Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1890 — Page 3

THOSE SPECIFIC DUTIES.

HOW THE TARIFF MAKERS GET IN THEIR WORK. Consul Schoenhof Exposes a Tariff Swindle—An Enormous Increase which Lies Hidden in Innocent Figures—The Farmer’s Waning Wealth. Mr. Jacob Schocnhof, who was appointed by President Cleveland as our Consul at Tunstall, England, and was removed by President Harrison for the reason that he was writing reports on the cost of production in Europe and America which were very damaging to the protection cause, has just made an able and striking contribution to the tariff discussion. The figures he gives about the lower prices of farm products are of the utmost importance to farmers. The article is here given entire: ““Nothing exemplifies so well the tactics of the advocates of the new device lor Increasing the burdens of the consumer, under the guise of a tariff for protection, as the statement of Senator Aldrich in reference to cotton velvets. Senator Carlisle had pointed to the new rates on cotton velvets as oppressive to the poor people. The old rates were 40 per cent, ad valorem all round. The mew rates change this very radically. ‘Cotton velvets, if not bleached, •dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, 10 cents per square yard and 20 per cent, ad valorem; if bleached, 12 ■cents per square yard and 20 per cent, ad valorem; if dyed, etc., 14 cents per square yard and 20 per cent, ad valorem; but none of the foregoing articles in this paragraph shall pay a leSs rate of duty than 40 per cent, ad valorem. ” No great danger that under the revised edition of this tariff any class of cotton velvets will ■ever reach a basis upon which the proviso will become effective. The sponsor of the new tariff bill in the Senate, however, proved to his own satisfaction, and probably that of the Senators on his side of the Senate chamber, that the change did not mean an increase. He stated that he or his agents had been visiting the retail dry goods stores in Washington, and found the cheapest cotton velvet sola there to be 70 cents a yard. This statement seems to have settled the •question. Duties, however, are not levied on retail prices as ruling in Washington shops, but on the foreign export prices, which, under the circumstances, ■could not be above 35 cents, or half the retail selling price according to the following formula: Cost abroad ?sc. net -40 per cent, duty 14 cents Expenses, say 10 per cent 3.5 '7 per cent, cash discount on wholesale selling price at 62U o"nts 4.375 Importers’ commission 5.625 Retailer’s profit 7.500 Total 70 cents He would have to be a retailer doing business on a large scale who would buy directly from the importer. If he buys from an importing jobber, he would have to pay a higher profit rate. No jobbing house can afford to do buiness on so small a margin aS 9 per cent, gross profit on an imported article and pay •expenses. Nor can a retailer afford to do business, unless on a very large scale, ■on a 10 per cent, rate on what is called fancy dry goods in the trade. Thirtyfive cents, an intelligent farmer will see, ds the highest estimate I can place as the foreign cost of a cotton velvet that the learned Rhode Island Senator had in view when he stated it to sell at Washington at 70 cents a yard. This 35-cent velvet would cost, under •the tariff, revised for the benefit of the farmers, 14 cents a square yard and 20 per cent, ad valorem. This sort of velvet would be 24 inches wide, i. e., twofthirds of a square yard. Specific duty therefore: 14x24 =9 1-3 equal to 26. CC per cent. 86 Ad valorem 20.00 Total 46.66 per cent. Cotton velvet and velveteen would have to be of a higher cost abroad, about 50 ■cents, and sell in the places where the Senator obtained his information on the values of foreign dry goods as high as $1 a yard if, under the new tariff, it camo under the proviso of 40 per cent, ad valorem. Large quantities of a cheap kind of •cottop velvet are imported for undertakers’ use. They are known under the name of undertakers’ velvet. They cost ■on the other side 4%d. a running yard. On these the duty will now stand as follows: Fourteen cents per square yard is seven cents per running-yard; as these goods are about ■eighteen inches wide, 7.1'30 — 82.35 per cent. 8& Plus ad valorem 20 Total 102.35 per cent, ■against the former 40 per cent. So after being tax-ridden to death’s ■doors, the very trimmings of the coffin in which the poor farmer is carried to liis place of rest are raised from 40 to 102.35 per cent. If a man of means, he pays lower rates, of course, according to the view of his heirs. The bulk of importations would average in cotton velvets about 7 pence a yard, about twentyone inches wide, and the new tariff taxes them as follows: 14x101x21 = 58.3 14x36 plus 21 . , 78.3 against ths •old 40 per cent