Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1891.

E DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY. MARCn 23, 1601.

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All tt.mmunicationsintmded or publication in romjtanUd by the name ana address of the tcriter TILE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can re found at the following ylacea: PA It IS American Exchange ta Paris, 38 Boulevard tits t'ayucines W 1'OIlK Gllsey II onse and Windsor IIoteL PHILADZLPIIIA A. V. KernM,' 1735 Lancaster avenue. cn ICAO O Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. B Hawley A Co., 1M Vine street LOUISTILLE a T. Deerlng, northwest ecrnt? Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOU 1 6 Union News Company, Union, Depot and Southern IIoteL WASHINGTON. D. Cms noose and SbblH Iloaae The corporations evidently had a buous Dun on tne last legislature. The Democratic idea of tax reform seems to regard tho redaction of the taxes on corporations as an essential feature. TnE contention of tho Clevolandites and anti-Clovelandites breaks in npon the political stillness of the season in nearer and anprier tones. Atitt. frnfktrnilA i1itnr cnntinTiA . to demonstrate on paper that the country cannot possibly prosper under a protective tariff, and the country continues to prosper right alonir. A slip of tho pen made the Journal say that the new tax law required county commissioners to elect county assessors on tho first Monday of April. The first Monday of June is the time. TnE average citizen of Indiana does not feel so kindly towards sleeping-car companies that he will enjoy seeing their taxes reduced four-fifths while his own are increased nearly a hundred per cent. Can any one tell why tho taxes of foreign corporations doing business in Indiana should have been reduced from one-half to four-fifths, while those of every resident tax-payer m the State were about doubled? The latest accusation against the present tariff lew made by free-trade papers in New York is that the importation of cigars has fallen off about oneiialf, which means that cigars which -.vere formerly imported are now made in tho United States. A Democratic Congressman from the Northwest, who does not care to have nis name used, expresses the opinion ' that the Democratic contest for epeakerihip of the next House is between Mills mul Crisp, with the chances in favor of Mills. He does not think Bynum isvin it. Tms may bo called a question in political economy or a conundrum, at the pleasuro of tho reader: If, under a tax of 10 per cent, on the gross receipts of sleeping-car companies doing business within tho State, they paid only $32.18 las-t year, how much will they probably pay next year under tho reduced tax of 2 per cent? The Kansas City Times professes to believe that ex-Senator Ingalls is trying to break into tho Democratic party, and affects great alarm thereat. As Mr. Ingalls has merely manifested a friendliness for the Farmers Alliance the remarks of tho Times indicate a belief on its part that the Alliance and the Democracy are one. This is a great mistake. Tho Kansas Alliance Is not Democratic by a largo majority. In his recent speech in Massachusetts Major McKinley said that a New York merchant had told him, within ten days, that when the tariff bill was passed he expected he would be obliged to put up the prices on some articles which he imported, but when he went abroad and told the manufacturers that he was go-, jug to sell at the old prices, even if he had to manufacture himself, they said to him: "Wo will pay tho enhanced duty required by the new law." The man Friedlander, who was put into the seat of Senator Morse, of the Michigan Senate, when the Republicans were absent, is kept a prisoner by his Democratic associates, In a committeejoom of the Capitol, for fear that a criminal warrant will be served on him, based on the charge of bigamy. He eats and sleeps there, and is brought into the Senate to vo'o. He has admitted tho crime, but attempts an excuse. Iu the meantime his Democratic associates shield him from arrest in order that ho may be used to gerrymander tho State. The investigation caused by the finding in a waste-basket of marked lists of members of tho California Legislature and wrappers which appeared to have inclosed packages of money shows that tho lists were made by men interested in tho passago of an important measure known as the Riverside improvement bill, and that tho wrappers contained 7,000, which was the contribution of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company to secure its passage. In other words, the lists, the wrappers and the money had nothing whatever to do with the senatorial election. Tiikke is no news in the statement that Democratic papers, deliberately and with pren editation, engage in the manufacture of lies intended to injure tho Republican party, but there is something now and unique in the 4 confession sf a Democratic editor in Kansas that

he operated a slander-mill, a part of the grist being the publication cf an assertion that the Republican party was responsible for the Coffeyvillo dynamite explosions. If all the editors who slander Republicans and the families of Re-, publicans were to acknowledge their iniquity, and if a suitable penalty were attached to each offense, most of the Democratic organs in the country would bo going on one leg, so to speak, for the lack of somebody to run them. Unfortunately, while the iniquity is fully understood, the penalty has not yet been prescribed.

