Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1888 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1888.

; past, that under the next administration 1 all available public land will be disposed of to settlers or to the Dorseys, Elkin.i and other land grabbers, as you, voters of Jmliana, may decide on Nov. 6. Elkins T-iuld have been secretary of the interior if r.laino had been elected. Who knows lmt what Blaine would force him on Harrison for the same place. To show how Cleveland is admired by the cattlemen, I pve the interview I had last Sunday with an old acquaintance who ' ielt Indiana twenty years ago with a mulo team, and who now owns several thousand acres and stock valued at present low prices, at $50,000. I had not been w ith fcica five minutes before, to my surprise, he showed his anxiety for Harrison's election I gay surprise, because he comes from an old democratic family and baa tix. good democratic brothers in Allen county. To with Cleveland," he said, when I attempted to enumerate the good things the president had done for the West by checking off land-grabbing and unlawful fencing. "To with him." he continued. "This fence business in what makes me ajainst him. You see, I had acquired title to two miles of land on this creek. Seven miles east of here is Kunnin? creek, where I bought two sections of railmad land. Now, all I had to do was to fctring two wire fences from my home ranch to and inclosing mv railroad land and I had eleven bections of government land fenced up between my two ranches, which made a good winter pasture when the range gratis short. Three months after Cleveland came in I received notice from the new U. S. marshal to remove mv fence." "And did vou do it?" "Of course I did. "What was the use to lick against this obstinate president of vours when he had his mind made up to rninus? That fence cost me $2,000, but that was not all juet look over there! Nearly all that land between my two ranches has been taken up by grangers, who have no business in this country. Thev are crowding us all around. I have "been obliged to reduce my stock one-hr.lf, and if your man Cleveland is re-elected I will have to become a granger myself." he concluded with ttrong, branding-iron language. The Field and Farm, alluded to above, which does not conceal its republicanism, j-ays this coainliment to the land otfice under Mr. Stockslager's administration in its issue oi Aug. 25: Somehow or other there has been less stealincr and less erookedne? hi the land depart

ment of our government lately than then; used 10 be. Of late nu n have been compelled to po j jetty ner straight in obtaining titles to lands. Mr. Logan also says something about the mining interest being aflected by the present administration. No doubt he obtained his information from Twenty-Day Senator Tabor, who, prior to '77, kept a miners' store where Leadville stands toiay, while his good Irish wife took in Wsnicg, but who, after "striking it" it to Ihe extent of ten millions by "grubstaking" poor miners, cast her on because the was ''too common" to go in "society," nd married a young woman who could, and joined the republican party, and paid fcalf a million dollars for Teller's unexpired term in the senate. The democratic party was good enough for him so long as he remained poor. I don't say that every man who makes a million in this country discards his old wife for a young one, but nearly every one joins the republican party, and there is not even a democratic quarter-millionaire in Colorado. When John Sherman was secretary of the treasury he construed the then tariff clause on "silver-lead-bearing ore thus: "When ores imported being more valuable for silver than lead, to be admitted as silver, which is on the free list. When more valuable for lead than silver, then to be taxed as lead ores." The republican tariff , of 'fc3 did not change this construction, and Sherman's ruling is still in forte. Under its operation nearly all the silver-lead-bearing ores of Mexico come in as silver tree. Mr. Tabor has a few mines producing this kind of ore, and the Mexican importation tends to lower the price of lead, to the great relief of the consumers. Besides it gives employment to thousands of men in the smeltings of Denver, El Paso, Pueblo and Omaha. Most of these Mexican mines are operated by Americans. But Mr. Tabor only realized ?'l,:vX,000 from his mines last year, and wants a tariff to shut off all Mexican lead. There are about ten other mine-owners who are rfiected likewise. As for the miners, the men who work eight hours in the bowels of the earth, in wet mines, and live the other sixteen hours at an altitude of 0,000 feet, it makes no difference how much Tabor gets for his lead they get the same wages, whether it is high or low. Indeed, the Leadville miners had to go on strike a few years ago, when lead viv at its highest point in the market, to obtain living wages. But these are not the miners that Mr. Logan met, but the poor millionaires who live in Denver. The miner with the pick knows that protection will not increase his wage, but he knows that the