Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1892 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1892.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, JANUARY 5. 1S92. WASHINGTON OFTICK-C13 Fourteenth stT Telephone Calls. XSoslrfts CCoe "33 Editorial P.oonm 212 TEiuts of . sunsciurrxox PA1LY BY MAIL. T'lr re I j". cne monlli ..................5 .70 Lailj only, three months......................... 2.0O J)a:iy on.y. cue year 8.00 Dsily. IbcIcUdk bnnday, ono year lO.eo fcuEt2j culy. one year .. '2.00 - WliEX IXH5IBHED BY AGEXTS. rallr. per Tree, ly carrier IScts h'UBr.flj-, sine Is copy.... 6 cu Laiiy sl(1 fcUDlajt per irek. by carrier .,..20 cu WEEKLY. Icrjear f 1.00 II educed Kates to Clubs. Fabfcribewtth any door nnmeroaa agents, or send tvlicr.pt.ee totiie to - JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, , ixviksxrouu, lxix. Tersccs sending the Journal through the malls In tie I'rttrd Mates shonld put ou an eiirhtpage paper iOM-tT jtare ftiraft on a twelve or sixteen. XK llr a Two-crsT postage stamp. Foreign l estate id ceually double these rates. Alt eommunieations intended for pvblieatitm in V if paper t: vst, in order to rteei re attention, be actcthptintcd ly the name and addrcs oUie tcriter. HIE INDIANA I'O LIS JOURNAL Can le fourd at the following places: 1A P. I J American Exchange La Paris. SG Boulevard Co capnclnes. JJEW VoliK Gileey Ilonseacd Wlndaor HoteL I'lIILADELPIIIA A.r7Kcmtle, 3753 Lancaster CHICAGO ralmer noose & ClNCINXATI-J. It. lliwlcy & Co.. 134 Vino street J-OUISVILLE C. T. Peering, northwest cornet Third and JeSerscn streeta, BT. LOUI! Unton News Oomrany, Union Depot and boaihern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C-Klggs nonso and Ebbltt . Honse. . A yeaij ago Senator Hill would not have been the presidential favorite of f scattering: members in tho Mississippi ' Legislature, and Mr. Cleveland would havo been the first choice of nearly all. A count last week showed that Hill was close on tho heels of Mr. Cleveland. It may bo nssamcd that inasmuch as Mayor Snllivan did not get the Democratic national convention, ho took oc casion to urge upon tho llonso committee on commerce tho importance of : granting an adequate appropriation for tho improvement of the Savannah river. Because tho triumvirate, Hill, Gorman and Brice, chose Chicago for the Democratic national convention without Chicago's caring for it, it will be a mean revenge for Democratic Congressmen to refuse to bo liberal to the world's fair," as some threaten. Besides, it is not ? Chicago's fair, but the whole country's. It was Lord . Dundreary who philo

sophically observed that "the reason why tho dog waggles his tail is because A 1 A !l - . . 3 11. T a. VIUU IUI1 CUUIlUb WilKglU IUO UUg. UUb . Dundreary never contemplated tho nos- , Eibility of Hill, Gorman and Brico wagging the whole Democratic party of this country, olso ho would have come to a different conclusion. Missouri is reported to be in a distressing financial muddle. Missouri is a rich and growing State, with little or no debt, but the Democratic demagogue . mm has sought to gain lavor by reducing the tax levy below the current liabilities of the State. Missouri is the home of tho moss-back, and ho seems very much at home there. ' v Wiiile David B. Hill will secure tho New York delegation under the gag of ' tho unit rule, Grover Cleveland, if a ' candidate, will be quite euro of tho entiro Pennsylvnniadelegation. But, after all, ho mast bo a big man in his party who can bo nominated in opposition to his own Stato representation, and that ' such a State as New York. Commenting on tho Chilian difficulty, , tho Sentinel says: "It is to be hoped, if it will not intorfero too seriously with tho nltrato and renomination business, that this country will endeavor to maintain its self-respect without insisting that Chili shall sacrifice hers." Wo fail to discover in this anything but a low order of Democratic partisanship. There is nbtracoof Americanism or patriotism When Senator Stanford was urging his preposterous schemo of tho government loaning money on lands. Senator -Mitchell, of Oregon, asked whether, under his bill, corporations owning large bodies of land, ench as land-grant railroads, could not borrow money of the government at 2 per cent., and tho California Senator, who is so largely inter- ' csted 1n land grnnts, was compollcd to reply in the affirmative. If the Central Pacific Railroad Company conld get , fiat money nt 2 per cent, on its lands, it t would gctanother bonus from the people. A communication from Air. W. P. Fishback presents in a calm and dispassionate manner some reasons why tho administration of President Harrison should command the approval of tho country nt large, and especially of all Republicans. Mr. Fishback, though a lifelong friend of tho, President, was what was called a Gresham man in 1SS3, until Harrison was nominated. He Bpeaks, therefore," as ono who has been fully convinced of President Harrison's eminent fitness for tho office by the manner in which ho has discharged its duties. As usual with Mr. Fishback, ho presents tho caso strongly and clearly. A bill has been introduced in tho Ohio Legislature providing that tho managers of joint stock companies shall not dispose of a controlling interest In the stock of their companies without giving all stockholders two weeks' notico of tho transfer, and making any ealo in violation of this provision void. The object of tho bill is to prevent directors from taking an unfair advantage of small stockholders. Instances have occurred whero directors and large stockholders in joint stock companies havo bought up tho stock of small holders at low figures, and, in a few days, sold a controlling interest at an immense profit. The law should not permit that kind of. tharp practice. Fortt-foub of the forty-six cotton manufacturing corporations in New ' England, outsido of Fall River, Mass., with a total capital of 5o,G00,000, declared dividends last year at the average rate of 7.11 per cent. Tho thirty-four corporations in Fall River, with an aggregate capital of $19,578,000, engaged chiefly in the manufacture of print cloths, paid dividends averaging only , 4.CC per cent. These are facts; neverthe

