Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1889.

THE DAILY JO URN AL MONDAY, JULY 22, 1S89.

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PHILADELPHIA A, P. Kemble, 3735 Lancaster avenue, CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley A Co., 154 Vine street. LOTJISVIIXE O. T. Deeiing, northwest corner Third ana J enerson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot anasouuiern iioiex. WASHINGTON, D. O.-Rlggs House and Ebbltt House. A S 10,000 robbery, in mid-day, at the Milwaukee postoflice, suggests that Postmaster Paul had better stop fight ing the Civil-service Commission and attend to business during the brief re mainder of his terra. If the National Encampment of the G. A. R. were at Indianapolis, instead of Milwaukee, this year, the corner-stone of the soldiers' monument might be laid at the same time. Just think what the occasion might have been! The publishers of Belford's Magazine, lately discontinued, have sued the na tional Democratic committee for unpaid bills incurred during the presidential campaign. The idea was promulgated during that campaign that the magazine was established in order that its editor, Donn Piatt, might have an appropriate outlet for his free-trade eloquence. It seems now that those vehement tariffreform essays bubbled out of his seeth ing brain at so many cents a line. TnE Marquis of Lorne has an article in the Fortnightly Review on "Home Rule in Ireland,' in which, illustrating liis argument from the United States, he says that if an American citizen "steps outsido o the proprieties of life" he "is peedily run in by the nearest policeman, Representing the central rule." The Queen's son-in-law has studied Ameri can institutions to little purpose if he thinks our police represent "central rule," by which he means the national government. IIenry George, the noted apostle of free trade and opponent of private property in land, says: "Wages in the United States are higher than in other countries, not because of protection, but because wo have had so much vacant land to overrun." If that is true, then the more vacant land a country or government has tho higher wages should be. By this rule, wages should have been higher in this country fifty years ago than they are to-day, and should be higher in Africa or Brazil now than they are in the United States. The able freetrader's argument doesn't work out. TnE most interesting political event of the day is tho adjustment of Republican factional quarrels in Virginia, accomplished through the national committee. Tho adjustment appears to have been accomplished so easily and to bo bo complete that tho.wonder is it was not attempted long ago. However, enough that it is accomplished now. Tho result is apparently the complete union and entire harmony of tho Republican party in Virginia, with an almost certain prospect of their carrying the State in tho next election. General Mahono will undoubtedly bo tho nominee for Governor, and will exert himself to tho utmost to secure a Republican victory and tho permanent ascendency of tho party in the Old Dominion. TnE National Teachers' Association will go to St. Paul next year. It ought to come to Indianapolis. This city is well adapted by its central location, railroad facilities and hotel accommodations to tho entertainment of large gathering?, and its standing in the educational world, the high character of its Bchools and its teachers, should make it an attractivo point to educators. The Grand Army should also hold its annual reunion hero next year. Two years ago, when the encampment was held in St. Louis, Indiana members, who should have pushed tho matter of securing the next meeting for this place, failed to do 60 on tho ground that the accommodations here wcro insufficient. Tho place chosen instead was Columbus, O., a town not half the 'size of Indianapolis. This year it is to bo at Milwaukee, which has few advantages over this city in any respect. It is to be hoped that tho Indianapolis delegation Trill make an effort to bring the encampment here next year. The corner-stono laying of the Indiana soldiers' monument in this city is not a matter in which Indianapolis and Indiana are alone concerned. It is a national affair; an event in which loyal citizens generally aro interested as tho beginning of tho greatest monument in honor of soldiers of tho Into war yet undertaken in the United States; an event which intimately concerns thousands of residents of other States who are relatives and descendants of Indiana's fallen heroes. Tho . ceremonies of the day should bo of a character comxnen3urate with tho significance of tho occasion. It will be an historical event, an affair tobe remembered by all present, and the programme should and will be arranged with a view to tho great re-

quirements, and not, as is too often the .case at such times, merely as a performance of perfunctory cxerciaes. Every

