Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1878 — Page 2

THE 15TDIAXA. STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 'SI. 1878.

WEDNESDAY, A I'll I L 3.

IRELIKD'S WPPORTl'NITT. Those who have read the record of Kngland's oppression of Ireland will doubtless surmise that if the British lion and the Russian bear at last engage in a life and death struggle, Ireland will take advantage of her opportunity and seek to regain her nationality. Ireland's inveterate hate of England has grown in intensity as the years have increased since the monstrous crime of fcer subjugation was perpetrated, and wherever on the green earth a true Irish heart bea's England has a foe. We hear much of England's preparations for war; of her great wealth and her great power. No one doubts England's pluck, but it is quite possible that she is just now Inviting a series of catastrophes which in the end may exhaust her wealth and deprive her of the commanding position she has hitherto occupied in the affairs of the world. Her purp3e in antagonizing Russia is, it Is claimed, to save her India possessions, but just at this point the question is asked: Is not England placing her Asiatic empire in serious jeopardy? It is now well understood that England, by heoit&ting when Turkey needed her help, has completely estranged Mohammedans throughout .the world, and the report that Russia and Turkey have formed an alliance gives importance to the statement British India contains a Mohammedan population of at least 1)0,000,000 who are not -likely in case of revolt, which is always dreadeJ, to assist British troops. iuite- recently there have been evidences of restlessness on the part of the native cbiefs, and so apprehensive have the authorities become that the native press has been suppressed or placed under the most ngid surveillance. These things indicate trouble in India, and should England at last become engaged with Russia the situation in India may at once assume a seriousness that will endanger her power. Russia will not be slow to help on the complications, and aided by the sultan they would suddenly grow into an importance which It would be diiEcult to estimate. Just now England is mistress of the ocean, having larger naval and merchant Meets than any other country. Bat should a war with Russia ensue, the oceans and seas of the world would swarm with ships fitted out . by Russia that would everywhere prey upon her commerce, and In a comparatively brief period cripple it to an extent that would endanger the lives of the poople of England. England can not feed herself; she is depend- I ent upon the food producing countries of j the world. To say that her merchant marine j could cot be crippled is to deny the facts of j recent history. A half dozen confederate cruisers almost annihilated the merchant marine of the United States, and similar disasters may overtake England. Thousands of Irishmen. at home and in all lands, are watching their opportunity to give England trouble, and the indications are that ihey are near at hur.d. . m RC1H.H ax oiiiRtn ii:nr. The oxtr:iv:igsner th.it b!Kmed and blossomed durliiir the w.ir period extended its pernicious lnducnce to church corporation, ( and in the wild infatuation of the hour, when it wa-s hrlievcd that money would always be as -plentiful i It was thou, contracts were made lor eryctiou ol churches tlitt have since put , pa-stors and people to the severest straits to pay , for. 1 he most pitiful means have been resort- 1 itl to for the purpose of meeting the dtbts 11, u contracted, the locitl market has been run- i sacked for sensational preachers, just as a lyceuin committee work hard to secure the moss profitable lecturers, and even England said Ireland nave had drafts made ujon tht-tu to su nrlv the demand. It bus been, as It were. religion ut high pressure with a deacon on the ! safety valve taking iu the dollars. Fairs, tab-Ieuii.,couccrs,draiiiati-xhibitionsand what not are resorted to, ana in iact jio stone lett unturned or effort untried to relieve the shoulders of tlie congregation of the saddle of debt that is s galling to them. In the meantime the Uospei does not prosper as it might. In fac t, moitlfylng ns the confession must be, too i in non of the relistiou of to-day does not de petul so much uou the Oospel itself as the popularity of the man who preaches It. The church mortgage has swept away the simple faith of the fathers, and put something In its plucw that mi von more of fustian than of faith. ew York Express. We reproduce the.above, not for the purpose of antagonizing the Gospel, but rather to place before our leaders current comment upon the way churches are drifting. The fact must be regarded by thinking Christians as serious when such notices, resting upon indubitable testimony, find their way into the secular press. The ca3e to which the Express particularly refer is that of St. Ann's church, on the heights. Brooklyn, which has incurred a debt of- $138,000, and which it has not been able alter the most strenuous etlbrts to raise tut $40,i00 with which to pay it. The demand at St. Ann's was tine architecture, fine music, fine carpets, fine pews, elegant frescoes, beautiful windows, splendid surroundings, everything aristocratic, and with all, gilt edged sermons a costly Gospel. These things the good people of St. Ann's obtained, and with them mortgages that extended from the founda tions to the gilt cross on the steeple, and cov ering all of the grand display inside and out. i And now tbe worshipers are burdened with debt and interest, and it is quite possible that the costly structure will be sold1 for the balance due. Now, .then, ; what Is the lesson these grand j and magnificent piles teache with J an emphasis and a grim eloquence that com- ; mand attention. Are the churches for j ih raor. those who need along life's weary i pilgrimage tbe consolations cf Vhrist's teachings.'? Are they the pious palaces, tbe Christian monuments of love, where the people of plain costumes resort to feed upon the bread ot life? . Are they places to which the lame, the halt and the blind plod their j weary way to hear again nnd, again of that wonderful man who when on earth sought them out to heal them and to teaoh them? Oh yes; some one may say in all of those ' grand architectural displays there are pauper benches within range of the voice of the silver tongued orators who occupy pulnits at princely salaries, who dress in linen and broadcloth, and who know vastly less of poverty and the poor than did He who declared that He had not where to lay His head, and was more destitute than the , foxes and the birds. It is possible that the lowly Naiarina somewhere directed Ilia disciples and apostles to build costly churches and resort to all manner of kick shows to pay for them and keep the Gospel machinery in motion. If so, let the declaration be Eia!e. We have failed to find it. We do

