Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1894 — Page 4

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THE IMHA.VUOLIS JOURNAL Can Ve found at the following ptaccs: IAR1S American Exchange In Paris. 33 Boulevard ceCapucitts. RJbW OIiK-GlJsey House and WlnOsor UoteL PHILADELPHIA e. pTKemble, 3733 Lancaster avenue. ' ' CHICAGO Palmer Iloate, Auditorium Hotel. CINCINNATI -J. IL. llawiey & Co, 154 Vina Afreet. Z-OUISVILLZ c.T.leertns. aortuweat corner ot Third anU Jefferson streets. fcT. LOUIS Union Newt Company, Union Depot: VaSMNGTON. D. O-TBlggs Honse and Eubitt Green Smith shows as much solicitude fcbout the money in. the treasury aa If he expected to get at It for a second 12 per cent, fee.' If the Senate Investigating committee is Hot exceedingly careful it may accidentally stumble on somo information which will be hard to suppress. The lumber Interest pays wages to 373.000 men, and lumber is put upon the fret; list. JThe Sugar Trust r employs 7.500 men, and sugar is taxed over 40 per cent. Aa between the miners and the operators public sympathy ought to be wholly with the miners, but. as between strikers and the law it ought to be wholly on the side of the law. - Senator Murphy has been permitted to name the postmaster. at Troy, and now the quidnuncs are wondering if Senator Hill will bo permitted to name the postmaster t Albany. The passage of the pending tariff bill, .with Its concessions to trusts and special tntrrests. will at least estop Democratic! demagogues from their everlasting yawping about plutocrats. ' Congressman Breckinridge has finally declined the invitation to deliver a Fourth of July cratlon at Fulton, 111., on the ground Df "urgent business in Washington ahd tha trreat distance to Fulton." Ah! . Tho other day a man who robbed a county of 140,000 as an official got three years in the penitentiary, while another who Btole a few chickens got ten years. Nevertheless, the former was many times the greater crime. 'The Rev. Cave, who declared that the cause cf secession was the noblest of the century, yearna for a nonsectarian church. The church without a belief would be Just the thing to go with a government whose cornerstone was human slavery. It doe3 not seem to have occurred to the eociallstio and labor organizations whlsh advocate government ownership of railroads and telegraphs that under such ownership the government would not pay more than tandard wages and would not tolerate strikes. 1 - ' In Atlanta, Ga.t a body of military cadets on dress parade marched behind the confederate flag, and thepeople applauded. Yet Atlanta wants the G. A. R. to meet there. End is asking Congress for. an appropriation In aid of Its interstate exposition. There is such a thing as patriotism for revenue only. ' : , i There is a duty of 25 per cent, on marble because Tennessee has ' marble quarries and because the ex-confederate Senators of that St8te took out for their constituents, but the duty on Indiana building stone Is only .half as much because Indiana Senators willingly sacrifice Indiana industrie3. There ia a touch of the humorous In the anxiety cf the striking miners to enforce the law by stopping railroad trains at crossings. The law requires all trains to come to a full stop before crossing another track, and as It makes r. provision . for their starting again the strikers seem to have concluded that the stop should be permanent. The chatter about tbe conversion of Republicans to bimetallism 13 childish. In 1S7S the Republicans took a stand in favor of a policy which would insure the coinage of both metals on an international ratio, andthey have never changed. The monomet-. alllsts, as Mr. Bynum has said, are those who now insist on the free coinage of silver by the United States alone. On Memorial day, in a section of Chicago Inhabited by Poles, Bohemians and Sicilians, was found an American Hag to which was attached the inscription, "Under this we starve." displayed from a window of a Coxey recruiting office. The room was crowded with filthy foreigners who, in foreign tongues, were cursing all those who had a competency aud everything American. - The suggestion of Representative Jason B. Brown, whose congressional career will soon end. for minister to China is grotesque. The Chinese may be. from cur point of view, heathen, but that would not Justify this government in inflicting upon them such a representative as the . statesman from Jackson. Colonel Denby, the present minister. U an accomplished gentleman and dlplomate. and should be continued in the position as long as he desires. The Populist convention in Illinois u! not adopt the whole of the crted of the social labor party, since that clause which declared for the collective ownership of all productive property, which would Indues th farms cf many r-,,-", ""1 was

rejected. The Populist wants all that he has and a part of all the remainder, but he does not wish to divide his own with those who have nothing and want nothing but ber and idleness.. HOW.SOT TO INVESTIGATE. The sruarded way in which Chairman Gray, gives out the testimony before the Sugar Trust investigating committee might be likened to the efforts of the captain of

a ship to confine a fire to the hold by bat tening down the hatches and keeping the air out. Senator Gray has not had much experience as .'a censor of the press, but his legal training and Democratic instincts serve in good stead to tell him what to give out and what to suppress, and how to put the information furnished in the form least' likely to hurt anybody or to impinge upon the courtesy of the Senate. In the report of the proceedings yesterday it was stated that "Senator Mcpherson reiterated the statements he made recently on the floor of the Senate, that when it became apparent that sugar was to be made the subject of legislation he had instructed his brokers to cease all dealings in, sugar stock in his name." Not another" word about Senator McPherson'a testimony. He is one of the Senators who Is charged with having made a large sum of money speculating in sugar stocks. He admits that he had speculated in stocks, but says he stopped when he heard that sugar was to be made the subject of legislation. - Now, he knew, and everybody knew, as soon as Mr. Cleveland