surviving Indiana soldier will desire to be present, and the friends of the dead whom the monument is to commemorate will have a special interest in seeing the corner-stone laid. Special facilities will be afforded for bringing visitors to the city. It will be a great gathering of soldiers and their friends, and, altogether, an impressive and important oc casion. TIES 3DGAE TBUST. The present high price of sugar and tho existence of a trust interested in maintaining it has given rise in some quarters to a demand for the repeal of the duty on sugar. This is a matter in which we should make haste slowly. Let us bo euro we are right, then go ahead. Before taking or demanding any extreme action in the premises, let us be euro that tho action is justified by the facts in the case, and that it would bring the desired relief. In short, be fore demanding a repeal of the duty on sugar we should be sure that tho duty is responsible for the trust and present high price, that its repeal would bring' relief, and that free sugar would be for tho permanent benefit of the country. At first blush it does look as if tho re peal of tho duty were tho key to tho situation, but a little reflection may raise a doubt on this point. One thing is cer tainthe Sugar Trust must go. It should be smashed as soon as possible, either by judicial or congressional action. The Journal believes that all trusts, monop olies and combinations which have for their object tho control and increase of tho price of the necessaries or commodi ties of life can be reached and smashed through the courts at common law, if the proper course is pursued. The remedy is there if the people and the courts will apply it, and it is adequate to the smashing of every trust and monopoly in tho land. It is time it should be effectively applied. Recurring to the Sugar Trust, before demanding the repeal of the duty on sugar if is important to ascertain whether that is responsible for the pres ent situation and whether its repeal would smash the trust. That is, to say tho least, not demonstrable. Tho trust is not on tho raw material, but on tho refining process. It is a combination of sugar refiners to extort unreasonable rates for that work and for refined sugar. Admitting, for the sake of argu ment, that the repeal of the duty would flower the price of raw sugar it does not follow that tho Refiners' Trust would be broken. It might simply give them a larger profit. Moreover, if it became necessary to form a trust or corner in raw sugar they could do that as easily as in refined. Tho only difference would be that it would tako more capital and wider combination, but there would be no trouble on that score. Absolute free trade does not prevent trusts either in this country or in England. Under the present laws of trade it is only a ques tion of capital and combination. It is by no means certain that the repeal of the duty on sugar would break tho pres ent trust or prevent future ones. "The Refiners' Trust is not the only cause of high prices. The price of raw sugar, has advanced all over the world. The consumption of sugar has increased faster than production, and the result is an increase in price. From January, 1889, to May tho price in London ad vanced CO per cent., and there has been a further advance since. The price of raw sugar in the United States has not increased more than it has in all other countries, and this increase would not bo reached by a repeal of tho duty, v After all is said the really important and fundamental question in the case is whether protection will or can develop a largo sugar industry in this country. That is tho soie object of the duty. If it will do that it should be retained, otherwise it should be repealed. Every country in Europe is doing its utmost to develop the sugar industry. Why should not the United States? Wo have a greater variety of soil, climate and resources than any of them, and unquestionable facilities for the manufacture of both cane and beet sugar. It is an industry of enormous value, and if it can be developed and established by protection it should be. The United States ought not to depend permanently on any other country for its supply of sugar. Tho really important question is whether the sugar industry in this country can be developed to tho point of making us self-supporting in this regard. If there is reason to believe that pro tection will accomplish this it should bo steadily and firmly adhered to; other wise tho duty on sugar should bo repealed. But the question of a future supply of sugar is far more important than that of present price. OUR STATE MILITIA. The military encampment beginning to-day will bo tho first practical step towards forming' a permanent organization of Indiana militia. There havo al ways been some companies of volunteer militia in the State, and some attempts havo been made to organize them into a general body, but very little progress has been made, owing to tho lack of en couraging legislation. Some previous encampments havo been held, but these havo failed in practical results for tho same reason. Now we have a good law, and, with the nucleus of an organization already acquired, can soon have an ef ficient State militia. As it is not tho policy of the United States to maintain a standing army of any size, the States should encourage the maintenance of volunteer militia. A good citizen soldiery is a conservative element of society, and may be a source of credit and pride to tho State in time of peace and of protection in times of trouble. It is in strict harmony with the American idea, and its functions and duties harmonize closely with those of good citizenship. The school of tho volunteer soldier is also the school of tho good citizen. A well-organized militia is a nursery of loyalty and patriotism, as well as of soldierly qualities, and is pretty suro to prove the State's first and best reliance in time of need. This may come in the shape of internal disorder or foreign war. It can never be known

