Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 11, 1900, Page 6

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THE BE PUBLISHING COMPAD " STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas (o George B, Taschiick, secretary Publishing Company, being duly rays that the actual number of gompleto coples of The Daily, Mornin, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1000, was as follows: LBOKTO 2N, 850 Lo AN 200 LN 100 LN N0 L, Tiunaing, Twen- s and edi. Omaha J 0 L4T,620 L2230 LN 410 41,810 20,760 28 400 29,200 28,040 LeRsRRYENeEs Total ........ . Leas unsold and returned coples Net total sales... Net daily average, AEO. B. TZSCHUCK Subscribed In my presence and sworn_to before me this 1st day of December. A. D., 1900, M. B. HUNGATE, Notary Publie. —————— The populist state labor commissioner has come to the conclusion that trying to prove that farming In Nebraska does not pay is a bad and hopeless job, Don't blame Kansas City. It needs all the rallway concessions it can get. But, then, Omaha must stand up for it- self, because it-has no one else to stand up for it. The Jacksonlan club will this year hold its annual feast of St. Jackson at a different hostelry from the customary location. The Jacksonians want to change their luck. Sousa has gone to Europe again. We feel sure, however, he can be prevalled on to come back to play an engage- ment in Omaba's auditorium as soon as the auditorium is ready for him. Something should be done at once for Omabha's preachers else they will be un- able \to celebrate the coming holidays with the peaceful and benevolent dis- position that the occaslon demands. The election result is not the only evidence that Nebraskans are expan- slonists. Almost every town in the state s In need of additional bulldings to accommodate the school population. Whenever the emperor of China makes up his mind to return to Pekin the powers will see to it that a fire is built in his room and the furniture dusted, if he will only notify them of his coming. Chalrman Edmisten having taken to the woods, the back payments on those overdue nssessments levied by the fusion committee on state employes will have to be given over to the bad debt collector. ——— President McKinley recelved 18,000 more votes In his home state of Ohlo in 1900 than he did in 1806, while Bryan's vote fell off nearly 1,800 in his home state, comparing the two contests, Quite a contrast, The Intense Interest of the Bryan brigade in the fortunes of President Kruger and the Boers seems to have been decidedly cooled since the late electlon. No more political capltal 1s to be made out of Boer sympathy. Des Molnes Is reaching out with a system of suburban electric rallronds connecting almost all the towns within a radlus of forty to fifty miles. What Des Molnes can do in this direction for trude expansion Omaha can certalnly do also. ee—— A Michigan man who was fined $5,000 for robbing the state and given five years in which to pay it has offered to square up at onee if allowed to discount the clatm 5 per cent. This 48 certainly getting embezzlement down to a busi- ness basis. e Wonder If the reported change from telegraph to telephone In train opera- tion on the Northern Pacific 1s not de- slgned to avold strikes of the telegraph operators like that va the Santa Fe, The raflroad managers usually have a far-reaching eye to business when they take up such innovations. The get-rich-quick broker who toyed with the money of Geueral Dan Sickles probably realizes by this time what a mistake he made in the selectlon of a subject. The general 18 minus one leg, carrles the burden of more years than the average man, but for all that stil) retains the faculty of making It ex- tremely lively for those who stir him up. Popoeratic papers of the state are sending up a protest agalust any at- tempt of the holders of appointive offices under the present adwministration to hold on when their successors are ap- pointed. There papers reall: how seriously they were handicapped in the past campalgn by the ofice-holding class of thelr purty and have no desire to see the record lengthened ANGLO-PORTUGUESE ALLIANCE, The alliance between England and Portugal is not without elgnificance, but there Is nothing in #t, so far as ap pears, that need cause disquictude or apprehension anywhere, It offers no menace to any nation and simply ce ments more firmly a friendship that has long subsisted between the two coun tries. Centurles ago Portugal was England’s ally and ever slnce the latlons between them have been mate. The alliance, thercfore, nounced with much pomp and re inti an core mony, merely confirms what had been | long understood and has been conspicu ous during the South African war, that there was a most cordial understand ing between the two governments. The alllance fs lmportant to both countries. Portugal gains an ally who will doubtless see that her colonial pos- sessions, particularly in South Africa, are protected and that the nation itself shall be safeguarded agalnst assault, Holland, though presumably having no intention of making the severance of diplomatic relations a cause of war, will certainly now desire an amieable settlement of the wmatter, England will derive advantages from the alllance in her future operations in South Africa, particularly® In securing a