was elected President that sugar was to be made the subject of legislation in one form or another. The Wilson, bill, as originally Introduced in the House. Imposed a duty on sugar. This was more than six months ajro. and sugar has been on the tapis ever since "Now, when did Senator McPherson first learn that sugar was to be made a subject of legislation, during what period did, he speculate in sugar stocks, and when did he stop speculating In it? This is what the country would like to. know, and It would like to know if he was questioned on these points. Dates are the essence of the "case; was he asked to give any. or was he. dismissed on his slmnle statement that he stopped speculating in sugar stock when it became apparent that sugar was to . be made the subject of legislation? Perhaps It was apparent to everybody else before it was to Senator McPherson. If he was' making' money by speculating in' sugar stock, as . has been charged, . it may have takoij him a-: long time to discover that it was really going to become a sub1ect, of legislation. Press censor Gray does not . vouchsafe any information on these joints. The report goes on to say, "The committee also examined Senators Harrl3 and Mills." Senator Harris did not 'know anything, and. Senator Mills testified that Secretary Carlisle had given Mr. Havemyer, head of the Sugar Trust. . a letter of introduction to him. but that he had declined to ,-eceive the letter. This Is a, surprising piece of- Information. Why should the Secretary of the Treasury, whose duty it is to look out for the Interests and revenues of the United States, give a letter to the head of the Sugar Trust, whose Interests' are opposed to those of the government, introducing him to a Senator known to be unfriendly to the Sugar Trust? Was Mr. Carlisle trying to help Mr. Havemyer 'placate hostile Senators? Senator Catfery ? testified . a few days ago that he , was : told that Mr. Hcmyer ., wanted '. to see him, but he was not ' asked - who told him so. Was It Mr. Carlisle? Senator Mills showed nerve In declining to receive a letter from the Secretary, of the Treasury introducing the head of the ' Sugar Trust, and his action does him credit, but the public would like very much. , to, know what was in the letter, whether Mr. Havemyer presented It In person', and what passed between them on the subject. The committee does not seem to have made any effort to obtain theso facts. ' ' Following is. the report of Secretary CarHalo's .'testimony I Secretary -, Carlisle denied 'explicitly all the charges made In Mr. Edwards's letteV, except one. This one was the assertion that-while; conferring with the committee he (Carlisle.) on one occasion, at the suggestion of the members of the committee and using their figures, put a sugar schedule into shape, as he did other paragraphs in their bill. This, the Secretary said, he had done. He declared that he had not made-such a visit as that he was represe:.td.ai making to the committee to de mand that the sugar interest be cared for in the tariff lljl because of the Democratic -party's obligation to the Sugar Tru.Ht. This carefully guarded statement shows that Mr.i Carlisle, who Is shown to have given Havemyer a letter of Introduction, did "put a sugar.,schedule into shape" for the committee. ' Was It the one In the finance' committee's ' bill or the one in the Ifavemyer-Gorman bill? It is something for Mr. Carlisle to have been forced to admit that he formulated "a sugar schedu!e." but it. would be much more Interesting to know what schedule it was. In the absence of further information the public will conclude that it was the schedule which' largely Increased the profits of the Sugar Trust, whose head Mr. Carlisle . was favoring with letters of introduction to Senators. Thus, although the hatches are battened down, smoke continues to pour through the crevices, indicating fire in the hold. The driblets of information which the chairman of the committee gives out indicate that more Is suppressed and that a much greater amount exists which the committee Is careful not to elicit. A TAIUFP TO 3IOXETI7.E SILYEH. The interview, of ex-Speaker Reed in the London Fortnightly Review will be sure to attract attention, because it is an elaboration of the idea upon which was based Senator Lodge's amendment to the tariff bill which the Senate rejected, and the resolution of the Indiana Republican convention, and Is a new proposition for the restoration of silver to full money power. To-day but two leading nations are strictly upon the gold basis, and in these eiiver is a limited legal tender Great Britain and Germany. If all the silver-using countries can be made to unite in Imposing higher duties upon the products of those nations which require balances and interest due them to be paid In gold, the trade of the single gold standard countries will be so restricted that they will be corouellcd trj unite with otV r.-

tions In the full remonetizatlon of silver. Indeed. If the Congress of the United States should put it Into a tariff act that because Great Britain and other nations .discriminate against the metal which is a legal tender in the United States It Is necessary to double the duties on all British Imports, there can be little doubt that these nations would help to remone'tize silver. In the tariff bill before the Senate there is a

