Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. "WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 18. 1891 TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS, President.

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The new trustees have taken posseesion, but of course it will be difficult to induce a first-class man to take the position of superintendent bo long as their authority to employ him is in question. The entire responsibility for this situation lies with the governor, and there is no possible justification for his course in creating it. .When the question was raised two years ago it was considered at great length by the supreme court, which then decided that the legislature had the legal right to elect trustees for the benevolent institutions. (Hovey vs. Iiiley, 119 Ind. SS6; Hovey vs. Carson, 119 Ind. i!X.) Under those decisions Governor Hovey issued commissions to the trustees e'ected by the legislature. He cow returns to his original position and proposes to resubmit the question to the court. Whether he has had an intimation of a change of faith in that body, or merely hopes that the new member may te more complaisant than the one whom be replaced, we arc unable to say. In either event his position is not complimentary to the court, and his object is not creditable to himself. If the court is what it should be he has no reason to expect any change in its decision. If he ha3 no reason to expect a change be cannot take his preeent position from any good motive. If he is to be credited with any intelligence at all, he could not expect any benefit to result, either to the public or to himself, from temporarily embarrassing the administration of the benevolent institutions, expecting meanwhile a decision against him. It may be observed in this connection that the last legislature was very generous to the governor in the matter of patronage. It gave him the appointment of two tax commissioners, live appellate judges and twenty-six world's fair commissioners. Here aro thirty-three good appointments, in addition to what he already held, and yet he is willing to hinder the work of the benevolent institutions in an endeavor to secure more. "What ia worse, there is some reason for supposing that his motive is even lower than ordinary partisanship. There is a constantly growing suspicion that he is using his patronage not for the purpose of strengthening his party, but to strengthen himself in his party that he seeks a nomination for the vice-presidencj. Since be secured the complimentary nomination for senator by telegram trickery, the members of his party have begun to realize that Napoleon is not banished until after Waterloo. The inordinate vanity and arrogant assumption of the man would provoke only ridicule if it were not that his position gives him opportunity to be dangerous to the welfare of the state. The utmost that is claimed for him even by his friends is that "he has the courage of hi9 convictions." What are his convictions? lie recognizes no party control, as was illustrated by his veto of the fee and salary bill. He recognizes no control of reason or justice, as was illustrated by hia approval of the supreme court reporter bill at the eame time. He recognizes no control of the constitution or the supreme court, as is illustrated by his present ac tion. If he has any convictions beyond I am Hovey, and I propose to do whatever is for my personal, interests," we "would like to know what they are. Abandoned Farms. We are indebted to William A. Peelle, jr., state statistician, for an analysis of part 3 of the report of Horace S. Wadlix, chief of the bureau of statistics of Massachusetts, showing to what extent farms in that st ite are being abandoned to the condition of. a wilderness not specially differing from the situation the Plymouth rock pilgrims found it when King Philip was the savage "monarch of all he surveyed." Manifesto Mr. Wadliw has made the besi showing possible for the Old Bay state, but at best it is a sad one and all the more singular since the Hon. Egbert P. Porter, superintendent of census, has shown that population has inCreased in Massachusetts during the last decade to a far greater extent than in Indiana, where farms and products show a marked increase. " Mr. Wadlin says: By "abandoned farms" in this inquiry are meant those formerly cultivated but now deserted, upon which cultivation ia now abandoned, and tbe buildings, if any, unoccupied and permitted to fall into decay. In some cases the grass is still cut on these farms, but nothing is done in the war of enrichment of the soil, and the land is practically unproductive and left to run wild. With this deGnition Mr. Wadlin proceeds to show that in 1800 Massachusetts had 1,461 abandoned farms representing 126,5091 acres. Of this area G6,G50i acres 1 ad buildings, and 59,8o8 acres were without buildings. Mr. Wadlin says there abandoned farms, given up to "run wild," are valued at $1,076,328, or $3.50 per acre. Of the 1,461 abandoned farms, 772 had buildings, the average acreage being eighty-seven, and the estimated value of buildings $259,922, an average of about $337. Such is the showing of the march of decay in Massachusetts, and in other New England states the exhibit would bo still

more mournful. Manifestly in Massachusetts and other New England state's the "movement of population" is from the country toward the cities and from the states to other states. This tendency in Massachusetts is marked to an extent that 1,461 farms have been given up to decayhave been abandoned ; 126,509 acres are going back to the jucg es, and still in such a stata it is shown, that population increased in tan years 475,853, while in Indiana, where everything farm, factory and mine exhibits prosperity and progress, the increase of population, according to the census leports, was only 214.103. It is not surprising that there is a widespread notion that Mr. Porter, as a counter, is not satisfactory. In a state where farms are abandoned to briers, where the people are deserting them by thousands, giving thetn up to wild beasts and reptiles, it becomes exceedingly difScult to comprehend figures showing a phenomenal increase in population, and it is not surprising that level-headed men are skeptical ; and this tendency to doubt is indefinitely increased when, as in th9 case of Indiana, where every condition was favorable for growth in population, figures are made to antagonize all prudent estimates.

