Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1889.

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T11K INDIANAPOLIS JOUKNAL, Can be foond a, the following places: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 Birasd. PARIS American Exchange In Pans, 35 Boulevard cee Capucinea. NEW TCRK Ollsey Uoom ana Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble, 3735 Lancaster arenae. . CHICAGO Palmer Bouse. CIN'CEfNATI-J. P. Hawiey A Co., 154 Vine street, LOUISVILLE C. T. Peering, northwest corner Third and Je3erscn street. BT. LOUIS Union New Company, Union Depot and Southern HotoL WASHINGTON, D. C.-Rlggs House and JEddIU House. The Pennsylvania W. C. T. U. has fallen out. Politics caused the dissensions in a once harmonious body. The Democratic press of the South has a great deal to Bay about tho "campaign of mud" in progress in Ohio. Campaigns of mud are not very pleasing to contemplate, but the3 are much less harmful in their results than campaigns of clubs and bullets. Since Assistant Posttnaster-jreneral Clarkson offered a few figures showing that there are more Democratic postmasters yet in the country than Republicans, the mugwump organs have had less to say about Republican disregard of the civil-service idea in that department. As yet, the Republican administration has only been do-partisaniziug the service. Ex-Pkesident Cleveland declined the proposed nomination to Congress in tho lato Sunset Cox's district. Ho failed to explain why, but explanation would have been embarrassing. He declined, no doubt, because he knew that in Congress he could no longer maintain his reputation as a great statesman, even among the faithful, by owlish silence or the utterance of the platitudes that did such good service while ho was President. In Congress it is a game of give and take, and the best man wins. Considering that the Knights Templars would regard their sacred order as irretrievably ruined if a woman were admitted to the ranks, and that no woman's life would be safe who should gain possession of their awful secrets, the feminine coloring of their toasts is hardly consistent. What right has a womanabjuring society to drink to the grand encampment as "a prolific mother justly proud of her offspring,7' or to the grand commanderics as "a brilliant sisterhood bound to each other by cords of love?" Womankind should protest. Now comes the New York Evening Post and 6ays: "The full returns of the Indianapolis election show it to have been one of the most gratifying exhibitions of mugwumpism ever seen in a municipal election." We have never had much respect for mugwumpism, but would hardly go so far as to hold it responsible for tho election of exconvict Coy ami his political pals, Markej', Burns, Ilickliu, etc. The eagerness of the Post to claim their election as a mugwump victory shows a great excess of zeal over knowledge. It evidently thinks they are apostles of politi cal sweetness and light. The Cronin'case long since became a national scandal, but tho latest develop ment is the worst of all. The conspiracy to bribe jurors is oue of tho boldest and most atrocious crimes of. the kind ever brought to light. Tho indications are that the arrests and indictments already made, including two bailiffs and several other persons, embrace only tho agents and instruments by which the scheme was to bo carried out. Tho principals in tho conspiracy are yet to bo discovered. The State's attorney says "the conspiracy involves men whose names will be a sur prise to the country." After all that has happened in connection with tho Cronin case it will be hard to surprise the country by any new revelations of rascality, but it is to be hoped tho plotters of this latest crime may all be brought to justice. The latest accident in New York from electric-light wires, resulting in the death of a workman tinder circumstances of peculiar horror, has induced tho Mayor to order tho immediate removal of all electric wires "which aro not properly insulated." The qualifying clause leaves the door open for continued danger. Mr. Edison, the best authority on tho subject, is reported in an interview as saying that no insulation will make an electric-light wire 6afe; that sub-ways and insulation will alike prove ineffective, and that the only way to prevent the loss of life is to regulate the pressure, the same as the pressure of steam boilers is regulated. If electric lights are to come into general use, and if what Edison says is true, the most that can be done will be to reduce to the minimum a danger which can never bo wholly provided against. Electricity is tho most subtle and dangerous of all the natural forces, and if it is to bo generally utilized its laws mustbo thoroughly studied and carefully observed. When the Persian minister shook tho American dust off his feet and left tho United States in disgust, because some of the papers had made fun of his royal master, everybody thought he showed a very foolish degreo of sensitiveness. But it seems other ministers aro equally sensitive on the amo subject. A cablc- , cram taya that Herr Yon Bulow, Gcr-

man minister to Switzerland, has made a formal complaint to tho Swiss government against tho performances of a conjurer who has for some time past been entertaining Swiss amusement-seekers. The charge mado against the offender is that of impersonating tho German Kaiser and holding him up to ridicule. It is not to be expected that tho minister or citizen of any country should enjoy hearing his sovereign ridiculed, but it seems like a very small matter about which to make an official complaint. Tho variety actor who has been impersonating the German Emperor must be an uncommonly good ono to have become the subject of an international correspondence. The dispatch says the Swiss Council have promised to investigate the matter. If it should result in the conjurers expulsion from Switzerland some enterprising American manager should engage him immediately. It is probable, however, that ho will be in great demand in France. Frenchmen would flock to see a fellow who could impersonate the Kaiser in such a way as to incur the wrath of his minister.

