Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1893 — Page 2

©he JJenwerat DECATUR, INU. >■ mCKBUBN, ■ - ■ rni»,mnitn. Thu trmiblc wit.li many men is that they do not think, they only think they think. They any that the reason why so many women chew gum is that they iove to keep their jaws going whether they say anything or tyit. One of the saddest things about pugilists is that after the world ceases to hear about their tights it continues to he worried with thfelr bad acting. '• To be thoroughly healthy a man should take an hour of exercise to every pound of food he eats. It is not what one eats which increases |

the blood and flesh but what one digests. Os course the educated pig who picks out letters with his snout at the circus belongs to a littery family, but he differs from other learned animals in this respect that he gets a . living “in” and not “by" his pen. This year has been disastrous to the reputations of persons given to prophecy. We have been mercifully spared from realizing the gloomy predictions of a second-year visitation of cholera, and on the contrary the health of the country has been exceptionally good. None of the owlish predictions of epidemic have been fulfilled. The prophets of our day are entitled to but little honor in their own country or elsewhere. Tom Keene’s acting does not please the dramatic critic of the Milwaukee Sentinel. llis month is too restless and migratory in its habits. It travels all over his face and is equally noisy at all its stopping places. Tnis peculiarity of Mr. Keene has been commented upon by other observers. His features are wonderfully acrobatic and hard to hold. In pantomime—on a darkened stage, let us sav—Mr. Keene would be a most pleasing actor. | .V! — 1 Belle Bilton, the ex-music hall singer, who the 01 her day presented her husband, the Eail of Clancarty, with a daughter, is an unconventional personage, as nearly everyone knows. “Are you aware, madan.e, that th s Isa smoking compartment,” said a gentleman to her ladyship, as she entered a railroad car at Euston Square station, London, mt long ago. “A 1J right, old chappie; going to smoke, myself," repl ed the countess, drawing forth a cigarette case and lighting up, while the polite gent eman -withdrew into his corner covered with confusion. - In a’l ages of the world men have believed that dreams have a meaning, and the e are undoubtedly thoman Is of In tances in ancient and modern

Ul lU’Vailvto in auvivuvnuu > u times of dreams laving “come true.” I While it mav be too much to assert that all dreams have a signilicance, j It may be safe to say that somes ien- , fists hive ventured the op'nion that dreams which come in the early hou s of the morn ng are more liable to be prophet c than others, because at that time the mind is partially awake 1 , and can take a clear insight Into such subjects as pass before it in review, v/lhe great po t says: We are such stuff as dreams are made of. And our little life is rounded with a sleep. A doleful report of Canadian immigration and emigration has just emanated from Gt awa. It practically shows that the population of the country has not only come to a halt but that it is beginning to ret'ojrade. The depletion re-ults from two sources. Emigration to the United States has been unusually heavy during the past year, and immigation has been abnormally light. The Canadian Government is hopelessly in debt, and the people live in perpetually “hard times” because of excessive taxes and inability to market their products in competition with the Uniled States. r l he only way out for the Canadians is the way in. New York Mail and Express: Os Bourse haz.ing is wrong and ought to be suppressed in all our institutions of learning. If the ordinary modes and limits of dicipline are not sufficient, then the stern hand of the law should be called upon to put an end

kilt. It is often brutal and ruffianly, always silly, ungenerous and cowardly. A dozen or tw< nty conceited t and pompous sophomores will drag one poor, shivering freshman from his bed at midnight in the dead of ' winter, risk his life by exposure t > i? cold, and commit, various indignities and'insults upon him for no oilier offense than that of wearing headgear t of wrong shape or color or carrying a | can I '. And this, by some curious L subversion of their ordinary common sense, they call manly, dignified and K proper Yet, probably no one of those same dozen sophomores would K dare stand up against that freshman in fair light. They gain their c-.ur-age, or rather show their cowardice, Eg by their number /

If capital and labor would only be more generally tolerant of each other the condition of affairs in this and in every other civilized country would be much more pleasant than it is, Once In awhile a few rays of bright sunshine penetrate the clouds, but the illumination is much too infrequent For more than four weeks UN King Philip Mills at Fall River,

I Mass., were closed, and the employes, ' of course, were idle. Recently the ’i mills resumed operation, and when the hands received thcil’ piy for the first, week of toll after the reopening . they were much surprised to learn J that the mill owners—who alst owned the houses occupied by theil workpeople—had remitted the rent for the month of enforced inactivity. It was a plehsant and proper and in a broad sense a profitable thing to do. It was one of the best investments the mill-owners ever made. So EAlt as the evidence at hand goes, the responsibility for the Battle (.'reek wreck rests directly upon Conductor Scott and Engineer Woolley, of the east-bound train. They reI ceived an order from the train disi patcher, and under the rules of the road they telegraphed back that they understood it. That order, if obeyed, would have averted the wreck. They deliberately disobeyed it and the

