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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, rTHURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1889

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1889. WASHINGTON OFFICE 13 Fourteenth 8L P. S. Heath. Correronlnt. NEW YORK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Corner Peekman and Nasaan street. Telephone Calls. BtwIneM Oflce 233 I Editorial Room 23 TKKMS OF SUIISCRIITIOX. DAILY. Ob rar. withont Pnnday $12.00 (me rrar, with MiDilnjr.... - 14.i Hn months, without flnnrtay H.OO Mi months, with Sunday 7.00 Three month, without Sunday S.OO Three monUiM. with Knnrtay 3..V) One month, without Sunday 1.00 One month, ith ban day IA'0 WIEKIT. Per year 91-00 Reduced Rates to Club. PnbArrIhe with acy of oar nameroas agents, or semi iubscrlpUons to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, INDIAN APOLI3, ISP. All communication intended for publication in Qiii paper mutt, in order to receive attention, bt accompanied by the mime and address of the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be round at the following place: LONDON American Exchange la Enrope, 449 Strand. PAKIS American Exchange In Tarts, 35 Boulevard des Capucinea. NEW YOBK Gilsey Iftrase and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. pTKemhle, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Karrley A Co, 154 Vice street, LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlng. northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 8T. LOUIS Union Newa Company, Union Depot and Southern IIoteL WAfiniNGTON, D. C Biggs nouse and Ehbitt House. It is estimated that the Paris exposition this year has caused nearly $150,000,000 of American money to be dropped in Europe. American enterprise should be able to recover it all in 1802. The anxiety displayed by the evening free-trade organ over the injuries which it' thinks have been inflicted on the Republican party by the Journal's opposition to inferior school-books is ono of the most affecting developments of current politics. A wooden Indian might weep to hear it wail. The Union Labor party of St. Louis has decided to advocate the election to the school board in that city only of candidates who are in favor of free textbooks. The Standard company, alias Becktold, alias Williams books, which are about to be foisted on this State, receive no recognition in St. Louis, although printed there. TriE friends of Postmaster Paul, of Milwaukee, are saying that the accept'apce of his resignation instead of the issuing of an order for removal is equivalent to a vindication. Inasmuch as the Postmaster-general's letter to Mr. Paul expressly says that his removal had been determined on before receiving the resignation, the "vindication" is not apparent to the unbiased eye.

It is time formal steps were being taken for the reception of the President on the 22d inst. When President Cloveland came here ho was received and entertaineu in a manner ucmung uisumce. . t . 1 .I'll! 1-i . fl"lAt least as much is due to President Harrison. Tho Board of Trade or a cit izens' committee should have charge of the matter, and steps should be taken at once to insure appropriate action. President Harrison will probably have the appointment of four Justices of the S upreme Court before his term expires. -There is one vacancy now, and the 6eats of Miller, Bradley and Field aro expected to be inado vacant within a few years. Miller is now sev enty-two years old, Bradley seventythree, and Field is perhaps older still. All three have reached the age at which they may retire on full pay. A gentile majority in Salt Lake City la something new in political happenings, and is probably a surpriso to most of tho outside world, tho general impression being that the gentiles are greatly in tho minority in that Mormon stronghold. This election was not for city officers, lAit indicates how tho city election, to be held in a few months, may result. Na tional legislation may do something to suppress tho polygamy evil, but reform will come from the spread of intelli gence and education. Tho Mormons "must go," and that pretty rapidly, to .'keep out of the way of advancing civil ization. r Hon. Duplet Coleman, Republican Congressman-elect from the Second Louisiana district, is a native of that State, served in the confederate army, is one of the wealthy men of New Orleans, " president of the Chamber of Commerce in that city, and is a strong Republican and protectionist from principle. Henry C. Miner, who has just been nominated for Congress by the Republicans in the Third district, is also an ex-confederate, a large sugar-planter and an aggressive Republican. The fact that such men as these are allying themselves with tho Republican party in tho South on na tional issues 6hows that Bourbonism is losing its grip. A Washington correspondent Bays "the next presidential as well as tho next congressional campaign will begin when the gavel shall fall in the two houses of tho Fifty-first Congress." This is true, and it is a suggestive com mentary on American politics. We are hardly out of ono election excitemeut before we are in another. We are not nearly through with the upheaval and changes incident to the last election, aud yet political aspirants and managers are beginning to set things up for the suc cession. And tho worst phase of the whole business is that all tins plotting, counterplotting and perpetual turmoil takes little or no account of anything but the distribution of official patronage. Chief Gall, the Sioux whose signa ture settled tho sale of the reservation, talks in a manly way and shows an ap preciation of existing conditions raro among the older Indians of any tribe. His remark, "We want to earn our liv ing and be as whites," shows an intelligent understanding of the difference be tween the races, and promises well for progress in the direction of his ambition. For tho credit of the United

