Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1889.

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TERMS PER TEARi fine! copy (Invariably in AdTance.)....Äl 00 We a.k democrats to tr in mind and select their rn state paper when they come to take subscription' and make up clubs. Asents making np clubs send for any Information desired. AddessTHE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY. MAY 15, r - Anotlier enormous difference between, this i?ay and that of which it ii the anniversary is to le seen in the enormovs difference in the nature and ivßuence of the forces tlxit determine our national and political destiny. Then, ideas ruUd the hour. To-day, there are indeed ideas that rule our hour, but they miwt be merchantable idoir. The growth of nrealth, the pretalevee of luxury, the making tf large material force which by their very eriftienee are a standing menace tothe freedom and integrity of th iwlizidual, the infinite tv agger of our American f perch and manners, mistaking bigness for greatness and sadly conJoundina gait', and goillitutt all this is a contract to the auttcre simpHrity, the unprirchascble integrity of the fir Ada and the first men f nur republic, wh'rh mah it impossible to reproduce t-day either the temper or the conduct of our fathers Bishop Potter's Address. The Pollntinn of the Bench. William A. Woops again exhibited limself to the w orld Wednesday in the rharactpr of a shamelessly partisan judge. Ilia charge to the federal grand jury was a grandalons deliverance; a deliberate, wanton and wicked misstatement of the law in the interest of political villains; a miserable piece of verbal jugglery, by vhirh the statutes of the United State?, iran.ed for the purpose of protecting the ballot-box and punishing offenses against it, were distorted into meaningless enactments, of no more potency or force than if they were so many pieces of blank paper. Judge Woo dm instructs the jury that, though the law pays that attempts to do certain things are felonies, and though it makes it the duty of ied era I marshals to arrest persons making such attempts, the law means that fich attempts are not felonies. Though the law expres;-ly declares that the advising of certain offenses such ae bribery is a crime, Judge Woods tells the grand jury that it is not a crime. Judje "Woods also instructs the jury upon the law of residence in language clearly intended t prevent the indictment of imported voters. There are a great many other astounding things in thb remarkable deliverance, all of them as plainly designed to shield corrupters of the ballothox a if Judge. Wnns had paid to the prand jury, in eo many words: "There are no federal laws against bribery, or false swearing, or illegal voting, or against adTiring or attempting such acts. The statutes which purport to prohibit the doing, or the advisiue or attempting them mean nothing. You will not regard them' In the concluding passages of this charge, however, Judge Woods inttrprcts the law in a very different spirit. An attempt is making to punish a democrat who was an inspector at the election held in this eennty last November, f'r (as alleged) accepting the ballots of certain persons, who had been challenged, without requiring thetn to be sworn in. The state law, "which Judge Woods here construes, is (somewhat ambiguous, but Judge Woods interprets it liberally; that is, so as to caU :h the democrat. IJe finds no loop-hole in this statute. Whatever it says, Judge "Wood insists that it means that tho act cf which the democrat is accused is a crime. There is no need to multiply words further this morning alout this last shameless, but entirely characteristic performance, by Judge Woods. It is only of a piece with bis previous offenses against decency and justice. His charge is bad law and bad morals. It is contrary to reason, precedent and common sense. It is destitute alike of logic or consistency. It is an insult to popular intelligence and the public conscience. It is the work of a man who seems to have no conception of the propriety or dignity of the judicial ollicc, and to be utterly indiiferent to the respect of Lis fellow-men. In lie Ilovey. Ai.vix r. Hovey is tho greatest failure fie an executive in the history of Indiana. It is tho duty of the governor of Indiana to see that the lawii are enforced; to IoOa after the management of the various departments of the state government and the several public institutions; to grant pardons, reprieves and commutations of sentences in his discretion ; to make reports and recommendations to the legislature ; to pas upon the acts of that body ; to issue notarial commissions and "sich ;" and to draw his salary. He is also commander-in-chief of the military and xiaval forces of the state. It is not the duty of a governor to arropate to himseb! the functions and powers of the co-ordinate branches of the government; to assume not only the execution, tut the making and construction of laws; to et himself up in opposition to the lawmaking body, and attempt, by direct or indirect methods, to nullify its action; to eek, by quibbling and pettifogging and the raising of absurd technicalities, to defeat the carrying out of the popular will as expressed through the agency created by the fundamental law for that purpose ; to obstruct and hinder and delay the doing of the states business in order to gratify his own vanity or love of notoriety, or to indulge his Napoleonic instincts to reverse, or try to reverse, the settled policy of the state by ignoring the precedents established by his predecessors in office and recognized by the courts from the beginning of the ftate government; to set up absurd or fanciful theories of constitutional construction and force their application, with the blind disregard of consequences that characterizes the traditional bull in the china shop. Jn short, the governor of Indiana is not expected to play dictator or jackass. Aivi.v P. Hovey is enacting the latter character, end making a desperate effort to compass the former. The firmness upon which he prides himself is only the quality which baa given the mule a world

