Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1890 — Page 3

A TARIFF TRICK.

AN IMPORTANT DECISION ON THE NEW TARIFF LAW. The Enormous Increase of Doty on Knit Goods, and How It Was Secured —The Hoard of Appraisers Completes the Job —A Good Chance to Pay Hlyh Prices. The longer the McKinley tariff law gets in its work the more clearly the tricks in it come to be seen and understood. One of these tricks has recently been uncovered by a decision of the Board of Appraisers. The effect of this trick is to impose a still higher duty on knitted wool underwear and hosiery than the bill seemed on its face to demand. It will be remembered that under the old law these goods came under the paragraph which fixed duties on “flannels, blankets, hats of wool, knit goods, and all goods made on knitting frames, balmorals,” etc. The duty imposed in this paragraph on all knit underwear and hosiery, if “valued at above 40 cents per pound, ”is fixed at figures ranging from 18 cents a pound and 35 per cent, ad valorem to 35 cents a pound and 40 per cent, ad valorem. In the McKinley law, however, the word “fabrics” is substituted for “goods” in the old law, the law now reading “knit fabrics, and all fabrics made on knitting machines or frames.” McKinley fixes the duty on such “fabrics” valued at abovo 40 cents per pound at 44 cents a pound and 50 per cent, ad valorem. The old duty was itself so oppressive thats imported goods costing 830 a dozen had to be sold in New York at 873 a dozen. This, however, did not appear to be enough protection for the domestic manufacturers. But these men were not satisfied, and so they struck for higher protection. The hey-day of protection then came in with McKinley and Reed, and was taken by the manufacturers as an invitation to mako more extravagant demands than they had ever made before. Those demands were made and wore promptly and fully honored by the high tariff party; hut, in honoring those demands, much more was given to the manufacturers than at first appeared. There was a trick in that word “fabrics” which has never been laid open to public view, and which, it is said, was carefully planned beforehand. It seems now that the manufacturers never intended to be satisfied with the largely increased duty of 44 cents per pound and 50 per cent, ad valorem. It was intended from the first that the word “fabrics” in this paragraph should not apply to knitted underwear and hosiery, although theee had been dutiable under this paragraph in the old law. There is another paragraph in the bill which covers “wearing apparel. ” In the old law this read “wearing apparel, except knit goods;” in the new law these Words, “except knit goods*” were quietly left out, and the way was thus prepared for the decision of tho appraisers that knitted underwear and hosiery should be taxed under this paragraph. The effect of this decision is to placo an enormously higher duty on the kind Of goods here referred to. The duty is raised to 49% cents a pound and 00 per cent, ad valorem. A high tariff paper, the Boston Commercial Bulletin, justly calls this “a terrific increase in rate ” The steps by which this increase in duty was reached may be seen by the following: ■ ts. $ e. (18 and 35 tinder the old law. three gradesand 35 (35 and 40 Apparent duty under new law 44 and 50 Beal duty by new decision 49 and 60 This decision was reached after some of the domestic manufacturers had directed the attention of the appraisers to the language of the two paragraphs. A letter from Senator Aldrich, the leador of the high tariff party in the Senate, was produced, in which the Senator said that it was the intention of the makers of the tariff to tax knit goods as wearing apparel under the higher rate of duty. This was of course done; and the people will now have to pay an enormous duty on all knitted underwear and hosiery made of wool. Is this one of the provisions of tho tariff law which, as the protectionists assuro us, the people will like the longer they pay it and the better they come to know it? They are taking consolation to themselves for thejr crushing defeat on Nov. 4 by saying that the new law had not been in effect long enough for the people to understand what a good good law it is, and that by 1893 tho people will see the good features in it which they failed to appreciate in 1890. The blindness and folly of these tariff makers passes belief. They do not sec that the longer the people pay these duties the leas they will like them. The people said on Nov. 4 with unexampled emphasis that they prefer cheapness rather than dearness; and there is not the slightest probability that they will change their minds on that subject by 1893—nor, for that matter, by 1993. “McKinley prices" are doomed.

