Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY; OCTOBER 14, 1891

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Foreigi ita?e la usually double these rates. , ; JI tommHnicationtinlrtuIed for publication in (h i pajxr ni ust, in order to rrreirt attntf ton, be tiecr7iuicd by Cke name and culdrti of the tenter. i ' i Till". INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can 1 e Itmwl at the following places: 1AR IS American Exchange in I'aria, 38 Boulevard ; e capneitrs. ; Is'EW YORK Gilaey House and Wlndor HoteL P II I LA DE LP II I A A. P. H'emble. 2735 Lancaster ; avenue. . -. CHICAGO I'almer I loose. C1NCINNATI-J. R Hawlej & Co., 154 Vine meet. ' LOUISVILLE C T. Iericg. northwest turner ( , Third and Jefferson streets. f tT. LOUIF Union News Company, Union Depot and bvuthero Hotel. WASHINGTON. D. C Rift Honae and Ebbitt ' House It was a good fight, anyhow, and the ' Journal did its part. . Jnz Board of Public Works Trill now bo more arrogant, if possible, than heretofore. : Ii is not a victory to be proud of, but success at any sacrifice of decency is a Democratic characteristic. The gamblers and saloon-keepers aro entitled to and should be awarded front seats in Democratic councils. The wide-open policy as to saloons and gambling seems to be preferred by a majority of Indianapolis voters. Terre Haute will now have to rnn a little wider open or she will find her undesirable laurels transferred to Indianapolis. ' It may, perhaps, be worth while to remark that the Journal will now resame consideration of the ordinary affairs of life. There will be no more elections in Indiana this year. At tho close of the Ohio campaign Major McKinley will have been on the stump for eleven consecutive weeks, speaking sometimes twice a day and doing a great amount of traveling. It takes a man of iron to stand such work as that. - After to-day there will not be quite so much politics in the Journal for somo time vto come. When the next fight ; opens, however, the Journal will be in ! it. It is somewhat like an old cavalry " horse that is always ready when the buglo sounds a charge. "Independence in politics," says George William Curtis in Harper's Weekly, "dues not mean voting. the Democratic ticket." Tho attention of the Indianapolis News is called to this state- - merit. Tho News and Mr. Curtis differ in opinion on this point, but tho editor of Harper is the old original independent, and a recognized authority on the subject. The course of Judge Ayers in concocting slanderous stories about Mr. Herod for the Sentinel to print is one of tho most disgraceful things connected with the campaign just closed, but his own reputation has been damaged by the proceeding far more than that of tho Republican candidate. It has finally dawned upon the organ and its zealous assistant that the latter is sufi'ering for a, coat of whitewash, but tho application is too late. The column of apology oll'ered yesterday was wasted. Justice travels slowly sometimes. The, attorney of Samuel Fielden and Michael Schwab, two of the Chicago anarchists, was in attendance at tho opening of tho Supreme Court of the United State", on Monday, for the purpose of ' rnaking a motion to advanco and set for a 'hearing tho rppeaK in their cases. Both of the men were sentenced to bo hanged and their sentences were commuted to imprisonment. Now their attorney expects to have them set at liberty. On behalf of Fielden it is claimed - that the sentence was invalid, as he was - not present in court when it was pronounced, and in the case of Schwab it is claimed that tho warden of the Joliet penitentiary has no commitment for the prisoner which gives him authority to hold him. Oun old friend Col. Tom L. Johnson, formerly street-railroad magnate of this ; city, and now a Democratic boas of Cleveland, 0., has been getting Hon. Jerry (Sockless) Simpson into trouble. Simpson addressed nn outdoor meeting in Cleveland, last Saturday night, tho burden of hi speech being the sufferings of the pocr people. After the meeting he 'accepted the invitation of Col. Johnson and some other Democrats to a champagne supper, where, over a table covered with fine linen and costly $iljverware, they discussed the wrongs of the people and filled up withdainty food and champagne. When the managers of the People's party heard how Simpson had fallen from grace they were exceedingly wroth aud refused to pay him for his bpetch. He retorted that he didn't need their money and they coulcikeepit. The indications arc that Simpson is fast assuming the wnyn of the unregenerate. In time of peace prepare for war, was the old saying. The peace people aro taking advantage of the period of tranquillity to prepare for a continuation of peace. A better time could not, bo choen for such a proceeding in this cottntrv. The Deonle aro nrnsnrmu. and an amicable feci in e prevails toward all the world. Everybody, uuder tho circumstances, ia entirely willing to abolish war and to look kind

ly upon the holding of peace congresses. The convention -now in session in the City of Brotherly Love will not find a voice raised in opposition to its plans, or anything to mar tho harmony that now broods over the American eagle's domains. Peace is beautiful; peace is the' ideal condition of things; peace is what we all want but just the same it will not do for tho British lion or any other foreign creature to take undue liberties. Wo prefer peace, but if the other course seems expedient we can fight.

