Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-14
FOR MEN WHO THINK.

nance of large standing army by the bchav-
| ior Of its neighbors, and now the United
States and Germany are excusiug themselves
| in similar fashion for maintaining war ships
in Samoan waters, says the Philadelphia
Ledger. The United States is TO send three
| vessels there in place OF those lost, for fear
Germany may get the upper hand, and the
| German naval secretary explains TO the
Reichstag that Germany must replace the
| wrecked German cruisers because the United
| States is about 10 send out now cruisers to
the same station. II each nation Is TO do
| what the other docs, why not come to an
agreement TO do nothing, or to send only ono
vessel each instead Of three TO look after ma.
| tional interestsi
1t may be that the best and quickest way
| to get rid Of immoral fiction Is to stand aside
and let 1t run its course, says tho Atlanta
Constitution. The men engaged in writing
this Objectionable stuff will grow bolder IL
| left alone, and disgusted public will revolt
and demand something better. In tho alb.
sence of any other remedy it is to be hoped
that the flood Of trashy novels now rolling
over the land will shock and sicken readers
everywhere and cause a reaction In public
taste. The sooner we get TO the end Of this
erotic craze the better.
Perhaps the president will soon see that
Whitelaw Reid was right twelve years ago
when he told Hayes he could serve tho party
and the administration better as an inde-
| pendent editor than as federal officeholder,
| says the Chicago Tribune. Doubtless tho
| spellbound newspapers have the heart to
serve the president, but they are faint even
| in praise. Gratitude for reward forbids them
Nxy1,i In t1A A..
| people regard their motives with
| mistrust makes it impossible for
] the spellbound press to defend or
praise the administration heartily. An
editor with an office can hardly dare give
the administration hearty commentator.
He might face democratic jeers, but 1t is
hard to have his own readers question his
| motives and view his encomiums as subsi-
died utterances. Only the country editors,
who never pretend to make their papers any
| thing but party organs, can meet the de-
| mands OF such situation. But the metro
politan editors, to whom the people look for
fearless and independent expressions of
| opinion, are getting into pitful plight by
surrendering to the allurements of Office
The president, by his kindness, has really
deprived them Of the capacity to render him
or the party vigorous and effective service
They are paralyzed-choked on gingerbread.
The story of Stanleys march of almost a
thousand miles across the heart of Africa
after leaving headwater on the Aruwimi is
one Of incredible hardship and difficulty,
| says the Brooklyn Times. Hostile natives
| opposed the force through good part of the
way, men fell by poisoned arrows ana by
swamp fever, or deserted by the dozen. OF
| the force that na1p tha nrcb En
were in one way or another lost; of these
| left behind at Bunalya under poor Major
| Barttelot about three-quarters were lost.
| Stanley himself was i'll for month with
| fever, an illness which occupies but sem
tence in his letter, but which is eloquent of
the hardships inseparably connected with
African exploration.
One might be tempted to inquire what end
is served by all this suffering and hardship,
this slaughter of the natives, this ranging
| back and forth through the pestilential
| swamps and forests. Yet if somewhat simi.
lar hardships and experiences had not been
undergone on our own continent there would
be no United States to-day. Perhaps there
is room on the Congo and the Upper Nile for
| another nation as vast, prosperous and en-
lightened some day.
l
est mistakes of his life when he fled from
France to escape prosecution by the govern
ment, according to the Philadelphia North
| American. The French admire daring. and
especially foolhardy daring, and had he stood
his ground and allowed himself to be ar
rested he would have been the most popular
man in France. His running away, how
ever, will be regarded by many as cowardice,
and If his good fortune does not come to his
rescue he will find himself no longer an idol,
but an object Of ridicule. He has foolishly
played into the hands of his enemies, and to
| pose as martyr under the present circu m.
stances will be an impossibility. The gov-
| ernment could have wished for nothing bet
ter than his absence from France, and will
| no doubt be glad to have him remain lust
| where he Is. If Boulanger is not careful he
| will have all France laughing at him, and
when France laughs at a man his star has
gone down.
The recent report of the Castle Garden
authorities that there had been a falling off
in immigration to this country from Italy
does not necessarily mean that emigration
from that country to the new world is de-
creasing, says the Boston Advertiser. 1t is
a fact that Italian emigration is greater than
ever before and it seems to be constantly in
| creasing. The cause of this is attributed to
| great extent to the excessive taxes that ara
required from the Italian peasantry for tho
support of the standing army and navy The
exodus is so great that the Italian govern
ment is becoming alarmed. The Argentine
| Republic, with bonus offers to immigrants,
and climate similar to that Of Italy, is to all
appearances gaining largely at the expense
| of the latter country.
Commercial organizations and journals Of
Canada have revived the movement for
bankruptcy law applicable to all parts of the
dominion, says the New York Commercial
Bulletin. There, as here, the general law
was defective and unsatisfactory, and was
finally repealed and the regulation of bank.
ruptcies left to the separate PROVINCES; but
now the laws adopted by Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick and Manitoba are found to be un.
| just and inefficient; the efforts TO secure bet
ter legislation in Quebec have been unsuc-
cessful, and the lack of uniformity and the
complications arising under the inconsistent
laws have caused strong reaction of COM
nercial sentiment in favor Of simple and uni
| form legislation for the entire country. This
| sentiment will necessarily strengthen with
an increase OF commerce between the pro-