The Work of tho Legislature. ' The legislature which adjourned last week did a large amount'of useful and important work. It lound itself confronted with several very difficult and perplexing problems problems with which many previous legislatures had grappled in vain, but which the public necessities and public opinion had brought to the front once more under circumstances which admitted of no evasion. Among thee problems were the revenue question and the fee and salary question. The revenue system ot the state had completely broken down. The income of tho state had for years been far less than its requirements, which had been greatly increased by the establishment of a splendid system of public charities unsurpassed in any other state. Our revenue laws were a confused jumblo of illogical provisions, taken haphazard frum the statute books of other states, ill-adapted to the conditions and circumstances of our people, admitting of the grossest inequalities and abuses, allowingindeed, facilitating inequities in the appraisement of property for taxation and the entire escape from taxation of a great deal of property held by corporations and individual. To completely reform thi:i complicated, cumbersome and oppressive system if tho word "system" can be applied to what was realty little better than chaos was a greater task than any singie legislature could hope to accomplish. Put in passing the Oppen-hc-im revenue bill the legislature has laid broad and deep the foundations for a scientific and equitable revenue system. It stands as the leading measure of the session, and to its author, Mr. Oppe.vheim, the able chairman of the ways and means cominitteo of tbe house Senator Magke, the accomplished chairman of the senate committee on finance, and their colleagues of these committees, great credit is due for its enactment. That it will produce the most beneficial results we have no doubt. The foundation of a first-class revenue system has been laid. It remains for future legislatures to erect the superstructure and thus complete the good work which has been so well begun. The other notable measure of the session is the fee and sa'ary bill, which was yesterday passed over the governor's veto. This law establishes a great and permanent reform. It was passed in spite of the determined efforts of the republicans to prevent any legislation of this character, as shown by their practically solid vote in both houses against tho conference report and by the governor's veto. The law will be an enduring monument to the wisdom of this democratic legislature. The revenue law and the f .-e and salary law are the great achievements of this legislature, just os the election law and the school book law were the great achievements ot" the last legislature. But many other wise and useful laws stand to its credit. Tho creation of the appellate court puts the machinery of justice, which has been so badly obstructed for years, again into full operation, and will ensure speedy redress to the peoplo for every wrong which can be cured by the law. The reorganization of the state board of agriculture will give a great impetus to the material progress of the state and will conduce especially to the benefit of this city. The two laws for the licensing of corporations will utilize a source of revenue which has been too long neglected by this Etate. The congressional and legislative apportionment laws are important political measures. The amendments to the election and school book laws are designed to correct minor defects which experience has developed and to enlarge the scope of these laws. The laws regulating the use of natural gas were domanded by an active public sentiment, and will, it is beiieved, tend to the conservation of our natural gas resources. A number of important labor measures, including the bill for the protection of trades union labels, the bill making labor day a legal holiday, and the mechanics' lien bill were made laws. These are the leading measures of the session. We Lave not spoken of the la.rs passed affecting Indianapolis and Marion county only. The legislature certainly treated us very handsomely. Besides giving us the best city charter in the country, it made laws under which we shall get a new jail and a new public library building, enlarge our public school system, establish industrial schools, etc. It also passed tho suburban street railway bill. The only measure which Indianapolis really wanted and didn't get was the street railway paving bill. Upon the whole, the results of the session are very satisfactory. It is to be regretted that a good road law was not parsed. Nothing could have been dune of more benefit to the people of the state, and especially the farmers. Our penal system should have been reformed. It is at least twenty-five years behind the times. The Magee bill, or soma similar measure to regulate the benevolent institutions ; should have been passed. The defeat of the township libiarv bid was a mistake. But, considering the fact that the legislature can only sit sixty days, and that the fee and salary and revenue questions overshadowed everything elae, the wonder is

