Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1885 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY SENTINEL MONDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 2 1885.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2.

OFFICE 71 and 73 ITett Market Street. KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. C4lanapolls BecUael for 1884 Dally, Ban. ay acd Weekly Xlltlon. CULT. lilTirel by carrier, per woer , , 1 25 Dally, laclailnf Sanday, pr week. Lll7, per annsn, by man SO 19 CO tally, ycr ar.cn, by sull Including Sunday, by man 13 00 12 00 II 00 I Cauy, daUverod by carrier, per annua Daily, delivered by carrier, pe annum, laClalias 8an5y Uaily, to newsdealers, per copy-. aaday edition cl tlghty-four columns .13 CO oind&y Sentinel, by carrier.. 2 SO ty. Tt newticalen, per copy WIXXLY. eexly, per lnnum 1 1 oc The postage on ntxcxlpUonj by aull U prepaid ty the publisher newsdealers supplied at ihres ccati per copy. roAtaga or other charge prepaid. Catered ai second-class xaattar at the Poatoaoe at IndtenapoUa, kid. It looks aa 11 the Rev. lt. Heber Newton wants to be a martyr. Ot a Vincenues correspondent reports a very cold-blooded murder this morning. Ii occurred yesterday. The details will be found elsewhere in this paper. Ths Terre Haute Mail says that Colonel Boadinot, the Indian Representative, ha given Senator Voorheei an elegant robe, rrade from the skins of wildcats killed by the Colonel In Arkansas. PxBiiArs Senator Foulke might reach immortality by insisting upon investigating Governor Torter for neglecting to report to ) tbe Legislature the list of pardons, commutations of sentence, etc. Come! let us hare another virtuous Foulke rigor. When Low Wallace read3 General Grant's account of h!s (Wallace's) movements at Shiloh in the last Century Magazine, the Saltan will think an insurrection has broken out in the neighborhood of the American Mission, or an earthquake is rip,Tirg up the streets of Constantinople. Tan Joi rnal is In the saddle, booted and spurred, making cne of its periodical raids cn tha State Benevolent Institutions. It knows as well as It knows anything that the various institutions were never in any better condition than they are to-day. If a com parlson la necessary with Republican management let it republish the revelations made by a Democratic Legislature in 1870. The Falatka (Fia.) Herald says: "A man scd family arrived here cne day last wees; the next morning he paid $150 for a lot, and that evening he had a Bhanty erected, a stcve put cp, and he and family slept in it ibat night The man -was from Maine." Is iiis name Blaine? Terhaps it is a temporary ktxucture for Inauguration week, where the sound of Washington's revelry can not Teach. Now comes our good friend of the People, after we had kindly gone down to the wharf and wafted him a "boa voyage"' 3 Admiral of the Fisher; e of Indiana, and "runs down" our weekly a paper that er.joys perhaps the largest circulation of any paper published in Indianapolis. Ha ha3 sever read "The Weekly Sentinel" I'nfortuate Enos? However, what an ecstatic fieldof enjoyment lies unexplored by the Commissioner of Fisheries! Recent movements of prominent Demo cratic statesmen toward Albany have create! a wonderful flutter among the Blaine or gane. They don't eeem to "catch on' to Mr. Cleveland's policy in requesting the presence of gentlemen of such wide differences ef Tiews cn tariff matters as Carlisle and Randall are supposed to represent. This evident attempt to close up a gap so early in the s-?8?on sita heavily on the great expectations of the average Blaine editor. Here is just where he expected a row in the Cleveland camp. Is an article on the failure of the Nicaragua Canal treaty, the New York Sun says: "it will not hurt a canal project which has been talked about at leaat forty years to study it a few months longer, and a Democratic Administration may be trusted to negotiate the treaties which it would have to execute. If, after a deliberate review of the political, strategic, and financial aspects of tfc Isthmus question, public opinion shall pronounce In favor of our constructing a canal through Nicaragua, the Democratic Secretary of State will promptly take