Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1887 — Page 4

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1S87. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fonrteenth St. P. S. H2ATH, Correspondent. WEW YORK OFFICE 104 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Nassau streets. TDK INDIANAPOLIS JOUCNAL Tan be found at the following places: LONDON American. Exchange ia Europe, 449 c triad. ?ARIS American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Canueines. "JEW YORK Gedney House and "Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Dearing, northwest corner xnird and Jefferson streets. IT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. ff ASHINGT02H. D. C Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. BushiessOffiee 233 Editorial Rooms 242 British farmers would not Tote for Mr. Cleveland to be their President. What the "British farmer wants ia protection. JOHANN Most, the New York Anarchist, has been denied a new trial and sentenced to ne year's imprisonment. Good enough. A Detroit paper claims that Don Dickinson "inspired the President's message." This is a double blunder. The message was not in spired, and it was G rover Cleveland's. "We are "waiting to hear Senator Voorhees make the greatest effort of his life defending ihe President's free-trade message. Mr. Voor hees is on record as a protectionist, but that will not embarrass him at all. THE wool-growers' association appeal from the President to the people for aid in the protection of their interests. Their trust is tot misplaced, and they will not appeal in rain. The people will rally to their defense next November. The Pall Mall Gazette says: "President Cleveland's message is a free-trade tract of the first importance, and ought to be widely circulated by the Cobden Club." Of course it ought. The English know a good thing when they see it. Chicago has been chosen as the place and June 19, 1888, the time for holding the Republican national convention. There were ten competing cities and the contest was quit spirited. Chicago ought to be satisfac tory to all concerned. The bottom facts are coming out in the Fi delity Bank case and they are likely to cause & sensation in social as well as business circles. Cipher letters between Vice-president Harper and the pretty clerk Mjss Josie Holmes, are among the latest revelations. A SKEPTICAL public may bo excused for declining to accept the assertion of the Crown Prince's physicians that the nature of his Highness's malady has entirely changed. It is easier to believe that the change is in the minds of the medical men. The Rev. Mr. Berry's congregation at "Wolverhampton are making very earnest efforts to induce him to decline the Plymouth Church call, and there are some indications that he may do so. That would not be very soothing to the self-complacency of Plymouth Church people. It is a significant fact that the English pa pers did not publish a word of that portion of the President's message that related to the sur plus in the treasury, but gave ample space to Lis free-trade erguments. The surplus is the Teal question, the other only incidental, but it was all that interested the English papers. Mr. Stealet, Speaker Carlisle's private secretary, says the rumor that Hon. W. L. Scott, cf Pennsylvania, is to be made chairman of the ways and means committee, is not true. Mr. Mills, of Texas, will head that committee. Mr. Mills is a roaring, rampant free trader, one of the extremest of the extreme. The Brooklyn School Board has decided upon the dismissal of an experienced female teacher because if they retain her she must be placed in charge bf a school building, and they do not consider a woman competent to lake entire control of a school. The Brooklyn School Board should come West and grow P- ' IiT contesting the election of Congressman "White Mr. Lowry has already succeeded in showing himself up in a very bad light, and the more he contests the worse his case looks. If he wishes to save a fragment of his reputation Mr. Lowry should return to Fort Wayne in haste and engage in some respectable business. Col. Alex McClttre, of Philadelphia, who is trying to run a Democratic paper on a Republican basis, is a little disfigured since the President's message, but rallies feebly, and tries to prove that Mr. Cleveland really advocates protection and not free trade. The Colonel has evidently read that message with his paper upside down, or through a glass darkly. The Sentinel yesterday contained a disgraceful attack upon the character of the late Washington C. DePif'pr. Mr. DePauw was thought enough of Vhe Democrats to be their candidate for Lieutenant-governor, and why the State organ of Democracy should attack him when dead is a mystery upon any reasonable theory of honorable journalism er consistent politics. The adoption by the State Horticultural Eociety, yesterday, of resolutions demanding increased appropriations for the State Library, In order that that much-neglected institution may be supplied with modern authorities on agricultural subjects and agricultural magazines is an encouraging move. The penuriousness of Indiana legislatures with regard to this library, as well as to numerous other public institutions, has been disgraceful. For more than a generation the library has received only $400 annually for the purchase

and binding of books an amount hardly sufficient to maintain a reputable school library. Unquestionably the State should place in the library the more valuable and rarer standard works on all industrial topics, so that they can be consulted by those who desire technical information. The only reason why they are not there is that the people have not demanded them. If they will demand them, and hold legislators responsible who fail to provide for them, they need not wait long for the books. If others will show some of the spirit manifested by the Horticultural Society, legislators will begin to understand that they are elected for something more than to squabble about petty offices, and force special sessions for the sake of the beggarly per diem.

