Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1SS0.

WASHINGTON OFl'ICK 513 Fourteenth St. r. S. Heath, Correspondent. NEW TORK OFFICi: 204 Temple Court, Comrr Ueekman nnl Xnsjan street. Telephone Call. Eo!nM 02ce IMltorlal Booms 242 TKRMS OF Si:iiSCi;iFTION. DAILY. On year, Trtthnnt Fnnflay $12.00 ODe year, with fcnnlar 14.no Htx monlln, without Sunday tUXJ Hx mouth, with Sunday 7.00 Three months, without Miiuiay M.m) Three mouth, with Mindly a.f0 On month, without Suiutay l.Oo One month, with buDday 1.-0 WEEKLY. Tcr year ?1.00 lteduced Kates to Club. Bnbvtibe with any of our numerous agenta, or send ubinrlptlona to the JOURNAL, NEWSPAPER COMPANY, INDIAXIFOLIS, ISl. All eommun teat ion intended for pitblieatioA in. this paper mntf.in order to rereiee attention, be accompanied by tit name and address of the icriter. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the follow in c places: LONDON - American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange La TarlB, 35 Boulerard ds Capucines. NEW YOKK OUsey House and Windsor HoteL PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble, 3733 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI-J. P. Hawiey A Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Perrlnjr, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. FT. LOUIS Union New Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WARniNOTON, D. C-Rlpse House and EbDltt Houae. Even the Prohibitionists of New Jerarc willing to have the water supply shut oft for i time. Indications are that tho crowd in attendance at tho laying of tho cornerstone of the soldiers' monument in this city, on the 22d inst., will exceed that of the G. A. R. reunion at Milwaukee. The Pilgrims waited a good while for a monument, hut when they got it it was a good one. If they could have had a prophetic glimpse of that heroic figure Faith perhaps their sternness and gloom might havo been lightened. Or would they have thought of tho vision as that of a graven imago and a device of tho evil one? Aftek an elaborate showing, to prove that the Schuylkill river, from which Philadelphia gets its water supply, is contaminated with all sorts of tilth and sewage, a paper of that city calmly remarks, "We, the people of Philadelphia, can stand tho Schuylkill water; we aro used to it," and then goes on to show that the citizens aro in a fair way to bo poisoned with swill milk. The public is led to conclude from this that, though the Philadelphia stomach is terribly tough, there are somo things it can't and won't stand. The New York Times, which is happy only when abusing some one connected with the present administration, declares that President Harrison is anxious that Corporal Tanner shall not go to tho Milwaukee G. A. R. reunion because he fears that ho Tanner will commit tho administration, so far as ho represents it, to a service-pension policy, which ho is known to favor. As Tanner has publicly expressed himself as opposed to the serv ice-pension scheme, one end of the Times's story falls to pieces at tho atart, and tho other loses its point. Nothing daunted, however, the unscrupulous but industrious mugwump will go right on evolving fresh lies. TiiEselGsh juggling'of tho MissouriIndiana school-book monopoly appears at every step. It now appears that they have instructed school boards throughout tho State to make their first orders as small as possible. Tho reason of this is that tho mechanical facilities at tho St. Louis end of tho lino are entirely inadequate to filling the contract. Tho result will bo that comparatively few counties will be supplied with books for the opening of the fall term, and many 1 1, 1 . i "11 1' 1 IT.. 1 tciiuois umy paniaiiy Mippueu. uuuer ordinary business methods this would work a forfeiture of tho contract, but the new law does not recognize ordiuary business methods. In this, as in all tho rest of tho proceedings, it is apparent that the interests of the schools and of tho people aro to be entirely subor dinated to a money-making scheme. Democratic papers in Kentucky have been trying to make a point against Mr. Colson, Republican candidate for State Treasurer, by saying that he comes from" "a pauper county." In Kentucky that phrase is used as a technical term to designate a county which, instead of paying a net revenue into tho treasury of the State, has to draw money from the treasury to complete tho payment of county expenditures. The Louisville Commercial warns Democratic orators that tho term is loaded, and proceeds to how that according to the last Auditor's report more than half the counties in the State are pauper counties in tho eense indicated; to be exact it says there are 119 counties in tho State, and of these no less than sixty-five had failed to produce enough levenuo to meet tho expenses chargeable to them. Politically these sixty-livo counties aro divided as follows: Twenty-four are Democratic counties, twenty-seven, aro Republican counties, and fourteen aro counties which generally vote the Democratic ticket, but occasionally give a Republican majority. This statement shows that tho pauper counties in Kentucky aro not all Republican, any more than the illiterate voters are all black, as the Courier-Journal intimated a few days ago. The information disseminated by tho consuls cf the United States through their olhcial communications to the State Department is usually of the order denominated "dry." As a rule, theso functionaries seem to make no effort to extend their observation beyond tho limits of office routine, and tho reports are apt to bo copies of thoso issued by their respective predecessors, with exception of the necessary changes in statistics. Recently, however, it seems to have dawned upon some of theso representatives that they might profitably widen their field, ami, as a consequence, o numba of xeorUhavc containediui-

ters of interest to the general public as well as to tho statistician. The account given by the consul to Chin-Kiang of liis first visit to Nanking includes nothing of special moment, but affords a glimpse of Chineso civilization through a doorway closed to tho ordinary traveler. Tho report o tho consul-general at Frankfort-on-thc-Main on the existing social and industrial conditions in Germany shows that he, too, is there for something more than the mere emoluments of office, and is awako to the problems of the day and to the possible effect of tho business conditions upon tho industries and commerce of his own country. .