IHDIANA'3 MANUFACTURES. A private letter from St. Louis states that so largo a part of tho display of agricultural machinery and carriages was exhibited by Indiana manufacturers that one might have taken it for an Indiana State exhibit. The display was probably ono of the fullest ever made in the country, 'filling, as it did, a large number of buildings and covering several acres of the fair ground. In every department the enterprise and skill of tho Indiana manufact urer were not only represented, but were conspicuous in tho excellence of the products. In the department of carriages, Indiana eclipsed all other competitors in variety and quality. Such testimony from one who has no special interest in tho industries of In diana, and who simply viewed the exhibit in a general way, must be very gratifying to our readers who have a special interest in whatever reflects credit cn the enterprise and skill of our own citizens. This testimony, how ever, only goes to sustain . the fact which for years tho Journal has labored to impress upon tho people of Indiana, namely, that while its agricultural interests are of first importance, we have become ono of the first manufacturing States in tho Union. Tho last census showed that tendency, but tho next will reveal a growth in varied industries which has been going on silently during the past decade which will astonish as well as gratify us. hat is most gratifying is the fact that this development is natural and real. No special effort has been mado to attract capital and enter prise to Indiana. Manufacturers have simply come to Indiana and been satis fied that it is the locality in which to plant manufacturing enterprises, and have quietly located here.' They have found that Indiana is nearer the center of population than any other State, and so near to the raw material and the growing States of tho West as to afford tho best location for the factories which produce the goods which these States need and must have. By the ex cellence of their products, Indiana's manufacturers stand first in tho markets of all tho new States, and even in the older States," where their goods come into competition with others. These facts are repeated with this testimony because our peoplo aro liable to forget that, all things considered; Indi ana is unexcelled in all tho elements which conspire to make a prosperous people and a wealthy community. THE SILVEK-COIHAaE QUESTION. From information given out by the Treasury Department it6eemsthe sil-ver-coinage question nas-assumeu a very different phase from that of a few years past. For somo years it was diffi cult to get silver into circulation, and although tho coinage was limited it accumulated in tho Treasury, notwithstanding efforts to keep it in circulation. But during tho last two or three years the tide has turned, and a steadily in creasing demand for silver is not only absorbing the accumulation in the Treasury, but justifies a belief that the monthly coinago will have to be in creased. President Cleveland, in two or three of his annual messages, recommended to Congress the suspension of the com pulsory coinage of silver, on the ground that it could not be got into circulation; that we already had abundance for all our needs, and because, as he said in 18S0, "there seems but little propriety in building vaults to store such currency when tho only pretense for its coiuage is the necessity of its uso as a circulating medium." At that time the silver in tho Treasury amounted to $79,404,345, and tho Director of the Mint was urging the necessity of more vault room in which to store silver dollars. Tho Bland bill, passed in 1878, re quired that silver dollars of 4121-2 grains standard weight, should be coined at the rate of at least 2,000,000 a month, and not more than 4,000,000. In view of tho difficulty in past years of getting it into circulation, the coinage of silver has been held down to a figure not much exceeding the minimum of $2,000,000 a month, required by law. Under this provision the net amount of silver dollars in the treasury, after deducting silver certificates in circulation, increased from 0,500,000, in 1878, to 93,009,000 on the 1st of July, 18S0. There was an increase every year, and almost every month. Tho 6iim last named was tho maximum. Since July 1, 1836, tho amount of silver certificates in circulation has increased from $87,501,000 to $278,000,000, and tho amount of silver dollars in tho Treasury against which no certificates aro outstanding has decreased from 93,9u9.000 to 5,000,000. The figures show a very largo increase in the amount of silver certificates in circulation, and a considerable increase in tho circulation of silver dollars. Tho silver certificates, circulating as paper currency, aro taking the placo of national bank notes withdrawn by banks which have ryduccd r

