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Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22
SPANISH WAR D

The Alphonsian dynasty's winter of
discomfort has not been made glorious
summer by ratification of the treaty of
peace, nor are the clouds that o%verhang
the house deep in the bosom Of the
ocean buried. On the contrary, they are
darker and more pOrtentous than ever
and even so sagacious and conservative
an observer as General Blanco declares
that only n short time can elapse before
the Spanish people will be flying at each
others Threats.
That this prediction may be verified is
strongly indicated by the present situa-
tion. Spain is now taxed to the utter
most farthing that even a complaisant
people will bear, and yet there is a big
deficit facing the government, with ap-
parently no way to meet it. The south
ern provinces of the country are suffer
ing from short crops that will eventually
threaten famine, while the signs of dis
affection are daily growing in the
Basque divisions. The new ministry in
stead of working in harmony is torn
and distraught by the quarrel between
Premier Silvela and Minister of War
Polavieja, and in the meantime the Car
lists are hanging on the frontier threat.
ening immediate invasion.
These dangers might be altogether
dismissed We're it not for the other more
serious questions involved. The dissen-
| sions in the cabinet are beginning al
ready to affect the people, at last show
ing signs of awakening to the abuses
perpetrated upon them. They have lost
faith in both parties and they are
blindly cropping after something and
they know not what. Therein lies the
danger to the ~Alphonsian dynasty, for
in such a condition the masses of NAL
contents, and especially the repatriated
soldiers, will be tempted to join fortunes
with the first ad%yenturer who can show
signs of making a head against the az,
listing order. With Weyler drawing
around hin the disaffected military ele-
ment there is every reason to believe he
would not scruple to strike a blow al
the throne if he could see hope of sue
cess. The approaching elections or Il
strong Carlist outbreak on the frontier
might give the coveted opportunity ant
in that event the flame of civil wa,
would sweep over Spain in a day
Whether it would succeed is another
question, for Austria and France woulC
probably intervene in behalf of thC
reigning dynasty. Such n revolution
however, could not be suppressed b,
even these powers before it would desc
late the land and shake the throne 10 1T
foundations.
While the storm may be allayed b.
patching up differences before the elee
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22
NOT A PROMISING PROSPECT.
Character of the People Who Are
FooIishIy Resisting Civilization.


AS Information concerning the character
of our Philippine subjects gradually per-
colates the country it becomes an open
question whether the feeling of citation
which some OF us experienced when we first
realized that we had acquired a thousand
tropical islands inhabited by a population
three times as large as our wi country
had when 1t began its career, will not soon
turn to dismay. The Manila correspondent
of the New York Evening Post gives some
interesting facts concerning the people
whom General Otis is trying to bring to
their senses:
"The native Filipino is the most unsatis-
factory man to deal with in the world. He
has no measure of value except the guilt
bility of the man he is dealing with. So,
In political relations, the milder we are
and the more concessions we are ready to
make, the more unreasonable the insur-
| gent becomes and the more arrogant in his
demands. l sometimes think that this peo-
pie are nearer the monkey than the man.
Conceive, If you can, a people made up of
individuals without the least consistency OF
character-anything to anybody at any time.
One day a Filipino may be your sworn
friend and the next day he may stab you
in the back and that without provocation,
III IIdi atlCl . " ilt w pihliic Wcph7
ness of character, but TO total absence OF
character, for the Filipino Is phlegmatiC
and Unconditional in the extreme"
This is a repellant picture, depressing
enough, we cannot doubt, even to our in
~fatuated president, who, in his Boston speech
dilated SO eloquently on our benefcent mis-
sion to these benighted people.
Again the Posts correspondent says:
THE Malay race, wherever you find it
has an instinct for piracy or brigandage
1t is in the blood and crops out on every
occasion, whether 1t is in the boy In Manila
who steals your watch, or in the bands o.
Moros in Mindanao who raid villages
There are men among the Malays who take
to brigandage out of sheer love for it
there are others, escaped c~onvicts, who TAXI
to 1t from necessity; under Spanish rul'
there was a third class, those falsely ac'
cused by interested magistrates, who tool
to brigandage for revenge. AT first ther'
may be only two or three men who haV'
taken to the woods; but gradually some MAJ
of superior daring gathers about him
band. He Is called a 'Valiente,' and tn
members of his band are 'tusilanes,' o
brigands. They swoop down upon a village
plumber it and withdraw into the hills
where 1t is almost impossible to follow
them"
Piracy being "in the blood" of thes
semi-barbarous people how can we hop
ever to realize the presidents bright dream
of the Philippines becoming "the gems an
glories OF those tropical seas" "a peopl
redeemed from savage Incidence and habits
devoted to the arts of peace unless W
first extirpate this wild, -unmanageable stock
even as We have treated the abOrigines O
our W land, and replace them with
civilized people2
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22
Chicago Chronicle.

