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THE DAILY JOURNAL. nT JNO. C\ NEW & SON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1885. KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. hU.S INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE—POSTAQS PREPAID BY THE PUBLISIIKRS. THE BMLY JOURNAL. On* rear, by mail A SI 2.00 One year by mail, including Sunday 14.00 Nut months, by mail .... 6.00 Six months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 Three months, by mail 3 00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 ©n month, by mail 1.00 Oae month, by mail, including Sunday Par week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) ■ THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. JVreopy 5 cents Dvr year, by mail $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL, (WEEKLY EDITION.) Dae year $1 -00 l#ss t han one year and over three months. 10c per saoaths. No subscription taken for less than three Months. Jn clubs of live or over, agents will take yearly subscriptions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for •heir work. Address JNO. 0. NEW & SON, Publishers The Journal, Indianapolis, lad. THU INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL fu be found at the following places.f/*VDON —American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange iu Paris, 35 Boulevard 4es C’apucines. HfTW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer Tlouse. CINCINNATI—J. K. liable;.' & Cos., 154 Vine street. IrOUTSVILLE—C. T. Bearing, northwest, corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot end Southern Hotel. - Telephone Calls. Ra#iness Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 212 The mayor’s platform is a good one: Enforce the laws and increase the saloon license. The Ohio Democratic convention meets in Gelnnibus to day. The present indications foror the renomination of Governor Iloadly. The Buffalo paper that first “told the truth” About Mr. Cleveland’s amours has been abjerbed. It was fatal to even stick to the troth in that instance. Sr. I jOUIS is overdoing the Maxwell sensation business. His escape and flight across the world was more the result of luck than i&rewdness. lie is a very ordinary specimen of murderer. Objection is made to the President's appointment to oflico of Mr. Hanna, of Cleveland, on the ground tLat he is a Republican. He is challenged on the ground that he ha.> never been indicted. Olivier Pain, the Frenchman, seems possessed of moie lives than a cat. He no sooner in the Soudan, than he is murdered some* where else, and is arrested at a third place thousands of miles away. The enforcement of the law, an economical adi ninistration of affairs, a saloon tax of one hundred dollars, and the breaking of the power f the saloons in local politics, will do a3 the outlines of tho city campaign. Reciprocity or something else has suggested that Canadian thieves may come to the United States. Tho balance of trade, however, continues against us, as but one Canuck rascal has lately taken advantage of his opportunities. Another dynamite outiage is reported from Meeker, Cal., by which two men were killed, their cabin being blown to pieces. If eTcr lynching be justified it is in cases of tills kind. No man fit to live would be guilty of inch fiendishi,css. Secret.'ky or State Myers i? reported to say that no man can defend tho non*nforcement of the law. What is the Secretary's policy toward the enforcement of the iiquor law by the Police Board, of which lie is one of the controllers? Henri Rochefort’s scheme for revenge on the British for the alleged death of Olivier Pain is characteristic of the man. Ho proposes to lay for the Prince of Wales, should lie ever visit Franco. Another scheme is to take it out of Lord Lyons, the British embassador. What need of proceeding iu this roundabout way? Tho same result can be reached by declaring war upon England. But perhaps the fiery editor of L’lntransigeant doesn’t care to Arovoke hostilities. There are pleasing indications of increased activity in local iron manufactures, the Importance and influence of which, as was said yesterday, cannot well be exaggerated. The Journal gives some facts of interest regarding this revival of industrial activity in its city columns. The one great thing Indianapolis needs is more pluck and spirit, energy and enterprise. It is not encouraging to find among our leading men those who deem it an intrusion fur the public to care what is being done throughout the city iu a business way. Now and then one such has it in his power to do not a little harm by an old fogyish influence that stagnates everything it touches. The liquor-dealers in Democratic Missisdppi are in evident alarm at the extent t.o which the sentiment in favor of prohibition has spread. A meeting has been held to devise some way to render the traffic secure, and the conclusion was that its only hope was to concentrate the liquor voto on the Democratic candidates for the Legislature. Iu Ohio this order is exactly reversed, and the political Prohibitionists are deliberately playing into hands of the Democratic party. Each has ibade a foolish move. By thrusting the liquor question to an issue between par ties,