wholly retired their circulation. Tne net result- of the movement is likely to be an increase in the coinage of silver dollars up to i

maximum of 4,000,000 a month, with n j corresponding increase in the consuuip- i tion of silver bullion. As the laws stand, i this is tho only way of keeping tho j volume of currency up to the necessities of the country and preventing a dangerous contraction by tho withdrawal of national bank notes. If Mr. Cleveland's j urgent and repeated recommendations for the repeal of the silver coinage act had prevailed, the country would now be suffering a financial panic from contraction of the currency. FREEDOM OF SPEECH. The announcement of General Chalmers, of Mississippi, that he retires from the field as the Republican candidate for Governor, because all the court-houses are closed against him, and because leading Republicans and Democrats who are personal friends advise him not to speak in their localities, is calculated to attract wido attention. It cannot be said that General Chalmers is a carpet bagger, since ho was ono of the most zealous of confederate leaders in the late war. Neither can it be said that he is not a man of fair character, because he was popular with tho Democracy before he concluded that it was better to join the Republicans. The Democratic leaders of Mississippi oppose Qeneral Chalmers because ho is a Republican. They close the courthouses against him because they do not propose to havo the doctrines of tho Re publican party preached in a State which ia Republican with an untrammelled vote and an honest count. In defiance of constitutions and laws, these Democratic leaders propose to maintain their rule4by intimida tion and the suppression of free 6peech. A few nights since he was persuaded not to speak, not only by Republicans who feared persecution if they attended his meeting, but by Democrats who inti mated that his speaking would afford a pretext for the shooting of colored men. If these statements are true, and wo believe that they arc, they dis close a most shameful condition of affairs in Mississippi a condition which does not exist in any other civil ized or semi-civilized community which has the semblance of popular government. It is a condition which proclaims .defiance to the genius of republican in stitutions and tho fundamental principle of our form of government. That condition is equivalent to a proclamation that no political speech shall be made in Mississippi, except by those sanctioned by tho Democratic party. This out rage is not directed against Republicans alone, but against all those who see fit to oppose the brutal tyranny of. the Democratic minority in that State. If Chalmers were aGreenbacker he would be treated in the same manner as he is as a Repub lican. How long is the country going to sub mit to this sort of thing? For twelve years there has not been a fair election in Mississippi for twelve years there has not been such a thing as tree speech in that State. What shall bo done? What can bo done? How long will this unsettled question of dealing with those who have deprived a hundred thousand citizens in Mississippi of the right to vote, disturb the repose of this great Nation and menace popular government? "We ask these questions believing that there is a remedy, and that it can be applied that the people will sustain Congress in devising and tho President in applying it. What that remedy is, we cannot say; but no flippant gabble about the "bloody shirt," and no defense of the overthrow of free speech by affirming the heresy of State supremacy should deter the Republican Congress and President from doing their duty in this important matter. Republicans in tho next Congress may rest assured that a large number of peoplo who are witnessing this sort of thing heartily agree with the sentiments recently expressed by General Sherman. Free speech, free elections and an honest count of votes must bo established everywhere in this country. The Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association is the name of