Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 25, 1900, Page 6

G GOVERNOR POYNTER'S HIRELINGS. | Governor Poynter In his specches is trying to make a polnt against milit alluding to the soldiers in Philippines as “$15-a-month hirelix His idea doubtless I8 to coptrast | character of the regular army and the | state militia, forgetting that R the difference, if One Year . practically been Year OFFICES Hee Building Hall Buflding THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. | ) 9 lj nr:p‘li\\ ATER, Editor | - ““;‘fl e | |8 by the PUBLISHED EVE} " = the TERM Dally Bae (with Daily Bee and 8 Tllustrated Lee, O Bunday Hee, One ¥ Baturday Bec Weekly Bee, O UBSCRIP it Sunday), ¢ however, exlsted, has Hundreds in the late any ever wiped out of young men eager to serve | war with Spain enlisted | rather than as volunteers, because they believed they would get to the firing line more quickly., Many others who went through their period as volunteers after they mustered back the fight | 1d stripes, Omaha: The us regulars South Omaha ty-fifth and N St Council Bluffs: 10 Pe go: 1640 Unity Bullding York mple Court shington Fourteenth Straet, Sloux City ‘ark Street PONDENCE Twen Ny re-enlisted were Commur torial matter vddresse Bee, Editorlal Department BUBINESS LETTERS. letters and romittances she The Publishing ¢ 1A Ohahh | out and went under the stars To “hirelin, them, but brothers to renew disparage these brave men is un insult not only to to the fathers, mothers, | who know that have engaged in honorable service | purcly from patriotic motives, 1f the | | soldiers in the Philippines are “hire | %0 also, then, were, in their time, of the most distinguished men | o names illumine the nation's bis Washington, Juckson and Zach Taylor down to Grant, Gartield and MeKinley Had yuter through the experience of shouldering a knap suck and gun he would not be so gl in talking about “hire a m Omaha REMIT Remit by draft, express or postal order. payable to The Bee Publishing Compan Only 2-cent stamps nccepted in payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, excent on Omaha or Bastern exchinges, not accepted HE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY o and they STATEMENT Btate of Nebraska George B Publishing mays that complete the month of OF CIRCULATION Douglas Count Taschiick, secretary of omi g duly . imber of full Dally, Mar Aug was a8 27,000 e Tren | Wh sworn, | tory, from il and ing 1 27,4 27, Governor been ings.” > ¥ TGN VIEWS OF AMERICAN SITION 20| It is not surprising that British opin 26,680 | fon of the position taken by the United :;'"".’::1 rd to China is unfavorable '40 p| 1t was expected from the outglyings i 120 | specting the attitude of the British gov- | G | | erument. States in reg That such is the case will not | be watter of regret to the American peo- | although bad the British ut aceepted the American policy un negotiations would have facilitated. 1t will be quite well, loweyer, for the United States to proceed in this matter independently of Gr Make the | other power, sinc govern Net o | e daily a questionably Subscribed | before me (hi 1000 L been as —— e Ak-Sar-Ben most of it — the weather at Britain, or for that matter, of any it will thereby be the | | better able to avoid complications while | week is here | in nowise impairing its chances of hay If th vatterns after the re publican party and lives up to its record | carnival week will be favored with good | weather. ing its just demands conceded by the | Chinese government, The attitude of the American govern ment is entively honorable and fair and | it the London newspay exigencies. There has been from the policy anuounced last July by tlar to |h|‘K “If wrong | 10 — Bryan should hunt mount The tured especially not take well ¢ up is foolish to attribute it, as sowe of new another para Isxue manufac- | rs do, to political | no change one for this campaign does an inoculgting virus, this government in the cir In the It was then declared lungge degenerated from a | entry to a selling plater ber he will have to grass of the turf, Bryan has | powers be done to our citizens we hold the termost misxing suburbun After tury responsible authors to the ut-| countubility.” That is still | the purpose, as distinctly stated in the answer to the German proposal. But | this does not coutemplate the surrender | by China to the allies of any persons whom the powers may believe or al lege to be responsible for the outrages, to be punished as the allies should de- | termine, The United States recognizes | Chiua us & sovereign power, entitled to the same consideration as such, so long a8 she is able to assert her sovereiguty, as Great Britain or any other power, ' demand of China that she deliver up | to the allies those whom they may | charge with responsibility for the wrongs done forelguers Is to ask her to practically surrender sovereignty and | place hergelf wholly at the mercy of the | powers, for if she were to meekly sub mit to this demand no doubt others equally exacting would follow. United States very properly refuses to be a party to the imposition of any such unjust and bumiliating condition upon China, which there is very good reason to belleve is fnspired by a desive overthrow the