Nebraska Newspapers

    THE OMAHA DAJLY MONDAY , AUGUST 21 , 1803.
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TltH Now York populists liavo
ndoptud a plnlfonn which is composed
in the true calamity stylo.
DilKKNDKits of Sniultiy opening at the
World's fair are now moro difl'mult to
find than needles in a haystack.
LK Chicago is titllclng HO much of
the Columbian museum , Omaha might
bestir herself in hohalf of her proposed
museum.
IOWA clomocuuts are now looking1 ( era
a gubui'imtorlul candidate who is willing
to he sacrificed with the least manifesta
tion of disappointment.
IT is now clear that cither the at
torneys for Hie plaintiffs or those for the
defendants in the railway injunction pro
ceedings have been making some tall
misrepresentations of fact.
TODAY should see the tennis champion
ships for the state of Nebraska decided.
The winners will no doubt feel more
olatcd than the successful candidates in
the forthcoming fall elections.
TIIK maharajah of Kapurthala and
his party huvd gazed upon the beauties
of an American congress and are re
v. ' - ported to have been greatly pleased
with it. What a pity that they did not
buy it and take it homo with them.
REPIIESENTATIVE citizens in various
largo cities are mooting together and
arc discussing means for securing work
for the unemployed. Would it not bo
advisable for business men in this vicin
ity to show a little moro interest in the
wolfuro of the unfortunate laborer ?
IP TIIEKE is anything in the petition
of the railway attorneys praying : for an
injunction to prevent the members of the
State Board of Transportation from en
forcing the maximum freight rate law
that 1ms not yet boon denied , now is the
time to call attention to the point.
THE present French elections correspond
spend to the election of presidential
electors with us , since the now parlia
ment is to choose the successor to Presi
dent Carnot. Hut Franco this time has
not equalled the general excitement cus
tomary during our presidential elec
tions.
PAWNIHMUCEHS in Now York nro not
allowed by statute to charge moro than
25 per cent per annum on the money ad
vanced on pledges. Some pecuniary ad
vantage could bo secured by them in those
times if they would but give up the
pawnbroker's business and loan money
on call to the brokers on Wall street.
THE oldest man in Iowa is said to
smolcochow and drink ; to swear like 11
pirate ; to bo noted for gallantry , and
never to Icwo an opportunity to Illrt with
the girls. If there are any young men
in this vicinity who wish to live to a
ripe old age , here is an example which
they ought not to bo averse to follow.
THE free silver advocates have boon
making a great dual of nolso. To coun
terbalance this it is proposed to hold a
national convention of representative
business men at Washington in the in
terest of a prompt repeal of the Shor-
mini silver purchase law. The lines of
battle are daily becoming moro sharply
driiwn.
WllKN the Burlington ollloials ot
stockholders are called to tiio stand tc
testify in the injunction cases it will be
n revelation t-j the pooplo. They will
bo compelled to explain by what process
of approved financiering the roads wore
enabled to pay a not annual dividend oi
from 20 to 25 pur cunt on stock watered
to the extent of over $ -15,000,000.
THE Burlington road , since its advon
Into Nebraska , has boon the recipient o
nearly 3,000,000 , aeros of Nebraska lands
This vast domain , in connection wltl
fully 3000,000 , in Iccal bond subsidies , aggregate
grogato in value tin amount equal t <
half the cost of construction of all tha
torapany'u lines within the state. Ii
viw of tills unprecedented donation i
lily bee 'iiios ' the Burllntrton to centos
the right of the state to impose reguln
tions for fair and reasonable froigh
rutoa. Nebraska has treated that roui
with great gouoroalty and it ought note
to ho netessury for our people to tmo fo
fair treatment at its huud * .
AN VXSOlWl'UlMnX I'AHl.rAMKNTAtir
SCHKMti.
It is now stated on reliable authority
that the senators who aro. exerting
night and maUi to prevent the repeal of
the Sherman silver purchase law until
after they nro assured of legislation still
nero favorable to the silver owners
than that now on our statute * books
mvo hatched a Bohomo by which they
will bo nblo to soeuro n test of their
strength without risking a vote upon
unconditional repeal. The plan as out-
ined in the dispatches hinges upon the
Voorhces bill , which has boon reported
, o the senate from the finance commit
tee , nnd which it is understood will bo
nishcd forward in advance of the Wil
son 1)111 , which is to come from the
1O11SO.
What the silver advocates in the senate -
ate are aiming to accomplish is substnn-
.iiilly . this : They will transform the
Voorhoos bill , which provides merely for
the issue of national bank notes up to
the par value of the bonds deposited
vith the secretary of the treasury as
security for their redemption , that the
author himself will not bo able to recog
nize it. Aa it now stands it does not
efor to the Sherman silver purchase
aw and consequently contains no pro
vision for its repeal. By offering an
amendment providing for the free coin-
igo of silver at whatever ratio seems
nest likely to obtain n majority of the
votes in 'ttho house the silver senators
vlll bo able to discover who are acting
vith them and who ave opposing them.
Such a move , If successful , would send
to the house a measure for the free
coinage of silver at an agreed ratio and
vould leave all existing monetary logls-
ation unalToctod , except in so far as it is
opugnant to the now act. The advan
tage which the advocates of silver would
train would bo that the men who are for
mconditionul repeal first , and bimetal-
ism afterwards , would bo forced to
show at once how far they will go
towards favoring an Increased use of
silver money.