naval basis at Lourenzo Marquez, while the pro- pinquity of Portugal to the entrance to the Mediterranean makes her a most valuable ally to Great Britain in the event of a naval war in that quarter, The mutual advantages, therefore, may be sald to be equal, so that the alllance may be expected to contlnue indefi- nitely. SECKETARY GAG A very great compliment was paid Secretary Gago last week when he was called upon by a number of the repre- sentative business men of Baltimore and urged to accept the invitation of the president to remain at the head of the Treasury department for another four years. The delegation was headed by the president of {he Baltimore eclenr- ing house, who told Mr. Gage they had come to tell him how greatly the abil- ity, the firmness, the skill and the ex- perience which have characterized his labors have awakened admiration and esteem and created confidence in him. They had not a word of criticism to utter, but, on the contrary, commended his work In unqualified terms, express- ing the confident conviction that under his management “that marvelous com- mercial and industrial development, born anew of our re-established confi- dence in our financlal Integrity, will continue its growth and Its expansion and will mark an epoch of prosperity such as has not heretofore illumined any page of our remarkable history.” Becretary Gage sald in response, after expressing his great appreciation of what had been sald, that he hoped to remain in the position for some time to come, though how long he did not know. The opinion entertalned of the services of Mr, Gage by these Baltimore, business men {8 unquestionably shared by the business men of the entire covn- try. His administration of the ftinan- clal department of the government has been able, judiclous and conservative, Inspiring confidence In the public ard strengthening the national credit. It will be gratifying to the business in- terests of the country to know that he intends to remain at the head of the Treasury department, which he does from a seuse of public duty, since there 1s unquestionably involved no little per- sonal sacrifice THE MONROE DOUCTRINE AGAIN. The opponents of the policy of neu- trallzing an isthmian canal, as proposed in the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, assert that it 18 incompatible with and would be destructive of .the Monroe doctrine. It Is declared to mean the surrender of American rights aund interests on this continent to a concert of European powers. The treaty pending in the senate abrogates the Clayton-Bulwer conventlon except as to the guarantee of neutrality and the latter has been h¢ld by many of our statesmen to be due to the Monroe doctrine. Mr. Olney, as secretary of state, m his lnstructions to Ambassador Bayard in regard to the Venezuelan boundary controversy, sald In reference to the results of the Monroe doctrine that “we are indebted to it for the provisions ¢t the Clayton- Bulwer treaty, which both neutralized any interoceanie canal across Central America and expressly excluded Great Britaln from occupylng or exercising any dominion over any part of Central America.,” This expressed the idea in which the treaty was conceived, namely, that an agreement of neutralization should, as a measure excluding inter- ventlon, be consldered not as an in fringement, but as a fulfillment of the Monroe doctrine. Che stipulations of the Clayton-Bul- wer treaty have been criticlsed ns cre- ating a virtual alllance for jolut pro- tectlon and security, even to the extent of joint int itlon in the affairs of American governments within whose Jurlsdiction the canal might lie, and as constituting in this sense n violation of the spirit of the Monroe doctrine, This objection {8 removed by the Hay- Pauncefote convention, which contains no stipulation for a jolnt guarantee, but permits the United States alone, subject only to the engagement of neu- tralization, to construct, manage and protect the canal. The first article of the treaty declures: “It is agreed that the canal may be constructed under the auspices of the government of the United States” and “the sald govern- ment shall bave and enjoy all the rights Incident to such construction, as well as the exclusive right «of, providing for the regulation and management of the canal, There can be no misunder- standing of the meaning of this, so far us the question of regulation and man- agement of the proposed canal s con cerned. That is left to the United States exclusively, In view of this It is difficult to understand how any one can regard the new treaty as Incom- patible with or destructive of the Mon- roe doctrine, A writer in the North American Re- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1900. view says: “The genuine Monroe doc- trine takes Its rise and finds its lmita tlons in the necessity for self-defense, It Is wholly self-regarding. Al Euro pean activity in this hemisphere 18 not inhibited, but only such as 18 dangerous to our pemce and safety. An Interna tlonal agreement, guaranteeing the neu trality of the canal, would be an appli- catfon rather than an infraction of the Monroe doctrine, provided that it did | not involve u permanent European oc- cupation and pollee.” Of such an oc- cupation, it is needless to say, there Is not the reiotest probability. TWENTIETH-CENTURY