THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MAY 20, 1001.
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Tlio Jobbing Imprests of Oimihn are
mnkltiK Krcnt progress, but the iniinn
fnctnrlng Ititerosts liced reinforcement.
Tim rumored put-clmse of Paris Figaro
by a German syndicate enps the climax.
The last time the Germans captured
the French capital wuh In 1871.
Now that South Omnhn Iuih dropped
the occupation (ax, the men who plauued
its costly charter will have to devise
Homo plan to raise mure revenue.
Chicago has abolished the commence
ment bouquet as an adjunct to public
(school graduation. There is nothing,
however, to prevent impregnating the
sheepskins with perfume.
The Albany street car strike has been
satisfactorily settled, giving cause for
rejoicing by the strikers and the em
ployers, but nbove all by the people
vho have been compelled to walk.
Nebraska's most crying need Is revi
sion of Its revenue laws that will en
forco the constitutional mandate for
equal taxation of all property and
franchises according to Its actual worth.
If offers of rt state fair site had only
been required before the fair was lo
cated permanently in nny particular
city the prices of available tracts sub
ject to the choice of the state board
would not bo so lofty.
The next competition between enter
prising Nebraska cities will be for the
location of the annual encampment of
the National guard. It will be an ex
cellent idea to have a good base of sup
plies and keep close to it.
From the way Lord Salisbury clings
to the position of prime minister, not
withstanding his falling health, one
would Judge that tho aversion to resign
ing public ollice Is just as strong In
England as It Is In the United States.
The president of the new locomotive
trust used to be general manager of the
Union Pacltlc and while acting in that
capacity had his residence In Nebraska.
Nebraska seems to bo furnishing Its full
quota to the colony of trust magnates.
And now tho popocratlc organs nro
complaining that Governor Savago Is
partisan In his appointments. Wonder
what they have been expecting? Is It
posslblo they wero looking to hlm as a
republican to appoint popocrats to
office?
Although usually referred to as a
corn state, Nebraska has a larger acre
ago sown to winter wheat this year
than over before. Nebraska has the
soil for a diversified agriculture that
will give It a top standing in every liu
porta nt crop.
By this time tho Central Labor union
has discovered that olllclal lalwr organs
are a sourco of disbud Instead of being
a source of strength. The trades unions
want tho goodwill of all newspapers
and cannot: afford to be drawn into the
personal controversies of rival publish-
ers.
If tho railways ever overlook an op
portunity to withdraw property in this
county from local taxation by lumping
it In with returns for the whole state It
Is not their fault. Under the system as
It now prevails every time a railroad
makes Improvements In Omaha It de
creases Instead of Increases the taxable
values for local purposes.
Tho Interstate Bridge and Terminal
company, If wo nro credibly Informed,
Is capitalized for $5,000,000, and its as
sessed valuation for taxation purposes
In the county of Douglas Is only $18,000.
Is It any wonder that the tax rate In
this city is higher than In any other
city of equal population In Amorlca?
Whenever a proposition for tho right
of way for an electric railroad from
Omaha to Fremont Is made to the Board
of County Commissioners by responsible
parties who mean business and will
guarantee the completion of the line
within a reasonable time It will receive
fuvorablo consideration under conditions
that will protect tho public.
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MOUE roVVLISTlC FALLACIES.
The Dee says; "At all events, this fact
Is Incontrovertible, that the homo consump
tion of all American products Is greater
than ever before In our history and we are
at tho same time sending more of our
products agricultural and manufactured
abroad than ev.T before."
But why? Do the goldbug economists
ever try to toll why? The reason Is that
money has been cheapened more than CO
per cent since the days of Cleveland soup
houses nnd 10-cent corn. No. 3 corn has
been worth t3 cents In Omaha for some
time and hogs jelling, at 6. It takos more
than double the amount of money to buy
bogs and corn than It, did In tho days when
tho mullethcods wcro howling for dear
money and shouting about over-production.
With over $1,000,000,000 of paper and silver
In circulation monoy Is cheap. When the
farmer sells his hogs nnd corn now he has
something left after paying expenses and
taxes to buy goods with. Therefore the
home consumption Is greater and the manu
facturers sell more goods. Hut suppose The
Hep's advice had been taken and we had no
legal tender monoy In this country except
gold and farmers were selling their corn at
10 cents nnd their hogs at 3 cents, whnt
would become of the home consumption
then? The farmer would hove no money
with which to buy goods, the merchant
could not sell, the manufacturer would have
to close down and we would have the Rose-water-Cleveland
souphousc business over
again.
Take the advice of Rosewnter nnd Horace
White and sell nil the sliver dollars -for
bullion, destroy the greenbacks take $700,
000,000 out of tho circulation and get down
to the gold standard In fact as well as to
talk about It and how much would the
farmer get for his corn? How would trade
be nffected? Docs the quantity of money
In circulation affect prices? Has not Tho
Ueo's arguments on tho money question
been poven by events to be tho very worst
kind of economic rot? Nebraska independ
ent. There are still men In this world who
believe that the earth Is ns lint as n
pancake. A preacher down In Virginia
is still teaching that the sun revolves
around the earth. Hy tho same method
of reasoning the leading organ of Ne
braska populism ascribes the present
prosperity to tho abundance of money
Instead of ascribing tho abundance of
money to the prevailing prosperity.