States, his hope that they may "receivo

such help from tho government and the white peoplo as will help us to become

civilized," should not bo disappointed. Karly aid should bo given by tho establishment of tho government schools, of which ho approves. Tho Sioux Indians are said to be among the most intelligent of the race, and educational experiments among them will be likely to show speedy results. THE SCHOOL-BOOK QuTSTIOIT, The News maunders through a column concerning natural gas and the schoolbook question, the argument of which, if it has any, is that the salvation of the Republican party depends on its giving its support to the new school-book law. The intelligence and truthfulness of tho article aro fairly represented by tho statement that before the enactment of the present law the old school-book ring "could sell books at its own prico and as often as it could get county superin tendents to order changes of books." Again "The parent who sent his children to school was compelled to buy books printed by the ring at a price which no law controlled, and to buy them as often as the ring induced superintendents to order it." Passing by tho assumption that tho State should attempt to control the prico of school books by law, any more than the price of shoes or hats, we remark that the other part of the state ment is not true and has not been for nearly fifteen years. An act of 1877 provided that "no text-book hereafter adopted by the county board shall bo changed within six years from tho date of such adoption, except by unanimous . consent of all the members of such board." Tho board includes all tho township trustees, the chairman of the school trustees of each town and city in the county, and the county superin tendent. Tho enactment of this law practically cured tho evil of frequent changes in text-books, and since it ha3 been in force there has been littlo or no complaint on that score. The new law is a political false pre tense, a business swindle on tho peoplo and an outrage on the schools. Thero is no pretense of benefiting tho schools, and that of benefiting tho peoplo is glaringly false. The law is vicious in principle, and will prove onerous to tho people and injurious to the schools. It is a conspicuous illustration of tho evils of caucus legislation and of running off after tho vagaries of scheming dema gogues and shallow thinkers. Tho Republican party is the party of good government, correct methods and free schools. In its last State platform it declared that "the constitutional provision for a common school education of the children of tho people should be given the widest possible scope." Tho logical conclusion of this declaration is free text-books, and that was the ground taken by Governor Hovey in his inau gural message. The present law is tho mongrel outcome of a Hank movement to prevent the Governor's recommenda tion from being adopted. It will devolve on tho Republican party to repeal the present law aud restore to the peoplo the local control of their schools, with tho added gift of free text-books. NATIONAL SUPREMACY. Tho Washington Press comments again on what it pleases to terra the now departure of tho Journal on the question of State rights. The alleged new departure consisted in a declaration that as tho Constitution was established to "promote the general welfare," and in express terms gives Congress power to "provide for tho general welfare of the United States," the national government therefore has power to do whatever may be necessary to that end. The Journal said: During the war Congress exercised a great manv powers, and. with the aid of the executive, abolished slavery. This interference with tho domestic institutions of tho States was justified as a military necessity and the exercise of a war power. These fthrases are only another name for the pubic welfaro, aud the public welfare is as paramount in time or peace as in time of war. Whenever the public welfare de mands it tho national government should lind or make a way for the exercise of its power, whether in war or in peace. Wo stand by that statement. It may bo somewhat in advance of any de cision of tho Supremo Court or construc tion of tho Constitution yet made, but if so, it only foreshadows future decisions aud the iuovitablo construction of tho Constitution in emergencies sure to arise hereafter. Thero is nothing heretical nor alarming in tho doctrine announced. It is not even a new departure. It is simply following existing precedents and principles to their logical conclusion. Tho object of tho Constitution is to hold tho States together and form a national government, and, no matter what emergency arises, it must be construed as conferring on the national government all necessary powers for its own preservation. A Constitution that should stand in the way of the growth of the Nation or of the excrci.'