Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 10, 1900, Page 6

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Taschiick, sectt Publishing Company, belng duly says that the actual numos o fall complete copies of Dally. Morr Evening and Sunday Bee nrinted during ti.e month of October, 190, was as fol.ows .27 220 27,450 27,010 27,500 24,1430 27,470 27,910 27.470 .28 500 25,440 27 0 28,700 27 27 Bworn an | 28018 (EX 0,771 0,080 | ticket in g 82710 | s Less unsold and returned coples Not total sales t dally average.. 28002 GEORGE 1. TZSCHUCK Subseribed in my presence and aworn to before me this first day of November, A. D., 190 M. B_IHUNGATE, (Beal.) stary Publie, | o c—————————————— | $UPPOsed to have been prett Ex-President Clevelaud need not be so chary about talking now Nebraska starts the twentioth century by turning over a new political leat. It bombustic pronunciamentos only ry of The Bea | ROOSEVELT'S WORK The campaign work of Roosevelt 18 fully appreciated by | publicans everywhere and by none mo; than those of the who have an unbounded admiration for the ability energy, courage and “strenuousness” of | the vice president-elect, There was | some apprebension, it can now bhe sal at the opening of the campaign th Roosevelt might commit_some fndis tions of speech that would {against the party, but as the result | shows there was no good reason for such fear. "Lhe republican candidate for vice president was fully cquipped for work and he performed it ably, bril- liantly and with great effect, He ap pealed to the patriotism of the country and to the popular sense of national honor and integrity., He not only de- fended republican principles with signal ability, but he answered every argu west operate | thie | THE hends the significance of Tuesd pop ular verdict. No citizen s more solicit ous for the malntenance of the the fntegrity and the prestige of republic. patriotically devoted to American insti- tutions. The country may confidently expect from him a conservatisin and moderation. honor, wise TALE OF TWou TELEGRAMS Ou Thursday succeeding the election of 1806 the following telegram was tiashed over the w LINCOLN, Neb., O.~Hon. William McKiniey, Canton, 0. Senator Jones has Just luniormed me that the recurns indicate your ewecticn and | hasien o extend my congraculations. We have suumitted the ¢ to the American people and toeir wili Is law, W. J. BRYAN On Thursday succeeding the election of 00 another telegram was earried | along by the eleetric current, reading us ment of the opposition with convineing logie, Governor Roosevelt was the foremost figure in the republican campaign and wherever he spoke he wmade an hmpres- | slon favorable to his party’s cause one who heard him could ha doubt of the earnestness and sin of his convictions., No candidate vice president ever before did such magnlticent service for his party. As the New York Sun says: “It dims in| no degree the lustre of President Me- | Kinley's unequalled share in the fm-| mense triumph of lis party to say that Roosevelt, by the spirit of bis per- sonality and by the inspiring encrgy of | speech upon the stump, added | strength to the republican presidential | year of supreme trlal” It 1s hardly possible to overestimate the value of Governor Roosevelt's campaign for STomTS | Work. BOERS STILL ACTIVE, The Boers have been showing a v markable activity receutly for a people | thoroughly | used months ago by defeats urid losses. One wonders where they get their resources to continuwe hostilities against the great British army, but they £o on cutting railways, occasionally | capturing British posts and trains and | otherwise giving the enemy endless up won elections nobody would be in H‘tl'ullhll'. with the fuslonists, more feel his in Chalrman Jones may free to devote bis attention to terests in the cotton bale trust, e Ot cour eredit for form will > the man who claimed the writing the Kansas City plat insist on sharing the blame. Watch the self-constituted cabinet- wakers start at once to get in their work ahead of President MeKinley him self, Bryan must have been loaded down with too mwany nominations. One nomin- atlon was all President MeKinley re quired, MeKinley's plurality fn Ohlo is about 74000, Riddle—find how many repub- lican votes were delivered to Bryan by Golden Rule Jonc Stand up for Nebraska. With all shoulders to the wheel and an unob structed path, the state will move for- ward as never before. Mr. Bryan says he will not be a ean- didate for senator before the coming legislatu Probubly not, because the legislature is republican. ‘The silver republican party in Douglas county has now been reduced to Frank Ransom, Tax Commissioner Fleming and Councilman Lobeck, Mark Hanna spoke more truly than he knew when