provision which adds 10 cents a hundred to German sugars because Germany pays a bounty on German sugars sold abroad. - If Congress can place a discriminating duty on an article to protect the Sugar Trust,' it certainly can place such a duty upon all the products of those countries which reject as the money of commerce, with which these goods must be paid for, one-half of the coined money of the United States and more than half of the value of the metal It produces for money. Interference in behalf of the Sugar Trust with a special tax to prevent the making of sugar cheaper Is frivolous. as well as unjust, but to impose duties to compel those who come to us to sell their goods to accept our coin money In payment Would be statesmanship. As a remedy it would be effective, and as a policy it would tend to make the large cities of the United States as Important as the world's clearing houses for its products as now are London and Liverpool. HOSSEK'S IIAXT. 'Gen. Thomas L. Rosser is one of those men who, after being educated at the expense of the United States government, and after making oath time and again to be loyal to .the Nation and its Constitution and laws, committed perjury and Joined the rebellion, where he became a distinguished cavalry officer. General Rosser, after his four years of treason preceded by perjury, applied for restoration to citizenship, which was granted him by the generosity of a Republican Congress and President upon taking an oath of allegiance. A large part of the time since his pardon for treason and hla restoration to citizenship he has been employed' as an engineer by railroads building by the aid of congressional land grants, so that since, as before 'the war, he has eaten bread which the United States has furnished. On Memorial day this once perjured General Rosser was one of the speakers at the dedication of a monument in Richmond, Va., in honor of the rank and file of the confederate army, and said: I despise the man who gives United States money to a pensioner. This country can't stand when it makes one citizen support another. I-shall never vote for a Congressman' who is in favor of government pensions. I would say - to Massachusetts, you pay your pensioners as Virginia pays hers. General -Rosser then went on to assail the Grand Army of the Republic as men banded together to rob the treasury, and that he never desired to see them the guests ,'6f a Southern city. The denunciation of Union veterans as pension thieves Is so common on the part of papers like the New York. Times and magazines like the Forum that the fiery confederate cannot be singled out for censure for repeating what he reads in Northern papers, but there was no occasion for him to make an ass of himself by concluding' his address with the following declaration, inspired by idiocy and rage: We unveiled a monument to the greatest general who ever lived. To-day we unveil a monument to the greatest private soldiers; who ever lived, and In time we will unveil a monument to the President of the Confederacy. But we are mocked at in the North, and will live to see the Yankee army march again through the South and pull down our monuments. I don't know what sort of stuff the rising generation Is made of, but if you and I are living there will be bloodshed when that is done. The Idea that a Yankee army will ever be sent South to pull down its monuments Is too preposterous to be repeated. On Memorial day, so far as one can gather from the reports of .addresses, there was not an un kind word spoken regarding the Southern people, and particularly against the rank and file of the confederate army, . whose valor, aside from the cause in which it was displayed; has won the admiration of the age. But for how many people in the South does this perjured Rosser speak, even In regard to pensions? Last November Gen. Rosser was the populist candidate for Congress In the Seventh -Virginia district, running' against Mr. Turner, Democrat, who was elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by. the resignation of Governor O'Ferrall. This fact may account for his Idiotic rant about pensions and the North. Still, many people in the North would like to know how extensive is the bitter feeling ex pressetS by Populist Rosser in the South against the North, and if all of his party in' the .South are as hostile to pensions as are the Democrats of the South and the special Cleveland organs of the North. It would be a most timely thing for a number of excellent and ambitious Repub licans to remember that it is of as much importance to each one of the 23.C00 to SO,000 men who' will vote for a good Repub lican in each of the Indiana districts to" have a Republican Representative as it is to them individually, and that no man calling himself a Republican has a claim upon such candidacy that will warrant him In creating factions and stirring up strife which may jeopardize Republican success in order to secure it. It Is all important to the Interests of the country that the next House shall be Republican, and no one man's interest is greater than that of every other man whose interests have been sacrificed by this Congress. Hon. John C. Urrderrood, of Kentucky, who Is being backed by Secretary Carlisle for superintendent of the coast survey, is a typical Kentucky pollticianw Ho mada some money in the building business, which he afterwards lost, and then went into politics. He'possesses no scientific or technical education, and Is utterly unqualified for the position named, which Is one of th most difficult in tha government and which is now so ably filled by Professor Mendnhall, of this State. ' " The finishing touch was given to the administration's Hawaiian policy when fifty-five Senators declared on a yea and nay vote that it was not the policy of the American people. The vote embraced twenty-nine Democrats, twenty-four Republicans and two Populists. This puts an end to the royalists' hopes of Intervention by the United States to restore the monnrrhv. and leaves Hawaii to work out its

own destiny. For the present that will probably be an independent republic, but that the islands will ultimately be annexed by the United States is about as certain as anything can be In tho future. It Is so written in" the book of manifest destiny. - Some years ago the Journal advocated the plan of securing a nonpartisan Judiciary In Marlon county. It now appears that the best lawyers of both parties have been talking the matter over and have decided to call a meeting of the entire bar of the county, and have the . various aspirants for the judgeships appear and state their claims. Thereafter the attorneys would select one Republican and one Democrat, whose names will appear on both tickets, and one Republican and one Democrat whose names will appear on their party's ticket only. The bar would select the men best .qualified for the .positions, which would be to the advantage not only . of those who .have causes In courts, but for the entire community, which 13 always benefited by courts whose character and ability are respected. The fact that Attorney-general Smith criticised the proclamation of Governor Matthews caused much sharp comment because it was unprecedented. If correctly reported- the Governor administered a

