Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1880. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth SU P. S. HEATH. Correspondent. XTEW YORK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Nassau streets. Telephone Calls Business OEce 238 Editorial Iiooms 243

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Deerlng. northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 6T. LOUIS-Unlon Newi Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. C-Rlggs Hones ana Ebblrt House. Indiana Republican Editorial Association. The summer meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association -will bo held at Warsaw, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 3, 4 and 5. An excellent programme la provided, including an address by Hon. W. D. Owen on Benefit of Commercial Relations "with South America. Special coaches will be at tho disposal of editors and their wives, leaving Indianapolis at 11:55 a. m., Tuesday, Sept. 3, arriving at Warsaw at 4:30 p.m. Editors can join tho party at Indianapolis or en route. Address the secretary at once for transportation and accommodations. The Byer Brothers, of Spring Founttain Park, will give the association a banquet. A full attendance 19 desired. No Republican editor in Indiana can afford to mlse this splendid meeting. Reub Williams, President, , Warsaw, Ind. J. A. Kactz, Secretary, Kokomo, Ind. The St. Louis Republic speaks of Mahone as "tho Virginia nightmare." Como to think of it, he is a powerful disturber of Democratic slumbers. The Sentinel acknowledges that it doesn't know where Voorhees and Turpie are. If they are lost and it wants to find them, it might advertise in the Journal. Space will bo furnished free tf till found. A fastidious exchange thinks Sheriff Flack's appearance at tho Tombs executions, on Friday, was an exhibition of bad taste, in view of his recent' unpleasant notoriety. This is a queer view to take i of it. It will probably seem to most people that a man mean enough to behave as Flack did, is just tho sort of person to shino at a hanging. The announcement that a Valparaiso bookseller has a quantity of the new Becktold-Williams school-books for sale at less than tho contract prices must bo interesting to the managers of tho mo nopoly at this 6tage of the game. What price tho Valparaiso dealer puts on them is not stated, but if ho sells them at their true value it is by the pound. There being no tariff on raw cotton or tho raw materials for boots and shoes, will the free-traders hold tho wool or the iron tariff responsible for the failures in these industries in New England? It having become a part of their creed that all business embarrassments must bo ascribed to tho "robber tariff" in BOino shapo or other, it behooves them to hustlo around and find somo way of making tho facts fit their theories. A communication from General Coburn reiterates his views concerning the meaning of the soldiers' monument, but does not, we think, strengthen the claim that it represents the soldiers of all other wars as much as that of tho rebellion. This is a free country, and on a question of this kind every person is entitled to his or her views. If those of General Coburn are correct the monument repre sents the militia who recently encamped here as much as it does tho heroes who fought under Grant Sherman, Thomas and Sheridan. Wo think it best to ad here to tho original idea and meaning of the monument. The attempt to create a school-book monopoly by compulsory legislation is having somo queer results. Tho law fixes the price of tho new books, and tho syndicate contract fixes tho prices at which old ones aro to bo taken in ex change. Roth are a fraud on tho people, and it would be strange if they did not seek to turn tho tables. Thus, in South Bend a dealer offers to pay tho peoplo more than tho monopoly for old books and at the same time to sell tho new books for less 4than monopoly prices. The new books have doubtless been purchased so cheap, in some of tho States or cities wlicro they have been discarded, that they can be 6old at less than syndicate rates. It. is an amusing outcome of an attempt to swindle tho people under color of law. Query: Would the spirit of tho new law justify the arrest of the South Rend dealer for underbidding tho syndicato on worth less books? The Republican primaries for tho nomination of councilmen should be at tended by all who are entitled to a voice in the selection of candidates and who desire tho selection of good ones. In past years, when a Republican nomination was equivalent to an election, it was largely because tho nominations wero almost invariably such a3 to com mand publio confidence, Being fairly representative of tho besi elements of the party, they were supported, in tho assurance that their election would work for the public interests and good government. It wus this state of things that made a Republican nomination equivalent to an election. If it does not exist now it is largely because a good many people are beginning to think that a Republican nomination does not al-

ways represent tho best elements of tho party, and tho election of Republican