Tliis scheme , if carried out , will no
lo'nbt servo as an illustration of un
scrupulous parliamentary tactics , but
-hat the silver men in the senate have
their opponents at their mercy has been
evident from the very beginning ,
Whether it is not more advisable and
expedient for thorn to show a disposition
to be fair rather than to take advantage
of every technicality which the rules of
the senate place at their disposal , is a
question which it will bo well for thorn
; o carefully consider. Legislation ob-
.aiuod. by a trick is not apt to be popu-
iar , and they themselves have boon
.oudost . in their denunciation of what
they have claimed to bo such a trick.
Although it has often boon dis
proved , the silver men have never
ceased to refer to the act of
IS7I1 in the most opprobrius terms.
To "romonotizo" silver
by a scheme
moro roprolionsiblo that that which
they have claimed "demonetized" silver
will scarcely receive popular approval.
Lf the silver advocates prove to bo the
stronger in congress on an open vote the
people will either abide by the result or
when the time comes will elect a con
gress that will moro truly represent
them. What they now want is imme
diate action looking toward the relief of
the present financial stringency and
that action must bo open and above
board.
EUOOATIXO OJhUHKD .YOUTH.
Those who are interested in the eleva
tion of the negro race will find much
that is encouraging and gratifying in
the report of the National Association
for the Education of Colored Youth.
According to this report the number of
pupils now enrolled in the colored public
schools of the country is liOD,2.jl : , and
adding to those the number of colored
children in mixed schools it is estimated
that the total is at least 1,503,000. This
is certainly a very excellent show
ing , particularly when it is con
sidered how short a time age
the race was enslaved. Since 180i
about 2,000,000 colored people , or aboul
28 per cent of those in the United States ,
have learned to read and write and arc
now actively engaged in the 'duties o :
life , a fact highly creditable to the race ,
But the otTorts of the colored people dc
not stop at primary education. The }
have forty-seven secondary schools ,
with 11,837 pupils ; twenty-live colleges
with 8,300 professors nnd students
twenty-five schools of theology , with
75. ) students ; five schools of law and live
of medicine , with -120 students , and fifty-
two normal schools with 10,042 students
A striking illustration of the progress
the colored people are making is fur
nlshed by the recent school census o
Georgia. That state nas 4W3 , ( white
schools and 2,1130 schools for the blacks ,
and of the 001,072 , enrolled school chil
dren the colored numbar 28,0U. ! ) , ; In
illiteracy the two races compare as fol
lows : Of the whites between thu ago :
of 10 and 18 years 11 per cent annual
road and write , while of the blacks 2 ;
per cent are illiterate. This in a show
ing very favorable to the colored race
when the relative advantngosof the tw <
races are fairly considered. Georgia , il
is to ha remarked , has boon oxcoptljnallj
liberal am.mg the southern state * in providing -
viding fjr the education of both races
and the results denunstrate what mlghl
bo accomplished by the colored pujpk
if the other states of the south wore
equally liberal and considerate as t <
that race.
Those who reject the impraotlcabh
proposition for the deportation of tin
negro race from this continent and In
sist that if It ha given a fair opportunity
to develop it will amply vlndicato it :
right t' ) remain here and share tin
privileges and advantages of free gov
eminent will find strong warrant fo
their faith in what the race has aceom
plishcd in the last quarter of a contur ;
and may very properly urge this as tin
strongest pusublo evidence that wlthii
two or three generations the colorei
race in America will bo quite as wel
able to take cave of itself a * are some o
the accessions to our population froi
Kuropo.
THE percentages of increase and dc
crease In the weekly clearing house re
ports are calculated upon u oompariso
of business done this year with that c
the corresponding week of the year pre
vioua. That accounts for
iguro.i in those cities which have had
clearing hotisoj but n short time nnd
vhoro a percentage of increase may bo
shown notwithstanding an immense do *
crease of business. This fact must also
jo berne in mind when wo como to ox-
nmlno.tho . reports which will bo given
out next year , and which will then make
comparisons with our current clearings.
It will then appear that those cities
which have boon doing best
luring present hard times * will
show a comparatively small percentage
of increased business , while those cities
n which clearings have dropped to al-
nest nothing will figure out an onor-
nous increase after they have again re
turned to normal conditions. If wo
should judge by the clearing house per
centages alone that will bo calculated ,
sny in a year from now , wo should bo
wonderfully misled. Those limitations
upon clearing house figures must not bo
overlooked *
THE QUHSTIOX OP SKCTIOXA.MSM.
One of the ablest and strongest
speeches made at the present session of
longress is that of Senator Hoar of
Massaohusotts , and no part of It is wiser
and stronger than that in which ho
points out that there is no question of
sectionalism in the financial issue. Any
man or party in the eastern states , said
Mr. Hoar , who should doslro to have the
value or the purchasing power of the
dollar increased in order that the value
of debts , or that assured and perma
nent incomes might bo increased ,
or in order that speculation in
gold or in credits might bo
rendered more profitable , would bo
liurlod from power and buried in in
famy by the swift nnd righteous indig
nation of the whole people of those
states. "Tho prosperity , the power ,
the hupplnoss , the rapid growth of the
northwest and the south , " said the
Massachusetts senator , "are as dear to
the people of Now England as their
own. "
Ho declared , and the truth of the
declaration cannot fairly bo questioned ,
that the merchant , the manufacturer ,
the builder of railroads In the eastern
states , is a constant and perpetual
debtor. The wage earner , the depositor
in savings banks , the holder of the
policy of life insurance , the widow and
orphan who are living on the spare
savings of the husband and father in his
lifetime ifi-o constant and perpetual
creditors. They are alike interested
that the obligation contracted today
shall bo precisely the sarno obligation ,
no greater and no less , when it is to bo
discharged , five or ten or twenty years
hence , or whenever its annual or semi
annual interest is to bo paid through
out that period , nnd those people are not
peculiar to any ono section of the
country.
