Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1880. I ! WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent. NEW YORK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Corner Beekmaa and Nassau Streets.

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Telephone Calls. Business Off.ce 238 1 Editorial Rooms 243 . Where' was Green Smith when Bulger bounded into the arena? The fitness of things rt quired that he should reinforce Bulger. , It isn't the star in the East to which the wise men in Congress are now turning their attention, but four rising stars in the Northwest. When Democratic office-holders at Washington begin to pawn the property of the government it is about time for a new administration to move in. Persons owning United States flags, and who wish to comply with the government regulations, as well a to be up with the times, will please r,ol read to add four new stars to their banners. With Leon Bailey, Sim Coy's next friend, a beneficiary of the Curtis bill, the citizens of Indianapolis will know what to expect. The need of a general protest of the people against the bill bocomes more urgent with this .possibility ahead. The so-called tariff reform convention at Chicago seems to bo composed of incongruous eranks, each one of whom has a pet hobby or his own ax to grind. It is a pity the President could not attend. His presence would have completed the unique collection. A Chicago dispatch says that city is honored by the presence of a Spanish nobleman of royal blood who has come to this country to dispose of his father's collection of paintings, embracing many pictures by the old masters, and valued at nearly $1,000,000. Ten to one the Spanish nobleman is a fraud, and his works by the old masters forgeries. The great "wonder is, not that one door-keeper is allowed to threaten a Republican Senator, but that the twentynine door-keepers and epittoon-cleaners of that body are not ordered by the majority to stand over -4he Republican members with clubs, to bo used when the latter attempt to speak against a partisan measure. Door-keeper Bulger, of the Senate, understands what ho is there for. He knows he was appointed to aid and abet in the outrages perpetrated on the Republican minority, and his volunteer effort, yesterday, grew out of an impatience to exercise his abilities as a slugger. Senator Johnson was right in opposing a resolution of censure against him. The majority, and not Bulger, is responsible for his disgraceful action. ' Tiie meeting of the Tariff Reform League at Chicago, which was heralded as the beginning of a great movement to culminate four years later in the election of a free-trade President, was not a conspicuous success. Even Mr. Cleveland's letter pointing out tho "positive duty" of the organization was not enough to secttio harmony. Tho freetraders, tariff reformers and single-tax men must settle their differences before they revolutionize the country. With the S tat e benevolent institution s under the control of men who aro responsible to no ono'and can only bo disturbed by a Legislature which they have, no reason to fear, there is every opportunity for dishonesty and fraud. It has been proved that frauds wero perpcItrated and outrages committed, and there is reason to suppose that tho thieves did not draw empty hands out of the public crib during the two years that have intervened since the investigation. The public suspects crookedness, and Governor Hovey is evidently of the same mind. The repeal of the $100 limitation on the naloon tax would enable scores of cities and towns in Indiana to Largely increase their revenue, while tho increased tax would lessen the number of 6aloons, diminish tho evils of the traflic, and lighten the burdens of tax-payers. The present law limiting the tax to $100 is a relic of legislative barbarism, as clearly at variance with public sentiment as it is hostile to public interests. In refusing to repeal it tho Democrats have shown their determination to stand by tho dram-shops as against any and all other interests. TnE Constitution of tho State requires the Legislature to provido for the registration of the voters. Tho members of the Legislature aro sworn to obey the Constitution, yet tho Democratic majority vote down every proposition introduced by tho Republican members to provide for a registration. A registry of the voters is a step toward honest elections, in fact, it is a prerequisite, an essential to honest elections, but because such registry would insure honesty and fairness, and that frould interfere with Democratic fraud,

these Democrats are willing to violate their sworn obligations. They hold Democratic success above the obligation of their oaths. All their loud professions for a stringent and honest election law in face of their votes and actions upon the subject of a registry aro false pretense. They do not want an honest election law or an honest election. Actions speak louder than words.

