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THE REPUBLICAN.

Published by S. MONTGOMERY.

GREENFIELD INDIANA

A Moral View.

The •Table Talk" man of the N. T. Mercury thus moralizes oir life and. life's useless destruction:

Where does life reside? Take a microscope and fancy that you examine the circulation of blood of a human being as in an animal prepared by a mcdical expert, and you will perceive that the red tide is composed of innumerable cells which whirl around, each distinct from the other. This spirality is a beautiful sight. In these cells reside animal life. You will perceive, also, networks of small white ttireads if you examine the body of a human being without the aid of a microscope. These arc the nerves which bold, the unseen fluid, the circulation of which is co-existent and co-extensive with the circulation of the blood. In these nerves reside the spiritual life. Who gave man power to destroy these two lives save in obedience to the eternal law of individual self-defense? Yet here is but the record of one century of war and the fatal results and expenses, illustrating the inherent savagery of mat Wars between England and Franco, Russia and Turkey, Spain and Portugal,Franco and Algeria, civil strife in Europe, Crimean, war, Franco-Austral war, American civil war, Austro-Frussian war. France and Mexico. Brazil and Paraguay, FrancoGerman war, Itusso-Turkish war. Total loss of life, over 4.013,000. and the total cost over 2,GOG,000,000 pound? sterling. When it is cousiderod that war settles no principle that cannot be better settled by human charity, conciliation and justice, none can sav that the world does not need inure evangelists to civilize and christianize.

The Great Northwest.

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Holders of second-class tickets to North Pacific Coast points, via Northern Pa eific Railroad, are allowed the privilege Df stopping over at Spokane, WashingUrn, and points west thereof, for the purpose of examining all sections of this magnificent State before locating. Northern Pacific through express trains carry free colonists sleeping cars from St. Paul and Pullman tourist sleepers from Chicago (via Wisconsin Central Line) to

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The elegant equipment on the Northern Pacific Railroad the dining car service the through first-class sleeping cars from Chicago (via both Wisconsin Central Line and C. M. & St. P. Ry.,) to Pacific Coast, and the most magnificent scenery of seven States, are among the advantages and attractions offered tQ travelers by this line.

The "Wonderland" book issued by the Northern Pacific Railroad describee the country between tbe Great Lakes and Pacific Ocean, with maps and illustrations.

For any of the above publications, and rates, maps, time tables, write to any General or District Passenger Agent, or Chas. B. Fee, G. P. & T. A., N. P. R. R., St. •*ul. Minn. 45tf

Sobriety of Conductors.

Railroad conductors dissipate vory little nowadays. Tho in an who drinks even when off duty is not the proper party to intrust with »ho live3 of a great number of people. It i3 a rara tiling to sec. one of them in a bar room, says the ILichinond Ind., Palladium, and if seen Vucrc he doe.-3 not tarry I Jong. "A man will often hesitate before doing a wrong which svill send hiifl to the penitentiary when ho a wife and childrcii at home to after and care for." remarked a road cuperintendent recently. led him to say that the fatigues long run made the conductors anxious lor the pe ico and quiet of home, and when they have one they can nearly always be found at It.

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TOPICS Of THESE TIMES.

A GROUNDLESS CLAIM.

