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Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
~PROSPERITY,s HIGH TIDE.
Cheering Aspect of the Commercial
and Industrial Situation.

II, lOulS
1t is hard to keep track Of the advances in
! wages which are taking place these days.
The reason it is hard is because almost every
day dispatches in the papers chow advances
in some part Of the country or other. For
example, a dispatch from Philadelphia has
Just come which says that the
White Coal Mining company, which is one
of the largest producers Of bituminous coal
in the world, has raised the wages of its
10, 900 employees. The same date which sees
this advance chronicles another wage rise
in an adjoining state, by which 5000 iron
workers in Wheeling, W.. Va, are affected.
These advances attract very little attention
because they have become common. They
have ceased to possess any novelty FOR the
public. The country is so accustomed to
associate prosperity with republican sway
that these rises in wages in the different
fields of labor and in the different states are
received as a matter Of course, winch no
body is required to feel surprised about.
They have been under way for several
months. They will continue until every
wage workers pay is up to the highest mark
ever previously touched. Nearly all of them
are up to this mark already and many OF
them have passed above It,
1t is estimated by the weekly trade papers
that 1000, 900 men have had their wages ad-
yanced within the past six or eight months.
This represents an Increased outlay for
wages in the country at large which will
amount to many hundreds of millions OF
dollars a year. Here is an evidence of pros
perity which appeals to everybody. When
wages are going up nobody can deny that
good times are here, Even Bryan has ceased
to bring forward that idiotic inquiry, Have
you seen General Prosperity" General Pros
perity Is here, and many Of the " $500, OOO'
have discovered 1t. These persons, like mill
lions of the rest Of their fellow citizens,
would be working for lower wages even than
they were getting during the democratic
panic days of 1896 If the candidate of the
$500, 900" had been elected In that year,
and the more intelligent OF them know this.
These are the conditions which will make
the rolling up of a $500. 0OU vote forever inn
possible for Bryan again in the United
States.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
TIE FlNAL ORDER ENTERED.

The action of the supreme court de-
nying the motion made by the
plaintiffs attorneys in the Broatch-
Moores case is the closing chapter,
so far as the judicial proceed
ings are concerned, of the boldest
popocratic conspiracy ever Matched out
In Nebraska. BY the final order of the
supreme court the suit brought in the
name of former Mayor w. j. Broatch
to reinstate him in office because of al
legged ineligibility of his successor is
dismissed on the ground that the re-
lator has no shadow of claim to the
place and the title of Mayor Moores is
confirmed.
Looking back over this long-drawn
litigation, the few republicans who
lent aid or sympathy to the plots of the
popocratic combine, desperate over
their dlslodgment from official
power, used by them for hold-up
and matchmaking purposes, must
realize the grave mistake into
which they permitted themselves to
be drawn. From first to last
the fight on Mayor Moores has beer
simply a political persecution en-
gineered by the local popocratic gang
TO furnish the popocrats with ammuni-
ton for use against the republican
party.
The cloven hoof of the conspirators
was finally exposed to full view in the
last motion made before the supreme
court, asking the entering of n judg-
ment directly opposite to the courts de-
cision. In support Of this motion popo-
cratic attorneys who had helped to
frame the present Omaha charter and
had previously defended it against at
complete summersault and swung to
the other side by denying the constitu-
~tiOnality of their own measure in the
hope that knocking out the new charter
might reinstate the Herdmanite police
commission, under whose protection
the hold-up business would be resumed
at the old stand. So palpable a fraud
upon the people brazenly proposed
without V has naturally opened the
eyes of those even who previously per-
sisted in remaining blind and laid bare
the plans of the c~onspilators beyond
doubt or denial.
The people must also realize now
more than ever the dangerous charac-
ter of the popocratic conspirators who
set up this audaciOus job to capture
the city government in direct opposi-
ton to the expressed will of the voters
registered at the ballot box and feel
more satisfied than eve that they
turned down the plunder-seekers when
they appealed for their support at the
last municipal election.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19