THE REPUBLICAN DEFEAT. Yesterday's election resulted in tho re-election of Mayor Sullivan by a majority of about 2,300, and the Democratic candidates for city clerk, police judge and councilmen-at-largo are elected by smaller majorities. Tho re-election of Sullivan is a distinct triumph for the elements of bad government. At this writing it cannot be affirmed that Republicans failed to do their duty. They made a good fight and got their vote out in good shape. They were defeated simply because they could not withstand the assault of the combined forces hurled against them. Tho re-election of Mayor Sullivan is due to a combination of brute forces and pecuniary power which it was impossible to resist. All the elements of good government were united against him, but tho union of all the elements of bad government in his favor was still more powerful. He owes his re-election to a skillful combination of the influence of the saloons, tho brewcries, tho gamblers, the brothels and all the forces which make for bad government. To this influence was added that of a few respectable Democrats who never desert their party under any circumstances. It would be an insult to suggest that any Republicans voted for Sullivan. His record, his character and his associations forbid the suspicion that any intelligent or self-respecting Republican could have voted for him. He enters on his second term of office the accredited representative of the lawless and law-defying classos. Owing his first election to the fortunate discovery of an exploring committeo who were looking for a weak and negativo man without a record, ho owes his second to the fact that ho ha proved tho willing tool of the worst elements of his party. A man who takes office under such circumstances takes it at the sacrifice of most that honorable men consider valuable. The victory is not ono to bo proud of, and has been won on the lowest plane of Democratic politics. The police and firo departments have been prostituted in the most shameless manner and used for partisan purposes as they were never nsed. before. The interests of tax-payers havo been trampled in the dust and. the. public welfare has been shamelessly ignored. The victory is only temporary. One more term of Democratio government will develop tho vicious tendencies of the party to such an extent that two years hence the peoplo will hurl them out of power. Republicans have only to labor and to wait. THE DUTY OF VOTING. There is a class growing up in this country composed of persons who seldom or never vote. The number of such persons is already large, and steadily increasing. It is receiving large additions from young men. The motives which actuate them are various, and all of a kind that are discreditable and conducive to anything but good citizenship. Some take no interest in public affairs, others think it genteel to ignore politics, while others affect to be too busy to take any part in them or even to vote. Many do not know enough about political issues to have an intelligent opinion on the subject, and refrain from voting because they are too lazy to make up their minds. All these and other kindred motives aro driving recruits into the class of non-voters. These persons take great interest in business, in moneymaking, in buying and selling, in building and public improvements, iu everything except politics. They arc good citizens in all respects, except that they neglect tho highest duty of a citizen. It is needless to say that this is all wrong. Every man ought to vote. It is a menace to tho Republic to have a large class of non-voters growing up. A man who does not take interest enough in public aflairs to vote cannot be depended upon iu time of war or other emergency. Ho is not a good citizen. He renders no equivalent to tho government for what he receives from it. He does not appreciate his advantages as a citizen of a free republic. If any person should offer to bribo one of these non-voters with money he would resent it as an insult. He would say: "What do you take mo for, that you think I would sell my vote for money! Yet he habitually thiows away his right to vote by neglecting to exercise it. He throws away that for which others havo fought, bled and died that ho might possess tho privilege which he deems so worthless. To every one of this large and unworthy chtss of nou-votcrs tho Journal would sny: "Bo a man and vote; bo nn American citizen and exercise a freeman's right. It is no sign of gentility not to vote. It is not a mark of superior culture or superior business qualifications to neglect tho highest duty of a citizen. It is no indication of superior intelligence not to have political convictions. On the contrary, it is a sign of feeblu-mindedne&s and of incapacity to take an intelligent interest in public Hairs. Be a man among men and a citizt u among citizen. It matters not whether you vote tho Republican or the Democratic ticket, but vote some

thing. Do not voluntarily class yourself as a political eunuch. Do not advertise yourself as unfit and unworthy to live under a free government by contemptuously neglecting to exercise the highest right of a freeman. Be a man and vote."