mild Reproof to the ' great fee-grabber when he 6aid that "the Attorney-general must give himself xy concern about the treasury." In the estimation of the At torney-general ' State 'government Is not sustained in Indiana to preserve order and enforce the laws, but to afford the Attorney-general opportunities to grab 12 per cent, fees until they make his compensa-. tion $30,000 or even $40,000 a year. . The- American people cduld better afford to raise money enough by voluntary con tribution to support all the coal miners in the country and their' families in idleness for the next ten years than to admit the principle that any organized body of men have a right to stop, trains and destroy property to make a .strike effective. IIIDULBS 15 THE A1IU Chancre of .Tone. Yabsley Did you demand an apology from Thurr.pklns? Mudge You Just bet-1 did. and don't you forget iti i-. Yabsley Oh, by the way, did you get It? Mudge Why er noV, . Strictly Private. "Are you interested in questions of pub lic interest?" begn; the long-haired passenger, getting folnis&lf , ready for a long talk. f J" . "Public Interest?" retorted his seatmate, accenting strongly the firat word. "I am a United States Senator, sir." The Judge's Fault. Police Judge Aren't' "you ashamed of yourself? .There can be no excuse on earth for a man who will1 take o razor and cut the wife of hla bosom half to pieces with it. Mr. Black Wy, Judge, w'en I fust met dat woman I says to myself dat she was my destiny, an dat's what made me marry her. Den you aid in yo' speech a couple nights ago dat de cullud man had to carve his own destiny ergit lef In de shuffle, an I des only done what yo said. Judge, -an dat b all.. - Vixir ria'y; forFumlss. : Dr. S. A. Furniss, after a college course and being graduated second in a class of fifty by the Medical College of Indiana, ap peared before the Board of Health for examination as an Interne in the City Hos pital ahd passed a successful , examination. standing third in one" list and second in an other, and thus won the position to which he has besn assigned., :JDr. Furniss is a colored man belonging' to an excellent family, members of which have held honored positions of trust. If he-were not a col ored man, great Indignation would be ex pressed If he were JJp.t permitted to serve In the position whicJc ht has won by good character and skill, Because he Is a col ored , man, .'objections have been . made In some quarters' td : his selection. This can ' make 'no. ' difference. Dr. Furniss has- won;:. the position, and he must and will1, have it. It may be added that he was a favorite pupil of the late Dr. Eiderland .was called to b with him during hiast Illness by that excellent physician. Tho physician whom Dr. Elder trusted to carry out the instructions of his physician, administer remedies and watch symptoms cannot be objected to by any one with whom he will come in contact at the City -Hospital. To-day all the competitive positions In the federal government are open to all citizens regardless of race, and no reservation is made which will exclude qualified colored men In this State. Dr. Furniss - earned the position which -as been given him, and all intelligent and fair-minded people will Insist on his having it. The " time has passed when an educated colored man who shows qualifications of a high order can be set aside for public duties because negro blood courses his veins.' If there are men or women in the hospital who feel that they cannot serve with Dr. Furniss because his skin is a little darker than theirs, they can resign. Dr. Furniss must stay because he has won the position. Even-handed justice to all men, regardless of race or color, demands that much, and Justice will be done. s mm m si si School Commissioner Conner having declared hi3 purpose to retire from the board at the close of the present term, the friends, of MYs. Horace McKay In the dis trict have obtained her consent to place her name before the voters of the district as a candidate. Mrs. McKay is In every way an estimable woman, with varied and wide culture. She has for years taken a deep Interest In . public education and has not only given the subject much study, but has been associated with practical educator of large experience. Mrs. McKay has no special theories to put m trial, but those who have known her for years believe that there are few women better qualified to represent the sex on the School Board than she. ; '' The story comes from Washington that Representative Brookshlre, of this State, has purchased "a beautiful winter residence In the suburbs of Asheville, N. C." Mr. Brookshlre was not a plutocrat when he was elected to Congress. He seems to have prospered. A Georgia poet has written some very pathetic lines on the fact that there are no telephones In heaven. It Is a small matter, however. Few people who yse the thing to any great extent will ever get there. Nothing more 'has been heard of the "Mortified Mother" who carded an esteemed contemporary concerning a Journal article about five days , ago The Journal sincerely hopes that it hasn't proven fatal. An enterprising concessionaire is exhibiting Sitting Bull at the Antwerp exhibition. Some bunco man has evidently given the managers a false steer. SiMMSMMSBMNMHSMaSMMMHSMMMSW Some society woman is quoted as six y ing 'that the constant success of foreign counts

barons, etc.. In carrying American heir