the proper measures to obey the mandate." THE SENTINEL THE PAPER. Referring to the discontent of a local par er over the Sentinel's favoring a full report upon the State Treasury matter, and because it has the official advertising of the Sheriff, we remark that the columns of the Sentinel throughout the campaign bear pretty strong evidence of friendliness toward Ht. Treasurer Cooper. They, furthermore, bear indubitable evidence that the Sentinel was and is orthodox and zealous in the faith of Democracy. This was manifest, in part, by the earnestness with which it supported the Democratic nominee for Sheriff of Marion County. The Sentinel, being the only paper in the county to aggressively champion Mr. Carter's candidacy, it might, bat for Its native modesty, claim to have demonstrated the wielding of more influence in the county than the entire combination of brilliant sheets that espoused Mr. Carter's eppocent, even to printing his portrait. The Sentinel is showing only friendship fcr Treasurer Cooper In urging that he mace io clear a ihowing of the perfect safety of tae public funds that his political enemies can tave no semblance of cause for coaipromls-

ing accusations against him and his party eighteen months hence. Having labored as only a friend would or could labor to elect him, the Sentinel is plainly entitled to so proffer its advice. But how must Mr. Sheriff Carter smile at an admonition that he has biandere i in turning his official advertising ,t3 the Santlnel. What a cheap opinion he would be justified in haviag o! the circulation and influence of papers that opposed him, when counting over tha figures 2 0 3 3, which in the order given represent his majority in a county claimed ti be Republican. When he remembers that the Sentinel only was in his behalf, bow could he but decide it to be the paper most read in the county, and, therefore, best deserving hi? advertising? However much disappointment the local paper may suffer, it is, after all, itself and not Mr. Carter who has somewhere blundered.

BETTER SECURING OF TnE STATE FUNDS. It is a well known fact that ths funds of the State are, asd have been foryears, habitually kept In the various banks of this city, and that they are so kept without other security than the general responsibility of the respective banks. It is equally certain that large sums have been paid the State Treasuiers as interest upon these holdings of the State funds, aggregating in a series of years but little less per annum than the salary of the President cf the United States. It is an open secret that it is this unrestrained use of the public funds which is at tbe botccm of tho keen desire to obtain this office. Every level-headed business man will readily see and appreciate ths unfortunate tendency and exceeding danger of such a condition of our public Treasury. Tbe seductive temptation is practically to put the use of the public funds up to tha highest bidder. That is to say, the bank or banks which will pay most interest is likely to obtain the keeping and use of the public fund.'. In view of the recent bank history of this city, it ia a wonder fully equal to any one of the famed seven that more than one State Treasurer, together with their sureties, have not been utterly ruined and the State brought to face its largo expenditures without any funds lost as millions have been lo9t by other public officials and by private citizens. It is sober truth that nothing but blind luck has prevented the loss of at least the greater part of the State's funds within a very recent date, it being a sad financial fact that within a short period more than onelalf the banks of this city have tumbled into ruins, involving aliso a large number of public officers and the general public. The Legislature can not but be forcibly reminded of the fruits of these conditions and the Imminent danger of public 1oe3 by the large number of bills now Dending before it for relief to public officers who have lost by the failure of banks, no less thaa five out of the nine Trustees of th'13 county being among these applicants for relief. As well might an unscarred veteran be pointed to as evidence that there was no danger in battle as to suppose that