Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 22, 1900, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY oC TOBER 22, 1900 THE OMAHA DalLY BEE. ROSEWATER, Editors SRY MORNING B. M8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. R hont Binday), One Year 96.00 | le Year........ 8.00 2.0 unday Bee Ofie Year aturday Bie, One Year. Weekly Bee, One OFFICES. Omaha: The Bee Building SRR mana: Clty Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-Aifth and N Btreets Council Bluffs: 10 Pearl Street, Chicago: 1640 Unity Bullding New York. Temp] Washington: 501 F¢ th Strest Bloux City: 611 Park CORRESPONDEN Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Beo, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS Business letters and remittances should b nddressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to The fee Publishing Company. Irily 2-cont stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or Eastern exchanges, ot accepted T S FUBLIRTNG COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, s George B. Tzachick, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, belng duly sworn, ye that the actual number of full and plets coples of The Dally, Morning, ening and Sunday printed’ during the menth of Beptember, 1900, was a8 follows: 1. 27,210 6 .27 ..26,526 ..27,180 27,100 27,300 ..27,400 27,200 20,070 27,015 ..27,050 ..47,500 ...20,740 47,230 27,470 27,300 ..97,225 ..28,840 27 .. 26,865 20,785 27,110 26,980 27,170 Total 815,030 unsold and returned coples. ... Net total sales Net dally average GEORC Bubscribed fn_my presence and sworn to before me this th llue i Hr’lh-mh'\r) A D, 1500 M. B_HUNGATE (Heal) Notary Pubiic —— e Senator Hanna may not have the ora torleal periods of Mr. Bryan, but he has the forcible language and common sense that strikes hom Candidate Woolley continues to travel about on campaign speaking expeditions Just as if he belicved the prohibitlon ticket was really in the race. The Anglo-German . alllance shows that it does not take FEuropean coun- tries long to get together when they find they have interests In common. The fusionists can use their Nebraska consignment of the campaign fund to buy up republican newspapers, but they eannot buy up the votes of the people of this state. —_— Chalrman Jones insists that the cot- ton bale combination is not a trust, but merely a monopoly. Wonder if that makes it appear any better before the eyes of Mr. Bryan. Croker 1s sald to have promised Bryan a plurality of 80,000 in New York Olty. Oroker owns the city government In the metropolls but—does he own the votes of all its people? If the fusion campalgn fund is not yet exhausted It 18 possible a few more republican newspapers in the back countles of Nebraska can be had by bidding the price up high enough. Omaha's pluce In the weekly clear- ings record is in every way creditable, showing as It does an Increase over last year for the same period. Omaha 1s on fhe upgrade and s sure to go steadily upward. After studylng the registration fig- ures over two nights local fuslonists pro- fess to find few rays of hope. The two to one majority for republicans, so far as party affillations have been given, is a bitter dose for the fusion crowd to swallow. According to the fuslon managers their hopes are based upon men who register as republicans and vote the democratic ticket. In other words. they depend upon republicans to elect fusion candidates. 1In this they are likely to fool themselves. The question {8: 1s Governor Poynter a safe man in whom to vest the power of pardoning ecriminals? 1Is it safe to entrust him with the authority to empty the entire penitentiary if only he can be persuaded to imagine that the healthy inmates are ‘on the vel of death? That proposed auditorium would have been almost coustantly in use in Omaha during the present campaign It only now avallable. The money pald by political committees for hall rent for thelr meetings would by itselt pay In- terest on a blg chunk of the necessary investment. 5 Fleld Marshal von Waldersee ex presses the opinion that the Chinese campaign is over and that he will soon have the opportunity to return to Ger. many. So far as Von Waldersee was concerned the campalgn seems to have been over before he started for the scene of action. One of the candidates for the school board on the fusion ticket declared publicly not long ago that he did not have but a few years' schooling him- self and did not belleve any boy or girl is entitled to a better education than his. What kind of publie schools would we have If conducted on this caudi- date's parrow-guuge plan? The redoubtable Jim Dahlman has set himself yp as the official Bryanite po- litleal forécaster. Mr. Dahlman, by the way, draws his inspiration as well as his $2,000 a year salary from his ex- perience as railroad statistician for the do-nothing State Board of Transporta- tion. But Dahlman has the inside on the raillroad rates a good deal better THE CLAIM OF HONESTY. Mr, Bryan says that “the democratic party shows Its honesty by stating what it belleves and telling the people what it will do.” How about the candldate? Mr. Bryan has been asked what he will | do, 1t elected, in regard to the payment | of government obligations—whether he will order his secretary of the treas- ury to pay them in gold or silver. It Is & perfectly legitimate question, yet the candidate pays no attention to it. A man that boasts of the honesty of his