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THE COURIER,
Official Organ of the Nebraska State
Federation of Women's dubs.
Ekthkdin the rosTomcB at Lincoln as
SECOND CLASS MATTES.
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relatlon between bountiful years and
the price of wheat. The figures cer
taiuly prove that speculation and not
wheat scaicity has effected the price
of wheat. What speculators 'can do.
startling. The wheat crop of the
world in 189S, was 2,879,000,000 sold by
the farmer for tifty cents a bushel.
Russia proposes to add a billion and a
half dollars to the value of the wheat
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tne not too-conhdent Russians believe . crop of the world. The United States'
can be done by the two fabulously 700.000,000 bushels could be sold for
wealthy peoples who produce ninety 8350,000.000 more. The Russian farm
percent of the wheat of the world, crs' wheat would sell for 1200,000,000
In 1893 Russian wheat sold for more. England imports 125,000,000
fifty cents a bushel, notwithstand- .bushels of wheat, and this agreement
ing that the laws of supply and would cost her 860.000.000 more than
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demand, working freely, would raise
the price. In 18 2 wheat sold for one
dollar a bushel. "From 1882 to 1893 the
area of cultivated land in the world
increased only live per cent. Crops
gathered increased at the samo ratio.
At the same time wheat consumers
increased eleven per cent, and the
rate per capila increased steadily dur
ing the same perled." In other words,
there were not only six per cent mre
people eating wheat in this period
than in the preceding period, but
each individual's appetite for wheat
had grown by what it fed on, and each
one ate more wheat, yet the price fell,
it does now for bread. The larmers
of the United Kingdom would get
$30,000,000 more for their wheat." The
agreement would array the wheat im
porting against the wheat exporting
classes, but by the distribution of the
wealth amoDg the farmers of the
world, all the nations would be stimu
lated and enriched. It does not mat
ter how high the price of any article
is, so that we can afford it.
The Consent of tie Governed.
Theconsentof a large number of the
governed has been dispensed with in
The Russian government's sound con- North Carolina, where the democrats
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elusion was that something was inter
fering with the law of supply and de
mand, for the law was a dead letter.
The artificial causes which forced a
price of fifty cents for wheat in 1893,
when there were more people to eat it
and when people ate more of it than
in 1883, when it sold for one dollar,
the Russians had the courage to inves
tigate. They decided that the specu
lators were the culprits and they have
have won by 40,000. Chairman Sim
mons of the state central committee
says the election was won by "busi
ness like methods " The amendment
disfranchising the negroes is a demo
cratic measure. Its enforcement will
perhaps give the negro an opportunity
to become a useful citizen out of range
of the shotgun. All political prefer
ment becoming out of the question
for him, and political jealousy and
bers of that body, recently assembled
in annual meeting at Covington, Ken
tucky. No other report or address
was received with so much sympathy.
To the isolated mountain woman the
coming of the cultured woman has
great meaning. Mrs. Pettet's account
of the mountain women's desire to
learn to cook better, sew better a'nd
know something of the world on the
other side of the mountain was pa
thetic. When the work stopped in
the ppring, their sorrow at parting
from tbeir friendly apoeties and teach
ers was genuine and affecting. Nearly
8300 was raised at the annual meeting
for the purpose of carrying on the
work, and several kindergarten teach?
ers, with their outfits, started imme
diately for the mountains. The pres
ent, state officers of the association
are: Mrs. A. M. Harrison, Lexington.
Kentucky, president; Mrs. Moberly of
Bowling Green, first vice president;
Mrs. Dohrman, second vice president.
Justice for Convicts.
The charges of brutal treatment of
convicts at the Nebraska penitentiary
are still uninvestigated by the officials
to whom the citizens of the state have
delegated this duty. In this instance
Georgia has set an example to Ne
braska. A convict was killed there
by a whipping boss, who lashed him
for refusing to work when he was
sick. When the man died the grand
jury beard of the cause, examined
witnesses and brought in a true bill
The portraits of President McKin- since been studying out a way to cir- rivalry being destroyed, the -negrawill against the boss, charging him with
ley and Mr. Bryan, published in last
week's Courier, are reprinted this week
because of the many demands for the
picture. The picture of Mr. Bryan is
not a chance kodaker's shot, but a
large twelve inch picture, representing
in full Colonel Bryan and General Lee
sitting in front of tbeir tent in
Florida. The two men were admir
ably posed for the picture which was
sent to Lincoln and placed in a local
photographer's window where it
mained for several months. The
ference is therefore not unfair, that
the likeness was satisfactory to Mr.
Bryan and his friends.
cumvent them
Mr. Whelpeley says that "The
scheme devised by the Russian Min
ister of Finance, intended for pre
sentation to the United States, was
bold, but simple in its provisions.
The two governments were to enter
the market as buyers of; wheat, at the
price of one dollar per bushel. They
were also to agree to sell this wheat
at a price which would cover the
re- original outlay, interest on the money
jn. invested, and the cost of doing the
business. According to Russian com
putation a price of one dollar and
eight cents a bushel includc-d all these
charges. If the supply of wheat was
such that foreign buyers could not
pay, the two governments vere to ab
sorb the surplus grain, through banks
learn an independence and' self-con
trol that will in the years to come
produce a man of worth and charac
ter. His disfranchisement is not alto
gether inimical to the progress of the
negro, only that it is queer that it
should be accomplished by the Ameri
can supporters of Aguinaldo and the
boxers.
