Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1892 — Page 2

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. L LESSONS TAUGHT BY BIRTH OATES AND HOLIDAYS. <ll Other Anniversaries Are Interior In fntE' z p rrtaneeto (Jlirl«tm»tM—The Year 1893 Im Certain to lie a Memorable one—Natnre’N Bonwou of Growth and Decay. At the Tabernacle. > The text selected bv Rev. Dr. Tulmairo *ras Colossiaus ii. IG, "in repoct of a holy day.” What the Bible hero and elsewhere calls a holy day wo, by change of one letter and change of pronunciation, call holiday. But by change of spelling and accentuation we cannot change the tact that holidays have great significance. As long as the world stands Christmas day and New Year’s day and Easter day will bo charged and surcharged with solemn svggestiveness and holy mirth. Whether you take the old stylo of my text and call them holy days, or the mod- < . ern stylo and call them holidays, they somehow sot all my nerves a-tlnglo and <ny deeper emotions into profoundest agitation. lam glad that tills season wo have the holidays completely bounded. For years, Christmas day starting in the midst of one week, and Now Year's day starting in the midst of another week, wo have boon perplexed to know when the holidays began aud when they ended, and perhaps we may have begun them too soon or continued them too f long. But this year they are bounded by two beaches of gold—Sabbath, Dec. 25, 1892, and Sabbath, .Jan. 1, 1893. The one Sabbath this year commemorates the birth of the greatest being that ever walked the earth; the other celebrates the birth of that which is to bo one of the greatest years of all time; the ope day supernatural because of an unhinged star and angelic doxology, and the other day natural, but part of a procession that started with the world’s existence and will go on until the world is burned up; both the first and the last days of these holidays coming in with Sabbatical splendor and solemnity, and girdling all the days between with thoughts that have all time and all eternity in their emphasis. How shall we spend them. At haphazard and without special direction, and they leaving, as they go away from us, physical fatigpe and mental exhaustion. the effect of late hours and recklessness of diet adding another chapter to the moral and spiritual and eternal disasters which have resulted from misspent holidays? Oh, no! A stout and resounding no! for all the eight days. 1 propose that wo divide this holiday season, the two Sabbaths of the holiday and the six days between, into three chapters—the first part a chapter of illustrious birthday; the second part a chapter of annual decadence; the third part a chapter of chronological introduction. First, then, a chapter of illustrious birthday. Not a day ot any year but has been marked by the nativity of some good or great soul. Among discoverers the birthday of Humboldt was Sept. 14 and of David Livingston March 19. Among astronomers the birthday of Isaac Newton was Dec. 25 and of Herschel Nov. 17. Among orators the birthday of Cicero was Jan. 3 and of Chrysostom Jan. 14. Among prison reformers the birthday of John Howard was Sept. 2 and of Elizabeth Fry May 1. Among painters the birthday of Raphael was March 28 and of Michael Angelo March 6. Among statesmen the birthday of Washington was Feb 22, of Hamilton May 8 and of Jefferson April 2. Among consecrated souls the birthday of Mrs. Hernans was Sept. 25, of Lucretia Mott Jan. 3 and of Isabella Graham July 29. But what are all these birthdays compared with Dee. 2!>, for on or about that day was .born one who eclipsed Ml the great names of all the centuries—Jesus of Bethlehem, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus of Golgotha, Jesus of Olivet, Jesus of the heavenly throne. The greatest pictures have been mado gibout scenes in His lifetime. The greatest sacrifices on field of battle or in hospital or on long march or in martyrdom have been inspired by His self-abnega-tion. The finest words of eloquence ever spoken have been uttered in the proclamation ot His Gospel. The grandest oratorios that have ever rolled from orchestras were descriptive of His life and death. There have been other orators, but none like Him vtho "spake as never mao spake.” There have been other reformers, but none like Him who will not have completed His mission until tne last prison is ventilated, and the last blind eye opened, and the last deaf ear unstopped, and the last lame foot bounds like a roe, and the last case of dementia shall come to its right mind. There have been other discoverers, but none like Him able to fipd how man may be just with God. There have been other deliverers, but none like Him, the rescuer of nations. There have been other painters, but none like Him who put the image of God on a lost soul. No wonder we celebrate His birth, Protestant church, Catholic church, Greek church, St Isaac’s of Petersburg, St Peter’s at Rome, the Madeleine at Paris, St Paul's ! tn London joining all our American ca- ; thedrals and churches and meeting houses and homes' in keeping this pre-eminent birth festival. Elaborate and prolonged efforts have' been made to show that the star that ■ pointed to the manger in which Christ was born was not what it appeared to be, but a conjunction of J upiter and Sat- 1 urn. Our wise men of the West say that the wise men of the East were mistaken. Astronomers, you know, can calculate ’ backward as well as forward, and as they can tell what will occur a hundred years from now among the heavetdv bodies, so they can accurately calculate backward and tell what occurred eighteen or niiteleeii centuries ago. And it is ; true that seven years before Christ, Its ' Chaldea, about three hours before day' dawn, there was a conjunction of Jupi- ■ ter and Saturn. Standing in Jerusalem ; and looking over toward Bethlehem, i those two stars would have seemed to i hang over that village, and it is suggested by a learned professor that ihe magi may have had weak eyes, so that the two stars may Lave looked like one. In order to take everything supernatural out of the story we have to nd the eyes of the magi and introduce a second 7 n . star to help out the idea of the one star. s > ■ But I