Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1892 — Page 4

r THE INDIANAPOLIS. JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1892.

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C-XUgg House and ELbitt Houae. . .The association which is announced from Washington to have for lis purpose the reduction of the pension roll to 635,000,000 a year is composed of an exlieutenant and a magazine article. wm mm There seenis to bo no need for rules for the present Houeo, unless one can bo adopted which can give the majority capacity for public business a fundamental lack beyond the reach of rules. On the day that the llohuan economy resolutions passed tho House a resolution dispensing with twenty odd clerks of committees that are of no use to the House was rejected by tho same members who Toted for tho Hoi man buncombe. About twenty bills have been introduced in the House and Senate by Democrats to re-establish the old State bank circulation. This is due partly to hostility to national banks and partly to the traditional Democratic desire to place tho State above tho Nation. The conduct of Chili continues arrogant and exasperating. Such conduct could not bo tolerated from a strong government, and it begins to be a serious question whether it should be from a weak one. Wo have pretty nearly reached the point where forbearance ceases to be a virtue. Even the imaginative correspondent who has been dating dispatches from Indianapolis setting forth the unpopularity of General Harrison in his own State has ceased to earn his occasional 1 11 1 A.! ll. - A- If. .! aoiiar vj repealing mat qua my o. laisehood. Since the primaries in this city, over a week ago, such lying became idiocy. The Hill gang in the New York Senate havo it in mind to count out Senator Van Gordcr, who was elected by 1,200 majority, because the threo "nV in his name are from different "fonts" of type, which is held to bo against the ballot law. As these ballots were printed in a Democratic newspaper office, by the State, tho infamy of such a pretext is only equaled by its audacity. The Sentinel prints two or threo columns of rot in tho form of alleged revelations concerning the so-called "Republican bocdlo campaign of 1SSS." The alleged revelations purport to come from "two prominent Republicans." They are preposterous on their face, but if they had any semblance of truth it would be destroyed by the fact that the Sentinel "editorially vouches for the absolute authenticity of the reports." That do settle it. Tnc Atlauta Constitution fires a double-leaded editorial at the Charleston News and Courier, ultra free trade, imploring it to retract its appeal for a protective duty on sea-island cotton to save the growers of lino cottons from tho ruinous competition of India and eomo other cottons. The Constitution tells the Charleston paper that it is simply scandalous for it, in the midst of its noisy enthusiasm over free trade, to turn ud a practical protectionist. It was always thus; tho American freetrader wants his own protected. Some one who can read tho Greek historian Thucydides in tho original has discovered that in tho days of that eminent authority, r00 years B. C, tho grip raced more violently and with raore fatal effects than in modern times. The ancient writer describes it minutely, particularly tho marked feature of depression which follows an attack a condition of nominal health, but of actual misery, justifying tho remark of the man, who, being convalescent, was asked how he felt, and replied that ho had given up all hopes of death several days ago. The Christian, a religious paper, published in London, contains an article advocating a system of pensions for aged workingmen, in which it says: "One out of every two laboring men who live to bo sixty years of ago comes on tho poor law." In other words, ono-half of the English workingmen of the age of sixty years and upwards aro recipients of public charity. This is the testimony of a well-informed and trustworthy English paper as to tho coudition of English workingmen. Whether that condition is due to f reo trade or not, it is, at least, a matter for congratulation that no such condition exists among the protected workingmen of this country. Manx years ago, when the Hon. James D. Williams, of this State, sometimes called "Blue Jeans," was in Congress, ha was actuated by the same ambition to make a record for economy that inspires tho Democratic members of the present Congress. In casting about for tk ho found that tho towels in tho

Houso lavatories were changed every day. Such a thing as a clean towel every day was nnhcard-of among tho Democracy of Knox county, and it struck Mr. Williams as a great extravagance. He embraced an early opportunity to express his views on tho subject and made a determined effort to have the wash bills cut down, but a majority of the members had become used to clean towels and refused to go with him. Tho Democrats in the present Houso are so exceedingly anxious to mako a record of economy that it might be well for some of tho leaders to sound them on the towel question. Many of the now members have never been accustomed to clean towels, and if the question is sprung before they get used to the luxury they would probably be disposed to cut them off. Now is the time to strike.

