Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — Page 3

REAU OF LABOR STATISTICS.

: of Hon. N. E. Worthington, >f Illinois, in the House of lffepresentatives. being in committee of the House on the state of the Union, (Ting under consideration the bill 340) to establish and maintain a of labor statistics, Mr. Worthington jHAiBXAX: lam In favor of any legisla- * Trill throw light upon the great quesivolved in this btl. No investigation is ter importance than that which seeks to n what policy will best secure to men men, willing and anxious to work, fixed, Me, and remunerative labor. There is per spectacle than to see laborers unemiwho want to work, or to see them toiling jtwn to darkness for a miserable pittance (rely affords the" necessaries„of life. God Intended that life should be a perpetual e for mere existence, without hope of adtent nor chance of improvement; that it ! be a constant fight to keep the gannt f want and famine from the door, rayromy, and shadowed from the cradle to Lye. We live in a land of wonderful re- , of Unsurpassed fertility, of nnequaled .of climate and productions. The fruits tins of both the tropic and the temperate Ipen beneath our flag, land wheat, the vine and the olive, in ttes far beyond the range of the conon of onr own people, are annually proj Land Is cheap. Our Government Is vet in the history of nations. No other r in the world offers such natural advanb industry, economy, and labor. And file only in the beginning of the second f of our national existence, we are al--1 confronted squarely with the perr problems of labor and capital, of men (men, out of employment, and of wages aely keep soul and body together. This, she faoe of that other unhealthy fact in 1 Government, that immense fortunes, pus to the liberties of the people and injible with a just administration of law, hen accumulated within an ordinary lifenrithout corresponding labor, but by htion and combinations of capital. I do pw that legislation can cure these evils, nay be to some extent inherent to civilbiety. |he information that the bureau proposed bill will furnish, or can furnish if its are discharged in an intelligent and nonn manner, must illuminate many disquestions that are now being canvas-ed. oses to investigate the relations of labor tel, the means of promoting the material, intellectual, and moral prosperity of g men and women; to inquire what >een the effects of tfae division of and the improvements and Inst use of machinery in all departments of T! to ascertain the number of those emin the various branches of manual labor, (res they receive, the hours of daily work, %rage time they are annually employed, i difficulty of securing remunerative emsnt; to report the effects and prevalence truck system of payment of wages, towith the ages at which children are em- , and the influence upon their health of mployment; to inquire into the effect of i labor, methods of taxation, the cost of comparing wages and the costs of the Jtries of life, the accidents peculiar to it kinds of employment, and the means r prevention, the inspection of factories, mines, and tenement houses, and all natters and things that relate to or affect ndltion and prosperity of (he laboring , and to cause a report to be made anby the chief of the bureau, with recomtions, to the President and Congress, onoraic questions that will be touched by tatistics are the most important that can ' the attention of either a State or a »1 legislature, or that can affect the conof the millions who live by the sweat of rows. e Is at present, upon the basis of the mans, a population of about eighteen i that is engaged in the various profesand industrial occupations of this y. Of this number about twelve million or day’s wages. Two-thirds, then, of the (g classes of the country are directly ind in the information which this bill seeks inally secure. But it is not the working alone that are interested. Our hanks, ad-holders, our manufacturers, onr land1, our merchants, and, In fact, business ! every kind and character, are deeply ind in the practical solution of the great ms to which this bill refers, stability of the Government, the order of •, the execution of the laws, and the ab>f mob violence and public tumults delargely upon the employment, the comad the prosperity of the working people, nnot close our eyes to the fact that the of communism, scattered broadcast in or centers of European countries, hav# ion sown in many of our large cities, and danger of producing fruit. It is easier to the spread of communism by removing (see which tend to produce it than to put !n and stamp it oat when men and women Lddenc i by hunger and want of employ - ! The sword and the bayonet are dangerritrnments and cat both ways when against the bone and sinew of tho land, he part of wisdom, then, Mr. Chairman, ly to investigate thorougly every agency recta the toiling millions but also to conhat investigation in such a thorough, , and impartial manner as shall convince workingman that the Government is in tin making his condition s tolerable and irons as legislation and an impartial adration of the law can secure, n not be denied that at present wagers have a just cause of complaint, in both md national affairs. They do not-ask asse from the Government. They do k subsidies, nor protection, nor special ges. They are not asking to feed at the crib nor to be supported at the public ie. They are not asking even that this ament shall enter upon great works of al improvement, as some European imenfcs have done, for the purpose of hing employment to those out of work, hey do ask, and have a right to demand, ley shall not be handicapped and weighted for the benefit of other classes of society, lat they shall have a fair start and an ihance in the race of life, c, for instance, at the relation of convict ;o free and honest labor. The expenses of ills and workhouses and penitentiaries to be borne equally in proportion to propy all classes of society. In theory they are ■ne. The laboring man payß his tithe of or their support; but after having so he In every trade that he must compete with $ labor farmed out, at rates that w ll not rt a free man, to contractors, who put Vares thus produced In the open market ga petition with the products of honest laSociety, for the sake of saving expense in r care of its outlaws, pays for their board lothes and sets them to work at half-price *k down the means of livelihood of that |of its members that receives the lowest .and has the hardest struggle for an honintenance. ;he facts, then, Mr. Chairman, be brought it, and let statistics gathered by a departof this Government show how many conl our jails, workhouses, and penitentiaries tag farmed out at from 20 to 40 cents a compete with the honest laborer, who he fruits of his toil must support himself, le, and his children. And let us cease to ment that shrewd business management makes onr public reformatories self-sus-f at the cost of our hardest worked and |t paid iabreors. re is another line of inquiry, Mr. Chairman, should be embraced in this bill. That is entand effect of the importation of laI Under the contract system. It ha < always ur boast that our doors were open to the trodden and oppressed of every clime, welcome the active and enterprising who ndently seek homes for themselves In a nd is a very different thing from receiving rants by hundreds of thousands who mder contract to work at low wages, imfor the express purpose of displacing our •tizens or of compelling them to work at toes dictated by their employers. To tolhia forced and purchased immigration Is w capital to take advantage of the distress w wages of European operatives, to the injury and suffering of our own. (her broad soope of Inquiry is the subject ttion. No more difficult problem is preto legislative bodies. All agree that taxes be levied upon a basis just to all, and ted in proportion to the property of the s taxed. But no system has yet been dehat in its practical workings accomplishes d. It is a notorious fact that the poor and In moderate circumstances pay more than Hroportion of the expenses of government, tate and national. Visible property can be d by the assessor. The household furniad homeste d of the laborer, the farm, the of tlie merchant, the shops and wares of mufaoturer are all in view of the taxgathmd. if he does his duty, are made to coni ratably to the revenues of the State. But Ith accumulates and hides itself in stocks onds and notes and mortgages it largely 8 the vigilance of the most careful assesud no oath has yet been fonnd that bo c« the conscience as to bring it honestly assessor's book for taxation, result is, Mr. Chairman, that the