rate. Now, these medium-grade velvets are used for different purposes of wear, and form the material for a variety of domestic manufactures. They are not manufactured in this country. Efforts have been made, but have invariably failed. The elements which would make a cot-ton-velvet industry successful arc wanting in this country. Undoubtedly, somebody who wants to try his hand has worked the “infant industry” in Washington, and has succeeded. But until a tidal wave shall have swept from power the makers of this iniquitous tariff, the ■consumers will have to pay an average of 80 per cent, instead of a 40 per cent, duty. The rich, high-priced goods are always taken care of by the provisos, and the poor and cheap goods have to pay the blunt, brutal, heavy-weighted specifics. The people who dictated this new tariff deal know very well what hug-ger-mugger can be accomplished under the cover of an innocent-looking specific rate. Who knows what fourteen cents a square yard on cotton velvet means outside of the dry-goods trade? Who knows what five cents, seven cents, ten cents, and fourteen cents a pound on wood ■screws means who is not familiar with the iron trade and prices? These covert increases of duty need explaining. Under the cover of darkness which these specific duties carry with them, so much denying on the stump can be practiced on .the agriculturist that they are most valuable auxilaries. One hundred per cent, duty on so ■common an article of use as black cotton 'velvet would seem a hard load to carry.

Fourteen cents a square yard and 20 per Tent/Tfnes not look much likw an met ease over 40 per cent, ad valorem. lam not sure whether it would not be made to appear as an actual reduction by the skilled apologists and arithmeticians of protection. Huger morsels than this were presented to our friend from the country, and were swallowed without causing any visible signs of uneasiness. This is a fair example of how the tariff increase has been carried. It has been carried. It is a law, and the farmer will have to pay for the luxury of belonging to and voting for the grand old party. I could bring dozens of examples how the people are beins swindled by these specific duties, but this one will suffice for the present In this way the outgoings of the farmers are taken care of by a paternal government. I want to show now the converse, the income side of the farmer’s ledger account. A grand total statement will be the most impressive. It will work with all the brutal force of a knock-down fact: Statement of the quantities and values of the principal cereal crops in 1880 and 1889. Illinois average of prices taken from the report of the Department of Agriculture, December, 1889 (quantities and values in millions): . 1830. Bushels. Price.» Value. Wheat 459.6 95 cts. $ 456.5 Corn 1,754.6 36 cts. 631.7 Oats 407.3 29 cts. 118.2 2,622.0 $1,186.4 1869. Bushels. Price.* Value. Wheat 490.5 70 cts. $343.35 Corn 2,112.9 24 cts. 507.00 Oats 754.5 10 cts. 142.78 3,355.0 $993.13 Crops of 18 c 0 Bu. 2,622,600,000 Crops of 1889 Bu. 3,355,000,000 Salable value of crops of 1880,.. $1,183,000,000 Salable value of crops of 1889... 993,090,000 Increase of crops of 1889 over 1830 733,000,000 Decrease in value of crops of 1883 from 1880 193,000,000 ♦Both ranges of prices are Illinois prices. I have here taken the leading crops. All other cereals, and adding potatoes and sweet potatoes, do not form more than 10 per cent, of the above. Both crop years have been years of abundance. Per capita of the farming population,the crop of 1889 has,perhaps,not yielded more than that of 1880Jn bushels. While the crop in aggregate has given an increase of 733,000,000 bushels, or 28 per cent., the salable value is actually by $193,000,000, or 16.30 per cent., less than in 1880.. Now, as at least 20 per cent, more farmers have to share in this lessened money product, it is easy to imagine whether the complaints we hear from the agricultural districts have any real basis of facts behind them. If the farmer flatters himself that the distress of low values is a temporary one, I am sorry to say that I can give him but cold comfort. From an earnest study of the situation in Europe, Asia, and America, I cannot but sec that the influence which contributes to these results are destined to bo permanent. They are spreading over wider and wider areas. The limitations of this letter prevent any pointing out the factors that operate so. strongly toward a low price level in foreign markets. For the present I only want to point to results as expressed in the most stubborn of all facts, prices. The American crops of 1890 are less by many hundred million bushels than those of 1889. The English and French crops also have been partial failures. Under apprehensions of scarcity, prices of wheat and oats, which were a year ago in the