less all tho free-trade press in the West will go on declaring that tho Eastern manufacturer is a "tariff robber," grasping from the Western consumer immense profits in the way of dividends. These figures show how faUe and nnjnst all such statements are. Lest it may bo asserted that the dividends arc declared upon watered stock,as is sometimes tho case with railroads, it my be said that every dollar of stock in cotton manufactures is paid-in capital that there is no such thing in theso industries as a sharo of stock which cost those who put it into tho original enterprise les3 than the face. An average rate of dividends by tho cotton industries of New England of not more than 0 per cent, cannot be regarded as a "robber rate" of returns upon manufacturing capital.

STATUS OF THE CHILIAN ATl'AIS. The three important features in the latest phase of the Chilian difficulty are, first, tho request or. demand of tho Chilian government for the recall of Minister Egan, on the ground tnat he is not acceptablo to them; second, tho refusal of our government to comply with tho request: and, third, tho sonding, by President Harrison, of an ultimatum to Chili demanding tho withdrawal of Minister Matta's insulting note of Dec. 11 last, and reparation for tho attack on our sailors, and stating that if this is not dono immediately diplomatic relations between tho two countries will cense. Under ordinary circumstances a courteous statement from one government to another that a minister is persona non grata, with a polito request for his withdrawal, would Do complied with a9 a matter of course, and would not neceasarily imply any serious trouble. .But under tho circumstances of the present case,- and considering Chili's previous course, this government evidently did not feel like complying with a request which seemed intended to humiliate the government and its minister. In the present status of affairs this government conld not recall Minister Egan upon the request of Chili without doing him and itself injustice. It must stand by the minister. The request for Mr. Egan's withdrawal seems to have ; brought matters to a head, resulting in the President's ultimatum. Tho fact that this was 6ont direct to tho Chilian government, and not to or through the Chilian minister at Washington, is further indicative of the very strained relations. This ignoring of tho minister shows a determination on tho part of our government to bring matters to an immediate and definite settlement. If Chili does not. make a prompt and satisfactory reply, both ministers will be withdrawn and diplomatic relations will cease. This would not bo a stato of war, but it would bo, very close to it. Tho insulting note whose withdrawal this government demands was sent by Senor Matta, late Minister, of Foreign Affairs in Chili, to Senor Montt, the Chilian minister at Washington, for communication to our government. In very discourteous language it .characterized, tho information on which tho President's message was founded as "erroneous and deliberately untrue." It controverted in offensive phrase nearly all tho statements made by the President, misrepresented the facts concerning tho attack on our sailors, mado false charges against Minister Egan and closed by saying: "Endeavor to give no credit to anything which may be. contrary to these statements, being sure of their correctness as we are hero of the right, the honor and the final triumph of Chili, knowing the intrigues which go at present from so low asourco and the threats which come from so high an authorityl" This note was more than undiplomatic; it was insulting. If Chili wants to maintain friendly relations she must recognize the necessity of withdrawing it. The reparation demanded by this government would bo to the families of tho American sailors' killed in Valparaiso. In justice thcrovought also to be an indemnity for the great expense to which this government has been put on account of tho affair, or at least the cession of land for a coaling station, but tho President seems to have waived that. Under tho circumstances his ultimatum is very mild. So much has been printed about tho Chilian affair, so many charges havo been made by European correspondents in regard to the attitude of Minister Egan and our naval officers in South American waters, that there is reason to believe that many people havo lost sight of the real cause of tho attitude of the government of tho United States toward Chili. That the readers of the Journal may clearly understand tho merits of tho controversy, tho facts are recalled. On Oct. 1G, 1691, tho United States war ship Baltimore was in Valparaiso harbor. That day a number of seamen, dressed in the uniform of tho navy, went ashore. The Congressional party, then recently successful, was in control of the city. It appears in testimony that tho American sailors, wcro sober and orderly. While they wero scattered throughout the city they wero attacked in such a manner as to warrant tho belief that it was prearranged. The sailors attempted to retire, but wero pursued by a mob. A body of soldiers and police were soon upon the scene, but instead of defending tho assailed tho sailors were amazed to find that they reinforced tho mob and fired their carbines at tho pursued and retreating sailors. Bayonet thrusts followed tho bullets, one or two were killed, several severely wounded, and others were lassoed and dragged to prison. Tho truth as to these occurrences was established by the testimony of the sailors at the time and, subsequently, and by tho officers. When tho facts wero ascertained, President Harrison had the affair presented to the Chilian authorities and asked for tho reparation which it is usual for governments to mako under similar circumstances to the aggrieved party. Instead of this, tho Chiliau authorities caused a secret investigation to be made fur tho purpose of exculpating the police. Tho report of this ex parte and secret investigation was accepted

by Chili and tho demand of the President was met with nn answer in which no apology or regret was expressed nothing, in fact, except defiance and contempt. Such, in brief, is tho wholo caso. The administration has waited patiently all these months, hoping that Chill would make reparation. If it does not speedily do so the United States government must take fiora notice of tho injury or forfeit tho respect of all civilized nations. What that notice shall bo depends very much upon Congress to determine. It may be the positive policy of declaring war or tho milder method of expressing contempt by withdrawing official intercourse calling our minister home and refusing to recognize Chili's representative, practically declaring that country outsido of the family of civilized nations.

