FALSE POLITICAL TALK
Bryan Preaching Doctrines that Ho Does
'
Hot Believe ,
ATTEMPT TO HOODWINK VOTERS.
Known that Frco mid Unlimited
In u Doitd IHIIIU Tlmt Labor Is Hotter
1'n til Than Kvcr Thut Oppression of
tlio rillplnoH lit Not Intended Tim
I'op Candidate for 8upronio Judge of
Kansas City Journal : Mr. William
Jennings Bryan may have believed
once that the free and unlimited coln-
nge of silver would bo a good thing
for the United States , and that the
adherence to the gold standard
through the administration of the re
publican party , would result In Indus-
tria land financial disaster ; at least
that Is what ho preached. But Mr.
Bryan docs not believe In these things
now. Neither does any other man of
intelligence. Yet Mr. Bryan and hla
staff of boomers would give the im
pression of this belief by Keeping alive
/ ' the silver Issue , and especially by reaffirming -
\ affirming the Chicago platform in its
entirety.
f Mr. Bryan does not believe that the
United States government Is bent on
a aystem of oppression In the Philip
pines , determined to make poor , servile
dependents of the Filipinos. lie does
iiot believe that the Filipinos would be
better off If left to their own guidance
than if they would submit to the pro
tection , the government and the en
couragement of the United States. Yet
Mr. Bryan would lead his hearers to
believe that the United States gov
ernment has discarded its boasted poli
cy of liberty to all and adopted In Its
place a policy of despotism , so far as
the Philippines are concerned.
Mr. Bryan does not believe that the
condition of wage-earners fn this coun
try is deplorable ; that labor Is crushed
and warped after the manner pictured
in "The Man With the Hoe ; " on the
contrary , he knows that labor is better
paid than for years past , and that the
price of labor will purchase more of
the necessities of life at present than
at any other time within a decade or
more. Yet Mr. Bryan persistently
tries to convlce the people that he be
lieves these things.
Mr. Bryan does not believe that one
class In this country is planning the
destruction of another class , and that
It has already more than half way
succeeded ; yet he makes representa
tions seemingly based on this belief ,
and incites one class against another.
Mr. Bryan does not believe that the
democratic party is better able to cope
with the abuses of trusts than is the
republican party , yet he would have
the people understand that the only
salvation from complete and grinding
v monopoly is the return to power of the
T democratic party.
Mr. Bryan does not believe that his
own course as the leader of a party la
consistent or honest , in its relation to
. the masses ; yet he poses as the great
friend and advocate of the people.
It maybe that Mr. Bryan believes
that all things are fair In politics , as
in love and war , but he will learn by
and by that the people expect sincerity
and honesty of the man who aspires
to the presidency , and that , if given
an opportunity to do so , they will re
sent more forcibly than they did in
189C his transparent misrepresenta
tions and fallacies.
Takes Crow , feathers nnd All.
The Howells Journal , a democratic
paper which threatened fusion success
in the state if Silas A. Holcomb was
thrust upon the democratic party as a
candidate for judge of the supreme
court , takes its dose of crow , says the
Fremont Tribune. It does it with some
grimaces , it is true , but it does it Just
the same. It gulps its fowl in the fol
lowing way , the feathers still sticking
to its teeth and the passage of the bird
down the editorial aesophagus being
plainly marked by the sliding protu
berance and evidenced by the nausea
created by the morsel.
"A democratic state convention has
spoken Silas A. Holcomb has been
nominated for supreme judge. It mat
ters not that In our Judgment a mis
take has been made. The writer is a
democrat and as such bows to the will
of the majority and stands ready to do
his duty. Not one word that we have
said In regard to his undemocratic
practices do we retract. We believe
Athat he will keep his promise , made to
the conventions that nominated him
and sin no more.