a new organization in tho southern part of this State. At a meeting in Knox county the following was adopted: Whereas, Tho prices of hay, feed, grain, etc.. as charged the farmers and shippers of live stock by the union stockyard coni5 anies, are most extreme, being more than onblo the prices tho fanners receive for good hay, feed, etc.; therefore be it Kesolved. That we ask our several legislatures and Congreis to remedy this evil by the strictest legislation, making a uniform per cent, of prolit throughout the country. The probability is that if the farmers should keep an accurate expense account, showing tho cost of producing hay and grain, they would find that they realize as much profit as any other per son who handles them. But leaving that aside, the demand that prices and profits be regulated by law shows what queer ideas some people have as to the functions of government. The Washington Post thinks that for the world's fair the capital of the Na tion should be chosen, because "here is illustrated in a concentrated form the evidences of the manifold benefits that have inured to mankind through the dis - f " l mi . covery or oiumuus. mere. 19 no doubt that under a Republican adminis tration tho government aud its machin ery will show off to great advantage, and in a way to dazzle foreigners; but it is another variety of machinery, and one in which Washington is not rich, that will form a large feature of the fair. Tho 'concentrated evidences of the benefits referred to are as distinctly visible in other quarters. Washington may be tho proper place for the fair, but the Post has not proved it. Sir Edwin Arnold makes the remarkable statement that among the 200,000,000 people in India there are more happy marriages, more happy homes, and more pure domestic relations than in any other part of tho world. There is a "Ramabai Society" in this country, to which many excellent women aro contributing their dollars,

and whose object is to benefit the millions of Hindoo widows. Tho Journal has never been quite clear as to the exact method by which this benevolent purpose was to bo carried out, but, according to Arnold's showing, the society could not do the widows a greater service than to marry them off again. Possibly that is its ultimate intention.

The Democratic minority in Congress will practically control tho Republican majority. In this wayonljr can things be made even. Atlanta Constitution. It would strike a calm observer that the Constitution and other eager followers of the obstreperous Mr. Mills are counting chickens a little early. A legislative body is without rules of procedure until it adopts such rules. It requires a simple majority to take this action, and the Republicans of the next Congress have, therefore, the making of tho rules entirely in their own hands. It is our opinion that there are sewral Republicans in Congress bright enough to frame rules that will prevent filibus tering and obstruction by a captious minority. The Madison Democrat, being too far away to get a tip from "the committee," gives away the Democratic reform snap in this fashion: The election last Tuesday exonerates Sim Coy from the crime for which he has guttered. A majority of 167, the largest of his life, goes to show that those who know him best-dns own ward believo he was a persecuted man. That is what ail the Democratic papers are thinking, though most of them are too politic to say it. Eminent Sir John C. Baird. of Wyo ming, lays claim to one of naturo's phenom ena as a gift especially designed by the Cre ator for a Knights Templar shrine. He made a speech at the grand encampment last week, of which this is the conclusion: But nature herself designed Colorado for a Templar ehrine. If you meet in Denver you will marshal your banners almost under the very shadow or that grand and sacred old mountain over which 'the morning stars sang together at the dawn of earth's creation." Hijrh on its beet ling crest, and facing to the east, the chief symbol of our order glistens with the purest crystals of everlasting enow. Nowhere does nature more sweetly reflect to heaven the faith of earth than from these resplendent gems that adorn the passion cross on that grandest of all Templar shrines, the Mount of the Holy Cross. There is nothing shy and shrinking about the representative Masonic brother. All he wafita is the earth. MixKEArous is doing great work for the heathen this year. Within the past week