London market 295. Id. and 16c. lid. respectively per quarter (88% cents and 51% cents per bushel) rose last August to 365. sd. and 20s. Id. per quarter, respectively (sl.lO -and 61 cents per bushel). This gave a very hopeful situation to the farmer and would, if these prices had been realized, have compensated him for his shortened crops. But in spite of freshets, inundations, and other disasters, Austro-Hungary, Russia, the Danubian principalities have been doing so well that no scarcity scare can be maintained. In consequence prices are quoted at 31s. 6d. and 17s. Bd. a quarter respectively (95 cents and 54 cents a bushel), or but a very slight advance over the very low price* of a year ago. In view of the coming Congressional election I want briefly to draw attention to these facts in the hope that they may help the farmer realize his position. He may possibly see the importance of taking the care of his interests into his own hands instead of confiding it to the tender mercies of the representatives of monopolies and protectionism.

TARIFF LETTERS TO FARMER BROWN.

NO. tt. The Tariff as the Main Issue of To-day. Dear Farmer Brown: You say that you agree with all I have written in my letters thus far, and that you are just as good a tariff reformer as I am, if the principles underlying tariff reform are as I have stated them. But you think it is pretty hard to go back on the Congressman who has represented your district so faithfully for seventeen years, a man, too, who won his military title fighting to save the Union. I need not assure you that I respect your feelings thoroughly in that. But the voting of to-day is on the issues of to-day; and to-day’s duty has to do with the problems of to-day. You have admitted that the McKinley bill is a very bad measure. You laugh over the name Ben Butterworth gave to the so-called agricultural duties when he spoke of them as “tinwhistle duties;” and so I am glad to see you have not been imposed upon in tho slightest by this specious attempt which the Republican leaders have made to mislead you into the belief that protection can increase the prices of your farm products. That bill, you say, is a bad measure. But your Congressman voted for it; and he will certainly have to vote on tariff measures in the next Con gress, for you may rest assured that the tariff is not “settled for ten years at least. ” The only important question, therefore, which you have now to decide is whether you want him to vote again as he did on the McKinley bill. A vote for your Congressman is a vote of confidence In tho McKinley bill. You cannot give that vote; that “cuss word” you used about the “McKinley prices” convinces me you cannot. But cast your vote for Congressman A., and let the tens of thousands of other voters who feel as you do vote the same way. What is the result? A Congress of high protectionists is re-elected; they assembl&aJrWashington convinced that men like you want high protection and are willing to pay for it. When tariff-making time comes around again—as come it will—they will once more “revise the tariff upward” as they have just done. No, sir; you have no right to let your private good-will toward Congressman

A., nor your admiration for his splendid war record, turn you aside from your duty of to-day. The suffrage is a public trust You dare not place men above measures. You t'arc not cast your ballot upon issues that wore fought out a quarter of a century ago, and leave the issues of to-day to take care of themselvs. Does it not strike you as a little amusing that you should still find yourself voting as if the question before the people were whether the men who fought at Gettysburg, at Spottsylvania, at Cold Harbor were brave men? Of course they were. Congressman A. bears the scar of a wound received, I believe, at Antietam. All honor to him, and a pension, too, if you will; but to-day the question is whether the great toiling masses are to have their wants satisfied with a less amount of labor. To-day for to-day! That is the watchword of all reform. Let the dead past bury its dead, and let its holy memories be consecrated. But new times bring new measures, new responsibilities, and if the men of the past forget this and ask us to stand still with them, we have only to brush past them and leave them to their contemplations. The tariff question is but the form in which the old question comes to us which has always existed in every government on the face of the earth, the question whether the governing power shall be used for the benefit of rich and influential men or whether it shall b« used for the whole people. It is the classes against the masses. The tariff issue to-day is whether we shall have enrichment for the few or simple comfort for the many. It is “money against manhood;” it is whether every man, however poor or humble, shall