Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, JULY 5, 18S9.

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NEW YORK GUsey House and Windsor HoteL PHILADELPHIA A. pTKemble, 3735 Lancaster avenue CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawiey A Co., 154 Tine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlng. northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. CT. LOns Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C Rlgga House and Ebfcitt Home. The "weather yesterday was imbued with the spirit of 'TH. It was a regular George "Washington day. " Yesterday's Fourth of July sun shone r ' AT I i. it,. -rrrt tV. lor me last tiuiu uu iuc uu um thirty-eight stars. Next year thero will bo forty-two. These was a good deal of labor-saving machinery in the procession yesterday. It represents a departure from the good, old times when every workman "owned his tools, and, in large part, the stock, and sold it and his labor.1' The Town Council 01 LdinDurgh has voted to confer on Mr. Parnell, the Irish leader, "the freedom of the city." In that ancient and enlightened capital the freedom of the city means something. It is an historic honor. In this case it will, moreover, be an expression of Scotch sentiment in favor of Irish home rule. Gen. Ben Butler, in a speech at Watenille, Me., the other day, said that Canada must come into the United States sooner or later. The J ournal has said that often, but it never has said that the people of Canada are all the better for having to work harder than our people in order to eat and keep warm. It is to be hoped his royal nibs, the Shah, docs not understand English, else ho must have had to submit to a great deal of guying from the street crowds in London. The average Englishman on such occasions is no respecter of persons, and as the appearance of the Shah is not impressive, the irreverent Britishers probably made numerous remarks that would not read well in a diplomatic report. ' If any one of the several Australian election laws that have been passed recently should meet any other one, neither could recognize the other, for there is hardly even a family resemblance, though all called by the same name. Wo will have an opportunity of several modifications, next year, though it is said that the Connecticut law has been so patched that ifc is likely to bo imnosaihlo to 11 so it. unless some court shall first construe and construct it so as to make it hang together. The New York Press is opposed to Tpostponing the Republican convention jofthat State until after the Democrats 'have held theirs and have spoken. It holds that the Republican party is not a party without positive convictions. .It says "speak out on all questions, and especially on the liquor question and the ballot-reform question, and make an aggressive fight." It adds: "The inexpedient expediency game may do for Democratic machine politicians, but Rennhlivin trnfpre i1r nnr. ruiihl in fhA Democratic way." Giving advice concerning the coming election in Pennsylvania, the Patriot, the organ of the Democratic party at Harrisburg, after advising the convention to speak out squarely on the temperance question and be very pronounced against prohibition, says the convention should raise no issue in platform or candidate except that necessarily involved in the election of Treasurer, which is the only office to bp filled. Evidently the Patriot does not want to tako sides on the tariff question. The Journal would suggest that tho convention simply reaffirm the wellknown and oft-repeated policy of the Democratic party of Pennsylvania on that question. As it has been on both tides and betwixt on tho tariff question, this resolution would not be raising any issue. The industrial parade yesterday was creditable as far as it went, and presented eonio interesting features, but as an or industrial activities of the city it was very incomplete. Much credit is due to the projectors and managers of the affair, but it was quite apparent their efforts had Lot met with great success. Indianapolis has 0 manufacturing establishments which employ three persons or more. Their employes are numbered by the dozens, by the scores and by tho hundreds. Much the largest number of these and most of the largo establishments wero not represented in the parade. This is not said by way of criticism, but as a matter of fact. Strangers estimating the number or extent of our manufacturing industries by yesterday's display would get a very erroneous and inadequate idea of the magnitude of this interest. A few of the displays yesterday were very creditable and sonic decidedly attractive, but tho aggretfato did not come any where near

being a complete or satisfactoiy exhibit of our industrial interests. The city can do vastly better than it did yesterday, and has done a great deal better in foinier years. This does not detract from tho credit that belongs to those who took part in tho parade, but it is due to truth and to the interests of tho city that it be said.

