Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1890 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1890.

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESYJAY, DECEMBER 31, 1800.

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Even little Switzerland has been compelled to discard a tariff for revenue only, and adopt a protective tariff on some of the products of its labor, to save tho home market. To-dat is the last of the year 1800, and a very pood year it has been. True, it brought us a Democratic victory, but it is of the kind that is likely to provo a blessing in disguise. Tiiree weeks ago business people were demanding that Congress should tlo some financial legislation, but now the samo people aro hoping that Congress will go very slow in that direction. There are Democratic papers in this country which sneer at Mr. Cleveland because he speaks of the alleged victory of tho Democrats in November as "our victory.'7 They say that he was not in tho fight. ' There will bo some queer specimens in the next House, but, next to the Kansas man who was elected because he had do stockings, comes the Nebraska man who made his canvass on the fact that he had been a farmer ten years and had never obtained more than $500 a year, was the father of six motherless children, and had a fifteen-hundred-dollar mortgage on his farm, and was elected. The New York World devotes a long editorial to the proposition of the platet'lass manufacturers to advanco tho price, attributingit to the increased duty of the McKinley law and to McKinley, because he would not yield to the Senate proposition. The World did not name tho increase of duty under the present law because there has been none, and its article is based upon a false assumption. TnE true worth of tho American hog is being appreciated abroad." Germany has concluded that its prohibition is harmful and has removed ail restrictions. Italy is asking why it has restrictions, and will answer the question ere long by h'jolishing them, and France will probably yield to the demand of its people and allow them to eat our hog products. The meat-inspection law of the present Congress and the active efforts of our representatives in European capitals are opening the foreign market to our meat products. A favorite form of tho demand for inflation is that the volume of tho currency shall bo increased until it amounts to $00 per capita. This means an addition of $1,000,000,000 to our present stock. It is estimated that to print that amount of greenbacks, as well as those now in use and on as good paper, would require the employment of 300 powerpresses and 1,4(0 men, working every week day for ten years. If the object of the inflationists is to give employment to unemployed labor they seem to have hit on a good plan. An Iowa Democrat who re3pects Mr. Cleveland's courage, and who has worked for him in two campaigns, has written a long letter u tho New York Sun which chows that some Democrats are .regaining their senses, because he Bays it is folly to look to the usually Republican States of the North for an electoral votoin 1602, ami that if tho Democrats elect a President in 1893 their candidate must havo the 159 votes of the polid South and those of Indiana, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to do it, as 223 votes will bo necessary to a choice. Tho States above named fcavo sixty-seven votes and sixty-four are needed to add to the solid South. The loss of ono of these States defeats the Democratic candidate in the estimation of the Iowa Democrat. Ho believes that Mr. Clevelaud cannot carry New York and Mr. Hill can. The Indian light on Wounded Knee creek proves to have been more disastrous than wns first reported, our casualties being twenty-live killed and thirty-four wounded. The number of Indians killed is not definitely stated, though one dispatch puts it at three hundred. It is probable that nearly all of the attacking -party were killed. A dispatch says that tho order for trains to convey prisoners South has been revoked, as "there is only a remnant left.71 The affair is deplorable, but is a characteristic incident of Indinn warfare. The Indians are treacherous beyond conception and never more to bo feared than when apparently submissive. Their cud Jen attack in tfi's case was in keep

ing with many others in which they have violated flags of truce or assassinated those who were trying to befriend them. Their treachery was calculated to infuriate the troops against whom it was directed, and as these belonged to General Custer's old regiment it would not be strange if they took Bnmuiary vengeance on tho savages. Under the circumstances no punishment was too severe.

