Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1893 — Page 2

©he ®fetttt>rrat DECATUR, IhtD. W. BLACKBURN, ■ - - rwtmn. Texas believes tn advertising. The latest, from that State is a corpse that drolled over and cursed the coroner. A West Viroimia moonshiner who tms recently been arrested Is six feet ■eleven inches high. Is this a proof that moonshine whisky will make a man grow? The wide range of subjects considered by the modern daily press is well shown by those journals which engage in poking fun at the sweet girl graduate and Mrs. Frank Leslie on one and the same page. If the real murderer of the Bordens will kindly step to the front and with uplifted hand say: “I cannot tell a lie—l did it with my twenty three little haichets,” he will win enduring fame and his heirs will grow rich by the sale of the hatchets. A Vincennes woman “playfully” pointed a target rifle at her 16-year-old-daughter; the gun grasped the coveted opportunity, so to speak, and the poor girl is suffering with a wounded knee. Seems as if a woman old enough to have a 16-year-old -daughter ought to have more sense. Parents should teach their boys to swim. It is an accomplishment of Which every boy and girl in the nation should be possessed. It would reduce more than anything else the number of reports of harrowing deaths by drowning to be found in news columns daily after the opening -of summer. When bicycles were novelties in "Scotland, the question of regulating their speed was brought up before the loeal authorities of a southern town. A learned officer of the town gravely informed the court that the new mode of rapid transit came under the traction-engine law, and that every bicycle, unless he showed consideration, could be compelled to send a man on ahead, on foot, with a ■red flag, to warn pedestrians. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, showed a good deal of tact in the selection of a souvenir for the Spanish Princess. It would not have been good form to offer her jewelry or any of the thousand jlmcracks that ladies admire, because she is supposed to have everything she wants. So the gallant Mayor gave her a copy of his book of travels around the world, which possessed the double advantage of having very little money ■value and of being a strictly personal offer! ng. - Kent County jail, Rhode Island, boasts a woman jailer. She is Miss Evelyn Smith, and the position was given her because it had been held in direct line in her family since before the Revolution. When her predecessor died she was the only one left dn the succession, and after slight opposition, she was appointed to her post. She is of commanding figure -and well-developed muscle, and is well fitted to cope with a refractory prisoner. She is also said to exercise an admirable moral influence over her charges. Des Moines Register: There are thousands of men who still believe that a few pounds of chemicals can change the course of the weather, i If there is anything in these rain- I making theories the time will come ■when one farmer will punish another "by invoking a- rainstorm on his seasoned hay., If men can make rain at : their will, we are going to have a ■ wet time of it in some parts of the ■ world. It may really subject people • to more Inconvenience than leaving it entirely to the Almighty. Belief in witchcraft may be dying j out in Christian lands, but it is dying slowly and. now and then, shows •considerable vitality. Thus at Buchanan, Ga.. one Wesley Shaw ordered an old woman, believed by the negroes to be a witch, off his land, and when she followed him, “to pick up his tracks,” as the saying goes, he attempted to cut her “witch vein,” wherever that is. Instead of doing that, he struck her jugular vein, and inflicted a fatal wound. Evidently there is room in that part of Georgia, if nowhere else in the State, for missionary effort. The operations of the gfeat beef and pork packers, such as Armour and Swift, are more mammoth than are usually supposed. Not content with practically controlling the meat trade of the country, they are reaching out to swallow the hide and ' leather interests. The new tanneries about to be erected on the 4,000 acres of land owned by them at Tolleston, Ind., will have a capacity of handling more than 90 per cent, of •our domestic hides. Representatives of these packers are also buying up hemlock and pine lands in Wisconsin and Michigan, in order that their supply of hemlock bark for tanning purposes may be unlimited. What ’s to be done about this immense monopoly? - The average sum spent during the four years of a college course in some •of the great Eastern universities amounts to a modest fortune and is •one of the most striking evidences of growing national extravagance. The I average amount spent by this year’s ; claM at Yale is given out by the class i statistician as exceeding $4,300, or ; eaarly •!, 100 a year each for the 185

