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niTTtAAT A TT A T1 A 'TT.'V 1JT Tfl. IV IT * T\-\ . I O n AV A 1T/ OMAHA DAILY BEE li. noSUWATKU , Kdltor. PUBLISHED EVERY MOUSING. TERMS Of SUBSCRIPTION. Bee ( without Sunday ) . Ono Ycar. . 6.00 Bally lly Bee and Sunday , One Year 8.00 Dully , Sunday and Illustrated , Ono \car 8.2S Sunday and Illustrated. One Year 2.25 Illuttrated Bee , One 'ieur. . . * } Eundny IHe , One Year ' fV Saturday Bee , One Year . . > . . ' -SS Weekly Bee , One Year " 6j orncEs. Omaha : The Bee Building. . South Omaha : City Hall Building , Twcntyi fifth and N Streets. Council Bluffs : 10 Pearl Strost. Chicago : 307 Oxford BUIMInt' . Now York : Temple Court. Washington : Ml Kourtpenth Street. COUUESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news nnd Kdtlorlal Department , The Onmhn Bee. BUSINESS I.ETTEH3. Business Otters and remittances should be addressed to The Bee Publishing Com pany , Omaha. Omaha.REMITTANCES. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft , express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Companj. Only 2-cent stampa accepted In payment ot mall accounts. Personal check * , except on Omaha or Eastern exchange , not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATKMU.Vr OK CIllCfKATIOX. BUito of .Nebraska , DoURlim County , S3. : Own-go B. ' 1'zschuck , ser-retiiry of The Bee Publishing company , being duly worn , says that the actual number of full und complete copies of The D.Uly , Morning. Evening and Sunday Uee , prlntM during tbo month of July , 1899was us follows : (1,0(10 ( ( 17 ur,020 IS SI.7IIO 3 . SB , 110 ID S-1,700 . svum 10 S-1,070 5 . uu.or.o 21 StB80 6 . 25rIO ( 2i 2I,70 : ! 7 . S.-.MO 23 su,2nn 8 . SB.-MO 3 . U7arr 10 . SB.SIHJ 20 U 1,700 31 . SB..I80 27 UI.770 12 . st.nzn 2S IM.IKM ) 13 . i.v rj 29 1,810 34 . SB)0 ( ) m a , ino IB . aso o 31 S5.010 10 . Ull.tMO Total Less unsold nnd returned copies. . Net total Bales. Net dolly average averageGEO. . H. TZSCHUCK. SulKicrlbcd nnd sworn before me this 31st Cay of July , 1S9D. I * E. BOYLk , ( Seal , ) Notary Public. I nrtlo I.cnvliiir for the Summer. Parties leaving the city for the summer may have The Bee sent to them regularly by notifying The Bee business odlcc , In person or by mall. The address win bo changed an often ns desired. i A municipal ownership campaign will lirj in order next sprliiR , l "t is somewhat premature at this time. It Is nnnounceil the window combination is an assured success. This la no light affair , for It Is capitalized tit ? 37,000,000. , This year's brand of Kentucky demo cratic harmony challenges comparison for both quality and quantity with any previous output. The cheers with which the First Ne braska greeted the governor were not loud enough to create any Serious.at mospheric disturbance. Only three weeks from now to the tripartite state conventions and we may look for some lively Hkirmlshlng by the ward heelers within the next few days. Now that Admiral Dewey has started for Naples the American correspond ents will have to brush up their Italian and the admiral will haveto prepare for a diet of spaghetti. The reform State Hoard of Equaliza tion has performed another farce for the benefit of corporate monopolies which are so liberal with free passes and other favors at the expense of the tax payers. Whisky has been the cause-of many n divorce , but it remains for an Omaha woman to seek a severance of nuptial ties on account of the too persistent use of. water. Aviio says this is npt a pro gressive age ? Grand juries may be somewhat ex pensive , but the' inelllclency of the present mettidd of procedure by Informa tion through county prosecutors elected to protect professional lawbreakers is decidedly unsatisfactory. Two of the Bakers , parties to one-of Kentucky's celebrated feuds , have en listed for service in the army. If they are as successful In killing off Filipinos as they have been with their neighbors , the Howards , Aguinaldo and his men will not have to wait lone for their ilnlsh. The appeal of Governor Candler of Georgia to the people of that state to put an end to mob violence is timely. The only drawback Is that it will not bo heeded. The habit IIIIH become chronic nnd'whllo it may bo cured it will require a long course of skillful treatment. General Otis should uiako haste to as certain the Itinerary of the Tendon Graphic artist and Improve the roads BO that ho can travel around without dis comfort. Tlmo will hardly admit of macadamizing them , but a few miles of corduroy might stir up his torpid liver and Improve his temper. The State department has finally suc ceeded in locating Senator llovcrldgo and notlllylng him that ho was lost. The senator has been enjoying himself In the Orient wjillo his friends nt home were conjuring up horrible stories of his alleged fata. Cable tolls at'several dollars per word are too expensive to keep { ho line of communication con stantly open , The exposition has entered upon Its Kocond month rejuvenated nnd re- invigorated. If the energetic business moil who. have identified themselves with its active management will put on the finishing touches by reinforcing the colonial features , which must bo the prlmo factor of attraction , the enter prise hns a fair prospect of proving u success from'creiy point of view. AU. ATM FMBSObV. Ex-Speaker Heed hns been studying European sentiment townrdH the United States and ho said In n recent