candidates the best interests of the city. If any reason or ground for such belief has existed, now is tho time to remove it. Tho way to mako Republican nominations equivalent to an election is to make them so good that no person can deny their excellence, and that Republicans of all shades of opinion will give them a hearty support. Tho place to do ' this work is at the primaries. THE TOOTED BTATE3 AND FOEEIGH TEADE. Tho timo has como for the United States to enter on an intelligent policy of building up its merchant marine serv ice and extending its foreign trade. Hitherto the far greater magnitude of our domestic trade, and the importance of controlling our homo market, have induced and justified a comparative neg lect of foreign trade and markets. . But, with tho established control of our own market, and the reasonable assurance of a continuance of tho protective policy on which it depends, wo can afford to give more attention to building up foreign trade. The quarter to which all eyes are now turned is Central and South America, Mexico and the West India islands, and it is in this direction that tho first efforts towards extending our foreign trade should be made. There is reason to believe that the President has given the subject considerable thought, and that his first annual message will bring it strongly and directly to the attention of Congress. In cno of his speeches during tho last campaign, after referring to tho benefits of protection, he said: But e do not mean to be content with our own market. We should seek to promote closer and more friendlv com mercial relations with the Central and South American states. And, what is essential to that end, regular mails are the first condition of commerce. The merchant must know when his order will be received and when his consignment will be returned, or there can be no trade between distant communities. What we need, therefore, is tho establishment of American steamship lines between our ports and tho ports of Central uuu tjvuiu AUieuuti. xucu ii win uu lunger. c v. a fin z. : 1 1 i be necessary that an American minister. commissioned to a South American state, shall tako an hnglish ship to Liverpool to il 1 it T- II A - 1 A Jinu anoiuer Xjiignsu snip 10 carry mm 10 his destination. Wo are not to be frightened by the uso of that uely word "subsidy." Wo should pay to American steamsnip lines a noerai compensation ior carrying our nrails, instead of turning them over to British tramp steamships. Again, in his inaugural message Pres ident Harrison said: We should encourage the establishment of American steamshiD lines. Tho ex changes of commerce demand stated, relia ble and rapid means of communication, aud until these aro provided the develop ment of out trade with tho states. lying south of us is impossible. Finally, in his recent speech at Bath, Me., tho President said: "In every way that I properly can, whether as a citizen or as a public ollicer, I shall endeavor to promote the rebuilding of our American merchant marine and tho restoration of that great carrying trade which we once possessed on every sea." These expres sions of tho President show that ho ap predates the importance of the subject, and has considered it so far as to reach at least one conclusion in regard to tho line of policy that should bo adopted. This is the establishment of American steamship lines and tho extension of government aid tothat end, if necessary. That is the true policy for this government to adopt, and the only way in which wo can reasonably hope tolmild up a carrying trade and establish closer commercial relations with neighboring countries. It is the established policy of all other commercial countries, and is universally recognized as the most direct, legitimate and efficient means of extending foreign trade. In one of the passages above quoted General Harrison said: "We are not to be frightened by the uso of that ugly word 'subsidy,'" Tho Journal believes it would bo an auspicious omen for tho country, and especially for the development of its foreign trade relations, if the President, in his first annual message, would reiterate, in even stronger terms, his disregard for that bugaboo of demagogues, and would urge upon Congress tho duty and necessity of extending government aid in the establishment of foreign steamship lines. Tho word "subsidy" has douo this country and people almost as much damago as tho thing itself has dono benefit for other countries and peoples. The trade and commerce of other countries havobeen enormously increased by tho subsidy policy, while in this country tho very word 'has becomo a 6tock argument with demagogues and sciolists to defeat every attempt towards a similar policy. We might gather wisdom from the example of England in this regard. Forty years ago 6ho repealed her existing navigation laws because they operated to her detriment as ours do to-day to our detriment, and began tho subsidy policy. "From ISIS to 1854," says an eminent authority. "England brought her steam fleet up toi04.55i tons, at a cost of S8,o23,W7." This was a subsidy equal to per ton. Tho experiment, though expensive, was so satisfactorj' that she continued the policy, and what was tho result? Starting in ISIS with a tonnage of 904.559. she spent in round numbers from that time 101,000,000 in promoting that interest. In lStx she had 5,150,000 tons of ocean shipping. Statistics demonstrate that during a period of thirty years she has paid So,' per ton in subsidies to secure the existence of tho. vast fleet that bears her flag in every quarter of tho globe. Her maritime possessions are at present valued .it $1,000,000,000. To put this large sum into ships, all that tho ore and timber the raw materials was worth was probably 10 per cent.; hence it required 000,000,000 of labor. Tho benefits which accrued to the laboring people of tho United Kingdom are incalculable. Who can tell the school-houses, and churches, and public institutions, tho improved homes, savings banks, and other things that have been created out of tho expenditure and profits of this $1)00.000,000 T England's bhip-building gives permanent employment, in tho construction and repairs, to 240,000 men regularly, and to 220,OiiO more in the running of tho ships after they are built. England would hardly have adhered to the subsidy policy forty years unless she found it paid. France has followed her example, with tho most satisfactory results, and Germany is now adopting the same policy. England has built up her power as a nation and established her coutrol of the seas by heavily subsidizing her mail steamships. She has established mail lines of steamships that would not aud could not stop at any port of the British empire. Prince Bismarck, in appealing to the German Reichstag for subsidy grants to German mail ships, said "on tho day when tho freight trade is given over to foreigners