esses to the. matrimonial altar is largely due to the superior ability of the European as a wooer. There is a good deal of truth In her remarks. The American, in the woo ing stage of his existence at least, regards woman as something divine. The European regards her as a woman to be won and wins. The unterrifled and undeodorized Colonel Breckinridge says that he does not expect to get tired till the fight Is won. There is no doubt that everyone else will be tired long before the Colonel is. In addition to the regular issue of the Congressional Record the Journal Is in receipt of a report of the proceedings of a sugar convention lately held in New Or leans. Perhaps lumber was placed on the free list in recognition of the services of Gen eral Fry In his gallant fight for free board. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A newspaper iri southern 'Missouri' is still running an advertisement of . low rates to the world's fair. ... Lottie Collins is going about on crutches in London and there is a rest from "Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-Ay" for the present. The mother of "General". . Kelly, the wealer." says that if his wife had any gumption she would tie a string to him and keep him from roaming. Rubenstein Is giving his services either for charitable runxses or for nurely Invi tation affairs. In which case students of conservatories are the beneficiaries. It is high time that strikers were taught that they have no more right than others. either singly or combined, to disturb or. molest people at work or destroy property. and that they will be held strictly to ac count for all violation of law. Goshen Times. Miss Grace Chisholm, of Cambridge Uni versity. England; Miss Maltby, of Wellesley College, and Miss Mary F. Winston, of Chi cago, have received special permission from the uerman government to enter tne uni versity of Gottin&ren. with the same privi leges enjoyed by men. A little Joke is related af the expense of Mrs. Belva Lock wood. When she was ad mitted to practice and was asked by Judge Drake to take the customary oath, Just as she was putting out her hand to touch the Bible she was startled by hearing the Judge say in his severest tone: "Take oft your hat, sir!" , The register of the marriage of the British Home Secretary to Miss - Margot Toncant was signed by only four persons Mr. Gladstone, Lord Rosebery. Mr. Arthur Balfour and Mr. Asoulth a pasj Prime Minister, the present Prime Minister, and, as a well-known minister of the House of Commons ventured to predict, "two future prime ministers." The Princess de Metternich the other day met a friend of former years In the Prater In Vienna, who asked, with'frank solicitude, after her health. "Oh, I am well enough," said the Princess; "that is, for a woman of my age." - "And what age may that be. Princess?" "Fifty." was the reply, given without hesitation; "not much for a cathedral, but a very- respectful age for a woman." . Mounet-Sully tells the New York Herald that he has been sorely disappointed In the size of his -American audience and in his accumulation of American dollars as souvenirs of his visit. Still, he's glad he came. He has found out what Ame-icans are like, has made a host of new friends and has seen Niagara. His emotions there were exactly the same emotions he experiences on Vesuvius. King Oscar of Sweden was In his young days one of the most accomplished tenors In Europe. He was fond of singing In private concerts at the houses of his friends, and might have, it Is said, if he was obliged to earn a livelihood, supplied the void caused by the retirement of Mario from the , operatic stage. On coming to the throne he gave up music, except in the innermost home circle, to attend to the serious and parade duties of kingship. When he was a poor boy . . in Ireland Thomas Nevins used to see Kllleen Castle every day. It was the biggest and most splendid building of the world. Now that he's a rich contractor in New Jersey he las bought Kllleen Castle from Arthur James Plunkett, Earl of ' Fingall, for $300,000, ind is going to live in it a part of the year. "The American flag will fly there." he says, "you may bet on that, and the doors will always be open to Americans." The Dead and the Living. There were two brothers fought at Roanoke Shoulder to shoulder through that flery hell. That storm of shot and ball and bursting shell . Fought as two heroes, till one brother fell Dead In the swamp, his shroud the battlesmoke. Now. ' every year fair children deck the grave Ot him who died their country's life to save. ' And mothers weep, and fathers call him brave It was a hero fell at Roanoke! J The other one who fought at Roanoke Lived on, by chance is living still to-day-Old and unknown, bent, beggared, crippled, gray; And children mock him In their, thoughtless slay. None weep for him. No orator e'er spoke Of him as noble. No one says he gave His best in life his country's life to save; And yet, God knows, the living was as brave As he who fell that day at Roanoke. Fred Appleget, in Philadelphia Press. Tbe Conviction of the Coffins. Richmond Telegram. The verdict in the Coffin case at Indianapolis meets the approval of the public generally. With a great many people in Richmond, and no doubt at Indianapolis as well, there Is a feeling of vindictiveness. But this should not be .the motive that convicts mn when they are on trial. The exact Justice of the case should be the only foundation for conviction Richmond Independent. The conviction of the Coffins and Reed for bank wrecking, and the plea of guilty of the elder Haughey and the certainty that young Haughey will be found guilty either on his own plea or by a verdict of a Jury is another lesson teaching the country that it is dangerous for those outside of a national bank to enter Into schemes to get its money on worthless security, as it is for those in charge of the bank's money to allow it to be swindled. A Blander if Not n Crime.' Louisville Commercial. No nation ever committed so great a blunder as when we cast off the Harrison administration to accept the one which at present retards our prosperity at home and interferes with our dignity and in fluence abroad. Our material progress has ceased, our civic pride is wounded, social order Is overthrown, financial thrift and stability have disappeared, and in their place have come riot, violence, prostration, depression and uncertainty. The foundations of commerce and currency are being swept away and confidence In republican government shaken. Unrest and desperation, like twin devils, are inciting men everywhere to anarchy and all manner of wickeduess. All this comes from placing demagogues in control of the government instead of men who have demonstrated by successful experience of a generation an ability for wise and good government. Memorial Day Offenses. ' Chicago Herald. It was too much to expect that Decoration day would pas3 without offense. A sensational preacher of St. Louis outraged the national occasion by reviving at Richmond, on the unveiling of a confederate monument, sectional animosity, and "Pope Bob" Ingersoll seized the day for his usual assault on the faith In which nine-tenths of the men on both sides of the- civil war died. There is no excuse or apology to be made for either Cave or Ingersoll. Arcades a ml xx Neither, however, can accomplish anything by his reckless defiance of decency and taste. The day itself is beyond the power of any demagogue, political or religious or irreligious, to defile it. Greshnm Asnln Reversed. New York Tribune. Another reversal for Gresham, late of the United States bench; but not this time from the Supreme bench. A two-thlrd3 majority in the Senate against the cuckoo resolution opposing Hawaiian annexation was an unequivocal repudiation of tho Cleveland-Gresham policy of Infamy. Tne Secretary of State must have become accustomed to it. Hardly a wetk passes without hl$ bvlnsj reversed .somewhere

