Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 11, 1889L

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

lEa'ereU at the Poitoffice at Indianapolis as second class matter. TERMS PER YEAR Ftagle copy (Invariably in Advance. -..S1 OO Wea.k democrats to bear in mind and select their (in state paper when they com to täte subscription and make up clubs. Afrenta making up clubs send for nr information tcsired. AddcssTIlE ISI'I AS APOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11. Bouffe Statesmanship. The president begins his message by informing congress and the people that- he haa nothing to tell them about the operations of the government which they do not already know. What follows establishes the truth of this preliminary statement The review of cur foreign relations is, as usual, dull and uninteresting. The fact is that we are practically without foreign relations, and what the president says aboat them is purely perfunctory. Speaking of the pan-American congress now in Eession, the president has something to tay about "unnecessary barriers to commerce between the nations ot America." This language sounds very strangely, coming from a man who was elected president on a plati'orm declaring, substantially, that the more barriers to commerce between this and other countries which could be raised, the better off our people would be. The deluded people who voted for Mr. Harrison with the understanding that he would, if elected, at once institute a hostile policy against England, will take a melancholy interest in his tame and even truckling allusions to the very pacific relations existinz between ourselves and John Bull, and likely to be continued indefinitely. Mr. Harrison- did all his tailtwisting during the campaign. Mr. Harrison has something to say about Chinese immigration. He haa finally come to the conclusion that "our supreme interests demand the exclusion of a laboring element which has been shown to be incompatible with our social life." It took Mr. Harrison a very long time to come to this conclusion ; it is gratifying to know that, being president, he has finally reached it. The pre-ident introduces his remarks upon domestic affairs with congratulations upon the "great prosperity of the country." "What he says on this subject will probably be received with great enthusiasm by the farmers of the country, who are now selling their products at lower prices than for more than twenty-five years past, and many of whom are actually using corn for fuel because it is cheaper than protected coal. It will also excite strange sensations in the minds of the tens of thousands of mechanics and laborers who have had their wages reduced since Mr. Harrison became president. The president's discussion of revenue questions is really extraordinary for its weakness and barrenness of suggestion. Ae chows that the surplus for the last fiscal year was over 17,000,000 ; for the current fiscal year it is computed at over $43,000,000, and for the next fiscal year at the fame amount, with a probability, accordin to the president, that this amount will v largely increased. He admits that a surplus revenue is a great evil, but he does not admit, and is, apparently, utterly unconscious of the fact that the existence of ..his surplus is not nearly so great an evil as the tremendous burdens which the system of taxation under which it is accumulated imposes upon the American people. He makes no suggestion looking to the lightening of these burdens. He does not propose the repeal of a single penny of the onerous taxes on the necescaries of life, under which the American people are staggering, or of the burdentome imposts upon the raw materials of our manufactures which are crippling bo many of the most important industries of the country, depriving American labor of the employment to which it is entitled and building up a small number of great fortunes at the expense of the masses of the American people. He carefully avoids any direct reference to the wool question, and contents himself with saying, in general terms, that "the protective principle should be maintained and fairly applied to the products of our farms as well as our shops." A more demagogical and dishonest utterance than this was never made by a president of the United States in a state paper. Mr. Harrison knows, of course, that it is not possible by legislation to protect the products of our farms, because for such producta the American farmer already monopolizes the home market and is obliged to seek foreign markets for his surplus, the price of w hich determines the price which he receives at home. The president's talk about applying the protective principle to the products of our farms presumes an amount of ignorance and credulity in our agricultural population which, judging from recent events, does not exist. The president also talks about "the disabilities and limitations which the processes of reduction put upon both capital and labor." In other words, the president believes, or pretends to beieive, that reducing taxes "disables" and "limits" capital and labor. The proposition is an affront to common sense, but we suppose the republican organs will applaud the president's statement of it as statesmanlike. The only reduction of taxes which the president ventures to recommend is the repeal of the internal tax on tobacco, and spirits used in the manufactures and arts, and the addition to the free list in the tariff mchedulea of such articles as do not come into "injurious competition" with articles of home production. The president carefully avoids specifying these articles. His treatment of the whole revenue question is demagogical, evasive, and cowardly. "What a contrast his weak ntterances upon thin, the one vital issue of the hour, present to the bold, unequivocal and statesmanlike utterances of Grovek Cleveland upon the game subject in his last two messages! The president deprecates the policy of depositing the treasury surplus in national bank?, and intimates that ho will abandon it some time if circumstances permit. He Mtys nothing, however, against this policy vhich was cot said much better and more effectively by President Cleveland in his message of 1SS7. The president's treatment of the silver oncbiion will create great disgust in the