a mortal blow will be given to the in

dustries of the country." Yet when it is proposed that the United States, with its abundant resources, its overflowing treasury and its vast facili ties for foreign trade, shall imitate tho example of other countries in the estab lishment of ocean steamship lines, some backwoods statesman or cranky editor of the poll-parrot school shrieks "subsidy,77 and there is an end of debate. It is high time for tho United States to get out of its swaddling clothes aud cut loose from the leading strings of ignorance. If it is ever to compete with other countries for tho carrying trade and commerce of tho world it must adopt the methods successfully pursued by those countries. Mr. Bradley, the founder of Asbury Park, X. J., and who has been a shining light in the Prohibition camp of that State, has declared in favor of high license. He says, in a letter to the Anbury Park Journal: "I have como to the conclusion, after somo experience and mature deliberation, that a good Republican high-license law is just what wo want everywhere.77 . Tho immediate cause of Mr. Bradley's change of heart is his discovery that with all the prohibitory rules and regulations of Asbury Park, and all the efforts of the local authorities to prevent the sale of liquor within those sacred precincts, a traffic in intoxicants is still carried on there. "The fight, as matters now are," 6ays Mr. Bradley, "is too big for mo. I am ashamed to say I believe if some fellow in Asbury Park had a 500 or $1,000 License to sell rum he would give me more information and the kind of evidence that would convict tho druggists than w now get from tho easy-going temperance people of Asbury Park. That I should have the licensed rum-seller as an ally is like shaking the bloody hands of tho hired assassin, but, disgusting as it 6eems, I think it would help us in Asbury Park.77 Mr. Bradley comes to it reluctantly, but when he is convinced that prohibition means free whisky, even in such a model community, and that high license will at least limit the sale, ho is frank enough to acknowledge tho advantages of the latter system. If other third-party peoplo were less firmly convinced of their own infallibility, and wero as open to conviction of the truth as Mr. Bradley, tfce interests of temperance would be greatly advanced. One by one, however, they are coming arouud. Tiie Louisville Courier-Journal has a sensible article on what it terms "tho foolish movement" to make Gen. Robert E. Lee's birthday a public holiday in tho South. It regards tho suggestion as nnwise, with obvious possibilities of harm and no prospect of good. It calls attention to the fact that, notwithstanding the universal reverence in the North for the character and services of Abraham Lincoln, there has been no proposition to erect his birthday into a national holiday, and says "tho South owes in this regard something to tho sensibilities of tho North, as well as to considerations of self-interest." It is probable these su-J gestions of tho Courier-Journal represent the views and feelings of a majority of ex-confederates. Certainly, intelligent men in the South must see that nothing can bo gained by trying to revive the bloody shirt in the form proposed. The personal character and military ability of General Lee are highly rated in tho North, and will find duo recognition in history. But as, in the nature of things, he can never be made a national hero, it would bo extremely foolish to try and perpetuate his memory as a sectional one. Company D of the State militia, which refused to parade on Thursday because it could not wear its best clothes, thought the order for arrest was a good joke at first, but apparently it isn't as. funny as it was. If the coming court-martial were to bo the humorous affair the com pany would have it appear, it would face the music and not attempt to evado the consequences of its act on tho technical plea that it was not legally mustered into tho Indiana Legion. Insubordination of militia is insubordination, whether tho resistance to authority is shown in timo of peace or war, and the persons guilty of it should not be allowed to go undisciplined. Besides, tho vanity that led to tho disobedience needs a little wholesome repression. It doesn7t do for soldiers to think too much of their per sonal beauty. The Evening News characterizes tho Grand Army of the Republic, including tho President of tho United States, Gen. Lew Wallace and others, as "a grand army of pensioners and office-seekers,77 and denies that such a charge is an in sult. It is highly indignant, however, because certain staff officers, on Thursday last, had the ill-manners to give or ders with cigars in their mouths, "in a procession, mind you, 'where was the country's commander-in-chief of tho army and navy." The remarkable course of this editorial writer is, to use the language of the News in alluding to the offending staff officers, "a sharp illustration of the rawness that so much needs an accession of information and experience. The action of some of the quarterly