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Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22
personal AND OTHERWISE.

Just to offset the gold discoveries in
Alaska, a silver cave has been unearthed
in Virginia.
With gold dust coming into the country
by the ton, prosperity may well don heq
boomers and come out on the pike.
Secretary Seward, it now appears, made
a great mistake, when he purchased Alaska,
that he did not insist on having the bound
airy line run a few miles further east.
The London Globe thinks it is severe when
it talks about American diplomacy in its
shirt sleeves" but it will please remember
ahat a man with his coat on never does
much work,
The city hall of Philadelphia represents
an outlay of $4,000 900, and the job isn't
finished yet. That part OF the building now
babitable requires 200 workInen at a cost
OF $1,000 a month to keep clean.
Tho story OF the confederate soldier who
deyoured wild fruit in order to draw his
stomach up to fit his rations will be forcibly
appreciated by the Klondyke pilgrims when
they tackle dog meat at IS a pound.
Twenty tho9saha dollars worth of gold
was extracted from the sweepings of the
Philadelphia mint last month. There are
those who think like benefits would follow
a clean sweepOin. pther departments of the
government.
The robbers Who went through the city
hall at Milwaukee, seem to have a very
imperfect idC a-si-the general character of
municipal government in this country. They
must have been foreigners, No native would
have made the mistake OF supposing that
anything had 'he6n left.
Governor BPa4lesio OF Kentucky, in pardon
ing a man convicted OF grand larceny, SEN
tentiously remarked that the case was a
proper one for executive clemency because
tho man wcs' a victim Of too much mother
in-law. Conyicfinn WIS had on his mother
in-law's testimony, who took that means OF
procuring a divorce for her daughter.
by the beard OF the prophet" exclaimed
the sultan. shifting his thigh, the curb
stone band again assaults my ears. Chris
tian dogs, away with them!" Don't get
gay, Abdul" whispered the grand vizier,
atfectionatsly sticking the fur. your ears
deceive you. Those noteo are waited from
the concert of the powers. They have
ealoric to can
Much useful advice is given by the press
to those adventurous spirits who think for
tune awaits them in the Alaska gold deldo,
whcr, the temperature drops to 70 degrees
below zero without much effort. 1t is oh
served that those who viii not heed the
advice to stay at home are urged to take
the overland route" Which proves thai
Omaha is clearly. in Il.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22
THE PowERLnss POWERS.

~tiooe-Democrat: The sultan is asked 70
explain why, after his extreme CELEBRITY in
Jumping on Greece, he is so slow to retire
from TheSSaly. Such conduct is inconslst-
ent in a man who sits crcss-legged.
chicago Tribune: That the sultan of Tur-
Key Is still consistent with himself is shown
ny the iact that, whereas he was reported
TO nave acqu!esced in the decision of 'the
powers two days ago, he is now reported
TO nave Knocked the agreement into smith
Greens. When he stands by an agreement
three days at a time he will cease to be
consistent.
Kansas City Star: What is supposed to be
the news from Constantinople continues to
be varied and interesting. Great Britain is
reported to be in favor Of coercion. with all
the other powers opposed. Russia is OPP
posed to coeTcing the sultan, and Russia is
about to cross the Turkish frontier with
what Is vaguely called a "Slav army" Ger
many is usually opposed to coercing the
sultan, but agrees with whatever Russia
wants. The only consistent and unchanging
person is the sultan. He is always cob
durate. HE may make promises, but no.
body believes them, and in the meantime
the Turkish army is maintained at full
strength and ready to move.
Philadelphia Record; Tewfk Pasha, Turk
ish minister of foreign affairs, is said to
have announced 10 the ambassadors OF the
powers the acceptance by the Porte of the
the new strategic frontier in Thessaly as a
basis for a renewal OF the peace negotia-
tions, This means that the interminable
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22

