Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 6, 1900, Page 6

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Less unsold and returned cwln Net total sales Net daily lveuge.w GEO. B. TZBCHUCK. Subscribed {n my presence and sworn to batore me thia 1st day of December A; D. 1900, M B HUNGAT Notary Pabile. =—-—-———— The report of Secretary of the Treas. ury Gage differs from democratic re- ports in one material particular—the balance 18 not on the red side of the ledger. The city council wants to have the Advisory board inquire whether the gar- bage contract has mot been violated. ‘Why does not the city council Investi- for itself? e— The Peter Cooper club is 4n hard lines. With a deficit in the treasury, no hope of office for its members and winter coming on there is little consolation in belng reformers. There are now 800 schools in the island of Porto Rico, an increase of 187 during the year. At this rate the next generation of Porto Kicans will be pretty thoroughly Americanized. phe—— Now that the Commercial 'club has given formal welcome to the manufac- turers and jobbers recently located here the general public should follow it up by wccording them a full share of their tronage. —_— Consul Stowe at Capetown says he cannot comprebend what caused Web- ster Davis to make his recent flop. There is a suspicion abroad that Web- ster is himself unable to comprehend ‘why he did it. Remember that you can make your holiday purchases just as cheaply and with an almost equal variety for choice right here in Omaha as you can in Chi- cago or New York. Patronize your home merchants. Turkish naval officers who examined the ship since it has been lylng at Smyrna express great admiration for the Kentucky. The sultan was not fa- vored with a personal inspection, but evidently has a wholesome respect for the vessel. : Every one with an ax to grind is now busy drawing up bills to be submitted to the coming legislature. With the addition which the members them- selves will make to the list every indi- cation is that the crop will be fully up to the average. ———— The entire Nebraska delegation wi on hand at the opening of congress with the exception of Senator Allen, who probably construes the election of a re- publican legislature to choose hls suc- cessor as notice that his constituents will not iusist on his services any longer than nécessary. —sep—— The optical peculiarities of a radical prohibitionist are oune of the strangest things In the world. He can see three or four (times as many loous In Manila as the official and best posted private persons report, while he could mot possibly see m liquor jolut in a prohibition state, e The London Globe Insists that the United States must be careful or it will get spanked over the Nicaragua canal matter, If the British government cannot be induced to perform the task GERMANS DISPLEASED. The reference in the president’'s mes sage to the relutions between the United States and Germany displeases the Ger mane, judging from the comments of the newspapers. They complain that the lapguage used by the president in describing the relations is not only less cordial than he employed fn his mes sage of a year ago, but 1t is also cold in cowparison with the terms in which he speaks of the relations of this country with Great Britain and with France. The message says that “good will pre- vails in our relatiohs with the German empire,” while it states that “our friendly relations with Great Britain continue.,” The Germau newspapers de- tect In this an fmplication that the president feels loss friendly toward Ger- many than toward Eugland. It appears to be a case of supersensi- tiveness. Germany has had abundant evidetice during the McKinley admin- istration of the earnest desire of this government to cultivate friendly rela- tions and there Is not the slightest rea- son to doubt that this feeling Is as strong now as at any time. Germany's policy of discrimination as to some of our products, especially meats, and the pronounced commercial hostility of a large clement of her people toward the United States, have been exceedingly rritating and deemed by many to jus- tify retalintion, but the present admin- istration has never shown any disposi- tion to favor a policy that would im- palr friendly relations between the countries. As a matter of fact the United States has shown a greater de- sire to cultivate friendship than Ger- many has, In view of which the com- plaint now made by the German news- papers is, to say the least, ungracious. ——————— ANOTHER DISULOSURE OF THE RETURNS Another interesting disclosure of the officlal canvass on president in the elec- tlon in Nebraska s tnat Mr. Bryan falled to poll ns many votes In his home state In 1000 as he did in 1806, The figures on the electors on the op- posing tickets receiving the highest number of votes are as follows: McKinley. Bryan. 