Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1894 — Page 2

©he JJenuMxai DECATUK, IND. (L BLACKBUBN, ■ - - Fxnnjmf. Vaillant, the anarchist bombthrower, will be Justified the same 4ay that Judas Iscariot is canonized. •... .i_ —';■' •! If we should mark the words of every man who requests us to do so It would not be long before the language of the world would all be in Italics. European armies are changing that fine old phrase, “the dogs of war," from a simile to a hard fact by Using man’s canine friend for military purposes. 1 A statistician has figured out that the entire population of the world could be accommodated in Texas. But the world’s population will not all go to Texas. Some of it will be saved, Mean enough to steal sheep is a proverb without force. Hereafter the ■lowest depths of unmitigated dishonesty and selfishness will be characterized as “mean enough to steal charity tickets.” South Carolina moonshiners defy even Governor Tillman, and vow they will continue to exercise their American citizen’s right to make and «eli whisky when and where they please. Now Governor Tillman knows *how the federal authorities .felt when the moonshiners defied them. General Lew Wallace confesses: -My life does seem to have been what xnen call happily successful; but, honor bright, what worries me Is that I've invented a flshpole and can’t do a thing with it. The finest thing of the kind you ever saw, made of aluminum, hollow, line comes down inside the pole, light, well balanced” — but it will not work, and he is miserable. General John B. Gordon, exGovernor and United States Senator from Georgia, is meeting with great success as a platform orator. His lecture, “The Last Days of the Confederacy," is being received with great approval by large audiences in the East The lecture is founded on the closing days of the late war and contains his personal estimation of the two great commanders, Grant and JLee. One of the few good uses discoverable for soldiers in Spain has been Indicated at Madrid. The bakers were about to go on strike. The civic authorities requested the royal government to erect temporary (bakeries forthwith and detail soldiers to make bread. Thus, in an inglorious art of peace, they will probably render their country better service than they ever will in war. Edward Payson Weston, the man who first popularized pedestrianism In this country and afterward won renown in Europe, has done no walking in public for ten years. He has a record of 62,000 miles covered in endurance tests, and be did it all on a cold water and vegetable diet basis. His favorite food when walking is oatmeal and his falvorite beverage milk. He ,ik 50 years of age and is a hale, handsome? 1 active man. The Salvation Army, says the San Francisco Argonaut, is gradually winning the respect of the community. Its methods are certainly peculiar. It is not entirely admirable, in our opinion, that religious worship -should be accompanied by discordant sieging, cracked tambourines, and dropsical bass-drums. But, while we do not admire some of the methods of the Salvation Army, we cannot help but admire the results. This body of women and men seems to be earnest and honest, and unselfishly engaged in the doing of good. At least’flfteen blocks of valuable building property in Galveston, with the twenty buildings thereon, the whole being valued at fully one hundred thousand dollars, have tumbled Into the sea within a few months past. It seems that the extension of the south jetty far into the Gulf of Mexico by United States engineers has deflected the coast currents until the waters have eaten their way into the town to the extent, in some places, of two hundred feet. The only remedy lies in the construction of a sea-wall a mile long to connect with the jetty. The attention of the postoffice department has been called by the Peruvian government to the frequency of 4 illegibly addressed packages of printed matter mailed to Peru, preventing delivery of the mail. As a remedy the Peruvian postal officials recommend that the addresses on . these packages be written not only bn the wrapper, but on the article, thus making its delivery possible in case the wrapper is destroyed. In accordance with the suggestion, Superintendent of Foreign Mails Brooks has Issued a general order to postmasters directing that public atcalled to the rccommendatlon. They have their troubles and differences down in Tonga just as they do In other places, but they overcome them. News comes from Tonga that the King has deposed Premier Tukuapo and appointed a successor, probably more to-his royal liking. Then the rest of the Cabinet walked the official plank. One Secretary, however, showed his displeasure at being »'V-' '' . ■—r-S