1890
In Kansas the report just published of the
state bank commissioner is, according to
that official, ''the most gratifying report in
every feature of the banking business that
has ever been made to the department., and
indicates an unlooked-for degree of prosper
ity throughout the state For the first
time in the history of Kansas the deposits
exceed the loans, and the excess is some
three millions. A still more significant in
dication of returning property is furnished
in Nebraska. The condition of that state is
such that the farmers are paying off their
celebrated mortgages at a rate quite I'M
precedented. The agents of the shylocks
who have sent money there to invest find
that they cannot invest it, and that the
money already invested is coming back upon
their hands by payment. The total pay
ments of mortgages for the past six months
are estimated at $2S, 600, 900.
Mr.. Rice a leading merchant of st. Louis.
in an interview in the Times de-
clared that prosperity can fairly be said to
have arrived all through the west" As a
merchant of st. Louis he is an especially
qualified witness about the conditions of
Kansas and Nebraska as well as Texas, and
MS testimony is OF the utmost value. The
greatest source of danger to the future bust
ness would be removed if there were enough
OF craftsmanship in congress to take ad-
vantage OF the period of prosperity the COM
ing OF which is now assured to put it out
OF the power OF anybody to propose Juggling
with the currency when the next period of
depression occurs. With the currency taken
cut or politics, We should remove the
principal obstacle to prosperity by removing
Ihe principal cause of want of confidence
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22

WILL ENGLAND dGREE?s

1t is reported from London to be eX-
tremely probable that England will
agree to participate in n conference to
consider the question of international BIZ
metallism. If the American commits
Sioncrs AVE been successful in inducing
the British government to make so much
of a concession Il conference is assured.
for other European governments will
follow the course of England. But there
is some reason to doubt the authenticity
of the report. which may have no more
substantial basis than the statement
that the British government was pre-
pared to reOpen the Indian minis to the
free and unlimited coinage of silver in
case France and the United States
should enter into an agreement. Per
sons interested in this subject who have
recently returned from England did not
gain the impression while there that the
feeling in official circles is favorable to
n conference, or that there is any dis
position to make the slightest change in
the monetary policy of Great Britain.
One of these, Il man well known in finan-
cial circles, said that the continued in
crease in gold production. the surplus
last year and this year of British in
come over expenditures and the contin,
ued commercial supremacy of England,
have the effect of ~persuading Parliament
that the present coinage, currency and
financial system is good, even though
there is distress in India. He expressed
the opinion that there would not be n
modification of coinage or currency
laws so long rs existing British indus
trial prosperity endures.
Still England may agree to n confer
cnce and assuming that she does $50.
what is reasonably to be hoped for from
it? Perhaps, az has been suggested, the
British government would make the con
cesSion of reOpening the Indian mints TO
the free n unlimited coinage of silver
and possibly of increasing the use of sill
Yer as part OF the reserve of the Bank of
England, But how much real benefit
would this be to the cause of internal
tional bimetallism? Possibly il might
have the effect to temporarily advance
the price of silver, but this is by no
means certain, for II is to BE- remembered
that silver declined before the closing OF
the Indian mints to free silver in 1892.
But admit that Il free coinage agreement
between France and the United States,
with the reopenlng of the Indian minis,
would advance the price Of silver, it can
not be seriously believed that the white
metal would be carried to n parity with
gold, That copld only be accomplished
by the opening of the London mints t.
free silver coinage in conjunction with
those of other European countries, India
and the United States. and 1t is abso
lntely certain that England will not open
lie London mints 10 silver. 1t may be
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22

discussion will begin de novo. There 10
nothing In which the sultan takes more de-
light than a discussion. and the more pro-
longed and inconclusive II is the better he
likes II. II the powers desire that their
ambassadors shall earn their salaries by
talking, the sultan will always be found
ready to provide the opportunity.
Philadelphia Ledger: England has been
one OF the noiseSt bagpipes in the concert
OF the powers, but for all that she may
shrink from trying armed conclusions with
the Turk TO execute the coercive program
OF the concert, Standing ominously in the
background are the millions OF Moham-
medanS under British overlordship In India
and elsewhere, \ spark from the friction OF
the nations in southeastern Europe might
kindle a con1agration among these Moham-
mcdan subjects which would imperil the
British rule over great possessions, and this
may temper British zeal when the issue OF
peace or war with the sultan, to whom the
Mohammedan world owes the allegiance OF
the faithful, becomes sharply defined.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22
ANOTHER KIND OF VAMPIRE.
Salt Lake Tribune.

