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TH EI)AILY JOURNAL. UT ,TNO. C. NEW & SON. ♦— — For Fates of Subscription, ere... see Sixth T*a?e. FRIDAY, JUNE gP, THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can>*e found at the folio win* places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 4t9 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Ilonleyard dee t’apucines. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Brentauo’e 1,015 Pennsylvania avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. C. Hawley * Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot. Seventh—That the inability of the Democratic party during the six years it held undisputed control of the House of Representatives of Congress to agree on legislation for a revision of the tariff and reform in the civil service, notwithstanding both subjects were constantly and prominently present in its platform promises and campaign activities, and the passage of laws affecting both of said objects by the Republican Congress at the late session demonstrates anew the incapacity of the former to deal with questions of great public concern, and that the country must rely on the latter for practical legislation. As well-grounded supports for such reliance ■we point not only to the action of the late Republican Congress, as heretofore mentioned, blit also to the additional facts that customs and internal taxation were reduced over $70,000,000, $202,000,000 were appropriated for the payment of pensions to our soldiers, and still abundant revenue provided to maintain the public credit ana meet all demands on the treasury of the nation.—lowa Republican Platform. Ohio Democrats didn’t “telegraph it to the boys, Jim,” with any great rush. The deceased wife’s sister still marches on; but she has not yet reached the end of her journey. The bill was defeated in the Lords yesterday by 140 to 145. If it be true that this city was caught for a quarter of a million in the late crash in Chicago, it would be interesting to have the figures from all other points. The railway “plan” outlined in the Journal to-day is by no means narrow gaupe. It will be a pity to waste itona mere narrowpauge roa<l. The width of the line should be at least ten feet. Estimates show the Western wheat crop to be about 84,000,000 bushels short of last year, and the outlook for corn better than the season would indicate, owing to the largely increased acreage. No late news having been received from Elam and Bierne, the Virginia duelists, it is surmised that a meeting has taken place, and principals and seconds have ail gloriously perished according to the provisions of the code. So mote it be. The scheme to bnild ten thousand miles of railroad on a two dollar and a Half a month assessment plan is somewhat of a novelty, to say the least. The public will await the development of the plan with an interest not far removed from awe. If half the stories of the persecutions of the Jews in Europe be true, the outrages are so wicked and scandalous that Christian nations in fact, as well as in name, ought to intercede an 4 d prevent further cruelties and barbarities upon these helpless people. The trustees of Dartmouth are still considering the question of giving Governor Butler the degree of LL. D. After they have gazed upon the remains of they will probabW offer him all the degrees they have in stock, if he will agree to keep his distance. A Washington special says that “Senator Voorhee9 emphatically denies the recent interview published as purporting to have come from him.” The Senator will have to be more specific, and mention his interview’s by the dates. Which one is it that he denies? If England is so very prosperous under free trade, would it not be well for her to provide work for her Irish subjects instead of assisting them to foreign shores? Can the statesmen harmonize the claim of prosperity with the deportation of shipload after shipload of pauperized subjects? A Cuban military paymaster reports that while leaning over the railing of a vessel lie accidentally dropped a satchel containing *ll .000 of the government’s money into the sea. When the lamented Wasson hears of this he will regret more than ever his own lack of imagination and presence of mind in an emergenetu Judge Hoadly says he gladly recognizes the fact that his antagonist, Judge Foraker, is a man of culture and refinement. Governor Rutler and some other Democratic candidates have lately given utterance to similar lioneyed remarks, all of which seem to indicate that the Democratic munitions of war this year embrace a bar’l of taffy. Owing to the high waters in the Mississippi the town of Kaskaskia has been abandoned. The experience of that town has been eventful. Once the capital of Illinois it had a population of 7,000, and people from St. Louis often came there to do their shopping. It now has not more than 500 inhabitants, and is turned out to die. The Chicago News published, on Wednesday, a telegram from Hartford, Conn., purporting to give the details of a personal encounter between Rev. Dr. Darker and Rev. Mr. Everts, the latter formerly of Chicago, the dictionary being ransacked for adjectives with which to properly describe the fierceness of the A telegram from the edi-