PROTECTION AND WAGES. The Chicago Inter Ocean publishes a letter from C. F. Kimball, a prominent carriage manufacturer of that city, giving his experience in regard to the result of protection upon prices and wages and his views as to the relative condition of workingmen in this-country and in Europe. The writer says ho has been in Europe five different times and has made a close study of everything connected with his own business here and abroad. He avows himself in favor of protection, but that does not detract from the force of the facts stated by him. On tho question of wages in the' United States and Europe, Mr. Kimball says: In America a good mechanio in onr line earns on an average $i per day. In England the same man receives from to $1.75 per day. and this, too, , in a country where all manner of food is higher than it is in America, the only possible exception in the way of living expenses being that house-rents aro a trille less there than here, while as for clothing 1 believe that, with the low price of ready-made clothing iirf America, the laboring man can purchase better wearing nud better fitting clothes for the same amount than he can in all Europe. In France the same grade of mechanic receives about $1.40 per day, and hero especially, shonld he live equaliy well with the American mechanic, his expenses would be fully as much. In Belgium the eamo man would receive about $1 per day, but hero the cost of living is much lens than in either England or France. In (Jerinany about $1.-0 per day. In Russia about Sl.-V) per day. In Austria. bO cents. In Italy, 45 cents. All of the above 1'uures may be taken as nearly correct and from conversations that I have had with employers and with the men at their work. To this must be added, also, the fact that in nearly all of the continental countries the workmen begin their work at G o'clock in the morning, at 8 o'clock a. M. have thirty minutes fur black bread and coffee, at noon, ono hour for bread and beer nt 3:C0 o'clock r. m., lifteen minutes for beer and n bit of bread, and at 7 o'clock p. M. end their long day, to return to homes where the cooking stove is an unknown article, as on the continent meat is almost unknown to these people, aud they mostly buy their provisions ready cooked at shops and small cafes provided for that class of people. This writer says that the result of all his experience anl investigation at home and abroad is that the abandonment of a protective tariff would simply put American workingmen on a par with those of Europe and inflict irreparable injury on the entire social fabric in this country. This is the testimony of a business man who has studied the question in all its aspects from, a business stand-point. THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT LAW. Tho first city election under the Australian ballot law passed off smoothly. The law gives universal satisfaction to all who desire quiet, orderly and dignified elections. It is a vast improvement in many ways over the old system, and adds largely to the dignity of elections. No doubt it can be improved in somo of its details, but its main features are admirablo and its results excellent. Somo of the worst features of elections under the old system are entirely done away with. The disorderly crowds around the polls, the noisy peddling of tickets, the offensive electioneering and solicitation of votes near the ' polls, the pulling and hauling of doubtful voters, the prying into people's ballots and trying to see how they vote, aro all done away with. Perhaps the two best features of the new system are tho absolute secrecy of the ballot and tho provision prohibiting any person from remaining within fifty feet of tho polls. Every person feels now as ho approaches the polls that he is exercisinga valued right In a dignified way, and when he prepares and folds his ballot he feels that he has not been subject to any meddlesome or prying dictation. Tho secrecy of the ballot is a great safeguard to its purity and independence, and the fiftyfeet exclusion provision works admirably. By the way, there was a disposition to relax it, yesterday, in somo precincts by allowing two or threo persons at a time to stand within the prohibited limits. True, these persons were not electioneering nor doing anything out of the way, but it was a violation of the letter of the law for them to remain within tho prohibited distance. Tho way to enforce law is to enforco it. The feature of the law which calls for most criticism, and which ought, if possible, to be amended, is the expense. It is too expensive. There aro 150 precincts in the city and seven paid officers at each precinct, 6ome of whom aro employed for two days at an average of 62 per day. In addition to this there is the expense of advertising, printing ballots, rent of polling places, stamps, pads, etc. It improbable yesterday's election cost $10,000, and this must be repeated at every national, State and county election. Some way ought to bo found to reduce tho expense. The dismissal of Mr. John Hoey from tho presidency of tho Adams Express Company is tho culmination of another notable case of confidence betrayed and character ruined through inordinate love of gain. Hoey had been connected with tho Adams company for thirty years, having risen from the position of messenger boy to that of president. The act for which he was dismissed was swindling the company by unloading on it real estate which cost a syndicate of threo men $100,000, for the enormous sum of $bo0,000. Hoey was one of the syndicate, aud, though he did not contribute a dollar to the purchase of the property, ho got ono fourth of the net profit. His share was $180,000, and this was his price, as president, for betraying the company ho had served so long. Hakpeu's Wkekly, of last week, says: "It is nn extraordinary illustration of party sophistication that Democrats who are sincerely friendly to ballot reform and honest government Lhould suppose that they can secure them by supporting Tammany Hall, or that they should be willing to support Tammany Hall in New York this year as a method of promoting tariff reform in tho country next year." These remarks w ere written and printed beforo the excellent Mr. Cleveland, whom the Weekly has devoutly worshiped for so long, had uade his speech indorsing Tammany. Tho ingenuous

mugwump organ will suffer great distress during the New York Stato campaign in the effort to support Fassett and remain loyal to Cleveland at tho same time.

