Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1878 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1878.

Dry Goods. DRY GOODS.

See the WHITE GOODS on sale TO-DAY. Buy your White Flannels at the Sale of Dry Goods at the BEEHIVE.

CLOSE & WASSON.

Tapestry Brussels, 75c. Extra Supers, 75c. Two-Plys, 25c. r*©x- Yard..

tlw cheniwr and better than anything ever offered before in the State. Great Bargains in All Lines of Goods. ADAMS, MANSUR & CO., 47 and 49 South Meridian St.

A Few Remarks . About the weather Just now would be rery appropoe, but not feeling able to do the subject j usti®, we merely say that a good ICE PITCaEB of WATER SET ia a great comfort in times like these, and for the beat line of them, and the lowest prices, go to ' ' • Bingham, Walk & Mayhew’s, 12 E. WASHINttTON ST. (Sign of the Street Olock.) na.Pleaae obeerve oar Window, je*

THE DAILY NEWS.

FRIDAY, JULY 12. 1878.

The Indianapolis News has the largest circulation of any daily paper in Indiana. . CotrSTY expenses must be reduced. All over the land there ia a demand for the reduction oi expenses in the administration of affairs, state, county and city. Kansas reports Battering crop prospects, wheat averages twenty-five bushels, oats fifty, and the outlook for corn and fruits is better than ever known before.

The Emperor William recovers slowly; chances are he dies. He is old, and the forces of recuperation are severely tried by an attempt at assassination, let alone two attemps wtiich he has had to endure. The effort to prove by Governor Kellogg that King, otthe Louisiana supreme court, was appointed collector by the president, and Morgan of the same court appointed to the judgeship of the international court in Africa, in order to make it ipipossible for Packard to be allowed to make an appeal to that court for the adjudication of his claim to the governorship, was a failure. King's appointment was made on Kellogg's recommendation and that of T. C. Anderson’s. The said King was an old line Whig and Mr. Kellogg conldn’t undertake to say what the mental precesses of the president were in uaaking the appointment. In other words Butler has failed again to prove the president an accessory either before or after Hie fact.

Mr. Potter’s answer to Secretary Sherman’s last letter is not as able as that document. In brief, and politely, it tells Mr. Sherman that he lies as to the matter of his giving his letters to the public and as to the committee not allowing Shellabarger, Sherman’s connseL proper rights in examination, and\ that the testimony of Jenka,' Pitkin and Weber as fo intimidatgm in the parishes only refers to it incidentally in proving the existence of a conspiracy to throw out those parishes which Mr. Potter declares is the object of this inquiry, and hence he declines to summon the witnesses Sherman wants or to go into the subject of intimidation. It is a shuffling letter, although it covers Potter’s case, but it is shuffling because that case is an unfair one. He and his coadjutors are engaged in hunting for republican rascality, and will resolutely close all avenues that wQl lead to democratic rascality.. For this cause the Potter committee is a disgrace to the country, and the sooner it ends its malign exist-

ence the better.

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The president is a very obstinate man The lordly Conkling had his New. York custom house nominations rejected, and that ended it. But the president waits " until congress adjourns and then he suspends Coukling’s parasites, Cornell and Arthur, the former having been especially and ostentatiously obnoxious and insulting in his defiance of the president's order that office-holders should not manage conventions. The creed of that custom-house had come to be “Corruption is great and Conkling in its prophet.” It is a violent awakening they get now. This act of the president has more of “hack bone” about it than any he has done, and must win the respect of every one who admires a mu who can not be driven or diverted from his purpose. Conkling will wish more keenly than ever that the president had “snubbed Morton” which was the prioe he asked for his gracious support, and will be more unscrupulous and vindictive than ever when he finds that he isn’t “a bigger man” than Hayes, and does not yet wield quite as much power as the president of the United State*.

The country has not done justice to MrWilliam E. Chandler. He has been classed among political puritans; those who hold to their beliefs at the expense of reason and right, and are not deterred by fear of obloquy or failure. When he published his bitter arraignment of President Hayes’s policy and administration he was more largely credited with devotion to his political creed, however wrong-headed each devotion was, than with desire of self-aggrandisement. His bitter protest was that the republican governments of Florida and Louisiana hadbeen abandoned, and that therefore he refused to be comforted. But it appears since from bis testimony under oath that more than a year before he felt called upon to be the Jeremiah of the lost cause of carpetbagism, he knew from Stanley Matthews that those/governments were to be “abandoned”—to.use the customary but incorrect phraseology of the day. Then was the time for this political Praise-God Barebones to break fellowship and dwell no longer in the tents of the wicked. But by his own testimony he dwelt among them a twelvemonth asking and bestowing office. It was only when the supply began to fail and he was no longer regarded as the purveyor of patronage in ordinary that he found his voice and lifted it up and wept. In other words, he is like Anderson, Dennis, McLin and the rest of the crew; he hung to the party for what there was in it, and when he found there was nothing, he tried his best to overturn it. His boasted loyalty to principles is nothing but loyalty to price. He is not one whit better than the political cut-throats and cut-purses who seek to cast the odium of their rascality on an administration which would not pay hush-

money.