class of capital that is most securely invested by its owners, and that pays the surest returns, and that ought to bear to the fullest extent its share of the expenses of government, Is taxed least of all. Labor is oppressed by unjust taxation to the extent that capital escapes taxation, and the tendency of capital thns invested to increase and double upon itself is promoted by the failure to secure from It that fall bat just measure of taxation that capital so invested, more than any other species of property, is able to pay. This is one of the causes that help to the colossal fortunes that men of moderate wealth are able to accumulate. When a certain stage is reached further accretions are practically untaxed, and the richer the capitalist becomes the less tax he pays in proportion to his wealth. I believe. Mr. Chairman, that aoenrate statistics bearing upon this subject of taxation will lead to an income tax, as the only method by whi h the wealth of the republic can be made to pay its just proportion to the public Treasury. Another fruitful subject of investigation, and one no doubt contemplated by the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania who introduced this bill, is the effect of tariff dnties upon wages and the expenses of living. The friends of a tariff for revenue only will welcome any fair, thorough, ana honest investigation on this subject. They wili be glad of the opportunity of pointing to nndoctored statistics that will show the dollars that a high tariff pats in the pockets of the manufacturer and the cents that he drops in return into the hands of the laborer; that will show how an artificial stimulus leads to overproduction, and overprodnciion to low wages, and low wages to strikes, the closing of factories, the lack of employment, and all the evils that follow In the wake of willing labor Inadequately paid or standing idle because no work Is to be had. The honorable gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. BnsseU, on Thursday last ÜBed the following language and gave ns the following table, lor which I am under obligations; There are articles consumed largely by tne rich, not absolutely essential to comfort and sunpsrt, upon which to impose dnties for revenue. A list of a few of such articles I give below, the table showing value of goods imported and revenue derived last year under present rates of duty;

Article. Value. Duty. Beer, ale, and porter. $1,146,796.74 $511,46151 Diamonds, etc 7,603,75161 761,886.41 Fancy articles, (alabaster, etc.) 1,665,680.71 641,467.71 Fancy feathers and artificial flowers.... 4,399,294.46 1,378,309.63 Musical intruments.. 1,486,251.15 446,099.79 Paintings and statuary 3,088,673.34 313,584.75 Silk, piece goods and manufactured 33,307,112.37 19,677,999.53 Spirits and wines.... 2,296,734.27 3,358,463.12 Champagnes and wines 4.C03.723.61 2,219,672.18 Other spirits, etc„and still-wines 5,679i969.10 3,152,267.85 Tobacco and cigars.. 10,515,806.00 7,700,458.34 Braids, laces, etc., for ornamenting hats.. 2,297,962.00 701,890.66 Laces, cords, braids, gimrs 6,392,257.90 2,237,348.06 Chinaware, decorated 2,587,545.03 1,294,337.06 Cotton embroideries. 4,928,776.37 1,725,607.78 Meershanm pipes.... 38,306.74 32,671.11 Fire-crackers 265,023.97 281,148.08 Fruit and nuts 18,157,686.79 4,609,883.38 Fine cut-glass ware.. 1,017,677.84 407,075.04 Firearms 1,336,327.28 467,738.72 Total $112,815,356.28 $51,992,431.74

