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Dr. Talmago A vera That Country
Has Boon DofamocL
HeSnyi the HaMlsns Ilnve Ween Mlnrcp-
rciontfirt lljr FnUo KrpurU ami That
a Few Ciwm of Cruelty llnvo
lleou Unlnrgoil Uintu
In a lato sermon nt Brooklyn Rev. T.
DoWltt Tnltnngo took for his subject
"International Defamation." Ills text
-was from IL Peter IL 10: "Prcsump
tnous nro they, solf-wllled, tlioy nro not
afraid to speak evil of dignities." Dr.
Talmngc said:
Amid a most reprehensible crow,
rotor hero paints by ono stroke tho por
trait of thosowho delight to slash nt
pcoplo In authority. Now, wo all have
-a right to crltlclso evil behavior,
whether in high places or low, but tho
fact that ono 1b high up Is no proof that
ho ought to bo brought down. There
never was a David on tho throne that
thcro was not somo Absalom who want
cd to get it; Thcro never was a Christ
but tho world had saw and hammer
ready to fashion a crdss on which to as
sassinato him. Out of this evil spirit
grow not ouly Individual but national
and international defamation. To no
country has more Injustlco been
dono than to our own In days
that nro past Long before Mar
tin Chuzzlewlt was printed tho
literature of tho world scoffed at every
thing American. Victor Hugo, ns hon
est as lie was uncqualcd in literary
power, was so misinformed concerning
America that ho wrote: "Tho most
singular thing Is tho need of whit
tling, with ,hlch nil Americans
are possessed. Jt is such that on
Sunday they givo tho sailors llttlo
bits of wood becauso If they did not
they would whittle the shin. In the
court, at tho most critical moment, tho
judge, whittling, says: 'Prisoner, aro
you guilty?' and tho accused tranquilly
responds, Hilttllng: 'lam not guilty."1
Lord John Kusscll called us "A bubble
bursting nationality." lint our country
has at last recovered from such carrlca
turo and thcro is not n street In any
city of Europe or Asia where tho word
"America" will not win deference.
But, thcro Is a sister nation on tho
other fiiilo of tho sea now going through
tho process of International defama
tion. There is no country on earth so
misunderstood as Russia and no mon
arch more misrepresented than its em
peror. What nro tho motives of misrepre
sentation? Commercial interests and
international jealousy. Russia is as
largo as all tho rest of Europe put to
gether. Remember that a nation is
only n man or a woman on a big scale.
I Bald nt St Petersburg to tho most
eminent lady of Russia outside of the
Imperial family: "Aro thoso stories of
cruelty and outrage that I havo heard
and read about true?" She replied: "No
doubt somo of them are true, but do
you not in America ever havo ofllccrs of
the law cruel and outrageous in their
treatment of offenders? Do you not
Uy' Mavo Instances whero the police have
rPRfclubbcd innocent persons? Have you
no instances where people in brief au
thority act arrogantly?" I replied:
"Yes, wo do." Then, sho said: "Why
docs tho world hold our government
responsible for exceptional outrages?
As soon as an ofllclal is found to bo cruel,
ho Immediately loses his place." Then
i I'bcthought myself: Do the pcoplo In
America hold tho government at Wash
ington responsible for tho Homestead
rlota at Pittsburgh, or for railroad In
surrcctlons.orfor tho torchof tho villain
that consumes a block of houses, or
for tho rufllans who arrest a rail train,
making the passengers hold up their
arms until tho pockets aro picked?
"" It is most important that tills country
havo right ideas concerning Russia, for,
among all tho nations this side of
Heaven, Russia is America's best friend.
Thcro has not been an hour in tho last
eeventy-flvo years that tho shipwreck
of free institutions in America would
not havo called forth from all tho des
potisms of Europo and Asia a shout of
gladness wtdo as earth and deep ns per
dition. But whoever else fnlled us,
Russia never did, and whoever else was
doubtful, Russia never was. Russia,
then an old government smiled on tho
eradlo of our government whllo yet in
its earliest Infancy. Empress Cather
ine, of Russia, In 1770 or thereabouts,
offered kindly interference that our
thirteen colonics might not go down
tinder tho cruelties of war. Again, in
J913, Russia stretched forth toward us
a merciful hand. When our dreadful
pivll war was raging and tho two thun
der cloudB of northern and southern
valor clashed, Russia practically said
lo the nations of Europo: "Keep your
hands off and let the bravo men of tho
north and tho south sottlo their own
troubles."
