Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1891

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 24. 1891.

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Foreign loUge la usually doable these rate. - All communications intended for publication in Vdapaprrmust. in order to receive attention, beae com panied by the name ana address of the teriter THE EN DIAJTA.ro LIS JOURNAL Can he found at the following places: 1A His American Exchange In Paxil, 25 Boulevard le (apucite YORK QUaey House and Windsor IIoteL PIIILADELrillA A. r. Keiable,' 3735 Lancaster avense. CHICAdO-Palmtr House. v CINCINNATI J. R. Uawley A Co., Vine street. Xoui.WILT.E-C. T. Deerlng, nmtBwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ET. LOUIR Union News Company, Union Depot and fccuthern lloteL "WASHINGTON. U. C Illffrs House, and Ebbltt House . Fire Economic Truths. 1. The free trade which exists "within a Tuition cannot la established between nations. 2. Protection economizes the production and distribution vt products to national advantage, 3. The' continuous home production ofv staple commodities in large quantities is necessary to the reduction of their price. 1. l'rotcction benefits all classes, and especially tho laborers. 5. The home market must be the chief reliance of all producers, especially of tho fanners, and that there are no foreign markets which wonld Compensate for the openiug of our home m rket to European competition. Unless the Democratic Legislature makes provision for the payment of its fliciah., a public office in Indiana will le, literally, a public trust. It is Baid that the fact that Senator Blair voted for the free-coinage bill during the last session was one of the most effective arguments against his re-election. The fact that the reserves of the New York banks are larger than they have been for several years goes to show that tb 3 money stringency is a thing of the past in the metropolis. Tiirec silver Senators paid their obligations to tho solid South Senators, Thursday, by voting with them. For euch stanch old Republicans as Messrs. Teller and Stewart it must have been a bitter pill. The Hon7Vilbur F. Luut. of Maine, who has been appoiuted minister to Portugal, is a particular friend of SpeakerReed. There does not seem to bo any serious trouble between the Speaker and the President. In tho present tariff law the duty on imported linen thread is 5 per cent, higher than under the old law, but an cxtensivo manufacturing firm has just reduced the price of domestic buttonlinen threads from 55 cents to 50 cents a dozen. Mills is not a freak of nature; he is an outgrowth of the dominant spirit of the South to-day. The whole Southern press looks upon his violent rowdyism with approval, and not a newspaper of that section seems to think it necessary to explain or justify its applause. Fkee-tkadliu will please take notice that in the entire discussion of the question in the Reichstag cot a word was raid about tho German prohibition of American pork; being on account of our tarilF legislation, as free-traders have constantly asserted. !Thc Germans are too honest to make that claim. The assumption of the Southern Legislatures which declare that no money ohnll pe voted for exhibits in the world's fair if Congress passes the federal elections bill seems to be that Republican' States, and constituencies are more interested in the exhibition than Southern States. And the assumption Is well founded. It is understood that Captain Barnes, defeated Democratic candidate for Senator from Howard and Miami counties, will be awarded tho seat as soon as the committee can find time to prepare a report. Since Barnes has learned that he can have the seat by asking for it he regrets that ho did not ask early in the pension and thus get more salary. The people of Orange and Crawford counties should call a public meeting and repudiate Representative Trimble's statements relative to tho wholesrdo bribery that he saya has been practiced among them. Of courso his statements vrero untrue, but they were none tho less libelous and insulting to the people ho represents. He says, in effect, that he represents a constituency largely composed of paupers and bribe-takers. Ip the Democratic Legislatures of Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee imagine that they can deter the Republicans in Congress from doing their utmost to carry out their convictions regarding the passago of a federal elections bill by declaring that action regarding appropriations to make State exhibits in the world's fair shall be postponed until the matter is decided, they are greatly mistaken. That sort of thing will not scare. Tite people will take notice that the Legislature has summarily rejected two bill to provido free text-books in the pubiic schools. This action is in the interest of a favored monopoly. The arguments against free text-books are frivolous and insincere. If the State has a right to attempt to cheapen books St has a right to make them free, as jnnch as it has to make freo schoolhouses or tuition. Several States have c'rc'dy adopted free text-books, and CLo policy is strongly Indorsed by edu

cators everywhere. The present schoolbook system of Indiana is a vicious monopoly, and it is only a question of time when the people will so declare. Tho agitation for free text-books must be continued.

