Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 16, Hope, Bartholomew County, 11 August 1892 — Page 2

TOPICS OP THE TIMES. The State Debt From 1S72 to 1891 Which the Democrats CreatedThe Report of the Seuate Committee on ■Wages and Living Shows McKinleylsm to Be a (>ood Thing and Other Timely Topics Discussed. DEMOCRATIC FINANCIERING. 9 The Exhibit it Makes on the State Debt During the Past Twenty Years. Indianapolis Journal. The following shows the indebtedness of the State of Indiana from

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1872 to 1891, inclusive, and the increase of the same during' the years specified; Fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 18T8. Foreign debt S 176,890.12 Domestic debt 3,729,016.15 Total debt Oct, 31, 1872 $3,905,906.27 Foreign debt Oct. 31, 1873 $ 994,030.18 Domestic debt Oct. 31. 1873 3,904,783.23 Total debt Oct. 31. 1873 $4,898,813,34 Foreign debt Oct. 31. 1874 $1,172,755.12 Domestic debt Oct, 31. 1874 3,904,783,22 Total debt Oct. 31, 1874 $5,077,538.34 Foreign debt Oct. 31. 1875 S1.C93.755.12 Domestic debt Oct. 34, 1875 3,904,783,22 Total debt Oct. 31, 1875 $5,003,538,34 Foreign debt Oct. 31. 1876 $1,097,755.12 Domestic debt Oct. 31, 1876 3,904,783.22 Total debt Oct. 31, 1876 $5,002,638.34 Debt Oct. 31. 1877 Remains same $5,002,538.34 Foreign debt Oct. 31, 1878 $1,093,395.12 Domestic debt Oct. 31, 1878 3,904,783,22 Total debt Oct, 31, 1878 $4,998,178,34 Debt Oct. 31. im Remains same $4,998,178.34 Debt for 1880 remains same $4,908,178.34 Foreign debt for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1881 $ 971,825 12 Domestic debt 3.904,783.22 Total debt Oct. 31. 1881 ?4 876,608.34 Debt of 1832 remains same $4,876,608.34 Foreign debt 1883 $ 607,825.12 Domestic debt 4,244,783.22 Total debt 1883 $4,852,608.34 Foreign debt 1884 $ 607,825.12 Domestic 4,244,783.22 Total State debt Oct. 31, 1834 $4,876,608.34 Foreign debt Oct, 31. 1885 $1,703,825.12 Domestic debt Oct 31, 1885 4,204.783.22 Total State debt 1885 $6,008,608.34 There was added to the public debt of the State during the year ending Oct. 31, 1885, the sum of $1,160,000 as follows: New temporary loan $600,COO New State-house temporary loan.500.000 Total $1,160.000 Foreign debt ’86 $1,701,835.13 Domestic debt 4,304,783.33 Total debt Oct 31, ’86 $6,006,608.34 Foreign debt 18S7 $2.0)1,835.13 Domestic debt 4,388,783.23 Total debt ’87 $8,430,608.34 Foreign debt ’88 2.381,825.19 Domestic debt.. 4,388.783.22 Total State debt -$6, 770,608.34 Foreign debt, ’89 $3,016,615.13 Domestic... 484,000.00 Total 88.S40.6IS.12 The increase in the foreign debt of 13.905,000 and the decrease in the domestic debt of $3,904,783.32 was caused by the non-negotiable school fund bonds 1 to 5 being refunded and the proceeds of the same distributed to the several counties in the State, in accordance with act passed by the Legislature. Net increase in ’89 $1,770,000.00 In '90 the debt remained the same. .$8,510,615.12 In '91 the fereigndebt was $8,346,615.12 Domestic 484.000.00 Total 88.830.61S.12 In 1887 it became necessary to borrow $340,000 with which to pay interest on public indebtedness, due April 1, 1892, and bonds due April 1, 1892, were issued for that amount bearing 3 per cent, interest. In 1888 a similar loan was again negotiated ($340,000) with which to pav interest, which falls due April 1, 1893. In 1889 bonds for the same purpose (370,000) were issued (temporary interest loan), which becomes due April 1, 1894. In 1891 a similar loan (temporary interest loan) of $300,000 was again made, with which to pay interest on public indebtedness falling due March 2, 1896. This loan was made the same year in which the State received from the United States Government the direct tax refunded of $719,144.03 — making thus an actual increase of $1,019,144.03. It will be seen that the entire in-

