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L ————— e e e e e e e e THeE ©MAHA DALY BEE ¥. ROSEWATER, Editor. PURLISIIED EVERY MORNING, | *RIPTION, nday), One Year $6.00 RME2 OF tly Beo (withowt Daily Hec and Sunday One Year 800 Llustrated Bee, One Year ] Bundag Bee, Ohe Year 2.0 | Baturday iwe, One Year t Weekly Bee, One Year.. OFFICES. Omahe: The ilee Bullding, 8outh Omaha: City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and N streets, ouncil s 10 rl Street. hicago: 1840 Unity Bullding. New York: Temple Court New York: Temple Court Washington: ) Fourtcenth Street. 8loux City: 611 Park CORRESPOX Communications relating to new and edl- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha | haye determinedly opposed anyone else | o M“‘;’v‘ ’r]'n-x | dolug so. Backed now by the sovereign Nustaess ot imitiances should [ power, however, the allen will have a be addresscd Publishing Com- | atter chunce and the fmperial edict pany, Omaha. REMITTA £ Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to The Bee Bublloning @ omint of | development of the country. It is be-| mafl accounts Personal “,“.‘),‘“""',.’"";“m‘-';' lieved, also, that outside of the valuable O e COMPANY. | trading rights which the opening of the AT AT CE CIRCTLATION, | POrt carries, It will do as mich to insure State of Nenracka, Dougine County, ss.t [ the continuiance of peace in China as George i Taecilicic, sscretary of The Bee | any one thing that could have been gmplets coptes o " The Dully. Mg | Oue of the conditions fn the protocol r, 190, was as follows 150 month of Novemb 20,870 34,005 21,010 28,040 .81.320 82,010 65,420 41,250 31,310 20,760 28,460 20,200 28,940 28,680 28,550 unsold and returned coples. 28,410 | 27,070 1 3 | 1 13, 1 1. Net total sales Net daily averazé. 30,447 | 0. B. TZBCHUCK Subscribed in my before me this lst day of De 1000 M. MNHI‘\( ot The lceman still has hils harvest ahead | $f him. Nebraska has no bad political habits to swear off on New Year's day. quit the fusion habit last November. For the first time in memory Omaha seems to have dispen its customary biennlal charter revision committees. The usual business order is reversed | in China. The representatives of the powers signed the note, but China will | do the payin Puxzle In the little controversy be- tween the state auditor and the * guaranty bond companies—where does Palm come in? The Cudahy case has done more to keep the small boy indoors after dark than all the curfew ordinances which | could be enacted. Pat Crowe Is one of the most numer- | ous persons before the public at present. It is a poor city which is not certain the much-wanted man is there, Trust-Smasher Smyth wants judicial officers prohibited by law from practi- eing politics. e must want to reserve to himself the monopoly of political sky-rocketing. Kansas City may want the depart- mont headquarters of the military | division of the Missourl, but Omaha serves notice that it 18 not prepured to walve its claim. The twentieth-centyry Omaha will be 8o far ahead of the present Omaha be- fore the century is half recled off that | old Father Time himself will have | trouble to identify it Kidnapers smooth enough to put up a $25,000 job and carry it through to successful completion may be relied on to be smooth enough to elude detection and apprebension for a little while at least. Senator Lindsay of Kentucky says he and Senator Caffery are the only democrats in that body. The senator | should be more caraful in his state ments, as he Is provoking another erup- tlon of Bryan. The Porto Rican legislature has been in sesslon almost a month and yet only forty-five bills have Dbeen introduced, The Porto Kicans are slow. Just wateh [ yont, while the thivd day's lists usually | heen the Nebraska solons when down to business, District Atte they get ¥ Gardiner of New York, who was removed from oflice | by Governor Roosevelt, gave up his| office under protest. That is perfectly natural-no democrat ever gives up an office any other w Speakership candidates are in point of fact not as numerous this year us | usual in the past. Such contests, how ever, always simmer down to a rivalry | between two or three men by the time the speakership caucus Is in sight. A local yellow Journal that has been | chasing kiduapers in its now | aas “the impeachable evidence of a | slgnificant conversation.” If it is “iw- | peachable evidence” it 1s just the thing to furnish the basis for another pipe drenm. dreams, —_— The school board doesn't s m to care how big a tax rate it forces upon the | features sure people, evidently with the idea that the odium will all be placed on the council, The sehool board has joint responsibil ity for the tax levy now and it eannot unload it upon anyone else. —_——— If a thief steals a horse or a cow in Nebraska he can be punished with a prison sentence of ten years, 1f he only steals a boy over the age of 10 it is questionable whether any penitentiary punishment is provided. In all likeli- hood, too, the eriminal code of Nebraska | CoMMBROIAL coxcrssioxs By cHINA, | minjug there themselves and heretofore agr China shall be broadened courage trade and facilitate | relations. 