Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1891.

THE DAILY J OURNAL THURSDAY. MARCIT 12. 1691. WASHINGTON OFFICE 313 Fourteenth U P. 8. II bath, Correspondent. ,

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All evninunications intended for publication in (his paper must, in order to receive attention, beat tompanied by the name ana address of the writer THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be rotm at the following places: PARIS American Exchange in Paris. 38 Boulevard des C'apuc:es NEW YORK OUsey House and Windsor IIoteL PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. ft. ITawley A Co., 154 Vine, street LOUISVILLE C T. Deerlng. northweel corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT.LOUIB Union News Company, Union Depot and feouttern HoteL WASHINGTON. D. C Rlggs House, and Kbbltt House Mr. Stkeeter would doubtless make a better Senator than ex-Governor Palmer for the reason that he is not a Democrat in all things. A friend of Mr. Cleveland has been telling that the ex-President has lost all interest in the presidency. It must have been since he wrote that anti-silver letter to the New York Reform Club. President Eliot, who represents the distinctive Cleveland typo of the Eastern Democracy, has greatly agitated the Cleveland press of the West by his remarks in St. Louis directed at free silver coinage. Mr. Cleveland has been invited to the Chattanooga industrial banquet tomorrow, a leading feature of which will be the use of tinned plates made from Tennessee steel. But he will not find time to attend the celebration of the triumph of tho McKinley law. The regular dealers in dry goods, etc., in the State asked the Legislature to Impose a tax on the traveling bankrupt stocks which set up in towns, to the great injury of the regular trade, but the free-trade majority could not think of giving tax-payers such a measure of protection. TnE New York Sun calls the attention of Democrats to the fact that "in March, 1801, the Democrats of New York are routed, and the Republicans successful beyond .their hopes, in the municipal elections.7' The Sun thinks this "no good omen for the fall elecHon." That depends on the point of view; the Journal thinks differently. For many years the Democrats controlled the three counties of Delaware, and, by reporting a large number of Republicans as poll-tax delinquents, disfranchised them, the poll tax being a prerequisite to voting. Now the Republicans controlling one county have reported three thousand Democrats as delinquents, and great is the uproar in that very little State. Democratic papers have been predicting that the reciprocity arrangement with Brazil would fail by the refusal of that government to ratify it. But now comes the official announcement from tho Brazilian President declaring the ports of that country open to the imports from the United States that were included in the reciprocity agreement. Democratic papers will have to fallback on some other uismal prophecy. The worldVfair bill, as finally passed, did not specifically provide that wemen should be represented on the board of commissioners, but the matter is left to the Governor's discretion, and it is to be assumed that he will give them proper representation. To do otherwise will be a great niis&ke. It was a failure to give women any official power to act that was tho, cause of Indiana's inadequate display at the New Orleans exposition and led to so much criticism of the State and its executive at the time. An Indianapolis correspondent of the Chicago Herald declares that tho legislative and congressional gerrymanders passed by the recent Legislature were among its best acts, and says: "Looking back upon the two bills, now that the session is about to close, the Democrats, like Lord dive before the committee which was investigating his official acts in the East Indies, are surprised ' at their own moderation and wonder to themselves how it was, when so much could be taken, that they took $o little." Perhaps, alter all, the Democratic party rfs a propaganda of sweetness and light. TnE Governor's appointments of Appellate Court judges aro a good vindication of the old practice of judicial appointments by tho executive, and are above the average of those elected by the people. Himself n lawyer of tho old school, tho Governor would nou be apt to make a mistake in appointments of this kind. Of the five judges appointed three are Republicans, two aro Democrats, and all are good lawyers. If the people of the respective districts had had the choosing of tho judges, subject to the limitations of politics, they could not havQ suited themselves better than the Governor has done, whllo at the same time meeting every requirement of fitness and public interest. Ex-Congressman Adams, of Philadelphia, a prominent Democrat of tho most pronounced school, thinks the Democrats in Congress acted very silly in refusing to extend a simple act of courtesy to Speaker Reed. "I cannot understand," says Mr. Adams, "how politicians who say they believe in fight

ing fair but fighting hard can grumble and squeal when their opponents do the same thing. I don't like Mr. Reed's politics, and I have no sympathy whatever with .his views as a Republican, but I like a man wherever I find him, and my experience with Mr. Reed in Congress was that he was a superb representative of all that was manly. He fought fair and he fought hard." The truth is the conduct of the Democrats was babyish, and a year hence they will be ashamed of it if they are capable of being ashamed of anything.