con ferences in western Indiana, warmly commending Rev. B. F. Rawlins, D. D., for editor of tho nestern Christian Advocate, is meeting with general favor, it is noticed. throughout the State. Indiana Methodists say that if they have but one man to urge in all probability tho State will be favored, as tho patronage lies largely n this State, and that a3 Dr. Rawlins -was the Indiana nominee beforo tho General Conference when the late Dr. Bayliss was elected, and being both capable and so well known, they regard him as the most available. ILLICIT distilling, as carried on in eastern Kentucky, seems to bo developing a very wild race of men. A deputy United States marshal who has just returned from the mountains with some captured moonshin ers, says he was shot at about fifty times during his trip, but escaped unharmed. The illicit stills are located in very inaccessible places, hard to And aud easily de fended. Not only the men, but women and children light to defend them. The princi pal occupation in these mountain counties, besides making moonshine whisky, is culti vating 'neighborhood feuds and killing

sheriffs. In Knott county three sheriffs have been killed during the past nineteen months, and no one has ever been arrested for either killing. In Hindman county, at the last term of court, there were twentyone murder cases on tho docket, and none were tried. The judge seemed to be afraid to force them to trial. Land ought to be cheap in those counties.

The Whole-world Soul-communionists announce that they will hold their annual communion on Aug. 0. The participants all over the world are expected to unite in a half -hour's invocation for spiritual illumination and universal peace. In order that the petitions may all ascend at one time, and tho volume of spiritual power be greater, the time-table is arranged with great exactness. The "sitting time" for Indianapolis is fixed at 2:28 to 2:58 p. M., on the day named. As the Soul-communionists estimate their numbers at many millions it is hoped that the world will receive a great moral uplifting as the result of the effort of Friday. Monthly communions are held, but more is expected from the annual observance. The headquarters of this interesting association is at the unspiritual town of Portland, Ore., and all orders issue from there. Secretary Rusk indorses Chicago's claims for the world's fair because "there is plenty of room for an agricultural display." Governor Rusk, as usual, is right. It would certainly be a novel scheme to in troduce into tho exposition vast fields of growing grain and numberless acres of luxuriant swamp grass. We are likely to have a competitive race in tall towers. London proposes to outdo tho Eiffel tower at Paris; then, of course, New York will be obliged to beat London, and finally Chicago will do them all up with a leetle the tallest tower since Babel, if any body knows how tall that was. M. C. E., Frankfort, Ind. You can probably get the information you want concerning Ben-Hur tableaux by addressing Mrs. Lida Hood Talbot, at Evanston, 111. The Missouri Democrats are holding a series of "tariff reform" picnics, but they haven't, as yet, invited Voorhees to par ticipate. The elixir has gone the way of all medi cal sensations, but the "faith cure" continues to ekeonta rather sporadic existence. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal; Is It possible, bv means of a majrio lantern, to produce a colored picture of the solar system, showing tho relative movements of the planets and their satellites, and of the comets in their elliptical orbits, giving a view to the observer somewhat similar to tnat oi tne orrery i w. . Pictures or slides are made for the magic lantern which show the movements of some, if not all, of the heavenly bodies. They comprise several parts, and are mechanic ally connected, and the moving mechanism is controlled by the hand of the lecturer or his assistant. There are several large man ufacturers of lantern slides, such as McAllister, of New York, and Queen & Co. and Marcy, of Philadelphia. Their catalogues are generally sent free by mail. To the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal: I've heard that the reaion General Sherman has never leen run for President Is that he is a Democrat. I've also heard tne same said of Gen. Sheridan. Please state to what party each belonged. A Header. General Sherman is a Republican, and General Sheridan was while he lived. Neither of them ever had any desire to hold civil office. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Sir Edward Watkin has formed a com pany with a capital of 1,000,000 for the erection in London of a tower twice the height of the Eifiel tower at Paris. A volume of the poems of Frederick Teniiyson, eldest brother of the poet laureate, is among the reprints in contemplation in London. They have become dilhcult to procure. Among the pensioners on the English civil list is Prince, Lucien Bonaparte, who f;ets $1,230 per annum for "distinguished iterary services." The British can afford to be magnanimous to the Bonapartes. Mr. Maybrick ("Stephen i Adams"), the popular English singer, is so distressed at the death of his brother and the sentencing of that brother's wife for murder, that ho has canceled all engagements . for a year. The betrothal of tho last nnmarried niece of Leo XIII with Count Salvatore Salimei, a member of the Guardia Nobile. will soon bo announced. The Count having no fortune whatever, the Pone will give bis niece a dowry of $20,000. TnE German Kaiser is said to be less ec centric as an Emperor than he was as a prince. lie nas surprisea even nis warmest friends by the good sense he has displayed since he came to the