27,620 | 28,220 | ire, Jupun, given to the Japunese aud it is probable that all of the grun powers and that more definite provisions 013421 | facturing plants, the building of rail one nation by China will be granted to | all. It | lieved will yield satisfac 1 altogether with | the powers as will require the complete | effect it. The edlet of the Chinese government opening a4 new port on the Ynngtse Kiang 18 fiuportant from a commercial voint of view and also fn showing the disposition of the fmperial authorities to make further concessions in the in- terest of the world's trade. The establishtent of the new port will throw open to foreign commerce one of the richest, most fertile and most populous sections of China, From what s known of this territory it Is agri- culturally and minerally very rich, but| 1n the latter respect wholly undeveloped, | as the Chinese have not gone in for will doubtless be followed by the in-| vestment of foreign capital in and lhe‘ od upon by the powers is that ex- Isting commerclal arrangements with 0 a8 to en- commerclal | It 18 not doubted that the ors can obtain any reasonable con- sious on this head which they de- They are already entitled, by virtue of the treaty between China and to the quite lberal privileges Poy will h of bo specitically the contructing d to e will be made for the creation of manu- | wuys and unhampered movement by forelgn merchants throughout China. As the readjustment of commercial relations is to be a subject of negotia tion in common, whatever is granted to This is the consummation towards which the policy of the United States has been directed and which it is be- ry results in the final negotiations. The ditficulty to be apprehended is in sucl extreme demands by some of readjustment of the fiseal and economic systems of the empire. As these systems have been in operation for enturies it would be no simple affair | to readjust them and it fs quite probable that in doing so a great deal of popular dissatisfaction would be created. The process would necessarily have to be THE OMAHA I.)'.r\]LY often neglect to exercise the franchise beeause of the trouble entailed. While voting should not be made too easy, neither should it be made burdensome. How far and in what directions the law 118 for moditication to give relief will require considerable study and utmost care In framing amendments that will work reform without still greater evils. « A SATISFIED PEOPLE. The inhabitants of the island of Negros, according to the report of Gen- eral Smith, wmilitary governor, are highly favorable toward the United States. Tle island has had a substan- tlally autonomous form of government during the entire period of American control and has progressed In marked and favorable contrast with the other islands. Hence the people are most friendly toward this country and de- sire that existing conditions should con- tinue. General Smith observes, how- ever, that it will be lnpossible to dis- criminate In favor of Negros, in the scheme of government to be ultimately udopted, so that complications are ex- ted not easy of adjustment. Of course whatever plan of govern- ment for the Philippines shall ulti mately be adopted must be of general application, but as it will undoubtedly admit the people to as much particl- pation in the government as they are capable of there should be no serfous difficulty in persuading the Inhabitants of Negros, who have had so satisfactory an experience under American control, to accept it. Very likely they will be reluctant to give up the nearly com- plete self government they now have, yet If a just system is devised to re- place it, with the assurance that as rapidly as practicable native participa- tion in the government will be extended, :«u that they could hope to mltimately have almost as large a self-government as they now enjoy. 1 highly probable that offer no serions opposition, The appreliension expressed by Gen eral Smith suggests the gravity of the problem of framing a scheme of gov ernment for the Philippines, with its heterogencous population, only a v small part of which Is capable of par- ticipating in government, menasure of it they would BUYING AMERICAN SECURITIES. There has been marked activity in Ameriean securities on the London Stock exchange recently, The corre- spondent of the W York Times states that all testimony concurs in repre- senting the spe fon in Americon railroad shares as having reached nn- precedented proportions last week. He says that this was largely gambling, in which the solid portlon of the British gradual, for a people like the Chinese cannot be at once educated to new policies. However the methods of taxation and in the gen- eral economic policy of the empire is fnevitable, though it may take years to China will be opened up to the world's trade. That determination of the eivilized powers and nothing will be permitted to stand in the way of its being carried out. It would seem that this is fully realized by the Chinese government and the: there 1s ample reason for the opinion said to be entertained at Washington, that any rezsonable commerclal conces- sions the powers may ask will be granted. President MceKinley and S retazy Hay are thoroughly alive to th commercial interests of the United States in the Orient and it is safe to suy that Minister Conger has been in- structed to see that they are proper! cared for. pfore NEEDED REG TRATIO, REFORM. The disclosures of rank registration and election frauds in South Omaha brought to public notice by the pending legislative contests point the urgent need of changes