Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1891 — Page 4

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THE DAILY 3 OURNAL MONDAY, JANUARY 19. 1891.

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All communication intended for publication in this paper must, in order to receive ut lent ion, be actompanied by the name ana address of the icriter. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following place PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 88 Boulevard drsCapucines XfEW YOBK Gllaey House and Windsor HoteL pniLADELPHIA-A. p7 Kemfcle, 1733 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI-J. R. HawIeyA Ca, 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE C. T. Deertng; northwest corner Third and J efferson streets. -. . BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON. I. O-RIggs House. and Ebbltt Uoaae Score another disappointment for the free-trade howlers. The leading store-, manufacturers have decided not to form a trust. TnE sweetness which the Democratic press has been applying to Vice-president Morton will turn to gall now that he has on the first occasion shown himself to be in line with his party. Europe is having the heavy snowstorms and blizzards that this country is missing this season. It had them last 'year, too. If it wants a monopoly probably no political economist on this side will object. TnE first man who is alleged by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat's correspondent to have possible knowledge of the silver pool is a prominent Democrat of Missouri a statesman of the vestibule at the national capital. If the Legislature would give its attention to the affairs of the State instead of those of the Nation, it might do something to check the inefficiency, extravagance and rascality that characterize some of the public institutions. .After the remarkable exposure of official incompetency which the failure to enroll the constitutional amendments presents, can the majority in the Legislature and its army of clerks and helpers fear any other humiliation! It is announced that Mr. Bellamy is preparing to publish a paper in Boston to advocate his peculiar theories. If Mr. Bellamy is bent on that sort of amuse ment he should at once write another novel on which' his profits would be $30,000. Mrs. Josh Mann, otherwise known as Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton, is before the New York courts trying to establish her legal right to the latter title. In I'erre Ilaute Miss Ethel Towno is on trial for forgery. In both cities "our best families" are represented in the crowds of epectators. A number of the Four Hundred in each community occasionally does something to distinguish himself or herself, and gives the remaining 899 something to think about. The New York Times lifts up its voice in warningto the Democrats in Congress, telling them that if they insist on making free silver coinage an issue, every State east of the Mississippi in the North would vote against the Democratic candidate for President in 1892. "Connecti cut, New Jersey, New York itself, v says the Times, "would no more vote for any Democratic candidate for President on that issue than they would vote for the ghost of Vallandieham." One of Governor Hill's member of the Assembly has just confessed the crime of several forgeries in order to get money out of a corporation for which he was attorney, and has been arrested. If he is not present to vote for United States Senator, Wednesday, and all the Republicans are in their seats, there will be a tie. If he is present and votes, the Democratic successor of Mr. Evarts in the United States Senate from the State of New York will be elected, but it will be done by the vote of a man who has confessed the commission of four or five forgeries, either of which would send an ordinary man to the penitentiary. The statement of the condition of the New York banks on Saturday, showing an increase of deposits of 87,832,520 during the week and $19,183,825 of surplus in excess of the amount required by law, should satisfy every person of intelligence that scarcity of money no longer exists at the metropolis, where the stringency was the severest a few weeks since. Much money has been paid out during the past few weeks as interest and dividends, which has added to the volume of funds, but it is proba ble that the great change is due to the return of confidence which has unlocked boxes in safe deposits and brought into the market money which people put away when there was fear that the country was on the verge of a panic, or later when the fear of radical silver leg islation influenced many. It should be observed that the passage of the freocoinage bill by the Senate has not checked the confidence which has been pouring money into the channels of trade during the past three or four weeks. This is duo to the fact that the usually timid people who own money are not alarmed at the action of the Senate, be cause there is no longer a fear that the free-coinage bill can become a law, so great is the confidence in the conservatism of tho President. The reports from the cities of tho interior show that tho volume of money is equal to all the demands at home, with a surplus for tho

taking of large amounts of commercial

paper. . In Europe the indications point to an abundant supply of money. The Rank of Germany has reduced its rate of discount to 5 per cent., and it is ann ounce d that the Rank of England will soon declare another reduction. The foreign trade, which has been heavy of late, is decidedly in favor of this country the exports being unusually large, while the value of imports is smaller than a year ago. This condition relieves the country of the danger of a condition of the foreign trade which .would make it necessary to send gold abroad to pay the balance. There is nothing in the condition of trade to warrant the piedictions in certain quarters of apreva? lence of higher prices consequent upon the operations of the new tariff legislation. The outlook of trade is generally prosperous, but there is nothing to indi cate any upward tendency of prices here more than in other countries. On the whole, the general business outlook is most encouraging because of the return of confidence. T7HAT CAN TOD