Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSBAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1889.

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' The two Coy organs arc very coy, but they continue to hunt in couples ajl the same. The retention of tho two-hundrcd-and-fifty dollar saloon-tax means $50,000 a year to the tax-payers of the city. Is it worth while to sacrifice a revenue ' of $30,000 a year in order to let tho advocatesof Democratic reform have their way! The whisky ring is trying to capture the city by promising municipal reform. Tho reform they are aiming at is the repeal of the two-hundred-and-fifty dollar saloon-tax. The proposition for tho abolition of universal suffrage and the substitution of a Great White Czar in the management of J city affairs does not seem to meet with much favor. TnE Sentinel and the News are both favoring the election of a Council that will repeal the $50 saloon tax. This would knock the city out of about $50,000 annual revenue. It is Democratic reform. The next time W. L. Scott, mineowner, railroad king and owner of race horses, runs for Congress, he will hardly assume the character of tho workingman's friend. Tho Spring Valley busi ness bars this eminent Democrat out on that line. Don't givo your old school-books away to Barnes & Co., of Chicago, or any other partner of tho Beck told-Williams company. There is no law compelling any parent or pupil to partwith valuable books simply because a branch of the Indiana monopoly wants to make money out of them. If Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, would show half the energy in bringing the white murderers of his State to justice that he did in securing the capture of the prize-fighters, the out rages would have ceased before one hundred negroes were killed, and he would appear to much better advantage before the country. Even ex-Senator Riddleberger could not stand being a mugwump. Lastweek ho boldly announced that he had joined tho mugwump party, and already he has taken the short step that leads. from that point to the Democracy, and has become a full-fledged Virginia Democrat. The Virgina Democrat is a tough bird, but so is Riddleberger, and he will doubtless feel at home in his new surroundings. One of the last official acts of the late Congressman Cox was that of. casting his vote in favor of admitting the four new States. He found few Democrats voting with him on that question, but he was himself one of few, representing, as he did, the tin all liberal element of his party. lie will be greatly missed in Congress by those interested in promot ing wise legislation regardless of partiban politics. The late Samuel S. Cox was one of the best equipped men in public life. Irre spective of party, it is hardly exaggerating to say that, considering his. nntnrnl ability, general culture, long experience anil remarkable versatility, he had no equal in Congress as an all-around statesman, lie was a useful man, not only to his party, buj to his country. His political career was entirely honor able, and his death is a public loss. After all, Senator Voorhees is not to bo at the "tariff-reform picnic" un at Miami. Can it be that ho exhausted himself at Bloomtield, or is it that' ho is pursuing a "plutocrat' somewhere. armed with a rope? Turpio will bo at the picnic, and will deal out free-trado doctrine in his most intellectual manner. but Mr. Voorhees's slang-whanging goes a great deal further than intellect with the untcrrified. From the Demo cratic stand-point of "reform" the Wa bash Senator's absence is a great pity. The Sentinel says "Mr. Pearson ought to be defeated." Of course, it would ay the same of any Republican running for any office anywhere. It does not think Sim Coy ought to be de feated, nor Markey, nor any of the Cov gang. These political thugs are all right, but Mr. Pearson "ought to bo de feated." From a Democratic stand-point there are three good reasons why Mr. Pearson ought to be defeated: First, ho introduced the ordinance raising tho sa loon tax to $52 a year: second, ho intro duced the ordinance raising the same tax to $100 a year; third, he introduced the ordinance raising the same tax to 250 a year. Those three ordinances have placed thousands and thousands of dollars in tho city treasury. Tho last one will cause an actual increase of

over 50,000 a year in tho city revenue,

Of course, from a Democratic and saloon stand-point, Mr.-Pearson ought to bo defeated for having introduced it. If the Coy-Markey-Burns crowd are elected it will bo repealed. That is one of the measures of Democratic reform in city government which will be generously conferred on the people if the Democrats carry the Council.

