Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1896 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, i,MOND AY, NOVEMBER 30, 1898.

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A meeting of officers, members of the executive committee and legislative committee of the Indiana Editorial Association -will.be held at the Denlson Hotel, Indianapolis, at. I o'clock p. m., on Monday, Nov. 30. CHAS. E. WILSON, President. "J. A. KEMP, Secretary. This has been an exceptionally good fruit year, but the crop of official plums at the disposal of the President will be very short. It begins to look as if the farmers were raising dollar wheat, gold value, last summer, whilo the sllverltes were telling them It was impossible- unless they would take a fifty-cent silver dollar. The able Washington correspondents are engaged In the annual task , of telling of how carefully the President's message Is guarded and then procsedlns to Inform ths public what It will contain. Populist leaders In the States In which they control the legislatures have given out that they will not do much legislating. They are afraid to be as bad as they have represented themselves to be during the campaign. In returning to Washington Senator Voorhees shows the resolute spirit with which he has combated disease the past year. With such qualities as he possesses what an admirable man he would have been all these years had he not mistaken demagogy for statesmanship. , As soon'as Mr. Eryan ' learned that he could go on making speeches he seemed to caro less for defeat than his friends. Mr. 13ryan would change-thV saying- of Henry Clay that be would rather be right than be President to ;i'd rather than be President." make speeches Senator Feffer, ;of Kansas, has been , so thrifty while in office that several other Populists arc anxious to succeed him and embrace the chance to lay by n few 100cent dollars. Peffer worked both parties and got several members of his family In places'attached to dollars, i 1 1 , i Some of the Democratic papers in this State have found satisfaction ' In the fact that the McKinley plurality In Indiana was not 20,000, but 13,173. The difference seems Immaterial, but If It can give the Popocrats a momentary raj' of sunshine In the midst of the midnight gloom no one can object. i i - Marshall Field, the well-known Chicago merchant, gives the opinion that it Is necessary to substitute a specific system of duties for the ad valorem duties of the present tariff. That is the general judgment of practical men In this country. The present tariff was not promulgated by practical men. 1BSB1BBBBBHSMSSMBBBIBSBBBBSBS1BHHMBBHBHBBSB A London correspondent declares that the recent trial in tho suit Instituted by Lord Russell has shown up the Immorality or the titled class of Great Britain. It Is not because they have titles that many men and women are Immoral, but because they were bom to Idleness, which is the greatest of misfortunes. The? president of the Civil-servlc Commission expresses thef opinion that President McKinley will observe and enforce the civil-service law to the letter. Of course he wih He ha3 a record as a firm believer in the merit system, and will undoubtedly carry out the clvll-scrvlce law as strictly and conscientiously as any of his predecessors has done." Nevada is a declining State. In 1STS Its total vote for President wa 1D.C01; in 1SS0, it was 18.343; in 1SS4. it was 12,711; In 1SSS. it was 13,603; In 1SD2. It was 10.SS3. This year it was only S.307. And yet It has as much power in the Senate as New York, and In its prtsent senators. Jones and Stewart, .twice as much capacity for talking to prevent legislation. The Louisville Courier-Journal says the proposition to divide Kentucky into two federal court districts will corao up again at the next session of Congress, and that Senator I u?h will push the bUl. It should .not pass unless there are Imper ative business reasons for It. The creation of new' judicial districts simply to make new offices; thereby Increasing the exp:ns:s of the government and the taxes of the people. Is a vicious practice. One of the good results of tho Republican contest which came in this State by the election of 1394 Is the change In prison management. The Prison North was In better condition than that In Jelfersonvllle, but In both the management was content with old methods. Regarding one thing only vere the directors alert tho flndlns of places for as many Democrats as possible. After the Investigation of 1S33 Governor Matthews should have made such a change M would hae Insured the appointment of a new warden,,; In both prisons a deficit of about 120,000- was found when the change was made', which had been concealed by permitting the. '.wardens to use a considerable portion of the appropriation made for Cs next fiscal , year chilng the previous

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vicious practice. .The officers of both prisons have adopted the sensible system of grading convicts upon the basis of their conduct. This had the effect of revolutionizing prison discipline. THE MONEY CONFEUEMK.

