Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 28, 1900, Page 6

_THE OMAHA DALY BEE. E. ROBEWATER, Bditor | ‘BLISHED EVERY MORNING IRMS OF SUF Iy Bee (without Sunday) Daily Bee and Sunday, One Tlustrated Bee Year Sunday Bee, One Ye Saturday Bee, One Ye Weekly Bee, One Year OFFICES: Omaha: The Bes Huflding South Omaha: City Hall Bullding, Twen ty-Afth and N streets Council Bluffs: 10 Pearl Street Chicago: 1640 Unity Bullding New York: Temple Court Washington: 51 Fourteenth Sloux City: 611 Park Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- | torlal matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTEF ons lett remittances gh be addresced: Publishing pany, Omaha. REMITTANCE Remit by draft, express or postal order, able to The fee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps accepted in_payment of malfl accounts. Personal checks Omaha or Eastern exchanges, n <] THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAN RIPTION One Year 38,00 | ar 8. 200 ¥ Street ould m- STATEM State of Nebrask George B Publishing T OF CIRCULATION Douglas County, &8 Tzachiick, secrctary of The Beo company, belng duiy sworr #ays that the actuai number of full and complete coples of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee, printed during the month of June, 1900, was as follo 16 1 18 1 2, 21 2 26,170 27,050 20,070 26,5560 25,000 25,71 ..25,760 25,860 26,040 26,000 [ 10, 1 12 13 " 15 20,400 26,700 20,940 27,250 02,085 2 29 . Total . Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales. Net dally average . L 20,008 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK Subscribed and sworn before me this day of July, 190.9 M. B, HUNGATE, (Seal ) Notary Publi PARTIES LEAVING FOR arties leaving the the aumn went to notifying eit often as desired. —_— Nobody thinks it worth while to com- ment on any kind of a hat Uncle Adlai may wear Bryan expresses himself heing pleased with the fusion ticket in Kan- wsus. It requires very little these days to please the de atic candidate, The people of York will be invited to reciprocate the compliment when Omaha 15 ready to entertain out-of-town guests during the Ak-Sar-Ben carnival, Democrytic managers who are inclined to be profuse with predictions are ad- vised to read over again some of the wild proguostications they made four years ago. The assexsed valuation of the entive state of Nebraska under our absurd systom of tax valuation ageregates SITLTATH02 This is n standing plea for revenue law revision The sultan of Turkey Is reported to be in the best of health. This disposes of the story that he had worrled him welf slck because of Lis inubility to pay the damage claim filed Ly the United States, The Boxer uprising in New Orleans 18 reported to huve been suppressed. A few more such outbreaks as have oc- 1 In that city and the Chinese to send misslonuries over to this country to civilize us, London shonld at ov tuke its elec tric roads in out of the wet. If Baron Yerkes of Chleago once gets a grip on them he will give the people of the world’s metropolis a touch of high life which will be a revelation to them. Reciprocity of favors enjoyed by Omaha at the hands of nelghboring | towns cannot but be beneticial. The en couragement of perlodical excursions like that to Hustings last fall and to York this week I8 a good thing all around. Governor Poynter might test the sin cority of the endorsement accorded him by the local popocratlc organ by re ferring back to the files of that sheet | for the fssues just following the time when that string of Ingratitude got in its deadly work. Indiana democrats complain they are unable to secure the desired reduction in rates for the Bryan notifieation. If the roads ave obdurate they should send | for the Nebraska state house crowd, who will show them how passes are secured for all the fafthful Bryan indicates that 16 to 1 will oc- cupy & subordinate place in his speech of acceptance, It % no use to attempt to hide platform mistakes at this late day, particularly after having foreed the convention into incorporating the out-worn plank in the document. Marco Polo's fumous expedition into China dates way 'k into the thir teenth century. Muvco has left an ex cellent account of his visit, considerin, the Ignorance of the times, but unfor tunately forgot to say whether or not he brought home any souvenirs in the shape of Boxers, Under the new state assessment Doug. lag county will be privileged to pay nearly one-seventh of the expenses of the state government, but when Doug. lus county ventures the suggestion t it should have a corvesponding volee in the management of state afMairs it will scouted as unwarranted presumyp tion. The returns of the lowa sory show that the actual cash value of the personal property of that state has in creased $56,000,000 during the past year and that $46,000,000 of this increase is in the item of livestock, Still