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

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1894.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY. JULY 2. 1?91. WASHINGTON OFFICE-U23 PF.NNS1 LVAJIIA AVERUE Telephone Call. JtiinfMOf!!fe Cf.S I Eililorial Hwith 212 lEUM OF SUBSCRIPTION. MILT ET MAIL, rHy etslT, rre month . $ .70 I aily only, tlirre monUn 2.00 l ailj ei.ly. rneyfar MOO J any. irtliidiriff Sunday, one year lo.oo fciLcay clJj,ci. year -.00 WHIN FXRNIfntD BT AOL.YTS. Paiy, pfr wwk, ly carrier 15 rf M;rlaT. ainjrle coy 3 ft l-'aiy and SuiiGaj-, ptr wk, by carrier -U ctt WEtKLT. Itr Tear $1.00 Krduefd Rat to Cliilm. J-ul oit with any dour uuuieroue agents or tend ulrrii'tieijtothe JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY. ltIAKlPOLIS, ISO. rrfT. rrd!n( the Journal thrrnh ths mail It 1! t nltl btare vhould put on an elht-pas nfr I cjtE-ctST poitflge rtarap; on twelve or intwi. j at rarer a twcklm postage utaoiy. Vureiu post it la usual, j double these rales. .4 l!eomtfliiTratton$ intended for pubtfrafion in ii njaftr invt,in order to receive attention, A'5tctnptniifo by the name and address of, thetrriter. TIIK INDIANAPOLIS JOLK-NAL Can Vlound at the following plaees: lA HIS American Exchange In Farts, 33 Boulerard ccCapucioea. 2.EW A Oltk GUary House aud Windaor UoteL I JIII.ApELriIIA-A. rTKemt-la. 3735 Lancaster attitUt. CHICAGO Palmer House. Audltorlam UoteL CINCISNATI-J. R. II aw ley A Co, 151 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Peering, sortawsat corner of Tbird ajiii Jefier&on street. a. IT. LOT; IS Union News Company, U.iion Depot V'ASIIIGTO. . CWUfjs Houae and Ebbitt Uouee. t As Senator Voorhees's political career will undoubtedly close with his present term, ha ought to notify the "Whisky Trust to provide employment for him. There is reason to believe that the United States wul refuse to accept Mr. Debs as dictator as it Las the claims of Denis Kearney and Martin Irons. If the question of sustaining Debs could be decided by a secret ballot of all reputable railroad men, there is reason to believe that his strike "would be voted down ten to one. If Senator Quay should vote with the Democrats to save the sugar schedule, he will part with whatever faith the rank and file of the party has in his devotion to Republican principles. The attempt to demonstrate that Debs is biger man" than Arthur, Sargent or any of the other labor leaders is costing about $300,000 a day, but Debs Isn't paying a cent of the expense. If nothing can be said regarding the Judgment of those Republican papers which appeal to the Senate daily to defeat the round-robin Senate tariff bill, one can but admire their perseverance. The Populist convention declared for an eight-hour day for all workers except "in domestic and agricultural affairs." Have domestic and farm work become so llt ht that it is not necessary to limit the hours f a day's toil? Holding up passenger trains in broiling heat and refusing women and children opportunity to get a cup of water is one of the features of Mr. Debs's "peaceful" strike. The utter barbarity and senselessness of the rresent strike have never been equaled. When the Indiana Democrat, seeking consulships, leirns that Mr. Gilder's unknown brother-in-law has beaten "Colonel" Shanklin for the Berlin mission because of the attentions which that maker of delicate verses has bestowed upon the President, he will join the Indiana Writers' Association In a body and practice verse-making. From and after to-day the government will engrave and print its own postage stamps. Always heretofore the work has been don under piivate contract, and has not always been of the best character. The government will probably improve the work, but it is doubtful if the new method will be more economical than the old. The Nicaragua canal bill, which will be presented in the House of Representatives this week, provides that the government shall take most of the stock, name eight of th eleven directors, and have control of the issuance of bonds, besides indorsing them. In other words, it will make the canal, to all practical intents and purposes, a government work. There is no reason why three of the ablest men in the Senate, Sherman, Allison and Aldrich, and three of the ablest men in the House, Reed, Burrows and Payne, should be put on the respective conference committees en th tariff bills. In each case thy voted against and are opposed to both bills. The Democrats should arrange their ewn rarty tariff measure. There was great rejoicing among the distillers at Peoria. 111., over the Action of the Senate increasing the tax on whisky. The trust immediately advanced prices 3 cents a gallon and is preparing for still further advances. A prominent official of the trust said: "Business has picked up wonderfully since it has been known positively what the Senate intended doing, and the receipts of yesterday were more than for months past." In a speech at Versailles, Ky., on Saturday. Colonel Breckinridge informed his audience that "the material out of which the world's leaders Is made is capable of blng used for sinful purposes, and if it had been that only the inle?s had been leaders in th history of the world, the world would have lost its noblest characters." He modestly refrained from adding thiit he was himself one of the world's leaders and noblest characters. It is unjust to many railroad wcrkers to attribute to them the violence which has already been recorded, particularly the ditching of trains and the beating and stoning of men. Some of the hot-headed may be in it, but the violence of the strikers comes from the lawless element in cities who find in such disturbances the occasion for them to attempt to overawe the officers of the law and to strike terror to the hearts ef the peaceable majority. Notwithstanding th great ceremony with whi-h the new bridge across the Thames at London was opened on Saturday and the enormous expense of its construction, there seems to Le a doubt whether it v.f'l