The conference of tho representatives of tho boards cf trade of the larger cities of the central West In this city this week is an assured success so far a3 representation Is concerned. Every city will be represented. It will be an essentially business men's conference. Its outcome will, therefore, in some measure, determine whether or not business men can devise and agree upon a plan which will give stability to the currency of tho country. Business men have complained that the men who are elected to Congress have shown an inability to deal with this Important subject. It now remains to be seen if business men can agree upon a simple and practical scheme which will put an end to the uncertainties which the present monetary rystera of tho country has caused the past few years. It Is probable that many plans will be proposed to the conference. Doubtless most of them will start with tho assumption that the legal tenders of the United States must be i?tired. If there are those who do not favor-that proposition they will doubtless admit the mischievous uses to which they havo been put and suggest plans which, in their judgment, will prevent the further employment of the greenback and treasury not to create uncertainties In business nearly as disastrous as a panic. The objection to most schemes which have been suggested to get rid of the legaltender paper of the United States is that they are too intricate. Tho problem to be solved is how the government can retiro the $345.0OO,O0O of greenbacks and retiro or divert the $123,000,000 of treasury notes without disturbance to business or embarrassment to the treasury. The proposition will create some clamor from those who regard anything stamped with the word dollar or dollars by. the government as wealth, but all that it is necessary to do to nullify this opposition Is to show that no plan will really involve a contraction of tho money stock of the country, and that the keeping of tho volume of greenbacks in circulation Is a very expensive policy. What is needed is a simple plan to ridthe country of the evils which the present volume of government legal tenders involve. The change must be made gradually, and it cannot be made very well without putting In the place of each legaltender paper dollar a gold dollar or Its equivalent. It Is of vital importance at tho outset to realizo that for the redemption of greenbacks there Is now a geld reserve of over 51OO.0Cv.OCO, which In the work of the retirement and extinction of greenbacks can be gradually exchanged for them and put into circulation in their stead. As far as possible money rather than bonds should be used for the purpose of retirement. One of the main objections to President Cleveland's plan Is that he began with a large Issue of bonds to obtain the gold with which to retire the greenbacks. It will bo far better to create revenues and with those revenues gradually retire the promises-to-pay of the government. The duties on American merchandise sold In Europe are paid in gold the international moneywhy should not this government impose that ; requirement In regard to duties on European ' merchandise? It certainly cannot be regarded as a discrimination against our sliver, which is a local money held to coinage value by ?old. with a revenue which would afford J23.000.OCO of gold each year" to bo devoted to the retirement cf greenbacks and a diversion of a part of the gold reserve lor the same purpose, thus replacing greenbacks gradually with gold, it seems that In a very brief period the volume of greenbacks would be so small as to destroy their power for mischief In reasons of financial doubt. A BUGLE CALL FROM SWITZERLAND. .Mr. George S. Pleasants, chairman of the Popocratlc central committee of Switzerland county, has issued an address declaring In effect that his voice is still for war that Is, war on the gold standard. He tells the Bryanltes of Switzerland county that the tight for free silver must go on and urges the - local free-silver club3 to maintain their organization. He says there will be no relief for the country until free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 shall be adopted, as it can, must ar.d shall be in 1900 If the Fcpocrats keep' up their organization and do their duty. He scouts the idea that the election of McKinley has done anything toward the restoration of confidence or the revival of business, and insists that all talk of this kind is for political effect. Mr. Pleasants Is a typical Popocrat of Switzerland county. 'It is one of the three counties in tho State which are not penetrated by a railroad. Ohio county, joining it on the north, Is another. It was Ohio county that produced the champion free-silver liar of the recent campaign. He carried the county for Bryan easily on paper, and, In fact, the Bryanltes did come near carrying it, polling 627 votes to COS for McKinley. They carried Switzerland by about 100 majority. It would be an Interesting study to ascertain. what connection. If any, there Is between the absence cf railroads and tho growth of such heresies as the free-silver craze. It Is true that Bryan carried a few counties In Indiana which are fairly well supplied with railroads, but he received his largest majorities In those which have comparatively few miles, and of the three counties in the State which have not a mile of railroad ho carried two and came very near carrying the third. Somebody should institute an investigation as to the effect of railroads In disseminating light and knowledge. The Journal does not know whether Mr. Pleasants ha3 ever been outside of Switzerland county cr not. It Is a good county to live and die In. and It abounds In beautiful scenery, but It embraces only a small part of the United Stater. Mr. Pleasants recalls the unlettered countryman described by Cowper who "never looked beyond the near horizon and thought the visual line that girts him round the world's extreme." Surrounded and shut in by the beautiful hills of Switzerland county, he has schooled himself to think that there is no world beyond, cr, at least, none of any consequence. He may havo read or heard indirectly of tho great revival of confidence and improvement in trade that has taken place In the rest of the United States since the election of McKinley, but. not having seen any visible evidences of it In Switzerland county, he does not believe it. From his point of view ihe cause of free silver at 16 to 1 is stij'i moving , on and William Jennings Brya Is predestined to head it again in 1301 The echoes of Bryan's speeches. somewhat utale, but .still reverberating amcfci the ami or Switzerland, are as

