Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 8. 1391 TWELVE PAGES.

IKDIANA STATE SEXTKEL BY THE ltiDlMiSPOUS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS, President.

XBtartd t the Poatonr at InllaAapolla m Mcond class ir.atter. TERMS FEU YEAR f lnrle copy (InTiriably la AdTance.).91 00 Wf l democrats to bear In mind and select their tnrn ctate rPr ''ben they come to take subscripted and make up clubs. .Agents making op club send for anr Informattnn iesixed. AddtaTU LNLIA APOLIS SETINEL Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1891. TWELVE PAGES, Taking the Bread. The total direct appropriations from the treasury made by the billion-dollar conpress not including debts saddled on the country for fifty years to come were $1,009,000,000. The report of the department of agriculture for 1S00 estimates tho average Talue of the corn crop of the United States lor the past eleven years at 5076,714,2S6. end of the wheat crop at $003,442,611. It will take Awth the corn and wheat crops combined to pay for the luxury of having a republican congress which represented only a minority of the voter3. The tili ion-dollar congress has literally taken the bread out of the mouths of the American people, for every bushel of corn or barrel ot Hour produced in this country last year represented merely tho taxes to be paid to meet the expenses imposed by it. T. E. AVillson. In the Interest of Honest Men. The tax dodgers in Indiana have not been the fanners or the wage-earners of the cities. All the farms lie "out of doom," In plain sizht, and as a rule they have not been assessed very much, if any, below their fair cssh value. Few of them will "be appraised much higher for taxation under the new law than they have been heretofore. It is the wealthy notethavers and coupon-clippers, like the Bowens of Delphi, and tho great railway and banking corporations and the millionaires who live in fine houses and ride in fine carriages, who Lave been escaping their fair share of the public burdens under the old eyetem, and it is in their interest that the howl is now being raised against an honest appraisement by tho Journal and other organs of xnonopo v. As an illustration of bow the rich men have profited at the expense of men of medium means, by the appraisement of property at what it would fetch at a forced sale instead of at its fair cash value, we will take the case oi a man owning a home which cost him $5,000 and of his neighbor who owned a home that cost him $.30,000. The former was likely appraised at about three thousand dollars, which cinount it would bring at a forced pale. The latter was appraised at say 1.3,000 upon the theory that such valuable properties are usually sacrificed at forced Falep, there being comparatively few persons who can afford to buy them at anything like what they cost. Thus, the man with the $-3,000 home has been assessed for GO per cent, of the va'uo of his holding, while his rich neighbor has been assessed for only 30 per cent. The inequality has been even greater in the assessments on personal property. The poor man's S10O worth of furniture has been appraised at $.50. The rich man's 510,000 worth of furniture has been appraised at eay $1,000. The former has paid on 50 per cent, of the ex-h value of hi furniture; tha latter on only 10 per cent. The rich man has the time and opportunity to look after his assessments and fee that he fares as weil as anybody else, or better. He has his attorney employed by the year, and has Lim visit the court house, overhaul the assessment returns, go before the board of equalization and get hia appraisement down to the lowest possible notch. The workingman and the farmer do not have the time or the opportunity to do this. Their assessments almost invariably stand as made. There has been great complaint, and properly eo. of the monstrous injustice and inequality perpetrated under the old system. Tho new law, if faithfully executed, will do away with this injustice. It will compel the rich men and the corporations to assume their fair share of the public burdens. It is literacy tho salvation oi the farmer, so far acetate and local taxes are concerned, that a'l property shall bo appraised at its fair cash value. In the long run they will be immensely the gainers by this reform. It only remains for the assessors and other official charged with duties under the new law to fulfill their obligations honestly and impartially, and the discriminations between the rich and the poor, of which the people have eo Jong complained, will soon be things of the past. Millions of property which have heretofore escaped taxation altogether will be put under contribution, and the taxes of the workingmen and the farmers will be proportionately reduced. The new law is a just and an boneet law. Every good citizen will co-operate heartily in the effort to secure its faithful enforcement. The Drum Rent Around the World. ' Tho English boast that the sun never rets upon the queen's domain seems destined soon to bt but a memory of past territorial gTandeur. Tho Dominion of Canada Is contemplating, with quickening heart-beats, the inevitable union with the great republic under whose shadow the reposes; India, with eteadily decreasing revenue and constantly increasing expense of occupation, is rapidly threatening to become a burden, while Australia, by the act of the federation congrew, has left but a thread of formal allegience to bind her, in a political sense to the mother country ; and this last hading string restraining the infant commonwealth will "under at tho slightest train. Not one cf these vast countries rould bo for a moment held azainst its will. They are hko stalwart eons of middle age, following their own sweet wills, yet preserving the outward air of filial deference to the wishes of parents rather