Mills bill will give him cheaper and better blankets and clothing: cheaper toolt, furniture, sugar, salt, and lumber to build Ids cabin, and he is not going to desert the democratic party at least, not until he too is a millionaire. The miner of the West is a democrat, Lake county (Leadville), San Juan and other mining counties of Colorado are democratic, and the state is only kept republican through the millionaires and the cattlemen who live in Denver and the cowboys of the range. Montana is democratic because the miners of Butte outvote the millionaires of Helena and cowbovs of the Yellowstone. While Mr. Tabor is the richest man of the Rockies his knowledge isnoteoial to Viis pretension?. The many ridiculous things he said and did when he first attempted to pose as a "society man" and distinguish himself as a statesman would fill up a volr.me of funny reading. During his contest for the long term in the senate, before the legislature, he ran across Tom l5owen and told him lie had him down. '"I'll meet you at I'hiUippi," answered Bowen, and, unlike Osar's ghost, vanished to a saloon. Talor vanished to another bar-room where lie met Jim JJelford, known in congress as the Red Roaring Rooster of the Rockies. "Say, Jim, wherein is Fhillippi? It can't be a new mining-camp for I know them all, and Bowen wants to meet mo there." "Oh, it's a new saloon in SV uth Denver kept by an Italian named Phillippi, and I would advise you to hunt him there. I hear he wants to compromise witli you and take the short term,", answered the r. r. r. r. And while Tabor was looking for Thillippi's saloon Bowen was fixing the caucus, and Tabor did find Phillippi, but they presented him with the short term of twenty days. Now, I think I have shown that a democratic administration has destroyed somo of the best paying industries of the west land-grabbing, timber-stealing, fencing the public lands and "mavericking" the settiers' stock, and the motto of the ex-cattle king is "To with Cleveland." R. H. P. A Oreat Danger Arerted. X. Y. World. "Unless you give me aid," said a brgar to a benevolent lady, "I am afraid I slialf have to fsort to something which I should greatly dislike to do." The lady handed him $1 and comfacüionatelr a.keri : "What is it, poor mail, that aved you from?" '"Work," was the mournful reply. A High Offlriftt. "Litde bor," said an old lady "why arc yoa B'.t playing hall with the other litttle boys?" "' Isede manager of do club," waa the iaagbty explanation.

HARRISON'S ADROIT LETTER

DISSECTED BY MAURICE THOMPSON. The Republican Candidate Trying to Throw Dut tnthe Kyeaof the People lie Blow Hot and Cold on a Great Moral Iine A Pettifogging Document. To the Editor .S'tV; On Feb. 7, 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, in an address at Boston, said that when men are "legislating for the area betwixt two oceans, betwixt the snows and the tropics, somewhat of the grandeur of nature will infuse itself into the code." That was a very courageous prophesy, and one that was wfll-founded, apparently, forty-four years ego. How much of it has been fulfilled is for the people to consider. "Wo have just been pondering over a letter meant to influence the thought and to satisfy the conscience of the G0,()00,000 of people on this "area betwixt two oceans, betwixt the snows and the tropics," and it is well for us to inquire whether "somewhat of the grandeur of nature" has inspired the hand that wrote it. A man who asks the people to make him president over this mighty country should not be merely clever or adroit; he should have somewhat of the grandeur of nature in him. Mr. Harrison has written and published a letter of acceptance by w hich, presumably, he is willing to be measured publicly, justly, unsparingly. Will ho and his friends consider the criticism of a citizen? If so, I will inquire: 1. What manner of utterance and what substance should benefit a well considered presidential letter of acceptance? Should the utterance be equivocal or involved? Should the substance be disguised? We hear of adroitness in the phrasing of this letter and we are asked to admire the art with which its sentences are so turned as to make direct interpretation impossible ; but it is to be hoped that the people will apply a better test than that for the discovery of cleverness and cunning. Is Mr. Harrison's letter an open, manly, direct, unequivocal statement of any political or governmental policy? Was that letter meant to light up the subjects about which the people are inquiring, or was it deftly fashioned to bt'cloud the public mind and to obscure questions of highest importance ? TUE TAHIKF. "What policy of taxation does Mr. Harrison propose? One sentence is clear, htronr. unmistakable: "The republican party bo!, Is that a protective taritTis constitutional, wholesome and necessary." What about the Frowins surplus in the treasury? Not a word for relict. II btijr-gc-sts that he would le in favor of a revision of taxation; but he adroitly reluses to say upon what articles be wouM make a reduction. We have no manly, purposeful assertion of bis right to sinak