discharged by insulting the King and later by firing three shots point blank at his majesty. Overcome with the spirit of remorse, the militant official called at the royal household the following morning and apologized for having been so indiscreet and reassured his sire of his most distinguished consideration. Touched by the expressions of contrition, the King freely granted amnesty to the erring subject It is a sad commentary on our boasted clvllizated that we must go to Tonga' for lessons in the sublimity and efficacy of true Christian forgiveness ar.d repentance. But where is Tonga, anyway? Several officers from the regular army have been detailed to give instruction in the military drill in the various schools of the country. The idea cannot be too highly commended. It will keep the idle officers of the War Department out of mischief, and it will give the youths in school the best kind of physical exercise and a graceful carriage besides. It is nonsense to say that the military drill fosters a warlike spirit in young med and should therefore not be encouraged. The drill a soldier in the regular army gets of itself fosters nothing but good health, strong, active muscles and away of walking and carrying one's self that ought to be trained into every young person in America. What is more, the drill ought to be participated in by girls as well as boys in our public and other high schools. It is equally as good for both. Fanny Kemble said she owed her fine, stately carriage and good health to the fact that her mother had herself and sister taught the regular army exercise by a driil sergeant. Secretary Lamont’s recommendation on this point is a good one. A very advanced Civil Marriage Bill has been introduced in the Hungarian legislative body, and, having the Emperor’s sanction, though he is a devout Catholic, will probably be passed. It deals with all phases of the marriage question, including engagements and divorces, and is intended to be applied to all subjects. It not only makes invalid any contract of marriage not made before the civil registrar, but it imposes a fine of $250 upon any priest of any creed who solemnizes a marriage before the contract has thus been made. The religious ceremony is thus reduced to the standing of a mere work of supererogation. Marriage with a deceased wife’s sister, so long wrangled over in England, is permitted. Damagescan be claimed for breach of promise. Divorce is relegated exclusively to the civil courts, and may be granted on any of ten distinct grounds, including cruelty, desertion, and incompatibility of temperament—the last named to be decided by the judge. Marriage of a guilty respondent the co-re-spondent may be forbidden. And there is a provision, in cases of incompatibility, for a separation /or six or twelve months, during which reconciliation is to be attempted through Judicial mediation. An illustration of the abject devotion of some women to society is related in the New York Sun: A fashionable physician had been called regularly every day to treat a woman who was very popular socially for general debility and exhaustion. She insisted upon dancing until three or four o’clock every morning, and her days were a perpetual round of receptions, lunches and teas. She would not take time for sufficient sleep, and thought that the Doctor could manage to pull her through the season by tonics of various kinds. She insisted upon continuing her social rounds, so he hit upon a plan for reorganizing her day for her, and this she now carries out to the letter. Her day begins at three o’clock in the afternoon instead of ten in the morning. Her rooms are darkened, and nothing is allowed Jo disturb her rest until three o’clock. Then she takes a tepid bath and is put through a course of massage by a Swedish woman. She is rubbed vigorously and her blood forced into circulation. Then she takes a cup of chocolate, dresses for the afternoon, and at four o’clock steps into her carriage to make her necessary calls. An hour before dinner she lies down again in a darkened room, and, after dinner, she goes at her own pace until three or four o’clock the ne# Corning. The only stipulation the Doctor made was that before going to bed she should drink a pint of milk and eat some graham biscuits. As it is dark at half past four now, she has only about an hour and a half of daylight, but she is going through the season. Spontaneous Combustion of Arsenic. It seems that, recently, powdered . metallic arsenic, which, in the process of powdering had been moistened with water to prevent dusting, exhibited the capability, not hitherto recorded, of spontaneous combustion, according to an account in a German scientific paper. A quantity of powdered arsenic had been re- , ceived in a double paper bag, late in ( the evening, and set aside over night in a basket containing other articles 1 packed in straw and sawdust. On * the following morning, upon opening > the store, the peculiar garlic-like - odor attracted attention to the bas- - ket containing the powdered arsenic. An examination disclosed the fact that the arsenic had agglutinated to -a solid glowing mass, and that the y paper containers had been charred, a e portion of the straw being also t scorched. A number of bottles in the . basket had also burst, owing to the high heat, and Upon the charred " paper bags were sublimed some beautiful crystals of arsenlous oxide. A 8 fire, which probably would have teen • attributed to some other cause, was 2 in this case averted.