P0PULAB ELECTION OP UNITED STATES SEHAT0E3. Several bills have been introduced in Congress to change the mode of electing United States Senators, and it looks as if the subject would receive considerable attention during tho present session. The movement is tho result of a demand voiced by the Farmers' Alli- ! anco and other kindred organizations, and is due more to popular clamor than sober conviction. It is claimed that tho present method of electing Senators makes it too easy for rich men to buy their way in, and is really an invitation to corruption, while, on the other hand, it is assumed that election by the people would do away with all opportunity for anything of the kind. There is something to bo said on both sides of tho question. It is true, there is reason to believe that in some instances money has been used in senatorial elections, and that some Senators have obtained their seats by fraud, but the number of such cases is so few as to make them exceptional and conspicuous. Such scandals havo occurred only in a very few States, and there is not much danger of their becoming frequent. They could be easily stopped if the Senate itself would exercise its constitutional right to unseat Senators who could be shown to have been elected by fraud. Such action by tho Senate would have an excellent effect in every way, and would go a great way to restore popular confidence in tho body, which; it must bo admitted, has been somewhat shaken. It is by no means certain that the election of Senators by popular voto would result either in elevating the intellectual standard of the body or in doing away with fraud. In spite of election laws there aro many ways in which money can bo corruptly used to procure offico through popular elections. It is quite as easy to influenco primaries or buy up a nominating convention as it is to control a Legislature. The average delegate to a nominating convention is not a higher type of man than tho average member of a Legislature, and a rich man who wanted to buy his way into office would probably ilnd it as easy to approach one as the other. In a great majority of instances Stato legislatures do elect the leading men of their respective States and parties to tho Senate. It is doubtful if nominating conventions would do better. The cxperionco of nominating conventions and popular elections in forming tho lower houso of Congress is not particularly encouraging. A considerable number of unfit and unworthy men find their way into that branch, and, if tho truth wero known, we suspect more Representatives than Senators owe their election to fraud. Popular elections do not always insure tho best public service. There is a good deal of dignity attaching to the present mode of electing Senators, and we doubt whether tho sober senso of the people demands a change. 1 VALUE OF HOME MARKETS. . Replying to a statement of the Journal regarding the value of homo markets as created by the development of manufacturing industries, the Sentinel says: The Journal knows tbat tho Marion county farmer does not get a cent a bushel more for his wheat because of his proximity to factories. The price is regulated by the price obtained for the surplus in Euro pean markets. It goes up and down just ns the foreign demand goes up and down. The Journal of course understands this, and it ought to understand that the farmers of Indiana also understand it. The homo-market dodge is played out in this part of tho world. It is in keeping with the general, course of free-traders to exaggerate tho importance of foreign markets and decry the home market. That is their business, but we believe they underrate tho intelligence of tho American people when they expect them to believe the assertion that "tho home-market dodge is played out in this part of tho world." It does not require much argument to prove, nor much intelligence to perceive, that a demand and market for farm products near tho place of production is better than a market thousands of miles away. Wo would bo quite willing to leave it to a jury of Indiana farmers to decide which is better for them, to send their wheat a thousand miles to the seacoast, threo thousand miles across tho water, pay the freight and sell it to the foreign mechanic, or sell it right hero at homo to American consumers. Thero aro a good many old farmers in this Stato who can remember when they had to haul grain and drive hogs to Cincinnati as their nearest market. That was a great tax, but much better than if the nearest market had been at tho seaboard, or threo thousand miles beyond. Now, thanks to the development of home industries and the growth of the country under protection, wo havo a good market in almost every couuty in the State. About nine-tenths of the farm products of tho United States aro consumed at home, and about one-tenth is sens abroad. Consumption is overtaking production at such a rate that it will bo but a few years before all our products will be needed for homo consumption. Yet free-traders have tho audacity to assert that tho "home-market dodge is played out." Show us a section of country any wherein tho United States where, by reason of the discovery of iron, coal, natural gas, or from any other cause, furnaces and factories have grown up, and we will show you a locality where f armors have a better market than ever

before for all they produce, where tho merchant, the butcher and the baker havo increased trade, where carpenters are in demand to build houses, where mechanics of ail kinds find better employment, and where every branch of trade feels the energizing influence of the new industries. What the farmer wants moro than anything else after he has harvested his crop is a market, and tho nearer the better. He wants consumers, and the nearer the better.The idea that a home market is of no account is a free-trade doctrino of modern growth. Adam Smith, one of tho fathers of the English free-trade school, says, in his "Wealth of Nations:" "Whatever tends to diminish in any country tho number of artificers and manufacturers tends to diminish tho home market, the most important of all markets for tho produce of the soil, and thereby still further to discourage agriculture." Andrew Jackson, when ho was a candidate for President, wrote a letter in which, referring to the depressed condition of the country, he said: I will ask what is the real situation of the agriculturist! Where has the American farmer a market for his surplus product? Except for cotton he has neither a foreign nor home market. Does not this clearly prove, where there is no market at home or abroad, tbat there is too much labor employed in agriculture, and that the channels of labor should be multiplied! Common sense points out theremed.v. Draw from agriculture the superabundant labor. Employ it in mechanism and manufactures, thereby creating a home market for your breadstalls and distributing labor to the most profitable account, ami benefits will en a no to the country. Take from agrieulture in the United States 600,000 men, women and children and you will at once give a home market for more breadstuff's than all Europe now furnishes ns a market for. This is awkwardly expressed, but tho writer had the correct idea. He saw the necessity of creating a home market for American farm products, and that the way to do it was to build up American manufactures. Everybody admits the enormous work done by railroads in developing and building up this country, yet what have they done beyond bringing producers and consumers closer together and creating home markets) A great deal is heard nowadays about the importance of better country roads, and a very important subject it is. Yet what is the object of good roads but to reduce the cost and labor of transportation and enbanco the benefits of a homo market? Yet tho organ of Democracy and freo trade in Indiana says, "Tho home-market dodge is played out in this part of the world."

