Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL; 1 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, ' 1895).

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Rejected manuscripts will not be returned un ite postage is inclosed for that purpose. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: HEW YORK Astor House. CHICAGO PImr House. P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI-J. R. Hawley & Co., 1S4 Vine treet. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deering. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Uocic Co., ZX Fourth avenue. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C Riggs House, Ebtltt Hou.e and Wlllard's Hotel. Mayor TaggartTias never fought the whole Republican party before this campaign. For a "walk-over" Mr. Taggart Is find ing the road rough and filled with little rolling stones, with a steepness that takes the breath.. One of the mayor's achievements, which he did not exploit in his speech, was that he has increased the bonded debt of the city about fijO.000. - If every Republican and every other man who has . had enough of Taggartlsm will vote for Bookwalter be will be elected by a substantial majority. One week of beer meetings seems to have satisfied Mayor Taggart that he has not yet so affected popular sentiment that such meetings are popular. Mr. Taggart's friends look to the Prohibition ticket for assistance, and would assist it by a contribution It a connection could be made by the respective leaders. ft- . Thus far the Mayor has forgotten to tell any of his audiences why he paid $200,000 for lands that the owners could not have sold to any other party for $100,000. Boone county is paying proper respect to the memory' of revolutionary heroes buried within its territory by erecting tombstones over their graves. In how many counties of Indiana are such graves unmarked? "Coin" Harvey has been traveling up and down Nebraska for weeks to collect campaign fund5. He has secured $2.0fS.30 in real money and $12,000 more in pledges. At this rate the million dollars which he went out to collect wilf not be obtained until long fter Mr. .Bryan's second defeat. If Andrew Carnegie responds with a contribution to all the requests made by people who are promoting libraries, he will have no trouble in Illustrating his own theory that a man should give away all his posses sions before he dies. Still, it need surprise no one if . Andrew leaves something of a bank account when he departs this world. The report comes from Boston that the antl-lmpcrialists and the national Demo- I cratic committee will send Representative Lentx. of Ohio, to the Philippines, and that he will pass through the lines and have an interview with Agulnaldo. If this Is true the men behind this movemnet ar giving aid and comfort to tho armed enemy of the United States, and that constitutes treason. The fund for a Dewey home is not large. tut It ought to be. The admiral will need a goodly mansion in which to place the num erous other gifts the public is preparing to thrust upon him. There, for instance, is the loving cup. wun a capacity 01 xour ana a half Quarts, and there is the scrapbook, weighing 150 pounds and containing newspa per clippings' about himself. What will he 00 witn tncmi The New England Educational League is taking the preliminary steps toward secur ing cheaper postage for books. They argue that it will foe in the Interest of education quite as much as la the establish ment of libraries, and that it will supple ment the work of libraries. It will also be In the Interest of publishers, but If it will benefit the people. Incidental profit to deal ers is a minor consideration. It Is said that Secretary Root Is to be dedared unpopular because he devotes his time to the important business of his department and denies himself to men who would waste his time in talking of personal matters or in giving hLa ideas to correspondents. There is a larger audience that does not visit Washington, but watches the movements about the War Department, and that observing and silent audienco approves the new secretary. Chaplain Mailley. of the First Nebraska, was called upon to make an address a few days ago. He la not a Republican, and so declared In his speech, but said he believed the United States is in honor and duty bound to suppress the insurrection in the Philippines. For that reason he would vote to sustain the President as a patriotic duty. And the vast audience cheered the senti ments of the chaplain, is every American audience will in any part of the country. The tax commissioners of Michigan propose to tax the street-railway property of Detroit for the full amount at which its officers appraised it when the Pingree commission attempted to purchase It, namely. about $13,000,000. As the companies have Increased their valuation of the property recently to $17,0Q,0X they cannot complain of an assessment of $13,000,000. As a consider able portion of the estimated value Is In the franchisA-thj companies hold the tax may be regarded as one Imposed upon fran chises. ' 7 . The Pittsburg Dispatch calls attention to the fact that the name of a prominent man in labor conizations in that city appeared in the list , of speakers at the Chicago con ference, as a defender of trusts, which caused orae surprise. Theodore Schaffer, the present head cf tho Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, appeared before the industrial commission to