do much In the way of relieving the vast and ever increasing traflic across London bridge. Experts are quoted as saying that the money spent in building it would have been better invested in establishing several steam ferries. One technical paper calls

it "a monstrou.s and preposterous archictural sham," and another denounces it te a "a costly and gigantic obstruction to th e port of London." All of which goes to show that John Bull has not lost the art cf kicking. government regi lation or RAILWAY TRAFFIC The time is not far distant when it will become necessary for Congress to decide between government control or ownership of tho railroads or the exercising of the right of regulating all railway travel and traffic between the States. The course of events indicates that there is no escape from this alternative, and that one or the other of these policies must be adopted. The increasing frequency of la bor strikes by which railroad traffic and t travel throughout the entire country or large sections of it are practically abol ished for the time being, to the great in convenience and damage of the public, shows the necessity of finding a cure for the evil. The people are very tired of this state of things and are clamorous for a remedy. It is Intolerable that tho social and commercial affairs of the coun try should continue subject to interruptions which, without any fault on the part of the people. Inflict upon them such heavy burdens in the way of personal discomfort, domestic worry and pecuniary losses. They ought not to be expected . to stand it, and they will not stand it any longer than i3 necessary to find and apply a remedy. The main ob ject of all government is to pro tect the people in the enjoyment and exercise of their individual rights. No such protection exists when traflic and travel between different parts of the country are Interrupted or suspended at fre quent Intervals by force and violence on the part of any organl atlon. A government that cannot or does not guarantee the right of free personal and commer cial Intercourse to all its people in all parts of the country Is a failure. As between government ownership of the railroads and government regulation of railway travel and traffic the argu ments are overwhelmingly in favor of the latter. Indeed, those against the former are so numerous and strong as to put it entirely out of the question, at least without a change in our form of government. Government ownership of railroads does not consist with republican government. But government regulation of railway travel and traffic is something entirely different. The Constitution would not permit the government to own or operate the railroads of the country, but it distinctly says that Congress may regulate commerce among the several States. The word commerce includes travel zs well as trade. When the Constitution was framed neither railroads nor steamboats were dreamed of. The only mean3 of travel or tmde were by sailboats or animal power. Many years later, when steamboats came into use. Congress, under the clause of the Constitution authorizing it to regulate commerce between the States, enacted laws regulating this branch of traflic, and has never ceased to exercise control over it. Its right to regulate railway traffic and travel between the States is equally clear. It has been exercised in the Interstatecommerce law, but that law does not by any means exhaust the power of Congress. In fact, there is no limitation to the power of Congress to regulate railway travel and traffic among the several States, and it is clearly the duty of Congress to exercise the power to any extent necessary to protect the people against arbitrary and lawless invasion of their rights. If the constitutional power to establish postoffices and rostroads gives Congress a right to make Interference with mail trains a felony, the constitutional power to regulate commerce between the States gives it an equal right to declare it a felony to unlawfully interfere with the movement of freight or passenger trains en route from one State to another. This is what Congress should do. It should pass a law declaring all freight and passenger trains on interstate railroads a part of interstate commerce and making it a felony punishable In the courts of the United States for any unauthorized person to interfere with the movement of any such train. Already it has done this in regard to all mail trains, and the effect has been most salutary, but it should go further and include all freight and passenger trains running on the interstate railroads. The people are entitled to this protection. Congress has undoubted constitutional power to extend It, and it should exercise tho power. Tin: caise of Tin: ktrikr. When the Debs strike broke out in all its fury in Cincinnati it is related that business m?n who had been brought to a realizing sense of its existence