have equal rights before the law; it is whether toil shall reap its full reward, or whether a portion of every man’s labor, every woman’s labor, shall be turned aside to swell the dividends or the bank accounts of men who have never felt the struggle for existence. It is a contest between justice and equality on the one hand and oppression and monopoly on the other. It is an issue between progress and oldfogyism. How so? In this way: The great cheapening process now going on in every department of Industry marks the progress of man in his contest for supremacy Over nature. New inventions have put into our hands the power to accomplish tenfold more in many lines than our fathers could. The result is that this labor-saving machinery has made everything cheaper. Nowhere is this gain more striking than in transportation, both on land and sea. Steam has enabled us to distribute the good things of life with less than a hundredth part of the labor and expense that we expended in that way when you were born. Cheap production, cheap transportation— those are the great achievements which the cunning of man has wrought out. The greater the cheapness the greater the progress. But I. say that the issue is one between this progress and old-fogy-ism. In this way ,thc leaders of the Republican party ate to-day trying to convince the American ' people that cheapness is not to be desired, that things can be too cheap. President Harrison, Maj. McKinley, J. C. Burrows, Cabot Lodge, and other leaders have entered upon the hopeless task of proving to us that it is best that we buy dear. I say hopeless, for they will be unable to persuade any large part of us to accept such nonsense. When we accept it the only reasonable thing left to us is to burn or break up all our labor-saving machinery, tear up our railroads, and sink our steam engines in the bottom of the sea.

As soon as these eminent gentlemen lay down the proposition that cheapness is not good, they at once set their faces against human progress and have become old-fo-gies. In resisting cheapness they set themselves against foreign trade, and are trying, in so far, to make our country what China was a half century ago, before she opened her ports to the great world. Great heavens! Have we come to this? This cheapness which the world has achieved is in a large part duo to more easy and rapid transportation, through which exchange of goods is facilitated; and exchange again is but one part in the process of making things cheaper. Men exchange one thing for another only because they value that other thing more than what they give to get it. Every schoolboy knows this when he swaps his first jack-knife. But the Republican party sets its face against foreign trade, or exchanges, while the only reason that such trade can exist is the fact that our own free American people—you and I among them—want certain foreign commodities. We decide that we can get those commodities with least labor by a swap, by what Mr. Blaine calls “friendly barter;” we want to make such a swap and set out to do so But here the Republican party steps in and says: “No, it cannot be done; labor more and get your goods at home.” And I stick to it that the Republican party is an old fogy! One word in conclusion. Do not be misled by plausible appeals to vote “for the general interests of the country. ” The question for you is, what are your interests? When every man has decided the question of protection in this way, and has cast his vote for the interests of himself and family, do you not see that the average interests of the country are arrived at when the votes are counted. But once let the protectionists befog the issue by specious talk about the “general interests of the country,” which are nearly always somebody vise’s interests, and where will you land? Will you not have to study every other man’s business in order tc find out what the “general interests of the country” are? But you are not capable—no man living is capable—of making such a study of the people’s interests. The most we can do is to study the tariff as it affects our own interests—not out of pure selfishness; but because in t’ais way alone can the “general interests of the country” be determined. The votes of all cast in that spirit will show what these general interests are. There is no other way to tell what those interests are. The only way to get tariff reform is to vote tariff reform; and I shall trust you to vote it as low aryou can get it, Yours truly, Richard Knox The country knows now why McKinley put the duties in tne tariff bill so high. He explains the matter himself when he says: “Cheap! I never liked the word!” Of course you did not, and hence the “McKinley prices.” A practical man says he is never troubled with “undefined longings;” it is clearly defined shortnesses which worry him.

