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

. ROBEWATER, Editor. - “PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING THE OMAHA DALY BEE 5.0 800 2.0 2.0 15 £ TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION Dally Bes (without Sunday), One Year aily Beo and Bunday, One Year.. Illustrated Boe, Ope Year Bee, One Yeur . urday Beo Weekly Bee, O Omaha: The Bee Buflding Bouth Omaha: City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-Afth and N Streets *Couneil Blufta. 10 Pear] Btreet, Chicago: 1840 Unity Bullding. New York. Temple Cour Washington: 51 Fourteenth Street Sloux City: 611 Park Street. CORRESPONDENCE, b2 Communications relating to news and e torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS. add Business letters and remittances shoull bo nddressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha h REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, expréss or posts pyable to The fieo Publishing ¢ inly 3-cent stamps accepted in mail acoounia. Bersonal checks, except on o o o 5, not acceptec Omaha or Euatern exchanges, not aceqpl order, ny INT OF CIRCULATION. braska, Doiglas County, &, " 3achiick, secretary of The Bee Company, being_duly sworn, ways that the actual number of full and mplete copies of The Dally, Morn vening and Sunday Hee printed during menth of September, 1900, was as follow 16... ...27,488 1 27,100 27,140 20,070 27,018 27,050 27,660 Publishing 47,800 ....27,400 ..27,200 Total f.e88 unsold and returned coples Not total sales. Net daily average. L aesE0 GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed In_my presece and sworn to bafors me this 2ih day of September, A. L. 1900, M. B _HUNGATE, Notary Public. N4 608 Next registration day, Friday, Octo- ber The neuu:»;”furr‘l.l';l.-iunmpni‘n roor- back Is on. Keep your eye open for the roorback species. Omaha has another equal suffrage or- ganization and the next legislature may prepare for an onslaught by the women anxious to vote. The New York bank clerk who got away with $700,000 without detection must have been an expert manipulator of his accounts. He has earned a high place in the councils of Tammany Hall. Those who are inclined to vote for Bryan on party grounds in hopes he will not be able to do any harm are in the same boat as the man who gives his enemy a gun, thinking he has no ammunition for it. — The local popocratic organ -claims to have discovered a wool grower who is agalnst McKinley. He should be put on exhibition at once, as he is probably the only man who wants to have his own business ruined by returning to democratic free trade. The Chinese have not succeeded In demonstrating that they are 'of much value to the twentleth century as fighters, but the opening sparring in the negotiations for peace has disclosed the fact that as diplomats they have lost none of their cunuing. Emm——— The fusionists have already started In trylng to forestall defeat on the ground of election fraud. This is only to divert attention from thelr own crooked schemes. The men who are making this cry for the fusionists are tdepts in that kind of work. 1t you failed to register last week do not overlook this Important duty next Friday, when you will have another op- portunity to appear before the regils- trars. Remember that no one will be entitled to vote at the coming election unless his name appears properly en- rolled on the registration books. No previous registration holds good this year, In Maryland Bryan was smoked out sufficlently to mention silver, but those who read or heard his remarks will find some difficulty in making up thelr minds from them exactly what he would do in the matter if elected president. Mr. Bryan has a large repertory of par- amounts and objects to singing the western songs in the east, even for an encore, Nebraska fusionists are greatly dis- turbed by the action of their national committee In keeping Mr. Bryan out of his home state until the ve! eve of election. Bryan Is expected to carry the load which the tripartite conventions piled on him, but the fear is aroused that even Bryan cannot patch up the holes in the fences in the short time that s left. The report of the bureau of education Khows that a little over one-fifth of the entire population of the country is act- ually in attendance in either public or private schools and fifteen-sixteenths of these are In the public schools. Those who pretend to see visions of empire can rest easy regarding any people los Ing thelr liberties among whom eduea- tion is a8 universal as this and in which patriotism has always been so conspicu- ous. E————— When the speed at which the owners of automoblles ride about the eity I8 consldered it Is fortunate that t first accldent was no worse than a col- lislon with a dog, in which the dog es- caped unhburt, while the vehicle was wrecked, A great howl has been made about the speed at which some bicycle riders go through the street, but it Is not to be compared with the danger from