Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 23, 1900, Page 6

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Personal checks, except on Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted THE B PUBLISHING COMPANY ATATEMENT OF Btate of Nebruska, Doiglas County, #s i Pany CIRCULATION George 13, K ary of The Bee Publishing 1y, ing duly sworn, ays that il number of full_and cop The Dally, Morning, $Vening and Sunday Bee printed during the th of S L 1000, was as follows it 18 97,4806 27,100 27,180 27,140 27,100 20,070 " 27,016 L 27,400 ..27,060 27,200 27,660 L2770 26,740 27,230 . 27,470 .. 27,150 27,390 27,24 27,236 28,1340 ! 27,400 27170 20,805 Total 818,030 L.ess uneold and returned coples Not total sales Net dally average. ... GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK Subscribed In my presence and sworn o before me this 2th day of September, A. . i) 1B eNGATE, (Seal) otary Public 11,822 Only two weeks more to the battle of the ballots. EEEE————— The man who starts out to look for republican apathy in Nebraska will have difficulty in finding it. Democrats ghould be sure that the parachute Js In good order for their airship performance November 6. When Roosevelt Governor through with his tour of New York the Bryan tracks will be well-nigh obliter- gets ated. Kansas City Is to have a dollar din- ner. Omaha started the pace several years ago. That shows how far Kan- sas City Is behind Omah Do not complain If the rainy weather 18 not so pleasant as some we have been having. Ncebraska I8 just preparing to raise another big crop in 1001, There are indications that Mr, Bryan's imperialistic paramount is bedly frayed v not last through the few re- maining days of the campaign, Mr. Bryan will not find it necessary to | topyright what he said about free silver during his recent visit to New York, be- cause it was spoken so low that no ome heard it. Soup still holds 1ts wvlace as the first plate in a dinner course, but since 1806 It has become customary to serve some- thing more substantlal along with it sven at democratic banqus Senator Hanna repeats that he thor- sughly believes Nebraska will go for McKinley. Senator Hanna is not given bo political forecasting, but his judgment Is usually based on sound observation, E——— The next congress is sure to be con- trolled by a republican majority, so Ne- braska people will counsult their own Interests by sending none but republican pongressmen to represent them at Wash- ington. E— Mr. Bryan is traveling in a private car and by special train. He feels that he has gotten beyond the point where he has to bid for popular favor by buying his ticket like an ordinary passenger and riding In & common coach. Oolored men in the south are not ex: pected to pay any attention to the re- quest of Chairman Jones of the demo- cratie committee to report promptly any effort to prevent a full and free ex- pression of the will of the voters, —_— Adlal E. Stevenson is generous. He I8 willing to concede that Pennsylvania will go republican, but insists 1t will have little company. If he can con- tinue having such Inspiring. dreams it would be cruel to wake him up until Absolutely necessary. Only one judge of the district court I8 to be chosen at the coming election In this state and that one for the district in which a vacancy appointment of William V. Allen as United States senator, As a rule sey. eral judiclal vacancies are to be filled at each succceding election, Figures may not lie, but many times Uars take liberties with them. Just at present the calamityites are endeavor- ing to prove that the mortgage Indebt- edness of braska Is on the Increase, The man who starts out to prove that Nebraska is not better off financlally than it was four years ago is attempt- pmonstrate something everyone his own knowledge Is false, General Bickles lost a leg and General Howard an arm at Gettysburg uphold- Wog the homor of the natlon. Their mervices give them a right to speak for Sheir country. Neltler one of gthem Is ralsing his voice for Aguinaldo, though Bickles voas born and reared fa a demo- | greater or DATLY BEE: TUESDAY THE STATE INSTITUTIONS. The point where the state government comes n most direct contact with the citizens 1s in the management of the state lustitutions. These Institutions are maintained for the care of the de fective and delinquent classes to which every community less extent. The state malntaing schools for the deaf, blind and feeble-minded, hospitals for the insane, reformatories for way ward boys and girls and prisons for convicted criminals. In providing for these different classes the state sets it self up as the guardian and undertakes to give them the care and fustruction required for the benefit of themselves and soclety. The state at large 1s taxed to defray the expenses of these insti- tutions aund the tax rate depends largely upon the economy or extravagance of the management. . Under fusion administration Ne- braska's wtate institutions have been sadly mismanaged. ‘Through a system of spollx distribution between three al- lied political parties positions of re- sponsibility n connection with these various {institutions have been farmed out to partisan politicians utterly with- out regard to fitness and qualifications, The, School for the Deaf, for example, has been placed in