that so much good work was accomplished and so few matters of importance neglected. Upon the whole, tho legislature did remarkably well. Gen. Palmer's Election. The election of Gen. John M. Palmer to the TJ. S. senate from Illinois terminates one of the most memorable senatorial contests in the history of the country. The result will be hailed with joy by every democrat in the republic, and ought to be entirely agreeable to every honest man in the land, without regard to his party affiliations, because it is a splendid vindication of the principle of majority rule. It is not to be forgotten that Gen. Palmer was formally nominated for senator by the last democratic state convention in Illinois; that he made a canvass before the people for that office, speaking in every county in the state, and that the people decreed that he should be senator by giving the legislative candidates pledged to his candidacy an aggregate majority of 31,000 over the opposition. A more emphatic or unmistakable popular verdict has rarely been rendered, and every consideration of patriotism and fairness should have constrained the republican politicians of Illinois to gracefully acquiesce in it. Instead, however, they have been scheming and plotting and struggling ever sinco Nov. 4 to overset it. Thanks to the republican gerrymander of Illinois and the preponderance of republican "holdover senators." they were able to muster 100 votes in the general assembly nttJnst 101 democratic votes and threJtF. M. B. A. votes. Thus the democrats, with an immense popular majority at their backs, found themselves lacking two of a clear majority in the assembly, and a trianzular strugcrlo began which has been rarely equaled for the persistency and pluck with which it has been conducted on all sides. From the first Gen. Palmer has had the advantage of position. He stood, to begin with, the unchallenged choice of the people of Illinois for the senatorship. He had a compact, well-disciplined, thoroughly loyal followine of 101 democrats, while the republican forces were hopelessly divided in their preferences. Gen. Palmer represented not only the principles of the democratic party, but ho stood also a3 the exponent of a new but very popular issue the election of U. S. senators by the people. That issue had been presented to tho people by tho democratic state convention; it had been accentuated by the formal nomination of Gen. Palmer for senator; he had presented it on the hustings in every county in the state; it had been overwhelmingly indorsed by the voters. Then Gen. Palmer's personality was a tremendous factor. He is peculiarly a man of the people. He ha9 been close to them all his life. He has always enjoyed their confidence and respect, because he has never been for a moment a time server, a demagogue, a coward or a hypocrite. He has always had the co'irago of his convictions. In war he was a war man ; in peace he has been a peace man. He was a brave soldier, but after the war ended he stood nobly for the supremacy of the civil over the military power. As governor of Illinois he made a Bplendid record, and since his retirement to private life he has fulfilled every obligation to American citizenship. lie has labored faithfully to preserve the integrity of the states, to uphold the dignity of tho individual and to sustain the principles of home rule. He has fought every measure of centralization, every scheme to tax the people for tho benefit of a few, every project of public plunder and jobbery, every new device of legislative spoliation or partisan oppression. Hence his very name was a tower of strength to his party in the contest; his character and record the best guarantees of its ultimate success. His manly and confident bearing from the beginning to the end of the Struggle was a perpetual inspiration to his followers and a constant discouragement to the enemy. A grand old man is John M. Palmer. No other American of his years ever mads such a gallant fight or won so superb a victory. We congratulate him upon his deserved triumph. We congratulate the 101 gallant Illinois democrats who stood by him so nobly from beginning to end, without ever hesitating or wavering for an instant. Their loyalty, their honesty, their persistency were alike admirable, and entitle them to the thanks of the democratic masses of the country. We congratulate the democratic party of Illinois upon the eloction of the first squaretoed democrat to the senate from that state since the great Stephen A. Douglas was returned in 1859, more than thirty years ago. We