Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 56, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1878 — Page 2

THE IKDIAKA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1878-

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11.

Louisville's exposition, without a race horse or Hayes, is not likely to pay. Stewart's monument at Garden City is to cost $10,000, and will be of white marble. The Chinese bad an Edison in 968 who invented a telephone similar to the one that has made such a stir in the world of Ipte. Canada has been flooded with counterfeit $1 and $2 notes. To put a stop to their circulation plates and dies for a new issue are being prepared. Filley, the St. Louis postmaster, who has been kicked out of the post office to make room for Hays, is likely to make things hot for the bulldozing rads. Joseph Cook will lecture this season on "Strikes and Communists," "Inner Life of 'Newspapers," and "Alcohol and the Human 'Brain." He has kept his wife busy all summer hunting up the high sounding words in the dictionary. Fob two years diphtheria has prevailed continuously on the southern part of Cape Cod, Mass. Scores of - people have died from it, and the mortality amono the children has been fearful. Physicians are endeavoring to find the local cause that retains the disease so long among the people. Tweed's family are soon to leave New York for Europe, the future residence being Taris probably. William Tweed, the younger, is now engaged settling up his affairs and those pertaining to the estateSoon all that will be left of the once notori ous Tweeds will be a -grave and a place the memory of gossips. in The managers of a Maine railroad determined to run extra excursion trains on Sunday to a camp meeting. The ministers protested, bat their protestations did no good; so they ended the debate by closing the meeting Saturday afternoon, preferring to forego their religious pleasure) and services rather than to "lead others into the temptation of converting Sunday into a day for 'amusement and recreation." A year's trial has satisfied the authorities of Paris that the pneumatic clock system is effective and valuable. The system consists of one set of works which give the time on a large number of dials in various portions of the city. In Paris thirty dial3 have been on trial, the time kept has been uniformly correct, and each dial has cost on an average only $2.50 for the entire twelve months. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has at last met foemen worthy of her steel. A number of English claimants have appeared who want possession of at least seven-eighths of her New Orleans property. They have offered to give as a fee to these lawyers one-half of all that they claim if their suit is successful. Mrs. Gaines has never been so happy in her life, and has renewed her youth in the anticipation of the wordy contest. The distribution of the prizes to the successful exhibitors of the Paris exposition will take place on October 10, and the hippodrome is to be used for the purpose, and seats are prepared for the 25,000 who are to receive1 tickets of admission to the hall. The task of the judges has, as usual on such occasions, been a thankless one, and great dissatisfaction is expressed as to the awards, but thew murmuring? are not joined in by the Americans, who have really got the lion's ahare. Since Stanley, the explorer, has become famous his relatives are eager to assert their claims to kinship and 'his estate when his will is made. A woman, Mrs. Eastaway, of Liverpool, England, has witten a letter to a newspaper in which she claims him as her son, declaring that his father died in 1868. Stanley, she says, was born iu New York. October 26, 1843. She resorts to the time honored "mole upon the neck" for identification aided by peculiar India ink marks np:)n bid arm. A fresch savant proposes, through a Parisian journal, the abandonment of the earth as a burial place for the dead, and in its stead the sinking of bodies into the depths of the sea.' Boats adapted to the purpose couid De sent out to a certain distance from the shore at regular intervals, and the bodies could then be decently and properly committed to the waves. The Japanese have had for years the same plan In execution, and junks laden with corpses are frequently vsent out from the larger ports. The bodies are magnificently attired and are covered with the most exquisite flowers and adornments. In many portions of Ireland the outlook is gloomy for the farmers, who express themselves in complaints and fears. The potatoes are threatened with that old enemy, the potato disease, and from the reports from all over the country its attacks seem widespread. The cold rains of the first weeks of summer, added to the heavy storms of August, have brought on the rot, and it is believed that the entire crop will be lost. The wheat has also been bo oadly affected by the rot that it is believed one-half the-crop will not be worth gathering. But the rye, barley and oats look well, aod no trouble is anticipated about them. It is the potato that is the most closely watched, and the loss of which falls heaviest on the people, for it is literally the food of the land. The consecration of the British flag' in Cyprus occurred Angust 18. The ceremony took place at 6 o'cloek a. m., at the Oreek convent, nearNikosia. The Standard in describing the scene says that "in the distance lhe mountains hemmed in the landscape. 'Close at hand were the clustered tents of 'the British camps, while nearer still was an ancient church. The peasant girls of the island, wearing brightly colored petticoats 'and stockings, and having their heads adorned with flowers, had assembled to witness the spectacle. The eye also took in, 'here and there, companies of Bombay lancers on their mules, and tha English royal engineers, military orderlies, swarthy lookUag'mpanUineers, snd the. leading Inhabl-