the saloonists have set themselves up to ho knocked down. In Ohio the advocates of prohibition have prejudiced their cause by deliberately going to the helpof that ancient enemy of temperance and sobriety, and by accepting pay from Democratic sources, contributed by the liquor interest, for the dual purpose of defeating the Republican party and preventing any legislation looking to the regulation of the liquor traffic. TEE INDIANAPOLIS POSTOFFICE. The Philadelphia Times has exclusive information to the effect that “every abuse which civil-service reformers and good citizens justly condemn” had been fostered in the Indianapolis postoffice for years before Mr. Jones got possession of it. It was only natural, the Times thinks, that Mr. Jones, “as tho representative of an administration with different ideas, should seek to change thi3, and it was only right that he should have the fair co-operation of everybody who wished well to a good service.” There is a vagueness and lack of specifications in the charges made by the Times which render it somewhat doubtful whether that erratic journal really knows itself what it is driving at. At all events, it does not know anything worth mentioning concerning “abuses” in tho Indianapolis postoffiec under Republican administration. It personally concerns but a few people whether the employes in a postoffice are members of one party or another; whether they are old soldiers or sons of veterans, or whether they are persons of uncertain reputation and “copperhead” antecedents. The preferences of the majority may be for the former, but so selfish, is humanity that so long as it is served satisfactorily by either, it will not complain, though the other be wronged by dismissal. Under former postmasters it is undoubtedly true, as the Times charges, that men were “put where they would do the most good.” A large proportion of them were men who had once served in the Union army, and were, therefore, Republican in politics; but, nevertheless, they were good men in the right places, as is proved by the fact that the Indianapolis postoffice has, years, enjoyed the reputation of being one of the best managed offices in the country. Inspectors and other officials on their regular rounds invariably made favorable, and often complimentary, reports of the office here. Above all, patrons of the office, of all classes, were satisfied with the service, and complaints were rarely heard—a condition of affairs, it may be remarked, which, by no mean3, exists at present. It was generally understood in the city that this excellence was greatly due, aftjr the ability and fidelity of the responsible head of the office, to the experienced service of a man who had been retained in his responsible position as chief assistant for nineteen years because he met the Republican civilservice tests of ability and fidelity. He was “put where he would do tho most good.” He did it, and was kept there. Os other employes the same could be said as to their skill and faithfulness in their respective departments. When Mr. Jones came in, and, in the words of the Times, “sought to change this,” and remedy these “abuses," it was felt that he might easily make mistakes and interfere with the smoothness and efficiency of the service, but no man attempted to hamper his movements in any way. There was no method by which they could “co-operate" with him, as the Times suggests would have been pr< p r; but they did refrain from interference. They might not regard all his acts as in harmony with the civil service rules, but the majority of the citizens were, as has been remarked, so absorbed in their own affairs that even this non-compliance with law failed to excite. Those pure, unselfish and lonely beings, the four Indiana mugwumps, finally assumed the role of public censors, and attacked Jones for his infraction of law, but were repulsed with heavy losses and are now laid up for repairs. In the meantime it is slowly but surely dawning on the public mind that the service rendered by the present management of tho postoffice is by no means equal to what it was under the old system, so abused by the “reformers.” Unless speedy improvements are made in certain directions, the next complaint which goes to headquarters concerning Grandpa Jones’s postoffice will be of a more practical nature than the charges preferred by the mugwumps, and of a kind more likely to be heard. State Senator Sutton, a prominent prohibitionist of Io wa, who lias been studying the temperance situation in the South, is greatly impressed with the success of local option, and, in writing on the subject, says: “The fourteen Southern States I visited have double the amount of prohibition (well established and enforced) than the entire North. They have about 400 entire counties and enough precincts to make a hundred counties more. Vet prohibition has never had the indorsement of a Southern political convention, and it could not. carry a single Southern State as a State issue. If Northern Prohibitionists had made prohibition non-partisan and made the fight by counties instead of States, as the South has done, we might have to-day a majority of the counties in every Northern State, and nearly every county in very many of the States.” Coming from such a source, this statement ought to have weight with Mr. Sutton’s associates in tho temperance work; but to many of them even seeing is not believing, and not much can be hoped from a mere telling. Only time, and the sad experience they are sure to have, can be depended on to convince them of the erior of their ways. Ip report may be believed, the agrarian outrages coincident with the progress of Lord Carnarvon’s tour are tho work of oiganized implacable* who waut to force the new official