DEMAGOGY AND FACTS. The Indianapolis News is as unfortunate in its declaration against its new version of our "industrial system" as the old. It did not mean "tho tariff" at all, at all. Oh, no; it was the improved and labor-saving machinery which was making the "victims" and playing general ruin. Considering the matter in the concrete, why didn't the News stick to the Washington hand press! That would have given employment to double the number of men it now employs with its rapid-running and improved machine. Hand-made clothing requires double the number of laborers. Why doesn't tho News man get his clothing made that way, instead of patronizing "improved machinery" concerns which make suits at about half the hand-made price? There are scores of tailors, and occasionally many of them out of employment, and there is no law against hand-made clothing. The absurdity of inveighing against this "vicious" element of "our industrial system" is apparent to people of ordinary intelligence without suchsuggestions. In 1845, before the introduction of wood-working machinery, skilled carpenters were paid only $1.25 per day, and now, with every variety of such machinery, the wages are $3 to $3 per day. And this, as a rule, is true in all other departments of industry.. Thero are temporary exceptions, arising from sudden disturbance by great inventions or discoveries, as in our natural-gas find, heretofore alluded to. When railroads began building in this country it was said that horses would soon be valueless, as they wero then used for most of the transportation work. A good horse was then sold for $50to$G0. Now railways ramify the country, and horses are worth three or four times what they were before. The American States, and for that matter, the world, outside of Africa and China, would present a sorry spectacle, compared with what they do, but for "our industrial system." Political economy is not tho News's forte. The role of the demagogue is a hard ono in the field of facts. TABM MOBTtfAGES IN ILLINOIS. The Bureau of Labor Statistics in Illinois has made its fifth annual report. It has devoted much attention to the question of mortgages. " The result is a surprise to everybody. So much has been said lately by demagogues about Eastern capitalists gobbling tip tho farms of Illinois by foreclosing their mortgages that everybody was expecting to find Illinois plastered over with mortgages to Eastern people. The investigation has been patient and thorough, and tho result shows that but 7 per cent, of tho mortgages now in force are to non-residents, and these are scattered through thirty-five States and twelve foreign countries. The bulk of the mortgages are to building and loan associations, by tho aid of which thousands have secured good hoiries. .In a few instances, and comparatively few, considering the number of mortgages, the mortgagee has been compelled to foreclose; in all cases CHrn tne amount loaned would havbeen-preferrcd, but the borrower had made injudicious investments, and could not pay. PROHIBITION IN KANSAS. The people of Kansas are agitating tho submission of an amendment to tho Constitution striking out the prohibitory clause. Why not? The Prohibitionists themselves are estopped from objecting. It is their theory, and not an incorrect one, tit whenever any considerable number of citizens want to vote on a constitutional amendment they should have tho chance. Tho people of Kansas have tried prohibition some "ten years or more, and it is not unjust to any one to submit the continuance of such a measure to a vote of the people. If it is the success that many affirm, the people will not abandon it; if not! they will. Nothing has so much contributed to the unrest of the people of that State as the averments of the Prohibitionists themselves. If prohibition is such a law that it caunot be enforced as other laws are, but must have a party behind it in order to its enforcement, the sooner it is abandoned the better. No other law requires such a backing. mmmmm mmmmm THEY ARE HAD ABOUT IT AND TALK BACK. The most extraordinary judicial proceeding of this century is that of the License Court of Philadelphia in obeying tho mandate of tho Court of Appeals to grant license to the wholesale dealers or bottlers that had applied. Tho court met und not only granted license to the appellant, but to all who had applied and had not withdrawn their applications. After issuing the order and authorizing tho clerk to pass on the sufficiency of tho security, the court files a "stated ment" which is certainly the most remarkable judicial paper of modern times. To say that the judges are mad does not express it half. They are indignant, bordering, we should think, on the disrespectful. Speaking of the consequences of this order, they say: Some of those applicants wero of notoriously bad character, among them being convict and common drunkards, who for years had led the most abandoned lives. Others had violated the laws regulating tho ealo of liquors while holding licenses in and maintained places of resort that were frequented by degraded women, habitual drunkards anil discharged inmates of tho House of Correction. Nevertheless, as no remonstrances raiding an 'issue" as to the moral character or habits of sobriety of these applicants were. ti! d it becomes our duty, under the ruling of the Supreme Court, to grant all the licenses applied for. After this follows a review ok the decision of tho higher court, in which they maintain that tho ruling of the Court of Appeals in this case is in tho face of their former rulings. They say: For thirty-one years, without a break or dissent so far as reported cases throw light on the question, the judges of the courts of quarter sessions in this State have exercised the same discretion in the granting of wholesale licenses that we exercised iu tho

case of the Prospect Brewing Company the same in practice and principle ana in this they have been sustained by the Supreme Court, the last case, Conway's petition. Laving been decided as late as OCI.5.1SS5. Then follows a further review of the decision, averring, in substance, that it overrides all former decisions in similar cases and ignores important facts in this case, winding np by saying: In closing this statement wo desire to say that we. greatly regret that we have felt compelled to adopt the unusual course of taking any public notice of the action of the Supremo Court in this connection. But we have had unusual, unprecedented provocation. We know of no principle of ethics, professional or judicial, which requires any judge to be silent when he is placed by the judges of even a higher court in a false and distorted position.