charge of a superin- tendent who at the time of his appoint- ment, could not even communicate with the pupils In the sign language. The School for the Blind was glven over to a superintendent wholly luexperienced in the teaching of blind pupils. The In- stitute for the Feeble-Minded has been made the foot ball of salary-grabbing wischief-makers, and the various hos- pitals have been entrusted to physicians of meager attainments aud little or no experience In the tfeatment of the dis- eases peculiar to inmates of these in- stitutions. The stewardships have been banded around in the same manner to men whose only clalms rested on po- litical work, and whose ability as ac- countants, as shown by the records, would not entitle them to a place as bookkeeper in a country store. In a word, the Interests of the state's wards and of the taxpayers have been made subordinate to the demands of the office- seekers, and the most sacred duties, such as the instruction of the deaf, the blind and other defectives, trified with, to the Irremediable detriment of unfor- tunates who cannot provide for them- selves, The continuance of the fuslonists in control of the state government means & continuance of this deplorable mis- management of our state Institutions; it means a continuance of waste and extravagance, of incompetence, If not fmbecility. On the other hand, the way to secure good business management in these Institutions under the direction of well qualified experts, who will see that the proper care and Instruction is given to the Inmates, is to elect the candidates on the republican state ticket and serve notice for a divorce. between the state institutions and the political spoils hunters. —_— DEATH OF JOHN SHERMAN. One of the greatest of American states- men, whose name will ever be illustrious in our history, is dead. The public ea- reer of John Bherman extended over a period of forty-three years and during that time few men exercised so great an influence as he upon the country or had #0 large a part in shaping public policy. intering congress in 1855, he served six years in the house of representatives, where he won distinction. In 1861 he became a member of the senate, in which body he served thirty-two years. He was four years secretary of the treasury In the administration of Pre: ident Hayes and was appointed se: tary of state by President McKtuley, oc- cupying that position one year. John Sherman's chief work and fame rest upon his financial measures and his brilliant success as administrator of the national finances when at the head of the Treasury department. He elther originated or very largely shaped most of the important financial legislation of the war. He was the author of the re- sumption act and to him fell the honor of carrylng it into effect. For this achlevement he was vigorously de nounced by politieal opponents, but nothing In his great career was so valu- able to the country as this legislation that redeemed the promises of the gov- ernment and made the currency equal to gold. Though credited with the au- thorship, somewhat to his prejudice, of the silver purchase act of 1890, Mr. Sher- man was not in fact its author, though he secured amendments to it which ren- dered It less objectionable than it other- wise would have been. The truth is that Mr. Sherman never regarded that legis- lation with favor and he was the first to propose its repeal, while his voice and influence were among the most potent agencies In securing that repeal. The anti-trust law, which has proven effs | ive against rallway tramic agreements, | if not In tlfe suppression of the trusts was created by the | and combinations it was speclally in- | tended to reach, 18 largely due to the efforts of John Sherman. While his name 18 not prominently assoclated with the legislation of the reconstruction per- lod, he yet had an lmportant part in con nection with it Mr. Sherman was pre-eminently a con- structive statesman. He took an en- tirely practical view of things. His speeches were luunex of-fact, replete with information dand convineing In ar- gument, but never rhetorical. Unques- tionably the country has had no greater secretary of the treasury. He adwinis tered the fiscal affairs of the nation with consummate ability, guarding mean- while the great business interests of the country, and brought about the resump- tion of specle payments without a Jar. Mr. Sherman had a pretty thorough knowledge of foreign affairs, acquired during the years in which he was chair- wman of the senate committee on foreign relations, but the duties of secretary of eratic atmosphere und nas served the party faithfully whec such service was conslsteat with the honer of the nation. state were too arduous and exacting for & man 74 years old and his record 1o that contributes to a| position added nothing to his fame. Mr. Sherman's name was presented to | the republican national conventions of | 1880, 1884 and 1888 as a candidate for the presidency. Undoubtedly bLe felt ly the refusal of his party to nom kee inate him for the highest office in the gift of the people. Mr. Sherman was popularly looked upon as cold and aus tere, but those who knew him best did so regard him. No other man in our history had a public career at once so long, so varled, so prominent and so useful as John Sherman and there