'tantsof Nicosia. In the Convent church a

'solemn, mass was chanted by a choir of ecclesiastics and monks, who wore long 'blacc robes. In a procession which was 'formed at the end of the mass a golden cru'ciflx and several other sacred emblems were 'borne aloft On a carpeted space in front 'of the building stood Sir Garnet Wolseley, 'and cla-e to him was a gilt throne. Some 'prayers having been offered and psalms 'sung, the flag was incensed and Dlessed. 'After the blessing the flag was hoisted aloft 'between the towers ot the church by a 'young priest." ... General Grant's programme for the immediate future ia thus given by himself to an intimate friend: "In the fall we expect 'to visit Spain and Portugal, and then settle 'down for the winter at some pleasant place, 'probably in south Italy. In the spring we 'shall go back to the United Stales and set 'tie down for life where, we have not yet 'determined. My whole trip abroad has 'been exceedingly pleasant. As pleasant as 'everything has been however, I long for the 'time to come when I am to return home. 'I would go back after visiting Spain and 'Portugal in the fall (I will have visited 'every country In Europe, Egypt in Africa. 'Syria and Asia Minor in Asia) only that I 'have no place to go to. By waiting until 'spring I can go to my home at Long Branch 'and have the summer for preparing a i'ter home." THE JOCRNAL NHt'EALS. From time to time it has been the duty as well as the pleasure of the Sentinel to make the Journal squeal like a rat with its tail in a. trap or a pig with its snout Inextricably mixed up. with a rail fence. Daring the dull season when operas operate at a distance, when the circus season Is over, when, negro minstrels have divided losses and disappeared from the boards, and at intervals between John Hanna's wind performances and Ben Harrison's diatribes on idiots, in "which he shows himself to be the chief of financial lunatics, it is delectable to have a squealing performance by the Journal. Generally, as a prelude to the squeal, the Shy lock organ is sullen; puts on airs; swells like the fool frog that envied the ox his splendid avoirdupoise, hoofs, horns and fly brushes, but all of this is simply preliminary to the squeal which is sure to come sometimes gently, but always distinct; at other times rising in sonorous grandeur, consituting a squeal unlike all other squeals, squaks or creak known to man or. beast. The squeal in yesterday's Journal was in all regards characteristic, thong a we are of the opinion that it Lj felightly more savage than average. It evidences a degree of pain calculated to excite commiseration. But a few tears thrown in here and there are not objectionable; in fact, they give zest to the hilarity and applause certain to follow when the performance assumes a ludicrous phase In the case we are now disposing of the fun of the thing appears in the fact that the Journal got larruped for the sins of anbtbe sheet whose utterances it sucked in like a syringe, and then squirted out for the purpose of injuring" Dr. De La Matyr. There is a maxim that "the receiver of stolen goods 'is as bad as the thief," and another that persons who repeat slanders make themselves responsible for them: 'This is the dilemma in which the Journal has placed itself, and for which the Sentinel administered a moderate castigation. If the Journal in future noaes around in the gutters for lumps ot nastiness with which to'load up its mud batteries, it will be subjected to the Sentinel's lash, as has been our practice hitherto. If the Journal is desirous of reformation and would escape punishment, it must cease lying itself, and establish the rule that it will not publish lies coined by others. Should we notice an earnest desire to heed our advice, it will be our pleasure to extend to it the consideration due a penitent rad. If, however, the Journal continues to indorse, directly or tacitly, lying slanders against Dr. De La Matyr or anyother democratic nominee, the Sentinel will be compelled to make it squeal, in the interest of truth and respectable journalism. CENTRALIZATION. The Journal, in its Tuesday's issue, talks with the erudition of an owl about centralization. Evidently the Journal believes that it has demolished Dr. De La Matyr and the democratic party with its bludgeon of straw, and inund&ted them with its thimblefull ot gruel. The Journal is always as luminous as foxfire when it gets cnon the subject of finance. It is then that it scintillates like the tail of a lightning bug and crowns itself with a halo of light equal to the best efforts of a glow worm. In the article referred to, we evidently have the grandest production of the Journal's brain in its best phosphorized condition, when all the electric currents were in full flow, and great codstitutional problems were solved with a rapidity and ease calculated to excite the admiration of all the lilliputian rads who seek its. columns for their daily rations of political dishwater. Dr. De La Matyr, we are pleased to know, is giving the Journal a great deal of trouble. If that Shylock organ had a boil on its nose, a stye on each eye, and corns on all of its toes, it could hardly play trjeks more fantastic than ihcL which it daily exhibits for the delectation of a fun loving public It has at last struck "centralization" and wrestles with it vigorously, and as a result we have a beautiful illustration of the fabled mountain that after a sort of an earthquake labor brought forth a mouse . We congratulate the Journal. Its capacity for producing mice articles 9 simply wonderful. Several of the lively little treatures appear in every issue,' and the "centralization" mouse is a fair specimen of the Journal's capacity in that line. Dr. De La Matyr is charged with a purpose of having greenbacks issued by the government to take the place of national bank currency, and this is denounced as dangerous to the rights of states and the liberties of the people. The Journal, it thouhl be understood, Is a Shylock organ, and favors any policy that robs the people and puts money into the pockets of Shy 1' irks. It is a national bank organ, and favors centralizing power in the hands of bankers, money sharks and bondholders. With this fact kept in new it will be readily understood why the Journal opposes a greenback currency, which is emphatically the

