Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 7, 1900, Page 6

E—— THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE E ROSEWAT TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$6.00 Dally Bee and Sunday, Unie Year A Lilastrated B wune Year . i(fl Bunday Bee, Ona Year 8.0 Haturday Bée, One Year i Weekly Bee, One Year R QFFIC The Hee Building. Omaha: City Hall Bullding, Twen ty-Nith und N Stresfs Council Blufts. 10 Pearl Stroot, Chicago: 160 Unity Bullding. New York. Temple Court Washington: 001 Fourteenth Street. Bloux ity 61 Park Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edl torial matter should addressed: Omaha Editortal Department BUBINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Lee Publishing Com- pany, Umaha REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The fee Publishing Company Only nt stamps a A in payment of F!il thv ounts. Personal checks, e‘('rp!‘ u;| Jmahn or Eastern exchanges, not accepted THI B PR NG COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraska, Dougas Cou [ George B. Tasch secretary of The Bes Publisfiing Company, beins duly sworn: says that the actual number oi full ani complota coples of The Dally. Moerning, Evening and Sunday Bee nrinted during the month of October, 130, was ag follows 27,220 17 27,450 19 27,800 10 27,470 0. 27,070 2 28,4580 28,700 ..28,700 26,000 180,010 10,540 9 10, 1 12 13 " 13 18 27,520 27 480 26,720 27,160 o 2T,870 Thtal s 5 Less unvold and returned coples. Net total sales...... i Net daily average. " GEORGE B. TESCHUCK Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this first day of November, A. D,, 199, M. B_HUNGATE, (Seal.) Notary Publc. The battle of 1000 has passed into history. The campaign for Omaha'’s progress and prosperity never stops. You will have to depend on The Bee | If you want correct election returns, The election returns offer a much safer proposition than Bryan's prophe- cles, The game of foot wair will now have a chance to occupy a top place on the boards. The chances are gouad tnat several popocratic fakirs with elastlc imagina- tions will soon be hunting jobs. Omaha challenges St. Joseph to test the population figures by the election returns, 8t. Joseph dare not accept the challenge. As If preparing for final collapse, our amlable popocratic Ccontemporary re- marks on the morning of election day: “The Lord loves a cheerful loser.” In addition to the vast sums in the natfonal banks of Nebraska there is on deposit fn the state banks $26,805,084. Nebraska people are doing quite well. The force of habit s so strong that it 18 hardly to be expected that democratic papers can fall fnto the way of telling the truth immediately after election’ The spectacle of a sheriff hiding to evade service of an order of court, whose orders he is himself sworn to enforce, is reserved for the present fusion incumbent in Douglas county. , The English have Invited the Chinese to resume the government of Manchu- ria at once. As the end of the poker 1s in the Russian fire, the Chinaman {s not likely to make any serious effort to grab It Russia also fights shy of the third clause of the Anglo-German agreement regarding China. The powers all pre- tend to be opposed to any division of China, but do not care to bury the carv- ing knife so deep that it cannot be found In case there Is something to pass around. The queen of Portugal has demon- strated that royalty can make ftself useful if given a chance. Her beatman was dumped into the water and was likely to drown, when the queen plunged Into the surf and rescued him. It Isn't every fellow who s lucky enough to have a queen handy when he falls into the water. The weather man has made himself solld with the politiclans by serving up one of his best brands for election day. If he will only hold his grip for a few days and give people who have been putting off moving until the head of the house could cast his vote he can provide against trouble in case the wolnen ever get a vote, The auditorium project has had am excellent start and can be pushed to successful fruition before the bullding season arrives If the proper action Is taken by the committee, which con- sists of some of Omaha's most pushing and enterprising citizens, and their ef- forts should be seconded by every man, woman and child In the community; The Cuban constitutional convention was opened amid scenes of the greatest enthusiasm and evidences of a disposi- tion among the delegates to work har- moniously toward the accomplishment of, the object for which they have as- mbled. If they o thelr work well and proceed to build on the foundation lald a government of order, in which the rights of all shall be recognized and protected, no one will have cause to regret the sacrifices made to relleve them of the Bpanish incubus, / MKINLEY RE-ELECTED. The Intelligence, the integrity and the patriotism of the American people have triumphed, The re-election of William mujority of the people with the indus- trial and business conditions that have tration and thelr desire for a continu | ance of these conditions, It reaffirms the popular demand for a sound and stable eurrency and for the maintenance nation. It demonstrates that a majority of our people is not in sympathy with appeals to class prejudice, with assaults ou the judiciary and with the fostering of discontent and dissatisfaction. The rebuke to Bryanism is over- whelming., To the political fortunes of Bryan himself his defeat mnst prove disustrous, It secms dly possible that he can ever agaln secure 4 nomina- tlon for