Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 20, 1900, Page 6

THE OMAHA DALY BEE. e B. ROSEWATER, Editor. e PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. - — = TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. fly Bee (without Bunday), One Year. ly Boe and Sunday, O Year lluntrated Bee, One e unday Bee, One Year. ar turday Bee, One Year.... ‘eekiy Bee, One Year.. OFFICE! Bullding. yullm‘!ulldlnr, Twen- tree i 10 Pear] Street. 1600 Unity Bullding. ork: Temple Court. Washington: 60 Fourteenth Street Bioux City: 611 Park Btreet. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- gr.n matter should be addressed: Omaha o Editorfal Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should addreased: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, able to The Beo Publishing Company. nly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts. Bersonal checks, except on Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. BTATEMENT OF CIR Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, a Georgo B, Taschiick, secretary of The Bee Publishing’ Company, being duly sworn, #aye that the actusl number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bes printed during the f Beptembor, 1900, wasens follows: .. 2T\210 26,525 27,180 27,015 27,060 27,000 L27,170 Total .. Less unsold and retd Net total sale Net daily ave Subscribed In_my presence and sworn 1o Yotore mo this 30th day of Septomber, A D, 1900, . B, HUNGATH: (Beal) Notary Public. Mark Hanna is in Nebraska, but we have not yet been overwhelmed elther by earthquakes, cyclones or floods. me—e—— The next registration day is Friday, October 26. If you have not already registered mark that down on your calendar. It is worthy of note that the popo- cratlc organ is not making any speclal display of the registration flgures for Omahba and South Omaha. Hobson has been presented with a loving cup. Since the girls neglect to kiss him any more the young man ust have something to Jove. The Bryanites are again finding fault with the Department of Agriculture, That J. Sterling! Morton once presided over this department will never be for- given by them. ——————— Arizona shows up with a population of 122,000. As this is several times the figures credited to Nevada the plea of Arizona for statehood should. find its tensus argument adequate. Attorney General Smyth claims to have digcovered another octopus right here in Nebraska upon which he pro- poses to display Lis ability as an octopus exterminator. Let the siren whistle blow. — The supreme court has decided that they are ‘“mid-road popullsts.” The tourt did not undertake to discover s word which adequately describes the spoils-secking, office-hunting branch of the party. Spain proposes to build a new navy. When it gets it built it might be ad- visable to follow the admonition to keep it away from the water, or at least that portlon of it frequented by United States ships. ‘Bho annual report of the FPullman company shows that the traveling pub- lic last year pald the company a little over $15,000,000 to secure all the com- forts of a home. This ddes not include the amount collected by the porters, Reports from Shanghal are to the #ffect that Prince fuan has secured pos- session of the emperor's seal and is terrorizing the empress dowager. Some one should hand Tsl An her tolling pin and let the two settle their differences. Popocratic organs and speakers are shouting that Hauna forced the mine owners to accede to the demands of the men. If the charge s true Mark Hanna 18 a better friend of the laboring men than those who never do anything but howl. Windy sympathy 1s a poor sub- stitute for a 10 per cent raise in wages, S——— The time between Omaha and south- ern Californla is to be cut down by new train schedules. Had anyone who wade the trip twenty years ago, consuming five or six days enroute, been told that the same distance could be covered in sixty-five hours by the beginning of the century he would have replied that the age of miracles bad passed. e——— The man who advocated free salt when he was In congress suddenly found that he was not posted on “local” issues when, as a presidential candl- date, he faced the voters of a salt- producing town in New York. When stubborn facts are encountered in any locality Bryan assumes a faraway look and switches paramounts with the skill of & Herrmann. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1900. e e e el GOING BEYOND THE PLATF ORM. At Gloversville, N, Y., Mr. Bryan sald that if elected he would immediately give independence to the natives of the Philippines. This goes beyond the promise of the platform and the candi- date's speech of acceptance, The demo- cratic platform gives no assurance of immediate independence. It is to come after, according to their promise, a stable form of government Is es- tablished by us, Bryan, in his speech of A at . In- dianapolls, sald not even that he would do that. He made no sugges tion of recalling our troops by execu- tive power, or of letting the Filipinos alone, or of making them any promise by e ntive authority. What he promised was to call congress together to do the things set forth in the demo- eratie platform—that Is, to give the Fili- pinos, first, a stable form of govern- ment; second, independence, and, third, protection from outside Interferen Is it to be inferred from Mr, Br latest declaration that he has given up the idea of calling congress In extra session? Has he concluded that this will be unnecessary, or that if he should call congress together his recommenda- tions would probably fall and therefore the better way would be to deal with the matter without regard to congress? There 18 no doubt that congress would refuse to carry out the democratic policy in regard to the Philippines. There are a number of democrats in the senate who are opposed to that policy. Senator Hoar is authority for the state- ment that of the nineteeen followers of Mr. Bryan who voted for the ratifica- tion of the Paris treaty about half were expansionists from convietion. These would join the republicans in re- Jecting the democratie Philippine policy. Doubtless Mr. Bryan is aware of this and therefore has decided not to de- pend upon congress, but to proceed in his own way to give independence to the Filipinos. The only way in which he could do this would be to withdraw our troops and flag from the Philippines, but even if as commander-in-chief of the army ang navy he possessed authority to do this, would he venture to exerclse It? Would he leave the islands to the danger of being overrun by the banditti under Aguinaldo, who undoubtedly would in- augurate a_ reign of anarchy and de- struction from which both natives and foreigners would suffer? Let it be as- sumed that Mr. Bryan would do this, still the title of the Unlted States to the archipelago would remain, for the executive has no power to surrender or transfer it, without the authority of congress, and with that title goes re- sponsibilify. Mr. Bryan is holding out a prowmise to the Filipinos which he could not fulfill. There is nothing more certain than that the next congress, If he should call it together, would refuse to put into effect the Philippine policy of the democratic platform. As president Mr. Bryan would be bound to defend American sovereigaty in the islands, for he would have no authority, unless given him by congress, to surrender it. He could not, in the independent exer- clse of executive power, give the Fill- pinos independence and he is mislead- ing them as well as muny of his fellow countrymen in declaring his purpose to do so. Smmpe———— CHAIRMAN JONES SPEAKS. Chbairman Jones of the democratic national committee has not had much to say in the present campaign. Whether by request or from cholce he has kept in the background, or at any rate has been far less ¢onspicuous than he was four years ago. This bas de- tracted somewhat from the gayety of the canvass. Mr. Jounes has finally spoken and his utterance Is suggestive. He takes Sec- retary Gage to task for pointing out that a Bryan administration could pay coln obligations of the government in sllver and remarks that “Mr. Bryan has been before the public long enough for the people to know that tricks and false pretenses are not among Lis weapons.” But why doesn't Mr. Bryan answer the question that has been re peatedly asked, whether or not he would, if elected, pay the coin obliga- tlons of the governwent in silver. He has undoubtedly read the statement of Secretary Guge. . He is familiar with the law enacted last March known as the gold standard act. He knows that the financial and business Interests of the' country are profoundly interested in the question whether he would pay obligations of the government in sil- ver or gold. Yet he maintains absc lute silence regarding this very im- portant matter. 1Is it at all surprising, in view of Mr. Bryan's inveterate hos- tility to the gold standard, that there should be general apprehension that he would deliberately evade the law, or take advantuge of any loophole there way be Iu it in the iuterest of silver? His silence 18 naturally and reason- ably coustrued to meun that he would pay obligations in silver ns far as pos- sible and today this opinion is practi- cally universal. Another thing that troubles Chair- man Jones is that some people fear that Bryan, if elected, “will puck the supreme court for purposes of bis own.” The attack of the democratie platform on the courts gives warrant for such fear, which 1s felt not by republicans ounly, but by many democrats, The assertion of Jones that no such revo- lutionary purpose as Is clearly implied in the attack on the courts has ever —— People who do not have any more sense than fo ride a bicycle or indulge in_sny other physical exertion until they drop from exhaustion, for the sole purpose of testing the limit of physical endurance, should be restrained by the police. The riding of Miss Gast 1s a case in point. Her effort was carried to the extreme of putting pepper in her stockings #0 that the' pain from blis- tered feet would keep her awake. Such exhibitions ‘are brutal and cater only t¢ the morbld and animal ‘Instinets, entered