i ! know, however, that His great soul was for ; ever In sympathy with the poor. By the !. roadside, by the pools, by the sea, along

all the highways of the Holy Land, on the mountain side or in desert places, He was always teaching His disciples the great lesson of caring for the poor; and when the disciples of John hesitated for some crown ing declaration that Jesus was the Messiah, it j was found in the Goilike expression that "The poor have the Gospel preached to ' them." It is a pretty well established fact that costly church buildings do not help on the spread of Christ's Gospel, whatever else they may accomplish. Simplicity is done away with when wealth demands elaborate decorations. San bonnets, calico and jeans do not mingle well with silks and broadcloth. Dollar brogans seldom press the elegant carpets that cover the aisles of fashionable churches. That sort of religion is too costly even in . good times, but when want sits enthroned in the cottage homes of the poor it can not be indulged in at all. Then it seeks the quiet nooks, does its own preaching, and the costly churche3 are left to get along the best way they can, which, too of ten,, is poor enough. The time for agitating the church question has fully arrived. A ereat reformer is wanted. The voice of one crying in the wilderness of steeples, "build cheap churches and give the poor 'chance for heaven," should be heard. . STATE NEWS. Elkhart has one case of small pox. Delphi is to have a lodge of knights of Pythias. The Universalists at Bluilion are building a new church. There are several cases of dpihtheria at Cambridge City. The new band at Cambridge City is blowing itself into fame. Charleston is to have a breach of 'promise suit with damages placed at $10,000. Two hundred of the new silver dollars were paid out by one of the Goshen banks for greenbacks last week. "The wheat is growing; finely. It Is feared it is growing too fast, and that there will be more straw than grain at harvest. It is a penitentiary offense to mutilate silver com. Persons who make a practice of boring holes through, or otherwise marking coins, had better keep their eyes open. From all accounts given by correspondents and through other sources, the prospects for wheat and all kinds of fruit are unprecedented in the history of Montgomery county. Lagrange Register: Lagrange for months has had the most wretched, woebegone and mud conditioned road through its principal street that could be found in any other village of its size in the state. And yet the town ha3 a marshal in office all the time. The ministerial association of the Lafayette and Battle Grtfund districts of the Northwest Indiana conference of the M. K. church, will meet at Attica, .April 8. Opening sermon by Rev. A. A. Gee, on Monday evening April 8. PArter County Vidette: The blue ribbon movement is still progressing. Over 1,000 have signed the pledge, and so far we learn of only two or three who have broken it. Of those who have signed it was said that between 200 and 3X) were actually in the ranks of the intemperate. Lafayette Courier: Two saloon keepers signed the Murphy pledge at one of Hughes and Ward's meetings and quit the business. Another said in public that his Saturday's sales had been cut down troru $70 to $10, and yet these young me n do not wage war on the saloon keepers directly. All they ask is that men quit drinking. Lebanon Patriot: Tbe growing wheat presents an encouraging appearance, and it is reported from every quarter to be in a fine condition. Close observers say the acreage in Boone county this year is nearly one half create ?uftt , . , than last year, and it is predicted more bnsbels of good grain will be mar keted the coming season than there has been for ten years past. Owen County Democrat: Some think that the ireeze on Sunday night injured the fruit, but several old farmers inform us that but little damage has been done, leach nuds were very dry, and it is'believed that tjey escaped uninjured. Uncle Billy Willard says in '53 the buds froze solid in the "cops," but were uninjured, and he had a larger crop than any year since. He also says if the bjoom puts forth in the light of the moon they will not be injured by the weather MR. TILIIEN'N IX CO WE TAX. What Ila Been DerJded. I New York Sun. We understand the case with Mr. Tilden' s income tax, concerning which a decision has just been rendered by Judge Blatchford, to De that at the time the tax was payable he was heavilv engaged in speculative operai tions which had not yet come to any result, so that it was impossible for him to tell at the time what his income for the year had really been, or whether it might not turn j out to be less than nothing. In this situa- ; tion he left the amount of the tax to be fix by the assessors and paid it accordingly, ' with the fine which the law imposed for tbe ! failure of the citizen to make a return of his income. In so doing Mr. Tilden simply folj lowed the course which was pursued by ' thousands of other men who regarded any ofhcial inquiry into their business affairs t with aversion, and adopted the alternative which the law itself provided.' Now. however, Mr. Tilden having been elected president by the democratic voters of the country, be has been singled out for prosecution by republican officials; and the case having been brought before Judge Blatchford, he decides that the determina tion pf tbe tax by the assessor and the imposition of the fine for failure to make a return do not end the matter; so that if it shall appear now or at any future time that in any year the assessors estimated a man's income at less than it really whs, the government can still sue for the difference and compel payment; and we are bound to assume that this is a correct exposition of the provisions of the statute. What further course Mr. Tilden means to take in the matter will appear in due time. We suppose it is probable that he will appeal, and that the question will be carried to the supreme court. We wish, however, that his demurrer bad been broader, and that it had put at issue the greater question of tbe constitutionality of the law imposing the income tax. We are perfectly convinced that whenever thii question is properly argued before the supreme court the law will be pronounced unconstitutional. Jacksonville (Fla.) Sun: A colored, man living in the vicinity of Lane's Branch. Florida, has made upon ordinary land of that section, with two plows, nearly 13 bales of sea-island cotton, which will net him at least $1,000, besides 210 bushels of corn, which, at 80 cents per bushel, is equivalent to $102. His potato, cane and pea crop will defray the expense of cultivation, expenses of his family for the past and coming vear, and a goodly surplus. The secret f his success is that he applied himself to his farm, let political meetings alone and attended to his own business.