the presidency or even be per mitted to assume political leadership, slnce he can never entively free himself from the stigma of the unpatriotic and dangerous teaching which for four years hé lLas been fmparting. His record as a reckless agitator cannot be effaced and the party that should here- after make him its leader would invite inevitable defeat. No party can be successful in this country which stands for principles and policles hostile to na tlonal integrity and natlonal honor, as does the HBryanite party. cpublican victory means a continu- ance of the conditions which have given the country prosperity and a stimuluvs to enlurge investments and new enter- prises. It means the strengthening o financial contidence. It means further Industrial and commercial development. It means greater prestige and influence abroad. It means a policy in respect to our new possessions that will bes. conserve the welfare of thelr people and safeguard American interests, It Is a glorious triumph for national honor and patriotism and a splendid tribute to Willlam McKinle BE PATIENT. xperlence has shown that it takes two and sometimes three days for the people of Nebraska to secure complete returns of their election, This Is due cation by telegraph or telephone and some of them without malil facilities, In a presidential year, with a large and complicated ballot and an unusual nuwber of offices to fill, the work of the canvassing boards 1s necessarily protracted and delayed. Should the election be cloge the result cannot be accurately announced untll the complete returns are at hand, although by sta- tistical comparisons, based on the per- centage of gains and losses, as tested by the tigures of former years, sub- stantial estimates can be made for the entire state when one-tlird of the pre- clucts are heard from. In view of all these facts and the in- tense interest Learing on the outcome in Nebraska, the people are admonished fn advance to be patient. Great im- provements have been made in the in- troduction of the Australian ballot and the erection of safeguards to insure the secrecy of the ballot, but the problem of the count has yet to be solved in this as well as in many other states. For the present patience s the only reliable prescription, EXTENSION OF MEROHANT MARINE. One of the subjects which cougress will probably take up immediately after the opening of the second session next wouth is that of the merchant marine, for the promotion of which a Dill 1s pending. President McKinley re- ferred to this matter in his letter of ac- ceptance, pointing out that 01 per cent of our exports and lmports are now carrled by forelgn ships and that we pay annually to forelgn ship owners over $165,000,000. He sald: “We ought to own the ships for our carrylng trade with the world and we ought to build them in American ship yards and man them with American sailors. Our own citiréns should receive the transporta- tion charges now pald to foreigners,” He reiterated the views contained in his last annual message, in which he said that our mnational development will be one-sided and unsatisfactory so long as the remarkable growth of our inland industries remains unaccom- panted by progress on the seas. He de- clared that we shall full to realize our opportunities if we complacently re- gard only matters at home and blind ourselves to the necessity of securing our share of the valuable carrying trade of the world. This is purely a business question and should be considered solely from a practical standpoint. Shall we continue to be dependent upon foreign shilp own- ers for ocean transportation, paying them an enormous sum annually for that service, or shall we bulld up a merchant marine equal to the demands of our foreign commerce and keep at home the nearly two hundred milllons of dollars that now go abroad in pay- ment for transportation? Another con- sideration relates to the disadvantage at which we are placed In the competi- tion for trade by reason of our depend- cnce upon foreign ship owners. This has been conspicuously shown In the South American trade and there s reason to expeet that it would be no less wanifest In connection with the Aslatic trade, It we continue to depend upon foreign ships for carrylng our products to those markets, The bill in congress préposes to en- courage the building of an ocean ma- rine by the payment of bounties, the only way In which the desired result can be attalned, unless the free ship policy be mdopted. That policy would, perhaps, gve us the required shipping, but it would not glve us the great ship- building industry that the other plan would create, That Industry, already extensive, would be vastly Increased under the operation of such legislation is proposed, giving employment to a very large amount of capital McKinley attests the satisfaction of a | prevailed under a republican adminis- | of the financial eredit and honor of !lu-l to the fact that many of the election | | precincts are entirely without communi- nndl THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER labor. We ought to have this Industr With ev resource for ship bullding, | there is no reason why we should not | develop the industry to as large or larger proportions than that of the | United Kingdom, to which it Is a great | source of wealth., The probability Is that the bounty bill, which has been very carcfully drawn, will be passed | early in the session, as there is no doubt a majority in both the senate and | house that favors it. | THE CUBAN CONVE) e convention to frame a