. of any power by the national government necessary to the public defense and welfare would be a nuisance. It is wonderful proof of the political wisdom and prescience of tho framers of the Constitution that they were able to formulate a written instrument which, with but few changes, has proved elastic enough for tho first hundred years of our national existence, and has enabled the national government to stand every test thus far. But this has not been done without tho assertion and exercise of latent powers in tho Constitution which its framers never dreamed of. Nor must it bo supposed that tho perils ol our national existence aro all passed. There arc more to come, though we cannot locate or defino them now. When they arise they will have to be met and battled with as those of the past have been, and if the national government cannot find sufficient power to grapple with them in the express terms of the Constitution it will exercise the power anyhow and tho Supreme Court will ratify it by a new construction. That is the way constitutions grow and adapt themselves to changing conditions and necessities. A constitution that cannot or does not do this would bo a hindrance to natioral development and a menace to the public welfare. Tho existence of tho government, the life of

tho Nation, and tho preservation of tho

public welfare are more important objects than a rigid adherence to tho letter of the Constitution. It is more essential to maintain tho spirit of tho Constitution than it is to observe its letter. Tho civil war furnished abundant proof of tho correctness of these views. In that great struggle it became necessary for the general government to exercise many new and extraordinary powers, and it did so without hesitation, becauso tho public welfaro and tho preservation of tho government demanded it. The abolition of slavery is on instance, of many, differing from others in degree but not in kind, more conspicuous only because more momentous in its results. The Press practically concedes tho whole question when it says: Slavery was abolished by the same authority or right that was invoked in the bombardment of cities, the destruction of railroads, and all other acts of war. It was as lawful as a battle. It rested on a law that underlies, overlaps and pervades all other laws the first law of nature. The right of the government to exist implies the right of the government to use tho means necessary for the saving of its life. That is all the Journal claims, viz., that "the right of the government to exist implies tho right of tho government to use the means necessary for the saving of its life." What is meant by a government's saving its life! Simply asserting and exercising all the power

necessary to establish its supremacy in any given emergency. Tho life of a government! is its supremacy, and this is as necessary in time of peace as in time of war. THAT "BLQCreS-OF-HVE" BLOTTER. The Indiananolis Journal's Republican "blocks-of-five blotter." tho latest novelty in advertisements, is thus treated in a let ter to the Herald: "Is not this card, emanating as itdoes from the center of Iloosier corruption, ono of the most brazen and utterly shameless things of this time of brazen and shameless thingsT Is it not sufficient that tho electorate of the commonwealth should be debauched in the scandalous manner of which we have knowledge, but must we have the disgraceful fact hung in our faces by this clearly Pecksniftian organf" lhe Herald has dwelt on the debasement of morals in Harrison's State. It does not displease the Democracy to see evidences of reaction. Troth crushed to earth will rise again. Tho eternal years of God are hers, even in Indiana. Chicago Herald. Tho above is tho second allusion tho Herald has raado to this matter. The Journal repeats that no such adver tisement was ever issued by this paper, and no one connected with this office has ever seen such a blotter. It is possible that truth crushed. to earth in Indiana may rise again, but when the crashing occurs in tho columns of the Chicago Herald her eternal years pass to the possession of falsehood. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT IN KANSAS. Several weeks ago the Journal, as a matter of current news, noticed that the re-submission of the prohibitory question was being agitated by tho people of Kansas, appending the innocent remark, that Prohibitionists themselves could not object to this on their theory of popular sovereignty. It had never occurred to us that those who had been so clamorous for obtaining tho voice of the people meant only to submit their cause to a vote when they had nothing Jo; lose. Tho Journal has maintained from the first that whenever any considerable number of citizens, probably approximating a majority, demands the submission of any question to a popular vote, it is the duty of the Legislature to provide for such submission. Tho matter of the probable cost of such an election is not to be taken into the account at all. The right of the people to bo heard on economic questions is paramount. Majorities must rule in this country, and the expense of ascertaining whether any given measure has tho support of a majority or not, is not to be urged against a popular vote. In such a submission the Legislature does not commit itself for or against the proposed measure, nor does any individual member. It is sheer tyranny to refuse such a voto on the ground of personal objection to tho amendment, as it is downright idiocy to assume that every man who votes for the submission is bound to vote for the amendment. Not less idiotic is it to assume that tho party having a majority in tho Legislature which submits the question becomes responsible for the success or defeat of any proposed amendment. But our innocent remark has stirred prohibitiondoin to its profoundest depth. In some quarters the alleged fact has been denied, but as this cannot be successfully done anywhere, the alternative of abusing tho Journal a3 in league with the liquorites has been adopted as the easier method of disposing of the case. We take occasion to repeat that the question of re-submission is discussed in all parts of Kansas. It may be, as a lato correspondent alleges, that the only persons in favor of it are the liquorsellers and their friends; but they constitute a part of the people of Kansas who have a right to talk and voto on this and all other questions. Why this sensitiveness on the part of Prohibitionists? Do they not aver that prohibition willbe sustained two to one! Let us see it. Such a verdict, after ten years' experiment by such people, would bo worth a thousand conventions and thousands of volumes of "statistics" showing how profitable to soul and body prohibition has been in Kansas. Aro tho Prohibitionists afraid? We take no side of tho question, which is peculiarly a local one, but we protest against being misrepresented while tho record shows that wo have been for such a submission of all such questions from tho beginning till now. The new postmaster of Atlanta found it necessary to draw on tho civil-service list for a clerk to serve in his regis tered-letter department, and the draft produced a young negro, a graduate of the Atlanta University, and competent, but very black. The postmaster brought the young man in and attempted to introduce him to the outgoing clerks, a Southern gentleman, sah, and his daughter, greatly to the indignation of those persons. The Southern gentleman turned his back, and the young woman hastily wroto out her resignation, put on her bonnet and went home. Her father besought the postmaster to put oft' the installation of the negro for a day or two, until he could put his books in order but this could not be done, and the

outraged Southron has been compelled to work alongside a despised "nigger" for two days. Hundreds of his friends have called to sympathize with him, but nothing could be done to remove the disgrace or avenge the insult. All this is very laughable to people who are amused at seeing their fellow-creatures make fools of themselves, but the repetition of such silliness is a little tiresome, also, and leads to the wonder if the Southerners will ever learn'common

sense. MUBPHY'S WORK AT ACTON. The running of Sunday trains to Acton during tho continuance of campmeeting has been objected to by many church brethren who have seen in past years the abuses brought about by tho custom. Tho admittance fee asked laid tho management open to the charge of desecrating Sunday and of encouraging the attendance of crowds on that day for pecuniary profit. In order to prevent this appearance of hypocrisy on the part of Christian workers, no Sunday trains were permitted this season and the cottage-holders have been allowed to spend the day in peace and quiet, undisturbed by a host of unsympathetic visitors seeking a day's outing rather than opportunity for worship. With the temperance meetings to be held by Mr. Murphy the case is somewhat different. He wants to talk to the class of people who have Sunday for their only holiday. Ho has a word to speak to tho men wThoso solace is beer, to the others whoso temptations to indulge in intoxicants aro many and who sometimes succumb; to old men who drink, to tho young whoso habits are forming, his exhortations are addressed; for the roughs who have sometimes annoyed the religious worshipers and whose recklessness is usually duo to intemperance, ho has a special message. It may bo needful and proper for the good brethren and sisters to gather together, in tho summer season, and renew their spiritual strength, the better to contest with the world, the flesh and the devil the remainder of the year; but Mr. Murphy is not thero to labor with them. It is his mission and purpose to reform tho toper, to encourage abstinence from strong drink, to teach the virtue and benefit of temperance to those who are not convinced. It is not to be supposed that the regular attendants at the camp-meeting, the fathers and mothers in Israel and the pillars of tho church, are in need of his services. Ho