Senator Hoar said ho did not believe
that any largo number of the people oi
the northwest desire the destruction ol
property , impairment of credit , or any
injury whatever to the people of the
northeast. "Their ambition is to ac
quire property ; their hope is in the es
tablishment and maintenance of. credit.
They always have depended , and for n
long time in the future must depend , for
these things on u close alliance nnd an
interchange of advantages with the people
ple whoso children they are , with the
states whence they came , nnd with com
munities from whose -institutions they
have modeled their own , and with whom
in the great and glorious future.thoy
must live or buar no.life. Chief among
the resources of the west is its
alliance with a wealthy and
prosperous oast. The wealth of the
cast must perish but for its alliance with
a wealthy and prosperous west. " Tliit
is the position of all intelligent and fair-
minded men , and those who attempt te
raise a sectional question and to nrrnj
the west against the east arc enemies ol
the country and particularly of the west ,
STA.TK H.IXK ISHUKS.
Senator Gordon of Georgia has intro
duced a bill to repeal the 10 per cent tas
on stale bank issues and the subject will
probably bo debated in the senate during
the present week. It was remarked
when the bill was introduced and ro
ferrcd to the finance committee that ii
attracted very little attention , but il
would bo a mistake to conclude from
tills that the proposition will not have 11
very considerable support in congress ,
The circumstance of there having boon
little manifestation of interest upon it-
introduction in the sonata was simply
due to the fuel , that it hud been antici
pated.
No demand in the democratic nationu
platform is made in strngor terms thai :
that for the repeal of the tax on state
bank Issues , and it was endorsed by tin
unanimous vote of the Chicago convention
tion , Not a single objection was made
to it In that-body , and it went forth tc
the country as the unqualified desire ol
the representatives of the democratic
pt.rtj. There is excellent reason to believe
liovo that the democratic members o
congress from the south are practically
unanimous in favor of having thedemani
complied with by the party , and they wll
have liolp from the roproscntutivoa o
the middle anil western states , thougl
not all iho democrats from those sec
tions will support the proposition. Tin
roprcKontativos of the eastern states wll
oppose it and the republican vote ii
both branches of congress will undoubtedly
odly bo solid against it. The proba
bility of the passage of such u bill a
that of Senator Gordon's is therefore bj
no moans good , and there is oven a possl
bility that it may never bo brought to i
voto.
voto.What
What the attitude of the president i
toward this proposition no ono appear
to know. The newspaper that Is pro
sumod'ta know moro than any other re
gX'ding the views of Mr. Cleveland Bali
some time ago Unit ho had never glyoi
the question of repealing the tax 01
state bank Issues any serious confident
tion and therefore at that time had m
definite opinion. It Is , doubtless , Hufo b
assume that ho has not slnco given tin
matter more than passing thought , bu
at any rate it Is doubtless u shrew <
guess that Mr , Cleveland will not fuvoi
repealing the tax and opening the wuj
to a restoration ot state bank currency
He Is old enough to have had some per
sonul knowledge of the currency of th
ante-war period and that
the case ho „ ( „ may eafoly bo
counted in opposition to the proposal to
again Hood the tountry with that kind
of money. Wo op vo that some of the
advocates of the repeal of the tax sot tip
tha claim that It/'ftMtnconstUutlonal . , Aa
.ho supreme court lias decided the tax
to bo constitutional ) this argument will
tot help the case of itho people who want
to got rid of It. , to greater financial
nlstako could ha made than to again
lornilt atoto banka to Issue currency.
Cheaper tlmn Metnt.
The house debate , on silver furnishes a
striking illustration of the fact that the
tarlft Isn't the only thing that men can talk
tbout In n lluont fashion without imparting
any Information.
Looks thntVay. .
y.ouUefitj Cowffr-JournaU
Oh , no , the tlomoonUlo party iloos not
moan what it said at Chicago. It was only
diking through Its whiskers. For narttcu-
are road the president's moasauo. Thou in-
torvlow Larry Neal of Clnlllcotho.
o
1'erlmps.
Central Cltv Kanparttt.
TIIR URB Is rustling to have Omaha made
an Indian supply ilopot. with fairchnncus of
succos.i. If the other Omaha papers would
work as hard for tlio upbuilding of Omaha
as Tun URG docs much would bo accom
plished ,
V . _ .w _ l
Ilnrmnny Sum to Win.
Jvebnuka Cltu J'rcs * .
There Is no uncertainty In the atand taken
by Iowa republicans against prohibition as n
state issuo. Republicans of prohibition nnd
anti-prohibition tendencies agreed that pro-
lilbltlon as no test of party foalty. That
is a hnrruony which will win.
There'll llo n J-'lKlit for Victory.
Ketini Journal /
The political campaign in Nebraska this
year will bo short.-sharp nuil decisive. Ho-
mill Means should buckle on tholr armor ami
got ruady to swing the republican column tea
a decisive victory. It Is ours If republicans
but do tholr duty , not only as a state but as
a county.