THE STATE NEWS MILL.

ITS WEEKLY GRIST IS EXCEEDING FINE. Lives on Rats—Wrecked a Whlskillery— The Revolver as a V» oinan’s Toy—Sew Sterane Battery—A I lendlsh Ontrage— Killed by a Train—A Missing School Marin. —Madison has a stone pile for bums. —Darlington has chicken thieves. —Small-pox is prevalent at Birdseye. —Evansville is infested with thieves, j —New Richmond wants to ineorpor-1 ate. —Columbus has three unlicensed saloons. —Shelbyville wants a new Big Four depot. —More deaths at Frankfort from diphtheria. —Giddy Elkhart girls get full of bad “liker.” —Brazil miners want a ten cent advance. —Duck hunting’s immense in Knox County. —Samuel Drennon, at Muncie, dropped dead of heart disease. —John Dowd was found dead in his room at New’ Albany. —Peru’s abandoned gas well has developed into a gusher. —John Hamlet, a loony, tried to kill himself at Valparaiso. —The Michigan City Penitentiary is increasing in population. —“Father” Benton, of Huntington, claims to be 109 years old. —Daniel May had a desperate fight with a bulldog at Muncie. —Thomas Yale, committed suicide at Lafayete by taking poison. —A big batch of young criminals have been bagged at Shelbyville. —A disgraceful class fight occurred at the Greencastle University. —Richmond toughs throw rocks into the Salvation Army's camp. —Rev. Hastings was struck by a train at Laporte and fatally hurt. —A broken rail wrecked a C. &E. I. passenger train at Watseka. —Edward Byerly died suddenly of heart disease in South Bend. —John Tapp suicided by shooting, near Lodoga. Despondency. —J. R. Phillips’ big roller mill at Union burned. Loss $12,000. —A lamp exploded and set fire to a passenger coach at Columbus. —Alleged Graveyard Insurance Company at Elkhart is in hot water. —Constable Eckert’s home, near Sandford, was burned by indendaries. —George Swirrells jumped from a train at Elkhart. Ho was killed. —E. M. Stone, prominent farmer of Connorsville, was gored by a bull. —Ernest Brecker sat on the track at Judson and was killed by a train. —Joe Orr, Plymouth, stabbed Tom Ennis, who was trying to rob him. —Princeton’s again going for tin’ holo in the ground she calls a gas well. —James Galloway, of Wabash, has been fatally stricken with paralysis. —J. J. King, general store at Frankton, has assigned. Liabilities, $5,000. —Henry Ruch died of lock-jaw at Fort Wayne, from stepping on a rusty nail. —Prof. Geo. Slotts, of the Mitchell Normal College, is mysteriously missing. —James Stevenson lost three fingers in a brick-making machine at Montezuma. —A. J. Case, switchman, got caught in a frog at Fort Wayne, both legs cut off. ■ —J. D. Gleeson couldn't wait till the train stoppl'd at Greencastle and may die. —Crawfordsville young ladies will boycott young men who tamper with “red eye.” —Two men from Lima, Ohio, are going to start a handle factory at Waveland. Henry Ostrander, a horse-thief, was sent from Madison to the pen for two years. —Prisoners have knives in the Richmond jail. In a fight one stabbed another. —William Bowman retailed “red eye” to thirsty Kokomoans on Sunday. Fined $30.15. —Mark Farley, Sullivan, is something of a squirrel shooter. Killed 35 In one day. —Allen Traver’s 3-year-old son was kicked to death by a horse in Elkhart County. , —Hamilton Owens, of Seymour, was thrown from his wagon and injured fatally. —John Howell, who shot Frank Richey at Scottsburg, has been caught at Chicago. —Silas Bowers, young married man of Middletown, was killed at a railroad crossing. —The west-bound passenger train on the Clover-leaf Railroad was wrecked at Clarkshill. —Zaida David, a little daughter of Henry David, was fatally burned at Lafayette. —Hattie, Evans, Goshen, stepped on a rusty nail. ’Tis thought it may result in lockjaw. —George, Phipps, young married man at Bj ron, has gone insane. Religious excitement. —An advertising shark “done up” the business men of Laporte. He caught those b. m. who don’t advertise in their home papers. —John Tash, Kokomo, thought he was robbed of $l5O. He afterward found his roll in the organ where he had hidden it during a somnambulistic stroll. —Albertus Garrison while chopping wood in Morgan County, split his great toe and severed a.n artery. He walked an eighth of a mile to the house, and came near bleeding to death.

