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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. WASHINGTON OFFICE-513 Fourteenth St. P. S. Hkath. Correspondent. MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1886. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. ('an be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotel*. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. P. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. House and Ebbltt i House.! Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial R00m5......242 Was ever President so utterly friendless! The President might hire someone to re fly to Senator Harrison's speech. Will someone please throw a buoy to the Democratic members of the Senate? Shall workingmen be allowed to work? is • # the new phase of the labor question. The State of Rhode Island has adopted a prohibitory amendment to its State Constitulion. Everything is quiet at East St. Louis and the ordinary flow of business is expected to begin to-day. The striking Knights will find the best guaranty of safety and the surest deliverance Inside the law. Has Mr. Cleveland a friend among the active Democrats who helped elect him? Don't all speak at once. ‘‘An injury to one is the concern of aIL” That is very true and very proper; but an injury to millions should be the concern of somebody. The Democrats are right in sticking to tho telephone. It will be their only means of communicating with the White House three years hence. The same craft that sunk the “Oregon” must have run afoul of the Democratic mem•bers of the Senate. Not a soul has been saved at last accounts. The vindication of Hall, the foreman of 4 the Marshall shops, who wa3 discharged because of absence without leave, has been a ▼ery expensive piece of business. The presence of the militia at East St. Louis has the effect that was expected. A decent respect is shown for their authority and they are not too quick on the trigger. Says a leading Indiana Democrat: “The Democratic party is not united on a single is*ue on which it can appeal to the country in Ihe coming campaign.” This is sad, but true. Ip the administration wins its telephone suit it is the intention to furnish every Democrat with an instrument. The “civil” service rules will then indeed be a thing of the post. > May be some Mugwump would like to undertake the work of replying to Senator Harrison’s exposure of the way the civil■ervice rules have been made a burlesque by the President It is feared iu some quarters that the result of last week's elections will cause the defense of the President to be indefinitely postponed. Unless somebody volunteers soon a draft will have to be ordered. Will the Attorney-general please step to the telephone and see if he can find when the reply is to be made to Senator Harrison’s Breech on the President’s manner of observing the civil-service rules? Robert P. Porter says: “Let every protectionist throughout this country plant himself firmly on the facts that all essential objects of consumption affected by the tariff are cheaper and better now than at any period under free trade or a reveuue tariff.” Whatever may be the immediate action on the Gladstone Irish bill, it is morally certain that the question will never be disposed of ultimately until some such concession is granted. There will be a Parliament at Dublin long before the Panama canal is completed. It having been a week or two since Senator Voorhees made the last “greatest effort of his life,” it is high time he were at it again. A ready text is at hand in the speech of his colleague, Senator Harrison. There is a chance there for some Democrat to distinguish himself. Ip the strikers fail in their war against the Missouri Pacific, and it looks as though they will, it will be because they made a mistake in entering upon it, not being justified in such action. Mistakes of such magnitude are expensive, and should teach the utmost care in ordering such action. The Charleston News affects surprise because no alarm and agitation is manifested by the papers of the North over the fact that Jeff Davis is going into the lecture field. The News mistakes the sentiment of the North. Bo far from being alarmed at the reappearance