by the interruption of transportation, asked each other an explanation of it, and that none was able to give It. Klsewhere there appears to be a similar ignorance. The trouble began some weeks ago in Pullman, where the rullman Car Company has its principal works. During the prosperous period which was declared oil when the rullman employes vot?d for "a change." the manufacture of Pullman cars had been a remunerative business. It was with difficulty that the demand could be supplied. When the change came the business dropped off an l the company had to pick up contracts at car bullling outside of the Pullman patents. Anions these contracts wsre cars for street railways like many in use in this city. Then the : managers informed their employe that they must shut down unl?ss they would accept a reduction of wages which would enaWrthem to take the. contracts which hadVbcen offered them, promising restoration as sorn as the businrsy would warrant it. The Chicago Tribune says that the' Reduction was 15 per cent, from an avenge per diem of $125. After

a time the men demanded a restoration of wages, but the company showed from its books that it was losing money on the contracts upon which the men were employed. About this time Mr. Debs organized these workmen as a branch of his American Railway Union, and soon after a strike was declared. The managers refused to advance wages and closed their works, expressing a willingness to go on when the men would accept the wag?s. The works have since been closed, no attempt being made to resume work with other men. Directly Mr. D:bs demanded of the company that it submit the differences between the employes and the company to arbitration. The company refused. There was simply a difference in regard to wages, and the company preferred to allow its works to remain idle rather than pay the good-time wages. At most it was a difference between J1.S3 or $1.90 a day and $-'.25. The demand which Mr. Debs has made is that the Pullman company shall pay. tho men who have left its employment a schedule of wages fixed by parties who have no interest in its business and who know nothing about it. The Debs demand is nothing less than an assumption that a corporation must find employment for men. who have left its service at wages which outside parties may tlx. If a man owns a factory he cannot close it when orders cease, but must pay good-times wages so long as those whom it has once employed demand them, if the Debs demand upon the Pullman company should become a precedent. Several ambitious young professors of economics have vaguely advanced this1 remarkable theory, but Mr. Debs is the :first man to put it into practical effect. It is to enforce this theory that Mr. Debs has interrupted the transportation f6t a nation. What do sensible people think of it?

ALL THIS BENEFICIARIES. As the Investigation into the armor-plate frauds proceeds it reaches gradually higher and higher. The first people Involved were the common laborers. The committee has already forced confessions from various higher officials till Thursday the superintendent of the armor-plate shops was caught in the tolls. It is now but a few steps until the proprietorsthe beneficiaries of the swindle are reached. And they are the men the country Is after. So says the Sentinel, and so say all. But the members of the Carnegie company are not all of the "beneficiaries" as the Sentinel must admit when it shall have recalled the whole history of the affair. The facts which the investigation (which the House delayed as long as it could) has brought to light were known to the President and. the Secretary of the Navy as early as last De cember. Secretary Herbert had all of the statements of the men who have testified before the House committee when Congress met. Upon those statements and the proofs Secretary Herbert and the experts of the Construction Bureau of the Navy estimated that the Carnegie company should pay back to the government $400,000. All this testimony wa3 in the hands of the President and could have been made public months ago, but instead of making the Homestead , men face the music and make good the.iCVV jury which Its subordinates have inflicted upon the government, Mr. Cleveland reduced the damage to $133,000, and. upon its payment, let the Carnegie company off. About the time that reduction was secretly made Mr. Carnegie wrote a letter to the President indorsing the iron and steel schedule of the Wilson bill and asserting that it would afford sufficient protection. It ,will be said that the President's remarkable liberality, practically a gift of $253,000, has no connection with the Carnegie letter, and that may be true; but many people will see a relation between the President's leniency and the sweeping indorsement , of the Wilson bill by Andrew Carnegie. It may be difficult to reach all the "beneficiaries," embracing, as they do, the President, the advocates of the Wilson bill,; and the competing foreign iron maker, but when beneficiaries are spoken of, all should be named. There are those who are not beneficiaries who have connection with the mills at Homestead, where the armor-plates are made. They are the employes whose wages were cut down 5 per cent, months ago. and which the Carnegie company recently Informed the men could not be restored. It was doubtless upon the basis of this cut in wages that Mr. Andrew Carnegie declared that he could compete with Europe when the Wilson bill