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Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-24

PLENTY OF RECRUITS.
Significance of the Rush to the Re-
cruiting Ofnces.
Springfield tMass.) Republican.

Springfield CMass.) Republican.
The recruiting for the provisional or So
called volunteer army of about II, 900 mer
seems to be proceeding fairly satisfactorily,
At the rate maintained last week, a month
or more will be consumed in getting the
required number, but new recruiting offices
are being established which will materially
shorten the time. There is an abundance
of men offering their services, but the phys
ical requirements, even though the stand
ard has been lowered somewhat for this
occasion, are such as to exclude a large
proportion of those coming forward.
Whether the dismal reports of soldiers re-
turning from Manila will have any effect
on the recruiting remains to be seen. Gen.
eral Guy V. Henry, late military governor
of Porto Rico, is of the opinion that this will
make no difference and he is probably right,
but when he says that an overlooking pat
riotism is pushing men into the ranks, he
is wrong. Love OF country has little to
do with volunteering to fight in a war of
distant conquest for supposed material gain.
Love of adventure, disappointment in life,
lack Of employment and discomfort over
present conditions at home have everything
to do with it.
During the recruiting last week at New
York one Of the newspaper reporters went
through the crowd at the Third avenue
office. THE men who came" he says, i'm
pressed the outsider as a needy lot who
had tried everything to earn a living be-
fore they came to the shelter of the army.
They ranged in age from the minimum to
the maximum allowed by the army regu-
lations and walked about as IL they had
at last found a refuge from the uncertainty
of New York work" Those who Aere &C
ooptod goua avidonco of faaltpr or,,t roJ;nf
There was no more need of care and anxiety
for the morrow. The government would
feed and clothe them and take care Of them
when sick, and the work provided would
form at least a diversion from the ordinary
and promised some little adventure. Yes,
as one man put it, the army was a refuge
for the poor devil who had Jared badly in
the civil battle of life.
The strain of competition in the present
industrial organization is admirably effective
in providing material for a large military
establishment. To keep a place in the
whirl of work requires ceaseless activity
and watchfulness and industry and the
number of those who fail to meet the severe
conditions and who are thrown out and cast
aside is considerable. 1t is an increasing
number and possibly increasing out Of pro-
portion to population growth. at is from
this floating and adventurous class that
the British army is recruited aud it is from
this class that our colonial armies will be
made up. And as long as industrial condi-
tions emain as hard and e~xacting as at
present, there cannot be much difficulty in
raising an army for any purpose in the
United States. But it will not be for the
present purpose such an army in the char
acter OF it's membership as went into the
field during the civil war.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-24
RETIREMENT OF ALcBR.

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Chicago Times-Herald; Secretary Alger
has resigned. so is the country.
Chicago Chronicle: The Judgment OF the
country will be that Alger carried the bur
dens of others and is punished for sins not
altogether his own.
Milwaukee Sentinel: We have no desire
to follow MIR. Alger into his retirement, and
shall try, in anything we may heuceforth
have to say about him, to remember with
gratitude that he has resigned.
Minneapolis Times: Henceforth General
Alger will be at liberty to devote his entire
time to his campaign for the Michigan SEN
atorship, He has the consent of all well dis
posed citizens and II he goes to the senate
nobody will care very much. He will aver
age UP fairly well in that body.
Chicago Inter Ocean: Secretary Algcr has
made mistakes, but when the books are
posted and the record made up his manage
ment of the War department will not stand
lowest in the list of those things that have
given the administration prestige and the
republican party strength for future con-
tests.
Washington Post: This is not the first
time a cabinet officer has resigned. and we
have no reason to assume that any sensa-
tionaf or extraordinary revelations will en-
sue. If he should speak, we have no doubt
that he will do so in loyalty and candor.
Meanwhile the coyotes of journalism will
bark with added %fervor, and, as usual, decent
men will stop their ears,
Detroit Free Press: without desiring to
palliate in the least the shortcomings, mis-
takes and misjudgments of the secretary Of
war and without abating one jot or little OF
our adherence of his introduction of the
spoils system in the organization of the vol
unteer army, the Free Press deems 1t no
more than simple justice and accuracy to
say that General Ayers faults OF omission
and commission are not so numerous and
glazing in comparison with the shortcom-
ings and failures of other members OF the
administration that he should be made to
bear all the reproaches and odium and dis
grace for official incompetency and faithless-
ness in connection with the war.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-24

