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Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-13
THE OMAHA DAILY AGr, SUNDAY. OCTOBER rs, 1898.

with the grm ~ production. while gold
also enjoys lsYlimitcd distribution by
way of coinaEN
Whether III n DESCRIPTION Of the precious
metals in tlh Arts win ever become so
great as to seriously interfere with their
use ms money E'problematical. but there
Is certainly M danger of this in the
near futures Tie production of gold is
steadily inGreasing. it being estimated
that the wbrlds yield for 1898 will
reach u money value of 100000, 900.
which will D. On increase over 1894 of
S~1S,50o,0oo andfor the last FIVE years of
SSl,OoO.oOo. while sources of production
are being continually developed. The
yield of gold in the United States for
the current year will be fully $1,000. 900
greater than that of last year and the
vigor with which gold mining Is being
pushed in South Africa promises Il large
increase from that ource of supply.
believed by many to be almost mex
haustible. AS to silver. if the sources
of supply were fully worked the produc-
ton could probably in a few years be
nearly or quite doubled. Consequently
there appears to be no reason to appre-
bend that there will not be for a long
time TO come Il sufficient supply of the
precious metals both for monetary and
art requirements.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-13
FALSE
Hypocrlticni Assumptions OF secret
Political Societies.

Mlnueapons Iiutcs.
There are encouraging indications that the
secret political organizations that have
sprung up like noisome fungi in many sec
tions OF the country and have wrought pub
TIC disturbance and mischief wherever they
have manifested activity. are passing away.
The most widespread OF these societies. the
American Protective association. which Is
political as we'll as religious. since It appeals
to church prejudices for political purposes, Is
showing unmistakable signs OF decadence.
' These societies are founded on the
assumption that their members monopolize
the virtue, patriotism and wisdom Of the
land. They do not. II they were as pure as
they profess to be they have not wisdom for
a whole people, and IL they were as wise as
they would have us believe they would still
be found lacking in wisdom. The fact is. It
Is only given to a few men In their genera
ton to Instruct the people, and these few are
not found in the secret political organiza-
tions. The captains and generals and high
m~uckymucks of those societies will not bear
scratching. AS likely as not they have bees
in their otherwise not too well filled bonnets.
They want things-for themselves. not for
the country they profess to love so we'll.
They like the taste Of power or leadership.
and all their professions are reducible to
some personal and more or less unworthy
ambition.
The salvation Of the American people-as-
Stunning that they are In immediate need Of
salvation-lies in themselves, not in any
coterie OF volunteer patriots; IL is to be
achieved, not in the lodge halls of secret or
ders. or through the paltry agency of secret
signs, but In the broad open, with the
knowledge, assent and cooperation of all
the people. The republic was founded on a
universal enlightenment is its highest destiny
to be wrought out.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-13
THE PASSING HOW