should become a law. As for the Carnegie company, now that the' President has remitted two-thirds of the amount out of which the government has been swindled, how can the Homestead beneficiarles be made to refund that? The Carnegies and Fricks are good business men, and doubtless have a receipt in full. The Sentinel should not stir up such matters. The fight being made against Landis In the Tenth district by the Harrison managers should prove a warning to all old Gresham Republicans that their services are not required at least in an official capacity. Sentinel. The Sentinel is absurd." There Is neither Harrison nor anti-Harrison in the unfortunate conflict in the Tenth district. As a matter of fact, in 1SSS the leaders of both factions were supporters of Mr. Gresham upon the assumption that he was what he professed to bs a Republican. When Judge Gresham became "the best Democrat" in Washington the Republicans who had been deceived by him became his loudest accusers. The removal of School Commissioner Martindale out of the district in which he was elected has raised the question whether such removal vacates the office. The question has been raised once or twice before, but has never been brought to a definite decision, either by the board or in the courts. As it is a question of public interest and might become important it ought to be decided once for all. The law is not explicit on the subject. but it evidently contemplates that each school district shall be represented by a resident thereof. It says "there shall be elected by the qualified electors of each school district one school commissioner to serve as a member of the Board of School Commissioners." It also makes it the duty of the board "to redistrlct the city for the purpose of electing school commissioners therein." These and oth r provisions evidently ccntcmplate that school commissioners shall be elected by districts, and thfre is no case on record of the inhabi

tants of any school district going outside of it for a representative. Residents in one district are not permitted to vote In another. The law does not say that township trustees, who are also school officers, must reside within the township, but that is the unwritten law. If it be admitted that a person may represent as school commissioner a district in which he does net reside, then every one of the eleven commissioners might reside in the same district. Terhaps this might not disqualify them from a proper discharge ot their duties, but it would be scandalous and the people would not tolerate it. Ul'DIILLS I Till: A I It.

Particular "Wanted. "Beg pardon." said the missionary, "but will you translate his Majesty's remarks again? Did he tell his daughter that he was to have guests to dinner or for dinner?" Sensitive. He I wonder if there is another girl in the whole wide world so sweet as my little sweetheart? She What's that? How dare you think of another girl? I shan't speak to you for a week. Good Advice. "When in trouble," said the eminent lecturer, "refrain from worrying." "But, Doctor," asked a woman in the audience, "how can we?" "Anyway," replied the lecturer, "refrain from worrying other people." An Imperfect Paradise. Hungry HIggins How would you like to live in one of them South Sea islands, where all a feller has to do to git his grub is to knock it off the trees with a club? Weary Watkins Say, won't it fall off if he will lay down under the tree and wait long enough? THE DEBS STRIKE. The "sympathetic strike" is without sympathy so far as the people are concerned. New York Recorder. Mr. Debs is proving to Mr. McBride that there is no monopoly of the czar business in this great free country. Kansas City Journal. Force must eventually be met by force until the right of every man to accept or refuse employment and the right of every employer to hire or to refuse to hire a workman shall be vindicated. New York Mail. . Railroads must keep goin-r if people are to keep eating and working. Great strikes make more misery than they relieve even when they succeed. But few strikes, undertaken at such a time as this, are likely to succeed. Hartford Courant j It Is an issue that involves the safety of life and property, the efficiency of existing political machinery. There is only one true and proper way to meet it, and that is to take the side of law and order, of morality and patriotism, against that of manifest tyranny and threatened anarchy. St. Louis G lobe- D em oc ra t. ; There is no tendency to public sympathy with the Pullman corporation, but the attempt to say that any person or corporation is to be denied the right of passage for themselves or their property on the public highways is an attack on one of the most essential principles for the protection of the masses. That reason alone should restrain railway men from Joining in this mistaken movement. Pittsburg Dispatch. Had the differences between the Pullman company and its men been submitted to arbitration they might have been satisfactorily adjusted and the disastrous consequences of the pending strike averted. Even now the conflict may be brought to a welcome end by such meins. end it wl'i be fortunate for the general public, as well ns the thousands Involved in the strike, ff this is done. New York Herald. The boycotter is a species of blackmailer. iTo yield once to a blackmailer is to invite continued levies, and so also to yield to a loycotter is to invite him to dictate, again and again, the terms