argue th0 sarai lde of the iuest,on- Com

menting upon me circumstance me Disratch eays It Is a fair Inference that these men do not radically differ from the majority, sentiment of the great labor organiza tions with which both are Identified. If the iron and steel workers lean towards trusts may it-not be possible that men in the lab'.r organizations have similar inclinations? THE NEGLECT OF CIVIC DUTIES. While state and federal government affect the general interests and welfare of the people, local government affects them at every point. In the city the burden of taxes Is greater than that of any other taxation. For ordinary municipal purposes, for schools, for extraordinary street and other Improvements, the people pay five dollars where they pay one into federal and state treasury. Sanitary conditions, the reason able security of life and property, the en forcement of laws and regulations touching tho well-being of the community are matters which are managed or mismanaged by municipal government. Nevertheless, while the manifold interests of local government most nearly concern the welfare of the people, they often take little interest In the selection of officers who vote and expend the larger part of taxes, and in the general management of municipal affairs. The men who do not vote in municipal elections are those who own property and have considerable Interests which are affected by the administration of city affairs. The neglect of those who have the greatest interest in good government Is so notorious that it is a matter of general comment. Political bosses in cities, from Croker in New York to Taggart In Indianapolis, do not trouble themselves to secure the support of taxpayers 'and those who are known to desire good government This is illustrated in the policy adopted by Mayor Taggart during the first week of the campaign. He made his appeal to those who could be won by free beer. It Is high time that there should be a change in regard to voting in municipal elections. Every man who desires good government, the public security, the suppression of vice under the laws, should not fall to vote at all local elections. In ad- - - e ditlon to the election of Mayor, city clerk. city Judge and a council. Jive school commissioners are to be elected this year, into whose hands will be placed the educational interests of the city' for several years. A good board can be selected, if the citizens who have the greatest interests in the schools go to the polls and vote. There are one or two of these candidates as unfit for school commissioner as they can be; but because a considerable per centum of those who are often alluded to as "the better element" may not vote, those candidates are surest of an election. The present City Council is justly the object of much adverse criticism. It Ij not as good as its immediate predecessor, yet if the Taggart candidates should be elected this year it is a better Council than the next will be. The Council has simply be come the echo cf Mayor Taggart. When any member has shown any Independence he has been dropped and a subservient man elected to take his place. This domi nation by the Mayor has given the city a series of councils ranging from bad to worse, and on the way to worst. All along the line the Republican candi dates are superior to the Democratic. Any fair-minded man who compares the lists will be compelled to acknowledge that such is the case. Taggartlsm stands for what ever is vicious in every branch of the city government. It should not be continued two years more, and it will not be if theso citizens who believe in better things will 30 to the polls two weeks Vrom to-day and vote . the municipal ticket -headed by Charles A. Bookwalter. EMPLOY3IENT FOIt ALL. Representative Smith, of Michigan, who lives in Grand Rapids, while in Washington a few days since suid that thirty manufac turers in that city, who employed a total of 4,619 men in 1S06. employ 7,172 at the pres ent time. That is, where 100 men were em ployed in 1SD6 135 are employed to-day What is true of Grand Rapids is true of nearly every city in the country. During the summer of hundreds of unemployed men were idlers in this city because they could find no employment. Very naturally. they listened to the street and other orators. who declared that the free and unlimited coinage of silver would bring better condl tlons. Doubtless many of them believed those heresies and supported Mr. Bryan in No vember. He was defeated and .a Repub lican President and Congress elected. Despite the declarations of Mr. McLean in Ohio and a few other demagogues, all can did men must admit that a wonderful change has taken place for the better. In this, as in other cities, there is not an idle man who can honestly say that he has sought work and cannot find It. The em ployment may not be such as some would select, but every man who can earn wages can find a Job. From the iron regions and from many cities reports have been printed that there has been for three months or more a scarcity of labor. In the newspa pers there have appeared what has not ap peared for years advertisements calling for men. The full employment of labor has been so patent to all that even the most Imaginative calamltyite and conscienceless opposition platform-maker has not dared to declare that labor is starving because there is no employment. The convention which nominated Mr. Taggart more than two years ago arraigned the Republican adminlstra Hon, which had just come into power, be cause it had done nothing to relieve the distress of the unemployed labor of the country. There was nothing of the sort in the platform which the last Taggart con vention adopted. This beneficent change has followed the entire control of the government by Repub licans. The logical conclusion is that the greatly improved times followed ' that change. Such being the case, should not reasonable men who find their conditions greatly improved vote with that party In any election in which there is a Republican ticket? They should do so in municipal elections as well as in those affecting national issues, because by so voting they will strengthen the party whose coming into rower has been attended by unprecedented prosperity. The Madison Courier complains that the system of government for that and like cities In Indiana is defective because the councils are autocratic. There Is almost no limit to their power. They can make and unmake officials, regulate salaries, vote money and expend it. The Courier holds that the mayor, clerk, treasurer and other executive officers should be Independent of city councils and that they shSlild submit their estimates to an advisory board as are the estimates of county officers. The evil lies in the fact that the council votes and

lnlluences the expenditure of money for municipal purposes. The proper function of tho council is to make appropriations, and there Its authority should end. It ought not to have authority over any executive officer except to try him for malfeasance upon charges. Its committees should r.ot have any part in expending the money the Council votes. The executive offlccs and their duties should be set forth In the charter, which should also specify the salaries of all officers. If the Council is made simply a legislative body, as it should be. it is an advisory board. Estimates for ex

