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Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13
BUSINESS INTERESTS SECURE.

"A prominent eastern republican, COM
menting on the result of the election,
said 1t means that all the commercial
and Industrial interests Of this broad
land are now safe to lay plans for at
least six years of activity and prosper
ity. They need not fear that free silver
or any other financial or industrial
heresy will be placed upon the statute
books during that period. He regarded
the election Of a republican president in
1900 as assured, so that If the democrats
or fusionists should control congress in
1902 there will be M executive sure to
veto any measures destructive OF the
welfare of the nation which a reckless
congress might undertake to enact. 1t
has been a long time. observed this re.
publican, since employers and wage
earners enjoyed the assurance of six
| years of security.
There are sound reasons for this op-
timistic view. Already the good effect
upon financial confidence of the election
of a republican house of representatives
Is seen in the large increase of foreign
orders for American securities. Foreign
capitalists interpret the republican vic
tory as probably a deathblow to free
silver and therefore are disposed to in
vest more freely in securities. Doubt.
less the demand would be greater thar
1t Is If peace with Spain We're concluded,
or there was no apprehension or Il pos
sible resumption of hostilities. AS it Is,
however, the purchase of our securities
abroad will add materially to the al
ready heavy balance in favor o. this
country, nor is it probable that tie in
vestment of European capital here will be
confined to this. There is reason to ex.
pect that large amounts will COME here
to be invested in various productive en-
terprises.
There appears to be now no obstacle
to business progress and to the attain
ment Of a higher degree of general pros.
perlty. With the national treasury in n
strong condition, the revenues abundant,
a sound money congress and the country
Enthusiastically in favor of the mainte.
nance Of the gold standard, there Is
nothing to disturb financial confidence
Capital can seek investment with n com,
plete n of security 80 far as any
danger of adverse legislation is con
cerned. In regard to the manufacture ~
industries, some Of which are now less
active than a few months ago, n gen
eral revival may be expected as 500 as
peace Is assured and the new markets
1t will open are available. There is
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13

POpocrats who pretend there is danger
of republican theft Of legislative seats
insult the intelligence of the people. In
every district where there has been any
doubt attending the election of legis-
lative candidates the entire counting ma
chinery is in the hands of popOcratic
nit fraud or tamper with the returns
the benefit would accrue to the popO-
Gratis and not to the republicans. 1t is
safe to say that 10 republican will be
able to get a certificate of election from
any popocratic clerk in the doubtful dis
tricts unless the returns show that he
is entitled to it by a majority of the
votes cast.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13

steady increase in the exports of manu-
featured products and there Is no doubt
this will continue, while II the anticipa-
tons in regard TO Aslatlc trade are
realized this class of exports VIII be
very greatly enlarged Within the next
year or two. The foreign demand for
our agricultural products keeps up and
promises to be maintained for at least
another year. Thus all conditions are
favorable to n great expansion of wealth
making enterprise. On every hand the
elements Of prosperity abound and those
who shall promptly and judiciously seize
the opportunities that offer and wisely
improve them will reap a harvest COM
mensurate with their energy and enter.
prise. We believe there is at hand for
the United States an era of unexampled
material progress.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13

The pregnant fact that Nebraska this
year will return a republican to the
United States senate in place of a popu-
list is laundering down the halls of the
great investment houses throughout the
east, coupled with the fact that the re-
publican legislature of Nebraska will
prevent any legislation which would
repel eastern capital. This new condi-
ton, coming as it does upon the heels
of a successful exposition, which at
tracted most favorable attention to
Omaha and to Nebraska, ought to re-
main Il standing invitation to investors
to place their money in a prosperous
and we'l-governed state.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13
woman's Sphere in India.