our pop- ocratie friends would tell us that the farmer has no sharve in the prevailing ass | the | conldd not have | sentatives | the disorder in China, prosperity, g THE spresentative the ablest recent fines the party in r cout interview treaty of fact NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY Littletield of Ma members of congress, clearly de republican n that e it one ne, of in a interview very attitnde of the ard to the Philippines e polnts out is not only the fa a Paris but an plished that 1d of seventeen influence « votes and the personal Mr. Bryan leaves the de party and cundidates equally responsible with th republican party fe Beiug the supreme law of the land it must be obeyed and sustained by both executive and people The republican party Mr. Littletield, that the republic fearlessly, faithfully and properly charge the and devolved upon it by the treaty of Paris. More than this is not required or pro posed by the party in its platform The establishment of law and order, said the Maine congressman, “the pro tection of | life and property in the Philippine archipelago against in surrection or violence from all quarte is the constitutional duty of the presi dent. The anthority to which the peo moeratic of nocratic its its existence said shall proposes, duties rexponsibilities rsons, ple of the archipelago had the right to| to the e driven assumed look for this protection prior treaty was Spain. We Spain out and iu so doing hav her duties and responsibilities, and we | wust wanfully accept and discharg them. This Is not imperialism or empire it is simply an exemplification of the fundamental proposition upon which our institutions rest, that ours is a ‘gov ernment of laws and not of men.' " This is the rational view, which must commend itself to all who are not stark mad on the subject of so-called fmperial The Philippines, as President Mc Kinley has declared, are ours and being ours we are charged with the duty of establishing and maintaining order there and protecting the lives and prop erty of the people who are not engag in insurrection against American an thorit I citizen of a foreign country living in the Philippines has a cluim 1o the protection of this govern ment and not to give it would be to disregard one of the most fmportant of international duti he charge made that the president is exceeding his constitutional authority in the Phil ippines. 1t is utterly groundless. When the senate ified the treaty of Paris, transferring the sovereignty of the Phil ippines to the United States, the presi dent as commander-in-chief of the army and navy, had full authority to uphold that sovereignty. It was his imper ative duty t It is an interesting fact to which Mr. Littleticld calls attention, that while wany rambling suggestions were made and there was a great deal of carping and fault-finding by democratic repre during the last session of congress, 1o democratic representative or senator undertook to formulate any weasure, even a tentative one, for the disposition of the Philippine archipelago. “They apparently preferred,” sald Mr. Littlefield, “to leave the subject to the inocuous method of a declaration in a national platform™—a characteristic democratie practice. The republican party recognizes the duty and responsibility of the nation in the Philippines and will go on fear- lessly and faithfully meeting them, con- fident that it will be sustained in so doing by the intelligent and patriotic opinion of the country ACCEPTED PROPUSITION. The proposition, presumed to have eminated from Li Hung Chung. for a suspension of operations against Pekin in return for the delivery of the foreign ministers at Tien Tsin, was promptly declined by our government. This was obviously the proper course, since to have accepted it would have cut the United States off from the other powers and placed it in a position where it could no longer claim any support for its in or demands from the other nations con cerned in Chinese affal Even Ahe conclliatory and fawr conditions i posed by President McKinley, as prelim inary to dn offer of mediation by this ernment, were regurded in Burope as indicating a purpose on the part of the United States to separate from the other powers. It Iy, therefor ‘rtain that had our government not rejected the Chinese proposition it could not have further co-operated with the other powers in the effort-making to repress AN Tests been ratified Without the | OMAHA DAILY | graphs of living models, details many insteuetive facts not generally known to the publi Anotl women n the abont workers takes up the mak of 1 iving a snap photograph of & woman expert tent-making at her work in an Omala establishment Carpenter's letter describes coffee cul ture in the Philippines, more than $80 000,000 worth of this product being ex ported annually. The pletures show the simple methods in vogue in hand | ling this important