Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1886 — Page 4

4

THE DAILY JOURNAL. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 188a WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath. Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Cun be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NF.W YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. P. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street LOUISVTLLE—C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Higgs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 Shall the majority be heard in the State of Indiana? That is the question. The railroad wrecker is abroad again, and has made two attempts to derail trains on the .Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road, without regard for the lives of innocent persons fchus endangered. The train-wrecker deserves to be hanged. New York city expects 140,000 school children to report for duty at the opening of the public schools on Monday next. Popular education is the safety of the people. This Nation will stand as long as the masses are kept educated, for education will steadily better the condition of humanity. And now the workingmen are going to boycott the President because Mr. Benedict, the new Public Printer, is a "rat.” It would be a refinement of cruelty to boycott the old man now when he is so happy; besides, it would do no good. Let them wait until ’BB, when they can accomplish something worth while. The indorsement of the Indiana Republican platform by the New York Evening Post may, there is reason to fear, cause some hitherto well-pleased Republicans to wonder if there is anything wrong with that document. Approval from such source is rather alarming, to be sure, but we assure the timorous that the platform can stand it. A SENDER of special cable dispatches from London refers to certain newspaper men of Germany, whose utterances are said to be directed by Bismarck, as "journalistic jackals” and the "most experienced liars living.” If this style of personal remark is kept up, it will not take long for Herr Bisrparck to decide whether there shall be war in Europe or not.

The Cincinnati Enquirer apologizes for its interference in Indiana politics by declaring that it was necessary under the circumstances, and then proceeds to plume itself over the fact that all isdovelv now. Perhaps it is, but it remains to be seeu whether the CoyEnglish wing of the party will remain killed. Then there are other districts in the State of Indiana beside the Seventh. The work of the peace-restorer of the Enquirer is not at an end. The Boston Herald, after sending the tariff plank of the California Democrats, remarks sadly: "California is a wool-growing State, and hence is out of harmony with the main policy of the Democratic party on the subject of the wool tariff.” This is very true, and if the Herald will look around it will find the country full of spots just like California. There are, in fact, few places in which harmony and the Democratic party are on speaking terms this year. Governor Gray, in his opening speech at Logansport, could see no reason why Indiana would not compare favorably with any other State with regard to the temperance of her people. No one does. The Democratic party is in the minority in Indiana. There is no particular credit to be arrogated to that party because of the position of the State in the record of morality. It is thought, too, by many that Indiana stands equally high with the State of Georgia, which returns a Democratic majority of from 80,000 to 100,000, and which has seen fit to pass a prohibitory law. The underlying issue of this campaign in this State is whether the people of Indiana are to be practically disfranchised in order that the Democratic party may control the Legislature and send ten of the thirteen members to Congress. As it is, no reform of any kind can be attempted without the consent of the Democratic party. The very first thing to bo done is to wrench the Legislature from the hands that gerrymandered the State. After that the majority may make itself heard. The attention of Governor Gray is called to this feature of the campaign. It seems to have escaped his notice. The New York Herald is making a canvass of the managers of popular amusements in the metropolis, the purpose being to get their views on the question of "deadheading” certain people to their places. The general verdict was that it was something that should be abolished, including favors given the press, the idea being that all should pay as they go. On the question of lithographs in shop and saloon windows there was no difference of opinion. All condemned it, and only wished that it might be abolished, together with the practice of giving complimentaries for the privilege of hanging advertisements in such Miner’# opinion wa# that