The present position Of women cannot be
better shown than by the following extract
from a government prize book for the girls
schools in the Bombay presidency: 'If the
husband Of a virtuous woman be, ugly, OF
good or bad disposition, diseased, fendish,
irascible, a drunkard, old, stupid, dumb,
blind, deaf, hot tempered, poor, extremely
covetous, a slanderer, cowardly, peridious
and immoral, nevertheless she ought tc
worship him as a god, with mind, speech
and person. The wife who gives an angry
answer to her husband will become a village
pariah dog; she will also become a emale
jackal and live in an uninhabited desert
The woman who eats sweetmeats without
sharing them with her husband will become
a hen owl, living in a hollow tree. The
woman who walks alone without her hus-
band will become a flth-eating village sow
The woman who speaks disrespectfully to
her husband will be dumb in the next in
carnation. The woman who hates her hus-
bands relatives will become. from birth to
birth, a muskrat, living In filth"
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13
Corea's Grand Old Man.

SOTCUH EFCTCSTF0Fy
The recently deceased Grand Old Man OF
the far east, the Taiwon Kun, for ten years
practically governed Corea and fought all
the time with the yangban. He pardoned
Prince Kyong Pyong, the nearest relative
of the late king, whom the vaughan had
sent into exile and against whom they had
actually procured a sentence Of death. He
demolished their temples Of fame and sup.
pressed their tablets. He gave the common
people permission to wear black shoes. a
privilege reserved for the vaughan, reduced
the size Of their sleeves and cut down the
brim Of their hats, which were then four
feet in diameter, SO that only four people
could sit in a room eight feet square with
their hats on. He suppressed the mysteries
of the Tonghaks and was, in a word. an en-
ergetic reformer.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13
EDUCATING iHE INDIAN.

The progress that has been made in
educating the Indian, if not all that the
friends Of the wards of the nation
could have desired, has still been credit
able and gratifying. AS Indian Com
missioner Jones says in his annual re-
port, education Is the greatest factor
in solving the future status of Ii In
dian and the growth of a healthy educa-
tional sentiment among these people will
conduce more to their welfare, material
prosperity and civilization than all other
agencies combined. The present edu-
cational system dates back less than a
generation. In 1877, twenty-one years
ago, there were $50 boarding and day
schools under the control of the Depart
ment Of the Interior, with an attendance
of 3,59S pupils. Now there are 8 OF
these schools, with an attendance Of a.
600 pupils. The cost of indian educa-
ton has increased in greater ratio. In
1877 the appropriation for this purpose
was only $4,000, while the appropri-
alton for the current fiscal year Is
S. 1913 900. The report of the Indian
commissioner sets forth some of the good
results Of the liberal policy pursued by
the government, but there is still more
to be done before the system is per-
fected. The commissioner thinks there
is n grave necessity for some legislation
looking to the compulsory education of
Indian children. An effort to secure
such legislation failed in congress, but
the commissioner says that future de-
velopments will undoubtedly empha-
size, as the facts of the past and the
experience of collecting officials have
demonstrated, that a regulation which
| will enforce compulsory attendance
upon the schools must be enacted. He
urges that remedial legislation along
these lines is especially desirable if the
full benefits to be derived from the eX.
penditures made by order Of congress
are to be attained. There is no doubt
that the assembling of the Indian con
gress at the Transmississippi EXPOSE
ton will have a good educational iniu'
ence upon the Indians who attended
and this will be extended among the
tribes that were represented.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13
GENERAL NILES REPORT,

Those who have expected that the re-
port of General Miles would be an ar
raignment of the War department and
an endorsement of the criticisms that
have been made upon the conduct OF
the war will be disappointed. The gen-
eral commanding the United States
army has nothing to say that reflects
any discredit upon the secretary of war
or any branch of the War department.
All of his recommendations were not
complied with and he quite naturally
thinks that In consequence mistakes
were made. but he does not therefore
censure any II and indulge in denun-
citation. as the critics of the War depart
ment have been persistently doing. 1t
Is quite possible that had the recon-
mendations of General Miles been more
generally followed, particularly In re-
gard to the volunteers, that there would
have been fewer deaths in the camps,
but undoubtedly it seemed to the presi-
lent and his military advisers that the
eXigency rendered these recommends
tions impracticable. The sentiment of
the country was for pushing the war
with all possible vigor and the admins
tration was In accord with this feeling.
The plan of General Miles involved de-
lay and while doubtless sound from Il
military standpolnt it very likely would
not have been approved by the country.
General Miles is of course fully con-
yerSant with the conditions when war
was declared and no one knows better
than he the magnitude and the difficult
ties of the task of equipping and mo-
bilizing a large army of volunteers. 1t
was a work that might have consumed
months, bu it was accomplished in
weeks and n war that most people who
had any intelligent idea on the subject
thought would last perhaps a year was
brought to a termination. through a
series of most extraordinary victories,
within a hundred days. Unquestion-
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13
BLASTS FROM RAMS HORN.
Pollteness never has a stiff neck.
Friendship Is a mortgage on principl

