Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 1, 1900, Page 6

6 TH OMAHA DAILY BEE ATURDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 1900 THE OMAHA DALY BEE‘, — IWATER, Editor PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING = —_— TERMS OF Daily Bee (without 8unda Dally Bee and Sunday, One Llustrated Bee, Or Bunday Bee, One Ye aturday Bee, One Year Weekly Bee, One Yenr L OFFICES Omaha: The Bee Bullding . Bouth Omaha: City Hall Building, Twen ty-fAifth and N Streets ouncil Blufts: 10 [ ear] Street hicago: 164 Unity Building Vew York mple Court Washington: 501 Fourteenth Street Bloux Clty: 611 Park Street CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and ed| torial m Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LI Business letters addregsed: The HBee Publishing Company Omaha REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or postal order iynble to The fiee Publishing Company nly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment ar « TERS. malfl accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or Eastern exchanges, 1ot accepts THE BEE PUBLISHING « IPANY STATEM OF CIRCULATION 8tate of Nebraska, Douglas County, s« George B. Tzachuck, secretary Publishing company. being duly sworn ways that the complete cople: the month of Augist, 190, was as follows 1. 17 . 27 200 8 I 27,150 3 27 500 19 . 20, 855 ‘ 27 500 20 27 oo L3 27 e 2 27120 6 2 20,000 ¥ 3 27,040 L] n 27110 a aru20 2 27, 10 27 350 2 n 27 470 7 1200 27 25 £ 27,270 | 13 27120 “ 100 " . 27 son 0 27 420 1 v 37240 31 27,400 1% 27 0 Total w45, Less unsold and roturned coples Net total sales s Net dally average ORGE B. 1 SCHUCK Subscribed fn my presence and sworn to before me this st duy August, A, D, 1900, M. B, HUNGATE Notary Public, Help make the Ak-Sar-Ben festival a success by Inviting your friends to visit you while it s on Omaha has a new brewery, The Kan aas regiment is respectfully invited o come up and take it, Nebraska street faivs and floral pa rades have no difficulty in finding avail able material for festival queens, braska women are all quecns. —_— That burglar alarm in the Public Li brary building has paid for itself. It really a mean trick to force a burglar to call the polic v arrest himself, — Police Judge Gordon would have a much hetter foundation upon which to | stand in his appeal to the supreme court | for double salury if he earned the sal- ary which the charter accords him. The republi ndidates for state offices are circulating at a lively rate and making friends wherever they go and the year 1000 will sce the redemp- tion of Nebraska from populist control, —_— The Towa state fair will have a sur plus in the treasury after paying ex- penses and premiwms. People have money now to attend such exhibltions, Tt was different during democratic times. Popocratic organs will probably not cite the comment of the British press regarding the attitude of the United States on the settlement of affairs in China as evidence of an Anglo-Ameri can alliance. —— The postofice business at Lincoln tubulated Into a statistical exhibit #hows an increase of 80 per cent since 1866. The fruits of republican pre perity are reflected in every business that makes use of the postal facilities, —_— The democratic campaign committee is gecuring a fine collection of regrets from traveling men Invited to join Bryan clubs. They are too husy hustling for the business which came with a prosperity administration to join Bryan clubs this year. One thing we may be sure of: Omaha will show up satisfactorily in the indus trial census, Every manufacturing es- tablishment in the city has enlarged its facilities and output since the last enu meration and dozens of new institutions have been planted he while all are sharing in the vestored prosperity, —_— Treasurer Meserve has found a place where he can invest some of the Idle &chool money. These announcements always come as election time is ap proaching. The voters will remember, however, that $200,000 of this money has remained idle since January 1 when it should @ been earning fnterest for the schools. — The eablegram which the veterans of the G General MacArthur at Manila in part explains why Governor oynter pre ferred fishing in the mountains to greet fug the Nebraska veterans at Lincoln The veterans are not in the business of embarrassing the government when it 1s engaged in a struggle with a foe. A discussion of the “wmoral hazard” of fire insurance, from the agent's standpoint, might prove an interesting topic for the Insurance men'’s con tion. Whenever valued policy laws ar under consideration the agents freely Aiscuss it from the standpoint of the nsured, but have little to say about in- wring property for more than it is worth. The enthusiasm with which democrats endorse populist candidates in Nebraska has been exemplified in Furnas county. The populists iusisted in nawing