Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 7 December 1893 — Page 2

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1893.

MS. CLEVELAND'S VAGARIES. Mr. Cleveland, in bis late message, gives utterance to the following:

Maulfestly. if we are to aid the people directly through tariff reform, one of Its mostob* vious features should be the a reduction in present tariff charges upon the necessaries of life. The benefit* of such a reduction would be palpable and substantial, seen and felt by thousands who would bo better fed and better clothed and better sheltered. These teifts should be the willing benefactions of a govern* meat whose highest function is the promotion of the welfare of tne people.

Neither Mr. Cleveland nor any other man on earth, nor the angels in heaven, nor demons below, oan point out a single njivssnry of life that is any dearer in price to the people than it was before the McKinley fiill was passed. What are the necessaries of life? It Mr. Cleveland were required to sit down and write out a list of the neoeesaries of life that were not as cheap now as they were batore the passage of the present protective tariff he conld not, if it were to save his life, name one. Does he hope to find people in this country who oaa read his message, and who are yet ignorant enough to be imposed on by snch stu5 as he has written? Mr. Cleveland cannot be ignorant of the fact that clothing was never before as aheap as it is now, unless he woefully shuts his eyes to facts within the observation of everybody else in the country. It clothing is one of the necessaries of life, then Mr. Cleveland's solicitude as to cheap clothing is utterly without foundniion HngRr was-pat on the free list by McKinley, and there Mr. Cleveland leave* it, and it is another necessary of life that is cheaper than it was.

Any carpenter in the country will tell Mr. Cleveland that there has never been a time in this country when a poor man conld build himself a comfortable house for so email a sum of money. Bread is cheaper than it has been for thirty years. Bacon and lard are a little higher than they were before the MoKinley bill was passed, but Mr. Clevewill hardly have the courage to tell the Tferoiera that his policy is going to cheapen hogs and hog products. The people of the cauntry have detected the sophistry ic this oft repeated olaim of Mr. Cleveland, and a majority of 81,000 voters let him know it at the late election in Ohio. But he does not heed th«ir ruouke. He sticks to the theory that the tariff is a tax and if it were demonstrated with mathematical oer tainty that such is not the fact—and we think this has been done—he would not believe it. It is one of the strange idiosyncrasies of Mr. Cleveland that he will persist in believing things that he knows are not so and this peculiarity in some of our statesmen is always get ting the country into trouble.

THE only people to bo thouKht of In oonnec. tion with the tariff are the producers. Con suujers have no rights.—Jndianapstia -Yeu«.

As Artemus Ward would say, "this is sarkaEm." But when faoed with the fact that the consumers £.re having the great majority of the rights between them and the producers, the effect is entirely lost. The thought that the News wanted to convey was that the tariff was framed altogether for manufacturers and not for those who buy the finished product. Bnt it shot wide of the mark. The prodaoers are the laborers \lho work in the thousands of factories. There is nothing for them to do now because there is a party in power that favors buying all manufactured goods from abroad. The News had better ascertain who the "producers" are, pick its (lint and shoot again.

Ik an election for Congreeeuaen the vote of Judge Harney, a staunch and honest Democrat-, has over five times the power of the vote of Judge Snyder, an equally staunch and honest Repub lican. But there is nothing honest about the system which makes such in equalities possible. This injistice caused by the dishonest gerrymander. It can be effectually prevented by the ennctment of a proportional represents tion law.

THERE are still a good many desirable places left in the diplomatic and con eular service. Cos Cunningham still hanging on to the willows dispens ing the drinks in a most lavish manner in the expectation that some of this frtfit will drop in his basket when thor onghly ripe.

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debt high

Dunixo November the public was increased $6,716,498. It is time that Democrats were devising some Bcheme to increase the revenue instead of floundering about in the endeavor decrease it.

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HARVARD is about to incorporate her annex for girls as a part of the Univer sity. Wabash still remain* behind procession in regard t» eo-edasatiea,

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IN DIXIE'S LAND

BEFORE THE WAR.

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ERA OUAIUATOKS ov vss mssissirvi Tlie Cotton Queen was behind time fft ftonaldsoavUlo, and the hoars that \ve waited there vrcre torturing ones. What would have happened had pursuit overtaken us before the boat came is a matter of certainty with me! had found an opportunity to arm myself. Le Fevre did the samo. We exchanged significant looks but no words. There was ny need of words. We had already earned a term of imprisonment, and we and our fair charge were not uow to be captured without bloodshed.