Prnachlni ; mid Pructlco.
ffew York Commercial.
Wo expected it. The Ute llullans nro
nnnoylng one corner of Colorado and the
dauntless Governor \Vaito erics to Washing
ton for hulp , When r > r.yilon wrote , "Is feeler
or coward writ on my f.ii-o ? " ho little thought
that from the virgin west would emanate an
order to claim ovcrytliing.
Turn of till ) Tldo.
iVciti York Commercial.
Whou this snow melts there will como a
Hood. When the doors of vaults begin to
swing backward there will bo so much currency -
roncy that business will not know what to
do with it all. Money will bo a drug and
the currency broker will llnd it difllcult to
make his salt. The beginning of this end
ought not to bo far away.
Tliu Ohurokeo Strip.
l'hniilcllili ( ) ) : Record.
The hungry speculators who have been
waiting to rush intO' ho Uherokco Strip to
seize upon the most eligible townsltcs will
flnd that thu untutored savage has learned a
thing or two. Undp'r the terms of the
cession of the lands to tno government the
Chcrokoos nro entitled' to nn allotment of 1H ( )
acres each. They have just completed tholr
selection of lands , alid1 wisely they have all
chosen tracts adjolnlilg the railroad that
runs through thn atrip. The Indiana will
got the best lands. ' and the townsito com
panies will got loft ; '
The Ucnt < KIiiil or Ncnrg. '
Sem'Vtirk Sun.
There is not any moro pleasing news in
these days than are th'oso items from various
parts ot the country , -which toll of the fac
tories and mills thiit' have resumed opera
tions , the banks thav have opened doors
which wcro' ' temporarily closed , the mines in
which the shutdown -has- como to aii'encl ,
the business houses which have got over
their troubles , the foreign demand for Amer
ican cereals , the heavy business of railroads ,
the releasing of eurroliuy-lu private hands ,
the assurred strength ofnil our savings
banks , the arrival of gold from Europe and
other such things.
Th w y to Win.
Ilduci Cnnniu Republican.
This is a good year for' ' the republicans of
Hayes county to stand together. They
should meet the common enemy with solid
ranks. Good , clean and thoroughly compe
tent mon only should bo permitted to mid a
place upon their ticket , and it Is a duty
which every true republican owes his party
to see that thi is done. Hayes county
never had a moro competent sot of ofllcials
than the republicans in ofltco at present , and
if an equally good list is nominated at the
county convention there will bo no question
us to their election by old time majorities.
I "or Mo < llllcitloii : ,
tituiuc Cltu Journal.
The republican party of Iowa lias entered
the contest this year on impregnable ground
the ground of absolute honesty , candor and
fidelity to its highest purpose. That pur
pose is , in accordance with the declaration
of the uarty in this state , year after year , to
bo loyal to the will of the people on the puz
zling and serious question of liquor legisla
tion. It has dellnitely put Itself in line with
the will of thu pboplo of Iowa.
Since ISS'J there have Ijoen multiplying In
dications , especially durlne the lust year ,
Unit the judgment of Iowa was being pro
foundly affected by the results of the ox-
per'ment ' which has been in progress , under
the present liijuor code , durini , ' the last de
cade. The election of 'last year , following
the election of Governor Holes in IBS'J ' nnd
1801. and in connection -.vith tlio expressions
of sentiment of the last eight months , made
it clear beyond doubt that the conviction
was tit hist formed that the present law had
upon full trial failed in material points ami
that moiiillcatlon was necessary.
If any ono had lingering doubts.thoy were
swept away t > y the mooting of the repub
lican atato convention. In the preliminary
exchanges nnd Intercourse of the delegates
and visitors to the convention , the fact
which towered above all others was the al
most universal acknowledgment that moditl-
eation was uoeosaa'ry. What made this fact
moro notable , significant and obvious was
that the acknowledgment was made with
such emphasis , not moro by anti-prohlbl-
tlunlsts than by prohibitionists , by tlioso
who for years have stood by the present
prohibitory cede , and who would today bo
only too glad to stand by It uncompromis
ingly if them was longer a shred of hone ,
and if tholr Judgment did not admonish
them of tholr high' duty to move forward tea
a moro olUciont inoth'itrt. "
Thu convention itself ; In its formal pro
ceedings , afforded crowning proof of the al
most unanimous desirtxilf tha party for mod
ification , The vote on vbll call on the mo
tion to strike uut thn concluding clause of
the temperance plunk as reported from thu
platform committee , 'wns in no sense a test
of the sentiment of Llie convention with re
gard to change. As already remarked , that
was almost unanimous. ' ) In the debate on
this motion , which udoutlnuud over three
hours , and in which thu freest and fullest
opportunity to bo hoard''avor given in a state
convention In this staUliwas improved to the
utmost , tlioso on onu'Mdp as well us those
on thu other candidly proclaimed on thu
lloorof thu couventlonKhut they recognized
thu necessity of modification. And the
most powerf Jl uppoatTJif behalf of thu plat
form us reported aiM , in Dually adopted ,
was the nmgnillcentlfe'peecli of Air. Tomplf
of the Klghlh congrewilonal district , which
tie declared the strongest prohibition dis
trict in the state , himself a prohibitionist ol
pronounced typo. The platform ask adopted
under all these circumstances , and In har
mony with the ether towering proofs , de
monstrates how definitely and conclusively
thn * judgment of the republican party ol
Iowa and of thu people of thn state ha a been
rosolvoit to the conclusion that modification
is no-'essary.
