Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1890 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1890.

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TWELVE PAGES. Democratic Plan of Taxation. Sentinel Editorial. The tax on personal Democratic Platform. We demand the adoption of a system of equalizing the appraisement of real and personsl rmperty in this State, to the end that an equal and proper uniformity in such assessments shall be secured, fur the reason that under existing regulations in any counties are compelled to-pay an unjust proportion of the State's expense", which others as unjustly escape property ought to be wholly repealed. The proepect Is that the system of private property lu land will remain as ft Is. forborne gecerationi, at least. but that all taxes, at least for State and local purposes (except such aa may be derived from the sole of franchises) will, in the near future, to laid up'oaland. Democratic Congressmen may now dipperso to their homes and make their campaigns on "what wo succeeded in not doing." The Republican party never was in so good a condition to claim the sup port of intelligent and patriotic people AS at the present time. Even the near-sighted and half-blind Democrats who were saying, three months ago, "this is a Democratic year," have dropped thaF observation. Things arc changing. TnE numberless cities that failed to get their public building measures con sidered at this session of Congress will not be readily conrinced of the value of Democratic filibustering tactics. TnosE Democrats who proclaimed the death of the Republican party a few months ago have recently come to the conclusion that it has an activity very unbecoming a well-disposed corpse. Our friends, the enemy, are making: one of their delightful, old-time blun ders by. making Speaker Reed an issue in the congressional canvass. He is just the kind of a man that ordinary Repub lican st jy-at-homes like to get out and indorse. Republican schools to instruct voters now to vote under the new election law should be held in. every voting precinct. each session closing with - a brief address in which a few of the one thou sand reasons for voting the straight Republican ticket should bo given. One, of course, would not charge a whole party with the corruption of a few officials, but it seems to be fated that every time the Democratic party geta in control in Cincinnati there en sues a dark and disgraceful era of rboodling" and all sorts of official dis honesty. 'Since his return home Mr. Bynum says "it would be impossible to give from memory anything like afuil record of the proceedings of the session." This is a reluctant tribute to one of the most practical and efficient Congresses that ever sat. It has indeed been a fruitful session in spite of the Democratic ob structionists. The Democratic papers in New York arc raising a cry that the census of that city is a partisan count and has been re duced for partisan purposes. In this connection it may be said that the as sistant superintendent in charge of the census in New York is a New York Democrat, Mr. Wnrdle, who was selected on account of his expertness in the business. The magic lantern has long been in use as an efficient aid in religious in struction, but its appearance in politics is in the nr.iure of a novelty. Congress man Rowell, of Illinois, will no doubt find it useful, however, in showing his constituents views of the Ilouse of iRepresentatives with Democratic members in the act of stampeding from duty. Other Congressmen might do worse than to turn the light on the enemy in this way. " Nearly every issue of the Sentinel nowadays contains an earnest appeal to Democrats not to sell their votes in the coming election. It implies that many of them havo been in the habit of doing this, and says: "There is no doubt that Democrats may accomplish much good by earnest appeals to the manhood and patriotism of men who have been accustomed to selling their votes." We heart ily unite in the , desire for an honest election, and hope Republicans will do all in their power to keep Democrats from either selling or buying votes. Reports from Kansas show; that tho alleged revolt against the Republican party, which was so loudly heralded duringthe winter, failed to materialize as the time of the election approached. Republican farmers havo learned that they were being used by a lot of officeseekers outside of both parties to make combinations which were hostile to the Republican party, and they havo very generally withdrawn from such associa-

tions and returned to their old party. Rut. the greatest factor in changing the sentiment of dissatisfaction is the improved price of farm products. Such

facts as that to the effect that the statistics in twenty-one of the lending counties show that 5,800 mortgages, representing.an indebtedness of S7G3,5G0, have been paid since Jan. 1, are doubtless having an effect upon political sentiment. It is only when people are hopeless, and consequently reckless, that, in a State like Kansas, they look upon the Democratic party and its allies with anything like favor. THE GERRYMANDER A BOOMERANG. r. The Washington Post, a Democratic paper of honest proclivities, warns the Ohio Democrats that they have probably made a serious mistake in gerrymandering that State, and especially in trying to throw Mr. McKinley out of Congress The Post recognizes the fact that parties are apt to resort to desperate expedients to secure temporary advantage or suc cess, but it expresses a doubt if any party ever profited in the end by trans gressing the bounds of fairness. Of gerrymanders in general it says: The gerrymander is. nerhans. the least honest of all partisan methods. It may serve a temporary purpose, but. in