. I dreadful catastrophe followed. Ihe I engineer, according to the telegraphed reports, is trying throw 5; the blame upon the conductor, while t the conductor seeks to saddle the engineer with the responsibility. 1 These conflicting statements can be t weighed by a jury. I'nder the rules lof train dispatching the men are ’ equally culpable, each having received a copy of the order and each } I having signified his understanding ol ' I it. The legal — the criminal—re. ; sponsibility will be settled in court. ’ J There is no talk of accident in this ‘ case. The wreck was indisputably ! due to criminal carelessness or recklessness. The public will insist that the men responsible shall be properly punished. If the so-called “perfected” air brake fails to work when it is most needed the railroad companies would better go back to the old hand brakes, with a sufficient number of muscular brakemen to twist them. The hand brake is not so convenient as the air brake, and trains would have to ba run sower while approaching stations, but the probability of accidents like that at Jackson would be greatly lessened by its use. We have been assured that there was no vulnerable point about the air brake. It has been asserted that ij the engineer could not control the brakes the independent automatic brakes on each car could be retied upon with certainty The Jackson accident disapproves this assertion—unless somebody is lying. If the trainmen are to be believed the automatic brakes did not work. Th> train went fly ng ahead beyond the control of engineer or conductor. If this happened once it may happen again. Engineers have grown accustomed tc the air brake and rely upon it to a dangerous extent. They run their trains into stations at high speed, depending u; on their air brakestr. check the momentum in time tc avoid disaster. The Jackson wreck shows the confldenc^to / be misuiaced. Is it not time to tags steps to guard against further disaster? The New Yo k World has dis-

I cove ed, s » it says, that the big magi azines are obtaining money undei false preten-es. It is declared that : live out of the thirteen m< st notei worthy articles in the October maga ■ zines were not written by the persons I whose names are signed to buj by hack writers who secuied ibt right to use the names of the-e fa ’ mous people. No one will .be particularly surprised at this charge, and few maca/.ine naders will be inclined |to doubt its truth. Os late yean ! the magazine editors have been eagei I to print articles from persons famout lor notorious in any walk of life. Wt , have heaid from preachers and pugil- ■ ists. bankers and biejilists, statesI I men and singers. Some of the peoph , I who e names have lean signed t< . j published, articles probably cannot J spell words of two syllables, yet the i public has been aske I to believe that ■ they have wiitten essays or stories . i several thousand words in length, ic well-balanced, grammatical English. . 1 Os course, no one has believed any- ! thing of the sort. It has been tacitly • understood that the editor or sonu . | one else has taked the [ .facts aid licken them into shape, r I There has been a suspicion, too. that . some of the articles fiom the h ghet i grade of contril.u ors were writter ,by proxy. Indeeci, the charge has f been openly made in one or two In- ) stances. The Wo Id’s indictment, j therefore, only puts into shape the j suspicions, amounting almost to cer . taiuty, that have I een enter y tained by magazine readers ever sinct 1 the notoriety hunting era’began, am

it will be sustained by nine onto ! ten ; eople who have given the mattei * any thought. J ™ 1 I,a‘ or L >st. Prudence is one of the virtues tha> naturally go with age, but sometime I it is ueweioped early. * < “Tommy, "said a thoughtful mother < “your Uncle William will be here b • dinner today, an I you must was) ’ your face.” “Yes, ma,” said thelhriftvThomas , “but s’posen he don’t come. Wha then?” The Mayor of Birmingham, Ala. who is also the police magistrate 01 the city, seems to Be a court that it always in session and always an object of contempt. At any rate, < minor city employe—probably s

■ bridgetender, if there are bridge tenders in Bi mingham—whogreetep the executive on the street with “Hellol old hoss," was fined $lO so: contempt by the austere and punctlllous mayor. , I Fashion requires that pie should be eaten with a fork; but Bass sayt he always eats It with cheese, whlot is quite good enough for him.—Boe i ton Transcript. qM

ITALMAGE’S SERMON. > I Ilin ■■ ' TABERNACLE PASTOR PREACHES : j ON CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP. Moro Anto-Elortlon I.r«»on*—Sr»thln< Denunrlatlon of Political Falsehood*—Ls*» Confidence in Platform* and Moro Ln God —An Extremely Bold Dlwourso. ‘ Duty ami the Ballot. In his sermon Sunday forenoon Rev. Dr. Talmage touched on a topic which is just now uppermost, while tho agitation in political circles is raging in all parts of the land. Tho sermon is pertinent and. useful, and is based on tho text. Acts xix, 32: "Some there--1 fore cried ono thing, and some another, for the assembly was confused, and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together. And they drew Alexander out of tho multitude, tho i Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defense unto the people. But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, ‘Great is I Diana of tho Ephesians? ”