he sald on return from his trip to the west that he had put Ne- braska into the McKinley column, Wake up and look cheerful. Prosper- ils, Nebraska Is redeemed and government at Washington still lives for democrats and republicans alike, - Colonel Bryan I8 in position to re- mark once more that the applause gath- ered from the rear end gf a train is no definite indication of the way his audi- tors fntend to vote, J. Sterling, Morton s promptly to the front with a re-assertion of his sugges tlon for the organization of a conserva- tive party. Why Isn't the republican party conservative enough? It is a shame that Jim Dallman and Chailrman Edmisten should persist in buncoing Bryan with fake election fig- ures about Nebraska after he has been irrecoverably defeated better, He deserves All the bond propositions submitted 1o the voters of Omaha have carried by substantial majorities. The people of Owaha propose to go forward with the work of public Improvement and not backward, That Washington correspondent of the World-Herald knew what he was talk ing about when he gave up Bryau three weeks ago. He should be entitled to a diploma from his employers instead of a call down, —_— All competitors have lost their breath trying to cateh up with The Bee's elec tion returns. Never before has a close election in Nebraska been spread before the public with exact figures as promptly and completely as in The Bee this year. The city has decided to drain a number of stagnant pools which are a menace to the health and life of thickly popu lated districts. Where these pools are on. private property the owners should be required to pay the expense of drain nge, as they have no right to maintain a nuisance simply to avold the cost of @lling up the low-grade lots, . ) The latest advices veport a Boer d feat, with a consideruble loss, and the breaking up of the defeated force into | small bands. Nearly all the operations by the Boers now are by bodies not ex- ceeding a thousand, but such bands | would seem to be quite numerous. It | was estimated a short time ago that | probably 15,000 are still in the field. Whatever the number, they are « tainly showlng a dogged courage und sistence that all mankind must ad mire, whatever may be thought of the | wisdow of maintaining the hopeles struggle. How long these intrepid peo- | ple, who hesitate at no sacritice, can continue u guerrilla warfare it would be useless to conjecture, but there can of course be but one ending, except in the nearly impossible event of inter- vention M AND MODERATION | 'Fhe admonition of Senator Beveridge | of Indiana, that now the watchwords | must be conservatism and moderation, is | Judicious. While the reelection of President McKinley is an unmistak | able endovsewent of republican policics, | both dowmestic and foreign, it must not | be assumed to imply a popular desive | | for radical or a ssive weasures not | made necessary by existing conditions, | While it gives authority to congress and the administration to go on in the per | formance of the duties and in fulfillment | of the responsibilities assumed by the nation in its relations with the rest of the world, it invites nothing beyond this. | President McKinley sald at Salem, O, on Wednesday, in response to a popular demonstration: “You are here to cele- brate a victory won, not by a single party, but by the people of all purtics, 1 go back to my public duties at the capital encouraged by your confidence, but deeply consclous of the grave respon sibility which your action of yesterday imposes upon me.” In this brief utter- ance is shown the spirlt in which Mr. McKinley received ghe second call from the American people and it is distinetly conservativ He recognizes the fact | that Tuesday not won by & simgle party, people of all partigs, that it was a vietory of Ameri cans for Americaus. No one who has intelligently read the speech and letter of acceptance of the president can doubt his desire to deal with the problems to be solved with conservatism and moder- atlion and his re-election will rather strengthen this desire than otherwise, 8o far as the administration is con cerned, it can be confidently predicted that there will be no radical measures not demanded by circumstances and the congress elected last ‘Tuesday will be in harwony with the administration, Tho insurrection in the Philippines will be suppressed. As to that the government will put forth greater efforts if the situu- tion shall require it, but there Is reason to believe that this will not be the case, The conditions in Porto Rico will be further hiuproved. Cuba will be given independence. The policy iu regard to China will still keep in view the wain tenunce of the “open door” and the preseryation of the territorial integrity