Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1895 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS J OURNAL, FEIDAY, MAHCH 22, 1895

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Pi-nii. a ve. and V street A private citizen of the United' States has this advantage over a foreign minister; that he can criticise the administration without being placarded as persona non grata.. .'.' ... , , , When a Chicago judge decided that the buying of stocks on margin f'is a gambling transaction within the letter and spirit" of. the' law" he must have shocked a large number of people in that locality who have imagined that they are legitimate business men. To-day the Legislature of New Jersey, which has been in session for some time, will adjourn till June, when It will meet again to receive the report of an Important Investigating committee. This illustrates 'one of the advantages of not placing a constitutional limitation on the legislative session H ' For a. man who, as Secretary of the Navy, did his, utmost to have, the plans of our war ships made fn Great Britain, and. who yielded only when it was shown in construction that they were imperfect, Mr. Whitney is showing a good deal of Americanism. It is of the bloodboiling variety, however. The appointment of ex-Congressman -'Bill" Springer, of Illinois, and "Buck" Kllgore, of Texas, to judgeships in the Indian Territory Is;a flagrant violation of the principle1 of home rule. There is, however, some fitness in both appointments, and the country will be glad to have a rest from both statesmen. The loss of thef Spanish war cruiser Reina Regente furnishes further evidence that a class of Iron war ships' supposed to be the . best are so loaded by the weight of their construction and armament, that they cannot withstand a storm which lighter vessels outride in safety. - These . ships have never been really tried in. battle, but what may be expected of ships which cannot withstand an ordinary storm? Spain takes in round numbers about J30.000.000 a year out of Cuba. The people are heavily taxed. Every passenger that lands in and every passenger that ships from Cuba is taxed one dollar; a merchant is taxed a dollar for the first page of his daybook and 15 centsfdr each additional page; hotels are taxed 5 cents a day for each guest; there is a stamp tax on all drafts, checks, promissory notes, bills of exchange and legal papers, and all these" taxes are collected with relentless zeal." The Illinois Legislature has passed a bill which, if . approved by the voters of Chicago oii Tuesday, Aprif 2,'will put all of the subordinates in that city government on the merit system. A large during the consideration of the bill to urge its passage. It was passed In the Senate by a vote of 37 to 12, all the Republicans except two voting for It The leading papers of both parties and all the best citizens regard the measure as the most important piece of legislation regarding Chicago that has ever been enacted. In addressing the grand Jury at the opening of the United States Circuit and District Court in Utica, N. Y., a few days ago the judge asked the jury to .make a presentment regarding the conduct of federal courts. He deplored the fact that the police " courts of. many cities have " better appurtenances and quipment than the courts of the United States. lie said that during his twelve years experience on the bench he had been hoping to see the day when a Congress would assemble Which would cease to treat, the courts of the United States in a niggardly manner." His Honor seems to have been in a state of mind. The committee on , mercantile affairs of the Massachusetts Legislature, which made a junket into Virginia to examine the cotton mills, contained a colored member, who went with the others. The Richmond (Va.) press dispatches assert that Governor O'Farrell's wife, when she ciscoverea mat a coiorea man was oi the company, indignantly left the room where the Governor received the visiters. The Massachusetts committee assert that she did nothing of the sort, but retired in good form when the gentlemen went to the lunch room, where the colored member was entertained with the other visitors. The affair seems to have caused so much feeling that it was necessary to represent that the Governor's wife was not courteous to rescue the executive's popularity. , So President Cleveland has appointed the Hon. Constantine Buckley Kilgore, of Texas, popularly known as "Buck" Kllgore, as one of the newly created federal Judges in the Indian Territory. A few days ago it was stated in several papers that Attorney-general Olney was opposed to the selection of any Texas man for the position because , Texans were in the corrupt rings which have infested the Territory. But, be this as It may, Mr. Cleveland has appointed . Mr. Kllgore a Judge, doubtless because he wanted the position and because the President felt thatKllgcre had bean

rejected by his constituents because he had stood by the administration. In addition to these reasons there is the further one that Mr. Kilgore during he last two Congresses made himself conspicuous by objecting to consideration of private pension claims when there was not a quorum in committee of the whole. It will doubtless comfort some of the Democratic applicants who were true to the Union during the unpleasantness to know that "Buck" has a firstclass record In the Confederate army. LEGISLATIVE REFORM, The Sentinel expresses " regret for the lack of serious and candid discussion of the Journal's recent propositiens for legislative reform and for the disposition in some Quarters to misrepresent them. It says: , The Journal did not propose longer legis-" lative sessions under the existing system. It proposed that legislators receive a fixed salary instead of a per diem allowance, and that each Legislature should hold, two sessions with an interval between them. At the first of these sessions bills were to be considered and advanced to a third reading, but no bill was to be passed unless supported by a three-fourths majority. At the second session these prepared bills are to be passed or rejected, the people, in the meantime, having had an opportunity to form some intelligent opinion concerning them. The Sentinel submits that these propositions are entitled to fair and candid consideration, and that it is not creditable to the press of the State to toss tlum aside with a misleading statement of their purpose. , i This is a fairly correct statement in outline of the Journal's proposition. To treat this or 4any other proposition for constitutional or legislative reform in a flippant spirit is discreditable to those who do so. It is a mark of ignorance and narrowness to assume that established "methods are perfect, and when they have actually deyeloped defects it is the part of wisdom to try and find a remedy for them. The Journal has a great deal of reverence for the Constitution as it is and a great deal of respect for the memory of its framers. They were excellent, able and patriotic men, and they did good work, but it does not follow that in the light of experience and changed conditions it may not be improved upon. The framers of the Constitution themselves provided for its amendment, and suggestions in-that di-' rectionr instead