thare wai reasonable safety for the State's funds undar existing conditions. Ia view of the facts In the prem-ses, now f L I LY FSKORE THE LEU W.ATURE, W6 WOUld respectfully, bnt with all earue t ness, urge the importance of due attention to this matter. Nothing In government can be more important than tbe safe keeping and propor distribution of tne taxes paid by the peop'e fcr tbe variaus purposes of taxation. Among remedies of early and ready accomplishment may bo named the prompt passage of the pending bill increasing tee penalty of the Treasurer's bond, and as supremely important let the exact condition of the Treasury in full and complete datail bo made known on or before the expiration of the present Treasury term, to the end that in case of accident there will be no danger of being nnable to fix tbe legal responsibility wtWber upon the old or new sareties of the cflicer. In addition, the creation of & proper Biard of Control, kindred to that governing the disposition and safekeeping of the Urjited States Treasury funds, would doul tlcss give valuable additional security. THE SKATING CRAZ2. We have staytd up nights of late looking for the telegraph cr our reporters to announce one or mora suicides, precipitated by the skating craze. It has come at last. At Detroit on Friday evening a young lady of twenty swallowed an ounce of laudanum because her father refused to permit her to attend a skating rink.and was with difficulty restored. This is, we fear, but the beginning of the tragedies to roll from the rinks. Already the stage dramatic, lyric, minstrel and variety has been impoverished by them. Already debating club3, tewing societies, lecture courses and prayer meetings have in many places been broken up. We need not be surprised at our universities, colleges and public schools closing for attendance on roller skatin rinks. Even base ball, as the popular amusement, has received a black eye. Whether one is highly moral or rich or brilliant or accomplished is ne longer the question, but can he or she skate? It is not to the girls and boys that the craze is confined. The matron, "fat, fair and forty," the bald-pated bachelor, the father of grown children, tbe church deacon, Jail have it. Your dignified professor and your leader of society get their tumbles, bumps and bruises, skinned shanks and sprained joints without the slightest sense of humiliation or discouragsment; they plaster over and bandage up and again strap their understanding upon tne little wheels and go rolling 'round the rink in all the delirium of desperate determination. The formatioa of the President's Cabinet enlitts eome popular interest, the Spanish and Nicaraguas trea

ties are incidentally discussed, the late dynamite explosions were briefly read and commented on, Congressional and legislative proceedings are hurriedly glanced at; but, my masters, the roller art skatorial holds the leading place in our Nation's thought and action. The male or female who can turn a somersault jack-rabbit fashion is, par excellence, an artist. He or she who can spell his or her name with his or her heels by his or her wneels is greater than the statesman who has inscribed his name high on the keystone of fame's eternal arch. But ther3 is one consolation derivable from contemplating the skating craze: Our country may make upon it an enduring reputation. Our chief boast and repute has been our "liberty." This has, however, been compromised, fir3t by African slavery, and latterly by ths enslaving of Republican high tariff and monopoly corporation legislation, until the claim of "liberty" may be challenged. A few countries have, however, made enduring reputations on their Isport, as Spain for her bull fights, Rome for her gladiatorial combats and chariot race?. Perhaps our National fame may go undying down the ages for superiority in the roller art ska'orial. Let as so hope end be happy.