I stood on Now York battery during
tne war, as I suppose many of you did,
looking off through a magnifying glass
upon a fleet of Russian ships. "What
aro they doing there?" I asked, and flo
everyone nskcdi "What business havo
tho Russian warships in our Now
York harbor?" Not until the war
was over was it found out that
In case of foreign intervention all the
guns and tho last of these two fleets in
Now York and San Francisco harbors
were to open in full diapason upon any
foreign ship that should dare to inter-'
fere with the right of Americans, uorth
and south, to settle their own contro
Tersy. But for thoso fleets and their
presence in American waters, there can
bo no doubt that two of the mightiest
nations of Europo Would have mingled
in our fight But for those two fleets
tho American government would have
been to-day only a name in history, I
declare before God and tho nation that I
blicvo Russia saved the United States
of America. Last July I stood before a
meat throng of Russians In the tin
artlng position of speaking to an
audif ace Qirac-fourths of which could
not uflcrtanu my language any more
pkiiM I wild undorstnud theirs, But
tiiera were two unraos that they
thoroughly understood as woH. ,ns
you understand thou, aud the utter
ance of two names brought forth
an acclamation thnt made tho city
hall of St Petersburg quake
from foundation stono to tower, and
thoso names were "Oeorge Washing
ton" and "Abraham Lincoln." Now, Is
it not important that wo should fcol
right toward that mighty, that God
given frlond of more than ono hundred
years?
Calumny tho first: The emperor nnd
all tho lmporlnl family nro in perpetual
dread of assassination. They arc prac
tically prisoners In tho Winter palace,
and trenches with dynamite have been
found dug around tho Winter palace.
They daro not venture forth, except
preceded and followed aud surrounded
by a most elaborate military guaid. My
answer to this Is that I never saw n
face more free from worriment than tho
emperor's face. Tho Winter palace,
around which the trenches uro said to
havo been charged with dynamite aud
in which the Imperial family nro said
to bo prisoners, has never been tho resi
dence of tho imperial family ono moment
slnco tho present emperor has boon on
tho throne. That Winter palace has
been changed Into a museum and n
plcturo gallery and a palaco of great
levees, lie spends his summer in tho
palaco at Petcrhof, fifteen or twenty
miles from St Petersburg; his au
tunins at the palaco at Gntsehlna,
and his winters in n palaco nt
St Petersburg, but in qulto a dif
ferent part of tho city to that occupied
by the Winter palace. Ho rides through
the streets unattended, except by tho
empress at his sldo and tho driver on
the box. There is not a person in this
audience more free from four of harm
than ho Is. His subjects not only ad
mire him but almost worship him.
Thcro aro crunks in Russia, but havo
wo not had our Charles Guiteau and
John Wilkes Booth? "But," says some
ono, "did not tho Russians kill tho
father of tho present emperor?" Yes,
but in tho time that Russia has had
ono assassination of emperor, America
has had two presidents assassinated.
"But is not the emperor an autocrat?
By which you mean, has ho not power
without restriction? Yes, but it all de
pends upon what uso a man makes of
his power. Aro youannutocratin your
factory, or an autocrat in your store, or
nn autocrat in your stylo of business?
It all depends on what use you mako of
your power, whether to bless or oppress,
and from tho time of Peter tho Great
that Russian who was tho wonder of
all time, tho emperor who became In
cognito a ship carpenter that ho
might help ship carpenters, and n
mechanic that ho might help me
chanics, and put on poor men's garb
that ho might sympathlzo witli poor
men, aud who in his last words said:
"My Lord, I am dying, O, help my un
belief." I say from that tlmo tho throno
of Russia has, for tho most part, been
occupied by rulers as beneficent and
kind and sympathetic as they were
powerful To go no further back than
Nicholas, the grandfather of tho pres
ent emperor: Nicholas had for tho
dominant idea of his administration tho
emancipation of the serfs. When it
was found that he premeditated tho
freedom of tho serfs, ho received the
following letter of threat from a depu
tation of noblemen: "Your Imperial
Mnjesty: Wo learn that tho council
and senate of tho cmplro havo beforo
them for deliberation, with your sanc
tion, tho plan to abolish serfdom
throughout tho Russian empire. Wo
are perfectly willing to nbldo by your
majesty's decision in this matter and to
loyally support your will, but thcro
aro in Russia a largo number of small
owners of sorfs, who nro dependent for
actual subsistence on tho labor of those
serfs and who consequently will bo loft
wholly penniless and without any re
source by tho operation of emancipa
tion. They will then undoubted
ly resort to despcrato measures,
and, in tho extremity of their
despair, will put tho life of your majes
ty in jeopardy," Tho emperor replied
in words that will last as long as his
tory: "Gontlemon, if I should die be
causo of my dovotlon to such a cause, I
am willing to meet my fate."