THE 0EQA5 OP THE "BEAKS." The Indianapolis News comes forward as the zealous defender of the traffic in "wind" produce in its usual cx cathedra manner. It volunteers to help the "bear" interest, which, in London and tho speculative exchanges of this country, is laboring to hammer down the price of wheat, a commodity in which the farmers of Indiana aro as much interested as those of any State in the Union. Whilo our wheat-growers in the West aro generously contributing shiploads of wheat to feed tho starving in Russia, it assorts that that country has exported largely of this yeaT's crop, and ridicules tho Journal's statement that the United States has not half enough surplus to make good the European deficit. This is the statement of very gambling "short" seller of wheat in Chicago, New York and London. This assertion the News makes in tho face of the fact that the requirements of Europe for wheat and rye for consumption during the cereal year of 1891-92 are 2,400,000,000 bushels, while tho estimated output of all European fields is but 1,800,000,000 a deficit of 000,000,000 bushels, without making any allowance for seeding, for which 300,000,000 bushels is estimated. But, leaving the seed out of tho question, America, India and all other countries cannot supply, at the outside, 300.000,000 bushels (280,000,000 being tho largest estimate), so that the Journal's Ptatemont that the surplus of wheat in America is not equal to half. Europe's deficit is true. As to Russia, tho Liverpool Corn-Trade News, as the result of careful inspection, says that eighteen of the most populous and largest cereal-producing districts in the empire, containing 32,000,000 people, have not harvested as much wheat and rye as they seeded, and it is assorted that tho remainder of tho empire docs not produce a surplus equal to tho food requirements of 39,000,000 people. With its characteristic know-it-all air, tho News pooh-poohs tho idea that tho selling of "wind" wheat has the effect to break down prices. Whilo there aro a few people who may ascribe to tho editorial utterances of the News all knowledge, there aro a great many more people who will prefer to accept tho opinions of such men as C. A. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis, tho most extensive miller in the world; Senator Washburn of Minnesota, C. Wood Davis of Kansas, Kennett & Hopkins, Robert Llndblom, Hugh McLennan, Chicago dealers, and trade papers liko tho Chicago Economist and the Cincinnati Price Current. There are those in this world who will beliovo a practical "commission merchant" in preference to tho assumed all-knowledge of the News, when ho expresses, in tho Chicago Tribune, the following opinion: Every one encaged in the actual handling of grain is asking the cause of the low prices, and many are beginning to recognize, the fact that tho practice of short selling has much to do with it, and especially the recent custom of selling immense lines of (short) eraln for delivery live or six months from tho date of sale. There aro people in this perverse world, and it may be evidence of their ignornnco and proneness to wickedness, who will accept the following statement of tho Chicago Tribune, of Jan. 13, in regard to the effect of short selling beforo the say-so of tho Indianapolis Nows: With every encouragement for an advance in prices and a bullish interpretation of the government report to aid them, the local produce markets, after a brief tinrrv at tho opening, declined materially And closed at the lowest point of the day. The depression was due to the raiding of tho heavy aborts, who knew their only salvation lay in a saccossfnl raid. The News is certain that the Washburn bill, if it should become a law, would "wipe out American predominance in wheat production." The News goes on to say: If tho actual wheat mnst be bought before it could be sold, it would reunite an amount of ready cash each year nearly as large as the national debt to move the crops. Money would he tied up from the instant wheat left the farm till it were brought into theEuropean mill. That is, the farmer who should receive cash for his wheat tho day he sold it must keep it locked up until that wheat is "brought into the, European mill!" Ho could not turn around and pay his dues to the grocery, the machinery dealer i and the dry-goods store, but must keep it in his pocket, or, perchance, hid away until a telegram from Europe shall notify him that his wheat was in tho "European mill," when ho would be at liberty to discharge his liabilities! All this talk that a price cannot bo made for wheat, except it is done in a wheatpit by thousands of "short" sellers, is absurd. Other farm products are disposed of without "wind" sales. Last year $250,324,000 of farm products, not sold on option, were disposed of in Chicago, whilo the products subject to option sales received in that market wero' valued at only $100,012,000. Tho bill which Senator Washburn presented in tho Senate on Wednesday is directed against futures and options when there is no ownership in property. Such dealers are required to pay a license of $1,000 and a tax of five cents upon every pound sold and twenty cents on every bushel, but all dealers on boards of trade aro required to mako weekly returns to the collector' of internal revenue. Not even Senator Washburn claims that the bill is the remedy, but it will furnish a nucleus for a measure which will curtail or put an end to a system 0f betting which adds not a dollar to the wealth of the country and which is believed by the mass

of farmers and practical men to deprivo them of millions which would bo theirs if cereals were disposed of as are cattle, batter, wool, cotton goods, iron, etc