five gross of fans and nineteen suits of gauze underwear havo been rent to the Esquimaux, and a local publishing house has shipped fifteen carloads of school-books to the Iloosiers. Indiana wiU, in time, be thoroughly Christianized and permanently KepubUcanized. Minneapolis Trib une. This is an aggravated case of supplementing gross injury with grosser insult. Is it not bad enough, in Heaven's name, that we should be deluged by the Becktold ring with Minnesota's cast-off school-books without having Hung in our teeth the impudent insinuation that Hoosiers may be Christianized and Republicanized thereby! Why, the frightful display of iguorance contained in those books is calculated to make a heathen and Democrat of almost anybody. That one salute fired in honor of Minister Douglass on his departure for Hayti seems to have hurt certain people in the South more than all the destructive bombardments of the late war. "Is this a white man's governments comes in screaming chorus from half a dozen of their newspapers. Well, no; it is not exactly the sort of a "white man's government" that is iu vogue in Mississippi and Louisiana. Tue new dynamite cruiser, Vesuvius, can pour about 1,500 pounds of the terrible ex plosive per minuto into an adversary a mile off. No city in the world could stand bom bardment for half an hour by a fleet of such ships. It would be as destructive as the bombardment given Pompeii by the original Vesuvius. - The amiable Mr. St. John calmly con signs to everlasting perdition all who do not believe as he does. According to this ruling Mr. St. John would himself occupy a very small and select heaven; but fortun ately for the rest of mankind the Lord's elect are not chosen by the third-party leader. The Brooklyn Tabernacle was 4estroyed by fire early yesterday morning, for the second time in its history. It is to be hoped that no wicked para graph er will insinuate that the real cause of the disaster was due to sparks from the fiery rhetoric of the pastor, Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. The famous horse Aitell, which has just changed hands at $105,000, was named for the superintendent of public schools at Independence, la., near which place the horse was bred. The teacher can cite his namesake's performance as evidence of the value of physical culture. . A whole crop of senatorial candidates has sprung up in Kansas to contest with Senator Ingalls for his seat. If he should feel inclined to retire, the place he' has made in the Senate would be plenty large enough to hold all of his competitors, with room to spare. "What destroyed slavery?" asks the Atlantav Constitution. This question, 'like "what beat Blaine!' has been answered somewhat variously, but the prevailing im pression hereabouts is that the Union armv was at least a very potent factor in the de struction. A recent enumeration of the manufacturing industries of Muncie shows that since the introduction of natural gas as fuel there have been located there twenty-six facto ries, with an aggregate capital invested of $1,933,000, and employing 2,183 persons. A Southern contemporary asserts that 'it is the duty of Major Burke to come home from London and servo a term in the Louisiana penitentiary." It remains to bo seen, however, whether the Major will prove a slave to duty. - Thk Democrat objectionable enough to turn the stomachs of his brethren in Indianapolis ap parently nasn'tturnoa up yer.cnicago xrioune. Possess yourself in patience, neighbor. The editor of the News is in active train ing since Simeon failed to fill the bill. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The home of Professor Tyler at Amherst, Mass., which was recently injured by fire, was the birthplace of "rl. ur. A crank at Altoona, Pa., wanted a teleera ph operator to send his love to every operator in the world and to collect the costs on delivery oi tne messages. The superintendent of the Allegheny City parks is endeavoring to capture a chrysanthemum prize onerea by Mrs. liarrison at tue inaianapoiis ex ui union. To prove her loyalty to the cause, Jubilee Jane, of the Pittsburg Salvation Army. sang a song of over forty verses without 1 a.Jx. J. ': ! stopping, auu wanteu to uo over again. Mrs: ScnuEMANN.the wife of Dr. Schliemanu, is a Greek woman. She is much younger than her husband.bat the is as loud of Greek as he is. She was a girl studying at the great female school of

Athens known as the Arsakion when Dr.