in the law that will make colonization, repeating and registration stuffing more difficult if not impossible, That this can complished by surrounding the registra- tlon with more effective checks and safe- guards goes without saying. The principal defect of our registra tion law is that it does not allow sufli- registration lists. With three days of reglstration seattered over three succes- sive weeks, the last day fixed on the Saturday before election, no opportunity Is afforded for accurate verification. The names enrolled during the first two days, to be sure, ave available for check ing, but they cannot in the time at hand be compared with the last day's enroll- have to go without anything further than a mere eritical inspection, With the door wide open to such registration frauds, little wonder that the South Omabn conspiracy was able o proceed without detection until after the mis chief had been committed, In Lilinols the law requires the clos ing of the registration books three weeks hefore the election for publie in spection of the completed lists. The names are checked up by the representi tives of the various politicul parties and every person subject to doubt desig nated suspect to whom posts notice is sent for revision pearance to show hoard of voters' list. It the postal carriers can not deliver the eard to the pe 1 dressed, that fact Is tuken as conclusive proot that the name does not belong on the registeation book. Whether the i nois plan is the best to be adopted f determine, but it has suggestive be of value to us. Another complaint against our present system I8 that a complete new registra | tion of voters Is had for every general election. The object held In view in re registrars ‘h year is to prevent car ing on the rolls the nawmes of persons who have died or trict and to avoid duplication of names in more than one district. While purpose is to a great degree achieved, the frequency of registration is unques- tionably irritative to many of just those presents no more anomalies than those of other states, substantial cltizens whose expression . a radical change in | is the fixed | clent time for thorough checking of the | use why | his name shall ot be stricken from the Nebraska remains for the legislature to | quiriug personal appearance before the | emoved from the dis- | this | public took no part, and expressed the opinion that the tremendous energy ex- | hibited last week will not lead to the | shipment of shares from New York to | London, but, on the contrary, will oblige the American market to continue the importation of and payment for | shares sold in London to be delivered, | While there is no doubt that the ac- | tivit noted was chiefly speculative, | thie $ reason to think that there was considerable buying by the solid por- | tion of the British public, for certainly | American securities just now offer b ter inducements than any others Investment. With the Dbusiness of our railronds the shares of those cor- porations were never so desirable as at l;.n-wm. even at the greatly enhanced | prices as compared with a few years | ago. It may be that New York will continue to Import and pay for rail- road shaves sold In Lond n to be de- livered, but we are inclined to think that this will be on a luced scale and it wounld not be at all surprising if within the next thirty or sixty da the situation was reversed and New York shipped securities fo London. The present condition of the British money | market 1s not favorable to such a move- ! ment, but a change from this is proba- be ac- | ble after the settlements of the new | those who year. Meanwhile the Awmerican market | is able to take care of all the securl- lu«\ that may be sent to it from abroad. | One of the strongest commendations of Awerican methods yet brought out is the review by an English correspond- ent of the conditions prevailing in Pekin, He reports chnos relgning in all portions of the city except that guarded by the American forces, but in that quarter business 1s progressing as | usual, the only notlceable difference | from normal conditions being that the | portion occupied by our forces has cleaned and the nolsome smells have vanished. The administration evl- dently made no mistake either in s lecting the man to command the A | lean forces or In the instructions un- ‘l‘\'l' which he is acting. | — | Russian ate's action on the Hay-Pauncefote [ treaty reflects most strongly the bis- torical leaning of that country toward the United States, tinctured somewhat by the traditional enmity of England. | Aslde from the influences, however, [the Russian views are important as those of a nation which has no interest in the matter from either a maritime, commercial or political point of view, Changed conditions, according to Russian view, justify the action of the ‘ United States the Clayton Bulwer treaty press omment on the sen- ported to be hopeful that | the people wili soon come to his way of thinking on public questions. Br, Bryan is r an's lope would be sublime If it were not | meters to which are set the worldly melo- | 50 ridiculous. 