THE QQVEBSOS'a MESSAGE. Governor Hovey's message to tho Legislature yesterday was well timed and well put. Though very brief, it fully covers tho subject-matter and presents the people's side of the Insane Hospital question very strongly. The Governor is right in saying there is great complaint throughout tho State in regard to the management of the hospital, and a general demand for an investigation of its management and financial transactions. When the State is spending $870,000 of its yearly revenue of $l,3o7,CC0 in support of its benevolent and reformatory institutions, the people certainly have a right to know at any and all times how the money is appropriated and tho institutions managed. ' The action of tho Democrats destroys the effect of tho Governor's recommendation. He asked for authority to appoint an investigating committee of fivo experts, to be confirmed by the Senate, to examine tho accounts of all the institutions, and report at such time as the Legislature might direct. Instead of this the Senate appointed a committee of two Democrats and two Republicans, and tho House provided for the appointment of fivo additional members by the Speaker, of whom three will be Democrats and two Republicans. This will make tho committee stand fivo Democrats to four Republicans, and insures a whitewashing majority report. The Governor's committee of experts could have taken their time and made a thorough examination of all tho institutions. The legislative committee, owing to the lateness of tho session,, can scarcely scratch the surface, much, less go to the bottom. Tho action of tho Legislature defeats the object of the Governor's recommendation, as it was doubtless intended to do. Having defeated all attempts at investigation until the session is considerably more than half gone, tho Democrats at last make a seeming concession to the Governor's recommendation, while really defeating it by a legislative trick. It is a characteristic performance. THE DEMOCRACY AND THE DRAMSHOPS. In the history of American legislation it would be hard to find a more remarkable instance of party' devotion to a bad cause and opposition to tho wishes and welfare of the people than that furnished by tho present Legislature on the different phases of tho temperance question. For complete surrender of manhood, base subserviency to tho vilest influence and groveling alacrity to do tho dirty work of a degraded and degrading master we should not know where to look for a parallel to this record. Certainly it could not be found in recent times. If it exists at all it is in tho record of Democratic subserviency to the old slave power. Then tho highest ambition of a Democratic legislator was to do the bidding of the slave-holders, while now it is to do tho bidding of the Liquor League. Their former fidelity to tho slave interest is tlie only parallel for their present devotion to the whisky interest, i If there is anything certain in regard to the sentiments and wishes of the, people of Indiana it is that they desire moro stringent legislation on tho temperance f question. The saloon in politics and tho saloon in society are recognized as a prolific source of corruption, vice and crime. Tho aggressions of the whisky power havo become intolerable. Tho drink evil is weakening tho foundations of society, and the great stream of pauperism, vice and crime flowing from it is overspreading tho land. The good people of Indiana see this, and they desire more advanced legislation on the subject. No question is so near their hearts as this. Neither election irtorm, tho school-book question, the fcc-and-salary bill, nor any other measure of reform is desired or demanded by as many people in Indiana as is a moro efficient law for regulating the liquor traffic and restraining the evils of intemperance. The Democrats have treated the popular demand in this regard with supremo contempt. They have rejected every measure of reform and every proposition looking to a mitigation of the evil. They havo even refused to let the children in tho public schools bo taught the injurious effects of alcohol. They havo stood like a stone wall between tho saloons and the people, and have said to the latter, "Stand back; the Legislature of Indiana will not permit the drink traffic to be interfered with." A majority of the people desire tho enactment of a local option law which would permit the voters of each locality to decide for themselves whether they would have saloons. Tho Democrats have denied this. A largo majority of the people desiro a general high-licenso law. The Democrats havo denied this. A large majority of tho people desire a removal of tho present $100 limitation on the city saloon tax. The Democrats have denied this. A largo majority of the people desiro the enactment of a law requiring some instruction to be given in tho public schools relative to tho effect of alcohol on the human system. Tho Democrats have denied even that. Thus, by repeated vofes and by the contemptuous rejection of every measure of temperance reform, the Democrats havo shown their readiness to do the ditty work of tho whisky ring, and have placed .tho protection and maintenance of saloons above every other interest. Their action is an insult to the people and a disgrace to tho State. The Curtis and the Bighain bills to disfranchise the citizens of Indianapolis have been adopted by tho Democratic caucus, and it is useless for the citizens to attempt their defeat. What the Democrats believe to be a party necessity to obtain control of tho city, its offir 1 ces and its revenues will govern,

whether tho tax-payers want them or not. No protest, however vigorous, would have any influence. Looking at

