Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1889 — Page 4

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INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

I Entered at the Postoffice at Indianapolis a second class matter. TERM3 FEU THABi Ftrr1e copy.... - 1 OO TT ask democrats to bear la mind and select their i state paper when they come to take subscriptions and make up club. Agent making np club send for any information desired. Addess K D1ANAF0LIS SENTINEL, Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 27. Unmitigated Scoundrclisrn. Next to the systematic corruption ot the ballot under the direction of W. W. Dcdtr.Y, carried into effect by his party accomplices throughout the state, and screened by Pharisee3 in high olhce, we conceive that no more serious question of public morality baa come before the people of Indiana than is presented by the discovery of the alteration in the miners' fcrecn bill, which makes it void. There in a class of politicians who consider the defeat of legislation by trickery, fraud, deception, or even crime, as "sharp practice." The man who accomplishes results in that manner is "a shrewd fellow," "a clever artist." "a skillful manipulator," etc. There is another class who attach the blame of a failure of legislation, through Mich cause?, to the legislators only. In this view, the legislators ought to keep their eyes open; they ehould be suöiriently alert to discove r any trickery or fraud; if they are not, it is "pleading the baby act" to object to it afterward. "We believe it to be generally truo that those who make pleas of this kind have more knowledge of the villainy than honest men can have and remain ßilent. For ourselves we desire to disclaim any yrr.pathy with either of these classes, or liny satisfaction in results accomplished by uch methods, even when the legislation defeated is of a character that does rot meet our approbation. Any mun who tikes part in the defeat of legislation, or procurement of it, by the covert alteration of a bill, is a felon ; and any man who has knowledge of the proceeding and does not If-top it, who connives at, screens, or conUer.te to such action, even though he do piot come within the limits of the criminal f,flw, is an infamous scoundrel. The offense is the worse because the person who if gjiiilty must, almost of necessity, occupy a r''itin of trust, and betray that trust in co'irl blood. In legislation, as in all other business, certain duties must be delegated. The legislators are entitled to rely largely rn the honesty of employes. That great "r.gilance should bo exercised is unquestionable, but everyone knows that in the contusion of the closing hours of a busy pension it is comparatively easy for a person in a position of trust to accomplish almost anything by stealth and deception. There is but one remedy by which the future can be at all guarded from similar crimes, and that is the vigorous punishment of the offender. The enormity of sn offense of this nature is not generally comprehended. It is a defeat of the will of the people. It is a Subversion of popular government. Of w hat avail is it for the people to expend their time and money in the flection of delegates, and tax thenis Ives to pay their representatives, to secure the enactment of needed laws, if pome treacherous hound is permitted to destroy the result of their labors with impunity? Why have any government, if Kme hireling is remitted to displace a cr.g and etop the whole machinery? It makes our governmental system a mockery. The people are not ruiing themselves while such things are done. The cleverest thief and the moet cunning briber are their lord3 and maslers. Ii we permit their crimes to go unpunished we are tacitly delegating the law-making power to such conscienceless reprobates as happen to get within reach of legislative papers. There could be no greater folly. The otfene is not one peculiar to this legislature or this state. It is entirely too rrmmon to be pleasant throughout the country. It should be stopped by the most vigorous methods. We see no reason why a thorough investigation of this matter ehould not be made by the grand jury of Marion county. The crime of altering a public record, nuthorired by law, has been committed hr-re, and the criminal ehould be brought tc-justice if possible. It is wholly immaterial to us who he may be or what may ! his politics. lie belongs in the penitentiary, and the chances are strong that company can be found for him of those who procured the crime to bo committed. The o!lense is of such gravity that an attempt shouM be made to fix the responsibility for it. We demand prompt action in thia rase. High Tariff And Ihjw "Wages. During; the lat campaign the glai3w orkers of w Albany and other Indiana towns were told that if President Cleveland was elected and the Mills bill became a law, their wages would surely be reduced. The Sentinel