c I Ephesus was upside down. It was :■ | about the silver question. A manuv facturer of silver boxes for holding c heathen images had called his laborp ers together to discuss tho behavior of e one Haul, who had been in public • places assaulting image worship, and e consequently very much damaging that s particular business. There was great i excitement in the city. People stood E i in knots along tho streets, violently ■ | gesticulating and calling each other ] I hard names. Some of the people 1' favored the policy of the silversmith. Other people favored the policy of Paul. There were irreat moral ques- • tions involved, but these aid not bother j them at all. } The only question about which they seemed to be interested was concerning the wages and the salaried posi--1 tions. The silversmith and his comi peers had put up factories at great expense for the making of these silver boxes, and now. if this new policy is to be inaugurated the business will go down, the laborers will be thrown out of employment and the whole city will Suffer. Well, what is to be done? “Call a convention,” says some one, for in all ages a convention has been a panacea for public evils. The convention is called, and as they want the largest room in the city tney take the theater. Having there assembled, they all want to get the floor, and they all want to talk at once. You know what excitement that always makes in a con-; vention, where a great many people I want to talk at once. Some cried one , thing, some cried another. Some; wanted to denounce, some wanted, to resolve. After awhile a prominent man gets the floor, and he begins to speak, but they very soon hiss him down, and then the confusion rises into worse uproar, and they begin to shout, I ail of them together, and they keep on , until they are rea in the face and I hoarse in the throat, for two long ho irs I crying out: ‘‘Great is Diana of the 1 Ephesi ms! Great is Diana of the Ephesians!” The Ins and the Outs. The whole scene reminds me of the excitement we have- iflnyist every autumn at the elections. While the god- ' dess Diana has lost her worshipers and I her temples have gone into the dust, | our American peo le want to set up a god in place of her, and they want us all to bow down before it and that god is political party. Considering our superior civilization, I have to declare to vou that that the Ephesian ido atry was less o tensive in the sight of God than is all this absorbing American partisanship. While there are honest men, true j men. Christian men. who s and in both political parties, and who come into the autumnal elec,ions resolving to serve their c ty or their State or the

nation in the best |0 sible way, I have noticed also that with many it is a mere con est between the ins and the outs those who are trying to stay in and keep the outs o.it/and those who are trying to get in and thrust the ins out. And one 1 arty cries. '“Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" and the other party cries, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" neither of them honest enough to say, "Great is my pocketbook:” | Once or twice a year it is my custom to talk to the people about public affairs from what 1 call a Christian standpoint, and this morning I have chosen for that duty. I hope to say a practical word. H story tel.s us of a sermon once preached amid the highlands of Scotland-a sermon two hours long — on t ie sin of luxury, where there wore not more than three pairs of shoes in the audience,' and dur.ng our last war a good man went into a hospital distributing tracts and gave a tract on “'The Sin of Dancing” to a man both of whose legs had been amputated! 1 But I hope this morning to present an a pro,.riate and adapted word, as next Tuesday at the ballot box great affairs are to be settled. The Rev. Dr. Emmons, in the early ' history of our country, in Massachusetts, preached about the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency. The Rev. Dr. Mayhew of Boston, tn the early daysofour republic,preached about the repeal of the~stamp act. There are t.mes when ministers of Chr.st must look off upon public affairs and discuss them. We need go back to no example. Every man is, before God, responsible for his own duty. j If the Norwegian boasts of bis home of rock, and the Siberian is pleased with his land Os perpetual snow, if the Roman thought that the muddy Tiber was the favored river in the sight of Heaven, and if the Laplander snivers out his eulogy of his n itive clime, and if the Chinese have pity for anybodyborn outside of the Flowery Kingdom,

shall not we, born under these fair skies stan ling day by day amid those glorious civil and religious liberties, be ■ public spirited? 1 propose to tell the Ceople very plainly wnat I consider to e their Christian duty at the ballot box? First, set yourself against all political falsehood. The most monstrous lies ever told in this country are during the elections. I stop at the door of a Democratic meetingand listen and hear that the Republicans are liars. I stop at the door of a Republican meeting and listen and hear that the Democrats are scoundrels. Our public men microscop,zed. and the truth distorted. Who believes a tenth part of what he reads or hears in the autumnal elections? Men who at other seasons of the year are very careful in their speech become peddlers of scandal. Categorical Lies. In the far East there is a place where once a year they let the people do as they please and say what they please, and the place is fuil of uproar, misrule, and wickedness, and they call it the “devil’s day.” The nearest approximation to that in this country has been the first Tuesday in November. The community at such times seems to say, “Go to, now, let us have a good time at lying.” Prominent candidates for oilice are denounced as unprincipled ) and renegade. A smart lie will start in the corner of a country newspaper, and keep on running until it has captured the printing presses of the whole