industry, which i sure to marvellously developed by the Introduction of wodern machinery in the next few years The number is deplete with pictures bearh pertinent | among them portraits of one of the wo men alternates from Utal to the Phil dphia: convention, who has been vis | iting fn Owmaha, and of another Ne | braska boy appointed to West Point | from Stromsbhurg, a picture of the Span | ish cannon given to the city of Lincoln | by the federal government recently mounted in a publie place in that city | and several always entertaining studies of child life before the camera People who want the best paper al ways buy The Sunday B THE INITIATIVE populists, democrats and soclal r party have each inserted planks their respective platforms oring initiative and referendum. As a matter of fact it is doubtful whether ten men out of one hundred In these par ties know what the Initlative and refer- endum Is. With one cluss the initiative meauns divect legislation by the people. This was practical in little states like Athens, but would be out of question with a na tion of 75,000,000 population. If all the voters of the country could make their own laws there would be confusion and archy in the lawmaking business, Anoth class of reformers interprets the initiative and referendum to be the [ popular instigation of laws to be anacted | by legislatures and then ratification by popular vote after they have been en acted. This also Is experimental. While It has proved more or less satisfactory in certain cantons, or countics, in the little republic of Switzerland, it has never been successfully attempted in any country of wide territorial extent aud mixed population with varied in terests. There 1s, howeve it to the proposition that representatives in na- tional and st legislatures shall he pledged to carry out the wishes of th people they represent. These pledges should not be confined simply to issues defined in the party platforms, but ghould also include important questions that vitally concern their constituency which party conventions have dodged or purposely fgnored. It would be right and proper for the people of Nebraska to tuke the inftiative in matters of legis lature by Instructing and pledging can didates to enact such laws as are needed for the protection of the taxpayers and the safeguarding of public interests, Everybody in Nebraska, for example, concedes that the state needs a new revenue code, but every effort at reve- nue law revision has been thwarted by influences exerted in behalf of favored clusses, who profit by the defects of the present tax system. It is not suflicient that members of the coming legislature should e pledged to vote for a bill vising the revenue law, but it is essential that they be committed to specitic changes that will equalize the burdens of taxation and do away with favoritism and disevimination. Unless this is done shifty or erooked members will find no difficulty In defeating all revenue reform by supporting bogus bills or bills that could not pass muster in the courts. The same true with other wmuch- needed legislation. The only way to vitalize the will of the people 1% to take the initiative before the election and put candidates on record they get their credentials at the polls. roarticle wage canvas wories ing i he timely on toples The lal in the before The city of Omaha pays nine-tenths of all the taxes levied in Douglus county and Douglas county s to pay $163,091 in the state treasury for the year 1000, In other words, Omaha will be obliged to pay $150,000 or thereabouts in state taxes ihis year or about one-cighth of the ent tax levy of the whole state, This i out of all proportion with the taxable wealth of the state at large Ten years ago Omaha's proportion was only one-tenth of the state tax and no- body will contend that Omaha has According to Washington advices, | the adwinistration, instead of being dis- | posed to suspend wilitary of agalust Pekin, 18 very desirous to have | them pushed. It is stated in regurd to| the matter of selecting a commander for the allled forces tieneral Chaffee has been Instructed to do everything in his power to facilitate the choice and that th nment will cheerfully ae: quiesce in the selection of any one o the foreign commanders on the ground It 4% said that the chief auxiety of this government s to have a start made for Pekin as soon as practicable. The State | department has acted with the best pos sible Judgment in this latest matter and its will undoubtedly be uni versally approved. THE SUNDAY BEE The Bee Sunday will be fully up to the high standard which it for itself far above that of would-be com petitors. Its news by cable and tele graph, as well as that gathered by fts own staff and its special features, are altof highest characte The Hlustrated Bee will present as its frontisplece a striking portrait of Wharton Barker, the populist nominee