Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1888 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATDEDAT, SEPTEMBER 22, 1883.

THE DAILY JOURNAL. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 18S3.

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Peering, northwest corner Third and Jefferaon atreets. J5T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hot. WASHINGTON, D. O P-iggs House and Ebtitt House. Telephone Calls. Eaf-aessO.tce 233 Editorial Rooms 242 THINGS TO THINK OF. "The main question at issue in America is English free trade aeaiDst the continental. SYSTEM OP PROTECTION. The American election is infinitely more important to Englishmen than their own internal politics jnst at this juncture. The resalt of the American election will help todec:de many important issue in Great Britain." Locuou Sundav Times, Julv 15, 1SS3. e - Protection to heme industries I regard a3 th most important plank in any platform after 'the Union must and shall bo preserved.' r Gen. U. 13. Grant, ia 1S33. It is my deliberate judgment that the prosperity of America is mainly due to her system of protective law?." Prince Bismarck. "We should be slow to abandon that system cf protective duties which looks to the . promotion and development of American industry and to the preservation of the highest pcssiMe soa! of wares tor the American workraan." Benjaruiu Harrison. "No man's wag?s should be so low that he cannot make provisions iu his days of vigor for the incapacity of accident or the feebleness o! old age." Benjamin Harrison. 'The wage3 of the American laborer cannot be reduced except with the consent and the votes of the American laborer himself. The appeal lies to him.' Jame3 G. Blaine. "We believe in the preservation of the American market for oar American producer and workmen." Benjamin Harrison. 'This is not the time to weigh in an apothecary's scale the services or the rewards of the men who saved the Nation." Benjamin Harrison. "Against whom is it that the Ke publican party ha3 been nnabla to protect your race!'' Benjamin Harrison -to the colored voters. "Ye?. I was a rebel and a Democrat but I thank God I have never been a .Republican." Rev. Jchn A. Brooks, Third-party Prohibition Candidate for Vice-president. , "And if one receives not enough it is be cause he did not 6erve long enough, and can he be heard to complain if he geU a just rate, equal to his fellow-eoldiers, and for the remainder of the relief necessary to his support, he shall be allowed, as other citizens must, to accept the charity of the local authorities." C. C. Matson, chairman of House committee on invalid pensions, in ci3 report on the dependent pension bill, April 14, 16S3. "With President Cleveland Great Britain knows where she is. Glasgow Herald. "On the adoption of free trade by the United States depends the greater share of English prosperity for a good many years to come. As the British Hosiery .Review reiterates, 'We venture to assert that England will reap the largest share of any advantages that may arise from the adoption of the ideas now advocated by the free-trade party ia the United States." London Economist. "I saw the other day in one of our Indianapolis papers a good overcoat advertised for 1.87, end it must be a pretty mean man that wncts to get one for a dollar." Benjamin Harrison. "1 hold it to be true that whenever the market price is so low that the man or the woman who makes an article cannot get a fair living out of the making of it, it is too low." Benjamin Harrison. ' 1 "Grover Cleveland ha3 done more to advance the cause of free trade than any Prime Minister of England has ever done." London Economist. "We the capitalists can control the workingman only so long as he eats up to-day what he earns to-morrow." W. L. Scott, Mr. Cleveland's political manager. "I have so long followed Mr. Mills that whatever he commands, I do." Mr. Bynum, at Alanta. "The negro is a prolific animal." Allen G. Thurmans speech at Port Huron, Aug. 22, 1SS8. "I am for Grover Cleveland because I am a free-trader." Henry George, at Cooper Union, Sept. 7, 1SS3. - It may be remarked, as to Randolph county, that it's all right Go and hear Anna Dickinson deliver one of the best speeches of the campaign. ' At Richmond, her first appointment, hundreds of people were unable to get into the ball to hear Anna Dickinson. Sznatoii Vest is now known as Cleveland's Burchard, and the worst of it is his Democratic brethren can't pull him down. Miss Dickinson's reception, to-night, should be made worthy the lady's came and well-remembered great sarvices in other year to the cause represented by the Republican party. Mk. MILLS says in his campaign speeches that the Mills bill does cot propose free trade, but only an average reduction of 4 6-10 per cent. Mr. Mills said to the Philadelphia wool merchants last spring: "The more confusion the tariff works to business the better I like it, because it will the sooner be done away with. I desire free trade, and I will not help to perfect any law that gtands in the way of free trade." As General Harrison remarks, it is not so

s&uch the krgth of the step that is taken as

its direction. He who runs may read that the direction of Democratic tariff legislation ia toward free trade.

