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Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20
AMERICAS FOREIGN INTERESTS.
Steady Growth of American Trade
Abroad.

Several large American life insurance com
panies are preparing to make aggressive
campaigns for business in Europe and in
some other parts of the world during the
coming year. For several years these com
panies have been operating in Europe and
they have built up a large business there.
1t Is stated that one company has met with
such success that 1t is preparing to erect a
building in Paris to serve as headquarters
for its European operations
America has several large insurance com>
panies that stand among the strongest flnan-
cial institutions OF the world. They have ac-
cumuated hundreds of millions of capital
and have established a worldwide reputa-
tion for stability. Their success in winning
business in foreign countries is in line with
recent developments in Americas movement
to enter foreign fields Of trade and finance.
A great deal has been said in recent years
about the immense interests which foreign
ers hold in this country but very little is
heard about the other side of the matter.
The truth is that good many millions of
American capital are invested in foreign
countries and Americans derive a considera-
Bile revenue from such investments There
is always very large credit balance in Lon
don at the command of American bankers,
and the accumulated wealth of this country
has reached such large proportions that for
eign investments in this country will go on
diminishing, as they have been doing for
many years past.
AT the same time, American interests In
foreign countries will grow larger. There
is no reason to doubt that the United States
ultimately will become a creditor nation.
That is to say, the property possessed by
Americans in foreign countries will exceed
that owned in this country by Europeans.
Investments abroad will follow the extension
OF foreign trade. The sale of American To-
comotives and steel rails in foreign countries
will result in Americans holding some of the
securities of foreign railroads, because rail-
road companies often pay for their equip
ment with bonds issued for that purpose.
So also, will the increasing sales of Amer.
lean manufactures in foreign countries result
in many big concerns in this country own
ing their warehouses and storehouses in for
eign countries. 1t will be many years, of
course, before such holdings will reach any
thing like the proportions of foreign invest
ments in America, but the tendency is in
that direction and will continue to be from
this time forward.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20
WHY Is 1T THust
some Observations on tho Raids of
Foreign Lectures

Last week Anthony Hope Hawkins began
his series of readings In this country in
New York He faces large audiences and
will no doubt go home after his engage
ment with his pockets full of good Amer
lean money leaving several hundred auto
graphs behind him. sought by numerous
women admirers. We have had Dr. John
Watson clan Maclaren'O with us on the
same business. Ian went home, II is said,
with a wad Of money large enough to main
tain his whole establishment several years.
DR.. Nansen is about to make pull on us
for ducats and 1t will be stalwart pull,
for the doctor has keen scent for money
and he doesn't go up to latitude 90 de-
grees for nothing, even IL he cant say that
he looked down the slippery sides OF
Symmes' Hole. Hall Caine is coming, also,
TO pick up few thousands and he will get
them. Conan Doyle touched American
audiences with great success.
To enumerate the foreigners, chiefly
English, who have come over here to lee
ture or to read from their own writings
would be too great q task. We have led
them 80 afiiuently that they think Amer
leans are all as rich as Croesus. Charles
Dickens came among Sis. He put his legs
under our mahogany, ate our food, drank
of our mixed drinks, partook generally OF
our hospitality and then went home and
abused us. Thackery came among us and
gathered a harvest OF dollars even during
a brief stay. Edwin Arnold came also and
was petted profusely and his letters as re-
Gently published show how he never lost
an opportunity to disparage Americans to
his English friends
Soon we shall have Crockett and Marie
Corelli and Andrew Lang and Sarah Grpnd
and many more Of the English set coming
over here to read from their own books and
pocket ducats. Really, why can't some OF
our story tellers go over to England and
reap a harvest of guineas? There are Whit
comb Riley and ]. L. Allen and II. II. Davis
and Mary wilkins and Kate Douglas Wig
gin and John Kendrick Bangs and Frank
Stockton and others who can be named who
ought to be able to go to England and re-
taliate in this reading and lecturing bus
iness, which is altogether too one-sided.
Why should we do all the bowling and
scraplng and drop-the-nickel-in n-the-sloting?
Really, why should we?
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20
STATUS or THE POLICE BOARD.

