Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1894 — Page 4

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THK INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be loui.tl at the lollowiiig places: PARIS American Exchange in Paris, 30 Bouierard OeCapudses. 2si-W YOlcK Gilwy House and Windsor IloteL PHILADELPIIIA-4.p7Kemble, 8733 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO I'aliucr House, Auditorium IloteL CINCINNATI J. R. Hawley A Co, 134 Vine street. LOTJISVIIXE C.T. Deerlng, north weat corner of lhlrd aiiu Jefferson atreets. tT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. Washington, d. o-Tiums uoase and Eubitt House. Grover Cleveland would give more than SO cents If there had never been a Bland with his seigniorage bill. Cannot Mr. Bynum. like his colleague. Conn, hunt up an old promise not to be a candidate again? It would save him a heap of misery. A report comes from Washington that the administration has not only abandoned Its Hawaiian policy, but has quietly adopted that of the Harrison administration. It Is now asserted that the President has the gout, but, distressing as it may be, It cannot give him any part of the trouble that the Democratic party furnishes. Indirectly the Coxey crusade may prove beneficial to this section of the country by drawing a good many tramps East, whence It will take hem some time to get back. If a score more of McXane's Gravesend associates shall be sent to the penitentiary for ballot-box crimes there will not be enough officials left to run the next election. The Chicago papers are assailing the Judge who took upon himself to Interfere with the execution of Prendergast In a vigorous manner. It appears that Prendergast's counsel was a former partner of the Judge. Now that the committee of the New York Legislature has got down to business In the Investigation of the police and election frauds perpetrated by Tammany Hall, the chatter of a combination between certain Republicans and Tammany has ceased. A man of Colonel Breckinridge's fascinations and susceptibility should not be exposed to the temptations of Washington. His constituents should take pity on him ani retire him to the shades of private life, where he will be safe from the pursuit of wily young women. The Chicago Herald takes two-third3 of a column to say that Coxeylsm Is a result of protection. Admit It; then the mobs which rush through the streets of London three or four times a year, demanding bread and robbing shop keepers, may be assumed to be the result of free trade. , The Loufsville Courier-Journal reminds Its party leadTrs that no party has ever gained power by advocating an unsound currency. And It Is right; in 1873 the Republicans won back Ohio and made success In 1S76 possible by standing out in favor of specie resumption. In the end It Is better policy to know the right and stand by it. The President's New York Times, hismouthpiece, has started a new raid upon pensioners, to whom it refers as "the Immense pension-grabbing element of the Grand Army of the Republic." The Cleveland Democrats In Congress who are trying to extend the pension rolls with the nalnes of the widows of deserters ar3 not of the Grand Army. Representative Cooper has carried back to Washington a report that the Democrats in his district are yearning for the Wilson bill, but are hostile to the Voorhees bill for Its favors to trusts. If Mr. Cooper had carried back full reports they would have been hostile to the free-trade policy. It would be to Mr. Cooper's advantage to recall a promise not to be a candidate again. The Journal does not share In the opinion expressed in some quarters that, uncertainty Is the worst element In the business situation and that there will be a revival of prosperity as soon as the tariff question is settled. The worst element in the business situation Is the prospect of the passage of a tariff bill that will revolutionize present Industrial conditions and compel a further and permanent reduction of wages. Wages are materially lower now than they were before Mr. Cleveland was elected, but they will be still lower if the tariff bill passes in anything like its present form, and they will never be raised to even the present standard as long as the tariff for revenue only remains In force. Coxey's fizzle was what every level-head-ed man expected, yet the reports of sensational newspapers for two weeks before the starting made iz appear that thousands were sure to start. Columns were devoted to the subject and flaring headlines were put over such matter. Turn back to those columns now, and they seem the silliest trash that was ever printed. Instead of probing the stories of Coxey anl giving the public, from day to day, the accurate Information which a sensible man on the l,round coulJ have given, reporters who are simply sensation-hunters and makers Bent the exaggerate! hopes of Coxey. And that stuff Is called "news;" an J the collecting of It is called "newspaper enterprise." One of those days a long suffering public will lose Its temper over such im-

positions, and the enterprising paper which I