j continent. What garbling of speeches! What misinterpretation of motives! What misrepresentation of individual antecedents! Tho trouble is that wo have in this country two gr.«at manufactories—manufactories of lies -the Republican manufactory of lies and t ho Democratic manufactory of lies and they are run day and night, and they turn out half a dozen a day all equipped and ready for full sailing. Largo lies and small lies. Lies private and lies public and prurient. Lies cut bias and lies cut diagonal. Long limbed lies and lies with double back action. Lios complimentary and lies defamatory. Lies that some people believe, and lies that all tho people believe, and lies that nobody believes. Lies with humps like camels, and scales like crocodiles, and nocks as long as storks, and footas swift as an antelope’s, and stings like adders. Lies raw and scalloped and panned and stowed. Crawling lies and jumping lies and soaring lies. Lios with attachment screws and ru tilers and braiders and ready wound bobbins. Lios by Christian people, who never lie except during elections, and lies by people who always lie, but boat themselves in a political campa’gn. I confess I am ashamed to have a for-

s eigner visit this country in those times. I should think he would stand dazed j and dared not go out nights! What ■- will hundreds of thousands of foreignf ers who have come hero to live think 0 of us? What a disgust they must have 1 for the land of their adoption! Tho t only good thing about it is that many t of them cannot understand tho English 1 language. But I suppose the German f and Itadan and Swedish and French ■ papers translate it all, and peddle out 3 the infernal stuff to their subs Tibors. Nothing but Christianity will over f stop such a flood of indecency. Tho. . Christian religion will speak after . awhile. Tne billingsgate and low scandal through which we wade almost r every autumn mustbe rebuked by that . religion which speaks from its two . i great mountains, from tho one moun- . tains intoning tho command. “Thou . shalt not bear false witness against thy . neighbor,” and from the other mount , making plea for kindness and love and i blessing rather than cursing. , O Christian men, frown upon political fa'sohood! Remember that a political lie is as black as any other kind of a lie. God has recorded all the false- , hoods that have been told at the city, State, or National elections since the foundation of this government, and though the perpetrators and their victims may have gone . into tho dust, in i the last day judgment will be awarded. I The falsehoods that Aaron Burr | breathed in o the ear ofßlennerhasset, < the slanders that Lieutenant Gage pro- ■ claimed about George Washington, ' the misrepresentations in regard to 'James Monroe, are as ftesh in God’s book lo day as the lies that were ' printed last week about our local candidates. “And all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth I with fire and brimstone, which is the ; second deat h.” The Crime of Bribery. Again, 1 counsel you as Christian ' men to set yourselves against the misuse of money in political campaigns. Ol the thousands of dollars already spent this autumn, how much of the amount do you suppose has been prop- . eriy used? You have a right to spend money for the publishing of political I tracts, for the establishment of organI izations for the carrryiny out of what you consider to be the be-t you have a right to appeal to the reason of men by argument and st tis.ics and by facts. Print ng and renting of public halls and political meetings cost money, but he who puts a bribe into the hand of a voter or plies weak mon with mercenary and corrupt motives commits a sin against Gad and the nation. Bribery is one o the most appalling sins of this vountry, God says. “Fire shall consume tne tabernacles of bribery." Have nothing to do with such a sin O Cht-.stian man! Fling it from

the b allot box. Hand over to the police the man who attempts to tamner with your vote, and remember that elections that cannot be caried witho it brines ought never to be carried at all. Aga n 1 ask you as Chr stian men to setyourseves against the dissipations that hover over the ballot box. Let me say that no man can afford to go into |>olitical life who is not a teetotaler. Hot political discussion some- ' how cred es an unnatural thirst, and hundreds of thousands of men have gone oown into drunkenness through political life.; After an exciting canvass through the evening you must ‘“take something,” and rising in the morning with less animation than usual-you must ‘•take something,’ and going o f among your co nrades through the forenoon you meet political iricnis, and you must "take something,” and in the afternoon, you meet other political friends and you ihust "take something.” and before night has come someth'ng has taken you. There are but few cases where men. have been able to stand up against the dissipa- , tions of political lie. i Joseph was a politician, but he main- ' tained his integrity. Daniel was a politician, but ho was a teetotaler to the last. Abraham was a politician, i but he was always characterized as the ' father Os the faithful. Moses was a I politician, the gran lest of them, but ' he honored God more than he did the i Pharaohs, and there are hundreds of j Christian men now in tne political par-i ties, maintaining their integr.tv, even when they are obliged to stand amid I the blasted, lecherous, and loathsome crew that sometimes surrounds the ballot box—these Christian men doing their political duty and then com ng buck to the prayer meetings and Chns- ! tian circles as pure as when they wont out. But that is not the ordinary clr- , cu nstanee -that is the exception. | How often you see men coming back from the political conllict, and their