The coming prize-fight has furnished somo of the Southern Governors a fine opportunity to air their virtue and make a cheap display of executive energy. First, Governor Nicholls, of Louisiana, issued a high-sounding proclamation which everybody seems to have read between the lines and interpreted accordingly; then the Governor of Alabama issues a note of warning, and finally the Governor of Mississippi, not to be outdone by other executives, issues a proclamation offering a reward for tho arrest of tho pugilists. This display of executive virtue seems rather ridiculous in view of the notorious fact that all these Governors have permitted far worse things than a prize-fight to go on in their respective States without tho slightest attempt to prevent them, and that not once but often. A prize-fight is a barbarous exhibition, but it is not so bad as a negro massacre, and neither of the able Governors above referred to has ever broken out in virtuous indignation against these. It has been but a few months since tho white people in Kemper county, Mississippi, turned out en masse to hunt negroes and murdered a number of the fugitives. The Governor issued no proclamation then and offered no reward for the arrest of the murderers. IIis present outburst of virtue seems to be ono of those cases in which people Compound with sirs they are inclined to By damning those they nave no mind to. Sixteen Indian boys and girls, representing nine different tribes, have just been graduated from the Manual Labor Institute, near Wabash, this State, and sent back to their respective tribes. When brought to the school, they were thoroughly untamed little savages. Now they are -fairly educated in book knowledge, and have received pretty good manual training. It will be very interesting to note the results of their return to. savage life and associations. Some ot them are tho children of chiefs, and they will at once bo brought in contact witji the conditions and surroundings of uncivilized life. They are young, and their characters still .not wholly formed. Willthey'bo able to impress themselves on their elder, the uncivilized Indians among whom they are going, and lead them toward civilization, or will they yield to their surroundings, and themselves relapse into savagery or loaferismt The government and school authorities, who have superintended the education of these young Indians, should tako steps to watch their future course and see that they do not backslide into barbarism. ! For ten years or more the more intelligent people of Kentucky have felt the need of a new Constitution. Tho present one was adopted in 1850, but the State and tho times have outgrown it, as with Indiana, but as it requires a majority vote of tho people at two successive elections to call a convention, it is difficult to have such a convention called. The people will vote on the question at the next election, in August. For more than ten years Indiana has felt the need of a revision of her Constitu tion. This was so manifest in 1881 that the retiring Governor, Gray, a Democrat, and the incoming Governor, Porter, a Republican,, each urged it upon the Legislature, but about that time prohibition in the Constitution was all the rage, and the liquor-sellers refused to allow tho passage of the bill providing for the convention. As that ques tion is now practically disposed of as a constitutional possibility for twenty years at least, there is a possibility of tho next Legislature acting upon the subject favorably, and the State may be relieved of many embarrassments. AN interesting and important decision has been mad by a Pittsburg court. Tho law authorizes a city tax of five mills on every hundred dollars of sales in tho city. A manufacturing company has its princi pal office in the city, but its factory is at Beaver Falls. The city assessed a tax on all the goods 6old at the office, whether they had been or should ever bo in the city. The manufacturers sought an injunction. and the court ruled, first, that goods sold in Pittsburg, but delivered to the purchaser on cars at Beaver Falls, wero not taxable in Pittsburg, neither were goods sold to persons not living in Pittsburg and loaded on cars at the factory, but that goods sold to persons living in Pittsburg and delivered to them on the cars in Pittsburg, were sub-; jeettothe tax. Tho presumption is that that establishment will deliver the most of its goods on the cars at Beaver Falls. ABOUT PEOPLb' AND THINGS. Queen Victoria's musical preferences, it is said, are about equally divided between tho compositions of Sullivan and thoso of Mendelssohn. A fine crayon portrait of the Rev. Dr. S. F. Smith, author of "My Country 'tis of Thee," has been placed in the library of Colby University, lie was for many years a trustee oi mat institution. The fortune left by Prof. Richard A. Proctor was insufticient to support his f.imilv. and his widow has determined to sell his Florida home, together with his library nnd scientific apparatus. Prof. l'roctor was too busy with science to make money. Tin: Emperor of China has presented his bride with an immeuse tiara of gold, with a very lofty cap of Siberian sable, embroidered with rows of pearls and tho feathers of the golden pheasant. Twenty skilled workmen were employed for two months in makiug the head-dress. Queen Victoria will personally super intend tho organization of the big agricult ural show in her Castle Park at Windsor. This will be tho biggest show over known in the world if tho present Plans are carried out. Visitors will be able to walk past i i twenty muesoi iat pigs, oxen.piows, etc. Col. A. Louden Snowpkn, who has been appointed minister resident and consulgeneral to Greece, 6c r via and Rouiuania,