Anna Dickinson's speech at Tomlinson Hall will be the event of the campaign, oa the Republican side. The hall should be and will be crowded. Miss Dickinson is among the foremost orators of the country. Her words will be worth hearing. Miss Frances E. Willard is quoted as saving, in substance, that nearly all of the political articles ia the public press are in spired by whisky. For intemperate statements and outrageous slanders, the third party orators outdo their Democratic allies ia this campaign. Whether few or many commercial travelera come dowa from Chicago to-day to visit the next President, there will be no denying that all are Republicans. The executive committee of the club decided that the train had been chartered for Republicans only, and that tickets were to be sold to no one unless he were known to be a true-blue supporter of Harrison and protection. THERE is a large number of old soldiers in Indiana cot entitled to a pension under present laws who still feel, and rightly so, that they have a claim on the government for more generous recognition than they have yet received. Of course they "will never get it from the Democratic party. As an indication of how their claims and services are regarded by the supporters of the Cleveland administration, we call attention to an article which we reprint from the Chicago Times. It breathes the true spirit of Democratic hostility to old soldiers. The Toronto Mail, which wants Cleveland elected evidently foresees defeat to its hopes. It explains that cot enough time has elapsed since the issuing of his "tariff reform" message for the education of the people, and says it took the people of England ten years after Cobdens appearance to bring in a verdict against protection. Ten years from this Mr. Cleveland's message and Mr. Mill's bill will be forgotten by Americans. Their education will proceed in a different direction, and the first object lesson will be the election in November of a protection President The Albany, N. Y., Times, a Democratic organ, has this: "A correspondent says he has carefully canvassed his district and finds that where there are only 64 votes for Cleveland there will be 473 for Hill. This is an extraordinary statement, and we shall examine the election returns with some curiosity to see whether it is verified. Jf it is, it will not bo the fault of Governor Hill, who appeals to ill his friends to vote for Cleveland and Thurman." If it is, it will also appear that Governor nill's followers either cannot be made to love Cleveland, or that they detect the wink which accompanies the Governor's appoal to vote for the President as well as himself. AMONG the numerous tricks of the Democratic plan of campaign is the circulation of fraudulent copies of the Mills bill. The notoriety of the measure has caused a general de maud for it. To meet this the Democrats are sending out garbled copies to suit particular localities or interests. In one respect, however, the copies are all agreed, and that is in omitting the sections which repeal the internal-revenue tax on saloons and impose restrictions on small distilleries. The Mills bill, aspassed by the House, explicitly repeals "all clauses of Section 3244 of the Revised Statutes, and all laws amendatory thereof, and all other laws which impose any special taxes upon manufacturers of stills, retail dealers ia liquors and retail dealers ia malt liquors." It also makes material changes ia the provisions of the present law regulating small distilleries. All copies of the bill circulated by the Democratic committee omit these provisions. Frank A. Burr, a newspaper correspondent of considerable experience and shrewdness, draws a. very discouraging picture for the Boston Herald of President Cleveland's prospects. He declares that he is personally disliked by at least three-fourths of the Democratic Senators and Representatives, and that, whatever these men may say in public, in private they berate him. Naturally, this feeling has communicated itself to minor politicians and to the rank and file, and hence the lack of enthusiastic support which is patent to all. After reviewing the situation ia New York, Mr. Burr concludes that the temper of the people, the attitude of local organizations, the liquor question, aud several other incidental matters, combine to furnish the scheming politicians a remarkably good chance to trade on the Stateand. national tickets, and that Mr. Cleveland is in danger of being sold out in his owa State. All this is not new, the situation having been clearly set forth much as Burr describes it but it is rather surprising to find it in a paper which advocates Cleveland's re-election, and which, with all its "independence," is not accustomed to give prominence to matters unfavorable to its candidate. THE G0VEEUMEKT3 CREDIT. To the Editor of tha InJUnnrolIa JonrnaU What amount of money was borrowed by the government, and what rate of interest was paid for same during the administration - r-k m r oi James isucnanani x. at. stevens. SCMNEB, IU. The public debt in 1830, when Buchanan was elected, was $31,972,537; in 18G0 it had increased to $64,842,287, and on the 1st of January, 1861, four months before he went out of ofiice. it was $90,580,S73. In the last three years of Buchanan's administration the expenditures of the government exceeded the revenue as follows: In 1833 by $27,529,904, in 1839 by $15,584,511, in 1S60 by $7,065,990. Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury was Howell Cobb, of Georgia, who undoubtedly worked in the interest of secession. In June, 1869, owing to the depleted condition of the treasury and an accumulated deficit during four years of peace, Congress had authorized a loan of $20,000,000. Of this amount the government succeeded in borrowing $7,000,' 000 at 5 per cent ' In December, 1860, Congress authorized tha issue of . $10,000,000 treasury cotes, payable ia one year at the lowest rate of interest obtainable. Cobb resigned as Secretary of the Treasury Dec.