of the ewmpi We sbull continue to cultivate friendship with all nations, but enter into alllance with none, As to domestie policy, the protection of American industries and™Tabor will Le waintained, Some modification of the turlff Is possible, but it will not be such as to take away protection frow any in terest that would be injured thereby. Monopolies in the formdor trusts will 1 mtelligently dealt with, will be kept on a sound basis and the credit of the government maintained American interests and vights will ywhere be protected, President McKinley understands bet ter than any other man can do the great and grave responsibilities resting lupuq i, No one wmore clearly uppre | McKinley, President, Cauton, 0.: | Dietrich and 1,2 The ecurrency | | tore; follows: LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 5.—Hon. William At the campaign it lot to congratuiate you bu a second W. J. BRYAN nitles of the campaign must cluse of another presidential is my victory, I'he am | not be overlooked. THE SOUTH OMAHA FRAUD. Evidence Is conclusive thut the gross- est election frauds were perpetrated by the fusion managers in Douglas county in the South Omaha precinets and that the large majority for fusion candidates shown on the returns from South Owmaha are fictitious, the result of mis count, fraudulent voting, repeating and colonization, e of the election boards in South Omaha, although supposed to represent the fusion committee, even to the ex- tent of Ignoring court orders requiring them to conform to the law in the count instead of pursuing arbitrary, dark lan- tern methods to make good their agree- ments to deliver the stipulated majori- ties to the fusionists, The Bee makes bold to assert that at least half of the majority in South Omaha recorded against the republicans 18 fraudulent and would be wiped out by an accurdte count of the ballots hounestly cast. Such flagrant defiance of the striking at the very root of popul ernment, should rouse our people to a reulization of the dangers threatened by the lawless and unscrupnlons prac- tices of the fusion machine, If there is any redress to be had they should in- sist upon having it. A sample of the fuking propeusities of the World-Herald, by which it en- deavors to bamboozle credulous readers, is to be found insits tabulated state- law, | ment purporting to show the vote on county is ! in which Douglas with casting 1,327 votes for 5 for Poynter, when in tact Douglas county has given Dietrich 12,448, as against 12,585 for Poynter. Anybody can figure out majorities for defeated candidates by such bold Juggling with the figures. This is a sample of the computations on which the claims of the'fakirs are based and on which deluded followers are led to lose their wmoney on foolish, bets in order to keep up the courage of de- teated candidates, governor, eredited 1t is to be noted that Edgar Howard things he has said about any of the double-dealing popocratie leiders except Ransom and he doubtless wishes now 1 never opened nis mouth about General Demand for Rest. Minneapolis Journal. Mr. Bryan, speaking of his plans for the a loug rest. But he can hardly enjoy it more than the country dos. Don't Prophcsy Lh.ens You Know. Chicago Post. Now there is talk of reorganizing the democracy just as soon as the pleces can be gathered together, and it Is safe to say that Bryan will not figure prominently in the new combination. Ma © Wroug. Chicago Times-Herald Hogg of Texas refused to belleve the bulletins, saying they were “cooked up by republicans so thelr fellow gamblers could hedge on their bets.” Hogg 18 a great man, He weighs nearly 300 pounds. Not n Partisan Triumph, Indlanapolis News, Such a victory as that of Tuesday is not a mere partisan triumph. It was won by all the people, and the republican party holds ite commission from all the people. It will be well for it to remember that very patent fact. Growing | ror rond, Cleveland Leader, France recently bestowed a compliment upon this natlon by display- ing, from 4he Eiffel tower, the largest Amcrican flag ever made. The Stars and Stripes are mow better known and more greatly respected in foreign countries than they were four years ago. Gy consplcuous Mint to Thri ty Husbands, New York Herald Ladies of the Woman's Christian Temper- anco unon have e un a cru ade again t the waxen images used to display the dress- maker's art, because arms and neck are bared. Thrifty husbands should encourage these laties and insist that these artlstic, fascinating—-and expensive—creations shall be displayed to the public gaze upon broom- sticks. Now, Aggic, Will You He Good, Chicago Journa. The rebellion in the Phillppines, which has been kept alive ouly in the expecta- tion of the election to power of its Ameri can