reflect his own Views upon political issues.
But, should he he disappointed In this re-
spect. he has a reserve power.
The speaker Is always the chairman OF the
committee on rules, with at least one other
member OF the three who will crafty him
lin any reasonable way; in fact, he may be
said to control this committee. This gives
to him the shaping Of all business before the
house. to the exclusion even OF a committee
report. should 1t be opposed to his Views Of
public policy. This is a tremendous power
lodged in the hands Of a single person, but
1t is by no means all the power he possesses.
He can make or mar the political fortunes
OF an individual member by the manner in
which he extends the courtesies of the chair,
and II he be so minded he can drive very
unequal bargains with the administration
itself. Many have thought that II would be
advantageous to divide this power, but the
experience OF the past ten years, common TO
both political parties, seems to show that
It 10 absolutely necessary to the proper con-
duct Of legislation.
Thus far the power has been entrusted by
both parties to men who have used IL not for
any personal advantage, but for the benefit
of the country. as viewed through their
political learnings. 1t would be folly to
expect a republican speaker to use his power
for the benefit OF his opponents, or vice
versa. All that can be reasonably expected
is for the speaker to be fair. and amid all
the exciting contests of recent years It has
not been seriously charged that either u
republican or democratic speaker was unfair.
In fact, the speakers of the house OF repre-
sentatives have, as a rule, been fairer than
the speaker of the House of Commons,
who is elected to preside impartially. Not
that the British speaker is unfair. He Is
generally very impartial, but he has done
more in the last three or four years to
provoke criticism than did Mr.. Reed during
the same time.
The speakership is a great office and
worthy of the highest ambition. 1t is also
a very responsible office, and in choosing
Mr.. Reeds successor ability and fitness
should count for more than geographical
lines or partisanship.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
personal AND OTHERWISE.

Henry Clews, the New York millionaire,
began life as a messenger boy in an English
wooden factory. He is now worth about
Sc, 900, 900.
One Of Governor Roosevelt's admirers has
| presented him with a rare old Damascus
blade, supposed to be that carried by Gen
eral Butcher at Waterloo.
Russell Sage does not agree with Mr..
Carnegie. He sees no particular disgrace in
dying rich-and, in fact, it is rather more
| agreeable to contemplate than living poor.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was once a constant
| smoker, but of late years has had to give
up tobacco. II find" he says, that anyone
can learn to do without it. 1t is at once the
most expensive and the most unnecet sary of
habits"
A Christian Science believer in faith
cures who undertook to heal a gangrened
foot by waving her hands over it is likely
to fall into the clutches of the law in New
York for malpractice. She sent in a bill
for $51 for the job.
The failure of the Vermont maple sugar
crop is now attributed to a sweet-toothe
worm, which fer the last two years has an
t~icipated the sugarmakers. So far the raw
ages of the worm have been mainly in south
western Vermont, but he appears to be
marching on.
Rear Admiral Stewart, who has Just re-
signed as paymaster general of the navy,
having reached the age Of 60, rendered
valuable service during the recent war, and
in consideration thereof was allowed to
name his successor. He saw his first sea
service on board the gunboat Pembina at the
capture of Port Royal.
William A. White, editor of the Emporia
Gazette and author of What's the Matter
With Kansas?' was recently knocked sense
less by an angry politician who came up be-
bend him and hit him on the back of the
head with a heavy stick. Friends OF the
politician said that he had faced White
and struck him fairly, and to refute this
testimony White said in his paper that he
would offer in evidence as exhibit A. one
head, size 7aa, with a lump directly in the
back, and as exhibit B one $35 suit of clothes
with mud down the front and not a spot
behind.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
ANOTHER CHANGE FOR PEACE.

Another commission from Aguinaldo,
seeking terms of peace, Is on the way
to Manila and in announcing this to
the War department General Otis con
cludes his dispatch with the remark that
1.-The aspect of affairs at present Is
favorable" There is also the familiar
optimistic expression of opinion from
Washington that 1.-THE end of the insur-
rection is at hand" 1t Is certainly
pleasing news, but until it is ascer-
tanned what terms the new commission
will propose or be willing to accept, we
should not become unduly elated over
this fresh promise of peace.
Secretary Alger Is reported to have
said that the Fillpinos will accept any
terms proposed by the United States,
but there Is reason for some incredulity
as to this, though it is probable they are
less disposed now to reject the Ameri-
can terms than when the first commits
sion was sent TO Manila. Since then
the Filipinos ave had the severest eX-
perience of the conflict. They have
been driven from point TO point, have
lost heavily and undoubtedly have be-
come more and more demoralized. The
American campaign has been conducted
with marked ability and great energy
and the situation Is so well in hand
that Ii seems about all the insurgents
can now do as an alternative TO sur
rendering is to go into the mountains
and prosecute from there a guerrilla
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
MuzzIing the Porto Rican Press.