the mind of any democrat shows that his mewory is defective, or that he is lacking in candor. David Bennett Hill, who 15 stultifylng him- selt by supporting Bryan, denounced this plank in the Chicago platform a8 revolutionary and as contemplating the packing of the supreme court for partisan purposes and thousands of other democrats did the same thing four years ago. A number of these, including sonie of the mgst eminent lawyers In the country, bave in the present campalign denounced the attack on the courts, properly regarding it as one of the chief dangers of Bryanism. Mr. Bryan has not made this matter quite g0 promineni in fhe present cam- paign as he did four years ago, but he has not let pass any favorable op- portunity to assail the courts and to seek to create popular sentiment against ther, In view of this and of the fecling that unquestionably per- vades the Bryanite party as shown in its platform, there is the most valid reason for belleving that if given the power the supreme court would be packed for the purpose of sustaining the policles of that party. A ROUK SVAMPED, It is to be expected that the World- Herald, as the Bryanite organ, will leave no stone unturned to breed djs- sension among republicans in the fn- terest of democratic candidates, To this end it is resorting to the most despicable and downright lying to make people believe that the republican leg- isiative ticket was nominated as the re- sult of a convention and primary elec- tion bought with money. It revamps its roorback about $12,000 to $15,000 being used by tbe “machine” to momi- nate “the Rosewater slate,” of which it asserts $5,000 was contributed by D. B, Thompson. The Bee repeats that there is not one word of truth in these brazen fakes. D. E. Thompson did not contribute one cent toward the expenses of the pri- maries or convention, nor, 8o far as any- one knows, evince the slightest interest in the outcome in this county, What- ever money was used in these primaries went to the legitimate expenses—for carriage hive, for printers' bills and for incidentals. It is equally untrue that any money out of n:&' city fund was used for po- litical purposes in conunection with this primary, or that any assessment was levied on any city employes. That sys- tem was in force when Broatch was mayor, but his example was not fol- lowed in the recent primaries, No more decisive primary election was ever held or one more free of fraud or manipulation. Every safeguard afforded ot W wis strictly enforced. Not o single delegate’s seat was contested, although the defeated side had chal- lengers and watchers in every booth on the alert for any ballot that might be given to candidates not entitled to it. The World-Herald and other Bryanite fakirs and sympathizers will, however, continue to repeat thelr falsehoods. But no republican conversant with the facts, unless he is seeking a pretext for dis- loyalty to the ticket, will permit him- self to be Influenced by these state- mentg, THE REGISTRATION FIGURES. Republicans have every reason to feel gratified over the showing made In the returns of the first day's registration. Not only has more than half the total vote been registered on the first day, but the proportion of registered repub- licans s nearly twice that of the regls- tered fusionists. On the face of the figures a copserva- tive estimate Would be that If the elec- tion were held tomorrow on the roll of voters so far made up the republican majority in Omaha and South @maha would approximate 2,500. This will doubtless be cut down by the suceeed- ing registration days, yet It is a re- markable exhibit of the drift toward McKinley and prosperity. The registration figures from the city of Lincoln and the other Nebraska cities all tell the same story to a greater or less degree. All signs presage good re- publican gains in every part of the state and that the cities will contribute their share toward the redemption of Ne- braska to republicanism. . 'HE SUNDAY BEE. The Bee Sunday will present in ad- dition to ull the news of the day a num- Ler of goud things, literary and ple- torfal, which will make it stand far above all competitors in this section. The frontisplece of The Illustruted Bee reproduces a rich photograph of Mrs. Draper Smith, the newly elected president of the Nebraska Federation of Woman's Clubs, Mrs. Smith is the first club woman from Omaba to be thus lLonored by the state organization as recoguition of her prominence in church and charity work, The republican candidates for the legislature in Douglas county are in- troduced by their portralts to the peo- ple who will vote for them to represent this county at Lincoln next winter. This set of portraits shows a body of intelligent men sure to make an im- presslon wherever they may be. A timely article tells of thg yachting scason at Lake Manawa, with illustra- tlons of some of the favorite yachts which have been in service there during the summer and this autumn, One ple- ture 1s n snapshot at the cup races and another the drawing of the pro- posed new boat house, Curpenter's letter deals with