Kellogg’s testimony before the Butler committee in Washington yesterday was to the effect that seventeen parishes had been acted upon by the returning board on the ground of irregularities in the elections held therein. In forty other parishes all agreed that the election was fair and peaceable. He gave the registration figures to show the large republican majority there would have been had it been allowed expression at the polls and then he developed the interesting piece of rascality that '■we assumed that the colored people voted the republican ticket and the white people the democratic ticket.” And to keep np this beautiful color classification “we calculated in case of possible change that we got as many white voters to vote the republican ticket as they got colored men to vote the democratic ticket.” And to still further back up this political dispensation the worthy Kellogg says that kind of a calculation was true, “because we had tested it in quite a number of elections.” Here is the theory and practice of carpetbagism laid bare. Every negro votes the republican ticket; if any don’t, whites enough do to keep the quantity the same; we know this because we tried it. That is, when the newly freed and ignorant slaves knew nothing except that fhe army from the north had liberated them, and had a piece of paper put in their bands by the camp followers of that army, and were told to put it in the ballot-box, they did. Thus they were herded and driven to the polls as tb^Had previously been herded and the auction block. If the ballot educator it is reasonable to supnos^^e ignorant creatures learned to think for themselves in course of time. Kellogg acknowledges this inferentially by the naive assertion that the whites who voted “the ticket” kent the balance about even. There has not been clearer confirmation of the shamelessness of carpetbaeism than this testimony-of one of its

high priests.

CUKUENT COMMENT.

_ That Maryland postmaster who so bnmptiouslr informed Secretary Gorham that he would not contribute to the republican campaign funds on accounts of his democracy, proves to have been an ex-postmaster at the time of writing, wnich accounts for the vigor of his epistle. He had been removed and a republican appointed in hia place.—

[Springfield Union.

That is about the complexion of this “voluntary contribution” business. If a man undertakes to tell the assessment committee that he “won’t,” he had better look out for a

soft place to fall.

Eugene Hale’s greenback opponent in his mgressional district in Maine, is a % man who boasted in his speech accepting the honor (?) of the nomination, that he had not been to school since he was sixteen, and had not thus far accumulated a single dollar. Of course he was considered “clear quill.” If this isn’t putting a price on ignorance and rewarding unthrift we doa’t know what to call it. But what better could-be expected from a party that wants to do the business of

.a country on a fiction?

The most grotesque misnomer is calling millionaire Ben Butler “Citizen .; Butler. He is the demagogue who with lands and houses and a big bank account and a pleasure yacht, with “two gowns and everything handsome about him,” declaims against some shallowpated New York noodles with more money than brains, because they drive a “fonr-in-hand.” He is like most of these largehearted lovers of the poor. They want every, body to have wealth; but it must be somebody rise’s wealth. When Sheridan told his son it was time for him to take a wife, the young man replied: “Whose wife shall I take, father?” The prevailing question with the Butlerites is w how wealth shall they take ? Delaware republicans and Iowa democrats will go through the motions of political op5*>sition in the coming campaign very gently. The weather is hot, and there is no use of

exertion as a matter of form.

Dr. Hegeman, Dr. Ayer and Buchu Hrimbold, all became lunatics. Could it be they used their own medicines? ^ There is some talk of an independent movement in Arkansas by the democrats who don’t like the way the recent state convention was ran.—[Springfield Republican. The trouble about “independent movements” among democrats is that it is gener- . ally a movement toward the leek which they hasten to eat for having said they wouldn’t. One would suppose a “bloody shirt” expert would know the rag when he saw it but the aberration of our Market street contemporary is evidence that the supposition won’t stand. The Journal yesterday didn’t print Jeff Davis’s speech. Taking a lesson from The News last evening itfallsin twenty four hours later and does print it and further

welcome* The New*’ comments thereon with an-uproar iou* "Avast, there! Shiver onr timbers and blast our eyes if that isn’t the bloody shirt.” The Journal shivered and blasted too soon. The bloody shirt * is an ensanguined garment which i* waved by peace patriots at the people of the south who have returned to the anion these ten years or more, sworn allegiance to it, accepted the results of the war, and are in fact and theory as fully entitled tod all the rights and privileges flowing therefrom as any who did not take their lives in their hand* for or against “the lost cause ” This waving is generally done by those who didn't face the “confederate brigadiers” when the , fight was “on.” To cover Jeff Davis with just obloquy is not waving the bloody shirt. Jeff Davis has not acknowledged an allegiance to the union, aad moreover mouths exactly the same treason he did a score of years

ago.