penses should be made by the mayor and submitted to the Council for its action. In a speech in Nebraska Mr. Bryan said that things were so bad after the election of McKinley that "many people thought I had been elected." He went on to say that more banks and business houses failed the first six months after the election of McKinley than during the corresponding six months of 1SI6. What are the facts? The number of failures during the first six months of McKinley was 6.S21, while the number during the corresponding six months in 1896 was 8,062. Thus the number of fail ures, instead of being greater during the first six months of McKinley than the first six months of the preceding year, was 1,241 fewer. The average liability to each failure during 1806 was $14,992, $11,539 In 1S97 and $10,772 in 1S3S. These are statistics which any man can obtain, so there is scarcely an excuse for that Ignorance to which Mr. Bryan's statement is charitably attributed. He should know that a man of his promi nence cannot make such fals statements without having them noticed by newspapers and cpeakers all over the country a fact which will do blm great injury. The New Y'ork Times (Independent Demo cratic) says it can be stated on excellent authority that during week before last Boss Croker sent for prominent silver Democrats who are known to stand very close to Mr. Bryan and pleaded with them to aid him in preventing the sending of contesting delegatlons to the Democratic national conven tion. He told them he would help them to defeat the member of the Democratic na tional committee from New York for reelection and that he had discouraged the Van Wyck boomers in the interest of Bryan. The Bryanites said to him that unless the New Y'ork convention selecting delegates indorsed the Chicago platform a contest ing delegation would be chosen and admitted to the convention. - Mr. Croker has suffered several defeats .in the preliminary contests in New Y'ork city, and combinations are forming which threaten to over throw him.. These are the causes which have changed the head of Tammany Hall from an expansion and gold Democrat to an anti-expansion silver Democrat. A Berlin dispatch represents Emperor William as "deeply stirred by the revelations rriade at Rennes of the espionage system between France and Germany, of the extent and elaborateness of which he has hitherto been ignorant." This savors of affectation. It is matter of history that European diplomacy and statecraft for a long time have depended largely on a system of secret information, and if the Emperor William did not know what was going on It must have been because he did not care to. In the Franco-German war of 1870 the Prussian authorities had the most detailed information regarding the French military establishment, and the Prussian of ficers had maps showing' every cress road. by-path and stream, including the bridges, fords and mills between the German frontier and Paris. There is nothing new in the European' espionage system. The Indiana Yearly Meeting cf Friends, which convenes to-day for Its annual convo cation at Richmond, announces In advance that the religious Society of Friends, as embodied In the very large and varied member ship and interests reperesented at this meeting, is in better financial shape than ever It was before. Contributions have been much more liberal during the fiscal year now ending than ever be-fore in the history of the organization. This is in accord with the news from all the leading religious societies. When the times are so prosperous that the great common people voluntarily Increase their contributions to the church and its various funds, the party whose whole life mission is opposition to the administration used by Providence for the conveyance of this great and widespread blessing is in hard lines Indeed and in need of a vacation. The Washington correspondent of the New York Sun states on the authority of "a high official of the War Department" that the President has entire confidence in General Otis and that Secretary of War Root, who at first had misgivings as to General Otis's fitness for the position, has become satisfied by careful study of the sit uation and the record that he has done the very best that could be done under the circumstances. It is worthy of note that no criticism of the military management in the Philippines has yet come from any person in a position to know all the facts. Before censuring him for not having suppressed the insurrection with an insufficient force he should at least be given a trial with an adequate one. Literature, a very serious paper published in London and New York, and far above the suspicion of perpetrating a joke, remarks on the absence of literary exercises In. the Dewey programme this . week, and says: "Our poets and inscriptlonists are silent. The sculptors have united in one common cause to do honor to the hero of the hour. and have labored incessantly for over a month to make the tribute of their esteem worthy of the man and of the occasion; but the men who write our measures and who Indite our glowing prose periods have given no indication that they, realize the oppor tunity that is theirs. There Is no ode In course of preparation." It thinks "it is indeed strange that in this golden age of let ters we have no laureate, volunteer or regu lar, who will spring Into the breach and remedy this glaring fault." For a paper which professes to represent the writing world Literature shows a singular lack of Information concerning Its activities. It ought to be aware that all the poets of the country have been in the frenzy of creation for weeks with this very occasion In mind. Many of them do not aspire' to having their productions used in New Y'ork on Dewey day, but content themselves with contrib uting them to the local press. According to a New Y'ork paper which does not assume to be a literary organ, but merely prints the news, the lives of the Dewey day committee are made burdensome by the poets who have swooped down "Upon them. "It is stated," the chronicler goes on to say, "that every builder of . the Jofty rhyme in this city, and a large number In New Jersey and other neighboring States, have composed tributes to the admiral, which they are anxious to have read at him either tn City Hall Park, when he Is receiving the gold mug; at Claremont. after breakfast, or on the reviewing stand at" Madison square. The poems, which vary f roxa the airily congratu latory to the seriously epical, and from

Fitzgerald quatrains to Miltonlc blank verse, already fill a room at headquarters. With the optimism of true genius none of

