Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER . 2, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1889. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St P. S. Heath, Correspondent. NEW YORK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Nassau streets.

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Reub Williams, President, ' Warsaw, Ind. , J. A. Kxxrrz, Secretary. Kokomo, Ind. !f "Now that I am back, and am your leader again, I promise you my best efforts, and if you will stand by me as before, I promise you that when the ' smoke of battle rolls away we shall , again be found triumphant.,,--S im Coy : to the' local Democracy, in his speech ac ; ccpting a renomination for Council, Whether or not New York succeeds in securing the world's fair, it will at least find out what the rest of the country thinks of it. The way in which the outside press is "rubbing it inn in the way of comment over the Grant monument scandal must humiliate even the least sensitive of the citizens. .. Ester the oyster. The first month with an r in it is always made welcome - by the official advent of everybody's friend. Parties may come and parties may go, but the oyster goes on forever at least let us hope he may. Meanwhile everybody will be glad to hear that the signs in the East point to a prosper- : ous oyster season. Senator Chandler sailed on Saturday for a two months' stay in Europe. ' To a reporter he said: '"We have a majority in the Senate without my vote, or I would not leave, for I am sure there is to be a called session of Congress, which will convene in October. I want to see 'li A A A d& xf S mm m A l V- V MVrW VSU A i.Ul& VWvwAJK7 All VIA KJ South thoroughly settled. I would begin to settle it by unseating every Dem.ocratfrom ,the South in the House of - Representatives whose election was - -tainted with the slightest fraud' Senator Chandler is not only one of the ablest men in the Republican party, but he has the courage of his convictions.' May his political tribe increase. ; . Tiie report that four hundred white ' '. families are to move from the Carolinas to Arkansas, "where they will go to work as day laborers," is regarded by the Charleston, S. C, News and Courier ; -as altogether improbable. It admits that there is no reason why Carolina white families should not move -West, but says there are very, very few such v families that would go so far to hire themselves as day laborers on farms at any price. It has often been charged I by wicked people up North that Southera white folks won't work, but this is , the first time the interesting peculiarity has been so freely acknowledged by the white folks themselves. 1 The dispatches relative to the Postmaster-general's alleged scheme of uniting the postal and telegraph systems are somewhat vague, as no doubt his own ideas on the subject are as yet, but enough appears to show that he is revolving the idea, and that something may come of it. The project is said to be to utilize the free-delivery system for the collection and delivery of dispatches, and by this dispensing with telegraph messengers, get greatly reduced rates for the public, and popularize the service. It is a large scheme, but it seems to contain the elements of possibility. 'It would be a step in the direction of a postal telegraph, and would probably ' end in the government taking entire charge of the business. The Postmaster- , general, however, has no present authority to act in the busines, and even if he decides the scheme is feasible, he can do no more than discuss and recommend it in his annual report. A recent publication of the Bureau of Statistics, at Washington, furnishesinteresting information in regard to foreign immigration to the United States. Prior to 1820 the statistics of immigration are incomplete, but from that date they are quite full and reliable. The total number of immigrants who arrived In the country from the close of the Rev olutionary war to 1820 is estimated at 250,000. Since 1820 the arrivals in many single years have greatly, exceeded that number, although they did not reach the highest figures until comparatively recent years. It was not until 1842 that

they reached six figures. The im mi fixation that year was l(U,56o. Ten years later, in 1852, it had reached 371,003, and in im it was 427,833. From that it fell off suddenly and largely, dropping to 200,000 in 185, and to 01,08-5 in 1862. After the war it began to increase again, until, in 1872 it reached 437,750, and in 1882 touched high-water mark at 730,349. Since then there has been a falling off, till last year the immigration was 525,019, and the indications are that for 18S9 it will bo considerably less.