TEE BEHBUJQ SEA OCHTBOVEBSY. The reply of Lord Salisbury to the last communication of the administration upon the Behring sea controversy really indicates a purpose to consider the subject upon tho grounds which our government first proposed. It is. therefore, very satisfactory to the people of this country, or to the portion of them who are really American. In his last communication Lord Salisbury proposed to submit to arbitration a series of questions based upon the surrender of our claims upon the seal fisheries, which has been our main contention. This our government could not do, and Secretary Blaine, in his last communication, made the matter so plain and so vigorously asserted the purpose of the administration to maintain the rights of the United States that the British government wisely abandoned further, negotiations on that line. Our government maintains that the United States secured by purchase all the rights which Russia has exercised over the Behring sea fisheries and waters. All other questions are subordinate to this. Great Britain denies that the United States acquired such special jurisdiction by its purchase from Russia. This, therefore, is the question to submit to arbitration. That settled, the other questions can be easily disposed of. The communication of Lord Salisbury gives assurance that tho British government is prepared to agree to the arbitiation of the main issue, which has been tho contention of our government. First and last there has been much absurd talk about a war over this controversy. Tho idea is preposterous, and those who have devoted their time to predictions of this sort are only less foolish than are those who have been made nervous at the prospect of war. The oflicer of the British navy whose prediction of war within a year between the United States and Great Britain was noted yesterday, was either talking to Canadian marines or was suffering from that sort of bumptious valor which comes of taking a second bottle of champagne when one is tho usual mess-table allowance. THE ILLINOIS 8ENAT0BSRTP. When reports were circulated that two of the members of the Illinois House elected by the F. M. B. A. were dissatisfied with Mr. Streeter because of the concessions he had made to the Republicans and would not vote for him after Tuesday, tho election of ex-Governor Palmer was assured. It did not require the later interview which was, in part, made public to assure every one that two of the F. M. B. A.'s would vote for the ex-Governor. There is no reason why they should not have voted for him weeks ago except that the associations to which they ostensibly belong protested against such a course. He would have made all the concessions required long ago. A free-trade, free silvercoinage, anti-national-bank Democrat, he could easily have an understanding with the two men whoso votes were needed that he would vote for an income tax and tho Jerry Simpson proposition to have the government loan money on farm mortgages. Besides, the two alleged F. M. B. A. Representatives have always been Democrats or allies of the Democratic party. Consequently, when the name of Judge Lindley, president of the F. M. B. A. of Illinois, was offered by the Republicans as a candidate, they would not vote for him, because they are really Democrats and he is a Republican. They became dissatisfied with Streeter when he announced himself in favor of protection and a federal election law. Ex-Governor Palmer, after years of persistent seeking, has finally been successful. Ho was once an Abolitionist and a Republican; therefore his Democracy now is of the intense type known only in those who feel that they must make up their early shortcomings by making themselves conspicuous for their bitterness against their former party associates. It is a Democracy which consists in not being what Republicans are. He assailed the Grant administration because General Sheridan, a tho time of the Chicago fire, put federal troops on guard to save the property of the burned-out people from pillage. His sympathies were with the Anarchists, w)iose punishment for their crime has since held that dangerous and ferocious element in check. He has been ready to array himself against tho Republican policy, whatever it may have been. He re-enters public life after having passed the limit of three score and ten, when most men retire. If he lives to enter the Senate, in December, ho will bo in his seventy-fifth year. It is a question to which there are two sides, whether it was or was not wise for the Republicans to have elected Mr. Streeter. He is not and never has been a Republican. He would have voted with the Republicans on two or three issues and against them on others, particularly on financial questions. The Republicans have rather lost than gained by helping to elect such men in the past. Furthermore, the supporting of such men is not calculated to solidify political organization or inspire confidence in party principles. OUR SEWERAGE. The statement of the city's sewerage system, as published in tho Journal yesterday, is an astonishing exhibit of inefficiency. It has been known in a general way for a long time, and often asserted, that our sewerage was very defective, and that the city had suffered greatly from incompetent engineering in this regard, but this statement makes the case worse than anybody could have imagined. It shows an utter lack of S3'stem, every form of incompetent engineering, and no end of slip-shod and

