not mow looked for. It is to her interest that the sultan should be a lowed to retain a nominal sovereignty over Turkey, for a parceling out of the empire might weaken the position which she now occupies It is true that the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles are barred to the pas sage of ships of war, and it has sometimes been hinted that Russia chafed under this interdict. But this could hardly be so, for it Russian ships were permitted to pass out the ships of other mations would also have to be allowed to pass in. She is fully de- termined that the Black sea shall forever remain a Russian lake. It looks, there- fore, as if England and Russia were coming to a thorough understanding as to eastern Europe. It will be interesting to watch if they will also have a common policy for eastern Asia. e Some additional particulars are published concerning the plans for the Parla exhibition of 1900, which have just been approved by the special commission. The chief features are the demolition of the palace of Industry erected for the 1853 exhibition, so as to give an uninterrupted view from the Invalides es- palande to the Champs Elysees, and the con- struction of a one-arch bridge, 180 feet wide, opposite the Invalides. The Seine will be lined with palaces and pavilions, somewhat like the Grand canal at Venice. The avenues of trees on the Quai d'Orsay and the Quai de Billy will remain intact. The chief en- trance will be at the Cours la Reine, near the Place de la Concorde. The fine arts palace and the retrospective art palace to be erectel on each side of the new promenade, between the Champs Elysees and the river, will be permanent structures. South of the river will be erected the Oity of Paris build- ing, the horticultural conservatory and the social economy and congress palace. The colonial exhibits will be near the Trocadero, the foreign and naval sections being near the Champ de Mars. The existing buildings there will accommodate most of the French ex- hibits, The works are estimated to cost 70,- 000,000 francs, and working expenses and other items will raise the total to 100,000,000 francs. Among the 385 suggestions for sub- sidiary attractions wkich will be taken into consideration are a captive balloon, a mov- ablo platform for transport, facsimiles of mines, the exhibition of an aerolite, a fac- simile of old Paris, and panoramas of all description e The Franco-Russian friendship has been cemented by a formal treaty, and the sus- pected alliance between the republic and the czardom 1s, Indeed, an accomplished fact. This is the important admission which was extorted from Premler Ribot in the course of a debate in the Chamber of Deputies upon the interpellation introduced by M. Millerand in regard to the policy of France in the east and the acceptance of the Invitation of Ger- many to take part in the ceremonies at the opening of the Baltic and North sea canal. The secret of the alliance has been well Kept, al.hough the effusive exhibition of fra ternity between the Russian and French navies at Cronstadt in 1891 and the dellrious reception accorded to the Russian squairon 2t Toulon in the fall of 1893 had given inti- matlons of the existence of a mutual under- anding between the two governments. Yet it is not likely that the truth would have been revealed at ‘this time but for the danger which threatened the Ribot ministry from the Chauvinist excitement in France over the dispatch of French warships to swell the ranks in the kalser's triumphal procession through the new waterway at Kiel Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE WARNINGS TO FILIBUSTERS. Ohlufls Herald: Sceretary Oiney and Sec retary Herbort have done an obvious duty in sending & war ship to the Florida coast in order that wo shall set for the rest of the world a precedent and example of good falth between nations. Chleago Mail: Gresham was content to allow Cuban sympathizers all the leeway ho could short of exciting a protest from Spaln, Cuba's oppressor. Olney rushes to the aid of Spain without an invitation. Gresham was a lover of popular iiberty. Olney is not. Indfanapolis Journal: It fs, of course, de- sirable that the government should use due vigllance in this regard and fulfill its inter- natlonul obligations, but if in spite of its ef- forts a few expeditions should succeed fn slipping away and getting to Cuba, Ameri- cans will not shed any tears. Chleago Post: In all fairness and reason the United States government could not do other- wise than take prompt mction to stop the notorfous use of the Florida ports by these adventurers. Whila no true American heart will withhold from the Cuban revolutionists the most ebundant sympathy in their effort to throw off the yoke of Spanish tyranny and avarice, wo must remember that the United States has a position to maintain in the com- pany of the nations Kansas City Star: While American sym- pathy is with the Cubans, aggreszive action and substantial support would be in open de- flance of a national obligation assumed by ourselves. These obligations do not stop merely with a protestation of neutrality and of intention not to meddle In the struggle be- tween Spain and her colonies. It becomes the duty of the government to see that filibus- tering expeditions are not fitted out in this country and are not permitted to leave Amer- fean ports to aid the insurgents. Chicago Journal: Secretary Olney does not mean this as an insult to the average fili- buster. He would not for a moment hint that an American filibustering expedition would be so entirely lacking in wit and good breeding as to sail under the bows of the Raleigh. He merely intends it as an evi- dence of good faith to the Spaniards—a sort of delicate assurance that Uncle Sam's of- ficial frown, black as a funnel-shaped clond and terrible as a West Indian hurricane, is ready for any blooming filibuster who is caught in the act of getting caught. TOWA PRESS COMMENT. Davenport Democrat: The Towa populists this year will, in all probability, poll less votes than they did last year. With business growing better in all departments and fine crop products the populists wil ses dis- couraging times this year. Dubuque Telegraph: The manifestly hon- est attempt to conform to the law in Des Moines having failed, the mulct, so far as assuring protection from punishment Is con- cerned, must be regarded as impracticable It is. It is next to or quite impossible for anybody to sell under it If anybody else cares to” make trouble for him. In effcct, then, all that the mulct has done is to