GROVER'S GRATITUDE

HOW THE PRESIDENT REWARDS THE KI.DES9 OF RELATIVES. They Sheltered Him In III" Poverty, and Now "When They Are in Dlstress He Refuses Assistance. Buffalo (N. Y.) Special to Chicago Inter ocean. A striking example of Grover Cleveland's cold ingratitude is presented in bis treat ment of near kinfolk in this city." When Mr. Cleveland was thrown on the world penniless and with his own way to make In 183 he started West, Arriving at Buf falo he was taken In by his uncle, Lewis A. Allen, who gave him employment and a home In his family. It. was this uncle who secured him an opening in the law office of Rogers, Bowen & Rogers. During the two years that he was reading law with thU firm he was an Inmate of his uncle's family and was provided with lux uries 6uch as the average law student can 111 afford. His cousins, Cleveland Allen and Margaret Allen, were like a brother and sister to him. They shared with him all their pleasures. Guns, fishing tackle and other sporting paraphernalia belonging to Cleveland Allen were common property with Grover. As he rose In his profession his uncle and cousins watched his progress with pride. The Allen home is historical. and Is one of the oldest mansions In Buffa lo. It is located on Niagara street, overlooking the river and lake, and was built by Gen. Peter B. Porter. Lewis F. Allen bought it in 1S3G and it has been In the family ever since. In 1890 Lewis F." Allen died, hU last hours embittered by the fact that Grover Cleveland, whom he had supported and aided to establish himself, had shown his Ingratitude and turned his back on. the benefactor of his youth. The vast wealth which had once been Mr. Allen's had melted away, so that when his estate was administered there was little left but the old home. He left a curious will, bequeathing all of his property in trust to his daughter. Margaret Allen Bailey, who was required to resume her maiden name. Miss Allen now finds herself on the point of being driven from the old home because she cannot keep it up, and, for the want of a small amount of money to pay existing claims. Is in danger of losing all of the property. She said this afternoon that she had appealed to Mr. Cleveland for help to Keep tne nomesteau, out had been refused. "Poverty forces me to leave," she said. "Only a little ready money would enable us to remain, but Grover Cleveland, who got his start In life in this house and from our family, refuses aid. We have not asked for charity. We have offered what to him should be ample security, but he ignores the appeal, which, God knows. It was humiliating to make, and I and my children will let the place be sold and go forth among strangers and live on what will come to us from the sale of the household effects and my share of the income from the proceeds of the estate." HOW HE WAS HELPED IN YOUTH. -Miss Allen told the following story of the relations, of Grover Cleveland to her and her father's family: "My father married Margaret Cleveland,- Grover Cleveland's aunt. In 1823. Grover was left penniless at tbe age of eighteen by the death of his father. Thinking that he had no friends, he started west for Cleveland In 1854, with the intention of going overland to California, He stopped 'in-Buffalo on his way up, intending to go by "water to the city which, as you know, was named for one of his ancestors. "He did not stay with his aunt and uncle, for he was ashamed of his shabby clothes, but registered at the old Continental Hotel. My father heard of his arrival and at once brought him to the house, where he remained tor two years. It took very little pressure to Induce Grover to give up his trip West. Father hired him first to help on his 'American Shorthorn Herd Book.' and gave him the then very high salary of 550 for six weeks' work and boarded him. Grover did no more work for father after that. He had the bet room In the house, and for two years father supported him in luxury. Everything that my brother, Cleveland Allen; had Grover had. They were brothers In father's estimation. Grover wanted to study law, and father at once secured him a position in the orfice of Rogers, Bowen & Rogers, then the leading law firm of this part of the country. For a long time he got $1 a week, and during that period he was always asking father for money, which was never refused him. In spite of all these favors he began to grow ungracious, and at last removed to the northwest corner of Swan and Main streets, where he lived a long while. TENDERLY NURSED IN ILLNESS. While living there he was .taken with typhoid fever In its worst form. His sunshine friends deserted him, and my brother. Cleveland Allen, went down and nursed him. Dr. Ring, who attended him, used to say before he died that. Cleveland and I saved the life of a President. He was nursed night and day by Cleveland. Father bought him wine and delicacies, and by the time Grover was convalescent we were sick ourselves. Well. Grover lived, and when - he wanted a vacation it was father who interceded for him, and it was Cleveland Allen who lent him guns, and boats, and dogs, and horses for hunting and fisnlng excursions. He was continually getting presents, from our family, and I can truthfully say that be never thanked us in his life, nor gave any of us the smallest present in return then or since. "Father was a Republican, but