Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1888 — Page 3

TUB INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 188S.

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PROF. MAURICE TIIOMPSOX

GIVES SOUND ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN. The Gifted Writer of Crawfordsrill De. flues the Pending Issue, and Show That It la ltetter to Study Maxims Thau Trusts And Syndicates. As far back as in 1S7S, when the most powerful minds of our new republic wero grappling earnestly with problems concerning the liberties and precious privileges of the people. Alexauder Ilatuilton wisely remarked that, "Obscurity is mnch citener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in tho subject," and further, that "Men, upon too many occabIods, do not pve their own understandings fair play, but yielding to some untoward bias they entangle themselves in words and confound themselves in subtleties." That was just a century ago, vrben the star of American destiny hung low and gave no certain light. W e were a pioneer people then, but mightily wedded to liberty and to independence of thought and action. What have we learned during this hundred years? Are we btill entangling ourselves in words and confounding ourselves in subtleties? How many young men in Indiana are standing forth to-day free from mere party bias and courageously and earnestly thinking for themselves touching politfcal subject ? "What have our schools and colleges been doing for a century past? May I ask you to look into the sacred chamber of conscience and confront what you tind there? Have you permitted the light of your educated intelligence to fall directly upon the issue joined by the contending parties? What is your own thought upon the question of tax reform aside from your slavery to party ? Are you going to vote this year as a mere machine whose crank is turned by the hand of a political boss? You -are proud of your youth, your strength, your intelligence, your trained reason, but do you ieel free to use these conscientiously ia determining how you will vote? Have you, by enlightened reasoning, come to the conclusion that if the tax must be removed, either from the necessaries of life, or from whisky and tobacco, that we must favor the latter? Young men, will you begin your political career, will you lay the corner-stone of your house of 'life in such mire? You have been told by G?n. Harrison that it is better to etudy markets than to rely upon maxims. Can you conceive of a phrase more intensely corrupting toconecience? What is a maxim? According to accepted authority, it is an axiom of practical wisdom," and he is a foe to civilization, who would turn the young man's thoughts away from practical wisdom to a consideration of mere market methods, where everything is governed by the unscrupulous pursuit of gain. Are you ready to admit that we must withdraw our conlidence from those maxims of the father?, and turn to the markets, where "trusts" and "syndicates" and "corners" rule, in order to obtain wisdom? It is a maxim that, in any honest i"flrkf.t, the taxing of a commodity will i : urease its cost to the consumer; np!e this with that other maxim: !jual and exact justice to ft! I, special (or exclusive) privileges to i.f.ne," and you have the whole of good government as regards taxation. In a word, let taxes be so levied that they increase the price of luxuries and decrease the price of necessaries to the consumer, fo that there shall be the "geeatet pood to the greatest number" of our 00,000,000 of peopie. What do you understand by this phrase: "Protection oi labor?" 'Who is (in reality) protected by the taxation of imported articles? The manufacturer. In the full degree of his protection he enjoys a special privilege. Frankly, now, young mac, do you believe that because of this special advantage the manufacturer pays 1 cent higher wages than the exignci?s of supply and demand compel l.im to pay? Laborers understand this, end so they are quick to feel that no organization of labor againt combined capital can be adequate without controlling the supply of labor. We hear much about competition, but the competition of manufacturers with one another cannot affect labor in the degree that a competition between laborers themselves can affect labor. To protect manufacturers by special privileges is one thing, to protect labor is quite another thing. The millionaire pays no higher wages than does the poor employer. There are but two wiys of protecting laltor; one wav is to prohibit the immigration of foreign laborers, the other way is to lower the price of the necessaries of life which must be bought with the wages of labor.. Have you conscientiously studied this question? Do vou homestlv believe that protecting any manufacturer compels him to pay any higher wages to his workmen? Tk you believe that, as a rule, he will increase, wages upon his own motion without compulsion? Do you believe that the celebrated millionaires, who, with Chauncey Depew, visited Gen. Harrison the other day, were there with a view to increasing the wages of labor? Be fair and brave and courageous, young man, and let your conscience control your ballot. It is better to be right than to belong to any party. Now, let me beg of you to consider for a moment the question of state pride. Do you quite understand the significance of those words, as used in this campaign? It is utter aband onment of principe for mere local vanity. Are intellif ent, educated young men unaware of the nsult glaring out of such a suggestion? View it for a moment, turn it over in your conscience and you will feel the shame of iL Will Gen. Harrison dare come out for himself, and announce that the people of Indiana should abandon conviction and riolate conscience for the sake of electing a citizen of Indiana? Political principle is as broad as the domain of the nation; it is as holy as the constitution; it is the tap-root of the tree of liberty, and no man is honorable or honest who would sacrifice it for the empty vanity of a local preference. No step in a man's public career should be taken with more care than that which bears him to the polls for the first time. A first vote is a point to be viewed with pride or with chagrin throughout a lifetime; it is an act which stands as a monument from which can be reckoned the success or the failure of all after years in political experience. Many thousands of roung men will erect this monument on the. 6th of Novemler and no after act can efface it. Upon this monument there will 1 an ineffaceable inscription. Here are wo inscriptions;! place tnem side oy you must choose one or the other; Xch will it be? rt rote cut! Mr first rot tu cut Vor of: llnfsrorof: k whixky. I Reducing; tb taxation tobMf. iB the aw wrifi ot li'e nt bond tt 1.30 to ltd kpin the tax on l a. surplus wrong whisky and tobacco. Y people by tb 1 stood by tu f ennM ihe necessaries acienre an 1 voted io the line of good morals and in the tax en accord with the senae of fi plat, lam- high manhood when I raat 1 all imported ror ballot in faror of refhie. I stuck d iciDg taxation doen to X r, njrhl or the actual nile ifoTri-o-I felL inient adraloislerad ecolime monoiiui manu smouiu . . . i:.t. . J . it. a mark apon it. Your first I the signature of honor or of t forever. In the far future,

