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Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
PHILIPPINk CURRENCY slTuAT

Philippine SiTUA TON.
Pacifcation in the Philippines and the
establishment of civil government there
will certainly be followed by improve
ment in Industrial and commercial con-
ditions, but there is good reason to be-
lieye that Improvement would be more
rapid and more substantial If the bill
which passed congress had made pro-
vision for a change in the currency sys-
ten Of the islands. The continuance of
the existing system threatens to retard
the work of development in the archi-
pelago and delay that prosperity which
is deemed to be SO essential to perma-
zen peace and popular contentment.
What was urged by the financial and
commercial interests in the Philippines
was that the currency system be placed
upon a gold standard basis. They
wanted the extension of the American
currency system to the islands and this
was recommended by the Philippine
commission and by the special commits,
sion sent TO investigate financial condi,
lions in the archipelago. The PROPOSE
ton to do this was incorporated in the
house bill and most ably advocated by
the majority of the committee on in.
>sular affairs. but it was stubbOrnly Op.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
beef Supply and Demand.
Cleveland Leader.

Cleveland Leader.
1t takes so long to bring cattle TO the
best age for fattening that the effect OF more
and cheaper corn upon the supply and price
Of beeves must be felt very gradually and
indirectly. Meanwhile the population will
be increasing. and II prosperity shall con-
tinue the general scale Of living will rise so
that any fall in prices OF such a staple as
beef will be less certain than 1t would have
been a few years ago, under similar condi-
tions. Broadly speaking. and ignoring tenn
porary changes in the markets, this country
is passing into a period OF more costly ami
NAL food of nearly all kind That ten
dency may be checked, now and then. but
It will continue as an undercuTTent of eco
nomic changes.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

posed by the senate, with the result that
the Philippine currency system was al
lowed to remain unchanged. According
to reports from Washington, those who
are conversant with present conditions
at Manila predict that within the next
six months conditions will become so
much worse that an absolutely inevita-
BILE necessity for action will be forced
upon congress. They say this is the
more likely because under the new leg
islation a great deal of American cap
ital will probably be invested in the
Philippines and the owners of this cap
ital will demand that business conditions
shall be rendered as stable and reliable
as possible. 1t is stated that the opin-
ion is widely prevalent that next winter
there will be legislation of some kind on
the Philippine currency question and the
general belief is that there will be an
extension to the islands of the American
system.
That this is the proper thing to do
there seems to be not a reasonable
doubt. The maintenance of a silver nj
rency in the Philippines is unquestion-
ably necessary. That is admitted on
all hands. But there is no sound rea-
son why this silver currency cannot be
based on the gold standard, as was con
templated' in the house bill. Such a
policy would work no hardship to any
interest and would give relief from the
difficulties with which the financial and
commercial interests at Manila now
contend, necessarily to their disadvan-
tage and detriment. The position of the
senate in this matter is not easily un.
derstood, but there is nc doubt that II
will have to be abandoned in the near
future. The United States is a gold
standard country. Its currency is upon
that basis and it should not have a diff
ferent standard in any of its possessions.
1t can be confidently predicted that the
existing Philippine currency system
will not be long maintained.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Among the first requests of King Ed
ward gratihed by his attendants was
that for permission TO have access TO
the newspapers. The daily newspaper
has come to be Indispensable to every
intelligent person Of highest as well as
lowest rank. Without the newspaper
or some means of gaining information
OF its contents a man feels cut on from
the world and lost in darkness, and no
deprivation caused by sickness is more
keenly felt. No more natural desire
could be manifested by the eonvalescing
king than to be brought again into close
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
General Chance in the Philippines.
Kansas City Star.

