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THE OMAHA DATLY 1JJ3E: "WEDNESDAY, SKL'THMUJCK 1!, 1000. 0 The Omaha Daily Bee. I!. HOSKWATIJH, Kdltor. PL'ULIHHHIJ VA'KHY M0HNINC1. TURM3 OF Ht'USCHlPTlON. Dally Heo (without Sunday). One Year..$"..0jj Unity Heo nnd Sundav, Ono Tear 8.00 lllustruted Hon, Ono Year ) Sunday Hoe, One Year ft"' Haturday Hee.Ono Year Weekly lice, One Ycnr ' OPKU'KH: Omaha: Tho Heo Building. , Houth Omnha: City Hatl Hulldlng, Twenty-fifth and N Streets Council MlttfTn: 10 Peart Street. Chicago: 1610 Unity Uulhilng. w York: Temple Court. Washington. Ml Fourteenth Street. Bloux City: 611 Park Street. COIUtKSPONDKNCE. Communications relating to news a"1' torlal matter should bo addressed Omaha Hee, Euiturlul Department. BUSINESS t.KTTHnB. BJslnes letters and remittances sho lid be addressed. The Hoe Publishing Company, otnaha. uhmittances. Itomlt by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Hoe Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps accepted In payment or mall accounts Personal cheeks, oxeept on Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted. THU HUB Pl'IILtSIIINO COMPANY. STATEMENT OK CIHCULATION. Ktato of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: George II. Tzsohuok, secretary of The Heo Publishing companv. being duly sworn, rays that the actual number of full and omplete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Heo, printed during tne month or August, nwo. was as touows: . .1!7,I.'H . U7,fHt .. UT.ntlO ...U7,r.tin ...iti.tmn .. vn, 'inn ...u-.r.tn ..J7, tan ...i-,ivi ...i!7,r.."o ,..U7,;t70 ...'i7,'i". ...i!7,iait .. 1!7.(I(MI ..:i7,-im ...1:7,0:10 17... IS... IP... SO... 21... 23... SI... 2S... 2(5... S7... 28... 19. .. 30... 31... ::to .27,1:10 U7.0O0 .liT.tiJO .ai,t!o .i:7,nio 9 . ... 10. . . .'-7.1 IO .it'i'M ..sti.tiso 1:0.1100 27,'J70 .UT.-HMI 11 12 13 II 15 16 Total ... Less unsold U7.-IUO .27,1110 s I.V'-'-O and returned copies . 11,017 Net tutnl sales s:tl,17;t Not ilally average Hil.nos (1EOHOE II. TZHCIU.'CK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this :11st day of August. A. IJ 1K. M. 11. llfNClATE. Notary Public. It Is not the mh'hihI term In the White House tlmt Is worr.tltitf Mr. Ilryan, but the first term. I!oubllonii olubs throuuiiout Ne braska lire Just now exhibit lug the re- KUltS Ot' membership (.)UUS(I1. The iletnoorntle finnpalKii Is bolus conducted strictly tin tin 1(1 to 1 prlnol-ple-sixteen misstatements to one truth. South Omaha must lie 11 firm bo Hover in the principle of expansion, .Induing by the census returns from tluit city. Having written the greater pari of the Kansas (Mly platform himself, no wonder Colonel Ilryan j)ats its author on the buck. Mr. Hiyan has two or three more op portunities to Indulge in the letter-writing diversion, as he has still a few nom inations to accept. Prosperity must even have, struck the populist committee to enable It to pay (if) cents on the dollar of Its printing bill contracted In IMMi. Careful search through the new pri mary election law fails to reveal any provision denning the duties or ipiulill cations of a political referee. Omaha's musical taste must be es tablished If a rag-time concert produces an overllow audience. The people should know what they want. The receivership business is not pros pering In these republican times, but for nome reason or other the popocratle or gans make no mention of the fact. The local democracy must be sadly in dearth of timber when It has to double up delegates to Its conventions by plac ing tho same candidates on opposing delegations. According to the popocratle organs the trust magnates nre all for McKinley, yet they are parading tho fact tlmt the treasurer of the Cracker trust Is shout ing for Hryan. And there nre others. With tho democrats already complain ing that they have not enough places to go around on their legislative and county tickets, what prospects have pop ulists and so-called silver republicans of landing In Douglas county? A careful perusal of Hrynn's letter of acceptance leads to the eoneluMon that in the estimation of the writer there is Just one man in the country who Is right on every subject and who Is ca pable of conducting tho affairs of the government, and he Is "it." Kmperor William of (iermauy has transmitted to President McKinley a message of sympathy for the (ialveston flood victims. Xow watch the Hryan itc organs and orators hold this up as another proof of the drift toward im perialism. Mr. Croker promises the nntlonal dem ocratic leaders that ho will carry Xew York for Hryan. Ho also promises tho people of Xow York good government, but they got It about the same way Hryan will get the electoral vote of the Umpire state. Auother Installment of the contro versy between Governor Poynter and his superintendent at tho Heat rice state institution Is on. The best way to end this disgraceful squabble Is to elect a republican governor and remove tho disturbing cause. Superintendent Lang threatens to tell what ho knows ub'out tho working of tho fusion machine, in tills state unless ho Is let alone, As the governor has gouo so far ho cannot well back down, thrro Is every renson to believe that the public may get some more 115IH on shady transactions when the doctor and tho governor again commence telling talcs on ono unother, nnVAX'n M'.TTEn or Acrr.PTAScn .Mr. Hrynn's letter of acceptance af fords Ills party 110 new nrgmnuiits for defending or strengthening Its position. It Is simply a repetition of views ho has frequently expressed In his speeches, in some instances with much more Clear ness and force. He