People capable of clear reasoning un
derstand by this time that the resump
tion of prosperity was due to the re
establishment of confidence In tho sta
bility of our money stnndard, tho re
opening of mills and factories and the
re-employment of hundreds of thousands
of Idle wage-workers. Tho Increase In
the volume of paper currency nnd coined
sliver since "tho dnys of Cleveland soup
houses nnd 10-cent corn" has been com
paratively unimportant. The total in
crease in the volume of national bank
notes and silver certificates does not
exceed $1(50.000,000, but there has been
on enormous Increase In gold by reason
of the great excess of exports over Im
ports. This vast growth of our foreign trade
has contributed greatly to the present
prosperity, but It has had scarcely any
bearing on tho price of hogs or corn,
excepting so far as It has stimulated
activity in our mills nnd factories and
enabled wojklngmon and working
women to consume more bread and more
meat, and" incidentally reducing the sur
plus of grain nnd meat In the world's
market. Every Intelligent American
farmer knows by this time that the
prices of his products arc governed by
the law of supply and demand in the
world's markets. Tho price of wheat
and hogs is llxed nt Liverpool nnd de
pends entirely upon the available sup
ply for export in nil the grain and meat
producing countries. The price nt which
farm products are marketed at home
is simply the Liverpool price less the
cost of trausportntlon and handling.
With a superabundance of cattle and
grain In India, Australia, Argentina nnd
Russia, the price of American grain
might be very low, even If the American
banks were overflowing with gold and
silver.
Nobody contends that tho gold stand
ard has raised prices. That virtue was
claimed by the flat money people for
Irredeemable currency nnd by free sil
ver advocates for free coinage, but these
popullstic fallacies have been so thor
oughly exploded by experleuco that It
Is amazing anybody should attempt to
reassert aud uphold them. In a nut
shell, the experleuco of the past four
years has proved conclusively that It
is not the opening of the mints but the
opening of the mills that mnkes prosperity.
A NATIONAL INCIDENT.
The launching of the battleship Ohio
at San Francisco on Saturday was n
national Incident which will not soon
bo forgotten, becnuse of the participa
tion therein of the president of tho
United Stntcs. The facts as given In
our columns yesterday were of exceed
ing interest, but the chief point in them
was the speech of President MeKlnley,
which ought to commend itself to the
fnvor of every man In tho nntlon.
It was a speech In advocacy of the
Idea of a great navy and a merchant
marine equal to the demands of Amer
ican commerce. What we need, said
President MeKlnley, Is moro such ships
ns tho Ohio. We ought to havo a good
commercial line from Snn Francisco to
the Philippines, he declared, built by
American wnrklngmen, manned by
American sailors and cnrrylng the Amer
ican (lug.
Can there be any doubt about this?
In tho great struggle that the Amer
ican merchnnt nnd manufacturer must
moke for their share In the markets of
the world Is there anythlug more cer
tain than that success depends upon
their having their own lines of trans
portation with which to send their prod
ucts to foreign markets? When the
president said that we need n commer
cial line from San Francisco to the Phil
ippines lie touched on only n part of
the great question of tho nation's ne
cessity lu regnrd to a merchant murine.
Thero Is not only needed a great com
mercial lino of steamships for the
Asiatic trade, but for all tho foreign
commerce of the nation. Wo cannot be
commercially Independent, we canuot
carry on our foreign commerce as wo
should do, so long as we aro dependent
upon the foreign shipowner. It Is an
abeoluto handicap upon the American
merchant and manufacturer so long as
he Is compelled to transact his buslucsa
with foreign markets In the ships nnd
under the flags of foreign nations.
President MeKlnley did not In the
slightest degree exaggerate the Impor
tance of a merchant marine In the build
lug up of our foreign commerce. It Is
absolutely essential and of the very
first Importance. American ship,
manned by American sailors and carry
ing the American flag, nre the most
potent Influence for the extension of
American commerce. "There Is noth
ing lu this world that brings peo
ple so close together us commerce,"
snld President MeKlnley. "There Is
nothing In this world that so much
represents the universal brotherhood of
man as commerce, and we wnnt to en
courage commerce." It Is an absolutely
correct Idea. The extension of our com
merce depends today more upon the
building up of our merchant marine
than upon anything cls and tills Is
really the great question for future so
lution. 7 lit: HOLD EXl'OttT.