the very nature of tilings, is reactionary. It is gradually falling into disrepute. It has but a precarious hold upon the better sentiment of the country. The Ohio case may in itself be no more obnoxious to reprobation than other cases that might be mentioned, but considering the uncertainty of Democratic supremacy in that State, the party should have pondered long before invoking a weapon that is not unlikely to frovo a disastrous boomerang in the end. lowever much it may be. excused on the old plea that might makes right, it is no less true that might makes bad politics at times. We commend this view of the case to the Indiana Democracy who, after profiting a few years by two of the most outrageously unfair gerrymanders on record, ' now find them an effective weapon in the hands of the opposite party, and a load they would gladly be rid of. Of Mr. McKinley the Post says he, of all the Republican members from Ohio, should have been let alone, and if there was to be a single Republican member from that State he should have been the man. It evidently thinks McKinley too strong and too popular to be disposed of by political assassination. It says: The chairman of the ways and means committee is not only able, but he is amt. :i: . a. i t.? .. i uiijuub; not oniy am di nous, out popular; not all these alone, but strong in the confidence of his people. He is the man of all others the blood of whose martyrdom is likely to become the seed of a new deal in Ohio politics; and good sense as well as common justice should have dictated to the democrats ot umo to nave let him alone. Every word of this is true. Mr. McKiuley is stronger to-day in Ohio and throughout the country than he was be fore the attempt was made to legislate him out of Congress. That attempt has advertised the Democratic party as a party of desperate methods and has advertised Mr. McKinley as the selected victim of a brutal injustice. The result will be that if ho is not re-elected to Congress he will be nominated aud elected Governor of Ohio and placed in a position where ho can do the Democracy more harm than evr. Sometime, perhaps, Democrats will learn that "cheating-luck never thrives." A REFORM THAT WAS BADLY NEEDED. The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, reviewing the session of Congress about to close, says: The Congress has been a turbulent one. because for the first time in ninny years the majority has dominated it. .Heretofore the tail wagged the doc, and an aggressive mi nority under the old rules could hold at bay the party controlling the lower branch. It is an open question whether the now method is not butter than the old. for under the prevailing system party re-ftDonsib!lity-can be fixed. The Congress closes its first half of lifo with whatever may be its sins of omission or commission directly charged to the Republican members. This is equivalent to a concession that the new rules were a necessity and have worked well. No doubt this is the general opinion of the country and of intelligent Democrats as well as Republicans. The people do not want to maintain the House of Representatives as a constitutional toy or mere po litical spectacle; still less as a nursery for the personal ambitions of aspiring statesmen and mischievous demagogues or the practice of new schemes of obstruction to business. They expect it to transact the necessary business of the country, and to this end they expect the majority to assume the responsibility. The House had become so large, aud the rules gavo the minority so much power, that it was practically paralyzed for business purposes. The reform came none too soon, and that it has coino to stay none can doubt. Its results aro seen in the splendid record made during this session and the important busiuess accomplished, scarcely any part of which could havo been done under the old rules and with a powerful and wellorganized minority to resist every step. THE UN PARALLELED CRIME. Several Northern papers in their obsequious haste to defend the Mississippi convention in its actiou disfranchising 120,000 voters, assert that other States have an educational qualification for voters, thereby giving their readers to understand that a considerable number of voters were disfranchised when such a test was engrafted upon tho constitutions of those States. Such is not the case. No Northern State has taken from a citizen once possessing the right of suffrage the right to vote because he cannot read and write. No such outrage as taking from a man tho crowning glory of citizenship, the right of suffrage, has over been contemplated by a Northern State. Massachusetts put an educational qualification in its Constitution at the last general revision, but it specially provided that citizens and voters who could not read and write at the time of the adoption of the Constitution should bo exempt, and as the result hundreds of men in Massachusetts, who were voters in 1851, when the educational test became a part of the Constitution, and could not read and write, I and cannot read and write now, have continued to vote tho Democratic ticket all these years. Massachusetts, with tho best echool system in the world, free to all comers, declared that no persons arriving at the age of tweuty-ono years, and no persons naturalized after that