member* The largest sum spent by any member in any one year waa $4,700, and the smallest amount *2OO. Twelve of the members of the class, however, paid all their expenses through college. Such facts show a lamentable tendency to make education an excuse for extravagance which in the end threatens to drive away many of th* most promising students to more modest institutions. This will become truer as other universities improve. At last the good old county of Posey has been vindicated. It has been called the laud of pumpkins and hoop-poles, and in a spirit of derision, too, despite the fact that pumpkins are good food and hooppoles are held in high respect wherever flour is made. But Posey is not the original land of the pumpkin, as witnesseth this indenture from the Boston Journal: That icliable newspaper says that a century ago the Bostonian was not known as a “beaneater,” but as a “pompkin;” and finds the word defined in the “Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue” (published in 1788) as “A man or woman ot Boston in America; from' the number of pompkins raised and eaten by the people of that country. Pompkinshire: Boston, and its dependencies. ” Posey County is in good company, at any rate. Notice is served in the Christian Union of the impending trial of an eleemosynary experiment which has long been discussed and is of unusual interest. The People’s Bank Association hopes to open soon the first of several model pawn-offices for the poor. The legal rate at pawn-shops is 3 peftent. a month for the first six months, and 2 per-cent a month for succeeding months; but most pawnbrokers supplement these rates by charges for care of the articles pawned, so that as much as 800 per cent per annum is sometimes paid to them for the use of money. The People’s Bank Association proposes to begin by a charge of 1 per cent a month, and expects to start with SIOO,OOO capital, which is to earn 4-per-cent dividends for its owners. The success of such a movement! seems to depend simply on the shrewdness of the money-lender employed.

The air is alive with reports of commercial failures, but the condition of the whole country Is such as to prevent any general depression of values. It is an age of speculation,, and if these recent failures serve to prevent the farmer fiom it will be well. We do not mead gambling on “Chang •, but the slower,' yet not less risky plan, of putting ini crops and raising stock without def-) inite plan. Some men have a des-; ultory hope that, by chance, grain and live stock will improve themselves. Fortunes were once made in the far West when cattle could be. cheaply raised by reason of free pasturage and less competition in meat substitutes. Poor horses brought good prices, but steam and electricity have curtailed the market for all but the T>etter grades. Crops, such as not so commonly raised should be the ambition of the progressive farmer, who also never forgets that the best of stock carefully handled rarely fails to bring excellent returns. Trite facts, these, yet slow to bi heeded by the generality of our farmers. In Chicago the other night two persons were killed outright and a third one injured, perhaps fatally, by falling out of windows. At the same time a half a million people were crowding the streets, street cars and railways and boats and not one of them was so much as injured. These facts suggest that people are not always killed in expected places. One of the three persons who fell out of windows on that one night was Daniel Lord, a wealthy New York man who was the guest of a prominent Chicago family. His room was on the fourth floor of the palatial residence. He was a somnambulist. He arose j during the night and walked, according to all suppositions, directly from his bed to the open window. A screen was not able to hold him back. He literally walked through and fell to the ground below. He lived only a few hours and all that he could utter was “the window.”- The second person of the Chicago trio was Minnie Berg, also a somnambulist. She fell out of the second story window and struck a hard pavement. The third , person went to sleep sitting in a window and fell out, resulting in immediate death. It must be accepted as i true that men and women in Chicago are safer on the streets and in the cars and boats than they are in their ! own homes. Utilizing Eormer Waste. I Mr. W. Smith, the largest dealer in cheese in New Y'ork City, runs a j factory which consumes ten million 1 gallons of milk a year, and he tries to utilize as much as possible of it. So he has perfected means by which he saves the milk-sugar and expects to ; turn out 300,000 pounds of it this | year, at the wholesale price of about ' sixteen cents a pound. Some heretofore waste parts are utilized in the ! production of poultry and duck food, i and there is also produced a lactose I vinegar which is recommended as a good table condiment, and a prophy. , lactic against cholera. Prayed for His Candidate. . j The eccentric Father Taylor, the sailors’ pastor of Boston, was a strong partisan of Governor Briggs. On one occasion, just previous to the latter’s ! election, he was making the usual decorous prayer, asking the Lord to j give the people for Governor “a man who will rule in the fear of God,” i etc., whep he suddenly broke off: I “Pshaw, Lord! What’s the use oi ) boxing the compass like that?—give us Governor Briggs!”