A considerable amount of gold has
gone out of the country during the lust
few weeks, but this movement has had
no appreciable effect upon tho money
market, which continues ns easy and
comfortable as before the extraordinary
slock exchange operations of n week
ago. or as before the outward move
ment of gold. Indeed, the llniiiiclnl
situation is such ns to warrant the opin
ion that tho danger apprehended a week
ago has completely disappeared and
that for n time nt least there Is nothing
to fenr so far as the monetnry situa
tion Is concerned.
It Is not necessarily to be concluded
that all the speculative Influence which
produced the extraordinary conditions
of a week 11 go have been removed from
the market. It Is not certain that thero
has been a complete settlement be
tween the warring factions that were
responsible for the unprecedented con
ditions of week before Inst. Hut the
probabilities are that thero will not be
a recurrence of the experience of that
time nnd that for n considerable period
stocks will be sold nt something near
their normal value.
So far as the departure of gold at this
time Is concerned, It is in no way 11
disturbing Incident, thus illustrating the
commercial aud tlnanclal soundness of
the country outside of that part of it
that lias had experience with the stock
market. According to tho estimates of
experts, the actual trade balance created
in Europe this year In favor of the
United States, after making allowance
for unidentified exchanges, such as
freights, tourists' expenses, Insurance,
etc., will be not far from $300,000,000.
It Is apparent, therefore, that the out
flow of gold from this country Is not a
matter about which there need be any
apprehension In fluanclul circles.
DIRECT ritlMAlii' NOMINATI ONS.
The abuses that havo grown out of
the present system of nominations by
conventions have become so flagrant as
to awaken general Interest In tho method
of direct nominations. At the session
recently held nt Rochester by the Na
tional Municipal league the movement
to restore popular control of party nomi
nations was fully discussed and resolu
tions were adopted declaring In favor
of the Crawford county system. The
average vote brought out at the repub
lican primaries In Crawford county,
renusylvnnln, has been 70 per cent of
the total vote cast nt the general elec
tion following. This fact affords de
cisive proof that the rank and flic of the
party participates as actively In the di
rect primary elections ns It does In pri
maries tliut select delegates to make
nominations in convention.
In several cities of Minnesota and Wis
consin direct primary nominations have
been mndo with apparent success. In
Nebraska the experiment has been con
fined to tho city of Lincoln. In this
city It has been advocated from time
to time by n number of prominent lend
ers, biit up to this timo It has not been
given trial. If it Is to be tried this
would be a good year for making the
experiment.
The present method aud especially the
relative representation of tho various
wards and precincts In the conventions
Is radically wrong. Tho basis of nil
nominations should be representation
proportioned to the actual number of
voters. lustead of that, representation
In our city and county conventions of
all parties Is arbitrary and based on ter
ritory rather than on votes. Every ward
In Omuha Is represented by the same
number of delegates aud every country
precinct by the same number. Thus the
First ward, with perhaps 1,000 repub
licans, has the same representation In
republican conventions ns the Fourth
ward, with li.OOO republican votes. Clou
tarf product, which cast only four votes
for MeKlnley at the Inst presidential
election, had live delegates in the
county convention, or half as nmny as
the Sixth ward, which casts from 1,800
to 'J.OOO republican votes.
It seems to us that primary election
reform In Nebraska aud especially lu
Douglas county is badly needed. The
primary election Is the foundation stone
of tho entire structure of populur gov
ernment. Unless the great body of
party voters are given an equal voice
In the selection of candidates there can
be no hopo of reform.
The county commissioners have de
cided to present a bill for $10,000 to the
city of Omaha for feeding city prisoners
In the county Jail. This brings up the
question so often asked: Why Is it that
the county Is paying -in cents n day for
feeding prisoners when the city Is able
to contract for the same service at 17
cents a day? So far ns can bo learned
the meals served by tho city contractor
are Just as substantial as those served
by the county contractor. Why should
the county pay nearly three times as
much for feeding prisoners ns the city Is
paying?
The Albany street car strike revives
a question that has presented Itself In
former contests of this class as to who
Is to be held responsible for tho loss of
life and property. Will the city of Al
bany be held responsible for tho conse
quences of the riot engendered by the
strike, or Is the Albany street railway
company to be held responsible to the
families of the Innocent victims who
were shot down by the uillltln? A dc
clslon Just rendered by the Minnesota
supreme court places the responsibility
on the street railway company, holding
that It Is not compelled to operate Its
lines lu tho face of an excited mob of
rioters when such operation Is fraught
with danger to the employes and the
public generally. This would Imply that
the companies enn suspend operations
pending a strike, and If losses ate en
tailed the city would ultimately be lia
ble to the company.
According to a ruling of State Super
Inteudent Fowler, bused on a new de
clslon of the supreme court, nn occupa
tlon tax in Nebraska whose payment Is
a prerequisite to the granting of a liquor
license Is a license fee, no mntter by
what name it Is called In tho ordinance,
nnd belongs not to the municipal au
thorltles, but to tho school district. The
particular significance of this Interpret!!
tlon Is that school districts like South
Omaha, for example, can demand the
payment by tho city of all moneys col
lected lu tho past as occupotlon taxes
on llqffor dealers nnd enforce refusal by
action lu tho courts. The same sltua
tlop Is presented in a number of Ne
braska cities aud towns, which is likely
to cause considerable embarrnssnicnt If
pressed for an application of the new
rule.
