Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1890 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1890.

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY. OCTOBER 4, 1600.

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Democratic Tlalform, We demand the adoption or a system of The tax on nrrrml i equalizing theappraiseproperty ought to be pent ol real and perw holly repealed. sonai property in xms The prospect is that the system or private property In land will remain as it id, foromo generations, at least,but that all taxes, at least lor fctate and ItKal purposes (excert such as may bs derived from tho sale of franchise) will, in the m aj.a State, to the end that an equal and proper uniformity In such assessments shall be secured, for the reason that under existing regulations many counties are compelled to pay an unjust proportion of the State's expense, which others as unjustly escape. near iuiure, ve iaiu upon land. I Tfiree or four earnest and active Republicans in every neighborhood in Indiana can organize a Republican victory. The public debt is 8205,000,000 less than it was when General Harrison was inaugurated an average monthly reduction of $10,827,074. The feeling among Republicans throughout the State is excellent, but good feeling docs not cany elections. If Republicans expect to win they must get to work. Mr Bixltm is undoubtedly very sorry now' that he offered the pension-haters' Echeme to cast opprobrium on pension laws, but it is now too late, and silence 'is his best defense. Tnn Republican who stops to listen to the lying gabble of every Democrat he meets or takes time in trying to convince every such Democrat that he is wrong will waste his time. It seems. Mr. James B. Curtis, Democratic candidate for joint Representative from Marion and Shelby, is part owner of a distillery in Shelby county. This will insure him tho fall Democratic vote. One of the best things to bring out a full vote is a .first-class ticket. That's what the Republicans of Indiana have and what the Republicans of Marion county find to be a tower of strength. : The President has accepted the urgent invitation of St. Louis to visit that city during his Western trip, and the Post-Dispatch promises him "a cordial welcome from all citizens irrespective of party affiliations." Mr. George S. Batcuellkr, whohas been appointed minister to Portugal, is at present Assistant Secretary of tho Treasury. He has had diplomatic experience as judicial representative of this government in Egypt. Two walking delegates have been expelled from the New York building trades for corruption. ' Both of them accepted money for bringing about a strike. The walking delegate has never been a credit to organized labor. SoMEnow or other that Mississippi memorial asking for the repeal of the fifteenth amendment has excited little or no comment throughout the country. It is pretty generally understood, even in the South, that they might as well cry for the moon. The new election law makes no provision for witnesses of the count, leaving the whole matter in the hands of the election board. This makes it important that none but good men should bo appointed judges and clerks of election. They should bo careful, vigilant and trnstworthv. Ip there was a Democratic newspaper that failed to offer, up heartfelt thanks at tho adjournment of Congress it has not corno to tho Journal's exchange table. And they did it with reason. Another such progressive and businesslike session would disable the Democracy forever. Having been indorsed and thanked With thunders of applause by every Republican State and congressional conTention, Speaker Reed needs not tho thanks of tho minority in tho House. In fact, it would be rather a reflection upon him to secure such homage. The election of a Republican House in November would settle the tariff isjiue for years, and there could be no doubt of the election of such a House were there a free election and an honest count in twenty odd districts in tho South. noN. Justin S. Morrill, who has just been elected for the fifth timo United Btates Senator from Vermont, is in his eighty-first year. A service of twelve yeara in tho House and twenty in the Senate has given him a largo experience in public affairs, and as bis faculties are well preserved he may be good for some years of usefulness yet. Tin: Indiana delegation in both bou ess of Congress consists of three Republic slzs czd tttelvo Democrats. All three of

the Republicans served during the war in tho Union army, but only one of the Democrat was in tho Union army, though all but three of them were of army age. Several of them, if not all, were in sympathy with tho rebels during that period, and two or three of them wero malignant copperheads. Yet they all claim to bo better friends of the Union veterans than it is possible for any cx-Union soldier to be.