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into harsh measures, the hope being to hurt his evident popularity. If this be true, nothing would be too severe punishment for the fellows intent on perpetuating the bad feeling between Ireland and the government. At present the relationship is encouragingly amicable, and no friend of Ireland will voluntarily and wantonly disturb it. COLOSSAL STEALAGE. The Republican papers are raising quite a hubbub over two or three trifling defective appointments made by the administration. We call their attention to a colossal stealage by Republican officials amounting to nearly $1,500,000, which dwarfs into insignificance any and ail of the mistakes of tho present Democratic administration. The enormous amount of defalcations alluded to in the foregoing were the result of stealings on the part of the federal officials iu Louisiana, or their employes.—Sentinel. Passing over tho “trifling defective appointments” made from men in jail and others who have done service in penitentialies, it may be admitted that tho colossal stealing mentioned by the Sentinel is deplorable. But an examination shows that, according to the Sentinel’s figures, about $1,200,000 of this amount was stolen immediately after the war, when the affairs of Louisiana, in common with all Southern States, were in an unsettled state, and men of bad character were enabled to slip into positions of trust in the confusion attendant upon the settling up of the war. The loss of a million and a half in fourteen years is to be regretted. But greater offenses have been committed since in time of peace, and by men whom Democracy has delighted to honor. The New York Sun has a dispatch from Galveston exposing a swindle of $1,750,000 in extent, perpetrated by Democratic State officials now in office. Here is something fresh. Instead of going back twenty-four years, to 18G4, and the turbulent times immediately succeeding the war, we invite the Sentinel to turn over the leaves only to 1884. Tho Galveston News shows that hist year the Texas land board, by its neglect and mismanagement, lost to the school fund of th* State the sum of $1,750,000, which should have been collected from cattle men under the law during the past eighteen months. The News, with a very stringent libel law before its eyes —one tUtit gags the press almost —says: “The loss of $1,750,000 was not. accidental, and, not being accidental, it is presumably the result of intelligent design.” In other words, someone has been “whacking up” with the cattlemen whohavethusescaped taxation through the studied neglect of State officials. The blame must rest on such good Democrats as Governor John Ireland, State Treasurer F. R. Lubbock, Land Commissioner W. C. Walsh, Comptroller W. J. Swain and Attorney-general John D. Templeton, who constitute tho hoard. They aro among the most distinguished politicians in Texas, and are Democrats to a man, with everything their own way, and a Democratic majority behind them as large as they choose to make it. Here is something fresh and entertaining for the Sentinel to draw a moral from. The Democratic officials of Democratic Texas have stolen or gotten away with nearly $2,000,000 *in the last past eighteen months. No portion of this rascality can be laid at the feet of carpet-bag-gers or Republicans. It is a part of the Democrat record, and as such should be kept in mind bv the Sentinel and such Democratic papers as would like to divert attention from the scandalous appointments that have been made by the “reform” administration. To do this it had to go back twenty-four years. It now appears that there are much richer fields nearer at hand. Rev. Dr. Macafee, of Lexington Kv. , in a sermon against the prevalent lawlessness of that State, spoke as follows upon the question of a practicable regulation and restiiction of the evils of the liquor traffic: “To my mind the only wise aim for temperance people is to seek to put the traffic under such regulations as will curtail its evils, in the meantime bending every energy to the creation of a broader and deeper sentiment against tho use of the drug. For our own country, as the matter presents itself to my mind, the wisest practical aim is the securing of high license laws. This, I presume, is quite within the reach of possibility, and it has at least two features that commend themselves strongly to every earnest reformer. In the 'first place, it will sweep out at one stroke the whole host of the worst class of groggeries. Let a man pay several hundred dollars for license to keep a liquor store and he will see to it as a mere matter of business interest that there shall not be a half a dozen low dens in the same neighborhood selling without license. In tho second place, a nmn who is able to pay several hundred dollars for a license will, as a general lule, be a somewhat more responsible character than the nondescript and wholly irresponsible crew who now operate so many of the evil dens that disfigure the streets of our cities.” esm ammminar.mammnamwrmmmx*3m The criticism was made by certain Republicans, well posted on consulate affairs, that Secretary Bayard, in selecting consuls to be retained in service for their efficiency and usefulness, failed to include Mr. Alberti). Shaw, who was stationed at Manchester. The information now comes by way of the Washington Post that Mr. £haw, though an efficient officer, was dismissed because he is a protectionist, and, therefore, not a fit representative of the country in the opinion of the administration. This information will be interesting, if not gratifying, to that not inconsiderable portion of the Democratic party which does not believe in free trade. It is doubtful if Mr. Keiley, whom two nations have failed to recognize abroad, will be easily recognized at home, for it must be remembeied that he has shrunk amazingly since he left these shores.—Chicago Times. That’s where yeu are mistaken. Mr. Keiley is of the same stature that he was when dragged from obscurity in Virginia. His col-