convincing to Mr. Pleasants's mind as they were when they came smoking hot from the candidate's eager mouth. From his point of view tluy are an unanswerable arraignment of "the crime of 1873" and convincing proof that no country ever did or ever can enjoy prosperity under the gold standard. This seems to have been Mr. Pleasants's frame of mind when he issued his address to the Popocrats of Switzerland county urging them to gird on their armor anew, maintain their free-silver clubs and prepare to carry the United States in 1900 no matter what the rest of the country may say. If the rest of the country does not want to be carried as aforesaid It had better keep an eye on Mr. Pleasants and the Popocrats of Switzerland county. VMIAFFY POPOCRATS. The Bryanltes in this State do not take their recent defeat as gracefuly as they might at least, some of them do not. They all admit that they were badly beaten, but some of them show a strange desire to fight the battle over again four years hence. Probably when they fully recover their senses this feeling will disappear, but just now It is quite apparent. in spots. Mention is made in another article of the address issued by the chairman of the Popocratlc committee in Switzerland county calling on the faithful to rally once again around the free-sliver flag. It seems there is something of Ihe same feeling in Sullivan county. . Tho Bryanltes carried that ccunty by nearly 1,700 majority, and they cannot understand why the country at large should have declared against free silver. They, too, want to "keep up the fight," and as a first step in that direction seme of them met a few nights ago to organlzo a "Crime of 73" Club. The name of the proposed organization is happily typical of the intelligence of those advocates of the lost cav.so who would try issues again on the old line of battle. A person who is stupid enough to think that the "crime of '73" powder could be fired over again ought to bo able to stand another pounding as hard as that of Nov. 3, or any number of them, without feeling it. This stupidity must amount to an entire lack of sensation. .The meeting of Sullivan county Bryanltes was not a success. There were only a few present, and they did nothing except to lament the misfortune that had befallen the country in the election of McKinley and declare their unalterable devotion to free silver. The Sullivan Union says: When they adjourned they gave three cheers, which were dubbed the first gun of 1900, but it was poor satisfaction to know that they had to wait four long years for a pull. The prospect of having to go to work to earn an honest dollar didn't set very well with some of them. The fellows that have lain around, for years and drunk Democratic whisky and sucked Sullivan county taxpayers are not very enthusiastic over the election of McKinley. Good times may come and go, but they never know it. They never Co anything, and imagine that everybody else is as "ornery" as they are. It was a sad adjournment. Their spirits were like the weather without dismal and gloomy. The blaze in the coal oil lamp flickered and their si adows on the wall were weird and sombre. But the darkest hour is Just before dawn, and as they sadly left the hall of Justice their steps quickened and their eyes brightened, for they knew they would all soqn be together again before another bar where they could quaff confidence and cuss prosperity until Dec. 5. the time appointed for the next meeting. These Sullivan -county Bryanltes are evidently of tho clas3 who did the "hollering" In the recent campaign and were most enthusiastic in favor of a scheme which they thought would result in giving them somethlrr: for nothing. They will never be as much In evidence in any future campaign as they were in the last. It Is a singular fact that the only opposition to the suggestion for a nonpartisan commission to consider and report a plan of currency reform has come from the House committee on banking and currency. A resolution for the appointment of such a commission was introduced during the last session of Congress. By its tfrms the President should "appoint nine citizens, eminent In trade, political economy and banking, to act with the controller of the currency as a commission of experts to offer recommendations for needed changes in our preesnt Inadequate banking and currency system and to report its recommendations to Congress." The resolution was referred to the committee on banking and currency, and nothing further was heard of it. It was said that tho committee did not favor the idea of such a commission because It believed Itself competent to evolve a satisfactory currency scheme. If this was true it was a narrow view of the case. Congress does not monopolize all tho wisdom of the country on tho currency or any other question. There are hundreds of bankers and business men who can give points to any member of Congress in regard to currency reform and a good banking system. Instead of rejecting the suggestions and advice of such men, members of Congress should be glad to have them and should give them very careful consideration. Certainly there is nothing in the composition of the present committee on banking and currency to justify it In asturning that it has a monopoly of financial w'.sdom. It consists of eleven lawyers, two bankers, one leather manufacture, one college professor, one street-railway man and one commission merchant. Of the seventeen members of the committee eleven are lawyers. They may be experts in lav, but they are not usually supposed to be in banking or currency matters. Not only this committee, but Congress as a. whole, ought to bo glad to have the advice and assistance of a nonpartisan commission of monetary experts In framing a plan for currency refoxm. If the expressions of the press and of public men are any criterion, public opinion Is unanimous that provision should be made as soon as possible for Increasing the government revenues.' In so far as this unanimity of opinion implies anxiety that the government should be rescued from the humiliating position it has occupied cf incurring an annual and monthly deficit for more than three years past, it Is entirely creditable to those who nold It. It is simply disgraceful to the law-making and revenueraising branch of the government that this condition of things should have been permitted to continue so long. It could have been removed long ago by legislation to Increase the revenues to a point that would cover the expenditures. That is still the most obvious method of securing It, but there is another which. If Intelligently applied, would bo equally effective, viz., reduction of expenditures. This would have the same effect as Increasing the revenues and. If carrlel far enough, would close the gap and stop tho accumulating deficit quite as certainly. As between the two methods reduction of expenditures would probably be the more satisfactory, plnce it would involve no increaso of taxation, direct' or Indirect, and would ait the same time introduce more economical methods In government. The Journal Is not prepared to say