The increased importation of this class of goods has been for the past two years at the rate of $10,000,000 per annum. Here are $61,992,431 collected as import duties upon artioles that are mainly luxuries, and which are proper objects ot taxation. Add to this sum tne amount of internal tax which is collected upon spirits, beer, and tobacco, under existing internal-revenue laws, and you have a total sum which, with slight import duties upon other goods, will meet the annual expenses of the Government, pay the interest upon its public debt, and its principal as rapidly as it oan be economically discharged. Reduce taxation, then, by a substantial lowering of import duties upon all other 1-nported goods and take from the shoulders of lab «r the excessive cost which a war tariff now places upon almost every article that is necessary to life, even on the plane of economy that the wage laborer is compelled to occupy. Let the reports which this bill proposes be thorough, and show that under so-called protection the manufacturer not only dictates the wages of his operatives but also dictates the prices that they pay for the wares that necessity compels them to bny; that it leads to irregular and uncertain employment, to an expensive system of taxation that is deoeptive in not showing its cost to the people, and unjust in not being apportioned according to the property of the tax-paver. Let us have, then, all the statistics that this bill proposes and all the Information that they can afford. The advocates of revenue reform will take all the risks of defeat that are liable to follow, upon any proof that figures can offer, to show that taxation enriches auy country or makes Its citizens more happy and prosperous. And If the statistics collected by this bureau when established shall help to blaze the path and turn the course of legislation.to that bread highway of unrestricted commercial liberty where no taxation is laid nor subsidy levied upon any class of citizens, section of country, or business interest for the benefit of some other, they will do more, In my judgment, Mr. Chairman, for the relief of the wage laborers of the United States than any special legislation that may be asked or that can be devised.

JOHN M. PALMER’S VIEWS.

He Wants the Ticket to Be Tilden and McDonald, or Tilden and Trumbnll. In a recent speech before the Democratic Jefferson Club, of Springfield, 111., ex-Governor John M. Palmer said, among other things: The Issue between the Democratic and Republican parties is simply this: The Democratic party claims that the war of the rebellion was simply to maintain the Constitution; the Republicans claim that it was to establish a new government with a larger power than formerly. Now we are going into this campaign under good old Uncle Sammy Tilden, God bless him! No man dare say wh it this Government can do, and no man dare say what it can not do. I suppose that all the powers not expressly granted to Congress are possessed by the States. That does not seem to be the present idea, however. The very reverse is the case. The Federal Government has absorbed everything not specially delegated to the States by the Constitution. I want a voice in the appointment and election of some of these Federal officers. Ipr fer the government of States, and for this reason I vote for every State officer, and if he does not suit me I can vote against him the next time. He is directly responsible to the people. Wbat have you or I to say about who shall be our Postmaster, our Marshal, our District Attorney? Nothing at all. Suppose you de not want a certain man to be Postmaster, what are you going to do about it? He is not answerable to you. If you enter complaint to the officer toVhom he is answerable, the chances are he will tell you to go to Hades. Gov. Palmer then referred to the attempt of Gen. Grant to go through the United States Treasury. He said: “I want to see every Union soldier that is deserving of It receive a pension, providing he needs it; every soldier should receive his due from the Government, and no ’ more. I do not, however, favor every beggar's putting his hand into the Federal Treasury; neither do I favor allowing any Wall street gambler who, with his eyes open, lost half he had in speculating in stocks to do the same.” Gov. Palmer then spoke on the tariff question, and denounced protection in unmeasured terms. “Where does the Federal Government or any other government get the right to tax me to support some other men, er tor the benefit of anybody else? I don’t believe the Federal Government has the right to subsidize any industry. I own about 500 sheep. lam for the wool tariff of 1867; but If a dog should kill my sheep I should be a free-trader. The whole scheme of protection In this country is unjust and unlawful. The Morrison bill did not satisfy any of us, but it was a step in the right direction. Mv opinion is that the Government should not take a cent more than for its absolute necessities. The Democrats when they meetin Chicago will adopt a tariff plank that will carrv the country. Gov. Palmer said when he went to Cincinnati he was In favor of nominating Tilden, but the “other fellows” nominated that grand soldier, Hancock, and he acquiesced. For forty days afterward he thought Hancock would be elected with a whirl, but “onr friends ot opposite views then came in for their whoop. If I could have my way I would have everv Federal official elected by the people, except those especially provided for otherwise In the Constitution We are going to Chicago in July and going to nominate Tilden, unless he dies first, and I hope the Lord will let him live. We are going not only to nominate him, but are going to elect him, and having elected him, we will inaugurate him. He was cheated out ot the office once. I thought it was a display of timidity, and 1 guess many of you thought the same, but I now know that Tilden's course was because he loved his country better than he ■loved himself." Gen. Palmer said he wanted the ticket to be Tilden and McDonald or Tilden and Trumbull. If the young men want to know what Republicanism does for a man, let them look at Hayes, Garfield, and Grant They will do for lesson No. 1.