throne, the weight of responsibility has been to him an effective ballast. There are 200,000 people in the United States who have artificial legs or hands. This number does not include the veterans of the Union or the confederate army. In New York city and vicinity there are about hve thousand men ana women who have supplied the place of lost limbs with the manufactured article. Adrian, Mich., can just now exhibit a curiosity to the world in theshapo of u sun flower-bearing tree. The freak is located in a large oak. The sunflower is growing from the top of the tree, and has a stalk about five feet high. It is in fuU bloom. How the seed got there is a question, as it is too large a treo for any boy to climb. Miss Emily E. M. Fenn, an aged lady, living at Newburg, N. Y.t recently presented Mrs. Harrison, wife of the President, a log cabin quilt, made in great part of badges and souvenirs of the Harrison campaigns of 1840 and 18SS. The presentation was made at tho house of Airs. Levi P. Morton, where Mrs. Harrison was at the time a visitor. Some idea of the Shah's traveling ex penses may be formed when it is stated that a check for $125,000 has been forward ed to Messrs. Cook, the well known tourist agents, on behalf of the Persian monarch. This sum comprised expenditure for cer tain hotel accommodation, as well as ior rail and other costs. The sun-worshipers will have to pay the bilL A curious exploration is now being undertaken in a vast region of Scandinavia, which has practically run wild for nearly a hundred years, when whole villages, as well as homesleads and farms, were deserted on account of an epidemic. The tract has been bought by a London syndicate, who have commissioned Sir II. Pottinger, one of the pioneers of Norwegian travel, and Mr. J. Sargent, the well-known Oxford "coach," to report upon this almost forgotten territory. Neil Gow, the tiddler, was fond of his whisky, and seldom went traveling without frequent "revivers." One morning he had an appointment with a noble patron at Dunkeld, but, at the stated hour, had not arrived, at the castle. The duke waited till he was obliged to drive oil' to keep another appointmont On the road he met the fiddler, staggering. "Ah. Neil." said the patron, "its a long road to Dunkeld this morning." "Ah. ma laird." said the fiddler, "its no the length, but the breadth." Mrs. Lamadiud's one-cent coffee stands for the poor of New York are a great success, so far as the good they do goes. She gives excellent food for the money, and is enabled to do this by doing her own marketing and making the best bargains with the dealers. The stands, of which there are six, cost between two and three thousand dollars a year. Mrs. Lamadrid says that so far her greatest trouble has been with the men in charge of tho stands, who,

following the devices of Wall street, water tho stock for the sake of selling more coffee and soup. At the battle of Allatoona word had been sent to General Sherman than an ear and part of a cheek-bone had been swept off gallant General Corse's head, and he ran to his wounded comrade to see for himself the extent of the fearfnl damage. "Remove those bandages at once, he said to tho surgeon, who obeyed instantly, waking up the poor fellow as he , did so," and lo! there was nothing but a slight scratch on tho cheek and an insignificant hole in tho ear. "Why, Corse," calmly said General Sherman, "they came mighty near missing you, didn't they!" The late W. W. Corcoran gave the Washington Baptist Home Society, in 1SSG, a lot of ground, with all the improvements thereon, for the purpose of establishing a home. The conditions were such that tho property should bo used solely for this purpose, and in case of any failure to do so that it should revert to Mr! Corcoran's heirs. It has now become impracticable to use it, and the home has been compelled to purchase other property. The heirs of Mr. Corcoran are unwilling, nevertheless, that tho home should lose the property, and have therefore made a deed of the same to it. Mr. John Walter, who has lately come into such unpleasant notoriety as proprietor of the London Times, represents the results of two generations of lucky speculation in advertisements. He is one and seventy years of age, and inherited his grandfather's and father's property, together with a magnificent idea of its importance. He is pompons, but very platitudinarian. He is not an able writer, a profound thinker, nor a good ' sneaker. Under his brokerage the Times has become a dull and brainlessMaily muddle, which supports upon its old traditions a vast amount of useful and profitable trade announcements. Yet he is not without a ceftain amount of plodding ability. He is also a wealthy man and a decent, practitioner of the private virtues: Mr. Labouciikre is thus pictured in the New Review: "The smoking-room of the House of Commons is his shrine and there, poised in an American-rocking-chair, and delicately toying with a cigarette, he unlocks the varied treasures of his wellstored memory and enunciates the farTeaching principles of his mild philosophy. His voice is pleasant, and his utterance deliberate and effective. He has the keenest possible eye for absurdities and incongruities; the shrewdest insight into affectation and bombast, and an admirable impatience qf all the moral and intellectual qualities which constitute the bore. He is by no means disposed to be overawed by a great reputation, and is apt to analyze the personal and political Qualities of great and good men in the Liberal ranks with an agreeable frankness which would probably astonish those strenuous politicians who have already elected him by acclamation to the reversion of the Radical leadership.