party and would have the people be lleve that he also is honest should not Ignore a question in which everybody is interested—which in the opinion of many Is second in importance to no other question. Mr. Bryan has also been asked what he thinks of the disfranchisement of colored citizens in the south., This policy of his partisans in that section Is a nullification of the constitution and a violation of the principle of consent of the governed, It is a wrong not only to the people who are deprived of the right of suffrage, but as well to the people of other sections, since it gives the south an unfair advantage In congress and In the electoral college. The south retaing its representation while dis franchising a part of its citizens, which s manifestly an injustice to the rest of the country, But as to this very im- partant matter Mr, Bryan has nothing to say. Honesty would seem to require that Le express an opinion on a sub- Ject in which millions of his countrymen are concerned and in wnich is involved the very principle for which he pro- fesses 80 much solicitude. In view of Mr. Bryan's refusal to pay any attentlon to these matters, which are as important as any he discusses, the less he says about honesty the bet- ter, THE WURKINGMAN'S SHARE. Popocratic demagogues, confrouted with the unexampled prosperity brought upon the country under President Mo Klnley's administration in spite of the dire prophecies of Bryan and his fol- lowers four years ago, try to evade the force of their exploded predictions by pretending that the workingman is not sharing in the benefits of the improved conditlons. This is the particular and tavorite dodge of the Omaha Bryan to stir up discontent and dissenslon be tween the classes. In view of this fact the following notice, taken out of the advertising columns of our amiable popocratie contemporary, Is a self-acting contradiction of its false assertions: MOULDERS—The National Founders asso- clation will pay from $4.75 to 1 per day for “frstclass fron and stesl machinery floor moulders to work on efther dry sand, green, sand or loam, in tho foundrics ir the ciiy of Cleveland, O. and in addi- tion will guaranteo permanent employ- ment as long as they care to remain, be- sides glyving to such moulders as go to work in these shops a National Founders association card, which will give them preference always in securing employment under the rules of the association; splen- aid chance for the right men. Address The Natlonal Founders assoclation, F. O. Box 177, Cleveland, Ohlo. 69 A-a1 Here 18 a cali for skilled workmen under a guarantee of permanent em- ployment at wages ranging from $4.75 to $7 per day. How many wagework ers were recelving compensation on this scale in the dark days just preceding 1806? How many wageworkers had permanent employment at all even where union scales were maintalned? How many advertisements of this kind would be found in the newspapers of 1895 and 18967 On the contrary, would not such a notice immediately precipi tate a run on the office of the employer with sixteeu men to every job to be filled? Neither s this simply the story of the iron moulders. The same tale 15 told in every branch of skilled mechanics where the contrast between mnow and four years ago is nearly If not equally as sharp @nd proves positively that the workingmen are sharing in the existing prosperity even though some may think they are entitled to still greater shares. MORE OF THAT ALLIANCE. The Bryan-Oroker alliance js com- manding greater attention than any other event of the campaign and there 18 much conjecture as to the effect it will have upon voters generally. The New York Evening Post says that Bryan's “open companionship with the meost detested politiclan in the country and his apparent insensibility to fthe disgrace of such an alliance illumi- nate his own character. That the inci- dent is bound to have a powerful effect in turning away from Bryan voters who have been hesitating hitherto is already clear.” 1t is Interesting to note that Bryan is the first democratic candidate for presi- dent who has consented to appear at a meeting under the ausplces of Tain- many. Such men as Seymour, Tilden, Hancock and Cleveland, remarks the Albany Journal, the great leaders of the democratic party of their times, knew Tammany Hall and what associa- tion with it meant. “The respect which they had for themselves would not per- mit them to demean themselves to such an extent. Not so with Mr. Bryan, however.,” The simple fact Is that Bryan is willing to enter into political assoclation or alllance with anybody whom he thinks may further his inordi- nate ambition to be president. While denouncing wealth he will sit at a costly banquet with men who have grown rich on public plunder. While professing hostility to trusts he con- sorts with stockholders of the most ex- tortlonate trust ever organized and per- mits a trust attorney to preside at the most important meeting in New York Qity. While telling laboring men that he is their friend he hobnobs with men who have never done a thing in the in- terest of lubor, but have robbed it for their own enrichment. Bryan's alliance with Tammany and endorsement of Croker not only {llumi- nate his own character, but suggest also what would be the character of a Bryan adwinistration, That Croker would have more or less influence with it there cannot be a reasonable doubt. than be has on election returns, ‘ue has already