Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 1. 1891 TWELVE PAGES.

IXDLVXA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDISNAPoOs SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS. President.

littered at tie Foatofhco at Indianapolis m second c!ai matter.) TERMS PEll YEAR flrrle cepY (Invariably in AdTsnce,).......l 00 TV ask drmrrrata to bear in mind and select tVlr ewii stite paper when they come to take aubacripticcsacd make op clubs. A rents making up clnba send for anr Information eaiitd. AdotaaTiiE I'L-lAArOLI3 SENTINEL Indianapolis. Ind. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1891. TWELVE PAGES. The Sugar Bounty Outrage. A telegram from Washington to the New York Commercial Bulletin says "it is evident that the cost of the bounty system is going to be more than Maj. Mo Kixley and his friends estimated when they carried the new-tariff bill through consress." The telegram continues: It is estimated at the treasury department, upon the bash of the production of Buear in 18'JO, that $0,003,000 will be called for for bounties about $3,000,000 for cane sugar, $:l,000,i0) for beet suear and sorghum eunar and S$7.0C0 for maple ugar. Tiit great bulk of the expenditure for rune suffer will g to tho Louisiana planters, who produce 400,r,00,000 pounds per year, against only about 15,000,000 pounds in Texas and 5,000,000 in Florida. There ar 746 cans sugar producing institutions in Louisiana, twenty in Texas and one in Florida. Sorghum is produced at six institutions in Kansas and beet sugar at one institution in Nebraska and two in California. Another factory is building in California ana one in Ctah and one in Iowa. The maple 6Ugar producers, who are largely in Vermont, art estimate! at between 10,' CO and 15,000, and their production at 50.000,000 pounds. The estimates made cover only the present production and make due allowance for the stimulus of the biz uounty. The bounty itself is not all of the expense, for it was necessary to a id $ 105,000 to the appropriation of the internal revenue bureau for deputy collectors and other officials and $ro,0C0 for the payment of inspectors' ealaries and expenses, and to authorize six additional clerks in the commissioner's offi e. Could there be a greater outrage upon the people than this bounty? The farmera of Indiana, who raise wheat, corn, oats and other crops get no bounties from the government. They are compelled to sell their products in the open markets of the world in free competition with the products of the cheap labor of India, Russia and other foreign countries. But they are denied the privilege of buying manufactured articles in the open markets of the world. They are compelled by law to purchase from American manufacturers who, und-r the shelter of "prok'ction," organize themselves into combines and trusts for the purpose of extorting higher prices for their poods from the American farmers than they get for the eame goods from the latter's rivals in foreign countries. But these impositions upon the Indiana farmers wera not heavy enough to suit the McKinleyites, so they still farther increased the taxe9 upon the Indiana farmers, and are taking a part of the money thus extorted from them and paying it over to Lou:eiana sugar farmers and Vermont sap farmers. Under the bounty system at least $S,0f0,( 00 a year will be paid direct to the Louisiana sugar planters. The susrar p'anter of Texas will cet over $300,000 a year, and thoso of Florida over 5100,000. A few Vermont fanners who produce that innocent yankee luxury, maple sugar, will receive ever ha-f a m liion dollars annna'ly, and Senator Plumb of Kansas, a republican, has publicly declared that this maple sugar provi.-ion was got into the McKinley bill by a trick, and that it was kept there because Senator Edmunds threatened to vote against the whole biil if it were stricken out. This eight million dollars that is to be paid the Louisiana planters, and this ha'f million dodars that is to be paid the Vermont eap patriots, will be absolute gifts. The money will eimj.ly bo taken from other people in the form of taxed upon food, clothine and other necessaries of life, and turned over to thee fortunate gentlemen. Why should thU be done? Why ehould the government pay one class of men for producing sugar from cane or maple sap out of the taxes wrung from the men who raise wheat and corn and tobacco? Is sugar-growina more commendable than wheat-growing? Is sugar a mora important article of food than bread or meat? Are the Louisiana planters or the Vermont farmers better men, or more deserving in any way, or do they need money any worse than the Indiana farmers? Why are the latter discriminated azainst in favor of the former? Why ia their hard-earned money taken from them by the government and turned over to the Louisana an i Vermont chaps? Why should eugar-growing any more than wheat-growing be encouraged by bounties? The Indiana farmers should insist upon answers to these questions. They reach the core of this whole question of tariff taiaticn. They bring out, in sharp relief, the monstrous injustice of the McKinley system of license I spoliation. A Piece of Monumental Assurance. It is more than two weeks since Governor IIovey distinguished himself by vetoing the fee and salary bill on the ground that it did not apply to present Incumbents, upon the very same day that he signed a bill reducing the emoluments of the reporter of the supreme court, from the provisions of which the present incumbent of that office (a republican) was excepted. Yet the Journal waited until Monday before saying a word in defense of that extraordinary per ormance. In Monday's issue tho Journal printed an article, written for it in the state house, in which an apology is sought f to be made for the governor's amazing inconsistency, lhe apology is, neceesanly, a very feeble one, but it is undoubtedly the best that can be ofTered. It is claimed that a diSerent rule ought to be applied to oncers elected in 1SS3 than to those elected ia 1S0O; that it is all right to allow the former, to go on to the end of their terms "bleeding the people at every pore," to borrow some picturesque language from Governor Hovet's veto message, but dead wrong to allow the latter to do the same tbicg. "This bill," said the governor in his veto message, "gives full liberty for lucb officers (county and state) to oppress the people for two and four" years more."