prefer the simple story of the Bible, Chat a light of some kind —stellar or meteoric —pointed from the skv to the straw cradle. When It is so easy for God to niako a world that he puts eighteen millions of them within one sweep of the telescope. He could certainly afford one silvery or fiery signal of some kind to point the world to the place where the sovereign of the universe lay incarnated and infantile. You see, the birth at Bethlehem must have been more novel ar.d startling to the heavens than the crucifixion on Calvary. It was expected that Christ wouid be maltreated. The world always had maltreated Its good and great friends. Joseph hurled into the pit, Shadrach put Into the fire, Jeremiah lowered Into a dungeon, David hounded from the throne, Elijah compelled to starve or take his food from the beak of a filthy raven, and Socrates condemned to death, so that the Calvarlan masacre was in the same old line of maltreatment. But the novelty of all the ages was the conjunction of divinity and humanity. Invisible deity, z —-

muscled and nerved and fleshed in masculine physique, A child and yet a God! Why, If the meteor had not pointed down that night, some angel would have rushed down and pointed with his glittering scepter. Isaiah and David and Ezekile, who foretold the coming, would have descended from tlielr thrones and stood on the roof of the barn or In some way designated the honored locality. As the finger of light that Doc. 25 pointed to the straw cradle, now all the fingers of Christendom this moment, fingers of childhood and old ago. fingers of sermon and song and decoration and festivity, point to the groat straw cradle. Am I not right in saying that the first of the throe chapters of the holidays should bo devoted to the illustrious birthday? By song and prayer and solemn reflection and charities to-day, and by gifts and trees that bear fruit In an hour after they are planted, and family gathering and hilarities sounding from collar to garret to-morrow, keep Christmas. As far as possible gather the children and the grandchildren, but put no estoppel on racket, whether of laughter qr swift feet or toys in shape of rail trains or trumpets or infant effigy. Lot the old folks for one day at least say nothing about rheumatism, or prospect of early demise, or the degeneracy of modern times, or the poison in the confectionery. If you cannot stand the niolse, retire from it for a little while into some other room and stop your ears. Christmas for children without plenty of noise is no Christmas al all. If children and grandchildren cannot have full swing during the holidays, when will they have it? They will be still soon

enough, and their feet will slacken their pace, and the burdens of life will bear them down. Houses get awfully still when the children are gone. While they stay let them fill the room with such resounding mirth that you can hear the echoes twenty years after they are dead. By religious celebration to day and Ly domestic celebration to-morrow keep Christmas. As for our beloved church, we to-morrow night mean to set the children of our Sabbath school wild with delight. and in The Christian Herald, with which lam connected, we are celebrating the holidays by sending out from 2.000 to 4,000 Bibles a day, and they will continue to go out by express, by messengers and by mails until we have distributed at leat 100,000 copies of the good old Book on which Christmas is built, and which give the only healthful interpretation of these swift flying years. The second chapter of the holidays must speak of annual decadence. This is the last Sabbath of the year. The steps of the year are getting short for it is old now. When it waved the springtime blossoms the year was young, and when it swung the scythe and cradle through the summer harvest fields the year was strong, bqt it is getting out of breath now. and after six more throes of the pulse will be dead. We cannot stop this annual decadence. Set all the clocks back, set all the watches back, set all the chronometers back, but you cannot set time back. For the old fapiily clock you might suppose that.time would have especial respect, and that if you took hold of those old hands on the face of that centenarian of a timepiece and pushed them back you might expect that time would stop or retreat for at a few minutes. "No, no!” says the old family clock. "I must go on. I saw your father and mother on their wedding day. I struck the Lour of your nativity. I counted the festal hours of the day in which you brought home a bride. I sounded the knell at your father's death. I tolled at your motheais departure. Yea, 1 must sound your own going out of life. I must go on. I must go on. Tick, tock! Tick, took!” But there is a great city clock high up in the tower. There are so many wrongs in all our cities to be righted, so many evils to be extirpated, so many prisons to be sanitaried—stop tne city clock until ail these things are done. Let common council and the people of the great town decree that the city hall clock shall stop. Wo do not want the sins ot 1892 to be handed over to 1893.. We do not want the young year to inherit the misfortunes of the old year. By ladders lifted to the tower and by strong hands take bold and halt the city clock. "No, no!” says the city clock. "I cannot wait until you correct all evils or soothe all sorrow or drive out all sin. I have been counting the steps of your progress as a city. I have seen your opportunities. I have deplored your neglects, but time wasted is wasted forever. I must go on. I must go on. Tick, tock! Tick, tock!” But in the tower of the capitols at Washington and Loudon and Berlin and Vienna and all the great national capitals there are clocks. Suppose that by Presidental proclama- I tion and resolution of Senate and House of Representatives our national clock in the Capitol turret be ordered to stop. "Stop, O clock, until sectional animosities are cooled off, until our Sabbaths are better kept, and drunkenness turns to sobriety, ;tnd bi .eery, fraud and dissipation quit the land! Stop, O clock, in the tower of the great United States Capitol!” “No, no!” says the clock. “1 have been going on so long I cannot afford to stop. I sounded the birthday of American Independence. I rang out the return of pea.ee in 1865. I have seen many presidents inaugurated. I struck the hour of Lincoln's assassination. I ' have beat time fqr emancipation proclamation, and Chicago fire, and Charles- ■ ton earthquake, and epidemics of fever ' and cholera. Nations never stop. They I march on toward salvation or demolition. And why should I stop? I chime for the national holidays. I toil for the mizbty dead. I must goon! I must go on! Tick, tock! Tick, tock!” There may be a of a few seconds or a few minutes in the timepieces, but it will be a serious occasion when the next Satnr-; day night about thesatrie hour the family ! clocks, and the city clocks, and the national clocks srike one! two! three! four! five! six! seven! eight! nine! ten! eleven 1 twelve! 