than give offense to senile years. That these peoples 6hould seek independence is most natural. They can pee no reason, for there is none, why they should be governed from abroad, where their needs, tastes and habits are unknown, or w hy they should be compelled to yield to rulers not of their own selection, having nothing in common with them but remote tradition. The breaking away of England's colo nies is but an illustration of the growing demand everywhero for local self-government. That demand is universal, invincible and implacable. English statesmanship will probably so recognize it and put no obstacles in its path. That would be tha wi-cst course. Any other would but prove old England behind the times and involve her in fratricidal strife from which she could only hope sooner or later to emerge beaten, bemeaned and impoverished. Baron Fava's Itecall. The announcement that Baron Fava, the Italian minister at Washington, had demanded his passport., w hich wus made Wednesday, was entirely unexpected and created a great sensation throughout tho country. It turns out that Baron Fava has not demanded his passports, which would have been equivalent to a declaration of rrar by Italy arainst the United States, but that he has presented his letter of recall, which suspends for the time being diplomatic relations between the two governments. Minister Porter will no doubt leave Rome at once. King Hoi bert recalls Baron Fava, as is expressly stated, because he believes that his country has been outraged and insulted and that under our peculiar dual system of government she cannot hope to secure reparation. Precisely what has passed between the two governments lias not publicly transpired, but surely the resources of diplomacy for an honorable and peaceful adjustment of the matter cannot have been already exhausted. The judicial investigation at New Orleans has rot been concluded; it has not been definitely ascertained how many, ii any, of the victims of the New Oeans massacre were really Italian subjects, nor has the Italian government, in all probability, had any reason to conclude that proper reparation would not be male by the federal government, notwithstanding the fact that under our system of government it has no power to control the action of the state of Louisiana. Under the circumstances the action of the Italian government seems to have been rash, hasty and ill-considered in the last degree. It will, no doubt, be regretted, although we more than suepect that it was forced upon the government by exigencies of domestic politics, of which we in this country know nothing. There will, of course, be a lot of wild talk about war. But it will eud in talk. There w ill be no war. Italy is not in a position to attack the United States, hhe has a powerful navy, to bo Bure, and her inen-of-wer could do terrible execution upon our seaports before wo could utilize our reourcts for a successful defense. But a war could have but one result. Italy would be overwhelmed. She has only thirty millions of peoplo against over sixty-five millions. She is comparatively a poor country. Her financial credit is low. Her domestic politics is in a disorganized and revolutionary con

dition. Her monarchy is on a weak foundation. Theie is a powerful republican sentiment among her people, and the strained relations between the Quirinal and the Vatican are an element of great weakness. She is handicapped to a considerable extpnt by her treaty relations with other European powers. Italy will hardly court destruction by attacking the United St tes. Tub Sentinel's opinion of the New Orleans affair has not been concealed. It was a wanton, cowardly, cold-blooded massacre ot helpless and defenseless human beings, and will forever remain a blot upon the name of the city and state in which it occurred. But we can see no wisdom in, or justification for, the summary action taken by the Italian government, and, unless it has a better warrant than yet appears, we believe that it will be reprobated by the public sentiment of Christendom. A Fraud on the Farmers. Mr. A. B. Farqchar of York, Pa,, is the proprietor of one of the largest manufactories of agricultural implements in the world. He has been a leader in this industry for many years, and there is no better authority regarding it in tho country. , In a recent letter ho said : Of the agricultural implements used in South America, Mexico, Australia and South Africa we now manufacture a very largo proportion in the United States. In some sections American implements and machinery are ued almt exclusively ; fu ly three-fourths of the plows used in South America and South Africa an made in this country. Our implements for oxport must bo sold at very low prices, that is, at a small profit to th manufac turer, since we mut compete with England and (iermany. The prices obtained lor our agricultural implements sold abroad average from 5 per cent, to 15 per Cent, less than what we get in this country. Ah I have several time had occasion to observe, the manufacturer who is able to export hi goods ran have no uso for protection except to enable him to extort more money from home purchasers than he is able to get from those abroad. It is a notorious fact that the farmers of Europe, Australia, Canada, Mexico and South America can buy agricultural implements manufactured in tho United States cheaper than our own farmers can buy them. This has been denied by the monopoly tarillites time and again, but their denials count for nothing in the faco of tho statements of manufacturers dko Mr. Farqchar and the announcements of American houses in the journals devoted to tho export trade. A system of taxation which compels our own farmers to pay more for their tools, manufactured in this country, thaa