1900 .. (121,835 114,013 1896 103,084 115,983 From this table it is readily seen that while McKinley made a gain in Ne- braska, comparing the two elections, of 18,771, Bryan suffered a loss of 1,920. Taken In connection with the large in- crease In the total vote cast, this posi- tive loss in the Bryan column means much more than it otherwise would; it must be explained not by stay-at-homes, but by the revulsion of sentiment against Bryan that trausferred’to Mc- Kinley votes formerly cast for his op- ponent. This change was clearly visible all during the campaign. The Bryanites tried to reinspire confidence in their cause by asserting that the reported changes from Bryan to McKinley were either fictitious or sure to be offset by equal or greater changes the other way, but the story of the ballots proves con- clusively that they were wrong. E—— A8 TO CURRENOY LEGISLATION. President McKinley made no specific recommendation In his message regard- ing currency legislation. He merely suggested that It will be the duty of congress to provide whatever further leglslation is needed to Insure the con- tinued parity under all conditions be- tween silver and gold. Becretary Gage, iu his annual report, poluts out that as to the redemption fund provided for in the act of March 14 last, known as the gold standard law, “while the powers conferred upon the secretary are prob- ably ample to enable a zealous and watchful officer to protect fully the gold reserve, there appears to be lack- ing sufficlent mandatory requirement to furnish complete confidence in the con- tinued parity, under all conditions, be- tween our two forms of metallic money, silver and gold.” He suggests that upon this point further legislation may become desirable. Representative Overstreet of Indiana, who had charge of the currency bill in the house last winter, is of the opinion that there should be turther legislation to put the question of the permanency of the gold standard beyond all doubt. He suggests an amendment to the act of last March providing for the inter- changeabllity of all forms of money. “Interchangeability,” sald Mr. Over- street, “does not mean redemption, for redemption means paywment. Inter- changeability merely establishes the ab- solute equality of all forms of money used by this government.” An amend- ment providing for this need not occupy the attentlon of congress for any con- siderable time. It would not require extended discussion, for it is not prob- able that there would be much opposi- tion to it. Such an amendment would undenlably strengthen the gold stand- ard law and while there 18 no urgent demand for it, because that law will be administered In Its true spirit for the next four years, yet it would*be as well to adopt it at the present sesslon as to leave it for the next congress, the Globe editor will take a day off and do it himself. The Globe would be alarming If it were not so funuy. SoTEE——— Governor Lind of Minnesota should call upon Governor Poynter to help him out of the dilemma by which he pro- fesses to be embarrassed In finding some one to,accept an appolntment to the senatorial vacancy cre by the death of the late Senator Davis. Gov- ernor Poyuter has several applications for apppolntive senatorial honors left ever from the last time. Our old friend Edgar Howard has simply changed his point of destination and lustead of geing to Washington he bas decided to locate in Columbus, Neb,, where he will assume active charge of the management of the Columbus Tele- gram without walting for the ald or con- sent of the voters of this congressional district. We may be sure Howard will make Interesting reading in his paper, but whether he can coin his editorials into credentials for congress will de- pend upon future developments, ‘ There is another matter which It would seem might recelve considera- tion at this session without interfering with other business. The president sald in his message: “The party in power I8 committed to such legislation as will better make the curremcy re- sponsive to the varying neceds of bull ness at all seasons and in all section While the provision of the act of last March liberalizing the conditions of bank note issue has resulted in making & waterlal addition to the bank cur- rency, the secretary of the treasury points out that there 1s under our pres- ent system no assurance whatever that the volume of bank currency will be continuously responsive to the coun- try's needs, elther by expunding as such needs require or by contracting when superfluous In amount, Becretary Gage says: ‘“The truth Is that, safe aud de- sirable as I& our curreucy system in many respects, it s not properly re- lated. The supply of currency Is but remotely, if at all, influenced by the ever changing requirements of trade and industry, It 1s related most largely, it TIE not entirely, to the price of government bonds In the market. Between the needs of trade and commerce