LIQUOB UCESSE IN NORWAY. An article In the Nineteenth Century describes a liquor-licenso system which has been in use In Norway for fifteen years, and which, it is claimed, has greatly leesencd tho prevalence of drunkenness and brought other benefits. It is a modification of what is known as tho "Gothenberg system," used in Sweden, but is said to be more eJTectlve. Under tho Norwegian system the city government fixes the number of liquor licenses "required to meet tho reasonable convenience of the public," and these licenses are granted as a monopoly for five years to one company or syndicate which is organized for tho sole purpose of doing all the retail liquor business in the city or town whero it exists. The company has a board of managers, part of whom are chosen by tho directors and part by the city. It is allowed to declare a dividend of 5 per cent, out of its earnings in the liquor business, and all tho surplus must bo applied to worthy charities or public improvements. The results aro a great diminution in tho number of saloons, a decrease of drunkenness, a great reduction in tho quantity' of liquor sold and consumed, better ordered 6aloons, and very largo contributions to public charities and improvements. The system may not be applicable under our form of government, but it shows what can be done by original methods. Granted that drinking and tho sale of liquor under some conditions will continue, tho question is how to reduce tho evil to a minimum. ; Tho free-and-easy license system generally in voguo in this country is almost ideally bad. Probably high license and local option are as well suited to our. form of government as any system that can be devised, but even that does not work well in largo cities. If a city can license and otherwise regulate the liquor traffic, why could it not place tho whole business in tho hands of a monopoly, charging it a round sum for the franchiso and holding it responsible for its abuse? TnF. New York Sun takes no stock in the criticism of the administration for its war preparations. It says editorially: We behove that the work of the Navy Department and of the . War Department during tho past six weeks is a marvel of administrative energy and patnotio vigilance. Some of our readers, perhaps, but certainly not all. havo an idea of what has been accomplished. . And yet it is this verv activity, not inviting a couilict, but following the firt principles of national prudence and the ordiuarylawsof common sense, which furnishes the chief ground of tho mugwump attaok on men who are doing their duty. . Consider two propositions: If war is averted and the government of Chth makes proper reparation for the Valparaiso outrage it will be for no other reason than becnuse we wero ready. If war came, and in spitef of tho warning events of tho past three months this country were not prepared to the best of its ability for the conflict, the men whom the non-Americans are now criticising for doing their duty would deserve to be impeached. They would deserve to be banged. Go ahead, servants of the people! You are right, your work counts for peace, and the country is .with you. . This is-tho -patriotic , and American way of lookiugit it. It is the bonnden duty of the administration to protect tho rights of American citizens and the honor of the flag, and whatever steps aro necessary to that end are right. Of Superintendent Pierce's report on the affairs of the Netv York Life Insurance Company tho Now York Tribune says: l ' . . . ' ". Tho illegal and extravagant conduct which this report lays bare must excite the most serious apprehension of policy-holders everywhere. It is scarcely supposable, in the faco of all the evidence Mr. Shannon has accumulated, that President Beers will even attempt to hold his place or further resist the demand which so large a body of policy-holders has been so long making foe a radical change in the company's otiicial corps. It is probably fortunate for tho policyholders that the investigation was made in time to prevent tho complete dissipation of tho company's large surplus and the wrecking of its affairs. As it is, the company is still pre-eminently sound, though it has evidently suffered large losses under the present management. Policy-holders-in tho Now York Life everywhere should unite in a demand for a change in tho management. Mr. Cleveland's presidential chances havo fallen away very rapidly during the last few weeks, and it would not bo surprising if the rumor of his intended withdrawal from the race should prove true. ..Tho fight between him and Hill has assumed such shnpo that it seems impossible that cither of them can be nominated. In that case wo believo the disposition of the Democratic party will be to come West for a candidate, with a strong probability that the choice will fall on Sonator Carlisle, of Kentucky. Ho is nn abler . man than Morrison, of Illinois, though tho latter has some advantage in point of location and in having served in the Union army during the war. Next to Cleveland, Carlisle is tho foremost champion- of free trade, and is really ono of tho ablest men in the Democratic party. He is a better roan than Hill or Gorman. It is now generally admitted in Now York by. tho Democratic press that tho Democratic Stato convention will be held in February, to chooso delegates to the Dcmbcratianational convention, instead of May. That convention not only chooses the delegates-at-large, but tho district delegates, and every man of them will bo for David Bennett Hill. Even if ho wero not, under tho unit rule the majority of the delegates carry tho wholo vote. Tho Cleveland people admit at the outset that they have no chance in a convention held so early, and will make no contest. The Brooklyn Eagle and a few other papers mildly dnnbts of the policy of such a plan, but none combat it. This shows that Hill is not only an aspirant, out that he is an eager one, and proposes to use his ascendency in New York to control other delegations. Absolute government has some advantages. One cannot but admire tho boldness of the Czar's order, issued a few days ago, directing tho Mayor of Moscow to purchase fifteen million dollars' worth of wheat for the reliof of the

suffering peasants, and that where speculators wero holding grain at fictitious prices it should be confiscated and accounted for to them at n fair price, and no more. There is so little to approve in tho Russian government that one can afford to admire the way in which this slashing order does away with tho necessity of legislation and cuts through all legal technicalities and red-tape surroundings. It Is in such emergencies that constitutional government sometimes appears at a disadvantage through having to await the slow processes of legislation and constitutional methods of action.