Chlcogo has always been very nmbl
tlous. .lust now It Is Its nmbltlon to bo
tho best lighted city In the world. The
mayor and council of Chicago aro uego
tinting for a contract with the gas trust
of that city that promises to fulllll the
measure of this ambition. In con 8 hi
(ration of the extension of Its franchise
tho gas company proposes to pay a roy
nlty of 3Vj per cent of Its gross receipts
from the sale of Illuminating gas, or 5
per cent from the sale of fuel gas, with
a guaranty that tho amount of royalty
annually shall bo equal to payment for
25,000 Incandescent street lights. When
It Is borne In mind that the lowest cost
of llghtlug 25,000 street lamps would bo
$400,000 per annum, some Idcn may be
formed of the Immense value of such a
franchise.
The denl by which tho control of tho
Burlington is to pass to the Northern
Pnclfle through the exchnngo of Bur
lington stock for Northern Pnclllc bonds
Is snld now to have been assured by tho
deposit of the necessary proportion of
the stock. It will take some time to
work out the details of the unified man
ngement, nnd In the meanwhile a spirit
of unrest will hover over several of the
departments of both roads, which are
liable to undergo reorganization changes,
State Superintendent Fowler Is to talk
at tho coming convention of the Na
tional Educational association on the
subject of school fads. Ho might ob
tain valunblo pointers by devoting n
little special study' to the Omaha public
schools.
Caaar for Connrntnlntloa.
Indianapolis Journal.
One of the things demonstrated by the re
cent stock panic Is that the United States
1b bigger than Wall street.
Home Proof at Hand.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
An attempt Is being made to prove that
Oeorge Washington was fond of gambling
games. It will have to be admitted that he
bad a winning way with him, and that on
several occasions ho captured numerous
stacks of reds.
Crowded nt the Ton,
Philadelphia Record.
Perhaps the collapse of the Philippine In
surrection was partially duo to the fact that
tho natives had too many generals and too
few privates. A late report from Manila
announces the capitulation of one lieutenant
general, flvo major generals, flftesn colonels
and eleven private soldiers in ono bunch.
American Soldier the Rest.
St. Louis Republic.
Tho American soldier is free and easy,
but the world hasn't his equal as a good
soldier. Let's be content with him, allow
ing Europe to make automata out of her
fighting material. Good, scrappy, alert,
self-respecting men make the ideal soldiers.
And that's the sort of man tho American
soldier is allowed to remain, no matter how
long be may serve Old Glory in the field.
Appalling- Coat of Armed Conflict.
Boston Transcript.
Half a dozen big wars in the course of
the next quarter century will bring the
world's military and naval expenditure to n
point calculated to threaten the financial
stability not only of the nations, but of
tho individuals of whom they consist. The
horrors of war appear to have been les
sened rather than Increased, as was sup
posed likely to bo the case, by the applica
tion of science, but, on the other hand, it is
making tho costliness something appalling,
to which the wealthiest nation in the world
must eventually succumb if too persistently
continued.
IlANfiEHS OX OLH PATH.
Peril of Stouk fiauitilliiir Touched
Upon li- n lllxlioii.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Timely words were spoken by Bishop
Lawrence at tho Protestant Episcopal
diocesan convention In Doston last week
that should be read outside of the denomi
nation and the delegates addressed. We
quote;
"Of tho many dangers, subtlo nnd open,
which stand in our path, I mention only
two, for they aro such, and so subtle as
well as Imminent that they demand our Im
mediate thought and action. Ono has only
to listen for n moment to tho shouts In the
stock market during the last few weeks
to be Impressed with the danger In which
our young men nnd women, our boys and
girls, stand, tho temptation to gamble, to
get something for nothing, to try to make
monoy fatt, to hazard what Is of vnluo
simply for tho pleniure of tho hazard, You
see that I am not drawing the flno dis
tinctions, much less am I making the stock
market tho scapegoat for an Increasing
popular danger and vice. I am not going
to dlscusi the motive of gambling, We
know that It breeds meanness, dishonesty
and suspicion among many. We are as
sured also that, appealing as tho vice does
to some of tbe noblest nnd more attractive
faculties, It w'recks tho finer characters,
destroys homes and creates social unrest.
In this last word we find one strong ele
ment In the evil. Vicious gambling which
catches the popular eye Is but the symptom
of a spirit pervading tb community, that
of an unreadiness to work steadily for tho
legitimate, reward of labor, on unrest at the
moderate and fair returns of capital, a
making baste to get rich, a keen love, of
Ihs sport of overreicblng another, a fascina
tion In living by one's wits Instead of by
cue's sober thought and careful work."