HO DEFENSE NEEDED. Tho Republicans are not called upon this year to mako a defensive campaign. The administration of President Harrison and the action of Congress mako this unnecessary. Both need no defense. The opposition will misrepresent both, because to tell the truth about them would be .in the nature of a plea of guilty to the charge of obstructing them in the performance of their duties. The administration is strong all along tho line. All1 criticism that can be made cannot touch the integrity, the capacity or the purpose of the President. It is his administration. No policy has been adopted that has not received not only his sanction, but has been developed and strengthened by his positive influence and matured opinion. Public affairs were never more faithfully or efficiently administered. It is, in every branch of the service, a business administration. More than that, it is a progressive administration in that it has not been content to follow the routine of executing the laws and making, appointments. The vigor of administration has been demonstrated in reforms in every department of the public service. In the State Department the project of strengthening republican form of government on this continent has been successfully entered upon. Treaties have been made that have long been needed. Foreign restrictions upon American productions are sure to be removed under its persistent policy i' It has been mainly instrumental in influencing Congress to initiate the policy of reciprocity, which will be carried out with wisdom and vigor. The affairs of the Treasury have been most skillfully managed. The surplus no longer accumulates in tho sub-treasuries, nor is it deposited in banks to be loaned. Business principles have been adopted in the custom-houses. Longstanding abuses in the enforcement of immigration laws hWo' been abolished. The Postoffice Department was never more efficient, and it is now gratifying the best sentiment of the country by making vigorous and effective war upon the lottery, evil. . The Department of Justice has pursued a course which has led thoscwhu havtf'been violating election laws and persecuting federal officers to conclnde that it is not a safo thing to do. The functions .of the Interior Department ' ; are administered with care. The long-standing cases in the Pension ' Bureau are being disposed of most rapidly." The army and r navy tcc the influence of strong and practical, direction, while tho head of . the new Department of Agriculture is1 doing a work which justifies its creation. The record of the Republican Congress follows the excellence pf that of the administration in the enactment of more important and needed measures than any Congress since the war. It has kept its pledges to the country. The House has restored to that body the power conferred by the Constitution upon the majority, which was abdicated by a code of rules devised to prevent legislation, breaking the rule of the filibuster and destroying precedents which applied to other men and different conditions. No jobbery has soiled the record. The force of law has been , given to new policies, and measures have been adopted which bear evidence of wise and progressive statesmanship. Both the administration and the majority in Congress are one in regard to general policies. Every important measure has had the earnest support of both. .Never before was tho Republican party, in official position, so entirely agreed upon questions of public policy. It goes Into tho campaign as a( party united in policy, harmonious in action, progressive in purpose, and with a record that challenges honest criticism and fears not misrepresentation. THE FEDERAL FINANCES. The statement of the public debt issued Oct. 1 gives the bonded debt, exclusive of the bonds issued to the Pacific railroads, as ' $038,088,070, the annual interest on which is S25,890,Go2.80. Tho in-tcrest-bearinff debt was largest Aug. 81, 1805, reaching the aggregate of $2,381,530,294, which bore interest at the rate of $150,977,097 a year. That is, from Aug. 31, 1SG3, to Oct. 1, 1890, the debt has been reduced $1,742,642,224, and the annual interest charges 6 120,120,045. Another interesting; fact is that while the debt has been reduced 73.2 per cent, during that period, tho interest charges have been reduced 83 por cent. a result of ttie Republican refunding policy. As showing tho striking degree that tho debt has ceased to be a burden upon the people, tho fact may bo added that on Aug. 31, 1805, the debt 'per capita was 878.25 and the annual interest charge $4.29, while on Oct. 1, 1890, the debt j)er capita was only $9.98 and the interest chargo had been reduced to 44 15 cents. During the month of September $42,310,240 of bonds were purchased. Another fact which the statement presents entirely refutes the chargo that money is being taken from the channels of circulation by the collection of revenues and locked up by the policy of tho Treasury, thus contributing to the other causes producing a stringency. It shows that there is in the control of the Treasury against which there are no outstand ing certificates or liability, $20,708,854 of fractional silver and minor coins which are not full legal tender, and $39,022,490 of legal-tender money which includes the $54,207,075 deposited by tho national banks to redeem their circulation, which was made available by tho silver act of July 11, 1890. That is, since this national bank redemption fund was made available, 0l5,iaoi470; of it, in, addition to every dollar in the possession of the government and collected as revenues over the current expenses, has been restored to circulation by, the purchase pt bonds

and the payment of anticipated interest. The policy of Secretary Windom in purchasing bonds to relievo the stringency of the money market in New York has been severely criticised by the anti-administration organs in that city and elsewhere, which, in harmony with Wall-street advisers, urged him to deposit the funds of the Treasury in the banks, to be loaned to their customers; but it will strike disinterested and fairminded people that tho course pursued by Mr. Windom is better than that of the Cleveland administration, which deposited nearly $00,000,000 in the banks to their great advantage, which had the effect to take that amount of bonds from the market, to bo deposited with tho Treasury as security for the deposits, and, to that extent, produced a scarcity of bonds and enhanced the market price when the Treasury desired to purchase. The further fact that the receipts of tho Treasury from revenues during the month of September, when the drafts were unusually large for the regular quarterly payment of pensions, were $4,582,908 in excess of the disbursements, proves that the alarm of the opposition, because of a deficiency at the close of the year, is not justified by the facts.