GENLEAL HILES OH THE IHDIAN QUESTION. General Miles, from his position and experience, is as well qualified to speak on "The Future of the Indian Question" as any man in tho country. He has had an experience of twenty years with the Indians. He understands them. Ho comprehends their position and he should know as well as any man the policy to be pursued to put an end to occasional outbreaks and to make the Indian self-sustaining. In an article in the January number of the North American Review under tho above caption General Miles discusses the Indian question in the light of ' history, experience, and with judicial fairness. He takes into consideration tho fact that the Indian understands that he is engaged in a struggle with a power with which he cannot cope and which insists upon makinghimwhat he does not desire to be. All the resistance of tho Indian element to the policy of tho government was expressed by Sitting Bull in tho presence of General Miles years ago: "God Almighty made me an Indian and he did notmake me an agency Indian and I do not intend to be one.7 A considerable clement hold this opinion, and so long as thero are leaders like Sitting Bull, Bed Cloud and Big Foot actual force will be needed to compel them to be agency Indians. That force must be a present one, and whatever other agencies aro brought to .bear upon such Indians to bring them to different views and purposes must be exercised iu the presence of the only power which they will recognize the army of the United States. General Miles does not say this; but every man who knows anything about the matter knows that such is the fact. Several of tho outbreaks which havo occurred have been made by tribes which were peaceful while under control of the military, but organized and obtained arms when transferred to the agency and the rule of the Indian agent. Gen. Miles says that some Indians have cause for complaint. They have been forced to leave growiug crops to go to agencies, and there are times when the government supply of food, in connection with the failure of their crops, has not been sufficient to sustain them without some suffering. Indeed, white settlers. have been compelled to abandon the country near the reservations because of tho insufficiency of food. General Miles does not attempt to place this responsibility upon any particular department of the government, but it must bo attributed in part to Congress, which has been reducing Indian appropriations for some years. On tho question of tho responsibility for the present condition of affairs, Gen. Miles says that the policy which has compelled the Indians to live on limited tracts of land and has there allowed them to arm for war is responsible indirectly; that a class of whites who havo instilled into the minds of these 6avages tho delusion that they have a : Messiah among them who will lead them to victory is responsible; that those "whites who make merchandise of the welfare and safety of their own race77 by selling Indians the most improved arms aro responsible, and that the Indians7 leaders themselves are responsible, since, knowing the purpose of the government to treat them fairly, they break out in merciless raids in which they take the life of the innocent child with the same fiendish delight that they meet a stalwart foe. General Miles gives a remedy which he believes will put an end to such a condition of a flairs in the future. He does not take any space to elaborate it, but puts it in these words: "The Indians should be placed under some government just and strong enough to control them.71 This is the first essential. After wards he may be given land, taught to cultivate it and his children taught in schools; but, first of all, "ho must be put under some government just and strong enough to control him." Can such a government be conferred upon men better fitted to administer it than army officers like General MilesT It certainly cannot be intrusted to impracticable enthusiasts thousands of miles away from him who, if they have over seen an Indian, have Reen him when presented to their meetings in good clothes and in the character of the noble red man. A 0 JSSTIOJf WITH E00T8. The Atlanta Constitution, in the course of an editorial on the suffrage question, says: The negro has not panned ont as a voter. He nocked to the polls when tne agents of the Freed man's Bureau natl ration a waiting for him and a brass band to play the quickstep. It was new and it was somewhat in the ah.ip of a frolic; but tho attractiou has passed away. The negro has discovered that the government which is good enoagh for his white friends and neighbors is good enough for him, and he conducts himself accordingly. The Constitution's argument is that the negroes do not care to vote, and that no law can be passed that will induce them to. In the same article from which the above is quoted it says: "The negroes will not vote and the whites will continue to control.77 Of all tho defenses attempted to be made of tho Southern oligarchy tho pretense that the negroes do not care to vote is the weakest. It does no credit to the intelligence of those who make' it, and is an insult to the intelligence of those to whom it is addressed. The negroes of the South are as anxious to vote as are those of the North, and they have always been swift to exercise tho privilego when protected in St. The pretense that they do not care to vote, or that "they have discovered that the government which is good enough for the whites is good enough for them,71 is absurd. A far more manly defense of tho suppression of the negro vote is that they havo no right to vote, that they are naturally and inherently disqualified, and that nothing can ever make them otherwise. This is consistent and in accordance with the real views of most

Southern Democrats, and to that extent is entitled to respect. The other claim is puerile. Tho real question, and the one that will havo to be decided ultimately, is whether universal suffrage is right or not. The question goes deeper than skin or color. It goes to tho point whether mauhood suflrageis a necessary feature of republican government, and whether majority rule is correct in principle. Once let it bo determined that the negroes in the South are rightly disfranchised, and the next step will be to disfranchise those in the North. Then it will bo comparatively easy to -disfranchise some objectionable class of white citizens, and from that the way will bo plain to a different form of government. That is tho form tho question will take a generation or two hence if not settled rightly now. It concerns the whites of this country quite as much as it does the negroes, and our posterity even more than it does us. Tho roots of the question strike deep and run very far.