The application of Hon. Thomas Ryan, United States minister to Mexico, for the return to the Mexicans of tho battle flags captured from them during tho Mexican war, seems like a bit of foolish sentiment. It cost a good deal to capture tho flags, and now that they are fairly ours wo might as well keep them. Something is duo to the national feeling of Americans. Wo have too little of it anyway. Postmastku McKixsF.v, of Kokomo, has recovered a lost turkey under rather curious circumstances. During the war. whilo he was a member of the Eighty-ninth Indiana Regiment, on duty down in Louisiana, he one day secured a fine fat turkey, on which he and his mess expected to have a royal feast. While it was cooking it was stolen, and McKmsey never saw or heard of it again. . A few days ago, in conversation with oue G. W; Pool, a fanner who lives near Kokomo, it came out that ho was the man who stolo tho turkey. He was a member of the Ninth Indiana Battery, and being attracted by the odor of tho turkey, embraced a favorable opportunity to steal it, as McKinsey had dono from its original owner. To make things even. Pool agreed to send McKinsoy two of the finest turkeys now on his farm. Thus, little by little, the true history of the war comes oat. Some outside newspapers, misled, perhaps, by the title, "National Surgical Institute.' in the dispatches, speak of it as a charitable concern, and are evidently under the impression that it is a hospital under control of the public authorities. For their benefit it may be stated that tho institute has alwara been conducted as a private enterprise, and can be regarded as charitable only in that wide sense that makes the services of a physician a charity no matter how large his foes. It having been stated that there was no expression in Volapuk for bakod beans, an expert in that language says it is"bons pekukol." Think of a Boston man or woman ordering a dish of "bona pekukol!" To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: 1. now many and what International expositions have been held! 2. What cities were candidates for tho honor of being the .site of the next exposition! 3. What part are" women given on the dlCVreut commissions! 4. Who lirst suggested holding a Columbian fair! R. n. 1. London, in 1851; New York, 1653; Paris, 1&5; London, 1802; Paris, 1S07; Vienna, 1S7J: Philadelphia, 167(5; Pans, 1678; Paris, 18S9. 2. Chicago. New York, Sti Louis and Washington. S. While women, of whom two are named from each State, do not appear on the committees controlling tho different branches of tho exposition, their committees and officers are consulted and have charge of tho woman's buildinsr. They perform an important work in creating an interest in the exposition. They will be represented on all . committees to award prizes on the products of woman's skill and labor. 4. ' No one has made claim, thus far. as originator of tho idea. ro the Editor of tao Imnaaapoila Journal: A Democrat declared, a few days since, that no Brussels carpets aro manufactured In this country. What carpets are mado In this country, and what ot their qualities! u. e. k. If you believe what the professional freetrade Democrat says about American manufactures you will be the best misinformed man on the subject m the country. Brussels carpets! The power-looms upon which such carpets are woven were inrcnted in this country by Mr. Bigelow, but for whom carpets would be tho luxury of tho rich. Tho census of 18S0 shows that 4,070,000 yards of Brussels carpets were made in this country in 1879. The figures of the census of 1890 are not yet published. All kinds of carpets made on power-looms, the best in the market, are now mado in the United States. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mrs. McClain, wife of Rev. T. B. McClain, of Milton, is said to have been invitod to write the poem for Indiana lor the . world's fair. , The Delsarte remedy for insomnia is to riso from your sleepless couch, shake your bauds, wring them, twist them and then, rubbing yourself with rough mittens, you return to bed to sleep. The world is again indebted to its women folks for inventions. A now piano stool. three improved corsets, a safety lamp and a revolving ian aro amoug the latest Dateuts to add fame to the name of women. Maukici: Makttkulink, called the "Belgian Sbakspoare," declares tho Bard of Avon to be his highest source of inspiration. He is twenty-sovnn. tall, blonde and tJorid. and regards Toe's "Tale of tho Fall of the House of Usher" as tho best short story ever written. Wiliiklmina, tho little Queen of Holland, most read a chapter from the Bible every morning to her mother and patiently stitch away at the embroidery and line needlowork, but she is devoted to her pigeons, her garden, and especially her dolls, with which, however, she has little time to play. Walt Whitman's massive tomb in Harleigh Cemetery looks not unlike one of tho ancient rocky tombs in Asia Minor that the archaeologists have always shown such interest in. It is built into a hill, of enormous boulders of granite, and appears indestructible, yet doubtless the poet's fragile "Leaves of Grass" will outlast it. Noted New York women are eaid to have doubles in a remarkable number of cases. Miss Roxanna Went