new states. He shows more courage upon this point than any otheT which he touches in his message. Evidently, Wall-st. has been bracing him up. He opposes not only free coinage, but the coinage ol the full amount of $4,000,000 per month in standard dollars, authorized by the existing law. He says, in substance, that we are coining all the silver now that we can absorb ; that any material increase in the coinage will invite financial disaster. He 6ays the secretary of the treasury Las a scheme for the issuance of notes or certificates upon the deposits of silver bullion to the amount of the market value of the latter. The president thinks that he approves this project, but is not quit? sure because he has not had time to investigate it thoroughly. It is tier: iti cant that he uses tho jargon of the gold-bugs throughout, speakin?, for instance, of the bullion value of the standard dollar as ninety-three cents. He means, of course, ninety-three cents in i gold. The fact is, however, that a standard dollar not only has a value of one hundred j cents, but it one hundred cents. Neither morally nor legally is the gold dollar the standard bv which the silver dollar is to be measured. I The president is sure we want to expend J a good many millions on our coast defenses ; a good many millions more on subsidies to steamship lines; a good many millions more on rivers and harbors anil still more millions on the "Blair bill." Anything to get rid of the surplus and avoid reducing taxationup on the necessaries of life! For subsidies, to which the president claimed only a few years ago to be "unalterably opposed," he has no better argument than that England and other European countries give subsidies, and therefore we should. lie does not favor an "American policy" on this question as on the tariff. If the argument that because England gives subsidies the United States should do so is a good one, it would also le a good argument that because England levies no protective tax, neither should the United States. Mr. Harrison ami his supporters during the last campaign made a very strong bid for votes upon the grounds that they were hostile to everything English; now ho asks us to subsidize our steamship lines because it is English, you know. It is very funny. As a matter of fact England gives no subsidies to her steamship lines, as Mr. Harrison must know, if he ha.s read Consul-Gen. New's recent report to the state department. Even if she did, it would be no sufficient reason why the United States should pursue the same policy. England levies no taxes upon the materials that go into a ship and she does not prohibit her people from buying ships wherever they can get them the cheapest. If the United States would follow her example in this respect, as President Cleveland urged, we should soon rival England on the high seas and without taking the people's money and giving it by the million to capitalists fur building and operating steamships. There is not much else in the president's message which calls for comment, except the allusions to trusts. Mr. Harrison professes to be bitterly opposed to these "little private alfairs," as his secretary of state termed them last year, aiul even goes so far as to recommend penal legislation against them. It is a pafe recommendation to make to this congress, as the president well knows. It is a republican congress in both houses, composed very largely, especially in the upper chamber, of men who are connected with or are attorneys for trusts. There will be no national legislation against these conspiracies until congress is again denmerattc in both branches. Secretary Windom's Order. Mr. Harrison has been president nine months and his secretary of the treasury finally announces with a great flourish of trumpets that the national bank deposits are to be reduced and the number of bank depositories curtailed. His order on the subject, made public last week, is a very interesting document. There is loud thundering in the index, but after all the order only calls for a withdrawal of ten wr cent, of the deposits to be made before Jan. 15. He says other calls will be made "from time to time" but carefully avoids naming dates. The order is evidently issued in the hope, that it will silence criticism upon the admin ii-tration for its failure to redeem its campaign pledges touching the deposits. But the order comes too late, and covers too little ground for that. A withdrawal of 10 per rent, in the bank deposits during the first year of the administration is of no consequence. - This reduction does not equal the fluctuations in the amount of deposits which have frequently occurred without attracting any attention. It would attract no attention now but for the loud proclanr.ation that is made of it. The order is made simply to throw dust in the eyes of the people. It means practically no change in the existing policy, until the existing financial conditions change. In other words, so long as there i3 a large surplus in the treasury, the administration will maintain correspondingly large deposits in the banks, not, perhaps, 'from choice, but from necessity. In no other way can serious consequences to the business interests of the country be averted, as Mr. Harrison realizes now, and probably did when he was denouncing Mr. Cleveland so savagely for doing that which he himself has been doing ever since ho became president. Republicans and School Books. The course of the Indianapolis Journal on the school book question has led many people to suppose that the republican press of the state is generally hostile to tho new law' and to the Indiana school book company. The fact ir, however, that the law and the company have no etancher friends than are the leading republican papers of the state. We believe there are not to exceed a dozen papers of any consequence which the Journal has been able to lead into the camp of the trust. TheEvansville Journal, the Terre Haute Exprtn, the Fort Wayne Gazette, the Muncie Times, the Marion Chronicle, the Bloomington Telephone, the Huntington Herald and many other important republican papers aro friendly to the new law and uncompromising in their opposition to the swindling old trust. There are many other republican papers, of which the Lafayette Courier is an illustration, which, while not specially favorable to the new law or the new. books, have steadily insisted, and do n:)w, that the law shall be faithfully observed, and the !ooks 'thoroughly and fairly tried. These papers