says that If elected he will en deavor to fulllll tho promise of the platform regarding trusts anil will se lect an attorney geneial who will "without fern or favor, enforce exist ing laws." The only tintl-trust law which, it democratic? administration would be called upon to enforce Is the one enacted In 1J?!0 by n republican congress and which then encountered vigorous democratic opposition. It l not forgotten that the attorney geneial of the last democratic administration sought to discredit this law, pronounc ing It defective and inadequate, and made no effort to enforce it. There Is 110 certainty that another democratic attorney general would not do the. same thing. .Mr. Hrynn's hostility to pro tectlou Is shown In the nttacl; on the Iilngley tariff law, which revived the Industries of the country, created a de mand for labor and largely contributed to bringing about the prosperity which the country has enjoyed for the last three years. In regard to the tlnauclul plauk of the Kansas City platform, the candidate unqualifiedly endorses It and leaves no doubt of his purpose, though this Is not speclllcally declared, to use every effort to bring about so-called bimetallism. As to whether or not he will, If elected, pay in silver such obligations of the government as are payable In "coin" he does not sny. That question was Mihudttcd to him In Lincoln and he de ellned to answer. He still evades It. In view of the attitude of Mr. Ilryan toward the gold standard there cannot be a reasonable doubt that he would take advantage of any loophole in the law permitting the payment of gov ernment obligations in silver. Thus 1 lie first step would be taken toward tin overthrow of the gold standard, with the Inevitable effect of causing 11 disas irons liuauclal and business disturb a nee. Mr. Hrynn's reasoning In regard to his proposed extension of 11 protectorate over tho Philippines, after giving them independence. Is not convincing. Those Islands are on the othur side of the earth, not upfturtcutint to this continent nor to the western hemisphere, commonly un- dei'tood to be the geographical limits of the Monroe doctrine. We could Just as logically and rightfully extend the pnn clple of that doctrine to (ireece against Turkey, to China to protect Manchuria against Itussln, or anywhere else, us to the Philippines. If we can apply that doctrine to one part of Asia, why not another? Mr. Ilryan assumes that the United States lias only to say to the re or the world, let the Philippines alone, and the mandate will be respected, it seems to us a rather reckless assump tion. Indeed we do not doubt that ICuropeaii nations would speedily Hud opportunity to let this country know that they could not recognize the extension of the principles of the .Monroe doctrine beyond the western hem isphere. We believe that the pro posed protectorate would lead us Into endless complications and dillicultles. The policy Mr. Hryan advocates, It teems to us, Is the longest stride, the most reckless plunge the country was ever Invited to take in the direction of for eign complications. FIXAtCUh KLKMKXT l. HHVAXISM. j no Xew York livening Post says tha as the campaign proceeds there is in creasing evidence that business men recognize the Importance of the liuauclal element in Hryanism and propose to exert their Intluonco again iigalnst Its triumph. "While Hryan devotes the largest part of his speeches to his 'para mount Issue' of Imperialism," says that paper, "he constantly atlirms that his party stands on the liuauclal question now Just where It stood four years ago and makes plain his purpose to over throw tho gold standard. These brief allusions to what they consider tho chief lssuo Impress business men and make them ready to support such a move ment 11s that of the Nntlonal Honest Money league." Recently the Maryland Honest Money league was reorganized and a canvass of tho committee of sev enty which mani'ged the league's cam paign four years ago showed that only two are for Hryan now. This organiza tion proposes to prosecute a vigorous campaign In that stute and as it Is com posed of sound money democrats will do effective work. There Is every reason why business men everywhere should begin to take a llvelv Interest in the finnncial element ot Hryanism and exert themselves to prevent tho success of the party which Is as fully and tlrmly committed to the free coinage of silver us It was four years ago ami is therefore no less a meuncu now to tho nnnnelul and bus iness Interests of the country than It was In 189(1. Mr. Hrynn's reference to tho money question In his letter of ac ceptance shows that ho has not changed In the least and permits no other con clusion than that If elected he will spare no effort to overturn the gold standard, beginning with the payment In silver of all obligations of tho government not sDcclllcally payable in gold. True. Mr. Hryan does not say that he would do this, but who can doubt that lie woiiiu In view of his repeated declarations ot hostility to the gold standard and his nlcdge to get rid of It If the opportunity 1,.. ,-ivon him. Mr. Hryan has been asked whether or not ho would pay out foe L-nveruinent obligations and ho has declined to answer. Ho tells the country what ho would do In regard to the Philippines, the trusts and other matters of public Interest, but he evades the question regarding the paying out r iivim Is it because he does not know what he would do, or has not made up his mind on the subject? Not at all. Mr. Hryan Is undoubtedly quite willing to nccept the authority of Secre tary !age that silver can be paid out