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RuKta-American Wheat Corner.
In t.hft Aiiunst, McfMiiK's r.h sfnrtr
is told of the attempt in 1896 by the or other agencies, and store it against-HCKeLS 0I tlle relu:rea number, ror
Street Railway Fares.
For several years prior to 1896, there
was in force in this city an ordinance
which prohibited any street railway
company from charging more than
twenty-five cents for each package of
six tickets. It required every com
pany to keep for sale'by the conductor
or driver of each car, packages of
Russian government to induce the
United States to co operate with the
Czar in raising and maintaining the
price of wheat to one dollar. Hon. J.
Sterling Morton, then Secretary of
Agriculture, replied very decidedly to
the communication referred to him
by the Hon. Richard Olney, then
Secretary of State. He thought
the relation of supply and demand the
only regulator and that "it is not the
business of government to attempt,
by statutes or international agree
ment, to override the fixed laws of
economics." The secretary's opinion
was so adverse to the proposition, that
he discouraged even the invitation
to a conference between represent
atives of the two countries. Here
plied that he did not believe "for a
minute that a conference of tuc repre
sentative countries which export
cereals would throw light upon the
nature of the crisis, to which the
memorandum alludes."
The Russian department of finance
acknowledged the rebuff by silence,
a time wnen it might be needed to
supply a deficiency in the crop."
'The justification is that all the
wheat of the world is used for food.
With a guaranteed market of one
dollar a bushel, no one could buy it
for less. Dollar wheat means no de
crease in consumption, because the
increase in price for the small quan
tity used by each-consumer would be
insignificant, and wheat has many
times before reached the dollar point
without decreasing the amount con
sumed. "Therefore, neither government
would be obliged to become an actual
purchaser of wheat. It would still be
sold to consumers." .
A permanent fixing of such a rate
would stimulate wheat growing and
decrease the pressure of population in
crowded cities. But the wheat belt
is a limited area and production could
not break a corner upheld by the
United States and Russia. If com
paratively puny speculators like Mr.
Armour or Che vanished and van-
but its members are still unconvinced quished Joseph Leiter, or the innu
and stubbornly anxious for a confer- merable horde of men celebrated for
ence between agricultural economists cornering the wheat market, can keep
of our country and theirs. To con- the price up, there is no obvious rea
virice the United States that their son why the United States and Bus
project is feasible, members of the sia cannot between them keep up the
twenty-five cents each, ready for de
livery during the running of the car,
to any passenger applying and paying
for the same. This was a reasonable
regulation, and it afforded to the
patrons of the companies, and espec
ially to women, a most convenient
method of procuring street railway
tickets, and that at a reasonable price.
The present ordinance' requires the
company (there is now but one' and it
has a monopoly of business) to sell
eleven tickets for fifty cent or twenty
two for one dollar, and requires the
company to keep them on sale at three
convenient places in the city during
business hours. If there be a place in
the city where such tickets can be
procured outside of the office of the
company, I do not know where it is.
The council would consider the con
venience of the patrons of the cars if
at the next council meeting it should
repeal the existing ordinance regulat
ing fares and the sale of tickets and
re-enact the old ordinance requiring
the company to keep tickets for sale
on every car, six for twenty-five cents.
involuntary manslaughter.
City Improvement in Omaha.
The Woman's club of Omaha is
keeping three blocks on Sixteenth
street, from Farnam to Capitol ave
nue, clean. A man in white, withO.
W. C-on his cap and a push- cart,
patrols this district. The object is to
demonstrate the beauty and health
fulness of clean streets.
A short time before the opening of
the Trans-Mississippi exposition the
Woman's club appointed a city im
provement committee, with Mrs.
Smith as chairman and Mrs. McKelvy
as assistant chairman. The function of
the committee was to make clean and
beautify, and the members performed
their duties effective'y. So much
so that the constitutional and peren
nial grumblers at club women were
obliged to confess their utility and
the worth and unselfishness of their
gratuitous labor and care.
The experiment in Omaha is
watched with much interest and hope
by the memhers of the City Improve
ment Society of Lincoln.
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Ghinese Women.
Neither their sisters nor mission
aries can help the women in China.
They are prisoned and bound by the
egotism and barbarity of the men.
Neither the example of the resident
Americans and Englishmen, the ad
monitions of the missionaries, nor
their own sufferings have alleviated
the condition of Chinese women in the
years these influences have been suf
fered to operate. The birth of a girl
baby is still regarded as a disgrace
and it is a brave nurse or doctor who
announces a girl's birth to the father.
Mothers who are truly kind drown
their daughters before they are old
enough to realize the cruelty and dis-
Russian department of agriculture Wlce and
offered statistics covering a number werkl.
of years of Russian harvests and the "Tb
sell dollar wheat to the
possibilities of such a trust are work in the mountains to the mem-
approval of the world. So comnetflnt
dabs in the Kentucky Mountains, an authority as Dr. Coltman, Li Hung
unang-s pnysician, declares that there
is not a family in China that has not
had at least one case of attempted
suicide among its female members.
Girl babies are beaten, starved and
neglected, while their brothers are
Mrs. Katharine Pettat, chairman of
a committee of the State Federation
of Kentucky Women's Clubs, read a
very interesting report on the prog
ress and results of social .settlement
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