Inter view that he found everywhere on the continent evidence of n continued and m'owJnp peed will In the best circles and among those whose opinion every Ainer- leau Tallies. There Is no doubt that this country never before stood BO high in the respect of European nations as now , every country of the old world seeming to be anxious to cultivate with this republic the most friendly relations. This has been particularly manifested by UiiHxIa and France , though Germany has shown a hardly less earnest desire to strengthen friendship between the two nations. This Is not due altogether or even chiefly to the war with Spain. That certainly had a salutary effect upon European opinion of the United States , so far as Its military power Is concerned , but It Is our growth In com mercial power and In the enlarged Influ ence which this gives us In the affairs of the world that has given this country a higher place In the respect of other nations than It ever before held. We shall undoubtedly retain this posi tion so long as wo continue Impartial In our International friendship mid re fuse to enter Into relations with any country that might appear to In any degree discriminate against .another. Our policy should still bo to stand on equally good terms with all , since this course has been fully justlllcd by ex perience and there Is no reason to doubt that It will bo found as wise and expedient In the future as In the past. A. The trust movement Is declining and It would not be surprising If within a year It-will have entirely subsided. The Now York Journal of Commerce , noting the abandonment , for the present at least , of several projected combinations , for the reason that they could not mar ket their securities , says : "The public has less confidence in trust securities than it had in the spring and the cap italization of some of the more recent combinations has been attempted upon a more modest scale than that prevalent a few months ago. Hut It Is simply Im possible for the community to buy all the manufacturing concerns In the coun try at once and-to buy them all at pretty high figures. " We cited a few days ago the state ment of a trust promoter that It Is uo longer possible to induce the public to lake the securities of an Inflated com bination , that only such securities can be disposed of us have a basis of actual value. Such being the case there Is very good reason to believe that the trust movement will shortly subside and it Is highly probable that some of those which have been organized with u heavy overcapitalization will find much dllllculty In holding on. This would as suredly be the case In the event of a hardening money market , which is quite possible in the not remote future. The neglect of the "Industrial" se curities by the public has not yet pro duced any 111 effects financially and there seems to be no apprehension of any , but had the trust movement gone on much longer as it was being pushed a few months ago it would most cer tainly have eventuated in a serious financial disturbance. The subsidence of the trust craze is good for the country and there is no probability that It will be revived. WHAT THE SOLDIERS SAY. The soldiers who are returning from the Philippines have well defined views of the situation there and and arc giv ing free expression to them. That the opinions of these Intelligent men , who have so amply attested their patriotism and valor , will have a great deal of In fluence with the public there can be no doubt. Criticism of the military operations Is general. Colonel'Mulford of the First Nebraska expressed the opinion lhat be fore victory can result there must be more decisive movements than wo have had. Lieutenant Colonel Eager said : "I do not like the present situation in the island of Luzon. From the towns we have taken it looks as If wo have ad vanced a lot As a matter of fact , we have only got fifty miles up the most open valley on the Island , a valley through which runs the only railroad on the Island. The limit of our advance Is about an even fifty miles and it took us four months to get there. " This ofil- cer points out the extremely hard task our army has before It In penetrating a country without roads and the probabil ity of much loss of life from the guer rilla warfare that must be encountered. In regard to the duration of the war these officers agree that it Is likely to bo protracted. "I do not believe that the war will bo ended In a hurry , " said Colonel Mulford , "though I think the in surgents are beaten. The trouble Is to catch them. They can fight us from the brush for n long time. " Lieutenant Colonel Eager expressed the belief that the insurrection will not bo broken for several years , though a rebel army may not again take the field , and Major Kll- Han thus stated his view of the situa tion : "The army Is bound to put the Insurrection down , but it will take a lot more soldiers than we have got over there. The bigger force is needed not for fighting , but for garrison purposes. I think that 00,000 soldiers are sutll- clont , provided that they nre supplied with light artillery and are rightly man aged , " This otllcer declared that hun dreds of lives have been uselessly sacri ficed because the authorities persisted In accomplishing through men and rifles what a rapld-flro gun would have done in half the tlmo without any of the loss of life. The brave men who are coining back to their homes after