-
Coming down to primary facts, no matter
how arrayed, they present a touching" spec
tacle.
Spain is not worrying itself about reforms
n Armenia. The Castillians have troubles Of
heir own.
Ex-Governor Waite of Colorado proposes to
take the stump in Kansas. Other moveables
will be anchored.
There appears to be no foundation for the
report that Secretary of State Olney tied a
Monroe tin can to the lions tail.
1t is generally admitted that Sackville-
West let slip the opportunity of a lifetime
when he declined the museum offer.
Civil service reformers in Chicago have
been convinced forcibly that ability to hold
Town an ofiice does not cease at the age of 45.
Ordinary persuasion fails to induce the sick
man to take his medicine. Nothing short of
hyperdermic injection Of lead will reach the
disease.
With two papers both daily, located in
New York and San Francisco, Mr.. w. r.
Hearst becomes the journalistic colossus Of
the country
The prime minister Of England is said to
be cropping in the dark as to whom belongs
the honor OF poet laureate. The Light of
Asia" hasn't yet penetrated the ministerial
gloom.
A dispatch from Berlin announces that
when the marriage of musical artists Eugene
u Ftlpert anu Teresa CarrOna was 1udically
dissolved the two principals wept copiously.
Joy often finds vent in tears.
The bloviating p~ugilists appear extremely
anxious for a place for close argument, yet
they ignore the inducement held out by Chi
cago, both in fsticuffs and money making.
fhe success OF suburban ~hold-ups points the
way to financial plenty.
AS the country jolts along toward election
day, 1t Is proper in the interest OF political
history to explain two party terms in vogue
in New York. The "goo-goos' are those
affiliating with the Good Government club,
and the "garoos" are members of the Ger
man-American Reform union. With this ex-
PLANTATION, the show will proceed.
When the Chinese desire an uncommon
favor from the gods. they dress a dog in
comic attire and carry 1t through the streets
In the belief that the laughter excited will
provoke the gods to smiles and generosity.
Western civilization has perfected a more
enicacious method. When in the course of
political events it becomes necessary to pla-
cate the municipal gods, the trenches are
profusely animated. smiles are lavishly dis
pensed and the IN. g's. graciously play with
the suppliants in their back yard.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-13
rfin pERrtsH CITY TICKET.

From a convention composed almost
entirely of the hoodlum faction OF
the \. l.. AS no rational person
could expect anything but a bowling
dcrvish ticket from top TO bottom.
1t was c%mlncutly in accord with the
eternal illness of all things that the
head ami front OF such Il ticket should
be William j. Droatch. 1t was William
]. Broatch who organized the infamous
Twenty Fighter club, the first dark Ian
tern body Of political pirates and cut
throatS. who. under his leadership and
that Of Paul Nandervoort, scuttlcd the
republican craft in this city and pill
LACED the campaign treasury. filled by
assessments on republican candidates.
1t is only meet and proper that the
chief of these political black.flags should
now be rewarded for his exploits us II
bandit by a nomination TO the mayor
atty Of Omaha.
1t is also in accord with the eternal
fitness of things that a. G.. Edwards.
one of the original BrOatch Twenty
Fighters, should he given the second
iA'al'Vi ''liN l'itA'i bh INV Wv .NI'hN's INNN
rs Johnny Macdonald. first captain of
the Broatcll janizaries, was given the
second important place on the county
ticket.
With Broatch nominated for mayor
and Edwards for treasurer it would
have been an u%nmitigated piece of in
gratitude to have named any one else
TO succeed that lynX-eyed and vigilant
accountant. Theodore Olsen, for the
comptrollership than John Wesiberg.
his chief deputy.
The denomination by reclamation of
Beeclier Highly for city clerk was only
IL deserved tribute to his activity in the
councils and conclaves of the d%ervishes.
The surprise Of the day was, how
ever. reserved to the last name on the
general ticket, when $. |. Gordon. the
heavyweight councilman from the First
ward, was proclaimed the nominee for
police judge amidst thunderous ap-
plause. 1t was what Gordon doesn't
know about law that commended him
especially to his fellow dervislles.
For the council Jim Allan. the legis-
lative w%et-Lurse of tina bastard of re-
form. the Churchill-Russell police com.
mission bill, heads the list alphabetic-
ally, and Lee Yates. another ward
heeler, tails the procession. The Board
of Education candidates may for aught
we know be fully competent. but their
claims for nomination were based
chiefly on the fact that they are each
and every one bound by their oaths to
exclude from employment in the public
schools all persons who profess the pro-
scribed creed.
The great mass of s~elf-rcspecting re-
publicans will deplore for the sake OF
the party whose principles they revere
that a convention protesting to act in
the name of and for republicanism
should have shown such reckless dis
regard of the demands of the public
and Of the proprieties of the occasion.
The only recourse left for them is to
administer n rebuke at the polls that
will effectually prevent a repetition.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-13