these heavy vehicles when they undertake to chase away from street | ever been, IN WHOM WILL YOU PUT YUUR TRUSTY When the Nebraska voter goes to the ballot box a week from next Tuesday the question be ‘must ask himself is, In whom will you put your trust? Will you trust the party which has de celved you and imposed upon your | credulity or will you trust the party which has kept falth with you and| whose pledges have been redeemed? | When a man cheats you once you are not to blame, but when you allow yourself to be cheated a second time | ou are entitied to nobody's sympathies. Four years ago demo-populists were as s by thelr leaders that the country was on the verge of ruin by the main tenance of the gold standard, They | were told that there was a conspiracy on the part of the “money power' to make moncy scarce and dear and to | make the products of the farm and fac- tory All of these predictions have proven false. On the other hand, the republican party promised to adopt a policy that would confidence and bring about a reopening of will and factory and thus put boarded woney in cir- | culation, Should not the okl adage, ‘alse in oue, false in all,” be applied to this fagrant example? Four years ago the fusion reformers of this state promised the people lower taxation, cheaper railrond rates and a more economic and efficient administra tion of public affairs, How has that promise been kept? State taxation Is as high as it bhas Iroad exactions bave not been diminished and the do-nothing State Board of Transportation, which draws $6,000 a year, is chlefly employed in engineering the fusion reform cam- paign. The state fustitutions have Dbeen shamefully neglected and almost every one bas had its scandal. The State Deat and Duwb institute Is under the supervision of a man who, when ap- pointed, had no famillarity with deaf mute instruction and did not even know how to talk to deaf mutes. The In stitution for the Blind has degenerated into an institution for feeding political barnacles. The Institution for Feeble- minded has been a source of great scandal ond disgrace to fusion re forme The penitentiary has become a roost ing plac for political parasites and convict labor Is in active competition with free labor, when it should have been employed only upon work that does not compete with the skilled workmen of our factorles. The state house, under a sham reform adminlstration, has become a hotbed of political scheming and corrupt political | maunipulation. Nearly every clerk em- ployed by the state is devoting all his time and energy to the fabrication and circulation of campaign literature and campaign work generally. Surely this is not the kind of reform the toilers and farmers of Nebraska had in view when they voted to put the state government in the hands of (llv} self-styled reformers. cheap. restore THE APUOSTLE OF DIS/ Is a man who goes about the country Persistently preaching discontent, seck- ing to array class agalnst class, inciting the poor to hatred of the rich and in stilllng lnto the minds of workingmen distrust of ewployers, a safe man to place at the head of this government? Four years ago Mr. Bryan made his campalgn as the apostle of discontent and dissatisfaction. There was then great depression in Dbusiness and a great army of idle people ready to be influenced by the appeals of the demo- cratic candldate. The condition of the farmers of the country, also, was such as to Induce them to give attention to these appeals. While the republican candldate for president was calling upon his countrywen to uphold the in- tegrity and honor of the nation, while he appealed to the honesty and the patriotism of the people, Mr. Bryan con- stantly addressed himself to popular passions and prejudices, which he spared no effort to intensify. Mr, Bryan is pursulng the same tac- tles now, in spite of the fact that con- ditions bave changed and that all classes are enjoying a good degree of prosperity. The democratic candidate tells the farmer that he is not getting his share of prosperity, he tells the workingman that he does not receive a fair proportion of the profits from his labor and he continues to assert that the wealth of the country is golng into the hands of the few, while the many are realizing no improvement in thelr con- dition. Of course the facts which re- fute all this are easlly accesslble, but Mr. Bryan does not choose to refer to them. The pald-off farm mortgages to the amount of hundreds of millions of dollary during the last three years and the enormous lucrease In the deposits of savings banks are matters that Mr. Bryan finds it convenient to pay no at tention to. He understands that under the most favorable condition of affairs there are discontented and dissatisfied people—people who feel that they are not getting their rightful share, that they are not justly compensated for what they do and that generally they are the victims of an unfalr and op pressive economic and soclal system, These