wants the crowd, tho people with littlo time to consider the welfare of their souls and bodies, tho publicans and sinners, and not the saints who already read their titles clear to mansions in the skies. Without them tho benefit ef his meetings will be lost. Is it not better that for one day the throng that would otherwise go to Brighton Beach or other pleasure resorts be turned to Acton and Murphy, even though a Sunday train be required to convey them! A stout told by Murat Halstead in the Shorthand Review, runs as follows: I remember on ono occasion I wanted a genuine, high-flavored Democratic speech from the fetate of Indiana. Looking over the newspapers I noticed that D. W. Voorhees was to speak in a little obscure town. I think wo measured it on the map, and it wan forty-five miles from a railroad. I thought in that placo we Would perhaps get the genuine doctrine. So I commissioned McCullagh, now of St. Louis. He got a buggy and got started in good time, arriving all tight. He was on the platform when the tall Senator came on. Voorhees was in very high trim for a speech, but just as he was stepping to the front of the platform he saw tho firm features of Mack, and paused aghast. Mack was there with his paper and pencil, and Voorhees had been introduced to the audience, but he stepped down ai'd 6aid: "Why. Mack, you are not hero to report this speech, are you?" "Oh, yes," said he. "Well," he said, "yon must not do it." But Mack said, "Dan, I shall report it if it kills me. Now is your opportunity, instead of talking to this crowd, to make a speech to tho United States." and Voorhees, with a groan, started in and made a very ponderous, rhetorical cflbrt, indeed. Not at all the speech he wanted to make, disappointing himself, and, I must say, disappointing me, because it was not the speech I wanted. This story shows that Voorhees was the samo demagogue then as now. Bloomtield is a retired spot in a Democratic stronghold, and, as no great ado had been made in the outside press about his expected presence there, ho thought it a safe place for a delivery of tho genuine Democratic doctrine. Not seeing the Journal reporter until pfter the speech was delivered, he did give the genuine doctrine, and the Journal printed it. Tho Sentinel printed some of tho innocuous things ho would have said if he had seen tho Journal man earlier. Unlike Mr. Halstead, the Journal was not disappointed in getting what it wanted. One of tho worst things charged against Prof. W. T. Harris, the new Commissioner of Education, is that he was once a St. Louis man, and another is that he presided over the Concord School of Philosophy after Alcott's death. It must be remembered in his behalf, however, that he left St. Louis at the first opportunity and that tho Concord school "went dead' under his management. In view of these facts, critics should not be too hard on him. The Pittsburg old man into whose veins a dose of the Brown-Sequard life elixir was injected feels called upon to deny the report that he felt his hair start to growing the next day. To bo exact, it was his physician who called upon him for the denial, the medical gentleman's idea evidently being that the circulation of such a story might cast . discredit upon the magic rejuvenator. A fellow from Texas, who says he has been busy night and day for twenty-five years trying to locate heaven, writes to a St. Louis paper, of all places in the world, for information on the subject. It is hardly necessary to say that the St. Louis editor cannot help him. The authorities at Castle Garden have sent back to Switzerland, as an undesirable immigrant, a young mandolin player. Those Castle Garden people are exercising judicious discrimination these days. To the Editor ot the Indianapolla Journal; Please give me the address of the lion. W. IL Calkins. r. s. Spokane Falls, W. T. . ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Oscau Wilde wears a flannel shirt embroidered with flowers. The Sultan of Turkey maintains 474 carriages, which incur an expense of 2,300,000 francs a year. Most of these carriages are of French make. A few made in Turkey

show cleverness in construction. The Sultan personally has need for only about four of the vehicles referred to. Senator Inoalls is gradually collecting another valuable library, but he says he can never replace the books which were lost when his Kansas house was destroyed by fire, Andrew Young, who, half a century ago, composed the hymn, "There is a Happy Land, Far, Far Away," is still living, at the age of eighty years, mentally and physically vigorous. Mil Gladstone is the worst phonographed man in the world. His speech on the royal grants was caught as he delivered it, and will be listened to before long by an American audience. President Caknot, of France, is a literary man by inheritance and habit. He has written a good deal of poetry which has never appeared m print. Parisian publishers have tempted him in vain. At the late constitutional convention in Sioux Falls. D. T.t six of the members were clergymen three of them Congregationalists and three Methodists and nearly all of them were chairmen of committees. Salvini's tour in this country will begin in New York on Oct. 7, and