And shall no wordge up from any national center of sympathy for these murdered patriots, of Indignation against these really state official murderer*, and of demand for national intervention in that most unhappily named parish of Feliciana—less felicitious to union men than any fraction of our territory ? Forbid it, Almighty God! Arouse the hearts of this people, that they may bleed with those that bled for their sake, and cast their migty arm of protection and affection and salvation around the humblest and most persecuted of their fellow citizens.—[Bishop Gilbert Haven. There is nothing left the republicans but Grant. Grant is force, and force is the republican idea. Grant is “order,” and “order,” is the republican idea. What though the “bloody shirt” has lost its power in the south, may not an equally red specter be raised in its stead at the north ? It is nearly as easy to instigate violence among the tramps of the one section as it was to instigate violence among the negroes at the other section, disturbance in either ease securing the needed pretext for the use of “authority” by the government. This is the cue of the republican managers. To employ the communists as they employed the carpet-baggers; to scatter dismay through the land by aid of the pickax and the torch ; and, at the lucky moment, to trot in the Man on Horseback, and, as he rides across the continent from San Francisco to Philadelphia, to rally the grand army of the republic.—[Courier Jonrnal.

The Honest Farmer. Happy I count the firmer’* life, Ite rirlou* round of wt>olr*nme Urflj An lioucet man with IotIiik wife, And offspring native to the ioU. Thrice hippy, surely—to hts breast I 'lain wisdom and the trust In Hud; Hit pith more stiwlght from east to weak Than politician aver trod. Ills Kiln’s no lose to other men j Ills stalwart blows inflict no wound; Not t>u*y with hia toneue or pen, He questions truthful sky and ground. Partner with seasons and the sun. Nature's eo-worker: all his skill Obedience, ev’n as waters run. Winds Wow, herb, !>east their law* fulfilL A vigorous youth hood, clean and bold; A manly manhood; cheerfnl age; Hia comely children proudly hold Their parentage best heritage. Unhealthy work, false mirth, chicane, Guilt—needless woe, and useless strife— O cities, vain, inane, insane!— How happy is the farmer’s life! —[Fraser's Magazine.

THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. Fail urea for the First Half of 1878. According to the semi-annual circular of R. G. Dun & Co.’b Mercantile Agency, the failures for the first six months of the present year show an enormous increase. The following statement of failures in the first six months of the years mentioned will illustrate the significance of the figures for the past six months: No. of Amount of Average Failures, liabilities. Liabilities. 1875 Si,563 9 76,841,266 121,567 1876 4,600 108,415.42!) 23,563 1877 4,749 99,606,171 20,974 1878 5,825 130,832,766 22,460 The failures for the half year just closed are thus shown to be in number over twenty-five per cent, greater than in 1877, while the liabilities indicate a per centage of increase still greater. V Causes for this are briefly synopsised as consisting of an unusually open wiuter, retarding sales, deliveries of produce, and collections; the discussions in and out of congress of financial measures, and the necessary condition of uncertainty that resulted; the possibility of important changes in the tariff; the postponement of the date of the repeal of the bankrupt law, aad, finally, the steady decline in price* of merchandise, and tpe general shrinkage of va’lues, which, it is said, have been more apparent in the past six months than ever before, especially whenever it became necessary to realize. In relation to these points, which are set out at length, the circular says: When it is considered that there are now over 700,000 persons and firms here reported in active business, and that of this vast army, only a limited number possess a surplus sufficient to withstand such a lengthened period of depression, disappointment and lose, as it has been the fate of the country to undergo, it need not be considered as a measure of great disaster that additional circumstances so unfavorable should swell the failure lists to the extent above recorded. That these circumstances were only temporary in their duration, and that certain of them may have a tendency to lessen the number of failures hereafter, are points in favor of the future; and therefore, however discouraging the figures above, presented may at first appear, it would be unfair to regard them as an index to the real or permanent condition of the country.” “That there are still too many in business according to its volume and profitableness there is no denying, and. that failures are liable to occur while this condition lasts, is equally certain; but this does not alter the great fact that the country is rapidly recovering itself, and that by the success of agricultural operations great bodies of producers over vast sections?of the country are materially increasing their purchasing power. It is true that in various mannfacturing centres depression still reigns, and no revival is honed for so long as the capacity to produce so immensely exceeds the probable demand. That this view has become a settled conviction in,many minds, even among the operatives themselves, is a hopeful sign, for the necessity will then become apparent that a numerous class should adopt themselves to other industries; and the fact that a government and other land agencies there have been very frequent applications for farms from those hitherto engaged in other pursuits, is one of the most cheering signs of the times. .As a country we are most fortunate in this, that millions of fertile acres are valuable at a merely nominal price, and that with very little effort, not only a living, but comfort and eventual independence are possible to families willing to work. In no form could organized philanthropic effort be letter shaped than in encouraging by information, direction and even material aid, a movement from manufacturing centers to the cheap kinds of the west and sonth. If by firmness on the part of wholesale merchants, in refusing settlements and compromises in the event of failure, a similar movement could be indtfeed among the large army of unnecessary retailers and middlemen now dividing np between them the limited trade of the hour, an early solution would be found for manv difficulties from which the business of the country suffers. That these results will be, of necessity, gradually accomplished, is certain, and the sooner the better for all concerned.” The Agency concludes its review as follows : “Because there has been frequent disappointment in the expectations hitherto entertained of a return to a better condition of tmstness, there ia less disposition to rely upon indications both numerous and farorable But never before were there present so many conditions essential and contnbutive to betier times than at present appear; and though it would be the utmost folly to indulge in expectations of a rapid return to prosperity, it is next to imiKjssible that the immediate future can be otherwise than encouraging to those whose affairs are in condition to avail themselves of better limes.”