upon which business shall be conducted. Sooner or later determined resistance must be made, and those who have had to deal (ith blackmailers have found that it is easiest to resist the first demand. Philadelphia Ledger. Will the public lay aside all its legitimate business and tell Mr. Pullman to hand over a year's salary to every one of hi3 employes? Or will it demand the immediate resumption of work on the railroads, the protection of men willing to work at all hazards, and vigorous treatment of all malefactors who Interfere with them? Does the public own this government or has it been turned over to the American Railway Union. New York Advertiser. The railways are suffering terribly and the traveling public is seriously inconvenienced, while business is paralyzed. Every one regrets this condition of affairs; why not end it? George M. Pullman can ilo it by raising a finger. He should realize khat a" fearful responsibility rests upon his ishoulders and that the people will hold jhim accountable for the losses he is entailing. Mr. Pullman now has a chance to prove himself a great man. Will he improve it? Chicago Dispatch. The great power which the large labor organizations are rapidly concentrating In themselves must lead to one of two things either their disintegration, which in previous experiences has been the final outcome, or else the recognition by the laws of some method whereby a national form of arbitration in labor troubles may be devised which will submit all these Issues to a tribunal to prevent such wholesale stoppage of industrial conditions coming out of small questions which ought to be at once adjusted. Boston Advertiser. If the glory that Debs covets ruins farmers, shippers and merchants, causes incalculable Injury to the whole traveling public and peculiar distress to delicate women and children, wipes out the savings of industry and eventually starves the immediate agents of his ambition, so much the worse for all these, but so much the better for Debs. From insufferable tyranny like this the honest worklngmen of the United States will sooner or later free themselves. The present boycott ought to be the beginning of the end. New York Tribune. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. It is stated that in one popular resort In Boston no less than 1,500 women are served d tily with ice cream sodas. The Princess Louise is said to be very superstitious, and sometimes will not attend public functions as agreed upon, on the plea that she knows it will be one of her "bad days." General Shoup, who was chief of confederate artillery at Shiloh and afterwards served as General Hood's chief of staff, is now a member of the faculty of the University of the South at Suwanee, Tenn. Deuys Puech, whose marble figure of the Seine is the best piece of sculpture exhibited In Paris this year, and who is regarded as the "hope of the young art" of France, is the son of one of the poorest peasants in the republic. Julian Hawthorne, who went with his wife and children to Jamaica a few months ago, has concluded to reside there permanently. He is living on a fine plantation near Kingston, and is growing orange and citron trees and coffee. There was great joy among the vegetarians in Germany, last year, over the fact that a vegetarian won the annual walking match from Berlin to Friedrichsruhe. The same vegetarian pedestrian was in the race this year, and it was generally expected that he would win the match arain. But he was badly beaten by a "meat-eater." It is well known that President Eliot, of Harvard, is opposed to the excessive time which is given by many students to athletics. It is interesting to note his ideas of the exact way in which a student should divide his time. In a recent address he advised students to apportion their day thus: Sleep, eight hours; meals, three hour; exercise, two hours; social duties, one hour; study, ten hours; Sunday, no work. It is to Sara Bernhirdt that women are indebted for the graceful tea gown and the full Moliere waist. It is her wonderful taste in dress which makes her handsome, for she hasn't a pretty feature; but she is voted beautiful, just the same. It is her original and. at the same time, successful way of doing thing. She never wears

Jewels next her face. She says that they detract attention from the sparkle and beauty of her eyes, and that it is suicide to a woman's good looks to wear anything flashy next the face. By the way. Bernhardt never owned a pair of corsets. Dr. S. B. Ward, of Albany. N. Y., was asked to explain the alleged sudden increase in the number of cases of appendicitis, and, in his reply, among other things, h3 said: "Appendicitis is an mfiammation of the appendix. It is not known whit causes it. There are two proofs that appendicitis is not due to the lodgment of seeds. The first is that, in almost every Instance w'here an operation has been performed, the appendix has been found empty, though inflamed. The second is that, in operations after death, when death has been due to other causes, substances have often been found in the appendix, and yet that organ was not inflamed. As to the impression that operations are necessarily fatal, that, too, is wrong, as no more difficulty Is liable to follow than may follow the most simple operation. All that is necessary is to cut through and pull out the appendix, so as to tie it and cut it off. It is a part of the anatomy that is not necessary' SIIREUS AND PATCHES.