debtednoss of the State, both foreign and domestic, in 1882, amounted t0 »4,87«,«08.:i4 And that within nine years, towit: On October 31, 1891, the indebtedness has increased to the enormous sum of 88,830,015.13. Or very near four million dollars. The annual interest on the indebtedness of the State at this date is as follows: The interest on foreign debt $260,125 Interest on domestic debt 24,300 Total annual interest #384,325. The following exhibit shows amount of interest paid on the State’s bonded indebtedness for ten years, from 1882 to 1891, inclusive: 1882 $280,866.24 1883 391.018.46 1884 285.114.99 1885 291.873.44 1886 195.029.00 1887 439,491 58 1888 346,236.29 1889 377,1.* 4.09 1890 274,074,68 1891 279.129.91 Total amount paid in ten years #3,062,971.68. And the debt is still increasing. M'KI NLEYISM IS A GOOD THING. It Insures Increase of Salary and Cheaper Goods. Washington Special. Attention has been called to the report of the Finance Committee of the Senate on the relations of the McKinley act to cost of living and to wages. That report, when completed, will be an important factor in the campaign, and deserves more than the slight notice it has received. In March, 1891, the Senate Committee on Finance undertook an investigation as to the effect of the McKinley tariff upon retail prices and wages. The committee desired that there should be no reason to question the integrity of the facts which should be presented as the result of this long and expensive investigation Accordingly, while there was no expectation that the members of the committee representing different parties would agree upon the political, or oven economic bearings of the facts ascertained, all were desirous that the facts should be beyond dispute. The task of superintending the work of collecting and tabulating this great mass of statistics was placed in the hands of Corroll D. Wright, the Commissioner,of Labor, while Dr, Roland C. Falkner, professor of statistics in the University of Pennsylvania, was selected at the statistician of the committee. To him was given entire charge of the work of analyzing the statistics collected and the ascertainment of results. These results are of a most striking character. The Democratic members of the committee will probably undertake, in a minority report, to make some deductions which will be to their political advantage. The Republican majority of the committee has chosen to present the facts collected by the experts stripped of all partisan coloring. These results are of themselves sufficiently striking to prove what Republicans and protectionists have always maintained, that, when the facts can be accurately ascertained, it will be shown that the protective system increases the wages of labor and at the same time reduces the. cost of living. SOME OF THE RESULTS. The results are certainly made clear by this report. The main body of the work has been completed, so that nothing which remains can in any way affect the conclusions which have been reached. The second part of the work which has yet to be completed is a collection of data relating to the course of wholesale prices and wages during the yeare from 1840 to 1891. The following in brief are some of the results which the experts of the Finance Committee present for the consideration of Congress. These statistics represent the cost of living of the great mass of the people of the country—those whose incomes vary from $500 to $1,000. The list of products, the price of which has been ascertained, has been divided into seven classes, namely: Food, clothes and clothing, fuel and lighting,house furnishing goods, drugs and chemicals, metals and implements, lumber and building materials. The summary for September 1, 1891, shows a decline in retail prices of 314 selected articles at .64 of 1 per cent. It appears that as the result, as shown by all the statistics collected, the cost of living of families of ordinary circumstances was .44 of 1 par cent, less at the end of the period included in the investigation September 1, 1891, than it was at the beginning of March, 1891. In other words the cost of living of the average American family was decreased by that much after the passage of the McKinley tariff act. The committee also for a period of twentyeight months investigated the retail prices in the three cities, Fall River, Mass., Chicago, 111,, and Dubuque, Iowa, of 215 articles included in their regular list. The result of this latter inquiry showed a further decline in j the cost of living in May, 1892, as compared with September, 1891, of 2.1, and that compared with June, ' July and August, 1889. of 3.04. This