of being lightly brushed aside, should be discussed with the seriousness that befits the subject. The Journal's proposition was offered as a possible remedy for the evils growing out of short sessions of the General Assembly, hasty, ill ' advised and crude legislation, and the enactment of laws not approved by the people. That these evils exist , in a greater or - less degree will not be denied. It has been; demonstrated time and again in recent .years that a single biennial legislative session of sixty-one days is not long enough for the 'proper transaction of business. It is also well known that some bills , fail which ought to pass, while others pass in a crude , form owing to lack of time or defective methods of legislation. It is riot believed that a sufficient remedy for. these evils would be found in a mere extension of the legislative session or the entire removal of the constitutional limitation, although, as the Journal has pointed out, sixteen of the States place ,no limitation on their legislative sessions, while several of the others have longer sessions than Indiana. The Journal's proposition, is; first, to substitute moderate salaries for a per diem compensation, thus removing the money temptation to long sessions, and then provide that each General Assembly, elected biennially as now, shall hold two short sessions instead of one long one, with an Interval of five or sixv months between in which suspended legislation or measures of doubtful propriety should be discussed by the press and . people. No bill should be passed at the first session except by the votes of three-fourths of the members of both houses, and none should be introduced or considered at the second session except such as had received a majority of the votes in both houses at the first session. Thus the second session would consider only such measures as had descended to it from the first and been before the people during the recess. The two sessions together should be limited to one hundred days, the present constitutional limit of a regular and special session, and with the per diem temptation removed this limit Tvould seldom be reached. One of the best features of this plan would be that only such measures as were strongly demanded by the people would be likely to pass at the first session, while the interval between the first and second sessions would give the people an opportunity to make known their will regarding other measures.. This is not a question of bearing the ills we have ' rather than fly to others that we know not of. It is a question of trying to devise a remedy for evils which notoriously do exist in this State, and which are to a great extent guarded against in others. If the Journal's plan can be shown to be a bad one it will promptly abandon it, and if a' better one can be suggested it will ; promptly adopt it. THE POLITICAL PROPHET'S FOLLY.

The late and long-time Representative in Congress from the Springfteid (III.) district, the Hon. William M. Springer, continues the role of the prophetic statesman which he assumed ; when he entered the . House twenty years ago. No man has of tener mounted the prophetic tripod, and it must be added that no man in that business has ever predicted more things which did not come .to pass. The fact that Mr. Springer's plurality of 4.476 in 1892 became a minority of 1,945 in 1894 has not broken him of the habit of predicting things every day which do not come true. One day this week Mr. Springer recalled himself to the American people by predicting that the silver question would be the leading issue next year, and that the tariff, by consent of both parties, would become a minor question. As the opposite of what Mr. Springer predicts almost invariably comes true, it may be assumed that the tariff issue, including reciprocity, will be the leading issue in 1896 and the currency question one pf secondary importance. ' With a sound currency at the present time and a parity between all the money and representatives of money in circulation, and with more flattering prospects for the international disposition of the silver problem it Is not probable that it will be so prominent an issue as that which involves the welfare of the industries and tire trade of the whole country. Already most intelligent people know that the clamor for the free coinage of silver by an act of Congress is made by the mine owners and their agents. Several times during the past twenty-five years the currency question, involving aU th interests of the coun

try, has been a much more Intricate problem to solve than is the silver question at the present time. Two years before the tpassage of the -resumption act in 1873 the currency question, involving specie resumption on the one hand and the inflation of Irredeemable paper money on the other, presented more distracting1 elements than does the silver problem Six months before the passage , of the resumption act it seemed impossij ble that the last Republican Congress

for years would be able to come to any conclusion. Finally a conference of Republicans devised the resumption bill ; as a compromise, and it became a law by Republican votes. Thereafter until ; specie resumption actually- took place, ; Jan. 1, 1879, it seemed that the inflation ists might prevail because the element was so powerful which demanded it. All the Democrats in Congress from the West, with two or three exceptions, favored the repeal of the resumption act, and many Republicans in Congress at that time are recorded as in favor of a return to irredeemable paper money, but, thanks to the statesmanship and constancy of the Republican leaders, to the Hayes administration and the sagacity of John Sherman as Secretary of the Treasury, specie resumption came, doubling the volume of money in the United States. People seem to forget that unseen causes silently work out the most important results. Conditions change and bring remedies. People see issues from higher altitudes and wider ranges of vision as time passes. 'What seems today to be of most importance a year hence may be regarded as of little consequence by people who shall have come to know more about, it. Republican statesmanship from the days of Abraham Lincoln has been able to cope with what at the time seemed to be insurmountable obstacles. Some of these obstacles have involved matters of much greater moment than does the silver problem at the present time. During the next two years the experience and the wisdom of the first men of this country and the commercial world will doubtless find a favorable solution of the silver question. ' , A WEAK POIXT IX MUXICIPAL COVERXMEXT. x A committee of the Massachusetts Legislature gave a hearing a few days ago on 1 proposed . amendments to the city charter of Boston. In the course of the hearing a representative of the Citizens' Association insisted that the greatest need of the city, was a business administration on business principles. He admitted that this was very difficult to ' bring about on account of the large political power given to those who had no personal stake in the business or financial welfare of the city. "Who -ever heard of a business corporation," said this speaker, "being controlled by persons who had no financial interest in the results of the