THE REVIVAL OP C0YI8M. The manner of Sim Coy's reappearance in city politics challenges attention no less than the event itself. The interests of public decency and public morals reqnire that it should be spoken of in plain terms. Taken in connection with other facts, it reveals a state of affairs which honest men will do well to take notice of. When Coy was convicted and sentenced for a crimo of which he was undoubtedly guilty the community might fairly havo concluded it was rid of him in politics. The conviction itself should havo worked his removal 'from the Council, and-among men of common honesty or self -respect there would have been no question on that score. But there was a question, and when a motion was made to dismiss him, every Democratic member voted against it. This prevented the requisite 'two-thirds majority, and during his entire imprisonment he continued to hold his seat and draw his pay as councilman from the Eighteenth ward. The community submitted to this disgrace because it had no remedy. When Coy returned from Michigan City his followers made some show of lionizing him, buthe modestly declined a public reception, preferring to make his public reappearance in his own way. In subsequent interviews he gave the impression that he was out of politics and would devote himself hereafter to private business. Had he done so, and conducted his private business in such a way as not to bring him before the public, he might at least have avoided openly offending public decency. But it seems he had no idea of doing so. He has been "in politics" all the time, and has embraced the first opportunity of making his reappearance in the most dramatic and conspicuous way as a Democratic manager and leader. The manner of his renomination for the Council shows that he and his friends were determined on his ''vindication," and his speech accepting the nomination shows he had no idea of retiring from politics. "Now that I am back, ' and your leader again," he said. "I promise you my best efforts, and if you will stand by me as before, I promise you that when the smoke of the battle rolls away, wo shall again be found triumphant." So it 6eems that, not content with holding a seat in the Council during the entire period of his imprisonment, he and hi3 followers are determined that he shall continue in 'place and power. His influence is shown not merely in his own nomination, but in that oj: several of hi henchmen jn other wards and by the exultation of his friends over his reappearance in local politics. As a revelation of political influences of the worst possible character the event is calculated to set men thinking. Nothing like it has occurred in any other city. We think it can be safely asserted that the history of municipal government in the United States furnishes no parallel ' to it. Never before has the moral sense of any community been so insulted, outraged and defied as by this deliberate attempt of an ex-convict to force himself into a position of political leadership ami an office of honor and trust. And the manner, in which his followers in all the wards have rallied to his support shows the people what they have got to fight. ' . " A PRESBYTERIAN AKNIVEBSaBY. Elaborate preparations have been made at Hartsyille, Pa., to celebrate, on Thursday of this week, with all the honor due so imposing and interesting an event, the lC3d anniversary of what is known as ,"the cradle 'of American Presbyterianlsm." According to the New York Tribune, it is to the zeal and research of the Rev. Dr. T. Murphy, of Pennsylvania, that the site of this long-vanished cradle has been discovered, and this interesting commemoration service held. Several years ago, under the patronage of the North Philadelphia Presbytery, Dr. Murphy began a compilation of the history of the Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania. In his researches he began to encounter references to "Log College," an almost unknown institution to tho present generation, and of which no adequate record existed. He industriously set to work to trace its origin, history and influence, not only upon Presbytcriani3m in Pennsylvania, but throughout entire America. From this investigation has been learned that "Log College," the cradle of American Presbyterianism, was founded in 172C, by tho Rev. William Tcnnent, whose name is associated with the entire early history of this sect in this country. He was an Irishman by birth and training, had been a priest in the Episcopal Church in Dublin, but? upon coming to this country, became a Presbyterian. In Hartsville, Pa., he had established his home, and there was not in that town, or in tho region-- roundabout, any theological school where he could educate his sons for the ministry. From this necessity sprung "Log College" literally, a Jog building, less than twenty feet square, and consisting of a single room. It stood just across the road from Dr. Tennent's own house, was built largely by his own hands, and, when opened to re ceive applicants for Presbyterian teach ings, he was himself president and fac ulty, and his four sons were the students. From this hnmble beginning, tho log school of tKeology entered an existence of twenty years, and of nation al importance. It is a matter for 0 regie t that no authentic record of its course of study, its students and alumni can now be found; but many men, afterward famous preachers, were nurtured in their chosen doctrine under its humble roof. It was the only theological school in America outside of New