COMMENT AND OPINION. Wiient the negro was endowed with citizenship he was given the right to do the best that he can for himself in the walks ot life, public or private; and it is about timo that the Nation which endowed him with the right should protect him in the exercise of it, Chicago Inter Ocean. Ere long there will como a time when Congress will not dare to palter longer with the erection of defenses for our civilization against the vice, and ignorance, and misery of an old world invasion, setting more strongly in this direction with every year of unrestricted immigration. St. Paul Pioneer Press. The great educational need of the times is indnstrial education. There are abundant opportunities for acquiring the higher classical education, but little chance for the, poor boys and girls who must earn their, own living. They are turned out to take care of themselves before they have learned how. Iowa State Register. Mexico, Brazil and neighboring countries buv all the coods from the United States now which they can conveniently or prohtably; and if our tariff on their products should be reduced to an average extent of 50 per cent, they would not buy a dollar's worth more of us in a whole year. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Little Utopias set up as an oasis in the big world mav nerhans have some neculiar disadvantages; but, at least, it is not insignificant to hnd the communistic societies almost invariably failing because tho ugly, non-associative, non-altruistic elements of human nature will insist upon asserting themselves and spoiling everyxr: : i : rr: i iniuK. iMiuueapuuts xiiuuuv. WnY should the American, the brightest and quickest offspring of the Caucasian race, bo the shortest-lived? The answer is, because he knows least about himself and takes least care of his vital forces. But no n a touted elixir will enable him to add to his years. A more intimate knowledge of himself and a better regulated life are remedies needed. Jfhiladelpnia fress. The Grand Army of the Republic bears that great title by the courtesy of timo alone. Time, which gives the veterans their right to the name, has in turn taken away the substance. The Grand Army of the Republic is to-day a newer ceneration. Lot us pay to it a happy compliment when we hope that it prohts by the heroic example of its battle-worn predecessor. Chicago Herald. Tiiey the Northern Democrats depend on tho solid South and want that section to have all possible usurped power in Con gress and the electoral college. Rather than formally disfranchise the negro and have Southern representation and power reduced in consequence, they would prefer to continue the present system of counting tne negro out and steanng his vote. Chicago Tribune. Certain it is that this Nation is ready to make the controversy the Behring sea affairl quite as solemnif need be, as even the hot-headed fools itf Montreal and Otta wa who talk of war and tho hanging of T T - 1 n l A A umieu aiaies revenue onicers to me yaroarms of the British men-of-war could de sire. It rests with the seal pirates and the nation whose flag they sail under to say now terribly serious the matter shall become. Cleveland Leader. PROTECT THE FARMER. The Nation's Markets Should Be Kept for Its Own Workers. Iowa State Register. Homo demand is srraduallv conanmincr our farm products, liut for the rapid extension of our railways into tho Territories we should have no wheat to selL We sell only a small per cent, of our corn. A little more development oi our corn-consuming features and we will sell more. Tho Amer ican people pay as much or more money for cattle products than they receive as a nation. They buy libers from Russia, India and Oceanica, while they waste home libers that might supply home demand. The United States can, and we will furnish all tho wool the country needs, if tho protective nolicv is steadilv maintained. Iowa needs a mutton sheep that will incidental! v grow wool, and will and must have it, as diversified agriculture requires it. The policy of the free-trader has been to tell the farmer that protection does him no good. and then to tell him next that everybody is cared for but him. The true policy is to protect all alike and develop every farm industry. The United States exports good beef and buys poor stull from Canada and Mexico that they cannot mako good because they have not corn to feed them. Ihese thin cattle come into competition with grass-fed heifers and take away tho profits of breeding them. When foreign markets are demoralized they unload here. Onra in the best market in the world, even for many farm products. Sound policy requires that the Nation keep its markets lirnt for its own workers, whether in shop or held. . m 'The President's Speech. Boston Advertiser. The South will become greater than it ver was if its people will but choose to make it so. This was the lesson drawn by the President, and Jt is a lesson for North and South alike. The speech in which it was delivered will not soon be forgotten. It is afrnnk aud open anneal to the beat of both sections, uttered by a man whoso past experience has giyeu him the right to mako such an appeal. Since his inauguration tho President has spoken but briefly in public, but the speech at Indianapolis has proved, if any proof were needed, that President Harrison is more capable of speaking words that appeal directly to the American ieoplethan any President since the time of (iarhcid, wno was in mauy respects one oi .1 , A. A - . . tne uesi orators America nas produced.