The supreme court reporter bill also gave the republican reporter license to "oppress the people for two years more," and Governor Hovev signed it at the same moment that he sizned the message vetoing the fee and salary bill. And now the Journal two weeks late comes to the governor's defense and says, with , delicious assurance: It will not avail the democratic party to charge the governor with iucon-ist ncy of which, an we have clearly shown, he is not guilty in the hope of thereby e-cap-im the odium of having failed to meet the demands of the people in the matter of salary reform. When it is remembered that tho Journal itself vigorously opposed the adoption of any fee and salary bill which should aMect persons already elected to office; that it denounced tho governor's veto on the morning after it was perpetrated, and that the republican plationn of 1890 ex-pres.-ly declared for a fee and salary law to take effect at the close of tlie ojfiria! term for vhirh elections have been made at the time of its enactment when all this is remembered tho cheek of the Journal in denouncing tho democrat!.' press for dwelling upon the governor's unblushing inconsistency assumes monumental proportions. The New ltevenue Law and Tax Levy. It was to be expected, of course, that the republican demagogues would make every possible attempt to manufacture party capital out of the revenue law passed by the last legislature and the tax levy for state? purposes authorized by that body. These demagogues care nothing for the interests of the state and nothing for the general welfare of the people, and are willing to sacrifice both in order to make a few votes iortheg. o. p. at the next election. The fact about the new rovenue law is that it will not work a hardship to any taxpayer or woman in Indiana. No person who has, in the past, made an honest return of his property for taxation will sutler any inconvenience from the new system. Hut it w id hit the tax dodgers of high and low degree very hard, and no doubt tho law will be very distasteful to them. But it was the intention to make it so. As a rule the farmers, the small tradesmen, the wage-earners and persons generally of limited means, have been taxed on the full value of their possessions under the old stein. The provision in the new law that nil property shall be assessed at its true cash value, "being tho ptico which could be obtained for said property at private sale," will not bear severely upon these classes, but will bring many a dollar out of the pockets of the wealthy men of the cities, note-shavers, mortgage sharks, speculators, rich corporations, etc., that have been in the past sygterrritically evading the law, concealing their property, and resorting to all manner of fraud and trickery, to false swearing, bribery and other like crimen ia order to escape their just bbare of the public burdens. The law wiil not reach all of these high-toned scamps, many of whom occupy front pews in the churches on Sunday, and are always in a state of apprehension lest wcrkir.grcen should violate the laws and disturb the foundations of social order. No law can bo devised under existing conditions which will reach all of these fellows. But the new law will cat. h a majority of them. And they will equeal, of course. Hut no honest man wiil find the new system oppressive. As to the increased tax levy for the support of the benevolent institutions, no citizen who possesses a spark of patriotism or public spirit w ill complain of it. Its necessity was conceded by everybody who was farrdliar with the facts. It was not a necessity that grew out of extravagance or corruption in the administration of state atrairs, but it wa due to the great increase in the population of the etate, compelling the establishment and maintenance of a system of public charities commensurate with the growing importance of Indiana and its rank in the great family of American commonwealths, 'lhe fact is that the levy should have been increased years ago. Taxation for state purposes in Indiana has for years been far below the average rate in her sister states. It has been below the necessities of the state. The legislature of 1889 was criticised by the republican press, and not wholly without justic e, for its failure to increase tho levy. Governor IIovey, in his last biennial message, recommended an increase. The new levy will not be seriously felt by taxpayers. It is but a drop in the bucket compared with the burdens imposed upon the people of Indiana by Tom Heed's billion dollar congress for the enrichment of mil -owners and steamship jobbers. Furthermore, it is not likely to be permanent. If the new system of assessment proves as successful s it promises to be in bringing out of its hiding places property which has heretofore been escaping taxation in Indiana, there is every reason to expect that the next legislature will be justified in reducing the rate to 12 cents or less. Of course the demagogues will continue their attempts to excite discontent among the people of Indiana regarding state taxation. But we have no fear of the results. The people will not allow their attention to be diverted from the burdens needlessly imposed upon them by Tom Lked's bill ion dollar congress by anv such transparent devices. While we are upon this subject we improve the occasion to say that in the opinion of The Sentinel the new revenue law, excellent as it is, would be a still bet! or measure, and even more acceptable to the people, had the provision originally adopted by the house, separating the sources of state and county revenue, and confining the former to railway property, been retained. The Sentinel be lieved, when this provision was stricken out of the bill, that a mistake had beon made, and it is even more strongly of that belief now. We are satisfied that time will vindicate our judgment upon this question, as uoon several others regarding which we were eo unfortunate as to differ with the last Icgis'ature. But the