THE LATE LEGISLATURE AKD CORPORATIONS. The acts of the last Legislature are likely to form a very interesting though perhaps not very popular volume. It is not as thrilling as a romance, but it contains matter of more interest to the people of Indiana. As a posthumous work of the deceased Legislature it possesses a sad interest as a revelation of character which, during its short life, the people had scarcely sufficient time to become familiar with. They are getting acquainted with it, however, and are likely to understand it pretty well before they are done with it. The Journal is of the opinion that the more they know about it the less they will like it. One of the most unlovely features of the character thus revealed is in regard to corporations. The Legislature was elected that is, the Democratic portion of it on a distinctively reform platform. Taxes were to be reduced, the expenses of local government were to be lessened, fees and salaries were to be cut down, corporations were to be compelled tp bear a larger share of taxation, and many things were to be done to relieve the people. None of the promises were kept. Taxes, instead of being reduced, were increased. The tee and salary bill is a transparent fraud, the expenses of government were materially increased, and tho burdens of corporations were lightened The taxes of the people were increased nearly 100 per cent, on the ground that the condition of the State finances absolutely required it. If that is so, on what ground could - the Legislature justify a reduction of the taxes on corporations? Why should it increase the burdens of the people with one hand and reduce those of corporations with the other? That is what it did. An act of March 11, 1880, imposed upon sleepingcar companies doing business in this State a tax of 10 per cent, on their gross receipts. The new law reduces the tax to 2 ner cent., thus giving sleeping-car companies the benefit of a reduction of four-fifths of their former taxation. By an act of 1689, telephone companies doing business in this State were required to pay a tax of 1 per cent, on their gross receipts; the new law reduces this tax to one-fourth of 1 per cent By ar act of March It 1889, telegraph companies doing business in this State were required to pay a tax of 2 per cent, on their gross receipts; the new law reduces this tax to 1 per cent. An act of March 9, 18S9, required all express companies doing business in this State to pay a tax of 2 per cent on their gross receipts; the new law reduces this tax to 1 per cent. The act of 1889 did not allow the express companies to make any deduction from their gross receipts returned for taxation; the new law allows them to deduct "the amount paid to railroads for the transportation of freight within .the State, and the amount of wages paid to, employes within the State, and the amount paid for tangible property within the State." The law of 1889 imposed a penalty on sleeping-car companies of $50 for each and every ' day that they failed to make report of their gross receipts or pay the, tax assessed on them; the new law reduces the penalty to $25 per day. Wo think the people of Indiana would like to know why a legislature which added nearly 100 per cent, to the taxes of every individual tax-payer in the State did, at the same time, reduce the taxes of sleeping-car companies from 10 per cent, on gross receipts to 2 per cent; the tax on telephone companies from 1 per cent, on gross receipts to 14 of 1 per cent; the tax on telegraph companies from 2 per cent on gross receipts to 1 per cent, and the tax on express companies from 2 per cent on gross receipts to 1 per cent? It cannot be because these corporations were paying more tax than they could stand, for during the year 1889 express companies paid nothing; telephone companies paid $1,076.43; telegraph companies, nothing; sleeping-car companies, $52.18. The total amount paid in 1889, as the tax on their gross receipts, by express companies, telegraph companies and telephone companies doing business in this State was $1,728.61. Why, theu, should the former rate of taxation have been so largely reduced? The only reasonable explanation is that it was done at the instance and through the efforts of the corporations theiuaelves. For an anti-monopoly, anti-corporation Legislature, this is a beautiful record. . THE PEOPLE'S SAVIN Q 3 BANE. For six years, the Journal has been urging a financial measure of much importance to tho people of Indiana, but, while not a word can be urged against it from any stand-point it has received no attention from the Democratic Legislatures which have persistently refused to consider any question in which there was not party capital. We are confronted by two Inexorable conditioua: First, the State is a large borrower of money, and, secondly, there are millions of home money seeking borrowers. The conclusion is inevitable that if borrower and lender can bo brought together on terms profitable to both it should be done. On our borrowed money we are paying about 3 per cent, every dollar of which goes into the coffers of Eastern capitalists. If wo could place that money at home, saving that interest to our own people, every consideration of sound political economy says we should, even from tho view of the State's interest alone. But when we add the further consideration that tho money, thus obtained would, for the moat part, be money that is now wholly unproductive, an additional consideration of great weight is presented. The plan suggested

by the Journal is tho issuing of State bonds of small denominations, bearing, say, 3 per cent interest, payable annually, and exempt from taxation. The first valuable consideration of this measure would be a secure deposit for the small savings of tho class who wish to lay up for future use what is not needed for current expenses. The rate of interest is not high, but it is better than no interest at all, for very little of these small savings brings the owner any interest whatever. That these bonds are exempt from taxation is no argument against them, for not one dollar in a hundred of the money that would go into them is now listed for taxation. These bonds would not fall into the hands of capitalists, for the man who has his thousands can command a better interest than these pay, even if he pays taxes on his notes, which is rarely the case. But the interest paid to the small investors would be paid to our own people. It is not necessary to elaborate this question. The proposition so often presented by the Journal is renewed at this time because it may be less hampered by other issues. It is simply to issue enough negotiable bonds to, take up our State debt at. a low rate of interest in small denominations, go that they may be reached by persons of small means, thus giving to Indianians, without any detriment to any State interest whatever, that which now goes to the savings banks of New England through Wall street.