the singers has inclosed stamps for the return of his manuscript, and as the amount of money necessary for legitimate purposes Is limited the committee has been forced to defer reshipment.of ' the- effusions until a later date." To complain that our poets "do not realize their opportunity!!' It Is an insult to them. They should take fhelr revenge by sending to Literature aH the verses intended for Dewey, but sidetracked by a heartless committee. DIDDLES IX THE AIR. Same Old Hint. - The 'Young Man Life is but a fleeting show. We are here to-day and gone tomorrow. , The Young Woman And to-morrow Is not many minutes away. The Cornfed Philosopher. "No." said the Cornfed Philosopher. "I am not answering questions to-night, but I shall ask one. If. tt take nine tailors to make a man and one tailor can make a dozen dudes, what Is the value of one dude?" ... A Loser. 'I'm going to quit gambling. It costs too much." 'Why, you know you win more than you lose." 'Yes, but to keep even, I would have to win twice as much as I lose. You see, when ever I win, I have to give half to my wife." In Old Rome. Tho wounded gladiator gazed anxiously at the thumbs of the vast concourse of human ity in the great amphitheater. His gaze ranged from ' Nero, lunching lightly on nightingales' tongues, to the rabble chewing peanuts and drinking pop right off the Ice. 'I am waiting," said he, ! "for something to turn up!" Then they turned him down. THE OHIO CANDIDATES. Nonresident McLean Will Depend on the Strength of His "Barrel. Washington Letter in New Y'ork Post. As between the two gubernatorial candi dates before the people, omitting "GoldenRule Jones," -who is the enigma of the campaign, there is a very great difference. juage rsash Is a man of nigh standing, a graduate of , Oberlin . College, and a Union soldier, who entered the army when a mere hoy. tie was twice elected prosecuting at torney in Franklin county on the Repub lican ticket at times when the county was strongly Democratic lie served as a member of a commission appointed by the Governor to help out the Supreme. Court of the State, and having co-ordinate jurisdiction . ii. . 1 1 wun it. at a time wnen. inai wnca was much behind tn Its work. Personally he ap pears to have no critics. While he belongs to the McKlnley-Hanna wing of the party, he has not made himserf particularly offen sive to the Forakerltes, and he adds great strength to the ticket and (he bad causes which it represents. - John R. McLean, on the other nana, nas been one of the worst men in American poli tics. It Is noted by his admirers that he is much beloved by his" immediate circle of friends, that he 13 hospitable and generous, that his employes like him, and that he rs a regular contributor, in this city and else where, to several very worthy charities. Those who aro inclined to "Judge a public man's worth on such a basis as this that of good fellowshi.-v and r.sonal fairnessare satisfied with McLean. Those who consider the political and other principles -for which he and the Cincinnati Enquirer have for quite a term of years stood cannot look with favor upon his asipirations. 1113 im-ory of life appears to.be that every man nas his price, and that it Is only a question whether it is worth while to pay It. The hypocrisy of McLean s campaign utterances almost passes human understanding. He announced a few days ago that he abhorred trusts, and had always been greatlv opposed to monopolies and large com hinatinns nf canltnl. Hia platform was es sentially an anti-trust document, and he mnv flood Ohio with literature on the sub ject. And yet McLean himself is tne prin cipal owner of the Washington Lrasngni Comnanv. one oil.. incicdH, .onensive 01 monopolies, and is believed to have main talned a lobby at the Capitol for some years to nrevent a reduction in the price of gas to correrond with that in other cities. It is doubtless from his naid lobbyists that most of the eulogies on his devotion to charity and the fine arts come. As president of the gas company he draws a salary 01 jiv.wj a year, laf t winter a larger trust, controlling electricity and other things, proposed to absorb the gas company. He was then very willing to have this absorption take place. txt It is said, provided he could get the fancy ligure which he placed upon nis property. No interview then emanated from hlra on his abhorrence of trusts. The Cincinnati Enquirer, while nominally a Democratic newspaper, has assailed for years nearly every reputable. Democrat or prominence in the Btate or Ohio, it nas first and last dope about as much to be little Mr. Cleveland's influence in the Democratic party as any newspaper in the coun. try. It attacked Allen G. Thurman, Senator Pendleton. Frank H. Hurd, Joseph H. Outhwalte, General Durbln Ward, and McLean's candidacy, it is frequently suggested, has -got- to meet the followers of all these men. what McLeans general course In Ohio politics has been is set forth with considerable pungency in a book published In 1S35, entitled "Bosses and Uoodle in Ohio Politics; Some Plain Truths for Honest People, written by Allen O. Myers, a Democrat of some prominence. and for many years a, correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer. His . book discusses men on both sides who came within the characterization. The three Democrats whose influence in the State he believes to have been most demoralizing were Payne, Brice and McLean. The book has been cir culated quite widely, but. Is now causing Mr. McLean some annoyance, and it has been reported that . he has purchased the copyright and bought up the unsold volumes in order to prevent its further distribution. Myers attributes the inveterate hostility of the McLeans, rather ana ton, to Alien u. Thurman to his refusal to indorse the greenback policy in 1S77, to which McLean and the Lnquirer were strongly committed. Mr. Meyers then recalls the scandals of the "coal-oil Legislature," In the election of which gross frauds were charged. This was the year of the memorable "tally-sheet forgeries. An agument agamst McLean which will have some weight in Ohio, although amounting to little in a broader view, is his nonresidence there. For fourteen years he has lived In Washington and has main talned no house In Ohio. Senator Brice. who lived in New York city, took pains to keep up an establishment at Lima, O. Mr. Mc Lean, before his nomination, went to Cin cinnatl and rented a house; and after his nomination went to Columbus and hired a house to which he sent a considerable corps of his Washington servants. But he has seldom gone to Ohio in the past, even to vote, and has not attendedd more than three of four conventions of his party in the Inst fourteen years. A more serious charge than nonresldence, however. Is his confidence in the expendi ture of money. The Republican authori ties here claim to-have information from trustworthy first-hand sources that McLean has decided to have a supervisor In every voting precinct in Ohio, who will soon enter upon his duties and remain at work and on a salary until election day. These su pervisors expect to receive $3 a day. It Is computed that this one item will cost Mc Lean $ .00,000. lie is also employing a great many disaffectec Republicans wherever he can get hold of tr.em. ana stiDsiaizmg smau newsDaDers. He has worked up quite a disaffected colored vote. . Will They See Deveyf Baltimore American. Just what proportion of the thousands, if not millions, of people who will gather in the streets of New Y'ork the latter part of this week to see Admiral Dewey, will suc ceed In that undertaking will not be known until the parades are over and the disappointed ones are heard from. The rush to New Y'ork has -been going on for a week past. All the hotels are reported to be run, and it Is a difficult matter to obtain firstclass accommodations even now. But the crowd has just begun, and there Is no telling where it will; end.. New Y'ork has made the boast that it can accommodate all who come, but it has not specified what sort of accommodations it can provide. Perhaps it means beds on park benches and meals eaten from bakery wagons on the public highways. It is going to be a great display, however one of the greatest this country has ever known. Admiral Dewey will get a welcome the like or wnicn no nero or anripnt or modern times ever knew. Many people will be willing to put uo with many inconveniences and discomfort? to be able to say that they were there. And who can blame tnemT Whose Exclamations t Washington Post. , We look for several exclamations of pain when tne unio politicians lay noia 01 -nr. llanna a rneuraauc iejf.