business? Who ever heard of a railroad being controlled and Its- directors and officers elected by ', the switchmen", brakemen and the passengers?" As evidence that the city of Boston was governed on something like this principle the speaker stated that at the election in 1893 out of 87,352 registered voters in that city only 17.805 were assessed for any tax on real or personal property, showing that only about one registered voter in five had a direct pecuniary interest in securing an economical and efficient administration of municipal affairs. He regarded this fact as largely responsible for the gradual and Insidious growth of a sort of municipal communism which demanded that the city government be run not on business principles, but as a charitable or eleemosynary institution. As evidence of this he cited the message of . the late Mayor, showing that owing to holidays, higher rate of wages and fewer hours the city now pays about 60 per cent, more than the market rate of wages, and that in the street department alone the cost of holidays and half holidays is about $75,000 a year. It is surprising to learn that the proportion of nontaxpaying voters in Boston is so large. Assuming' that it is equally as large in all American cities of considerable size it certainly constitutes a formidable barrier to any attempt to place the administration of city governments on a strictly business basis. A3 it is not feasible and would not be right to take away the elective franchise from nontaxpayers, the only remedy seems to be in steadily and persistently inculcating a higher standard of civic duty. ' Secretary of Agriculture Morton, who promotes agricultural interests chiefly through the newspapers, indicates by his last proclamation of his intentions that he does not yet know that all the markets of the world have been closed to many of the American products of the, farm, except in Great Britain, by the Cleveland policy. He indicates this when he announces that he Is sending bulletins to our consuls asking them to give information regarding the amount of our farm products consumed in their respective- localities and what can be done to increase their consumption. France, Germany and Austria have shut many of our farm products out of their markets. Why trouble them to antwer absurd questions? The best way to open, or, rather, reopen foreign markets to the produ'ets of the American farm is to get rid of the Secretary Mortons and their theories. The board of revision, which, in St. Louis, sifts the voting lists just before an election, ha discovered astounding frauds in many wards. The large number of persons registered from different houses aroused suspicion, and inquiry followed. In the First ward nearly a thousand fictitious names were found on the list, and quite as many in the Second ward. Frauds were discovered in several other wards. Thus far at least seven thousand fraudulent registrations have been discovered, and the investigation is going on. Of course, this fraud is in the interest of the Democracy, which has had control of the registration of voters for years. From houses which have been found to contain but four or five legal voters thirty and even fifty names were registered. The revelation has caused much interest. Judge Constantine Buckley Kllgore is not unknown to the country. He attained distinction in "Czar" Reed's house by kicking in the door of the chamber during a roll call. He also endeavored to steal the venerable Holman's title to the claim of being "the great objector." The Washington Post publishes an interView with a gentleman of that city who has spent considerable time in Cuba, and

who, the Post says, "is one of the best posted men in Washington on Cuban af

fairs."- "He says: ' : Cuba is governed entirely by officials sent out from the mother country. Nobody in this country can appreciate how . this galls upon, the Intelligent native people. The offices of the i3iand are entirely in the hands of foreigners. Native Cubans are not allowed even to enlist in the army, and the citizens are not allowed to own firearms. Their only weapons are the machetes, a short sword, and if they get arms smuggled In to them from the outside they axe so unaccustomed to their use that they" have little chance in combat with the trained soldiers sent out from Spain. The natives hate the Spanish government, and many of therur annually emigrate to New York, Tampa and New Orleans, where they stay long enough to become naturalized as American citizens, and then return to their native country. Nearly all jt the wealthier natives who can afi ford it send their children to be educated ! in the United States, and the intensely American spirit thus engenaerea naturauy makes the imported Spanish official dislike and suspect most things American. It is enough to mako American blood boil to know that the galling methods of one of the most despotic governments of Europe are thus systematically practiced on an island under the very shadow of this continent. ' - ' ' . ' Bl'UULES IX THE AIR. Her Idea. "I believe I should like to be cremated after I die," remarked Mr. Greateets. "I always supposed," said Mrs. Hashcrof t, "that you would want to be stuffed." Thus it was that she lost a boarder. ( Citation. f Watts What are your views on the subjest of annexing Cuba by conquest? Potts Oh, I'm agin it. I'm pretty young yet, you know. ' "What has your age to do with it?" ' "I might be drafted."" . Good Investment. "This Is as good an Investment as you can make, madam." said the enthusiastic bicycle agent. "Not only does it cost nothing for feed, but if you ever become famous you can make back all you paid by writing up your experiences in learning to ride." Mildly SusBeated. "And now, brethren and sisters," said the Rev. Mr. Wilgus. at the close of his sermon on fads, "we have had so violent attacks of the Trilby fad and the Napoleon fad, that I have hopes before I die of yet seeing a Bible fad started in this congregation." ..; ., And with a sigh, the good man sat down, while the choir rendered the latest adapta- j tion from Wagner. . TIIURSTOX'9 OFFE.XSE. We suppose that it is true that Minister Thurston, of Hawaii, has never been treated by our State Department as other ministers are treated. Louisville Commercial (Kep.) : The offense 6f Minister Thurston against diplomatic red tape was not so grave that Secretary Gresham might not have accepted his verbal apology, and not insisted on having one in writing. Cincinnati Enquirer (liem.) . Mmister Thurston, of Hawaii, doesn't like to get his passportai to leave Washington, but neither did the Congressmen who were last year notified that they were persona non grata. AU aboard tor Honolulu. St. Louis Republic (Dem.) Secretary Gresham's remark that It is improper for any , newspaper man to approach him concerning Minister Thurston's recall suggests thethought that Caesar is f eetiing on that same mysterious meat again. Pittsburg Commercial Gazette (Kep.) Mr. Thurston got some advance news and he gave it to the public, as any live American would be tempted to do under like conditions. Mr. Thurston may be disciplined for this, but his punishment will not abate in the slightest degree the esteem in which he is held by the-American people. Brooklyn Times (Rep.) 1 