Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1889. WASHINGTON OFFICB-513 Fourteenth St P. S. IlEATix, Correspondent. Telephone Calls. Business Oflce 238 I Edltorl! Rooms 343

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P. nawiey & Co., 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE C. T. Dee ring, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. O.-RIggs House ana Ebbltt House. With scvcn-ycar-old Texas boys getting oat their guns and shooting their fathers' heads off for abusing their mothers, the women of that State cannot claim to lack protection. The Texas youth is up and coming. A sudden" cessation of expressions of sympathy for the Brazil miners is noticeable in Democratic journals since that eminent Democratic philanthropist, ex-Congressman Scott, gave the Spring Valley, 111., miners an opportunity for starvation at 65 cents a ton. .Brazil mine-owners have offered 70 cents, and have been roundly denounced for it; but if Scott says 55 cents is enough that settles the matter for his party organs. To hear some of the outside grumblers talk, it might be supposed that the government departments in Washington were principally manned by Indianians. That this is a mistake, appears from the following in the Milwaukee Sentinel: "If Wisconsin wants to make a good showing in the census next year, sho should include the army of Wisconsin clerks at Washington among her population." The Wisconsin man seems to have got there, too. If Senator Voorhees is still in the no tion of hanging plutocrats, rich men who oppress the laboring classes, wouldn't it be as well for him to try his hand on exCongressman Scott? Scott is a Demo crat, it is true, but Mr. Voorhees will surely not permit party ties to soften the righteous wrath the professional workingman's friend must feel toward one who cuts the workingman's wages down to the starvation point while ho buys fast horses and wins $60,000 on a single race. Tiie New York World declares that the failure of the Grant monument scheme in that city has nothing to do with the world's fair, because the monument should be paid for by the country, and not that city alone. That the city lias not raised half a million for the monument is, it says, no reason why it should not raise twenty millions for the fair. This is a very poor argument. New York promised to raise the money for the monument, and If it crawls out of that debt it may try to get out of the one it assumes for the fair on the same plea namely, that it is an enterprise in , which the entire country is interested The Kansas City Journal criticises the Indiana Republican Editorial Association foi its recent message to President ; Harrison congratulating him on "the t wisdom end sagacity displayed in pubL lie acts up to date.79 It thinks the editors ought to havo had enough conn i deuce in him to make this indorsement .cover future acta. Tho Kansas City f$)aper doesn't understand the first prinTciples of Indiana politics, It is not that the Indiana editors lack confidence in jtthe President that they so limit their congratulations. They believe his future acts will be wise and sagacious, but in case he should miss it, in case anything should happen, they do not want to be on record as particeps cri minis, bo to speak. They may want to be presidential candidates themselves, and o-ecords tell. Caution's the word in Indiana. All a member of the Georgia chivalry ) has to do now when he wants to avenge an insult and cure his wounded honor is to challenge his opponent and tell a newspaper reporter all about it. Then he takes to the woods, and tho officers of the law, "set on" by the friendly reporter, chase him around so he cannot reach tho place fixed for the duel in time, and finally capture him before he gets within a niilo of the other fellow. The other fellow, in the meantime, is pursued by other officers, and is restrained from mischief. Of course, under such circumstances the duel is off and everybody is vindicated. It is a cheap and easy way of settling "affairs of honor;75 but, then, Southern chivalry is not tho affair it onco was. It is at its modern best in whipping defenseless uegroe3. The Journal's suggestion in regard to the need of additional bank facilities in Indianapolis ought to stimulate some action in that regard. We doubt if there is another city in tho United States of equal population and business with this, that has as few banks. In a list of thirty-eight cities Indianapolis stands twenty-third in tho amount of clearinghouse exchanges during tho year ending Sept. 80, 1688. Our clearances during tho year amounted to $90,576,811, and yet we have only six banks. Ten years ago we had thirteen, and thereby hangs a sad tale of financial mismanagement and disaster. Since that time the population and business of the city have increased at least 25 per cent., while her

banks have decreased in number 50 per cent. Of fourteen cities which do a smaller clearing-house business than this, eleven havo more banks. Thus Syracuse, with annual clearances of $33,845,318, against our $99,576,811, has eight banks to our 6ix. Grand Rapids, with $31,025,179 clearances, has seven banks. Springfield, 111., has ten banks; Peoria, nine; St. Joseph, Mo., seven; Galveston, Tex., seven; Los Angeles, eight, and none of them have nearly as large a population or do nearly as large a business as this city. The fact is, the banking facilities of the city are too small. The Board of x Trade should make an effort to secure additional banking capital.