supplementary inquiry discloses the fact that the tendency to lower prices and to lower the cost of living still continues. DECLINE IN WHOLESALE PRICES. A similar result is shown as to the decline in wholesale prices. The decline in wholesale prices of the articles selected by the committee for twenty-eight months included in the investigation was .33 of 1 per cent., substantially the same rate of decline as that shown in retail prices. On the other hand, it appears that the farmers were benefited by an increase in the price of agricultural products. The general result of all the statistics taken as to the pricesof agricultural products for each month from June, 1389, to September, 1891, was that the average prices of all the agricultural products except flaxseed included in the list when given their proper relative importance were 18.67 per cent, higher in September, 1891, than at the initial period. In other words, while the cost of living was decreased .44 of 1 per cent, the cost and prices of farm products of the farmer were 18.67 per cent higher for the same period. It appears, also, that there was a general increase for that period in the rate of wages. It appears from the report of the statistician that in the fifteen general occupations selected by the committee, wages were three-fourths of 1 per cent, higher in September, 1891, than in the three months selected as a basis in 1839, and the wages in the special industries selected were .30 of 1 per cent, higher than at the beginning of that period. The committee at the same time, through experts, conducted a parallel investigation into the English prices and wages. The results are remarkable, and decidedly in favor of the United States. COMPARED WITH GREAT BRITAIN. It appears that applying the same formula which is used in the figures selected for the United States, the cost of living increased in Great •Britain in the time named 1.9 per cent. By comparison of the rates of wages current in September, 1891,in the United States and in Great Britain in the same occupation, it appears that wages in the United States in these occupations averaged 77 per cent, greater than in Great Britain. The greatest fall in prices is found in sugar, which has decreased in price 40.61 per cent. This reduction would disappear if the doctrine of the Democratic National platform could prevail and the McKinley bill, which caused a reduction in the price of sugar, should be repealed as the Democrats universally recommend. The statements of the Democratic platform that wages of labor in this country have been reduced as a consequence of the McKinley tariff act are not sustained by the investigations of these ex - perts. One of the most interesting comparisons which the committee has made is that of English and American wages. It will be seen from the subjoined table that the relative English wages range all the way from 42 to 76 per cent, of the average American wages, the average being 56J per cent. The following is the table of comparisons submitted with the committee report: jPer c«ni occupation. Per iod £ loan. Bakers Week $13.60 59,36 Blacksmiths.. Day 2.300 1.604 76.38 Cab’net mak’s Day 2.417 1.038 42.96 Carpenters.... Day 2.750 1.685 cQ.Od Laborer com.. Day 1.710 .883 51.64 Machinists Day 2.714 1,580 So. 50 Molders.iron.. Day 2.650 1.063 62.34 Painters Day 2.83p 1.48ft 53.(P Plumbers Day 3.487 1.700 4S.75 Total 9,508.64 Average 56.53 FACTS AND PLATFORMS. “Since the McKinley bill went Into operation,” says the National platform of the Democratic party, “there have been ten reductions of the wages of laboring men to one increase.” We quote from that eminently Democratic journal, the New York World; Fall River, Mass., July 13. — The Cotton Manufacturers’ Association voted to pay all day help employ ed in the mill's for fifty-eight hours’s work the same wages heretofore paid for sixty hours. All the operators employed on piece work were advanced 3j per cent. The new list will go into effect from July 11. From the same issue of the World we also quote: Otis Brothers, elevator manufac-tm-ers, signed an agreement yesterday with the Elevator Constructors’ Union granting the shorter workday from August 1. Tne men will receive the same pav for eight hours that has been given for nine, and double pay for overtime. Here are two very recent cases of increased wages, “since the passage of the McKinley bill.” Will some member of the Democratic committee on resolutions, or some newspaper that approves the resolutions, mention twenty reductions of wages to offset these two increases? Can even two parallel reductions be mentioned? The platform already is tumbling t > pieces by reason of the rottenness of its timbers.