General Chanee, whose position as mill
tary governor Of the Philippines has been
discontinued by the proclamation OF the
president making civil rule in the Philip
pines supreme, has given conspicuously able
service, and presumably he win be con-
tinued at the head OF the insular army, pro-
vided he desires to remain in that position.
General Chaffee has displayed a high order
Of executive ability and has also reinforced
his reputation as a commander. His fine,
s~oldierly qualities have endesred him to the
rank and hle in and out of the army. Not
the least Of his merits as a factor in bring
ing about order In the Philippines has been
his frankness In estimating the weakness
and unreliability of the average Filipino.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Our amiable populist contemporary, the
Nebraska Independent frankly admits
that both sides are confident OF success
in the coming Nebraska campaign. This
is a great concession, coming from that
quarter, as the Independent always has
the republicans discounted and discour-
aged by the vision OF certain defeat even
before they get fairly started. For it to
allow that anyone can be confident OF
republican victory is almost the same as
eoReeding the victory itself.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
A bolt that Failed.
Washington Post.

Whether or not Mr.. Bryan was a bolteT
when he entered the Chicago convention OF
1896 is not a matter of great moment, since
he was a good enough democrat to be twice
nominated for the presidency by that party.
But 1t is generally understood that after the
Hon. Charles T. O'Ferrall. a gold democrat,
had been nominated by the Virginia demo-
Gratis for governor a year or two before the
Chicago convention, Mr.. Bryan promised to
stump the state for a populst candidate
against o'Ferrall. The Nebraskan was with
some difficulty dissuaded from carrying out
that plan. This statement has been made
by Ex-Governor O'Ferrall, and its accuracy
has not been questioned.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
Americans BeyOnd the Rio Grande.
Modern Mexico

Americans have little patience with for
eigners who attempt either to visit or TO
do business in the United States without a
knowledge Of English. This fact makes It
seem all the stranger that Americans should
come to Mexico and not fully realize that In
this country 1t is equally incumbent upon
them to know Spanish. Mexico welcomes
travellers OF all nations, and nowhere in
the world will bad Spanish be received with
such careful politeness. 1t seems quite in
exeusable. then, that scenes occasionally en-
acted here should occur, IN which Ameri-
cans are heard saying very unkind things
because some native haekdriver or police
man or waiter does not understand Eng
lish. Notwithstanding the fact that orders
are delivered in tones considerably above
the conversational pitch
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

The census bureau report of the pack
ing house business Of 1899 makes very
Interesting reading-only 1t is nearly
three years old and can scarcely be
classed with fresh news matter. II the
census bureau could be induced to grind
out its statistics within six months after
they are culled this enterprise would not
only be better appreciated. but would
prove Of greater value to the student of
political economy.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

When the story of the steelclad battle
ship Nebraska comes to be written a
truthful historian viii not omit that at
the laying Of the first keel the staff of the
governor Of Nebraska completely out
shone the staff Of the governor Of Wash
ington in their gorgeous uniforms and
superb decorations. And they were
%colonels, every n of them.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Admiral Dewey has certainly fallen
from grace with the popOcratie papers,
which, while counting on playing the
Philippine question up high in the COM
ing campaign, have found their whole
store Of political capital ruined by the
admirars testimony and his destruction
of the halo they had set over the head
of Aguinaldo. One Bryanite organ re-
fers to the hero Of Manila bay as "the
most determined follower OF Annanias"
and "a worthy successor of Nicholas
Machiavelli," to say nothing of several
other equally choice expressions. The
disappointment of the popocrats over
Admiral Dewey's statements must be
very keen to prompt such defamatory at
tacks. This onslaught, however. is
printed in the same pOpocratic paper
that denounced the late President Nc
Kinley as 1.-THE villain of all the ages"
so that its rawlings will not pass current
very far.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

The Nebraska state fair is Incorporate
ing into its advertisements glowing ref
erence to the extraordinary agricuL
tural promise" held up before the state.
Unless all signs fail the fair will be a
prosperity exhibit.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

A Chicago firm boasts in public print
that 1t sold 1.75s bottles of it's particular
brand OF fine old whisky on the day be-
fore the Fourth to private parties in
tending to spend the day out of town at
summer resorts and fishing, No wonder
these out-of-town excursions are SO pop
ular with Chicago people.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Now that the railroad tax bureau has
fired all it's skyrockets and Roman
candles. it would be well for it to come
down to brass tacks and face the cor
rect figures and u~npalatable facts of
railroad tax Sinking and %undervalua-
lion.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Striking employees of the Union Pa
cihc at this point have so far made an
enyiable record for orderly behavior.
They should see to 1t that this record
is not marred by a single lawless act
at any stage of their contest.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