A PHASE OF THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION. The resolutions on the temperance question adopted by tho Nortnwest Indiana Conference of the M. E. Church were strong and outspoken to an unusual degree. The public is accustomed to strong deliverances on ethical questions from that church, and always expects to find it in the van of moral reform. But in the present case its deliverance would be stronger if it were less intemperate and more logical. After denouncing tho evils of intemperance in general terms, it says: Resolved, The liquor traffic "cannot bo licensed without sin," and license, however high, is not a temperance measure. It is a trap adroitly set for timid and half-informed temperance men. Partisan friendship with the saloon must be accepted as hostility to the church, the home, and the Republic. No party that fails to antagonize the saloon is worthy tho support of Christian men. The saloon as an institution is doomed, and must be cast out of our civilization forever. This resolution is open to criticism from more than one point of view. In the first place, the assumption that a law imposing a tax on saloons is a license of tthe liquor traffic, is entirely unauthorized. Tho public mind has progressed beyond that point of intelligence where it can be misled by such an assertion. To call a tax a license is a misnomer. The courts have so decided, and common sense, as well as common law, confirms the decision. The liquor traffic exists and always has existed at common law without any license. It does not require to bo licensed any more than tho dry goods, grocery or hardware business. Licenso laws, or, tis they should bo termed, tax laws, simply impose restrictions and burdens on a business which would otherwise be without any. In tho absence of well-regulated license laws, the liquor traffic stands on the same footing beforo the law as any other traffic. The tax is a police regulation intended at onco to curtail the evils of the traffio and compel it to contribute to the public revenue. If the traffic could not exist without a license law, then, indeed, it would be true that it "cannot be licensed without sin," but it is a notorious fact that so far from creating or promoting tho traffic, high-license laws do greatly curtail and lessen the evil. If such a measure is sinful, then all human legislation is sinful that aims to regulate, control and punish evils which it cannot wholly prevent. If even God's government permits evil to exist, human laws may be permitted to regulate it. There are thousands and tens of thousands of practical temperance men, earnest friends of temperance reform, and determined enemies of the saloon, who will object to being classed as "timid and half-informed temperance men" because they believe in regulating the liquor traffic by high-license laws. Such a characterization by the Northwest Conference of all who differ with it as to the merits of the high - license system savors too much of tho intolerance' which says "my doxy is orthodoxy, and your doxy is heterodoxy." As long as differences of opinion must and do prevail in matters of religious faith, church government and public policy, we had better recognize the fact and cultivate the virtue of tolerance, instead of applying unpleasant epithets to those who disagree with us. Prohibition is far from being so pronounced a success, or high license so pronounced a failure, as to justify tho advocates of tho former in characterizing the friends of the latter as lacking in conscience, courage or intelligence. The Journal heartily agrees with the conference resolution that "partisan friendship with the saloon must be accepted as hostility to the church, the home and the Republic;" but it finds no trace of such parti san friendship in .high-license laws.' To say that "license, however high, is not a temperance measure," is simply putting a verbal declaration against the overwhelming proof of experience in several States, and scores of cities and towns. Finally, if the conference resolution proves anything, it proves too much. Every argument against high license is equally good against any legal restriction or regulation of the liquor traffic. The only logical outcome of that position is freo whisky and open 6aloons every day in the year and every hour in the day. Wo think the heavy hand of the law is preferable. THE 7. 0. T. U. AHD IT8 LABOR. The formal announcement cf tho sixteenth annual convention of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union is issued over the signature of Frances E. Willard, president. It will meet in Chicago on Nov. 8, and continue through the 12th. The circular gives an account of the extent of the organization, and of tho character of its work, and concludes by saying that these facts are given to the press "for the reason that current journalism has given the impression that we are nothing if not thirdparty Prohibitionists and women's rights agitators. On these two subjects we have nothing whatever to conceal, and beg you to come and find out for your self our position; but we wish you to know how much wider is the scope of this heaven-ordained movement of the home-makers than the general public has been led to suppose. Its motto is: 'No sectarianism in religion, no section alism in politics, no sex in citizenship; but each and all of us for God, and home, and native land.1 " 1 With due respect to tho author of the circular, it must be aid that ilia general public baa been in