salt Lake tribune.
a fool there was and he took a drink
Given as you and ID
From a bell shaped glass with a tempting
1--WE called it a cocktail I don't think,)
But the foo, he called it ambrosia pink.
Gwen as you and IL
Oh. the heads we get and the rich brown
taste
That comes our way next day
Belong to the cocktail, | don't think,
(And now we know 1t was worse than ink,)
With its bead and flavor gay.
a fool there was and he mixed his drinks
Gwen as you and ID
and ''pussies' and jule$s in links
(And he stopped not at champagne punch
methinks0
But a fool must learn from his own fool
kinks
Gwen as you and -
The fool got filed to, his foolish hide
Given as you and ~
And the cop came along and laid him
aside
Qor a cocktail drunk he was terribly
snide,)
So some of him lived, but most of him died,
Gwen as you and j.
And it isn't the shame and 1t isn't the
game
That stung that fool next day,
It's coming to know that mixed drinks
don't go
Seeing no stomach can stand them, I trow,)
And make of a fellow a jay.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22
NOW no S1RlKE TIE nnrsr


That was n pertinent remark of Mr..
Dingley's that the way to break down
the Sugar trust Is to establish Il beet
sugar industry in every congressional
district. THAT is the way to clip the
wings of the trust" said the chairman of
the ways and means committee. 1t
must be perfectly apparent to every in
t%elligent man that we cannot have a
policy for the protection and encourage.
ment of the domestic sugar industry
without the trust Mt present deriving
more or less benefit from IL. There must
be protection for the refiner as well as
the grower of sugar. Perhaps the pend
ing tariff bill gives more to the former
than is necessary, but however this may
be we cannot build up a sugar industry
in the United States and not protect the
refining interest. We ought not to wait,
however, for the development of the in
dustry to break down the trust. if that
is impossible to say how many years
will be required for such an extension
of the beet sugar industry here rs may
be necessary to clip the wings of the
trust" but at all events the popular de-
mand is for legislation, if more be
needed, that will break down this com
bination in the very shortest time posi-
bic. 1t is the most rapacious and the
most dangerous monopoly this country
has yer had and its suppression, if it be
possible, is Il matter of great public i'm
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22
DEMlNnS uN SPALN.

The United States senate has passed
the joint resolution authorizing and re
questing the president to take all neces-
sary steps for the release of the Com
pctitor prisoners incarccratcd i'll Havana.
A report in regard to these prisoners
was submitted to the senate by its for
eign relations committee Il short time
ago, in which it was shown that his
government has very strong reasons for
demanding of Spain the release of these
mon, all of whom are entitled to the
protection of the United States. 1t was
set forth in this report that the treaty
rights of the prisoners had been wholly
disrpGardcd and it was urged as an I'M
perative duty on the part of our gov
eminent to take prompt action in their
behalf. 1t seems to be unuucstionable
that the action of the senate in this mat
ter is fully justified and therefore ought
to be at once concurred in by The house.
The resolution involves no interference
in Cuban affairs, but simply proposes
that the government shall demand that
the treaty rights of these imprisoned
American citizens shall no longer be
violated.
The other demand to be made upon
Spain is for indemnity for the death in
prison of DR.. Ruiz. The Spanish gov
eminent sometime ago offered to pay the
widow of DR.. Ruiz $4,000, thereby ac-
k~nowledging the justice of the claim.
The tender was refused and a demand
will be made for $4,000 indemnity. it
being understood that Minister Wood
ford has been instructed to insist upon
this sum, which is certainly very mod
crate and cannot reasonably be objected
to by the Spanish government, which if
it has any sense of justice will pay
the claim without hesitation or delay.
1t is possible that the action of the
senate may revive popular feeling in
Spain against this country. but we have
only to consider whether we are right
in the matter and of this there seems to
be no doubt. SO far as the govern
ments are concerned the most trust
worthy information is that there is no
increased tension between them and no
Indication Of any impairment Of friendly
relations.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22

