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Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

homa, Kansas. Nebraska. Wyoming and
Montana, the American cattle rniser
ought to be able to meet Australian
competition in England for a long time
without much suffering. The advan-
tages of the United States in latitude
and distance are so great that we may
expect, with proper efforts. to retain our
place rs a source of animal food sup
ply" Still that paper admits that
Australia is a serious competitor of this
country In the business of exporting
meat and threatens to become more SO.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Minneapolis Times: There has been more
or less lamentation in most parts of the
country over the decline of church-going and
wondering what is going to become of us IL
the weakness in faith keeps increasing. In
Missouri they have fixed it by simply putting
good looking girls to work as ushers in the
churches. The immediate effect has been to
call out the old sinners in large numbers.
1t Is suggested that If coffee and rolls were
added, the churches would not be able to
hold the congregations.
New York Sun: Rev. DR.. T. De Witt
Talmage has conquered, as usual, in Wash
ington. and Rev. Adolos Allen, the man
without guile, has been asked to resign.
Henceforth DR.. Talmage will preach in the
First Presbyterian church twice every Sun
day. and the anxious crowds which his
evening Sunday sermon has collected can be
divided and handled. The trouble is likely
to be that the Doctors audiences. enthralled
by his lovely language or following to the
hub of the empyrean his high-lying and
flame-tailed sentences, have not come down
to earth when he Is through, and so they
too often go away without contributing
largess. and collections are reported poor.
Springfield Republican,: 1t is not certain
that the abrogation of the concordat and the
severance of the alliance between church
and state in France would relieve the former
from the restrictions of which it complains.
There has been more behind the legislation
of which the hierarchy complains than a
protest against the requirements of the
SoLlCoIudul, IutIc Has De6u TduiCal ana
socialistic hatred of the Roman Catholic
church itself. This prejudice will remain
and will appear in legislation analogous to
that requiring the usual military service
from students for the priesthood-but in
spite of this danger it is certain that the
republic. and equally certain that the
church of Rome, would be great gamers by
an act of divorce between them.
New York Tribune: If the chaplains of
legislative bodies continue to mix foreign
and domestic politics with their invocations, |
after the fashion set of late at Washing
ton and Albany. it may not be amiss to
have a form of prayer prescribed for them
which will not give offense to distant nations
OF needlessly embarrass the home admins
%tration. A good many people think that the
chaplain's office might with advantage be
abolished altogether, a theory which gains
support every time one of them makes a
fool of himself. That has occurred with
considerable frequency of late, as some of
them have been admonished on good secular
authority. Whether it will modify the form
and scope of their future supplications re-
mains to be seen. but If not, some statutory
limitation Of their privileges in this par
ticular may not be out of order.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

The avowed candidates for governor
will feel very much relieved by the au
thorized announcement of Congressman
Hniner that he has no idea of entering
the ~guberratorial race, but proposes to
stand for reelection to the Fifty-tfth
congress-. There was really nothing dis
creditable or improper for Mr.. Hainer
to be catalogled among the candidates
for the Nebraska governorship. The Of
flee is a very honorable one and one to
which every public man has a right to
ASPIRE.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

Judging from their prayers as re.
ported in the press dispatches, the chap.
lains of the national house and senate
seem to have recently become imbued
with the idea that 1t is their function
to advise divine Providence and in
struct congress as to pending measures
of public Importance and to stimulate
the listening congressman to action in
the direction which they point out The
imprecation uttered in the senate the
other day calling for n union of the
powers of C~hristendom to force the
Turkish sultan to respect the rights of
his Armenian subjects is an illustra-
ton right in line. Although such ac-
ton would no doubt be desirable, it is
questionable whether the chaplain
should take advantage of the oppor-
tunity afforded by his public prayer to
urge it upon the senator's. If he is to
be permitted to champion this cause,
he can with almost the same propriety
put in a plea for any bill in congress.
There ought to be some way of dis
tinguishing the limits of legitimate
prayer.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