BRITISH ORGANS IN NEW YORK. The rebuke which Mr. Cleveland's" minister to Great Britain, Prof. Phelps, has administered to the Anglo maniac or anti-American press, in his recent article on tho Behring sea controversy in Harper's Weekly, has attracted much notice, and is not relished by those papers in New York which persistently take the British side of all questions and of every controversy between the United States and Great Britain. This rebuke from a Democrat of the old school who is an American is so manly and vigorous that it is quoted: In this, as in all other international controversies, one remark holds good. A nation divided against itself can never achieve a diplomatic success. A government that is not backed up by the unanimous sentiment of its people, but is opposed in its dealings with foreigu nations by a large share of the best intelligence of its own country, if not in the ends it reks, at least in all the' means it takes to obtain them, will never be a formidable figure in diplomacy, especially when its force is found to expend itself iu argument rather than in action. To peruse the discussions of most questions of this sort in the American press would lead the unlearned reader to conclude that one principle in international law, at least, can be regarded as settled; that is, tbat whatever is asserted by our own government is necessarily wrong. The authors can have the satisfaction of knowing tbat all these contributions to the British side ot the discussion are promptly put on tile in ner Majesty VForeigu Office, and will not fail of their effect. Great Britain affords us no corresponding advantage. Not a word has been uttered or .printed in that country, so far as is known, against the Canadian contention or in support ot tbat of the United States. Tho newspaper reader knows the papers which ex-Minister Phelps had in mind. The New York Herald published several editorial articles of considerable length combating the position assumed by the President and Mr. Blaine. The Post and tho World, in a less marked manner, assailed the claims of our government, while the Times's attitude was more or less unf lien dly. These journals are not really American papers. The proprietors of two of them choose to live abroad, and the controlling influ ence in the others is that of men who, while they have become citizens of the United States, have never become American citizens in spirit Professor Phelps's rebuke serves to emphasize the antiAmerican spirit which controls these papers. Regarding the Behring sea and the fishery controversies they do not represent the sentiment of the people of this country, and their editorial opinions upon these subjects are no more American opinions than are those of the London Times or the Pall Mall Gazette. TnE officers of the Indian Rights Association have gone to the trouble to send to the press a letter which they have written . to Attorney-general Miller regarding the punishment of the murderer of Fe w Tails, who is said to have been a harmless old Indian who was represented to be a ward of the government The United States grand jury in South Dakota not only indicted the Indians who murdered Lieutenant Casey and teamster Miller, but in its report called attention to the murder of Few Tails, and recommended the Attorney-general to take such action as would enable the United States district attorney of South Dakota to prosecute the murderers. It appears from reports in papers in South Dakota that there is a conflict between the civil and military authorities over the Indian murderers recently indicted at Sioux Falls, S. D. The military authorities hold the Indian murderers as prisoners of war upon an implied, if not express, agreement that they shall not be surrendered to the civil courts unless the white murderers of Few Tails aro also brought to justice, and consequently tho army officer in charge has refused to deliver the murderers of Casey and Miller to the United States marshal. The merits of the controversy have not been made clear, but it is probable that the Department of Justice fully understands tho matter and will bring all the murderers to trial as promptly as possible. The action of the grand jury which indicted tho murderers of Casey and Miller and recommended the prosecution of the murderer of Few Tails indicates a purpose on the part of that body and the district attorney to punish white as well as Indian murderers. In view of this fact, the Bending to the press of a letter written to the Attorney-general, who has always been prompt in the discharge of all his duties, can only bo accounted for on the ground that the officers of the association desire to keep themselves before tho public. The Attorney-general of Louisiana has been before the grand jury in regard to the recent lynching, and made an earnest effort to have the leaders of the mob indicted. A New Orleans special says the Attorney-general's course is not meeting with popular approval, the newspapers all opposing any indictments on the ground that tho act of th mob

was the act of the people, and that a people cannot be indicted. The TimesDemocrat urges that the matter be dropped, and the States 'says that the Attorney-general is determined to make himself ridiculous by the course he is pursuing. Public sentiment in New Orleans seems to be thoroughly demoralized in regard to the enforcement of law.