wide reputation. His courage is of the kind that leads fools where .'angels qpn't care to venture. His 'Indepenidenct-is nothing, but "galL" lie has made a nuisance and "guy" of himself in , bis Napoleonic exploits. The whole performance would be farcical were the consequences not bo Berious. The credit and good name of Indiana have suffered because of Hovey's antics. The different departments of the public service have been demoralized by the confusion and uncertainty resulting from his policy of nullification; the insane, and feeble-minded, and deaf and dumb, and blind, and other wards of the state have had to suffer in order that hi3 whims might be indulged; the interests of the state have been injured in almost every direction. But Hovey, it is clear, proposes to keep on in his mad career. It is the soul of Napoleon, we suppose, that is responsible for it all. But there are probably compensations for Indiana. "You must admit," said a northern defender of Bex Butler to one of his New Orleans victims "you must admit that while Bi TLF.K was in command at New Orleans you had no yellow fever." "Ah, madamo," replied the victim, "Gnp is good. He would not send Ben Bi'tler and yellow fever the same year." We itoubt not Indiana will be free from pestilence, famine and other great afilietions during the existing gulernatorial term. We shall have Hovey ; and Uod is good. The Clay County Miners. Mei't of our readers will lemember the grand excursion of Clay county miners to this city during the last campaign. They came here under republican auspices to see and hear Mr. Benjamin Harrison. Their kind-hearted bosses generously allowed them "a day off" with full pay, and somebody paid the expenses of most of them. When they arrived at Indianapolis they were marched upto University park, w here tien. IIakkison talked sweetly to them. He told them that this was a "land of promise ;" that they were well fed, well clothed and well housed, and had every reason to be contented and happy; and he assured them that their enviable condition was due to the blessed 17 per cent, tariff, and that if they wanted to continue in the enjoyment of prosperity and luxury the' would stand by the tariff on election day. This was in substance the argument of Ben H arrison's "great sjeech'' to the Clay county miners. Tho Clay county boys returned home duly impressed, we presume, with the idea that all their "blessings" ( ?) were due to the republican protective tariff. A few days later their employers gave them an object lesson calculated to emphasize the teachings of Ben Harrimon's "great speech." One of the mines was closed down, throwing several hundred miners out of work ; and, by way of explanation, letters were printed from some of the operators to the effect that the shutdown was necessary owing to the depression of the iron trade; that this depression was due to the tariff agitation ; and thnt the demand for coal would only revive when Harrison was elected president, and the blessed protective tariff placed beyond peril. The Sentinel at the time insisted that the tariff agitation had nothing whatever to do with the slack demand for Clay county coal ; that it was solely due to the substitution of natural gas and oil for the coal by iormer Iarg consumers. The operators and the republican organs denounced The Sentinel as a liar. Since Harrison was elected the Clay county miners have been having a hard time. The Mills bill is dead; the 47 per cent, tariff is safe; but thousands of the miners have been in total or partial idleness for months past, and the operators are now trying to force them to accept a reduced scale for the next six months. The operators have nothing to say about the tariff now. They explain that they are compelled to pay lower wages or suspend operations, because of the competition of natural-gas, oil, and the coal mined in Illinois and other Btates. That is to say, they admit that The Sentinel told the truth about this business during the campaign. Tho operators lied before election about the causes of the dull market for coal ; they are telling the truth now. But before the miners consent to accept a reduction in wages they should demand that its necessity be proved. The wages they have been receiving are scandalously low. While the companies have been paying these low wages they have also been paying their Ouicors fancy salaries; the)' have been declaring large dividends; the transportation companies (which are owned and operated, to a great extent, by the same persona Mho own the mines) have been realüin:; generous profits from the handling of the coal. Decency and humanity dictate that before asking these underpaid and overworked miners to submit to a reduction in wages the mining companies reduce the salaries of their officials 50 per cent. ; that they suspend their dividends, and that the transportation companies reduce their freight tariff on coal to a rate which will barely pay the expenses of handling. When these things have been done, and not before, the operators can with reason ask the miners to accept a reduction in wages. The operators can well afford to surrender their profits for a time; the m'ners cannot afford to work for less than will yield a decent subsistence to themselves and families, and should not be asked to do so except under stress ol actual necessity.