years and experience, you

will look back to the beginning, to the first capital letter in the chapter of your political life. Will you be proud to tell your children and grandchildren that you cast your very first vote for the glorious principle of free whisky and free tobacco, and against a reduction of the tax on clothing, tools of labor, lumber, salt, f provisions and tin plate? When history las been written, and the issue of this campaign stands out in the clear perspective, robbed of all the glamour of partisan excitement, what a rich consolation it will be to recall the fact that vou stood up mantully for relieving the stilfsand whisky barrels of the load ujon their liquid hell w'iile you strenuously insisted . upon burdening every necessary of life with 47 per cent, taxation ! What a charming reflection for a conscientious man ! What is a party? It is nothing worthy if it is not the embodiment of right principle. Is it pride that holds a man to his party after he has discovered a want of principle in its acts? Fride ought to operate precisely to the contrary; it should force a conscientious man to hurl his party from him. The young man can " liberate himself more easily than can the older man, and with far more room for honorable profit by the act. Youth is" the time for molding the tissues of life into the form of a noble destiny. History and biography are rich with instances "which fortify young manhood withasense of unbounded possibilities. The one secret i3 to begin aright. Turn your face so that it feels the sunshine of future slory and honor, while deep in the stone which marks your beginning you cut with a firm hand the inscription uhieh forms the initial of a life dedicated to truth. What party is old? What party has shown that vitality which characterizes nothing but youth and truth? Young man, you are fresh from reading the history of the foundation of our government. Who laid the corner-stones? Who built the walls? Who carved the legend of independence of political freedom? Old ! the democratic party is twice as old as the republican party. Grand? Jefferson and Madison and Jackson are withdrawn into the grandeur of our most sacred history, while the party thev made is to-day dominant, its master spirit holding the reins of government with all the courage and vigor of youth. Do you imagine for one moment that this party, which has cradled the republic and has lived to cherish it for a hundred years and is to-day making the cleanest and most honorable pages of its financial history, will be defeated? Dp not permit the flare of political torches and the blare of partisan horns to confuse your judgment. Victory is for the democrats this year and for many years to come. The hand of destiny "clears the way for the man who bears the message of relief along with the magnetic prestige of unbroken years of success. Do vou imagine that Harrison can carry New York or Indiana? Pause and consider. Why should he carry either state? What principle is behind him? What destiny has him in hand? Old Fanner Williams defeated him in lS7t.. It was Harrison's blunders his failure to feel the beat of the public heart that crushed him then. Again he posed in public with tho startling claim that he had been defrauded out of senatorial honors by Judge (now Senator) Turpie. The question was left to a republican senate and Harrison lost! You remember hi3 rebuke, nay his insalt, to tho greenback party, and you recall bis attitude toward lalior a few years ago. That the republican party nominated him is a proof and a prophecy it is a proof of the insincerity of its promises to labor; it is a prophecv of defeat. His destiny is the destiny of worry and defeat whose origin is iu coldness, lack of human sympathy and a total want of that earnest "courage which is engendered by a close study and experience oi common lifo. He caanot and ho will not win, because he ought not to win. You will feel this if you will cast olf more excitement for a moment ana look coolly at the calculus of forces at the power behind Mr. Cleveland, which is the power of duty well done, and the destiny before him, which is the destiny of a young, strong, self-reliant, courageous man who has never known defeat. Young man, do you know the secret of success? History holds this secret. It is this: The successful man is he who has the power to feel the current of destinv. As the sailor trims his vessel to utilize the breath of the wind, the successful man gets into the current of human sympathy, human desire and longing, and by that stream he is guided. Human destiny is not controlled by money, nor by syndicates, nor by trusts ; but by the broad tide of the masses of men and the man who is not at the head of this is no favorite of destiny. Would you be successful ? Have a care how you "set out. Successful men are successful from the start. A crushed bud never opens into a perfect flower. A life beginning with a mistake never broadens into the fullness of success. Cleveland tho president is but the flower of Cleveland when he ran for his office and captured Destiny on the threshold of youth. These is the secret. Come where the current streams strong and full into the future; it is but a repetition of history; a sober thought fixes this truth; you know what it means. Are you courageous enough - to profit hy it? or will you weakly submit to influences alien to every hope of success? One thing you do know you know that neither time nor the accidents and exigencies of our country's growth have in the least debilitated the vitality of the principles upon which the democratic party is founded; moreover, you can but feel that (Jrover Cleveland is a manifestation of that vitality and that his success is a striking instance of unbroken achievement due to that inspiration which gives a young man the courage to etart aright. It is not tho wise or wholly self-reliant young man who makes a great public show of his vote. The ballot is sacred, and each man may silently deposit it. He owes no explanation, no apology, no argument save that recorded within his secret conscience for truth's sake. If the young man's first political act be on the side where tho elements of honorable success preponderate, the act may be secret and yet it will be the beginning of a series of fortunate ventures, because it is iuncr courage and not open bravado which subdues destiny and conquers fortune. The great poet saw with the last refinement of vision this truth I am stating when ho wrote of the tide in the a Hairs of men which, when taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Young man, the tido is now, tho moment is golden, tho flood will soon