BLAINE VEB8U3 CLEVELANDMr. Blaine's comments on the President's message go before the country almost simulta neous with the message itself, and will be quite as widely read. They are eminently character istic. Mr. Blaine is unquestionably one of the ablest of our public men, pos sessing a wonderfully alert and active mind, thoroughly equipped . with facts and arguments in every department of public affairs, ne is, withal, an American of Americans, a thorough believer in American ideas, and an able champion of the Republican policy of protection to American industry. To his strong convictions on these points he adds a rare faculty of putting things. Bringing these qualities to bear on the Presi dent's message, he exposes its fallacies with merciless logio and riddles it fore and aft with a fireof mingled logic and satire, argument and ridicule. Mr. Blaine commenting on Grover Cleveland's message is like a modern war steamer, thoroughly armed and equipped with perfect motive power and the most deadly armament, steaming around the oldfashioned, lumbering wooden hulk, and pouring deadly broadsides into it from every point of the compass. The President's message reads like a string of free-trade platitudes culled from cyclopedias, text-books and Cob den Club pamphlets. Mr. Blaine's comments come fresh and hot from the prolific and forgetive brain of a man who creates instead of borrowing ideas and who, instead of re peating what others have said, says things for others to repeat. In an argument of this kind Mr. Blaine "wipes the earth" with Grover Cleveland. He shows clearly not only the absurdity but the viciousness of Mr. Cleveland's free-trade scheme. He ' shows that the abolition of protective duties would demoralize and imperil the whole system of American industry without bringing any compensating benefit. Would Mr. Blaine, then, make no reduction of the national rev enue? Let him answer for himself. He says, "I would reduce it by a prompt repeal of the tobacco tax, and would make, here and there, some changes in the tariff, not to reduce pro tection, but to wisely foster it." Above all, he would hold to the central idea of protecting and developing American industries. He would amend the tariff to meet the changing conditions of trade, but he says, "I would make no change that should impair the pro tective character of the whole body of the tariff laws." This is the American ida, the Republican idea, and true statesmanship. It was hardly to be expected that Mr. Blaine could read the President's free-trade platitudes and fallacies without saying something in reply, and he has done it in clear and vigorous fashion. GOVERNOR. GEAY'S RALLYThe Hendricks Club has issued a call for a Democratic "grand rally," to be held in this city on the 11th of January next, that being the date of the meeting of the State Central committee. The object of the meeting is to perfect plans for early organization, fire the Democratic heart, and otherwise prepare for next year's campaign. The call is addressed to Democrats in general, and "particularly the young Democracy." This means that the meeting is in the interests of Governor Gray. The Sentinel says "the young Democracy are expected to take a prominent part in the organization movement, and after the meet ing the delegates will be thoroughly equipped for the work of organization." Read between the lines, this means a movement in the inter ests of Governor Gray and his vice-preai-dential boom. The Governor claims to be particularly strong with "the young Democ racy" of Indiana. Just why he should be we do not know, unless it is that he is rather a young Democrat himself not particularly young in years, but in Democracy. At all events he has been assiduously cultivating this element of the Democratic party, and seems to have gotten a pretty good hold on them. The present call for the young Democracy is notice to McDonald, Voorhees and other old leaders that Governor Gray proposes to march at the head of the procession, and that he and the young Democracy propose to assume control. This is the meaning of the call and the purport of the meeting. For the rest, the Republicans of Indiana will do well to heed this movement as the beginning of an early organization and vigorous campaign by the Democracy. They know they have a big fight and a hard one before them in this State, and they prop'ose to make timely preparations. This is all right. We have no objections to anything they may do in the way of legiti mate organization and work. If they will only refrain from ballot-box stuffing, tallysheet forgeries and other frauds, that is all the Republicans ask. We would like to have a fair apportionment of the State for legislative purposes, but that is impossible at present. We do not expect the Democracy to be fair; we only ask them not to be dishonest. On its face, the 11th of January meeting is a legitimate movement in the direction of arousing and organizing the party for next year. Republicans must not be caught nap ping. Thev must meet organization with organization, and as the Democracy propose to begin work in January the Republicans must not defer longer. It will soon be time to beat the long roll. The Boston Herald says Mr. David Turpie is the ablest new man elected to the Senate by the Democrats for several years; also that he has more brains than Voorhees, and is a better debater than McDonald. The Journal will not venture to dispute any one of these

statements; but' the idea the Herald appar