are honestly opposed to the trust, and will antagonize any movement looking to a return to the old system. Republican sentiment throughout the state is, to a very large extent, on the side of the new law. Intelligent republicans realize that they have just as much interest in getting cheap school-books, and in the emancipation of the schools from the corrupting influence of the old trust, as their democratic neighbors have. They recall the fact that it was Gov. Hovey who first officially invited attention to the frightful extortions practiced by the trust upon the people of Indiana, and urged the legislature to give the people reliet. They remem- ! ber that many republican votes were cast in the legislature for the law. They are aware of the fact that a majority of the state board of education, which adopted the new books, declaring them to be equal in all respects to the trust books, are republicans. They know that as distinguished a republican and as sound a lawyer as Locis T. Michener, attorneygeneral of the state and chairman of the republican state central committee, in an elaborate and carefully-prepared opinion, has held the new law constitutional and mandatory. They know that some of the leading republicans in the state men long active in the councils of their party, and repeatedly honored by it nre associated seme of them as its principal officers with the Indiana school-book company. For these, and for many other reasons, the better class of republicans and the better ( lass of republican newspapers throughout the state are almost without exception friendly to the new law and the new books. Their views are forcibly expressed by the Marion Chronicle, the republican organ in one of the leading republican counties in the state. The Chronicle says : There never was a law passed that met with such general approval, nnd, although it may have to be amended in some few particulars, we never expect to see it repealed, cxeept by a better one. The object throughout has been to drive out a lot of pirates who h ive crown rich through corruption and bribery, and in this it has been successful. With but few exceptions every school in Indiana is supplied with the new b.oks, and they will not be changed rieht away, because no board of education would agree to it. Indiana Needs Good Roads. Throughout the country the question of roads is being discussed by the press. It is an important question, and one that has been two much neglected in the United States, principally, no doubt, because of the rapid development of our railroad system. All the countries of Central and Western Europe have excellent systems of public highways. That of France approaches perfection, and it is gratifying to know that it is being studied by American engineers, and not without good results already. Some of the eastern states have recently passed laws providing for the construction and maintenance of roads on the French system, and it would be well if other states, including Intliana, were to follow their example. Our road laws are monuments of legislative unwisdom and our roads, on the average, are shocking bad affairs. Their inferiority involves an enormous tax upon agriculture, retards tho development of the state, depreciates the value of farming lands situated at any considerable distances from railroad towns, diminishes the trade of our cities and towns, and causes an amount of inconvenience, discomfort and profanity every year which it is appalling to contemplate. There is no subject to which the people of Indiana can better devote, their attention than that of highway building and maintenance. We ought to have the French system, or something very like it, and if the matter is properly agitated during the next twelve months, the legislature of 1S91 will doubtless see the wisdom of establishing it. This is a matter in which both city and country people have an equal anel direct interest. A first-class system of roads connecting Indianapolis with the surrounding country would benefit this city more than any other material improvement that could be made, and it would benefit the farmers who buy and sedl here in an even greater ratio. Col. Albert A. TorE of Boston, in an address upon the subject of roads, recently delivered at Syracuse, X. Y., said: "The prosperity of any city depends largely upon the surrounding country, and the better the road faeilities the faster the country will grow in population." So the advantage of goc)d roads is mutual to both city and country. As a contemporary says: A road over which a bicycle can ba ridden with ease and saf.-ty will save hundreds of dollars to farmers and others driving heavy loads. The earliest communities to recognize and act upon this truth will be the first to benefit by it. Throughout this state and the whole country are farms, eiirht or ten miles front the railroad, whose value is at a minimum, yet which, were the roads intersecting them of the first class, would at once rise in value were they twice as far from steam transportation. Good roads are a national benefit. All business originates in natural product which must find its way over a common highway before it can reach a market and attain its full value. Smooth, hard roads, well drained, and easily traversable through a large part of the year furnish this outlet, and alone can furnish it. To neglect the highways is worse than to neglect fences and woodpiles and weeds. Recognizing the immense importance of this subject, The Sentinel proposes to devote a good deal of attention to it during the coming twelve months. We shal publish detailed descriptions of the manner in which roads are built and maintained in France and other European countries, and in some of the eastern