the county ticket and a mass convention of dewmocrats was called to ratify the nom inations. Just twelve democrats re. sponded, yet they expect the fusion populists out there to vote for a demo- erat for congi FRIEND OF AMERICAN LABOR. fight for the labor, now everywh comfort of the scattered snid Renator Dolliver rights of American » employed for the homesteads in his address Hamilton club of Chicago. That the republican From its foundation it has seeking to im ways done, been the friend of lab people and to elevate them intel amine the federal stat and soclally | relating to labor and ig will be found | that a large majority of these e due to the republican party Until the republican power there had been party came little legislation, interest of labor. party had never mani tter should be addressed. Omaha The demoeratic remittances should be A the party of €lavery, who controlled it had little regard the white toiler of thelr own section as characterized the north as “mudsills.” elevating the men of workingmen of The Bee ctual number of ‘Y"IH and | of The Dally, Morning, enfng and Sunday Feo, printed during | Southern democrats who ruled the democracy- party was not much better, slavelolders The old whig sed itgelf to the question proving the condition of labor and up workingman, needs and listened to his complaints and As the republican party ntrol of the government thir federal legislation party and the sume can be said of the states that during republican this period ngland has done much for labor . 26,008 set by thos lowed by others difference between republican states has be If one would learn the legislation of the democratic lnwmaiers and by many of the people there is still regarded as de Repuhlican policy, in building up the industries of the countr; and developing opportunities and advantages to labor which it lad not before enfoyed and the workingmun | to | thut any republican of ordin the general welfare who allies hinself with the party that d that well-employed and | well-paid labor is the basis of national osperity and it has acted upon that be republican gives | abundant assurance that it will continue | to promote the interests and welfare of American workingmen and preserve the American labor, high standa The secretary pointed out very clearly what could be by a Bryan administration to put | the country off the gold standard. | has shown that there is nothing to pre vent the payment of a part of the obli gatious of the government in silver and | lie has stated what would be the effect upon the finances and the business of | the country of doing this, matter of the tance to the American people. in has been asked to tell whether or not, in the event of his election, he would use silver in pay ing obligations of the government, as | | It was a pertinent question, submit van by one of the great news- | clined to say anything on the subject. | leadiag champion of the fr unlimited cofnage of silver at 16 to 1, and | gold standard is a conspiracy against the human race and who arbitrarily in sisted upon the Ki specitically plank of the Chicago platform, will not | say what he would do in regard to pay ing government obligations in silve e were president. Why does Mr. Bryan decline to take ople iuto his contidence in this very important matter? the country what he will do, if egard to the Philippines e not equall question of vi as Clty convention reaffirming finnuncial | He has told | 1l concern to the finan iing Post offers an expl remarks that Mr. Bryan happens to be gold standard, limself in opposition to the bulk of his nd to the logic of his own | ! his | place | own party and Army of the Republic sent to would use all the means at his command | to promote bimetallism at the ratlo of | 16 to 1, ‘without waiting for the ald or | would repel many votes which lie might otherwise receive from the gold demo independents.’ Bryan deems it expedient to say nothing on the subject. But in taking this position, what he comes of Lis “honesty” and “sincerity # The supporters of Mr of asserting that his convietions,” en- Bryan arve fond that he Is straight forward and fearless in proclalming his prineiples and policies and that he 1 this bereafter persist in declining to tell the country what he would do, if president Hauidating government obligations payable fu coin Meanwhile the general opinion will be. in view of what Mr. Bryan has said in|a constitutional convention fairly took able to urg earliest acts of his administration will be to pay the obligations of the ernmient o silver to the extent that coin years were insincefe and meaningless AT ITS OLD TRICKS The W it r e w ry of fr before ev vamps the exploded story fon of voters by the so-ca n the primary t wcoctions about imypy the imagi truth for their basis A year ago the cr by the democratic organ ov lican primaries, which resulted in a clean-cut victory