for hirrfeif as a free American citizen impelled by the couraee of honest conviction. "H'e know bow clearly be rould have spoken if he bad wished to be clearly understood. The Mills bill and President Cleveland's message declare for the free importation of wool, ami the democratic national platform adopts the same. Was it outright and courageous for Mr. Harrison to evade this point and content himself with adroit ceneralities? The people of Indiana know honesty of statement and thev are not likely to be satisfied with a lawyer's plea when "they ask for a candid expression of political policy. Who can find out from Mr. Harrison's letter whether or not he is in favor of free wool, free salt or free lumber? If he favors a reduction of the treasury surplus, how will he reduce it? The peoyde expected that he would tell them; but he cleverly shied away from the responsibility. He makes use of the elecant phrase "intelligent prevision," but be fails to note for us what this prevision discovers. Does it discover the propriety of reducing the tax on necessary things and keeping it up on unnecessary things? Is he opposed to stopping at once the unnecessary accumulation of the people's money in the treasury of the government? He winks at his party leaders and says: "I am." but he beclouds with doubt every sentence of his letter pertaining to this subject. CHIMK IM MIO RATION. Mr Harrison is less adroit when he comes to speak of Chinese immigration, llvidentlv he felt goaded ami was overanxious here. He forgets literary expertness momentarily and refers to his congressional record. "The law now in force prohibiting such (imported foreign labor) contracts received my cordial support in th senate," he hastens to remark, but it will be noted that he does not refer to some fourteen other votes which were cast by him in favor of Chinese immigration. Mr. Harrison may hope that the people of Indiana will fail to observe this evasion, but if he will recall their exceeding intelligence when choosing between him and good old Farmer Williams, he will cast the hope aside. It is to be presumed that Mr. Harrison has forgotten "Uncle Jimmy Williams and the greenbackers," but the people remember. THE PROTECTION OF LABOR. Mr. Harrison nad' an excellent opiirtunity to Irame his letter so as to make himself understood by laboring people. He lives within a few squares of the spot where a little while ago a large body of earnest and intelligent railroad workinjrmen were ßtrupsflin? for better wages. He has clear recollections of certain matters connected with that struggle. He is not a stranper to the labor question, for he has long been a railroad lawyer, and has advised corporations in their dinioultks with employes. Now, why did he nimbly - evade the subject? Was he eimplv exhibiting his cleverness, or wa he avoiding a heavv responsibility and an urgent duty to his conscience and the people? We may tolerate pettv smartness in ward poliI ticians and street-corner talkers, but the people look for a liberalitv. a breadth and I a sincerity unquestionable in the public utterances of n candidate for their highest, gift. Mr. Harrison may have made literature, in one sense, when he cunningly wrote: "The eilect of lower rates (of taxation) and larger importations upon the public revenue is contingent and doubtful;" but he made no record of sincerity and outright dealing with the people. What does he mean? loes lie mean that it is doubtful whether a lower rate of taxation would decrease the revenue? What contingency does lie refer toi? He says: "The fact of a treasury surplus, the ae;ount of which is variously stated, his directed public attention to a consideration of the methods by which the national income may be reduced to the level of a wise and necessary expenditure," and then, at the same time, is arguing that such a reduction would be an assault upon protection of labor! Let me place two paragraphs of this letter side by bide: vc i. JiuIiTJ by tie HwiitlTo t)i'-neof iVi.-enitiT lat, by the Mill till, by the del -atrs in coujrn and bv the f-i. Iui j'latfuria. the democratic lartr will, if unporud I t the country, place the tarirl lamt upon it pure! revenne l-ai. 'I hi fs practical frc tridV free trade ia the English .-nse. so. 'L The fact of a treasury tun. Ins, the amount of winch israriously Mated, has dar ted public attention to a conoid. -rat iou of the method by which ths national income may bo reduced to I ho lend of a wise and noeefarv expenditure. " " ' proper reduction of tu! revenue Ws not necCHitate, anil should not miiwest, the abundon- ; io"ntor the impairment ; of t lie protective system. What ort of reduction docs Mr. Harri