Pollteness never has a still neck.
Friendship is a mortgage on principle.
There is no fool so sad a fool as the smart
fool.
You need to watch yourself when you are
alone.
Truth never loses Of Its power by being
spoken in love.
Too many neglect the golden now for the
silver hereafter.
Your destiny will be decided Independent
OF your funeral sermon.
The man who gives to God will never have
to complain Of ingratitude.
Don't preach patience to the people and
practice petulance at home.
The men who have made a noise In the
world have not used their mouths alone.
The man who cannot change his opinion
belongs either to the grave or the asylum.
The world judges the church from the
level Of the pew rather than from the stand
ard Of the pulpit.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13

Statistics show that but 1 IL per cent
of the aggregate attendance at the
Worlds Columbian exposition was com-
posed of people from the eastern states.
Yet no one VIII contend for a moment
that Chicago did not derive immeasur-
able benefits in a financial and COM
mercial sense by reason of its pre-
eminence as an exposition city. The
Worlds fair taught the people of the
east for the first time the lesson that
Chicago "a and is the great commercial
rival Of Americas metropolis. What
is true of the Worlds fair is also true
of the Transmississippi Exposition,
which more than any other agency has
opened the eyes of the east to the bound
less possibilities of the empire west Of
the Mississippi.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13
NEBRASKA EARLY RULERS.
List of Territorial Governors. Sccre-
tRrics and Delegates.

j. Sterling Morton's Conservative.
The first governor Of the territory Of Ne
braska was appointed by President Franklin
Fierce in the year 1854 and he was n native
and citizen Of the state OF South Carolina,
named Francis Burt. lie died at Bellevue
in October OF the same year.
Then by "a provision of the organic act OF
the territory, which Is known in political
history as the Kansas Nebraska act, Thomas
B. Cunning, the secretary Of the territory. a
native of Michigan, appointed by President
Pierce, became acting governor. He estab-
lished county boundaries by proclamation.
apportioned representation to each county
and convened the first legislative assembly
Of the territory at Omaha in January. 1865.
Before the session closed Mark w. lizard
OF Arkansas, who was first appointed United
States marshal for Nebraska, was nominated
by President Pierce and confirmed by the
United States senate governor Of Nebraska.
lizard resigned and returned to Arkansas in
1857.
President Buchanan then appointed Will
liam A. Richardson, a member OF congress
from the Quincy district OF Illinois, and he
arrived In the territory and took the oath Of
Office at Omaha in January, 1858. He, how
ever, resigned during the same year, where
upon ]. Sterling Morton, who had succeeded
Thomas B. Cunning, deceased, as secretary
Of the territory, became acting governor and
served until Samuel W. Black had been APP
pointed and confirmed governor. Governor
Black was succeeded by Governor Saunders
and Merton as secretary by Algernon S.
Paddock In the early summer Of 1861, by ap-
pointment from President lincoln.
That Is the record OF the incumbents Of
the executive offices of Nebraska during it's
territorial existence Of thirteen years, from
1854 up to March 8, 1867, when it became a
state OF the American union. During those
thirteen years the territory was represented
by a delegate in the house Of representatives.
The first delegate was Napoleon b. Giddings;
the second, Bird b. Chapman; the third.
Fenner Ferguson; the fourth, Experience
Estabrook; the fifth, Samue G. Daily, and
the sixth was Phineas w. Hitchcock.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13

of eastern capital If its development is
to continue at the pace recorded for the
past quarter of a century. 1t should be
our aim and object constantly to show
to the world that this is a far more in
viting field for the investment OF surplus
capital than Is either of the islands OF
the sea recently acquired by Uncle Sam
For q time American money may be
poured into these new possessions, but
the time is bound to come when the pre-
eminence of the midwest as a field fol
wealth-getting is acknowledged the
world over.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13
H I HAD
Detroit Journal.