—All the prisoners In the Vincennes Jail escaped tUroqgV the dfy air closet —William Mansfield and son were dangeronsly injured- in a runaway near Brooksfield. —A thief stole Frank Hines' best clothes and Mrs. Hines’ gold watch, near Muncie. —George W. Savage's saw mill, in Daviess County, was burned by incendiaries. Loss, $1,200. —Smith Roberts, of Madison, killed• John Young in a fight on the steamer? General Pike. —Charles Wilson, of Delphi, blew his head off with a shot gun. Despondent from sickness. —Rev. Isaac Fisher, a Dunkard minister at Mexico, droppod dead while conducting services. —Mat Shick was buried at Hartford City. He was beaten to death by a Kankakee, tough. —Mrs. John Grimes, one of the oldest and best-known women of Miami County, died, aged 92 years. —Minnie Morse, Kokomo, slipped on a banana peel and fell, breaking her right leg above the knee. —J. J. Ring, a prominent merchant of Frankton, failed. Liabilities, $5,000; assets about the same. —Miss Doll Wilson, popular young school inarm of Dunlapsville, has mysteriously disappeared. —Dempsey & Larrigan, cigar manufacturers at Kokomo, have flown. Unpaid debts amount to S2OO. —.lames Dyke and Joe Masters were quail hunting at Brooklyn. Same old story. Masters may live. —Henry J. Ritter, who murdered his sister-in-law at New Albany, has been sentenced to prison for life. —Robt. Sherwood, a Terre Haute switchman, caught his foot in a frog and was run over. He will die. —The Central Iron and Steel Company, of Brazil, has advanced the wages of its furnace men 10 cents a day. —Cyrenus Johnson got a load of bird shot in his legs while hunting with his grandson near Tippecanoe. —St. Mary's River has spread itself at Fort Wayne and claimed for its own a SSOO lot belonging to Mrs. Elssing. —Burglars blew open the safe in Harry Vermillion’s saloon, at West Point, and partly wrecked the whlskillery itself. —Pat Haggarty, Marshal of Columbus, attempted to paint Edinburg scarlet. Ho was securely housed in the lockup. —Two blocks of business buildings including twelve business houses were burned at Leavenworth' Loss $125,000. —William Hoehsteller was tossed by a wild door in the private park of J. 11. Bass, of Fort Wayne, and badly injured. —David Rndicll, of Liberty Township, Wabash Coupty, extracted his corns with a knife and died of blood poisoning. —Mrs. M. W. Hamilton, of Greenfield, Injured internally in a runaway accident two months ago, has died of her injuries. —Banker Lon Boyd, of Cambridge City, was waylaid, covered With revolvers and searched. The bandits got nothing. —Rev. W. T. Cuppy, of Waveland, while gathering apples fell to the ground a distance of fifteen feet, lighting on his head. —.John Langet’s child, 1-year-old, tipped over its cradle. at Mt. Lebanon, fell into the lire and was burned to death. —Several eases of malignant dlpl, ■ theria and scarlet fever are. reported iu Staunton, Newberg, Carbon, and othot points. —A peculiar (psease has broken out among the swine of St. Joseph County. No man has yet been able to tell its nature. —R6v. )\lr. Mollit, who was assigned to the Waynetown circuit, has resigned because he was not well received by the people. —Bert Lawrence, a boy, has been bound over to court in the sum of S2OO, for stealing a pair of boots at New Market. —Tlu- Zeigler Manufacturing Company, off Buffalo, will remove to Marion, and employ 130 men in making patent scaffolds. —Peter Wagner, of Marshall, built & fire in his grate, forgetting that he had concealed $390 there. His money went up in smoke, —Mrs. William - MeKenzie, Terre Haute, ran a needle into her hand, breaking it off. It’s thought amputation will be necessary. —James Grantham, In leveling a sand hill In Carroll County, found Indian skeletons, a lot of pottery and implements of war. —Dr. B. Dunn, a former resident of Crawfordsville, and a graduate of the class of 1845, Wabash College, died on Thursday from heart failure, at ids home in Macomb, 111. —A Kokomo 9-vear-old