existiug dynasty and re- place it with one that will make what ever territoriul concessions to the pow they wight demand. A London pu- | per undoubtedly reflects the prevailing | opinion in Europe when it says that it is tmpossible to doubt that the responsi- ble authors of the outrages are the im perial authorities and it Is not to be doubted that the German proposal, which 1s understood to have the ap- proval of the British government, as it has of sowe of the other powers—that of France with quulifications—had the imperial authorities in view. It is gratifying to note that & more | rational view s taken in Germany | thun in England, o far as newspaper opinion goes, of the attitude of the American government. But foreign views and eriticism will have no effect here, because this country 18 In a posi tion to act independently and hus no jucern in the designs of European pow ors except as they may affect our inter | ests, which we shall be ready to protect | it they are endangered. Smee——— RELIANCE UPON Novem out to The tween 1806 and 1900 is not pleasing to the Bryan munagers No wonder the colonel has to keep on the jump to hold his various campaign committees on the try silvol i k. — It is only a matter of time when Omaha will have a system of suburban electric roads radinting from its busi ness cent It may not mate lize this year or next, but it is sure to come. Hobson now deni remarks which were s that he made the Admiral Dewey attributed to him. As a naval constructor Hobson is a suc but as a talker he will not rank so high. J Interviews with Senator Stewart do not oceupy so much spuce in the popo cratie orgun as they did four years when he was in Owaha. The trouble with the senator is he supporting Bryan this year, —— tion of Bryan by the news. respondents who formerly escort for him in all tours and has much sig nificance. Newspaper men never drop a £ood thing until it is worn out as a news subject, regarding %0, only is not to The dese paper formed an I his | e expeditions Porto Ricans are evidently learning fast when they make a demand Cuba for $2,500,000 to reimburse them for the payment of that sum to Spain in the efforts of the mother to suppress the Cubans. will have char; and loss, on country Porto Rico e the item up to profit 1t votes, Roosevelt 18 making democratic it appears a little strg that Bryan should be detailed to make a tour in his wake of the states which the governor has visited. Republicans are willing to take chances on election day with the democratic votes Roosevelt has made. —_— ze Aguinaldo need have no fear of over drawlng his bank account to pay the rewards offered for Americans who sur- render to him. The kind of Americans which favor surrender are not in the Philippines, but remained in the Uni States and are wostly running tor offic on the popocratic ticket | THE SENATE. Those who are relying upon a continu ance of the United States senate in re. publican control as a bulwark against the Bryanite financial policy are count ing on an uncertainty, with th in favor of a change in the political complexion of the senate in the event of Bryan's election, | Senator Allison, authority in such a matter will be questioned by few, has very clearly and convincingly shown | what the endorsement of Bryan and Bryanism would mean in its bearing | upon the senate. He sald in a recent | speech that to be elected Mr. Bryan Nothing seems to be small for | will have to carry the states of Kansas the Bryanite organs to resort to in| Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Montana their desperation to make political capi- | Utah and Idaho, in which senators are tal. A case in point is the distartion of | to be chosen this winter, an interview with Dean Campbell | Were carried by Bryan in 1806 and if he Falr, putting into mouth words | should carry them this year the same which he did not No fake is |,..,\ votes. that will give him their presi cheap for the Bryanites this year, | dential electors will elect demo cratie legislatures. The currency law of Great Britaln is agaln displeased with | the last session was passed by eighteen the position taken by the United .\‘iul(':(‘ mujority nator Kyle of South ¢ chances The proposul of the powers to hold Chinese ports until such thne as the do mands for repur complied with ry ation have been fully | whose lects on the sincerity | of their declarations that they have no tervitorial designs in that divection The powers occupied Egypt years ago and England is there y These states his say. also toward the Chinese situation. That pre- | Dakota, being absent and unpaired, did tended sec allinnee, which does not| not though having a e ut exist except in the fertile imaginations | free silver record in the senate, Nend of the Bryanite fakirs, would long ago | tors Lindsay of Kentucky and Caffery have been called iuto requisition of Louisiana, who voted for the bill, go vote, nsist | possible fc | experienced a n | Suielas, Great Britain had any wght to «|u\x'.