Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1890 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1890.

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TnE Lima tax collector's bill of $52,000 may bo regarded as a first lien upon Mr. Brice's senatorship. It 13 6ad to see tho morning and evening organs of Democratic reform so completely at outs concerning Bailey's fitness to represent "the best elements." TiiL- New York Evening Post, so rabid in its hostility to anything Republican, remarks that the seating of Smith in the place of Jackson in the Fourth West ' Virginia contest "was abundantly justified by tho facts." As the Supreme Court of Wisconsin has been called upon to decide whether or not tho Scriptures may properly be read in public schools, its decision, which will be the first on this subject, is awaited with no little interest. If somo of the capital that is floating about the country for investment, and somo of the brains not fully occupied, should take hold of tho real business end of the beet-sugar industry in Indiana, money would bo mado and tho State would acquire a first-class industry. The people o Detroit are agitating the question of improved communica tion with Canada by substituting either a bridge or a tunnel for the present means of transportation at that point. Heretofore the facilities for getting from tho United States to Canada have seemed quite ample, but under the new extradition law, perhaps we can venture 10 increase them. If the f raraers of tho Constitution of the United States had dreamed that any community would have interfered to pro vent a postmaster from taking tho oflice and discharging his duties, they would have put a provision in that in strument authorizing tho federal gov ernment to protect citizens of tho United States in such communities as did not enforce local laws to protect such citi zens in their right?. Tun decree for the separation of church and state in Brazil is an event of great interest. It amounts to tho dis establishment of tho Roman Catholic re ligion and tho recognition of complete religious liberty in Brazil. The connec tion of church and state has been a great incubus to the country, and has proved almost fatal to the vitality and useful ness of the church. The decree of sepa ration is second in importance only to the abolition of slaveryThe imminent danger that North Da kota will bo disgraced by the passage of the Louisiana lottery bill shows tho necessity of a more careful scrutiny by Congress of State constitutions. This is a new question, aud probably it never occurred to any person that a constitu- . tion should prohibit the granting of a lottery charter, but hereafter it should be done. So far as North Dakota is concerned, 6he is past congressional control, but it is to bo hoped tho moral sen timent of tho State will be strongenough to prevent this infamous enactment. The Democratic demand for two weeks for tho discussion of tho rules discloses their purpose to waste the session in a useless manner. At this dis tance it would seem that speeches on tho subject by Messrs. McKinley and Cannon, of the committee on rules, for the Republicans, and by Mr. Carlisle, of the samo committee, and Mr. Mills, for tho Democrats, would bo ample to in struct tho House. These aro all tho country will read, unless Mr. Bynum should announce his grass-burning pro gramme. The mugwump paper does not quite defend tho proposed gerrymander of tho congressional districts of Ohio by tho Democratic Legislature by which the Republicans will be sure of but four of the twenty-one districts, but justifies it on the ground that the Republicans have dono the same thing. They may not have done the fair thing in such cases, but they have never dono 60 outrageous a thing as to make four districts with 8.000 Democratic majority each, as tho Democrats propose In the present apportionment, made by Republicans, there are four Democratic districts with an average majority of 5,195, and four Republican districts with a majority of 6,454. Tinner Fanz, the victim of the out rage at Aberdeen, Miss., is alleged to have said that ho is a red-hot Democrat, and that too much fuss is being made in fcb balialf. It is of very little iinpor

tance to the public what Mr. Fanz thinks about the matter now. The fact remains that an outrage was committed on a citizen of one State while temporarily sojourning in another, and that the spirit exhibited by the participants in tho crime is on which, if unchecked, will lead to nullification of that clause of the federal Constitution which, promises protection to citizens in the discharge of their duties, in whatever State they may be. Mr. Fanz's wrongs are but an incident of the question at issue. Repression of Southern intolerance, law-defianco and bulldozing methods