The sin of Silas , it seems , consists of
accepting railroad passes , but now ho
has been purged of this sin , not by con
fession and conversion , as becomes a
Christian gentleman , but by main
force. The state convention said to
him , "you must quit grabbing for
passes and gallivanting around the
state as a guest of the railroads ; you
must pay your railroad fare like a good
populist should. " "All right , " said Si
las , "I will do so for the i.resent , If
you Insist , but I make no rash prom
ises for after election. It is not a ques
tion of principle with mo , but one of
expedience. I am forced to it by an
overpowering body of men. I will for
sake the practice temporarily , at least ,
for the sake of an office. "
This recanting la aufllclent for those
who , like the Journal , would forgive
any crime for the sake of an office. But
It doea not reach the deeper disgrace
of ballot-fraud and honest-ront pecu
lations. These serious things are over
looked for the more trifling business of
agreeing to surrender a hatful of
passes during the campaign.
The people may not be in a Hko
frame of mind. They may not Do so
willing to forgive on a forced put , a
death-bed repentance.
The Antl-KxptiiHlonlHtH. :
The anti-expansionists must have
superior means of securing Informa
tion from the Philippines , for they
know things about the native army
nnd the Insurrection "government"
that sound strange to the Americans
at Manila. At the Springfield meeting
of the little Americans Mr. Boutwoll
made the astonishing declaration that
"wo are at war with an organized ,
civilized body of men , who numbei
eight or ten millions or even twelve
nlMloim , possibly , in all , and who ean
command n fighting force of 2,000,000 ,
all our oncmlcs , and united in opinion
nnd compacted In purpose as were
never the people of the United States
.n any war wo have carried on. "
Anti-expansion will cut no figure in
the coming national election for the
good and sufficient reason that whop-
jprs of this kind will bo fully exposed
within a few weeks after the American
irmy can begin work at the close of
the rainy season. The returned sol-
Hers say that Agulnnldo's army con
sists of but a few thousand men and
that ho will bo wiped off the Island
of Luzon before Christmas. It is wol )
mown that all ho represents is a small
section of the Tagalogs , and that the
remainder of the archipelago la fllleil
with people who have nothing in com
mon with him. As aoon as the onor-
noua gas balloons of the little Ameri
cana are punctured by the Irresistible
movement of our army the whole anti-
expansion party will dissolve Into
thin air.
Slippery 81 Again.
The nomination of Slippery SI Hol
comb , as the Papllllon Times used to
say , Is nu endorsement , by the fusion-
sts of Nebraska , of the notorious re
count ballot fraud , an endorsement of
ils use of railroad passes when ho had
solemnly promised the people from
every stump in Nebraska that ho would
not use them , and Is an endorsement
of his notorious house rent graft ,
whereby he drew $30 a month foi
louse rent when he paid but thirty for
he house. It was plainly evident that
the conventions , composed of people
all over the state , did not wish to see
Slippery Si nominated but with the
larty whip in the hands of Bryan , Al
len and a few others the nomination
of Holcomb was 'easily accomplished.
There was a hunger for spoils on the
part of many but the voters over the
state are not looking for spoils now
any more than they were five years
ago when Tom Majors went down in
defeat. Independent voters are getting
more numerous every day and if the
republican state convention' nominates
a good , clean , capable man for the
supreme judgesblp it will settle the
whole business then and there. Hol
comb has not made a very brilliant
official record and the mistakes and
short comings are so glaring that ihere
Is no one who dare stand up aud defend
fend bis record. Blair Pilot.
Thirteen Years of Failure.
The Brooklyn Eagle has been lookIng -
Ing over the record. In 1868 , it finds ,
Tammany was for Judge Sanford E.
Church for the presidency ; the demo
cratic national convention nominated
Horatio .Seymour. In ' 76 Tammany
wanted Hendrlcks ; the convention
took Tilden. In ' 80 Tammany was
howling for Sam Randall , but the con
vention preferred Hancock. In " 8-i
Ilendrlcks was again Tammany's
choice , but Grover Cleveland waa the
convention's. In ' 88 and ' 92 Tammany
"rooted" for David B. Hill unsuccess
fully. Three years ago Tammany
stood out against Bryan at Chicago ,
and its opposition only made the west
ern and southern delegates the more
resolute in their purpose. Whether it
sends to the party councils an orator
like Bourke Cockran or an adroit po
litical wire-puller Hko William C.