In their hearts the old Democracy yet hate the name of Abraham Lincoln. At a Democratic convention held in Centralis 111., a few days since, the committee on resolutions reported one plac-. ing Palmer's namo with those of Douglas and Lincoln. When it was read in the convention tho old Democrats raised a howl, one of whom was Mr. Cleveland's Land Commissioner Sparks. One Democrat declared that "the names of Douglas and Palmer should not be sullied by coupling them with that of Abe Lincoln." The resolution was amended by striking out the name of Lincoln. TnE Board of Public Works has acted wisely in providing for a reduction of the roadway in the streets to be paved hereafter. Wide streets are useful, for purposes of ventilation, and are ornamental to a city, but it is not necessary that the entire width should be given to roadway. On the contrary, wide sidewalks and an intervening space of lawn give variety and beauty to a street while narrowing the roadway diminishes the cost of paving and of keeping clean. In the improvement of Washington city this plan was adopted in all the streets. TnE cry which has been raised in several Democratic papers to tho effect that the Republicans in Montana were resolved on disfranchising 7,000 Democratic voters grows out of the fact that a large number of persons in that State aro voting upon papers which were not obtained as the law requires namely, in open court but were furnished them in an irregular manner. In other words, a large number of men who are not legal voters may not be permitted to vote in the next election of Representative to Congress. The government should issue money direct to the people as it does postage stamps, says Kansas' new Senator. That is exactly what it does now; it never did lend postage stamps, but requires those who want them to pay spot cash for them, and the stamps are canceled, so that there never are more than are necessary to meet the public requirements. The Peffer illustration is defective from the fiat-money and government-loan point of view. A remarkable illustration of the fugacious character of personal property in regard to taxation is found in the fact tbat certain parties in Delphi, this State, have packed up about $2,000,000 of stocks, bonds, mortgages and promissory notes and left the State to escape taxation. Their father, now deceased, defied the assessor and escaped payment of his just taxes for years before his death. 4 TnE man who has made a record of accuracy in the railway mail service by distributing 21,649 cards wUh'postoffice addresses, located in fourteen States,Vwith but twelve errors, which is justly regarded as a wonderful achievement is Charles Oler, of Riohmond, in this State.- He Is twenty-six years of age, and before entering tbe mail service worked on a farm summers and taught school winters. He got into the mail service through a civil-service examination in this city, and was given a temporary appointment of six months in September, 1889. He has received the Postmaster-general's gold diploma, and has just gene to Europe to take charge of the mails which hereafter are to be distributed on the way to this country. His record is a brilliant one, and his recognition shows that efficiency, not favoritism, secures advancement in the public service. In an important case in which an elevated railway in Brooklyn was the defendant the lawyer for the plaintiff dwelt upon the disregard of the rights of individual by corporations in his address to the jury and read an extract from a'paper to show that this was the case. Tho defendant objected to the verdict on the ground tbat the jury was influenced by statements in the argument of plaintiff's lawyers, but which were irrelevant The New York Court of Appeals has sustained the objection, declaring that attorneys mutt confine themselves to facts in the evidence, and that the reading of articles designed to influence jurors against corporations is irrelevant and irregular. Thr report tbat Anna Dickinson is improving in health and is in a fair way to be restored to reason is accompanied by the statement tbat on her recovery she is likely to return to the stage. The two statements are incompatible. If Miss Dickinson returns to the stage there will be cause for belief that her reason is not restored. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mp.s. Stanley is a direct descendant the seventh in line from Oliver CromwelL 'Jerome K. Jerome," is a nom de plume. The real name of the successful young dramatist and humorist is is J. W. Arrowsmith, and his home is in liristoL A school-house in which Susan B. Anthony taught for three years, up in Canajoharie. in central New York, has been advertised for sale at auction. It was built in 1849. The Baroness Yon Liliencranz has joined the Salvation Army, and German nobility is considerably shocked by the spectacle of one of its members, with a drum, chasing a sinner through an alley. Aldoni celebrated her sixty-fifth birthday on March 13. She sang Gounod's "Ave Maria" to the twenty or thirty friends favored with tho entree on such occasions, with a voice as unapproachable as ever. Mr. John Bland, a chess-player, proposes to revolutionize the game by making the board nine squares wide, &vA adding, besides a pawn, another piece to be called tbe "premier," possessing the combined powers of queen and knight. Tiik three most eminent literary women in England were old maids Miss Austen, Miss Edgeworth and Miss M it ford. This fact ought to encourage the ladies of the present, who are taking tbe advanced ground that a husband is more or less of a nuisance anyhow. One of the letters of Emperor William, written by him to Prince Bismarck, aud which Bismarck refuses to surrender, it is said, expresses, among other things, a bitter animosity towards the writer's own mother. Tbe negotiations undertaken by Count Waldertee to recover these letters for the Emperor have entirely failed, and they are now amoug Bismarck's papers

