Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 48, Hope, Bartholomew County, 22 March 1894 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN. Br Jay G, Smith. HOPE INDIANA The Sunday Inter-Ocean, March 4, pave an extensive write-up of gambling in Chicago. It estimates that there are from 1,500 to 2,000 professional sports in that city-who prey upon the wage-earners and reap a luxurious living without toil. The dens are almost innumerable, and the traps that are laid to catch the unwary are ingenious and varied. Many of the places are magnificent in their appointments and luxurious in all their surroundings, but the less attractive resorts are quite as successful and are more largely patronized. The authorities are practically powerless to regulate the evil or purposely neglect to attempt to enforce the laws, and the “tiger” has an almost undisputed sway. Snide games and barefaced robberies are matters of daily occurrence, and although an occasional arrest and fine follows the discovery of an especially aggravated case, it causes but little comment, and is regarded as a matiter of course. People who suspect themselves of any tendency to “greenness” would do well to take a guardian along when visiting the World’s Pair city. Probably the most amusing feature of the long-drawn out discussion of the silver question is the petition now alleged to be in circulation in Colorado mining camps, looking to a secession of the silver producing States from the Union. It is proposed that these disgruntled citizens shall attach themselves and their silver mines to the Republic of Mexico. It sbems incredible that sensible men would waste their time in an agitation so utterly foolish, or seriously contemplate an enterprise so absolutely visionary and hopeless. Yet the information that such a movement in contemplated is apparently trustworthy, and there may be a possibility that Uncle Sam may yet have to send a Gatling gun, and a squad of artillery out West to suppress this latest venture of unbalanced minds. Seriously, while such a secession movement could never hope to succeed, there is no doubt that a few thousand desperate and determined men, fully acquainted with the mountain fastnesses of Colorado, could give the government at Washington a vast amount of trouble before they could be conquered. The entire civilized world will in the near future be joined together in a network of cables, and intelligence from the most remote quarters of the globe will reach us by their sympathetic nerves before our correspondent at Possum Trot has gathered and mailed to us his weekly budget. The latest enterprise of this character is a cable line across the South China Sea from Borneo to Hong Kong. The route has already been surveyed, and the work of cable laying will soon begin. British capital will control the company and the cable will be of English manufacture. Naturally its workings will be manipulated to the advantage of British commerce. British capitalists already control a vast system of Asiatic ocean cables, and Englishmen have taken the lead in all parts of the world in the cable-laying business. Americans, to whose inventive genius the world owes the submarine telegraphic cable, have fallen behind in the competition for their construction which began fifty years ago. American cables are fully as good as those manufactured in England, but we can not, it is claimed, compete in price with those of English manufacture. The true explanation, however, of this unsatisfactory state of affairs is our lack of capital to make investments bringing a small percentage of return and expending over a long term of years. A Warning. "John, dear,” said Mrs. Editor, •‘Don’t take a copy of your paper with you when you cross the river tonight.” , , , “Why not? 1 want a mend to sea lt “But if should fall into the river with one of those heavy editorials in your pocket, it would t ike you to tho bottom so quick th t your friends couldn’t toil what had become of you.—Merchant Traveler.

THE CAMPAIGN. Democratic Infamy and Duplicity. Extracts from Preys Opinions oa tho Quostioaa of tho Hour. Republican Defenders Only. Indianapolis Journal. While the bill appropriating $150,000.000 for pensions—a cut down of over $15,000,000 from the first estimates —was under consideration in House the past week the discussion turned upon the present administration of the Pension Bureau. Here in Indiana Democratic soldiers denounce the Cleveland-Hoke-Smith-Lochren policy as bitterly as do Republicans, but not a Democratic Representative from Indiana had a word to say against the pension policy which Deputy Commissioner Ball says will cut down pension disbursements about $25,000,000 the next fiscal year and down to $100,000,000 before the close of the Cleveland administration, instead of $160,000,000 the last fiscal year. No pensioners were hit harder than were the Democratic soldiers in Indiana who were pensioners under the act of 1890 until Lochren was called off. Indiana soldiers will suffer their full share in the contemplated reduction of one-third of the aggregate expenditure for pensions. Every Indiana Democratic Representative, by his . silence, approved this policy. Every one of them is a Cleveland-Hoke-Smith “cuckoo.” On the other hand, the two Republican Representatives, Johnson and Waugh, were in the front line of the men denouncing this policy of hostility to the Union soldiers, standing with such soldiers as General Sickies, Grosvenor, Henderson, Hepburn and Pickier, and assailed the official conspiracy against pensioners. Judge Waugh, in his remarks last Saturday, showed that during the sik months ending last November the Pension Bureau issued . 35,755 certificates and rejected 67,283 applications, while during the corresponding period of 1892, under the Harrison administration, 118,954 pension certificates were issued. Judge Waugh went on to say:

Since the Pension Office wont into Democratic hands there have been over 16,000 pensioners dropped and suspended from the roll; over 12,000 by the action of the pension office, tnd over 4,000 by the operation of the law passed by the Fifty-second Congress; and during the same time the roll has diminished about 25,000 by death, and about 8,000 more from bther causes. It seems that death ind Hoke Smith have been busy j getting their work in on the boys, and in many instances death has lealt more gently with them than Hoke Smith, this administration :amc Into’ power with a libel upon the pension roll by its official utterance that “there were thousands of neighborhoods throughout the country that had their wellknown pension frauds." The administration has been in power a year and has been, as we must believe, more vigilant in hunting fraud than in granting pensions, and it has found just three neighborhoods, Norfolk, Now Mexico and Iowa. The ; frauds in one of these neighborhoods ! were, as I am informed, discovered j luring the Republican administra- ) tion.” When Judge Waugh said that there ; were far less frauds with pension ■ claims than any other Congress had undertaken to deal with he made an j illusion to the Southern war claims, ; both allowed and pending, which j was so well understood that applause - followed. Referring to the silence I sf Indiana Democratic Senators and Representatives, Judge Waugh said: '•Some time ago it was heralded to the country through the public press that certain Democrats, notably from Indiana, were going to commence a war on the administration’s pension policy. I have been listening ever since, but I have tailed up to this Mine to hear the opening guns of the conflict. Have they come to the conclusion that they cannot deceive the old soldier any longer? When the old soldier and the pension roll are assaulted, as is so often done on this floor, why is it, that we scarcely ever see a Northern Democrat rise to his feet to rebuke it? If he does he speaks in tones so low that he cannot be heard outside his Congressional district. [Laughter.] Have they come to the conclusion that they cannot fool the old soldier any longer: or have the assaulting forces surrendered to the seductive influences of the pie counter?"

ANARCHY IN CONGRESS. Mr. Reed Is Alarmed at. the Possibilities That Are Rooming Up. Washington better to New York Sun. I can see how ex-Speaker Reed is naturally the physical and intellectual leader of the House. His size is tremendous, his mind quick, and he is in dead earnest. When I asked him what the Senate would do with the Wilson bill he said; “I begin to get alarmed. At first we thought the cooler heads of the

Senate would put back on to the tarI iff a good deal of the $84,000,000 deI licit and make a tariff for revenue according to the Democratic platform. But now I see there is Anarchy in the Senate. I am afraid that the Wilson bill will go through the Senate with its worst features retained. The Southern free-traders are in power.". “How will this affect the Democratic party?” I asked. “It will destroy it in the North, but with its destruction will come great damage to the Republic. I should like to see the party wreck itself, but I feel that patriotism should take the place of party now. If I were a Northern Democrat I would put that $84,000,000 deficit back. Then they can go back to the foolish voters and say: ‘We have done your bidding. Wo have made a tariff for revenue and for the whole revenue.’ As it is, and as it will be, the voters will say: ‘You have not made a tariff for revenue. You have made free trade in some things and destroyed the revenue on others. You have caused our wages to be cut twenty-five per cent, to fit your wage-destroying tariff. You have stopped mills, made workmen paupers, and taken billions of wage money out of circulation, and run the country in debt besides.’ ” “How can money be made flush again?" I asked, and Mr. Reed answered: “There is no way to put money in circulation except through wages paid. Issuing Government bonds doesn’t make circulation. The laborers must earn it and spend it, and that will make it flush. The statisticians say the 20,000,000 laboring people in this country earn when they are at work from $80,000,000 to $40,000,000 a day The Wilson tariff bill will cut these wages from ten to twenty-five per cent. The ten per cent, cut on $40,000,000 will be a loss of $4,000,000 a day to laboring men, or $1,200,000,000 in a year. A twenty-five per cent, cut in wages will take $3,000,000,000 out of circulation. One-third of our labor is idle now. This idleness is costing us probably $10,000,000 a day. I do not wonder that the times are hard and that money is tight. There is money enough in the banks. They are glutted, but labor isn’t getting any of it. It will stay there till labor gets it out.” “What will bring money out?” “Why, labor, I say, and nothing else. Set the mills to resuming, keep wages up, and the boys will soon earn money enough and spend enough to make times good again.” CLEVELAND AND THE VETERANS The President's Efforts to Discredit the Roil of Pensioners. Baltimore American. President Cleveland’s pension policy is now under discussion in the House of Representatives, and the Democrats are experiencing considerable difficulty in reconciling their alleged sympathy for the veterans, who saved the country with their loyalty, to the head of their party. They certainly will not convince the soldier of their sincerity by quasi indorsements of Cleveland’s policy, such as they gave to his action in the Hawaiian affair. The soldiers are. as rule, among the most intelligent and enterprising of American citizens. It is for this reason that both parties are so anxious to secure their votes. Such men cannot be blinded concerning the attitude of the President toward them. Cleveland’s hostility to those who defended the country when its life was threatened was made notorious during his first term —so notorious as to suggest that he had taken a dislike to them because he had sent a substitute to the war instead of going himself.