son favor? A "proper reduction" means nothing without specifications. What is the difference, pray, between a reduction to "a purely revenue basis" and a reduction "to the level of a wise and necessary expenditure?" What is "a purely revenue basis" if it is not a basts on the "level of a wise and necessary expenditure?" Does Mr. Harrison imagine that the people cannot discover a circumlocution bo obviously intended to deceive? Why should Mr. Harrison recoil from admitting frankly that Mr. Cleveland was ricrht when in his famous message he told the whole truth in these words: "The simple and plain duty that we owe to the people," says President Cleveland, "is to reduce taxation to the necessary expenses of an economical administration of the povernment. and to restore to the business of the country the money which we hold in the treasury through "the perversion of trovernmental powers." What is the difference between "a wise and necessary expenditure" and the "necessary expenses of an economical administration of the government?" By such artful dodging, by such adroit phrasing, 3lr. Harrison hopes, on one hand, to gain credit for favoring a reduction of taxation so as to remove the surplus, and on the other hand to make the people believe that such a reduction is the very essence ot "Ent;lish free trade." A lawyer, with professional pride and a just self-respect, would hardly submitsuch a brief to a hih court. Mr. Harrison evidently is not willing to trust the people w-ith a clear understanding of his policy, if he has any. It is to be hoped that every voter in Indiana will read this message, and from it determine, if he can, the attitude of the republican party upon the quetion of prohibition. FREE WHISKY. The ethics of politics, from Mr. Harrison's point of view, feels the terrible strain of the whisky plank in the Chicago platform. The public conscience has responded promptly to such inquiries as: Which is better, iree whisky or free salt? Which is preferable, free rum or free lumber for homes? Which is the most christian, to burden the product of the still or to lift the load from the clothing of the poor? How has Mr. Harrison responded? Ix t us see. Wool, or the subject of woolen goods, is not mentioned in his letter; nor is lumber, salt or any other article necessary to the life and comfort of the people given any notice whatever. The most artful thin? in the letter is the evasion of the name of whisky or spirituous liquors. He does not even refer to the taxation of liquor. He says: "Wearo not likely to be called upon, I think, to make a present choiee lx'tween the surrender of the protective system ond the entire repeal of the internal taxes." What does he favor in regard to the free whisky plank of his platform? Is he fair and honest and courageous? Is ho for or against free whisky? Can any citizen, can any friend of his in the state of Indiana lind out from

this letter what Mr. Harrison really is in favor of upon this burning subject? He is said to be a christian and a man of high honor, nor do I judrn him here ; but what a commentary upon the sincerity of Christian civilization is such an artful, tricky and double-dealing utterance upon a question which is in the heart of every true citizen, a question which goes to the very foundation of public morals and private morality! Here is a man nominated bv his party upon a platform which declares unequivocally in favor of free whisky. Does he kick the platform a-dde? Xo. Does he come out boldly and support it? Xo. What does he do? He avoids, evades, recoils from responsibility tries to preserve self-ret-pect by turning aside; tries to console the honest temperance people of his party with the hope that "a present choice" will not have to be made. A mere cry of procrastination, of nutting the issue forward to some remote period. Anything to avoid the present responsibility. Anything to avoid specific issues. But see how glibly he can write when it comes to a mere generality; 1 notice with pleasure," he says, "that the convention did not omit to express its solicitude for the promotion of virtue and temperance among our people." How easy it would have been for him to have said that he regretted tha he could not indorse the free whisky plank of the platform! Or, on the other hand, how easy to have said frankly that he did indorse it! Solicitude for virtue and temperance floating side by side with the removal of all the tax from whisky and tobacco ! 1 have heard of men who carried around the contribution box at church on Sunday, while during the week they followed questionable practices; but this is less reprehensible than attempting to cloud the people's understanding of subjects aneeting the most sacred elements of social liie and morality. Evident it is, to any honest mind, that Mr. Harrison has tried hard to hold close and fast to the Chicago platform and at the same time ha.s tried just as hard to make the people believe that he felt himself quite apart from and superior to its spirit upon the question of whisky taxation. Is a man w ho will cut and trim, blow hot and blow cold, evade, dodge, equivocate and finally dissimulate in a letter of acceptance upon all the public questions of the day is such a man, I say, lit for the highest, office in the gilt of the freest, most upright, sincerest and best people on earth? The thinking people of Indiana, probably, hold the key to the presidential election, and it is the thinking people who will judge Mr. Harrison by the insincere and tricky spirit of what should have