dishonest work. It is a misnomer to apply the term "system" to a lot of sewers which have been constructed at different times on different plans by incompetent engineers and dishonest contractors. The only ruling idea seems to have been to get money out of. the public treasury, and this has never been lost sight of. It will cost nearly as much to reconstruct and patch up this hodgepodge of fraudulent sewers as it would to plan and construct a new one from the beginning. This is one of the re

sults of councilmanic government and log-rolling city politics. It would be impossible to estimate how much the city has lost in this way. Bad engineer ing, dishonest contractors, bad materials and bad workmanship are apparent evry where. The Board of Public Works will find itself confronted immediately with the duty of overhauling the whole business and seeing what can be done toward giving the city a good sewerage system. The public health demands that this subject should be one of the first to receive the attention of the Board of Public Works. VIEWS OF A DISTINGUISHED EDUCATOR. President Eliot, of Harvard University, who is honoring Indianapolis with a short visit, ranks among the foremost of American educators. Although' he does not like newspapers overmuch, they like him well enough to treat him with the distinguished consideration that belongs to his calling and to him personally. For in a republic there is no nobler occupation than that of educating young men for the duties of citizenship, and the. profession has no worthier member than Dr. Eliot. His election as president of Harvard was the immediate result of the change in its government by which the alumni were given a voice in choosing the president, and his administration has done much to popularize the institution and broaden its field of operations. Harvard comes nearer the true ideal of a university now than ever before, and is moving steadily towards a still higher standard. This is true of other American colleges, but of none more conspicuously than of Harvard. Dr. Eliot's ideas of higher education and of the functions of a university are such as might be expected of one of his' training. lie holds that the functions, of a university are, first, to teach; second, to accumulate vast stores of systematized knowledge; third, to investigate and to search out truths in new and old fields of thought. In an address delivered a few days ago at St. Louis he said: The university roust be considered as a seeker for truth. It is composed of learned men, each a master in his own field. Each is moved to diligent search for new or forgotten truth. Many of the recent inventions owe everything to these obscure delvers after a single fact. In its function of troth-seeking the university cares for the scientific specialist. He must live, but he is indifl'ereut to money. He cares nothing for notoriety; his idea of fame is different from that of most persons. He dislikes to see his name in the newspapers; he labors for a lifetime with tbe Latin dative case searches for nice distinctions in Greek particles, studies abstruse mathematical problems, and for what? ThAt mayhap, two hundred years hence, he will he mentioned in some shelved and all-out forgotten volume for his contribution Xof eternal truth. As far as results are measured he appears to have accomplished nothing. Most men would tay he was lacking of common sense. lie has had no time nor inclination to make money. This shows one side of President Eliot, the side of the educator and the enthusiastic pursuer of truth as an ideal. But he has another side probably several more. He has views in regard to government finances, the currency question, the silver question, etc. He is strongly in favor of a stable and unfluctuating currency. He thinks that the foundation of business prosperity is confidence, not money; not more or less circulating medium so much as confidence in the fulfillment of contracts, confidence in tho payment of interest, confidence in tho discharge of all business obligations. In an address deliv ered before the St. Louis . Board of ; Trade, after presenting the foregoing ideas, Dr. Eliot said: Bat the men who liv in the Western States, and who are carrying on active business here, are subject to one thing that in the East we are exempt from; namely, certain waves of uninformed oublic opinion that swamp the ballot-box, and 1 have been