Why should not Dr. Harris jm, President of the Benevolent Roard, be proceeded against for violation of tbe law? His administration of hi? trust ha been one protracted defiaince of the law. Journal. Why should not Governor Porter be proceeded against for violation of tha law? Htre is the law and the evidence. We quote tbe following from the State Constitution: Section 17, Article ö. of the Constitution, defining the powers and duties of tbe Governor in the exercise of the pardoning power, says: "He shall hava power to gr?nt reprieves, commutations and pardons; to remit fines and forfeitures under such regulation as may be prescribed by law, and shall report to the General As39mbly, at its next meeting, each ca3e of reprieve, commutation or pardon granted, and also the namej 1 . ii f - , . . . . oi aa persons in woose lavor remission 01 fioes and forfeitures Bhall have been made, and the several amounts remitted." Governor Porter made not the slightest attempt to attend to the matters referred to in the foregoing. What havo the organs to say about this? Will they quit long enoach in their Sancho Paczi crusade, tilting against windmills, and explain the plain neglect to obey the laws of Indiana by the lats Republican Governor? The Philadelphia Press was among tho organs to declare mat with the election cf Cleveland the country, industrially, would go to the "demnition bow-wows." The believers in the prophesies of that paper expected by this date to see affrirs as the Irish railor, who had taken to landfaring and ploughing, described his team which he had deserted at a yellow-jacket's nest. Running to his employer he ejaculated: "The larboard horte got over to the starboard side and the starboard hori8 over to the larboard side, and tha whole craft is drifting to the d generally." And yet so early after th9 occurrence of the calamity It deprecated, the Press has thrown out the following: There Is some enconrae:in new from manufactories which, gire hope, if not a positive promise, of the future. Sheet and rail mills end one of the blast furnaces at Bethlehem are startin? up o;i new orders and several miils at CievelauJ, O , are prerarins to rc9uine operations at aa early diy, ihtsi! evidences of returning confl teace can not fall to have a coo l elfect upon others and luspi.e a hopeful lee'lns in all. PERSONALS Governor Roeie, of Maine, :a an advocate of woman suffrage. Belva Ann LocKwcoDia still talking about the dreadful things she will do unleS3 she gets that official count. John Kelly i reported to have given $1,( CO toward the expense of the inaugural ctlebraticn next March. Rev. JosEi-n Cook has proclaimed himself a provisional free trader, and the Wilksbarre Ilecor wonders whether this means the patronizer of a free lunch connter. Samuel Sandstone, arrested for complicity in a robbery at Brooklyn, claims to be a cousin to Christine Nüsaoa, th noted cantatrice. He came from Sweden three months ac. Senator-Ef.scT Kvap.ts' trip to Washington, it is now said, was to try and maks f aco between B.'aine and Arthur for nsa in the gubernaterlal fi.ht in New York this fan. Senators Gf.oome and Call are strongly oppesed to confirming any nominee for Labor Commissioner who 13 not a repre3antativa man and connected with labor organizations. Cadet Alexander, a colored lad from Ohio, stands nineteen in tbe West Point third class of seventy membars, and Cadet Young, another Ohio cjlored academy lad, stands thirty two la the fourth class of sev-enty-ßix members. Thkf.e is a diversity of opinion as to whether young George Gould will kpep tha Gould possessions together or not. He enjoys the theaters very much and likes to slip in behind the scenes amoag the pretty chorus or ballet giih, and his head aches quite frequently next day during business hour?. Thi patriarch of the New York police fojee, Richard S. Eldridge, was pensioned at $XQ a year, last week. He was one of the fcur special watchmen who stood guard at Castle Garden when the famous ball was given there to Lafayette on his visit to thi3 country in lb23. and his regular service has numbered fifty-four years. He has long been known as "Pop," and though eightyseven years old is still stalwart. In Philadelphia the other day Mr. Moody raid a lady told him she wanted to be a Christian, but not to give up the theater. "Did you ever hear me speak against the theater?" inquired the Evangelist. "No; but if I become a Christian can I go to the

theater?" tald the penitent. "Yes," said Mr. Moody, "but you must give Christ the first place."