having rendered as faithful and heroic service ns ever sol diers gave to their country are not ani mated by any prejudices. They talk as American citizens who have a pro found interest in the welfare of the cotmtry and who have won the right to speak freuly of cvqnts in which they participated and ot a situation with which they nre entirely familiar. And what they wiy Is entitled to most respectful attention , for there can be no doubt that It reflects the general senti ment among our soldiers In the Philip pines. It may make uo impression at Washington , but It will not fall to re ceive popular consideration. The tendency of these expressions of returning Soldiers must be to strengthen the demand , already pretty vigorous , for a change of military commander In the Philippines. President McKlnley has expressed satisfaction with what has been accomplished by General Otis. Military men declare that the operations In the Philippines have not had results commensurate with the sacrifices. The optimism of Otis Is not shared by the men who have been fighting the Fili pinos. We are Inclined to think that n majority of the people will accept the view of the soldiers. In defense of the attempt to count In the constitutional amendments by fraud ulent manipulation of the ballots one of the brilliant luminaries of the popo- cratlc party makes this declaration In the latest Issue of the olliclal state house organ nt Lincoln : "Counting In Judges whom the people ple had elected by largo majorities was no killing crime , even it it had been done. The people are above the con stitution and above the written law. A majority can wipe the whole thing out. A largo majority voted for the two ad ditional judges. We do not have the respect for judges and courts we once hod and It is not the fault of our own , either. " Such talk Is anarchy pure and simple. Ours is a government by the people ex pressing their will through the ballot box. The framework of government of the people of Nebraska Is the consti tution. They can only alter or amend this organic law by following the modes prescribed by that Instrument. Any other course would be revolutionary. The vote for additional Judges of the supreme court was contingent upon the adoption of the constitutional amend ment authorizing an Increase In the number of Judges. The vole for the can didates for these places was null and void unless the amendment to the con stitution received a majority of all the votes cast at the election at which It was submitted. This would have been the case if the candidates for judges had received every vote cast at the election. It is simply monstrous for any one to attempt to justify the frauds perpe trated in the recount by asserting that the people arc above the constitution and above written law. Such doctrine would lead to the defiance of till law and the destruction of constitutional gov ernment. Counting in constitutional amendments by fraud is just as criminal as counting in governors , congressmen or legislators by fraud. The plea that such things have been done before and the smut thrown lit courts does not palliate the conspiracy to misconstrue the popular will by doc tored ballots and perjured certificates of election. The people of Nebraska may disapprove of the acts and deci sions of Judges and verdicts of courts , but they will rot countenance or con done deliberate attempts to rape the ballot box under any pretext. The popocratlc governor of Minnesota Is coming in for a round scoring on all sides for Ills determined effort to turn the state grain Inspection over to a corps of political spoils mongers who demand the places as reward for their work of inspecting his campaign. It is forcibly urged that the state grain In spection requires something more in the way of ability than mere political lick- spittllug and that the wheat growers of Minnesota are to be subjected to un necessary risks from defective grading when they arc entitled to every protec tion the best Inspection could give them. It is needless to say that the popocratic governor of Minnesota , like the pope cratlc governor of Nebraska , was elected on a reform platform. In Nebraska wo have seen liow reform means turn ing the state railway regulation board over to the most subservient corporation tools , who have made themselves use ful to the railroads in politics , and the quartering of the political machine operators on the pay roll of the Standard Oil company in the guise of state oil inspectors. Fortunately the people arc gradually having their eyes opened to the real import of popocratic reform nnd they may bo relied on to apply the remedy. Bryan continues to insist that nothing be subtracted from the Chicago plat form and some of his extreme fol lowers , moro logical than he , arc also demanding that nothing bo added to that platform , but that it bo brought Into service again for the 1000 campaign without material change of any kind. The one demand Is certainly as sensible ns the other ; for if the Chicago cage platform is so perfect as Mr. Bryan would have hla party believe , then there Is no need of attempting to Improve it or strengthen it , either by pruning or grafting. Democrats arc plainly more aptly designated as bourbons now than ever. The San Francisco labor council has Issued an address protesting against the mustering out of returning volunteers in that city. The reasons given for this action arc that the soldier