Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 18S0.

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PARIS America Exchange la Parts, 35 Boulerard. des Captieines. 2?EW VCIUC Ollsey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. pTKemnle, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer Uouset CINCINNATI-J. P. Hawlej Co, lSlTlne street. LOUISVILLE O. T. Peering; northwest corner Third and Jefferson street. BT. LOTJIft-tinlon News Company, Union Depot and Houthern Hotel. WASHINGTON, House. D. C iu;gt IIcuso ana Ehbitt ' If there is one thirg more than another that the Democratic ang fights shy of in the local campaign it is figures. No manipulation can "bring the figures their way. What the local Democracy loathes just now are municipal records. Their own records are full of holes, while the Republican register is backed up by figures that cannot be knocked out. The citizens of the Eighteenth ward should remember that they are the ones who are disgraced by tho presence of Sim Coy in the City Council. If they wish the stigma removed they must Tote for Shufelton. The evening Democratic organ is grieved because the public refuses to accept it as a great moral lever. Tho public is no fool, and quickly recognizes tho difference between petty personal malice and a genuine reform sentiment. In the last councilmauio election the workingmen of tho Eighteenth ward cast 67 votes for the Labor candidate. It was of these workingmen and their fellow Knights of Labor that Coy said they were "the same old crowd that I have been buying for years." Those C7 votes, and a good many more votes of ;Workingmen, should bo cast this year for Shufelton. Two years ago, when the Knights of Labor held a meeting in, tho Eighteenth ward, Sim Coy looked them over and remarked, "That same old CTOwd that I his way of insulting the workingmen. When it was proposed to put a certain workingman on the Democratic ticket, Coy said, "It's boodle that talks in politics, and he hasn't trot no money." An exchange remarks that the disgraceto the city of having Sim Coy in tho Council consists in the fact that a majority of the voters in his ward desires him to bo there. ' It remains to bo seen whether the majority desires to bo longer represented by an ex-convict. If this proves to be tho case, then his election may be regarded as. a -Survival of the fittest in the Eighteenth ward. . The News indorses itself by saying that "it has never ceased to denounce Coyism, and when the samo methods appear under Republican auspices it is their outspoken enemy just the same." The same methods never have appeared under Republican auspices, and aro not likely to. as long as tho better elements of that party continue to assert themselves. The insinuation that they ever have is falso. Coy has been convicted of an outrageous crime against the ballot. While under indictment and when iaa guilt was notorious, he was nominated and elected to the Council by tho Democrats of tho Eighteenth ward, those in other wards not protesting or objecting. After his conviction all his party associates in the Council voted against his expulsion. Since his return he: has been again nominated for the Council. -.Tlieso aro tho methods of Coyism as theyciist and are practiced in the' -DeciocTaV?'? party. We should like to knovr vI: Hird where they have "appeared under vpUe'publican nuspice3.,, . TnE National Grange, at its last annual meeting, adopted a resolution requesting the Commissioner of Agriculture to pertain "if trade relations with European 'countries could not be established for the disposal . of American surplus agrimltiral..prddn&sr."--In his reply the Cclj'jfio amount of ad vexix " rtr j ci reciprocal trade, nbY cbcafee of fiscal vpolicy can force on. Europe aether peck of wheat per capita, fjjar-liother : quart, for many yvrs Jo xie, unless unexpected .'disaster .shall befall her crops." That 'is thebest of common sense andpoliti- ' cai'econoiny. Europo always takes just ;as much, or rather just as little, of our .surplus agricultural products as she needs, and no more. She does not buy -a bushel to please us, nor for tho sake of buying, but because her people need .the food. She takes just what is necessary to meet the shortage of Her own crops and the necessities of her people, and that is all. No redaction of tho tariff nor absolute free trade could make her take more. St. Louis is now issuing large and expensive world's fair circulars and maps. The circulars explain, at length, what are considered in Missouri the vast ad vantages of St. Louis over other cities t3 a place for holding the fair, and tho ciaps are embellished with circles show ier; that as a center of population neither ITcr lorli nor Chicago can compare viih tba Ukrciiri town, one side of New Vcr'J circb extending far into tho Ataround Chicago

reaches well toward tho North pole. When it comes to talking about the center of population, Indianapolis has something to say. New York, Chicago and St. JLoub may advance their respective claims for the privilego of holding the fair, but if the matter is to be settled by population then to Indianapolis belongs tho plum. The last census fixed the center of population a little this side of Cincinnati, and more recent computations locate it within the borders of this State. Tho census of 1800 will doubtless fix it very close to Indianapolis. St. Louis may "claim," but Indianapolis has the mathematical lead.