been the most dignified, sincere and outright expression of Iiis opinion upon the questions of highest interest to them. It wouid be a great surprise to honest, earnest, thoughtful Americans if the author of such a piece of cunning and deceit were to le chosen to perform the functions of chief magistrate. MAunrcE Thompson. Craw fords vi lie, Ind.. Sept. 13. Mury Ann Uouglierty' l'enion. To the Editor Sir: Will you please state in your paper the exact cnU!)ds tqon which President Cleveland votoed the bill of Mary Anu Dougherty (pecial act. ) Edgau Jewell. Columbus. Ind.. Spt. 12. Here are the grouads upon which the president vetoed the Dougherty bill, ad stated by lain sell: There is no pretense made now that this beneficiary is a widow, tlionirh she at one time claimed to be, and was allowed a pension on that allegation. Jlcr present claim rests entirely ujK.n injuries received by her when the was conceded!- not employed in the military Fervice. If the pension now proposed ia allowed her it will lc a mere act of charity. Her husband, Daniel Dougherty, is now living in Philadelphia, a:td is a pensioner in hi own rieht for disability alleged to have been incurred while serving in the Thirty-fourth New Jersey volunteers. Of this fact this benefiei.ivy lias been repeatedly informed. And yet fele Mats in her petition that her hub:iud deserted her in 15t, ami has not been heard of fcince. It is alleged in the pension bureau that, in 17!?, she succeeded in neeuring a pension as the widow of Danid Dougherty, through fraudulent testimony and much false swearing on her part. The police records of the precinct in which the has lived for years tdtow that she is a woman of very baJ character, and that she has been under arrest nine times for drunkenness, larceny, creating disturbance, and misdemeanors of that sort. The KfTert of Maftlr. N. Y. Bun. Robinson (at the club) "Yoa are getting to b? a great club man, Urown. I (see you are here every night now. Wife away?" Brown ".No, she insisted upou it that I must buy Lcr a piuuo and 1 did."

FISHBACK OX THE TARIFF.

HOT SHOT FOR MONOPOLY TAXERS. The Republican Party Siding With th Strong Against the Weak and Trying tu Make the Conditions of Life Harder for the Poor. The lion. Stanton J. Pcelle: Tarty leaders are exerting themselves to promote harmony in their respective organizations. Harmony is seldom brought about in that way. When a party stands for justice and national integrity and honor a3 the republican party stood on the isla very question in tho war and after the war for honest money the apostle for harmony has no calling. Enthusiasm for a great cause fuses popular sentiment and gives it direction and momentum. The wise party allies itself with the right eido in such junctures and is carried into power, and is kept there while it is true to tho people. So the republican party obtained power, so it may keep it, if it will. A wise woman (George Eliot) said: "Politicians are astonished at an insurrection against the established order of things which plain people, after the event, can perceive to have been prepared under their very noses." Wise leaders will etudy the indications of such uprisings, and instead of preaching harmony, betake themselves to the work of removing the causes of discontent. Harmony in a party for the mere sake of harmony, isu't worth striving for. Nay, harmony even for the sake of the postoflice?, may be a questionable eood. This may thock you, but unless we have something other than this to tight for in 1SS1 vou will not then see thousands of your fellow-citizens marching through the mud carrying torches and shouting 'Teelle and victory." What is to be the issue? Everybody "of any intelligence says the tariff question wiil be the ui;: question. Existing laws are unjust and unsatisfactory Thousands of republicans areot the opinion that you and your associates lnconirrosare putting our party in a false and dangerous position. Labor is restive. Its strife with capital wages hotter every day. It is not the duty of a party to take sides with one against the other. It should stand between and see fair play and ju.-dict?. Our national statute book is'ritih with the fruits of republican legislation in the interest ot" justice justice to the slave, the freed man, the public creditor, the mained soldier and the widows and orphans of the war. Why not now be just to the poor? They ask no favors. They ask simply that we shall not make the conditions of their life harder for the sake of making the rich neighbors and employers richer. It alarms and grieves me to see a disposition in our party councils and legislation, to side with the strong against the weak. We may carry a few elections with the money contributed to the campaign fund by men who are enriched by unjust laws, but a majority composed of cheap democrats, bought ut $10 a head oa election day to vote for principles they despise, is not so reliable as a majority of voters whose ballots express the intelligent judgment of thinking men. Parties and public men are getting into a corner on this tariff question. It must be met fairly. You