Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1895 — Page 4

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Wlllanl'a Hotel nml tlio Washington News lixetiange, 14th atrcei, but. I'cnn. live, ami V street. It is not tho numoer of. bills which a Legislature passes which attests its industry, but often the number which it rejects. The interest in loan and building association legislation promises for the time to exceed the interest in the legislation regarding salaries. In fifteen years the New York Legislature created forty ofllces and commissions, whose salaries noware a million dollars a year. Just now the Legislature is trying to kill a quantity of them, but it finds the work most dimcult. ' IMBWBOTaMaalaBBHBHBMMajBBM The pension act of June 27. 1S90, ' provides that the applicant shall be paid from the date of his application if , a pensior is granted. This being the case, what right 'has the commissioner to make the payment date back but elx months instead ot three years? Minister Thurston's statement con-' ceming Hawaiian ; finances shows that nil that part of Senator Mills's speech which related to the alleged sale of Hawaiian bonds in this country for the purpose , of , creating an - .annexation nentlment; was the worst kind of rot and without any foundation in truth. . Senator G'lfford should .have seen the Importance of his bill creating a State bacteriologist during the last Legislature, when he . was of the majority. It would be a neat position for some person out of a job, since $3,000 a year means considerable more In traveling expenses and reports. Just now the fUate Board of Health, and the local boards in cities should be left to attend to tha bacteriology business. j - Members of the -Legislature express dlssatiisfactlon because so many of their associates the last days of the past week . were absent. The legislature should not be considered a picnic, but a place which demands constant attention, particularly when the length of the session Is limited. Even if. ' it . were not in a certain manner , compromising, the Junketing feature, which takes members from their , places to visit public and private institutions asking appropriations, is open to fair criticism. v ' s , Tho country has become so accustomed to regarding Senator Hill as a mere political schemer that it has been ' Blow to give him' credit for statesmanlike views or. disinterested motives. Latterly ho has been compelling some modification of this opinion, and his Jew York ' will have that tendency. There was more sound financial sense and good politics in that ' speech than Jn all that has been said by the Democrats in both houses during this session of Congress. Ex-Senator Warner Miller in the course of a recent interview said: VII1I1 is by every consideration the greatest man in New York Democratic politics to-day, and he is bound to come up." i The men who would suffer most by a change, to a silver basis arc those who work for wages and salaries. To them it would be equivalent to a cut in wages, ' Ctnce it would take a long time to raise tfages to a point where the silver, dollar in its bullion value would be equal to the purchase power of the gold dollar. This la because tho real .price of all the exportable necessaries of "life, like wheat, meat, cotton and wool, are ' made in countries whose currency is on the gold basis. If wheat should be worth a gold dollar a bushel in Europe, Jhe price here in silver dollars 'worth but 75 cents as merchandise, would be about 20 per cent, higher. There is nothing new in this statement, but many people seem , not to give it the consideration it is worth. Scores of persons who have been assessed for street and sewer improve ments and who nre delinquent because of lack of notice or inability to pay at once have reason to thank City Attor ney Scott for instructing Treasurer Holt to receive their taxes whenever they make a tender of them, Instead of refusing to receive them because the bills have been given to ex-city oinclals to . collect In order that they may extort fees often equal to the tax itself. When the collection of taxes is properly organized such collections will be made by the treasurer, who will receive a umall per cent. when, the taxes are delinquent a given period. The ex-Democratic city employes who have been filling their pockets by exacting exorbitant fees from poor people will now bo forced to look elsewhere for prey. Warden Trench is reported as saying to the committee of the Legislature that he is not so mean a Democrat after all, as he and his subordinates voted the Republican ticket last spring in Michigan City, lu the first place, unlets Warden French and his employes were actual residents of Michigan City when they entered the State's service they should not be permitted to vote in Michigan City. Next, the .employes

should not be selected because they are of this or that party and . can be ordered to vote this or that ticket,' but because of their character, and retained only upon the ground 'of efficiency. The question of managing a prison is not one of having the employes of this or that party, but , of honest and efficient management, good discipline, and carinr for the public interests. BiaaaBBBBaHBaaaBaBaaaBBBBBaaaaiaaaaaaaaMaaaMaaMiaMBaM THE FIXAXCIAL. OUTLOOK. ii The last report of the Secretary of the Treasury showed that on the 7th of August, 1894, the gold reserve in the treasury had reached the lowest point since the resumption of specie payments in 1S79. viz., $32,189,506. . In order to replenish it the Secretary sold $50.