! be pa-t, you must choose boldly, you must venture courageously. 2o instance -is recorded in history oi a young man who succeeded by blindly following a partisan call. The great men have been those who seized destiny and bestrode- it despite the warning of friends and the threats of foes. Let me ask every young man who reads this address to cut it out and preserve it ; not because of any value iny words may have, but for verification of what I have eaid. The election ig but two weeks away. Grover Cleveland will be elected. The democratic party will impress ltd political will upon the country for many years to come; its policy of a wholesome reduction of taxation will bring unprecedented prosperity to the people. Elections will come and go, but no other party can take away the love of the people for the party whicn was born with the constitution, and which will lire as long as a people's government lasts. Years from now when you take out this scrap cut from a newspaper of 1883 you will recall the memory oi your first

vote. If it was cast for free whisky and untaxed tobacco, for enormous taxes on the necessaries of life, if it was cast against the people and in favor of trusts, syndicates and corporations, you will say in your heart; "How narrow, how prejudiced, how short-sighted I was in the day of my youth at the moment of my great opportunity!" "I mizht hare soared in the morning ll?ht. But I built my net with the birds of flight." Rut if you voted to abolish unnecessary taxation on the necessaries of life, if you voted to raise the revenues by taxing luxuries if you voted to maintain the tax on whisky and tobacco, if you stood by the people against a privileged and imperiously dangerous class, you will bless that Cth day of November, 1SSS, when you quietly and courageously did right änd took the first great step in a wise and successful career. Maurice Tnoxrsox. SALLY ANN BRADLEY.

The Farts About Her Pension Bill Refuting i Forsker Lie. Be.vtoxville, 0., Oct 8, 1SSS. To ATI Whom It May Concern. I, John G. Bradley, oldest son of Thomas J. Bradley and .Sally Ann Bradley, having been written to by many in regard to the "Sally Ann Bradley pension case," which was vetoed, make the following statement once for all in regard to the case and our family. My father was a veteran and served through tho war, and at the battle of Stone River he received a slight wound near the small of the back while on a retreat, from which he always complained, and drew a pension for it until his death in this place, Bontonville, O. He died by accidental choking while at dinner, Oct. r 18-S2. Dr. John W. Higgins, now of Elbert, Col., was called in, but too late to do any good. My next brother, Köbert L. Bradley, was also a veter.m, and at the battle of Atlanta received a wound which cut n small piece out of his left ear, and another on the top of his head, which was slight, lie died at New Orleans from yellow fever a few years ago w hen that disease was so severe. The information as to his death I received from a little book printed there called "The Death Roil," and enumerated 10,0X) victims. I do not remember the year of the scourge. James W. Bradley, my next brother, was a private in Company D, Twenty-fourth O. V. 1., the same company and regiment father was in, and at the battle of Nashville, Tenn., was wounded in the left wrist, which crippled him for life in that member. He now lives at Manchester, O., and other than the wound seems to enjoy good health. He received a pension not long after the war, which has been increased twice, the last about two years ago, since Cleveland's administration, which the pension records will ehow. He now gets $30 per month. Cary B. Brail ley, another brother, was in Todd's scouts." Fourth botta'ion, first, and then in the One Hundred and Seven-tv-third O. V. I. He came home at the close of the war, and died on the 'JGth day of December, 1872, from taking an overdose of laudanum. He died at this place. Dr. R. A. bt phenson, now of Manchester, 0., was in attendance at his death. Now, as to my own case: I was a private in Company I, One Hundred and Seventy-second O. Y. I., for about ten months; was honorably discharged at the close of the war by reason of the war being over. I was not wounded at all. I am