the foreigners with whom they have to compete, wholly unprotected; pay for the same tools, is a gigantic fraud. Cheadle and the Billion Dollar Conemail. "We always knew that Mr. Cheadle, who late'- misrepresented an Indiana district in congress, did not have very much sense, but we supposed that he had too much to perpetrate such balderdash as we find in a letter contributed by him to the Indianapolis Journal of yesterday. In this letter he attempts to defend Ton Heed's billion dollar congress against i:s own record of unprecedented protligacy in

the expenditure of the people's money. In a recent interview published in The Sentinel Mr. Byncm called attention to this record, and Mr. Ciieaplu's effusion is by way of reply to that interview. Mr. Ciieapi.e does not deny the figures. He can't. A billion of dollars a thousand millions is, in round figures, the amount voted away by Tom Heed's congress. This is nearly two hundred millions more than any other congress has ever voted away in time of peace. It is nearly two hundred millions more than the Fiftieth congress, of which John G. Carlisle was speaker, appropriated. It is nearly threa hundred millions more than the average of the previous eight congrertes. It u an increase of 1S3 per cent. over the appropriations made by the Forty-fourth congress, although since that body was in existence the population of the republic has increased only 39 per cent. ' But Mr. CnEADLE pleads that "it does not necessarily follow that increased appropriations mean extravazance in public expenditures." Possibly not. But when, without any special exigencies of any kind, in a time of profound peace, the appropriations are suddenly jumped three hundred millions over the average appropriations of the congresses immediately preceding, and two hundred millions in egress of the largest ever before made, except during the civil war, the presumption of cross extravagance in public expenditures becomes so strong that it will require a good deal of evidence to remove it. And Mr. Cheadi.e doesn't furnish such evidence. And for a very good reason, lie can't! It isn't in existence. Mr. Cheadi.e devotes the greater portion of his two column letter to pensions, evidently seeking to create the impression that the bulk of the increased appropriations by Tom Heed's billion dollar congress was caused by the granting of now pensions. The fact is that of the increase only 30 per cent, i on account of pensions. Nearly all the remainder may be set down to the account of extravagance and jobbery. In the course of his letter Mr. Cheadle defends the refunding of the direct tax, for which there was no more justification than there is for the refunding of any tax on the ground that every person against who'ii it was assessed did not pay. In fact, there was less, because the direct tax w as not refunded exclusively to those who paid it, but to many persons that did not. But let that pass. Of the increased appropriations more than 14,0: 0,000 were on account of the navy. Mr. Cheadi.e says he voted against this, and therefore he does not try to defend it. Ho proceeds: One other item is the amount required to pay the bounty on sugar grown in this country, together with the increase in cot of the internal revenue bureau to prepare for its payment. Suppose, for the sake of argument, we place it at $10,000,000. What then? This and nothing more; the people by tho payment of this sum are relieved from the payment of an annual tax burden of 855,000,000 upon sugar. It will bit a remarkably cold day and late in the afternoon of that day when Mr. Bynem can show tht it is an act of extravagance to pay ten millions and thereby be relieved lrom the payment of City-five millions of taxes. One would imagine from this that congress was under some sort of compulsion, before reducing tho tax on sugars, to vote $8,000,000 a year into the pockets of the Louisiana sugar planters and $500,000 a year into the pockets of the Vermont eapboilers. One would infer that congress had no power to reduce taxes on a necessary of life unless it voted money directly out of the public treasury into the pockets of the persons for whose special benefit such taxes had been levied. One would infer, too, that the people had been greatly relieved by the reduction (not the repeal) of the Bugar tax, whereas the fact is the treasury has been deprived of 05,000,00 net revenue annually by this measure in order to permit the continved irnjtovition of two or three hundred million of taxes ertry year upon the people for the benefit of the millionaires and corporations that had the fat fried out of them in 1888 and furnished the hoodie with which floaters ti ere purchased in hloeksof-fn:e and marched to the polls to tote for Harrison and Cheadle. Tho sugar schedule in the McKinley bill is the greatest fraud in that collection of frauds, and Mr. Cheadle knows it. One more extract from Mr. Cheadle's extraordinary letter: Mr. Byni m calls the Fifty-first the "Billion dollar congress." I have no doubt that the tarilF iaw enacted w ill give to the laborers of the nation, in the next fifteen years, an additional profit of ? 1,000.000,000. 