revenue law, as it stands, is a long step in advance, and, in its practical workings wo are certain it will give satisfaction to every honest citizen, regardless of his party alii. iat ions. The organs of McKinleyigm are talking about the reciprocity provisions of the McKinley law. The fact ia there are no such provisions in that law. There is a provision, of very questionable constitutionality, authorizing the president to impose by proe'amation duties on suar, hides,

I tea and coffee when imported from .any : country that refuses reciprocal trade with

the United States. This provision applies solely to countries which export these commodities, to none of which tho United States selh largely or can until her manufacturers are allowed to secure their materials on the same" terms as their European competitors. Keciprocity, as preached by Blaine and applied by McKinley, is, by long odds, the most transparent fraud ever attempted in'American politics. The Sub-Treasury, Project. We publish elsewhere a letter from Dr. II. W. Taylor advocating the sub-treasury plan. We print this letter, not because we regard the subject-matter as of vital importance, but in pursuance of our established policy of giving all sides of current questions a fair hearing. We certainly do not consider the sulntreasury project as within the sphere of practical politics at this time. Many of the farmers' organizations in the West and South hove declared themselves aeainst it. Some of the most prominent men in the great farmers' movement are earnestly opposed to it. We do not expect it to have a place in the platform of the farmers' party next year, should there be such a party in the field. The most obvious objection to the subtreasury scheme is that it is in the avowed interest of a class. Only land-owners are to have the privilege of borrowing "money" from the treasury under the proposed arrangement. Dr. Tayloii estimates that one person in five owns real estate. We have not the data at hand, but our guess is that this proportion is too large. However, it will serve as well as any other as a basis for argument. Accepting it for that purpose we find that the proposition advocated by Dr. Taylob contemplates the loaning of the government credit to onefitth of the population. The other fourfifths of the population are not to have any favors from the government. Of course Dr. Taylok maintains that the four-fifths, who are not land-owners, will be indirectly benefited by the loaning of government money to the other one-fifth. But the same plea is set up by every advocate and beneficiary of class legislation of whatsoever variety. The men who built the Pacific rai. roads demanded enormous eubsidies from the government upon the ground that they would pay out immense mms of money for material, labor, etc., and would open up fresh regions and cause them to be settled, thus promoting the interests of all the people. They got their subsidies, and the poorest of these men is probably worth a hundred millions today. The protected manufacturers constitute a small proportion of the population. But they have for thirty years claimed and received heavy tribute from the rest of the American people upon the ground that they would pay out the money in high wages, and thus keep business prosperous, and indirectly benefit all classes. Jay Gould, Huntington and the other steamship jobbers demand heavy subsidies upon similar grounds. The peoplo are taxed to pay the sugar-planters of Louisiana and the sap-farmers of Vermont heavy bounties upon a like pretense. There never was a project of class legislation, however vicious, which was not advocated upon the groun lthat it would indirectly benefit other people besides the immediate beneficiaries. Let us not be misunderstood. We believe there is no argument, founded in equity, against the sub-treasury scheme that is not just as strong pgiinst a protective tariff, or a sugar bounty, or a railroad or steamship subsidy. If class legislation is to be the order of the day there is no reason why thsre should not be legislation for the benefit of the class of farmers as well as of other classes. There is, in fact, every reason why there should be; because the farmers are the most numerous and most useful class, and because they have had none of the tavors which congress has been for thirty years distributing among manufacturers, ship owners, railroad companies, national bankers, etc. Tut would the sub-treasury scheme, if carried out, benefit the farmers? Our own conviction is that it would not. Wc believe it would absolutely ruin them. We believe, on the contrary, that it would be a blow to the prosperity and progress of the country from which it would not recover for half a century. Dr. Ta yloe indeed says : Tour three thousand millions of treasury notes greenbacks into the hands of the real estate owners