people give a willing ear to the appeals of Bryan and persuade them- selves that possibly their condition In life would be fmproved If he were placed at the head of the government. It is needless to-say that they are de- luding themselves, but the very serious question that suggests itself s as to what might happen when they should have discovered the delusion—when they should have feund that Bryan could not fulfill his promises, as most assuredly they would find, If Bryan should be elected, what would be the consequences of his fuevitable fallure to do some of the things which he professes to think ought to be done for improving the con- dition and prowmoting the welfare of the masses of the people? If ‘what most Lpncnul men fear should take place, | shioutd | that the party which | major | to all, it business depression and perhaps follow thr hundreds of thousauds of people employment, would the spirit of content which Bryan has fostered be re pressed, or would it manifest itself in a form dangerous to peace and order? These are questions which seem to us worthy of the serfous consideration of every citizen, Sincerely believing that the election of Mr. Bryan would be fol lowed by a great business convulsion, we canuot doubt that the spirit of un rest he has promoted would be mani fested in a way to produce the gravest results, his election Wing ont of dis — NO TIME FOR EXPERIMENTS A free people may sometimes vote for a political revolution,” says the Philadelphia Ledger, “notwithstanding the temporary suffering caused thereby it there Is some great and )b('lll'l\t'(‘ln purpose to be attaloed in the end. But there 1s no adequate feason why the Ameriean people should vote now close their mills and workshops iu order a8 disfranchised the negroes of the south may be given the administration of affairs fu the Phil ippines and be permitted to make seri- ous experiments with the currency of the nation.” It is a sound view. Mr. Bryan Is making promises in regard to the Phil ippines which he could not fulfil. Con gress will not approve the policy pro- posed in the Kunsas City platform and without authority from congress Br could do nothing to carry out his ises. I president has not the power to surrender the Philippines or to give the natives ludependence. As Senator Foraker and others have polnted out, Mr. Bryan as president would be bound to uphold the sovereignty of the United States in the archipelago unl otherwise authorized by con- gress. But a Bryan adwministration would not have to look to congress for authority to pay the coin obligations of the government in silver and there is not a reasonable doubt that it would take this step at the first opportunity, assuming, of course, that Mr. Bryan is honest in his devotion to silver. We confidently believe that a large of the American people’ do not want a political revolution and ar opposed to experfments with the cur- rency. THE CHINESE PRUPOSALS. The Chinese plenipotentiaries have submitted to the powers proposals as a basis for peace negotiations. They admit that laying siege to the legations was an offense agalnst International law, which no country could tolerate, and acknowledge China's lability to pay an indemnity for the losses sus- tained by the powers. In regard future trade and international tions it is suggested that each of the powers shall state what It regards as necessary or desirable to be done, whereupon China will ‘enter into a con- vention with the combined powers to cover geuneral principles applicable alike It 18 further proposed that each power arrange its own speclal affairs with China, so that separate treatles may be arranged, which having been accomplished the powers will succes- sively withdraw thelr troops. It is pro- posed that an armistice be declared by each power as soon as negotiations be- gln. There appears to be nothing objec tlonable in these proposals. The un- equivocal acknowledgment of responsi- bility by China puts that government in An entirely falr position. It will pay indemnity and it leaves to each of the powers the duty of ascertaining its losses and preseuting its claims. This Is manifestly the proper course, Ouly in regard to general principles will China deal with the powers as a whole, all being on an equal footing. There seems now to be no good reason why negotlations should not be soon entered upon, since China appears to be quite ready to begin them. to ‘We doubt very much whether it is in the province of the deputies of the city tax commissioner to take advantage of the ignorance of women and children in order to ferret out taxable person- alty which might not otherwise be re- turned. The assessors are expected to exercise all reasonable care in securing proper assessment returns, but they are not expected to act as sneak detectives or to put up jobs on people by false represontation. The penalties pre- scribed by the revenue laws are ample, if properly enforced, to meet all cases of wlllful falsification on the