when, or how, or from what quarter such

emergencies will come. It is enough to know that they do come some time to all nations, and therefore it is necessary to be prepared for them. The Constitution of tho United States gives the national government power to call out tho militia of the States, under certain circumstances, and of governing and controlling them while in the service of the United States, but the details of organization, training and appointment of officers are left to the States. The Supreme Court of the United States has, in a recent case, distinctly affirmed the right of each State to organize, drill and discipline its own militia, subject to the Constitution of the United States, and to the right of the national government to command the" services of tho militia whenever needed. Persons who have seen the New York and Pennsylvania militia in recent years, and witnessed their fine military bearing on public oc casions, can realize how useful they would be in case of need. In duo time, it is to be hoped, Indiana may have as fine a militia as either of the States named. FREE-TRADE TEACHERS IN COLLEGES. A casual remark by tho Journal con cerning the free-trade bias of certain professors in the State University calls out from a friend of the institution a de nial that the university is a free-trado school. This denial, which was printed in Saturday's issue of this paper, has a humorous feature. It acknowledges that tho instructor in the department of social science and economics is a free trader, but asserts that lfo gives his views on the tariff question only on special request, and that the majority of students aro Republicans and protectionists, and uninfluenced in any way by the teachings of any of the professors. The Journal has never charged that the State University was a "free-trade school" in the sense of giving an open preference to that doctrine in tho curriculum; it has merely had occasion to mention that the instructors were believers in the antiAmerican system. Being such believers, it has naturally feared that the students would be impressed by these views to the lessening of their future usefulness as citizens of the commonwealth. Of course, if these teachers refrain so care fully from expressing their sentiments that the clas'ses only discover them on special inquiry, tho case is altered. It is commonly understood that a teacher holding 6tvong opinions on any educa tional subject is sure to influence his pupils in tho sanio direction, owing to the impossibility of concealing his bias. The inevitable conclusion, then, in this case is that the free-trado covictionsof the Bloomington professors arc not well established, nor powerful, if a student can go through his course and not find them out save by asking. Oddly enough, the same showing is made at Williams College, as indicated by the following paragraph taken from the Philadelphia American: Professor Perry is not only one of the most enthusiastic free-traders, hut also a man whoso personal geniality and other admirable traits of character give hinran unusual influence with his students. He is the senior professor at Williams College. since the death of Mark Hopkins, and his eye is not dimmed nor his natural force abated: yet of tho fifty-one students who graduated this year at Williams only ten were ireo-tradurs. While college professors are scholarly and accomplished, as at Bloomington and Williams, their free-trade theories will bo forgiven if they continue to train up students to be earnest protectionists and free from vagaries. , ' ! . WHY THI8 SILENCE? The Journal has waited for tho Senti nel and other free-trade organs to rise in their wrath, in tho usual manner adopted for such occasions, and de nounce the nowly formed Salt Trust as a combination of tho devil and the Republican party. Oddly enough, there has been, and still continues to be, a deadly silence on the subject. It can hardly be, of course, that their hatred of trusts and "combines" is modified in this instance by the fact that a distinguished Demo crat is at its head. They would hardly allow their hatred of plans for raw ing the price of any commodity to bo turned to toleration because Mr. AVellington R. Burt, who was Democratic candidate for Governor of Michigan last year, is, with the as sistance of English capital, to control tho price of this necessity of life. Mr. Burt denounced trusts with great ve hemence last year as Republican institu tions, but evidently, now that it is