states, and will show what other states have done recently in the way of improving their road laws. Meantime we urge agricultural societies, farmers' clubs, boards of trade and business men's associations to agitate this question, so that public sentiment will bo aroused, by the time the next legislature meets, to demand the right kind of road laws from that body. This is a matter in which there is no politics. We can all get together democrats, republicans, prohibitionists and mugwumps upon a platform demanding goexl roads for Indiana, because we are all interested. Let the good work be taken up and pushed vigorously all over the state. We have received from "A Disgusted Teacher" some samples of the latest documents sent out by the school-book trust. One is a highly displayed announcement of that very important (?) Benton county decision, and the other is a circular printed in blue ink, and headed, in large letters, "Deserving of Careful Consideration by the People of Indiana The Indiana School-book Law and the Monopoly Textbooks Condemned' This circular gives an imaginative account, from the liieh-

mond Palladium, of the convention of the Ohio and Indiana school superintendents held in that town in October. It will be remembered that the trust tried to pack this convention with a view to securing the passage of resolutions against the new law and the new books, but failed. The convention eliscussed these matters some, most of the Indiana members expressing themselves as friendly to the Jaw and the books. So strong was this sentiment that the agents of the octopus did not even dare to offer the resolutions which had been prepared. Yet from this circular the contents of which were prepared and furnished the Palladium by one of the truest lobbyists, it would appear, that the convention was little else than an indignation meeting against the new order of things. No wonder the teachers are becoming "disgusted." About two months ago the Indianapolis Journal announced, editorially and in its Washington correspondence, that $25,000,000 of the government depo-its had been withdrawn from the banks by Secy. Windom. Now comes the secretary himself and announces that he is about to begin withdrawing the deiosiit, and that be tween now and Jan. 15. he will call in 10 per cent, of them, or about $4,700,000. At this rate it will take the secretary cver five years to catch up with the Journal's "news" of two months ago. Indiana does not getthe supreme judgeship. Both Atty.-Gen. Miller and Judge Woods are passed over and the honor is conferred upon David J. Brewer of Kansas, who is now judge of the Eighth judicial circuit to which position he was appointed by President Artiivk in 1S84. We feel justified in the suspicion that if Judge AVoons had that Dudley decision to make again, he wouldn't make it. The judge is clearly a victim of misplaced confidence. The schxl book trust has openeel its mud batteries on the Bowen-Merrill company. In its last circular it denounces the Bowen-Merrill copy-books as "absolutely worthless." The real objection to the books is, of course, that they are sold for half the price the trust has been receiving for its copy-books. This is certainly a gross outrage upon the people, and a "violation of the principles of local self-government." Wanamaker says that the time has no yet come for 1-cent postage. He is doubtless right. But he should explain why the Chicago convention, nearly eighteen months ago, declared for 1-ccnt postage. Was it for the same rt ason that it denounced the policy of depositing the treasury surplus in "pet banks" that is, to deceive the people? Gov. Hovey announces in an interview that he is opposed to the administration's policy of repealing the tobacco and whisky taxes. It is hoped that our erratic executive has learned by this time that it is the republican party which desires to repeal those taxes, and not the democratic party, as he announced in his late lamented Elkhart speech. THE WEEKLY REVIEW.

Recent M nor Event Briefly Paragraphed for "The IVeeKIy eni iu.'l."' Stanley is at Zanzibar. Dom Pedro winters at Cannes. Patti has arrived at New York. Boulantrer is coining to America to lecture. Ecypt's cotton crop will be 3,2.y,GOO can tar. The Fürst distilling company, St. Joe, Mo., failed. Portugal will recognize the Brazilian republic. J. I. Case purchased Lexington Wilkes for ?10,0C0. It is rumored that Brazil will expel the Jesuits. At Pittsburg a straw and rag paper trust is forming. The sugar trust has declared a 1 per cent, dividend. Bishop Smythies has arrived safely at Mozambique. A strike is imminent iü the South London gas works. The British ship King Robert burned ofT Cape Horn. Henry It. Barker (rep.) was elected mayor of Providence. Tuesday, at Nottingham, Parnell will reply to Salisbury. Mike Lugie and Jimmy Carroll will fight at Frisco Jan. 22. Henry L Frieze, LL. D., of Ann Arbor university is dead. The rumors of a financial panic at Buenos Ayres are denied. Selverstone Brothers, clothing, Milwaukee, failed; no details. No settlement of Kansas and Nebraska rates has been reached. Jacob Lcedom's carpet mill, Philadelphia, burned ; loss, 50.000. Secy. NoMe was entertained Friday night by the St. Louis G. A. It. London coal porters and gas works employes will strike Wednesday. C. M. Hill of Kansas City has purchased the Grand hotel, Cincinnati. The Lake Superior mines have shipped 6,700, 000 tons of ore this year. Fire in the Hudson river (N. Y.) woolen mills did i5C.OO0 damage. Five steamships Thursday landed 1,492 imniigrants in New York City. New Orleans Winners Col. Hunt, Kent, Lady