locked np in the vaulfs of a London banker. If they were on German soil the Emperor would probably seize them by force. 1L Dick, of East Boston, wants fleas. He advertised for them in the morning papers, and when aeen recently said: "Oh, yes, I want fleas; I am a -trainer of fleas. I educate them to do tricks, and run a flea circus. ' In thirty-six hours I can make a good intelligent flea do almost any simple trick." Miss Mabel Goddard, who has given ten years to studying the relations between industry and matrimony, says that the proportion of marriages is greater among trained nurses than any other class of women workers. Tbe daughters of mercy nearly always marry well and this is also noted of Vassar girls. "At the present rate of progress," predicts President Seelye, of Smith College, "the women of this country will, at the end of the present century, be better educated than the men. The colleges are turning oat hundreds of educated women. The work of educated men is liable to be overshadowed: by theworkof educated women." At the LeffiDg well autograph-letter sale, in Boston, last week, a missive from Nathan Hale, the revolutionary spy, brought tbe highest price, $1,275, while two of General Marion's writings only sold for S3 and $5, respectively, and one of Lafayette went for $11. Chirography of other revolutionary heroes commanded all the way from $50 to 8500. ' A writer in a ladies' journal has a word of encouragement for girls who lament having red hair. The Catharines, who made Rnssia great, had red hair; so had Maria Theresa, who saved Austria and made it the empire it is; so had Anne of Austria, who ruled France for so long; so had Elizabeth of England and Catherine Borgia, as well as Marie Antoinette, whose blond tresses had in them a glint of gold. Plon-Pi.on's death recalls his invitation of Rachel, the ao tress, to a supper at which one of her fellow-guests was Kbalil-Bey. She was deeply affronted at the openly expressed distaste of the Oriental for her personal appearance. Rachel, as used to be said of Sarah Bernhardt in the early days of her career, possessed "much grace, but no grease;" and the angular elbows and bony chest of the queen of the Parisian stage were not all to the boy's taste. "What do you think of her!" asked his host of bim

toward the end of tbe evening. "Dear Prince, in my own country we drown such women as that!" was the reply. Rachel overheard him, and, naturally, she never forgave him. It is related of the late Mme. Sophie Kovalevsky, professor of mathematics at tbe University at Stockholm, that she gained her first familiarity with the terras of the science from reading, as a child, a lithographed course upon higher mathematics, with which the walls of her nursery were papered. She was admitted as a student at Heidelberg when only sixteen, having received her first instruction from her father, who was a Russian artillery general. Her early marriage to Professor Kovalevsky did not interrupt her studies. She was graduated a Ph. D. at Gottingen, and later took the professorship of higher mathematics at Stockholm University. Here she lectured the first year in German, and afterwards in Swedish, making Russian meanwhile the language of her published workf. BUBBLES IN TUli AIR. All Fools Day. "Well, the 1st of April is almost here, I am happy to say," said the fool-killer. "You are happy to eyl 'Yes. That is my day off, you know." Tlie Tragedian. He thought himself a histrion, Despite the publlo's scoff; For high ambition egged him on. Though people egged him ofL Or the Middle Aged. Minnie How kind it was of Mr. Yabsley to dance with each of those ancient Patterby girls! He has the spirit of a true gentleman. Mamie Yes; he is a genuine knight of the middle ages, so to speak. A Graceful Apology, Mrs. Potts You can't get anything to eat here. Go on away, now, or Til call my husband. Hungry Higgins I hope you'll excuse me, mum. I didn't know you already had a husband, or I shouldn't of called. See! Unconsidered Trifles. Might not the arrest of a cattle baron be termed taking a count of stockl , Sometimes a scrap is a piece, and sometimes a breach of the peace. Bometimes the solid citizen Is dense as well. As both the Republican and Democratlo administrations have made an utter failure of regulating the weather, it would seem that there is need for still another new party. AB0CT THE TAXES. Echoes of the New Law Enacted by the Late Reform Democratic Legislature. Columbus Republican: Now are the current taxeB due, aud farmers groan and curse, and consolation sweet receive that next year they'll be worse. t Muncie Times: The indignation among farmers over tbe increase of taxation by the late Democratic Legislature is not subsiding. They confidently expected some relief from tbat body, but instead find that their taxes will be almost doubled. Franklin Republican: The State tax levy is increased from 12 to 18 cents. The additional 6 cents is called a benevolent-institution tax. The Danville Republican remarks that this is the first instance in which a tax is called a benevolent institution. Peru Republican: A $800 tax on the saloons in this State would pay all the State tax and interest; but the last Legislature had more love for the saloons than it had for the farmers. It was carefnl to do nothing against tbe mainstay of the Democratic party. Liberty Herald: The people of the State were not only robbed of their sacred and constitutional right to a voice in the government they are taxed to support, by the recent Democratic Legislature, but their farms and their chattels are to be confiscated under tbe forms of a tax law that has no parallel in the annals of legislation for injustice and downright robbery of tbit people. Lagrange Standard: It is said by some that the farmers' movement is responsible for the Democratic Legislature. If so, we trust those who engineered that movement may be able to derive unalloyed pleasure from the results of their labors. They not only hnve a new tax law, but they have it buttoned on to stay by a legislative gerrymander tbat will defy an anti-Democratic majority of 20,000 votes. Shelby ville Republican: The last Legislature chose to stand by tbe saloon and oppress tbe farmers and laboring men all over the State. The poor men of Sbelbyville and Shelby county, when they find their taxes increased at least 50 per cent, will curse the Democratic partv and the General Assembly until the air is blue. As between honest toil and the saloon tbe Democrutio politician stands by tbe saloon every time. Richmond Palladium: When the farmers come to pay their taxes for next year under tbe new Democratic tax-law, and find they have twice as much to pay as formerly, they will begin to believe that Democratic rule is a luxury they can very well dispense with. They must not forget, at the same time, that the Democrats of Indiaua have placed a mortgage of abont $10,000,000 on all the lands of the State, and that their increased taxation is only the interest they have to pay on this mortgage. The princial must be provided for in addition. The lemocracy "is a tax." A Temperance Measure. New York Continent. The Massachusetts 8enate is making a noble struggle in behalf of those who like to take their liquor standing np. It has repealed the law requiring liquors to be served at tables only, and hopes the House will do likewise. It does not seem so on the face of it but this repeal is really in the interests of temperance. A man gets tired more quickly drinking in an upright posture thau when sittiug, and is likely to drink less under the repeal for that very reason.