1t is only a short step | dies and march music of the street and from one to the other and the late can- [°P¢ra by the Salvation Army command ; 5 | even the respect of the careless and {didate always lands on the ridiculous | o overent, and much more so should the | side of the line without any apparent | musie worship of the Chrlstian church \nflnl'! Telegr; that the British are hard after C | Dewer. In the past being * | than catching up with him, Buffalo press, It General Fitzhugh Lee thought he was striking a popular chord by saying that our | flag was In Cuba to stay, he probably is un- at the polls is most desired und Who | geceived by this time. A part of the Phile the | in turning its back on | ms from South Africa declare 'neral after” Dewet has proven wuch more pleasant BEE: THURSDAY, D T |ippines lesson, at least, has been well |tearned mlready. Few even of the fm- ip!rIllln!l ses any obstacle to haullng down our flag in Cuba. | Trial Test of a Hero, Globe-Democrat A West Point freshman testifies that he was compelled to eat eighty-five prunes at one sitting, probably as an emergency ration. Every West Polnter is a bero at one perlod of his career. Developing a Race W New York Tribune. The Boer reluvasion of Cape Colony means a certaln sympathetic uprising of the Dutch citizens of the colony, and that {10 turn means more treason trials and in- |crease of bad feeling between the races. It is an unhappy business all around. Modern Stomach Trials. Chicago News. Have you tried the new ‘‘process butter?” According to the testimony before the senate committee on agriculture the other day a menufacturer of eleomargarine defined process butter” to be oleomargarine washed with sulphuric acld” to remove rancidity. With “process butter” and formaldehyde milk"” the American break- fast of chicory and buckwheat cakes, with glucose maple syrup, becomes & thing to make the stoutest tremble. Distribution of “Pork.” Philadelphia Record. What the seasoned congressman joytully recognizes as “pork” turns up during the current session of the federal legisiature in the gulse of a stalwart river and harbor bill which carries an appropriation of about $60,000,000. This fs not a record-breaking figure, the maximum having been reached in 1897 with a bill carrylng over $72,000,000. Of the total appropriation about $23,000,000 1s designed for new work, while over § 000,000 is designed to provide for contracts on continuous work already autborized. The requirements of shippers and ship- masters for improved harbors and water- ways have vastly increased of late vears, and public expenditure in this direction has been on a scale of corresponding magnitude. Booming the Horse Market. Glob Jemocrat, | The sales of American horses and mules abroad have been greater fu 1900 than in | any other year in the country's history, and the end of the year Is not bringing any | “let-up” in the movement. England is re- | newing 1ts heavy purchases on account of | the revival of tho fighting in South Africa. That quarter of the world 15 as much of & “gink’’ for horses and mules these days as India and China have been and are for gold The “mounts’ which go into | | ana stiver. South Africa at present leave hope behind. They never come out alive. The exigencles of warfare in that country Kill the quadrupeds very quickly. The mortality among horses on the Brish side In the Boer war has been many tines greater than it has been among the men, large as this | has been. —e Ignored Lessons of History. Springfield (Mass.) Eepublican, In his essay on Oliver Cromwell Governor Roosevelt points out that axcessive severity by a victorious party tovard a prostrate foe never hastens the exd of hostilities, but rather prolongs the var. Cromwell's harshness toward the Irish in his infamous Drogheda and Wexford canpalgn furnishes the governor an excellent Hlustration of his point. After all his massacres Cromwell saw the Irish war drag ¢n for two years more. The lesson seemt to be hard to learn, notwithstanding tmt history is full of demonstrations of th¢ inexpediency of harsh methods fn att:mpted conquest. There can be no doubt that one reason for the great revival of the Boer resistance in South Africa today is the exasperation and rage of the Dutch over British brutality in “pacitying” the two republics. CHURCH MUSIC. New and Striking Phases of This 01d Bone of Contentlon. Philadelphia Press. Church choirs and singers have been a bone of contention in the church militant ever since music became a part of divine worship. This s true of both great branches of Christendom—Roman Catholic and Protestant. Recently attempts have been made in the Roman Catholic church to abolish operatic features in mass music. 0 far as Protestant Christianity is con- orned, there s scarcely a congregation that has pot, at some time or other, ex- perienced trial and tribulation in the mat- ter of its choir service or instrumental music. The United Presbyterian denomination has in recent years been rocked from cen- ter to circumfercnce by the “organists” and the “anti-organists,” the former belng desire to introduce the organ | a8 a part of the musical service, the latter being their opponents. Within the past two weeks a leading Methodist congrega- tion n this city has been almost rent in twain as a result of what 1s alleged to be the shcrtcomings of its choir. Rude and un-Christian epithets have shocked prayer and class meeting attendants, and the trouble was only ended by the withdrawal from church fellowship of certain promi- nent members. And now come two members of the Meth- odist Eplscopal yearly conference of Balti- more to add the capstone to this discord. These