Congressman Cook of Wisconsin has
actually prevailed upon the New York
Mercantile association to endorse his
imitation cheese bill, which aims to tax
out of the market all alleged cheese
not made of pure cream. The success
of the dairymen with prOhibitive cleo
margarine legislation in several states
has encouraged them to seek new legis-
lative advantage over competitors.
Pretty soon they will want to be pro
tected against imitation buttermilk.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02
SALISBURY ON ENGLAND's poslr1oN

SALISBURY ON ENGLAND'S POSITION
The latest utterance of England's
prime minister regarding the interna.
tional questions which are of paramount
Importance in both the old and the new
worlds is of extraordinary Significance.
1t is not easy to determine whether the
reference made by the marquis of Sails.
bury to the Monroe doctrine was in
tended to be conciliatory or not. He
explicitly declared that the British gov
eminent is not antagonistic to the doc
trine as Il rule of policy, it being no
part Of international law, but this was
qualified by the statement that "We
mean the Monroe doctrine as President
Monroe understood it," in other words
the British Interpretation Of it as dis
closed in Salisbmy's dispatch to Secre-
tary Olney. This Interpretation. it
hardly need be said, is much narrower
and more restricted than that given by
our government to the policy enunciated
by President Monroe. The British con-
tention is that the Monroe doctrine does
" Apply HI INK IclliotCSl dtSItc w tbC
Venezuelan case, Lord Salisbury declar-
ing it to be "a controversy with which
the United States have no apparent
practical concern" In his first dispatch
to Secretary Olney the British prime
minister said: "The dangers which
We're apprehended. by President Monroe
have no relation to the state of things
In which we live at the present day.
There is no danger of any holy alliance
imposing Its system upon any portion of
the American continent and there is no
danger of any European state treating
any part Of the American continent as
a fit object for European colonization"
Herein Is indicated the limitation which
the British government would place
upon the Monroe doctrine, the effect of
which, If it We're admitted by the United
States, would be to render that doctrine
practically worthless. OF course II
government will not assent to such a
construction and If the British govern
ment adheres to 1t, as 1t probably will,
it is easy to see that there may yet be
adjustment of the issue created by the
Venezuelan case.
What Salisbury said regarding the
Armenian question is not surprising In
view Of his course. but 1t certainly
places the British governmental a most
u%nenviable position before the world.
1t is justly characterized by n London
paper as an ignominious confession of
failure and by another us an encourage
ment to the sultan to continue the butch
cry OF his Christian subjects. England's
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

prime ministef Illus in effect said to the
Turks that "a matter how much greater
they make their offenses against human
ity and civiliza fl8n. no matter how much
more brutal tifq barbarous their treat
ment Of the CHRISTIAN people within
their domains, they will have complete
immunity so FIR MS Great Britain is con-
cerned. That government holds out no
hope of protection or relief TO the de
fenselcss and Helpless people who are
the victims Of Turkish hatred and fanat-
icism. Withda told-blooded apology for
inaction it leaves these people to their
fate, conscious that however much
Christian blood may be shed the British
holders of Turkish securities are safe.
Salisbury is correct in saying that the
Berlin treaty imposes no obligation to
go TO war, but 1t does imply a duty on
the part of the %signatory powers to COM
pei the Turkish government to comply
with Its requirements, otherwise ii would
be utterly meaningless. And the
greatest responsibility in this re-
spect rests upon Great Brit
ain, which power is principally respon-
sible for the %abrogation of the treaty
of San S%tefano, following the war of
1877 between Turkey and Russia,
which, If its terms had been carried out
as Russia intended, would have given
that power and not Turkey control of
the Armenians. The Berlin treaty, in
committing the powers to watch over
the application of promised reforms and
the maintenance of religious liberty in
every part of the Ottoman empire, surely
meant something more than merely pas
sive surveillance on the part of the
powers. Lord Salisbury's latest utter
ance does not contribute to the honor
or glory of his country.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02
PROBLEM OF THE room.
Imperfect Ideas of Charity nnd Dcfcc.
tive Methods of Distribution.