Everybody Takes It. [Rochester find.) Spy.] The Indianapolis Daily News is delivered to subscribers in this place by carriers foi the Bum of ton cents per week. It is a newsy paper, and well worth the price of subscription to any one.

SCRAPS. Savannah’s population is about 23,000. The president’s family have taken np summer quarters at the soldiers’ home. The salaries of the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church are $3,000 each per annum. Zach Chandler drives ont with two footmen and a coachman, all in the grand “swell” style. Does death end all ? asks Rev. Joseph Cook. No, the medical colleges finish the job.—[Detroit News. The Sazerac lying club, of Austin, Tex., have ordered full-length portraits oi Anderson and Mrs. Jenks. There are thirty-two large circuses on the road this summer, or thirty-three including the one run by the Potter committee.—£Ex. A second Solomon in the Baltic provinces of Russia invariably sentences women to publicly kiss each other when they get into a -broil. James G. Fair, of San Francisco, has resigned the superintendency of the bonanza and all other mines under his control on account of ill health. A South Carolina negro says of Wade Hampton: “Fo’ de Lawd I but every time dat man opens his mouf I feels dat I am turnin’ whiter an’ gittin de kinks out’n my

ha’r.”

It is about this time of year when the little boy expresses the wish that he was built like a hen-coop, out of laths, so that the breeze could blow right through him.

—[Wide Awake.

A Dighton, Massachusetts, man is taming the huckleberry, and claims, that by cultivation he will show a fruit as large as a.cherry, and a great deal more pulpy and juicy than the native wild berry. Mr. Edison will leave New York for Colorado next Saturday, with a numberof astronomers, to experiment on the moon with his newly-completed heat-measurer. He will be absent about three weeks, and

will visit the Yosemite.

Somebody will find red hair women into a piece of ingrain carpet one of these days. Libbie Barkley, while working at a loom in Thompsonville, Conn., let the machinery get hold of her long curls, and in a twinkle they were absorbed in the carpet A politician gave this advice to his son-Gn-law, who was nominated for office: “Lean a little toward everything, and commit yourself to nothing. Be round, be perfectly round, like a bottle, and just dark enough so that nobody can see what’s

in ye.”