tax sched- ules. | s Sm——— Stricken Texas towns are still appeal- ing for more assistance from the gen- erosity of the morth. Up to date, how- ever, Texas has not seen fit to appro- priate a dollar out of its own state treasury to help its own people. Would aot the appeal strike more forcibly If the Texans showed a better disposition to do thelr share toward relieving the distress caused by the great gulf flood? ———— ‘Western rallroads have turned over a new leaf In advance of the new year. Generally the managers get together about this season and resolve not to is- sue any passes during the coming year and then promptly issue the paste- boards January 1. They have resolved this time to continue issuing passes, which resolve will undoubtedly be kept. In every congressional district of Ne- braska the candidate nominated by the republicans is head and shoulders above his competitor in point of actual abil- ity. If the people of the several dis- tricts want men to represent them In Washington who will accomplish some- thing for them they will see that the republican candidates are elected by fe majoritie: As a ready letter writer Superintend- ent Lang of the Beatrice Institute for the Feeble-Minded Is a shining example. His letters have the merit of exposing i the incapacity of the populist governor, anie | to| | government vela- | THURSDAY, ( under whow the state institutions have degenerated into mere berths for hungry It | governor who will not have to be sub | servient to the political leeclies, fs time to elect a fusion patronage mon | of the state institutions on a basis. business The best guaranty the Chinaman has that his country will not be divided up among the Eurgpean powers, aside from the opposition of the United States to such a course, is the fact that none of the powers are certain they are in a position to gecure what they are pleased to term their full share in such a division. Perily of Paramonnting. Kausas| City Journal. The colossal blunder of the preseni cam paign was the paramounting of the Decla- ration of Independence by a party which Roverns 2,000,000 people without their con- sent Who Wil Stir Them Upt Paul Ploneer Press, A place in some future hall of fame awaits the man who shall be most largely | instrumental in awakening the American people to the atrociousness of the destruc- tion wrought upon our forests by present lumbering methods and in bringing about a change to a mofe intelligent system. Great Theme for a Novel. Brooklyn Eagle. There 15 a theme for a novel in the case of the man out west who had his nose made over by a surgeon go that the wife of his bosom should not recognize him when he returned to her, after a separation, anl &tole their child. It one may cast aside his features as easily as his morals or his politics the Bergeracs of the' firture may take heart, as they will take new noses Prosperity Without Precedent, etroit Free Press. Last month our fmports were $11,000,000 | less than for the corresponding month of a year ago. During the first two weeks of Qctober we exported in cotton alone $12,- 000,000 more than in the same fortnight of 18! In the nine completed months of this year we i/iireased our exports $129,000,000 the surplus of exports over imports reach- ing $90,000,000, The figures are stupendous, the balance to our credit is rapidly in- creasing, we are loaning heavily to foreign | powers and expert financiers are puzzling | over the probable outcome of a national | prosperity that {s without anything ap proaching a precedent White Man's Burden in Philadelphia Record. The money cost of imperialism to Great Britain is found to be enormous when military operations on a large scale are| necessary. The war expenses of the Britlsh since the beginning of the South African trouble have been estimated at $360,000,000, or a sum equal to the output of the South African gold mines for nearly five years. This estimate includes the cost of Britishy military movements in China and of the Ashanti expedition. It is noted that the government owes the Bank of England $50,000,000 and will be forced to borrow $80,000,000 more. The white man's burden Is growing heavy. Debt Paylng In Nebraska. Chicago Inter-Ocean. In 1887 there were filed in the clerk’s office of Osceola county, Nebraska, mort- gages on farms to the amount of $211,- 635.03; paid, $200,442.66, 1In 1503 these in- struments were filed to the amount of $200,237.67, pald, $262,478.46; in 1809 fled to the amount of $236,720.74, paid, $436,020.49, and for the six months of 1500 flled to the amount of $142 paid, $202,008.92. For the time that McKinley has been president, | three years and six months, the mortgages on farms filed have amounted to $500,368.39, and those pald off amount to $1,151,979.51. And yet it is said that there is some doubt as to how Nebraska will go on November 6. It must be assumed in certain quarters that the people of Nebraska are, generally | Mpeaking, deficient in common sense. | Africa. Quoting