gives sensations and fancies facts will be punished. Instead of TIIK TKLL CITY LII3 AttAIX. Two weeks ago the Journal, at the request of a number of leading manufacturers In Tell City, published portions of their statement In reply to one which had been sent by the Democratic postmaster, a ballot booth manufacturer and a Democratic county school supervisor, to Washington declaring that the manufacturers and the employes In that city were anxious for the passage of the Wilson bill. This bogus circular was sent to Washington weeks ago, but it was not until Monday that the freetrade Philadelphia Record came across it and made It the subject of a beautiful freetrade romance, which runs on as follows: Tell City, In Perry county, Indiana, a Swiss settlement, was formerly 3trongly Republican; and, although devoted to manufactures, theinhabitants have changed their opinions in regari to the blessings of a protective tariff. The city has thirty different manufacturing establishments, wnich pay from C5y,0 to S700.'jOU yearly In wages, and are in full operation; so that there are no unemployed workers among the inhabitants. One factory only belongs to the "protected industries," so-called, and it has been in operation day and night .since the 1st of December last. The following was a part of the protest which the manufacturers of Tell City signed and sent out, but which seems not to have reached the Philadelphia Record: In reply to the article the manufacturers of this place will say that they have been running at reduced time, reduced labor and reduced wages for the past six months. Three Industries here are at a standstill, unable to resume business because of the depression brought on by Democratic legislation. Admitting that one of the factories had a greater output in 1S33 than in 1S92, yet the dividend of 1833 was 7 per cent. Ies3 than 1832 on a capital Invested of about $T,0,000; granting that one of the factories, the Tell City woolen mills, has been running over time, due to the closing down of larger mills in the cities, they will also feel the effects of the Wilson bill, and the reaction will set" in In the smaller towns and cities when prosperity again will come to this country'- The workingmen of Tell City are solid to a man condemning the Wilson bill. One of the leading mechanics of that place when questioned gave the following reply: "We asked when has experience demonstrated that free trade lessens the burden of the workingmen? What good can the laborer derive by admitting foreign products, cheaper and free, If we find no employment and have no money with hich to purchase the necessaries of life?" The conditions of the business affairs of our city are deplorable. We would advise mechanics and laborers not to flock to our little city, as we have plenty of idle men here seeking employment. Still, the free-trade organs of the East, having fallen upon the far away Tell City yarn, will continue to use It as the basis of editorial fabrications In spite of explanation and denial. The Journal does not expect to obtain retraction, but publishes the story and the denial to emphasize the fact that the free-trade organs are In desperate straits and resort to dishonest methods In their efforts to rescue a heresy which Is the cause of business stagnation and the suffering occasioned by paralyzed Industries. As for Tell City, in 1S92. it gave a Republican plurality of 115 in a total vote of 630, but it will do better next November. A WISD STATOSMAN. Representative7 Conn, of the Thirteenth district,' has had enough; or, rather, he fears that he cannot be re-elected, and, therefore, he announces that he will keep his promise made when nominated in 1S92 not to be a candidate for re-election. Captain Conn Is fortunate to have made such a promise, since to have not made it would have put him in a position where ha could be compelled to be a candidate this year. Even now, the desperation of the Democratic leaders in the Thirteenth may be such that they may compel Representative Conn to present an attested copy of his promise not to again be a candidate, as there is no prospect that another can be obtained who will be so liberal in furnishing the sinews of war as the gallant Captain is alleged to have been. Besides, it has not been a fortunate season for the Thirteenth district statesman. As a manufacturer he promised his employes full employment and the liberal wages he was then paying them. He has not been able to do either. He seems not to have appreciated the destructive capacity of a Democratic President and Congress when let loose upon the Industries of the country. Since Captain Conn remembered his promise his newspaper has changed Its tone. For months it had declared that the Democratic Representative who failed to support that Democratic measure known as the Wilson bill would be false to his party. Since announcing that his promise will not permit him to be a candidate for re-election the Conn organ has faced about In a leading article and has deplored the enactment cf the Wilson bill. There are other such men In the Democratic party at the present time. In office and in their capacity as statesmen they are for free trade and the Wilson bill, but out of office and manufacturers or business men they at least demand the protection of their own industries. Captain Conn does well to refuse to be a candidate in 1S94, to spend his money to be defeated. If he has not had enough of Congress he knows that he has had all there is for him. His successor from the Thirteenth 'district will sit on the Republican side of the next House, and Captain Conn's