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POINTED COnrilENT.
The surplus during the present fiscal
year will do nicely for beginning the
Nicaraguan canal.
It is only common decency for the
United States not to add at present to
England's difficulties.
England's nerve in calmly continuing
her seizures, ia taking away the breath
of the nations of the world.
"Mystery hunting" goes on unabated
in both Houses of Congress undiscour
aged by continued failures to make a
bag.
If Col. Bryan has been informed that
he has a chance of winning this tall, he
must be like Lord Methuen deceived
by his guides.
It was rubbing it in for Col. Blake's
Irish brigade to march the captured
Irish Fusiliers into Pretoria under the
Irish flag.
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Governor Smith of Maryland, though
a Democrat, is an expansionist. He
believes that he can be Governor and
retain his seat in Congress.
It is nothing new for the Govern
ment to deposit money in National
banks. In Mr. Cleveland's first term,
he deposited over'§s'J,ooo,ooo,
The Daily Slush Bucket has missed a
trick. It hasn't yet sent a correspon
dent to Manila to describe Mrs. Aggie's
captured undergarments.
The Czar explains that he is merely
experimenting when he sends his
troops to the borders of India. He
doesn't mean anything—yet.
Senator Beveridge says that the
Philippines are one of the garden spots
of the earth, and that Luzon is healthier
than New York.
It is rather late to say it, but we are
constrained to remark that Emperor
William has decided to see to the short
coming of the twentieth century.
Col. Bryan denies that he intends to
ride an ostrich. But he will attempt
the infinately harder task of again at
tempting to ride the Chicago platform.
It is probable that those gory tale s
from Kentucky are exaggerations, but
if they prove true the United States
government will preserve order there.
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Five hundred American cats have
been sent to Manila. Where is Petti,
grew? He should resolute towards this
contemplated tyrany towards free born
rats.
While Billy Mason is presenting
resolutions of sympathy with pretty
much everybody, he should not neglect
St. Lewia and the Chicago sewage
canal.
What lias become of Mr. Watterson'?
He was billed in large letters to appear
at the Jackson-day iove feast at Omaha
but he didn't show up. Why this
thusness?
An indication of the prosperity of the
c juntry under the present administra.
tion, is found in the fact that in last
November alone, orders were placed
for 11,281 cars and 396 locomotives.
The wonder is, not that Senator Cul
person should wish not to lead the
Democratic hosts this fall, as it is that
Senator Jones of Arkansas should wish
to do it.
Democrats who expected anything
from Mr. Sulzer's resolution to investi
gate Secretary Gage, should have
studied the former's record of results
and compared it with his list of at
tempts.
Buokion's Arnica Salve .
The best Salve in the world for cuts,
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sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, j
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required,
ft ia guaranteed to give perfect satis
faction or money refunded. Price 25
r--nts a box. For sale by L. Taggart.
No better barometer of business
can be found than the railroads,
those great transporters of the pro
ducts of industry and labor. The
gross earnings of all roads in the
United States, reporting to Dun's
Review for the first half of Decem
ber showed a gain of 10.1 per cent,
over the prosperous year 1892.
The difficulties which surround
the men who are trying to frame
legislation to regulate trusts are
illustrated by the fact that the
British government, with its strong
centralization, linds it impossible
to draft legislation to control trusts,
which arc quite as prevalent and
successful in that country as in the
United States.
Democratic spellbinders are now
evolving a theory to show the dis
advantage of increased wages.
Higher wages, they will say, mean,
of course, greater cost of produc
tion and necessitate a higher charge
for manufactured articles, and the
farmer is therefore compelled to
mortgage his farm to buy silk hats
and rosewood liayrakes.
Mr. Bryan will please make a
note, for use on his Eastern con
verting tour, that 011 January 2 of
the new year the wages of 25,000
Pittsburg steel and glass operatives
were advanced five and ten per
cent., and in some cases even more.
Under Mr. Bryan's method this
occurrence can doubtless be ex
plained into a misfortune.
The efforts of the free-traders to
veil their attacks upon the protec
tive tariff, which has brought ac
tivity to thousands of factories and
given employment andbetter wages
to several million American work
inginen, under the guise of an anti
trust crusade in the coming cam
paign will not succeed. All that
is necessary to do is to point to the
nourishing condition of trusts in
Great Britain, well known as the
home ol' free trade.
The action of the administration
in bringing about an "open door"
agreement among nations with
reference to our commerce with
China has awakened general inter
est in our trade with the Orient
and its prospective development,
and many leading men in the Dem
ocratic party, both North and
South, are cordially commending
the course of the government in its
efforts to develop our foreign trade
in that part of the world.