asking myself why it is that these great waves llood you so in tbe West and do not us in the East. It is simply uninformed public opinion. It does not exist among the merchant classes or banking classes; it does among the farming classes, the operative classes, the classes of men that work with their bunds. We defend ourselves against these floods in the East, and it is the merchants and manufacturers that defend us. It is a matter of teaching. It is a matter that I know something about myself. Thus it is in the East that we use all legitimate influences to control and enlighten public opinion. Let me urge upon you to take up this business systematically in the .Western States. It is your interest, it is the interest of the Western States, it is the interest of our common country. This great disturbauce of opinion has got control in the West. Defend the country and yourselves Against it. Teach all the year, not during political campaigns only, bat during the wholoyear. Teach by the public press, and if you cannot get a press that will answer your purpose, make another. Get control of newspapers that will teach true doctrines all over tue country and in the home. And if yen cinnot get nowspapers, use leaflets and tracts, and find among your mercantile cLossos young men and old men of public spirit who will devote themselves totbiawork of publio instruction. This is the talk of a student of public affairs and events. It shows that the president of Harvard is not a mere book worm or library recluse. He watches the currents of public opinion and studies their causes. Pursuing this line of investigation, he concludes that the currency inflation heresy and the silver craze which now prevail in some parts of the country, or among some classes, are the result of ''uninformed public opinion." But, if we interpret the Doctor s words rightly, he is wrong in one respect. In bo far as he intimates that the Western press is responsible for the financial heresies now pervading the country he is in error. Very few Western papers of any character favor the free and unlimited coinage of silver, and hardly one Republican paper. Nevertheless, in attributing .the prevalence of these financial heresies to uninformed public opinion tho Doctor is right, and the Journal agrees with him. Perhaps wo should say the Doctor agrees with the Journal, and therefore he is right. It is uninformed public opinion that is at the bottom of all the crude financial ideas and dangerous expedients that are now being

exploited. This uninformed public opinion, fostered, encosiisred and led by political demagogues, is what we have to fight against. It is a campaign of education, and, as the Doctor suggests, it should be open always. To have good government and sound financial legislation the people must learn to pin their faith to fundamental principles, and not to shifting devices and mercenary expedients. When the president of Harvard talks that way he shows himself a true educator. Evidently, also, he does not feel very unkindly towards the press, as he places it foremost among the agencies of popular enlightenment. Of course, there are papers and papers, and it takes all kinds to make "the press;" but when the Doctor referred to "newspapers that will teach true doctrines all over the country and in the home" he evidently meant such papers as the Journal and other Republican papers which advocate correct principles of government and finance. THE TOO-CHEAP COAT. Time and again, since President Harrison remarked that a man's coat might

be so cheap as to make a cheap man necessary, the free-traders have quoted, criticised, scolded about and denounced the statement, according to their respective capacities. Cheapness being the free-traders' sole end, anybody who said that a coat could be too cheap must bo regarded as the most hopeless result of the "robber" tariff policy. The public was told that the coat could not be too cheap, and that all effort should be directed to making the coat cheaper to the wearer, and consequently our markets should be opened to encourage those who can make the cheapest coats. But one free-trader has found out that coats may be, as President Harrison said, too cheap. That free-trader, is no less a personage than the ambitious and rather bumptious young Democratic Governor Russell, of Massachusetts.. He has discovered that coats are made so cheap in New York for the Boston market that those who make them cannot earn the means to purchase a decent livelihood. He has learned that what is known as the "sweating" system is in full operatioa in New York; that hundreds of human beings from foreign countries work many hours a . day, in wretched and filthy tenements, making clothing for a class of Boston readymade dealers, who give their work to contractors, who let it out to be made at the lowest figures that will enable the makers to live. Governor Russell is a great deal wrought up about the