DECADENCE OF THE PROHIBITION PAETY. No one who has studied the philosophy of political parties in America, and their history as well,vis surprised at the rapid decline of tho party which was organized twenty years ago on the one issue of prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicants. The American people do not take kindly to extreme measures, nor follow one line of thought to the exclusion of all others. There are a thousand interests to be consulted, and while, at times, any one may with certain individuals or certain interests overshadow all , others, tho average sentiment of the people keeps all abreast, hence no issue can bo an absorbing interest with all the people, and extreme views never obtain. All laws are tho resultants of many and diverse views. Forty years ago a few good men became absorbed with tho question of slavery. Tho masses were moving in the samo direction, but they moved too slowly to suit these, hence they left tho people aud set up in political isolation, but after twenty years tho party disbanded and all who wero truly anti-slavery united on a lower plane with men equally opposed to slavery, and in less thau ten years after the abandonment of abolition as the basis of a political party thero was not a slave in America. In this connection it is worthy of note that there was not a word about abolition in the platforms of the Republican party either in 1850 or 1800. The worst that was proposed against slavery was a resistance of its arrogance, and otherwise regulating it. " It is no disparagement to the goodness of the earnest men that they formed a political party for the emancipation of the slave, but it is of their wisdom, as they came themselves to see. It is, however, greatly to their credit that, after fully testing their plan, they came down to where the average sentiment of tho people found expression down to where the Lincolns, and tho Mortons, and the Sumners, and tho AVades, and the Colfaxes of that period lived. At one time thero was reason to hope that the Abolition party might be a success. A leap from 02,000 in 1844 to 300,000 votes in 1848 indicated sufficient vitality to hope for a larger party in the future. But on the heels of this vote the slave power displayed its greatest arrogance, passing the fugitive slave law, repealing the Missouri Compromise, and otherwise displaying its power as never before. Tho result was that the wiser ones called a halt. They saw how utterly powerless they were agaiust slavery. As a consequence, in 1852 the vote was only 150,000, and then tho party disbanded forever, and the death of slavery soon followed. It is twenty years since the first prohibitory ticket was put out in Indiana, and about the same time in other States. The bound in tho Nation from 11,000, in 1880, to 152,000 in 1884, and to 300,000 votes in 1880, gave signs of a living party, and the party started off in 1888 expecting a million, some claiming a million and a quarter for 1888, and "getting thero7' in 1892. But the people were not to bo led by such leaders. Their sober second thought suggested that a party with but one idea could not be an American party, and they refused to answer to the call; hence, when tho votes were counted in 1888, instead of a million and a quarter, they had but a quarter of a million, falling off from the vo.to of 18SG about 40 per cent., though tho aggregate vote of that year was more than two millions greater than the vote of 1880. .Later elections have indicated the same falling oft' everywhere. Massachusetts is the only State in which the party has held its own, and there were reasons for this that were purely local and exceptional. A 6tudy of tho figures shows that the true temperance people have abandoned the party method of reaching their purpose. For instance, at one time, Kentucky gave 39,992, and the friends of separate political action at once proclaimed the year of jubilee at hand, but it never has given anything liko that since. In 1889 it gave only 3,371, and in 1890 it practically abandoned the field, running a woman as its candidate. At one timo Nebraska gave 8,175, but in 18S9 it gave only 5,821. At one time Rhode Island gave 2,588, yet iu 1890 it gave only 1,7G7. At one time New York gave 41,850, but in 1889 it gave only 20,719. At one timo Pennsylvania gave 32,458, but in 1889 it gave only 22,401. At one time Ohio gave 29,700, but in 1SS9 it gave only 20,504. At one timo New Jersey gave 19,808, but in 18S9 it gave only C,S53. At ono time Maine gave 3,873, but in 1890 it gave only 2,972. At one time Vermont gave 1,752, yet in 1690 it gave only 1.118. As we have said, only Massachusetts has lately equaled its former vote. It is plain to see that tho bettor portion of those who started out in good faith, believing that through a party was their best chance to get prohibition, have discovered their mistake and have abandoned that method. More than that was indicated as to Indiana last Decern