Blackburn, Climax. A receiver has been appointed for the Kennesaw mills at Marietta, Ga. Canada will probably remove the duties on mining machinery and coke. John Madden and wife burned to death in their home at Kingston, Ont. Gov. Mellet reports GjO families destitute in Miner county, South Dakota. Specie exports from New York last week Gold, 37,euo; silver. $2,tJ83. The steamer Edith Gordon foundered off the Bahamas Nov. 20. No lives lost. Viscount Treto, exiled prime minister of Brazil, has arrived at St. Vincent. Kansas' sorchum mi ear experiments this year have been highly successful. Mary E. Bennett of Oriskany Falls, N. Y., disemboweled herself with a razor. The steamship Idaho, on the rocks at Port Townsend, Wash., has broken up. William Peters of Cincinnati has embezzled $15,000 from a building association. During the period, from January to October, 82,000 Germans emigrated to America. Frank II. Collier, the well-known Chicago lawyer and politician, is hopelessly insane. It is reported and denied that the Canadian Pacific will extend its line to Portland, Me. The Kansas supreme court declares Sharon Springs the county seat of Wallace county. Jimmy Hope, bank burglar, has been given two days in which to get out of New York. Na Con Qui Say and Kad Dos La, Apaches, were hanged at Florence, Ariz., for murder. Conductor Chris Kroeger was fatally stabbed by a drunken miner on his train at Joplin, Mo. I). II. Chamberlain was yesterday made receiver of the South Carolina railroad company. An English syndicate has purchased all the coal mines in Maoon county, Mo., for $2,000.000. The wife of Jndge Seneca Smith of Portland, Ore., was thrown from a buggy and killed. Comedian ScunUn at the Star theater in New York gave a beneiit for Mrs. Farne. 1, realizing 1ST 7. The Manchester Examiner apologizes for its statement that Mrs. John W. .Mackey was a Children Cry for

washerwoman, pays all costs and a certain amount to a charity designated by Mrs. Mackey. Cashier Perrin was held for complicity in the forty-thousand-dollar bank robbery at Hurley, Wis. The Dem psey athletic club of Fargo, N. D., offers $40,000 for SuLivan and Jackson to fight there. A famine is threatened in eight southern districts of India, owing to a total failure of the crops. The China made the best record from Yokohama to San Francisco thirteen days and six hours. By a premature dynamite blast at Howard Junction, Pa., G. Mahretta and D. Luttea were killed. The Northern Pacifio paid Mine. Nelson, the Australian equestrienne, for injuries iu a wreck. Dr. N. P. Carter secured $18,000 for attending Robert Garrett and dropped his suit for 23,000. A Jersey City weather prophet predicts nineteen heavy snow storms in that locality this winter. Mrs. Olina Knndson and Miss Mary Lee were surtocated by gas escaping from a stove at Chicago. The defalcations of W. II. Fursman, the insurance broker of Pontiac, 111., will reach Charlie Johnson was haneed at Gadsden, Ala., lor the murder of Policeman Kenny a year ago. Watchman Charles Wallace und Lee Reilly robbed the Mechanics' bank, Ft. Worth, Tex., of io.OCO. A palace conspiracy has been discovered at Tar.giers, and the sultan's brother has been put in prison. An English syndicate has purchased 250,0O0 acres of coal and timber land near Middlesbur?, Ky. The Wisconsin coagrecational convention found the Bev. E. II. Smith of Oshkosh guiity of heresy. John Kider and William Jackson, woodsmen, fatally chopped each other with axes near Belmont, Mo. The Miner house, East Tawas, Mich., burned; Ed Koney, clerk, and an unknown man lost their lives. The national live stock exchange at Chicago resolved in tavor of the repeal of the oleomargarine law. The F.ev. Walter IL Dale, alias J. M. Nuttall, was fired from his Atlanta church and arrested for bieamy. Wednesday at Baltimore ship charters for the carriage of is32,000 bushels of grain were made. British Columbia vigorously protests against the repeal of the $50 per head tax on Chinese immigrants. William Dennis was killed and eicht others fatally injured by a boiler explosion yesterday at Marion, Md. Lew Dockstader's theater at New York is closed and Lew has gone to Canada under an assumed name. Warehousemens' assembly, 713, K. of L., rittsburg, reinstated Homer L. McGaw, expelled at Atlanta. Mike Daly of Bangor and Jack McAuliffe of New York fought a lilteen-round draw at the Boston Cribb club. Shihak Ingio, Jap, was found guilty at New York of murdering Muro Com Contari, a fel- ! low Japanese sailor. I Jason McAllister's eight-year-old daughter was found brutally outraged and almost dead, near Aberdeen, Mi6s. Patrick Burns, John Kelly and James MeBeth were badiy hurt by an explosion in the Pittsburg rolling nulls. A decree of sale has been entered against the Kanawha & Ohio railroad at the suit of the Mercantile trust company. The Monongahela house, Pittsburg, burned; loss $30,(OU. No lives were lost, but tnuny guests had narrow escapes. Manager Barnie sues Director Wagner of the Philadelphia brotherhood club for libel tor suying that Barnie is crazy. Thomas Ilotchkiss had a red-hot iron rod run through his boweis while at work in a Trenton (N. J.) rolling mill. Judge Gresham dismissed the four-hnndred-thousa'id-dollar suit of the Thorn-wire hedge company vs. Washburn fc Moen. Bakely, Cleveland's pitcher, has signed with the brotherhood, and Teheau telegraphs that lie will stick by that organization. S. D. Bruce'8 sale of thoroughbreds at Lexington, Ky., closed with the disposal of thirtysix head for $12,02.3; average, 331. The C, C, C. fc St L. declared a per cent, quarterly dividend on preferred, and on common stock, payable Jan. 22. Johu Modler saved all his children from their burning home at Lansdowne, Out, but returned for valuables and was lost. Gov. Hill will not interfere in the case of Burtrlar John Greenwald, condemned to hang for the murder of Lyman S. Weeks. At Fall Kiver, Mass., John Sullivan attempted to outrage Mrs. George Connell, and fatally stabbed her husband for interfering. "Handsome Harry" Carlton, a