$1 spent in newspaper advertising was worth $lO in lithographs. This seems to be the feeling all over the country, and it is probable that the day is not far distant when the theatrical mauagers of this country will become wise enough to imitate those of Europe, where such extravagance is not known. The Indianapolis Sentinel takes exception to the wording of the Republican platform on the following points, the phrases included in the single quotation m'arks being put in italics by it, indicating that they are not what the Sentinel would like to have them: "We favor the reduction of the legal number of working hours ‘wherever practicable;’” we are opposed to "the ‘unfair’ competition of convict labor with free labor;” we favor "the submission of all matters of controversy between employe and employer, ‘under just regulation,' to impartial arbitration,” and "the right of all men to associate for the promotion of their mutual good and protection, ‘without interfering with the rights of others,’ can not be questioued.” Now, the Sentinel is either dishonest in taking exception to these declarations, or it would favor altering them to something like tlio opposite. How would it suit the Sentinel to declare in favor of reducing the hours of labor without regard to practicability? What would it say to the compositors on that paper working but half or three-quarters as many hours as they now do, and that without taking into consideration any interest except that of having fewer hours to work? Would the Sentinel favor the submission of all questions in dispute between employe and employer without just regulation, and would it advocate the formation of societies for mutual advantage without taking into consideration the lights of others? If this is not what it means, it is guilty of a contemptible juggleof words in hope of confusing the mind of some honest but simple-minded Democrat who might be brought to see these great questions in their true light. The attitude of the Sentinel on these points is such as to lead to the conclusion that it would williugly convey a false impression for present effect, and to appeal to prejudice at a time when it would "pay” to, well knowing that were it put to the test it would not dare to preach the same doctrine when it might come to a practical issue. It is a little early in the campaign to get down to work of that kind. The Sentinel will discover that the voters of Indiana are not so easily misled. They will have ample time to read the Republican platform for themselves dispassionately and without prejudice. If they condemn the declarations made by the Republican convention, very good. It is folly to .take exception to the clauses named. They must stand because they are right, and the right can not be altered by sophistry.

The New York Sun replying to the ingenuous demand made by a Democratic paper in Texas, that the President be informed whenever the spirit of the civil-service rules is violated by federal officials participating actively in the details of politics, gives the finishing stroke to the idea that these rules were to bo or are respected by this administration. Says the Sun: "Certain it is that, if informers enough should be forthcoming, most of Mr. Cleveland’s appointees could be found guilty of pernicious activity; bu t what would be the profit of this wholesale informing and the general bouncing that might be expected to follow? One set of offensive partisans would have been kicked out and another set would be put in, to be displaced, in their turn, for the same great offense. For you can no more make a Democratic office-holder ‘keep his hands off’ than you can keep a duck out of water, or a mugwump organ out of snarling at Democrats. It is the nature of most Democrats worthy of the name to be active in politics and offensive in partisanship; and no amount of executive orders can permanently change the Democratic nature.” The Sun is unquestionably right in its estimate of the Character of the average Democrat. He is by nature or training an active partisan; he cannot keep his hands off the machine. This has been demonstrated very forcibly in this State during the present campaign, where, owing to the death of the master of the Democratic hosts, every tyro in politics has pitched in with all the assurance of a veteran and the impudence of ignorance. The result has been that there have been rows in almost every congressional district, and the party has been running at sixes and sevens from the day the campaign opened. There would be less objection to all this and to the fact that Democratic federal officers have gone deeply and earnestly into these fights and helped in all the conventions and caucuses, were it not that, with characteristic dishonesty', the Democratic party has asked for the discharge of Republican officials on the ground that they were pernicious partisans, the charge in such cases being grounded on the fact that they may have done what these Democratic partisans have done, with the sanction of the organs of the party and the knowledge of those in power to enforce the law. Certain it is, as is claimed by the Sun, that there are few, if any, Democrats who will consent to keep hands off the machine. A Democrat may hold office in spite of "offenses”'for which Republicans are removed, with every indication of going out of office under a cloud, the victims of salaried assassins of character. The Charleston News and Courier professes not to be able to understand how' it is that the Indianapolis Journal is "inconsistent” in its utterances relative to the effect of the tariff. It is plain enough to all who are not determined to misunderstand. Os itself the tariff would w’ork vast benefits to the business of the country, but the attempted interference of those hostile to the Amei'fcaa idea has had

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1886.