boys will soon cpeud the money paid them and , having no money to come home with , will bo forced to seek work on the coast and flood the labor market. We apprehend that this fear Is groundless so fur as the First Nebraska boys arc concerned. They arc too sensible and too anxious to come home to allow any California grass to grow under their feet. Philadelphia police authorities are wrestling with the Salvation Army over the recent police edict declaring the beating of drums on the public thor oughfares a nulsauoo , The Salvation Army soldiers insist that they wou't give up the drum nnd will resist nny attempt to suppress that Instrument. In the meantime several Salvation drummers of the gentler sex have been arrested and lodged In the police station until the courts shall decide whether drum beating ns a religious exercise la nn Inalienable right of the American citi zen. From nnd after this date the state of Illinois will maintain at Chicago free employment unices for the benefit of tin- empliV'ed wage-workers. There are now IfiO private employment offices In Chicago cage and thu experiment will be watched with great Interest. It re mains to be seen whether the state em ployment agencies will have any ap preciable effect upon the agencies that are managed for profit by skilled solici tors and confidence sharks who make a living by Imposing upon credulous nnd Ignorant wage-workers. Although realty values on the aggre gate have advanced fully IXi PIT cent ns compared with prices during the drouth and distress period , and , although the wealth of the state Is known to have been Increased by more than one-fourth as compared with what it was during the hard times , the grand assessment roll of the state shows only a nominal Increase. Is It not about time for a radical change In the mode of property appraisement and equalization of as sessments ? Mayor Jones of Toledo seems to have become Impregnated with the idea that popular self-government can be carried on without the aid of or ganized political parties. That delusion has been exploded many , many times , but some children refuse to believe the fire Is hot until they are themselves burned. Savannah enjoyed the fruits attaching to the soldiers' haven when the volun teers in the Cuban service were mus tered out. Now that the Philippine troops are being given their discharge papers and travel pay on the coast , San Francisco will show how the hospitality business can be profitably worked. The terrible tragedy enacted nt a tough joint In South Omaha might have been avoided if the police force had not been utterly demoralized through the Influences of an incompetent or cor rupt local government. Annexation might not prevent lawlessness in South Omaha , but It would minimize It. Congressman Joe Bailey's latest dream about the administration having concluded a secret alliance with Eng land is evidence that he has been ab sorbing something besides the flood waters of Texas rivers. linn HIM ! I.olH of 1'ruvocntlon. Buffalo ISxpress. Fears are expressed that Alger will write a book. Js ho so vindictive ns all that ? Or the Same Indlan.apolls News. Senator Stewartrathlnks that a plurality of votes should elect United States ( senators. Senator Quay will endorse the sentiment heartily. ( hat it Welcome. Baltimore American. General Gomez says the ? 3,000,000 , this government has disbursed among the Cuban soldiers has become a plnguo to the Island. Perhaps , but It is the sort of plague the Impoverished Island ought to receive with joy. - Not Due to ( lie Imported Article. 'Philadelphia Press. The "boom" in the Iron and steel trade la In no degree duo to Imported ore , al though some free trade newspapers have tried to tnako it so appear. The imports of ore have ibeen less than for several years. For the eleven months ending June the Im ports were 225,353 tons , as compared with 352,205 tons for the corresponding period of 1898 and 510,991 tons In the eleven months ending June , 1S97. This demonstrates that Imported ore 'has no part In the present prosperity of the Iron and ateel business. TniH < M. St. Paul PJonecr Press. The Pioneer Press long ago suggested the use of the taxing power of the government as a means of regulating trusts , or the great centralized aggregations of consolidated capital which have Inherited the name of trusts from another form of capitalistic monopoly that the courts have declared un lawful. But , although this idea has been taken up and discussed with moro or less elaboration In a number of Journals and by a number of public men , wo have as yet seen no method of taxation suggested which would not cither do moro harm than good or prove Ineffectual to prevent the chief abuses which are charged to the trusts. Decline In Triixt Inflation. St. Ixmla Globe-Democrat , Promoters have been checked in their wild excursion into the region of hundreds of mlltions. Inventors have grown shy of now business combinations baaed on nn enormous extension , of paper representa tives of value , W'hen ' a flood of such. Block comes from the press the promoter se ductively offer it at the rate of two for one , but time nlone can tell what it in worth In reality. It Is clear , too , that trusts are a doubtful quantity in other respects. All political parties will denounce them In their platforms of next year. In each state ) av.s jiavo been or will bo passed to rcgulato or prohibit thorn. In euch an atmosphere ot