When Minister Thurston abused the President and. Secretary .Gresham in newspaper Interviews just as, though he were already annexed, and endowed with all the rights and privileges of citizenship, there was a general feeiing that the minister was. too spontaneous and likewise premature. New York Commercial Advertiser (Ind.) ; , It is the duty now of Mr. Thurston to' skin Mr. Gresham and his crooked reservations of truth, and to fully expose: what has been done td aid the 'royalist, conspiracy that caused bloodshed - at Hawaii, and would have been a massacre of the white people in Honolulu if Cleveland and Gresham had been a success. Brooklyn Standard-Union (Rep.) Send Thurston back to Dole with word ,4o that latter worthy . that he- needn't be in any hurry about replacing the former. Let Hawaii work out its own salvation as time 'and 'the contending currents of human selfishness, humbug . and hypocrisy that beat about Pearl Harbor may deride. Enough of the whole caboodle'! Chicago Times-Herald (Dem.) Minister Thurston , has been a persona non grata to this administration ever since he was appointed.. The government which he represents is non grata. Everything connected with the new republic is non grata. The only person who is grata is the ex-Queen Lilluokalanl, who Is now in durance, having been convicted of treason. -Chicago Tribune (Rep.) It is probable that Mr. Thurston fairly represents hi?s own government. He belongs to the annexation party in Hawaii and came hero mainly to encourage similar sentiments. But when, he carries on his schemes in opposition to the administration at Washington he takes the risk of finding suddenly that the Secretary of State has demanded his recall. Chicago Record (Ind.) Thurston should have been sent back to Honolulu long ago. His conduct has been sufficiently offensive. He was ready at any moment to give out interviews during the Hawaiian complications, and his expressions were such as should have insured him his recall- or his passports soon after his arrival as the representative of the Dole government. Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.) ' . ' ABOUT PEOPLE AND THIXGS. M. Jules ; Verne, though in his seventyninth year, works for five or six hours a day. He Is now engaged upon a story for 1897, but he has five manuscripts ready for the printers. ; : , "The- classes will not meet to-morrow," the late Professor Blackie once wrote on a blackboard. A daring student rubbed out the letter "c," whereupon the Professor retaliated by erasing the "1." Pastor Knelpp, to whom a professorship was recently offered at the University of Freiburg, said the other day that he- had the annual number of ten thousand patients who try his water and. barefoot cure. The tearing down of the old Blaine house in Washington has caused a demand from all part3 of the country for relics of the great Secretary. Many people ask for bricks for souvenirs. It is proposed to reproduce in the theater that is to be erected on the site the room in which Blaine died and to make it a museum of Blaine relics. 'A native Corean who united with the Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D. C, when he was a student in this country a short time ago, is now the minister in charge at Ping Yang. He recently sentenced the mandarin who so severelv persecuted the Christians there just before the war to be beaten with ninety-four blows for his misconduct on that occasion. Girls who are stage struck should paste in their theater hat3 these words from the lips of Mrs. D. P. Bowers, the veteran actress, who is well remembered by the elderly theater goers of Pittsburg. "Of course, a great many girls here and elsewhere are stage struck. I have been paid t-" an hour for lessons in coaching, but I would rather act all day and night than teach girls to act. Acting really cannot be taught. It must be in you, and the only school is the stage itself. The position known as confidential man in the Chicago firm of Franklin McVeagh & Co. has been filled for some years by Miss Lydia W. Ragate, who receives a large salary for her services. There are a number of other business women in Chicago who receive large incomes, among them Miss Sara Steenoerg, fire insurance; Miss Sara Johnson, bead Of a department in a big business house; Miss Bertha Eppstein, real estate,, who says she is a "self-made man;" Miss Emma S." Blood, business manager. secretary and treasurer of the Cen-

tral Music Hall Company, and Miss Mabel Babcock. paying ' cashier in a wholesale grocery house. I On the day of the election of Felix Faure to the presidency of France he : ordered a quarter of a bottle of wine for each private 6oldier in active service in the French army, at a cost of nearly $20,000. He has completely conquered the good will of the privates who are in rotation on guard at the Eiysee, as each . day when he is going out he steps into the guard room, and the . soldiers stand at attention. He -walks slow

ly past, stopping to say a friendly word to ; each, and before he goes away orders a , quarter of a bottle of ordinary wine for eacn soioier. Linger longer, Lucy Linger longer, do; But don't get in the trolley's way, Or you'll get cut in two. Philadelphia Inquirer. If her brow was like the snow drift. And her throat was like the swan. Then 'twas 'cause the bird and snow drift Put great heaps of powder on. f Chicago Inter Ocean. FREE CUBA. Some morning when Spain calls the roll her big daughter may be found missing. Detroit Tribune. Uncle Sam does not need Cuba, but he would like to see the big island with a government of its own. Pittsburg Dispatch. There are many plausible arguments for the annexation of Cuba to the United States, but once annexed Uncle Sam might be glad to let go again. Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. ; , . . v If the Cubans can win local self-government by their own efforts the American people will heartily rejoice at it, not from any selfish motive but for the sake of progress and humanity. New York World. While favoring the substitution of the Cuban flag for the Spanish flag on the island, the planting of the American flag would be unwise and dangerous to our own interests, and national peace and prosperity. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The United States will not always consent to protect Spain from the consequences of her infamies by preventing Cuban sympathizers in this country from making a descent on the island, and when the United States takes her hands off the end of Spain's power on this continent will quickly come. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In case of her success in this revolution Cuba will have the opportunity she has long desired to experiment , with Anglo-Saxon principles of freedom and self-goverpment. Then, too, when Cuba has cleaned up and gone to housekeeping for herself, what a delightful winter resort she will make for us frozen North Americans. Cincinnati Tribune. IIARM DUE TO ALCOHOL. 