Some of the Western railroads
are complaining that, after making
great efforts to secure adequate
transportation, the farmers are
holding their grain instead of slop
ing it. This is interesting when it
is recalled, only a few years ago the
farmers were not able to hold their
crops until prices suited them, but
were forced to sell at the earliest
possible moment to enable them to
pay their debts incurred under
Democratic rule. The farmers are
enjoying their share of the present
good times.
Senator Kyle's reasons for de
termining to vote for the gold
standard are simply an example of
the conditions which are causing
many other leaders to abandon (lie
silver cause. He says, "Though I
am a bimetallist and have been so
from conscientious conviction for
twenty-live years, I would rather
take the most undiluted gold
standardism than accept bimetal
lism with the ingredients of radical
socialism that are now associated
with it. We have been practically
operating under the gold standard
for thirty years, and having brought
ourselves into harmony with the
monetary systems of the world, it
is a doubtful proposition whether
it is right to again disturb values
in the world when by such action
we do injustice to the creditor class
and at the same time put ourselves
out of joint with the rest of the
world.''
The gold which is going to
Europe need not worry the calamity
criers at all. It is going there be
cause it commands a higher rate of
interest there than can be obtained
for it here, and not for the purpose
of debt-paying. So long as the
trade balance is in the neighbor
hood of forty million dollars
monthly in favor of this country,
it will not be necessary to export
gold to Europe for debt-paying
purposes.
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LATE WASHINGTON NEWS.
President McKinley Assists Demo
cratic Probers--The Financial
Bill in the Senate--House
Canal Bill Attracts
Attention.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15th, 1900.—"Pub
lish copies of every record of my ad
ministration, if called for," is the sum
and substance of President McKinley's
instructions to the members of his
Cabinet. That is the straight-forward
answer of the man who knows that the
closer his official acts are studied, the
higher his administration will stand,
to the roundabout attempts of the
Democrats and assistant Democrats to
play politics by offering all sorts of
resolutions asking for all sorts of in
terrelation, so worded as to arouse sus
picion in the minds of the suspiciousiy
inclined that their authors know of
something discreditable on the part of
some branch of the administration.
This offer to furnish any information
desired by Congress, together with
President McKinley's request to the
Republican loaders in both branches of
Congress that they would not take
advantage of the Republican majority
to defeat resolutions of inquiry offered
by Democrats, has disconcerted the
Democrats, and they seem in doubt as
to what they shall do next.
The Democratic Senators seem to bo
even more afraid of the financial ques-!
tion than were the Democrats in the |
House during the debate on the Repub- j
lican financial bill. There was some- j
thing almost pathetic in the attitude of!
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, when he
asked Senator Aldrich, who is in charge ]
of the financial bill, if no more Repub
licans intended to speak on the bill, j
and acknowledged that no Democrat j
was ready to speak. Senator Aldrich
promptly replied that the Republicans
were ready to vote on the bill, but were
willing to allow its opponents to do all
the speaking against it they wished. j
So far the only speech in the Senate
against the bill has been made by |
Senator Stewart, who is a long ways
from being a Democrat, notwithstand- J
ing his radical silver views. Mr. Bryan j
is expected in Washington this week, j
enroute to the Eastern States, where j
he is going to try to convince the
prosperous people that the country
isn't getting along all right. Perhaps
after they confer with him, the Demo- J
cratic Senators will be ready to do j
more talking, although rumor says
that Mr. Bryan himself has promised I
not too much silver talking in the East.
The Roberts report will goto the
House this week, and there isn't the
slightest doubt tiiat Roberts will go
i back to Utah, a wiser, if not a happier
| man.
Mr. G. M. Lambertson, who, in ad
i dition to being one of Nebraska's lead-
I ing lawyers, is an authority on State
| politics, is in Washington on legal
| business. In answer to questions on
I the political outlook in the State, he
j said he was absolutely certain that the
next legislature, which will elect two
| Senators, will be Republican.
Mr. P. B. Shepard, who is U. S. Com
j missioner at St. Michaels, Alaska, says
j the action of President McKinley in
j making Alaska a military division,
| under command of Gen. Randall, will
be joyful news to the law abiding resi
dents of that territory, as under exist
ing conditions, the civil authorities are
powerless to preserve order. lie thinks
the size of Alaska will soon make it
necessary to divide it into two terri
tories.
The House Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce, will favorably
report Chairman Hepburn's bill, pro
viding for the construction of the
Nicaragua Canal, by this government,
as soon as the required territory is
acquired from Costa Rica, and Nicara
gua, and Mr. Hepburn thinks the bill
will pass the House at this session.
That the sentiment of the House favors
the bill is unquestionably true, but the
desire on the part of some members to
wait for the report of the Canal Com
| mission, which will be available next
winter, may prevent action at this
session
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A 90-year-old survivor of the famous
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In pulmonary trouble,the direct action
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throat, chest and lungs, immediately
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tress. cutting the phlegm and freeing the
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