-’m|t of the senate on March 4 next and the United States to co-operate with it, ( OMAHA DAILY filled by senators who favor free silver This change will reduce the gold stand ard majority after that four teen, If the vacancies in the delegations from Utab and Pennsylvania are filled by will counteract each silver men are electe along in Kunsag, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Montana Idaho, the sound majority in the senate will be to two, and if Senator k for free silver, as h lieretofore, the that question, leaving the vice president to cast the deciding which Mr Stevenson s pledged by his record, by the platform and by speech to cast in favor of fr silver. I'hus it that chances,” sald Senator Allison, “leaving out of consideration all the other claimed by Mr, Bryan, in which senators are to elected, and that taking all these together there may be one or more changes, there would be a majority, including the vote of the vice president, for the repeal of this law without any changes other than I have mentioned.” The senator sald further that whether Mr, Bryan could or could not, through his secretary of the treas ury, force upon the country the silver andard, it is plain that if he is elected with the power he will wield in party as president, there will be a jority in the bouse resentiutives, and a large majority, for free silver, and with the force and power that lie b hind free silver a majority in the senate will be secured for the repeal of the cur rency law passed at the last and that law repealed. nator Allison the belief that without tion for free silver it president hostile to our present standard of money to force the ilver standard upon the country I'liere are some who contend that what Senator Allison points out canuot oceur that the senate is certaln to remain in republican control for at least two ) from March 4 next, but most people will the view Nenator whose votes and if the with Bryan men other electors and mon rduced has always done senate would be a tie on ie on the doctrine of states be assuming his ma session expressed atlirmative is of Allison should be disposed to uceept %0 n as 1t presents a which the possibility most serl command 15 ation the money and everybody who desires the continu ance of existing financial and business conditions, THE HUMOR OF IT. Democratic county convention, Place -Sonth Omaha Time-—Last Saturday Dramatis of triends of sound Seene Delegate tors, gamblers, ward heelers and dele Personue gates. First Orator (striking sensational atti tude)—1 charge that a baneful influen has been at work to coerce the action of this convention against Mr. Shields and that threats have been made to close up saloons and gambling louses unless Shields is turned down!!! Voice from Delegates—Who made the threats? Give us the names, First Orator—1 will give you the in mation just as 1 received it Vol Give it out publicly. First Orator—It was told to Mr. Shoe- maker of Omaha that such a threat had been made to Mr. Haley of Berlin & Hauley of this city. they must turn u and help or their sa loon would be closed at midnight and kept closed Sundays, instead of being al lowed to do as at present, and that their gambling house would be up tight. These are the facts as they are represented to me, and you have the source of my information, At this rather sensational period Dick Berlin, a member of the firm mentioned, up in the Lall and exclaims: is the truth fo closed stands “That Explanatioun: two.” The First Orator is 1 Dunn, deputy to County Attorney sworn | his official oath to rce the gambling laws not only in in uth Omaha as well, Shields, the nominee for county at torney, gave it out when bLe assumed the duties of the office two yeurs ago that no gambling would be permitted in Douglas county while he occupled the I enfy Omaha, but position. Berlin, who claiws to have been sub jocted to the duress on his gambling es tablishment, wus a duly accredited del egate the floor of the democratic county convention, the United States to the notes of the various powers on the Chinese question are a sad blow to the democratic coutention of an alliance be tween this country and Englaud. The position of this country could not pos sibly be further removed from that of England than it is on the Chinese ques tions. The entire diplomatic history of the present administration proves that it has almed, and successtully, to tak care of American Interests everywhere and avold entanglements abroad. on The replies of The signing of the scale by the Amal the lron and which 60,000 men at Istuctory mi gamated association and steel mill owners, by will return work wages, is a blow to the ¢ paign. The shutdown was not the re sult of a strike in the first place, but simply following the universal practice of the men and mill owners when scale expires, but democratic politiclans had hoped no agreement would be veached, at least until after election to a Republicans are as usual the first in the field with a call for their city con vention to nomin board ticket. Seven places will be filled at the coming election to the cx istence of two vi in addition to the r tlar term expirations, A ticket of clean, capable men who will keep the schools op a business basis is what is wanted, r that the wmajorities in the successful delegations in e a school owing ancies strong Remem Omaha of the republican primaries foot up nearly as mAny votes us altogether in cast both their places have already bcculthc democratic primaries, No more de- \ vle should vote | | mine owners by alienating friendly pub | time in that state | leading article of our enormous export trade They were told l!ml‘ | only BEE "UESDAY cislye expression of the rank and file of | the party was ever registered than that nomination of and which brought about the the republican tickets legislative county | With few exceptions the miners in Pennsylvania have trom violence and it is to be hoped that such a condition will remain to the end Nothing which they could do would so | play hands of the striking | refrained thoroughly into the lic sentiment as outbreaks of disorde After giving out glowing reports as| to the carrying 1lino!