WHAT DEMOCRATIC 8UCCES3 HEARS. Tho success of the Democracy in the coming election would bo the success of the very elements which the decent portion of tho commuuit' has been fighting for tho last three or four years. It would be a triumph of Coyism, with all which that implies. Among otherthings, it would imply a-widc-open policy on the saloon question, including a repeal of the 8250 tax, and tho adoption of a policy that would practically nullify existing laws and regulations regarding the saloons. This is a necessity of tho Democratic position, and as sure to follow Democratic success as night follows tho day. The party as now organized draws a largo part of its numerical strength and campaign funds from the" breweries, tho saloons and their various dependencies. These interests aro organized to procure the repeal of tho saloon tax and tho practical nullification of tho State law regulating the liquor traffic. Tho repeal of these laws is not so much a matter of principle with them as it is of dollars and cents. Tho tax, amounting to $75,000 a year, is but a small part of tho amount actually involved. Bej'ond this there is the question of extending the sale and consumption of liquor by planting and establishing new saloons in all parts of the city, and by breaking down tho 11 o'clock and Sunday-closing law. The removal of existing restrictions will give a great impetus to the business andadd largely to the profits of those engaged in it, or who are directly or indirectly dependent on it. All these classes and their personal friends and adherents are working together to a common end, and expect to accomplish it by and through the Democratic party. It is, therefore, no exaggeration to say that the success of the Democracy will bo tho success of these elements. The party could not avoid doing their-bidding if it wanted to. and there is no reason to believe it wants to. . Honest voters who have tho welfare of the city at heart should not mistake the character of tho issues in volved. Tho success of the Democracv would mean precisely what we have indicated. THE ATTACK ON THE FIRE CHIEF. Driven from every other position, the two organs of Democratic reform have rallied on tho ex-chief of thqiy-e department. Mr. Webster is their last ditch, and they seem disposed to light the campaign out on that line. It is a weak line. When a public official or ex-ollicial becomes imbued .w!.h tho idea that his place cannot be filled his usefulness is gone. No man is so great" or capablo in office but that the world will continue to revolve and public affairs to move on in their accustomed course when ho quits office or dies. Mr. Webster was a good chief of the fire department, but no better than his successor. Any man in that position would receive some criticism, and if Mr. Webster or his present champions think he did not they arc greatly mistaken. The Journal deprecated his removal at the time it was made, but there may have been good business reasons for it not known to tho public, aud up to the present time there is no reason to think tho Council erred in the selection of his successor. While Mr. Webster's administration of the office was fairly capable, it was no more so than that of tho present chief. And tho Journal will take leave to add that if Mr. Webster is inspiring or encouraging the attacks on his successor, and the attempt to elevate his personal grievances into an issue of public importance, it would go to justify a belief that ho had reached an estimate of his own importance rather dangerous to his public usefulness.1 His intimation, made in the Sentinel yesterday, that some of the funds of tho department were misappropriated or embezzled b' a member of tho Council was stupid as well as malicious, and unworthy of his previous reputation. ; As to the charges brought against the present chief and the management of the department, they are utterly untrue. Instead of increasing tho expenses of tho department ho has reduced theim Instead of running it as a political machino the fact is that only two men have been removed since the present chief came in, and both of these for good cause, wliilo nearly half of the present force are Democrats. The morale and efficiency of tho department are fully equal if not superior to that of Mr. Webster's administration. We do not think tho orgaus of the Coy Democracy will succeed in making a great issue out of his sore toe. dVIL-SESVICE BEPOBM WILL STAY. Mr. Roosevelt thiuks that tho civilfccrvico law will not be repealed, because, if nothing else stood in the way, tho President's veto Avould prevent it. "The President," says Mr. Roosevelt, "would certainly veto any act repealing the law, and by no possibility could the opposition get strength to pass it over his veto." The Journal is of the same opinion as. Mr. Roosevelt in this matter. It feels well assured that the civil-serv ice law will not be repealed during the administration of President Harrison unless the repealing act is passed over his veto. President Harrison is not the man to stultify himself, violate his own pledges and those of his party, and betray an important punciplo by lending himself to the repeal of a measure so clearly in the interest of political and administrative reform as tho civil -service law. When the Republican party wants that law wiped off tho statute books and replaced by tho spoils system, pure and simple, it will have to elect a President on that platform, and