fchowed, upon the authority of the census reports, that the Mills bill left glass of all kinds protected to an extent greater than the entire araonnt of wages paid in this country, so that, even if the glass manufacturers of Belgium and other countries were to get their labor for nothing, the American manufacturers would etill have them at a great disadvantage in American markets, to far as the labor item was concerned. Trtz Fcntinel told the glass-workers, frankly and truthfully, that they were in co danger from tariff reform; that no measure which reduced the cost of their living, while it protected their employers to more than the full extent of their wages, conld possibly do them any injury; that tariffs and wages had little connection, and that, in fact, wages were more likely to be high under a low tariff than nnder a high tariff, because a low tariff would reduce the cost of raw materials and enlarge the market for American producta, thus increasing the demand for labor, and with an increased demand for labor the tendency of wages is certain to be upward. The monopoly organs scouted at these plain statements of truth. They did not attempt to combat the facts and figures which Tub Sentinel marshalled to sustain its position, but just kept up their insane howl of "free trade" and "pauper wages." Their columns were filled, until the election, with predictions that starvation and min would overtake American orkingmen if Ci rrvzi and was successful,

and that Harrison's election would insure steady employment and high wages for everybody. Of course the organs of monopoly knew all the time that they were lying, just as The Sentinel knew that it was telling the truth. They knew as well as Tub Sentinel did that the workingmen would be benefitted, and not injured, by a reduction of taxes on the necessaries of life aud the raw materials of our industries. They knew that Harrison's election would not make work plentier or wages better ; and they knew, too, that the re-election of Cleveland would not and could not impair, and would probably improve, the condition of our wage-earncr3. Ben Harrison knew all thi?, too, and to did Blaise, and all the other captains in tho monopoly army. But the whole pack of them deliberately and wickedly lied to the wage-workers to the very last day of tho campaign. Harrison has now been president less than three weeks, and wages are lower in most of the highly-protected industries than they were when 0 rover Cleveland was president. The raovemont for a reduction is general. Among the victims are the "highly-protected" ('!) glass-workers of Indiana, who were so earnestly appealed to heioro tho election to vote for 1Iarkion and their own bread and butter. The employes of P:. Pauw'r great plate glass works have just been compelled to accept a reduction in wags. They resisted the cut for several days, but finally yielded. This micht have happened if Cleveland had been elected; if so, it would have been claimed as a result of democratic success. But what excuse can Mr. Du Pal w give now for reducing the wages of his men? The high taxers have elected their president. They have both branches of congress, and as their control of the senate during Harrison's entire term is assured, and as the congress to be elected in ISf will not assemble until December, 103, it is eimply impossible that there should be any reform of the tariff for at least five years to come. The terrible Mills bill is dead and buried. The manufacturers of glass are still protected about 100 per cent, while they pay their labor, according to the census reports of 1S0, only about per cent, of the value of their products. The tariff bill which has been passed through the senate by the protectionists, and will probably be revived in the Fifty-first congress, does not interfere with this protection; if anything, it increases it. And yet the glass manufacturers are forcing their employes to work for smaller wages than they received when G rover Cleveland was president, and the tariff agitation was at its height. What do the glass workers think of this? What do wage earners generally think of it? The tariff increases the cost of almost everything they and their families eat and drink and wear; of their shelter, and tools, and furniture; of almost everything they have to buy. Bv paying these increased taxes they are told they secure for themselves steady employment at good wages. Do they? Did Harrises and Bi. ink and the monopoly organs tell them the truth in the last campaign, or did The Sentinel? As for the glass manufacturers, what have they to nay? Why have they reduced wages? Haven't they got enough protection? Dn'tlOOper cent, enough? Are they in any danger of losing their protection, or any part of it? If their business doesn't justify them in paying as good wages under Harrison as they paid nnder Cleveland, why doesn't it? Ixt them answer these questions if they can !

