Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-22

| resented the gold standard received o26,WI
votes and all OF his opponents received
$4,000 That was 10000 majority. This
year the republican candidate had but
3 SsS ,o G%ca G while 5s t5rd nb aay. Ssndde MSee
majority over all was required, this
would have been no election l don't
en1er into the question Of SiNt Whether e. com
not; nevertheless. that is a chance which
better not be taken, But 1t is not the fig
ures themselves that are of much account.
1t is what they Indicate, If there Is a
settled national feeling, men vote for men
and things, but when the public mind Is
| unsettled, they vote against men and
things. Both Ohio and Kentucky are eX-
amples of this
This country, and indeed all the world,
is prosperous, but in our rush for gain
we must not forget the foundation of our
prosperity, which is n consciousness that
the machine with which We do business
Is sure and stcodfast one party now has
possession of both houses and is respon-
sible to the country. For long years We
| have had no responsibility, The senate
was one. way and the house another and
| nobody knew whom to blame. Now We
know where to put the blame II the
wishes of our people are not carried out
But some may say: you were once in
position to settle this question" am
especially when put them myself. l was
never so placed. In my time the senate
was given over to badness Besides am
not urging you to push people into pr<S-
ositions they don't understand.
| We have discussed many currency Ques-
tions and don't agree but there is one
| thing which we all agree and that Is
| the basis of all currency, the standard
on which we all agree, are all willing TO
| trust our prosperity.
The next speaker was President Hadlcy of
Yale. on Education for Modern Business
Responsibilities.
At the conclusion of President Hadley's
speech Senator Platt who 1t was thought
would address the chamber informally left
the banquet hall
| The next speaker was Whitelaw Reid, who
spoke to the toast "The Existing Conditions
Between the United States and Great Brit
ain" Mr.. Reid said in part:
Long. years ago Thomas Jefferson re-
marked that of all the nations OF the earth
Great - Britain could do us the most harm harm
vate a cordial friendship with it. These
latter days have shown that of all nations
| States can give the other the most cheer
Sl and ,a each other the most good There is
sedulous cultivation of the same cordial
/, friendship. In the lamentable wars in which
both are for the moment nnhapppiy en-. en-.
gagged the most one need do Is to hope for
the other as for itself, an honorable and
speedy end to conflicts which neither be-
gan.
Few thinking people seriously suppose
ether war can have any any but the one one
battalions will win. For the rest, whatever
the national sympathies aroused for the
feebler side in either war and whatever may,
have been urged in partial justification of
tilities, the thinking person / viii " not OF doubt
beginning. VIII be best for the security of
personal rights, for liberty and the advanc-
ri T6ree SyiSaoa Graa n Naens the wo,a Allies.
We cannot but regret that in one case
the victory will bring some national panss
that stood like n rock when the flood
Of Spanish aggression threatened to over
9w h IT. he nd that to
sympathy, y;, y with with iIlusoTy = Afrkandsr aspIra.
It cannot prevent the return of good rela,
tions between the two peoples of the world
terests Il the two great % a I peo co.
Piles, ruled from London and Berlin. That
Is an event momentous in the worlds his
tory, auspiciouss for us and auspicious for
the. solution of the eastern problems in
which we must now bear or share.
friendly o conditions wi with all peoples pc and
they may be right who say that IN general
We SHOULD seek no special relations with
Siplomatists the the hidden m and srresistibIe in;
hesitation that if there are. three great ma
tions in the world that God and nature
for esrn and amy
reason re why England and Germany should
States welcome and prize the growing
friendship of each.
We Have Pledged the Open Door.
We are rivals in trade just as you friendly
merchants of New York. are all rivals in
trade. But we. are also indispensable GUS |
toners to each other and we have a |
common interest in the east-the interest
of the open door. Here. and there one still !
hears discordant voice, declaring that
the United States cannot do what 1t COM
mitted itself to do in the treaty of Paris
maintain the policy of the open door in
notion based confusion as to the diff
ferent uses of the term, The United
1t justifes the term that territory and prop
erty are not necessarily an integral part
Of the United States and the unbroken
over half century sustains the absolute
right of our country to acquire such ter
ritory anywhere and to govern it as we
please. We have pledged the open door
in the Philippines to Spain. in document
which Is now the supreme law of the land,
give to Spain, we will not refuse to the
most favored nations. Therefore, the
Philippines are, as our possessions added
to the commercial map of the world and
venture to think that in the century that
is dawning they will fill large space
Does any one in this country of great
merchants ask what good our trade with
them will be to us. if open to everybody? 4
Let tHeT ASK WEat good cur trade with
Great Britain is to us? 1t is open to every
body Or our trade with France or Ger
many? Does any one believe that with
the political control and with the Pacific
ocean in our hands we are still such
feeble competitors in eastern markets that
we cannot command the trade? l have not
thus rated the enterprise or the ability of
my countrymen.
So we welcome to the east all the world.
and are sure that those shall see often
est there will be our English and our
German friends. Together we shall enter
the vast, awakening unknown, where dwell
one fourth of the people of the world. and
together in peaceful rivalry we must bear
our respective shares of the white mans
burden in the dark places of the earth.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Reid's speech,
toasts were called for and toast
was drunk standing to the army and the
navy. 1t was cheered enthusiastically. There
was no response to 1t, General Merritt hav-
ng retired, and the banquet ended
Him for Attempted Murder.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Nov. 21.-(Special)
"A telegram from Lennox says that off,
,ers are close on the trail OF Johan Schmidt,
he Lincoln county farmer who Is wanted
or attempted murder. Schmidt has been .