S@So OHA
Whatever may be thought of Aguinaldo's
motives, it now appears that he must be
acquitted of the charge of personal avarice.
1t has not been denied that he accepted a
large sum of money from Spain, but it turns
out that this money was used to buy arms
for the insurgents to be used at first against
the Spaniards. later against our own troops.
Writing to Secretary Day on May "a of last
year Consul Williams says: To-day l exc
cuted a power of attorney whereby General
Aguinaldo releases to his attorneys in fact
the $500, 900 now in bank at Hong Kong, so
that the money therefrom can pay for 5000
stand of arm brought there and expected
here tomorrow" This letter is found in
senate document 81, page 1928, and is there
fore official. 1t not only puts Aguinaldo in
a rather better light, but it shows that the
administration, over a year ago, was cog
infant Of his operations and tacitly ap-
proved them, despite its population of the
insurgent leader later on.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22
MAUD MULLER UP-TO-DATB.
Baltimore American.

Baltimore American.
Maud Muller on a winters day
Went forth unto the matinee.
A stylish, tailor-madeish girl,
With feathers on her hat a-curl.
The lily was not half so fair.
AS Maudie Muller, | declare!
With twirkling eyes and roguish smile
She saunterad down the center aisle.
l only knew fair Maud by sight, H
But cen in that found great delight.
Maud sauntered sweetly down the aisle,
l followed in a little while.
She sauntered down the aisle, and sat
Beneath her continent of hat.
| sauntGred down the aisle and sat
Behind her continent of hat.
Then. with her hatt.sh hemisphere
Maud sweetly raked the atmosphere.
|, being five feet three, sat there
And gaZed upon Maud Muller'S hair.
The people all around agreed
The play was very fine, indeed!
Maud's hat with sweet excitement swayeA
With what the players said and played.
In its wild holdings here and there
l read joy, pleasure, grief, despair.
When Maud's hat trenbled in alright,
l knew the villain was in sight.
And when 1t wobbled through the air
! knew the funny man was thare.
And when that hat with tremblings bobbed
Methought the hero-lady sobbed.
AT last 7 rose and went my way
From out that weary matinee.
Out to the street | made my way,
And paused to swear a bit and say:
"Of all sad words on earth, ] ween,
The saddest are these: Il might hava
Scent"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

forward bv the Southern Pacific Rail
way company. These two candidates
each received twenty-six votes and there
they stuck for several weeks. There
was some hope of breaking the dead
lock until one of Grants supporters as
saulted Major Mclaughlin, the leader
of Burns campaign. That assault tight
ened the deadlock firmer than ever.
However, the interests of California
will be well taken care of by Senator
Perkins, but it is regretted that having
won a glorious victory, the republicans
have failed to secure the additional vote
in the United States senate, although
they are to be congratulated that neither
Grant nor Burns was elected.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22
Legacy of the War.

1t appears from a tabular statement of
the internal revenue bureau that the total
receipts under the war tax law up to Febru-
airy 1, 1899, amounted to $50, 012 ,191. The
distribution Of the tax was as follows: For
stamps on checks, documents and patent
medicines, $26,3S3 ,440; beer, $780, S4, 400; spe-
cial taxes, $4,23S, S07; cigars and cigarettes,
81, 500, 05S; tobacco and snuff, $S,162, 621; in
heritances, $253,951; excise tax, $3.50, pa,
This indicates an annual revenue of upward
of $106, 900, 900 from the war tax, and at
the rate at which the expenditures of the
government are increasing it will be a long
time before there can be any hope Of a re-
peal of the law.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22
THE ERA OF TRUSTS.