constitu- tion for an Independent Cuban govern- ment assembled in Havana Monday. A dispateh from Governor General Wood states that perfect harmony pre- vailed at the opening and that there was great enthusiasm and cheering for the United States, This is gratifylng aud shows that the reports which ba come from Cuba of a strong hostile fecling there toward the United States were exaggerated. Some of the poli- ticlans’ undoubtedly bhave been dis- sutistied with Awmerlcan occupation and have been industriously endeavoring to create popular seutiment agalust the exercise of American authority, but It is now shown that they have not been largely successful, The more intelligent of the peopl it appears, appreclate what has been doue for them by the United States and are not disturbed by the presence of a small military force which Is slouply performing police duty and does not interfere with the affairs of the people or In any respect oppress them, It is the understanding that the de- liberations of the constitutional con- vention will be largely in secret, ex- copt for the presence of a few specta- tors to be admitted by card. How long a time will be required to complete Its work can, of course, only be conjec- tured, but it would seem that two or three weeks should be sufficlent. The Idea seems to be to put an independent governwent in, operation at the begin- ning of next year and as the constitu- tion to be framed must be submitted to the vote of the people, the conventlon, it is to be presumed, will push its work as rapidly as possible without slighting any of it. The constitution will proba- bly be to a cousiderable extent mod- ¢led upon that of the United States, and with that admlirable instrument before them the representatives of the Cuban people can hardly find the duty of framing a constitution a difficult one. While the Cuban people are more or less dependent upon the United States for their future form of government, we are not disposed to give any cred- ence to reports of a purpose on the part of our government to inslst upon conditions which would not be compati- ble with Cuba's independence. As the United States will be responsible for the future security of the island, the Cuban people ought to be willing to make any falr and reasonable conces- slous to this country that may be asked, but it would be uureasonable to expect them to allow us to maintain forts and garrisons In the Island, as it has been sald Is Intended, and to inslst upon dolng so would be to Impose a restric. tion upon Cuban independence which we do not think the American people would approve, The United States s pledged to let Cuba have complete independence and it cannot honorably demand or exact anything of the Cuban people that would place the least restriction upon thelr independence. We do not belleve there is any intention or desire to do so. BRITAIN'S NAVAL DECLINBD. A London correspondent, referring to the decline In Britain's naval strength, says there are five causes which have contributed to it. These are that the naval program for men, ships and ma- terial 1s lusufficlent, the program pro- posed by the responsible minister and sanctioned by Parllament as the least compatible with safety has not been carried out, the work of naval construc- tion has been so delayed that the ships bullding will be obsolete before they are completed, other nations have suc- cessfully increased thelr program of na- val construction, thus still further di- minishing Britain's relative strength, and finally a new and resolute claimant for sca power—Germany—has arisen. The correspondent says: *The univer- sal antipathy of the German people to- ward England has already found ex- pression in the doubling of their fleet. Within 4 few months the Reichstag will agaln be asked to Increase the German fieet by 5O per cent. A German combl- pation with France and Russia i8 not outside the reglon of practical politics. The three powers already combined to exert pressure on Japan may do the same against England tomorrow.” It |18 something of a surprise to read of Britain's decline In naval strength and yet when the great strain which the | South African war bas Imposed upon the government s considered, it does not appear remarkable that there has | been some abatement of care for the | navy. It 18 to be expected, however, that there will be a change from this under a reorganized miustry, now being effected, for It is not to be supposed that Great Britain will abandon the policy of malutaining ber naval supremacy As to any danger of a European combi. nation agalnst England, 1t appears ex- tremely remote, There seems to be the wmost cordial friendship between G many and Great Britain, so far as the governments are concerned, notwith- standing the fact that the German peo- ple are quite generally unfriendly to the British, There Is nothiug to indicate that England has need to fear a hostile European alliance, From a local standpoint the political campalgn just closed has been remark able in several respects, chief among which Is the won-Interruption of busi- u¢ Omaha's manufacturing estab. lishments have gone right along turning out goods and its mercantile houses have continued selling their wares as If nothiug unusual were occupying the ) . public mind. One single house in this eity which did £100,000 worth of business in October, 1809, did $150,000 worth of business in October, 1000, This may be exceptional, but all lines of trade have shown more vigor and steady galns, Omaha Is sure to go constantly forward while its