OMAHA. On the eve of the new century no city In the United States can look forward to the future with greater confidence in assured growth than Gmaha. Although it has not yet reached the semi-centen- nlal period of its own career, Omaha looks back upon a history that marks it as one of the marvels of the era. The city 18 exclusively a product of the lust half of the closing century and is certaln from now on to make forward Qualifications Count North Platte Telegraph the redemption of Nebr have been well nigh projected themselves in the senatorial race, especlally in the North Platte country, ap- parently with the design to cut into the strength of Edward Rosewater. We ask In all candor, what have they done in com- parlson with his work for the party to en- title them to clalms of priority? Mr. Rosewater has been fighting the bat- tles of republicanism in person and through his paper for thirty years. He has been in the front in every campalgn, never turning away or evading his duty to the people. Irstead of letting the party drift as it might, he has been constantly on the watch, warn- Ing it of dangers and pointing out the road to success, and every one familiar with the etate’s history admits that had his leader- ship been followed Nebraska republicans would not have suffered the reverses they have undergone. In & material way, too, Mr. Rosewater has always been a staunch and energetic worker for Nebraska's welfare. All his fnterests, the fruits of a lifetime of cease- less labor are |dentified with Nebraska, invested in its sofl, on which he has bullt his undivided euergles. complished Nebraska's representative in branch of congress. the people by demonstrating meet popular demands, the legislature will party than any other one Edward Rosewater, stature, will be chosen shoulders above all other aspirs although A number of so-called dark horses have up his great newspaper plant, without which ka this year would tmpossible. He I8 not here for a day, but for the remainder of his career, and as senator Nebraska would have What he has ac- a successful newspaper man whose influence without official title reaches to the highest seats of authority is but an earnest of what he could accomplish as the upper The republican party has been restored to power In Nebraska on probation to be Judged by its works rather than its words Its future depends on keeping faith with apacity to The character and qualifications of the two senators chosen by have as much more to do with confirming confidence in the b thing, and if character and qualifications are considered, small as head and ts. it not strides even more rapld. Survey the field from any point of view and the enviable position of Owmaha I8 readily recognized. As a distribution center, with railway facllities extending in all directions into a country rich In agri- cultural and mineral resources, the city has no peer. Midway on the great transcontinental thoroughfare over which the trafic between the Atlantic and Pacific must pass, its importance in the rallway world is bound to grow without interruption. Omaha's greatest industrial Interest, of course, centers about the lmmense establishments of Omahn, Omaha merchants are doing themselves and the city proud in their displays of holiday wares, 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. Shelving a Memory. Philadelphia Times. In connection with the war stamps con- grees might remember the main thing is to abolish them all. which would naturally be Troubles Enough Now. Breatest usefulness. Washington Post. It 15 quite likely that after John Bull shall have finished that job in South Africa he will want a little breathing spell before Jumpling Into another fracas. cott of Colorado, of Nebraska, Turley of Tenne FALLEN POLITICAL MAGNATES, Some Statesmen of Note Retired from the Center of the Stage. The politicul mortality among American statesmen s a constant source of surprise to British and other European publicls They marvel at the circumstance that men who have long beem promiment in publie life here are often cut down in the time that of their At the expliration of the congress which has just met, for ex- | ample, in its final and short sessiom, Wol- Lindsay of Kentucky, Caffery of Loulsiana, Thurston and Allen meat packing plants at South Omaha, which have bullt up a live stock market raiiking only below Chicago and Kan- sas Clty, The revolution in the dis- tribution of the food supply wrought by the introduction of modern slaughtering devices, refrigerator cars and the utilization of all the by-products has only begun, As it progresses, sup planting the old system In new lands and to a greater degree In our own, the meat packing Industry and its al- lied enterprises will undergo develop- ment overshadowing what has already been accomplished. In wholesale trade und general manu- facturing Omaha is up with the demand of its tributary territory and ready to meet the requirements of commercial expansion. Its bauking Institutions, all on a sound footing, form a financial bulwark for local business interests, re- inforcing the smaller banks through- out the surrounding territory. No less important, the laboring man and wage worker finds here conditions favorable to good living on economical lines, with moderate rents, cheap food and varied choice in