10, 1860, to go with the South, and Philip F. Thomas, of Maryland, was appointed Secretary of the Treasury. He served from Dec.

10 till some time ia January, 1861, when John A. Dix, of New York, was appointed. Under the act of Congress above referred to the Secretary of the Treasury offered $5,000,000 one-year treasury cotes, bids to be opened Dec. 23, 1860. When the time came to opea the bids $300,000 were bid foe at 12 per cent, the other bids running as high as 24. and 36 per cent The Secretary rejected all over 12 per cent The government had to have money to meet 'January interest and a number of banks and bankers offered a loan of $1,500,000 at 12 per cent. This offer was accepted, and on the 31st of December the government borrowed $3,000,000 at the same rate, 12 per cent In January, 1S61, the Secretary of the Treasury offered the remaining $5,000,000 of the loan authorized. Bids for this were opened Jan. 19. There were ten bids for different amounts, the lowest rate of interest being 8 3-4 per cent and the highest 11 per cent The ten bids averaged 10 5-8 per cent., and were all accepted. The immediate necessities of the government and the empty treasury made another loan necessary, and on the 8th of February, 1S61, a few weeks before Buchanan went out of office, Congress authorized a loan of $25,000,000, to bear G per cent interest, to run not less than ten cor more than twenty years, the bonds to be sold to the highest bidder. The Secretary offered $3,000,000 of these bonds, and the bids were opened Feb. 26. They ranged from 73 .to 9G cents. All bid3 below ninety were rejected, and the bonds were sold at prices ranging from 90 1-2 to 96 per cent.; or, in other words, from 4 to 9 1-2 per cent discount This terrible condition of the government finances and public credit showed the necessity of revising the tariff so that it would produce a larger revenue, and at the same timo encourage the development of American industries. For four years now the expendi tures of the government had exceeded its revenues. Under these circumstances Congress, on March 2, 1861, passed a protective tariff bill, to take c'ffect April 1. The effect was the immediate increase of revenue and a consequent improvement of the government credit The revenue from customs duties, which was only $39,5S2,126 in 1661,. increased to $49,036,393 in 1862. to $G9,059,642 in 1663, to $102,316,153 in 1S61, to $179,040,632 ia 1SG6 and so on. Tho government credit be gan to improve as soon as vi goroua measures were taken to restore it and has continued to improve from that day to this. The con dition of the government finances ia the last years and last months of James Buchanans administration was tho most disgraceful ia our entire history. XR. ROGER QUACK MILL3. Congressman Mills's speech last eight was largely a repetition of his Richmond speech, and of familiar arguments in favor of the antiprotection policy. Circumstances have given him a prominence in connection with the tar iff question that he is not entitled to by learning, experience or training. Nothing ia his antecedents, education or achievements enti tles him to assume to instruct or advise' the people of Indiana or of any Northern State on the tariff question. As an ex-confederate and Southern Democrat of the Bourbon school, he is naturally opposed to the ideas, principles , and policy that have made the North rich, -powerful and great He is cot in sympathy1; with the .progressive spirit of the North. Ho r; presents a provincial district of Texas, and i3 a man of narrow .and provincial ideas. A thorough Southerner himself, he owes his appointment as chairman of the committee on ways and means to a Southern Speaker, thus putting him in a position, with tho aid of other ex-confederates, to formulate a free-trade policy for the manu facturing North. Mr. Mills has nothing new to offer in favor of free trade or in defense of his bill. All the arguments he uses have been better presented, and all the points, he makes better made by others. His speech is disingenuous, demagogical and dishonest from beginning to end. ( 1 The style of Mr. Roger Q. Mills, of Texas, may suit hoodlum Democratic hearers,' but will hardly commend him to cultivated audiences. It was at New Havoa that lie re sponded to a polite questioa from. a maa ia the audience by telling him to go home end soak his head, or, as the corrected, but cot improved version has it, to go homo and take' a cold bath. At Brooklyn he responded to an interlocutor, who asked, "How about rice and sugar!' with what the sympathetic report calls ' the following "flash of words:" 'Til give you more sugar ia a minute than you know what to do with. You don't want no sugar oo how; you take your whisky straight" At Rich mond he remarked of the duty on pig-iron, "Why the devil don't they.pay the workmen tho balance of it" Mr. Mills may know a great deal about the tariff as interpreted in the light of the confederate constitution and British free-trade policy, but he has yet to learn the elements of politeness to which a Northern public is accustomed. He should go back to Texas and the cowboys. A SIGNIFICANT VISITATION. Of the many visits made to General Harri son since his nomination there has been none of greater interest or significance than that of the manufacturers of and dealers in agricult ural implements, on Thursday evening. The significance of tho event is in its entire free dom from ordinary political management and motives. The State fair has drawn here, dur ing the present week, a large number of men of the class referred to, including manufact urers, proprietors, agentc, traveling men, etc. They come from all parts of the country, and represent a large number of manufacturing cities and towns. Their firms and houses represent an enormous amount of active capital, employ an immense number of workmen and pay out vast sums annually in wages. In 1880 there were 1,943 agricultural implement manufacturers reported, with an aggregate capital of $62,000,000, employing 39,580 hands, paying out $15,300,000 a year iu wages, and turning out $63,000,000 worth of goods. These figures gnly approximately represent the extent of the business at pres