a shoemaker by trade, and ou Saturday evening, April 7, 1877, while patching a small boot for Nelson Moore, now of West Union, O., a scale oh of the tack or rasp I was using flew into my left eye, whien resulted in the loss of the sight'of thtt eye. An j, lastlv, as to mv mother, Sally Ann Brad'ey: She is not now, and never has been, in the poor house or county infirmary, and never shall bo while I can help it. I would he glad to have her get a pension honorably, and think congress should pass a law to pension all widows of deceased soldiers. I am not responsible for any of the extravagant statements mada by our friends in the presentation of the bill to pension my mother. Our friends in congress bavo made erroneous statements in regard to our case. I have given naked facts. I can not possibly take time to answer the many letters I receive asking for information in regard to this matter. Mr. Foraker's statement in his speech at West Union, O., were not correct, though he may have obtained them from an overdrawn picture at Washington City. J. r. Bradley, Postmater, Bentonville, O. Wkst Uxio.v, O., Oct. 15, 1SSS. I lived in Bentonville, O., from 184S to February, LSSJ, and in all that time lived within two squares of the Bradley family referred to by John G. Bradley, and know of my own personal knowledge that the statements made by the said John G. Bradley are true. Iam now probate judge of Adams county, Ohio, and have been since February, 182, and the records of this office ßhow that Thomas J. Bradley died at Bentonville, O., "Oct. 12, 1S-S2," and cause of death, "choked." Th records also show that Cary B. Bradley died at Bentonville, O., "Dec. 20, 1S72," and cause of death, "poisoned." It is, perhaps, true that the committee that reported "the Sally Ann Bradley case" in concrress made extravagant statement, as .Mr. Bradley sucrpests, but that only shows the carelessness with which private pension bills aro rushed through congress without a knowledge of the facts. I. N. Tolle. This bill passed the lower houro of (Forty-eighth) congress and reached the senate, where it was referred to a committee, a majority of whom were republicans, and of which Mitchell of Pennsylvania was chairman. The senate report was made on the 13th of February, l&sö, and is numbered 1,2-33. This report said : This bill proposes to pension a widow of a soldier who was drawing a pension at the time of his death, on the grounds of sutferinj; of the oMier aul , great a?e and poyerty of the wiluw. Therefore they report this bill adversely ami recommend that it be indefinitely postponed. A republican senate concurred in the refort and Mrs. Bradley's bill was indefinitey postponed. If Foraker was honest he would denounce the republican senate and its committee on pensions as he does Cleveland ; for if one was wrong both were wrong. Old Soldiers For CleTeland. To TU Koitor Sir: There U a O. A. XL post at Goshen, Ind., with ninety members. Now, it is often heard that all the old soldiers auf Ü. A. 1L men are solid for the free whisky and Chinese candidate. Let us look into it a little and gee if thii is true. Here in Indianapolis, as in every other place, each party hai its old soldier organizations. The republicans hare between 4J and i.K) here, while the democrats have two regiments of old soldiers. Of the ninety members of th Goshen post ser-enty-live are democrat. All the rest, or fifteen only out of ninety, caa be induced to vote for cheap whisky, Chinese, trusts, and Harrison. Comrades, that shows you are still loyal to the cause of the people, as well as who it was that fought the war of tho rebellion. So may yon ever he. OLD SOLDIEB. Indianapolis, Oct. 2 1. A Silly Bluffer Taken Up. To TriB Editor Sir: In yesterday'g Jovrnoi one John II. Terhune of Anderson, Ind., fropoed a series of bets; among others ofl'ernir to bet $100 to $-V) that the democracy could not produce a soldier with three gun-shot wonnds who would not vote for Harrison and Morton. Responsible parties have notified Mr. Terhane that they would take the wa?er and prodnce three soldiers with from three to seven gan-fhot wounds in this one little village with a population of 2x) who would vote for Cleveland, Thnrman, Matsoa, and the whole democratic ticket C Hillidro. lad.. Oct. 21.