beed recognized by organ, which never overlooks a chance | Bryan as the leader of the democracy of New York and with Bryan president Croker would have undisputed control of the patronage in that state. This would mean that all the people of New York Would be made to pay tribute to Tammany. But even this might not satisfy the ambition of that unscrupu- lous political boss. He would very likely Insist upon a larger recompense for his services. At all events Tam- many men would recelve a generous share of the spoils and play a consld- able part in the administration of pub- lic affairs, Mr. Bryan caunot justify this alliance, He can give no acceptable excuse fo extolling Tammany and Croker. In tieing up with the most corrupt political organization on earth he has conclu sively shown his unworthiness for the office he sceks. — NO BACKWARD STEP. One of the declarations made by the recent county convention that put in nomination the local fusion legislative ticket embodles a demand for the repeal of the law enacted by the last legislature governing primary elections, The ques- tion Is: Why should the parties that refer to themselves as the ‘“reform forces” demand the repeal of this law, which went into effect only by the signature of the preseut fusion gov- ernor? The chief innovation of the new pri- mary election law relates. to the enroll- ment of voters according to their re- spective party afliliations, by which members of one political party are ex- cluded from ticipation in the pri- mary elections of other parties. In former years the great complaint was that the primary elections of each political party were determined, not by the men subscribing to its doctrines, but by the indiscriminate ballote of every one who could be dragged to the polls. The contests were not contests within the pa but a geeral scramble to rake up votes from anywhere aund everywhere, TUnder the old system democrats determined the makeup of republican tickets and republicans the mekeup of democratle tickets, whereas, under the new law, the ticket of each party rests upon the expressed will of | the rank and file of that particular party. Why should the “reform forces” want to go back to the old system Why should they object to the law which keeps them from Intermixing in repub- lican prjmary politics? While experl- euce under the new law has disclosed several places where 1t Is weak and needs strengthening, that is no excuse for repealing the entire statute. All that is required is appropriate amend- ment. The demand of the fusionists for the repeal of this law therefore only em- phasizes the fact that the ouly hope of the people for real reform in election matters lies with the republican party. Republicans in Nebraska, as every- where, have stood up for and protected the Australian ballot; they alohe have introduced reforms into the primary elections and they alone can be de- pended upon to see that we continue to o forward and not backward. The relentlessness of the fuslon ma- chine 1s again fllustrated from Sarpy county, where two legislative candi dates, duly nominated by the demo- cratic and populist conventions, respec- tively, have been forced off the ticket | to make way for a third man who was not consldered by either convention and not in the field as a candidate. The so- called reform forces could not have a more striking example of the bossismn produced by the . fusion alliance by which the rank and file of the parties are deprived of all voice in the sele tion of candidates and the determina- tion of the party policy. Forcible fu sion by men prating about government by consent is a political paradox popo- crats are compelled to endurt It is a poor day that does not bring out some new roorback in the popo- cratlc press. One day it is the ship- ment of a carload of gold coin to buy up the venal Bryanite voters and the next it is a colonization scheme to plant repeaters all through Nebraska, and then another to hire Bryan men to go out of the state or stay away from the polls. All these ridiculous fakes are notably ou a par with one another, but they insult the intelligence of the Amer- fcan eltizen by presuming upon his credulity. Why not invent something that is at least plausible? The principal of the High school will ‘¢ the backing of the public generally in support of his e%ct that athletics must ot be allowed to Interfere with study and class room work., The High school puplls should be encouraged to | keep sound health by physical exercise, but must understand that the chief ob- ject of the public school system s edu- catlon. /The substitute for the Goebel law passed by the Kentucky legislature was agreed upon in a demoeratic caucus by a very close vote. Kentucky demo- crats are loath to give up the Goebel law and would not make any conces- slons at all except for thelr fear that the odious measure will react against them. Crokerism Expanded. Philadelphia Record (dem.) After his great reception in New York Mr. Bryan sald that it was easy to see that democracy reigns In that city. But Le has mistaken Crokerism for democracy as much as some people mistake Bryan- ism for democracy. Frults of Good Government. 