The railroad tax bureau has discov-
cred that taxes are being paid on a few
miles of branch roads that are being
operated at a loss. AS If, that were
anything wonderful. Plenty of people
have been losing money on empty build
ings and vacant lots, but. the tax bills
came regularly, just the same.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

In preeipitating a strike in the dull
month Of July instead Of the brisk
months Of October and November, when
crops are moving. President Burt has
shown a good deal of cleverness, but the
danger is that the strike may be pro-
tracted beyond the dog days.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Those tax bureau men are on yearly
salaries. They may. therefore. be ex-
pected to continue grinding out bunco
bulletins as long as they think there
are gullibles to swallow them.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Nebraska democrats generously con-
cede to their popullst allies the fusion
nomination for congress in the Sixth
district. They argue that the populists
would get it, anyway, and then after
the nomination is made any fusion can
didate will have to AXE desperate
N
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
The Alien and the Native.
Detroit Free Press,

Detroit Free Press.
OF 573 persons charged with commit
ting offenses against the federal stat
utes last year, Alb were Of American birth.
This ought to interest the persons that
are eternally worrying about the democrat
izing foreign elements in our population.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

When a man asks you whether 1t is
warm enough for you, a prompt and
vigorous application Of the arguments of
"Pitchfork" Tillman or Bailey would be
in order.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
Thex Keep it Dark.
PhiIadelnhia Ledger.

IHIIdUUIpIIU LOUbN'
A man arrested at the White House as
q crank declares that he has the power
Of telling where Uncle Sam is being
robbed" There are lots of that kind Of
cranks in Washington, but they are shrewd
enough to keep quiet about 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
scarcity of Farmhands.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
The demand for laborers on western
farms is now urgent, and the pay offered
is excellent. 1t is deplorable that idle
men in congested districts cannot be trans
ported in great NUMBER to the agricultural
districts, where they are so much needed.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

President Roosevelt may take a few
days OF to visit with his family in his
Long Island home, but presidents are
not among those who are favored with
real vacations.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
Value of Good Roads.

New York Press.
The New Jersey commissioner OF public
roads authorizes the statement hat there
are several regions under his supervision
to which improved roads have been pri-
marily, the means of attracting wealth to
the extent of from 81, 900, 900 to $4,000 900.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
Passed Trouble to the Lawyers.

Philadelphia Record.
In view of the showers Of injunction
and other legal proceeding Of which the
Beef trust is the object it appears to b.
doing remarkably we'll.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Revivals are in order. but we can
readily spare the revival of the train
robbing industry.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
srArEMrNr OF CIRCULATION.

BTATEMENT OF
State OF Nebraska, Douglas County,, S.:
George d. Tzschuck, secretary OF The bee
Publishing Company, being duly. sworn,
says that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Daily, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed. during
the month Of June, 1902, was as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

touch with the current OF human life
through the newspaper as the most serv-'
iceable medium.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Detroit Free Press: care you sure this
Is the placer" asked one desperate burglar
Of another.
Cert" was the reply. Didn't I see
him buy the roast of beef in the market,
and didn't l follow him home and never
let him out o. my sigh a minute?"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Chicago Post: Have you read much
about the historical character you intend
to introduce?' they asked OF the novelist.
Certainly not. she replied. I'm afraid
II would spoil the novel"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Brooklyn Life: we have tried every
thing, even Christian Science"
And she still lives2"
mot only that, but she has money"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Philadelphia Record: Nell-I never knew
such an inquisttive girl as Maude.
Belle-That's right. II she had a family
tree / dare say II would be a rubber plant.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Chicago Tribune MY boy Sammy"
said the neighbor, worries me almost to
death with his somnambulism."
You ought to take It away from him"
said Mrs. Lapsling. He'll kill himself with
II some day.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Philadelphia Press: "Of course" said
the promoter OF the get-rich-quick COM
pany, I'VE can only give the prospective
earnings in round numbers"
"Ah, yes" replied the victim, because
they couldn't possibly be square"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Indianapolis News: stop! Don't tight
boysl Can't we arbitrate this thing ?" asked
one OF the bystanders.
YES, sir" painted the fellow who was on
top. Just as soon as I've blacked his
other eye"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Chicago Tribune: AFTER you have taken
this medicine said the physician. give
once"
Gosh, doc!' exclaimed the shaggy haired
patient. Cant you make II a mustard
plaster or sumthin' like tibet? 1 always
kitch cold when / take a bathH'
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Cleveland Plain Dealer: 81 see that the
ambassadors of Germany, Austria and
Italy have come together and again hxed
up their little dreibund arrangement"
II suppose they had to adjourn fire.
quently for beer"
''Why?"
ITO prevent the proceedings from getting
too drei."
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