for president, taken on the occasion of lis recent visit to by The Bee's speclal staff photographer. The exciting events in China form the theme for a number of interesting con tributions, bearing on different phases of Chiuese life, one mpanigd by half-tone illustrations dealing with the methods of campniguing in China as observed by competent crities An article telling of the tendencies to luxury 1 modern dress, set forth with fashion plates reproducing the photo- ations ' HOVe conrs s set this state | iuperialism.” grown so much faster than the rest of Nebraska in taxable property during the past decade, Popocratie comments of or, various | Ever, o s ave aple quotin “opposed to Stutes s opposed o not suffering from political blinduess ean wenace of im pevialism striking the republic. Au at tempt to find sowe oune in this country who favor of imperialism prove more for the north pole. Iperialism, but one see an in in ropenns fetse th Chinese pretensions have taken a ond look at the answer to the Chi nese petition for mediation and dis covered that Instead of falling into a trap the president has put the Chinese government in a position which clearly | leaves the responsinility for the future with themselye ument the 1 cates can bring forth is t ate will be irvedeemably during the next four nd ther candidate conld do no havm it elected | The caretul voter will make it impossi ble for him to any barm with or without the application of the senate brake. who w 8o free to crit presic we 1 the sen republican The best arg to 1 advo yeurs do Our amiable popocratic contemporary has discovered that the strength of the republican party les in its wonderful organization, The wonderful orgnn ization, howe could not have heen built up except on a foundation of sound prineiples. The strength of the re- publican party consists in the contidence one in the United | | would | fruftless than hus the quest | nt for being teicked by | | will represent the Third B it inspires in the voters by reason of is position all public tions and the fajthful performance Pledg patriotic on ques The latest advices from China to the effect that the fmperfal authorities have Leen encouraging the Boxers indicates that the government trying o ride two horses goiug in opposite di This acrobatic feat tried several times in the international arenn, but never with compl The fact that Nebr t hinese Is rections has been o KUCcoss sk ¢ the fact that only 77 000 acres of school lands in the are not now under lease and practically all of this is in the western counties where plenty of range is to be had at gure than the state valuation I8 prosperous Is evidenced state Denver Rep It Lord Roberts goes to China he ought to be able to work off some of Boer tricks on the Boxers those Kansus City Star The adoption of the gold standard in Peru, which has been a silver country for cen- turles, will probably live in history as the crime of 1900 Powers in Perfect Unison, Washington Post There {s one thing In which the powers are in perfect unison. We refer to the man- ner in which they are forgetting the pro ceedings at Tho Hague Senator Wolcott points out that the demo- cratic orators are debarred from abusing the bimetallic commisslon as deceptive and Incapable. Their candidate for vice presi dent, Adlai E. Stevenson, was a member of that commission and Mr. Wolcott testifies personally to the zeal and energy he dis- played during the labors of the commission in England and on the continent 1, Strayed o Baltimore An strayed or stolen—one plank from the Kaneas City Supposed to have been abstra evil-minded persons by a treacherous trick played upon unsuspecting Innocence. Of positively no value except to the owner, who 1s attached to it through tender associa- tions, Reward offered and no questions asked anyone returning it In good order to W. J. Bryan, Lincoln, Neb. La Stole rican Lost in tax onvention a by some me for Moving Crops. Orange Judd Farmer Money is more pientiful in Nebraska than at any time in the history of the state, and in eastern counties time loans are being made at 5 to § per cent. The situation thus | outlined in this glant young state by a Ne- | braska banker fs true fn a general way in other portions of the grain belt It now seems probable that the east will not be called upon to furnish the usual quota of money for moviug the crops next fall. Tribute to the Bt. Louls Globe- Both the great parties will have thelr headquarters in Chicago during the present campalgn. This Is a significant tribute to the great and growing political power of | the west. Campalgns can no longer be di- rected effectively in New York or Washing- ton. The political center of gravity is not in the states of the Atlantic seaboard. I has come over into the Mississippl valley, and the leaders of the great parties are com- pelled to follow it In mapping out their campaigns. Before many more years pass the headquarters of the big parties in pres- idential years wil have to be located in St Louls, which is nearer the geographical cen- ter of the United States than is any other great city. The Turk is Shocked, leveland Plain Dealer The sultan is so “greatly affected by the barbarous acts of the Chinese” that he is serlously consldering the subject of sending a Turkish force to China to co-operate with the powers. That is the finishing touch. 