- ' 000.000 of bonds, realizing therefrom $38.CC0.917. This, with' other receipts of gold, brought the reserve up to $107,446.S02. The steady drain of gold and the impossibility of maintaining the re- . serve by ordinary methods compelled a second sale of $50,000,000 in bonds. This sale realized $38,538,500, and the reserve was. again brought above the danger point. But the process of depletion was at once resumed. During December and thus far in January the gold reserve has been hammered down about $60.000,000. . During December the withdrawals aggregated $31,.'W,091, and tiius far in January $28,203,574, making the totat withdrawals of gold in less than two, months $59,466,CG5. This is more than the total amount of gold realized by the laBt sale of bonds. Saturday's withdrawals of gold from the subtreastiry.in New York were $6,700,000 and in Boston $250,000, making a total of $6,950,000. This is said to be ' the , largest amount of gold ever withdrawn in one day, and it reduced the rewerve to $56,782.858. - The withdrawals of gold will begin again to-day, and the current week 13 likely to show a larger depletion of the reserve than any previous one. In this situation there seems no alternative but another sale of bonds, and that very soon. Unfortunately, .the shilly-shally policy of the administration, the mischievous agitation of the currency question and the exploitation of , Secretary Carlisle's State bank scheme have frightened capital and Injured the credit of the government to such an extent tUat it will hardly be possible to place another loan on as favorable terms as those obtained .for the last one. From present indications the public need not be surprised if, inside of a month, gold shall be at a premium and the country on a sliver -asis. A' CASE OF FACT-BLIXDXESS. Chairman Wilson, of the, Democratic

House committee on ways and means, has always been regarded as a remarkable person, but his performance in, the House on Saturday entitles him to be held as the most astonishing individual in the United States. "I would like." he said, "to dispel from the minds of the American people the prevalent idea that the treasury is in distress from lack of revenues." Great Scott! or great anybody or anything else, what does Professor Wilson mean ? Is it possible that the chairman of the committee on ways and means has not read the last report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in which it is stated that the receipts of the treasury from all sources during the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1894, were $372,802,498, and that the expenditures were $442,605,658? Does not a deficit the last fiscal year of $69,803,160 indicate that the treasury is in distress? If the official statements of the treasury during, the past six months showing an excess of expenditures of more than $5,000,000 a month over the receipts do not show that the public finances are in a bad way what do they show? Much as the people would like to be able to believe that the treasury is not in distress, they must accept the official reports .made up by the treasury book keepers in preference to the assertions of Professor Wilson, which have no backing. Again, the chairman of the ways and means committee declares' that the depletion of the gold of the reserve fund makes it appear that the treasury is in need of funds. Just the reverse of this is true. Because the treasury is com pelled to pay out the greenbacks re deemed by the reserve - fund to meet current exoenses because the 'revenue is insufficient the gold reserve is de pleted. But for the borrowlng'.of gold to redeem the greenbacks and . the re issue of these greenbacks to meet current expenses the treasury would have suspended payment months ago because there absolutely would not have been a dollar in its vaults. Chairman Wilson is . a conspicuous representative of that class of. men so brilliant in devising theories, , but so Impervious to facts, which is so. largely responsible for the condition the coun try is now in. It is npt? because Pro fessor Wilson is. dishonest that he declares that the treasury is not in distress, and that tho bill which he passed through the House would have furnished ample revenue when it was shown by treasury officials that with it tho revenues would be $100,000,000 a year short of the current expenditures, , but - because he has so long studied abstractions and so long been the victim of assumptions that he cannot recognize the force of a.' plain fact. It is. unfortunate for Professor Wilson, but his fact blindness '.'has been most disastrous to the countrj. , , I: A KESOLITIOX THAT SIIOl'LD HI EXPUNGED. The administration has been so persistently snubbed by Congress and severely rebuked by the" people that - lti will doubtless regard the qualified indorsement of its Hawaiian policy by the Senate as a great victory. It is, however, an empty triumph. The resolution adopted by the Senate reads as follows: Resolved, That while tho people of the United States earnestly sympatnizes with the effort to establish republican institution.-, wherever that effort Is made, they reathrm the policy of absolute non-interference, unless by agretir ent. with tho affairs of other nations and recognize to the fullest extent the right of every rPle to adopt and maintain their own form of Kovernment uaawed and uninfluenced by foreign dtctatlom That the administration of President Cleveland, in maintaining this policy as to our foreign relations, deserves tho approval and support of the Amerlc.m people. This is adroitly framed. Analyzed, it reveals three distinct propositions, namely, first, a declaration of sympathy with all efforts to establish republican institutions; second, an approval of the policy of American noninterference in the affairs of other governments; third, an indorsement of Mr. Cleveland's policy as embodying there Ideas. The conclusion has no ctmnection .with the premises and Implies what is.net true.

It Is true that the American people earnestly sympathize with every effort ; ir aaf dKHet. -.-..i.V.Tl.-.n m Incf (Inll'.na find '

that they are opposed to Araerican intervention in the affairs of other nations, but it is not true that the admin-; Istratlon's Hawaiian policy has been, based on these principles. On the contrary. Its policy has been one of determined hostility to the republic and of secret intrigue and intervention for its overthrow and the restoration of the monarchy. The assumption of the administration that the revolution which resulted in overthrowing themonarchy was made successful by or through American support has been shown to be absolutely without foundation, and yet it has supplied the keynote of the administration's entire policy of hostil ity to the republic and secret intervention for the restoration of the monarchy. It is an insult to the intelligence of the people to indorse that policy on the ground of its earnest sympathy with an effort to establish republican institu tions and its nonintervention in Hawaiian affairs when every high school boy in the land knows that it has never by act or word shown the slightest sym pathy with the present government, and that its entire policy has been one of intervention for the restoration of the monarchy. The resolution is based on a lie. and should be