of this country, and within three months there would not be an unen.ploj'ed laborer in America. The doctor further says that the carrying out of this project would result in "universal employment of labor at good wages, coupled with, final universal ownership of land." It is amazing that so intelligent a man as Dr. Taylor can believe this. All the lessons of history demonstrate the utter futility and foby of such a project. There is not an instance on record, in any country, in ancient or modern times, of a wholesale inflation of the circulating medium without regard to intrinsic values which has not been followed by general bankruptcy and ruin. The history of the French assignats, of the Continental currency, of the Argentine cedula, is surely known to Dr. Taylor. It is likely, indeed, that the issue of three thousand millions of treasury notes wou'd cause an immediate demand for labor. It would usher in an erA of over-production, of over-building, of reckless speculation, of wild extravagance, and labor for a time would be in great demand. There would be affparent prosperity for a brief interval. But the end would soon come. It is an iron law of nature, Is fixed and unchangeable as the eternal hills, that reaction must follow excess. This law never fails to assert itself. The feast of universal employment and general good times to which Dr. Taylor iuvites the country would be quickly followed by such a famine of op- ! portunity as the country has never suf fered. We know this because the experiment has been repeatedly tried, in this and other countries, and always with the same result. We are glad to believe that an overwhelming majority of the farmers in In- ; diana and throughout the country are too well informed, and too sensible, and too regardful of their cwn interests, to give their support to the sub-treasury scheme. Wejbelieve that a majority of them know what if tho matter with them. Tha chief

source of their troubles is the tariff. They are taxed, not on what they own, nor on what they produce, but on what they consume. This tax is levied upon them, not for the support of the government, but for the profit of mill-owners, steamboat jobbers, railroad corporations, etc. No tax, however, is levied for the farmer's benefit. The government does not take money from the people and pay it over to the farmers (unless they raise sugar cane in Louisiana or boil sap in Vermont). The government does not force other people to pay them a (.onus of 59 per cent, on their products. The tariff is a continual drain upon them. It takes a toll trom them on nearly every article they purchase, from the cradles in w hich their babes are rocked to the coffins ia which they themselves are finally laid away at the end of the unequal strugg'e. They are at the mercy of combines, trusts and monopolies when they sell as well as when thryfbuy. A very conservative estimate is that the McKinley tariff costs the people of Indiana twenty-one millions of dollars every year. The farmers constitute mora than one-half the population of Indiana. If McKinleyism were wiped out their net annual revenue would be increased by about eleven trillions of dollars. If all other class legislation were repealed their net revenue would be still farther increased. They would soon be able to pay off their mortgages, to accumulate neat balances in bank, to surround themselves and their fami ies with the comforts, refinements and luxuries now monopolized by the favorites of the government. Tho farmers who expend their energies upon any other scheme of relief than that of radical tariff reform aro cruelly deceived, and are doing themselves and their families a gross injustice.

Looks Like a Fraud. Considerable dissatisfaction is being manifested in Randolph county over an act passed by the last legislature to reimburse County Treasurer I. V. D. R. Johnson for $2,000 ' lost by him through the failure of the C. L. Lewis bank. Speaking of this measure the Winchester Democrat says : This is a rank steal from the taxpayers, ami no amount of attempted explanation will make anything e se out of it. Johnson put that money in the Lewis bank with his eyes open or if they were not open it was not tho fault of tho tax payers, lie lost it, aud that was not the aultof the taxpayers. Now, through a :ttle scheme of conniving that ought to lave been far beneath the men who per petrated it, he is to be reimbursed by the taxpayers. Tho bill was passed in the flurry caused by the rush of business during the last days of the legislature. Senator Shocksky, who fathered it, waited until nearly the last moment, and then railroaded it through under a suspension of the rules before the members could tealize or understand its effect. The tactics adopted by Senator Shockney were clever from a strategic point of view, but were not very commendable in a public servant. The ind gnation in Randolph county is not confined to the democrats. The Farmland Eubrprise (rep.) says: After the Entrrjr& called public attention to the utter injustice that Mr. Johnson was trying to perpetrate, he publicly withdrew his petition asking th popl to pay his private losses. The withdrawal of his petition rested upon his honor as a man and expounder ot the gospel. As thu, facts have proved, it was only intended to delude the tax-ridden people of this county, for all the while, through the medium of Senator Shockney, Mr. Johnson has been secretly