refusal to be a candidate Is tacit admission of such an expectation. A SI3W WAY TO 1AY OLD I)KIITS. Current developments in regard to Commonweal Coxey's financial affairs raise a suspicion that his widely advertised march on Washington may be a part of a cunning scheme to lift him out of debt. When his crusade first began to be exploited It was given out that he was a successful business man and well fixe financially. Subsequent events show that Coxey must have known the latter part of this statement was not true, but It was not contradicted, and he got the Implied credit for disinterested devotion to the common welfare. Recent developments show that Instead of being well fixed financially, he Is carrying a heavy load of debt which he Is unable to pay. It is somewhat remarkable that, simultaneous with the development of this fact, and just as his "army" has started on its march to Washington, the Populists of a town near where ho live.s should hold a meetiny and Irsue an addres.i "to the common people of the United States" In Coxey's interest. The address says "the Shylocks" are doing all they can to crush and ruin Coxey financially, and by pressing hln to pay his debts are seeking to divert public attention from his philanthropic purpose of relieving the distress and &uflctii

of the people. For this reason, the address

says, the common people should come to the relief of their benefactor, and they are accordingly asked to ' contribute In such suirls as they can, no matter how small, to enable him to pay his debts and continue his great work. As far as heard from, the Shylocks who are trying to crush Coxey are a Kentucky horse breeder, who holds a $21,000 mortgage on a valuable horse which Coxey bought of him, and a Pittsburg merchant to whom he owes ts for mill supplies. People of common sense will think'it the most natural thing in the world that Coxey's creditors, finding that he had abandoned his business and begun to pose as the successor and representative of Christ, should begin to hustle for the collection of their claims. In Populist parlance, f very creditor Is a Shylock, and every debtor a martyr, and If one of the Shylocks urges his debtor to pay him he Is simply diabolical. Of course, Coxey's creditors cared nothing about crushing him or interfering with his crazy scheme, but it was natural they should look out for their own Interests. They had a perfect right to demand payment of their claims, though they might have known it would cause them to be denounced as Shylocks by people of the Coxey kind. Unfortunately, there are a great many fools in the United States, and the appeal which has been made for contributions may bring In quite a sum of money. It looks as If the whole on-to-Wash-ington scheme might have been devised by Coxey as a means cf advertising himself and raiting money to pay his debts. WHO IS ItRSPOXSinLK? The Chicago press is unanimous in censuring Judge Chetlaln for his Interference In the Prendergast case. The Tribune says "Judge Chetlaln should have asked himself why it was that the lawyers came to him, a" young and Inexperienced Judge, whose plnfeathers had scarcely grown (who knew nothing of the case), and asked him to reverse the Supreme Court and overrule, the Governor." The inference is that Prendergast's lawyers hoped to be able to get favors from a young and inexperienced Judge which they could not bet in another court. The Herald says that "after the lawyers had exhausted every other recourse to save their client, and on the eve of the execution had picked up this idle, trumpedup fiction as a pretext for further dallying with justice, the new and inexperienced Judge before whom they appeared should have Instructed them in a better knowledge of what was becoming and what was their duty Instead of rashly . venturing Into the trap that had been prepared for hU feet." The Times say3: Charitable people ascribe Judge Chetlaln's attempt to overrule the Supreme Court and to save the neck of a red-handed murderer to his Inexperience and lack of knowledge of the law which he is supposed to construe. He Is, as a Republican morning newspaper expresses it, "a fresh young Judge." He Is a product of that unintelligent method of selecting Judges with which Chicago is cursed. The very people who nominated him for place on the bench never expected that he would be elected. His personal character, his habits, his professional standing afforded no possible reason for his elevation to judicial station. His nomination, made for political reasons ' alone, was not taken seriously even by the convention which mada It. In addition to these p lctures on the la.