for government obligations payable In coin, and knowing this there is not the slightest reason to think he Is in doubt as to what ho would do. He would pro ceed at once to fulllll his pledge to over throw the gold standard, striking at It first by paying out silver for such obli gations of the government ns may be paid in silver nt the optlou of the gov ernment. Intelligent business men know what this would mean. It would produce u liuauclal and business condition that could not fall to have ruinous conse quences, it would cause a general feel ing of Insecurity and apprehension dam aging to all private Interests and to the government us well. Tho Hniincinl ele ment In Hryniiism is the greatest menace to the national welfare. TllK AHTVCl. DUUiiKtl. Interrupted In his speech nt Pitts burg, Knu by the inquiry, "How about the negro In North Carolina?" .Mr. Hryan replied: If you will read tho Sulu treaty you will never havo a chance to pity the negro. I hope, the gentleman who has referred to the North Carolina law has road tho Sulu treaty. How characteristic of the artful dodger. What, bearing can the Sulu treaty have on the Injustice perpetrated upon the blacks of the south, disfran chised by force and fraud by Hrynn's fellow democrats? liven If the Sulu treaty were ten times more Iniquitous than It Is painted by the popocratle demagogues, in what way would that mitigate the outrage that robs the North Carolina negro of rights guaranteed him by the constitu tion, so ruthlessly dolled and violated to maintain democratic supremacy against the consent of the governed? So far as the Sulu treaty is concerned It has brought the people of that Island nearer to freedom than they ever were before and than they would be If left either to Spain or to the whims of their native rulers. No ono affected by its provisions is a whit the worse for tho Sulu arrangement, but thousands of North Carolina negroes have been de prived by the democrats of political lights given them by the republican party. While Mr. Hryan knows the so-called Sulu treaty was only a temporary agreement, ho carefully avoids calling attention to President MeKlnley's In structions to the Philippine commission (lellning the terms that must be in corporated in nil branches of Philip pine tfovernniont until congress shall take action: That no pctsou shall lie deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of luw ; that private property shall not be taken for public use without Just compensa tion: that In alt criminal prosecutions the accused shall eujoy tho right to a speedy and public trial, to be Informed of tho na turo and cause of the accusation, to be con fronted with tho witnesses against him, to havo compulsoiy process for obtaining wit ncssos In his favor and to havo tho assist aneo of counsel for his defense; that ex cessive ball shall not bo required, nor ex cesslvo tines Imposed, nor cruel and tin usual punishment Inflicted; that no person shall bo put twice in Jeopardy for the same oflccse, or be compelled In any criminal ci.so to be a witness against himself; that the right to bo secure against unreasonable searches ' and seizures shall not lie violated; that ncithur slavery nor Involuntary servitude shall ex ist except as a punishment for crime; that no bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed; that no law shall be passed abridging speech or tho liberty of the press, or tho rights of the people to peaceably as semble and petition the government for a redress ot grievances; that no law shall be made respecting tho establishment of re ligion, or prohibiting the freo exercise thereof, and that tho freo exercise and en joyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever bo allowed. How long would the Filipinos have had to wait for these liberties and privileges if tho United Slates had not wrested their islands from the grasp of Spain? When It Is so easy to Indulge In long distance talk nbout wrongs Indicted on the far-away Stilus, which the Sulus themselves have never discovered, It Is no wonder tho mention of negro dis franchisement In the south calls for the most accomplished exhibition of artful dodging that tho great political con tortionist is capable of. SOUTH OMAHA A MAGIC CITY. Ofllclal figures given out by tho cen sus bureau emphasize South Omnha us a true magic city. South Omaha was laid out as a town site less than fourteen years ago. In 1S!0 the enumerators credited It with a population of 8,00' which, by tho re turns Just made public, lias increased during tho last decade to 20,001, being an Increase of 17,tKll, or at tho rate of more than per cent. This remarkable showing will be equaled by few, If any, of the cities listed In the present census and offers a reminder of the marvelous Increase in percentages recorded for so many western cities ten years ago. South Ojnnha has grown not only In population, but In material wealth. Wltile really a part and parcel of the city of Omaha, It lias been the section that has enjoyed the most substantial progress. The addition from year to year of now packing houses and In dustrial establishments, Increasing Its Importance as a cattle market and giv ing employment to a constantly Increas ing number of worklngmen, Is tho key to the situation. South Omaha lias grown because Its interests have prospered until It has be come lirmly established as one of the greatest meat packing points In the world. And what is most encouraging Is the assured prospect that this growth will coutlnue. Tho presidential letter writers aro as suming an elastic license in dating their various epistles. tioveruor