Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-26

shown himself true patriot, aud has rem
dered an inestimable service 10 his country
men,. Only in one thing has the great man
blundered, and that Is in the retention of
German letters, because these have bad ef-
feet upon the eyesight And they are not
both by French and Spanish in the middle
ages, to say nothing of England. Any one
who visits old cathedrals will see the al
legged German lettering under very un.Ger.
manic conditions.
Things probably move in waves. If so
there is at the present moment wave of re-
action towards paganlsm on the part of many
christianized barbaric people. Some pessi.
mists have asserted that this is because
christianity simply resulted in the subjectiou
and degradation of the inferior races. But
this argument will not apply TO the fearful
scenes enacted in Hayu where the colored
race with every opportunity for Improvement
has steadily retrogradcd. The latest news is
that tho whole army of Legitme has aban.
doned him and joined the forces of Hippoyte,
and this a SIGN that the men of HaytI are i'll
favor of open VoudhOoism, or the Worship o
the serpent with cannibalistic rites. But
some of the eastern papers are drawing
largely on their Imagination when they rep
resent human flesh as being openly sold in
the markets of Haytian towns From moro
veraciOus correspondence it appears that ON
the contrary vOudhooism and u diet almost
entirely confined to fruit seem to go to-
gether. There is, however, enough of the
horrible aud revolving in Hayti vouched for
by official statement TO place the republic
under the ban of civilization. And men are
beginning to ask themselves whether such
state of things should be permitted to exist
under the name of liberty 1t makes one
think of Madame Roland's exclamation mt
the foot of the guillotne-"Oh, liberty, what
crimes are committed in thy namcr 1t
seems to be the duty of the United States to
assume protectOrate over Hayti ana 1t is
deeply to be deplored that this was not done
while Salomon was alive, ana president.
1t appears that the discoveries of gold
bearing lodges in Mexican California are far
inferior to those in the Harqua Hala region
of Yuma county, Arizona, and anyone who
thinks of trying his luck in the new gold
fields must not leave the states if he wishes
to do we'll In the first place, the Mexican
Eldorado is being worked by u party of Gu
cinnatians for all that it is worth, and IN the
next place, it requires expensive tunncling
and timberng, and the ore only samples $50
a ton on the average. OF course large for
tunes are made in just such mines by cap
italIsts but they are the ruin of small in
vestors. Even the best specimen assays
from these Mexican mines do not show more
than $500 to the ton and at Harqua liala
many of the Jumps of quartz contain so much
gold that they Just weigh them as pure gold
ana deduct the estimated weight of the
quartz. y ton Of such ore would be beyond
the limits of the assaycr Much of the
ledge in the Mexican district has been al
ready worked by-MeXicans who abandoned
it as exhausted, but no doubt the Cincinnati
company will meet with adequate compcnsa-
tion for their risk and enterprise. The
president is Mr. Baumgartcn, who speaks
in the highest terms of the Mexican mining
laws, and of the treatment they have re-
ceived from the officials with whom they
have done business. He says that the Mex
leans have idea of selling Lower Calif0r-
MIA, and that the Senior Nandcver of the
Congreso Americana has spoken for himself
alone.
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The Chinese railway is a pronounced sue
cess, and has been running very satisfacto
rily ever since the beginning of last Septem-
Der. This is a government work connecting
the small but commodious port of Taku at
the mouth of the Peiho river, where the
English and French fleets smashed the forts
some thirty years ago, with the manufactur-
ing city of Tien-Tsin, and the coal mines of
Tongsan. 1t is only sevcnty-fivc miles in
length, and it is a single track with very long
sIdings on the plan of American western
roads. There are no complicated switching
arrangements, but the depot station masters
have the oldfashioned red and white flags,
and do their business very satisfactorily
with them, precisely as we die ourselves in
the beginning of railroads here. The line is
now to be extended to Peliin, which it will
reach in a roundabout fashion, but if the
new emperor proposes to burn Chinese coal
as well as inaugurate Chinese railways, then
the route is all that could be desired. Ap
parently the Celestials intend to export coal
and if SO, they probably have an eye ON Cali
fornia as their market, for the government is
no party to the movement against the United
States. This boycotting is simply done by
the Six Companies who traffic in Chinese
contract labor, and enforce their contracts by
highbinders or braves. The government does
not recognize the Six Companies, and is as
much averse to contract labor as the Calfor-
mans can be. No greater mistake can be
made than to estimate the educated Chinese
according to the degraded creatures who sell
themselves for term of years to the Six
Companies trust of the worst character,
being the consolidation of a number Of spec
ulators in human flesh and blood.