an off year, ha is of the opinion that he may as well join his party brethren who, as members of the Whisky Trust, the Sugar Trust and the Standard Oil Trust, are finding such institutions more profita ble than politics. His course makes mat ters a little embarrassing, though, for a great Democratic editor. Mk. James Bautlet, who has worked in tho Lowell, Mass., machine-shops for more than forty years, and who remembers when skilled machinists only got $1 to $1.25 a day for twelve hours' work, says: I know the condition of the machinist is better than when 1 lirst joined the guild. He has better pay, better houses, better education, better living, and I hope he will keep on improving lor the next nfty years. For mv nart. I don't want anv more of tha good old times. The present time is the best we nave ever had, though 1 hope not ine nest, we snau ever see. Good for Mr. Bartlet. We hope his expectation of better times and better wages in the future will be fully real ized, but meanwhile, it is refreshing to find an intelligent workman who knows what he is talking about testifying that the present times are tho best we ever had. The Postoflice Department has prepared a statement showing the gross postal receipts at thirty of the larger postoflices during tho quarter ended Juno SO, 1SS9, and also the percentage of increase or decrease at tho same offices fcr the same quaiter in the year 18S9 as compared with 1888. The table shows that tho avcrago increase in the business at thirty cities was 8 per cent., the increaso in this city being 8 2-10 per cent. The Western cities whose increase was below the average are Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and St. Paul. Tho highest rate of increase in any of

these cities was 7 1-2 per cent., and the lowest one-half of 1 per cent. ' Postoflice business is a good index of general

business, and the fact that Indianapolis shows a larger increase than any of tho other cities named proves that it is en joying a healthy growth. - . -. ' The agricultural editor of the Iowa State Register has no poetry or sentiment' inhissonl, hut stops in his consideration of corn and potato-growing to revile with vehemence the persons who adorn them selves with the ox-eye daisy, and has hardly words with which to express his contempt for the women who carry them from one place to another and even cultivate what ho calls the pestilential weed. A good many people besides this editor have not yet become accustomed to seeing'this fiower, that in their early days was com monly looked upon as a plague and a nuisance, treated as a treasure, but few have gone so far as to say, like the Iowa man, that the women who scatter its seeds are making themselves a curse to the country' . To tlie Editor of the Iiulianapolis Journal: A gentleman here in a nubllo aneech. a rbort time ago, in regard to the way the United States government had treated the Indians, said that if a white man should steal an Indian's horse, or omer property, the Indian could have no redress In the courts of this country. Is that truet t-ilAKLKMOWN, lnd. A HEADER. It is not true. The United States Court for the western district of Arkansas has criminal jurisdiction in the Indian territory, and Section 215i of the Revised Statutes, U. S., provides that "Whenever, in the com mission by a white person, of any crime. offense, or misdemeanor, within the Indian country, the property of any friendly Indian is taken, injured or destroyed, and a conviction is had for such crime, offense, or misdemeanor, tho person so convicted shall be sentenced to pay such Indian to whom the property may belong, or whose person may be injured, a sum equal to twice the just value of the property so taken, injured or destroyed." If the offender is unable to mako restitution, the law provides that it shall be made out of the treasury of the United States. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A new wedding anthem, "0 Perfect Lover has been expressly composed by Joseph Barnby, for the marriage of the Princess Louise, of Wales, and the Earl of Fife. John W. Mackay, the California millionaire of bonanza and cable fame, is expected in New York in a few dnva. Mra. Mackay, who spends the greater part of her time now m London ana i'aris, will also return this summer and enter her two sons at Yale. King Mexilek, the new ruler of Abyssinia, is a fierce-looking man, dark, tall, thin and active, with piercing black eyes and a lonir. dark beard. Ho is not ouite as cruel by nature as tho late King John, but nevertheless lie manages to awe his subjects into docile submission. Assiz Sultan, the ten-year-old lad trav eling with the Shah, is the son of one of his Majesty's favorites, and is by blood a Persian Kurd. The Shah is going to have a Luropean governess for nim, and there is a sharp contest lor the nonors. as Assiz is al most as important a personage in Teheran as the fohau himself. Out of 106 persons treated within a period of eloven months at the Pasteur? institute. at Rio de Janeiro, only one died, and that one had neglected to follow tho treatment as directed. In sixty-two of thes,o cases, tho