was made postmaster at Philadelphia by

l'resiueut Grant, and on assuming ouice is sued the memorable order, "All employes who do their duty will bo retained: those who do not will be dismissed." John Aitken, of Falkirk, claims to have succeeded in counting the dnst motes in the air. lie says that ho has detected S0.000 such particles in the thousandth of a cudic men oi me air oi a room, in rue out side atmosphere in dry weather the same measurement yielded 2.119: after a heavy rain-fall tho number was only 521. Mauy Gordon Duffee, tho authoress, lives with her aged mother in a ruined frame cottago which sits perched on tho very summit of a picturesque mountain near Blount Springs, Ala. Miss Duffee is now about fifty years old, and is very eccentric Of late years she has depended 1 A. A 1 . A ft A 0 1 aunu.n entirely on mo cnaruy oi ner itinahearted neighbors. Col. H. Beck with, of Philadelphia, has the credit of having given tho since famous bonanza king, Mr. Mackay, his first em ployment in mining. Colonel Beckwith was, at that time, superintendent of a Nevada mine, and became, subsequently, a partner of Flood, O'Brien and Mackay in their operations at Virginia City. He long ago reiirea on a competency. The short sermon by tho Bishop of Lin coln at the , Portland wedding, contained this passage: "My Lord Duke, happiness is not to be found in wealth, in the noble rank you bear, nor in art collections tho heart of man cannot bo filled with them. One thine and one alone will satisfv the heart of a true man, and that is love. Love is that for which the heart yearns, and there lies your trne happiness." ' Rhoda Broughton, tho well-known English novelist, is fortyeight, and-a highly intelligent looking woman, although her features aro hard and rather masculine. She is a good talker, and has a rich fund of humor ota very racy and piquant kind. Most or ner literary work is done early in the morning. It is her custom to allow at least two years to elapse between tho publication of her stories. She is fond of pug dogs, and has a number of them, Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, of Philadel phia, who makes her home in London, is ono of the wealthiest American widows. She is about sixty years of age, of little more than average height, and inclined to plumpness, tier nair is snow wnite ana rolled hich uo from her forehead. Mrs. Moore has written ono or two books, besides pamphlets and magazine articles tho latter two advocating tho heelev motor, in wnicn she is a firm believer and largo stockholder. Rembrandt's famous painting of The Night Watch" is said to ho in danger. Illadvised restorations undertaken somo time ago are now afiecting the picture so seriously that a commission of experts has been appointed iu order to decide what can be dono to stay tho mischief, which is spreading. Some assert that the relining ot this grand work with now canvas is lueviiaoie, luougu tue uirecmr oi the Amsterdam National Gallery and his colleagues skrink from taking such an ex treme measure. Carlotti Patti was what tho French call a "raro personality." No doubt her life was somewhat embittered by tho lameness which provented her from having a splendid oporatio career. The disappointment was all the greater to bear becauseat one time she was really encouraged to hopo that by means of a surgical operation she would be freed from the lameness. Iho operation failed, and no one could blamo her for bitterness after that. Her husband, M. De Munck, is a violoncellist of some distinction. Adelina Patti now has but ono sister left, tho widow of tho late Maurice etrakosch. and a lady of much distinction of character. i The London . Star says that Miss Mary Anderson is . gradually recovering her health, but she is living almost incog, in tho outskirts of Hampstead. It was always a favorite suburb of hers. Even when her headquarters were in Rrompton. she would drive up and spend all the summer after noon on the heath, which had tho same at-' traction for her that it used to have for Charles Dickens. She has collected by this time quite a museum of theatrical curiosi ties. The trophy she most values is o. dagger given her by Lady Martin, which was always used by the donor when sue played Juliet. So It was passed direct to Mary Anderson from Helen Faucit with all tho associations of a great name. Queen Victoria is in tho habit of keep ing rooms which have been ocenpied