American
New Y
The history of prices upon any financial
or commercial exchange following n panic
Indicates n general rule which Is well-nlgu
Inexorable. There Is, first, n speedy re
covery In values of from one-hnlf to two
thirds the decline that has taken place.
Such a recovery was witnessed In our stock
market on Friday nnd Saturday of last
week, Thursday bolng the panic day. Thpro
Is then another decline, oftentimes gradunt,
carrying prices back to the figures reached
In the panic, nnd sometimes below. Thin
movement Is due to the natural sales of
securities made by weak or frightened
holders who wish to dispose of them or
may be compelled to do so when the mar
ket rallies. Such a secondary decline, ap
parently, took place on the Stock exchange
yesterday and the day before. At ono
time during yesterday tho average prices
of securities dealt In on tho exchange
touched lower figures than they did at the
close of tho market last Thursday. Tho
record of these averages Is always taken
from tho closing prices of the day's busi
ness; and the fact that the low point was
reached yesterday is very suggestive. Wo
bellevo that It is not the part of wisdom
now for any holder of approved Investment
securities to sell them nt prevailing prices,
not wholly because of the common history
of panics related above, but for the fol
lowing more impressive and more substan
tial facts:
No matter whether Wall street prices
go up or down, no ono ought to forget,
for an Instant that the prosperity of our
country Is still greater than ever befie,
and that it is built upon solid foundations.
The official figures for April of the mcr-
LOCATION FOR TUB STATE FA III.
Kearney Hub: It wns supposed that the
city of Lincoln would mnko an effort to
make good Its pledge to furnish n slto for
tho state fair If the legislature should
locate It there. It turns out, however, that
tho Btntc Is now expected to do It all.
Savernl sites nro contemplated, Including
tho old fair grounds site, Lincoln park
nnd Burlington Beach. Speaking on tho
merits of the vnrlous sites thero Is no doubt
that the old fair grounds nre In every way
preferable and are also the best from n
money point of view.
Fremont Tribune: Tho Stato Board of
Public Lands and Buildings has refused to
mildly and tamely submit to an evident
purpose, of property owners to hold it up
In tho matter of purchasing a slto for tho
stato fair. Tho board has offered $15,000
for the old site, tho owners of which want
$22,000. Tho board Is npparontly disposed
to act as If the monoy appropriated be
longed to Its members Instead of tho stato
nnd to demand as good a deal for the stato
ns It would expect to get for Itself. This
la a little unusual In public officials.
Syracuse Journal: Tho muddlo over tho
selection of a stato fair slto grows thicker
and more tangled as It grows older. Tho
Journal would suggest as a way out of the
difficulty that the board of directors como
down and look over our grounds. Syra
cuse Is not much farther from Lincoln
than some sites offered, and wo have tho
best kite-shaped mile track In the west
which will be thrown in as an inducement
to directors to select our grounds as tho
place to hold tho fair. Besides we won't
charge the directors n cent and they can
cut up the $35,000 stato appropriation
among themselves. This offer must bo ac
cepted p. d. q.
Grand bland Independent: Deadlocks
certainly aro contagious. We've another
now In this great state of Nebraska. The
contagion started with the senatorial strug
gle. That lasted a good long while. It
had Just been successfully pricked when wo
bad the deadlock over the supreme court
commlsslonershlps. Everyone rejoiced, too,
when that was broken. Now wo have one
In the Board of Public Lands nnd Build
lngs. Two of the members seem to be
bent on buying a lot of sandy beach and
bad water near Lincoln for stato fair
grounds and they've discovered that the
old site wasn't quite as largo as It really
ought to be. Thero are thousands and
other thousands In Nebraska who wouldn't
object to see tho gentlemen referred to
make a record-breaker of this deadlock-
by keeping It up permanently.
PHnSO.XAI. NOTRS.
Two women riding on cross-saddles In the
park at Buffalo arc commended by a local
paper as having "looked well."'
The Sunday closing movement at Buffalo
has been abandoned for tho summer, and
Niagara Falls will continue doing business
every day In tho week.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison the other day
presonted to the Harrison public school
building of Indianapolis a portrait of the
late ex-President Harrison.
Ragtime Is unreservedly condemnod by
tho America Federation of Musicians. For
tunately for the bereft, nature will put up
"A Hot Time" for some weeks to come.
Mrs. Mary K. Lease, publicly denied her
state before an eastern audience "I am
a New York woman," she Bald. "Don't
Bay I am from Kansas. I am ashamed of
that state."
Tho United States has ninety warships on
tho stocks, and nil of them will be ready
for business In about ,two years. Still, If
the scrappers cannot wait for tho finish,
your uncle wilt accommodate them at any
moment.
Louis Godard, the noted French aeronaut,
who will soon attempt to cross tho At
lantic In a balloon, Is the son of a famoim
balloonist, who reared his son In the same
calling. He has made nearly 1,000 aerial
Journeys,
The supreme court of Ohio sustains tho
validity of the law assessing damages to
the county where a lynching occurs. The
touch of, tho taxpayers' pocket Is expected
to havo a depressing effect on an over
worked Industry.