TORONTO'S STREET CARS

THEY FURNISH AX ODJECT LESSON FOR OTHER MUNICIPALITIES. City Own a the Plant, lint Does Xot Op erate the LinenFares' nnd Payment to the Local Government. Toronto Letter in Chicago Chronicle. It will not be long before the model streetrailway system of the world will derive Its electric power from the Falls of Niagara. In specific terms this means that the electric street-railway system of Toronto, that by common consent is a model for all municipalities, will soon close a contract with the Cataract Power Company, which has harnessed the stupendous Niagara overflow for utilitarian purposes. Hamilton, Ont., which Is forty miles nearer the falls than Toronto, will get the benefit of the falls' power sooner than Toronto, and has already closed a contract with the Cata ract Power Company for the complete adaptation of the transmitted power to its municipal railway system. But a matter of forty miles is of small moment to the present day electrical engineers, and It is probable that tho coming year will see the installation of Niagara Falls power to turn the wheels of Toronto's entire streetrailway system. Torontonians are, justly proud of their street-railway sj'stem, and to an outside observer it is apparent that a complete object lesson has hero been furnished for other municipalities. The supreme point In connection with the Toronto street-rail way system is that under the present management It has been a prodigious success and a money maker, with fares reduced to a minimum, and that this power to coin money directly benefits the city and the whole people in even greater ra tio than the shareholders who own the stock. Toronto has been quoted as an example of municipal ownership the same as Glasgow, Scotland, but this is an error. The city of Toronto does not operate its street car system, and although it purchased the rails and entire plant from the old company at the end of its contract, it has leased the whole plant te a new company. which operates it under binding restric tions for the city's present and ultimate benefit. This last contract was made in ISM and since then the promoters who leased the plant from the city have amassed fortunes. The company's stock. which started at 42. is now relling at 133 and is hard to obtain at that figure. The magnitude of the profits win De apparent when it is mentioned that the company's capitalization has been watered from $2,O00Jiy to J13.IKW.wo uunng xne iasi fieht vears and still nays 4 per cent, on the inflated present capital. It Is well known also that the controlling syndicate maue individual fortunes out of the construction of the present plant, which has been entirely rebuilt until there is not a vestige of the old plant left. But the far-sighted Torontonians maue . . . i 1 . a. a contract tnat. wnne auowmg me mem bers of a private corporation to get ncn out of street-railway operation, has been and is now perhaps the most valuable as set In the city s possession. TERMS OF THE CONTRACT. To begin with, the present contract pro vides that in thirty years from 1891, or in 1921. the city may purchase the entire plant at a fair arbitrated value, allowing nothing for franchise or good will. During the thirty years of life of the franchise the company is compelled to sell six tickets for 25 cents, or a practical 4-cent fare, with workingmen's tickets, good night and morning, at. the rate of eight for 23 cents, or a 3-cent fare, and school children's tickets ten for a quarter. The con tract provides that the company snau at all times be subject to the control of the citv engineer in respect to the number of car3 to be run: the speed, the improvements to be introduced, repair or streets, removal of snow, the keeping of accounts and other imnortant deta Is. It also provides that tne employes of the company shall not be re quired to worK more man ten nours a u nor more than sixty hours a week nor more than six days in a week. These nortions of the contract benefit the individual citizen, but the most important clauses relate to the direct Income wnicn the city treasury shall receive from the rrrorj revenues of the company. First, there is a rental of $S00 per mile on about one hundred miles of track, or 5M).rw per year. Secondly, the company pays a graded tax on Its cross receipts, which are now over si.noo.ooti ner vear and steadily increasing. The contract provided that below $1.00),0c3 gross Income per year the tax should be per cent.; that when the gross receipts exceeded $1,000,000 the city'e percentage should be increased , to 10 per cent, up to $1,500,000. Between J 1, GOO. 000 and $2,000,000 the Htv is tn receive 12 ner cent.: between Ji,uuu.uuu ana j.uw.vw. xo icr triii.., aim vu over S3.O0O.O00. 20 per cent, un tne present $1,000,000 basis the city is thus receiving 10 per cent., or $100,000 per year, wnicn, aaaea to the mileage rental, makes a total annual payment Into the city treasury of $1S0,000. This fieure will soon be largely increased. as the grosa street-car revenues are going up bv leaps and bounds and will soon pass the $1,500,000 mark. At present the city is devoting the major part of its street-ran-vav revenues to putting In concrete founda tions tnrougnout tne enure iw roues 01 me system. These costly foundations are the secret of the smoothness of the car service. and. as they cost little or nothing to keep in repair, . will prove a good investment. The whole system has been equipped with enormously heavy girder rails, and the city and company together seem to vie with one another in perfecting a plant that will have no parallel for quality and etflciency In tho country. ALWAYS SEATS FOR PASSENGERS. Meanwhile it is a novelty for the average visitor from an American city to find a Ftreet-rallway system in operation where there is Invariably a seat for every passen ger, unlimited transfers, well lighted and heated cars, speed and safety. Although the nominal fare is 5 cents, everyone buys tickets, f o that the - maximum fare Is a fraction more than 4 cents and at certain hours of the day 3 cent-?. The result has proved that during the hours between 5:20 and 8 a. m. and 5 and fi:30 p. m., when the 2-cent fare is in force, the traffic has shown steady gains year by year. The ratio of traffic gains during those hours is much larger than during the rest of the day. Free transfers are given on all connecting lines in any direction, so that a passenger, if so disposed, can ride all day for a single fare. The company recently broke down opposi tion to a Sunday service, and since Sunday cars began running it has sold tickets on that day at the rate of seven for 2o cents. The Sunday traffic is already very large, and to still further encourage it the com pany may yet reduce the Sunday tickets to ten for a quarter. These liberal enticements in cheap fares and the superb quality of the service have resulted in a condition of affairs In Toronto when practically everybody patronizes the street cars. The latter have almost driven out of commission the hack and omnibus service, and have' to a large extent dimin ished the number of private carriages in use. Trolley cars are now the proper ve hicles for the swagger set in going to and from theaters and receptions. To encourage travel the street-railroad company has recently opened a summer nark six miles out, east of the Don river. with vaudeville attractions, and during the past season alone is said to have cleared $50,000 on the experiment, it would be hard to find another city where the pavements and street-railway tracks are kept as scrupulously clean as in Toronto, and this is but one outcome of the evident pride that citizens and company both take In keep ing the system up to the highest standard of excellence. Every street-car patron has a more or less personal interest in the cor rect management of the system, as through Its prosperity other taxes are reduced. So great has been the success of cheap fares that it would not surprise the Toronton ians to learn any day that the company had voluntarily reduced its fares to a Hat 3-cent rate. But whether or not such a con cession comes In the lifetime of the present company it is as certain as fate when the city takes over the plant at the end or the present contract ..or nas tne power to enforce new terms in a second contract. Y'ou could not persuade a Torontonian that a private corporation should rerelve a street-railway franchise for a longer term than thirty years. The original To ronto Street-railway Company obtained Its franchise in 1S1, and., being for thirty years, it expired by limitation on the 2Gth of March, 1SS1. The city fathers who drew ud the original contract were shrewd enough to insert a clause giving the city