A5 INDICATION OP DLSPEBATIOff. It is announced that Democratic leaders in several States where the party has been surprised by securing a majority in the legislatures for the first time in years, are considering the advisability of so changing existing laws relative to the election of presidential electors as to have tjiem elected in congressional districts, rather than by a general vote of the State. Already such a measure is pending in the Michigan Legislature, and it is talked of in Wisconsin. In two or three of the early elections electors of President were chosen in New York and one or two otherStatcs by congressional district, but the system was abandoned about the beginning of the century and has not been thought of since that time until now. Before the war the Legislature of South Carolina chose tho electors of President, and such an election was made by Colorado when first admitted to the Union. With these, and possibly a few like, exceptions all presidential electors since 1804 have been chosen by the people of the States on a genera! ticket. There is no valid reason for the change not one. It is proposed in Michigan and Wisconsin, because the Democratic leaders know they cannot carry those States with a full vote on the presidential year, and they desire to resort to this method in order to choose a few electors in Democratic districts to insure the number of votes in the North sufficient to make those of the solid South a majority. Word comes from Washington that our Mr. Bynum declares that he will have the Indiana Legislature make such a change in the method of electing presidential electors in this State if the Republicans pass the federal elections bill. This is confession on the part of our Democratic member that he fears his party cannot carry Indiana by a full vote of the State at large, and desires to make sure of two-thirds of the electors by the gerrymandered districts, where his party would not get one by the method which has always prevailed in Indiana.. It may be suggested to the would-be Speaker that by having this Legislature confer upon itself the power of choosing electors it can cast the vote of the State for President in 1892 without any impertinent interference on the part of the people. The scheme lays bare the determination of the Democratic leaders to resort to any course, no matter how reckless, to carry the election in 1892. HOW IT ONCE WOEKED. That ultra Cleveland and free-trade champion, the Philadelphia Record, devotes an editorial to telling what the next Democratic House and the assumed anti-federal-elections'-law Senate will do in the event the present Congress passes what it is pleased to call "a force bill." That Democratic House and Republican Senate with an anti-federal-elections-law majority will pass a bill repealing the "force law," which President Harrison, with all his repugnance for using the veto, may override by exercising his constitutional power. Then the Democratic House, the Record goes on to say, will attach a repealing section to every appropriation of money for the payment of the salaries of officials to carry the so-called "force bill" into operation, including the salaries of the President and Attorney-general. The Record ought to know that a Congress which was Democratic in both branches tried these revolutionary tactics upon President Hayes in 1878, 1879 and 1880, and was beaten. It attached to the appropriations for the officers of the federal courts a proviso that none of the money should be paid to marshals and other officers for services in enforcing the present federal elections, or "force" law, and one to the army appropriation bill forbidding the President to use troops to keep peace at the polls, thus depriving the executive of his constitutional authority as commander-in-chief. The contest was a prolonged and stubborn ono, and President Hayes went Congress several vetoes, which would be instructive reading for the Record in connection with its proposed scheme to coerce the President. The outcome was the election of General Garfield for President and a Republican House. MATING LEGISLATURES OVER. It is announced that tho Democratic majority in the Illinois House will not attempt to remove three Republican members to make room for as many Democrats. The Democratic leaders had announced such a purpose. They had the votes to do it, and, in order to insure the election of ex Governor Palmer to the United States Senate, would have done it. The unseating of two Republicans would have given them a majority on joint ballot, in spite of tho three members of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association.. But in Illinois nutices of contests must be filed before a given date, so just before the time expired the Republicans gave notice of contesting tho seats of three or four Democratic Senators. The Democratic managers y re not prepared for this. There was as good, and even better, ground for the unseating of the Democratic Senators as there was for putting three Democrats in the seats to which three Republicans in the House were elected, and the Senate being Republican tho Republicans bad the power to do it. Itis asserted that when the Legislature met the Republicans warned the democrats of their purpose to retaliate, and as a result it has been announced that the contests for the seats of three Republicans have. been abandoned, and ex-Governor Palmer will not be elected to the United States Senate. In all of the cases where the Democrats announced a purpose to unseat Republicans the Republican candidates had decided majorities. No charges of fraud were made, but the contests were based upon technicalities which should not be considered. Already one Republican Senator has been nnscated in Indiana, and it is probable that another will be,

to make place for a man who never dreamed of a contest until he discovered that tho party majority would unseat a Republican upon the merest pretext. Governor Hill and Speaker Reed have advocated the establishment of a tribunal to which such contests may be referred. The thwarted purpose of the Illinois Democrats, the conscienceless action of the Democrats in the Iudiana Senate and the declared purpose of the People's party in tho Kansas House to unseat Republicans show that it is high time that such a tribunal should bo created.