it will not be President Harrison, either. In short, the Journal is of the opinion that the President firmly and conscientiously believes that the body of tho civil service should be removed from the operation of the spoils system, and while he may not be a stickler for the very letter of the present law he will never surrender any part of the principle it embodies, nor agree to the repeal of the present law, unless for the purpose of replacing it with another equally a3 good or better. The form and details of the law are not material, and may be changed. Tho principle is vital, and must not be sacrificed. It will be a long time before any party will go before tho country on a platform advocating the repeal of tho law, and still longer before any party will succeed on such a platform. Civil-service reform has come to stay, either in its present form or a bet

ter one. The evening organ of the Democracy produces figures to prove that Sim Coy is spending money -lavishly in making street repairs in. his ward, and, after demonstrating to everybody's entire sat isfaction that the work already done or provided for will cost upwards of 8300, asks, wonderingly, "Who is backing him, and furnishing the money?" ' Who, to bo sure? WTho furnished the money to defend the little boss in his trials in tho federal courts! Who gave Coy a public testimonial netting him over a thousand dollars after his conviction? Sim Coy has never seen the time 6ince Qs entrance into politics when ho needed money that the Democratic party of Indianapolis has not contributed it freely. It is notoriously a fact ' that Democratic officeholders of high and low degree, from federal appointees to the underlings in tho employ of tho Demo cratic county officers, contributed money to defend Coy and the other tally-sheet scoundrels, and it is probably true that his revenues are now derived practically from the same sources. Tho Democracy of Indianapolis is as much interested in Sim Coy's election next month as it was when he was a candidate before and under indictment, and is evidently seeing to it that he is supplied with all the money ho needs or wants to make his fight. That Mr. Coy is spending somebody's money in large sums is apparent oven to the eye of the oblivious afternoon editor, and that it is money furnished by his party friends is equally apparent to everybody else. The reasonable inference is. to bo drawn from tho suspension of tho New York Graphic that there is no demand for a daily pictorial paper. The Graphic was established to first create the want that it was expected to fill, but, though its struggle has been prolonged and energetic, it has never attained the measure of success indicated by a large and paying subscription list. So far as its pictorial features are concerned it has been well conducted, and at times its editorial management has been able and judicious. The frequent changes in the control of the latter department may have had something to do with tho failure, but, on tho whole, it may be ascribed to a preference on the part of tho public for more literature and less illustration in its newspapers. Even tho "regular" dailies which .adopfed illustrative features two or three years ago have learned this fact, and have reduced their wood-cut departments to much.8maller limits than at first. The publication of tho Graphic waj a costly experiment, and one that will probably not bo repeated until public taste has changed. Tiik only effort at reform was in the Democratic party. There the endeavor of the fjanj? to. force Coy into-city politics as a eader again met with resistance and defeat. News. - This sort of humor requires explana-' tory notes. The "gang" referred to is the Republican party. Republicans were trying to force Coy into city politics by nominating him for the Council,' and Democrats were trying to prevent it. See? Well, the efforts of the Republicans met with resistance and defeat by the Democrats turning in and nominating Coy themselves. That's tho way tho Republicans failed to force him into city politics as a leader. The Democratic effort at reform consisted in nominating Coy, thereby thwarting the gang. None so blind as those who won't 6ee. Some people wonder why the organs of Democratic reform do not attack Coy. The reason is obvious; they dare not. Coy is master of tho situation just as he was of tho Democratic convention. He purchased immunity from attack and criticism by permitting the nomination of Judge Sullivan. Does anybody suppose that Coy could not have prevented the Eighteenth ward and half a dozen others from instructing for Sullivan if ho had wanted to? Those instructions were part of tho agreement and understanding by which Coy was to be free from attack by the,rorgans of Democratic reform. Tiik Sentinel's Washington correspondent shows deep grief that the colored mau is not more numerously recognized, aud holds up Mr. Aquilla Jones, who loved his cohered brother so dearly that he, according to tho correspondent's statement, 'Vippointed three colored clerks, two colored letter-carriers and several porters and laborers." The facts are that Mr. Jones, during his four years as postmaster and custodian, appointed not a single colored man as clerk, porter, laborer or janitor. In 1SS5 he appointed one colored letter-carrier, but soon afterward removed him. On the eve of election, last year, he appointed another as carrier, who was the only colored man about the federal building at the closo of tho last administration, this colored man's friend having lost no time in firing those ho found there. The present postmasterhas not yet served sixmonths.but has already appointed six colored men, and they are not all janitors, either. It is announced that the failure of Belfordl Clark Co.'s publishing house will not cause the discontinuance of Belford's Magazine. During tho last campaign this magazine was issued as a Democratic document, but as Calvin 8. Brice still owes the publishers, according to their recent statement, it can hardly be that they are trying to hang on until 1S92 in order to retrieve their fortunes. By the ingenious expedient of changing editors each month this periodical now noses as "independent." but. like

most 80-c ailed independent publications.