Calumny tho second: If you go to
Russia you aro under severest espion
age, stopped here and questioned thcro
and in danger of arrest But mv opin
ion is that if a man is disturbed in
Russia it is because ho ought, to bo dis
turbed. Russia is tho only country in
Europe in which my baggago was not
examined. I carried in my hand, tied
together with a cord so that their titles
could bo seen, a pllo of eight or ten
books, all of them from lid to lid curs
ing Russia, but I had no trouble In tak
ing with mo tho books. Thero is ten
times more difficulty in getting your
baggago through the American custom
house than through tho Russian. I
speak not for myself, for friends inter
cede for mo on American wharves and
I am not detained. I was soveral days
In Russia before I was asked if I had
any passport at alt Depend upon it,
if hereafter a man believes ho is uncom
fortably watched by tho police of St
Petersburg or Moscow it is bcoauso
there is something suspicious about
htm, and yon yourself had better,
wlien ho is around, look after your
silver spoons.
Calumuy tho third: Russia and its
rulor are so opposed to any other rolls
ion except tho Greek religion; that
nothing oxcept persecution nnd im
prisonment nnd outrago intolerable
await tho disciples of any other relig
ion. But what are the facts? I had a
long ride in St Petersburg and its sub
urbs with tho prefect, a brilliant, effi
cient and lovely man, who is tho high
est official in tho ctty of St Petersburg,
andwboso chief business is to attend
tho omperor, I said to him: "I suppose
your religion is thnt of the Greek
church?" "No," said ho, "I nm a
Lutheran." S'What is your religion?"
I Raid to ow of tho highest und most
influential officials at St Petersburg.
Ho suldr "I an of the church of En
gland." Myself, an American, sf sllll
anothor denomination of Christians,
and never having -been inside u, Greek
church in my life Until I went to Rus
sia, could not havo received more con
sideration had I been baptlacd in tho
Greek- church- nnd all my lifo
wop
shlped at her altars, I
had It demon
stmtcd to mo very plainly that a man'f '
religion in liussia lias notning to uo
witn ins proferment tor oitncr .
ofllco or social position.
Calumny tho fourth: Russia Is so
very grasping of territory and sho seems
to want tho world. But what nro tho
facts? During tho Inst century and a
quarter tho United States havo tnkon
possession of everything hotweon the i
thirteen colonies nnd tho Pacific ocean, '
nnd Englnnd, during tho same length
of time, has taken possession of nearly
three million Bquaro miles, and by tho
extent of her domain has added 250,000,
000 population, whllo Russia had added
during that tlmo only half tho number
of square miles and about 19,000,000 of
population England's advance of do
main by So0,000,000 ngalnst Russia's ad
vance of domain by 18,000,000.
Calumny the fifth: Siberia Is a don of
horrors, and to-day people aro driven
liltu dumb cattle; no trial is afforded to
tho suspected ones; they aro put into
quicksilver mines, whero thoy aro
whipped ami starved nnd r.oino uay mm
theinsolvcs going around without nny
head. Some of them do not get so far
ns Siberia. Wotnon, after being tied to
stakes In tho streets, nro disrobed and
whipped to death in tho presence of
howling mobs. Offenders hear tholr
own flesh slss under tho hot irons. But
what 'aro tho facts? There nro no
kinder noonlo on eartli than the Rus
sians, nnd to tho most of them cruelty
is nn impossibility.
But how about Siberia? My nnswor
Is Siberia is tho prison of Russia, a
prison more than twice the slo of tho
United States. John Howard, who did
more for tho improvement of prisoners
nnd tho reformation of criminals than
nny mnn that ever lived, his namo a
synonym for mercy throughout Chris
tendom, declared by volco and pen that
tho system of transportation of crimi
nals from Russia to Slboria was an nd
mlrablo plan, advocating open air pun
ishment rather than endungcoumont,
nnd ulso because it was taking all of
fenders hundreds of miles away from
their evil companions. John Howard,
after witnessing tho plan of deportation
of criminals from Russia to Siberia,
commended it to England. Russia Is
tho only country on earth from which
tho death penalty has beon driven
except in tho casa of high treason.