ME. POWDEELY'S VIEW8. . General Master Workman Powderly spoke at a workingmen's celebration in Louisville on Monday night, and in the course of his address said: The Knights of Labor say that the government should havo the control of the railroads, and in that they should otand shoulder to shoulder with that great and powerful organization, the Farmers' Alliance, but the Knights of Labor would go further than the Alliance, and never give up the fight until the government owned therailruads. He quoted a number of cases to show what good government ownership of railroads would work to tho whole people. Bailroads holding mail contracts with the government would forfeit theircharters and existence for refusing to carry a letter with the little postage-stamp of the United State sticking up in one corner. When the government owns the roads there will be no strikes and cessations of tratlic until the differences have been the subject of the most thorough aud complete arbitration. There are a great many phases to tho question of government ownership of tho railroads, and it is possible that Mr. Powderly has not carefully considered them all. To begin with, there is nothing in the Constitution that could by any stretch of construction bo made to cover tho exercise of such a function by the government. The most that Congress can do is to "regulate commerce among the States,77 but certainly that does not authorize tho purchase or ownership of railroads. It may also regulate commerce with foreign nations, but t)iat does not authorize the building, owning and running of steamship lines. . Thero is no more reason in the nature of things for the government owning the railroads than thero is for it owning all the tlourmills or all the hotels in the country. . It is a fact, perhaps not known to Mr. Powderly, that tho railroad transportation business of this country is conducted better and cheaper than that of any other country in tho world. Whatever tho faults of our railroad system may be, tho fact remains that they carry more freightage for less money than the railroads of any other country. The assumption that the service would bo improved-or the public benefited by government ownership of tho railroads is entirely gratuitous. So far as expense is concerned, universal experience proves that government management' of large enterprises is more costly than that.lof private individuals or corporations. ' Mr. Powderly says that if the government owned the railroads no road would dare refuse to carry a stamped letter under penalty of forfeiting its charter. It is not very likely that a government road would refuse to carry the government mails. But so far as the railroads are concerned, the mails aro all right now, and eveu strikers have learned not to deluy them. The mails have never been delayed by the railroads. As for strikes, we think Mr. Powderly is wrong in.,saying that under government control "there will be no strikes until the differences have been the subject of the most thorough and complete arbitration.17 Strikes do not occur in tho government service, and if they should the government would not resort to arbitration. Nobody ever heard of a strike in the postal .service or in one of the departments at Washington, and if one should occur it would only last until the discharge papers of the strikers could be made out. If the railroad control should be placed on a military basis the result of a strike might "bo still different. Strikers in the army are treated very Bummarily. In no branch of its service does the government submit to dictation or to interference with its established methods. There is reason to believe that Mr. Powderly has not gono to the bottom of the question of government ownership of the railroads. TnE annual meetings of Indiana's educators are among the most interesting of all the conventions held in this city, and presumably among tho most useful. They servo to keep tho leaders of educational thought and work inclose sympathy and to develop ideas and plans for the advancement of a cause which is closely connected with Indiana's progress. It speaks much for the zeal of the teachers and their interest in their profession that they are willing to devote a considerable part of the short winter vacation and a , portion of their private means to attending these annual meet ings, and it is but right they should know that their services are appreciated. TnE "Lounger" in the New York Critio notes as a remarkable coincidence that in a short story by George A. Hibhard, in December Scribner's, a conspicuous character is named "Spurlock." Though it is not a common name it answers as well as another and only attracts attention when a Spurlook is found to be a leading figure in Joel Chandler Harris's Christinas story in the Century, bnt becomes astonishing when it appears in James Lane Allen's "Flute and Violin," in the December Harper. The Lounger is of the opinion that the chances against the occurrence of such a coincidence are At least 398,000 to one, and perhaps ho is right; but a coincidence only a degree less noticeable occurs in two Christmas stories written by Mrs. Mary Wilkins and Mrs. Harriet Proscott Spofford, respectively. A Joram" figures as the hero in each of these tales. Now, though Joram is a Scripture name aud possibly more euphonious than some others borne by biblical characters, it is not a favorito with those who caoose the titles of their unfortunate nialo offspring from such source, and is rarely heard as the appellation of a nineteenth-century man.