these measures from a purely political stand-point tho worse they are and tho more outrageous their usurpations of tho rights of the people, the better in the end will they prove for tho Republicans when another election comes off. There is not an honest motive behind these measures. They aro intended to turn the offices of the city and its revenues over to the Coy-Sulii-van gang. Anything to get omce, any thing to get control of the money of the people is the purpose of these men. Tho voters of tho country have turned them out of the national administration, out of tho State administration, oujb of tho control of everything except this Legislature, and the members of that body are intent on using that for everything that may be made out of it constitutionally or unconstitutionally. The Democratic majority in the Legislature have no moro regard for the Constitution of the State than they have for the Blue Laws of Connecticut. To make offices for Democrats, the Legislature has overthrown the laws governing tho State administration for years. They have made the benevolent institutions asylums for Democratic mendicants; they have even invaded tho precincts of tho Supreme Court of tho State. They have by caucus robbed the executive of its patronage; in short, they have searched by day and by night to find a place to put a hungry Democrat where he can find feed at public expense. The day of the next election will be the day of retribution. According to a Berlin dispatch, the Cologne Gazette says tho German government will demand the arrest and punishment of Klein, the American correspondent, who is charged with having taken a hand in the fight at Samoa. It is not likely the German government will do anything so silly. If it does, it will subject itself to an inevitable' humiliation, for this government certainly would not comply with such a demand. If Klein had committed a crime against the laws of Germany, in that country or ono of her colonics, and fled to the United States, there might be some 6how of reason in demanding his punishment. But Samoa is not Germany nor a German colony. As an American citizen .and correspondent Klein had at least as much right there as any German, and when the free-for-all fight camo on he had as much right to espouse one side as the Germans had to espouse tho other. Suppose wo make a demand for the punishment of the German sailors for fighting against Klein. The Journal and the Republican members of the Legislature have been try ing to get an investigation of the affairs' of tho Insane Hospital, but tho Democratic majority in the Legislature would neither have nor allow it. Investigation is needed, and badly needed. Here is an instance in point: The Journal, in the regular course of business, has received a check, drawn by P. M. Gapen, treasurer, dated Feb. 7, 1889, on tho Meridian National Bank, of Indianapolis, payable to the Indianapolis Journal Company, for $46.55, which, on being regularly presented, is returned indorsed, "No funds." .This check is thirteen days old, and still, "no funds." Is tho asylum bankrupt, or is the treasurer short? Something is wrong. Did Sullivan get the money? Somebody has it; it is not in tho bank, where it should bo to pay this check. Open the books. . TnE case of Fifer, whoso numerous thefts and burglaries in this city have just come to light, illustrates tho wisdom of the law discriminating between first offenders arid confirmed criminals. By Fifer's confession he has served one term in Pennsylvania, three in this State, and has recently committed a number of robberies in this city. He is an irreclaimable criminal. If sentenced to the penitentiary for a few years he will return to criminal practices as soon as he is released. Under tho Ohio law he would be sentenced for life on tho ground that his previous convictions prove him to bo a confirmed criminal and an enemy of society. Illinois has a similar law, and the result has been to drive habitual criminals out of Ohio and Illinois into' this State, where, if convicted, the sentence is comparatively light. , The enormous expenses of the Insane Hospital, as mentioned by Governor Hovey, are their own argument against a continuation of a system which permits no investigation into the way public money is handled unless a Legisla ture chooses to order it. The Governor should have the right at any time to look into the matter, and the power to suspend any persons found guilty of dishonest practices. Tho readjustment of this system of management will bo an issue in the next campaign, and, un less the tax-payers are indifferent . to their own interests, a Legislature pledged to reform will be elected. In speaking of his marriage to Miss Endicott as a fresh bond of union between England and the United States, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain not only exaggerates his im portance, but proves to be laboring under a curious misapprehension. Evidently ho is of the opinion that his wife is a representative American girl, whereas, as everybody knows, she is the daughter of a Bos ton mugwump tho most un-American per son alive. Philip Kullmer, Attica, Ind.: Sim Coy was elected to the Indianapolis City Coun cil when he was under indictment for elec tion conspiracy, and the term for which he wa9 elected has not yet expired. After his conviction the Council failed to expel Inin from membership in that body, the Repub licans not being able to secure tho necessary two-thirds vote. An Ohio man has started to walk to Washington, and expects to arrive in time for the inauguration. Indiana men are all prepared to ride one way. To tho Editor ot the Indianapolis JonraaLDid Governor WllUains at any time keen house In the city when he was Governor; or did he boai tl at a notell Maxwell He boarded at the Occidental Hotel. A good many people would be willing to write for the London Times at the same

rates paid by that paper for the so-called Parnell letters, but not every one would be willing, even at that price, to sign another man's name to the contributions.