CHICAGO’S CHURCHES. 1-— STRONG CONGREGATIONS AND HANDSOME STRUCTURES. No Lofty and Antique Cathednu Edifice*, but AU Are Model* of Modern Architectural Beauty—About 813 House* of Worship in the City. Many Denomination*. Chicago corrccpondenoe: The church societies and structures of Chicago are well worthy the attention of every visitor to the World's Fair city. The lake metropolis does no possess such lofty and antique cathedral edifice as give importance and grandeur to older places, but modern historic associations of a character likely to endear the same to the people are connected with many of its houses of worship. The brave but gentle Father Jacques Marquette was probably the first priest appointed to the Illinois mission, and earlier than 1675 Chicago had a pioneer religious institution, but it was not until 1822 that baptism is recorded as having been administered, the Rev. Stephen Badin, the first Roman Catholic priest ordained in the United States, performing that ceremony on the son of an Indian chief. Three years later came the Rev. Isaac McCoy, a Baptist clergyman, but no church was regularly founded until 1833, when there followed in quick succession a Roman Catholic, a Presbyterian and a Baptist church. From this comparatively recent start the religious interests of the city have so kept pace with its commercial growth that at the present time Chicago has about 513 churches, of which 85 are Roman Catholic, 68 Congregational, 96 Methodist Episcopal, 37 Presbyterian, 38 Episcopalian, 36 Baptist, 3 Universalist, 3 Unitarian, and 16 Jewish synagogues. The visitor designing to view one or more of these churches for their architectural beauty, or designing to hear this or that particular preacher, may, by consulting the Saturday newspapers, learn the location, theme of discourse, and hours of worship for the ensuing day. The casual tourist,, however, who desires to take in only a general view of the situation, can at odd times of leisure, or on different Sundays, visit a representative church of each important denomination, and thus glean a very fair idea of the artistic, musical, oratorical and socialelementsthatgoto make up the surface attractiveness of a great metropolitan house of worship. The most noted Episcopal church of Chicago is the St. James, located at the corner of Cass and Huron streets, in the North Division, and within easy walking distance of the center of the city. This structure is noted for its fine architecture, the beauty of its

y t.’B oSpIRy 'EI SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH location near the lake, and its favorable and peaceful surroundings. In its vestibule will be found a monument memorial of those parishioners who were killed in the war, stained windows and mural brasses. A very superior chime of bells, which can be heard at quite a distance even amid the turmoil of the city, is located in the belfry. The choir is a feature, and perfect service and eloquent discourse add to the popularity of a church in which many high social-religidus events are celebrated with dignity and splendor. The Catholics of Chicago have some magnificent churches. Perhaps that of the Holy Family, usually known as “the Jesuit Church,” at the corner of West 12th and May comprises most perfectly the elements of numerical strength, massiveness of structure, and the general characteristics that go to form an influential community. This, with the associated college and sodality buildings, is a noted institution. The church proper has a pinnacle, the finest probably in the city, old in style, but remarkable for its beauty and prominence. To watch the throngs attending services Sunday, is to gain a faint idea of the many thousands who acknowledge this place of worship as their central source of religious instruction. The Centenary is a typical Methodist chureh, and is located on West Monroe street. Its architectural proportions are fine, the interior adornment chaste and attractive, and the pastor a leading light in his profession. A rabre modern structure of the same denomination is the new South Park Avenue Church, situated near the lake in the South Division of the city, and embodying in its solidity, tower adornment and general appearance the latest ideas of perfect church architecture. It is difficult to decide which of the various Baptist -churches is the best known and most profitable and satisfactory for visitation on the part of a person whose time is limited. A truly representative institution of this denomination, however, ’ extensive in scope and congregation, modern in its charitable and evangelical walkings, and .dear to tho great masses of the people, is the Second Baptist Church, corner of Monroe and Morgan streets. The edifice is severely plain, being,a direct copy and in fact partly built of the original material of the old pioneer First Baptist Church. Within its capacious walls on Sunday gather many hundreds, often thousands, to carry out a printed program embracing a sermon by the eloquent Dr. William Lawrence, popular exercises and singing of an attractive character. The Sunday school is one of the largest in the city. Plymouth Church, Michigan boulevard, between 25th and 26th streets, in the South Division, and the New England Church, Dearborn avenue and Delaware place, North Division, are fine, massive structures, devoted to the Congregational mode of worship. The South Church, at Drexol boulevard and 40th street, is perhaps the finest building of this denomination in the city, but at all three services are regularly conducted by eminent preachers to large and fashionable congregations. A centrally located Presbyterian church is the Third, at the corner of