Consequently there is. at least cauie for tnrprise in the fact that two such wellknown writers should fix upon "Joram" for their hero. The circumstance that the stories have a farther similarity in being records of the history of maidens who, separated by cruel fate from their lovers in . youth', were reunited when all becamo elderly, is not forth consideration perhaps such incidents being kept in stock by every profesbional story-writer and brought out when the imagination is unequal to a fresh demand. The editor of the Kansas City Journal, who is spending the winter in Washington, baa this to say concerning the course of the Senate and some Senators: It docs sft em to common sense that the rule of "courtesy" is as much abused by the unconcealed purpone of a minority to prevent a vote as it would bo for the majority to compel a vote. Yet that is the sole point at issue lu this matter. As the wise Republican Senators are frittering away time the Democrats are laughing at tho easy accomplishment of their conspiracy -that is, if a conspiracy can be an open, avowed and an hourly accomplished fact. It Is a great mitako many honest people make in thinking that because a man has obtained a high position be is, therefore, correspondingly high above the little weaknesses of human nature. A Senator can be as pig-headed and as foolishly egotisticas a member of the Common Council of Kansas City. And that Is all that need be said In that direction. If this Congress falls to do its plain duty, let the failure be laid to the small-great men who have found their way Into a body thnt seems to be made up of a set of prnvincialists trying to play at the game of nationality. The root of the trouble is that some Senators are more anxious to legislate for their ' own interests than they are for the, interests of the country or even of the party. London was visited yesterday by quite a destructive fire That city's fire protection depends more on its preventive regulations than on its fire department, the former being very efficient whilo the latter is notoriously inefficient. It is characteristic of the old fogy methods practiced in England that the London, fire department still uses a number of hand engines. First North-side Citizen A trip on a North Pennsylvania-street car reminds me of a church organ. Second North-side Citizen Why; because of tho slow timoT First Citizen Because there are so many stops. ' If any member of tho United States Senate had visited Indianapolis lately he might reasonably be suspected of having hypnotized the mules on the Central-avenue car line, those beasts move with such exasperating slowness. - -

fx view of some of the uses that cartridges are put to, one is not certain that a low price is a good thing, but under the protective tariff the hoi of cartridges which cost 85 cents in 1880 costs but 15 cents now. The death of a man named Hopkins, who has been talking up the Messiah to the Inr dians at various, agencies, is announced, lie had been a. Democratic candidate for county office in Iowa. ' BUBBLES IN THIS AIR. ' Sensible. "Going to make any New Year glftsr "No, I guess not I owe two or three people returns, but. I think I shall wait until next Christmas. Some of them may be dead by that time, you see." She Was Progressive. Minnie And what broke your engagement, dear? Mamie Why, I said that after we were married I intended to write my name with a hyphen and he said I should'nt. Two Views. Mr. Flgg nag it occurred to you that yomig Tim in ins seems to be coming around here pretty oftenl Laura Why I never thought of it in that light. It seemed to me that he went away rather often. j The American Metropolis. Provincial If you fellows had any public spirit, you