the effect of retarding it by creating a feeling of insecurity', so that capitalists have been deterred from investing in new enterprises because they did not know what to expect in the way of legislation. The effect of this hostility has been to interfere with the workings of the tariff, and it has not had a fair trial, and the enemies of the tariff have taken advantage of the evil effect of their attitude to argue against the tariff itself, when that had nothing to do with the stagnation that was brought about in many localities by their own acts. In such other places as pluck overcame fear, there have been those who have pushed forward to success in spite of hostile legislation and threats of worse. The sluggishness that the Journal refers to can be traced directly to the war made against tl.§ tariff, and the fear inspired that sudden and violent changes might be made in it by those who do not feel friendly toward it. The Atlanta Constitution, one of whose editors went to Charleston immediately after the earthquake, says the great need of that city is skilled workmen, and points out the fact that every dollar of the seven to ten millions required to repair the damage will have to pass through the hands of working men. This is an opening for those artisans who have been complaining of lack of which they will do well to profit by. If, however, they adopt the policy of the laborers now on the ground, of demanding extravagant wages for their services, it will be a mistake. Prop-erty-owners will limit their repairs to the smallest extent possible, and many benevolent people of the country', who would be otherwise inclined to contribute to the rebuilding of the churches and charitable institutions, will withhold their offerings. The charitable do not enjoy' being victimized, a good cause, and a grasping spirit displayed by laborers in this emergency will work directly to their own disadvantage. There are reported heavy shipments of iron ore to this country, the same being subjected to a duty of seventy-five cents per ton. There are so many idle ships on the high seas that they are compelled to engage in some kind of work even on the narrowest pay. To meet this new competition the minersof the United States must do their work a little more cheaply, and the men on the railways must expect a little less in the way' of wages. Iron must be got to the markets as cheaply as it can be floated there from abroad. And if the freetraders have their way, and the duty be removed, ilwillhave to be produced in this country by that much more cheaply still.’ To do this the producer of food will have to sell his productions at a lower figure, and a reduction will have to be made all round. All because the producer of iron ore in other countries is allowed to sell in this at figures that cannot be duplicated without reducing wages and the price of everything else.

There is a disgraceful factional fight between two Democratic candidates in thp Second Wisconsin district, one that is so largely Democratic that a nomination means election. General Bragg is one of the contestants, and the revelations are such as to indicate that the most shameless trafficking has been indulged in by the men who run things there. This seems to be the rule in almost every solidly Democratic district in the West. The scramble for office was never more pronounced than now. The taste the party got has set it wild almost. One reason why there is now a greater desire to be elected to Congress is that there is a belief that the division of the public patronage will afford rich chances for political scheming that will pay those who are in position to help in the'division of the spoils. All this in the second year of the ‘‘Reform” administration. The unpleasant duty of indorsing President Cleveland’s administration was performed by the California Democrats last week in the usual perfunctory way, and then, .also after the manner of other Democratic conventions, they turned around and repudiated all the important measures that have formed his policy. This the Eastern mugwumps are inclined to regard as inconsistent behavior. It is evident that the mugwump mind has not yet grasped that political subtlety evolved by the Hon. William H. English, namely, that “it is not necessary to agree with the President in order to indorse his administration.” Adopted Democrats have much yet to learn before they can stand on an intellectual equality with the old liners. Much opposition to the re-election of Senator Dawes is manifesting itself in Massachusetts. The strongest argument urged in his favor is the fact that he is the