'Adulteration fn Liquor Are of Minor Importance. Chicago Evening Journal. The question of the cause of deleterious effects from the drinking of alcoholic liquors was the subject of an interesting discussion in an address at the February meeting of the Society of Medical Jurisprudence of New York, by Albert B. Ledoux. The popular fallacy that adulteration is what causes the danger in their use, and that the pure alcoholic drink is a healthful stimulant, was refuted by an analysis of various liquors. Whatever injury or benefit is found to result from indulgence in intoxicants must be attributed to the alcohol itself. The speaker also handled the question of tobacco and tobacco adultrants in the same way, and with the same resulting conclusions. In substance, the address, as it relates to alcoholic dtinks, is as follows: "It is my purpose to consider the problems surrounding the alcohol ard tobacco questions from the standpoint of an analytical chemist, rather than that of either a temperance reformer or advocate of license. As far as the physiological effects are concerned there Is something to be said on both sides the medicinal and stimulating value of alcohol on the one side, the sad effects of overindulgence on the other. "The danger wmcii I apprehend is that the public, always anxious to be advised in harmony with their appetites and weaknesses, are now being persuaded that there are no deleterious erfects from the use of wines, whisky, beer and tobacco, provided these articles are 'pure.' If the use of intoxicating drinks is an evil to be combated, the medical profession, as well a3 all temperance reformers, should never cease to make it plain that the evil lies in the alcohol and not in the adulterations; that the unfortunate votary should not deceive himself with the idea hat if he drinks some particular brand or abstains from another he can derive benefit, or at least escape injury. If he is injured at all he is injured by the alcohol; if he is benefited at ail he Is benefited by the alcohol. "The difference between aHl classes of alcoholic liquors is, as a matter of fact, very slight, however they may differ in taste, color, etc. They consist essentially of water and alcohol, with only from 2 to 7 per cent, of all other Ingredients, unless artificially sweetened. "In wines the alcohol will vary from 7 to 18 per cent., the water 80 to 90 per cent., and the solid residue and volatile f elds from 1 to 4 per cent. The natural coloring ingredient in no case exceeds 1 per cent., the salts in solution two-tenths of 1 per cent. There is nothing in natural wine that is injurious, unless it be the alcohol. "The constituents of brandy show: Alcohol, from 43 to 60 per cent., water 37 to 48 per cent., solid matter 1 to 1V6 per cent., mineral matter or ash .04 to .2 per cent., acids .01 to .0-5 per cent., sugar .0 to .4 per cent. "Rum and gin are also simply mixtures of water and alcohol, obtained by fermentation and distillation, differing from one another and from whisky and brandy only in the proportions of these ingredients, and in the natural or artificial flavors imparted. Many of these last harrow imagination, such as oil of turpentine, recommended to give a distinctive flavor to gin, in place of juniper berries, cayenne pepper, etc., but the analyses show in what infinitesimal proportions these substances are added, and consequently how slight must be their effect on the system as compared with the alcohol. "Numerous recipes are given for imitating genuine distilled spirits. One for making Scotch whisky calls for the following: Forty-six gallons of 95 per cent, alcohol, 8 fallons real Scotch' whisky, 18 gallons water, pounds honey, 5 drops creosote, 2 ounces acetic acid, 1 gallon ale, 1 ounce pelargonic ether. "Pelargonic ether is a flavor made up of Jamaica rum, vanilla essence, raisin juice, and one or two other harmless ingredients with caprylic, caproic and other organic acids. This is probably the worst that can be said of the distilled liquors, excepting as to the fusl oil, which is never prepent in greater quantities than one part in &W. "Granting that wines have been found to contain tumeric, glucose, borax, gum-kino, and even arsenic, to say nothing of aniline red and other colors, and that these are poisonous to a greater or less degree, it is nevertheless true that they are io rarely present in any wine or liquor, and then in such very small quantity that injury from their presence must be exceedingly rare. "The editor of a well-known weekly paper, an earnest advocate of temperance reform, retained my firm recently to collect samples of liquors and make analyses The samples were purchased at various saloons and groceries from Harlem to the Battery. The whiskys were found to be unadulterated, the coloring matter and flavoring being caramels and raisins. Twenty-four samples of brandy contained no fusel oil nd no coloring matter except caramel. Zinc, lead and copper were present in minute quantities as they would be in soda water led through pipes. The sherry and port wines contained no metallic poisons and no logwoed or other poisonous coloring matter. Burnt sugar and cochineal were the only artificial colors. As a general thine the cheapest liquors were the least inlurlous, as they contained, from their dilution, the least alcohol. "As to beer, chemists of Germany have found in beer all sorts of substances, harmless or otherwise, but the chief of these may be considered harmless, viz., burnt sugarlicorice, molasses, quassia, coriander seed' glycerine and glucose. The harmful ingredients are only relatively so. salicylic acid being the chief of these. The reports of government experts are all against the prevalence of poisonous adulteration of beer. "I trust that the society does not conclude that I am asserting that there are never harmful substances in our acoholic liquors I simply take the ground that as compared with the alcohol their injurious effect is absolutely insignificant. I will conclude this part of my paper by stating some comparative figures showing the difference between wines, beers and disti'.led liquors in composition, emphasizing once more how slight it is: Alcohol by Water Other weight per intfred4 per cent. cent. ients. Rhine wine 9 88 . 3 Claret 12 85 3 Whisky 38 Ca 2 i Brandy w 2 Beer 3 91 c Tne Monroe Doetrlne. Kansas City Journal. There has been nothing in the policy of the Cleveland administration from the very beginning to inspire respect -on the part of f oreicn Kovernments for the interests of Americans, and it is not surprising that Great Britain should boldly set aside all , precedents on this side the water by mak- 1

ing a demand that might, if unchecked by the United States, lead to the seizure of the weak republic. No better time could be had for a notification that the United States has Interests in the Western continent which it will protect on the clearly-defined policy that has been known for nearly three-quarters of a century as the Monroe doctrine. It is a favorable time for the Cleveland administration to let it be known at home as well as abroad whether the notification given Spain concerning the Allianca incident denoted a change in the humiliating un-American policy of the government that has marked its course since Mr. Cleveland took charge of it. So far as the temper of the people Is concerned, the Monroe doctrine means as much to-day as it ever did, and the government would have the support, both moral and physical, of the entire country In any necessary step it might take in settling the matter for all time. REAL MEAN REMARKS.