Whitney , the result is the same. "For
over thirty years , remarks the Brook
lyn contemporary , "Tammany has
never gone to a national convention
supporting a man who obtained a pres
idential nomination. "
The Republican Candidate.
There is a settled determination on
the part of the republlcana In Nebraska
to select the best man that can bo
found for aupreme judge. They are
confident of auccess and will spare no
honorable effort to secure it. There
will bo no active fight for the nomina
tion by anyone aa all feel that the In
struction of the convention should be
the guide , but when the selection is
made it will be cheerfully acquiesced In
by every one and an earnest and united
effort will be made to carry the state.
Every republican is on his mettle , ac
tive , earnest and confident and In a
position to accept the verdict of the
convention without a niuimur and
with the feeling that the best thing
has been done. With the opposition
divided , lukewarm and distrustful of
its candidates and many of them al
ready prophesying defeat there can be
little doubt as to the result in the state.
York Times.
What KepublleiiiiH Do.
The bondsmen of ex-Oil Inspector
Hilton paid Into court last week $7,000
to make up for the deficiencies of the
last republican oil inspector this state
has ever had. Cuming County Demo
crat.
crat.This is all true. Everybody please
take notice that Mr. Hilton's bondsmen
have paid his deficiencies. That is
what usually happens when a repub
lican official goes wrong bis bonds
men dig up the deficiency and mister
office holder is promptly branded as a
scalawag and dropped forever Into in-
ocuous desuetude , or sent to the peni
tentiary. But when a populist swipes
state funds , assists In a rape on the
ballot box and sundry other little In
nocent pranks , It Is customary to nom
inate him for supreme judge. Is It not
so , my brethren. Stuart Ledger.
A I'opullst Protest.
Butte Gazette : If Silas Holcomb ,
fusion candidate for supreme judge , is
the pop Ideal of the proper kind of a
man to fill the high position they
might as well take off the reform mask
that covers office Itch first as last. He
stands convicted of being a pass-holder
( In Itself being treason to populistlc
principles ) of unlimited capacity
which should be enough to damn him
In the eyes of all consistent populists
while his record on the house rent
rake-off of some $20 per month allowed
him to bo a potty swlper of public
funds Instead of an honorable gov
ernor of n great state.
UK Holds the Kt'lt.
The man who holds the belt over all
other governors of Nebraska for work
ing the railroads for passes Is no\v
running for supreme judge on an anti-
pass bribe platform. And every orator
tor who goes about advocating his
election will ride on a pass or mileage
ticket furnished free by the railroads.
Norfolk Journal.
DEMOCRACY'S CHANCE.
DAN GET FREE TRADE WITH EX
PANSION.
L'lio Party Hcctnn to Ilu AjaliiHt I'nro-
Ntrlotfld Porolsti Compntltlon Hc r it
In Advanrn'tlio Opportunity to 1'lglit
Next Year's Campaign on Old Limit.
New York Tribune : This Is just the
.Inic of nil others , cries a stnhvnrt free
trader , for the democratic party to ac
complish the overthrow of protection
with ease. After battling for gonera-
: lens on that Issue , Is It conceivable
that the party will run away from it
; ireclsely when the best opportunity of
its whole history comes ? This was
. ' } \o one question on which It won suc
cess with Cleveland , and It would bo
amazing folly now to abandon It for
the one question on which It sustained
Its most complete and humiliating de
feat with Bryan.- With new posses
sions which produce sugar largely ,
some radical alteration of the tariff
will bo unavoidable , and It will bo all
the more easy just now to overthrow
protective duties , because the great
Industries have gained a hold on for
eign markets , and want protection no
longer. Such , in substance , Is the
reasoning of sundry democratic jour
nals which seems to have been sug
gested by certain pithy remarks of
Senator Morgan in the same vein.