Detroit Journal.
"If I had known!" How many times
We say with keen regret,
These bitter words, when far too late
To heal or cen forget.
"If ] had known" the hasty word
Had never spoken been:
Perhaps its utterance withheld
Had saved a soul from sin.
'If I had KNOWN how Jared the heart
That longed for comfort SO,
I might have reached the loving HAND
And spared the weight Of woe.
"If / had KNOWN behind still lips
There trembled tender speech,
I might have won the happiness
That scars beyond my reach.
eff l had known!" Too much we fear
To let the heart speak out,
Lest all our tenderness may meet
Indifference and doubt.
"If I had known!" All! better far
To speak the tender word, .
Than let the melody of life
Slip by us all unheard.
"If I had known!" o true. true hearts
Let love but rule the day,
And all this keennes5 of regret l..
Like mist shall pass away!
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13
BLIGHT OF SILVERITEs.
of It's Eject on the DemOc-
racy of Chicago.


Chicago Chronicle (dem.).
Democrats suffered the loss of the best
county ticket they have nominated in years,
though they had to their advantage many
factors besides the affirmative excellence of
their nominees. Popular disgust with Tan
nerism counted for them; popular indigna-
ton at the passage Of the Allen law made in
their behalf, as did also popular revolt
against that particular form of incompe-
tency and favoritism Of the national admin
istration known as Algerism.
Why, under these circumstances, the
county ticket was defeated the candidates
and managers must look for explanation.
The campaign progressed favorably until
Coin" Harvey appeared in the field, and,
with full approval Of the Arkansas demo-
cratic authorities, practically served notice
upon the electors of Cook that a victory for
their democrats at the November election
would be taken as full approval of the Ar
kansas purpose to carry on the agitation for
free silver in 1900. Democrats, mindful of
the disaster which locally overlook them two
years ago, were disinclined to make this an
issue. The outstretched, begging hand of the
national democratic committee for funds
wherewith to prolong the agitation Of '96
was notice to every conservative democrat
that he must become radical IL he wished
to support the county ticket. 1t was notice,
moreover, to conservative candidates and to
conservative managers Of the campaign that,
let them fight as they might for the success
of the ticket. their efforts, whatever their
purpose. would be credited to agitation for
the free and unlimited coinage Of silver at a
ratio OF 16 to /.
This is a large community, containing a
mighty electorate, among them thousands
of democrats who were quite willing to in
dorse a worthy local democratic ticket, but
equally unwilling to mortgage themselves
in '9S to a particular program in 1900.
Even with this handicap the democrats Of
Cook made a gallant battle in a well-man-
aged campaign. How much longer their
leaders will be able to rally them to defeat
they who wish for victory must determine.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13

Senator Thurston said in a newspaper
Interview that d. Il. Thompson of Lin
coin would be a candidate for the United
States senate before the legislature.
Without reference to the merits of Mr..
Thompson, 1t may be regarded as signiti-
ian that Mr.. Thurston should publicly
name a man so closely affiliated with n
faction in the party recently opposed II
not hostile to the Omaha senator. The
whirligig Of time brings Its changes.
Politics breeds strange bedfellows.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13
THAT EXPUsITloN HISTORY.