of this decrepit reminiscence of a lost cause, the people of this region view with wonder, not unmixed with sympathy, the violent and ineffectual efforts of their Southern brethren to pump up any of the old time enthusiasm in regard to the once-beloved leader of the Confederacy. Asa relic, it is doubtful if he would be a drawing card in a Georgia museum. THE ALABAMA. The Century for April contains several articles about the Alabama and the Kearsarge, written by men who sailed in these vessels. The history of the Alabama, on the whole, as written by Mr. P. D. Haywood, one of her crew, and by Capt. I. M. Kell, her executive officer, is far from creditable. Her crew were mostly Englishmen. It does not appear that, outside of her higher officers, there was an American citizen on board. Haywood himself says: “I had never been on a ship with such a bad lot. * * * They were mostly of that class found in seaport towns all over the world that ship for the ‘run’ (from port to port) and not for the voyage, and are always a rough, mutinous set.” With this crew the Alabama sailed the wide seas for twenty-two months, preying on unarmed merchantmen and whalers. Her career differed in no way practically from that of a pirate. She “looted” and burned defenseless ships. She decoyed them near her with false signals, hails and flags. She avoided all our men-of-war, and never fought until her battle with the Kearsarge, unless her unchivalrous treatment of the little Hatteras can be dignified into a fight. The facts, however, as told by her own crew, show that the sinking of the Hatteras was rather a shameful affair. Haywood says the Hatteras “looked more like a flimsy river steamer than a war vessel.” He says: “We saw through the dusk the bow of a small steamer coming toward us. * # * She came within one hundred yards of us before hailing. We answered, ‘This is her Britannic Majesty’s‘steamer Petrel!’ The answer came back, ‘This is the United States steamer Hatteras!’ At tho same moment we answered, ‘This is the confederate steamer Alabama!’ In fact, before they could well make out our hail, we gave her the whole broadside of our starboard batteries. We were not more than fifty yards away, and we heard the crash of the shot. She at once returned our fire—but it was evident her armament was light. After ten minutes rapid firing someone called out, 'the enemy is sinking, ’ and we were ordered to stop firing, as the vessel had surrendered.” Other than her battle with the Kearsarge, this was the only one the Alabama ever fought. The least said of such a “victory” the better. In the light of it, any complaint or criticism by the officers of the Alabama of the United States officers and crew of the Kearsarge sounds querulous. On the 19th of June, 1864, the Alabama went out of Cherbourg harbor to fight the Kearsarge. This was the first and only war vessel the Alabama ever engaged. These vessels were about equal in size, speed, armament and crew, “showing a likeness rarely seen iu naval battles.” The officers and crew of the Kearsarge were American citizens. It was a gallant fight, and this fight is the only one thing that is at all creditable in the whole career of the Alabama. It was her first fight, and it was her last. She “fought bravely and obstinately until she could no longer fight or float.” The Kearsarge sent her to the bottom in an hour. One of the English crew, an old tar who had been in the royal navy before he took service on the Alabama, said: “We was whipped because she was a better ship, better manned; had better guns, better served; that’s about the size of it.” The Alabama was practically an English ship, built and mostly manned by Englishmen. And,' under the laws of nations, the highest international court ever convened adjudged that England should pay tho damages she had wrought. She rests on the bottom of the sea, and nothing so became her in her life a3 the leaving of it. THE CIVIL-SERVICE FARCE. Mr. Eugene Higgins having in a confidential moment stated to a reporter that he had things so fixed that he could get Democrats every time from the Civil-service Commission, the attention of Commissioner Edgerton was called to the assertion. Mr. Edgerton says Mr. Higgins has done nothing of the kind, because it isn’t possible. Mr. Edgerton being an amiable old man, however, does not wish to appear in the light of calling Mr. Higgins a falsifier, and therefore explains the matter by saying that the people selected by the appointment clerk, “knowing him and his style of doing business, have probably professed to be Democrats, but I will guarantee they were not all of that faith before their appointment.” If the Commissioner’s theory is to be accepted it follows that at least half the successful candidates under the civil-service laws will lie without hesitation when occasion seems to call for dishonesty, a circumstance that speaks ill for the promised improvement of government service under the workings of the law. Commissioner Edgerton, however, is a simpleton of the first water if he believes, or expects others to believe, any such explanation. Mr. Eugene Higgins has not been a ward politician and trickster all his life to give an office to a man as a Democrat without knowing that individual’s antecedents from “ 'way back. The instantaneous convert to Democracy is not the man who gets in under Higgins. Perhaps the innocent Mr. Edgerton will ask the country to believe that at least fifty of the seventytwo Democratic pension examiners who were appointed by Commissioner Black deceived that