That senator will be treated with re
spect by all who appreciate a genuine
Americanism , but If this particular
suggestion were found afloat without
his name attached it might bo attrib
uted to those whom that senator holds
in deep contempt as enthusiasts of
things foreign. Where lias the senator
learned that American industries no
longer want protective ditties , unless
from foreign journals printed on both
sides of the ocean ? IIo would not llnd
his constituents about Birmingham of.
that mind , nor the sturdy wool-grow
ers of the west , who have done at least
their full share in maintaining the
honor of the Hag. Nor have the wool
manufacturers made so much as a re
spectable beginning in the way of in
vading foreign markets , and they well
know that another Wilson tariff would
mean for them , and necessarily for
wool-growers , another four years of
extreme prostration. But the question
will , in fact , be decided , not by the
manufacturers , but by the millions of
workers who knew what it was to hunt
in vain for work at low wages under
Cleveland. It is exactly because the
democratic party did succeed once on
that issue with Cleveland that it was
ready to run away from it , even into
populism , defeat and disgrace.
The idea that the tariff must be re
constructed because new possessions
grow sugar is presented by Senator
Morgan with his accustomed zeal , but
not with his usual studious examina
tion. If he had reviewed the history
of his country with reference to this
question he would have found that it
had been decided before , and not as lie
supposes. Possessions of the United
States do not become part of the
United States until they have been
brought within the union as states or
territories. The tariff is to-day en
forced respecting imports from Porto
Rico and the Philippines exactly as if
they had in no sense become property
of the United States. President Me-
Kinlcy is well advised In declining to
abrogate a law on the supposition that
congress will make such disposal of
new possessions that the tariff will no
longer apply to them. It is a marvel
that Senator Morgan seems ready to
assume that Americans will request
the mixed and colored races of the
Islands to help Americans govern this
country.
Were it determined on any ground or
for any reason to admit the sugar of
Porto Rico free , as the sugar of the
Hawaiian Islands has been admitted ,
it does not follow that the consequences
quences would be of large Importance.
Porto Rico Is not of unlimited size , nor
has it such a supply of unoccupied land
and available labor as would promise
any vast outcome of sugar. The sup
ply from that island lias fallen off ma
terially , to this country more than half
since 1872 , and was never large enough
to all countries to compare with the
quantity received by this country from
Hawaii. But it may be added for the
enlightenment of free-traders that any
reduction In the revenue derived from
importations of sugar would assuredly
bo followed by heavier duties upon the
manufactured articles which this coun
try Is able to produce for Itself , In or
der to secure further development of
home Industries as a result of the col
lection of a higher revenue for a time.
This country has not done growing yet ,
is not inclined to stop developing Its
Industries and is not in the humor to
return to the theories which brought
disaster under democratic rule.
find Out til" CaiiHO.
Some people believe or pretend to be
lieve that commercial affairs have their
ups and downs without any reference
to our governmental policies. The people
ple who profess such a belief put them
selves outside of the nineteenth cen
tury enlightenment by thus denying , as
in effect they do deny , that there can be
no effect without a cause. A little
study would assure them that all 6cl-
ence and Investigation declare that
every effect has a cause. A few years ,
or oven months , in any commercial
house run on business principles would
uoon convince them , If they have minds
capable of being convinced , that in the
commercial world most especially Is
there a close relation between cause
and effect.
Business prosperity or business fail
ure are each duo to very distinct and
well-defined causes. The successful
business man doesn't get success
through chance , but through following
out well-settled plans carefully laid out
by sound Judgment. What Is true of
au Individual la true of a nation. There
Is a caUs'o for every season of national
prosperity and a cause tor every period
of hard times , and the way to keep the
country prosperous Is to find out the
cause of the prosperity and then to
stick without wavering to the policy
which Is responsible for It. Our whole
history as a nation has demonstrated
that the protective tariff Is the cause
lying at the bnels of our prosperity. Wo
have always had prosperity when wo
have had a protective tariff. The fact
that wo have never had prosperity
without It Is about the strongest evi
dence that could be offered , and there
h very good reason to bollove that the
American people have accepted It as
conclusive. The protective tariff policy
has come to stay.
anil Snpprtmlon.