NO SHOW FOR SCIENCE. Scienco is not to be allowed any show in Kansas if the Agricultural Association of that State can prevent. The new executive board met on Saturday, and among other business it had to attend to was tho examination and grading for publication of tho papers read at the recent annual meeting of .tho association. Among these was one by tho government meat inspector at the Kansas City stock-yards, in which ho expressed his scientific views on tuberculosis. Ho held that it was a contagious disease, prevalent nmong cattle, but frequently shown to exist in tho samo form in the human family. He declared that it mightbo communicated through the milk of diseased animals, and that many instances were on record of children having taken tho malady through the uso of milk. The farmers on the board were a unit against this paper. Some said they did not believe it, and that the inspector did not know whathe was talking about; others held that' inasmuch as milk had always been understood to be a healthful food, it was unwise to disturb public confidence in it, or, as ouo expressed it, "Wo don't want this opinion upset by a government scientist." It was therefore resolved that tho paper should not be published under any consideration. This agricultural' board must have been appointed by Jerry Simpson, anil shows, at least, that tho Kansas blight that resulted in the Simpson-PefJer crop is extending to other fields. Fortunately, the Kansas public is less benighted than the association in question, and can take means to protect itself independently of that interesting body. THE PIGHT ON PIAT TRADING. Tho general expectation in regard to the price of wheat has not been realized. With tho statistics to show that Europe will need, before another crop, twice as much wheat as this country and tho rest of tho world having a surplus can furnish, if the same amount of bread is consumed, the price of wheat continues at a stago which may bo called low. There aro thoso who are trying to ascertain the reason, and there are others who declare they havo found it. Nono of the men who are interested in this matter are the leaders in the political Farmers' Alliance. They are devoted to warehouse and fiat money schemes. Senator Washburn, of Minnesota, is confident that the reason why wheat is not selling at over a dollar a bushel in his own State is the traffic in fiat wheat, or tho "short" selling of wheat in boards of trade by speculators who have no wheat to sell and who havo no idea of delivering wheat when they contract to do so. Mr. C. Wood Davis, of Kansas, farmer and statistician, whose articles upon agricultural production have attracted wide attention, has put the matter in the strongest light of any writer upon the farmers' side of tho question. He declares that wheat would be worth $1.50 a bushel in Chicago but for the speculators in fiat wheat. Ho shows that tho speculative boards and the "wheat pits" are composed chiefly of "bears" that such a dealer is naturally a "bear." ' For instance, a dealer sells ton thousand bushels of wheat at a' certain price two months in advance. If it is worth that prico he makes nothing. If it is worth moro at that date he loses, but if it is worth less he makes. He is, therefore, a "bear," and uses all the influence and devises all tho schemes possible to hammer down tho price of wheat below the figure at which he has sold. As many more men sell than buy, the pit is full of "bears," whilo the "bulls" aro outside purchasers. Again, thousands of bushels are offered in tho "pit" whero tens are bought. Tho man who cannot toll at OS offers to toll

at a lower figure; thus the prico is being constantly bid down because of the immense excess of offers over purchases. Thus, tho whole tendency and tho most of the work of tho speculative dealers in the exchanges is to break the prices down. Mr. C. A. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis, one of tho greatest millers in the world, and a man who knows from experience what he is talking about, has frequently declared that tho "short selling of fiat wheat not only demoralizes legitimate trade, but is robbing tho farmers of millions annually. Referring to Mr. Davis's recent declaration that the world's consumption of wheat has overtaken tho world's production, Mr. Pillsbury said: I think Mr. Davis's theory is right, but it will not do any one much good, no matter how short the crops are, nntil short soiling of wheat by those who do not own a bushel can be stopped. As I said before, farmers may talk about railroad and elevator charges, but if the elevators handled their wheat for nothing and the railroads hauled it without compensation these benefits would not begin to oftset the injuries which they receive from the boards of trade. In the same line is the statement of the Chicago Board of Trade firm of Kcnnett &. Hopkins, which was made last May, as follows: From a statistical stand-point the position of wheat has not been stronger for many years, but the huge offerings by the bears breaks down the price in the faoe of the strongest conditions. This may goon for weeks, notwithstanding the grain moves eastward in a great flood and is exported as soon as it reaches tide-water. Mr. Davis sustains his opinion by the statements of a large number of men on the Chicago market, among whom is Mr. R. Lindblom, who recently made the following declaration: It is hard to buck against the millions of wind wheat that we have to contend with in the wheat-pit The bears are determined that the legitimate news shall produce no effect. We point to the large clearances; they say bah! that is mostly flour. We note the large sales of wheat at St. Louis for export, and they cry, O that is only Oregon wheat. We bear of the clearance of 700,000 bushels dnnug the last two days from the principal Atlantic ports, and they go into the pit and sell 20,000,000 bushels of wind. Meanwhile, a great deal of money is made through these deals, and the question arises if it is not the farmer who contributes it. The advocates of the Washburn bill, which proposes to impose a heavy tax on all fiat sales, have collected a great deal of such evidence as the above, and will be able to make a much more vigorous fight on this species of business, which, to say the best that can bo said for it, never added a dollar to the wealth of the country, but, if these statements are true, has deprived the producers of millions.