Wasting the People’s Money.

Pbr years a system of taxes, originally imposed for the purpose of defraying the extraordinary expenses of a great war. and which in the first instance would never have been tolerated for any other purpose, has been continued. The result has been that a large amount of money, desirable for the wants of trade, has been withdrawn from circulation and locked up in the United Istates Treasury; and for some years past there has been no way of releasing it for public uses, except by buying bonds and so reducing our public debt On its face this seems all right, although there is no good reason why the present generation should have the whole burden of our national debt imposed upon its shoulders, and future generations, who will, in point of numbers and wealth, be better able to pay it, should be totally exempted. It does not, moreover, seem a good business policy to take money by taxation from the people worth, say, eight or-ten per cent, to them to keep, for the sake of paying off bonds drawing only four per cent, interest. But bo this as it may, there have not been for some years any bonds that the Secretary of the Treasury could call, to prfy or redeem, at his pleasure, boeanso there have been none due. And so the only way he has been able to obtain any bonds for redemption has been by offering to their owners a premium or bounty in addition to their lawful principal and accrued interest to come forward aud surrender them. Plain people, who do not keep the run of financial affairs, and who do not note how large the premium is getting to be, may be somewhat surprised to learn, that in September 1890, tha Secretary of the Treasury paid a bounty of over 26 per cent on more than 94,000,000 for the privilege of paying 916,000,000 of 4 per cent bonds, not due

until well Into the next Miitrjy, And the community approved ot this procedure, because it believed that by so doing a disastious money panic was averted. And the same plajn people may be more surprised to further learn that, as the result of this same policy, namely, of taxing the people to take from them high-priced money, and then paying a high price to get rid of it to the bondholders, the amount of money which the United States Treasury within the last three years has presented to the bondholders, whom public opinion has been accustomed to regard as having been already sufficiently favored bv exemptions from taxation and otherwise, has been in excess of fifty-one millions of dollars, necessitating fifty millions of unnecessary days’ work, which the present generation of American people have had to perform during the same period. Does it not become these same people to seriously' ask themselves how such a policy of taxation harmonizes with the idea of intelligent government—of government for the protection of industry and promotion of the interests of the whole people? How does such a policy promote the interests of the American farmers, whose farms are reported to be shingled all over with mortgages, and who, by a policy of high and unnecessary taxation, have to sell in tho cheapest market and buy in the dearest?

TARIFF LETTERS TO FARMER BROWN.