The School Book I-iaw. It appears that the lien of the schoolbook trust upon the editorial columns of the Journal did not terminate at the adjournment of the legislature. The lien is still in force, as evidenced by the following editorial paragraph in the Journal of yefcterday : The school book law is practically inoperative, in that it does not require local school boards to adopt the new books nor provide any means of putting them into the hands of the people. School boards, teachers and people may continue to use old books, if they chooso to do so, aud no doubt many wilL The school book law is not "practically inoperative," much as the trust and its hired organ would like to have it 60. It does explicitly require the adoption of the new books by local school authorities, and it does provide for putting the books in the bands of the people. The law provides for the making of a contract by the state board of education for furnishing text-books to the people, and makes it the duty of the governor to i?sue his proclamation announcing that such contract has been made. Sec. 7 is as follows: When ouch proclamation shall hare been duly issued, it snail be the doty of the trustees of each and every school corporation in the state, within thirty days thereafter, and at such ether t'mes as book may be needed for use in the public schools of their respective corporations, to certify to the county superintendent of thtir tespective counties the number of school tejtt books provided for in $rh contrast required by the children for u in the schools of their several school corporations. Such county superintendents fchall, forthwith, make such requisitions for books as the schools in the said ieveral counties may require upon the state superintendent of public instruction, and the said state superintendent of public instruction ball immediately thereafter make requisitions for said books upon the contraetor, who shall, within ninety d.iys, ship tho books so ordered directly to the county school superintendents of the several counties of this state. I'pon the receipt of such books it shall be the duty of such county school superintendents to immediately notify all the school trustees of all the school corporations ot their counties of the receipt of such books. It shall then be the duty of such school trustees to immediately procure and take charge and custody of all the books assigned to their several school corporations, receipting therefor to the said county school superintendent; and upon the receipt of such books by said school trustees, they shsJl furnish them on demand to the school patrons, or school children of their respective corporations at the price fixed therefor by the contract entered into between said board of commissioners and said contractor; and it shall be the duty of such school officers to sell such books for cash only; and if they shall sell or dispose of any books other than for the cash price thereof, they shall be held personally liable, and liable opon their official bond or the price of such boc k or books. Provided, That any patron or pupil of any school or schools, other than the public schools, and also any child between the ages of six and twenty-one years of age, or the parent, guardian or teacher of such child, shall have the right to purchase and receive the books, and at the prices herein named, by payment of the cash price thereof to the school superintendent of any county in this state; and it is hereby made his duty to make requisition upon the contractor of any and all books so ordered and paid for by any such person or persons. And provided further that nothing in this act shall operate to prevent the state board of education, boards of school trustees or boards of school commissioners from deviing means and making arrangements for the sale, exchange or other disposition of such books as may be owned by the pupils of the schools under their

charge at the time of the adoption of booka under the provision of this act Sec. 10 provides that county superintendents shall give a bond for the faithful performance of all the duties imposed upon them by this act, and that failure to execute such bond within thirty days from the appearance of the governor's proclamation shall operate to vacate their offices. The school book ring has been making desperate efforts to find some defect in this law which will render it inoperative. They will do their best, by the peculiar ''arguments," in the use of which they are bo highly skilled, to convince the local school boards that they can violate the law with impunity. But the local officials who attempt this will got themselves into trouble. The law will be enforced, the Cincinnati robbers and their newspaper organ to the contrary notwithstanding. "What the Records Show. There are very few who realize the extent to which President. Cleveland went in divorcing partisanship from the public service, lie was fiercely attacked during the lat campaign by professional civil service reformers for his alleged failure to observe the spirit of the civil service law, and yet the records show that under no administration sinco the early days of the republic did partisan considerations have bo littlo weight and public considerations so uniformly govern in the management of the civil service as under that of Mr. Cleveland. When it is remembered that the democratic party, which elected Mr. Cleveland president, had been out of power for twenty-four years; that during all that time democrats had been practically debarred from entering the government service in any capacity, high or low ; that under the five republican presidents the offices had been regularly treated as partisan spoils, and the machinery of government systematically employed as an instrument of party aggrandizement ; and that, notwithstanding Mr. Cleveland's