PACTS ABOUT TI".

The Opening Up of a New American Indnitry Justifies the Increase of Duty. The Independent. - One of the most vulnerable points of ' the McKinle y tariff law, according to its opponents, is tbat concerning tin and tin-plate. Even so good a protectionist as Representative Benjamin Butterwortli thought his party was going entirely too far when it proposed to increase the duty on tin-plate more than 100 per cent, and to transfer block . tin frpm . the free list to the dutiable list at the rate of 4 cents a pound. This was striking, we were told, at the interest of every roofer, every manufacturer of fruit cans and utensils of tin, and therefore at tbe interest of every family in the United States, for the sake of building up a possible monopoly in this country. It was protection run mad, it was declared and every possible use was made of it to turn votes from the Republican to the Democratic party last November. The ideaof protectionists was this: that, having great natural resouroes for the production of tin-plate iu this country, if a reasonable protective duty were levied on it capitalists might be encouraged to enter upon its manufacture. Of course, it needs no argument to thow that we ought to supply our own market, if possible. Then it is known that we have mines of tin ore, and it was thought that if a duty were levied on block tin it would stimulate the working : of thesn : mines, which requires a large outlay of capital. Block tin is now free, and will be free until 1893, when a duty of 4 cents a pound is to be levied for two years. This will give owners of such mines .an ample opportunity to develop them. The increase of duty on tinplates, which are simply plates of steel or iron prepared for the coating of tin, does not take effect until the 1st of July next. Now what is the result of this prospective increase -of duty f There have been various statements to tbe etlect that large plants are being erected for the manufacture of steel plates, and that preparations are being made for the mining of block tin in the Black Hills and elsewhere. These statements have been scouted by the opposition press, and those who have made them have been branded as "American tin-plate liara." We have been at some pains to get at the facts, aud we find that the United States Iron and Tinplate Company of Demmler, Pa., is manufacturing tin-plate, as its chairman writes us, "from steel billets which have been made out of American ore by American workmen and which have been rolled into sheets by American workmen in American machinery, and pickled or cleaned in acid made in Ameiican chemical-works, and 'afterward been tinned in vats which were cast in American foundries." Ihe only ingredients of these plates which was imported was "the tin coating," which, we may add, is of far less importance than tho steel plates, as it consists only of live per cent of the weight of sheets of tin and cau be had at the port of New York for about the same price as i' sells for in London. Our manufacturers, therefore, so far as block tin is concerned, are on an equality with Welsh manufacturers. It is the duty on the plates that gives encouragemeut to Americau capitalists. Tho St Louis Stamping Company is also manufacturing tin-plates from steel billets made iu Chattanooga. Congressman Niedringhaus, who is connected with these works, writes us tbat the company has just received "from the Black Hills some block tin mined there, out of which tin-plate will be manufactured, which we think will be the first American production out of American block tin." This company expects to enlarge its plant which is already turning out from four to five hundred boxes of tin-plates daily. A tin-plate-mill is also being erected at Cleveland, O., and will, it is expected, be in operation by the 1st of July. Other plants, as reported in trade journals, are in preparation in Maryland, Illinois and elsewhere. There can be no question that tin is being mined in the Black Hills, or that tin-plate is being manufactured in considerable quantities in Pennsylvania and Missouri, or that preparations are being made for the extensive manufacture of tin-plate. Before the close of the present year the benefits of the McKinley tariff in the stimulation of a new industry will begin to be realized, and we have the utmost faith in the future' of the industry in the United States. There is every reason to beliove that it will be developed iust as the manufacture of stetd, of plate-glass, of pottery aud other important articles of commerce have been developed, illustrating anew the beneficent effects of our protective system. English manufacturers are not slow in appreciating our prospects. Arecent issue of the London Ironmonger, of Dec 27, 1WK), says: We do not indulge In prophecy, but if we did we should be nieliiied to forecast that within three years from now a great many tin-plates will be made in the United states. As a natural sequence of that impression we would advise tbe Velh manufacturers to lose no time in endeavoring to open up new markets. , The McKinley tariff law has been greatly maligned aud misjudged. We believe tbat time will show that it was not dictated in any narrow or partisan spirit, but with a desire to develop our national industries, and so develop and increase prosperity. PHELPS AND .TILE SEAL, FISHERY. One Mugwump Organ Honest Enough to Agree vrltli the Approval of Blaine's Policy. Harper's Weekly. Mr. Phelps says that if Mr. Blaine's contention be correct, that by treaty a right of jurisdiction has beeu reserved to the United States, ot which he thinks the evidence very strong, the case is concluded. But