Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1888 — Page 3

TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, 'WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1888.

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DAXGER LURKS IN DIARIES.

THE EMPEROR FREDERICK'S BOOK. The Iter. Dr. Tttlmat Talke A boat the Ilypocrisy and Embarrassments of Perooal Memorandum Papers Giant Terrors of the World WE have, Bail Dr. Talmage in a familiar talk to Ids tabernacle people at their usual week-night meeting, two styles of news this week the one European and the other American. The publishing of the late Emperor Frederick's diary has caused agitation all oyer Europe, tnrne J the royal .courts into whispering galleries and shown that in one little old book there is enough fuel to set a nation on fire. Years ago in that diary Frederick wrote hU impressions of men and things. Those leaves ought never to have seen the light, but some one has published them, and goes to prison therefor, and Bismarck, who is usually imperturbable, flies into a rage and the present emperor tells his mother, on the supposition that she had something to do with the publication, she had better quit her favorite palace. Two things I have to say about private diaries. They should never be published and, mora than that, they should never be written. They are either honest or hypocritical. If honest they express opinions and make record of things that should be forgotten. If they ire hypocritical they pretend to be what thy are not, and no lie should bo permitted to live. It is well enough to keep tmeinofandum of engagements and where you go and come. Do not put down personalities that may give vou trouble aiter you have departed this life. A diary ia apt to be a legacy of hornets' nests to survivors. Let Mayor Chapin put down in a private book what he knows about the politicians of Brooklyn, and rresii?nt Cleveland in a private book what he thinks about the public men of the day, and then let some one, twenty years from now, publish these books and there will bf lively tinu-H about the lginning of the next century. Burn your diaries except so far as they may be needed to settle the question of dates and the question of whereabouts. By the time your diary comes under the manipulation of other, all the circumstances may have changed. The conduct of others, which at the time you wrote may have seemed stranee or nefarious, mav have been explained and justified. Difterences that ought to be forgotten n 1 ........ I knA ,11 ,i: i been known to break a will, to separate life-long friends and to roll the apple of dissoord far down the corridor of the future. We will have all we can do to meet complacently the record of our lives when we corue to judgment a record that will include all that we ever thought, or said, or did during all our lifetime. But also for tho common habit of putting in a diary that which a man dare not say to the public during his lifetime, and then, after death, hiding himself behind a barricade of tombstones to let others fight out the controversies he instigated. But turning to our country, I think the most lamentabl; news of "the week is connected with the continued ravage of pestilential sickness at the .South. Three great diseases have had an cspecir.l grudge against the human rae. Their play-ground has been tho graveyard. Their banqueting hall has been the sepulcher. The Asiatic cholera has been known for centuries, but in 1817 it started from the banks of the Ganges to swelter and cramp the nations all around the world. It swept off3O,0u0 people in Upper llindostan and 150,000 in Bombay, prostrated Central Asia, and, following the line of the rivers, crossed into Russia and down into Central Europe, marching on year by year, Its path one great field of "skulls, until, in 1831, it appeared in England, and, taking thip ' for our own country, this monstrous sickness landed at Quebec June 8, 1832, and June 21 of that year it arrived in New York and all the cities shivered with the horror and Death had hardly barns largo enough to contain his harvests. 3Iedical science had done much to alleviate the power of this great pestilence, but still it is unslain and every summer stands looking east, west, north and south to see which nation is most unable to resist its ravages. Another giant terror of the world was the piaguo It formerly visited England every thirty or forty years. In the fourteenth century it did its worst The carbuncled and wollen victims died until one-third of the entire population of London perished. The most frightful cry that any city ever heard was the cry: "A plague!"" At midnight the dead carts rattled throuzh the city on the war to the cemeteries, the driver ringing a bed and crying: "Bring out your dead! bring out your dead!" And then, without waiting for a shroud, the lifeless started on their last journey, going out of sight under the lantern of the grave-digffer no hat lifted, or iitl:n sunz, or prayer offered. To make a trinity of horrors yellow fever comes in. With narrow geographical limits it ha. always done its work of devastation, but done it thoroughly. The southern cities of the United states seem to have been marked for its special havoc. It is fifty-wix years laxion uy iug iu pauij. .