Bowery tough, was handed at New York for the murder of Ollieer James Brennau. Oct 23, 1883. In the deputies at Brussels a member in a speech called the minister of the interior a fool and he called the member a liar. London financial men do not view Secy. Windom's report with favor, but await the details before expressing a decided opinion. In a neero riot at a circus in Lumberton, N. C, Jack Hunt, Tom Collier and Julius Embra were stabbed to death and mauy others badly cut Sheriff Harrington, of Marianna, Ark., shot and killed John Cox, colored, who had just shot and killed his mistress, Leatha Woolbridge. George W. Childs and Editor William V. McKeun celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their connection with the Philadelphia Ledger yesterday. Gov. Larrahee and the Iowa railroads are negotiating. If the railroads will accept the corumisMouera' rates the suits against the roads will be dismissed. The strike aiuong the brass and iron bedstead-makers of Birmingham, Englaud, has spread to the workmen in that industry at Dudley and Bilston. The B. & O. is said to be reaching for the Missouri river, through the purchase of the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific, and a little buildiug to St Joseph, Mo. Zimmer and McAleer of Cleveland, and Carney, Richardson, Nash, Johnson, Daley and liadbourne of Boston are said to have signed brotherhood contracts. The skeleton of a man with the skull cut open, as if with au ax, has been discovered buried on the premises of Amos Kagy, a leading Kansas City lawyer. John Theodore WilJ, alias Greenwald, was handed at New York for the murder of Lyman S. Weeks, whose residence he was burglarizing when the murder was committed. James Green, a negro of Elmira, N. Y., was fatally burned at V heeling. W. Va., by a gang of loafers, who. finding him asleep poured alcohol over him and set it on fire. Olive E. Friend, Mrs. E. Lily Howard. Orrin A. and George llalstead have pleaded guilty to grand larceny at New York for their part in the electric sugar refining swindles. Three of the five Apaches to have been banged at Florence, Ariz., to-day strangled themselves with strips of cloth. The others will be hanged according to schedule. W. W. Nivison of Yountrstown. O.. confessed to having five years a?o robbed the U. 8. express company of $7,500. D. P. Mikesell was charged with the crime and driven insane. All the men in twenty-five collieries at Essen have resolved to strike. The governm-jnt demands authority, and an appropriation to make an addition of 1.XM) men to the police force. At Lincoln, Neb., one republican has sued for $2,500 another for giving evidence which induced the committee on credentials to exclude the first spoilsman from a seat iu a convention. The story that a groat catholic bank with a capital of $100,000,000 is denied by all the parties whose names have been connected with it, including Eugene Kelly and Archbishop Gibbons. Joseph Seippe, a peddler, was found dyinaf near Lonisvi le. He said his partner, George Mieler. had attempted to murder him and had fired the haystack iu which they were sleeping. Sheler was arrested with four bullets in his bead. He said they were attacked 'by tracups. The weekly bnuk statement shows the following changes: Reserve, decrease, Jl,lSS,7ü0; loans, decrease, $1,771,1)00; specie, decrease, $782,2110; leR-il tenders, decrease, f.StW.WJO; deposits, decrease, f l,?73,2fO; circulation, decrease, $21,.'io0. The bunks now hold $083,510 in excess of the 25 per cent rule.

Pitcher's CastorlSt

THE WAR ON THE FARMERS.

CALL FOR TAXATION AND RESTRAINT. Prevent Surplus Farm Products Is the Republican Doctrine and larmrr Taxed Until Two lilli n ItreaJ.AYinners Are Driven OCT Their Land. We have free trade among ourselves throuchont thirty-eight states and the territories, and among sixty millions of people. Absolute freedom of exchange within our dwn borders and among our own citizeus is the kwof the republic. Reasonable taxation and restraint upon those without is the dictate of enlightened patriotism and the doctrine of the republican party. Wi'liam McKin'ev, of Ohio. Mr. McKh.!ey is the republican champion in congress of protection, and thee words are taken from his chapter in defense of protection in the ofiicial "History of the Republican Tarty" used in the last campaign. What does the republican farmer with common Een.e think of this ''doctrine of the republican party," if he interprets it to mean that our congress can imposo "reasonable taxation and restraint upon" the people of foreign nations and that this "reasonable taxation" can be collected from the people of foreign countries by American tax collectors? Is this "doctrine of the republican party" true? If the conp-ess of the United States can "levy and collect taxes" from the people of Great Britain, France, Germany, end other countries, it should levy none upon the 3 per ce nt, of the world who comprise its own citizens. Its treasury should overliow from "reasonable taxation upon those without." Yet we hear no 'complaint from foreign countries concerning any tax levied by congress upon the 97 per cent, of mankind outside our bcundarn-s, or any tortion of them. "Those without" the 'nited States take no interest in our taritf laws, except to laugh at our foily in supposing; we ran tax any one but our own citizens, and to deplore our tnort-siehted-tees in refusing to sell at a profit to ourselves what they want to buy. From what foreign countries did we receive the surplus piled up in our treasury before Tanner beg;an shoveling it out? If this "doctrine of the republican party" were true, then it would be also true that any foreign government could impose "reasonable taxation" upon us. The taritf is not patented. It was not invented by the republican party. Foreign countries have had it from time immemorial, ami if by means of it they could tax tho people ot the i. nueci states they certainly wouia if not all, at least the majority of them j would. What countries collect "reasona- 1 ble