DO ABOUT IT? When, that great Democratic leader, the late William M. Tweed, of New York, was confronted with the evidence of the plunderings under his regime he coolly met his accusers and the indig nant people of that city with tho remark: 'What are you going to do about it!'7 Boss Tweed believed that he and his gang had control not only of New York city but of the State Legislature. He was already aspiring to be Governor, and had carried his measures through several legislatures by political influence and bribery. He believed that every man had his prico and that he had tho price to give. With the power of increasing the Democratic vote of New York city to any figure necessary to wipe out the Republican majority in the rest of the State, and with full confidence that ho was so intrenched in power by money and corruption, he felt that he could defy his foes. Ho already saw his importance as a factor in Democratic national politics, and Democratic leaders elsewhere recognized his influence and liberality by causing laudatory articles to be printed in their papers, some going so far as to recommend that his statue bo set up in Central Park. No wonder that this coarse-grained, bullying Tammany boss laughed at his accusers and admitted his offenses with the defiant query: "What are you going to do about itV But Boss Tweed had overrated his power and underrated the indignation of a roused people. He learned to his sorrow not only that the people could do something, but that those who had fawned at his feet could be the swiftest to assail when they saw that the tide was turning against their leader. The attitude of the Democratic major ity ixr the Legislature has recalled this episode iii the life of Boss Tweed, because it has met every proposition to investigate and reform abuses in public institutions with an insolence which re minds one of Tweed's defiance. They meet the practically proven charges against the management of certain institutions with a gjum-admission and the defiant query: "Well, what can you do about it! You who ask these investigations are a minority, and by gerry mandering we propose to make you a perpetual minority, since we can depend upon the solid Democratic vote and the Republican stay-at-homes to sustain us and our control of the public institu tions. Say, what can you do about it!" It does not seem possible to that Demo cratic majority that their opponents can do anything about it, so intrenched are its managers in power by infamous ger rymanders. So it seemed to Tweed, and Tweed was a more influential and brainy Democratic leader than the Indiana Democracy can boast; but in less than a year after the exposure of the Tweed ring the people of the city of New York cast him out and the courts had taken hira in hand. The gerrymander is a powerful device. It can override popnlar opinion for a long time. It can be used to defend plundering, pilfer ing and bad management several years; but a roused people is greater than a ring's gerrymander. The Dem ocratic majority can prevent an honest investigation and gloss over official mis conduct, but there is not a reading man m Indiana who knows the umerenco between whitewash 'and midday sunlight not ono who does not know that failure to investigate or whitewashing is an admission of guilt. Because ,the people did not rebuke the inefficiency and the irregularities in Democratic management last fall is no evidence that they approve of it or never will take note of it. The people are slow to anger, and, besides, the bare-faced plundering at the northern prison and the irregularities at two of the insano hospitals in extravagant expenditure and bad management were not fully known. But they will bo, and when tax-payers and those who abhor wastefulness, inefficiency and pilfering realize that it is spreading to every branch of public service in Indiana .they. will rise up in the might of indignation and smite down those who are false' to public trusts. THOSE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. There seems to be no end of disagreeable happenings for - the Democratic Legislature. The day that something does not turn up to expose the stupidity or carelessness of tho controlling element in legislatures past, as well as tho present, is the day when the present body Is not in session. Saturday was no exception; on the contrary, it was a sort of red-letter day in the exposure of Democratic stupidity. The last Legislature set in motion no less than ten propositions to amend the Constitution of the State. Some of them were actually of some consequence, but, as appears by the last official communication of Secretary of State Griffin before vacating the office, all this labor of Democratic statesmen was in vain. The propositions wero never enrolled, as required by the organic act. They are no more; in fact, they never had real existence. Statesmen can propose, but clerks, and door-keepers and such can dispose. Tho ' J propositions were not enrolled, as ordered

by both branches of the Legislature.. That body had postponed action until the last day of the session,, and in the excitement and confusion of getting away and drawing the extra dollar a day of salary in recognition of faithful service, the ten propositions to amend the Constitution were not enrolled. It may be said that this was due to a lack of clerks, but as there were more clerks than ever before, is it not more likely that the failure was due to a mob of clerks over whom nobody had control! Is it not due to the probability that the larger part of the clerks upon whom the duty devolved were inefficient because they were not selected for their fitness! Will the Senate or House undertake to ascertain who was responsible for the failure, or will tho Democratic majority conclude that silence is wiser than any such confession of inefficiency and carelessness as investigation would proclaim! ' It is sa fe to say that the annals of State legislation would bo searched in vain to find another such illustration of carelessness and incapacity as this revelation concerning the ten lost propositions to amend the Constitution furnishes. It proves an entire lack of system, and that the crowd of incompetents, who are three times as numerous as they would be if efficient, is a rob of spoilsmen.