expunged by the next Senate. THE BISI'1'IIHCA.V PLEDGE. There is no reason to suspect that the Republicans in the Legislature have forgotten the pledges made to the people in the platform of the State convention." On the contrary, the crushing of one small Job, the reduction of the appropriation for legislative purposes and the cutting down of the number of employes about the Legislature shows that the members of the majority are mindful of these pledges and propose to keep them in good faith. As there are many bills in the hands of committees proposing to. Increase the number of 'officials in different directions, it may not be out of place to repeat the pledge of the party convention to the people on that point. It Is as follows: We condemn the reckless and extravagant administration of the financial affairs of the fctate, whereby the people are subjected co unjust and unnecessary burdens of taxation, by increased assessment of property and an increased rate of taxation and by the multiplication of offlcea to bo supported by the taxpayers of tho State. This resolution was greeted by shouts of applause, showing that it met the enthusiastic approval of that magnificent convention. There are now bills pending to create a considerable number of offices, say, one hundred in the aggregate. Under the humane officer bill it is possible to add fifty or seventyfive to the already long list. The factory inspection bill calls for eighteen well-paid officials. Besides, there are a number of single skirmishers trying to effect a'lodgment on the : regular pay rolls. There are numerous propositions to increase publi3 salaries when compensation in all private employments is being reduced. In twenty years the cost of State and municipal governments has increased at a fearful rate when the taxpayer is considered. Of course most States .have better institutions and all a great deal more costly ones. In several States the new Itepublican legislatures are calling a halt and are trying to get rid of useless commissions, : bureaus and official forces. The Republican party ' in the Legislature can commend itself to the people of. Indiana by pursuing such a policy. The condition of the people calls for it because they are less able to pay taxes than at any period in twenty-five years. - The report of the inquiry of the' committee of the Legislature into the bicycle contracts, as published, does not bring out the fact that leading Democrats in this State aro prominent In the corporation which has the best prison labor at 40 cents a day and the use of a building which has cost the State over $9,000. This may be all right, but if a Republican administration should do the same! thing every Democratic organ in the State .would publish 'the fact in black letters every issue, and the Democratic orators of the Legislature would walk the aisles of the legislative chambers, red-faced and wildly . gesticulating, shouting denunciation. The real point against the contract, however, is that with this 40 cents a day labor the contractors will drive out of the bicycle industry all competitors in this vicinity, who have employed mechanics with families at fair wages. At one time several hundred men were employed in this city by bicycle manufacturers who put money into plants, one of whom has assured the Journal that he cannot compete with this company inside the prison walls and pay fair wages. The wrong of such contracts is that they tend to reduce the scale of wages outside the prison in the same Industry, and to force into idleness mechanics who would gladly labor to support families. "Would vou have the prisoners idle and have the State pay their board?" ask the officials who make such contracts. Better that four hundred men be idle and fed in the prison than that three ', hundred' mechanics with families be forced to walk the streets in idleness end their families be deprived of the necessaries of life. New York, .'in its" new Constitution ratified by the people,, prohibits the contracting of prison labor. . Prison labor can be employed usefully if not profitably in other ways. The extent to which Great Britain has been extending her insular possessions in the Pacific during the last few years is shown by a statement prepared by Senator Lodge. It shows that in 1SSS she took the Gilbert group of thirteen islands, 1,500 miles from Hawaii: the Ellice group of five islands, 1,800 miles from Hawaii; the Enderbury group of five islands, 1.G00 miles from Hawaii; the Union group of three islands, 1,800 miles from Hawaii, together with Kingman, Fanning. Washington, Palmyra. Christmas and Jarvis inlands. She also took in the same year Maiden, Starbuck, Dudosa. Tenryhn. Vostok, Flint and Caroline islandssome of them within 1,200 miles of Ha, waii and some of them within 1.S00 miles. In 1S89 Great Britain hoisted her flag over Rule Island. 2.400 miles from Hawaii: the Suwaroff islands, 1,900 miles from Hawaii, and the Coral islands, 900 miles from Hawaii. In 1S91 Kho took Johnston ialend, 600 miles from Hawaii; in 1892 Gardner Itlar.d, 1.600 miles from Hawaii, and in the same year Danger island. 1,800 miles fromHawaii. Within the last year a British

war vessel .attempted to' seize Necker ; island, 46a miles from Hawaii, and was only prevented by a Hawaiian vessel outsteamlng"" her. -This is the island which Mr, Cleveland. ; in a special rr.es- I

sage sent a- few days ago, urged Congress tq Join with Hawaii in permitting the British 'government to use - for a cable station. ' As the has appropriated : about fifty islands in the Pacific during j the last few years she cannot be so 1 badly off for a cable station. If the committee on ways and means will continue to exercise as much watchfulness over . all of the appropriations as it has displayed in its action in regard to that for the soldiers' home and the House accepts its judgment and adheres to it the. Legislature will make an excellent record for economy. This is a project which can be defended on the grounds both of public merit and economy; that ' committee, if alt bills appropriating. money Sh.all be referred to it, as they should, will find some calls for appropriations double those of the last' Legislature, and for large sums of money by others which haveno claims upon the State, If the committee treats these on the same basis as it has the appropriation for the soldiers' home many recommendations will be reduced DO , per cent, and