One of the London boulevard weeklies gives this as an opinion passed upon Mrs. Langtry: “She is very handsome; but she always reminds me of a Jersey cow, with her creamy face and great black eyes. If she had only a black nose the resemblance would lie complete.” Spurgeon, having been asked by an American- if he Bad heard of Colonel Robert Ingersoll, replied: “Oh, yes; I have heard of your Robert Ingersoll. I should do nothing to convert him. He is a green watermelon. The more he abounds the sooner the public will turn from him. “I arose at 6-o’clock this morning, and see what I found in taking a walk on the highway,” said the fond father, displaying a silver dollar; “is that not a proof of the advisability of early rising?” “No,” replied the son, “because the fellow who lost it got up too early for his own good.” “It is all very well to talk about how the thermometer stands in the shade,” remarked a gentlemen with a boiled lob-ster-colored face who dropped in the other morning. “What I want to know is how it stands in the sun. That’s the way I have to take it.”—[Boston Transcript. The steamer Seine has picked up the lost Atlantic cable of 1866, which she was gent out to look for. Who would have ventured to predict fifteen years ago that after twelve years men could go out to hunt for and infallibly recover a rope no. thicker than one’s thumb from the depths ef the mid-Atlantic. Miss Bradley, a female physician who died last Tuesday in Philadelphia, was the lady who, 20 years ago, being refused admission ad a student to the medical college, shingled her hair and donned m'ale attire, in which guise she went through a medical course and graduated with high honors, wheil she resumed her identity and became an honor to the profession. A plain-speaking country minister was asked one day how it happened that considering the good example supposed to be set before them, so many ministers’s sons should turn out ne’er-do-wells. “That’s easily acccounted for,” said the divine. “You see the devil kens he canna get hand o’ the geese, so he just mats grab amang the gaislins.” At a recent convention of the stove manufacturers held at Detroit, Michigan, the president said: “If we would make" the best possible use of our money, we should patronize ably conducted and responsible newspapers. The newspaper is immeasurably the best medium open to our trade; the most liberal and expert advertisers testify to its value, and in the employment of its columns we would find a means of escape from wasteful, undignified and ineffective methods.” The state of things consequent on the famine in China is almost beyond beliet the number of persons who have perished from starvation is estimated at over five millions, and in certain districts the population threatens to become extinct. The privation has extended to all classes, and from subsisting on the bodies of the dead, the misery stricken people have now reached that state that the strong devour the weak, regardless even of the ties of blood and affection. banish Statics. The Danish government has published a small book of statistics. The total population of the kingdom exceeds 2,000,006, of whom 1.959,000 live in Denmark proper, 72,000 in Iceland, 9,800 in Greenland and 37,500 in the West Indian colonies. The population of Copenhagen and its suburbs is about 250,000. The average duration of life in Denmark is 50 years, while in England it is 45, France 32, and in Italy only 30: but the number of suicides is very large and increasing every year, the majority being by hanging.

UNDENIABLE TRUTH.

A Chance Here For Every Poor Man.

Strong Common-Sense and Timely Truth* in n Fourth of July Address.

apprentice self out of

[Delivered by Col. Clark E. Carr, at Galesburg, IH.) The country has been alarmed during the last year by the extravagant utterances of public speakers upon the wrongs of labor. Communistic and socialistic societies have been organized in the large cities, and there is feverish anxiety lest the object and aim of these societies is disorder and bloodshed. • They are transplanted from Europe. Whatever may be their mission among us it is certain that they have committed many acts of lawless violence in the old world. It may be that they have benefited the laboring men in countries ruled by king and emperors. It is certain that they have done a vast amount of harm. I'hey will probably have their short day in this country, and like every ism which has ^preceded them disappear. If one living outside of this country should read their speeches and resolutions, and the inscriptions upon their banners, he would suppose that our laboring people were in a state of Egyptian bondage; that the man who toils has no sunlight, no hope, scarcely air and water. That he wearily climbs from day to day and year to year a treadmill which grinds

for a" privileged class.

Now it has occurred to me since I have

been invited to speak to you that no more profitable subject could be considered than these questions: Is the poor man ao brutally treated in this country? Is he the slave of the rich? Has he no hope? Must he give way to despair? I have had no time to prepare myself to treat the questions in a learned or philosophical manner, if I had the ability, and am therefore obliged to consider them from the examples we find every day in our walks about the streets of Galesburg. We have no very rich men; I mean, we have no millionaires nor merchant princes nor great railwav capitalists. We have several men in Galesburg, probably a dozen, perhaps more, who are worth over a hundred thousand dollars; some of these from a quarter to a half a million. I suppose there are two or three dozen in the city who are worth about a hundred thousand dollars. There are probably a hundred men worth from ten to twenty-five thousand dollars. There are many in business of dift'erent kinds who have no considerable capital, but who have from year to year handsome incomes from

their business and are well-to-do. The richest man in Galesburg and Knox

county started without a dollar. He was a carpcnter^by trade, and there are houses in the city which he built with his own hands. He has seen his share of poverty and hardship. The largest owner of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy stock, and one of the wealthiest men in the county, worked out after he was 21 years old for $8 a month and worked 14 hours a day. He sferted from home with only the clothes on his back and an extra pair of stock-

ings.