—.. ~ — eye is glazed, and their cheek has an , unnatural flush, and they talk louder than they usually do. and at the least provocation they will bet. and you say t they are convivial, or they are exceedingly vivacious, or you apply some ' other sweet name to them, but God knows they are drunk! Some of you, 1 a month or six weeks ago, had no more I religion than you ought to have, and after the elections are over to calculate how much religion you have left will be a sum in vulgar fractions. Oh, the pressure is tremendous! I'ohto Dissipations. How many mighty intellects have gone down under the dissipation of polities! I think of one woo came ; from the West. He was able to stand I out against the whole American Senate. God had given him la mllics enough to govern a kingdom, or to frame a constititution. His voice was terrible to i his country's enemies and a mighty ini spiration in the day of national peril. But twenty glasses of strong drink a day were his usual allowance, and he i went down into the habits of a con- ■ firmed inebriate. i Alas for him! Though a costly monui ment has been reared over his resting place, the young men of this country i shall not be denied the awful lesson ■ that the agency by which the world I was robbed of one of its mightiest in- ; tellecte, and our country of one of its ablest constitutional defenders, was ■ the dissipation of political life. You > want to. know who I mean? Young

man. ask your father when you got home. The adverse tide is fearful, and I warn you against It. You need not go far off to find the wornout politician. Here he is, stumbling along the highway, his limbs hardly able to hold hitn up. Bontover and pale with exhausting sickness. Surely to anybody who ac osts him. His last decent article of apparel pawned for strong drink. Glad if, when going by a grocery, some low acquaintance invites him iu to take a sip of ale and then whipping his lip with his irreasy sleeve. Kicked off the stops by mon who once wore proud to be his constituents. Manhood obliterated. Lip blistered with a curse. Sears of brutal assault on cheek nnd brow. Foul mouthed. A crouching, staggering, wheezing wretch. No friends. No God. No hope. No heaven, o That is your wornout politician. That is what some pf you will become unless by this morning s warning and the mercy of God your stops arc arrested. Oh, there are no words enough potent, enough damning, to des.rlre the horrible drunkenness that has rolled over this land, and that has bent down the necks of some of the mightiest intellects, until they have been compelled to drink out of the trough of

bestiality and abomination! I warn young men against political life, unless they are teetotalers and consecrated Christian mon. Again, 1 counsel you that when you go to the ballot box at the city, or the state, or the national elections, you recognize God and appeal to him for his blessing. There is a power higher ' than the ballot box, than the gubernatorial chair, than the presidential White House. It is high time that we put less confidence in political platforms and more confidence in God. See what a weak thing is human foresight! How little our wise mon seem to know! i See how, every autumn, thousands of men who are clambering up for higher positions are turned under! God upsets them. Every man, every party, every nation, has a mission to perform. Failing to perform it, down he goes. The Gospel In Politics. God said to the house of Bourbon, “Remodel France and establish equity.” House of Bourbon would not | do it. Down it went. God said to the house of Stuart, “Make the English people free, God fearing, and happy.” House of Stuart would not do it. Down it went. God says to the political par- I ties in this day, “by the principles of Christianity, remodel, govern, eaucate, save the people." Failing to do tn it, down they go, burying in their ruins their disciples and advocates. God can spare all the political intriguers of this day and can raise up another genera tion who shall do justice and love mercy. If God could spare Luther before the reformation was done, and if He could spare Washington before free government had been fully tested, and if He could spare Howard before more than one of a thousand dungeons have been alleviated, and if He <o.ild spare Robert McCheyne just as Scotland was gathering to his bui ning utter, nces, and if He could spare Thomas Clarkson while vet millions of his fel ow men had chains rusting to the bone-then He can spare any man, and He can spare' any party. That man who through cowardice or bl nd idolatry of party forsakes the cause of righteousness goes down, and the armed battalions of God march over him. O Christian men, take outyour Bible this alternoon, and in the light of that word make up-your mind es to what is your duty as citi .ens! Remember that the highest kind of a patriot is a Christian patriot. Consecrate yourselves first to God, then you will know how to consecrate yourselves to your country. All these political excitements will be gone. Ba lot boxes an.l gubernatorial chairs and continents will smoke in the final conflagration, but those who love God and do their best shall come to lustrous dominion after the stars have ceased their shinning, and the ocean I . I. 1 14.- 1.. .4. V! 11..... „ J 4. . .

