Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 19, 1900, Page 6

THE OMAHA D.uv—r BEE. E. ROBEWATER, Editor. ey o PUBLISHED FVEKY MORNLBO e e TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ee (without Bunday), One Year. oo and Hun One ‘Year o B” One Yea o, One Y OFFICE : The Bee Bullding. iy Hall Bullding, Twen- “ukl! treets. e :L l\ll‘l’r‘firl =:refl. 0: nity Buiding New ,nrk Temple Court. { 51 Fourteenth Street. !'Wl Clty: 611 Park Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Hee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by dratt, éxpross or postal order, payable to The Hee Publishing Comoany; 2-cent lllm?‘ accepted in ment of mall accounts. ‘ersonal check: xcept on Oimana or Bastern cxchanges, not neoepted: THE BEI'I FUBLIBHING COMPANY. ITATEMPN‘I OF CIR lllllll of Nebraska, D 0 B. Tzachiick, v of e iies PUSThing Comnny, duly _aworn says that the actual number of full an complete coples of The Dullv, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of Septembs 1900, was as follows: LATION. “ounty, umml\l ‘and retut ‘N‘et l:lllll sales. . et dally average 20,820 'lfl‘fll(()h B. ’I‘LE(_HUCK Subscribed in iny prevence and swon (o batore me this 30th day of Scptember. A. D TUNGATE, (Seal) Notary Publlc. L o — ———1 “Pardons granted while you wait’ should be the sign hutg up in the ex- ecutive office at Lincoln, — The fusion pipe-dreamers who talk about carrying the city of Omaha for Bryan will do well to note the regls- tration returns. The auditorium project must not be allowed to go to sleep. The only way to equip Omaba with *an auditorium is to keep everlastingly at it. E— Omaha always regrets losing any of its manufacturing institutions, but it will try to get along without the law school diploma mill as best it can. e— Mr, Bryan will wind up his campalgn with a final spurt in Nebraska. If he were surc of Nebraska of course he ‘would not waste time trying to bring it into line. Now 'that Count Waldersee has moved into the palace of the Chinese empress he should ‘send her bis ready-made house which he brought along from Germany. er—— The fusion ‘campalgn managers In Nebraska must be well heeled with money when they can start in now buy- ing republican newspapers to flop over to Bryan. —— Some of the other inmates of the Ne- braska penitentiary with long terms be- fore them evidently did not know how to go abaut it to get a pardon from Governor Poyuter. Sp———— The only people who will feel badly over the end of the anthracite coal miners’ strike will be the Bryanites, who thought they could use the strike for political capital, E—— Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenge to race for the America's cup has been promptly accepted. When Sir Thomas desires to have a little fun he knows where he can get a run for his money. e The two opposing school board tickets are now before the voters of Omaha. The republican ticket is, as a whole, so superior to the fusion ticket that no one should hesftate to choose the for- mer. . The popocratic scarecrow factory will shut down after election. The market for the product has been exceptionally good this segson, but the purchasers bave not been satisfied with the results obtalned, See———— Those Illinois excursionists to Ne- braska can carry the news back to the old folks that they have found the land ‘where farming pays a big return on the investment—everywhere except on the Bryan farm., Bryan has given warning several tlmes, based on his own experience, that the applause given to certaln rear platform speakers I8 not to be relied upon as & promise of votes. Bryau ‘was long on applause four years ago, but short on votes. ALY e It there are any more convicts in the penitentiary who desire to be pardoned 60 account of poor health they should apply before January 1. After that date the man In the governor's office 18 likely to be a trifie particular as to the merits of each case. ~ —— . The Bryanite organ asserts that there l\" only elghty-six mid-road populists In Omaha. That ls more, however, ' than the silver republicans can muster. Iast slver republican county con- M te which every wman who pro- fosses tho party was a delegate, umbered just thirty-five men, ‘meny Women aid children In the couuty, B it A CHARAOTERISTIO PERVERSION. In his speech at Albany, N. Y, Mr. Bryan said: *“The republicans in 1896 said the prosperity of the laboring man and the farmer depended on the pros- perity of the banker and the business man.” This is one of those perver- slons in which Bryan is pecullarly pro- ficient aAnd by which he insidiously ap- peals to class feeling. The republican party said in IBIN. that the prosperity of all interests depended upon the maintenance of a sound cur- rency and the return to a fiscal nollcy that would reylve industries and ereate a demand folabor. It urged that the currency of the country should be kept at parity with gold and that the mills and factories which democratic policy had closed should be reopened. The