dog by wnich the patient was bitten. was unquestionably mad; in the others it was impossible to determine the dog's condition. Charles Reinhard, having failed to get the postmastership at Verona, on the Alleghenoy river, is so nettled about it that he prints a card saying that he will receive mail matter at his store, and will sell post age stamps, etc.i at a discount for cash. He adds: "To save the fee on money orders and postal notes, I will give you a check for amount, which is good throughout the united states." The clay model of Henry Ward Beecher, designed by Ward, of Brooklyn, is now completed, and is said to be an artistic suc cess. The statue is to be nine feet high. and represents Mr. Beecher in the attitude most familiar to his friends, that of repose. He stands erect, with his arms hanging straight down at his sides. He wears over his usual suit of broadcloth the long overcoat, with tho military cape, and in his left hand he lightly holds the familiar slouch nat. The preface to "Pinkerton's Modern Atlas," published in 1815, says: "Geography is a study 60 universally instructive and pleasing that it has for nearly a century beentangut even to lemaies, whose pur suits are usually foreign from serious re searches. In the trivial conversations of the social circle, in the daily avidity of the occurrences of the times, geography has become an habitual resource to th elegant female as well as to tho profound philoso pher." Mrs. E. B. Grannis has made a success in life in spite of tho fact that she is a -woman. She began life as a school-teacher and is now the editor of the Church Union. She asks no favors because she is a woman, but does her work on the same business Drincinlesas anv man. Sheisiust the kind of a woman that Mrs. KebeCca Harding i-'avis nas neia up as a pattern to tnose young women who are forced to support themselves and make their own way in lite. "I like dust," said a lady, an artist whose studio is one of the most pleasant in Bos ton, and whose portraits now hang in many a home. "I like it very much a certain amount of it, you know. It gives tone to a mantle or a bit of drapery in the studio. don't you think? It goes to my heart to have it all cleaned away. It's linger spots that distress me. When people stick their lingers about on a frame or a muntel, of course it must be dnsted directly. But it's not the dust, it's the linger spots that aro mnarmomous." . A writer in the Pall Mall Gazette give the following interesting genealogy of Lord Fife and his Princess Louise: "Both are great-great-grandchildren of George the Third and are, therefore, third cousin9. The Princess Louise is the creat-grand-daughter of the Duke of Kent, the fourth son of that monarch. The Earl of Fifo is the great-grandson of that Duke's elder brother, William IV. Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence, one of the children of that king by Mrs. Jordan, oecame the wife of the seventeenth Larl of Lrroll. lheirdaugh lifth Earl of Fife, whose eldest son has now succeeded in gaining tho hand of the Prince of V ales's daughter." It is told of Nasr-ed-Deen that on one oc casion he conceived the idea of imitating Haronn-al-Raschid and going about by night m disguise and unattended through the streets of Teheran. On leaving the castle the sentinel dozmc in his box let him pass two nights without hindrance. whereupon the Shall had the sleepy soldier flogged. The third night another soldier stood on guard, and he stopped the Shah and forced him, despite all his protesta tions, to spend the rest or the night in the sentry-box, barring egress with his bayo net. 1 he next morning the Shah, after being liberated, first had the unaccommodating soldier bastinadoed and then sent him a purse with a sum equal to il50 and a robe of honor; but the Shah was cured of his love for nightly excursions. Queen Victoria's dislike of Gladstone is at last expiainea. a recent writer says that when the grand old man used to visit tho regal old lady he was wont to talk to her '.'about the polity of the Hittites,or the relations between the Atbanasian creed and Homer." The Uneen. perplexed and un comfortable, would seek to make a digression, aud would address a remark to a daughter or oner a biscuit to a begging ter rier. Mr. Gladstone would restrain himself with an cilort, wait till the Princess had

answered or the dog had sat down, and