has heaved its last billow, and tne closing thunder of the judgment day shall toil at the funeral of a world! Oh, prepare for that day! Next Tuesday questions of state will be settled but there comes aday when the questions of eternity will be decided. You may vote right and get the victory at the ballot box. and yet suffer eternal defeat. After you have cast your last vote, where will you go to? In this country there are two parties. You belong to the one or the other of them. Likewise in eternity there will be two parties and only two. “These shall go away everlasting punishment and the righteous into life eternal.” To which party will you belong? God grant that, while you look after the welfare of the land in which God has graciously cast your lot, you may not iorget to look alter your soul —blood bought, judgment bound, immortal ! God save the people I It Came Too Late. a certain politician known for his gibesand his jokes was sayirg that the joke got around his way occasionally, and the listeners wanted to know how that could be. “Well not easy," he laughed, “for j I’m on the watch all t ie ti i.e, but I such things like angels’ visits, come ' unawares. The hardest lick I ever I got came unexpectedly and wh n I | was in anything but a joking humor. ! 1 had been anxio is to have a crowd from (one corner of the county vote for my man for : heriff, expecting, of course, they would vote my way for the member of Congress, who was running ar, *he same time, but by all that is lovely, the yaps voted for the wrong man for Congress, though they got in their votes a,l right for ? heriff. Next day 1 saw the leader and several of the followers on the street with a lot of my friends, and I sailed 1_ a— U t

into him. “ ’What the deuce did you mean by voting for Emit.) for congress,’ Isald angrily. >* *We thought he was the man,’ apologi e I the yap. “‘Thunderatii-n!’ I exclaimed. ' That man isn't any more fit for the 1 place than I am. *• 'ls that so?” replied the yap earnestly. ‘Well, If we hud known! that yesterday we wouldn’t ’a voted for him.’” * When the Goose Honks High. Wild geese, when mlgrat. ng In autumn, form into lines shaped similar to the letter V, the leader takes his place at the pent where the two lines meet, the two lines following as they sail away, far above the trees and beyond all danger from guns. They all seem full of glee and ,'oln In a chorus which sounds very much like honk, bonk, honk. Anyone who has heard these curiously sounding notes could never forget them. In former times those who heard them realized the happiness of the winged creatures in belhg so high and safe and It tiecame a matter of course whetr two persons met each other under peculiar favorable circumstances for this or that enterprise to say, “Every, thing is iovelv and the goose honks high.”—Detroit Free Press.

FOR AN INCOME TAX. SENTIMENT IN ITS FAVOR IS SPREADING. ConffreMinan Warner, Who IlnprnneuU the Wsalthleat Dlilrlct lu Till* Country, I* in Favor of Taxing Men'* Wealth Bather than Their Want*. Tax on Income*. In tho face of a prospective deficit of •70,000,0 0, on one hand, and the emphatic demand of the people to reduce tariff duties, on the other hand, Dem-1 ocratio Congressmen who feel tho re- 1 sponsibillty of the situation are casting about for away out of tho predicament. Many of them from tho South and West have long been in favor of an income tax. In fact, they introduced about twentv different inc me tax bills during the first session of the last Congress. During tho last few months Representatives from all parts of tho country have declared for an income tax. The Hon John DeWitt Warner, of tho Thirteenth Congressional Dis-

trict of New York, probably represents more very large incomes thi n any other Congressman. His district is t re homo of millionaires and multi-millionaires. Tho Vanderbilts, Gould >, Asters, | Rockefellers, Havenrevers. Whitneys, ' and perhaps 400 or oJo m re of the | wealthiest of New York City’s 1,200 i or 1,300 millionaires live in this dis- ’ trict. Under an income tax this district would probably contribute more to the revenue than any other districtand more than any one State, except perhaps ten or twelve of the largest. And yet Mr. Warner is not afraid to advocate an income tax. He not only thinks it more just than a tariff tax, but he believe-i it would meet the approval of the tens ol thousands of mechanics, clerks and laborers in his district. We quote tho following from an interview with Mr. Warner in the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin of Oct 21: “1 certainly prefer an income tax, if it is n.oossary to raise sufficient reveI nue, rather t mn the relent on of such high tariff duties as to involve an inordinate prop r ion of protection. I would not hesitate a minute bow to vote if the que-tion were presented between a pr tective taritf which would furnish the nece -stary revenue an l a bill which made the duties cnethird lower, and enacted an inc me tax to simply the deficiency. Personally, I th nk it would n>t be long b - fore asubstantially revenue tariff would bring as muc 1 mi noy into the Treasury as would higher rat.s, because mt only would imports increase as the result of lowe.-t.iruf ra‘es but we shoild have such an era of pros e ity thatexpor s would greatly inc ease and would taturally ue p vid for to a la g> extent by a further increase imports." “But de you t i..k it nece sary to put the entire machinery for collecting an iuc.me tax into op eration to raise s2i 1,000,OCX) or &30,000,U)j?" was asked. “The machinery need be nom.ire e.aboral e than for the collection of any o'.her tax. and I fear tho amount of the deficit to be piovided for t re tir.-tye.Lr may reuch »50,000,0J0 or more. Ido not think, howeve -, that an income tax i wou d be re »lly necessary, because the I inc ease in ousts ms receipts under a revepue tariff mignt so< ngive us a surplus, and we cou d issue in the mean/time Treasury certificates redeem ble at the pea-uro of the Government within not more than ten yea s. There may boa disposition in tne-Hou e, however, to in >ist upon legislation wh ch will meet the whois revenue problem at once. Members may tay tnat my extortaticn of increased customs receipt i is only a pred ction, and that ade ,u ite revenue ought to be certainly provided for nov. We shall | then have a contest t.etween dis erent! plans for meeting the eme gency. i There will be the same opposition to I