uncertainty oven credulous Investors draw back and Colonel' ' Sellers himself would find It bard to flro their Imagination. It Is stated that the stocks of twenty-six Indus trial combines declined $101,255,618 In the first six months of 1S99 , \Ot II I'lllllUM'll , TJoston Transcript. There are , no doubt , many persons who sincerely believe , In epito of experience , that frco coinage would in some mysterious way break the power of tbo Industrial consolida tions , or trusts , which despoil the people. This is about as reasonable as the kindred pretense n few years ago that th capital istic power of the "gold bugs" was going to bo destroyed by coining an unlimited amount of silver. The success of the falla cious proposition lay In tbo want of ability to distinguish between money and capital , nut who ever heard of the bankruptcy of the Itotbscbllds or other great financial houses by reason of the depreciation of currency in a period of monetary panic ? Do thu brokers who buy and sell depreciated cur rency grow poor in the business ? Whilst the power of "capitalism" cannot be shaken by the depreciation of the currency , cheap money has brought to ruin thousands of manufacturers and merchants who could not abide the storm. Great combinations of capital in industrial trusts would not merely survive free coinage , but they would nourish under It at the expense of Interests better entitled to the , care ot tbc government. notxu Anno.vn. : Atnrrlrnn * KnnllilthtK l.lur * In Itiiftftln , I AiiMrnlliifrlrn P.nil Inilln. rhlkulelphltt 1'rcM If no nre not building mnny new railroads In the United States , American capital Is ccrlnlnry becoming heavily Interested In railway construction in other parts of the western hemisphere , nnd In furnishing n con. sldcrablc percentage of equipments of railway lines In Ktisfh , Australia , South Africa nnd India. It Is New York capital associated with C. P. lluntlngton that has recently purchased the chief railway In Guatemala nnd Mr. Huntlngton's asNKlntlon with thin road Is regarded as duo chiefly tea a desire to protect his Interests In case the Nicaragua canal be .built. vMr. Iltintlngtou himself Is reported as saying that this Guatemala railway property can be made very profitable , since It will do much to build up n Inrgo trndo with Guatemala , nnd will unquestionably hasten the development of the rich resources of that country. It Is American capital that probably will bo ca,1ed upon tor the completion of tha transcontinental railway In South America. Only about 100 miles of that system remains to be constructed. It will cross the boundary between Chill nnd the Argentine Republic nt the divide of the Andes mountains , some thing llko 14,000 feet nbovo the sea level. Uoubtle.tt 1hls road would hnvc been built before this had the disagreement between Chili nnd Argentine over the boundary line not caused the cessation of all work upon the line. There Is llttlo understanding hero of the amount ot American capital and enterprise which nro being employed In the develop ment of railway pystems In the republic of .Mexico. The Payne syndicate , with which Mr. Pagct , William C. Whitney's son-ln-lnw , Is connected , Is rapidly building a line from the Mexican Central railway westward , nnd the Hlgglns syndicate of this city has com pleted n rnllwny running southwcatcrfy for nbout 250 miles , making possible the de velopment of soinu of the rich gold mines that Ho beyond. U Is not fnr from this railway that recent discoveries have been made of very rich gold deposits that were unquestionably worked when Mexico was under the Aztec or earlier civilization. When the railway is able to supplant the mule and .broncho those who are best Informed assert that there will como a development of gold mining In Mexico that will compare favorably with that which Is undertaken In Alaska. In fact , so cacer Is American capital for Investment In railway construction In Mexico ice lhat the Mexican government has recently passed a new law respecting railway con cessions , -which , while It is not less liberal than many of the special laws , nevertheless more llrmly secures the government control over the railway comrwinles , ns they nro today , or may be hereafter , In the Mexican republic. Mexico will no longer suosmizo roads of merely local Importance , but here after will only subsidize what may be called lines of national consequence , those , for In stance , which will connect the gveat central railway of .Mexico , which Is the backbone of the Mexican system , with the Pacific slope , with the isthmus ot Tchuantepec , Yucatan nnd Guatemala. Concessions and subsidies for these roada or others of like Importance will be liberal and the government does not propose to ex- crclso any embarrassing or tyrannical con trol ot these railways. All that it wants to do Is to makes certain that tbo railways will bo operated regularly nnd safely , that there will bo no watering of stock , forced fore closures or other methods of freezing out and buying in of which the history of Amer ican railway organization and reorganization furnishes so many examples. That this new law is considered favorable rather than the contrary Is indicated by the fact that in a llttlo while American capital will undertake the extension ot the Payne and Hlgglns lines , eo that there will bo railway com munication from the Paclllc coast direct to the City of "Mexico " , or with the United