3 Sorry arn Ito have 1892 depart this life, ft has been a good year. What bright days! What starry nights! What ) harvests! What religious convocations! What triumphs of art and science and invention and enterprise and religion! i But, alas, how sacred it has been with I sorrows! What pillows hoi with fever I that could not be cooled! What graves I opening wldei-nhugh to takedown beauty , and strength aud usefulness! What octogenarians putting down the staff of ' earthly pilgrimage anti taking theorown 'of heavenly reward! What children, as ■in Bible time, crying: “My head, my I head! And they, carried him to his ! ’ I mother, and he sat on her knees until ' ; noon and then died.” This year went I • J the chief poet of England an;! the chief i ' poet of America. Our John G. Whittier ’ i —great in literature and simple as a > I child—for did I not spend an afternoon ■ ’ with him in a barn in the Adirondaeks, ' 1 and in the evening we played bllnd- ' man'll bluff, he tying over iny eyes the t handkerchief while the hotel parlors > rang with, the merrymaking? And Ten-. ■ i nyson. this year gone — he who lor this 1 i particular season of the year wrote; 17 Hing ont, wl'd bolls to the wild *ky, s flying cloud, the frosty light, t 7*llo year U dying in tb > u grit. a King out, wild bells, and let him die. !, What mingling of emotions in this closs ; ing year! What orange blossoms for the d marriage altar, and what myrtle for the e tomes of the dead! Hosannas and lamfl entations in collision. Auth -m and dead y march mounting from the same ivory 1- keys. Before this year quite leaves the r, earth let II hoar our repentance for op-

portunities that can never return. Kind words spoken too late or not. spokan at all. Menns of getting good or doing good ho completely gone tiy that the archangel's voice could not recall them. Can It bo that this year Is closing and our sins are unforglven, and wn have no certainty that when our last Doc. 31 has sped away we shall enter a blissful etornlty? The most overwhelmingly solemn wook of all the year is the last week of December. Compare the first half of this century with tho last half. The surges of this ocean of time arc rolling higher and higher. The forces of right and wrong are rapidly multiplying, and their struggles must be intensified. It Is a chronological fact that wo arc all tho tlino coming nearer to tho world’s edenlzatlon first and then to Its incineration, to Its redemption and Its demolition. And so I expect that 1893 will boa greater year than 1892. Its wedding bells will bo merrier. lisohsoquos will be sadder. Its seiontKic discoveries more brilliant Its prosperities more significant Its opening more grand. Its termination more stupendous. Look out for 1893! Lot printers have in their cases of typo plenty of exclamation points to sot up a sudden paragraph. Let tho conservatories have profusion of flowers that can be twisted into garlands. Let churches have plenty of room for increased assemblages. Let inen and women have more religion to meet tho vacillations, and tho exigencies, and the demands, aud I the raptures, and the woes of this cojti- I ing 1893. In what mood shall we open tho doorot the new year? With faith, i strong faith, buoyant faith, triumphant faith, God will see you through. His grace will be sufficient if you trust him. You can go to him at any time and find sympathy. My liftle child got hurt one morning during her mother's absence. We loeked after the case as well as n tvuid. Toward night her mother returned, and for the first time the child cried and cried vociferously. Some tine said to her; "What do von erv for? You did not cry all day.” Her reply was, "There was no one to cry to.” And so you some- j times suppress your trouble because there is no full resource ot earthly sympathy. But I rejoice to tell you that in God you always have someone to cry to. He will condole and help in every crisis. Come, now, let mo unstrap that knapsack of care from your shoulders. Come prosperity or adversity, come wedding or burial, coine health or sickness, come life or death, come time or eternity, all’s well, all s well! Keep, your heart right and all else will be right. Men and women have sometimes giveti; strange and whimsical directions in regard tc what shall be done with their hearts after death. Ro tert Brhce ordered his heart to be seht to the Holy Land for burial. The Earl of Leicester ordered his heart sent to Brackley hospital. Isabella, daughter of the Earl of Pembroke, died at Berkhainpstead, butordered her heart taken to Tewkesbury cathedral. Lord Windsor, dying in a foreign land, ordered i his heart inclosed in lead and sent to