gentlemen are named respectively | Rev. Mr. Sumwalt and Rev. Mr. Jones, | Speaking alliteratively, they are iconoclasts charged with the mlission of destroying modern music in the Methodist church. Both reverend gentlemen, armed with a fervor that must make the hymn-writing | Wesley and the sweet singer, Dr. Watts, | shudder in their grave clothes, attacked cholrs, quartets and sololsts mercllessly, and, as many well balanced persons will e, intemperately. While there may be justification for some of the charges brought against the musical sorvice of all Protestant churches, yet there is no pardonable excuse for a elergy- man discussing a phase of religlous worship | | as @ ““free lunch demonstration” or ‘“‘vocal acrobatl or “musical handsprings,” terms which Rev. Mr. Sumwalt used in his paper on church music, in which he re- ferred to lovers of this phase of worship as “musical maniacs,” a class of people whose “lusanity” he hoped would never succeed in distorting the worship of general Methodism, | After reading extracts from these papers, | the conclusion is forced upon every right thinking man or woman, Chhristian or non- Christian, that in the use of such expres- slons In a friendly discussion of a phase of religlous worship the two men referred to were attempting the sensational to the sacrifice of sense and the digmity of the cloth. Music s worship. The rasping command the respect, if mot the approval, of ministers of the gospel If the reverend gentlemen of the Baltl- more conference have been correctly quoted on this subject, they have done a greater injury to themselves than to the cause which they espouse. Chauges in church music will come whenever they are needed and in due process of time. They will come as the result of calm, deliberate. consclentious and Christmas considera- tion of the subject, and not as the result 27, ECEMBER 1900. {“A CONSISTENT COURSE Neligh Advocate, One of the reasons advanced for opposing Edward Rosewater's candidacy for senator is the fact that his puper, The Bee, has In years gone by bolted some of the party nominations. If that is the only objection we would consider it in favor and not a detriment to the editor of The Bee, The Bee has never bolted the ticket where the nominees were worthy the support of honest men. We believe that Mr. Rosewater took the only course conslstently open for him and that subsequent events have verified his judgment. : When the party organs insist that the price of their support shall be that hon men shall be nomi- nated, then we will have clean men to fill the offices and will make populism unnecessary. The rise of populism was made pos- sible by the corrupt ring that ruled the republican party, and the only fault to be found with the stand made by The Bee was the fact that it did not begin soon enough to save the state from the intliction of ten years of fusion rule. PERSONAL NOTES. General Harrison Gray Ots ls again en- gaged in conducting his Los Augeles news- paper and says that, 5o far as preference fs concerned, he would not leave that for any other kind of work. The powerful attraction of the prize ring is easily understood. Here is “Terry” Me- Govern, for example, who is reported te made $112,000 during the last year by minutes of actual work in the ring Rev. Sam Small's year in Cuba has not made him an admirer of the Cubans. “Any thirty schoolboys in New York,” he says, “could make a better constitution in thirty minutes than these Cubans could make in thirty months.” There lives in Paducah, Ky., a blind me- chanic who can and does place laths as evenly and drive the nalls as truly as any workman gifted with sight. He puts up his own scaffolds und does as much work in a day as any man in his trade. Robert Dick Douglas, a grandson of the lato Senator Stephen Arnold Douglas of Tili- nols, has been appointed by Governor Rus- sell to the office of attorney general of North Carolina. He is but 2 years of age and is sald to be the youngest attorney geucral the state has ever had. Hannitbal E. Hamlin of Ellsworth, Me., will in all probability be the next president of the Maine senate. He is acting attorney of the firm of which Senator Hale is senior member, was judge advocate under Gov- ernor Powers and is a son of the late Vice President Hamlin, The death of Colonel John 8. Williams of Lafayette, Ind., leaves only two men living who were on the democratic ticket in In- diana when Thomas A. Hendricks was elected governor after the memorable cami- palgn of 1872. The survivors are Judge John C. Robinson and John 1. Stoll. The late Prof. Thomas Davidson of Scotland was a master of many languages, and once, in an interview with the pope, the conversation having been carried on in several tongues, the latter remarked, must be an Italian.” c0 sum Scotus am a Scotchman), replied Dr. Davidson. John Kendrick Bangs lives at Yonkers, N. Y, his home being a handsome villa on rih Broadway, surrounded by a garden. His library commands a glorlous view of the paltsades and a long reach of the shin- ing Hudson. Here he doos his editorial work and writes about ghosts and boating on the Styx. At a recent meeting of the Lafayette Memortal commission in Washington, at tha office of Comptroller Dawes, it appeared fran the report of the secretary of the cormission that a considerable surplus over thd amount already expended and the lia- biltles to be incurred