Everybody likes to see a fraud exposed, and tho people of South Carolina are enjoying that experience in the case of their reform Governor, Tillman. It seems the Governor has always been a violent advocate of double assessments for corporations; and one of his campaign cries was that local officers should see to it that individuals returned their property for taxation at its truo value. It came to light, a few days ago, that the Governor had sold twelve cows to tho lunatic hospital, an institution under his direct control, at $30 each. It occurred to somebody to examine his tax list, and it was found he returned the cows for taxation at 10 each. In the same list wero fifteen hogs, $20, and one piano, $30. Hogs and pianos are cheap in South Carolina. This Governor Tillman is the same one who, after having made his campaign as an enemy of corporations, was found, soon after his election, to bo riding on free railroad passes. A good deal was expected of him when he was elected, and he might havo revolutionized tho politics of tho State, but he has thrown away his opportunity. . Chairman Springer, in an interview in tho New York World in relation to his free-wool bill, said: I am fnlly convinced that a great injustice would be worked should a bill be passed placing wool on the free list without reducing the tarift on woolen goods. The oftect would bo to increase the pro tit of the manufacturer while reducing the price realized by tho wool-growers. Tho poiut to which attention is called is the frank declaration of Mr. Springer that his bill will ,tako money out of the pockets of tho tens of thousands of American farmers who have flocks of sheep. Upon the same principle he and his associates would glory in an action which would reduco tho price of wheat or of a day's work. It is devotion to tho single idea of cheapness, and has its logical result in clothing made by the sweating system in London and shirts made for C cents apiece. The selection of Bishop Chatard as the third arbitrator of the controversy between the street-railroad company and its employes completes the board. As now constituted it consists of Judgo D. Wr. Howe, Mr. II. II. Hanna and Bishop Chatard. This is an exceptionally good board, and one that" can be depended on to do equal and exact justice. It augurs well for the principle of arbitration in labor troubles that the first case in which it has been invoked in this community has fallen into such excellent hands. The Journal believes it would be a distinct gain for the causo of labor and the interests of workingmen if arbitration should bo invoked before strikes instead of after them. DisrATcnns from the West show that the "cowboy s''and "sheepmen" are in conflict. Boys may be able to manage the mild-eyed cow, it seems, but the control of the ferocious and predatory sheep requires the matured judgment and strength of sinew pertaining to manhood's estate. BCBDLES IS TUB Altt. Of a Lnwer Order. Call that fellow a baritone?" said the disgusted auditor. "He's only a bass imitation." The Model Young: Man. "He la such a model young man." 'ilodell You mean a dummy, do you not!" Not on the Ilench. "You say this man had been drinking," said hii Honor. Drinking what!" Whisky, I suppose," answered ofilcer MoGob be. "You suppose! Don't you know whisky! Aren't you a Judge!" No, y'r Anner. Only a policeman." Ills Honor looked carefully at his minion a moment, and then called tbe cext case. As to Leather. Customer Jlst look at these shoes, win you! The soles have Just peeled off, whole! Eo stein Yaw, dare vas mighty toorable

leather in deru shoes. If dot bad been common leather it would nafo Torn into holes. Do you see! Reciprocity. "What's the trouble between you and Madge! lie seems to have something against you. Yes, I guess he has to balance the $GO Tve got against him, I suppose."