mer- chants and manufacturers are able to make such gratifying exhibits. The ship on which President Kruger is enroute to KEurope is to be held at Port 8ald until the Duteh government can decide what Is best to do with biw. Long range sympathy Is a fine thing in its way and usually one of the most plentiful of articles, but when it comes to doing something tangible—that {s an- other story. Oom Paul should box up his big pipe and ship his berd of cattle to the prairies of the west, where he will find people who will not be afraid to recelve him, The Interstate Commerce commission has set a date for the Learing of the Norfolk rate case. Perhaps the State Board of Lransportation can show some signs of 1Mfe now that the members and the secretaries have finished their cam- palgn work. It will be necessary to convince the legisluture that an appro- priation to pay salarles is advisable, Some Consolation In . Detroft Free Press. What's better still, we shan't bave to go through it again for four years. New York World Once in a while & corporation does a happy thing. The Pullman company, in tendering o private car to carry Clara | Barton from Galveston to Washington, de- serves tho thanks of the country. Boston Globe, The fact that the percentage of increase of population in the United States by re- production has dropped from §2.08 per cent in 1820 to 14.82 per cent in 1000, s certainly significant in more ways than one, Very Hard to Pl 8an Francisco Call Cecil RRodes is chagrined, it ia said, be- cause he can expect no very warm recep- | tlon when he reaches London. And yet | when he could have had the warmest kind of a reception from the Boers he employed every means In his power to shun the honor. More Fish, Less Far. Philadelphia Record. Notwithstanding th activity of the seal hunters In Bering sea, it 18 stated that the cutch of seals this seuson will be 6,000 less than that of last season. There Is something, however, in the conslderation that the fewer the seals the greater will be the supply of salmon and other food fish {n the waters of Alaska. Clever Deal of a Sport. Loulsville Courler-Journal Sir Thomas Lipton cleared a cool $330,- 000 in the trifling operation by which he put October pork up from $11 to $20 a barrel. Sir Thomas as a yachtsman has 0 far met more than his match in this country, but & man who can go to Chi- cago and beat the best that can be brought against him in the speculativo ring must have genuine sporting blood in his veins. The New York Yacht club might make a note of thia, American Competition Abroad. Pnlladelphia Ledger, The fmportation of American steel plates has so greatly affected the steel making industry in Scotland that the Scotch makers have reduced their prices 15 shillings a ton within a fortnight. They hope in this way to “fully meet the American competi- tion,” but the very fact that they have had to resort to such heroic measures. shows the gain of American steel in the orlgival home of that Industry in a very graphle fashion. It has a most fmportant bearing on the question of American com- petition which fs now agitating the British metallurgical world, Sensible Regulation of Liquor Trafic, Minneapolis Times. Mrs. Jane Belden Garre, a prominent Woman's Christian Temperance union worker of Nebraska, has taken the troubla to learn something about the army ‘“‘can- teen” or post exchange and gives it as her cpinfon that it is better for the govern- ment through its army officers to regulate the supply of liquor to soldiers than to encourage them fn buying it promiscu- ously, as would be the effect of the abo- lition of the exchange. Mrs. Garre ob- served the workings of the “canteen” in Porto Rico rnd her experience has prompted her to say: My opinlon is that better discipline can be maintained and less crime will result when the quantity and quality are regulated by military law and it is used by the eoldier when he is under the control of his superlor officer. This Is the uranimous opinion of all Amer- icans in San Juan, Yellow Peril i Real. Leslto's Weekly. The potential strength of the Chinese and their pecullar characteristics, which have led them to offer such & challenge to the world as they bave just made, are admira- bly shown In an article on “China Against the World.” The writer of the article lived for years In China, and {8 well qualified to speak with authority. Mr. Walker shows that China’s population is greater than that of Russia, Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan and the United States com- bined; that China has a population capable of bearing arms of approximately 100,000, 000; that In those other elements that go to make up a nation's potential strength, vitality, endurance, indifference to discom- forts, ability to subsist on the smallest ration and to thrive amid unsanitary sur- roundings, the Chinese are unmatched. Ho declares that the Chinese &re not con- quered, but will make peace in order to prepare for another Issue of strength with the outslde world and ‘that with character- tstic patienco and persistency they will master the art of modern war as they have the problem of handling modern weapons. TIPS ON THE CENSLS, Rank in Population Among the Na- tlons of the World, Buaffo Express. ‘With a population of 76.000,000 the United States contains more Inhabitants than any other homogeneous country in the world except the Russian empire, Including both Furopean and Asiatic Russia, the Chinese empire and India. The European country which comes nearest to us is Germany. with about 52,000,000, Yet so