The republican party hud the courage and
the patriotism to moot the fact. It had the
candor In convention to wear its heart upon
its sleeve , to open wldu the door to the
amplest expression and to take thu people ol
Iowa into Its cuntldonco. It has kept its
word to the pOopIo , mid they will bellovt
that U will keep its word now. There art
iiu secrets , no ambiguities , no disposition U
play with this great subject and to nub
ordmato It to solflsh partisan interests.
Thu republican party U with the people o
Iowa.
unvAX'3 ii
Norfolk Now * ! Now that "tho grout
lender" of the domocrntio party lift * deserted
It , who will tftko his plncof Mr. Mrynnl
Glebe Democrat : Congressman Ury.in of
Nebraska proves himself to bo nn orator by
showing that ho cnn inako n good speech on
the bad sldo of an Important public question.
.Nebraska ( Jlty Press : There is said to bo
danger that the capital dome nt Washington
will hurst. Urynn has his head in It , and
the swnlling has crowded the sldoi quite out
of iwsltlon. Should this great head bo re
moved now the whole structure would cer
tainly collapse.
FromontTrlbuno : When Air. Hrynu figures
that national banks , If they were allowed to
Issue currency to the par vnluo of tholr
bonds , would inn KO n wrollt of 12 > per cent
on their circulation , ho displays nn aptitude
for juggling with figures that ought to warm
the cockles of the .hearts of his populist
friends.
Minneapolis Tribune : Tom Hoed will
probably make a speech in the house on the
sldo of repeal. If ho does , young Mr. Bryan ,
the infant phenomenon from Nebraska , will
wish that ho had never opened his head. It
is ono of Mr. Uoed's chief delights to lot the
wind out of the sophistries of sophomore
statesmen ,
Detroit Free Press : Mr. Bryan is nn elo
quent talker ami a brilliant word palntor.
Ho roaches the throng with nn almost Irro-
sistlblo power of nnpoal , but * in all thnt ho
said ha wa appealing- most strongly for n
section nnd a special interest , llo showed
hlmsolf n great man restricted by the
wishes of uu exacting constituency.
Philadelphia ledger : When Hcprosonta-
tivoBr.vun , In attacking the "gold bugs , "
remarked that "tho man who said the people
plo could despoil the government was called
nnnnnrchl.it ; but the man who maintained
tbo right of government to despoil the people
plo was called a patriot , " ho was greatly
applauded. Nobody appeared to notice that
the man ho was knocking down with sar
casm was a man of straw , having no exist
ence hi the flesh.
Kearney Journal : Mr. Bryan showed his
Ignorance of the national banking law and
statistics relative thereto nnd was beauti
fully called down at Washington the other
Uny. When ho was brought face to face
with the fact of his Ignorance and mls.itntc-
mont on the subject , ho acknowledged ho
got his figures from the World-Herald. The
explanation wns sufficient , nnd to avoid sim
ilar chagrin ho will doubtless bo careful of
going everything on the demo-pop organ
hereafter.
Plattsmouth Herald : W. J. Bryan takes
the Omaha World-Herald as authority that
the national banks are now making 12J4 per
cent on their circulation , and says that for
this reason ho will oppose the bill introduced
by Senator ' \roorhecs , allowing banks to
increase their circulation to a par value
with the bonds deposited , which Is sup
ported by the president , Secretary Carlisle
and othnr prominent mon , when In fact , the
national banks today nro not mailing a per
cent on their circulation according to Comp
troller Eckels' statement in his oillcial
record. Bryan is rattle-headed enouuh nt
best , but when ho takes the World-Herald
for authority well ho ought to bo ashamed
to mention It , especially under the roof of
the capitol building.
Chicago Hor.ild : The silvery Bryan closed
his declamatory onslaught upon the silver
purchase repeal oill with a eulogy of Jeffer
son. But Mr. Bryan did not say when
Thomas Jefferson advocated the piirjhaso of
silver by the government. Hu did not say
when Joft'orson proposed to coin CO cents
worth of stiver into a dollar and force people
to take it as the equivalent ot n IDO-cent del
lar. He did not even allude to the fact that
.TofTorson stopped the coinage of silver dollars
lars uy executive order without consulting
congress about it ai all , nnd that not one
such dollar was coined thereafter for thirty
years. If Mr. Bryan had stated these things
probably ho would have found sonio difllculty
in making the house understand what a
eulogy of Thomas Jefferson had to do with
the 16 to 1 free coinage scheme of repudia
tion.
Chicago Tribune : Representative Bryan
of Nebraska made what is called n pretty
and glittering sueech. Ho had a peed voice ,
ho gesticulates nicely , awl bis rhetoric is
florid and imagination vivid and exaggera
tive. It is easy to understand how ho pleased
the galleries and the girls. Ho strewed the
fioor of the house with flowers of speech and
with poetical quotations. What should have
been n cool , careful financial argument was
a denunciation of what he called the ' 'merci
less decrees" of the money interest which
"brought case and plenty to those who fawn
and flatter , " followed by a description
uttered in the theatrical , pathetic tone of
voice of the "mute appeal of the work-worn
nnd dust-bogrimod" masses whoso battle-
hymn , it appears , is "Homo , Sweet Home. "
And yet a short dollar , which will buy only
half what u sound ono will purchase , never
made homo any sweeter or Its owner happy.
