Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 188a

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1880.

TVASIlIMiTON OFFICE S13 Fourteenth St r. S. HKATH. Correspondent. Telephone Calls. Business OEce 233 1 Editorial Rooms M terms or suhscrixtion. DAILY, BT VAIL. One reir. without Fnnrtay $12. CO One year, with Hundar 14.00 fttx months, without snnrtay ftu month, with Sunday 7.0O Three mouth, without Minday 3.(H) Three months, vrith yanriay 3.B0 One month, without 8umlay 1.00 One month, with J-umlajr.. ............ .......... Delivered by carritr in city, 3 cent rer week. Per yer. f 1.00 Reduced Rates to Clubs. Fnbsortbe with any otour numerous agents, or send subscriptions to the JOUBNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, lyDixsxpoLu, Ixa. All communications inter, ded for pull ieation in this paper must, in order to rtcnxt attention, be aeeomj-un itd ly the name and address of the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, Can be found at the following places: LONDON" American Exchange in Europe, 449 btrand. PARI B American Exchange In Pans, 33 Boulevard dea Capucuiee. 2TEW YCBK Gilsey House ana Windsor IIoteL PHIULDELPHIA-A. pTKemble, 3735 Lancaster CHICAGO Palmer noose. CINCINNATI-J. P. Hawiey A Co., 154 Vine street. lOFISVILLE C. T. Deerirg, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union Newa Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. C.-r.lggs House tnd Ebbltt House. The mugwump organ which fails to berate President Harrison in one column for his disregard of the civil-servico law, and in another to tell of the general disaffection among Republicans because of his slowness in making changes, is an' incomplete issue. It would occur to some people that one or the other of these statements is an obvious lie but the mugwump editor knows that the readers of his paper are gullible enough to be deceived by anything. . The best thing Boston can do on the school-history question is to hunt for a text-book that tells the truth, no matter whoso sensitive religious prejudices are hurt. There are some things in the history of both Catholic and Protestant churches that can hardly bo pleasant reading to adherents of either, but that is no reason why the objectionable matter should be stricken from the annals. 'History" that is not the truth had better not bo studied. Secretary Windom is either incorrectly reported or else in error in saying that the policy of the last administration in regard to government deposits in national banks "has not been disturbed as yet." Wo doubt if he ever said this, and if he did he ia mistaken. The policy of the last administration in the respect named has been disturbed to the extent of several million dollars. In other word3, the national bank deposits have been reduced several million dollars under the present administration. The policy of tho last administration showed an increase in tho bank deposits from $10,710,144 on the 1st of July, 16S4, to $1,910,480, on the 1st of July, 1888 an increase of $44,197,S in four years. The last treasury statement at hand shows the deposits to bo $48,818,991. This shows a considerable disturbance of tho policy of the last administration, viz., a steady reduction of deposits instead of a steady increase. Tin: Sentinel, without attempting to deny that Mr. Cleveland was dead wrong in regard to silver coinage and in all his recommendations on the subject, says if he was wrong so were Presidents Arthur, Garfield and Hayes. The "you're another" style of argument fa not convincing. Three wroncrs do j- j not make a right any more than two, and if two or three Republican Presidents erred on tho silver question in the early stages of the discussion, that does not excuse Cleveland for repeating and emphasizing their views after time and experience had shown them to be wrong. Two of the other Presidents are dtad, and one is out of politics. The country cial views as it is in those of a man who still poses as a statesman and aspires to be a candidate for President. The fact remains that ueveiana was wrong on the silver question, and that if his recommendations in the years 1885-88 had been adopted the country would now be it jj.i r t ; in me zmusi oi a unanciai panic. . In his speech before the Hendricks club Judge Sullivan expressed a fear that "the people expect too much of the Hew Council," and added that "if the people understood tho stato of affairs they will not expect us to do things that are impossible." Why not! That is just what the organs and howlers of Democratic reform have been demanding of a Republican Council. They have been demanding that with a tax levy and a revenuo limited by law the Council should spend far more money than it could possibly raise, increase expenditures without increasing the debt, make improvements without increasing expenses, and other impossible things. Judge Sullivan and his fellow-Democratic reformers Coy, Hicklin, Burns and others were elected on. the assurance that they would do what had been demanded of former Republican Councils. Tho Mayor-elect is -beginning rather caily to discount their failure. What ho and his fellow-reformers want to do is to braco up from now till the 1st of January and then devote themselves vigorously to the accomplishment of tho impossible, as they are pledged to do. The Journal is opposed to any attempt on tho part of the present Council to tie tho hands or forestall tho action of the next one in any respect. While wo fully agree with tho News that "all history shows that when the Democracy are in power their worst element controls," wo arc clearly of tho opinion that it is no part of tho duty of the present Council to attempt to control things under a future administration. Special ordinances attempting to regulate tho distribution .of patronage or appointments to office, passed by one Council Xor the government of another, are of

doubtful validity and still more doubtful wisdom. It is not important to the Republican party that any particular person should bo retained in oflice beyond his natural or legal term, as now fixed by law. The public interests do not require and public opinion will not justify any attempt to change tho existing status in this regard. It is much better to let the Democracy assume the responsibility and have full swing.