no way misled by the press as to the purpose or nature of tho labors of tho W. C. T. U. Newspapers of the better class havo always treated it with the greatest respect. Particularly is this true of Republican papers, which from the beginning commended its purpose and co-operated with it in its efforts to promote temperance. It had the friendship and assistance, direct or indirect, of all who were interested in lessening the evils of the liquor traffic. The work accomplished by the union in the earlier years of its existence was wonderful. Its efforts were all in educational, and in gospel and missionary lines, and the reforms were many and the growth of temperance sentiment astonishing. For this change in public opinion the press gave the union full praise, and assumed no credit for its part in furthering the reforms by giving publicity to the work, and encouragement to the workers. It was when the union abandoned its original purpose of educating the people and entered tho political field that it became a legitimate object of criticism. This move was a matter of deep regret to friends in sympathy with tho actual temperance work, and who saw the mistake that was being made in giving up that sure process of reform, education, for tho vain hope of bringing about a revolution of morals by force, of. securing a law not in harmony with public opinion, and which could not be enforced until that opinion was educated. Many members of the union did not approve of the political move, and there are evidences that Miss Willafd, herself, is convinced that it is not wise to turn all energies in that direction. She and her sister workers can rest assured that the best wishes of tho press and the public are with the organ

ization when it is engaged in educational work. When it is in politics it can expect fewer friends and less assistance. LINCOLN AND HARKISOK. The circumstances under which Abra ham Lincoln and General Harrison as sumed the office of President were very different, and tho responsibilities con fronting them : equally so, and yet the office itself carries as much responsibil ity at one time as another. The sense of responsibility is one of the best as surances of fidelity to any trust, and the honest expression of the feeling is one of the best grounds for confidence and support. It is .interesting to note that Lincoln and Harrison, in their last speeches to their townsmen and neighbors before leaving home to assume the dnties of office, both gave expression to this feeling. Lincoln, epeaking at the railway station in Springfield, said: Friends No one who has never been placed iu a like position can understand my feelings at this Hour, nor the oppressive sadness I feel at this parting, lor more than a quarter of a century I have lived among you, and during all that time I have received nothing " but kiudness at vour hands. Here 1 have lived from my youth until now I am an old man. Here the most sacred ties of earth were assumed:" here all my children were born, and here onekofthem lies buried. To you, dear friends, I owe all that I have, all that I am. All the 8 trance, checkered Dast seems to crowd upon my mind. To-day I leave you. 'J go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon ashmeton. Unless the great God who assisted him shall 'be with and aid mo I must fail? but'al the same omniscient mind and almighty' arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me I shall succeed. Let us all pray that the God of our fathers may not lorsake us now. lo mm 1 coinmend'you all. Permit me to ask that, with enual security and faith, you will invoke His wisdom and guidance for me. With these few words I must leave you: for how lone I know not. Friends, one and all, I must now bid you an aiiectionate farewell. It is dangerous to place any one, as a maker of short speeches, in comparison with Lincoln, for the man who deliv ered at Gettysburg that incomparable address which will challenge the admi ration of the ages can have few rivals in oratory. General Harrison's remarks at his final leave-taking in this city were even briefer than those of Lincoln at Springfield, but they were in much the same vein. Speaking, also, at the railway station, ho said: My Friends I shall presently cease to be your neighbor for a time, and those years, though not many, will not improbably close the earthlv career of some of those into whose faces I now look. This parting is to me full of pathos. The oc casion is too solemn and too touching for speecn. uut tne bright aay without gives testimony that even winter days may be genial and full of sunshine; and this, I nope, has been, and will be. realized bv every one of you. I shall lean unon von. and unon that trreat cornnq.nv.of onrrtntrint. and God-fearing people whom you repre sent. While there is no similarity of lan guage in tho two speeches, there is a striking similarity of tone, of mental characteristics and personal temper ament. Tho tone of each is one of un derlying sadness, if to- melancholy, a deep sense of responsibj'i yon assuming unknown and untried duties, and an earnest recognition of the necessity of support in their performance. Men who feel this way, and who are not ashamed to express