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DR. BAYLISSS VACANT CIUIR. Indiana Methodists Favor Dr. Ratlins for. Editor of the Western Christian Adrocate. To the EAltor of the Indianapolis Jonrn&l: The importance of tho position of editor of the Western Christian Advocate is evinced by the interest taken throughont our State in tho successor of Rev. Dr. Bayliss, deceased. Of course it is hard to follow such a man. Yet, from items floating through the press of the State and elsewhere, there appears great unanimity in, favor of Rev. Dr. Rawlins, of Spencer. InL The Methodist Church has distinctive publications throughout tho East, South and West; and while tho Western Christian Advocate, published at Cincinnati, has a wide-spread circulation. Ohio and Indiana, are its special fields, tho branches at it, Louis and Chicago meeting the wants West, Northwest and Southwest of our State, as those of tho East and JSouth caro for territory up to tho Ohio river line. Tho church in Indiana, through it immense patronage, is entitled to equal control with Ohio communicants; yet the history of tha paper will bear witness to the assertion that, save the short period of M. Simpson's management, there has been no editor selected from Indiana since the establishment of the organ in 1S.U Neither has a high and salariedoflice of the great Book Concern, been hlled by a resident of this State. Certainly not a very generous showing as between partners. A Michigan man was fof eight years in the lead, prior to thirtv vear ago. Since then Ohio men have had editorial control, and Indiana has loj ally sustained the enterprise as principal patron.acquiescing in the management of the paper and the Book Concern. Hence, the pardonablo prompt expression of the church in our? State in favor of a representation from within her borders, and to the multitude of Dr. Rawlins's acquaintances the action of his ouarterly conference warmly advocating his claims brings no surprise. It is known to many of them that on a former occasion he would doubtless have been chosen editor of the church's organ had bV not generously declined in favor of his seniors in the race who were his warmest friends. It is proper that Indiana should no longer be divided in her preferences a cause tor her former defeats but afford Dr. Rawlins a clear field, and reap for her' sol f the reward of having furnished thi next editor of the Western Christian Advo-rf cate. f j. r, n To tne Editor of the Indianapolis Journal; I am delighted to 6ee that the services o Rev. B. F. Rawlins, D. D can be had to' t.ke tho place as editor of the Western Christian Advocate, 60 ably filled bv tho late Dr. Bayliss. In the tirst place, Indi ana ought to have the position. I under Stand fillA rt.lS not. hml it fnr nvorfliit years. Yet Indiana is a large patronizing ..' ,A "y 1110 i-au Lquiiy wouuv w Auuiaii. 11110 lime, xu iuu BcCUUlfc nlace. Dr. Rawlins lms pvpit nrmlifiatitn for the position. Ho is a graduate of Indinn A am IT.i...!!.. - A. 1 t uui iiouui,y umtciaiiy, is a gentleman oz lironil enlfnr n n il linn n. nntinnalTonnfotiou as a superior writer. He is a careful. ii i . conservative man, ana win mako no rnis takes. Thero oueht not to le. and I limtn will not be. any division or opposition off Indiana Methodists in regard to ins elec him, it will receive tho heartv and enthusi asiic inaorsement, not only of the Method ists of Indiana and Ohio, but of the who lor country. WILL CUMBACK. GBEENsncRO, Ind., Aug. 2G. Vlncennes Commercial. the editorship of tho Western Christian, A A ..svs. A i i , : a ; i r Autwuio, i uuiup auu inenionuuH. s.m experience, deepiy versed in the doctrine yt. Uia VHUlV.il, UlUIUtUl' 111 I, 1III in goou aeeas, ana ot commanding social qualities; in brief, possessed of all tho necessary manly qualities to make him a power for good in the Methodist Episco pal Church, if placed upon tho editorial tripod. It would not simply bo a $atisfac tion to the Vincennes people, who know him well, to see him elevated to tho man acrement of thnt. relifinns irmrnnl lint it i a genuine conviction