Uoosevelt's letter of acceptance pur ports to have been written at Oyster Hay at a time when he was making speeches In boutu Dakota, and now Colonel Hrynn's proclamation h dated at Llucoln, while In has been touring Missouri and Kansas for a week and evidently wrote the letter In Chicago before he started west. Now Is the time for the revival of tho various projects to Invito Hoer settlers to locate In tho United States, where they will bo sure to Hud a sympathetic welcome and promising opening for prolltable Industry. The- United States has plenty of room to place ut tho dis posal of Hoer Immigrants, no matter In what numbers they might come, and at the same time would guarantee them the same measure of freedom accorded to 1U 0W11 citizens. liven the Chinamen are aware of the fact that the American flag means pro tection to the man or house over which it llouts. There is n demand from Pekln for .",000 of these flags, which it Is Intended shall bo placed over the doors of those who claim the protec tion of this country. There never was a time In the history of this country when tho Stars and Stripes were re spected abroad ns during the adminis tration of President McKinley. Indications are that 11 good hay and grain crop has been harvested In the vicinity of the Ute Indian reservation. Tho annual scare about an outbreak has been started and troops havo been asked for. Dictum of Dcitlii). Chicago Tribune. Mr. Hryan may write letters of accep tance, but Mr. McKinley will continue to v lite tho messages. W111II1 llir nilitrt. Hrooklyn liaglc. Why this anxiety on iho part of the sultan as to the alleged plot against his lite? Tliero Isn't any plot against his life. It isn't worth while, ( iiiimc ami I'taoel. Kansas City Star. Winter seems to bo coming 011 a little earlier than usual this year; but that was expected when the public heard of the an tbiaclto coal strike Ilnmiteil I, .Memory. Hostnn Transcript. The prayer of thoso gold democrats, who nro now Joining tho party of Hryan, should bo that of the (Jrcek sage: "Teach me not to remember, but to forgot." I'rmif of rrosperltj-. Indianapolis Journal, The railroads are employing 3S,000 more men this year than they did a year ago and 105,000 more than they did two year3 ago, but there arc thoso whom such facts do not please. I'rnlrlr Don .Must (in. Washington Star. It has been decided that prairie dogs in jure land and must bo poisoned. After the prairie dog Is extinct scientists will proba hly discover that ho Is much needed In order to kill off somo worse pest. Ilsamiile of the Siuill l'nce. Cleveland Leader. At last Ll Hung Chang has started for Pekln. If It takes him as long to get down to business when ho arrives as it did to start, tho allied troops may as well mako their arrangements to stay In Pekln all winter. AVnrklnir Another llnrrrl. Hllffalo Kxpress. Since the Vermont election It Is noticed that Mr. Hryan Is not talking so much about imperialism. That election, and tho following one In Maine, aro said to havo convinced him that tho people of the United States are more inclined to stand behind the policy of tho administration than tha dem ocratic leaders supposed. We, therefore, will probably hear more of freo silver and less ot Imperialism than in tho past. (I rover Dim-IIiics Otllcr, Chicago News. Ex-President Cleveland has declined the president's appolntmont to servo as a mem ber of tho International Hoard of Arbitra tion under Tho Haguo treaty. As a conae quenen tho pleasant picture of seeing two cx-presldents on the samo board discuss ing nmlcablo affairs that relato to tho peace of nations must bo relegated to the gallery of tho Imagination. Apparently Mr. Cleve land is still of tho opinion that tho best thing to do with our cx-prcsldents Is to "let them alone." Mtemturc Follow. Ihr Fine. Chicago Record. It seems that literature, too, sometimes follows tho flag. Tho Spanish-American and South African campaigns havo caused tho publication of books dealing, first, with tho history and strategy of war; second, with statistics concerning the countries where tho struggles wore In progress; third, of romances and novels or children's stories based upon tho exciting incidents ot tha war. Tho romancors wqre not slow to percelvo tho possibilities held forth by a lovo affair between an American volun teer and a dusky Cuban, a matter-of-fact Tommy and a stolid daughter of tho voldt. Tho same process is bolng repented In tho case of China. Whero wo formerly read of thrilling ovents In Morro castles or on frowning kopjes wo shall peruse tragi? tales of llfo in tho crowded tao or on tho slopes of tho snowcapped shan. Tho regu lar army hat and tho khaki uniform will give placo to tho flowing sleevo and tho ceremonious cue China is to bo oponcd up and exploited for literary as well as for commercial purposes. M'KIM.IIY AMI HIS It IK OH l. The Miiri- tin- Si-iirclillulit I Tiimk-iI On the lie Kit It AiMiciirn. Chicago Journal. President MeKlnley's reported plan to address again tho voters of tho country on tho Usups of tho day and glvo Information as to tho ovents that havo passed nnd tho future policy of tho administration is a wise plan. In this way ho can effectually meet tho campaign of misrepresentation that Is waged against him. The president does not often express bis views. When he does the people listen. Tho next tlmo ho will pre sent his views ns the president of the I'nlted Stntes, not ns a candidate for office. In his letter of acceptance President Mc Kinley, at considerable detail, narrated the oveuts which led up to tho acquiring of tho Philippines. Skillfully ho traced the