i tor of the Hartford Courant denounces the story as entirely false. The editor of the News was the Professor of Journalism who announced that he immediately discharged any member of his stuff who would write a word that could possibly offend the most fastidious. Does the rule apply to lying correspondents as well? The “special” was an unmitigated outrage upon two eminently distinguished gentlemen. About the first of the'current month, now closing, the Indianapolis Journal contained an editorial paragraph to the effect that the wheat supply of the country would be pretty nearly adequate to any prospective demand, and that the probability of stiff and booming prices was by no means assured. To this a number of exceptions- wcre taken, and the Journal was openly charged, by an esteemed contemporary, of being it. the interest of the “bears,” and the prediction was made that wheat would be $1.25 before the end of the month. At about that time wheat was selling at $1.14. Yesterday it was barely sl, a difference in quotations calling for millions of dollars througnout the country to make “margins” good. The Journal is published in the interests of neither “bulls” nor “bears.” It only attempts to point out what it regards as palpable farts. Had the bulls of four weeks ago heeded the Journal’s hint, they would be hundreds of thousands of dollars better off to-day. At best, this “dealing” in wheat is but another form of gambling, and there need be little sympathy felt for any man who, while seeking to make money out of the ill judgment of others, himself gets squeezed. The fall of fourteen cents per bushel on the price of wheat means the financial ruin of many men who have dealt not in wheat, but in margins. Many and many a man who goes onto the market to buy wheat, or has another buy or sell for him, has no business with wheat; has no way to care for as much as a dozen bushels, and has no interest in wheat whatever, except so far as its price goes up or down. Sooner or later the smaller operators get squeezed out, but their places are speedily filled by others, whose cupidity is inspired and who hope to get wealth through the jugglery of the call board. Outsiders should let “margins” alone; keep hands off, and attend to legitimate business. You may not get rich so fast, and you may not become beggared so soon, or wake up to the fact that you have unintentionally become a thief in the hope of being able soon to replace funds “borrowed” to make margins good for a few days, “until the market turns.” These are rough terms, and will doubtless hurt; but they are true ones, nevertheless. If any man has gone into margins simply as a speculation, without the intention of actually buying the grain, and has come out ahead in the “deal,” he can rest assured that every dollar of his gains has come out of the pockets of less fortunate men, and for aught he knows, his good luck has been the ruin, financially, physically and morally, of some one on the other side of the market. To a conscientious man, gambling in grain or produce will pay no better than gambling with cards or dice. “If it is a good thing to have absolute free trade between Texas and New York, why not between Texas and Mexico, or between New York and Canada? Undoubtedly the benefits would be of exactly the same character.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. A slight difference lies in the fact that the people of New**York and of Texas pay taxes to the same government, and as each increases in wealth is the other benefited? We are members of the same family, and it would be a singular family that did not trade with its kinsmen in preference to others. Your objection is that a protective tariff encourages monopolies on account of the big profits made possible. Our answer would be that the same incentive of big profits induces competition, and competition compels reasonable profits. The difference in favor of a protective tariff is, that the competition lies between Americans rather than between Americans and foreigners. It is a matter of national pride that the foreign ministers of the United States, under instructions from our government, are always on the alert to render effective service in the interests of peace among the various nations involved in complications. Two conspicuous instances are attracting public attention at this time—the one in the negotiations between France and China and the other in the pending treaty between Chili and Peru. In all such cases American influence is felt and recognized as fully a9 tha v , of the leading disinterested powers of Europe, but without any entanglements, as our well-known policy of having no other interests than those attaching to this continent is known and recognized. Our assistance, therefore, is understood to be disinterested. The steamship Nevada, due at New York on Sunday next, has more than 700 Mormon proselytes on board, in charge 'of a dozen missionaries. They will start at once for Utah, trains having been engaged for that purpose. It is said that missionary work has been very successful in Europe this year, and that about S.(MX) converts will arrive in this country during the next four months. If the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts wants to do a good thing for her citizens. and especially for the trustees of Harvard, there should be a sign erected over the capito!—“Don’t monkey with the buzzsaw.” General Butler has again proved liis shrewdness in a way that calls for admiration even from those not friendly toward him. His bearing at the Harvard commencement