Murderers and despcrato villains aro
sent to tho hardest parts of Siberia,
but no man Is sent to Siberia or doomed
to nny kind of punlshmont in Russia (
until ho lias a fair trial. So far as
tholr being hustled off in tho night nnd
not knowing why thoy aro exiled or
punished Is concerned, all tho criminals
in Russia have an open trial before a
jury just ns we havo in America, except
in revolutionary or riotous times, and
you know in America at such times the
writ of habeas corpus is suspended.
After being In Siberia awhile, tho
condemned go to earning u livelihood,
and they come to own their own farms,
and orchards anil vineyards, many of
these peoplo coming to wealth, and
thousands of them under no induce
ment would leave thoso parts of Siberia
which aro paradises for salubrity and
luxuriance. Now, which do you think
is tho best stylo of n prison Siberia or
many of our American prisons ?
Tho merciful character of tho present
emperor was well illustrated in tho fol
lowing occurrence: The man who su
pervised tho assassination of tho father
of tho present emperor, standing In the
snow that awful day, when tho dyna
mite shattered to pieces tho legs of
Alexander II. I say tho man who su
pervised ull this lied from St Peters
burg nnd qnlt Russia. But after awhile
tho man repentod of his crime, and
wroto to tho emperor asking for for
giveness for tho murder of his father
nnd professing to be a good cltlzon, and
asking if ho might como buck to Russia.
Tho emperor pardoned tho murderer of
his father, nnd tho nssassin Is now liv
ing in Russia, unless recently deceased.
But how about tho knout, tho cruel
Russian knout, that comes clown on the
bare back of agonized criminals? Why,
Russia abolished tho knout boforo it
was abolished from our American navy.
But how about tho political prisoners
hustled off to Siberia? According to
the testimony of the most celebrated
literary enemy of Russia, only 443 poli
tical prisoners were sent to Slboria in
twenty years. How mnny political
prisoners did wo put in prison pons din
ing our four years of civil war? Well,
I will guess nt least 100,000. America's
100,000 political prisoners versus Rus
sia's 443 political prisoners.
But you ask, how will this Russopho
bin, with which so mnny have boon bit
ten and poisoned, be cured. By tho
God of Justico blessing such hooks and
pamphlots as nro now coming oat from
Prof, do Arnaud, of Washington; Mr.
Horace Cutter, of San Francisco; Mr.
Morrill, of England, nnd by tho open
ing of our American gates to tho
writings of somo twenty-four of
tho Russian authors and
nutimi..
ofiscs, in somo respects as brilliant as
tbo threo or four Russian authors
already known. Lat theso Russians
toll their own story, for they aro
tho only ones fully competent to
to do the work, as nono but Americans
can fully tell the story of America, and
as nono but Germans, can fully tell tho
story of Germany, and nono but En
glishmen can fully tell tko story of
England, and nono but Frenchman cau
fully tell tho Btory of France. Mean
while, let tho international dcfaraiitiou
como to an cud. Cease to. speak evil of
dignities merely becauso thoy are dig
nities, and of presidents merely becauso
they aro presidents, and of emperors
merely because thoy aro emperers. Ami
may the blessing of God the Father,
and -Jod tho Son, and God the Hojy
Ghost bo upon all tho members of the
imperial housohold of Rulu, from the
illustrious head of that family down to
tho princess, sovon years of age, who
came skipping into my presence in tho
palaco of Poteiliof last summer. Glory
to Ood in tho highest, and on earth
peace, good will to men.
Drummer's Absont Mindcdncsu.
Elder Rankin 'JSmlthson mortified his
wife terribly at church yestcrflny."
., T..ni.i.. ir... .-..., .v... too l.'i.i,!-
Rankin "Ho naked, tho usher, to rmt
mOi .tll. II 41,11V t.ilU bll.tV MMV
- him down for a call at 11:3V Dca
- J Moines Arjjonuut
DEFEATED, BUT NOT DESTROYED
lupubllcnn will
Avrnlt the Vindication
t, til Alicir i minium.
The result of tho presldtntlal contest
can bo htntcd very briefly: Cleveland
is elected; tho democratic freo trade
party has triumphed; tho new houso is
largely democratic, and the senate will
be of that political faith aftrr March 4.