working his scheme in the legislature. It is greatly to be deplored that the legislator who voted for this act should have allowed themselves to be duped by Seiiavor Shockney. But that wily politician chose a moment when he knew that their minds were occupied in securing the passage of measures which they felt to be of great importance, and induced then to blindly vote for a bill of the merits of which they knew nothing. The passage of this bill, under these circumstances, affords unother illustration of the importance of carefully scrutinizing every measure proposed in a legislative body, and especially thoso which are brought forward in the last days of a session. The New York Sun makes some instructive comparisons between the appropriations at the last session of Tom Reed's billion-dollar "business congress" and at the last session of the Forty-fourth congress when Samuel J. Randall wa speaker and Judge IIolman of Indiana was chairman of the committee on appropriations. Thus: Forty-fourth congreas $29",8G.fi9l Fifty-tir-t congress - The increase is really even ereater than appears on the surface. Of the $5,8Qo,GJi charged to the Forty-fourth congress, $151,414,514 belonged to the permanent annual appropriations, for such purposes as interest on the pub ie debt and pinking fun.L Of tha $341,827,901 charged to the billion-dollar congress, only $122,4S6S0S goes for interest and sinking fund. The comparison between the totals voted by the iwo bodies, respectively, in the regular annual appropriations over which they had control, is this: Forty-fourth cmisrsBi $141,392,1) Fity-firat conereaa.... 419.341,153 This is an increase of more than 1S3 per cent. A defense is sought to be made of the enormous increase of appropriations since 1877 on the ground of the increase of population in the meantime. But the inj crease in popu'ation has been only 39 per cent., while the appropriations have increased 1S3 per cent. So the comparison staads: Ter cent. Inereaae in population 39 lnoreoae ia appropriations 183 If the regular annual appropriations bad increased proportionately with the country's growth and there is no good reason why they should the total at the late session would have been $200,704,S8Q. Instead of that, t'.iey amount to $119,341,153, These enormous apt ropriations mean a great increase in federal taxation, and the only theory upon which they can be justified to the people Is that pet one of the protectionists that the way to make them prosperous . is to tax them aa heavily as possible. Is a speech-at Boston the other day "Jerry" Simpson inquired of his anxious audience why projection had not built up a home market : for the Massachusetts farmer. He understood that that was one of the boasted objects' of the system, and yet I ho observed ' that Few England agricult

ure was declining in about the same proportion that the tariff was raised. At last accounts nobody in New England had answered Mr. Simpson's question. Isaac De Groff Nelson of Fort Wayne died at his home in that city Tuesday at the advanced age of eighty-one. Mr. Nelson was one of the pioneers of Indiana and had been for more than half a century prominent in the aliairs of the state. He was a man of the highest personal character, of excellent ability, of 6trong convictions, of great industry and in every

respect a most useful and worthy citizen. He had been from his earliest manhood j an ardent democrat. He retained to the j last his devotion to democratic principles, j and always maintained that their rigid application would solve all the real problems of government. During most of his life he was actively identified with the agri- j cultural and horticultural interests of ! the state, and he did very much j for their promotion. As a member of the board of state houe commissioners during its entire existence Mr. Nelson rendered important services to the etate. His unbending integrity, his varied practical knowledge, his rare aptitude for details and his keen sense of public duty combined to make him an invaluable member of the board. Our magn:ficent state canitol was erected within the appropriation and without a whisper or suggestion of scandal or jobbery. It will be an enduring monument to th memory of the men under whose auspices it was directed. none of whom had a longer or more active part in thu worn than Mr. Nelson. Ilia death, in the fullness of years and amid the peaceful surroundings of an honorable retirement, was a fitting close to an upright and noble life. Mr. William D. Bynum, the able and popular representative in congress from this di-trict, arrived home from Washington Tuesday. In an interview, published elsewhere, Mr. Bynum recitesja few of the many partisan iniquities and deviltries perpetrated by the Fifty-first congress, which he justly pronounces the most reckless and profligate congress in our history. Especially interesting are the facts he gives which illustrate the flagrant offense congress committed when it admitted Wyoming and Idaho as states. These two rotten boroughs have together less population and wealth than this congressional district, yet they have four votes in the U. S. senate, two in the house of representatives and six in the electoral college. Their admission aa stales was a gros3 outrage. And yet, alter all, it did the republicans no good. Instead of intrenching the grand old party in power this thing, with some other acts of cussedness, has