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official as to their politics, and are really Republicans in disguise. The truth is, as everybody knows, except, possibly, the simple-minded old grannies acting as Commissioners, that the civil-service law as operated by this administration is the merest farce, and one that grows more transparent every day. The other day the Journal printed a list of eighteen Union soldiers, giving their names, removed from the postal service by Postmaster Jones during the year he has been in office. The list was limited to removals in the Indianapolis postoffice proper. The list was absolutely correct, so far as it went. It turns out to be only a partial list of soldiers removed by the postmaster in service in the postoffice building. Among the janitois were some wounded soldiers, of whom we now recall Frank Hall and John Watts. They were all removed. It appears we were in error in saying that he had not appointed a single soldier to place, for he has appointed a few. When the Republicans held sway, the officers, clerks and employes in the postbffice building, high and low, from roof to cellar, were almost all Union soldiers. Now a Union soldier is an exception. But one of the present federal officers was a soldier. None of the important places are held by soldiers. A few soldiers have been given the places of janitors, and even their pay has been reduced 30 per cent., and a few have been appointed after civil service examination to minor places iu the post-office, but comparatively they are as scarce as hen's teeth. It is said that more than one ex-con-I federate soldier is in government service in that building. One day last week one of the new Democratic janitors in the Chicago postoffice building raised the flag over it upside down. It created alarm, the people thinking some calamity had befallen. Inquiry showed that it was a case of ignorance. The Democratic janitor said he didn’t know whether it made any difference. The old flag must feel the disgrace of the situation. In the remorseless removals of Union soldiers by the Democracy everywhere, and the numerous appointments given to unrepentant rebels, the old flag should “signal distress.” The Legislature of lowa has passed a law which has received the approval of the Governor, which provides that all fines and costs in the prosecution of violators of the liquor law shall be a lien upon the real estate in which the law is violated. The Milwaukee Sentinel thinks this a very bad law and will result in outbreaks of violence, but the Des Moines Register speaks of it as follows: “Os the many measures instituted to destroy this traffic none has proven such a signal success without trial as the Clark bill. Before the enactment of that bill into a law the saloon men felt that they might fight with some show of success, but now all but the most desperate are willing to give up. In conversation on Tuesday with a saloonkeeper who has been most persistent in violating the law, and whose ready wit has kept him from detection in most of the numerous searches to which his places have been subjected, he said: ‘I am ready to give up the fight, and to morrow morning will see both of my places closed for good. 1 have felt comparatively safe heretofore in making the fight I have, but now that the Clark bill has passed I shall retire. It would be folly to spend good money for uncertainties, and there is no chance to come out whole under such a law. Then I don’t want to go to jail, you know. Here are at least $5,000 worth of fixtures that would not bring a cent on the market to-day and I shall be obliged to take them out of the State for disposal. But to-day closes up my saloon keeping in lowa, and to-morrow you will see ‘for rent’ upon my houses,’ Several other men were met who entertained the same opinions, and there will be less saloons in Des Moines to-day than for some time.” Mr. Reuben Small, of Wabash, who writes his views on the temperance question, falls into the prevalent error of assuming and asserting that there cannot be a local option law without a change in the Constitution. This species of evasion seems to be the favorite method now of those who will listen to nothing but impracticable and impossible prohibitory legislation. This talk about the unconstitutionality of local option is born of a zeal not according to knowledge. Local option has never been declared unconstitutional in Indiana; on the contrary, it is recognized in a long chain of decisions on various sorts of questions by the Supreme Court, and there is no earthly doubt but that a local option liquor law would be held constitutional, as local