their feelings, can bo trusted in great emergencies. Ever since the Republican national convention Ohio Democrats have been talking about a severance of the friendly relations between Senator Sherman and Governor Foraker a fracture which, according to descriptions, was wide as the State and several miles deep. They have told the story so often that;Iiey have actually come to believe it, and can hardly trust their own eyes when they see Sherman coming home to can vass tho State for Foraker, and walking right over the awful chasm, just as if it were not there. It must be very disappointing to find that they have lied so long to so little purpose. TnK question of a new congressional apportionment and basis of representation will come up for action before long. The population of the United States by the census of 1890 will probably be 65,000,000. There are now 825 Representa tives in Congress, and tho new ones for the Territories will make 880. With tho Increaso in population, this will give one Representative to every 197,000 peo ple. According to the present appor tionment one Representative to every 101,000 population there should be 430 Congressmen. Tho question presented will be the alternative of retaining the present apportionment and increasing the number of Representatives, or of in creasing tho numerical basis of repre sentation and keeping the number of members as at present. The New York

Press recently addressed letters to members of Congress, asking their views on the subject, and prints a large number of replies. Of 6eventy-five received, forty-five are in favor of making a new apportionment and increasing tho population of the congressional districts; fifteen favor increasing the present number of Congressmen; , seven think the present number is too large and should be decreased, and eight decline to express an opinion, not having studied the subject. The weight of opinion is against increasing the size of the present House, though some arguments are offered in favor of an increase and some , in favor of a reduction. Superintendent LaFollette's sug

gestion to the State Board of Health in regard to the sanitary condition of the school-houses of the State is very timely. It is entirely probable that in many of them the conditions arc unfavorable to health. The drainage may be bad, and the children compelled to drink impure water, or tho ventilation is poor, the light defective, or the heating facilities unsatisfactory. If left for correction to the public sentiment of the communities, the faults aro not likely to be remedied soon, since the majority of people are ignorant of or in different to the proper requirements in . the matter of healthful surroundings. It is not uncommon to find prosperous farmers living in placid disregard of pestilence-bleeding spots on their own premises, and while this is the case popular opiniou cannot be depended on to secure the best sanitary conditions in school-houses. In cities where sewerage and the water supply are matters demanding more or less attention from every citizen, the conditions are apt to bo better, but even there matters are bad enough. The public needs to be educated on the sanitary question, and if the Board of Health takes the schoolhouses in hand and puts them in proper shape for occupancy it will not only pro tect the pupils from disease, but will teach a lesson to the parents. Investigations in regard to the manage ment of public affairs are always in order. The resolution adopted by the Board of Aldermen ordering the city clerk to furnish a statement of moneys expended by the etre6t commissioner since Jan. 1, although evidently intended to make political capital, should be fairly and honestly met. With , more miles of dirt streets to keep clean than any other city in the United States, and with three natural gas com panies and a water company tearing them up during the last two years, it would not be surprising if the bost of keeping them in even tolerable condition was consider able. But, little or much, the people always have a right to know. Judge Howland's decision sustaining the val idity of tho law authorizing an increase of the saloon tax, and also the validity of the city ordinance increasing the tax to $250, gives the Liquor League and city Democracy a black eye. If this legislation is sustained, as no doubt it will be, by tho Supreme Court, it will make a permanent addition to the city revenues of about $50,000 a year. Provided, of course, that the Democrats do not repeal the ordinance, as they are promising tho saloon-keepers to do if they carry the Council. Recent rough experiences have mado Boston capitalists wary of home talent. Nowadays, whenever a prominent business man of the Hub takes z day off, the di rectors of the corporation with which he is connected hold a meeting forthwith' and put an expert on the books. It is sincerely to be hoped that all the various rapid-transit schemes have not gone glimmering down the vistas of time. It would be a real pleasure to get home from business to one's children whilo they are young. , Colonel Patterson and Major Huff, those chivalrous Georgia duelists, "of proved courage' find it an easy matter to dodge .the minions of the law. It's the work of dodging each other that keeps them busy. A small piece of limbunrer cheese carried about one's person will drive away the disagreeable odor of tobacco smoke, so on'ensive to deli cate nostrils.