ABOUT PEOPLE ASP THINGS. Prince Krapotkix, the Russian Nihilist, has settled in London for the rest of his life. Mrs. David Brown, of Princeton, has given Princeton College $25,000 in addition to the $50,000 which 6he gave a few months ago. The Crown Princess of Brazil has sent to New York for a number of views of places in America which her father, tho Emperor, has described to her. John M. Reynolds was released from the Kansas penitentiary last week, and the next day announced himself as a candidate for Mayor of Atchison. Of the 210,000 people m Utah not less than 175,000 are Mormons, yet only 10 out of 35,000 men of marriageable age have been found guilty of polygamy in the last six years. Senators Payne of Ohio and Morrill of Vermont are both' seventy-nine. Senators Sawyer and Dawes are seventy-three; Saulsbury is seventy-two; Reagan, Hampton and Evarts are seventy-one. Mr. George Bancroft, the historian, no longer graces Washington society circles. To a lady who has sent him an invitation he wrote: "I cannot come, because I carrv upon me the weight of eighty-nine years.,, AN Atchison woman, with a family of girls, reared them up with the fixed determination that not one of them should ever marry a Missourian, a Democrat, or a man named John, and the very first one to go married all three. The movement to erect a monument to Charlotte Cushman has assumed a definite shepe in New York, and it has enlisted tho active support of a large number of people prominent in the literary, artistic and social life of the metropolis. Tile people of Preston, Canada, are in a state of mild excitement over the fact that the Pope, out of the thousand of jubilee gif t9 sent him from all parts of the world, chose for his own personal use an office desk made by a firm in their town. Sir Spencer St. JohnT the British minister to Mexico, is mentioned in Washington as tho probable successor to SackvilleWest. He has been for many years attached to the various South American embassies and is fully conversant with the details of American politics. Good old English names are succeeding tho meaningless ones in the nursery. Dorothy, Cynthia, Barbara, Ann, Elizabeth and Katherine have succeeded the Mays, Coras. Mauds, Daisies and Carries that obtained so long. For this the whole American Nation should be thankful. "Motorxeer" is a new word. The New York Sun defines a motorneer as tho man who rides on the front of an electric-car and handles the trolly, which runs on the wires overhead and conveys tho electricity from the wires to the motor under the car. . "Motorman" is the word at Cambridge. Senator Coke, of Texas, is a firm believer in spiritualism. He is a large, fine-looking , man, in vigorous health, and not in appearance a person given to tampering with the other world. But he attends a great many seances, and is fully convinced that the dead and the living can communicate with each other. The only populous center of the world's population that remains shut up horn travel is Lhassa, the capital of Thibit. Only six or seven Europeans ever set foot in the city, and none of them are alive. Prejevalsky, a Russian traveler, has made three attempts to enter the city, and is about to make the fourth. Ex-President Hayes has taken to imitating that great old warrior General Sherman. The other night he concluded an address to the Pittsburg Teachers Association 2ry kissing two of the prettiest young "sckoolma'ains" before the assembled audience. An ex-President has some nleasant privileges, after all. . The other Sunday the German Empress appeared in a gown of white silk, with a train several yards long, embroidered with gold and silver. The material cost $1,500. Tho embroidery required the work of twelve girls for two months. William II prides himself on having established a regime of Spartan simplicity. . Mrs. Barboza, a daughter of the grayhaired negro, II. H. Garnet, D. D., started ' a school for girls at Brewersville, an inland town of Liberia, about 1887. Although excellent educational advantages were at the command of the negro boys, this was the first school for girls, who have proved themselves capable ot a high intellectual development. Mme. Mutsu, wife of the Japanese minister at Washington, since the season has begun, has made over 1,200 social calls, and when she came here last spring she could not speak a word of English. Now she can carry on a conversation, and is able to remember and correctly pronounce the names of thousands of people to whom she has been introduced. Holman Hunt, the religious painter, is, despite his idealism, a seeker for actuality. To become better conversant with his subject, he, a few years back, built a house and study