by deceased relatives locked up. The apart ments at Clarcmont in which the Princess Charlotte died more than seventy years ago are closed, and nobody is allowed to use them. Prince Albert's apartments at Windsor. Osborne, and Balmoral are all kept precisely as they were when he was alive; and on the wall in the room in which he died there is a tablet, with an inscription recording the fact that "this apart ment was the scene of his demise." John Brown's rooms at V indsor have also been closed since his death and marked with a largo brass sign with an inscription com memorating his virtues and deploring his loss. The Emperor of Russia, when upon a tour of inspection in the provinces, passed the night in the simple hut of a toll-taker. Before retiring ho was pleased, as head of tho church, to see the old man tako up his Bible and read a chapter. "Do you read often, my son!'' he asked. "es, your Msjestv, every day." "How much of tho Bible have you read, my son!" "During the nnst year, tho Old Testament and part of Matthew, your Majesty." Thinking to reward him, the Czar placed 600 Touhles between the leaves of the book of Mark on the following morning, unknown to tho toll-keeper, whom he bad farewell. Several months passed away and the Emperor reinrneu. upon a second tour, to the tolltaker's hut. Takintr the Bible in his hands he was snrprlsed to tind the 500 roubles in tact. Again interrogating tho toll-keeper as to his diligence in reading, ho received an affirmative answer, and the statement that he had finished the chapters of Luke. "Lying, my son. is a great sin." replied his Majesty; "give me the Bible till I eee." Opening the book, he pointed to the money. which the man had not seen. "Thou hast not sought the kingdom of God, my eon. As punishment, thou shalt also lose thy earthly reward." And ho placed the roubles in his pocket, to distribute after ward among the neighboring poor. COMMENT AND OPINION. We should prefer, as a choice between two evils, to have the most contemptible white pot-house politician in tho South in office than the most intelligent negro. It is a race question. Memphis Avalanche. The world is improving in a social as well as a material sense. The doleful out givings of the croakers at what they allege to be the retrogression of the race are as foolish as they ar false. St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. The Northern people aro responsible for the McDow verdict, responsible for the at titude of the negroes and responsible for all the evils that grow out of au ignorant, a nred hid iced and a crossly corrupt a u 11 race. Atlanta Constitution. All experience teaches men distrnst of government and self-reliance. This distrust and this reliance aro essential to the perpetuation of free institutions, and free institutions . are essential to the mental, moral and industrial development of any people. Louisville Courier-Journal. Our government is constituted by the people, of the people, for the. people. It derives all its powers by delegation from the people. The people, all free and all equal in political rights and privileges, subject themselves and their freedom to certain restrictions and limitations for tho sake of .order and security. Louisville Commercial. A pretty muddle, the North Dakota farmers may nay, tho government would make of trying to run our farms. Yes, and a prettv muddle the government would make oi trying to run the railroads. Railroading is as much of a science as farming, and the government would make just as bad a farmer as it would a railroad man. New York Sun. The tendency of all recent" changes in government, and of all the popular movements for reform, is toward diminution in the power of individuals to control political events, and toward greater freedom in the expression and greater certainty in tho recording of the popular will. Wealth has not tho power it formerly had, nor great t 1 A A. .it . ' names, nor pociai dobuiou; uut iu uoau

crate opinion of the majority becomes each year more clearly the supreme power. New York Tribune. So hnmane have the prize-fighters become that the finest lady's feelings might not bo hurt in observing "the pleasantries of an encounter for the championship of the world. Therefore, to see a galaxy of Governors issuing their bulls against the present pugilistic comets, simply adds to the grotesquerie of prize-lighting under the present inadequate league rules. Chicago