he rejoiced in Graver's successes,- -though he never voted for him, except when he ran for Governor. He had known and entertained all the political men of prominence of his day in this house, and, of course. It was pleasant to have Grover talk with him and tell of the n?w generation and the politicians. But Grover seldom did this. He grew churlish to father, nd it grieved father a good deal. He had been good enough to entertain Clay, and Webster, and Harrison, and Benton in these rooms, but Grover Cleveland, the man whom he had placed on the way to fortune. Ignored him. "When Grover was inaugurated President he never invited father, and his disappointment and chagrin were terrible to all of us. He died not long after, and Grover never came near, though at father's request we had sent for him. When my mother died, in 1SS0. Grover acted in tha same way. On her deathbed she wished him even greater glory than he had at that time won. "lather had been at one time very rich, being known as the 'patron of Grand Island, but in his old age lost considerable. He left a curious and complicated will, giving me this estate to hold in trust. There Is no revenue from It, and the taxes are large. It has long been out of repair, and, as we have had to give up the idea of keeping it in the tamlly, a little ready money would make us all right. Naturally, we looked to Grover for aid,, but he has ignored my request for even a loan on security, and I will nsver trouble him again. He is rich and could help us, but sucn is not his nature- He is ungrateful and selfish. Those who know him best like him least. He will take anything and everything as though it was his due, but he was never known to help a friend. THE COAL STRIKE. It "Was Prerlpltnted by Operators to Secure a Rallrond Contract. Detroit Tribune. Henry B. Ledyard, president and general manager of the Michigan Central Railroad Company, said, last night, to a reporter for the Tribune that he undestood the strike of the coal miners was deliberately precipitated by the coal operators of Pennsylvania. The operators had taken advantage of the general depression of last spring to force down the wages paid their miners, so that they could take the contract for supplying the Grand Trunk railroad with coal away from the Ohio mine-owners. The amount at stake was a few thousand dollars,, and for the sake of that they wilfully brought about all the misery of the miners since the strike commenced. Mr. Ledyard has unusual means for gathering information on such subjects, and his understanding of the matter is of great w f i e h f It hjs Wn nimfirHl th.it t h orrators in the Hocking Valley have rather encouraged tne siriKe.or tneir men. ana, in fact, were contributing to the relief fund of tne strikers. Mr. Ledyard's information throws light on the subject. Besides talking about the ' coal-miners strike Mr. Ledyard chatted about the business depression, its cauge'and chance of improvement. He said: "As I understand the situation, the strike grew out of the taking of a contract to supply the Grand Trunk railroad with coal, by the Pennsylvania operators. You see there is .a difference in the quality of coal between that of the Pennsylvania coal fields and that of Ohio coal field. To equalize that difference the Pennsylvania. tUTators have bcn paving a higher sc1q

of wage than the Ohio men and charging more for the coal. "But ia;t rprlng the Pennsylvania ormtors took advantage of th general depression and took the Grand Trunk contract at a very low figure, below the figure of th Ohio men. Thn they tel l the m'ners thatowing to the hard times, thflr vagrs vouli have to be reduced. Heretofore the Pennsylvania men have t.ecn better pnld thax the Ohio men, but-the wtges had to I? reduced in Pennsylv;ir.;a so that the opro tors could come out ahead on thoir contract. The Pennsylvania minors struck, and tti strike then spread to Ohio and the West." "What will be the effect of the stride on the railroad buine53?" "My latest advices are that the strike in Illinois will be settled this week. That, cf course, will settle the strike ail over tha country. The Pennsylvania operators can- , not hold out any longer. The Illinois coal :s not as good as tho Pennrylvania co.i, but there Is enough of It for everybody, if the Illinois fields commence to produce they can supply all of the demand and the Eastern fields can lie idle without disadvantage to the general public" WHY XOT BEX HARIUSOXf Would Republicans Blonder If They Xominnted Him for President t Washington Post. The cartoonists and the paragraphers are enjoying themselves vastly nowadays la poking, what they seem to regard as fun. at the prospect of Mr. Harrison's nomination In 1S. The paragraphers are utilizing all their most reverend witticisms touching his silence and bis Intent listening for indications, and the cartoonists are rival-

o uimaiiu 11111114 111 uir llUlj wuiiuri fui things they do with grandfather's hat. 3ut, notwithstanding all this hilarity, we make bold to ask. why not? Where would the Republican party make a serious blunder In nominating Mr. Harrison again! We have in the White House at present an illustrious witness of the efficacy of a third attempt, and certainly there is nothing in Mr. Harrison's record which makes htm ineligible to the competition. He was beaten in IS92 by the same influences that, four years previously, had defeated Mr. Cleveland the apathy of his own party. There was no great popular uprising against him quite the contrary; for his successful competitor himself received a very light vote, and was elected only because Republicans stayed at home. Reference to the figures of the election will show that,- allowing for the six new States, Mr. Cleveland did not receive as lame, a popu lar vote in 1&2. when he was elected, as . he did in 1SSS, when he was defeated, Mr. Harrison, therefore, lost Jhe day, not because the country rose up to discredit and rebuke him, but because by some unaccountable impulse Republicans everywhere refrained from voting. Does any Intelligent observer of public events imagine that Republicans, after the experience of the past year, will stay at home another time? Mr. Harrlon mad mtstakfK. of course. He was only human, and error is the twin brother of