option laws on other subjects have been uniformly upheld. What is the use or advantage of any further misstatement on this question? Very little is known of the newly-appoint-ed Governor of Utah, Mr. West, of Kentucky. But it is reported that he has very moderate views on the Mormon question, and agrees with Secretary Lamar that the laws against polygamy ought not to ba enforced too rigorously. This will be good news for the Mormons, but the selection of this type of man doesn't accord very well with the anti-polyg-amy rhetoric which Rose Elizabeth smuggled into her brother’s message to Congress. The Mormons were probably right when they painted Salt Lake City red on the occasion of the Democratic success in November last. The city of Madison, Wis., a Democratic city, the home of Postmaster-general Vilas, the champion sneak of tho administration, elected a Republican Mayor, the famous “Boss” Keyes, by more than three hundred majority. It gave the Cleveland electors a majority of 938. We notice that the demagogue press is careful to allude to “the people” whenever reference is made to the mobs which attempt to drive peaceable workmen out of their places, and destroy property in the furtherance of a confessedly causeless strike. “The peo-

ple” are very distinct from these lawless gangs of ruffians. They represent nobody. It is an insult to the millions of law-abiding, honorable workingmen that the demagogues will not be thanked for and will receive no profit from. The evidence seems to accumulate that Mr. Gladstone will be defeated and his Ministry overthrown because of his Irish home-rule scheme. Be it so. It will be the dearest victory the reactionaries of England ever gained. Mr. Gladstone, like a great man before him, has lighted a fire that will never go out. If he is overthrown, he will be greater in his defeat than his enemies in their triumph. THE Cincinnati Enquirer says that Wisconsin furnishes the United States minister to Sweden and Norway. This is a mistake. The minister is Hon. Rufus Magee, an honored citizen of Indiana, one of the best appointments made by President Cleveland, and for which he is indebted to the advice of Hon. Joseph E. McDonald. The St. Louis Republican, which has been conspicuous in the demagogue press, says: “One side of the labor question is the right of organized labor to strike. Another side is the right of labor, organized or unorganized, to work. This is the side they are not willing to see in East St. Louis until they are forced to see it.” The Governor of Missouri has done a very commendable thing in pardoning two Modoc Indians who have been serving a ten years’ term in the penitentiary for highway robbery. It appears that these two victims of Missouri justice were drunk on a certain day in 1884, when they met two citizens of that Commonwealth on the highway and proceeded to beg of them. Not understanding the Modoc language, they imagined that the savages were threatening them, so they quickly turned over ail their cash, amounting to fifty cents. For this offense the Indians were tried and sentenced to prison. All this goes to prove that some very remarkable things happen in Missouri. It is apparent that the citizens are very quick to give up their “plunder,” and it seems that the James boys really had a “soft snap” instead of a tough job when they carried on business in that State. It further appears that the average Missourian is not provided with any great amount of ready cash. The average of twenty-five cents to the man is . large. A short time since the Journal reprinted from Spence’s People’s Paper, published in Fountain county, an article respecting the congressional question in the Eighth district, in which the statement was made that Hon. James T. Johnston, the present incumbent, ran greatly behind his ticket at the last November election. The figures of the election iu that district show the following as the votes cast for Mr. Johnston, Mr. Robert Mitchell, the Republican candidate for Secretary of State and for the Blaine electors: Johnston. Mitchell. Blaine Electors. Warren 1,828 1,826 1.824 Fountain 2,311 2,270 2,271 Montgomery 3,646 3,702 3,695 Vermillion 1,579 1.592 1,591 Parke 2.497 2,558 2.562 Vigo 5,463 5,496 5,464 Clay 2,861 2,892 2,894 Total 20,185 20,330 20,301 It will he seen from these figures that the statements regarding Mr. Johnston were greatly exaggerated. He ran ahead in Warren county, and in Fountaiu county his total vote is forty more than that cast for Mitchell or for Mr. Blaiue. Miss Addie G. Beaver, of Waynesboro, Pa., has conceived a very original idea, and one that is not likely to be widely copied. She has written letters to several Congressmen, asking them for small donations, explaining that she wants to buy a sewing-machine, and, further, that she has means to buy such