Cdltor Godkln on Fellow Editors and Other "Epileptic Demagogues." New York Evening Post. The most serious piece of news in connection with the Alllanca trouble is that from Naples to-day, that Mr. W. C. Whitney's "blood is boiling" over it. Now, when the blood of as cool a man as he is, whose blood has probably never boiled before since the age of twenty, boils at the distance of Naples from the scene of action, and with little or no knowledge of the facts, how is peace to be preserved? That is the question to-day for the American people. Blood is also boiling in the several newspaper offices in this city, but editorial blood always boils more easily than Mr. Whitney's. In fact, it is kept in a kind of simmer all the time, and is started up into a full boil on any sign of an "outrage on the flag." It boils, so to speak, on signal. The blood of Mr. Dana, of the Sun. would be boiling, too, if he were not "held" under an indictment. There is nothing like an indictment for keeping blood off the boil. As we remarked some days ago, in speaking of the newspaper treatment of rich women, anybody who read It would fancy we were all servant girls. So also anyone reading the editorials on war would suppose wo .were a nation of savages, or at all events semibarbarians. Any stranger who knew nothing of America but what he got from the newspaper - remarks on "war" and "insults" would never believe that we- were a great and highly civilized people; that we had universities and learned men, numerous churches, and a large book trade, a free press and representative institutions. "Oh, come now," he would say, "I'm a liar myself." The reason of his incredulity would be this: The intercourse of civilized nations in time of peace is modeled on that of private gentlemen, and has been so from time immemorial. One of the chief presumptions of this intercourse is that an insult or slight Is never intentional. Consequently, It never can be avenged or treated as intentional until it is acknowledged as such by the person charged with it. We may think it is intentional, and it may make our blood boil: but .until the man avows his intention to insult us or adopts the act of a servant who has done so, either in direct terms or by refusal to apologize, we are bound to treat him civilly and bring the matter to his notice politely. This rule ia doubly binding when the act complained of is the act of an agent at a distance, of which the principal cannot have had any knowledge. Persons who disregard this rule, who treat all slights as, intentional the minute they hear of them, and before the offender has had time to explain, are known as "bullies," "swashbucklers," "blackguards" and "toughs" the world over. , We do not think this rule was strictly observed in Secretary Gresham's dispatch. We think a more civil tone would have done us more credit. He can hardly have believed that the Spanish government had given orders to its cruisers to fire on American. vessels anywhere oft the Cuban coast. The presumption is all the other way, and it ought to have found expression in n.s message. He was probably goaded into his peremptory tone by the handful of harebrained young fellows who treat foreign, affairs in the newspapers, who would enjoy a war above all things for the sake of the triangular headlines, the tremendous sensations, and the roaring sales. There is generally a good deal of volunteering for active service during these war flurries, but we have never yet heard of an editor proposing to ' serve his coumry in arms either ashore or afloat. The editors do nothing but keep their blood boiling and matte lerocious faces at the enemy, like the Chinese warriors. As to the epiliptic demagogues who are yelling for battle just now, and say we must have Cuba, we can only wait till the fit passes over. Tne disease is evidently making progress among them, however, for the convulsions recur oftenef and last longer. It looks as if they thought tfcey could get up an excuse for seizing Cuba, which would be a far handier Job than settling the- currency question, or the tariff problem, or . the labor problem, or the negro problem, or the transportation problem.- But only the imagination of a humorist of high rank could give an idea of what Cuba, with its million of Catholic Spaniards and half million of negroes and fifty thousand Chinese, would be under the rule of Morgan and Lodge and Cullom, or of Peffer and Quay. Nothing but a permanent court-martial would ever make these wretches familiar with "true Americanism." The opinion the rest of the civilized world has of American manners is not high, our ministers and consuls do uch queer things, and it is a pity our diplomacy does not do more to raise it We shall be in trouble with Italy before we know it if it leaks out that W. C. Whitney's blood is boiling at Naples, for Spain will surely demand his expulsion, and iving Humbert will feel bound to grant It, owing to Mr. Whitney having once been a Cabinet officer. No such a man, they will say, can let his blood boil in a foreign country on an international question without; endangering its neutrality. In fact, the times are out of joint in every, direction, but Lodge is "watching" in Washington. ; WOMAN IX POLITICS.