-xn uuruu veiy, but literally grass grew in Broadway. One I my Bueesiurs was u. uwm vi me arge. It is an awful mystery. The Inzs explained in regard to it aro few pared with the inexplicable. That it ild affect the southern cities of the ed States and a portion of Africa and '3 entire stranger to China and India, ct insoluble. The medical profession for long years been in constant fion about its contagiousness, 'of the vessels id the British Indian squadron have -reeled it, and others, under the 'am influences, have floated I is found out to come from a ruiat floats in the air. But that d!sMsvna nr.l hflr tr ctir Hin oilmonf knows how to catch and kill tho

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microbe? May wo not pray for some light upon this scientific investigation of the day? There grows an herb somewhere or sleeps a mineral or waits in some laboratory a chemical which will defeat this assailant of our national health. Tho (od who made the human body and nil the plants and all the minerals alone can make the saving revelation. What must be the condition of a city, all the children dea i in this house, father and mother dead in that house, all the family dead in another house. Patient and doctor buried on the eame day. The grave digger's trade triumphs over all other business. Hearse meeting hearse. The voice of one funeral service in one house meeting the voice of another funeral service in another house, or no service at all. The body wrapped up in silence and carried away, Passengers on railway trains from the infected districts shot if they attempt to disembark at certain depots. The newspapers of the past weeks, like the scroll which the prophet saw, have been written within and without with lamentation and mourning and woe. Were there no God to comfort and no resurrection to bring up the dead not as they went down, j-ellow and wasted and aeonized, but radiant and immortal then there were nothing but unmitigated calamity for some of the cities of the South. There are three emotions stirred at this contemplation. First, an emotion of sympathy. The contributions from all the cities show that in times of sickness there is no North and no South. In this awful way (iod teaches us we are brothers and if we do not learn it now, somo other disease will smite the North aud the tide of contributions will change and southern cities will con:o to the rescue of northern cities, litt our hearts melt, our purses open, our sectional prejudices perish beyond resurrection. Clod is in these provinces of sickness and in other ways gradually bringing the North and the South back to their old scene, in those days when William Preston of South Carolina thundered on one side of the sky and Daniel Welkster of Massachusetts thundered from the other side of the sky, and the voice of Henry Clay and S. II. Prentiss from the West "rolled up in reverberation all around the heavens. I hope our northern and southern cities, clasning hands as they do to-day over the sick and dying bed's of hundreds of yellow fever patients, will not feel so much when their hands are unclasped like striking each other in vituperation and scorn. The second emotion is one of gratitude that we are at the North untouched. The one case in New York City was just enough to let us know how easy (iod could let us perish if he would. Thanks to our boards of health for their caution and vigilance, but if our time had come they could not have stopped tho pestilence. We have enough garbage and malodors in New York and Brooklyn to kill both cities if yellow fever should come. Why are we spared ? Because we are better than these southern cities? Who would bo so infamous as to say we are spared for municipal virtue? If God had dealt with our cities as we have deserved, we would have been So lorn and Gomorrah. It does not lecomo us to be too generous in the distribution of the judgments of God on other people. Why have we been spared? No human precaution could have saved us. You may stop an infected ship at the narrows, but you cannot quarantine a destroying angel. Thank the doctors, by all means, but, higher than nil and more than all, thank God, who redeemeth our lives from destruction. The third emotion is one of admiration for the heroism this fearful sickness has displayed at the South. It is comparatively easy to go into battle amid huzzaing comrades and led by inspiriting life and trumpet; but it requires great courage to face death