Ashland and Ogdon avenues, aocessibli by the Madison street cable Una. Th, church society embraces many pioneel members, who have seen their tempi* of worship driven further and furthei west by the encroaching waves of bus! nees progress. The Sabbath service* in this enuroh are of a particularly pleasing and peaceful character. The unity Church, Unitarian, Is lo oated on Dearborn avenue, oppoelt* Washington Square, a site of rari beauty; the First Universalist Churel is situated at the corner of Prairl* avenue and Thirty-first street, and th< Sinai Temple, Reformed Jewlsl Church, is a commodious and uniqui structure at Indiana avenue and Thirty first street. Minor denominations an likewise well represented in the city, and inquiry will enable the stranger tc readily locate any part icular church hi may desire to visit. Outside of the regular church societies occupying church structures, then are some notable independent institu tions. One of those controls the affair* of the People’s church, a detacher Methodist Episcopal organization un der the ministry of the popular and eloquent H. W. Thomas, D. D., worshiping in McVicker’s Theater. Ths Central church is another independent flPpjlaWfM _>£**“'’ M MSi Ls hInSFIc SOUTH PARK AVBNUK M. K CHURCH. association, of Congregationalists. It is under the ministry of the famous orator, Prof. David Swing. The congregation, probably the largest in Chicago, worships in Central Music Hall, corner of State and Randolph streets. This church is the most popular in the city t and many visitors spending Sunday in Chicago are gratified at an opportunity to hear the eloquent preacher. BOUND FOR THE POLE. t

Lieut. Peary's Vessel, the Falcon, Salli from New York. At 6 o’clock Sunday afternoon the whaling steamer Falcon bore Lieut. Peary’s expedition away from New York harbor for a two years’ stay in the unexplored arctic regions. Lieut. Peary left, feeling sanguine of gaining new laurels as an explorer. The party on the Falcon includes fifteen persons. Thirteen of these belong to the expedition, the two others disembarking at St. John's. Besides Lieut. Peary there are Mrs. Peary, her maid, Mrs. Cross; S. J. Entrekin, of Winchester, Pa.; Eivand Astrup, of Norway; Dr. Edward Vincent, of Springfield, Ill.; J. W. Davidson, of Austin, Minn.; E. B. Baldwin, of Nashville; George H. Carr, of Chicago; Hugh J. Lee, of Meriden, Conn.; George H, Clarke, of Brookline. Mass.; F. W. Stokes, of Philadelphia; and Mrs. Peary’s negro servant, Matthew Henson. The men are all under 30 years of age, vigorous, and well educated. Several of them were on the previous trip. W. J. Swain, of Indianapolis, joined the party Saturday and will act as secretary to Lieut. Peary. The full list of the provisions aboard the whaler includes lard, baked beans, flour, sugar, piqkles, whisky ana brandy (for medicinal purposes), canned tomatoes, thirty-two- barrels army bread, seventeen barrels hard tack and three tons of pemmican. There were more than 100 applications from all over the country from young men who wished to go. It is the belief among many scientific men that the north pole problem is more likely to bo solved by the present expedition than by any project now proposed or by any which has been set on foot in the past. The purpose of this expedition*!* to determine the extent and nature of the modern archipelago which Peary has found to lie north of the mainland; also to survey the wholly unknown coast between Independence Bay and Cape Bismarck, the most northern point on the east coast of which we have knowledge. By carrying out this survey Peary will complete the outlining of the entire