was none more honorable, more faithful to duty or more patriotic. The American people will sincerely mourn the death of this illustrious statesman, — THE SCHOUL BOARD CERTIFICATE. Up to this time certlficates of nomina- tion for members of the school board have always been flled with the clerk of the city and secretary of the board and every member who has held a seat has been elected on certiticates filed in this maoner. But now, because they think some partisan advantage can be gecured, the fusionists have set up the claim that these certificates should be filed with the county clerk and that un- der the law fixing the time limit for such certificates twenty days before the elec- tion the certificate of nomination for the republican candidates 1s barred by the expiration of time. The pretense of this contention is that school board member- ship 1s not a municipal office for which, under the law, certificates should be filed with the municipal clerk up to fifteen days before the election. This 1s simply beating the devil around the stump. Nobody has ever yet con- tended that the school board was auny- thing but a municipal body. It is elected by voters within the municipal lmits, its tax levies are imposed by the city council, Its candidates’ names are printed on separate ballots and depos- fted In separate ballot boxes and can- vassed not by the county clerk, but by the school board itself. No amount of trickery or sophistry can change these facts. 1f the nomination certificates for the Omaha school board are to be filed with the county clerk so would have to be the certificates for the South Omaha school board and for every other school board chosen at regular elections, With the law and the prac- tize all one way the scheme of the fu- slonists to keep the republican candi- dates off the official ballot as party nomi- hees 18 too small to merit serious consid- eration. It simply shows the unscrupu- lous and despicable character of the fu- slon machine managers. Kansas City is making preparations to hold what it will call “The Century Ball” to mark the change from the out- going to the lncoming century. The fdea is to celebrate on a grand scale the advent of the new cycle as a turn- ing point in the history and progress of the city. The suggestion might, perhaps, be taken up by Omaha and other citie and the advent of the new year wel- comed with festive galety throughout the entire country. Here is a chance for our social lions and leaders. A Chicago explorer has just returned from the heart of Africa and reports having found the most secluded spot on the earth. He should inform Mr. Bryan of {ts location, for he will need it after election to meditate undisturbed over the futllity of trying to lead the American business man and working- man on & wild goose chase. m———e——— The largest steel firm in England does not propose to be crowded out of busi ness by American competition, but in order to prevent such a contingency is arranging to erect in the United States one of the largest plants in the world. The erection of this plant means em- ployment for 3,500 American workmen from the start. The pay roll for the Union Pacific ma- chine and repair shops in Omaha for last month is sald to have been larger than any in Its long history extending over more than twenty-five years, This ought to Indicate that the workingmen are sharing In the restored prosperity. Butler s Bryan down in Kansas. of the populist national committee, who was thrown down so hard by the Bry- anites in his own state of North Caro- lina, 1s careful to put ig his time where he knows it will do Bryan no good. Marion campalgning for The chalrman use and Bffect. Baltimore Amerlcan. One of Senator questioners belleves that the world is flat No wonder he belleves that the Kansas City platform s on the square. Can't Get Away. Woshington Post A deceased Missouri democrat arranged to have his tombstone bear a request to his friends to vote for Bryan. This ought to insure the tombstone vote for the democratic ticket, The Last Straw. Buffalo Express “Great 1s Tammany, and Croker is its prophet,” said Mr. Bryan In one of his New York speeches, the last straw which will determine the course of thousands of wavering voters. Prospect Desiuned to Please. Washington Star. If this prosperity 1%, as he claims, artifi- clal and evanescent, Mr. Bryan ought to re- rd a prospect of defeat with philosophic calm. 1t he s president when the slump comes, the public will be sure to lay the blame at his door. Calamity, New York Tribune. | With an increase during the last yeaf of a Poor Show for $200,000,000 in deposits, it 15 a bad time to §0 to the country on a calamity platform, as Bryan knew well enough long ago, but pre- tends to be only just finding out Catoh & coal baron asleep! ““The publie,” declares one of them, ‘must be prepared to share with the mine owners the In- in the miners’ wages. It will prob- ably be necessary to advance the price of and maintain the advance That 1s to say, the mine its treasurer is the city treasurer nml‘ Hanna's South Dakota | That remark is likely to be | millton savings bank depositors and nearly | owners, having granted an advance in wages which amounts to 13 to 13 cents per ton, mow propose to tax the public $1 per ton as a reward for their own generosity! Profitable