people's money. As the case now stands the

money power is centralized to a great extent in the national banks. Dr. De La Matyr, if we understand the Journal, proposes to take this power away from the banks and restore it to the people; and this is what the Journal is pleased to style as dangerous. It is somewhat surprising that the Journal can not discuss any question before the people withont lying. Evidently the devil is in the concern. As evidence of this it says: Mr. De La Matyr and the democrat! who support him are violently opposed to tire national banking system, one of their main arguments oeiug that It la a dangerous concentration of money power. Yet theypropose to place this very money power, without any restraint or regulation whatever, In the hands or the general government. Now when the Journal charges that the democratic party propose to issue greenbacks "without any restraint or regulation 'whatever," it deliberately utters what it knows to be untrue, and, as a consequence, its declarations are of no value whatever. The money power of the government is where it was lodged by the constitution, in the custody of congress, and congress is the eervant of the people. The people make and unmake congress. The people sometimes make mistakes, as they did when they placed the radical party in power, which saddled the national bank curse upon the country, bat the people have a way of correcting thtir mistakes, as is evidenced by their lusty determination to drive the radical party from power, retire national bank bills, and in their stead give the country a better and a cheaper currency, with prudent regulations and restraints. Upon this subject Dr. De La Matyr's head is leyel. The democratic party Is in favor of centralizing the money power just where it belongs, in the hands of the people instead of the national banks. As for the interest question we baye shown in these columns that the rates of interest in the various states bave a wide range, and the question of a uniform vote has been frequently discussed. It is something of the nature of a uniform bankrupt law, the advantages of which the Journal is in a ' position to discuss feelingly. Uniform rates of transportation from the Interior to tbe seaboard cities has also occupied the attention f business men and statesmen. In fact there is a number of questions of this character that from time to time are brought to tbe front and discussed without creating special alarm. They are upon questions to be decided upon their merits, which the people in due time will settle without disturbing the great principles of government advocated by the democratic party. It is quite possible upon the question of tbe rights of property that Dr. De La Matyr is opposed to government officials stealing themselves rich out of tbe revenues of the government as has been practiced by the radical party since it obtained power, and it is quite as probable that he is opposed to the radical policy or legislating fortunes into the possession of Shylocks whereby the people -are impoverished. Under radical rule this thing was done to an extent tbat amazes the world. 'If we understand the purpose of Dr. De La' Maytr he is in favor of centralizing power in the hands of the people, and the proof is accumulating daily tbat the people indorse his theory. THE NEW JERSEY TRAM I LAW. Considerable comment has been made on tbe tramp law recently passed by the legislature of New Jersey, and which went into effect on the 10th of last August. It is re' garded as severe to an unusual' decree, and in some of its provisions entirely too sweeping. Section 4 has been especially condemned, as it puts almost unlimited power into the hands of those who may exercisa it inhumanly, as two or more persons could by false swearing easily secure the conviction of any poor fellow who might be personally obnoxious to tbem. The following is the full text of the law aa it now stands: Section 1. Any person going a)out from place to place begging and asking or subsisting upon charity, shall be taken and deemed to be a tramp, and shall bo punished by imprisonmertat hard labor in the atate prison not more than 15 months. Bee. 2. Any tramp who shall enter any dwells log house, or kindle any Are in tbe highway or on the land of another without the consent ot the owner or occupant thereof, or shall be found carrying any firearm or other dangerous weapon, or shall threaten to do any injury to any person or to the real or personal estate of another, shall be punished by Imprisonment at hard labor in the state prison not more than two years. fc 3. Any tramp who Khali willfully and maliciously do any Injury to any perKon or to the real or personal estate of another shall be punished by Imprisonment at bard labor in the state prison not more than Ave years. Sec. 4. Any act of beggary or vagrancy by any person not a resident of this state shall be evidence tbat the person committing the same is a tramp within tbe meaning of this act. Sec. 5. Any person, upon view of any offense described in tltis act, may apprehend the offender and take him' before a Justice of the peace for examination, and on tiia conviction shall be entitled to a reward of f 10 therefor, vo be paid by the county. Sec. 6. The mayor of every city and the selectmen of every town are hereby authorized and required to appoint special constables, whose duty it shall be to arrest and prosecute all tramps in their respective cities and towns. 8ec. 7. This act shall not apply to any female or minor under the age of 17 years, nor to any blind person. See. 8. Upon the passage of this act, the secretary of state shall cause printed copies of this act to be sent to the several town and city clerks, who shall cause the same to be .posted in at least six conspicuous places, three of which shall be on the public highway. Hc. 9. This act shall take effect on and after Angust 10, 1878, and all acts and parts of acts Inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. Approved August 6, 1878. New Jersey has not been particularly overrun with beggars or tramps, and this act is to be reckoned more in the light of a preventive than as a punishment for old offenders. Delaware has her whipping posts, and the lash has been held up before the reckless offender against her laws. But woe to the man or woman who, passing along the highways of New Jersey, asks for a bite of bread and a cup of water. No matter if the wolf starvation is gnawing at his life, it is prison, theft or death, and, despite the legislature, tramps of the worst class will abound, for stealing is rather chosen than starvation by those for whom the law was made. It will be rather the poverty-crushed man and woman, out of work, hunting a