ngland, and under -Dr. Tenn en Va fac

ulty of imbuing hi3 pupils with his own scholarly industrv and earnestness, it was a great success. His own son Gilbert, who was a close friend of George Whitefield and of Benjamin Franklin, became a teacher in the college, and was afterward a famous preacher. lis second son, William, was also a preacher, and for forty-four years pastor of the famous Tennent Church in Freeport, N. ., where' George Washington occasion ally worshiped. i Of colleges which were the outgrowth of "Log College" may be mentioned Princeton, of New Jersey; the HampdenSydney College, of Virginia; the Jefferson and Washington College; Hagg's Manor Academy, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, and the Pequay Academy, at Lancaster, Pa. The anniversary ex ercises this week will be held in two vast tabernacles, erected in honor of the occasion on tho exact site of Dr. William Tennent's house, and are to be capable of seating 7,000 people. Hun dreds of Presbyterian clergymen from all parts of the country will attend, the President and several members of the Cabinet are expected to be present, as well as the Governors of several States, numbers of Presbyterian college presi-; dents, and other eminent theologians and educators. The commemoration of an event so vitally connected with! the spread and growth of Presbyterianisin in Pennsylvania, the country generally, and the West specifically, is beyond ques tion a matter of absorbing interest to all Presbyterian people. LAW AND LAWYERS. Hon. David Dudley Field's address before the American Bar Association, of which he is president, bore tho impress of deep thought and ripe experience. Mr. Field, now in his .eighty-sixth year, is still hale, hearty and vigorous in body, and certainly his mind shows no evidence of failing or of relaxing its grip on the treatment of great questions. Discussing the relative merits of annual sessions of legislatures, as compared with biennial, Mr. Field expressed a preference for the former, and thought tho change made by some States to biennial sessions not an encouraging sign for republican government. He thought it a bad omen when there is fomented a general disrespect for legislatures, pontinuing, he said: ' Annual parliaments have been the demand of the people under monarchical governments from time immemorial. Is there less reason for frequent meetings of the representatives of the people under thoso governments which we say are of the people, by the people, and for the people? Biennial sessions of the legislatures will not lessen the evil of too many special priv-. lieges granted, but will intensify it. lno remedy lies in limiting the 6cope, rather than the frequency of legislation. To allow legislators to rteril with all the sub? jects with which they now deal, but to give them less time for tho task, is but to compress within a smaller space the elemental fires which, when too much compressed, will sooner or later explode the whole fabric. We want annual legislatures to watch and check the other departments of the government, .as well as to make the laws. If it had really come to pass that wo were able no longer to elect honest representatives, then , indeed we should have had to confess that we were no longer lit to irovern ourselves. But the inability does not in fact exi&L. The upright citizens, they ' who y desire'1 honest government, are an immense majority of tho American people: the poli ticians are a timorous set, who will cower and run the moment they hear the growl of the people. It is our own supineness that has begotten the wish for biennial rather than annual sessions of the representatives of the people. The biennial session is. therefore, in my judgment, a movement backward in the march of free government. This is well said, and, coming from so distinguished a source, is worthy of all consideration. We cannot be too , often reminded that in our government the people arc tho source of all power, and the way to correct the mistakes of popular suffrage is through popular suffrage itself. Touching the disrespect for legislatures, the responsibility . for that must be divided between the people who elect unfit men and the bodies them selves, which are too afct to place polit ical policies and party advantage above public interests. Half the men elected to our legislatures, nowadays, are unfit for the position, and most of the other half abuse it. The people are not careful enough in making their selection