BAYING B ASP TREE COINAGE. The deposits of the savings banks in New England, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey amounted to $1,279,000,000, according to the reports made for the year 1690-an increase of SCo.000,000 over the preceding year. The number of depositors was 3,520,000, an increase of 140,000 during the past year. As the population of those States was 17,300,000, it appears that one person in five is a depositor. The increase of deposits the past year was over $17 to each depositor, and nearly $4 to each inhabitant. There is no reason why the 45,000,000 inhabitants of the rest of the country, should not have saved as much as those of the Eastern States. If the valuation was made in property instead of money the savings in the rest of the country would show a larger aggregate. If they saved three-fourths as much, the annual savings of the wage-earners of the country would be $200,000,000. The New York Bulletin estimates that the total savings of all those who work for wages and salaries is over $200,000,000 a year. The Western wage-earners do not deposit their savings in savings banks, for the reason that there are few such banks, and more profitable investments are found in hundreds, of local loan and building associations. Itis very probable that wage-earners in cities like Indianapolis are saving as much money per capita as those in the East, for the reason that living is cheaper in the older States of the West than in the East, and the rivalry of the managers of loan associations is greater than that of savings banks. Furthermore, many wage-earn-eis in the smaller towns of the West, when there are no other places of deposit or investment, put their savings in the ordinary business banks. Supposing that the accumulations of the 43,000,000 people in the rest of the country are as large as those of the 17,300,000 in the East, the total of jnoney owned by wage-earners and people of small means cannot be less than $2,500,000,000. It may not all be in banks or loan associations, but it is at their call. Now suppose, in compliance with the demand for more money, Congress should provide for the free coiLage of silver or issue fiat paper until the amount outstanding should be equal to $50 per capita, thus depreciating the purchasing power of these savings 20 per cent, or more what would be the result? Simply . this: These wage-earners who have this vast amount of taccumulations in savings institutions, loan associations and banks would be as effectually deprived of $500,000,000 as if they had been deprived of it by theft or highway robbery. It would not be so' evident a robbery, but it would be as actual. Theories are often delusive, but facts are not; and the facts gleaned from experience prove that when a people resort to a money which is not based upon the coin which the commercial world uses, that money will not have the purchasing power of the money of commerce. To-day the United States has that money. Fifteen years ago we did not have it, and our dollar was worth not over 85 cents in the money of the world, and its purchasing power was less by 15 percent. Wage-earners should be the last to listen to tho clamor about cheap money and free silver coinage. HATS AND THE M'KINLEY TARIFF. One of the charges against the McKinley bill was that it would increase the price of wool hats of all kinds, and especially the cheaper kinds. It was said that it wo'uld make workingmen pay 75 cents for a wool hat that they could formerly buy for 50 cents.- This prediction has not come true. Tho Philadelphia Inquirer tells what a prominent jobber of that city says: The McKinley bill, ho far as it affects the hat business, is operating just as its supporters claimed it would. Some manufacturers, last fall, advanced the prices, but they had to come down to the old scale this spring. In fact, we are getting hats this spring for $4 a dosen that last.year we had to nay H50 for, and they are made better, and in greater variety than before. These are wool h.its on which the tariff was increased Therefore, if the new bill would atlect the price of any grade of . hats it is reasonable to suppose it would be woolen hats. The competition, however, in so sharp among hat manufacturers that those who advanced the price on wool hats found they were losing trade and had to comeback to the old pricus. That is just what the friends of the McKinley bill asserted would oceur. They claimed that competition would regulate prices, aud it does. This is true of every business. I have asked manufacturers how they could afford under the higher tariff to furnish better hats for the same money. The3 have told me that competition forces them to do this. They say they economize In other directions and bring the cost of ruuning their factories down to a minimum. Thia illustrates very clearly to my mind that the McKinley bill will not oppress the people, but. on the contrary, will prove one of tho most beneficent measures the country has ever had. 1 have talked with importers, and they tell me that where they wero purchasing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of goods in foreign markets they are now purchasing the same goods from domestic manufacturers at an advance of not more than 2 per cent. So it seems the jobbers are really getting better hats for the same money this year than they ever got before, and that in other lines many large houses are buying American goods instead of importing those of foreign manufacture. The McKinley bill is vindicating itself. The following account of destitution and starvation does not come from Ireland, but from districts of England: Appalling accounts of destitution continue in the east district of Wolverhampton. The charity officer reports that they are in a state of starvation; that in spine cases it is actually dangerous to administer food owing to the peril attendant upon ravenous hunger when food is lirst offered. A clergyman says it is impossible to doscribo tho misery that prevails. "Homes are without tire; the rooms without furniture; the women have only a single garment covering them and the children are almost as bad."' A good deal of misery in Birmingham and other places is due to work being cutoff by the new American tariff. In London the verdict of death

from starvation is returned in nnmerons cases. ome laborers who applied to a magistrate for relief said they had sold even their boots for bread. Such is the report from the only freetrade country in the world, and such, it is fair to assume, is the result of the policy which sacrifices everything to cheapness. At least, such reports do not come from France with its system of jealously guarding home industries. On the contrary, the reports from France are to the effect that when the government offered a loan, the working people offered twice as much money as was called for. The foregoing is commended to those who have been listening to the free-trade organs which never tire of denouncing the protective system. It may be outrageous, but starvation and pauperism do not follow in its wake.