® the party managers de eided the case is so hopeless that it is not worth while for Bryan to waste any The nearer you come chances of democracy have de- | to an accounting on democratic claims the less you will find in them. A Tragedy Suggested, Washington Post that Hon. Coin has 1t appears Harvey been scuttled Whole Story. Boston Globe It will be borne in mind that George Dewey was at the fight. Lieutenant Hob son Was no. Tells th Sizing Up the Situation, Baltimore American The peace negotiations with China have | progressed to that poiut where all that remalins to be done is to decide to do some- | thing Mere's the Henl Thing. | Minneapolis Journal We might as well admit that there | a lot of imperialism in this country. There is King Cotton, King Corn, King Wheat and now we have King Coal—with four more kings in the pack nrd ¥ 1 One scientific authority frankly that the national campaign has deme the whole busine “Even the does & pleases, and predictions are not worth a dollar a gross.'” admit alized weather | it doggone Undertaking Detroit Free Germany's demand that China punish i leaders of the Boxer insurrection recalls the | tact that Italy ently inquired it there | were not some process by which Loulsiana Iyuchers could be unished. n Large ( Youns Vick Ralsing 0ld Nick. Portland Or fan Russlan diplomacy doing It has broken the international in two places already, and seems to secure a third disruption in the pendent action of the United States. very well concert about inde ek's Favorite So Philadelphia Record (ind. dem.) President McKinley has certainly great luck during his administration. Good | times have been insured by good crops in this coufitry and short crops in othe countrics, as A result of which there have been tremendous exports of breadstuffs and provisions at profitable prices. Then there has been a great spurt in manufacturing | the world over and unprecedented export of | manufactured products at fair prices. And | now, when business has been a liitle over done and there is a dropping of prices both | in the home and forelgn markets, cotton | again comes suddenly to the front as the | had and cotton prices are booming. Arch Abandoned. New York Tribunc The consenting voice which signifies that | the naval arch must go takes on the em- | phasis of ram's horns. The arch has grown dirty and is particularly shabby about the feet, so proudly planted only a ew moons ago. The prospect of its re production in more solid form somewhere clse does not Improve with the wasting away of the glories of the original. The idea may be given up and the glittering and grandiose structure of triumph subsist in memory, photographs and designs. It was & thing of beauty and might have been a joy forever if the subscriptions had come in a little more liberally. Its com ing and going will point the melancholy oral that the brightest trophies of tri ph in this hurrying age are spun of the | textile of clouds and vanish in the beam that gilds them por's Intereat in the Clection. Portland Orege The interests of labor in this election lie tn the irection of maintenance of the gold standard and the conservation of confi-)| dence, which Insures active trade and set- tled employment. They demand perpetna tion of the present conditiens of trade and manufacture and they forbld a sudden re- | versal of the nation's policy, with the ghock, disarrangement and distfess such | reversal would be certain to bring. These | are also the interests of capital. The idea | that what is good for capital is also good | tor labor is & paradox only to the super fictal view. You can do nothing better l.,r‘ capitul than to elevate in dignity, strength | and character the labor it is to work with You can do nothing better for labor than to elevate in dignity, strength and charac ter the capital it 18 te work with. The doc trine that labor can help itself to better employment by destroying the capital that affords employment is preached by pre- tended statesmen. They not labor's friends, but its worst encmles The labor- ing man who co-operates with the forces | antagonizing our present prosperity and | trade expansion is working agalnst his own | interests oFE HATS TO Sout Cheery Chicago At least Omaha now of her vanishing popu it ought to be some realizo that it is still time that she wants it back annex South Omaha, for the leads all the rest of the percentage of increase West Superior did pretty well. When the figures were announced last Sunday and it was found that her populaton had increased 169 per cent it looked as it she had and would hold the record for