situation, walking from place to place, ask

ing here and there for aid, who will suffer the most from the enactment f a law which bears ' neither the imprint of civilization nor humanity upon its face. It is cruel in its decrees, severe in its punishments, capable of doing much harm, and not binding to the shrewd in its restrictions. It will neither catch nor punish many tramps. They will hide behind the mask of workingmen, and when they can not lie themselves out of danger will steal, rob, murder, doing anything rather than work or starve. The tramp" is a fixed fact in our country, his treatment a puzzle. noa sible extinction a thing of the future. But he will scarcely be reformed or removed by laws similar to that referred to. The creatures of misfortune and poverty will suffer by them, but the professional tramps, the ones most obnoxious, will flourish and multiply, their tricks serving tbem when honesty and suffering would but fasten conviction on better men. THE JOURNAL AND OOVEBNOB 11EH DRIL'KS. The Journal on yesterday, in an article intended to be witty, announces the political death of Governor Hendricks. Our distinguished fellow citizen has met death before, if we would believe the radical papers, but some how or other he will not stay dead, but Fhuenix like, arises from his ashes and again puts on the habiliments of life. Tha wish of the Journal is father to the thought. Our contemporary is engaged in whistling to keep up its courage while passing- the graveyard of the radical dead. "While wearing a foiced smile, Us face betrays its agony. It sees Governor Hendricks honored whereever he goes. It sees him in the foreground of national statesmen, with the people ever ready to follow where he leads. It beholds him as the political Moses who is to lead the people out of the radical wilderness. Seeing these things and knowing they presage democratic victory and radical defeat, the Journal is mad. It strikes at Governor 'Hendricks, for it knows tbat when the fraud who now occupies the white house vacates his usurped plac he will most probably be succeeded by Indiana's favorite son. Should that day come the people will rejoice, but the Journal will mourn.- It will usher in a new dispensation, one of peace and prosperity to the country. But the people's happiness will be the Journal's woe. No longer will it be made fat with bankrupt advertisements. No longer will its palate be sweetened with sugar from sheriff's sales; for sweeter than honey from the honey comb are the fat takes and padded advertisements given it by the marshal, the sheriff and the bankrupt court. The man who would snatch these things from the Journal's hopper is an enemy to the hopper's owner, and the Journal, not believing in the Scriptural injunction to love its enemies, 'follows the bent of its desires and strikes at him who would dry up the fountain from which it gets its fill. But the Journal's loss will be the people's gain. What it sucks and absorbs of their substance will, if retained by them, do much to make them financially strong and healthy. Governor Hendricks believes in sound politics, in sound morals and in sound theology, hence he is averse to the Journal's politics, its morals and its religion. But it can hardly be expected that a democrat of his well known catholicity should believe in a politics consecrated to fraud, perjury and venality; in a morality whose shibboleth is that the end justifies the means, and in a theology whose bed rock is gospel hate, and whose symbol is tbe bloody shirt. Therefore the Journal should not seek to kill off our ex-governor for his not believing in its political heresies, nor for his declining to assist in bringing grist to its mill. Governor Hendricks ia engaged in other work than this, and work altogether more congenial to his tastes. He is on the stump addressing his fellow citizens upon matters deeply affecting their Interests, and from the way the people Mock to hear him it is evident that if be be a corp.e, as the Journal would have us believe, the people prefer listening to Hendricks dead rather than to Harrison, or any other radical, living! HE EIKSOX OF IMPORTS AND EXTORTS. The acting chief of the bureau of statistics, Mr. Nimmo, has prepared a report with tabulated exhibits, showing the imports and exports of the United Stales at intervals of five years from 18G8 to 1878. The reiwrt will be accepted as . the highest authority, and is remarkable as exhibiting the decline of imports and tbe advance of exports for the period named. During the previous decade, that is to say between 1863 and 1373, the net imports exceeded our exports in various years from $39,000,000, that being the minimum of excess, to $182,000,000 as the maximum. After the panic of 1873 an era of enforced economy set in. We increased gradually our exports and reduced our imports until in 1876 the excess of exports over Imports was $79,643,081. In 1377 this excess was $151,152,091, and In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, the excess of our exports over Imports rose to $257,786,964. As illustrating the steady increase in our exports between 1863 and 1873 Mr. Nimmo gives a table of comparison, comprising a dozen leading commodities, representing 64 per cent of tbe total increase in the exports of all merchandise during. the decade. The tabulated statement is as follows:

Year ending June ao. Increase 1868. 1878. since ltiHS. .173,3X1 $2,575,108 11,901,817 ;&j,;.3 5,8,o3 5,111,208 68,9S0,997 181,774,507 112,7!3,510 l,61tj,2a) 2,35JMb7 " MS,217 93930 3,078,349 2,13t',099 4,871,051 H.iW.fiCS 6,564,574 406,512 l&ti,m 70,437 6,389,429 12,084,048 5,6SM,619 1,414,372 8.077,659 6,663 27 2,913,44 6,005,163 2,181.715 21.SI0.676 46,574,974 24,764.28 JiO.278,253 12J,S19,9Sj 93.271,733 1W,929.987 1403,826,001 f.52,8W,614