The long years of falsification, of
prcnehlng a political millennium to tho
credulous multitudes havo nt last borne
fruit Tho people of the United States
nro to-day exactly In the position of
that Athenian who, when the question
of the ostrlcism of Arlstldes was bo
fore tho citizens for decision, nskud n
mnn whom ho did not know, hut who
wns Arlstldcs himself, to inscribe that
name upon tho shell which ho intended
to vote. Tho statesman asked him
what grlovauco he had against tho
mnn whom lie proposed to banish.
Tho reply was thnt ho had none, but
was tired of hearing Arlstldcs called
"theJustl"
So with a largo number of American
citizens just now. Thoy wore tired of
hearing the republican party extolled
as tho conservator of the best interests
of tho nation.. They nro reckless of
what may como from a transfer of un
controlled power to the democracy, und
nro only anxious for a "change."
It is in obedience to a well-known law
that a pendulum, druwn to tho extrem
ity of Its arc on one Bide, when released,
will swing Just ns far on tho other side.
The war for the preservation of tho
union wns tho irresistible forco which
swung tho mighty pendulum of the
popular will to tho extreme limit of tho
nro. With the triumphant outeomo of
that mighty struggle, this supremo forco
was removed. Tho tendency has been,
for tho past twenty years thnt Is to
say, blnco 1872 toward tho other ex
treme. Various Issues have served as
hindrances, and hitherto prevented tho
full swing to tho other end. This year
they did not prevail, and tho swing is
mndc.
But tho hour of tho democratic party's
triumph is also Its hour of doom. It it
dares to carry out its wildcat money
scheme, ns promised tho pcoplo In tho
Chicago platform, it will meet w 1th dis
affection In tho west nnd south. If it
carries out tho policy outlined In tho
tariff plank of Its platform, it will
rouse tho workltigmcn to n realization
of the inercdiblo folly of which they
hnvo been guilty, und bo hurled from
power ns soon ns a general election
gives these deceived cltlons tho upper
tunlty. If It does not fulfill that
promise, tho farmers of the west und
the plan tors of tho south will wrenk
their vengcanco upon it lis tergiversa
tion lias placed It In tho predicament of
tho gontlcman who found himself lo
cated between tho devil und tho deep
sen.
Tills result Is inevitable with n party
which reaches power through false
methods. The democracy lias commit
ted tlio error of pursuing the policy of
negutlon. It hns condemned without
stint uny and every measure emanating
from a republican source, without hav
ing the nbllityor tho statesmanship to
frs.tie a wlsor policy. It has been
drlien to tho advocacy of theoretical
makeshifts, which arc sure to prove
1cm odvnntsgcous, when put to tho
tett of practice, than tho policies thoy
antagonized, llonco wo look, with tho
full nssuranco that our anticipations
will bo realized, for a complete dis
crediting of tho democratic party In
its attempts to remodel the economic
and fiscal systoins under which tho
United States has grown so marvel
ously within tho past thirty years.
Tho lopubllcan party of the nation
Is defeated, but It is not destroyed. It
is a party of piinclplcs, not of mako
shifts. It can nfford to wnlt for the
certain vindication which must come
when the pcoplo have had a full exhi
bition of tho lack of business cupnolty
on tho part of tho democracy. That
party's lease of uncontrolled power
cunnot bo long unless tho peoplo of
tho north submit to the introduction of
the election methods which have ren
dered the name M southern democracy
p. hissing and u reproach to every hon
est man. Toledo Blade.
WHAT IS IN
STORE FOR US.
Hume Srrlou 4Sntlou for
ilepublloah
to ConiMvr,
The election of Cleveland and Steven
ton by a plurnllty of more than one
hundred In tho electoral college Is oven
whelming and decisive. It is based
upou democratic victories whero they
were feared, nnd tho defection of sev
aral republican agricultural nnd min
ing states to tho people's party. In tho
tatter the deinoorats helped to bring
tnts result about nt they saw thnt
every republican stato carried for
Weaver holpcd to insure Cleveland's
success.