Indianapolis Journal. The Sentinel is trvincf to manufacture popular opinion against the gerrymander suit by claiming that, if the apporfcioumftnVacts of 1881 and 1.885 are held unconstitutional, it wiii invalidate all the acts of the two Legislatures elected under them. The Journal showed that there is nothing whatever in this claim, because the persoiis thus elected were de fac.tp memoers of the Legislature, and it is well settled law £hat the ofliclal acts of de facto.public oSicers are valid and binding. To this the Sentinel replies that, as the offices of State Senators and Representative are created by the apportionment act, they will cease to exist if that act is set aside, and there cannot be a de facto incumbent of an office that does not exist. In support of this position it quotes from a decision of the United States Supreme Court, in the case of Norton vs Shelby, 118 U. S., 425. to the effect that there can be no such thing as a de facto officer except where.the office which he claims to fill legally exists in other words, there cannot be a de facto official without a de jure ofoffice. That is undoubtedly good law, but it does not apply to the case in hand. In the case of Norton vs. Shelby the question before the court involved the validity of the acts of certain persons claiming to be Commissioners of Shelby county, Tennessee. That is an office.created by an act of the Legislature and the court held that as the law creating the office was invalid the office did not exist and there could be no de fa^to incumbent of it. That is true as to a statutory office, but the offices of Senator and Representatives are not statutory offices. They are created by the Constitut'on, which fixes the number of members in each body, prescribes their term of office, their qualifications, etc. It a'so prescribes how these offices shall be tilled. The apportionment law does not in any sense create the offices of Senator and Representative. It simply apportions or districts the State for the election of persons to fill those offices. If the apportionment law creates the offices it would be competent for the Legislature to increase the number of either house or change the qualifications of members. If they are statutory offices it would be comnetent for the Legislatui'e to say that a Senator or Representative need not have resided in the State more than one 3'ear before his election, or that a Senator need not be more than twenty-one years old. But the Legislature cannot do

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way.. It can only apportion the State for the election of persons to fill them, and that apportionment must be in conformity with the constitutional requirement. The decision of the United States Supreme Court in Norton vs. Shelby County applies only to statutory offices, and does not touch tbe case in hand.

The cla the the holding the apportionment act unconstitutional would invalidate, tho acts of the Legislature elected under it is intended to alarm the people by creating the impression that the suit involves revolutionary cousequences. It cannot be intended to affect the court, because the Sentinel knows, or could easily learn if it wished to be iuformed on the subject, that there is nothing whatever in the claim. Noboby need have any fears. There is no danger of chaos. All that is necessary is to 'obey the law as it shall be expounded by the Supreme Court of the State, which, in this case, will be the court of last resort. The claim that a de ision against the gerrymander would invalidate the acts of the Legislature elected under it is absurd.

FOREIGN TESTIMONY AS TO THE M'KINLEY TARIFF. Indianapolis Journal.

It is a noteworthy fact that while free trade papers and orators in this country are trying to convince, the people that the McKinjcy law is a dreadful failure and is ruining the business of the conrttry, foreign papers are reluctant admitting that it is operating all too advantageously in favor of American interests. From the way they talk 'they would give a good deal if the assertions of American free traders were true. Thus the London Morning Post, of Aug. 20, says:

On Saturday several additional proprietors connected with the Welsh tin plate trade closed their works, in consequence of the depression in the British trade caused by the operations of tho McKinley tariff act. The mills are stopped at about sixtyfour tin plate works in South Wa'es, and it is estimated that upward of ten thousand workmen are thrown out of employment. A large number of operatives.with their families, sailed on Saturday for the United States, where new mills are now being erected by Welsh proprietors.

It is cruel for an English paper to blurt out the truth like this. The statement of the Post, which, by tho way, is a leading paper in London, virtually fives the lie to all the assertions of American free traders in regard to the growth and prospects of the tin plate industry in this country. It is a candid admission from an unfriendly witness that the McKinley law is working strongly in favor of American interests.

Further testimony of the same kind appears in an editorial in the South District Advertiser, published at Manchester, Eugluud. After referring to the evidence that the McKinley law, so far from injuring, has

most disastrously on some of our manufacturing industries. It then describes the rapid decline of tho alpaca trade in England. It says

A melancholy phange has taken place within the past two years. The business has suddenly and rapidly declined, and now the winding up of the great enterprise is published. The McKinley tariff has killed the alpaca trade. There is still a great demand in the United States for the miiteriai manufactured at Saltaire, but the new tariff shuts it out. Under the protection of that tariff moreover, factories have been established which are already producing the goods nearly, if not quite, as cheaply as they can be produced here.