The free trade literary bureau occa
sionally makes an absurd misfit In the
stuff It supplies to Democratic and
Populist papers In various parts of the
country. For example , we find lloat-
Ing around In the columns of rural
weeklies this paragraph , dated July 28 :
"Evidently the tariff Is not accom
plishing Its alleged purpose to foster
competition and advance wages when
the tin plate trusts arc united In a com
bine and wages arc not advanced. The
Republican talk about the tariff being
for the benefit of the wage earner has
always been the thinnest kind of pro-
tense. "
Ten days or two weeks before this
piece of free trade "news" made ls {
appearance the wage controversy be
tween the tin plate mills and their
workmen had been satisfactorily ad
justed , and a substantial Increase
granted to all employes. Still the lie
sent out by the frco trade literary bu
reau line gone the rounds , and It Is too
much to hope that It will bo followed
up by a statement of the truth.
It Is safe to say that the fact of a
large advance in the wages of tin pinto
operatives will not bo promulgated by
the frco trade literary 'bureau. ' Never
theless , the country as a whole Is well
Informed on the subject. It knows that
since domestic industries began to feel
the tremendous spur of activity follow
ing the restoration of the regime of
protection and prosperity wagea have
advanced all along the line , and that
for the year 1899 the gross sum paid
out by employers to wage earners in
the United States will exceed by hun
dreds of millions the sum paid out in
the corresponding year of the free trade
administration of 189.V97.
The Democratic mayor of Milwaukee
was right when ho said , not long since
that It is folly to undertake a "cam-
palgn of education" for the benefit of
the Democratic party In 1900 In the
face of all the blazing'facts of pros
perity and progress. The free trade
literary bureau should act upon this ex
cellent hint and repress Itself ; still
better , suppress Itself.
Trusts In Kngland.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press , writing from London , says that
the trust movement in England has
reached great proportions. Some of
the commodities which arc controlled
by English trusts are gunpowder , Iron
bedsteads , steel tubes , dynamite , salt ,
tin plate , rails and coal.whlle the trans
portation rates on all English products
are controlled by railroad and ship
ping trusts. Not only is this the case ,
but It Is also true that there are great
corporations which monopolize many
of the necessaries of life.
It is strange , perhaps , that such
things could happen in free trade Eng
land , in view of the positive statement
of Trust King Ilavemoycr that there
would be no trusts here but for the
protective tariff. Yet the truth Is the
truth , and there is no getting around
It.
As a matter of fact prosperity , and
prosperity alone , is responsible for the
organization of trusts. Without Indus
trial activity engendered by a great
and growing demand for manufactured
products , there would be no Incentive
to great combinations of capital.
The trusts are a menace , but the tar
iff Is not responsible for them. That Is
a fact which will be made more promi
nent if the Democrats want to make
the tariff an issue in the next cam
paign. Cleveland ( O. ) Leader.
Wlmt IIo Would lAke.
What Mr. Havemeyer would like to
see Is the free admission of raw sugar
and a good-sized duty levied upon re
fined sugar , thus giving his refineries
absolute control of the American mar
ket. After crushing the domestic pro
duction , Mr. Havemeyer and his asso
ciates would certainly have a good
thing. The great injustice of the pres
ent schedule lies In the fact that It en
ables the southern cano-growers and
the western beet sugar factories to
make a profit which really ought to go
Into the pockets of the sugar trust.
Mr. Havemeyer Is a sadly abused man
and the best way to do him exact jus
tice will bo to carry his free-trade
Ideas a step further and admit refined
sugar free. Seattle ( Wash. ) Post-In
telligencer.