In the '7Os Of the last century what a
dull monotony of ugly "brownstone fronts"
was seen in block after block OF Fifth ave-
nue. and the cross streets between Wash
ington square and Central parkl What a
transformation has been wrought since
then and how extensive are the changes
now In progress! The variety in the de-
signs of the buildings constructed in Man
haitian within twenty-five years impresses
every New Yorker and every visitor to the
city. The old order changes, giving place
to new.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-01-12
PROGRAMME A BRILLIANT ONE.
Times Band Will Charm His Audience
Here.

The great Times Band concert at
Glover's opera house on Wednesday
afternoon next will be musical event
long remem bered here, and great au-
dience will enjoy 1t.
Following is the brilliant progra mme
promised Americus.
1 Overture, "Triumphal, Rubin
stein. (Tn which is described the Cri.
mean War, between Russia and the
allied English, French and Turkish
forces.)
2. ''Serenade Rococco, Meyer
Helmund. Cor Reed instruments.
8. "Kammenoi Ostrow, Rubin
stein. Descriptive Fantasia.)
4, "The Whrlwind, Levy ICON
cert Polka. Oornet Solo by Kryl.
5. "Gebirgskinder, "-Ziehrer. ICON
cert Waltz.
6 a. Intermezzo, "Oupid's Story,
'Prince Charming, LINES. 1.-TWO
Step March. New.)
7. Scenes from Carmen, '-Bizet,
Carmen, -Signora Adele Borghi, Don
Jose-Signor Edgardo Zerni, Esca
miller (Che Toreador) -Signor AchilIe
Alberti.
g. Alpine Scenes Tunes. (Spec.
tacular Idyl. New. The Shepherds
Love-making. (Pastorale) In the
Tavern. Either solo, Wedding les
tivities. At the Forge. Gntroducine
the Corps of Costumed Musical Black
smiths, Electric Anvils, etc
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-01-12
GAY LORD IS AGAIN
IN TOLLS OF LAW,
Arrest of Bogus Lord Beresford Is In
teresting.
70 MANY HERE WHO KNEW Hin
Nabbsd By Officers In Boston and
Wanted This Time In Arkansas
Reresford Is Very Well Known In
Americas.

The Times. Recorders dispatches
yesterday, telling of the capture in
Boston of the noted fraud 'Lord'
Beresford, was read with a great deal
of interest in Americus, where his
lordship (?) is we'll known, having
spent some time here after quitting
the Georgia penitentiary.
No one was surprised to hear that
Beresford was again in the tolls.
This time he is wanted upon the
charge of working" a hotel man In
Hot Springs, Ark. for $1,000. He is
travelling under the name of Leonard,
but was identified as the same old
bogus 'lord."
Beresf >rd, or LacelIes, it will be re-
membered, was sent to the Georgia
penitentiary for crime committed at
Rome, and it was after his escape from
the lumber camps at Kramer, on the
Georgia & Alabama Railway, that he
showed up here in Americus.
1t was here in q house OF i'll fame
that policeman found him.
After his escape from Kramer he hid
here for day until Officer Barrow 10.
Gated hum and turned him over to the
guards.
After he was finally released from
the penitentiary Beresford hung about
Americas for time and finally drifted
to Fitzgerald, where he married an
heiress. From Georgia he went tc
Mexico, and has since been doing
western and northern cities,
Nothing had been heard of him in
several years until his arrest in Boston
a day or two ago.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-01-12