Troy Standard So many trusts have been
formed under the laws of New Jersey that
it is really surprising in view of its IA
%cilities that that state as yet has no mos
quito net trust.
st. Louis Republic: When the plowman
homeward wends his weary way these even
ings it may intensity that tired feeling to
realize that the weight of his burden is
about to be increased by the formation of a
$500 0 900 pillow trust.
Detroit Free Press: By one swift move
of the Tobacco trust there are $50 of De-
troit's working people thrown out of en-
ployment. Let any good-hearted citizen
start a factory for the purpose OF giving
these same people like work and he would
be financially crushed for his phllanthroplc
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

Appropriating to different funds the
money received from railroads to re-
imburse the city for money paid out for
viaduct repairs is just the same as
transferring from one fund to another.
The expenditures for viaduct repairs
came out of the general fund, which
should be reimbursed the amount.
If the money is returned to a
different fund it simply leaves the
fund from which the original eX-
penditure was made short by that
much. SO far as the effect is concerned.
IN indirect transfer like this is just the
same as a direct transfer.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22
Heroes Revealed by Fire.
INDIANAPOLIS Journal.

The bravery and daring OF the fremen
and others as shown in their efforts to res
cue the occupants of the burning Windsor
hotel are a fresh Illustration of the fact that
heroism is an everyday quality in nine
teenth century life. Let no one talk of
modern degeneracy" while 1t remains the
common thing for men TO risk their lives
in the performance of what they regard as
simple duty. The heroes OF the world are
not all those of war.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

The French press is amusing itself by
promulgating the same class of news
and editorial opinion that it dispensed
during the late war. 1t has learned
nothing and apparently does not wish
to learn anything that runs counter to
it's tastes. The Spanish version of the
situation at Manila is invariably given,
while reports from the United States
are studiously ignored as unreliable.
AS a result the French people are each
day RECALLED with accounts of Filipino
victories. Our position is portrayed as
something awful and the people are
actually led to believe that it is only a
matter of time when General Otis will
have to surrender to Aguinaldo. Our
soldiers are assailed as drunkards and
every innuendO and unfriendly senti-
ment that can be devised is Used against
us. OF course, if the French press rel
ishes this kind of journalism it is at
liberty to indulge in it, but it is hard for
Americans to understand why this oun-
try should be assaulted by such false
and ~unfriendly sentiments. Such Il
course is not calculated to increase a
| friendship which France now needs
more than we do and which it may need
a great deal worse at no distant day.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22
General Henry proceeds to put

General Henry proceeds to put a
quietus on the yellow journal re-
ports that Porto Rico is on the eve Of
revolt against American rule. He says
there always has been and probably
always will be political agitation in the
island, but the masses of the people are
contented and proceed about their bus
mess. General Henry has been on the
western frontier too long to make an eX-
aggerated estimate ON the number of
coyotes in a band based on the volume
of howl which they emit.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

The demand for Nebraska land is
more lively just now than 1t has been
for years past. There has been no safer
investment anywhere at any time than
good Nebraska farm land, and with the
renewed flow of immigration this way
prices may be expected to go upward
The man who shows his faith in Ne
braska by putting his money In Ne
braska soil will seldom regret 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

The republican state senate cut off in
its youth IN elegant opportunity for job
berry when it killed the bill creating II
commission to purchase all the school
books used in the state. Under present
conditions there are scandals enough,
but with all power concentrated in one
body the tempting bats held out by big
school book concerns would be hard to
,,nyfgt
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

The charter bill should by all means
carry with it the amendment confirming
the power of the council to impose
license taxes for revenue BY mistaken
Interpretation of the courts it has been
held that the present authority to
license different occupations limits the
license fee simply to what is needed to
regulate and supervise the particular
occupation. Under such a rule it is I'M
possible to secure for the treasury any
revenue from licenses whatever. In
other cities the license fees contribute
annually a neat sum to the municipal
and the same should be true
in Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

tons next month, 1t is impossible not to
believe with General Blanco that Spain
is walking on the u~nsteadfast footing
of a spear and that a false step Mt this
time will p~rccipitate the country into
the abyss of civil war.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