States at Kl Paso. ni2Cni3ASt3 IX OUIl 11IUTII RATE. AnnnnI Addition to Popnliitlon from nirthH Stciulllr DuclliiliiK. Philadelphia Press. The record of a rapid decrease In the American blrth-rato was one of the notable results of the census of 1890 nnd the census of 1900 seems likely to show etill farther decrease. Mr. H. T. Newcomb , a statisti cian In the Agricultural department well equal to the task , reaches the conclusion lhat the population in 1900 will be 7-1.4SO- 860. This is nbout the estimate of popula tion already reached In these columns from comparing the results of state censuses. This Increase , 18.94 per cent for the decade Is far -below that of nny previous decade. If population ihad grown fast from 1S90 to 1000 as In the decade juet before the popu lation next year would bo about 78,000,000. Taking the mean increase in the last twenty years , the population would bo 77,680,000. Yet the population is toleraibly certain to bo 4,200,000 short of the corroded Increase for twenty years , and , In round numbers , 1- 500,000 short of the proportional Increase In the ten years , 1880 to 1890. Of this loss fiomo 1C22,4SO is due to a decrease of Im migration and this carries with It the do- creaee duo to children which would bo born to these Immigrants. From 1SSO to 1890 there were received 5,240,213 Immigrants. The Immigration this decade , Mr. Newcomb c&tlmateswill not be over 3,624,133. There remains a loss of from 2,000,000 to 2,500,000 In the population , If the increase of 1880 to 1890 1iad kept up , duo to a de crease"In the birth rate , black and white. In 1890 there were 1,800,000 less children under 10 years of age than were expected , Judging from the number in 1880. This decade promises to outdo this record. The loss in decennial increase has gene on for 100 years. Where the increase of our na- tlvo whlto population a century ago was 35.10"por cent , from 1790 to 1600 , from 1890 to 1900 iMr. Nowcomb finds that It Is likely to bo only 25 per cent. If this decrease were stationary itwould bo a lees matter , but it grows with each decade. The loss in negro increase decade by decade Is , it Is true , still faster , but the white increase is dropping fast enough to make It probable that there nro these now living wlio will sco the population of tbo United States as stationary ns that ol France. Our increase for our total popu lation wns 30.08 per cent 1870 to 1880. 24.84 per cent from 1880 to 1890 , nnd promises to bo but 18.94 per cent for this decade. At this rate In about twenty years the increase In this country will bo about that o { European countries like England and Germany. Deducting Immigration , it Is now about one-half larger. That families are smaller than once all see ; but few nro aware that this country Is moving so fast to nn European average. The simple fact IE that the country fcas filled up. The land U now nearly all taken. The population will before very many years approach its limit and this will bo far short of the pre dictions once niudo of the American aggre gate. A SoMlcil I'ollu ) for Culm. Philadelphia Kecord. There can bo no question that a settled policy would lead to the opening of the doors for investment , but as no course Is honorably open to this government than that of helping Cuba to place Itself on a basis of independence there are investors who are willing to put their money Into the island as eoon as possible and abide by the action of the government. The talk that nothing can bo done in Cuba until this gov ernment has a "Department of tha Colonies" Is nonsense , for in reckoning with our colonial possessions Cuba must bo left out of the calculations. If this is not eo , then the government had 'better openly tuke tbo necos&ary steps toward annexation at once , without pllloc up lib burden ot hypocrisy. STONE KILLS FUSION PLAN * mill Sllvrr IlpitilillcniiM to Unto \o llnnri In Ilrmo- rrntlc A St. Ixiuls special to the Chicago Times- HernM eays that If ex-Governor William | J. Stone ot Missouri continues to control Un democratic national committee the demo cratic candidate for tbc presidency In 1900 will not be n fus6nlst. ! Mr. Stone Is radically opposed to such nn nlllancc of the democratic , popullsl and silver republican | force * as clstcxl In 1S96 , nml since the defeat I of Mr. Bryan In the providential campaign j of that year Ito has spared DO effort to break i this coalition. j At the recent conference of members of the democratic iintloti.il committee In Chicago Mr. Stone declared himself In positive terms on this subject. His declaration was per haps the most notoxvorthy utterance recorded | during the three days' session of the com- mlttee. In moving the abandonment ot the so- ' cnlleU advisory committee , which served during the 3896 campaign ns a eort of cord to unite the democrats , popuflsts nnjl silver republicans , Mr. Stone said : "The. democratic part * henceforth must maintain its Individuality. It other parties desire to build H parallel line alongside the democratic tracks , no objection can be raised , but a consolidation under the terms of which the democratic party will surrender In part control over Its own organization , or place nny of its affairs In the hands of those who do not fully accept Its doctrine and dis claim allegiance to all other parties , Is not to be loVcrated tmdor any circumstances. " Mr. Stone could hardly hftvo stated his po sition more clearly , and , although ho en countered opposition in the executive meetIng - Ing at which this pronunclamcnto wns Is sued , ho finally carried his point. The resignations of John P. Altscld , democrat : Senator Teller , silver republican , and former Senator Allen ot Nebraska , populist , as members of the advisory committee were tendered and accepted and the Advisory committee was formally abolished. i.Vs vice chairman of the democratic na- tlonnl committee nnd chairman In the ab sence of Senator James K. Jones of Arkan sas , who Is convalescing In n London suburb , Mr. Stone then submitted a plan of cam paign for 1900 and forced the same through the committee , after assuring his colleague * that nothing further would be done until the return of Chairman Jones in September , or at least until he should hear from the senator by mall. Briefly stated , the plan submitted by Mr. Stone places the party management In the hands of an executive committee , composed of cloven members , all of whom must be duly accredited members 01 inc democratic national committee. The executive commit tee will have power to appoint all subcom mittees and It Is provided that all members of such committees shall likewise be mem bers of the national committee. Every suggestion looking' to the recogni tion of auxiliary organizations was combated by < Mr. Stone , > who expressed the opinion that , win or lese in 1900 , the democratic party should avoid entangling alliances. In taklnc this stand Mr. Stone was sup ported by Senator Tillman of South Crfro- llna. who stated In effect that he had no confidence In auxiliary organizations. "These people , " declared the pitchfork statesman , "claim to bo too holy to belong outright to the democratic party , but yet arc trying to control it. I do not favor such alliances. The democratic party Is able to conduct its own affairs and I believe the tlmo has come to throw over these saints and sajihends. " George Fred "Williams of Massachusetts raised his volco in protest asalnst nearly everything .that was said and done at the Chicago .meeting ; . Mr. Williams clings ten aciously to the men and issues of 1896 , when ho reversed himself on the currency ques tion and declared la the Chicago conven tion his new faith in "the free and unlim ited coinaso of gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 , without the aid or consent of any other nation. " He cannot understand that the silver- Issue has taken a secondary place even in the west and that the party leaders are striving to make the trusts the leading issue In the campaign of 1900. Mr. Stone has ne\'er favored the demo cratic alliance with the populists ana snver repubMcan parties. Ho opposed H in IS'.itf and ho has fought it ever since. His de cision to divorce the democratic party from thin alliance was based , moreover , on the logic of the situation. The populist party no longer exists as a cohesive organization. Those populists who formerly were republicans have gone back to the republican party and the democratic Insurgents throughout the Routh and west have again been enrolled nn democrats. Only the semblance of an organization re mains. "Middle-of-tho-road" populists are lilie- vlse hard to llnd. Their organization has been fostered by the two great parties with a view to splitting the regular populist or ganization in twain. Abundant crops and increased pricc8 for agricultural products arc responsible for the disappearance of both brands of populists , and , although the agrarians maintain their organization , Oov- ernor Stone docs not believe In encouraging them politically. The same may bo said of the silver re publicans , -whoso organization Is confined to Colorado , Idaho , Nevada and the adjoining states in the silver mining belt. These men are counted ns cafe for Mr. Bryan in 1900 , and Senator Teller , by supporting the Stone program in Chicago , conveyed the Impres sion that ho might lead tUo silver repub licans Into the democratic fold next year. This leaves only the .bimetallic clubs to bo accounted for. Mr. Bryan encouraged the organization of these clubs and they were represented on the advisory committee by General A. J. Warner of Ohio. The bimetal lic crubs must Join the democratic party or worry along on an Independent basis without recognition from that party. This la the dictum of Acting Chairman Stone and it has caused n big atlr In the back districts. Letters received here Indicate that the full purpose of Governor Stone'H plan was not understood In Chicago , and that some mem bers of the national committed are inclined to recant. It is quite possible , therefore , that the question will como up for further discussion at the next meeting of tbo int- 'tlonal ' committee. A special to the eamo paper from Atlanta , Ga. , soys : Leading Georgia democrats ap prove W. J. Stone's declaration that the democratic party must maintain its In dividuality and cut loose from popallsls. They declare there Is no populist party in the eouth , and Bay that some new Issue may take precedence over the ellvcr question , but that the Chicago platform , will bo re affirmed , "Mr. Stone Is right , " said Governor Can- dler. "Tho party will cut loose from popu lists and other entangling alliances. There Is no populist party In Georgia now and very few populists In the other southern Btatcn , They have come back Into the demo cratic .party , and that party will light the battle etralght and In Us