SEXATOK V00R1IEES.

He Speaks at Terra Haute Friday Evening to 'an Immense Audience. . Hit It If ranees Command Attention and Elicit Applanw. iTerre llaute Kxpress. Dowling hall was tilled to its utmost capacity last evening on the occasion of Senator Voorhees' speech there. Many were unable to gain admission. Mr. Voorhees was introduced by Hon. C. F. McNutt, and spoke over an hour. His address was heard by the audience with attention and applause. He said: Ladiis and Gentlemen I lclt Washington after an absence there of nearly five months. I had no expectation nt waking a speech, nor nhall I dignify the remarks which I shall make this eveniug with the nameot a speech. But I feel that it Is well under all circumstances for a representative of the people to meet the people. There Is no higher or more respected pos Hon than to be a representative of the people in shaping the policy nnderwhich that people have to live. The uppermost theme at the present time in the public mind U the distressed condition of the country. It has been in my mind constantly; It is beard oa sill sides, and 1 have discussed it somewhat in my place in congres. I propose tornighl to sjM-aii of the responsibil ity ot parties, and to consider the attitude of ''iuiidTonigtivw i tave stood for years. for the democratic party; and in sa lng that, j I speak with the utmost kindness and respect ! nf ull nrliAr iiarln4 I h iva IK'pil tn thftl lilnA I in life when I appreciate, ray friends, that the j ! motives of all parties are patriotic. The American people, whether they are known by one party name or another, as a general rule, desiie the public good, and are struggling to obtain the same result, the betterment of our condition. SSo that when I say I sUiu l for the democratic party to-night, I do it us a man claiming simply what I concede to everybody else; but I have said- this for a purpose, and I wish to say to-night, my democratic neighbors and friends, that you and 1 can cohgra'.ulnte ourselves that in no sense are wu responsible for the dark clouds that lower upon this land. I Applause.) I intend to consldeV THE KK3!"OX3Ii:n.iTV OK PARTIES, somewhat, because I know how sore and restless becomes the heart of man under trial, an-i this soreness and restlessness a til lets democrats sometimes as well as those o! other parties. It litis been seventeen years, gentlemen, since the democratic party has luvl . the power either to enact a law or defeat a bill in the American congress. Ho that, without dweltiiu: upon the calamities and miseries, that have afflicted the land, and have brought bankruptcy, misery and want, I say that every bit of it has arisen without your complicity or mine; every law on the st.-ituU' books on tne great paramount question now 1. the public mind, the finances, has been en cted by our republican friends. Not one was ever placed there by ' democratic votes.The law or 132, that founded the national debt, originating the bonded system: the law which chaiiKed the contract in lsiWfrom the well known terms, by which the people could have paitl this debt in the same' money with which they paid the soldier for his life and blood, that law and all subsequent legislation that has brought paralysis, rum, distress nod misery upon the laud, is to be charged not to you and myself, my democratic friends, thank God. It would be a load I would not want to bear. It is to be charged to the republican party. And in Faying thii I say nothing unkind to my republican neighbors. I am speaking of those who have been in power and have abused wer, and against whom your wrath is turned to-night perhaps as strongly us mine. There is one party, and ONE PARTY ALONE, that lias brought a (Miction tothe poor man in this country. Tell me where, tell me when, the democratic party-has had the jKjwerto' shape the financial policy of the country. Tell me where and tell me wiien it has by any vote fastened any of these evils upon the country, and then 1 will be prep-ired to listen to men who are saying that ourskirts are stained with wrong and crime as well as the skirts of the republican party. American history upon this subject is plain. The money loving, money getting power of the United States have changtd the l.iwswhen they did uotbuit them. They have done this, not b.v democratic Votes, but In spite of them, and I challenge n single instance in the record of the country to the contrary, no that 1 feel that in standing as I stood In the senate of the United States during the last winter 1 have beun acting In harmony. with the record of the democratic jMirty lu opisinn from theb?srln-' nlng the nnancial policy Mint nas oroUiglil to your homes the misery with which you are afflicted. Appiause 1 When men nsk me whether, 1 n taking the stand I have taken, I expect to remain in the democratic party (and I have been written to on this point) I tell them that when this issue was first made In lvVi. and made ly a democrat, CSeo. II. Pendleton, 1 took my stand in that year and canvassed Indiana upon It, and analn in 1SU8. I never made such a can vans In my life as 1 did of this district, upon that subject, when I carried it by about 1-30 majotity, overcoming a republican majority or about lVN). I have made my rtcord Inside the democratic party; Do I need to go outside of the demon atlc party to sustain a record I have made within its' ranks, upon this great question during the past twelve years, ever since It was inaugurated? I thinjc not I think that what 1 have built up as a democrat 1 can stand by as a democrat, f Applause.) ltut, my fellow citizens, while It is sometimes said that Indiana lsuu right, and while the humble speaker who is addressing you Is all right, we do not know wln-tlier can trust to the future; we do not know whether we can trust this public man or that,' and sometimes 