BELYING ON THE DEMOCRATIC PAETT. Tho Journal has already noticed tho open defiance of law by the saloons of Cincinnati. Already that is so rcactingagainst tho saloon interest that tho Southwest, the saloon organ of that city, has sounded the alarm and ordered -a retreat, but not a surrender. It knows too well who its friends are. Referring to this, it eays: There is only ono solution to the problem. It is uot by rebellion to the law, by defiance of. the authorities or slugging cranks. Each niovo in either of these directions will be in the direction of eflicieut aid to the enemy iustwhat tho Republican Evangelical Alliance, Low Order League and the other organizations of that party want, and will help forgo new shackles for personal liberty. It is by reasoning from cause and xesults; by calmly considering that the evil9 now upon us are entirely the result of ReIniblican party legislation: and that tho mgiish press of that party is clamorous even now for the enactment of still nioro stringent and restrictive laws; that tho Democratic party, when in power, has ever been liberal in its enactments, and is not under tho control of a gang of church thiigs and Low Order , fanatics, trying to make the State subservient to their isms and dogmas. Realize these facts, urge them upon your liberty-loving neighbor, and then go all together to the polls next election day, and cast your votes for the candidates of the party of right, justice and liberal principles the Democratic party. We aro in a hole a dirty holeplaced there by Republican party legislation, and the only way out of it is to rely upon tho Democratic party, and it strengthened and placed in power by your votes. THE EEQULATION OF NATIONAL ELECTIONS. The Journal's statement in a recent editorial that "there aro yet many undeveloped points at which national authority may have to touch tho individual States" is construed by Harper's Weekly as a guarded expression of "tho feeling of many Republicans that the paramount public question is tho suppression of the colored vote in tho Southern States." The fact that tho Journal's statement is given different constructions in different quarters proves its truth. It shows that there are floating in the public mind half -formed convictions of an approaching necessity for the exercise of national authority for new purposes. These inchoate opinions aro yet in a somewhat nebulous state, but time will solidify them. Meanwhile, their extensive prevalence in a floating form proves tho correctness of the Journal's statement that there aro yet many undeveloped points at which national authority may have to touch the individual States. Harper's Weekly is right in surmising that tho suppression of the colored vote in the Southern States raises one of theso points. This is at onco a party question and a question higher than party. It involves tho redemption of pledges by tho Republican party, and it involves a good deal more than that. Justice to the whites of the , North as well as to tho negroes of tho South, tho preservation of republican government, as well as the honor of the Republican party, demands that the suppression of the colored voto in the South shall not continue to bo practiced iii tho future as it has been in tho past. To this end the authority of the national government should be exercised clear up to tho lino of constitutional power. The national government cannot interfere at all in purely State and local elections, but its power to regulate elections in which national officers are chosen is beyond doubt. This includes elections for Congressmen and President As to these it is no longer a question of constitutional power, but ouly ono of policy and methods. It is not a question whether Copgress may enact a law which will secure fair elections in tho South, but what kind of legislation will best secure tho end. Tho nature and magnitude of the evil are best shown by a few figures. Tho six States of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina have 1,720,000 males of voting ago and forty-three Representatives in Congress, yet they polled in 18SS only 78o,185 votes. They have a Representative for every 13,200 votes cast. Twelve Western and Northwestern States, with a voting population of 4,4So,000, havo eighty-eight Representatives in Congress, and last fall cast 3,730,203 votes. These States havo a Representative for every 42,407 votes cast. By the ratio which prevails in tho Southern States theso twelve Northern States should have 20-1 Representatives instead of eighty-eight, By tho ratio which prevails in the North, tho six Southern States would have eighteen Representatives", instead .of forty-three. The same disparity holds in the Electoral College. It is not a theory that confronts us but a condition, and tho question is whither tho condition shall bo permitted t continue. It is a flagrant and open violation of the Constitution, ft constant humiliation of the North, a disgrace to republican government and a menace to tho peaco and welfare of the country. The Republican party, by its origin, its principies, its traditions and its platforms is committed to deadly war against this gigantic wrong, and to right it if possible. In a speech delivered at Detroit, several months before his nomination, General Harrison said: Tho truth to-day is that the colored Republican vote, of tho South, and with it and by consequence, the white Republican vote of the South; is deprived of all effective influence in the administration of this f;ovcrnineut. ine atumionai power given y tbe colored population of the South in the Electoral College and in Congress was more than enough to turn the last election for President, and more thau enough to reverse yes,' largely more than reverse the present Democratic majority of the House of Kepresentatives. Have we the spirit to insist that everywhere. North and South, in this country of ours no man shall be deprived of his ballot by reason of his politics! To ak the question is to answer it, but insistence is ono thing und enforcement h' another. Tho important ques

tion is how to . right tho wrong. Tho Republican party cannot bo true to itself unless it at least attempts to apply some remedy. Failure of the attempt would bo far less disgraceful than failure to make it.