ent, and they do not embrace dealers or middlemen at all. It needs no argument, however, to prove that the agricultural implement business is a very large and important one. The men engaged in it and ia handling its products are among the most enterprising and progressive business men in the country. Dealing with farmers, and with the great agricultural interest they come as near to knowing and representing the average sentiment of the country as any other class. They came here in the line of business, and without any partisan or political motive, but being hero, they determined to call on the Republican candidate for President, and express their sympathy with his candidacy, and the cause he represents. There were several hundred of them, and their spokesman said they were unanimous in support of the party and policy represented by General Harrison.. His response was very happy, and the occasion was altogether aa exceedingly pleasant one. It shows that the great representative business industries of the country are in sympathy with the candidate who represents the idea of protection to American industries.

CHEAP FOREIGN LABOR. II. J. Pettefer, of London, electroplateworker, and Becrotary of tho "Workingmen's Association for the Defense of British Industries," has arrived in Boston, and, at the request of tho Home Market Club, will make some speeches to American workmen, showing the evil effects of cheap foreign competition upon the laboring classes of England. What British workingmen have suffered, Mr. Pettefer declares, their brethren in the United States will suffer if the tariff barriers are removed and the country is open to the competition of European labor. "The average workingman in the United States," he says, "is in about the same position as the foreman of a shop ia England, and the average English laborer is, of course, on a much lower lovel. The assertion made by Democratic speakers, that the superior skill of American workmen would enable them to secure high wages under any circumstances Mr. Pettefer denies, and says ho has discovered no signs of such superiority, although he has had experience with both classes. : This testimony from a representative British workman will go much further with his hearers than the theories advanced by speakers who have been neither laborers nor the employers of labor. Mr. Pettefer, whose came has beea made familiar through aa essay entitled, "How Free Trade Works," which is circulatod as a Republican campaign document, will address several public meetings in New England. rOLITICAL S0TES. The Democrats have not dared since the war to nominate a rebel opon a presidential ticket. Bnt the third party has done it this year. Bingn am ton uepnoiican. P. T. IUusum, the showman, delivered a rousing Republican speech to a big meeting in Bridgeport last Tuesday night It was his frit political effort ia a dozen years. Col. Elliott Shkpard, of the New York Mail and Express, it is said, contributed 10,000 to the national Republican campaign fund. Colonel Shepard Is a Christian and a gentleman. Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun, told a friend cf mine, the other day, that the contest is practically settled that Tlarriton will be elected. G. C. Buell, in Rochester Post-Express. The number of sheep in Great Britain has fallen off 420,000 within the past year. It is no wonder that the British wool-grower shonld be enthuitiastieforfree wool for the United States. Boston Journal. The Commercial Travelers Harrison and Mor ton Protective League, of New York, is out with a ringing address to commercial salesmen, in which a strong appeal is made for the maintenance of tho "American system." The Iowa Conference of the Methodist Church was held in Oskiloosa, in that State, last week. and passed resolutions disaDproving of the Prohibition, or third party, as being "insincere and unwise." The conference has over 300 ministers in its member hip and every one of them voted lor the resolution. Many New York voters want General Harrison to make at least one speech in that city in the campaign. They think he will win over thousands of voters, and, with Mr. Blaine's forcible presentation of the tariff, help along the great enanee tnat tee eoniest or industrial conditions is working amour New York workingmen who were formerly Democrats. The truth is the Methodist Church politically Is Republican. Were the choice for political parties submitted to the members of that church, the Republican party would be support ed by a large majoritv vote. The history of that church, eo far a? the ereat public questions are concerned, lies very close alongside that of the Republican party. Chicago Current JosErn J. Angus is postmaster at Grand View, Dak. nii income is only $22 a month, and out of this he has to pay $2 a month for rent and $9.50 a ton for coal. But the argus eye of the Democratic bosses does not let even a twenty-two-dollar