for the final com- plefon of the monument would be held by the commission. The amount of funds in siglt, counting the premium on the unsold Lativette dollars, apptoximates $30,00,, h, by a small additfon, would enable thelcommisslon to erect in Washington a repfca of the monument in all its details (I SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION, ‘Wiy It Should Be Hased on the Ratio of Votes Cast. Chicago Times-Heraid. ‘here are now three schemes for the re- apgrtionment of representatives in con- greas on the basis of the last census before ouse. The first, reported by the ma- of the committes, provides for a body , the same as at crease of membership to 386, and the by Representative Crumpacker, is representation of thone | have distranchised Th{Times-Herald belleves that the time | hag dne when congress should take official noticlof the infraction of the constitution by tH three southern states mentioned in Mr. (umpacker's report. The mandate of the fyrteenth amendment on this subject 18 cled. It says “Nojtate shall make or enforce any law whichfhall abridge the privileges or im- munith of clitizens of the United States “Rejpsentatives shall be apportioned amonghe several states according to their respecke numbers, counting the whole numbebt persons in each state, excluding Indiandiot taxed. But when the right to vote alany election fo the choice of clectorfor president and vice president of the Unpd States, representatives in con- | gress, ;- executive and Judiclal officers of a statelr the members of the legislature thereotp denled to any of the male in- | habitan| of such state, being 21 years of age andvitizens of the United States, or in any Ay abridged, except for participa- tion in fbellion or other crime, the basis of reprqntation therein shall be reduced in the toportion which the number of such mal citizens shall bear to the whole number | male citizens 21 years of age in such staj” Let usow by a short comparative table how thelght of voting is abridged in the states mitioned by Representative Crum- packer IR SOUTHERN STATES. 1909, ——— Population. Total V 1,801,992 25 North Colina Mississip) . Loulstans § South Colina.... Totallirernes 1O NORTHI New Jers. 4 Minnesota California. Maryland ... Total 0,210,063 1,276,628 Words anot add to the force of these figures. By call for the adoption of the 6,411 204,704 204,000 of attacks from the pulpit, couched in the language of the sensationalist, if not the sxpressions of & street fakir, eescsccssccssssscssscsssncse ou | | ports $825,000,000. Etehings of Condl They Ap- pear (0 Men on the Spot. the officers stationed in southern Luzon, supervises a district contalning 650,000 na« tives. In a letter to the Outlook he tells of the native ambition to learn the English language and their appreciation of Ameri- can liberty. “These people,”” he writes, ‘'ure most ambitious for education. They {are also desirous of u knowledge of Eng- |lish, or ‘Americano,’ as they call it. Thes have the most wonderful ideas concerning the United States; their imaginations are inflamed with stories of our wealth, our | encrgy, our power and the prowess of our |soldiers here; the liberty of our govern- |ment confirms them 1o thewo ide The great dream of the average Filipino s to ece America, | "It is our great superiority that brings |secretly a great delight to the Filipino | when allowed to call himselt an Amerieano, and makes him 80 anxious to learn our |1ar guage, adopt our customs, buy our goods, | wear our clothing. 1In one of the schools | T have established here the children, taught |two hours daily by a solder, orally (for 1 bave no books), have learned in six wecks over 500 English words, and can even sus- [taln a short conversation, thelr accent being clear and dlstinct. “The boys are all our friends. They play with the soldiers and talk to thew. There |18 no use for Spanish here any longer. Only |those who received an unusual education can talk and read Spanish. The children should be taught from English school books, |and well taught. A knowledge of ‘Ameri- cano' will make them quickly Americans, “Things are gradually progressing here. We have mayors and police in all the towns of the province, and schools. I detail a soldier to teach English in each school, and the children are making great progress. On account of the confusion of dialects, Bicol, Visayan, Ilolan and Tagal, the text- books have always been Spanish. I trust that the commission will not allow this system to be perpetunted. I propose that In the schools of this district the children shall learn geography, history and arith- metic in English, as they desire to do. The difficulty is textbooks. 1f 1 only could | met a lot of illustrated American primers! 