great are the opportunities for individual sdvancement here that the United States draw immi- grants from all other couatries and loses practically nothing by emigration, Under the ratio adopted In the congress apportionment 1n 1891, 173,901, the number of representatives would be palsed as a re- sult of this census to 420. The presenat sumber is ., Which (s generally consid- ored too large for the most effective legls- lative work. The increase made by the last apportionment was twenty-four. Con- wi1ess probably will not adopt the ratio of 1891, but will more likely fix up upos a figure which wil keep the house & r its present size as possible, X3 1900. GROWTH IN MANUFACTURING. [ Expansion of Commerce In the Right Direction, New York Tribune Full returns of forelgn commerce for nine menths give a satisfactory idea of the ex- tent to which American commerce I8 ex- pagiding in the right direction. In the early days this country shipped large quantities of farm products, but outeide of cottom, grain and live stock there was little occu- pation provided for the people beyond mak- ing goods for home consumption. Exports of manufactured goods were valued at $93, 10l0ve tur the nrst nine months of 1887, and moderato growths during the next nine years brought an increase to $184,807,004 in 1896, Four years under the present admin- tstration have made a much more remark- cord, the manufactures sent abroad ued at $338,678,243, an increa $153,871,230 over 1806, whereas the gain for the preceding nine years was only $86,70,, - 401. These figures mean much to all class s of people, aud it must be remembered that such & heavy galn in the value of producis sent abroad does not Interfero with the steady growth of manufactures for use at home. Tho unparalleled figures of the current year Indicate that thcusands more men have received steady employment at good wages, and this Increased ability to purchase the necessaries of lite means good business for storekeepers of all kinds and a beiter demand for the products of farma. The enormous expansion in manufactur- ing is largely responsible for the great in- crease in the number of concerns in busi- ness, which now: aggregate 1,285,818, agalnst 994,281 In 1887, Exports of agricultural products this year were valued at $594,126,496, or siightly more than half the total, but much of this now properly comes under the head of manu- factures also. Formerly this country sent abroad large quantities of wheat, but in recout years the profits of milling have been largely retained at home, and the finished article sent abroad in the shape ot flour. Exports of flour have averaged $51,- 000,000 in value for each of the last three yoars. Similarly under the heading of oils the shipments this year of refined petro- leum, lubricating ofls and naptha were worth $61,622,809, all the cost of manufac- ture being retaiped in this country and on'y $6,676,601 worth of crude oil golng abroad. In the same way exports of whole animals In the live stock class were valued at only while prepared meats, including canned, sulted, smoked, pickled, etc., were worth $127,146,614. Although this country continues to send out three-fourths of Its raw cotton, even in that direction there are 81gDs of progress, and each year the num- ber of spindles in operation excceds all previous years. The growth is most noticeable at the south, where the cotton can be taken from the planta~ tion to the mill with least expenso for transportation. Exports of cotton manufactures averaged $17,500,000 for each of the last two years, and when the Niea- raguan canal opens quick transportation to tho far east It will be still easier to com- peto with cheap labor. Another pleasing feature is that while | the total value of imports 1 less than it was ten or twelve years ago the amount of raw materials has increased, providing work for American manufacturers. Tho bulk of imports in crude condition, more- over, is free of duty. In this class may be mentioned for the first nine months of 1000: Coffee, $41,069,108; furs, $5,087,90S; goatskins, $14,000,667; hides, other than cattle, $10,768, india rubbe 1,654,804 silk, $26,684,397, and tin, $15,281,577. Rea- sonable duties on manufactures of thes articles have developed domestic indus- tries that were unknown a few years ago and in the meanwhile the cost to the con- sumer has decreased {nstead of adva ing, as was predicted by opponents of n protective tariff. The largest single dutiable article 1s sugar, of which $62,938, 263 worth was imported, besides $9,156,432 from Hawall, which s mow on the free list. The small tariff on this product is not felt by the consumer, who cannot find any fault With the present cost of sugar. With the aid of state bountles rather than govern- ment support the production of beet sugar is slowly increasing, but the entire yleld of farms now under cultivation, together with the cane crop of Loulsi is in- significant compared with the annual con- sumption of this country, which is approx- trately 2,000,000 tons. The other large items of tmports were 39,418,780 worth of chemlcals, of which 105,287 were free; fiber manufactures, 73,047; Jewelry, $11,407,265, of $2,427,982 were uncut stones and free; manufactures of silk, $23,627,464; tobacco, $10,668,307; wool, $16,500,445, and manu- factures of wool, $13,207,648 These returns show that there has becn no decrease in the quantity of luxurics tmported, but the improvement in man facturing has cut off this market from for- elgn mukers of tin plates and other forms of iron and