last twenty weeks. He will present only three plays -Othello." "The Gladiator" and "damson." The scenery for these will be by Marsden. A quick-witted Iowa woman, noting the invention of a ballot-box that cannot be stalled, said: "Now, if some one will invent a voter that cannot bo stutted with beer, brag or bribery, wo shall have a long stride toward a better government." Tennysox has a horror of the biographer. He keeps no diary, and has destroyed hi9 correspondence aud all records of it. Ho is reported to have said to a friend recently: "When I am dead I will take good care they shall not rip me up like a pig' Mr. Naake, of the British Museum, has lately discovered some printing in Polish which, so far as is at present known, is the earliest specimen of printing in that language. It is a hvran addressed to the Virf in Mary, and it was usually sung by 'olish troops before engaging in battle. Princess Louise's gloves showed that she had no serious idea of resigning her character of royalty when sho became. Lady Fife. Her evening gloves aro all kid, twelve buttons, kid being always worn by the royal women, and suede by the other ladies. of the court. Her morning gloves

were eignt-bntton suede. Mrs. J. M. Kellogg, wife of the Attorneygeneral of Missouri, has been installed as First Assistant Attorney-general. Sho was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court eight years ago. and is a member of tho State Bar Association. For several years she was a partner in the law business of her husband, the old firm name being L. B. Sl J. M. Kellogg. A casual visitor at Gloucester writes that Mrs. Herbert Ward (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps) is much beloved by the townsmen and women of Gloucester proper on account of her efforts in the cause of temperance. She has established a "fishermen's reading-room." She has also founded several coffee-rooms at the point, where many a poor old man is entertained on a cold winter's night. Miss Maky Lincoln, daughter of tho American minister, says the London Star, is very pretty, with a strong individuality of her own. Sho has tho pale smooth American complexion and she has a charming smile. Then she dresses like a French woman, so the chances are that next season Miss Lincoln will be an acknowledged belle, and the American . embassy gayer than it has been for years. Whiting to the summer school at Deerfield, Mass., last week, Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson gave his reasons for not attending its sessions: "Tho first, on a of health; the second, or rather the consolatory consideration for the first, is that I should como among you as a lion, a part for which I have no aptitude. You would feel bound to try to like me; a false relation, dear sir, from which an intelligent people runs as from a plague." Among tho many curious letters received by Mr. Chauncey M. Depew, in his official capacity, was ono from a man who claimed to have had a hole burned in his trousers by a spark from a locomotive on the New "i ork Central road. He demanded not only tho price of tho trousers, which he said wero brand new, but threatened suit for the shock caused to his nerves by the accident. Mr. Depew referred his claim to tho "bureau of repairs." Dinah, the Senegalese potentate who is now amusing Paris, is a dusky, dirty, degenerate specimen of his kind. Ho wears a silk hat and a gaudy costume purchased at a necond-hand shop in Paris. He is followed about by a small boy carrying his tarnished crown. The Shah of Persia has taken a fancv to Dinah, and they are "doing" tho exposition together. They aro also doing various other tilings not oiten talked about. They like Paris, but tho Parisians are disgusted with them. Since the Czar of all the Russias said to the Prince of Montenegro, "You are the only faithful, sincere friend of Russia," the latter has become the most intercstingof European sovereigns. The Prince is now in Paris, and is one of the lions. He is, indeed, a character. Out of respect for the half-savaffo lib erty of his people, Nicholas disdains luxury and cultivates the simplicity of a peasant. When he walks he grants requests, sometimes seats himself on tho roadside, and listens to mo opinions 01 ms peopia, ana always wears the national costumeof his coun try. In the evening, Nicholas goes to the large "sicdrick" in his house, and before a lire-Place, wtiere burn entire trees, ho hnrU his Ministers, There pines are smoked. affairs of state discussed, national soncs sung to the accompaniment of the guzla, ana oiten tne rnnce .nimseit repeats a verse. We tdl must learn to do things when We're neither chirk nor cheery. And learn to bear thing now and then That make us hot aud weary. Oil City nii7zard. Wiiv do T Iova st earlv morn to wafcn Where roses bUU are wet with night's damp aewsi Because I then can turn myself and take Another snooze. Uoston Courier. COMMENT AND OPINION. Mormonism as a religious profession may ? A. A I.