if this be not so. and the sea be open, what is the freedom of the seaf .; Mr. Phelps's elucidation of this point is a modol of fair reasoning, and his conclusion is irresistable that just personal and property rights are as sacred at sea as on shore, and that the seals upon their passage to the islands are the property of the United States is incontestable. This principle has been asserted by no nation more frequently or resolutely than by Great Britain. The instance cited by Mr. Blaine of the British prohibition of the hovering of ships about tbe Island of . St. Helena, and other- instances mentioned by 31r. Blaine, are justified by Mr. Phelps, who cites tho case of the Caroline, in lt7, as another illustration. They all rest npon the priuciple of international law, which subordinates abstract individual right upon the high neasto important national rights and interests. Great Britain hasJ never asserted the right of tbe Canadian ships to do what tbey are doing, despite the necessary consequences. Mr. Phelps, at the time of writing his article, some time ago. was of the opinion that arbitration would not avail, aod tbat there vera but three methods of settling the question rirst, by stopping the destruction of the seals; second, by conceding to tbe Canadians the right to destroy our property: third, by continuing the discussion, during which aud very soon tbe matter will be removed from controversy by the extermination of the seals. In the course of his article Mr. Phelps remarks with great force that a nation will never be formidable in diplomacy when its go eminent, in its negotiations with foreign powers, is not sustained by its own citizens. Very little has been printed in this country in defense of the contention of our government, but much ability and learning have been devoted to show that our government is wrong. If it be so, the controversy should be at once abandoned. But if it be right, the country should support its government. Such 'international controversies ought not to be made questions of domestic politics. Mr. Phelps is a Democrat, but he cays frankly that Mr. Blaine ha presented our chm? in regard to derivation of rights from Russia with an ability, fullness and clearness, leaving nothing to be added. His paper is an admirable illustration of the tone and temper in which great public questions and international diflereuces should be discussed. Anxious to Drop Tariff Discussion. Nebraska 8tts Journal. The coming reduction of 2 cents per pouud in the nrice of sugar is not often nit ntioued by Democratic newspapers or orators at the prettent time. Everj' householder ccn easily figure it out that the saving on this one item will more than offset all the advances that the reformers have been saying would be made in tb prices ot other articles on account of the iniquitous McKinley bill. In short, tbe public will realize more forcibly than ever after the 1st of April that the Dimocratio party woa

last fall on a campaign of lies. The truth about the revenue is beginning to come out

in a way that appeals to all clashes of peoi mo. iv is piain enougu tuat tue .Mchiniry bill caused reduction in tbe aggregate duties paid by our People. Hence tbe Dem ocratio desire to talk abont something else. "FIGUTINO JI3I STEED One of Ohio's War Heroet Who Was Particular About the Spelling of His Name. Nsw York ITms. Among the soldier heroes of Ohio none had a brighter war record than Gen. James B. Steedman, to whoso memory the Grand Army has erected a splendid monument and statue at Toledo. There is a story that as Steedman rode into a fierce tight in the campaigning about Lookout mountain, where he was serving nnder General Thomas, one of his fellow-officers, with the home feeling welling up in his heart, asked the old General if, in case disaster should overtake him in the tight he had any parting word for the world, for his friends or his family. "The only thing 1 will ask of you." said the grim lighter, "is that you will see that my name is spelled correctly in the dispatches if I am killed." The man who made the remark was known in the Armv of the Cumberland as "Fighting Jim Steedman." He has been dead twelve or fifteen yeara. Yesterday Harper's Weekly, in a full-page series of illustrations on Toledo, presented a representation of his monument and statue, aud misspelled his name in the caption "Stedman." I fancy the old General's body will turn in its grave if he is where he can realize what posterity is doingin the way of refusing his old-time battle request It was General Steedman of whom the story is told that a fellow-oMicer came to him for comfort The officer was of the same rank as himself, and was his fellowtownsman. He had been in command of a small force in West Virginia. His scouts had reported tb approach of a confederate force. Without waiting to ascertain its strength or purposes he bad ordered his command to fall back. He was relieved of bis command, and he asked Steedman, alter a recital of his case, what the latter would have done nnder similar circumstances. Said the old tighten "Well, General I think I would have felt of them a little be fore I save them the right of way." . TRE3IATCHE CHICKEN COUNTING. Some Cold Facts Dealt Oat to the Democrats by an Independent Paper. Washington PouL The row in the Democratic party in Chicago shows that party victory last year docs not mean party success this year or next year. In their enthusiasm over tho landslide last November our friends, the Democrats, immediately commenced to act as though a Democratic President was secure for 1&, and in some cases the more hungry members of that party who had been suddenly and