DuniNGjthe month of September, 1S00, the United States sold and shipped to other countries $7,nV0,343 worth of graiu and flour. During September, 1891, we shipped $31,462,021 worth. This enormous increase is, of course, largely duo to the great shortage of cereals in Europe and to the extraordinary demand on our surplus. The most remarkable increase was in rye, of which wo shipped oiily sixteen bushels in September, 1890, and over three million bushels in September, 1691. The movement of tho corn crop has not yet begun, but there are indications that our exports of that grain will reach surprising figures during the winter. . Major McKinley has received the following dUpatch from the sheriff of San Bernardino county, California, dated San Bernardino, Oct. 10: Associated Press reports Campbell as saving in hia speech at Ada, in reference to tho manufacture of tin in America, "that the few samples were merely manufactured for campaign purposes." To refute tins, please state that at the Temescal tin mines, in this county, two tons of pig-tin are being manufactured every day with the experimental five-stamp mill, and that ft forty-stamp mill will commence running Oct. 15, with a capucity of twtntv-tvro tons of pig-tin per day. and inexhaustible amounts of tin are in sight at these mines. GREATinterest .il naturally being taken in California in the opening of the Stanford University. An excellent sketch of the institution, its purpose, intended character and an illustrated description of the buildings appears in the October issue of , the Overland Monthly. The high character of the California State University has led to the expression of some doubt as to . whether a school even so well endowed as ' the Stanford would be suocessful in competition with it. Tho writer in the Overland, while regretting that Mr. Stanford had not united forces with the State institution, shows that there is room for Doth, and that there is no reason, under proper management, why one should be an injury "to the other. The faculty of the new university seems to meet with favor from the Californians. Of Presidont Jordan the article says: The iaiprepsion that he has made here corresponds well with the opinion expressed by tliose who havo long -know a hliu and his work. Ho seems to bo a mau of force and of seme, with little of the tine 'ewr.uclan l goholarliness that, added to force and sense, wakes the ideal univcrcity man, but probably with all the essentials that underlie tbat consummate result, with au ea.y and unhasting euergy, good-nature, directness aud coinage. lie eecrus a man likely to .have shrewdness la the selection of men, and a sort ot broad, . oil-hand, open tact In gettiug aloni; with them not a man that is likely to quarrel, or to have suspicious and rivalries point; on about him. His addresses on educational topics tbat I have read are sensible and high-minded. From a literary point of view they are good perfectly clear, forcible and with a touch of honest eloquence. They are without the beautiful sequence and ordered unfoldiug of the best addresses, and have an olfhand, disconnected structure rrom paragraph to paragraph, which lessens their value fcr reading aud keeping; but they .would all go unusually straight to the mark iu delivery to an audience. Indiauians will cherish a special interest in the welfare of this institution because Dr. Jordan is at its head, but as an educational venture uuiquo in inception and peculiar in being the absolute personal possession ot its founder, its courts will be watched carefully. ..', BEDBLES'IVTIIE AIR. 1 A Difi'orence, Ah, there's nothing like the dog's mut?, selfabnegating. worship of maa." - . 4 IIow about woman's worehip of the dogl ' But that Js hot mute. ShouM She? If woman is tho clinging vine. She should not be complaining - If her lord.auJ master 6hould incline To use a stick for Ler training. Ups and Downs. For all of our crosses are provided the crowns, And wo find there's a right for each wrong; The ups are as numerous as the downsCut alas! Tbey don't last as long! ABOUT "PEOPLE AND THINGS. - Sixty-thkee students are now said to be working their way through Yale College and paying all their expenses. A hounfi's nest is buzzing about Mr. Walter Besant's ears since he declined to accept women as members of the new Authors' Club. Paknell was exceedingly superstitious. It is said that he would not remain in a room whero three candles were burning, and regarded green, the national color of Ireland, as being very, unlucky. Purple was his favorite color. Oli Lady Aylesbury is ono of the most extraordinary figures in, London society. She is nearly eighty, and wears a wig of corkscrew curls. She is noted as tho possessor of a sharp tongue, and her language is at all times picturesque and vigorous. Sexatoh Plumb, of Kansas, is hail fellow well met with everybody in the State, and makes a speech on every occasion, .".whether it be a wedding, baptism, corn- ' husking or barbecue. He accepts all social invitations without regard to the politics of his hosts. George Fuaxcis Tiuin is credited with having predicted Pa rn ell's death a week ago. On Thursday evening of last week he attended a dinner, aud, in the midst of one . of his wild harangues, said: "Boulantjer is ' dead, lialmaceda is dead and Parnell will be a corpse within a week." Miss Daisy, the young woman reported as having received fatal injuries by falling from her horse while furiously riding into Oklahoma to enter u land claim, is notdead. She was only slightly iojnreJ, and on restoration to consciousness exclaimed: I claim the grouud where I fell." rthe won't go to the poor-house. When' Mrs. Jefferson Davis began to assist her husband, soon after they were married, by acting as his amenuensis, her handwriting was too girlish to please him, and she determined to imitate his handwriting. With tracing paper she copied and recopied his manuscript until by practice she could produce his writing in facsimile. Geneual Brugere, controller of President Carnot's household, holds his present place through a curious piece of bad and yet good fortune. Ho was a member of Marshal MacMahon's and President Grevy's households, but would have been reuoved by President Carnot had not the latter accidentally witu ided him while out shooting. Geokge W. i.uam Clutis has again enrolled his n&rr.e in the Republican column. He savs: "I shall voto tho Republican ticket this fall. In politics I regard myself as an independent, but when it comes to a choice as between Tummany Hall and its powerful organization on the one band, and the KopuMicans ou tho other, 1 can have no hesitation.' Mies. Gkant was visibly moved by the atiectionato tributes of the old soldiers who met her at the reception given in her honor by Mrs. Potter Palmer, in Chicago. For two hours "the kindly-faced old lady with the white hair stood in the shadows ot the library of the castle of tho Palmers, smiled on the veterans and shook thir hard hands and chatted with them." Not a reference was tuado to any of the memories that might bring tears. Governor Onlesbj was there, clutching tho tails of his long

- Prince Albert coat in his fists, and half a t dozen generals of the line were present, but I I X t f I l.t