an income tax that there is to any new form of taxation: and < f the contest between tte income tax, the plan fir issue of bond.-, an 1 other plans, I should not be su prised if trie linal outcome : were authority to- meet any tempo aiy j defle't by the of short-term bonds . in anticipation of income, leaving the I question of whether an inc mo t.x is ; r.e ded to be settled by experiment, i and this seems to me to be .the best , plan at present.” | “But do you not think that the needed revenue < a ■ be ra eed by increasing the internal revenue tax on b.er or . whisky?" “I presume that it could be raised by ; doubl ng the beer tax," re ..Led Mr. ; Wa ner: “but I do not favor such a proposition us sup dementing a la iff U-u.toy ;O high as to levy fr. m those in po r or moderate circumstances the gr ater part of the necessary income of tne Go e nment. if it is true tuat an ircoms tax would levy its he iviest bi' dsis on the.rich, while it let the p o escapa taxatii n this would h truly, be mo. e than a fair offset for the o o - moa dy di proportionate burden wh.c i is im|X>sed upon c nsumpticn instead of wealth by tariff taxation. The increase of the tax on beer would simply carry further the same wrong theory of leg slation. If, however, it wai a que ti nos taking it off < f clothes and, pn ting it on beer, I w 'u!d bo for takii g it off of clothes, bit 1 am not in fav rof putt'ng it on bth in order to saddle the wh ie tax on consumption.” | “But do you believe that the increa e in the tax on beer would affect the retail price?” asked your corre-ipondent. “The con&umsr w uld have to pay it in the end. You cannot lay a tax upon a theory that it will not affect the cost of the articles'bn which it is laid. The 1 c n umer would have to pay the in- 1 crea e, whether it was in smaller | gla scs or pooler boer ora reduction of, the inducement to competition among , producers. I “I repeat: If wea’th already paid

most of the Federal taxes, and in some emergency the queu ion arose a< how •o increase the revenucet by taxes on c msumption, I might think’ a plumping levy on beer to baa good thing. But the tri üble i-s that the most of our Federal tax 6, a e new levied one nsumptlon: such will be tho ca-o even when the tariff is reduced to a revenue bash: and, therefore, if wo need aedi- ' tional taxes I believe In levying them on men’s wealth i ather than oh men's wants." Free Trade Factorlee. Without any enmity whatever toward the Northeast, the interior States and the South, which have the power, , should reform the tariff thoroughly in the intere it of their own manufactur- ' ing development. No great skill is required to see that under absolute free • trade manufacturing would lie more firofi table in the South and West t ian n the East. Importations would be i chiefly for the East, as the cost of transportation would increase rapidly after goods left the ship for the railroad, outhern iron and cotton and We tern wo 1, wood and hides would be made up near the supply of material and the 1 home market The Northeast would be forced to export manufactured g ods 14 more extensively.' Thus the NorthI east would work togetgold with cheap 1' goods and the South and West would have ■ la “ger home market for wheat, , corn and meat. The tactions now al1 most entirely agricultural would be te- 1 A

lieved of part of their dependence o» European markets for prlves and on the Northeast for eapltol. The deeper tariff ref >nn geo I tho better in evory ( way for tho South and West. Why Agriculture I* l»epre«**<l. At tho close of tho war it was hoped that th se measures and policies which wore tho outgi-i wth of tho struggle would bn s t aside, and that log slution would bo enacted to loliove tire jieoplo of the buarens of taxation which thoy had unoomplalninglr borne. In this they were not gratified. On tho centi ary. In tho year 1867—two years after tho close of tne war—the dretrino of “protee lon for protection's sake" was inaugurated, and tho Congress of that year, instead of lessening tho tax burdens, increased them. Tho pni nleious d ct inc of “protection for prot -ct 1 nM sake” wai not satisfied with the almost prohibitory character of many of the then tariff duties. Tney hid tost d blood, and, like tho daughters of the horse-leech, they cried for more This infamous system of taxation reached its culmination in the passage of the “McKinley bill.” Never have the people of any na’ion on the earth given up In taxation, in th > same length of time, as large an amount of money