1 am strengthened in that opinion by the fact that the old law enabled the laborers of the six New England states, New York, ew Jersey and Pennsylvania, to earn, and save, and have on deposit in their savin;: banks, on tho 1st of last January, l,HoO,000,0.'0. Here is, indeed, richness! The McKinley law went into effect Oct. 1 last. Perhaps Mr. Cheadle will be good enough to tell us how much of the billion dollars profits, which tho laborers of the nation are to get out of the McKinley law, they have already received? Perhaps he will b good enough to give us the name, with dates and fall particulars, of one working man or woman whose wages has been increased on account of the enactment of that law. If he will turn to The Sentinel of Monday last he will find a long list of reductions in wares, strikes, lockouts, etc., most of them in the protected industries, which have occurred since tue-McIviuley Jaw took effect. Does Mr. Cheadle suppose, in tho face of their own bitter experiences and of the evidence of their own senses, that the workiriguien of the United States are to be deceived again by thepretence that they are in any sense profited by protection? This is not 18S0, Mr. Cheadle; it is 1691. Mr. Cheadle says that the old tariff law enabled the laborers of nine east

ern states to have $1,300,000,000 on deposit in their savings banks on Jan. 1 la-t. It would appear from this that the old law only applied to New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. We had supposed that it applie I to the entire country, but it appears we were mistaken. Come to think of it, we have oiten heard it claimed that the old law was passed for the sole benefit of tha New England and middle states, but we have never before known this to be asserted by a McKinlcyite. It-would appear from what Mr. Cheadle says that, w hereas the o d law applied only to nine states in the northeastern part of the country, tha new law applies to the entire nation. This is a change to which, wo believe, public attention has not been before directed. It is also an unavoidable inference from Mr. Ciikaple's statement that the people of the nine states referred to never had savings or savings banks before they get the old law, and that in other states and counties where the "old law" has not been in force the workingmen save no money and there are no savings banks. This would be very interesting und hizhly important, and, indeed, absolutely conclusive, but for one thing. It isn't true. It'is absolutely without foundation. We are glad to believe that Mr. CnEADLE is not tuch an ass as he writes himself down. The I'iicllie Koala. Frobab'y few of the peop'e who are well aware of tho fact thut the United States have been most shamefully robbed by the Pacific railroads know how extensive the robbery has been or the manner in which it has been accomplished. When tho debt becomes due, in IS '3, tho several roads w ill owe the government the immense sum of $17S,SS4,759.59; less some deductions amounting to about $-.00.1,000. This is the principal and interest of the sums advanced for the construction of the roads, as follows, in bonds: To the Central Pacific, S25,85,120; to the Union Pacific, $27,23',5i-; to the Kansas Pacific, $9,531,320; to the AVestern Pacific, $1,975,570, a total of ?u4,C2:,512. In addition these reads were given about 20,000,000 acres of land, the greater portion of which has been sold to settlers and all of which is out of reach of the bondholders' or the government's claim. For its claim against tho roads the government has a very flimsy security, viz. : a second mortgage on 2,495 milctf of track, valued at SH0,S(K),(!0 On this there is a first mortgago of $04,G0U,000, leadng the government f3L',200,OO0 of property from which to collect $17S,?-00,000. The roads have never made an effort in good faith to liquidate their indebtedness to tho government. On the contrary, they have dsvoted their earnings to buying additional lines on which the government could have no claim, paying big dividends on watered stock and in other ways getting thtir property out of reach of creditor-. These outside possessions are something enormous. CoL Morgan, the government engineer, estimates them at $103,000,000, and Manager Kimball said that tho road could not afford to exchange its coal lands und coal rights for the government debt. One method by which tha earnings of the roads have been absorbed has been by the watering of stock. The cost of the roads was ?!)5,955,347, while the roads have been capitalized at $208,302,402, making $172,347,115 of "water" in the stock. Tho Union Pacific issued $40,71)2,300 of stock, of which only $400,050 was paid in, and the Central Pacific issued $51,000,000 of stock, on which but $703,000 was ever paid in. On both these issues dividends have been paid, so i climes as high as 7 per cent, per annum. These are some of tho ways in which the roads have been rendered unable to pay their indebtedness to the government. But other means have been employed by which the roads have not only succeeded in keeping the governm ent out of its juat dues, but have enriched the men interested in them. From their very inception the leading spirits have been fillin their pockets out of moneys contributed by the government. Competing linos have been built with the earnings of the subsidized roads and these roads gobbled up by tho Stanfobds and Hcntinotons. But by far the greatest portion of the subsidies went to officer.- of the Pacific roads who organized construction and supply companies and as officers of the roids took the money of the roads and put it into their own pockets in the Pooh Bah capacity of contractors. Thus to IIcntington, Stanford. Hopkins and Crocker alone $142,000,000 was paid for construction and supplies. In this way individuals have grown immensely rich, the government has been robbed and the roads bankrupted. The settlement of this question should soon be arrived at. The farn ers' parly, if there be one, and the democratic party should incorporate in their next national platforms a demand that the Pacific railroad magnates bo forced to disgorge.