8t. Paul Ploneer Press. The financial policy of the republican party has brought the United States to a position of acknowledged supremacy in the amount and quality of its iron nd steel products,manufactured and unmanufactured. Next will como supremacy in textile manu- factures, toward which our country is now rapidly advancing. Under the policy ad- vocated by Mr. Bryan and his predecessors in the leadership of the democratic party, the United States would have remained and hogs. But this last would undoubtedly have satisfed the utmost ambition of the free trader for his country's advancement Calm and Scholarly. Kansas City Star, It is the opinion of President Eliot of Harvard that, taking Mr. McKinley up one side and down the other, he Is to bo pre- ferred to Bryan, But this judgment is given with that acute absence of Impetu- osity which fs one of the accomplishments taught at Cambridge. French Welcome to Kruger. Chicago News. Marseilles is preparing to welcome Kruger In flattering style, merely as & kind of sauce to English elation over the South African war. France also probably re- members St. Helena and will see that Kruger is not sent to join Cronje to re- flect, llke the first Napoloon, upon the fickleness of destiny. Richard Goes with th Brooklyn Eag The Eagle wants Mr. Bryan defeated and Mr. McKinley elected. It therefore wel- comes Mr. Croker to the front of the Bryan movement in the city, the state and tho nation, for city, stale and nation cannot have Bryanism without having Croker and Tammanylsm. If they want the oue they must have the other. Reat. No Time for Drones. Detroit Free Press It 1s no time for drones or for those who wearlly announce a purpose to leave the nation in the hands of professional politiclal The intelligence and honesty of the American people are to be trusted, it they vote. It they deliberately forfeit that right through default they as deliber- ately uphold the hands of the corrupt and upprincipled. Make it a matter of con- science and patriotism to register. Prometing n Landslide. Philadelphia Ledger There can be no doubt that all the Buro- pean powers concerned with the Chinese situation are convinced that the Chinese government will “utilize all its resour: of duplicity” to gain the ultimate advan- tage over them, but Russia is the first to say 8o openly. She will deal with China as with a country whose rulers cannot be belleved in whatever they may say, and she will greatly simplify operations by doing so. Buffalo Express. An American company has bought 4,000 acres of pasture land in Guam, but its plans for exploiting the fsland by means of con- tract labor have been promptly checked by the governor general. American enter- prises should make the despised Guam one of the world's garden spots, but it must always be kept fn mind that the first duty of the United States there, as in the Philip- pines and in Porto Rico, 18 to the people whom it has found there When a representative of the New York Herald called on Mr. Bryan and asked him if, were he president, he would pay gov- ernment bonds in silver, Bryan replied: “Say that Mr. Bryan refuses to be inter- viewed on that subject.” Had he answered “Yes,” he would have consolidated the east against him. Had he replied he would have repulsed the free silver ele- ment and have repudiated his speeches of four yesrs ugo. Likewise, when Mr. Roosevelt put to him the direct question whether he would pay government bonds in silver, he declined to answer. He is playing the game of a political jugsler. WEST. Bryaniam Shown to Be an Expensive Luxury. Philadelshia Press. Bryanlsm is the most expensive luxury which the west supports, costing it from 2 per cent to 4 per cent on all iis land mortgages in the aggregate sum of $1,200,- 000,000, on which 2 per cent is $24,000,000 a year and 4 per cent $48,000,000. Mr. F| E. Wellstien, cashier of the First National bank of Laporte City, la, points out 1n an address before the Chicago convention of realty mortgage agencics that farm | of her sister stdtes. | branches of mechanio life. FROM PINCHING WANT 10 TEEMING PLENTY Recent Years of Idleness and Hunger Contrasted with the Prosperous Conditions The newspapers furnish the indelible record of the times files of any newspaper for the years 1803 hard times, business depression, industrial newspapers of today tell a different stor trial activity and plenty and pleasure. The duced in parallel columns below News of 1893-1800. Members of the Tin, Bheet Iron and Cornice workers complain that there is very little work golng on in thelr trade. At a meeting Monday night ot the Brick- layers’ and Plasterers’ Tenders it was found that a large proportion of thelr membership s at present ldle, with very poor prospects ot work. There will be a meeting of the unem- ploygd today at Knights of Labor hall. The object of the meeting {8 to try to arrange some method whereby worthy persons can be given employment and not be forced to beg, steal or starve. Carpenters’ unfon No. 685 meets tonight in Wolt's hall, corner of Twenty-second and Cuming streets. Many of the members of this unfon are unable to find employment and the principal business of the meeting tonight will be the discussion of methods to provide work of some kind to enable the members to keep from asking charity. The Omaha Central Labor unlon held,a meeting last night. * * * One of the South Omaha delegates announced that men in that town who had heretofore been re- celviug $1.76 a day were now only receiving $1.95 per day. He also reported that a large number of persons who had come to South Omaha expecting to get work were idle, and many of them without money or credit. Henry Cohen of the Knights of Labor is chairman of a committee