SENATORIAL PATROSAQE. Washington dispatches indicate mucb trepidation and perhaps an impending crisis in senatorial circles over the probable readjustment and redistribution of senatorial patronage. The patronage referred to is that which pertains to the Senate itself tho senatorial offices. In cluding the positions in the gift of the. Secretary of the Senate, the Ssergeant-at-arms, tho Postmaster and other ofii- j cers of the Senate, there is a large amount of patronage to be dispensed. J By the courtesy of the Senate and the j traditions of the lobby, this patronage is distributed by the principal officers of the Senate among Senators themselves according to the supposed merits, claims, statesmanship; influence, etc. Senator Smith, who was an active friend of the successful candidate for Secretary, gets one or two clerkships under that functionary. Senator Jones, who got several votes for tho successful candidato for Sergeant-at-arms, is allowed to name two or three of his subordinates, while Senator Robinson, who managed the campaign for the Postmaster . ot tho Senate, gets his share of patronage in that office. In this way officers of tho Scnato make themselves solid with the Senators, the latter make themselves solid with their constituents, and there is a general feeling of solidity all around. But the admission of four new States is going to change the status quo. The eight new Senators must bo provided for. Each of theso will have : a voto for Secretary, Sergeant-at-arms, etc., and each one will claim his share of senatorial patronage. This involves the necessity of a new deal. The senatorial dignity of the new States must bo recognized. The proper recognition of the new Senators means a curtailment of tho patronage of tho old one3. Our Washington correspondent says: Many of the eld men, who have been held in inferior positions, will undoubtedly ho asked to give way to now men, that tho new Senators may he given their share of the patronage. It is uuderstood that ,the present Sergeaut-at-aims is calculating to give to each of tho now Republican Senators one position worth from 81,200 to $1.-COOayear.-This the new Senators will not consent to, as there are many of the old Senators who are given patronage nnder the Sergeant-at-arms and under too Secretary of the Senate, aggregating away up in the thousands, some of them having twice as nfcich patronage as their own salaries aggregate. This is a very serious situation. An old Senator who controls two clerkships and a 6pittoon-cleaner will hardly consent to be put off with two spittooncleaners and a clerkship, nor will new Senators representing the great State of Dakota or Washington be easily satisfied with a smaller slice of patronage than goes to the Senators from the little States of Massachusetts or Rhode Island. Unless the number of spittooncleaners, laborers, mail messengers, riding page3 and perfunctory roustabouts is largely increased thre will not be places enough to go around and give the new Senators their share without lowering the dignity and curtailing the patronage of the old ones. The countiy will wait with bated breath to see how thiS important problem is to be solved. There is one calamity which it is to bo hoped may not occur. One shudders to think what tho result might be if the President were to attempt to interfere in the control or distribution of this senatorial patronage. If he does Senators should immediately take measures to protect tho dignity and maintain tho prerogatives of tho Senate. They should assert tho awful power of senatorial courtesy and the traditional independence of the body. They should remind the President that under the Constitution tho government is divided into co-ordinato branches, and that as chief of the executive department ho has no right to interfere with senatorial patronage. They should inform him plainly that r.J tho responsibility for the proper transaction of senatorial business rests on tho Senate, Senators alone should have tho power of electing its principal officers and naming their subordinates. They should respectfully but firmly protest against any attempt on the part of tho executive to dictato to tho Senators in regard to the exercise of a prerogative so peculiarly and exclusively their own, and they should insist that such interference and dictation on his part would be fatal to the division of powers and the system of checks and balances on which our government is based. f In short, they should take high ground against executive interference with senatorial patronage. If tho President, in turn, should mildly protest against Senators trying to control executive appointments and patronage, .they should tell him that that is a horsjo of another color, and that senatorial courtesy would not permit them to discuss it. AH OLD BTOBY TOLD AGAIN. The Chicago News is very unhappy. It couldn't endure Mayor Rocho because he had not succeeded in making a paradiso of Chicago, and forthwith it