Com'oditles. Agricultural iraplemnts Live animals Bread and breads tuffs Coal Copper.brass and manu factures of. Cotton, man ulac. of..... Fruit Iron, steel A raanufacofi Leather ad rnanufac.of Ollca We Coal oil and petroleum. Provisions ... TotaL. It is held in some Quarters that the ex. hibits of Mr. Nimmo indicate a vastly ini proved condition of the country, lor It is

asserted, as an axiomatic truth in business.

that when an individual or a country sells more than, it purchases, prosperity ia the inevitable consequence. Bui radical rule in this country has bad the effect to completely upset old and established theories of business, and compel the most profound thinkers upon political economy to hesitate before giving their concbiaions to the public. Mr. Nimmo's tables, with the well established facts relating t3 the condition of business in the United -States, compel the conclusion that when imports were large and export comparatively light, the country 'was enjoying a degree of prosperity almost, if not entirely, unparalleled; and it is equally true and aa easily demonstrated' that when the tables were turned, and exports exceeded imports, the general condition of business affairs in the United States became disastrous to an extent tiever before- experienced, and the business record of the country is conclusive that aa imports declined and exports increased the gloom that enshrouds business in the United States bocame more and more depressing. Before the panic of 1873, brought about by the radical Shylock curse of contraction, export) were less, because more was consumed at home imports were large, because the people being at work and prosperous had means with which to purchase foreign commodities. But when contraction had accomplished its devilish mission the people had no money wherewith to purchase domestic products of farm or loom, and the goods went abroad. They, could not purchase foreign goods, hence they did not come into the country, and this state of affairs is what Shylocks and their organs call a condition of prosperity. For several years past our exports have exceeded our imports, and the balance of trade has been steadily growing in Savor of the United States, and during these years business has been depressed, business men have been going into bank ruptcy by thousands, failures multiplied on every hand, property shrank in value fully one-half, idleness increased from the center to the circumference of the country, confidence fled tbe marts of trade, - capital was withdrawn from all legitimate investments, and ruin was to be seen on every hand. It matters little how cheap food products were offered, the poor were out of employment and out of money, and- had to go Jiungry. It was of little consequence to what extent clothing was reduced in price, the poor having nj employment and no money were compelled to go in rags. Still exports were larger and increasing. And now, while Mr. Nimmo's tables are being commented upon as evidences of prosperity, there are thousands of people out of employment who can not purchase bread for themselves and families. Evidently a balance of trade in favor of the United States is not all that is wanted to restore prosperity. A condition of business affairs is demanded which will enable the people to obtain employment, and be able to purchase more of the necessities of life. A large balance of trade in our favor, with thousands of the people clamoring for bread, may be a Shylock idea of prosperity, but it docs not suit the people.. CONVICTS AND CONVICT LABOR. The Illinois penitentiary at Joliet contained, August 23, 1,657 convicts, of whom 1,249 were at work for various contractors as follows: "200 men are engaged manufacturing cigars; upward of 400 in the boot and 'shoe industries; 130 in the cooper shops; 'nearly 100 in making saddles and harness; 'the Ohio butt company employ 92 convicts; 'the Ohio brush company, 63. There are 69 'marble cutters; about 40 working at tailoring; 