sympathlzers, way now be regarded as ended. The representaives of Aguin- aldo, who have received accurate infor- wation on the course of events from trait- orous sources, will lose no time In convey ing knowledge of the true situation to their prineipal, whose capitulition will naturally follow. Further resistance, it there be any, to American authority will be relentlessly crushed, and after that | there will be peace. It is a desirable con- summation on Mark Detroit J Thase Bryanites who chuckled Mark Hanna's “bad breaks” will uot 10 take notice that wherever Senator Hanna ;ampaigned most industriously the repub licans made substantial gains. In South Dakota he lald out the despicable Peiti- grew and the state elects McKinley elec- lowa, Kabsas, Minnesota and Wis- ) aver OMAHA DAILY the No one 1€ more profoundly and both parties, took orders directly from | has not yet taken back any of the mean | immediate future, says he intends to take | fail BEE: consin return Nebraska will with McKinley great republican probably ewing into electors and two States senator: Chicago, the citadel of llinols democracy, approved Hamma's speeche As a matter of fact Senator Hanna appears to have been one of the most effective stump speakers in the party Women's Enlarged Sphere. Minneapolis Timas Women earn their daily bread in almost every branch of Ruman industry. Women make or help to wake coftins, bricks, tiles, sewer pipes, tools boxes, barrels, furnitu e They are in all the proféssions; they are stockhoiders aud partners in varfous kinds of business, and as to the more conven- tional occupations of women the, are galore. In the more unusual ways we have had a woman anthropologist, a woman forester, women who mine and women who deal in stocks. One woman spent fifty years mak- ing a bead house and lately was found dead with her unfinished work before her. EDITORIAL RE CTIHO New York Times the national honor The currency Is safe 1s safe. We can now Bive oufselves with contented minds and ured confidence to our honorable public and private concerns, Boston Tranecript: The election connot be construed into an Indorsement of the colonial policy characterized as im- periallem, nor do they warrant a continua- tion of blind republican favor to the trusts. St. Louls Globe-Democrat: Tuesday election verdict has Immeasurably advanced the United Stytes in the estimation of all Its thoughtful citizens and of \the world America has taken a new start on fte career of progress and prosperl Kansas City Star: The democratic party ought now to be able to see that the American people are not flattered by being referred to as downtrodden and oppresscd The one American quality which Is always In evidence Is gclf-respect, and the whole | democratic campaign, from July to Novem- ber, was an affront to that sentiment. Néw York Sun: From this time on the | main purpose of at least a powerful faction of the democracy will not be to shape its course for the gratification of Mr. Bryan's political ambition, but to wrest from his hands the control of their national organiza- tion. Wil they succeed? Probably. But, Just as probably, not without reckouning, in |one way or another, with the man who |leaped npon the democracy’s shoulders at the Chicago convention. “hicago Tribune: South Dakota has been | redeemed. That state will take a place where it belongs among the agricultural ccmmunities which are on the right side on the currency question and all questions foreign policy, and which canoot be turned from the right path by false lssues. “urthermore, South Dakota will have here- latter a republican senator to represent it | irstead of a furious ap neither flesh, | towl nor good red herring New York Tribune: It is a national victory. The nation fn all its parts may well rejoice. Its credit s secure. 1t Judielary will remain free. Tts people will not be sundered Into hating and hatetul classes. 1ts flag will not be dragged down in dishonor. The propnganda of greed, of hatred, of violence and of cowardice will not prevail. It is a day for earnest re- solves to complete and to perpetuate the work so well performed, and to make the nation in the ordering of its affairs hence- forth worthy of its splendid past and of the splendid promise of its achlevement in this national victory. Indianapolis News: There is no mystery | about the result. Mr. Bryan stands in the | public mind for precisely the sawme things that he stood for in 1896, While in his | many speeches be sought assiduougly to | give emphasis to other issues, yet what he ad to say about them did not carry con- viction to the popular futelligence. People have continued to think of bim first and | fcremost as the champion of a false system ot finance, and they could not forget that |all