Albert C. Case of the Carneglo company,
who is to become president of tho Amer
ican Cotton company on June 1, Is a na
tive of New Jersey and began life nt 17
as a telegraph operator on the New York
division of tho Pennsylvania railroad.
Second Assistant Secretary of State A.
A. Adce is said to be better versed in the
language of diplomacy than nny living
American. He writes nearly all the state
papers Intended for foreign rending. Mr.
Adee is at present making a thorough tour
of Germany.
It Is noted that the Initial J played a
conspicuous part in the names of those who
wero to tho foro In Wall street's recent
hurly-burly. J. Plerpor.t Morgan, .1. It.
Keene, J. J. Hill, J. Sttllman, J. Schlff,
J. H. Moore, J. W. Gates, J. Loeb and
George J. Gould are some of tho moro
notable Instances.
Prlnco Kropotkln. the Russian anarchist,
at present visiting this country, Is of the
opinion that war Is disastrous to Russia
because it !s Invariably followed by out
breaks at homo which tend toward the
freedom of the people. These, of course,
the prince favors. He says that free Rus
sia will b a peaceful country.
Josef Hoffman Is going to London after
a short itay In Paris to meet the pro
moters of a compsny formed to put on
the market one of the pianist's Inventions.
This ! an engine which Is declared hy ex
perts who hive examined it to be a re
markable achievement. Most of the money
to advance nis interests came from New
York admirers. ,
Business
ork Sun.
ehandlsf movement lu and out of the coun
try, made public by tho trrasury bureau
of statistics on Tuesday nfternoon, show
that our trade balance Is still Increasing
nt a ninrvelous into, and, morcoer, that
we are ual.ig more nnd more of our own
country's products In preference to tl.osc
of foreign countries.
For April the valuo of our exports wns
JH.O20.C0S over that of our Imports as com
pared with nbout the same excess In April
of the year before, Hnd with nil excess
of only $13,586,015 lu tbe year before that.
For the ten months ending In April the
Increase In the balance of our exports wns
$129,095,322 ns compared with the previous
)cnr; while the Imports 'or these fell
months fell from $717,25(1.292 for 1900 to
$670,230,912 for 1901. Assuming, ns Is usually
calculated, that tho not debt of our peoplo
abroad Is nbout $200,000,000 annually for
freights, Interest, travelers' credits nnd
slmilnr Items, it Is apparent that our
net credit balance for the year will not
be far from S500.000.000. The Importance
of this fnct. t.iken In conjunction with the
similar brilliant showings of the last five
ears, cannot be overestimated.
Railway enrnlngs, too, for April show
an Increase of over $1,300,000, or nearly 9
per cent of those of the year before. Tho
outlook for our crops Is magnificent; gen
eral business Is still superb.
it will take moro than a speculators'
panic In Wall street to check or disturb tlm
country's Industrial energy, which Is cnor-
ntrms and enormously profitable. In that
lie tho cause and the Justification for tho
prosperity of Wall street.
OPINIONS FItOM COUNTRY Pit KM.
Beaver City Tribune: Wheu Omaha busl
ness men mnko nn Excursion Into the state
to see the "trade" the mistake, li made In
swinging around tho same old circle. Let
the Omnhn business men come out to the
Heaver valley and feast on alfalfa once an
they will return to their homes refreshed
Invigorated, nnd with a new Idea of the
southwestern part of the state.
Ashland Gazette: Governor Savage did a
wise thing In tho appolntmont of W. J
O'Brien to tho supcrlntcndency of tho stnto
fisheries nt South Bend. Ho evidently had
no political debts to pay to the lowest class
of saloon keepers In Omaha or he would
havo let Reformer Poyntcr's appointment
stand. As It Is. tho wreck at South Bend
will be repaired In course of time, for tho
fisheries will be superintended by ono thor
oughly competent for the place, and It
mnkes but little difference what his politics
may be.
Grand Island Independent: It has been
suggested thnt views of Nebraska farms be
a featuro of tho Nebraska exhibition nt the
HulTnlo exposition. It is an excellent sug
gestion nnd the state could do no bettor
than to present to tho neonlo of tho east
literature containing fine photographic
views, it win he a difficult matter to se
euro a proper agricultural oxhlhlt at so lato
a day, but n collection, tho best that can bo
secured, rolnforced by photographic views
of farms In all parts of tho state, will do
considerable good. A Nebraska Album, con
mining reprints of such views, might come
high, but would bo a mighty powerful card
or introduction to the eastern whose 1m
prosslon of Nebraska may havo heen af
fectcd by sod house exhibits and wild west
shows.