BUTLER IS GALLED.

The Greenbackers Nominate the General on the First , Ballot. General A. M. West, of Mississippi, Named for the Tice Presidency. Every Slate in the Union except two was represented at the National Greenback Contention at Indianapolis, May 28, Delaware and Mississippi being the exceptions. South Carolina was represented by Morse Chnrett, a proxy. The convention met in English’s Opera Honse, and was called to order by Jesse Harper, of Illinois, Chairman of the National Committee, after which the Hon. John Tyler, of Florida, was chosen Temporary Chairman. The anti-Bvtler feeling among some of the Southern delegate* manifested itself early in the day, and wa» chiefly noticeable in the determined effort to give proxies permission to vote. Solon Chase, of Maine, and George O. Jones, of New York, argued vehemently against excluding proxies, but, after three hours? heated discussion, the Bader men were triumphant, and it was decided that delegates could only east individual votes. This decision made the actual vote of the convention 411. During the day the following telegrams passed between Gov. Begole, e£ Michigan, and Gen. Butler; To Gen. Ben Butler, Boston; Will you accept nomination on satisfactory platform? No other question here. J. W. BBOOLE. ToJ. W. Beeole, Indianapolis: Thanks for your con«ideration. But why should I be asked a question which, under like circumstanoes, was never put to any other man? Is not my record as a Greenbacker for twenty years sufficient, without a formal pledge to yon, which would cause me to be pointed at as a man -who bids for a nomination? Benj. F. Butleb. Permanent organization was effected by the selection of Gen. James B. Weaver, of lowa, as Chairman; Vice President for Illinois, Charles Yoris. Among the Secretaries were C. C. Post and S. I. Norton. Gen. Weaver was conducted to the chair and delivered a speech reviewing the growth of the Greenback party, commending its principles and denouncing financial measures enacted in recent years by members of the old parties. One of the best speeches of the day was made by Mrs. Augusta Bristol, of New Jersey. Her remaiks were almost entirely political, with an incidental reference to woman suffrage. She made a telling hit in describing the characteristics of the man the convention should nominate, and closed by saying he should be a man with an eye single to the best interests of the people. This was taken as referring to Butler, and was roundly cheered. At the conclusion of Weaver’s speech a recess was taken’until 7:30. The convention was slow in reassembling, and it was 8 o’clock when Chairman Weaver called to order. The roll of States was called for members of the National Committee, with the following result: Arkansas, C. E. Cunningham; California, D. Shellhouse; Colorado, G. De La Matyr; Connecticut, Henry C. Baldwin; Georgia, Charles D. Parker; Illinois, Jesse Harper; Indiana, Richard Gregg; lowa, E. H. Gillette; Kansas, A. J. Utley; Kentucky, L. A. Wood; Louisiana, W. H. Hyer; Maine, Charles S. Emerson; Massachusetts, G. B. Hutchinson; Michigan, E. S. Greene; Minnesota, C. H. Roberts; Missouri, Henry D. Hill; Nebraska. L. G. Pace; New Hampshire, Warren G. Brown; New Jersey, B. W. Terlinde; New York, Lewis F. Post; North Carolina, George R. Wren; Ohio, J. S. Clarkson; Pennsylvania, J. A. Case; Rhode Island, D. P.Chase; Texas, Andrew Young; Vermont, M. N. E. Bake; West Virginia, J. W. Gorham; Wisconsin, Robert Shilling; District of Columbia, Lee Cran--dall. After the appointment of the natiqnial committee, and pending the receipt of the report of the committee on resolutions, speeches were made by a number, including Solon Chase of Maine, Mrs. Marion Toda of California, Mrs. Martha J. Strickland of Michigan, Charles Roberts of Texas, and Mr. Small of Georgia—“ Old Si,” of the Atlanta Constitution. At 11 o’clock the convention adjourned until 10 o’clock on the 29th without transacting further business, the committee on resolutions not being ready to report. Upon reassembling, the convention spent some two hours in listening to brief addresses. Then a recess was taken until 2, at which hour it was again announced that the platform was still in process of construction. Meantime several resolutions of thanks were passed, one to William H. English for the free use of the Opera House. A resolution of sympathy with union printers and organized labor in boycotting the New York Tribune was adopted. At 3 o’clock Chairman Weaver announced that the Committee on Resolutions was ready, and it was ascertained that there were three reports. The minority reports were by Jones, of New York, and Blanchard, of Michigan, the latter receiving much praise for the stand he took on temperance and woman suffrage. The majority report was adopted, and is as follows: 1. That we hold the late decision of the Supreme Court on the legal-tender question to be a full vindication of the theory which that party has always advocated on the right and authority of Congress to overissue legal-tender notes, and we hereby pledge ourselves to uphold said decision and to defend the Constitution against alterations or amendments intended to deprive the people of any rights or privileges conferred by that instruments We demand the issue of such money in sufficient quantities to supply the actual demands of trade and commerce in accordance with the increase of population and the development of our industries. Wedemandthesubstitutlonof greenbacks for national bank notes and the prompt payment of the public debt. We want that money which raved our country in time of war, and whioh has given it prosperity and happiness in peace. We condemn the retirement of the fractional currency and small denominations of greenbacks and demand their restoration. We demand the issue of the hoards of money now locked np In the United States Treasury by applying them to the payment of the public debt how due. 2. We.denounce as dangerous to our republican institutions those m-thods and policies of the Democratic and Republican parties which have sanctioned or permitted the establishment of Mud, railroad, money, and Other gigantic corporate monopolies, and we demand such governmental action as may be necessary to take from such monopolies the powers they have so corruptly and unjustly usurped and store them to the people to whom tney belong. 3. The public lands being the natural Inheritance of the people, we denounce that policy which has granted to corporations vast tracts of land, and we demand that immediate and vigorous measures be taken to reclaim from such' corporations for the people’s use and benefit all such land-grants as have been forfeited by reason of non-fulfillment of the contract, or that may have been wrongfully acquired bv corrupt legislation; and that such railroad lands and other public domains be hencefo tb held as a sacred trust, to be granted only to actual settlers In limited quantities; and we demand that all', n ownership of land, individual or corporate, shall be prohibited. 4. We demand Congressional regulation of interstate commerce; we denounce "pooling,” stock-watering, and discrimination in rates and charges; and that Cengresa shall correct these abuses, even If necessary by the construction of nai tonal railroads; we also demand the establishment of a Government postal telegraph system. . 5. All private property, all forms of money •nd obligations to pay money, should bear their just proportion of public taxes; we demand a graduated income tax. 6. We demand an amelioration of tfcc (ondl-