in general is tho demand of Northern people, and if the Aberdeen affair helps 6erve tho purpose, the fuss complained of by Fanz will not have been made in vain. No matter what may be said by Fanz, tho fact remains that this outrage was clearly political in its character. REFORMER BAILEY. If any gullible and credulous peoplo in this community really thought that the result ofthe last city election was a victory for Democratic reform and tho so-called "better elements" of that party it is about time for them to begin to revise their opinions. There never was any foundation for such a belief, and current events are demonstrating the fact. It is the old story. As the News said before it joined the Democ racy, "We are clear in the feeling and judgment that it will not do to give tho Democrats control of that body the Council, for when they have control all history shows that it is their worst element, and not their best, which rules." Current history is showing that very thing now. Tho purely partisan course of tho Democratic majority in tho Council has culminated in the nomination of Leon Bailey for city attorney. Bailey represents the worst elements and tho worst phases of Democracy. If he were simply an intense partisan that could be for given. But ho is an unscrupulous dirtyworker and tho embodiment of anti-re form. Ho has long .been tho political confidant and counselor of Coy. As a member of the, Senate ho represented tho interests of tho Sullivan-Coy-IIarrison gang, and did his utmost, both as a Senator and a lawyer, to cover up tho Iusane Asylum infamies and to whitewash John E. Sul livan. As assistant United States dis trict attorney, he was so notoriously tho friend and confidant of Coy that District Attorney Sellers would not let him have I anything to do with tho prosecution of the tally-sheet forgery cases, and he was strictly excluded from the knowledge of office secrets. After the resignation of Sellers, and when acting district attor ney, he prostituted tho office to the basest uses for partisan purposes, and showed himself not merely a willing but an eager tool of tho worst element in his party. During the last campaign, while still holding a government office, he volunteered to do tho dirty work of formulating and elaborating tho "dollar-a-day lie" against General Harrison. In the municipal cam paign, when tho Sentinel mado a bid for the support of tho "bet ter element" by printing an edi torial which was highly offensive to the saloon-keepers, Bailey mado him self conspicuous by driving from one saloon to another, and denouncing and repudiating the Sentinel article. By such work as this he has earned the ap proval of his party managers, and it comes to him now in tho shapo of a nomination for city attorney. If the socalled "reform Democrats" oppose it, who are they? Ex-Senator McDonald and Senator Voorhees both urged tho nomination, Mayor Sullivan sent Bailey a letter of congratulation, and the truly good and non-partisan Woollen tendered his verbally. Why should they not? Bailey is as much of a reformer as any of them, tho only difference being that he makes no pretense of being any thing but a Deraocratio partisan and dirty-worker. With Coy managing tho Council and Bailey in tho city attorney's offico there is a fine outlook for Demo cratic reform. . HI8 OWN ACCUSER. Ex-Speaker Carlisle is now posing be fore tno country as tho foe of tho oneman power in congressional proceedings, the champion of tho rights of minorities in tho House, and the accuser of tho present committee on rules for its fail ure "to report on matters referred to it." Tho ex-Speaker seems either to have forgotten his own record in tho last House, or to bo laboring under tho delusion that tho American peoplo either have short memories or aro densely ignorant. Has Mr. Carlisle forgotten that during the entire session of the last Congress the committee on rules, of which he was chairman, by virtue of be ing Speaker, did not hold a single meet ing or make a single report, although scores of matters were referred to it? Cannot he recall a petition which was signed by all the Republican members of tho House praying him, as chairman of that committeo, to call a meeting and make a report, or as Speaker to recog nize some member to move the consid eration of certain measures which were favored by a largo majority of the House, and that ho showed his contempt for tho petition by ignoring it? Does ho not remember that ono of tho reasons as signed for not calling tho committeo at that time was that Mr. Randall would vote with tho two Republican members for a rule assigning a time for a vote on tho bill to repeal the tobacco tax, thus adopting it, and which would have led to passage of the measure? In his ad dress Mr. Carlisle says: No measure can get b.fore tho House for consideration unless the speaker chooses to allow it to uo presented. What measure got before tho House during the last Congress that Mr. Speaker Carlisle did not choose to allow? Tho country remembers that ho notified Mr. Randall and other Democrats that bo would not recognize them to present a bill to repeal the tobacco tax, becauso to have it before the House was to pass it, in spite of tho dictation of the White House and tho Carlisle-Mills free-trado coterie. The dependent pension bill. which tho Senate passed early in the first session, had received the sanction of the Houso committee, but tho Clcvo