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lapse simply emphasizes the blunder made by an administration that ha3 made itself ridiculous by attempting to do business in an unbusinesslike way. The drawing powers of the Sunday campmeeting were utilized for a nefarious purpose by an enterprising but wicked man at Philadelphia last week. An announcement in the Sunday morning papers that a colored camp-meeting would be opened at a certain grove that day brought three or four hundred white excursionists, on the first boat, to ‘‘see the fun.” The wicked man was there, and explained that the meeting had been postponed indefinitely. He had with him, however, a large quantity of beer and other spirituous refreshments, and these the crowd accepted—at the usual prices—as a substitute for the “fun" they had expected to have. They were not unhappy when they went home, and in spite of one disappointment, may go hunting for the camp meeting again next Sunday. A man named Prank Reed has been arrested in Alabama for offenses committed in California. He confesses his identity, aud that he killed a man in Salida, Cal., and a woman in a Texas bagnio, besides stealing more cattle than he knew what to do with. At first it was thought he was insane to so recklessly incriminato himself, but the impression now obtains that ho is a candidate for some offico and wants to make himself solid with the administration. He feels confident of 6peedy appointment. Revivalists of the Sam Jones type are springing up all over the Southwest. The latest of the religious stars is described as having a very unique style, “being affectionate and pathetic at times, then satirical and manly as may suit.” There is nmhiag “unique” about a preacher who is affectionate. The people of that region seem cot to have had tnat intimate acquaintance with spiritual pastors and masters which some other communities have enjoyed. To what depths of shame the indulgence of an appetite for whisky will drag a man was strikingly illustrated in a Massachusetts town a few days ago. A drunken father took his babe to a saloon and attempted to sell it tor $5, then $3, then $2.50. Failing to get a buyer, he laid the child on said: “Well, look here, my friend, take the baby and give me one good, square drink.” A California woman is said to have devoted one hundred acres of her ranch to the culture of pyrethrum, the plant from which insect powder is made. It is very evident that some period of this woman’s life has been embittered by hopeless pursuit of the frisky and festive cimex. Mu. “Fritz” Emmet has been —no, not on a jamboree this time, but to Europe—and brought back a Yorkshire terrier, weight five pounds, silvery hair that trails on the ground; cost, $1,200. Mr. Emmet’s taste iu dogs, as well as some other things, is expensive. Fourteen skeletons have been unearthed at Boston. The presence of clam shells indicated that they were the remains of aborigines. Had a baked-bean vase been found, the beans would have been transferred to Old South Church. Another American Stuart has been found who claims direct descent from the Stuarts of Scotch royalty. This is not half so remarkable as it would be to find a Stuart who did not. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Henry Clay bestowed the title “Queen City of the West'' on Cincinnati in 1828. The Daily Minute has oeen established at Austin, Tex., by a Democrat and a Christian. Miss Kate Greenaway's now book for the autumn publishing season will be a budget of pictures and words. It will bear the title, “The Marigold Garden." The fate of Kate Field's co-operative venture does not kill co-operation in New York. A company has just been incorporated to copy the features of the Army and Navy Co-operative Society of London. Thk most valuable wedding present which the Princess Beatrice received was a magnificent tea and coffee service of solid gold, each piece being richly chased, which was sent by the Empress Eugenie. The illustrated papers which represent the Princess Beatrice ami her bridesmaids wearing low-corsaged and short-sleeved dresses are all wrong. They wore high-cut dresses, with long sleeves, by her Majesty’s epeeial command. Mrs. Helen Jackson resided in New Haven during the early years of the war, and was one of the most active women engaged iu preparing supplies to be sent to the soldiers in the field, being associated in the work with Susan Coolidge Woolsey, the daughters of the late General Russell, and other ladies there. *Mme. BOUCICAVLT, proprietor of the famous Bon Marche. Paris, recently announced to her 2,600 employes that from her private fortune she had appropriated $>200,000 to the foundation of a pension fund for aged and infirm employes. A similar fund of SIBO,OOO already exists, given by the former