see how it worries a prominent politician to be asked for views about it. I sometimes think that even you are a trifled worried by these friendly letters. An esteemed democratic friend is in favor of such an infusion of free trade into the policy of the democratic party as will not wound the susceptibilities of democrats who favor high protective tariif, and my friend Gov. Porter, when recently asked for his views,' responded by expressing a fear that the tariff question would disrupt the democratic party, and an opinion that in a few years the strongest advocates for a protective taritf would be found in the southern states. If I huve done these distinguished gentlemen injustice I have been misled by the reported interviews which have recently appeared in print. When Mr. Douglas said in one of his great speeches that he didn't care whether slavery went up or down in the territories, it was plain that a party following such a leader would fall into the ditch. No more will non-commitalism or indifference avail now on this paramount question. The party that fails to put itself right upon it will meet certain defeat. When recently in control of congress the democrats played the coward for fear of offending protection democrats and did nothing, l'orced by public opinion to do something the last congress, in - enacting the law to which I have been calling your attention, took a step in tho wrong direction. Do not misunderstand me. There are some cood features in the law. Bold men, like Mr. Ktlley in in the house, and Mr. Miennan in the senate, were shrewd enough to throw a few morsels to the public, ami the lion's share went to the insolent timber and salt and iron monopolist?, whose orders you and those who voted for you meekly obeyed. Begging pardon for so long a prelude, I now call your attention to another odious feature in the law under examination. I allude to the sugar schedule. Tho susrar interest is enormous. The annual receipts from duties on imported sugars amounts to about fiftv million dollars. The sugar tax then is about one dollar a year on everv man, womnn and child. This tax ran "be so adjusted that the common people may purcha.se the sugars they use at the foreign cost of production, with the tariff only added. This was not satisfactory to the sugar-refining "interest." This "interest" demanded that tho sugar tax should be so adjusted that every consumer of sugar should pay tribute to the refiners, and congress yielded to the demand, and did it in a way that excites the suspicion that foul means were used to bring it about. Our imported sugars are of two kinds; one kind is not fit for use without refining; the others are lighter and brighter sugars, lit for domestic use as they come to ourshores. It was to the interest of the peof pie to have the tax on this latter class of sugars as low as possible. It was to the interest of sugar refiners to have the tax so high as to practically prohibit their importation. It these can he 6hut out tho retiners have an absolute monopoly. And you voted to give it to them. The tariff tinkers got you into a state of bewilderment on the "po'ariscopc test" and the "Dutch standard, as they are called. I Bupposo the "polariseope test" is a method by which the richness of the article is ascertained, while the "Dutch standard" has special reference to cleanliness and color. Sugars from 13 to 10 Dutch standard are lit for common use without refining. After protracted debate in tho senate 2 cents per pound as the duty was fixed on euch sugars. The reliners asked a higher duty, but the highest they asked waä - (v-100 ce nts per pound. 'Your conference committee increased it to 2 cents per pound, and so it is fixed in the law for which you voted. At the same time you made an enormous reduction in the tariff on sugars which are only imported for the refiners. By this neat process vou voted millions into the pockets of the refiners nut of the pockets of the consumers. We have forty-one suiar reüneries in tbii country, all on the Atlantic seaboard, but four smaller ones in New Orleans. The total number of .laborers employed in the business is ö,0(i2, aud the average rate of wag-s ia SI.- ) per day. The proiits lait year on a capital of

$24,000,000 were $7,000,000. Mr. Kelley says one of the beautiful features of protection is in the fact that the workmen in the protected industries are enabled to adorn the walls of their dwellings with line chromos and engravings. The men who work in sugar refineries for $1.32 per dav live in Boston, New York, Jersey Citv, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Baltimore and New Orleans. Out of his weekly wages of S7.92 the workman must pay rent and buy food and clothing for himself and family. How much margin has he for chromoH, Brother Beeile? You insist that all this is done for the sake of the laboring man. You protect an enormous monopoly which keeps its employes at starvation wages, and make the whole population pay tribute to swell profits. What were you thinking about when you indorsed this outrage with vour vote? W. P. FlSIIBACE. THE GOLDEN EGGS.