NihNukb i lleS- fttTnlu.
A good many finely spun theories with
reference to the problem Of the poor" are
constantly promulgated by students of So
Geological questions. While 1t is a fact that
thousands Of dollars are yearly frittered away
In schemes of indiscriminate almsglv,ng that
are utterly without system or plan. this fact
should not be allowed to act as a deterrent
influence against yielding to the impulses Of
benevolence. The submerged tenth presents
a condition and not a theory. The problem
that confronts the charity agencies of Chi
cago at the beginning OF every winter is how
to raise the means necessary to feed the
hungry and alleviate the sufferings Of the
unfortunate. AS long as the human mind
is imperfect and the human understanding
Is not always equal to the generous impulses
OF the heart our machinery for the disburse-
ment of aims Will be more or less defective
and much money will be diverted from proper
channels.
While the imperfect character Of our ma
chinery for supplying the physical necess!-
ties of the poor relieves no one from a GER
tain measure of responsibility for the condi-
ton of the unfortunate, the observations of
DR.. Ayres in his address before the Society
for Ethical Culture are worthy of studious
attention in that they show how almsgiving
may be made to confer additional and more
permanent benefits upon the objects of chart
table endeavor.
To make the gift Of material charity of
real permanent value to the recipient there
must go along with it the gift Of personal
interest and the Development of kindly rela-
tionships. The social adjustment that is
necessary to improve the condition of the
poor depends upon good will and friendly
cooperation. A system of benevolence that
does not include education and healthful
social amusement and recreation is incomplete
and imperfect. The disbursement of things
to crafty material wants accompanied by
no efforts to improve the mental and moral
condition Of the benefciaries and no ev.-
dences Of friendly inquiry into the causes of
their poverty is a charity scheme that begets
pauperism.
The benevolent machinery that satisfies
itself with the mere distribution Of physical
necessities is cold and unfeeling and will
never eradicate the causes CT pauperism.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02
AUSTRALIAN MEAT COMPETITION.

The cattle growers of the United
States will probably have to encounter in
the not remote future a vigorous cOmpe-
titiOn in the European markets from
Australia. That land of vast areas of
cheap grazing lands is capable of pro-
ducing an enormous supply of meat
and the quantity is increasing from
year TO year. 1t already far exceeds
the limited home demand and the Aus
tralian cattle growers are actively seek
ing an outlet for it. According to a
statement of the United States consul
mt Sydney, New South Wales, the
greater part of Queensland is available
for grazing and land can be leased for
long terms at half a cent per acre. AS
there are NJ winters cattle can be
raised very cheaply and at small risk
Of loss. They fatten readily on the
wide ranges Of grass land and are of
good grade and quality. Shipments of
have not been very successful, but it is
said that chilled beef has been sent
from Sydney to Liverpool in such good
condition as to sell in the markets at
the prices obtained for beef shipped
from Chicago.
While the Australian cattle growers
have some advantages, there are also
advantages on the side of the American
cattle growers, lot the least of which
is the fact that the distance from this
country to England is small compared
with the distance from Australia. Cat
tie and dressed meats shipped from
American ports, observes the New York
Journal of Commerce.. do not have to
cross the equator and the full width Of
the tropical zone, and they do not have
to make the trip of the Red sea. The
cost of transportation, of feeding or
re~frigerating and the percentage of loss
is very much smaller for the American
than for the Australian exporter. with
these long odds in his favor" says the
Journal of Commerce. '.and with vast
areas OF cheap pasturage In Texas. Okla
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02
blasts raoM RAMS uonS.

A policeman stops being an optlmist when
he puts on his blue coat.
Whoever would learn how to talk well, must
first learn how TO keep still.
How much public praying there Is lone TO
which no answer Is expected.
Some Of the hungriest people in tho world
are those who have the most wealth.
Suppose there are hypocrites in the church,;
does that make your SHINING any safer9
A cold church will soon begin to warm up
when Gods fire is burning in the preachers
heart.
Isn't there a strong touch OF hypocrisy In
thanking God for the bread and finding fault
with the cook?
There is something wrong with the piety
OF the man whose religion is never heard Of
outside of church.
II does not require great ability to do great
things. The poor widow with two mites gave
more than the rich.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02
The Bee Everywhere Unequnllcd.