for A medium of exchange and for fnstru- ments of credit, which a proper bank note furnishes, and the Investment price or value of government bonds, w Is at present the most influential tactor in determining the currency sup- ply, there is no discernible relation whatever."” The secretary merely urges this upon the attention of con- gress, making no suggestions as to legls- lation and probably nothing will be done as to this matter at the present session. It can wait, of course, with- out Injury to any interest, for considera- tion by the next congress, but legisla- tion that will make the bank currency responsive to the requirements of com- merce and industry should not be un- necessarily deferred. CONDITIONS IN PORTO RICO. The message of Governor Allen of Porto Rico to the legislature shows that the financial condition of the island is satlsfactory, there belng a generous bal- ance in the public treasury, The num- ber of schools has increased during the past year and is now 80v. It is evident that the 15 per cent tariff has not operated to the disadvantage of Porto Rico, but the governor recommends an equitable system of taxation, which If instituted will at once do away with the tariff, The first commissioner to the Ameri- can congress elected by the people of Porto Rico Is now in the United States and says the people of the lsland are generally satisfied with the administra- tion® glven by this government. There are some who do not yet fully under- stand it and these ave suspicious, but the more intelligent Porto Ricans are pertectly satistied. Planters and mer- chants, the commissioner sald, have al- ready recognized the benefits they have derived since Porto Rico became an American possession and the lower clagses will soon realize 1t. He regards the outlook for the island, under Ameri- can rule, as excellent. Labor is better pald than formerly, good progress is being made in educational work and the conditions generally have improved. ‘'he commissioner sal “‘There Is no mistake that there Is a rapldly growing belfet in Porto Rico that the American form of government is a great improve- wment. There Is more freedom on the {sland and the people are quick to rec- ognize it. 1 am very hopeful of the out- come.” All of which serves to demonstrate that it would have been a grave mistake to have adopted for Porto Rico the pol- fcy advocated by the democrats and a few republicans in congress. Sooner or later, undoubtedly, the people of the island will be given a larger measure of selt-government than they now have. Possibly they will be accorded the snme political privileges that are enjoyed by citizens of our territories. But for the present the policy applied to Porto Rico Justified by results. The report of the secretary of the State Banking board on the business of the building and loan associations in Nebraska makes a remarkable showing for prosperity. While there are not so many assoclations doing . business as there have been in former years, the number of shares outstanding is greater by far than ever before and the total assets almost equal to the high water mark. The secretary nimself, although & member of the calamity party, cannot help expressing Lis “sense of gratifica- tion In the material growth and im- proved condition of the bullding and loan associations of the state during the last four years,” which he ascribes to the better conditions generally obtain- ing and to a wider experience on the part of the management of the institu- tions. Nebraska has been singularly fortunate of late In escaping Injury from wildcat loan assoclations, and by exer- clsing careful supervision can protect investors In this class of savings insti- tutions, E— When the Twenty-fourth street via- duct is completed Omaha will be fairly well equipped with means of transit over the tracks that divide the south part of the city. If another viaduct is needed later it would probably be located at Twentleth street where the traffic would justify it. With these vla- ducts open, the north and south artery of trade between Omaha and South Omaha may be expected to move west- ward. Only a few years ago it was by way of Thirteenth street, while now Sixteenth street is the principal thor- oughfare. The Twenty-fourth street llne. is sure to be the coming route. The arrival of General Lee to take command of the Department of the Mis- sourl terminates the temporary com- mand of General Merriam, who will now confine his attention exclusively to the Department of Colorado. While Gen- eral Merriam has retainea his residence in Denver and favored Omaha only so far as officlal duties required, his work here has been uniformly in harmony with both his subordinates and the com- munity and our people will always have for him only the best and most friendly remembrance. State Treasurer Meserve appears finally to bave found a place for the $500 fine assessed upon The Bee by