a Raw Fake. Philadelphia Press. { Mr. Adlal Stevenson and the North | American Review will have to divide be- | tween them the ridicule excited by tlfe Qiscovery that Mr. Stevenson quoted and the Review prints as genulne an extract from a spurious Jetter purporting to have been written by Abraham Lincoln. The extract reads as follows: “But I see In our near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been en- throned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the momey power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the pecple until all wealth 1s aggre- gated In a few hands snd the republic is de- stroyed.” This extract went the rounds a few years ago and was accepted as gen- uine untfi Becretary of Btate Hay, one of Lincoln's biographers, investigated it and found that instead of having been writ- ten by Lincoln it is only a spiritualistic communication alleged to have been re- celved from him by the medium Cora Hatch. One does mot know which to ad- mire the most, the ignorance of Mr. Ste- venson or the carelessness of the ma zine editor. PERSONAL NOTES, Hobson is still a hero to the women »f Alabama and they have just given him a lqving cup. Canlidate Woolley 15 sagaclous enough not to inslst that every member of his audiences should take the pledge. Tho American jockeys' style of riding 1s all wrong, according to their British critics, but they get thore just the same. E. H. R. Green, {he son of Mrs. Hetty Green, 15 reported to have given up Texas politics and tn be about to make New York his home. The publisherrsof a well known magazine have offered Minister Conger $10,000 for an account of the stege of Pekin. He s not Itkely to accept the offer. Elbort Hubbard, the author, delivered an address in Rochester, N. Y., the other @dny In which he ep'g immatically defined art as simply “man’'s' expression of Jjoy in his work." Lieutenant Walter R. Gherardl, who is known as one of the bravest men In the navy and has three gold medals for saving lives, does not look much like his father. the retired admiral. The latter is abouf the average hoight, but is made to look much shorter by his great breadth. The son I &lx feet two inches tall and bullt in symmetrical proportions. James Gordon Beunett, who is now pay- ing one of his semloccasional visits to New York, Is somewhere in the sixties, but really looks ten years younger. One of his triends Is quoted as saying that “Jim seems to have learned the secret of how to live on $1,000,000 & ¥ Nine out of tem men with Eis Income would have been dead long ago and Jim hasn't traveled small- fashion at that.” Alfred 8. Kitson, youngest son of Commo- dore W. Kitson, the millionaire horse owner of a decade and a half ago, bas been ap- pointed inspector of billboards in the St. Paul bulldings department at a salary of $60 a month. Kitson came into $100,000 on his twenty-Afth birthday, but wpent it He will draw another lustallment of his ndowment when he is 30 years of a gers and who will put the management | | pres: | own opintons. | wh | been outrageously abused by the democratic YCTOBER 1900 The Boston are now shapivg themselves it more than ever before in a ential campaign Is the business issus ecisive one. Most men are golug to As I is clear that the | vote on November 6 for the best conduct of the United States government as a business organization and against any risky experi- ments. This 1s the dominant note of the campalgn. This is the substance of all re- ports indicating republican succese. This is what has entirely overshadowed “'im- perialism’ and every other issue to which it was hoped by the democrats that atten- tion might be diverted Although the free silver scare was much more acute four years ago than today, it is doubtful it the country was then to the same extent making its choice of the candi- dates upon business grounds. There are soveral reasons for this, Times are today much better than in the fall of 1890 There is more to lose by upsetting present conditions. The gold standard, too, ap- peared rather more experimental than it | does today, although we had for twenty- three voara in law been doing business upon it and actually for a much longer perlod. This was not wholly understood, and largely because both parties had during all that time been declaring thelr belief in bimetallism. 