A press dispatch from San Juan, Porto
Rico. giving the substance Of an article
in a local paper, criticising Major General
Guy V. Henry, until recently governor gem
eral of Porto Rico, closes as follows:
General Davis, the new governor gem
eral, will rescind the order issued recently
giving liberty to the press"
Surely the United States authorities can
not contemplate beginning the work of civ
i~lization in Porto Rico, where there is no
warfare, by denying freedom of discussion in
the press. The principles of the American
government, we have been told by President
Mckinley, are to undergo a change under
a tropical sun. Liberty of the press is one
of the most sacred of American principles,
and one the operation of which should be
restricted in no territory claiming the pro-
lection of the American flag.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
NEW YORK AND NEBRASKA.
Some remarks on Population and
Chicago Platform Democrats.
New York World


New York World.
In a talk to his political friends at home
Mr.. Bryan said that New York has four
as has Nebraska" And he argued from
this that there is no occasion for modifying
in any particular any plank of that deliver
ance.
In Nebraska at the last election the
democratic populist candidate for governor
received 90 ,703 votes. Four times this
number would be 1882, S12. At the election
last year in this state, when the Chicago
platform was ignored by the democrats,
Colonel Roosevelt received 66l. 707 votes.
Accepting Colonel Bryan's estimate of the
number of Chicago platform democrats" in
this state as correct, the republican ma
jority would be PTS, O0O-which Is 10000
more than Mckinley received in 1896.
This sort of gain" backward would not
go far toward securing foi the democratic
candidate the thirty-six electoral votes of
New York. These votes have been given
to every successful candidate in the last six
national elections. have alone been essential
to the election of three presidents, and in
connection with three other states that
habitually vote with New York In presiden-
tial campaigns have elected every one OF
the six.
IN estimating the chances of a campaign
every prudent political leader "studies the
figures" We again most kindly and So
licitously commend to the democrats OF the
west and the south a careful and open
minded examination and comparison OF the
results OF the elections for the last thres
years and the last twenty, four, 49,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
RISNA WILL INSIST

The announcement that Russia will
insist upon the Chinese government
granting the concession asked for the
construction Of a railroad by the Rus
sian government connecting the Man
churia system with Pekin, suggests the
possibility of another complication,
though the position of Russia is prob
ably secure in view of the fact that
Great Britain's hands are tied by the
Anglo-Russian agreement. That agree
ment gave Russia control, without COM
petition, of great industrial and trade
enterprises in the region north of the
great Chinese wall. A railroad to Pekin
from Manchuria will bring the capital of
the Chinese empire within a few hours
journey, by rail, of the Russian gar
risons at Port Arthur and other stra-
tegic points in Manchuria and the adj
joining province of Pechile. Thus the
capital of China would be made readily
accessible to a Russian army and the
influence Of Russia in the empire would
become dominant, If indeed 1t is not
already so.
1t Is said that China will be com
PEELED to yield unless supported in its
refusal by some other power. If the
Chinese government cannot look TO
Great Britain for such support it prob
ably cannot obtain 1t from n other
power, for it is not at all probable that
Germany or Italy will oppose Russia in
this matter and France certainly will
not. Can it be possible that Lord Sal
isbury was overreached by Russian di-
plomacy in making the Anglo Russian
agreementp
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19

NTVNNIdIU LJdUJI'
With no signs of rising prices for grain
and no possibility Of any combination among
producers Of the cereals to control the mar
kets, farmers are to be asked to pay about
10 per cent more for plows than they have
had to give in recent years. The reason is
the increased cost to the plow manufacturers
Of the iron and steel which they use. What
do the iron and steel trust managers think
will be the effect upon the votes of farmers
of a stiff rise in the price of plows and farm
machinery and implements, generally speak
ing? Will it be conducive to the safety and
profits Of such corporations? VIII it not
tend to destroy them utterly?
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
A Great Country's Great Cost.