N@. 8. The Election and the Outlook for Tariff Reform. Dear Farmer Brown —Since my last letter was written the people of tho United States have rejected McKinleyism und “McKinley prices” with an emphasis that leaves no doubt as to what they think of either. Never have tho people of this country visited so' swift and unmistakable a condemnation upon any measure on which they were asked to pass judgment. The Republican leaders fancied that they received in 1888 a commission from the American people to impose higher tariff taxes than the country lias ever had, and they went forward to this work of raising duties with a confidence by no means justified by their slender majority. Confident that they had passed a tariff bill that would receive tho applause of tho people they put it into effect with unparalleled haste, fancying that tho people would see what McKinley calls its “beneficence” and approve tho bill by their votes. Their mistake must now be evident to the blindest among them. In the numerous explanations that the Republicans are now making of their defeat, there is abundanco of confessions that it was the McKidley tariff bill that brought disaster upon their party. Thisisopehly acknowledged by leading Republicans in Massachusetts, whore tho tariff was practically the only issue before tho people. The St. Louis GlobeDemocrat, which is one of the foremost Republican organs of the country, makes this confession: “It was through the tariff law that most of the damage was inflicted on tho Republicans. There was no excuse for any increase In duties on any article. Every advance of this sort w hich was made weakened tho party, hampered the labors of its advocates and champions, and placed the organization on the defensive from the beginning of the canvass.” What, then, is tho outcome of the election as bearing on tariff reform? It can be Dredicted with confidence that on March 4, 1893, a Democratic President will be placed in tho White House, and a Democratic Senate and House of Representatives in the Capitol. President and Congress will be distinctly and unequivocally pledged to a reform of the tariff in tho interests of tho great army of consumers. President and Congress alike will be thoroughly committed to the broad principle that the people should bo compelled to pay no takes except such as go into the treasury. They will hold to the doctrine that to tax the many for tho benefit of the few is simply robbery, and is an outrageous abuse of the powers of government. As the political field looks to-day nothing can prevent the election of a President who holds such views. It is almost equally certain that at the same time the Senate of the United States will pass under the control of the Democrats, and that tho Democratic Senators will thoroughly support the Democratic House of Represenatives in a radical reduction of the tariff. But you may ask, Are we to have the McKinley bill and McKinley prices till 1893? The Congress just elected will meet on the first Monday in December next year. That Congress cannot make a thorough revision of the tariff, as the Senate and President will still be Republican. But there will be tariff legislalation—of that you may be sure. The policy of the Democratic House will most probably be that outlined by Senator Vest, of Missouri. He says: “The Democratic party should proceed deliberately and cautiously to attack the outrageous taxation of the McKinley bill by the enactment by the next House of special bills. These bills should be sent to the Senate, and let the Republicans there take the responsibility of defeating them if they dare. Let the House put salt, lumber, and other articles on the free list by special bills, and then let the Republican Senate wrestle with them.” There will doubtless be a series of these bills in the direction of fiee raw materials and lower duties on tho necessaries of life. These can without doubt pass the Senate, as Senators Plumb, Paddock and Pettigrew will certainly be strengthened in their low-tariff views by the result of th# elections. Other Republican Senators who voted for the McKinley bill under pressure will perhaps fall in line and vote to please their constituencies. Republican journals themselves pointed out before the elections that tho elections might make tariff reformers out of some of the Republican Senators. The Cleveland (Ohio) Leader, one of the most uncompromising high tariff organs in the country, said during the recent campaign: “United States Senators are not indifferent to what they deem changes of national sentiment. They do not wait to be voted out of office before yielding to tho desires of their constituents. What if the elections this fall should seem to show that the MfiKlnley law is not what the country wants? How long would the Senate stand its ground, especially when some of the Republican members were very weak-kneed on the tariff question before the last session ejided?” There will be some bills, then, for tariff reduction. If the President should be so bold as to veto those his course would only anger the taxpayers and intensify their demand for tariff reform, and their demand wuld find emphatic expression fat ICS.

DAVID A. WELLS

Furthermore" when the Democrat* have taken full control of ’.he Government and have carried out tnejr ideas of tariff reform, we shall have a tariff far lower than the Mills bill offered us in 1883. Mr. Mills himself has just said, ia view of the great tariff reform victoryi “We must not dally with half-way measures; we must open every market for all our products.” Meanwhile the work for tariff reform will go on without interruption. The forces which were influential in bringing about the victory of Nov. 4 will be kept in activity without ceasing for one day. The most energetic organization engaged in the tariff fight is the Reform Club of New York. This club has attracted to it many of the tariff reform leaders all over the country. Organized in January, 1888, it took an active part in the election of that year. It has kept up the fight continuously since then; in the campaign just closed its efforts were redoubled, and its blows were delivered with telling effect. It has conducted joint debates on the tariff throughout New York State, and it has sowed tariff-reform documents all over the West. It has supplied hundreds of newspapers with tariff-reform matter, and this work will go right on Just as during the campaign. In fact, the club, is now fighting already the great Presidential battle of 1893. The work of educating public opinion to intelligent views on tho tariff question will be pushed in every possible way. The ground gained on November 4 is to be held. There is to be no retreat. The victories of the past are to bo an inspiration to greater ones in tho future. So, then, there is hope for a relief from tariff burdens. The horizon is bright with the promise of dawn. The work will go forward more easily now. On November 4 we reached the top of the long, long hill; now we start down on the other side. When we reach tho bottom all unjust burdens of taxation shall be removed. Yours truly,

Republicans on Cheapness.