philauthropy Buffalo Exyress. A native Filipino who has lived for a year and a half in Omaha has applied for reglstration there, claiming that the an- nexation of the Philippines made him an American. Several Porto Ricans have been registered on that ground in Baltimore. It the construction of the law is good in the one case, it undoubtedly is in the other. rvice Reform. Philadelphia Record. Prea’dent ¥liot of Harvard is quite right in saying that neither of the great political partles can be trusted to abolish the spoile system entirely; but he is right also in holding that the republican party and its candidates are to be preferred to those of the democracy on this fssue. A public sentiment for civil seryice reform is grow- ing among the republicans, and their can didatos for president and vice president have records which oblige them to make ut least some effort n that direction; whereas nelther the records nor the reputations of the democratic candidates furnish any such guaranty, Settlen the Whole Business. Washington Post. Mr. Croker is engaged in relating the touching fncidents which occur durlng Mr. Bryan's tour of New York. In his luxurious quarters at the Democratic club the Tam- many chieftain entertained his subjects with the following narrative “DI4 you read about that incident fn Schenectady, where a laboring man whose hands were grimy and solled with tofl came up to shake hands with Bryan? He apolo- gized for the grimy and soiled condition of bis hands. Bryan took him by the hand and told him that his hands were as good as those of any rich man. Bryan makes no di tinction between the rich and the poor. He is a friend of the workingman.' This should about settle the whole busi- ness and glve Mr. Bryan the solld vote of the people with solled hands. It is pre- sumed that there are toflet articles in Mr, Bryan's private car. THE INTEREST OF LABOR. Southern Manufncturers Yell for Bryan and Sparn L San Franclsco Call, A recent dispatch announced that the manufacturers controlling the mills in Charlotte, N. C., had given notice to thelr employes that they must either withdraw from labor unions or from the mills. The workers were given until today to make up thelr minds. Unless, therefore, some resplte or concession be granted the work- ers in the cotton mills of that city will wake this morning to the hard alternative of deserting their unions or losing their Jobs. That 1s an example of the way the Bryad- ites of the south deal with labor. They have begun the upbuilding of a great manu- tacturing industry in that section of the country and their cotton mills are becom- ing strong competitors of those of the north. The success of the mills is largely based upon cheap labor and the southern manufacturers have evidently determined to keep it cheap. What has been done at Charlotte will be done elsewhere if the plan proves successful. We have thus from Nerth Carolina in rapld succession two {llustrations of the temper and disposition of southern demo- racy. First they deprive the negro of the right to vote and, second, they deprive the workingman of the right to organize labor unions. The alm is clearly to produce the political suppression of one race and the industrial servitade of the workers of both races. The men who are doing these things are supporting Bryan in this campaign. They, with the democrats of the other southern states, constitute the most potent of the many forces that are back of Bryan and #hould he be elected they will control his administration. Thus to Crokerism in New York, Altgeldism in Illinois and the gen- eral viciousness of Bryanism everywhere we have this determination of the new manufacturers of the south to prevent the establishment in the milling towns of that section of the union any of those organiza- tlons that have done and are doing so much for the benefit of labor. Every workingman has many strong reasons why he should vote for the party of prosperity, but organized labor h a stronger reason than any other element in the country, for in the stronghold of Bryanism there {8 now going on a fight waged by Bryan's supporters for the ab- solute extermination of labor unfons. FROM COUNTRY TO CITY. Disappointment in Store for the Ma- Jority Leaving the Farm. John Habberton in Philadelphia Post. Some published fragments of the new census atatistics are very depressing to the old-fashioned yet very semsible people who have been haping that the movement of villagers and country people to tho large cities had been checked, What is the meaning of the continuous rush to the cities? The old explanation was that farmers’ sons and daughters wearied of work that was never finished; they had heard of city demands for labor and of city wages, payable always in cash and at stated dates. They had also heard of city pleasures, some of which were said to cost nothing, while others were very cheap. But young people do not consti- tute the whole body of people who are crowding into the citles, for mechanics and artisans of all kinds are In the throng, for in the villages and country districts employment is irregular and pay uncer- tain. The more aspiring of them hope for the larger opportunities and recogni- | tion that the country dares not promise; they know, t0o, that such of their children | as incline to study may become fairly, even | highly, educated in the city without special | cost to their parents. Of the ‘“seamy"” side of city' lifo they know nothing, for thelr acquaintances who ‘“‘went to town' have not returned to tell of it; few of them could return if they would. The | few who go back to the old homesteads are |the men who have succeeded, and in any village such & man in effect resembles a gold-laden miner from Cape Nome or the Klondike; his example threatens to de- populate the town, Nevertheless, the rural districts are not | going to be depopulated, except when their soll s very poor and their malaria over- |rich, A countryward movement started in some cities a few years ago, and It has been increasing in volume; it may be almost invisible in some localities, for 3,000,000 square miles {s an area so great that any city's overflow might be lost in it. The men who are trying selentific farming are all from the cities and they have car- ried thelr city ideas with them. As a rule, city brain and city money are sug- gesting and backing the rural attempts to have good roads, pure water, perfect drain- age, high farming, high-grade schools, fres libraries and many other ameliorations of old-time conditions. Yet in one respect the city man in the country is a disap- pointment to all classes of the dissatisfied, for when they talk of going to the city he persistensly says “Don't,” and he supports his advice with a dllmll array of facts and figures. Wheeler and Hobson at Atlanta. ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 2 —General Jos Wheeler and Lieutenant IHobson were the guests of Atlanta today, the occasion belig Veumm- duy" ut the Bouthern Interstate alr. A parade, rnmr d of various mili- tll and c!vlc |fiu\ onl, escorted the G‘hfl“t lpokl pl‘hc “w‘:';:.gtn-nl OCTOBER 23 Fall of Mr. Bryan Kansas City Star (Ind 1900 and alack, that Mr, Bryan made his great speech in Madison Square gar- den in New York last night, filled with viands assimilated in the glittering Louls Quinze salon of the Hoffman house at a bsnquet which cost $12 a plate. But for the diplomacy of Mr. Croker in ar- ranging to have the banqueters order and pay for their wines individually the cost of the Bryan banquet would not have been less than $20 a plate. Under the circumstances Mr. Bryan's opening declaration at Madison Square garden that he drew a line between hon- est wealth and predatory wealth was in- vested with a sad significance to thou- sands of his worshipers who have be- lieved, with all their hearts, that Mr. Bryan was not as other men What ecstacy would have filled the bosoms of the Bryanites had their great leader and exemplar paused at the door of the Louls Quinze salon and sternly asked Mr. Croker what all this sumptuous array meant. In measured tones the se- vere tribune of the plain people might bave Insisted on knowing the cost of the berquet and demanded of the shrinking Creker it he did not know that honest men all over the land toiled like slaves to earn less than $12 a week. He might have called Mr. Croker's attention to the fact that there are milllons of men and women in the United States who do mot drink from rock crystal goblets or eat with knives with pearl handles. “Get thee bebind me, Satan!" should have been the stern mandate of Mr. Bryan to Mr. Croker. But it is not re- corded that Mr. Bryan made a single protest. He did not even show a sign PERSOVAL POINTERS, Nature has made preparation for the next circus sesson; the peanut crop is excellent this year. The symbolical statues which are to orna- ment the new state capitol building at St Paul, Minn,, are the work of Danlel Chester French. Arthur Russell, eldest son of the late lord chieft justice of England, has beca appointed a judge of the British circult court, He was born in 1561, Elbert Hubbard, the author, delivered an address in Rochester, N. Y., the other day in which he epigrammatically defined art as simply “man's expression of joy iu hls work." Governor Rollins of New Hampshire 1s to be the guest of California during his pre: ent trip through that state. A deputation s to meet him at the state line and a re- ception and banquet will be given in his honor by the Union League club of San Francisco. Rev. #ather Thomas J. Cambell of the Jesuit Fathers of New York, has recelved a letter from China, which he says an- nounces the conversion to the Roman Catholfe faith of Captain Herbert G Squires, first secretary of the American Legation at Pekin. Congressman Allen of Mississipp! says that after March 4, 1901, he will retire to his cotton plantation near Tupelo, where he ‘was born, to spend the remainder of his days in the life of a gentleman farmer. He s in good health and looks lornlrd to his rest with keen pleasure. These United States are getting to be a pretty numerous lot. We now have the United States of America, the United States of Australia and the map is belng prepared for the United States of Africa. And the whole collection goes no farther as yet than | the first letter of the alphabet. President Eliot of Harvard started his 1ist of names for the Hall of Fame by giving preference to those of John Adams, Samuel Adams and John Quincy Adams. A sarcastic Princeton man suggests the ad- dition of the old Adam, Adam's apple, Adam’s fall, Charles Francis Adams and Adam’s ale. 1 One of the suitors for the