land decree having been issued to defeat

it, Speaker Carlisle, with a petition signed by 140 Republican members, asking that a rule be reported, fixing two days for consideration of pension bills, was ignored. It is idle to go on and give instances to show that Sir. Carlisle, when Speaker of the last House, exercised tho most high-handed dictatorship, both ns a member of tho committee on rules, and as Speaker. He literally allowed no measures to be considered that Mr. Cleveland and his sup porters did not favor, even when ho well knew that a majority of tho House was in favor of them. Tho address of the ex-Speaker, which is so loudly, applauded by Democratic organs of all stripes, should be entitled: "Mr. Carlisle's Confession of his Wrong doing." ANOTHER WARNING. A little more than a year ago many cities were visited by the agents of a great national loan and building association, the headquarters of which were in Minnesota. Circulars were scattered about showing the great profits to bo secured, and advantages were named which threw the local associations into tho shade. Agents were appointed and preparations .made to do business on a magnificent scale, affording homes for the borrowers at marvelously low rates, and dividends for the shareholders which would exceed tho profits of those who loan money on the principle which prevails in establishments whoso sign is three gilded balls. The result was that large sums of money were collected and loaned, but not so much was heard of dividends. Last week came tho an nouncement that tho Minnesota officials have decided that it is necessary to close tho affairs of the association, because its liabilities already exceed its receipts. The statement shows that magnificent sort of management which prudent men call reckless. One of tho large items of expenditure is the salaries and fees of traveling agents. In other directions it was an expensive institution. This should prove a warning to people who have small sums to invest to avoid institutions located in distant States, where they can have no oversight of them. Tho loan and building associa tion is one of the best institutions in the country for small investors, when managed by prudent men in tho community where tho investor lives and where office expenses will be light, but when they are spread over the whole country, and the business is done on a grand scale, there can bo but one result failure. EVIDENCE OF CONSPIRACY. There are those who ridicule tho idea that there was a conspiracy on tho part of the Democratio leaders in tho Houso to prevent tho majority from taking affirmative or positive action upon any subject. Will they bo convinced by any reasonable testimony? What will they call reasonable testimony? What will they say of tho declaration of Mr. Millsj who stands next to Mr. Carlisle as Democratic leader on the Democratic 'side? Here it is: v i We do not propose that the Republican majority shall pass a singlo measure with out our consent. For instance, you may depend upon it that the rules of the House will not be chanced by the Republican ma jority in any essential feature. We will not Eermit them to be changed, as it is desired y Mr. Reed and others, in aDy particular feature. Nor will we permit any of the proposed legislation looking to a control by Congress ot the elections, for we see plainly what the purpose of that is. - The samo can be said of the contested-seat cases that will come up before Conerress. Wo do not propose to let the Republican majority be further increased ad libitum by throwing oat Democratic members, as seems to bo the purpose. In other words, we propose to exercise control of the House just as much as though we were still in the majority, becauso wo know, our miuority is strong enough to make us the virtual rulers. The above declaration was made by Hon. Roger Q. Mills in an interview with representatives of Democratic news papers Oct. 6, 1889. He has never denied its authenticity. At tho time it was widely discussed, and many Democrats were reported in favor of it indeed, it was announced as tho conclusion reached by the Democratic leaders. Let tho reader ponder theso words: We rnoposK to exercise control op THE nOUSE JUST AS MUCH A3 THOUGH WE WERE STILL IX THE MAJORITY, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT OUR MINORITY IS STRONG ENOUGH TO MAKE US THE VIRTUAL RULERS. These aro parlous words and revolu tionary sentiments. They lay tho ax at tho root of popular institutions and de stroy in threat our structure of