others will go away empty handed." . The Journal Is not criticising the action of the committee5 but is simply urging it to live up to its precedent by cutting; down other estimates and rejecting claims of questionable merit. - Would it not bo better to take the money which an elevator In tha icourthouse would cost and add some mora to It, and use it to thoroughly renovate the inside of the building? The walls and ceilings of all of the offices and court rooms are black with age and use, There, ia ro block In tho city used for the cheapest-private offices In such a condition aa are tho public offices in the courthouse. Now is the time for gentlemen as well as ladies to pay off social debts by making up box parties for the society circus. UL1IULES I. THE A1U. , ,, Sud. v "This," remarked the rat as the trap fell, "this is tho worst I ever had sprung on m&-" ' ' Itecliaiiffe. "How shall we serve thut new missionary?" asked the chef. "As hash, I gue.39 ,7 eald the King of Mbwpka. "He told me that the conference had roasted him just before he left home." ReallMni. Stage Carpenter Say, the furnace is clean out of whack and the house is like a barn. Undaunted Manaer-AU right. Change the bill to the "Sea of Ice" and the audience will think we are giving them a new thing In realism. -; -- IIU fcollloquy. "Alas!" exclaimed the turkey, who had eaten too freely of, the brandied cherries and had been: plackoi by the farmer's wife under the impression that his gobbling days were over. . "Alas I I am a-living picked, sure." .' .:..VAnd the assembled; fowls blushingly admitted the truth of 'the assertion, only the tough old roosters daring! to gaze at him. THE ISDIAXA PHESS. : The Legislature 'should "pass the libel law Introduced in , both' Rouses. : , Newspapers should at lpaat.ha.Ye airfair: treatment as ,1s given Individuals. Covington KepuM-can. . A Posey county member of the Legislature wants the Indiana. General Assembly to settle the Brooklyn strike. Some of our solons seem to think that they are members of the "ereat parliament of the world" which Tennyson speaks aDout. lerre wautj Tribune. . - The State Senate has passed a wise and equitable libel bill, and it Is to be hoped that the House will concur. Under the o.d law newspapers have operated under an unfair and unjust d.BcrtnnnatiOn, and this law simply places them on an equality before law with men ana corporations. v;onnersville News. , ; ' The State Legfglatujrepan do nothing that will be of greater benefit to the party than to get right down 16 work and have all needed legislation passed at. the expiration of - the sixty days session. The custom of postponing action on' important di.is until the closing hours is a most pernicious one, and results in the enaction of mischievous and damaging legislation. There need be no hasty legislation if the' different committees wul fa.tntully discharge their duties - for the next few weeks. Fort Wayne Gazette. The school-book 'tru'sif is a monopoly and one of the worst sort. ' The Legislature is tussling with the question, which will be completely metamorphosed under their legislation, and it IS time. too. The Amer ican School Book-Company, to save themselves from declaring a dividend, have consumed the prottts resuiung from the a.le of the books In exorbitant salaries to the employes of the company. There may be some other interesting facts revealed when the matter Is given a closer investigation by the Legislature. Rushvillo Graphic. While the present Legislature is giving attention to the investigation of the conduct of the prisons north and south, and to the crookedness of Green Smith, it should not fall to examine the true Inwardness of what Is known as the Indiana School TJook Company, a company composed of political ringsters, who haven't a dollar Invested in a publication house. This Indiana School Hook Gompany is nothing more nor less than the agent of 4he American bchool Book Trust, and is a party to the fraud being perpetrated in Indiana by that, trust tn t sale of school books. Parke County Journal. , , j.a ... The State Senate lias allowed mileage to Its members at the rate of 2" cents a mile. Thus Senator ValC fpr traveling 300 miles, gets $G0; -Senator -McDonald, of Ligonler, S50 miles. $70; Senator Crumpacker and Lieutenant Governor Nye. of Laporte, each $ for W miles. Anyouc can make the trip from these points to Indianapolis and return for about $S. Considering that each of the 150 members 'receives 20 cents a milv the expense for mileage if enormous, 75 per cent, of which U over and above the actual cost of railroad fare. .The law which allows so threat an excess of mileage ought to be modified. Goshen Times. The legislative . apportionment bill introduced in the State Senate by Senator Wlshard and in the House by Representative N'ewhouse, which bill will probably revive the support of the Republican majority in the Legislature, gives Whitley a Joint Representative with Huntington, ' which has also a Representative besid?s. Whitley and Kosciusko counties together are given one Senator. We have been . accustomed to hava a Representative all of our own, and therewill be much dissatisfaction with the measure in this county, especially among Democrats, but on the whole the apportionment bill seern3 just and .fair. Columbia City Ms.il. '. There is one thing to be said about the fee and salary bill in contemplation by the State Legislature, and that is that no law which bases the salary of county officials upon population alone will be Just, or even approach justice. There are few counties in the State with a population like that of this county which require so much work of the officer. Population alone does not determine the amount ot .work to bo done, and ordinary common sense dictates that the amount of work and Its nature ought ta be considered. Grant county has more work than manv a co 'ntv with a much greater population. Marion Chronicle. . Up to this time the friends of Purdue University have not made any radical move In the direction of securing Legislative aid for that Institution, and we feel privileged to say that they have no Intention of main taining a lobby at Indianapolis ror the purpose of jqeialty tir!ng' members to do .heir duty in behalf of an enterprise tl.it has done, so much and Is doing so much to uhance the Tame of Indiana in the eyes of the educational world. The Legislature is