Mr.. F. A. Kennedy, delegate of the Omaha
Central Labor union to the recent national
convention Of the American Federation of
Labor in New York City, writes as follows in
this weeks issue of the Western Laborer:
''There are newspapers and newspapers
in New York, but there is not an evening
paper in that city that is as good. an all
round newspaper as is The Evening Bee.
People may backcap Rosewater till they
get black in the face, but l would not give
The Bee building for any newspaper building
in New York City-bar none. And l don't
want to borrow a cent"
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

Recent examples of Nebraska farmers
repaylng the money that was advanced
to them during the drOuths of two years
tributors did not expect repayment. are
doing n great deal to advertise favor
ably the wonderful resources of this
state. The crops must be bountiful
where a single harvest enables the in
dustrious farmer not only to regain his
feet, but also to secure a release from
his burden of debt. A state of this
character ought to hold out Irresistible
Inducements / new settlers.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02
A SONG FOR CHILDHOOD.

By Captain Jack Crawford, TIL, Poet Scout.
Written for The Bee.
/ would rather write a story
That a child could understand
Than be crowned with fame and glory
BY the cultured of our land;
For my heart will feel more rapture,
And my sou have wider sway,
If my simple songs will capture y
Little children right away.
Just a song for childhood, ~,
Just a simple lay,
Echoes from the wildwood,
Where the children play;
Rippling rills of laughter,
Merry shouts of glee:
Let them raise the rafter,
The girls and boys for me.
I will sing for TO and Kitty;
/ / will sing for little May,
For the children make a ditty,
When they gather round to play.
My heart Is filled with gladness,
And my soul Is filled with gee,
For the children Danish sadness,
When they Chamber on my knee.
Sing a song or tell a story,
That will please a little child,
And when old, infirm and hoary,
Some earth ange;. undefled,
And to whisper hope and cheer.
AS you launch on Deaths dark biliow
Leaving all you hold SO dear.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

People out on the Pacific coast profess
to be very much surprised over the re-
ported discovery in Java of II nest of
expert Chinese forgers, who are said to
have prosecuted their work with Won
derfnl success. AS IL there was my
thing strange in the Chinese being ex-
crime and criminals no country has an
exclusive monopoly.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

Probably Their best thing the State
Press association ever did was the
adoption of resolutions pledging sup.
exposition at pmafa. The newspapers
of Nebraska ela do a great deal to
make the enterprise a success. Con
gress is expecfed'tb appropriate money
in aid of the project, and the Nebraska
legislature nest winter will be called
upon by the Douglas delegation to ap'
propriate a sum of money for the ex-
position. Other states cannot be ex-
pected to vote money for the project
until Nebraska has shown willingness
to do SO. Hence the power of the state
press must be exerted upon legislative
candidates.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

Senator Hansbrough of South Dakota
wants congress to make it unlawful to
use the national flag or coat of arms in
connection with any advertisement. 1t
Is to be hoped his bill will not receive
the endorsement of his associates. Think
what a hardship it would create for
those lingo editors who hoist the flag
ON every possible provocation to adver-
tise their alleged patriotism.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02
The urgent deficiency bill reported

The urgent deficiency bill reported in
the senate included an appropriation of
Il half million dollars to complete the
new congressional library building. If
it takes as long to complete the new
library as it did to complete the capitol.
congress will be called upon to make
urgently deficient appropriations for
this purpose regularly every year from
now until the middle of the twentieth
century.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

Ex-Congressman Champ Clark of
Missouri says that Senator julius
Caesar Burrows of Michigan has live
presidential ambitions and predicts for
him their satisfaction in the not distant
future. Champ Clark may be a good
mind reader, but as a political fortune
teller his reputation is yet to be made.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

If the men who are experimenting in
photography through opaque bodies
run short of available material their
wants can easily be supplied by speci-
mems from the Omaha city hall and
court house. Should it come to the
worst n few thick skulls can readily be
thrown into the bargain.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

1t looks just now as If ex-Gov-
ernor Campbell of Ohio We're not go
Ing to have the democratic nomination
for the presidency thrust upon him in
reward for the sacrifice made when he
ran for governor of Ohio last fall. Ac-
cording to the present program tile ex-
governor is not to be given another run
for his money.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