CUR REM NOTE AND OPINION. While our home manufactures have been protected, our home labor has been and is exposed to the competition of the whole world. Seymour, Ind., Democrat, Tnx new member has not yet gotten out of the habit of regarding himself as a statesman, and it will take some weeks before he will. It will come in time, though. Denver Opinion. TnE biggest-brained man in the Union, the grandest product Hvirjg of free institution?, the stalwart, big-hearted Democrat, Allen G. Thurman, should be made Secretary of State. Nashville World (Dem.). A row is the best thing in the world to develop ths latent energy that exists to a greater or lesser degree in every man. It is the channel through which greatness crowds rts way to the front Boston Globe, Because Mr. Richelieu Robinson referred to the Bayard anti-dynamite resolution as "a ridiculous specimen of flunkeyism and lickspittleism," a Delaware paper Is cruel enough to call him the "Wild Ass of New York." The Tennessee Legislature, now in session, anticipates warm debates and no end of trouble over the question of State control of railioads, which was an is?ue in the last campaign and which the present Legislature must settle. Edward Evf.hett Hale has shocked his Boston congeners by writing in the February Harper's that an event "transpired," when he meant that it occurred. They eay that a man who would use such language doesn't know beans. A Kansas editor informs us that he did noi attend the late Editorial Convention at KanFss City for the simple reason that he had no railrcad psss, and did not receive the notice in time to make the journey on foot. Kansas City Times. " 'Tain't no use tryin' to drive a woman. It's mighty lik8 when ye tryin' to drive a psfsul o' hens come into the house; and ye chase 'em up and Eay 'Shoo!' atd gits em a'most to the do'; and they jist run straight past it." Aunt Losa in True," by George Parcens Lathrop. Jerry Mca.ui.ey was carried to his grave amid lamentations that a king mightjenvy, to find that the poverty he had left here had been turned to great riches in the hereafter. No one who looks at the pecuniary results of his twenty years of Christian life can doubt his sincerity. New York Mercury. The practice of vivisection la a form of cruelty which should not be prohibited It is Lecessiry in the pursuit of knowledge, not otherwise attainable, intended to conserve the life and hca'.th cot only of human beings who inilict it but cf the brute creation who suffer. Philadalphia Record, Exi'Erisnce proves that a white clergy can not get into clcse enough relationship with the negro population to accomplish their effective training, and that a clergy of their own race can and do achieve far larger and more satisfactory results in this peculiar work. The Church Messenger, Charlotte, N. C. Jeff Davis' little speech over the old "Liberty Bell" has thrown the Republican press into a hysterical condition. Mr. Davis is only useful as a begaboo, and when he talks in a peaceful, patriotic, harmonious way he becomes a public nuisanco in the estimation of the esteemed Republican editor. New York World (Dsm.). We verily believe that if Schnyier Colfax had been a rcystering, higb-livin, half-COU-scicntious man, the political echemers would not have struck at the fair fame of as honest a man 83 was ever compelled to abide even for a moment the presence of lobbyists and their gang of confessei bribe-giyer3. Northwestern Christian Advocate. The rancor, the malignity, th9 bitter hatreds that nourished during the war have grown weaker year by year until it is to bo hoped that tnsy have at last been buried forever beneath the memorial flowers which every May eees scattered with impartial tendernes9 upon the lat resting places cf the blue and the gray.-Fargo Argu?. Among tbe a men it e9 of debate in the Senate there has been no more amusing spectacle than "Old Joe Drown" defending railicad discrimination, with little "Jack" Gecrf e and big 1 Zeb" Vance tnzging at each side cf his pumpkin-brown beard and setting up argumentative pins, which the great Georgian blew down with a breath. Fhiladc lrbia Sunday News. The lack of liberty of any kind in Russia is illustrated by a court sentence which was pronouncad at Oiea&a not long ago. A native of that place became converted to a creed somewhat resembling Methodism and took to preaching. He was accused of having denounced image worship as practiced in the Russian Church, was arrested and tried under the old law of blasphemy. Notwithstanding that he had the most incontestable prcof that he did not use the words imputed to him, he was convicted by a jury and sentenced to Imprisonment for three years and nine months. Tue proneness of idiotic partisans to forget decency and consistency when they think that a p ünt can be made at the expsnse of an opponent ha3 been comically illustrated in the comments cf sundry Republican papers upon Mr. Bayard's anti-dynamite resolutions. These papers dwell npou the possible influences upo.a Mr. Bayard's political future of the animosity of the dynamiters, forgetting that at the recent election the mass of the dynamiters were on the other side of the house. It Is a disgrace to American journalists and politicians can net rise superior to mean considerations when discussing subjects concerning which th ere should net be two opinions among decent and patriotic men. Philadelphia Re curd (Dem.).