Now that the elections are over and “McKinley prices” are becoming higher, and tho Democratic newspapers have no motive in the world to continue their “conspiracy to put up prices,” it would be well for Republican voters to remember their party doctrine on the subject of cheapness. The following extracts from the utterances of leaders of the G. O. P. are worth preserving by those innocent people who fancy that the tariff is not a tax, and when they are made to pay “McKinley prices” they should turn to these words of wisdom to strengthen their faith in the “American system of protection. ” Here are some of the choicest gems of wisdom that we owe to our high-tariff statesmen: I cannot find myself in full sympathy with this demand for cheaper coats, which seems to me necessarily to involve a cheaper man and woman under the coats. — Benjamin Harrison, in an address at Chicago in 1888. We want no return to cheap times in our own country. * * * Where merchandise is cheapest men are poorest— Hon. William McKinley, Jr., in House of Representatives, Mag 7, 1890. Into this contest tor cheapness the Republican party docs not propose to enter.— Hon. Julius C. Burrows, in House of Representatives, May 8, 1890. The cry for cheapness is un-American. —Henry Cabot Lodge, at Lowell, Oct. 13, 1890. The curse of cheapness! The vulture loves his carrion not more than the freetrader longs for cheapness.— Bulletin of the Protective Tariff League, Oct 17,1890. The attainment of cheapness of commodities is not the best purpose of the protective system.— The Manufacturer, organ of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Club, Oct. 10,1890. Cheapness is the fetich o! the Englishman. Let us then have done with this cheapness and with its advocacy.— Henry Carey Baird, in Philadelphia, Oct. 16, 1890. Cheap! I never liked tho word. “Cheap” and “nasty" go together. This whole system of cheap things Is a badge of poverty, for cheap merchandise means cheap men, and cheap men mean a cheap country, and that is not the kind our fathers builded. Furthermore, it is not the kind their sons mean to maintain. — William McKinley, Jr., at Kalamazoo, Oct. 14, 1890. “These bo your gods, O Israel!”

Increasing the Consumption.

How the cheapening of commodities increases the demand for them is shown by David A. Wells, In his “Recent Economic Changes,” by pointing to the lowering of tho price of tea in Great Britain, caused by lowering the duty. In 1853 the duty on tea was 3s 3%d (about 59 cents) per pound, and it has been gradually reduced to (id (12 cents). In 1851 the English people consumed 58,000,000 pounds of tea, or slightly less than two pounds per head of the population; in 1886 the consumption was 183,000.000 pounds, or’ five pounds per head. The lowering of the duty had brought down the price, and had put tea within tho reach of people who could not previously afford it; in this way the quantity used was greatly enlarged. Mr. Weils points out another case which shows how tho removal of a tariff tax cheapens and increases the demand for it. In 1883 wo removed tho trifling tax of 1 cent per hundred on matches. This is reported to have reduced the price about one-half, and to have increased the consumption to the extent of nearly one-third. Senator Evarts once ridiculed the Democrats for objecting to a certain tariff tax by saying it was “only a 3-cent joke.” The cases just cited show that when these “3-cent jokes” are removed or abolished, the people get the advantage of cheaper prices and larger consumption. A tariff tax is a good thing— to abolish.

McKinley Did It.

Last spring when Maj. McKinley and his associates were in their high carnival of tariff making the New York Dry Goods Economist, which is a protection paper, said: “Not all the Cobden Clubs in Great Britain, backed by all the British gold alleged to have been spent in America by the Cofylenites, ever did onehalf as much to spread free trade ideas In this country as has been accomplished In three months by tho Hon. W. J. McKinley and his associates.” The outcome of the elections confirms these words and makes them read now almost like a prophecy. The artist always loses in the world. Society is a crucible in which gold melts, —From “Ariadne ”

RICHARD KNOX.