represent ative government. Thanks to the courage, the patience and the ability of Speaker Reed and his faithful Repub lican associates, the conspiracy of tho minority in tho House to rule that body has been strangled. The Kansas City Star seems to be in doubt as to whether tho present low price of Kansas corn is duo to the "robber tariff," extortionate freiglit rates, or a combination of both. In the course of one of its discussions on the subject it says: The State of Kausas and that means the farmers, for tho copulation is made up of that class has been notably generous to the railroads. Were tho Star not so blinded by its free-trade proclivities it would find concealed in this sentence tho chief cause of the complaint for which it is seeking relief. The population is made up of farmers. If nine-tenths of the people of Indianapolis should go into tho business of making shoes, the chances aro that foot wear would be pretty cheap hereabouts. Tho glut of corn in Kansas and Nebraska is just about the strongest practical argument in favor of protection, diversified industries and a homo market that has ever been given to tho American people. It gives a striking illustration of what the country would 4)e if we followed Mr. Gladstone's sug gestion, adopted free trade, confined ourselves to agriculture, and lived, like tho Kansas and Nebraska farmers, at the mercy of the transportation companies and grain speculators. The Democratic papers are now advertising Collector Saltonstall, of. Boston, as a full-grown martyr, because ho refused to resign when the administration intimated that his resignation was desired. His pretext for refusal was that ho desired to sustaiu civil-service principles. When ho was mado collector, and took tho place of an efficient Republican, who was removed, ho had

no such scruples. As to the civil serv

ice, the collector of Boston appoints two or three subordinates who are not ex amined by tho civil-service board. But the illness of Mr. Saltonstall, which has kept him out of the office the greater part of tho past six months, was cause for his removal. Jlis successor, Mr. Beard, has been collector before, aud a most excellent one. RriAfU! rfnnni OA trri fan Yiiia -nnnliAl fin PM teemed contemporary, the Gazette, with a caremiiy-preparea statement oi cenauir VnnThnps'a ftttitnrlA t n o rA 4ht fllftvpl fllldBayard treaty for the extradition of per- - At ' - A 1 III. sons m iuis conmry ana cuargea wuu M 1 V & -1. . vrAtluov O ll 1 1 J Q t LliU KU llii w w Great Britain. The Indianapolis Journal had said that Mr; Voorhees voted for tho ratification of tho treaty in which the administration of Mr. Cleveland had consented to become a dupe of the English foreign urace. me plea ot mo writer is that on Feb. 1, 1889, Mr. Voorhees voted atrainst the ratification nf tho treatv. Terre Haute Express. If Senator Voorhees voted against tho ratification of tho Bavard treatv Feb. 1, 18S0, ho must have done it "in his mind" or in somo other place than the United States Senate. Neither the Bayard treaty nor any measure referring to it in the most remote manner was considered in tho Senate Feb. 1, 1889, and there was no roll-call on any question. The only vote taken on tho Bayard treaty m the Senate was on Aufr. 21. 18S8. and in that vote Senator Voorhees was paired as voting for tho proposition. Mr. Voorhees might have voted "in his mind," but the Congressional Record takes no cognizance of such silent mental pro cesses. Tiie Superintendent of the Census has sent a circular letter with blanks to tho treasurers of counties, cities and town? of this State asking for certain information relative to local finances. The information asked for is of a nature that cannot well be obtained by census officers, but whicli can bo furnished without much trouble by local officials. As it is the interest of each locality to be correctly reported in this regard tho Superintendent expresses tho hope that' the various officials addressed on tho subject will furnish tho desired information as promptly and fully as possible. Indiana papers can do a service to their respective localities by calling attention to this matter. TnE Brooklyn Eagle, which is one of tho ablest Democratic papers in tho East, and ono always for the ticket, says of the ruling of Speaker Reed: Discussion does not seem to weaken the reasonableness of tho proposed method. One point already referred to, seems conclusive. The Constitution authorizes tho House to "compel the attendance of absent members." Now, if a member, when brought in, may declare by his mere sileuco that he is still absent, tho Constitution is nullified. The member who takes such a course violates the Constitution. The House itself, if by its rules it permits him to do so, violates the Constitution. There has been no stronger statement of tho Republican case than tho above. The New York Sun notices the call of tho Indiana Tariff-reform