England for burial in the chapel of Bradenham. Now what shall we decree for our heart? That it be the Lord’s, and then it makes no difference what else i ecomes of it Living and dying, may it all be His. Thus in three chapters I have counseled that the holidays be grouped. May nothing interfere with their felicities. Mav they be so spent that they will be food for pleasant reminiscence further on. You know that after while the old homestead will be broken up. For years and years the children come home to spend the holidays, and the house is rummaged from garrpt to cellar, and the scenes of childhood are rehearsed, and wc laugh till the tears come as we talk over some l ovish or girlish freak or cry over some old trouble ended; but the hearts swing back again to mirth, for it does not take half a second for a tear ot the eye to strike tho smile of the lip. For a few years the grandchildren make the holidays merry. One of the many uses of grandchildren is to keep the old folks young. Thon after a few years the annual gathering at the old homestead is half broken up, for father or mother is gone. About two years after (for there are generally about two years between tho time of their goinc) the other half of the holiday season is broken up. Then the old house goes into possession of strangers, and the sons and daughters by that time have homes of their owh. They plant their own Christmas trees, and bang up their own children's stockings, and twine their own holly and niistle toe, and have their own good times. They Will perhaps be riding out on some of those holidays either in sleigh of carriage twenty or thirty years from now along the places where we slumber the last sleep, and may wo have been so considerate and sympathetic in our demeanor toward them now that they will then say one to another as they pass the silent mounds of the village graveyard or city cemetery, "Tlicre rest as kind a father and as kind a mother as ever wished their children a merry Christmas ora happy New Y!ear.” Meanwhile we. their parents and grandparents, will, I hope, through the atonement of our blessed Lord, be keeping holidays livelier and higher up; in the presence ot the very Christ whose birth the earthly Christmas commemorates, and of the “Ancient ot Days” who saw the first year open, and will see the last year close; in companionship with the ever widening circle of heavenly kindred, many already there and many soon to come, and the tables of that festivity will purple with the grapes of Eschol, and redden with “the new wine of tjjp kingdom,’’and glow with "twelve manner of fruits” from the trees of life, and the gifts of those holidays will be mansions and thrones and crowns of glory that never fade away. Oh, that these delightful holidays of earth may fit us for those more delightful -holidays of heaven!

He Who Runs May Read. The lives of most men are in their own hands, and as a rule the just verdict after death woujd be--felo de se. Light gives a bronzed to tan color to the skin; but where it uproots the lily I it plants the rose. > I Mould and decaying vegetables in a - cellar weave shrouds for the upper chambers. A change of air is less valuable than a change of scene. The air is chapged every time the direction of the wind is changed. j Health mPst be earned—it can selj. dom be bought. Girls need health as much—naj more ! than boys. They can only obtain it as boys do, by running, tumbling, by all ■ sorts of innocent vagrancy. At least j once a day girls should have their halters taken oil, the bars let down and be turned loose like young colts. Calisthenics may be very genteel, and . romping very ungenteel, but one is the shadow, the other the substance of healthful exercise. Blessed be he who invented sleep—but thrice blessed the man who will invei t a cure for thinking. Milk drawn from a woman who sits indoors and drinks whisky and beer, is certainly as unwholesome as milk from a distillery fed cow. Dirt, debauchery, disease and death are successive links in the same chain. —Dr. Frank H. Hamilton't “Health ,

DUTY OF DEMOCRATS. ROGER Q. MILLS POINTS OUT A PLAIN PATH. LOtne Light Thrown on tho Innet Working* of tho Tariff—Binder twill* and Hope Should Be Put on the Fro* LUt— Remove tho Barriers to Commerce. What DemoorAt* Must Do. “We must show to the people of the United States that we were honest in the declarations upon which they gave us tho administration of the Government in ali departments. “We must arrange taxation for the single purpose ot raising revenue for the Government. We must show to them that we were slncene when we said that taxes should not be levied for the purpose of protecting anybody against competition. “To do our duty will call for only an ordinary amount of intelligence,’but an extraordinary amount of courage. In proceeding to forinulnte a measure that shall take the place of the presentsytem of tariff taxes, we must keep uppermost the principle of the right of tho American people to labor and to market the product of their I labo;. “The problem to-day is that the ' productive efficiency of the people of | the United States is so great that in a part of the year it brings forth more than will satisfy all our people for the whole year. Barriers have been placed in the way of their marketing elsewhere what they produce during the rest of tho year, and they must be removed. In order to do that we must take the heavy penalties off goods coming into this country. By the same act that you prohibitimportat.lon you make impossible exportation. "We must take the tax oft every raw material that enters into the manufacture of goods that we produce. Coal, the metals, and all the libers must be put on the free list, and so must all of those things that enter into the manufacturing of the articles in which the skill of the American laborer is superior to the skill of the laborer of any other country. Then, too, the taxes must be taken off finished go ds that are of common necessity in so far as those taxes are purely protective. All this must be.done because our people now appreciate that when you put a high tax on an article and that article conies into this country to be sold something must pay for it, tariff, tax, and all, and they know that the payment must come from the surplus of American labor, as it is now and has long been coming. "The Democratic party has wisdom enough. It has too much For thirty years, truth compels me to say that there has been cowardice in the leadership of the Democratic party. Grover Cleveland was elected because the people appreciated that he had the courage to do what was right. "The people have issued the edict that there must be a tariff system which will reduce their burdens to a minimum. It 16 to carry out their edict that they put the Democratic party in power. If that party fails to do this the people will bury it four years from now deeper than they buried the Refrubncan party last November.”—Roger Q. Mills, at the Reform Club dinner.