NEWSOFOUR OWN STATE

WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN INDIANA THE PAST WEEK. Killed While Hunting—Munclo to Have a Mew Opera House—Fired Buckshot Into a Toll-liouso—A Mew Hank—Scarlet Fever Epidemic at Bedford. —Marion is to have a new iron-mill. —Muneie is to have a new opera-house to cost 840,000. —Mason N. Haile died of heart disease at Brookville. —Chas. Love, of Osgood, fell from a fence and broke his leg. —Two toughs had a prize fight at Fort Wayne, and one had a linger broken. —Five persons died suddenly of heart disease in Orange County in one week. —Tho prowing wheat is said to be looking better this season than evor before. —diaries Flack, of Shawnetown, 111,, was killed at Evansville by falling down stairs. —William Harris, a brakeman on the Lake Shore Road, w’as killed by the cars at Goshen, —George Evers, a pioneer of Elkhart County, aged 75 years, died at his homo near Bristol. —George Taylor, while hunting near Tipton, was seriously injured by tho explosion of a gun. —Several children were injured in a panic in a school houso at Muneie, duo to an alarm of fire. —E. B. Ramsey, of Burkett, section foreman of the Nicklo Plate, was badly mangled by a train. —Samuel M. Archer, a banker widely kaown throughout tho State, died at his homo in Evansville. —Henry Lovely was caught by falling slate In the Buckeye mine, at Cannelburg, and crippled for life. —Daniel Rombcrger has sued Dr. L. J. Wlllen, of Terre Haute, for 810,000 damages, for alleged malpractice. —Will Currie, an Osgood barber, accidently shot himself In the side while hunting. Ills injuries arc not fatal. —A new M. E. Church will be dedicated at Fairmount on December 1. Tho building is under course of construction now. —Miss Kate Yunker, of Mount Vernon, took a snap shot at a burglar enterifig the house, and got the end of his nose. —Near Fort Wayne Miss Ida Snyder was shot and killed by Albert Short, a discarded suitor, who then committed suicide. —Frank Shunk died of lockjaw at New Albany, lie ran a nail into his foot some weeks ago, but tho wound had healed up. —At the home of Lafayette Elliot, six miles east of Columbus, John M. Gould, aged 34 years, died of heart disease while asleep. —Messrs Loekrldgo, of Grcencastle, sold to a New York firm for export, a bunch of cattle weighing an average of 1,700 pounds. 11. H. Alfrey & Co., of Terre Haute, will establish a heading factory at Grooncastle, that will give employment to seventy-five hands. —James Ilryee, the little son of Sheriff Alexander Bryce, of Owen County, injured by a train at Spencer, died of his wounds. —John Rorck, a blacksmith at Jeffersonville, has fallen heir to 850,000, left by an uncle in Germany, of whoso existence he was unaware. —A freight train on the Panhandle was wrecked four miles east of Richmond. Fifteen cars were smashed and the track was torn up for 100 feet. —The heirs of Horace M. Wright, of Fort Wayne, were awarded a judgment for 84,000 against Allen County. Wright was killed by the breaking of a bridge in that county. —lndiana’s quails are in small danger of being annihilated, hut at the rate the reports of hunting accidents are coming in the race of Nimrods is likely to be exterminated. —Two fire-engines collided at a street i corner in Evansville. Fireman Conners was injured, the horses were badly crippled and the engines considerably smashed up. —William Maucltamer, a farmer living south of Anderson, was kicked in the forqhead by a vicious horse and death ensued in a short time. Ills skull was horribly crushed. —Mrs. Miller, of Moore’s Hill, who last summer charged the management of the Central Insane Asylum with cruelty, has been again arrested and will be returned to the Institution. —Congressman Brookshire announces that there will be a competitive examination for appointment to West Point some time in December, to be held either at Terre Haute or Crawfordsville. —ln Union Township, Adams Courfty, John G. Sheets was stricken with paralysis while shingling a barn. His fel-low-workman nailed his clothing to the roof while he went for assistance. —Suit has been entered in the Montgomery Circuit Court against the 1.,8t.L. & K. C. Railroad to recover the value of the hide of a cow that was killed by the cars, and whose hide was secured by the station agent. —At Mitchell, Miss Mary Eubanks died from the effects of blows administered by a drunken brother. —Frank Robertson, aged 19, committed suicide by shooting himself, at his home, near Westville. Dissipation had caused despondency. —A child of Rev. H. P. Corey, the Presbyterian minister of Greencastlc, was playing around some burning leaves, when his dress caught fire, burning ofid side of his body to a blister. The injury is regarded as serious, though not fatal.