The death of Prince Baudouin, heir to tho throne of Belgium, has caused much excitement in Brussels on account of its suddenness and some mysterious circumstances attending it. ' The Prince was in his twenty-second year, and would have succeeded to the Belgian throne on the death of his uncle, the present King Leopold, who has daughters, bnt r.o son. He, however, is only Dfty-fivo years old. The Prince's death is attributed by the physicians to throat disease, but popular gossip seems to point to some other cause. Whether popular gossip in this case is well founded or not is not certain, but the royal closet seems to have its skeleton. That section of the agreement between tho Farmers' Alliance and Knights of Labor, at the Pittsburg conference, which pledges each organization "to assist, when possible, in all local efforts to better the condition of our people," 6eems to bo a sort of jug-handle affair. Its evident intention is to secure tho sympathy and support of farmers in labor strikes and other movements of the sort, but since farmers do not strike it is not quite clear how the benefits are to be made reciprocal. Possibly the agriculturists will expect the working people to submit without "kicking" when they see fit to raise prices on their farm products. - ErastusWiman, who was recently defeated in a Canadian district for the Dominion Parliament on the reciprocity1 issue, made a speech at the banquet of the Boston Boot and Shoe Club, in which, as the champion of reciprocity, he approved of the policy of the administration towards Canada, and criticised the Tory government for not responding to its proposition of general reciprocity. But the most significant remark in the speech was that "6ince Secretary Blaine's last letter in the Behring sea controversy there is little else for Great Britain to do than to yield to Mr. Blaine's conten tion. Out of the ten Senators formally declared elected yesterday, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "there was one Democratic gain Senator-elect Hill, of New York. It is cause for rejoicing by the country that this gain represents a legitimate political victory, and not a political purchase." This pious assumption of virtue over af .victory won by what the New York Post, 'organ of another branch of the Democracy, calls the "semi-criminal organization of Tammany Hall," is richness. As if any political triumph of Tammany could be legitimate! A sfecial from Jackson, Miss., says that negroes in all parts of that State are paying their poll taxes in much larger numbers than was ever known before. In the "darkest counties" the number is very large. A leading Democrat says the number of colored men who can mark their ballots under the secret-ballot system is surprising. This goes to show that the colored citizens may not be disfranchised by the late constitutional amendment as largely as was expected. The bill pending in the House which proposes to prohibit the. sinking of gas wells within six hundred feet of theline of another person's property should be suppressed. The Legislature has no right to prohibit an owner of land from sinking a well on any part of .his property.' The suopdsition that it would draw gas from his neighbor's property is mere guess-work. On Thursday the Democrats in the House seemed . to have come to a realizing sense of their disgraceful,, conduct and tlmir declared purpose to block legislation. It seems to have occurred to some of them that the American people are not pleased with such performances. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. . Tie and Poetry. J 'Tm filled with song," the poet saldj I'd rather It were pie instead." Fop Ills Haiiies. ' 'Now, that is what I call a good head for business," soliloquized the barber, as the long-haired farmer entered the shop. A Common Example, Teacher Tommy, will you give an example of tautology! Tommy Saw one In our paper this morning. 1 spoke of a 'brainlea dude." Rather Too Close, Bhe Didn't Jennie Figs promise once to be a sister to you! He Yep. . She - After we are married I think you had bettor drop that relationship. She'll be wanting to manage our household affairs. JlillinrK's Hadlnaire. Mrs. Hashcrof t Mr. Billings, may I ask you to carve? Hillings I must beg to be excused; I am no oliceman. Toliceman!" Yes. They are experienced In handling tough ducks, you know. Tur. Chicago Tribune denies that the distinguished citizen of that town who is known as "Old Hutch" has ceased to operate on 'Change, but admits that he has restricted his trading to more moderate dimensions, in deference to his family. It says that while he may have lost the greater part of his fortune in the "pit," he has ample means to provide for his family. It is, therefore, practically admitted that the roan who has been represented as making millions by deals has really lost millions by trading in futures and on margins. Thk action of the surrogate in the Robert Ray Hamilton will case seems to indicate the existence of a doubt as to the death of the man whose disgraceful entanglement

with a depraved woman brought him into such nnpleasantnotoriety last year. There were some peculiar circumstances connected with the alleged finding of his body in a river in - Yellowstone Park, and comparatively few details of the aflair were given to the public, but this reticence was generally supposed to be due to consideration lor the family. It is possible that the omission to give to the court acceptable proofs of the death was a mere oversight, and one easily remedied, bat it is rather a singular one under the circumstances. To the Editor of the Tum&napolis Journal: Please publish address of Gen. BenJ. F. Butler. w.jlt. He resides at Lowell, Mass., but a letter