THE FALCON. _ .J, . .A northern and northeastern coasts of Greenland. How the World Wag*. Ex-President Harrison will spend a part of the summer at Cape May. Hot weather and h igh winds are said to have materially damaged growing grains in the Dakotas and Northern Minnesota. Simon Wade, Joshua Calvin, Sam Jefferson and Primus Brown have been sentenced to be shot by the Choctaw court for murder. The Czar has officially thanked the commisioners who negotiated the extradition treaty between Russia and the United States. The Rev. Rodney Edwards, formerly pastor of Trinity Church in San Francisco, was arrested charged with embezzling $1,200 trust funds. 4 ,„ A carriage in which were three women and two children was struck by a train at Avondale, N. J., and all but one were instantly killed. Petitions ‘have been addressed tq Gov. Flower, of New York, declaring that troops are not needed at Tonawanda and asking their withdrawal. The Duke of Veragua has sent a letter to Secretary Gresham thanking th« Government for the manner in which he was entertained while in the United States. The State Fish and Game Association of New York has just secured, from ths Attorney General an interpretation oi the law which will makqHt the dutv hereafter of all fish and protean ors to prohibit fishing on Sunday. Inquiry at the Treasury Department discloses the fact tlyft about $15,000 remains for the enforcement of the several Chinese acts,.-' On/july 1 the new appropriation/of $50,000 becomes available, so that the aggregate fund available for the carrying out of the Chinese exclusion act, Including the Geary law, on July 1,

WHY WHEAT IS DOWN TARIFF PREVENTSAN EXCHANGE OF COMMODITIES. McKinley Worahtp Confined to Ohio—The President end Congress—An Open Secret of the Carpet Trade — Free Trade In Europe. ■•Protecting” th«* Producer. Our elevators are bursting with wheat for which the farmer can command but littte more than 00 cents a bushel. There are in Europe alone, If we may credit the statement made by the late Secretary of Agriculture, Mr, Husk, 150.000,000 people who never eat wheaten oread. In the one country is un immense supply of visible food waiting for buyers. In the other countries are millions who go to bod hungry. Between them ply daily ferryboats with freight charges reduced to a minimum. What prevents an exchange that means benefit to both sides, needed food to the one and needed markets to the other? Not the sea, for it costs no more to send a bushel of wheat abroad than to send a letter in the mail, but the McKinley bill, which takes from the farmer, or his middleman, onethird or one-half of the commodities for which he might exchange this surplus wheat in foreign markets as a fine for not buying those commodities from some protected home producer. It is clear, then, that whatever direct benefits may come to classes from release of taxes on the necessaries they consume or on material with which they work, the great general good to be sought in tariff revision is a healthy expansion of foreign commerce. This was the immediate result of the Walker tariff in 1846. During the twenty-five years previous our foreign trade had not doubled. In 1822 it was $141,000,000. In 1846 it had grown to $227,000.000, an increase of but 60 per cent. Under the low revenue tariff enacted in that year it swelled by 1860 to $687,000,000, a growth of more than 200 per cent in fourteen years. More significant and instructive still was the increase in the tonnage of American shipping engaged in the foreign trade. For thirty years prior to 1846 it had been nearly stationary. In that year it was only 943,307 tons, almost 40.000 less than in 1810. By 1860 it reached 2,379,396 tons. These figures speak volumes, but their chief encouragement is for those who produce the surplus products that must have other markets besides our own for remunerative sales. The tariff of 1846 made a vent for our surplus products by opening a market for the things which, and which alone, other people had to exchange for them, Y'et this rapid expansion of imports brought no distress to home manufacturers. On the contrary, after eleven years’ experience of that tariff they assented, almost unanimously, to a further decrease of 20 per cent. The party of low tariff and revenue duties is not about to try a new and dangerous experiment. It has no newfangled theory which it wishes to test upon the body politic. It has not only the support of reason but this solid justification of experience in the form it proposes to make by purging our laws of the duties that smell of monopoly and securing the sovereign power of taxation from private control.—N. Y. World. The Ohio Bourbon*. The Republican Bourbons of Ohio do not receive from the party journals of the country that ardent indorsement which they had expected. There is a general feeling that they have made a very bad mess-of it. There were three Saints in the action of the Ohio Repubcans: (1) McKinleyism with no change save in the direction of higher duties; (2) prohibitory duties on wool; (3) opposition to any Democratic reform of pensions. Then there was, of course, the complacent appeal to the past, and blindness toward the future. Even the most zealous organs of the party say that, however this may work in Ohio, it is, for national purposes, simply inviting a contest on the lines where overwhelming defeat was encountered last fall. Undoubtedly this criticism is just enough, but we do not see exactly how the Ohio Republicans could have done very differently. In the first place, they had to nominate McKinley, because there was no one else of sufficient importance to replace him safely. It would have been most unsatisfactory to renominate McKinley and repudiate McKinleyism. He