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Dun and Bradstreet keep their dan
ger signals displayed. The railroads
those great employers of labor, are
laying off men. The mills and fac
tories of the north are feiving work to
a smaller number of hands. It is
probable that the southern cotton
mills will be forced to curtail produc
tion before long because the demand
fails to keep up with the supply. The
Pennsylvania railroad uas decided to
reduce running expenses for the cur
rent year about $10,000,000. As a re
sult, in the neighborhood of 5,000 men
will be laid off. It is reported that
the Vanderbilt lines will drop 2,000
employes. No doubt other roads will
do likewise for the same reason a
conviction that the volume of traffic
during the year will not be so great as
was hoped for.
The business men in .Lincoln say
that collections aie slow and small.
rTbe experience of this office is that
collections were never so hard to
make, not even in the ears of drouth
and panic, as they have been for the
last month or six weeks. Great houses,
whose names are household words,
are behind in their payments. The
same old process is under way that
has cursed this country ever,- ten or
fifteen years fof the last century, and
as long as the government will be
stow special privileges upon the rich,
the process will continue.
We were told that "trade foUows the
flag" and that imperialism would make
the country rich. But that Philippine
business does jot seem to work out
that way. American capital cannot be
induced to go there even with a gov
ernment guarantee of A Per cent in
terest on railroad bonds. ,The Phil
ippines are simply a costly appurte-
,T,fooi fnr thft benefit of
a few carpet-bag officeholders. When
times get bad and taxes press hard
on the people, there will be a cry to
get rid of them.
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The raftroads' hired men continue
to appear before the board of equali
zation, but they are singing a differ
ent song from the one they piped be
fore the federal court when the pop
ulists tried to ffcwer freight rates.
Then they declared that the construc
tion of a railroad cost millions dn
millions and that the lowering of
freight rates would be confiscation.
The federal court and mullet heads
replied: "Yep, that V so," and the
rates were not lowered. Now these
same authorities declare that one of
the principal roads cost only f 12,000 a
mile and should not be assessed for
more. The mullet head will answer:
Yep. that's so," and if the matter
gets into the federal courts they will
make the same reply.
Rosewater was beaten at the repub
lican primaries and is not even a dele
gate to the state convention, not 10
mention the national convention. He
wrote one editorial about the defeat
in which he said: "The recently
closed Diamond pool room was charged
simply with being a resort lor betting
on horse races, and while betting on
horses is doubtless a violation of the
anti-gambling law, it is no more so
than gambling on the board of trade,
or gambljng in the bucket shop, or
gambling in stocks on wan street,
and it is infinitely better and more
honorable than selling fraudulent
mining stock and fraudulent oil
stocks and other schemes of confidence
with which some reform factionists
have been identified." After some
musings he added: "Let it be distinct
ly understood that the Bee is no apol
ogist for vice and crime." The clos
ing of the Diamond pool room Dy eaici
of the supreme court after the Rose
water officials at Omaha refused to do
it, was a severe blow to the machine
and doubtless was the cause of the
defeat. V
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The Russians, according to the dis
patches, scored two. successes during
th wtc nnft of which was a notable
affair and disclosed as much skill and
bravery as anything that the Japs
v,aw Hmio a voune Russian navy
officer took an ordinal y launch, put
aboard one small rapid fire gun 'and
frrt .tm-nednAs. He cot out of Port
Arthur, stole through the line of tor
pedo boat guards ana torpeaoea h. j
nonn rrnispr The shiD was not sunk,
but was taken in tow by a sister ship
and disappeared below the norizon.
The brave Russian navy officer fought
his way back in, his launch to shore.
He was not able to get back into the
i,n.. voirhrt the boat and he
UIUUU1) wvv vv
and the three sailors 5 who were with
him got away. Another Japanese uh-
v, was sunk bv running on a
mine in the harbor of Dalney. while it
was engaged in clearing the place of
mines preparatory to landing troops
there; : ' ' ;
The Japanese seem to be rapidly ad
vancing through, Manchuria, the Rus
sians having been outflanked on both
.i..!- fli,a qtH nhlieed to keep
constantly retreating. New Chwang
on the west coast of: the Port Arthur
peninsula and on the railroad has been
evacuated ana xne cutaij
dismantled. Dalney, a tittle northeast
Arthur wh re the Russians
VS. It'll. uuv..,- - ,,..
had spent many millions m buuuinfe
docks and forts, nas ucju
' . I k An rj-vAn
Fiftv miles of'tne rauroau
torn up ana 1'ort Anuur
most constantly bombarded.
tj,a mtYirt rptreat and constant
., ,st tho mis-dan atuiy can be ac
counted for by no other theory than
that the czar had very lew troop m
Manchuria. The dispatches say the
ml will even evacuato
Mukden and retreat still further Into
the Interior. The papets say mai uie
tn Moscow to pray m the
great church there for the success of
hh armies, aud r.enerai awes mum a
that battle are not won by prayers,
but by rood gene-alahip and brave
flehtlnn. (Icncral Miles should re
member lhat the UrwK church i the
rr.ftt iKipr in UuHMia ana
tu.t mindful of it Uturj;ey
and form ha would u have mure
trouble at home than he tx& ua mu
.lapH.
rat rimlfrf nee.
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1hT was ionsidi-raUS optUlon to
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is Looking
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is still active and energetic, but he
had to go with the othds. Heretofore
the bishops, who are elected ior me,
were allowed to retain their positions
as long as they lived. Now there is a
great cry for younger men for bishops.
The Independent . net er had any
faith in Webster Davis, who left the
republican party cm account of the
portion of the Koernnunt In regard
to the Hoer war. There Is now a great
row on. General Plenum, who served
tn the Iioer war, and C. W. Vander
hoolt of Baltimore, chiiige that Web
ster Davla got hold of $2u0,000 of IJoer
war fund for which he never ac
counted and Davla ha:i had them ar
rted for libel. A man who wa fU
enough to the money power to obtain
04 hlsh an offlee a M'x un,u't
the auspices of the republican party,
nover bad the llborty and welfare of
tho vcrumon people at hrart.
Ananhy MIU rtlKtxi triumphant In
Colorado. The lhl' and tUiw In
IVnver canlH the flection by a tna
jorlty of thourunda. It U anHrtl
that over 2.0tvo rrilrM voters wrrn
rtlBfranrhlMHt throuch havlnR bad
Itiflr nanPH piriwly omitted from
the lists and that thousands of oW
were cast by repeaters. The supreme
court has the election under Its juris
diction and will receivo a report re
garding the conduct of the election
commission and those under It. Tha
action of that tribunal will determine
the first steps to bo taken In the
courts regarding tho election. Ovet a
million dollars of bonds were also or
dered Issued.
A utiange Btory comes from Llao
Yanqc by way of St. Petersburg. It la
said that the Japanese officers who
wero fchot here as spits, bequeathed
$"00 to tho Uuasian lied Crm In con
sideration of their kind treatment.
The Japaneso have abandoned thdr
line through Korea and have made
Antting their base of supplies. Borne
correspondent lalted the- Ilusalan
wounded there. The Ilusslani said
they were well treated and had no
complaint to make except that they
received no bread, the Japanc army
tttippMes not containing that article of
diet.
The report f Uie approach of a
Japanese armr to the northeast of
Mukden astonUbm the military critic)
the world over. They cannot conceive