on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The hill of Calvary can be seen from his studio windows. His history is a strange one. He was, in his early years, a clerk in an auctioneer's office.. As he sketched and drew all day long he proved but an indifferent clerk. A woman near Ventura, Cal., recently made $100,000 in land speculation. This fired her with the ambition to get up a . special "boom," and make $1,000,000, if possible. So she chartered a train from San Francisco, 600 miles away, gave a free ride, a free lunch and free music to all who would come, and held a big sale. But though the train was crowded with people from San Francisco, no one would buy, and instead of making a fortune, she lost $20,000. A marriage almost unique in its character was lately celebrated in England between the Earl of Lisburne and Miss Eva Probyn. The lady is the sister of Alice, countess of Lisburne the wife of the lato Earl. The late Earl was first married to Miss Burnaby, a sister of tho late Colonel Fred Burnaby, of the Royal Horse Guard, and the present Lord Disburno is their only son. There are very few instances, indeed, of a father and a 6on marrying two sisters. The two countesses of Lisburne are the daughters of Mr. Edmund Probyn, of Huntley Manor, near Gloucester. Lord Lisburne is an Irish peer and head of the Vaughan family. COMMENT AND OPINION. The present Congress has done but little real work. Months were spent in preparing and conducting a political campaign, leaving but little time for the real work of legislation. But probably tho country is better off for this failure in tho line of legislation. Nebraska State Journal. The trouble with the present naturalization laws is that they contain no certain provision for winnowing the chafl'froni tho wheat, and rejecting those "who, because of ignorance or criminality, are totally unlit to be vested with thehiph privileges of American citizenship. Philadelphia Times. The Germans have shown themselves wholly unfit to have any control of Samoa. They have attempted to set up a Bisraarcklan despotism there, treating citizens of other countries as Germans are treated in the fatherland." with arbitrary arrest and unlawful search of residences. Rochester Democrat. The new Republican Congress cannot wait until December before entering on its duties. Great questions will press upon it, and the regular session will not more than suffice for the ordinary work of legislation. A special session must be called, or the new administration will be handicapped and clogged from the beginning. Chicago Tribune. You cannot gather grapes off thorns or tigs off the thistle. The old soldiers will bo compelled to wait now until there is an administration that is controlled by a sincere . love for the soldier. Nothing more need bo

expected of tho administration which ha never regarded the 6oldier in any other light than as voting cattle. Chicago InterOcean. . During the four years of Democratic administration no Republican has opposed the (granting of all the money that has been asked for to build up the navy. If tho coming administration is treated as patriotically by the Democrats in Congress, the work of navy construction will go forward to the country's satisfaction. Utica (N. Y.) Ucrald. "What is it they want me to do!" asks Mr. Bayard, piteously, referring to tho people of this country and the Samoan (luestion. They want a little ginger put into the American foreign policy, Mr. Bayard. They want no bluster, no bravado, but a simple and dignified- insistence upon American rights. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. The way to keep peace at our gates forthe longest possible period is to talk fight, and to show that we are ready to back up our talk; or, if not exactly to talk fight literally, to use the utmost promptness and firmness in asserting our dignity and protecting onr interests, for other nations respect promptness and firmness more than reason. New York Press. If Mr. Cleveland had not dabbled with civil-service reform he would havo been elected, says the late head of the late Southern Confederacy. If Davis had not turned traitor to his country he might now have a voice in determining who shall rule the country. "If" is a small word, but it has a great deal to do with the political destinies of men. Cleveland Leader. Nothing that 'could be accomplished in the way of tariff reform, or civil-service reform, or any other kind of reform would do so much to make Mr. Harrison's .administration illustrious as the production of that condition of things in the South, where great national questions will receive tho same consideration and produce tho same divisions among the people as they do in the North. Minneapolis