somervllle Journal: II handwriting Is really
an index OF character, the character OF most
ministers Is bad.
Philadelphia Times: Naturally clergymen
with limited incomes look upon frequent
weddings as something to tie TO.
Chicago Tribune: 1t Is said that Rev. Sam
Jones smokes nifty cigars a day. The s,rug-
gle between grace and nicotine In his system
must be severe at times.
New York Sun: While the Methodist bish.
ops and the Ohio Wesleyan university con-
denim the tobacco habit as a hindrance to re-
ligion, there are plous people in England who
favor the habit as a means OF promoting re-
ligion. There ~ at least one chapel in the
East End of London where a man gets a
pipcful Of tobacco for attending the sacred
services and is permitted to smoke during
sermon and prayers.
Dubuque Telegraph: One of the sixty blsh-
ops attending the Episcopal convention at st.
raul took occasion in a sermon delivered on
sunday last to denounce as traitors to the
creed OF the church those who reject or fall
to preach the doctrine. OF tho physical ressur-
rection. The bishop implied that many OF
the hierarchy are herettcal on this point. and
he is probably right. The instances are mani
fold in which clerics and laymen do not be-
lieve In all the doctrines of the churches with
which they are affiliated.
Philadelphia Record; Speaking Of the Cath
Ole church in the United States. Cardinal
GIBBONS says that Its mission Is to teach and
direct in things spiritual. with temporal
affairs it never interferes." Could there DO
a palmer, more direct or more conclusive
reputation OF the A. =. AS arguments than
this significant u~tterance from the head OF
the Catholic church In America? Cardinal
Gibbons may be called the pioneer and pre-
eminent leader of Catholic prelates in this
country who are bent on adapting the Catho-
lie church to the peculiar needs Of its Ameri-
can COMMITMENTS.
Chicago Record: The Episcopalians will do
well to look Tor some other way of distin-
gushing themselves from the Episcopalians
of England, If that is the object they have in
view. There can in tho nature of things be
no such thing in this country as an Amer
lean church In the sense that there is a
Roman church, a Greek church and an Eng
fish church. The last named bodies were pri-
marily the recognized and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
bodies of the governments under which they
originated. In this country there is no
American church." or, rather, all churches
here are American churches.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-13
BLASTS FROM RAMS HORN.

Faultless people have few friends.
The bearer Of good news always has q
sweet voice.
One of the best helps toward heaven is a
good mother.
Many a supposed giant has turned out to
be only a shadow.
Love never has to be watched 10 see that
it does honest work.
The greater the house built on the sand
the greater will be the loss.
The poorest people in the world are those
who try to keep all they get.
The man whose heart is set on things
perishable loses all when they perish.
If some people would think twice before
they speak they would keep still most OF
the time.
There would be more ~revivals If more OF
the preaching were done to the sinners in
the church.
The man who undertakes to get a living
by his wits would have a more regular sup
ply of bread II he would depend more on
his muscle.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-13

that exist. II says that the only sue
ccssful arbitrat9rs of labor disputes
have been men of extraordinary weight
worth and mental strength were inf
nitely above the average, and II urges
that every state should have headed its
commission originally with some man of
this character and thus given the theory
of arbitration an immediate standing in
the community. There Is ~unquestion-
ably force in this. The record of state
arbitration boards. with the exception
Of Massachusetts, is that of almost com-
plete failure TO accomplish the purpose
for which they were created. and even
in Massachusetts the failures. we be-
lieve, have largely outnumbered the sue
ceSses. though better results have been
attained there than anywhere else. The
great difficulty, of course, is that arbi-
tration cannot he made compulsory. It's
efficacy depends upon the willingness of
both parties and while this is 80 and
human nature remains as ii is, it is in
evitable that the existing methods of
arbitration must more often fail than
succeed. But the unsatisfactory results
of these methods SHOULD not he allowed
to wholly discourage efforts to devise
n better plan. for the Importance of The
matter cannot be oyerestimated. from
whatever standpoint 1t may be consid-
cred. 1t is probably the case that Il ma
jority of the employers of labor and Il
majority of intelligent workingmen be-
lieve in the principle of arbitration and
if this is so it cannot be impossible TO
devise a plan that will be at any rate
an Improvement upon any yet adopted.
But for any method the first considera-
ton must be that the character of the
arbitrators shall be such as to command
implicit confidence.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-13

READY FOR Any EMERG ENCT.