for the faction that nominated the ticket. This ery was ruised simply as o cover md exeuse for the defeated faction of r the three best offices in the county we given over to democratic officlals b it was not accepted 1 could not be produced and the importation of voters was vesur rected and even formulated into an ex of his charge he squirmed out on technieality., The aim and purpose of the W Herald in repeating these rid " misled. The demoerats would like noth ing better than to b among republicans by muking them he lieve that they are the vietims of frand support for Bryan and the demc ticket. We do not believe, how gence will swallow this democratic hait THE SUNDAY BEE. best numbe issues with which its v ‘he Ilustrated Bee, which is the sup. plemental magazine furnished subser! dny and special Sunday features. The front page is adorned by a hand States senator, Jonathan P, by being mentioned most prominently place on the ticket with President Mc Kinley. Senator Dolliver has kindly accorded The Bee's stafl photographe special sitting and his home und are also pr 1 in half-tone engray ings. His biography and views on cur reut topics, given in u characteristic in | manner. The of beautiful pictures, reproducing pho tographs taken for The Bee at the an nual encampment of the Nebraska Na tional ngo. ship he central figure is the ehamplon | snapshots of the cup winners, the new Thurston Rifles of camp life. the oceasion for a brief teh of Om, history, set off with portraits of prom Central Labor union at Omaha, the pres ident of the Trades As Omaha, the labor commiss one union. An equally inter stin | late Senator John J. L | portrait 1x veproduced from his latest [ photograph, sent to the anthor and pro [ nounced by Mr. Ingalls one of his hest | best literary style. women and their position and character | isties in Filipino society. Women's cos tumes and women's work in the Philip pines ar wint to see good iden | leading features they give of the whole number. Be sure to get The Sunday Be Our democrati laint in thy lican primaries ar the hours of 12 and 7, which are ordi narily the hours at which most ot that the repub to see a great hornets’ nest in this ar rangement. The hours for holding pri mavies, however, ave fixed by the law wernor, and approval of the populist cannot be changed by any npaign commmittee, They are, woreover, th ame for all political parties that hold their primaries under the primary luw Democracy has caught its s wind In Cuban matters. The call for its b on the point of admitting that the ad winistration really intended e ot unless it be assumed that all Mr. Bry an’s utterances during the last four d-Herald seems to be edited upon the principle that a lie well stuck to is better than the truth. In order to create dissension among the republicans wout fm led Rose: ter-Moores machine and raises the | ud over the coming primaries | kets are filed The fact is that all the World-Herald's rting voters and slonizing schemes are pure figment of ition without one scintilla of of frand was rajsed © the repul ublicans to organize a kniting expedition by which publican votes, A chullenge was fssued at the time for proof of the charge, but cause the proof Again in the spring, at the municipal election, the howl about colonization plicit charge printed over the name of the chairman of the democratie eity committee, The challenge this time was in the form of the arrest of the democratie chairman for criminal libel and his citation into court to prove his statements, Although he . was allowed two wonths to dig up evidence, when confronted in court he could not bring a single witness to substantiate his as- sertions and instead of producing proofs | legal | lies again at this time is so transparent that no loyal | sublican should allow himself to be ‘0 dissension ulent practices and thus enlisting their v intelli; The Bee Sunday will be one of the « among the many fine ders have been | aled. This is particularly true of bers in addition to all the news of the artment some portrait of lowa's new Unitgd | | who was honored only a few weeks ago ] ns an available candidate for second al SOUND MONE Amily terview, are set forth In an attractive prcond special feature is a page suard, held at Hastings a week wernor's cup,” awarded to the | Omaha Guards. Around it are grouped W pertinent scenes The advent of Labor Day furnishes labor unions in their origin and early inent labor leaders, the president of the smbly at South s of lowa and Nebraska and a group of ploneer trades unionists of this city who are identified with the fouhding of the first | « contribution is | from the pen of Rev. Edward I, Trefz, | narrating personal reminiscences of the whose likenesses, The article s veplete with interesting anecdotes and written in the | Carpenter's letter deals with Filipino aphically deseribed, while ¢ ilinstrations afford glimpses into Filipino lite, such as every visitor would While these are only a few of the riends have a new to be held between |18 passa ople required to be at work. It pretends enacted by the last legislature, with the i ath away for a thme and it wus ive Cuba its own governwent, The lead- T is avaflable and that his efforts will be | ers could not afford to give up a chance reistently directed toward nullifying the currency act of last March and overthrowing the gold standard. As to this there canoot be a reasonable doubt to attack the president, so they have in duced a Cuban professional politician to come out in an interview in which he says he fears the convention is a San Francisco Call blind. 