a machine, but she wants a “Congressional machine.” It is said that several members have been foolish enough to respond and send her the requested amount. All of this goes to show that all fools are not yet dead. Miss Beaver could well have left this begging scheme to someone really in need. But in that case the probability is that no Congressman would have responded to the appeal. She has succeeded in widely advertising herself as a female crank with little sense of modesty or womanly propriety. The Western Christian Advocate says respecting the much-mooted question of the result of the Jones meetings in Cincinnati: “It is certain that wildly-exaggerated reports have been made. One writer published the statement that four thousand persons bad been converted and received into the churches as the fruits of the Jones revival. We should be very glad and very grateful if this were true, hut it is not; nothing approaching such a statement is true, and we do not hesitate to say that such publications are as pernicious as they are extravagant. Falsehoods do not help the truth, and we very much regret that men have been misled into such extravagant utterances.” Hello! Pan-electric exchange. Hello! Give us 1888. Can’t do it: the Republican electric-light wire has crossed our line and burned us out The Cincinnati Enquirer, with commendable enterprise, keeps right on publishing the “Clara Belle” letters, notwithstanding the fact that she died last week. Hugh Conway’s example has not been in vain. A bill will soon be introduced into Congress to make it compulsory to cut hristol-hoard larger. There is not room on tho bill of fare for the President’s list of wines. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The “Mrs. Null,” in Stockton’s latest novel, is a real life production of a Virginia virago. Texas Siftings: A woman’s glory is in her hair, hut it is a good plan to tie it up when cooking. In some parts of Mexico precious woods are so plentiful that the natives build pig-styes of rosewood logs. A remarkable bedstead, made to order by a Milwaukee firm, is twenty-four feet wide and has nine compartments, each intended to hold one of the purchaser’s children. A boy living within sight of Plymouth Rock weighed 304 pounds (at last accounts), though he is only fourteen years old. He has grown at the rate of fifty pounds a year of late. Detroit Free Press: Count Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, has turned shoemaker. In this country, to judge from current literature, a great many shoemakers have turned novelists. The position of “musical pastor” has been created by a Boston church. The duties are “to develop musical talent from among the congre-

nation that shall supplant the salaried sinners, and to instruct the congregation and Sundayschool in chorus singing.” The Duchess of Hamilton is one of the most notable sportswomen in England. She recently followed the hounds —and closely—throughout a chase of three hours, covering twenty-five miles of country. It is nearly time for someone to write that epitaph upon Robert Emmet which in his dying speech he asked that no man should write until his country should take her place among the nations of the earth. The Christian Union tells of a young man who, in three months, gave his seat in a car to fifty-nine women and girls, and every one thanked him. We are sorry to see that even religious journals are beginning to publish fiction. The fact is suggested that M. Pasteur, notwithstanding his physiological and surgical work, does not possess any medical diploma, and therefore cannot personally operate upon a human patient. The new wife of the Chinese embassador at Paris is seventeen years old and the daughter of a first class mandarin. She was sent over from China, C. O. D., on the order of the embassador, whose former wife died about a year ago at Berlin. It is said that Gen. D. S. Stanley, now commanding the Department of Texas, is to be transferred to the department of Dakota, with headquarters at St. Paul, and that he will be succeeded by General Potter, recently promoted from the colonelcy of the Twenty-fourth Infantry. Count De Lesseps is laughed at for being sanguine that he will live till 1889 and charter a steamer, take his whole family, and, passing through the Panama canal, return to Prance by way of Suez. But the real difficulty by that time may be to find a steamer that will hol'd his whole family. A clerk, who is dismissed by his employer, says to him when he is taking his final leave, “Well, sir, this dismissal will cost a eood many people their lives.” “Do you mean to threaten me? ’ demanded his employer. “Not at all. Ic simply means that I am going to become a doctor.” They are now telling stories of Chief-justice Cartter, of the District of Columbia. The other day, one runs, a