ber. At the call of more than 100 pastors of Protestant and Catholic churches there was the largest meeting of prohibitionists that had been held in the State since 1850. They distinctly avowed their belief that nothing' but prohibition could meet tho case fully, yet, recognizing that prohibition was not immediately obtainable, they resolved to work for the present for any law that would "tend to closing the saloon." The leaders of that meeting had been leaders, previously, in the party movement. The zeal with which they entered upon this plan indicates a unity of purpose not known for many years in the temperance work. No specific law was indicated, but it has not been difficult to see that tho -trend of public thought has been toward local optiou. This is the case, at least, with those prohibitionists who aro on national issues Republicans, hence the Republican platform for this year gives no uncertain sound on that question. "We do not assume that the disintegration of tho Prohibition party, will inure .wholly to the benefit of the Republican party, for a great many of that party went into it from the Democratic party, and they will probably return to their first love; but we do . assume that for this year, at least, all who were at the December convention and the thousands of all parties who sympathize with the purposes of that convention .will vote for Republican legislators, at least, this year. Republicans are the only opes who promise any relief whatever on that question. It is certainly madness for anyone who really desires improved temperance legislation to waste a vote on a party that is evidently breathing its last. This year its leaders aro spending large sums of money, evidently furnishedfrom abroad,

in keeping several hireling speakers in the field, mostly non-residents. It has recently been brought out that two 3'ears ngo their candidate for Governor was paid a stipulated sum for every campaign speech he made. No wonder tho party is dying, and no wonder thero is dissatisfaction in the ranks. But in its death it only follows in the footsteps of all former parties whose only bond of union was an extreme phase of some ono idea. THE DUTY ON TIN-PLATES. Tho duty on tin-plates will bo a favorite point of attack in the new tariff law, and there will be a great deal of ignorant misrepresentation and willful lying about it. It may be worthwhile to say that tinplate is sheet-iron plated with tin, and is manufactured chiefly in Wales. Tiro duty on it for some years previous to the passage of the new law was one cent per pound, and we have been importing from 000,000,000 to 700,000. 000 pounds a year. During the year ending June 30, 1888, we imported 032,224,296 pounds, of the value of $19,0:34.821. If we can keep this $19,000,000 to $20,000,000 a year at home and pay the price of the tin and tho wages for manufacturing it to Americans, instead of Welshmen and Englishmen, it would be a good thing. The establishment of the tin industry in this country would give employment to many thousands of workmen and help maintain a homo market' for farm products. So important a result is worth striving after. The 'now law raises the duty on tin from 1 cent a pound to 2210 cents a pound, but not immediately. The old rato continues till July 1, 1891, and importers can bring in al tho tin they want until that date at 1 cent a pound. From and after that date the increased duty attaches. The first ellect may be to slightly increase the cost of tin-plate to manufacturers and largo consumers, but probably not in a degree to bo felt by tho public. The ultimate eflect is expected to bo tho establishment of the tin-plate industry in this country so that in a few years we shall have better tin at lower prices than we pay now'. The law contains a provision that on and after Oct. 1, 1897, tin-plate shall bo admitted free of diU3r, unless before that time wo are producing at least onethird of tho amount of tin we import. Thus, if the attempt to establish the business in this country is successful within six years, tho people will bo enormously benefited by the establishment of a now industry and by having better tin at lower prices. If the attempt is not fairly successful within that time the ' duty on tin will bo repealed. In view of the fact that we have tho richest tin mines in the world and that there is every reason to believe the tin-plate industry can be successfully established, under proper protection, we think all patriotic Americans will approve the attempt to do so. That the attempt will'probably succeed is evidently the opinion of foreign manufacturers. The London Iron and Steel Trades Journal said in a recent issue: "The duty is now 1 cent per pound, and tho suggested tariff is 2 210 cents per pound. If this is carried tho occupation of three-fourths of those engaged in the tin-plate trade will be gone, and our manufacturers and their workmen, if they continue in the business, must employ their capital and experience on the other side of tho Atlantic." That is the English way of looking at the matter, and means, that under the proposed duty the tin-plate industry can and will be developed in this country. The new election law requires tho presiding officer and secretary of every nominating convention to filo with the clerk of the Circuit : Court a certificate of the nominations made, with the name of each person nominated, his residence and the office for which ho was nominated, designating, also, the title of the party and the party device adopted by the convention. This certificate must bo in writing, signed by the chairman and secretary of the convention, and acknowledged before some officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds. It must be filed with the county clerk not less than fifteen days before the election. In the case of a candidate for Congress, or other candidate voted for in more than one county, the certificate must bo filed with the clerk of each circuit court embraced in the voting district. At least seven days before the election each county clerk must make twp publications .in. two.county. nowa-

papers of all the nominations so certified to him, one of such publications being on the last publication day before the election. If tho officers of Republican nominating conventions have not filed the certificates referred to they should do so without delay.