Mr. Gresham to Mr. Cleveland: "Tata. See you at the morgue.'-Philadelphia North American. If the people of Kentucky do their duty Breckinridge will soon be an idol out of a job. Atlanta Journal. "Kr great big weddln'," said Uncle Eben. "am er mighty fine fing; but 'tain't n'cessarlly gwineter mek home happy." Washington Star. The only difference between a Populist and a Democrat is that the Populist sometimes thinks that he believes something. Cleveland Leader. An Ohio court has decided that a weekly Jag constitutes habitual drunkenness. This is rough on 'the semi-weekly jagsters. Washington Post. An exchange says that "the candidates have taken the field." This is good news. There is a good deal of ploughing to be done yet. Atlanta Constitution. Mugwump Charles De Kay, who is going to Berlin as consul-general, represents the general decay of the Democratic party. New York Commercial Advertiser. If the American Railway Union wins the fight, the railroads will have to print on their time-tables. "Subject to the approval of the switchmen." Boston Transcript. Minister's Wife What do they mean by twenty-one and a half knots an hour? Minister H'm. The bride must have backed out in the last one. Detroit Tribune. Jillson says that, no matter how busy everybody may be in other parts of the theater, there is seldom very much going on in the ballet girls' dressing rooms. Buffalo Courier. AN UNNATURAL ALLIANCE. A Protest Aerainst Committing: the Republican Party to Equal SulTraee. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: As a lifelong advocate oi" equal suffrage, I wish to enter my vigorous protest against the scheme which seems to be foreshadowed by the late action of the Republican League. Nothing could be more fatal to it than its indorsement by any political party as a measure of that party. It is not and never can be a party measure, hence any attempt to complicate It with party policies must be resisted and resented at the very threshold by all its real friends; much less should any of its friends seek such an unnatural and destructive alliance. Parties do not exist for the purpose of promoting every beneficial measure, and it Is a bit of unqualified arrogance for any party to presume to take all social and moral as well as all economic measures under its fostering eare. After all, what Is a party but an aggregation of men who approximately agree upon a class of correlated economic questions? In not a single instance do any two agree as to the details of any one measure, and probaly not one In a thousand pretends to indorse all the measures which are grouped together as the tout ensemble of political belief. As in the legislation which may result in the several Items of a political platform are the compromises which honest men are always ready to make in a government by the people, it may be that these Republicans are reaching out for a new issue which may strengthen the party. They shall not incorporate equal suffrage with my consent. We have been too long educating the millions, and our labors have found fruits too much in all political parties and among men of all social ranks to allow any party on earth to godfather us, now that success is assured, or to drive from us many of our most pronounced friends who are found in all parties. There is not an intelligent man or woman who has devoted thought and labor to the promotion of this great reform who does not regret the superservlceable zeal of some of its friends who have sought to complicate it with party politics. For twenty years or more it has been handicapped by such an adulterous league with prohibition that common people have regarded them as Identical, and by so much as they disapproved of prohibition they have withdrawn from equal suffrage. The cohabitation has not promoted prohibition one jot, while it has brought equal suffrage into disfavor. As a suffragist, I protest against this proposed alliance, just as I have protested all these years, as a prohibitionist, against allowing any political party to become the godfather of prohibition, and I never have and never will seek favors from any political party. Whether espousing prohinition will strengthen or weaken a party is not a question with me. I regard the suppression of the saloon as paramount to any possible economic qtiestion, and second only to the life of the Nation; hence I do not propose that its procurement or its enforcement or its continuance shall depend upon the success of any party which is now or which is to be hereafter, as all laws which are passed as a party measure must forever be; and I hail it as the most hopeful sign of the early success of prohibition that its true friends have at last eliminated it from party politics. Not a political platform of any party of late mentions it. This forebodes not only early success, but a success that will abide regardless of the life of this party or that. Seeing, therefore, wbat prohibition has suffered at the hands of political parties. whether though the party's seeking strength by embracing it, or unwise pro hibitlcnists have sought to boom thair causo by such an unnatural union. I protest and shall ever protest against any political party's incorporating equal suffrage in its platform; and no less shall I protest against a little handful of our friends going off by themselves and organizing a suffrage party. That is always a failure. It only disgusts people who would sympathize with us in any practical method, and postpones our ultimate success. U. L. SEE. Indianapolis. June 