own way. " "I agree with Mr. Stone , " said Clark Howell , democratic national coimnltteemau from Georgia , "that the democratic party must maintain Its Individuality. There Is no trouble on that score In the south , /or there IB practically no populist party in the south- era states. The organization has disinte grated and does not merit serious considera tion in a single southern Btato , " "We do not went to run anybody away from the party , " raid Colonel W. A , Hemp- hilt , who has been classed as a eound money democrat , "but the democrat ! will not waste any time on nnr make any concession * to the few remaining populist * . " DEEP WATERWAY TO ATLANTIC to Meet nnit Korinnlnf r ft . Ilrport nn tlir Co t nml Hoiitr , , A , Aug. 1. Major Churlei \V. Raymond , chief engineer of the United States army for this city , left today for fault Stc. Marie. Mich. , to attend A meet ing of the deep waterway commission , of which ho Is president. The commission will dlsciirs nnd compare the final survey mad6 for the contemplated route of the waterway from the great Inkee to < the Atlantic ocean and will Inspect the Salt Stc. Marie canar. Major Raymond approximates the coit of ( hi proposed waterway nt about J200.000.000. Before leaving today ho sals ! : "Tho roulo to bo followed will bo through the Snult Ste. Marie cnnal to I-ako Huron , through the river to I.ako Krle. thence by ship canal around Niagara Kails to Lake Ontario. The question confronting the com mittee nt this point Is whether or not the Welland canal , which Is Canadian property , should be utilized by deepening , ns It Id now totally Inadequate for use for fhlps of deep draught , or a new canal built In American territory. This may be found the' more desirable for International reasons. " IIIIIMS/.V TltlKMiS. u Star : "tMn't you feel * ! If people wete behaving with mi nlr ot superi ority when you go to New York ? " "Yes ; I feel very much f n New Worker docs In London or ns a Londoner does In Paris. " Qironktyn Knptlo : "What's Hint 7" n kfd the rich man , who was buying n few . That's Pegasus. " replied the dealer. "rcgnmis , von know , wa u winged horse. " "Send It buck to the artist nnd tell him to put the wings on nn automobile and I'll buy it , " said the rich man. Clovolnml Pluln Dealer : "They seem to be etermUly n iirrcllng In Bolter's house. " "Yes. You luvaw lloltcr c-nme back from the Klondike with n llttlo money. " Chicago llccord : "So your engagement Is broken ? " "Yew ; we couldn't agree. I like watermelon - melon cut In round ulices nnd she always outs watermelon hi long slices. " Detroit Journal : Cornelia , the mother of the Gracchi , was a person of resource. Whenever she hired a now hired girl nh took the liit'ter ' nt onoe to the nursery nnd showed her the Gracchi , wiylng : "These nro my jewels ! " In this way who avoided the embarrass ment of having the hired girl all the tlm borrowing her Jewels to wear to social funutlojis. An Iillrr'n Opinion. AVashlngton Star. They praise the bee for industry ; I'd hilKlle , too , no doubt , ICf life were nothln' else fur mo Than a grand , sweet free lunch rout * . HIS KIIUST MOUSTACHE. Denver Pout. In tlicne days of grent achievements hero * * ' .ire . 'if thick as bees liuzzlnpr In the fraxrimt branched of the llow'rlng locust Ircen. And upon their tell-tale faces we con note n look nf pride Which their reuse * of innate modesty is powerless to hide. But there's not n look of triumph g-llnl- ' Ing from a hero eye That In gleaming satl.sfactlon tinged with lofty pride can vie Willi the .self-important glances of a fel low when they finHh Down aloii'jr ' bis nuiUl uliucx at hlH II rat moustache. 'Never ' was a new-born Infant -watched by loving mother's eyes With more tender apprehension than this capillary nrlzo When It timidly Is peeping from the nude- ne.s.s of < i lip , A a If fearful It could never , never hold It downy grip. Ami the author of Its being , how rcjolc- lufily ho Htnrcfi In IIH ! Bltimber-chnnubci mirror ns lit counts the scattered hairs. And he wouldn't swap positions with blcj.ted man of carli As he Matches the accouchement of - -hln - first moustache. i When lie's out among the maidens he la wondering If they Arc aware that he Is drifting into man hood every day If they note the dreamy shadow , llko th fuzz urmn a. nemrli. Clinging to their lppy ! mother -with the Instincts of .the . leech. What a thrill of satisfaction in his boy ish breast holds wway When , In semi-trance condition , nt sparkling matinee He Imparts 'the charming secret to his latest frirllah nin.nh That ho renlly Is threatened with Ills II rut moustache. Half a doze.ii times a minute you -will net Ills lingers glldo To caress the downy softness of his silken- texture pride , And lie tenderly iv l smooth It and will pull it to and fro. As If ho by loving fondles would encourage it 'to grow. v All the well-earned pride of heroes nnd of men In lofty upbore Must get out of thi ; procession nnd bring up the straggling rear When compared with pride nolf-ownared by n felhw when the gash In his features Is upholstered with lii.i first moustache. 2 BIG BARGAINS No. 1. Your choice of any of our la dies' straw sailor or walking hats , 75c each Regular prices $ J to $3 none reserved. No. 2. Your choice of any boys' ' wash suit in the store. 25 per cent . discount , All sizes. These are two big values we offer in our second floor for the i > balance of the week. ,