the lat- est developments In China, in his own characteristic way, with appropriate ‘il- lustrations from photographs gatbered there during his tour, Another fllustrated contribution de- scribes conditions In Indlan Territory, nairating the progress made by the aboriginal inhabitants and the marvel- ous change which has been wrought by the work of civillzing the red man. Among the miscellaneous subjects treated pictorially may be enumerated the portraits of several flower carnival queens from neighboring cities; a ple- ture of the recent wreck at Pacifie Junction taken shortly after the ac dent; portrait of Rev. A, O, Hirst, the new pastor of Omaha's First Methodist Episcopal church, and of W, 8, Morla the republican candidate for the legl: lature In the Fifth Nebraska district. The Bee Sunday will also contain a full stenographic report of the Rose- water-Hitchcock debate, which should be read and re-read by every person who wants_an intelligent undorstand- | ‘% “y fng of the current fssues of the cam- paign. ; Watch for The Sunday Bee and be sure you get it from your newsdealer or newsboy, if not already on the sub- scription list. ¥ One gratifying feature of this year's reglstration §s the almost complete elimination of the “no answer” column. Out of 15000 voters to whom the question of parly aflilintion was pro- pounded scarce a thousand expressed a preference not to put themselves on record. People have discovered that the question is not an attempt to in- trude into thelr private affalrs, but sim- ply to have them enrolled under one party orgaunization or another for the protection of primary elections. Those who understand the law and its pur- pose will not refuse to state their party aflillations to the registrars. Sne——— South Omaha seems to be having as much trouble as Omaha with court de- clslons declaring void speclal assess- ment levies, The latest decision affect- ing that city knocks out an assessment made nine years ago, which has doubt- less been paid by a large number of property owners and evaded only by the professional tax shirkers. The in- Justice of the practice is plain, but the question is as to the remedy. The only defense offered of Governor Poynter's pardon, under pretext that he was on his deathbed, for a convicted criminal, who is enjoying perfect health sixteen months later, is that he was misled by the doctor's certificate and the warden's assurance. Do’ the pedple of Nebraska want to keep a chlef ex- ecutive vested with the pardoning power who is misled so easily? [ ———— The character of the men who certified that that pardoned convict was dying is above reproach—according to the popocratic organ—but what would this same paper say of them If the lively corpse had been sent home to die durlng a republican administration? The first day’'s registration in Omaha and, South Omaha beats all previous records. This means that the total registration will exceed all previous figures, notwithstanding the pretense of the census takers that Omala’s popula- tion has decreased. A Difference in Methods. Philadelphla Times. Uncle 8am in this China business merely wants a general peace, while the others are working for a particular plece. Two Kinds of Fillers, Baltimore American, . The full dinner pall is very satisfac- tory, although it does not cost $12 a plate to fill it, nor is It opened in a Moorish dining room. Watterson Prophet. Loulsville Courler-Journal, The campaign may be apathetic, but the registration is mot. From all quar- ters come reports that this is unusually heavy. Something is golng to happen. Rural ¥ eltvery, Kopsap City Star. A government report shows that the free rural delivery system bas Increased the value of farm lands along the varlous routes at the rate of $5 per acre. This is the rule of public enterprise. . All improvements which promote the convenience and comfort of the people bring with them benefits which largely exceed their cost. The mossback and the obstructionist may be properly de- fined as a man who stands in his own light and who favors a policy which causes him financial injury. This law applies to individuals, to communities and to nations. Yankees of the Orient, Philadelphia Ledger. The march of the troops of four allied powers trom Pekin to Pao Ting Fu, leaving the Japanese to guard Pekin alone, shows the footing Japan has acquired in the ranks of the nations. So far as the movements in China go, it is on equal terms with the best of them, and seems to be respected by all. The suggestion even been made that It would be best for all concerned to put Japan in charge of the pacification and reorgani- aation of China, and if there were no land- grabbing complications involved that might be the best thing to do. POLITICAL DRIFT. The paramount event of the year will certainly be pulled oft on November 6. Senator Foraker's estimate of the plu- rality tor McKinley in Ohlo 1s 110,000. It 18 estimated that there will be 126,000 men in line in the sound-money parade to be held 'in New York on November, 3. Boss Croker pald a handsome tribute to “the full diuner pail” when he put a $12 meal to the opponent of that policy. The democratic candidate for governor ot New York declined to pay an a ment of $26,000 for the privilege of run- ning. No possible chamce of realizing on the investment. A poll of 328 members of New England college shows 271 for McKinley, 20 for Bryan, for Woolley, 38 undecided, 26 non-com- mittal and 21 will not vote. The Loulsiana constitutional provision, drawn to disfranchise colored voters, works as expected. In New Orleans alone the registration shows 12,505 negro voters denled the rights of citizenship. An amusing feature of Bryan's trust- thumping speech in Madison Square Gar- den is that Edward M, Shepard, the man who Introduced “the peerless,” is counsel for the American Sugar Refining company, Tammany rule comes high. The finan- clal budget for 1901 for Greater New York will not be far from $100,000,000, agalnst $90,000,000 last year. The bene- ficlaries can well afford to give high- priced political dianers. J. D. Whelpley of the New York Com- merelal Advertiser, who has been travol- ing through the west, says that Bryan will lose twenty-two electoral votes west of the Ml ppl which were cast for him four years ago. The New York World has made a poll intended to show the probable complexion of the next house of representatives with the followlng results: Republicans, 172; 167; sllver republicans, 2; fu- ; doubtful, 10; total, 357, Thomas H. Blrch of Burlington, N. J., is probably the youngest maa who has ever been selected as a presidential elector. Mr. Birch, who has just passed his 26th birthday, is on the democratic ticket, His father is a milllonaire cars riage bullder of Burlington. In Baltimore a novel use has been found for the kedak in politics. Snap- shots are tak by party watchers of voters about whose right to register there 1s any question. 1t is expected to identity with greater certainty men regis- ing nnder two names or at two differ- at polling places, i of the faculties and universities thu Who Got the Prosperity Philadeiphia Press, Who got the prosperity? Mr. Bryan is asking the question. Some workingmen are making the same inquiry. The investigation made by Colonel Carroll D. Wright, United es commissioner of labor, into the rate of wages in manufactures for ten years past shows who got the prosperity. Labor got It. Wages are for 1900 at the highest point of the century. Interest on assured invest. ments at the lowest point. Absolute security, a United States bond, has sunk to 2 per cent interest—the lowest of the century. Average manufacturing wages in 1900 ure at the higbest point, or 103.43, if the next highust, in 1801, are put at 100. Labor, rather than capital, has reaped the harvest of McKinley prosperity. The total yearly wages of manufacturing operatives in 1800 were $2,171,000,000 and 1891 was on the same general level. Tak- Ing Colonel Wright's relative rates, which were 100 in 1891, 97.88 in 1895 and 103.43 in 1900, and this aggregate of wages had dropped in 1895 to $2,125,000,000, having lost $16,000,000, the price paid for free trade and the threat of silver basis for the currency. By 1000 the rate had risen to 103.43. Measured on the aggregate annual pay of 1890, this meant a growth of $74,000,000. From the lowest polnt reached in 1895 this was an increase in the annual wage dis tribution to the manufacturing operativ of the country in 1900, compared with 1895, of $120,000,000. Taking the wholo manufacturing plant and product of the country and reckoning on the of its size In 1890, and the advance as shown by Colonel Wright's figures for the same number of men and on the same product would be for a year $120,000,000 added to yearly wages by McKinley prosperity from 1805 to 1900. But the num- ber of men and the product was not the same. It had grown one-fourth to one-half. The measure of growth and the measure of yearly wages in all manufactures is the raw material used. In 1895 this country made 9,446,308 tons of pig. In 1899 {t made 13,620,703 tons and in 1900 will make about 14,000,000, Here is a growth of one-half. Where in 1895 2,871,000 cotton bales fed our mills in 1899 1t took 3,632,000 bales, or over a quarter more. Our Imports of raw silk rose from 7,974,810 pounds in 1805 to 11,268,310 pounds in the fiscal year 1900, or an advance of al- most one-half. Our import of India rubber rose In t! e way from 39,741,607 pounds in 1895 to 49,377,138 pounds in 1900, or one- fifth more. With the exception of wool, where the consumption of raw material has fallen, this Is true of all our factories and of all trades, The raw material consumed has risen from one-half to one-fourth, and the labor required and the wages paid have also risen in gross amount from onc-half to one-fourth. Two advances haye come. The rate of wages has risen. The total amount of wages has advanced becauso the number of those employed has increased. Where in 1805 $2,125,000,000 were pald in yearly wages in manufactures the advance in the rate by 1900 meant an increase of $120,000,000. This was not all. The gross overturn of raw material had grown one-fourth to one-half and