friend of the Indian; but, as a Boston paper pertinently remarks, while the quarter of a million of Indians in the country ought, perhaps, to be represented in the Senate, the two Unions of people in Massachusetts have a right to the same privilege. There is a great deal of flabby sentiment afloat in certain Eastern circles concerning the Indian, but the opinion seems to be gaining ground, even in that quarter, that white people have sovuk rights which ought also to be respected. It is an affectation for the Chicago papers to pretend that they fear the New York Club more than they do the Detroits. Either this or they count on the Chicago influence being too much for the integrity of the latter organization.' Chicago has a string to the Detroit crowd. When it is pulled the game is dropped. The American Association of Writers, organized in this city a few weeks ago, will hold their second session in Indianapolis, beginning Tuesday, Oct 5, and continuing three days. The session will be for the purpose of perfecting organization, and for the enjoyment of

a literary feast, now in course of preparation. On Wednesday evening, Oct 6, there will be a public entertainment, and during the three days there will be read original contributions by the members of the organization. The interest manifested in the first meeting insures a large attendance at tha second, and a fine time generally is anticipated. The sessions will be held at Plymouth Church. Another account comes of a locomotive that ran away without any apparent reason, the supposition being that the throttle-valve was somehow forced out, and that the ‘‘machine” started off of its own accord. The public will not take much stock in such an idea. There should be every eltort mado to discover the fellow who started the engine. Asa rule, locomotives do not run off without somebody giving them leave to. It is a fact that they do not take these queer turns when there is an engineer at his post, nor do we think they would without someone giving the necessary pull to do it. Tales of terrible suffering come from the pan-handle part of Texas. There must be some truth in it when a Texas paper will confess that there is such a thing as a drought A gentleman from the affected region denounces such real estate speculators as have represented that the situation is not as bad as reported. He says that a large part of that region is little better than a desert at this time, not so much rain as would make a good shower having fallen in the last fourteen months. The ice-cream which fatally poisoued two young ladies in Boston, last week, was flavored with strawberry. What becomes, now, of the scientific theory that it is vanilla flavoring which is responsible for all of the mishaps of this nature? The day is not far distant when Mrs. Parsons will be a widow. If there is a man with sufficient courage to take her to wife, now is the time to speak. Address, "Dynamite, care Alarm, Chicago.” _ The Chicago News suggests that they throw a dried apple into the flowing well at Belle Plaine, la. How would it do to throw in some railway stock? That swells mightily when watered. Professor Gill, of the United States Fish Commission, thinks the sea serpent is a myth. Perhaps she itb; it theems quite likely—but Myth who? The season is near at hand when the ice-cream girl will again be in demand. It is no longer in order to say that this world of ours "is no great shakes.”

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. When the Prince of Wales attended the theater at Hornburg, during his recent visit, the price of scats utar his was doubled. Senator Sherman’s house at Mansfield, 0., says the Boston Journal, is the highest point in the State. It is 1,300 feet above the sea level. Senator Edmunds is not a Prohibitionist in either theory or practice, but he makes it a rule never to take a drink in the presence of young men. A case is reported in Sweden where blindness in one eye was immediately removed by the pulling of the decayed and inflamed molar teeth. Dreams of persons who have been blind since the age of five years never contain imaginary visions. They dream mainly of hearing things or feeling them. George W. Cable thought bo would be smart in Sunday-school. He told the class that he had five children and that half of them were airls. Then, when the best boy in the class politely called him a falsifier, he said the other half were girls, too. • Boston Transcript: Fogg has said the meanest thing any man ever was capable of saying. When Mrs. F. left him alone in the house, the other evening, sho remarked, "\ r ou won’t be lonely, dear?” "No,” he