INDIANA AND THE TARIFF.

EXPERIENCE OF A HUNDRED YEARS. The Fallacy of the Home Market Theory lixpoed Earnings of Agricultural Laborer In Kurland How the Farmer Is 'l'rotected." The protectionists claim that the home market increases the price of agricultural labor, and we must investigate this assertion. If there is any truth in this it must also be true that the countries which have the best home markets must have the highest prices lor agricultural labor ; and these countries are found in Europe, for European countries consuuio all of their own farm products and import largely from other countries. The European agriculturist therefore sells his product in competition with products on which the cost of transportation, commissions for handling, and profits of middle-men aro imposed. If we take England for example we find that agricultural wages there are very much lower than with us, and yet our farm products sell there, with all cost of transportation on them, iu competition with their product, and the prices there fix our home prices. Let me call your attention to the following account of the condition of the Knglish agricultural laborers from the pen of John L. Heaton, a protectionist, which was published in the Indianapolis Journal of Sept. GO, of this year: Upon the question of agricultural wages admittedly a difficult one to get at, owing to local diti'erenees I will ask the readers of the Jour nal to accept no authority but the hiarhe st. and the highest authority is. of course, Mr. Joseph Arch, whose grand work in orsaniziug field laborers of Great Britain and bettering their condition has made his name a household word the world over. With this plain, eirong Englishman I had the pleasure of talking just a week ago to-day. Here is a portion of the con versa tion: "How do farm laborers' wages co mpare with those of ten years ago?" "They are higher now." "And how about six years ago?" "Six years ago they were higher than they are now. A fair average of the present wage for all England is $2.C7 or $2.91. In some counties it may raa a3 hi?h as $3.40 and in others as low as 2.1 & Women work in the field much less than they used." "The laborers' cottages are usually two rooms each, are they not?" "Usually two rooms. There are still a ereat many one-room houses left, though I have torn down a Kood many, and to some extent threeroom houses are now being built. Where there is but one room it is, of course, kitchen, diningroom and bed-rjoni for tho entire family." In discussing remedies for the had condition of the farm-worker, Mr. Area said that he strongly favored on extended sysieia of small allotments of land to them at rates not higher than th-se paid by farmers. At present if an agricultural laborer asked for an allotment under the useless makeshift act passed hy parliament, he must pay 1 or 5 rent per acre for it, where it would cost the faruer only 1. If the farm laborers had each a few acres, two or three or four, they could still devote the greater part of the year to other labor. When their 'ttle hirvest was gathered, their potatoes, "tiicir bariey and beaux to feed their bacon, ihey would be in better shape for winter than now. The wife, too, if she were enterprising, could m:trket each week some egg, vegetables or poultry, and the family could pay tiieir reut and grocery bills in cash instead oi having each week's earnings spoken for in advance, every penny of it, at the crocers' and the bakers'. "Suppose," said Mr. Arch, "the twelve or thirteen men whom a farmer may hire to be placed in thi altered condition; then when toward winter the farmer says, T shan't give you hut fJ.lS this winter.' " "Is that common, Mr. Arch?" "Jn this country th.n' the policy, sir,' replied Mr. Arch, with ereat vigor. Continuing, he said: "Suppose the farmer to say that, then the men would be in a position to reply, 'Theu I shan't work for you.' Now they say to themselves, If I go, where shall I hud work? God help nie, I must take the j-J.18.' " You see, therefore, that with a home market far better than we could get by a century of the highest protection the condition of the agricultural laborer is very bad, and this is a necessary result of the hoaie market. To increaao your homo market you must increase the population ot the country. An increase of population increases the value of farm lands and their rental price, and makes fanning less profitable- in proportion to the capital invested. In this fact lies the fallacy of the argument. Turning to official figures, we find the prices of agricultural laborers in England per week (according to the state department report of lSsl) ranging as follows: Gloucester (without board), i?d.(5 for twelve hours per day in summer to S'J.'Jl for nine hours per day in winter; Wiltshire and DorftCtshire (without board), for ten hours in summer to S-.G7 for nine hours in winter; vicinity of Hall (with board), cl.40; vicinity of Liverpool (without board), 1; Lancashire (without board), $4.33; vicinity of Southampton (without board), 3.40; Sta'Jordshiro (without board), $4.38 or (with board) $2.15. Of course the protectionists will claim that this rate of 6) cents a day, or such a matter, without board is duo to "free-trade" in England. We will, therefore, accommodate him by ßteppuig over to Germany, which has a protective tariff, thanks to Bismarck, designed for the protection oi agricultural products as well as manufactures. Agricultural wages there average per day as follows: Hist Prussia, (twelve hours) 23 cents; West Prussia, (eleven hours) od cents; Pomerania, (twelve hours) 43 cents; Silesia, (twelve hours) 3-'i cents ; Hesse-Nassau, 47 ceuts; Alsace-Lorraine, 4 cents. The variation is due chiefly to the various customs of the provinces as to furnishing certain meals, drink, wood, pasturage, etc. The average, however, considering all accessories, is considerably lower than in England. In Italy, which is "protected" still more, agricultural wages are fclill lower. Manifestly then a home market does not increase agricultural wages. But the protectionist has another argument. He informs you that the farmer is protected by the tanlf as well as other people. He points out the fact that there is a tariü" tax of 20 cents per bushel on wheat, 10 cents per bushel on corn, oats, barley and rye, 13 cents per bushel on potatoes, and $2 per ton on hay. That is verV true ; but as we export these articles, and" as the home price is governed by the price in the foreign market, w hen they compete with the farm products of the world this tariff" cannot under ordinary circumstances have the slightest effect on the price of these articles. "I have several times inquired of protectionists what benefit these duties were to tho larmer, and the answer wa that if they wero removed the country would le flooded with the farm products of the pauper labor of Canada. The same argument is used by David II. Mason and other protection writers. None of these people reflect that the Canadian export of farm products is (told in the same markets as our own, and that its home market prices are controlled exactly as ours, except when local ditlieultien of transportation allect it. The "pauper labor of Canada", is a myth, as may bo seen from the following comparison of average wages in unprotected labor I which wo always higher

than those of "protected" labor) in Canada and in the Lnited States:

3 3, 'A r-rirklayers, per week Mayons, fr week l'lastfrers, pr week I'lumbcrs, per week Itailroad enineer. per rnuath.... Fireuwn, per mnth . Karin Uixinrs, per month til 00 00 SiO 00 IS 001 21 t i9 m: is oo 21 00; 18 00 12 00 IC 00 H 00 t 00 50 0"! f5 00 S4 00 48 00 S2 Oi) 64 0") 30 0.!"17 00 With board. These ntruros are taken from the re port of Secy. Krelinghuysen in 1SS4, except thoo as to railroad men and farm laborers in the United States, which are from the Hon. John M. Butler's comparison of the wages of England and the United States. The common idea of Canadian labor is based on what is known of certain classes of French-Canadians, especially those who have been brought to this "country by capitalists engaged in certain protected industries. These people work for less wages here than our workinirmen, but they work for less wages than other workingmeu at home. The reason is that they do less work. This race has never leeu able to compete with American labor. Our forefathers met it here in Indiana and Illinois at the beginning of this century, and "it melted away before them." The truth is that wages are ncarl v proportionate to the work done throughout the civilized world. As Mr. Blaine said in 1KS1, "Undoubtedly the inequalities in the wages of Knglish and American operatives are more than equalized by the greater elficiencv of the latter and tlulr longer hours of labor." As to Canada and this country, there is no material difference of w ages. If there were their workingnion would come here, for they can do so with as little trouble as we co from Indiana io Ohio or Illinois. If you think there, is pauper labor in Canada, and you should ever visit Niagara Falls, go over to the Canada side and take a ride with a pauper hack-driver. He will rid you of that delusion before you get away from him. Canada docs not produce cheaper than we do, and where the facilities for transportation are equal, does not sell cheaper than we do. Nothing need be feared from her competition." The only time when the farmers feel the eileet of the tariff on farm products at all is when there is a scarcity in this country, from drought or other cause, and we are obliged to import to make up the deficiency. Fortunately this is a rare occurrence, but when it does happen, the fanner and every other person who buys farm products has to pay the additional price on the imported goods. Last spring a number of the farmers of this region were obliged to purchase feed for their stock. Thf price went up, a will be remembered, and at many points it was found ditficult to get oats at all. The tariff on lumber may be considered in this connection, for it has been claimed that as the farmers own the timber this duty is in their interest. If vou w ill examine the dutiable and free list of the existing tarilT you will find that they are bo arranged as to give no benefit to änv producer of timber except producers of pine lumber. Fire-wood, railroad-ties, shinglebolts, stave-bolt?, handle-bolts, logs, and all .unmanufactured timber not specially enumerated are on the free list, and there is not one farmer in ten thousand who produces a cent's worth of timber that does not comp within these free list specifications. The whole lumber list is cunningly devised for the benefit of the great pine luniocr dealers of Michigan and Wisconsin. These gentlemen have formed a lumber truFt, at tho head of which is Gen. Alcr, who was a prominent candidate for the nomination for the presidency at the late republican convention. This trust controls all tho pine lands of those two states, and, as shown by the lumber dealers of Chicago to tho tariff commission, have advanced the prico of lumber to the highest notch. In 187S it averaged $).i pjr thousand. On July 2G, 1SS7, it ranged from $12 to $20 per thousand for various grades. In the same period the wages ot their employes have been reduced from $0 per month and board to $18 per month and board. How much more "protection" of the same kind do vou think those workmen would like to have? The lumber trust isnot only fattened by our tariff of $2 per thousand "feet, but also by the Canadian law which taxes every man who cuts pine timber$l per thousand feet. The trust, therefore, has an advantage of $.i per thousand feet as against any pine lumber brought from Canada, and every man who uses pine lumber pays this bounty to the lumber trust. It is not surprising therefore, that Gen. Alger has made $8K K),000 since tho war, and is accustomed to travel in his "private palace ear in princely luxury. Why should he not, when the people are foolish enough to tax themselves for his lenefit? J. P. Dcxs, Jr. ONE OF THE OLD GUARD. A National GreenbacUer Tells Why lie Shall Vote For Cleveland and Thurinan. To the Editor Sir: Please permit an old-time greenbacks to speak just one word to the old national greenback guard. Here it is: National greenbackers, we owe it to ourselves to take 6tich action as will convince the people that we have not forsaken the principles that underlie our party organization. We dare not cast our lot with the Harrison crowd. They are and always have been our political enemies. They hold almost nothing in common with us. (Jen. Harrison cannot, in fact evidently does not, expect our vote, but his managers are now paying money to destroy us as the old guard. There are a few thousand of us left in Indiana, and our voto will decide the issue in this state. If we give it to Harrison, then we shall have no future, and our work will have been in vain. If we vote ior Cleveland and Thurinan, we shall then be able to hold our guard together and do noble work in the future, because the democratic party ha3 in its ranks a million voters who hold our views, and who will with us coin Del . ... the democrats to aeiend our principles, as Judge Thurinan has always done. I shall co to the polls and vote this year for Cleveland and Thnrman, because I cannot and will not be an instrument in the hands of the republicans in placing in power the man who could say nothing better of us than to call us "idiots." I ana not idiot enough to vote for him in 18-vS. One of thk Old Guard. Oct. 2L "Kicking Itepublir:tn4. To THE Editor Sir: In a recent Interview Mr. John C. New raale the d-iclaration that Judge Grefham has always been a "kicking republican." A week has passed and there comes no denial. Being the special counselor and adviser of Gen. Harrison, this all may he perfectly proper, but whether proper or improper, I pro)o(5 to call attention to certain portion of Air. New's political record. Lefs than eighteen months ago while Mr. New was advocating the nomination of Gen. Harrison lie made the public declaration that if Sir. Maine was nominated there would he no electoral ticket in the field in Indiana. In his paper, the Journal, although the oran of the party, gave Mr. A. C. Harris, the rewul.ir republican nominee for congress, anything but a cordial support. In 1884 his paper fiursued a similar course toward Jamfs K. iosn, the republican candidate for sheriff in thiscounty (Marion.) I might go on, butitis not neoesfary. Who, I may nsk in conclusion, is the "kick ing republican?" A liLAIXB-GRUXM ItKrCBUCAJT. Indianapolis, Oct, 20,

CHAIRMAN JEWETT HAPPY.