is a platform in himself, and if the resolutions had been made ever so mild and perfunctory, the effect on the public mind would have been practically the same. In the next place, having to take McKinley and McKinleyism, the cry for prohibitory duties on wool—absurd and stupid as it is—was a logical consequence, because that is one of the characteristic features of the man and the ism. Finally, having been forced to offend all sensible men on the question of the tariff, the anti-pension reform notion followed easily, and almost as a matter of course. The Ohio Republicans are shut in to a campaign of stubborn prejudice, and the prejudice as to pensions is shared by the same class that cling to the prejudice as to protection. It is a foolish piece of business, but it was not to be helped. Whether McKinley is elected or defeated this fall, the effect on the national work of the party will be unfavorable. The whole business is only an incident in a very long game, which will not come to an end for at least three years yet. — New York Times. 1 — The President and Congre**. What this country is suffering from just at present is distrust of the .outcome of reckless legislation during the last Republican administration. The law requiring the Government to buy practically the entire output of the silver mines in the United States and store It away in vaults, and the other Uno of fostering certain industries at the expense of the people at large, has almost entirely destroyed that confidence in the future without which complex modern business life cannot be maintained in a healthful condition. In calling Congress to meet in extra session, President Cleveland has done what the situation requires. The Sherman and the McKinley acts must be repealed if there is to be a return to that trustful and hopeful state which these measures shattered. The money of the people must be no longer wasted in efforts at bolstering up the losing business of the silver mines, and the general public must be no longer taxed for the benefit of the monopolists of Pennsylvania and other favored sections. President Cleveland’s proclamation has already produced good results. It has been accepted as a guarantee that the Democratic party is as right on the financial question as it is on that of theatariffl It Is a notification on his part, in consequence of what he had said before, that the majority of members in Congress are reasonably certain of noting in favor of the repeal of the Sherman law, and that there is no doubt at all concerning their position toward the McKinley bill. The President said some time ago that he would

not oall an extra session unless he felt sure that he oould depend on a majority to sustain him in his opposition to the further purchases of silver by ; the Government. It is plain, therefore. that the Sherman act is shortlived. > That the country is in a* j>anlcky condition may be inferred from* tho > fact that the business failures during . the past six months, according to one . of the mercantile agencies, snow liabilities of $168,920,839 as against $62,273,680 for the corresponding period of the preceding year. In other words, the sum total put In ieopardy by the bank- . ruptcies of the last six months is not » far from three times as much as it was * for the first six months of 1892. These ! figures are doubtloss discouraging, but they are not as bad as some of the nestposted men in these matters expected. ; The number of failures for the last six 11 months is 6 to 5, compared with the • .corresponding six months of 1892, i which shows that while there was no I very great increase in the unfortunate i: firms, they wore much more deeply in- ■ volved. i There is a lesson in those figures . with which Mr. Cleveland doubtless i was familiar when he issued his call i for the extra session. Concerns which owed largo sums of money found it imi possible to borrow any more in consequence of the general distrust instilled by the Sherman and McKinley laws. i While tho one made the value of a dollar uncertain, the other throw doubt on the health fulness of the country's growth in manufactures. When Congress meets next month it will probably not hesitate a moment to speak decisively concerning the country’s future fiscal and tariff policies, and speak on the right side, too.