the supreme court by trausferring it to the temporary school fund to be apportioned to the various counties in the December distribution, although there is no law to tell him just where this money should go. If the supreme court had only come to the rescue often enough Treasurer Meserve might have ptayed for a still higher record on the school fund ap- portionment. —— It begins to look as if the smallpox contagion were pretty well scattered all over the United States, although In no place has It reached the stage of epl- demie. The natural lnference is that the disease has been spread chiefly through the return of the soldiers who were exposed while In service iu the . OMAHA DAILY BEE: is the most desirable and is being fully | & ¢ THURSDAY. Philippines. Fortunately few acute and dangerous cases are reported, and with ordinary precautions there need be no fear of a general plague. General Mercler has again found a way to bring himself before the public. He announces a plan by which the in- vasion of England would be easy. Judging from his getion in the Dreytus case It would be safe to predict that In case the attempt were made the general would be found several miles in the rear of the firing line. The Way it Haj Kansas Clty Jou It 18 hardly correot to say that President vote “fell off” in North Caro- hoved off. They Heard the News. Globe-Democrat Thousands of bolomen in the Philippines g the oath of alleglance to the United States as a result of the election. Even the bow and arrow men bave heard the news. P—— The Only Bare W Minneapolis Times A South Dakota editor has secured judg- ment In the sum of $500 against certain citizens who took exceptions to matter & pearing In his paper and destroyed his plant. The only way to get even for an offensive article {s to destroy the editor. Indianapolis Journal. Nebraska populists, including those who are going out of office, propose to emigrate to the Indian territory that they may not be in a state in which they are in the minority. They imagine they can obtain a portion of the Indian territory and keep it for those who hold the popullst faith. y W nneapolis Times. The superintendent of West Point mili- tary academy admits that a young cadet was hazed there to the point of death, but Justifies the outrage on the ground that the cadet in question had sbown the white feather, and needed to be disciplined. But what an example of bravery it must have been to him to have been held by halt a dozen of his companions while they poured a concoction of tobasco sauce and other hot ingredients down his throat Hot Fire the Rea: Philadelphia Led There appears to be u general Impression in Eogland that Kitchener, who is now in sole charge of military operations in South Atrica, will deal much more harshly with th oers than Lord Roberts did. In that case ho will hear from a large and rapidly growing army of hostile critics at home. The cruelties reported of the army in the Boer country bave called out strong pro- t in England, and an a vation of them, under the merciless policy attributed to Kitchener, will certainly raise a storm of protest that must be heard in the Trans- vaal. Looting Pek Obaervatory. Springfield Republican. I 18 possible that the theft of the cele- brated Chinese astronomical instruments i the observatory at Pekin by the godly Germans and French may be checked, now that a protest by several of the forelgn ministers has been sent to Count von Wal- derses. These instruments, which are mag- o and great artistic quality, were already boxed up ready for shipment to Berlin and Paris. It is to be hoped that the Chinese are Hlln( Christendom better and better be. tes in we vived, New York Tribune. An ingentous set of swindlers is fleecing ignorant negroes by persuading them to contribute small sums to promote an effort 1l upon congress to pension former The number of colored men and women who were fn bondage in the south- ern states at the time of the empancipa- tion proclamation and who still survive is by mo means inconsiderable. Of course there 1s no conceivable possibility that any of them will ever obtain pensions and the trickery of the rascals who get money from them under false pretenses is of a particularly despicable sort. Such fellows would steal pennies from a dead man's eyes. Hustle them off to jail Demooracy and Popu Chicago Chronicle (dem.) One of the immediate effects of the fusion of democracy and popullsm was the disap- pearance from the democratic party of men of affairs who had formerly acted with it. One of the first results of a separation of populism from democracy will be a return by this element to its original political aMilations. Populism has associated itself in the public mind with unreasoning hostility to prop- erty. It has assatled credit, public and private. It has stood in the path of progress. It has been & menace to enterprise. It has sought blunderingly and