congratulate the two F. M. B. A. representatives who, after making a sturdy fight against the inevitable, finally chose a man of the people for senator in preference to an exponent of plutocracy and centralization. We congratulate all the people of Illinois and the entire republic because John M. Palmer's success is the first step toward the election of U. S. senators by the people a reform which will be of great and lasting benefit to the country. Will the Women Submit? Governor Hovey's reported determination to appoint no women as commissioners for the world's fair is about what might have been expected of him. Women are not supposed to be of much value in securing political nominations. They do not vote. They do not attend primaries or conventions. "Females" are well enough to make pretty speeches to when they have accomplished some good work by their unaided efforts, but when you come to the domain of practical politics they are usually regarded as superfluous. The man who is scheming for office feels the necessity of disposing his gifts where they will do the most good. Why should they be thrown away on women? It would bo prepoeterous, of course. No practical politician would think of such a thing. It was assumed all through the discussion of Indiana's part in the world's fair that the matter would be entirely freed from political influence. The fair is to be an industrial exposition, and tho object was to exhibit Indiana's industries. In these woman has prominent and honorable place. In some she has exclusive possession. It was supposed that our educational system, which was so happily presented at the centennial, would be well displayed at Chicago. In this, woman is nine-tenths of the controlling force.

Woman has every right to be represented at Chicago, and if the women of Indiana do not insist on their rights they have not the spirit that they are usually believed to have. If there is one Eubject on which women have the sympathy of all decent men more fully than another, it is that of woman's right to an opportunity to earn an honest living by labor. Barred to a large extent from many occupations, women have sought fields peculiarly their own and won their bread in them. These are entitled to as good representation as men's industrieSjSnd women are entitled to represent them. Neither Governor Hovey nor any other man has the right to say they shall not. But women must stand up for themselves if this proposed wrong is to be prevented. Men cannot fight successfully for them if they stand by and do nothing. -They 6hould let themselves be heard. They should make the governor understand that, although they cannot vote, they have brothers, fathers, husbands and sons who will resent the refusal to woman of her fair representation at the coming exposition. The New Orleans Massacre. In their more sober moments the "leading citizens" of New Orleans who, on Saturday, shotdown like dogs eleven defenseless human beings will probably be as much ashamed of themselves as the lawabiding people of America are ashamed of them and ashamed of the city which peems to applaud such murderous outlawry. Were the casual reader to peruso the story of that terrible butchery without taking note of the date line he would imagine that he was reading the account of Bome Pahomeyan oreie or Apache raid and not the deliberate action of a supposedly civilized people, led on to this feast of blood by the political and social heads of the community. The walls of that parish jail, if they could speak, could tell a tale whoso very narration would cause the massive piles of stone that stand between dread Siberia's victims and future hope to shrink and groan with horror and the slimy barriers of Calcutta's B ack Hole to turn a moro livid green of fiendish envy. So black a crime nowhere marks the paze of history, and its very commission is the strongest proof of the existence ot that low state of public morals which the leaders of the mob so sanctimoniously deplored while whetting the public appetite for its feast of blood. That there was a failure of justice in the trial of these Sicilians there seems little doubt, but this .'act in no way justifies the brutal slaughter of Saturday. These men had been tried befcre a judge elected by this mob; in a court maintained by this mob ; surrounded by an atmosphere made hostile by the breath of this mob; prosecuted by men employed by this mob. If there was a miscarriage of justice it was not the fault of the men on trial, but of the judge and the court and the prosecutors; in fact, the system which this mob has permitted to grow up and bocome established. On it this vengeance should have been wreaked. Ttie effect of this new lawlessness can but be baneful in the highest degree. To the lawless class and we can but believe that, in spite of the eminent respectability?) of the