"No pestilence can rage in this country as the "black death", s now doing in parts 8f Siberia and as various diseases are frequently described as doing in Oriental regions. The reason is the difference of conditions here and there. American cities may be filthy and their sanitary regulations imperfect and neglected, but there is not the crowding, the want and squalor, and utter disregard and ignorance of healthful conditions that prevail in the centers, of Asiatic population. Cholera and like plagues might have a devastating course in the United States, but intelligence and proper hygienic precautions will prevent a record such as they make in the far East. To the Frtitor of the Indianapolis Journal: When an application is on the completed file at the Pension Office, does it follow that no more evidence is required and that the claim only waits its turn for adjudication! Reader. Bocnribx, Jan. 13. No; a case is pat on the completed tile on representation of the claimant or attorney that the evidence is complete. If, on examination, it is not, in the judgment of the examiner, complete, notice is sent the applicant to furnish the testimony which is deemed deficient. ' . : Constant Reader. Middletown: Address John T. Doyle, secretary to the Civilservice Commission, Washington, D. C, for the information yon wish. BUBBLES IN Till AIR. A Suggestion. If our old friend "Constant Reader, who so often bobs In sight, Should live up to his nom de plume', he'd have no time to write. In the Primary Class. Tommy, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. I'm sure your Bible does not teach you to wait for another boy and throw stones at him. "p "It does s far as I've got. I'm only in the first part yet." . ; In Doubt. ; Hardnppe Miss Laura, have you considered my note my letter er my proposal! ; - Miss Laura I really do not know how to consider it whether as a proposal or a challenge to a fasting match. ' Temperance Discussion. Rev. Mr. Wtf gus It is the firat drink that does the harm, my young friend. ' Mudge Don't you think so for a minute. I always get the tint drink or so from some one else. It's only after I have filled up that I get foolish enough to si) end my money. The Passing of Kipling. You see, this Kipling was a boy with a gift for rhyming lyrical, v Who showed his English brethren up In stories most satlrieal; Who wrote of bureaucratic rule in all its gross venality, And talked of "punkahs," "ghats' and sich to give his tales reality. A worker in a virgin field of evident fecundity. Although his stories were not marked by very much prof uudity, lie promised soon to be a fad, producing those delighted states Of mind that author-worship brings to us of these United 8tates. Bat a fickle Aciue is Madam Fame, of disposition changeable; . , Though tae public heart Is quickly won, it's Just so soon estrangeable It's wondrous how a ri3fng man," from Just across the ferry, can . Unjoint hi rnetaphorio neck by damning things American. ' For Rudyard, in the flush of youth, and Britishbred and critical. Would choose to write np Uncle Sam In manner analytical; ' 8 knowing not the buzz-saw's speed and ravageous capacity, -lie thought to pitch iuto The Press with ignor" , ant audacity. Therefore The Press, from East to Vi'eat, with duty-due solemnity, . ; 8hall now proceed to calmly claim their recognized indemnity. To-wit: The scalp of him who dared, In Ignor ance nfbst vemalest, To undertake to scarify the 'lever-wielding" Journalist. Unconsidered Trifles. Fatally mangled in the presence of a crowd is a Cincinnati Commercial Gazette headline. It must be embarrassing to a man of any sensibility to be fatally mangled right before folks, instead of in the sacred seclusion of his home. It does not takeaVoman many years to find out that men are a mighty uncertain set. But a inan never entirely loses the delusion that somewhere in the world is to be found a woman about 10 per cent, nearer perfection than the angels. Adam's experience was typical rather than unique. He kicked up his heels in Joyous Igno rance for a little while, got married, and had to go to work. The only man contented with his lot occupies it in the cemetery. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Queen Victoria is assisted by five maids when she makes her toilet. Ex-President Hayes has a fondness for the old soldier and always wears the tricolored button of the Loyal Legion. Patti may have an ill-temper, but she seems to have a good heart. She is called an angel of charity by her poor neighbors. At a german in Boston the other eveningpartners were alloted by means of a slot machine, which furnished the names of the women printed on a dainty roll of choco late. Jacob II. Gallinger, who will succeed Senator Blair from New Hampshire, is an old Cincinnati printer, and will add an other name to the list of printer-editors in the Senate. . The Physical-culture and Correct-dress Club is an outgrowth of the Women's Club, of Chicago. It has three hundred mem bers devoted to the realization of classic symmetry in physical being, in opposition

to false standards of beauty and to developing and adopting artistic and sensible modes of dress. ' Miss Edna Lyall, the English novelist, has given $500 in aid of the Salvation Army General Booth's scheme of regeneration, and tenders it "as a protest against Prof. Huxley's criticisms." Mas. Shaw, the American whistler, has had great success in St. Petersburg. .The Russians are supposed to have a superstitious horror ueainst whistling, bat it faded oat for Mrs. Shaw's benefit. On the day of Emma Abbott's death, under her instructions, ber maid took the singer's sealskin sacque, shoes and some other articles of clothing down to the hotel furnace, and saw the tireman barn them. Mrs. E. O'Duffy, a young woman about twenty years old. is one of the largest importers of and dealers in wild animals in this country. She is the daughter of a Dublin druggist, and has a natural liking

for the bnsiuesa. Julian Hawthorne says that in mid winter he .frequently selects a sheltered spot on the sea coast, where the sea falls, takes a quick dip and rubs himself dry while the water freezes in flakes on his skin. BqtJ he adds, "I would not advise this for everybody." Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew pays the pen alty of being the wife of New York's most popular dinner guest. It is a very rare event for him to dine at his own table dur ing the season, except when he is host himself. "So rare." Mrs. Depew is quoted as' saying, "that I have to engage him for it" Mrs. Isabella Barrows, who is best known as a writer, associate editor of the Christian Register, quick stenographer and accomplished linguist, was thoroughly edu-. cated for a physician in the best foreign schools as well as at borne. But her love of medicine was rather theoretical than prac tical. Literary work is her pleasure. According to the Congregationalism a clergyman recently sent to the supply com mittee of a church which 'was without a pastor, a 'telegram simply containing the words: "Ruth i. 16." The words of that passage are: "Thy people shall be my people." The reply which went over the wire was: "And all the people said Amen." The Archbishop of Lima, Peru, has ex-' communicated Mis Clarinda Turner, a di rector of the sheet El Peru Illnstrado, be cause she translated and published in her paper "Ihe Magdalen," a novel by a liraziiian journalist. After the excommunication ail numbers of Miss Turner's paper containing parts of the objectionable work were burned in the public square. An interesting heathenish usage exists among the Polleshooks (a Ruthenian tribe) in Volbynia. A bride being led to the church to be married mnst pass through the hre. A small tire is built for the purpose on the road, and the relatives of the groom dispose themselves in files on both sides to seo tho bride pass over it. They believe that if the girl it not virtuous the nre must harm her. Madame Barrios, widow of the cele brated president of Venezuela, and a woman of surpassing beauty, is now staying in Washington. She was married at the age of fourteen, and is the mother of six children, yet she looks as fresh and as radiant as a young girl, She is very accomplished, speaking five languages, with fluency. Her fortune is said, on good authority, to aggregate $6,000,000. Bishop Bowman, of St. Louis, has nassed more than fifty years in chnroh work. He is now seventy-four years- old, and is in splendid health, straight as an arrow, with a constitution like flint., He says that his first two appearances befcre an audience were flat failures. He broke down completely, but on his third attempt he came came off with flying colors, and has never since been disconcerted in the pulpit. The