Will the Tariff Monopolist Kill the lien That Laj Thein. To tiik EnixoR Sir: Tho attitude of the republican party and its cohorts of tariff-protected monopolies in their present desperato struggle to continue this unequal and unjust tariff in opposition to President Cleveland's patriotic and honest protest, contained in his message to congress upon that very important subject, reminds me of one of JEsop's fables, which reads as follows: "A cottager and his wife had a hen which laid everv day a golden egg. They supposed that it must contain a large lump of gold in its inside, and killed it in order that they might get it, when to their surprise they found the ben differed in no respect from their other bens. The foolish pair thus hoping to heooine rich all at once, deprived themselves of the gain of which they were day by day assured." Now the so-called and much discussed "Mills bill" is only an outgrowth of President Cleveland's wise recommendations in his message to congress looking to the relief of the people, not only from unequal and unnecessary taxation, and is a very mild yet earnest petition to those tax-enriched cormorants not to kill the hen which has laid them so many golden eggs. How long, oh, how long will a patriotic people be able to pay taxes to support their government, when the government doesn't get half they do pay, and don't even need all it does get? Will you please add to this, "Down with monopoly taxes!" JiMBO.. Fairland, Ind., Sept. 11. THE MAINE ELECTION. Ketttrns Very Slow Coming In Snbstanttally a Iemooratic Vletory. New York, Sept. 11. Special. Returns from the Maine election are coming in very slow. The delay is almost unaccountable. It is perfectly safe to say that the repubiieau plurality, according to the present information, will not exceed ls,tX. It will probably fall below this figure. This is a (substantial democratic victory, ns in the September election of 1SS4 the republican plurality was 19,7(X. Mr. Blaine and his friends made desperate eßbrts to roll up a big republican vote. An analysis of the vot shows that they pained largely from the prohibition elementbut lost more largely in other direction.. They have spent a great deal of niouey in the canvass, while the democrats have spent nothing. There is absolute authority for the statement that last week the republican national committee sent $6,00ü 'n 'ini to Aucrusta. It is believed that Joe Manley distributed this money where it would do the most good. Chairman Calviu S. Ihiee, of the democratic national campaign committee, sent the following telegram to the llou. Arthur Sew all today: S'tw York, Sept. 11. You ma-ie a pood fiphtand held your ground. If the republican party, with all th.-! a Irantapps thoy had in Maine, could make no gain orer is4. when we carried the country, our (iueees in November would seem to be assured, especially if our frituds elsewhere make as g.iod a fight a you made in Maine. We can now see that if our naüinal cotnmittee had aided you, and undertaken to make a tight in your state, we could have made a substantial reduction in the republican ranks. Calvi.v S. Bbu k, Chairman. WANTED A JOB, And Rerause lie Didn't Get It Goes Rack Oa 111 Principles. To the Editor Sir: Inclosed I send you a statement of an old soldier of the Eighty-third Indiana cavalry, who has always been an active democrat ever since the war, but simply because ho did not receive an appointment as store-keeper under the Cleveland administration he resolved to play his hand as a good republican, although he received his pension under a democratic administration. The following is his statement: I, John F. Bruce, do hereby say that I will support the nominees for president and vicepresident on the republican ticket, and that I beiieve that the interest of the soldier is more to their advantage uuder a republican adminitration than under the administration of Grover Cleveland. J. F. LJRCCE. The gentleman, simply because he did not get a position, turns his b?ck on .ill the principles that he advocated since the war. I stand responsible for the truth of this statement. liespect fully, K. Homer Huffman, Cor. Sec'y Cleveland and Thurinan Club. Wilmington, Ind., ept. 12. An Old-Time Republican Speaks. To the Editor Sir: Self-preservation is the first law of human nature, aud should lead every American citizen to besuch in the full sense of its meaning, and demand his rights as an American citizen; not as a German-American, or Irish-American, or a JewishAmerican, black or mixed American, or as a native-born American, neither as a workingman, democrat, prohibitionist or republican. If we, as the American people, want to rule this country iu the interest of the American people, wc should, and must, make laws in the interest of the majority, for the benefit of the masses asrainst the classes. Remember, every evil will punish itself. You cannot violate the natural laws of human rights, as laid down by the great ISpirit of the universe, without punishment. And it is astonishing that, in this nineteenth century, with the history of the dill'erent nations of the world before us, we commit the same errors that they did, and pass laws that maKfe the poor poorer, and the rich rieht r. The wealth of the country is jretting to be owned by a few aristocrats, who have sprouted under republican legislation, and who, to keep themselves and their party rings in power, sold out the rights of the American people to European capitalistic corporations, the money and land rings of America and Kttrope combiued. And we 1'uropeans, who left Europe because we loved freedom, are to-day the slaves of American plutocrats and European capitalistic tyrants. There is nothing more humiliating, nothing more disgraceful than this. lien Harrison i the candidate of these ring., and if we want to recover our rights we should defeat him. Wilhelm Gustav Dreythaler, A '-IS, Fremont und Eincoln Republican. 220 a ?. Met idian-st, Sept 11. An Adirondack Guide. Forest and .ctrearu. The great character of our party was the driver, Charley a chap who is as hard to catch asleep as an ofd weasel. He is ns trim built as an In. bau runner, a quick as a jrreyhound, and ran so exactly imitate the hound in full chafe that it will puzzle an old hand to tell which is the real hound. He seems made of whalebone, trimmed with india-rubber. He will start out towards the ea.t with n couple of dogs attached by a chain to his waist, auother he leads, and his own two travel iu front, with them he holds general conversation on the way. Within three hours he will start each dog after a separate deer, and by short cuts or by some hocuspocus, he will be up with on or more of them coming in from the opposite direction, join his voice, aud by the time the deer is killed, he i on hand to join in the hilarity and fun usual on euch occasions. This inimitable fellow bas but one fault, and do not know that you would term it such; you might say it was proof of his game he cannot eat venison; it makes hiru sick, and we had to feed him eu pork.