1t China was not ashamed of itself before It certainly ought to be now. When the “Bulgarlan atrocities” and “Armenian out- rages” are 8o far outdone hy the “barbarous acts of the Chinese” that the sultan is greatly affected, there is nothing left for the empress dowager to do but to bow her head in the dust before the foreign powers and submit to any punishment they may be dis- posed to inflict. But doesn't the Turk on the Bosphorus chuckle in his sleeve as he squints at the powers halting on the Pie Ho through jealousy of each other? Were Abdul Hamed near enough, wouldn't he slyly wink at Tsl An and motion to her that “threatened folks live long,” when the threateners suspect each other, as his own caso showe? POLITICAL SID) Montana is growing an enormous crop of wool this year, but designing politiclans will hardly be able to pull any of it over the eyes of the intelligent voter. As yet no democratic committee hus- for- mally notified Grover Cleveland of Bryan's nomination for president. This is doubtless why Cleveland has nothing at all to say. Colonel Frank 0. Lowden, who fs men- tloned as a successor in the senate to Sena- tor Cullom of Tilinols, is 39 years old, and began teaching school at 15, by which means he paid his way through the lowa State uni- versity The next congress will include two men of the same name from Mississippl. The present member from the Sixth district s Patrick Henry, and another Patrick Henry for the last fitteen years represented by General Thomas € Catchings A Chicago woman, who wants to be gov | ernor of Iliinols, has issued a platform, In which she de democrat lares herself a republican, a several kinds of populists and a temperance advocate. Unfortunately, plus ralities of platforms do not always mean pluralities of votes, After interviewing a num ing German-Americans in Globe-Demacrat says that they will vote for McKinley this year, as they did in 1896, The Westiach Post, the most influential an newepaper in the west, will support the republican ticket, its editor, Dr. Emil Prectorious, saying that “expansion is an mic question; frec silver is a practical auestion In ¢ of the lead- St. Louis the predicting that, in case of the re-elec- tion of McKinley, there will be no more Fourth of July celebrations, Bryan may not have made a vote-catching statement the Moines Leader. The cannon fire racker has been so developing in bore and muzzle power that not a few would welcome the abolition of the glorious as & means of Bryan is in danger of nervous vote The confidence of the republicans of West Virginia that they will carry the state this fall for McKinley and Roosevelt is bused cn the warvelous development in coal and lum now in progress, made possible hy the beneficient provisions of the Dingley tariff In all sections of the state unpre ted actlvity prevails and labor is at There are constant calls for men | which other states are supplying. The coal output for 1899 was nearly 15,000,000 tons an increase of 1,500,000 ng over ing year. More coal is being mined this year than ever before, and the total product Wil reach far above the 20,000,000-ton mark snys Des escape losing the the pre | tions of his ofce | erees 1900, HOLANDS THAN OLRS has 0 isual kingdom Kipz Alexander and who has tried to mar ry prine the ema has ed that he in harming widow Iy lady | nother, the accomplished and ex-Queen Natalle. The young nan’s father, the ex-king, is angry and the Servian ministry bas resigned. A theref such Servia has experience ime, is expected. The young ki * old bleck. He s describe like his father and cruel, with fondness for associates of a low order, Rus slan influence i® generally strong in Servian affairs, as it Is in all the Balkan states, It Is in reality the dominating power. It the Servians had a decent ruler there would be less disquict among the Milan in his dey drained the natioral iry and his son will aleo go to the limit unless peo A Milan and Na are bogh said to be opposed to the propose match, and it remains to be seen how fa they can restrain their impetuous son. Rus slan diplomats now bueily engaged with weightier matters in the east, may not be able to devote much time to the love affairs of a passionate young king who has been jilted at'all the smaller courts on the continent rs old ¥ h al- A walting to his beautiful marry N forme is or an A chip off t 1 g 1 ) a coarse W people. trea alle nst him. being According to the reports in the English