-, experience and incompetence of the Judge, rumors are rife that he knew the case would be brought before him, and that he was improperly influenced in his decision. All this is severe on Judge Chetlaln, but Is It not equally severe on the people and on the methods by which they nominate and elect judges? If Judge Chetlaln Is unfit for the position he holds the time to have found it out was before he was elected or even nominated. Who can say . how" much of the miscarriage of Justice which has grown to be such a scandal Is due to the election of Incompetent Judges, and who Is responsible for this but those who elect them? There is reason to 3uspect that the newspaper of Mr. Henry Watterson Is not in favor of Mr. Voorhees's tariff bill, since It alludes to It In the following language: Yet, already, we hear It on every hand that, with this measure of Democratic stultification this finished product of ignorance, cowardice and corruption 'this iniquitous offspring of the blackmailing manufacturer and tne political harlot the whole question must go to the rear, making way for other and more urgent and important issues! Again, referring to the result of Demo-, cratlc wisdom, the Watterson paper calls Its authors "lncapables or rascals." Still further It says of them: When they have fieri Inglorlously from a victorious field, leaving guns that were shotted with the ball-cartridges of truth, to be spiked by an enemy we had driven before us and when, bringing with them only the white feathers of the coward, or the black plumes of the mercenary, they come home for their reward, what shall they encounter, what have they a right to look for, except political damnation and death? Will the Courier-Journal, Mr. Watterson's paper, kindly Inform Its readers In Indiana whether Daniel Wolsey Voorhees Is "an Incapable" or a "rascal' whether he wears the "white feathers of. the coward or the black plumes of the mercenary?" No frank opinion on this subject could be more interesting. Matthew Marshall, in the New York Sun, denies the often-repeated assertion that the fall In the prices of wheat, cotton and other agricultural products. has been coIncident with the fall In sliver and has been caused by it. He says: In the first place, the fall In the price of commodities since has not been exactly coincident with the fall in silver, and even if It had been it would not prove that it was caused by the fall in sliver any more than the fall In twenty thermometers in the same room could be rightfully attributed to the fall In any particular one of them. Silver, like many other thlnirs. has suffered from an incit-ase of production not accompanied by a correspondingly increased demand for consumption. Ttie proof of this la that certain articles, such as tobacco, coll'ee, butchers' meat and Indigo, have actually rl?en in gold price since 1S7J. and the last census shows that wages in this country rose on an hverage 4') por cent, between 1S0 and while the aggregate wealth of the country increased during the same Interval by onethird. The fact that the new Chinese treaty Is Indorsed by Representative Geary, of California, indicates that It will probably be acceptable to Pacific coast people generally; Mr. Geary, is the recognized leader of the antl-Chlnese sentiment and the author of the present law, yet he Is frank enough to admit that all such legislation in open to me "charge of being violative of existing treaties. The new treaty establishes the principle of t'ie Geary law both in regard to the absolute prohibition of Chinese immigration and the registration of those

now hero, and for thi3 reason It Is a decided gain for the United States over the present treaty. It Is far better on every account to have the consent and co-operation of the Chinese government In carrying out the exclusion and registration policy under treaty stipulation than for the United States to do It in violation of treaty. The sentiment of property holders as to the kind of pavement to be laid on a street Is entitled to some, but not to controlling weight. The streets belong to the city, and the general public who use them should have as much voice in the kind of pavement to be laid as the property holders. The point to be decided Is what kind of pavement will best serve the public needs without reference to local sentiment.

Investigation of the mysterious postoffice frauds at South Bend has brought out the fact that that city Is headquarters for the manufacture and sale of 173 patent medicines and cosmetics. Yet It Is not known as an unhealthy city, and the average duration of human life in Indiana Is fully as great as in other States. ilUIIIlLCS IN TIIR AIU. America's Pride. Our two greatest women up to date Are Mrs. Lease and Governess Waite. Well Xarnod. "What do you girls call that club of yours?" "The Analytical.'.' "Il'm. What do you analyze?' "Other people's reputations, mostly." Had Ills Suspicions. "It was very kind of the boys to come arcund and serenade me," said the candidate for Congress, "but I would like to know what venomous scoundrel put them up to playing "There's No Place Like Home.' " The Common View. "Don't you believe the world Is growing better?" asked the enthusiastic young woman. "Well," replied the old gentleman, "the older people are less pig-headed and prejudiced than were elderly people when I was a youth. But I do not" think the young men of the present day have half the enterprise or judgment of those of my time." SALOON KEEPERS' IilGHTS. "U. L. See" Thinks Justice Habich's Construction of Law Is Correct. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The decision of 'Squire Habich in the Ackelow case is a long step in the right direction. A private citizen, without any proper authority, entered a hotel, not as a guest, but for the purpose of espionage, and in carrying out his irpose he disregarded the rights of the landlord to be exempt from unreasonable searches. Without expressing any opinion of the merits of this case, which may or may not be modified by circumstances that I know nothing of, I wish to say that saloons under our law have a great many rights that some good people are very reluctant to respect The truth Is, the present law relating to this Industry was purposely so framed as to give the saloon the least possible annoyance. Common sense, common law and the uniform decisions of courts accord to the liquor traffic every right that any other business has except a3 common law rights are restricted by statutory law. Under our law saloons are not allowed to sell their goods on Sunday. Neither Is the butcher or the grocer or the dry good3 dealer, and the duplicating of our general law as to Sunday work in the law regulating the saloon business 13 a bit of sharp practice on the part of the saloon; it smacks of piety, you see. whereas it is no more harm to sell Intoxicants on Sunday than on any other day except as relates to the general question of Sunday work. It was a master stroke of wisdom on the part of the saloons to stipulate that they should not esll on Sunday. It was a concession to the religious prejudices of a large class who care not a tig for the ordinary ravages of the saloon, but who would be shocked to see the Sabbath desecrated. The murderers of Dr. Cronln did not scruple to take his life, but when stripping him their pious scruples would not allow them to disturb the crucifix which he wore about hi3 neck. That was too sacred a thing to be touched by piou3 hands. A great many people who are tussellng with the saloon have a great many things to learn yet, not the least of which is to respect the rights of the saloon people. A man who commits murder deserves to die, but In civilized countries there are methods to be observed in killing him. We call all summary proceedings mob violence. What else are all unlawful assaults upon saloons? Give them the benefits of all laws. Our law says they shall not sell on Sunday, but the same law, taken with other laws, makes it next to impossible to prove a sale. We can hardly afford to keep 4"0 extra detectives who may sit all Sunday and from 11 to G at night to watch them, and nobody else has a right to. The good that is to come trom this decision of 'Squire Habich is to call attention to the fraud of the law itseif. It may drive our Council to the enactment of an ordinance which will provide ome relief while we wait for a better State law than the law the saloon keepers dictated. That better law is coming. U. L. SEE. Indianapolis, March 27. THAT DEFECTIVE AKMOli Had Attitude in Which Secretary Herbert Has Placed the Government. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: . That the American government should enter Into a contract with the employes of the Carnegie Steel Company by which it purchases information which it is its business to obtain through regular channels, Indicates a deplorable state of affairs. To what purpose do we support an expensive ordnance and armor bureau if we may not rely upon it for just such information as has b ?en purchased from these informers? When the government was told that certain supplies were not standard was it not its business to have the experts, which it is suppose'd to employ for just such purposes, discover wherein the alleged defect3 existed? With paid inspectors detailed to look after the government's interests at the works of the Carnegie company, no reasonable man who is familiar with the 'manufacture of steel and iron can for a'moment

believe that deception could be practiced without the collusion of the said inspector; provided, that he was attending to his bus iness. Iff There is only one other hypothesis that can be maintained, and that is that the inspector was woefully incompetent. In any event, it appears that the government is equally responsible with the Carnegie people for damages. Such accusations as these may not greatly disturb the Jofty 'minds that direct our affairs, but we beg to remind them that it is we the people who employ them, and that they are but our agents. It is the people who must sustain the loss. To use a slang expression. It appears as if this whole affair was a "set-up jot a Job "set up" by the Carnegie employes to damage the company; an echo of the celebrated Homestead strike. Armor plates are ponderous pieces of metal; some of them pieces that require hours to heat and hours to cool. To assume that those plates could be especially treated, secretly and at night, without the knowledge of an inspector if he were competent and attending to hi3 duty is ridiculous. That our government has gone outside of its own corps to find experts competent to discover the fraud is still more ridiculous, and will no doubt be a source of amusement to foreign powers that may hear of It. An Instance may be cited right In the city of Indianapolis where employes have put forth defective work unknown to their employer, and subsequently, in petty spite, during a labor diliiculty, gone to the purchaser and called his attention to the very defects of their own making, thus hopiug to cause their employer trouble. Th- Car-' negie case may be simiiar, and people should not take "snap judgment." IRON WOUKEH. Indianapolis, March 27. Willi IIIoimI timl Money. Louisville Commercial. The soldiers saved the country by their bld in lS'il. and they are called on to save it by their money now. Twenty-six millions have been tak:n off the pension list thU'ycar In order to balance accounts.