expected to do something to relieve Purdue's pressing necessit'es, and If the real worth of tha university Is properly presented and Its real needs forcibly urged favorable action can hardly be denied nor unnecessarily delayed. Lafayette Courier. The ever-Increasing number of damage suits- for personal injuries -against corporations of all kind3 is beginning to attract public attention to the gros3 abuse of the statute which gives the persou Injured In the service of a company satisfaction In damages. Ten. years ago actions of this character were rarely heard of, but in late years It has become a speculation, a business, and since the sympathy of the average Juror is always with the plaintiff, and his prejudice against corporate wealth is deep seated, unprincipled attorneys rarely fail in obtaining verdicts, and, then compelling an equal division of the spoils with clients, often poor and destitute. Wabash Plain Dealer. Representative Cardwlll's bill introducing genuine clvll-serlce reform in Indiana should be passed.. It will fill a long-felt want. Civil-service reform for our benevolent and penal institutions has been strongly indorsed by General Harrison in a publie speech, and his remarks on the subject were cheered. It was a prt of the State Republican platform in 1S86. William D. Foulke introduced a civil-service bill in the State Senate in IRS.", nd fcverv Hpnubllcan voted for

it. John L. Griffiths introduced a bill In the i House In 1SS7 and every Republican voteu for it. Aeain. in 1891. Senator Maaee in troduced tho bill, and It received unanimous Republ'can support. A failure to vote for Mr. Cardwlll's bill this year will look bad, to say the least. Crawfordsvllle Journal. It will be remembered that a law now compels township trustees to turn . over once a year to the State Treasurer all tinexpended school funds in their hands. The surplus fund aggregated $37,727.83 last year. and the amount of .school funds lately received back from the State for distribution to the township trustees ia only $24,370.4 1. This is not wise financiering, and the township trustees are not warranted in levying any more school tax than they actually need and are going to use. It la said the law was enacted to stop the habit of trustees levying more taxes than was needed- so they can use the money for personal gain. . Not many years ago the Anrus made a njtht on a trustee of Center township, and showed that he had habitually kept tuition fund enough on hand to run his schools for six years, and his average balance was about $9,000. It could have been done for no other purpose than to draw Interest on the surplus on hand. LaPorte Argus. JUDGE GAYNOR'S DECISIOX. The decision serves to signalize the tendency of the times. It marks the direction of the tide. The people rule and make the laws. , If the people at e ready to adopt the Socialist programme there is no appeal. Detroit Tribune. Judge Gaynor must know very well that it would be impossible to carry on any railroad in America if It were the law that It must forfeit Us charter, if, even for a day. it failed to run its trains, for then tho employes would have It at their mercy. New York Evening Post. When, however, the popular dislike Is reflected from the bench in a way to deprive the unpopular corporations of their legal rights by a strange blindness to the most obvious facts, all the friends of law and order have cause for anxiety. New York Commercial Advertiser. If a corporation holding a public franchise cannot freely contract for its labor like any other employer, if it must pay what Its employes demand, no matter at what sacrifice, lest its service to the public should be impaired, nobody will invest money on the security of a public franchise and the property created to carry it out. Boston Herald. . In some quarters apprehensions are felt on account of what is termed Justice Gaynor's eccentricity. His honesty, however, has not been questioned, and, beside, his decision will not be final. The more questions that are left to the courts, and the fewer that mobs undertake to settle, the better it will be for BrooKlyn. New York Mail and Express. If this be law, then all the millions that have been Invested in railroad property have practically been thrown away. Directors may as well resign and transfer the management of railroad properties to the walking delegates and strike leaders: shareholders may as well send their stock to the paper mill, and railroad bonds be used to kindle fires. Philadelphia Record. The very fact that soldiers are still there shows that there is momentary danger of an outbreak. While this condition or things lasts the railroad companies' ability to Induce men to take the place of strikers must necessarily De more or jcs mypjeu, and it does not seem to be right mat .1 .ntt.r fur what it IS not Vet demonstrated they are able to prevent. New YorK Morning Aoveruecr. A street-car company derives its privileges from the people. It is bound to accommodate the people, its first duties are to the DcoDle and not to its stockholders. Hence cars must be run in spite of labor troubles. II a company i-mwi s Dioyes at starvation wages it is bound to et them at any price and run its cars This, in k brief, is the decision of Justice Gavnor. or tsrooKiyn. aim u. bchuic cision it is. too. Philadelphia Inquirer. The decision of Judge Gaynor is fallacious, unwarranted and mischievous. It was born of that tendency of the Jemocrv to surrender to the mob, a tendency that has cost this country tens of thousands of live? and thousands of millions of treasure. In that respect it is a most mr..4ni.i tr,.in the bench. II further disorder, loss of life. and. of properi.v follows the responsiuiuiy will rest upon the Judge. Philadelphia North American. The laneuaee of Judge Gaynor's declar ation in the manda'mus case is the language of law. of Justice and ot common sense.