C01IUI3SI0NEB TANNER. Washington dispatches announce that Commissioner of Pensions Tanner has resigned. His retirement is doubt less due more to his own indis cretion and lack of conservative business methods than to the attacks of his enemies, who are also the enemies of tho administration and the Republican party. These attacks have been unprecedented for their violence, falsehood, malignity and persistence; but it is not likely they would have suc ceeded in driving Mr. Tanner out of office if his own acts and expressions had not, unfortunately, furnished too much reason to doubt his fitness for the position. It is no dishonor or discredit to a man to say that he is constitutionally or temperamentally disqualified or unfit for a particular office. He might, by tho same token, be well qualified for some other office. Corporal Tanner has not sho wn the mental equipoise and judi cial fairness and firmness that a Commissioner of Pensions ought to possess. Especially has he not shown that degree of oflicial dignity and discretion that should pertain to so important an office. He has talked too much, and has said and done many indiscreet things. It is possible that on a longer trial he might have done better, and equally possiblo that he might have done worse. No administration is justified in retaining in so important an office a person who fails to develop the requisite qualifications. As an old soldier who had lost both feet, Corporal Tanner is entitled to tho ut most sympathy, but there "are occasions when considerations of sympathy must yield to thoso of public interest and public duty. THE EEW BANK WITH A MILLION. No one acquainted with tho business and commercial wants of Indianapolis will doubt for a moment that there is ample room in this city for another bank, or for several. It would hardly be overstating the case to say there is a demand. Tho real, substantial growth of Indian apolis was never greater during any period of five years than the five years ending tho 31st of next December. There has been not only a steady in crease of' population, but of every ele ment which enters into the wealth and prosperity of a city. Fortunately, iu these five years there has been no "boom." One was attempted in the early part of '87, when the prospect of secur ing natural gas was strong, but it found no encouragement among substantial citizens, and died out iu less than ninety days, leaving but few to suffer from it. For these five years the amount of building has been unprecedented. With the exception of tho Union Sta-. tion, this has been chielly in cheap, comfortable residences, built for tho homes of the owners with little or no borrowed capital, except, possibly, money from some building and loan association. One might count on the fingers of one hand, the entire number of "palatial residences" built on borrowed capital to be sold by the sheriff before the costly equipments were soiled by use, and to fall into tho hands of some unfortunate insurance company or foreign loan association. Very few of tho residences built in these five years have cost over $10,000, while the most of them would average from $2,500 to $3,000, very many of them being less than $1,000, the sav ings of that industry and frugality which constitute the real wealth of communi ties in genera, and the Iudiauapolis community in particular. The owners and occupants of these neat homes find work at remunerative wages at the numerous industries, old and new, that characterize our city. The introduction of natural gas has not only largely developed the industries which were already prosper ing, but scores of enterprises have wisely sought this center, and are doing well, adding to their own wealth and contrib uting to the general wealth of tho community in a thousand ways. Fortunately, none of these are of that mendicant class which demand a bonus as tho only condition on w hich they will conseut to grow rich among us. They have come ready and willing to pay for what they get, just as they expect us to pay for what we buy of them. The impe cunious man who expects somebody to set him up in business is apt to need out side and unmerited aid to keep him up in business. We.repeat that the growth of Indianapolis has been both rapid and substantial, as may be shown by every wellknown test, and that a new bank, with sufficient capital, will do a ood business none can doubt; but whether any prudent capitalists will undertako' to secure business by ignoring the inexorable laws of trade is quite another question. Ten years ago we had twice as many banks as we have to-day. Some of these were old and presumed to have good financial backing, but those who remember those times will recall that, in some respects, there was a recklessness in methods much akin to tho recklessuessof the real estate transactions of the time. Largo loau3 were made on collaterals, and these collaterals were, in many cases, notes given in real estate transactions, secured by mortgage, it is true, but, nevertheless, worthless, as the result showed. Then there was a "cutting of rates." Exchange was often bought at a premium and sold for naught, and collections were made of country banks, not only without charge, but where actual expense was incurred, and interest was paid on sight deposits, and other well-established financial laws were disregarded. Tho result is painfully remembered. Several of the banks closed their doors, leaving not a wreck behindor rather nothing but a wreck paying all tho way from zero to 75 per cent, of their indebtedness. Indianapolis is to bo congratulated on the soundness and reliability of the banks now doing business here, but