leaders, the majority of that bloodthirsty mob was of this class the events of Saturday can but prove a license to all mannerof outlawry. For the very class which it was sought to Intimidate to "teach a wholesome lesson" it will seem a note of warning, a notification that they must henceforth, right or wrong, rely upon their own resources for self-protection. To their minds it will appear that the protection of the law is but an idle phrase, trials but a farce and courts but the ante-room to the slaughter pen, and with desperation they will clasp their murderous dirks the tighter and place a heavier charge in their blunderbusses. The disgrace of the mistrial of the Mafia might have been outlived; the prevention of future miscarriages of justice might have been secured through a revision of the judicial 6ystem ; but the stain of the blood shed on Saturday can never be washed away, and the contempt for law inspired by that mas-acre cannot be eradicated in generations from the minds of that dangerous class which seeks but a pretense for snapping its fingers at constituted authority. The press of New Orleans, which makes haste to condone the offense of Saturday's mob, cannot be held too largely responsible for this great crime. It has, by its silence, allowed the corruption of its courts to grow until its fruit has been borne ; it has seen courts created, bought and sold by that great law breaker, the Louisiana lottery, and held its peace. It has foreseen the legitimate outcome of this judicial stultification, but never raised its voice in protest, and now that its city is disgraced and dishonored it can do naught but offer a feeble defense for an act which its conscience condemns. Saturday's events, from every standpoint, are most deplorable. They lessen respect for law in this country and degrade the United States in the eyes of all civilized nations. Tho only reparation New Orleans can make is to promptly reorganize its judicial system, mete out prompt punishment to the leaders of tbe mob, and by an upright future try to Iivo down the memory of her disgrace. Legislation In Labor's Interest. The acts of the legislature just adjourned have again demonstrated the fact that the democratic party is the only party from which the workinjtman can expect legislation that will benefit him in any material way. The republican party has always been loud In its professions of friendship and strong in its promises of aid and justice, but the deeds that carry out such protestations have been generally lacking. The work of the general assembly of 18S9 in this line, including the eight-hour law, the law to prevent "black-listing," the law to prohibit "pluck-meT stores, the laws for the protection of coal miners, the law preventing the importation of Pinkerton detectives and the repeal of the republican intimidation law of 1SS1, was strongly Indorsed by the democratic state platform, and it has been well supplemented and extended at the session just ended. . . The bill passed in 18S9, providins for the protection of the rights and life of

miners, which was found to be inoperative, has been re-enacted in such form that there can be no question as to its legality or power. It provides for a mine inspector, who shall decide disputes as to weights, etc., between employer and employe, and also determine and enforce such regulations as are necessary for the welfare of the miners. The law compelling corporations to pay in lawful money at least once in every two weeks the amount due each employe for services and making it unlawful for such a corporation to sell merchandise to any employe at a higher price than is charged to others, is a blow at the "pluck-me" stores that have been robbing tho miners and others in such an outrageous manner. In a Idition to these most important acts is the law protecting label, trademarks, etc., which wid be of vast benefit to trades unions in the use of their distinguishing marks; the law putting material men on the same footingas mechanic's or contractors in relation to mechanic's liens; the law requiring persons employing females to furnish suitable seats for their use; and that measure which was demanded by every workingman in Indiana, the making of labor day a legal holiday. The law establishing manual training 6choois in Indianapolis, while not regarded as distinctively a labor measure, is directly in the interest of the wage earners of the state. The firemen, who are a class of most deserving public servants, have been justly and fairly treated by the law providing for pensioning them and providing for their care while disabled and that of their families in case of tbeir death. Taken all together it must be acknowledged that better legislation in behalf of the workingmen has never been enacted by any general assembly, and these measures are a source of pride to every true democrat.