stores and shops of wares at satlsfactory prices. The conditions promise econstant elevation of the standard of living of all classes of the community, a factor to population growth not to be underestimated. Under such ausplces Omaha can enter the twentieth century without misgiv- ings and every person interested in its welfare gird himself to the task of hastening its advance by every legitl- | mate manifestation of enterprise, public | spirit and co-operative energy. Sentiment Has the Call, Indianapolis Journal. The abolition of the army canteen is a plain triumph of sentiment over common sense, It will result in the substitution of a much greater evil for the one which the sentimentalists have been warring agalust. Taking a Large Contract. Buffalo Express, Nebraska s trying to do what Texas and Ohlo have attempted with Il success. The supremo court of the state has ordered the Standard Oil company to produce its books and papers in a suit intended to determine whether it shall be declared a trust and excluded from the state. “Reform" Away from Home. Loulsville Courder-Journal. Of course the house that voted that liquor shall not be sold to the army would not entertain a proposition that liquor shall not be sold in the capitol. Your reformer who aims to reform other pecple’s affairs fs usually anxious that reform shall begin and remain away from home. Chicago Chronicle, At least one thing has been through our experlence in the Philippine There will be no more territorial expansion by this nation except with the full assent of tho people to be taken into camp. One experiment in the line of conquest has taught us that the game is not worth the candle, Accidents in Mexico. Boston Herald, Raflway accidents down ‘in Mexico are very serious affairs for those who are re- sponsible for them. They do not exactly chain thelr directors to the cowcatchers on their trains, but'they have a law which makes a fatal accident on & railroad train punishable with death to the person or per- sons through whose ignorance or carelees- ness such an accident occurs. This explains the sudden disappearance of the engineer According to the estimate of the post- | and fireman of the latest wrlncimnd (hmm g 76, e, and the threat to lynch them, master general 81,000,000 of the 76,000, | down there, an 000 people In the United States nuw"L":"”r"""gm":":"m"l':;:‘: ;‘;""t‘t:" ’:;k::"d:; lave the benefit of free dellvery of mail | yno 1aw. It 1s superfiuous to remark that The rapld development of the rural | railroad accidents are of comparatively rare mall delivery system promises in a few | occurrence in Mexico. years to place half the population of the country In a position to enjoy these privileges. Such a record would not be considered anything unusual in the | older and more thickly populated coun- | tries of the world, but Is certainly a great achlevement in view of the great expanse of territory over which the | population of the Cnited States is|by those who deny them the full craldu of spread. What is more remarkable lui;;e;":l;;“hl:‘v:‘:;n"fi‘-“gl‘:l:‘“;’o"" "t’::’h: the fact that with most moderate rates | 0% U0 UL MO0 U T Ut 1t came of postage the postal department 18| (5 them all the same, and it came because almost self-sustaining. There i8 no de- | they had the sound sense to identify lmem- 3 v o licy that the people ap- partment of the government which |eelves with 2 pol . 1t in this way they called hundreds comes Into so close relatlons with the | Proved of people to their support, who people as this one and none from which | °f thousands of people to L they are so constantly and persistently did not agree with them on all polnts, the demanding still more and better service credit is thelrs, as the more substantial fruits of the achlevement also are. Re- or which has so rapldly responded to the demand. publican acity attracted what in equal proportion democratic stupidity repelled in ————— The imaginative Lincoln correspond- the recent campaign. ents who are working eastern papers The Credit is Thelir's, Boston Herald (dem.) It strikes us as ungraclous to say that the presidential election of this year was not won by the republican party. The matter {s not of much consequence, be- cause the republicans, enjoying as they must, abundant frults of this victory, need not be much concerned as to what is sald FIGURES TO PONDER OVER. of Montana, Butler of North Carolina, Petti- grew of South Dakota and perhaps Chand- ler of New Hampshire, who is meeting with powertul opposition at home, will step down from the senato and many other men of standing will retire from the house. In this particular instance the mortality Is not nearly so great as it is sometimes, For almost a third of a century from 1821 Bonton seemed to be a fixtnre in congress whom nothing short of death could re- move. Clay (notwithstarding his frequent brief retirements), Calhoun, Webster and others also appeared to have an air of permanence like that of the capitol itself. “Why do you weep?" acked Louis XIV of the courticrs assembled around his death- bed, after his almost threo-qdarters of a century of rule. “Did you think I would live forever?" Some of thelr contem- poraries might also have been excused for | considering Clay, Benton sud other mag- nates of the antebellum days Immortals. True, Sherman and