THE TABLES TURNCarnegie Officers Placed Under Arrest for Murder. Admitted to Bail In 810,000 at once—Exciting Times—Almost a Riot. On Aug. 3d the long-tallced-of warrants charging H. C. Frick, Superintendent Potter, Secretary Lorejoy and others with murder were made out on an affidavit by one of the Carnegie lock-out men and the strikers had the satisfaction of knowing that some one besides employes would have to answer to the law. The suits aro against the Carnegie officials and the Pinkertons, charging them with murder out right, and warrants were issued for the arrest of the defendants. At 11 o’clock Messrs. Brennan, Cox and Hugh Ross, the prosecuting witness, went to Alderman King’s office, on the South Side, and made the information, and the warrants were issued. Robert and William Pinkerton aro the heads of the Pinkerton agency; J. A. Potter and G. A. Corey are superintendents at the works, and Messrs. Frick, Lovejoy, Leishman and Curry are officials of the company i and the balance are Pinkerton men. About three o’clock. Secretary Lovejoy, Vice-President Leishman and ' Treasurer Curry, of the Garneglo company, appeared before Judge Ewing, in Criminal Court, and said they desired to surrender them, selves on the charge of murder preferred by Hugh Ross.

■Judge Ewing refused to hear an appli. cation for hail until the accused had surrendered to Alderman King. The magistrate was sent for, and. after he had presented the document, the hearing was had. Lelschman, Cnrrjr and Lovejoy waived a hearing, as did H. C. Frick, Niven McConnel, James Dovey and Superintendent Potter, who were absent, but represented by W. F. Patterson, their attorney. Frick i Lovejoy, Leischman and Curry were then released on 110,000 ball each, and R. B. and B. W. Mellon went on their bond. The hearings on the application of the others were postponed until the fourth. Judge Ewing said: “I think the story in the newspapers is true none of the men charged in the information can be held for murder, and certainly not in the first degree. The men in the barges had the right to use all noccessary force to maintain their rightful possession of this property.” Dovey and McConnel were arrested at Homestead by Constable Stewart and brought to Pittsburg. They were taken to the jail and locked up for the night. Superintendent Potter has not vet been arrested. It Is said that the reason Superintendent Potter did not surrender Wednesday afternoon is that the evidence against him is stronger than against the others. Ho was on the barge with the Pinkerton men, and It is clained gave the order to fire. For this reason the other officials were anxious to be released before he gave himself up. It is slated that W. J. Brennan, attorney for the Amalgamated Association, will go into court Saturday and ask for an injunction restraining the Carnegie agents from bringing men here under false pretenses. He is said to have in his possession several affidavits by men who claim they were brought here under false representations and were not hired to work at Homestead.

BIOT AT THE DEPOT. The arrests of yardmaster James Dovoy and the superintendent of open-hearth department No. 3, McConnell, on charge of murder, was attended by turbulent scenes, necessitating Interference of the militia and the additional arrest of a striker. It was 2 o’clock when the constables reached Homestead with four warrants, two for the above Carnegie officials and the others for Potter and Corey. The last named had gone to Pittsburg by the time the constables arrived. Dovey and McConnell, however, were found at the mill and were taken to their residences, where they donned street suits. In the meantime rumors of the prospective arrests spread through the town, and hundreds of lockedout and striking mill men gathered at the different stations. At Munhall the crowd numbered about two hundred. The train a due there at 4:05, and about a minute before that time the constables and their prisoners appeared.

This was the signal for a great shout of exultation, and the crowd surged about the station door as the prisoners were hurried into it. A patrol of militia strove to keep back the men, aided by a few deputy sheriffs. The train was twenty minutes late, however, and every minute the crowd Increased, while muttered imprecations especially directed against bovey were plainly heard. As the time passed the crowd became more turbulent, and word was hastily sent to Povost Marshal Mechllng. He dispatched at once Major Crawford, with a company of the Fifteenth Regiment, to the station. These arrived just as the patrol was fixing bayonets to repel the angry, turbulent crowd. The soldiers marched the company front, pushing back the crowd, which retired in a surely way One striker named Thomas Bowen became obstreperous and yelled: “Three cheers for Dovey, damn him.” Before the crowd could give them Major Crawford signaled to two soldiers, who seized Bowen. He had a pen knife in his hand at the time. He was hustled into the station and placed In charge of two deputies. This stern measure quelled the hostile demonstration. On the arrival of the train, Dovey and McConnell, with Bowen, also, were put on it, and in addition to constables and deputy sheriffs a detail of soldiers were aboard to protect the mill bosses. At City Farm and Homestead stations companies of militia were drawn up in line as the train passed and kept back the crowd. At the sight of the prisonersi however, the crowds cheered lustily.