SHALL WE GO TO WAR WITH CHILI? Matters have reached the point where, unless apology, indemnity and complete reparation are at once forthcoming, war seems to be inevitable, Chicago Herald. Tine responsibility for the war, if war takes place, rests with Chili. American and foreign sympathizers with Chili should bear this fact in mind. St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. The American people want peaco, peace with honor, and tbe surest way to maintain it is by arbitration, the virtues of which we have been so long preaching to the nations of the earth. Louisville CourierJournaL It is in the power of the Chilian government to force war or to insure peace, and the mild tone of the most recent advices from Chili more than offsets all tbe sensational rumors than can be started at Washington. Cleveland Leader. The facts as they appear to both tides are fully known. As yet, however. Chili has not given any sign tbat she will apologize, or even that she will acknowledge herself in the wrong. The time has come for the promised message, and the President will please patriotic citizens by sending it to Congress at once. DotroitTribune. This Nation can land in Chili within a short time an army of veterans under experienced leaders sufficiently powerful to overcome all opposition. It would please right-thinking Americans greatly if, without any display or threat of force on the part of this Nation, the people of Chili should themselves prefer to do justice. J ustice, not humiliation, is all we ask. New York Tribune. Whilk the cables report everything quiet in Valparaiso, there is little or no reason to believe that the Chilian Junta will apologize or grant reparation for the attack upon the sailors of tho Baltimore. As the United States can demand nothing less and retain her self-respect, every day that the Junta maintains its present silence increases the prospects of a war. Minneapolis Tribune. If the United States can be said to have a distinctively national policy, surely the prineiple of arbitration would come under that head. There are good reasons for believing, therefore, that tho paramount duty of this government is to accept war with Chill as a last resource only, and after every possible means ot settlement, consistent with national honor, has failed. Chicago News. The idea of Chili running the least possible risk of an armed conflict with this country is really so preposterous as to make this matter, when intelligently viewed, seem to be ludicrous. Let the Chilian spies step around lively, see all there is to be seen and send word to their government accordingly. The war-speck on the southern horizon will then, vanish, promptly and permanently. Philadelphia Telegraph. Since certain seamen of tbe United States have been maimed and have died on account of injuries inflicted by a Chilian mob, of which uniformed officials of tbat republic were part, apology to this Nation and recompense to its maimed citizens and to the families of its slain ones is due. It is a due that cannot go uninforced without loss of the national honor, and that is held by most Americans to be the thing tbat must be preserved at all costs and at all hazards. Indeed, the preservation of national honor bas come to be considered as almost the only just cause of war. Chicago Inter Ocean. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mr. Blaine will be sixty-two years old on the Slst inst. Edwin Arnold thinks American cities are too nearly alike. There is not enough individuality in them. He thinks that Madison. Wis., is the most beautiful city in America. Madison ie. he , eayn. the Venice of America. Mr. Arnold intends to remain in America several months longer. Mas. Bonanza Mackay intends to build and endow an imposing maternity home in London for tho benefit of those women whom poverty or misfortune compels to seek such a retreat. For this purpose she will set aside a certain anm yearly, which she has heretofore expended on entertainments. "Andrew Lang," says a London correspondent of the Kansas City Star, "is tall, thin, dark, and his hair is turning gray. Yon sometimes hear him spoken of as 'one of the younger writers.' He is forty-seven. When he talks, he drawls in the Oxford fashion. When he laughs, he sets your teeth on'edge." As a memento of the French exhibition at Moscow the Empress of Russia has been presented with a large egg of enameled silver. Inside tbe egg there is a bouquet of violets composed of diamonds, held together by a ribbon of the same stones. The egg is suspended from an artistically-arranged ribbon of pink enamol. Tin: progress of death was uniquely reported by the dying Dr. Richet to his sou, a professor of physiology, and his physician. As his end approached he carefully described to them every perceptible sensation. At the moment when they observed unmistakable signs of immediate dissolution, he surprised them by saying, "You see I am dying." Virginians are try lug to get an appropriation from Congress for a monument to Coramodoro Maury, the naval and meteoro'otfical scientist, to be erected in Hampton Koad. The lustre of this accomplished investigator vas dimmed toward the close of bis career by serving the Confederacy after having had charge of the United States Naval Observatory. Sir Edwin Arnold says that, in one sense, he dreads to die. "If my death," said be a few days ago, "is to be painful. I should shrink from it as I would any trying ordeal. Then. 1 should regret to die because of the large number of dear friends 1 should leave behind. And yet, who has reached sixty years ns I have, without counting most of his friends on the other side! What a joy it will be to meet them again!" The new Bishop of Carlisle, Dr. John Wanna Bard cloy, comes of a stnrdy English family which contributed seven sons to the ohnrch. Seven