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was that of a gentleman, and he left with the the scalps of the entire board of overseers dangling at his belt The fact that he acted so discreetly proves anew that he has lost none of his ancient diplomacy and cunning. In the language of the late lamented Weller: “Beware of vidders. Ninety thousand dollars were paid into the treasury of Cincinnati, for liquor license, the first day after the Scott law was held valid, and the total revenue to be received from this source for the same city, is estimated at $300,000. At the same time the traffic is put under rigid regulations, and those engaged in it rendered liable for all violations. This is certainly a decided improvement over the old regime of free whisky, and the better classes of all parties in Ohio are beginning to view the matter in the same way. The doctrine of refusing bread because you can’t get a whole loaf is exploded. f At Joliet, where the liquor license fee is fixed at SI,OOO, it is said at least eleven dealers will pay the amount demanded and continue in the business. Eleven saloons in Joiiett will thus pay into the city treasury almost if not quite as much as is. contributed by all the drinking places of Indianapolis put together. With high-license fees in Ohio and Illinois, and a large revenue received in both States, the day i9 not far distant when the Indiana saloon will have to pay. If the stories told be true, the managers of the Soldiers’ Home at Bath, N. Y., ought to serve a term at Sine: Sing. According to sworn statements, veterans wholly unfit for work have been compelled to do hard labor, in three instances at least up to within twenty-four hours of their death. The charges will be investigated, and the facts brought to the attention of Governor Cleveland. Ohio politics is a fruitful topic of discussion among Eastern Democrats at present, and the names of Tilden and Hoadly are frequently coupled together in connection with the next national Democratic canvass. Hoadly is more talked of than any Democrat except Tilden, and the visitors to Greystone constantly increase in number. The shadow of the Sage of Cipher alley creeps on apace. President Geevy, on the petition of the Radicals of the French Chamber of Deputies, has refused to commute the sentence of Louise Michel to exile for life. Louise appears to be a kind of female Guiteau, and public opinion in France is much divided upon the question of her sentence. A meeting of the master plumbers has been held in New York to effect the organization of a national association, evidently for the purpose of mutual protection. The general impression hitherto has been that plumbers aa individuals were fully able to hold their own against all comers, but it seems that the only formidable obstacle encountered by them has been the revilinge and contumely heaped*upon them by inconsiderate newspapers. This onslaught, so uncalled for and so.wholly undeserved, was met by Enoch Remick, a Philadelphia man, in a speech in which he took occasion to unmask the dangerous and unscrupulous penuy-a-llner. He also inveighed against the sanitary eugiueer and expert, though why is hardly plain, since the latter nearly always pronounces criminally faulty any system of plumbing be muy be called upon to inspect. This would be disheartening to the plumber but for the fact that the same hand that holds the dagger that stabs him contains also a now silk dress, a coach nud span and a trip to Europe. Sporadic plumbers were bai enough. What is goiug to become of society when they swoop down on defenseless humanity in solid phalunxf The New Orleans Times-Democrat has proof positive that the editors of leading magazines reject manuscripts unread. The Democrat knows a lady of that city who wrote ft “perfect lyric" and sent it to the Century. It was returned unread, she is coutideut. In sendiug it again a stray eyelash dropped upon, the paper, and she left it there as a silent detective. The “perfect lyric’’ again came back to the author with the eyelash undisturbed! Just what magazine editors want of strange eyelashes the lady does not explain, but, at all events, she will send them no more lyrics, for which conclusion the editors will doubtless be thaukful. The Eastern colleges are trying to devise means to beat the seuior classes out of their usual spree of rowdyism. Harvard proposes as a means to this end to withhold the diplomas and issue certificates instead, to be afterward exchanged for diplomas by all who have