Jieraia. THE FOURTH OF JULY. The Deep Significance of the Day The Na tion' Hop for the Futnre. Chauncej M. Depew, in Frank LesUe't IllnstrstM newspaper. Webster, in that immortal speech which he put in the mouth of John Adams as having been delivered in tho Continental CcnSress on the day of the adoption of the declaration of Independence, said: "We shall make this a glorious and immortal day. When we are in our graves our children will honor it. Thev will celebrate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonhres and illuminations.7' Tho civil war affected so deeply the hearts and passions of the people, and the questions settled and raised by its close were of such transcendent magnitude that for years after Fourth of July observances fell into abeyance, and the significance of tho day was almost forgotten. The centennial celebrations have done their chief service in reviving an interest in the origin and growth of American lib-. erty. Heredity of ideas and mem ories has always been the potent factor among peoples in keeping alive tho inspiring recollections of th victories for their rights and the glories of their nations. But our position is unique and original, from the fact that more than half of our population have settled among us since th revolutionary war, and are without legends in the fam ily of Bunker Hill and Yorktown, IS A i a ttt . oi caraioga ana lonmouin, oi wasningion and his generals, of tho Continental Con gress, its statesmen and their, principles. We must, therefore."Btipplement by educa tion the well-nigh irreparable loss of traditions. Nations cannot develop upon rising lines without patriotism. With institutions and governments perpetuity is impossible unless they aro sustained by intelligent patriotism. Liberty and law is the ark of our covenaut. The law is tho snear and shield of our liberty. It makes clear tho rights ot tne citizen and protects him in their enjoyment. It recognizes neither rank, nor class, nor combinations, nor power. It enforces it unon the greatest, as well as tho humblest, tho operation of tho immortal principle of the Declaration of Independence "that all men aro created equal, that they afe en dowed by their Ureator with certain inalienable rights, that among these aro life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Whenever the celestial light of this glorious idea irradiates tho soul of the fugitive from th tyranny of monarchs and the oppressions of caste, he becomes regenerated and disenthralled. Bitterness against the government, hatred of power and vinilictiveness toward society are . expelled, from his mind. The wild and destructive theories of anarchy and communism are transformed into fervid loyalty and solid satisfaction for the institutions of a people, of whom he is found to bo one, a sovereign among severeigns, a peer among peers, who govern themselves. Symbolism is thegreat- ,. i fi'i. i -.: .1 ing from masthead and liberty-pole, from the home window and the church spire, and greeted, as the hrst rays of tho rising sun on the Fourth of July play lovingly around its folds, with joyful peals from the belfries and the thunder of cannon from the hills, is a liberal education in tho meaning of our freedom to millions, and a. refreshing hath of liberty for us all. Old -John Adams, upon tho day of his death, hearing the noise of the bells and cannon, and being informed that it was Independence day, expended his last r crength in the expiring cry, "Independence foreverr' In his time liberty could not survive independence. Webster .devoted his matchless powers to tho defense of the Union. For his period, liberty and union were inseparable. Lincoln died that the Nation might live. For his era, liberty. and nationality were one and indivisible. For our aire and theever-imnendiuc future. tho preservation of our glorious inherit ance, its increase and transmission to coming generations, depend upon theeoual life and resistless power of liberty and law. . THE CLAY COUNTY STRIKE. What Secretary Johnson Said Opinions of the Brazil Newspapers. BrazU Register. Secretary Johnson, oi the fctato Board oi miners. The operators had ottered certain reductions and also agreed to open their books to a committee of operators and Rev. O. C. McCulloch, of Indianapolis. They proposed to show by this that their profits lor the year ending April SO, 18S9, had not been in excess of 0 11-100 per cent. They would do this on condition that the miners would return to work at the rate offered. After all day debate the nviers agreed to refer the matter back to the miners. Said Mr. Johnson: "The company has shown mo its private books, such as a company would only to a bank when negotiating for a credit, and have shown mo a summary of their business from month to mouth. 1 am satisfied that their claim is fair. You can get your tools sharpened hereafter at a .fair price. You can get your house rent lower iu proportion to your wages. You can get your powder hereafter at $2 a keg. and you can get a gnarantee that you will not be discriminated against if you do not deal ' with tho company's stores. Now, men, would it not bo better to get what you can get than to get nothing at all! Thero aro now.waitiug in Chicago contracts to the amount of 200,000 tons of coal, and those contracts will not wait many days. Whether or not tho miners here get these contract all depends on your action. To gain them m eans work for you, and to lose them would be a serious loss. The company have have set their feet down and are prepared to wait a year, and I am convinced they will." "It is better to be right than President' Time has already demonstrated, and it will still further do so, the correctness of the