they are none too numerous. The

Journal heartily joins in the opin-, ion that there is room here for more than one additional million of bank capital, but it does not join in the suggestion that in order to secure business it must do a banking business on the "liberal" methods which not only wrecked former banks, but wrecked too many of their customers. THE ALDEBMAKIO TICKET. The work of -the Republican "aldermanic conventions, last night, was well done, and the result is a .set of candidates who will command the respect and confidence of the public. , Aldermen Reynolds and Smith, who were honored with renominations, have served the interests of tho city well and faithfully during the last two 'years, and their indorsement last night is gratifying. Of the new candidates it can be truly said that they are fairly representative of the business Interests of Indianapolis, and are clean candidates in every sense. Mr. Rey noldsV coad jutor, Mr. George Bruenig, has served tho city in the capacity of its clerk, and is very thoroughly posted concerning city affairs. The nominees in the Second district are Theodore F. Smither and A. A. Young. Mr. Smither formerly served a term in the Council, representing the Fourth ward, and made a very creditable record. Mr. Young is employed with L. S. Ayres & Co., and is a gentleman of good judgment and business qualifications. The nomination of Mr. Isaac Thalman will be generally approved. As Councilman for nearly twenty years-he has been a watchful guardian of the city's interests, and his election insures to tho public the presence in the board of a care ful, conscientious and trustworthy servant. In the Fourth district Air. B. F. Hetherington and A. O. Despo were named. The first named is one of the most prominent manufacturers of Indianapolis, and has been actively identified with every progressive movement looking to the city's advancement for many years. .Mr. . Despo is a carpenter and builder, who is very favorably known. Air. Maurice Barry, nominated in the Fifth district, is a ma chinist, a workingman and an excellent citizen. The aldermauic ticket is, in every respect, a good one. In the Eighteenth ward the Republicans put the stamp of disapproval on Coyism by nominating Mr. Thomas D. Shufclton as their candidate for councilman. The nominee is a foreman in the Brightwood machine-shops,' a workingman who stands well with all -classes, and whose record is of the best. Ho will receive the vote of every Repub lican in tho ward, as well as those of self-respecting Democrats. , Ho . should bo elected by an overwhelming majority, and certainly will be if there is any honesty in Democratic protestations ,of disapproval of the renonnuation of exconvict Coy. . THE COLORED BAPTISTS. The series of colored Baptist conven tions now being held in this city has at tracted quite a largo number of inteJUr gent and representative 'colored mefi from the Western States, including some from the South. Tho colored Baptists have an active and growing organization. In 1887 they had 300 district asso ciations, 10,0C8 churches, C,C05 ordained ministers, 1,155,480 members, 3,304 Sunday-schools, with 194,402 pupils, 2(5 in stitutions of learning, with 152 teachers and 3,009 pupils, and 40 papers edited and controlled by colored Baptists. I A1-: lowing for natural growth during; tho last two years, it will bo seen that; tho organization is one of considerable pro portions. In religions faith and tenets they are identical with the white Bap-, tists, and some of their church movements, notably their foreign missionary work, are conducted on a union plan with similar movements of the white church. Tho organization embraces the African Missionary Convention of i tho Western States and Territories, formed in 1873; the Foreign Mission ary Convention, organized in 1880, and the American National ' Baptist Convention, formed in 18S6. Last year the meetings of all these socie ties were held in Nashville, and they will' be held here during the present- week. Preliminary to the regular business ; of the associations, there has been an earnest discussion of the race question in the South. The recent outrages and massacre, almost surpassing in atroc ity any on record, seem to have excited genuine alarm among the colored peo ple of the Western States for tho safety of their brethren