this meant an increase in the aggregate annual wage, due to new work, of from $500,000,000 to $1,000,000,000. Some trades got more of this increase and some less. The woolen trade got least of all. The fron trade got most of all. On the rise in rate over 1896 labor got $120,000,000. On the Increase In output labor got in increased annual wages from $500,000,000 to $1,000,- 000, This is where McKinley prosperity r—— ‘OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The elections in Great Britain for mem- bers of the House of Commons, which have been proceeding for several days on the serial plan, are at last over and what has long been recognized as a proba- bility has become a fact accomplished. A majority, not large, but sufiicient, of the voters of the United Kingdom has rendered a verdict in favor of the con- servative party and the judgment of the conservative leaders in making an ap- peal to the country at (his time has been abundantly justified. It s (rue that their more sanguine expectations have not been realized. They had hcped that the coun. try would continue them in power with a majority 50 overwhelming as to amount to an mbsolute vindication and approval of their official course and to convey a warrant or rather a mandate for them to carry out without the slightest flinching or compromise the policy and program which they had announced. It cannot be sald that these expectations have been fulfilled. Certainly the Salisbury min- istry has been sustained and that majority sufficient to every practi purpose, but the preponderance of aenti- ment fa its support has Leen by no means as conslderable as had been hoped. The ministerialists entered the campaign with every advantage. They selected their own time for the contest and they carefully chose a ‘ime when the registration system in force In Great Britaln would operate in their favor. Thousands of voters were disfranchised by the tactics which were adopted and by far the greater number of those who were thus discriminated against would, had they been allowed the opportunity, have cast their ballots against the government. The chance of doing 80 was denied them bury and his assoclates are the from this circumstance. There a considerable d'screpancy between the total number of ballots cast and the num- ber of conservatives and liberals re- spectively who have been elected. The popular vote indicates a tolerably even division of public opiniow, whereas the distribution of the vote as regards re- sults suggests quite the contrary. .. News comes from St. Petersburg of an Interesting exchange of civilities between Russia and Thibet. It Is sald that an extra- ordinary envoy from the latter country named Akhyin Khomba is at present on his way, from Lhasa to Russia with a letter and presents from the Dalal Lama to the czar. This, so far as known, is the first time that the spiritual head of Thibet has ever sent a speclal mission to any Euro- ean soverelgn, and such an act on the part of & country which has hitherto resisted all outside efforts to establish intercourse with its government naturally is suspected to have some political lmportauce. The Thibetan envoy goes to Russia, it Is sald, In consequence of a secret wission to Mon- golla and Thibet undertaken about elghteen months ago by a well-kngwn and recognized protessor of Chinese medicine in St. Peters- burg, M. Badmayefl, who took with him presents from the czar to the Dalal Lama and his subordinates. ‘It appears, therefore, that the first overtures came from Russla, where there has been considerable interest in Thibet ever since the explorations of the late General Prejevalsky, and it has been suggested that there is some connection be- tween these Thibetan courtesies and recent events in Manchuria, M. Badmayeft ig of | Mongollan extraction, and has long been an ardent advocate of a Russian policy look- Ing toward the gradual absorption of the whole northern part of the Chinese empire. P . A correspondent of the London Standard, writing from Moscow, dlscusses the question of the responsibility for the recent massa- cre of Chineso by Cossacks, in the Amur re- glon. He says that the commission of in- quiry, when it examined General Gribskly, recelved the reply that there was a fnis- understanding of tho orders and that in any case the blame was not his. On this he remarks that 5,000 people cannot be flung into a river in an hour or two and that the corpses of the first victims must have been passing the windows of General Gribskly's residence, which is on the river bank, long before the slaughter was com- pleted, but that nothing has been heard of any attempt to stop the “misunderstand- ing." it seems to be certain that during tho whole period of the troubles in Blag- ovestchensk, General Gribskly was i direct telegraphic communication with St. Pete burg. It is believed that he received orders direct from the capital, although in the or- dinary course of events he would take them from the governor-general, General Grode- kov, who resides at Khabarovsk, There is a growing conviction that the orders to kill emanated