Morrill of our days excoeded the years of Benton or of amy of | his contemporaries. There have been a | few longer careers since 1850 than there were before that time, but the general pub- |y lic 18 apt to cverlook them In the swift- ness with which the exits follow the trances of the vast majority of American statesmen upon the political stage. course, the restrictions as to residence which prevail in the United States and which are unknown in England is one of the reasons why political careers are shorter here than they are there. Another reason Is the greater intensity In this coun- try in the struggle for place and the shorter duration of the term of our members of the house of representatives. These are among the causes why at the end of the session less than three months hence, many men now consplcuous will drop out of view and be seen no more. PERSONAL NOTES, The Boers who come to this country are to P settled on Long Island, where they |} ca. seo what bas developed from & former Dutch {mmigration. The maharajah of Kapurthala, who lately broke the bank of Monte Carlo, was born | t in the lair of the tiger, so that success of this kind comes natural to him. Dr. Conan Doyle says that the salutation glven by his little girl when he returned home after his defeat at the parliamentary election was, “Oh, daddy, I am #o 8orry you did ot pass!" Governor Roosevelt s trylng to secure | the franchise for Indians in his state. to vote as well as immigrants. He has many friends among the red men. Henry H. Rogers, the New York million- aire and copper king, was, fifty years ago, | f selling newspapers on the streets of New Bedford, Mass. He then went into a gro- cery store, getting $3 a week and board. The traditional solemn sartorial adorn- ment of the United States senate has re- (I having appeared in the chamber wearing quite a jaunty suit of mottled tweed and a shirt of vociferous blue stripe. Mr. Odell, governor-elect of New York auguration shall be conducted as quietly as possible, and as a consequence it is proba- blo that Albany on New Year's day will not | ® witness any such military display as has WHY WILLIAM Cohenive Power of colved a violent shock, Henry Cabot Lodge | {sting hostility of the emperor England. Nelther, in our opinion, can the present snub to Kruger be accepted as proof of Willlam's contempt herolsm. The eplsode has but one rational state, has expressed a desire that his {n- | INterpretation—the German govermment is now en rapport with the British; the two are now jolned in & common enterprise, ADVICE TO THE LEGISLATURE, Beaver City Tribune: The forthcoming session of the legislature Las already re- celved more advice as to what it should do and should refrain from doing than could be put fnto ‘execution in twice ninety days. Hastings Tribune: When the legislature convenos it will have a job on Its hands in the redlstricting of the state. The fact should not be overlooked that the western part of Nebraska is entitled to better rep- rescntation both in the state and national legislature. A comparison of the census of 1880 and 1900 shows a gain in proportion in the western portion of Nebraska over that Of the eastern part, and therefore western Nebraska must be recognized Alblon News: It 1s reported that Gov- ernor Dietrich will recommend to the leg- {slature the adoption of the board of con- trol eystem for the management of all the public institutions. This system gives over (o a board of three or more men the entire business management and control of the several institutions, and wherever adopted been most satiafactory. All supplies can be bought in large quantities and there I8 no contest among the several superin- tondents to see which can get the largest appropriation. It s in line with the best methods of public servico. York Republican: Among the needed re- = | forms proposed by Governor Dietrich are a reduction of the number of district judges in the state and an increase in the supreme court commission to such an extent that the hundrods of cases on the docket may be cleared oft. The people will heartily concur in both these measures, if they are carried out by the legisiature according to what it 1s said will be the recommendation of the governor. The idea of two district Judges, In the districts as now constituted, supposes altogether too easy a time for them. One man can easily do the work In every district, one man has dome it; in fact Judge Post, when he was on the bench In thie district, did at least a quarter more work than both the present fncumbents are doing. There was then more litigation than there s now. St. Paul Republican: of The Omaba Bee has a plan for the rellef of the supreme court that seems to possess the merit of economy as well as common sense. to call unemployed district judges to Lin- coln to assist the justices In clearing up the overburdended docket, Instead of re- enacting but it is great enough to attract attention. | Jaw. Tho Bee points out that there are a great many more district judges in the state than are necessary, and as a con- sequence some of them are idle more than half the time. Jurists and thelr work would unquestion- ably be more satistactory than that of a commission created through parti fluences. The volume of litigatidn, in the district courts of the state at least, seems to be