worth is in this way declared to bo Mrs. Grover Cleveland's counterfeit presentment; Mrs. Watts, wife of a professor in the Scientific School of Yale, is Mrs. Channcey Depew's double; Miss Mary Kissam's resemblance to Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt is deemed striking, and Miss Anne liewlitt, whoings in the choir at St Patrick's Cathedral, is wonderfully like Mrs. George Gould. A bklatkd story of Cardinal Manning tells of his meeting, when a priest, with an Irishman whom he besought to take the pledge. "It's rayselt would take the pledge. your reverence, if I thought I needed it," said the son of the Emerald Isle, ."but I thought the pledge was meant for those who took too much." Well." said tho future Cardinal, by way of encouragement, "I have taken the pledge myself." "Indeed!" said the Irishman, "and did your reverenoe use to take too much!'' - PERHAPS SO. BY TIGHT SQUEEZING. It matters not though doctors may Declare that It will kill; Tho awful corset's hero to stay, And stay ot corset will. Clilcairo MaiL AN INEUniATF.'s DECLENSION. lie went to the rumshon with a Jo, And came out with a jag fn snuir That ho danced a Jiff till a "copper" big Just clapped him into the Juj(. SDrirfiUtld Mass ) Union.

AS TO PRESIDENT IURKIS0N

He Is tho Best Equipped Chief Executive the Nation Ua3 Bad Sicco Lincoln. Three Tpars of Official Record Proves Bim Fully Fqcal to All the Exacting and Varied Requirements of His Great Office. To tho Editor of the Indiana&oT'.s Jonrnal: I cannot understand why it is that certain Republicans feel called npon to manifest such an unreasoning and rancorous hatred for President Harrison. What is the matter with President Harrison! What has there been in the tenor of his official conduct as chief executive which calls for such manifestations of indecency as characterized Governor Foraker's Columbus speech, which was spicod with those highlydecorons allnsions to "grandfather's hat" and "baby McKec?" The question is not about the President's ancestry or posterity; it is a question of his own personal litness for tho plaoo ho occupies his ability, his character, his conduct, his efficiency. Does he meet the requirements of his high station? Nor should a good Republican allow bis personal likes or dislikes to becloud his judgment in such a case, 1 was one of a number of Indiana Republicans who, in 1SS8, preferred Judge Gresham as a candidate for the presidency. I was nt Chicago, a week before the convention met, and stayed there until Harrison was nominated. - Who can carry Indiana? was the question. I believed, and tried to convince such delegates as I met, that Gresham could get mora votes in Indiana than . Harrison. Harrison had been an active righting Republican politician in Indiana for thirty years: he could rally and command the party strength, but could get few, if any, recruits from the Democrats. Gresbam's friends thought that he would receive thousands of Democratic votes, and the support of some of the labor organizationswhich Harrison could not get. Besides this, his recognized ability, his high personal character, his brilliant war record, bis efficient service as a member of Arthur's Cabinet, would greatly enhance his popularity. We were unable to persuade a majority of the delegates to vote for our candidate, and Harrison was nominated. Judge Gresbam's friends went home from the convention, entered the canvass and worked for Harrison's election, as they were in honor bound to do. Similar conduot would have been expected of Harrison's friends if Gresham had been the successful candidate. But this by the way. Judging him fairly now by his three years' official record, what shall be said? Note the fact that the skeptical East which has been wont to give grudgingly of its praise to Western men tho skeptical East is discovering that tho President is a man of ability who thinks straight, talks ana writes in good EnKlish, mirabile dicta! and is quite able to stand alone with some sort of dignity, withont being bolstered nn or kept in leading strings by the supposed able statesmen of the East. The fatuous Democracy havo been acting for nearly thirty years on the theory that no Western man is lit for the piosidency, and during the same time the Republican party has wisely and uniformly taken its leaders From the breast Of the unexhausted West. When thov look at the list of Presidents elcctod by tho Republicans Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, u.irueld and Harrison it would bo more becoming on the part of our Eastern friends, in speaking of tho West, to omit tho patronizing llavor of condescension which they so much affect in speaking of the West and Western mon. GROUNDLESS FEARS. When Harrison was 'nominated fears wero expressed in the national committee that he would wreck his prospects of election if somebody was not sent to Indianapolis at once to put a stop to his addressing visiting delegations. While they were debating as to who should put the padlock on the mouth of the candidate a member of the committee who had been reading Harrison's speeches attentively and studying their etlect on the people told them to let Harrison alone, and that if he kept on making such Rpeecbea bo would elect himself without