in the South. -A spe cial committee on the state of thd: coun--try has been appointed, and .resolutions have been introduced and referred to tho committee, denouncing tho outrages in the strongest terms and bespeaking the interposition of the governors of the Southern States and of the President for the protection of colored citizens in tho South. The action of the convention on this subject, composed as it is of pious and intelligent colored men from all parts of the country, will doubtless give added emphasis to tho enormity of the recent outrages. The late Congressman Cox enjoyed the singular distinction, in recent years, of being the only member of Congress who did not live in the district which he represented. Probably most persons aro not aware that a Representative in Con gress is not required to bo a citizen or resident of the district ho represents. The Constitution only requires that he shall be an inhabitant of the State. Under this provision the people of any district may, if they choose, select their Representative from any other district within the State. Custom has established a different practice, and, so far as re membered, the case of Mr. Cox is the only one on record in which a person represented a district in which he did not reside. His district was entirely within tho city of New York, but he lived in another part of the city. Circumstances over which the editor had ho control led to the omission of the following paragraph from the Evening News of yesterday: As the News advised. Commissioner Tanner haa been TpmoveH. Aftr tb President's attention was called to the recent

statement in the News showing that Tanner was overdrawing tho pension appro

priation at mo rate oi jbitu.uuu.uiaj a year no rnnlri r!n nn 1a than tn nnlor hi removal at once. Wo congratulate tho President on tno sleepless vigilance and wisdom oi nis advisers. - ....... TnE Atlanta Constitutionpublishes the entire correspondence between Huff and Patterson and their seconds, the parties to the duel that failed to com oft This cor respondence comprises some thirty or forty letters, which arc truly awful in their formality and itatellnesa of phrase. To en gage in a duel' after the Georgia fashion .must necessarily involve the employment of " a stenographer and: typewriter and the seconds must be gentlemen who are skilled in diplomacy and . tie power of diplomatic expression to a degree that would fit them .to hold $900 consulships in tne State De partment.' .Tho letters in this case are un questionably, both in style and sentiment, in strict agreement with the "code" a circumstance that gives some idea of what a tremendous and impressive thing a code is. The , correspondence also discloses the fact that a quarrel between two gentlemen may be referred, if desired, to a "board of honor," who will settle it without the need of a personal encounter between the parties. Messrs. Huff and Patterson were invited to adjust their little affair in this way, but haughtily declined, preferring to take to the woods, in the manner, heretofore described, and be headed off by the officers of the law. There is more glory and advertising in the latter method, which has all the advantages of an actual meeting, without the risk of be ing accidentally shot Altogether, the Georgia duel is a humorous affair, which the public gladly welcomes in this dull season as an agreeable entertainment. Miss Joanna Baker, who was recently appointed to the chair of Greek at Simpson College, Indianola, la., spent the past three years at DePauw University, Greencastle, two as a post-graduate student, and the past year as instructor in Latin. Harper's Bazar says of her: The recent appointment of Miss Joanna Baker to the chair of Greek at Simpson College, Indianola, la., is a significant fact as shown.? the progress or woman since it was nrst permitted to her to acquire the alphabet. Miss Baker succeeds to the position filled by her father. Prof. O. H. Baker, seventeen years ago, in the same in stitution. A beautiful elear-evea woman, m the flower of her vouth. Miss Baker refutes the no tion mat there is a quarrel between health ana early scholarship, since at four sho besran Greek and Latin, at eight read the Anabasis, at four teen compiica a lexicon or eophoclca ceqidus Tyrannns. and at sixteen was a tutor of Greek In the collejre which now claims her as its professor in mat noneyeu tongue. The approval by the Board of Aldermen of the plan to build a fountain in the Blind Asylum parkisa .step in the right direction. That square should be put in as good con dition as University Park, aud with the revenues derived from the increased saloon licenses, there is no reason why further im provements should not bo made at once. .The trees set out by Mr. Ingram Fletcher, and thoso removed froin,Circlo Park, leave nothing to be done in the matter of provid ing shade, and at little expense the square might bo made a very attractive spot. It should, by the way, bo given a suitable name. The