The AVoricl Crowing Sober. The annual budget shows a marked decrease in the consumption of intoxicants in England and this in the face of a decided revival in trade and an increase of population, conditions which have been held in England as certain to produce the opposite result. Mr. Gosen ex, in a recent speech, recited facts which show a "steady growth of national temperance which old men all testify to be taking place, but "which young men, who only see what enormous quantities of alcohol still go.down hungry throats in one form or another, still find it hard to believe." The same phenomenon is to be witnessed in this, and we believe in every other civilized country. ; , The fact is that tho world is growing soberer every year. In no respect has then beere such a radical change in the United States during the last half century

as in the drinking habits of the people. 1 has amounted, indeed, to a social revolution ; and it has not been wrought, we may add, by legislation, but by the growth in popular intelligence, and an increased perception of the advantages of temperance that is to say, of moderation. At the present rate of progress, fifty years hence alcoholic excess wid be practically unknown in the civilized world. But we shall still have our "cakes and ale." A Christ-Like Priest. Socrates died like a philosopher; Christ died like a God. liosteau. The world lost one of its grandest heroes the other day. A three-line dispatch to the newspapers announced his death less space than would have been given to an obscure congressman. Yet Father Damien, "the leper priest, was one of nature's noblemen," and died a martyr to the holiest and most self-sacrificing service to mankind that could be rendered by a human being. We told the story of this man's life in these columns a few weeks ago; how, in the full possession of his mental faculties and physical strength, ho deliberately turned his back upon the world, upon friends and kindred and all that makes lifo dear to most of us, and cast bis lot with the wretched lepers who are isolated on a lonely island in the I'acifie ocean, outcasts from the human family, that he might minister to their spiritual wants. For eighteen years Father Damien has gone in and out among these miserable people, sharing their burdens, I earing their sorrows, bringing light and hope into their cheerless lives and pointing their stricken kouIs the way to heaven. The reverence of these lepers for this sublime man must have been something beyond conception, and tbeir grief at his loss, we doubt not, is inconsolable. Father Damien died, of course, of leprosy; for association with lepers means contamination, and contamination means death-blow perhaps, but certain death. But he chose his fate, and he met it with dauntless fortitude, with serene cheerfulness, and with full faith that it was but the prelude to a glorious immortality. Many noble men and women have been canonized bv the Roman church, but none nobler, none worthier to be named a saint than the humble priest, Father Damien he who voluntarily suffered all that the mind can conceive as the most horrible, of life and death, possible to human experience not that others might live but that they might not die in despair that those whom he had never seen, who had no other claim upon him than that growing out of the universal brotherhood of man might have the consolations of religion ns they passed into the valley of the shadow. The memory of this Christ-like priest should be honored by the world through all the centuries that are to come. "The Sentinel" To Its Friends. Mr. James E. Sperlock of Duff, Dubois county, writes The State Sentinel: I say, without fear of successful contradiction, that Titk sentinel is the paper to read. AVe are convinced that any man that has the faculty of reason that will lay all prejudice down, and read The Sentinel one year, will be an uncompromising tariff reformer. This question is not all. The Sentinel is chuck full ot giod instruction and advice. I think 1 am not saying too much when I say The Sentinel is the best paper for the money published in this state or any other state. This is do tally. A few numbers of the paper, carefully read, will convince or should convince any one. The instruction to the citizen or alien is good sound to the core on democratic principles. The Sentinel stands square for the honest, poor toilers of this country. It is dowu on fraud, rings and rascals wherever found. It makes my soul feel good to read your Statements of Judge Woods7 rulings in those cases for violating the election laws. Mr.Sei Ri.CM k narrates the circumstances of a bad case of judicial jugglery in southern Indiana, resulting in the release of a murderer because a word was misspelled in the indictment. We receive a great many such letters as Mr. Spi-rlock sends, and if we do not print them, it is because we cannot spare the space and not because we do not appreciate them. It is pleasant to know that The Sentinel is so greatly prized by its readers, and that our efforts to promote the cause of tariff reform and other good democratic causes are so highly appreciated. Our friends who think so well of The Sentinel ought to use their efforts to extend its circulation. If every subscriber would get another subscriber our circulation would be doubled and our power for good more than doubled. It ought to be easy, reader, for you to get just one of your neighbors to try The State Sentinel for one year. Tell him how much you enjoy it; how much you learn from it; how welcome its weekly visits are to yourself and family. If you can induce him to take it for a year he will be sure to take it the rest of his life. You will thus do him good and us, too. Will you not make the effort ? Count Tolstoi's Death. By the recent death of Count Tolstoi, nihilism in Russia loses its most powerful, aggressive and relentless foe, and absolutism its strongest support. Tolstoi was the very personification of the reactionary ideas which have controlled the policy of the present czar, and was at all times and under all circumstances the determined and bitter enemy of liberal opinions in church, school and state. He was remorseless in his persecutions of the press, and the exponent of everything that is cruel, barbarous and wicked in the Russian polity. It is doubtful if another man can be found in the empire who unites, to Tolstoi's fierce instincts, bis great ability and remarkable force of character. His death will doubtless inspire the progressive elements in Russia with new hope, and stimulate them to redoubled efforts toward the popularization of the government Per contra, its effect upon the supporters of the existing system is likely to be depressing. It is not impossible that the dawn may be at last about to break in this unfortunate country. The Omaha Dee (rep.) says that it is unjust to criticise Mr. Harrison for the disgraceful appointment of Pail Vandervoort as superintendent of mails in that city, since "it is not at all probable that the president knew an3'thing about Vaxdervoort, or even heard of him, and very likely the postmaster-general, if he bad anything "directly to do with the' appointment, did not eeek information beyond tho.se who urged it. Tho fault,"