THE VERSATILE V00EHEE3. A correspondent wants to know if Senator Voorhees was always as violent a free-trader as his recent Bloomfield speech would indicate? By no means. Ho has voted and spoken for protection. He made a strong protection speech at Atlanta a few years ago. Oct. 20, 1881, in a letter to Hon. Bayless Hanna, he wrote: The platform of 18S0 was a violent departure on tho subject of tho tariff, and has no precedent in the history of Democratic platforms adopted in national conventions. Have examined them all. The declaration of a 'tariff for revenue only' was uever before made in a national Democratic convention, and is a burlesque on common sense. We lost Indiana in the last three weeks of the campaign of 1880 on the absurd issue made by our platform on this subject. Part of his Bloomfield speech was devoted to abusing the "coal barons' meaning, of course, tho Republican coal barons who, by getting richer than some of their neighbors, havo become eligible to bo hanged, like Mr. Carnegie. Their crime in this regard was laid at the door of protection. Yet no longer ago than last winter Mr. Voorhees voted against putting coal on the free list. Senator Turpio voted tho same way. Some of the party papers censured them, for their vote, and Senator Voorhees wrote a letter to tho editor of the South Bend Times, in which ho said: In view of the events of the past year, I confess to some surprise that Judge Turpie aud I should bo cuticised for our vote in regard to the duty on coal. The Mills bill, a it is known, was under discussion in the House of Representatives four months and more as a Democratic measure. The question of coal was carefully considered by the Democratic committee on ways and means, and at one time the committee was strong-, ly inclined to report coal on the free list, but finally, for reasons they deemed sufficient, determined not to do ro. During the long debate which ensued I remember no movement in that direction, and when tho bill passed it received the vote of every Democrat in the House except four or fi ve. Mr. Mills, Mr. Carlisle and every Democratic member, including all my Democratic colleagues in the House from Indiana, voted as Judge Turpie and I did. and I have never heard them assailed on that account. There was a duty of 75 cents a ton on coal when the Mills bill passed the House, and I recall no effort at that time on the part of anybody to put coal on the free list. And when, in addition to this, tho St. Louis convention indorsed the Mills bill and we made our entire canvass on it, Judge Turpie and I did not feel ourselves authorized to make a new departure and declare a new platform for tho Democratic party on live minutes' notice, and necessarily without consultation. . Thus it appears that when these freetrado Democrats had a chance to vote to repeal the duty on coal they did not do it. This does not prove that they aro honest protectionists, but it does prove that they are political trimmers and demagogues. Mn. Froude may be a good historian and a fair-to-middling novelist; but the blunders in his account of his journey across tho United States on his way to Australia show that ho is not an accurate observer nor an acute judge of cbntem poraneous affairs. His assertion that Gladstone's hoinc-rale policy is only a spasmodic gush of sentiment may therefore bo taken with somo allowance. The Philadelphia Record is very indignant because the United States has venturetl to interfere with a British vessel. Tho Record knows that its beloved Bayard would never havo dared to do sv.ch 'a thing, and therefore it insists th.it tho proceeding was all wrong. Dem ocrats must stand by each other, what-: ever comes, or where will they be! ' How the market price of lambs, and 'of-' rabbits, aud guinea pigs will go up when; Brown-Sequard's elixir of life comes into general use! No man or woman of mature years will lose tho opportunity to become thirty years younger, when it can be done by the simple process of injecting lamb or rabbit pulp into their veins once' a month. And what a bonanza it will be for physicians during the brief time it will rage and until, liko the blue-glass craze, condurango for cancer and the later gas cure for consumption, it makes way for a newer medical sensation. Tho fact that Brown-Sequard is a physician in good standing with his profession mado it incumbent on him, under the code the medical code has a few sensible provisions to give his discovery to tho world, and lamb pulp, as a rejuvenator, cannot, therefore, become a proprietarymedicine. "Regular" physicians, with more or less skill, will experiment with it, and credulous people, who "would they were boys" and girls again, need not be at tho mercy of quacks. Doubtless the public will hear of some very curious things while this new discovery is tho sensation of the day. As a means of shaking off mortal ills it promises to boat the faith-cure all hoilw - Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 4 