latest London fad at small dances is for the hostess to have provided a plentiful supply of .hot milk and seltzer, with which to regale their guests upon the eve of departure, to guard against cold on the home ward drive. I he milk, having been heated almost to the boiling point, is poured into a long glass, into which a heaping tablespoonful of sugar is lightly stirred and a small quantity of seltzer is frothed from a siphon. Daniel Murphy, better known to the Fourth ward as "Blind -Murphy," died in New York, Monday, aged eighty years. He bad accumulated a large I fortune in the grocery business, and was renowned for the lenient way in which he dealt with his ten ants, never having been known to order an eviction. Eighteen years ago he built a granite vault in Calvary Cemetery, at a cost, of $25,000, upon which was inscribed: "To outlast the British monarchy." The history of women in journalism dates back to 1172, when Clementine Reid printed and edited the Virginia Gazette, a paper devoted to the colonial cause. Two years later Mrs. ii. isoyle started a royalist paper. having the same name. The latter was the first paper to publish the Declaration of Independence. Since 1850 women have been editing departments in weekly papers, and for twenty years they have served upon the city and correspondent stalls of daily papers. Dr. Robert Collyer, the famous black smith preacher, has not forgotten the trade he learned in bis boyhood. Talking to a Chicago reporter, the other day, of the horseshoe he made just after the big fire. he said: "A student at Cornell wrote me offering tne 31.000 if I would make a horseshoe. He probably thought that either I did not kuow how to make one or would back down, thinking it unbecoming niv dlgnitv. In either case he was disappointed, tor I made it" and here the speaker's eyes began to twinkle "and I don't think it was such a bad piece of workmanship, either. Could I make one now? Let some on, offer ma $1,000, and see how quick I would tarn one out." ICebnkinftT the .Brethren New York Commercial Advertiser. It was an exceedingly foolish action of the New Hampshire Democrats to "denounce and condemn the conduct of the Supreme Court of the State for evading. by cowardly pretenses, the performance of i ita main dntv " Notion v in & inricr of thn duty of the Supreme Court except the court itself. As a matter of fact, oar high est courts' have habitually- pursued the policy of refusing to intervene where they could, not enforce obedience to their au thority: and rightly so. for the reverse policy would simply bring the court into public contempt. McKJnley Wages. Boston Journal They have dropped the chatter about "McKinlev prices," and are now talking about McKinley wages in New York. The president of the Gold-beaters' Union says that wages have been advanced 20 ner cent. by the whole trade, and the secretary of the cigar-makers7 Union reports that the pay of journeymen is 26 per cent, higher than It was last summer. The Tribune adds that there has not been a time in Ave years when fewer cigar-makers wore unemployed. The Subserviency Is on the Other Side. Youngs to wn (O.) Telegram. " A great deal is said in the Democratic press about Republican subserviency to corporate influences, but we believe the Republicans have, no snch representatives of corporate interests in Congress as Senator Blodgett, of New Jersey, who is a Pennsylvania railroad superintendent, maintaining an active connection -with the road, or as Senator-elect Brice, of Oyork, who is president or director of a dozen or more railroads. The Silver Craze. The Independent. The Good Book tells us that "He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver." The free-coinage Congressman is an illustration of this quotation from Ecclesiastes. He loves silver, and yet he is cot satisfied with it. He demanded silver last summer, and he got silver, and yet he cries: "Silver, silver." Give him free coinage and still be would not be satisfied, lie loveth not wisely but too well. Recommends Bayards Policy. ' Atlanta Con stitntKm (Dem.) Secretary Blame has been posing long enough before the country as the advocate of a vigorous foreign policy. Instead of making facet at the British lion, why not hunt smaller game somethiug that we can handle!

THE SILVER QUESTION. Two Financiers and Two Political Economists Discuss the Evils of Free Coinage.