who, with his staff of oilicers in smart dres uniforms, made an appreciable impression on the company. - The ex-Empress Frederick ot Germany will epend a part of the present mouth in Tyrol. To the surprise of many people, she has decided to live the greater part of the coming winter in Berlin. The ex-Empress has numerous enemies in the German capital, where many people still believe that she wished to assume the regency during the sickness of her husband. Again there is a list of odd patents applied 'for by women. A certain Marie Woolley has patented an improvement in screws. Another woman has conceived an improvement upon sensitized surface paper, woven or tissued fabrics, or other material for the production of copies of drawings, designs, pictures, photographs, writings and the like by the action of licht. Still another has improved a medical electrode, and a Miss Young has patented a new kind of walking-stick. William Barry is, perhaps, the only youth of eighteen years in command of a government vessel. He commands the United States governmeut launch Ellis Island, which runs between New York and Ellis island, in the bay. He is an expert at the wheel, and can guide his craft throngh an intricate maze of harbor vessels with tho dexterity of a veteran. Ho was appointed nearlj' two years ago and has never had an accident During that timo ho has saved four persons from drowning. LICENTIOUSNESS AND GAMBLING. C&use and Core of Two Great Evils as Yiewed by a Committee of the Prison Congress. Pittsburg. Oct 13. When the National Prison Congress opened this morning, chairman Charles E. Felton, of Chicago, presented the report of the standing committee ou police. The report, which was quite lengthy, is, in substance, as follows: The leading superintendent of police are almost a unit in placing the chief detriments to police management to politics, licentiousness und gambling. - Incidentally, if not primarily, the two hading vices which disturb public thought and are embarrassing in police management lu several of oar cities are licentiousness and gambling. These forces, especially the latter, are made a part of the unwritten platform of parties and are utilized by candidates for ofliee and othclals, more especially for pecuniary ends. Nearly every change of munfripal administration causes a change of policy in regard to these offenses. Asa result, our larger cities are rapidly falling into line with those in Lurope iu the magnitude of the social evil, and public gambling has not decreased. The number of fallen women has alarmingly increased In tho past few years, the causes not being altogether of a political nature, but the result of administration, of demoralizing social and industrial conditions, and of sentiment ot opinion In the public mind as followed by the authorities in treating tho dilhculty. The committee believes that the social evil can be suppressed iu some communities, but not ia runuuiK districts and iu cities where the population is heterogeneous aud cosmopolitan. Public gambling is open to similar criticism and cuts a more prominent Ugure in politics than tho nodal evil, and ought to be suppressed, but for tho collusion between gamblers and otfieeholders. Crime Is most prevalent where these 'Vices are most encouraged and it is increasing in this country beyond the public belief and statistics are not sufficient to determine its extent. In this country other causes favoring the increase of crime are the ease with which habitual criminals avoid arrest, the lightness or sentences, laxity of discipline in prisons, the present sensoless views of the publio and the acts of legislators as to systems of prison labors nud its ease to the prisoner, the comfortable quarters and quality of food, their easy access ol visitation, and the readiness with which a sympathetic public accepts as true the complaints of prisoners. At the conclusion of the report it was announced that the following oilicers had been elected by the Wardens Association: President, Joseph Nicholson; with vicepresidents, J. H. Patterson, New Jersey; James Massie, Ontario; H. S. Dawson, Alabama; E. S. Wright, of Kiverside penitentiary; secretary, K. W. McClaughrey, Chicago; treasurer, John C. Whlton, Massachusetts. It was also announced that the hoard of directors had selected Baltimore as the place of next meeting, in lbVJ, and Chicago in 1803. Capt. J. W. Pope, of the United States army, then read an interesting paper on "Crime and Criminals in the American Army,1 detailing the various classes of crime a lid their punishment. This afternoon the delegates visited the work-house at Claremont. where a dinner was serveo. In the evening another session was held, at which Mrs. Ellen C.Johnson, superintendent of the Keformatory Prison for Women, Sherborne, Mass.. read a paper on "Discipline in Female Prisons.' Mrs. Johnson said: "We aim to give each woman the mental and moral treatment best suited to repress evil tendencies, to arouse aspirations after a better life, to move her to practical repentance, and convince her that justice, and not revenge, calls her to account for violated law. We bear in mind tbese things: First, that in the majority of cases circumstances make tho criminal; second, that tho purpose of punishment should be to operate upon the mental and moral nature of the criminal; third, that, except in aggravated cases, such as we rarely encounter, the punishment which follows immediately upon the offense is seldom a wise one. If punishment is administered while a woman is still excited and defiant, while we ourselves are doubtless irritated and disturbed, possibly only partially acquainted with the case, we find ourselves in every instance the loser' Mrs. Johnson then outlined in detail some of her methods, such as the use of llowers, the compauionship of domestic animals, the sight of children in the nursery, good music in the chapel, etc., with the purpose of touching the hearts of the offenders aud quickening the spark of divine nature in her. This done, tho hardest part of the problem is solved. In conclusion she said if time were allowed anil suitable persons could be found for positions of responsibility, no woman would pass out of the doors without having at least the purpose to lead an upright life. PROPOSED NEW. FEDERATION. All Railroad Organizations, Except Locomotive Engineers, May Join Issues. Galksmtrg, 111.. Oct. IS. Grand Chief Clark, of the newly consolidated order of Railway Conductors, is here in consultation with the trainmen now in session in this city. The matter under consideration is the proposed federation ot the various associations of railway employes, and it is understood that this is in a fair way to bo accomplished. Mr. Clark was closeted for several hours to-day with Grand Master Wilkinson, Grand Secretary Shehan and Vice-grand Master Morrissey. Last week Mr. Clark effected a consolidation of the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors, the name and oilicers of the former to bo retained. Tho ostensible object of his call on the trainmen's brotherhood officials here was to present a plan providing for closer relations, but tho movement