replied; "I shan’t miss you at all. The parrot, you know, is here.” Prof. Proctor says that earthquakes are assurances that the earth is not near death; that hundreds of thousands of years will still pass before the end is seen in the steady disintegration and removal of the land without renovation or renewal by the action of subterranean forces. Mr Gladstone takes every day two glasses of claret at lunch and two at dinner, with a glass of port wine. His alcoholic consumption has been estimated by bis son at seven gallons a year, which would be three and a half times the average consumption per head in England, and four anu a half times the average of Europe. A citizen of Portland, who has lived there forty years, and has kept statistics, as far as practicable, of the mortality of Oregon, has come to the conclusion that the average longevity is greater than that of any State in the Union. He ascribes the fact to the climate and simplicity in the mode of living. During the year ending last June nine Oregonians died, aged 100. A Harvard profossor has been playing Marc Antony to Barrett’s Cassius, in New Y’ork, and the smaß boys in the audience say that he was in dead earnest when he said: "Lend me your ears.” The funeral oration over the dead Caesar was somewhat marrod by the gallery gods, who found much to amuse them in the appearance of one of the Roman citizens with a long rip in his tights. A Minneapolis man applios to a lawyer for a divorce for a friend whose husband had deserted her. It was promised faithfully, the case was placed on the docket for hearing, and the day was named on which the knot should be untied. The gentleman interested was to marry the lady in question on the day following the divorce. Invitations were issued, the minister engaged and the feast oftere 1. The lawyer forgot all about it. The wedding was postponed. The wily Dutch Chancellor tries, By a very transparent disguise, To prove it’s a sin To go back on Berlin. And to pull thus wool over his eyes. But the reasons it’s wrong for the Czar To go back on his promises, are, Not a turpitude moral. Bui the danger of quarrel, And a fear of the Russian in war. -Tid-Bits. Says Mr. Labouchere in his Truth: "Mrs. Mackay, the latest American star iu the everchanging social has succeeded in capturing the Prince of v'ales, both in London and at Cowes, and I hear that she ia so much inspired by her success that she is anxious that her sponse should purchase Houghton Hall from Lord Cholmondeley. Mr. Mackay is, however, a man of plain habits and plain common sense, and as he has no sort of sympathy with his wife’s social aspiration?, it is doubtful whether —generous in money matters as he is—bo will consent to spend £HOO,OGO on a cumbersome nnd hideous palaca in Norfolk, for the honor of tbo Priuce of Wales occasionally visiting it.” Bishop John F. Hurst tells the Northern Christian Advocate that religion had something to do with tho recent deposition of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria. The Prince, he says, "is a Protestant. Ris chaplain, like himself, was a Lutheran. He bpgan to build a little chapel of his own communicn in the capital, but because of the prejudices of the people, all of whom are Greek Catholics, he was compelled to give up tho undertaking. Here was a Protestant prince, far away from any Protestant nation, trying to rule a voung people of Greek Catholics and surrounded by Russian influences. * * * Protestantism entered Bulgaria largely through Robert College, a noble American institution. It annually sent out students into all Bulgaria, who took charge of the important educational and other

interest*, or became leaders in the development o£ the land. This work can never be undone. The missionary will be safe." COMMENT AND OPINION. The Chicago Anarchists say “revengo is sweet." The police agree with them. —Atlanta Constitution. As an envoy extraordinary Colonel Sedgwick appears to be the most extraordinary envoy on earth.—Philadelphia Press. With respect to the suffering and homeless people of Charleston, he gives doubly who gives quickly.—New \ork Graphic. There appears to be a good deal more shotgun than argument in the prohibition campaign in Mississippi.—St. Louis Republican. A professional politician bears the same relation to patriotism that a professional actor bears to real life and living.—Baltimore American. That which Prince Bismarck said might prove to be a pleasant “episode” in Prince Alexander’s life may yet change the map of Europe. —Philadelphia Ledger. The newspapers are giving out such quantities of earthquake information that when the next one comes everybody will know it a.v soon as it turns the corner.