proprietor in 1876. Oakville, Canada, brings forward the champion mean man in a resident for whose dj ing wife the doctor prescribed wine. Wine could not easily be had, and the doctor furnished some from his private stores. When he sent in his bill the sorrowing widower laid an information against him for selling liquor in a prohibition county, contrary to the Scott law. GENERAL Toombs lately mot a young friend who was going to move to Atlanta. “What business will you embark in?" asked the General. “I have not decided as yet, but will try to make an honest living at something," was the reply. “My young friend," spoke up General Toombs, “you are going to the right place to succeed, for there will be no opposition in the lino." In the gulden age of the Roman Republic (B. C. 150) the necessaries of life were very cheap. A bushel of wheat sold for fourpence, and a bushel of corn for five. The traveler was charged for food and lodging at an inn only two farthings a day. Extravagant prices were paid, however, for luxuries A barrel of anchovies from the Black sea cost- S7O, and flamingo tongues brought their weight in gold. Canon Farrar, whose eulogy of General Grant delivered in Westminster has attracted wide attention, will visit America next month. He expects to be iu Quebec Bept. 11, at Chicago on the 2ftth, Baltimore 29th, Philadelphia Oct,. 5, Washington the 10th, and will then spend two weeks iu New York and New England. He will lecture in several places and preach once in Boston and once in New York. A GOOD wig of white hair, says a tonsorial artist, costs about $lO, but (and this is a secret of the trade and can only be told in whispers) tho material of which the wigs are made is clipped from the festive goat, and never from the human head. A peculiar soft, silky kind of snow-white hair orignates on the Angora rabbit. A perfect white and .abundant wig of white human hair would cost SI,OOO at least. Miss Kate Sanborn, the well-known lecturer and author, who recently received from Mr. Gordon W. Burnham a legacy of $50,000, and who was engaged to be married to that gentleman at the time of his death, has writte a decidedly interesting book, entitled “Wit of Women," and soon to be published by Messrs. Funk & Wagnalls. The volume is dedicated: to a. w. 8., in grateful memory. The late Lord Ernest Vane-Tempest belonged to one of the few families in the British peerage that have disregarded the 6tupid caste prejudice against "trade." The Marquis of Londonderry (Lord Ernest's nephew), finding himself the owner of valuable coal mines, works them, sends the coal to market and sells

it, all in his own name, frankly advertising himself in tlje London papers as “The Marquis of Londonderry, wholesale and retail dealer in coals;" while his sister, Lady Alexandria Vane-Tempest, was not ashamed to give her own name to one of his huge coal-barges. It is an example which might well bo followed by many other “nob e lords.” Mr. Christopher Taldot is the only member of the House of Commons who sat in it prior to the reform bill of 1832. Fifty-five years ago he was returned, at the age of twenty-nine, for Glamorganshire, and the connection thus formed has been continued uninterruptedly up to the present day. The onlymember who can bo said to rival Mr. Talbot is Mr. Gladstone, who was born in 1809, and has been a member of the House of Commons since 1832, with an interval of two years from 18-15 to 1817. 51b. Stanley, the explorer, says that the dandy in Africa is as interesting in his sight as his giddier brethren of Europe and America. A lion skin, a real lion skin, is spread out. a fat crimson bolster is in place of a chair of state, and a circle of respectful principals are seated around. Whilo you are seated expectant of his appearance, the dude is touching himself up before a score of looking-glasses hanging around the walls of his house, straightening a hair here, giving another dab of ochre on his cheeks or forehead, a 6troak of yellow under an oye, a line of white under the other, the ridge of his nose colored still darker with powdered charcoal, a loving tap on his chignon, a smooth of a crease in his red blanket, and lo! the African dude stands before you. M. Arsens Houssayk: “The Marshal do Saxe said as he died: ‘I have dreamed a beautiful dream!’ In truth, who would not have lived in the golden dream of tho brave man that, already- dy-ing, wished to win tho battle of Font-enoyl I, too, have dreamed a beautiful dream without going to Fontenoy. But I have been a good soldier in the battle of life. I have fired my last cartridge, and now lay- down my arms. I feel that I am already in the eampo santo. and I often pay myself a visit to Pere la Chaise, where my tomb is in readiness. There I direct a last look of sympathy toward humanity-, ever in labor pains with the future. M ill the future be worthier than the past? Yes, if the earth grows not cold, and human folly overcomes not the sense of the ideal. Whatever happens, and whatever befalls me, I thank the gods that I have been elected to behold the great spectacle of human life." Japan possesses at this moment 2,000 newspapers. Considering that not a single journal of any kind existed, or was thought of, in the country- twenty-five years ago, this rapid rise and spread of the newspaper press there is one of the most remarkable facts in the history of journalism. Japan now boasts of a greater number of newspapers than either Italy or Austria, of