lawyer was defining the powers of the court The court, he said, could do Ihis, and the court could do that. “N-n-no d-d-doubt,” remarked Judge Cartter; “n-next t-to the Almighty tbe-there’s n-n-nothing like a c-c-court!” The modern married belle, says the San Francisco Argonaut, at a dinner is apt to be dressed in white, with much crystal trimming, with feathers in her hair, and with diamonds on her neck and arms and a pair of long, brown Swedish gloves drawn up to her shoulders; a feather fan of ostrich feathers hangs at her side by a ribbon or chain of diamonds and pearls. The lorg, brown Swedish gloves are an anomaly. Princess Dolgorocky, widow of the late Czar, Alexander 11, gives grand weekly receptions at her splendid mansion in the Rue de Las Casas. Her face bears the traces of an indelible melancholy, which is dissipated only when her eye rests on her two beautiful children, who are described as living imageß of their father. The boy is fourteen years of age and can talk on all subjects in six or seven languages. The girl, one year younger, is of charming beauty and grace, a Pansienne born on the banks of the Neva. Denis Kearney keeps slangwhanging away on the San Francisco sand lots evejy Sunday, directing his batteries mostly against Coroner O’Donnell. He has one story about that worthy that he is never tired of repeating. It is that the coroner discovered, in some way, in a Chinatown cellar, the skeletons of thirty-five Chinamen, which wore being prepared for shipment back to China, as is the custom; and that he confiscated the whole lot, carted them to his office, and held a separate inquest and collected a separate fee on each. Von Bulow, the pianist, has an extraordinary memory. No man living can approach him, probably, in the power of carrying an orchestral or piano score in his head. At a recent series of piano recitals in London, he played the whole of Beethoven’s thirty-three sonatas, five or six each night; and he played them all from memory. And when he conducted as maestro the fournight performance of Wagner’s famous Niebe lungen Lied, standing before tbe orchestra and directing the entire delivery of that most volumnious and intricate composition, he did it without a scrap of priDt before him. “The reason that Shakers are decreasing in numbers,” said Elder F. W. Evans, of the Mount Lebanon settlement, recently, “is that their best energies have been devoted to cultivating their lands and advancing their material prosperity. Their lands have become so extensive that all the time and labor of the settlements are needed •to care for their possessions. This is tbe root of the trouble We have just discovered that the idea of the desirability of the acquisition of land which we took with us from the world is wrong. Land monopoly is one of the curses of the country. We must dispose of part of our farms and devote more time to missionary work and spreading the principles which we believe to be for the good of the people. We have gone wrong and must correct our error.” PEACH-BLOW. In the spring the husband yearneth For his other suit of clothes; Here and there he searcheth, stumbleth. Queries, frets and bumps his nose. In the spring his fond wife’s fancy Turneth back in wild despair; She remembereth that she traded His best suit for peach-blow ware. COMMENT AND OPINION. The President would be stronger if he stood with the people, instead of ahead of them—New York World. iFjMartin Irons is responsible for the blood that has been shed there is no punishment that would be too severe for him.—Charleston News and Courier. There is danger that Ireland, given the finger, will take the whole hand, and it is probable that the British legislators will take that conservative view.—Philadelphia Inquirer. We look to see the Irish, in the course of a generation's experience of home rule, the most euthusiastlc Britishers extant, the very right arm of the empire.—Springfield Republican. The country seems to be getting its eyes open to the fact that hoodlumism does not afford the best rule of policy for conducting the foreign affairs of a first-class nation.—Pittsburg Dispatch. While Martin Irons writes ferocious procla.mations against Jay Gould, his shooting-irons and pavine-stones hit men trying to earn an honest living at East St. Louis.—Springfield Republican. The words home and family are nearly inseparable, and the outside world can offer no haven like that of home even for matured men who are. after all, but grown-up children —Pittsburg Chronicle. Do not both the credit of the profession and public respect for the law, call for a pretty thorough expurgation from its ranks of members who place their talents and learning at the service of scoundrelism?