postmaster escape, and he is assessed 5 per cent, of his annual salary just as if he were a Cabinet officer with $8,000 a year. This grieves Mr. Angus, and ho indignantly as ks, is mis civu-service rerormi Senator Sawter, of Wisconsin, recently said: "I am surprised that any one should sup pose that I will be a candidate for re-eleotion to the Senate. I did not know that tha matter was even mentioned. When my present term shall expire my age will be such as to preclude all pos sibility of my name being mentioned for re election. I will be seventy-seven years old. When a man attains that age he ought to be willing to retire from political life. ,1 certainly EbalL it is useless to talk of tun matter. The protection Democrats of New York, hav ing perfected an organization, have opened their headquarters at 427 Fifth avenue. Among them are C. C. Shayne, Henry Dunlap, Dennis MeMahon. Nicholas Haughton, John M alloy, Thomas Brady. Stephen McCormick. jr.. Wro. Buyl&n, Andrew Carson, J. G. Hyatt, ex-Sena tor liixby, .John Johnson, Henry Marks, ex-Con gressman James O'Brien and John Burlinson. Tbeae men votd for Cleveland In 1884, but will vote for Harrison in 1S33, and bring hundreds of other Democrats with them. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mrs. Th crm an has never nad a photograph taken. Ellen Terry writes with a goose quill, aa do most Englishwomen who affect to be swell Miss Nellie Bayard, the fifth daughter of the Secretary, is to enter society formally this season. A man died in Baltimore last wees from the effects of falling asleep with his 'chin banging over the rim oi a celluloid collar. . Jane Gilder, the editor of the Critic, began her journalistic career on a Newark (N. J.) pa per as a proof-reader, and was a phenomenally bad one. - HappixS3 depends upon comparisons. M. Chevreul, the French eavant, who has reached his one hundred and third year, says: "What would I not give to be eighty againr John Tylir, Jr., son of President Tyler, re marked dryly the other day that before the war the letters F. F. V. meant first families of Vir ginia, but since the war left so many of them impoverished they signify t lght For Victuals. A Scotch beadle took his sweetheart to a grave yard, and, showing her a dark corner, laid:

"Mary, my folks lie there. Would you like to

lie there?'' It was a grim way of proposing, bnt Mary was a sensible Scotch lassie and she accepted him. The "silent Von Moltke" isn't at all silent at home. He is, on the contrary, a charming, lively and amiable companion. He is very fond of the wife of his nenhew. who presides over his household, and of her children. He loves whist and roses; and of theso flowers cultivates a great variety. The widow of President Polk is in her eightyseventh year. She is feeble and rather forgetful, but she maintains her cheerfnlness and her interest in the world aTout ber. Of late she has been taking her meals in her own room, and leaves it once a day, to take an airing on the porch. Here she sits and receives her visitors. Mrs. Ruth Hall, a seventy-four-year-old widow of New Haven, has directed by will that she shall be buried in the eradle in which she was rocked as a baby. The undertaker has made the necessary alterations in the eradle, and it is now awaiting the death of Mrs. Hall, wnien is out a matter or a raw weeks. The cradle is of cherry and is boantif oily decorated. President Carnot and Mme. Carnot live at Fontainebleau this season in the suite of rooms that were fitted up by the Empress Eugenie for hereon against his coming of age. They have the use of all the private and state apartments of the palace, all of which have been caref ally kept in order for the past eighteen years, al though the palace has been practically deserted. The state rooms are eaid to be the finest in Europe. Major Barttelot, the leader of the Stanley search expedition, who is reported to have been murdered in Africa, was a member of the Royal Fusiliers, which regiment he joined in 1S59. ne served in the Afghan war of 1837-80, took part in the defense of Candahar and was present in the battle before that place. He was also in the Eeyptian campaign of 18S2, and took part in the Nile campaign of 1884-85. Leonakd Woolsey Bacon, In The Independent, gives a most charming sketch of the centenarian, the late CoL George L. Perkins, of Norwich, Conn. "I met the old man one day in a back street where a hand-organ had been playing to a croup of children," says Dr. Baeon. " 'I suppose you would like to & me dance a hornpipe?' said Colonel Perkins to the children. They said they weald, and the centenarian lifted up his coat tails and danced it for them." The Prince of Wales has purchased a new uniform, his eightieth. Each new costume of military character that he buys costs him about $450. He therefore owes about $3G,G00 worth of uniforms. His latest investment is the gorgeous eostume of an officer of Austrian hassars. A gold tonic, red breeches, Hessian boots and white shako make him look like a elnmsily-eut toy soldier. Bat the Prince never shirks the duties that pertain to his exalted station. He may hate to spend the money of English taxpayers in having military clothes that he wears onco and casts aside, bnt he is obliged to make the sacrifice. A PRACTICAL MAN'S FACTS. The Home Market as Against the Foreign Market fur Our Producers. Letter from Robert Mitchell, Furniture Manufacturer, cf Cincinnati, O. "The proposed changes in the tariff on furniture do cot effect our business directly, but the indirect effects would be very .bad. In this