Schliemann met her. She was tho best student in her class, and know tho "Iliad" by heart. A temperance preacher at Cochrantou, Pa-, fears that "hell will bo so full of saloon-keepers that the devil will stand on top of the heap and club the angels of neaven." Mrs. Gillette, of Buncombe. Wis., whose mare continually switched her tail over the driving lines, has patented an iron hook for the lower edge of the dashboard, by means of which the lines can be released. It is William Sharp, tho English littera teur, who decides that "a finer body of sonnets on general themes could be selected from the writings of the secondary poets of America than from those of our own minor, bards." Alfred Balch, the new editor of Out ing, is an expert in matters pertaining to camp life, having been on many loug hunt ing trips in California, Mexico and South America, lie is a good shot, and is nuent in the Spanish language. Rev. Thomas 1C Beecuer prints 'this: "To Lawyers: My letter (three times re cently) has been less than ono ounce, or siugierate. If I stamp it it overgoes the ounce, unght 1 to pay a second lull rate to carry the stamp of the first ouot" There is probably not a word of truth in the story that Archduchess Stephanie. widow of tho late Crown Prince Rudolph, of Austria, is to be married to a Hungarian nobleman. That unhappy young woman has had enough of marital infelicity to re strain her from risking any more. Mr. Miller, a Canadian government agent in the Northwest Territory, says the people are preparing for a hard winter. 'All along tho banks of the Assinaboine river the muskrat houses are higher this year than I have seen them for ten years, and nearly twice as high and big as they were last year. The sign never fails." Rear-admiral Melancthon Smith is one of the oldest livinz officers of tho United States navy. He was retired ten years ngo and is now seventy-six years of age. When he entered the navy, in 1S2C, there was no such thing in existence as a steam man-of-war, and he bad been in service thirteen years before he performed his duty on a steam vessel. Mr. Moncure Conway is making per sonal investigations in Virginia for his historical and biographical introduction to the volume of unpublished private letters of Washington, which he is editing for the Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn. This introduction will deal critically with existing traditions, and. it is said, shed a new light on Washington's early love affairs. M. Ernest Kenan is engaged in correct ing the proof-sheets of a new book, to be entitled "L'Avenir de la Science." It is an essay entirely written as loug ago as 184S, and which deals, among other topics, witn the theory of development subsequently enunciated by Darwin. He has neither added to nor excised a single passage from tins essay, me oniy alterations wirouucea being those of style. Mrs. H. H. Forrest, from the committee on credentials, made a stirring time in the convention of the W. C. T. U. in Philadel phia bv her renort excluding a nnmber of delegates, and when the commotion was at its height Mrs. Gibson presented a six-month-old baby as a delegate, whereat the dear sisters forgot all about their row and the great principle of representation while they rushed up to hug the darling. The Critic notes that "it is comparatively unusual for a novelist to be asked to give away his novels, but people seem to think that they are paying a poet a compliment when they say, 'Oh, do give me a volume of your poems. I have never read any of them, ana should, be so pleased to have a copy ine poet is expected to blush with pleasurable excitement and to send the price of a volume, with 'author's discount' subtracted, to his publisher, with a request to send a cony at once, postpaid, to the ad dress inclosed." Mark Twain lives an idle, easy-going sort of existence during nine months of the year, unlike most authors he works in summer and rests all the remainder of the year. His home at Hartford, Conn., is a , handsome red brick Queen Anne villa, the firiucipai aitraciiuu 01 wuicn is a large ibrary on the first floor. Here Mark Twain may be found any day during his loafing season, sitting in a comfortable arm-chair with his feet on the window sill, partly hid by a cloud of tobacco smoke. Mrs. Clemens is a sweet, lovely, refined woman, but a serious drawback to her husband's happiness is the fact that she cannot appreciate his jokes. An Englishman, who recently conversed with Tennyson, writes to an American literary friend that the poet laureate is aging rapidly. Talk meant distress to him, and references to persons very close to him in friendship, which formerly enlisted his interest, seemed to meet with but little response. In his walk he shuffled heavily, and the cane that he once carried as a com panion to idly swing in moments of thought had become almost a staff. The strong aroma of a pipe carelessly jammed into ono of his coat pockets was about theonly thing that suggested the Tennyson of old there was certainly nothing in his conversation. manners or appearance. COMMENT AND OPINION. Thrift, economy, enterprise, faithful labor, these are rounds in tho ladder' bv which freedmen must climb, if they would be freemen. .Boston Advertiser. Our Democratic friends