—Pittsburg Dispatch. This Nation will not take the least interest in the army, nor consent to magnify it in any way, until the immediate necessity for doing so clearly appears, and, on the whole, perhaps it is better so. —New York Commercial Advertiser. Speaking of the tariff the American says: “The veil is lifting slowly but surely.” That is what the “Immortal J. N.” has been telling us for years. Will the American also undertake to “remove the pressure?”—Memphis Avalanche. Every section of the country has productive industries which require judicious protection to establish them and thereby cheapen the product to consumers, and a general protective policy is thus made justifiable to the extent that it may give the greatest good to tbe greatest number. —Philadelphia Times. The Indian schools should be made larger and numerous enough to give every Indian child an education. If tbit ware done it would be but a

very few years until the Indian problem would be solved. It would cost a great deal of money, but is would be money well spent. Den vet Tribune, Republican. The right of the strikers to refuse to work except upon their own terms is freely accorded, but their claim to the right of preventing other men from working and to impede railway traffic by the destruction of railroad property cannot be tolerated if tbe United States is to remain a free country.—Milwaukee Sentinel. “Does prohibition prohibit?” yesterday had a hint of staleness, but to-morrow it will again be a fresh topic, with anew crop of statistics to prove that it does and that it doesn't; and the Prohibitionists will take fresh courage in their opposition to all scientific and rational checks to tbe driuking habit.—Brooklyn Union. One workingman has the absolute right to join an order, and another has precisely th same right to refuse to do so. Interference with the liberty of the individual citizen cannot safely be tolerated, as that would be to set up and give offioial support to a sort of tyranny which would be unbearable. —Philadelphia In* quirer. The wrong done by the men who use fores against the Chinese is chiefly in the fact that such resistance is contrary to that good ordeC which should characterize every good government. It is barbarous because it is born of disorder and a spirit of mutiny. It is barbarous not so much because it is war as because il is private war.—Boston Advertiser. The affair at St Louis yesterday was one of those inevitable acts of half-scared, unskilled men put on duty to resist rioters. In cities where these things are liable to occur only trained men able to endure any amount of provocation, short of violence, and to meet violence only with well-directed force sufficient to quell the moh should be put on duty.—Memphis Avalanche. The sheriff of the county had appealed in vain for military aid in preserving order, and, receiv ing no response, had sent his deputies home leaving the protection of tbe railroad property t men armed and employed by them, but commissioned as deputies by the sheriff. The constituted Authorities of the State of Illinois had thus abandoned all attempts to preserve the peace, and authorized, so far A3 they could, the raising and arming of a small army by the railroad companies.—New York Star. The strikers have anew scheme for putting themselves further in the wrong. They propose to cut off the coal supply of the Missouri Pacific road by an interference with the mining company that furnishes it. The further they go with such desperate tactics the worse it will be with them. Lawless interference with business and production is a tiling which cannot be tolerated, and the sooner the Western Knights of Labor recover their senses the better it will be for the organization.—New York Times. Call a halt! Get together and settle the dispute by proper concessions on both sides, or by arbitration! No man who can exert even a little influence toward settlement should hesitate to speak, and speak at once. Neither side should be stubborn. Nobody should be autocratic. The time has come when all people, whether they are directly concerned in railroad affairs or not, must demand a business-like settlement; and let the settlement be at the cost of no more blood or burning.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Men who will not work because of differences with their employers are safest at their homes, where no Winchester bullets can reach them; while those who invoked the aid of force in the attempt to manage their own affairs cannot expect public support to be extended to measures involving the indiscriminate murder of unoffending persons. Neither the anarchy of mob rule nor the savagery of heedless slaughter by corporation hirelings should be tolerated as admissibly phases of the struggle in the West.