which has com- pleted a canvass of the unemployed work- men in the city. He reports 3,800 unem- ployed wage-earners in Omaha at present, representing all trades. Many of them are married men and the saloon element is a scarcity among them. Of this number Mr, Cohen reports the following in need of im- mediate relfef. (Then follow the names and addresses of several hundred workingmen, many of whom are today amoug the best citizens of Omaha.) The last year has begn a particularly trying one upon the state and private banks of Nebraska. The causes which affected 80 many of them were not, however, local. The same causes operated in every state in the union and Nebraska was no worse off, and perhaps a great deal better, than many During the year the bank suspeusions numbered forty-five. Of this number but fifteen were placed in the hands of receivers, the rest either belng s0ld or consolidated with other banks, or going into voluntary liquidation. Painters’ and Decorators’ unfon No. will hold a regular meeting tonight. One of the members said today that unless something happened to put new life into business he did not know what some of their members would do to get through the winter, as so many of them are now idle. Heretofore, when work in thelr trade was dull in Omaha, those without work could always go to other cities and secure employment, but this winter the unions in other cities report fully as dull times as in Omaha. 109 A reglster 1s kept at Rescue hall and it contains the name, age, nativity, occupa- tion, address and religlon of all applicants for relief. A perusal of this record dis- closes the fact that 438 men had applied for food and shelter within the last few weeks. The bulk of the applicants are de. | serving men who are out ot employment. It includes machinists, rallroad men, car- penters, laborers, cooks, clerks and all The unem- ployed come mostly from Chicago and the mortgage loans In Towa, Illinols and Wis- consin are on the basis of 6 per cent and | 7 per cent, and in Nebraska, Kansas and | Minnesota of 7 per cent and 8 per cen’ while good bonds are 3 and 4 per cent and | eastern mortgages 4 to 6 per cent. The| reason for this difference, he thinks, Is “because thero is no disinterested medium whereby the quality of a farm loan can be insured,” but in addition there is the pat- ent fact that many western farmers are now borrowing in gold and then voting to pay the loan in sllver. It is fmpossible for any region to main- tain its credit when a financlal policy of this kind is advocated by a lurge part of its Inhabltants. Mr. Wellstlen proposes an assoclation of investors and loaners which could guarantee the quality of a loan, with examiners in every district; but the difficulty with such a plan is that while the safety of one loan may depend upon any specific examination of a par- ticular risk, the general level of interest charged in a region turns on the general state of credit in a community, and this credit depends fn its turn upon tho average financial opinions of a community 1f o community believes in paying its debts, and votes to do 60, it ¢an borrow cheaply. If its vote is cast for a different polley 1t cannot. No system of mutual {nspection, such as Mr. Wellstien proposes, can mect the doubt created by scaly po- litical financial opinions in any community backed by votes A SCHOLAR Loutsville Courler-Journal: Mr, Wilson publio life, like his private character, was distinguished by unfailing Integrity as well as abllity. 1In all his relations, whether as man or statesman, he had the respect and admiration of both friends and op- ponent Minneapolis Times: The scholar in poli- tics was typified In William Lyne Wilson, who died suddenly recently at his home in Lexington, Va. Mr. Wilson was a college graduate, a professor and & college presi- dent, yet he found time to be a successtul politican, Boston Globe: The career ot William Lyne Wilson, ex-postmaster general, which came to an end recently at the seat of Washington and Lee university, of which he was president, was that of the soholar n politics and a devoted well-wisher of the prosperity of his country. New York Evening Post: The death ot Willlam L. Wilson 1s a sad loss to the country. He was the best type of ‘the scholar in politics” that we have had in rocent years, his service in congress and in cabinet having been fn every way miost creditable to himself and {nspiring as an example to others. Kansas City Star: The principle for which Mr. Wilson so bravely contended will be completely vindicated in the end and when the consumers of this country shall be finally relleved of the unnecessary tax which the tariff requires them to pay on the neces- saries of life the memory of Mr. Wilson will be honored as that of a great reformer and public benefactor. Chicago Record: Not robust in physique, en indefatigable worker, and with more of the scholar than the politician in his disposition, he was & man for quiet re- search rather than for active participation | in the world of affairs. His creditable | career both as chairman of the house ways east, while many consist of railroad labor- ers from the west. Colorado miners and wage-earners are largely represented. An {llustration of the willingness of the men to work was demonstrated yesterday. Mr. Clark announced in the presence of the men at the hall that he had a job for some one (o shovel coal. It meant 75 cents o the one who secured it. No sooner