1 the larder to please than a dem Cuban politician, I'he suggestion is offered that the band reception for the return of braska's great trust-smasher fi 1 rilliant bout with the octopl in the | home in Wall stroer, Such courageons and self-sacrificiug devotion to duty de enthusiastic adniivers. Works Both Waya. Washington Star uncertain whether they shall regard M: Bryan as a farmer in politics or as merely 1 politiclan on a farm China's ¥ oda. nancinl Met Lou's Star devils” In recent years $300,000,000, and the larger part of that money has been expende own arms. Futile A ations. Indlanavolis Journal Saturday night, conveys the impression that lican crumbs the last few years, he woul table. Why Endorse Ratiticati J. Sterling Morton's Conservative title to the government of the United States. be true. why did Bryan insist upon the fication of u treaty which compelled th, ment to n of $20,0 United States for an imperfect and fraudu- lent title? Is Bryan a confidence man? I | he a dealer in gold bricks? 1f not, wh ats ttle? 0t Flghting Rlood. Cleveland Leader. The names of the Boer generals whe are not Dutch nam [ the intepse sympathy with which the | people of France, almost to a man, have | toes. nlous of the Thrifty, Portland Oregonian Tdiers | before, but the Bryan orators inquire “What is the good of money in banks? The | of Jack Cade citizenship and politics, INFLATION, | Brought About hy Leginlation Agninst Which Bryan Invelghs. New York Times. It is odd that Bryan should think that | isely at the point where it has been most brilliantly successful. Question has been raised, especially since his nomina- tion for the presiden: i« anybody on earth it it s a China bas borrowed from the “‘foreign to pay for modern arms. China evidently believes in fighting the devils with their Mr. Bryan, In using the comparison ot Lazarus and Dives fn his Omaha speecs because Epain was not a rightful, but only a forcetul holder of the Philippines. 1f thar ay- 1 he atd Spain in defrauding the Unites s out of $20,000,000 by means of a bad | There will be |have been most frequently mentioned in the latest news from South Africa show plainly how marked an infusion of | French Huguenot blood there was in the | g " i Dutch stock from which most of the people | ,_Senator Platt and Richard Croker agree | of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State in saying that young Mr. ( have sprung. De Wet, Delarey and Olivier They are quite ench enough to account for a good part of | It 15 now asserted that the great re- | former, Dick Croker, is about to take the .| stump. He has taken most everything watched the herole struggle of the Boers | Political around Manhattan and it is just [ against the overwhelming numbers of their | #% Well to let the tail go with the hide It Mr. Croker insists on campaigning ns should help him even to the extent of furnishing the megaphone. The louder Richard talks There is more money in banks than ever | the larger will be the harvest of votes for | people who need money can't get it."" But its owners_the depositors—can get it when | they want it This, however, to the Bry- | | anite objector'is no answer. He doesn't | want the owner ‘to have it. The man who | has money in bank is a plutocrat and an | enemy ‘of 1{berty/and of his country. The | Dolliver, | ghittless and the worthless and the in- | dolent, the hobo and the Coxey army man represent our ftruest cltizenship. If you find a man who has money in bank spot him | for a traitor. Bryanism is the apotheosis whether or not the safeguards it sots about the gold standard Colonel Bryan goes continually to th ings of Lincoln for the garniture of his ac now using what the greal emancig had to say ahout the axioms of in favor of self-government and govern principles of republican gov as if he had just discov they had fal' gotten. It n on deaf cars and b only necessary to en for undying respect as a rule of conduct in four The only deflant deniers of these princi n convenience and in their own ways, run ning from the murder of men to nullifica " | which will give Colonel Bryan 120 elec principles of Lincoln, while th to his teachings. + | nis quotations. He