matter, and has called the attention of the Massachusetts .Legislature to it, seemingly having forgotten the free-trade maxim, "buy in the cheapest market," and let every one take care of himself. He wants the "sweating" system exposed and broken up. It is ruinous to the health and morals of those who are its victims, demoralizes the trade, subjects the wearer of the clothes to diseases which may bo taken from the dens of the makers as germs, and deprives the clothing-makers of Massachusetts of their employment. In other words, the free- , trade Governor, who has denounced pro tection in many a fine speech, is demanding protection protection for the unfortunates who are sweating out existence, for honorable trade, for the consumer, and for Massachusetts clothingmakers. Ho. has learned that what President Harrison said about a too cheap coat is true. He seems to have discovered that coats, or any other articles which are produced so cheaply that the making cannot afford the makers the necessaries of life, are too cheap not only for the makers but the purchasers that very cheap coats may make men and women too cheap. A few weeks since a report was sent out from Washington to the effect that one of the Sioux visiting that city, Hollow Horn Bear, had asked the Indian Commissioner for a special interview, in which he declared bis opposition to having the Indians put under control of the War Department because of the immoralities of the soldiers. The report seems to have caused much indignation among the officers in the Indian country; consequently, when Hollow Horn Bear got back to the agency several officers asked him about these reports, interpreting one of them, Indian Agent Wright being present. The Sioux denied making such a statement, and read from a paper in the Sioux language what he said to the Indian Commissioner, which was nothing of the nature attributed to him. In reply to questions Hollow Horn Bear said that he had neither seen nor heard of soldiers making mock marriages with squavrs since the troops went there last fall; that Indian women were not permitted to run around the camps by the oiticers, and that he had seen nothing of the kind since he was a young man, although he has been with the troops most the time. Hollow Horn Bear should learn to write out his little speeches in English. The ordinary, everyday citizen is care- ' less and unobserving. Events that go to make history happen all around him and he fails to recognize their importance; deeds. are done whose echoes will go pulsating down the' corridors of time, and ho "does not note their significance until his attention is called. Fortunately, there is always an editor on guard who never allows any of these things to escape his vigilant eye. It is the editor who detects tho import of acts and occurrences that seem of slight import to the short-sighted; it is the ever-watchful and prophetic editor who points out tho awful gravity of apparently trifling events and the weighty consequences involved.- To eee, with this keen-sighted, fearless guardian, is to speak. The champion member of this inspired fraternity, whose genius is hitched to the Louisville Commercial, has discovered a crisis in tbe progress of civilization. Hear him: Christianity had its J a da 8, Rome Its Brutus, America its Arnold. Judas struck a hard blow at Christianity; Brutus ruined Rome, and Arnold, had he succeeded, would have caused a different ending to the revolution. For Judas there is an excuse In a momentary cowardice that left him suffering when he recovered from his tempo&ry weaknehS. Brutus could also point out some extenuating circumstance; Arnold could po'nt to none. Judas died by his own hand, and the spirit of Christianity thrived acd spread throughout the universe Brutus ended Lis life on tho sword, and Rome still survived. Arnold died despised of all men, and the United states rose to the first place among nations. , What traitor has this editor unearthed who can compare to these! Is some despicable villain planning to betray our govern

ment and put it into the hands of for

eign powers? Is some base conspirator preparing to destroy the United States Constitution! Is some vile and soulless wretch getting ready to drop Kentucky or any of its sacred institutions into a hole! None of these things, but something far different and more thrilling. Listen: Leaving out these three (Judas, Brutus and Arnold), we come to our own time, and to the great traitor, Al Johnson. Like the others, he betrayed where most trusted. Like Brutus, ho plunged his knife into the body of the Association, but unlike him failed to reach a vital spot. Like Arnold, he wax intrusted with the most important citadel and stronghold of the Association, the Cincinnati club. Being trusted by the commander-in-chief, Kramer, he. Imbued i with the spirit of that other, nearly as gr eat traitor, Thurman. opened negotiations with the League, and, unlike Arnold, succeeded in selling out. The mass of people may move in their indifferent, happy-go-lucky way without concern as to the dreadful results involved in Al Johnson's act of selling out, but while the base-ball editor lives he will not let them go in ignorance. Instead of three of a kind, there will henceforth, if the Commercial man can control matters, be two pairs in the publio estimation, namely: Jndas, Brutus, Arnold, and Al Johnson. Great is the base-ball editor! BUBBLES IX Tflt AIR. Harmony of Tastes. 