date shall be permitted to vote unless they can read the Constitution of the State and write their own names. The chango in the Massachusetts Constitution was not made to snatch from thousands of men who had been voters the right of suffrage and to change them from freemen to serfs, as is the case in Mississippi. Hitherto the intelligent conscience of the North has held that the right of suffrage is an inalienable righta part of the personality of the freeman which cannot bo taken from him except for the commission of great crimes. It has remained for the socalled Democracy of the South to be the first to perpetrate that measureless outrage of robbing tens of thousands of free American citizens of that right which distinguishes the freeman from the bondman. And it is an unspeakable shame that such former champions of human rights as Harpers' Weekly are dumb while this outrage is being perpetrated, and that mugwump "papers in the North apologize for the greatest possible crime that a State can commit.

TO ENCOURAGE OUR OCEAN TRADE. President Harrison said in his last annual message: There is nothing more humiliating to the national pride, and nothing more hurtful to the national prosperity than the inferiority of our mercbaut marine oompared with that of other nations whose general resources, wealth aud sea-coast lines do not suggest any reason for their supremacy on the sea. It was not always so, and our people are agreed, I think, that it shall not continue to be so. Pursuant to this suggestion two bills on the subject have passed the Senate and are now pending in the House. The pressure of other business has prevented their passage this session, but they will doubtless be passed substantially in their present form at the next., The first of these bills provides for. the payment to American-built and Americanowned vessels of more than five hundred tons register, engaged in the foreign trade, of . certain small bounties according to the distances sailed t and under certain conditions. The second bill provides a liberal rate of payment to American steamships carrying our foreign mails. Both bills are based on the established practice of other governments. There is not a civilized government in the world that does not practice one or both of these methods of maintaining a merchant marine and extending commerce, and it is the only possible way for this government to compete and take its proper place in the ocean trade of the world. The Republican party is committed to this policy, and the passage of tho bills now pending may be confidently predicted at the next session. The present session has enacted many important and useful measures, but there aro others still in store. r The Chicago Tribune thinks ihere is no danger of any European government adopting a retaliatory policy in trade towards the United States for the simple reason that this is tho best market on tho face of the globe, and no nation will run the risk of shutting itself out if it'ean help it. Says the Tribune: The people of tho United States do not understand as yet their own commercial value and importance to other nations. When they come to realize tho trade meaning of the collection of 04,000,000 onsamers under one Hag who purchase $bO0,0U0,000 of foreign products per annum, they will see that they need fear no reprisals ; from civilized powers which are much more anxious to get into this market than that of any other country on the lace ; of the globe. This is true, and it is a strong argu ment in favor of protection. In the matter of markets, as everything else, "the best is none too good" for the American people, and the fact that this is undoubtedly the best market! in the world is an unanswerable argument in favor of keeping it for ourselves. 'Pro tection has made it the best market in the world, and protection keeps it for Americans. A friend of Representative Cheadle, in Washington, complainsthat that gen tleman has been misrepresented in reports which have been published in regard to his action the day the vote was taken on tho Laugston-Venable case. Tho writer says that Mr. Cheadle was very ill that day and insisted on going to the House against the advice of his friends. After he arrived there he was so ill that ho went to the lobby and lay down on a sofa, the Speaker and other Republicans knowing where ho was and that he was ready to respond to a call to make a quorum, and did respond when notified. All reports to tho effect that the entreaties of several Republican members were necessary to persuade him to enter the hall and answer to his name are pronounced false. The state ment to that effect published in the Journal was a part of the regular report of the Associated Press, and the matter was not referred to in tho specials of the Journal, as the writer assumes. Congressman Mills, of Texas, in his speech at Janesville, Wisconsin, said: The Democrats intended to keop the school-house, as they had kept it for one hundred years, for the education of the children in those troths which perpetuate and maintain the government. Where have tho Democrats done this "for one hundred years?" Not in Texas or Wisconsin, certainly. Free schools have not made much progress in Texas, and in Wisconsin tho Democrats have very little to do with them one way or another. The truth is, free schools are essentially a Republican institution, being always strongest where Democracy is weakest, and vice verm. And it is a notorious fact that snch free schools as they have in tho South do not educate the children "in those truths which per petuate and maintain the government." National patriotism and loyalty to the Hag are not taught in the South. The time for work before tho election is short, and every day that passes les sens it. We greatly fear Republicans are not doing their duty in the way of local organization and personal effort. We fear they are depending too much on the moral effect of the victory of 1888 and on the general good feeling. It will not do to depend on these nor on anythiug but thorough organization and hard work. If there is a county or town ship in tho State where these aro lack ing, steps should be taken to secure them at once. Not a day should be lost.