33 at knitting; wire fence making, 55." The price paid to the state for the labor of the convicts range, from 30 cents to 70 cents per day, and the state is able, at these rates, to make its crime pay something more than the expenses of the prison, and in 1875 the profits amounted to $5,907.52. The Chicago Inter-Ocean, from which we derive these facts, also publishes an interview with Warden McCloughry in which that functionary takes decided ground against the contract system. The Interview proceeds as follows: "What is your personal experience in regard to the contract system In vogue in tne state penitentiary?" "1 think, it is a bad and humiliating system, a id in fact stands in the way of reforming the conglomerate mass of humanity which nuds its way into the state penitentiary." "Why?" "Iu the first place the state authorities look witli favor only upon the fact tbat the penitentiary is 'self-supporting,' to the ntter disregard of the reformation of the lnmaies. An epidemic of semi-insanity has taken bold ot legislators and prison managers, which prevents their adoption of a system fou nded upon a more enlightened humanity, for the asserted reason that the. state must not be burdened with the cost of either the support, punishment or reformation of its eonv let classes." "You contend this is a bad policy?" "I do, most emphatically. The prison must be seli-Kiipportiug, and whether so or not is ab-ut the first question asked by an Inquirer after its welfare." "What does this vlewcarned out lead to?" "Simply to this that a:tr hundreds and thousands of dollars have l?en expended by slate authorities to convict a felon, it does not care whether, after his term of Imprisonment expires, he be turned out into society again a worse or a better man. If the state owes to the criminal nothing but conviction and imprisonment, and if, when Imprisoned nothing lurther is to be expected or feared from him, and if, when the heavy Iron doors of the penitentiary are closed behind him he is Irretrievably lost to mankind, then Ihese mercenary demands, the results of this speculative view, may be indalgd in." "Then I understand you tosay the contract system tends to increase instead of diminish crime." "Most assuredly it does. I am compelled to use the labor of the penitentiary in the way it pays the best, regardless of the moral effect or of the effect on tne industries outside. For instance, a man young in crime comes to the penitentiary. If properly uolded, and If he was put under tbe nht kind of influences, he might be completely refor ed, and ihe Mate says, pnt that man to the work he is best adapted for, and consequently I have to place him in a shop surrounded by some ot the most utterly degraded and bad men. Those man will make a thief of tbat young man in spite of himself." "Can yen explain why their influence is so subtle, especially when we take into consideration the fact ihat no conversation la allowed." "The new comer comes in contact with old thieves, in the shops, and he must learn the thieve' dialect or he will bo ostracised and illtreated by the eans whenever opportunity oc- , curs. This dialect is like the signal service, they can do a mighty sis tit of talking in a Jrecious few words. Once lit a young convict earn this and get thoroughly imbued with thievish ideas, and unless t here is something peculiar In h.s organism all the moral teaching wlU never reform him. I can call to mind a case that Illustrates this point. There area young C : , who came to the prison under a long Kentev.ce. lie is a min ister's son, and his father feels terrible about him. There is some good traits in that boy, but he will be compelled to learn the thievew' dialect or le persecuted and prevented from obtaining the few privileges accorded convlcWw In fact, if be s not let out he will become a confirmed thief. The great danger in making prisons paying institutions, and in the convict labor system. Is that good men, who migl.t be. reformed, are