1t had remained until 1508 for the cne party to write the words “gold" and the other party the words “free sil- ver" in thelr financial planks. There was thus something of a new issue on both sides, and as it doubtless appeared to many persons, some experiment on both sides, Today the experimental aspect of the gold standard, and it really had none In 1846, has entirely passed out of popular notice; The disasters of the gold stan- dard, so eloquently predicted by Mr. Bryan in 1896, are no longer ghosts con- cerning which anybody s welcome to his The voters know what the Mr. Bryan New York Evening Post Mr. Bryan, in his speech at Madison Square Garden, discussed the trust ques- tion more at length than he has done in tny other speech during the campaign, though less fully perhaps than in his speech at the Chicago conference of last year. The remedy he proposed for the evils he finds in trusts was the same in both. He suggests that a corporation ch acquires or seeks to acquire a mo- nopoly of the supply of an article of com- merce shall not be permitted to do business in any state except the one in which it Is incorporated without a license from the government of the United Stat and be- fore that license is granted, he propose that the water shall be squeezed out of the stock and the corporation shall show that it Is not trylng to monopolize any kind of business.” He would also put, on the free list of the tariff every trust made article. * ¢ * The trusts did not have a political beginning and they will not have a political end. They are an out- growth of modern conditions of business and they would have come all the same under any administration of the govern- ment. An outgrowth may be good or bad and we confess that this one is not all to our liking. Evolution may be upward or downward, but it it s evolution and is not the product of governmental favor and fn- terference it should be treated like other products of evolution. The very first thing to be done is to look at it as it is, to form a true diagnosis, and then ses whether government has anything in its armory fitted to cope with it, so as to do more good than harm. Mr. Bryan's propased license does not seem to us either usoful or practicable. A trust, as Prof. Clark says, s any husiness combination which i3 large enough to be dangerous. This definition applies to the Carnegle Steel compuny and to the Ar- Business Issue rar | cript gold standard is today, even in Nebraska | and Wyoming, and will vote accordingly The tarif and other business issues, too, seem wholly out of the domain of con- troversy One notable evideuco of the supremacy of the business issue fs afforded by the canvass of the college professors. lu the colleges, if anywhere, the more sentimental lssues, such as thqee involved in the anti-imperial- istic movement, would be expected to have welght. They doubtless do have some welght, as indicated by the number of col- | legs professors who report themselves us | or for McKinloy | undecided, noncommittal with reservations. But allowing for all these it remains a fact that the colleges are overwhelmingly for McKinley, which shows how even' in that quarter the business issue overshadows everything else. One inci- dental result of finding 271 college professors for McKinley to twenty for Bryan is that a sirong party organ, designates these men as classes,” whereas eight years ago it denom: nated them as “‘mere theorists.” The dominance of the business fssue will| doubtless show itself, among otheér ways, in the running ahead of the McKinley ticker, by comparison with other republican nomi- nees. Mr. Thomas Hudson McKee, a care. ful student of political questions, who has had charge of one of the Iiterary bureaus or the republican campaign, predicts that Me. Kinley will run ahead of the rest of the re- publican ticket in the several states by greater number in the aggregate than any other candidate in the history of the coun- try. This is quite likely to be the case With the business issue supposedly taken care of by the head of the ticket many voe- ers will revert to thelir natural and ordinary political afliations on state and othes offices. Tho congressional ticket fs also lable to suffer on this account. on Trusts mour Packing compi as completely as | to the Standard Ofl trust or the Sugar trust. Whether elther or any of these aro | dangerous is a matter of opinlon, but | they are all in the same boat. Now, sup- | pose that the Carnegie Steel company were required to take out a federal li- sence before it could sell steel rails out- ¢ide of Pennsylvania. Then under Mr Bryan's plan it would be required to do two things—frst to squeeze all the water out of its stock, and, second, to prove | that It Is not aiming at a monopoly. As the latter 18 a requirement to prove a nes- ative, it might be diffcult. Al that the officers of the company would say would be that they were trylng to make and sell steel as cheaply as possible, and that their endeavors might lead to a monopoly or might not. The Carnegle company is not technically a trust. There is no water in its stock, because it was not formed by combination with other companies. It simply grew up by prudent management under favoring conditions. There are other steel com- panies which are trusts, and probably theye is water I thelr composition. Now, under the Bryan plan the Carnegie com- pany would be entitled to a license (al- though it might not get one) and the other steel companies would not, So the result of the plan In this case would be to make the Carnegle company a monopoly by giv- ing it an exclusive privilege in interstate