One of the important points in the cam-

paign, and perhaps the turning point of the election, will be to get out a full vote under the new law. This can only be accomplished by organization, which is indeed the paramount necessity of the hour. AMOng the speeches which the Repub lican congressional committee- is circu lating in large numbers is that of Representative Owen, of this State, respecting veterans and pensions. He 6hows that GOper cent, more veterans have been appointed to office under tho Harrison than under the Cleveland adminis tration; that in thirty-one contests for postinasterships between veterans and those who are not, twenty-six ex-sol diers were appointed. Senator McMillan, of Michigan, has ordered 10,000 copies of Mr. Owen's speech for his State. When Congress met there were eight een contested seats, every one of which was held by Democrats. Thus far the House has disposed of fourteen of them. Seven Republicans and one independent have been seated, one seat occupied by a Democrat has been declared vacant, and five Democrats have been confirmed in their seats. This showing is creditable to the fairness and equity of the Republicans a fact which would be em phasized by a perusal of the reports. It has been reserved for Mr. Flower, of New York, Democrat, to make the best argument in behalf, of protection, which he did when ho said that putting binding twine on the free list would ruin 80,000 workhiginen in New York and New England employed in tho twine and cordage industries. But with the usual Democratic inconsistency, he voted against the conference bill and the low duty of seven-tenths of 1 cent a pound. There is said to be a scarcity of hay in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, this season, which will make the very good crop secured in some sections of Indiana very valuable. The double duty imposed by the McKinley bill will keep Canada out of the market, and make a better demand for the home product. The duties collected on imports under the present tariff law are 80 per cent, ad valorem, hose proposed by the Mills bill were 28 12 percent., while the bill which the conference committee has reported and Congress will pass, reduces them to 27 per cent. The proposition to placo all taxes on land does not seem to bo favorably received in Indiana. The Sentinel might score a point by reproducing its editorial expression in support of the Chicago Anarchists. Rev. Mil Baltzly's farewell sermon to his church and to the people of Indianapo lis is a model of its kind, both in literary expression and in sentiment. His manly and modest utterances on this occasion can bnt serve to deepen the general regret that this city is to lose one so well litted to his office and who has filled a place not limited by the boundaries of a church. Mr. Baltzly is a young man with capacity to occupy a wider field than had been open to him here, bat, whatever his future career, the friends made dnring his ten years pastorate will contiuue to cherish for him an especial and close regard. Over 46,000 letters were returned by the Dead-letter Office to writers in Philadelphia during the last three months. Carelessness in addressing the missives was'the cause of the failure of delivery in a majority of these cases. If the same proportion of blunders is perpetrated by the people outside of Phil adelphia there is no longer any room for wonder at the need of so extensive an es tablishment as the Dead-letter Office has come to be. Yet it is these same heedless persons who are swiftest to charge tha postal service with , inefficiency. t A mugwump newspaper laughs con temptuously at the stories of Mrs. Fre mont's straitened circumstances as merely a shrewd move to hustle Congress up on the subject of ar special pension for the Pathfinder's, widow. This is a display of brutality from which even a bitterly par tisan Democratic newspaper would shrink. A Brooklyn newspaper recalls the cus tom practiced by the Romans of giving their servants full charge of all their possessions one day in each year, and suggests that it might not be a bad thing in modern times. Perhaps it would in Brooklyn, but out this way the hired girls are in full charge all the year around already. The number of horrible murders of women on the New Jersey calendar of crime has grown appallingr One affair of the kind is no sooner out of the public mind than another, ocenrs as sensational and mysterious as the last. New Jersey needs relorm, both in politics and morals. Two corpses and a maniac a murdered bride, a father dead by his own hand, and a demented grom are the net results cf an elopement at Lacon, IlL That marriage. for one. was certainly a ghastly failure. Chicago expects to force the railroads entering that city to fence their tracks. If the Chicago girls were compelled to do likewise, what a boom there would be in lumber! The new tariff bill places apatite on the free list another concession to the pam pered and dyspeptic plutocrats. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Will you kindly answer the following question! A volunteered for three years, served three month, came home on a furlough, was dis.catl?tied with the army, hired II as a substitute to go in his place aud a-urnine his (A) name on receiving $300 bounty. Note, B goes and nils A's glare, answers at roll-call to A' name, gets adlv wounded, ccraes home and is still alive. A applies for and gets a pension, and is still drawing a pension. Please answer whether A Is entitled to a pension or not. m. m. New Captle, Ind. Certainly not. A was a deserter, and has no claim for a pension. If B was honorably discharged and can prove that he served under an assumed name he it the one entitled to pension. To the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal: Are the provisions of the civil-service law published in book form! If so, where and how can I procure a copy! Reader. Write to John T. Doyle, secretary of the Civil-service Commission, Washington, D. C. To Uie Editor ot the Indianapolis Journali Is a man who moves from one county to another on the 4th day of September required to register in the county to which he has moved to entitle him to vote at the coming election! Oulkan?, Ind. l. n. The new law requires a person to register who has not been a resident of the county at least six months preceding the election. Tho Constitution requires a residence of only sixty days, in the township. . These provisions are conflicting. The question,

as to the validity of the registration law is now before the Supreme Court and will be decided in a few days.

Finn Feathers. Watt There seems to be an awful lot of unnecessary fuss over this seal-fishery question; especially as plush imitation can be made that one can hardly tell from the real seaL Totts Oh, no, there can't, I can tell plush from seal two blocks away. Watts How! PottsBy the way tho wearer carries her head. , An Apology. In our last Issue," states the editor of the Jayvllle Bugle, "we attempted to say that brother Hawkes bad been translated to the land of everlasting singing. That the types made it 'singeing was no fault of ours, but of a drunken tramp printer, who is now In the hospital Two Hint a. She I do not believe in the "progressive" woman. I think my place that is; I think It is woman's place to remain a comforter to man. He Leinmy see. A comforter is something to be hung on a fellow's neck, isn't it! ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. P. T. Barxum always takes tea and coffee mixed at regular hourly intervals during the day and night. Canon Fariiar approves the Salvation Army idea of a week of prayer and self-denial in behalf of missions. Miss Colexso, of Natal, a daughter of the famous bishop of that name, is lecturing in London on the Zulu question. There is never any telling where ambition and ability may end. Lord Wolseley was once an errand boy in a stationery store in Berlin. Stepniak, or, more correctly speaking, the man who has made that name famous, is to come to this country in December and lecture on Nihilism. The Association for the Advancement of Women, of which Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is the president, will hold its congress in Toronto this year, from Oct. 15 to 17, inclusive. Advices from Erie, Pa., are to the effect that ex-Congressman William L. Scott has a fair chance for recovery though his illness is of a very serious character. He is suffering from acute gastritis. Gen. E. Kikby Smith is a great sufferer from cancer, and is now in New Orleans undergoing treatment. He is president of the Suwanee College, Tennessee, and unlesj he obtains relief may be forced to resign his position. Among the oldest officers in the German army, in point of service, is Theodor von Fries, of Munich, general of infantry, chief of the Bavarian Engineer Corps and inspector of fortifications. He recently began the fiftieth year of his military service. Probably the only man in tho country who could say that he became a soldier when over sixty years of age has just died. Thisiiotable distinction belonged to William Field, of Deerfield. Mass.. who was. until a few days ago, the oldest veteran