It is tho worst defeat the republican
party has ever suffered, for its losses
i aro general all over the country. The
issuo wus fulrly mndo on honest mvnoy
and the tariff. Tho main tight was
over the tariff. It has been discussed
as never beforo in this country. Tho
nntlpn is prosperous and business is
good. To seek to mnko a change un
rior such conditions Ecemcd foolhardy,
In t tho democrats announced tholr
i irC'trndo' intentions in their platform
' nnd have won on it They huve car
ried tho great manufacturing aud test
rtntes of Connecticut, New York and
New Jersey, and carried them, too, by
tho votes of worKlngmon, who, appar
i ently, huve beon the most Interested of
all In maintaining tho protective sys
tem. '
How hns it been accomplished? By
inculcnttug the idea, which thousands
of worklngmen have adopted, that the'
tariff la nn invention for the benefit of
tho capitalist nnd not for the wngo
careers. Wo do not dlfcuss tho fal
Inoy of this prejudice, but simply nolo
tho fnct. President Harrison und pro
teettou have gouo down nt the hands
of thoso who mil urnlly vould bo sup
posed to havq tl;o largest interest In
i maintaining thorn. Of course there
wore other quosMpns. Illinois, for in
stance, va lust tothfl republican by
fho pledgo given by tho democrats to
the Gprrauns tlmt"iho pmpuory
-1" T'-t -- .- . , i .,
I mioc attendance law monid we re-
penied, But the jrrekt ftuowtlOriT wall
the tariff, bbM upon it the republicans
unequlvocnlly nnd without reserve
committed themselves to the logio of
tho McKlnley bill. That logic is ns
correct now ns it was, but in 1800 nnd
in 180.3 it hns fulled to nttrnct the popu
lar support
Our own stnto Is sllll republican, al
though tho pluralities all along the
ticket show a great falling off from
1888. Tho party Is astounded nnd
nmu?cd at tho results. It will
ready, however, for tho campaign f
jmw, wnicn win no as stuuuorniy con
tested as nny slate election we hne
swiiif with tho whole power of tho
federal administration exerted to e
cuto n democratic victory. To win It
requires, in tho republican ranks, it
unity of purpose, a putting imldo of
personal control nnd u larger liberality
of treatment than lias always been ex
hibited. If freo trade and free sllrnr
coluago are to bo resisted, tho repub
licans of this statu cannot afford to bo
come disintegrated or demoralized, for
tho first tlmo hi years the election ma
chinery In New York Is thoroughly In
control of tho democrats, that paity
has cut Into the hitherto republican
states of the northwest, nnd republican
leadership demands a serious uiu fir
reaching responsibility. Boston Ad'
vcrtlser.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
tlTMr. Cleveland will mumble plati
tudes about civil servlco reform. Tam
many nnd Adlul will do the rest Min
neapolis Tribune.
tTTTho democrntlc lenders aro doing
their best to couvlnco tho country that
they did not menu what they said dur
ing tho 'cainpalgu. St Louis Globe
Democrat. C3J"If tho country has to take a "tar
iff reform" eold bath it Is better to
plunge into tho water nt onco nnd not
get in by' Inches and sit in an ague chill
und perlinps bo caught by an attack 1
political pneumonia. Lot tho "tariff
reform" knife do its work nt once.
Chicago Tribune.
tSTThe democratic party has alrendy
developed "wings." Ono wants to lly
iuto an "extra session" und begin
smashing, nnd the other doesn't Tho
big "wing" seems to bo satisfied to
have tho democratic rooster sit on tho
top rail nnd crow and let republican
prosperity goon prospering tho peoplo.
They nro tho smart ones of tho party.
Chicago Inter Ocenn.
EjyTho party which made tho repub
lic free, which preserved the union in
tact, which opened the public domain
to honest homes, which restored tho
national credit which reformed tho
currency of tho world, which recreated
tho nation und on its old ashes built
tho most wonderful, tho most power
ful nnd the most prosperous govern
ment on onrth, can no more die than
principles cau die or great deeds per
ish. Minneapolis Tribune.
QPDurlug the campaign tho frcg
traders shrieked: "Tho tariff is rob
bing the pcoplo of hundreds of millions
of dollars every yenrl" Now tholr rctl
leaders are insisting that thero shall
Co no extra session nnd that no change
skull bo mndo iu tho tariff for a year
and a hnlf; and it will probably hoover
two years before any change is mado,
as tho democratic administration nnd
oongress will desire to postpono all
ohuuges until "after tho cluutlon" of
1804. Iowa Stato Register.
EirTho republican party will now
become the party of opposition, and of
very vigorous opposition. It Is not go
ing tb pieces nny mora than the demo
cratic party went to pieces In the thirty-two
yours of Its sojourn In tho
wilderness, nnrrlson Is not as badly
defeated us Grcoley wns In 1872. The
democrats recovered from thnt dlsns.
tor In four years. In a presidential
term nn opposition party can accom
plish a great deal, nnd thcro is no rea
son to believe the republican party
will be uunblo to iippenl to tho country
in 1800 with entire confidence. Detroit
Tribune.