and 5, are tho dates fixed by the executive committee for holding the thirteenth reunion of the Society of the Army of West Virginia. Columbus, O., has been chosen as tho place of meeting. Reduced railroad rates have been arranged for on all roads in Ohio, preparations are under way for entertaining a large crowd, and an invitation is extended to "all the ex-soldiers of all the armies of the loyal North" to be present. Major General George Crook, president of the society, is expected to be present and preside at the meetings. Boston's strongest industry, the shoo and leather trade, is beginning to show the same decadence that her iron industry long ago displayed. Both are due to the same cause. Boston is too far from the source of supply for raw materials and not near enough to the center of consumption to market tho finished product under the most favorable conditions. The lesson is plain. The New England shoe factories must move westward, and the metropolis of the great Indiana gas region is the best place they can settle. A Philadelphia paper speaks in a local paragraph of tne "motorneer"of an electric car. If Indianapolis ever has an electriccar line, must this lirxual atrocity bo accepted as an essential accompaniment! " If Dr. Hammond ever succeeds in proving the Brown-Sequard elixir of life a success his fortune is made. The Prohibition party will tako tho decoction as fast as he can manufacture it. If they ever get Sullivan behind the bars in Mississippi, Charley Mitchell can challenge him with safety. Ex-Sr.cnETAKV Whitney says ho does not wunt to lu PiCridtuU Thcx is at least

one point upon which ex-Secretary Whitney and the general public thoroughly agree. Guthrie, the magic city of Oklahoma, is making astonnding progress in civilization and culture. Its City Council is already charged with stealing $10,000. Tiierh is no reason why Congress should bother about annexing Canada. Chicago will do it herself if we just let her get her second wind.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A PUBLIC clock ordered for Melbourne will roll off a popular air every hour, giving only sacred music on Sunday. A peach-grower at Marshallville, Ga., obtained a clear profit of $1,000 on one carload of peaches snipped to Now York. General Sherman has announced his intention to do all he possibly can in order to secure the 1892 exposition for New York. The tallest policeman in the United States is Lieutenant Malin, of West Philadelphia, who is six feet five, and large in proportion. Mil Samuel J. Randall is looking remarkably well. Since he has been livingat Wallingford, a suburb of Philadelphia, he has, he says, been enjoying life immensely. ."To exterminate fleas," writes a correspondent of tho New York Times, "in addition to cleanliness, put a tablespoonful of salt between the sheets. Use it in sweeping, and scatter freely.'.' Mrs. John Morris sey, widow of the late pugilist and statesman, is now in almost abject poverty, and is hemming collars and cuffs, to-day, for a Troy manufacturer, and running a race with poverty. George O. Jones, the head and front and rank and file of the Greenback party, lives fairly upon an independent income, about the Kiggs House, at Washington, and spends his timo preparing proclamations to the party. . Letters received in Louisville from Mary Anderson give the assurance that she is in good health and spirits, though a Jong rest is prescribed as necessary to relieve her from the effects of her overwork fur some years past. Prince Bismarck has at Varzin 22,000 acres, of which 15,000 are covered with glorious forests of oak and beech. His homo farm comprises 400 acres, and tho re-1 mainder of the cleared land is lot in farms of about 700 acres each. Dinaii-Salifou, the King of Senegal, who is an object of interest to visitors at the Paris exposition, is a handsome man, tall of stature, aud fifty-two years old. Ho wears a white mantle, with a velvet head covering somewhat like a Greek lex. He is an intelligent man and speaks French very well. : The latest development of the automatic machine is a Dr. Cureall, in Holland. It is .a wooden figure of a man, with compartments all over it, labeled with tho names of various ailments. If yon have a pain, find its corresponding location on the figure, drop a coin into tho slot, and the proper pill or powder will come out. The Emperor of Austria has just exercised his most rarely-used prerogative of stopping a criminal prosecution. A priest had been arrestod in Vienna for having embezzled 22.000 florins which he had collected for clerical purposes. After tho arrest ho showed such contrition that the archbishop asked the Emperor's pardon, which was granted. Dr. Nansex has succeeded in securing $100,000 for an expedition toward tho north polo next year. He has been greatly encouraged by his recent explorations in Greenland to believe that he can go further than any previous explorers have been able to go. He proposes to abandon his ship and march