After skimming the froth nnd foam of ! Mr.
Bryan's declamatory plea for a workingnmn ,
whom ho says ho "would like to help , " but
whom ho is soaking to hurt , there remains a
sour and nasty residuum a "demand" that
gold bo expelled from American circulation
and that silver monometallism bo substi
tuted for honest bimetallism ana that there
be unlimited coinage of ! ( T1 Brains fractional
silver dollars , with no gold support. This is
his recipe for making homo happy and that
Is all there was to his eloquent harauguo
when boiled down to its substance.
Silver mining never has boon one of the
interests of Isobraska. It has raised \rucat ,
corn , bogs , sheep and some statesmen like
Bryan , who are sillier and absurder than
sheep , but it has produced no silver. Why
then should Nobr.iskans run their legs ofT to
glvo the silver minors to thu west of thorn
more for their metal than it is worth in the
world's market t Since 1873 tlioso miners
have boon paid by the government a certifi
cate convertible into gold for every dollar's
worth of silver they sold. They have sold n
gold dollar's worth of silver for a gold dollar ,
but now they "demand" frco coinugo with
less than ( Ml cents of silver in thu dollar , and
they dub that fraud on thu public bimetallic
money , and Bryan supports their fraudulent
scheme.
lo Nebraskans think that sort of skin
game is honest or feasible ? Nubr.iskans
need dollars whose purchasing powtnIs 100
cents in gold. When the farmer deposits
ono In a b.ink or an old boot it Is dosir.iblo
that when he takes that dollar out n year
thereafter it shall bo worth as much as
when ho put It nw.iy , not merely for paying
debts , but for buying dry goods and gro
ceries , and lumber , nnd farm Implements.
If this man Bryan of Nebraska had his way
his constituents would have r 0 and IJO-cunt
dollars , whoso changes in value they could
no moro kenp truck of than of the move
ments ef "thu wicked flea whom no man pur-
suoth. "
Mr. Bryan can talk moro woopfufly and
wallfully than Mr. Bland. Ha can make a
"swcotor" spooch. Ho cun groan moro pa-
thutlcally. But he ban not us much mule
sense as thu Missourian. The latter has
learned something , Hu has found out that
the Hi to 1 ratio will not do ; that the people
have found out. that 111 to 1 ratio is a mossy
old "stilt , " hollow and oovarod with green
mold , and that it doesn't go as onn leg of
bimetallism. Mr. Bryan lives so far west of
thu Missouri that ho has not found it out.
As Hip Van Winkle , waking from bis slum-
bars , thought Cijorgo HI was king , so Mr.
Bryan , coming out of the remote wild wast ,
near the Itocklos , docs not knoiv that
thu 10 to 1 ratio is playu.1 out and has
been thrown on the ash heap where ether
financial follies have gene before , Hu should
advocate the ratio of 127 to 1 or drop tha
cheeky pretense of being a bimetallism Mr.
Bryan may have some Inllucnco on the
stump talking u flit Aophistry to simpleminded -
minded people. Ho may bo able to bogulla
sonio of the farmers of his own state. But
unless bo changes bis tactics ho will havn no
Influence nt Washington. Among the
trained and educated mon who find their
way there fulsome flattery of toll by a man
who does not toll himself nnd abuse of
boards of trade -and chambers of commerce
bv ono who U Ignorant of tholr functions do
not count as arguments. The speakers who
have real inliuonco at Washington In shap
ing legislation , nro these thinkers who deal
in facts , not froth , nnd in tUntlstles Instead
of poetry , on the floors of congress.
Wlinrn Kuiiunur Huiart * *
Sun Fnineltea Chruntcle ,
Wlmtovar may bo tha real results of tha
exploring expedition which went down thu
Colorado from Yuma to thu gulf , there is no
question that thu members will bu able U
bear testimony to the heat along thu river at
this season , The sun bouts down ou Una
stretch of territory with a power not ex
celled in any other part of thu world , Suez
nnd Aden aru notorious for thulr ovcnlikt
heat , but to the man who has ever traveled
about Yuma in August not oven the shore ol
the Hod s < u has any terrors.
Konrnoy Journal : Whiln the tnanufnctur-
Ing Industries elsewhere have closed down ,
Kearney's factories nro running on full time
with increased forces , nnd still advance
orders are not ranched ,
Sc.hu.vlcr Herald : Fine hones in Nebraska
nro becoming numerous and. nro nttr.ictliig
the attention of lovers of pooilhorso flesh nil
over the country , A line collection ot horses
was shipped from Fremont , destined for ex
hibition at the World's fair. Thus does Ne
braska loom up !
Nebraska City Press : Boar constantly in
mind and toll every acquaintance In other
quarters who may bo looking nbout nt sorno
time for a location , of Iho enviable record of
Nebraska City this year. Ask nny casual
observer of ether parts of the state bow
favorably the city stands. It Is nt the head.
Alusworth Star-Journal : Wo have ob
served during our seven .years residence In
Brown county that farmers who stuck to
their farms , good years nnil bad , nro all well
fixed. Sonio who have sold and gone nwny
hnvo done well , but nil who have remained ,
with the oxcrclso of common Industry niul
judgment , bnvo prospered. Let us all keep
right on in the middle of the road.