GTWhon the dempcrnts eight years
ugo wanted lo got In they howled from
ono end of tho land to the other about
"tho euormbus evils from tho great
surplus in the treasury." Just now to
excuso themselves from prompt action
to demolish what they docluro "un un
constitutional measure" they assert
that they daro not move becauso of "a
deficit In the treasury." The real facts
are asserted by Secretary Foster, whol
says there will bo no deficit either this
yciar or next The deficit will come in,
if nny, when the Incoming administra
tion lias unsettled commerce und upset
the nation's business. No sane mnn
will doubt that Chicago Inter Ocean.
t3PK is well that tho democrats havo
scoured the United States senate ns
well m the Iiouso of representatives.
Upon tho democrats should fall all re
sponsibility for such legislation as muy
now be accomplished. It has been
demonstrated repeatedly that whero
democrats have things nil tholr own
wuy they cau promote the interests of
the republican party more rapidly than
nny notion possible by thodattur party
Itself, in just what manner a demo
cratic congress will disgust the people
of the country can' never be foretold,
but that it will do the wrong thing can
always bo counted upon. With the
senate democratic and full freedom of
action thus asjurcd tho Fifty-third con
gress may be relied upon for undoing
the democracy. Chicago Journnl.
OfMr. Harrison has not only inm'
a rood president, ho has conducted him
self throughout the memorable contest
just closed in a way to add lusetr to
tho Honored name no noma, no nau
performed his allotted tusk in the chlol
magistracy with painstaking fldollty,
patriotic discernment aud un evident
doire nt nil times to acquit hlmseli
justly in the eyes of tho whole people.
His ambition to succeed himself wut
pardonable, even if indulged .n from
personal motives. He Is not the kind
of man to embarrass his successor by
nny intimation mat a misiauc nuj
been made, and no doubt rfo tills Jit
hns manifested, hi own' inmily STii.a of
tho fitnecs of thing by congratulating
tho coming president. Bdnjumiu iltir-
risou will not live in history M n grant
man, V he wijl rank as a pruVuieu
?
wlKi in nil essential respecta met
, !
requirement?, of his tlmo according
nis aiguu ruiiaocipui leuigrapu.;
RAILROAD WRECKS.
TtmrtaX CnllUlon nn thn Union I'srine It
NabrnnkM, ( nud lljr tlin I'nrnlrM im of
n CmiiliKitor Mix Moil Klllnil lltlinr
Wrfxilti.
Omaha, Nob., Nov. 23. Not In several
years lias a more serious or distressing
accident occurred on tho Union Pacific
than tho accident which took plnco nt
Aldn siding, eight miles west of Grand
Island, when express train No. 8, golnjf
nt tho rnto of forty inilos nn hour,
crashed Into an extra freight train
standing on tho switch. Tho passen
ger train, which wns duo nt Grand
Island nt ft o'clock and nt Omaha at
10:40, was nearly nn hour and a hnlf ,
into, mid, striking tho grade west of
Ahla, Engineer McDonald of tho passen
ger trnln, determining to mako up somo ,
of tho tlmo, pulled tho throttle open, :
with tho result ns Indicated. v ' '
Tho freight ungluo had boon flplng
considerable switching on tho siding,
and after tho work hnd been completed
tho engine was comparatively dead at
tho head of tho siding. Tho morning
wns foggy, nnd, unmindful of danger
and resting secure In the thought that
tho switch was proporly placed, tho en
gineer and fireman of tho extra waited
for the passenger train to rush by.ibuk
tho switch hnd not boon closed, and th
passenger train brought death to four
men und fatally wounded threo others,
through tho crlmtual nogligunco of the,,
switch tender. Tho men killed were:
J. W. Keolor, conductor of tho freight
Grand Island, who leaves a wife and
two children.
Barney McDonnkl, engineer jof the
passenger, North Platte, who leaves a
wife, but no children.
Gus Bariott, engineer of tho freight,
North Pintle, who leaves a wife nnd
threo children. , w.
Ira Owens, fireman of the freight,?
North Platto, who leaves a wife and
five children.
Tho injured are:
William Coatcllo, fireman of tho pas
senger, Uniud Island, single; fright
fully scalded, both ankles fractured.
Will probably die. ;
William Sutherland, brakeman on the '
freight, Grand Island, single! arm
caught In wreck and broken.
No pnssongers woro Injured.