in th'j shape of contagion. Tnere are no monuments in any of the cemeteries of our cities more worthy than those raised over the physicians who have perished at their posts in time of exterminating sickness. Have you noticed in the roll of the dead at Jacksonville and other southern cities the names of doctors? You look puzzled when we clergymen are trying to explain to you vicarious suffering. It means dyina: for others. It means what again and again has in the last few weeks Ixen seen in southern cities. If there be any sublimer spectacle than a doctor, bloodshot from sleepless watching, pouring out the medicines for others which he ought to be taking himself, with no prospect of compensation, enduring the malodors of infected districts, acting at the same time as nurse, as sexton, as undertaker, as health odicer, then going home exhausted and chilly and faint to lie down to die. I say if there is anything sublimer than that, show it to me? That is medicai martyrdom, and the flames which flashed np from Smithfield and Brussels market place could add to it no luster. What do you think of that telegraph operator standing at his post while all the town were dead, and making ready to fly, calmly sending olf messages of implorätion and getting back messages of sympathetic relief? Within the past month how many newiy discovered heroes and heroines. A little girl that watches her father down with the fever until he dies, and with a mother until she dies, and then dies herself from the exhaustion I do not care what vou call her, I call her a martyr queen. The fourth emotion is one of appreciation of the fact that our life and health aro completely in the hands of God. If you ascribe it all to human precaution that New York and Brooklyn have been spared, you are an ingrate. It is right at such times that we should observe all sanitary regulations, and be lareful that from our houses no garbage is thrown into the street, and that our rooms are kept well ventilated, and we adhere to a Christian diet; but let us after all feel our dependence on God, who jives health and takes it away, and let the story of selfEacxiiice teach us that lifo ia xrand only

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in proportion as it is of service to others. I scout much that is said in magnification of longetivy. Sixty, seventy or eighty years öf earthly existence are disgusting if they make no mark on the wond. The faithful waiting maid, who lay down to die beside her mistress, will have higher reward in heaven. If a life 13 useless, the shorter tho better. Death is, in such a case, only the abatement of a nuisance. Every breath the idler draws is an as.sault and battery on the whole of God's universe. And now may (Jod put an end to this southern pestilence and rekindle the lights which have gone out in many alllicted households and give resurrection and anticipation to all who have been to the grave to weep there, and when the trumpet of the archangel shall fetch up the great armies of those who tell under tho Asiatie cholera and the plague and the yellow fever, may it bo found that we did all we could in the way of practical alleviation. Rented I'ewi. X. Y. Tribune. There is nothing that tends to create among the poor so much prejudice against the churches as the system of renting pews; nor can there be anything more directly opposed to the lirst principles of Christianity. It is the rented pew thai keeps rich and poor apart in the churches. The lines of class distinction are drawn wjierever money is paid for seats in that Jerusalem which is from above, but is not free. The poor are made to feel that religion, after all, is very much of a luxury, and that they cannot afford it. Here the Kpiseupal church of this c ty is setting a noble example to other religious bodies. Upward of one-half of the houses of that body are already free churches, and the movement is making rapid progress. One other tendency may also be noticed. This is the new tylo of preaching that is coming into vogue in churches. The old school of rmlpit essayists, w hose sermons are largely argumentative and literary,and are written mainly for people of comfortable means and elegant leisure, is passing away. Men are springing up in pulpits who feel that they have a tnessase to deliver to souls under their care. They are looking their congregations directly in the face and delivering that message without notes and in the plainest possible language. Christian ministers who employ that method will be certain to have something to say to the masses; and when poor men find that there is a Gosi-el preached that is for human souls, and not for the well-to-do and indolent parishioners alone, they will bj drawn in to hear it. Itutton-Ilole rersivlon. The Exam iner Bap. Our churches are about to enter upon a new campaign for winning souls. As Christians we believe