commerce, whereas it*is not such now. But supposing that in order to avold this absurdity licenses were refused to all of them, what wculd be the condition of the buyers and consumers of steel? What in like case would happen to the consumers of sugar if the Sugar trust were refused a license to sell outside of New Jersey? Would not the Arbuckles then have n monopoly of the rest of the country? JOHN SHERMAN. Minneapolis Jodrnal: John Sherman has party, but he was a most distinguished con- tributor to the national honor and progress. His patriotism, during his entire public career, was without blemish. Boston Tramscript: Mr. Sherman'd name must be placed in history in the list of names of men whose abilities and services falled of the full measure of recoguition they deserved through inability to excel In those arts of popularity to which rivals of lesser powers owed their eminence, $t. Louls Globe-Democrat: It is enough to say that he had great powers and de voted them wholly and unceasingly to his country. The delicate and difficult task of resumption was accomplished by him with- out & jar, 8o skillful was his preparation and so true his foresight. A stalwart re- publican always from the birth of the or- ganization ho will be remembered as one of the ablest men of the party.” Ney York Evening Post: John Sherman's title to fame will rest upon his leadership {n the resumption of specie payments after the civil war. The historian must always rank this as one of the gretest achleve- ments in national finance since the estub- lishment of the federal government. Mr. Sherman enjoyed the extraordinary good fortune, not only of carrying through con- gress the act providing for resumption, but also of putting that act Into operation as secretary of the treasury. Kansas City Star: John Sherman w almost the last of the leaders of the clvil war period. His long service in the senate, from 1861 to 1897, broken only by the four years when he was secretary of tho treas- ury,” covers the whole period of the de- velopment of the republican party. Justin Morrill, who was long his colleague in the senate from the last generation, died two years ago. Senator Hoar Is now one of the few men of the Sherman school who re- mains before the public. Chicago Record: The highest honor which he attalned, as political honors are reckoned, 'was the office of secretary of state, from which he was soon gently re- moved, partly because of his own falling powers and partly to meet the political needs of the administration. But while he tasted disappointment he still had the satisfaction of having acknowledged lead- ership and of playing @ great part in the political history of his country. Within his own consclousness, too, he must have bad the satisfaction of knowing that he gave bis country & service which i its long continuance, its faithfulness and efclency will cause his pame to be re- membered in history. Detrolt Freo Press: In spite of the faithful service which he rendered to his country, he, like Blaine and Clay, was doomed to die & disappointed m The goal of his utmost desire had mever been hieved in 8pite of the fact that for sheer intellectuality he ranked with any Amer!- can public man of his gencration and w not unworthy to be compared with Hamil- ton as & practical administrator of gov-| ernment affairs, Sherman was distrusted as Blaine was distrusted, though not fo: the same reasons. The one had no mi petism at ll; the other was all maj ism. Each of them, however, had an ag- gressive individuality that caused him 1o be feared; and so0 one of the strongest figures known in American history lived to see himself juggled out of the nomina- tion for prestdent th Meantime be is forced to go to work. tute political machinl ‘han himself, GOOD NEWS FROM CU Progresd in Material and Political Affat Kansas City Star. S0 many gloomy views of the sltuation in Cuba have been printed within the last few months that the statement of Gover- nor General Wood on the prosperity of the island will dispel the misgivings of & large number of people. To be sure the country has been apparently at peace. There have been almost no disturbances; the eloctions have passed oft quietly and the constitutional convention has been set for November 5. But many persons were persuaded that Cuba had really made no progress, that it was a slumbering volcano, that every native bated America and that United Stat le was a terrible failure. General Wood's statement is one that all Americans ought to read with pride. It shows that troops have not been needea Marked to preserve order during the'year, that sani- [* tary conditions have been greatly improved, that more than 600 miles of highways have been bullt, and that an efficient telogram and postal system has been establishea throughout the island. Industries are grows iug rapidly and the value of the sugar ana tobacco crops is expected to reach $100,000- 000 There are 150,000 children in schoor, a8 against 30,000 under Spanish