means much more than this. The Brotherhood of Railway Conductors was a member of the Supreme Council: the Order of Railway Conductors was not. The absorption of the former by the latter deprives the council of a member, so that now the council comprises only the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireuien and the Switchmen's Union. It is deemed significant that Mr. Clark came here from Terra Haute, where he had a conference with Grand Master Sartrcnt, of the firemen's brotherhood. It is known that Mr. Sargent is friendly to the trainmen, and it is believed that Mr. Clark and ho have an understanding in regard to a new federation, 'lhe plan recommended by Mr. Clark will be presented to tho trainmen's convention aud it is confidently asserted will be indorsed. With the same confidence trainmen assert that in a short time the Supreme Council will be a thing of the past, and that its place will bo taken by a new federation of the conservative railioad organizations. The slate as thus far made up comprises the lirotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, the Order ot Railway Conductors, tho 1'rotherhood of Railway Trainmen, tbe Order of Railway Telegraphers and tLe lirotherhood of station Men. i his federation would represent TO.Oiju members. Chief Arthur, ot the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, has not. so far as learned, been asked to join in this movement

THE FREE-TRADE'- HUM DUG

Cost of Living in Europe No Cheaper than Here and VYajies Much Lower. Americans Tell Their Experience on the Other Side Opinionsof Minister WhitelawReid, Consul-General New and Others. E. J. Gibson, a staff correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, who investigated industrial conditions in Europe, contributes the following letter to that paper: A Democratic newspaper in New York stated not long ago that there was no certainty that American workmen were paid any higher wages, considering the cost of living, than KuglUh workmen received for similar w ork. This was copied by tho London Chronicle, and also quite extensively by the press of the United Kingdom, as showing that the benefits which American workmen are supposed to derive under a protective tanlVare mythical. The statistics of emigration ought to be a sufficient answer to that assertion. Nearly 500,000 emigrants have gone directly to "the States' in threo years irom the United Kingdom. Many thousands more went to Canada, and according to tbe recent census in tbat country they must also have found their way across the border. The number departing this year is greater than last year. It is not probable tbat any intelligent person believes that this rush of British workmen to the United States would continue if they did not fare much better under protection in America than under free-trade at home. But aside from this question of emigration, I have taken considerable pains to ascertain tho facts about wages at the present time, and tho cost of living in the United Kingdom, as compared with the United States, with a view of throwing additional light on the subject. "With the exception of fine woolen goods, aud a few things of that kind which no workmen here buy anyway,' said Consulgeneral New to me, "1 can purchase all I need cheaper at home than hero in London. Takmgitaltogether, hvingis cheaper in the United States." "1 can live 50 per cent, cheaper in Baltimore than I can in Paris." said Consulgeneral King. "I pay $3,000 for the rent of apartments here which are not over half us convenient as my house in Baltimore, which I let for Sl,5o0. Nearly everything required for the table is much higher here than at home. Silks, and a few things that are pure luxuries, can be bought lor less, but not the cottons, aud the coarser grado of woolen goods, such as are worn by French workmen." WHITELAW REID'S EXPERIENCE. "This talk about cheap living in Europe' said Minister Whitelaw Reid, "is absurd. From my own experience, and from the facts which have come to my attention, I think it very easy to demonstrate that living is much cheaper in tho United States than in Europe, tbat is, if the same things are purchased. If our workmen at home lived in the same manner as the workmen on this side they would accumulate property raDidly. But our people throw away what a European family would regard as a fair living." "1 thought that question as to the relative cost of living in Europe and in America had been settled long ago," said Consul Fletcher, of Genoa. "In my eight years residence in Italy 1 have given considerable attention to the subject. If I were to live here, as people who are cot rich generally live, it would cost me less than I would expend at home, but living here with the same comforts as at home costs me a good deal more. Some luxuries are cheaper here, but the necessaries of life are dearer." Thirteen other consuls and roinistcis told me tho same story ou the continent, of which I had ample proof in mv own experience. I secured a large number of hills for the purchase of article of necessity to establish the fact at some future time. Now to return to Great. Britain, the. free-trada paradise, so much admired-by. the Democrats. "Some things are cheaper here," said Consul Sherman, of Liverpool, "particularly help. Rents are higher than in Washington. Table necessaries, although this is a particularly favorable place to buv. are cousiderably higher as a rule. Fine clothing is cheaper, but not much. I prefer to have my clothes made at home, as I get better suited. Altogether, lrom my experience. I can live in the same manner for less money in Washington than in Liverpool." This was tho testimony of numerous .other consuls in England, Scotland and Ireland. Here are the quotations for provisions taken from a Perth newspaper of Sept. 5: CVn'. Cents. Roast beef, per r&.-'JS'Buttcr, fresh, per IB. 31 lleef, boilinp.pertb.lt; nutter, salt. per lb.. 23 Jieef-steak, per lb ..2l Kgc, per doz 31 Mutton, per D 112! Pork. Per 100 tbs...$10.50 Veal aud lamb J.Y Cheese, per stone 1.12 rorkbausages,ierm 1'5 Potatoes, per stone 12 13 Ur. loaf of bread Oat-meal, per pk..., 25 Ileus, per pair 1.12 A stone is fourteen pounds, but it varies here with tbe article purchased. 