EEÜABKABLE RESULTS

From Evangelical Work in IndianaConverslona Accompanied With Trances. Interestloe Narrative of the Personal Experiences of the Convetted. Hartford City (Ind.) Special to the Commercial Gazette. A Mrs. Woodworth, an evangelist of New Lisbon, O., has been holding a series of meetings here, m the Methodist Episcopal Church, of wonderful curiositv. The meeting has been in progress now about two weeks, Many of the class termed scoffers are almost afraid to go into the edifice. Every evening the house is thronged with people to its ut. most capacity, and each afternoon, at 2 or J o'clock the following morning. Among th conversions is a man familiarly knawn about town, whose name fs withheld from publication, a man of convivial habits, and who on this occasion was loaded to the guards. Determined on breaking up the meeting he marched within ten feet of the pulpit, and began a torrent of profane abuse until, as he says, his tongue failed him. He lat silent, annoyed at being overcome by a woman who had caused this result, without maaiDg any special effort in his direction. He seems, as he says, when asked what his er6atioE8 are like, not to understand what it.is, but replies in an injured tone of a man who nas been personally affronted: "Go up yourself and find out," AU aart of theories are out as to the secrets of the evangelical power. The belief generally seems to be that of mesmerism, although she bitte: ly denies her power of mesmerisai, and saye that it is truly the power of God. If mesmerism it is, she must have some way of securing private interviews with her subjects and bending them to her ways afterwards, for she certainly does not have an opportunity for it in church. In no instance can the writer find out that this has been done, and for this reaaon we have to give it in that we know not of what power it is. A strange phase of this revival and one not attendant on the ordinary meetines ia the prostration of people away from the church. One young woman went to an evening service and at its conclusion went home, where she talked on the usual topics before retiring. A whole night intervened, and at breakfast the young lady did not appear. She was found sitting rp in bed cold and apparently atirT, with wide staring eyes, her pulse barely perceptible and not able to speak. When two or three hours later she came out of the so called trance ehe seemed greatly worried, and when rested told that with one exception the scenes she had witnessed were glorious. The exception was tha"; of a body of angels marching down to hell with lost souls. Viola McDermot is lady above tbe average height, with a very pale face, which is savf d from belog plain bv a rjair of handsnmn dart: ptph whirh huo anj thing but a restfnl look when she Is Interviewed. She said: "I know as well as anything when the trance is coming on, for I have been in one now five times. My hands get cold as ice, and I feel my arms stiffening. My eyes get haul and the inside of the church or room cets smaller. The darkness begins at tbe cuter edges of the room and comes toward me from all side3 and gets closer. Iget more icy and stiff, and then the sight is gone. I can't talk, ana don't want to talk. I am in both worlds in this because I can hear everything that is eaid around me, and the ether became I can see the great white throne." "How does it look?" was asked.' "I hardly know how to tell you: it is something like a chair, only a great deal larger than acy I ever saw," 'Did you s?e anything else?'' "Yes; eclden streets with angels paesing around through them. They are habitations or paradises, as you call them. They rise up on each side, glorious and magnificent. The light is not white, bnt radient and bright oh, so bright and glorious' I go there by two ways cne with Dothing on my mind and all is happiness; the other U to have a sinner to save, and then I am praying and pleading for him. That is hard wore, and I buffer. My coming back ia iust the same as ray going. There is no time of total unEcorsciousness between. Iam always very mr.ch worried afterward." Tbisjoung lady has been a member of church about two years. From tbe hrad of the church, Sunday evenirg tbe scene wa3 a striking one. The mote earnest ones swarmed in the front pews, with here and there a group of childrfn all over the churh. on hand from curiosity, as well as for the fun of the thing. Practicable Reforms. The Century Magazine, in its February number, concludes an article on "Some Practicable Reforms," as follows: 4'If tbe States in which the local elections are now separate from the Presidential ejection would amend their constitution so that hereafter all the elections should occur in November, a great and valuable reform would bo