b, s put Lincoln ing: “When the white man governs him despotism.” This is « partial quotation do much better if he sat at the head of the | OMItUDE the text, which is a direct com ment on the acts of the south, which deny to the negro the right of government by consent. white man governs himself, that is self sent, that is despotism. | BRYAN and LINCOLN amendment gro the ballot govern himself and consent y- to government ceptance and other oratory. He is just with intending to destroy by consent in the Philippines indefensible erson ment by consent, He states the plain and Jacksonians organize u grand brass| g rument ed them, or as it ym his | when uttered by Jefterson and Lincoln self-government destroyed in this country by Colonel Bryan's What refinement of hypocrisy 1t is for him | to claim votes upon the declaration that he will give self-governm y that nobody takes the adverse side in respect to these axioms. Nobody who opposes him serves a tribute of this kind from his|denies them and there are nt to turbulent peor none among pledge to restore it to @ larger pumber right the republicans who fail to hold them in | ently been talking patron asking them to vote for him republican government. Colonel Bryan might as well appear as the champion of His neighbors in Nebraska are still a little [ the multiplication table and expect a dis pute of the propositioh that twice two are ment is an evil ire miseries in it it destruction of self-gover ples as restated by Lincoln are the sup- porters of Colonel Bryan. For their own it Lincoln told republicans party has already His charge against republicans bas | no proof but his assertion his own party complishment tion of the constitution, the southern states, The same of- | 18 proved by it requires a cheek of bronze for bim to scold republican lead toral votes, aro flagrantly violating the candi- date for the presidency goes up and down accusing the party of Lincoln of infidelity upon that issue Colonel Rryan carefully picks and chooses 8 say - self that is self-government, but when he while he has done pretty well with repub- | EOVerns himselt and another man that is We used fraud The full quotation Is: “If the negro is a In & speech made recently at Falls City | Man, 18 it not to that extent a total de- the peerless and paramount Bryan declares | Sruction of selt-government to say th that the government of Spain transterred no | he. 100, shall not govern himself? When the negro there, he will not do this. government, but when he governs bimself and another man, without the other's con- this issue and present himself to them as to showing himselt 1t was this saying of Lincoln that led his 000 in gold by the | PATLY, after his assassivation, to pass the ancipator by doing as he would have | CAMPAIGN 200 polling places in this s election in New York state. | yea | go these old reliables so goes the union. "| Senator Platt of B held at Saratoga nc t Tuesda \ | breastworks for a few years more with his mouth the republ McKinley end prosperity binder by heredity. His father repentance will hold his nose when he votes this fall For some time past the governor has been investigating things political outside the breastworks and bumped his nose against some loud atmosphere. Yet he did not get a smell | Judge John H. Holt, the democrati | nominee for governor of West Virginia, Is |, | carrying cn an old-fashioned campaign in | untain districts of his state. He plays the fiddle for the farmers, and, upon one accasion, instructed a housewife {n he can make capital by attacking the | the art of making blackberry ncial legislation of the administration the n dumplings. The governor of New York to be elected in November will have considerable power of appointment. Among the heads of do- partments whose terms expire is the state commissioner of excise appoined in April 1866, The term of the commissioner is five would be efiective against his executive | years and confirmation by the senate is re power if he should be elected, even If the | senate remained republican and so blocked | The total vote on the free silver legislation. High authorities believe that, by ordering bonds of the | ing color United States to be paid, principal and in- terest, in silver coin, against the wish of the holder, he could, even before bonds | were due and presented for payment, estab- | 1ish the principle of peremptory silver pay- ment of private debts and so shock our whole financial and business panic und chaos. Persons most scrupu- lous for the security of our national credit viglons of the act of successful and satisfactory Mr. Bryan attacks this part of the law in a feeble and perfunctory manner, only assalling the republicans for not estab- lishing international bimetallism One | listens in vain for the stern deuunciation | of 1896, the prophesies of disaster under {the gold and the promise of happiness | and abundance under the silver standard | 1t he is thus timid in his own west, what | will he be in the “enemy’s country?” He acte as It he were fairly well satisfied | with the gold standard provisions of the act of March 14, and thought he could carry out his purpose of financial admin- istration under them well enough. He re serves his attacks on the law for the | bunkiug and refunding provisions, under ‘\\hu h the circulating medium has been in- | croased and the interest on the public debt has been reduced. Of course, his funda- mental objection to these is that banknotes are red mable in gold—~or in anything, for that matter; for his hearers must see th inconsistency of his singling out for attacl | just thuse provisions of the law which have | met in remarkuble and unexpected degree | the democratic and populist demand for | more currency Continuing reports of the operation of the bunking provisions of the gold stand ard act discover that it has caused an in flation of sound money since its passage larger than was ever made of any currency | in the same time, if we except the green- vack forced loans of the civil war. Befor J ational baunk circulation ha ben steadily declining for some year while other forms of currency. except gold stationary. On J uary 1, 1899, bank h 14 as wholly | | note eirenlation was about §243,000,000, nnd [t had hardly varied from this on Junu 11, 1900. The gold standard act p March 14 und by August § the b | circulation had increased to § | Here 15 an increase in circulating wedin { nearly $80,000,000, which will rise | $100.000,000 when the clerical operation | of exchanging bonds and printing not | now under way shall be completed. Th | increased circulation has be used idely through the country by the wi provision of the law authorizing banks of in small places. Of the 42 ew banks whose applications for chart | under the law have been appro | have less thun $25,000 capital and of the 50 are wlready organized and in operation only five months after passage of the law This is only a small part of the sound money inflation of the last four y $25,000 capl | systems into have not regarded the gold standard pro- | quired constitutional amendment in North Carolina disfranchis- 'd citizens was 310,502, The total vote of North Carolina In the presidential election of 1896 was 320,000, 20,000 more votes than were cast on August The vote for the amendment was 182217 and against the amendment 125,285, a majority for the amendment of It s said that the democratic press bureau has ready to send out 1,000,000 copies of “Anti-Trust Tablet, No. 1" It fs entitled “The Carnegie Exposure,” and deals in a highly denunciatory style with the methods by which the gentleman ac- quired his wealth. Now that it is believed that Mr. Carnegie may support Bryan the managers are holding the pamphiet, ac- cording to the story, and may decide to consign it to the dump. POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS, New York Tribune: Nothing about Mr. Bryan is more impressive than his loquac- ity, except his taciturnity when awkward questions are asked Chicago Post: Of course no one over ac- cused Croker of lacking nerve, but when he announces his intention to discuss trusts as a campaign issue he certainly reaches the limit. Perhaps he expects to be able to demonstrate that ice doesn't count Washington Post: Mr. Bryan douned bis 15 the other day when the thermor- ete | Into his beet field, put up a fine exhibition | of the man with the hoe. The official farm photographers secured some fine views of the performance : Kansas City Journal: The traveling | men of the country testify that they are | doing an extraordinary amount of business this year, that their number in service is unusually large and that a large mujority f them arc emphatically in favor of Mc- | Kinley and continued prosperity. Such | testimony, however, does not *ko" with | the democratic campaigners. Democratin | teaders formed a theory that the traveling men were thrown out of employment by the trusts und that practically all of them ould support Bryan, and they are stick ing to it like gum arabi New York Sun: Varlous newspapers are imusing themselves by o e or i nting opinions and seatistics as to how he German-Americand will vote next ber. Probably the German-Ameri | \re heartily sick of (his. Each one of them i | 1 certain of his friends will vote, and he can tell no more. The Gormar ans will vote hey ple | and divided as other Amerl r political opinions. You migh it the blue-eyed vote o bluck-haired vote as about the Ger | man-American vote. There are German \merican voters, some of them in thi party, some in that. Nohody controls them but themselves. Nobody is authorized speak for thew. Nobody can lead them the nose, | found 1t necessary to strike off the effect- t and order the sale o fewer tham fitty vessels, all of which he