Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 4 December 1893 — Page 2

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MONDAY, DEOEMBUS 4. 1898.

A GOVEEHHEimiOF IHEHCAIIT? TnHt cooing reform, proportional representation, continues to receive great deal of attention from the magazines. It is at that eBrly stage of development that marked the secret ballot reform about six veare ago and when onoe started will probably have the same rapid growth. It proportional representation were properly understood it wonld have the hearty support of honest men in all parties because it is in the interest of honesty in government. It will strike down that root of so much vicious legislation, the gerrymander. In order that the public may beoora.) informed as to the praotical workings of the ref rm a new magazine has been stHi-uvj eaiuled The Proportional Representative Review. The leading article in iha first issue is by Prof. .Tolm B. Ojainoa^, of Indiana ^University, and some of the truths he briugs out shows the -n mnity of the injustice caused by the preseut methods. A mo .* other thing* b« w»tb:J .-5CZ3

We arc* .:-v atuutug peopie yr' jui'lawiare made by mlaorliy of the people and by an lrresp»»u5:ble oligarchy more Qangerous than tint jr fathers revolted against. In the present Congress the Demounts hav» a majority of 70 whereas they should be In a minority of 28 •the People's partv should have 31 votes Instead of 8, and the Republicans 152 Instead of 120, To call our Congress a representative bJy is the cssenco of sarcasm. The same Is true of every other law making body In the land. To mention only one State. Indiana elects thirteen ('ongrensmen. According to -the popular" vow they should stand seven Democrats at six ttepnbltcans. According to iLe gerrymander there are eleven Democrats and two Republicans. In other words every Huoslcr Democrat whom you may meet has an iutiuence on Utc legislation of his oountry equal to that of five and two-fifths Hoosier Republicans."

Prof. Commons does not olairn that proportional representation will core all the political evils bat thinks that together with the secret ballot whioh we have and civil service reform which is about half wsy accomplished it will make popainr government much strong er. If any State needs proportional representation Indiana does. Democrats are not going to favor it. They are preparing to defend in court the present gerrymander which Attorney-general Green Smith admits to be wicked and unfair. What are the Republicans go ing to do?

THE New York Sun, about the only straight Democratic paper in the metropolis, the other day pat these perplexing questions to Chairman Wilson, of the Ways and Means Committee: "How much revenue does your tariff bill cut off? Borne say (10,000,000, some say $60,000 000, some say 960,000.000. As the internal rt'VL-nu. taxes will have to be screwed up, or some new tax or taxes imposed to make up lor the loss. It Is rather important to know what the loss will be. And yet it must be difficult to estimate. It la conceivable that a close catculator might b« f^0,000,000 or ao astray in his calculations. "iiavlng a deficiency of revenue, why was It necessary to make a further deficiency, a deficiency on a deficiency, to provide for? "When Jo you expect that your tariff bill will becom* a law? Somt gueas Febraary and some February 30? What Is your guess "What Is a tariff for reveLue only?

It wonld be interesting reading Chairman Wilson or finy other member of the Ways and MeanB Committee should undertake to answer these qnes tions.

CHAIRMAN WILSON makes a very great blunder when he quotes Henry Clay as being in favor of ad valorem duties, Mr. Webster once in an argument in the Senate, referred to this supposed poeiion of Mr. Clay, when he was at once corrected by Mr. Crittenden. Mr. Clay did once say that he could Bee no particular objection to an ad valorem duty, if based on a valuation put on by competent appraisers in this country. But the practice has always been to levy the ad valorem tariff ou the foreign invoice, and to this Mr. Clay was bitterly opposed, all his life, and so haye been nearly all our leading statesmen, of all parlies, for the reason that the most outrageous frauds were continually perpetrated by false and deoeitful invoioes made out far below the real oost of the goods.•

TUB trustees of the Crawfordsville Society of Organized Charity meet this evening for the purpose of perfecting their plans for taking oare of the needy, not only for this winter but the year around. If they succeed in their plans outlined heretofore it will only prove that it a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing systematically. Systematic work in any line always pays more than the expenses of keeping the syBtem in operation. Systematic sharity means more help to those who need it, none to those who do not deserve it encouragement to the many honest unfortunates but extermination to professionals and impostors.

IN DIXIE'S LAND

BEFORE THE WAR.

BY JUS. IT RAN XC FrjTB.