conducted themselves properly through the closing exercises. The seniors in turn have voted not to accept these certificates, and the final row promises to be more lively than ever. Chicago should look to her credit, or she will be mistaken for a Connecticut village. Some days ago the body of some unidentified man was washed ashore there, and it has lain on the beach ever siuce, there being a dispute between the authorities of Chicago and Lake V’iew as to which should bear the expense of burial. A subscription from some other town might facilitate matters. One million and a half copies of Martin Furquliur Tupper’s Proverbial Philosonhy have been sold in this country, from which the author complains that lie has reaped little benetlt. Being a philosopher be should reflect that the million and a half readers have received no benefit cither, and be comforted. Some San Francisco banks have their vaults filled with boxes of opium taken ns collateral security. They should be careful, as drugs taken in excess are apt to be daugerous. A bank of this city took un overdose of qniuiue, aud then —“busted.” The Queen of Spain is said to be highly accomplished but slightly arctic in temperament. Recent events have probably convinced Alfonso that an Arctic temperamcht may be accompanied by a torrid temper. The suspicion is out that those Virginia editors have clashed upon each other with such "force, and missed, that the momentum is still driving them at break neck speed in opposite directions. Butler has dumped u whole cart load of red hot coals upon the head of Harvard. When a man beoonies a Christian statesman he can't conoeal it. The chaplain of the New Hampshire House minds whom lie is praying for as well as whom ho is praying to, so when a dozeu or so of representa-

tives were present, on Saturday, he got through his official devotions in less than half a minute by the clock. ABOITT PEOPLE. James Payn, the Euglish novelist, is said to be strikingly like Talmage \n personal appearance. Mrs. Langtry pathetically remarks that “the ocean steamships go so heavily louded that it’s difficult to get a place at the rail wheu you feel that way.” Senator John Siikrman is childless. He and his excellent wife adopted a couple of girl babies, one of wboiu died, and the other is now a pretty maiden of fifteeu. George Francis Train has set on the same bench in Madison Square fourteen hours a day for nearly ten years past. He wears uo hat, aud his face has bronzed coppery in the sun. POOR Carlotta, the Mexican Emperor Maximilian’s wife, is not “rigorously secluded,” as John Bigelow says, but has “ladies of honor and a household quite regal,” so the Loudon World says. It is believed that the Rev. Bishop O’Hara, of Scranton, who was chosen uy the College of Cardinals to represeot Archbishop Wood at the coming council at Rome, will receive the appointment to succeed the dead prelate. Mrs. Crayckoft, the sister of the unfortunate arctic explorer, Sir John Franklin, died recently at Dorking, Bhgland, at the age of ninety years. She spent nearly all of her ample fortune in fitting out expeditious to search for her brother. General H. W. Slocum has taken the unexpired lease of General Bherraau's house in Washington, and Representative Wadsworth will make his winter home in the oue in the same row that was formerly occupied by Mr. Blaine. Cardinal McCloskky has left the Episcopal residence in New York city gone to the Academy of Mouut St. Vincent, on the Hudson, where he will remain for a number of weeks for the benefit of his health. He prefers Mount St. Vincent to Newport, not only on account of its being within the limits of his own archdiocese, bat also because of its beautiful location aud the perfect quiet and seclusion which he enjoys there under the care of the Sisters of Charity. Mr. Page McCarthy, who figures as the seoond of Editor Bierne in the last lamentable duelling fiasco, is the gentleman who killed young Mordecai, of Richmond, in a duel just after the war. About a year ago he challenged Congressman Riddleberger, but Mr. K. backed down. McCarthy is a warm-hearted, genial fellow, and the last person who would be suspected of duelistic proclivities. He is “dead game,” however, and wheu there is any talk of fighting in Virgiuiahe is usually sent for. Gen. Grant has loaned his magnificent collection of curiosities, collected by him during his tour around the world, to the Louisville Exposition. Tuis collection includes the rich presents he received from foreign potentates ail over the world, including the valuable gold boxes presented to him. In tlie collection is al&o a number of oriental curiosities, as well as some rare and beautiful specimens of Japanese embroidery. The box made from a portion of the Shakspeare tree is algh in thellst. Miss Lizzie Nutt, on hearing that the will of Dukes had at last been found, and that Dukes had bequeathed $2,000 to Miss Beeson, said, with great tenderness: “That is righr, a very just act on Ills part; for she clung to him, it seems, to the last, with either a bouudlees blind love which could not see his Infamy, or a hopeful pity