that all who ara out of Christ are in imminent peril. We profess to desire above all things the salvation of sinners. Yet how little there is of the urgent pleading, the untiring efl'ort in trying to win men from the power of Satan to God, which political partisans show in seeking to persuade men to their way ot thinking. The simple truth is, the great body of our church members are altogether too timid in pressing tho truth home upon the hearts and consciences of sinners. There is such a thing, to be sure, as "zeal without knowledge" in approaching the unconverted; but so, also, is there far too great reticence in addressing them. We venture to say that all the harm ever done by over-zealous brethren is as nothing comfared with that which has resulted from etting opportunities for personal effort pass unimproved. Wo trust too much to long-range shooting to sermons and prayer-meeting talks. They have great value; we would not depreciate them. But they need to be followed up by hand-to-hand encounter, by button-hole persuasion. In Morninnimii a Krlierion? Hot. C R. B!om Sec. New West Commission. It is utterly impossible to explain the facts which meet one everywhere in Utah, without granting, not only that mormonism is a religion, but also that the chief sources of its present vitality and power lie in the religious ideas, hopes, ami fears of its adherents. The tenor of their discourses in the tabernacle, the forms of devotion which they observe, tho enthusiasm which attends their frequent conference, the steadfastness of their devotion to Uieir church maintained by the great majority of them, the constant departure of missionaries in the face of continual discouragementc, the uninterrupted building of their temples, tho constant and universal recurrence to the supposed miraculous origin and the wellknown and rapid early progress of their church, and the unabated confidence of the early coining of a deliverer, who will smite their enemies and carry forward their church to a position of great glory and universal influence all these things are unaccountable save upon the ground that mormonism, whatever it .was at first, has grown to be a religion, intrenched in convictions and powerful as a source of motives, hopes ami courage. Itollsrloaa Vote. The Southern b.iptist foreign mission board has under new appointment eleven men and three women, ami expects to increase iu missionary forctt the present year by twenty-tive workers. The catholic hre less than 7,000 church edifice in the United State: tha baptists nearly 41,000; the conjrreiiationalistH, 4,UA); prenby terian, 13,000; the protestaut episcopals, 4,000, and the rncthoriists, 47,000. The universalist general convention meets in Chicago Wednesday, Oct. 24. The great questions to coiue betöre the session are: The adoption of a creed, and plan of biennial eestionft, and the Japan mission. The Gospel wa-'on workers in the city of Washington have Wl a most successful mnnmer campaign. Multitudes in the neglected parti of Uie city Lave heard tho gospel tUil,

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and many have turned from their evil ways and united with Christian churches. American Protestant missionary societies have in nil the world 99 stations, 3,043 ontsiations, 'JV2 male missionaries, l.i.'l female, 7,478 native helpers, l,(fXi churches, lö'J,21o eouimuniennts, of whom 17,4 )4 were added last year. The receipts of the societies were Tidings from Kolapoor, India, say that the manifestations of joy on the part of native Christians in seein? Mrs. It. O. Wilder and her daughter nmounif them were wonderful. The ladies were absent America for thirteen years, but Miss Grace Wilder, who was her late father's nhle assistant in conducting the Jijtionari J.'rr 'etr, still talks Mahratta (or Marathi) like a native. Christian at Work. Not all wagons are fitted to run in the same ruts. Not all churches are fitted to ruivin the same grooves. Imitation, m Inch is sometimes a means of success, may be also a means of failure. Why should a chuif'h adopt the secondhand method of some other society when it can do first-hand work of its own? Here, as evcrywere, the duty that lies nearest should Im considered. The fulfilling of that may reveal duties that are more remote. Chrutian llojüter. There never was a time in the modern history of our church when the ministers, as a whole, were so devoted and so enthusiastic, or when they Merc so ready to declare that methodism does not exist for the sake of the ministers, but the miuisters for the sake of niethodism. The new spiritual movement has already exhibited many encouraging features; but not one of them ia more promising than the steady raising of the standard of ministerial qualification, both intellectual and moral. Ihe Methodist Timtt (London, Eng.) AFRAID OF THEIR BILL Itepnllirnn Senator Afraid to Art on the Tariff Sonntor Tnr! Views. From Tuesday's Paily.l Senator Turpie returned to Washington last night. He will remain there till Oct. 22, when he will return to Indiana aud speak every day until the election. , , .