increase the penalties of prohibition and to render the Clark law more odious. Cedar Raplds Gazette: Lieutenant General James Sullivan Clarkson has been inter- viewed again on the political outlook. After four reporters had caught him and pried his mouth open he said of the national conven- tion: “Where will the convention be held? Why, I am in favor of San Francisco.” That settles {t. The national convention will be held in San Francisco. Who dares take it anywhere else? It Clarkson wanted to tako the convention to Sitka he would do it and allow no back talk. Sloux City Journal: The action of the pop- ulist state convention, which turned down General Weaver and the me of union with the Towa democracy, is not surprising to those who have carefully studied political signs in this state. General Weaver, as usual, sought to consummate a dicker with the democracy on the sole basis of free sil- ver. His whole political course, since he left the republican party, has been a series of dickers. He traded the greenback party to death, and then the union labor party met the same fate at his hands—he always being the candidate in whose interest the assets of the third party were traded. He was trading as a populist with the democracy last year, having moved into the Ninth district for the sole purpose of being a fusion candidate for congress. e A Region of Surprises. York World, The territory of Oklahoma is never weary of furnishing us with surprises, and now adds to the list of her startling announcements the news of the discovery of an extensive gold field, ranging from three to eleven miles in width ‘and extending a distance of forty miles, from Cobb creek, in the Caddo coun- try, to the head of Boggy creek. It Is to be hoped that the news is true. The discovery comes just at a time when the sound money men in the east are considering the best plan of effective missionary work among the finan- clal heretics of the west, and no argument is 50 potent as a gold mine. With a real good new gold mine discovered In Oklahoma and good crops in other western districts the com- plicated currency question will be much sim- plified. it el Rejotelng at the Death. Phliadelphia Ledger, Whatever the majority of the legislature | of Pennsylvania could do, elther by acts of | commission or omission, to make the ad- journment of that body gratifying fn the highest degree to its constituency, it did and the end of no session of the general as. sembly has been received with such a pro- CALCULATAED TO TICKLE. “Ther¥ go the entiry Profits of A year's business in post ~(,|m‘ - rmnn-d the drugwist, as jatched a T'cent plece with & customer an ost. Chicago Tribune: ton Star: “Scme men," sald Uncla FEben, “kin whistls jos' = ernuf tee make dah nefghbors mis'ble an' not ernut ter stop a strect ¢ Life: Dr. Pu Washin ho actlon of winkl I8 not without fte people wink to keej the eyeball moist. Soda Water Clerie— Not much, they don't! The people whe come in liero wink to keep thelr throats m Philadelphia Inquirer: Weazer—Have you named the baby yet? Tenzer--Noi an I'm not going to. Weazer—What, not going to name the baby? Teazer—I didn't say that. T sald I wasn't golog to name it “yet.” "I intend to call him John. “What more should “Is not the world Indianapolis woman want? at her feet “Of cours g Ner hands, do you ournal he asked. now 7" it Is, replied the sharp-nosed t her to walk on the stre self. 1t Jaggles That man was lying in where he had tried to kill hims £An to question him and It seemed to make him angry Waggles-No wonder, When a man has gone to the trouble to poison himselt he docsn’t like to be pumped. Life right. It must be burglars revolver? The Wife—Down over the desk. You know on 1t for an ornament, TRAGEDY The Husband —You Wher in the 1 tled - OF THE are my ry 18 11 ribbol WEATHER. Chlcago Post a sad, distressing tale of woe— "T'(s 80, A tale whose haunting features ever grow, You know; A tale of what a flerce and blazing sun Has done to tragedy what was begun In fun, This ) turn The day n!l\\ hich I sing was very hot, od wot; Of common sensé the man I sing had not One jot. He suffered much, but still he tried to smile The while; His foolish jokes, intended to begulle, Would rile. He wandered out upon this day replete With heat And it 50 happened that he chanced to meet And greet A man as hot as ever he could be, And h Desired from all worrles to be free, You see. The vapld youth who was on humor bent Bul meant To give his merry wit, to some extent, A vent, His shaft straight at the othes head Was sped “Pray Is this hot enough for you?' he said. He's dead steaming UNEXCELLED SPECIAL FEATURES THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE MBEN OF THE MOSS HAGS: Another Installment of 8. R. Crockett's fascinating story, profusely illustrated. RANCH WITH A HISTORY: Reminiscences of a famous Saunders county hostelry of thirty years ago. BEGINNING OF THE ARC LIGHT. Frank G. Carpenter, the noted corre= spondent, culls the story of the electrio lamp from the lips of the Inventor, Charles I. Brush. WOMAN'S BEAUTY: Lilly Langtry, estcemed by many the most beautitul of women, tells of her conception of beauty and’ what beauty has accomplished. THE EDUCATIONAL WORLD: Recent reforms in public school tex books—Growth of college oratory an orators in the west—Educational news notes. POWER OF THE OVERSHADOWING FAD: Timely su tions for devotees of th wheel—Live" information of the rapi spread of bieycling sport. IN WOMAN'S DOMAIN Breezy letter on summer undergarments —Record of woman's inventive genius— International WOmAN's COngress now in session in London—A page that will be the delight of women readers, CLIMBING THE HIMALAYAS: ice of Willlam M. Conway, mountain_climber, in the Asla’s loftiest peaks. the famous high altitudes of THE COMING GENERATION: A story about a little French peasant girl and her white owl—Toys for sume mer amusement—Fresh reading for boys and gir SPORTS OF THE DAY: An account of the sporting editor's re- cent_ fishing_expedition to the lakes of Min Chat of the base ball players Doings of local bicycle clubs. SOCIAL HAPPEN Movements of the soclety who are entertaining soclally ing entertained. CABLI AND TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE: The news of the Old World—The news of the New World—The news of Ne- braska—The news of Omaha—All the news. NGS OF THE WEE] set—People or are l’:;‘l"d sense of popular rellef as that of the and must have money, and THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. 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