The nillton-Dollar Congress. Ex-Senator John B. Henderson of Missouri, who was chairman of the republican national convention in 1884, and has lately been before the country as one of Blaine's Tan-Americans, recently said: As a republican, I think the extravagance of the congress ju-t adjourned was an outrage upon the party and the people. However the appropriations may lie justified, the fact that they reach $1,000,000,000 is of itself appalling. No such enormity of appropriations has been voted since the war, and, occurring in a time of profound peace as this is and when the yreatent economy was demanded, no excuse can be offered for tho extravagance. The republicans in congress must have proceeded upon the theory that they wero not coming into power again for about four hundred years. Their closing days reminded me very forcibly of the closing days of th" democratic congress which went out March 4, IStil. As a republican, I feel that the comparison is oilious, but in most respects it a just. I hoj that if we have another republican congress soon it will devote itself to methods of economy diPerent from those observed by the Fifty-first congress. ' "No democrat," observes the Chicago Tribune, "has said anything stouter than this." " The old board of agriculture, which has made itself obnoxious in tho past by its utter inefficiency, is preparing to emphasize its worthlessness by making a fight to retain it position. It is to be hoped that the courts will soon put a quietus to the old board. The new board celected

Thursday is made up of live men, of men of 1801, men who have ideas beyond a J pumpkin and a fat pig, and who will give j

the state a fair which is somethinz beyond and above a market place for the sale of wormy peanuts and red lemonade. The Silver Question. AVe have received the following letters among others on the silver question: To the Mditok SVr:riease answer the following important question in your val- j uahie paper and obli-'e a sub.-cnber: : "What is free and limited coinage of silver i and which is the better io!icv for the eovornment to pursue relative to it?" By de- j Hninz explicitly the above interrogatory you will oblige many readers of The Sentinel IaiVIS Eitel A'ernon, Ind., April 2. To the Editor- S: Wjll vou please give an article in The Sentinel on free i ar.d unlimited coinage from a uemccratic j standpoint? If we should have free omase could other nations brin their silver j over and have it coined and demand cold for it? What is the value of the silver j mined in the United States per year? i IK M. Fours. j Hagcrstown, Ind., March 31. j To the Editor .Si: I have noticed in ' several of our lending papers the expres- j sion 'of manv opinions on the subject, ! "Free Coinage of Silver," and especially that of Mr. i evelanp. I would hko to see an expression from you. I have been reading The Sentinel and it you havo criven any discussion on this "subject I have failed to see it. Yours, "J. S." Farmer, Ind., Marcli 29. Answering these leltors collectively we will say that The Sentinel believes in tho free coinage of silver. It has frequently expressed itaeli to this efTect, and has never seen any occasion to change its opinion. The Sentinel believes that the supply of the precious metals is none too large to meet the world's legitimate requirements for metallic currency. It also believes that it is peculiarly to the interest of the United States, the largest silver producing country in the world, to utilize this great resource to the fullest possible extent Furthermore, it is convinced that the country can absorb, with entire safety, all the silver money that will be coined for the next twenty years, under free coinage. The Sentinel is also entirely convinced that the present ratio between the gold and silver dollars can be, and ought to be, maintained. Believing all this, The Sentinel is still of the opinion that the silver qu stion is not now, and is not likely to be very soon, the dominant issue in our politics. The revenue question is the all important question. It far overshadows the currency question. While an increase in the circulatine medium is certainly desirable, it would be of very little benefit to the masses of the people so long as the present unjust and oppressive system of taxation (miscalled protection) was maintained. There can be no great relief to the farmers of the country from the free coinage of silver so long as they are weighed down with the in tolerable burdens of McKinleyism. Until they have an opportunity to sell in the dearest and buy in the 4 heapest markets they can profit little, if any, by an enlargement of the circulating medium. The prices they get for their products will still be regulated by the market for their surplus Europe where it will bo adjusted on a gold basis. AVhat will it profit them to have more money in circulation unless they can got more of it into