Here is another sad admission that the McKinley law is working in favor of American interests. And so it is all along the line. While American free traders are wildly vociferating that the McKinley law is ruining the country, English editors and manufacturers are frankly admitting that it is damaging British and building up American trade. In the bottom of their hearts they must have great coutempt for American free traders, who are showing themselves either utterly ignorant of the operation of the law or viciously opposed to American interests.

PRESIDENT HARRISON AND SIONSThe Democratic literary bui'eau, along with its vilification of Pension Commissioner Raum, is disseminating an assertion that President Cleveland approved a greater number of pension bills than President Harrison has done. The fortv-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses passed 2,042 private pension bills. Of these 2.97 were vetoed either by message or by pocketing, and 227 became laws by lapse of time without his approval, so that he approved only 1.518.

The last Republican Congress passed 1, 377 private pension bills, every one of which received President Harrison's approval and became a law. But then came in the present Democratic Congress with its overwhelming Southern control on the Democratic side. As a result there wej-e weeks following weeks when no private pension bill could even obtain consideration in the House, to say nothing of being passed. No quorum could be mastered*in a House with a Democratic majority of 140 to consider bills to pension old soldiers. It was only on the last private bill night of the session that the House, in a panic at the pension record it would have to go before the country with, shoveled 105 bills into the hopper and approved them in 105 minutes. But, with all this reckless haste to make a record, the first season of the Fiftysecond Congress enacted only 183 private pension bills. These became laws with President Harrison' proval. Compare this 133 bills with the 849 of the first session of the Fif-ty-first Congress or even with the 747 bills which became laws of the first session of the Democratic Fiftieth Congress, and it is seen who is to blame for the apparently fewer number of bills approved by President Harrison. Yet, unless the second session of this more-than-a-bil-lion-dollar Congress makes the number of worthy pension bills less than ten, President Harrison will still have approved more private pension bills than did President Cleveland iu his full term.

These facts are stated because the Democrats seem insistent about figures. The figures seem superfluous when the unfeeling jocularity with which Cleveland dwelt upon the injuries of old soldiers in his pension vetoes is recalled. In his veto of the Total Disability Pension act ot the Forty-ninth Congress, Cleveland struck at hundreds of thousands of pensioners who never obtained their rights until President Harrison signed the Dependent Pension bill passed by the Republican Fifty-first Congress.

The other day President Hai'rison attended soldier's reunion at Malone up iu the mountain region of New York. Here is the way he closed the little speech he made: "And now, comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, surviving veterans of that gallant band that from these mountains and valleys went out to defend the flag, I give you a comrade's greeting to day. God bless you, every one. God forgive the heartlessness of that American in this bright day of prosperity and unity who can begrudge to any one of you the just dues of your hard service."

GOOD THINGS BY HARRISON. It would have been a climax of disaster for the world if this government of the people had perished. The one unsolved experiment of free government has been solved. We have demonstrated the capacity of the people and a citizen soldiery to maintain inviolate the unity of the Republic. "—Benjamin Harrison. 44

It was one of the great triumphs of the war—a particular in which our war was distinguished from all other wars of history—that we brought the vanquished into the same full, equal citizenship under the law that we maintain for ourselves." —Benjamin Harrison.

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We are not attracted by the sug gestion that we should surrender to foreign producers the best imarket in the world. Our 60,003,000 peoplo are the best buyers in the world,and they are such because our working classes receive the best wages. But we do not mean to be content with our own ,mai ket. W|e should seek to promote closer and/more frietijdly commercial relations jrith tbe Central and South Americau States. Bonmm Harrison, 1888.

do not desire to deal with tH'em in any spirit of aggression. We desire those friendly, political, menta! .and commercial relations which shall promote their interests equally with ours. We should not longer forego those commercial relations and advantages which our geographical relations suggest and make so desirable."—Benjamin Harrison, 1888. "And now peace has come no hand is lifted against the flag the Constitution is again supreme and the nation one. My, countrymen, it is no time now to use an apothecary's scale to weigh the rewards of the men who saved the country. "—Benjamin Harrison.