CHAPTER XlI-(COSTl.NUKIvl

-iA'CJood, by —lie cried. "I thought tlicro wore peculiar reascms why ho wouldn't wish to do it but I couldn't be sure. Well, tlien, it seems thore ain't to be any dispute about my rights. Doth of you understand well enough that I am my father's sole heir there's nobody to contest it with me. 1 take possession here now. Mr. I.e l'Yvre, a word with you! Something disagreeable occurred in this room not long ago. I thiulc you were to blame but don't want to lay up grudges. 1 want you to remain in charge of the plantation and the people, for awhile, at least, till I can get the hang of things, and put one of these gentlemen in the place. 1 don't know what you've been getting: I'll double it, while I want you. Is it a bargain?" 'Xo,v was the eurt answer. "1 leave here to-morrow. I want nothing from you but the balance of two hundred and fifty dollars whieh is due inc from the place."

The new proprietor drew thick roll of bank not?s from his pocket, uint^d out the sum named and handed it to I.e Fevre. saying: want a receipt." The latter took a blank leather-bound book from his breast pocket, wrote the receipt and handed it over.

Conrad Bostock looked inc[uiringly at the book. "Have you a list of the people on the place there?" "Yes."

I'd like to see it." Le LYvre cut out several leaves with his knife and gave them to him. lie read aloud at the top: "Field hands and children in the quarters, seventynine', house servants, thirteen." "Is this all?" he asked. "Yes. We've never cultivated the whole plantation in any year: and I was here some years before Mr. Hostook came back." "H'm, h'm. h'm. Joe—Israel—Je«ry. Lticy, Vic, F.sthcr, Prue."

His eye ran rapidly down the list, and he spoke a name here and there. When he came to the end lie folded the leaves, put them in his breast pockei and lit a cigar. His companions followed his example, and soon the parlor was filled with smoke. Le Fevre looked at the lounging, loaferish figures and then I saw that his gorge was rising. He rose and threw open tho windows. "Do you want anything more of me?-' he asked. "Yes. I want to know how you happened to omit one name from that inventory." "Nothing is omitted. It is a correct list of the negroes belonging to the place." "I correct you. The name of Coralie Bonlant, daughter of one Louise Bonfant. who died the slave of my father, is nowhere ou these papers."

I started up, almost speechless with passion. "Coralie was his daughter, yuu know that?"

The man merely glanced at me he took no other notice of my interruption. "That girl is one of the most valuable properties on the place: probably the most valuable. She appears to have been treated rather too much like one of the family but that was my father's way. Gardette, you saw her at the funeral—the slim girl in black, with the long veil, that this chap here was making some fuss over. What should you say she's worth?"

The man addressed suspended his smoking long enough to give a shrill whistle. "Why, the devil! You don't mean to tell me that ihJt your nigger?" "Just so." "She's worth twenty-five hundred dollars. She'd bring two thousand at the block any day." "Stay!" I exclaimed. My voice was hoarse, and I shook with emotion "Conrad Bostock, she is of your own blood—your's father's daughter. The last evening of his life he gave his consent that I should marry her. He sent for a lawyer to draw her free papers, and to draw a will, leaving her everything. The lawyer arrived here after he had died. Mr. Le Fevre here knows this. Coralie will go with me you have nothing to do with her."

An insolent laugh from Bostock's companions greeted my frantic protest. Conrad looked on me with undissem bled contcmpt. "Young man, your stay in this house will end right now. Your effects and those of your friend, Mr. Le Fevre, will be set out on the veranda. As for all this foolishness about the girl you've been preaching, I've nothing to ray. It's hardly the thing in Louisiana for a white man to marry a slave the law don't permit it. If it did, do you suppose I would be fool enough to give you twenty-five hundred dollars' worth of property? Not I. If it will make you feel any better, I'll say to you "that, if the girl behaves herself, I'll get a good master for her. If not—if she goes into any tantrums—off she goes to the Orleans slave market."

My head swam, my heart seemed to stand still. I saw the faces of leering devils through the smoke wreaths. A strong hand grasped my shoulder. Le Fevre stood by my side. "I make you a proposition," he said to the proprietor. "I will give you twenty-five hundred dollars for her." "No." "Three thousand dollars." "No. She is not at present for sale." "Four thousand dollars!" Le Fevre cried, with an excitement that I had never known him to betray. "Four thousand dollars every cent I own in the world I will give you for her. She is nothing to you more than her money, value she is everything to Dorr. Considering who and what she is, you ought to be glad to let, her go in this way."