refusal to fill the government service with his own partisans, the democracy unanimously renominated him and cordially supported him for re-election, the immense superiority of that party to the rival organization as an agency of good government becomes manifest. And by the same token the perversity and malice of the professional reformers who went up and down the land last summer denouncing Mr. Cleveland as a "spoilsman" and throwing up their hats for Benjamin Harrison, a man who never, by a single word or action, showed his capacity to rise for a single moment abovo the level of tho grossest partisanship, are brought into bold relief. Now let us look at a few figures, taken from the oilicial records, which tell their own story, and reveal many of the professional reformers in the characters of humbugs and hyiocrites. In the treasury department, of the l,t70 employes on the pay-rolls March 4 last, 1,230, receiving Sl.NSÖ.OOO annual pay, were appointed prior to March 4. lss", and only 410 roreceiving ?s7S,310 annual pay, were appointed during Mr. Cleveland's administration. In the interior department there were 1,71 "hold-overs," having Si',0(.i0,tnX) annual pay, and only 4(1 appointees of Mr. Cleveland's administration, drawing but S-wO.OOO annual pay. In the'postoliice department there were 44s "hold-overs," with an aggregate salary of S.ViO.OOO, and 143 Cleveland appointees, with an aggregate salary of $173,000. Theso are the three roost important departments in Washington. They probably employ four-fifths of all the persons in the government service at Washington. And yet it will be seen from the above figures which were compiled by the New York Herald from the official records that removals during Mr. Cleveland's term were scarcely more numerous than they would naturally have been if his predecessor had been of the same party. Whether Mr. Cleveland pursued the wisest policy in this matter is a question about which democrats differ. But no one can deny that be established a precedent which Harrison cannot refuse to follow without covering himself and his party with utter disgrace. Nor can any exaggerate the meanness, the duplicity, the total lack of consistency and the rank treachery to the principles they profess to cherish, of the self-styled civil service reformers who, in the face of this record, opposed President Cleveland's re-election and lent their feeble efforts to promote the candidacy of his rival, a man, who, through his entire career, bad been identified with machine politics; the intimate friend and associate of men like Dudley, DoRSEYand the "Slick Six;" and the nominee of the party which, during its twenty-four years of power, debauched the public service to a degree that had not been witnessed in any other civilized country on earth for a century. 1 lie Indian Commissioncrishlp. A petition, to which the names of several thousand representative citizens of Philadelphia and other eastern cities have been appended, is being circulated by the ''Indian rights' association" asking President Harrison to retain the present commissioner of Indian allairs, Mr. John H. Oberly of Illinois. The petition sets forth that " during his brief incumbency Mr. Obekly has given entire satisfaction to many friends of the Indians who are unofficially and gratuitously laboring for the advancement of this people, and who have had the best opportunities for estimating the practical value of Mr. Oberly's services to the government "We believe that the most serious and dangerous abuses connected with the Indian service in the past abuses which have brought discredit to the nation, misery and destruction to the Indian, and have cost the lives of many of our own people may be traced directly to the appointment of bad or incompetent men as Indian agents and employes, as a reward for partisan services. Mr. Oberly favors the abolition of the spoils system In the Indian service, and the introduction of the merit system in its place, whereby men of character and ability may be appointed to places of trust among the Indians, irrespective of party affiliation, and be retained in power so long as they remain competent and faithful. Mr. Oberly's course so far has, in our judgment, proved tho sincerity of his professions. We believe that his retention under the incoming administration (so long as he shall adhere to bis present policy) will not only save a valuable ofiiccr to tho government, but will pavo the way for the removal of the

Indian service from the domain of party politics, will redound to the credit of the republican party, and will gratify many of its devoted members." The first name atlixed to the petition is that of Edward- H. Fitler, mayor of Philadelphia, who was, it will be remembered, one of Mr. Harrison's competitors for the nomination at Chicago. Other prominent names on the petition are those of George B. Roberts, president of the Pennsylvania company; A. J. and K. M. D rex el, the great Philadelphia bankers; S. Weir Mitchell, Wayse MacYeaoh, Phillips Brooks and the Bev. Dr. Ci yler. There is no doubt that Mr. Oberly is the right man in the right place, but we do not believe he will be retained. The ofiice will be demanded for some republican politician, and it is very improbable that President Harrison will refuse to yield to the demand. " The Catholic Church and Divorce. Bishop Healey of Maine recently caused a pastoral to be read from the altars of all tho catholic churches in his diocese, which has attracted a good deal of attention. It dealt principally with the subject of divorces, and tho following were among its (striking passages: From all that we have said you can judge of the horror with which all good Christians, and indeed ail sensible nnd Itod-feariiig luen, rnnst regard divorce. Well meaning men are endeavoring, all too late, to fctem