Kill tho Cordage Trust. There is no moral or financial reason why binder twine and rope should not at once be put upon the free list. The only reasons for retaining these duties in the McKinley bill were political ones. These are no longer operative, for the incoming administration will depend upon its fidelity to public trusts and not upon the boodle that it can fry out of favored trusts, to secure the good-will and the votes of the people. We can and do make cordage cheaper than any other nation. We export it to all parts of the earth. The duty then serves only to make possible a trust, which has existed since 1887, with power to extort from American consumers. The Cordage Trust has done this in the most approved manner. It owned and gained control of forty-nine factories, all in Canada, and but eleven in the United States. It bribed manufacturers of cordage machinery not to sell to outsiders for five years. It paid John Goode $250,000 a year to hold his big plant idle. It closed up half of its mills to restrict production and sustain its abnormally high prices. It gained control of the supply of manila fiber for several years and dictated prices to manufacturers not in the trust. It has this year a corner in sisal hemp and holds the price at 6 cents, while the price of white sisal twine is less than 8 cents to jobbers. It made $1,406,313 profits in 1891 on a nominal capital of $15,000,000 and an actual capital of $5,000,000 or $6,000,000. This trust, sustained by duties of from 7-10 to 2 1-12 cents per pound, is the enemy of the farmer, of labor, and of the honest manufacturer. It paid for special legislation by big contributions to Republican campaign corruption funds. It subsidized and bribed on all sides, and got even and ahead by plundering the helpless consumer. It Is safe to say that no representative of this greedy monopoly will show his head in the next Cohgress, and that if he does he will meet with a cold reception. It is evident that this great trust, expects to be handled without gloves. ’ The Cordage Trade Journal of Dec. 1, 1892, expresses the belief not only that binder twine will be made free, but that It will probably be done atan extra session of Congress. It also says that the duty on rope “may attract tho attention of politicians” after the binder twine duty is disposed of. In discussing the binder twine situation, this journal say* “At the first session ot this Congress the < Democratic House, as Is well known, passed a bill placing binder twine on the free list; the bill went to the Senate, where It remains, no action having been taken upon it. There is a possibility that enough Republican Senators, having read the signs of the times as shown by the result of the late unpleasantness, will vote with the Democratic members of the Senate to pass the bill and place ft In the hands of President Harrison for his sanction or veto. Should the present Senate take this action the date that the

I law will take effect may be fixed nt March or April 1, 1893, although the strongest probability is that July 1. 1803, will be the date decided upon.” Reduce tho Tariff In 1893* What, then, are the teachings of history and of common sense with reference to the course of the new administration? It is absolutely certain that tho new Congress will make some great change in the tariff; but, until that change is actually mado, the greatest uncertainty will prevail as to its precise direction. That wool will lie made free and the additional tax on tin plates be repealed everybody can foresee, but beyond this all is darkness. If nothing is to be attempted before the assembling of tho now Congress in December, 1893, it is certain that the new tariff, whatever it may bo, will not be enacted until June, 1894; and if the nonsense which is now gravely brought forward as to necessary delay in its taking effect is to be respected, no change would really take place until Jan. 1, 1895. The result is obvious to any man who has eyes to see. The new industries which the McKinley bill was intended to create will not be created; the importations will be restricted by the enormous duties, the people will be heavily burdened by useless taxation, and will gain none of the relief which they might have gained if the McKinley bill bad been left alone, by increased, although unnatural, domestic production. The piotected manufacturers generally will be kept for two years in a state of nervous apprehension; the cost of their materials will bo increased rather than diminished; they will very properly be careful about extending their production, because, when the new tariff once takes effect, their rivals will have cheaper materials and cheaper machinery, by the aid of which to undersell those who paid high prices; and there will be as much stagnation as it is possible to have in a country so progressive as our own. Nobody seems to know anything about the history of the tariff of 184 G and its political effect. The facts are that the Polk administration adopted the conservative course now Recommended by wiseacres, doing nothing until the regular session of Congress, deliberating a long time, passing the new tariff in July, 184 G, and postponing its operation until December. The result was, naturally’ enough, that the manufacturers of the country were kept in a state of agonizing suspense for nearly two years; that for eighteen months nobody knew whether a new tariff would be enacted or not; that nobody derived the smallest benefit from the new tariff until after the Congressional elections of 1846, while everybody felt the depressing effect of uncertainty as to the future. The next consequence was that the Democratic party suffered an overwhelming defeat in the elections of October and November, 1846, the House of Representatives, which had a Democratic majority of about sixty in 1844, being transferred to the Whigs in 1846; and a reactionary movement was thus started which, notwithstanding the fact that when the new tariff actually went into operation the prosperity of the country was vastly increased, resulted in the election of a Whig President in 1848: It is quite true that the folly of the Polk administration in provoking the Mexican war contributed very largely to the .general result; but it is none the less true that the Democrats would have retained their majority in 1846, if they had properly settled the tariff question in 1845. I have no fears for’the ultimate issue of the tariff controversy. The Whig victories of 1846 and 1848 were entirely barren; the tariff of 1846 triumphantly vindicated itself; and it would have been irrepcalable but for the great civil war of 1861. So I am absolutely confident that the new tariff, whether adopted in 1893 or 1894, will stand. But why should we run any risk of reaction and imperil the prospects of the party of tariff reform, even for the year 1894? Let us have prompt action and thorough reform, so that the people may get and feel the full benefit of our ideas. This is one of the cases in which half measures, as Mills has wisely said, not only do not produce half results, but produce no results at all.—Extract from a letter of Thos. G. Shearman to the New York Evening Post.