North Nebraska Kaglo : Dakota county is
to bo congratulated on having passed , so fnr ,
through these panicky times without n fntl-
tire of any ulnd , moro especially among our
banking Institutions. Although slight runs
have been inndo on some of them at different
tlmos ami they have boon looked upon with
a good deal of suspicion , their last published
statements show them , ono nnd all , to bo In
first-class shape , nnd unless something un
foreseen occurs they nro niul will continue
to be as snto as nny oank across the rlvor.
Norfolk News : The corn stalks In the
Nebraska Holds nro groaning iimlor the
heavy weight of woll-llllcd cars. The rccont
rains have assured moro than nn average
crop for this year. Nnbrnsicu , proud of Uor
position in the corn-growing belt , hopes soon
to roach second place in the list. The crop
record of Nebraska in 18'JJ Is going to be sur
passed this year. While she now occupies
fourth plnco among the cereal-producing
states , the fact must betaken into consider
ation thnt her rivals are older and were
dotted with farms , und in some localities
thickly populated , when Nobrnska was
known as a howling wilderness. There yet
remains a vast area of uncultivated land for
thu homusoukor and the plow. When this
land Is under cultivation , Nooraska's showIng -
Ing will far surpass these now In the load.
AVnkjIluld Republican : Immigration Into
northeast Nebraska this fall nml next
spring promises to bo largo. The big crops
raised around here this year , nnd every
year , nro the means of bringing in the best
class of now suttlers and keeping them when
they have located horo. A country where
corn makes from sixty to eighty bushels to
the acre , us this does , is exceptionally good.
Thorn is still plenty of thu best wild land ami
some Improved land to be had hero at very
reasonable prices and on easy torms. it is
really n fact that thoru Is no hotter location
anywhere for a man of moderate means than
this part of Nebraska. It Is hard to find a
man who has settled hero on land and gone
to work , who has not steadily Improved bis
financial condition , and had the advantages
of tbo healthiest climate in the world , good
society , churches , schools and the very best
of nil manner of privileges besides. Fail
ures are uncommon and a foreclosure Is a
very unusual occurrence , so rare that it at
tracts general attention.
Washington Post : , TiHt ut the present , time
thu most dt'sliable Immigrant Is thu yellow
boy.
Itoston Transcript : Tliuro'.s onn tbliiK to bn
.said In favor of HID Minimor. Uno has warmer
friend ] than In winter.
Philadelphia Ledger : To what , basn uses wo
may return : i ratio , as Hamlet observed , Is ap
parent by about 10 to 1.
I'itlsbure Dispatch : A man named Trump
Is In jail In I'lxyollo county for koeulng a
speak-easy. The sheriff's high card was a gun.
Iiifllannpnlls Journal : 1'orhnps the man who
snatched 30,000 from tlio window of a St. Paul
bank nnd ran off with It Is following tlio iicl-
vlcu of tlio newspapers to put money Into cir
culation.
Naturally enough the ralamltlsts continue
to howl with dogged determination.
Boston Courlor : Whim 11 innn pots Into n
ppi'k of troiihln ho Is quito content to hide his
light undur a busliul.
Drowning , Kins & do's Monthly : Junk I
hope you liked tlm last , box of candy , Fanny
dear. Sweets to the swi-ot.
Kunny Why , you Impertinent thliiK. It wns
all nuirroii Kluces. Do you mean to Insinuate
that I'm u chestnut ?
Philadelphia Itpcord : "Ah mo ! I wonder
why It Is thut tlmu goivsso swiftly ? " Perhaps
thu spur of the moment urges U on. "
Kronlilyn Llfu : Tom Yes , Molly , I worn out
pretty lain lust nlKht , but the tldn was BO
stroni ; It was hard to como buck very fast.
A lieu Yes ; I remember In physics It says
the lunpcth of the spark Is proportional to thu
Hlrongth of thu current.
Washington Star : It was ono of the locali
ties wlicro soda water intemperance flourishes ,
Hu was very sloupy and remarked :
"My dear , I llilnic I shall lie down. I haven't
luid moro than forty winks today. "
"John ! " him uxclalinud , "do you want mo to
uut you In an Inebriate asylum ? "
TIIK 001,1) IIUII'H DAUUIITKU.
"My fntherownnd a silver lode
And now 'tis inlnu , " Iiu cried.
"Oil , take n load from olT my heart
And say thou'lt bu my undo. "
"Unload thy heart elsewhere , " hliu said ,
"Thy lodu's a llcklu storn.
Lnvu laiiKlis at silver wliun 'tis ' down
As low UH fifty-four. "
PKU1T.K . .l.Tllt.VG.V. .
After the bawl Is over In controls , whUi :
Corn Is so high ( n Kansas that the volco ol
calamity Is smothered.
The ratio of Imagination to Information in
the silver debate Is nbout 1,000 to 0.
Twilight holdups may bo regarded ni ft V
protest ngnlnst the hoarding of money.
Mrs. Henry Wnrd llocolior Is rapidly fall-
IIIR In health. She will bo 81 years old
August SO.
Mr. Yung Yu , the now Chinese minister to
the united. States , who has Just nrriycd nt
Snn 1'Vanolsco , brings eighty-two people la
bis suite and eighty tons of IitgRngo ,
Llghtnlng-chinncd mother Lease Is carry
ing reform nt a cyclonic gnlo. As president
of thu Kansas Hoard of Charities .tno is
bouncing offensive republicans and hiding
pops.
It Is n mistake to think congress has dona
nothing to Increase the circulating medium.
The house resolution pitying members mllo-
nge for riding on passes wont through with
out dobato.