The man who owns the most stores in

the city worked out when an for $25 a year and clothed himseff

it. The most successful dry goods mercant, one of our wealthiest men, came to this town a poor boy, and I knew him when he was a clerk in a store on Main street at a small salary. The largest stockholder in the first national bank, and a man of large means, got his start by working on a farm for $9 a month. One of the leading bank directors worked when a young man as a hand on a North river sloop. A citizen worth $100,000,who started with nothing, learned to write his name after he was 50 years old. One of the wealthiest men who walks these streets worked as^iin apprentice in a drug store in 1’hiladelpnia for his board and clothes, came to Peoria with nothing but his good name and hired ont as a clerk. He soon went into company with a man who furnished capital, and in a few years paid his partner $10,000 for his interest in the establishment. One of our wealthiest citizens, president of a leading bank in lowaj started life on Cape Cod without a dollar, and has earned his own living since he was 11 years old. Nearly every director of the three banks, the First and Second Nationals, and the Farmers’ and Mechanics*| started penniless. There is scarcely an exception. The president of one of the banks told me that he did not believe that the entire bourd of directors inherited

$1,500.

The honorable chief justice of the supreme court of Illinois, a resident of this city, commenced the practice of his profession in Knoxville with only $10 in the world. The honorable judge of the circuit court of this district, who has lived here for 30 years, worked his owu way through college and to his profession. The county officers—judge, attorney,'treasurer, clerks of courts and sheriff—all started poor men. The president of Knox college, from the time he was a mere lad, not only earned his own living and paid for his education, but assisted in-the support of his parents. ‘ * The division superintendent of the Chiergo, Burlington and Quincy railroad started at the brake. A boy whom he gave a job at this depot as a*brakesman, with whom many of us have ridden when he attained the dignity of a passenger conductor, is the general superintendent of the Central Pacific, perhaps the most important railroad qn the continent. Another, who started here as a section boss, is now the assistant general superintendent of the Union Pacific. The master mechanic of this division of the Ghicago, Burlington and Quincy started here as a

firemah.

Of the wealthy farmers whose broad acres skirt the city limits, nearly every one started poor. In Knoxville,’and in the other towns of the county, also, nearly every one of the men of means and property started penniless. In the professions nearly every man started poor. One qf the best lawyers in the city, perhaps the most trusted lawyer, not only supported himself bjWtard manual labor, but earned the bread for indigent relations. But it is needless to multiply instances. Go through the country among the farmers and it is the same. How many Irishmen, Swedes, and other naturalized citizens are now owning fine farms in the country, or good houses in the city, who twenty years ago were working by the month. What a record! Of the bankers, merchants, professional men, farmers, all those who own considerable property and hold high positions, every man almost started in life poor. No inheritance, no influential or prominent friends, and still by industry, economy and prudence they are well off. I knew many of them while they were needy, have’ watched their struggles out of want to comfort alfd affluence. I have seen their children grow up, and with what pride they have given them advantage* which they themselves could not enjoy, and as I have seen the prosperity of these men, the comforts with which they are surronnded, my heart has swelled with gratitude that it was my privilege to live in a city and county where there were such possibilities. ^ What I have said of Galesburg and Knox county is true of this country. Go into any comguuuty and you will find that

on as ciera in a it for men who ia plenty to <f§, id save become

industry and economy have brought their reward. Presidents, and senators, governor* and judge*, scholars and capitalists,

have come from the ranks.

| In the light of all this, how absurd to amrame that the poor man has no chance. The f*ct is, the poor man I* the only oi* who is successful. I believe that, as a rule, the men who are born in an inheritance became profligate and dissipated and die in poverty. It is true that there are poor men, and frequently good industrious m« n, who from no fault of their own, are in distress. It is the province and duty of those who have health and vigor to help to bear the burdens of the weak, to help those who can not help themselves; but there is no reason why any healthy, ablebodied man or woman m this country should be in distress or suffer for want. A good man can find work on the farm, and could have found it most of this summer at $15 per month and his board. Most of the capitalists in this country laid the foundations of their fortunes upon smaller wages than this. I admit that you can not get a position as clerk in a

store on a good salary; but are willing to work there

and those who do work and save become* independent. It is much better for a man or boy to earn $15 a month and board on a farm, and save all of it, than to earn $50 a month in a store or on a railroad and

spend all of it.

There is no lack of work for industrious women, both in town and country. There are women in this city who go" out to do domestic work in families, such as washing, ironing and cleaning, and make from 75 cents to $1 a day. In domestic service bow often we hear our housewives complaining that girls are so scarce. It is true that there is poverty and distress in the large cities because of scarcity of work, but to live in a populous city is a luxury which the poor can not afford, and we say to them: “If you will insist upon starving in your garrets ifi the metropolis when the country is anxious to pay you good wages, it is not the fault ot the government nor of our institutions. Here is this vast Mississippi valley, with all its wealth at your command, if you will come and take possession of it.” Every day good men are looking for hands to work on their farms. Why don’t you come and help them? Yoq art? needed just as much

as you need.