30. TARIFF REFORM FOLLY. The Workman, Whoxe Cnpllnl In Labor, In I he Wornt Sufferer. Kansas City Journal. The manufacturer himself suffers loss, and his profits arc all taken, but the worklngman loses his all. The employer may curtail his expenses and keep himself in a condition to start up again when former conditions shall be restored; but the lalwrer who has. by the exercise of economy and self-denial, built himself a home on the promise of protection finds that home gon and his entire capital vanished also. His capital Is his labor. If there is no market for it, what is It worth? If he has nothing to sell with which he can get money to buy the necessities of life, what difference does it make to him whether the wool in a suit of clothes costs a dollar more or less? If he cannot buy lumber with which to build a new home, how is he to be benefited by free commerce with Canadian forests? If he cannot buy butter and chees, where Is the American dairyman to find a profitable market for his products? If he cannot buy meat, how is the cattle raiser benefited by "tariff reform" that has made the laborer a pauper? Thse are not matters of sentiment, but of plain, unvarnished, distressing fact. It requires no familiarity with abstract theories f political economy to understand them. They are within the comnrehenslon of anv man who can read, anJ there is no excuse for refusing to give them recognition. The Question Everybody la Aaklnc Washington Post. Why are travelers all over the United States to be denied the use of Pullman cars simply because the employes at the Pullman car works are not satisfied with their wages? It occurs to us that the people have some rights in this quarrel of which they cannot lawfully be diverted. Bi.t what are they going to do about it?

LANMS'S CANDIDACY

HE REVIEWS THE HISTORY OF THE CANVASS AM) NOMINATION. He Made Three Effort to Compromise Hie Qunrrcl, Which Were Rejected, nnd 11c Will Make the Ilaca. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DELPHI. Ind.. June 30 Mr. Charles B. Landis, editor of the Journal, of this city, has issued the following address to the Republicans of the Tenth district in answer to the attacks that have been made upon the regularity of his nomination at the Hammond convention, held May 21 "To the Republicans of the Tenth Indiana Congressional District: "It has been five weeks since I was nominated as the Republican candidate for Congress in this district. Since that tlma a number of Individuals have ceaselessly persisted in fomenting strife and contention by flooding the dally and weekly papers that circulate in the district with misrepresentations, and have at last had another convention called to meet at Hammond, July 9, and nominate another candidate. . In justice to myself and the Republicans of the district I believe a statement ought to be made. "The decision of the committee on credentials in the matter of seating the Lake county delegates Is taken as the excuse for the various demonstrations against my nomination. I am sure if the Republicans of the district were well informed of all the circumstances and Incidents that led up to the Crown Point convention they would admit that I was justly entitled to half that delegation. When the district committee met, in February, and selected Hammond as the place for holding the convention the solemn pledge and promise was made to my friends that no at- m tempt should be made to bind up Iake county in the interest of any candidate; that her delegation should not be instructed, and that all candidates should have fair and generous treatment in that county. This agreement was flagrantly violated and was the source of all the trouble. It would require too much space to rehearse the. incidents leading up to the selection of the delegates from Lake county. Suffice it to say that the committee on credentials, composed of honorable men and good liepublicans, after spending five hours hearing evidence on matters bearing on the contest, reported by a vote of rive to three In favor of dividing the Lake county delegation equally between Judge Johnston and myself. The convention adopted this report. It declared both the Lake county conventions at which delegates were chosen irregular. Concerning the irregularity of the convention held at Crown Point one of the leading Republican papers of the district sets forth the principal ground as follows: " "The district committee had called a delegate convention to meet at Hammond on May 24; it assigned to each county Its proper number of delegates, but left to each county committee to determine the manner, place and time of their selection, making the only condition that two weeks' notice of such time and place or places should be given. The committees in eight of the nine counties in the district complied with the terms of this call. Lake county alone acted outside of the terms of the call. Its central committee was never called together to consider the matter, and the chairman usurped all the authority of this committee. He made a call, giving only eight days' nominal notice, and scarcely a week's actual notice of the time and place of choosing the delegates. The reason of hia refusing to conform to the conditions imposed by the district committee was obvious. Mr. Landis had gone into Lake county and was making a favorable impression. The chairman. Mr. Wells, being a zealous friend of Mr. Jonnston. fearing that Mr. Landis would gain too much strength, called his short-notiee snapper convention to cut off his opportunity to make friends in Lake county. This was a foul of which one of similar character would have rule! off any Jockey and his horse on any wellregulated race track In the land. It was a foul which justified the action of the committee on credentials in their report on the Lake county contest.' "Special pains have been taken to keep from the Republicr.ns' of the district the fact that on the morning of- the convention I urged a proposition, w.dch. if accepted, would have been a solution of the whole trouble. 