northward with boats and sled ires so long as there is any chance of approaching ...I. TT fil l . . " ine poie. ne win nave nut one small vessel, manned by Norwegians, in his expedition. The bell-boys in the Hotel Albemarle, in Pittsburg, a few nights ago, got hold of the slot-and-nickel cigar machine, and by turning it upside down they got all the nickels out. Then they fed these to the slot till .they had got all the cigars out, after which they proceeded to gut it of all the nickels, as before. In tho night thev filled tho hotel .with a perfect orgy of cigar smoke. The owner of the machine has chained it to tho 1 noor, and is seeking to discover the culprits. ' A jilting which Zebulon Hancoi, of Stonington, Conn., received many years ago made him a miser and a recluse. Ever since then he has lived alone in a hut, wearing outlandish clothing, and gaining his living by fishing. One of bis peculiarities is to never buy anything that he can make, and the buttons .on his clothes, tho spear with which he catches eels and the scales on which the tish are weighed are of his own manufacture. At the age of twentynine, he has solved the problem of living on $20 a year, and has $10,000 in the bank, while he has built nine good houses, which he rents. President Carnot, of France, is dreadfully etifit andcorrect in everything, rather, in short, too conscientiously gentlemanlike, and too scrupulously, well bred. Not having gone through the training of a constitutional sovereign, which enables tho Prince of Wales to bo indefatigable, he gets violent headaches, and returns to the Elysee thoroughly tired out, where his wife awaits him, thoroughly enjoying the privileges of her position, skimming the cream of everything that is pleasant without any enforced duties, always gracious, always smiling, always beautifully dressed, and never obliged to be tired, consequently much happier thau any queen. E. J. Jaurez, ono of A. R. Shepherd's lieutenants at Batipolas, Mexico, is in this country. lie eays: "Tho man whom you call 'Boss' Shepherd is occupying very much tho same position down in Chihuahua, but his bossism is very acceptable to the people of Batipolas. When the Governor came to our town to take charge of the mines the Elaco had a population of less than five undred. and a sorry lot they were. Now wo have a population of over six thousand hardy, prosperous citizens. The company managed by the Governor is now operating over sixty mines. So far as 'Boss' Shepherd is concerned you can say that he is all right aud will be back in a few years with several millions in his pockets." The Quakers' "testimony" to John Bright is now being privately circulated. It has the quaint old phraseology adopted generations ago. It is a testimony from the Lancashire Monthly Meeting, which sends it "To the power and goodness of God, as shown in tho life and services of John Bright, M. P." After stating in a sentence his birth and death, it savs that "Divine grace enabled our friend John Bright, to be a true minister of Jesus Christ in the remarkable lineof service to which he was called." It details his taste for study, his "deep sense of responsibility in the sight of God. and his intense human sympathy," his love and reverence for the Scriptures, and his simple habits, diligent attendance at Quaker meetings and loyalty to tho Society of Friends. Without flattery of tho dead statesman, it testifies fully to nis worth among his own people. COMMENT AND OPINION. Nearly every merchant, well om in life, would tell you that he would have been worth more if he had stuck to his regular business. He has gone out to get rich quickly, and has found it easy to part from his accumulations in that way. Then he goes back to the field that he understands and resumes intelligent work again. Hartford Courant. As a skilled laborer, the negro has much to learn. He has only fairly entered a great field of usefulness. Thus far he has provad himself a good imitator, and, in work where compantivelv little) originality is required, is but little, if at all, inferior to the white. As yet ho has developed little originality, aud his usefulness is greatest in routine work. Cleveland Leader. The State Department may have recourse to diplomatic arguments and temporary expedients, but in the long run tho administration cannot shirk the. responsibility of executing the laws relating to the fur seal lihm?2 'Iho -uoYcrnmeut cannot concede

tho 'British poacherV claim to exemption from seizure in tho deep waters of Bearing sea without abrogatiug statutes enacted by the law-making powers. Congress alone can do that. Now York Tribune. The foreign policy of the United States consists in minding its own business and requiring European nations to do the same so far as this hemisphere is concerned. Any treaty with foreign powers in relation toan island in tho South Pacific ocean carries with it obligations and responsibilities which the United States should not assume. -Vflw York World.