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Facts About the Raid Alleged 'Artists" Upon Uluffton. To the Editor Sir: Flease allow me enough space in your excellent paper to refute a. malicious and willful falsehood, which appeared in the Indianapolis Journal of to-day, entitled "Alleged Photographers Take in a Town." The correspondent is only right in one thing that is, the sw indle. We democrats call it "the republican photograph trust." The parties came to our city, and the first place they struck was the republican headquarters. They got the chairman, Mr. Duglay, and Thomas fcjwaim and went with them to the republican newspaper and got pome dodgers struck to advertise their echeme, and Droeeeded to bill the town. Eut instead of forming the acquaintance of democrats, they mustered with the republicans, attended their club meeting, and had l!en Harrison's picture in their plug hats, and they did take in quite a number of the citizens here, among whom were the following named republicans, to-wit: Nell K. Todd (his father, Jacob J., furnishing the money). Win S. Silver, Iee L. Martz, W. II. Wentz, John E. Welty, Leonidas Mason, I). I). ; George Burgner, the Misses Hosters (one of them, however, got her money back). These nanus are on the book that the scoundrels left behind. Mr. Hatüeld, w ho worked for them, has turned it over to the prosecutor, and there is where I got the names. As to myself and all the other gentlemen named in Todd's communication to the Journal, except John Long, wc had nothing whatever to do w ith the two slick republican rascals, and the correspondent knew it when he wrote the article, as is evidenced by his closing remarks. The hats worn by these two "Carnahan" republicans we're of "English" make, and of the Jim Elaine stvle of four years ago, and not Cleveland plugs, as stated in Todd'g communication to the Journal. In conclusion, I just want to say that the article in the Journal is about as near the truth as the republican party up here can get on anything of a political nature. They are telling the farmers that "there are several millions bushels of wheat lying up in the Mackinaw straits, held by foreign capitalists, ready to pour into the American markets as soon as the Mills bill becomes a law, which takes the duty on" of wdieat, and that wheat will go down to 20 cents a bushel," when they know that the Mills bill doesn't change the dutv on wheat at all, and that if it did, it wouldn't make the slightest difference. The people are too well informed, however, to believe such falsehoods, and consequently it has the same effect on the people that the silly statement of a certain little republican stump orator of this city, to-wit: that the "fight this year is between the republican party on tlie one side and the rebels on the other." And that eflect is to make democratic votes. J. II. C. Smitit. Bluffton, Ind., Sept. 12. ABOUT CALIFORNIA. Cleveland Will Carry It The Curse of Chinese Labor. To the Editor Sir : I have just arrived from the Pacific slope, and I can assure you that California is bound to go for Cleveland and reform. There are very few workingmen in California that won't vote for Cleveland. They say they don't want to elect a man president that upheld Chinese labor against American citizens. In San T'iego last winter, while they were building the Sweet Water clam, they were paying white labor $2.25 and $2.50 a day. Three hundred Chinamen left San Francisco when they heard of the work going on and came down to San Diego. They went to the San Diego land and town company and offered to work for $1.10 a day, and they were put to work in preference to white men. This is but one out of hundreds of similar cases where the Chinamen have taken the bread and butter out of the mouths of white laborers in California. The latter all know that Harrison was for Chinese immigration. I am positive they w ill see to it that he will never cat ry California. My home is in Indianapolis, and I am sure if my laboring friends there could go all over California as I have done and see how the Chinese have ruined American workingmen there, not one of them would ever vote for the man who tried to encourage the Chinese to come to this country to take their bread from them. James O. Barrett. Crawfordsville, Ind., Sept. 12. A Singular Female. A peculiar individual, who has long figured in the street night life at Galveston, is a woman named Eanny Stone. 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