—Baltimore American. That civil-service reform, as understood and practiced by the President, has at any time had -the definite and intelligent approval of the majority of the Democratic, party we aro not prepared to assert. —New York Times. WiTHali the legislation on the liquor traffic, the Prohibitionists of lowa ought to be able by this time effectually to prosecute offenders without requiring the federal officials to make testimony for them.—Philadelphia Record. Mr. Sedgwick appears to have squared himself with Secretary Bayard, who refuses to believe the story of his spree, but Mr. Sedgwick will probably have a care how he drinks wines and liquors in high altitudes and goes with the boys to take in ‘ ; a gay part of the town.’’—Chicago Times. One paragraph in the platform of the Illinois Republicans declares that “the Democratic administration has made our Nation ridiculous in the eyes of the whole world.” That is a comprehensive indictment, which seems to cover the case.—Albany Express. One or two of the attorneys for the convicted Chicago Anarchists are still arguing the case through the medium of newspaper interviews. They will soon succeed in convincing the public that the verdict should have included the counsel for the defense.—Minneapolis Tribune. If the political platforms yet to be made are likely- to be short for want of matter, a full plank “viewing with alarm” the progress of earthquakes in this country, might be prepared. The party that stands off the earthquakes will carry everything before it ia 1888.—Louisville Courier-Journal. The spectacle of the red-handed Geronimo pleading his innocence and peaceable disposition, is one which would arouse laughter, were it not for the fact that bis crimes should promptly send him to the gallows. Unfortunately, too, for him, this spectacle, with Geronimo for the leading figure, is not strictly now.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The man who protends that he isn’t afraid of an earthquake deceives himself. The gentlemen on Tuesday night who, after the first, proposed to drink to the earthquake, skedaddled to the street without their liquor when the second shock came They are now of the opinion that they prefer not to drink when earthquakes are in the neighborhood.—Savannah News. Prohibition is a question of morals as well as politics, and it will never prohibit to the ex tent of destroying a great traffic and enforcing general sobriety so lone as it lacks moral support. It may succeed in becoming an important political factor and effect changes in party lines, but as a reformatory agency it can only follow public opinion. It cannot lead it.—Washington Critic. Asa builder of Democratic platforms, exGovernor Crittenden, of Missouri, would achievo undying fame. In exactly twenty-three words he expresses every principle of that party as it exists to-day. His twenty-three words are: “It is the President’s duty, before God and man, to distribute the offices of the country among Democrats of the simon pure school.”—Minneapolis Tribune. It strikes us that it is not more law that is needed in dealing with the Mormons just at present so much as the enforcement of the law we have, aud it is m the pow r er of the authorities to set an example in this way which will be effective of good results. An important difficulty of the situation is that the Mormons do not understand that the Nation is in earnest. There ought to he power enough m the Nation to make them.—Boston Herald. Young people, marriage is a very serious business. in which many others besides yourselves have a right to he considered. Therefore, when you propose to many, take all the steps openly and with due recard to everybody who is now or who is likely to be affected by the contract. Then the chances that you will repent of the stop, as Mrs. Schilling has done, will bo reduced to a minimum. Matrimony is an honorable state; therefore, take care to go into it honorably. —New York Sun. Politics was to be eliminated from the navy when the Democrats took the nelrp of the ship of state. Alas! another Democratic promise has been broken. Three United States warships have been ordered to the Portsmouth navy yard for repairs. Why? Because the Portsmouth navy-yard is at Kittery, Me., and it is important to defeat the re-election of Representative Rec-d. The cruise of the north Atlantic squadron is broken up in order to give employment to men who will vote the Democratic ticket in Maine and New Hampshire. Is this rpform? Is this nonpartisanship? —New York Tribune.