—A new bank was organized at Elizabethtown, Bartholomew County. It is to be known as tho Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank. Edward Springer will be president. —Burglars, made a raid on the grocery establishment of A. 11. Benham, of Wabash. Smoked meats, a number of small articles and money of an aggregate value of 830 were taken. No clew. —The Advent Christian Church at Jeffersonville, was imposed upon by a clerical fraud from Topeka, advertising himself as Elder J. J. Austin, who obtained the pulpit of tho church by means of forged credentials. —The Bedford Board of Health has ordered tho School Board to close tho public schools indefinitely on account of tho scarlet fever. Two deaths have occurred and several other cases are reported. Henry Ilooten, aged 85 years, and one of the early settlers of Morgan County, was almost totally paralyzed, at tho home of his daughter, Mrs. Alexander Stewart. Owing to his extreme ago ho cannot recover. —John Lobdeff who,, for over fifty years, has been a resident of Wabash County, died at his homo near Lafontarne, aged 81 years, of Bright’s disease. He was considered one of the most prominent farmors of the county, —For thirty years Hendricks county has had no saloon within Its borders. Last week a notice of an application for license was published, and the citizens are fully aroused to defeat the effort. An indignation meeting was called, when active steps wore taken to defeat tho project. —Miss Lain a Bums, of Martinsville, has probably the longest hair of any woman in this country. It is over seven feet long, very heavy and of a light brown color. Tho lady Is five feet three inches In height and when standing erect her hair falls to the floor and forms a trail nearly two feet in length. —The third annual convention of tho Indiana Christian Endeavor Union, held at Evansville, elected tho following officers: W. J. Lewis, of Evansville, president; Rev. A. C. Hathaway, of Richmond, vice president, and Miss Bottle M. Wishard, of Indianapolis, secretary and treasurer. Kokomo was selocted for tho next place of meeting. —William Osborne, aged (59 years, while walking westward on the dinkey track at Jeffersonville, was struck by a train near the J., M. & I. bridge fill, and instantly killed. The trainmen were unable to stop tho engine after discovering that Osborne failed to hood tho signal. Okborne resided w.'tli his son, Finley P. Osborne, at Ohio Falls. —While hunting near his home, three miles from New Albany, Charles Edwards, aged 10 years, was shot in the arm by tho discharge of one barrel of his aim while ho wi * loading the other. Tho flesh was almost entirely torn from the member between the hand and elbow, and fears are entertained that his Injury will prove fatal, as lock-jaw may supervene. —A. R. Brattin has brought suit at Greencastlc against the Westchester Fire Insurance Company to compel the payment of the insurance due on his property, which was destroyed by lire last August. Mr. Brattin’s tenant had vacated the dwelling temporarily, but did not remove his household goods, and the company contend that the policy was thus forfeited. Tho house was Insured for 83,8(>o. —Hon. William D. Robinson, the founder of tho Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, who has booh 111 for several months, died at Ills home at Washington of cancer of the stomach. He was sixty years df age. Engineer Itoblnson was one of the oldest railroad men In the United States. He run one of |hu first through trains between Cincinnati and St. Louis on the ()hlo& Mississippi, ond was in tho employment of this company for thirty years. —ls no bad luck befalls the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Lou Bennett, of Anderson, he will no doubt become a rival of Ilauson E. Craig, the Danville fat man. Thu youngster Is now live months old, and on account of Ills phenomenal growth Is the wonder of all the women of Anderson. He now weighs eigiity pounds. When born he was an average baby and weighed about ten pounds. He has been gaining since his birtli on an average twelve pounds per month. The baby is in excellent health and Is perfect In every respect. —The Board of Trustees of tho Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument met at Indianapolis, General Tom Bennett, of Richmond; General M. D. Mansou, of Crawforsville, and George W. Langsdale, of Greencastlc, being present. The Board heard excuses from tho Terre Haute Stone Company for failure to furnish material in such quantities as should have enabled tho Commission to complete the monument by the first of this month. It was promised that there should be no further delays in the matter of furnishing stone. It is now stated that the monument will be ready for unveiling next August. The last of the heavy stone, weighing six tons, has been laid. The work from this time on will be lighter, and the people of Indiana will be pleased to learn that there are to be no more exasperating delays. —The grocery store of David Lee, at Crawfordsville, was entered by thieves the other night and a few articles and some pennies secured. This makes almost a dozen times this store has been robbed In the past few years. —George C. Crowell, one of the wealthy men of PeYii, was thrown from a buggy, while suffering from heart trouble, receiving a fraetutHd skull and other injuries from which death will result. ' He Is aged 73, and was one of the firsit merchants In Miami county.