THE REPUBLICANS LOSING GROUND. Some of the Causes of Bricht Ieraor ratio I'ronpects Chairman Tacirart Sayn Marlon County In Certainly For Cleve land Other Political Opinions. The activity at democratic headquarters continued all day yesterday and did not abate until after midnight. Even a casual observer would have been impressed with the numerous and distracting duties that devolve upon the state central committee at the close of this national campaign. Documents have entirely disappeared and tho work now is on a different line, and it is evident that the democracy is making a supreme attempt to put a glorious termination to the efforts that have been steadily, put forth for months past. Speaking to a Sentinel reporter, Chairman Jewett said: "The republicans have been steadily losing ground in Indiana ever since the introduction of the senate tariiF bill. They seemed to be beaten before that ; now they certainly are." "How did the introduction of the senate tariff bill affect the campaign ?" "It opened the eyes of two classes of persons who are, happily, not so very large, who have been duped by the republican professions in regard to the tariff. One of these classes is made up of manufacturers and laborers, who, while believing that the present tariff is unjust, have been milled by Harrison's statement that a reform in the tariff was a htep toward free trade. These persons believed the republican party would maintain tho tariff as at present fixed, but the introduction of the seuate tariff bill opened their eyes and convinced them that the senate bill was a tdep that could not 6top under the pressure of discussion and amendments short of the propbeition contained in the Mills bid. The other class consists of democratic soldiers who were affected by the lying statement that the reduction of the surplus would not leave putlicient money to pay the pensions. When the senate bill came in reducine the government revenues between $70,000,000 and $$0,0X),(3 a 3'ear these persons readily saw that the proposed reductions would affect them just as much, no matter whether the reduction was taken off of the tariff taxes or the internal revenue." "You seem to have entirely changed the character of your work during the last few days," said the reporter. "Yes, the documents are all distributed ; in fact we began that work early and it has been very thoroughly done. The republicans, on the contrary, trusted to the passions and prejudices of the people an i that they would not investigate for themselves, so they did not rely upon anything except forged quotations from Knglish new spapers and falsi? reports of th president's pension vetoes and such other things. They found that the people would have no such stuff. Lately they have awakened to the fact that the voters of Indiana would investigate for themselves, and thev are now in the laughable business of loading the mails with bulky documents intended to mislead people who have already informed themselves and come to a final conclusion. "In view of the wide ami thorough distribution of tariff literature already made our party is relieved from any further labor in that direction, and we are now turning our attention to warning the'people against republican schemes. The schemes are as many and varied as the fertile minds of those, to whom lying is a pastime, can invent. One is to send to democrats, throughout the state, a letter apparently printed on a genuine letterhead of this committee, telling the democrat that some other democrat, generally one at the county seat, has received a sum of money to be used by the person to whom the letter is addressed, on election day. Nothing of the kind has occurred, but the person who gets the letter naturally thinks that his neighbor is the custodian of some campaign fund ami they hope thereby to create suspicion. This scheme was worked very lanrelv two years ago. Another is to send on, a letter purporting to come from the chairman of the state central committee, telling the person to whom it is addressed that the state is lost to the democratic national and state ti -kets and to make every effort to elect their local and legislative candidates. "Another scheme is the sending out of pasters containing the republican electoral ticket with the request that they be placed upon prohibition, union labor or democratic tickets and voted by unsuspecting persons. They are sending through the mails to the German people throughout the state a paper printed in German stating that the success oi the democratic party will be due to prohibition aid, and that the democrats are in turn under some agreement to help the prohibitionists carry out their pet scheme; while to the prohibitionists they send a copy of the speech delivered bv their candidate for president at Danville, and by him included in a letter to the anti-saloon convention at Cooper Institute, New York. With this comes a statement to the prohibitionists that tho democrats aro in league with the saloon element and that democratic success will be the death of the prohibition party. So you see the republican gun is aimed at every vote with the purpose of 'hitting it if it is a deer and missing it if it is a cult.' "They issued a forged address purporting to come from the democratic central committee of Laporte county and published it in their Journal, knowing it to be a falsehood. They got up a forged edition of the Labor Signsil, the state organ of the workingmen of this state, which has been published by a lot of honest workingmen here, under great disadvantages, and whose only offense consisted in the fact that they opposed Ken Harrison as a monopoly candidate and resented the charge made upon them at Chicago that they were tramps because they advocated the nomination of (Jen. Gresham. "The same republican crowd pot three or four so-called workingmen, none of whom ever worked, bo far as their neighbors know, to sign resolutions attacking a workingman named Gould because he was making some speeches against Harrison on his own hook. Gould's trouble with these republicans was about some reward that they offered him and would not pay. The particulars I never fully understood. "It would be tiresome to repeat all the various schem?s of our sincere republican friends in this city. They are ably reinforced from the outside. Thev have Dudley, with his straw-bail and ballot-box debauching methods, aad are now engineering a scheme to fill the city with thugs and repeaters from Cincinnati. I am informed that the same delectable persons who engineered the Cincinnati election business some ytara ago (Lot Wright and Rathbone) are now, or shortly will be? in the city for the purpose of putting into effect some of their election methods. Just where they expect to do it, I cannot, for the life of me, say, as Indianapolis will be a decidedly warm locality on election day for nybodv who attempts to interfere, with a fair and honest election. Arrangements have been made by which every man, black or white, entitled to a vote la

t'"Ms city will be able to vote once without interference from anyMdy. People who attempt to interfere "with any Iccal voter will be mad a decidedly uncomfortable, "It might bo weil , for our friends at Crawfordsville and Richmond to keep ( sharp look-out. Four years ago any nunv Iter of illegal votes were ca.-tat Richmond, The janitor of a building in Chicane, w h never lived in Indiana a day in his Ufa voted, as did another man who had not been in the state for fifteen years. I bo lieve, however, that wo have taken suf ficient precautions to prevent a repetition of this thing, and if so you need not b astonished at a very large democratic ma jority. "There must be a fair election MARION ALL RIGHT.