-! ew York Mail and Express. It is also possible to end the pain of a boil by killing the man afflicted with it ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. , Mr. Edison smokes a great deal; the more work he does, the more cigars he consumes. The Woman's National Press Association intends to erect a statue to Mrs. R. B. Hayes, in Washington. The Duke of Connaught, now in com mand of the English troops at Bombay, will visit tho United States next spring on his way to England. , It appears that Francis E. Spinner is not at the point of death, as has been reported. He is improving in health, and is expected . to arrive at his old home in Mohawk in a few days. A Pasadena (CaL) letter-carrier uses a bicycle to make his rounds while gathering up the mail from the boxes. The other day he went over his circuit, eleven miles, in an hour and a half. The gifts of the family of the late exGovernor Anthony Colby, of New London, N. II. and his son-in-law. James B. Colgate, of New York, to Colby Academy, amount to 3100,000. Among the inscriptions in her album most prized by Mme. Patti-Nicolini is this, by the elder Dumas: "Being a man and a Christian I love to listen to your singing; but if I wore a bird I should die of envy.". Mary Anderson is visiting William Black, the novelist, in the Scotch highlands. She is in tine health and spirits. She will remain iu Scotland until October, and will not return to the stage for a long time. Ex-Attorney-General Garland is hunting at his hermitage at Hominy Hill, Ark. He has been chasing deer and having a good time. He wrote the other day to a friend to say that he had just killed a fine buck. Sir Charles Dilke is visiting Prince Bismarck at Friedrichsruhe. He has long had an invitation to visit the Chancellor, and his acceptance of it is considered an important step towards his rehabilitation as an English politician. The head measurements of 107 students at Cambridge University show a small diminution in the head capacity as the individual grows one year older, but this is so small compared with the probable error that the observations are quite consistent with the hypothesis that the head remains quite stationary. To Abraham Lincoln Artemus Ward's book was a never failing fountain of fun. Of the quaint spelling and the side-splitting jokes in 'A Ward'd compendium of humor the President liked to talk with the grave Stanton, to whom fun was a mere waste of raw material. On a certain Sunday, always Lincoln's day for relaxation, he said: 'Stanton, I find a heap of fun in A. Ward's book." "Yes," said Stanton, dryly, "but what do you think of that chapter in which he mazes fun of you!" Mr.

Xincoln quickly replied . "Stanton, to save

my nie. i never couia see any numor in that chapter' Count Yiluers de l'Isle Adah, the French poet and novelist, who died a few days ago in Paris in extreme poverty, was descended from the last Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, and there is a legend extant to the effect that the Count, who belonged to the same order, once applied to Kinoleon III for the kingship of Greece. The Emperor smilingly replied that he had disposed of the post already. Mrs. Harriet Beeciier Stowe was poor when she wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The last chapter was written in the office of her publisher in Boston. It was a cold winter morning, and she arrived at the store half frozen. Sha stood over the stove half an hour before sho was sufficiently thawed to hold her pen. Three months from that time she received a cheek for 10,000 as the first payment on the sale of "Uncle Tom's Cabin.7' The oldest officer in our army in ago and by entry into service is Second Lieutenant Michael Moore, of the retired list. He was born in South Brooklyn in 1796, and enlisted at Governor's island in April, 1812. Heenlisted as a drummer in the Thirteenth Infantry. From 1S41 until 1869 he was in charge of the music boys on Governor's island, where all infantry recruits, were sent in those days. He was appointed second lieutenant in the Ninth infantry inlSGO. He was retired for age in 1870. He lives with a married daughter in Brooklyn. . Says a correspondent, speaking of President Carnot, of France: "He is dressed with notable care. Good taste as well as good tailoring characterizes his shapely ligure. The short coat incloses a slim but compact figure. His legs, as he strides a spirited horse, are those of a man of quick and easy digestion; there is no suggestion of gout in the calves. His face is a study in black and white. The skin is pale, almost transparent. The beard and mustache, both carefully trimmed, are even. The nose, slightly aquilinef would be Roman but for a 'decided Jewish cast which marks the entire countenance." COMMENT AND OPINION. A curtailment of revenue and revision of the tariff and revenue laws are unquestionably necessary, and wiU be the first duty of the next Congress when it has effected an organization. New York Tribune. When, oil and water can be successfully mixed the intelligent, property-owning white Republicans of the South and the white and colored politicians who lead the negroes can be mixed; but not sooner. Philadelphia Times. Missouri wouldn't be half as prosperous as she is if Kansas didn't have a prohibitory law. Consequently Missouri, though a Democratic State, is interested in having Kansas continue to bear the Republican banner. New York Sun.It is not true that the most indifferent or commonplace person makes the most satisfactory juror. That is an exploded superstition; and the sooner we get rid of it altogether the better for all the interests involved in the trial of criminal cases. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It is a wrong that Congress may continue to legislate for more than a year after its majority has been condemned and repudiate ed at the polls. The time for the meeting of Congress should be changed to the January, or, at latest, tho March following its election. New York World. The question is now as a threatening cloud on the horizon, but soon it may darken the whole sky, and whoever will sncceed in discovering a scheme wherein labor may always be intelligently contented, while capital always remains safely and profitably employed, will deserve to be esteemed a benefactor of his kind. Washington Post. If the colored men were driven awav. whites would not come to take their places. and a fatal blow would be dealt at the prosperity of that part of the country. How much simpler it would be to be just, to cive the netrro his riehts! Then the whole difficulty would be solved, and there would be no need to resort to emigration and sim ilar deadly remedies. Chicago Tribune. Are not the German, the English, tho Slav, the Scandinavian, all and singular the peoples of Europe who help to make this mighty Republic, who aid to discharge the burdens it imposes, and to fight its bat tles are not these men and brethren? To deny them any share as Americans in legis lation would be the rankest Know-noth-ingi3m. It is not denied by the Constitution or the laws. Chicago Times. The ruling of the present administration in regard to worsteds has been of great ad vantage to the manufacturers, and the wool-growers have been benefited by tho recent decisions in regard to "wool waste." The policy of the Republican Congress, like that of the Republican administration. will be to protect both of these great interests, and Congress will not encourage any throat-cutting on the part of either. Cleve land .Leader. Behaved Like Gentlemen. Burdette, In Brookljn Eagle. A Georgia paper says: "No Southern army ever swept through the North like a horde of Huns and Vandals, leaving in their trail a swath of blood and flame, as Sherman's barbarians trailed through the South." That's true, brother; they didn't. Nobody "deniges of it," Wo can testify that you all behaved fike gentlemen when you swept through the North. You stayed right on the "covered cars" till you got to uarap uougiass, and then you all went right into camp and stayed there. When history is written nobody can say that the soldiers of tho South didn't treat we 'nn with the most courteous and Christian for bearance, as a rule, when they came North. May be fehernian is to blame for that, too. One of reter Cooper's Good Deeds. Jewish Messenger. - A Jewish physician died not so loner aero who owed his prominence entirely to Peter cooper, ine uoy was weaK and sntiering, and, his parents being poor, was obliged to have recourse to peddling. His spirit and body alike rebelled from the work. Final lr he called upon Peter Cooper and frankly asked his help, as he desired to study medicine. There was a vacant scholarship at Bellevue which Mr. Cooper secured for the youth, and in a few years he not only . ' 1 . 1 a gaineu a competence nut, acquirea literary favor by his translation of German medical books. And that, too, despite a serious constitutional infirmity. All honor to Peter Cooper for his friendly reception of the poor J ewish peddler! Time to Stop Hyphenating Americans. Washington Press. That a homogeneous people mav be the result of the mixture of heterogeneous ele ments in this country ought to be the wish of all good citizens. He who aims to maintain foreign national lines in American politics or sociology fails to do his duty to the xtepuuiic. m m When the Sun Carries Icicles. Minneapolis Tribune. An attempt to revive the Greenback party is being made in various parts of the country. hen the ureennack party comes to life again the mossback party will become progressive. Everybody knows when that will be. They'll Ail SelL Iowa Bute Register. The cotton planters are trvincr what has been supposed impossible a trust among the producers oi one oi our greatest staples. Thev propose to sell no cotton tl urine Sentember, excepting those who must sell to pay debts. - Like Any Other Standing Army. Burflette, in Brooklyn Eagle. General Booth says tho Salvation Army has 2,700 societies, 8,000 officers and an annual income of f 4.000.000. That's iust like the other churches. Salvation's f r'e, but it costs money to maintain an army oi officers. Sorry that It Occurred In England. TJetro't Tribune. Our free-trade Bourbon contemporaries about the great London strike. They must feel pretty bad because it occurred in Englort1 tno OI1 nf fllA I Tn if A1 ft ataa Cause for Congratulation. Chicago JournaL In the course of an interview with an American correspondent. Gen. Boulanger 1 A 11-- . ... . . I i - a m empuniicniiv ucuuu auy intention oi visitj :Li. . A T a. i ing mis country.. xjk mis ue weu remem bered on lhanksgiving day.