lost that party the house of representatives, has practically wiped out its majority in the senate, and has destroyed whatever chances it had of electing the next president. The lesson of which should not be lost upon all of every party who believe that sharp practice and fraud are "good po'itics." Mr. Bvnvm shows us the way in which Tom Reed's mob did what he was pleased to call "business," and makes some pointed remarks about the republican party, all of which have the merit of truth. When Mr. Bynum talks he always says something. The Winchester Herald, which advertises itself as "the leading republican paper" of Randolph county, in speaking of the Johnson bill, which Senator Shockney got through the last legislature in its closing days, f.ays: There is no doubt that Mr. SnocKNE? did wrong from the beginning to the end of this a.iair, but it is equally certain thai the democratic legislature helped to perpetra e the fraud of which The Sentinel speaks. The Herald says that the people of Randolph county are holding Senator Shockney responsible for bis action in the matter. The Johnon bill fell w ithin the category of "private measures." It is, of course, quite impossible for fifty senators and a hundred representatives to know, of their own knowledge, the facts upon which euth measures are based. When the amount involved is not excessive it is the practice to trust to the integrity and good faith of the eenator or member introducing the bill. In tho Johnson matter the legislature trusted to Senator Shockney's representations and was evidently the victim of misplaced confidence, judging from the unanimity with which its action is repudiated in Randolph county, where all the facts are known. The thing appears to be a nasty republican job, and it is to be rcgrettad that a democratic legislature was so scandalously imposed upon in the business. The Co'e-Democrat thinks that if the president takes his contemplated western trip he ought to learn eomething. It says: Individuals pretending to be in his confidence have said that be will, in 1892, if be be renominated, put the federal elt ction scheme. again forward and make this one of the chief issues of the canvass. If he makes good use of his time while in the West he wi 1 find that the sentiment of the masses of his party in this section is overwhelming against any such policy. He will discover, indeed, that republican opposition to this project last year was one of the principal reasons leading to the party's defeat in the congressional elections. It is understood also that he is opp 6ed to any reduction of existing duti s next vear. lie will be able to obtain a little needed light on this question, too, and, while so doing, will learn that a moderate and discriminating cut in customs would be exceedingly pleasing to the great majority of the republicans in this locality. The Globe-DemocraCt confidence in the president's learning capacity is, we fear, misplaced. He is a Bourbon of the Bourbons. He belongs to the large class who never learn anything and never forgot anything. He will probably return from his western junket no wiser than when he starts. The selection of President Jordax of the Indiana state university as head of the great Stanford university in California ia an honor worthily bestowed. President Jordan is an educator of the highest rank and a man of rare executive ability. He has made a fine record at the Indiana university, and in the new and larger field of labor to which he has been called, we have no doubt he will prove equal to every requirement and rise to the full level of his great opportunities. His removal from the state is a severe loss to the cause of higher education in Indiana. His place in the state university will not be easily filled. But the regret of the people of Indiana at parting with him will be tempered with gratification at Lis elevation to so responsible and hon

orable and distinguished a post as has been assigned him. We predict for him a career in California of the larzcst usefulness and the highest distinction.

If Senator Voorhees is correctly reported, he is in favor of David B. Hill of New York for the democratic nomination for president next year. The senator, in this matter, is ont of touch with the democratic p.irty of his state. It is safe to say that not over five democrats out of every hundred in Indiana favor the nomination of Governor Hill. Of the one hundred and ten democrats in the legislature who voted for Mr. Voouhels for U. S. senator a few weeks ago, there were not to exceed a dozen for Hill. Of the hundred democratic newspapers in the state, not more than half a dozen have expressed a preference for Hill. Senator Voophees has been away from Indiana for several months, and is probably not very familiar with the present condition of democratic sentiment in the state regarding this matter. It is opposed to Hill's no mination for president by a very large majority. Says the New York Times: An examination of those duties in the McKinley tariff which affect materiils ustd in the manufacture of pianos reveals more than one job. Is there a bingle provision in the McKinley bill of which an examination would not reveal at least one job? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. W. N. J., Mulberry, Ind. Frank G. Carpenter, the correspondent of the Indianapolis A en-?, is a republican. Easter, Ilagerstown, Ind. The eariiect date on which Easter can fall is March 22 ; the latest April 23. T. II. Lucas, Freedom, Ind. Only a limited number of house journals are printed. These are distributed among the different county clerks, from whom they would have to be obtained. No charge is made for the copies distributed. I-l E. M., Avoca, Ind. The facts about the direct tax, which is being refunded to the states by the general government, have been repeatedly set forth in ihe newspapers. The tax was levied upon the states by congress during the war. The northern states pai l it and the states in rebellion did not. Now it is being paid back to the states which did pay it, under an act of conzress pas?d a few weeks ago. Indiana receives $709,144.03. James K. Parkey, Bowers, Ind. (1) All special taxes upon "dealers in leaf tobacco, retail dealers in leaf tobacco, dealers in tooacco, manufacturers of tobacco, manufacturers of cigars and peddlers of tobacco"' have been repealed. Tho stamp taxes are retained. (2) "Samuel Brown married Nathan titanley's sister. They had live children. Mrs. Brown died and Mr. Brown afterward married another sister of Nathan ian!ey. They had three chi:dren and Mrs. Brown No. 2 died. Tien Mr. Brown married Nathan Stanley's daughter, who boro him two chil ireu. What relations were the three sets of children to each other?" Th children of the first Mrs. Brown were half brothers and sisters of the children of the two other Mrs. Browns. The children of Mrs. Brown No. 3 wvre also 'second cousins" of the children of Mrs. Brown No. 1 and Mrs. Brown No. 2. ET CETERA. Ansa Dickinson, it is said, is not insane. She is sufferin;; from great nervous prostration. Senator Talmer lacks one qualification of the western f-tatesman. He can't play poker, and is probably too old to learn. St. Paul GIv'jc. Mrs. Eleanor Baker's large bequests to educational end benevolent institutions, amounting to $1,000,000, represent money made ia chocolate. Yoc take last eon'i light pHng coat From the nail behind itii- door Wondering ii you cannot wear It Just fur one spring more! New York Herald. Herr Gustav Freytag, the well-known Germnn author, who is now about seventy-five year of age, was married at Vienna Tuesday last to Mine. Strakost h, who is separated from her other husband. TnE death of the late Duke Nicholas of Leuchtemberg was due to a throat disease brought on by excessive cigarette smoking. The duke led an eccentric life, seldom rising before o o'clock in the afternoon. He spent the whole night smoking cigarettes. Gen. Lew Wallace and Secretary Foster are said to be almost doubles in personal appearance, their reeemblance being 60 striking that they are frequently mistaken for each other. Each is a man of medium hight. weighine about one hundred and seventy pounds. The czarowitz of Russia, who is making a tour of the world, is expected to reach San Francisco in about a week. Russia's treatment of the Jews leads that class of people in Ca!i:ornia to regard with indignation any scheme for oiheia! honors to the grand duke upon his arrival. According to the official report 39,250 babies were born in New York City last year, and there were 40,103 deaths. In other words, death got the letter of us by 853, so that whatever increase in population there was came by immigration. That's rather an interesting idea. Aetc A man in Milwaukee saw a woman fall down, and he helped her up and spoke words of consolation, and she sent him a deed to a $5,000 house. A man in Teoria did the very same thing, and tne woman yebed for her husband, who was near by," and be came running up and broke the consoler's nose. Alexander Yocno, fifty-three years o age, a member of the staff of the Boston l'osf, known by his writings over the nom de plume of "Taverner," died recently at the Massachusetts general hospital, after a lonz illness. He was a contributor to the Century, Jlarper'g Weekly, Independent, Christian Union aud the Golden Age, There is a man down on State-st who makes a good living by renting his turtles to restaurants for advertisin,? purposes. He haa four, and they are "whopper." He nceives $2 per day for each, and they are always in demand. They are left out Used ia Millions of Homes

side the door on the day before turtle soup is served up, a:ul create a run next day for the soup. Instead of Wing in it they are playing an engagement at another restaurant. St. Lcuis Glo,-eDemo-crat. The story is told of an old-time Bancor merchant who had a propensity for picking up all the stray buttons that came ia his way, that durin his lonz lite he filled a barrel in his store with them. After his death some one had the curiositv and patience to go th'rouh the lot, but failed to find two buttons of the same pattern. A commercial traveler coming from the Michigan Central depot on a Cass and Third avenue car recently gave away the secrets of the profession in conversation w ith a friend, savs the Detroit Free I'rest. "Most traveling men," he said, "have little schemes of their own that they work to defray incidental expenses. My strong point is dealing in Canadian coins. My territory is in Ohio, and in all Ohio cities and towns Canai.au coir; are dii-counted '.0 cents on the dollar. Twenty five cent pieces pass for 20 cents and h:vf dollars for 40 cents. I have $'0 worth of quarters and halves in my sachel now that I bought in Toledo for $10. In Detroit I use them to pav hotel and cigar bills and realize their face value."