of legislators, and do not hold those they elect to a sufficiently rigid account. What with the vicious results of caucus rule, tho frequent making and unmaking of laws, the meddling with private and public interests, the enacting of hasty, crude and unconstitutional measures, and the constant attempts to legislate on sub jects outside of the proper sphere of leg islation, it is little wonder that the pib pie lose patience with their legislatures. But, after all is said, " the fault and tho remedy are largely with the people themselves. There is no evil of popular government that cannot be cured through popular suffrage, if the people choose to cure it. i Addressing himself directly to lawyers, Mr. Field said some things of special inter est to the profession. Headniitted at the outset that the administration of law, both civil and criminal, is more defect ive in the United States than in any other civilized country. "So far as I am aware," said Mr. Field, "there is 'no other country calling itself civilized where it takes so long to punish a criminal, and so many years to get a final de cision between man and man." This state of things is evidently not due to any lack of lawyers, for it appears there are nearly 70,000 in the country, a much larger number than are found in other countries of nearly eqaal population. On this point Mr. Field said: It is difficult to make an exact computation, but we know that there are about 11.000 in the State of New York, which has a population of 6,000,000. Taking the population of tho country to be 00.000.000. and the proportion of lawyers the same as in New York, we should hnd an army of more than 100,000 strong. Reducing the proportion, however, to half that of New "iork. we shonld still have 55,000 from the rest of the country, making G6.000 in all. A more ac curate estimate may. perhaps, be gathered by referring to the appendix of the report presentee, loinis association iouryears ago, and mentioned hereafter. Twenty-seven (States outside of New York, containing a population of S4.000.000. are there said to have about S5,G00 lawyers. There, remain, after these States and New York, fourteen otherStates,fourTerritoriesandthe District of Colombia, with a population of 20.000,000; and these shonld, in the same proportion as the twent3'-seven States, havo over 20.000 lawyers, making a total of 66.000. Now. compare this proportion with that of other countries. France, with a population of forty millions, has 6.000 lawyers and 2.400 other omciais, who uo the work of attorneys With US, and Germany, With a popula

tion of forty-five millions," has in the same category .7,000. Thus the proportion of the legal element is, in France, 1 to 4.7G2; in Germany, 1 to 6,423; in the United States, 1 to 909. . ...

From this it appears that we havo about five times as many lawyers in proportion as France and about seven times as many as Germany. But it must be remembt red that in those countries to be a lawyer necessarily means some thing, while with us it may mean very little.' A large proportion of the socalled lawjcrs in this country ought not to be in the profession . at . all, and only serve to lower its average of dignity, learning and usefulness. In fact, it is altogether likely that the large proportion of ignorant and unqualified lawyers in this country is the main cause of the defective administration of law and the slow dispensing of justice. The profession' and the public would be benefited if tho standard of admission were raised so as to reduce the number of lawyers 50 or 75 per cent. The survival of the fittest would elevate the . tone, of the profession, there would be more business for those who rpmninprl in if: if. tvonld hft Detter done, and forty or fifty thousand persons now calling themselves lawyers would perhaps become producers and useful citizens. " - ' Mr. Field closed with a string appeal for the codification of law, the simplification of legal form 8 and .practice, and the rescue of the law of toKiay from the rubbish of the past. He insisted that the laws and the manner of their administration should be brought within the comprehension of common people. His closing sentence, coming from perhaps the oldest practitioner in the United States, and certainly one of the most distinguished, gave this advice to the profession: "You must, of course, be true to your client! and to the courts, but you must also give speedy justice to your, fellow-citizens, more speedy than you have yet given, and you must give them a chance to know their laws." To-day will be quite generally celebrated by labor organizations throughout the country as Labor day. The idea of setting apart one day in the year for emphasizing the dignity of labor and advancing its interests by public demonstrations and discussion is an excellent one. Equally good is the holiday feature, by which pleasure', and recreation will be mingled with the more 'serious business, and the happiness of individuals and families be promoted. The rapid