prematurely shut off from the puolio swill weut about selecting their places nnder the. as they thought, surely-corning Democratio administration. Shrewd SenatorGorman was one of the few Democratic leaders who took tbe trouble to analyze the November vote, He didn't seo any landslide that could be counted on for the future. The figures told him that for some reason the Republican vote was not E oiled, and. with a coolness that chilled tho lood of the rank and tile, he intimated that his party was a long ways from being; out of the timber in its march ou the presidency. In New York State the Cleveland and Hill factions meet socially and pretend to be on frieudly terms, but a close observer has no difliculty in discovering a ra7or in every boot. Ami now comes tbe Democratio riot in Chicago, and the indications aro that Carter Harrison, with his political Matia, will do great damage to the very thirsty and very hungry Democrats of tho Windy City. Jerry Simpson, over whose election out Democratic friends rejoiced so fervently in a recent interview, declared tbat the Alliance candidate for President will carry seven Southern States, knocking the solid South higher than Mr. Uilderoy's kite. In view of recent events it might be well for tho Democratio gentlemen engaged in picking out their places under tbe next Democratio administration to put their enthusiasm in a cold-storage warehouse aud stop counting chickens that came out of the political incubator in liie year of our Lord 1800. HARRISON IS AIX BIGHT. His Availability for IUnomt nation Constantly Becoming Mora Evident. LouliTlUe CcmmercUL There is not as much of a quandary among Republicans as to their next presidential candidate as among the Democrats. Leaving out the disappointed oflice-seekers, who are a constaut quantity, the mind of the party seems to be settling very contentedly on Harrison. His availability is very markedly shown by the fact that Democratic papers can find no way to assail him except by dull repetition of the assertion that he is a man of small caliber and by publishing over and over again cartoons in which his grandfather's hat is shown to be too large for' htm. As all intelligent and well-informed people know that Presideut Harrison is ons of the ablest lawyers and one of the most accomplished aud entertaining speakers in the country, and as a writer able to prepare his own state papers better than any one he can find to do it for him, this sort of assault is not very effective. The mssNos of the people can be relied on to judK-o a publio man very correctly, and when they see tbat the President's opponents cau find nothing; to attack him with but worn-out witticisms, and that in all the high duties of his orhce be has borne himself blameless and met all their requirements with singular ability and success, they are not likely to care much whether or not he is the sort of man that casual acquaintances would slap on the back and call "Ben'' and invite to take a drink. A Democrat's Opinion. Greencastfe Banner and Times. A Democrat who has served in both branches of tbe Indiaua Legislature writes to a friend in this city tbe following scathing criticism of the last legislative sesnion: "Were you pleased with the last Legislature! I suppose that of course, it will be written up as one of the 'ablest and tnofrt nsef nl bodies ever assembled for legislative purpose.' But all do not see alike in those matters. New and unnecessary ollcshava been created. Needless and unreasonable appropriations have been made; tax levies raised: joint resolutions voting increased pay to employes, the number increased recklessly, and, in fart the most lavish expenditures ever known have been tnadn. Party platforms amount to nothing. Resolutions of reform and Intrenchment are disregarded: pledges made by candidate to the tax-payers violated, everything seeming to be controlled and influenced by the throng of lobbyists that were always on haud to forward messures that suited them, or defeat or render inoperative bills tnat were or seemed to be adverse to their interests. When, oh when, will theo things cease aud tbe voice of the people, raised so continuously and earnestly for relief, prevail?" Y) I rvlfim mt In ITnrl .IrrT. Washicfrton Post. The diplomatic spirit is a great essential to success in public life, and while the following reported conversation may be deficient as to authentication, it may poises some value as a pointer The irresponsible informant says that tho Secretary of Agriculture was out with a man who had considerable valuable influence. The visitor was a granger, and having a stiong affection for tbe traditions of tbe farm, happened to remark: "This asphalt makes a mighty fine paving material." Vea," replied Uncle Jerry, thoughtfully, "but it is eternal ruination to the soil." And this influential granger went back and told bis friends that the Secretary of Agriculture was tho right man in tho right place, aud no mistake. Fears of Pree-Trader. Nbrka State Jonre&L The anxiety of the Democrats to seethe new tariff law knocked out by the Supremo Court is suspicious. If it is a measure that is bcund to be obnoxious to the people, the Bourbons ought to wih that it may remain in force long enough to enable them to win another congr KMonal election and the presidency on the insue of its repeat But they want to be rid of it right away. There is danger that it will become popular when the people learn the full meaning of its many provisions. The Wy to Estimate It. FMlsflelfcMa Pre. Mme. Bernhardt is said to be forty-seven years of age. But "a woman is only as old as she looks." and the great actress is about twenty-eight