tion of labor by enforcing sanitary laws tn industrial establishments by the abolition of the oonvlct-labor system; by a rigid Inspection of mines and factories; by a reduction of the hours of labor in Industrial establishments; by the fostering of educational institutions; and by abolishing child labor. 7. We condemn all importation of ooctract labor made with a view of. reducing to starvation wages the workingmen of this country, and demand laws for its prevention. 8. We insist upon a constitutional amendment reducing the terms of United States Senators. 9. We demand such rates for the government of Congress as shall place all representatives of the people upon equal footing and takeaway from committees a vet* power greater than that of the President. 10. The question as to the amount of duties to b«levied upon v&zieus articles of import has been agitated, quarrel d over, and has divided communities for nearly a hundred years. It is not now and never will be settled unless by the abolition of indirect taxation. It is> a convenient issue always raised when the people are excited ewer abuses In tte ir midst. While we favor a wise revision of the tariff laws with a view of raising a revenue from luxuries rather than necessaries, we Insist that as an economic question its import auce is insignificant as compared with the financial issues; fbr. whereas, we have suffered our worst panics under low and also under high tariffs, we have never suffered from a panto or eees onr factories and workshops dosed while the volume of money In circulation was adequate to the needs of commerce. Give our farmers'and manufacturers money as cheap as yon now give our bankers, and they oan pay high wages to labor and compete wi h all the world. 11. For the purpose of testing the sense of the people upon the subject, we are In favor of submit. ing to a vote of the peopln an amendment to the Constitution tab favor of suffrage, regardless of sex, and also on.- the subject of the liquor traffic. 12. All disabled soldiers of the lake war should be equttably pensioned, and w* denounce the policy of keeping a small army of officeholders,, whose only business.ls to prevent on technical grounds deserving soldiers from, obtaining justice from the Government they helped to save. 13. As our name indicates, we are a national party, knowing no East, no West, no North, no South; having no sectional prejudices, we can properly place In nomination for the high office* of state candidates from any section of the Union. We appeal to all people who believe In our principles t* aiduaby voles, and pen, and votes. The convention then proceeded to nominate a Presidential ticket, the first ballot resulting: Butler, 323; Jesse Harper, ofi Illinois, 98; Allis, of Wisconsin, 1. Solon. Chase, though not placed in nomination, received 2 votes. Gen. A. M. West, of Mississippi, was ehosen by acclamation fox Vice President. When the nominattion of (Jen Butler was announced, the delegates from Colorado and Louisiana withdrew and declined to participate further in the deliberations of the convention, asserting it had selected a man for its standard-bearer who was not a member of the party, and was simply an office-seeker. The opposition to. Gen. Butler’s candidacy is headed by Lee Crandall, of Washington, Secretary of the National Committee, and George O. Jones, of New York. A committee of five was appointed to wait on the nominees and notify them of the action taken, and the convention adjourned. Minnesota Democrats* The Democratic State Convention of Minnesota was held at St. Paul, with the Hon. L. L. Baxter as Permanent Chairman and Capt. J. C. Wood Secretary. P. H. Kelly, Miclmel Doran, C. F. McDonald, and R. A. Jones were chosen as delegates-at-large to the national convention. A long discussion arose as to whether the district delegates should be chosen in the convention as a whole or the convention should dissolve itself into district conventions, each of which should elect its own delegates. It was finally decided to dissolve into district conventions. This was done, and the following distriot delegates were * First, W. J. Whipple, B. P. Cook; Second, John C. Wise, Henry Poesler; Third, V, M. Campbell, George N. Baxter; Fourth, R. A. Smith, T. W. Durant; Fifth, T. E. Heenan, A. Gumon. The platform declares in favor of the most rigid economy in the administration of the Government and the reduction of the surplus in the national treasury by lowering the taxation on the necessaries of life; denounces, in a long and exhaustive series of resolutions, the present tariff as a masterpiece of injustice and false pretense, and as the cause of the decay of the merchant marine and the present depression, and calls for liberal pensions for the Union veterans of the late war.