course of tho administration In Its dealings with iho Islanders. Hut President McKinley belloves, as TMItor Dana believed, that tho way to pound a truth homo Is to keep on re peating It. Melioration is necessary In many cases. It may not be an exaggeration to say that a falsehood, often repeated, will havo more Influence than a truth stated but once. Mr. McKinley seems desirous of but one thing that next November every voter in tho land shall know tho truth about his administration. Ho wants to pound the truth home. Ho has made mistakes, but ho has no fear to go before tho people on Ins record. That speaks well for the pres ident. He withes simply to be judged by his record. His campaign managers do not fear to go before the people on that oroDOtltlon. Raising" False Alarms New York Tribune. The present loudly proclaimed demo cratic panic of fear lest tho constitution bo overthrown and liberty bo destroyed would bo a trlllo more effectivo it there wero Borne elements of novelty In the outcry. Hut it is dllllcult for oven tho most gllb tongucd ot demagogues to create serious alarm with tho same cry of "wolf" which tho party has raised Just as loudly and just as insincerely on previous occasions oer pretended dangers that oven tho democratic party itself would now admit never ex isted. The wall of impending revolution, tyranny and despotism Is a continuous per formance of tho democratic campaigners. Tho dogs that bay nt the moon have boon baying so long and tho moon has shown on so serenely that their miise and alarms must have ceased to be seriously listened to even by themselves. Tho memory of man runneth not to the contrary when the democracy did not lune to save the country from Impending revo lution. George Washington himself, though tho father of his country, was denoutiiud by tho democrats of his day as being what then corresponded to n plutocrat and .1 nun bent 011 subverting tho free Institutions of tho country. This hint from Jefferson ot the way to turn envy nud malice Into a political asset was not wasted on his fol lower, Jackson, who was never tired of denouncing patriots llko John (Julncy Adams and Henry Clay ns scoundrels scheming to destroy popular rights. To como down to more modern times wo llnd tho democracy trtio to Its traditions of raising false alarms. Tho party was split In two wings In tSCO, but It was untied In foreseeing revolution If It wns not allowed to havo Its own way and extend Iho area of slavery. Finding 110 other road to the realization of tho prophecies a largo part of tho democracy of that day embarked In a war to destroy the union. They were perfectly suro that Abraham Lincoln would trample down constitutional freedom It they did not do It thcmsulvos. That part ot the democracy which had not engaged In active rebellion rallied "to view wllh nlarm" the situation of 18(14 and declared: "After four years of failure to restore tho union by tho experiment of war during which, under the pretense of a military necessity ot a war power higher than the constitution, tho constitution has itself been disregarded in every part, public lib erty and privato right allko trodden (Uwn and tho material prosperity essentially im pared, Justice, humanity, liberty and tho public welfare demand that Immediate ef forts bo made for a cessation of hostilities." That Founds much llko the Itrynnllo song about tho failure to nut down iiiHiirrr,-nnn in tho Philippines and republican violations 01 mo constitution. Tho words are a trille different, but tho tune is tho same. Pour years later tho democrats again "viewed with alarm" the republican party's IttV.tBBS OP THi: STOHM. Now York World: When nature exhibits tho might of her destructive forces how puny the greatest efforts of human rago seem by comparison. Galveston's list of killed in a single night exceeds that of tho Spanish-American and Anglo-IJoer wars added together. New York Tribuno: Uellef measures for Galveston havo been prompt and generous and tho extent of the suffering and need which thoy aro to assist In alleviating makes It necessary that they should bo ac tively continued for somo time to como. As tho greatest cnlamlty of Its kind which has over visited tho country It calls for the greatest efforts at nbsistanco and will not send forth its summons In vain. Philadelphia Hccord: Thero ought to bo no question over tho rebuilding and com pleto restoration' of Galveston as a com mercial metropolis nnd Western Gulf ship Ping point. Men of enterprise, nnd not ac cidents of location, mako cities, and the same factors of energy, persistence and na tural trade advantage which gave Galves ton pro-emlnonco as a gulf port will bo found alive there In tlmo to como and ready to win for tho shattered city a fairer des tiny than ever its founders imagined. Philadelphia Press: Tho Galveston dis aster needs a llko body. Food and shelter will before long bo provided. This Is but 11 beglnulng. Contributions arc pouring out all over tho country and organized work has not yet begun. Any sum really needed by Galveston can bo raised, If It Is asked by an ttuthorltatlvo body, nblo to speak definitely nnd with precision of the losses sustained by churches, hospitals, institutions and In dividuals, and competent to distribute re lief with efllclency and economy. If Texas and Galveston put such n body before the country In complete control tho desultory giving already begun will bo succeeded by organized, systematic contributions, equal to tho great need, great as it Is. Chicago Tribuno: Galveston will bo re built, as It was after the disaster of four teen years ago. Its inhabitants