attacked and pursued him, called him all sorts of names, and advocated "reform" with a ticket headed by the Democratic candidate, Cregier The millennium was to set in, according to the News, immediately after Cregier's election. Cregier was elected, but for reasons pa tent to any but a so-called independent paper, reform did not como in with him. It has not come iq yet, and there aro no signs that it is on the way. On the contrary, where decency existed under Roche, now vice and lawlessness reign without interference. The "reform" Mayor, so far from trying to lead reform, is trying to please the whisky-sellers and tho gambler. He needs their influence, and, now that the is in, does not need that of the News. Says that aggrieved paper, complainingly: ' That demoralization which he was so votes and support of his fellow-citizens has

Leen steadily going on. until to-day there is not a police force in any city of tho United States so demoralized, so disorganized, so utterly incompeteut to fulfill tho functions for which it was designed, as the present potice force of Chicago. The prime requisite for admission to the force is 'political pull." The experience of this misguided Chicago paper is that of all others who look to the Democratic party for an improvement of methods in national or municipal government. Tho reform cry is merely used to catch gudgeons. The bulk of tho vicious elements of the conntry aro in the Democratic party, and the vicious elements control. It has been so in the past and it will be so in the future, unless a miraculous conversion takes place, and miracles so amazing are not worked in theso days.

MARBIAOE AND DIVORCE. The mention in the local columns of yesterday's Journal of the simultaneous marriage of two sisters, their abandonment simultaneously three days later, and the simultaneous filing of petitions for divorces, gives more than a usual occasion to refer to the question of marriage and divorce. The Journal is not optimistic enough to suppose that any civil or ecclesiastic legislation can make every household such a perpetual paradise that divorces will never be needed, unless such legislation can entirely recast tho material which constitutes tho domestic circle. Marriago alone will not tiansform a shrew into an agreeable companion, nor a brute into an aflectionate husband, and yet no household.can properly exist without the bond which is to be found only in companionship and love. The popular cry, in view qf tho numerous divorces which startle the world, is in favor of more stringent divorce laws. This is the wrong place to begin. It is an open question whether, instead of making it moro difficult to procure a divorce, it were not better, under a class of circumstances often possible, to make it easier. In spite of tho traditional sentiment that the Christian religion forbids divorces, except for adultery a tradition against which the consensus of universal Christianity protests in practice, and against which unanswerable arguments may bo presented all Christian nations have authorized divorces for other causes. Whether these causes arc too few or too many does not concern the present discussion, nor whether tho present process of obtaining divorces bo the wisest or not. Wo are dealing only with the fact that divorces aro alarm ingly frequent, and tho terrible fact which these divorces proclaim: the fact of unbearable domestic discord. This Is much more marked in the divorces which occur after m an y years of married life, sometimes after a large family of children have been reared, than in the case referred to. Who can estimate tho burdens that one or both of the parties to this life of enforced companionship have endured? And who shall say that the aggregate of purity and happiness would not have been promoted by a much earlier separation if compatibility and sympathy were impossible? What is such a domestic life but one continued life of legalized and enforced adulter? It is certainly devoid cf every element of real domestic comfort. j But how may this frequency of divorce be prevented? In short, the answer is: make the necessity for divorces less. This comprehends many things - and much patient education. Statutory law may help, but it is only secondary at best. It might make marriage moro difficult, but not necessarily more expensive, as somo have suggested. So far as statistics have been gathered these indicate that more than half of tho divorces of tho country are from hasty marriages. Tho Stato may not prescribo the moral fitness of the parties, but it should rigidly supervise the physical fitness, and it should prescribe such a process as to make hasty marriages impossible. A very simple, but a very effective, step might be the publication of the bans thirty or sixty days, more or less. This has become fashionable in high life; why may it not be enforced as to all? There is no good reason why a proposed marriage may be notbe known a month before it is to occur, as