Journal. Nq President, considering his shortcomings, has been treated so charitably as Mr. Cleveland. No man had a grander and more obvious opportunity to impress his character for good upon the country than had Mr. Cleveland. Thatfhe has failed lamentably no impartial critic can deny. The verdict of history will be that he was simply an indefinite mass thrown up by a political Krakatoa. Philadelphia Press. The brag that some Democrats are making about the navy, which is growing so rapidly just now, does not sound well when it is remembered that but for the votes of Republicans in Congress the Secretary of the Navy would have had no money to build the ships, and that the Democratic majority steadily refused the money for the purpose until a Democratic administration was installed. Brooklyn Standard Union. Assassinations of the Clavton sort occur in the South only, and are always inspired by partisanship, while assassinations in the North are inspired simplv by commonplace Cussedness. These are distinctions which the Democratic journals that are attempting to show that there is a parallel between the Chisolm, Matthews and Clayton assassinations, and the ordinary, every-day killings in the North, should bear firmly in mind. St. Louis Globe-Democrat

The Walking Delegate. Philadelphia North American. The stopping of a funeral in New York by a walking delegate because tho driver of one of the hacks was not a member of the Hackinen's Union shows to what length this ornamental feature of a labor organization is apt to go. The walking delegate ought to be called the dictator, for his power appears to be practically absolute. He snaps his fingers in a shop and the hands walk out. They starve while waiting for him to settle the strike, and he draws his pay from the union. If an employer fails to treat him with sufficient re6pect he can, and frequently does, see to it that there is a strike in that employer's mill or shop. He can afford it, for nis pay goes on, strike or no strike. He is th'e drono in the hive, waxing fat from the labor of others. Yet the workingmen keep him. It may be considered a necessity that the union should have an ornament, but it would be wiser to havo a useless rather than harmful one. Of course all walking delegates are not so lost to a sense of dencency as to stop a funeral, but some of them get very near that limit. A Tribute to the Departing. Washington SpeciaL . ; The Republican element in Washington will echo very generally the sentiments attributed in this evening's Star to Mrs. John Sherman, who is represented as saying to a friend: "I have been here many years, and have, consequently, witnessed many political and social changes and have met many kinds of people, but I do not remember to have met a . more thoroughly cordial and warmhearted circle of ladies than those of the present Cabinet families, and I might extend this result of ray personal intercourse to the ladies of tho families of many of the bureau officials. For my part I shall be very glad if the ladies of the new Cabinet are as agreeable, intelligent and cordial as we have found those who will very soon retire from their official surroundings." A Distinction Not Finely, Drawn. Buffalo Express. A bill was recently introduced in tho Nebraska Legislature forbidding the "firing of any pistol, revolver, shotgun, rifle, or any tire-arms whatsoever on any public road or highway, or within sixty yards of such public road or highway, except to destroy some wild, ferocious and dangerous beast, or an officer in the discharge of his duty." The line of distinction between wild animals and these Western guardians of the peace is not very finely drawn. Will That Ever Be? Huntington IleralcL Democracy can never again triumph in this country until it develops a race of politicians who possess honesty, sincerity and backbone. The false reputation Cleveland had for these qualities made him President, and not until a politician comes to the front who has these qualities absolutely can the Democratic party hope to return to power. What May Be Expected. UUca (N. Y.) Herald. The Canadians are said to bo making ready to renew their harassing of American fishermen. That's all right. They will find at their first call that there has been a change of tenants at . government headquarters in Washington. President Harrison will take care of our fishermen's rights and national dignity. A Public Nuisance, Buffalo Express. A Philadelphia grand jnry has indicted a man for spitting tobacco-juice on the front 6teps of several houses. This is a venial offense compared with soaking the straw in street-cars with tobacco saliva. If you don't believe it. ask any woman who drags her skirts through it and pays