6he I never see Uttle children out for an airing with their maids but I feel just Uke taking them in my arms and kissing them. He Me, too, if they are young and pretty. Though the engagement has not been broken off, it bears evidence of a pretty serious fracture. Her Sixth Sense. Yabsley Of course, you will admit that woman, as a rule, is far inferior to man in reasoning power; but she seems to have a sort of intuitive sixth seuse a er I don't exactly know what to call it, that, as I can testify from personal experience, man is lacking in. Miss Laura Do you refer to common sense, Mr. Yabsleyt A Tennysonlan TrllL The winter wanes; the bluebird'sjoyous notes Proclaim that now we can buy overcoats 6o cheap! Bo cheap! So cheap! Gone are the hopes of cutting any ice. Strawberries now are here, but at a price Too steep! Too steep! Too steep! It. Poet's fee, $1,890. . Unconsidered Trifle. "BrazU's Ports Open appears as a headline In the Chicago News. In view of the fact that two poker games were raided over in Brazil theoth jr day. It would seem that Brazil sports are not so "wide open" as they might be. Does tho humble, repentant sinner ever tae pride in the remembrance of what a phenomenrJ example of sinfulness he used to be! ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Sip. Arthur Sullivan is credited with saying, in reply to au ignorant but pretentious woman who asked hira it Bach were composing anything nowadays: "No, madam, be is decomposing." '' The Princes of India, though under subjection to British rule, are able to indulge in royal whims and extravagances. One of them recently had made at Paris a bed worth 25,000. Its canopy is supported by four automatio female figures that wave fans to cool the air. The mattress is a huge musical box, which, when one lies upon it, plays operatic airs. Archbishops Longley and Thomson and Bishops Tait and Wilberforce were once present at a meeting in York when the late Canon Trevor observed them, and remarked: "There go Is, and Was, and Wouldn't, and Couldn't" Thomson held the See, Longley had held it, Tait had refused it, and Wilberforce had striven hard to have it, but had failed. Thomas Ball, the sculptor, is busy with a colossal Washington in bronze, which Mrs. Hopklns-Searle, of Great Barring ton, gives to tbe town of Metbuen. The base of tho statue will contain busts of the great revolutionary generals, and at each corner will be figures emblematical of oppression, revolution, victory and peace. Mr. Ball is over seventy years old, but is still in robust health and full of work. The news of General Forsythe's vindication by the President and the Secretary of War was received at Fort Riley with gennine gladness by the entire garrison. The enlisted men heard of it while at supper in the mess hall, and went from there to the General's quarters, where in a neat address they made known their satisfaction at the outcome of the peculiar investigation of the battle of Wounded Knee. Ex-Speaker Reed is said to be a bicycle crank and rides a fifty-six-inch ordinary, on which he sits as gracefully as his immense avoirdupois will admit. But bis journeys are always made in .secret and after night. He rides miles and miles by moonlight. He was asked why he did not ride in the daytime. "Not 1," quoth he. "At least not so long as I am in publio life and tho weekly comic papers continue the practice of printing cartoons of Congressmen who displease them. It would be worth dollars and dollars to Puck to have tiie American Czar ride down Pennsylvania avenue on a lifty-six-iuch ordinary." Mil Inoalls, while superintending the paoking of some boxes in Washington to convey some of his property hack to Kansas, was accosted by a sprightly woman, who observed: "I suppose, Senator, these are coffins and they contain the remains of the deceased." ho," replied the Senator. ' with au emphatic- nod, as his shoulders went back and his head went up. "No, madam, you use the wrong word. These boxes do not contain the remains of the deceased. They contain the effects of the deceased. The deceased" and here he drew himself up straighter and straighter, while he threw out his right arm in a gesture of strength, "the deceased (is perpendicular and not horizontal, and he will probably remain in an erect position for years to come." HYMN OF THE LAZY MAN. I want to be an angel And with tho angels sit, But for a orown of heavy gold , I do not care a bit, Neither do I want