the fearful tide which in our country is devastating social and married life, lint until men return to the true ideal of marriage as a sacrament they might as well try to keep out the ocean with a broom. Having once degraded niarriaire to a civil contract, forbidding a minister of religion even to celebrate or bless it, a was the case in the colony times of New Kngland, it is not in the power of men's words to stay the lowest of lustful desires nor to restore marriage to its original purity, unity or holiness. As for you, children of the church, you must be in this matter "a holy nation, a purchased Eeople, that you may declare His virtues who ath called you out of the darkness into his marvellous light. "(I Peter, ii, t'.) Therefore it becomes necessry for us not only to declare the doctrines of the church as regards holy marriage, but to repudiate whatever may defrade in the minds and hearts of the faithful. Ience as the council of Trent declares (session 21) that "matrimonial cause belong to ecclesiastical judge," we do hereby forbid any cntholic (male or female) to begin any proceedings for divorce in courts until the causes or reasons for the same thall have been laid beforo the bishop, and we reserve to ourselves the absolution of all such as shall violate this ordinance, forbidding any priest in our diocese to admit theiu to the sacraments until the matter has been thus submitted. And since in a contract it is not just that one should judge for himself and for another also, it is plainly against reason that husband or wife should judge for themselves of even a temporary separation. "For to them that are married, not I, but the Lord comniandeth that the wife depart not from her husbaud, and if she depart, that she remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband." (I Cor., vii, 10.) In all cases where a sep:i ration not legal or perpetual seems necessary, the case shall be submitted to a third person to one whose judgment shall be impartial before men and guided by tho law of God, and the pastor of souls is the proper judge and authority to refer to. Hence, I exhort our pastors to exclude from the hacrament any man or woman living apart from wife or husband, unless tne reasons therefor have been previously submitted to his judgment. The New York ILrnhl prints an interesting interview upon this subject with Cardinal Gibbons, the leading catholic dignitary of this country. The venerable prelate is somewhat more conservative than Bishop IIkalcy, but slill he takes very hi jh ground 'Mirriace, he declares, is the most inviolable of all contracts. Adultery alone may justify a divorce in the sense of a separation. "But not in any case does it justify a re-marriage during the lifetime of the two parties to the wedding contract." The cardinal believes that the ease with which release from matrimonial contracts is obtained in some of our states is fraught with dangerous consequences, aud that "the rigor of the catholic teaching is merciful beside the cruel consequences of the indiscriminate divorces we see now-a-days." But his eminence is not prepared to go quite as far as the bishop of Maine. He says he should hesitate to refuse the sacraments to a catholic who had merely obtained a divorce, but be declares that it is not only the right but the duty of priests to refuse al solution or the sacraments to a divorced catholic who has remarried during the lifetime of the first husband or wife. It will be seen from these utterances of its leading representative in America that the ancient church maintains its traditional attitude touching the marriage relation. If the Protestant churches occupied the same attitude, it is probable that the number of divorces would bo much smaller than it is. "Skillful Financierinfi:." The methods by which most of the colossal fortunes of the country have been built up are illustrated by the operations of Jay Gould and his associates in the elevated railroad companies of New York City. The New York Timti tells the story. The companies obtained possession of four important avenues as a free gift from the city, and lought persistently against paying to private property-owners compensation for their damages. Dy means of construction contracts Gould and his associates contrived to conceal the cost of building and equipping the roads, and it has never yet been definitely ascertained. There is reason to believe, according to the Time., that the cost w as more than covered by the proceeds of the bonds issued, and that the original stock of the two companies 513,000.000 represented little or no paidup capital. The next step was the establishment of a monoply by the organization of a third corporation to operate the roads of the other two. Then a consolidation was etfected, the amount of stock being doubled without the investment of a single additional penny. Since that time the chief effort of Gould and his gang has been, according to the Timer, "to extract from the community as largo dividends as possible upon this enormously inflated stock. Incidentally they have made millions by speculating with the properties. ' They set out deliberately to bankrupt the Manhattan company, inducing the attorney general of the state to aid them, and then gobbled up its depreciated stock and established their monopoly. They resisted the reduction of fares from 10 cents, and extended their accommodations only as their trains became crowded to suffocation. They fought against the payment of just taxes on tho value of their property." It is by this sort of legerdemain, and by euch wanton trifling w ith the rights and interests of the people, that Gould has become a multi-millionaire. It is by similar methods that Vanderbilt, Stanford, Crocker, HrsTixr.Tox, Rock feller, Sage and others of that class havo acquired wealth and power. This kind of thing.