- It Is receiving far and wide the approbation which it deserves. It cannot receive more w n nffrs no sympathy to strikers or their pretended friends eueasred in aeeas oi vioieii----. movers or employes, is that ail aws must and shall be obeyed; if disobeyed, shall bo enforced. Boston Auverucci. THE NICARAGUA CANAL. If the canal can be completed under this plan it will be of Immense advantage to the commerce of this country and of the world. New York World. Good for the Senate! It has passed the Nicaragua canal bill by a vote of 31 to 21. There is some American. sm left in Congress New York Recorder. This administration has been shortsighted in not making the Nicaragua n canal bill Its great measure, and securing for itself the prestige which those will enjoy who carry the great enterprise to completion. Louisville Commercial. No measure could be more important to the commerce of this country, and the completion of the Nicaraguan canal would give an impulse to the commerce of this whole country. It would not be sectional In its nood results, but no section would prolit more by it than the South. Augusta Chronicle. The passage of the Nicaraguan canal bill in the Senate will give satisfaction for one reason only, that an obstruction of long standing is at length put of the : way. The bill will probably fad in the House, to be revived in the next Congress, and it is not necessary to prolong its d.scuss.ou now. Philadelphia Times. The Senate has done a wise and patriotic thing in passing the Nicaraguan canal bill. It has been hanging tire for some years. t last there la daylight ahead. Both political parties have pledged themselves to this great project for commercial advancement, and this recognition, although tardy, is to be commended most heartily. l'niladelphia Inquirer. It is the sign of the coming of a prosperous day, when the United States will command the markets of the world, and when American produoers shall f.nd their customers multiplied a thousand-fold. Senator Morgan has earned enduring honor through his persistence and courage in securing tue adoption of this bill by the Senate. Let his fellow-Democrats of the- House now complete his work. Memphis CommercialAppeal. ' The crowning climax of absurdity Is the passage, of the bill In the Senate pledging the faith of the United States to th3 construction of tho Nicaraguan canal. WltSi scores of well-rounded projects of public works within our own borders clamoring for aid to go outside some thousand irUe. In order to er.sase In building a canal of

which we only can enjoy; small share of the benefits, is utterly Indefensible. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. " I MEXICO AND GUATEMALA. ;

Guatemala says she wants to fight, and Mexico says "come, on." Guatemala had better thlnk.it over, and guess again. New York Evening Sun.. , Mexico and Guatemala are about to commit' an act of incredible folly. They arc on the verge of war. over -a boundary dispute, a question such as war may determine with justice, but almost invariably at a cost greater than the whole v.!ua of the deputed territory. New York Times. If the government t Washington does not interpose Guatemala may as well prepare to take a licking. - Mexico has more soldier; more gunboats, more population and wealth than her antagonist, ind the contest will be a very unequal one from Its very inception. Philadelphia Times. Mexico has steadily disclaimed any purpose of territorial aggrandizement, btit if the result of the Impending trouble should be tlie union of all tho Central 'American republics with Mexico under one government It would be a gain to the cause of peace and civilization. New York World. The Mexicans want blood, and the more powerless or insignificant the adversary may be, or trivial the cause, the. greater the cry. Diaz cannot help, himself.' and, if he Is wise. he will take the noisiest of the rabble and put them in the forefront of battle so that they may taste what war is like. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. If war, Is declared there can be only one result. Guatemala's little army, even if re-enforced by the troops of Honduras and Nicaragua, would be no match for the force that Mexlcp will muster In the event of a war. For the sake of both Mexico and Guatemala, and or the American interests in the two countries, let us hope that the trouble will. be. amicably settled. t. Louis Republic. There Is nothing in this situation that cannot be settled easily and promptly by arbitration. Guatemala can afford to withdraw its troops and Mexico can do tho same. Then let outside parties settle the boundary line and if Guatemala has been trespassing upon Mexican territory It should pay an indemnity for whutever losses it has occasioned the Mexicans. In any event It would be absolute folly for Guatemala to go to war with Mexico unaided, with a comparative small army and without financial resources. Chicago Tribune. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. At the dances of one of the wealthiest hostesses in London printed cards are hung on the walls with these words engraved on them: "No introductions are needed. Joshua Levering, a leading business man and the President of the Young Men's Christian Association of Baltimore will probably e the presidential candidate of the Prohibitionists. The most showily dressed woman in Europe is the Empress of Portugal. She buys costumes, bonnets and hats wholesale. Her pale complexion and auburn hair permit of any kind of headgear. Maj. Elijah Halford is in constant receipt of letters from total strangers who wish b'm to express an opinion as to whether ex-President Harrison is really desirous of another presidential nomination. . Miss Clara Brett Martin, the leading woman lawyer in Canada, has been nominated for school trustee of Toronto. She is indorsed bv the Woman's Civic Reform Committee. Mrs. M. B. McDonell. who is. serving a pecond term as school trustee in another ward, has been renominated. Joseph B. Treat, of Boston, is a living proof that the forbearance of the American public la wonderful Had It not been so he would have been killed long - ago. He has been a drummer for nearly seventy , years, and has hardly ever passed a day without pounding his unfortunate instrument more or less. Mr. Albert Chevalier has hitherto resolutely refused all offers to render his songs In a private house. When Lord Rothschild offered him 50 guineas to sing a couple of ditties in his drawing room he dec.lned, and even when Princess Louise sent a specialmessenger to endeavor to secure his services for a party at Kensington Palace he felt bound to excuse himself. ' It was the Irony , of fate that both Dt Loomis, the specialist In pulmonary dls- . eases, and his first wife should die of pneumonia. Dr. Loomis was one of tho first prominent New York physicians to send his patients to the AdLrondacks to try the curative properties of the air there, and nearly thirty years ago he built a cottage of his own in the North Woods, then only half , explored