as have tho people of thl> United Stales. These taxes are not shown in the receipts of customs by tire Government That shewn there was enjoyed by tho Government. True, muo i < f the revenue has been exjendtd In wasteful extravagance; but still it went into tho Government coffers and was spent by tho Government. But tho custom revenue < are but a tithe of the tax paid by « the consumers of tho country. For every dollar received by the Government six have been paid to the protected industries. On this forced contributi- n of the people tho manufacturers have grown enormously wi althy, and the consumers have grown correspondingly poo*. The cause of the prosent depression has its origin in the immense taxes imposed < n the people by tho t«ri I laws. In the vicious legislation which throws around manufacturing vocations the protecting care of the government and leaves the most important industry (that of agriculture) to struggle along without government aid. The prelection policy not tn'y robs the la mer by demanding tribute from him but it has destroyed the foreign market. The n itions which were forme ly the punchas rs of the products of <ur fa ms have ad pted the McKinley doctrine of exclus veness and have built up cereal-growing districts. They are.independent of the American ’armor. They nave given kind for kind.which is most wondjrfu ly human. Agriculture is th j s< u -ce of all wealth, i nd with it depressed all ot‘ er v. cations must suffer, and therefore tho reasons of the present unvvh< losome conditions are found in tho fact that agriculture has been impovorisire I that manufacturers might grow rich. —Romeroy Democrat jT - ■ ■ ■ — Th9 Protection the Bettor. Western and Southern staple producers never needed a ta.iff rer revenue more than now. A tariff for revenue is equivalent to a reduc d cost of transportation both ways. Every farmer knows what reduced transp..ration charges do for the movement of crops and the purcha eof goods. Farm debts never pressed more heavily and fatm profits were never more un atisfactory. Wheat prices drag. C -Lt >n is no hotter, and the big packing hou os have claimed that they must cut down expense o. There are the three great sources of our export trade. For seventy years the tariff question hat been the same—how tn..ch the staple producers th >uld I e charged for the support of G >vo nment and the m untenance of < e tula linos of manufacture. Not .only how much actual money they should pay, bat how much re triction of trade t. e/ could stand. Radical additi.no to taxation and restriction have been made without rotice to the staple producers.

The imposition of new burdens in 18S3 and 1890 was mad > when all the pledges out we -o frr reduction. In spite! of that habit al t.oatment the I agricultural States d > not a.k tor an i immediate bl itting out of all p.otsoj tion. Their expectaticn is that a Dem—- < cratic aA ays and A cans Committee w 11 p. esent a bill wh so guiding pur- ( •jose will bo the etc uragement of , t rade and pre du tion. Th >ra sing of ! revo me necessitates some protection a- 1 ng ai wo have a tariff of any kind. We can st n I that much protection, and n< t a great deal m re. it ha< always been the ca°e he-eto- ! fore, when a tariff bi 1 is in cou so of i j reparation, that the country hears a 1 great deal about the effect < n the protected indust ias. T.,is time we have a right to heir less about that aid more about cheap t ansjo tition and the eno out aging effe.t on export industries. When the Way'and Means Committee in its experiments gets to a bill for the mere lunts, farmers, school teachers, preachers, lawyers, carpenters, masons and blacksmiths it can stop right there. T..at bill will be good enough. —St. Louis Republic. No Escape from a Lower Tariff. Until the ti ver question is disposed of little will be heard pf the tariff. But the high protectionists shou d not take the general silence upon the latter is--1 sue t > mean a weakening cf the popular determination to reduce and revise I the rati s. Henry McCormick, of Harrisburg, Pa,, one of the wealthiest iron and steel manufacturers in tie country. a Scotchman, like Carneaie, who early saw wh; t high duties meant for his purse and who was largely instrument d in securing the enactment of 1 the steel .rail duties, says in a recent | interview: | “in the prosperous period of the last twenty years the steel and iron indust, les of this country ha e tee i placed | on a firm business basis th oagh the ip: fostering care of the tariff, and they _ i i a. a „ J _ l m „ . a „.. I

are able to st md alone now. Tne steel industry no linger needs such a strong pr p. I vdvocaled a high tariff for steel rath years ug >, when a tariff was 1 needed, but I believe tae American manu aeturers have grown sufficiently wealthy, ani their plants hi e been so J well equipped with the latest improved 1 machin >ry that they can ass ord to com•I pete wit 1 the foreign manufac.urers on the same level before long.’’ Thli frank admission that now that he and Carnegie and the rest have filled their pockets out of it. the tariff may well go as u thing which has cu grown its usefulne is even to them, very well repretents the popular thought on this question. Ti e people believe the. e Industries are better ab e to stand alone now than befp.e, and need less instead jcfhig er duties. They have so expies ed themselves at the polls and are determined to try the experiment of lower duties. This talk that the pan’o has demonstrated anything against tariff reform or changed public opinion is not only h ithout foun lation. but mischievous to the protected interests. The wiser course for them Is t> adopt a moie yielding attitude toward the popular ve diet and thm place themselves in a position to influeuoe. the impending act on of Congress In the way of conservatism, and also in the way of expedition.—Springfield Republican. 1 Tragedy was first represented on a 4 wagon by Thespis, at Athene, JA C. 630. . a.*