tho aid of tho committee. And now Mr. Channcey Do pew, the champion Jeather-weight orator of the East, lias'come into camp, and, in a recent interview, ungrudgingly admits that the Indiana man has meriL "Look," says he, "at the 140 speeches made by Harrison during his trip across tho country last spring. Deuced clever, aren't they!" Well. yes. Mr. Depew; thank yon. They do not sutler even by comparison with the four or rive hundred published specimens of your own admirable after-dinner talk. But it now appears that the President is not only read), sagacious and wise in his Popular speeches, but ho is a man of affairs, lo knows what is going on in every department, and gives inoro hours every day to his publio duties than Any of his secretaries. He takes care of his health. During the forty-three years thatlhaveknown him be has had uninterrupted good health, aud has never been disabled for work except once, when suffering from an attack of scarlet lever, brought on by nursing his sick children. Ho attends all the Cabinet meetings, and however full the meeting, wherever he sits is the head of the table. Let us rid ourselves of the notion that he is oversized or overshadowed by any member of his Cabinet. Such is not the fact; and nobody knows it eo well as tho mom-bi-r of tho Cabinet themselves. , Mr. Blaine, on account of illness, has been disqualified for tnauy months from carrying the burden of bis department. On whose shoulders has that burden rested! The guiding And directing hand of the President is manifest in all our international controversies and commercial treaties. I know him well enough to know that he is not in tho habit of shirking responsibility. This gsvernment is not run nnon the English theory of an irresponsible executive figure-bead and a responsible Ministry. It is ludicrous to bear, as 1 havo heard. English gentlemen in active political life speak of Blaine as a sort of Gladstone or a Lord Salisbury, who carried on our affairs of state with' as little regard for the views of tho President as an English Prime Minister has for tho whims of Victoria. Our President is an industrious man. Of necessity he must be f o when tho scope and character of his duties are considered. I heard n Democratic Senator say that President Cleveland took off his coat and worked at his desk liko a hired man ten hours every day. President -Harrison works, but he occupies himself with great allairs. President Cleveland pent most of his waking hours in fashioning phrases to embellish his three or four hundred veto messages, in which it seomed to be his chief delight to insult some disabled soldier who served with Mr. Cleveland's substitute in the Union army. There is something grotesque, almost pathetic, in the spectacle of a big, hulking President of a splendid Republic setting aside the great concern of sixty million people, and sweating and stewing to discover a protext for intercepting a small cr.it nity offered by Congress to one of the Nation's disabled veterans. There is nothiug like it in history or fiction, except possibly Dickcns'4 story of poor Dr. Manette. who, iu hi tits of despondency and dementia, would abandon his scientific pursuit and go to stitching away at a lady's shoe which he never was able to finish. A GOOD ALL-AROUND PRESIDENT. Nor is President Harrison an ideal President in my estimation. I think h6hasdone some things ho ought not to have done, and he has left undone eomo things which he should havo done. He has made some appointments which, to- my mind, were not fit to be made. He has withstood the importunities of somo rascals, and ho has yielded to the importunities of others. But in this he is not singular. Quite an extensive rogues' gallery could bo made of tho rascals who held oflico under Lincoln, Grant. Hayes, Gariield and Cleveland. It is really a source of wonder and congratulation that so tew rascals, after all. get into government position. The publio carrs very little for the grievances of a sorehead office-seeker. The cynical Rochefou-

cald eaid that "we all have' sufficient strength to bear tho misfortunes of others." i think that is a measure that is true in politics at least. Inthetnaiu, the country is pretty well satisfied with tho President's distribution of the patronaje, and that should suffice. heroin has the President been unfaithful to the policy or promises of bis partyT He is sound on the money question; he is sound to a fault in the matter of protection; ho is fair ;n his administration of the civil-service law albeit, somewhat slow m tho estimation of reformers in extending its application. The upshot of the wholo matter is that we have nn all-around good President. Great intellectual abilities, a capacity for largo allairs, honest, courageous, clean iu his private and official character. The nation is fortunate in havincsnch a man at tho head of our national affairs. In a sketch of the President-elect, prepared by me and printed iu the New York Post in December, 1SSS. I raid that Harrison would show himself to be bettor equipped for the office than any ono who had been elected since Lincoln. I appeal to the record of the last three years to justify my prediction. W. P. Pisiidack. IXDUXAi'OLi, Jan. 23. WHY INDIANA, JIR. rEFFEII?