men would promptly resume "As i was savin I? ' Mnnw:hilA tlia rlnnri hnil crathered force by delay, and when it burst lorth trmln Z - : .1 i. I A ' : : .1 ug.aiu 11. lurrieu unuriuiu iu v iciona ust'u to complain that on those occasions it was Gladstone that was rude! She was probAlllv in tbn on m nrorlip'iniAilt tliat. Tii'rl.lir Moriarity was when O'Connell calUd her 11 a paraiiciogram. - .When the maiden dons a muslin gown. And tho dog has a muzzle on, too, Tis then wo sigh to get out of town And down by the ocean blue, . Boston Courier. COMMBXT AND OPINION. England's workincmen never becomecanitalists, but there are tens of thousands of American capitalists who were once com mon laborers in this country in "this protection-cursed country." Detroit Trib une. From the moment that tho British voter begins to count the cost of supporting the royal family, it is evident that the collapse of roj'alty, considerated as a decorative Sart of the political structure, is not far istaut New York Sun. It is the' dutv of every Republican, high or low, to stand by President Harrison and give him tho moral support in bis omce that comes from a healthy and unanimous public sentiment. The President is conscientiously fulfilling the duties to which he was called, and the people should let him know that they know it New York vuapmc. . Every dollar of British capital invested in America becomes American capital, just as surely as every dollar of American monty sent to England for the purchase of things which could be produced here is converted into British capital. The imraeuiaie eneci 01 ine new rusn cannot iau n be benelicial to this country. Chicago Inter Ocean. In the race for occupation and position. in which all Americans are no engaged, success will be to thoso who are best prepared for the conflict, and there can be no question that American youth brought up in tho public schools will have greatly the advantage of youth educated in the parochial schools in the practical work of life. Boston Herald. The vounz men have long since realized that there is no . success in life to be achieved by a man whose brain is not always clear, and that the drinking man stands no chance of acquiring business advancement or social position in ine race where he is to meet the man who believes in and stands uo to his temperance princi ples. Boston J ournaL It is no friendship to the laboring man to insult a great customer for the products of . . l i f-i. i rtuf r a. i :ii ins iuuui. xue iuss vl VUiucbo uauo win deprive more workingmenof wages than the presence of twice the number of Chinamen that have ever come to our shores. We can restrict Chinese- immigration without insulting China as we have lately done; Louisville Commercial. ' - Wlio are the enemies of" the protective system, then! Those who unreasonably re duce the wages of labor. Thoso who com bine to close part of the works in any industry. Those who force consumers to pay higher prices for products. If capitalists engaged in production wish pro tection upheld at future elections, they must be true to their professions and principles. New York Tribune. . . Whknt.vkh the covernment deemn it ndvisablo it may add the telegraph to the : i i . xfi s i .1 jiiimsin ire, auu, 11. 1 1 mcs iu, xuruiuuiiy competitor to engage in the business. Of course, if it should do so iustice would require tho purchase of the existing telev l: i j' a; i a j grapu iiues at a lair valuation, out ine government would be under no obligation to tav the finnld "svndie.ite nnvthiiic for watered or inflated stocks. Chicago Tribune. THE SCHOOL-BOOK QUESTION. Farther expressions of Opinion hj Some of the Editors of the County Press. Porter County Vidette: It is safe to pre dict that when the Indiana Legislature meets again the people' will have had enough of the 6chool-book monopoly, law, and will demand its repeal. Attica Ledger: The recently adopted text-books havo yet to pass tho test of the mblic's critic eye. If they fail, there will e not only a storm of disapproval but a demand for free books every wliere. - Indiana Pocket: Patrons of the schools will certainly not exchange their schoolbooks now on hand for the new series at the prices oflered. It is next to giving them away. They are worth vastly more to be retained as books of reference. Brazil Register: The character of the series of readers which the State schoolbook monopoly has forced into our schools is strangely in contrast to. the magniticeut monument now being erected to our Union soldier dead. It is a trine late, but perhaps it is au installment of thoso "Sunday-school books" that failed to show up as billed during the late war. Middletown News: If the Indiana Schoolbook Compauy is not one of the most perfect examples of a monopoly, one cannot be found. It is a company not only chartered by the State but protected by it from outside competition. The contract for supplying the schools of the State with text-books having been let to this company, it alone will supply ine market a most perfect monopoly. Martin County Tribune: Indiana is now burdened with a monopoly in the schoolbook business that will long bo felt by those who are compelled to glean instruction from their use. Our teachers will be put behind tho times, and will be wholly unlitted for positions in other and moro advanced States in the future. Our children will be behind those of onr sister States in the elements of learning, and altogether tho remedy that has beeu applied to wipe out the 8chool-bok ring is worso than the ring itself. A. Hlg Gonge. Lafayette CaU. In common with a great many other papers the Call was misled by the first announcements Seut Out concerning the contract awarded the Indiana School-book Company so called into making an erroneous announcement regarding the exchange price of the books now in use. The exchange price of first readers was given at 1) cents, straight