growth'of labor organizations in recent years is the best evidence of their necessity and usefulness. . So far as this country is concerned, the idea of organized labor, is of comparatively recent origin. The oldest and most powerful organization of: the .kind, the" International Typographical Union, was only begun in 1850, and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers was, not formed till 1803. Tho Knights of Labor were not established till 1871, and did not be come known as a national organization , till several years later. For many years oven its name was kept secret, necessary public reference being made by the use .of . five asterisks, or stars. Now the order is publicly known and recognized throughout the country as an honorable, legitimate and useful one. It has accomplished much for the cause of labor, and, under wise management, will be able to accomplish much more. The Journal hopes the weather and . other conditions may be favorable, and that to-day's demonstration may be crowned with pleasure and success. :J -i Tiie spoiler's finger is upon tho Institution for tho Blind. Two instructois of experience, and highly recommended by Superintendent Jacobs, are dropped because they have been there for some time and a change seems desirable to : the trustees, and because, in the opinion of Trustee Riley, who knows as much' about the needs of the blind as Sitting Bull does about French 'politics, they are not exactly suited to the positions. When the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb institution's are put in the same category with tho Insane Hospital and made asylums for Democratic ward-workers then Indiana's disgrace will be complete. Of the visit of Republican speakers to Louisiana the New Orleans Times-Democrat says: "The people of Lou i sari a from past experience have every reason to be suspicious of these visiting statesmen. They have never come down here but evil has come from it." The evil, of course, consists in turning on tho light and exposing Democratic methods in Louisiana. In the same way a gang of counterfeiters or cut-throats who aro , tracked by the police might assert - that nothing but evil comes from such visits. It is undoubtedly true that a little leaven will leaven a whole lump, but the rule has its limitations. Something depends upon the size of the lump. The very little leaven of decency, for instance, ia the Democratic nominations for Council cannot purify the disreputable majority of the men chosen. Mrs. Leonora Barry, member of the American labor delegation now visiting in England, is doing great credit to herself and her countrywomen by the little speeches she is occasionally called upon to make. At the London dinner, at which Minister Lincoln and a number of distinguished Englishmen were guests, she was called upon to respond to a toast, and in her brief remarks uttered one thought that deserves the attention of all who are considering the labor problem. "I regret," she said, "that statesmen and legislators overlook, both in this country and America, the working women. They are found in both countries, where, by right of their physical construction, they should not be found at all. We find them in " places where they have " taken the positions of men, driving the latter into enforced idleness, taking from them their recompense." This remark is the more noticeable from the fact that it is a phase of the question commonly ignored by women who publicly advocate the rights of their sex. So much is said about opening new avenues of labor to women, and so urgent are the teachings that women shonld fit themselves to be self-supporting, that the possible overcrowding of these avenues and the consequent loss of employment, and injury to both men and women, are, lost sight of. The woman question in labor matters is one that is not ,to be solved by. granting to women the right to engage in any and

every occupation. Such a privilege is one that may react by throwing upon women more than their share of the burden of bread-winning. . R. G. Dun & Co.'s review of trade for tho last week in August says, "Business in all parts of the country continues to improve with the stimulus of large crops." Of the iron industry, it says the situation is surprisingly encouraging, for a weekly production hardly ever surpassed appears to be met by a wonderful demand."