when it succeeds, is called "skillful financiering." And "skillful financiering" is the bane and curse of the republic to-day. If there were not so many "skillful financiers" and most of them living in brown 6tone mansions, instead of "doing time" in the penitentiary there would not be half so many anarchists in the country. Tariff Reformers Hard, at "Wort. The Massachusetts tariff reform league, which did such splendid work in the recent campaign, has renewed the battle against the monopoly system of taxation. In a ringing address to the people it announces that it will retain its headquarters and secretary and will urge and assist in the formation of local clubs throughout the state. "Competent speakers have already volunteered their services in con-- i tinuing the discussion, and special effort will be made to provoke joint debate." The address continues: Our representatives in congress will be given an opportunity to explain why they have sacrificed the interests of New England to the greed of Pennsylvania. Our protected manufacturers, who a few months uro petitioned coneress not to put raw materials on the free list, will again be invited to defend their petition. i The wealthy tew, who imagine they have boneht the ribt to fatten uou the abuses of the tariff without fear of molestation, are reminded that th tariff question can not be settled at all until it is rightly settled. I The officers of the league are Henry T. Pierce, president; Villiam Lloyd Garrison, son of the great abolitionist, treasurer; Josiah QriNCY, chiirman of the executive committee, and Jons F. Andrew, son of the great war governor of Massachusetts, chairman of the finance committee. These are all historic names and stand for the most advanced thought, the ripest culture and tho most patriotic statesmanship in all New England. Mesors. Tierce, Garrison, Quincy 'and Andrew were all identified with the republican party until the tariff issue came to the front, and they are fairly representative of the class of men who are leaving the "grand old party" by the thousands now that tho monopolies have obtained control of that organization. The tariff reform campaign is being resumed with vigor all over the country. The Indiana league, recently organized, will soon begin active operations. The work of organization, education and agitation will be carried forward earnestly throughout the land during the next four years, and the result will, we doubt not, be the overwhelming defeat of the monopoly taxers in 1802. The I'rl ce of Success. Whitelaw Reid of the New York Trihunc, who has been appointed minister to France, is a man of talent and tact and industry, but wholly without convictions. When lie entered New York journalism he seemed to have very high conceptions of its obligations and opportunities. For a time he conducted the Trlhune on an elevated moral plane. His paper was thoroughly independent and fearless in its treatment of all public questions. It fought, with a good deal of vigor, extravagance, jobbery and corruption in government. It stood resolutely for honest politics. It denounced Blaine in unstinted terms for his venality, and handled other crooked statesmen without gloves. But the Tribune, conducted on this policy, did not prove a financial success, and Beid made a 6udden and radical change in its character. He formed an alliance with Blaine and Jay Gould, and tho Tribune became the leading organ of monopoly and jobbery in America. All who have followed its course for the last dozen years know that there is not a more mercenary or unscrupulous journal in the United States. Reid, some years ago married a daughter of D. O. Mills, the California millionaire, and by this alliance his fortune was made. He has since posed as an aristocrat and prided himself upon his exclusiveness. lie has made a determined and bitter war upon the typographical union and all other labor organizations, and no man in the country, unless it be Jay Gocld, is more cordially hated, or with better reason, by the workingmen. He is a 6nob and a toady of tho most pronounced type, and we presume, values his new appointment chiefly for the social distinction it will confer upon him. Whitelaw Reid has achieved the objects of his ambition wealth, power, social station and official preferment. But at what a fearful sacrifice of conscience and manhood! Stanley Matthews, late associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, was a lawyer of distinguished ability, anil a man of high attainments outside of the law. But the circumstances under which he went on the bench placed a lasting cloud upon his reputation, lie was nominated as associate justice by President Hayes, at the request of Jay Gould, but the senate rejected the nomination, although Matthews had been a member of that body. When Gauheld became president Matthews' nomination was again sent in and Jay Gould had influence enough to secure its confirmation. Justice Matthews played a conspicuous part in the Louisiana returning board operations of 1 370-7, and the questionable services he then rendered his party doubtless had something to do with his elevation to the supreme bench. IVior to 1S7G no man in the country stood higher than he. His successor will, of course, be William A. Woods of Indiana, who is on terms of personal intimacy with the president, and who recently rendered some very important and delicate services to his party. TnE Journal, ppeaking of the disgraceful appointment of Fred Grant to an important foreign mission, says "the fact that he is the son of his father is excuse enough for his appointment." There used to be in this country a decided prejudice against the recognition of what might be termed ancestral qualifications for office. We suspect that this prejudice still exists, and that the policy of rewarding men for what their fathers did, irrespective of their own merits, will not prove popular. The appointment of dead-beats and dolts to important offices, because they are sons of great men, is not in harmony with the American idea, which is, to use a popular expression, that "every tub should stand on its own bottom." Republican misgovernment has played havoc with the liuances and credit of Ohio. There is a deficiency of $1,300,000 in the treasury of that state, and the only w ay by which it can be made rood is by