t v- rTn( fhn tmiIa in horn n rteaftant al - H ways a peasant, born a mechanic, always a mechanic; whatever is the station of tho father, there is tho lot of the son, and eo on through generations. But with us conditions are deferent. Manhood is respected for what it is, regardless of the accident of birth, and the changes .which aro all the time in progress, by which rich men's sous go back to the ranks nud poor men's sons rise over. their heads, constitute tho most healthful and vitalizing circulation of social aodbusiuess currents. Boston Journal. The Grand Army asked for a reduction of rates to its members wishing to visit Milwaukee to tako part in the coming encampment, and the request was refused, whereupon the department commanders of eight Western States havo advised their men to punish the railroads by keeping away from the encampment. To anybody but a Grand Array man; this heroic policy, which, if carried out. will ruin the encampment as a demonstration, would seem to come under theprinciplo of cutting oil one's nose to spite nis own face. New Ykirk Times. ' ' THE VAN WINKLE SCHOOL-BOOKS. The 'County Press Continues Its Denunciation of the 3Iissonri-Indiana Series. Brookville American: A little experience with the new school-book law will show parents and guardians the "necessity of sending men to the Legislature who will not impair one of our dearest interests while fighting Don Quixotean giants and windmills. Greencastle Times: The system which has been adopted is without doubt the rankest job lot of readers, arithmetics and geographies ever put in print. To change from the present system of books to the proposed "Indiana series" will cost the parents of Indiana school children $1,000,000, and will bo a step backwards in tho educational life of at feast twenty-live years. Princeton Clarion: The change in textbooks will cost the people of the State' thousands of dollars this year that might have been 6aved if the law enacted by tho late Legislature had provided foran equitable exchange. As it is, the Board of Education has, under the new law, virtually confiscated thousands of text-books in the hands of school children, and proposes to compel them to buy new books because .they aro cheaper than the ones in use heretofore. Crawfordsville Journal: The Indiana School-book Company has filed its bond in the sum of 213,000, the Governor has issued his proclamation, and the machinery will now be set in motion to enforce tbe law. It will cost the people of this city about $2,000 to make the change of books. And it will cost tho people of the county at least $7,000 to $10,000. The eilect of tho law will be to destroy the usefulness of the schools, and squander tho money of tho people in a futile effort to accomplish tho impossible. Warren Republican: The school-books of the Indiana School-book Company, adopted by the State board in the early part of last month, from all the indications are in every way. except cheapness, a very great fraud, and should not be adopted by the trustees of the townships. Tho inferiority of the books should at once condemn them. By the trustees adopting them for their schools a very superior class of books will be cast aside, and the pupils of our common schools will be compelled to purchase, at additional expense, which no persuasion could induce them to take. Peru Republican: It is estimated that the books in use in Indiana aggregate in value a million dollars. The syndicate offers 1 cent for a first reader and 5 cents for a geography that is better than the one thev furnish for 75 cents. They expect to sell. these books at second-hand book-stores for half their original cost and thus make a princely fortune. Thoso who know William Fleming, of Fort Wayne, aro well - aware that he is a thrifty citizen who has accumulated a fortune out of the pockets of the people. Ho is ono of this school-book monopoly which has such compassion on the dear people of Indiana that it offers them "such protection as wolves give to . lambs, covering and devouring them."; Rensselaer Republican: Tho geographies' which belong to the furies of text-books' just adopted by the State Board of Education do not give the location of the railroads in any of the State and national maps, but in the large book there is a special map which purports. to give all the railroads in . the United States. By looking at this tnap it will be seen that of the some six hundred miles of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railway system not a single mile is represented on the map. Yet it is an important system of railroad, and the main line from Louisville to Michigan City is ono of the oldest roads in the State, while the . Chicago and Indianapolis division has been built eight years. Princeton Clarion: Suppose it should bo found that the school children of the State were being supplied with shoes for which they aro paying an exorbitant price. Suppose that a body of alleged statesmen should undertake to crush out the monopoly that was exacting these exorbitant prices for children's shoes, and should make a law fixing the prices of shoes of various sizes from 50 to '100 per cent, less than had been charged; and suppose it should be required of the children, under the provisions of this law, and before they should bo permitted to start to school this fall, they must throw away all tho