EXPRESSIONS OF THE ST.ITE PRESS. Lawrence Mail: A free ballott and an honest count is one of the standing issues that divide Republicans from Democrats. Lopansport Journal: The vilest insult ever offered to Union soldiers is embodied in the in-come-tax proposition and dodpe. Kokomo Gazette-Tribnno: The first duty of the temperance men is to down that champion of the Liquor League, the Democratic party. Greencastle Times: It is the high license and local option movement that liquor men are wapinp their war upon. They have nothing to fear from me prohibition foolishness. Lopansport Journal: Tho Irishmen who vote to sustain the present administration, this year, will vote an indorsement of English greed, English interests and Enplisli insolence. Corydon Republican: At all the reunions unmistakable evidence crops out that the old soldiers have no love for Cleveland because of his vetoes of bills granting pensions to their old comrades. Lafayotta Courier: The Republican party of Indiana never had better chances of success than it has this year. With a stronp ticket, a good cause and the united effort of every man in the ranks victory is assured. Peru Republican: The laboring man’s best friend is the Republican party, and we may even broaden the statement, trnthfully, by saying every honest man’s best friend is the Republican party, whether he be a manufacturer, a merchant or a laborer. South Bend Repisier: The most that can be effected by the larpest attainable vote for the Prohibition candidates would be to render certain the election of the Democracy, and the friends of prohibition could effect no worse thing than Democratic success. Steubon Republican: The rantings of coreheads, visionaries and third-rate politicians, who so eagerly play into the ranks of the bitterest enemies of temperance, will have no effect save to delay and binder the final triumph which is sure to come, but which cannot come in a day nor in a vear. Danville Republican: The difference between local option and prohibition is this: Prohibition has no respect for the wishes of majorities, while local option is founded on the principle that the majority should rule. One is essentially despotic; the other is essentially democratic in the broadest sense. Muncie Tines: What the condition of our State finances is no men. aside from the few having them in charge, knows. The Republicans of the State demand that these books shall be opened, that the people may know what has been done with the hard-earned money collected from them. The administration of Suite affaire

under Democratic rule has been shameful. The money has been wasted. The benevolent institutions of the State have been made the rendea vouß. as well as the reward, of pot-house politicians, men unworthy and unfit for the place* given them as rewards for political and winning schemes. Attica Ledger: Prohibition closes the front door of the saloon. High license will close many a saloon entirely, and wouid be the mean! of making the traffic assume the burden it now puts on the people. High license would make one saloon watch its fellows, so that none of them escape the tax paid by proprietors disposed to be honest. Mishawaka Enterprise: The special-delivery system is to go into effect in all postoffices after Oct. 1. The special delivery is not so much needed by the public as is a careful and prompt every day delivery of ordiuary mail matter. We have beard more complaint on this score in the past few months than was beard in the previous twenty-five years. Union City Eagle: Men can be persuaded, not driven, into moral measures. The whole course pursued bv the partisan temperance men is based upon an erroneous principle, and the whole work is faulty, if they really seek to suppress the liquor traffic. It does seem that the promoters care more for personal advancement than for the good of the cause. A Democratic View of the Southern Temperance Movement. Philadelphia Record. In order to arrest the alleged tendency of the negroes to intemperance, the churches and many of the politicians in the South have united in favor of local option laws. The movement, therefore, partakes of a political and religious character, and by all accounts some of the efforts to secure majorities in favor of local option do not greatly differ from the persuasive methods which the Ku-klux were wont to employ. Many of the negroes of'the South sus-pect the “local option” crusade to be an attack on their personal freedom, and they aro naturally aroused to resistance. They do not believe in the sudden conversion of their white neighbors to the cause of temperance reform. In this situation it would not be surprising if the Republicans of the South should become the party of opposition to prohibitory liquor laws, whether in the form of local option or in any other guise, and the new party cry should be Freedom and whisky gang tbegithcr. Whether tke conflict will result in promoting the cause of temperance or any other good is exceedingly doubtful. - ■ ■ - "i ■■■ A Democratic Campaign Pamphlet. Washington