Bowen, the striker who was arrested, will be charged svith unlawful assemblage,dis. orderly conduct and, probably, with inciting to riot. The nows that all the Carnegie officials were admitted to bail at once Is a groat disappointment to tha people, who had hoped they would be kept in jail a night at least. The arrests apparently did not In the slightest interfere with the operation of the mill, while the turbulent demonstration of the afternoon has convinced General Wiley that It is unwise to remove the militia from Homestead at present.

CATHOLIC ABSTAINERS. Meeting of the Union Last Week at Indianapolis. The Resolutions Adopted OjDoers Elected. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America was in session three days last week at Indianapolis. Rt. Rev. Jos. Cotter, D. D., the President, presided. The proceedings were earnest and at times animated. The high officials of the church sent letters Disapprobation and blessing. Stops were taken looking to the formation of an Insurance or beneficiary fund for the members. A resolution recommending the opening of the World’s Fair on Sundays was indefinitely ?. : oswponod. Among the resolutions adopted following: Resolved, That we take all lawful moans to arouse the hearty pub'ic sentiment against this evil, and that \va call upon our legislators and public offic.als for the proper enactment and strict enforcement of laws framed to curtail this traffic, the fruitful source of sin, crime and pauperKesolved, That we lend our untiring efforts to all legitimate and well-directed movements having for their object the advancement of the cause of Catholic total abstinence, and we would therefore earnestly recommend the holding of Catholic temperance missions wherever and whenever practicable; and that special efforts be made for the formation of total obstjnence society among women and children: and also the establishment of a national bureau for the dissemination of Catholic temperance literature for the purpose of creating and molding public opinion for the restriction of the liquor traffic. The following officers were elected: President- Rt. Rev. Joseph Cotter, D. D., Winona, Minn. First Vice-President —J. Washington Logue, Philadelphia. Second Vice-President—Rev. James M. Scanlon, Chicago. Third Vice-President—Miss Mary X Cramsie, St. Paul, Treasurer—Rev. William McMahan, Cleveland, O. Sacretary—Philip A. Nolan, Philadelphia. The next convention will be held at Springfield, Mass.

The Arizona Kicker. A new Department. —With this issue we establish a new department entitled “Sporting News.” We do it to accommodate a baseball editor from New York who struck this town in a barefoot condition and offered to work for thi-ee dollars a week and his board. We don’t know how it will pan out, but if he is willing to risk it we are. On three different occasions we have endeavored to establish a sporting department, but the sporting editor has either been shot or run out of town within a few hours after the paper came out. Our people are rather queer about certain things, and a journalist must know their characteristics befor he can please them. P. S. —We stop the press after having worked off 600 copies to announce that our sporting editor has concluded to seek a different climate. He was some what assisted in this resolution by Dan Skinner, Jim Bebee, Abe Hastings, and others whom he characterized as “one-horse sports who had never seen a genuine dog fight.” He was a mile ahead and gaining at every jump when they dropped the pursuit. “Sporting News ’ will probably not appear next week.

An Unfortunance Occurrence.— Friday last a stranger arrived here from Chicago with a view of opening an undertaking establishment. Unfortunately for him he went prowling about by himself and had nothing to say to any one. He came into the Kicker office about 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon, and as he entered the door we thought we recognized him as Bill Wheatley ofClinch Valley, who sent us word two weeks ago that he intended to bury us in our own private graveyard. This recognition was strengthened by the fact of his reaching behind him as if for his gun. As subsequently explained, be was after his handkerchief, which in this town is always kept in a man’s hat. • We always get the drop if possible, and we got it on this man and bored him through the shoulder. When he came to give his nane as Henry Bfiggs and state his mission and prove his identity by numerous papers, no one could have felt more sympathy than we did. We agreed to pay tht surgeon's bill and give him $40 besides, and we are now paying his board at the hotel for tba week as well. Mr. Briggs has no hard feelings toward us. On the contrary, he realizes his mistake, in not posting up on the rules and regulations of the town, and freely admits that he has no claim on us whatever.