would havo finished that Grant monument long ago. . New York Alderman Grant monument. Is It! An pf wat do Hughey be wantln wid a monument before he becs dead, I d'knowi Unconsidered Trifles. Can a tongue-tied man Indulge In loose gossip! - Can the man who talks through his nose be persuaded to turn his conversation into other channels! Is the man that's slightly cracked apt to talk In broken tones! ' In addition to causing insomnia, cats are now accused of harboring the parasite that causes ringworms. "Sockless Senator Simpson' would make a fine alliterative name on the scroll of history. Written for the Indianapolis Journal. The Slaughter on Wounded Knee. Twas mid-winter summer on Wounded Knee, And the Christmas sun his spleutlor bent From the arch of heaven In like degree On the warrior's lodge and tne soldier's tent. The slayers of Custer, JJig Foot's band, Had gathered on Wounded Knee and sworn To trraisp lu friendship the white man's hand. Aud lay down their arms that Monday morn; The Christmas message of "Peace; good will" Beemed oven the savace heart to thrill! And the soldiers there had with Custer bled Tvas the same old Seventh the dire-devil led And proudly each thought on his glorious dead;1 For Custer would bo avenged! . r The warriors, one hundred and fifty strong, hat there on the ground in sullen mood, While close about them in serried throng The gallant troops of the Seventh stood. Tho call for arms! TLe reply great God! Tia a murderous tire, a staggering glare! And tunny's the trooper that bites the sod, 13y treacherous bullet sent writhing there! 'Twas a deed diabolic, of madness and hate! They knew a wilt vengeance wuoertain as fate! And quick as a flash to turn about. The troops rush in with groan aud shout, While llotcbkiss guns their death belch out! Now Custer must be avenged! One moment the painted braves withstand . The onslaught; then, like bunted things. Are the fleeing remnants of liig Foot's band. To horse, to horse, each trcoper springs! No longer men, but Hends of hell. They ride like demons, aimless, wild! Each frenzied yell Is a red-skin's knell. Nor odds 'tis warrior, squaw or child! The shrieking voice each trooper hears Of Custer's ghost at both his ears, "Kill: I laugh as each devil dies! 61ay! Till In blood you batho the skies! Murder! Nor heed e'en children's cries, TiU Custer Is avengedJ" The snn sank low on Wounded Knee, And darkness made a pall of dread. That none but watchful stars might see 1 hat reeking held of carnage red. Until the shimmering inoon came out And bathed, in her ghastly pity white The warriors and women that lay about. Hunted like rabbits and shot on sight! Every Indian gathered on Wounded Knee Had paid in blood for that treachery! To mourn the dead no woman's wail, No moan of children, weak and frail; Not one was left to tell the tale! Thus Custer was avenged! : Hussel M. Seeda. , ABOUT PEOPLE AND TMNGS. Thirty years ago Brigadier-general John R. Brooke was. a young lawyer in central Pennsylvania. Edwin Booth is said to be putting the finishing touches on tragedy upon which he has been engaged for about five years. Jules Vj'.rne is now a handsome man of sixty, with bead and beard quite gray, and with eyes which sparkle with all the fire of twenty. . Gen. Cassius MV Clay, who has been seriously ill for some time at his home at White Hall. Ky., is convalescing. This is his tirst sickness in forty years. A Beggar Journal has been started in Paris for the purpose of suggesting to beggars the best methods of pursuing their calling. It is said to bo successful. Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew has given it out in a congealed state that her husband must not attend eo many publio dinners.