Indianapolis Journal's position. It is wrong to keep thousands of laborers idle week after week on false hopes, created by lies uttered in advocacy of 'any political doctrine, especially when in the end those laborers must fail. State Statistician Peelle did not proceed with his investigation. Mr. Peelle got more facts, perhaps, than ho wanted. However, there is not tho slightest objection to investigation here. Had the papers and partisans who slandered our miners, operators and community but investigated first, they would not have signed their names to so many lies. Clay County Enterprise. The strike was ill-advised and wrong from the start, and would havebeen settled long ago but for the action of unscrupulous Democratic demagogues throwing it into politics for their especial personal gain. Wo are glad to see that many thinking miners are waking up to this fact, and are becoming very restless. With a fnlL fair and secret ballot the majority would vote to go to work immediately. When the miners come to thoroughly nnderstand tho true inwardness of this political strike there will be several demagogues, who never rained a ton of coal nor did an honest day's work in their lives, left high and dry like a mud-turtle on a root. Tho Indianapolis Sentinel says: "If tho Clay county operators cannot atford to pay living wages they ought to go out of the coal busiuess." If they offer the best wages they can uttord to pay. and the miners do not choose to accept it, they certainly will go out of the business. The City and Country Frets. Brooklyn EaRie. Asa matter of fact, it is th country press itself which is to be held responsible for the tendency to make light of th duties of tho profession. The city dsilics do not criticise or abuse their rural contemporaries, but they occasionally print extracts which carry their own comment comment far moro significant and overwhelming than any able metropolitan editor might venture. If the country editor does not appreciate the dignity of his calling, and prints articles which provoke a smile at his expense, the fault is his own. and he should not accuse his city brother of "hostility" wheu he sees those articles reproduced under more or less suggestive headlines. Above all, it should be remembered that it is not by a man's position, but by what ho makes of it. that h is to bo judged. To the country weekly tho city

journals are indebted for many of their best writers, and tho obligation in other respects is of too substantial a character either to be slighted or ignored. The River Towns Frogresatnff. Madlaon Courier. The statement of Hon. W. S. Holman, made in New York city to a reporter of the press, to tho effect that tho Ohioriver towns between Cincinnati and Louisville are retrograding, or at a stand-still, is not sustained by the reports of the. Postmastergeneral of tho United States. We copy the annexed figures from tbe reports of 1S5 ana 1SSS, showing postal receipts: Towns. isi5. 188. Aurora $4,227.33 $4,99.fi6 Jefferson vtlle 5.524.96 G.S29.74 Lawrencebnrg 3.4(?;.63 3.940.15 Madison 8.293.24 O.OOS.til New Albany 11.7(!).28 l'J.407.03 Rising gun 1.317.12 Not given. Vevay. 2.432.31 2.700.40 Can Mr. Holman undo tho evil he has wrought by his false reports in the moneyed center of the countryf What kind of a Representative is a man, anyhow, who runs down tho district and the "people who elect him to Congress? Will Eastern capitalists be induced to build the Ohio River railroad upon such representations as Mr. Holman voluntarily makes to them.

Mormon Elders and Their Dope. PhUaAelphla Inquirer. The persistency with which the Mormon elders carry on their work of making proselytes for their faith calls for some effective action. Thoso now at work in West Virginia aro but an insignificant portion of the nnmber that have been 6ent out by the church. All through the Southern States, particularly in the rural districts, one or more of these persons is located, with no other purpose than to keep up tho numerical strength of the polvgamists. They live in handsome style, and travel luxuriously, holding out to their infatuated followers the argument that every convert will be able to do tho same in time. It is true that their converts aro all among the raoro ignorant classes, but this is all the more reason why they should b taken in hand. The more intelligent aro not led astray by their misrepresentations. Cher Up, Jerry! Indianapolis News. We are gravely Informed that it would be a fine thlnjt if the world could revert to the period before labor-saving machinery was introduced, and every workingman "owned his tools and la large part the stock, and sold It and hla laboT." Wo hardly think the millennium will be found o far to the rear as that. Cheer up, Jerry, and fall In with the march of progress. Tho Journal. Now, that is just liko an idiot! It hears somo ono say "Cheer up, Jerry," as wo said to it tho other day, wheu it was wailing its Jeremiahs over the decay of the town, because it was not given in chargo of tho Octopus, and 60 now, in a passing spell of calm from exhaustion