This is a great country, and it costs over
$4,000, 900 a day to run it. 1t is well to
stop and think, once in a while, of this fact.
Last year, for instance, congress appro-
priated $675, OOO, 900. The largest item of
governmental expenditure was for pensions,
$145, 0O0, 900. Then came $12S, 900, 900 for
permanent appropriations; $105, 900, 900 for
the postal service; $50, 900, 900 for the army;
$4S, OOO,0 600 for the navy, and the same
amount for the sundry civil service; $685.
00O, 900 for deficiencies; 1923, 900, 900 for leg
%islative; SIG, 900, 900 for rivers and harbors;
$2S, 900, 900 for miscellaneous, including the
$40. 900, 600 paid to Spain; and the remainder
distributed among the expenses of the
diplomatic service, the Indian bureau, forth
fications, and the District of Columbia.
These figures have been printed a good many
times in various forms, but we put them in
concrete shape, so that. he who reads may
understand them without much study, al
though they are well worth studying.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
WIRELESS
Edgar Fawcett.

Edgar Fawcett.
The family coach, in cumbrous pride,
Rolls creaking through the verdant lane.
Demure and sweet she sits beside
Her portly parent, Lady Jane.
In rank her peer, though poor of purse,
He notes her while she nearer draws,
And filings an acrimonious curse
At lucre's desolating laws.
ooh. shame" (his wrath and scorn rewake),
''To shatter thus a maids pure lifel
So meek a pearl of girls to make
Lord Steeplechaser's purchased wife!"
A furtive glance, and 10, It's done;
She hears his hearts unspoken PRAYER;
''Th Romilly elm at set Of sun
Dear Marian, Will you meet me there?"
From her shy lids one starrier glow
The a,ert assent has full confessed.
He hears her loves voice whispering low:
Dear Algy, will do my best!"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
DEMOCRACY AND the rRrsrs

The effort Of the democratic party to
pose as the special champion Of anti
monopoly, the exclusive foe of trusts
and combinations in restraint of trade,
will deceive no one who has knowledge
Of party records. We have heretofore
pointed out the attitude Of the repub-
llcan party toward trusts. We called
attention TO the declaration Of that
party, In Its national platform Of 1888,
in opposition to all combinations of cap
ital, organized in trusts or otherwise, to
control arbitrarily the condition of
trade among our citizens, which was
reattirmed four years later, the party
having in the meantime enacted n fed
eral antitrust law. We have cited the
fact that the only serious effort made
to enforce the antitrust law of 1890
was. made by the administration OF
President Harrison, the succeeding
democratic administration doing moth
ing in this direction.
The democratic party came into
power in 1893. For the first time in
thirty-flve years" says the Wash
ington Post, 'the party found itself
clothed with power to enact as
well as to execute laws. Did
the democracy, under Cleveland,
between March 4, 1893, and March
j, 1897. try to break up the trusts by
enforcing the Sherman act of 1890?
Was anything done to strengthen that
law? Were its weaknesses exposed?
III not, why not? How will the delnoc-
racy in 1900 succeed in convincing the
country that 1t Is not in any way re-
sponsible for trusts?" Not only was
nothing done by the Cleveland admin
istration to break up the trusts, but the
first attorney general in that admins
tlation, Mr.. Olney, did his utmost to
discredit the Sherman act and his sue
cessor, Judge Harmon, followed his ey-
ample. The congress that was elected
with Cleveland incorporated in the
tariff law an antitrust provision, but
no effort was made to enforce 1t and
Mr.. Cleveland ven out of office with
out having made any attempt to fulfill
the promise he made on entering office
" 0Aei'hSe vi tle authority vested III
the executive for the protection of the
people against the trusts, which he had
condemned in unmistakable terms.
Not only will the democracy in 1900
be unable to convince the country that
1t Is not in any way responsible for
trusts, but it will not succeed in per-
suading any great number of intelligent
voters that the party can be depended
upon to make any serious attempt to
break up the m%onopolistic combina-
tons. If the democracy should succeed
to power in 1901 there is no reason to
believe that its attitude toward the
trusts from 1893 to 1897 would not be
repeated. Meanwhile it is the impera-
tive duty of the republican party to
deal with this question as the situation
demands. 1t must maintain the record
1t has made of opposition to all COM
binations of capital to control arbi-
trarily the condition of trade among our
citizens. AS we have heretofore said,
the country will expect from the next
congress legislation that will enable the
executive department Of the govern
ment to take effective action against
the trusts. We confidently believe this
will be done, not merely as a matter of
political expediency, but from a COM
handing sense of duty to the people.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
Police Commissioners Hess