addressed Boston will reach him. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. George Bancroft was a pronounced agnostic in the matter of religion. Governor Russell, of Massachusetts, rides on horseback to and from the Statehouse every day. After the 1st of next month Georgia will pay a pension of 100 each to the widows of the confederate soldiers of that State. Dr. Holmes is cheered in his old age by the knowledge that "Over the Tea-cups' is selling more largely than any of his earlier works. Moncure D. Conway is engaged on a life of Thomas Paine, and desires the use of letters and other material which may not be already at bis disposal. The venerable James Partou works six hours a day at his home in New bury port. His desk is his plaoe of rest and recreation. for that is what literary occupation means to him. Mr. Mukgo Murray, of Lintrose, who died lately in his eighty-ninth year, had been well known in Scotland for more than half a century as one of the most popular and estimable "lairds' in the country. Mrs. William Morris, wife of the Lon don artist, poet and Socialist, is said to be the most beautiful woman in the world. $he goes out but little, and is rarely seen by the multitude who visit her husband. In his aocount, in the current Century, of the escape of General Morgan and himself from the Columbus penitentiary, in 18H3, Captain Hines, C. 8. A,, plaintively says that on their arrival at that place of detention they were "subjected to a bath." Grace Church, Ne w York, ought to be in a position to help the poor and do a great deal of good' in many ways. It has an endowment of $250,000, and its property is worth close to $2,000,000. Its income from pew rents reaches about 8100,000 a year. Frau Sophie Salvanius, a nted German woman of letters, is at the head of a movement there to change those features of national education and taste which aim at making girls good future wives and housekeepers. She claims that euch ideals are low. The contract has been signed for the erection of a bnilding for hygienic instruction as an annex to the University of Pennsylvania, to cost 250.000. the entire exnense 'of whicli will be borne by Henry C. Lea, and will be the nrst . structure of the kind in America. The book so long promised from George Vanderbiic is said finally to be in the publisher's hands. It is a romance, its scene being in the South, and the story is something of a war reminiscence. It is not stated whether the young millionaire will publish over his own name or a nom de flume. . The fund for a memorial to President Woolsey, of Yale University, had only reached 52,000 at the end of November, and while subscriptions have come in since then there is still a demand lor sums to complete the necessary $15,000. And yet this man was no small factor in making and maintaining the fame of that institution. Governor Jones, of Alabama, while in the national Capitol Build; ng the other day, was requested 'by some Northern visitors, who did not know him, to show them about the place. He performed the task acceptably, and one of the strangers handed him 50 cents. The Governor then revealed himself, to the confusion of the visitors. Nowhere isx the memory of Kobert Browning preserved more generally on the lips of men than in Venice. His sen's palace on the Grand canal is now as much one of the regulation "sights'' as the Palazzo Moceuigo, where Byron lived. Every, gondola is stopped, when making a tour of the canal, opposite the Palazzo Kezzonico: "That is where the great English poet died." says the gondolier. The late George Bancroft was a good man of business, in which respect he was unlike nine literary men out of . ten. Though he was never economical in his living expenses, be left a very snug fortune. As an illustration of the enthusiasm of his old age it is related that he took up tho study of Shakspeare when eighty-seven, and prosecuted his new pursuit with all the ardor of youth, v Captain Sckley is thoroughly in love with his ship, the Baltimore, and he tells a Baltimore reporter that "she is the finest, fastest and best war vessel in the world," and he adds: "When the French and Italian naval oiheers came aboard the looks of astonishment depicted in their faoes was amusing. IIow do yon keep everything so clean?' they would ask. They were told that cleanliness was one of the essentials of a man-of-war. Aside from this the department recmird everything kept in perfect order. Each man who had his particular piece of 'bright work,' as the brass and steel fittings are called, took especial pains in the performance of his duties. The foreigners never keep their Bhips in the shape that we do. and we always take the shine olt them." G Kit MAN MAIL FACILITIES. International Agreement Signed Government Telegraphs and Telephones Chicago Post. The international postal agreement between the United States and the German empire, for the establishing of an ocean ostal service similar to the railway service, ias been signed by his Excellency. Dr. Von Stephan, Postmaster-general of the German empire, and the Secretary of State.and is no w a law. Negotiations looking toward this end, whereby a day is saved in the international delivery of letters, began several years ago. and news of their successful. termination was received yesterday afternoon by G. H. Sacbse, Director of the Tost and Telegraph Department of the German empire, who is stopping at the Uraud i'acific Hotel. Director Sachse is a product of the German civil service. For thirty-six years he has been connected .with the postal department of the empire, the first sixteen in the Dvactical workings, thefollowing twenty as a councilor, and the last seven as a director general of the postal department. A gentleman of distinguished presence he is, with keen intellect, together with a clearness and vigor of thought that have gained for him the reputation of being one of the very best authorities on postal matters. , "Our service is divided intotbree departments," said he to-day, "the postal, the telegraph and the telephone. In am directorgeneral of the postal. In the three departments, which are run as nearly as possible together to savo expense, we have 103,000 men. They hold their positions for life. Our Postmaster-general has held his office for twenti years. To change would certainly necessitate the loss of a year or more in enabling his successor to become acquainted with the duties of the ofhee. "My trip to this country was primarily to complete the arrangements for having the ocean mail arranged in transit so that upou its arrival in port the day that is now requited to sort it is Saved, and the mails placed at once upon the trains. That object being completed. 1 am now looking over the postal, telegraph and telephone systems of youi country. Your system is great, magnificent; especially your railway service, and I find many things that will improve our service. "Our telegraph and telephone systems are under government coutrol and it gives general satisfaction. The telephone tolls, as well as the telegraph and postal, are the same all over the empire. To send letters costs 22 cents: telegrams, 15 cents for ten words, or lLj cent a word, and for the yearly use of a telephone- 150 marks or $37.50.