American brothers havo rarely if ever become preachers one after the other. The new Bishop of Carlisle was the eldest, and by no means the most brilliant. But his path through life seems to have been clearly defined by the inile-stones of duty, and so to have led to success. It is well known that horses can hear deep sounds which we cannot. For days previous to the earthquake in the Biviera the horses theie showed etery symptom of abject fi ar, which cuntinuod without any change of character till the fury of the convulsim broke lorth. But not till a few seconds before the arth began to qnake d d lnman beings hear anv sout-ds, while it ) extrnnciy rrobabl that the hcrses h eard the subterranean noises for two or three days previously. A South American newspaper tells of a man living, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, who is considerably over one hundred years old who is growing young again. He has recently grown a new set of teeth, and his hair, which had turned gray, is now almost black again. He is in active business as a horse-trader, and occasionally he rides over ten leagues in a day. He has been married three times, is now a widower, and is quite wealthy. The paper casually remarks, in the course of its story, that the old man suffered greatly at one time with a tumor, Mmt this was cured by being gcred by an ox." Mr. BicnARD Harding Davis, the brilliant young editor of Harper's Weekly, hat relinquished for a few months his command of that periodical. This is for tho

purpose of cnabltng him to prepare two series of articles on subjects to which his diamond-pointed pen willdoparticular justice. He will first spend three months in the West, gathering and using tbe Weekly materials for papers on army outposts, rauches, mining towns, and the like; and at the end of that time he will go to London to describe that city for Harper's Magazine from tbe point of view of an American. Both series of articles will be handsomely illustrated. Mr. Davis will return to his post on the Weekly in September. WHY SHE WAS SAD. She wears a ad and pensive look, As though abe were in love; But that not it. her hand's Size C, And ii In a Size 3 glove. Brooklyn Eaala. THE ROOMY CARDS. 8he bought a new style postal card. And wrote to her dear friend Bess An eight-page note, aud be stiU had room For a very good-sized P. 8. Brooklyn Eagle.

ELECTRICITY IN WAR. Edison's Fortress and the Means by Which the Enemy Would De Destroyed. Interview tn New York Eun. "Mr. Edison, you are so full of patriotism that the French couldn't help butadmiring you for it. We are threatened by tbose little Chilians who i.iy they are going to thrash ns. They ure bigger than rabbits and more worthy of your current. What will yoa do to defend this glorious country if they attack us or if anybody elseattaoks ns! What plans have you on hand for keeping the rude turmoil of war from shattering the delicate globes of your incandescent lights all over this fair land!" The face of Mr. Edison grew as fiendish as it ever does. That is to say. about as fiendish as the inside of a nice ripe watermelon. "That." said be. "I want to talk about It is true 1 have invented an electric torpedo, the Sims electrio torpedo, which we have sold to the Armstrong Gnu Company. It is a very tine thing. It is put on a wire, as of course you understand, and moved by electricity. It can be rnn out two miles ahead ot the man-of-war's bow and be kept at that distance ready to blow up anything in reach. It is a very pretty and destructive toy. But it is not in that kind of thing that I take pride. What I want to see is some foreign nation coming to this country to attack us on our own ground." Mr. Edison's eyes danced with martial ardor. "That is what I want to see, and I think that electricity will play such a part in war when that time comes as shall make gunpowder and dynamite go sit in humble obscurity with the obsolete Hint arrowhead and call bim brother. Every electrician, when that tim comes, will have his plant for making the life of his enemy electrically uncomfortable. Here is one item which I have in mind. "It is simple as A, B, C. I have never spoken or written about it before. With twenty-live men in a fort. I can make that fort absolutely impregnable no far as an assault is concerned, and 1 sboutd need twenty-five men in the fort to do it. This is not gstss work, but a mstter of absolutely scientific certainly. In fact, twentylive men would be a very liberal gnrriaon. Some years ago, when the wires loaded witb heavy electrio charges began to go up every where, I predicted tbat there would be danger of the firemen receiving deadly shock by the electricity running down the streams of wator which might cross the wires. Tho insurance people laughed at the idea. But 1 tried it on a cat, and tbe cat and I found my theory to be true. That is to say I did. and the cat found it out if there is another world for cats. He never knew anything about it in this world. "in each fort I would put an alternating machine of 20,000 volts capacity. One wire would be grounded. A man would govern a stream of water of about four hundred pounds pressure to the square inch, with which the 20,000 volts alternating current would be connected. The man would simply move this stream of water back and forth with his hand, playing on the enemy as they advanced aud mowing them down with absolute precision. "Every man toucned by the water would complete the circuit, get the full force of the alternating current and never know what had happened to him. The men trying to make a fort by assault, though they might come by tens of thousands against a handful, would be cut to the ground beyond any hope of escape. Foreign soldiers undertaking to whip America could walk around such a fort as mine, but they never could go through it. It would