Washington base-ball cranks, being incensed at Captain Glasscock, vented their ill-will by mobbing tho umpire. This was surely a very delicately expressed compliment to the doughty captain's prowess in a rough-and-tumblo difference of opinion. John R. Soul and Miss Minnie Mind were recently married at Bloomington, Neb. This empirical observation will prove of value to that school of psycologists who hold that mind, soul, will and conscious ness are an identical entity. . The Gazette, organ of the Army of the Cumberland, in 1801-5, will bo revived dur ing tho reunion of that organization at Chattanooga next week. It will be issued daily, and will contain matter of especial interest to all soldiers. The recent talk about revivingthe Green back party was doubtless started by George O. Jones taking an injection of tho elixir. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Can a forth-class postmaster hold the office of notary public at the same time! j. c d. Shaupsville, Ind. .The postal regulations prevent a person to act at the same time as postmaster and notary public, but tho State Constitution says, "if the compensation of the postoffice exceeds $90 a year the postmaster may not be a notary public. Ninety dollars a year is the limit. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Tns Pope has a full set of pearly white teeth well preserved. An English lady has left $50,000 to bo de voted to the photography of the stars, planets ana ne onus. , - Mrs. Susa Young Gates, daughter of B rich am Young, is to be tho editor of a young ladles' magazine at salt L-ake city. Minister Whitelaw Reid is showering .lavish hospitality on his countrymen who happen to bring letters of introduction to mm in rans. Prince Georoe of Wales is the only member of the English royal family who speaks the language of his country without a foreign accent. - Edward Bellamy, the author of "Look ing Backward,'1 spends most of his leisure hours in sorting and labeling his collection of rare sea shells. Edgar Fawcett owns the dog which he has made the hero of last novel, "Solarion." The doe corresponds closely to the descrip tion in tho book, and looks very dignified.' They have a "Tomato King'! in Cali fornia. His shipments average 2,000 boxes a da v. and he bears the name A.L.Gra ham. His tomato ranch is at Hay wards, Alameda county. The Loudon correspondent of the Leeds Mercury says that Lord TennysoA devotes the 200 which he receives annually from the civil list to the relief of distressed members of the literary profession. The Dnke of Westminster, at the request of the Council of the National Sunday Leatrue, opened his London residence one Kundav afternoon in Angust and two thou sand persons visited it in tho course of four hours. Colonel James Reid. a lieutenant in the Seventy-eighth Highlanders at Watexloo, is now in 8cotland. visiting the Scenes of his childhood. He has lived in Canada for the last seventy years, and is ninety-six years old. ' The engagement is announced of E. O. Achorn, a Boston lawyer, and Sophie Zelo, the Swedish prima donna, who is 'coming to tne United States in oepiemDer. air. Achorn met his affianced in Europe last year and again this summer in Tans. Senator Wade's daughter has entered a training-school for nurses, and means to be a professional nurse. Congressman Breck inridge's daughter is a teacher in a normal college, and Judge Kelley has a daughter who is a very successful practicing physician. A Maine boy, afterward a millionaire, is remembered as the author of this touching aspiration: "I wish I had all the gold which conld be contained in all the bags which conld h marie br a cart-load of needles." He died rich but dissatisfied and unhappy. A2TTHONY Comstock spent his vacation at Tanuersville, in the Katskills. and got himself very much disliked by stopping a raiilo for the benefit of a decrepit old man.

and by threatening to arrest a village storekeeper for keeping his place of business

uycu on ouuaay. Prince Bismarck is suffering from in flammation of the veins. This is the outcome of his refusal to obey his physicians. They forbid him ta drink wine or beer or to smoke cigars. With Montaigne's contempt for the advice of doctors, he continues his usual habits, and the result has proved dis astrous. An officer of the Russian army has been" cashiered for saving the life of a peasant woman, "and thereby lowering his standard as a gentleman." If he had mined her lire, instead of saving it, he would have retained his standing as a gentleman. But some men seem bound to disgrace them selves. Religious people in England are startled by the announcement that Sir Arthur Gordon, Governor of Ceylon, has approved a measure which gives "temporalities" to Buddhist priests. State Inouey is thus to bo used for sustaining the Buddhist religion. The matter is to be brought up in Parliament. Senator Evarts and. inventor Edison are to be in London, and it is surmised that they are on business connected' with one of the latter' s