League for another bedroom convention, and suggests that the date of the convention, March 4, was probably intended "to mark their appreciation of the fact that on tho same day last year a Republican President was inaugurated as a consequence of their efforts." It also suggests that instead of trying to smash the tariff in 1892, only to succeed in smashing tho Democratic party, "why not wait till 189G, or, better still, 199GF" Tho Sun does not understand. The tariff-smashers would scorn to wait. Miss Amelia B. Edwards, who is now lecturing in this country on Egyptian archaeology, is one of the most remarkable women living, boing at once very versatile and very learned. Her genius began to develop very early. Her first story was written at the ago of four, when she had only made sufficient progress in the art of writing to make the capital letters. For this she made a series of truly wonderful vignettes in red, blue and yellow. When she was seven years old a poem which she had written appeared in a weekly maga zine. At twelve she had written and published a long historical novel; and an illustrated sketch, which she had sent to Cruik6hank's paper, had won especial notice and tho honor of a call from the great caricaturist.. At fourteen she began to study music, and for seven years devoted herself to it. During that tirao she became not only a skilled performer, but also a composer of no mean merit. She then returned to story-writing with such success that her novels are read everywhere in Europe and America, and her last romance, "Lord Brackenbury," has already reached its sixteenth edition. In addition to her novels, she is the author of a number of excellent poem?. But she has also won fame in another circle. To anti quarians and archaeologists she is known as a great student of tho history and ruins of ancient Egypt. Her writings on the an cient empire of the Pharaohs are held in the highest esteem by the profoundest scholars. She is, as well, a critic and a general newspaper writer. Professor Shaler, in his excellent ar ticle in Scribner's Magazine on country roads, says: From some data vhich I have gathered In my experience with roads, I am inclined to think that tho cost to the publio arising from ineffective roadways, as well as from the waste of money expended on them, amounts to not less than $10 a rear on each household. In this reckon! uk have included the loss of time and transporting power of vehicles, the wear and tear of wagons and carriages ana the beasts which draw them. It is probable that the expenditure in this direction Is greater thai that wbich is incurred for scnoois, orany otner single element of public interest. I am inclined to think that it comes near the sum of all our State and federal taxauon together. It would be a grand thing for Indiana if wo could have an organization in every county of the State devoted to the improvement of country roads, and to securing legislative action on the subject. The farmers of Kansas and Nebraska who have been suffering from high trans portation rates on corn, have both secured a reduction from the railroads. In Kansas, after consulting with the Governor, State officers and Railroad Commissioners, the roads agreed on a now tariff, to take effect Feb. 20, by which the rate on corn to Chicago is reduced 10 per cent, from present figures, subject to a minimum of 20 cents and a maximum of 25 cents per hundredweight, with the established differentials at other points. In Nebraska they have secured a reduction of 10 per cent., which, it is claimed, will save the farmers of that State over $1,500,000 on the crop now on hand. - A few days aco the death was announced of a Connecticut woman who had been a bedridden, helpless invalid for sixty years. A woman is living in an Illinois town who has epent forty years of her life under like)

conditions. Various afflictions pursue men ard women ot sound body, but where is one who would not endure the evils he low has rather than exchange them for those suflered by these womeiiT In contrast with these forty and sixty years spent in a sick

chamber, life does not appear such a bad thing, after all, for the rest of us. " m - ii in When a woman of tiftv-five veara of ace takes a boy of nineteen to live with her the contract should not be called marriage, as it was in a Now York town a few days ago. but the adopting of a child. Both should be under, the. jurisdiction of the court which appoints guardians for weak-minded and foolish persons. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal Which is the largest city, New York or Chicago! . Maple Valley, Ind. s. W. Overman. The latest estimate gives New York anov ulation of 1,500,000. Chicago claims a pop ulation of 1,100,000. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Walt Whitman will be seventy-one years of age on tho Slst day of next May. Sir Edwin Arnold is quoted ' as pro nouncing the Japanese women "seraiangelic." King Humbert's table is entirely spread with hammered frnld-nlfttftRflrvfri which in used every day. Marie Wainwright will have a dram atization of one of George Eliot's novels. It will be a society comedy. John Fisk, the historian, will undertake to decide who discovered America. He is, perhaps, philosophical enough to approach the subject unbiased by sentiment. An excellent example has been set bv the Duchess of Albany, widow of the Queen's invalid son. She took a recrnlar conrae as hospital diploma, after passing the usual examination. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes decided. after the death of his wife, that he would do no more literary work. He has changed his mind, however, and now finds in his monthly letters to the Atlantic a source of pleasure that he did not expect to again experience. Henry Irving is considering an offer for a series of Shakspearean recitals with Miss Terry at the different cities of England daring the summer. The scheme is to ac company them with fine music and make them the greatest entertainments of the eon ever given. Spurgeon has had printed 2,100 of his sermons since their appearance be era n in 1855. His thirty-fifth volume of them has just been issued. The index alone fills thirty-two large pages. They have been circulated not spoken, but have been translated into many foreign languages. Of Kichard Henry Stoddard it is said that his first poetical attempt was an Odo to a Grecian Flute," suggested by Keats's "Ode to a Grecian Urn." Ho offered t.h poem to Poe, who was then the editor of mo iiroaaway Journal, but it was declined by him, Poe not even troubling himself to thank the budding poet. In his recent lecture on oratory. Dan Dougherty referred to the "and others." He said in explanation that the "and oth ers" aro tho class of youns: lawvers without T)raetir.ft. vhn nr. nnhlin mAAtinim n f fop the prominent men have spoken, are called upon to speaK, and in the next morning newspapers, after the names of the great men are given, aro mentioned as the "and others." It is said that John Jacob Astor works as hard as the driver of a leased hack with a large family on his hands. He stays in New York winter and summer. His fortune, estimated at a hundred millions, keeps him chained down to business. For iwemy-iour aays in a month he trudges about Wall street like an errand boy. lie has other folks to collect his income, but the business of investing 'it satisfactorily hxeps iii ni Humming. Jay Gould has a sharp way of calling peoplo to account A newspaper man. a neophyte, by the way, went to interview him the other day and took some Western Union telegraph blanks out of his pocket to make notes on. Mr. CinnM Innlrpri nr. him rather sternly and said, with somo show of asperity: . 'Young man, you not vuiy warn my iaeas ior nothing, but you ?urloin my property to take them down on. OU should have vour emrdorer furnish you with a note-book." Edward Bellamy did not. like Lord Byron, wake one morning and find himself famous. He worked hard for vears with very little recognition, and even after "Looking Backward" .was published, it was several years before it attracted much attention. 5lr. Bellamy is forty-two years old. n. lawrflr li v nrnfwasinn Vint rfavntna more time to literature than to law. Ho has an otiico in bpringfield, Mass., furnished in tho simplest manner, with a table and two or three chairs, and tho floor is litterally carpeted with manuscripts. - 'Daudet has been mado the sole heir of Edmond de Goncourt This probably means," says the London Star, "thatM Dau dot is to inherit the personal fortune of the eminent writer . and his house besides. But the contents of this celebrated residence are to be sold to create tho fund for tho founding of the Goncourt Academy, which is to be in some way a rival of the French Academy. M. De Goncourt values his designs at 25,000, his Japanese collection at 12,500. and his ancient and modern books at over 50,000. M. De Goncourt's idea is to establish an academy for literary young writers of talent whom the chances A . Ii oi loriune anu me necessities oi me oonge to earn a living while they are struggling to make a name in literature." A writer in the Boston Transcript says the late Mrs. Coppinger's eldest son, Blaine Coppinger, a sturdy six-year-old, was Mr. Blaine's favorite grandchild. 'Whilo Mrs. Coppinger was on the frontier with her husband she left this child with her parents, and both Mr. and Mrs. Blaine became devoted to the little fellow. Mrs. Coppinger was disposed to act kindly towards Mrs. James G. Blaino, jr., and whenever she met the little James G. Blain III sho always showed the greatest atlection for him, and repeatedly said that if she could have the child she would rear him as if he were her own. Without being a very attractive woman, Mrs. Coppinger had an excellent heart, and those who knew her esteemed her highly. COMMENT AND OPINION. Polygamy promises soon to go the way of its twin relic of barbarism, slavery. Democracy, in all its manifestations, is under tho ban in this country. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Speaker Keedts chief diversion nowadays is to get the Democratic minority excited and have fun with it. He loves to hear the toothless old hyena howl and snarl. Philadelphia Press. Wherever lotteries are tolerated there is blight, mildew and decay. The miseries of the poor are augmented. The managers grow rich aud use their wealth to still further corrupt the government and domoralize society. New York World. . If the Kepublicau party does not stand for tho education of tho Southern negroes, for equal rights before the law and for tho enforcement of tho civil compact of majority rule, the sooner that party disintegrates the betterfor the country. New York Press. If Canada were knocking for admission aud the voters of tho United States were to be polled whether or not they would accept her, it is possible the result of the ballot -would "amaze the noisy Tories who are dreaming such silly dreams of American aggression. New lork Tribune. There is no citizen of the United Sta however humble, who is not fully entit to the protection of his government, a. the more humblo he is the stronger his claim. If this were not true in principle, it would not be worth while to be a citizen of the United States. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. While Great Britain ia placing theUnited States under obligations to her capitalists, it should not be forgotten that these investments, on the other hand, are placing Eugland under obligations to shapo her

public policy toward tho United States on unswerving lines of friendliness and justice. Boston Journal. Where gambling in one form is mads legal gambling in all forms becomes general. Ten times $100,000 a year wculd not, as wo think, make up to North Dakota tho losses which it will sutler should the habits of improvidence and recklessness which gambling begets be grafted upon the State by legislative sanction of a great lottery. Chicago Inter Oceaa. Mr. BuTTERWORTiiisrightthatitwillnot be safe for him or Major McKinley to run again if they.do not do something to reduce the taxes on the necessaries of life, Tho Western farmers aro getting angry. Their complaints are becoming louder and bitterer. If they find that they were deceived in 1888 they will make it warm for those who deceived them. Chicago Tribune. English is the languase of the country, and no quibble about the importation of the English, as well as tho German and other European languages, can alter that fact. And the state has a right to requiro that people born and reared hero and assuming the duties and responsibilities of citizenship when they attain their majority shall be able at least to read the Constitution and laws, and to give testimony in court in tho language of the country. Chicago Times.

ROUGH ON INGALLS. A Classic Little Gem That Will Be Much Admired by Bmrbon Critic. Detroit Tribune. Senator Ingalls has received hundreds of letters congratulating him on his recent able speech on the race question, and not a few from cranks and ex-rebels iuvitinghiui to go to that bourne whero psalms are never sung. From one of the latter he received, inclosed in an envelope, a card bearing on one side the rcbol flag, and on the other the eloquent word "Bah!'; The Senator, still maintaining his foothold on earth, opened another letter, written on a business firm's letter-head, which reads as follows: ViiiGlL, Gj Jan. 30, 1600. United States Seniteor Injr Jls, Yashington, D. C: We would more cheerfully pay $2,000 toward burning every newspaper and then editors that publish your fool speeches than we pay 2 cents to carry thi3 to you. You are certainly the most cursed, hell-bent fool on earth, and how a crowd can waste the thre listening to you can be accounted for only that they are "United States Seniteors." Our estimation of that body goe down nearly every time we hear from it. We can congratulate you on leinr a successful or lucky maniac. You are lucky that you find fools to tolerate you. That the devil is crowded with such as you is evident, or he would have taken you alive. Yours truly, B. Kiblack fc Co. This doesn't hold a candle to some of tho Bourbon drives at Speaker Reed last week. but it is, after all, a little gem in its way. and should be admired for all it is worth. Tho name of tho town from which it was sent mayfaccount for the classic stylo of tho author we should say authors, for wo notice that it took tho entire firm of B. Niblack & Co. to build tho foregoing proclamation. "Seniteor" Ingalls may as well make up his mind that he will never bo loved by the South for tho enemies he has made. He uses too good English to win friends among the average Bourbons of '"way down South in Dixie. The "Deadly rarallel. Detroit Tribune. Lawyer Tell mo .lust how it happened, Mrs. O'Graayl Mrs. O'O. Well, sor. rat cum in, and be had Fragment from the bill for divorce next day: filed "And upon the en trance of said Patrick O' Grady in the afore ben on an awful ppree. "Go to bed, ye bante," says L At that he grabbed tho skiUet aud flung it at me head, and.asPatnevcrmisses, itethreckme fuU. An' said described condition of beastly intoxication the plaintiff did approaca mm, ana in her eentlett manner asked him to retire. V.btreupon Raid Fatrick O'Grady, Ignoring her kind attention, ' did seize an Implement of wnin I got up, I grabbed mm oy tne hair. 