republican contention was that it was necessary to restore financial confidence in order that capital might seek Invest- ment in new enterprises, that labor could be made prosperous only by re- viving Industries and tbat these things, in fmproviug the home market, would benefit the agricultural producers. How completely this contention has been vindicated by results everybody knows. Every class has had prosperity during the last three years and the nation has advanced from a position of inferlority to one of leadership In the commerce, industry and finance of the worjd. Four years ago the democratic party said that the prosperity of the laboring man and the farmer depended upon al- lowing the silver mine owner to take his product to the mints und have it colned into dollars at the ratio of 16 to 1, although the warket value of silver was 32 to 1. It sald to the farmer and tie laboring man that it would make them prosperous by giving them a de- based currency and this was the only thing the democratic purty then had to offer as a remedy for industrial stagna- tlon and business depression. It did not propose to restore financial confl- [t but to further weaken it. It did not suggest a policy for vpening the mills, but contemplated only the open- ing of the mints to the free and un- limited colnage of silver. It held out no hope to the laborer or the farmer ex- cept the promise of a flood of depre- clated currency which would have en- riched only the silver mine owners, Its policy invited panic far more disastrous than that through which the country lad passed. The republican party recogunizes the Interdependence of all classes and its principles and policies contemplate giv- ing fair and just consideration to the interests of every class. It demands that the wage workers shall be paid in the best money. It protects American industries with a view not only to their development, but iu order also that American labor shall not suffer from the competition of the cheaper labor of the old world. It benefits the agricul- ‘tural producer by buflding up the home market, which is his chief reilance. The materinl progress of the nation during the last thirty years magnifl- cently attests the wisdom of fepublican policies, which In respect to all do- mestic interests are the same now that they have ever been. HE IGNORES SILVER. At some of the places In New York where Mr. Bryan talked yesterday he was asked about silver, but he made no response, This is further confirmation of the statement that he had been In- structed by the democratic managers in that state, which meauns by Boss Croker, to ignore the silver question and to make his talks malnly on trusts and fm- perialism. This he has so far done and doubtless will continue along that line while he is in the state. The fact Is commended to the consid- eration of his free silver supporters. How do they like his turning down in the east of the question which they re- gard as of paramount importance at the bidding of Croker and others who bave no sympathy with'them? And what do Mr. Bryan's supporters generally think of his “honesty” and “sincerity” when he lgnores an issue which le Insisted upon making, because he 1s in a part of the country where its discussion might be a disadvantage to him. It will make little or no difference with the voters of New York whether Bryan says anything about silver in that state or not. All of them know what his position is. But a candidate for the highest office in the gift of the American people ought to have the courrge of his convictions at all times and in all places. IHe should be willing to answer all questions referring to the principles and policies he stands for wherever he may be, Mr. Bryan, In the closing days of the campaign, is show- Ing himself to be a very shifty politician and he Is not lImproving his chances thereby. WILLIAM L. WILSON, The name of the late William L. Wil- pson will be perpetuated in our political listory in connection with' the tariff leg- islation of 1804, He was chairman of the ways and means gommittee in the fifty-third congress and framed in large part the bill which became a law with- out the approval of President Cleveland and which he declared to be “an act of perfidy and dishonor.” Willlam ' Jen, nings Bryan assisted in the framing of this measure and won natlonal recog- nition In its advocacy. It did immeas- urable damage to the industries of the country and was a failure in the matter |8 of revenue, although eucouraging large importations. * None of the predictions made in regard to its eftects Ly its sup- porters were realized, while every prophecy as to it operation made by thé opponents of the act wus verified. Now that the democrats are maklug so great & pretense of hostility to ttusts, it is well to remember that the sugar schedule of the tariff act of 1804 was drawn to suit the sugar trust and we are not aware that Mr. Bryau made any objection to this, Willlam L. Wilsen was a scholarly, able