1t is a glorfous opportunity. By teaching | these children to read English, in five years | |there will bo a new generation coming |to the front that will read paper: appreciate American manufactu: have new wants, be clvilized. Knowing the | ukes of things, they will want them. They will no longer be content with a hut with- out furniture and a pound of rice a day. | They will want money to buy the things they need, and will be willing to work for |46, Tt 18 labor that will make these fslands | enormously productive. I wish I had the primers!” A member of the Sixteenth infantry, sta- ‘(lnll'l with a small detachment in the | mountains of northeastern Luzon, writes that the region 1s full of deer, wild caribou |and wild hogs, and that fresh meat fs served to the troops every day. In three months the detachment of seventeen men has been ‘nupnllfld with thirty-seven deer, eleven carfbou and seventeen wild hogs. Deer are yulwmw in sight from the camp. On the other slde of a river two miles away 1s a village of 10,000 savages, almost naked and armed with bows anl arrows, spears and battle axes. They are not unfriendly with Amerfcans, but are required to keep on their own side of the river. The 0ld but ever new story of the heroism of humble life lies behind the monument erected by his shipmates to the memory of Daniel Donoghue, a saflor who lost his lite Iast August by jumping into the sea while erossing Manila bay, to save a satlor who had fallen overboard. The memorial has been placed in the American cemetery at | Pasay, Manila. The gravestone is inscribed |as follows: “In memory of Danlel Dono- ghue, seaman, 8. Now Orleans, born In_Philadelphia, Pa., U. 8 A., August 5, 1875, drowned in Manila Bay, P. I.. August 1900, fn attempting to save the life of a shipmate. Erected by his shipmates." The Washington correspondent New York Evening Post darker side of the Philippine plcture, as follows: “Your correspondent has just re- celved a letter from an old friend who is in the public service fn the Philippines and has been there since the American occupa- tion. He writes that military conditions | are very dark and that the army officers in personal conversation acknowledge this Agninaldo’s government, he declares, ls holding sway over two-thirds of the coun- try, maintaining courts, collecting revenue and managing telegraph lines. The Mo- hammedan reglons are pacified and under American control. Manila and the gar- risoned towns are subdued and will remain 80 as long as the blue-coated soldfer patroln the stree But the skirmishing partics run in very close to the clty in some of thelr raids. American methods of subjuga- tion, he insists, are not dissimilar to those employed by the Spanish in Cuba and the hanging and shooting of Filipinos are carried on with considerable freedom. It seems to be the American pollcy to regard all Filipinos in arms as bandits, but to ex- pect the Filipinos to regard their captives as soldiers. In fact, the Filipinos have not of the touches on the dared to pursue the same methods with their prisoners that our soldiers have adopted, because they fear lest, if they shonld violate the rules of civillzed warfare by putting captives to death, American public sentiment would be so aroused against them as to call for their extermina- tion. This word ‘extermination’ by the way, is, In the opinlon of the writer of the letter, the only solution of the Philippine problem consistent with adhierence to the present program. The natives never will gIve up the fight, #o Intense 15 thelr hatred of the Americans, whom they do not dis- tinguish from the Spanfards.” GREAT YEAR FOR TRADE. Record-Breaking Exhibit of American rosperity, St. Louls Globe-Democrat. The last year of the century will breuk all records in the extent of Amerlea’s trade with the outslde world. The present indi- cations are that the country's exports for the calendar year 1900 will bLe in the neighborhood of $1,470,000,000 and the fm- Theso figures are based | on the actual returns for the year up to the | end of November and estimates of the | trade movement of the present month. This points to a favorable balance of $645,000,000 in the country's forelgn trado in the present calendar year, which s about $25000,000 | abead of the big record made in the cal- endar year 1800 In the begioning of the nation the bal- ance in the foreign trade was always on the otber side. aports for years ex- | ceeded exports. The country exported its raw materials and imported the same ar- ticles transmuted into finished products No manufacturing of any account was done in the United States until the war of 1812 cut the country off from the rest of the world and compelled it to make most of the finished articles which it consumed. That war, in fact, In turning the thoughts of | the country to the necessity of manufactur- ing a large share of the things which it used, conferred a benefit on the American people immeasurably in eacess of all the losses of property which the confliot brought Under the wise system of protection to domestic industries first established by the whigs and later on extended by the ro- publicans, the United States s enabled at the present time to make cverything which principlo the Crumpacker bill without increasinghe membership of the present house of reesentatives. it needs except @ comparatively small quantity of things of which the outslde world, for one reason or anoither, has belter Lieutenant Colonel Jumes Parker, one of | American news- | that even Thump, facilities than this country possesses. The growth of the country in the matter of sup- plying its own needs and in providing for tho needs of the rest of the world has been wonderful In the past quarter of a tury. While the lmports largely dos clined per capita, the exports have ine craased to a degree of which nobody dreamed twenty or thirty years ngo. The exports of the United States in 1900 wiil bo double thoso for 1888, triple those for 1873 and cuadruplo those for 1869, The country is gotting more and more