well as the actual marriage be known after it has occurred. And probably this is tho most that the civil authorities can do to prevent hasty and improper marriages, and thus to diminish the causes for divorce. But to be effective in the right direc tion our marriage and divorce laws should bo uniform through the whole country. At present no two States have the same laws relating to marriago and ditorce. This affects not the moral and social relation only, but civil interests as well. Tho title to property is of ten af fected by the question. Several cases of great importance have occurred in courts in which the validity of marriago and divorce have figured largely, aud several States have denied the-validity of both marriage and divorce iu other States, when the conditions obtaining in their own jurisdiction have not been substantially observed. We impose con ditions in Indiana that are not imposed in Ohio, hence persons not eligible to marriago here often go to Ohio single and return in a few hours married. This is wrong from every point of view. But this implies national legislation and possibly an amendment to the national Constitution. But this need not be diffi cult. The public is ready for it, and such a proposed amendment would be readily adopted. But tho prevention of improper marriages, and of such domestic wretched ness as makes divorce tho less of two evils, lies far back of civil legislation: it is in the home. Of course in that stratum of society in which the mere animal instincts predominate, no whole some education on this subject can be expected, and society must be content with such restraints as law can enforce; but why should cultured men and women neglect so important a part of tlio education of their children as that which relates to their future domestic happiness? Every other phase of life is freely discussed and provided for with wise forethought. But what mother or father gives advice and instruction to son or daughter on the proper selection of tho comiug companion for life? In 6tcad of giving instructions in a proper

spirit and at a proper time, the prevai

ing treatment of children, on this sub ject is to drive them to the hap-hazards of chance. Tho son is induced to take up with the flirt Whom he accidentally meets, and the daughter to. accept tho offer of a brainless dude, because they have never been taught that in such a marriage lurks perpetual domestic misery until a divorce or death comes to their relief. With proper parental sympathy and advice there would be no elopements in cultured society no hasty,' inconsiderate marriages, and divorces would be limited to the cases of subsequent depravity or shrewdly prac ticed deceit during courtship. TnE talk by the trustees of the Penn sylvania University of admitting girlsto the institution on equal terms has roused the 1,200 male students to a degree of excitement that finds expression in resolutions of opposition. Their reasons are, first, that there is no necessity for co-education; second, that co-education would notbe expedient and would bo expensive; and third, that for every woman admitted two men would go elsewhere instead of there. It will be observed that these reasons are not of great weight, and are made less so by the statement of a trustee who says the innovation would not involve expense, and lis further remark that the places left vacant by boys opposed to coeducation would bo more than filled by better and more earnest students. All this talk about the advantages and dis advantages of co-education has an odd sound in a region where the system long since ceased to be an experiment; but tho Eastern mind takes in new ideas slowly. If the girls fail to get into tho Pennsylvania University this time they need not despair. The doors will open after a while, and those' now opposing will profess to have believed 'in the method from the first. The following is from the Charleston Courier, the Democratic organ of Coles county, Illinois. It shows how the most obstinate facts can be fused in the Dem ocratic crucible and made to do party service. The Courier says: Sim Coy, who is a Democrat and for years a holy terror to tho Republicans of Indian apolis, vras sent to the penitentiary vv perjurca scounureis wuo cnargea mm wnn tampering with the ballot-box. It leaked out that he was wron erf all v and illegally convicted. Ho was pardoned out andcamo home, when the Democrats took him. up, nominated him for Mayor, and Sim'Coy was elected Mayor on Tuesday of last week by i,7v& over Louurn, Kepublican. It is Coy's time to get even with some of the white-livered perjurers for the wrong they did him. Is it possible tho voters of Indianapolis were hoodwinked in tho late election, and that Coy ran for Mayor and was elected under the alias Sullivan? Tirn Democrats have been in the minori ty, with one exception, since the war. During all this time they have sat in the Council and strenuously opposed all jobberies and violations