fanatically to reg- ulate matters of which It was ignorant and policies have proved destructive. It doserves the bad repute which It has gained. —— Penalty for Dying Abroad. Loulisville Courler-Journal. American millionaires who find England an agreeable place in which to live had better be careful about dying there. Mr. Willlam Louis Winans of New Jersey went abroad in 1858 and leased two houses In England, besides a very large estate in Scotland, though he did not become & British citizen. He died worth about $15,- 000,000, and on the ground that he had ac- quired a domicile the Queen's bench division has decided that the crown is entitled to 8 per cent legacy duties on his entire estate, or $1,200,000. The native-born American who will abandon the glorious privilege of dwelling under the star-spangled banner deserves all the taxation his estate has to bear when he dles, and Mr. Winan's heirs made & vain attempt to preveat the col. lection. FEATURES OF THE POPULAR VOTE, Number of Ballots O L Four Years Ago. New York World, The total vote cast for president in 1806 was 13,923,387 out of an estimated total electorate of 14,260,000 The total vote cast for president in 1900 was 13,883,943 out of an estimated electorate nl 16,600,000, vote this year was therefore 39,436 lu« than it was four 5 ag tho electorate had tncreased at I 080. - While the vote four years ago was within & quarter of a million of the total the “stay-at-home” vote this €d 1,260,000, One voter in every dozen the country through refrained from expressing any opinion upon the presidency. Except the presidential election of 1864, when the southern states were not repre- sented, this is the first presidential elec- at which the popular vote h tban at the preceding pre election. Except that election of 1864 this ls the first presidential elaction at which the popular vote has not been much gr greater in proper proportion, than af preceding election. Mr. McKinley's popular vote in 1896 was 7102,212. His popular vote in 1900 was 7,288,130, & gain of 185868. Mr. Bryan's popular vote in 1896 was 6,502,925, His popu- lar vote 1a 1900 was 6,360,630, a loss of 142,396, th DECEMBER 6, 1900. THE PRESIDHNT'S MESSAGE. Chicago Inter Ocean (rep.): As indicated in the president’s message, our policy is to stand firm in China, to go forward in the Philippines and to maintain our rights in Alaska. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat (rep.): long meesage, but the country larger, and its concerns at home and abroad naturally keep pace with this expansion. The president’s recommendations will, in find favor from congress, it is fct. The message is broad, sane and thoroughly American. St. Paul Ploneer Press (rep.): Tn general it may be sald that the message breathes the spirit of patriotic state: pervades all the president’s utterances. is & splendid record of what has been achieved under his administration, and I8 pregnant with the promise of still more eplendid achlevements In the future. Chicago Times-Herald (rep.): The con- cluding paragraph of the message is A timely appeal to congress to guard against the temptations to extravagant expenditures ineident to national prosperity and a ® plus revenue, and its last words are & reminder that “the foundation of our gov- ernment {s liberty, its superstructure peace.” Chicago Chronicle (dem.): Not even President McKinley's warmest admirers will be lkely to call his message to con- Bress a great sta It s & clerkly documen recital of certaln facts and alleged facts—and that is all. It does mot initiate & new policy. It contains prac- tically nothing that congress and the people did not know befor Kansas City Star (Ind.): This message, coming trom the official head of a govern- ment declared by the minority party to be rushing to “imperialism,” comcludes with these exalted words: “Our growing power brings with it temptations and perils re- quiring constant vigllance to avold. It must not be used to invite conflicts, nor for oppression, but for the more eftective main- tenance of those principles of equality and justice upon which our institutions and bappiness depend. Let us keep always in mind that the foundation of our government 18 liberty, its superstructure peac Denver Post (fus.): The president's s a diplomatie, deftly conceived document, which reads very much like the silver plank in the national republican plattorm of four years ago. It is in no scnse radical and it 18 in every sense plausible. Whenever it is possible to reach a point by indirection that s done. There- fore the message may be considered to lack in robustness and virility, while on the other hand whatever it lacks in these re- spects s more than made up in its safe, hich will strongly ap- peal to the business elements of the coun- try Brookiyn Ei (Ind): A notably busl- neeslike mesi closes with a patriotic utterance for economy, caution, freedom, simplicity and