which made her believe that the wretch might sometime become penitent. I am told that she is poor, so the money will do her much good. I hear, too, that she is quite ill aud worn. But why did he not leave her all his property! With it all her support would have been more assured.” Mr. Ruskin, Mr. Robert Browning aud Colonel “Frect,” Burnaby are members of the committee to raise a testimonial fund.for Mr. Martin FarqubarTupper. The author of “Proverbial Philosophy” is now seventy-three years old, and has been before the public as an author fifty-one yurs. Despite the enormous popularity of his writings he has received little money from them, and it is said that from the 1,500,000 copies of “Proverbial Philosophy” sold in this country he has hever received a penny. Mr. Gladstone, Lora o, '**ftesbury, Lord Houghton, the Bishop of Winchester aud Lord Ronald Gower are among those who already have subscribed liberally to tbe fund. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Already the cities and towns of Ohio are rejoicing over the prospects of their increased revenue. The bill [the Scott law] will continue to gain in popularity, for it is founded on common sense, business sense and absolute justice. It will help to carry the State for the Republicans by a large majority.—Chicago Tribune. Never did such an administrative calmness and balminess prevail at Washington as during tlie placid months of the Hayes regime, aud the flower which blossomed forth in this garden of pleasantness was the star-route robbery. Let us have a little grating at the capital. It is safer. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. If ever the United States government had just cause for complaint against the quality of the emigration fostered and encouraged by any foreign government, that occasion is the present one. If our government is ever to protest against paupers being sent hither at the expense of a foreign government, tnis is the time to protest.—New York Times. The reduction [of collection districts] goes as far as anyone hart ever dared to propose going It is another proof that the Republican party recognizes tlie public needs, and not the party’s desires, as the law of its action. No reasonable niiui. familiar with the history of tlie Democratic party, will pretend to believe that a Democratic administration would have thus voluntarily di.-finished its own power to save publio money. —New York Tribune. The people understand perfectly well that the character of the men in office is quire as good as it would be likely to be if the Republicans were turned out and Democrats put in. Their interest in the election will center upon principles and a policy, not upon men. They demand a reduction in taxation, economy in expenditures, a relef from unjust tariff discriminations, a reform m administrative methods, prompter and better legislation and purer polities.—Boston Herald. THE career of the McGeochs will be brought to an end within the next few years. The particular oliaracter of gambling he indulged in will be prevented by law. The unconquerable spirit of gambling will be forced to exert itself in some oilier channel. As it is not likely that this human propensity can bo entirely obliterated, it may be expected to seek indulgence in some other direction. But it may bn relied upon tuat the particular form of gambling carried on now in exchanges and on stock boards will be interdicted by law.—St. Louis Republican. The time for questions and inquiries is before the policy [life, insurance] is written. The company has every opportunity to find out with whom it is dealing, and when onco the contract is completed aud the money paid there should be. an end of dispute. It is a plain business transaction—so much insurance for so much money aud it is only because of the complication and mystery with which the companies have surrounded it, to the disadvantage of the public, that it requires aujutnore particular regulation than the irade in dry goods or any other business where a man n>ul£* a Plain QQ&trßct aud expects it to be fulfilled—Philadelphia Times. Men who represent the Standard Oil Company on candidates for office are. bad men. It will be dangerous to every workingman and every business interest to give them official position. The principle is broader than even the Standard Oil Company, widely-extended as it is: and it will be. well for the great monopolies that are usirg so much of the wealth of tlie country to serve merely their own ends to consider the advisability of justice to the mass while they can do so of their own will. The charge against Judge Hoadly is not nonsensical. It is very far irom that. The. Standard Oil Company must elect, no Governors, aud it must elect uo President.—New York Graphic. Judge Hoadly will be serenaded by the. Democratic club SatuMay night next. He will probably m jke the opening speech of tlie campaign. Several candidates on the State ticket are expected to be present. At Loekport, N. Y., on Wednesday, a young girl died in convulsions from blood poisoning, caused by a prick of a tack lu her forehead received one week ago.