the cloven free-trade hoot is distinctly visi ble. The failare of so reputable a business firm as the P- Jfords is to be resetted, but, with no bbter indernent than to engage in such risky literary ventures, misfortune was inevitable. An institution for which there is a demand in Indianapolis is a ladies' restaurant. Visitors from suburban towns, in the city for the day, shoppers from the suburbs and business women alike lament the lack of a restaurant especially adapted to their wanti An est ablishment of this kind, conveniently located and well kept, ought to command a liberal patronage. If in addition to the usual accommodation a comfortable parlor were attached, where, for a small fee, ladies could find a resting place for an hour, or have their bundles cared for, the popularity of the place would be increased and a "long-felt want'' be filled. ' The lone highwayman is holding up his reputation in the North and West for deeds of daring, while the express robber ip the South is having his own way, with no one to stay his career. Two trains wero stopped . early yesterday morning by desperadoes ono in Mississippi and the other in Texas. In the former case the express messenger was robbed of $2,700, and the mall agent of all his registered letters. Seventy thousand dollars of government funds, evidently the object of the thieves, was overlooked in their hurry. Tho Texas robbers secured three bags of silver and two $5,000 packages of currency. Shortly after the election last November an announcement came from New York that the campaign supply houses were loaded down with "bandannas," those inglorious insignia of Democratic faith and defeat. What became of them remained a mystery until yesterday, when it transpired that Mississippi train-robbers were using them for masks to conceal their faces. If they are being used for the same purpose in the other cases of deviltry occurring ia that section, tho mills will soon 4be compelled to manufacture a fresh supply. TnAT is an interesting contest between San Francisco and .St. Louis as to which shall attain the larger measure of fame as a metropolitan prize-fighting center. The energetic city on theslopo has displayed more enterprise and secured the larger number of fights, but the advantage given St. Louis by the killing of one of the contestants is hard to overcome. SanFraneisco frequently fights "to a finish," but has not yet attained the distinction of fighting "to a death." A dispatch from New Mexico says a large cave, sparkling with gold, silver and sapphires, has been discovered in a mine at San Pedro. It is barely possible that a stranded spectacular show has set up a portion of its scenery in tho mine, hoping to receive that recognition under ground which it failed to secure on the surface. Caves sparkling with sapphires are rarely, if ever, seen off tho stage. The tale that comes from Jasper, lnd., is likely to prove more or less discouraging to the gas-hunting industry. After the drill had reached a depth of nearly 1,000 feet the casing suddenly took a downward tumble out of sight and smoke pulled up from the hole. It was not supposed that the Inferno approached so near the earth's surface in the Hoosier State. The only plausible explanation lies in tho fact that Jasper is not very far from Kentucky. Professor Phelps, of Andover, will be grieved when he hears that an evangelical minister of Chicago donies the existence of a personal deyil ,Xbe teacher of good oldfashioned theology, at Andover not only believes that the devil exists, but that he has horns, hoofs and a forked tail, and spends his spare time in keeping the tiro hot in hades. When the spiritual pastors and masters disagree in this way what is the laity to do? TnE Chicago divorce has heretofore been considered a pretty hard thing to beat, but the Chicagoan who sold his wifo and baby for $15 will bo hailed by his fellow-towns men as the inventor of an improvement. It is almost as ' expeditious, considerably less expensive, and affords tangible proof that marriage is not a failure. Boulaxger's inordinate vanity is clearly shown in his interview in which he says the Republican majority in the French Chamber of Deputies will prove so unman agcable that the people will call him back to power. Boulanger's egotism and brag gadocio are unequaled. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. S. M. Stockslager, lato Commissioner of the General Land Office, is on his way to the mining regions of Vyoming and Orecon. Twenty-five artists engaged upon the Harper periodicals have received awards, in medals and honorary mention, at the Paris Exposition. hJ Johannes Wolff recently played eleven pieces on his violin for Queen Victoria, and she gave him a diamond pin and wi'ote him an autograpu letter. Ex-Sheriff McMasters, of DeerLodge" M. T., drives a twcnty-thousand-dollar horse, but isn't rich in other respects. He eiiiovs fast drivine. and savs he is willincr to make some sacrifices in order to have it. It is not generally known that Queen Victoria is a prebendary of St David's Cathedral. One of the duties of a prebendary is to officiate in the church at stated times; but, for obvious reasons, the Queen has not performed this duty. Alexander Dumas is hopelessly orderly, and is often to be seen in his 6hirt sleeves, feather-duster in hand, employed in dusting his study or changing the place of a piece of f nrniture. This is his hobbv, and it is generally on Sunday that he indulges it. Bisnor Fowler thinks that Priuce Li, the Viceroy of China, is "one of the greatest statesmen the world has ever produced." General Grant used to say that the two men who had impressed him most during his travels around the world were Prince Kung, formerly Regent of the Celestial empire, and Prince Bismarck. The largest county in the United States is Cnster couuty, Montana, which contains SC.000 square miles, being larger in extent than the States of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut. Delaware and Khode Island. One-tenth of our present population could find a means of livelihood in this one countv, and then it would not be 60 populous as Belgium. ; ' ' A writer on the Chicago Globe, who had moved into a new boarding-house, says: "About 1 o'clock this morning I was awakened by vigorous shouts of 'He's a liar! Ah! and he is a perjurer, a perjurer! He is a milignant pustule! He is a wart of humanity'' " The writer adds that . he discovered the sounds to be a rehearsal by "the big lawyer for tho defense m the Cromn case." Spcroeon, the eminent Baptist preacher, never makes any preparation for a sermon. It is his habit to choose some text on Saturday evening to bo used on the morrow. Thirty minutes, and no longer, he devotes to looking up references. On these references he jots down a few notes, and with nothing else at hand ho steps into his puliit on Sunday morning, without manuscript or thought of his text other than that given it during the half-hour's study of tho previous evening. Russell Sage is something, more than a mPT& business machine. He served three successive terms in Congress, during which

he originated the idea of having Monnt