sandwiched in between a. miserable mangy tat tbe very dregs of criminal humanity." "What would yon propose?" "The proposition was beiore the legislature, the principle of which I believe are right and are of general application. The principle of the bill is tbat of 'imprisonment dependent upon good behavior. The court sentencing offenders to the state reformatory at Klmir shall not fix upon, state, determine, or limit the duration ot the punishment.' The managers may send to the state prison any prisoner who was more than thirty years old at the time of bis conviction, or who has been previously convicted ol crime, and apy incorrigible prisoner, whose presence Is seriously hurtful to the others. The managers are to estaolish a series of marks, under which every prisoner is to be credited with gcod conduct of all kinds and charged with all offense and negligence; and they are to release any prisoner when they are satis fled that there Is a strong or reasonable probability that his release will not be incompatible with the welfare of society. The managers may also permit prisoners to go out upon parole under suitable rules, the managers btlll retaining custody and supervision. This is a plan which has been adopted In England and Ireland, and with great success. It is reasonable and approved by those who have studied the subject." "Yon believe it practicable?" "I do. If I could only grade the penitentiary In such a manner that tbe better men who were capable of improvement could be placed in a building alone, Immeasurable benefit would arise from it." "Could you make any suggestions in regard to the kind of work that would, in your mind, least affect outside industries." "As I have eald before, we psty no attention to outside Industries. I believe we could deepen the Illinois and Michigan canal, or do any public work near the penitentiary, but tbat would only be temporary, and not stop the cry against convict labor. The laborers would be up In arms then, and they are more numerous than mechanics. It is ray candid opinion that industries are but little affected by penitentiary labor. Since the state haa taken tbe stone department we have been unable to compete with Chicsgo firms. They can beat us every time. In Texas they make the convicts build all the railroads, and they have a terrible time with the men. Not long since I had a man apply to me for position as guard. I asked him his qualifications. He replied that he had been engaged seven months On guard in the Texas penitentiary, and during that time had killed seven 'niggers.' I informed him that his qualifications were not satisfactory. This is the difficulty of employing convicts on public works." "If the cost per day of labor is as small as indicated in the figures of the contract, why is It that contractors can not undersell outside firms and in consequence degrade labor?" "A man in tbe penitentiary wiU not do over two-thirds what a man outside will do In a day. Compulsory labor is not productive of a full day's work. With us it is, 'Here, you get out so many palt a of boots, or there is tne solitary.' The class of fellows we have In the tate prison don't take lo labor much, and it is hard work to make them work. You have got to drive them all the time, and a contractor has to stand the loss." "But don't you think that If convicts were kept at manual labor exclusively the eflect would be jelt the less, because it would be drawing men from the millions Instead of tbe thousands?" "Perhaps you are right about that. It is a profound question, and the greatest of our statesmen can not answer it." The above is substantially the interview, though, of course, the exact language of the warden is not given. His views are of great value, because he has had considerable practical experience with convicts, and an apparent fairness, in discussing the question, is observable throughout