Now that the architects contest has
been concluded preparations for com
the construction of those new
school buildings should be pushed with
every possible haste. There is no good
reason why these buildings should not
be completed in time for occupancy
with the opening of the school year
pnyt fn1l
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

With General Miller aSsimilating two
hundred mountain bandits at one meal
at Iloilo and General Wheaton keeping
up his end of the table at Luzon there
should be no complaints as to Uncle
Sans Philippine digestive organs.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

Holding prisoners for ransom and exc
cutting peace advocates may not detract
from Aguinaldo's resemblance TO George
Washington ia certain quarters, but If
he keeps this thing up much longer even
the warmest advocates of the resem-
blance may be compelled to admit that
after all he is rather more a Tarleton of
the PHILIPPINES.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

The formation of the peanut trust
being duly accomplished, the enterpris-
ing promoter should lose no time in get
ting in his work on ginger cakes and
t%OOthpickS,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

Omaha is not SC much concerned
which railroad carries the fast mail
from Chicago west as it is to have the
mail distributed and delivered after 1t
reaches Omaha. An increase in the
clerical and delivery forces of the post
office commensurate with the increase
in business would be gratefully appre-
aiutnH
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

The width of the bloody chasm be-
tween Colonel William Jennings Bryan
and Colonel oliver Hazard Perry Bel
mont will be fully appreciated when it is
known that not ever Il Jeffersonian din,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

The Weather bureau is furnishing the
same brand of spring as 1t did of winter
weather. If it is not asking too much
the people would prefer that another
barrel be tapped.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

The city of South Omaha is preparing
for its annual spring election. If South
Omaha would only accept the annexa-
ton invitation 1t would not have to IN
dergo a city election oftener than once
in three years.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

Notwithstanding the assertion of the
popocratic organ, it is not the custom
Of legislative bodies to give the chair
manships of important committees to
members of the minority.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22
No Oil to Spare.
Chicago Tribune.

chicago tribune.
The lie has been passed in court by FESTIVE
Standard Oil magnates in the course of the
judicial Investigation into their proceedings
in New York. As a last resort a tank or
two of oil might be poured on the troubled
waters to calm the wrathful disputants.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

A professor of the Northwestern uni
versity has discovered Il metal which
constitutes n missing Link in mineralogy,
but according to latest information none
of the learned savants of that institution
tory which they recently patronized so
literally.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

With two members OF the Douglas
delegation on the house sitting commit
tee and one on the senate sitting com
mittee the interests of Douglas county
ougt to be well looked after during the
closing days of the legislature.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

Auditor Cornell's idea that 1t would
be wrong for the auditor to hold up an
insurance company but all right for II
of his examiners to do 1t will strike the
majority OF people as peculiar. There
is no question about his sincerity, how
ever, as he gave his ideas practical ap-
nlicntinn
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

If the reports that Don Carlos has sue
ceeded in raising a "war Loan of several
millions are true there is no doubt but
what he will lay siege to Monte Carlo
without further delay.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

The proposed legislative redistricting
bill gives Douglas county eleven mem
bers Of the house and one float repre-
sentative with Sarpy county, an in
crease of more than two over the pres
ent representation. If Douglas county
were accorded what belongs to it in the
strict ratio of population it would be
entitled TO Il still greater increase.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

which leaves the Golden State with but
one senator for the next two years, was
mainly due TO the pulling of Major
Frank McLaughlin's nose. The leading
candidates We're U. S. Grant and Colonel
Dan Burns, a wealthy politician with
an record, and who was put
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