Vernon and keeping it as a national do main, lie advocated tho annointment of a committee of ladies, which eventually grew into the Mount Vernon Association, bv whom the home of Washington was finally iiuituacu. uu uueu up as 11 is 10-aay. ir. Sage is taU. thin and straight as a Mohawk. AnciiDucnEss Stephanie, the widow of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria, is living in strict retirement at Ischl. Her suite consists of a lady in waiting, a lady's maid, a courier ana two lootraen. Her carnages are simple and without crests, and drawn bytwohorses. The only ornament which the young widow wears is a locket on a thin gold chain holding the portrait of her little daughter, to whom she writes regularly every day and who is said to bear a striking resemblance to Crown Prince Rudolph. Two of the Australian chief -justices are ex-newspaper men. Hon. Georgo Higginbotham, now Chief-justice of tho colony, was a reporter on a London daily paper. Sir Charles Lilley, the Queensland Chiefjustice, was editor of the Brisbane Courier, the leading journal of that colony. He has recently been credited with the epigrammatic remark that "a newspaper can say anything it likes without getting inside the law if it only knows how." Ther is more than the average, amount of virtue in that "if." It is stated in Vanity Fair that the late Prince Consort left upward of 300,000 to found an "Albert Family Fund," to make suitable provision for his descendants who may hereafter require it, other than the heir apparent and such members of the royal family as may marry into foreign reigning houses. The Queen has added to this fund so largely that it is now said to have considerably more than doubled, and it still increases yearly. It is not, however, intended that it should be availablo during the present reign. ' Col. William M. Fuller, of Perryopolis, Pa., bears a striking resemblance to exPresident Cleveland. He has often been followed by crowds who thought they were gazing at the Nation's executive. In Baltimore, three years ago. Colonel Fuller was serenaded by a brass band, which played "Hail to the Chief," while the Pennsylvanian lay in his bed at midnight. At another time a play was stopped in a Washington theater to give the audience a chance to applaud Cleveland's double as he walked modestly to a seat in the orchestra. Col. Fuller is a red-hot Democrat. Mrs. Emily Kempin, who proposes to open a law school for women in New York this fall, Is a graduate of the law school of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and was nominated by tho faculty of that university to the chair of Roman law. The government, however, refused her permission to teach or practice, and she came to America to study our system of laws. Dr. Kempin plans to establish classes both for those who wish to study law as a profession, and for those who wish some knowledge for business purposes merely, or for the management of their property or affairs. Although Jews have climbed into the peerage of other countries besides England, and have long played almost as proud a part in politics as in finance, no Semitic blood has as yet made its way into the charmed veins of royalty, but at last there is to be a Jewish princess on a European throne. The new Prince of Monaco was, only a few days before his father's death, betrothed to the Dowager Duchess of Richelieu, who is a beautiful widow cf thirty-one. She is the daughter of an orthodox Jew, Michel Heine, who is a nephew of tho poet, Heinrich Heine, and who amassed a great fortune in Louisiana. The hero of the Paris exposition is a civil engineer, Charles Adolphe Alphand, a' white-haired gentleman of seventy-two years, whose physiognomy scarcely suggests that of the lato William M. Tweed sufficiently to say that he looks like him. But the face and head of both men typify broad mental grasp, tenacity and courage. M. Alphand is closing a career as noble as Tweed's was mistaken. He is the man who beautihed Paris under Napoleon III, who . cleared away its ruins after the siege, and made the city what it is to-day, apart from . Haussman's work, and who has now taken the bare places of the great show and the mere dreams of its planners and wrought them all into the wonderful. show by which the world has been fascinated, lie is the director of public -works of Paris. COMMENT AND OPINION. There is no ground for the contention that a larger silver coinage is required to take the place of bank notes in process of retirement. The present coinage is more than sufficient for that purpose. Chicago Times. Evidences are plentiful that the decline and fall of the Prohibitionists has already begun. Fisk, in 1S88, obtained 250,000 votes, but it is reasonably certain that the candidate who heads the ticket in 1893 will have to be content with a much smaller support than this. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. No commission of one crime warrants tho commission of another, and of all crimes dangerous to the welfaro of society those committed under pretense of executing justice are most dangerous. The measure of punishment duo to the mob should bo meted out fully and swiftly. Chicago Inter Ocean. Let tho leading men of the coloved race see to it that the professional negro agitator is Tobbedof his power for evil. Let the Southern people, irrespective of color, attempt together what neither race caa do alone, and we shall indeed have a "new South a South of industry, prosperity and peace." Boston Advertiser. All scales of wages must, under free trade, come down proportionately. Cheap goods woula mean correspondingly low earnings for everybody. If the time comes when the chief interest of this country lies in the direction of exportation of merchandise, it must accept tho English sy stem of free trade and low wages. Chicago Tribune. For the second time a United States judge has declared the Minnesota cattleinspection law to be unconstitutional. The pathway of the politicians who seek to establish out West a chronic condition of dear meat will soon be covered with the dry bones and disjecta membra of their abortive ana discredited legislative restrictions. Philadelphia Record. The work of building war-cruisers has brought to light a fact which should have been long ago recognized in regard to American workmen. It has shown that our artificers of all kinds turn out better work under the same or similar specifications thrm any other workmen in the world. With equal chances and an open market, the United States would become easily the work-shop of all the continents. Washington Post. Our statutes hold penally responsible every man who prescribes medicine without the authority of a diploma from a recognized medical college; but the people who essay to treat dangerous maladies by incantations and witchcraft are held to be exempt. The distinction is an absurd one, and all excuse for it ought to be removed by additions to the statutes. Faith-cure is tue most dangerous form of modern quackery. New York World. We read of Helrew bondage being turned back, of the ark being brought back, of Solomon's temple being rebuilt, of truth crushed to earth rising again in all ages, of right triumphing over wrong in all countries, but in this day and age, with Christianity and commerce extending to every land and sea, we do not expect to read of Iowa, tho foremost State in intelligence and morality, bringing back tho saloon. Iowa State Register. Five cotton-mills started up in New England last week, and new ones aro being oncned North and South, and seven Easterr. corporations are enlarging. The shoe factories are turning out about 1 per cent, moie than last year, the output of paper and glas is' decidedly greater than last year, and every one knows the prosperity attending the iron trade. Woolen-mills are not dping so well, but even there the knitting and hosiery trade seems good. Take it all in all. manufacturing capital, like labor, is doing better in 1889 than in any year of the last five. Philadelphia Press. The Wall of IMftappolntmeut. Boston Journal. Tbero is something verv impressive In the unanimity with which tho free-trade press deplores the "timidity" 01 tne National As sociation of Wool Manufacturers. It is evi dent that the free-trade press is disappointed in tho failure of the association to furnish it with ammunition.