Special. The Democratic campaign committee here ia trying hard to awaken some enthusiasm in the party, and is putting in some downright hard work in the literary bureau line. Its latest campaign document is a bulky pamphlet discussing the history of the management of the Pension Bureau from the Democratic point of view. According to this pamphlet, the bureau has been a mere Republican political machine ever since the Garfield campaign until the accession of Cleveland and Black. It is self-evi-dent, by the way, that Mr. Black is the author, or at least the inspirer. of the bulk of the contents. A great deal of stress is laid upon many matters of very slight importance, and the book would perhaps be more effective if it did not try to prove too much, as when it glorifies the present administration of the Pension Office as haviug been far more friendly to the veterans than.any of its Republican predecessors, and, also, if it did not consist mainly of twice and thrice-told tales of alleged Republican corruption in the campaigns of 1880 and 1884. The Garbling: of Official Reports. Waehlncton Special. The anti-free-trade people are becoming very much worked up about what they allege is an imposition on them by the administration'? keeping at the head of the Statistical Bureau it the State Department Mr. Washington Ford, who. they allege, is using his position for the benefit; of the free-trade advocates. Through Mr. Ford’s hands pass ail the consular reports, and it is claimed he expunges from them all the tariff literature favoring protection, before putting them in print, thus crediting nothing but free trade documents, which are disseminated throughout the country and calculated to hurt the protection theory. In addition to this the allegation is made that Mr. Ford occupies his position throueh the influence of the great froetrade apostle, David A. Wells, and Is using the. office wholly in the interests of Mr. WeTTS, and making it conform to his ideas on the tariff problem. A strong effort by the protectionists will be made to have Mr. Ford removed.

A Practical Prohibitionist* Atlanta Constitution. Who is the most effective prohibitionist in history? Mahomet, beyond question. When he began his mission, drunkennes of the most bestial kind was ono of the prevailing vices air.one the Arabs. Mahomet waged upon it a relentless warfare, and before he died had extinuished it and kindred vices throughout the mighty nation which he had builded up from a few scattered tribes. His work endured; and to-day among tho millions of Musselmans druukenness is unknown. Mahomet taught his followers that drunkenness was a crime, and he burned that conviction into their consciences so deep that for more than twelve centuries it has kept the blood of a passionate people free from the dangerous fire of £.lcoholio stimulants. Always Ready and Intelligent. Winchester llerald. The Indianapolis Journal is one of the best edited papers in the West. It is always ready with an intelligent opinion unnn every question of any importance. You will always know where to find it, for it utters no uncertain sounds, and when you put your finger down where it was once you’ll find it there again. Took It Into His Own Hands. Pittsburg Chronicle. The Democratic postmaster at Indian Grove, Mo., has absconded, leaving some heavy debts. He waited impatiently for the government to “turn the rascals out,” btu us it was slow about it, he turned himself out. Cutting’s SOO,OOO. Minneapolis Tribune. Mr. Editor Cutting thinks ho will clear S6O, DOO out of his little picnic in Mexico. At SIOO per week he will have to sit up between the bearded woman and the living skeleton a little over ten years to do it. The Newspaper in Politics. Lagrange Standard. The stump speakers in these days have little to do but review the evidence already in, and make their arguments. The main work is don® by the press, and it is at it the year round. Very lieul Is tic. Springfield Republican. Onr contemporaries who have reproduced cut® of Charleston buildings have succeeded admirably in giving them a life-like look, aa though the earthquake had just struck them. Will Help the Democrats. Chicago Journal. The Indinna Prohibitionists expect to poll only from 1,500 to 3.000 votes for'their tioket, but in a close State like Indiana that will help the Democrats very materially. The Kind That Does Not Prohibit. St. Louis Post- Dispatch. If Prohibitionists will tell the public that they simplv wish to establish the Rhodo Island brand of prohibition, they will not meet with such vigorous opposition. Just Like Him. Tid-Bits. . , . A ~ . An Indiana man has just celebrated his one* hundredth birthday. It’s just like an Indiana mau to set a day in the hottest kind of weather for this sort of thing. The Democratic Idea. Warsaw In lianlau-Repubiicau. The Democratic idea is to abolish the protec tion. and levy the tariff on the things we do not produce. Bat His Services Come High. Goshen Times. Honest Prohibitionists will find that St John is the cheapest politician in the country*