the Bee continues, "is with the Nebraska delegation in congress, which indorsed the candidacy of Vandeevoort and labored to hoist him on the public service. It is certainly unfortunate that the state has thus been humiliated before the country, and it is just and necessary that the blame should be placed where it belongs." If the fault of Vandervoort's appointment is not with President Harbison, he is certainly responsible for Vandervoort's retention in office. He know s that Vanpervoort is a disreputable person, if he did not know it before, and yet he keeps him in the public service. Yandervoort's appointment was a scandal ; his retention is a disgrace. Ben Butler and Admiral Porter. Ben Bctler and Admiral Porter are having a lively controversy over a charge made by the former that the latter ran away at the time the forts were attacked below New Orleans by Farraovt. Admiral Porter says "the whole thing is one of Bctlkr's lies, gotten up in his last day before he dies of his own venom." "Bctler insists that his charge is true, and says that he can furnish the proofs. "I have brought the matter out now," he adds, "because I have to state the facts in some . reminiscences of my life, and they may not see the light while Poktek and myself are alive. I do not want to violate the maxim, I)e inoetiun nil nUi ftonum,1 so 1 have made the charge, while he is alive, to defend himself if he can." Pouter is defending himself vigorously, as will be seen, and is making interesting counter-charges, among others that Butler was addicted to drunkenness during the war, and was overcome w ith liquor at certain critical moments when he needed particularly to have a clear head. These old men, on the edge of the grave, hurling vicious epithets at each

other, do not present an agreeable spectacle. The theory that Bctler hps sprung these charges in order to advertise his "reminiscences" seems plausible. But whatever his motive it is to be hoped that the facts will all be brought cut if possible. If Admiral Porter has been wearing laurels that do not belong to him, and was a coward when the world supposed him to be a hero, it is w ell that the world shoul 1 be disabused. There are too many persons masquerading in borrowed plumes in the pages of history already. The days of "free land for everybody" in the United States have about passed away. Uncle Sam is no longer "rich enough to give us all a farm." The mad rush on Oklahoma shows that our people are already suffering from the land hunger which has been the portion of the European masses for centuries. The hunger would not exist if land were to be had ior the asking. There is a popular notion that the government ctill possesses untold millions of acres in the far west. This is a mistake. Nearly all tho agricultural land, except that in the Indian reservation, is gone. The land which remains is mostly worthless. Within the next quarter of r. century the pressure of population on land will be severely felt in this country, and our institutions will then be subjected to a severer strain than has eer yet been put upon them. The ocean record has been broken again. The new Inman line steamship, City of Paris, on her second trip from Queenstown to New York, made the remarkable time of five days, twenty-three hours and seven minutes. The best previous record was that of the Etruria, of the Cunard line six days, one hour and fifty-five minutes. The difference in favor of the City of Paris is two hours and forty-eight minutes. These swift voyages are made at prodigious cost to the steamship companies. It is doubtful if the results compensate for the expenditures. Still, the rivalry keeps up, and, at the present rate of progress, the time between New York and Queenstown is liable tobe reduced to five days in the near future. But some of the steamship companies are likely to bo bankrupted in the process. TnE appointment of D. S. Alexander as V. S. district attorney for the northern district of New York has occasioned a good deal of "kicking" by the republican politicians of that state. Mr. Alexander's selection was opposed by Senators Kvart and Hiscoc k and by Boss Platt, and it is said that his confirmation will be stoutly resisted. Mr. Alexander is one of the most respectable men yet appointed to office by President Harrison, and will make an efficient district attorney. But his appointment was purely a personal one, being the reward for a good deal of lively "huetling" Alexander has done in Harrison's behalf in j-ears past. AVe violate no confidence in announcing that he w ill give his unanimous support to the administration. One of the industries that was to be ruined if Cleveland was re-elected, and boomed if Harrison was elected, was the glass industry. Yet ever since the election wages in the glass works all over the country have been steadily tending downward, and the glass trade is in a very depressed condition. The green glass and bottle manufacturers' association has just announced that workmen must accept a material reduction in wages from the next blast, which will begin Sept. 1. Harrison is president and gloss is "protected" to several times the entire cost of labor in its production. Why, then, is the glass trade dull, and why are wages going down ? Terbaps the Indianapolis Journal, which occasionally "tackles tho tariff," can explain. Ocr Fort Wayne correspondent telegraphed from that city Tuesday night that the republicans had carried the municipal election. This was an error. The demoerats elected their entire ticket (clerk, treasurer, marshal, assessor and water works trnstoe) by majorities ranging from 1,0.30 to 1,77:, losing only the mayor. The new council is divided politically as the old one was democrats, 1.1; republicans, 5. The good city of Fort Wayne is entitled to the correction. It is one of the best governed cities in the country and, what is more, is always democratic. Brother-in-law Scott of thi3 city has been appointed to a si.v-dollar-a-day position in Washington territory. Ex-Senator Saunders of Nebraska, father of Ri ssell Harrison's wife, is booked for a seat on the Utah commission ; ö-,000 a year and "found." It looks as if Harrison intended not only to "take care" of all his own and his wife's relatives, but of his eon's wife's relatives and hid daughter's

husband's relatives as well. The Harrisons, Scotts and McKees will figure very conspicuously on Uncle Sam's pay-roll for the next four vears.