live cents for the privilege. Where the Walking Delegate Is Unknown. Chicago Tribune. Walking delegates may stop funeral processions and eject "scan drivers here on earth, but there is a limit to their power and authority. At Heaven's gato there will be no walking delegate to demand that every applicant for admission shall produce a union card. Not Absorbed in the Stars. Philadelphia North American. Ben Butler has been announced as spending much of his time in studying astronomy. When Ben sits up late at night with a far-off look in his eye, it is not safe to bet that he is studying the stars. Ho may only be thinking what ho will call his next political party. How They Would Divide Labor. Peoria Transcript. . North Carolina farmers are arming themselves with shotguns to keep colored men from leaving that State. They propose an equitable division of labor. The colored men can do the work and the whites will do the voting. Obstructionist Mlllf. Philidelphla. Press. Chairman Mills has taken his seat on tho safety valve of tax reduction and he proposes to prevent tho repeal of the tobacco tax, if the Democratic majority blows to pieces under tho pressure. i An Arkansas Cariosity. Chicago News. . . . The people of Arkansas have been greatly interested in a curiosity now on exhibition in that State. It is nothing less than an election poll-book which never was atolen.

NORTH" CABOLINA'S EXODUS

Hundreds of Xegro Laborers Have Al ready left, and Others Will Follow. Flanters Charge the Migration to Bailway Agents, but Other Teople Think It Is Caused by Denial of Political Rights. Bpeclal to tho IotUauapolls JonrnaL Atlanta, Ga., Feb. ro.The situation among the negro tenant farmers around Goldsboro, N. C, grows more serious every day. Hundreds of negroes have already left, and hundreds are going. Thjrailroads furnish them every facility. The Journal correspondent is just back from a trip into and around Goldsboro, and tho result of his observations, briefly summed up, is this: That while the railroads, immigrant agents and others offer many inducements for these people to leave their homes, there is still an underlying cause deeper than all this. "Why," your correspondent asked of a leading negro of Goldsboro, "why are you people taking this step: do you expect to do better in Arkansas or Texas than hero?" "Well, not in a financial waj," he replied, r "Then why go!" Because, where we are going wo expect to be able to obtain our political rights. Money is one thing, but freedom is another." "Don't you get your rights here!7' " ell, not always." Tho country around Goldsboro literally swarmed with immiirrant agents a few davs ago, and many of them are still there, defying the threats of the indignant farmers. In tact, it is as much as a man's hide is worth to be denounced as an immigrant agent. An instance of this terrorism is , noteworthy. Your correspondent talked with a Mr. Jno. 1). Richardson, who . had gone to North Carolina to get hands to.g upon tho immense plantations owned by him and his brother in Louisaua and Arkansas. Mr. Richardson said: "I was compelled to leave there; in fact, my life was not safe. We want at least 2.000 hands next season. I thought to get them there, but they drove me out. To show how bitter they are feeling. I will relate an instance. A certain gentlemau was in Goldsboro in the interest of our planters. He wanted hands, and was already succeeding in his mis&ion.when some one discovered what he was abont and denounced him. He ran out of money one dav, and went to one of tho banks to replenish his fumK He presented a check on a Georgia bank, and also had the Goldsboro bank to wire to the bank on which the check was drawn to authorize its payment, which was done. The payment of the check wasduly authorized by telegram from the bank in Georgia, and tbe gentleman was just about to get his money, when a gentleman came in who knew his business. He at once went to the cashier, and. just as the paj'ing teller was counting out tho funds, the man was informed that he could not be accommodated. Whyt Because he was an immigrant agent. Yes, sir, that is an actual fact. My Ufa was threatened. I was insulted a dozen times a day, and if I were 6een talking with a negro in even the most casual manner, 6ome excuse would be made to call tho darkey oil. I did not think it 6afe for me to remain, and I left." Somo two weeks ago a large meeting of negroes was anuounced. The object of tni meeting was to take steps toward preventing interference with the desire of any colored nian to go where he wished. The language of the circular was a little inflammatory, but there was absolutely nothing in it which could.bo construed as insulting or menacing to'the