Iowa will vote this fall on the ques-
ton of changing to biennial instead Of
annual elections. In Iowa practically
the same system prevails as in Ne
braska, a portion of the state officers
are elected each year. The tendency
has all been in recent years toward less
frequent elections, which are costly anu
disturb business. In other states where
the biennial system has been tried it
has proven satisfactory, and Iowa will
not be likely to regret the change, if
made
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-24
ASTONISHING ANTAGoNIsMs.
Large Chnnce for Thrifty Pops Ia
Earn n Prize,

j. Sterling Morton's Conservative
Some time since the Conservative declared
Itself willing to pay a round sum for the
proof that any of the noted ~populist leaders
in Nebraska had ever in commercial, pro-
fessional, manufacturing or agricultural
pursuits made $4,000 a year.
The offer has ELECTED several assertions
and the names of several populists have
been handed in as belonging to lawyers who
were making an income of $4,000 or more.
The Conservative is astonished, for these
same gentlemen declared all over Nebraska
that under 1.-The gold standard"-even in
1S92-nobody could make enough income to
decently live thereon. How can these pa
triots reconcile their previous statements as
to the universal poverty of all callings in
Nebraska, under the gold standard, with
their present declaration that for years and
years they had received incomes OF more
than 50, 500 a year?
Did they tell lies to their audiences when
speaking in political campaigns or are they
telling lies now. Whom shall the Conserva-
tive believe, the man who paraded his pow
erty, everybody else's poverty and wal
lowed in calamity before the election: or
the same man, and his friends, when after
election 1t is asserted that he always for
years made every twelve months more than
50 500?
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-24
WONDERFUL BUSINESS CONDITIONS.
Very Cheerful View of Prospcrity's
Grip on the Country.

iillu'iNiIllih III
The business conditions of our country
today have never been approached in the
history of the republic, and there is every
indication that we have entered upon an
era of prosperity that must endure for some
years.
Never before has so large an amount of
money been in active circulation among the
people as We have today, and it is diffused
into every channel of industry,
and trade. During the depression of several
years past the financial centers We're con-
gested with money, the national banks of
New York at one time holding one-third of
the entire money circulation in the country.
Now, while money is in abundance in
financial circles there never was a period
when it was SO actively employed and very
largely in productive industries. Public con-
fidence is the basis of money circulation.
When there is faith in industrial, CONNER
cial and trade enterprises the boarded money
OF the overly careful is freely given to use
~fulness, but when revulsion and depression
come it is boarded by the great masses OF
the people and benefits neither owners nor
industry, At no time that we can recall
in the financial record of our government
has there been such general confidence and
such general employment of money as are
witnessed at present, and that means gen.
eral prosperity.
The business record of the present year
has been unexampled. With the largest
diffusion OF money ever known we have the
fewest failures recorded in modern times.
Our railways, which are the great arteries
Of trade, and which not only give employ
ment to hundreds OF thousands of workmen,
but which difuse scores of millions among
the people in annual dividends, are reaping
n reasonably DrOsnarong harvest NuhiIa
producers have the benefit OF the lowest
freight charges ever dreamed OF. Competent
and worthy labor is very generally en-
ployed, and as a rule at literally increased
wages, and the consuming power OF the
people is thus increased hundreds OF mil
lions annually, all OF which contribute to the
general prosperity of the nation.
Seasons of prosperity always bring with
them speculative tides which are the thorns
accompanying the rose that greets us with
its beauty and fragrance. Headlong specu-
lation is upon us with vastly watered
capitalizations which must at no distant
future bring reyulslon and disaster; but
then, as ever in the past, speculative enter
prises will be severely subjected TO the law
OF the survival of the fttest and the evil
will correct itself.
Viewing the whole business conditions Of
the country, at no time in our past history
has such a season OF general prosperity been
presented, and it gives gratifying promise
OF long continuance.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-24