the prophecies made by him with such carnestness and volubility in 1896 have been proved by the events of the last foup years to have been without justification i fact. POLITICAL SNAF results | | Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota also an. ' The result is an embarrassment of elec- toral votes. Nature Kindly tempered the wind for the unfortunate. As & voto of confilence the returns are | quite emphatic. The full dinner pail is booked to stay | four years more. Senator Wellington of Maryland s a notable example of the man without @ party. Notwithstanding efithusiastic predictions Missouri resolutely refused to get into the band wagon. Democratic forecasters have ample time to repent of their folly and get on speak- ing terms with truth. Mr. Bryan may extract some consolation trom the fact that his letter mail will be substantially reduced. The Canadian administration, following the example of its nelghbor, made a clean sweep in the election last Wednesday. St. Louls is said to bave reformed by taking \ts medicine straight. The repub- lican triumph is pot the only wonder of }n,u election. Kansas City republicans did not pay much attention to the presidential ticket, but hustled for the spolls and swiped every local office but two. Chicago papers are hilariously happy They succeeded in defeating two machine candidates for office and crow lustily over their growiug Influence Mr. Bryan's “Secoud Battle” Is the ceverest drubbing received by any presi- dentlal candidate since Horace Greeley was waylaid in the democratic camp, Senator Carter appears to have had his whiskers clipped in Montana. His pile could not approach that of Clark, conse- quently he lagged superfiuous in the race. Webster Davis 1s now at liherty to flock by himself and shed gobs of tears for the oppressed. His dramatic entry on the cam- paign stage is fittingly followed by a cheer- less exit. When the late Willlam L. mayor of New York he cuffed by politiclans and organs he is dead they say he was the be ihe city ever had Philosopher Dooley's remarks on election are good reading, even after result 18 kuown: “Th' mornin’ afther ilio- tion, 't s Hinnissy to th' slag pile an Dooley to th' beer pump an' Jawn D Rockefellar to the ile-can, an' th' ol fla floatin' over all iy us if th' wind is good an’ th' man in charge has got up in time to hist it Foolish wan, th' fun-rals don't stop £'r ilietion, or th' christenin’s or th Bo hivins, I think th' likes iv ye this counthry is somethin' be hunk iv land occypied be human Ye think it a sort of an autymobi run down onless ye charge it | ye'er partic’lar kind iv gas. Don't ye ex plet, Hinnissy, that anuy throop v wiil dbrop fr'm hiven to chop ye wood on (' mornin’ iv th' siventh iv November if Hryan is ilicted, an’' dou't ye lave Jawnny McKenna think that it Mack gets in he'll have to put a sthrip Iy oil-cloth on th' dure sill to keep pluthycrats fr'm shovin' th ury notes undher th' dure. No, sir to think that was so—wanst, in th' days whin I pathronized a lothry. Now I know diff'rent.” Strong was kicked und Now that t mayor was the the | wedin's. imagines sides u bein's that'll United | with | angels | I used | Hoston Conservative estimates made by parties indleate that the vote in | will be very close, | Qlobe, ing McKinley by from 1,000 to 2,000 rality., Jority of both hous they stand a fair chance of electing candidate for governor, Charles H rich. The state ticket may be mixed My opinion en the contest in the coun- try at large s that there fs the re-election of William McKinley and that the fesue chiefly determining the re- sult is the widespread prosperity made pos- sible by republican policies The certainty of the republicans con- trolling the next legislature in jolnt session makes equally certain the clection of republicans to the United States senatc January. | Diet- nest EDWARD Editor Omaha ROSEWATER, Hee. the future Chinese trade in valley. Their leading newspapers dwelling persistently upon the which Germany has in that direction principally in British hands, but say that itself telt that the North-German for a regular service on the Yangtse. steamers will ply between Shanghal and Hankau and the service will be extended to Chungking Another line will conduct the trafMc between Swatau and Hankau, Details are glven of the new German sett ment of Hankau, which lies between French and the Japanese settlements stretehes along the river with a vearly 1,200 yards and a breadth of 460 yards. The land belongs for the most part to a syndicate and everything ls being done to make Hankau a German emporium. The Gazette estimates | German trafic on the river will amount to between 700,000 and 800,000 tons, or to 30 or 40 per cent of the trade in British hands, but the