after its last effort, it babbles softly, "Cheer up, Jerry.". Poor natural! Manifestly it does not comprehend the meaning of words or tho significance of acts. A Vicious Craze. Philadelphia Inquirer. A young man who sports the chevrons of the royal navy on the 6leeves of his sailor iacket, says that tho present craze for collecting among boys are the illuminated pictures which aro packed in th boxes with paper cigarettes. His own collectiou embraced eighty complete sets of portraits of editors, Indians, professional beauties, t he ilags of all nations and similar subjects, and a melancholy interest attaches to it when ono reflects how many young lives have been blighted bv tho innumerable cigarettes which must havo been consumed to make such a collection possible. "Any Other Game Ton Know?" Brooklyn Stanrtard-Unlon. " It has befallen most people who nlav at cards to have contested with a single opponent, and to bo asked sarcastically when defeated: "Is thero any other game you know!" In view of their "crawl" in tho matter of tho challenge for tho cup won by 41. - ' A . i 1t" J 1 1 1 1 me ivuirriui iu icvji, ami neiu ucro ever since, and of their crushing defeat at Wimbledon yesterday, thero seems to b a fair chance to ask our English cousins, in a good-natured sort of way, if there is any other gam that they know. Where, Oh, "Where la the Craah? Philadelphia Press. That superlatively zealous Democratic organ, the Indianapolis Sentinel, asks: "Where, oh, where is the boom that was to come when Harrison was elected?" Wo may be pardoned for answering this question in Yankee fashion by asking:. Where, oh, where is the crash that was to come when Cleveland was defeated? There are people who suspect that that crash has been side-tracked somewhere down the shady lane of innocuous desuetude. Rather Cloying and Nauseating. Philadelphia Record. Having duly fulminated in hih-sound-ing proclamations against the SallivanKilrain tight, tho Governors of Louisiana and Mississippi may now address each other in tho historic words which passed on a certa in occasion between the Governors of North Carolina and South Carolina. Really, this 6ort of-ollicial saving of appearancea is becoming rather cloying and nauseating to the public Hypocrisy of Southern Governors. Philadelphia North American. If thero is anything that will tnako the coming fistic encounter between the heavy weights notorious it is tho proclamation of the Governors of Louisiana and Mississippi. Some of theso Governors in the Southern States have the reputation of being not avers to witnessing almost any kind of sport, so that perhaps they do not really mean what they bay about preventing th big fight. Benefits Without Hardens. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, There is au ill-founded assumption in certain quarters that commercial union should precede political union, and that the one w ill expedite the other. It is sutlicient answer to this to say that it will not b wis to give the Canadians all tho benefits of political union, without any of its burdens, which is precisely what commercial union could accomplish for Canada. Alien Secret Revolutionary Societies. Hartford Couraut. . As the matter stands it has a very black look, and will tend to deepen the popular feeling that, so far as these United States are concerned, tho whole brood of alien secret "revolutionary" societies, with their dagger and dynamite methods, must go. This is a hospitable and tolerant countrv,' but it has pretty positive views on tho subject of murder. -i The Sparrow Will Have to Go. Philadelphia North American. Tho sparrow has become notorious again by a report of the Department of Agriculture. The evidence is very complete, and nut less than 3,400 witnesses in tne case give their testimony. The result is that tho pugnacious bird is convicted of every possible offense charged against it. It will have to go. Not Their Kind of a Fight. Philadelphia Record. The fact that Sullivan and Kilrain do not propose to encounter each other with th "gentlemanly" weapon of pistol or bowieknife may possibly explain the waut of hosEitality manifested b3 the Governors of ouisiana and Mississippi. . Do Not Consist. Philadelphia Inquirer. There is a singular discrepancy between th$ wholesale postoftice changes constantly reported by tho Democratic press and th few specific cases mentioned in the news dispatches. Which acconnt is right? He Takes Care of Hla Own. ChicAro Tribune. It is not likely that any accident will happen to tho tra'ins carrying th SullivanKilrain prize-lighting crowd to Louisiana, The governor-general of Sheol usually exercises a fatherly rare over his owu. The Season Is Yet Young". v Detroit Tribune. . Tp to date President Harmon has not - called a horse-thief by the opposition , but it must be remembered that he i. been only four months iu tho White lioute. What It May Corns To. Philadelphia Ttrnea. Another Cronin murderer has confessed. At this rate areward will have to be offered for ono that won't confess to getachan to hang sonic one for tiit criiut