The Independent. The action of the House cannot be certainly foreshadowed, but there is snfncient danger in the present situation to justify every friend of sound money in doing what he can to prevent the accomplishment of one ot the most revolutionary acts ever attempted in the history of our financial legislation. Of course the presidential veto might save us, but there are sound reasons for the desire that the measure should bo defeated on its own merits. - With this object in view we have obtained this week from the most competent men in the United States todi scuss the question four of the clearest and ablest articles we have yet seen anywhere. The writers are all very busy men and we thank them for having responded so willingly and promptly to our earnest, request. It will be observed that each discusses a different aspect of the subject; but all arrive at the same conclusion that the passage of a free coinage act would be followed by those results to our financial system and to our national prosperity which every honest and intelligent citizen must desire to avoid. Mr. John Jay Knox, president of the National Bank of the Republic of this city, and former Comptroller of the Currency, a man known to every financier in the United States as a sound and conservative thinker on financial subjects and as having had an experience which entitles him to be considered among the first authorities on the subject of our monetary interest, writes in approval of Secretary Windotn's two-percent, bond proposition, which was first stricken from the bill and afterward reinserted in defiance of the wishes of the silver men. He says this proposition is in harmony with the policy of refunding which we so wisely adopted at the close of the war. and which, after our government had discontinued it. was taken up and , successfully pursued by the. English government. He thinks we have allowed England to steal our glory from us. Speaking of our. currency he says that when we had both greenbacks and national bank issues we had "the best system of paper currency in the world." As there seems to be a strong prejudice against the national bank, issues, he approves that feature of the pending bill which proposes to allow each bank- to reduce its bond deposits. With these two exceptions, he thinks the result of the Sending bill would be evil and not good, o additional circulation, in his opinion, is needed at the present time. In the last twenty years the circulation has nearly doubled, and during the last year no less than one hundred millions was added to it. To increase the circulation now, when the season's , business is at an end, would be like a railroad company adding a thousand freight cars to its rolling stock after the principal freight business of the year was over, lie closes by insisting that the true bimetallist is not the silver advocate, but he who contends for a gold standard. 4 Mr. David M. Stone, the veteran editor of the Journal of Commerce, than whom we have no clearer and abler thinker on financial topics in the country, devotes his article to the important task of showing how unfounded is the supposition f The silver men that Eastern capitalists, by vme trick or device, have thrown silver a it of circulation, to the serious injury of the debtor class. Those who would know, in brief compass, the history of the coinage of silver in this country should read his compact, valuable and luminous article. Professor Seligraan, of Columbia College, in an article which is both clear and strong, shows that the supposed benefits of free coinage will not be realized by those for whom they are desired, because the socalled debtor class is not the real debtor class. The real debtors, he contends, are the largo employers, the rich corporations and the government itself, who pay oat millions upon millions of dollars every year. The masses, thereforeare really the creditors, and not the debtors. It is to them that money is due, and it is they who would lose most by depreciation of the standard. There is undoubted troth in his observation, and it is a point which has been overlooked by those who believe they are doing the people of the country a service in demanding free coinage. Prof. Seligman also points oat that free coinage does not mean more money. He agrees with Mr. Knox in holding that the silver meu are the true monometallists. As silver increases gold will decrease, and the result, he says, will be "to ruin credit, to paralyze trade and industry, to rob the weak and the poor, and. while enriching the audacious and the speculators, to plunge the conntry into disasters, the momentous evils of which can be only faintly Imagined." He concludes by declaring free coinage "a suicidal mania and a stupendous fraud." Professor Taussig, of I Harvard University, and also editor of the University Quarterly Journal of Economics, admirably supplements the articles of Messrs. Knox, Stone and Seligman. He shows very clearly that those' who are clamorous for free coinage do not take into consideration all the elements of the problem. For example, the volume of -credit money is left ont of their calculations. This credit money, which is supplied by the banks, has not yet been a fleeted by the silver act of last July, and that is the reason why no rise of prices has resulted from that act and