The Battle ot November 8. “Stirred by these moral forces, came forth the rank and file of the Democratic party, the honest masses whose enthusiasm for a good cause and a worthy leader brushed away like cobwebs all opposition and all feeble considerations of expediency in the party councils. Then came forth the ‘lndependents,’ the men who, as has been said of Edmund Burke, ‘sometimes change their front, but never change their ground,’ the men who. in struggling for good government, had the courage to expose themselves to the pelting storms of political warfare without . the shelter of a party roof over their heads; the ipen whom the partisan politician calls ‘tho?e enlightened, unselfish and patriotic citizens who rise above party,’ provided they rise above the other party, but whom he calls ‘a lot of dudes and Pharisees amounting to nothing’ when they happen to rise above his own party. “And among them came the college professor, the disinterested man of studious thought, the truest, representative of the intellectual honesty of the country—the college professor whom the Republican party bad called its own when it was the party of moral Ideas, but whom It now affects to despise as an impracticable theorist, since it has become the party of immoral practices. Indeed, a significant spectacle it is; on one side, with few individual exceptions, Harvard and Yale, and Columbia and Amherst, and Cornell and Ann Arbor, and many more; and on the other side, the high and mighty tariff, with Maj. McKinley as the professor of its'sclence, with Matt Quay aud Dave Martin as the exponents of Its politics, and with John Wanamaker as the Illustration of Its sanctity. But still more came; thousands of old Republicans, who reluctantly severed the ties binding them to the party to which they bad been long and warmly attached, and who, obeying the voice of their consciences, went where they could serve the public good.

“Thus, at the ’ call of the moral forces in politics, was tho powerful combination of elements formed to which tho Democratic cause and the Democratic candidate owe their triumphant success.”—Carl Schurz, at annual dinner of the Reform Club. Inner Working, ot the Tariff. A report of the Board of General Appraisers of Customs to the Secretary of the Treasury for the yeai ended Oct. 31, 1892, throws much light upon the inner workings of the tariff system. Tho report shows that during the year in question 45,995 protests were made against tho classification of goods by tho custom house officials. These protests covered nearly all classes of imports, and their multitude shows how great is the confusion |n the administration of the tariff. Besides the protests against wrongful classification, there were during the year 2,090 appeals against assessments of values by the local appraisers. In 573 of these cases tiie action of tho local appraisers was sustained by the general board; in 796 cases the decisions were sustained in part; In 86 cases the valuations of the local appraisers were increased; and in 446 cases tho claims of the importers were confirmed. In 17 cases the appeals against the custom house valuations were withdrawn, and in 172 cases the decision of the Board of Appraisers is still pending. The extent of the embarrassment to trade by the incessant conflicts over a vastly complicated machinery of tariff laws and custom house administration is almost incalculable. The importing merchants find themselves harassed beyond measure by stupid and inconsistent decisions which delay their business operations, while they are not infrequently the victims of official dishonesty and blackmail. Under a wise and just system of revenue laws most of the conflicts over . the administration of tho customs laws would disappear. It is not I strange that the great commercial in-1 terests of the country should have , risen in earnest protest against the • maintenance of the McKinley tariff; and its multitudinous abuses.—Philadelphia Record. Men -Ire on the Free List. One claim may rts well be disposed of at once. Protectionists claim that the tariff protects American labor ■ against foreign competion. Does it? There is no tariff on laborers. There ' is absolute free trade in labor—the one thing that the manufacturer has to buy, and the one thing the laborer has to sell. But the manufacturer says we keep out foreign work; Well, when does the foreign laborer most interfere with your job—when he is thousands of miles away, working by hand or with poor machinery, producing goods that have to be transported thousands of miles before they come into our markets? or when he has come here as an immigrant and stands ready to work right by your side on the very machine you work with, to make the very goods you are making? When does he most interfere with your job?