UNWHITTEN HISTORY

Why Schuyler Colfax Firmly Reliised to Re-Enter Public Lile. Correspondence Showing. a Demand for His Services and His Own Views on the Credit Mobilier Charges. New York Mall and Express. If one were asked to point to three men In the history of American politics whose characters and motives had been most malignantly assailed and upon whose heads the fculest calumnies and most vindictive detraction have been exhausted, the names which would first suggest themselves to the student of American history and iolltics would be George Washington, Schuyler Colfax and Jaraes G. Blaine. Against th'. fair reputation of each the shafts of pcrty rancor, of malignant newspapers, of personal spite and detraction beat pitilessly, but the test was successfully withstood, and each, "mens conscla recti," died secure in the respect and affection of the American people. Washington outlived the vicious charges which were hurled against him during his second term, and became the father of his country. Blaine became the Idol of his party, and before his death had secured the admiration and respect even of his political foes. There is a mistaken Idea prevalent that Schuyler Colfax carried to the end the stigma of the Credit Moblller charges and that he never recovered the entire confidence of the people. The gist of the charge was that Colfax had received 51,200 as a dividend upon the discredited Credit Moblller stock, in the handling of which so many public officials were more or less smirched. Colfax met the charges manfully, and denied at the time of the investigation and ever after that he had In any way received money from the Credit Moblller. The only evidence on which the charge was based was a check drawn by Oakes Ames to "S. C. or bearer." The check, however, was unindorsed and the Vice President denied any knowledge of its existence, while his own private books clearly proved that he never received the money. For a time the clamorous virulence of his enemies doubtless produced some effect upon his Immediate political fortunes, and it is certain that the iron of popular ingratitude entered his soul, but, conscious of his own rectitude, he calmly awaited the verdict of time and history for his vindication. Colfax did net, however, become a political back number after the Credit Moblller scandal, and had he been willing he could easily have re-entered public life at any time up to the close of his career. Rut he persistently declined every office which was attempted to be thrust upon him. He was once offered the portfolio of State. In 1SS0 his friends promised him the Indiana senatorship if he would put himself in their hands. This he declined and urged the nomination of Benjamin Harrison, who was elected. After his election Harrison wrote to Colfax, saying: "Your course In this whole matter has been very manly and considerate toward me, and I want you to know that I appreciate it." The ex-Vice President was frequently mentioned as .a probable Cabinet minister of Mr. Garfield. Garfield once Eald to him: "My first thought after my nomination at Chicago wa3 of you." All such talk he discouraged and deprecated. URGED TO RE-ENTER PUBLIC LIFE. Again In 1SS3 he was besought to accept the nomination for Congress from the South Bend district, and the pressure brought to bear upon him was almost overwhelming. Mr. E. W. Halford, afterward the private secretary of President Harrison, wrote to Colfax: "I spent a week in Washington and while there heard a general and warm desire expressed that you should come to the House from your old district. After I came home I started the idea in a telegram to the New York Times. It has Fince been taken up, and you must be touched by the warm expressions and the decided hope that you will agree to stand. Permit me to Fay that my Judgment Is clear that you should. You owe it to yourself. your future, your friends, not to say your district and State. I know the ease and comfort of your present life, but ease and comfort are no man's prerogative in this world. You cannot be defeated. Yqu will be the 'leader of your party in the State by the force of circumstances as well as one of the leading figures in Congress. I want you to pray over this. I am In dead earnest. Your friends are. I believe it to be your duty." Editor D. S. Marsh, of the South Bend Register, wrote: "The handwriting is on the wall. Let me entreat you. by the regard you have for your personal and political friends, here and throughout the Nation; by your love for the grand old party of human rights and good government, sadly In need to-day of your leadership in the House, and which in two years more will need a Colfax for its national candidate to steer it clear of dissensions and jealousies In Its own ranks; by the demands of your manhood, which cannot be satisfied in the zenith of lts'power to rest inactive from work it is so well qualified to perform by all these reasons and more, not to dampen the ardor of those so enthusiastic and disinterested In your behalf. Don't interfere against the rising tide. The district will be a unit for you. The people, the press and the politicians even express but the one sentiment, harmonious and jubilant. All that is asked is that you stand aside and see the salvation of the Lord. We shall have such an uprising In the district as you have never before seen. Stay your voice and hand from the ungracious task of depriving your people of their long-expected opportunity." Senator Van Wyck, of Nebraska, sent the following: "I was just reading this Sunday evening an item that you would probably yield to the wishes of your friends in the old district, and allow them to return you to the House of Representatives. I earnestly hope you may do so. Many, many times I have felt and remarked that you should have done this very thing years ago. If you conclude to pratlfy your friends, there will go up grateful acclamations from millions of warm, generous, and, I may say, loving hearts. If It requires some sacrifice on your part, make It. This much is due to yourself and the Nation.". A distinguished clergyman who shared the Intimacy and confidence of the Indiana statesman wrote as follows: "I think you make a great mistake by persisting In your refusal to again enter public life. You may not be aware of it, but it has a bad effect not only on the public, but on yourself. Letting the former go, your action has on you the effect of deepening the impression that you are a wounded man with a wounded spirit. It helps to cloud and sadden your life, when, mv dear sir, there is no need of It. I think I am correct in saying that to an immense majority of your fellow-citizens you are an Innocent man, wronged; and my criticism on your course is that you have unwisely permitted this wroncr to crush, or. at least, to keep you down. You should do so no longer. It shows pardon me for speaking plainly a weakness that, to say the least, it is unwise to exhibit. You should show that you are made of 'sterner stuff,' and If God ofTers you the opportunity you should once again stand in the Funlight and not remain