PARNELL A RUINED MAN

AN ENGLISH JURY DECIDES AGAINST HIM. The Grut Leader of the Irish Farty Found GuUljr ot Debauching the ffle of His Friend, Cupt. O'Sliea—lt Ie Thought that He Will Be Forced to Retire from the Leadership of His Forty. [London cablegram.] The great suit In which Capt. Q'Bhea. sxnieniher of Parliament, asked for & divorce front his wife, naming as the co-respondent Charlos Stewart Parnell, the Irish leader. Is ended, and Mr. Parnell Is disgraced forevor. Capt. O'Shea has won his verdict against Parnell almost entirely on the testimony of the servants whom Parnell was In the habit of tipping liberally. Those witnesses rattled off their recollections of names and dates so glibly that one jury in 11* offered a feeble protest and said that he would like to hear them'cross-examined before he could determine whether or not O’Shea connived at the adultery of bis wife. Justice Butt answered that however desirable that thU might be It was not possible because there was no ono In court with power to cr >ssexaiulne for Parnell or Mrs. O’Shea. The result was the jury not only declared Parnell guilty of adultery with Mrs. O'Shea, but acquitted Capt. O’Shea of connivance at his wife's dishonor. In summing up. Justice Butt said that the jury wus placed In some difficulty by reason of the appearance ts only one sldo. Neither respondent nor co-respondent had thought tit to appear. The flrst question the Jury hud to consider was whether Mra. O'Shea •fid Parnell had been guilty of adultery. Upon that question there was a great mass of evldenco which he did not think necessary to cull attention to In detail, because unless they were prepared for some reason or another to say that almost every one of the witnesses called had been telling false stories there could be no doubt of adultery. In fact th> evidence was so strong he did not propose to occupy the tlnw of the jury in any further observations upon It. The question of condonation and connivance (the words meant pretty much the same thing) would, however, prevent the granting of the decroe If such charges were established. The petitioner had sworn on his oath there was not the slightest pretense for tho charges. There was no evidence to tho contrary. It was a serious responsibility for the Jury to take upon themselves to disbelieve uncontradicted evidence unless there wus some very strong reason for assuming that the petitioner was guilty of perjury. He could not help thinking that tho matter did not rest upon the evidence of Capt. O’Shea himself. There wus a masa of documentary evldenco which showed that tho petitioner wus not guilty of being accessory to his wife's adultery. Why should Purnell have assumed names of Pox, Preston, Stanhope und a number of others? Furthermore, when tho husband came to the door of ono of the houses ut Brighton, why did Purnell, who was with Mrs. O'Shea, escape by way of the window uud then coma round to the door n 4 if nothing hud happened? There was un absolute answer In favor of Capt. O'Shea. On the question of connlvanco ho would (mint out to the jury that If the husband had been really an accessory, Purnell, notwithstanding his adultery, could stand In a better position. It wus Immoral, Improper, und reprehensible to Indulge in too great Intimacy with a married woiimn, whether the husbund wus a party to It or not, but the man would not he quite so guilty if tho husband were to give him opportunities to debauch his wife. To bring such charges against ('nptuln O’Shea were simply shocking. He would ask the Jury to find (hat adultery had been committed and to decide whether there had been any connivance of adultery on the part of the husband. The jurymen did not leave their goats. Without a moment's delay tho foreman