peace. The message should be favorably recefved. For that reason it will be. The people have shown their con- fidence In a chief maglstrate who has al- ways trusted them. Between him and his party is accord. Between him and the people is the fact of faith felt, based on the record of faith kept. The first term, as it rounds to the second, will close an epoch-making chapter in Amercan history, of which the people have been worthy and to which their president has been admira- bly adequate and equal. Tt is & PERSONAL NOTES. As Lord Rosebery views it, “Prosperity, is the drug, the hashish, which blinds the patient to all but golden Chancellor Snow of the Kan: university has been granted a ye: of absence, owing to the condition of his health, which has been bad for some time. Governor Crane of Massachusetts at- tended a dinner given to the poor of Boston on Thanksgiving day and with a party of well known men at the geheral board. Richard T. Ely, prof or of political economy in the University of Wisconsin, is reported to have refused the offer of the corresponding chalr in the University of Callfornla. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts does not neglect literature in his cultivation of poli- tics. He sets aside a part of every day for reading and for writing of a purely literary character. Lawrence M. Jacobs, who has been ap- pointed statisticlan of the Philippine com- mission, was formerly one of the experts in the loan and currency division of the Treasury department. John W. Campbell, chief of police of St. Louts, who is spoken of as head of the Manila department, has been comnected with the St. Louls force for several years and has a remarkable record for efMclency. George 8. Godard, the new state librarian leyan university in 1892, and received the is growing | — ecsccceccssccccccnce WHERE CREDIT IS DUE Fillmore Chronicle. A good many hard things have been sald of Editor Rosewater of The Omaba Bee and, from the Chronicle's standpoint, he de- serves a good many of them, But we belleve in giving everyone his due. Nebraska 1s republican this ¥ear and all who assisted In the 800d work are entitled to credit. A very liberal slice of the credit is due to Edward Rosewater and The Bee, for he fought for repub- llean victory with every weapon at his command-and they were many. And everyone who knows Rosewater knows he would make a creditable United States sena- tor. If we are not all for him, we can at least afford to be fair, VOTE OF THE SOUTH, Marked Eftect of nehising Laws and General Apathy, Philadeiphia Press One of the most Interesting results of the recent national election is the vote in the south. Sixteen states are usually placed In that section, and of these all but four show a marked falling off In the vote palled as compared with the vote of 1896, The four states shcwing an increased voto are Dela- ware, Maryland, West Virginia and Ke tucky, and the three first were carried by the republicans. The increase in the fourth Kentucky, is due to the active can- made. In the other twelve states of the south there were losses, ranging from about 5,(00 in Florida to 103,000 in Texas. The following table gives the vote cast by the republicans and democrats in these sixtoen southern states, and compares It with the vote cast by the same parties in 1896: Arkans Delaware. . Florida. Georgla. . Kentucky. Loulsiana. Maryland Missiuni $383%35 2 = SLEE | sEEE B2 B Tennessee.. Texas....... Virginia.. . W, Va.. Bt Totals..1,478,158 1,980,775 X The total vote of these sixteen states in 1896 was 3,819,664, of which the republicans cast 1,689,191 and the democrats cast 2,230,- 363. But in 1900 the total vote of these same states is 3,458,913, of which the re- publicans cast 1,478,168 and the democrats 1,980,765. The total vote fell off 360,641, the republicans losing 111,033 and the demo- crats 249,608, or more than twice as many. The republicans gained votes in six states and lost in ten states, while the democrats ined in only four states and lost in twelve states. Their loss in Alabama, Arkansas and Texas s large in each case, amounting in the last state to over 100,000 votes. As Texas has increased in popula- tion about 360,000 since 1896, warranting an adadition of at least 70,000 to the voting lst, this loss in the poll is remarkable. The general apathy which appears to have prevalled in three-fourths of the southern states canoot be explained entirely by the knowledge that ther tes were certain to 80 democratio in any event. It was un- doubtedly due, in a large measure, to the unpopularity of the democratic candidate and platform. The constantly decreasing vote in the states which have distranchised the colored voters s noticeable. Loutsi- ana, Mississippl and South Carolina cast, in the nggregate only about 179,000 votes. Twenty years ago these same states cast 383,000 votes, or more than double what they did this year, uotwithstanding