steel, while American manu- facturers have steadily secured customers abroad in this one line alone until ship- ments for the nine months just ended were valued at $97,313,060—almost equal to the entire exports of manufactured articles i 1897. The shipments of iron and steel products went to twenty-four different countrios and new customers are being so- cured each month. PERSONAL NOTES, London, with twenty-eight mayors, would probably be willing to loan a few to othor clties on applicatin. Governor Roosevelt finished his campaign of 21,200 miles at Owego, N. Y., which is really significant when you come to divide the name of the town into its three sylla- bles. 4 Willlam F, Seward and his wite of Scran- ton township, near Urbana, 111, have glven their 800-acre farm, valued at $6,000, for the founding of an institution devoted to the education of colored people in the “black belt" of the south. A Cleveland man has agreed, in the event of Bryan's election, to stand on his head and hands for a period of six hours in front of Mark Hanna's office. He s to stand in that Inverted position for & perlod of two minutes and then he is to rest for one minute. At that rate it will take him nine hours to finish the job. In the rural regions of Maine the people waste no money in buylag barometers. They put a plece of gingerbread out at the door and know when ‘the gingerbread fs molst and pliable that rain may he ex- pocted, and whem it becomes crisp ‘hat dry spell is coming. As for thermeme- ters, they say: “What's the guud of them—any fool knows when it's hot or cold.” The man engaged in the pleasant and lucrative business of parting fools from their money has turned up again, this time In Maseachusetts, As a clairvoyant he advised wealthy credulous women to fn- vest their surplus funds In a phantom land company and hb drew all the fnterest on the investment. Needless to say, he had no trouble in finding victims till the poltce Interfered, ol “The ubiquitous Dewet," as Lord Rob- erts calls him, appears to be following the tactics by which Marion, “the Swamp Fox," worried the British and gained fame in our revolutionary war. In one dispatch Lord Roberts reports that “Barton attacked nd scattered his forces in all direc- and in another, sent about the same time, tells how In a flerce little bat- tle between the same commanders the Boer leader inflicted serious losses on the British, Dewet fghts and’ runs away, but returns to fight another day, and his forces are never so far scattered that he cannot t them together agaln in a short time, ropean mills, in epite of their which | ANOTHER COMMERCIAL STRAW. irection of the Ind South Afr New York Herald If it fsu't mixing metaphors with @ vengeance, the success of American bidders for tho £1,000,000 coal wagon contract for outh African ral;ways, as told in our special ble from London, fs another commercial straw fn the wind. 1t is renewed evidence of our capacity to proyvide manufactuted iron and steel for even the most distant mar- kets at a price and of a quality that enablo us to compete with producers that are much nearer than we are to the place of delivery. Tt 18 only a repetition of what has gone be- fore, where American bidders have under- so0ld forelgn competitors, though we have had to add the cost of transportation half way around the world. With unlimited supplies ot raw material of admirable quality and ample varlety, abundance of skilled labor, {nventive genius i mechanios and excellent transportation facilities from mine, foundry and factory to point of destination, it Is no wonder that we are leading the world in manufactured fron and steel, as we undoubtedly will in ship- bullding as well This may all sound ltke a hurrah, ltke ent | | “letting the vagle scream,” but there is good reason for ft—wa have had a hard uphill fight In establishing our export trade aud now that we are successfully pushing out to other continents with our products we can be excused for a tossing of caps over dur national succe SPECIAL TRAIN CAMPAIGNING, Doubtful Value of Subjee Candi- date to Tests of Endurance. Bpringlield (Mass.) Repubifcan. Governor Roosevelt has won the long- distance champlonship fn stump speaking and thus Mr. Bryan fs deprived of the chlef glory which his opponents had hitherto conceded to him. In 1886 Mr. Bryan amazed the country by his campaigning, | but Roosevelt has now surpassed him According to the computations the rough rider has & record of 21,200 miles traveled, twenty-four states and 507 towns visited 672 speeches delivered and 3,000,000 people addressed. It is to be hoped that Roose- velt's record will never be beaten. This style of campaigning was inaugurated by Mr. Bryan because, in 1896, he was without newspaper support and there was a great demand for his appearance all over the United States. He was a young man aud could endure the strain. Roosevelt is also & young man and able to endure the strain. Hereafter presidential and vice presidential candidates may not be o young amd robust and the cyclone in stumping may disappear from natural causes. Its value to a party or a candi- date can never be accurately estimated, yet thero is reason to doubt its efficacy The long, terrific phylcal and mental strain ineviiably results in a cheapening of the orator's average utterances, how- ever he may rise to speclal occaglons, and menerally gome costly “‘breaks’” mar his record before election day. LOOKING BACKWARD. Dincovert the Ruine Uncovered in the Valley of the Eaphrates Philadelphla Press. The effect of a picturesque idea on