TALMAGE’S SERMON. HE PREACHES AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ON FESTIVITY. An Entertainment Where the Lord I* the Banqueter and Angels Are the .Cupbearers—An Effective and Earnest Gospel Fira to the Unconverted. R«ady for a Feast. Dr. Talmage's subject was “Festivity," and the text selected, •‘Come, Ibr all things are now ready:” Luke xiv, 17. N It was one of the most exciting times in English history when Queen Elizabeth visited Lord Leicester at Kenilworth Castle. The moment of her arrival was considered so important that all the clocks of the castle were stopped, so that the hands might point to that one moment as being the most significant of all. She was greeted to the gate with floating islands and torches, and the thunder of cannon, and fireworks that set the night ablaze, and a great burst of music that lifted the whole scene into perfect enchantment. Then she was introduced in a dining hall the luxuries of which astonished the world. Four hundred servants waited upon the guests. The entertainment cost $5,000 each day. Lord Leicester made that great supper in Kenilworth Castle. Cardinal Wolsey entertained the French embassadors at Hampton Court. The best cooks in all the land prepared for the banquet. Purveyors went out and traveled all the kingdom over to find spoils for the table. The time came. The guests were kept during the day' hunting in the King s park so that their appetites might be keen, and then in the evening, to the Sound of the trumpeters, they were introduced into a nail hung with silk and cloth of gold, and there were tables aglittei with imperial plate and laden with the rarest of meats and ablush with the costiliest wines, and when the second course of the feast came it was found that the articles of food had been fashioned into the shape of men. birds and beasts, and groups dancing, and jousting parties riding against each other with lances. Lords and Princes and embassadors, out of cups filled to the brim, drank the health first of the King of England and next of the King of France. Cardinal Wolsey prepared that great supper in Hampton Court. A Remarkable Banquet. But I have to tell you of a grander entertainment. My Lord the King is the banqueter. Angels are the cupbearers. All the redeemed are the guests. The halls of eternal love, frescoed with light and paved with joy and curtained with unfading beauty, arc the banqueting place. The harmonies of eternity are the music. The chalices of Heaven are the plates, and I am one of the servants coming out with both hands filled with invitations, scattering them everywhere, and, oh. that for yourselves you might break the seal of the invitation and read the words written in red ink of blood by the tremulous hand of a dying Christ, “Come now, for all things are now ready.”. There have been grand entertainments where was a taken off —the wine gave out, or the servants were rebellious, or the light failed. But I have gone all around about this subject and looked at the redemption which Christ has provided, and I come here to iell you it is complete, and I swing open the door of the feast, telling you that “all things are now ready.” . In the first place, I have to announce that the Lord Jesus Christ himself is ready. Cardinal Wolsey came into the feast after the first course. He came in booted and spurred, and the guests arose and cheered him. But Christ comes in at the very beginning of the feast—aye, he has been waiting 1,894 years tor bis guests. He been standing on his mangled feet, He has had his sore hand on His punctured side, or he has been pressing His lacerated temples—waiting, waiting. It is wonderful that He has not been impatient and that He has not said, “Shut the door and let the laggard stay out,” but he has been waiting. No banqueter ever waited for his guests so pat iently as Christ has waited for us. To prove how willing He is to receive us, 1 gather all the tears that rolled down His cheeks in sympathy for vour sorrows; I gather all the drops of blood that channeled His brow, and His back, and His hands and feet, in trying io purchase your redemption; I gather all the groans.thatHe uttered in midnight chill, and in mountain hunger, and in desert loneliness, and twist them into one cry—bitter, agonizing, overwhelming. I gather all the pains that shot from spear and spike and cross, jolting into one pang— remorseless, grinding, excruciating. I take that one drop of sweat on His brow, and under the gospel glass that drop’enlarges until I see in it lakes of sorrow and an ocean of agony. That being standing before you no.w, emaciated and gashed and gory, coaxes for your love with a pathos in which every word is a heart break and every sentence a martyrdom. How can you think He trifles? For the Delayed Guest*, Ahasuerus prepared a feast for 180 days, but this feast is for all eternity. Lords and princes were invited to that. You and I and all our world arc invited to this. Christ is ready. You know that tbe banqueters of olden time used to wrap themselves in robes prepared for the occasion, so my Lord Jesus hath wrapped Himselt in all that is beautiful. Seo how fair He is! His eye, His bfbw, His dheek, so radient that the stars have no gleam and the morning no brilliancy compared with it, his face reflecting all the joys of the redeemed, His hand having the omnipotent surgery with which He opened blind eyes, and straightened crooked limbs, and hoisted the pillars of Heaven, and swungthe twelve gates, which are twelve pearls. There are not enough cups in Heaven to dip up this ocean of beauty. There Are not ladders enough to scale this height of love. There are not enough cymbals to clap, or harps to thrum, or trumpets to peal forth the praises of this one altogether fair. Oh, ihou flower of eternity, thy breath is the , perfume of Heaven! Oh, blissful daybreak, let all people clap their hands in thy radiance! Chorus: Come, men and saints and cherubim and seraphim and archangel—all heights, all depths, ' all immensities. Chorus: Roll Him 1 through the heavens in a chariot of 1 universal acclaim, over bridges of ! hosannas, under arches of coronation, I along by the great towers chiming • with eternal jubilee. Chorus: “Unto Him who hath.loved us and washed us • from our sins in His own blood, to Him ( bo glory, world without end!” 1 I have a word of five.letters, but no - sheet white enough on which to write 1 it and no pen good enough with which > to Inscribe it. Give mo the fairest ) leaf from the heavenly records—give > me the pencil with which the angel I records His victory--and then, with . fny hand strung tosupernatural ecstasy , and my pen dipped in the light of the morning, I will write it out in the capitals of love, “J-E-S-U-S.” It is this ’ one, infinitely fair, to whom you are invited. Christ is waiting for you,

waiting as a banqueter waits for the delayed guest-the moats smoking, tho beakers brimming, the minstrels with fingers on the st iff string, waiting for tho clash of tho hoofs at the gateway. Waiting for you as a mother waits for her son who wqnt oft ten years ago, dragging her bleeding hoart along with him. Waiting! Oh, give mo a comparison intense enough, importunate enough to express my moaning—somethin!? high as heaven and deep as hell and long aseternity! Not hoping that you can help me y ith such a comparison, I will say, “He is waitingas only the all sympathetic Christ can wait for the coming back of a lost soul.” Bow the knee and klec the Son. Como »nd welcome sinner, come. How Luther Saw the Truth. Again, tho holy spirit is ready. Why is it that so many sermons drop dead—that Christain songs do not get their wing under the people—that so often prayer goes no higher than a hunter’s "hollo?” It is because there is a link wanting—the work of the holy spirit. Unless that spirit give grappling hooks to a sermon and lift, the prayer, and waft tho song, everything is a dead failure. That spirit is willing to come at our call ar.d lead you to eternal life,' or ready to come with the same power with wl'iich he unhorsed Saul on the Damascus turnpike, and broke down Lydia in her fine store, and lifted that 3,000 from midnight into midnoon at the Pentecost. With that power the spirit of God now beats at the gate of your soul. Have you not noticed what homely and insignificant instrumentality the spirit of God employs for man’s conversion? There was a man on a Hudson River boat to whom a tract was offered. With indignation he tore it up and threw it overboard. But one fragment lodged on his coat sleeve, and he saw on it the word “eternity," and he found no peace until he was prepared for that great future. Do you know what passage it was that caused Martin Luther to see the truth? “The just shall live by faith.” Do you know there is one —just one — passage that brought Augustine from a life of dissipation? “Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.” It was just one passage that converted Hedley Vicars, the great soldier, toChrist, “The blood of Jesus Christ cleanse th from all sin.” Do you know thatthe holy spiritused one passage of Scripture to save Jonathan Edwards? “Now. unto the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, our Saviour, bo glory.” One year ago on Thanksgiving Day I read for my text, “Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endureth forever.” And there is a young man in the house to whose heart the holy spirit took that text for his eternal redemption. I might speak of my own case. I will tell you I was brought to the peace of the gospel through tho Syro-Phcenician woman’s cry to Christ, “Even the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the master’s table.” A Glorious Church. Again, the church is ready. O man, if I could take the,curtain off these Christian hearts, I could show you a great many anxieties for your redemption. You think that old man is asleep because his head is down and his eyes are shut. No; he is praying for your redemption and hoping that the words spoken may strike your heart. Do you know the air is full of prayer? Do you know that prayer is going up from Fulton street prayer meeting and from Friday evening prayer meeting, and going up every hour of the day for the redemption of the people? And if you should just start toward the door of the Christian church, how quickly it would fly open! Hundreds of people would say: “Give that man room at the sacrament. Bring the silver bowl for his baptism. Give him the right hand of Christian fellowship. Bring him into all Christian,associations.” Oh, you wanderer on the cold mountains, come into the warm sheepfold. I let down the bars and bid you come in. With the shepherd’s crook I point you the way. Hundreds of Christian hands beckon you into the church of God. A great many people do not like the church and say it is a great mass of hypocrites, but it is a glorious church with all its imperfections. ■ Christ bought it, and hoisted the pillars, and swung its gates, and lifted its arenes, and curtained it with upholstery crimson with crucifixion carnage. Come into it. We are a garden walled around, Chosen and made peculiar ground, A little spot inclosed by grace Out of the world's wild wilderness. Again, the angels of God are ready. A great many Christians think that the talk about angels is fanciful. You say it Is a very good subject for theological students who have just begun so sermonize, but for older men it is improper. There is no more proof in that Bible that there is a God than that there are angels. Why, do not they swarm about Jacob’s ladder? Are we not told that they conducted Lazarus upward; that they stand before the throne, their faces covered up with their wings, while they cry, “Holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty?” Did not David see thousands and