Aboard the Queen, and she rapidly putting miles of the wide and crooked river between us and pursuit, our spirits rose. We did not then know how narrow was our escape at that point. Wo got our breakfast with a crowd of passengers, cheered up Coralle and, bringing her again on deck, enjoyed with her the glorious panorama.

We passed Plaquimine without stopping. Le Fevre inquired of the oaptain, and learned that there was to be no stop until the boat reached Baton Eouge. "Do you stop there?" "Of course. All the boats do."

This intelligence made us uneasy, and we were consulting together about what we should do to avoid the detention that we had reason to fear had been prepared by telegraph for us, when the most unexpected chance favored us.

I stop at this point, to say that the occurrences narrated in this chapter came mainly under my own observation. The minor ones that I did not personally see and hear were afterwards told to me by those who did see and hear them.

The day wore on the boat was within a mile of Baton Rouge. A call from the pilot's specking tube brought the captain up into the pilot house. "What's up, Doblin?" "Look up the river," said the pilot, with both hands on the wheel.

The captain shaded his eyes with his hand, and looked. "Seems to be a large steamboat putting out from liaton Rouge." "Take the glass, sir."

One look through the glass and the captain threw it down, fairly jumping with excitement.

The S. S. Prentiss, by Why, she left New Orleans twelve hours ahead of us."

She's been waiting for us," said the pilot, quietly. She has not waited for nothing, then. I've heard of their brags from St. Louis down about what they'd do with the Queen wheu the3' had a chance. By the Lord Harry, we'll show 'em! Here's almost a straight course to Port Hudson bluffs, and no chulti or sidecuts. I'll beat 'em or go to the bottom!"

He rang the engineer's bell for more steam. Presently the black smoke began to pour from the lofty stacks in elouds. The speaking-tube brought up the night-pilot, who was sleeping in his berth. The two men at the wheel kept their eyes fixed on the glass front of the pilot-house, ready to take any advantage offered by tho current or the curves of the shore.

The speed of the Queen was visibly increased. The vibration of her powerful engines could be felt in every part of her. The puff of the pipes and the fierce churning of the paddles min gled in a steady sonnd.

Baton Rouge was passed, many people standing on the shore and waving their hats and cheering. Some of the passengers clamored up to the captain that they must get off here, and that they had freight aboard that was to be delivered here. "You and your freight be d—dl" roared the captain, leaning out of the pilot-house. "Do you think the Queen is going to stop a race that we've tried for months to get to oblige yon?"

Hundreds of other passengers laughed, cheered and applauded. The excitement of the contest had by this time spread all through the boat. The bows were so crowded that some of the boat's officers came and ordered half of the people back, that the boat might not settle too much by the head. Thousands of dollars were wagered on the length of time, before the Queen would pass her rival. A few disloyal folks, who were willing to bet that she would not pass at all, had the chance promptly offered them to take ten to one. Before the oontest was determined the Baton Rouge men were as crazy with excitement as anyone."We're gaining a little," said the captain. "Precious little," said Pilot Dobbin.

Again the speaking-tube. "How much Bteam is on?" "Hundred and fifty," came back in sepulchral tone. "Pile her on! Stick her up to seven-ty-five." "She'll stand that," said Doblin, sotto voce, as the four hands made half dozen rapid turns of the wheel, and the bows took an scute angle for the farther shore. "She'll have to carry more than that before she catches that flyer •head," said the other.

To the feverish passengers who were watching the leading boat, the interval between them seemed the same for hours. It was in fact very slowly closing. The half-ihile was reduced to quarter. At a speed against the current that caused the immense boat to tremble in every fiber, foot by foot, yard by yard, she gained on her rival. The mass of faces at her stern could be separated and almost counted with the naked eye. Then the Prentiss took a sudden spurt, and a cheer from her crowded decks showed thut she was increasing her lead.

The captain of the Queen raged round the pilot-house, and shook his fist at the other boat. "What steam?" he shouted down through the pipe. "Hundred and eighty—and everything redhot and groaning. Dunno how much more she'll bear." "We've got to ,find out!" yelled back the captain. "Keep the water buckets ready to drown the furnace when we've passed her by a mile or so, and crack on the steam. Pile it up, I tell you!"