the VETO 4

The more people reflect upon the TO-
suits sure to follow the abolition of the
supreme court commission the more
clear does it become that the governors
veto is Il mistake. The more III
dependent of the populist papers are
willing to admit this, as witness the fol
lowing from the Schuyler Quill, one of
the recognized organs of populist
principles:
The governor made a serious mistake in
vetoing the bill just passed, which provided
for the continuance of the present law
relative to the appointment of a supreme
court commission. The volume of business
carried to the supreme court necessitates
either an increase in the number of judges or
the appointment of commissioners to assist
in dispatching the work. Increasing the
number of judges can be done only by con-
stitutional amendment. Until this is done
commissioners are needed, and without them
the work of the court VIII gradually fall
behind until 1t will be years before a decision
can be had in ordinary cases. The fight made
on the commissioner law is a result OF a
nasty political scramble for office in Douglas
county and the governor has certainly made
a mistake by dropping into the partisan net
NONtu u ulI1 ny LILO lllNhuo DS'oN
county politics must not be settled at the
expense of the state.
Conceding that the supreme court
| commission was originally a makeshift
and must remain a makeshift so long as
it is continued, the necessity for 1t to-
day is the same, if not greater, than 1t
was six years z Before the supreme
court commission was created the court
was constantly falling behind in its
work. With the assistance of the COM
mission it has kept even and made some
additional Roadway, but it still takes
two years for a case to be reached on
it's docket. With the court crippled by
the abolition of the commission the
work must again begin to fall behind,
and even if the court be enlarged by
constitutional amendment three or o
years hence, the enlarged court would
start in almost hopelessly behind the
docket by -four or five years.
The idea that the abolition of the com
mission will fall upon the judges of the
court is entirely ~unfounded, as the
burden must be borne by the litigants
who are denied the speedy considera-
ton of their cases. Under such
circumstances would it not be better for
Governor Poynter to admit that he has
acted hastily under a mistaken notion
and try to repair the injury inflicted
on the public before it is too late?
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

Shifting the Responsibility.

New York Tribune.
Spanish legislators must vince before the
portraits of their chivalrous ancestors when
they think that they threw upon a woman
whatever unpopularity may attach to the
ratification of the peace treaty.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

We suppose it will take a peace COM
mission to negotiate a protocol between
the local popocratic organ and Speaker
Clark.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

st. Louis Republic.
Helen Gould's open house" for the VIC
tins of the Windsor hotel fire constituted
a function grander than any ever before
chronicled on behalf of New York's rich
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

1t looks as if Omaha were about to
be favored with a real live trust presl-
dent. They can't keep Omaha down.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

Philadelphia North Americans: at will
hardly surprise YOU" said the timid lover,
TO be Informed that love your daughter
surprise me- cried her father. do YOU
think I'm a lunkhead? You've been incoming
around here long enough to let any idiot
into the secret"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

Colonel Bryan says he won't play in
Perry Belmont's back yard.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22
TART
Chicago News: Does your husband play
the violin, Mrs. Stebbins?"
No.; he just tiddlss a little"

Chicago Post: what is your opinion OF
the open-door policy2'
1T depends on the season. Just now 1
don't think 1t ought to be OPEN
Thereupon the man in the office looked at
the interviewer in such n meaning way that
he Immediately went back and closed II.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22
STATEMENT or CIRCULATION.

State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.:
George Il. Tzschuck, secretary of Inc see
Publishing company, being duly sworn, says
that the actual number of fun ana complets
copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening ana
Sunday Bee, printed during the month or
February 1899 was as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

.Somerville journal: Shakespeare In his
plays touched upon pretty nearly every SUBJ
J ct of human interest, except the hired girl,
Was he afraid to tackle her?
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

Net daiiv ovepar 24,S7O
GEORGE b. TzSCHuCk.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
9Th day of March, 1899.
(Seal) GEO. M, REED,
Notary Public in and for Douglas County,
Neb,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

Washington Star: II suppose said the
friend of the politician, who was in trouble,
that you can leave your case in the hands
of posterity.'",
NO" replied the politician. mo such
luck"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

Chicago Record: War is not a picnic.''
NO; at a picnic somebody always forgets
the Can-opsner.'
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

New York Weekly: Caller-Is Mrs.
Brownstone at home?
Servant-Yes'm. She'll be at home all tho
evening. It's my night OUT
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

Detroit Journal: Our pastor is very lib
eral, hut he doesn't deny the scripture ac-
count of the fall of man"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-22

NO, he admits Eve ate the apple, but
holds she was caused to do so by a microbe,
rather than a serpent"