shoes they had, and buy new shoes from this new firm that theso alleged statesmen had set up in business. Suppose such a rule as this should be established as to shoes, would there be great rejoicing among the people because this thing had been done under the name of economy and reform! And yet this is very much like what has been done in rolatioh school-books. Peru Republican: The editor of this paper, like the proverbial poor man, has what is nowadays considered a large family, eight children, two of whom have graduated from the high-school. The others are scattered all the way along from the nursery to the highschool in regular progression. The boy that graduated this year ueed tho books of the one that graduated last year, and so on down to the smallest oue in the primary school, the younger children falling heir to the books of the older ones. As books are mado now, one well taken care of will last a whole family, so that very few new ones are needed for even a large family. But how is it under the new law! Au entire outfit is needed of all the books adopted. Fortunately, these compriso only readers arithmetics, geographies and writing books! Others will no doubt be adopted in dno time. Tho actual cash outlay for books will be live times the cost of tho new books needed on the first day of school nnder the old law. Such a destruction of values has never been known in this country; for heretofore in making changes a fair value has been given to the old book in exchange for the new one, which -has always been supplied at a reduced price, and somotlmes at an even exchange. . Kanked" U Good. Chicago Inter Ocean. t The great bulk of the large stock of butter now held m the New York market was made in the Wr;st. ; And in point of quality Western butter is the best to bo found iu the Eastern markets. This is a notable change since the davs not more than two decades ago when Western butter ranked in those markets but a fraction above axle grease. . . f ' YTbat nigh license Mean. ' Baltimore American. . High license means fewer saloons, fewer criminals, less pressure on tho courts less perjury before grand juries, less expense to the city, and nioro revenue, more morality more respectability, enhanced property values, and a general improvement in ev'ery direction. Ohio Democrats In Luck. Botaon Journal. It is understood that ex-President Cleveland has determined to decline to enter tho Ohio campaign and stump the State against Foraker. m m The People Are Not Scared. rciladelphla Inquirer.' A warm-brained Washington correspondent, contemplating the Treasury ingatherings, exclaims: "It must be startling to see t-4o two great channel 0f taxation. :

the internal reveimo nnu uign tariff, STveli. ingand rushing down on t he people, aud 1 yet also to see tho victims of the letrnr tive flood make little or no effort to escano I i This correspondent should emigrate t I somo conntry whero the treasury is not af ii Aided-with golden showers. Moat a country other than this will do. 7 TTTK CIVXJ.-Si:nVICK COMMISSION. ' - --. Pen rictureB of Ionian, KooneYelt 4 Thompson Good Men for the Placet. !

- i . Waahingten Letter in riiilaielrl)ia liecord. Going np tho old-fashioned stone steps at the southwestern corner and entering tl cool, dark-arched corridor, you see over thZ first door on your left the words: -Coniniiju sioner Lyman. ' Ihis is the room of th president of the commission, for whoci thero could bo no higher praiso than tU truth that ho is just tho man for the plat-e. Hred, if not born himself, in the cir il service, educated by experience in several important branches r it to a sincere belief in tho value and il lea? tic the marvelous memory not oniy ior nrinri,u. but for precedents, and added, to alljeJse thorough enthusiasm for work, it is n'0? strange that for months at a time in ti,! past President Lyman has performed all all the duties of the commission so success, fully that the public never knew until it was told that Commissioner Edgerton, for example, was all that timo enjoying hff and making money out at Fort Wayne Ind., in entire forgotf illness of civil-servica reform. Personally President Lyman is acra noticeable finite apart from .the mark which distinguishes but does not disfigure it. He wears a full beard, which like his hair, is abundant and dark, al! though gray streaks begin to appear. wears glasses when he reads, which hedoeg. as he does- everything, precisely and r. ticntly. He is a Presbyterian elder and a man of high position in tho councils of h? church, whero his prudence and wisdora tell. "Commissioner Roosevelt" says the gicn right over the next door down the cor. ' ridor. Tho door is apt to be opt n. for Commissioner Roosevelt a room is entirely toa small for his expansive nature. Looking ia von see 'Teddy," as his Western, admireri call him, striding up and down his narroir cellt vigorously gesticulating to a caller until you wonder how his modest eye classes can stay on his aggressive nc. Unlike his conventional colleagues L wears a flannel shirt (italicize that for Href Dana's benefit) and a polka-dot tie, and looks as bright and breezy in hia ponge jacket as a Dakota prairie in July weather Good humor, good spirits, good temperall theso are among Koosjevelt's many gifts and moro valuable are they than all hil brains, ormoney, or literary, or social