The decision of the supreme court
denying the petition of eX-Polioa Com
missioner Birkhauser for reinstatement
to office on the ground that he has no
better claim to the position than the
present incumbenrs seems to leave the
precise status of the new police board
as much in question as ever. The really
vital points involved in the case,
namely, whether the charter provisions
creating the police commission and
establishing discriminating Qualifica-
tions for the appointment of commits
siOners are constitutional, are completely
ignored as not necessary to the defini-
ton of the rights of the particular plain
tiff in the quo warrantO proceedings.
In other words, the present decision
does not preclude any one from attack
ing the authority of the board in some
other proceedings at any time that the
legality of its organization may be
called into question.
1t may be taken as settled, however,
that the police board as now constituted
will remain in present control. In view
of this fact the Importance of a speedy
determination by the highest appellate
court of the exact power and authority
vested in the commissioners by the
charter is all the more emphasized. If
the. work of the fire and police depart
ments is TO ha at all effective the police
board must know to what extent it may
go in the appointment and dismissal of
officers and how far it is to be held re-
sponsible for overlaps and deficits in the
fire and police funds. The cases recently
heard in the district court should there
fore be appealed to the supreme court
without delay and vigorously pressed for
early hearing.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20

that Omaha has good grounds for Its
contention, and that even though the
tolls are not held to be in violation OF
the law prohibiting railway discrimina-
ton, the freight tariffs are unfair to this
city and should be modified in its in
terest.
That there is discrimination against
Omaha is admitted by all the commits
sioners, but the majority opinion tries
to excuse it on the plea that 1t is not
the unjust discrimination contemplated
by the law. This is plainly a fine spun
line which is not likely to be adhered to
by subsequent commissions when the
personnel is changed by the retirement
of one or more of the members who con-
cur in the majority opinion.
Aside from legal rights under the III.
terstate law, there is nothing to prevent
the railroads from complying with
Omaha's reasonable request without an
order from the commission. There Is
no reason why the railroads centering
here should not be fairly disposed to-
ward our merchants who patronizc them
so literally. This is especially true of
the incoming management of the rcOr-
ganized Union Pacific, which ought to
do everything in it's power to equalize
conditions between Omaha and its com
united and persistent effort our jobbers
and business men will yet raise the
Union Pacific bridge toll embargo.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20
IOWA LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK.

The newly elected members of the
Iowa legislature are now receiving the
portion of free advice to which they are
entitled between the time of election and
the meeting of the legislature in Janu-
ary. AS usual, this advice is heavily
laden with warnings against this or that
legislative innovation or too much legs-
lation in general. 1t is represented that
because the Iowa code was revised this
only thing needed next year; pretty
theory, which ignores the fact that the
demand for new and progressive legisla-
ton is just as strong in Iowa this year
as ever. The legislature elected this
month will, if it wants to, find as much
work to do as any of its predecessors.
At the outset the attention of the legis-
lature will be called to the manifest
errors in the code due to necessary haste
in the revision, though the number of
errors is not large considering the op-
portunity for laundering in such an ex-
tensive work done in n short time. 1t
has been asserted that the new Iowa
plete system of state laws, yet there are
weak places, and these will be strength
ened as soon as possible.
Already there is clamor for some
changes in the election laws. A change
in the method of marking ballots resulted
In serious complications mt the last elec-
ton, amounting in some cases to re-
nf hn np An
effort will be made to modify the school
laws of the state, with view to bring
ing the system into harmony with
modern ideas, as in the adoption of the
township system Of controlling country
schools for the district system and de-
velopment of the normal school idea at
the expense of the antiquated teachers
institute plan of preparing teachers.
The present method of dividing the
state into legislative districts is cause
of complaint in the smaller counties
There are 100 representatives for ninety
nine counties, so that some of the
counties are practically without repre-
sentation, Encouragement of the sena-
torial districts is also desired in certain
quarters 1t is proposed that the consti-
tuition be amended TO permit a larger
number of representatives. The woman
suffrage question promises TO make itself
heard as we'll as seen, and the custom
airy demand for new legislation in regard
to regulation of the liquor traffic will be
in evidence. There is legislation in view
relating to the railroads, organized labor
demands the abolition of the contract
labor system at the state prisons
friends of various state institutions will
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20
on THE UP GRADE.
Nothing the Matter with bleeding
Commonwealth just Now.