, Dr. Rathgen, who for eight years has occupied the chair of political science at the Imperial University of Japan, says: The major part of the imperial revenue is derived from taxes on the value of landnot the area, but the value. The land taxes were equalized all over the empire in 1873 to 1877, and later, in 1885, the land was revalued. The land taxes are heavy, and in bad years the small tenant farmers all Japan is cut up into small subdivisions could not pay them. They were sold out after the bad years of 1883 to 18S5, and wealthy capitalists in the towns bought them up. The Democratic idea of a single land tax seems to have been borrowed from Japan. Tti vt?t ran Iia no dnnhfc that the fiincletax doctrine is growing in favor in all En1 1 1 A. 1 1 t 1 giisn-spea&ing countries, auu we uoudd thorA ant manr notr livincrwhn Trill see its general adoption. Whether this will also involve the appropriation by the state of tne entire rental vaiue ox me iauu, as yruposed in "Progress and Poverty," will defend entirelv noon the necessities of the state. Indianapolis Sentinel. Indiana is an English-speaking coun try, except in limited spots, and we do not think the single land-tax idea is growing in favor here. Neither do we think the time is near at hand when the necessities of the State will justify it in appropriating the entire rental value of land. The latest news from the Georgia election is that General Gordon, who was the most popular man in the State a f ew months ago, will not be able to muster a corporal's guard in the Legislature in support of his candidacy for United States Senator. The Alliance, which seems to have swept the board, has instructed Representatives to oppose his election to the Senate to the end. The important issue in Indiana-is tho imbecility of Democratic legislatures, which have allowed the State to run in debt because they have neither the cour age nor the capacity to devise a modern system of taxation liko other States. Bat, then, such imbecility, if they had undertaken a change, would probably have led them to adopt the Sentinel's single-tax theory. Mu. CoorEi: is said to bo making Commissioner Raum the issue in his campaign. Ordinarily this would not be good policy for a pension-claim agent, but it will mako no difference with the bureau in disposing of the applications of the Cooper agency, as it is disposingof all cases as fast as the testimony is completed. An Ahject Apology. Mrs. rotts What time was it when you got home last nifiht! Mr. Potts Heally, I don't know, my dear. I was so abashel by getting in late that I couid not look tbe clock In the face. Hopes. Briggs Hello, Peck. We have been discufising the happiest mo meat in a man's life. What is your experience! K. Peck I am not prepared to say. I have never been a widower yet. Something of the Sort, Wickwire Didn't you say De Oabb committed suicide by blowing out his brainsi Yabsley No; I Raid he blew out the gas. Wlckwire Ob, well, I didn't mlaa it so very much. Next to the iron trade there is no better index of the general prosperity than the railroad traffic. Au officer of the Illinois Central railroad says that during the last year that road purchased eighty-nine fifty to sixty-ton locomotives, built sixty-live new passenger coaches, 1,500 thirty-ton coal cars, 1,000 tweuty-tivo-ton box cars, ten fifty-foot baggjgo cars, ten postal cars, 150 refrigerator cars, eighteen iron bridges, replaced twenty-two wooden bridges with stone, built several now depots, laid 20.000 tons of eeventy-tivo-pound stool rail, 4,000 tons , of sixty-pound rail, ballasted with btone 150 miles of track, and is equipping 100 engines and 2,500 cars with air-brakes. Hack of this activity in railroad betterments lies the prosperity of tho people who patronize and support them. The mistake of a druggist who sold a fakir" at the Jay county fair tho wrong chemical may cost a few lives, but the victims will havo tho satisfaction of knowing that they died not in vain. The public will hereafter have a clearer idea of what is contained in the vile concoction known as "circus lemonade" that is hawked about county fairs and all sorts of publio gatherings. They have long suspected that it was entirely innocent of lemon-juice, but nowhey know it. The pastor of a fashionable New York church, hitherto a great favorite with his flock, has suddenly lost popularity because his new wife insists upon attending another place of worship. So great is the dissatisfaction that he has sent in his resignation. The congregation probably reached tbe conclusion that if he wasn't a good enough preacher to please his wife he wasn't good enough for them. There are a good many Hoosiers in Oklahoma, which perhaps accounts for the exceeding pugnacity developed in the Legislature of that Territory. Indiana legislatures have always conducted their sparring matches inside the walls of the Statehouse, but the same spirit, excited by the more exhilarating air of the far West, might easily