declares 10 bo quite useless for the purposes of navai defens The number fnclud ho firest class protected cruiser, Le Panto, which was launched only two years 1t is now revealed that mos the bollers of the ships of the squadron whoch took part In recent mancuvers are in a defoctive con. dition and that those of the battleship Polayo and the cruiser Charles V. will have (o be geplaced Senor Rilvela has also discovered the estimates which have been voted were not sufcient to provide the vessels with enough coal to enable them to remain sea for a fortnight. The sum voted for personnel was $4.600,000 for 2,000 marines and 4,500 seamen. The majority of the credits go to maintain the arsenals and dockyards at Ferrol, Cadiz and Cartba. gena and the admiralty, where most of the officers of high rank are employed The loss of the col having much re duced the already limited active experience which the Spanish naval officers could ac- quire, Senor Silvela s confronted with th dilemma of having to permit things to go |on as they are or to ask the Cortes to give permission to ralse a an to reor ganize the naval service and to authorize him to reform abuses and abolish sine cures, Consulir reports which have been received by the foreign embassics in Constantinople from Erzeroum and Diarbekr confirm the mors of the massacre of Armenians at 8pag hank, in the district of Saesun. On receipt of these reports the French and Russian ani- hods of denying self-goverument to the | bassadors drew the serfous attention of the “We shot them counts and growing tired of these we amended our state coustitution and eliminated the negro vote.' 1t Colonel Bryan wishes to prove his right to a reputation for courage quote Lincoln of self-government well as for the tribes is safe to say He prefers to attewpt perte o the subject and, ft s sald, de- manded the recall of Emis Pasha, vali of Aleppo, who, it is said, is responsible for the events in Sassun Reports of the mussacre agree that from 200 to 300 people were slain and that Spag hank, which contained between twenty-five nd thirty houses, was completely obliter- ated. During the first hour of the assault # number of men, women and children took refuge in a church. The buillding was sur rounded by Kurds, who finally effected an ectrance and slew all those within A fortnight ago a second attack was made upon the British vice consul at Van. The Kurds wounded his dragoman and stole his baggage. It Is now learned that two months ago the French vice consul at Diarbekr, while traveling in Alexandretta, was at tacked by a Kurd, who discharge! his gun The mineral and agricultural of Siberia are described in a recently pu lished book, from which Commercial Agent ner at Viadivostock sends some | 1ations in his last report ing area of Siberla, which extends across from southwest east, is about 4,300 miles long and 100 miles The area has been prospected only | superficially on account of the almost forests and the severo winters but rich alluvial drifts have already American mining of a company of six employed by the Russo has expressed | fon that the extreme eastern territory near | Bering straits will prove as rich as the | Cape Nome region, si Vermont will speak out next Tuesday and Maine on the Monday following. As The gold bear ys: “Mr. Odell is the cholce of the republican party for governor sw York." The convention will be r will be benefited by cooling his heels outside the it is analogous in agricultural berla are almost limitless. stretches from degree of latitude to the Chinese frontier. tivable zone the fiftieth | 80,000 of which have been brought under The system of agriculture in primitive kind, strip of land being cultivated until exhausted and present time the annual harvest of cereal crops in Siberia yields about of which 60 per cultivation, Senator Dolliver of lowa is a spell- a Methodist preccher of more than usual unction and filled many a sinner with germs of remorse. The senator is equally eftective in bringing political sinners to £80,000 tons, cent is corn aud oats. Comparatively little wheat is grown. #oil and climate, however, southern Siberia of the greatest the world. transportation and modern cultivation such as rapidly supplyiog will enable her to ex- ploit her immense natural resources, Siberian competition will begin in earnest Governor Pingree of Michigan says he to become one wheat growing Facilities for According to the Paris correspondents of | the London press, the recent speech which Jules Guesde delivered as a funeral ora of Herr Liebknecht, definite severance between French and German soclalists was energetic line of policy which M. Jaures adopted in the Dreyfus case and was equally antago. acceptance by M a soclalist, of a seat in the Bourgeofs min- M. Millerand had the support of all parliamentarfans Guesde and his followers were irreconcilable and the efforts of M to