thousands? Did not one angel slay 185,000 men in Sennacherib’s army? And shall they not be the chief harvesters at the judgment? Immortal Health. There is a line of loving, holy, mighty angels reaching to Heaven. I suppose they reach from here to the very gate, and when an audience is assembled for Christian worship the air is full of them. If each one of you has a guardian angel, how many celestials there are here! They crowd the place, they hover, they flit about, they rejoice. Look, that spirit is just come from the throne! A moment ago it stood before Christ and heard the doxology of the glorified. Look! Bright immortal, what news from the golden city! Speak, spirit blest! The response comes melting on the air, “Come, for all things are now ready!” Angels ready to bear the tidings, angels ready to drop the benediction, angels ready to kindle the joy. They have felt the joy that is felt where there are no tears and no graves; immortal health, butnoinvalidism;songs, but no groans; wedding bells, but no funeral torches: eyes that never weep, hands that never blister, heads that never faint, hearts that never break, friendships that are never weakened. Ready, all of them! Ready, thrones, principalities and powers! Ready, seraphim and cherubim! Ready, Michael the Archangel! Again, your kindred in glory are all ready for your coming. I pronounce modern spiritualism a fraud and a sham, If John Milton and George Whitefield have no better business than to crawl under a table and rattle the leaves, they had better stay at home in glory. While I believe that modern spiritualism is bad because of its mental and domestic ravages, common sensefenlightened by the word of God, teaches us that our friends in glory sympathize with our redemption.' This Bible says plainly there isjoy in Heaven among the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth, and if angels rejoice and know of it shall not our friends standing among them know it? Some of these spirits in glory toiled for vour redemption. When they came to die, their chief grief was that you

were not a Christian. They said, “Meet me in Heaven,” and put their hands out from the cover and said, “Goodby.” Now, suppose you should cross over from a sinlul life to a holy life. Suppose you should be born into tho Kingdom. Suppose you should say; “Farewell, O deceitful world! Get thee gone, my sin! Fie upon all the follies! O Christ, help me or I porishl 1 take Thy promise. I believe Thy word. I enter Thy service." Suppose you should say and do this? Why, the angel sent to vou would shout upward, ‘-‘He is coming!" and the angel poising higher In tho air would shout it upward. “He is coming!" and It would run all up the line of light from wing to wing and from trumpet to trumpet until it reached the gate, and then it would flash to "the house of many mansions, ” and it would find out your kindred there, and before your tears of repentance had been wiped from the cheek and before you had finished your first prayer your kindred in glory would know of it, and another Heaven would be added to their joy, and they would cry: "My prayers are answered; another loved one saved. Give me a harp with which to strike the joy. Saved! Saved! Saved!" A Final Exhortation. I have shown you that “all things are ready,” that Christ is ready, that the Holy Spirit is ready, that the church is ready, that tho angels in glory are ready, that your glorified kindred are ready, then with all the concentrated emphasis of mv soul I ask vou If you are ready? You see my subject throws the whole responsibility upon yourself. If you do not get into the King’s banquet, it is because you do not accept the invitation. You have the most importunate invitation. Two arms stretched down from tho cross soaked in blood from elbow to finger tip, two lips quivering in mortal anguish,two eyes beaming with infinite love, saying. “Come, come, for all things are now ready.” 1 told vou that when the Queen camo to Kenilworth Castle they stopped all the clocks, that the finger of time might be pointed to that happy moment of her arrival. Oh, if the King would come to the castle of your soul, you might well afford to stop all the clocks, that the hands might forever point to this moment as the one most bright, most blessed, most tremendous. Now, I wish I could go around from circle to circle and invite every one of you, according to the invitation of my text, saying, “Come!” I would like to take ne of you by the hand and say, me!” Old man, who has been wandering 60 or 70 years, thy sun has almost gone down. Through the dust of the evening stretch out your withered hand to Christ. He will not cast thee off, old man. Oh, that one tear of repentance might trickle down thy wrinkled cheek! After Christ has fed theo all thy life long, do you not think you can afford to speak one word in his praise? Come, those of you who are farthest away from God. Drunkard, Christ can put out the fire of thy thirst. He can break that shackle. He can restore thy blasted home. Go to Jesus, libertine! Christ saw thee where thou wert last night. He knows of thy sin. Yet if thou wilt bring thy polluted soul to Him this moment He will throw over it the mantle of His pardon and love. Mercy for thee, oh, thou chief of sinners! Harlot, thy feet foul with hell and thy laughter the horror of the street! Oh, Mary Magdalene, look to Jesus! Mercy for thee, poor lost Waif of the street! Self righteous man, thou must be born again, or thou canst not see the kingdom of God! Do you thing you can get into the feast with those rags? Why, the King’s servant would tear them off and leave you naked at the gate. You must be tern again. The day is far spent The cliffs begin to slide their long shadows across the plain. Do you know the feast has already begun—the feast , to which you were invited—and the King sit with His guests, and the servant stands with his band on the door