their possession? Free trade is the one thing that can bring speedy and permanent relief to the farmers and wage-earners of the country. Not that it will cure all the ills from which they suffer, but that it will put them on something like an equality with other classes in the community and give them an opportunit)' to work out their own salvation. The duty nearest to the people and the one which can most readily be performed is to wipe out McKinleyism. This can be accomplished if the democratic party will devote itself with earnestness, and singleness of purpose, to the task. If it attempts, at the same time, to reorganize tho currency system of the country it will risk everything and probably lose a 1. The party is not agreed upon the currency question. The eastern democrats, almost to a man, are opposed to free coinage. Many western democrats a.'ree wiih them. But the party is practically a unit on the tariff question. David B. Hill and his handful of protectionists cut very litfie figure. If the democracy goes into the fight next year with "a tariff for revenue only" as its shibboleth, holding the currency question in abeyance, it will surely prevail. After the tariff has been reformed the currency question can be taken up. One great question will have to be disposed of at a time. Answering tho specific questions propounded in the foregoing letters, we will say that the "free coinage" of silver means the coinage by the government, free of chargo, ot all silver bullion taken to the mint into dollars of the standard weight (412i grains, 9-10 Cue). By "limited coinage" is meant the coinage of bullion purchased by the government for that purpose up to a certain limit. Under unlimited free coinage silver could be brought here from abroad, coined into dollars and exchanged for gold at the legal ratio. The amount of silver mined in the United States was as follows during tho years named : 1884, $48,SOO,000 ; 1885, $l,(k)0,X)0; 18S0, $31,000,000; 1887, $33,441,300; 188S. $39,195,000. Protect ion 1st D.ivld II. II 111. Governor Hill has written a letter which takes him completely out of the list of presidential possibilities. Ho has never been in the list of presidential probabilities. His letter was in response to a courteous invitation to attend a free trade meeting in New York, and was as follows: I cannot attend the meeting because I have no sympathy with its expressed purpose. I had supposed that my opinion upon the tariff question had been so frequently expressed in public that nobody could expect me conoibtently to attend a meeting intended to ptomu'gate the doctrine of free trade. As a democrat I must respectfully decline to support any movement, no matter by w hom instigated or championed, having for its purpose the adoption of any such suicidal podcy a is sought to be promot. d by tho meeting to which you havo invited me. Due credit is to bo gh'on to Governor Hill for the franknessof the above epistle. It leaves no doubt of his position upon the tariff question. He is a protectionist, as he always lias been. The only important newspaper in the country which sustains his presidential pretentions is a stalwart advocate of protection the Now York Sun, which has not supported a

democratic presidential ticket since 1876. The only conspicuous followers whom Governor Hill has are protectionists. He is, in a word, the protectionist candidate for the democratic nomination. Th loific of events will make the tariff question the commanding issue in the presidential campaign of 1S2. The democratic posh ion upon that question is well defined. Tho democratic party is for a tit rid for revenue only that is to say, for

"free trade," in the sense that the term is J applied to the revenue policy of Great I Britain, in which it is commonly used in this country nnd in which it ii employed by Governor Hill. Governor Hill pronounces this policy "suicidal," and declares that he cannot consistently attend a meeting called to promote it. In other words, the governor publicly repudiates the position of his party upon the mot important question of theday. In the face of this letter no genuine democrat will hereafter be found advocating David B. Hill's nomination for either the first or second place on the presidential ticket of 18H2. Senator Voorhees will, we are sure, be quick to see that he bus been mistaken in the man, and that Governor Hill is entirely unavailable as presidential or vice-presidential timber, so long, at least, as the tariil is the dominating issue in our politics. Senator Voorhers' speeches in the senate and on the stump during the last two years stamp him ss the determined nnd uncompromising enemy of protection in every shape and form; and he cannot, without stultifying himself and compromising the democracy of Indiana, nsk recognition from his party in a national capacity for David 13. Hill or any other protectionist. A