that ho is the right; man ior ine piace. Old Methods StiU lu Vogue. JSprlngfleld Republican. (Mug.) Governor Nicholls. of Louisiana, is coin fronted with a difficulty by the side of whic tho "regulators" of. Lafayette are as liotlu f ing. If tho dispatches can be relied upon l l. . :n 'i i.t a pun iii uuiiu&u, mis uei'ii cuiiiiiiilK u ill the Third congressional district whiclw gives the lie to all the handsome worust of fair play appearing daily in tho Deinocratic papers of the State. Mr. Price opened the campaign at Thibodeaux, where a rousing Democratic mass-meeting was held on the 17th, ana no hostile demonstration was attempted on tho part of tha Republicans. The Republican candidate Mr. Minor, delivered his first speech at St Charles, and on Tuesday reached St. Mart tinsvillo. where he was announced to speak, Beforo the meeting a company of armed "regulators" patrolled the town and warned the negroes to remain in their houses. In consequence candidate Minor had no audi ence to address. Mr. Hcrwig, chairman oi the Republican campaign committee, ha appealed to Governor Tsicholls ior protect tion against such dastardly modes of in timidation. But tho election comes Sept, 3, and beforo any action can bo taken in, the premises the hope of a fair connt amj, tory a co3tly allair. Republicans and Reform. MUwaukee Sen tin cL An occasional Republican journal speaks, of tho civil-servico law in a way to justify the charge that the criticisms of Mr. Cleve land's violations of the reform principle were purelv partisan and did not spring from any desire to see tho law carried out. Yet wo believe a majority of the member of the Republican party are not only' favorable to tho rules under which sub-, ordinate appointments are made, but also to an extension of the principle. The Republican newspaper which at-, tacks tho Jaw speaks for no organization, The party is committed to the reform iri resolutions as emphatic as words can inakov them and the resolutions have been particularly indorsed by tho President. Tho Civil-service Commission, appointed .by Presidout Harrison, is not exceeding it simple duty in running down all violations of the law, and there is no reason to doubt that it has the entire sanction of tho Prcsi dent and tho great mass of Republicans. A Gem of the War Literature. Utica Herald. . The address of President Harrison at th laying of tho comer-stone, in Indianapolis, of "Indiana's monument to Indiana soldiers,' will take a place among the gems which tho literature born of our civil war contains. It conies from t'io heart, and strikes a responsive chord in the heart off every loyal citizen. It is tho speech of a' soldier and statesman, of a patriot aud' Christian. Through it breathes the spirit! that animated Lincoln at Gettysburg. Democratic. Methods in Virginia. fit. Louis Olobe-Dtmocrat. It is a notorious fact that at tha last elec-, tion in Virginia there were in hue when th polls closed more than twice as many K publicans who hnd not voted as the tiuall majority by which the- electoral vote ot tho State was given to Cleveland. These ni; u will all vote this y :ir. and their votes will release Virginia from Pourbon domination The KRllroacl Should Not Object. Cleveland Leader. The now Constitution of North Dakota contains the provision that any member oft the Legislature who accepts a railroad pas? under any conditions or circumstance whatever shall thereby forfeit his seat. That is a wise and wholesome provision. and it ought to be a part of the fundamental law of every state. Thev Don't Start Right. 0!1 Citj Derrick. As usual, the latest person to try tha murder-and-suicido racket because of un--requited affections, beiian his work tho wrong wnv. killing the girl lirst. Had h comiiif uced with him&elf there would havo been less to regret. Too ireat a Strain. Detroit Trllun Think of Grover Cleveland or Dave Hill, talking t a throng of old soldiers and ud dressing thciu ,,conuHltw."

free vote will have been stamped out by tnck 'regulators." This is serious business, ami; the Democratic party will find such a vic(