-,'. . . The jii'hje has completed a campaigning tour of the state, speaking in every congressional district, and looks as bright as a dollar fresh from the mint. To a representative of The Sentinel the junior senator said: "I never saw so much enthusiasm among democrats before. My day meetings were attended largely by farmers, some driving fifteen and twenty miles. The nicht meetings were thronged with mechanics and railroad men, anxious to hear the tariff discussed. I confined myself to the tariff issue entirely." "What is the outlook in the state?" "Splendid. I made it a point to talk with the farmers and mechanics as to the feeling iu the townships and cities, and from a conservative conclusion, I am confident there will be no material change on the vote of lrfSl. We have not lost on ilie tarill' issue, but we have gained many intelligent republicans who are tired of paying a bounty to the monopolists. As to the general outlook, i met great many Michigan people who came to hear me in the northern counties of the suite. 1 was surprised to find the confidence in which they spoke of carrying Michigan, but, of course, we do not need Michigan to elect Cleveland and Tliurman. "California I regard as certain. The president's course iu regard to the Chinese question has placed the state in our column beyond question. The state went democratic iu lS-So, when the tarid' question was not understood. Since then it has gone republican but once, in 1&S4, when lllaine carried it on account of his anti-Chinese record." "What do you think of New York?" "In New ork, it is only a question of majority with us. The triangular light in the city for mayor will increase our majority. It will bring to the polls 10.UK) democrats who would otherwise stay at home. Doth factions will strive to bringout voters, and a vote for (Jrant or Hewitt will, alao, be a vote for Cleveland and Hill. In lS-vJ the democrats had only one candidate for mayor, and we lost the state and came within 2,(M votes of losing the mayor, too. There could not be any trading then, but the disappointed democrat, who didn't stand iu with the faction claiming Grace, refrained from hustling. In '$2 and '81 the rival factions rati independent local tickets: this gave the state aud national tickets an increased vote favorable to the democratic party. Ist year the Nieol-Fellows light increased the democratic majority 5,000. "New Jersey and Connecticut are all right" "How will the next congress stand;" "The senate will be n tie, giving the next vice-president great power. The house will be from forty-five to sixty-five democratic. In this state we will gain four members certain and probably live." "Judge, what do you think of the senate artiffbill?" "It is a base imitation of the Mills bill, intended to deceive the people and get large contributions from the monopolists." "Will it pass before the election?" "No. The program of the republicans is to discuss it in general until a week or two before the election, then take a reoess of twenty days. It will not be tiken up by them until the election is over, because it would eipoue their trickery. "When the billls read in the senate the democrats will oiler amendments to make it conform with the Mills bin, and on many of them we will get enough republicans with us to adopt them, lake lumber, lor example; the Kansas. Nebraska and Iowa senators would not dare to return home if they voted against free lumber and ßalt. Then there are at least three republican senators from Kastern states who will vote to put wool ou the free list They'll do this after election, but they would not dare to do it before, because they could not get contributions from the millionaire lumber men of Maine. Michigan and Wisconsin, nor could they obtain money from wool-growers ot the trans-Mississipni country. Wool, lumber, salt and many other articles are sure to tro on the free lit after the election if we cuu bring the republicans to vote." Protection, Restriction nud Detraction. To the EDITOR Sir: 'Trotection, restric tion and destruction," Is the concise definition of the senate tariff bill by Beck. Why not let the "1. K. and D." be adopted as the democratic definition and made a byword of the earn paien? "Protection, .restriction anddentruction" should be posted everywhere, in every corner of every democratic paper. O. U. M. Kvansville, Ind., Oct 8. ieu. Sherman's Politics, To the Editor V: To decide a bet please state in THE Sentin EL Oen. Sherman's poli ties. k M". I'aiCE. Kempton, Ind., Oct, 0. Gen. Sherman, it is understood, has not voted for president for many years, and is con' iJered aa kdepenJtct ia pqUUci

IXDIAXA AND THE TARIFF.