lead to the chasing of an offending Speaker aronnd the block. TnAiJf-itOBBERS and their ilk seem to be working their way back toward the center of civilization from both directions. A few days ago they went through a street car a9 near as Chicago, and now they have held up a train in Ohio, .right over on the other side of us. Among the nominations that failed of confirmation by the Senate was that of Rev. John Calvin, of Ohio, to a post chaplainship in the army. This seems to show that he was foreordained to get left, but Calvin, of all men, ought not to complain. Dr. Tallage seems to have unearthed the private ledger of the late lajnented King Solomon. Anyhow he estimates the wealth of that much-married sovereign to have been GS0,000.000.in gold andl,02S.000,377 in silver. To th Editor ot the Inrtl&aaixrii Journal; Between what date cac a persou lawfully shoot quails la Indiana! bL'BscrjbEiL jAMKhTOWK, Ind. Between the 15th of October and the 20th of December. The dry-goods jobbiug-houso of J. V, Farwell & Co. is about to be reorganized as a stock company, with, a . capitalization

of f,bout $.,000,O00. The New York hooseof H. 13. Clailin Sc. Co. has already been reorganized in that way, and the Chicapo firm thinks tho time propitious for a Bimilar move on its part.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Henry WardBekcher's average weight was 105 pounds. The poet Whittier is a Republican, and a good friend of Harrison, Hlaino and Keed. "Jake" SHARr, of Broadway boodle notoriety, was famous for never giving away a pass. General Bctler is fond of good dining and is himself a good cook. He can broil a lobster to a turn. There are over forty thousand children attending the schools in London who are insutlicieutly fed. Senator Butler, of Soutt Carolina, always stops at Don Cameron's house on his way to the Senate. Lord Arundel, heir of the Duke of Norfolk, is afilicted with the triple misfortune of being deaf, dumb and blind. In England, last year, 6,067 books were published, including new editions. Most of them come under the head of iictiou. Austin Donsox, the poet, who is now fifty, entered tho English civil service at sixteen, and was intended for an engineer. Two. books, with Marginal notes, m Luther's handwriting, have been discovered in the municipal library at Zwickau, it is reported. Emt-jjess Frederick has herself written the pathetic story of her husband's last days, which is to appear in the forthcoming life of the Emperor. English papers say that lawn tennis is on tho wane, or as the St James Gazette remarks with more severity of language than is called for, as an all-pervading tyrant its reign is virtually over." A friend of Jay Gonld, speaking of his generosity, tells the New York Tress: J iru Fiske left absolutely nothing, but Gould gave his wiaow $250,000 in government bonds. It was a big pile of money for him in those daj-s. although it would be scarcely a flea bite now." Somebody in the Chicago Advance, presumably David Swing, is urging all preachers to keep thMr faces clean shaven, bocause tho smooth face represents permanence of personal appearance, and because deaf people in the audience understand tho orator's meaning from the movements of his lips. The story comes from Komo that by order of the Pope the vicariat has made an estimate of foreign priests who live at Rome without any ecclesiastical oftice or other benefice, and wao have not sufficient private means to support their clerical dignity. JSuch priests will bo requested to leave the city, it is thought. Chautauqua's receipts this year wero $9,000 in excess of last. A sewerage 83'6tem will be provided before next year. The next two years will be specially American iu the courses. A particularly capablo English speaker will be obtained. Brice, author ot the 'American Commonwealth," was wanted, but he lacks suitable voice. The Tolstoi Club, of Boston, organized two 3'ears ago by Dr. Hale, has a membership of about one hundred, and holds its meetings in a room in the Parker Memerial Building. It already has a library, and ono of its pet projects is the founding of a place of rational recreation for tho poor, oimilar to the plan of t.ho People's Palaco in London. The ubiquitous Empress of Austria is now doing Algeria. Her apparently inexhaustible list of incognito designations is wholly derived from English sources, and while at Lisbon and Gibraltcr she would answer to no other name than that of Lady Nicholson, although at least live or six ladies are rightful owners of the designation in question. ' Roiiert Garrett does not intend to return to New York this winter, but will remain in Paris till 6priug. He goes to the races regularly and looks strong and hearty, although he is unable to stand tho least excitement. lie sees but few friends. In fear of a recurrence of his malady, he is always followed about by some man of whoso existence he is ignorant. . Tunisians have a rather unpleasant custom of "fattening up" their girls . for marriage. A girl after 6he is betrothed is cooped up in a small room... Shackles of silver or gold are put .upon her ankles and wrists as a piece of .dress. If she is to be married to a man who has discharged or lost his former wife tho shackles which tbe former wife wore are put upon tho new bride's limbs, and she is fed until they aro filled up to the proper thickness. One of tho principal leaders of the temperance movement in Great Britain is Mr. .Wyudham Portal, proprietor of the Laverstoke paper-mills, where tbe paper that the Ilanlc of England notes and the postal orders are made of i manufactured. Tho number of hands employed at tho ' mills is 250. and three of he II am shire county police are continually on duty there. Mr. W. Portal is a teetotaler, and until disestablishment became a plank in the Liberal party need to be a Liberal. It was not until 1799 that lights were permitted in tho old Center Church of Hartford, Conn. They savored too much of the "Scarlet Woman." Of course, no artificial heat was allowed in those good old days, and no instrnmental musio was permitted in the services. When stoves were introduced, about 1S27, many of the old chnrch pillars looked upon them as an invention of Satan. In his sermon last Sunday Dr. Walker, the pastor, spoko of an old-time pastor of the church who owned a large interest in a distillery, and nobody was shocked at it either. In fact, it would have shocked tho chnrch members of that day to be told that it was wrong for their pastor to be interested in a distillery. THE SINGLE-TAX I PL A. Indiana Toters Likely to Decline to Keleaso Personal Property from Taxation. Hendricks County Republican: Free trade and single tax will not win in Indiana. Seymour Republican: The Sentinel's proposition to take the tax off personal property and increase tbe same on farming land has not caused the land-owner to throw up his hands with joy and shout for the Democratic platform. Fort Wayne Gazette: The Indianapolis Sentinel intimates that it favors the abolii tion of all tax upon personal propert3 mat is to sav tnencn naooo wiin nis bonds and wealth shall pay no tax, while the farmer who holds the lend shall be mulcted to the greatest extent possible. Orleans Examiner: How do the farmers generally, the Alliance and the F. M. B. A. particularly, like tho proposition of tho Sentinel to collect all taxes from landf Is it possible that sensible men will vote squarely againtt their own interests in a fctate campaign? An off year would seem to be a good time to give that party a needed and useful lessou. Corydon Republican: The Sentinel, the leading Democratic organ of tbe State, says repeal tbe taxes on personal property and raise tho revenue by taxation of real estate. How do farmers and sinall-lot-owners liko this Democratic doctrineT Bank capital, stocks, notes and money must go free, but the farmer with his laud and the laboring man with his humble home must pay the taxes. You pay your mone3r and take choice of partied. Richmond Palladium: The Democratic party of Indiaua demands that the tax on farms shall be increased and the tax on personal proxerty repealed. Tht Republican party has declared in its platform in favor of taxing bonds. nd notes, and stocks of goods, aud otber personal property at some. thing near their valuf and of making this clana or property fdiare tho burden with farm lands, and also of making corporations pay a reasonable license for valuable franchises granted by the State. Middletown News: Tho great fortunes of this country do not consist of houses and lands, but in the main of personal property, moneys, bonds, stocks, etc Under the single-tax system thtse would be exempt from taxation. Under such aeyetem

the tendency would not be toward mrfl land-holdings, bnt toward no holding of real estate whatever. Who would care to hold tax-paying property if he could possibly exchange it for that which would be non-taxablcT Tho ultimate result would be that the Government would become the possessor of all tho lands and the rent, paid by the orrnpant, would bo the tax. Such a system "y ill not become popular in this country, because it ought not to become so. Written for the JndianapolU Journal. Itnbltt and Andrew. 'Hear land o' calces and britlier Scots Frae Maidenkirk to Johnny (iroatt." Alone and ii;le. A braw mon irae acns the sea Has made a erx ecli in nuM Dundee, And lairds' ear tlucle. Our Robin, sure, of other time Has gi'en in keen. atine rhyme The selfsame canter; The rank, quoth he, a tho guinea stamp," And titled coof aud tinseled caiup He io'ed to banter. I trust that Robin sprite did pee That fatelu' nlcht in auld Dundee, That nif ht o' glory; He'd ken the hour h nearly here Whcu riband, star an' a' that gear Will be but story; That "pith o' sense and prMe o irorth'' Now "bear the pre;" in & the earth WT honors ample. And that this Andrew Carncjie. Who made hi fortune o'er the eca, '8 a bounie sainphx Charles Dennis. KEEPING OUR OWN MARKET.