will reason that tho city had oxisted for two-thirds of a century in comparative safety, and that such a tlda! wave is not likely to bo re peated in a hundred years. Tho same com mercial advantages that first tempted sot tiers to tho island nnd that mado Galveston one of tiio most thriving cities on tho gulf coast, aro still present. Men who own real cstatu on tho island will not abandon It, oven though tho improvements thereon havo been reduced to a wreck. They kuow that even if they did abandon it there would bo plenty of others to take It risks aud all and rebuild tho city. Tho federal government may hesitate about rebuilding Its structures on so precarious a site, but privato Interests aro not likely to abandon a city even for so tcrrlbio a disaster as that at Galveston. Portland Oregonlan: A grewsomo featuro of the aftermath of tho Galveston horror is tho hurried disposal wholesale and with out possibility ot Identification of tho (lend. While this Is In accordance with tho decreo of stern necessity, which insists that the dead mako way for the living, it is, never theless, revolt lug to that finer senso of hu manity that regards tho tonantless human b dy with tenderness and would fain tench It gently aud lay It away decently and rev erently. Tho greater distress In a case of this kind swallows up tho less; hence, per haps thoso called upon to work out tho do tails of the tremendous problem of restor ing Galveston to a placo fit for human hab itation do not shrink from this task as would mon under ordlnnry circumstances. Sanitary science and sentiment are not In sympathy. When tho former takes tho helm 1 he latier perforce retires, usually without protest. I.ctllnu Well KiioiikIi Alone. Indianapolis Journal. Thoso who havo never witnessed the operation mtiRt wonder how ono man can "hold up" a train and rob all tho pas songers In two sleeping cars. As most Americans who travol carry plbtols, and ns a robber can only get "tho drop" on one per boii at a time, even without allowing for Iho interruption caused bv accepting con tributions, the wonder Is that boiho pas senger does not do a little shooting on his own account. CiiIiii'm (ii-i-ntcM Peril. Chicago Chroni lc. Although General Wood has practically kxi Irpated yellow fever In Cuba, another misfortune has befallen the Island. Gen oial Gomez Is worso lhan yellow fever, be cause the fever prevails only three months of tho year while Muximu bids fuir to talk all the tlmt. villainous, plan to throttle freedom and set up an empire. This is what they said about It: "t'ndcr Its repeated assaults tho pillars of tho government aro rocking on their base and should It succeed In November next and Inaugurate Its president we will meet as a subjected and conquered peo plo amid tho ruins of liberty and the scat tered fragments of tho constitution." Poor scattered fragments of tho constitu tion! Grant wns elected and Inaugurated, but the most scattered fragments since seen lying around loose In this country are the fragments of amendments securing equal rights to all citizens, which the democrats first peppcroil with shotguns or burned at the stake, and nro now trampling under foot with tho aid of red shirts ami fraudulent elections In North Carolina. In 187(1 tho democracy proclaimed that the country must "bo saved from n cor rupt centralism." This was another tunc by tho Bamo old artist who has been say ing tha same old thing ever slnco tho tlmo of Ororgo Washington and Alexander Ham ilton. Whenever he can llnd a man who wants ficedom to riot he still grows lurid over tho evils of centralism. Whoa HSO came nrnund tho same old performers gave us tho same old spectacle. They worn then prophetic of tho awful monster militarism with which Mr. Hryan Is now waging his vociferous battle. Their platform said: "Wo aro opposed to an increaso of tho standing army in time of peace, and tho insldlou scheme to establish an enormous mllltnry power under tho gulso of militia lawB." Garfield was elected, but that enormous military power docs not seem yet to havo changed our form of government or justified the democratic terrors. The present Ilry nnlzcd democracy Itself, wo believe, "views with alarm" tho parly's period of Cleveland' ism, but those years were ono loug. sad wnll over "unconstitutional taxation" and other republican undermining of tho founda tions of our federal union. The Chicago platform of 189(5 was another dirge over tho destruction of liberty It predicted the ruin mid utter downfall of the nation, If freo coinage of silver was not immediately re stored. It saw tyranny enthroned If the su premo court was not restrained from enforc ing law and order, and called for tho pack ing of that court to save tho nation by an Income tax. Now, In tl00. tho democracy speclllcally repeats those samo old shouts for rescuo from tyranny, though four years' experience has taught everybody that there was 110 wolf at all, but merely a fnlso nlarm, and that "tho boy lied." And It proclaims now dangers, which are only tho old tales of revolution and militarism revamped. With such a record of false prophecies, reckless denunciations, discredited patriot ism and habitual calamity howling. Is it possible that any democratic leader seriously expects lo frighten tho country with the old bugaboos? IMt()(ilti:s.S A XI) COXSHllVATISM. 