whites, The meeting was prevented: tho military was called oat, and every possible precaution taken to prevent the colored people from airing their grievances, if any they had. Your correspondent talked with at least thirty prominent businessmen and planters. One of them expressed tho sentiments of them all on this subject: "No, we do not want our negroes to go. How are we going to cultivate our lands? Import raw white labor? It is nonsense to think of it. Suppose a man were to go to Lowell and induce all the factory operatives to leave. Do you think the manufacturers would not cbjectf It is tho same waj' hero. Tho negro is proverbially reckless and shiftless, but heia )orn on the soil, and no other labor can replace his. Wo are living here in peace, trying hard to make a scanty living out of our farms, when along comes an immigrant agent and upsets all our plans, leaves ns without hands, which is equivalent to reducing us to beggary. We can't cultivate our holds, for we have no laborers, and tho few that do remain want three times as much as we aro able to pay them. Don't you think any 6ct of men would kick at thisl Take my case. I have hero a place of seven hundred acres, three hundred of which is in corn, cotton and tobacco; well, I am in debt a lit tle, but with good crops next year I will be ahead of the world. Along comes one of these agents; my laborers and tenants get disatistied, some of them leave, and others want as much as my land is worth to cultivate. What's the result! I must have labor; I can't employ raw whites; my negroes aro either gone, or want more tnau I can pay, and I am almost ruined. What is the result of the work of these railroad agents, who, for tho sake of a few dollars, literally rum whole communities? They tell the poor, deluded creatures that they will get $5 a day and nice houses to. live in; they inflame their imaginations with pictures of cottages with carpets and pianos, and God knows what else; there is no lie they will not tell them. If it benefited the negroes any, we would not feel bad over it; but we know they can't do as well there as they can here, and in the meantime we are being ruined. Do vou wonder that we kick?" "But you have no right to prevent the negroes from doing what they want." "Haven't we? Well, we will see about that." m To this writing nearly one thousand one hundred colored people have left North Carolina. An agent of one of the roads said to your correspondent: "The negroes aro making this move because they do not get their political rights where they are. It is all very well to talk about the poor, ignorant colored man, and how we induce him to do so and so with lying promises, but all of our inducements and we made none beyond a reduced rate for large crowds would avail nothing if there were not some deep underlying caue for this movement. Wo did not go to the negroes. They came to us. The planters wish to keep them here as tenants and exercise over them a species of mastery to which slavery was a joke. That's the naked truth of the matter. Most of the negro tenants are in debt for supplies, etc. . Now, just go to ono of these plantations about election time and nee how they are threatened and terrorized I've beeu there." Your correspondent has talked with all parties and men representing every interest The results of these interviews aro given above. In the meantime the exodu htill continues, e though in a diminished form. In Georgia, as far as close observation can arrive at facts, the colored population seem prosperous, contented and nJppy." A Respectful Suggestion Terre Haute Expreu. The new President should remember that he has full consent of tho general public tr construe tho civil-service law as if it had . an emercrenrv rlnnso reonirinff the 1211- . mediate removal of all incompetent cmSioycs in uncle cams various business epartments. One Man Who Admires Cleveland. Ffciladelphia Press. ' The "iuspirc d" interviews with, Mr. Cleveland which some of the administration organs are printing rick the essential quality of inspiration. Nevertheless, thev show that Mr. Cleveland is still on very good terms with himself. A Carpluff Critic Chicago News. The Minneapolis Journal stepped oh it trousers'-leg liuingwhenit said: "Thero are over two hundred saloons in Minneapolis, except Sunday." Sunday isn't a saloon. Down here it is tho first day of the week. The Way Not to Do It. Vernon Banner. Tho Constitution of Indiana provides that the Legislature shall enact a registry law. Hut it is not done. And a good registry law is tho only thing to prevent illegal and fraudulent voting. Can Sympathize with Her. nwtton Herald. We kuow how to sympathize with France. Shu iuu; whelmed with Cabinet rnncra.