taxation" from the American people, i and what countries refrain from levyirg this "reasonable taxation," upon us? it this "doctrine of the republican party" is true, it is important that we should know to what countries we pay tribute as well as what countries pay tribute to us, and the exact amount for each, eo that we may know where we stand. "We pay England over $200,000,000 taxes yearly," shouts a 'backwoods republican editor, before Mr.McKinloy's broad hand can cover his mouth. '"P.ritish freetrader" cannot possibly impose "reasonable taxation" upon the people of other countries, for that would destroy Mr. McKinley's theory that this imposition upon and collection of ''reasonable taxation" from "those without" can only be done by a high protective tariff. That the government of no country can, without force, compel the remainder of the world to submit to reasonable or unreasonable taxation is in accordance with common observation and experience. Unless it were true there would be an end at once of all government. Each government Mould, in self-defense, try to tax the others out of existence. Net only the right but the power of any government to tax stops at the boundary line. Not only j the right but the power is limited to the j taxation of its own people. ly injuring its own people it can make part of the injury fall upon the people ot other countries. China, by forbidding its people to sell us tea, can make us go without it. The United States, by forbidding the raising of J cotton or corn, can make the people of other countries uncomfortable for a while. But there this power ends, and every exercise of this power is evil, and only evil to all concerned. It is beyond the power of congress to frame any law that will impose upon any i person outside of the United States a tax of 1 cent, and this "doctrine of the republican party" does not refer to any person who is bodily outside their boundaries. The "taxation and restraint" is to be imposed upon citizens who have forfeited their rights, who have been "bribed by foreign gold to betray their country," "upon those without" anj' rights in the country. Every tax, every restraint, every burden imposed by congress must be borne exclusively bv the people of the United States. Mr. McKinley's words do not deny this, lie does not wish to controvert it. He wishes to bo tinder.tool by the ignorant and careless voter m talking of "foreigners," but he wishes the protected millowners to know that he is talking of those American citizens who, by producing a surplus of no value until exchanged for foreign products, enter into competition with the mill owners in supplying the people of the United States with "the goods they require. By "those without" he eloes not mean the "people of foreign countries although he frames his words to make the rabble imagine so. By "those without" he does mean the 1,S07,4S American farmers who sell their products to foreigners and receive foreign pay for their labor. It is "reasonable taxation end restraint upon" the American farmer solely, which "is the dictate of enlightened patriotism and the doctrine of the republican party." No one else is meant by either Mr. McKinley or any other republican editor, speaker or writer when referriug to "those without." This this is the real meaning of his carefully chosen words no (ne can doubt who will read them again. He divides the people of the United States into two classes: (1) Those who exchange w ithin our own borders with absolute freedom. (2) Those who exchange without our borders and are to be punished. So long as the American citizen trades and exchanges within our own borders, with other citizens also within our own l-orders, he is entitled to credit and even honor. But the American citizen who attempts to trade or exchango with any one leyond our borders becomes at once a person upon whose "reasonable taxation and restraint is the dictate of enlightened patriotism and the policy of the republican party." The "taxation and restraint" cannot touch one hair of any person beyond our borders. It cannot tax him. It cannot restrain him. It can deprive him for a limited time of some advantages he might otherwise enjoy, but only by depriving American citizens of like or greater advantage's. In its highest form and most powerful manifestation the embargo act of 1S07 it is simply non-intercourse. We can make it a crime for any citizen to sell to foreigners or exchange with foreigners at a profit to himself, and com pel foreigners to buy from or exchange with the people of houie other conntrv, wiser than we are; but not one inch farther can we go. If we do not wish to go so far, if the power lodged in congress is to be exercised mildlv, merely to discourage the exchanges to "check imports," we can jmpoöo rea

sonable "taxation and restraint" wa euch of our citizens "within our own borders," as desire to exchange the products of their lalor with people ievond 01 borders. That this is "the policv of tie republican party" we know. That it is the dictate of enlightened patriotism" f -ere id no proof, and it does not conf'' 'o common sense. Who are the ncopJe in this couVry upon whom "reasonable tix;tion and restraint" is now imposed bccrjse they wish to exchange and lo exclüirige the products of their labor with tin? people of fV.rein nations? Are they criminals wh de-ire to exchange stolen gods, or honet men who have made more of a certain product thaa their fellow-citizeri can m-e? ' Tiie-ir numbers :re lanre. fMween lSO and liSS the aver.ee yearly value of what they exchange was-S74SNM')1, representing the yearly wages of earnings, of 2,000,210 persons, if the earrings of all are averaged by the known earniii.s of 77 per cent. The "reanab!e taxation" imposed upon the exchange avera-jed between lsl and ISss exucJy Slt.so7,2.n yearly, and the "restraint" imposed upon tiie exchange was sy great that S!