OUT OP HIS TLACE.

Reason for Getting Kid of Tanner President Harrison Had Misgiving from the First. Washington Special to Milwaukee SentineL The facts in regard to the resignation of Commissioner Tanner are bound to come out sooner or later, and it will be found that the real cause of his departure from the Pension Office is not so much that ho talked too freely, but because the opinion early formed by the President that Mr. Tanner is lacking in judgment and business sagacity to fit him for a place so important . and full of responsibilities,had come to bo so strongly impressed on General Harrison's mind that he had to act. " It may be stated on very high authority no less than a Western Senator who is close to tho executivethat the President had grave misgivings of the wisdom of appointing Tanner even at the time" be appointed him. It is said that the very day the appointment-was made a number of prominent Republicans 6aid to Mr. Harrison that they feared he had made a mistake. Tho President replied that "he didn't know but he had." Ever since that time the President has been in a constant state of wony as to how the affairs of the Pension Office were coming out. It is not believed ' that Mr. Tanner's management of the Pension Office in any way reflects upon that gentieman's char-, acter for honesty and uprightness. It was only a question of judgment and discretion, as appearances have thus far indicated. Mr. Tanner said in a very feelingmanner to a friend here a fow days ago that in his management of the Pension Bureau he had done nothing to forfeit the esteem of any one. There is scarcely room to doubt this. Tanner is an honest, well-meaning, impulsive fellow, who, for various reasons, was out of his element as Commissioner of Pensions. Ho is warm-hearted and generous, true to his fricndi. but aman who is liable at times to say things which his enemies find it easv to take advantage of. His management of the Pension Office was rather loose and without business method or discerning judgment. His warm impulses were easily moved, and he would, on the spur of the moment, do things which a careful, conservative business man would avoid doing. It is related, in this connection, that a few days after his appointment a prominent Grand Army man and a friend of Tanner said to him: "Jim, you have been appointed Commissioner of Pensions. I know you like a book, Jim, and I want to say a word to you. You must get for your "first deputy commissioner a man absolutely without a heart, one who has a chunk of ice where his heart ought to be. When one of these unfortunate widows of soldiers comes in and tell you a tale of woe you must turn her over to your first deputy. The moment you get to listening to these harrowing tales of distress your sympathies will run away with yon." Another weakness of Tanner's was tho fact that he had a few ideas on the subject of pensions. In other words, ho had a policy. He wanted the Pension Oflice run on a certain line of policy, and he found himself afoul of the fact that he was not the one to form administrative policy, nor the one to set tho mark as to how the Pension Oflice should be run, or the surplus be disposed of. He had a Cabinet officer's ideas, and tho powers only of a bureau head. In consequence of this he found himself clashing with his superior. Secretary Noble. This meant, as a matter of course, that Tanner had to go. The statement has been made that Secretary Noble has reversed some of Tanner's rulings, notably the ones in regard to rerating pensions lower than4 a month up to that figure, and also the one pertaining to the evidence of -a commissioned officer and one private as competent evidence as to origin of disability. This is untrue, as Secretary Noble is himself authority for saying that these rulings have not been reversed. But the general policy of the Pension Office under Tanner's management was such as to cause alarm. Not that he was in danger of doing too much for the soldiers, but he was doing what he did in a manner to cause the administration much uneasiness. There was a looseness and freedom about the matter that boded tho possibilities of greater danger ahead. It was dangerous to the cause of pensioners, as well as to the party responsible for a wise and judiciousmanagement of the great trust. It is rather surprising, but Mr. Tanner did not remember what, was said to a delegation" of veterans who waited upon the pension committee of the Senate several times within tho past few years. The delegation had been urging the matter of increase of pension for one-armed and one-legged soldiers. Congress had increased the amount of pension to 6uch mangled men from time to time, when at last tho influential men of this body began to think the matter had gone about far enough, as far as public sentiment