and boasting but one hotel where now there are scores. Mrs. Rorer recommends the following diet for those suffering from diabetes: Meat dishes of all kinds, green vegetables growing above the ground, milk with the white of an egg mixed with it thoroughly, gelatine sweetened with saccharine, flavored with, acid phosphate or lemon, baked without sugar, and turnips cut into blocks and boiled until they are transparent and clear. Drain and cover with cream; salt and pepper. Sugar and starch in all forms are to be avoided. . Mrs. Hart, who has covered the globe with her note book, declares the English people to be the most garrulous and quarrelsome of any she has encountered. She says there is more bickering and distemper in the English family and more homes are made unhappy by domestic squabbles than in any other of the nations she has visited. This- condition she-attributes chiefly to the Anglo-Saxon's fondness for a meat diet. She says the great flesh-eating peoples are notably ill-tempered. His father called ihim William and his sisters called him Will: f ' His mother called him Willie and the fellows called him Bill; But that was years and years ago, before he won his bays, And he is known to everyone as Shakspeare nowadays. . New York Herald. I could show yon; dear. If I knew the way, possessions so rich and rare, You would wonder why I should wait a day To go to my castle fair. , The roses climb over Its walls so gray, Sweet is the sound of the rain.. -I would take you.- dear, if I knew the way, To my charming castle in Spain. - Life. . TJilv KASKAKEE. A Correspondent Tell AVIiy the State Sbonld Aaslist In the Strulchtenlng. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: I have read your editorial . of Jan. 23 on "Straightening the Kankakee,", and it seems to me that the Journal has not dis played Its u:ual good judgment. , It has ppoken , without that careful Investigation which usually precedes its expression of an opinion The Kankakee heads In St. Joseph county, flows southwest between Laporte, Porter and Lake counties on the north and Stark, Jasper and Newton on the south, flowing out of Indiana at a point forty miles south of the northwest corner of the State.' Its length in Indiana Is letween seventy-five an 1 one hundred miles "across tho country." but-if its bends and crooks are all taken Into consideration It U probably two or three times that length. It ia a slow stream, with many sharp bends, ob strutted by logs, trees, decayed vegetation and mud bank. The banks are low, and the adjoining land Is low and flat. The river drains about one million acrc3 of land, and from my observation I think that half of this Is overflowed by the river. Of the land overflowed about one-half is rendered wholly worthless and the other half is lit only for hay. This land is as rich as ny river bottom land In the State; if drained it Is suitable for farming purposes as the richest acres of Wabash bottom; it Is within fifty miles of Chicago, and I llilr.U no ono acquainted w ith It will dispute the assertion that, if properly drained, it Is tpt finest body of lurni land in the Slate. I ao not believe the journal means to say that the reclaiming of this land is not worthy ol an investigation. Competent engineers nnd men long familiar with the r.vr and the territory mrougti which it tlwws think It is practicable to a lower the bed of this river as to furnish an outlet for the drainage of all this land. There Is at present no law In Indiana .uat can be applied to this drainage. It is not possible to frame a law adequate to this end without' the expenditure, of aome nwnejv The Slate expends money ior fcchoois, edlgef, hospitals, prisons, etc.. in I why? Simply, because th maintenance of these icauiutions is fr rhn public welfare. Why, then, may the State isvl wisely spend tscn&Y

fwr th reclaiming of th lauas Jf It J likely to bniii in Sua? Aua who will assert trna tho chanin of ibee ."rj jvi.i to coinncid. iha wiauu ia tur:l p.uud.a to rich pat'Jie, tht ague-ui--U.i.a jj.vh:j . to happy hou.es, mil noi W-nelil tr Suur -From a etrictly financial point oi viow ia Siie can proiltatiy invest bOiti money ia this enterprise. The Increased valJft of tfc. land for taxation would In few oar repay to the aiate all 11 la auked to expend. The owners of much of this land are willing to pay for ita drainage, and tho Chtog shooting clubs and raiaoad companies wiio do not want drainage cau be r.iia to pay their share. But, no ir.uuer huw anxious these people may be to utain their land. It cannot be done without the aid of the sitate. The State must make the law. The state) alone competent to deal with the Stale of Illinois as to that rait or the river beyond our l.ne. The State alone Is competent to deal with the powerful corporations owning lands here who do not want drain age. A few thousand dollars expended hwre will come back with large Interest. Th fact that tho rock ledge has t,ot beenre-' moved is no reason why i; cannot be done, and Its removal will certainly Lenctit the lands above It. I do not live In the Kankakee valley, and have no lnterwst there. I unt not interested In tho particular bill now before the Legis- , lature. But I am Interested ia seeing this large body of land reclaimed from the frogs, -snakes and shooting clubs nnd made Into farms and homes. And T believe that this Legislature should take the matter In hand and take such steps as will result in a r.hor- -ough Investigation of the subject. One or more men should be selected to do this work, and be required to report to the next General Assembly how this drainage cat best be had, the probable cost thereof, nnd . such other matters as will enable the Legislature to deal Intelligently with the matter. , The men selected should bo paid sufficient salary to secure the whole time of competent men. and no cheap economy fhotild ba ... permitted to stand In the way. Whether" It . costs $10,000 or $100,000. it will bo money well spent. t The Republican party Is In power, pledged to economy; I believe In economy, but we cannot afford to practice cheap economy. Indiana has not grown great and rich, and will not contlue to grow greater and richer, . by practicing the economy of the miser. Stlngyness Is not economy. When our revenues nre honestly and wisely expended ware practical true economy. The citizen will not complain of the amount of revenue collected when he sees It wisely expended. B. BORDERS. .