a harp, For I can't play on it New York Herald. .. The Fee and Salary Law. Eokorao Gazette-Tribune. The new Aw may possibly work a trifling diminution of emoluments to officers hereafter chosen, but it is exceedingly doubtful whether it will ever put a pennv into the pnbhc treasury, and it is absolutely certain that it will never afford a farthing of relief to litigants who are compelled to so into court for justice and for the settlement of estates and the protection of their Eroperty. Under the new fee and salary ill the people who must go into court will have to p for the luxury at former prevailing pn, s. As the operation of the law is postponed to a far distant future it is not material for the present what its provisions are. The measure may be thoroughly studied, fully understood and then properly amended by the next Legislature. i A Growing Opinion. Lafayette Courier. Few Presidents have ever been charged with more important appointments thau those which President Harrison has made during tho first two years, and these, as a whole, have been above criticism, in strikL ing contrast to those made by his imme diate predecessor. in short, Jr resident Harrison has given to the country an administration which, promoting prosperity at home, commanded respect abroad, is everywhere able; honest and efficient. A Republican's Good Example. Chicago Inter Ocean. Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, resigned from the Assembly as soon as his pay as United States Senator began, but' his good example seems to have been entirely thrown away on Governor IlilL Solid Argument for Protection. Youngstown (O.) Telegram. f Manufacturers from abroad who visit this country inspecting its iudustrial development and having the ovidence spread before them of the piospcroua condition of

the workiug classes, are frank enough to concede that it is largely due to the principle of a protectivo tariff. Further than this they do not hesitate to acsert their conviction that a continuance of protection will benefit both employer and employe, and prove an important factor in the futuro development of the country and its resources. The continuance of the Republican party in power famishes the assurance that the American people will continue to prosper as has no other nation in tho civilized world. A FUNERAL SCANDAL.

Tli Rollicking Party That Is Taking Air, Hearst's Body to California. Washingt on Special to New Tork Commercial Advertiser. The funeral train which left this city on Saturday last, bearing tho remains of Senator Hearst, of California, was more in tho nature of an excursion than anything else, and there has been a great deal of unpleasant gossip in Washington concerning it. This has resulted from the action of Senator Stanford. In the periods during which, Senators Stanford and Hearst served together they formed a stroug personal attachment, and there was no more sincero mourner at the death-bed than the former. As an additional mark of respect to thft family. Senator Stanford ordered his private car to Washington, so that it could be used when the remains were taken to California. As is well known, all these fnneral parties under congressional direction are mora or less of a picnic When the Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate was arranging for the Hearst obsequies he was overwhelmed with applications to include in the party, s mourners, friends of certain Senators. These parties had not the remotest interest in the matter further than that they desired a freo trip to California, with refresh ments and wines on tap, at the government! expense. These applications were pressed with so much persistency that a large party was arranged. Nine Pullman coaches, besides those provided for the family and the congressional committeo, wore attached to the train, and they wero tilled with tho friends of Senators who had a "pull." On Saturday, when Senator Stanford reached the station from which the tram was about to depart, he discovered that the occasion for the most vart was not one of mourning. Airily dressed relatives of Senators occupied sections in the long train of Pullmans, and there was a general air of good humor about the aflair that indicated expectations of a rousing good time. The Senator was really shocked at the spirit of the Alleged mourners, and, to show his disgust at tbe condition of affairs, he ordered the couplings between his own car and the rest of the train to be loosened. As the train steamed out of the station the Stanford car was left standing in the shed. Mr. Stanford will attend the funeral in California, but he did not care to go across the continent with a party of poker-playing and wine-drinking high-rollers,- who were supposed to be mourning for his dead friend. The widow of the dead Senator in a great stickler for social proprieties. Before tho congressional committees were appointed to accompany tbe remains, the names of several