It ia always a riddle to a western man when he goes to a city or the densely populated manufacturing townBrnf New England, how people can live huddled together as they are with such opportunities as present themselves in the west. What splendid openings for industrious, enterprising men and women there are to-day in Nebraska and Kansas. If those menand women who shouted themselves hoarse in applause of the speakers at the socialistic and trades union meeting recently held in Chicago would make half the sacrifices and go through half the hardships, and practice half the self-denial practiced by the men who came 1,500 miles through the wilderness forty-two ago to locate upon this Galesburg colony, they would in a very few years bo settled in life with such comforts as our pioneers enjoy in this community. What a difference there is between emigrating now to the west and that of coming when those two poor boys, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas made their way to Illinois. Now in Nebraska and Kansas and Texas, and in most of the new states, you can have a railroad running to your very door. Talk about hard times now. The young man who came to Illinois and started a farm when Galesburg was settled, had to give half a bushel of wheat or a whole ham to pay the postage on a

letter to his sweetheart.

One of the greatest injuries, the monster wrong, inflicted upon the laboring man of to-day is brought upon him by the shiftless vagabonds designated under the general title of tramps—the very offscourings of this and every other country, lazy and leusey, redolent of filth. While we have work which ought to be done at once, and for which we are willing to pay, they come to our doors and beg bread and meat, and when they get it they will, as they craunch it between their teeth, tell our hired men who honestly earn their monthly wages and are getting ahead some every mentk, that the poor man has no show in this country. They know when they utter this libel that lazy and shiftless as they themselves arc, they are fed every day from the I tables of into who by hard work and selfdenial have given the lie to the sentiment. These vagabonds have the same spirit, and the same malignant object, which animated the prtuce and ancestor of all tramps, the Devil, when he approached our farst parents in the garden of Eden. They want to bring the honest, industrious meu and women dow n to their own level. The scoundrel, Frank Rapde,whose life was saved by morbid sentimentality in yonder court house, prated about the wrongs of the laboring man, and sought to bring the honest, industrious men of Knox county to his level by claiming to be one of them. He a tailoring man! He entered the house of Woodford Bierce, one of the best citizens of this county, who had laid by a little for his family, and stole a sum of money, and because Mr. Bierce’s neighbor, Beldcn. a hard working carpenter, tried to make him give up the money, he shot him down

like a dog.

The socialistic organizations seem to have seared many of the capitalists ot the city out of their wits. One would suppose by reading the newspapers published in New York, Chicago and 8t. Louis, that socialists or communists were about to take possession of the city and country and divide the country among themselves. Nothing has been so far seen indicating even such a purpose on the part-of these organizations, except the froth of lager beer which has overflowed the lips of sortie of the weaker and drunker of their picnic

orators.

Fir» In each e; e arid pajwr* In each hand,

They rave, recite, and madden round the land.

no’ reason to fear from these

When

m . ere are

million farmers in Illinois who will 8W»-cp from the face of the earth everv society and individual who attempts to wrtst their hard-earned domains from them. The farmers of this country know too well what their little homeateails have' coi-t to allow them to be taken away, or even to allow a cloud to be placed upon their titles bv a class of men who propose to divide. 'They will not become excited nor alarmed by speeches of charlatans; but if division is attempted you will see them rise in their majesty, like one of our prairie cyclones, and they will be fully as destructive. And the farmer* will not be alone; men in other branches of businrim; the really industrious men everywhere, in town ana country, will join with them. The fundamental idea of some of these socialistic organizations is that “capital i* stolen labor. With such an idea of capital there is an irreconcilable antagonism between capital and tabor. They judge of capital and capitalists entirely by the worist specimens; by men who rob the revenues of tithes, like the great New York boss, or by those who. through trickery and fraud, get control of great railroads; or by those who, from dishonesty in political office, or by going through bankptev, have been made rich. That there have been men who hare in some way or another stolen their capital can not be. denied. There have been too many of this class of men; but to assume that the great bulk of thecapital of the country has been stolen is monstrous. You might as well saj that because the rats steal your corn,

therefore all the corn is stolen. Throefourths of the capital of the country is

owns-a houae, however humble, a home, a cow, a kit of tools, a plow, a shovel, a spade or hoe; every man who has days’ works in him mid is willing to let them come ont of him, is a capitalist. Every such man is constantly employing labor; he hires the farmer to plow and sow aad reap for him; the miller to grind for him. He hires men to spin and weave his clothing, to make hiaahoea, to chop and saw, and to build a dwelling over him. If he nas only his hand*, and simply earns hia food and clothing he is a capitalist, and when he decries capital he srikes a blow at himself Now, my friends, and especially my young friends, let me say that 1 know something of the great gulf there m between the young man on the farm and the man of means. I know with what earnestness some of you have longed for “something better than you have known.” When I was in the Yosemite valley I stood where I could see from its depths the summit of a mountain nearly 6,000 feet high. It was a sublime height, far above the clouds. It seemed as though it touched the battlements of heaven. On every side, as far *s the eye could*p«reeive, it presented the appearance of a perpendicular wail of solid granite. But I was told that men had climbed to ita summit, and I said, if other men have been there I can go; and I resolved that I would attempt it! I continued to climb over bowlders, up steep rocks, through narrow defiles, hour after hour, until finally I stood upon the summit, and I looted down upon the eublimeet vision

ever beheld by man.