steadlly on the decrease, and The Bee's plan would be an excollent way to keep the {dle district judges out of mis- It'ts the supreme court commission They are, as a rule, able n in- chief until the necessary steps can be taken for reducing their number. David City Press: It there has ever been @ law passed by amy legislature in the his- ory of Nebraska that is constitutional, it s safe to say the only reason it stands kood 18 because it has never beem attacked L tho courts. Under the latest ruling of the supreme court any person who has ever had a boy or girl confined in a reform ot school for misconduct is llable to prosecu- tlon for false imprisonment unless the court should conclude that the law fixing 8 penalty for false imprisonment was also unconstitutional, upon by a judiclary committee composed of lawyers fare no better than those examined by other committees. kind of a law that will bear the test of Nebr: crease the of business for lawyers will be fairly sate from not being knocked out in our Ne- braska courts. To people who are not able to explaln these things it is very strange how enactments drafted by able attorneys are generally all declared vold by the courts by the time another legi: Self-government has its disappointments no Laws that are passed There 1s only one ka courts. .Any law that will in- lary of judges or make plenty lature convenes. €88 than government by tyrants. The older Wo get the more we belleve the Declaration of Independence must have lied about old King George just 8 our aristocratio ma: ers have told us. It took a long time to knock out one of his statutes, and a good many people got hurt in doing it. —— BBED KRUGER. under Dominant in Royal clos, Washington Post. The action of the German emperor ia He | refusing to recelve President Kruger need sees no reason why they are not entitled | surprise no one, The fact that this action amounts to an ignoble recantation of the noble Boers in his message of comgratulation, a sympathy he expressed for the lew years ago, touching the defeat of the Jameson rald, means nothing in the case of Willlam 11 miration of manhood which It was not chivalric ad- courage, devotion and high inspired that message. t was merely the spawn of the then cx- toward for unsuccessful eeling the same end by identical and har- monlous means; for the moment, at least, on endless yarns about the Nebraska|The Progressive West Henews Al- senatorial contest muse be careful or leglance to & Progressive Party. Philadelphla Press. been customary In years gone by. Al Ferrouh Bey, the Turkish minister, they are loving comrades and coadjutors. What Waldersee is doing in China, Rob- they will soon have every man pos- sessing the required constitutional qual- ifications entered in the list before even the legislature meets. Why not give the members of the leglslature a chance | to get in u word? has been {nformed that at his post in Washington. One of the most encouraging of the re- sults of the presidential election of lust month was the change shown in the west- ern states. This neighborhood fncludes the group of states west of a line drawn north and south along the eastern border of Kan- sas, Nebraska and the Dakotas and stretch- ing to the Pacific ocean. Within this re- glon are thirteen states, four of which were carrled by Bryan and nine by McKinle Four years ago Bryan carried ten of these states and McKinley only three. So con- ditions are nearly reversed this yoa The following table gives the vote ot these thirteen states as cast on the 6th of last month and the vote of the same states as cast in November, 1896 1900-—— Dem. 128,600 122, fer to some other station. pean mission. Governor Poynter will miss the last opportunity to parade his official honors if he fails to avall himself of the invita- tlon to participate in the centennial an- niversary celebration of the founding of the national capital at Washington. Nebraska ought to be represented by its chief executive along with all the other progressive states of the unlon. the statue, when erected, ter's birthplace. be respected. Rep. P comma in the Ma tte Calitornta Colorado ... Tdaho . Kansas . ]\lu‘lllun‘:\ . ebraska i Nevada ........ 5848 North Dakota. 8% Oregon ........ .62 South Dakota, 56,000 Utah ... . & 9 shington .. 67,38) Wyoming 14,451 857,000 800,504 631,007 901,713 Four years ago the total vote cast in these thirteen states was 1,533,620, This year the total vote is 1,687,600, an increase of 153,980. In 1808 the democrats polled 901,713 votes, while last month they polled 800,504, & loss of 101,209. The republicans polled in the same states In 1806 a total of 631,907, and this year a total of 857,096, a gain of 255,18 ‘This shows a change of 366,398 In favor of the republicans. Of the sixty-one electoral votes cast by these L Mr. Bryan obtalned forty-six in 1896 and Mr. McKinley obtained fifteen. This year Mr. Bryan has thirteen of these elec- toral votes and Mr. McKinley forty-eight. Sueh a complete reversal of opinion in one sectlon of the country is rarely seen even in American politics. It s & prooi of the popularity of the administration’s policy in the west and of the better under- standing of the currency question. The result is & ‘most emphatic rebuke of Mr. Bryan and his 14 in a neighborhood s Awhere he beller himself most popular, and