St. Paul Republican: The terrible threat
or tuo Columbus Telegram, tho Crelo Sem
ocrat. tho St. Paul Phonogrnph and other
iioilcr-than-thou fusion newspapers to nuh
llsh tho names of those who brought the
party Into dlsrcputo by flirting with tho
corporations remains unfulfilled. The self
Imposed task Is a gigantic 0110 and we ore
not surprised that they hesitate to tackle
It. Tho mechanical labor alone would be
equal to that of compiling a delinquent tax
list in a year of democratic panic, and
all country newspaper men know whnt that
moans especially those who havo teon
servico In county treasurer's office. Per
haps tho easiest way out would be to pub
lish a list of those who refused to accept
corporation favors. The demand upon val
uablo advertising space would thus bo re
duced to a minimum.
WnEHK HEFOHM IS N UK I) HI).
CndrtliiK C.lrln In ICiiiiniin Who Uodire
the CookliiK School.
Emporia (Kan.) Gazette.
Monday afternoon while tbo cooking
scnooi was in session a reporter for the
Gazette found flvo young women of this
town out gnddlng Commercial street. Their
names are:
Miss Mabel Mllllngton of 701 Market.
Miss Inez Post' of 1520 West.
Miss Myrtlo Harthlngton of 820 Exchange.
Mrs. John Slowby of 519 Exchnngo.
Miss Earllo Rlzcr of 427 Constitution.
Theso girls aro nil daughters of respoct
ablo parents, though nono of thorn Is rich.
The girls all wear good clothes, and tho Mll
llngton girl, at least, though uho Is only
17, Is so badly ovcrdrossed that peoplo won
der what her mother can be thinking about.
Tho girl boasts among her friends that
sho doesn't Intend to learn to cook, and
then she'll never have to. Her father went
through the bankruptcy court last year.
Old settlers say the Mllllngton girl's
mother used to mako the same boast. One
of her father's creditors was a baker whom
Mllllngton owed $215 for bread, pies and
rookies bought since, 1890. The Post girl
Is a newcomor, but she brags that no
woman "can loarn her to cook like her
mother." She can make ten kinds of candy,
four kinds of cako and six kinds of things
with whipped cream. But sho doesn't
know- boiled meat from broiled meat nnd
has never cooked a meal In her life. Sho
doesn't even know how to boll potatoes
with their Jackets on.
Tho Harthlngton girl is a snappy Uttlo
piece, who knows n lot of boy stories and
Is nil tho time making breaks and laughing
nt them. Sho looks at tho ground when
she walks and minces along as though she
was too nice for this world. She Is always
grunting on wash day and her poor mother
hasn't had n now dress Blnco 1888, though
Myrtlo Is dressed to kill.
John Slowby Is a railroad man. He has
been married threo years. Ho turns his
money over to his wlfo every pay day and
sho has bills for canned goods and ready
mado food at six grocery stores. Their
grocery bill lif over $30 a month nnd John
can't sco whero It goes. He should look
In the slop bucket. Half tho food she
cooks Is spoiled and none of It Is ever
mndo over.
The girls say that there Isn't a single
button on Earlle Rlzcr's drefcs, except the
forty-two buttons up the back of her shirt
waist. They call her tho human pin
cushion.
That Is the kind of girls who avoid the
cooking school. They aro not home makers
and Fmporla boys who are looking for
honest girls who will help to mako a
ving should paBs them up, They also flirt
with traveling men and young fellows claim
that you can lovo 'em all the second night
you call, Theso are harsh words, but tbe
cause Is a great ono and tho Gazette be.
lleves that the ends Justify the means. If
girls can't go to rooking school they ran
at least show rospecct for It by stopping
their gadding for a few days,
V.etm Whnt llnnslii Wanted.
YOKOHAMA, May 19-Korea has leased
to Japan 430 acres to form a nettlemrnt nt
Ala. Ban Pno; land Bought by Rujsla,
SO 31 12 OF TIIK FIRST I'AMI I.I 1)5.
Wlmt nn Iiuiulltl r (JenrnlouHt
Pound .Vrniiiul I'lj mouth Hock.
Chicago Chronicle.
The Chronicle bus already recorded ".
fact that the descendants of Mayflower n -cestry
havo little or no claim on kltnltii
with tho nobility of England I: wns 11
Implied that there wns not tho hlghn- 10
blllty of Integrity, courage, loyalty to !,
nnd sense of right. All theso nre chni.i
terlstlcs of tho pilgrims and were ihe brs
sort of nn Inheritance to bequcalh to thel
posterity. Many n family Is now busy nt wir..
studying genealogy In the hope of finding
nn lllustrous ancestor either a lord of
high degreo or hero of some war or glorl
tuts cause. Moro frequently the quest, s
far as this country goes, leads to some
servant, tradesman, tiller of tho soil or
mariner than to a hero or adventurer.