INDIANA POLITICS. Interview with HOll. R. H. F. Peirce, Ex- * Congressman from the Eighth District. New York Special In speaking of political affairs in Indiana, Mr. Pefrce said: “Tlie present being an off year, there is but little stirring in the political world in Indiana just now. But as Indiana is a close State, and has always been made the battlefield in October elections, tlie present situation is interesting. Tlie Republican party is in good shape to achieve success in 1884; never was better. There is an entire absence of tiif divisions that are found in tlie ranks of the party in other States. We have no half-breeds or stalwarts; we are all Republicans, and, above all, we have no bosses.” “Is the Democratic party also in good condition?” “Both parties are always well organized, and when there is a political fight, it is a hard, earnest stuggle. But there is no mistake—the Democrats are having trouble over tlie irreconcilable conflict between Hendricks and McDonald. We.hear a great deal of Hendricks’s poor health, but I am in a position to know that he is fully restored, and full of fight. It is not his intention ever to let Mcdonald be nominated for President. The talk about the two men not speaking when they meet is mere nonsense. Both are gentlemen and know what belongs 1 to good breeding. But Hendricks means to 1 prevent McDonald’s nomination, and, therefore he i9 in favor of the old ticket.” “Will Indiana urge one of her statesmen as a candidate for the presidency?” “So far as the Republicans are concerned, Indiana will not have a candidate in an aggressive sense. We have two or three men who would make good candidates, but we shall not insist on the nomination of either. I notice, lately, that many questions are asked about Ben. Harrison, and about the probability of liis being a candidate. This indicates to me that if Indiana should have the Republican candidate it will be Harrison. If she presents any name it will be his. General Gresham is also a good man. and both he and Governor Porter are also spoken of as possible candidates. General Gresham has been United States District Judge in the State, and is widely known for his integrity and good character. He was a gallant soldier, and this makes him popular. Governor Porter is strong, from the fact that he carried Indiana in 1880.” “Do you believe that the State will go Republican in 1884?” “I believe that the electoral vote in 1884 will be given to the nominee of the Republican party, whoever he may be.” “On what grounds do you base this belief?” “In 1880 Indiana was a strong Blaine State, with Grant for second choice. It went Democratic last year, but it did so because we were divided on the temperance question, which will not enter into the next canvass. The standing of the party on that question was misunderstood by many honestly meaning men. We were not for prohibition, but wished to submit a constitutional amendment favoring prohibition, which would be voted on by the people. Many voters failed to see the difference between the two. and believing that prohibition was intended, they either voted against us or stayed away from the polls. Ido not think the question will be raised next year; hence those Republicans who voted against us last year will return, especially as it is a presidential year. Another element which will enter into the contest, and which will he in our favor, is the attitude of the Democrats on the tariff question.” “What is the position of the Republican party in the State on that question?” “We are in favor of a protective tariff that would protect American manufactures. Our State is fast becoming a manufacturing State. We have extensive glass-works at New Albany, and we have inexhaustible coal fields. Hence, without stopping to split hairs on the tariff question, we are in favor of a tariff for the protection of our industries; a discriminating tariff on everything manufactured in this country. The thing is growing in Indiana, and I find that nearly all the agricultural districts are strong in protection sentiments. Now the Democrats are divided on the question. Mr. McDonald and Mr. Voorhees are in direct conflict. McDonald is a free-trader. Hence this division of sentiment, as I have stated, causes me to believe that the State will be Republican.” “Do you hear President Arthur’s name mentioned as a candidate for 1884?” “Very often and very favorably. His popularity is growing in the West and the impression, even with those who were slow to do him justice on the outset, is ttiat he has made a very wise, good and conservative President. He has given us an administration beyond criticism, and he is growing in the good opinion of the people of the West.” THE SOUTHERN SEER. A Man Who Would Rather Make a President Than lie One. Louisville Letter iu Philadelphia Press. It is believed by some that Watterson will be pushed for the second place, but it is entirely unlikely that he would permit