would stand, in that direction. When the delegation came the last time to plead for a further increase one of the Senators said: "Boys, don't you think this has gone about as far as the people will stand? Aren't you in some danger of doing damage to the other honorable aspirants for pensions? What would you think if you wero in an army that came to a 6pring of water after a long march and the vanguard step ped up and drank copiously, and kept on sipping tho water and enjoying its cooling and refreshing inuuences, while the masses back in tho rear were nearly dying of thirst? You must remember not to endanger the cause of the boys -who have not yet got up to mis neaitn-givmg spring." it is evident that tanner did not keep in mind this wholesome advice. He was for a liberal policy. His act of rerating tbo cases of iifteen one-armed and one-legged soldiers to 872 a month brought a howl from certain quarters and did damage to tho cause of liberal pensions generally. because it attracted attentionlto the drawing from the Treasury at one swoop of over 570.000. and that to be divided among niteen men who had been drinking at the public spring to the tune of from $20 to $.7) a month ever since the war. The question of whether these men are entitled to the rerating is not raised. There is no doubt about that. lint it is this wholesale ousiness that is causing alarm in certain quarters and does real injury to tho cause of equitable and just pension legislation. lanner lacked the good judgment and discretion to see this important point, and among real friends of the soldiers there is no great surprise expressed nor regret shown, except for Mr. lanner personally. that he had to go. " CRITICISING TIIE ADMINISTRATION. Suggestions to Indiana Mugwumps and Othera Who Argue from Wrong Premise. Milwaukee Sentinel. 'The t;ivil-8ervice Chronicle now says: "Tho Republicans should bear in mind that, sooner or later, they will have to face all the facts. In 1886, after President Cleveland had been in office one year, a careful investigation was made to discover how his acts, in Indiana, squared with his prom' ises. The. results were put into a report which attracted attention and did its woric over tho whole country. The same kind of investigation is promised, next year, of the acts of the present administration. I his will be eminently fair, and. in fact, it is the only consistent course." Nobody can rightfully complain of this. The Sentinel be lieves in the correctness of the old adage that what is sauce for goose is sauce for gander. It is not iust. however, when the Chron icle asserts that President Harrison has thus far devoted his whole official work to making vacancies by turning out ofliceholders and giving their places to others to reward them for persoual aud party serv ices. Ono might as well assert that crimes. scandals and base-ban aro the almost ex clusive occupation of the American people. because they occupy so much space in the current news of the day. The fact is that the press gives an inordinate space to the .subject of official appointments, the eflorts of candidates, the contests uetween rival applicants, the action of members of Con gress on the subject, etc. The matter is bad enough, no aouot, but it is not as bad as the disproportionate space given it bv the press makes it appear, it can readily be understood why news of this character should engross so much attention. It is because of its personal nature, and be cause that kind 01 nows is readily gathered and facilrt to write. Only a few will read the details of a public measure, the reasons of the Treasury Department in construing tho tariff law in regard to worsteds, the opinion of the Attorney-general respecting a land grant in dispute, but everybody will read wnen the visit of Senator Sawjrerto the State Uepartinent for the purpose of urging the appointment of Peleg Smith, of Oshkosh, as consul-general to the Tongo islands is reported, . and if If - ftnnra.ru that Senator Hinrnrkof New York, is opposed to Peleg

and demands the appointment of Sampson Suggs, tho silver-tongued orator of the Mohawk, and there is great doubt as to who will win and get the "plum." then tho interest is redoubled: the correspondents take hold of the atlair in earnest; they interview tho Senators; thev interview Pclet; and Sampson, and their several friends: they speculate on the political consequences to Wisconsin and New York accordingly as one or the other is disappointed; and tho reader, remote from Washington, gets tho impression that that citv is fairly "torn up .ith excitement on the subject, whilo the President and Secretary of State aro passing sleepless nights and laborious days in struggling with it. But this impression is liable to bo an extremely erroneous one. m m TIIE GEEK Nil ACKERS AGAIN.