accuracy of these estimates 1s vigorously disputed on the British side. aee the and over In his recent report on the Indlan famine the viceroy, Lord Curzon, says that it is im- | possible to tell the actual mortality, but there has apvarently been an excess of deaths over the normal number of 750,000. Cholera and emallpox accounted for more than 230,000, leaving about 500,000 to be ac- | counted for. To say (hat the greater of these died of starvation or even of d | tution would be unjustifiable, since other contributory causes were at work, Sunday reliable Nebraska at with probabilities favor- plu- The republicans will doubtless carry a ma- o8 of the legistature and thelr no doubt of two It s evident that the Germans expect to regp at least a fair sharc of the profits of the Yangtse are interests They | He 18 the strongest contributing factor to admit that the river trade has bitherto been even in that German competition will make The Cologne Gazette announces Lloyd is arranging The length of | No ¢ that even this year |ylty many | Two Election Forecasts | November 4. Mr. Bryan's plurality in Nebraska will be least 18,000, The fusionists will control the legislature by a majority of at least nine on joint ballot. Of the six congress- men four will certainly be fuslonists. Two districts are fn doubt Concerning the general vesult, 1 believe the republicans will receive n severe shock on election night. They confidently depend on McKinley's election and persistenly close their eyes to the very many conditions fa vorable to Mr. Bryan. Imperialism and trusts are the fssues that will chiefly de- the contest. The republicans for- ¢ have the un-Americag side of these fssues. The people are doing more thinking than talking this year. "he people of tMis country will not en- dorse o great an evil as the trust system and they will not repudiate so righteous a doctrine that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. For these reasons I believe Mr. Bryan will be elected by a piurality that will occaston very general surprise R L. METCALFE Editor Omaha World-Herald, | Look in the Glass. Des Molnes Leader., 1n seeking for causes for the overwhelm- ingness of the event of Tuesday, it is not necessary to go any further than Mr. Bryan his own defeat. There may be other rea- sons, but he is enough. Where I the Mant Chicago Chronicle. The sentiments which should actuate a the American people at this moment Direction and organization only are needed | Where is the man, where are the mén who will seize this opportunity to perform a true democratic party control & majority of | they will remember and recognize the work of Willlam J. Bryan in the great eampaign of 1900 and will accord him the honor that be has nobly earned. SMILES IN PLENTY, Chicago P They say he's fall of tha milk of haman kindness Huh Was the scornful retort 1f that « #0, you can bet it's skimmed miik. Philadelphia Press: “Uncla fo ¥how more backwardness about borrow oK, B0l from other nations than he used ‘1 shouldn't say backwardiiess Sam seems It was a case ot ‘mere it ‘more reserve.' Somerville Journa cks—Hillson tells Wicks Yea! Tt'would take hima century to ride 10 mitcs | What's the disturb- iple of half drunk pugflists ndulking in hat-to-hat talks.' 1elphia Maguire ance over “Oonly a who think They re il Pro 7 * mald e plinty jey wanst, fo good Jo ey wan r 4 Job, but “And he never had any marked Mrs. Amelia CThat's ~Just the niver had anny sinse sinca, eh?" Itute-Poore. throu ma'am; he ro- Detroft Frea Press: Castleton think your wife was pleas acted ‘toward_your baby Dimpleton—You didn't criticise him, did u Heavens, no! I made a point of not say- ing @ thing against him,' don't ut the way | Chic Post: “Yes, ha has decided to auit polities and go Into the drug business Well, he couldn’t have selected @ better business, at any rate.' “How w07 Why, he has & rec gating the worst way rd that needs fum! Philadelphia Presa: superstitious “Yos, He was the most poker player 1 ever saw.' and he got so siperstitious here n that he doesn't play the game any I8 that so? ‘Yes, he suddenly discovered that there are thirteen cards in each suit eveland Plain Dealer: “You remem that bunk teller who made himself so solid with the officials hy suggesting that bank employes should wear clothes without pock patriotic service of commanding impor- | | tance? | use fo Alarm. Atlanta Constitution | The result by no means affects seriously | leither tlie present or the future of the | | country. Our people have the happy fac- | of taking care of their interests in- | dividually, ‘which constitutes the safety ot the aggregate. They may at times |blinded to the purposes of a party in pawer, but they will b so quick in resent ing action that even the boldest