Woman Suffrage. The warning uttered by Cardinal Gibnoxs in his Lenten sermon last Sunday on "Marriage and Divorce," "beware of unsexing yourself," should reach the ears of every woman of the type spoken of as strong-minded. It is the most concise expression of the general sentiment of this country in regard to the woman suffrage agitation that has been uttered. The suffrage n.ovement has never been a strong one, and it has required the constant effort of a number of the es?x, whoso physical construction compels them to be women in spite of themselves, to keep it alive at all. The vast majority of men look upon it as a harmless delusion which serves to occupy the attention of a certain class of women who enjoy this Sisyphus-like amusement and who, in the natural sphere of women, would be like the proverbial square peg in the round hole. Many men are outspoken in their denunciation of the movement on account of its tendency to lower the general mass of womanhood. Occasionally one will find a man who openly indorses it and asserts his belief that there is no ditlerence between the sexes except physical. There men will generally be found to have other rather peculiar views. With the exception of that irrepressible few who enjoy the notoriety resultir from conventions, petitions, resolutions, etc., in which they take leading parts, little expression has been had from the women of the country. They seem to have given little attention to this iconoclastic effort to thrust them out of their homes into the streets and public places; to involve them in the intrigues of politics and to make them, figuratively speaking, man's enemy instead of his idol. Although some of the western states have made some movement toward granting women the ballot, the exultation felt over this victory was quickly crushed by the chagrin aroused by the petition which a large number of Chicago's best women forwarded to the Illinois legislature the other day protesting against the bill extending municipal suffrage to women and denouncing as false and pernicious all attempts to secure legislation ia this direction. As an expression of the true feeling of the womanly woman in this matter, this is a document of great value and information to the public at large. We reprint a few extracts to show its tenor: Busy in the cares of their homes, women have neither time, strength nor inclination to enter the public arena and defend themselves against doings which they earnestly believe to be pernicious and destructive of the true power and influence of women in their homes. When womn share with men the burden of labor and government, communism, with all that it implies, is abeady begun. We regard the question of property rights of a comparatively few women as one of minor importance compared with the vastly greater right of women in general to maintenance and protection in the home, while they are engaged in the adsorbing offices and duties of womanhood; and this paramount right of woman is threatened with entire destruction by the socialistic doctrines above cited. We exhort you to remember that above all human laws stand those great natural laws inherent in the universe which no man or body of u en can contravene, and that these laws have forever established a dierenee between the powers and privileges of the sexes, to disregard which is to invoke the penalties by which they are relentlessly enforced. We besr you to consider that the revolution of France could not override these laws bat fell, crushed under the burdens ; that in so far as any political body in this country has attempted to do so it has suffered defeat and we believe no greater misfortune can attend the forming laborparty of this country in its attempt to secure legislation in tho interest of farmer, artisan and laborer than that it should espouse the false and pernicious doctrine of the political rights of women. We pray, therefore, that, no matter what argument to the contrary may be ureed upon you as legislators for the commonwealth you will stand fast by that bulwark of liberty, home ; remembering that tho eame p -wer which says to all men "Behold God is your father and all ve are brethren" has joined also the husband and wife as one flesh lor the orderly bearing ami rearing of children and - the maintenance of society, and has given to each his own distinctive and equal y honorable share in the labors and rewards of life. These women say that they have consulted with many of their sisters throughout the state, and that the majority are in perfect accord with the sentiments expressed in the petition. We believe if they had consulted with every woman in the country the result would have been much the same. The strugcle necessary for the existence of the movement is proof in itself that tbe women of our country do not believe in this theory.