A TUNNEL HORROR.

Nine Railroad I.al»orer» Killed l>y the Collapse of a Scallbld. [Special from Ligonier, Pa.] Krupp’s tunnel, on the South Pennsylvania Railroad, was the scene of a terrible accident, by which nine men were instantly killed and eleven others severely injured, with slight hopes for recovery. A large force of men were engaged in excavating a tunnel about a hundred feet from the main entrance, when the heavy scaffolding gave way with the above appalling result. The frightful disaster occasioned the wildest excitement, and a great crowd gathered at the mouth of the excavation. Physicians were hastily summoned and the work of recovering the dead and injured was commenced without delay. A great amount of debris had to be cleared away, and when the dead and dying were reached it was found that their bodies were so horribly mangled as to be almost unrecognizable. Legs were broken, arms tom off, and skulls smashed in. It was found that the break had taken place about one hundred feet from the entrance where the men were at work. As far as is known at present, the victims are all Italian laborers who had been brought there for the work of excavation. Their names cannot now be learned. Similar accidents having taken place at the tunnel before, the excited community demand a rigid investigation at the hands of the authorities.

Quintuple Murder and Suicide.

[Albany (N. Y.) Dispatch]. Caroline Scheifer, aged 33, quarreled with her husband, Christopher, over the loss of a bank-book representing a deposit of over S3OO. The husband left home about 7:30 and returned at 10, finding the honse dark and his wife gone. In the bedrbom he discovered their children, Henry, aged 7, Annie, 5, and John, 3, with their throats cut, and also the baby, William, 9 months old, dead in a crib. After murdering the children the mother took the girl Mattie, aged 9, in her arms, walked throngh the fields back of the honse to the Central Railroad tracks, at the place known as Black Rock cut, and threw herself and child in front of an advancing train. The woman was cut to pieces. One arm and a leg of the child were horribly crushed. The woman was Scheifer’s second wife, but was the mother of five children. The husband is nearly crazy over the deed. The family lived in comfortable circumstances on Third street. Miss Claba Barton is closing the season’s work of the Red Cross Society by distributing a steamboat-load of household goods and building material at the upper end of the Ohio River. A wildcat measuring five feet four inches from the nose to the tail, and two feet six inches high, was killed recently near Brown wood, Texas, by a onr dog.