had the words left his lips ere he was surrounded by fifty or sixty impoverished men with outstretched hands. They piteously pleaded for tho work. One old man was knocked down in the wild scramble for employ- ment or God's sake, give it to me, sir," feebly gasped the old man. He got the job and slept that night on a mattress of Today. Turn back to the 1896 and you will find a daily record of stagoation and want and suffering. The y—one of good times, business and indus- news of 1893-6 and that of 1900 is repro- News of 1900 The wage scale of the sheet metal work- ers has advanced to 88% cents per hour— from 27% cents, paid in 1896, The bricklayers' scale for 1900 is 2 1808 it was 15 to 4 that more men & 1896, nd plasterers’ tenders cents per hour; in cents. Flfty per employed than * in A. Tompkins, the Farnam street em- ployment agent, says: ‘“Thero is no ex- cuse for any ablebodied man to be with- out work today. When I see such a man begging on the strect I put him down as a professional and feel like kicking him." The carpenters’ scale in Omaba this year is 40 cents per hou agalnst 30 cents per hour in 1896, In South Omaha the scale {s 35 cents, as inst 25 cents four years ago. In both citles more than double the number of men employed in 1896 are now working steadily, and there is much overtime put in “I have agents at the depots to catch men as they get off'the tralns and offer them work. 1 can't get onme-third of the men I have orders for. In 1896 you could get all the common laborers you wanted at from 75 cents to $1.25 per day. Now they won't work for less than $1.75, and many get $2.25."—J. Sheldon, labor agency. N James A. Davies of the Western Em- ployment agency, says: “If you can bring me & thousand men today, or any other day, I'll guarantee .to give each one of them & good job at ood wages. I'll give them free transportation to their work and I'll eplit my commission with you for bringing me the men. 1 have just re- turned from Chicago, §t. Paul and Minne- apolls, where I went in search of men 1 wanted about a thousand men and 1 got Just twenty-two." Chappell Register: H. I. Babeock, cashier of the Commercial bank of this place, makes the following statement, which shows some- thing of the degree of prosperity which bas struck Deuel county: August 15, 1806, our deposits were $18,000; August 15, 1900, $38,- 000, or more than double. Our loans and discounts in 1896 were $22,000; in 1900, $39, 000. Volume of business August 15, 1595, $30,000; August 15, 1900; $60,000, or just double what it was in 1826, Under demo- cratle prosperity we were loaning only a few dollars to each man at 2 per cent a month. In 1896 the Painters’ and Decorators’ union had about fifty members in good standing, and now the organization includes about 200 workmen, nearly all of whom are steadily employed. The scale in 1806 was 30 cents per hour and now it is 85 cents, with time and a half for overtime and double time for Sundays. The painters and decorators have also established the eight-hour day. The union as & whole and the members Individ- ually were mever in better condition than they are toda; Blalr Pilot: The Omaha Bes has been reproducing letters from different parts of the state bearing on the prosperous condi- tlons that exist in those particular localities. Similar reports could come from every sec- tion of the state. Producers all have some- thing to sell. If it {sn't oats, corn or wheat, it s sheap, cattle or hogs. In every instanco high prices prevall and good times exist. The man who talks calamity, hard times, want a change, is up against a stiff proposi- tion. Mighty few peoplo want a change when they are making money, and good money at that. Chambers Journal: A few years ago we visited the home of Charlle Thompson, twelve miles west of Chambers. At that time he was struggling with poverty and bad a large family to maintain, living in a £od house and had few comforts surrounding him. Now he owns a fine, commodious frame dwelling house, fitted up n tho latest style of architecture, and a large frame barn for the accommodation of his stock of horses and cattle, for he has a large herd of cattle. In that home there is every comfort that might be desired, and the good wife and children have happy, cheerful faces. It {8 indeed a happy and prosperous family. TROUBLES OF THE FUSIONISTS, Hastings Tribune: Governor Poynter al- ready shows signe of doubt of re-election. | He is trying to square himselt with the| soldiers who returned from the Philippines for vetoing a resclution of thanks offercd them by the leglslature. The boys know who were thelr friends, however. | Humboldt Leader: Dr. Lang has won out in his controversy with Governor Poyn- ter and takes a salary for the three months and a half which have elapsed since Gov ernor Poynter removed him. Peace comes high, but the executive must have it even | 1t he does have to pay out good state money to secure 1t. | North Platte Tribune: A subscriber sug- | gests that the real reason Congressman Neville has not made & canvass of his dlstrict is because he encountered such heavy “frosts” at different points which he visited shortly after his nomination, and he concluded the best campalgn he could make was to keep out of sight. We have in the past heard of candidates who pur- sued this latter course, and they were not republicans either. Beatrice Express: Mr. Oldbam, cand'- date for attorney general, was at Teka- | mah the other day, where he made a bet | that Bryan will carry this state. It clearly agalnst the Iaw to bet on an elec- tion and severe pains &nd penalties are | provided for the offense. A man who is a | candidate for fuch an office as attorney | general ought to know that he is break- | fng the law by betting—and it is the duty | of the authorities to bring him te the bar of justice. 