write" General Chaffee has made himeelf un- popular at Pekin by the enforcement of orders which absolutely prevent looting in the section under the guard of his troops. General Chaffee can stand it 0 long a8 he has the support of his own government and of the right-loving people the world over. more important than elucidation of law in Boston. office, Neb. Senator Allen takes a very gloomy Nury aas view of the future and predicts all kinds of disasters. The senator should not grieve so. The sun will still shine on Nebraska, the rains will descend and people will continue to go to law and glve the senator a chance to earn a liv- ing at his profession, ———— The business of the Postoffice depart- ment for the past year, as shown by the postmaster general's report, breaks all previous records. Omaha has the satisfaction of contributing through its postoftice its full quota toward achiev- ing this result. —_— Its a fastidious Christmas shopper who cannot have his wants fully sup plied this year by & round of the retall you know the reason why. isn't 1t7) you ought to. ea for your own body, Look at me, better than I am. A he may remain This 18 re- garded as a mark of confidence, but the minister will resign and request a trans- He 18 not dis- satisfied with Washington, but on account of his wife's health would prefer a Euro- General Fitzjohn Porter has requoested the authorities of Portsmouth, N. H., to do nothing toward erecting a monument him, as provided by the will of the late R. H, Eddy, until after his death, and that be placed Haven park, which includes General Por- The general's wishes will to in The use of & semicolon instead of a liquor prevents the guests of Boston hotels from quenching their thirst with wine, beer or lquor between 11 p. m. and 6 a. m. The lawmakers did not intend to make any such provision, but the court follows the printer and decides that punctuation law I8 [under General common sense in Among the many letters of advice and tender proposals recelved by Corn King Phillips 18 one from “Hickory Corners post- and signed “Mirabella Aln: It reads as follows: first want to say that out in this part of Nebraska we folks know more about corn in o minute than city folks knows in 10 000,000 years, and being a smart young man, (Because we grow it and live on it mostly, good reason Are you married? If you ain't you ought to have a wife to advise you on the corn business just the same as to what There Is no vegetable nourishing as corn, and as you have sold many of it you should keep some and use it was raised on corn and other things that are healthy and the neighbors round here say there 18 no other girl of my age (17, dark hair and 160 pounds) is stronger and It you want me to tell you more about corn just write me and I will send you a much longer letter. 1 ain’t married I can sit up nights “y with erts and Kitchener are dolng in South Africa. The bond that holds these gov- ernments together I8 a bond of blood, rapine and spoliation. We have full ac- counts of German barbarities in China. We can guess at the barbarities of England in South Africa. Only a few days ago the Morning Leader of London vublished a letter from a color sergeant in the Royal Scots Fusiliers to his father at home. It i8 eafo to assume that the writer did not expect or wish his letter to find its way into print. It {s still safer to assume that be will be made to regret his very candid correspondence. But this 18 a part of whay he wrote: “I think the war {s nearly come to a close and the brave race of people talked about, called Boers, has vanished ““We go ut once or twice a week for two, three and sometimes five days and have a little sniping, burn a few farms, get a few chickens and ducks and fodder, corn, etc., and return home. “We went out for five days last week Barton; the weather was grand, both night and day. We burnt about twenty farms and all the furniture inside them—some splendid planos and organs were burnt, and it was pitiful to see the mothers patting thelr little sons on the neck and pacifying them, ““We took out £6,000 worth of stuff from Botha's farm—cattle, grain, forage, wagone. ete. The young women knelt down and prayed—bible in hand—and I assure you the tears rolled down my cheeks for a mo- ment when I was ordered to smash a set fire to a splendid set of furniture and & plano at a house where an old lady, three nice young girls and a boy were imploring me to spare them thelr furnitur: “But, on the whole, these five days out were a plenfe to all of i Thus it seems that the'soldlers of both na- tlons are ashamed of the Infamies they are compelled to commit, and for this reason we belleve that the German people regard with horror thelr government's cruel attitude toward Kruger, as well as the odlous enor- mities it has practiced in China. The German people, as we know them fn this country, are a fine and sturdy race, sympathizing with valor and cherishing patriotism as the Admire bravery In others. Having flocked to the United States in search of the free- dom and opportunity dented them at home, they naturally saympathize wity their cousing fin South Africa fighting for the privileges they themselves enjoy under the Amorican flag. 1t Is our opinion that not only here, but in the fatherland, all truo Germans give thelr prayers to the Boers and would help them it they could But the sinister alliance stands. A na- tlon is to be extingulshed fn South Africa, another nation 1s to be looted in unbappy Asla. England and Germany have joined hands in this abhorrent undertaking and they work together—without pity, without humanity—to the defamation of the (hris- tian propaganda and in deflance of the proe tests and condemnations of their own sub- Jeots. w...»