THE BAD BOY.

f ‘‘Ah, good-morning," said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he was going by without looking toward the store. “Co*e in. and Jet’s u» talk ever the state of the country.” “ Well, what part of the country shall we begin on?" asked the boy„ as he came in and basked a few strawberries from the bex, and complained beoause the grocery man did not put cream and sugar on them. “Shall we touch on finances, polities, religion, or agriculture?” “Finances,” said the grocery man, as he laid down a paper in which he had been reading ol the Grant failure, took off his spectacles, wiped them on a pieoe of maniln paper, and put them in a tin case. “What do you thinko! the trick Grant’s sons played on the old man ? That’s about as bad as any of the tricks yeu have played on your pa, Hennery. Lshould not be surprised to see the New York papers aoouse you of being responsible for the downfall of the Grant boys, as they accuse you of ruining all the l>oys that gc wron'g.” “O, the Graatboys are- like lots of other boys all over the country, and Grant is like many fathers, of less business sagacity. Grant is a good man to sit around and draw a pension, and wait for another war. He is entitled to live like a king, and have all. his expenses paid by the Government he perpetuated by his military genius* but lie is not equal to running a peanut-stand. There should*be a law to.prohibit him. from trying to go into business, and no one should be allowed! to >kanoodle him into the use «f his name to catch suckers. Grant made the mistake that nearly all fathers make,, in thinking his sons are smarter than other boys. Because Grant was a- snoeessfnl soldier,, it was no evidence that his boys were above the average. They were ordinary boys* had an ordinary education, and would have stood oa good a chance as most boys in running a grocery, reporting oti a daily paper, or braking on a freight train, and in any of these positions they might, have failed, and they might have been successful, and conue. to the front. But because their father was a good soldier, the boys thought they could run a business that would paralyze the ablest financier in this, country, and the poor eld father was induced to believe his boys were made oi better material than other boys, and. he lent bis name to their wildcat, foolish enterprises, and they at once owned the earth. Some one else owned the earth under them! but they owned it cn top, and they got the big head, and competed with millionaires who had more money than they could possibly spend, and for a year or two y m have read more about the style the Grants were putting on than you have of the Asters and Vanderbilts. Now that it is over, anybody can see what fools they were, and what a weak old father Grant was, and they will drop down to their level; and if they ever amount to anything again, it will bo from what they earn, unless they are weak enough to help spend the money that a grateful poople con tributed to their father, and I should think they w/wuldbe about equal to that emergency. It is a clear case of big head on the part of the whole family, and nobody is sorry for any of them except the pa and ma. And great men, from the President down, have many heartaches, and pass, many sleepless nights, thinkiag of sons who are doing their best to being the gray hairs of their parents in sorrow to the grave. I tell you parents that only have a few jokes played on them are in luck. If Grant’s boys had initiated their pa into a Masonry, and given the goat degree, as me and my chum did my pa, Grant would have picked himself up and felt a good deal better than he does to be initiated into the ‘One Tousand and One,’ where the first degree is ‘petit larceny,’ the second degree obtaining money om false pretenses, and the third degree highway robbery.” “Well, that is about the way I look at it,” said the grocery man, as he spilled a little cayenne pepper on a big strawberry on top of a box. “But I noticed your pa out in the back yard with a handkerchief tied over bis eye, and his nose seemed quite red. He has not been drinking again, has he?” i “No, pa is a reformed man, but he is nervous. He can’t stand still. The other day he was at the depot waiting for a train, and he walked up and down the platform all the time. Yon know them posts on the platform that holdj up the roof? Well, pa was walking along jabbing the point of his umbrella at tlie posts. He had walked for quite a while, jabbing the posts, and not thinking of anything, and unconscious that there was anybody around, when the point of the umbrella slipped off the post and run into the pocket of a woman’s dress, who was standing on the other side of the post, talking with a man. Well, she was scared, and grabbed the umbrella, and when she looked up at pa, she was mad. Pa hain’t got no sense about such things. He tried to smile, as though it was an accident, but when pa tries to smile, when it ain’t a natural smile, but forced, he looks as though he was grinning, and he looks crazy. The woman screamed when she saw pa smile, and thought he was trying to stab her, and pa pulled the umbrella to get it away, she pulled to keep from getting stabbed again, and the man with her, he hit pa, and struck him on the nose, and a baggage man grabbed pa from behind, and they called a depot I policeman, and he was going to kill pa. If pa had tried to exElain, it would have been all right, but e kept on smiling, and pulling at the umbrella, and he thought they were trying to rob him, and he kicked, and they had to put him on a baggage truck and wheel him away. He lost his umbrella, and when they turned him loose he run up an alley for home. It is his absent-mindedness that causes all the trouble. Jewhillikens, wh .t’s the matter with that strawberry? It feels as though it had been warmed by the stove. Whoosh!” and the boy got a drink of water as qu ck as he could, and he chewed the ice, while the grocery man went to dusting the cans ol fruit as though nothing had happened worthy of notice.