this census But, like the ocean records, this one was | only made be broken, and South | Omaha leads with an Increase cent. Think of it! Her proximately two and a total population ten years ago! Why must be growing so fast that when people get up in the morning they naturally ask, “How arrived night A man who ha months 15 regarded as it would not be surprising an officlal of ceremonies kept busy introducing the arrivals Only in that way can the old-timer to keep pace with the population ot sympathy West Superior. It is sad plonship belt just as it seem buckled, but this 1s a rushing world there 18 little time to commiserate fallen champions. All that West 8 can ‘do now is to 100k cheerful and strive | for the record in 1910. It noeds o | little matter of about ouls to add to its present 31,000 18 order to reach percentage and of course that Is & mere irifle, Meanwhile, hats off to SQuth Umaba! knows where some | and | atisfaction to her to within reach. Any he has only to| latter city now country in the tion has gone to now of 222 is quarter times per increase ap her | she | the Just last three | and | mar been there settle arn th who an old tol u re is master is new course one's t ) 10se ham arely and with perior | a o be se re only n | election would carry | sequences for | we still stick to our | small worde | people | states that the aggregate wage lo | remembered by particiy SEPTEMB Swing of German Vote IS German attracted toward iferous elamor is gradually swing and the forces whi which o The vote, year was of the and back to earller Bryan in be About ve imp fsm milit M it will be powerful enough to give him rism, ing Kinley to that direction al quarter as he o causing move in most votes in that The most as many t in latest and in 1 vote | "W many ot the York s the significant | the new drift of the ( following editorial from aats Zeitung The democratic candidate has forced the silver tion into the foreground again and thus has reawakened the fear that his with it terrible con the nation. No man has been elected president because he po sed striking, brilliant qualities. Tt people demand rightly that the candidat shall have certain sterling traits of char acter and a solid element of conservatism in him, 80 that one can look to his adminis tration with confidence and, above all, with alm security. The prospect that he might win such faith has been considerably di- minished by Bryan his revival of the silver question ““We have declared from the year the silver swindle and imperfalism cannot be beaten simultaneously and that the voter must make up his mind clearly which of the two evils must be done for rst and which might wait. We had hopes that the silver question would play no role belief that 1t is dis posed of and requires no further considera tion: and we feel sure that it is less this question than doubt of Bryan's trustworthi ness which has brought it forward again and so hurt the democratic candidale; but tion rman the ye first that this The Paramount Issue Reprinted The paramount issue to be fought out in | the battle of 1900 may be summed up in five Do you want a change? This is the simple question that every cltizen will ask himself before he casts his ballot and the verdict will depend upon the conclusion reached by a majority of the 15 000,000 voters who will record themselves on one side or the other next November. It cannot be gainsaid that the American are as prosperous and well-to-do this year as they ever have been. Do the American psople want a change? Does the great army of wageworkers, which {s better fed, better clothed and better housed now than ever before, want a change? Do the American farmers, whose products are in steady demand at good prices at home and abroad, want a change? Do the merchants and tradesmen of the country, who are doing a larger business in the aggregate than ever before, want & chang Do the manufacturers and employers of labor in mill and factery, whose products GREAT COST OF STRIK Many Millions of Dollars L ployers an Employes, Chicago Chronicle. Strikes are costly. Well, and war fs costly, but that consideration does not deter enlightened nations from Roing to war. Workingmen who think themselves ag- grieved quit work and trust to a trial of strength and endurance to give them what they demand. « The great strike of the coal miners that fs now on involves probably 150,000 work- ingmen, & large number of capitalists and to some extent the comfort of thousands of families. Of course, it now begins to be said this is the greatest of all strikes, but | s0 untrue a saying should not be repeated hours lan¢ on the ocean than they they had gone on a slower they gained by this no « extra hours in Plymouth fot be rtant In that the Deut make fast time it is larger and niore expensive eng isively for carrying A there Is rates charged passens full than which have freight earn the Atlantic swift boat pays more for the | but may not have so plea The vibration of a such high speed is continuous and | pleasant As Dr funny as I can,” 8o American railroa agers do not dare to run trains as fast s they can. They have found it does not pay It begets competition and rate-cutting Th road which, owing to lighter grades a better roadbed, can make faster {ime its rivals does not attempt to utilize | vantages, It knows that it it bids for 1 ness with less time its competitor bId for business with lower fares do not try to the lowest possibl mean a decided fncrease | penses, and they | their fast trains rates, not so much travel by the fastest Should some new motive covered decidedly superior creased speed and lower far cured, to the great gratif fcans. Under pi greater speed has to be pu price, and the saving in time is, ¢ tively peaking. o amall that Americans would care it a pecullar people will dawdle aw half an hour to take minutes faster than have taken more on ho Toss have had it the fact remains that the old alarm fs aroused again The republicans have no right, neverthe coming around to Kinley on such grounds as votes of con lence {n the expansion policy, and when they do that they run the risk of bringing the last moment a reaction tha can be dangerous A fow weeks ago the editor of this influ ential paper was “on the fence.” He fessed that he did not know which way Germans should turn. Since he spoke t he has studied the character of the candi dates, and to some purpose. Canning sald once, “Away with this cant of ‘measure not men,'” meaning thereby that candi dates were often of more importance than the mea they advocated. The editor of the tung says truly that “th people demand rightly that the candidate shall have certain sterling traits of char acter and a solid element of conservatism in him."" He does not find these traits in Bryan Doubt of Bryan's trustworth has brought it (the silver question) forward again.” He says further that th prospect of Bryan's winning popular faith | has been ‘“‘considerably diminished by his| revival of the silver question The editor of the Staats Zeitung says re publicans must accept German vote for McKinley as votes of confidence in his expansion policy. The republicans recog- nize clearly the fact that many men will vote for McKinley who do not belleve in expansion and are opposed to what is today alled imperialism. The republicans un derstand fully that deep-seated distrust of Bryan will get their cand many vote he would not get otherwise. When the cholce bas to be made between the two can didates the majority of the votes will be controlled by the conviction that McKinley is trustworthy while Bryan is not order to accept the vote and froight when malls the there be slower boats who tremely flege, age no revenue about at are a thousand ot must higher those charged e con an ¢ the One crosses on ant a v n wteamer Holmes did not “dare to write a Staats ness to cut down their running time noteh, which wou n operating e higher rate ¢ th as charge on not Some people p to time pe wer be dis atlon of Amer howe hased at a high e, mpara few but abon They a They A train which s the they on wig aro marketable mow at falr profit, want a | change? Do the professional men, whose services command higher remuneration than ever before, want a change? | What would any of these classes galn by | | | ymf ears Tt was s a change? This is the poser which melther Mr Bryan nor any of his champions will be Yesu ablo to answer satisfactorily. They will| s new talk about the Declaration of Indepondence. | About the erime of 1573, about the beauties of free silver colnage, about the disastrous gold standard, about the menace of im- perfallsm and militarism and about the ra- pacity of the trusts. But all these subjects | are overshadowed by the question that dom- inates all men who are constantly striving to better their condition, but do mot will- fully and deliberately expose themselves and | their families to the risk of a relapse to the distressing hard times experienced be- fore the advent of McKinley and the cendency of republican policles that have | restored confidence, raised the national | credit and set the wheels of industrial and | commercial actlvity in motion. Phi retur time | tr Kt That migh b " SRSONAT, Hobson's mouth caused him trouble be tore Notwithstanding the high price of coal | the weather clerk persists in poking the furnace. George Washington of Montgomery | county, Kas., is seeking a divorce from his | wife Martha. Hotel proprietors of Chicago are forming | t a laundry trust. Details are kept mum, |hetrance of but they will probably come out in the | ‘ wash. | Boston milkmen have organized for mu- tual protection. Some of them think the contractors are getting all the cream of the trade POINTERS, don't am “That earance dian " ve frequent Waskh ne f things Sorghum that point depend ther you're deliverin r them. In my oper greq alway There have been many greater strikes in different trades, and not a few of them | have differcd from this one in that they cstroyed for a time the peace of whole communities. The coal miners' strike that | is mow in progress is not so far attended | by any acts of nce of a nature to im- | peril life or fixed property | The commissioner of labor, who presides | over the bureau of statistics at Washington, | began the analyzing of strikes with those 1881 and this work he has continued down to the present time, but his reporcs | are not brought down to date. The more important of his summaries for thirteen yours, beginning with 1881, have been be- fore the public