1 urged, in the interest of harmony, that immediately upon the assembling of the convention it adopt a resolution fixing a day upon which the Republicans of the district might go to the polls In their various precincts and vote under th Australian svstem for a candidate for Congress, the individual receiving the most votes to be the nominee. This being done, that the convention adjourn sine die. This proposition was submitted to Judge Johnston's friends, and they rejected it. Judge Gotild was of the opinion that this would prove a happy solution of the difficulty, and reduced the proposition to writing. After the committee on credentials had wrangled for hours and had decided to present two reports, one of my friends read this proposition to submit the whole matter to the Republicans of the district, and urged that the committee adopt it as its report and recommend it to the convention for adoption. Judge Johnson's friends on the comn lttee would not listen to such a proposition. "Again, after the convention met at the ball park and a test vote showed that th Landis pet. pie had absolute control of the convention. Col. W. I. Pratt, of Cass county, read this samt proposition in open convention and moved its adoption. One of Judge Johnston's leaders immediately taised a point of order and had it ruled , out of the convention. "What cculd have been fairer than to have submitted the whole matter as between Judge Johnston and myself directly to the Republicans of the district? Thrice we proposed this, and thrice it was rejected. Before the convention met, before any one was nominated, was the time for compicmise. Then both sides couli have conceded something, and it would have been in fact a compromise. What is demanded of me now is absolute surrender after winning the victory. "It was perfectly natural that there should be some feeling at the Hammond convention. The canvass leading up to that convention was. In a majority of the counties, a personal one on the part of Judge Johnston and myself. It was a square fight. Neither of us asked odds nor gave them. One week he was victorious and the rext week I was victorious. The day of the Crown Point convention his friends, with the consent of the railroad company, took a train that we had bought and paid for, and the George H. Hammond Packing Company and the East Chicago rolling mills, under their managers turned out an army of men to capture the lake countv delegates. It was a fight from start to finish. No one will deny that Judge John ton's friends took advantage of every crook and turn, conceded absolutely nothing, fought for every advantage up to the very moment they lost in the adoption of the majority report of the committee on credentials; then they abandoned the convention to my friends and I was nominated. "The only concession that was made during th entire canvass came from me, when I conceded that the convention should go to Hammond, within a few mile- of Judge Johnston's home. The only offer of a compromise came from me, when, with my sanction, an attempt was made three time.- to submit the whole matter to a primary election. "Having won this nomination in a nanrt to-hand contest in a majority of the eoun ties of the district, having made every at temnt to get a compromise prior to th nomination. 1 do not believe that any pre redent in the annals of political parties Jus titles anv on in asking m to abandon the field. I am always for harmony, but I do not think I should be asked to contribute i all the harmony. "I shall make the race for Congress as the regular Republican nominee. I have fully determined this after carefully weighing the past, present and future. I have heard it suggested that my name may be kept off the Republican ticket in Lake and Porter counties. This cannot be done. Sections IS and .3 of the election law, make ?pe ial provision for Just such cases as this. I believe that I shall be elected. I believe that after the Republicans of the district learn the full story of the canvass and convention they will indorse my course in this determination. "CHARLES B. LANDIS. "Delphi. Ind.. June 30." One Mntt'ft Notion. Philadelphia Times. A Philadelphia financier, who is well posted in such matters, sayn that the real and true reason for the accumulation of gold abroad, now amounting to the almost Inconceivable sum of Jmi.m sterling in the state banks of Europe, is thwt wwrnl of the governments, especially Great Britain, fear impending war. and are taking precautions, knowing full well that it is not so much the nation with a big army or navy as the one with the most ready cash that will have the advantage at the start. As things go nowadays, it is. money that counts in war, and even to supply the crackers for a mobilized army would cost a prtty fortune. IVhere They Differ. Kansas City Journal. "My Idea of hell 1 the present state of the country." says Kate Field. But Kat is wrong. This country h. a br:ght prospect of throwing off DomcrHtir nil4 by

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