'You will hit me with the BkiUet, ye black guard!" scz I. "I'll cooKing Known as a skillet, and did brutally cast, throw and hurl said implement at naid plaiutill, striking her on the head so that she teach ye you baste.' Then be tried to smooth matters. "Shure I was only foolin. darlinV says he. "Well, I'll teach you to fool with fell prostrate, much in me!' sez I. ured, and her nerves iawyer Ana you greatly shattered in consequence thereof. want a aivorcei Mrs. O'G. Faith, that's phat I'm afther. n hereupon the plaintiff mildly remonstrated. and, fearing for her life, and now being in delicate health in consequence of said brutal blow, does petition tho court to dissolve her marriage with mid Fatrick O'Grady, and asks that sue be given etc., etc. Her Bridget X O'Grady mark. A. i?. IIVSTER. Attorney for plalntiit A Contrast In Church Methods. New York Evening Post. It is instructive to contrast tho history xf the Congregational Church, during the last twenty years, with that of th Presbyterian. The former has had its sharp theological discussions. It has seemed at times to be on the verge of disruption. " But everything has been all the while open and in the light of day. Innovators have been heard, not suppressed. It has not been thought more important to keep up tho rate of yearly ecclcsiaatial enlargement than to maintain the rights of free investigation and free speech. Meanwhile, tho Presbyterian Church has been looking don from its secure fortress upon the trilbies of its Congregational friends, devoutly thanking God that it was not as they, and boasting of its inaccessibility to change. N ow that tho occasion has come, the world sees a generation of Presbyterian laymen educated in ignorance of tho real rreed of the church, and revolting at it. and Presbyterian elders and ministers who have gone through the form of subscribing to it. and promisiug to teach it, now in great numbeis repudiating its most characteristic tenets. It appears thus that to check a theological debate, really bound to come in the end, is like checking the measles; the disease simply takes a more acute and dangerous turn. m m Ilaletead at the Ballot-Bor Investigation. Washington SpeclaL Near by sits jovial and jocose Murat Halstead, white-hair and red-faced with good living, his mustache and imperial ales perfectly white. He apparently regards Foraker's little trick, to say nothing of his own. as semi-humorous, and to be discussed with laughter as after all rather a good jest. He reminds mo of tho genial vigilantes who lynched the wrong man and called on the widow to apologize. Madam," said the leader, "tho loke'son ns. V Something Ohio Democrats Should Consider. St. Loots Globe-Democrat. The retirement of William McKinley from Congress by tho gerrymander of his district, which tho Ohio Bourbons threaten to bring about, might not hurt McKinley as much as they desire. A Boorbon gerrymander of tho Indiana legislative dittricts retired General Harrison from the Senate, but it did not prevent him from reaching tho Presidency, and may have helped him. Democratic Support ot Anarchy. Indianapolis SentlneL The men who were hanged and the men now in tho Illinois penitentiary for the Hayinarket crime, were the victims of tho most flagrant judicial outrage in the annals of this Kepublic. It was the mob spirit that convicted them. It was a jury of cowards and lickspittles that brought in the verdict. Sir. Dynum Surely Was Not Paralysed. Nebraska JouruaL Tho New York San is inclined to the be lief that the Democrats in Congress were either "drunk or paralyzed" when they made such a spectacle of themselves on tho floor of the Housh last week. They were paralyzed. Speaker Kead's ruling did it, Js'orth Dakota Shame. Nebraska State Journal. What -will the world think of a State that deliberately adopts the most stringent of prohibition measures and then invites the Louisiana State lottery in to help make good tho loss of revenue! A Doubt. rhlHdelithia Inquirer. Coming right down to plain business, wa don't believe tho American people care half as much whether or not Mary Andersou lis to be married as the cable reporter thinks they do. m ' ' No, Indctd! Uemphl Commercial (Dem.) The relegation of 'croakers' and "obstructionists'' to tho rear is not De crtUs