What Senators Spooner and Wolcott Say About the Tariff and Reciprocity. Chicago Times (DenO The Republican party can point with a iust pride to the accomplishments of the last Congress," said Senator John C. Spooner at the Grand Pacific yesterday. "It is the poor man's friend to-day as much as twenty-five years ago. Yes. notwithstanding the McKinley bill and tho GO per cent. duty. A tax No, sir. it is not a tax. We are daily increasing our markets. Wo shall soon have tho South American conntries, where we can take our machinery, our manufactured products. We'll take their hides, and their cofiee, and other products. Isn't that better than no market at all!" "But if reciprocity is good with the South American countries it ought to be good with the European national'' the Senator was asked. 'Well, haven't we mado tho law so broad that any nation which produces hides, coffee aud sugar can trade with us! Now, there's German'. We imported 17 per cent, of our sugar last year from Germany. We'll take more of it hereafter if (Jermany will open her ports to our meats. Of course you fellows don't see the beauty of this system, but we do. Who pays the freight? Why Jones does," said the Senator. "Of course Franco doesn't raise cofi'ee. bnt she produces sugar. Well, we can take her sugar, becauso we may not raise enough down South, and she can takeour grain and meat. No, we don't want her silks and woolens. Wo want to manufacture thoso things ourselves. It pays us to do so; it pays us to keep our markets for ourselves." There was another prominent Republican Senator in town j'esterday Edward Wolcott, of Colorado. "My people are hlshly elated over tbe new tarili" bill. It is just what they wanted," said Senator Wolcott. "The Mckinley bill imposes a duty of 12 cent per pound on foreign lead ores. This tarili will etlectually shut Mexican lead out. which hitherto has been coming into this country frco of duty, and we won't have to meet this ruinous competition. This free ore nonsense threw hundreds of our' best miners out of employment. Colorado minors receive S3 a day; Mexican miners only 50 and 75 cents. Now, how can American labor hope to wrestle successfully with this pauper labor of .Mexico. Why, sir. if thin free importation had continued much longer it would have closed all onr lead mines and thrown thousands out of employment, or else the mines would have had to rnn at a loss. The new tariff settles this business as quick as. you cauld say 'Jack Robinson.' Good day, sir." Libel on Indiana Churcli-Goert. Chicago Tunes. An Indiana court has decided that steamers aud street-railroad companies must not carry Sunday picnickers, because it is not a work of necessity. Lest totuo scoiler may think that the decision equally applies to the carrying of worshipers to church, it is as well to say that the latter is a work of necessity. If an Indianian is to be saved he must be carried to church. Will Tlave to Depend on "Winchesters. Memphis Avalanche. ' It will not do to trust too much to the Dortchlaw. ,The number of negroes so far registered is far greater than that of the whites. In one district which registered but thirty-four negroes in August, they are now sixty-five stronger ou the registration books than tho whites. Most of the negroes have paid, or will pay, their poll-taxes. You Forget Indiana. Buffalo Commercial. Tho Ohio HenuMicans aro putting in some splendid work, but the Democrats so gerrymandered the congressional districts an to make a Republican victory in a maority ot them an absolute impossibility. t was a characteristic unio-ucmocratic trick, and no Democrats meaper than those in Ohio can bcfound in tho country. Cause for Amusement. Nebraska Journal The pathetic appeal of the stonghton bottles of tho House to the country, against the tyranny of Tom Reed in counting them, though they were empty, has fallen with a dull thud upon tho India rubber case in which the average American kerpa his tears. It even strikes most people, regardless of party, as funny. And Would Be as Likely to .Succeed. Detroit TribnD. The country will now discuss the Mississippi proposition to repeal the fifteenth amendment. By the way, why not include all of the war amendments to the Constitution and make one job of itf This would' bo proving true tho declaration in tho Democratic platform of 1W4 that the war was a failure m s And None Will lie. Rochester Democrat Idaho has elected a Republican Governor and Legislature, Tho Kepublican tide is rolling in strongly. The November elections should show Republican gains in every State, and the triumphant election of a Republican majority in tbe Fifty -second Congress. No backward step thould be taken. ' Piety Not So Funny as It Wat. Kansas City Journal. Some of the newspapers which have found in Mr. Wanamaker's general piety au inviting subject for ridicule have discovered that the aforesaid piety is no joke when specifically applied to crashing tho lottery evil. Lottery advertisements have disappeared from the newspapers as if by magic. Day of Judgment at Hand. Boston Advertiser. The policy of obstruction, determined upon at the outset by tho Democratic minority, was continued until obstruction was no longer of avail. It remains to bo seen whether such tactics will be approved by the people of whom the Representatives iu Congress are the servants. Ills Objection Will He Overruled. Kansas City Star. A combination of Republicans and members of tho Farmers Alliance hat beu formed in tho Fourth Indiana district, agaiust the veteran Congressman. Judge Holmau. and he is in danger ot lobiug his Eeat. It goes without saying, of course, that Mr. Holmau objects. Yaux Is All Right Kan Ann City Star (Mur.) Hichard L. Vaux has come out ns an independent candidate agaiut William McAleej. the regular Democratic nominee for Congress in the Third Pennsylvania dis-, trict. The split is just alout witle enough to lot tho protection candidate for Congress through. Where Ignoranco Is Bllu. Minneapolis Tribune Ono of the Philadelphia candidates for the Lecislature can neither read nor write, lie will never have the occasion to deny tho authorship uf a compromising letter, and iu that respect he will have the advantago of many a learned statesman.