country all the manufactories are bound together, and when one is affected the effect is felt by all. "One of the principle .articles used in the manufacture of furniture is plate class. In. three cities of this country plate glass is manufactured with success. If foreign plate glass is introduced into this country in quantities, the, manufacturers in those piaees will either have to stop xnanufactaricg or else cheapen their labor. That is what all this chance of tariff amounts to, ultimately the cheapening of labor. "It is singular how the fluctuations of the iron market affect the entire circle of manufactures. There is no other one factor that ean be compared to it in this way. Whenever there is a strike in Pittsburg, or any other disturbance in a great iron center, the effect on the iron market is communicated to all the other industries. And they are ju't as quick to respond to the rise in the iron market. Those who are continually talking obout the advantaces of a foreiirn market do cot appreciate the valne of the home market. The very fact that we have not had a foreign market has made this country what it is. To this alone can be attributed the marvelous developement of the West, which twenty-five years ae.o vrss almost a wilderness. Oor capital haa cot been interested in foreign trade, but baa been turned to the advantage of our own country, building railroads, laying out cities and producing immense crop. 'Free trade may be well enough for a country like England, which has no place at home for the exchange of commodities and' relies entirely on foreign markets. But in thts country we hare every variety of soil and climate. We oould live very comfortable if not a dollar's worth or foreign trade existed. The vegetables and fruits of the South are exchanged for the breadstuff's of the North, while Dakota exchanges grain for the iron ot Pennsylvania. Different circumstances exist here from those which obtain in any other country in the wor!d. We do cot need foreign trade. And if It is to be purchased, as can clearly be shown, at the expense of low wages and pauper labor, why I think we should get along without it "There is much nonsense talked about this immense surplus also. Much of that money is deposited in banks and is not withdrawn from the trade. Besides, what does (100.000,000 amount tc when you think of the size and resources of the country? Only a person taking narrow and centraeted views could see anything menaeinc in this surplus. "The furniture trade would be seriously dsnaged ty a chauge of tariff, because the various interests that are wrapped np in it would be injured or destroyed. Dry Goods Mea for Harrison. w York Special. The Dry goods Republican Club has hung the largest banner in the United States over Broadway, near Worth street In 18S4 the major.ty ot the dry goods men were) for Cleveland, but this year they are for Harrison and Morton. Mr. Morton is well known among the leading mercantile houses and he will get votes for the ticket in large numbers from the business men and merchants. Another reason why the dry goods men and the other merchants are turning against Cleveland, though they were formally friends to him, is they way In which the New Yorkcnstom-house has been run under a Democratic administration. The business men have been harassed and delayed by the frequent shifting of officials, the changes of the heads of departments and the introduction of new men who do cot know the customs and necessities of mercantile life. The Situation In Indiana. Eew York Special. The Indiana canvassers here reported to the national committee that within the last year over 20,000 voters have come into the new natural cas region, enough to make twice the normal majority whieh has been cast for either party in the last ten years. '1 hey are almost all Republicans. The industries in which they are engaced rely on a protective tariff to build them up and to turn what was years ago cornfields into busy manufacturing towns. Besides this, a chance of 1,200 polls in the city of Indianapolis alone has been reported by the district canvassers, due to the personal popularity of General Harrison with his friends and neighbors. Merely in Had Company. Minneapolis Journal. Now that Judge Gresham is at home again the facts of the Paris Herald interview, in which Judge Gresham was represeuted as earing that Harrison was but a' figurehead whilo Blaine controlled the policy of the party, and that euch a state of affairs was absurd and ridiculous, have come to liht It was Mr. Doane, Judge Greshams Derr.ctatic friend and fellowtraveler, who said it. Th moral is that Judce Gresham was in bad compiny and met tho fate of old dog Tray. One Man Who Kaows Ilim. Chicago Mail. Voorhees. they say, ia mad because he went into the Indianapolis Democratic headquarters and nobody recognized lira. Be oalm, DanieL There is one place where you will be recognized the Senate. John Ineills, of Kansas, will recognize you a mile away. A Fublio Letter. Pt. Louis Toit-DiApatch. And it now appears that the Barchard letter of Senator Vest was not a hasty prWate note to a personal friend, but a public- open letter to his "fellow-Democrats. " The little Senator will have to search around for another explanation to prove his entire freedom from the charge of idiocy. Harrison's Little Talks. Troy Times. Gen. Harrison's pointed and pertinent little talks to visiting delegations are among the best electioneering utterances of this campaign. His statesmanlike grasp of the situation grows more pronounced every day.