more than Spain and Russia taken together, and of twice as many as the whole contir.eut of Asia. The appetite of the Chinese for news is sufficiently- fed by the Pekin Gazette—which is, in fact, not a newspaper at all—and two small sheets published at Shanghai. Corea possesses an official gazette since 1884, and nothing else reserabiing a newspaper exists. The French have already started a paper in their new colony—L'Avenir de Tong-king; but as It is a purely French sheet, it can hardly- contribute much to the enlightenment of the nativ es. Tho Persians are comparatively- insensible to the fascinations of the daily paper. The six papers which they possess owe their existence to the reigning Shah, who is a man of letters himself, and composes poetry in his spare hours. The natives of India have a thousand newspapers. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. The Brooklyn Fagle has invented what it advertises as a sure cure for civil-service reform. Its plan is to allow no persons to stand for the civil-service exami nations who are not first nominated by executive authority, or, in other words, by- the old patronage dispensing machine. The Eagle says of this plan: "Every Democrat would welcome it," while those among Republicans vvi o believe in the reform, "might kick, but their opposition would only be an additional argument in favor of the suggestion.” Tho Eagle, it is needless to say-, is one of the most persistent and ingenious Democratic foes of the present administration.—Boston Advertiser. Civil rights bills will be in vain unless the negroes make use of their opportunities to place themselves above want. Why should they fret themselves aboutriding in palace cars and dining in fashionable restaurants when they- are unable to pay for sucb privileges? Multitudes of white people never see the inside of such places, for the good aud sufficient reason that they- are unable to pay for the accommodations there afforded. Fred Dodglass is profoundly right in teaching his people that after the law has done all it can for them they must still fight the battle with poverty. Their best lenders are the ones who set examples of thrift and industry.—Chicago Tribune. It is now patent to the country- that there is no general disposition to aid in the erection of a Grant monument in New York. The universal feeling is that a national monument must have a national site and suitable surroundings, and the unanimous verdict is that none of these conditions would or could be fulfilled by selecting New York as the domicile. Upon this hypothesis, at least, tho people of the country are determined to act. They will not come forward with their money to build a monument upon a spot which they regard as utterly ina propriate and ill-chosen, but will bide their time until circumstances give them the oppor unity they desire—that of contributing to a monument at Washington.—Washington Post. A very large amount- of money can he raised through the instrumentality of very small subscriptions, if the people who can only contribute small amounts aro properly approached, and the Grand Army of the Republic, with its posts in all parts of the country, is in a position not on v to make collections of amounts large and small, but to stimulate the making of collections through agencies outside of its own organization. It should be understood, however, that it will require a very large sum of money to erect at Washington, or elsewhere, a national monument to General Grant which will be entirely ere fitable to the Nation, and that, under the very best auspices, it will take a considerable time to collect the money needed.—Philadelphia luouirer. The President's duty is to enforce tho United States laws, carefully framed to secure in every State a free vote and honest count. If he does so enforce the law. beyond a quest on. his party in Virginia will not at tempt to violate it. But if he does not so enforce the law, the Republicans who supported him will at once see that they have been deceived. It matters not whether they conclude that they wore deceived as to him, and that a better Democratic President would have vindicated the theories on which they acted, or become convinced that those theories were false, and that there does not exist at the South the measure of loyalty which they suppose. In either case the question of a tree vote and honest count inevitably becomes the controlling one in coming campaigns.—New York Tribune. At a time like this, when it is well known that railway companies are making little money, it is poor policy on the part of employes to force any issue that will disturb business and cut off their own wages. It might he good policy to fight the corporation when it was not well prepared to do battle, were it not that the employes are in worse condition than the corporation, and that the welfare of both depend largely on the continuance of business. If there ever was a time when railway men should take a moderate and conservative view of the situation and should know their own minds, now is the time. But, according to some interviews published yesterday morning, the striking railway employes do not have the sympathy of the Knights of Labor in other departments of work. If they have not the sympathy of their own brotherhood, they cannot expect the sympathy of tho public.