the in- crease in population of the last two decades. The vote in North Carolina, the otber dis- tranchising state, fell oft about 42,000. The loss would have been larger had the suf- trage amendment adopted last August been in force at this election. It does not take effect until next year, when it will doubtless result in @ large reduction in the number of votes cast. The southern states polled less than one- fourth of the votes cast in the forty-five states In the union, although they must have about ove-third of the population of the country. The average proportion of voters to population is about one in seven, or an average far below what prevalls in the northern states. This absence of interest in national political questions is not health- ful, but it will doubtless continue as Jong as present conditions prevail in the south. degree,of B. D. from Yale in 1895. He be- sistant librarian of the state library Governor Sayers of Texas is sald to have contributed to the Galveston relef fund more money in proportion to his private means than any other person interested; but his gifts were distributed secretly, and were not publicly acknowledged. At Brookville, Ind., resides Harrison Seal, who at the recent election deposited his twentieth vote for president. He was born in Miami, O., In 1808, but has been a resi- dont of Franklin county, Indlana, since he was 2 years old. Mr. Sea] lives on & farm which he purchased in 1836. London Truth fs authority for the state- ment that, upon his retirement from active diplomatic service next year, Lord Paunce- fote will be offered either the title of vis- count or earl in recognition of hia distin- guished services to the crown, especially in connection with his mission to the United Statos, Joseph W. Steckler of Orange, N. J., will erect a wonument in Athens, Pa, In com- memoration of the soldiers and sailors of Bradford county. It will stand in the c ter of the old academy lawn on the cxact spot where General Snllivan of revolution- ary fame camped on his famous march against the Six Natlons in New York in 1. On November 6 fitty years had elapsed since Carl Schurz, as a medical student, helped the poet Gottfried Kinkel, who had been condemned to life imprisonment for political resons, to escape from Spandau to England. Kinkel subsequently becamo a professor at Zurich, and after his pardon in the '70s he returned and lectured in Ger- many. The brothers Andreas and Anton Lang, who recently acted the parts of Christ an the high priest in the “Passlon Play" at Oberammergau, were in Rome not long ago. They called at the vatican to request an audience with the pope and the guards were stricken with terror on seelng them, some of the soldiers actually belleving An- dreas to be Christ in person. The pope re- celved them cordially and gave each of the brothers a gold medal. One of our ideal days of Indlan summer, which has given a continuous performance in this favored region for six weeks past, dritted down into Massachusetts last week and evoked this glowing note from the Springfield Republican: “Let it be remem- bered that the second day of December, in this last year of the nineteenth century, was one of the most exquisite examples of In- dtan summer weather known in this lati- tude, We are unusually blest, for snows of several storms lle northwest and north and northeast of us, and all along the hills WHAT IS THE FARMER TO DOt in fom Mu Districts. Philadelphia Record. There are sixteen counties in Pennsyl- vania which the census returns show have less population in 1900 than they h 1890. There are sixteen other counti ench of which the increase of population has been less tham 1,000 None of these thirty-two countles contains large town: The main industry of the inhabitants is farming. The same conditions are shown by the census returns for New York state. Twenty-two of the farming counties in that commonwealth show a loss of population since 1890, and In each of five others the gain was less than 1,000. None of these counties contaln large towns. The gain of 19.8 per cent in the popula- tion of Pennsylvania and of 21.1 per cent in the population of New York state has been made nearly altogether in the urban and manufacturing districts. The drift {s cityward; the towns grow; the strictly rural populations dwindle. Men and wo- men go where life is most attractive, It r to subsist In town than in but that is not a desirable state of things. Goldsmith's celebrated plaint is as true now as when he wrote It: 111 fares the land. to hastening ills a_pi Where wealth secumulates, and men dec It Is the duty of statesmen to consider how far bad legislation has been respon sible for the hard conditions which make farming in the eastern and middle states of the union a less and less Inviting occu- pation. The cheap and productive lands of the western states, aided by rema ably low rates of transportation on farm