THEGRANDARMYOFBEGGABS

Such tho Designation Applied to the Old Soldiers Who Ask for Pensions. An Article Worthy the Attention of Soldiers A Democratic Organ Denounces Them as i Beggars, Dead-Keats and Coffee-Coolers. The following article appeared in the Chicago Timet, a Democratic paper, as au editorial, March 2, 1887: DEFEAT OT THC GRAND AKilT OF BEGCAES! Thank God! the claim-agents, the demagogues, the dead-beats, and pordioseros, and deserters, and coffee-coolers, and bounty-jumpers, composing our great standing army of volunteer mendicants, have been defeated! But the maintenance of the President's righteous veto of the pauper pensions iniquity is cot the end of the war upon the national treasury, which has been prosecuted by that army of insatiable cormorants ever since the war upon the national autonomy closed. The President ordered a halt and the order has been sustained, but the army of cormorants and claim-agents, and bounty-jumpers, and professional mendicants only have been checked, cot conquered. In faet, it is their first repulse since the crusade of the noble army of pension-beggarf began. Their leaders, the claim-agents and the party demagogues, will endeavor to rally their bloodeueking host and renew the war of mendicancy against industry. It is necessary, therefore, to follow up the advantage that has been fained, and give the hostile horde of thieves and eggars oo rest until they shall have abandoned v their villainous undertaking to depend on a government for support and gone to work to support both themselves and government. The Times repeats, therefore, now that the veto of the pauper pension steal has been sustained, everything that it uttered when there seemed to be great danger that congressional representatives of the claim-agents and bountyjumpers would override it Not merely that most scandalous measure that has ever been sent to a President for his signature is the object that invites continued an uncompromising condemnation, bat the principle which it was sought in that iniquitous meaeure to apply, the theory and doctrine cn which it was projected, and the whole vicious fabric of sophistry, cant, hypocrisy and humbug that patriotic rascality raised for its support. It is a postulate of claim-agents that the grand army of pension-beggars "saved the country," etc. That postulate ie absolutely false. No eountry, no cation, political constitution system, or establishment, has ever been eaved by, or been able to depend for its salvation upon citizens that are cot in the habit of depending on themselves or that wonld cot indignantly spurn the idea of being or becoming either dependents or beneficiaries of the government. Nay, the truth is broader than this. Nor in all tne history of the world can a political society be found that, becoming permeated with the idea that a government i an establishment for tlse support of citizens, instead ot an agency for the execution of justice among them, did cot speedily oerleh. No, this lie public has cot been eaved by any army of pension-beggars, cor ' has any pension-beggar cor any advoeate or apologist of pension-beggary, the least basis of a claim to be enrolled among its saviors. On the contrary, pension-beggars, pension-beggary, and the cottons of government that they imply, are more dangerous enemies cf the cation than undisguised rebels. A Southern writer who stood among the unpeniioned rebels has objected, in a tone of great bitterness, to this crusade of the pension-beggars on the ground of alleged injustice to the citizens that fonght on the wrorgside. "There is nothing left of the war, " he says, "excepting the annual tax ftbat is wrested from the impoverished South to pay pensions to the soldiers ' of tho rich and prosperous North. Not a Southern cripple receives a collarof these taxes. Not a Southern home for a soldier gets a penny of them. Yet the South is full of poverty," etc "It the South is a vassal, let us know it, and cease this mockery of equality." This mode of writing is very foolirh, and serves only to reveal the bitterness that still lingers in the liver of the confederate brigadier on account of the "lost cause." Politically, there is no South, cor North, cor East, nor West. If tbere is a Sooth that is more than an undefined geographical section of the country, it is a eurviving cumber of eitixens that were soldiers of the rebellion, bet that, fortunately for themselves and their geographical section, have cot been encouraged to become mendicant dependants on the bounty of an unwise paternal government. "The ex-rebel soldiers," eaid Mr. Bragg, "are toiling day by day, and exhibiting industry, energy and thrift that cever was expected of them." Why ta this? It is because the ex-rebel soldier has cot been enticed, tempted and encouraged by pension bills, designed by demagogues