EXPERIENCE OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS. The Test Applied to the Home Market nambuf Its Fallacies Rxposed by the Dally ltnsiness Transactions of the People. The conclusion we have reached, that protection is injuring Indiana and other agricultural states for the benefit of eastern manufacturers aud capitalists is obviously in conflict with tho doctrines of the hih protectionipts.for they claim that protection is a benefit to everyone. On their theory the manufacturer makes mora money, the laborer receives higher waes and the farmer gets bettor prices tor his product. To this the tarilf reformer answers that such a coalition is impossible, and if it were possible it would benefit no one, for t would be an equal increase of all values, all profits and all expenses. It would be the game as the effect of a law (if such a law could be made)that would make a dollar worth twö dollars and increase the value everything else in proportion. It would be the eame as a man lifting himself by Ids boot-straps. If one class is benefited, another class must bo burdened. The principle is that of the lottery, where a man rets prizes and many men contribute without compensation. If our conclusion is correct, thero must bo some fallacy in the argument of the protectionist and our century of experience ought to enable u to detect it. This is imposing on ourselves a rather large task, but we ought to undertake it, for there is evidently something wrong somewhere, and it is important to know just w hat it is. Let us proceed then to consider one condition. ly the last census Indiana had a population of l,W7S,r01, of whom 1,4GS,093 were over ten years of age. Of these C"),080 were engaged in occupations of various kinds, 3ol,40 of them in agriculture. As the proportional number of persons not engaged in occupation?, i. e. women, children, aged and helpless persons, etc., is as great among farmers as it is among other clashes, we Fee that over one-half of the people of Indiana derive their support from agriculture. One worker, according to the census, on an average supjorts himself and two other persons and a fraction over. The actual number supported by agriculture in this state, at the taking of the census, did not vary far from 1 ,000,000. The question lirst in importance then i3 : What docs the taritr do for the farmer? That it increases the cost of his clothing, his tools and implements, his sugar, his medicines, his carpets, his furniture, and in brief everything that he uses which he does not produce, is apparent. The protectionist tells him that as an offset to this he has two advantages irom the tarilf. (1) A home uurket for his product. (2) Increased wages for farm labor; and (3) protection from foreign competition on the articles he produces. As to the home market, he declares that the United States consumes IK) or V2 or 94 per cent, of all she produces, and this is the measure of the home market which protection has given to America. Ix-t us see about this. Mr. Farmer, did protection give you your mouth and your digestive apparatus? You think not. Very well, then, as you and your family eat and drink as much as other popple, and as the agricultural population of the whole country is about one-half of the total population, we will have to cut oil' half ot this home market produced by protection. I5ut stop, says the protectionist; this product is not conbumed by the people alone; a great deal of it is fed to horses and cattle and hogs. Very true, so it is; but who own most of tlu'se animals? Tho farmers. Then we shall have to cut your home market down still more. Hut hold, again; a great deal of farm produce is not consumed by either people or animals, but is used as seed for subsequent crops. Kxactly so, and the farmers are the men that use the seed; fo we will have to cut down your home market again. "Hut, my dear sir," 6ays the protectionist, "the home market is not for agricultural products alone ; it represents tho domestic consumption of products of all kinds." Aha! you rascal, I have you there! Why did you not ßay so to the farmer at first"? Why did you leave him with the impression that nine-tenths or more of his product was consumed at home? You know very well that the per centage of his product consumed here is much less, and that the total per eentage is raised by mined and manutactured commodities, half of which are consumed by the farmer himself. You know, also, that this large per cemtage of home consumption of lumber, coal, iron, lead, copper, etc., is largely due to the action of the trusts controlling the e articles, which suspend production and force an increase in their home price rather than export at less profit, sell here for a less profit, and give continuous employment to labor. Vou start out to show that protection furnishes a home market to an agricultural people for their produce, and vou undertake to-prove it by adding what they consume to what is consumed by the people who are supposed to be brought here and kept here by protection. That will never do. The farmer was here to begin with. You brought in your infant industry and tho farmer paid for raising him. You must not turn around now and profess that vou brought the farmer here and furnished" him to the infant industry. Moreover, if there were no manufacturing in the country at all there would be a very considerable number of people besides agriculturists such as doctors, lawyers, clergymen, merchants, men