the right-to purchase all the property of

the company at the end of the franchise at an arbitrated value. PAY' FOR THE CITY GOVERNMENT. From this clause dates Toronto's suprem acy as the owner of the best street-car sys tem in the world and an asset that will soon pay the major cost of running the city government. When 1SS1 came around the old company, of course, set up all kinds of fictitious claims and resisted the arbitration proceedings in every way possible. The courts decided for the city at every point. When evidence was taken in the arbitration proceedings it was proved that the total actual investment in the original plant and s In subsequent capital Invested was less than $40,000. When the company, toward the close of the franchise, was asked to name its figure as to the value of the plant and property it named $5,500,000. The city's experts said that the total value was xzoo,2S8. It was also proved that the old direc tors had received over $i.tw.tw m ten years in excess of the amount shown by the books of the company. With these wide discrepancies to start with the contest soon narrowed to one of actual values, and the city was awarded the property and took possession. Then followed six months of experimental operation by the . municipality, and later a new contract on the terms already mentioned. Mackenzie and Mann, who have large steam railway building contracts In various parts of Canada, were the prime movers in reorganizing the present Toronto streetrailway system. The same syndicate owns the street-railway s stems in Montreal, Winnipeg and other 'Canadian cities. The principal financiers in the syndicate have already probably unloaded most of their stock on the general public at a hieh figure. and have made most of their fortunes in construction contracts and rapid manipulation of securi ties. But the facts remain that with the extraordinary growth of street-car traffic the real holders of the securities are still making money on the Inflated investments, while the municipality is immeasurably the gainer from the improvements in the system. It follows that with actual municipal ownership and operation the city 01 loronto would have made much more money out of its street-car system than it has done under a lease to a private corporation. But the citizens seem satisfied. especially as the city Is safeguarded at every point ana win in a couple of decades more come into possession of the entire plant. wnicn is oeing pcriected regardless or cost. The extension of the svstem is still helnir pushed rapidly forward. Only the other day lara were put in commission which run twenty-eight miles in a straight line up Yonge- street, from the water front to the remotest northern suburb. This new line Dimgs into closest touch with the shopping center a tier of villages to the north of the city, and similar extensions are in prospect iv uie east ana-west. summing up the growth of traflic. the gross earnines of the company have doubled within the last three jears. ine average Income is Sl.OOrt rlav and reaches $6,000 or $7,000 during exposition fl'PPIf IIP r.thar enaitU 1 The operating cost ner- miiA i nniv aKon 9 cents, while the receipts are about 20 cents per car mile. - More- than half the re ceipts are therefore profit. If the traffic. were proportionately as r other large cities Toronto only carries uuuui cia. passengers to the car mile, as against many times that figure in Chicago the ratio of operating cost to receipts would be much less. But for a citv of oniv 1 nttt more than 200.000 population Toronto furarming ooject lesson as to the icasioiiiiy or a 3-cent fare or less. RAILROAD EARNINGS. Passenger and Freight Traffle in Eu rope and the United States. New Y'ork Sun. An official stat railroad earnings of Austrian railroads for the first six months of 1899, thowing the gross amount of these to have Increased 3,674,000 llorins as compared with the first SiX months Of rho nnmKar nf t-oGCAn ers carried having increased 7,50O,otO and me ireigni carnea navmg increased 2.200.OO0 tons, inese figures ate regarded as of considerable importance, showincr nn fnrr!ia of 15 per cent, in the number of pasB:uis iimeu ana 01 o per cent, in the amount of freight handled in a country in which the whole number of passengers carried in a year is In excess of lOO.Ouo.OOO and the number of tons 01 ireignt carried in a year is somewhat below that figure. The Austrian railroads (InClUdinET tncPthpr thn rf Austria onr4 Hungary) earn in a year $140,000,000 approximately, and the vrnrUnc ovnoncaa . t t-z 000.000, figures which seem of small imtnji laiae wnen comparea witn tnose or the Jr.ited States, the earning nf ifhncn roil. roads in lS93 were $1.250,OO0,uO0. with running expenses of JSGO.ooo.ooo. American railroads t-arrieu m is.i oio.vw.uiw passengers and moved 915.000.0u0 tons of freight. In most countries the