press, there is one corner of Europe where the Chinese have been finding plenty of sympathy in their anti-foreign crusade, and that is Turkey. The sultan regards the troubles of the powers who have so long kept him upon the anxious seat with calm- ness if not compl One cause his satiofaction is that while they are eugaged #0 busily In the f. east they have no time to pay much attention to him and he is availing himeelf, with characteristic astute- ney | volume of our import and export trade. DO YOU WANT A CHAN | Steiking Ohject Lesson for | ful Consideration of Voters. | Des Moines Capital | apital will have now on to the th palgn. The present which we believe the do more and than they ever have done Wwe lieve that the vast majority earnestly | sire that that administration shall control of the affairs of government shall be able sure the greates the greatest number. And | oughly convinced, furthermore | thing needful this year is to get before the peaple. The Capital with that end in view Among the striking object merit the thoughtful consideration is the fact that the of our exports last year hae never exceeded, the | 1argest previous total being for 1898, when | they were $163,000,000 less than in the year just ended. The following table shows our | Imports and exports in each fiscal year sinc 1860 « to off f The for mak apolog f present nt to ve America will independent thinking lose of 1 e of sound e have which thor that the one the facts will labor Wwe are lessons which vote value Aports 10,408 Exporte $ 87N 68 1,08 882,606, 938 818,010,654 130 697145 450 1.2 Voars 840,714 1A Next it {8 of interest to show the to with our favorable or unfavorable balance in each year, thus 1 1 1 | pit) Totul Favorable Year. T Balan Tty 16071 s 1501 9,93 18, 563,611 ness, of his opportunity. The other day, for instance, he appointed Enis Pasha to be | vall of Aleppo. This gentleman has been | an especial favorite of his ever since he pro- | moted the great maesacre of Armenfans at | Diarbekr in 1805, but the European bassadors have been less partial to him and | bave hitherto contrived to keep him out of office. As soon as attention had been di- verted from him he got his reward #tarted for Aleppo on July 5, and none of his opponents knew of his appointment until he had been safely installed in office. after this the sultan began to indulge his prejudices against the Armenians, causing the arrest of 100 of them on the allegation that they had been concerned in some way with the manife of the young Turkey arty am- | Soon tos It ms to be start e s almost today to A scare in the British islands on the ject of a French invasion as it was in the times of the firet Napoleon. This sub- ject has always had a peculiar charm for certaln French newspapers and the other day one of them published what it called official plans for the descent of a French fleet on the south coast of Ireland, the spe- cified points being Queenstown and Bere- haven. Wild as the whole story Is, it was treated quite gravely by some London jour- nals and was elaborated by descriptions of the panic which the mere supposition had created among the British military and naval authorities. Some of the Irish papers went a lttle further still, describing the steps which had beeu taken to repel the expected invasion. Thus the Cork Examiner related how 100 men belonging to the garrison of Royal artillery in Cork had been seut hur- riedly to Berehaven to mount large quick firlug guns and put the place generally in a state of defense at a cost of $15,000,000. How long the 100 men were to be in expend- ing this sum was not specified. The next thing, of course, was to cable to this coun- try, as was done, the startling assertion that the British channel fleet had been strength- ened in case of a sudden French descent upon the English coast. All the liars are not fu Shanghai. 18 easy The population of China has alwaye been a matter of guess work, and estimates have run all the way from 330,000,000 to 450,000, 000, the number being usually set at 400,- 000,000, in round numbers. Willlam Bar- clay Parsons, an American engineer, who has traveled in China, thinks all these esti- mates too high and would put the number ot Chinese at 200,000,000 or less. In India, however, since careful enumerations of the population were begun by the British author- ities, it has been found that the actual num- ber of inhabitants has outrun the traditional estimates and since China fs both larger and according to common report much more crowded than India, which has some 300,- 000,000 people, it scems quite impossible that the population should fall greatly below the 400,000,000 commonly assigned, while it is possible that a complete census would show & much larger population. But the matter is of little consequence. No one disputes that there are Chinamen enough o General Bobrikoff, governor general of