while sliding down a stair balustrade, fell from the second story to the floor below, breaking his arm and cutt ng several gashes in his body and head. —Adam Hartman, of Noble County, was about to invent $2,500 in an ingenious form of the gold-brick swindle, when a friend of whom he tried to borrow sl,000, opened his eyes. —Mrs. Michael Zimmerman and her sister were wrestling for the possession ! of a revolver at their home, in New Albany. Mrs. Zimmerman has an ugly wound In her temple but will recover. —A passenger train on the Fort ] Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville line ■ ran into a tree near Rushville, which had blown across the track, and Charles Bussey was dangerously injured. —A. N. Grant, a prominent attorney, of Kokomo, has been placed under bonds of SI,OOO on complaint of Alvin Martin. Grant sold Martin land in Carroll County, and it was discovered that there was an incumbrance of SI,OOO upon it. Kokomo people wont believe that Grant was g I,f v of any wrong intentions.

EXPECT THEIR MESSIAH.

INDIANS WAITING FOR THEIR PROMISED DELIVERER. They Expect that All the Whites Will B« Killed and the Earth Given Over to ths Red Men—Sitting Hull Stirring Up Trouble Among the Sioux. [Washington dispatch.]Reports just received by the Interior Department from the Standing Rock Agency in North Dakota indicate that the “Indian millennium" craze is fast increasing. The greatest excitement oyer the matter exists among the Sitting Bull faction of the Sioux, and they promise that the millennium will come next spring when the grass begins tc grow, and that the white man will bo annihilated and the Indian restored tc his former power and prestige. Tills superstition, Agent James McLaughlin states, is derived from the more southern Sioux, and is no doubt the same craze that has been agitating the Shoshones in Wyoming and the Cheyennes and Arapahoes in the Indian Territory. Sitting Bull appears to be the high priest and leading apostle of this latest Indian absurdity, and he is the chief mischief-maker at the agency. Other Indians prominent in the matter are Circling Bear, Black Bird, and Circling Hawk, of the Standing Rock Agency; Spotted Elk, of the Cheyenne River Agency: and Crow Dog and Low Dog, of the Rosebud Agency. Sitting Bull’s influence as a disturbing element seems to have grown worse during the last year, and this is partly accounted for, the Agent Intimates, by the presence of a woman from Brooklyn, Mrs. C. Weldon, who vent to the agency In Juno, 1889, announcing herself as a member of Dr. T. A. Bland's society, the Indian Defense Association. She, with Dr. Bland, bitterly opposed the ratification of the sale of the surplus lands of the Sioux Reservation by the Indians, and that gave the Sioux Commissioners at the time a great deal of trouble. Mrs. Weldon, the Agent reports, bestowed numerous presents upon Sitting Bull; and after her departure she kept up w correspondence with him until last spring, when she again returned and located outside of the reservation and about twenty-five miles fiom the agency. Sitting Bull has been a frequent visitor to her home, and Is reported to have grown more Insolent and worthless every visit, Mrs. Weldon’s gifts enabling him to give frequent feasts to the Indians, thus perpetuating old customs and engrafting upon their superstitious nature tills additional absurdity of the “now Messiah" and tho “return of the ghosts.” Concerning the now craze of tho Indians. Agent McLaughlin, In a letter to Commissioner Morgan, says: They are told by some members of the Sioux tribo, who have lately developed into medicine men, that the Grout Hplrlt has promised them that tholr punishment by tho dominant race has been sufllclenL and that tholr numbers now having become so decimated, will be re-enforced by nil Indians that are dead; that, tho dead arc all returning to reinhabit tbl < earth, which belongs to the Indians; that they are driving back with them as they return