ently wishes to convey is that Mr. Turpie is an exceptionally able man, and just to satisfy a passing curiosity, it would be gratifying to know where it gained such an impression. There has been a good deal of vague Demo cratic talk about Mr. Turpie's ability, but no specifications, and a large number of Indiana citizens remain in dense ignorance as to the precise nature of his talents, and of the man ner in which they have been displayed. If the preponderance of political literature in the paper this week has caused any of the Journal's readers to overlook the reports of the Horticultural Association meetings, they are hereby informed that they have missed some very good reading and some useful information. The fact that some of the speakers of the occasion are theoretical rather than practical, farmers and fruitgrowers, does not militate against the value of the facts they present. On the contrary, your theoretical horticulturist is apt to know a great deal about his subject and to be most enthusiastic in discussing its mysteries. Both pleasure and profit are to be gained from the discussions of this society. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury has fallen absolutely flat. It has excited no interest whatever. The country has not cared a continental what Mr. Fairchild proposes to do, or to know really what he has done. The fact is conclusive against the President's assertion of the alarming and perilous condition of business, and the excited feeling of the people. If anything of the kind was, the case, there would e feverish anxiety to know the course and policy of the Secretary of the Treasury. As it is, business is quiet, the people are calm, and Mr. Fairchild's report has dropped into Congress with a dull thud. ' ACCORDING to the federal district court of Texas a citizen of the United States is entitled to legal rights and privileges superior to those enjoyed by the citizen of a single State; or, to put it more plainly, an Indiana drummer has a right to "drum" in Texas and to defy the local authorities who would seek to impose a prohibitory tax upon him. In demonstrating the fallibility of one phase of. the States' rights doctrine, the Kansas salesman, who allowed himself to be arrested in order to test a principle, has conferred a favor upon his traveling fellow-countrymen. The Journal heartily indorses the expression of the New York Times when it says: "A relatively negative policy will not answer the purpose of the Republicans. On the contrary, they must first show the country that they are prudent, reasonable and fair; and second, they must prove that they can and - will do better than the Democrats in the points where the latter are weak." The Journal is on record in favor of an active, constructive policy by the Republican minority. They should be ready with it as soon as the holi days are over. Green Smith says if the contest for Gov ernor is to be between men of his age and etni perience, he wishes to be considered an aspirant. There are plenty of men of his age, but none of his experience. His experience in pretending for two months that he was Lieutenant-governor, in usurping the duties of the office, trying to draw a salary to which he was not entitled and doing many other illegal and unconstitutional acts makes him a unique figure in politics. He is his only parallel. The following from the "Washington special to the Louisville Courier-Journal is not with out its mournful cadence: "Congressman Gay, of Louisiana, i3 Very much bowed down at the President's message, ana the more he reads it the stronger he be comes in his disapproval of the document. It will certainly, he said, 'have the effect to make Louisiana a Republican State, and if a bill is passed based upon the President's mes sage there will be no hope for the Democratic paty ever getting any help from the people of any State interested in the cultivation of sugar.'" An attempt to bribe an officer of the gov ernment is a serious offense, but can a man who himself stands before the country in the ; attitude of a bribe-receiver engage in the pros- I ecution of the guilty person? The only con-' istent thing Attorney-general Garland can do is to find a loop-hole of escape for the man . who approached District Attorney Burnett, of Cincinnati, with an offer of .$20,000 if he would "let up" on Harper of the Fidelity1 Bank. "When the President sends in his supple mental message giving the operations of that wonderful man and statesman, Secretary Bayard, we may get some indication of how, that fishery commission was organized. It will then be seen, we think, that Congress is not "so English, you know" as the adminis tration, the nsnery conierence ana the treetrade message are more popular in England than in America. The President tries to create a financial panic by exaggerated talk about hoarding the people's money, withdrawing it from circula tion etc. Yet the Treasury report of Dec. 1 shows that the amount of currency in circula tion, or outside of the Treasury, is $52,000.000 more than seven months ago, $119,000,000 more than seventeen months ago. Is the man crazy or only densely ignorant? A Pittsburg dentist has been sued for $20,000 damages by a man -who asserts that through carelessness in pulling a tooth some months ago he suffers lameness in one arm and leg to this day. The dentist will probably explain by way of defense that no school nor authority gives instructions for the pulling of a tooth whose roots extend into the leg. According to foreign rumor, Count Tolstoi is about to resign the office of Russian Minister of the Interior. Perhaps he needs a new suit of clothes and wants to go home and make them. At any rate, by his resignation ho will have more time in which to cobble shoes, dig potatoes and write novels for Boston consumption. James Black, who was convicted, on Wednesday, of mule-stealing,' and sentenced to the penitentiary, was the Democratic nominee for sheriff of Madison county at the last election and was defeated. Petek White is an Indian who lives in the forests near Terryville, Conn., and makes a living by hunting and fishing. He claims ownership to the entire neighborhood, asserting that