THE Fly ON THE U'HEEL,

And now comes County Clerk Rediield
with n list of suits to recover alleged
deficits due from cX-county officers,
which he says he instituted for the bpne-
fit of the taxpayers. ltedfeld forcihly
recalls the fly that imagined ii was NOV
ing the wheel. The county clerk insti.
tuted the suits. indeed! The next thing
we shall hear of every typewriter in the
clerks office or in the office of the clerk
of the court will insist that he or she
instituted the suits because they copied
the petitions.
What has the county clerk to do with
instituting suits on behalf of the county =?
Hns the Board of County Commission
ers abdicatcd its powers to the great
factotum and keeper of the seals and
conscicncps? What has become of the
county attorney? We seem to have
been laboring under the delusion that
the county attorney had something to
do with instituting the county's law
suits. But now we understand why we
want to enlarge the court house. For Il
MAJ of Redipld's dimensions it is be-
coming altogether too small.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22
ADVANCING PROSPERITY,
significant Signs of the Times in the
Imperial West.
Vaccination Post

Win 1t be possible for demagogues to
keep up the calamity how and make 1t a
winner in states whose people are thriving az
are those OF Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas?
Whether they believe that they are getting
On in spite OF the obstacle Of the gold
STANDARD or through that standards helping
Influence. they are sure that s-mehow they
are going ahead, This being the case, will
1t be advisable to try to convince them that
their faces are st toward bankruptcy and
the poor aeylume? Changed conditions often
necessltste a change Of tactics in politics
and war. We saw he other day that our
democratic friend1 in Iowa made a blunder
in putting into their platform a declaration
that tho farmers had baen selling their
crops at reduced prices since the November
election. That was AN awkward blunder- for
all the farmers knew that 1t was not true.
II was simply keeping up a cry that had
become Obsolete. To meet the new condi-
lions 1t will be necessary for the silver adyo-
e3t6s to concedc that some prosperity ID pos
glble under the gold standard. and they
should address themselves to the work of
demonstrating that greater prosperity would
TeJult from free coinage. We do not wish
them success, but that is their only chance in
states that are enjoying a fair degree Of
prosperity, And they may get a grip on that
chance that Will lead TO Victories.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22

Before the people of Omaha vote n
quarter of a million of bonds for IA new
High school building they will want II
Board of Education that shows some dis
position to keep the expenditures of the
school system within its revenues. a
board that %squanders $500 on an I'M
necessary attorney and increases the
yearly salary of the superintendent,
who would gladly have served without
additional pay, does not inspire the con
idence which would induce the friends
of the public schools to place the board
in position to expend $25O,0O0 in build
ing.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22

The demon of discord may now be OBJ
served in the act of cutting up his most
demoniac capers among the CuyahCga county
democracy and elsewhere among the Buckeye
democratic brethren. Democrats continue to
Shrek iercely against the eminent pluto
cratic plutCphobist, the Hon. John r. Mclean
OF the District Of Columbia. The friends OF
the various candidates for governor whom he
is said to have betrayed" at the Columbus
convention arr practicing on him with their
tomahawks. The voice of Hon. Horace
Chapman, the plutocratic candidate for gov
e-nor, is still not lifted for the poor man"
In short, the demon is enjoying himself 10
the top of his bent, and no answer has been
received to the numerous advertisements for
HARMONY,
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22

chicago tribune.
Accepting the reports of crcp and business
conditions from the west and northwest, the
much-talked-Of EZRA of prosperity" has already
set in without waiting for the long delayed
action of congress and the new tariff Dill.
Similar conditions are represented as exist
ing from Minnesota to the Pacific coast,
though possibly more marked in Nebraska,
owing to its larger population, its suffering
from drnuth in former years, and its greater
accessibility to an carly market.
If the return of prosperity has come to
stay, the agricultural states constitute the
field where it should make itself felt, though
it he's generally been expected to make its
appearance first in the manufacturing dis
tticts as a consequence Of the new tariff.
When the farmers are prosperous all other
branches of business thrive. from that of
the importer to that of the retail dealer and
the local manufacturer. The settlement of
the tariff question. with the prospect that it
years to come, should add to the prosperity
already begun.
The people not only of the northwest but
throughout the whole country have teen
learning a lesson through the years of de-
preston which may be Of value to them in
the future. They have learned at once
the necessity and value of industry and
economy. Many of them, too, from the mere
force Of necessity, have relieved themselves
of burdens of debt which they had incurred
in moro prosperous times with little thought
of consequences. The experience has been
severe, but when it has been passed through
successfully it is worth all it has cost. The
feeling OF independence and self-conhlAhce
it has induced will enable them to avoid like
nerils in the future and achieve new and
greater successes.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22

'oiitics and Pa~rtisnnship Drawbacks
To prUgress.

ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
Everybody in the west favors the objects
which thu Transmississippi congress osten-
sibly met to promote. The development of
harSors, the extension of railroad communal
cation, the admission Of the remaining terri
tories 10 statehood as early As is practicable,
and the o;ler schemes which the congress
ayowcd IFS intention to advocate. are all
worthy Cf praise, and all will have the sup
port Of every western resident. There is no
politics in any OF these objects. Repub-
leans, democrats and p%opulists are all In
favor Of them. 1t was on the understanding
that the congress was to restrict itself
closely 10 such bipartisan subjects as these
that representatives from sound money COM
uunitios permitted themselves to participate
in its deliberations. When the congress,
therefore, turned itself into a meeting Of
silver boomers it was guilty Of a breach OF
faith toward the antl-silyer districts, which
one Of their representatives the prcSid mt
OF the congress, appropriately rebuked by
Offering his resignation.
1t ought to be plain to every sensible
western man by this time that western in
tercsts cannot be subscrved by linking them
with the silver crusade. This ought to he
rs clear to silver men as to their opponents.
The silver agitation, which is responsible for
the greater part OF the ills that have ar
nictcl the country in recent years, has done
far more harm to the west than it has 20
the cast. As the west Is held to be a dis
trihutiag center, for this folly the west has
bsen d.screditel. in a considerable degree,
in the eyes Of the country, capital which
otherwise wCuld have come to it has stayed
away and other capital which was here
has been withdrawn. The borrower here
hes to pay higher rates for money on that
account, enterprise has been impeded and
the natural increase in population, business
and the value of properly has been checked,
while the silver Interest, which has been
the melting cause of all this disturbance
~faintest degree. Every silver man with the
slightest glimmer OF reason in his compost
ton knows this to be true. Silver acita-
tion in any shape is something which re
west should take particular pains to shun
NJ Ill iin,n
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22

One of the features already arranged for OF
the coming TransmississipDi Exposition at
Omaha is a gigantic aerial merry go-round.
The cars for passengers are attached to the
ends OF long steel trusses, arranged around
a central standard forty feet in diameter,
like the ribs of an umbrella. When the
umbrella is closed the cars rest upon a plat
form near the ground. When it is opened
they are lifted $50 feet in the air above the
bluff, and 600 feet above the water Of the
river at whose edge the structure is erected.
There they are to be whlrled around at
high speed for ten minutes or so after each
ascent. Then, with the closing of the UNI
biella, they will return to terra fTina, having
undergone a sensation surprising, it is said,
a thrilling sensation" superior to anything
ever produced by climbing the Eiffel tower,
rlding in the Ferris wheel or lettering on
Nashville's Brobdignagian see-saw.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22

ITTTHTTdIVIN JVUTTIl.
A notablei feature Of the situation is the
large reduction in mortgage Indebtedness.
A careful estimate places the amount paid
in Nebraska during the past six months at
S2S, 900, 900. These large payments are at
tributed by loan agents tc the economy that
hard times have brought the agricultural
glasses and to the fact that they are o
realizing the income on the large crops Of
the past twp years. Much the same con-
diticns exist in iowa, where the farmers in
sist on paying off debts instead OF renewing
them, and there Ia a regular scramble among
money lenders and loan agents to pick up
good loans. In all the other states named
the farmers are paying off their debts and
getting ready for better times.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-22

thought that nevertheless an important
step would bc gained toward interna-
tional bimetaliism, but this Is somewhat
problcmatical. 1t is conceivable that TN.
situation might become more trouble,
some and perpleXing.
The American commissioners seem to
be performing their difficult task with
most commendnblc assiduity and UNI
q~ucstlonably they have nude Il favor,
able impression as representatives of this
government, but it is to b. doubted
whether what they have done will have
any practical results favorable to inter
national bimetallism.