Washington special to the Chicago IlcriHd pavs : Harrison is in politics, ai in everything elcc, a Hoosit-r. : cannot r;V abwe th lrr-1 ot Ind'uiii'ipttitf. Today was sworn into office as land commissioner ex-Congressman Carter of Montana, a practical politician, pious but smooth, who struck his gait in Silver Bow county ami graduated last fa 1 under the tutelage of Ket Clarkson. Carter is a third-rate man, J but it is expected he wi'l be useful in "SJ. ! It is announced today that Ed Ratjibone is to be the now foiiith assistant postmaster-general. This i-i the person who managed the deputy marshals at Cincinnati in 1884, ami who has more than once helped Dudley Sc Co. debauch Indiana and pe ldie out pensions for vote'. II kkison's craze for a renoinination is making hi7i dizzy. No doubt Harrison is "dizzy," and the appointments named are thoroughly bad. But what does a Chicago paper mean by talking about "the level of Indianapolis?" The "level of Indianapolis," politically speaking, is as much higher than that of Chicago as the level of heaven is above that of Cincinnati. The Herald scribbler cannot have heard about our new city charter, and our efficient and businesslike city government, and the great democratic victories of 1S80 and 18'K). Harrisonian politics has been played out in Indianapolis for some time. Theue is a well-defined split in the republican party on the tariff question. McKinley and his faction insist upon kecpinerthe high tariff idea to the front and making the fight on it in 1892. Blaine and Harrison, on the other hand, propose to relegate this idea to the rear and work the reciprocity racket for "all it is worth" in the next campaign. It is significant that in his recent speeches in New England McKinley didn't make tho most disiant allusion to reciprocity, while President Harrison, in his late "authorized interview," declared that the tariff discussion oujht to be suspended for a few years. McKinley will be the republican candidate for governor of Ohio this year and his nonrnation will necessarily make McKinleyism an issue of the campaign. If ho wins of which there is small prospect he will be a full-fledged candidate for the presidential nomination of his party. All the elements opposed to Harrison will doubtless center on him and there will be a "red hot" contest w ithin the party. Harrison Mill capture the nomination, of course, and thus McKinleyism will be virtually repudiated by the g. o. p. North Sligo follows Kilkenny with a verdict against Parnell After a vigorous campaign the McCarthyite candidate has been returned to parliament by a majority of 800. The Irish people are clearly against their old leader. They stood by him faithfully so long as he was true to the nationalist cause, and even after ha had betrayed it they were slow to desert him. But his treachery is now apparent to all. and ho can no longer be a leader in the great contest for home rule. The Irish people found themselves compelled to choose between Parnell and their cause, and with wise patriotism they have chosen the caue. Parnell's day is over. His faction will rapidly dwindle in numbers from this day forward. Soon he will have only a haudful of followers. The wrecking of his great career is inexpressibly pathetic. We believe, as we have before said, that it is to be explained by an impairment of Mr. Parnell's mental faculties. This, at least, is the charitable view, and there is much to make it plausible. In a private letter to the editor of The Sentinel an esteemed reader of Aurora says : I assume that when an editor docs good work it is a gratification to him to know that it is appreciated bv his c'ientde. This is my apology for saying that one of the boat editorials 1 have seen in The Sentinel is one entitled "Iho Sub-Treasury Project," in Monday's paper. It is a comple;e answer to the long string of base, bo dfallac.es in the lctterof 11. W. Taylor. Thousands of your readers tec-1 just as I do about it, but will not take the trouble to tell you. The school-book trust has won a big victory in Illinois. Half a dozen bills for school-book reform, which havo been pending in the legislature, have been j Used in Millions of Homes

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postponed on the recommendation of th joint committee of education, and will not be taken up again this seseion. The people of Illinois will, therefore, continue to pay two prices for school books. Chinese merchants in San Francisco have protest d against the appointment of ex-Senator Blaik as n inisUr to Pekin. Mr. Blair is on record to the effect that the Chinese are to be regarded as mysterious dispensations of an inscrutable providence, like the yellow fever and the pmall-pox, and to hot treated accordincly. His appointment was an insult to the Chines;? government, and a refusal to receive him would be a just rebuke to the administration at AVa-ihimrtoa.