DEATII OF CONGEE SSMAN COX

The Noted Statesman's Life Peacefully Ended at His Home in New York. His Desire for the Welfare of the New StateJ Evident in His Last Conversations His Career as Journalist and Politician. New York, Sept. 10. Congressman Sam uel S. Cox died at 8:S3 o'clock this evening. The end was quiet, and the dying man breathed his last as peacefully as if falling into a light sleep. Mrs. Cox, who had been scarcely away from her husband s ledsido for the past two days and nights, held his left hand, while his old friend. Douglass Taylor, held tho other. Ho had been conscious all day until about a quarter of an hour beforo the end. Dr. Lockwood was in attendance at the time. Nicholas Keaney, William nirshfield, two nurses and two servants wero in the room. All knelt about the bed. Mr. Cox's last conversation was about the four Territories, whose statehood he hoped to father. He mentioned New Mex ico and Arizona, and said something about making a great effort in their behalf at tho coming session. Two hours before he died his colored servant, who had just come on from Washington, went to the bed, and Mrs. Cox asked her husband if he recognized him. He looked at him and patted him on the shoulder. Tho colored man's eyes filled with tears, while all were deeply aflected. In tho afternoon, while Dr. Lockwood was talking to him. Mr. Cox made 6omfl witty remark which completely upset the Doctor's dignity. Late in the afternoon telegrams were sent to Mr. Cox's three sisters, two of whom live in Zanesville, O., and the other in St. Louis. Mr. . Cox's nephew, who is the superintendent of the Smithsonian ' Institution, was also telegraphed for. Dr. Lockwood said that th immediate cause of death was heart failure, and the cause peritonitis. Telegrams were sent tn Sprirf.ant.flt-arm nf the firm a of Representatives J. P. Leedom, and to t i in. speaker varusiu. His Career, and How lie Obtained Ills So briquet "Sunset" Cox, as he was popularly called, or Samuel Sullivan Cox, as he was baptized. was a grandson of James Cox, who was a Congressman, a brigadier-general of tho New Jersey militia, and a Democratic politician of note, Samuel's father, Ezekiel Taylor Cox, left the old homestead at Monmouth somo timo after James Cox's death and emigrated to Ohio, settling at Zanes ville, where Samuel S. was born Sept. SO, 1831. The boy, after passing through tho common school, was sent to the Ohio Uni versity. He did not finish his collegiato career, but went to Brown University at Providence, R. I., and graduated in tho class of 1846. He studied law. went back to Ohio, and . began to practice. He did not take kindly to the profession, and after a tour in Europe, tho 6tory of which he told in "A Buckeye Abroad," he, in 1853, became editor of tho Ohio Statesman, published at Columbus. In 1855 ho was appointed secre -tary of legation to Peru, by the Pierce ad ministration, and on his return cultivated politics and was elected from the Columbus (O.) district to the Thirty-fifth Con gress, which was in session just preceding the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln an. President. Ho stood by the Union, and was rewarded by being returned to tbo Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh and Thirtyeigntn congresses, in tn ne was uexeateu by the Republican candidate, and removed to New York city in tho following spring. Hero he wrote his "Eight Years in Con gress' an interesting volume of personal observations and experience. The interval between his removal irom Ohiotorsew York and his election from a New York , district, Mr. Cox passed either in travels abroad or in writing books about thoso -travels. In 18C8 Mr. Cox first appeared as a candi date for Congress in New York city, and was elected by a large majority over ritarr, his Kepublican opponent. This majority was greatly augmented two years after, when Horace Ureeley ran against him. In 1872. when he ran for Congressman-at-large against Lyman Treraaine, he was defeated. He was a few months after chosen to till the seat made vacant by tho death of James Brooks. Ho was re-elected to thn lorty-fourth Congress, was appointed Speakor pro tempore June 7, 1870, and elected Speaker pro tempore June 19, 187Cs serv ing until