It seems to you to-day that there is no possibility of your reaching the position of the men who have climbed to prominence about you. I have shown you that all of them stood once where you stand. They have climbed to where they are. You can not see the road they have taken. You can only see them way up in prosperity and position. Yon can reach them if vou try. Yoit will h»vq to climb up this Moulder, scale tiiai rock, surmount ttu* obetacle and that; but so sure a* they succeeded, so sure will you succeed,’ Yoq may if you will, on the other hand, listen to every tramp and blackleg who tells you there is “no show fo* the poor man,” “capital is stolen labor,” etc. You can try to club down those who have by toil ami sweat climbed part wav up. I have shown

you by the examples 1 have cited here today of men who arc known to you all, that there is under the beneficent rule of the government whose natal day we are celebrating, a chance for every poor man: and I shall feel more than repaid if I have influenced one man to avail himself

of it.

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self-constituted arbiters of property, they attempt to enforce division the

Prospects of Resumption. The conference of Secretary Sherman, yesterday, with the representatives ofr-the late syndicate was informal and, according to tbs best information to be obtained, related solely to the question of resumption. Mr. Sherman expressed confidence in his ability to resume at ofice, if necessary, and the bankers were generally of the opinion that there was nothing to prevent resumption. The secretary said that, though he could not begin ’ to redeem greenbacks before January 1, yet it was in his iwiwer at any time to pay checks and drafts upon the treasury in specie, and intimated that he would soon begin to do an. No sjtecific date was named, but a member of-the syndicate said, after conference, that he would not be surprised to see the treasury paying out gold on or before the first of August. Secretary Sherman said that the coin now in the treasury was amply sufficient for the purposes of resumption, and that he would make no further sales of bond* 1 ' on this account. The members of the syndicate expreased themselves as being in accord with his views, and pledged themselves to assist him in carrying out the resumption act. g The Indian Troubles. ^ The hostiles whipped back to the mountains by Gen. Howard have now started eastward for Snake river along the ridge of the mountains between the Grande Bonde and Columbia valleys. They will ert-as Meacham’s road between Hum mi t and Pelicaiij and turning somewhat south pass into Willowa and cross the Snake river at the mouth of Salmon. If the Indians are again whipped back they wilj move northeast jnto the Salmon mountains, or southeast along the Powder river mountains to the crossing of Snake river near Old’s ferry. The Grande Honda valley is now in most danger. The operator at Umatilla sends the following: Have just learned by telegraph from Walla Walla that Howard wilt be in Walla Walla l hi--slier noon (11th) knd will take the train from that dty to W»lhila with his command. He will then take the boat from that point and proceed to the head of navigation on Snake river. The Indians have evaded Gen. Howard and are now making for the mouth of Grande Eonde river, where they expect to cross the Hnake.

Cloudburst lu Dakota, A cloudburst occurred at Rapid City, about forty miles from Dead wood, on Tuesday. The waterspout struck Rapid valley, and played havoc with* life and property. The river at Rapid City raised fifteen feet hour and a gardens, carrying freight in transit to ing a man named HtUinga. The flood came up so rapidly that a camp of freighters,on the bottom across the river from Rapid t ity was swept away. One of the freighter* was drowned.

he president has removed Gen. Chaster frthur, collector of custom* at the port

New York Custom House Officers Bounced. The A. Ar of New York, and appointed General E. A. Merritt, the present surveyor of the port, in his stead. He also removed A. B. Cornell, naval officer, and appointed as hi* successor Silas W. Burt, the pre*eul naval officer.

Come Dow if With the Stamps. * [Springfield Republican.] ^ Candidates on the democratic state ticket in Indiana have to “come down with the stamps,” The nominee for state treasurer, which office pays about $18,OQO a year, has been assessed* $5,000, and others in the same proportion. The Obstinate Turk. The Turks are raising all kinds of obstacles in the way of the evacuation of Varna and Shumla, and General Todleban has cummonicated to the Porte aa expression of the Czar’s displeasure.

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