Upon no consideration would the people have the telephone and telegraph systems controlled by private parties." TRAMP EVIL REMEDY.

How a German Town Cares for the fneinployed A Labor Colony EstabUshed. Chicago Post. A possible remedy for the tramp nuisance might, Philip Koster, of Berlin, who is stopping at the Itichelieu, believes, be obtained by copying the German method of treatment. "In America I find the same deplorable I use the word deplorable in relation to the ultimately beneficial results methods obtain as in England," Mr. Koster remarked this morning. "In either country idlene;s receives from ttje charitable institutions a positive encouragemenL This I have concluded, not simply from observation, but from conversations with the heads of noted charitable institutions. Of course there are subjects deserving of charity and whose only hope of life is charity. Those I do not class as receiving encouragement in idleness. 1 refer to the army of tramps who are well aware of the fact that the poor-houses will afford them shelter and food to pass their winters in. and without obliging them to work. Such men are seldom known to reform. They become, instead, more and more confirmed as tramps. "This was the case in Germany. Since 1SS2, however, the situation has been gradually changing, until now such a being as a tramp is one of the great rarities of the empire. In 1K82 there was established at a place called Wilhelmsburg a labor colony. Aud so successful was it that others in different parts of thecuuntry were established and have proved blessings to everybody except the viciously indigent. For them the jails are good enough. At these labor colonies, to which all candidates or inmates of trampdom are sent, the beneficiaries are compelled to work. For working they are paid a small sum, none of which, however, t hey receive until the cost of their meals and lodging has been covered. The food is plain, naturally, but it is good and in plenty. And the lodging is clean. The amount of money received by the beneficiaries after the deduction is made is, of course, not large. But it is enough to encourage the great majority of them to work, and when they see that they are able to lay something aside the ambition to become self-supporting creatures of the world an ambition that may have long been smoldering, is fanned again into a fiame and the reformation is begnn. But this Is not alL The authorities of the colony are constantly in receipt of applications for help and the most worthy of the beneficiaries are selected. The system is working admirably, and, what is more to the point, is nearly selfsupporting. Since 1SS3 nearly fifty thousand persons have been assisted, and the viciously indigent does not average 5 per cent." FEATURES OF MORMOXlSSX. Impressions of a Chicago Merchant In Their Tabernacle Physical Characteristics. Chicago Post. "There are some peculiar features connected with Mormonism," said Alfred W. Kasmussen, formerly a Minneapolis merchant, now a business man of Chicago, to the Sauuterer. "Some time ago I had occasion to visit Salt Lake City and made several strong friends among the Mormons. I attended service there one Sunday afternoon, and was urged several times to address the audience on Mormonism. My acquaintances called upon me from their places in the tabernacle and the presiding elder even came down ffom the pulpit to secure my services. But I urged that I was not a Mormon, either in theory or practice, and knew nothing abont polygamy or tn fact any other 'gamy,' and so managed to escape. The Mormon Church has no preachers. The Holy Ghost inspires certain individuals and they get up and relieve themselves of the inspiration. But I believe there is not a very remote connection between previous notification and the alleged Holy Ghost, because the speeches that I heard were notable for oratorical finish and careful construction. They infused the audiences with joy and satisfaction, eo far as I could judce by the external evidence. "Mormonism continues to flourish, although there are no more polygamous marriages in Utah. Those Mormons who want , to have several women 'sealed' to them move to Idaho or Wyoming, where, so far as I can learn, a man can rejoice in the possession of as many wives as his heart may desire. The young Mormon women are a healthvlooking lot, but one is struck by the size of their feet and bands. I am not very profound in the science of physical or psychical philosophy, but it seems to me that big feet and hands in young women, and a plurality of wives are more or less closely connected. The children all show in their red cheeks and big structures the eifect of the animalism in their origin and their methods of living. I could not see any unhappineas among the old-fashioned Mormons. It seemedto me that the more wives there were the more prosperous the husband was. because he had them all at work, and each contributed something to the material welfare of the Mormon. No, sir, what 1 saw did not favorably impress me with polygamy. I think thai under most conditions one wife is all that a man can handle successfully. I shall not join the Mormons; at least not at present" - Sherman's Knowledge of Finance. Harper's Weekly. There is no intnitive knowledge of questions so recondite aud complicated as those of public finance. There are no subjects of legislation