Finland, recently arrived in St. Petersburg with the intention of laying before the czar the details of the popular movement in Fin- land against the superior authority of Rus- sia which lately found expression in the Senate's refusal to promulgate the imperial decree for Russianization of the postage. The meaning of the decree is that for postal purposes Finland must make use of Russian stamps, s she has no authority to publish her own. The Senate, fortified by recently taking a general vote of the Fiuus, regarded the order of the imperial power as & gross violation of the fundamental laws of Finland, being in fact nothing but the exer- cise of “force majeure It 18 now believed in St. Petersburg that the suppression of the Senate as a ‘‘body prejudicial to Russia’ is inevitable. It is expected that the czar will shortly permi.- nently dissolve the Senate and grant Gen- eral Bobrikoff tull power as viceroy over the duchy, and that in pursuance of the func- he will promulgate de- which will practically place Finland under martial law Hitherto the Finnish eontingent of the Russian army has been permitted to serve their time in the duchy. As, however, the contemplated measures are likely to cause some disturbance, the Finnish recruits have been withdrawn and ordered to take partin the manoeuvers between Koursk and Viasma, with the possibility of being later dispatched to join the army corps that is now being formed in Siberia. Two divisions of the troops from the Caucasus bave been to garrison the of Finland Russian sent towns The Swiss Society for sumption has been in oper: two years. It membership of 6,710 persons—twice that of two years ago—and a capital of $12,600, with as much more in the reserve fund. Its sales last year amounted $450,000 {n value, with a profit of This is divided the me who also get their whol There 350 fes Switzerland to $10,000,000. Co-operative Con fon for thirty has a ar net among goods & Buch to § bers, 35,000 is i n amounting annual The Parnmount Insue, Philudelphia Press The paramount issue Is whether the people will vote themselves into the favor continued prosperity poorhouse or the Was No candidate in the bands Charles A. Towne dx of His Frie nglon Star WaK ever more his friends ompletely Mr han ntry” Expand Americ Bryan will find that his enemy's coun Scores of new mives are beiug opencd and miles of mew rallway are belpg bulits try in 1900 1s even larger than it was in | Great 1895 13 18 1900 Tho in 1893, and that, too, under a demo administration. During the last four years our favorable foreign trade balance has reached almost $2,000,000,000 be exact, $1,976.335,618. During the three complete 1898, 1599 and 1900, under the administration of President McKinley, our favorable fo eign trade balance aggregated no less a sum than $1,690,072,374 We are more than a $2,000,000,000 country as far as our forelgn trade is concerned we are well on the way to being a $3,00 000,000 country. This is expaneion of th. best kind Now, for one more comparison, showing how the forcign trade of the United States compares with that of Great Britain and of Germany, the figures for the two latter countries being for the calendar year end- ing December 31, 1899, while those for the United States are for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900 Country Great Britain many United States. The imports of the United States are the smallest and our exports are the largest. Therefore our trade balance must be the most favorable. Let us see what it is: to fiscal years 1ports Fxports. 360,959 §1,250, 3 19, ‘otal Forelgn 3,650, 186,546 United 44,193, 04 Last year Great Britain had an unfavor- able trade balance that exceeded $1,000,000,~ 000. Germany's unfavorable trade balance amounted to $256,930,420. But the trade bal- ance in favor of the United States amounted o $544,764,850. Another fact that is very important s this: The United States is now a larger ex- porting nation than the United Kingdom, our exports last year exceeding those of the mother country by $104,608,175. Do you want a change? DO WOMEN CARE TO VOTE?! Country. Britain esults in Colorado Are Not What Woman Suffirag! s Predicted. State Reglster In the last issue of Harper's Weekly there is an article by B. 8. Martin which con- tains much interesting comment upon the question of woman suffrage. He says that women have voted for the last five years in Colorado, but apparently no political mfl- lennium has struck the state, and it is even averred that if the question of woman suf- frage was submitted today to the women of that state a majority of them would vote sgainst it Mr. Martin tells of reports pro- pared by J. C. Dana for the Boston Trans- cript, in which was a great amount of in formation as to the feelings of the women on the question. Mr. Dana submitted a list of questions to a Denver politician and to a woman resident of the same city thought that