attainments. Strong, sensible, straightforward, he can afi'ord to lauch, aud laujih he doei whether at an .absurd attack on th Chinese system," or a more absurd attack on his own political morality. Roosevelt is a joy forever without being a thing of beauty, just because, if for nothing else, fct can take with equal calmness a well-deserved compliment on "The Winning of th West." or an ill-deserved lecture from disgruntled spoilsman. Roosevelt is just tho man for fiehting editor of tho commission. He dearly loves a light. That's the reason why even tho spoilsmen secretly (and some of them openly) admire him. He is not conceited, but ho is confident and courageous, and he proposes to have the civil-service law enforced in letter and in spirit or repealed. Net door north, in a larger room, sits Commissioner Thompson, who is just the man for the Democratic place on the commission. Ablo aud astute, cautious and cour. ageous, a Jefiersonian Democrat, and so a civil-service reformer from tho beginning. Commissioner of Education and Governor of South Carolina and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of appointments, he has had just the experience, and has int tho knowledge necessary to equip hirafoi his present functions. Ho has personal qualities, too, which both Lyrnan and Roosevelt lack, and which the commission could not well do without. Governor Thompson, as he is usually called, is a handsome man of middle height, with prematurely white hair and mustache, ilii face, however, is lull of color and lis eye twiukle with youth and vigor. He hasthu manners of the old-school Southern gentleman, and tho courtesy of the new-school Northern gentleman. He is a wit and a story-teller, and so a delightful dlner-oat. He wears eye-glasses, but not asiunch at Roosevelt, nor does he 6bow any other sicn that he has passed tho divido of. years, for his spirit is as young as ever. . All in all, the commission is as strong a it can well be. It will either make or break the present civil-service law civil-servica reform itself, of course, has come to stay. THE KICKING COI13IANDERS. The View of the Matter Taken at the Place r Encampment Milwaukee Sentinel. The veterans have been very considerate of the feelings of the kicking department commanders, and tho kickers have misunderstood it: they havo taken it to niein that they could go on with their idiotic performance, their dishonorable treatment of the Wisconsin veterans and their senseless boycotting. They are not satisfied to issue circulars asking the veterans to back them by remaining away from the encampment, but they have cone to log-rolling, and bulldozing, and falsi tication iu the order to 6 in ash the encampment and the G. A. R. Tho boss kicker, Martin, made up tji . mind long before the rate question was raised, to prevent the veterans from coining to Milwaukee. Months ago ho ppentan hour in the city, aud then informed tho newspaper reporters that the encampment would be a failure. He wants prominence. Ho is willing to take it as a chronic kicker if he can't get it in any other way. The veterans should understand the situation. The department commanders are not willing to rest with a circular and aliotho veterans to decide for themjeim whether they will come or not. - These kickers are laboring with prominent generals to persuade them t take part in tne senseless boycott, and they proposo tousyo a new order forbidding the veterans to parade. . . But shoulder-strap orders cannot be tn forced theso days. The veterans haye, to much regard for the reputation of tbe i. A. R. to allow the enemies of the order to say it is mado up of chronic and eternal kickers. If the kickers could have tjeu way, they would kick the G. A l-10 flinders inside ot two years. , i It is left for tho members of the Graci Army who are not self-seekiug departnaeai commanders to uphold tho honor oi order, for that is at stake. The Grand Army accepted the hearty invitation ox entertain the veterans as they haye ntvu been entertained before. It would be au houorable and disgraceful if the v'.ttfj should obey tho impudent orders of Marn The kickers are alarmed at the praajJJ of a successful encampment and they r1 pose to prevent the parade, at least. ' .What I It Trying to Say? Indianapolis News. . History does not always repeat itselfthe other foot. The Journal. Tho foot seems to be where it is put every time our blissfully ignorant c y search of ships to take her citizens. called them, no matter what nictam '"h;$ of naturalization laws they claimed- xi Great Britain contended lor. and tar away when she ordered troops to cajw . and sent to Lord Lyon, her ambassador Washington, his recall papers, unless backed out of the Trent afiair. Gen. Sherman Will Be Therc - Milwaukee Sentinel. Gen. meet will come to the Milwaukee encaiuF" t BmreoiTiie KicttiiiK oi "uv commanders. An Indiana Trust. Minneapolis Tribune. Hao Samuel Trust, of Ripley county. Ji9 is seven feet tall and is still proii inp. trf is likely to become ono of those vw trusts" wo read about. . .i . Married Men In Danger. Oil City Derrick. r Boxing schools for women are wf latest devt'loLnet3

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quarters or a century aro wo were J" against the right asserted by Creat Bm n search American vessels. Now the snoe w

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