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which is contrary to the scheme of creation and in direct opposition to the teachings of St. Pai l. It has practically been decided that tho tariff must be modified, or France won't exhibit at the world's fair. The two great measures of the late Tomreed house of representatives have done more to retard the progrees of the fair than anything else. With one of these (the force bill; out of the way, and the other (tho tariff; repudiated by tho people and only tolerated until the machinery of the law can efface it, the fair promises to be a grand success. France and all the other European countries can make preparations to come right along with their exhibits. The people, speaking through the democratic members of congress, will cause our doors to be opened unto them. TrtE history of the Illinois senatorial contest shows that the only way to secure the election of U. S. senators by thd people is to put it in the constitution. Palmer was really elected by the people of Illinois last November; yet scheming politicians were almost able to prevent his formal election by the legislature, and did succeed in delaying it for months. The only way to elect senators by the people ia to have the people vote directly lor them and relieve the legislatures of any connection with the matter. Governor Hovey's nominations for judges of the appellate court will not provoke much applause or much condemnation, lie has named a moderately good bench, with a preponderance of elderly and slow-going men. It is hardly such a court as any one else would have selected for the purpose of clearing up a docket. Tite consumers of salt pork, unlefcs endowed with unusual anthropophaaical tendencies, will receive quite a shock by the confession of a man out in Washington that he ran the body of a murdered man down the chute with a few thousand dead hogs and had the whole lot cut up and packed. Representatives Moore and Cockrell cm justify their course in deserting Streeter in his own admission that he agrees with the republican party in regard to tho tariff and force bills. Opposition to those bills is a cardinal principle of the faith of all farmers' organizations. The republican house of representatives of Maine has voted down the Australian ballot law. Alas, one epot remains where Tom Reed still has influence. Laly JJaebctlCi remarks about a spot would well apply to such an one. Every democratic latch string in the country is out for any of the splendid 101 who stood by John M. Palmer in his glorious racfc "from start to finish." ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. B. W. Stewart, Carson. The silver dollar will be full legal tender until congress repeals the present law affecting silver. G. F. II., Mooreland. Under the new feo and ea!ary law officers hereafter elected or appointed wili pay their deputies out of their own salaries. James F. Hood, Pt. Isabel The Harlan bill forbidding the use of flambeau natural gas burners is made immediately effective. Of course, no gas company can now claim payment of a consumer for the unexpired time of his contract to use such flambeau. ET CETERA. It was one of Emma Abbott's idosyncrasies to make a preheat of a diamond ring to every bride in her company. Mrs. Mary Navarro is selling the theatrical wardrobe in which as "Our Mary" she won the admiration of every American theater-goer. The late Dr. Shoetly of Edgerton, O., stipulated in his will that the band should play "Annie Kooney" at his crave and the request was faithfully complied with. From Samoa there is news that Fauna, the "Maid of the Villiage" at Apia, has won a white husband. Amonz the distinguished guests at th3 wedding feast was the author, Robert Louis St3verson. A Mis. Zooc of Kansas City, who died recently, left $100,000 to distant relatives, and cut off her husband with a five-dollar-legacy and a request that ho wouldn't make a fool of himself by spending it recklessly. David It. Harlow, who has attained his seventy-second year, a few days ago voted for the one-hundredth time in the town of Bal'ston, N. Y., having never missod voting in hi3 native town since attaining his majority. Philadelphi axs want to place the bodies of Benjamin Franklin and his wife under the dome of the magnificent new C'ty hall. Franklin now lies ia a negleeted grave at Fi th and Arch-sis., and even that small site will soon be wanted for business purposes. Farmer Aiken of Venango county, Pennsylvania, aged eighty, recently started for Pittsburg on his first railroad ride. The rattle of the train terrorized him. and he got o!T at the first stop and took to the mud roads. He hired a private conveyance and went to Pittsburg in that manner. The business of wolfing a state out of money has been reduced to a science in Minnesota. It having cost the State last year $25,000 for wolf bounties, an investigation di-closed the fact that in the northern part of the state wolf farms existed, where wolves were bred for the bounty of S5 a bead on each. It paid better than raising wheat. Dcring his canvass last summer, says the Christian (Ky.) Kentuckktn, County Judge Morrow proposed to the young men in the' country districts that he would marry them free of charge if they would elect him. Since he has been in office two voung men have held him to his proposition, reminding him of it after the nuptial fcnots have been securely tied and the judge stood waiting for his pay. Children Cry for