Both engines aro a total wreck, whlla
the mall nnd baggago cars are badly
dnmagod. Inside of half an hour a re
Hot train from Grand Island was on
.the scene with physlelans to look nftof
tho wounded, und ull passengers and ,
bmnrntro were transferred from tho
wreck to tho rollof trnln which reached''1,
VllllllUt JlinWlllllJ IlllUIUUUII UMWlfUU v
Later I' i reman
Costello and Brake
Hod last night. The 3
developed thet 'jot
man Sutherland die
((ininerV lnnuest duvol
that Couductor Keeler loft the swItekvU-
open. , '"'M 'i,
ANOTllEH IUD WRRCK. '.53 ''"
Nkw Ohi.kanb, Nov. 2U. A confusloafv V
of trnln orders occasioned a wreck omJf ,
tho Queen &, Orescent road yentorday '
afternoon. Tho wreck took place sis .,
miles of Derby, a small station sixty ., ;
ilvo miles north of New Orleans. Thai
northbound freight crashed Tbcad p' i'i
into tho southbound passenger train '' , v
and a disastrous smashwp resulted. A,fi
tramp was killed Instantly and Charles AV
Peck, 'of Chattanooga, Tenn., . was fa ,i$
411 t,tis1 Tifnn,,.,! V. Piiilmn r9 .
Livingston, Ala., hnd a leg broken j Vi
E, M. Holland, of this city, was budly .'
but not fatally hurt, and Chnrles Scott,
of Chicago, sustained a sprained ankle.
RAILROAD
MILEAGE. . ,
. .t
Advanced l'wdtloii fit the IT unit Stnt
AitnnlnliliiR Ifrrm Ninon 1HB0 Mile
i;n In Oilier OitiuiI rim. '
Wahiunotow, Nov. S3. Tho oonBua
ofllco bus issued a bulletin giving sta
tistics of railway mlleugo of tho world
in 1800. It shows that out of a total
railway mileage for tho world of U70i
281 miles, tho United States have no
less than 103,697 miles, or 44.18 percent
of tho whole, and thnt the railway mile
aire of tho United States exceeds by 8,
JU'J miles tho entire mileage of the Old' ,
World Europe's 1SW.8M mites, Asia's
18,708 miles and Africa's 8.099 mUoe
making an aggregate of but 1B9.055
miles. It Is Interesting to note the
astonishing growth of thersllwayj'aille,
ago of tho United States from the con
sus year of 1830, when there was less
than forty miles of railways, up to 1890.
In 1840 the figures were 3,775; in 1850
thev had risen to 8,571 miles', in 1840
tho total had" swelled to 28,010, n)le
the census of 1870 showed themllqafef
to be 40,186 miles; that of ISSO-placed;.-the
figures' at 87,724 miles, while the?
eleventh census figures gave tlid siton.
Ishlng total of Wa.CDT miles. '' -
The following shows tho mlletfge ots
tho world by countries: 'Germany, 38-,
009 miles; Austria and Hungary, in ,.. ,
eluding Bosnia, 10,487 miles; OreaVi
Britain and Ireland, 10,0:H); France, 23,
r.80; Russia, including Finland, 18,728i -
Italy. 8,117; Boiglum, 8,318;, Nc.thei
lands, 1,887; Switzerland, 1,029: Spain,
0.127; Portugal, 1.2S0; Denmark, 1.243;- ,
Norway, 071; Sweden, 4,015; Rou-'
mania, 1,580; Horvia, 827; Greece, 440t '
Turkoy, In Europe, Bulgaria and Ron
melln, 1,007; Malta, Jersey and Man,'
682; United States, 1Q-I,&07; ,BriUh
America (Canada), lp,322; Newfound
land, llS; Central America,. '.GtMte
mala, Salvador, Costa Rica; Nlca,
rugna and Honduras, 659; Mexico.'
6,344; United States of Colombia', 981:
Cuba, 1,056; Venezuela, 441; Repabllaof1'
Snnto Domingo (eastorn part of, the''
Island ol ITaytl), M; Porto Bleojnii,"
Brazil, 6,770; Argentine Republic, 5,198;
rarnguay, 14; Uruguay; , 7&; unlit; vt '
1,020; Peru, 094; Bolivia, 108 Ecuador., ' V'
107: British Guianu. 22; Asia, 18;w,6l tfyk.
which British India supplied., 15. 887; vv tW
JapiTh, 007; China (proper), W4; Afrlea4L
u.u'x:; Australia, u,i;w. .
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