— Peck’s Sun.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Mrs. Lnkens, a Princeton abortionist, - kas been sent to the reformatory for thrJb ! fe arsi —The Brazil Bank; one of the oldest in- | stitutions in< that city, has retired from ! business. —The famous horse which the late Gen, | Caster rode died the other day at Vincennes. He was the property of Dr. Carver, the | marksman. —’Squire Keigwin, of” Jetffcrsonville. i«kept bnsy marrying runaway oonples fromi K entneky, furnishing business for the divorce courts. —Andrew Beard, of New Albany, aged 71 years, walked it© Elizabeth the other day, a distance of seventeen miles, to visit his mother, aged 95, and then walked back i© > New Albany. —Benjamin Allen,' for fifty years a resident of Rush County, dated recently from < the rapture of a blood vessel, expiring within eight minutes. He was wll known and • highly esteemed. —Mrs, Thorp, aged 1 about thirty years; committed suicide at Berne* Adams County; by taking morphine.- She was the • mother of three small’ chiJUren.. Povertj is supposed to bo the cause. —A deputy marshal seized the dry-goods * store of G. W. Corwin,.at Gireencnstle, on a, claim of $3,G00 by a .Chicago honse. Corwin’s liabilites are- about! $37,000. His stock was in the hands of a mortgagee, who i was closing it out whtan am attachment was served. —Taylor Hays, a, young; rough of Hope, was shot through. thte body at Hope, in. Bartholomew County. He-had been arrested I and fined for drankennose, and was trying ; to escape from - James D. Miller, the Marshal, when he fired. Tho ball entered the - back, and was extracted from tho wnllof ’ the stomach. —The first channel pier of the Sand Island bridge, at New Albany, is now sixtyfour feetabove the foundations. Wllon cam* • pletedlt will bo 112 j Suet in height, Thotwo immenso iron cylinders for the shornpier are being rajndtyr filled withq concrete. Work on the Kentucky shore piers will: commence in aicoupio of weeks, —J. F. Studebaker, of South Bond.'huareturned from iE drop©. The trip was mada jn tire interest t afi’ the Peroheron-NOnnan Horso Company , and 350 head of fine horses . were purchased! for importation.-, This, company own hwge stook ranchos in tho vicinity of Denver, and the animals wero purchased to, improve and increase,-their-stock. r-At a. barn-raising on tho fann-ol’ Joshi Emerson, about seven miles southwest ofT Princeton, a-serious and probably fatal accident occurred, caused by the breaking oP a rope used’i» hoisting heavy timbers. A large beam flNl, striking James MtDole on, the back, injficting a fatal injpayvan the* spine. Snftuiel Parker was also-, injured in, the head by concussion, but was -not (fatally hurt. Some-other serious injuries are reported, but none of a serioue charactor. —John Btelin, of South Bond) was; stop-, ped' just outside the city the other night by three men, who proceeded to rob him.. They took from him $3.25 in monoy. After rifling* his pockets one of the villrifis; remarked-: “We’ll fix him so that he will not reach town in a hurry,” and thereupon! (totwiaga. revolver he BhotMr. Bolin hi the fleshy part of his leg. The wound was. mtudo with a thirty-two-caliber ball, whioh passed entirely through the leg, fortunately striking no bones. When Mr. Bolin reached the city tho officers were notified, but up to this time nothing has been learned concerning these bold highwaymen^ —Lightning-rod men- are making life a burden to the farmers offTippeeanoe County. One man named Colson, living near Montmorenci, signed one es their contracts, and then hearing how such-things generally terminated he consulted a lawyer. Tho latter told him there was, but one way to avoid payment. If the men didn’t put any rods on his house he would not owe them anything. Accordingly when the men arrived with the rods Colson stationed all his hired men about the house and warned the agents to keep off or stand the consequences. They kept off, but threw the rod over the fence. Failing to frighten him they afterward hauled it away. —One of the most important captures of the last year or two in the vicinity of Wabash was mad© recently by an Indianapolis detective, the party arrested being James Stephens, an alleged swindler on a large scale, who has long been wanted. Stephens was formerly a lumber buyer, and having* as it is said, gained the confidence of a number of wealthy lumber firms in Indianapolis, St Louis, and Chicago, he called on them and sold many thousand feet of lumber which he stated was lying at mills in the country. Nearly every house to which he offered his lumber advanced money to Stephens, who then lost no timo in taking an excursion to other pastures. Another charge on which his arrest was made was forgery, said to have been committed at Indianapolis. The total proceeds of his operations will not fall far short of $20,000. For several months past detectives havo been on the lookout for him. Stephens is a married man, his family residing in Shelby, Ohio. He stoutly protests his innocence. —The bootblacks of Indianapolis are engaged in warfare upon the chair system recently inaugurated by one of their number, who, by special permission of the City Council, has placed chrtirs on the streets, in publio places, and charges only 5 cents for a shine. The bootblaoks held a meriting on the Postoffice steps the other morning and decided to ent the prioe to 3 cents. It cost Lloyd County $2lO te take two insane men to the asylum.