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the passage of the direct tax bill by congress. The management of the benevolent institutions has been scandalously partisan and outrageously corrupt. The people of Ohio are paying dearly for the luxuries of venal legislatures and a spectacular governor. The president has invaded the political grave-yard and disinterred the remains of James X. Tyner, once of Indiana. The cadaver has been set up in the postoffice department and labelled "attorney-general." Tyner, when in the political flesh, w as a statesman of unsavory odor, and his resurrection is not an auspicious event. He was second assistant postmaster-general under Grant, and was afterward at the head of the department. Then he fell back to the post of first assistant and during bis incumbency of that ofiice the great star route frauds were committed. Recalled to political life he takes a still lower place in the department, and we have no doubt he would have been satisfied with a pair of old trousers from the presidential wardrolx). Tyner was never known to refuse anything. President Cleveland kept Abraha'-i D. Hazen in the office of third assistant postmaster genera , to which he had been appointed by President Arthur, more than two years. Hazen's democratic successor has already been displaced and Hazen restored to the office. We presume this is done in the spirit of civil service reform, which the Chicago platform declared should govern all executive appointments. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A. F. Scott, Lloyd, O.: (1) An alien of proper age, who has lived in the United States one year and in the state six months, can vote in Indiana if he has declared his intention of becoming a citizen. (2) Under the provisions of art. 2, sec. 84, of the state constitution. (3) Aliens can vote in Kansas if they have lived in the state six months, and declared intention. In Minnesota four months' residence and a declaration entitle them to a vote, and in Nebraska six months 'residence and a declaration made thirty days before election. The requirements in all the other states are more severe. A Subscriber, Indianapolis: TnE Sentinel gave the provisions of all the constitutional amendments recommended by the legislature in its recent review of the work of that body. The first amendment provides that county clerks, auditors, recorders, treasurers, sheriffs and surveyors, after 1804, ehall serve a term of four years each, and be eligible for but one term in any consecutive eight years. All of these amendments must be concurred in by the next legislature before they can be submitted to the people. Boomer, Anderson: (l.)The Rarrett ten-year improvement act contains an emergency clause, and is now a law. (2.) The constitutionality of th law hardly admits of doubt, as the decision of the supreme court in Strieb vs. Cox. treasurer, et al. (Ind. rep. 17, Vol III, p. Sustaining the gravel rotid law, meets all the constitutional objections that have been made to the Barrett law. A Subscriber, Columbus, Inch: (1) The average pay of actors is as hard to determine as the average earnings of lawyers. Some are paid more for a siogle performance than others receive for an entire year's work. (2) You cannot procure plays, costumes and scenery in Indianapolis. Bead the advertising columns of the New York CLipittr. li., city.: There is a ChautAuqua circle connected with I fall Place methodist episcopal church, which follows the regular Chautauqua course of study. Dr. Wilson is president, and Mrs. Stella Smith secretary. It is called "Hall Place Chautauqua Circle," aud meets every Monday evening. A Subscriber, Grencastle Junction: Of course private or special pension bills, originating in the senate, have to be passed by both the senate and house, before they become laws. No law of any kind can be made by one house of congress. A Daily Header, Andrews, Ind.: A soldier's pension is not exempted from execution. If he invests his pension in real estate, and mortgages the latter, he must either pay the mortgage or lose the real estate. PERSONAL GOSSIP. Dr, Monk, the well-known composer of church music, is dead. Lord Tennyson spends most of his time at present reading newspapers. Prince Christian, son of the crown prince of Denmark, is said to be the tallest prince in Europe. Ferdinand Ward from his prison cell "Fred, old pard, I congratulate you." Chicago JJcrald. Mrs. Harrison has sent to the art loan exhibition at Washington two porcelain plates of ber own painting. ClIAUNCEY M. Detew declares that Le can remember an incident which occurred when he was six months old. Sib Charles Russell, the great cross-examiner, has a hard voice, coal-black w hiskers and heavy eye-brows. At least a hundred of the most fashionable women of New York have called on Mrs. Cleveland since her arrival there. , Representative Cannon of Illinois was asked recenür how he liked the new cabinet