no relie? afforded by it to those who look for inflation. The enactment of a free-coinage law would undoubtedly affect the bank credit system, and that wonld tend to contract the volume of the circulating medium; and thus instead of getting a larger circulation by free coinage, the friends of the act would really obtain a smaller circulation. Professor Taussig has no doubt that the free coinage of silver would retire gold and would leave our entire currency system to rest on a silver basis. We commend these articles to the study of all who are interested (and who is notf) in the extreidely important problem of our currency and our monetary standard. They are the sober utterances of practical men who are fitted to lead and shape the thought of the country on this subject. If we are to be led into disaster by the Democratic minority in both houses, re-enforced by a handful of recreant Republicans, there will be at least the satisfaction of knowing that we presented a timely protest, and that those who are responsible were not allowed to proceed with their eyes shut. - THE VETO POWER. , President Harrison Views aa to Its Proper Use by the Executive. Washington Si-ecial to Chicago Tribune. Another demand upon the President's attention came froms a District delegation which called in the form of a solemn-faced committee to request the President to veto a railroad bill securing certain rights of admission into the city of Washington. It is a long and weary day when no District delegation calls at the White House to protest against something. The President said, in the first place, it would be impossible for him to go into the merits of the proposition, as nis time would not permit it. Railroads whenever they entered any town injured certain properties. That was the history of every city. Large sections of property in Indianapolis had been almost rained by the encroachments of railroads. Yet it was clear the town could not get along without the railroad. The chairman here interEosed and said this was a bad measure and e hoped that the President would refuse to sign it when it came from Congress. The President then gave his views upon the subject of the veto power. He said: "I often sign bills passed by Congress for which I would not have voted if in CouIrress. ,-I hold that it is not suflicieut for a 'resident to be opposed to a measure to venture to interpose bis veto. 1 believe that the veto power is only properly exercised when some act has been passed by Congress without sufficient deliberation or care, or where some manifest error has been committed. 1 know a different view has prevailed at times, and that the vetoes have multiplied within recent years. But 1 do not see how the President has any right to set up his judgment against the manifest will of Congress, when that will has been expressed in a thoroughly deliberate manner, after careful consideration of the subject, and where no manifest error or encroachment upon constitutional rights has been made." This view, which was expressed oft-hand, is of great interest, as ithhowsthe President has conservative views upon the subject of the veto power. It is an interetiug question whether, after expressing such uu

opinion as that, one would be justified ia arguing that the President would veto the free-coinage bill. This measure certainlv is receiving due consideration so far as debate is concerned. All of its evils have been pictnred by its opponents. It has passed the Senate and may pass the House, in which case its opponents Have great confidence that the President would veto it.

Why Faxwell Failed. Milwaukee FentineL The nomination of "Uncle Dick" Oglesby for the senatorship by the Republican caucus of the Illinois Legislature is pretty good evidence that the spoils ideas of Senator Farwell are not popular with the Republicans of his State, It is not merely tbat Senator Farwell has been extremely imprudent and childish in attacking the President but that he has during his entire term in the Senate put himself forward as the special champion of the old-time senatorial privileges, the chief of which is tho distribution of the federal patronage. Mr. Kipling's Courtesy. Chicago Journal. A morning paper inquires, "Is Rudyard Kipling a cadi" Any man who will accept the hospitality and kindness of another, who will break his bread, drink his wine and taste his salt and then abuse him, either collectively or individually, certainly comes within the meaning of the word. Mr. Kipling has been guilty of a grave offense against good taste and good manners. But if Kipling is a cad he is in English cad. and as such cannot be affected by any criticism, however pungent. Louisiana's II onor Was at Stake. Chicago Neva Of course the Dempsey-Fitzs Iromons hostilities were conducted under the protection of the police and were surrounded by the a?gis of the immaculate State of Louisiana. An event of such importance to the general publio welfare second only in beneficence to the Louisiana lottery could not fail to be sanctioned and even encouraged by a State so jealous of the, proprieties and of its honor as Louisiana.' Government Wages. Philadelphia Press. Tho Farmers' Alliance and Knights of Labor will please read and reflect over the following cable news from London: The government has ten lines of railway started in Ireland, and