xnd conscientiovs map. He wi not & politiclan, As postinaster gen eral in the Cleveland administratiop he made a highly creditable record and as president of the Washington and Lee university he found congenial dun»ul that were ably performed. A STARTLING STORY. The story printed by The Bee about the pardon eecretly granted by Gov- ernor Poynter to the murderer of Mattlew Akeson, under the pretext that he was to be sent home to dle, when he is at present living, hale and hearty, in the enjoyment of his free- dom, should cause the people of Ne- braska to pause and reflect. The lib- eration of the perpetrator of a cold- blooded murder under a life sen- tence, by the executive clemency of the populist governor, must be an ex- ample either of inexcusable negligence or downright corruption. If false certificates of sickness have been resorted to In this case to open the prison walls to a convict possessed of Wwealthy and influential friends, who can tell whether the same practice has not been pursued for the beoefit of others similarly situated and will not be continued if the same management I8 retained in control of the penitentiary and the pardoning power? If pardons can be procured for dangerous crim- inals in violation of law, without pub- licity, on trumped up pretenses, what safety is there for the public and what assurance that the sentences of the courts will be executed? Governor Poynter, with whom the ultimate responsibility for this scandal apparently lies, Is asking the people of Nebraska to endorse him by re-elec- tion. The most charitable excuse that can be offered for him {is the old story that “he did not know it was loaded.” But this would be only an admission that he is not to be trusted with so great a responsibility. We do not believe the voters of this state will give the endorsement Gov- ernor Poynter is seeking. THE SCHOOL BOARD TICKET. The candidates put in nomination by the republican city convention for places on the school board will com- mend themselves to the support of re- publicans and “friends of the public schools generally. The ticket is representative in every way and the candidates fully qualified to perform the duties that will devolve upon them. Two of the nominees, Messrs. Levy and Smith, are renom- inated, having been selected during the past year to fill vacancies as represent- atives of the business interests. Two of the other candldates, Mr. Stubendorf and Theodore Johnson, are also busi- ness men, the first being a well known German-American and the latter a prominent Swedish-American. Mr. Maynard represents the large body of the people engaged in clerical positions. Mr. Christie is a builder and Mr. Col- lins s a workingman who works. ‘With these men in the school board thie business of that body will be effi- clently managed, with the view to the constant improvement of school work and the elevation of our school stand- ard. There is yet time for G. M. Hitchcock to get Lls name on the official ballot for the expression of public sentiment on his senatorial candidacy. The popo- crats are all pledged by their national platform to the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. One would suppose such a popular man as Mr., Hitchcock would jump at the opportunity to secure popular endorse- ment by submitting his name to the voters. But he has not yet shown any disposition to trust his ambition to the people. 'Why not? e One of the leading financial lights of England makes a significant comment on the increasing strength of the United, States in the world's financial affairs. Formerly when the balance was In favor of this country instead of shipping gold to pay it Europe simply unloaded American securities on New York. This process has been continued until Europe bas been depuded prac- tically of securitles and when a settle- ment is now called for must ship gold. By the way, what has become of the Des Moines Globule that was turning out imperial spooks a little while ago for the benefit 0¥ the Bryanite fakerles? Has the property man taken away all the crowns and scepters and thrones upoft which the straw-stuffed emperor was to sit? Or has the consideration for the Globule’s hysteria failed? Bryau's remarks about ‘reu silver colnage and free trade do not occupy any considerable or even noticeable por- tion of his speeches in New York. Bryan should not be afrald to preach free silver In New York when Roose- velt talked for the gold standard in the shadow of the shaft house of western silver mines. Looks Very M t Way., Baltimore American. After all the claims are in the faot re- prove that there 18 golng to be cousiderable votlng dome this fall. Now Wi What changes time does make! One year ago this saws Mr. Monnott was will. ing to mccept & gubernatoriul momination the hands of the trust-breeding repub- Hean party. Good Thing. l’ofl.l!nd regonian. Our Pactfic states do not propose (o tarow away the Philippine tslands and tl opportunity they have through possession of the isiands Lo hold a footing for trade in’ the Orient. Confidence of the “Profesh.” Phlladelphla Reecord (dem.