Chairman T.ifrcart Says the Dftnotrnti V111 Purely Carry the County. A Sentinel reporter found Tom Taggart at the county headquarters last night and asked, "What is tho actual condition of Marion county?" "The democracy of Marion county never was in f-uch good condition. The democrats were never beforo so harmonious and united. There are no democrats hanging back in the tracts this year. They are all pulling one way. There is no question in my mind but what, if the boj-skeepup tha work thoy are doing now, we will carry the county and give Cleveland a nice majority." What about illegal voters?" We have no illegal voters, and don't want any; we don't need them." "What about the charm of the Journal that you have underestimated the enemy's strength by leaving many of their voters off the poll Ux.ks because you claimed thev were ineligible?" "There is nothing in it. We have all those on the books and still they are behind." "Is there any danger that they will vota them ?" "No. We have the names of every ona of them, whence they came, how long long since they came and whither they are going." As Mr. Taggart uttered the last sentence he looked knowing, as much as to say they are not g'ing along peacefully if they dd attempt to vote. "Any man," he continued, "republican or democrat, who is a l-?gal voter shall aad miht be allowed the privilege of voting, but any illegal voter that attempts to e.ist a ballot w 11 be immediately detected and puni&hcd." Ollirr Views. Mr. John M. Woods, one of the leading lumber men of Boston, is in the city, lie says that fron his observation New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and New Hampshire will g'T democratic, and tho democrats will gain two or three congressmen in Massachusetts; lie thinks Thomas Wentworth Higginson is almost certain to beat Gen. Ranks in the Cambridge district. The Hon. Richard Gregg of Dearborn county is at tho Grand. After an extended stumping tour, he is convinced that not an original greenbacker will votefr Harrison. He predicts a big majority .or Cleveland in Indiana. The Hon. James 11. Rice has returned from an Eastern trip and reports democratic prospects brighter than ever. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are assured to Cleveland, who, in Mr. Rice 'a opinion, will have a larr-r electoral vote than four years ago. Mr. Rice says the apparent dissension in New York City will be a pood thing for the national and state ticket, for Tammany and the county democracy are united in tho support of both. and he predicts for Cleveland a larger popular majority in New York than hns ever been sivea a presidential candidate. Mr. William P. Rreen reports the situation in Fort Wayne and Alien county as highly encouraging. Many Irishmen who voted for Blaine four years ago aro back in the democratic ranks in fact,! per cent, of them and Mr. Rreen regards 4,.X) as a very modest estimate to placa upon Allen county's democratic majority this fall. SLANDERING A SOLDIER. Col. Matson's War liecord Falsely AssaiUd by Indecent 1'artlanns. To mE Editor Sir: A special dispatch in the Indianapolis Journal of Oct. li gives a brief account of the reunion of tha Fifth Indiana cavalry at Noblesville, from which I take this extract: Twenty of the fifty-two were prisoners of war, and they have g od reason to mark Gen. Iiovey's opponent. Col. C. C M.iton. who commanded the Sixth Indiana cavalry in Stoueman's raid. The reason was weil tolJ at the reunion by L. J. Crimr of Portland. Jay county, lie was oneof Gen. J?toneman's orderlies an J in the rear of M.ionn, (Ja.. July 30, 1 st4, toot an orer to Col. Mat;oiif telling him to hold his position, but Matron said it was too hot for him there, and he was z ing to e?t out of there if he couhl. And lie did it, as did s1.no the Fourteenth Illinois and a Kentucky regiment, leaving the Finn cavalry and the Tenty-fourth Indiana to be captured where they felt sure of victory, had Dot they been virtually surrendered by Mat&on audhU followers. Lamar says the white fl.ig was ct run up for three hours after Col. Matson ha l skipped out of harm's way, and he is satistk-d they could have won victory right ou that ticM had not CoL Matson disobeyed the orders of his euperior otiicer, Gen. üloneman. This refers to the engagement at Sunshine Church, Ga , July 31, lil, between Gen. Stoneman and Gen. Iverson's division, in which the former finally surrendered. The story that Col. Matsoa disobeyed any order ot Gen. Stoneman, or that the Sixth Indiana cavalry failed to hold any position it was ordered to hold on that "day, or that it left tho field before Stoneman surrendered, is pure fiction. The Cixth Indiana cavalry in that engagement numbered about three hundred men, and as the field was an open one, every man of them is a witness to the actual facts. The engagement lasted from early morning until about 4 in the afternoon, when Gen. Stoneman sent out a flag of truce and surrendered. He justified his surrender afterward on thegound that the brigade commanded by Col. Capron had left the field. It is true that Capron's brigaie left before Stoneman's surrender, but the Sixth Indiana, commanded by Lt.-Col. Matron, remained where it had been posted by Stoncman'a orders until the llagof truce had been sent to the relel lines, and until it was known that Stoneman had surrendered his division. The rcgimeni, then wheeled to tho right, passed around the rebel left flank, anil, with the exception of those lost in an engagement of thr3e days liter, rejoined Sherman in front of AtlaaLo. It is greatly to tho credit of Coi. Mat son that ho went out rather than surrender. I have seen, also, in the Indianapolis Journal a paragraph taken from tho Terra Haute r charging CoL Matson with misconduct at Richmond, Ky., Aug. 3), 1N32. Col. Matson was not in the engagement at Richmond, Ky. Before that fight (no battle being expected) he had obtained leave to eo home on account of tho fatal illness of his mother, who died, if I reremember rightly, oa the day beforo tho Richmond battle. Col. Matron served in the army from first call for volunteers in 1S1 until thi close of the war. No comrade of hK nnless prompted by partisan inaliee, will fail to testify to his honorable conduct as a man and soldier through that long and trying period. Respectfully, O. J. Smith, Late Major Sixth Ind. Cav. New York. Oct. 22.