inventions. It i Hinted that the Senator's eyes have not needed tho al leged attention of an oculist, but that this was a ruse to cover the real object of his visit abroad. . TnE next Lord Mayor of London will be a Hebrew, Sir Henry Isaacs, and as Lord Mayor's day (Nov. 9) falls on a Saturday, tho Jewish Sabbath, the festivities will be postponed to the following Monday. They, will bo unusually elaborate, and "seven centuries of mayoralty" will be displayed in as many groups. . . One of Chicago's successful preachers is the Rev. Florence Kollock, of Blue Island. In her pulpit clad in princess gown of dark fine stuff, the severe lines of which reveal tho perfection of her tall, lissome figuro, with her fine head thrown back and her dark eyes glowing, she is the embodiment of inspirational enthusiasm. She is wonderfully magnetic, and carries forward her : audience as if by magic. The notorious Sarah Althea Hill is about five feet six inches high, extremely well made, and is still graceful, lithe and slender. She has a pale, olive countenance. with delicate features, and a pair of starry brown eyes, and he thick, wavy, brown hair has never been cut in a bang, but is brushed loojely back and ripples around her brow and ears. Her eyebrows are very black aud arched, and her lids white and drooping. . ; , Arkansas owes Mr. Pan-Electrio Garlaud $5,000 for legal services, and does not seem inclined to pay him, althongh he has ofiered to call it square if the State will pay him 50 cents on the dollar. ' Some members of the Legislature havo voted against Eaying mm because be plays poker, others ecauso he tells stories not suitable to rceat in Sunday-schooL others because he ufnts deer with hounds; such is tho im maculate spirituality of the average Arkausan. . r ; . t , . . Speaking of a recent scene at Deer Park, a correspondent says: . "Summer girls in gay gowns peeped from every, window, and waxed eloquent over tho massive head of the President, the Napoleonic features of r -rT!l , l i i i juajor Aicrviniey ana ne man wno iuoks like a Spanish 7randee. General Clarkson. The girls bad lots to admire.' It was noted that as the President and the Ohio congressman walked together they were exactly of the same height, both short men, but giving the idea of height when seated." , Queen Victoria was-much pleased while in Wales with the music of the Welshmen. She especially liked their singing and their manipulation of the harp. At one dinner eight harpers played during the banquet. Six of them were brothers, under tho leadership of their father, who appeared in full bardic costume, with a cap of antique form, blue robes aud a red girdle. One feunday a few choristers were brought thirty-Uve miles to sing at the Queen's private service. Un the whole, Victoria was mucli pleased with her visit. . COMMENT AND OPINION. The voter who doesn't nay his own tar should be a voter who doesn't vote. Phila delphia Times, i All American labor must be defended. or nono will bo. Free wool means free goods of all sorts and no -protection for American labor. New York Tribune. Nowadays the prize-fighter is considered a braver man than , the duelist, because he is sometimes knocked down, while the man with the pistol is never touched. Louisi . w vine courier-journal. The one Dolicv constantly spurned bv Southern politicians has been. is. and promises to be, that of fairness and concili ation toward the majority, which happens to ue colored. unicago inter ucean. There is no way in which the South can escape conviction upon this charge by the l 1 ? I J il1 a THiuuc opinion oi uto civmzea wona. a black man has no moro chance for his life in the South than an ownerless dog has in a civilized country. Bin ghamton Republican. To bo a citizen under a government like ours either means a great deal or it means nothing at alt If its duties may be ignored or shirked at will, as a matter of no consequence, then we might as well cease to keep up the fiction of a popular form of government. rew York Mail and Express. No doubt it would be very agreeable to many of us to be relieved oi the cates and I anxieties incident to the struffsle for exist ence, but we inav nav too hieh a price -for4 the exemption. Struortile. eventhonsh atA. , 1 . ? , A 1 . 1 leuueu uy pain, is oeuer tnan stagnation,, the loss of individual 'liberty, and galling slavery. umcago Times. We believe that the Demoer&cr nnder his ICleveland'e leadership in the next campaign would, from the beginning,' be foredoomed to meet the most crushing dis aster which any party sustained in a national canvass sinco the overwhelming de feat inflicted on the Greeley ticket in 1872. st Liouis uiobe-Democrat. ' - No better wav conld be found for destroving the power of individual initiative and independent effort than to create a body of officeholders only remotely responsible to the people, extending their power through many departments of activity and industry, i a 1 1 r uuu uuauy iormmg a soiiamass irresistioio to popular lmpact-row