} The walls of the campalgn managors during the late summer and September daye, when they were trying to frighten nenoy out of the pockets of contributors, have lately been changed into paens, They ° nged the minds They are still bet- stitution of the United States 1s becoming & back number, no democratic orator can complain of the slightest limitations of freedom of speech, Colonel Bryan is fond of bolllh‘ll that he can live comfortably under a reépublican president That is one of the great mer- its of a ‘epublican administration—it pro- vides a good living for men of every party. b Politienl Cheek. York Tribune. Wae may in some things, as Pomfret sald, “‘adore the hand that gives the blow.” But advice to the colored men of this country to vote for the party that has disfranchised them {n a number of states is scarcely short ot brazen. A _Great Spectacle. Kaneas Clty Star. ‘The spectacle of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Croker riding In the same carriage from the rall- way station to the hotel the other day sug: gests all sorts of comparisons—or, rather, nd cach is probably quite well 0 be regarded as antipodal to the Prophecies, ‘Washington Post. Before this campaign ends—in the three weeks intetvening between mow and the election—we will, of course, have McKinley tides and Bryan tides, republican days and democratic days, but when the votes are counted and analyged the public will ap- preciate, if it takes time to think about it, how little these tides really amounted to in ths make-up of the presidential result. Bitect of Amertcan Push, Philadelphia Press. Cuba, during four conturies of Spanish rul®, had but 275 kilometers of public roads built. This represents about 170 miles—a kilometer belng a little over three-fiths of a mile. Today there are, after two years of Americar. occupation, 440 kilo- meters building, 412 under survey and 1,347 projected. The cost of the entire work will be $18,628,841. A number of years will be taken to complete the work, but before American occupation has ceased, however early it may be terminated, the building of roads by Spain will have been doubled. There is no spot where the American flag is planted that there has not followed im- provement. The Politician and the Lawyer. Portland Oregonian. Mr. Bryan is a nominal lawyer, who re- cently sald at Omaha: “If a republican says that the Filipinos belong to us, ask him how we got them; de- mand of him an tract of title to the Fil- ipinos, and he cannot even show a quitclaim deed from anybody who ever had any au- thority to give it.”” Ex-United States Senator Edmunds, who is & lawysr of national reputation for learn- “The Philippine islands belong to the United States by all rules of international law; they are ours; we bought them and paid for them, and the inhabitants of those e citizens or subjects of the United surély as you and I sre.”” Baltimore American. The cflm {n business tells the real story. m le are confident that there will bc no & of administration. Were it not so there would be istles s and acxiety and eyidences of schemes to pro- tect against the wrath to come. It is no small matter to threaten to revolutionize the currency of the country and if there ‘was actual fear that the party who threat- ened would soon be in a position to carry out its threat there would be a different state of things from that which exists to- day. The political atmosphere points plainly to a remewal of popular confi- dence in the wisdom and patriotism of the present administration. This will account for the insulting and despairing cries of Mr. Bryan and some of his followers. THE REAL ARTICLE. Imperislism that is Imperialism—Tip on Cheap Money. Detroit Ffee Press (ind. dem.) ‘While Mr, Bryan is in the east, discuss- ing the question of imperialism, it would not be lmproper for him to devote a little attention to the consideration of the power exercised by the chief executive over the dard of value. Here is a practical cal ¢ imperiallsm of immediate personal concern to every citizen of the United States and Mr. Bryan seems strangely reluctant to discuss fit. ‘Whatever the motives of the couference committee may have been, when' the hou: and senate currency bill for consideration, the pow it to order gov- ernment obligations pald In silver was not taken from the executive department. It has been clearly demonstrated that a president hostile to the gold standard could, if he chose, use the free silver in the treasury for the payment of certain obligations and thereby force gold to a premium. In other words, the president need not maintain the gold standard un- to, ry to call Mr. Bryan's at- tention to the fact that no other civilized ruler in the world today, except the czar ot Russia, possesses such a power and no ruler would attempt to exercise it in the menner indicated. For Mr. Bryan, in the event of his