in the laud. W. A. Sartoris, of England, an uncle of Nellie Grant Sartoris, has been making a quiet tour of the West with a view of making some investments. It is his first visit to America, and ho expressed himself as being much surprised at the great mineral wealth and natural advantages of the est. When Vice-President Morton began to tally np the receipts from his apartmcuthonse, 4,The Shoreham," he found that the first year's returns were not big enough. Next year those who want tho honor of a home within its walls will pay a much higher rental, as $1,000 ayear has been added to each floor. Henri Rochefort has rejected the advice of his frieuds and decjded not to go back to France and submit to a trial, on tho ground that the tribunal would be too prejudiced to acquit hiiu. There is a growing belief that the Doulungist boodle proved too much for Henri's republicanism, and that he has good reason for avoiding a trial. On Wilkie Collins's memorial stone appear these words under his name: "Author of 'The Woman in White and other works of fiction." Not far away is Leigh Hunt's tombi, with its unique epitaph: . "Write me as one that loves his fellow-men' Thackeray's resting-place in the same cemetery is carefully tended. It is almost entirely covered with ivy. Sixty-four of the old comrades of the Comte De Paris in the army of the Potoniao have nnited in inviting him to be their gnest at a dinner to bo given in New York ahont Oct. 20. Generals Fitz John Porter, E. I). Keyes. WV B. Franklin, H. W. Sloenm, J. G. Parke, O. O. Howard, D. E. Sickles. Daniel Bntterheld and John Newton are the committee on arrangements. Col. O. H. Moore, of Coldwater, Mich., has been taken to a private asylum near Detroit. Ten years ago, while serving in 'the regular army on the frontier, he was overcome by the heat, and has gradually lost his mind. Moure is the man who, when his command was surrounded by General Morgan's command at Tibbs Bend, Ky July 4, 1SC3, cut hia way through the enemy, crying out when called upon to surrender, "Yankees never surrender on the Jturthof July." James R. Osgood, the head of the now firm of publishers which is to represent the Harpers in London, is a name of the pleas-ant-est association in tho publishing world, with which he baa long been identified. He has been brought into intimate relations with such men as Emerson. Dickens, Hawthorne, Tennyson, Longfellow, Thackeray, Bryant, Browning. Wliittier. Holmes. Lowell, Mrs. Stowe, Charles Kingsley, Bayard Taylor, BretHarte, Ho wells, Charles Reade, Aldrich and Warner. Centuries of sewing and weaving have so influenced the mind of women toward delicacy of perception that now she excels in certain delicate, departments of stellar photography. To put it into plain English, the women who are helping to photograph the heavens have discovered delicate doublings of lines that had escaped the eyes of the most expert men in the world. 'The discovery of such a "douhliug" may mean the discovery of a string of worldsmillions of worlds in a newly mapped corner of the universe. THE PKOTECTIVE PHI NCI PXC How It llnlld Up Indntria nnd at the Same Time Iteduces Trices. Frank F. Dean, in New Albany Tritmne. The principle of a protective tariff is that it enables the building up of industries in this country to produce the articles pro tected, the primary object being to protect our home labor from the cheap labor of other countries, that it may also create greater diversity of employment, relieve overprouueuuu ui aKiituinuui pruuucis .i l : . e : i. i i and give a home market lor tuose products, and alio to eventually reduce the price of the protected articles by home competition. our great natural resources, the greater intelligence of our workingmen, more than compensating for the better wages they receive. That the theory is correct is patent to every intelligent man not blinded by partisan zeal, for since the Morrill tar i If law was passed nearly every article protected that could be produced in this country is cheaper than before the passage of that act For the benefit of your readers I will name a few of the articles and the reduc tion in price. in 1SC2 steel raih were worth, delivered in New York. 103.44 per ton. the duty of 45 percent, unpaid. Under that daty English. rails had fallen in imaj to s-v per ton. in 1870 a specific duty of 23 per ton was laid. and since then the price has steadily decreased until the price is now $35 per ton. being the same in London, New York and Chicago, and we now manufacture more rails than England. The same is true of Bteel ingots. . .. Again, in 18S3 the duty on wire nails was 1L cent per pound, and we imported 1,500,. ono k of 100 oonnds each and made 500.000. The lowest prico known was $0 per keg, and the importers frequently ran tnem opto $10 per keg. .In 1S83 the duty, was raised to 4 cents per pound. Not a keg has been imported since 1SS4, and in lbttf we made 2.500.000 kegs, and they sold at 82.20 to $2.50 per keg of 100 pounds. Take the articlo of table-ware in assort ed crates, coat iu ,1500 $210.7:, in 1S3 57.b'J,