Two distinguished Indianians are spoken cf for the chairmanship of the national democratic committee ex-Senator McDonald and the Hon. S. V. Sheerin. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. J. P. Stenespring, Slarshfield, Ind.: We should suppose that township trustees could perform all the functions of their office, including the employment of teachers, until the last moment of their official term. But if tho learned attorney general, who is supposed to be cocked and primed on all legal questions, would not dare express an opinion on the subiect, The Sentinel can hardly be expected to do so. S. J. D., Logansport, Ind: The "Acts of 1SS9" just published, include no law regulating the practice of medicine. Several bills on this subject were introduced at the last session, but none of them, it seems, were passed. A Constant Reader, Jamestown, Ind: The penalty for killing fish with dynamite, under the new law, is a fine of not less than nor more than $23 tor each fish killed. The law has been in force since March Reader, Cireensburg, Ind: The game law has been proclaimed and is now in force. THE SCHOOL FUNDS. Money Will He Ready To Distribute to the Counties Karlj- in Julr. A great many persons in various parts of the state have recently been making inquiries as to the whereabouts of the law passed bv the late legislature authorizing the refunding of the $3,9U5,000 of school fund bonds, which have burdened the state since some period during the war. The law contained an emergency clause, hence the inquiries as to what had been done with it. When asked about the matter State Treasurer Lemcke said that nothing had been done because of the manner in which the state had been hindered in securing the big general loan. "If I had attempted," he said, "to negotiate this loan for the.purpose of obtaining money to refund the school bonds, while we were stopped in this other matter, I would undoubtedly have been compelled to accept a poorer figure. In other words, it would not have been a good business transaction if pressed under the circumstances. As it w as, however, I made some inquiries concerning it while I was in New York and satisfied myself that we would be at a disadvantage in trying to consummate the transaction then." Capt. Iemcke further expressed the opinion that the law was a poor one in one or two respects. It directs that the interest shall "not be over 3i per cent.," whereas, for such a large sum and running for so long a time there would have been little dilliculty in getting the money at even a less rate of interest. It w as a serious mistake, too, to make the bonds of such small denominations the largest being but SI, 000 as that will cause a big bill of printing. In contrast with this the general loan was in denominations of a million each there being but seven of them. Auditor of tate Carr concurred in Capt. Lemcke's opinion that it would have been unwise to have negotiated the loan wiiile the state was experiencing trouble in reference to the general loan. He thought, however, that the loan would be negotiable and the money ready for the counties by the first week of July. By the provisions of this bill the governor, auditor aud treasurer are authorized to negotiate a loan of the sum of f 0,V0ö,O(X), to pay off the debt of the state, due the school fund. During the war, when the money was borrowed, the bonds, which were non-negotiable, were given to the school fund with the understanding that the state was to pay the interest. This interest has been 6 per cent., and it is for the purpose ol" reducing it that the present law was passed. By it the old bonds will be purchased of the school fund and council, and the new bonds bearing only about ;i or 3i per cent, interest, will be sold and the proceeds divided among the various counties of the state, to bo loaned out by them, as heretofore. The counties will pay to the state interest on this money at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum, this rate having been reduced from s per cent. The money thus secured bv the state goes into the school fund. There are already !, 000,0 K) thus loaned by the 6tate to the counties. Therefore the two measures passed by the last legislature will rest in the double benefit of increasing the amount to be distributed to the various counties to jo.000,000, and of reducing the interest paid by the counties from 8 to 6 per cent. DUTY OF GOOD CITIZENS. To Maintain That Eternal Vigilance Which is tlie Frice of Liberty. The whole art of government consists in the art of lcinK honest." J'jfrrsim. To the Editor Sir: As the days go by, we realize more and more the truth of that old maxim, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Perhaps no man was ever more deeply impressed with the truth and importance of this maxim than was Jefferson. Think, of him in the days that tried men's souls, in fierce political contests with aristocrats who said: "While the new government is good enough, it is only a stepping-stone to something better in the monarchy butincss." Think of him in a time when