of the banqueting room, and he begins to swing it shut? It is half way shut. It is only just ajar. Soon it will be. shut. It is only just ajar. Soon it will be shut. “Come, for all things are now ready." Have 1 missed one man? Who has not felt himself called this hour? Then I call him now. This is the hour of thy redemption. ■while God Invites, how blest the day, How sweet the gospel's Channing sound 1 Come, sinner, haste, oh, haste away. While yet a pardoning God is found. - Insomnia Parties. A society young woman of Buffalo, has devised a novel entertainment, which is shortly to be made public. It is to be a reception for people who can’t sleep at night. Among her friends, she says, are a great many delightful people who are troubled with insomnia, and who confess that they spend many frightful, wakeful hours, walking the floor, looking out of the window, rocking in easy chairs, trying to read or write, and in other useless and tiresome occupations. When her plans are fully matured this original young woman intends, on at least two nights in every week, to be at home to those distressed female friends from midnight until morning. The guests are requested to appear in any unique, respectable bedroom gown, bath robes not excluded; the lights are to be dimfoothing music and stupid conversation will be the only diversions permitted, hot chocolate and light wafers will be served, couches and easy chairs will be provided in abundance, and tbe insomnia victims are earnestly desired to fall asleep as soon as possible. It Is whispered that prizes will be offered for the first shore, but this detail Is not authentically' announced. The reception is to be a fact, however, and an eager expectancy as to invitations is in the air.— Medical Record. Saving Pretty Pictures. A pretty nursery screen is made by covering the panels with any solid background .desired, black, dark red, or brown, and pasting pictures cut from nursery tales upon them. One panel can be handsomely decorated with the pictures that made last year's calendar such a thing of beauty—illustrating, as many of them do—ln such lovely fashion the procession of the months. The plethora, indeed, in these days of really exquisite specimens of the lithographer’s art makes a disposition of them after they have survived their brief present In current weekly, monthly, or annual, a real problem to those who dislike to discard them wholly or keep them forever out of sight. Hospital scrap albums are a good solution of the dilemma up to a certain point, but'there are more than 1 enough In many households for even two or three of these. Grave-diggers do a great deal of work that 1* beneath them. ”* 1’ -- 4 A* ’

STILL FOR REFORM. WORKINGMEN FAVOR PROPOSED TARIFF REDUCTION. Idle Mill-Workers Coerced by Msnufadorers Into Signing Petitions Against the Wilson Bill—The People Want an Income Tax—Congressional Idiots. Workingmen Still for Tariff Reform. That the elections of 1890 and 1892, and not the antl-Wilson bill petitions and postal cards, “suggested” and paid for by unsolfish and disinterested manufacturers, expressed the real sentiments of our working population, Is evident to all who are Intimate with the facts in each case. Here are a few instances: Coerced by the manufacturers, many of the idle mill workers in Kensington (Philadelphia), the largest textile district in this country, signed a petition against the Wilson bill. That these petitions misrepresent the sentiments of the workers is seen from the fact that the manufacturers of Kensington cannot get more than 100 or 200 workers to attend their widely advertised meetings, while the Kensington Reform Club (tariff reform) can get more than 1,000 out to its meetings Those-who are on the ground and know the conditions in the textile district in and around Providence, R. 1., report a similar reluctance on the part of the workers there to accept the ready-made conclusions of the manufacturers—except when their Jobs are at stake. Similar reports come from Troy and Amsterdam, N. Y., in spite of the fact that more than two-thirds of the population of these cities is alleged to have signed anti-Wilson bill petitions. The truth is that rebellion is rife in the ranks of the workers, and the combined power of all the capital of all the captains of industry is not sufficient to prevent serious outbreaks. More evidence comes from Paterson, N. J. By deft manipulation of the silk and other workers there, the opinions of those who favored the Wilson bill were held in abeyance while reports were sent broadcast that the sentiment of the workers had turned and was dead against tariff reform. The ten-der-skinned representative from this Congressional district, like several others in New Jersey—Democrats, so called—got scared and climbed over on the other side of the fence from the Wilson bill, and began to swear back at it, thinking his constituents were applauding. It really looked bad for tariff reform in the vicinity of Paterson. A few Democrats, more bold than the others, concluded that they would try to hold a meeting if they could get an outsider to agree to sacrifice himself to the mob that would probably attempt to lynch any Cobden Club emissary who should present himself. Thomas G. Shearman, of Brooklyn, was willing to take his chances. He describes the meeting as one of the most successful he ever addressed. Between 2,000 and 3,000 people—mostly mill operatives—packed the theater and many stood for three hours listening and applauding the good points of Mr. Shearman's radical speech, and of his replies to the many questions asked. Their pent up tariff reform sentiments found veht in loud cheers, and the meeting was literally a “howling success.” Leading local “Democrats" who had remained “behind the scenes’ during the meeting stepped out at its close to congratulate the speaker and express their surprise at the success of the meeting. All