women's votes had raised the tone of Colorado politics in a very slight degree, it at all, and they agreed that the quality of the women who take active in- terest In political matters and elections has decidedly deteriorated during the five years. The politician said that before the women had the right of suffrage in Colorado the bad men ran things. ‘‘Now," he said, “the bad men and the bad women run them." The politician and the woman interviewed both said that the interest of women in the elections is becoming less every year. Mr Dana belleves, personally, that the Colo rado women who have held office bave done Just as well as the men who have preceded them, and he believes, too, that suffrage has improved to some extent the position of women in Colorado, has caused them to be treated with more deference by the men nd to take more interest in public affairs. Mr. Danna, however, quotes a Colorado lawyer who says: “The women's vote has no influe in deciding elections, because the women who vote, vote as their male 10 relatives want ther This is the season of the clean-up of our different lines, broken and odd lines and sizes every department, for young and old at cost and Two-piece Suits for boys Wash ' there are some And Ties shapes-—on sale Baturday for reserved (except black) around. You will find somet low prie OPEN SATURDAY NI Browning, R. S. Wilco fam O'Shanters at ihe reat suit valn we have place see 1896, Thounehi- 84450810 78,148 538,165 | 306 02 | 31 tamous Venuses'she has e tle | They both | POIN MARK Cloy Plain Dealer: *“They say that ney talk Perhag [ r had any in my atch the lingo. it does. 1 nev long enough t Indianapolis Journal Johr ted. how will this 16 to 1 Exactly this way, Caroline me for money and expect §l i Affect when Rryan I nek you get " fail waid but A wtire 1 once derstand that 1 the fa he she repiied no kind « the least that disturh him in myself would tried it ston Transcript: Proud Parent—If vou call in the evening you probably will hear my daughter singing Artless Friend—Oh, 1 shan't mind that You it to hear the fellow down our way practicing on the cornet. It is simply aw- fui. Philadelphia Press: Mre. Movabout—Yes, I Iike that house you sent me to see. It will be much cooler for the summer, but the dining room is only half as large as this one My will only to ket Detroit Journal better. 1t many files Movabout be | into it 80 much the ssible for half o | - Love does not usially augh at a parrot which says: “Now George, you #top!" although to our mind this s much funnier than the average lock- | smith | Chicago Record: “Don't you think cvery man 1= master of his own destiny”" “Oh, 1 don't know; he gets out of a lot of blame by letting '~ somebody e boes | things . Detroit Journal: Our notion of & credu- [ lous man i« a man who thinks all the mi tions a baseball pitcher makes are nece | sary Detroit this dreadful Viola, Lilllan “Why, vo ‘(vf awfully Free Press: “What brought coolness between you on and “eo, Bertha, she told me a lot mean things you said about me."” | cle 1 Plain Dealer o, he doesn't m to have any heart in his work. L Afrald he hasn't any work in his aler: “Does Kitty en- art galleries abroad? ®eems not; she writes Cleveland Plain oy the e that n are all th as ug | 8"a mud tence.’ “A man should never sn't belong to him,” shington Star any thing that ¢ rked the youth lat's right,” answered Senator § | ghum here's no use of it. If a ma with ma behind him sees something b | wants there's no use of reaching out for it violent. What he wants to do Is to get u good lawyer and let him assert a titie to it WHEN PA TAKES CARE oF ME Frances Churchill Willlams in August New Lippincott Kkes care of m Ma, "By i | ¢ everything Comes on me when 1've got the most to do; But I suppose I've got to get it through With; so you needn't fuss one bit about Him; ' I'll take charge of him while you are out But Ma makes him repeat all she has said About what he's to do: guess she's afrald To let him try his way Of watchirg me, the day When Pa takes care of me. When Pa takes care of me He puts me on a rug, ives me a kies and hug, Then brings in every pillow lie can find And plles them up in front, at sides, behind Me: 8o that you can't hurt yourself,” ha 1 he gets my picture hooks and Them down beside me, and my blocks and toys, And says: nofse You want to; I don't care.” And I +'* there and stare, When Fa takes care of me. “Now go ahead; make all the When Pa takes No hook or to: Beems, someho And by and by I'm through with every one, And when I Pa says, “"Have vou begun Already? What's the matter, anyway There's everything you own.' Why don't you play? Stop crying, now! Well, what is wroiig? Come, now, 111 &ing." ~And thén he starts some Bong About “'Bye, Huby, Bye!" And I lie flat and cry When Pu takes care of me. are of me or game Just the same You won't? 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