........... ceces® A PERTINENT QUESTION Neligh Leader The Leader pretends to volee the sentiment of no one except its ed- itor when It says that the best in interests of the state and the repub lican party will be best served by the eleetion of Hon. Edward Rose water as one of the two United States genators. ! marked ability, geasps new nnd: fmportant issues with a firm hand, M by all odds the best politician In i + $ ! 1 He is clean, has Nebraska and ‘has the endorse- ment of a large proportion of the voters, while republicans owe him much, for without his support and personal efforts during the fall campaign it will scarcely be dis- puted that Nebraska would still be unredeemed from popullsm, With all due respect to other can- didates, Is there one of whom so much can truthfully be sald in his favor? e eeeseccscsssccccccsece@ CHAFF THAT CHEERS, Detrolt Journal to, the police torce, after all.' “The idea of trying to make a copper out of such a bad penny.” Chicago Record: “Don't you find the fad of collecting rather tiresome “Oh, no; now and then I quit collecting some things and collect others." {'He's been appointed Chicago Post: to” his " secretary, last night “Yes, 6ir,” replied the secretary with an- propridte shame, aud yet with a Knowing smile. ‘James," contl| was 1" And he seo to' It that it sald the chief “you ‘were intoxicated added sternl oesn’t happen again.” Cleveland Plain_Dealer: “Our el rapldly adopting metropolitan adjuncts, “How so?" “I was up in the market the other day and two market women quarreled and presently one threw beets and cabbages ..t the other, and the other retorted with po- tatoes and carrots. “What of [t?" oSuggested a produce exchange, dldn't Indlanapolls Press: “Sometimes I think Il take a day off and become w great poet,” sald the Cornfed Philosopher. "The recipe seems simple enough, all a man need do is to write of something no one knows anything about in a style that no- body can understand.” Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Did she take anything when whe left her husband's house Nothing but her departure.” hen I was misinformed n what way?" 1 understood she took name." Philadelphla fress: “What are you kicking about?’ excialmed the old cafen- lar, “‘your lite is before you, while I—well, 'm nearlv done for.'" ““That's true,” replled the new one for 1901, ‘‘and yet I cannot but be consclous of the fact that my duys are numbered. her matden Chicago Post: iat makes you keep harping "on ement that & man gan't, do anything without capital’ nowa- ays?" Well,” answered the indolent fr “It's my one comfort in life. It's so much easter than hustling around and trying to do’ things. Y TOIL, Baltimore News. I take the little kiss she gives when 1 go forth at morn, I take the littlo farewell breezes borne; T take her lfttle ntms’ caress and in the morning light Go out into the world of toll, the battle for the right Ring anvils with your clangor! Burn, forges, flerce and far! The night shall bring the world Where love and goodness are! wish upon the I lean to ifttle lps she lfts to my rough 1ips of love, I read the mothér-hope that shines in eyes that gleam above; T hear tho roaring city call, and unto it 1 go Light-hearted for the stress because child heart loves me so, r 8wing, hammers, with your clatter! Whirl wheels, ‘and shaft and beam! The light of love shall guide me home From out this ehroud of steam! I take the little rose she holds and pin it on my breast, I take the tender memory of her word that cheered and blest; I face the argent purpose of the labor that is mine, Filled with' her trust Jouth and faith divine Plunge. cfties, with your thunder Of trafc-shout and ronr! I take the task and do the deed, While she waits at the door! T take the task, I tace the toll, T deem it sweet 10 he Bound to the labor that is love for love's fine b From morning ing her I go Under the ding wheel that glides foc- ever to and fro 8ing, mills, your clattering chorus, W the milllons swey I bare my arms and Kive my strength And joy In what 1 get! and patience, her unto eventide, remember- I rive and take, and give again, and unto dark am bent Beneath the burden of the task for which sweet life 15 spent! But, ah! the wage so dear to have, tho Mttle lips that walt The hearts that ring, the arms that cling, when I unlatch the gate! Clang with your mighty revel! Roar, cltiés, with your strite! And God be pralsed for strength to toil For wage of love and life! Eyes ache —or smart, or burn—or water. nnmflhlnls_ ‘wrong. It may be only fempor- ary, it may be permanent, Whatever it 1s, It must bo corrected with the right glasses—frames fitted right —lenses ground right—and at a pleasiog saving o cost. This 14 the place to come. We manufacture all our own glasses, and employ only the most sclentific op- ticial J. C. Huteson & Co., Consulting Opticians, 1520 Douglas Street. first of civic virtues. Brave thewrelves, they