1 believe sixteen pounds of cheese are called a stone, which would make that article cheaper than is usually charged, in America, but it was not first-class cream cheese. Everything else was higher. The same quality of butter could be bought in Philadelphia for t.overal cents a pound less. I found by other newspapers that about the same prices were charged in Stirling. Aberdeen aud other neighboring towns. As the grain and Hour comes largely from America it goes without saving that it is generally moro expensive. Flour on Sept. 22. of "Winter Patent" brand, sold at wholesale in London at the rate of per barrel, American moasure. That does not differ materially from seaboard rates in the United States, but it is iu advanco of interior rates. Sugar, refined, sold at wholesale on the same day for 5 cents a pound. That is for best sugar, the saccharine strength of which is much less than that of cane sugar of a liite grade, which sold in New York on the same day for 4 cents. Tea and collee sell at about tbe same rates in both countries, as there is no duty on those articles in the United States. Petroleum retails for about IS cents a gallon, which puts it beyond the reach ot workingmen, who invariably have to get along with the old-fashioned candles. In lact, after careful inquiry in numerous towns aud cities, I could lind no article necessary to u workingman which does not cost as much, if not more, than it could be purchased for anywhere in the Eastern States. As Consul Jarrett remarked to me in Birmingham, there never was a greater humbug than this free-trade talk about the cost of living to a workman being less in England thau in America. American boots and shoes, American cotton-cloths, and American produce generally are for sale in Liverpool. Hence, so far as the cost of living is concerned, the difference is in favor of the American workman. LOW EUhOl'EAX WAGES. While the necessaries of life are dearer, there can be no dispute that wages are very much lower thau in the United States. A parliamentary commission, made up, as the workiugmen charge, in favor of the capitalists, has been taking testimony on that subject, and will soon resume its hearings. Jurnes Thompson, general man.icer of the Caledonia railroad, testified tbat signalmen, who worked twelve hours a day. wera paid 20si:5 a week, passenger guards 2"Js (5.50). ahuuter.H and yardmen "0s to C5s, aud engineers tho same for seventy - two hours' work. That is, engineers get from $5 to a week for seventy-two bourn" work. In Pennsylvania there ari engineers getting almost, if not quite as much, for a day's work. The railway officials were required to make a sworn return to Parliament as t the number of hours their employes worked at thene munificent wages. This return showed that on the Caledonian road, between the 1st aud .t)th of December last, the time for which the return was required, thero were 7,:i cases of braketneu, drivers, liremen. and others working thirteen hours a day. T,he number of those wl. worked fourteen hours amounted to 5.c57; 1,7P' wero employed iiitcen hours; 5'.. sixteen hours; 'J1S, seventeen hours, aud 1J0 had the long stretch of eighteen hours a day. Beloro the parliamentary committee witnesses gavo in

stances of where men worked thirty-sis, forty, and even fifty-one hours without relief during the present year on other railroads. Mr. Findlay. tbe general manager of th London ,.V. Northwestern railway, testified that twelve hours was a fair day's work, but testimony was produced to show that there wer forty thousand instanc-s of more than twelves hours' continuous work a day on that road in lv'j, and thirty tboufcand in March, lfjo, ami fortysix thousand in December last. This will give some idea of the "paradise" the English railway-worker enjoys. It was shown before the commission that the porters at many of the stations got no pay excepting the fees they could extract from passeugers. The railway companies testified tht they had no trouble to get all the men they wanted even at those wages and with such intolerable hours. What striking evidence of tho condition of the workingman in free-trade England! The Northern Counties Amalgamation of Weavers' Associations is one of the strong organizations of the country. Mr. T. Birtwhistie. the secretary, testified that there were r.i,7r4 employes in tbe association. The highest average wage of a weaver, he said, was 0a i7.50) a week, tho lowest lCs (53). while children got 2s Gd (C2c) a week. The average wanes of adult weavers. he said, was ins ($5) a week. For similar work in Massachusetts the average rate of wages is twice as much. Mr. Birtwhistle testified that "it wan common to tiud father, mother and several children at work in the same mill." It was necessary, he said. In order to support the family. There had been twenty-three strikes in seven years to maintain that magnificent average of 5 a weeir for adult weavers! Joshua Rawlinson. of the Lancashire Cotton Spinners' Association, testified: "f he cotton operators are a very hard working population. Their children go to work when they aro very young, aud the income of the workingmen and their families is particularly large." Asked how much, he replied that "he had known cases iu which a family had earned as much as i.6 a week." The sum of SCO for the labor of father, mother and five children he regarded as "particularly large." What would this outimistio official have thought could he have seeu the pay-roil of a glass manufactory in Voungstown, O., which shows that one workman earned $240.'J2 in the month of March last, and three other glass-blowers earned $45.10 each in one week. Mr. Falvey, of the South-side Protective League, testified that the average wage paid in the corn trade in Rotherhithe and district was 10s (2.50) a week, but he added, "there are a large number of men who do not earn half that sum." The average hours of labor, he said, were ten per day, excluding the time for meals. William Mullin, secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Card and Blowingroom Operatives, which has J5,000 members, testified that the wages ranged from 14s (3.50), to U)s ($7.50), a week. The union had been endeavoring, but without success, to get the minimum standard of wages raised to )s a week. David Holmes, of the Burnley Weavers Association, testified that the employers indicted fines, deductions, etc.. which reduced the earnings considerably. He said: "I havo seen a child of fourteen years old taking charge of two and even three rooms." The children, half-timers, he said, were paid Ss (75 cents) a week. W. 11. Wilkiuson, of the Amalgamated Association of Weavers, testified that the average wages of tho weavers in the Ashton district'io Lancashire was from 12s (S'J) to 14s $C50i a week. He added that the temperature in the mills where they worked averaged fXP. Statistics show tbat in Philadelphia weavers get three times as much pay for the same work. I havo quoted this sworn testimony because it cannot be disputed. But it is not difficult to show irom the strike statistics that "Tom" Mann was right when he said the witnesses beforo the commission were selected so as not to put the worse side out. -Living isdearerfor tho free-trade workman in England, and wages are less than half as much as in the United States. Is it any wonder that a recent return shows nearly 750,000 paupers in England and Wales alone, as contrasted with 73.045 in the whole of the United States? There is one pauper receiving relief in England to every forty inhabitants, while in the United States tbe proportion is one to K57 inhabitants. This illustrates the diHerenco between free trade and protection. AN A II $ EX TMI XD K D YANKEE.