Henceforth he will remain at home the greater part of the time and let Mrs. Depew do the talking. Mrs. Miles, the wife of the General, who is looked on as the Nation's, best Indiantighter, is a niece of General and Senator Sherman, and a sister of Senator Cameron's wife. Fbederick Ives, the former young Na-' poleon of finance, is living quietly in New York, devoting his attention to acquiring another fortune, lie in the same welldressed, suave and sulfcontldent character as he was before his fall. , Leo XIII, who is an able financier, has already accnmulated a considerable amount of monev, which is invested in foreign stock and deposited in foreign banks. The nouey is destined to create a reserve fund for the interests of the church. Mrs. Belle Wooster Higgins, of Sullivan, Me., has had nineteen years of sea life, and has sailed to every part of the globe. She is an expert in navigation, and could take a ship to any port, foreign or domestic, should it ever become necessary. Victor Emanuel, the heir-apparent to the crown of Italy, assumed a fictitious title while traveling in Russia and Germany nut long ago. The title happened to belong by heredity to an impecunious Italian, who has now sued the Prince for compensation for its use. Mrs. O'Shea is described by a . writer. whose intention is clearly not to natter, as having the thick lips and bulging brow we see in the Cleopatra medals, and as being as cold blooded ordinarily as Cleopatra was known to be. ISbe is not a very tall or bigdmued woman, but is ruddy and fullblooded, her hair is blonde and prof use, and her complexion is fair. Senator Stanford wrote recently to an Eastern admirer: "The time has been, but is past, when the mere mention of the presidency would stir my loftiest ambition.' I only wish 1 could do enough for California to show the people of the State that I appreciate their kindness to mo and preference for me. I shall always be grateful for it. But as for the presidency, 1 have iiO ambition whatever now." Though Mr. Spurgeon's sermons do not profess to be profound, and though their freshness is in the' illustration and the 3etting.,, rather than in the thought, they are as compact and coherent as the most systematic mind could desire. The direct preparation only takes' a few hours although it must bo remembered that in another sense all the preacher's life has been a preparation and nothing is committed to paper beyond the 4,heads,,, which till half a sheet of note-paper. Rev. Mr. Oshorn, of Three Rivers, Mich., is a Baptist preacher who believes in tackling tho sin of the world as he sees it, and thinks there is as much opportunity for missionary work in Three Rivers as anywhere else. This style of preaching did not interest or please the pillars of the church, aud they invited him to go elsewhere. He went, bnt not far. Organizing a crowd ef strong Christians around him, he built anicelittlo chapel, and that chapel was opened on Christmas night. , Lord Tollemache, who has just died in Loudon at the ago of eighty-two, was known as the best landlord in great Britain. Although the most uncompromising of Tories, he divided his vast estates into small holdings, allotted three acres to each laborer for garden, grazing and tillage; demanded that a cow and pig be kept; had his tenants taught butter aud cheese-making, and allowed them time to cultivate their holdings, the results of his liberal policy appearing in a large increase of the valuation of his property and the most prosperous and contented tenantry in the United Kingdom. Queen Victoria is said to believe that the house of Orleans is unlucky, and does not wis! their bad lack to overcloud her family. She has also, says a correspondent, a clear view of the necessity of not being on bad terms, through the fault of her own house, with the French republic. The Prince of Wales told the Comte De Paris that a marriage between Prince Albert Victor and the Princess Helene is cot to be thought of. Tho Comte is probably not able to give his second daughter a sufficiently large dowry to enable her and the Duke of Clarence, could they marry, to go on independently of Parliament while the Queen lives. There is now living in Pittsburg a man who once slapped the face of the Prince of Wales. "In my early life," he said, "I was a soldier in the British army, and once my regiment was reviewed by Queen Victoria, who held by tho hand the youthful Prince of Wales. When the mother's back was turned tho boy playfully expectorated on my red coat, and I resented the insult to the British flag by slapping him in the face with my open palm, lie told his mother, and very soon1 tho colonel heard of it and came danciugaloug to wreak vengeance on the man who dare lift his hand to a son of tho Queen. The Queen sought me ont and graciously inquired what my name was. 'William Dickson, sorgeant. your Majesty said I, and she commended my sense of propriety in administering a.timely rebuke to the heir apparent of the' English throne, and recommended me for promotion, which never came." N With the death on Dec. 11 of Edmond de Lafayette the family of De Lafayette is extinct. He was a grandson of the great French general and the last male member of the family. He was seventy-two years old. He was stanch in his republicanism' and a man of sweet and kindly nature. He rarely swerved from what he thought the right course and was wholly free from solfrighteousness. He had a pleasant vein of humor aud was only kept from being satirical by his extreme good nature. He had numerous pensioners, who, he thought, had claims on his family. Though rich and a bachelor he said ho could not, atl'ord to pay a heavy rent and lived in a small flat in the Rue Constantinople. He recently received one of death's warnings, one side of each lip being paralyzed. Still he managed to converse freely. When twitted on having remained a bachelor he replied; "The family is all but dead, but what does it matter? Our name will be forever associated with the greatest republic aud the most powerful cation the world has ever seen America."