price 10; second readers 13 and 15 cents respectively, and so on; from which it was inferred the company proposed to allow 9 and 13 cents, respectively, for the old books. This does not seem to have been the meaning at all, but that the price of the first reader was to be 10 cents cash, or 9 cents and the old book; of the second reader 15 cents or 13 cents and the old book, etc. This would make it that the pupils in the schools will get, for the books they already have, in exchange for the new kind, an allowance as follows: for lirst readers, 1 cent; second readers, 2 cents; third 3 cents; fourth, 4 cents; fafth, 5 cents; elementary arithmetic, 3 cents; complete arithmetic, 5 cents; elementary geography, 3 cents; complete geography, 1 cent This is about as near throwing away all the present stock of book 8 as could well be done without actually doing it. The children who are already supplied with books will be forced to exchange them for different ones, and in addition to surrendering up the books they have, already, to pay the following amounts: For each first reader, 9 cents; second. 13 cents; third, 23 cents: fourth, 2d cents; fifth, 85 cents; elementary arithmetic, 82 cents; complete, 40 cents; elementary geography, 37 cents; complete. 74 cents. This is materially different to the first understanding of, the arrangement, and will cost the peoplo of the State a very pretty sum at the start. . Harrison Wisdom. . -Wirww Tunes. President Harrison appears to be peculiarly the victim of bogus interviewers, who publish what he did not ear and charge it to him, and then abuse him for it. And President Harrison has a very comfortable and wise way of getting along with these annoyances iv refusing to say anything on the subject except that the newspapers must take care themselves of the stories that they fabricate. Democratic Inconsistency and FoUy. Hartford Con rant. Since the recent promotion of a million aire railroad sharp to tho . chairmanship of the Democratic national committee nothing can be said to be impossible, or even improbable, when it is a Question of Democratic inconsistency and I0II3'. . Still Looks a Little Lowry. Detroit Tribune. Sullivan and Kilraln are anxiously waiting for the clouds to roll by, but it still looks a little Lowry.

THE REORGANIZED COMMITTEE.

The Selections Meet the Hearty Approval of Republicans All Over tho Stataf Columbus Republican: The reorganization of tho KepuV.icau State central committee yesterday will be highly piecing to Bepublicans ail over tho State Goshen Times: The selection of Hon. L. T. Micheuer. as chairman of the State Hepublican central committee, is uu excellent one, aud will givo general satlst.ictioa. Richmond Palladium: The way Kt-pub-lican leaders flocked to Indianapolis to attend the nleeticg to select a clia:rinau nnd other ofiicers of the State committee, shows that there aro no flies on the Republicans in this State. r Marion Chronicle: The choice of L. T. Michener for chairman of the Republican State committee is doubtless tho best that could be made. Ho ha tho qualification, the energy, the inclinat on and the time to devote to his party. j New Albany Tribnne: The appointment of L. T. Michener, Attorne3'-gentrai of Indiana, as chairman of tho Republican State committeo will givo general satisfaction throughout the State. He is uuivorsally recoguized as au able and eilicient organizer. Lafayette Courier: Taken altogether the composition of the new committee is admirable, and the unanimity of sentiment with which the reorganization was accomplished, the largo attendance of representative Republicans from every section of the State, and tho evidences of harmony and good feeling which prevail throughout, all tend to encourage hopefulness and inspire confidence of success in the important campaign of l&X). Lafayette Call: The fact was so patent to all that in the poise, the political experience, tho clear iusight and acquaintance with all the leading Republicans of every locality in tho State, all such necessary qualifications for a successful State chairman, Mr. Michener toAvered so tar abovo any man named in connection with the place that by unauimous couscut all eye turned to him as the one man above all others whom tho party needed. English Capital In America. Washington Tost. One of the commercial marvels of this year, so far as the country is concerned, is the unwonted alacrity with which English capitalists have sought investment in our Eastern industries. Heretofore English capital has shown its preference for the ag ricultural properties and cattle ranches of the West; now it seems eager to acquire control of varfous branches of American manufacturing enterprises in the East. Doubtless a leading reason for this influx of capital is to be found in the fact that English national securities which paid 3 per cent, have been converted so as to bear only 23i per cent. English incomes depend so largely on such investments that it has not been difficult to persuade persons having their capital in the 'funds'' to 6ell out and place tho money realized in enterprises here which are of so much better promise. Tho