She Seemi to Be Making a Succeaa In It Out In Colorado. Philadelphia Press. - The trial now being had of woman suffrage in Colorado is, undoubtedly, the most Interesting experiment of the kind yet made in this country. This is true not only because the women have been given full suffrage rights in that State, but also because they appear ready and eager to exercise those rights without - any. obstacles being placed in their way by the male voters. The latest illustration of the working of equal suffrage in the Rocky Mountain State was given last -week when a Republican convention was held in Denver to nominate candidates for Mayor and other city officers. The women voters had participated in the primaries, a number of them had been elected delegates to the convention and they were present to take an active part In its proceedings. - The Republican city central committee had given the women all that they asked for in the way of delegates and they showed by their action in the convention that they were apt scholars in politics. They held a caucus before the convention and decided upon the candidates and resolutions they would . support, and they .adhered strictly to their prearranged programme. A woman was chosen assistant secretary and five women were put on the committee on resolutions and two on the committee on rules, order of business and permanent organization. The first set speech made while the convention was waiting for the committees to report was by Mrs. -M. Marble. She showed by her language that the women voters, in Colorado at le.ist. will h.ivo little sympathy with mugwumpery. The following is an extract. from her speech, a 3 given in the Denver Republican: Some of the people said "In the party if we can, out of the party if we must " but they meant "in the party if we can run it, out of it if we can't." Some of the people who were making these statements were those who had been honored by the party for years and who had lived off it. They had fed off the public purse, and if the party was really bad these people were responsible for it. She did not want any mugwumpism in hera. She heard a man say at a woman's meeting that he was a Republican but he was going to stand on principle for the future. She thought this was a slur on the party which adopted the principle of Lincoln. The nonpartisanship mugwumpery was responsible for the present sad condition of affairs. The men she thought were not to bad after all and the women would not have to stoop very low to drag up the man. The woman had associated with them all the time, IX not in politics, and she did not believe they were eo very horrid. A pure womanhood would elevate politics pretty soon. In the management of the convention the women proved themselves as alert and skillful as th" men. When some of the "practical politicians" wanted the convention to tike a recess the women opposed the motion, because they feared the influence of the lobby and insisted that the business shou'.d go on, ar.fl when they were apparently outvoted they' challenged the vote, proved a miscount and held the convention down to its work. The next test was the nominations, and here the women proved again that they were equal to the occasion. They had the good taste to choose Thomas S. McMurray. who was born and educated in Philadelphia. ar the man whom they would support, and he was nominated as the Republican candidate for Mayor. The only time the women were defeated when they made a separate contest was in the nomination for city treasurer. But in other respects they were highly successful and demonstrated their ability to cope with the most adroit politicians in the Republican party in Colorado. , Thl9 demonstration of the capacity and willinKncss f women to perform their full shire of political dutiet will be-wel-ijimhI by the advocates of woman euffrage. Vvvo of the stock arerumtnts aiiainat such a policy have been the claims that women V .

did not want to vote and that the better class would pot Interest themwelves in politics while .the more illiterate class would. As this would only be adding to tho undesirable class of voters, already too numerous, it has been argued that giving; women the right to vote would be unsafe. But all these stock arguments have been proved false so far as Colorado Is concerned. The better class of women An that State have actively participated in politics. They have gone regularly to the primaries, the convention and the polls, and hava shown a commendatory willingness and ability to perform their part in 'popular government. This is the most convincing proof of the practicability of woman suffrage given In this country. - SOMETHING ABOUT CUBA.

The Itland la Illclily Dowfretl by Xatare, but Undeveloped. Philadelphia Record. , Cuba, whose greatest length is 775 miles and greatest br&dth 160 miles, has a sea coast of about 1.&0 miles, and an area of ' 43.0UO square miles. Its nvers are numerous, but small and unimpor'ant for navigation purposes. None save the Cauto, in the province of Santiago, would be digniiiod in the United States with a tithj higner than that of a creek. However, during the. rainy sea-, sort these email streams rise suddenly thirty or thirty-five feet, and during- the floods advantage i3 taken by the manogany and cedar lumbermen to float their timber to the sea. These rivera are seldom bridged, except by infrequent - railroads, and such structures as oacur are, of necessity, built high in the ahv When the water ia low these streams are easily forded, and when It is high the traveler can stay on what-" ever side he chances to be at tne time. There are about five hundred miles of railroad on the island, not a tithe of what , is nedei to develop the rich interior, much of ' which is comparatively unknown and , has seldom been visited, by civilized man. The rate of speed made by Cuban trains is from ten to eighteen miles an hour. ' This , slow rate is principally due to poor equipment, but in some instancea.. the . railroad charter forbids a higher rate of speed. No palace or sleeping cars are used. The companies have first and second-class passenger cars on the same train. Those of the first class are creditable, but not ostentatious, and the seats are not upholstered, but have cane bottoms and backs, are clean and adapted to the climate of the country. . The second class are on a par with our American emigrant cars. All cars are smokers, as the average Cuban gentleman seldom stops using the weed except to eat and sleep. But as the cars are always . open and well ventilated, and the ladies never object to the fumes of the fragrant Havana, the conductor has no- occasion to pat, the smoker on tho shoulder with a gentle hlnt to go forward. Passenger rates vary from 4 to 8 cents per mile and freight charges are just below the cost of cartag of cost of carrying by pack mules.. Freight rates for twenty or thirty miles are about the same as from New York to Chicago. The traffic between towns and cities along the coast, which , is a large proportion, is by steamboats. First-class passenger rates are from 8 to 11 cents a mile, including meals, and ' freightage is equally high. . Cubans, as a rule, only walk as a dernier ressort. In the country districts horseback riding by both men and women is the customary way of traveling. The same is largely true in the towns and cities. These people are as much at home on a horse as in a rocking chair., The saddle horses ara as sure-footed as a goat, and, with a gait between a gallop and a pace, they more rapidly and gracefully along, carrying the rider in the rural districts from fifty to seventy-five miles a day. with no food ex-., cept the i rank grass which grows by the Wayside. .