1 have heard it said they do not know W1IKTI1EU.THKY CAN TRl'.ST MK. This always comes from men who have len active upou what is called the greenback pollcv only about two years. I tell tueiu I am a pionepr, I started out on that lino when most of them were denouncing and battling- the democratic party. I reared aloft the banner In this distrlct,when you who are now loudest In saying you can not trust wp wf m fighting Jo sustain the rcpullican party in all its enormous legislation thatJias now brought ruin ar.d desolation to the country. I think, gentlemen, U I could t rust them they might trustme. Applause.) ltut. my fellow citizens, let ns take a little broader view of this question. lemocrats are appealed to and approached often in this way: While Indiana is all right, and while certain public men are all right. still the national democratic party can not le trusted on this question. The great national democratic party is NOT IX TNISON upon it. Yen must remember that the democratic party is a very large party. It would be at range 1f there wa not some variety of oplnron. What Is the vote of the United States? In i7tf the American people polled K,4K),uiU voes. Of these votes the democi atlc party polled four million, two hundred nd borne isid thousand. They cast 1 W.noo votes more than the republican party. They cast 73,OtiO votes more than were cast for the othercandidates combitied. Four millions and a quarter of men comprised the democratic party at the last election. It will be over five millions next time. Applause. As I have said, we have not hod power in the f ederal congress for 17 years; but let ns see what progress we have been making in opposing the republican party, which has brought the country lo Its presaut condition. Have we made progress, my denv ocratie brethren? Are you satisflea that wo are approaching power, and that we will fcoon enter into the fruition of all our hopes, or are we so far from accomplishing anything that you must look In some other direction? List October, u year ago, we not oniy polled more votes than all other parties put together, as I have said, but outof r1ie:S7 ntutes of this Union there were 21 in which there are democratic governors. Hut, say you, are you harmoniou In principle? Reasonably so. Applause J I tell von here to-night, uion mv irsonal responsibility, that if It lie true toat eastern influences have. In times gone by. shaped the policy of the democratic party, the engine is now reversed and THE WEST AND SOUTH WILL OOVERN f and shape the policy of the democratic party as evinced by recent vots that I saw recirdvd tnls winter. The great agricultural vslley of the Mississippi is united now, from the everlasting snows of its fountain to the everlast lug summer of Its mouth. When the votes came this winter I watched them closely, and sw the great valley states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Michigan, these northwestern states upon these great questions of domestic economy and the policy of our home affairs, casting their votes aj most, if not entirely, solidly together, enough no to insure the future control of the democratic party in the Interests ot the laboring people of the United mate. But It Is not sectional; no, gentlemen, In that respect even It will not be sectional. The democratic party of Pennsylvania, in its heart, stands Just as you do tonight. Aye, further, and I speak words that will go beyond your ears, seven-tenths of the voting ropulation of New York, and more than naif or New England, this night on these questions that are now paramount In tbe public mlnd-the questions . of finance the ques

tions of taxation, the policy that should govern our relations to our public creditors, stand to-ntght as we do, and I have raison to know it. Instead of la-Ins a disunited party, the democratic party Is substantially A UNITED 1'ARTY. The majority has declared Use! f, and as we, when we were In the minority in national conventions, have submitted and gone to-g-ther for a common purpose, so M ill those that are outnumbered now, by the policy I spe.k of, governed by the west and the south, submit, and I pred'cl such a movement of tbe people under the policy of the democi atic party, trom this time forward, as has not been seen, my old friends, since Jackson made his war On the money power in the name of the people. (Applause.J I have shown you the popular vote of the democratic party, l have shown the number of states which we cont rol. How have we oltalned this aw-endencv? It lias been by antagonizing that party by whose policy, and by whose policy alone, the country has leen brought to its paralyzed and distressed condition. Two years ago last Hecembt-r one branch of congress became uemocraUc for the first time in fifteen years. Listen to me, If there is a dissatisfied democrat here to-ulght. It wa then for the first time that any serious agitation of financial reform and financial relief commenced In high places of power. Savs sjme one, perhaps: "You fell short of your duty, even then' When you consider that the senate was overwhelmingly republican at that, thin you could not expect one branch of congress to bring you relief from the evils which the republican pailv had piled up in fifteen years. Speaker here referred nt some length to tlu wbrk of the democratic house in reducing expenditures, nnd the opposition ty the republican senate.J Uut that was not all; for the first time in the history of the government A VOICE WAS RAISED in congress against the financial legislation or the republican party. It came in tills way: In January, l-'7", the republican party met in caucus. They had omni.sclence.and could see, at they thought. as far as the Almighty. They nought by January, 1S7'J, you would be able to pay all your debts in Ro!d. They had already stricken down