Kate Field and the Kansas Senator Speak Disrespectfully of the Xlootler State, Kate Fie'.d'a Wa&hlratsn. .Mr. reffer. of Kansas, has already distinguished himself by mtrodncing a bill providing for the issue of $100.w)0.t0) in treasury notes to be loaned to the people of Indiana on real estate security, the amounts to bo limited to one-half the value of tho land. But wbv Indiana, Mr. Pefferl Why ' this invidious distinction! What have other States done or not done that they should, be left out in tho coldf Are wo to infer that Indianians are so greatly to bo pitied for being forced by circumstances to remain Hoosiers, that they alone merit tho consideration of a paternal government? Is it this fact which has inspired the dialogue in Mr. Hoyt's broad burlesque. "A Texun Steer," between Congressman Brander and tho conlidenco young woman? "Before our moth bill was introduced," says tho conudenco maiden, "my dear papa died." "Probably he's better off," replies tho sympathetic Brander. "Yfejy likely." sobs tho maiden. "Ho lived iu Indiana." On this ground and this ground only do I understand Mr. Poller's charity bill. Or can it be that this is but tho tho beginning of the Alliance raid on Congress, and that ere many moons, every State and Territory will call on tho United States Treasury for its share of the spoils? If so, where will the 'billion-dollar Congress" be? And whero will tho government be? And what will become of those of us who don't own real estate in Indiana or nnywhere else?. Nowhere! Nowhere! Nowhere! Let ns prepare to project our astral bodies to more hospitable climes. Two Views of the Case, Ilsrtfcnl City Times. There are a few Republican iapers in the State that havo a knack of getting "a little off" on public questions. The Fort Wayno Gazette, in an editorial on the story that President Harrison is taming out of offico men favorable to Blaine as the head of the ticket in 1802, winds up as follows: There is an evident propriety In keeping officeholders in the background in a political canvas, bnt that, they shall bo organized as a band of lackeys and moved as a machine to promote thn political fortunes of the man Mho appointed them will never bo tolerated until we have given up the Lopo of remaining a free, self-governing people. We don't see it. Better keep in the hackground the fellows who wanted offico and didn't get them. Tho fact is, the officeholders are more likely to represent the will of the majority of Republicans. Iu nine cases out of ten the fellows who failed to got office failed because tho majority of Republicans wanted the other fellows accommodated. Republican Harmony. Evanirille Journal. The Muncie Times well says that "Republican harmony prevails throughout Indiana. The question of whether a Republican prefers Harrison or Blaine for President was not raised in the late township conventions, or in the election of officers of the county central committees. In this city a few Democrats stood outside the doors as i nectators.bntthcy were sadly disappointed if thev expected to witness any jarring or factional contests. Like the "milk-sick." Republican dissatisfaction this year is "over in the next county." This is the verdict all over the Stato, Republicans are harmonious everywhere. They have agreed to leave the choice of a presidential candidate to the Minneapolis convention, and then to enthusiastically support the nominee. 31 1 tied by Their Fears. Bedford Mail. Thero seems to bo a disposition on the part of certain newspapers in the State to make it appear that there is an organized opposition to Harrison in Indiana which is of sufficient magnitudo to make it formidable. We think these editors were misled by their fears. Thero is a deep feeling of love and reverence for Mr. Blaine in the hearts of Indiana Republicans, as there should be, but, even aside from the ability and wise statesmanship of President Harrison's administration, our Republicans have enough Stato pride to demand renomination of Indiana's greatest son. Indiana Should lie for Harrison. Pern Republican. Common courtesy would demand that In diana should be solid for President Harrison. His worst political enemies cannot namoafaultin his administration, lie has carried out to the letter tho principles of the platform upon which he was elected, lie has opened up now avenues of commerce, and by his wise policy has brought an era of general prosperity upon tho country. A candidate for sheriff before n county convention is conceded his own township, and why should not a candidate for President have tho indorsement of his own titate? Can't Give a Ilcason. LawrencelinrR Proas. There is no Republican in Indiana who dare risk his reputation for sanity by trying to give any reason for Indiana not going solid for Harrison except that his appointments were in some caees disappointments. Andwbcn he has exhausted bis reasons by this assertion he daro not say that any other man will make less disappointments. The important thing is that Harrison bos not only earned the confidence of his party, but ho has earned tho confidence of the unallicd who are the balanco of power. republican Harmony. MuneJeTlmea. Kepirblican harmony prevails throughout Indiana. The question of whether a Republican prefers Harrison or Hlaino for Presideut was not raised iu tho Uto township conventions or in the election of officers of the couutry central committees. I n this city a fow Democrats stood outsido the doors cs spectators, but they were sadly disappointed if they expected to witness any jarring or factional contests. A Sign of i'rosporltr. Brazil Enterrrise.The calamity howler 6houid gaze on the delinquent lists as they nppear-iu the papers all over the State. Under Republican rule they are growtug rapidly and bcaatlf ally less until they aro no longer a bonan za to the printer. Wo oan remembrr when it cost Clay county from 1.000 to g'J.'.'uo to print the hht. Now it will cost but little, if any, over 150l Of Course. Columbus Republican. Tho Democratic claim that the reciprocity claU6eof the MeKinley law is unconstitutional, is based solely upon the fact that the admirable working of the measure is greatly increasing tho prosperity of the country aud the popularity of the Republican party. Any law that brines about these results is certain to be opposed by the Democracy. - IIP Harrison Sentiment Grotvluj;. Grcensbvrg Repnbilcin. The sentiment in favor of the renomination of President Harri-ou grows stronger each day. Secretary Blaine's health makes it highly improbable that he would undertake the race, and with him out the President will have virtually no opposition. And 11m 1'ersUU iu .Showing It. Conth lleud Tribune. The sorest Ihlng in Democratic circlet at present it Congressman -Mills's too.