not be necessary to deal out absolute death unless the operator felt like it. lie coald modify the current gently so at simply to etun everybody, then walk outside the fort, pick np tho stunned generals and others worth keeping for ransom or exchange, make prisoners also of the others, if convenient, or. if not convenient, turn on the full force of tho current, play the hose on them occe more and send them to the happy hunting grounds for good." Tho picture raised by Mr. Edison is certainly a most heantiliil and attractive one. It is nice to think of all the line descriptive matter that could be written. Such a fort and such warfare as Mr. Edison has planned would make old-fashioned generals and M. Detaille, of battle-scene fame, turn in their graves. We should have infantry moving on forts at quickstep, dressed all in rubber, with chilled glass soles to their shoes and non-conduotor handles to tbeir swords and guns. Generals would look much funnier than a picture from Bunch, cbarging at the head of their armies, riding on horses shod with rubber arctics, the generals themselves carrying largo rubber nnbrellas. with gutta-percha handles, over their heads. Hill and Harrison. New York Commercial Advertiser. The firat contest of Senator Hill in the donate is really comical in its character. Senator Hill himself takes no part in it. we are toM, but the Democrats from other States are working like beavers for him. The conditions of it grow out of tbo action of Hill in the last autumn election in New York, when ho corrupted a certain Republican office-bolder iu that State and made a trade with him by which he betrayed bis party to aid Hill in bis election schemes. Tho President found it out, and very properly removed the man, as it would seemu Now Hill comes in to protect him. This is really an acknowledgment of the collusion charged, for, without it. what interest would Hill have had in sustaining a Republican office-holder? The humorous feature of tbe atlair is tbat Hill, not satisfied with demoralizing the Republicans at home, proposes to defeat them in the Senate as well, and actually has the cheek to ask them to overthrow their own President becauuo ho resented the trading away of Republican candidates for otiice in New York' in Hi Ha interest! Thit really beats the record. The Tariff Protects Skilled Labor. New York Recorder. Opponents of Republican protective tariff concede tbat "there is less competition in skilled labor than in unskilled, and therefore less of a tendency to decrease wages." But if protective duties were overthrown there would be increaned and ruinous comnetition between our skilled labor and that of European and other countries where wages are lower. American skilled labor would then be a glut in the market and artistic workers would earn no more than the inartistic, would have to betake themselves to purely manual labor and the general standard of compensation of all our wnKfi-earners would be reduced. On the enactment of anti-protection laws this deterioration of the condition of American workers would "follow as the night the day." . They Silsntly Acquiesce. New York Press. Neither Grover Cleveland nor Roswell P. Flower bas spoken a aiugle word against the operations at Albany by the Democratic conspirators, although a storm of indignation has gone np from every quarter against their bulldozing tactics, their determination to steal more seats in tbe State Senate and their general disregard of decency, and fair play, and law. llve TUjed Their Hand. Wellington 1'osL The mugwumps are like the Farmers' Alliance and all other fitful political movements. They are single-barreled creations, and can discharge but one elective load. The mugwumps bred their fatal shot from ambush In 18M, and tbeir power for perpetrating political mischief is forever gone. Cleveland's Chances. WanhlDKton f reciaL In a pretty extensive search among the Democrats in the House 1 have been unable to rind any one who believes that Cloveland's chances for getting the nomination are worth much.

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Indianapolis Unst Hustle Lively or It Won't Get tho Democratic Convention. San Francisco and Hilwankes Prepared to Bribe the Committee with Their F&vcrlts Beverages Hocsiers at tbe Capital. Voorliees Fails to Mako a Speech Against Judge Woods's Confirmation. Hsy Be Heard at & Special Meeting cf the Senate Judiciary Committed This Week Resclatiocs&nd Bills Introduced in Congress. CONVENTION BOOMERS. Arrival of the Indianapolis Delegation Plenty of Wine and Jlr En Itoute. Facial to tbe Iccurapulls JournaL Washington, Jan. IS. The ball has opened, and the Arlington is again becoming the hot-bed of boomers and politicians who are here either as members of the national Democratio committee or as advocates, of their own special towns as the proper place to boM the convention. There are thirteen candidates for the honor, and twelve will find that thirteen is an unlucky number. Of the thirteen there aro ten second-choice cities, like Milwaukee, St. Paul. Detroit and others, whose plea is principally sentiment of the sort that gave Minneapolis the Republican convention. San Francisco is on its way with its usual boom crowd and its conventional car-loads of wine. Milwaukee is determined to "see San Francisco and "raise" it, and is therefore on its way here with a delegation and two car-loads of beer. Kansas City arrived hero this morning with the same enthnei. asm that marked the advent of the Missouri delegation, some weeks ago. when it came here to elect "Farmer bill" Hatch Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Indianapolis contingent arrived with Senator Yoorhees to-day. St. Paul has opened rooms at the Arlington, and is explaining why it is that Minneapolis is failing to keep the promises it made when it