npon which knowledge and experience should carry more authority than such questions. No publio man in the country is more thoroughly fitted to hold and express opinions upon them than Mr. Sherman. To natural aptitude for such studies he adds the accurate training of responsible financial administration at a most important period an administration which has placed him among the most eminent public financiers in our history. What he says in such debate? as this upon silver is very well worthy of thoughtful attention, and when he states that the scheme now proposed "will create a greater financial diiticulty in this country than any we have ever seen in our day and generation," the words are not rhetoric; they are the warning of knowledge and experience. Washington Fletlon Philadelphia Record (Dem.) For the good repute of tho administration it is gratifying to be assured, upon "the best authority," that the President did not lecture the Civil Service Commissioners, as was stated in New York and Washington papers yesterday, but, oa the contrary, expressed the most friendly interest in their work. Tho story was given with sncb an air of detail that, in the absence of a prompt denial, it might have been expected to gain more or less credence. With fo much actual and stirring news . alioat just now in Washington, the occasion for euch fine imaginative work as characterized the report in question is by no means apparent. The Democratic Way. Fort Wayne Gaiette. Tho Democratic papers of Indiana were intensely bitter in their denunciations of Speaker Reed and the Republicans of Con gress because they insisted npon the adoption of rules to enable them to proceed with the public business. The same papershave not a word of condemnation for the majority in the Democratic Legislature, who override every parliamentary proceeding and even denceucy and honor In their determination to force through partisan measures to protect the leaders of their party in their illegal and unwarranted acts, and to prevent their misdeeds from coming to the knowledge of the people. Australian Ballot Law Violated. BrookTllle American. The election law which certain leading Democratic statesmen and organs have held to be little less than inspiration itself, too sacred to be subjected even to the suspicion of unconstitutionality, was put aside when it was an impediment to the greed for office, and one of the principals to the agreement that its provisions should be cloxely followed both at the ballot-box and in the subsequent count, ousied himself to perpetrate the outrage. Attempts to Blake l rtj Capital. PetersBurff Index Appeal (D.u.) The labored attempts, in some quarters, to hold the present administration responsible for the Indian troubles is the sheerest nonsense. It might as well be held responsible for the storms which, as some scientists contend, are the result of the destruction of the great Western forests. Republicans Mortified. Fowler Era. All over the conntv thn T?ennh1ieans feel a deep sense of mortification over the wan of backbone of a number of Republican Senators. The Recublican party has no

use for Republicans in either houe without still vertebrae. It's a party composed of men, and weak-kneed oflicials never did nor can be its representatives. The party membership feels deeply humiliated over the manner in which the proposed elections bill was shoved aside.

A Chunk of Wisdom, Charleston News and Courier (Dem.) We may expect with confidence that agitation and interference at our expense will be maintained 6o long as the negro in the 8onth holds his preeent anomalous position relative to the white citizens of tho South and of the whole country. We cannot keep his race among us in large numbers to serve as laborers, and deny them the privileges of citizenship conferred on them by the will of a vastly stronger section of the country a section which was victorious in one bloody war on their account, and which persist! in regarding them as "good enough citizens for 'the South'" and in asserting their rights as such citizens. The force bill mav be defeated, bet its defeat will not put an end to our troubles. Is Wisconsin In America? Milwaukee Special to Chicago News. It is apparent that the foreicn elements, which won such a sweeping victory in this State through their alliance with the Democrats at the November elections, intend to be aggressive. To-dsy A F. Warden, a Democratio Assemblyman who formerly conducted a paper in the English language at Plymouth, introduced a resolution providing for the publication of of 5.000 copies of the Governor's message, 3,000 copies of which are to be in the German language. I he chances are that there will be no Democratio opposition to this resolution, and the fact that it was introduced by Warden makes it extremely significant. He is one of the members of the Democratic manager's stalL Dr. Buckley's Utfarlng. The Independent. Dr. J. 8. Smart, of Michigan, has published an open letter to Dr. J. M. Buckley, telling him that, as he belongs to the party who asked the churches to vote on the admission of women to the Methodist General Conference, he ought to abide by the decision. He says: "The voice of the churches ought, to you, to be the voice of God. Dr. Buckley, as we understand the Advocate, holds that the voice of God baa spoken, through Peter and Paul, the other way, and