Under the terrific impulse of a head of steam which no man would have ordered but a lunatic or the captain of a Mississippi river steamer in a race. Ute Queen laterally dashed at her riv*L less lm_dlsta»ee was made up, was

do)fbTel. "The cnptnln. leaning far out in the effort to hotter observe the gain of his boat, heard again the hoarse murmur of the tube from the engine room. "What is it?" "The pine is used up and tho oj preaa d«c£t burn wll" '"There's a hnodrod hams aod ipnme(s/at*&fd that belong to those to# Bougie passengers. Tell th» plwera to 'em an4 dbu»k 'em in. If the boat won't pay, I wtlL"

Steadily the Queen pulled up on the Prentiss, her officers almost coming to blows with some of the passengers in the effort to keep more of them amidships. The leading boat was quivering and vibrating and her pipes belched forth a pall of smoke so black that it needed not the smell that came from it to Khow that it came from burning turpentine. The Queen drew on, and from her bow the officers of the Prentiss were seen driving some of the people from her stern. Both captains frantically shouted for more steam. The bow of the pursuing boat was past the stern of the other. Foot by foot she gained. Her bow reachcd the paddle box. A prolonged, exultant cheer arose from her decks. Yells of defianoc oarao from the Prentiss. Fists were shaken over the rails. A Babel of human voices arose.

But these and all other sounds were swallowed by a roar that seemed to shake the heavens, mingled with a terrific and prolonged rush of escaping steam. The smoke pipes of the Queen tottered and fell with a crash on the deck forward the steam flooded everything to the bows a bright glare shot up amidships, and the poor rent, ruined, burning Queen drifted down with the current, her decks ringing with the agonizing shrieks of dozens of victims, while the river was black with others who leaped overboard.

The Prentiss was put about, and every effort was made to save the passengers and crew of her luckless rival. Her boats pickod up many of the wretches who struggled in the water many more were drowned. Bodies were found floating miles below, tho next day: some with arms or legs bitten off by alligators. The Queen grounded on a point two miles down from the place of the explosion. Many of those who were fortunate enough to be aft of the engine escaped to the shore others were burned alive as they lay mangled and scalded. Two hundred and thirty-nine human beings killed or dreadfully hurt was the price paid for the effort to determine which of these boats was the faster.

CHAPTER XXIIL

TffBHED BACK FROM EDEN.

While the steamboats were flying up the river, aud all aboard seemed to share in the madness of the time, the cool head of Le Fevre kept its balance. He took Coralie and me by the arms and hurried us as far astern as possible. "We are rushing on to destruction," he said. "I know something of this boat her boilers can never carry the steam that they are crowding them with. Remain here this is the safest plaee on board. I will go forward and warn them."

Brave, gneat-souled being! We never saw him more. Even at this distance of time tears fill my eyes as I write, at the thought of his courage aud devotion. One of the survivors afterward told me that he saw him shouting ond gesticulating tqward the pilot-house, but that, in the roar of voices, his was not heeded. Then came the catastrophe, and the curtain falls forever on that unselfish life. The tears that were denied us in the frightful scenes that followed have since fallen capiously to his memory

He saved us, but he could not save himself. His foresight as to the direction and effect of the explosion had placed us in comparative safety at the stern, and we were among those who were able to escape to the shore where the drifting wreck grounded on the point, stern foremost. One of the boats of the Prentiss took us aboard of that steamer, with about two hundred who were saved from more serious injury than a wetting in the Mississippi.

Since the days of her who was "last at the cross and earliest at the grave, woman has been known as a ministering angel of mercy and comfort and now Coralie, unused by habit or experience to scenes of suffering, insisted on going below and doing what she could for the unfortunates from the Queen. I took her to the large saloon and while she and other women like her moved about that soene of horrors, striving to alleviate pain, strong men grew sick with the sights and sounds, and fled again to the deok. The mattresses and sheets had been stripped from the berths and laid in long rows upon the floor, and scores of the victims were there, having oil and cotton applied to their injuries, saw and heard a little, and then went

lift

ONK HUJTDBED DOLLARS TO PUT ASHORE," I SHOUTED.

on deck, faint with the living misery of the scene.

(To Be Continued.)

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