of which goes to show that the tariff reform baok-sliders are amongst the machine politicians who fear the opposition of their wealthy constituents. or who are incapable of holding opinions, or of estimating opinions of their hard-working constituents, and not amongst the workers themselves. —B. W. H. Tom Johnson’s Great Speech. Congressman Tom L. Johnson, of Ohio, is perhaps, the most radical free trader in Congress, and yet no speech of the session has been listened to by more members and more literally applauded by all. Republicans applauded him for his logic, courage and frank non-partisan criticisms; Democrats for his clear presentation of sound economic and Democratic doctrine. As a manufacturer of steel rails, Mr. Johnson produced indisputable evidence of a new steel rail trust or pool, which will have, in the Wilson bill, all of the protection it will care to use. We quote a part of Mr. Johnson’s speech referring to steel rails: Take steel rails, of which I happen to know something, as I am a manufacturer of steel rails. I appeal to the Democrats of the House to join me in putting steel rails on the free list. The present duty on steel rails is (13.44 per ton. which Is estimated to be equivalent to 60.44 per cent, ad valorem. The committee have reduced this to 26 percent. This seems like a great reduction. But it Is only nominal, for 25 per cent, is all the steel rail trust want. It is as good to them as 1.000 per cent., for it is practically a prohibitory duty. Steel can be made here as cheaply as anywhere else in the world, and wonld not now be Imported, save In exceptional cases, even if there were no duty: while tbe tendency of invention and improvement is in favor of the United States as against Europe. The steel made into rails in this country Is from-native ore. What pig metal, billets, and blooms aYe Imported are used entirely in other iron and steel manufactures. Now it costs less than (2 a ton to make steel rails from blooms, including straightening and punching. On to-day's market steel blooms are selling at less than sl7; steel rails should therefore not bring over fit). They did fall to that price a few weeks ago, during a temporary break in the steel rail pool. But that pool was quickly reorganized, and the price of steel rails was put up and is now maintained at f 24 a ton; so that by virtue of the duty which keeps out foreign rails, the pool is compelling the users of steel rails to nay them 26 per cent, more than a fair price. Mr. Dalzell.—Does the gentleman speak now from the attitude of a steel-rail manufacturer? Mr. Johnson of Ohio.—l do. My mill makes about one-thirtieth of all that are produced in the United States. This new steel-rail pool is composed of seven manufacturers, headed by Carnegie, who absolutely control the product of more than onehalf of the rolled steel produced in the United States, and who have combined together to pay other large manufacturers heavy annual sums to close their works, dlscba.ge their men, and make no steel. Now. observe, the 25 per cent, duty of the committee’s bill is just as good to the steel rail pool as the greater nominal duty of the existing law. and will enable the pool to keep tbe price up to the highest point that they deem safe. For, with a duty of 26 per cent, ad valorem, steel rails can not be Imported from Europe and sold in competition with the peel at (24a ton, the highest price it now chooses to ask So that tbe nominal reduction made by tho committee is actually no redaction at all It will not add 1 cent to the Income of the Government. It will not reduce 1 cent the price of steel to American users of steel rails, and it will not diminish by 1 cent the profits of the Carnegie pool. Hence Carnegie’s satisfaction, expressed the other day, when about to sail. It is true that if the proposed reduction had come earlier it would have been of some benefit to the American consumer, for ths present duty of 113.44 a ton enabled the steel-rail pool up to a recent time to keep the price of steel rails higher still. Bnt a greater Internal competition caused by reductions in the cost of production. has of itself compelled them to come down to (24 a ton, and a duty of 26 per cent, will enable them to maintain that price as snugly as does the McKinley law. Mr. Dalzell—ls the gentleman a party to the Johnson of Ohio —I am not: but whether lam or not wonld make no difference. Outside of this hall, as a steel manufacturer, I might be perfectly willing to enter a trust, but I will not defend trusts here. Congressional Idiots. Reports of Duns and Bradstreets indicate a slight improvement in business aid a gradual better tone indicating that the business scare is giving away to confidence. The action ♦of a lot of congressional idiots for sojne mere partiaan advantage in delaying action

upon tha tarlft bill is only adding to tho business confusion and uncertainty. The people of (hi* country aro fast becoming educated on political economy, and demagogues may rant and rave In their efforts to fool them, but it Is a waste of wind. Tho average laboring man knows that under the MoKlnley bill wages have been steadily decreasing, with strikes, look outs and starvation following In its train. They have been compelled to take tho manufacturers’ oat in. wages or accept allns. They are not bound to accept either whore they have organizations to sustain them. One good well managod labor organization Is of more benefit to tho laboring classes than all the tariff bills they oould pass for the next thirty years. In times like thoee organization is required and toiling classes cannot bo cemented too closely. Organize by all means. Unite and protect yourselves, — National Glass Budget , The Cry of the Starch Trust. The Oswego Timos publishes the following under the. head "Oswego Starch Factory”: Thomas Kingsford said that the Wilson bill will bo very detrimental to the starch business of this country, as it outs the duty from 2 cents a pound to 1 cent a pound, and 1 cent will not be enough to protect the American industry against European cheap labor. The official reports, which show tho quantity end value of the products exported iron this country, are not pasted on every sign post, and the number of citizens who know what these reports say are small. Consequently we presume that many worthy persons can be induced to believe that a reduction of the duty on starch from 2 cents to 1 a pound (or from 84.38 to 42.19 per cent) will expose manufacturers in this country to the “ruinous" competition of “European cheap labor.” It is shown by the treasury reports that the exports and imports of Starch in the last two years were as follows: Imports. Exports. Year. Pounds. Vslue. Pounds. Value. 