his fathers of the Pequot tribe never surrendered their title. He says he will defend his rights with his gun, and has already killed three dogs which were set upon him. He is about the worst Indian outbreak New England lias had " since King Philip's time.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. . Pops Leo has received among his jubilee gifts, a woolen petticoat, worked by a poor woman and her crippled daughter. ' Burlington Free Press: ; Table-boarder Waiter, there's a hair -in this stew. Waiter (cheerfully) Yes, sir; it's a rabbit stew. Lowell Citizen: Candidate (earnestly) A vote for me means a deadly blow to' the saloon. Can I count on you at the polls? Voter You bet! I'm with you every time. Candidate (joyously) Good enough! Let's go and take something. Senator Hawley's bride is receiving attention from the pens of Washington correspondents. It is solemnly announced that she went shopping a few days ago and chose a dressinggown for her husband. . . Governor Biggs, of" Delaware, is a keen-eyed man, with a ruddy complexion and long, snowwhite hair. He owns eleven "farms. He has made nearly $250,000 through the annual failure of the Delaware peach crop. He is president of a small railroad in the little State which has honored him in a political way. The Queen Regent of Spain is gaining a great hold on the affection of her subjects, and is said to be a wonderful woman, charming in manner and possessing great administrative ability. It is claimed by many that she will rank as one of the great women sovereigns of history. Some may doubt all this from the fact that she cannot keep the baby king quiet m public. Colonel Mvnatt's mother, living at Pine Log, Ga.; startled the family the other evening by crying out suddenly:. "Poor Susan is dead; she's gone to her rest." The lady referred to was living in Texas, and had not been seen by the family for years. A few days later the mail brought news of her death, which had occurred suddenly at the very time at which Mrs. Mynatt naa cried out. The Probate Court recorder at Cincinnati says that as a rule women are less selfish than men. In reading one hundred old wills he found many cases in which the husband made provision to cut off the widow's allowance . in case she should remarry, while in his whole experience ne Has read but one will of a married women in which such a stipulation respecting ner nusoana existed. , . Mrs. Gilligan, the heroine of the adventure with the escaped lion from the Barnum show at Bridgeport, Conn., lias settled with Mr. Barnum for the loss of her cow. She agreed to accept $75 for the damage done by the lion. Before the money was paid the cow died. Mr. Barnum at once presented Mrs. Gilligan with a Jersey cow from his large dairy farm. Mrs. Gilligan has signed a contract with agents of the great now to travel and exhibit herself next season. - There is a very general impression that Presi dent Cleveland is a fat man. Says a correspond ent: 'As a matter of fact he is not fat, although he is stout. His flesh is remarkably firm and his muscles are remarkably strong, while his bones are large and well knit. The result is that he carries himself with more ease, grace and dignity than most men of half his size, and suffers very little of the inconvenience over which fat men as large as he is are constantly groaning." ,; ... - John R. Alley, of Boston, who is now in Paris, is said to be the richest Republican poli tician in Massachusetts. His wealth is esti mated at more than $10,000,000. ,It will thus be seen that the reason he has never been Governor of the Bay State is not financial . in its nature. Mr. Alley is about seventy years of age. but strong and active. He was a member of Con gress from Massachusetts during the war. He spends a great deal of his time in .Washington, wnere ne owns a large amount ox real estate. During his illness the German Crown Prince has been much remembered by the Jews on ac count of his noble defense of them against, the attacks made upon them in Germany in recent years, it is recalled that he described this movement as a blot on German culture, that in J 879 he visited a Berlin synagogue, and was present at the charitable concert with the ex press view, as he himself stated, of proving his objection to the Jew-hating manifestations; and that' in 1880 he acknowledged Pastor Grueber's work On Christians and Israelites with an ex pression of the "hope that the outbreak of fanaticism might speedily die away, and that all denominations might be animated by a sense of mutual tolerance and forbearance." Maurice Thompson, in a contribution to a New York paper, maintains that the reign of anarchy in this country is due to the failure of our government to pass a law of international copyright. His line of argument may be gath ered from this closing sentence of his article: "With our gates wide open to immigration, and with a standing premium offered on alien influ ences in our literature and our art, with our book-stalls domineered over by ten-cent stolen editions of pessimistic and nihilistic books of foreign authorship, with our critics singing' peans to communistic novels, ana witn our pulpits bellowing adoration of Tolstoi and Turgeneff and the rest, who shall wonder that anarchy I dares to lay its tram and explode its bomb . in our midstf CO.uMENT'AXD OPINION. No news is good news, according to the proverb, and it applies to the operations of the coal ring. As long as we do not hear from them there is no raise in the price of coal. Chicago Journal. The Cleveland kite wants something better that a Western free-trade tail with which to 'sweep the country." That would bring the old thing down at the hrst fence. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. We do not desire to foment disturbance in a foreign county. But, why would it be any more 'reprehensible for Americans to go to free Ire land Iroin tyranny now than it was tor .bnglishmen to march under Garibaldi against Ferdinand in 1860? New York Star. President Cleveland may have made a profound study of the intricate and difficult problems presented by the subject of tariff taxation and incidental protection, but so have many other people, and they differ from him radically in the conclusion that the surest' way to make a country prosperous is to eut off one of the main sources of its prosperity. Chicago Mail. People who are going to build may like to know that "a three-thousand-dollar house" is one that the architectural paper says can . be built for $2,850.37; costs $3,100, according to the architect's estimate; is worth $3,700, . the . carpenter says, to build; increases in expense to $4,800 during the process of erection, and makes you draw your check for $5,053.28 before you move in and get your first bill for repairs Boston Journal of Education. The free-trader is a theorist; a doctrinaire; one who dreams of an ideal world with ideal governments all on the same commercial, financial and industrial plane. If the world happened to be in that delectable condition, free trade would be the grandest of economic theories; but as the world happens not to be in any such ideal attitude, the sublime theory of free trade has to bend to the stubborn practical or be broken in the conflict. Philadelphia Times (Dem.) The mugwump movement failed utterly in the Bay State, and Governor Ames was reelected by an increased majority for the Republicans. At the same time the effect of stirring the Democratic blood in Maryland was to roll up an increased Democratic majority; and under the influence of his later enlightenment Mr. Cleveland cannot fail to regard both of these results with satisfaction. Such is also the sentiment which inspires the masses of the united Democracy. New York Sun. Strange to say, our national banking system, one of the best ever used in any country, cannot survive the national adversities that brought it forth. It cannot exist in the condition of prosperity that now prevails. It began to decline when the country began to recover from the effects of th war. and every new advance in national prosperity has been attended by a weakening of the influence and authority of the banks. It was founded on debt, and it does not appear that it can exist after the national debt has disappearedL St. Louis Republican. A scanty and apparently hesitating Democratic minority in the House, which would be instantly overpowered but for the almost solid Republican vote in defense of home industries, and a scanty Republican majority in the Senate only stand between those industries and all the mischief that free-traders can make. Millions have been invested at the South within the past two years, and millions more at the North, in the belief that the Democratic party had learned something during the thirty years that have ! elapsed jslnce Buchanan's time. It would be a costly thing for those investors, and in the end for the Democratic party, to have that impression dispelled by the action of Congress this year. New York Tribune. -

THE PfiSIDENT'S MESSAGE. Additional Comments and Criticisms by Hon. James G. Blaine. The Journal of yesterday printed the larger portion of an interview with Mr. Blaine, in which he commented on the President's message. A part of the interview was delayed, and it is presented below. In response to the question, "Don't you think it important to increase our export trader Mr. Blaine eaid: "Undoubtedly; but it is vastly more important not to lose our own great market for our own people in the vain effort to reach the impossible. It is not our foreign trade that has caused the wonderful growth and expansion of the Republic. It is the vast domestic trade. between thirty-eight States and eight Territories with a population of perhaps 62,000,000 to-day. The whole amount of our expert and import trade together never, I think, reached $1,900,000.000 any one year. Our internal home trade on 130,0OP miles of railway, along 15,000 miles of ocean coast, over the five great lakes and along 20.000 miles of navigable rivers, reaches the enormous annual aggregate of more than $40,000,000.000, and perhaps this year $50,000,000,000. '-It is to this illimitable trade, even now in its infancy, and destined to attain a magnitude not dreamed of twenty years ago, that Europeans are struggling to enter. It is the heritage of the AmeSMban people, of their children, and of their