Immense herds of buffalo and great herds of wild horses to bo had for tho catching; that the Great Spirit promises them lhat the white man will bo unable to make gunpowder In future, and every attempt at such will bo a failure, and that tho gunpowder now on hand will bo useless against Indians, as it will not throw a bullet with sufficient force to puss through the skin of an Indian; that tho Great Hplrlt had deserted tho Indians for a long period, but is now with them and against the whites, and will cover the earth with thirty feet of additional soil, well sodled and timbered, under which the whites will bo smothered, and any whites who may escape this great catastrophe will become ornill fishes In the livers of the country. Hut In order to bring about tills hoppy remit the Indians must do tholr part, and bo3ome believers and thoroughly organize. It would seem impossible that any person so matter hew Ignorant, could be brought to believe such absurd nonsense, but as a natter of fact a great many Indians of this agency actually believe It, and since this now doctrine has been engrafted hero from the southern Hloux agencies tho Infection has boon wonderful, and so pernicious that it now includes some of the Indians who were formerly numbered with the progressive and more intelligent, and many of our very best Indians appear dazed and undonlded when talking of it. t’.olr inherent mporstltions having been thoroughly arous id. Agent McLaughlin gives Sitting Bull a very bad reputation, Maying: Hitting Bull is a polygamist, libertine, habitual liar, active obstructionist, and it xroat obstacle in tho way of tho civilization of those people, and lie is so totally devoid of any of the nobler traits of character and so wedded to tho old Indian ways and superstitions that ft Is doubtful if any change for the bettor will ever coino to him it Ills present age of 5(1 years. He has been a disturbing element here sine.) his return from confinement as a military prisoner in the spring of 1883, but has been growing gradually worse the last year, which is partly to be accounted for by the presence of a lady from Brooklyn named Mrs. N. 0. Weldon, who camo In June. 1889, announcing herself as a member of Dr. Bland’s society, the Indian Defense Association, and opposed to the Indians ratifying tho act of March 21, 1889, demanding of me permission to pass through the Sioux Reservation to Cheyenne River Agency and to take Sitting Bull with her. The Sioux Commissioners being then engaged negotiating with the Indians at the southern Sioux agencies. I, as a matter of course, refused to permit her either to pass through the reservation or to allow Sitting Bull to accompany her, and compelled her to cross the Missouri River at this point and travel over the public roads outside of the Indian Reservation, in consequence of which sho was very hostile towards me, and wrote several letters to different parties in condemnation of my course of action. While here she bestowed numerous presents upon Sitting Bull, considerable being money, which had a demoralizing effect upon him, inflating him with his importance. Notwithstanding the prohibitory orders of the agent the “ghost dances” are frequently held and the excitement over the expected millennium is spreading. These dances are characterized by the agent as “demoralizing, indecent and disgusting,” and under their influence the Indians act in tho silly manner of men intoxicated. The officials of tho Indian Bureau here ook upon the situation as serious, Personal Notos. Mr. Cleveland, during his visit to Washington last week, entertained at dinner J ustiee Lamar and Thomas J. Semmes. Daniel Oyster has been nominated for Congress in Pennsylvania, but he ! should not be discouraged. It is at least i better than being a claim. 1 Senator Morrill of Vermont is the third man who lias been elected for a fifth term in the United States Senate. i The other two wore Benton of Missouri. ’ and Anthony of Rhode Islaiqi.