the imagination of the public s seen In the sudden popular fame that has come to & savant like Prof. Herman V. Hilprecht. For many years Dr. Hilprecht and other archeologiats worked withip a small clrele, where thelr accomplished results in the excavation of historic sites or in the de- clphering of anclent lnscriptions were known | to u few. This crypt-like round of endeavor gives the archeologist reputation, but some- times little eclse. Suddenly, however, a: the significance of what the experts were unearthing dawned on the general public, Babylonian research became as a tower on & hilltop, as the temple of Bel in a flat land, Tho splendld work accomplished by the Uni- versity of Penosylvania’s Babylonian ex- peditions became known the world over, and Surgon and Lugalzaggisi threaten to become bouschold words as familiar as Belabazzar and Nebuchadnezzar, our friends of other duys. There 1s unquestionably @& profound dramatic side of the discoverles made through the generosity of Philadelphiaus in the valley of the Euphrates, and in con- #equence the return of Pref, Hilprecht after @ brilllant campaign at the site of the excavations has a special Interest. What he and his assoclates have done and what promise lies iIn the recent unearthing of the ancient library can be appreclated not ouly by archeologlsts, whose estimate ol| results will be exact, but by the public which finds its horizons of antiquity In- definitely extended, since, as it were, a new world sweeps into its ken. thing fascinating to the popular mind in remote antlquities, and mauy seem to feel the thrill of the explorer himself as he catches a suggestion of life at the uttermost dawn of civilization. And then, in the case of both Egypt and Babylonia, there 1s something attractive to many in learn- ing about the doings of kings who were very much allve at a time when Bishop Usher belleved the earth was just o mak- ing. R0d the wark of the ualversity expedi- tlons certainly carries history back to re- mote ages that may well impress the imag- ination. The first dynasty of Egypt runs | back to 4777 B. C., and the researches at Abydos take one back still further, until the civilization of 7,000 years ago is in sight, but the Babyloulan eclvilizations were even older, Lugalzaggls! himself was a con- temporary of the first dynasty rulers of Egypt, but he 1 the end of a long line of kings, and if fortune favors the explorers the horizon of 10,000 years ago should be in sight, and the beginning of the Sumerian and Akkadian civilization glimpsed, Those who have made these researches possible and those who have carried on the“work de- serve the fullest recognition, and the popular interest in the discoveries is a hope- ful sign, for it is a dull ideal of life that knows only the present and makes little of that. 8 RECLAIMING ARID LANDS. An Bconomical Problem of Great Im- portance to the Peaple. Chicago Record A discussion respecting the reclalming of arld lands of the United States was taken up by the Commercial club at its banquet Saturday night. Probably mo greater phys- \cal and economic problem is before the people of the United States at this time and there probably s Do other problem which will bring about such far-reaching and beneficlal results when solved. A fair esthnate that has been made of the land that may be avallable for cultivation by impounding waters for irrigation purposes places its area at 100,000,000 acres. It fs now practically worthless. With irrigation it 1s clatmed this land would be worth from $500,000,000 to perhaps ten times that amount and If not sold It could be rented for $1 to $5 & year per acre. The necessity for dealing promptly with the problem Is accentuated by the fact that all over the 1d reglon Irrigation companies are now at work obtalning control of vast tracts of Iand and of the impounding basins by means of which they may be supplied with water. In many Instances vested rights in water privileges and land are being ac- quired by these companies that will be used as the basis for making extortionate de- mands on the government sh-uld some plan for general improvement be decided on Some idea of the importance of the mat ter may be thered from the fact that the republican national platform strongly pro- nounces in favor of a system of arld-land reclamation that will ) the distrubu- tion of r on such lands in the hands and under the control of the people of the There is some- | states and territories where the la are it d One of fhe important features of the roclamation of arid lands by means of fm- pounding reservoirs fs the fact that it would be immensely helpful to the project of lmproving the great rivers of the west Into commercial gateways. A system has been devised by a number of engineers well posted on the subject which shows that fmpounding reservoirs built along the Mississippl river would save many acres of land from alternating floods and Aroughts and would make possible & chan- nel twenty feet fn depth from Lake Michi- &an, it desired, to the Guit of Mexico. Un doubtedly the next great international im- provement of the United Etates will be & plan for the reclamation of arid lands which will work harmoniously with the improvement of the great ry CIVILIZATION LY SHOW.” Shocking ¢ mmitted by the All n Chin Philadelphia Ledger. The wisdom of Secreiary Hay's Chinese policy becomes more apparent as the news of the doings there reach the world. Qur course bas been exceedingly cautious, hu |mane and just. The State department has | cast the influence of this country