in the shadow. Remember, 'My ways are not your ways,' salth the Lord. His way, for you. had In it a bitter experience, and Tie knew what was best. If now He Is willing to st you 03lhe rock and put the new song in your mouth, don't you thwart Hi3 purpose. Cod's ways are past finding out. I don't know why He permitted you to have that sorrow, and I don't onre. He did. and that's enough. But one of the most profound truths in God's government is thrrt vfhlle He permits such things He at the spme time offers opportunities, chances, to Ills nfllleted children. And if lie in His providence is now willing to offer you one more, don't you let It go by." MR. COLFAX'S REPLY. It was In reply to this letter that Mr. Colfax wrote the following letter, the manuscript of which has come Into the possession of the Mail and Express, and has never before been made public. It reveals the sincerity of his purpose and motive, his determination to remain t private citizen, and withal, a pathetic strain which shows how deeply the shafts of calumny had penetrated to his sensitive soul, anl a feeing cf tiie emptiness of human honors and the ingratitude of republics. Here is the letter: ;01;TH BEND. Ind...July 11, IS 7. "My D-ar Sir In rny remuiled packige of to-duy, among quite a numler elicited by my rec-ent Utter to the eIltor of the Iockport Journal, which I had not exwcted to see in print, the mit w-l?o:ne, because the most elaborate and evidently from your heart us well as your mind and pen, was your.s. l need scarcely tell you that I appreciate all your rx-rsonal remarks very highly. There never was a wickeder calumny, but like many another falsehood (th 'Mrgairi and sale story n gainst H:iry 'liy. -t. vie), 1 do iut expect to live long enough

to see It knied by any amount of evidence whatever. The charge can be made In a line. It takes a column to reply. And then, while it is remembered, people say, so much explanation shows there waa something of it.' And. when it Is forgotten, the old lie can le set agoing In another single sentence. But in spite of the insatiate and fiendish malignity of the Sun. which rehashes It every -week or tvo and keeps at it tho ten years have elaps-d, it has ceased to hurt my feedngs. I fin 1. a you say, such vast numbers who confide in my Integrity, and my present life la so much- more enjoyable than my public life was, that when the- 'heathen rage I look on quite calmly. PUBLIC HONORS NO INDUCEMENT. "I have read and reread all you write about returning to public life, but no temptation could induce me to do 1L I have weighed all the considerations you uige so strongly, but they are far outweighed by others. I honestly believe If I had remained in public life I would have been dead long ere this, while my health now Is better than when I was a publio servant. I was wearing cut from the multitudinous exactio. ' and worries and responsibilities1 of piblic life, tho' I did not realize it then, iou have doubtless forgotten the attack of twelve years ago, wnen I was resiling In the Senate on the treaty ol ashincton. which settled our difficulties with Great Britain, when Lwas prostrated so utterly it took months to recuperate, ow I have an lnieiendent life, four times as many lecture invitations as I can accept, a round of visits all over the country for seven or eight months per year, spending every Sunday with my family, as 1 fix all my dates and arrange all my routes of travel myself, end talking about my own times, etc., etc. "You can't imagine the repugnance with whiah I now view the service of the manyheaded public with all Its toils, its innumerable exactions of all kinds, th never ending work and worry, the explanations about everything whicl the public li? lYley nave the rK3t the lack of independence as to your gointrs and comKff'l'if.hie Isunurstand!nSs, the envylngs, backbiting, etc., etc., etc. "It is comparatively easy to represent a single district and its interests. But you will remember, that the last ten years I was In public life as Speaker and Vice President, my constituency widened to the entire nation, and my entire time by day and nearly all the nights often were mortgaged to the public. As i know people all over the land by the hundreds of thousands (literally) it would take four to six secretaries. I should think, to attend to all the department business, the office applica-. tlons, the correspondence on all conceivable subjects that would come to me if I were to return to public life now. Besides, when in it, I held all the offices I ever had any ambition for. Why commence again at the foot of the ladder, when too old now to climb up again and when I have realized that it is ail 'vanity and vexation of spirit T Look at the 'issues' now as compared with the grand and momentous ones when I was at the helm In the two houses of Congress. Important as they may be, yet what a contrast to the past. "I have reserved In this hurried reply the one which you have more largely in your mind to the last vindication. But, my dear sir, there Is no vindication in elections on partisan nominations by a political majority. The case of Henry Clay, to which I have referred, proves this. But take a later one. General Garfield's. H was smutched with the same calumny and felt It keenly. But, knowing his innocence and having a district with ten thousand Republican majority in it to back him (the largest Republican majority in the United States), he determined to fight it down. He was elected. Hut the calumny cut his majority down to 2.&00, a loss of over seven thousand. Still he was elected and the next time he Increased thl3 diminished majority to six thousand, and the next it was back" to the old figure. Ther the egislature, by an unanimous Republican vote in caucus and In Joint committee, elected him Unit?d States Senator. But, after all this, when nominated for President, the old He sprang Into life again and J329,' which represented it, was pasted everywhere till the Republicans were actually forced to trample out the lie which repeated vindications by elections could not extinguish. "After Maine went back on us in September, 1880, and the cause seemed lost, till Indiana made that wonderful rally in October and turned the tide of battle, Garfield suffered 'torture' at the Idea that he might be defeated, and the great national reverse charged in history to the Credit Moblller charge against him, as It would have been. "I cannot continue this argument. Suffice It to say I have served the Nation and my party twenty years faithfully and must be excused from further duty or that kind. "Excuse this very hurried letter, and believe me. with sincere acknowledgements of your kind letter. Very truly yours. "SCHUYLER COLFAX." A few months later Colfax died suddenly and alone while Rittingr in the railway station at Mankato, Minn., awaiting a train to take him to complete a lecture engagement. A sweeter spirit, a kindlier or more forgiving nature, a more sincere and upright purpose, never existed than that which animated the life and beautified tho character of Schuyler Colfax. INDIANAPOLIS SCHOOLS. .