rule. One of the especlally encouraging aspects of the situation, If General Wood may be belleved, is the regard felt by the mass of Cubans for the United States. The op. posite bellef, widely held in this country, is based, according to General Wood, on the words and actions of a few loud-mouthed malcontents, “a mere handful,” he calls them, The great majority of the people are friendly in the highest degreo to this commenting on the fact, | “tho educated | of the rapid rehabilitation of the island The gove declaren that Cuba 18 as far advanced today as the Southern states were tén years after the war. Results in Cuba may be taken as an in. dication of what 18 to be expected in ths Philippines after the pacification of the islande. There will bé this difference, how ever, that in Cuba capital has been timid, owing to the distrust of the native govern. ment which I8 to be established, while in the Philippines lovestors will be sure of working under American {nstitutions. Business men are sall h relaxation In putiing a g bal in the hole, after working hard al) day putting each other in the hole hasn't she iUs rather more lika what you might call ‘grasping.’ Somerville Journal: The difference be twee :)malmm-lvrl and the pretty girl fa 1 nice girl's admire; v or | &l through her ilte, T irere Stay with her | Philadelphia Press: Oh, 1 do ow ! exclaimed the sponge, boastfully l",“xu‘!! T can hold more quor than you 8 that ®0" ratorted the pockes T foally “T'ye Known Dyor fl':,‘:-‘ woaked “with' less than a plain water.' 7 Washington Star: “One (r Uhcle Eiben, 'aeema to be dat de | whose political 'pinions donn kvah | influence ix de one dat has plens time (o go ‘roun’ ‘spressin’ ‘em mich Washington Btar: os,” Cayenne. “He is undoubtediy - What fs your {dea of a cynie?” I% H]n yIl.l'n P X ml‘n Wwho keeps you continuall doubt whether he is v o« . or unusually d '3 ’llhh-.‘l'”""“m”\ g Indfanapolis politics 1'd coach," “What for” “Why, fancy make speeches Whips cra Journal rehabilitate “re T wers the in old stage dashing through towns to with six horses prancing 10k and horns blowing.” Chicago Post: “You, {t was a 4 as A mean trick sald the candidate angrily. I was kissing | the bables in the district and seemed to have a ‘cinch’ when some one cireulated & aged by a doctor to i the purpose of Pittshurg Chronic the edict ordering th Tuan e i) \I‘l\ irns out that punishment of Prince and other Chinese dignitaries w " wald Mrs. Heechwood by as convinced that the empress ver wrote {t," added Mr. IN‘"’r‘h rtain? downger Wood. “What made you so “It had no postscript Chicago Tribun, laid 1} the ‘The expert counterfeiter sumples of his work on lim and examined them up L, finally, picking executed imitation o b shail make my Daramouns tao a well- think [ BRYAN TO k. Kiser in the Times-Herald. Ia sublime, exalted, pure 1 am incarnate Honesty Where Virtue 18 you ma’ be sure Ah, doubly sure—of finding me. At 18 Tammany And Croker is its” Prophet I frown on Wrong, 1o matte v It drags its slimy ngth l'ln‘uh ' Corruption in s very fair And strike where'cr its head fs re Great Is Tamman, And Croker is its’ Prophet!” soul is virgiu-like and white. MY great heart never 't The angels mark me ém!’*.i‘.‘.'..‘fi-’!"“" And all my gifts are but for you— Great s Tammany And Croker is its Prophet!" And think you I w ild i 0l st “t,"u:r“llll‘lu llll“‘.,honn w(:o£nlnr i i e stralght, the teo To win. the prize pure Lincoln gotr’ Great ‘I Tammany And Croker is its Prophet!" The moon may tide: And comets bend thelr eo - Kiow but one way, that way 1 g, - nted, constant, noble, high !— at ‘i Tammany And Croker is its’ Prophet!" Behold, | stand as one a The test are mordid, sel I come with i ©0 rescue, save you, from digrace!— Great s Tammany e And Croker s its’ Prophet!" Lange, bb and flow, rt! . base! ity of hearf Look not on me as one whose hand Would clasp the tainted hand of Sin For all the glory in the land, For all the honors man may win— “Great i Tammany And Croker is its Prophet!" But gaze on me and know, at | That one has come upon fhe scene Who holds forever firm w.d fast The teachings of the Nazarenc-- “Great {8 Tammany And Cr 1s its Prophet!" A feiv Bargains 8%x3% Chautauqua Plates 0x7 Stanley's Plates . 314x8% Stanley Plate Brownle Cameras abaes o 40 per cent on all Premo Cameras 20 per cent on all Eastinan Kodaks. J. C. HUTESON & CO0., government. This is only natural, in view PHOTO. SUPPLIES, 1520 Douglas St “Some Change” in suits this season; and perhaps the most decided and least objectionable change-—“outside of a little change in the pocket”—is the low price at which our suits are offered you this fall. not the best we have—but $15.00 buys a better one and And at $18.00, $20.00 and $2 Co. suits have no equal. Today $10.00 buys a good suit-— an all wool, stylish outfit. gives you a better selection. 5.00 the Browning, King & “No’ Clothing Fits Like Ours.” rowning, King R. S. Wilcox, Manager. Omaha's Only Exclusive Clethicrs for Me