The Transmississippi Exposition has
from every point of view. That fact
does not, however, justify the proposed
expenditure of $4,000 of the ~stockhold-
ers' money for a history of the exposition
and collection of pictures of exposition
buildings and portraits of exposition Of
iicers.
1t is emincntly proper for the EXPOSE
ton managers to deposit In the Public
Library Of Omaha a complete collection
of exposition souvenirs and documents
commemorative Of the great enterprise.
These mementos of the exposition are
of public interest and their preservation
could be safely entrusted to the GUS
todians of the library or the museum
that may be established hereafter.
1t would be desirable and not inap-
propriate to place on deposit with this
collection the reports of the president,
secretary and department managers or
the exposition covering the work per-
formed under their supervision. With
this the historic part of the exposition
will be executed within the scope of the
enterprise.
A history of the exposition would meet
with public favor If prepared and pub
lished as a private undertaking by par
ties conversant with its inception and
conduct in all its branches. Such q vol
ume would find sale among those who
have peer Identified with the work and
many Others who have been interested
In it.
The only excuse so far offered for the
$4,000 history scheme has been that to
fill the demand for a truthful history 1t
must be compiled and composed by some
subsidized writer who has had no active
connection with the exposition. This re-
markable idea carried to its logical con-
clusion would have barred Thomas IL.
Benton, James G. Blaine and Hugh
McCulloch from writing about the men
and measures prominent during their
public careers. 1t would have prevented
Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Logan
from writing about the incidents of the
war with which they We're intimately
connected. 1t would prevent General
Miles from writing about his military
campaigns and would bar Dewey,
Sampson and Schley from giving the
public the benefit of the information
which they possess concerning the opera
tons of the American navy in the war
with Spain.
To those who have been behind the
screen in exposition affairs the urgent
plea for a truthful history comes
from men who do not want a truthful
history Of the exposition, but prefer n
garbled story in which fulsome praise is
to be given where it least is merited and
credit withheld from those who have.
merited it most. Possibly there is also
great anxiety to gloss owe or suppress
u%npalatable truths developed during the
progress Of the exposition. For this
purpose the seal of official approval IS
greatly desired by the promoters of
the $4,000 history.
With this object the mass OF the stock
holders have nothing in common, ana
the public will have no sympathy.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13
NEW TARIFF PROBLEMS.

The question of tariff regulations for
the new dependencies of the United
States, which Is q matter of very great
Importance. as well to Il own people
rs to those of the new territory over
which this government will exercise per-
manent or temporary control, will prob
ably engage the attention Of congress
early in the session. 1t is expected that
the military tariffs which are now in OPP
GRAFTON will be continued and Will be
levied against all nations, including the
governing country. Perhaps this would
be the most judicious plan for the pres
ent. but it will undoubtedly require to
be modified sooner or later, because the
products and needs Of the different de-
tendencies are so varied that a uniform
tariff system would operate disadvan-
~tageously to some of them. Experiment
will be necessary to ascertain what regu-
lations each will require and this can be
had as we'll under the military tariff as
any other.
1t Is stated that President Mckinley
will devote a good deal of attention in
his annual message to the new CONNER
cial conditions created by the American
occupation of Cuba. Porto Rico and the
Philippines. The commercial interests of
the United States will await his recon-
mendations in regard to the tariff regu-
lations for these islands with very great
interest, as will also the commercial i'll
terests of. other countries. There is a
possibility of some international friction
growing out Of this matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13

naming an Omaha thoroughfare Dewey
VENUE. II Admiral Dewey undertakes,
however, to send his autograph to every
school, street and baby named after him
he may as well put in n corps of clerks,
typewriters and stenographcrs at once
and invest promptly in a rubber stamp
fac-simile.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13

The Spanish policemen in Havana are
certainly Justified in declining to work
longer without pay in view of the fact
that the assets on which they might ulti-
mately realize are fast leaving the pos
session Of their employers.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13
Variations in the Concert.

TtIuOTOTUTTII
While Emperor william is ostentatiously
posing as the warm friend Of the sultan, an
English admiral acting for the powers. is
applying the naval bcot-toe to the Turkish
troops, reluctant to leave the scenes of their
many massacres and lootings in Crete. The
little island is at last delivered from Turk
ish rule. but neither Germany nor Austria
has had any part in this beneficent result.
No wonder, as is shown elsewhere, the
Turkish organs flatter the kaiser without
stint,
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13

Admiral Dewey has just sent written
acknowledgment to II of the school
trustees OF Chicago in recognition of the
naming of n school after the hero of
Manila. Admiral Dewey, however, has
not yet sent his acknowledgment to the
Omaha city council indicating apprecia-
ton Of the compliment bestowed by re-
Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13

Jerry Simpson that he has
had enough of congress and that after
the conclusion of his present term he
will not again be a candidate for office.
Jerry hasn't any the best Of congress,
which had enough of him some time ago.