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could be brought within . the present revenues even by the mcst .rigid economy, but In times like these the people would like to see a determined effort made in that direction. They have tc" right to expect that appropriations for ..unnecessary expenditures shall be cut offfand'all others reduced to the lowest figures ; commensurate with an economical and efficient administration of the government. - Increase of revenue is probably necessary, but reduction of expenditures Is equally i so. "j Both are equally deserving of careful ' consideration and courageous action by- Congress. Probably the popular vote for President, as given by the New -York World and copied by the Journal and other papers, is not so far out of the way in mcst States as are the figures for Indiana. As given by the World tho McKinley vote is 327,739 and the Bryan vot.30.fKwhiIe the official vote Is McKinley 323,734. Bryan 303,376. The votes of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming are large because women vote in those States. Another interesting fact which the returns bring out is that in all of .tne silver-producing States, except Colorado,' the McKinley vote is about one-fourth as large as that of Bryan. In, Idaho the McKinley vote is nearly one-third that of Bryan; In Nevada McKinley got ' more than onefourth of the total vote, and in Montana and Utah nearly one-fourth as raapy votes were cast for McKinley as for Bryan. The State in which the Bryan preponderance is the largest is Mississippi, where about one-tenth as many votes were polled for McKinley as foVBryTnT'and tho next largest relative vote is that of South Carolina, where the McKinley voto is not onesixth that of Bryan." These are tho two States In which half the voters have been disfranchised and In. which there has not been a fair election for,, twenty years. That portion of. the . country which the Popocrats called the "silver West" before tho election, but not since, which Includes the free-silver producing States, voted as follows this year: ' t" . ' , McKinley. Bryan. The central Western StatesOhio. Indiana. Illinois. Michigan. Wisconsin. ;...,. 1.9S3.241 1.GC3.346 Tho Northwest Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota. Wyoming......,.,..;.. S20.3S0 700,939 The silver mining camp States Nevada, C61orado,

Montana. Idaho, Utah. 53,133 The Pacific Sta : Washington, Oregon, California. 231,923 2S0.601 240.933 Totals 3.091.8S2 2,S3tJ,S41 McKinley's majority in tho West v::v 235'047 Thus It appears that if the election had been held only in the so-called silver West Mr. Bryn would havereceived a smaller proportion of tho total: electoral vote than he did by the votings of the whole country McKinley's electoral1 vote in the above States being 123 " and Bryan's 41. The South was the backbone of the silver movement In 1S96. Will it be so hereafter? In New York, 'FMdayVfternoon, $2,000,000 was loaned on call at the rate of 2 per cent, per annum, j A iew, days ago, says the Tribune, a sJngle (u loan of a small amount was made at l.per cent., and It adds that not for months has money in any amount been loaned as low as 2 per cent. Money on timevwas easy to obtain at 3 per cent, for sixty days, and 34 Per cent, for ninety days.,,. And yet there are those who spend tjiel' days in declaring that the volume, of..rjaojvey,ijs, not sufficient to do the'busfness dfirre Country. These facts show that BUch;jcUums are absurd. Those who can furnish good security can obtain money at very low rates. It Is probable that there Is a scarcity of qpcurtty on the part of many' who i would borrow. Consequently they should "deplore the scarcity of collaterals and Implore tho government to furnish them tb thef'pe'ople in sufficient quantity to enable them to borrow money at 4 or 6 per cent. .The bill now oft the'IfbnVe' calendar which provides for the classification and compensation of tho clerksemIoyed in postofllccs has been indorsed, by ho postmaster general, the leading postmasters and the House committee. At the prsertt ttmc the postmaster Is practically V'vcn a' certain sum for tho payment of', all hi3 clerks. The amount is inadequate and is often distributed with something of. favoritism, so that clerks whoso duties require intelligence and experience receive loss than 5000 a year. The bill, among ' other things, fixes tho compensation according to the character of the service and tho intelligence and skill required In its performance. That such a measure bears the Indorsement of. the postmaster general and the,' postmasters of the larger cities Is sufficient reason for Its passage. The retention of experts In the. handling of mail In a large postoffice is important to everybody. The report of the clearing-house banks of New York city showed that during tho week ending Nov. 21 they gained In cash $11,2SG,100, of which $1,206,500 was in specie, mosily gold, ani $7,079,600 grenoacNcs, equivalent to gold. Deposits expanded to the surprising figure : of $21,037,830, the largest total ever reported in a single week, while loans ran up $3,5j3.400. The figures are all Indicative of a marked revival of conlldcnce and business. Tho Financier sr.tuks of it as. "aj. magnificent showing," and says "it was' l surprise even to bankers, who had expected a favorable statement, but had not counted on the enormous Increases which were reported." Yet, notwithstanding these large gains, business in the New York banks 13 not nearly up to the normal and they are anticipating continued improvement. , BUBBLES IX T1IK A!U. He Ilann't Dc.eu Answered Yet. Tommy Oil. paw? ' Mr. Figg Well? "How can a solid fact leak out?" Luine- Uxeuae. Simmons I noticed , that you wrote no turkey jokes this Vear,-. TImmlr.s I didn't want to. Turkey jokes aro stuffln' nonsense. The Cheerful Idiot. "At this moment, and at other moments," said the Cheerful Idiot, "there are thousands suffering for bread." ""1 suppose so." said Mrs. Hashcroft. "And yet women will perslit in wasting It by making pudding of It. Please pasj the prunes." ' The Ambition of a Fiend. "From this time on." said i'e, when the orly woman who had ever rejected him passed from his, sight, "from this time, mine rhall be the,' delight to wreak vengeance on votnan.I shall be a shoeclerk, ."r.d instead of selling them shoes one size ico small, with my persuasive manner I shall make them buy them smaller still. Ha! Ha!" -w. It seems that the Board of Fublic Safety might have found something better for a veteran of tho late war who has been In the fire department eighteen years without a reprimand than Nummary dismissal when he was within three yeara of the pen

sion age. The only accusation seems to have been that he is slow, but the board has places where faithful men can be used who may have lost their alertness by eighteen years of faithful service. Such men have a claim upon the easier places for which they are adapted until they reach the age when they can be pensioned. It is hoped that the board will revise Its action so that the impression may not go abroad that the Taggart administration has discriminated against men who have served In the Union army. 1XDIA.YA NEWSPAPER OPIXIOX.