In thcsn times of doubt nnil illsi'ord , n man
who Insists "I'm n democrat , " should bo re
quired to furnish plans uiut spoclllcntlons of
bis platform , "not necessarily for publica
tion , but ns nn ovldcnco of good faith. "
Mr. Jnramlnh Webster Flanagan of Toxns ,
who achieved an nfllco bv oxolnlmlne nt a
national convention , "What nro wo here
for ! " Is In condition to symp.Ulilzu with the
nuthorof "Wheronm I nil" Both nrolout
of n Job.
The Philadelphia Lodger throws nn olcc-
trlc.llght on an Important piscatorial point.
It explains that n peliiglo tUhorman is ono
who , rou'jhlngn considerable distance from
shore , iimUlonly discovers ho loft his halt
flask on the Imnk.
I'ostmn&tcr Wills of Nashville. Tcnn. , hns
got the newspapers of that city on his trail
by Issuing nn order forbidding the loiter
carriers , under pain of dismissal , from com-
intuiting on the financial situation , "as sen
sational reports are at this time mischievous
and dangerous. "
QVKSTWSS .4.V/J AXUH'KIIS.
1'ir.HRB. Nub. . AUK. 10. Tolhe 1'dllor of Tin
HKK : Will you iclndfy toll nm thu total number
of paid admissions to the World's fulr up to
date und oblige ? Yours truly ,
llKlimiAN K. dl.KI.ANl ) .
From May I to August 11) ) , 7,8o7,351 , ; for
week ending August It ) , TlHMitt.
KXKTUU , Nub. , AUK , It ) . To the Kdltor of
TIIK HKK : Onn you toll mo If thn Oklahoma
or Choroki'o Strip has been duclnrml opun or
not , and oblige , .1. J , Uoi.i : .
No oillcial declaration has yet been made
to open this land.
OMAHA , AUK. 18. To the Kdltor of TIIK linn :
Whlrhot tlinso suiiii'iices Is correct , or tlm hi't-
ur KnglHIi "So ! > uun as possible , " or "as soon
u.s possible ? " Oo.NsrANT HKAIIKII.
' As soon as possible" would scorn to bo
the bettor. "As" and "so1' have nlmost
common uses , the Ilrst being used us n conJunction -
Junction nnd un adjective ; the second as an
adverb , conjunction nml Interjection. As
denotes o iuallt.v ; so n dcgn o of relation
understood. So is used as a demonstrative
correlative in conjunction with us. In the
sentence "so soon as possible , " the dcgreo Is
expressed in "possible. " and thus thu cor
relative so. should give way to as. denoting
that the action must bo ni-complisbod within
n time equal to that expressed by "possi
ble. "
H.IM'Hu .v.
The ronl wlso man never makes the same
mist.iko twice.
The right kind of a smllo never hurts a
prayer meeting.
Fine words on a tombstone do not moan
anything in heaven ,
If a woman is over merciless It is when she
gets a mouse in a trap.
There is such n thing as trying to live on
blessings and starving to death.
The man who rides a hobby is always com
plaining that the world is too slow.
I'eoplo who blow their own horns seldom
furnish good music for other folks.
The prayer meeting is moro than half dead
in which no song of praise is heard.
A.self-made man spoils his work every
time ho opens bis mouth to praise himself ,
Atlanta Constitution.
O , It's Jolly tlmos a-flshlnu In the ( summer or
thu spring ,
Along tliu crooked creek whore the redbreast
purch bus hod.
And yon watch tlio minnows skipping where
thu speckled trout. Is king
As you listen to thu bluebirds that among the
lirancliossliig ,
While you choose an I'ddy current nnd pre-
naru to hoiivo your lead.
And thu balu Is In thu bottle and thu worm's on
thu string ; .
O , It's jolly tlimss n-flshlng when tlio ' kuulor'
on tliu wing
And thn salty nrosplratlon from yoiirblht-
nrod noMi Is dropping ;
And von liathu your parching thirst In tlio
bosom of the HprliiK ,
AVIillu thu rednuKs are u-borlng with uxaspor-
And dreamily sit watching , fondly ll.st'nlng
for tlm popping
Of the cork that , ' H In the boltlo or the cork
that's on tliu xtrlng.
O , It's jolly llmus a-llshlngwlion you hoar the
welkin ling
And tlio watering pot of honvun Its rufrush-
liiK showers pour :
Anil you think you' TO caught n moccasin , u
turtle or : i lln .
As you jerk your tackle up with nconseiiuon-
tlal fling
And land him In thu troolop Instead of on the
slioru
And the .smikohltu'H In the bottle and thu oul \ non
on thu string.
* " ea T :
Lurxust ManiifacturnrB : in I Ilat&Uori
olOlolulnKlu thu World.
i
Touching it off
That is to say , letting it go , and if you had
been in our store Saturday you
would have thought Uncle Sam
had brought back the good old
times we read about. Oh , but wo
did soil lots of suits. Wo have
taken off from $2.50 to $7.50 on
each suit , making such an extra
low price that even if you do not
need it now , it will pay you bet
tor than savings bank interest to
pick out a suit now and put it
away till spring , This is not a
broken size or broken lot sale , but a nice clean stook
of the finest suits over brought to this western coun
try. If you hesitate you are lost for they will bo
rapidly taken up.
BROWNING , KING & CO. ,
Blow open , till MX | g _ fo an ] DMjaj | Stj ,