A Queer Old Pxrty with a Sporadic ExUtrnc When It ThriTrs Rest. Iowa Siata EefiMr.! The dear old Greenbaekers have turned in their coffins. They think, or dream, they still live. They are a peculiar party a harmless party. In most counties they are for dicker for.bartcr.for a swap whero iney are uumerons enough. Mostly they belong to somebody, a tail to sorao kite, some bird of the hawk kind. Weaver used them in his day, that has passed nway. Theirs is a handy ticket to vote. When rnooats lodge, or the chinch-bugs get tho barley, or the well coesdrv.or anvthintf else goes wrong, some peepfc want revenge aud vote the Greenback ticket. They aro not an abandoned set like the Democrats. iney oniy nave it dv spells and get over it. They will not go pell mell to the polls for a drink, but merely because they are mad nt something or somebody. Thev are not mad enough to be sent to an asylum, but just out of sorts or out of stomach. Nobody should meddle with them while in the mood an v more than with a setting hen. Nature will bring them around. The only greenback struggle the country ever had was to retain greenbacks in tho currency system: that was before Greenbaekers organized. Republicans attended to it and went on to something else. It' is an amiable weakness. Alight do for boys under iifteen or women over ninety in second childhood. Demo crats capture some of them sometimes, but the blessing lstfccy cannot ie heat, lber appear best flocking alone, like Dundreary's bird. This is bad year for Greenbaekers. They thrive best in rainy seasons, in spots, liko ragweeds, where everything else is eaten bare. Iho drouthy district 01 . jjakota is their paradise this time. The calamity business is doing poorly in Iowa the4 times. The mortgages aro. being paid ot interest rates are going down. Plenty abounds everywhere. It is awful hard to get up a whine orimt on a sorrowful coun tenance, unless it lsbccausethe cobs are too short in the ears this year. The Now Jersey Candidate. Washington Post. ' Thero is much in a name but more in a face, and were it possible to present tha face of fc.. Burd umbo, whenever an idl humorist drives an impious pen into that extraordinary name, his jibe were con. geaieo ana nis pen wouia weep in aumiran tion. K. Burd Grubb is an exceedingly handsome man, with an English cut and carriage that quite dispels the glamour of his name. v hercver he is known, and th contest lies at home, not much material damage can be extracted from a name, which, a trifle grotesque, perhaps, is yet an irreproachable and honorable one. Fag-End of Human Slavery. New York Telegram. There is one nook of the earth still unre deemed. Circassian beauties are still bought for oriental seraglios, but tho Russian law forbids the sale of a Georgian girl against her full and free consent. They prefer lives of confinement and luxurious ease to the hardships of their mountain homes. But even that traffic is declining, and before. the curtain drops on tho ninetoenth century only the scar of human slavery will be left on tho ransomed world. Organized Charities Lack. Philadelphia Preas. The pocr mother who walked tho street of New York on Saturday night until her infant babe died in her arms, too poor ta have a shelter, too ignorant to know whero to seek one, too devoted to her children to earn it with the wages oi snamo, gave one sad proof that in successfully organizing charity 60 as to exclude the uudeNcrving poor, too little attention has been given to the task of finding the deserving poor. Examination of Letter-Carrlera, Bnallngton Free Trcsa. . We understand that letter-carriers will hereafter have to pass a civil-service exam ination in order to get their appointments. We suppose that some of the questions will read as follows: 1. llavo you corns? Ifeo, state how many and where situated, il. Can you read numbers running as high as four ligurei? If so; write out the following; in words: 1010. 8S8S. IKXKh 3. How would 3ou approach an unfriendly dog? 4. Do you enjoy waitmgi A Serious Huslness. Washington Post. Sir Edward Arnold says journalism is a serious business, ftoitis. it is only wneii a man has gone through it and ccme out into tho bright light of the newspaper business that ho feels the weight of the universal lifted lrom his weary snouiders. ine journnlict norup tmiloo. Hn i n. rrrenttrknn niul must be dignitied as dignified as a hungry -,- U T . - .1. man can uc uu (i u iuuuiu. ti ia uuijr liits newspaper man who is frolicsome. 1 Illi's Latest Freak. Chicago Journal. Aofnifil hv n. 1fsi5rft to rreato a Trsi. dential boom for himself, .Governor Hillis having his pictures hungup in the saloons of New Kn gland. Yankee Republicans are not worrying, however, as tne big ntisuana said when asked why he permitted his small wife to beat him, it pleases Hill anci doesn't hurt thcra. Their Reward at East. Baltimore American. Rn ti 1 t-.x-fi rrTi t i n n" Tvnlifirinns of thft nrnrtical sort get plenty of abuse while living, out wnen iney uio meir mueiais aro largely attended by persons of position, who sincerely deplore their ueatn. 1 nero is in this fart. th trnth that noliticians aro not onita as bad as they are painted. The Monument FirU Washington Post. The Brooklyn Eagle says that the New York exposition committee "ought to stick toits choice of the magnificent Riverfido and Bloomingdalo plateau.' '1 ben it had better postpone its show to l'.02. and pro cecd to build the Grant monument. A Mean Remark. . Washington Tost. Secretary Rusk is out in Missouri. It is in tho line of the Secretary's present business to learn all ho ran about seeds, but it is not for us to say that old Missouri is tho neediest State he can find, but it looks as if ho had at least struck a trail. Pleasing Contrast to Sir. Scott. Boston Herald. Tho Duke of Portland is bv long odds tha biggest winner on tho Enjlibh turf this sea son. As ho devotes all his winnings xo charity, congratulations seem to bo atnctly in order to his Grace as well as to all tho rest of mankind. Hint to Porter. Washington Tost. It might simplify the matter of taking itU,i stoto rrTim if the names of the gentlemen who do not want Lonimissioner Tanners place wero cc u u big book. mti Friendly Concern. Boston Transcript An esteemed subscriber expresses tho hope that the littlo matter now underdid cnasiou at Rome will Bruno Uouble in tha minds of the faithluL Faweett'a Vugarles Accounted For. Atlanta Constitution. One good point about Edward Fawcett, the novelist, is that he is a red-hot Democrat His big under jaw has a world of meaning in it. Important, If True. Augusta Chmniclo. The public is amply able to protect itself when dealing with telegraph, telephone, express aud eieeping-cai companies. Popidar Government's Rulwark. Rochester Poroocrau If the colleges prosper thero will bene danger from the coram uae.