KollUh
The American people are not likely
to bo easily hoodwinked by the cry of
Mr. Havemeyer , that the tariff Is the
mother of trusts , which Is being re
peated parrot-like by the free-trade
journals of the country. Instructive
object lessons in free trade and pro
tection are of recent date and arc too
well remembered by business men.
They like the latter , because of the
prosperity it has brought , and they nro
not likely to give it up at the behest
of demagogues whoso motives are so
transparently selfish. Grand Rapids
( Mich. ) Herald.
THE TAHIFF AS AN I93U5.
\iiR\tur to the Uiutitlon , "Why Not
AlmlMi iToteetlon ? "
Postmaster General Smith , In an In-
: ervlcw published lu an Omaha paper ,
Is credited with having used this lan-
luugo ? :
"Tho tariff Is not an Issue of the
same Importance as In the past. The
policy of protection aimed to build up
our Industries to a point where they
could stand Independent on their own
feet. This object has been accom
plished. Protection has established
Lho complete industrial 'indopondenco
of this country. Moro than that , it
may fairly bo said that It has substan
tially established our Industrial su
premacy. This truth has been demon
strated within the last two years , as
wo are now beating the products of the
Old World on their own grounds.
"With this development of our homo
Industries to the point whore they
completely possess the homo market
and are able also to reach abroad , the
protective Issue has not the same vital
force It had during the period of strug
gle and development. "
This prompts the Chicago Chronlclo
to ask : "Then why not abolish pro
tection ? "
The answer Is manifest. It Is because -
cause , without protection , all that has
been accomplished would bo destroyed.
While hero and thorn Romn Industry
has under Us aegis so thriven and de
veloped as to no longer require the
paternal assistance of the government
and should bo placed upon the frco
list , Instead of being an argument in
support of the abolition of the policy
under which the manufactures of
America are fast' reaching the happy
stage of Independence , this happy re
sult rather stands as an object lesson
calculated to Impress every lover of
his country with the wisdom of that
policy which has brought wealth , hap
piness and prosperity to an entire pee
ple.
The tariff can no longer bo made the
all-absorbing Issue of a political cam
paign because the benefits of protec
tion nro so universally recognized that
its most persistent enemies have no
longer the courage to assail It. Four
years of contrast under the operations
of each of the two opposing systems
have been fraught with an experience
which the people are unwilling to un
learn. Suffering , beggary , starvation
and bankruptcy , which had settled on
the nation like n pall , have given way
to the most phenomenal era of uni
versal prosperity that over glorified
and uplifted an aflllctcd continent , and
the masses refuse absolutely to ex
change the material benefits of a safe
and salutary policy for the promises of
an Illusive chimera which had brought
In its train but disaster and ruin.
This Is the truism that Postmaster
General Smith announced , and that his
declaration is to go unchallenged is
made evident by the solicitude with
which the leaders of the democratic
party Jealously avoid all reference to
the tariff issue. Four yeara of a de
velopment which has firmly establish
ed our Industrial sunromacy affords a
practical illustration of the virtues of
a protective tariff which even Mr.
Bryan is content to respect. In tills
sense , not only is the tariff no longer
an Issue of the same Importance as In
the past , but It Is in every essential a
dead issue. Now Orleans States.
IVIi'it Would Ilappnn-
The London Economist has given
a tabulated list of 187 healthy , robust
trusts now existing In frco trade Eng
land. Of these 132 are more than flvo
years old. In the latter class are 1C
Iron and steel combinations , 17 textile
fabric trusts , four paper combines , and
12 railway rolling stock combinations.
According to the stock quotations and
reported dividends none of these big
concerns are at all lank or spindly , not
withstanding the absence of a tariff
mother to furnish nourishment during
the period of Infancy. All these little
Items of Information In regard to the
extent of the trust system abroad na
turally suggest an Inquiry as to what
would happen If wo complied with the
Democratic entreaty to "take off the
tariff and bust the trust. " Well , for one
thing , wo would be sure to furnish a
mighty promising field of operations
for the trusts of England , Germany and
the other European nations which are
not engaged In the busting process.