w maniac, ind., . Tan. 26. Another "View" of II. ' To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: I am grieved at your attitude toward those gentlemen who want to straighten" the classic Kankakee. You have heretofore looked kindly on all projects looking toward the betterment of mankind, and when one of your fellow-cltizena has "strained" his thinker, and In tho lonely vigils of the night wasted much midnight oil wrestling: with a bill looking fprlncipally) toward the $2,000 per annum and the good of his fellowman, you throw a damper over the erathuslasm of this public benefactor by doubtful Insinuations and Impertlnet remarks about the Momeuce blasting scheme. . True, .it Is a matter of doubt whether the Kankakee project would be of any praatlcal benefit, yet It would give employment to this committee of five. I believe, for a year -or two. and the money thus .- expended would help to keep the "surplus" within bounds. The $73.00 ' wasted on .the led of rocks down, in Illinois should be kept in' the background until this committee has.' ample time to investigate and draw i their salaries for a year, at least. It might be possible that durlntr this time horse sense would como to the rescue, and-!the .State-r would be In possession of material facts worth the $10,0uo the investigation will cost. Let the good work go on, and ten thousand, muskrats will whack their tails. on the wa ter of the big north-marsh and yell "Hur- ' rah, for Injiana!". You see, in high water the houses must be high and dry. conse quently It doubles the labor of Mr., and Mr.' M. Kat to build a home on the aforesaid marsh, under the present admbiistration 1 of the Kankakee. By straightening this beautiful water-way, high water on the. low. grounds might be avoided, leaving it the proper depth for mud hens to 'feed, from the succulent skunk cabbage, and hip boots De ampie waaers to jump ctucits tn. it misrht be tiosslble to brimr about these - things If the river -was made stralsrhter , and a whole lot deeper and a system of . jetties constructed where there ' are no - banks, and. If the worst bad to .be done. . pry up one end, chuck a rat house under it, and then the dern thing would have . to . . run out. Let the good work go on. . Wabash, Ind., Jan. 26. ome Kankakee Illatory. V . ' Andrew Hall, in Newton County Enter prise. , In 1850 the United States granted to the " State of Indiana the existing swamp land -within the State for the , purpose of their reclamation, xae consuiuuon oi ine siaie made provision , that tho proceeds of the ' sale of the swamp lands, after deducting the expense of selecting and draining the same, should become a part of the common school fund of the State. This, magnificent gift wa well-nigh wasted. The older citizens of the county : will remember the swamp-land scandals r by which probably a million dollars that -ought to have been saved for the education of the children of the State was squandered and stolen by incompetent and knavish i officials. The Democratic party being then In power had to bear the odium of this robbery of the school fund, and the Republican party, through the press and from :" the stump, denounced tho robbery all over the State. This Kankakee drainage bill provides for hunting up the little amount of the proceeds of swamp lands that d:d find Ita way into the school fund probably about $300,000 and apply It to the drainage of the Kankakee marshes; and this Republican Legislature is called upon to condone the pat " steal and misappropriation of swamp-land funds by stealing from the school children of the State the remnant of this fund that escaped the ravenous appetite of Demo- ' cratic knavery and appropriate it to the benefit of Nelson Morris, Singleton Brown and other speculative holders of Kankakee " marsh lands. The Republican members of this Legislature cannot afford to tarnish the fair reputation of the party in Indiana " by the consummation of the proposed out-" rage. - It will doubtless be urged that the prl- . maty object of this swamp-land grant was thn si Vtl ) tl O t A r T X n t 1-1 PMU1 crtCl r T Ctrl . I nil r they were not properly drained and that, therefore, the State should apply this rem- ' nant of their proceeds to their draining. If this, were assented to, It would not au thorize the Kankakee marshes to absorb 'the whole fund. The swamp lands of Greene, Daviess, Knox, - Sullivan, Benton. White, . Jasper, Newton, Pulaski, Fulton and other . counties are Just as much entitled to consideration as the marshes of the Kankakee river. The purchasers of the swamp lands of Benton county did not find them reclaimed ready for cultivation, but had to expend thousands of dollars for their further drainage. If the State owes anything to any of the purchasers of swamp lands. It owes more to those who completed their pense, and made valuable and lasting im- , provements thereon, than It does to tho speculator who holds and asks help, but does nothing to help himself. ' The duty of drainage and reclamation goes with the lands, and descends from the o , v.a nnri.h,i.r. nnrl thp nur.ha ij. In accepting a deed from the fatate, nnd paying the price asked by the State, In from sav'nsr the State owes him anvthing in the transaction. There Is another phase of tho bill to which I esk the serious attention of : tha holders of reclaimed land In the north part of New-, ton county. About 100,000 acres of northern. Newton county Is within the water-shed of the Kankakee liver. There is not 10 exceed 1.00t( acres of the 100,000, that can" or will be benefited by the proposed Kan kakee river improvement, because Its el vation Is from ten to fifty feet above the high-water level of the river. The greater part of this land wan swamp land, but ha leen drained, or is in process of drainie by the owners of It. lei a blind, or partially concealed power. Is given in Soctto.t 4 of this proposed act, by which l.'u.s drained lands may b taxed for an outlet via tho Kankakee river. This Is not oi.ly unjust, bcau3 It seeks to make n inur. pay for that which does hitn ho benefit, but it also seeks to set nsido the common, law of the State which makes .lt water courses natural and rightful ."outlets .. for flowing water. :-. Another feature of this bill Is Its.hihtoned character. The ordinary dralintge laws of the State, operating under the euro and control of eojunty commissioners nr circuit courts, are not good enough for the Kankakee marsh speculators. They itait Vtav. n Kfft! mYi,MKim. with irnl t ev- ! n-nsi Five commissioners nt S-.i-u E'er irnum and $4 per diem, tqunl to--.''' ofif-h. $17.:too per annum. t lust, npj.-ai-ei;::.v, In perpetuity, or. lit least, until the $.'v.'v be stolen from the fc-'tat 'lHi fund Is l to i PS ItttUI lU. J HIT .li v.. . ..it, for Newton county blocd. Wlint Cullom Snlil. . v. Pittsburg Chrcnlcle-Telci:ni!'h. "Nothing sticceedf like sucr-epdlna yourself," a Senator Cullom rwiiHtked v. Jn,n HUaols- LtfUlatsjre '. fe-iv3i?4 irt