of the laws. Judge Sullivan's speech." The "one exception" referred to was, without exception, a period of tho worst misrule, extravagance and corruption ever known in the city government. Since then the principal jobberies the Democracy have voted against have been the ordinances twice increasing the sa loon tax and the resolution to expel con vict Coy. Let us bo frank as we go along. New Jersey girls are precocious. Little Annie Green, twelve years of age, fairhaired and with innocent blue eyes, was 6ent by her father, one day last week, to the village near which they lived to pay some bills. She did not return till next day, and was then discovered, wet and draggled, lying under a railroad bridge not far from home. She told a pitiful tale of having been sandbagged by some men,. her pocket picked of the $C0 intrusted to her. and of having been thrown where she was found. Her family was greatly distressed. and an effort Was made to discover the per petrators of tho outrage. One of the de tectives, however, had doubts, and, obtain ing permission to talk to the child, who was under a doctor's care, soon obtained from her a confession tbat she had not been robbed, but had gone to New York and bought a watch and chain and a cloak with tho money. Coming back, she became frightened at possible consequences, and, hiding her possessions under a culvert, placed herself where found, and concocted the tale afterwards told. The as tonished father refused to believe the confession until a search at the point indicated disclosed the articles described. The yearn ing for liuery simultaneously with the pos session of money had proved too strong a combination for the juvenile mind and conscience. Little' Annie will not do so next time. ' Mrs. Mollie Corwin, of Shelbyville, is beginning to discover that too much marriage is a failure, and has come to grief through a little difference of opinion between her sixth and eighth husbands, as a result of which No. 6 is supposed to be upon his death bed. Mrs. Corwin is hardly deserving of sympathy. She ought to nave known that after a reasonable limit in the number of husbands has been reached, it is almost impossible to avoid domestic confusion. The enthusiasts of Fredericksburg, Va., who gave away all their property and turned looso their live stock in the confident expectation that tho world would come to an end on. Tuesday night, are not so wealthy as they were, but they know more; and they have an impression that the next false prophet who appears among them will como to an end a good while be fore the orld does. fiovEKNon Hi r.L remarked In Atlanta."Ileftmy cyclopedia at home," but he proved uv his speech that he was not in as bad a tlx as President Harrison during his recent trip to Indianapolis, when licleft his private f ecretary In Washing ton. 6t. Louis Post-Dispatch. Hey? VbatfB this? Wiien was President Harrison at home? Can he have been here and made himself visible only to Democratic editors? ABOUT riOPLE AND THINGS. A club for women, mainly for the benefit of country members, is to be established in New York. Dues, $10 a year. Greatness has its annoyances, too. Mr. Edison is called '01d Macaroni" by the Menlo Park hoys, who have heard that he has been made a count. Mmk. Xilsson's voice is said -to be as clear, strong aud brilliant as ever; but she is rich, and her husband, who is also rich, objects to her appearance on the stage. Judge Lehper once owned ICO acres of land near Pierre, the new capital of Dakota. The land would now be worth $2.0,000, but the Judgo sold it for .f5,0U0, and is now shoveling coal for a living. Leader Sousa. of the Marine Band, at Washington, hat completed bis collection

of the national songs of the world, ordered

bv the Navv Department. Mr. Soiua has been able to identify the composers or otm twenty -ono numoers out oi wnicn ius book contains, t . The champion woman preacher of the West is the Ke v. Eliza Freye, of Wisconsin, who recently preached thirty-two times in four weeks. Miss Freye is a Methodist, and is holdingdaily meetings in her church at Maiden Kock. .Miss Constance Fenimore Woolson, who is now in Italy, intends when she returns to this country to make a winter home in r lorida and a summer home at Otseco. where her creatuncle. James Y enimore Cooper, lived. Queen Victoria doesn't wear a great deal of fur. She has an old cloak, however. in which she comfortably ; encases herself when traveling in the cold weather. It is made entirely of ermine, and the ermine is outside. Tho cloak gives her a very regal appearance. ; . .. . Since the failure of the Panama Canal Company the towns of Panama aud Colon have entirely changed in appearance. Front street in Colon, or Aspinwali, as the Americans have alwavs called it. in honor of the father of the Panama railroad, used to be lined with laro- stores of all descriptions. from which the various towns on the line of the canal used to cet their supplies. These stores, the trade no