Perhaps the most important feature of the
recent elections, except the republican vic
tory In Ohio was a triumph for political
common sense which has attracted very lit
tie attention. This victory was gained in
Kansas
The reason that the good news from that
state has been so much neglected is that
there was mo general election there. The
whole state was covered by the judicial
elections, but they were held in about
dozen districts, and that prevented the re-
suit from attracting the attention which it
deserved. The voting showed nothing less
than a political revolution.
Last fall Kansas went for Bryan and
Bryanism by more than 1900 plurality
This year the republicans rolled UP about
10000 more votes than the silverites In
1896 only two congressman out of eight in
the state were elected by the party of hon
est money. This year every congressional
district in Kansas showed plurality for
the republican ticket.
These facts indicate that Kansas is re-
stored to the place which the state long
held in the front ranks Of the republican
host. Common sense has revived with bet
ter times. Bryanism has been rejected in
the first great stronghold of populism
Very soon there will be nothing the matter
with Kansas politically or otherwise.
We salute the SunhoWer state!
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20

THE ALIEN LABOR LAW.

The discovery Of violations of the alien
contract labor law and the vigorous ac-
ton of the authorities in taking steps
for the deportation of the contract labor
ers who have been in the country less
than year indicates that proper vigi-
lance is being observed in enforcing this
legislation. 1t Is said that the parties
will be prosecuted and 1t is most i'm
portant that this be DONE Deporting
the laborers who were brought here un.
doubtedly through misleading state
ments, is the least part of the duty of
the authorities. The parties who i'm
full penalties of the law, if they can
be apprehended.
The alien contract labor law was en-
acted to put stop to systematic i'm
portations of laborers which had grown
to be grave evil Before the passage
of this law thousands of foreigners were
brought into the country under contract
to labor which made virtual slaves of
them. Perhaps three -fifths of the miners
in the country came here in this way.
The legislation to put an end to this
sort of thing was demanded by the labor
organizations Of the country and is in ac-
cord with sound policy. AS recent dis
closures show 1t has been evaded, but
the purpose of the law has Seen largely
accomplished and its operation has been
on the whole beneficial although there
have been instances where it's applica-
ton has worked some individual hard
ship Public sentiment will sustain the
authorities in vigorously enforcing the
law.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Senator German of Maryland was in his
younger days well known base ball player
and pitched for the famous National club.
Governor Ahumada of Chihuahua, Mexico,
has been SO impressed with the fire service
OF eastern cities of the United States that
he has ordered modern fire engines for his
native city.
A recent visitor to the home OF Inc famous
author, Frank Il. Stockton, says that the
touch of the lady is shown in every room in
the house except the study of .he author,
and here the tiger holds undsputed sway.
To carry a lightning rod in order to at
tract the electric fluid has been found un-
necessary. man in Philadelphia on Mon
day received a fatal shock through bringing
the tip of his umbrella in contact with live
wire.
Mark Twain in speaking OF the German
language the other evening in Vienna, said
that cit ought to be forbidden by act of
Parliament to construct one sentence of 112
words with seven parenthesis and seven sub
jects."
1t Is proposed in Connecticut to expcnd
500 900 appropriated by the legislature and
a like amount contributed by the townships
during the next year in the construction of
main highways, crossing the state from end
TO end.
William II. Crane the comedian, once read
to Joseph Jefferson the manuscript of play
in which the character assumed by Crane
dies. billy, that won't do" said Mr., JEFF
ferson. people go to the theater expecting
to see Irving die and hoping to see some
other actors die. but they don't want to see
you die"
John Ruskin. who Is opposed to railroads
because they disngure rural scenery and for
other reasons, objects also TO all forms OF
cycling. His language is quite radical: ITO
walk to run. to leap and to dance are yir-
tues OF the human body. and neither to stride
on stills, wriggle on wheels nor dangle on
ropes, and nothing In the training OF the hu-
man mind with the body will ever supersede
the appointed Gods way Of slow walking and
hard WORKING"
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20
POLITIC ACTION.