the silver dollar, and left only the gold dollar as a legal tender, and they looked Into the bosom of the "future and saw down the stream of time to the first dav of January, ls7!, and said that a'.l of the American people that were in debt upon that dav would be ready with a gold dollar to pay e verydollar they owed. Ho they drew up a bid known as the act lor the resumption of specie payments. The next day they brought that act In from the caucus room, and so far as the senate was concerned It lay over one day under an objection made by a democratic senator. That is all he could do; and the next dav the republican majority toolc It up and' passed it; so that when tne aemocratio congress met in the following Iiecemlier that law whs on the statute book. But betore that democratic coiign-ss adjourned it passed a bill to repeal this resumption act, and sent the bill to the republican senate, where it died, of course, the senate adjourning without any action. That wa the first move In the right direction. Sliver had Is-en demonetized, and a democratic member from Indiana, Franklin Landers, of Indianapolis, to his honor Is? it said. Introduced a bill to restore the old silver dollar. The truth Is the subject was not very well understood then by anybody but those who were interested-in striking ltdown. It had been dope in such a SfRREITITIOCS AND SNEAKIXQ WAY that riot one congressman in ten knew how it was done; and even, the congress in which Mr. Landers offered this bill didn't take It up and act nion it, but they did upon the other question of the repeal of the resumption act. The repeal of the resumption act is really a more Important measure than the restoration of the silver dollar. The proposed resumption of specie payment was a threat to all tbe business of the country, and provided for a system of contraction that was destroying the money of the people. No greater crime can be committed tin earth than for government to abstract from its own people the currency that Is In their hands, and which is needed tor the lives of tneir wives and children and for the prosperity of their homes. Murder Is light in .comparison with it; for all the crimes follow Kucha state of affairs. This measure then the resumption kct was so far as the democratic prty could do it repealed two years ago and sent to the lepuolicau senate ;und had the republican senate been inspired by the same love of right aud Justice apd by the same devotion to the people's rights and interests as the democratic house, that bill would have been wiped 4'rom the statute books two years

ago aud buslui-.ss would have revived. ) The speaker here referred to the action of i THE PRESENT HoUST j of representatives on the financial question, j and said that hardly two -weeks had passed. ' after the meeting of the house until again the democratic party in the house of represent- I tives repeals! the resumption act tnat was 1 cursing the counlrynd it was scarcely two weeks u til the same democntic house passed a bill saying that the ijople suould again have the old silver dollar. The speaker here referred to the amendment of the above bill in the senate. He said that he fouaht for free and unlimited coinage. I don't believe we will get too mncli money. That Is my judgment. 1 do not believe we ever had to much. I do not believe there was ever any need of contraction. I believe the people of Terre Haute were happier, better off, less oppr-ss?d with care and anxiety when the currency was, as they say now, inflated. So, gentlemen, on the restoration of the silver dollar. I was not alarmea as to the l mger of there being too much of it. Let the democratic party get into power in both branches of congress, and you will see bills passed without limitations that will bring substantial relief to the country. The' senate is a republican body, but. on the fourth day of next March, even though you should lose a democratic senator in ludiana (it does notdeM?nd on than the senate will be democratic as well as the house. Applause. The die Is est, the edict has gone forth, that on the fourth of March the democratic party will take iMiHst-Ksion. without a contingency. Then I will be willing for the pnrty to betested: then I will lie willing for the responsibility to comj. Tbufar you can form only an imjierfect judgment. Thus far you can only say that the democratic patty where it has lieen trusted hh.s done the best it could. It could not brins relief, for it has not had lull power. When we obtain botn branches of congress then we will be ready to MELT THE FULL RESIMNSIBILfTY, and I am not afraid to meet the responsibility; 1 am not afraid birt that it will he met with courage, wisdom and goodness; l am not alraid but that the policy of the government will be placed permanently on the side of the Industrial Interests of the land, on the side of the toller and the producer; for the wealth of this country arises from those who labor on the land and on the sea, and a government that does not place Its policy on their side and in their interests is accursed of God and ought nottosland. lireat applause. Aud, gentlemen, we will succeed not only in obtaining control of the legislative department ot the government on the Jih day of March next, but do not be mistaken about the signs ol the times; the steady march of this old party, that has won a popular majority over all other parties combined, that survived tltfeat and won its way back to victory nnd the confidence of the people, by its sublime patience and wisdom, which has won not merely a popular majority, but a majority of the state government back from radical rut, will Inaugurate the next president of the I'd ted suites. Applause- We elected one president, but we Jailed to inaugurate him. Next time we will elect and inaugurate too. We will take western