election, to ignore the intent of the law-making branch of the govera- ment and to overturn Eo far as possible the gold standard would be a manifesta- tion of Imperiallsm, the like of which could be witnessed in no other civilized country. It has been more than a century since any clvilized monarch attempted to tamper with the colnage of his country by foreing upon his people & coin of in- forfor value in place of a coln of superior value. At least half of the battle for human freedom has been fought around this standard and only in the United Stat can It be sald that the fight has mot been won. It is possible, of course, that Mr. Bryan would not exercise this despotic power in case of hif election, but Mr. Bryan him- has yet to say so. In 1896 he warned everybody who Dbelleved in the gold standard mot to vete for him, * I promise him thal it will not main- tained_In this country longer than I am able to get rid of it.”" In 1900 he has a: erted that the democratic party “stands where it did {n 1806 on the money que tion.” In hl- connection it s a wi of time to ocratie mrty“ and “Mr. synonymous, for as president of the Unilcd States Mr, Bryan would be the party in respect to executive control of ihe cur- . Mr. Bryun has repeatedly refused whether or not he would pay gov- ernment. obligations in sliver and his r fusal 1s susceptil of only one Inte pretation. His stlence has made It lw- possible to belleve that he would refuse to exercise & power that congress has rashly entrusted to the executive. In other words, M. Bryan would ¢o what 0 Buropean Thonarch would dare do—-de- base the currency of his coantry. The Free Press invites its u:dvr- who hllln that imperialism is the “para- mount fissue’ to consider this phase of the question, iy 1900, Sixteen thousand more electors quali- fled on the first two days ol reglstration this year than in the corresponding per- lod four years ago. The total increase for the four days in 1896 over the regis- tration of 1892 was only 15,000 As there are two more days on which voters may qualify it is morally certain that the total increase will be 4,000 or 5,000 greater than the Increase of 1806 over 1802, Growth in population explains part of this increase and the Interest of the voters in the result explains the remainder. In 1896, 165,000 more votes were polled in Kini county than In 1892, or an increase equal the {ncrease in registration. Mr. Bryan re- celved 24,000 fewer votes than were polled for Grover Cleveland and Mr. McKinley re- celved 39,000 more than Benjamin Harrison polled, and the county went republican by 83,000 Before one can form any opinion as to the probable result in this county this year he must have a theory as to the way the new voters will vote and as to the dis- position of the men who supported McKinley four years ago to continue to support him. The fact that the increased reglstration is more marked in the republican wards than in the democratic wards justifies the con- clusion that there will be a heavy republican vote. And the Increase in tho democratic wards warrants the opinion that the demo- crats intend voting, too. The N Herald has been making a canva New York for McKinley | Brooklyn Eagle (gold dem.) city by postal cards for the purpose of get- ting material for a forecast, and from the returns from four election districts in this county It concludes that McKinley will re- celve & plurality of 24,000 here. * Twenty election districts in Manhattan were can- vassed and the returns show that Bryan will carry that borough by 18,000. This con- clusion corresponds to that which the re- publican campalgn managors have professed to reach. It may be correct, but the data on which it is based is inadequate. It it were known how twenty or thirty men in each election district wero going to vote, men whose names were selected at random, one could have considerablo confidence in the forecast based on such data, But such inferences as have been drawn from the registration figures and from the inadequate canvass of the city verify general impression that if Bryan has a mi Jority in the city of New York it will be a emall one and that consequently the state will be carrled by the McKinley electors by & plurality about equal to the republican plurality above the Harlem river. This was more than 200,000 four years ago. \ And the dominance of Tammany Hall in the state democracy is likely to relntorce the hostility to Bryanism in the interior and to keep the antl-Tammany and antl- Bryan vote up there working in harmony for the defeat of the two forces which the countrymen do not like. From present in- dications New York is not a doubtful state. Portland Oregonian. In 1896 Bryan talked of nothing but the dollar. He denounced the 200-cent dollar, he pined for the dollar of the daddie Now he recolls from comsideration of the dollar, as if the American workingman had mo thoughts higher than his dinner pail, no ideals loftier than his stomach! It the American workingman