Just pass that saw and hammer to the Major and let him try his hand at Cabinet making for a change. Laporte Republican. To Insure prosperity In this country among all classes a pr6tectlve tariff 13 as essential as a sound currency. We must have both. Muncle Times. If the free-silver folks are going to continue their disaster-breeding agitation all believers In sound money must oppose them. Rockvllle Republican. The only securities that are not rising are the bonds Issued In States where the Jaws are to be made by Populist legislatures. Shelbyville Republican. This trading and trafficking for office between political parties is disgusting and disreputable and the. Populist party now fully realizes this since they were betrayed by the Democrats. Tipton Advertiser. No man need expect times to be so prosperous that he can live without labor. That conditions will be so Improved as to make labor plenty and profitable is all we can hope for. Greensburg Review. " Having given .notice that It will pay all debts lh full, this government should hasten to put itself on a paying basis. More revenue is all. that is necessary, and there should be no unnecessary delay in providing it. Goshen Times. x It is nonsense to suppose that a tariff bill, the purpose of which is to raise the rates of duty, will derange or disturb business. It is only a measure for the adoption of lower duties that Injures business. New Albany Tribune. Gratitude to the sound-money Democrats for the services they rendered in saving this country from the threatened blight of Bryanism should not and will not change the Republican policy of protection to American industries. Frankfort News. The affairs of this country, its industrial, financial and commercial Interests being now settled on a. gold standard, the first thing Congress should turn its attesfWon to is the very important matter of expenditures, which also should be brought down to a gold standard. Knightstown Sun. The demand for more revenue for the government is so peremptory that no coi) an overlook it. The men vAio' gressman can are opposed to further bond Issues and desire that the credit of the Nation shall be preserved have but one thing to do. find that is increase the revenues. Crawfordsvllle Journal. An effort to organize a free-silver Club at Franklin for the campaign of 1900 wa3 a, complete failure. The people are no more Interested in securing work and wages in good money than they are concerned about the wants of those who own mountains of silver ore. North Vernon Republican. Even if Mr. Hanna were ten times the man he is, John Sherman should not be disturbed In the least to make way . for him. As one of the first Republican leaders and the executor of the resumption act, Mr. Sherman has an original claim upon his party that cannot be set aside for any new aspirant. Torre Haute Express. Governor-elect James A. Mount was not nominated by the politicians, but by the great masses of the party. His nomination was a very popular one and added much to the strength of the ticket. As Governor he will be controlled by no rlngsters or lobbyists and we predict will give the State one of the most economical and best administrations the State has ever had. Greenfield Republican. The Indianapolis Journal well says that the useless old law prohibiting any person engaged In commerce or trade from being appointed secretary of the treasury ought to be repealed. .. If such, a law ever was Justifiable that time is in the past. There ought to be nothing to prevent the appointment to that position of a man who has been successful in the management of his own affairs, and especially of one who is known to be thoroughly familiar with monetary affairs, who has the genius of managing large interests successfully. Middletown News. i We never were so proud of the Republican party as since its declarations at the St. Louis convention last June. It showed then that it not only knew what was right, but that it had the courage to espouse the right. There was just one feature of the platform that we held in mental reservation. We refer to the declaration in regard to international agreement looking to the free and unlimited coinage of silver. We regarded the declaration as a mistake. We do not think it possible or desirable to secure international action looking to the free coinage of silver, and hence we regarded the declaration of the platform upon that subject as useless and misleading. It would be as easy, iri our judgment to get the enlightened nations of the earth to enter into a compact to re-establish slavery as to take the proposed backward step in regard to metal money. Brookville American, ABOUT PEOPLE AXD THINGS. It Is due to George Fred Williams to say that ho is not doing any wild, nonsensical talking about PjOO. George Fred knows when ho Is beaten. The crust cf bread has been supposed to be richer in nutritive constituents than tho crumb, but Balland finds that It does not contain any more nitrogenous and mineral matter, if brought to the same condition of dryness. The salary of the Archbishop of Canterbury is $75,000 a year. He has two palaces provided for him free of cost by the British nation, and his attendance and maintenance are also settled for in great part by tho British taxpayers. When Queen Wilhelmina was in England recently it is said that, to an inquiry from tho Princo cf Wales as to how sho liked the Fnglish people, she replied: "1 am astonished to find them so nice and amiable. I never should have thought It from the specimens I see in Holland." It Is alleged by the Charleston News and Courier that many of the cracker and mountain district delegates of the Georgia Legislature voted for Alexander Stephens Clay, the new Senator, in the belief that they were casting their ballots for the late Vice President of the Confederacy. Albert Edward of Wales Is the greatest spendthrift In the world accordh g to the London Figaro, which asserts that he has spent $30,000,000 In thirty-three years. He has received $25,000,000 from the English nation, $3,000,000 more for traveling expenses and special allowances, and has private debts amounting to $20,000,030. It Is stated as "a curious fact" that the languages used by the Czar and Czarina In their private intercourse are English and German French and Italian being but seldom spoken by their majesties when alone. The Czarina did not learn Ru.