—when he stays a foreigner thousands of miles off? or when he comes here and.bids against you? How does it help the emplpyer most—to have him stay at home in Europe? or to have him here underbidding you? So, when your employers t<jll you that the tariff is to protect your labor, you know better. You did not make those laws, they did; and they left them in such shape that they could buy your labor as cheaply as possible. Their attitude, when frank, is summed in the speech of the gentleman who has been their leader In Congress, Hon. Win. D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, who, in the House ot Representatives, when reminded that there was no tariff on labor, said: “Yes, men are on the free list. They cost us not even freight. . . . Wc promote free trade in men, and it is the only free trade I am prepared to promote.”—Hon. John DeWitt Warner. Manufacturers Not Cast Down. The World has on one or two occasions called attention to the cheerful frame of mind in which the iron and steel manufacturers find themselves since election. We now add some testimony as to a similar feel-1 ing on the part of sensible woolen • manufacturers. The following extract is taken from ' an editorial entitled “Is Woolen Industry to Be Prosperous?” published in the American Wool and Cotton Reporter of Nov. 24th; “It is safe to assume that the Dem- 1 ocratic party will not legislate against the best interests of the country, and that there will be no legislation which will be destructive of vested interests. The aim and purpose of the Democratic party is the same as that of the Republican party—the difference between the two parties is wholly one of policy and not of purpose, and the best interests of the Democratic party are identical with those of the country—and they lie in the direction of preserving our manufacturing industries. and also in furthering their ! growth under what they regard as 1 healthy and constitutional limits. It is very probable that under a tariff based even upon entirely free raw material and reasonable duties on manufactured goods, there will be a larger and more ample net protection than the woolen manufacture has had in years. There is a vast differ-' ence between an apparent protection, as in the McKinley bill, and an absolute protection which may be obtained under a far lowei rate of du-, ties than we now have.” No comment on this is necessary, except, perhaps, an expression of wonder at the ease with which our Protectionist fi'iends are bringing themselves to tho condition of veracity.—New York World. The Plate Glass Trust. The reports in the daily newspapers that the American Plate Glass Manufacturers’ Association has been dissolved Is the merest flgtfent of reportorial Imagination. The association is not only alive but will regulate the output so as to prevent a glutting of the plate glass market It met during the week, reaffirmed prices, and agreed to curtail the product on the lines agreed upon at the last meeting. —National Glass Budget Thb Prlnoe«e of Wales has soms gloves which art nearly three feet long. • . .-a- At . ■

| THE SENATE AND HOUSE. ) ■■ 5 WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. I ' Proo*«<llng* ot the Senate and Hot.* ot Representative* — Important Meaaure* I Dlacuaned and Acted llfion—Gi»t ot the Bualuea*. _ _ _ I The Natlonal Solon*. I After tho routine morning bUtlnOH* wa* . dlepo.oii of in tho Senate Tuoaduy the . army appropriation bill from tho House ■ *m proaontod and referred to tho Committee on Appropriation*. A bill for tho reappointment of Jarno* 11. Angell, of Michigan, on the Board ot Regent* of tho t-mltb- ' son lan Inntltutlon wn* reported and panned. I Mr. Sherman Introduced a bill to extend to | tho North Pacific Ocean tho provision* of the atatutu* for tho protection of fur seals and other lur-beurlng nnlmals. end It wait referred to tho Committee on Foreign Re- , latlon*. The bill introduced by Mr. Bate . (Democrat, Tenn.) “to 'repeal all statu io* ' relating to supervision of elections and spo--1 clal deputies.’ l wn* taken up. but wont over **llllollloolloo. Tho anll-optlon bill wui i then token up and Mr. Palmer (Democrat, III.) addressed tho Senate, explaining and defending hl* objection So the bill After considerable argument. but without concluding hl* speech, Mr. Palmer yielded the floor—the anti-option bill going over without action—and the Senate adjourned. In the House, on motion ot Mr. Lind (Rep, Minn.), a resolution was adopted calling on tho (secretary of the Interior for Information relative to tho action taken by the State of Minnesota to annul the charter of the Hasting.* and Dakota Railroad Company. Under the special order tho floor was then accor.lo i to the Committee on Public Lands, which. I through Its chairman. Mr. Mcßue, ca'led up the bill adjusting tho claims of Arkansas and other States under t lid Kwamn-land act. No action was taken on tho bill, no quorum being secured to vote upon 11. and tho House adjourned. I In the Senate Wednesday. Mr. Morgan (Ala.) presented tho joint memorial of tho Senate and Hcuho of Alabama urging such measure* adopted by Congress as to aecuro I tho speedy construction of tho Nicaragua ■ Canal and Its control by the United States. The resolution recently offered by Mr. Vest (Mo.) directing the Committee on the Census to investigate charges of partisan action against certain census enumerators was reported favorably and agreed to. The antl-optlon bill was then taken up and Mr. Palmer (Ill.) continued bis argument (bei gun Tuesday) In epposit’on to It Mr. ; Peffer (Kan.) said that ho