is able to think of something besides dollar and dinner pall this year it Is because, in spite of everything Bryan could do, the £01d standard was maintaived and the dol- lar was kept honest. People are getting along and getting ahead In the world, and therefore it be- comes necessary for Bryan to bewail the rise of wealth and the bane of commer- clalism. But his position is altogether llloglcal, for It is the perversion of wealth, not its pursult, that menaces the well- being of society. Tho healthy state of soclety is when custodians of capital are putting forth every effort to increase it. Then the ma- terial resources of the land are belng developed, then employment s provided on every haud, then everybody is busy, then nobody has time for corruption and decay. We hear a great deal of complaint about our rich men, but what are they doing? Well, they are about the hardest worked men in the country. Men like J. Plerpont Morgan, the Rockefellers, J. J. Hill, E. M, Harriman, hardly know a leis- ure hour. Their whole effort is directed to the care and promotion of business en- terprises that may, it possible, yield in< terest on the savings intrusted to thelr care and keep great tribes of workers going in all lines of {nd The man that fafls in business mity to everybody. Savings are wiped away, work- The successful sing everywhere. The material welfare and happiness of thousands of humble homes are bound up in the success of our great hard-working American milljonaires. The day when Bryan gets his coveted chance to beggar them will be a black day for the American workingman. The ideal of the Bryanite philosophy is the man who never had ,anything and who fails at everything he undertakes. He mustn’t own government bonds, cr stock In a corporation, or a bank, or be an employer of labor, or do snything that shows he has been able to earn a com- peteucy, has denled himself in order to save, hi risen through grit and sweat above his fellows. He mustn't have money, he mustn't have property, he mustn't by, higher in station or more successful i labor than any one else, for, it he fis, Bryan will go to those below him and hold him up to their execration and dis- dain. Young man, If you want to be canonized A% & salot in the Bryan calenda be poor, always be broke, don't don't save, don't invest. and ornery you can, and then employ yourself In raving at the successful and raging at every man that has a dollar. ALL RECORDS BROKEN. Unprecedented Foreign Business for the Month of Septembe: Springfleld (Mass.) Republica: The toreign trade of the country continues at the phenomenal figures of the last two years. Indeed, the September returns are the most noteworthy of any that have yet been given out by the Treasury department. All records for the month in question been broken, both as to the volume of ex- ports and the balance of exports above im- ports. The summary as just issued is as follows: September. 1900, 1509, Exports .$115,634,810 $109,886,677 Imports | 9582006 70,111,908 Balance . <. 956,071,004 39,174,712 Which relates to merchandise alone. The exports further compare with $90,645,937 in the eame month in 1808, $104,540,913 in 1597, $85,131,098 «n 1896 and $58,640,068 in 1895. The decline of imports is a notable feature, showing that thé falling prices in the home market are beginning to have some effect. It_again happens, however, that while the excess of merchandise exports over {mports recahed a figure never before approached in the month of September, the country, re- cived little that was tangible in return. Net sllver exports amounted to $1,683,033, which brings the excess of merchandise and silver exported above what was imported up to 67,664,337, and for that balance we received in return only a little over $3,000,000 in gold. The unsettled balance amounted to over $64,000,000. The present turning of the international gold tide this way tecomes easily under- standable in the 1light of thesc figures. Nevertheless there bus existed for many months a simply overwhelming trade balance in our favor, which would bankrupt all Europe, if it means anything like what it appears to mean, and its settlement should be enforced. More than $1,000,000,000 is due the United States from the outside world, on account of the trade of the last three years, according to the figures, after making all ordinary of debt against the United States which an excess of exports goes to gettle. Wonderful s are the statistics of the foreign trade and gratitylng as they are, yot more wonderful is thelr fallure to bring in that substantial net income which the emormous favorable balances call for on their face. PERSONAL NOTES. The Hon, Charles A, Towne is watching the brilllant career of the Hon. Adlal E. Stevenson, but he is not saying what he thinks about fit. Hugh John MacDonald, the pew Cana- dlan conservative leader, is 00 years old and strikingly resembles his father, Cana- da’s greatest statesman, Bir John A. Mac- Donald. Maurice