A TKIUUTE TO HARRISON. Winning Praise by Ills Fearless and Statesmanlike Course. Buffalo Express ( Rep.) President Harrison has done two things which incidentally give anexcellentinsight of his character. We refer to his appointment of Judge Brown, of Michigan, to be Justice of the Supreme Court, and his veto of the appropriation for a postoflico at Bar Harbor. Me. The appointment of Judge Brown has absolutely confounded Harrison enemies. Critics were prepared to object to any appointment. Brown's selection disarms criticism. He had no political backing and Etade no cauvass. The President sought a man who was qualified in law, clean and high minded, and one who could maintain the standard of tho Supreme Court. Harrison's veto of the appropriation of $75,000 for a poBtolhco at Bar Harbor shows the same quiet, yet fearless, devotion to principle. The veto is said to have stirred up the Maine delegation. Mr. Boutelle is chairman of the House committee which deals out postoffices, JJnt Harrison is right If ho has lost any support in Maine because of the veto he has done his duty, and will be sustained by the intelligent sentiment of his party. Harrison is meeting the abuse which all Presidents have incurred while in office. But be is making a record for high-minded statesmanship which will survive the criticisms of captions opponents and the attempted belittling of political caricaturists. . i 0 Ilia Own Fault If lie looses. PpHngfitld Republican. Republican politicians in Illinois are amazed at Senator Farwell's contemptuous reference to President Harrison, aud ask whether ho iutends to seek a re-election to the Senate as an anti-administration candidate. He has said enough now, doubtless, to bring other candidates in the field, and Gen. Palmer may therefore win through the unexpected division of his opposition. . , The Slight Tut Upon IUU. Atlanta Constitution (Tem.l We bel'eve the fact is dawnins on the mugwump managers of the Reform Club of New York that they have made a very serious mistake in putting a slight npon Governor David Bennett HiiL It is said that a

majority of the members of fheclnb, who Are genuine Democrats, wonld have welcomed Governor Hill, and wonld have been glad to hear him spea!:, but the committed on invitations is controlled by mugwumps, and these hiih-miuded persons seized the opportunity to otter New York's Democratio Governor a slight. A Favored Locality. . I rat trill e Journal. Evansville occupies a very desirable position between tho temperate and semitropical zones. We are on the extreme northern limit of ont-door. growth of the magnolia. Pecans do not grow north of ns to any extent. We can almost see the cot-ton-lields on the south. We are in the midst of the region of tobacco culture. Corn is a staple, , Potatoes flourish amazingly in lo;altietL We are near the northern limit of winter-wheat growth. This is the natural region of the. mistletoe. It grows in every clump of timber. The cypress tree nourishes in swampy ground, wild cane, used for fishing poles and by horticulturists and tlorista, abounds in this vicinity. Cottonwood, which is becoming so valuable for boxes, and crates, and paper pulp, has its natural home in our river bottoms. Sweet gum, that is superseding the dearer woods for cheap furnitnre and irlside house finish, abounds in our forests. The best oak for boat and car purposes in the United States is indigenous to our soil and is cut and shipped away in immense quantities. In fact, for soil, climate, water facilities and varied productions, southern Indiana and adjacent country have no superiors on earth. No Use of Doing Things by Ualves. Nebraska Journal. Secretary Windom thinks that with three little amendments the proposition of Sena, tor Stanford and the Alliance people for loauing thi. money of the government at 1 or 2 per cent- to fanners would be generally accepted. One amendment he proposes Is to loan it on all kinds of property, as one citizen heeled with property is as good as another before the law. The second amendment is that if a man has brains and no Ero petty he should be loaned mortey on his rains. The other amendment is that if a man had neither brains or property and needs a loan worse, if anything, than all the other sorts of men. he should have a chance to borrow the money of the govern menton his title as an American citizen. This wonld equalize the thing and make it fair all around. - Lfiou or the Indian War. . Brooklyn StantUnl-Union, One recent lesson of the Indian troubles is worth noting, thinking a greatdeal about, and extending. We refer to the adaptability of the Indian to become a mounted Joliceman and look after other red-skins, f it is necessary there should be blood-let ting among the Indians, let them kill each other. And tho evolution of the Indian police Is Indian cavalry. There might be a couplo of regiments of red horsemen; and well officered, they would be equal to Cossacks or the Lancers that are the pride of the British army in India, The Indian likes buttons, aud shining arms, and pomp, and parade, and is not insensible to the advantages of being well fed aud clothed, andtho possession of a little coin.