secured. There would still be close and heated contests and the ills of which mention has been made would be cured but in part: but it is perfectly evident that a very Urge part of them would be abated by this simple remedy. We are not aware of any reasons for continuing the present order in these States that could have any force when compared with the obvious reasons which have been suggested tor the change. It is gratifying tc hear that the people of Ohio are fully awake to the importance of this reform, and that a movement to secure it 13 receiving the support of the best men of both parties. It is to be hoped that Ohio will spare itself and the Nation the curse of another October election in the Presidential year. "In most of the large cities, and notably in the city of New Yort, it would be well to separate the municipal elections from both the State and the national elections, in order to prevent the trading which is always practiced in the interest of local candidates. There is no good reason why party lines should not be ignored in municipal contests. It makes not the slightest difference whether the Mayor of New York is a Democrat or a Republican, if he is only a man of sound character, clever judgment and firm will. The complete divorce of municipal affairs from party politics and the hesrty co-operation of all good citizens to secure clean and economical government are greatly to be desired. 4 Another perfetly feasible reform is the postponement of the nominating conventions of tbe political parties. The time now occurring between the nominations and the election is much longer than u necessary for a fair canvass of the questions at issue and a thorough investigation of the merits of candidates If tbe conventions were not held before the 1st of August, thecampaign would be quite leng enough for campaign purposes. If the elections occur once in four years, and the campaign be protracted through five or six n onths of the year, the time devoted to these contests is certainly excefiiv6. A strain so frequent and so longcontinued upon the industrial and the

moral interests is intolerable. If we can not have the Presidential term extended the next best thing to do is to shorten th campaign. And this will be done if the business men of the country resolutely demand it at the hands of the politicans. "Still another most salutary reform would be the holding of the nommatiBg conventions in halls barely large enough to contain the delegates and the representatives of the press. The conventions could then be what none of them has been of late, deliberative bodies, and could exercise some judgment in the choice of candidates. The presence in the convention of a mob of heelers and strikers from all parts of the country, to shout for their favorite candidates and to overpower the assembly by sheer brute force, is a most discreditable spectacle, and it has proved to be a misshievous appendage to our political machinery. The gentlemen of the National Committee can put an eal to thia if they will, ard it ia to be hoped that a clear expression of public opinion will make plain to them the path of duty." Tell the Truth. Philadelphia Record.! The advocates of protection insist upon the repeal of the whisky and tobacco taxes, not because they dislike this cheap and direct method of raising revenue which goes straight from the hand of the tax-payer to the vaults of the Treasury, but because they wish to cut down the surplus without disturbing the tariff. The advocates of revenue reform insist upon the maintenance of the whisky and tobacco taxes, not because they prefer these proper objects of taxation to others from which revenue might be collected with equal economy and fairness, but because they perceive the breaking up of the established system ot excise would postpone much needed changes in the duties laid upon imports. There should be no illusions indu'gsd in the discussion of the subject. Mr. Kelley, Mr. Randall and other protectionists wish to pnt off what they regard as the evil day of tariff revision. They would repeal the internal revenue taxes, and make up for the deficiency by adding to the tax on so?ar and renewing the tax on tea and coffee. They have no intention ot lowering protective duties on wool, coal, iron, ateel, salt, ore, or anything else, so as to reach a revenue basis. On the contrary, Mr. Carlisle, Mr. Bayard, and other friends of revenue reform, have no love for the whiskv t ax. Thpv Vnrtw