laborers are paid 1.2a to $3.25 a week. In the counties of Mayo. Galway and Donegal, where severe distress exists, men, women and children are employed at roadmaking. These are wages paid with government railroading. Or Kill It Altogether. . Detroit Tribune. The full coinage of American silver is one thing and the free and unlimited coinage of the world's silver is another thing. Bnt the best thing would bo an international agreement on a common ratio of silver to gold, with corresponding standards of coinage in all civilized countries. In time this may come about; in the meantime there are likely to be some mistakes made which will delay the consummation devoutly to be wished. Referred to the Democratlo Legislature. Chicago JonrnaL Another brutal insane asylum attendant has been discovered and is on trial in Indiana for murder. It would seem as if, of all crimes against the person, that of assaulting the helpless insane is the greatest. What punishment can be toogreat for the wild beasts who cc-iitnit snch cutragesT And what fault in the system of appointments is it that such brutes can get Buciv positions! m Still a Confirmed Gold-Bug. Springfield Republican (Hag.) Really, each concern for Mr. Cleveland's, policy on this question is very kind of the Republican papers, and testifies in a flattering manner to the man's overshadowing position in national politics; bnt it is uncalled for. No one in publio life has a record on this question more unequivocal than. Mr. Cleveland's, and he has said not a word to indicate that his opinions are changed. m They Are Experts at the Business. HUwankee SentlneL The Democratic reapportionment, particularly, is likely to cause the hair of fair minded men to rise in astonishment. It is safe to say that after the new congressional district lines are drawn by the Democratic State committee and approved by the Democratic majority we shall never hear the word 'gerrymander applied to the divisions made by the Republicans. The Lying Editor Had a Sub On. Chicago Inter Ocean. It has not been a month since the New York World was howling over "the profligacy of this administration." and declaring that there would be a deficiency in the treasury. Yet on Wednesday it says editorially: "The surplus is growing again at the rate of 511.000,000 a week." The World should remember that party lying is only serviceable when persisted in. In Congenial Company. Kansas City Journal. The Confederate Veteran Camp of New York is to have a banquet, and Grover Cleveland is to be present and make an address. Mr. Cleveland's connection with the lost cause is rather shadowy, but those reports of Governor Hill's growing strength in the Southern States have become alarming, and counteracting meaeures must be adopted. mum v Have Not Blade Clear. Philadelphia Inquirer. One thing that the Fanners' Alliance patriots have not made lear in whether they would rather have unlimited silver or abundant greenbacks. They seem to have an idea that the two are synonymous, but they're not. The greenbacks may come to them. The silver dollars or their representatives will go to the owners of silver bullion. Senator Blair's Leading Characteristic Boston Journal. Senator's Blair's retirement will deprive the Senate of one of its most earnest and indefatigable, even though occasionally unpractical, members. Mr. Blair is a man of generous enthusiasms, and has exhibited a singleness of devotion to the causes which, he has had at heart which is rare in publio life, And He Probably Does Know. -. Charleston News and Courier. ' Mr. Chandler says no Democratic voter it molested in his State, while in Louisiana 'the flames of burning negro cabins and the blood of martyred Republicans mark the pathway of the Democratic party into power. Mr. Chandler ought to know all about it. He was down in Louisiana in 1876. Meets General Approval. Albany (N. Y.) JonrnaL The defeat of Senator Charles B. Farwell in the caucus of the Republican members of the Illinois Legislature is a merited rebuke for his unwarranted attacks upon President Harrison, and the select ion of exGovernor Oglesby meets the approval of sensible men of both political parties. Tne Effect ol Ik , Philadelphia Record. ... The movement in Indiana toward forming a syndicate of certain States to co-operate in taxing foreign capital for tbat is what it would amount to could only have the effect, if it could be made effective at all, of driving such capital into States not embraced in the movement. American Tories of To-Day. Chicago Inter Ocean. The sneering way which several Democratic organs refer to Secretary Blaine and the Behring sea controveisy. and the open applause they otter to English statesmen, reminds one of the Tory days of the revolution. History often repeats itself in this way. Her Riches Were Hot All Earthly. Augusta (Ga Chronicle. Little Emma Abbott's millions have dwindled down to a few hundred' thousands. Happily the fame of the bright little cantatrice doe not depend upon tho money she left. She laid up treasures in a better place. Shrewdest Advertiser In the World, kfemphia ApieaL Professor Koch very frankly tells the world what are the ingredients of his wonderful lymph. He is careful, however, not to mention how he puts the ingredients together. Prescriptions will therefore continue to be filled iu Berlin.