—Chicago Inter Ocean. In the old days of camp meetings, the measure of success was the number of converts made; but nowadays the efforts directed to this porpose occupy only a small fraction of the camp meeting season, and the statistics of conversion fall quite into the background. A season includes missionary unions, seaside schools of philosophv, national holiness conferences, temperance gatherings, summer scientific circles, teachers' retreats, aud so on; and sandwich and somewhere among these is the camp-meeting proper, itself vastly transformed from what was ouf e known by that name. Some of these outgrowths and appendages of the camp-meetings are very pretentious; but perhaps they, do no harm, unless on the principle that a little knowledge is a dangerous tiling. Pastimes have also been added in great variety to tho attractions of the modern camp-meeting, and even the skating rink is now sometimes found hard by. —New York Sun. The policy of repression, of suspicion, of continuous insult and criticism, is an injustice done to the country. We are destined to live together; that is evident. That was the verdict of the war. Scowls and groans, then, criminations and recriminations, are of place. Extremists on both sides can do us no better service than to hush. We have listened to them long enough, aud have groWn tired of their untruthfulness. The South wants no more war; it has had enough. The North wants.no more war; it is satisfied. Tho work that remains is worthy of our attention—to encourage the South to rebuild its old mills and to build new ones, to till its rice and cotton fields, that they may he more productive than ever, aud to increase the spirit of lovalty by the iucrease of mutual interests. The South needs the North, but no more than the North needs the South. We need each other, and, w'hat is very important, we both know it.—New York Herald. The ballot should be offered to every Indian in the Territories of the United States who can read and write, and measures should be devised to touch the pride of Indians who are not qualified for citizenship. Ownerships laud in common iat her than by indi-

vidual members of the tribes is fatal to progiess, anl, negotiations for the abandonment of the reservation system should be undertaken as soon as possible, on the basis of a distribution of 160 acres of good land to each head of an Indian family and half as much to each other malo Indian, the surplus of more than 100.000.000 acres of reservation land to be sold for the benefit of the tribes in the maintenance of schools and the provision of a reward of stock, seeds and tool# for each Indian who qualifies himself for the management of a farm. To adopt such measures will not only accord with the policy of General Grant, hut also achieve the end at which he aimed, converting tha entire Indian population into industrious citizen*. New York Mail and Express. The maintenance of huge armies is an element of that tells its own story with the mere suggestion. \> e find Russia leading off with a total effective, ineluding reserves and Cossacks, of two and a half millions, and with fully a million of these in her active anny. r ranee and Germany follow with prodigious permanent establishments and with vast reserves thafc threaten to make tho battle-field of tho future not SO much the arena of armies as of congregated nation*. Kings and chancellors, nevertheless, are from time to time brought to the sad necessity of recruiting their purses in order to carry on this mad and wastefal rivalry, and it must be done through the representatives of their subjects. Hence, we see national pride stimulated, national hates excited, and, if all else Fail*, national panics produced, that the supplies of mo’-oy may be forthcoming. Occasionally, bv way of variety, wc hear vague rumors that projects of mutual disarmament, or of reduction of military establishment*, are under consideration, but the formal overtures to thi* act of wisdom are never made.—New York Timos. EX-SENATOR JI’DONALD. He Thinks the “Offensive Partisanship'* Phrase an Unfortunate One. Chicago Times. Ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald, of Indiana* was a guest at tho Palmer House yesterday. He has been spending the summer with his wife ah Deer Park, and is looking unusually well. H© came to Chicago to attend to some legal business. In conversation with a reporter for tha Times, yesterday, Mr. McDonald expressed himself freely, and gave some original ideas on the public questions of the day. After speaking in a general way of the good feeling that seemed to prevail among the people toward Cleveland'* administration, he touched on the President’s civil service policy. “Cleveland caD do no other wav than to observe the civil service law,” saitfhe. '’lf ho would do otherwise he would disregard the law, and I am sore no good Democrat wants him to do that Now, I will frankly say that I would not have voted fr civil service, but it is a law, and it is here to stay. It is evident that 60tne such law is needed, although there is still plenty of room for amendments. The principal objection to it, to tny mind, is that it wiil have a tendency to create an. ‘official’ class. Os course, any party, if it remains in power long enough, will have all its owu men in, and that is all right enough, too, as there are men in both parties fully capable of filling all the positions. I believe that all clerical positions under the government should be entirely divorced from politics. Tho clerical help should be appointed on the same principle that men are employed in large banking and mercantile establishments. If their positions are contingent on political preference they will be thinking more about retaining their positions than performing the duties of their offices. They then become ‘offensive partisans.'” “What do you think of that term, ‘offensive partisan?’ ” “I think it was very unfortunnto that tho President adopted it. It is apt to come back on him. and cause him much annoyance.” “Will the Senate take it up, and refuse to confirm some of his appointments?” “Well, it will place the Senate in a position where it can itseif attempt to define what tho term ‘offensive partisan’ means. The President may have his definition, and then the Republican senators may have theirs.” “There has been considerable discussion in regard to who would take the office—the President’s appointee or the old appointee—in ease tho Senate refuses to confirm the new man. What is your opinion on that subject?” “If the Senate refuses to confirm a presidential appointee, the old officeholder takes his place, but the President may immediately thereafter suspend him and appoint the same man that he did before or anew one. Os course, the Senate can refuse to confirm again, and the President can again suspend, and thus a sort of a see saw can bo kept up, but in the end the President would have the best of it We had such a case when I was in the Senate during Hayes’s administration. Hayos, as you know, removed Arthur as collector of the. port of New York. Tne Senate refused to confirm the appointment of his successor, but the President came out ahead, and Merritt received the position.” Referring to the postoffice muddle at Indianapolis, Mr. McDonald said there had been much ado about nothing. He did not think Mr. Joues in any way to blame. If he showed a preference for appointing Democrats to Republicans, that was but natural, and now he was making his appointments too slowly to suit the Democrats. The federal appointments were progressing slowly but surely, and all good Democrats seemed to be satisfied. Mr. McDonald will return to day to Deer Park. Cleveland’* Pharisaical Letter. Saratoga (N. Y.) Special. A leading Western Democratic politician said; “I see that there has been a good deal of guessing as to tho judgeship indicated in President Cleveland’s recently published letter of rebuke. Now, J think I can make a better guess than anything 1 have seen published. I believe the hero in this correspondence is Hugh J. Drinker, of Warrensburg, Mo. lie was ipoointod to some Idaho judgeship through the influence of Senator Cockrell. Cockrell had Drinker appointed simply to get him out of the way. Drinker had publicly announced himself as opposed to Cockrell’s re-election, and was going to run for tho Legislature, where ho intended to make a fight against Cockrell. He is from Cockrell’s own town. The latter pot him appointed, but Ido not beiieve that the appointment can be confirmed. I understand that Cockrell said to Drinker before he got the appointment that he must get as wide an indorsement as possible. Brinker has just about such indorsements as were indicated in tho correspondence. As Cockrell was the chief instrument in getting tb® appointment, I should not be surprised if tho President's letter were directed to him.” Secretary Manning to Resign. Boston Advertiser special. A story is afloat that Secretary Manning wishes to resign because he does not like Washington, and wants to get back to Albany. Liko every man who is an active politician, he finds a Cabinet position irksome and its pleasures very few. There is truth in this. Mr. Manning never intended to go into the Cabinet up to a week before the inauguration. He has not seen a day since that the matter of resignation was not in his mind and it is pretty sure to happen before long. He is not easy in Washington, and not being a lawyer nor having any experience in Treasury matters, he finds himself obliged to work exceedingly hard, or else rely more upon the subordinates than he likes to do. Asa fact Manning ha3 been at his desk in tho Treasury more hours a day than Secretaries average, but with his best efforts he finds himself hopelessly swamped in the accumulation of matter*. Department work is not Manning’s element It does not give him a chance in his best line. New York State politics is his forte, and until he is in a position to take an active part in them again he will never be satisfied. 110 and tho President aro as good friends as ever. Not To Be Trusted. Columbus Republican. If the ludianapolis Council has not decency enough to expel Councilman Dowling, wh® openly boasted that he had bribed other members, it hail better retire from business, or b® retired at once. Whether Dowling’s statement® w'ere true or false, they show him to be unfit to associate with gentlemen, much less to intrust with important public interests. Mr. Hendricks’s Civil-Service Epigram. ht. Louis Republican. We have it on the authority of George Alfred Townsend that Vice-president Hendricks say®: “It has only been discovered within a few year® that it was a great crime for one to want to fill an honorable position under the government" The sentiment does Mr. Hendricks so much credit, that it is a pity it is uot attributed to hio® more credible authority. Where They Were Pouud. Madison Courier. So far the rascals discovered have not bee© Republican office holders but Democratic office seeker*. Turn the rascals out.