fact that the several industries thus far purchased have been left under American management and control would 6eem to indicate that income rather than property has been the object of the investments. Charity That Is Not Disinterested. ' Lafayette Courier. The most liberal contributors to the relief fund for tho benefit of the Clay county miners aro the owners and operators of mines in other sections of the country. Tho explanation of this is that the longer tho Indiana mines remain shut down the better it will be for mine-owners and miners at other points. Tho unemployed workmen deserve sympathy, but unfortunately for them tho intermeddling of Senator Voorhees and other mischief-making politicians has so confused the public mind in regard to the situation that the responses to tho appeal for aid havo been less liberal than they would have been had the miners been left to present their case in their own way. The dissatisfaction and discontent that prevails in the Hrazil district has been encouraged and nursed by a gang of political demagogues attached to the Democratic party, who are very freowjth advice and suggestions but conspicuously inactive iu coming to tho front with something more tangible than talk. Democratic Tools. Philadelphia Inquirer. The New Jersey Prohibitionists are joined to their idols. They havo nominated a straight ticket for State otticers, havo practically adopted tho Indianapolis platform, and are going forth to slaughter tho Republican party of tho State. We have no quarrel whatever with tho conscientious temperance people who believe that prohibition is the cure for all the evils of intemperance; but we have no respect for tho political soreheads who are running the campaign to defeat the only party that has ever enacted any temperance legislation for New Jersey. Tho Isew Jersey Prohibitionists denounce high license and local option, both given to the peoplo by the Republican Legislature and repealed by tho Democratic majority last winter. In ho doing they practically indorse the Democratic Legislature, and if they aro happy in so doing, the Republican party will submit with the best grace possible. He Is BuUding TVelL Hew Castle Courier. The President has moved a little too slow in tho matter of removals and appointments to suit the requirements of anxious oflircseekersand their friends, but the wisdom of deliberation is apparent in the character of appointments. So far no mistakes havo been made, and each batch of announcements challenges the approval of all good Republicans who feel a deeper interest in a sound, statesman-like administration of affairs than in the mere success of particular candidates. President Harrison is building well, and as the months roll by tho beneticcnt eflects of his policy will be the more clearly realized bv the country and the party. Nothing is done for buncombe, nothing tor partisan advantage, but all inline with tne highest principles of true Republicanism, and that means an honest, upright, eleen administration in the interests of the peoplo. Can't He lie Prosecuted? New York Tribune, A case has most certainly been made out against the Milwaukeo postmaster by tho Civil-service Commissioners, who are all agreed as to his violation of tho law and his complete and shameless disregard of civil-service principles. His immediate removal is recommended, and we have no doubt that the recommendation will bo acted on promptly. Hut must the matter 6top .theref Cannot Mr. Paul bo held accountable to the courts for his conduct? Postmaster Paul's Surprise. Milwaukee SentlneL Mr. Paul is probably naturally astonished to find that there is a commission that "believes in the thing." Ho of course gathered no such impression from the lato President, who was elected chieflj' as a civilservice rciormer. He supposed that the rules did not apply "after election," and it must be admitted that lie had reason. Rut he most bo investigated by the tribunal constituted by law and not by unauthorized citizens, either singly or in bodies. How to Secure True Reform. 21nnc!e Times. . ' What tho Republicans of this State should aim to do at the next election, and with I'roper efforts can do, is to secure a Repubican majority in the legislature. This is the only way in which true reform in tho State can bo ac hieved. Rotation In Office. Ilendrick a County Republican. -We believe in the wisdom of the policy of official rotation, because it. insures the perpetuity of our great Republic, reared, as it is. upon the principle of tho survival of the fittest a principle abundantly verified lu the last election. Sngar In the MUls Hill. Illinois State Journal hnols siaie journal. , A Democratic exchange suggests that "free sugar woum mi iuo irust." j democratic Congrcssmen,however,ref used to voto for froo sugar last winter, aud the sugar echedule in the Mills bill was adjusted to PLUV""1 rn suit the Sugar Trust. Whre It Grows. Philadelphia Inquirer. . , Henry George's single-tax theory ! spreading rapidly in the South. Every man who does not own a foot of land is enthusiastically in favor of making the land bear I .all tho burdeuof taxation, r . ; :