Within II few months the United States
will. according to information from The
Navy department, have the largest
squadron of men-of-war available for
duty which has beer under orders since
the close of the war of the rebellion,
ready for any emergency. though not
placed in commission in expectation of
tary of the navy in urging forward the
preparation for sea of all naval vessels
nearing completion has been regarded
in some quarters as an indication
significant Of the attitude of thisg govern
ment toward British encroachments in
Venezuela, but there is no substantial
ground for such Il view. A trustworthy
explanation is that the delay in the
oquipping of vessels under construction
and nearly ready for commission and of
those under repair was caused solely by
an investigation IN the part of Secretary
Herbert which convinced him that there
had been too much delay ut government
yards and decided him to have the work
advanced more eXpeditiously.
AS Il result the North Atlantic SQUAD
ron will soon be increased and it is pro-
posed that during the winter squadron
drills will take place in' southern
waters, in accordance with the plans
asserted that the increase of the
squadron and the future assembling Of
our war vessels in the Caribbean sea
has NJ reference to pending matters of
diplomatic dispute and is simply in pur-
suance of Il program long since laid cut
and usual at the season when it takes
place. None the less it is highly prob
able that both Great Britain and Spain,
especially the former, will regard the
matter with some suspicion and will
keep Il sharp eye upon all movements of
our war vessels in the southern waters.
1t would not be ut all surprising to find
the concentration of a United States
! fleet in the Caribbean sea quickly fol-
lowed by Il movement of British war
vessels into southern waters, for if Great
Britain intends to maintain its claim to
the disputed territory in Venezuela and
apprehends unfriendly action on the part
of our government it will take every
precaution against being placed at Il
disadvantage. However, regardless of
what construction other governments
may put upOn the movements of our
war vessels, all patriotic Americans will
be glad to know that we shall in Il brief
time have Il naval force ready for any
emergency.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-13
The Origin of Gospcls.
philadclpbia Record

THIIdUcINhIH KecOfU.
Biblical scholars, and, indeed, the whole
religious world. will be profoundly inter-
ested in the announcement, made appar-
emily on good authority, that a manuscript
OF the -four gospels in the native tongue
OF Jesus has at last been found in the con-
vent of Mount Sinai. which was built by
Justinian nearly 1,400 years ago, when
Christianity was young, and its treasured
records would naturally seek such sanctu-
airy. The value Of such finds depends. of
course, on the intrinsic evidences of their
antiquity; but the judgment of experts that
the present parchment was written within
nifty years of the death of the last apostles
must give 1t exceptional Importance in the
eyes both of scholastics and antiquarians, and
their further judgment respecting its value
VIII be awaited with lively interest by the
Christian world.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-13
LAMENTATIONS OF A LORD.