-sim until after her bethrothal, but, though she as yet speaks it very siowiy, it Is with a good accent and great distinctness. Prince Bismarck is reported as enjoying the political commotion he has caused by his revelations. To a writer the other day he sa'.d: "I certainly thought that the stone which the Hamburger Nachrichten threw into the duck pond would eaure a good deal of quacking, but that the noise would be eo dreadful is a great surprise to me." The Monthyon prize of 503 francs, known as the "prlx de vertu." was this year awarded by tho French Academy to a lady of Mcndon who had brought up ten children who all turned out well, but by a mistake of the posteffice the money went to another lady of the same name, who celebrated the event with such hilarious conviviality that the police were forced to take her in. A striking illustration of the Influence of fatigue upon the nervous system is afforded by an Italian physician some months ago. Twenty-four bicycle riders who had ridden thirty-two miles ia two hours and a quarter were examined with reference to their hearing, and it was la nearly every Instance found to be defective. After two hours' rest the hearing had become normal In most of them, A San Francisco street-railway, manager, whose line runs between the ferries and tho park that covers some of the hllliest

portions of the city. Is experimenting with a device for carrying bicycles behind the rear dashboards of his cars. What he desires is something that will protect the bicycles from injury and will at tho same time permit them to be handled without much delay. This line is the only one in San Francisco which permits bicycles to be carried on Its cars. It charges a single fare for each. The London Dally Telegraph, which claims to have the largest circulation of all dally newspapers In the British empire. Is about to be converted Into a Joint stock company, with a capital of $15,003,000. Its present proprietors are Sir Edward Levi Lawson and his sisters, Mrs. Campbell Clark, wife of the correspondent of the paper at Paris, and Mrs. Faudel Phillips, the new Lady Mayoress of London. Princess Pauline de Metternlch devotes her attention nowadays to a very different line of thought from that which engaged her during the second empire, when she used to rival the Empress Kngenle in sotting fashions for Paris, and thence fcr the world at large. For some time she has devoted herself to cane raising, and has Just received at the Buda-Pcsth exhibition the grand medal and diploma of honor for her display cf fine cattle. Dr. Crcighton, the new bishop of London, has a keen sense of humor. Some time ago, when he was making a visitation of hi3 diocese (Peterborough), he was entertained in an old manor house and slept in a room supposed to be haunted. Next morning at breakfast the bishop was asked whether he had seen the ghost. "Yes," he replied, with great solemnity, "but 1 have laid the spirit; it will never trouble you again." On being further interrogated as to what he had done the bishop said; "The ghest instantly vanisheu when I asked for a subscription toward the restoration of Peterborough Cathedral." A few little sprinkles Of delicate wrinkles. And eyeglasses just a bit stronger, A sigh misanthropic. When age Is the topic. Maud is,n't a bud any longer. . . Washington Post. THE Cl'DAX "WAR.

Weyler's pursuit of the Cubans Is like chasing ghosts. He would rejoice if they were ghosts. St. I-ouis Post Dhpatch. The battle beta-een General Weyler's typewriters and those employed by tho Cuban junta in New York is waxing warm. Chicago Dispatc.i. The only real and tangible results of the Cuban war so far are the several capacious dents put in Alphonso's little exchequer. Chicago News. i6lva me my writing materials," said Weyler to his secretary. "Red or black Ink. sir?" "Red. you fcol! I'm going to fight a battle!" Atlanta Constitution. They tell us that Weyler could not find Maceo. The chances are that Maceo could not have found Weyler, either, had he been looking for aim. Memphis Commercial Appeal. Tho United States desires nothing so much a3 an opportunity to recognize Cuba when that can be done without a violation of international law and of its rightful obligations to Spain. Kansas City Star. The present prospect Is not a cheering one for Cuba I.lbre; it is not a cheering ono for Spain. Unless there is summary external intervention. It looks as if this once fair and fruitful island would continue indefinitely to be given over to industrial paralysis and desolation. Boston Journal.It Is not altogether unlikely that Weyler found things as hot and unhealthy in Havana as at the front, for :he Madrid papers gave him a pretty bad roasting for his failure to accomplish ai ythlng, and this may be the reason why he goes back to his army as precipitately as he left it. Y ashingtcn Times. THE CUBAN XEGRO. He Has Been Much Mnllsrned by Spanish Officials and Newspapers. General Bradley T. Johnson. It has been the persistent policy for the Spanish organs, official, and of the press here, in Cuba and Spain, to represent the present uprising of the people v of Cuba against the mlsgovernment of their Island and for the rights of free men ps a nitre free "nigger rebellion," a strike of idle, lazy, semi-civilized barbarians against property, religion and industry. Rebeis are always depicted thus b" the loyal. In tho American rebellion the clergy of the Church of England, the great lanonolders of New York and Pennsylvania and the "business men." the traders and exchangers of commodities everywhere were opposed to the "rebellion." They represented to the government and people "at home" that the rebellion was merely an uprising of the "low Irish" and the lower orders against the gentry the rich people of the day, and it took four years of war and all the power of Edmund Burke to convince the loyal Englishmen that it was really a revolution cf the peopleto