The fiend shook his head. I could bear it no longer. With fists clenched and muscles Btrained, I dashed at him. The iron hand of Le Fevre restrained me and dragged me from the room. As the door was closed behind us, I heard a roar of laughter from within.

CHAPTER XX. A GLEAM OF HOPB.

Le Fevre never released his hold on my collar till we were out of sight of the house, among the cane. I think that I held back a little. "Come along," he said brusquely. 'T» as BtUred up »s you are abf»ut It: tit I*va get IPT »en»eq. and

Is tlie best remedy for b11 complaints pecnliar to women

you've lost yours! You waut to do I something desperate and foolish." "Let me go!" I cried. "I'll kill him." "Come aloug. 1 say. you young idiot! What good would it do to kill him? That would only make tilings worse for you and the girl. Yon want to help her, don't you?" 'Til die before I leave her here iu that man's power! 1 would—" "Yes. I know how you feel. I've got some feeling myself ou the subject. I've got a plan, too but 1 tell you flatly. Dorr .lewett, if you don't come along with me and quit your crazy notion of taking the girl out of the house by force, with those roughs standing between, I'll go mv own way. sinrt lesive you to your destruction."

His words calmed me: 1 ceased to Resist., and followed him as he strode through the cane. His hopeful words, his strong confidence in himself put new life into me: 1 leaned on hini as upon a human providence. lie never stopped till he reached the edge of the great swamp, more than a quarter of a mile back of the house. It was overgrown with scrub oak and cypress: festoons of Spanish moss, ivy, and other parasites ran from tree to tree where the heat had dried tho edges of the swamp for tminy rods, a thick growth of palm bushes had sprung up. A serpent wriggled in at our approach, and a cloud of ravenous mosquitoes gave us a warm greeting. "We shan't be overheard here," said my companion. "I'll make a smoke to save us from being devoured alive."

He lit a cigar and consumed it with short, emphatic puffs. I watched his face anxiously, and saw that his square under-jaw was set, and that he was thinking hard. Suddenly he put tho question to me: "What do you think of ine. anywnv. Dorr Jewett?"

A little disconcerted by the abruptness of the question, I presently answered, and told him the exact truth: "When I first came hero, I thought you were rough and cruel to the neRToes. Afterward I found out that you were more rough than cruel and still later, I have known you for a good friend." "Yes that's pretty near the truth. Before I tell you my plan, I want you to know enough about me to understand that I am not coming to your help blindfolded. I know the risk, and I'll face it and you must know it. I told you I was born in Pennsylvania. Ten years and more, I've been in Louisiana. I came down here with a head full of the horrors of slavery, as it had been pictured to me. I suppose the real' thing strikes different people from the north in different ways some might have seen all that I've seen, and be confirmed in their notions of the institution. I haven't been. Contact with the negro in this state, where there are as many of him as there Is of the white man. has made me believe that a condition of slavery is a good thing, the only thing for liiin." "But Coralio—" "Hold on I'm coming to her. Such has been my opinion. In a single day I am brought face to face with the ugliest aspect of the whole problem. I've heard of such things as this. I never knew any such personally... I have supposed that the facts must be distorted and exaggerated. Now, there is no mistake. AVe

know

what has hap­

pened on this plantation. 1 won't sicken you by reminding you of what may happen. You'd say, I would say, almost every planter in the La Fourohe would agree, that the treatment which that boautiful icfiite girl—I tell you it just as it is—is likely to receive at the hands of her own kin, her half-broth-er, just as you heard him threaten it— is more than brutal. Sir, it is damnable!"

He stamjied his foot in his excitement. "And the law would permit it?" "The law would ask just one question: Was her mother a slave? We know what the answer would be in this case. Nothing else would be regarded." "Must we submit to such a monstrous condition of law?" I cried.

He looked fixedly at me. "Boy, you've got spirit you need to be guidea, but you've the true stul?. The girl's safety and deliverance are a thousand times more to you than to me yet hang me If the fix she's in don't appeal to me in a way that I can't Btand. And if you ask me if we sfiall submit to have Coralie sent to New Orleans and sold like a horse to a condition worse than death I say no! by tho good mother that bore me, I won't!"

I pass the words I said to him, tho thanks 1 tried to give him. He cut them all short. "Never mind that, Dorr. I'm with you, heart and hand you be guided by me, and we'll save her or—"

Tie stopped. "Perhaps yon didn't know that if you arc caught trying to abduct a slave in Louisiana they'll send you to the Baton Rouge penitentiary for a term of years." "I did not know it. and don't care for it. Tell.me wh-it wcjOmll do."

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