material next time, nnd a western msn goes in when he knows that he hisanelu to go in. (Applause.! And then. my friends, one and aH, you sore-hearted, oppressed, dls'ressed and honest men of the democratic party, of the national party. and the republican party, I believe will have reason to thank God for a beneficent adminlstratic n of vour government In the interests of the people; not of the rings of the money power, of banks and the money i hangers, but of the people. Gentlemen, let me dwell for a few minutes on ' THE POSITION OK INDIANA. I am proud of Indiana. This winter has leen one of toll to me. I determined when I.returned to public Jlfe, in the employ of those who have beeu so good1 to me, who have trusted me so long in other capacities, borne with my faulta and shortcomings, and overlooked my mistakes, that with tUe help of God every duty should be discharged as long as my life and health last. And in struggling to do this I often tnrnd my ear toward Indiana, hoping and lie'ievlng that when her voice would sound throughout the land it would sound in accord with my own hesnt' I -eats. 1 have been in the habit of saying in the committee of finance, of which I am a member, that on this financial question I have the pleasure of representing. 'n the views I maintain, the people of Indiana and my own views likewise. Sometimes there is a strain on tbe part of the representative to advocate what he knows to be the will and wishes of his own people and at the same time express bis own feelings. Ah, gentlemen, the pleasure of the winter, while it has bad Its pains and its hardships, has been to feel that your hearts and mine beat In unison, that the pulse of publio feeling m Indiana and my own pulse were In accord, that our hearts were warmed with the name righteous Indignation against wiong, with the same earnest desire to rectify this wrong, and I can say before God that in these feeliugs I UAVE NOT FKOWTf PAI.TY. I have only desired the welfare of 'the people

of all parties and aU leliefs. When struggling with my duties and Ustening for a voice, from Indiana, it came at last, aud what a voice! Why, my democratic friends of the county of Mgo, is this a time far us to falter under the banner, is this a time for us to fa U out of the ranks? Is this a time for the man who has followed the old flag through smoke and fire and seen it trailed in the dust and reared aloft again lit days gone by, to falter in his devotion wnen such a clarion call comes to us as was enuntfiau-d in our state platform on the lJth of February, around wh Ich will rally more than twenty states? 1et us look for a moment and we whether we did come short of what the leople desired on these questions. I believe it Is considered on all hands that If, as undonbtedly is the case, the P"ople have to be furnished with a paper circulation of some kind (certainly no hard money man Insists that enough gold and silver can be furnished with which to do the business of the country), I believe It lscoasideredthat.it being necessary, to furnish a circulating medium of paper, that, there is no necessity to tax the people of the United States in' re than they pay for the pensions of sol. ties In the late war, aud the widows aud orphans of the dead, to support the national banking system to put it in circulation. While I do not come before you to-night with a itfect system to put tl.e paper circulation Into the bauds of the people from the government, yet I know this, that - OXE-HAI.K OF THE WISDOM, skill and Ingenuity that it took to concoct the national banking system to act as an intermediate agent through which the government was to supply the people with a currency, would devise a system to get the monev into the handsof the people without thisexpenstve machinery. (Applause. In ti plain, familiar wsy between you and me, let us see what the democratic party said at Indianapolis. The democratic platform says: Heads. That national bank notes shall be retired, and in lieu thereof there ahull be issued by the government an equal amount "f treasury notes with full legal tender iuality." Tnat euts the whole thing up by the roots. That is to say, ii we are to have government money, as we must, let the government issue it directly, and retire these national bank notes. Again: Reads. "That we are in favor of making the United States notes, commonly called greenbacks, a full legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except such obligations only as are, by the terms of the original contracts under Which tliey were issued, expressly payable in Ci in. "That the right to Issue paper money as well as cola is the exclusive prerogative of the government, and such money should be issued in such amounts as the sound business Interests of the country may from .time to time require." There is A GKE.lt I'KIXt'irMC asserted. You will Lear men who have called

themselves hard money men, who have sustained the entire legislation of the republican party, sneer aud sav"Wbydo you waul the government to maka money for the people? That Is not the wy for the people to get money. The government can' not make money for the people." If the government can not nothing ehe on earth can. The constitution says the government shall furnish the people with a circulating medium. If it does not do it you will have none. You never had a five dollar note in your pocket that was not authorized by the government, unless it was counterfeit. loes it not follow, just as it is asserted in this democratic platform, that it ought to be put in circulation and furnined to the people in sufficient amounts to meet the wants of business? Any wise man can see and hear, by the sights and sounds that salute bis eyes and ears, that ut the present time there is not enough money in circulation; a judicious administrated of public affairs