—New York ' News. _____ Bleulnr of High Wage*. My aim in this inquiry is to ascertain beyond peradventure whether protection or free trade best accords with the interests of those who live by their labor. I differ with those who say that with the rate of wages the state has no concern. I hold with those who deem the increase of wages a legitimate purpose of public policy. To raise and maintain wages is the great object that all who live by wages ought to seek, and workingmen are right in supporting any measure that will attain that object. Nor in this are they acting selfishly, for, while tho question of wages is the most important of questions to laborers, it is also tho most important of questions to society at large. Whatever improves the condition of the lowest and broadest social stratum must promote the true interests of all. Where the wages of common labor are high and remunerative employment is easy to obtain, prosperity will be general. Whore wages Are highest, there will ba the largest production and the most equitable distribution of wealth. There will invention be most active and the brain best guide the hand. There will be the greatest comfort, the widest diffusion of knowledge, the purest morals and the truest patriotism. If we would have a healthy, a happy, an enlightened. and a virtuous people, if we would have i pure government, firmly based on th * popular will and quickly responsive to it, wo must strive to raise wages and keep them high. I accept as good and praiseworthy the ends avowed by the advocates of protective tariffs. What I propose to Inquire is whether protective tariffs are in reality conducive to these ends.—Henry George, in Protection or Free Trade. The Coming Tariff BUI. A very considerable number of statesmen are now engaged in drafting tariff bills which they hope to have adopted as administration measures. By farthe best of these, as we are familiar with them, is that drawn under the auspices of the New York Reform Club. That bill is based squarely on the Democratic platform of tariff for revenue only, ana the bill the Ways and Means Committee reports must be equally as good if it is to be forced through Congress in the name of the Democratic party. To be suppOited by tho genuine tariff reformers of the Democratic party, the tariff bill must not take from the free list any article that is now untaxed; it must not impose taxes that will average over 30 per cent.; it must not provide any rate that is high enough to be restrictive, whether the article on which it is levied is made in this country or not; it must reduce duties to a rate that will produce no surplus above the ordinary expenses of the Government, leaving pensions to be provided for by a special tax, and finally it must make taxation lightest on such necessaries of life as clothing, leaving the heaviest duties to be levied cn ar tides of luxury.—St. Louis Republic. Peck Hu Skipped the Country. The reason given for the flight of ex-Commissioner Chas. F. Peck is that he has gone abroad under a -commission for a syndicate of protection Republican newspapers to write up the condition of the working classes of Europe, and for this he is to receive SI,OOO a month, and expenses. This story may be very well for his friends to give out to account for his sudden departure, but we hardly think any Republicans are fools enough to trust , him with a mission of that character. A man that plays traitor in one act is ' likely to continue it, and if the collection of statistics is needed by McKinleyites they would put the responsibility of their collection in the hands of some one they could trust to do the work they wanted to their liking, as it is plain Peck’s word will never be ) worth a cent in the future to any party. The wage-earners of this country, however, should warn the labor unions of Europe the kind of man who is visiting them and the injury he is likely to do them by falsification, for we presume he will try and not disclose his identity in any work he may be engaged in.—• American Industries. Selling Carpet* in Europe. We learn from the American Wool and Cotton Reporter that American carpet manufacturers are now looking for an outlet for their surplus production in England and other foreign countries. It says that at a recent auction sale of carpets by the Alex. Smith & Sons Company a number of lots were taken for shipment to Canada and England, and that the price, less rebates, was 10 to 12 cents below the English manufacturers’ price. There must be some mistake about this, ' which Gov. McKinley should at once explain. He knows very well that it is the English manufacturer who does ; the underselling, and that if he had not come to the rescue with his increased duties, giving the American maker protection of from 19 to 60 cents a yard and 40 per cent, additional, every mill in the country would have been closed, and the Republican campaign fund cut down in away to cause ' universal distress. —New York Even- ' ing Post. ~ Thebe is a tariff of 11 cents a pound i on wool. Our protection friends say that if you take off the tariff it will reduce the price just that much. Un- ■ washed wool is now quoted at 7 cents ! per pound. By taking off the tariff the farmers would be obliged to pay a bonus of 4 cents a pound to the one who would take the wool off their i hand/