will do well not to count on Montana for 1802. The process of natural growth and development will be pretty sure to make the young Western mountain State safely and stanchly Repub lican before tnat time. JNew xorkMau and Express. Civil-service reform has come to stav and to grow, and the corruptionists, boodlers and manipulators of practical politics who onnose it may as welf bear the fact in mind and remember that they are not mas ters, aud that they can be servants only by obeying those who are masters. New York Press. When the historian of the future searches the records of the latter part of the nineteenth century for an American statesman worthy of the honor of being placed in the national Pantheon beside .the Adamses, JenerBons, Websters and Clays of the earlier part, he will select John Sherman. St. Louis Ulobe-uemocrai. There aro now stored in the vaults of the Treasury over 270,000.000 silver dollars. mostly covered by certificates, and as these are all short in value, they represent the weakest and most perilous element in our currency, and the one that should bens carefullv restricted as an unwise law will permit. New York Times. In the Southern States, as a rule, the negro who is content to remain in a menial position, to be submissive and deferential, and to sustain dependent relations Is treated good bumoredly and with a certain degree of kindness. But if ho seeks to exercise his rights as a citizen, and to avail himself of the opportunities for improvement which are conceded without question to even the most worthless whites, he becomes at once the victim of fraud, hatred and dpen violence. Boston Journal. It is the doctrinaire cast of the prohibition mind that reuders it impermeable to even a glimmering of statesmanship. The intemperance of their temperance views fills the peoplo with distrust, and again and again overthrows "the cause." It is believed that biit for their attempt to rob the Connecticut farmer of his sparkling giasa of cider, they might have won tho last election. But if they could not have all they would have nothing and they got it. New York Commercial Advertiser. The first important work before the next Congress -will be the revision of the present rules, and there is a Republican majority large enough to sustain an organization off the House that will act with courage and promptness in this matter. Mr. Mills, of Texas, and his associates in the next House will not be its masters, and they had better begin to adjust themselves to the situation. If they behave themselves they can ride on the back seat, but somebody else will hold the reins. Iowa State Register. Wants to Keep Thein In Ignorance. Memphis Avalaucuo. It may still be said that the children of those ouco held in servitude in the South are being educated by the sons of their, former masters. To be accurate, the sum 60 expended by the Southern whites since

the war amounts to something more than &S.000,000. Whether the result has been to work a real improvement iu tho statu of tho negro race or to increase iu ucf uhiev in developing tho material resources of tho country is a question which wo do not think any one familiar with tho case will require to have answered. It has been so much money worse than wasted. Negro education is a nostrum. CLEVELAND'S CANT.

The Ex-President Tose as a LoTer of All Iofty Virtues. MUvraakes SenUneL Ex-president Cleveland has been .making another little speech. Tho occasion was the services in memory of tho late Congressman Cox. Tho syeeeU is only noteworthy because of the characteristic quality which marks all Mr. Cleveland's speeches and letters intended for the public. His . main purpose -always seems to bo to invito people to note what au embodiment of virtue he is himself. The trick of his utterances, whether by mouth or pen, is to evoke a class of hypocrites and scoundrels; selfish, cold-blooded enemies of the people; and then to cmphasizo his own sympathy with disinterestedness, virtue, the public welfare, etc. Consequently, in speaking of Mr. Co.v, he uhed him as a foil to cull attention to his own line sentiments. The things ho professed to admire in Mr. Cox wero "unselfish public usefulness," "rigid adhereuco to the demands of .public dutj" "zeal born of public spirit," etc. As a matter of fact Mr. Cox was not more distinguished for these traits than the average politician. He was a thorough-going partisan, and there is no evideuce that he was moro scrupulous than tho average partisan. No ono believes that ho was a corrupt man, in tho sense that he would sell his vote for a pecuniary consideration, but cougressmcn who sell their votes are few. Wemustconcludo that Mr. Cleveland assigned him all theso lofty virtues in order that Mr. Cleveland might pose as their special admirer. Mr. Cleveland neve,r lets slip an opportunity to appear in 'this role. Even in writing a let ter to Tammany Hall last summer he employed the same subterfuge. He painted Tammany as "a powerful instrumentality for meeting and exposing nil encroachments of selfish interest and the stealthy advance of ewry corrupting influence," and ne described it as snielding the people from error and misrepresentation, championing tho causa of the weak who are right against the strong who are