lork bun. If men are to be considered impartial in the degree that they aro shown to be grossly ignorant, the jury box must be filled, as the rennsyivania Supreme Court says, with creatures whose "dark minds have never been smitten by the rays of intelh cence." This result cannot be avoided un less a way is found to put in the jury box reading men who admit that they know something about a case and have formed an impression ot more or less strength. umcago lribune. Intemperance In Language. To the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal: As I am a Methodist myself, you will al low me to protest that representative bodies of the Methodist Church ought not themselves to be intemperate in their expressions regarding their neighbors, and es pecially of their own household of faith. 1 notice that the Northwest Indiana Confer ence, at its late session, referring to license or tax laws against the liquor traffic, de clared that they are "a trap adroitly 6et for timid and half-informed temperance men." Looking over the list of that conference I note that quite a number of the members, long resident in tho State, helped to elect the Legislature that enacted the license law, and have voluntarily paid out money to help enforce it many times. If they have now changed their views on such legislation, modesty, if not charity, should teach them not to be such swift witnesses in denouncing their neiehbors as "half in formed." But this is not the worst intem perance of the denunciation. The plat forms of the two old parties in last year's campaign declared for "regulation", of the liquor traffic, while that of the .third party declared for prohibition, nn And nimnle. There were over 500,000 votes cast ami es than 10.000 voted for the third party. There are 25,000 Methodist voters in Indiana, members in "good standing" in the Methodist Church. So, according to the intemperate declaration, over 30,000 of these are only "half-informed" men. counting that all tho third-party vote came from the Methodist

Church, which of course is not tme. It man?fC-, H0 Borr5' to see that tho management of its 170,100 of church p roperty is in the hands of ,uch a iarpe per cent of -half-mformed" people. But that ,9 ?0t nSf W0,m cither. AJth-?-Ll8t!i inrV.-reckonC(1 broad and liberal in their recognition of olh.-r religious denomiuatinns,nd?n their inter! course with them make liberal allowances orlCrl m P.nion ad religi oul doctrine, never once thinking, much less accusing them of being half-informed" ia these respects. But there are, according to statistical information, about 100,0(0 voters in the Mate, .members of other religious bodies than the Methodists, supposed to bo W&ny- And so they also arS "half-informed," since they voted for regulating the -traffic And so it goes, thafc men may hold different views on religion, and on matter bnt tempcraucei legislation, and be considered more thai "half intelligent-all of which isa sai commentary on human weakness and intolerance when this one question it touched. This singular declaration of the conference comes, be it noted, montlj after the wide publication of the late d ecision of . the Supremo Court of the Mate affirming a legal doctrine as old as the common law. viz.: "At common law the sale iof liquor is not unlawful.", and that "the law exacting a license fee does not grant a privilege that did not before exist, but, on the contrary, lays a special tax upon a pursnit which, but for the statute, might be followed without paying any special tax." A united court made that decision, and it afiirrns what was known through all these years of voting for regulating a traffic we havo failed utterly to suppress. I suppose, tho large body of voters have desired a tr4x ort the traffic they could not suppress, rather than have "free liquor" in the State, holding that some discrimination - against it was better, morally, as au example to tho growing generation, than to permit it to occupy the honorable plane upon which tho sale of dry goods, hardware, etc, stands. In tho light of these facts, the greaA; body of Christian people in tho State can affoni . to sutler whatever inconvenience may arise in their denunciation as being half-informed." John B. Conner. l-piANAroLis, sept. io. . . How Farmers Arc Changing Sentiment. Buffalo News, Democratic newspapers are telling us that there is a chanire of sentiment anioujr the farmers and in favor of free trade, but they offer no evidence to substantiate- tho allegation. The other day at Carlisle, Pa., 20,009 persons attended the "Grangers j national exhibition." and they vociferously applauded Victor E. Piolett, the leading; speaker, a veteran Democratic granger, when.be charged that the Democratic party had violated its pledges at St Louis and, joined hands in aneli'ort to inflict freetrade tariff laws ruinous to the agricultural industry. This is a sample of the way tho farmers aro changing sentiment on tho tariff question. 9 A Growing President' Terrensnte Express.