passenger receipts are considerably larger than those coming from freight traffic, and the rates of passenger transportation are so high as to yieid the railroads a profit quite unknown in this country, w nere rauroaa cnarges have been declining so steadily that in recent years mej- nave xauen wiow me rates or steamboats and even of canal hnnts Tn n-if Britain the total amount of railroad receipts i jv,wv,uw, or aoout one-tnira or tne total of those of the United States. Toward this total oassenerer earnlncs rnntrihuto tvi C00.OCO a year and the freight and expres's earnings coniriDUie ijO,UUO,tWU. 171 e numDer or passengers carried on the railroads of Great Britain in a year amounts to nearly 1.000.000,000. and, though increasing, the increase Is relatively small compared with passenger receipts in the united States. Seven years ago, in 1892, the number of passengers carried nn th ratlrnaa nf r.HD Britain was 865,000,000. The passenger traffic in ine unnea oiaies is less subject to fluctuation than is freight traffic, the latter being dependent chieflv unon the cnnntinT of business, the price for cereals and staples ana ine size 01 tne cnier crops, 'ine neures xur i.ojo tumpareu wun mose 01 tne year preceding showed an increase In passenger earnings on American rflllrnflri- nf 1Q vvk 000, whereas the increase from freight earn1 . A W A AAA - . ings was m.wu.wu, ana, generally speaking, 25 per cent, of the earnings of American ra 1 1 mn r! a rp frnm na Kaon o-ca anH . cent, from freight. trench railroads carry 350.O00.oo0 passengers a year and about 115.000.000 tons of freight, or approximately three nn.sncpr for each ton of freight carried, whereas in the United States the number of tons of freight carried is nearly double the number of passengers transported. In Germany, where most of the railroads are owned by the government, the number of passengers carnea in a year is aoout twO.000,000. and the Pflrnlnira frnm tHIa cmira ovn ?iKaii tinA 0(0,00 a year. In respect to railroad figures, however, England is the only country which rTi eriousiy De comparea witn tne United oiaies. FOOLISH RUSH TO CUBA. Wnrnlnsr to Those Who Go There for ' Employment. Washington Post. We have already sounded a note of warn ing to would-be "sooners" with Cuba in view. We now repeat that warning on the authority of competent witnesses, both here and in the island. Cuba is no place for men seeking employment. ine opportunities there are very limited and the conditions most unattractive. Men who go there, with little more than the money required to pay their passage, nearly always become objects of charity. They end by being charges on the United States officials, and. if they get back to this country at all, they return as paupers and dependents. The simple truth of the matter is that Cuba is not ready for industrial or commercial exploitation. Notwithstanding all the pretty little fairy tales we hear from there at various times, there is so far no approach to law and order as we understand It here; no real protection for property and private rights. The same vile parodies on Justice are still maintained; the same lower courts, with their odious tyrannies, their irresponsible oppressions and their brutal delay and arrogance, still exist and go upon their evil way rejoicing. The Island still swarms with rapacious tax-gatherers, with hordes of petty officials bleeding the body politic to death. Enormous charges are levied on the transfer of property, inextricable confusion attends every dealing of the individual with the government. To go Into litigation Is to Invade the Cretan labyrinth. Nothing has been changed for the better. The private citizen has no more rights and less personal liberty than he had under Spanish rule. A few streets have been swept in Havana and Santiago, a few of the marauders who called themselves liberators two years ago have been put into office and that is all. There is no investment of money, no opening for labor nothing but social and political chaos and Industrial torpor. To all American citizens plain citizens without large capital and powerful influence with our military authorities wt say that they had far better avoid Cuba Just at present. Hawaii. Oklahoma, the alki.ll. plains, anywhere, would better serve their purpose. There is nothing for them to do. nor will there be until the existing regime uhall have been obliterated. Let Him Talk. New Y'ork Commercial Advertiser. According to free-silver ; dispatches Ttrvnn l talknlsr to "immense crowds" in Nebraska. Bryan always talks to Immense Bryan Is talking to "immense crowds in 1$$6 and he has talked to them since, and to-day there Is hardly a State outside of the South in which Democrats are In control. The more persons he harangues the more Republican votes he appears-to make. It would be interesting to have some Bryanlte explain this ev-rioua result.