-I,.'K,324 worth of the products that went abroad were yearly inwf-ted abroad in foreign ships, mills and industrial enterprises, furnishing employment to foreigners, because tho fi nders could not aL'ord to bring their payment back to this country iind have au average line of per cent. "de ducted from it at the custom-house. The country wa drained! of its wealth, of the products of labor, at the rate of t!'4,"U'.t.:;24, at "tho dictate t'f enlightened patriotism" and. by "the pejicy of the republican party." It is Mr. McKinley's prou 1 boast that sincelS'Wwehave exported, in exeess of tho value of material brought into the country, SI, vil.'HVM'H) worth of our products and l,5:;2,0Oi,t'00 worth of our precious metals, making a total transfer abro id of our national wealth of S.',.,0-)o.(.K',)'0, every dollar of which has been invtsted abroad to build up foreign nations. To transfer our national wealth to foreign countries by encouraging exports and discouraging imports, by forcing our exjrts of wealth to exceed our imports of wealth has been "the policy of the republican party," but the "enlightened patriotism" is hard to find. The people in this country who desire to exchange with "those without" are our farmers. From 74 to s.i per cer.t. of all our exports are the products of agriculture, the remaining small amount bein made up of the products of our oil well, fisheries and mines. One-half the male workers in the United States are engaged in agriculture, and over one-fourth of these have no market in the United States. The "absolute freedom ol" exchange Uhin our own borders and among our citizens," w hich Mr. McKinley says thev may enjoy untaxed and without constraint, has no value to them. "Our own citizens" d not want and cannot use one-fourth the product of our farms. Three-fourths of our agricultural product is futlicient to feed every one in the United States, and one-fourth can be and is sold abroad, the farmers beinir subject to the "rcas nab"o taxation and restraint," which it is the policy of the republican party to impose upon the payment, after it comes into the country and before the farmer receives it. Here is an interesting little table which every farmer may profitably studv. IIo would not do ill "to keep it pasted in Lis hat:

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Avorne yeatly t.'x oa each fanner, furm-hanJ and dairy-iuail of i-.5J. The war which the republican party has declared upon the surplus products ot our American farms is not imaginary. It in no political "seare," for it is outside the taritf line on which political parties divide. It is an issue far greater than any that has ever come before the people of the United State or the people of any country on earth. Beside it, when it is "understood, the slavery question was insignificant. In lSiiO the republican party, in national convention, declared: 4. That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the states, and especially the right ol each state to order and control its own amnestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance ot powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends; and we denounce the lawltss invasion by armed force ol the soil of any state or territory, no matter under what pretext, as the gravest of crimes. InilSSS the republican party in national ccnvention solemnly declared : We are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protection. The protective 6ystem must be maintained. The republican party would effect all needed reduction of the ublic revenue by such revision of the tariiT a rs as will tend to check imports. In other words, it stands pledged uncompromisingly to protect the mid-owners from the competition of foreign goods imported in payment for the surplus product of our farms. The present tax upon tho farmer's payment for his eurplus must not only be maintained, but this "'reasonable taxation and restraint" now imposed upon the American farmer mut be eo increased that bis burden will be too prr-at to bear and he will fctop exporting leaving tho land he tills to become the wage-slave of a mill-owner. The declaration of war on slavery in ISijO rang cracked and thin cV. : 1 wi; !i the trumpe t blast of its eieeh.rJi- r or" v. on the farmers of lV-vS. A republican congress and a republican president propose to begin the war at once. It will not be directed at any particular section, nor at any particular farmers, but at the whole industry in general. Tho paymeut for our agricultural surplus is to be taxed until production is limited to tho needs of the "home market;" until every poor farmer, struggling along in hopes of better times, shall "be driven into "other vocations;" until only enough of those now rich and prosperous who can etan-l the strain are left on the land to supply the "exchange within our own border and among our own people." Is this a time for democratic farmera to lie supinely on their back9 waiting to hear the news from Washington, or to vote in the congressional elections one year frora now? Have they anytime to lose in awakening their republican neighbors and friends to a realization of the nature of the impending crisis, of the fate which threatens now to overwhelm one-half the male workers of the land in irredeemable ruin? T. E. WlLLSOX. The Foil Wll rienoed. Ijebanon Tioneer. After all the Mowing on the part of Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co.'s agents ami hirelir-cs of tha re'Vi'Jican party nlnjut the inferiority of th new school books, they have stood the test, theschools of Indiana are flour'sbine, the people have been saved thousands of duDars and are W ill pleased. Rheumatism is caused by lnotio acid in the blood, which Hood's Sarsapanila neutralizes, and thus cures rheuaiatim. So ne Kool.nl People. Allow a cough to run until it gets beyond the reach of medicine. They ofteu nay, "Oh. it will wear away," but iu most eases it we ars thera away. Could they be induced to try the succeiiBful medicine called Kemp's It dram, i which is sold on a positive puarantee to cure, they would immediately see the excellent etleot after taking the firt d!e. Trice 50c aad J U I Trial size lrce. At ail drug;pa.