the MeXicun product that Of Lower
California, as comes now from Colo
RADIO. Therefore. it is deemed not un.
reasonable to assume that the North
American continent will. before 1905,
be producing from S!2O,OOO,OOO to $780,.
100000 of gold a year.
In view of these figures, 1t is mani.
testify absurd to assert that the worlds
gold supply is inadequate 10 the needs
of the business of the world, or that
there is any danger of its becoming in
sufficient. 1t Is plainly Indicated that
he output of the yellow metal for the
current year will largely exceed that oc
last year and then the limit of produc-
ton will not have been reached. with
the United States holding more gold
than any other country and the supply
being steadily augmented, what sound
or valid reason can be urged why con
gress should not make a clear and out
spoken declaration for the gold stand
ard! There never was u better time
thar the present" says the New York
Mail and Express, 'for establishing the
gold standard by statutory enactment.
The weak kneed special pleaders pro
test that il is already established and
that no declaratory act is necessary.
But they either forget or ignore the fact
that the gold standard now existing is
the result of business conditions.
coupled with a conservative and SYM
pathetic treasury policy, and that it
could be overthrown and the country
driven to Il silver basis in forty-eight
III by a hostile secretary of the treas
ury." Republicans who are opposing
such n declaration are making a grave
mistake. The party is irrevocably COM
mtted TO the gold standard, the country
is prepared for its establishment by
statutory enactment and the conditions
are most suspicious. The duty of a re-
publican congress is obvious and I'M
perhtive and failure to discharge it will
be disappointing to the sound none
sentiment of the country and embar-
RAISING to the party.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-24
CUBAN INDEPENDENCE.
Expected to Surrender
sovereignty over the Island.
rp1Her', NNro,i.l.

N~Na - 'NNhiSs
While we understand the impatience
evinced by some Cuban patriots, when they
look in vain for measures calculated to give
them quickly their promised independence
we can assure them that their apprehen-
slons are unfounded. and that their hopes
VIII be fulfilled by the next congress, which
VIII meet in about five months from the
present GATE. There never was a nation
more absolutely bound to pursue a definite
policy than are the United States to give
Cuba independence. The pledge to that eff
feet was embodied in a Joint resolution
passed by immense majorities in both houses
OF the federal legislature, and signed by
the federal executive. Even if the president
and his cabinet were secretly DESTROYS of
violating that solemn covenant, they would
incur the penalties of impeachment, If they
did so without previously securing the con-
sent OF the legislative branch of the gov
ernfnent. That consent will not be given,
as was proved at the last session of the
last congress, wherein, although the repub-
licans had a large majority in the house
of representatives, the requested permits
sion to confer certain franchises, COM
mended on the plea of immediate necessity,
was refused to the War department. The
next house OF representatives has a rela-
lively slender majority, and is, therefore,
even less likely to break the engagement
entered into by the joint resolution passed
in April, 1898, and reaffirmed in the treaty
of peace, which, while e~xacting from Spain
an absolute surrender OF sovereignty over
Cuba, firmly declined to assume that sover-
eighty on the part of the United States.
Whatever, therefore, may be the base in
clinations Of some political campfollowers,
and however tempting a prey Cuba may seem
in the eyes Of spectators and contractors,
they will have to look for the satisfaction
of their greed, not to Mr.. McKinley's ad-
ministration, but to the independent govern
ment which the next congress will insist
upon establishing in Cuba. If no move in
that direction is made by our executive be-
fore next December, the new house of rep
resentatives will scarcely have been organ
lied before a demand will be heard that
a census of the adult males in the island
shall be Immediately taken and a conven-
ton for the purpose of framing a Cuban
constitution shall be soon thereafter con-
voked. A loyal and punctual compliance
with the self-denying ordinance which, on
the threshold of the war with Spain, we
proclaimed to Cuba and the world, would be
compelled by the democratic party, maneuv-
ering for position in the next presiden-
tial contest, even If it were not certain to
find in republicans like Senator Foraker
r~esolute, outspoken and triumphant advo-
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-24
GRANDFATHER'S DREAM.
Chicago Record.