Senators and members were submitted to her for approval. She insisted that they all be persons distinguished in social as well as publio life, and it took a great deal of revision to make the committees finally acceptable to the widow. A Good Deal of a Humbug. Boston Journal. There are certain ofhees which are not now, and never will be, within the scope of the civil service. The incumbents will be changed as administrations change, and the Civil-service Reform League only wastes its influence in sending up ita ceaseless waitings. The members did not hold a wake when Collector Worthington and Postmaster Tobey were turned out. and why should Collector Saltonstall and Postmaster Corse become such special objects of condolencef There is nothing liko consistency. The cause of civil service is not promoted by such partisan hawking. President Cleveland could bounce officers without a word of protest, but they denounce President Harrison for making a few changes. The civil-service mugwump is a good deal of a shallow humbug. Another Instance. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. The English manufacturers of tin-plato have decided to pay the duty themselves, and thus endeavor to retain their bold on the American market. Our free-trade friends long ago laid down, as a fundamental law, the allegation that a protective duty always adds to the price of the article. This is their great indictment against the doctrine of protection to American industries, and it was urged with remarkable persistence against this very item in the McKinley bill. Their attention is respectfully called to tbe fact that the consumer of tin-plate will pay no more for it, while the American producer is given an advantage which will enable him to build up an indnstry giving employment to thousands of men. Steamship Subsidies. New York Journal of Finance. The policy of subsidizing tbe steamship service and merchant service has become tbe settled principle of every civilized nation. Each has recognized its wisdom and profited by its benefits. With us it is of even more importance than to any EnroEean nation. In no country in the world as invention contributed so much to enlarge the power of ourindustry; no conntrv is more fertile in resources; no nation has a broader seaboard, and in no nation exists a capacity to supply the wants of men in so large a degree as in our own. An Opportunity Democracy Misled. Ban Francisco Chronicle. There is a prospect of an advance in the price of tea. owing to threatened short crops. If the possibility had been perceived sooner the prospective rise might have been attributed to the McKinley bill. It is true that tea is on the free list, but so were hundreds of other articles which the free-traders falsely asserted, a few months ago, were increased in price on account of the measure referred to. Governor Hill's Animus. Boston Journal. Governor Hill presents a full and ingenious defense for refusing, to bonor the requisition of Governor Bulkeley, but wo do not notice that he anywhere mentions one of tbe chief reasons for his action that every convict the Connecticut police can catch and lock up m jail weakens by so much the voting strength of the "reform" Democracy. m Ex-Governor Gray Turn. Milwaukee Tribune. Dan Voorhees nas come ont in favor of his friend, Isaac P. Gray, for President. Now let ex-Gov. Gray return the compliment and peace will reign again among the Democrats ot Indiana until the time comes for them to wheel into line at Boss Cleveland's command. Those little exchanges compliments are pleasing and perfectly rmlesa. A Righteous KtfusaL Buffalo Commercial. President Harrison has very properly refnsed to pardon Eno. the thief and embezzler, formerly president of the Second National Bank of New York. has never reinsed bezzh been pnnished, but fled to Canada and now ivonti thn nrivilAirn nf returning fn thia side and trying again. This country is well rid'of such scamps. Their Interests Are IdentlcaL Milwaukee SentineL Persons employed on the railroads in Kansas. Illinois. Iowa and Minnesota have discovered that the legislation agaiii6t railroads is calculated to injure them and they have organized for protest. They have learned the important fact that whatever cripples an employer of bibor cripples labor also. ' Dint to Gray. Washington Post. Ex-Governor Gray need not despair. Let him have the Indiana Legislature polled by one of his trusted friends. The latest returns from that body have a very Joey McDonald flavor. Fonslble Definition of 'lndccrat. Toledo Illaile. Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, wouldn't drink beer when ho was elected, but helped pull the corks for the boys. This may explain why he calls himself an "Indecrat." Iteason for Their FalUu Bt. Louis Olobe-Pemocrat President Harrison hasdono so well thus far in bis selection of judicial officers that the country is looking for good appointments to the new circuit judgeships.