1'nn I'orci-H In lliilllc Arrny (Ivor I.urRi' nml S11111II llnttcri. Haltimore Amoiican. Tho mllienlum will begin to come in sight when some sort of entente cordlalo can be nrranged between the conservative and progressive forces of the world. Kach needs the other nnd yet both are at daggers drawn. At no time, perhaps, has this mutual attitude ot tho two great factors of life been so sharply defined as at present, when progress is assuming more and more of an aggresslvo mien nnd conservatism Is making an equally energetic defense. The ono is continually calling for the trial of tho new, and the other as persistently de crying all innovation on tho established order of things. So small a matter as the recent discus sion over tho shirt waist man points this fact. Tho war for and against the costless social privilege Is waged as fiercely as though It were a matter of real moment to society. So with other items. A more Im portant matter In Itself, just ns hotly argued, is tho present tendency to use scientific methods In the education of chil dren. Progress cries out for the organiza tion of mothers, public discussions and the friction of many maternal minds, In regard to tho bringing up of tho youthful genera tion. Conservatism sneers nt theso Ideas and wnrmly advocates the old-fashioned methods of Instinct and custom. Tho trouble is that progress will not admit that the new ts not always desirable, nnd conservatism Just ns positively denies that the old can never becomo warn out or useless. What tho world needs Is a happy mingling of both. If Innovations were to bo tested and pronounced upon on their merits, or tho old were to bo rejected without ref erence to the affection engendered by tho forco of association, men and women would bo better off. Hut this is equivalent to say ing that people ought to act for the best without prejudice, and perhaps society In that caoe would como too near perfection to bo endurable my mere mortals. Still tho opposition of these forces creates Intolerance in their respective supporters. Neither is willing to mako concessions to tho othor. Ono pushes on too rapidly, the other holds back too strongly, and thus tho two, that united would do so much for real advance, keep tho world in a halting sort of condition much longer than it need bo and prevents much genuine comfort and happiness, It Is discouraging to rcfloct that nearly all pioneers In the ratine of humanity nro martyrs, becauso of the unwillingness to glvo up old methods and ideas. On the othor hand, it Is also discouraging to know that many old and well-tried ideas nro thrown aside, not that they havo out-lived their usefulness, but simply becnuxo they aro old. Tho young world is apt to bollovo that it has all tho knowiedgo of tho universe. Tho old world Is ns prone to think that all knowiqdgo Is contained In experience. So tho antagonism between tho two remains, while, If tho oxperlonco of tho ono would but broaden and direct tho larger opportunities anil Improved conditions of tho other, each would bo the gainer, to say nothing of tho vast Improvement to the race, nut so it Is. the battle over the largo and small Issues continues, till the question Is settled by tho Inovltablo logic of events. SWINGS HANK Ii:POHITS. A Pnlrly Accurate MeiiNiire of (lie n IIoh'n l'rOHMTll) . Chicago Tribune. It is generally conceded that the total savings bank deposits form a fairly ne curato gauge of tho nation's prosperity. They aro earning more than their living expenses. An Increaso In tho bank de posits is proof that the peoplo am profitably employed and that they are not only en joying many of tho comforts and luxuries of life, but aro also laying up funds for a rainy day.' Only a comparatively small amount of tho nation's total savings goes Into savings banks, for most of It Is put Into now enterprises and bUBlness Invest ments, but tho bank deposits nre a rea sonably reliable gaugo of the rate at which tho prosperity tide Is rising. Tho total deposits in tho savings banks of tho I'nlted States during tho fiscal year ,.i1pi1 with June. 1000. wero S2.-430.SC1.SOO. 1 This wns an Increase of $200,191, 336 over iho deposits or tno preceding year. 'inc depositors for tho year 1900 number B.202, T79, as against 5.I!S7,S1S in 1MI9, a gain of SI 1,901 peoplo who have bank accounts. Not only haj tho nation enjoyed an Increaso of over $200,000,000 In this kind of wealth, but the Increase belonRS almost entirely to half a million now depositors The poor are not srowing poorr, as Hryan said they would, but aro setting bank amounts of their own. A laige share of this Increase has takfn place in the middle west, whero Hryan Inteuds to work tho hardest for votes In this campaign. The combined bank de posits of Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota nt tho end of Juno were $222, 12:1, SIS, a gain of J6S.7SS, 291 over the preceding year. More than one-third of tho total Increase In all tho savings banks of tho country belongs to these six Btntes, in which Hryan hopes to change enough votes to secure his elec tion. Illinois alone has deposits of $61. 777.03R. a gain of $13,S"S,3St over last year. Tho middle west has enjoyed tho cronut of the new era of prosperity. This Is n poor locality In which to mako votes for Hryan. Still more striking is the general gain when compared with tho figures of lsOtf. In that year tho total savings bank de posits amounted to $1,907,150,277, dlstrlb tited among fi,06.",494 depositors. In tho four years slnco Hryan predicted speedy ruin for everybody and especially for the sav ings banks tho deposits have Increased $."ii3. inj.on nnd the number of people with bank aecotintB has Increased 1,137.2s"). Tin nverago deposit this year Is $391. SS, whllo In 1SUG It was $37C.G0. Not only Is tho number of depositors Increased by over a million, but each has $1.'