Chicago Record.
Grandfather sat in his big arm chair
Fast asleep.
The wrinkles that ran DER his wan old face
Were furrowed deep. .
The tangled web of his beard hung from
His check and chin,
White as the falling snow the winds
Gambol In.
His hard, brown hands were crossed above
His walking stan:
And we hushed to silence the talk in the
And the laugh. "7E ri.
For we saw a smile from his parted lips
Spread Ger his face,
AS a ripple runs DER n tranquil lake
From Its starting place.
We guessed some vision the long ago
Had anchored deep
In the old mans soul was drifting now
Through his sleep.
What was that dream? Did his childhood
And leave a map
OF all his early. playing grounds
There in his lap?
Or was it a winding orchard patti
In the twilight dim,
And his children's mother, a girl again,
Walking with him?
Perharr, through times long telephone.
He heard a coo
And felt a baby hand on his cheek,
AS he used to do.
Sure we were some radiant joy
He had met somewhere
Had come to visit the old man there
Asleep in his chair.
But soon his hands dropped from his staff.
And dropped his head;
And those who came and went that day
Talked of the dead.
We talked only of pearly paths
In a summer land,
Where his children's mother walked with
him,
Hand in hand.
For now we knew her angel face,
Glad in the CLEAN
OF a golden city awaiting him,
Was grandfatherls dream.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-24

! trial by jury results in miscarriage Of justice
and chaos. Perhaps this government will
find It expedient and necessary to adopt the
most ironclad systems Of military despotism
in it's expansion over the Philippines, and
recognize the most degraded forms Of native
rule. Attention, however. should be called
to every advance in this direction in order
that II may be apparent to every thinking
citizen how far we are getting from trial by
jury, representative government and liberty,
w. h. Hornblower. in his recent address be-
fore the Bar association. speaking on this
point. said:
First of all, we must rid ourselves Of
Illusions. We cannot give these people free
government, as we understand It; we cannot
give them the common law. as we UNDER
stand 1t; we cannot give them trial by jury;
We cannot give them territorial legislature,
with universal suffrage. To do any Of these
things so long as we remain responsible fol-
their welfare would be criminal folly. We
should reap a harvest OF misrule, such as We
reaped in the days Of negro supremacy In
our southern states. Where the lower strata
OF society are OF inferior races. or semi.
civilized people. We cannot stand the pyra-
mid OF government bottom side UP. 1t IL
sure to topple over with a crash, We cam
not govern Luzon or Oahu, or even Porto
Rico, as We govern New Mexico and Arizona,
or as we have governed in the past Dakota
and Idaho. Yet there will be a terrible pres
sure upon lis from the politicians and the
demagogues to do just this thing. Lust Of
office and lust OF power will lead them to
seek territorial independence and. ulti-
mately. statehood, for their own personal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Nor can we continue military rule. This
would be contrary to our traditions and
principles, and would react upon our own
love of liberty"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-24
cHlrF SOURCE or PROSPERITY

CHIEF SOURCE or PROSPERITY
In this country prosperity follows
crop conditions, observes the Brooklyn
Eagle, more closely than any other sin
gle factor, not that a year of big crops
is always a prosperous year, but as a
rule good crops and a good export
movement go hand in nand with good
times.
In proof of this that paper presents
some instructive facts. 1t points out
that the boom years of the early 'gOs
were years of great crops. In 1891 the
production of wheat and corn was
very large and the value of the total OK
ports of these cereals amounted to
$126,OO0,OO0, the average price of wheat
being 1913 and corn Sd. The produc-
tion of the mex year was not so large,
but the exports We're heavier, being Val
ued at S~206,0OO,O0O, the average price
of wheat having been 1926 per bushcl
and corn 55.1. The panic of 1893 and
the succeeding W years was not
caused by crop failures, the crops be
Ing good, but as other countries also
had good crops IL exports fell Off.
There was n slight recovery in the eX.
port of cereals in 1896, though it was
far below the movement OF 1892, and
there was a still further increase in
1897, with a considerable advance in
the price of wheat. 1t vas in this year
that the business revival began. In 1898
wheat production was still greater and
the average price was greatly en-
HANGED. A shortage in other wheat
countries brought u large export de-
mand and the shipments of wheat
abroad were 70,0O0,OOO bushels in ex-
cess of the preceding year, the exports
of other cereals being also materially
increased.
What last year was financially ard
commercially, says the Eagle, is too well
known to require description. at is
sufficient to recall the payment of mill
lions of mortgages, the increased de-
posts in the banks and the wonderful
earnings of the railroads in the farming
sections of the country, all of which
would appear to indicate that the crops
and particularly their export movements
have more to do with prosperity than
anything else, n that the man with a
patent prescription to produce good
times should include, among the com-
pounded ingredients, a guarantee of
abundant harvests at home and of poor
harvests abroad" Judging from this
experience there is assured at least au-
other year of highly prosperous condi-
lions.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-24
OUR VASSAL, THE SULTAN.
Uncle sam SoOthes His Spirit with
Mexican Dollars.