Police Commissioner Hess of New
York must be acknowledged one of the
most astute men in politics. lie testi-
fled before the investigating committee
that If the police captains reported no
gambling going on when there were 100
open pool rooms in operation, in his
opinion the police captains lied. Talk
about logic.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19

their own minds. AS n matter of fact,
cent by restoring the clearing house
figures TO the old basis, but would
actually benefit by the general adj
vantage accruing to the city through
the abolition of the damaging advertise
ment In each weeks clearing house ex-
hibit. The proper pressure from
Omaha business men might develop the
public spirit necessary to s%traighten
out these clearing house differences.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19

Ex-senator PETER announces that
hereafter he will act with the repub-
lican party. AS his reason he says that
the money question has settled itself
and there is only n of two things TO
do-head for either the republican or
democratic parties-and he cannot see
what charm the democracy can have for
any former republican. There must be
thousands of other populists disguised
with populism just as much as the ex-
senator from Kansas all over the west.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19

Governor Poynter must have seen IA
new light from Kearney since he made
his attempt to remove Superintendent
HoXie of the Industrial school. Other
appointive officials who gave up peace
ably when their successors were ap-
pointed probably realize by this time
what chumps they have been to get
out when a little obstreperousness
would have kept them in touch with a
fat salary.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19

The increasing demand for land
caused by better returns from farming
and stock raising has induced the gov
eminent officials to expedite surveying
and placing on the market the remain
ing unoccupied government and in the
west. The west was the first section to
feel the impulse of the improved times
and the influx Of settlers to occupy
lands now vacant will swell the tide
still further.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19

If 1t takes six years to get a sub
stantial viaduct across Sixteenth street
how long will it take to get the via
ducts needed at Twenty-fourth street
and other cross-town thoroughfares?
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19
POWER Of THE SPEAKER.
Can Make or Mar the Political For
tunes of His Party.

The fight for ex-Speaker Reeds shoes has
begun in earnest. 1t is a long time from
now until congress meets, but the speaker
ship Is, next to the presidency, the most
powerful, il not the most august. office in
the government. In some respects 1t Is more
powerful than the presidency. The admin
i~stration Is controlled absolutely by the laws
passed by congress. The speaker has more
to do, directly or indirectly. with passing
those laws than any other person, always
provided he has the forcefulness and ability
which a man In such a position should have.
He names all the committees. and 1t Is natu-
.Eal that he should 80 constitute them as to
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-19

Norah dn great surprise)-Dead mum!
Chicago Records: WAR seems to be very
bottles in the Arabian Nights"
"How's that?'
Why, it is easier to let it loose than 1t Is
to cork 1t up again.
Yonkers Statesman: BILL met that fell
low Boggs yesterday.
Jill-Did he borrow anything from you?
l asked him to loan me a dollar"
II see; you struck him in self-defense."
indianapolis journal: 1t was rather a
small piece and the man was a complainer
Here's another of those problems which
confront us at every turn, he said. Il
can't make up my mind whether that ought
to be called a piece of strawberry shortcake
or a short piece of strawberry cake"
American masses can be trusted to think
out problems for themselves and arrive at
sensible conclusions?'
There can't be any doubt of it, said the
in my own locality are concerned. They
have been voting for me for years."
Washington Star: 'Shall we elect our
senator's by a popular vote?' asked the
friend.
"Looky here" said Senator Sorghum, II
don't believe you say 1t right. l don't be-
view to the electing as 1t was in the hope
of leaving some of us at home"
Harper's Bazaar: II want to tell yo', my
flock at prayer meeting, dat in desc days
of chainless bikes, hossless kerridges an
SIGH, dat what we need 70, the glorification
razzerless pahties, melonless patches and
crapless games. Does yo' follow me?"