products, have made it impossible for east- ern farmers to compete in the production of the great staples of export to foreign countries. Ever since the inflated green- back days of the civil war time farms have been overvalued for purposes of taxation. The exemption of farm lands from state taxation in Pennsylvania has only had the effect of making more costly the service of corporations, which apparently bear the burden of shifted taxation, but which are really only state agencles of tax, collection. Thoe farmers have been driven to dairying, trucking and fruit growing. The small furmers who have not gone west or to town have largely glven up the struggle to make ends meet. Improved processes of butter and cheese production are rapidly changing the dairying business into a more strictly manufacturing occupation. The creameries will soon monopolize not only the making of butter, but of butter sub- stitutes, which are now fraudulently put upon the market as real butter, Deeline n Eastern of western chusetts our rains bave |been ice storma. What {s the farmer to do? He has it lln his power to relicve bimselt of the If instead of abandoning his farm and re- maining away from the polls on the day of election he should attend the party primaries and make himselt felt in the choice of proper officials he would soon be master of the situation. It the fermers should use their power all the protessional politicians of the country could not kesp them from the attalnment of just welght fn the conduct of government. The farm- ers can compel the corporations and com- binations to falr dealing whenever they shall choose to do so. FIRED TOO 800N Boston Herald. Mr. Bryan's comments on the election, made In the North American Review, not of much worth. He would have done better to decline the honorarium by which he was tempted to give out his extem- poraneous judgment on that event and have kept silance until he bad fully digested the meaning of his overwhelming defeat. He only makes it plain that he does not realize what has happened. What he says 18 little more than a repetition of the talk he was indulging in before the election, to which he then fixed an if. “If we are deteated 1t will be because,” otc., stc. The defeat was so emphatic and conclusive that he would have done better to think it over a few weeks or months in calm and candid seriousness, having, If possible, divested himself of the overweening egotism that distorts his vision of the causes of the popular rebuke. It it were possible for him to look critically at himsolf as another person, to project himself and his political following upon a distant screen and observe the spectacle fearlessly, he might possibly dlscover his own wrong moves in playing the game and learn that the offensive thing which caused the people to take sides against his party was Dryanism. So long s he assumes that Willlam Jennings Bryan is the only wise man in American politics his reflections on the meaning of events will be chiefly profitable to the magazines. LAU G GAS. Indianapolis Journa no_ (md 'hy do you say 8o “1 wis carrying one under my arm when that thief stole my pocketbook." Alarm clocks are Pittsburg Chronicle: “One would not ex- pect to’ find egotism among ~postage mps. | remarked the snake editof 1o the horw ©dito “No." “And yet when I put a few postag: stamps In my pocket I soon find them i on themselves. Detroft Journal: Hore the Sfllll blew out the gas "Death: also, it would seem, Deapairing the more she mut- tered, with ghastly wit. Indlanapolls Press: “Why_ should not Woman aspire?” asked the Sweet Young ng. “She should," mald the Savage Bachelor, /Af she, could only get the fool notlon out of her head that aspiring was mainly com- posed of throwing fit Detrolt Free Press: Tomson—ay, man. why don’'t you join our club? Jofinson—T've ‘only been married six months. Come around a year or so from now. old ““This, you see,” sald the architect, Insure free ventilation.” “I vont have it." sald the gentleman that waw about to bulld a theater. “I vill hat nothing free!" Indianapolls Pres: Somerville Journal: The average man fs & good deal prouder of hid ancestors thun his ancestors would probably be of him. Philadelphin Press: MtS) abpers--Or) John! ou must raise side whisker Jou've tien tola m| to raise nice JN f“ cnllen pul enjoye "ing "~ hin 1t was too cute fez " ana hulw whiskers so mucl anything. Boston Transcript: Glles—When you look over'a family phoiograph album do ‘you ever speculate about the thoughts of ‘the originais of the pictures? iiton—Yes, 1 think most of them, If they could se thelr pictures”today, would de- voutly wish they hadn’t Indlanapolis Press: “Er—who was that fellow you introduced me to last night?" “That, sir, was the noted champion of the downtrodden.’ “Huh! He didn't look like a reformer." o 18 in the business of get- ntracts. 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