It is one of the best elements of our strength as aStute that our farm lands are so largely possessed in small tracts, and are tilled b\r the men who own them. It is one of the best evidences of the prosperity of our cities that so large a proportion of the men who work are covered by their own roo2 trees. If we would perpetuate this condition we must maintain the American scale of wages. "—Benjamin Harrison. ''The laboring men of this land may safely trust every just reform in which they are interested to public discussion, and to the iogic of reason they may surely hope, upon these lines which are open to you by the ballot box, to accomplish under our American institutions all those right things you have conceived as necessary to your highest success and well being. Do not allow yourselves to doubt for one moment the friendly sentiment of the great masses of our people. Make ycir appeal wisely and calmly and boldly for every i-eform you desire, to that sentiment of justice which pervades our American public. "—Benjamin Harrison.

A DEMOCRATIC PLAN.

Huntington Her..Id.

'"The only way to abolish private property in land is by the way of taxation." We quote from page 61 of "Protection or Free Trade," a book printed in the Congressional Record as a Democratic speech, at public expense, and now being mailed by thousands as a Democratic freetrade document. Farmers are advised to quietly put this together with the new Democratic Indiana tax law and soberly meditate between now and November.

Also please consider the following from the Indianapolis Sentinel (State Democratic organ) of 1890: "Tho prospect is that all taxes, at least for State and Municipal purposes, will, in the near future, be laid upon land."

It doesn't seem to need much argument to show where the Democratic party is going.

EVILS OF THE ALLIANCE. "The disadvantages that have come to Kansas as a result of the formation of the People's Party cannot be easily estimated. They amount to disaster. Kansas has had some seasons of dry weather, some grasshoppers and an occasional boom,' but none of these, nor all of them, have proved such a calamity to the State as this, its last and greatest affliction. 4'Most of the people who came to Kansas came poor. Many of them got their land by paying land office fees, or $1.25 per acre. But land must be broken, houses must be built and stock for a beginning must be procured. Hence, its people be came borrowers. Some in order to become rich hastily, bought more land than needed^ and borrowed money to pay for it. Some of the farmers farmed negligently, fell be hind and borrowed more money. To the borrower nothing is more essen tial than good credit. The Farmers' Alliance, starting a benefit institution as non-political, smarting under their indebtedness and a short crop, determined to turn its attention to politics and start a new political party, which should elect only farmers to office. They declared that the farmers could not pay their debts that they were not only oppressed, but that they were "staves that money lenders were sharks and robbers. They said the Government should issue a large amount of paper with its stamp upon it, and that would make it good: that it should get all the silver of the world and stamp 65 cents worth as a dollar that it should build warehouses in which the farmers could deposit their products, and loan them money thereon at 2 per cent, per annum and that it should establish agencies all over the country and loan them money at the same rate on their lands. The money thus loaned was to be paper with the Government stamp, and that, with this, they said, they would pay their debts and in some instances they added, if they paid them at all." 44

These points were seized upon by shrewd demagogues, and nearly every schoolhouse iu the State was profaned by these vagaries. The election came off in 1890, and the People's Party carried the lower house of the Legislature largely and sent five members out of seven to Congress and one to the Senate. The conduct of these Representatives in Washington has been a disgrace to the bodies of which they are members, and to the State that sent them there. A State must be judged by the men whom its people choose to represent it, and so Kansas has lost its good name and financial credit.

Parties who have money to loan do not care to invest, or leave it, where such views prevail and such men rule. And when can be estimated the damage of the loss of credit by a borrowing people, then can be estimated the damage done to the people of Kansas on

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