and can now be bought 'for 543.CO, and better ware at that. Take tho article of carpets. Body Brnssels cost wholesale in 1872. 2 per yard, in 18SO $1.50 and it can now b bought for 03 cents per yard. Tapestry Brussels in 1373 was 81.47 per yard, and yon can now buy the best at C5 cents. Extra ingrain in lbTJ cost 51.20. can now bo bought for 43 ccnta per yard. Plate-glass sold as late as 1S73 at $2.50 per square foot. Last year it sold aslowas.r3 cents per square foot, and soon through the list. Now does any one believe that these reductions in prices would have been brought about if our tariH had not developed the industries in this country, and who can estimate the value the hundreds of thousand of laborers engaged in the industries de veloped have been to the farmers of this country! PAYMENT for use of streets.

Question of Interest to Indlmnapollt Taxes Paid by Corporations in Various Cities. Chics jo News. As a contribution to the discussion likely to be caused by the efforts to secure tho sale of municipal franchises in Chicago to the highest bidder the report of a joint special committee of the Boston City Council on payment for the use of city streets should be interesting. In considering thia subject the Boston committee deemed it advisable to ascertain the experience and practice of other cities, and application was accordingly made to all the leading cities in this country and many of thecitka of Enrope for such information upon tho subject as might be of value to the committee. The particulars thus gathered would so em to show that Boston is us much behind other cities iu the United States as is Chicago in respect to solving the question of securing a return for the use of her streets afforded to private corporations, for in almost all other cities the corporations are required to make some direct return to tho ciiy for tho privileges they enjoy in tho public streets. This custom is so general that the claim that it would impose a burden upon corporations so serious as to impair tneir usefulness does not seem to have any force. 1 ho local telephone- companies of Amsterdam pay to the city, annually, 2lHi percent, of their gross receipts, ir. fct. Louis 5 pr cent, of gross receipts, and in Philadelpnia $1 annually for each old pole and 5 for each new pole used for the support of wires. Street-railway companies also pay for their locations. In Amsterdam they pay 5 per cent, of gross receipts cnnually; iu Baltimore, 9 per cent, of gross receipts, with an additional tax on each car; i uNe wark, per cent, of capital stock; in Providence, a certain fixed sum; in St. Louis, a perceutago of gross receipts on a sliding scale; while in New York State all street-railway franchises are now sold at auction for tbo highest offer above a certain fixed percentage of gross receipts. The method most generallr adopted is to require the payment to the city of a percentage of the gross receipts. -This method may work to advantage in many inntances, but in the case of a street-railway, telephone or electric-light coinpauy, having its tracks or linos in different municipalities, it would be difficult to adjust the rate proportionately. In addition to this it is not always possible to ascertain what a company's receipts actually are. The special tax upon each car of a 6treet-railway com pany, such as is levied iu Baltimore, might tend to deter the company from furnishing adequate and proper accommodations lor the community, especially if the fee, as iu Baltimore, is greater for a new car than for an old one. The system is also open to objection as not being applicable to all cor-' porations. As regards the auction system, which h& been adopted in New lork, the. committee is of the opinion that it would not operato satisfactorily in Boston under the present state of affairs, particularly in reference to granting street-railway locations. If a street-railway extension became necessary. nnd the proposed now location were ottered, at auction, a system of competition would at ouce be introduced m opposition to the present fy6tem of monoply which has re ceived