1892.. .1.990,976 (61,806 20,081,027 (612,631 1893.. .3,786,696 89,249 21,938,456 707.093 M It appears, then, that the manufao- w turers of starch in this country exportmore than 20,000,000 pounds a year. This starch they sell in all quarters of the globe, in open competition with the starch of other lands, and without the assistance of the duty of 84 per cent., which they need, they say, for defense against tbe forelgh starch here at home. One-half of the present duty, or 42 per cent., “will not be enough,” they assert, to protect the industry hero “against European cheap later.” How are they able to overcome the same “European cheap labor” when they sell starch in Europe, at the very doors of the European manufacturers, with the protection of no duty whatever? The official reports show that the greater part of the 20,000,000 pounds exported was sold in Europe—in the Netherlands, England, Belgium, Germany and other countries. The American manufacturers who are protected here by a duty of 84 per cent, undersold the products of “European cheap labor” in the very places where that labor is employed, and they did this not only without the help of a tariff tax designed to increase, the price of the foreign starch, but>' also under the handicap of ocean) freight charges. Do not these reports indicate that they need here at home 1 no tariff duty whatever? And now let us see what the Treasury statements say about prices. Therei was a small quantity of starch imported i last year—about *90,000 worth. Our; table shows that the value of this starch was 2.37 cents a pound before! the duty was paid, and the addition of; the duty would make the cost 4.371 cents. On the other hand, it is shown| that the value of the American starch, when exported was 3.21 cents a pound.! If the American manufacturers can lay l down starch at our seaports for ship-; ment to Europe at 3.22 cents, why wasi this foreign starch sold here, the cost) of it at the domestic seaport being: 4.37 cents?. We presume that thosq who have; had dealings with the starch trusti could answer this question. It is well; known that immediately after that; trust was made the price of American' starch to American consumers was t largely increased. The sale of foreign, starch here at an average cost of 4.37| cents, while the domestic manufacturers were shipping millions of pounds; to Europe at a declared value of only. 3.22 cents, suggests the explanation,' that the Trust was selling to the foreigner at prices much lower than those; which it exacted from the people here who had given it “protection.” < The complaint of the starch manufacturers that a duty of 42 per cent, is;* not sufficient to protect them here at t home “against European cheap labor" is absurd enough, when the export record is considered, to provoke a broad smile on the face of our almost boundless cornfields.—New York Timas. The Income Tax. ) If Congress carries out the wishes oL the country, it will adopt an income, tax. Some persons with big incomes I are bitterly oppose to it, but the masses of the people believe it to be right and want ft put on. Great Britain has an income tax, and it works well. It was first established in 1793. This tax was repealed in 1816, hut Sir Robert Peel, the greatest of political reiormers, revived it in 1842 to meet a deficiency in the government’s revenues, and under conditions very similar to those which are now upon us. For more than' fifty years this tax has teen levied. In 1874 Mr. Gladstone talked about repealing it, but though he was then Prime Minister he could not carry it through. The' tax is now considered part of the fixed policy of Great Britain. In 1898 it yielded a revenue of more than $69,000,000 and hurt nobody. Give us A. Federal income tax!—-At-lanta Journal. Uncle Sain’s Postoffice Pussies. Some 300 and odd cats are maintained by the United States Government, the cost of their support being carried as a regular item on the accounts of 'the postofflee department. These cats are distributed among about fifty postoffices, and their duty is to ke p rats and mice from eating and destroying postal matter and canvas mall sacks. Their work is of the utmost importance wherever large quantities of mail; are collected, as, for example, at the 1 New York postoffice, where from 2,000, to 3,000 bags of mail matter are commonly stored away in the basement For the Queen's Birthday. In honor of the celebration of the 69th birthday of the Queen Regent of China 1,200,000 pieces of red silk, each forty feet long and three feet wide, were ordered to be made in the imperial mills of Nanking, Soo-Chow-Foo, and Hang-Chow-Foo. With these the streets of Pekin are to be decorated for a distance of forty miles. Th® Montgomery Advertiser (Dem.) says: •Business will open up as soon as the President signs a new 1 tariff bill. Men who stand in the way of this great result will be remembered by those with whose interests they trifle." England expects every man to do ' his duty.—Nelson. This was the fa- ■ mous signal made from the flag-ship i just before the battle Trafalgar.