Chicago Inter Ocean: The title of his
book is, "My Mission to the United States.
S1-S9." 1t would have been more appropriate
to have called 1t. MY Mouth, and How |
Put My Foot In It."
st. Louis Republic: Sackville West has
Just discovered what 1t was hit him In 1888.
The democratic party. which got the same
lick. has recovered and is now on ton. Sack
vile should not despair.
chicago Chronicle: 1t is incidentally
brought out that Sackvllle West had an offer
from the enterprising manager OF a dime
museum If he would put himself upon ex-
hibition. Had he done so he would have
reached his proper level.
Chicago Post: Lord Sackville left us some
years ago amid the laughter Of nations. He
made a fool OF himself and paid the penalty
or folly. He may be under the delusion that
he can humbug European diplomatists into
taking his view of the fracas which led Mr..
Cleveland to hand him his passports, but he
cannot humbug Americans.
Chicago Times-Herald: Sackville West.
who says that a New York museum manager
offered him s.. 900 a week to exhibit himself
after he wrote the Murchison letter, is quite
unconscious of the humor of his publishing
the proposal with the utmost gravity, but he
is entitled to the distinction of being the
first Englishman who declined to take Ameri-
can money when he could get it.
Kansas City Star: Nobody but he comes
to the front six years after people had begun
to forget all about it, to tell what a fussy.
small-minded, incapable donkey he made Of
himself. For the pictures of a British min
lister drifting down the James river to escape
assassination, and of a British minister re-
ceiving an offer to pose as a freak in a dime
museum, the world is indebted to the party
himself.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: The finishing touch
is the insult" given the expelled minister
as he. turned his back on Washington. A
dime museum manager in New York offered
him $4,000 a week and expenses for himself
and his suite If he would hold two levees
daily Of two hours each in his ''palatiaI
museum" No wonder the sacked Sackville
fled to England as fast as the fastest steamer
could carry him. The only wonder is that
he kept his woes bottled up until now, when
he displays them "for the gayety of nations"
Globe-Democrat Sackville West ought to
keep his tribulations dark. The little episode
in 1888 in which Id figured unpleasantly
while minister to the United States was dis
creditable to every person connected with it
to West for his blindness in walking into the
trap clumsily set for him, to trap-setter
"Murchison" for his duplicity, to the re-
publican national committee for it's lmposture
in lending itself to this fraud, and to the
democratic president for his cowardice and
Stiffness In being stampeded by it. Out of
the IL Zoo, 900 votes cast in 1888 probably
not more than eleven were changed by the
foolish "Murchison" letter.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-13

The salaried employees of the State
Board of Irrigation have unanimously
arrived at. the conclusion that the alarm
sounded by the secretary of the board
to the effect that their work had been
rendered superfluous by u recent SUI
They have decided that they will al
ways be Indispensable servants of the
people. no matter what Interpretation
the supreme court may put upon the
irrigation laws. SO long as the appro-
priation holds ont not an employee of
the irrigation board will desert his post
of duty.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-13
NEBRASKA LIBRARY DAY.

Monday of next week, the 21st day
of October, has been set aside in most
of the schools in the rural districts of
this state as Nebraska Library day.
The movement for n library day took
its origin, so we are informed, in n
resolution adopted by the Saunders
County Teachers Institute in August.
1892, by which Il day was designated
rs Il permanent library day for that
county, when each teacher in the public
schools would he expected to make
special effort to make it's observance
general and to establish and add to the
nucleus of Il library in the school house
over which he presides. This sug-
gestion, which was carried out sue
c~essfully in the county where the pro-
ject was first inaugurated, has been
taken up by the State Association of
Teachers, and the public everywhere
throughout the state has been invited
to respond to the call for assistance in
accomplishing the laudable purpose
held in view.
No one will question the advantages
to be derived from II well selected pub
lie library accessible to all the people
who are disposed to make use of the
opportunities which it, offers. In
nearly all our cities and towns the tax
payers cheerfully contribute out of the
public treasures to the support of free
circulating libraries which, as adj
juncts and supplements to the schools,
carry the work of popular education to
the homes of the citizens. In the
country districts libraries of this mag
nitude are scarcely to be thought of
under present conditions. but a modest
collection of books deposited in the dis
trict school house can work the same
results on n smaller scale and cultivate
u taste for good and wholesome reading
that will do wonders in raising the
intellectual plane of the community.
The general observance of Nebraska
Library day opens up the most prac-
teal way of attaining this much-desired
end. Here, as in the case of Arbor
day, the success of the movement in
Nebraska will mean its extension to
other states, and what began as Ne
braska Library day will in time become
a national library day.