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cheaply in roofs of all kinds, or lay new roots. Pa ,i A l A D IttXJr IX CO., Indianapolis, Ind. ' PUZZLED the Mind of Man. T like it, of course," was his answer. "Whj of course?" returned his questioner. "BeeauM whatever is in right," replied the Illinois fatalict. Sir Julian Paoceiote, the cewly atpointed ftritih minister to this country, will leave England for Washington about the end of March. He will come over alone. Lady Pauncefote and family will not come over until faU. Mrs. Harrison is looking for a house, keeper. She finds that the care of the white bouse will be a great nuisance to her unless she has assisLince. Aspirants for the place will not he examined under the civil-service rules, but their qualifications will be searchingly investigated. It is stated that Sir George Stephen, president of the Canadian Pacific, will be acconv panied by one of the prince of Wales' sons to Canada next month. The young prince will make an extended tour of the dominion ani the I'nited States. Dk. Oliver Wendell ITolmes advises young men not to smoke. "It is liable to injure the sight," he says, "to render the nerrea unsteady, to enfeeble the w ill and to enslave the nature to an imperious habit likely t stand in the way of a duty to he performed." Mrs. Humphry Ward writes a small and neat, but eminently strong and vigorous hand, with no tlourishes; sometimes in earnest hast riiuniug several words together. She signs herself: "Sincerely yours, Mary A. Ward," with a single straight dah beneath the name. Kati is!!, the coachman who eat np drinking, smoking and singing with the Crown Prince Rudolf on the last night of his life, has practically been bunched from Austria, as he hat been sent to Itussia, ot.tenibly to buy horsee for the government, and it is certain that he will never again he ueea in Vienna. Mr. Margoliouth of Oxford has jnst been, elected Iaudan professor of Arabic While he was still an undergraduate he was reputed t be one of the six learned men of Oxtord, and he established panic among the dons w ho had to examine him. He swept away all the prizei which are open at Oxford to the students, learned and devout. Mb-. M. Porter, the post trader at Fort Iluachuca, A. T., when off duty wears velvet gowns and diamonds. She is a thorough business woman, and has done so well with her store that she has built herself a handsome houso with a fountain playing in the front yard. Mrs. Porter is about forty years of age, and wears her hair combed up high above her forehead in the style known as the pompadour. No other remedy has proved so effectaal in relieving coughs and colds as Dr. Bull's Cough Syup. TOien Baby wej afek, we -ara a er OeJtorla, Whw ab vm a Child, ah cried for Ctatorts When afce became Ktaa, she elwsg to Caetcrla VTfcea ah bad CtUUrea, she g-are Uietn Catosia Kxitantt the Mind 15y skeins a much as you cm f the world, hut ere von ot out either as a ton rit, commercial traelr or emigrant whether you go by rail, FtrarosMp or fainhoat, provide yourself with Hoatettor's Stomach Kittors, which the traveling puhlic reeopniws as the finest mettira! safeguard and preventtYe of a Mikm's with which r.ny one journeying hy land or wat r can 1c provided. It furnishes to the western Ii'nwr adfiiiato protection against malaria, rheumatism, aud those disorders of the bowels which miasma tain'ed water beget. Its sduiive effect iiou a stomach itTturt! by the rorkinu cf a ship is truly iu-i.ri' a!, aud it is a capital appeti74.-r and nerve inviuorator. I.xt cllrnt is it for biliousness and kidaey junction, and it counteracts, in a remarkable degree, the eliccts of fatigue, physical or mental. After trettin; and exposure in Inclement weather, it should lie u-d as a prcrentiT. Purify Your Blood. When spring approaches, it is vary important that the Wood fliould be pnritjed, as at this season Impurities which hare leen aocnniulatiug for months or even years, are liable to manifest themselves and seriously aflert the health. Hood'a Sarsaparilla is undoubtedly the l-est Wood purifier. It expels every taint, drives out scrofulous humors, and gives to the Wood the quality and tone essential to good healta. Now is ths time to take Hood's Sarsaparilla "My daughter suflV-red terribly with acre eves, caused by scrofula hnrnor. We were obliged to keep her out of school for two years. Xte bad medical attendance, but she failed to gain relief. At last, knowing that Hood's Sarsaparilla had cured my mother of rheumat'sn, and believing It must be irood for the blood, I eoocluded to have my daughter try it, and it has entirely cured her." Cornell Yeager, 412 East Main Street, Marshalltown. I. Purifies the Blood. "Heod'a Sarsaparilla has cured me of salt rheua, which I have bad for years. I do think it Is a splendid medicine. I am forty years of age, and my skin is jut as smooth and fair as a piece of glass. I have six children, and when anything Is the tronhla with tl.em the first thing I go for is Hood'a Sarsaparilla." Mrs. Ulla Clark, Nnth Korwalk, Conn. B. Pe sure to get Hood's Sarsaparilla. Sold by all druegista; ft; six for f Prepared only by C I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Ma&s. lOO Doses One Dollar. rOR 8 ALK. Q7L,pr?RET7FOOOD LAND IN THE gXTrELT, OV7 ten tnües of Marion, Oraot county, Indiana: rev er changed hands oca entered; tille fod; 6l acres cleared. James Cnanahan, Bwaysee, lad.