wou'd not be | quite satisfied with his own conduct If he did not at least openly before tho Senate j express his approval of the pending me isi ure. Adjourned. In the House, on motion of Mr. Smith (Arlz.), a bill was passed restoring to the public domain a cer.nln portion of tho White Mountain Apache Indian reservation In Arizona. The floor was then accorded to tho Committee on Commerce. In committee of tl»o whole the Home proceeded to the consideration of the first bill called up. being one provl ling for sundry j lighth mses and other aids to navigation. | Mr. Brlckher (Wla) in a short speech ad- | vocfitcd the passage of the measure and ! then moved that It bo favorably reported ! to tho Hoose. Mr. Antony (Texas) was a strong opponent of tho measure, and although he permitted It to be rcportol to tho House with a favorable recommendation he then resumed his antagonism, and the House, being without a quorum, was obliged to udjourn. The McGarrahan bill had the attention ot the Senate for halt the limo ’ihursday’s session lasted, and Mr. Hun on (Vn.) closed his three days’ speech in its favor. In presenting a batch of petitions asking postponement of the antl-optlon bill. Mr. Cockrell (Mi>.) spoke of them as stereotyped petitions, marked with fraud and hardly entitled to be recognized a* the kind of petitions that ought to bo presented to the Senate. Al! petitions on tho same subject were referred to tho Committet on Agriculture. Mr. Perkins (Kan.) Introduced a bill to < nable the people of Oklahoma and of tho Indian Territory to form a constitutional and State government nnd to lie admitted into the Union on an equal fooling with the or glnal States. Referred to the < omrul teo on Territories. The McGarrahan bill was thou taken up and Mr. Huotoh (Va.) continued his argument in favor of its passage over the President’s veto. The nn 1-optlon bill was then taken up. and Mr. Peffer (Kan.) continued his »; eech in favor of it. At tho conclusion of Mr. Peffer's speech Mr. Washburn (Minn.) remarked- that it was Impossible to have a vote on the bill that day. AfterashO’t executive session the Senate adjourned until aficr the holidays. Immediately after the rending and approval of the journal In tho House. Mr. McMillin (Tenn.) myved an adjournment This was defeated—42 tq 48. 'i ho committees were called for reports, but wlihout Important rcsul’s. nnd. as tber- va* evidently no qu-rum present, the House also adjourned nn’ll after tho hol'd >y season. INDIANA APPORTIONMENT ACT. Supremo Court Declares the I.aw* of '9l and 'BS Vnltd* The decision of tho Indiana Supreme Court in* tho apportionment case declares that the court has jurisdiction, pronounces the acts of 1891 and 1879 unconstitutional, and holds lhe newly elected Legislature to be an official body de facto and valid law-makers. The decision of the lower court, which declared the acts of 189 t and 1885 unconstitutional, restoring Hint of 1879, is reversed. The ma'orlty of the court decides that the courts have authority to adjudge an apportion mon I act void if it i violates the provisions of the constitui tion. • Panvy for the National Flower. Representative Butler introduced a bill in the House to designate the pansy us the national flower, and another bill to arrange the stars in tho flag in the i shape of a pansy, with the staff to repj resent a sleeping tattlesnake, head down, with nn acorn instead of the head and a white j unsy bud instead of rattles, to symbolize defense, courage, wisdom, strength, peaco and immortality. Both bills ) rov de for the inaug iration of the two ideas on May 1, 1893, at the Columbian Exposition. Note i of Current Events. Fike at Tokio, Japan, has destroyed 600 native huts. Mn. Cleveland will open tho World’s I Fair with an address, Gov. Baiibeb of Wyoming was married to Miss Amelia K ent O veh 13,000,0011 bushels of wheat is I stored in, the Uuluth elevators. I A waterways convention will bo called to meet at Washington on January 11. Ax aerolite has been found near tho City of Mexico that weighs 40,000 pound's. The Fr neh fltenmor I a Bourgogne carried ’ 1,000,001 in gold from New York for i or.don. 1 “Lioe” Halford, it is said, will be sent as minister to Portugal, that post now being vacant. India .ai-olih will raise $150,000 to cover tho expenses of tiro National G, i A. R. encampment. ' A I’Oi.Tio . of a lime tone mine tn Nagayamura, apan, colla, sod, killing thirty-six tii iiers. The fort to be built at Helena, Mont., has been named Ft. Harrison in honor of the President;. John Famorr, a German gardenol |at irria Ohio killed his .st e and then fired into hL* own heart the contents ol a shotgun. A' O '<i tho eandl' atos or a vacancy in Ihe Citv Cotineil of I a eo, N. D., ia Mrs." Stewart, who keep* a lioardtngh’ u«o, and is sal I to possess eonsideral.le execut.va ability. William Da hcn, J n st. Paul bank cashier, was l«i eked down and robbed oy two foul pads. He recoveed hi senses anil pursue I one of the men, overtaking a. d capturing him The Lev. H. 11 ice ( oliiei, formerly pastor of the Vnifa-lan Chur h of the Savior, Brooklyn, s now said to be living in South Dakota lor the purpoee of securing a divorce from his wife ~ ; ■■ '