Rev. Charles H. Pope has lately pub
lished ft work on "The Pioneers of Msssa
chusetls," which Includes only those who
came to Massachusetts prior to 1650. Thre
nro about 0,000 In nil. Mr. Pope examined
Into tho occupations of 1,725 of the earlier
sottlcrs and found of tillers of the soil tliera
wero 323; bouso and ship rarpenters, 210,
tailors, 115. merchants, 103. shoemakers,
eighty-one; sea captains. sevonty-flvc;
wenvrrs, sixty-two; booksellers, on;
printers, two; grocers, two; minister.',
ninety-one; physicians, twenty-one; school
masters, sixteen. Gentlemen, ladles,
knights and esquires numbered 117; yeo
men, 122, and servants, 240. It Is to bo
remembered, however, that tho fcrm ser
vant was applied to any porson tinder thn
control of another, whatever his family
connections,
Mnny of tho trades of the earlier day
havo passed out of exlstonce such as tho
armorers, pewterers. calenders, canonlors,
dish turners, fellmongers, flnerymen, gird
ers, nailers, skinners and thackers.
Tho genealogist ofton comes upon somo
strnngo finds and not Infrequently upon
facts which load him to think ho Is nn im
provement upon his ancestors. Liquor
venders In tho early days wero numerous,
hut the term was disguised under that of
Innkeeper. Slave owners were plonty and
"honest traders" woro smugglers. There
Is lees sanctimony today aid perhaps on tho
whole less honesty, but there Is moro
downright genuine kindliness and brotherly
lovo and moro of tho real spirit of true
democracy.
SAID IN FUN.
Detroit Journal: The Photographer Do
you wish to poso three-quarters full?
Tho Colonel Just as 1 nm. suh! I don't
carry a graduated scnlc with mo.
Catholic Stnndard: "Miss fJotrox," began
Mr. Cnl Q. Laltn, "I must confess thnt nt
Inst I have lost my heart and you"
"My I that's too bad!" sho Interrupted.
"It's so small you may never hopo to find
it again."
Chlcngo Tribune: "A notable social affair,
I'm told."
"Not very." said the womnnlv woman.
with manifest scorn. "I hadn't the least
trouuie in the world finding my wraps! '
Detroit Free Press: "The doctor unvii !ti
bookkeeper will be laid up about ten days."
"Acute rheumatism?"
"No: ho tried to show tho office bov- how
ho used to cu. pigeon wings when ho
dunced."
Chicago Tribune: "Whnt eood does It do
old Pesslm to be always predicting a busi
ness pBnicv
"Well, If It doesn't come true everybody
fnrcnts nbout it. nnd If It doe hn hns the
satisfaction of going around and saying, 'I
told you so!' "
Detroit Journal: A man Is irnttlns' old
when a woman's heart begins to seem to
hlm a very simple tiffnlr compared with
the furnace.
Judge: Farmer Whlfflotreo So yntinc
Rilbo Shortacre lias cono tew colleee? Ho
alters wiiz a bnd egg, thnt feller.
l-armer HnaKernot jerio: in rnct, I heerd
they put him Into tho 'varsity "shell" right
after ho got th-ire.
Philadelphia Press: "W'hnt's the funniest
thing 1 ever saw?" repented the gentleman
of sporting tendencies. "Well, 1 guess It
was a upau neat 111 nu cveni wnere inero
whs only one entry."
"How In tho world was thnt?" came from
the other side of the store and whan the
answer enmc, "a cremation," the questioner
ordered tno driiiKs.
Cleveland Plain Denier: "What a dnlntv
llttlo piece of femininity that Miss Hliuler
Is?"
'Yes. Isn't she? nnd so entertaining. S 10
went out with a camping party Inst year,
and nobody thouclit of slecn as long as sho
stayed 'n camp."
Indeed! Ami now- din sno Keep uiem
awake?"
"Snoring.
Detroit Journnl: Entering the kitchen.
hereupon. 1 found a policeman hugging the
cook, ...
'A nice cuisine, misi" exciaimca j, wiui
all tho Irony J could summon.
"Ah, a nice squeeze scene, indeed I ' ini
tered tbe cook, blushing violently.
At this tho ofllcer laughed a huovant
laugh, and admonished me to chase myself.
THE WORLD GROWING 1IKTTKR.
Denver Times.
Look nt the press reports of crime
In every land, in every cume
nt nrson. theft, rolygamy.
i
And murder, holdups, bigamy;
Of robberies uud Jobberies,
Of fratricide.
Of matricide; ,,.,, , .
Tho gold-brick man nnd shell-trick clun
The second Iloor
Huenk thief gnlore:
The cashier crooks who doctor books;
Tho green goods gag,
Tho thieving vug: . , , ,
The man who sells his fake oil wells
In p1h- immense
Termed "confidence;
Tho man who beats bills where he eats.
Or counts his gains from robbing trains;
Tho dynamiter.
Guy all-nighter,
Fakcy fighter.
Flnnnco klter;
Forgery nnd calumny.
Bunco games by various names;
Fraud In dealing,
Senrey squeHlIng;
Plug and plunge
Town nnd village;
Midnight thug with murd'rous slug;
Kidnap bands with wild demands
Then listen to tho sanguine say:
"The world grows better every' dny!"
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