longer existing. have all disappeared and their places aro taken by small Chinese shops. Herr Rasiiman, the well-known bari tone singer, proposes to test a curious point of law in connection with the phonograph. When at Venedig. lately, he obligingly sang a selection from "Hamlet" to a phonograph belonging to Sicnor Copello, and the latter has given exhibitions of the instrument, at which he reproduced Herr Kashman's tones to large audiences, whom he charged an ..3 - - r MM AA VAOAlfA uuuiisbiou ice. l uc siugct uiu uu icvti . v any share of the profits, and ho will try to have JSignor Copello's exhibitions Stopped by law. . , The late King of Portugal was a corpulent man of fifty, with a dark complexion and a grave face. An American who saw him recently says he bore, a striking resemblance to ex-President Cleveland. His son, who succeeds him as Carlos 1, is very different from his father, physically, being very light in complexion, lie is an ambitions younc man, not possessing tho quiet, scholarly tastes of the late Luis. He is anxious to become prominent in European politics. In all his mental characteristics he more resembles his mother than his father. Madame Modjeska is fond of entertainments of various sorts. She goes moro into society in New York than any one of the actresses who are now identified with tho American stace, and her choice of entertainments is supper after the play. She attends a great many of them at Delmonico's, and gives about a dozen big ones during the season herself. The people are usually personal friends of the actress, and nothing is known abont it in the newspapers, because she sedulously avoids public mention of them, In this she differs somewhat from some of the other feminine members of the profession. Says a Bostonian: "Any one who watches tho movements of the big iron jaws of Gen. B. F. Butler as ho sits in court and manages an important case would infer that ho was an inveterate tobacco-chewer, 6o diligently does he masticate. Still the fat old General does not smoke or chew. His jaws for the past four years or more have been exercised on tho mild and exclusive bark of the slippery elm, of which he always carries a supply in his pockets. This is due to the fact that his physician told him he must give up smoking. Feeling the need of something to take off the hanker' for tobacco he resorted to the elm-bark and chews it constantly." In the annals of flounces and furbelows the marriage of the Crown Prince of Greece with tho Princess Sophia, of Prussia, will be remembered for the exceptional beauty of the veil worn by the bride. This wondrous garment is now solemnly reported as finished by the directors of the Silesian lace schools of Urnsdorf, Steinseiffen, and Seidorf, where it has been made. The design was long the subject of .anxious consultations between the Empress Frederick and the designer,- Bnrghold. The foundation material is the finest Brussels tulle. This is trimmed in specially designed "point Venise," with a border of "point gaze" formed of 110 different masterpieces of lacework. A technical description of all the beauties of this marvelous veil is beyond our powers, but that they are many and exceptional is shown by the fact that their production has uninterruptedly occupied 200 Silesian lace-workers for four months. COMMENT AND OPINION. It's time for the Democrats to stop the cry of fraud in Montana and begiu an investigation; but somehow they seem in no haste to do this. Philadelphia Inquirer. The merchant who does not advertise caunot compete with the one who does. The nation that does not subsidize cannot compete in foreign trade with the nations that do. Let us subsidize. Cleveland Leader. . President Harrison is at work on his annual message. For the benefit of the free-traders we may state that it will be a dignified, statesmanlike discussion of public questions, and not a mere wanton assault and'battery upon tho American sheep. Philadelphia Press. Tnr. negroes will not get all that they are entitled to in this country so lone as politi cians are satisfied with the compromise o& giving a few of them more than they are entitled to; and the best men among them are-coming to perceive thi9 truth clearly. New York Tribune. . The British Salt Trust is flourishing, but the American Salt Trust was killed, so to speak, before it was born. If the sort of reasoning which the free-traders employ were at all sensible or legitimate, the conclusion from this condition of things would be irresistible that free trade is the friend and protection the foe of trusts. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Hon. Roger Q. Mills has tendered to Hon. Grover Cleveland the Democratic nomination for President. This may seem rather previous to some people, but Mr. Mills does not believe in wastincr too much time between campaigns, or allowing such important franchises lying around loose while one David B. Hill is roaming about the country. Washington Post. There can be no objection to a legitimate combination of capital, but any combination to "corner" the market is distasteful to the public, and must fight both the law and the capitalists, not a part of it. When trusts are dead similar movements will spring up nnder another name, but it is a matter of history that their existence cannot be anything but brief. Philadelphia North American. So long as the negro allows himself, to be put down, ho will remain down. But the moment that he makes mock of the Southern prejudice, which says that he shall not be postmaster, lawyer, doctor, merchant, constable or hog-reeve, because he is black, and goes straight forward to the establishment of his rights, he will get them. The South will not run the rvk of a collision which would put all that section of the country back for a quarter of a century. Boston Journal. THE CIIANCKS IN 1802. Republicans May Do Without New York, but Democrats 31 ust Uave It to Win. Washinpton Post. If tho Republican candidate should carry New York lie could lose all the other doubtful States and yet be elected, for thirty-six New York votes added to 180 cure Republican votes would make 216, or eight more than are needed for election. Without New York. Republicans can win by carrying Indiana, fiiteen votes; California, eight votes, and West Virginia, six votes, making twenty-nine votw. which, added to ISO, make 200; or by carrying California. Connecticut and Indiana, with the same result; or, still further, by carrying California, Rhode Island, Montana and Indiana, making in all. 210 votes. Without New York, Republicans can win with Indiana and two or three other doubtful States. But they cannot lose both New York and Indiana and then win. . Regarding the Democratic chances for success, the outlook seems at first discouraging, but' furtluT consideration is more reassuring., Tho Democratic candidato

should carry New Yr.Tk. Indiana and Rhoda Itdand. these would 1 sutlicicnt. Or, without Indiana, if the Democrat rarrv New York. Went Virginia. Coum-ctirut and Rhode Inland, or Now York, Connecticut, California and Montana, they will elect the next President of tho United States. From this it is evident that New York is absolutely necessary to Democratic succcm. and that without it the Democratic control will end in inevitable and hopeless defeat. But Democrats are naturally sanguine of party success in New York and, when factional strifes and disastron fends have not prevailed, their hopefulness feems justified by their past experience. With New York and two or three of the doubtful fctates this success is sure. m m CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH.

A Lilt of Seveuty Names Representing Nearly Three Thousand Million of Moitry. In spite of the rapid increase in the number of millionaires in the United States in recent years, the popular notion is that wealth is yst very much moro evenly distributed in this country thati in England. Mr. Thomas G. Shearman, the well-known New York statistician, has been engaged for somo time iu collecting facts to show ns precisely as possible the proportion of tho wealth of the country held by a few rich men and families, and ho finds a greater concentration of wealth hero than in 'any other country. The results of his investigation will appear in the Forum for November, from advance Bheets of which the following facts aro taken. Mr. Shearman makes the following enumeration of owners of more than $30,000,000 each: $150,000,000: .l.J.Astor. Trinity Chnrch. $100,000,000: C. Vanderhilt, W. K. Vanderhilt. Jay Gould, Leland Stanford, J. D. Rockefeller. 870,000.000: Estate of A. Packer. $00,000,000: John I. Blair, estate of Chas. Crocker. $TA000,000: William Astor, W. W. Astor, Ruseell Sage, E. A. Stevens, estate of Mosei Tavlor. estate ot Brown A: Ive. $40,000,000: P. 1). Armour. F. L. Ames. William Rockefeller, H. M. Flagler, Powers He Weightman, estate of P. Goelet. $35,000,000: C. P. Huntington. D. O. Mills, estates of T. A. eott. J. W. Garrett. &X).000.000: G. B. Roberts, Charles Pratt. Ross Winans. E. il. Coxc, Claus JSprcckels, A. Belmont. R. J. Livingston, Fred eyerhauser, Mrs. Mark Hopkins. Mrs. nctty Green, estates of S. V. Harkness, R. W . Coleman, I. M. Singer. $25,000,000: A. J. Drcxel. J. S. Morgan. J. P. Morgan Marshall Field. David Dows, J, G. Fair, E. T. Gerry, estates of Governor Fairbanks, A.T. Stewart, A. Schernierhorn. $.500,000: O. H. Payne, estates of F. A. Drexel. I. V. Williamson. W. F. Weld. $20,000,000: F. W. Vanderhilt, Tbeo. Havemeyer, H. O. Havemeyer, W. G. Warden, W. P. Thompson, Mrs. Schcnley, J. B. Haggin, -IT. A. Hutchius, estates of W. Sloane, E.S. Hicgins, C. Tower, Wm. Thaw. Dr. Hostettcr. Win. Sharon. Peter Donohue. These peventy names represent an aggregate wealth of $2,700,000,000, an average of more than $37,500,000 each. Although Mr. Shearmau, in making this estimate, did not look for less than twenty millionaires, ho discovered incidentally fifty others worth more than $10,000,000 each; and he pays that a list of ten persons can ho made whose wealth averages $100.