can alwaysdetermine when there is a sutliciency. But the trouble jk. that the men who have money want other people to have none, so that with their money, there not being much in existence, they cin buy pretty much all the property iu the country: Scarce money means dear money, and d-'ar money means cheap property, cheap wages and enap everything that a man has. I t us seo a little iurther reads: "That we deem it unwise and Inexpedient to enact any further legislation for the funding of the national debt abroad, through the means of home syndicates or other methods; aud we believe the true policy of the government and the best Interests of the jx'opl" would Ix? subserved by legislating so us to distribute said uebt among the people at home affording them the most favorable and practicable opitortunities for the investmentof their savings "in the funded debt of the 'United States " There wns a bill brorght forward ia the senate authorizing the 1st tie of sn.aU bonds to run a long time. It wiisa good one with this exception. This is th reason I don't vote for it. It said i hey should be paid in coin. I never intend to vote for aay form of Indebtedness or bond or any measure that discriminates in the kina of money in w hich it is to be paid. (Aplause. When 11 is government authorizes money I Intend it shall take It aud the creditors shall take it AH WELL AS THE I'EOPI.E. - 1 Applause. Those bonds that I speak of would iave been in accordance with the resolution if there had been no discrimination as to money. Under the policy of this resolution In the democrat c plal form, which I have read, making United SUles notes a legal tender for everything, of course any bonds taat would be Issued would be jayab'e in legal tender notes. , 9 4 The speaker referred to the nlank of the democratic state platform demanding the repeal of the resumption act. Four months ago the democratic house passed that bilL It came to the finance committee of the senate aliout the time I became a member of that committee. A good while was occupied in tho discussion of the silver bill, during which there was a truce on all other questions. The silver bill passed some live or six weeks ago, and since that every elfort has been made consistent with propriety to obtain a report from the finance committee on the house bill to repeal the resumption act, as yet without success. I hope to have better success next week. Iam going back immediately to resume my efforts In that direction. I tnlnk tne bill for the repeal of the resumption act will pass the senate. But the man in the wlrlte house, who is keeping house for Tilden no, not for Ti den, but for the next man, and A 8CTTEB HAS THASTHER ofjthem I hope applause and laughterl, General Hayes, will veto the bill as he did the silver bill. Then, my friends, I have great fears as to whether we have two-thirds in the senate to pass it over the veto. But if we had democratic .senate we would do it. Applause. Now, my fel'ow-citizens, there a.e others matters in the democratic platform of the state of Indiana of which we have rea.on to be proud, and nothing should deter us from dosing up the ranks and fighting our battles to the end, en court ceil with the certainty of success before us. May I fay that there is no other organization that hat the 'shadow of a prospect for years and years of entering. Into power and accomplishing anything. My good friends of the national party, may I say this to you: Eighteen months ago and 1 resieci, you with all my het you cast til.oou votes for l'eter Cooper at an election In which thu democratic party cast fifty times as many and more. Xow, even conceding that YOU HAVE CORRECT PRINCIPLED (In many respects you have) if we have correct principles, with nearly five millions of votes, with liotli tranches of congress on the fourth of next March, and a certainty with the record we have made in the rrght direction on these great questions of popular relief, with a popular majority t hat is certaiu to elect the next president, I believe that I have a better right to ask you most kindly, most respectfully to co-operate with us than you nave to ask ns to go with you. Great applause. I believe I have a better prospect to show to you thai you have hi show to us. I believe I can show you the goal of popnlar relief, nearer in sight than you can. I believe i can show and have shown you facts that can justify your confidence that when we reach that goal we will carry out the pledges we are making to you both In Indiana aud elsewhere. I return in a few days to my duties. I had no expectation when 1 left Washington of making a political speech ; and when my kind and partial friends here desired me to talk some to the people, in casting about in my mind as to what I should ay, I thought pei haps I could say nothing more useful than what I have said here tonight. I have said it iu that way in which a man talks who Is just recovering from an excessively severe cold. I thank you most kindij" for your attention. Professor Siddons, said to be a grandson of Mrs! Siddons, the actress, has been giviDg his "Ilf collections" in a lecture at Washington. Among other things, he said that in ISjH he was tutor in elocution to the prince of Wales, and relates that, at one of the lessons, the prince put his feeton the table and said, "Look at those boots; I made them myself." The professor was, of course, astonished, and thought his roval highness was "chaffing," but the prince explained that his father, having in mind possible reverses, had insisted that each of his sons should learn a trade. Accordingly, the rince himself was a very good Bhoemaker. P Mnce Alfred wi learning to make bis ovn clothes, and lit Je Prince Arthur worked occasionally with saw and plane, and, a soon as he was strong enough, was to be taught cabinet making.