declared they were agreed. “l>o you And tho respondent guilty of adultery with tho co-respondeut? n he was aski d. “Vos.” “Do you And the co-respondent guilty of adultery with the respondent?” “Yos.” “I)o you find there was any connivance on the part of the husbund?” Huvorai of the Jurymen vigorously exclaimed “No!” There was slight upplause In court. Cupt. O'Shea smiled triumphantly, und Clarke wus ut once on Ills legs to ask about the custody of the children und tho c< sts. Lockwood suggested that the Judge should reserve bis decision us to tho custody of the younger children. McCall asked for Mrs. Bteelo's%osts. Justice Butt made an order for costs against Purnell und roservod hi* decision with respect to the respondent until It hud been ascertained whether the wlfo had a separate estate. The Judge also roserved his decision as to the custody ot tho children, although saying ordinarily they would be intrusted t j the father. Decree of nisi was then pronounced. The excited people In court hurried out to tell and talk about the verdict. 80 ou(Jed the celebrated case. Many strong bollevers In Parnell clung to the hope to tho very last that he would coiue forward und deny O'Shea’s charge, but If the woman In such a case refuses to make any contradiction, what can tho man do but follow suit? Thu truth Is that Mrs. O’Shea has made up her mind a marriage sliull follow the divorce suit after the usual interVul. That being so, Parnell could not venture Into court to deny anything. But his complete surrender has been a terrible shock to the stricter sect of the Uladstonlan party, especially to the vetieruble leader, who has no toleration for offenses of this description. Parnell may resolve not to give up, but circumstances will be too strong for him. The Invasion of O'Shea's home under the disguise of friendship, tho son’s protest, the long course of deception, the masquerading In the name* of Smith, Fox, and Preston are calculated to Injuru a man occupying a foremost position. No political leader In England ever survived such an exposure. It wl.l be just as impossible in the 1 mg run for Parnell to lead his party In Parliament as ft was for Sir Charles Dllke to pursue his public career. Attention, therefore, is centered on the question: “Who will succeed Parnell?” Bo far as I can judge there is a strong feeling In favor of Dillob, a man of blameless character, of great parliamentary skill, a brilliant speaker, a devoted and zealous friend of Ireland. Every man who has been brought Into personal contact with him is as much impressed by his earnestness and sincerity us by Ills abilities. William O'Brien is also mentioned, but he lacks the coolness and self-com-mand requisite for the difficult work to be done In Parliament, The Irish party generally will fora time stoutly deny that any change Is pending, but It must come. Gladstone will not go on with an ally stained with the dirt of a divorce court. Dillon would bring renewed energy Into the Irish campaign and arouse fresh enthusiasm. The linger of destiny points to him as the coming man. It ts reported that the followers of Parnell do not desire hint to retire, unless of his own volition. In which event the leadership of the Irish party will be vested ln*a commission of which Mr. Justin McCarthy wilt ba President.

Personals.

Ex-President Cleveland has promised to attend another political banquet at Springfield, Ohio, early in February. Willie Schaeffer, a Cincinnati boy, is 7 years old and tips the beam at 196 pounds. His brother Robert is 14 and weighs 230 pounds. \ Capt. J. M. Holmes, of Mystic, Conn., Captain and principal owner of the ship Charmer, has rounded Cape Horn in his vessel sixty-one times and has just started on his sixty-second voy* age.