Ely's Liquid Cream Balm is an old
friend in new form. It is prepared
for the particular benefit of sufferers
from nasal catarrh who are used to an
atomizer in spraying the diseased mem
branes. All the healing and soothing
properties of Cream Balm are retained
in the new preparation. It does not
dry up the secretions. Price, includ-
ing spraying tube, rs cents. At your
druggists, or Ely Brothers, Sc Warren
Street, New York, will mail it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-01-12
REMARKABLE CURE OF GROUP.
A Little Bows Life Saved.

have few words to say regarding
CHARACTERISTICS Cough Remedy. It saw
ed my little boys life and feel that /
cannot praise it enough. L bought a
bottle of it from A. E. Steere of Good
win, S. D., and when got home with
it the poor baby could hardly breathe,
| gave the medicine as directed every
ten minutes until he ''threw up" and
then thought sure he was going to
choke to death. We had to pull the
phlegm out of his mouth in great long
strings. [ am positive that If had not
got that bottle of cough medicine, my
boy would not be on earth today.
DEMoNT, Inwood, Iowa. For sale by
ali druggists.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-01-12
HARD TO GET CREDIT
OR GOODS ON TIME.
Supply Men More Discriminating Ths
Last Year.
COTTON FARMING Is A LUXURY
That Can Be INDUCED in Only BY
Those Who Raise Supplies or Have
Gilt Edged Credit With Bank and
Merchant.

The man behind the dollar and the
m an behind the mortgage both came to
Americus yesterday, and the man be-
hind the counter had as much as he
could do. Both had come to buy, and
the day was the livliest of the new year
In trade circles.
And the dollar went much further
than did the mortgage.
Particularly was this true in the pur.
chase of meat, corn and guano, and
while the mortgage moved pile of
goods out of town the feat was less
easily accomplished than last year
In fact, poor collections last fall
makes it quite difficult for some to OBJ
tain credit, as the supply dealers do
not care to incur any great risks. OF
course one who is "gilt-edged" can get
what he wants, but as rule this kind
do not care to buy at credit prices.
The situation is far different from
what it was year ago.
Then cotton was worth from 8 to 10
cents; everybody had a little money,
and the world swung easily. Provis-
sions were low, and the supply men
were in better position to make ad-
vsDces.
Now it is different, and even the
banks will exercise more than usual
caution in making advances. Cotton
may be low again nextfall, and if made
with high priced provisions, collections
may not be even so good as during the
past season.
High priced provisions and low
priced cotton have combined to make
farm hand instead of "crappef" Of
the coIored brother, and labor will be
most plentiful.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-01-12
NEARLY ONE HUNDRED BALES
Cotton Rolled in Here Quite Freely
Yesterday.

The procession of cotton wagons that
rolled into town yesterday reminded
one of busy day in the early fall sea-
son. Probably seventy five or hun
dred bales were brought to Americas
and sold, the owners preferring pres
ent prices to longer wait. Most of
the cotton was of the last picking and
consequently of rather poor quality,
but it had value and brought it.
The ruling price yesterday was about
y cents for the best grades, the mar
ket showing decline of several points.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-01-12
The Secret Of Long Life

Consists in keeping all the main or
gans of the body in healthy, regular &C
ton, and in quickly destroying deadly
disease germs. Electric Bitters regulate
Stomach, Liver and Kidneys, purify the
blood, and give splendid appetite.
They work wonders in curing Kidney
Troubles, Female Complaints, Nervous
Diseases, Constipation, Dyspepsia, and
Malaria. Vigorous health and strength
always follow their use. Only soc, guar
anteed by e, j Eldridge, druggist.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-01-12
COUNCIL HAs OTHER BUSINESS
Session On Monday Night May b
Spirited.

The City Council meets tomorrow
night, and among other matters that
may be passed upon is the salary of
mayor for the current year. With this
one exception the entire salary list was
disposed of at the last meeting, and
while that of the mayor was discussed
at some length fioal disposition of it
was not made at the time. There will
be other important matters to COM
msnd the attention of the solons, and
the meeting tomorrow night will be q
busy one.