that, too, for all time. The voice of the church would be the voice of God, if it had been against the women; but, as it is a hundred thousand the other way, the Advocate will, we presume, refuse to near it. Sllrer Coinage. The Independent If the Republican members are wise they will allow this question to go over to tho next Congress, which will be overwhelmingly Democratic. If the Democratic party want free coinage let them take the responsibility of it. Republicans need ask for no better advantage than would be given them if they could hold the Democratic party responsible for tho enactment of a freecoinage law. Whichever party assumes this responsibility will soon find that it has an impossible load to carry. When the sound, sober financiers and conservative thinking business men of the country nnite to declare a financial policy disastrous, it were best to let it alone. Senator Cameron's Silver r arch as e. Chicago Inter Ocean. If the Vest testimony is substantially correct then Mr. Cameron's own friends, as well as his enemies, will be bound to we in that vote the motive of personal gain, notwithstanding he may have previously Earted with the bullion he bought through! ittler. If he dabbled at all iu the silver pool, he put it out of his power to justify that vote, and illustrates forcibly the wisdom of the point ot law that a member of a legislative body should abstain from voting on bills affecting his personal interest. If the property is of a speculative nature il is especially objectionable to take a "flyer" in it. Senator Evans's Long Sentences. , Chicago Nsws. There is an interesting legend afloat apropos of Senator Evarts's departure from Congress. It is said that; some time ago, when Mr. Evarts was in his prime and speaking often, the more energetic members of the Senate were in the habit of diverting themselves by slippirrg ont of tbHr chairs at the beginning of one of the orator's sentences, going out to a hotel, or dering and eating a lunch and returning ia time to hear the end of the same sentence. The story sounds very much like fiction, however, and should be received cum grano . salis. m m Rowdyism Approved. Memphis Appeal (Dem.) Mr. Mills proved himself a patriot. He showed he was not afraid to. challenge the powers of evil that seek to prey upon the South. His conduct was exemplary in the extreme. Would that there were more like him! And let us thank good Father Time that there has been a sufficient interval of days to justify a Southern man in manifesting resentment on the door of Congress when there is ripe occasion. Would De Criminal to Choose Cleveland. Atlanta ConstltnUo(Dem.) The Constitution has no candidate, and it has no personal preference that it will not cheerfully subordinate to the will of the party. It believes, nevertheless, that it won Id be cri minal folly for the Democrats to nominate for President any man who is not earnestly in favor of the fre. coinage of silver. It would be criminal because it would be without excuse or justification. The Difference. Philadelphia Press. The Indian policy of Cleveland's policy was, "Encourage in the untutored children of the forest a spirit of thrift and industry." The legacy of that policy has been the recent disturbance, which competent management fortunately prevented from becoming a war. Secretary Noble's policy is this: "Make the Indians workX That's bualness. From Bad to Worse, Mnncle Times. The gerrymander of the State for congressional and legislative purposes by the present Legislature will compare with that of the last like the reign of Eehoboam compared with that of Solomon when the unworthy son said, "My little finger. (in laying burdens upon tho people) shall be thicker than my father's loins." A Combination. Vonnrstown Telesram. John P. 8t John, the prohibition advocate, is now lecturing on "1 be Twin Robbers The Liqnor and the Tariff." His knowledge of the liquor part of his subject is an extensive as is his lack of information regarding the tariff. Mr. St. John represents a large wing of the Democratio party in many respects. No Reacn for Secret y. KaDftss Cltr Btar (Mng.) It leaks out that the Republicans in th Kansas Legislature ar working tooth and toenail for the passage of the anti-bribery law before thellouse. The present law renders only the giver of the bribe amenable to the law. The new law makes it a criminal offense not only to give a bribe, but to take one. m m Hard to Convict a Woman. Kansas City Time. , One sure way to subsidize a jury, if you chance to be a woman and nuder indictment, is simply to close your eyes aud faint. If the woman, in addition, has good eyes and an electric smile the verdict is hers, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. Forge some more checks. Ethel. Rarbarlty In the Nineteenth Century. Toledo Blade. A Republican newspaper office has been burned in Arkansas. The intolerance of the Southern Bourbons to freninm of political opinion and action is a relic of the middle ages, when men were burned or imprisoned for holding religious views oppose;to the ruling class. May lie So. WsAhlnrton Post Senatorial courtesy will now prevent the Hon. David Bennett Hill lrom expreMing his opinion of the Cleveland presidential boom. . Looks Like It. Phl'sAelrhia Press. Roger Quarles Mills's middle name must have beeu given him in a Iiah of prophetio frenzy.