If the Nebraska Grand Army of the
adopting advanced ideas it will at its
meeting next month give serious con-
sideration to the question of a~bolishing
the camp as the feature of its reunions.
The members may as well admit now
that they are not in condition to
undergo the h%ardships which they long
regarded solely as recreation. Forcing
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

Cigar makers are encouraged with
the impetus given to the demand for
their products by the use of the red
patronize-home-industry label. Smokers
can give evidence of their patriotism
and good taste by insisting OH cigars
out of boxes that bear the red label.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

Ohio and Michigan are qharreling
over a boundary dispute. Here is an
opportunity for the new Venezuelan
Boundary commission to try it's hand
on Il small scale.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02
CivilfEing FOrmOsa.
o.. Philadelphia Record.

-------- -. T WfdueIp11fu fNeVVTu.
Z The Janapese have given a new proof Of
their advancing civilization. One of the
first steps taken by them in establishing
themselves in the permanent occupation of
the island of Formosa has been the opening
of free schools, wherein the natives are
instructed i'm rudimentary knowledge and
taught the japanese language.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

New York physicians are said to be
discussing the case of a girl who has
been sleeping for a year past. Although
the identity of the girl is not disclosed,
1t is safe to predict that she will not
sleep through this year. This year is
lean veor
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

Old maps of Venezuela are springing
up in different parts of the country
with such alarming frequency and regu-
larity that the suspicion that the old
map manufacturer is getting in his
work can no longer be brushed aside as
prepOsterous.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02
Indianapolis journal.

THWTUIWVVTIs TVWTWWT'
A nation that Is strangled by It's law
makers 50 that 1t cannot even pay its own
expenses. and which has a cumulative
deficit OF more than $50 0 900 a month. is
not in a good position to be fontiug other
nations. As long as the senate refuses to
do anything to relieve the financial necessi-
ties of the government 1t should stop its
bluster.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

The best way for a public officer, ma
tional, state or local, to secure the sup
port of his constituents for a ~re-elec-
ton or promotion is to attend strictly
to the public business and to work
solely for the general good.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

GENERAL COPPINGER'S CONFIRMATION
The confirmation by the United States
senate Of Colonel j. J. Coppinger to be
brigadier general of the regular army
will afford qualification not only to Gen
eral C%oppinger and his army friends
but also to the large body of citizens of
Omaha and the whole United States
who believe him to have fully earned
the promotion now assured him.
The attempt to discredit General Cop.
pinger as an army officer and to pre-
vent the senate from concurring in his
nomination because of his nativity and
creed is perhaps without a precedent in
the army history Of this country. Gen
eral Coppinger has served the United
States for thirty-four years. He secured
his first commission from Abraham
Lincoln and participated in many of the
most desperately contested battles of
the wal of the rebellion. With an I'M
broken record for courage, ability and
fidelity in the military service. his repu-
tation for loyalty was assailed under
cover by unknown enemies who singled
him out of all others for the stigma of
rejection.
1t is to the credit of the senate that it
has declined to lend itself to such I'M
patriotic purposes. Its action cannot
fail to elicit the general approval of the
great mass of American people who
want to see courage and merit re-
warded and the army kept free from
partisan and sectarian bias.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02
United for independence.

NtW 1Ufk SUN.
The Spanish prisons at Havana, Matanzas
and other places are crowded with men who
are accused of sympathizing with the Cuban
cause. The truth is that nearly the, whole
of the native population of Cuba could be
brought under that accusation. There are
in history but few examples Of any people
being more thoroughly united than are the
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

Japan Is loath to give up Corea, once
having gotten it within it's control. In
this as in so many other things the
Japanese government is rapidly follow
ing In the footsteps of the nations
whose civilization 1t has been recently
hnIrnwinr
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

The man who has already been
elected to the republican national con
delegate tucked away in his inside
pocket can change his mind Il dozen
times as to his presidential preferences
between now and next June.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02

The ground hog will have to shy at
his shadow today II we are to have any
winter worth speaking about.