Sioux City ( Iowa ) Journal.
It IH Different Now.
From Chicago comes the announce
ment that more pianos have been
shipped west and southwest in the past
three months than in five years before.
This looks as though the people of the
west were able to Indulge in luxuries ,
and it tells a somewhat different story
from that with which the country be
came BO familiar during the dark days
of Cleveland and the Wilson law. Then
the reports from the west told of hard
ship , of the giving of mortgages on
farms and on homes , and of struggles
to raise money to meet the Interest on
mortgages and debts. Farmers and
artisans were not buying many pianos
In those gloomy free-trade times.
Hiiveiiieyer'H Animus.
The Democratic press Is trying to
make some capital out of the state
ment made by Sugar King Havemeyer
that "the tariff is the mother o
trusts. " The facts arc Mr. II. Is sour
because ho did not succeed In securing
a higher tariff on sugar , so that his
trust could not bo Interfered with. The
policy of the Republican tariff la to give
consumers the commodities of life a
the lowest possible price conslsten
with the demands of revenues and the
protection of American labor. No one
Democrat or Republican , will have anj
*
sympathy with Mr. II. when the anl
muB of his expression Is understood.
Waterloo ( Ind. ) Press.
, . /"ArfllAAAjLi
Coffee Is becoming nn Important in
dustry In Queensland. It has out
grown the homo demand and the
QncoiiBlnndcrs are preparing to put
their coffco on tlm London market
Flvo threshers , while returning from
Brandon , 111. , wore struck by lightning.
Tohn Litndstrom and 0. C. Wcatman
ivoro killed Instantly. The others were
more or less injured , but will recover.
Frankfurt-on-tno-Maln Is celebrating
the one hundred and fiftieth anniver
sary of Gootho's birth with proces
sions , sporting and theatrical per
formances , the celebration lasting sev
eral days.
Sir Sidney Watorlow , once lord may
or of London , who married an Ameri
can girl , recently gave a park to the
wondonora , and will have the pleasure
of seeing his statue erected in It lu lila
own lifetime.
Hubert Hcrltomer has been elected
irofcjtsor of painting In the schools of
ho royal academy In place of Sir W.
il. Richmond , who la responsible for
the mosalco In St. Paul's cathedral ,
uid who has resigned.
Berlin university la celebrating the
ilnotocnth anniversary of Its founda
tion by Frederick William III of Prus
sia. Although one of the youngest it
s now the foremost university of Ger
many In the number of atudenta and
professors.
Count Munstcr , German ambassador
to Franco , and the chief Gorman rep
resentative at The Hague peace con
ference , has been raised to the rank of
lirlnco by the kaiser with the title of
\f\\tst \ \ Derneburg. Till 18GC the count
was a Hanoverian subject.
Peas taken from an Egyptian tomb
.1,000 years old have been planted by a
Scotch gardener and have produced
vigorous vhiPB and fruit. There Is no
doubt an to the peas being Egyptian ,
but It will need strong testimony to
convince botanists that they are aa old
as the tombs.
The body of the man murdered at
Davenport , la. , was Identified aa Alex
McArthur of Cedar Rapids , and hla
companion Is believed to have robbed
him on a passenger train and pushed
him off the platform In front of an
other train. Ho was killed instantly
and the murderer escaped.
The Kaiser William dor Grosse ia
now king of the seaa. The big vcsaol
reached Now York from Southampton
Tuesday In the record-breaking tlmo
of flvo daya , eighteen houra and flvo
minutes. The best previous tlmo was
flvo days , twenty hours and fifty-five
minutes. The liner averaged 22.08
miles an hour for the trip. But what
was gained ? A few hours' tlmo waa
gained , but the llvca of hundreds of
people were risked , and blindly , too.