President Harrison was given; a, most come. The first mertsrigb to Congress is to be written, and actiiu on public questions to bo taken. When tho Indiana man rises to these occasions all rs;fi will , forget tho minor displeasures r,nd criticisms arising from the distribntioii of federal patronage, . ? . - ' Twould Be Hard on IlIeal Journals, Chicago Mail. - The Missisci.;! V.ll Medical Association meets to-d.c7 at t aueviile, Ind. Tho report announce that interesting pro-: gramme has be on airar.c-. d ;vcd that eightynine papers will be read.' ii, i possible that all these may be Interttug, but in the in terest of sanity the doctors should fol low the example of tui Congressmen aniV secure "leave to piit't" without reading. Democratic J-)is greeaient. Milwaukee Sentinel. , . Since the big strike in London the New York Evening Post concludes that neither free trade nor protection is responsible for strikes any moro than for births and mar. riages. This conclusion of a high authority is severe on tho Democratic editors who held the tariff to be responsible for tho Illi nois coal miners' troubles. Occupation of Chicago Aldermen. Chicago News. Aid. McCormick is reported to have hit another man. If there are any gentlemen on the North Side who have not yet had 41. : ii l. .i i ii if. t , men c) co uiacucum uy aiu. ilCV;ormiCK, they must not consider themselves slichted. They may havo been overlooked bymistaKe, because or the general pressure of Dusmess. , ,r Thej're Taking a Vacation. ; , Chicago News. One of the most melancholy strikes on record in now in progress in Indiana. The Indianapolis Journal's large and talented . sum ul uuusier poets nave strucK. it is presumed that they demanded the use of ; the rest of the editorial page and all the , remaining news columns of that able news-' paper. Edison and the Shah. ' -'; ,' Baltimore American. Paris gave Edison a far irreater ovation and far more attention than it did the Shah. This was right. Edison has done more for civilization than two centuries of Shahs. A crown is a mere candle in comparison to ll I Jl A 1 1 . I uiu jncanuescent ugni oi his iame..( And She Never W1U Be 3 H ted. J Boston Journal. , ' been savagely discounting the project from the fifst, will not be pleased to learn that San Domingo is the only independent state . which .will not bo represented at the approaching all-America conference - J The Vanishing Elixir. - Cincinnati Commercial Gazeite. '""'" As between tlin drmnrfif ,'nnrl fbA erpected early frosts, the corn crop in the Ohio valley is doing pretty weJL- There - will bo a If Ood vield In unnnil rro?n and farmers will get a fair price for what they nave 10 sen. m 0 Free-Traders Who Were Frank. Hartford Conrant ' A free-trader written fmm SnHnfieTd. OUCStioninff the Cmirnnt'n W1arttinn that m-m mr a . M A mm the free-traders whom we have heard argue say that wages have got to come down. Wo beg to repeat tho statement. ( A Candidate Who Fills the Bill. New York Tress. Sullivan for Coneress! Well, a man who spars at a public show a week after his mother's death, when he is in no need of money, is just about fit to run for Congress on the Democratic ticket Why Slalietoa Is Ileluctan. to Rnle. 'Minneapolis Tribue. The salary of tho King of Samoa is only $30 a month. There is an opportunity for some title-struck American neiress to become a queen and keep a poor but honest monarch from starving. Alwajs on Top. ' Detroit Tribune. The reeularsemi-monthlv announcement of Mr. Blaine's earls retirement from the '. Cabinet is out for the first half of September. For sale by all newsdealers. On the Democratic Ticket Philadelphia Inquirer. Prof. William Muldoon has said that the trouble with Mr. Sullivan is he has no brain, but that is not enough to disqualify him for a 6eat in Congress. A Conalatent Free Trader. Philadelphia Freea. ( Great William L. Scott is a consistent free-trader in everything. He even imports an English jockey to drive his fast racing horses. Good Thing for Mrs, Sullivan Washington iYeas. When John L. Sullivan comes to Congress ho will l:e so busy attending to his publio duties that he will forget to wallop his wife, Putting It Politely. Eochester Democrat The Elmira Advertiser thiuks that Mr. Helen M. (iougar, of Indiana, is "either Indifferent to truth or woefully iguoxaaU

nearty reception in Baltimore yesterday. So he was in New England ana Pennsyl vanhv- - Our Hoosier President' "is much

stronger with the people at large to-day than on the day ho was elected President, and all of his great cincrtunity ia xet ta