perfectly well that every dollar needed by me vrovernmem can do raisea Dy a properlv revised tariff for revenue; but they wish to bring about the change from a protective to a revenue system with as little impairment in business interests as possible. They would begin by making free the raw materials of manufacture, and thus gradually ttrergthen the position of our manufacturing interests for the task cf asserting themselves in foreign markets. The protective policy 13 a policy of restricts n, ai:d the repeal of the internal revenue taf s vould give it a longer lease ot life. 'rheienue policy is a policy of amellorfllion aLl commercial enlargement, and t. e repeal of the internal revenue taxes uld postpone and embarrass it adoption. Th ere should be no disguise about the intentions of these who wish to repeal or of icose who wish to retain the whiskv and tobacco taxes. Theopen truth is best at all times. Mr. Llucolu'i Kellgion. H'erley's Eemiaisceaccs.l Mr. Lincoln's religious opinions have been the subject of much discussion since his death. Eminent during a long and eventful life for his kindness of heart and his generous sympathy for the opinions of all men of whatever station in life, he listened to the discussions upon religions subjects that were forced upon him, even by zealots, with patient politeness, and because he did not combat them, however extravagant, each one so honored afterward canoe clamoring before the public to be recognized as the representative of the President's personal views on this subject. Hence the contradictory assertions that he was an atheist, an inndel, orthodox or diabeliever.according toeach one's own peculiar faith. History will little reckon what were President Lincoln's religious views. Tha Nation, to whom his name and memory are dear, care nothing for what he may have saidjto presumptuous religious zealots, or what such religions zealots may have said to him. The people of this great land of ours, who fondly eherith the recollection of the acts of kindness of him who, "with malice toward none and charity fcr all," devoted his life to the interests of mankind, will care little for his sectarian views of religion. His great heirt cf sympathy for all mankind has won tae leve of the millions who have no anxiety as to whether his opinions were heretical or orthodox, measured by ths standard of religious bigots. That he had faith in tha great principles of Christianity, that he exemplified them in his life, that he taught them in his family, that he impressed them on his children, are facts established beyond cavil or question. A Good Word fcr Senator raalkner. A correspondent of the Ripley County Journal Eays: I tee that Hon. C. R. Faulkner's deslc at tha opening of the Legislature wax ornamentd witb a iloral horseshoe, i think thii a beautiful tribute to Mr, Faulkner, snd one well deserved bytha gentlemer. Mr. Faulkner 1 the second Jimmy Williams, of iDdlana, a) true an'I tried f rieud. When Mr. Faulkner is eure he is rignt he forges right ahead regardless of consequences, al any one who trunks he is ol no wcUnt will fini he will hare to get out of his way. If be is roar friend there Is nothing he will not do for jou. AlU.ouph not skilled la raatheTiarlcs cr theology, a? tome of hia associates In the liegis'attire, thera U not his peer in that bodv when a comes to good, tound natural Fcüse The nrt time he aparsrl in public life was six years aco as Joiat Representative, when he ran against Colonel '.Volf. of Knsh County. The district whs Republican . but with a b'aTe heart he bailed In, and tbe Colonel's fiaa trailed In tte dust, and went down in defeat The next time he appeared in politic he ran for State Senator, and was elected vj a large majority. He nxt shied his castor in ihs Cuaftrehsional race and catae up as a stong horse, and would hare received the nomination but lor an enemy in the camp, which waa unlookel for an i unexpected. Lot rie 6ay that Faulkner still lireth and is on Qfc-ck. Mr. Fauikner, whilst at WaihingtOD. bas done a great deal towards g-t-ting favors for toldiers as well as others. lie U alwaya with, and his sympathies ara for, "tbe under cos in the fight." Homo. Pi esldent Arthur' New Law Firm. IWaterbury American.! We are told that ex-President Arthur is to form a law partnership with C. R. Miller, his former law partner, aad D. G. Iiollins, Surrogate of the County of New York, and that the suit of rooms the firm are to occupy h ve already been handsomely fitted up. The busineis of the firm is to be actively attended to. It is not to be a firm simply that its members may appear to be doing something, and President Arthur's chief personal practice is to come from casts growing out of riparian righis. Industrie That Are Coddled. Chicago Times, i Our patriotic statesmen at Washinstoa never lose an opportunity to coddle an American industry when It happens to be an industry that caa afford to support a lobby. It is easier for a womaa to dsfead her virtue agaiost man than her reputation, against women. Kosheoarne.