self-supporting overy year. In the extent of its manufae. tures it has long been ahead of and which stands second among the countries of the world, and which led until America went to the front. The expansion of the United States in the extent to which ft sup- plies fts own wants in merchandise and has made conquests in the markets of the rest of the countries 18 a magnificent tribute to the wisdom of republican policy. A BONANZA FOR BANDITS, cene Inadequnt, moter ving roe Press, Detroit Nebraska has been in the union for a third of a century and had a territorial government for thirteen years prior to its admission. It was in (he storm center when the Missouri compromise was & paramount | 1ssue and Joined the sisterhood on the same terma as did Kansas. It went through the criminal experience of a frontfer state, has produced some very distinguished states men, and one of fts sons was twice honored as a presidential candidate. Under such conditions {t would be expected that its | laws were fully equal to the protection of its people and the punishment of all crim- inal offenders, But how far this is from being true ap- pears In the Cudahy case. Apologlsts for its legislators cannot even way that they never thought of Kkidnaping in this en lightened age, and part| cularly in their own state, for they did think of it and passed a law which is ridiculously abortive. It only provides punishment for kidnapers | who intend to take their victim out of tho state. There I8 not a statutory provision under which the boy stealers in this case | could be punished for extorting money from the father or for conspiring thus to rob |bim. The sole penalty that can be visited upon the bandits, according to published | authority, is for the false imprisonwent of tholr captive, and that offense is ouly a misdemeanor under the laws of Nebraska, There fs certainly an ideal field for carry- |Ing on the kidnaping industry. 1t would uot be at all surprising to sce the skilled | Itallan operators in this lne flocking to | the state of broad plateaus and rarcfied | atmosphere, ns a modern Eldorado, a land where the extorting of ransom is made easy, and there 1s no punishment to fit tho crime. Even Colonel Bryan himself might bo kidnaped, chained until his friends took him out of pawn, aud if the perpetrators of the outrage were caught they would bo kiven only the same punishment as if they had been drunk and disorderly. We know a governor who, If holding the same posi- tion In Nebraska, would have had a special seeslon of the legislature grinding before this time. Meantime other states will do well to look to their laws, for the chances are that an epidemic of kidnaping will have its run in different parts of the country, TO A PO POLISHE) Detroit Free Press: *‘How stale that fel- low's jokes are.”" said the man at the show, es," said the m; \. apologetically, “but consider how fresh he s himsclt,” Chicago Tribune rst Club Member— But how are we going to get the elephunt up those four flights of stalrs? Necond Clib Alember I think we're to meet this evening and talk it up. Washington Star: “I'se a gret admirer ob de troof.” sald Uncle Eben. “But so times dar is one ting better dan teliln’ de troof, an' dat's keepin' yo' mouth shet.” Indianapolls Press: you draw from the fact that single re more dissipated than married m ed the Sweet Young Thing It shows that the greater part of humanity is governed by terror only,” an- eyered the Savage Buchelor, here aro too many exclaimed the man What deduction can as V-ashington Star rich men in politics® with emphatie {dea “Well,' answer Senator Sorghum, “that lsn't the fault of us regular politiclans. We have done all we could to make ‘em spend thelr money.” Philadelphia can't | Mr K Press: “Ah! my dear. T h longer,” ‘gasped the dyin But, oh!'{t'a sweet to thin after death I'll be near you and watch over you “If that 18 80, replied the prospective rich young widow, “I'm afraid my ex- travagance will puin you fearfully, ihen." Didn't T tell wald the Detroit Free Press let well enough u u to doctor to the conva t who had disobeyed and was suffering a relapse “Yes, doctor,” whined the patient, “but I nough.” and Plain “Say, colonel, papers are making a great hullabulog over the death of that boy who wis h. 80 roughly here a while ago, do_about it “'Oh, call him & coward and consider the Incident closed.” wh What will we Chicago Record, The clock upon the mantel stands, It ticks, and g0 1 know it's golng, But, as to speed, ity glided hands Don't make a very rapid showing, My lady’s maid, an age ngo, Hald she would he down In a second. I'd glve a trifle just to know xactly how Ker time is reckoned! The thing is pretty of its kind; Two chubby loves s t its dlal, One love, a strong one , 1 find, pports me in this pr trlal Perhaps by her fair h I wonder this, the My lady can—that to Wind me—around her little finger, d 'ths wound— le I ling She knows it, too; I'll bet a dime Her purpose 18 (0 keep me guessing; It seems I'm only marking time Whereas I thought [ was progressing. t 18 why this clock s set— 0 mind us of the moments fleeting; But time completely 1 forget From the sweet moment of our meeting, Tick, tick, the tiny pendulum, Click, click, leather thimp, her “bootheels, oak and my heart! I knew she'd e now keeping time togoether, We’ll help Your eyes. 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