Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-06
OTHER LANDS THAN Ours.


though Increased by S40OUO.00o, has every
year shown surplus 1911 90 in 1000. The
treasury has repaid to the Bank OF Spain
and TO the tobacco monopoly about WOO
OC0Ooo. without contracting any foreign
loan. but simply out of the surplus and the
treasury bonds taken by Spanish investors,
at rate Of and per cent per annum.
Besides this. Spsniards have invested since
the war A0OO0.C00 in a merchant marine
s45,OOOoOO in constructing sugar factories,
$3.50 100000 in installation of industries of all
kinds-namely electric plants and develop
ment Of mines. Notwithstanding the enor-
nous cost of the Cuban insurrectiou and
the American war. all debts have been reg
ularly paid, and the Cuban debt has been
taken over by Spain. The exterior and In
terror debts are now capitalized at IA per
cent on the European markets The rail-
ways. imperfect as they may be in their
construction and equipment, have seen their
gross earnings increase by so per cent in the
last ten years The gold premium from lis
per cent during the American war and 80
per cent after the peace, has dropped to q
per cent, and would now stand even lower IL
IL were not for the failure of the last two
crops in wheat and fruit. which have tenn
porariy retarded the further improvement
of the currency.
II Is a long time since there has been
such "a stir in the British navy as has been
caused by the severe minute issued by
the Admiralty in connection with the recent
stranding Of the steam repair ship Alliance
in Tetuan bay Practically IL censures
everybody concerned from the commanding
admiral down. After the mishap the COM
mander Of the Alliance was tried on
charge OF negligence before court martial
at Gibraltar and acquitted. Now the lords
OF the Admiralty express regret that the
COMMUNICATIVE chief Admiral Maya very
distinguished officer-should have selected
for the Alliance a berth which was known
to be unsafe during an easterly gale. Next,
they censure the captain for using too short
a cable, and for being unready to weigh
anchor at moments notice. Then they
comment severely upon the fact that other
ships OF the squadron were equally unpre-
pared and therefore unable to go 20 the
Alliances assistance. Finally, they proceed
to scold all the watch officers of the AL
lance very roundly, and to announce their
determination to supersede them. The cap
tain Of the Alliance also is relieved of his
command So general censure has not
been distributed in the British navy for
years.
In his recent talk with representative OF
| the Paris Figaro the well known English
! statesman, Sir Charles Dixie, said that
| British foreign policy at present reposes
on England's friendship with the United
/ States and France. England's relations
with Germany, he says, are less cordial.
| but offer no element of immediate danger.
| The efforts to bring about an understanding
| with Russia have been delayed by existing
| circumstances. He hopes that any agree
ment between England and Russia as to
Persian trade and railways will be followed
| by an international settlement OF the
Baghdad railway question. involving the
! restoring by irrigation of the fabulous old
time fertility of Mesopotamia and the main
! tenance of Turkish sovereignty in Asia
( Minor The whole affair, he thinks ought
! to be intrusted to an international COM
! mission consisting of the representatives of
! Germany, England, Russia and France. AS
| to Russia's international position in conse-
! quence of the war. Sir Charles Dixie thinks
il has been improved, for now every one
| admits that il is a necessity for Europe.
| For the moment he discerns no immediate
danger for peace. The chief peril lies in the
| rival ambitions of Austria and Italy in
! Albania, but the relations between these
! powers, he says, are better than they were
last year. The Balkan question is no more
dangerous today than it has been for a
generation, and the breakup of the Austro-
| Hungarian empire Is still in the future.
|
The Danish high school was the out
! come of a recent period in DAM n history
when the nation passed through 4 crucial
| period of trouble, loss and humiliation.
1 xxba lie Low nd itS itN
, were threatened from without and when It
| seemed for a time as If even it's intellectual
| and spiritual independence might be de-
! stroyed or absorbed. During such periods,
! when 1.-The reproof of chance lay heavy
! on one of the smaller nations, the true
/ proof of its men and women was tested
! to the utmost, and Denmark at this crisis
I in its history was not found wanting. After
the storm had passed and the province
| of Schleswig- Holsten had been wrested
from the nation, Grotwg and other patriots
| conceived and carried out the high school,
! scheme, and succeeded finally in attracting
! to these schools all that was best and
most aspirational in the life of the peas
antry and people. The aim OF the teacher
was not SO much to inpart knowledge as
| to stimulate the reflective powers, so as to
arouse in the minds of their pupils thoughts
on the value and purpose of life.
|
The new British aliens statute, which was
passed at the last session of Parliament,
and which went into effect yesterday. is in
many respects a copy Of our own. Known
criminals and paupers are not to be allowed
TO land, and our likely to become a public
charge" provision has been borrowed. But
in one respect the British law goes further
than our own. II is fatty required that the
immigrant shall have at least SIS, while our
law allows entry without any stipulated
sum provided it appears to the satisfaction
of the inspectors that the immigrant will
be able to maintain himself or be main
tanned by relatives and friends This British
regulations similar one has often been
proposed here-has the merit of easy ad-
ninistration.
The Prussian statistical department has
just published some instructive particulars
relating to suicides in the country during
the past year While the aggregate number
of suicides has decreased somewhat, the
number of women who put an end to their
own lives seems TO be on the increase. The
percentage of women suicides has risen
from 1876 of the whole number in 1901 TO % g.
II is suggested by some German writers
who have discussed the subject that II
women continue TO take part in the struggle