our liberties were new, our great blessings beginning to be tested; a time whoa few realized the meaning of liberty; the yoke of monopoly apparently destroyed in the eubincrgingof tea-chests in Boston harbor; tyranny forced to leave our shores for more congenial climes. Still to him the great question would recur, as it did to (Jen. Marion, "Will these good times always last?" To those of us who were taught from the cradle up to love liberty and country infinitely more than party; to those of us who ardently hope that generations yet unborn shall enjoy all and even more than we have this is h question of deep moment. I wish the two lines which open this article could stand at the head of every honest political newspaper in our land in all the aires to come. And would only add, let intelligence be our guide as a nation and as members of the great republic in all time to come. As democrats, let purity and patriotism guide us in the future, never asking whether an act is popular, but is it right, and God will abundantly bless our eflorts. The pood and the great, in all time, will bless and revere the memory of Thomas Jeflerson. So will it be with us if we are true to duty. Let all good men, from this on, resolve that they will never endanger the permanency of our institutions, either by buying or intimidating voters, or by any act which good men deplore. Of course, good men will not buy voters, but in their ignorance, they may wink at what is done. As a proof that the principles taught by Jefferson still live in the hearts of the people, we may cite the fact that, iu spite of the most corrupt means ever used to decieve and debauch the people in November, 1888, the cause cf freedom in the popular vote received 100,(100 majority. And we, who love the country which gave ns birth, will continue to agitate and labor for tho rieht until the day will come when the man who would 6ell his country for a mess of pottage will be glad to hide himself from the gaze of honest men. Dr. L. PlKE. Terre Haute, Jlay 13. Wounded In th Ariuy. I was wounded in the leg at the battle of Stone Itiver, Dev. 31, lSn2. My blood was fmisoned from the effects of the wound, and the eg swelled to double its naturl size, and remained eo for many years. The poinon extended to my whole system and 1 suffered a thousand deaths.- Nothiiuj did me any good until I took Swift's Specific, which took the poison out of my blood and enabled me to feel myself a man again. S. 8. 8. is the remedy for blood poison. Jons Conway, London, O. Mast Attend School. Springfield, 111., May 8. In the house today a bill was passed making it obligatory upon all children between the ages of seven and fourteen years to attend school at least twelve weeks caciiiear.

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and all out-build incs. " Anybody can pat it on. PRICE LOW. Write forSsmple and Hook. a n n -r t " INDIANA PAINT RCOFUVCi CO. How to safe res-hi ogling, stop leaks elTtiially and Itculars free if you mention this paper. INLIANA T For said by PEARSON t THE SCHOOL-BOOK TRUST. Its Disreputable Tight Against the New Law Public Indignation. 'pcncer Democrat. The school-book trust is doini everything possible to create dissatisfaction with the ncw school-book law and are sending their aeents all over the state for the purpose of embittcrinjf the minds of the people against its goin: into ellect. Iast week an acent of Van Antwerp, I.racrg fc Co. sent one of their agents to this place and nn attempt was made to bribe our book dealers and school superintendent into using their influence acainst enforcing the new law, which w e are glad to note, met with no success. Another dodue which they have attempted is to 6end out, in circular form and editorial form, the Indiana .School Journal, which is a tissue of falsehood, bad advice and misinformation. The teacher or trustee who follows the advice expressed by Lditor Bell who i a hired tool in the hands of school book monopolies is most likely to get himself into trouble. Or the teacher who aids in BUDDortintr a nretended school iournal which presumes to be publUhed in the interest of j common schools and at all times nullifies the ! good effect which it should wield by the senseless attacks upon all advanced movenents, should be excluded from the school room. The law, however much it may be attacked by its enemies, is a meritorious one and should be given a fair trial. The mere fact that some of the largest publishing companies have oJ'ered to furnish their books to the schools at a reduction of over 20 percent, should at once convince the people that the only per-ons likely to sutler from the law are those who are in some way or another connected with the ßchool book trust. Rludton Banner. A circular published in pamphlet form by Van Antwerp, Hragc: k Co. of Cincinnati has been circulated throughout Indiana. The sole purpose of this cheeky, imprudent and audacious circular is to break down the new schoolbook law, which was passed to protect the people of our state from the robbery and exactions which this company, through