. more in bank than ho had a few months pror to Me Klnley's election. How mam millions havn In tho incantlmo been depo r ) for a tlmo and then withdrawn and line ted In bonds, stocks, buildings and now business enter' prises can bo told only In a general way by noting tho thriving Industries of the na tion at tho present moment ns compared with tho low ebb of business In 1S90. All tho business statistics, as well as tho business men of the country, aro against Mr. Hryan. The most nonpartisan figures of commercial nctlvlty nro eloquent of pros perity and of tho ludicrous falsity ot Bryan's doleful predictions four years ngo. Kvery trado paper In tho country, even though It tries to keep out of politico, is today contradicting Bryan's anti-prosperity utterances and tiiging the preservation ot tho conditions that created tho present nctlvlty. The peoplo with Increased de posits In tho banks aro not likely to vote for tho man who proposes to havo I hep money given back to them In tho shnf of silver worth less than half as much i. tho gold value deposited. Tho bank de positors nnd business men of tho country havo too much at stake to allow themselves to be deceived by any pretended "para menia Issue" in tho Philippines. I'ur.AKs or Tin: : i,vi:vr. ;iu:. A huge tank filled with cottonseed nil wns blown from Us foundation and carried 11 distance of six blocks. A mnn was carried out to sea on the roof of his house ami swirled back again, land ing near where his homo stood. An S-ycar-old boy, floating on a raft, picked up a box containing two children, who later proved to bo his sisters. Galveston bay must have been the vor tex of tho gale. Its rotary motion drovo shipping ashore In opposite directions. The body of a young man was found lodged in the forks of a ttee two miles from his wrecked home with $200 tightly clasped In his right band. Two women In a wooden bathtub were swept out into the gulf by tho receding waves and were rescued allvn after twelvn hours in tho raging sea. A boy of 12 years, ono of a family of five, clung to n trunk when the flood came and was carried across tho bay, n dis tance of twenty-two miles, A man and wife sought safety In threo successive houses, each of which wns de molished. They eventually saved them selves by climbing on a limiting door. Only one. steamer in Galveston bay suc cessfully rode, the storm and remained In its element. The others nre on tho main land, one of them six miles Inland from the bay. The wife of a telegraph operator and her threo young children returned from her father's house to her own during the storm, carried them to tho gHrret and es caped harm. One hundred nnd eighty persons, all the inhabitants at nollvnr Point, saved them selves by crowding Into the lighthouse. Hollvar Point Is across the harbor en trance from Galveston. Captain John Uelaney, chief customs In spector of tho port, lost his entlro family wife, daughter and son and yet, though CO years of nge, donned overalls, went about his duties and helped the authorities. A Pullman employe who has reached Kansas City from Oalvestn was ono of a group of eight, six of one family, who dined together the day beforo tho Btorru. Two of tho eight escaped. The Pullman employe owes his life to n log and a root cistern. Tho strangest freak of good fortune was tho lot of tho Slubbs family father, mother and two children. They wero on a floating roof when It broke in threo pieces, Tho father and ono child went ono way, tho mother nnother and tho remaining child In a third direction. All wero saved and re united. WAIIM CIIAPI Indianapolis Journal: "Pauline HUT is verv exclusive, Isn't she?" "Oh, yes, sho never, never Introduces nn eligible man to any other girl." Somervlllo Journal: "Kllthv lucre" Is 11 term used by people who don't havo as much of it as they would like. Atlanta Constitution: "Havo you read my new book'.'" asked the nuthor of "Ills Kliend." "No," was the reply: " have been quit? Ill, and the doctor has warned mo to bo careful!" Philadelphia Press: First Villager There Is much less sickness hIiico tho new dootor came. Second Villager Yes, ho is so much harder to beat out of Ills bills than the old doctor wns. Cleveland Plain Dealer: "You cull hot If I were nominated for president I wouldn't fool iiwny my tlmo writing a long letter of acceptance that nobody reads." "W hat would you sav?" " 'Thanks, I'll run!' " Pittsburg Chronicle: "I nm encouraged to think that thero will be rain," remarked Mr. Swings. "Haiti forecasts havo been re peated three days." "I should be more Knnguliio of rain If Hi forucam were for fair weather," added .Mr. Snaggs. Detroit Journal: "What," mused Iho Lay Figure, suspecting nothing, nH usual, "makes people resort to tho nutomuhtte, anyway?" The Othera hastily endeavored to ill vert the conversation Into a new channel, but Iho I'licoiiHclous Imbecile was loo quek for them. "Common horse scents, for ono thins!" exclaimed he. Tin: i.o.MisoMi: i.oviui. Homervllle Journal. Hitting nli.no on the vine-clad veranda, Here in tho moonlight, I'm thinking uf J'OIJ. If you wero with mo the night would bo perfect; With you nway, I'm Inclined to be blue. What 1b the use of this marvelous nvonlng? What Is the use of my sitting here? What does It matter how cosy tho nook l, Since you're not with me to sliaro It. inv dear? Now a chanco cloud has shut out l'in moonlight. And my cigar Is smoked In the cd How wet tho dew i! That ir,eans 1 r.ilala. Ilamr It! I know what tliovc shtvcr p . lend! What nro you doing thbi eveiiMis:, 1 won der, Do nihcr admirers Urn-el ut ih. tin 011 s I guess I II go In' Now Unit I'v llnlshed Hiiioklni.". iiis pesky mosqultoe won't let me