his name to be used. He is satisfied where he is. He would rather make a President any day than be one. It is known by a few of his most intimate friends that his personal preference for the second place is Colonel William F. Vilas, of Wisconsin, who is considered one of the brightest men in the Democratic party. Vilas, as a lawyer, stands at the head of his profession in the West. He has all the brilliancy of the late Mat. Carpenter, and is Tilden’s equal in profound logic. He is said to be able to follow Dan. Dougherty in a speech, and win the heartiest ovation on the heels of that orator’s greatest efforts. He i9 about forty-five years old, of stalwart build, great magnetism, remarkably acute intelligence, deep knowledge of constitutional law, astonishing executive ability, and is the coming man among the Democrats of the Northwest. What Watterson lias said and is saying about free trade is of very little account in the South. His New York speech was pronounced erratic and pointless. I don’t think the man thoroughly understands his own position. He never states a fact or controverts an argument. He has simply got a ridiculously false notion that “his tariff for revenue onlj'” idea will popularize his party; but how so shrewd a man can entertain so absurd a proposition it is hard to comprehend. The Courier-Journal is positively without notable effect in its antagonism of protection. I am assured by those who know, that if the question were put squarely to a vote of the people of Kentucky to-day, there would be five to one in favor of protection. Tlie Courier-Journal unmistakably has a great weight of influence, and, regarding most matters concerning the public, i§ looked unyn by its constituents as almost, infallible. But there are two other daily papers in Louisville, the Commercial and the Post, each of which, I am authoritatively told, has a larger circulation in Kentucky than the Courier-Journal, and both are organs of protection. There are many men here today upholding the government’s policy, who, a year ago, professed free trade. Wattcrsoti’s influence as a writer upon economic questions is wanine, and will soon cease altogether. The South is no longer the stronghold of free trade. It once was. As men enter industrial pursuits they turn naturally to protection as the bulwark and safeguard of their prosperity. The Deeper Horror. New York Tribune. It really matters very little what becomes of Hathaway. His work in the world is done. But the deeper horror which lies below is that this man was only an agent to meet an already existing and urgent demand. The Thug is always ready when the Thug is needed. The fact that ho was needed by

hundreds of young mothers, both single women and wives, to murder their children; is the fact which should give us pause. Public reprobation falls heavily on Hathaway; but nothing is said of these young girls, or the men who had driven them in their desspair to murder to save themseves from shame. We hear nothing either of the state of society among us; the extravagant habits among the very poor which .make a married mother prefer to see her babe strangled under her eyes rather than undertake the expense of raising it. HIGH LICENSE. Change in Temperance Policy—Rapid Spread of High License. Memphis Appeal. The high-license system for the sale of liquor is spreading rapidly. Many of the prohibitionists have become tired of agitating for years for a prohibition law which is rarely obtained, and, when obtained, is so ill-administered as to have made the question a-common one, “Does prohibition prohibit?” Os course, if prohibition be law it ought to be administered as faithfully as other laws are, but in fact it is not. The intellectual ussent and moral support of the mass of the community have been wanting, and a law deficient of such props, commonly, is a mere bundle of words on a piece of parchment, and no more. When a prohibition law has been gained in a State, its supporters have always sat down, rejoicing that their work was done. The fact was, it was just begun. The required working implement was obtained, but it would not work itself, and has rarely given satisfaction. It is much easier by persistence and party combinations to get a prohibition law passed than it is to have it executed. In striving for legislation there is a single objective point to be aimed at—the Legislature; but to administer the law. vigilance and effort-are required in every village in the State. The mayor of Fort Scott, Kan., when attending the recent nurserymen’s convention at St. Louis, acknowledged that prohibition was a failure in that State. The District Court in his town had been in ses Bion five weeks, and had fifteen liquor-selling cases before it, but could not convict one. All these things had led many opponents of excessive drinking to seek remedies which would meet with public support and be effectual against the evil so universally complained