engaged in transportation, and numerous other industries. Still further, there would be a large amount of manufacturing done here it there had never been s.nv protection at all, for this is the universal experience in all countries ancient and modern, no matter what the tax laws were. Your "home market made by protection" is therefore a comparatively small thing. If we should concede that all manufacturing were brought here by the protective system, you could not by any legitimate process of calculation 6how that it was the cause of the consumption of one-tenth of what is consumed in this country. The fallacy involved in ths "home market" argument, therefore, is that "home market" is confounded with "home consumption," which is a very different thing. If a boy has live apples, and eats four and sells one, you would not say he had a market for apples, would you ? The protectionist says that is the boy's home market, and it he does not guard it the auper apple boys will come in and make iim eat their apples instead of his own, because they gut them cheaper than he does. Uut supposing, for the sake of argument, that protection has furnished tho farmer 25 per cent, of his home market, what good does it do him? Does he get any more for 'his product? You may think that is a silly question, but let us'look at it seriously." You know that a great deal of the farm product of this country is shipped abroad, and in order to see how our homo market compares with the foreign market we will figure a little on tho export of wheat According to the census of 1SS0, the wheat product of the United States was 4r9,47'.V"05 bushels. Of this we exported 153,2.2,7yö bushels of wheat and G.01 1,419 barrels of flour, equal, at four and adialf bushels to tho barrel, to 27,- , QA,iV) LuiUla cl wheat. The tottd grt

therefore w. 3 180,304,501, or two-fifths of the product. You see then, that, deducting the one-half of the home consumption which is made bv the farmers (more exactly 3'JJ per cent, of the whole pr-xluct) our farmers really sell more wheat for a foreign market than for a home market. Now, when a farmer takes his wheat, say 500 bushels, to the grain dealer, which dots he get the most per bushel for, the I'OObushels that go abroad or the 300 that remain in this country? Just the same; does he not? He cannot tell whether all or any part of his wheat will go abroad. He knows that two-fifths of all the wheat raised in the country goes abroad, and that whoever sells it gets the same price as the man who sells the wheat that stays here. The price here depends on Chicago or New York quotations, and the quotations there depend on London or Liver!ool quotations, unless some speculator ias a "corner' on wheat, and that makes only a temporary fluctuation in the price. Exactly the same thing is true of every other staple farm product of the country. If, instead of selling his grain, the farmer feeds it to cattle or hogs and sells them, the result is the same. For example, we have inthecitvof Indianapolis the establishment of Kingan t Co., who slaughter about five hundred thousand hogs annually, and export about one-half of their product. If you take a drove of hogs to them to sell", you will find that the only distinction made by them in the price of the hogs they export and those so!d in the home market is an excess of 5, 10, or sometimes L0 cents per hundred weight on those' exported. This would seem to make the foreign trarket a better one for the farmer than the home market, but it cannot be fairly so considered because this distinction is due to the grade of the animals. The English market calls for leaner pork than the home market, and therefore the full-fatted animals are consumed at home, while the lighter animals, commonly called "export hogs" or "English hogs," are sold abroad. Follow the list of staple farm products to their destinations and you will find that not one of them brings more to the farmer because it is partly consumed at home not one of them is increased one cent in price by the home market. Their price is invariably fixed by the foreign market, when they aro sold in competition with the product of the serfs of llussia, the fellahin of Egypt, aud the ryots and coolies of India. Now, where is the fallacy? It is in the suppressed fact that the staple products of the country are not sold to consumers but to middle-men. The farmer lias nothing to do with transportation. He sells to the London market, the New York inarkt t, and the Indianapolis market, all at one time, at one place and at one price. Hut he does not think of this, and the wily protectionist argues to him that he is selling everything in a home market. The protectionist also conceals the fact that his system, by destroying our merchant marine, has given England control of our foreign market ; and that tho majority of our exports are shipped to English ports, and thence in English ships to their various destinations. If we had the shipping that we had under a low tariff, and could trade direct with all foreign ports in our own ships, we would have a dozen bidders for our farn products instead of one, as wo have now. This, like any other competition, would raise the price of the farmer's wares both abroad and at home. Our grain quotations would no longer be at the mercy of English dealers or domestic speculators, but would be regulated by the open competition of the world. J. T. Duxx, Jr A CENTER SHOT AT HOVEY.