The action of the Spanish government
in pardoning the Competitor prisoners
was polite and timely. There is no
doubt that it will make a good impress
sion in this country as further atteSting
the earnest desire of the Spanish min
istry to do everything that can reasona-
bly, be asked or desired of it to maintain
amicable relations. 1t was very con-
siderable concession for the Spanish
government to make in view of the fact
that these men had been once convicted
and sentenced to death, for while it is
true that our government claimed that
the method of their trial was in violation
or treaty, 1t was never pretended that
they were not amenable to Spanish law
and therefore the government of Spain
might have justifiably held and pun
ished them. There would probably have
been no complaint on the part of our
government if the men had been SEN
fenced to a long term of Imprisonment
or to penal exile. 1t may be doubted
whether any other European nation
would, under like circumstances, make
thc NoliICSSlol SPUN HIS lIluut Ill
this matter.
1t is, however, altogether creditable to
the sagacty and the friendly disposition
of the Spanish government and will be
so recognized by all fair-minded men. 1t
is not necessary to inquire whether there
was any consideration of justice in con-
ncction with the action-whether it was
in any degree prompted by the fact that
the men had been long confined in
prison. The probability is that this had
nothing whatever to do with prompting
the decision to pardon, but that it was
dictated wholly by the desire to show
that Spain is willing and anxious to do
all that can fairly be expected of it to
keep intact friendly relations with the
United States. Such n manifestation of
peaceable intention must have a mollify-
ing influence upon even the most radical
of iingOes
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20

ask for new buildings, improvements
and repairs, the poll tax system Is being
attacked by the laboring men and final
provision must be made for Iowas par
tlcipation In the Transmississippi Expo.
sition. The bulletin board Is thus al.
ready well covered with legislative
topics.
There is work enough for the Iowa
legislators, work that will keep them
busy during the hundred days of the
session, honest and legitimate work that
cannot be put off indefinitely. The cry
that the Legislature should do nothing
proceeds from misconception of the
actual situation.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20
One of the objects of voting the county

One of the objects of voting the county
exposition bonds was to force non
resident property owners, while de-
riving great benefits from the enterprise
yet refused to contribute to the stock
subscription lists. to bear small share
of the burden. There is no good reason
therefore why the proceeds of the bond
issue should not be used for the same
purpose as the proceeds of the sales Of
stock. The exposition itself is the
greatest exhibit of Douglas county re-
sources the people could possibly have
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20

The sultan of Turkey has several
times within the past two years demon
strated that he is wiser than he has been
given credit for by some students of Eu-
ropean politics. He is still in posses
sion of Thessaly, has not paid the debt
to Russia. is increasing his army, holds
Crete firmly, and knows enough to back
out gracefully when a member of the
triple alliance makes demands on him
that cannot be evaded.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20
REST.
James Whit

James Whitcnmb Riley
Let us rest ourselves a bit,
Worry? Wave your hand to 1t;
Kiss your finFer-tips ana shile
1t farewell little while.
Weary of the weary way
We have come since yesterday,
Let 1t fret us not, in dread
OF the weary way ahead.
While we yet look down-not up
To seek out the buttercup
And the daisy where they wave
Ger the green home of the grave.
Let us launch us smoothly on
ListlesS pillows of the lawn,
And drift out across the main
OF our childish dreams again.
Voyage off, beneath the trees,
O'er the fields enchanted seas,
Where the lilies are our Salls,
And our seagulls, niShtinghleS.
Where no wilder storm shall beat
IMAM the wind that waves the wheat
And no temposts burst above
The old laughs we used TO love.
Lose all troubles-gain release,
I,angour and exceeding peace,
Cruising idly DER the vast
calm mid-occan of the past.
Let us rest ourselves a bit,
Worry? Wave your hand to II;
Kiss your linger-tips ana smile
1t farewell "A little while.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20
HORSE AND MAN.
One Carefully and the other Cnre-
IcssIy Fed.