the sanction of the Legislature. A further objection to the system appeal's to be that it would tend to prevent a judi cious and necessary railroad extension, on account of the reluctance which a corpora tion would evince to risk its rights upon the uncertainty of a public auction. Tho committee is. however, favorably impressed with tho method adopted in Philadelphia. whereby a special annual fee is paid to the city for each pole belongingto the telegraph, and telephone companies. The .prin ciple which underlies this system, requires each corporation to pay a Used sum for their special use of tiie public streets, and this sum is precisely protinrrhuat to thn vtent of ntirli iisp. Flirt chief advantage of this system arises from the fact that it can be applied with equal fairnejss to each and every corporation en joying the privileges granted them by tho city. Thus n street-railway coinpauy might be reonired to nav tho city a fixed sum for each mile of track located in the streets; telephone and othur companies, operatiuz lines of electric wires, to pay so much for each pole erected; and companies making use of pipes and conduits underground a hxed sum per mile of pipe, etc. lbo Boston committee did not recom mend any specific method of securiug a return from corporations for the use of streets, but was instrumental in securing the passage of an order by which tho Mayor is requested to petition the Legis lature at its next session for the passage of an act authorizing cities nnd towns to pre scribe terms and conditions for tho use cf their streets by private corporations. But the Lies Will Continued Toledo Blade. Of course the warfare on Judge Woods Is mangnratcd for partisan purposes. It is intended to prejudice the minds of the un learned and unthinking against him and the Kepublican party, and will, of course. be continued despite his thorough vindication from the charge, which is. that ho changed his mind for partisan purposes be tween the giving of his first and second charges. He proves clearly-that his view wus the same all the time; that in his first charge he simply quoted the law, leaving it to be construed, if possible, on argument in open court; that the grand jury asked for a construction however, for their guidance, which he then gave. His vindication from the charge is complete in the minds of all honorable, f.iir-iiiiudeti men. Great Sleeting of Reformers. Chicago Post (Dem.) The Hon. Henri Watterson has been banqueted at Boston by the Keform Club of Massachusetts as a token of the glowing and growing esteem iu which reformers hold themselves and each other, without regard for geograihical - lines. It was a notable affair. That eminent Pnritan, the Hon. Patrick Aloysins Collins, chief among tho entertainers, prattled amiably with tha gallant Colonel on the respective merit of kings tin and a Mull-enforced bobtail. Colonel Watterson gave a lucid exegesis of bis new autumnal drink, the "heavenly rest," an ecstatic compound ot eggs, collee and cognac The star-eyed goddess meantime fondled the bean-fed civil service bird and all was amity. Shattering Idols. Boston Globe (Dem.) Besides, the "founders of governments" were not divinely inspired or authorized to make laws and Institutions to govern the Eeople of 18W. There is a good deal of humug in this superstitious reverence for the "founders of-ngovernments." They were just plain, ordinary, two-legged men. Let us have such laws and institutions as in the light of reason and experieucu may seem best for us in these last years of the nineteenth century; and if tho "fouudtrs of governments" don't like it they have our permission to rise out of their forgotteu graves aud say so. The world was theirs when they had it; but now it belongs to the people of the present. The Dosh About "Retaliation. Philadelphia Telegraph. It is very well known, for thev themselves have said it. that the old world countries are very indignant regarding Mr. McKinley's little revenue bill, but it is about as likely that the sun will rise in the west and set in the east ns that Europe will adopt any commercial policy at wcr with its own interests for the sake, of retaliating on this country. Individuals sometimes cut oil' their noses to spite their faces, but great nations are not often guilty of that sort of folly. This threat of tartlT retaliation is not a new ono. Was Pretty Well Decided In 1888. Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.) Man' good men have been afraid of the tariff question, but it is too large for them, and the long imminent battle must eoon to fought ouU -