8t, Edward Sun: It amuses us to notice how the fusion papers try to demny or ex cuse Governor Poynter for calling the regu- lar soldiers “$15-a-month hirelings” In a speech at Dakota City. Like Judge Duffy, who it is sald had a doubtful reputation Auring the civil war, they brand any onc who shows up their true position as u of low blackguardism, Look at the sold of the civil or Spanish-American war % you know, end are they men that would fol- low Old Glory for money or for truo patriotism? A man, let alone our gov- ernor, that would utter sich words about our flag and its protectors is mot worthy of respect from the citizens of any coun- try Don't Be Al Washington Post Mr. Bryan fears the republicans don't and as postmastel general ehowed the wtrepgth of his nutiv supreme only in the raisiag of grain, cattle | ability, Ly understand the significance of his New York reception. Mr. Bryan should not borrew trouble in this manne PERSONAL Chairman Jones requests every Intim- idated voter to report to him at once— North Carolina citizens, of course, ex- cepted. The allles in Pekin, according to Dr. Morrison, were highly pleased with Chat- fee's herolc conduct in holding off and leaving all the loot for them. Joel Chandler Harris, author and former newspaper editor, has been invited to de- liver a lecture on journallsm befors tho English department of the University of Chicago. The young woman who broke tha 2,000- milo bicycle record on Menday night started beforo daylight next morning on another 1,000-mile spin. Doctors are im constant attendance on her and the coroner s within easy reach, | Our eagles are being carried far and wide 5 the present time BSeveral of them were blown 200 miles out to sea during the recent southeast Atlantic storm and Ianded In an exhausted condition on the deck of & steamship. Charles R. Flint, whose recent address on “Trusts” before the Ilinois Manufac- turers’ association attracted so much at- tention, is an expert in naval matters, and in 1804, during the Japanese-Chinese war, negotinted for Japan for the purchase of the ship Esmeralda. Dr. Thomas H. Norton, Amerlcan consul at Harpoot, Turkey, recently gave a dinner to the members of the Phi Heta Kappa society resident in Pera. Nearly a dozen persons were present representing Har- vard, Princeton, Yale, Vassar, Hamilton, Bowdoin, Amherst, Williams and Columbiy The totals from twenty-nine cities In Vew York state above the Harlem show an increase of 41 per ceut for the two days of this year compared with the first two of 1598. This breaks the record of all_campaigns, and as twenty-four of the twénty-nine cities are republican, there i no room left for éispute as to the sig- nificance of this great registration. General Walter Kitchener, who has besn pratsed by Sir Redvers Buller, {s the brother of Lord Kitchener, and distinguished him- self in the Omdurman campaign &s com- mander of communications. He went out to South Africa in command of a West Yarkehire battalion and soon found h'mselt at the head of a brigade. All General Kitchener's officers from Egypt who have £one to the front have distinguished them- selves. Among them are Rumdle, Hunter, Macdonald, Broadwood, Kitchener the | younger amd Hickman. - NOTES. SOME RESULTS OF PROSPERITY, Aurora Republican: The way the people are turning out to the republican school house meetings leads one to think that they are begluning to do some thinking for themselves. Republicans alone do mot con- stitute the audiences, but thers is a liberal sprinkling of fusioulsts at each meoting who seem to be listening attentively and welghing arguments, all of which will count for republicanism on November 6. Toblas Gazette: A farmer north of town told us last week that he had paid off a mortgage of $3,500 the past two years. Others told us that they had made enough money the past three years to buy and pay cash $3,200 for a quarter section of land They are satisfled to let well enough alone, McKinley prosperity struck them in the right place and they don't propose to kill the goose which lays golden eggs for them. O'Neill Frontier: Thomas Berry, who lives elghteen miles morth of O'Nelll, in Paddock township, is another one of the Polt county ploneers and has always been an uncompromising democrat, never voting anything elso when a democratic ticket wa in sight. In 1806 he worked and voted for the election of W. J. Bryan, but says he cannot do 8o this fall. He will vote for McKinley and the republican ticket, belng convinced that the republican party is the party of prosperity, progress and trus Americanism. O'Nelll Frontier: Samuel Barnard of this city s another old-time democrat who has deserted the Bryan party and come out for McKinley and the flag. During the memorable campaign of 1896 Mr. Bryan had no more enthusiastio follower than Sam. He was honest and sincere in the bellet that unless Bryan and free silver came out on top the country would go to Halifax a-flylng. Bryan sald so, and of course he knew. Well, his man failed to reach the White House and instead of the ruln and disaster