AM honest man should be honest with his
boiv The owner of a horse Is usually partlcu'
lar 10 know that sweet and properly cured nay
and clean oats and corn are furnished for ms
feed The owner would be considered as lack-
ing in Judgment ana common humanity II ne ien
MS horse drugs or narcotics, They would rod
the horse OF hiS power and health 49,
The horse has the advantage OF "A simple dlet,
10 furnish him the greatest amount of energy
nd preserve him in prime condition, while tle
owner IN many cases. partaeks OF some prop
erly selected food at his meals, but adds cuIee'
possibly thres times day.
If the owner has proven by daily experience
that he can digest coffee and that II apCs not
detract from his health In any manner, 1t would
be admissible for him to continue its use. even
although IL furnishes no fOOd value, but
simply stimulant and narcotic
m however. rheumatism, which proceeds from
a dsOrganiZed liver, constipation, waich fre-
uently comes from a dsarfanged nervous sys-
tenn combined with stomach and liver trouble
or IL the heart palpitates unpleasuntly or runs
low In its beats, he may conclude that the cause
Of il all, the drug which -Se know or under The
name Of coffee, Id doing an insidious work and
that If continued. Will certainly shorten his days.
In order 10 determine whether coffee is the
cause OF the difficulty. II could be abandoned for
n time and Postum Cereal Food Coffee used In
it's place. This kind OF experiment mas proved
the salvation Of many men and women In
America today.
Postum is the only Cereal Coffee yet disooy-
cred with a coffee taste. thar Is pure and fres
from low grade coffee or other drugs-
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20
Another Calamity Accusation.

Railroad men everywhere are holding the
Mckinley administration responsible for the
calamitous car famine now prevailing all
over the country. 1t has gone on booming
business and manufactures regardless of the
ability OF the railroads to handle the in
creased trafiic, and as a consequence in
Vulnerable shippers are suffering unpleasant
delays. An administration that can't bring
in prosperity by degrees more suited to the
railway and car-buildlng capacity Of the
country. instead OF in such unmanageable
waves. is declared to be unworthy the con-
hdence OF conservative interests.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20

The selection of the new president in
Costa Rica appears to have been SO novel
that the news was telegraphed all over
the world. 1t was done by ballot and
the man who got the largest number of
votes was declared elected. No blood
shed, The experiment was so successful
that 1t may be tried again.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20

1t is now settled that the reorganiza-
ton committee of the old water works
company had perfect legal right to buy
in the plant at the foreclosure sale. The
next court decision should settle the
question whether when its bid was
accepted it bought simply lot of
machinery and old pipes or going
water system with its attendant rights
and franchises.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20

President Mckinley knows from per-
sonal experience what war means to n
country and that is one of the reasons
why he will be slow to do anything that
viii endanger the peace of his country
at this time.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20

II Chief Of Police Gallagher ignores
the sworn testimony in the Cox case he
will put his stamp of approval on the
prostitution of the police to politics.
The only way to divorce the police force
from politics is to divorce from the force
every officer who prostitutes it to
politics.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20

goods intended for German ships at Ham.
burg which arc from 10 10 so per cent iowei
than those charged upon goods forwarded t.
Hamburg for export by British ships. II
will thus be seen that Germany is taking a
lesson from. Great Britain which. more than
any country In the world, has sought to cx-
tend her commerce and ocean trade by the
subsidy policy.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20
GnIvnnize tie Law.

Congress should take up the interstate com
merce act and put back into it n great deal
that the courts have construed out Of 1t in
assuming that what the act clearly declares
was not the intent OF the lawmakers, All
the life and force of the law has been grad
ullly picked out of 1t by pecemeal and moth
ing but a harmless skeleton is left, which
the railroad magnates treat as a searecrow
Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-20

If any one is disappointed over the
nmicable arrangement of the Turko- Aus
trian imbroglio it must be the Austrian
emperor He still has the internal dis
sension problem on his hands, which
he had hoped to settle at least temporar-
lily by shifting public interest to for
eirn war