wrong, and maintaining tho true spirit of American institutions." Verily. Mr. Cleveland has mado cant almost a lino art A Word to Mr. Mills. Philadelphia Press. The Democrats will not "exercise control of the House just as much as though still in the majority," and Mr. Mills is very foolish to say any such thing. The majority will not only control the House, but we exSect to see it pass many bills against which fr. Mills will vainly array his revolution ary forces. Moreover, it is not improbable mai democratic inemoerswui no ioumi supporting these wise measures, one of which will, no doubt, bo a national bank rupt act. . . The Mighty MUls. Boston Advertiser. Mr. Mills has said that they shall not bo changed, and what he says goes without questioning. Tho entire country should stand in awe of the tremendous brain power exhibited by the Texas representative, who allows neither facts, figures nor majorities toruflle his equanimityor disturb his plans. "We propose," he solemnly says, "to exercise control of the Honse just as much as though we were still in the majority." Tho programme is simple and easily understood, . It Was "The race That Killed." Albany Journal. "Edgar Saltus says he will publish his own works hereafter," We believo that it was his "Pace That Kills" which was tho last work published by Messrs. Belford, Clarke & Co., and whoso publication just 1receded the failure of that Chicago house, f Mr. Saltus cares for any advice, wo would snggest that tho pace of tho funeral procession be applied to anything more of the sort ho has inflicted heretofore upou the public. The Punishment Fits the Crime. Minneapolis Tribune. John Eiscnberger, tho Baltimore wifebeater, was punished at tho. whipping post Wednesday evening. Tho job was thoroughly douo, and John will not be likely to forget very soon that it is wrong .to whip his wife. Not until the coreness is out of the thirteen welts on his worthless back, at any rate. Tho lash is not a pleasant thiug to think of, but it seems to be tho only lesson some human brutes can understand. Mlnneapolitan Dirt. Uinnespolls Tribune. Inspector Davids is after the bakers with a sharp stick. . He says that tho amount of foreign matter in the shape of cockroaches, back-number finger nails and discarded capillary growth, found in our daily bread of commerce, is simply appalling. It appears from Mr. Davids s remarks that many of the Minneapolis bakers have missed their calling. They should be driving garbage carts. ., . Yankee Ingenuity. Boston Herald. The Pan-American may well marvel at the examples of American ingenuity which they have thus far been invited to witness. The spectacle of wine and other spirituous liquors served at dinner in the prohibition State of Maine must havo gone far to convinco the distinguished guests that there in nobody like a down East Yankco wncn it comes to circumventing the laws. , Put to Its Proper Use. San Francisco Chronicle The Republican administration is redeeming its pledge to withdraw from the national banks the millions gratuitously loaned to them during Cleveland's te m of otlice. The money,-instead of being bestowed upon favorites to help out political projects, is being used to buy up government bonds, and thus reduce the interest charge of tho United States. Demise of the X.alxr Partj. Springfield Republican. The labor men do not promise to prove a large factor in the coming State election. At their adjourned meeting in Boston, Monday evening, it was voted by 79 to 50 not to place a ticket in tho field, but later the mi-, nority nominated C. E. Marks, of Somer-' ville, for liovemor. He was the candidato in 11587, and received only 5U5 votes. Advice for Jloulangcr. Detroit Free Tresa. Say, General Bonlangcr, lato of tho French army, late of Pans, and late of several locations outside of France, if you can to keep your head on your shoulders, and if you want to live till Christmas to hang up your stacking, drop your tomfoolery and go to sawing wood. You are backing up againut the cage of hyenas. And Neither Will Be Bight. KansM City Star. General Harrison's town, Indianapolis, has just elected u Democratic Mayor and Council. While this will be taken in somo quarters as a stinging rebuke to the admin istration. it will be taicen by conservative people as an evedence that the Democrat made the best nominations. Straight Voting the Safest Tlan. Lo Angeles Tribune. It looks as though a good deal of trading was indulged iu at tho eJectiou in Montana, Congressman for a member of the Legiflature may seem like a good trade upon first thought, but when it involves two United States Senators it slows bad political judgment. i rDemocratic Dletreee. Baltimore American. Half of the Democratic papers are finding fault because the iniquitous tariti is nroduciuir a surplus. The other half are finding fanlt because there is no surplus. Their consistency is re any uistrc&smg. The Democratic Opinion. Philadelphia Record. The steward of the White House has resigned. Tho Democratic organs gem rally regard this as a sign of disintegration in tho Itepublicau party. A I'lippant lleraark. IlarrUburj? Telejrti h, . A Detroit widow wants &T,000 f or a kiss given her by her employer. What; $ro,lXX) for ono kiss! Go to; goto. Give utvo lur live. :