(00.000 each, and another list of one hundred persons whoso wealth averages 23,000.000. No uuch lists can be made up in any other country. "Tho richest dukes of England," he says, 4fall below the average wealth of a dozen American citizens; while the greatest baukers, merchants and railway magnates of England cannot compare in wealth with many Americans. The averaga annual income of the richest hnndred Englishmen is about $150,000, but thoaverago annual income of the richest hundred Americans cannot bo less than $1,200,000. and probably exceed $1,500,000. Tho richest of the Rothschilds, and the world-renowned banker. Baron Overstone, each left about $17,000,000. Earl Dudley, the owner of one of tho richest iron mines, left $30,000,000. The Duke of Uuccleuch (and tho Duke of Bucclench carries half of Scotland in his pocket) left about $30,000.000. The Marquis of Bufo was worth, in 1872, about $28,000,000 in land; and ho may now be worth $40,000,000 in all. Tho Duke of Norfolk may be worth $40,000,000, and tho Duke of Westminister perhaps $50,000,000." Mr. Shearman's conclusion is that 25,000 persons own one-half the wealth of tho united States; and that the whole wealth . of the country is practically owned by 250,OOOpersons. or one in sixty of the "adult male population: and hq predicts, from tho rapid recent concentration of wealth, that under present conditions 50,000 persons will practically own all the wealth of tho country in thirty years or less than one in 500 of the adult male population. The New Hub, Chicago News. Although Indianapolis has no Mr. Sullivan and no Mr. Kelly, she has very good claims to Boston's title of the Hub, which that city is not living up to at present. An Indianapolis man of the name of Harrison is now regulating a considerable slice of the universe. The center of population of. this country is in Indianapolis, and tho inhabitants of the Hoosier capital embrace a larger per cent, of poets than those of any other city. Therefore. Boston will please come into court and 6how why 6he should not be known henceforth as the ex-Hub. Making It Pleasant for Royalty. Pittshnrg Chronicle. " It now appears that the man who made an attempt to assassinate Prince William of Wurteinburg while tho latter was driving to church at Ludwigsburg is 6ane. Ho is a member of an anarchistic society, tho members of which make it their especial business to kill princes. The eocietv recently drew lots to decide which oi tho members should kill Prince William, and tho choice fell upon Klaiber The Only True Solution. Login sport Journal. A movement for free school-books has been inaugurated at Chicago, and willprobarbly spreadrapidly over Illinois. It is tho solution of the Bchool-book question recommended to the last Legislature in this State by Governor Hovey. and should bn discussed as a practical question of public policy by the people pending tho election of the next Legislature. Still the Paradise of Thieves. Kansas City Jonrnal. An unofficial report from Montreal states that the imperial government 1ms refused to approve the Wcldou cxtraditiou i.w, which was passed by the Canadian Parliament last spring. If this is true it is a great pity. Canada will still be open to American boodlers until a new extradition tre aty is negotiated between this country and ' Great Britain. Readjusting the Honors. . c Terre Haute News. . Dr. W. B. Clarke, of Indianapolis, is tho author of the "infumlibulunY' theorv of hydrophobia, which is generally attributed to Dr. W. B. Fletcher. The mistake probably arises from the similarity of the initial letters of each gentleman's name, which from the bellicose attitul of the two doctors, evidently signifies Will Bite." Nature of a Democratic Nomination. Memphis Avalanche (Dcrn.). The attempt to make presidential timber of Chief-jnstice Fuller is probably a weak invention of the enemy. At any rate it 'will fail. The Chief-justice knows enough to hold on to the plum he has, rather than surrender it for one that may prove green and pregnant with colic. The Haui Gray. Philadelphia Press. . Ex-Governor Gray, of Indiana, is hopcf nt that the Democrats will carry Ohio tiiis fall. Tins is the same Governor Gray who instated that Cleveland would carry Indiana by 10,000 majority in The Crar Need Never Starve. Chicago JournaL Should the Czar ever lose his present job, he ought to be able, with his great experience in dodging missiles of dynamite, to secure from the National Base-ball League a position as umpire. "V A Iy of Rest. rhlladelr-uia Inquirer. Among other things the Pan-American delegates are learning is the usefulness of the American Sabbath. A people that lives at the rate we do requires a iet day once a week. m An Error Corrected. MUwsukeo Sentinel. " The London News speaks of Gen. Grover Cle? eland." This is an error. His substitute never rose above the rank of coor