wonld he brought to a halt. Away with Populism. St. Louls Republic Can there be question of the duty of the national democracy? n there he douby | of the necessity to turn resolutely from | valn wanderings into the fleld of populisn | O1d-lino democracy, battling Wwith reunited | forces, supporting nominees acceptable to |all true democrats and effectively o ganized, can elect a president of the United while the figures iuclude deaths of immi- |3k | grants from native states, The total is not | more than 2 per cent of the whole population |in the tracts to which it applies, so that |uo very remarkable depopulation has oc- curred. The viceroy went on to say that the central rellef committee received sub- scriptions to the amount of about £1,000,- 000, of which India herself contributed only one-fifth, There were some notable instances of individual generosity, but, on the whole, he thought that more might reagonably have been expected. The little colony of the Straits settlements, for fn- stance, contributed more than the whole of the Pugjab. On the whole, it seems to him that there is a good opportunity 1n India for the development of practical phi- lanthropy The United Kingdom was less liberal in its gifts than in 1896-97, but this fact was accounted for by the heavy de- mands upon the public purse arlsing out of the South African war o Norway has executed something very like a volte-face in the prolonged agitation which has been conducted within its limits in favor of a dissolution of the Scandina- |vian union. That jealousy and attrition ;rlvruld result from the dual monarchical | | vstem, in which the numerical prepon- derance of Sweden gives It assurance of a certain political preponderance, Is natural cnough, but the outside world has been unable to see sufcient grounds to warrant the dangerous experiment of divorcing the two peoples of the peninsula. The recent elections in Norway record a declded re- | action against the policy of separation and | the transter of power from the radical “left” into the hands of the Hojr are committed to the union, It seems that external politics have bad their influence in producing the reaction. Distrust of a too-powerful Slavic neighbor has been as potent in shaping Scandinavian as in af- focting British policies. It is charged that the obvious Interest of the ezar is to divide the two states of the peninsula, and it is even alleged that Russlan emissaries have been fomenting discontent there. Be that as it may, the object lesson which has been furnished in Finland, with the people of which the Norwegians have racial, as well |as the momory of political ties. has had its | effect in drawlng closer the two Scandinig vian states. e he Greek government has just signed a contract for the construction of a railway 272 miles long between Plracus, the port of Athens, to Demerli, in Thessaly, on the Turkish border. It wil take the traveler from Athens through Attica and Boeotia to Thebes and thence through Phokis and the country of Achilles across the Othrys mountains. Branch lines will convey the student of antiquity to Chalkls, lu Buboen and to Lamia. In one day the tourist may visft places made famous by the doings of Themistosles, Pericles, Epaminondas, Her- cules and other more or less veritable worthies. It is thought that the new line will largely Increase the trade between Turkey and Greece and will especially have a great influence upon the mail trafic be- tween Earope, India and the far cast, as {t s geaerally accepted that the mail would then be conducted via Athens in- stend of Brindisi. The distance between Port Sald and Piraeus is miles shorter than that from Port Said to Brindisi saving in time for mail via Piraeus would be thirty-three hours for Budapest, twenty- four for Vienna, twelve for Munich, twenty for Berlin, twenty-six for Warsaw, §t. Petersburg and Moscow nd fourtecn for Brusicls. . weakness of Britain is no- of earnest protest by \cient admirals afloat efficienc has already secured a for- and hom fleet Already holds the Atlantie record for em of mall subsidies has portion of Astatic and Her rate of {ncrease shipbullding, for the fir: ne in history has exceeded that of Great Britain Ger- many has already stretched out her hands the trident ther IPrance nor Rusild i3 impatient asdlst England to recover which she listlessly allowed hands, fon | The naval torlously the subject some of the mos Gormau | midavle Germany speed. Her sy coyred a large Australian trade neous the supre ¥ | to slip trom her The conclu rresistible agement of marine uffairs for Las been Incompetent. The re ompe ence is that England the command of the sea. Nothing less thun | the vigorous demand of a determined peoplo hauge the situation Unless attacked It 18 a debatable