to buy his vote, to become a professional mendicant. On the other hand, the ex-soldier of the North, instead of thriving by dependence upon his own energy and industry, is in the almshouse, according to Mr. Warner, or, according to other claim-agent statesmen, will soon be there unless papa -government grants him a pauper pension. Why is this! It is because raP government has indoctrinated him with the pestilent notion that it is becoming t a saviour of his country to fulfill the character of a dependent upon its bounty, of a mendicant, of a loafer, of a pauper without character or selfrespect, who has gained the blessed right to"iay down and open bis mouth for a teat to suck. Which of these citizens the ex-r.bal soldier who is supporting himself and contributing to the support of the government by depending on his own industry and energy, or the ex-savior of his country who is lying down at th door of a poor house (unless the bidders for his vote lip), opening his mouth and yelling for a teat to tuck is the worthier member and the mere capable supporter and defender of the commonwealth! The Times says. without hesitation: The exrebel, the man who is supporting the government as well as himself by hie industry, energy and thrift is incomparably a better citizen and a stronger pillar of the state than the ex-savior of his country who js begging the government to put a premium on pauperism - and- improvidence by giving him support from the earnings of the more inCustrious and worthy. " Unfortacately, howerer, all the ex rebels are cot of this manly class, a, fortunately, "all the ex-saviors are not of this class of keosion-beg-gara though if the utterances of their so called Grand Atmy societies are indicative of the fact, the majority of them plainly are of the mendicant order. The Mexican war pension bill was a sop thrown by Northern demsgogiFm to the mendicant sentiment among ex-volunteer, heroes in the Southern part of the eouotrv. It . was a measure of the sarce vicious character as the panper pension bill, and ought to have received at the executive mansion the same treatment Yet it is not recalled that a single Southern statesman, press or writer emitted a word of objection to that vicious measure. The truth is, as the Tiroes has observed before in this discussion, there is in the nature of the volunteer hero something that inclines him to the profession of mendicancy; something that tends to direst him of the manly character and self-resneet of the independent citizen, and to degrade him to the status of a servile dependent or an incapable pauper. That this is the degrading tendency, also, of the so-called Grand Army mutual self-glorification societies there appears ample evidence. The Times is, therefore, in agreement with its correspondent who says: "It will be a haopy day for the Republio when the last beggar of the Grand Army humbug is securely planted." Distinguished Drummers. KewTrrk rarh ic - Ex-Postmaster-general Frank Hatton has drifted into business, and everyone who knows the genial, bright and talented gentleman will wish him a full measure of success. He has become the general Western agent of anew patent heating etove, in the sale of which there is eaid to be a prospective fortune for him. He is the third example in the last quarter of a century of ex-Cabinet minister wno have gone into the 4..mmn9 line for a livinp. Ex-Serretarr Rt. Ul uiuwuh r-- J - knap was the first one who developed into a rrsr.lmc commercial man. and. curious enopch. O v was somewhat in the stove line also. He sold mica for the doors and sides of parlor heatera. That happened almost immediately after he left Grams Cabinet, but it was only a temporary expedient, and he pulled himself together again and opened a law office in Washington, where he is now making plenty of money and is as popular as he always was. The other was Lot M. Morrill, wbe succeeded Ben Bristow in the Treasury, and who, after his term was anted, sold dry goods in Maino for a New York firm, until he was made comfortable in life by being appointed ccetom collector at Portland, Me. Political Changes. . Peru Bepnblican. Last week the Chicago Times, a Cleveland newspaper, sent word to all its correspondents throughout Indiana and Illinois to send in a list of all the political changes that were positively known and the reason assigned for them. Inquiry at Democratic headquarters reTealed the faet that three Republicans in the county were known to have gone over to Cleveland: John Bernard, of this city, John Overman, of Amboy, and one other. On the other hand, tbe names of thirty-four Democrats were sent in who have joined Republican clubs and are outspoken for Harrison and Morton. Many others, more than twice this number, are in the same boat who for personal reasons do not make it known pal-liclj.