defend their right of liberty innerIted from ten generations of free ancestors. So it Is more generally accepted In the United States that the war In Cuba is a negro strike rike San Domingo and Haytl were with the same horrible massacres that branded those social cataclysms. It cannot be too often repeated, nor too much impressed on the American people, that this is an utter misrepresentation and misapprehension. The negro in Cuba fills a very Important part in the life of the island, but he can never fill any leading part. His numbers are too inconsiderable to give him any predominating weight. By the census of 1887, on tho authority of Mr. Cahera. the bestInformed writer on the economics of Cuba, there were 1,800,000 whites and 4S3.000 blacks or mixed races; these figures vary from those recently published by me In the Journal, but those were given without record. This statement by Mr. Cahera is in Gunton's Magazine for October, and I take for granted is reliable. There are therefore nearly four white men to one colored man In Cuba. It is impossible to get any sort of accurate information about the Cuban Army of Liberation, as they call It, but allotlng the facts as 1. could collect them from all sources, Cubans and Spaniards. I think that Gomez has about 6'J.OOO men In the field, of which a Spanish general told mo that he thought that 40 per cent, or 24.00'J were negroes and GO per cent. Zo.QJ) were white men. The Cuban slave owner has been, since 1S&, urging immediate mancipation on the Spanish government. The Cuban rebellion of 1SGS proclaimed the emancipation of the slaves, and by the treaty between the rebels and the home government in 1878 the freedom of those who fought in the revolutionary ranks was proclaimed. But the Cuban slaveholders insisted on general emancipation, which was accomplished In the Spanish Cortes in 1SS5 on motion of a Cuban deputy, Don Miguel Figueroa. In two years the sugar crop increased 30 per cent. The Cuban negro, slave and free, has distinguished himself by an intellectual force, a mental vigor, greatly superior to that of the American. Antonio Maceo, who is attracting most attention now. is a quadroon. Ho is the son of a mulatto woman by a Spanish ofiicer, as she Is the daughter of a Spaniard of rank. Maceo's white blood shows in his face. his figure and hU achievements. He is the guerilla chief of the war. General Weyler is now undergoing the fate of moat generals. People at homo always clamor for victories in the field. John Mosby starting with lifteen men In 18r,3 gradually collected three hundred in 1SC3-64. and he kept forty thousand Union troops chasing him. He never was caught, nor cornered, and I shall be tho mcst surprised man in the world if Maceo Is forced Into a fight or Is caught by General Weyler. For three years Mcsby and Mosby's men rode at will over northern Virginia, behind the Union lines, through and around the Union camps. They took General Stoughton out of his bed and in the midst of hl3 troops at Fairfax courthouse, where Mosby had twenty-nine men to ten thousand. When Maceo and the,Cuban3 come home they'll steal General Weyler out of his bed. The country is a much better country for bushwackers than northern Virginia was in Mosby's time. It is reported that Mr. Cleveland has said that he will not be a party to adding another "nigger Siatc" to the Union. lie need have no such concern. Cuba will be a white man's country, governed and ruled by the native Cuban, an alert, active, sinewy, tall and vigorous man. prodigiously reinforced from the United States. It may bo days. It may b? months. It can hnrdly be years, befcre tho "manifest destiny" of America will unite Cuba to the States, and at her own time. In her own way, she will become one of them. SSSlSt8SMSMSSMBSSB Mr. DlnRley's Qualifications. Buffalo Courier. According to Senator Cullcm, of Illinois. Congressman Nelson Dlngley, chairman of the ways and means committee. ha bec-n selected by President-elect McKlnlev to bs secretary of the treasury. Whether this te true cr not It ii fair to say that Mr. Dlngley Is better equipped for the office thkn iny other Republican mentioned In connection with the appointment. During the Ust fifteen years he has been a hard-working, prominent member of the House of Representatives a member highly respected even by his political opponents. Though a strong partisan, he is not narrow-minded and Miter. Mr. Dlngley Is sixty-four years cf age. - During the last forty year he has been the proprietor and editor of the Lswlaton Journal.

FIRED ON FORT SUMTER

THE 31AX STILL LIVING WHO LOADED THE FIRST CAXXOX. : Illn Name In Thomas Wlicnt, and 1I Went ThrocKh the Wnr Without" Ever Receiving: a Scratch. New Ycrk Journal. The man who loaded the first cannon fired In the civil war Is living near Rome, Ga. He helped to drive the United States troop3 out of Ft. Sumter. That, at least. Is his claim, and he supiorts It by a very graphic and circumstantial narrative. He Is reputed to be a thorougMy truthful and trustworthy man. The veteran's name is Thomas A. WheaL Ho has a farm on the Oostanaula river, about nine miles from Rome, where he has lived since he left the army. Physically he Is a magnificent specimen of manhood. Six feet high, broad shouldered and sinewy, he Is as good a righting man to-day a3 when he was u soldier of the Confederacy. Although. in his fifty-sixth year, he does not look to bo more than forty. So devoted is Wheat to the lost cause that he still wears the gray overcoat of the Confederate service. He has guarded this precious relic so carefully that to-day it i4 a. complete and serviceable garmeut. capable of protecting the wearer against the cold and fit to be worn lu another campaign. He is ready to begin the war over again, and. if slKh a thing were possible.it would see the veteran coming to th front In hi3 coat of Confederate gray llko the ghost of the last generation. The other day Wheat gave a bketch of his life and of its most momentous inci-dent-the time he helped to lire on Fort Sumter He also sat for his photograph Ux his Confederate coat and was told to look as ho did when he was watching for the effect