—Philadelphia Record. The publio highways must be cleared. The embargo must be raised. The only obstructions now are small bands of strikers who are defying the State governments—who are assaulting men anxious to move the trains., This must end. Tbe laws are sufficient, and at*any cost the laws must be enforced. The patience of the people has been exhausted. Costly delays in business, the interruption of traffic, the incendiary talk and the overt acts of strikers at Fort Worth, at Little Rock, at East St Louis —all enforoe the demand for peace, even if peace has to be conquered. The men who strike are on trial now; not for striking, but for lawless interference jfiith others. —Louisville Courier-Journal. Every man has a right to say wnat wages he is willing to work for. Every man has a right voluntarily to join an association in whioh he submits his own judgment to the judgment of the majority of his associates. But the man who has not joined such an association has not forfeited his right to work for wages satisfactory to him, and if those who have joined such an association interfere with the exercise pi his right, they are as much oppressors as th€ capitalists who, for their own selfish ends, oppress laboring men. These are old truths, and well worn; but men forget them in their passion, and they need to be constantly enforced. No real progress can be made by despising them. —Boston Advertiser. AN ANONYMOUS SNEAK. The Character of the New Railway Mall Superintendent, Mr. J. M. Gwin. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. There is news from Indianapolis that presents Mr. Gwin, the successor cf Mr. Burt as Railway Mail Superintendent, in a bad light It seems that for a long time before his Appointment he had been hounding Mr. Burt throngh the columns of the Indianapolis Sentinel, although he did not venture to appear as the Author of any of the charges. He did his work anonymously. Now, when he has attained his ambition, and io an official order alludes to the “high efficiency of the division under Mr. Burt,” the Sentinel take* him to task, and gives the secret away. If this is Mr. Gwin's character, the Postmastergeneral undoubtedly has in him a person thoroughly able to fill the mission to which he is assigned. A man who will attack another in the dark and assassinate him with an anonymous weapon, certainly will not have any compunctions about hustling a few Republican clerks oul of the service and filling their places with working Democrats. This light upon the charactef of Mr. Gwin justifies all that has been reported of him, and leaves no room to doubt that he was selected to do just what it has been said he was selected to do. Vilas himself indorses the policy of making anonymous assaults upon the official characters of Republicans, and nas been thoroughly consistent in selecting for superintendent of the Fifth division of the R. M. S. a man who has been practicing in that line. The fact that Mr. Gwin knows very littll about the work of the division, and that he il inexperienced and inefficient, is a small matter compared with this disclosure of his lack of courage and manliness. That his experience has been confined to the duties of an insignificant distributing clerkship on a short route in Indiana is his misfortune, but this is a fault to hia shame. That be had no knowledge of the division east of Indiana and south of the Ohio river may be corrected by study, if sufficient time is allowed him, and the ignorance then forgiveq him. A person who has been five years out of the service, managing a grocery in a remote part of Indiana, is not expected to be posted as to its present condition; but it is difficult to overlook the offense of which the Sentinel convicts Mr. Gwin. In exposing him In this manner the Sentinel has departed from the policy of the administration at Washington. This policy is not to diaclose the author of any secret charges affecting the official integrity of any Republican. Vila* will be displeased when he learns how the Sentinel has told on Gwin, and thus subjected him to the contumely he deserves. Against the Whisky Power. Pierceton Independent. The Independent believes in the Republican party, believes in its leaders, and believes that it aims to advocate the principles of right, and now, in conjunction with every honest, straightforward Republican in the State, calls upon th party to firmly place itself upon record as the enemy of whisky, and is confident that the leaders will not disregard the importance of the situation. Senator Harrison’s Great Speech. National Republican. Senator Harrison’s chances of re election arc decidedly improved by the township olectiona la his State. His great speech in the recent lou| debate in tbe Senate is doing good work. It il suggested, however, in Democratic circles, that he might have been content with flaying and roasting the administration, and not have insist' ed on basting it with lunar caustio.