His cynical and satirical vetoes of pension bills which had been passed by Congress without opposition suggested a malignant motive, and ere- j ated the impression that in some j way he had suffered wrong at the j hands of the soldiers, or imagined j he had, and was determined to have j revenge when the oportunity offered, j His flippant humor was far more of- j fensive to the soldiers than his vetoes ■ which accompanied it, and very soon | after he entered on his second term j Mr. Cleveland made it apparent that j he had thrown away the scabbard in ! his controversy with the country’s defenders. The sudden change of policy in the Pension Bureau could mean nothing else. It was a despicable policy to suspend thousands of | pensions upon the pretense of susi picion, but it was an effective policy , all the same, for many of the soldiers, not a few of whom might be the most meritorious, were unable or unwilling to fight the government. They had had a tough struggle to get their pensions, and were unable or unwilling to make another fight. It was worse than encountering the enemy on the field of battle. The latter conflict is soon over, but an encounter with red tape is too often prolonged indefinitely. It has thus happened that while the bureau has not exposed as many real frauds as was done during the same time under President Harrison’s adminis-

tration, its pernicious activity has given infinite trouble to the veterans, and entailed heavy additional expense on the government. The difference between the policy of Mr. Cleveland and that of his predecessor can be summed up in a few words. President Harrison aimed to make the pension list a roll of honor,while President Cleveland*aims to produce the impression that it was a sham roll, and thus discredit the soldier in the eyes of the country. It is almost unnecessary to say that Mr. Cleveland is himself so seriously discredited in popular estimation that he cannot materially injure the soldier, but until Congi-ess puts a stopper on the extravagance and unfairness of the bureau as now managed he can put many thousands of pensioners to great inconvenience. Voorhees and the Whisky Trust. Indianapolis News. Mr. Voorhees has been very kind to the whisky trust. He has raised the tax on whisky from 90 cents (the present rate) and $1 (the rate fixed by the House) to $1.10 a gallon, which means an advantage of 20 cents a gallon to the owners of the whisky now in bond; and he has further extended the bonded period to eight years. Taking into account the shrinkage in the whisky by evaporation, the loss of interest, and the exclusion, in the computation of the tax, of fractional parts of the gallon less than one-tenth, it is very doubtful, whether the new tax will bring the government as large a revenue as it gets from the present tax. There is no use in attempting to disguise the ugly features of this whisky business. It is wellknown that Mr. Crawford Fairbanks, a prominent distiller of Terre Haute, is a wann personal and po-‘ litical friend of the chairman of the finance committee. And it is known, further that Mr. John Lamb, who is a friend of both [Fairbanks and Voorhees, has been very much interested in whisky legislation. People can and will draw their own conclusions. They will not be flattering to Mr. Voorhees. It Looks That Way. Now York Sun, “If ever anything was run to death it is the trick of putting tiny photographs of actresses into cigarette packages.” So spoke a conductor on a New York Central train, recently. "My passengers fling them on the floor of the smoking car without looking at them. A couple of, years ago the brakemen used to pick' them up because the children were making collections to see who could get the most of them; but, good Lord! even the children have got sick of them. It seems queer that human ingenuity should run to seed as it has in cigarette advertising. The manufacturers started with actresses’ photographs, and then tried colored pictures of birds and animals and Indians and kings. Suddenly they came back to the actresses again. But it’s no use. The pictures are too small. The faces are never large enough to be of any value as portraits, and as for the tights and leg displays —which is all the pictures are printed for —there’s such a possibility as getting too much of one thing, especially when you get a fresh one every day for fifteen years, and every one reminds you of all the others. It is my opinion that cigarette pictures have made the whole country tired.” A Sell-Made Man. Si. Louts Globe-Democrat. Peter Herdic, the man who introduced the vehicle bearing his name, which is a familiar sight on the streets of Eastern cities, was a man who always seemed to fallen his feet. His father died when Peter was a mere boy, leaving the family in very reduced circumstances. The little fellow went bravely to work,’ and by sawing wood and saving what money he could earn in other ways finally succeeded in establishing his mother on a farm. There he remained until he was twenty-one years old, when he left home and went to work in a saw mill at II a day. He was prudent and in a few years had a mill of his own, and at last started the business of floating logs down the river and catching them with a | boom. His great boom across the | Susquehanna cost over a million dol- | lars and brought him in several i times that sum. He then began to branch out in other lines, and, getting too many irons in the fire, failed for an immense sum. He did not give up, however, but went to work manufacturing cabs called herdics. These at once made a pronounced hit and raised him once more to the ranks of the millionaires of the county.

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