Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-26
EXTENSIVE SHEEP RAISER
Hon. Peter Jansen is Satisfied with the
Results Of Protection,
SENT A LAMB TO M'KlNLeY AS A HINT
Talks About Crops and Politics-Wui
Soon GO tn Paris ns Commits
sioner md VIII visit Rus
sin, His Native Country.

Hon Peter Jansen OF Jansen Neb.. was in
Omaha during the past week quartered for
two or three days at the omaha club. For
| about twertysiN years he has been en-
gagged in tho sheep raising industry in JEFF
ferson county. He is now feeding about
2S 900 sheep on his extensive ranch, and Mr..
Jansen reports prosperous year, owing to
favorable crops and the conditions thrown
around tho business by the republican
policies,
Tho devastating effects of the Wilson tariff
upon the sheep industry were so discouraging
that every sheep raiser hailed with graft
tude the election Of President Mckinley.
AS one of the ardent republicans of this
state, as well as one OF its foremost stock
raisors, Mr.. Jansen sent to the president soon
after his election a nicely dressed lamb, with
congratulatory letter conveying the gift
and indicating that It had died for want OF
protection. In return he received letter
from the president expressive OF his appre-
citation of the lamb and predicting for it's
species the protection to which 1t is entitled.
That prediction was made good by the pas
sage of the Dingley bill, and as result
prices Of wool and sheep soon afterward sus-
tained an advance that was most encour-
aging and beneficial to the stock raiser, IL
not indeed a source of satisfaction to the
lamb himself.
"In order to carry on our business we have
to raise great deal of corn We feed about
80 900 bushels in handling $4,000 sheep, and
we raise 1t ourselves, utilizing about 1000
acres. We figure on an average OF twenty-five
bushels to the acre BY the way, the corn
crop over the state is not going to be as
big as has been generally supposed. You
know 1t was first estimated at 300,00O,000
hps and later the estimate drODDpd to
ESQ 900, 900 bushels. The shucking is not
bearing out the estimates. | find that the
yield is decidedly disappointing, not only in
Nebraska but in Kansas. 1t is a fair crop.
but not a remarkable one, and ] look for
pretty stif prices to prevail. 1t is better.
yon know, sometimes to have moderate
crop with good prices than big crop and
poor prices. Thanks to the Mckinley ad-
ministration, good prices are promised be-
cause the labor OF the country is employed,
and farmers found it almost impossible TO get
the necessary help to harvest their crops.
Speaking of the result of the recent cleo
tion in this state, Mr. Jansen said: II think
it was largely due to the apathy Of Ne
breska republicans and contention among
themselves. l am quite anxioue about the
condition AMI prospects of Senator Hay
ward, for in case he should not be able to
occupy his seat in the senate the vehemence
of the fight next year in Nebraska will be
intensified. This being the home OF Bryan,
and as there will be in any event one United
States senator to elect, 1t can readily ne
imagined that it would add much to the i'm
portance of the campaign in Nebraska il IL
were necessary to elect two senator's. Ne
braska is sure to be the storm center OF the
great conflict of 1900 without any considera-
tion of the result of this great threatened
calamity"
"I hone to be back from Paris in time to
take an active part in the presidential cam
paign in Nebraska. You know I have been
designated by the president as one of the
United States commissioners to the Paris eX-
position under Commissioner General Peck.
MY commission will not be made out until
after congress meets. The active work of the
commission is performed by the commits
sioner general and his staff of assistants. and
as / understand it the functions of the com
mission of twelve will be chiefly Of social
nature. l shall probably go to Paris in
April"
Mr.. Jansen expects to visit in Russia, his
native country. before he returns from
Europe. He left that country twenty-six
years ago, with his father. who was exiled
for political reasons. Some years ago. when
the Century magazine published the result of
the researches of George Kennan into the
operations of the penal colonies In Siberia,
Mr.. Jansen sent number of copies o. the
magazine to friends in Russia, but they
never reached them, having been intercepted
by the government of the car Later he
clipped Kennan's writings from a number OF
the magazines and sent them to the friends
in Russia enclosed in letters, by which
method they were enabled to receive them.
In going to revisit the home of his childhood,
Mr.. Jansen feels that his position as a mem
ber of the Paris commission will protect him,
in spite of the fact that his father was an
exile