Another Soldier Criticises His Itecent Letter to the Soldiers of Indiana. To the Editor 5: I have received a letter signed Alvin P. Hovey, a letter insulting alike to the veterans of the Union army and the honest voters of the United States. In this letter he says that "President Cleveland and the solid South are controlling the house of representatives, and preventing all legislation in favor of our comrades." Such declarations, are, in ruy mind, beneath the contempt of an honest veteran. I have confidence in the intelligence of the electors of this country, and believe that their verdict at the hallot hox is correct; and further I know; and Gen. llovey knows, if his little narrow mind is canahleof knowing anything, that veterans of the fate war have fared better under the administration of President Cleveland, and. as Hovey terms the house of representatives, ''ihe solid South," than they ever did under republican rule and republican promises. Mr. llovev refers in his letter to the G. A. 1L as though each post was a separate republican club. I don't so understand it, and I think a majority of the comrades are of my opinion. I served in the army Ion -er than Gen. llovey did, and if, as he says, the house of representatives represent the "solid South," my feelings are in lull accord with the solid South. And for governor of Indiana I prefer risking a man who has stood by his comrades and secured legislation in their favor, than one who exhibits his narrow-mindedness by introducing measures in congress that lie does not hope to have passed, and only offers them for buncombe. If I had entertained any doubts before I received lien, llovey's letter, it would have made me solid for Comrade Matson. Respectfully, Stckely Campbell. Brazil, Ind., Oct 9, 188. A Conundrum For Itlnine. To the Editor Sir: I find this paragraph ia The Sentinel's report of Mr. Ilaine'i recent speech at Grand ltapids: Mr. Maine said ince hU l.rt visit t" Grand Rapid, four years ac, be har been in Kurope, and raw nothing that inures ted him more than, when touring In Scotland, to sleep in a room all tho furniture of which came from Grand Rapids. A city which had nuda such progress in manufacturing uurler the protective system could be relied noon tr cast its vote for that "prtnd and creat candidate, IV njamia Harrison, for president of the United States." "What puzzles me is this: If the Grand ltapids furniture manufacturers can send their product to Scotland and compete successfully with Hritish manufacturers, why should the Grand Rapids people need a protective taritF to help thera out in their competition with those same British manufacturers in this country? J. A.C. Aurora, Oct. 11. Democratic Gain In New Jersey. TO THE Editor Sir: The press dispatches announce that the democrats carried Newark, N. J., by 700 majority lat Tuesday. Some r?v.ii'icaus'claim it was a democratic loss. Ho is it? W. A. Lano. jvohlesville, Oct 11. The annual charter election at Newark was the first held under the "sunset law" and resulted in. a democratic victory. The charter eleT Vn previous to the presidential election in 1SS4 went republican by 1.500. This is the first time the democrats have carried the election in a presidential year for thirty years. The majority is 1,000 instead of 700. Farmer Tired of Being Taxed to Death. Mitchell, Oct. 9. Special. Still the p. o. p. are casting their lot on the side with tariff reform. Mr. V. T. Burton, a life-Ion; republican and a worker in the rank, and a large farmer, came to town to-day and publicly announced hii intention to vote for Cleveland and Thumian. He claims that he has not left the republican party, but it has left him. This announcement hoi caused the most ardent admirers of "Kid Glove Ilenny" to allow their expression of countenance to show their discomfort at losing such a strong advocate of their principles to desert them in their hour of trouble. Th Modesty of tireatneat, Isaac Newton. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the eeashore, and divertin? myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier hell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before mf; The Democratic Party. To TnE EDITOR Sir: rlease inform a democrat what party increased the pay of the widows pension from $3 to $12. WwUield, lad, GO. d, Dxv& Swaln,

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