question whether the Eng Msh people can any longer be described | a8 elther determined or vigorou The man five years ult of that has lost *an The | ates no less certainly that it did a sherift 191 St. Louis last Tuesday Int to This W imdlanapolis Sentinel | The people, with their eyes wide open, | Fave deliberately voted in favor of a policy of aggression and conquest throughout the world. They have voted that this shall | bo a military: republic. They have voted | agalost an income tax and in favor of a| h:gh protective tariff and of big subsidies to | private entorprise. .ey have voted against | legislation to piohibit or regulate the trusts. But let us not hastily assume that | this verdict in its largest sensa is fnal. | There 18 no reason for the followers of | Thomas Jefierson to despair. i Party Regenevation. St. Paul Globe, My, Hryan's carcer as a national leader | is closed. Some other man must take the | place which he has vacated. But no man, | anud no few men, can place the democracy in | the position which it should occupy n the | political Tife of the nation. Only by devoted concert of action on the part of all those who still adhere to the teachings of the founder of the party, from the humblost | 10 the most powerful, can we hope for the | secure re-establishment of the democracy in the position which it has occupled for { the last 100 years as the exponent of sound constitutional principle and the true con scrvator of American individual liberty. | Blight of S Ann New York World When the 16 to 1 plank was separately re- flirmed, upon the direct demand of Mr. Lryan, and with the complacent assistance of Croker, though against the clearly ex- pressed judgment of the delegates, the date | of the ticket was sealed. That plank be- !came a millstone around the candidate's |neck. 1t was impossible to keep the {money question out of the campaign, even | though as an issue it was dead. Mr. Bryan's silence on 16 to 1 in the east led to at- | tacks upon his sincerity and was regarded |as an admission of the utter defenseless- ners of the plank he bad insisted on re- | inserting salvation Rejected, Philadelphta Times, | Tho salvation of the republic lies in these lving ideas which Bryan has upheld and which the nation will assuredly en- force upon those who coutinue to defy them, This will be Bryan's reward. If the people seem to have turned aside from his teachings now they will return to it because it Is eternally true and needful. Long before the boasted four years more | of McKiuley have passed with its trium- | phant partnership of imperial ambition and | corporate greed, the American people will rise agalnst It for thelr own defense. Then | ets diiring banking hours “Yes. What about him Te got away with $60.000 by throwing | out of the window to a confederate.” SO1L Kiser in the Times-Herald Bitting g dreary, with % larynx raw, and weary From 1ii¢ talkiig, wiking, talking thereto While T read the awful, solemn figures . shown in many a column, Something ot 1o flapy tapping at his door- Flapping, door, And remarking “Nevermore!" ity tapping und kerslapping at his Putting ¢ tis J 10 it my d , come 1" he hoarscly stuttered, whe before him darkly fluttered An old crow that perched upon a bust ahove the door That benfgn - convention wn the paper sadly, saving: “Ah es or Ad consolnt Com 0, who I tapping at plaster bust abave th 1ying to him, “Nevermore!" Looking at the bird and trying to rafrain o spell from sighing He inqu At the m vas 1t bore Ah, the people still are true, they stili want mo and silver, do they-- Btill want me to be their tribune, as be fore™" And the bird it croaked the word it had so plainly croaked before Which was merely “Nevermoro! Startled and unner £0 aptly spoken, His remaining whisp of hair he madly tore And he spluttered and he muttered and flood of sad words uttered As hig carpet slippers pattered on the And ‘the crow mildly blinking gravely paced the floor Always croaking “Nevermore! °d and broken by rep! ‘the fal “though we've been d 'l be ready to rush forth ugain and tilk | nineteen-fonr! SUll my lunzs and nerve shall serve m naught shall stop me, naught shal swerve me shall find some other lssue and Keep lead ing as of vore-- T will be the people’s tribune and ke talking as of yore!" d crouked “Nevermore shoute crled, “oh leave me! come but to deceive m #till the heay orn leader 1 as Heretofs Lam still their sacred saint and I will come with plea and plamt and I will speak In silvery accents—they hear me and adore—'" he tottered gasplug, fainting, as the crow flew out the door Sternly croaking eave me I an and wil will But ermore!” What is hetter than good sight? Have you glasses that do not suit? 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