children's children. It gives an absolutely free trade over a territory nearly as large as all Eu rope, and the profit all onr own. The genuine free-trader appears unable to see or comprehend that this continental trade not our exchanges with Europe is the ereat source of our prosper ity. President Cleveland now plainly proposes a policy that will admit Europe to share this trade." "But you are in favor of extending our for eign trade, are you not!"' "Certainly I am. in all practical and advanta geous ways, but cot on the principle of the free traders, by which we shall be constantly exchang ing dollar for dime. Moreover, foreign trade is often very delusive. Cotton is manufactured in the city of my residence.' If a box of cotton goods is sent 200 miles to the Province of New Brunswick, it is foreign trade. If shipped 17, 000 miles ronnd Cape Horn to Washington Ter ritory it is domestic trade. The magnitude of the Union and the immensity of its internal trade require new political economy. Treatises written for European states do not grasp our peculiar situation. "How will the President's message be taken In the South?" "I don't dare answer that qnestiou. The truth has been so long obscured Dy certain local questions and unreasonable: prejudice that nobody can hope for industrial enlightenment Jimong their leaders just yet. But in my view, the South, above all sections of the Union, needs a protective tariff. The two Virginias, North Carolina, Kentucky, Missonri, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia have enormous resources and facil ities for developing and handling manufactures. They can not do anything without protection. Even a progress so vast as some of those States made will be checked if the President's message is enacted into a law. Their Senators and Rep resentatives can prevent it, but they are so used to following anything labeled 'Democratic' very probably they will follow the President and blight the progress already made. By the time some of the Southern States get free iron ore and coal, while tobacco is taxed, they may have occasion to sit down and calculate the value of Democratic free trade to their local interests." "Will not the President's recommendation to admit raw material find strong support?" "Not by wise protectionists in our time. Per haps some greedy manufacturers may think that with free coal or free iron-ore they can do great things, but if they should succeed in trying they will, as the boys, say, catch it on the bound. If home-trade in raw material is destroyed or seri ously injured, railroads will be the first to feel it. If that vast interest is crippled in any direction, the financial fabric of the whole country will feel it quickly and seriously. If any man can give a reason why we should arrange the tariff to favor the raw material of other countries iu competi tion aeainst our material of the same kind. I should like to hear it. Should that recommendation of the President be approved, it would turn 100,000 American laborers out of employment before it had been a year in operation." "What most be the marked and general effect of the Presidents message: "It will bring the country where it ought to be brought to a fuIL fair contest on the ques tion of protection. The President himself makes it one issue by presenting no other in his message. I think it well to have the question settled, lne Democratic party in power is a standing menace to the industrial prosperity of the country. That menace should be removed, or the policy it foreshadows should be made' certain. Nothing is so mischievous to business as uncertainty, nothing so paralyzing as doubt." What the Southern Iron Men Think of It. Birmingham (A).) Special to Cincinnati Enquirer. To say that Cleveland's message was a sur prise to the iron men of this city would express it mildly. In thu immediate district there are now in coarse of erection twelve furnaces and about two thousand coke ovens, and the owners of these enterprises did not expect any tariff reduction for several years at least. H.-M. Caldwell, president of the Elyton Land Company, which recentlv commenced the erec tion of large car-works, engine and boiler-works and other industries, said: "The message is very- unfortunate for the party and for the business interests of the country, : but I don't think it will affect this section very materially. We will go on with our works, for it is not probable that any reduction of the tariff will be made at this session of Congress." Ex-Congressman G. W. Hewitt (Democrat), who is interested in manufacturing says: "I am ont of politics, but I cannot agree with Cleveland's policy. If that is Democracy. this section doesn't want any of it. I would favor Randall for President, but I fsar Cleve land willTe renominated." A prominent furnace owner said: "The issue before the country now is protection or free trade, and protection will win. None of the Birmingham furnace?," he continued, "will shut down on account of the message, for if there is any place in the United States where manufact urers can live under free trade this is the place; but we don't want any free trade." ' Summed up, the opinion of leading manufact urers here is that the message will defeat the Democratic party next year, and will also have the effect of stopping further investments in manufacturing until there is a new administra tion. The Daily Age, of this city, the leading pro tection paper of the South, says editorially that all party lines are now obhberated. There will no longer be Democrats or llenublicans. but pro tectionists and free-traders. This opinion is in dorsed by business men and manufacturers of the citj'. Press Comment. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: The President has hoisted the standard of his part v. It is tha cold-wave flag, and Democrats will govern them selves accordingly. Memphis Avalanche: It is the kev-note of the campaign, and with it Cleveland and the Demo cratic party must stand or fall. It has about it something that is prophetic of success, and yet it brings with it the mnrmor of a battle fiercer than any which has yet been waged in the polit ical history of America. Kansas City Journal: The general influence of his message will be to add to the confusion of his party; for he suggests no compromise). Mr. Randall must take the Carlisle-Cleveland dose. The direct internal revenue taxes must remain and the indirect protection tariff taxes must be cut and slashed until the free-traders are satisfied with the confusion and ruin accomplished. Philadelphia North American: Nor does the President remember that the seven millions, classed as farmers are. by the diversification of industry through protection, furnished with a swift and convenient home' marKet tor tneir proaucts. Wipe out any of the thriving manu facturing, towns in Pennsylvania, and what would happen to real estate held for production within a radius of ten miles? Will - it be necessary to inform the President that in that case the farms would decline in value simply because their earnings would fall to a minimum? Does be, does anybodv. believe that the farmers iu the neighborhood of great industries do not believe themselves benefited by the existence of those industries? Milwaukee Sentinel: The President adopts in bis message the usual assumption of free-traders that the tariff adds to the priee paid by the con sumers of the products of protected industries the full amount of the tariff on imported articles of a like nature, an assumption which has no warrant in facta He concedes that there may be occasional exceptions to the rule, but asserts that combinations and trouts are formed in such eases to put up the price. This assertion is not generally true, while, with our home market in the control of foreigners, similar combinations among foreign manufacturers would be formed for the same purpose. Such combinations are npt confined to the United States, and are as readily formed in England or t ranee as here. Louisville Commercial: President Cleveland's tariff sky-rocket ia still In the air, the delight of a few and the wonderment of all. He has done what certain Democratic party leaders have not bad the courage to do announce fearlessly the doctrine of free trade. Ha avoids the verbose generalities of Carlisle and the glittering (petorinktums of Watterson and goes deliberately to work to commit his party to an advanced position on the tariff. The Commercial has

never doubted Mr. Cleveland's aggressive) integrity. He is sincere about the tariff. In his opinion free trade would in crease the prosperity of the country, and he handles the subject in his free and honest fashion. But what will be the effect in the campaign of 1888? Can the Democratic party afford to retreat from the course so plainly marked out by its acknowledged leader? Whatever may be the fate of the tariff bill at this session of Congress, Mr. Cleveiana will co - before the country next year as a confessed free-trader. Will such, a policy cot array the manufacturing, woolgrowing and tobacco interests solidly against him? The Message and a Tariff BilL Philadelphia Inquirer: The message settles it The three leading issues next year will be protection, pauperism and prohibition if the American party shall present a fourth it will be patriotism. New York Mail and Express: The next campaign will be a battle between protection and free trade, and it will be a wholesome, vigorous political cont. with the chances largely in fator of the Rerublicans. . . Detroit Tribune: There is only one way to compete with Great Britain in a free-trade basis, and that is to reduce the scale of wages in this country to the low level of that established in England. This the American workingmen will never consent to, and they cover ought to be asked to. But it is just what the free-traders in this country are trying to force them to do. A workingman who supports a free-trader or a free-trade measure is working to reduce his own income. Pittsburg Dispatch: If the President could formulate a tariff message which would fulfill the standards of bis message; if he could show us , bow to reduce duties without either destroying the profits of the manufacturer or lowering the wages of the laborer; if he can keep up the rewards of production in certain departments and yet lower the cost of the products to consumers; if he cau take the duty off articles which are not produced at home and yet keep it on articles of luxury exported from abroad, he will be able to command the undivided support of the whole Nation without regard to party. But as this involves some direct contradictions, co specific recommendations are made, and it will prove somewhat difficult for the President's friends in Congress to reduce these generalities to the specific enactments of a tariff bilL

THE CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE. Social and Economic Topics Discussed by Some of the Ablest Men of the Country. Washington, Dec. & At the opening of the second morning session of the conference which is being held under the auspices of the Evangelical" Alliance for the United States, nearly -every seat in the First Congregational Church was occupied. After devotional exereises, the presiding officer, Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, introduced Rev. S. W. -Dike, of Auburndale, Mass., who read a paper on "Perils to the Family." In the course of his paper Mr. Dike said that the American family U not strong enough for the strain upon it from, our social condition. Perils threaten in " three particulars. As a social production our failures with the family are dangerously numerous. In some States five, ten or twelve percentum of the families formed annually suffer dissolution in the courts. Fatal troubles increase this number. Unchaslity corrupts many families, and criminal practices render others ' unfruitful, leaving the lower classes to replenish population. Probably all these evils are on the in crease. Divorces