the. interview. Since, under radical rule, crime has increased to an extent never before witnessed in this or any other country, it is not surprising that the prison problem is regarded as one that our "great statesmen" can not solve. It involves punishment and reformation, and at the same time such an amount of production of manufactured wares as will make penitentiaries profitable institutions to the state. It will be noticed tbat in one department of prison work at Joliet - stone work the state is not able to compete with Chicago firms. The prices paid for convicts on matble and stone work are set down at 45 and 50 cents per day, and still these figures are too high to enable the prison to compete with outside work. The warden says that It is impossible to get more than two-thirds of a day's work out of a convict. Admitting this and allowing for it, marble and stone work costs the contractors 67 yA and 75 cents per day. Thus it will be seen that the Chicago firms, all else being equal, would have to employ honest labor at lower prices than are paid for convict. The policy of the radical party has had the effect to create an army of idlers of vast proportions. Many of these idle people are steadily drifting tato crime and are on the road to prison. It is a phase of radicalism well calculated to arouse the attention of working people as well as all other classes, and should be a powerful reason for' voting the infamous party out of power. FACTS FOB THE PEOPLE. The democratic party is coming into power pledged to reform in the expenditures of the government. Since it gained control of the house of representatives it has to the utmost of its ability redeemed every pledge, and after the 4th of March next, when the senate becomes democratic, expenditures will be reduced to the lowest consistent figures. It is worthy of remark that the radical leaders, when the -democratic party commenced its system of retrenchment, set up a thieving howl that the purpose was to embarrass the government. But when tbe reductions are made, every lying means is resorted to make it appear tbat they amount to little or nothing, and that the democracy of the country is deserving no credit for having incorporated them into the legislation of congress. But the people are to be no longer hoodwinked by the radical organs and conspirators. The records show that in the two sessions of the Forty-fourth and one session of the Forty-fifth congress, covering three years, the democratic house has cut down the appropriations compared with those made by the republicans for the three preceding years, $S8,270.236.47! That's something to boast of. But it does not tell the whole story, for this great reduction was not as great as was demanded by the democratic house, but only represents the concessions that the house was able to secure from a protesting republican senate. If the bills had become laws as they passed the house there would have been a saving of $43,706,003. 42. The republican senate added over $5lj000,000 to the house bills against the protests of the democratic house, but there was no alternative but to accept the increase or see the appropriation bills fail, and necessitate an extra session of congress. Here are facts derived from official sources that can not be covered up or lied down. They stand out and stand cp and challenge criticism. The people will be likely to heed the lessons they teach, and vote accordingly.

Pay for Florida Frands. Baltimore Gazette. General Lew Wallace, of Indiana, has been appointed to succeed Ax tell as governor of New Mexico. Mr. Wallace assisted in the great work of counting Florida for Hayes. He secures bis reward at last and at the same time is withdrawn from Indiana in time to stop the organization of opposition to (iodlove S. Orth, the claim swindler, who is running for congress in the Ninth district. The work of reform goes on.