in favor of preserving the territorial integrity of China, and our activity in the empire is prudently limited to the specific objects | of securing reparations for wrong done and of maintaining our rights. Our pollc euunclated by Secretary Hay as early as July 3, and this action probably had a powertul influence In leading England and Germany to the recent agreement, which |18 In line with Secretary Hay's original declaration. While the three nations are In accord, the United States 18 ac 1n- dependently, There {s no alllance, i the stories of shocking barbarity that are coming from Chiva are true, it {s fortunate that we have no close “concert,” and that this country has divested Itself of responsi Dillty for the cruelty and slaughter which 18 being visited upon the Chinese. The re- ports of wholesule murders by tho Russians have been followed by stories of similar practices by the Germans, which are re- celving confirmation by private letters re cetved n Berlin from German soldlers One soldler relates tales of the murder ot prisoners, and another writes “What s going on here durlng the war is impossible for me to describe, for such murdering and slaughtering {s awful. The reason is that the Chinese are outside of international law, 80 no prisomers are | taken. All are shot, or, to save cartridges, | stabbed. Sunday aflernoon we had to stab seventy-four prisoners with the bayonet They had shot one of our patrols, where upon the whole battallon was called out {to pursue them, and seventy-four were cap tured. It was cruel, and cannot be de scribed as It really happened. 1 hope it wiil not go on much longer, otherwise one will | forget whetber ome was cver a human | betng." | Al wars are demoralizin | agai; an Interior or semi-civilized people Is especially degrading. The people who are “outside of International law" commit | acts which lead to retallation in kind, and | before hostilities have lasted long the wu- | perior race finds itself “outside’ of all law and humanity. Secretary Hay recently said that if our State department had achleved any success In dealing with the Chinese question it was because the traditions of our government had been taken for « |guide. Ho was right. This country has |been the representative of peace, justice and humanity and its greatest glory is to be won in the paths of peace and not in murdering Chinese. fcan Clrous in Germa Roston Transcript. If the tent of the Arab has bitherto, boen a standard for speed and silence In steal- ing away it will now be displaced in many by the American circus temt. One of our “greatest on earth” aggregations of tented talent is traveling through the kafser's domains and it fs sald that bis subjects are so taken by the neatness and dispatch of its movements, as well as beauty of it all, that it is the custom for whole towns to “shut up shop” the day the circus shows. The arrival of the clrcus basn't ceased to be a great day with%us, though the novelty of it is somewhat dimmed. But the Germans are reveling in the newness of the experience. but a war Am, CHAFF FOR THE CHEERLES Detrolt Journal: *“See Parls and die” we exclaimed, quoting the proverb, “Yes, I'm always dressed to kill!" quoth Parls, naively, Chicago Record: “I've heen over to ses Jones; fsn't ho wn awful talker?" “Isn't he, though! Say, how did you get away?" Detroft Journal: “Strictly speaking the Fillpinos easterners or westarners ? “Blessed 1f 1 know. Do they say depot or raflway station?' are Washington Star: mistakes you kin make, “In to be #0 skyaht o' you doesn’ do nuffin’ One o' ds worst 10 Uncle Fban, nakin® mistakes dat all. Pittsburg Chronicle: frost here?'" sippi planter, An occaslonal white frost only,” replied the mative, with "emphasis on ihe word “white,"” )0 you have much asked a visitor of a Missis- Indlanapolis Journal: “Would you Itke to know that you had a kigg for an an cestor?"” “Noj it would be a lifelong grief to me that 1 couldn’t show him how our stock had tmproved,” Cleveland Plain Dealer: ““They draw the clothesline a little tight at the Chicago horse show.' “How {8 that?" Detroft Free Press: I wish those ‘They refuse to permit women to ride across the way would move back ntry." clothespin fashion.” e0ple &6 Whai's the matter with them?" Why, #ne. calls her children in with dinner horn." aghington Star: greatly tmpressed by western cfvills “Well, answered Lt Hung Chang, s of superiority. But I don't see of your bosses have mado more money out of politics than I have." supPOss you are Indianapolis Sun: I was sur, Mrs. Braggadocio called my attention the brightness of the stars the other nl,h A Bty 3 From past conversations T didn’t think fln)"hlh" was bright except that little boy of hers, Chicago Tribun ‘What & beautiful moonlight scene!” exclaimed the young oman who was looking over the collection. “When did you take {t?" “Just two weeks ago,' responded the nmnl'urf{flwln.rnpller, trylng not to look roud, N hY. Ghere was no moon at il then, Mr. Ecksex!" “Well--er—the down."" sun hadn't quits gone e THAT DOOR. An' then SAbUY P e 0wy “In .'f.':';::'r.rr‘.t"?"‘h:npg.n doin's we must bat- e e by i femperor an ‘oldin' eut 4Pl wtick together an' we'll cathen land.’ soers 1t dmes U g00d" ways Villlam Rex, inow. I ey lage”yours I "Hal'sbury miled once more, Then, gt llhy ear owe'll clip ‘Is claws,'’ W thise tm 1o hin Tl n' ‘ow about th' Yankee bird?" Sal'sbury then exclaims, doesn’t coumt,’ block 'l little game.” “We're goin' o 'ave wn open door, bury saya to Bill; “we'll he.% t open for us two,”" Bays Bill, “You bet we willl"