FOR XABKASKIAN PIONEIRB. Dedication of ■ Monument to the Memory of Thouaaiid*. There has just been dedicated with imposing ceremony, at Kaskaskia, a monument to the memory of 5,0Q0 1 pioneers of that part of the Mississippi valley. The remains of many of these people had recently been transfe rrod from the old cemeteries in the low grounds at the 1 foot of Fort .. Gage to the top < of a hill, a spot Id immortalized by General Ge >rge 'y Rogers Clark,a 4 Virginian, who — m in 1778, with a rm pioneer monument, company of ' vulxabkabeia. unteers. captured Fort Gage from tho British. The ceremonies of dedication comprised a speech by Cyrus L. Cook, of Edwardsville, one of the oommisslonsrs of the State; response by Wm. Hartzell, of Chester; addresses upon "The Historical Reminiscences of Old Kaskaskia" and “History of the Appropriation for the Removal of the Dead;” the reading of “The Declaration of Independence” and a poem, “The Capture of Fort Gage.” The monument is a granite shaft, with plinth, die, and bases in appropriate design, standing twenty-six feet high, and bearing the following inscription: “Those who sleep here were first buried at Kaskaskia and afterward removed to this cemetery. They were the early pioneers of the great MisBissipi Valley. They planted free institutions in a wilderness and were the founders of a great commonwealth. In memory of their sacrifices Illinois fratefully erects this monument. 892.” To the sentimental reader these ceremonies suggested much more than the Betting up of a monument. They had WHERE THE TIHBT ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE MET. much to cause the patriotic Illinoisan to think. A brilliant galaxy of statesmen, politicians, soldiers, jurists and lawyers gave Kaskaskia a place unique in history. Gen. Shields, warrior, statesman and Senator of three States, is buried in Carroll County, Missouri, almost in sight of the Missouri River. The body of Elias Kent Kane, one of the first United States Senators elected by Illinois, lies in the bluffs above Kaskaskia, three miles from the monument. The grave is isolated. It is marked by a stone giving the date of birth and death, but little more. The remains of Judge Sydney Breese are buried In Clinton County. Those of Governor Ninian J. Edwards lie in St. B Clair County. The late General John Pope, the son of Judge Nathaniel Pope, born in Kaskaskia and reared there, lie in Bellefontaine Cemetery. Those of Judge Pope, his father, were buried at Kaskaskia. The body of Daniel Pope Cook, one of the first Congressmen elected bv the new State, is buried In Northern Illinois. These men came to Kaskaskia when it was the territorial capital, and when it was thought to be the coming capital of the coming State. Some of them even drifted there after the territorial admission in 1818. When the capital waa located at Vandalia, and it was evident that there was no future for Kaskaskia, the men with political ambition turned away. “ t At that time the population of the cemetery was larger than that of Kaskaskia. The town was then much more than a century old. Since the date of baptism of the child of Michael and Mary Aco, March 20, 1695, a century and a quarter had passed. In that long time the fathers of the church had sung as many masses for the dying as they had seen new souls brought to the baptismal font. While Kaskaskia was, lor years before the founding of New Orleans, the chief town of the Mississippi valley, and while she remained tho head of navigation for years after New Orleans and years before St. Louis ’ Owf ■ lag] I—l — |l-_] I —• ~ THE OLD KASKASKIA INN. became her successful rivals, her popu--1 lation never exceeded 1,000. The cemetery grew much faster than the town, : ana the time following the exodus of 1820 would have found it considerably ahead if a comparative census had been 1 possible. The fate of the town could ' then be foreseen. In 1766 Capt. Philip Pittman, a British army engineer, ' writing of Fort Chartres, on the Mississippi River, about thirteen miles from Kaskaskia, saw and predicted the encroachment of the river on the Illi--1 nois shore. Kaskaskia was doomed if ‘ engineering skill could not be brought to her protection. The nigh water of 1844, which cut a ‘ new channel across the point, made it ’ clear that Capt. Pitman’s prophesy of i the destruction of the city would in time be fulfilled, and the question of , removing the dead from the doomed cemeteries was discussed. Nothing ) was done, however, till about nine years ago, when Father Ferland suc- . ceede4 Jn interesting the State authori- ) ties id the matter. A plat of ground ' was purchased, and the monument just dedicated was agreed upon. One of the graves left untouched was that of Pierre Menard. When the . State dedicated the monument to Menard at Springfield it proposed to take , up his remains and remove them, at its . own expense, to the State capital and , bury them with appropriate honors and ceremonies at the foot of the monument. His descendants objected to the removal at that time, and promised, i when reminded of the danger of their being carried away, to remove them. ■ Last year the relatives again objected ■ and renewed the promise to have the ', corpse disinterred and taken to a place •. of safety. With that understanding *; the body of Menard was left almost i 1 alone in the old burial ground. The water is now not one hundred feet j away from it.