hand of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland and one who was considered two years ago to have a g00d chance of success has just died. Ho was Prince Bernhard Heinrich of Saxe- Welmar. He was only 22 years old. His death was the result of a cold caught while huntiog. People who think hamburger lunch wag- ons are peaceful signs of evolution will have to revise their opinion. A St. Louis grub factory on wheels, loaded with pungent what-ls-it, suddenly ex- ploded and blew the chef into a cellar excavation. The unfortunate did not know the hamburger was loaded. The Minnesota republicans are using binding twine as hot shot for their cam- paign among the farmers. It seems that Governor Lind, the democratic candidate for re-election, encouraged the making of binding twine at a state institution, by which method it has cost the farmers more than to buy in the open market. It 18 now in order for our friends the enemy to project another paramount is- sue—coerclon. The father of a lovely dameel in Kansas compelled her steady beau to pledge himself to vote for Mc- Kinley in return for parental favor. That constitutes & foul assault on the doc- trine of consent and should be condemned torthwith. AN OFT-REPEATED CHARGE. Indianapolis News. We call the attention of honest and fair- minded people to the following language used by Mr. Bryan in his Madison Square Gerden speech: “I belleve that one of the reasons why they (the republicans) want a large army s to build a fort in every large city and use the army to suppress by force that discontent that ought to be cured by legls- lation. We doubt whether Mr. Bryan has said anything during the campalgn that has had such a disheartening effect as this statement on men that are trylng des- perately to retain bellef in his sincerity. It may be true, as he says, that he be- lleves that the republicans have the pur- pose he ascribes to them. But a man in his position is bound to be careful about what he belleves and to state nothlug as a matter of conviction except on the best of evidence. And in this case there is not a shred of evidence to sustaln Mr, Bryan's theory. 1t 18 much to be regretted that any man who is a candidate for the presidency could talk in this wild way. Mr. Bryan is endeavoring to stir up a feeling of hos- tility to the army in order that he may reinforce his argument inst “imperial- {sm." He seeks to convince the people that their liberties are in danger. And with imperialism abroad and military op- pression at home there would, indeed, be small hope for the republic. So Mr. Bryan polnts to our little regular army of 65,000 men, which s scattered all over the world and is dolng its duty in China, the Phil- ippines, Alaska, Hawail, Porto Rlco and Cuba, as the instrument by which our per- manent enslavement 18 to be accomplished and insists that the republicans are going to enlarge the army and convert our citles into fortrs 80 that they may be able to suppress dlscontent by force! If Mr. Bryan really belleves this, he is altogether too credulous to be trusi in high office. It he does not belleve it, what excuse can any one make for his repetition of this sbsurd charge? rep.) of trepidation a under the teh display how he adjusted his mahogany of silver enthralled him could he but Tegs Perhaps the lav- the ver barons. That {8 the task (o which the voters must first devote them selves. AN A‘lwll v 'KI(I':I’AI\ Record Comcerning SufMcient in Itself. Baltimore American. Bryan's Stiver avald deelng the fashion- | Mr. Bryan steadfastly declines to say able cards at each plate, upon which the | whether, if elected, ho will pay the goy names of the guests were printed in gold | ernment’s obligations in silver. This s & letters At an expense greater tham many |perfectly legitimate question, and the @ poor man can afford to pay for a meal? | people are entitled to an mnswer. Under For one hour and a quarter the man |the circumstances, however, an answer who has been idolized as the incarnation |scarcely necessary. Stlence, the adax of simplicity sat, while courso after |says, glves consent, and the fact that suci course was brought in by servants In |payments are in line with Mr. Bryan swallow-tall coats. With every course |declared policy ought to be a sufficien fresh knives, forks and spoons were answer to the question without a word placed before Mr. Bryan The costly |from him. His refusal conveys a dis china plates were changed, too tinctly unpleasant impression. He has Now, if Mr. Bryan had only said, “One | usually exhibited the courage of his con plate Is good enough for me or it he had remarked, “One knife and fork is plenty,” or, better still, it he had fu- sisted that a 25-cent meal from a restau ant frequented by the plain people should be brought to him from ‘“Beefsteak John's,” around the corner on Rixth ave victions. At times, indeed, he has been excessively frank, and to refuse to answer a question 8o easily answered, and one fraught with such tremendous importance | to the public, brings the democratic can didate under the suspicion that he is will ing to decelve his audiences and obtain nue, how his praises would be sung today | support under a misapprehension of his from New Jersey to Arkansas | perposes. Only one germ of consolation and hope | To pay the government's obligations {n remains for the stricken hearts of his | silver would be the first step in the direc disappointed followers in this land to- | tion of a silver b 11 %, Brren were day. Mr. Croker says that the banquet |elected ho cost only $i a plate. The republi say $12, exclusive of wines. ter be fully investigated. ocratic national committee tryth and learn plain clothes and ate sparingly of champagne, FINANCIAL EXPANSION. Remarkable Results of Republican Business Policles, St. Louls Globe-Democrat About $4,000,000 in gold is on the way from Europe to the United States, and this is only the beginning of the movement Tho gold balance in the treasury is $245 000,000, The balance of trade lu favor Ol the United States in the forelgn trade is greater than ever before and is increasing. At the present moment the per capita cir- culation of the country is $27, on the basls of a population in excess of 78,000,000, which is the treasury estimate. As this will un- doubtedly be found to be at least 3,000,000 too high, and probably 3,000,000, the actual per capita cireulation is more than $28. Here are financial figures which are very gratifying to the country. The treasury and the than ever before. Money more than keeps pace with population. It probably outstrips business in its rate of increase. Within the past ten or twelve months the United States has lent at least $100,000,000 of gold to Europe, more than half of this going to some of the governments of the great nations, as England, Germany and Russia. The country is in & position to lend that much more abroad at the present time without causiug any serlous contraction of the currency. Here is a business solldity such as was never known in this country in the most prosperous days of the past. During the second Cleveland administra- tion bonds to the extent of $262,000,000 were sold to provide gold, and even with this immense increase in the interest-bear- ing debt the treasury reserve was usually below the $100,000,000 line. Not long after the’ republicans went to the front the re- serve began to increase without the sale of bonds, and the $200,000,000 mark in the gold fund in the treasury was passed. After the republicans entered power the persons | who were taking gold out of the treasury and hoarding in the democratic days all sent it back to the treasury. Nobody wanted gold then, because everybody could have all he asked for in exchange for the right wort of collateral. Nobody in this country i asking for gold now. That metal 18 beginning to pour in from Europe and the flow may, last until December. The change between republican and democratic conditions in American finances {s shown in an impressive way by a comparison be- tween the treasury situation at the present moment and that during the second Cleve- land administration. ONE TRUST OVERLOOKED, The Stlver Combine, of W 1% the Promote; Baltimore American, In the discussion of trusts during this campaign sight has been lost of the most avaricious of all combinations that seek to profit by unfalr means. No aggregation of capital in this country can compare in evil intent with the great Silver trust, of which Willlam Jennings Bryan is the chief pro- moter. This trust has this year remained concealed beneath the flood of complaint the democrats have found with existing prosperity and the attempts they have made to convert national glory into ig- nominy. As the campalgn progresses, how- ever, the facts concerning it are being laid bare. The Silver trust is composed of the sflver mine owners and its object is to reap a fabulous profit by cutting dollars and property values in half and pocketing the loss the people must inevitably sustain. This purpose is clearly revealed 18 Mr. Bryan's connection with the trust—in the silver plank in the Kansas City platform, to the adoption of which Bryan forced the convention. By that plank the democracy made itselt the tool of the Silver trust and Mr. Bryan has repeatedly declared it s his purpose, if elected, to obey the behests of the silver barons and give them what they ask. No more dangerous monopoly than this was ever planned; none more fraught with evil ever came Into existence; and yet Mr. Bryan has the effrontery to inveigh agalnst trusts. At Its present market value the ratlo of silver to gold is as 33 to 1—1. e, thirty- three ounces of silver are worth one ounce of gold. The fell intent of the Silver trust, alded and abetted by Bryan, is to compel this government to declare by law that sixteen ounces of silver shall be worth one ounce of gold—in other words, to have the government double the market valus of silver and to then require it to purchase at the fictitious value all that is offered. The effect of such a pollcy cannot be concealed. The silver barons would put into their pockets 100 per cent more profit than they now realize. Right there the benefits would end. The harm done would, however, be incaleulable. To malotaln such a ratio— or, rather, to withstand the drain of such legalized mulcting—the government would find itself absolutely incapable. Its credit would stagger and then collapse. Property values and wages would be halved, one- balf going to the silver barons; the coun- try would be plunged into such financtal, commercial and industrial depression as it has never known and individual credit would