certainly are. No christian country, he said, takes greater risks from, loose marriage and divorce laws than the United States. The fundamental place of the family in society gives grave significance to these perils. Historically the family is the germ of all other social institutions, and it is their living tissue. Weakness here is most dangerous. The paper urged the Alliance to secure closer fellowship between scholars in the social sciences and the clergy, whereby the latter could get the benefits of the new material and better methods of the former. CoL J. G. Green, of Hartford, Conn. , then read a paper on "The Social Vice." He said thai; every kind of lawlessness instinctively recognizes the family as a foe, and seeks to corrut t and weaken it. The reproduction of human life is the highest function of which human beings are capable. But uot only the genesis, but all that go to shape and train it are of moment. The speaker named among the more dangerous and more unnoticed agencies for promotion of the social vices, first, the public school, with its inevitable mingling of the pure and the impure, where evil influences are as rife as fungi in a swamp. The White Cross work is especially needed, here. The novel, against which , we do not nowadays hear the protest that we ought, is dangerous. Pure fiction does not constitute the bulk of that published. A vast number read almost nothing except highly-spiced impure fiction. The sensational, scandal-mongering press is the close ally of impure fiction. The eyes of journalism are turned into every corner, and its wonderful acumen is largely employed to discover that which is poisonous. Art, in painting, sculpture and music, which may and often does disseminate impure suggestions, is the most dangerous way of all. The saloon is another exceedingly fruitful seed-bed for the germs of impurity. The church must do more than merely avoid and hold its skirts from contamination. We must make an aggressive as well as a mere defensive warfare. The church must teach parents, and they must teach children. But in outside nelds that the cnurcn cannot reacn, tna White Cross work can do much, and should be pushed. Mr. bimon tu. uaiawin. or the racuity ox New Haven Law School, said he thought the. Greeks, and Romans, and ancient nations gen erally were wisest in making the father the priest. In this respect, he thought the Roman Catholic church does better than others. A Voice I don't recognize it as a Christian church at alL ... "I have found, in work done in .connection with Mr. Dike, that the Catholic church has often given us most efficient help," responded Mr. Baldwin. President Dodge said that the alliance has al ways co-operated heartily with the Catholio church for all that is good, although it naa Deen obliged to protest against the ultramontane at tar fe upon our public schools. President John Eaton, of Marietta College, Ohio, late United States Commissioner of Edu cation, then read a paper on "Illiteracy, in the course of which he said that illiteracy is a measure of ignorance, a sign of darkness, an invitation to fraud, a cover to iniquity. Illiter acy is hostile to man's welfare, hinders industry and prosperity, obstructs virtue and imperil piety. If knowledge is power, ignorance is weakness, and becomes a temptation to per verted intelligence. In eleven fatates the ignorant voters, if combined, outnumber the votes cast for either of the political parties, and could control their legislation and administration and elect twenty two United States Senators and a corresponding number of the national House of Representatives. - How do 'they everywhere invite bribery, perjury, incompetency and betrayal of trust! Something more than eternal vigilance is required to settle the vast and complicated questions before u and preserve the nice balance of our political forces. The Nation must aid in the work of education- Were there no illiterate Indians Mormons, Chinese or other foreigners or natives, white or black, all our great problems would be greatly simplified. President A u cell, of Michigan University. presided at the afternoon session and introduced president James McCosh. D. D-, "f Princeton College, who read a paper on "The Church iu Relation to the Capital and Labor Question." . At the close of Dr.vMcCosh's address, a cablegram expressing the gj-mpathy of the council of the English Evangelical Alliance nowftin session in London, was read to the conference. Hon. Seth Low, of Brooklyn, followed Dr. McCosh and spoke on the same topic. A general discussion of the subject followed, in which Rev. A. CL Schade, of Cleveland, )., took a- prominent part. To-night a paper on - i ne v-iinstiau resources of our Country, was read by Rev. James M. id of Richmqnd, Va. Don Dickinson's Appointment. Philadelphia PreiiB. The appointment will be applauded bv everv Democrat who bo3ieves in the party activity of the office-holders. It is not in the line of civilservice retorm. atm win ims more cenerallv gratifiying to the party on that account; but it is in the line of Mr- Cleveland's more recent political conduct, an.l the country is not likely to be left long in doubt about the full meaning of it. It Is the Itepublican Flatfornu Slichigau City News. No man should be ele tted to the next Legis lature who will not pledge his honor to vote for a bill entirely separating the benoveltmt mstuui tions from politics, and so amending the act creating the Reformatory that ther t-liall bs a separation of the penal and reformatory depart incuts in that institution.

King, D. D.. of New ork. and addresses made by President D. C. Gilman, LLD. of John Hopkins University, and Rev. Dr. W. E. Hatcher.