ABOUT PEOPLE AND TMNGS. Whenever Edison appears at the Paris exposition tho band plays "Yankee Doodle." Miss Agnes Longfellow, a daughter of the celebrated poet, is a skilled photoggrapher. Lord Tennyson devotes the pension of $1,000 a year, which he receives as poet laureate, to the relief of the literary profession who are in pecuniary distress. . WnEN Patti sang the Welsh national air at their eisteddfod, such a scene was never before witnessed in Wales. The audience were divided between tears and irrepressible enthusiasm. Charles F. Farrar, son of Canon Farrar, the distinguished Church of England man, came over on the Berlin, and is now at Lehigh University, where he will study for a time and then go to the Polytechnio Institute at Troy. Although Commander-in-chief Archduke Albrecht is the wealthiest man in Austria-Hungary, he objects to exorbitant hotel bills. Recently, while on a tour of inspection in Hungary, he spent f ortyeigat hours in a small provincial town. The bill presented amounted to 1,870 florins, or 750. It was paid, but the next day the officers of the garrison received strict orders not to set foot in-the hotel in question, and for the next twelve months no military band will be allowed to play in the town. Stowe, the famous seat of the late Duke of Buckingham, in Bucks, has been closed, and it is to be let fora4ermof years. Stowe was certainly the original of the Beaumanoir of "Coaingsby," and it is supposed to have inspired Thackeray with the dreary description of Castle Carabas in the "Book of Snobs." - The Shah contemplates introducing certain European dishes into the royal Persian menu, and has consequently arranged for one of his cooks, who received instruction in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace as to the preparation of certain English dishes, to go through a year's instruction in cookery at a Parisian restaurant. The Canadian weather prophet' has a clever wife. It is hinted that she writes his prophecies, and he reads them out. A bust of Mrs. Wiggins was found one morning among the statues of celebrities in the Ottawa Parliamentary Library,, and no one knew how it got there except Wiggins. It staid there, however, and is there now. There was a plaintive little epistle Jin the President's mail this morning. It was from a woman in Illinois, and she said: "When walking with Baby McKee, Mr. President, will you kindly , pluck ono flower or a fern leaf from the hillside and send it to me with your photograph? I have specimens from every Stalo in the Union but Maryland, and I will complete my collection with your offering and name." The city of Paris has ottered a prize of 1,000 francs for a poem adapted for musical setting in the form of a cantata, with solos and choruses. The subject may be historical legendary or symbolical, but it must be of a "national character, and express sentiments of the highest order." Manuscripts must be sent by Nov. 15. We shall see how great a poetical incentive $200 is. When Barnam received a telegram, a few days since, stating that one of his show railway trains was wrecked, killing thirty horses and two camels, and destroying six cars, he joyously exclaimed: "Thank heaven nobody was killed or injured. We shall lose ono show day and night in Montreal, but we have plenty of trained horses to fill the places of those killed. The Lord reigns, and it is all right." And he went to bed and slept nine hours. 1 A young man asked a lawyer of Montreal to find out what was the fortune of a young woman of that city. The lawyer went to work and in time reported that the lady was worth at least 100,000. The client seemed satisfied, promised to pay liberally, soon married the young woman, and sent the lawyer a check , for a rather small amount. The lawyer sent in a bilL and the young man wouldn't pay. Then followed a lawsuit and publicity. , There is shown in the Exposition of Anthropological Sciences at Paris the cast of the two horses' heads found in such a position that the men of science are warranted in placing them at the very beginning of men's efforts to create works of art The originals are carved from bone, but are so fragile with ago that they will not bear the light. The power ana Knowieage oi anatomy shown by the prehistoric cave man who carved these horses are said to be most surprising. A recent visitor to Madagascar says that the Queen is a small; slender woman, about twenty-three years of age, of very light color and very sad. Her dresses all come from Paris. On the day the correspondent saw her she wore a white cashmere robe with a heavy silk train, a mantle of the same, with cut steel buttons, a hat of white silk, with ostrich feathers and silver crescent ornaments, a cut-steel brooch, apd ear-rings and pendants, and white kid four-button gloves, with bracelets of the national 'jewel," red coraL Chief-justice Chase had a love affair which he never forgot,' although he lived to marry and bury three wives before he was forty years old. When a poor schoolteacher in Washington he had among his pupils the sons of William Wirt, the Attorney-general of the United States. Miss Wirt's particular friend was Miss Elizabeth Cabell, of Richmond, Va., who frequently stayed at the home of the Wirts. Here Mr. Chase met her and lost his heart, but the proud Virginia girl, while pleased ; with the attentions of the clever Yankee youth, would not think of marrying a school-teacher. . Senator Ingalls is as sly as Joey Bagstock. He has been in Washington for quite a while, but has so far managed to keep out of the clutch of bores. A reporter questioned Ingalls as to the modus operandi: "Oh," said the