- 1 long survive, out as e.ei uug a uommani inlluence upon tho government of Utrh and its cities it is certain to fall before the iullux of hostile population. Polygamy had already commenced to decay. The loss of temporal power aud a critical environ ment will hasten its extinguishment. Chi cago limes. The civil-service act has come to stay in some shapo or other, and tho original shape would be an unprecedented miracle if it were precisely the right shape. Uut there will bo no repeal. Set that down as certain. The country will not have it, and the slightest move in mat direction wm can out a continental cyclone ot popular protests. New York Press. We are not yet ready to hut our doors to foreign brawn and brains, but it is quite time that Congress should revise the natur alization laws and say that no State or Territory should allow a foreigner to vote until he bad became an actual citizen, or until he could read understanding' our Declaration of Independence or the Consti tution of the United States. Omaha Re publican. As States of the American Union, free and sovereign, the provinces of the Canadian Dominion, now so sluggish, would forthwith advance equally with the rest of the Republic, population would increase, the volume of trado would swell, and the land would be more valuable. Annexation, therefore, is inevitable, and tho sooner it curnes the netter ltwm oe lor Canada. New York Sun. If the South becomes "independent" of tho food supplies of the West, then the West will feed its larm produce to the men cmnlovcd in her newly-developing mines, fac tories and lines of transportation. But we ohject to the term independence" as apnhed to tho relationship of States. Tbvv prosier by an interchange of commodities in a great and always growing homo mar ketChicago Inter Ocean. Talk of a wholesale disfranchisement of the negroes, as negroes, is a sheer waste of

time and breath. But if the people of Ten nessee (for instance! desire to confine the enjoyment of tho electoral franchise to tho citizens who can read and write, the way is open to them. Tho Constitution of tho United States leaves them free to do so, and neither Connecticut nor anv other Northern State would Lave the right to interfereHartford Courant. The repeated seasons of commercial and manufacturing depression have resulted in demoralizing the labor market and fearfully increasing tho number of dependents now in the country. It is idle to talk about remedying this state of affairs with immigration unchecked and half a million strangers crowding in every year, eager for a chauce and compelled, in fact, by the necessities of the situation, to labor anywhere and at any price. Philadelphia Telegraph.

PEDAGOGUE VOORUKES. Tho Incendiary and Virions Character of Ills Ker-ent likomfield Speech. New York Press. The Indian.molis Jonrnal has done excel lent service to Republican principles by printing a verbatim report of an incendiary Bjurccu recently uenvercu uy rruaior voorhees before a gathering of Democrat- in Greene county, Indiana. Voorhees is making a desperate effort for re-election to tho Scuate. In this speech tho senior Senator from Indiana advocates the total abolition, of tho tariff, and tho substitution of the obnoxious English system of an income tax. Indeed, the entire speech is a lurid examplo 01 tne length to which a wild demagogue will go when apparently unrestrained by the mollifying presence of short-hand re porters. Senator Voorhees becan hr tellinc th farmers of Greene county that ho was opposed to abolishing the un-American income tax until what he termed the "tax' was taken oft the shirts that some "old fellow down m Greene county wears." Ho ntterly failed to tell this "old fel.ow" of Greeno county that under the policy of Erotection the cost of the cotton cloth of is shirt has decreased until it is less ner yard than the duty on tho imported article. He hurled at the farmers of liieeue countr those antique falsehoods of free-trader ianipant relating to the b0 per cenL"taxes' on his horse-shoes, his nails, his wagons. nis reapers, mowers, plows, pitcniorKs, etc , but neglected to add that all these articles were produced to-day m this country bet ter and cheaper than in any other country in the world. Nor did Senator Voorhees) have the manhood to say that many of these very articles of American make aro exported to the most distant parts of tha world and uudersell the same articles produced in free-trade England. Nor did ha say that this is substantially true of clothing, and flannels, and dress goods. Xothinft of the kind. He deliberately and inten tionally, in order to secure a little cheap; political capital for himself, falsified tho industrial History 01 tne country, lie talked about tho farmers of Greene countr paying $33 "taxes" on every $100 worth ofc furniture they purchased, well knowing that to-day the cheapest and best furniture in tho world is made in this country, and that American furniture is exported and can undersell Hritish furniture in the Euglish market. He presented the same falseood in relation to carpets, and yet Anier ican carpets are selling to-day. nualitv for quality, at the same price, and even less. than the Lngushman is obliged to pay fog the same grade of goods in the English market. Can anything be more wanton. mo:o dis graceful, more vicious, more unpatriotio than to thus reflect upon the intelligence) of American workmen and tho enterprise, and honesty of American manufacturers? oorhecs knows