Thompson, the novelist, was a successful lawyer before he became & writer, He left the law, however, to be- come one of the editors of the New York Independent. Senor Silvela, the Spanish premier, has aunounced his Intentjon of building up the Spanish vavy, and adds that he be- leves & poor navy was the cause of Spain’s defeat in Its war with America. One of these “literary fellers” of Bos- ton, to whom politics {s an awful bore, when asked to repeat his favorite lines, softly murmured— “Phen silence, like & poulticy “To heal the blows of sound. James Whitcomb Riley is a great friend of ex-President Harrison, and when the Iatter Is in Indlanapolis the two generally together a morning's walk about the idence portion of the city. Senor Alvarez Calderon, the new Peru- viun minister, has placed two sons and two nephews as students at the Maryiand Agricultural college, at Hyattsville. They will take the regular courses in agricul- ture and mechanics. An agent of ox-Speaker Thomas B. Reed has visited Oyster Bay, L. 1., and secured an. option on a fine plece of property ad- joining the home of Governor Roosevelt on Bagamore hill. The place Reed has in view coatsins several and commands a fine view of the Center izlund property of the Beawaubaka-Coriuthias Yacht club. llowances for the invisible ftems | = = INCREASE OF NERVOUSNESS, Wllhlnflon Po!l‘ The American traits which have most im- pressed themselves upon European observers during the past summer, when hundreds of thousands of Americans were abroad, have been eral restlessness, lack of self-con- trol and unnatural excitability. In short, it would seem as if the typical American had become & nervous, restless :»eature, always anxious to be active, but not always util- izing his energy with best results. From this physical condition it Is but & step to the exhaustion which has come to be & recog- nized disease and which so frequently brings to a sudden and fatal end a career that cught to be prolonged. Vitality simply suc- cumbs to abnormal pressure. This nervous condition of the American people is now attracting the earnest atten- tion of the physiclans, one of whom, Dr. Wettler of the Illinols State university, pro- fessor of physiology of the nervous system, contributes an interesting paper to a re- cént periodical. Dr. Wettler tersely but graphically describes the typical nervous man. “When he is quiet,” ha says, “a pecu- lar feeling in his muscles urges him to get up and move about. He longs for a change, everlastingly a change, no matter what it may be or how it is brought about."” And then Dr. Wettler analyzes the causes which produce this restlessness, as follows: “The primary cause of modern nervo ness is modern civilization, with its high llving, its keen competition, its exhausting round of amusements, {ts rivalry of wealth and station, its fa follles and fashions, its f-indulgence, luxury and unnatural excitement. And this ls undoubtedly true, it to these causes be added the dissipation and irregular habits of the individual, the roar and stress of city life, the ceaseless routine of business and the narrowing ten- dencles of the intense industriallsm and re- |fined specialism of the present age. Con- centration, strenuousness and unint |rupted expenditure of mental and physical |energy are not conducive to quiet nerves, though even these may be borne, under “pmper conditlons, by a nervous constitu- |tlon that fs free from hereditary taint.” I Viewing the question from a practical |standpoint, however, Dr. Wettler admits that civilization cannot and ought not to be retarded, even though progress is syn- onymous with the breaking down of nerv- ous systems. he say: “Civilization must go on," with great truth, “and if nerve force Is it must be regenerated in some other way than by schemes to check compe- |tition and human progresn.” He recom- | mends, therefore, simpler modes of life, careful regulation of individual hebits, con- servatlsm and attention to all those meas- ures that foster mental and physical vigor Excesses In the use of alcohol and tobacco are to be avolded. The oft-repegted as- sertion that “work and worry’’ lead to nerve exhaustion is not accepted in its bald en tirely by Dr. Wettler. “From personal ob- servation I am convinced,” he says, hat it is rather the monotony of the work and the continulty of the worry that are so disas- trous.” 1t, therefore, we want to keep our physi- cal selves In good condition we must avold monotony, which means unbroken atten tion to dally task and diesipation which is troying. “Frequent change and agreeable varlety in business and social lite” {s the prescription offered us. It is worth heeding The tendency nowadays is to compress and concentrate, to make the vitality of four years do the work of one. This is unnatural, disastrous. The furnaces which produce the most steam are those which are fed slowly but steadily with the least possible amount of fuel. 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