- . Goods and merchandise are conveyed to the interior largely by pack mules or burros, and but few things are too ill-shapeJ or bulky to be loaded on their backs. Barrels, boxes, bags, small saw-logs, boards, square timber, in fact anything that does not exceed three hundred pounds will ha loaded on a single animal. Two men usually accompany each train, which is composed of from twelve to thirty burden bearers that follow each other in Indian tile, the halter of one being tied to the tail of its predecessor, and as they move along -through the serpentine tracks of the moun- ( tains they present a very unique appearance. A horse or mule attached to a lumber-, some two-wheeled cart without sid or end ,. boards is the usual dray of the towns and. cities. Heavy hauling Is done by oxen, of which from four to thirty constitute a team. They are yoked by means of a , straight piece of wood placed across the . foreheads, and fastened to the horns by a rope, beneath which a pad is placed. The driver uses a wooden rod with a bit . of pointed steel in the end with which , he prods these faithful beasts. A carriage is seldom seen on the country roads. If you insist that your trip thither -shall be on wheels the Cuban will bring you a volente or covered gig, the wheela of which are about six feet in diameter. One horse is hitched in the shafts. and anotner, wnicn ine uriver ruiea, is nucnei to the side much as the extra horses are attached to street cars in" the cities of onr -own country. Electric cars have not yet found their way to the island, and street cars are used only in Havana. There Is nn excellent hack service in mst of the cities. If one is not fond of picking his way on foot along narrow streets and sidewalks he may call a carriage, for which he will pay 20 cents one way single fare or $1.M by the hour. I may add that these more polite drivers' will not stick a whip under one's nose and yell, "Coach, coach, sir?" at the top of his voice. The riding horses of Cuba are magnificent specimens of the equine family, but thoe used for other purposes are small, poor, ill shaped and ungroomed. possessed, however, of marvelous powers of endurance. Notwithstanding the fact thet in the North it is commonly believed that corn is heating and unfit for summer horsn reed, never- -theless it is the only grain fed here, and although in the tropics and the animal are subjected to much haraer usage, they seldom sweat. The Beclnnlnsc of Tammany. ' E. J. Edwards, in McClure's Magazine. ' Tammany was the heir of the spirit of the Sons of Liberty of the revolutionary ,' war. It was kin in some of its purposes, at least, to those who were then beginning the revolution in France. It was enthusiastic in its support and approval of that ' revolution. Indeed, a misty legend has been handed down from generation to generation in the hall that the suggestion came from Jefferson himself, who, called from France to Washington's Cabinet, was . pained to see that aristocracy. English in Its impulse, and fostered by the "Society of the Cincinnati." was rooting itself so early In our national life. To crush that Impulse, at leant to fetter it. Jefferson gave the hint, and Tammany with Its tomahawk stood facinsr the Cincinnati and its sword. William Mooney. an upholsterer, but, like many of the mechanics of that day. keenly Interested in politics, suggested that there be brought together In an association those who dreaded the aristocracy, and who susppcted that the purpose of Hamilton "" to force the government Into sometl..g like a limited monarchy. Mooney found a good many mechanics and merchants who thought as he did, and so a common purpose, the .grouping lmnulse. rather than any cunning planning of one man for per-! sonal advancement, brought Home or the ablest political and personal foes of Hamilton and Jay together, and. with fome mystery of oath and ritual, the plrje of peace, the feathered headdress, even the painted face and leathern costjme. with wampum for its ornament, these men were bound in one association as the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order. Curiosities In Bank, of England Xoles. H. J. W. Dam. in Mc-Clure's Magazine. No note, out of the fifty or sixty thousand , now issued dally, is ever issued twice. If. as a depositor. o'J should draw any amount In notes at th bank and pay them back ' into your account ten minutes afterward. '., they would be canceled. So, also, any oth"r notes received by you from any omer bank in Lontlon arc aiay ,T .i-i ii'jni the Bank of Enslanl presses of the day before The signature In cut off Immediately after a note Is paid in. and the Canoilatlon department proceeds to file'them in their inklnrr notice 11ml kntnr f ' it'SU.ni vfi--, " ----- - -- - - COUIlt Ot Uli nJl.ri whjvh uu,c liui UlTll IC" turned. - One of the curiosities of this department is a twenty-flve-pound note, whlc-a was paid in after being out for 111 yearn. The banknote library H also here, with albums containing oia hank note? of various larMe amounts, with the names of the noblemen for whom they were issued. There 1. also, the million-pound bank note, a bit of iaper which., in its day, was worth I'.OfW.OOO. and was issued for convenience "in closing am undertaklr.tr of unusual moment. The records of this department are of Invaluable sssistar.ee in checking forgery, and ths canceled notes, which are Kci.it for a period of about five years before being burned, are constantly under examination by Scotlund Yard detectives In searcn of stolen rnoru-y. or other people whose notes have been lost. The strnnue stories of s.nslo notes which this department can furnih are many, and are ready-made plots for any number of romances, but th?y are too numsrou to be told In this article. The Unwieldy Modern War Ship. Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette. If they con barely keep afloat under ordinary circumstances, they will not prove of much account when they encounter tli stress of storm or the itarful strain of battle. The casualties to whlen we have n.ferri are calculated to rai t1- iniiury whether the armored battle ship have nut -passed the limit of safety as regard i weight and unwleldlnes. . and whether the true i policy does not l.e in the opposite duectiUo,