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SAYS NO TO THE PRINCE

PACKER SWIFT DOES NOT WANT A SERVIAN' SON-IN-LAW. Descendant of Dlark George and Claimant to a Throne Who Has Wooed a Millionaire Daughter. Washington Letter. It Is a far cry from Belgrade to Boston, but diplomats are now speculating as to the outcome of negotiations, actively in progress, which will have a vital Influence cn tho fortunes of the rresent reigning house of Servia and possibly tend to dethrone one family and install another i.j the palace of its kings. : Prince Alexis Karageorivlch is the suitor for the hand of Miss Mabelle Swift, only child of E. C. Swift, of the house of Swift & Co., the big meat packers. Their abat tolrs are in Chicago and Kansas City, tut E. C. Swlf t'a palatial home Is in Boston. When Miss Swift and her mother vera abroad last winter Miss Reed, the sister of the late Mrs. Paran Stevens, Introduced the prince and the heiress. The Servian, whete rank Is that of hospodir or chief In his own country. Is an exile nnd make his home at the French capital, where he la one of the well-known boulevardiers. He immediately laid violent seige to the heart of the rich American girl. So fast and furious was his wooing that he got her to consent to an engagement between themselves pending the ratification of the match by her parents. At this stage of the developments the Swifts returned to the United fctates and have spent the summer at that wealthy and magnificent Massachusetts resort which is aptly and euphonlcally known as Pride's Crossing. - Early in the season of the summer girl the gallant prince hied himself to this resort of wealth and fashion. Besides Ingratiating himself with the - parents of hia fiancee he became distinguished for his skill at golf and other athletic sports, and as the summer waned opened negotiations with the elders of the family .for the hand off their daughter. - His wooing is not as yet successful, but he is ardent and determined. He has judiciously boomed his prospects by some clever work in Europe exploiting hit chances for the Servian throne. It was just at this point that he met his first momentous obstacle. The father of the young lady did not object to him personally, as he is a strong, active man of good habits and morals. In this respect he Is far superior to other princes. But the shrewd American capitalist argued that, while as man and a gentleman he might be a good match for his daughter, as a kin he was not to be considered. The simple reason of this is that being on'e a relgninj? sovereign, it is more than likely that stat reasons would be found to declare his marriage with Miss Swift honorable and valid, but merely morganatic. Swift pere also has another reason In that he does not wish his wealth squandered In an attempt to regain the throne of Servia, for the house of Black George, which is the translation of the family name of the Prince Karadjordje. Prince Alexis Karageorgivlch is the great grandson of Karadjordje, a Servian peasant and hog merchant. He had served a-term in the Austrian army and had risen to the grade of a noncommissioned officer. In 1S4 the Musselman tyrants of Servia were engaged in a civil war. Karadjcrdje. or Black George, headed a revolt and expelled the Musselmans with some assistance from the Russians. He wa proclaimed Prince of Servia, and for nine years, or until 113, reigned with considerable ability, but with more or less turmoil on the part of his subjects. In this year his armies were defeated by the Turks with terrible slaughter, and Black George was compelled to flee tho country. His fate t this time was very pitiable. He was a prey not only to the foreign oppressor, but to the jealousy of rivals. During his absence another leader. Mlloch, a respectable hog merchant, gained popularity and became leader. When BJack George returned to Servia. in 1817. he was assassinated by order of Mlloch. From th latter are descended the family of Milan, the reprobate ex-KInj of Servia. Indeed, the descendants of Mlloch have reigned in Servia with more or less turpitude since the assassination of Black George. Intervals have occurred in their rule when the Turks compelled them to fly from their wrath. The malodorous reputation of Milan, his cruelty, his profligacy and the sum of his vices make it very hard for any power to hold him or his descendants peaceably upon the throne of Servia. This difficulty is increased by the fact that ex-King Milan, under his present name, Count of Takovo, has plagued the Russian sponsors of this kingdom with constant plots of one nature or the other. He is constantly stirring up trouble. Ills latest escapade, it will be remembered, was to get up a sham assassination of himself, In which he figured as a romantic hero, chasing the theatrical murderer Into the river to capture him. It Is to offset and completely quell this obstreperous Milan family. It Is reported, that the Russians are very favorably disposed to scat the descendant of Black George upon the thpr?nce Alexis was born and reared !a exile. He is more of a Parisian than a Servian. He is between forty and fifty years of age. swarthy, as his origin would require, and enjoys the robust, healthy and hearty manhood which usually goes with his complexion. He is athletic, tall and endowed with a temperate disposition. He nas never been married. There Is no doubt that if he had the spending of a round sum of money he cauld so popularize himself with the Servians that his friends, the Russians, WDuld find It an easy matter to bring about the coup d'etat which would crown him King or. servia. ter being prociaimea mereiy . muifcana wife he points to the fact that theromantio and unfortunate Queen Natalie, who was divorced from the wretched Milan, was nir the daughter of a Russian colonel, and that Russia never raised any objections to her on account of her origin outside of the families enshrined In the Almanach de Gotha. The American millionaire, however, remembers the fate of Betsy Tatterson. whose marriage to Jerome Bonaparte brought, so much ill Into her life. He therefore Oireatens to disinherit his daughter if she persists in her love for the prince. Meanwhile the lovers are declaring undying and unalterable love. The prince declares his willingness to marry her without a dollar and is eloquent In his protestations that no turn of fortune could ever induce him to acknowledge the lady hereafter as anything but his wife in every sense and his Queen if a happy fate should so ordain. Miss Swift Is well known here, where she has many friends and relatives. She is described as a very pretty girl, about twentytwo years of age. She Is well educated and. speaks several continental languages. . 3IR. RIIODES'S RELIGION. The Kind of Relief on Empire Maker Confesses To. x . London Graphic. In laying the foundation stone of a Presbyterian Church at Woodstock, near Cape Town, the other day Mr. Rhodes made an Interesting little speech on the subject of religion. He recognized the compliment paid, him in asking him to lay the stone as a tribute to the practical idea work. They had asked him to come there, he said, because they recognized that his life had bea work. Applause.) Of course he could tay frankly that he did not happen to belong to their particular sect in religion. We all had many Ideas, but he might say that when we came abroad we all broadened. Laughter. We broadened Immensely, and especially in that spot, because they were always looking on that mountain (Table mountain), and there was immense-breadth In that. Laughter. J That gave them while they retained their individual dogmas an Intense breadth of feeling and consideration for ail those who were striving to do good work and perhaps Improve the condition of humanity in general. . , He remembered when the Bishop of Derry was out there and was staying with him, on the Sunday the bishop said to him. "I suppose you are coming to hear mc at Rondebosch Church?" Ha (Mr. Rhodes) said, "No. sir; I have my own chapel." The bishop said. "Where is It?" and he replied, "It Is up the mountain." Laughter and applause. The fact was. If he might take them Into his confidence, that he did not care to go to a particular church on one day in the year when he used his own chapel at all other times. He found that up that mountain one got thoughts what he might term religious thoughts because they were thoughts for the betterment of humanity applause) and he believed that was the best description of religion, to work for the betterment of human beings who surrounded us.

The radical oDjeciion 01 .nr. ou. ---fy the choice of his daughter's heart is being met by argument on the part or the as-

nHnm 1'nnn the danger OI nis uauin.