he falsified the industrial history of his own country in every illustration ho gave, and he likewise knows that not so many years ago in the United . States Senate he defended tho duty on, plate glass, on the ground that its manu facture by the Derauws, of New Albany, Ind., had decreased tho prico more than half to the consumer. This samo dema gogue, who avowed himself in favor of hanging men like Andrew Carnegie, , the other day, in Greeno county, refused to follow his own party in tho Senate and reduce tho duty, or "tax," as he would call it, on glass, be cause ho was afraid of the inuneuco of tho Derauws. He was able to ascertain then that the tariff, owing to healthy home competition, had reduced the cost of everything the fanner buys, and by creating nnmerous maniitacturmg centers (such a 4 New Albany. Ind.,) had increased tho valuo of his land and given him more profitablo markets nearer home. Much of this extraordinary speech is of too utterly vicious a character to need answering. It should, however, be widely published by Republican newspapers as a specimen of the depths to which a Democratic demagogue will descend in order to arouso class prejudice. Hero are somo specimens: Ah, my fellow-citizens, this money power i sweepiug forward and is destroying tUo very holy of holies of your government. Hi tainting every branch of the public service like leprosy, aud unless it Is stopped, unless steps aro tjikentocheckit.it will an certainly overthrow this govtrnmcnt as tho corporations of Homo, and of Greece, aud other countries iu tbe pat overthrew tbeui. Does not this man know that a nation which could take up and elect to its highest ofhco an unassuming soldier-citizen of his own State, a poor man, is in no such dauger whatever? Does he not know that thero is not upon earth 'to-day a government nioro honestly administered and freer from corruption than his own governmeutt And vet this is true, and Senator Voorhee brands himsplf as a cheap demagogue when ho thus blackens tho iustitutions of hisowu country. Here is another gem from his speech: I paid the other day at the breakfast table ai theTerro Haute House, with some genial Kepullican friend, that if 1 had my way with men like the Carnegies, that preyed upon the land and, sucked people's blood like leeches, I would banc them. Be seemed shocked about it. I was kg ut ulL And this from tho mouth of a United States Senator asking re-election from an intelligent constituency. It is fortunate for the country that tha people before whom tho Indiana Senator in going with this sort of unmitigated trcsh aro fanners. They at least will not bo swayed by the art of a cheap demagogua who has deemed it necessary to get down very low iu order to secure a re-elect iou. The Western farmers know that without protection their progress would hivo been postponed. Without it the peoplo of tho Northwest would have been kept in a stat of imperfect civilization. There would have been no flourishing manufacturing towns and cities dotting the vast prairies of our Western States; towns and cities emplo3ing thousands of prosperous mechanics whose needs are supplied by the adjoining f.arms. Under tho Voorhees plan the Indiana farmer would, like the Southern cotton planter, be sending most of his grain and corn to Liverpool, and in return for it ho would bo receiving tho shoddy goods of tho Manchester and Liverpool mills and tlm products of I'.ritish work-shops, at any price the English manufacturers put upon them. Ho would bo importing clumsy English wagons, plows that would not ncour. and using English wiudow and lookingglasses and paying for them double tho price of better articles, which he now obtains of Stuuebaker lirothers and Oliver Brothers, of South Bend, and DePauws, of New Albany. No! no. Senator Voorhees; you cannot make votes in Indiana by libeling the system which has been at the foundation of the progress of th State for the last quarter of a century. Tho farmers of the Stat a aro too smart to be caiwht tv any of tho claptrap and variegated llapdoodle of your Greene county speech. Try something else. Democrats Were Delayed. Washington Special. Tho Democratic newspapers are trying to grind capital out of the teu thousand removals of all classes of postmasters diirius the five months of the present administration. This is the result of Kepuhlican endurance verbiis Democratic thwarted intention. The appointment of Malcolm Hay. who was an invalid and unequal to tho arduous labors of his post, caused a lo of four months through his illmss and whilo General Stephenson was getting warmed up. When tho General did get started ho ran the Democratic record up to three thousand in less than one-third the time required for the Kepuhlican ten thousand removals. General Clarkson is a handsome type of manlv vigor, nnd transacts his political executions with tho velocity aud grace of tho lightning calculator. I nllke Mr. Cleveland. rhlUMp&to North AmerliMu. It is now beiug claimed by those who have said all they can against Chairman Quay that he is trying to secure the nomination for President iu IKrx This is a laudable ambition, but the junior Senator is not likely to miss many bites whilo tiiinking over it when he goes a-fishin.