its combinations, has been able to force upon the country, llon-est-miuded people should regard with distrust anything coming from this rajmcior. firm'. folumbus Herald. The school book monopoly, otherwise Van Antwerp, Pracri; & Co., is still fighting to defeat the new school book law. It has zealous advocates in such men as Kell of the School Jo'inw' and some other gentlemen who are in an official capacity. The school teacher or school officer who fights against the law, and in the interest of the monopoly, is an enemy of the people who have given him a position. These the public should mark with an indelible brand. Logans port Tharo. The school hook trust dies as hard as a horse thief. The Indianapolis Sentinel says it could have sold its silence to the rinfj for more money than the profits of its business amount to in five years. That The Sentienl refused to be corrupted is a matter of congratulatiou. Other newspapers and certain officials seem to have delivered themselves soul anl body to the octopus. DUDLEY AND HARRISON. The Blocks of Five Man on Good Terms With the Administration. A Washington special to the Cincinnati Times-Star (rep.) says: The politicians of both parties have been a pood deal interested in the coolness which they supposed existet between President Harrison and (Jen. W. W. Dudley. There have been a good many explanations of the difficulty, and the one commonly given was that the president lost patience with Gen. Dudley after the publication of his "blocks of five letter." Those who knew Gen. Harrison knew that he would never turn his back upon a friend unless that friend proved himself to be very unworthy, and the Dudley Utter did not show its writer to be a bad man at all. It seems now that Gen. Dudley is on good terms with the administration. A friend of his who happened to be a visitor at the white house was asked why Gen. Dudley did not call there. "The president has sent word to him not to call," answered the general's friend. "No; he hasdone nothing of the kind," said the white house official. "But Gen. Dudley certainly received such a message from one near to the president," persisted the friend. "Let us see the president," said the other. So President Harrison was called upon and he gave an emphatic and final denial to the story about having 6ent a messenger to Gen. Dudley, intimating that he did not want to see him. The person who gave that message did so on his own responsibility, and there is likely to be a quiet investigation that will have an unpleasant ending for him. FALSE STATEMENTS CORRECTED. The Character of a Young Lady of Colunihai Relieved of Mnlicious Oossip. To THE Editor Sir: The statement concerning Miss Whittcn of Columbus, Ind., and Mr. Jeßries of Springfield, O., which appeared in The Sentinel some two weeks since is utterly false in the most important particulars, as your correspondent has investigated the case fully. He finds that there is no cause for a scandal whatever, except for those gossipers who are ever ready to create a scandal and especially do they always select a virtuous and pure young woman for their Tictim. Miss Whitten and Mr. Jeffries did not leave a house of disrepute together, neither were they at such a place, neither were they found at Edinburgh together in a private room. They did drive to Edinburgh and then went to the public parlor, returning home in the afternoon. This correction is made in justice to the young lady who belongs to one of the best families here and has always borne an unblemished character, and indeed it may be said with truth that all who know her have the most unbounded faith in her truthfulness, virtue and honor as a lady. Unobtrusive, yet possessing true social qualities and a kind and ladylike bearinsr, together with strict morality, she has won the love and esteem of all with whom she has been thrown in contact A Friend. Columbus, May 11. Why Illalne Did Not Co. Washington Special. A young lndy who is an intimate friend of the Blaine girls is authority for the statement that is going the rounds to tho eflcct that the secretary was not so ill but that he could have attended the centennial without jeopardizing his health, and that he purposely remained at home so as not to arouse the jealousy of Mr. Harrison. Miss Blaine, so the young lady said, told her that her father wanted to co to New York, and would have done so, had he not known that he would be so enthusiastically greeud that Mr. Harrison would be almost lost sight of. and as he did not desire to widen the breach between himself and the president until after certain diplomatic appointments were disposed of. he prudently decided to stay away and let Mr. Harrison share the glory with Mr. Cleveland. Fixing: the Family. John K. Scott, brother-indaw of Gen. Harrison, Las been appointed to a six-dollar-per-day job as superintendent of construction of the Port Townsend (W. T.) custom bouse. With Calkins as governor, the people of Washington wiil begin to w ouder w hat has become of the president's wonderful policy of Louie rata foe the Wrritorits.