bring about a reunion Guesde is one of the | the soclalist leaders and question he declared his uncompromising fashion. Dreyfus matter was no part soclalists to attempt to redress the wrongs of capitalist society or to forget sufferings in the effort to redress the fn- opposed to his party, but M Jaures and others have been futile. most fanatical of in the address in views in the most the duty of who abandon interpreted Philadelphia Anatole France and indirectly upon the great |at supporters and body of German socialists oara S the wor 50l und There is nothing new in the hostility ex- hibited recently by s in the region of the Donetz manifestations when there was an slan journals The has been developed golely by Belgian enterprise. In the first 1868 slx ne were formed total capital of $7,000,000 and from one of these mines alone. They din To think that in is obtained proprietors, with debt or ignorant peasants, sold their | [lands for insignificant sums in comparison indicated 96 {n the shade and, going| Iving below introduced | | turbances occurred on th Donetz Glass property of the the Belgian this extensive lared, of $50,000,000, | but a large and increasing Bblgian colony | total amount | established itself in the Donets lands at private value in the first instance, imagined that | knowledge of for | to such profitable account the superior The first growl Tehaikovsky inflicted on the Rus- importation ide of the Russian inhabitants by a more The Belglans took advantage | Russlans to original lardholde political capltal would take to reorganize the remnant of will be recalled that | that the premier under to act as minister of marine. the Spanish na it 18 only recently at the vice consul. In spite of the repre- sentations of the French embassy the per petrator of the crime has not yet been rested. In the meantime no attempt has been made to punish the assailants of M Maunsell, the British vice consul, or to ob tain the restoration of his baggage 1t is feared in foreign diplomatic eircles in Constantinople that the sultan will take advantage of the attention of the powers be- ing directed toward the far east to relax his promised vigilance in Anatolia and thus en ourage the Kurds to repeat their depreda- | tlons of four years ago. Speak Out, Willilam Hrennings, New York Tribune It is a matter of history how Andrew Jackson precipitated panic and misery b radical use, in deflance of congress, of e ccutive power over bank deposits. Wil M». Bryan follow the example and pay out silver? The American people are entitinl to a frank answer, regardless of the politica? schemes which Mr. Bryan thinks would by promoted by evasion BREEZY TRIFLE Chicago Record: *“You've got your ca Jidate, billed for short speeches everywhers 00" “Yes; what he says always br such prolonged cheers, you know.’ Philadelphia Post: Meligger- T soe % Barnpaws, the circus man, was martied tha other day. That was something of a com down for him. Thingumboh -Why s0? McJigger—The wedding was nothing hut a one-ring performance 188 it Chicago Post: “So her forelgn trip was not_a success Oh, dear, no! Why, she didn't even he come ed o a mun with a title and a bud record Indignapolis Journal: 1 hold Bryan re sponsible for this hot summer “How's thut “Why, we've hud sixteen hot days to one cool one." Chicago Tribune: The captured pick- ocket looked at the new and plittering cuff that had been snapped on his ts and shrugged his should s “Fine fetters.” he muttercd, “never make fine Jailbirds w Washington Star DId you ever hear anything againt his hopesty ” ‘No, sub,” answered Mr. Hrascis Pinkly “But he eats chicken mighty re'lar on 8un- day un’ he's allus got an umbrolla when it raing Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Oh, yes,” sald his mother, “Willie {s a8 healthy s any mother could wish. Ie has the appetite of a horse. Got to,” Willie interrupted her to re mark hey don’t gimme nothin’ but eracked oqts. Somerville urnal: When o young man s woman to sing to him, elther [ he i in Jove with her or she knows how to sing exs: 1 think it's m i Uyou mizht give me the mons sk for. 1°don't think you care for me he sob My dear,” satd her close husband, ‘I for vou thun all the money in 1. Youre worth your welght in n why don't you glve me credit (¢ what I'm worth SCHOOL DAYS, Someryille Journal s _hearts are full of jo hey feel Ko blithe and gay ‘To think the opening of school [s but ten days away! e and shout and clap their ha now and then, short a time Il be in school again! Thelr teachers, too, are overjoyed To know the time's %o near When they will have the pure delight Of teaching children dear. The tedlous vacation time Thank heaven!—{s almost past And children dear and teachers can Go back to &chool at lust! We Cut Prices. Premos . . 33] Per Pocos . . . 3 Cent Ihe trust says we ci 't cut prices, but “wateh us," UTESON PHOTO SUPPLIES 1620 DOUGLAS ST,