of the shot which was to start the biggest civil war in history. Wheat vva S 2-6. b, fin.61 a eood aeal ot lai about war but Bob 'ioomos and other tire-eaters hai taught us to believe that war Mou id nol woSld-nh4",!1 brveakf W and tnat we vvojM v nip the Vankees m easily that if a fellow aid not keep right ut the tront hewould not get a cnuntS lo share hi She " J found out better later on. After the Star of tho West aftair we kr.cw that There was some m jviment on foot, and were no? after midnight on the rrorning of April ij Ptgu' rUertd " "uJr THE FIRST CARTRIDGE. "It was ray business to load the first cartridge for the ten-Inch mortar, and while our commander. Captain Hallenquist took his statio-x near tho gun I measured out the powder, loaded the cartridge and cut ihe fuse. It was just growing light, and the fog hung heavy on the water between our position and Fort Sumter. We could see the dim outlines of the old fort, and back to the landward, as the mist thinned, we could see figures moving to and fro aons the battery in cnancrton. it was the "Suddenly the signal was given Just a tho rog ntted and revealed tne outlines 51 the fort ana springing backward Captain .JhSJ2?,;d,st pU4lC(i the lanyard -bomb" L?h0t ra"g out- and was echoed from snore to shore, and the frightened u-nlS S?5new fftrteWnff InVverV dirtlolt vvas like a clap of tnunder from a carPky. but in a moment the wild cheering of the Se'water. Was boi ScroS . "My blood waaup and In a twinkllnr? anotner charged ramrotd down in5 blac, throat of the old mortar and 1 vial En1, VJ. nre. thesenJ hot. and had! Hn?WnKU lhat 11 rneant then. 1 might not havo been so eager for the henor, but I was young and my blood was hot and I ?umupy 10r an',kInC. that misht "Pit firIn?' of cours. became general. n? thei,gUas 1rora 01(1 Sumter answered ?Z ,c,!iallenseL 1 wa8 kewt busy working the gun that I paid little heed to what FIn" oruhtl order came to cease "ring, inen I saw the otneers in tne boat lhi"firOV;'ed a,crosa 10 tne fort to complete JiMH.lJcles of 1surreder. a detacnmerit. including- myself, was sent over to the rcrt! and we witnessed .tne mure pioeedincs! uf course tnat Is a part of History, but I witnessed one tragedy connected with If10 urTender lhat 1 nav never Keen mentioned in any of tho accounts. When Anderson got ready to leave he i!red a salute pf thirteen guns. He had planted a num. i uhand grenades along tne ramparts, and, tho grass catching fire, caused one of them to explode, killing two of his men. A SOLDIER'S RESURRECTION. "One of those men was burled near the wall3 of the fort, and his grave was marked so that the body could bo removed aftrr. ' varu. i suppose. Well. I witnessed th burial, and in 1S52, when the federals horn tho if barded the fort in their his resurrection In a most unexpected manner. Tho spot whero ho was burled was one fully exposed to the federal fire, and suddenly a 300-pound Parrott shell went screaming through the air and fell plump on the soldier's grave and exploded. It tore a hole in the soft earth as big as a small house, smashed the cof3n into a thousand fragments and scattered the remains of tho poor fellow. "I remained In the service during the four long, weary years that followed and escaped witnout a scratch and without being cap?:,' tured until we reached Salisbury. N. C n,'-i 1, when v.e surrendered to the Fifteenth ' Pennsylvania Regiment. Captain Waggoner was in command, and the boys Played a sort of Joke on me. telling him that I was tho worst rebel in the army and that I had fined the first shot at Kort bumter and was responsible fcr the whole trouble. " So.' said bo. 'you arc tho oaurp cf all ' this trouble Why did you fire that shot' at tort Sumter? " 'Because we wanted to capture it.' said .1. trying to brave It out. for 1 had a horf,or ubeInff sent t0 Prison, and I thought that the better plan was to put a LoM lace on the matter. "'Well,' said ho. seeming to consider the question u little, if I give you a rarolo will you promise to go home and not bear arms against tho government cf the United estates any more?. " 'That depends upon what the other boys do. Captain.' I replied. 'If they are ready to quit I am. but if they get into It again X shall have to help them out.' "Captain Waggoner seemed to be a clever sort of fellow, tor he gave me my parole and a ham and'sent me back to my command. We came heme and 1 fettled down here and have been farming and trying to make a living ever since, tlut I have had tho hbnor of drinking a glass ot wine with Beauregard, who conplim?nted me on being the man who opened the ball at Fort Sumter." A Complaint of Sociullsm. E. L. Godkln, In the Atlantic. Social Inferiority Is a common complaint of Socialists everywhere acalnst the classes which do not work with their hands. Rut noiody has as yet pointed out how It Is to Ihj overcome any more than how differences in strength of mind or body are to be overcome. One of the dearest liberties- of the human race Is each man's liberty cf choosing his ow'n associates. His choice, too. is not regulated simply by utractlons of mind or character, but by manor of . living. I asQciate, except In rare instances, with those who live like myself, who have the same ideas of boclal enjoyment, who dress and behave in social life much as I and my family do. whose walk and conversation I find interesting and instructive. Workingmen do the tame thing. I venture on the assertion that It Is very rare indeed for any man or woman to be kept out of any society which would enjoy hla or her presence. People do not. as a rule, associate to afscrt a principle or spread ideas. They, associate for purposes of enjoy met; worklngmen do so themselves. Congeniality or similarity of manners Is what has drawn social lines ever since man began to consort with his fellows. To arrange society on Ieal lines Is beyond human powers. To be told by any human power what company I must k?ep I to be a slave, and the restoration of Knial slavery is not possible. Birds of a feather have ilookcd together since civilization began, and probably will do so till it perishes.

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