But They Have No Rights, Kansas City Star (Mug.) Senator Bntler and the politicians who support his proposition to disfranchise tho colored voters do not seem to appreciate the magnitude of the change which has taken place iu the South within a quarter of a century. They apparently do not realize that the mass of those whom it is proposed to deprive of the rights of citizenship were born free; that they make up four regiments in the United States army: that tbey are students in fifty colleges and higher institutions of learning, and in thousands of, common schools; that they own property wortn millions of dollars, and that they are constantly gaining in intelligence, and wealth. m m Two Alliances. Boston Transcript. It appears that there are two Farmers' Alliances in the field. Confusion will be avoided if it is remembered that the Alliance South is the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, while in the North and Northwest the Allianceis simply the National Farmers Alliance without the Industrial Union annex. The two orders have different administrations, and the Northern and Western Alliance is less radical iu its views than the ISonthern. Each Alliance claims the exclusive right to the style and title of "The National Farmers' Alliance." . Preparing; to "Freeze Out Americans. Iowa Register. The free-trade iron masters of England are desperately striving to gain some advantage from the McKinley law reduction of duties on iron and steel products. A London dispatch of Dec. 3 says the iron masters "have given notice to their men that the condition of trade will compel them to make a large redaction in wages at the beginning of the year." The Warlike Mr. Cleveland. , Minneapolis Tribune, Groter Cleveland said something in hit Reform Club speech about, "those who, clothed iu Democratio uniform, would be glad to stand at the entrance of our camp and drive back recruit-." A pretty fail military. simile for a patriot who fought, bled and died for his country by proxy, when proxies came high. Another Evidence of Bain. Ban Francisco Chronicle. The number of tons of freight moved on all railroads iu the United States increased 50 per cent, during the last five years. No other nation in the world can exhibit so phenomenal an increase, nnd yet we are informed by free-traders that protection if stilling the development of thU country. Taking Ilia Itest Too Late. Ktssas City Journal. Mr. Parnell announces that after bis return from Paris he will take a few days' rest. If he had only decided upon this course after the O'Shea verdict, and had made it a few monthsiusteadof a few days.' the cause of borne rule would not be, as it is to-day, hopelessly wrecked. Stanford. Flat Nonsense. - Ean Francisco CalL Mr. Stanford proposes to create a new kind of mouey. His speech indicates that the treasury notes he would issue on tho security of land are not to be payable in either gold or silver money. They are not, in fact, to be payable in anything. ' Would Have to Ilare a Force-Pump. Toledo made. Cleveland is as dumb as a graven imago on the enrrency question now the one moat prominent in our politics. Why does not some sharp newspaperman in New York interview him on the subject? Or are there none such in that city f 1 Good but Vuln Advice. Angasts Chronicle (Dem.) It would be an tinforunate thing in New York for Clevelaud and Hill to start out cntting each other's throats. Let those two statesmen and stalwart Democrats "get together." and may the best man win. A Modern Samson. Seymonr Republican Mr. Voorheea is on record by the Democratic press as "having slain President, Harrison in the Semite," It was not deemed necessary to state that the "jaw-bone of an ass" wa the instrument used. Quite Enough. Philadelphia Press. A New York correspondent describing exPreaident Cleveland, relera to hia "large, appreciative eyes." The public ha heard enough of Mr. Cleveland's large, appreciative Pa." Cleveland Accused of Plagiarism. Washington Tost. The Pittabur Dispatch Intimates that Mr. Cleveland' oratorical picture of the sinking Republican hip is a copy of one of Col. Wattercon's editorial masterpieces. Chicago New Year's Culls. Chicago Post. The old custom of New Year's calling hat died out. aud no one thinks now of calling on that dny, excepting possibly on two small pairs or better. . No; but the feeveolh Did. Kansas City Times. bitting Hull's ghost did not carry eff Big Foot and his br.ud to the happy hunting groudds, and General Miles is happy.