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WETZEL, Indianapolis, Ind PERSONAL GOSSIP. Mis SVSAN M. I'TNiLEE of Newton, Mass., is the first woman, vho ever occupied the trusted position of ljtit treafurtr. Sir Roi.ekt PeelS' son, when tossing for sovereigns the other day, lost 4,000. He then tossed double or quits, and won. Tiioe who thinl they Jccow say that British minister Sir Julian I'mincetoteV name is pronounced withoit any vowels P'nc'f't, Senator Stanfoid hopes to open the great university founded ii memory of his son next year. He has not yet found a suitable man for the presidency. The report of Jaases Russell Ixwell's illhealth led people to believe that he was breaking down. He does not show any evidence of decline, acd his voice is as strong as ever. The spot w here Ceu. Albert Sidney Johnston fell at the battle of Shiloh is now marked only by a small cedar bush, the tree by which he died having been carried away, root and branch, by relic-seekers. Cou ntess Or.v, a lady of the Austrian nobility and one of the fiuet horsewomen in Europe, has become a circus manager. Sh has spent a large fortune, in the erection of an encnnoits circus building at Vienna. Gen. Sh.el seldom goes upon the streets since the disgrace of his son. and the young man conducts himseif in prison as if he had done something very smart and cunninr. He has broken both his parents' hearts. Dr. Kkonard, the French scientist, is opposed to the use of electricity in capital punishment as being horribly agonizing and uncertain. "Cut their beads off," says the kindhearted doctor, "and be done with it." Admiral David I. Toktek, grand marshal of the centennial naval parade, will celebrate his seventy-sixth birthday on the Sth of June. He recently held a reception, with his wife, in Washington on the occasion of their golden wedding. Mixs BofiF. Elizabeth Cleveland's second novel is almost ready for the publi?her's hands. It will not deal wholly with Washington life, but if report be true it will b another tale of two cities Washington and New York. ON E of the liner-t opals in the country is worn in his cap by the Chinese minister at Washington. It is as large as a pigeon's ecg and is surrounded by diamonds. The value of the cap with its ornaments is placed at -f V"'. The Abbe IVretti, a Coricau pric-ii, member of many scientific and historical soejetifs, bai written a remarkable work called "Christopher Columbus Frenchman, Corsican and Native of t'alvi," maintaining that America was not discovered by Christopher Columbus the Genoese, but by Christopher Columbus the Corsican. Tom Beep of Maine has been telling how he was admitted to the bar. lie was examined in California by Judge Wallace. Peed says: "The first question Judge Wallace asked me was. 'Is the legal tender act constitutional?' I didn't hesitate a moment I said simply, Tt is constitutional.' 'You can pass,' said Judge Wallace. 'We always pass a man who can settle great constitutional questions oil-hand.' " A pleasant story is told at San Frsncisco of the wife of the Mexican president. The Spanish opera company receutly found itself in distress in that city. It seems that ne of the musicians was something of a poet, and he had dedicated some verses once or t ice to Madame Diar.. She was very much pleased with the compliment, and told him if she could ever serve him in any difficulty she would be h3ppy to do it. He recalled her promise and aked her if she could assist the poor opera people to go back to Mexico. Immediately a telegram came from the kind lady authorizing them to le sent home at her expense, said to be some $3,000. More Keforin. To the Editor Sir: I observe by this paper that our civil service reform (?) administration has appointed one Alexander It. Morrison a special agent of the interior department for New Mexico. Mr. Morrison has een public service before. He was marshal for New Mexico during the Arthur administration, beir.? removed by Cleveland in May, lvvÄ On settlement of his accounts with the treasury department, Mr. Morrison was found to itt near twelve thousand dollars short. A suit is now pending in New Mexico against Mr. Morrison and his bondsmen to recover this shortage. It may be supposed that his new appointment is a blight testimonial for hi? former faithful services to the government It is certainly a somewhat new and novel way to treat defaulters, i suppose Brother Benjamin is following the scriptural injunction of punishing evil doers by heaping coals of fire on their heads. Perhaps the idea is to give Morri.-on, a chance to get money out of the public treasury to pay wh.U he owes the government. Whatever the idea may be, it looks very strange to honest people to see faithless officials who have heretofore robbed the government given opportunities to repeat the operation. 11. Indianapolis, May 5. No Wonder. rChk-apo Time. President Harrison is reported as having said that he had forgotten President Arthur had a son. Very likely. President Arthur was a gentleman and did not keep his son on dress parade at the white hous?. President Arthur's son did not pose for conspicuity by growlin? about the plumbing of the white bouse, end saying that the place was not fit lor his father. President Arthur's son was taught that the country didu't owe him a living and that h mut get out and hustle for himself instead of feeding at the white house. President Arthur never encouraged his son to stand around w ith his hand out pleading for a foreign mission. It is no wonder President Harrison forgot that President Arthur had a son. An Ontcial Abuse. (N. Y. Eremng Post-1 It is not decent that the consuls at Ixndon and Liverpool should each have greater pay and emoluments than the minister at the court of St. James', and is very indecent if the illicit consular emoluments are wrung from consumers of imjorted merchandise in our country, under the pretense of notarial fees. The statute is mandatory that the tax for certifying a consular invoice shall not exceed S-.W. Itii now in Bondon about lis. If an additional fee is needed for an oath, the tax should be on each invoice the fair annual aggregate cost of an English notary, which reed not exceed '2'jd. on each invoice. Such petty brigandage for the benefit of consuls is contemptible aa well aa illegal ! The Coat Fits. JB-sfn Herald. If some overzcalous friends of President Harrison insist that Bishop Potter's forcible presentation of the dangers of self-socking of ' spoils" and the 'machine" was a personal allusion unworthy of the time and place, they pay him a poor compliment. Such a prompt putting on of the coat inevitably arouses the suspicion that it fits. Miller Hall Iturnrd. Cleveland, O., May ".Miller hall, one of the buildings of Kenyon Military academy at Gambier, O., burned this morning. Loss, JV 0; insurance, SU'.OoO. Humors run riot in the blood at this m-bmmi. Hood's Sarsaparilla expels every impurity anl vitalises aud eimctei the blood.