Philadelphia Ledger.
Two years ago the suggestion that the
United States should ever take a barbaric
despot into leading strings would have been
too daring for comic opera; but the news
comes from Manila that an agent OF this gov
eminent has been empowered to strike a bar
gain with that picturesque person, the sultan
of the Sulu archipelago, and guarantee his
possession of the throne free from mofesta-
ton in return for his submission to the au-
thority of the republic. The sultan, it seems,
got the notion that, SPANS power being
broken, he no longer owed allegiance to
Spain under the treaty of 1878, or to any
other nation; but General Bates, who is
credited with the mission to his highness, is
to explain that the United States has stepped
into Spain's shoes as the sovereign power,
assuming it's authority and its obligations.
We are to be the suzerain, while the sultan
Is a vassal.
The vassal Is not, however, to pay us
tribute, but, on the contrary, General Bates
will make him a present Of ! O,O00 in Mexi-
can silver dollars, which are cheaper than
our own, as an evidence Of our good win and
loving kindness.
The sultan will be expected 10 enforce the
law, and as his own will is the law, he will
probably do his best. He must fly the Amer
lean flag and cooperate with the Americans
to suppress piracy. He Is to retain tie in
land trade. and the local administration
of the island is not to be disturbed by us.
In a word, the sultan will be confirmed by
this government in his position as the local
boss" The analogy between the situation
in Pennsylvania and in the Sulus is too close
to escape notice. The sultan, as the boss,
does as he pleases, controls all the Offices,
occupies a good post himself and has the
support OF the administration
The policy OF non-interference with local
customs, habits, avs and religion is pur-
sued, as far as possible, by Great Britain in
India and in Egypt. In India the hereditary
native princes are maintained on their
thrones and granted princely revenues.
They are shorn OF active power. but every
care has been taken to conciliate and win
the allegiance OF the natives. Careful stu
dents OF India point out that in fact the
chief source Of danger is the attempt 10 in
troduce and extend the features Of govern
ment which freemen prize. A free press, II
is urged, serves but to infsme the ignorant
populace TO. the verge Of revolution. and
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-24

A courageous citizen of Des Moines
VIII shortly appear before the industrial
commission at Washington and attempt
to show that the Standard Oil company
has used unfair methods in doing bust
ness in that state. 1t is not alleged,
however, that the oil trust is dumping
inferior oils into Iowa, as is alleged it
did in Georgia. Iowa, like Nebraska,
has stringent laws on this subject, the
difference being that the Hawkeye in
spectors inspect, while the Nebraska in
spectors play horse.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-24
Hard Coal for Locomotives.

iHHlduelDHld RECORD
The adoption of anthracite coal as fuel on
the Vanderbilt railways, which is said to be
contemplated by the management OF those
lines, would increase the consumption by
about l ,000. 900 tons a year. or about 212 per
cent OF the annual output. The passenger
train service would be vastly improved, and
trunk line competition would stimulate the
further use of hard coal on all first class
transportation lines, 1t is an alluring pros
pect for the "coalers" and the travelling
public.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-24

The members of the Board of Educa-
ton must meet the important problems
with which they are confronted. Stay
ing away from the meetings of the
board may block some projects for a
meet every issue face to face without
fiDchinp
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-24

There are still a few patriots hung up
in suspense in expectation of the censu
apprenticeship for this district, but they
will have to possess their souls in pa
thence until after Congressman's Mer-
GERS return from Europe.