Kansan. laughing, "you don't see that, don't yon? Well, a Senator or Representative in Washington during the summer mouths stands about as muh chance as a goose in January. You s.e, they are very m scarce, and everybody whn iv'inta cnmet.rtincr i hnmiH tn lmttnn. i vole them. But what is the matter with ving two rooms! ' he continued. "If you nave headquarters at two places and know the ropes the devil himself couldn't catch you." The Tall Mall Gazette tells a pretty story, which it got from an old resident of Chelsea, London, of the habit of Thomas Carlyle of going out along about midnight every night to the old bridge on - the Thames to stand for an hour, "leaning on the rail, in one of the recesses of the bridge, always on the side next town. He never spoke then." "Any ono who knows the stillness and beauty of the scene," says the journal, "can understand its attraction for Carlyle; the quaint old bridge, getting decrepit with its more than a century of resistance to the butfetings of the river craft and the wear and tear of the strong ebb and stronger flow of the river beneath; the dark, blue sky above, starlit: ft world asleep on either bank; silence abound and peace." "I expects he was a thinkin'," said the Pall Mall's informant. "I canxot sing the old songi," She walled in accents sad. Ml cannot sing the old sou gs, And every one was glad. . Boston Courier. Something They Forget. Nebraska State Journal.' ' The Democratic editors who have so much to say about the strike of Carnegie's hands, alwavs forget to mention the fact that Bill Scott's coal miners are still out fighting for justice, while Carnegie made a satisfactory

settlement with his employes some weeks ago. Scott's miners allege that, his lait proposition to them is an infamous one. involving, as it does, a reduction of ti cents a ton in their wages. comment asp onxioy. Strikes there have been in America under protection as there are strikes also in, England under free trade. But laborers here are never known to be in revolt against their employers for the last penny of a beg. garly sixpence an hour for piece-work. New York Tribune. English dispatches report that L'an ' cashire cotton-mills are stopping or running on half time only, and that four of the largest mills in Blackburn have shut down, owing to the dullness of trade. The places referred to may bo found on the map of free-trade England, where "raw materials' are admitted tree. Iowa State Register. The Ohio Democrats seem to Lave been so ignorant of the origin of trusts as not to know that the idea was imported from a country which has not had a protectivo tariff for forty years, and where, as compared with our country, the number of gennine trusts is as much greater as is tho proportion of free-traders in her population. Boston Advertiser. In case of war with Canada the United States wonld have one great advantage over the Dominion. A general amnestv, with liberty to return to their native laud, could be accorded to the colony o American embezzlers over the border, and before returning they would, of course, be true to their natural instincts, and despoil the Canadians by stealing everything within, reach. Boston Transcript There is no great danger in individual efforts to break the record, but races across the Atlantic between passenger steamers are dangerous in many respects. There aro rules of the road at sea as well as on land, and these are liable to be disregarded wheu neck-and-neck, or stem-and-stem, racing takes place. After all, while speed is a desideratum, safety is vastly more important, St. Louis Ulobe-Democrat. It is obvious that if a national bank rnptcy law be desirable, and that it is mav be inferred from the universality .with which every commercial nation except our own has availed itself of its power to frame one, no better timothan the present can. be found for its consideration. A bankruptcy law framed in time of panic or commercial depression is likely to be little bet-' ter than an act for the protection of debt ors. Chicago Inter Ocean. England used protection until all her manufacturing industries were superior to those of other nations,, and adopted freo trade, expecting other nations to follow her example. We are following her earlier example in continuing protection, because wo need it, because it enhances our prosperity. When we get so full of manufacturing industries that we have to send abroad for bread and meat we will follow England'a later example. Not till then. Washington Press. The State Press. President Harrison sounded a kev-noto at the laying of the corner-stone of the soldiers' monument that brings him mighty near the beam of the people. Tipton Advocate. . Indiana soldiers during the rebellion thought they had just a little the greatest Governor in all the States. Now they can boast their State is to have the greatest monument of all the States. When the patriotic tests are applied Indiana comes out brilliantly. Lagrange Standard.. We would like for some one who is always