of. They seek to have existing laws respecting Sunday selline\ selling to minors and habitual drunkards, and selling after hours put in force, and especially to decrease the number of liquorseilers by raising the amount paid for licenses. In some of the cities of Missouri and Illinois the liquor tax is SBOO to SI,OOO. Where such sums are at risk liquor-sellers find it necessary to observe the law for their own sakes. It does not pay to make people drunk when disorder on their premises entails a heavy line. What is even better, it is to their interest to help the law 9top unlicensed selling. Their expenses are too high to bear such competition as that. Some of the highlicense advocates propose that county and town authorities shall decide how many retailers there shall be in a given district, then sell the license for each district at auction. In one way or another the high-license system is making rapid way. An Incident of the Beecher Celebration. Letter in Philadelphia Press. During the tremendous long prayer of Dr. Peck, in which he told the Lord all about Beecher from the egg to the rooster, Mr. Beecher was seen to get up and leave the filatform. What for? Outside there were at east 5,000 ram-jammed men and women anxious to get in. They couldn’t. The pint pot almost held a quart. So they began to cheer and indulge in that fine old Yankee custom of making “the welkin ring.” After they had rung it to their heart’s content their sympathies were aroused by a sight of the old man eloquent. He had heard their rumpus, and knowing how they probably felt, left the Peckian prayer to give aid and comfort to the outsiders. They gave him a rousing welcome, and he spoke to them about five minutes, returning in time to hear Dr. Peck’s amen and amen. Now you know that’s characteristic and typical of Beecher. He’ll leave the iron highway to heaven any time to help a lame dog over a stile or to pull a blind man out of a ditch. This shocks the clergy, of course, but what of it. The dog’s helped and the blind delivered, and that’s what’s the matter with Beecher’* theology. Mu&iugs of a Quiet Fisherman. Grand Rapid* Democrat. The devil likes a crowd. Depravity, like other fermenting substances. works best where its materials are thickest. One man can’t be very bad all by himself. Companionship is almost a necessity. Take unlimited glasses of beer and unlimited bottles of whisky, distributed among countless numbers of the vacillating, lonesome and melancholy beings called men, and the beer, largely, stays in the kegs, and their reason, such'as it is, stays in the men, as long as they are alone. But when Tom goes over to see Jake, and they go out to Jim’s, and various other friends of Tom’s, Jake’s and Jim’s join them at some rendezvous, then the whisky and beer go in, and the reason—such as it is—goes out. A Social Need. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The workman knows as well as anybody else that drink is the curse of the world, and that the path of temptation leads to the door of the saloon, but he insists that as long as he can get nothing better he must take the best that his hard life gives him. The prohibitionists and Sabbatarians who propose to shut out the enjoyments of life from all but the rich would do well to provide a better substitute for the saloons before abolishing them, and to recognize that even the poor wage-worker inay have some social needs and requirements which his nature prompts him to provide for. Points in Natural History. Chicago Times. Senator Voorhees is almost as far out in his natural history as he is in his political economy. The goose is by r.o means the most foolish of birds, and the cow knows enough for her own purposes as a general thing. Mr. Voorhees might have seen a better example of folly in the animal he was driving. The horse is the only beast known who will completely lose his senses on the smallest provocation, or none at all. and rush off madly at the top of his speed, and even dash his brains out in his blind and senseless fright. That’s the kind of a fool a Dan. Voorhees Democrat is. Cou 11 fry Roads. Philadelphia Press. Country roads have not kept pace with national development in other respects, and the day is not distant when the subject must be •taken up in earnest and a system inaugurated bv which what is expended upon them one year is not entirely dissipated before the next year comes around. The question has been left mainly to the farmers, and their slowness is proverbial, hut many of them be* gin to see their mistake and arc ripe for a better system. And it will come before many years. The Dangers of Knowledge. Hartford Post. Joseph Cook calls himself “the product of twenty five years of education, including foreign travel,” See what dangers the uneducated escape. Ami All the Other Commandments. | Washington Post. "Thou Shalt not kill” would be n good I plank for the platform of ail thd parties in * all the y tales. *