was here a few weeks ago and won the Republican convention. Detroit will play a trump card in a day or two by sending on a delegation of solid citizens, foremost among whom will be Mr. Win ana. the first Democratic Governor that Michigan has elected in twenty years. Detroit will make the usual argument of encouraging the Democracy in the Northwest, but tho lact that ex-Postmaster-general Don Dickinson is conspicuously absent, and is known to be adverse to seeing tbo convention in Detroit, though a Detroiter himoelf, will probably take that city out of tbe list. Indianapolis will make a good tight, but the impression prevails that if the convention goes In tbat locality it willbetoCmcinnati. The Indianapolis delegation has opened headquarters at tho Arlington, where they eeoured two parlors, and they were at once ready for business. At their meeting tonight, with the exception of Holman and Parret. who are both sick, all tbe Democratio members of the Indiana delegation were present. United States Marshal Ransdell and other Republican Hoosiers living here were on hand and entered heartily in tbe work to be done. Speeches were made by Senator Turpie, A. 1L Drown, 8. E. Moras, Mr. Wilson. Colonel liright, Charles Jewett, S. P. Sheerin. and Willi Fortune: also by Representatives Bynum, Brown, Rrooksbire, Shively. Martin, Cooper and McClellan. after which a line of attack was laid out, and Messrs. Sheerin. Taggart. Bynum. Fortune, Morss. Erwin and Sullivan were made an executive committee, and the work divided among tbe gentlemen present. At tbe meeting tonight Hon. John E. Lamb presided and Will Fortune acted as secretary. The committee meets again to-morrow evening. V PROPOSED LEGISLATION. Inquiry Concerning the World's Fair Appropriation Mr. Holman ObJfcta.Washington. Jan. IS. Tho world's fair question was the first subject to receive tho attention of the House to-day, and already indications point to this matter being a fruitful source of debate end controversy inthecomiog session. Immediately after the reading of the journal Mr. Keilly, of Pennsylvania, presented a resolution requesting the Secretary of tho Treasury to inform the House of Representatives what amount of money bas been appropriated and available under the act of Oct. 25, 1890, relating to the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, and about what amount of the money appropriated has been already expended. The resolution called for an itemized statement showing to whom such money has been paid, and for what purpose and upon what account. '1 ask." said Mr. Eeilly, "for unanimous consent for tbe immediate consideration of this resolution." There was silence for a moment and many expected that some enthusiastic friend of the world's fair would object to the adoption of such a resolution without a fuller explanation of its object. But no such objection was made and to those few members who turned inquiringly to Mr. Duborrow, the chairman of the world's fair committee returned an amrmative nod. A moment later and the resolution was adopted by acclamation. "My object in introducing that resolution." said Mr. Keilly to a reporter, "is simply to get the construction which the Treasury Department places upon the act of the last Congress relating to the world's fair. That act makes certain specifications for certain purposes and also contains a provision that under no circumstances shall the United States government bo liable for a greater sum than $1.tOJ.OOX Now it has been aenerally claimed that the 5l.5C0.00O has been already appropriated and we want to understand whether tbe Treaeurv Department so construes the act. 1, myself, hold tbat the act did not appropriate that $1,500,010. but merely lixed it as the amount to be appropriated. My action is not an unfriendly one, but is situplv intended to define the status of the world's fair." "Mr. Reilly's resolution is very satisfactory to me." said Chairman Duborrow, "and was accepted by the world's fair committee as a very proper means of settling all diaputes and ascertaining whether the government has already appropriated that $1,500,000 or merely mentioned it in the act as the maximum liability of tho government." A moment later Chairman Duborrow introduced and asked for the immediate consideration of resolutions authorizing tho select committee on the world fair to have printed such documents and papers as it may deem necessary relative to the matters referred to it. In an instant the veteran objector, Mr. Holman of ludlana, was on bis feet to object, and simultaneously Mr. Oates of Alabama joined in the protest against granting to the world's fair committee such unlimited powers of incurring expense. Upon these objections the resolutions were referred to tbe committee. Mr. Springer of Illinois asked for conpent for the minting in tho Record of the memorial of the National League of American Institutions prohibiting national aid to sectarian institutions. Mr. Butler of Iowa objected to the memorial appearing in the Record. Mr. Clover of Kansas latrodnced a bill to enable cities to deposit United States bonds, and have issued Wal tender notes to bo expended for public improvements. The House then proC'cried to the consideration of the bill relating to public, printing aud binding. and fur tbedUtnbuticu of public documents. Among other bills introduced were the following: To absolutely prohibit tbe carrying of Chinese into the United States, whetber subjects of the, Chinese empire or otherwise; suspending the operation of the law governing tbo discovery of guano islands by United States citizens; reducing the dutv on bewing .thread; to prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from making deposit of United States funds with national or private bank: granting lands to honorably discharged aoldiera of the war ot da re-