humanity. He made a mistake in Wanamaker. he made another In the force bill; he made several. In fact. Tint nobody ever questioned his Integrity, his high courage, his personal purity of character, his profound and passionate patriotism. We were never afraid of national humiliation as the result of any foreign complications , while he stood on the bridge. We were neve- apprehensive of domestic catastrophe with his clear head to guide and his dauntless hand to interpose. Mr. uarnson, as we khuw, v hui ('iciuiruo . and sensational enotfgh to please a certain class. His simple ways, his quiet aspects of the man were all too commniplace for the spirited and Impatient among his fellow-cltlzens. But sensible and thoughtful people gave him their respect and confidence, and it was a significant fact that those nearest to him were thosa who loved him best. There is nothing in Mr. Harrison's public record or private character of which any one can make light. He does not commend himself to Democrats, of course, because he Is the most stalwart and uncomprom!- . . . V. 1 I IT 1. . 1 . m- . si mugwumps naturally, because he Is virile and positive In his methods and convictions, and because with him the love of bis country and his flag is a dominating passion. But not all the cartoons and all the paragraphs. In. the world can make the American people think of him as a small man, a weak man. a timid, futile or unreliable man. The country knows that he is the antithesis of such a man. Why not Harrison, then, for 1836? Why, Indeed? GnESIIAM AS A JUDGE. . Mne.of Ills IVcliloni Overruled by the Supreme Court. Cincinnati Tribune. It la well understood by a great many lawyers that Secretary Grerham was not a strong man on the bencn. and that hl decision have been everruled w.tn h'lmiilatlng frequency. It was cnieny.cu account of his meager ability as a Judjje that President Hjrr.Fon declined to put Mr. Greshani on the Supreme Bench. He did not th.nk him a fit man for the p'ace. The lawyers in Congress are now laughing over the predicament Secret ry Gresham finds himself in. A Washington dlspach says: "In a very short tim the Supreme Court has overruled nine of ths dec.s.ons rendered when the Secretary of State was a C rvult Court Judge in the Seventh Judicial district. "Each term of the Court held t'urinff the last year has resulted in decisions overruling case3 brought up on ajmeal from decisions of Judge Gresham. Tne fiist term of the Supreme Court last fall had before it four app3als from decisions of the S.venth Circuit Court made when Judge Gresham presided. Every one of those decision was reversed by the Supreme Court. The cases wer? those of the Like Shore Railway Company vs. Prentiss, Humphreys vs. Perry, Wade vs. The Springfield & Chicigo Railroad Company, and the Cnlcago, M 1waukee & St. Paul Railroad Company vs. Hoyt. At the second term of the court there was only one cas befors it on app?al from Judge Gresham's declsljn, and that was reversed. The lat term of the court, which closed on Saturday, had another case before it, ting an apical from Judse Graham's decision, and this was the most important case of all. and it was also overruled. . "Hence the record is clean. Every case brought to the Supreme Court In tne last three terms on appeal from the decisions of Judge Gresham has been overruled, 'lhere is no uoubt whatever that wb-n pcple RTt an opportunity to pass on the decisions of Secretary Gresham th:y will hi reversed with still fcrreater unanimity. It 1 doubtful if the Secretary's decision in the Hawaiian matter and his decision In the Samoan matter would be sustained by one voter in a hundred thousand in the United States " If Mr. Gresham is not a great Julge. ncr a great lawyer; nor a great dlplomate. nor a great statesman, nor a great Derrcrat. nor a great Republican, wherein coi nl3 greatness as a public man Ii2? The Conl Strike. New York Independent. The most provoking feature In the who'e Is the attitude of tie absurd and impracticable Governor of Colorado. He is d3.ni? what he can to Interfere with tha protecncn iy tne Miniu, oi n. an i Vnc railroads. He says that sherirfs cannot bring deputies from one county to another, and if tney do hu will call out the mllit'a and suppress them. It is a war b:teen the Governor and the sheriffs. Mav the Lord have mercy upon the i-cople of Colorado. One Day of Jerry Husk. New York Commercial Advertiser. It is unfortunate that in Colorado a Populist crank has control of the mi ltla and in Illinois a confessed Anarchist. One day of the late "Uncle Jerry" Rusk, who subdued a May day mob in Milwaukee, would bring the violence of the miners to an end. When a mob of strikers went to tht rolling mills to fore? the men there to strike Oiv. Rusk ordered them away. Tey rpfcsel to go and he ordered the militia to fire in earnest, and the volley ended the trouble. Answer to a Correspondent. Kate Field. "Will you please send me your Idea ji of heaven and hell? X. Y." My Idea of hell is the present condition of this country. My ie of heaven is a de facto republic where patriots are elected to office and refuss re-election rather than vote against convictions; and where ladles and gentlemen are known by their distlngUlSneil lUU3IUCailUII - w V wv. j mm ings. ' Rebuke for Rosser aud Cave. Louisville Courier-Journal. Doubtless for years to come there will bo Caves and Reisers to Insist on stirring vp the old fires. As long a they do, this on their own account purvly little attention will be paid to them. Their utterances become a matter of public concern only when they misuse an opportunity as spokesnv n for Southern veterans, who in th-4r hearts have no sympathy with such fol ierol. lloiv Honest Laltor I Dishonored. Chicago Inter Ocean. When intelligent American laborers go on "a strike" they don't set about the destruction of the shops and machines upon which thev ha detended for employment. In every Instance reported such acts have been those of an lenorant l-opu-latlon who do not understand a sentence of English. It i such u class that dishonors honest labor. The Deadly rtitst-bnll. Kansas City Journal. Football is said to be more brutal than baseball. ytt we notice a grvut many bast. tall playen "die" on luwfs, waiie Xvy,b.ilJ victims art taken to hoa-il.