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tSr&i r v rj 1. THE LEGISLATURE. Opinion cf ih S ate X'rrna n the Work mt tlin Ctnrral Axfinbly. S.uta E.-nd Tiaxs. Whatever else may be said about the Lite ge neral assembly, thi must be said to its credit: It had pluck. It did several heroic acts. Among these mar be mentioned the granting of a charter to the citv of Ind'anapo is that will knock "arsng politics" in c.ty affairs higher than Gilderoy's kite. Another act coming within that category is the raisingof the ttate tax rate from V2 to 18 cents. For years political trimmers stood in the way of an inctvase. The result is a bankrupt treasury in one of the most prosperous states of tho union. Under the new tax system Indiana will be placed in first-class financial condition. That's business. Yiocennts Sun It is almost too poon to give a comprehensive review of tho work of the present assdiablr, but v;e venture the assertion now that when the results are siztrd up that it will take high rank above tbe average Iloosier legis'alure and be tter than the bett that ever hf Id forth in our siater states of Ohio and Illinois, where they are in session bout half the summer and accomplish little or nothing. f White Couutr Democrat I The legislature deserves credit for increasing the tax levy for state purposes cents on the $100. Had former .egislatares faced the increased expenditures by increasing the lew our financial condition would not now he so deplorable. This thing of tryirg to run a state on half rations and borrowing the wherewith is neither economy, gooi sense nor statesmanship. AnJerion Democrat Its work w ill compare quite favorably with other legislatures. Much has been said. Py some it has been strongly condeinned. Some of this censure has probably been just, for some important measures have been killed, l'ut its work in the entirety will be quite acceptable to the people of Indiana. Muncie IlersM. The Indiana legistature made a very good record. It loosed for a time as though the session would be a failure, but upn the whole, much good work was done and every step was taken in the npht direction. The people of Indiana generally, will fully approve of the labors of the legislature j just closed. i sleiD Democrat. We have not soice to outline the work of the general ascetub'.y. It did ies9 than it should in tome directions and too much in others, but everything considered, it redeemed the party pledges as far as circumstances permitted, and we are le t in a pretty fair shape for the next campaign. Delphi Time. The legislature which adjourned Monday has given the state some good and wholesome laws. It boldly met all issues, and certainly no one will charge its members, upon whom rested the responsibility, with cowardice. Gosbfu Democrat The work of the legls'ature as a whole is very good, and the democrats of the etate can feel proud of the record made. The feo and salary bill and the Oppenheira revenue bill are enough to be thankful for. L!gr.!er liatiDer.f The rteneral assembly, which adjourned last Monday, did not euc eed in making as good a Tr cord as its predecessor, though several meritorious acts were passed toward the Utter part of the session. Lafayftta JoornaL The present legislature has enacted many bills that wi 1 prove of great bf elit to the state and its people, and tho members need only to wait to tsecure the praise that is due them for such acts. Nw Albany LeJgr. When the work of the late session of the general assembly of Indiana comes to be care fid 1 y studied it will be found that much good was done for the xuture prosperity of the state. Terr Hants Xewt In J. The legisiaturo just closed has to Its credit some good laws, some indifferent laws and some that may work harm. Bus laws are better known by their resulta when tested. Bloom field DemoeraL It enacted every lt?w there was any universal demand for but one, the school attendance bill. That will come by and by when the people are aroused upon this subjoct, Elkhart Truth. The second successive democratic legislature in this state has ended its labors and as a resuli tho people have been pre1 senttd with some more excellent laws. Scott County Journal. In looking over the report of the legislative proceedings it will be found that much important work was done. A number of wholesome laws were passed. Franklia Democrat. The general assembly accomplished a great deal of good legislation but it took great deal harder work than it would had the majority been less. CoTlnRton Friend . The legislature adjourned last Monday. While the woik done by it is not all that could be desired, yet there was much done that is commendable. The legislature has now finished its work. VY hile things looked dubious for a time, much who esome legislation has been accomplished. Frank fott Crwcantl You can talk as you please about the late session rf the general assembly, but it did accomplihh a great deal. It was an industrious body. Hancock Democrat. The legislature adjourned on Monday lat, after a session of sittv-one days. Many wholesome laws were passed. Touriota, Whether on pleasure bent or business "should taka on every trip a botte of Syrup of Fig, as it arts most pleasantly and effectuady on the kidneys, liver and bowels, preventinur fevers, headaches and other forms of sickness. For gale in 50 cent and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. Pitcher's Cactorla.'