from no local authority, but “in any case,”" says the correspondent, “General Gribskly will be made the scapegoat for this deed, whether his tault was only that of losing his head in a trylng crisls and mis- leading his chiefs as to the danger to be apprehended from the peaceful Chinese rési- dents of Blagovestchensk, or that he acted entirely on his own Initiative.” At no time, it I8 declared.was there any interruption ot the telegraphic communication between Blagovestchensk and St. Petersburg, . The commonwealth of Australasia Is to be proclaimed on January 1 next, after which date the world will be contronted with 8 mew power in the South Pacific having a,population of about 3,750,000. New Zea- land, with & population of 766,000, has not joined the federatinn, but is likely to do #0 later. Australla has thus followed the example of the Canadian colonlen and will be imitated doubtless after s few years by | the colonies of South Africa. Within two years the new commonwealth will have its own tariff on Imports, and it is expected to be mildly protective. The slow growth of population is an cbstacle. The present annual focrease is but 50,000, But the in- dustrial and commercial development 18 im- mense. In the production of wool, grains, meat, butter, gold, silver, copper, lead, lum- ber, etc,, the commonwealth begins with large figures. In enterprise the new gov- ornment will probably take high rank e The public begins to scoff at the medal feature of the Paris exposition, the medals granted being as plentiful as blackberries and not, it is aileged, evidence of much merit. An American exhibitor has ascer- tained that 42,790 medals, besides 60,000 diplomas, have been given, while the ex- hibits number but 75,631, Merit evidently is not very closely scrutinized when more than half of the exhibits get prizes. The case is mentioned of a siiver madal given to a publishing company for exhibiting bound volumes of their paper, though the volumes had never been taken out of the box in which they were sent to Parls. An- other joke in connection with the matter is the thrifty regulation by which the ex- hibitor doesn’t actually get his medal unless The only way to “keep down labor” In this country is to adopt Bryanite polcies, which will lessen the demand for Ameri products, reduce the number of busy fac- tories and thus enable selfish employers to dictate wages, hours and other conditions of employment. A standing army can never do it. What Altgeld Omit: | hington Post. not commended the flop of Mr. Olney to his audiences. It will be recalled that it was Mr. Olney who fur- nished the legal advice which enabled Mr. Cleveland to order out the troops to sup- press the riot which Mr. Debs incited and with which Mr. Altgeld was not inclined Mr. Altgeld to interfere, Detroit Journal: claimed the Microbe. Helence shows signs of gol ing strect skirt comes Washington 8ta ‘When trouble,” ¥ald Uncle Eben, “it'a some hahd to tell whether folke' is comin’ arobn to symp'fize wid you or o git de pohticlars o' do case.” you fs Indlanapolls Journal: “What are the namen of that newly marrled couple in the next flat?” “Oh, we can't find out for a fow weeks each now calls the other ‘Birdie.' "' Philadelphia Pres Morrell-Every r has ita thorn. ~ For instance. a_man may reach the very pinnacle of fame and stiil be unhapp: Worrel rprising. Did you ever sit on a pinna Chicago Record: ““The ro as {f some terrible struggle Waa ere. “'Well, that doesn't necessarily fmply deadly ' combat; mayhe some man was merely frying to get into his last vears flannel underwear.,” was torn up taken place Pitteburg Chronicle; “Firebugs,” marked the Observant Boarder, “should taken to jafl on a hosecart.” ‘Go_on,"" addetd the Quiet Boarder, en couragingl A hosecrt might be called a fire buggy you know," re. be fio, Toat: oegret sad the contrib. 18 a little solid_thought. " roturned the e reached for the manuscript. of a paperweight.” tor, as he “Iam In need Somerviile Journal: “Lean on me,” mur- mured the fat lover, tenderly. The lady looked at him {neredulously. Where?" she asked, in uncontrolinbla surprise. For every cannibal knows that when a man welghs 280 pounds, lean is something to be wished for rather than ex- pected. Washington Star: “Life,”" sald the mor- aigte “is filled with disappointments,” That's right" wald ‘the short-halred young man: ‘it seems to me that every time you get a dollar you've got to disap- point” somebody else who was after the same plece of coin.” Chicago Record: "What foollsh creatures women al d “Very true: a woman can't even let an old love affair die, but keeps poking it up gvery once in awhile to sea 1f 1t in really lead." ‘Washington Sta ‘Home men's patriot- tem.” sald Uncle * Eben, “is confined to guewsin' who's gwineter win an’' den shet- tin' deir eyes an' hollerin’ fur '{m." Chicago Record: “What is the para- mount lssue In this campalgn?” ‘It 18 whether I am to wear a new hat at Bmith's expense or whether Smith s to wear a new hat at my expense.’” Gold Medal for Dakota Wheat. FARGO, N. 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