be wrecked . When one coutemplates the want, tnisery and ruin such & policy would entafl one 1s astounded. The history of trusts offers no parallel for this scheme in wanton dis- regard of publlc rights or downright dis- honesty. It does not stop short of prostitu- tion of the public credit and of universal disaster. And of this scheme Mr. Bryan is the chief promoter. It {s the ulterior purpose of his candidacy, menacing the very exlstence of the nation. Less danger- ous trusts will be attended to when the people have rendered the plans of the Sflver trust impossible of consummation by demying to Bryan the power he must have before Be can further the scheme of ek Bryan Let this mat- Let the dem- the issue a proclamation to the country that the banquet cost much less than $12 & plate and that Mr. Bryan wore the food placed before him and passed up the banks are in stronger conditiom could not S | the country on a silver basis. immediately place He could not do {t were he to call congress in extra sesslon until there had been a prolonged fight in both houses, consuming several months—provided the two houses were favorable to the scheme. By paying the obligations of the government in silver he could substanttally accomplish his pur pose without the ald of congress. He would not have authority under the pres ent currency law to do this, but a strict construction of the language of a statute has not usually been a formidable barrier to an enthusiast bent upon carrying out his own political policy. It may be Inferred, therefore, from Mr Bryan's sllence that he would pay the government’s obligations in silver. This would knock the props from under the present gold standard. If the government would dishonor its own obligations, thera surely could be little hope that it would consider the interests of the public. This would be the accepted inference from such an act, and the currency would rapldly deterforate in value until it reached & silver basis. There would be no need of legislation looking to fres silver, because such an act of bad faith would at once drive gold out of circulation and leave nothing but silver as a basis for the cur- rency. It can readlly be seen, therofore, how significant Is the question repeatedly put by Governor Roosevelt and the dense silence of Mr. Bryan. SAID IN FUN, Indianapolis Journal: “What possessed Hanna to sa; Ay that thers are no trusts in this country “‘Maybe he's trying to glve Bryan apo- plexy. Washington Star: '“When you gambles," sald Uncle Eben, “it makes a heap o diff'rence wif de police whether de crowd I8 collected to shoot craps or bet on de ‘lection.” Indianapolls Press: “Did you hear about Jones? He went down to the tax office and kicked bécauss they had not assessed him high enough.’ “'Great Scoit! And T came near lending him rnmle) last week! What a narrow es- cape w saw her ‘acing forward i she affects an extremely masculine alr, e p Pittebui resigned w Chronicle: “Judge Blizzard has sald the Observant Boarder, who reading the news from West Virginia 'Well, T told you tho other duy that the slgns indicated ‘a mild winter,” ‘added the Cross-Eyed Boarder. Ghicago Tribune: “How does It happen?” asked the aged statesman, jeeringly, “that you are not in the Hall of Fame’ 'Surely ¥ou have been dead long enough?" But Liberty merely yawned and safd: “Vest, ou make me excessively tirsd, Ring oft! Detrolt Free Press: She—DId you tell Mr. Lugss my hair was red? a1 did not e—He savs you did He- 1 did nothing of the kind. Fa asked {me and 1 told him it was tha color of a popular novel. Phiiadelphta Press: 7 '\ ‘hat for?" “Congratulations, old “Oh, don't be Hypocritical. Joakley tells me your rich old uncle died last week." “Joakley thinks he's funny. A pretty young widow moved uncle, and he's dyved tache.” in next door o my his halr and mus- WEBSTER'S ONLY POEM. It fs sald that fn his whola literary life Danfel Webster wrote but_ons poem, and that was upon the death of his infant son 'rmn child was born in Hoston December and dled In December, 1824. Tho Doem bearn the title: LINES ON CHARLES' DEATH My son, thou wast my heart's dellght hy morn of life was gay and chees That morn has r Thy father's ho ed to sudden night,” o I8 sad and dreary. I held thee on my knee. my s And klmd (hte Taughtng, Kissed thes But, b the little lite ts done; Thou'rt With thy angel sister sleepins. The staff on which my years should lean Ts broken ere those years came o'er me, My funeral rites thou should'st have seen, But thou art in the grave beforo me Thou ralseat to me no fillal stons, No parent's grave with tears beholdest, Thou art my ancestor, my son, And standest in heaven's account the old- est, On earth my lot was soonest cast, Thy generation after mine; Thoy fast my predecessor's past— Earlier eternity is thine. 1 should have set before (hine eyes The road to hewven, and showed it clea; But thou, untaught, spring st to the skies, And leay'st thy teacher learning here Bweet seraph, T would lea And hasten to partake And, ah, to thy wa A erst 1 welcome A welcome me thea to this! ¢ tather, T heheld thee born, T et "iny tottering #teps With care Befors me risen to heaven's bright morn, My son, my father, guide me there e————— It's the part of common sense To keep one's selt comfortable. 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