predicted came the full dinner pail and widespread lmpetus to all kinds and classes of business. Labor was again employed at good wages and every body s prosperous and happy. ““That,” says Mr. Barnard, “is euough for me. 1lis prophecies have been unfulfilled, while those of the republicans have come true and T am henceforth a republican and shall take spectal pride and delight in casting my first republican vote for those gallant and patriotic statesmen, Willlam McKinley and Theodore Roosovelt.” York Republican: The unew corn market slarts off this season at 25 cents. Four years ago it was sowetbing like 12 cents or less. When the farmer came to town with his load of corn then 25 cents a bushel was the dream around which he bullt beautiful air castles. If he could only get 25 cents for his corn the wife should have the new cook stove or addition or carpet, for which she has been longing. He could then afford to buy that new buggy for them to ride in, the organ that Mary wanted or the new wheel which filled Harry's heart with un- satisfled longing. A very few months of McKinley times brought corn up to the 25 cent point and the addition was bullt. Many times it was an entire new home or barn. The new buggy made the trlp to church or to town a delight to the hard working wife and tho sweet strains of Mary's now organ filled the summer even- ings with restful melody. The hearts of the father and mother swelled with pride of thelr strong, graceful son as he floated by on hig shining new wheel. Dally neces- sities ceased to the question and the father and mother instead of feeling sat- {sfled when that question was settled com- menced to look forward to something in the future. The time when their tired hands could be folded in deserved rest and the burden of active life devolve upon the younger, stronger shoulders. How many roaders of this paper there are who will recognizo these couditions as applylng di- rectly to their own cases. BRIGHT AND BREEZY. Pittsburg Chronicl What i our duty in this Chinese crisis?’ demanded the Ob servant Boarder. “To mind our p's and queues, the Cross-Eyed Boarder. " replied will make Detrolt Journal: *1 suppose 1 observed the original smart Aleck of me, Alexander, “but here gees!" With this he stepped out and slghed for more worlds to conquer. ‘Washington Star: fus, eald Uncle Eben, “to git into de way o' com- lainin’. A 'man Kin allus stop workin' to dck, but it comes hahd to stop kickin' to work." Chicago Tribune: The chalrman of the political meeting came rushing behind the curtain in wild excitement. “Here!" he exclaimed, in'a hoarse whis- er. “'Stop that infernal phonograph! This s an anti-imperialistic town and yeu've stuck a free ellver cylinder in the ma- chine!" Philadelphia Press Your friend Grooma boasts that his wife is college-bred. What's meant by college-bred, anyway?" “"Mobbe it's the stuff they learn to make at cookin’ school Somerville Journal: Kven the man who makes sausages for a living may have a poet's soul. Detrolt Free Pre The sweet notes of the song rose from the girl's room on the floor below, "I‘dm saddest when I sing, the rds. ““Most women are," growled the cynic on the floor above; ‘because they can't sing and tulk at the same time." Mrs. were Bnaggs—0ld Mr. Snaggs—Yes. “What did he dle of?" “He died of enlargement of the heart “That old miser! ~What a joker you ars, Frank!" Chicago Tribune: 1 will marry you Horace," the maiden sild. resolutely but shyly, “If you will promise to vote for Wilam—" *1 promise, darling!" tmpulsively broke in the young man, clasping in his arms And the fond’ girl thinks that in winning a husband she has made a convert, GOING HOME. Frances Brown. We sald that the days were e ‘We felt that they might b For low was our fortune's le H And heavy the winters grew; But one who had no possession T.ooked up to the agure dome, And #ald, in his simple fashion, U'Dear friends, we are going home!* This world is the same dull market That wearled ita earllest sa; The times to the wise are darl But #o hath been many an ag And rich grow the tolling nation And red grow the h.mro Hpear And dreary with desolations Roll onward the laden years. What need of the changeless story ‘Which time hath so often told, The specter that follows glory, The canker that comes with gold- That wisdom and strength and honer Must fade like the far geafoam, And Death Is the only winner?— But, friends, we are golng home! The homen we had hoped to rest n Wero open to sin and strifs, The dreams that our youth was blest in Were not for the wear For care can darken th As well as the palace And birthrights are sold for pottag But never redeemed on earth. The springe have gone by In sorrow, The summers were grisved away, And over we feared {Omorrow, And ever we blamed (oday 11 depths which the searcher sounded, On hills which the high heart clomb, Have trouble and toll abounded— But, friends, we are golng home! Our falth was the bravest bullder. But found not a stone of trust; Our love was the fairest gilder, Hut lavished {ts wealth on dust And time hath the fabric shaken, And fortune the clay hath shown, For much they have changed and taken, But nothing that was our own The light (hat to us made baker ’| m'plnhl which so many choose, The gffts there was found no place for, The riches we could not use; The heart that when life was wintry Found summer in wtrain and tome, ‘With these to our kin and country— Dear friends, we are going homel" »