so long that there can be no danger in using them here. In that time in this country there were 1 different strikes. Thelr objects were 9432 Instances ap increase of wages, in 4 instances a reduction of hours, in 1,734 to prevent a reduction of wages and 168 for increase of wages and duction of hours. All these strikes were had and managed in the usual manner | and under conditions that ordinarily ob- | tain. It 1s important, then, to inquire as to the immediate economical results of | these strikes, extending over a period of | thirteen ye The national commissioner of labor shall abswer the question. He to eme must be employes glven izations—$10,014,- | mployers was $32,- losses a by refer to the lockouts. The e loss to employes from lock- | the commissioner of laber $26,680,516, The assistance ployes by labor orgamzations w and the loss to employers $12,230,40) In a comparatively late of the commissioner is a table giving the numbe and the characteristics of all strikes and lockouts had in Ilinois In the eight year from 1556 to 1804, The wage loss to Illinols workingmen in that time aggregated $16, 474,030, The loss to empl 315 hty-two per cent of the strikes wero ordered by Eighteen per fent by employers' organization of strikes w average duration o More viol were re- ployes was $162,807, which added the assistance \ money by labor orga The loss to the 5. Theae Now wage to to were occasion states to em 82,542, outs, was report in to yers was e labor organization: lockouts ordered | The aver fort were duration twen and the seven day outs in thi f lockou | recent strikes aud lock- | robably well enough in them cost miners but it | wages of be are | of now 14 small big What 1 be great strike of progress no one can tell be enormous. The miners, though their in The organizations must be large result to the It be differen and those fMset the th in ain the the conl to Wages ma time workingmen s of strikers may seen wount in even a week to a contributions of the support What ultimate galn trikers remains to be increase wages then ween the before paid will go just okt of the to the | paid | o far to | it an of trike Germ 3! be man war has had that war brought | of the inary expense re of that on to the pro the sh The ult contest im of therefol condit vet Zoit the nd Lorr fairly pro the ¥ empire has been t Emperor Willian frer the This administration of William, and he Jects 1o 7 ake & h ould be perou n 1 innig ng the which occurred does not speak the prese cems 1o owe It to his sub. accountiog for it shortly an President Mitchell of the United Mine ick me as m colossal Workers of America commands a for considerably larger than the entire United States army A Georgia clergyman avers that the Gal calamity was the work of the devil, not of God. Perhaps the dominte has inside information Joseph Jefferson been spending the summer in fishing and hunting, but has passed his evenings In painting, which con- tinues to be his favorite pastime Spain has blown in the § for the Philippines and | our kind of money that plant a loan in this coun stuff. Prospects of peace in China will ot affected by the reported activity of Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston. | The Ancients are merely burnishing up for their semi-monthy bean feast General John A. McClernand, who died nper the other day one of the last two su: ! me vivors of the twenty-eighth congress, which | ° r met in December, 1543. Ex-Governor R rI bet your Sunda sey of Minaesota is the other Wh e e mtntn hiakiny nattint seiihishe B. Stuever of St. Louis is the &irls latest millionaire to distribute his fortune during his lifetime. He has a horror of tamily quarrels over wills and has divided ircie on the leafy gro his money chiefly among his children Jc Of our tongues lading ever Daniel A. Lamont, secretary of war in the nutty treasures we had President Cleveland's last cabinet, is on a visit to the Pacific coast on rallroad bus iness. He I8 vice president of the North ern Pacific road and res himself out of politics The home of the Bradley York, 18 to 22 West Twen West Nineteenth street the hand marks the the family The prosident Commerce honored an honc the limited n rolled are thos George Pendleton NUTTING WITH THE GIRLS, Post veston a time,” as the stor appy davs of came @ & ag o'er the am was unruffied in its st and the pleasures lly recollectio 000,000 recelved 50 charmed with 1s willing Put up the | and it to| When we Birls nuttin’ with the How th As the with the be the hair in tar angel sprites in their sun-bonnets the io rough 18 o wa hat it was fun to Charles 1ghing ip underneath the trees \id eyes would peep In a seml maiden faces framed ir de sh hearts were as N b e ©¥ nuttin’ with th and as passed Srm & expatriation of Martios in th street oY little matd with a pa of a " T¥trustingly’ enthroned within m And 1 sear elected | TuWé ely realized I won so great a only man ever un ously formed the of the 5 - (A h her eves are growing dim and her med with gray me a priceless tie that death a pearl ¢ (g : n ! thin my heart men sweet despot) As when we AN AMERICAN (HARACTERISTIC, | The Passion for Speed and the Effort 0 Satiafy It At steamer qu him so long as he ible. 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