Juno 24. He was elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventb, -f i T- a il. x urij-ejgutu ami r uny-uimu congresses, and resigned to become minister to Tur key. This position he resigned ' and took his scat m tho lorty-ninth Congress, filling tho vacancy caused by tho resignation of Mr. Joseph Pulitzer. Ho was re-elected to the Fiftieth Congress and attain to the Fiftv-hrsL i His freedom from partisan bitterness, together with his winning social qualities, made him as great a favorite among Republicans as his mastery of parliamentary law and constant readiness to enter into the thickof a party engagement -made him a necessity to the Democrats. Ihe production which won for Mr. cor the sobriquet of "Sunset." was a rieco of descriptive writing which apppearcd intre. Ohio Statesman, May 19, 1S53, and was entitled "A Great Old Sunset." He was in the composing-room of the Statesman tho evening beforo and witnessed a peculiarly beautiful sunset. As the inspiration seized him he picked up his pencil, and, using .in' imposing-stono for a desk, ho hurriedly wrote the lollo wing: A GREAT OLD SUNSET. What a peculiar bunset wa that of last nieht! ILow glorious the storm and how splendid the setting of the sun! We do not remember ever to havo seen the like ou our round jrlobe Tho eeono opened in the west, with a whole horizon full of golden interpenetrating luster, which colored the foiiape and brightened every object into Its own rich dyes. The color grew deeptr and richer, until the cohien luster was trans fused into a storm-cioua, run or nne.t llghtuinc. which leaned In dazzlintr zigzags all around and over the city. The wind arose with fury, the slender shruiis ana giant trees made obeisance to Its majesty. Some even snapped before its force. The strawberry beds and eras plats turned up their whites to see ZepbTrus march by." An the rain came and the ikk1s and tho gutters nurriea away tuunuer roarca frranuir. and the tire bells caught the excitement aril ran with hearty chorus. Tho south and thn east receive! the copious showers, and the west all at once brightened up i n a long, polished belt of azure, worthy of a Sicilian sky. iTenentiy a cioua apiK-area in the azure pcjv In the form of a castellated city. It became more vivid, revealing stranue forms of peerless fanes and alabaster temples, and clones rare and frrand lnr this toundane sphere. It remind us of Wordsworth's splendid verso In his Excursion: The appearance Instantaneously disclosed Was or a mighty city, boldly say A wilderness ofbuildlnsrs, inkfnjr far ' And self withdrawn Into a wondroui depth. Far suiking into splendor without cud." But the citv vanUhed. onlv to k'ive place to An other isle, where the most Leantiful forms of U lage appeared, imaging a paradise in me aistans and purified ah. The sun, wearied of the elemental commotion, sank behind the green plains of the wet. Tho "prcat eye in heaven," however, went not down without a dark brow hanpin over its departing light. The rich flash of unearthly li:ht Lai passed and the ram hadceast-d; when the solemn church bells pealed, the laughter of children out and Joyous after the storm is heard with the carol of birds, while the forked and purpla weapon of the skies still darted illumination around the Starling Collcpe. tr ine to rival Its angles and leap into Its dark windows. Mr. Cox dedicated his "Eight Years in Congress" to his constituents in Ohio, to whom he said: I represented you truly when I warned and worked from 18.0 tolbGO a irainst the passionate zealotry of North and South; wheu f voted to avert the impending war by every measure of adjustment; and, when, after war came, by my votes for money and men, I aided the administration ia maintaining the federal kuthorltr over the insurgent States. Sustained by you, I Aiurrted every meauro which was constitutional and expedient to crush the rebellion. At the same time I have freely challenged the conduct of the administration In the use of the means committed to it by a devoted people. Believing that a proper ue of such means would bring peace and union, and believing in no peace as permanent unless it were wedded to the Union, in love and contentment, 1 have omitted no opportunity to forward these objects. TL! i