The Tennessee legislature has enacted law providing that school directors must be able to read and write. The object, doubtless, is to give the democracy a monopoly of the school boards. The average Tennesseo republican is not up in "readin' and writin'." The Bynum speakership boom is growing with rapidity. As we have before remarked, when the democrats begin to consider the subject all the logic of the situation points to Mr, Bvncm as the proper man for the place. ANSWERS TO CO ft RESPONDENTS. J. F. I, City : The abduction of Charley Ross wa not a fiction, but a stern fact. lie lias never been found. School Marm, Tipton: There are mora women teachers in the schools of the United States than in those ot any other country. Joseph Heckman. Nashville, Ind.: The U. S. senate now stands: Kenublicans, 47; democrat's, 3D; farmers' alliance, 2 republican majoritj-, 0. Democrat, Kokoaao: Sugar has not beea put on the free list. The raw material is now free, but the sugar trust is "protected" by a tariir of U) cents per hundred pounds on refined sugar. F. B. The battle of Waterloo was fought June 18, 1S15. Napoleon was not taken a prisoner on the field. He surrendered himself to the British afterward and landed a; St. Helena a prisoner Oct. 10, 1S15. Taxpayer, Logansport: The taxes due this spring will not be based upon tha new appraisement. The tixes under th new assc-sment will not be payable until next year. County commissioners throughout the state wi l fix the levies next September, and will undoubtedly, as a rule, reduce them to correspond with the increase in the appraisement. ET CETtRA. Mrs. JonN W. Mackat, sated with European society, is about to return to America. ; Friend" of the late Secretary AYindom, have invested $-50,000 which will be invested fr the benefit of Mrs. AVindotn. Charle-s Broadway Boos of New York is one of the few business men of the country who pay their employes at the end of each day. The legal adviser of the mikado of Japan is Henry W. Dennison, who formerly lived in New Hampshire, but who has been a resident of Japan for twenty-three years. The late Senator Hearst was forty-nine years old when the Couibtock silver mines were discovered. In six months after they reached Coinstock lode he had made $500.00-, and from that date until hi death his w.alth went on multiplying. Ex-Empress Frederick is short, plain and stout. The physioRmy gives the imfres?ion of sturdy strength of mind and ligh thought. Nevertheless she has a retreating chin and a pooriy formed mocth. The nose is commonplace and turned up. Ann Eliza Yoc.ng, the once much heard of nineteenth wife of Brigliara Young, has got over her 6hare of mourning for her section of a lost spouse and has now a husband all to herse.f. She is now Mrs. Deming and her liege lord is a Michigan state legislator. The attendance at the Philadelphia centennial as shown by the number of admissions was 9,910,996 and at the recent Paris exposition 28,149.353. Large as wai the latter it is expected that the attendance at the World's Columbian exposition w ill equal it. A lope A a dora, the young Greek who spent $2,000,000 in three years and is now at Castle Garden looking for a job, hai been offered a position as waiter in a downtown restaurant and may accept. If h thinks to retrieve bis fortune in tips he should join a palace car a3 porter. A member of tho farmers' alliance in Kansas has placed a new plank in his household platform which compels every young man w ho courts one of his daughters in winter to contribute a conl of wood. The young men of the neighborhood were not consu.ted when the plank was adopted and kicked against it, but they come along with the wood all the same. New York's good friend, Ismail, the exkhedive of Egypt, who presented the city with the obelisk in Central park, is still practically a prisoner at Constantinople. He is confined in a palace, and when he goes out, as he is sometimes permitted to d, is always accompanied by an il -looking lot of Tur.is. These are ostensibly hia guard of honor, but in reality they are soldiers who never lose sight of their distingushed prisoner. Heir to m (traat Fortune. Nashville, April 4. II. P. Lewes, a butcher of Florence, Ala., received official word yesierday that he had fallen heir to a fortune in Portsmouth, England. Tho esiate is worth $28,0!) J,000, of which Mr. lewes has one-fifth. It was left him by his grandmother, who died recent''. Mr. Lewes stated that he had a great uncle who was also a millionaire and has no immediate heirs, and in cae of his death he would receive another fortune. ' To the I'nriflc C'nati, Go to California via the through lines of the Burlincton U ute, from Chicago or t. Louis to Denver, and thence ovtr the nsw broad gauze, throuah car huei of tha Denver and Bio iranle or Colorado Midland lUilwayi via Ieadrdle, Glenwood Springs and lt Lakethrough intf rectinii cities and uniurpasied cenery. Diainit cars all the way. 40 Years the Standard.