Malapropos. Chambers' Journal. Charles Dickens oace wrote to a friend: l!I have distinguished myself In two rtspecta lately.- I took a young lady unknown down to dinner, and talked to her about the bishop of Durham's nepotism in the matter of Mr. Cheese. I found she was Mrs. Cheese. And I expatiated to the member for Marylebone, Lord f ermoy generally conceiving him to le an Irish member on the contemptible character of the Marvlebone constituency and Marylebone representatives." Two such mishaps . in one evening were enough to reduce the most brilliant talker to the condition of the three "insides" of the . Ixndon bound coach, who beguiled the tedium of the journey from Southampton by discussing the demerits of Willhara Cobbett, until one of the party went so far as to assert that the object of their denunciation was a domestic tyrant, given to beating his wife; when, much to his dismay, the solitary lady passenger, who had hitherto sat a silent listener, remarked: "Pardon me, sir; a kinder husband and father never breathed; and I ought to know, for I am William Cobbett's wife!" Mr. Giles, of Virginia, and Judge Duval, of Maryland, members of congress during Washington's administration, boarded at the house of a Mrs. Gibbon, whose daughters were well on in years, and remarkable for talkativeness. When Jefferson became president. Duval was comptroller of the treasury and Giles a senator. Meeting one day in Washington tbey fell to chatting over old times, and the senator asked the comptroller if he knew what had become of "that cackling old maid, . Jenny Gibbon?" "She is Mrs. Duval, sir," was the unexpected reply. Giles did not attempt to mend matters, as a certain Mr. Tuberviile unwisely did. This unhappy blunderer resembled the Irish gentleman who complained that he could not open his mouth without putting his foot in it. Happening to observe to a fellow guest at Dun raven castle that the lady who had sat at his right hand at dinner was the ugliest- woman he had ever beheld, the person addressed expressed his regret that he 6hould think his wife so ill looking. "I have made a mistake," said the horrified Tuberviile; "I meant the lady who sat on my left." "Well, sir, she is my sister," was the response to the well intentioned fib, bringing from the desperate connoisseur of beauty the frank avowal: "It can't be helped, sir, then; for, if what you say be true, I confess I never saw such an ugly family in the course of my life!" An honest expression of opinion, perhaps not to easily forgiven by the individual concerned, was that wrung from Mark Twain, who, standing right before a young lady in a Parisian public garden, cried out to his friend, "Dan, just look at this girl; howbeautiful she is!" to be rebuked by "this girl" saying in excellent English: "I thank you more for the evident sincerity of the compliment, sir, than for the extraordinarypublicity you have given it!" Mark took a walk, but did not feel just comfortable for some time afterward. One of the humorist's countrymen made a much more serious blunder. He was a married man. Going into the kitchen one day, a pair of soft hands were thrown over his eyes, a kiss was imprinted on his cheek. He returned the salute with interest, and, as he gently disengaged the hands of his fair assailant asked: "Mary, darling, where is the mistress?" and found his answer in an indignant wife's face. "Mary darling" had gone out for the day, and the lady of the house intended by her affectionate greeting to give her lord a pleasant surprise. He got his surprise; whethfr he thought it a pleasant one he never divulged, but that kitchen knew Mary no more. After doing his office for a young couple, a clergyman was inveigled into proposing the health of bride and bridegroom at the wedding breakfast. He wound up a neat little speech by expressing tbe hope that the result of the union of the happy pair might prove strictly analogous to that of the bride's honored parents. The groom looked angry, the bride went into hysterics, the bridesmaids blushed and became interested in the pattern of the carpet, the master of the house blew his nose with extraordinary violence, and the speaker sat down wondering at the ell'dct he had. created; till his better informed neighbor whispered that the lady was cot the daughter of the host and hostess, but a niece who came to live with them when her mother and father were divorced. When a note was handed to Dr. fletcher in his pulpit intimating that the presence of a medical gentleman, supposed to be in the church, was urgently required elsewhere.the preacher read the letter out, and, as the . doctor was making for the door, fervently' ejaculated : "May the Lord have mercy on his patient!" An unpleasant way of putting the thing was innocently adopted by the Xew York car driver, who, blissfully ignorant that his interlocutor was. ilr. Iieecher, replied to that gentleman's query whether he did not think it possible to dispense with running the cani "all day on Sunday: "Yes, sir, I do; but there's no hope for it eo long as they keep that Beecher theater open In Erooklyn ; the cars have to run to accommodate that." An American newspaper says: "The enthusiastic choir master who adopted 'Hold tbe Fort' as a processional hymn has been dismissed by a minister, who considered it personal when the choir burst forth: See the raichty host advancing, bntan leading on !' "

The Frnlt. Cincinnati Enquirer. Of course we shall hear a howl that the frmt has been killed. This howl comes as regularly as the vernal equinox. Perhaps In low grounds the cold of Sunday did damage the fruit. Many a time fruit buds have come safely through a severer snap.' But this cold was preceded by a drying wind, whichis most decidedly in favor of the safety of the fr,uit. Farmers and fruit growers are proverbially panicky about the fruit when a frost comes; and farmers in the vicinity of Cincinnati are comfortably confident that their buds have not beeu killed. In tbe low, warm grounds on the Pig Miami the peach trees were in bloom, and tbe blossoms Are of course chilled, but not necessarily killed. In the high grounds the fruit is comparatively secure. Apples, pears and cherries are late bloomers, and their fruit germs are wrapped up snug and dry and warm. If there is any wheat that may be already jointed, and there is not much, if any, in that state of forwardness hereabouts, it will doubtless be injured more or less. Wc may as well -contain ourselves for the present, and instead of assisting anybody in bulling the fruit or grain market, rest in uoiMS, iuu uiess our Dial a iuai iuc tuiu uu been so moderate, and console ourselves with the prospect of abundance of fruit and grain, if no frost of blight comes hereafter to destroy it. ; Kbort Sfrmoan, iMethodlst Recorder.) The popular clamor for short sermons is kept up by a restless class of young persons who are smarter than their parents and pastors. They get fidgets if a sermon reaches beyond la or 20 minutes. And yet these same goslings of both genders, when they come together in a social party or meet in the parlor, will waste solid .hours in the stupidest coramon places. Their talk does not rise to the dignity of conversation. It is twaddle. It is nonsense from first to last; it is worse than waste ot time, of life, of everything. But tiesa gigglers from the green goose pastures, presujue to know how long a minister ?ihoul4 ryrach! And here and there the kind sonied pastors accommodate their sermon- to the gosling taste. Let tbepupit have the time to discuss the topics it undertaken; and let the discussion be so fresh, vigorous, and attractive as to arrest attention rom all who have heart and brain to understand. For a goose in the pulpit is worse lhan a gosling in the pew.