Dr.Eice's Opinion Concerning Them Still Surprises Easterners. In a review of Dr. Rice's book entitled "TJie Public School System of the United States," the New York Sun has the following comments: Where shall we look for the most scientific and efficient public schools in the United States? It will surprise many readers to learn that we must go to Indianapolis. Here, although the designation of teachers lies legally In the hands of the Board of Education, their selection has. In fact, been left in the hands of the superintendent. In no way has politics affected the selection or discharge of teachers or in any other way interfered with the management of the schools. We should add that tha teachers aTe either graduates of the Indianapolis Normal School or selected for pedagogical efficiency from the graduates ot other training schools. To expound the philosophy of the work done In the Indianapolis institution would require a volume on th science of education. Still, a few words will indicate the fundamental principle Involved. The principle underlying the method of these schools is known in the new education as the idea of unification which contemplates the combination of the various branches of knowledge so that they may acquire more meaning by being seen in their relations to one another. An isolated fact is food for the memory alone, and it is only when this fact is seen in its relation to other facts that It becomes interesting and the reasoning faculties are brought into play. But, although unification has an obviously stimulating effect upon pupils, it does not of itself make a good school, because It is not the course of studies but the teacher that determines the character of the institution. A mechanical. curriculum exerts a cramping pressure the teacher and with the introduction vf a philosophical course of studies, this pressure is removed: but how much the teacher will profit by the change depends upon herself, and upon the nature of the guidance she receives from others. From this point of view the public schools of Indianapolis, though perhaps the best,- cannot be described as perfect, because the teachers are not perfect. The spirit of the teachers is excellent, but their professional efficiency is not yet remarkable. There is no doubt, however, that the educators of Indianapolis are working in the proper direction, that thev have already accomplished much, and are likely to accomplish more. The I'aperM nml the Coxey Farce. Cincinnati Tribune. Up to the prisent moment the proposed Coxey demonstration has been nothing more nor less than an elTort on the part of sensational newspapers to trade In the possibilities of these depress 2d and troubled times. The Importance of Coxey and the possiblitles of hl3 performance, have been exaggerated and magnified in a ridiculous but elective way. Thousands of people have been desperately dec-ived and needlassly alarmed. In Washington, the objective point of the "army." there: was a good deal of vague ccnst2mat!on anl much speculation, and tome active nparatlon on the part of th? police. For the purpose of selling a few extra copies of their Journals many editors hav? betn willing to annoy and alarm the country. Columns and columns of unwarranted, barefaced falsehood and invention have betn printed. . The Moral of llif Breckinridge fume. Philadelphia Times. There are many other such dramas that do not ;et into the courts or Into the newspapers. But every one of them is a tragedy. The eternal law of purity, that lieu at the lKtt"!U of the social rubric, is ne whf-V every violation brings its inexorable lK-::j.!t . and the longer the catastrophe is deia.st'l the deeper and more appalling are the n sequences. It is well to recognize this. Wo may not like to have our yeung people read all the- rietn'ls of this horn 1 scandal, but they must be very' thoughtless if they can read the story at ail and not feel its l(r:n. r.vrry Word Ilrour.Iit Into l'lny. Johnsonburg (P. Times. Thera are 2.",i.(") words in the English language, and most of the?n were used l ist Sunday by the woman who dlseov red, alter co niru' inn t caur that her u w hat was adrnd with t:ig on which wa4 written: "Reduced to J-'.Tj."