Gone Daft on Perpetual Motion, TJ Heads His Son Up iu a IJarreL , PliiladeUMa Telegraph. George Bump, an eccentric Yankee, who lives on a small farm in the backwoods not far from North Lyme, Conn., has for ten years been striving to solvetheproblem of perpetual motion. The occupation seems to nave a He c ted his brain, and for years he has been commonly spoken of as "Mindless Bump," owing to his absentminded actions. Numerous stories are told of his f Ailing in this particular. But the climax seems to havo been reached list Friday afternoon. Bump was out in the yard trying to put a head in a barrel to be used for cider. He could not make the head stay up until he tightened the hoops, so puttiug his deaf and dumb boy iuside tbe barrel to hold up the head ho went on with his work. The scheme worked first rate, and he soon had the barrel headed up. Leaving the yard he went out into the field to dig potatoes, forgetting all about the boy iu tbe barrel until his attention was called to him by his wife, who came down to tho held and inquired if he had seen Thomas. Bump dropped his hoe and ran for tbe barrel. The boy was breathing through the bunghole. Bump knocked in the head of the barrel and lifted out his son. The child was so frightened that he went into spasms, and his life is almost despaired ot. Tbe next day Bump's wife came into town and asked for his arrest on the charge ofattempiug to kill his son while insane. Tho examination failed to prove his insanity, however, aud Bump was accordingly released. The Crank and the Tlcnk. lilg were his hopes and his head. And his waist xvas mur foot roana; The mugwump- fed en the words he said, Witn a voice of raucous ouuI, (For a raven's croak ho had when te spoke), Ami he rau like a Waterbury, wound; A pondeious rrojbet Stuffed, lie constantly kicked and cuired At the poor old Tarilf this poor old Trorhct! and bfowed and cussed and purled, "The patt7 needs Me, but Me, II.- routed till tho rorld was bored; W ithout i. C. 'twiii go to the D., Perpetually he roared: I will concrato myself to the State, Till the Tariff's finally floored; Hurrah for mo and defeat, I weigh too much to retreat. Give me Eighty-eight over, and another chance for Grover, encore, if you please, repeat:" The Prorhet prew and grew Continually more couvor. And was Mill In a ntew and a howdjaew About tho ad eilects Of a Tariff that (fo he talked through his tat) Was making financial wrecks; But the inior old Prophet fctuffed was grevtously rebuffed. For he made his party nick and tired, till It cried out, "Hold, enough:" Twas a little Joke of Fats That his one The Iscu$ waned. While the issuer's weight struck a 300 gait; One lost as the other gained, But he ceased lif t to warn and blow his torn, Thouch the note got thin and strair.el. And at last, ou a tariff plank, a big but abandoned era iik. lie tossed lorafceason lathe Sea of Soup, and lloundcrcd and plunged and sank. New York Sua. Able, Clean aud Complete. American Tfibure. The proprietors of the Indianapolis Journal have recognized the fact that the day of high-priced newspapers is past and have reduced the price ot the Journal to 15 cents per week, or J0 cents Including Suuday. The Journal is ono of the ablest, cleanest and best newspapers printed in the United States, and is receiving large additions to its subscription list from oil parts of the State, as well as eastern Illinois and western Ohio. The Journal has always been the firm and unselfish friend of the Union soldiers, as well as their widows and orphans and deserves their gratitude as well as their patronage. Elections aud llaslurss. Chicago Journal. Politics helps business. Instates where elections are pending th'syear vast quantities of artificial liowers are used as em bit ms. The factories piodticiug the emblem are running to their full extent, and it is reported tbat the demand for sunflowers is uch that the consumption of tumbrar. a yellow dye, has udvanted the price to a fabulous amount, all the stocks being depleted. The democrats -ought to import their Uowcr emblems from abroad.