THE ELECTION LAW. Fnblleatlona Ilrquird it the Approaching; Town rV.ectlona. The Sentinel is asked this question: For a town election will pnMieation have to be civen in two leal:rz poli ical &iera in the county, or will pub icatinn in a local paper be stiSicient? If the tow u clerk nstunies the du'y of the county clerk in municipal elections does not the publication go to a local paper, if any there be? Attorney-General Smith says: Sec. 2 of the acts of lcH, pnye of whnt is known aa the new election law makes it the duty of the clerk of the c ren t court in each county to publ t It in two w rtkly newspapers printed and puhl.thed in the county do. t.cea of the nomination certified to inch cleric ly the governor nnd al.o tWe filed with the clerk. And in c ties where di!y paper are prime 1 and iullifhe.l. fjc'i ntic tha'.l be published therein, in addition to the weekly publication. The intent ou of the statue it to Kire the widest publication to auch uotiee, and tor that reason it is provided lhat such publiCtiou fhall be made in newspapers representing the two political parties easting the largest number of vote, wheu there are such new.pa. pera. But if there are no aucb newrpiipers in the eonnty and other paper are printed and published therein, the publicat on of such notice must be made in such other newspapers regardless of their political character; and in such case the fact that a new paper does not represent a pol.tical party will not dispense with the publication of the notice required by sec 21 A liberal construction of the section justices the interpretation g.ven, and carries ma to the eonclunion that the clerk of your county in causing the publication of said notice, to be made ia the two daily newspapers of yocr city, did what the law required turn to do, an 1 the fact that one of naid papers is partisan and the other neutral io politic does not chance the rule since theae were the only two daily newspapers in your city. I am of the opitiioa that if there were but one newspaper (daily) puhlised in a city, it would be the duty ot the c.erk to puhliah that notice in it. The prorizo to sec. 23 is clenron that point, and when liberally construed it means that uch noticn shall be publ. shed in a daily newspaper in a city where there is such daily.tbui ia cafe there ere two dailies in such city then the public, tion shall be in bom, giving prei'er-oee always to papers representing the political pariiei easting the highest number of vou-i. And for the ruronse of thia inquiry the at-torney-Keuerul ai Js the fo'.hvrin; to la e above opinion: It is prorided by sec. 65 of said act that when any town or city shad hold an election at any time other than a Lima of a general election, 6uch election shall le held in euuformity with the provisions of thia act, except the duties hereiu required of the county c.erk shall be performed by the city clerk. The duties required by thtt bardof county . corami&nioners shall be performed by the town trnstes or city council The duties of the thenffkhall ba performed by the town marshal or chief of police, and the right of nomination of election officers by political parties thnil he exercised by the chairman of the town orcity eomrr.itteea of Much parties, if any there be. Town end city otficersare required to perform the various duties prescribed for the county officers in whose stead they act, and subject to the same penalty and provisions as are prescribed aa to such county olLcjra. is ee act 13, pnee 185. A. O. Smith. What "The Senttne'." Did For the Wome. Elkhart Trjth.J Gov. IIovey has appointed four women to serve on the Indiana world's fair commission. The Indianapolis entixel claims the credit of having ts.iked tha governor into this action, otherwise the women would not have beer, represented on the commission. It is a commendable piece of worlr, no doubt, as nothing can be considered in proper shape in these latter d;iy unless a woman ha a hand in it. And in matters of this kind, fairs of any 6ort, they have a knack of making themselves specially useful. A. I'ledc Faithfully lti ertnrd. La?raofr PepiocraL By far the most difficult task before the recent legislature was the abolition of the foe eysteui in the payment of county officers. In this feature of the old law was the county olhVial"3 "snap," and even now every officer, every candidate, and every tax-sustained newpaper in the state is condemning ttienew law solely on this account It was at this reform that the democratic platform was aimed and its pledge has been faithfully redeemed. Morn Than a New Yrker. St. Louis Keputlic. 1 Though Mr. Cleveland is by education as well as by birth a New Yorker in the full sense ot the word, he h far mor? capable of leadership and far more sterling in his qualities thtn any othr New Yo;ker w ho has figured prominently in national politic fro n the beginning of our national history. Hot7 Ilooinlnc "Jim" M irdiMk. Lake County New.J Governor IIovey, it is said, will have Warden Murdock prosecuted for the manner in which he conducted the financial affairs of the northern prison. Hovey is last making "Jim Murdock" one of the most popular men in Indiana, M.b Itule ta Anarchy. New Albany Ledger. The government can only exist by law. Society, civilization, live by law. Mob rule is anarchy. Sober second thought must condemn all mobs. TuuritU, "Whether on pleasure bent or business should taka on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs as it art most pleasantly and effectually on the kidneys, livt?r aud bowels, preventing fevers, headaches and other forms of sickness. For sale in 50 ' cent and 51 bottles by all leading druggists. 40 Years the Standard.