denouncing the "robber tariff" to name a timo when labor was as high and the necessaries of life as cheap as they are now. In other words, when could a laboring man buy more with his labor than he can now! Crawfordsville Journal. The monument to the soldiers of Indiana, whose corner-stone was laid Thursday, ia in strange contrast to historv as taught in the Becktold text-books. The monument commemorates deeds of valor by Indiana soldiers in a recent war for the preservation of the Union. The text-books scarcely refer to that war. Brazil Register. . It was tho highest degree of patriotism which prompted the bo3s to go to the front in the trying days between 18G1 and lb. and tho lesson which this monument is designed to teach will loose much of its value if it be understood that it commemorates the services of any other than the soldiers who fonght in the late war. The people oC the State believe it is to their memory, and

theirs alone, that they have contributed to build so grand a monument. Middletown News. We are in favor of the best school-books that arc published, and of getting them as cheap as possible; but wo would not sac--rifice quality to cheapness. We think this will be the result of the introduction of the , new books, though when the result of ' handling is counted up the cheapness will , be largely illusory. What may be saved ia the direct purchase of the books will probably appear in the tax bills. We shall thus save no money in the end, and bo humiliated by the fact that the children of Indiana are using inferior books. 13 rook villa American. SIM COY'S RET CRN TO POLITICS. REFORM WITH A BIG R. Crawfordsville Journal. . , r Simeon Coy an ex-penitentiary convict, has been nominated by the Democrats of the Eighteenth ward, Indianapolis, as a candidate for councilman. The Indianapolis Democrats are in favor of reform, with a big It. REVERED FOR HIS CRIMES. . Colomhus Republican. Sim Coy is the ideal Democratic leader. The more crimes he has committed . in the interest of the Democracy the more ho is revered. He has been regarded as a Demcratic martyr ever since his conviction and. sentence to the penitentiary, and the Democratic party permitted linn to hold his scat) in the Council and draw-his salary all tho time he was in the penitentiary. . - The Republicans of Indianapolis may know that the old corrupt and criminal gang is again in the lead, and they may expect them to resort to all the criminal methods known to Sim Coy and his gang to carry the elections. INDORSED AS TOEIR LEADER. Lafayette Courier. Coy not only escapes the denunciation of his party for the monstrous crimes he committed, but after serving a term in thor prison, he is immediately upon his release accepted back into the open arms of De niocracy, indorsed as a leader, and unanimously renominated for re-election to aa office that be has debased and disgraced. With such a condition of affairs existing, the conclusion is inevitable that the Democratic party does not consider itself any better than the noted corruptionist it is so swift to recognize and honor. The beginning the partytha8 made at Indianapolis is an index of what we may expect in the next campaign. A SHAMEFUL SPECTACLE. Terrs JTaute News. At the primary meeting held last night in the Eighteenth ward, at Indianapolis, Sim Coy was unanimously renominated for City Council. If this act concerned only this ward we might say that it was fitly represented by such a man as Sim Coy, bat his disgraceful record is known throunhoufc the country, and the Democracy of the State capital is placed in such a position, that it must either repudiate or defend this man and his methods. Their action last night shows which they have determined to do. Sim Coy, as a saloon-keeper, a sort of hale fellow well met. has secured a personal following of fellows of his own stripe, and, living in a ward largely composed of this class of peopK his renomination is not remarkably surprising. Judicious wire-pulling by an experienced hand, money placed where it would do tho most good, the usual tactics of au unscrupulous politician could enable him to control his own ward. But by his nomination they have put a stigma upon their party. They have given color to the charge fco often made that Coyism and Dotuocracy are evnonomons. llns charge was sustained when this notorious scoundrel was retained in the Council during bin term of imprisonment, and was. welcomed back to this bodv with flowers, and music, and open arms. No city in the world ever presented so shameful a spectacle, a convicted criminal, servingout hissentence in the penitentiary, directing the affairs of tho citi' from his cell and. returning to the scene of his crime, again nominated to the oflice he had defiled. Nobody entertains a doubt of this man's guilt: he had a fair trial, the charges were fully sustained, the sentence was remarkably light considering the offense. An Awful Tan. WanhJnirtonPreaa. . Indiana has her Hart in the Treasuryin, the Third Auditor's office