Bavaria , aa la only fitting , bcara the
prize for beer drinking , the yorly av
erage for each man , woman and child
being 23G litres. Belgium comes next
wfth 102 litres , then Great Britain with
145 ; the average for the United Stateai
Is 47 litres a year. The record by cities
for 1897-98 la Munich GGG litres yor' '
head , Frankfort 428 , Nuremberg 421 ,
Berlin 20G , Vienna 14fi , Paris 11. Ger
many's production of beer waa 1,438-
020,000 gallona. The United Statea ,
grouped In Gorman tobies with other
non-European countries , produced 1-
219,850,000 gallona and Great Britain
1,160,530,000 gallons.
The dry , hot spell , says a Peorla
(111. ( ) dispatch , ahows no signs of abat
ing In this district. The farmers are
complaining bitterly , and aay that . .
la 1 even now too late to save much of
1I
the I corn , which has shrivelled up. The
drouth struck the corn in the dough ,
and Instead of ripening , It scorched It.
The kernels brought to town for in-1
apection show that it has been cooked.
The farmers , however , are congratulat
ing themselves that while the hot sun
has withered the corn It has stored
away tons of saccharine In the augar
beets tba't are growing on thousands
of acres of Tazewell county farms.
The central Potto RIcan commltteo
has decided to send broadcast through
the country an appeal to the churches
for aid , and copies of the appeal to all
the banks lu the country to bo posted
where they can be seen , to revive the
contributions to the relief fund. A
cablegram received from General Da
vis , now In command In Porto Rico ,
says that a thousand tons of food sup
plies a week were still needed , the ar
ticles most wanted being rice , beans ,
fish , bacon and medicinal supplies. The
United Statea government is to send
a thousand tons of food purchased on
Its own account by H transport which
will sail tomorrow , and the commltteo
decided to devote the contributions
this week to the purchase of medicinal
supplies.
LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE.
Oiniiha , Chicago and New York Alnrkot
Oi otatloiiH.
OMAHA.
nutter Creamery separator. 19 < Jj > 20
Hutter-Cholco fnncy country U % 10
EBBS KroHli. per doz 13 no . . . .
Chickens-Spring , per Ib 7VfrS ? 8
Pigeons Live , per doz 5 < R ) 1 00
Lemons Per box 4 23 © 4 60
Oranges Per box 4 50 W 4 75
Cranberries Jersey , per bbl. C 23 ifi > C CO
Apples Per barrel 175 2 00
Potatoes Now , per bushel. . 23 33
Sweet .potatoes Per bbl 200 2 30
Hay Upland , per ton BOO G 00
SOUTH OMAHA.
Hogs-Cholco light 440 4 45
Hogs Heavy weights 4 33 . . > 4 40
licef steers 300 f 5 70
Hulls 275 W375
RtiigS 2 23 & 4 65
Calves 400 & C 00
Cows 200 < S > 4 10
Heifers 350 til1 4 75
Stockers nnd feeders 350 5 ? 4 65
Sheep-Lams 400 fi ! 4 2 !
Sheep Good gnifs wethers. . 3 SO : 3 75
CHICAGO.
Wheat No. 2 spring 07 COV4
Corn Per bushel . ' . 32 32 %
Hurley-No. 2 35 40
Outs Per bushel 21
Hye No. 2 E2 IP
Timothy seed , per bu 2 55 2 CO
Pork Per owt 7 40 8 20
Cattle Stockers and feeders 3 00 4 73
Lurd B 15 5 33
Hungers 340 5 40
Hogs Mixed 415 4 C3
Bin-oil Prime- ( lock (310 ( G 25
Sheep Western rangora 3 50 © 4 25
NEW YORK MARKET.
Corn-No. 2 39 ] |
O.its-No. 2 2S
Wheat No. 2 rod 73
KANSAS CITY.
Sheep Muttons 3 65
Hoh'H-MIxed 4 45
Cattle Stockera and feeders 4 00
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